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BBC News", "Storm Christoph flooding: Financial help offered to victims - BBC News", "Storm Christoph: Travel disruption as snow and rain sweep in - BBC News", "Troubles victims: Thousands of relatives call for action - BBC News", "Glastonbury 2021: Festival axed 'with great regret' - BBC News", "Covid rules: What are the restrictions in your area? - BBC News", "Biden's inauguration speech calls for unity - it won't be easy - BBC News", "Saga cruises says all customers must be vaccinated - BBC News", "Amanda Gorman: Inauguration poet calls for 'unity and togetherness' - BBC News", "Kamala Harris becomes first female, first black and first Asian-American VP - BBC News", "Covid: Infections 'must be brought down' to help NHS - BBC News", "Covid-19: What might a 'tighter' NI lockdown look like? - BBC News", "Manchester sinkhole: Houses collapse in Gorton street - BBC News", "Covid: £800 house party fines to be introduced in England - BBC News", "Brexit: 'I was asked to pay an extra £82 for my £200 coat' - 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BBC News", "President Joe Biden inauguration speech: 'Democracy has prevailed' - BBC News", "Dartford mother-of-three died after liposuction in Turkey - BBC News", "Biden inauguration in pictures - BBC News", "Covid vaccine: 'Patience and perspective' needed in Wales - BBC News", "Racism in ballet: Black dancer's 'humiliation' at racist comments - BBC News", "Lockdown children forget how to use knife and fork - BBC News", "Coronavirus: BMJ urges NYT to correct vaccine 'mixing' article - BBC News", "Edinburgh's giant pandas may 'return to China' over Covid losses - BBC News", "Families rescued in Peak District after getting trapped in snow - BBC News", "Covid: Liverpool's leaders call for new national lockdown - BBC News", "Covid-19: Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine arrives at hospitals - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: Scottish cabinet to consider further measures - BBC News", "Cold snap creates 'pop-up' ice hockey rink - BBC News", "Covid in Wales: Schools' phased return defended by first minister - BBC News", "Covid: Sweden official defends Christmas trip to Canary Islands - BBC News", "Irish Eurovision singer and Bagatelle frontman Liam Reilly dies - BBC News", "Zoe Davison: Racing trainer dies on same day two of her horses win at Plumpton - BBC Sport", "West Brom 0-4 Arsenal: Arsenal see off Baggies in ruthless display - BBC Sport", "Covid in Scotland: New strain of virus 'accelerating' spread - BBC News", "Coronavirus: India approves vaccines from Bharat Biotech and Oxford/AstraZeneca - BBC News", "Reading stabbing: Five teenagers arrested after boy, 13, dies - BBC News", "EuroMillions: Jackpot of more than £39m won by UK ticket-holder - BBC News", "Covid rules: What are the restrictions in your area? - BBC News", "Covid: Not much room for lockdown changes, Wales' first minister warns - BBC News", "Coronavirus: Twelve fined for playing dominoes in Tier 4 breach - BBC News", "Boris Johnson says indyref vote should be once-in-generation - BBC News", "Liverpool FC anthem singer Gerry Marsden dies aged 78 - BBC News", "New Year snow flurries fall across England - BBC News", "Covid-19: New variant 'raises R number by up to 0.7' - BBC News", "Suspected Islamists kill dozens in attacks on two Niger villages - BBC News", "Covid: What could 'tougher' measures mean for us? - BBC News", "Pep Guardiola: Man City boss may stay in management longer than planned - BBC Sport", "Covid-19: Anti-lockdown protesters arrested at Hyde Park demo - BBC News", "Benjamin Mendy: Man City 'disappointed' after defender breaches Covid-19 protocols - BBC Sport", "Ryan Garcia stops Luke Campbell after surviving knockdown in Dallas - BBC Sport", "County Antrim poultry flock to be culled after bird flu detected - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: Restrictions 'could continue' amid rising cases - BBC News", "Hospitals across UK 'must prepare for Covid surge', senior doctor warns - BBC News", "Covid: Regional rules 'probably going to get tougher', says Boris Johnson - BBC News", "Covid: Cardiff Central MP Jo Stevens in hospital with virus - BBC News", "As it happened: Boris Johnson warns of tougher measures amid Covid surge - BBC News", "US Election 2020 - BBC News", "Covid: Snowdonia National Park wardens 'getting abuse' during lockdown - BBC News", "Leicester City 2-0 Southampton: James Maddison and Harvey Barnes send Foxes second - BBC Sport", "Covid: Nurseries 'teetering on the edge' during pandemic - BBC News", "Archie Lyndhurst: CBBC star died in his sleep, says mother - BBC News", "SLS: Nasa's 'megarocket' engine test ends early - BBC News", "Covid-19: Protect us from unlawful killing charges - medics - BBC News", "Phil Spector: Pop producer jailed for murder dies at 81 - BBC News", "Covid-19: Man said he had travelled 100 miles 'for a McDonald's' - BBC News", "RAF veteran receives Covid jab at Salisbury Cathedral - BBC News", "Covid-19: France begins 6pm curfew - BBC News", "Liverpool 0-0 Man Utd: Alisson saves thwart leaders at Anfield - BBC Sport", "Chris Cramer: Tributes paid after former BBC and CNN journalist dies aged 73 - 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BBC News", "Sri Lanka v England: Tourists wobble chasing 74 after Jack Leach takes 5-122 - BBC Sport", "Universal Credit: Benefit increase only 'temporary', says Raab - BBC News", "G7: UK to host Cornwall seaside summit in summer - BBC News", "Statues to get protection from 'baying mobs' - BBC News", "Home Office 'working to restore' lost police records - BBC News", "Eurostar: Government urged to 'safeguard' rail firm's future - BBC News", "Covid-19: Running a roadside van when a pandemic cuts traffic - BBC News", "Coronavirus: William and Kate hear from emergency workers - BBC News", "Covid: People broke lockdown rules in 200-mile drive to see friends - BBC News", "Covid-19: More mass jab centres, airport support and a virtual library - BBC News", "Covid-19: England delivering 140 jabs a minute, says NHS chief executive - BBC News", "Mount Semeru: Erupting volcano spews ash above Indonesia's Java island - BBC News", "Universal credit: MPs urge PM to keep £20 benefit 'lifeline' - BBC News", "Covid-19: Further 1,295 deaths recorded in the UK - BBC News", "Archbishop of Glasgow Philip Tartaglia dies with Covid aged 70 - BBC News", "Covid-19: Bedworth Pokemon player fined for lockdown breach - BBC News", "Manchester Arena and Parsons Green bombers charged with prison officer attack - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: Freeman targets 400,000 vaccinations every week - BBC News", "Lockdown Christmas hits: Lidl pink prosecco and takeaways - BBC News", "Covid-19: BBC's Fergal Keane revisits St Mary’s and Charing Cross Hospital 10 months on - BBC News", "'Discriminatory' mental health system overhauled - BBC News", "Fresh calls for NI mother and baby homes inquiry - BBC News", "Covid-19: Welsh Government update - BBC News", "Covid: Police cancel fine for couple visiting care home - BBC News", "Human remains found in search for missing cyclist Tony Parsons - BBC News", "Johnson: 24-7 Covid-vaccine hubs as soon as supply allows - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: The six new lockdown rules - BBC News", "Coronavirus: British tourist blamed for Lauberhorn ski race cancellation - BBC News", "Coronavirus: 'How long can we keep going like this? About a week' - BBC News", "Covid-19: We can make this the peak by following rules, says Hancock - BBC News", "Morrisons to be first UK supermarket to pay minimum £10 an hour - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: How do the rules compare to last year? - BBC News", "Edinburgh Woollen Mill rescue deal to save 2,000 jobs - BBC News", "Furlough fraud: I'm still registered as furloughed for a job I quit' - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: Stricter rules within days - BBC News", "China: Senior Conservatives call for reset of UK policy - BBC News", "Media billionaire David Barclay dies, aged 86 - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: Lockdown lifting 'unlikely' as deaths pass 5,000 - BBC News", "Huawei patent mentions use of Uighur-spotting tech - BBC News", "PMQs: Some food parcels are an 'insult to families' - PM - BBC News", "Earl of Strathmore admits sex attack at Glamis Castle home - BBC News", "Covid rules: What are the restrictions in your area? - BBC News", "Sinovac: Brazil results show Chinese vaccine 50.4% effective - BBC News", "Covid-19: More than 100,000 vaccine doses administered in NI - BBC News", "Customs staff: Vaccinate us to keep trade flowing - BBC News", "Four arrested over 'public nuisance' at Redditch and Birmingham hospitals - BBC News", "Covid: Birmingham hospitals move 200 doctors to intensive care duties - BBC News", "Plastic bag charge to double to 10p from April in Scotland - BBC News", "Naomi Campbell's Kenya tourism role causes row - BBC News", "Heavy snow causes widespread disruption in Scotland - BBC News", "Covid-19: New test rule for England arrivals pushed back to Monday - BBC News", "David Attenborough to front government-funded 5G AR app - BBC News", "GCSE and A-level pupils could sit mini exams to aid grading - BBC News", "Covid-19: Lockdown measures 'starting to show signs of some effect' - PM - BBC News", "Covid-19: Alabama crowds ignore coronavirus to celebrate championship - BBC News", "Covid-19: New treatment, NHS staff struggles and free meals row - BBC News", "Trump impeachment process: Who are the key players? - BBC News", "Gurlitt's last Nazi-looted work returned to owners - BBC News", "Cramlington woman celebrates 100th birthday with covid jab - BBC News", "People's sonic boom surprise caught on camera - BBC News", "Libby Squire murder trial: Pawel Relowicz 'prowled streets for victim' - BBC News", "Battery lodged in baby's throat for four months - BBC News", "As it happened: Record number of daily deaths reported in UK - BBC News", "Covid vaccine: Pfizer v Oxford AstraZeneca v Moderna - BBC News", "Covid-19: Special school staff want jab priority - BBC News", "Tottenham Hotspur 1-1 Fulham: Ivan Cavaleiro earns a point for Premier League strugglers - BBC Sport", "Call for better coronavirus masks for all medical staff - BBC News", "Covid: Play your part in fight against virus, says Patel - BBC News", "YouTube suspends Donald Trump's channel - BBC News", "Covid: UK reports record 1,564 daily deaths - BBC News", "Mohamud Mohammed Hassan: Hundreds march over arrested man's death - BBC News", "Covid: Three Democratic lawmakers test positive after Capitol riot - BBC News", "Tesco, Asda and Waitrose ban shoppers without face masks - BBC News", "Trump impeached for second time - BBC News", "YFN Lucci: US rapper wanted in Atlanta for suspected murder - BBC News", "Covid: Many NHS staff 'traumatised' by first wave of virus, study shows - BBC News", "Duchess of York: From Budgie the Helicopter to Mills & Boon - BBC News", "Capitol riots: Who broke into the building? - BBC News", "Britain's Got Talent: Filming postponed due to coronavirus concerns - BBC News", "Boris Johnson condemns 'disgraceful scenes' in US - BBC News", "National Express to suspend all services - BBC News", "Fears schools will be overwhelmed by laptopless pupils - BBC News", "Trump allowed back onto Twitter - BBC News", "Trump auction for Arctic oil rights sees little interest - BBC News", "Reading stabbing: Three teenagers charged with murder after boy, 13, dies - BBC News", "Capitol riot: Biden says BLM protest would have been treated 'very differently' - BBC News", "Essex lorry deaths: Dad learned of son's fate on social media - BBC News", "As it happened: PM sets out Covid vaccine rollout plan - BBC News", "Teachers' grades to replace A-levels and GCSEs in England - BBC News", "Adrian Chiles confirmed in Emma Barnett 5 Live slot - BBC News", "Covid: Seven mass vaccination hubs announced for England - BBC News", "Capitol riots: World media see Trump ignite an 'insurrection' - BBC News", "Coronavirus: 'How long can we keep going like this? About a week' - BBC News", "Breonna Taylor: Two Louisville officers fired over roles in shooting - BBC News", "Stella Tennant: Family confirms model's death was suicide - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: 'Well over half' of care home residents vaccinated - BBC News", "Two more life-saving Covid drugs discovered - BBC News", "Capitol riot: What does a deadly day mean for Trump's legacy? - BBC News", "Coronavirus: Belfast Trust cancels urgent cancer surgeries - BBC News", "Capitol riots: How a Trump rally turned deadly - BBC News", "Capitol riots: A visual guide to the storming of Congress - BBC News", "Muted response as Clap for Heroes returns - BBC News", "Capitol riot: Five startling images from the siege - BBC News", "Capitol riots: Moment protesters storm US legislature - BBC News", "Capitol riots: Boris Johnson condemns Donald Trump for sparking events - BBC News", "Ryanair scraps most UK and Irish lockdown flights - BBC News", "Covid: UK travel curbs to keep out South Africa variant - BBC News", "Capitol riots: Pro-Trump protesters storm the US legislature - in pictures - BBC News", "'Mr Christmas' lights switched off for last time in Croxley Green - BBC News", "Inside one GP surgery's Covid vaccine roll-out - BBC News", "Covid-19: Baby's mother issues mottled skin warning - BBC News", "Trump’s Twitter downfall - BBC News", "ICU hospital staff: 'Scared, sad, petrified, worried' - BBC News", "Elon Musk becomes world's richest person as wealth tops $185bn - BBC News", "Capitol siege: Trump's words 'directly led' to violence, Patel says - BBC News", "Reading stabbing: Murder-accused teenagers appear in court - BBC News", "US Election 2020 - BBC News", "McDonald's pauses walk-in takeaways in lockdown - BBC News", "US Capitol riots: World leaders react to 'horrifying' scenes in Washington - BBC News", "'Show us it's safe' to be open, say nursery staff - BBC News", "Alex Rodda murder: Matthew Mason guilty of killing schoolboy - BBC News", "Covid-19: Boris Johnson makes daily jab pledge as Army helps rollout - BBC News", "Organ donor mum wishes she could help her children in need of kidneys - BBC News", "Meat factories warn Covid absences could hit supplies - BBC News", "Covid tests for Channel hauliers to continue 'until further notice' - BBC News", "Aston Villa plan to play youngsters against Liverpool in FA Cup after Covid outbreak - BBC Sport", "Covid-19: Vaccine rollout widens as hospital pressure rises - BBC News", "Sainsbury's Christmas sales rise despite smaller turkeys - BBC News", "Analysis: Can lockdown stop the new coronavirus variant? - BBC News", "Covid: China places 11m under lockdown after outbreak in northern city - BBC News", "The Wanted's Tom Parker says brain tumour has 'shrunk significantly' - BBC News", "Lockdown: 'I've borrowed £4m just to remain closed' - BBC News", "Capitol siege: An eyewitness account from inside the House chamber - BBC News", "Asos frontrunner to buy Topshop, Topman and Miss Selfridge brands - BBC News", "Boohoo 'set to buy Debenhams brand and website' - BBC News", "Covid-19: Top adviser warns France at 'emergency' virus moment - BBC News", "Covid-19: Essex student helps 600 refugees out of 'period poverty' - BBC News", "Covid: Israel vaccinates 16 to 18-year-olds ahead of exams - BBC News", "Covid: School return in Wales 'unlikely' for all in February - BBC News", "Care home worker thought cancer misdiagnosis was a 'cruel joke' - BBC News", "Skewen flood victims could be out of homes for days - BBC News", "SpaceX: World record number of satellites launched - BBC News", "England in Sri Lanka: Tourists complete six-wicket win and take series 2-0 - BBC Sport", "Boeing 737 Max cleared to fly again 'too early' - BBC News", "Coronavirus: Pressure on NHS front line 'relentless' - Hancock - BBC News", "Covid: Teachers 'not at higher risk' of death than average - BBC News", "Fraud epidemic 'is now national security threat' - BBC News", "Snow: Severe weather warnings in place across UK - BBC News", "Covid-19: MPs call for school reopening plan, and will France have a third lockdown? - BBC News", "Putin condemns Navalny protests as Western concern grows - BBC News", "Covid: 'Not a moment to ease measures,' says Matt Hancock - BBC News", "Robert Rowland: Former Brexit MEP dies in Bahamas diving accident - BBC News", "Pandemic prompts Super Bowl ad rethink in US - BBC News", "Covid: Schools will be told of reopening plans 'as soon as we can' - BBC News", "South Africa coronavirus variant: 77 cases found in UK - BBC News", "US police vehicle ploughs into crowd watching 'burnouts' - BBC News", "Barclaycard customers face higher minimum payments - BBC News", "Skewen flood: Is Wales' coalmining past behind home evacuations? - BBC News", "'Droves' of Pampas grass pickers at South Shields beach - BBC News", "Covid-19: Mansfield newlyweds, 90 and 86, in vaccination plea - BBC News", "'Knackered and confused.' That's just the parents - BBC News", "Covid: Call for long-term plan to help 'burnt-out' nurses - BBC News", "Heatwave sweeps Australian cities and raises bushfire danger - BBC News", "Dylan Freeman: Mother admits killing disabled son - BBC News", "'Running Man' robber jailed after nearly 13 years on the run - BBC News", "Travellers: Shocking lack of pitches for families, charity warns - BBC News", "Skewen flood victims face 'months' before returning home - BBC News", "Jenners: Building's owner says store 'will remain' despite Frasers move - BBC News", "PTSD: Eyes can reveal previous trauma, study reveals - BBC News", "Covid: 'More deadly' UK variant claim played down by scientists - BBC News", "Moderna vaccine appears to work against variants - BBC News", "Channel 4 Deepfake Queen complaints dropped by Ofcom - BBC News", "Debenhams shops to close permanently after Boohoo deal - BBC News", "Covid: Dutch curfew riots rage for third night - BBC News", "Gordon Brown: Trust has broken down in way UK is run - BBC News", "Q&A: Cwm Taf maternity problems - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: Over-70 vaccine letters start but blue envelope delay - BBC News", "Cwm Taf maternity: Failings 'affected two-thirds of women' - BBC News", "Mastercard to push up fees for UK purchases from EU - BBC News", "Frank Lampard: Chelsea sack manager with Thomas Tuchel expected to replace him - BBC Sport", "Covid-19: Mexican President López Obrador tests positive - BBC News", "Janet Yellen to be first female US treasury secretary - BBC News", "Covid: Hays Travel to close 89 shops as lockdown delays 'bounce back' - BBC News", "Coronavirus: Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer self-isolates for third time - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: Ways to 'accelerate' vaccine plans being examined - BBC News", "Welsh Valentine's Day: 'Why we mark St Dwynwen's Day' - BBC News", "Cwm Taf maternity: Mothers ignored and made to feel worthless - BBC News", "Keon Lincoln: Mother 'heard gunshots' that killed teen - BBC News", "Covid-19: Police investigate potential breaches at republican funeral - BBC News", "Skewen flooding: Villagers warned not to return to homes - BBC News", "Kickstart: Most job roles for youths not yet filled - BBC News", "Covid: Volunteers in Maesteg clear snow for vulnerable to get vaccine - BBC News", "Manchester United 3-2 Liverpool: Bruno Fernandes settles FA Cup thriller - BBC Sport", "Covid: Early years staff safety 'cause for concern' - BBC News", "Couple killed in Cameron House Hotel fire named - BBC News", "Coronavirus: Police support Crown probe into care home deaths - BBC News", "Covid: Sir Billy Connolly receives his first vaccine jab - BBC News", "Covid: Fire Brigades Union safety demands 'unworkable', says report - BBC News", "Shipping crisis: I'm being quoted £10,000 for a £1,600 container' - BBC News", "Covid: School return in Wales 'unlikely' for all in February - BBC News", "Coronavirus: Majority of discretionary self-isolation support applications rejected, Labour say - BBC News", "Festival season 'still possible' despite Glastonbury cancellation - BBC News", "Coronavirus: 'New variant may be associated with higher mortality' - PM - BBC News", "Inquiry uses legal powers to seek Salmond evidence - BBC News", "Bus driver jailed after passenger's death in Swansea crash - BBC News", "Covid: James Bond film No Time To Die delayed for third time - BBC News", "Covid: How a £20 gadget could save lives - BBC News", "Birmingham mosque becomes UK's first to offer Covid vaccine - BBC News", "Hotel quarantine for UK arrivals to be discussed - BBC News", "St Agnes Cold War bunker for sale - BBC News", "Covid: Side-by-side in a London mosque - funerals and a food bank - BBC News", "Brexit: Retailers warn they could burn goods stuck in EU - BBC News", "Skewen flood: Is Wales' coalmining past behind home evacuations? 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east London.", "Boris Johnson says the gap between referendums on Europe - 41 years - is \"a good sort of gap\" for independence referendums.", "The Gerry and the Pacemakers singer's number one hit became a football terrace anthem.", "Driving conditions on many roads will become \"hazardous\" next week, the Met Office warns.", "A study finds the new coronavirus variant is responsible for pushing the R rate above the crucial 1.0 mark.", "The government said soldiers had been sent to protect the area, close to Niger's border with Mali.", "After the PM hints at tighter measures in England, our science editor looks at what they could entail.", "Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola says he may stay in management much longer than he anticipated.", "Up to 300 people gather in London's Hyde Park to protest at Covid-19 restrictions.", "Manchester City say they are disappointed after defender Benjamin Mendy breaches Covid-19 rules by hosting a New Year's Eve party.", "Mexican-American Ryan Garcia gets up from the canvas to stop Britain's Luke Campbell with a body shot in Dallas, Texas.", "About 30,000 birds are to be culled at the farm near Clough in north Antrim.", "The latest government figures show a further 2,137 cases of Covid-19 were confirmed in Scotland on Friday.", "It comes as a further 57,725 people test positive for the virus, a new daily high.", "Boris Johnson says more areas may need tougher rules, as Labour urges England-wide curbs within 24 hours.", "Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer describes her as a \"dear friend and colleague\", and wishes her well.", "Boris Johnson says regional restrictions in England are \"probably about to get tougher\".", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "The decision to keep car parks open is under \"constant review\", says one national park.", "Leicester City edge a keenly contested Premier League encounter with Southampton to maintain their push for a top-four place.", "Calls are made for \"front-line\" nursery staff to be supported with funding and vaccines.", "CBBC star's mother, Lucy Lyndhurst, says his death has had a \"catastrophic effect\" on their family.", "A critical engine test for Nasa's new \"megarocket\" - the Space Launch System (SLS) - ends early.", "Health groups say NHS staff fear prosecution over decisions if hospitals are overwhelmed.", "Spector, who was jailed for killing actress Lana Clarkson, transformed pop music with his \"wall of sound\".", "He told police he drove to Devizes for a McDonald's even though the town does not have a branch.", "Louis Godwin, 95, said he was \"so pleased\" to get his Covid-19 vaccination at Salisbury Cathedral.", "Prime Minister Jean Castex said the measures would be in place for at least 15 days.", "Leaders Manchester United are thwarted by the second-half heroics of keeper Alisson in a goalless draw with title rivals Liverpool at Anfield.", "The \"fiercely competitive\" but \"kind, thoughtful and caring\" news executive has died aged 73.", "Doctors say the \"patchy supply\" of vaccine to GPs is slowing down efforts to deliver it to patients.", "Northern Health Trust chief says system is under \"huge pressure\" with patients waiting for beds.", "Sir Richard Branson's rocket company succeeds in putting its first satellites in space.", "Statistics agency Nisra says 145 deaths were registered last week, bringing its pandemic total to 1,976.", "Mother Sara Powell-Davies welcomes its return, but nurseries say they fear for the future.", "Women are sent sexually explicit messages and requests for \"worn\" garments.", "As the UK records its highest death toll, Fergal Keane has been to see the strain the NHS is under for the second time.", "Fighting erupted after a man was stabbed in a row between two men from different ethnic groups.", "Former climbing champion Lai Chi-Wai raised HK$5.2 million for spinal cord patients.", "The government is aiming to provide grants by April to mitigate the impact of Covid travel rules.", "Patient numbers have risen by 15,000 since Christmas, but infections are stabilising, says Sir Simon Stevens.", "Pupils in England can read works by popular authors online while schools stay closed in lockdown.", "The Gerry and the Pacemakers singer died from a blood infection at the age of 78.", "More than half of the Church of England's 14,000 parishes will not open for Sunday services later.", "England need 36 runs on the final day to win the first Test against Sri Lanka despite losing three wickets in a chaotic final session in Galle.", "A decision on whether to extend £20 Universal Credit rise is unlikely before March's Budget, minister says.", "The leaders of the US, France, Germany and other leading economies will meet in Cornwall in June.", "The government is planning new laws to stop England's monuments being removed \"on a whim\" by protesters.", "Hundreds of thousands of DNA and arrest records were deleted after a human error, the Home Office says.", "A group of London firms has written to ministers calling for financial support for the rail firm.", "With traffic down and more people working from home, what is the future for these lay-by businesses?", "Prince William says he \"really worries\" about the effect of the pandemic on front-line workers.", "Drivers from Scotland and Portsmouth caught breaking lockdown rules in north Wales.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Sunday.", "But Sir Simon Stevens says the health service has never been in a more precarious situation.", "Mount Semeru has erupted, pouring volcanic matter miles into the air and placing locals on alert.", "Pressure grows on PM after non-binding motion on universal credit top-up is passed by 278 votes.", "The latest death and case figures should be a \"bitter warning for us all\", Public Health England says.", "The Most Reverend Philip Tartaglia tested positive for the virus shortly after Christmas but the cause of his death is not clear.", "The man told police he had travelled 14 miles from his home to search for the fictional characters.", "Hashem Abedi and Ahmed Hassan are accused of assaulting an officer in HMP Belmarsh in May.", "Scotland's health secretary says 400,000 jabs could be administered every week by the end of February.", "Lidl, Just Eat and Asos say demand for fizz, takeaways and clothes all rose during December.", "As the UK records its highest death toll, Fergal Keane has been to see the strain the NHS is under for the second time.", "Black people are more than four times more likely to be detained under the Mental Health Act in England.", "Amnesty International says the issue of forced adoptions also needs close scrutiny.", "Details and reaction to a briefing by Wales' chief medical officer and NHS Wales chief executive.", "Carol and David Richards had been fined £60 for driving 20 minutes to see her mother.", "Tony Parsons from Tillicoultry vanished more than three years ago during a charity cycle ride.", "The prime minister wants round-the-clock vaccination but adds supply is currently the limiting factor.", "Nicola Sturgeon announces the areas where restrictions will be tightened in Scotland from Saturday.", "The famous Lauberhorn ski event is cancelled after a spike in Covid-19 cases linked to one tourist.", "Staff at one of London's busiest hospitals say it's not going to take much for services to soon break.", "The health secretary urges people to follow rules, saying \"individual decisions\" make a difference.", "Rival supermarkets defend their pay, with Asda saying looking at hourly rates does not tell the whole story.", "Some restrictions have been tightened amid concerns the \"stay at home\" message has not had the same impact.", "Investors have agreed a deal to save the chain, along with Ponden Home and Bonmarché.", "Amid reports of mass furlough fraud the BBC hears from one worker who quit work but still gets furlough pay.", "First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says because of the \"precarious\" situation in relation to the pandemic more restrictions will be brought in.", "A report from a group of Tory MPs adds to internal pressure on the government to harden its stance.", "Together with his twin brother, Sir David built a business empire spanning hotels, retail and newspapers.", "Scotland's first minister says the current restrictions are \"very unlikely\" to be lifted at the end of the month.", "The company denies selling technology that can identify the ethnic group and plans to reword the patent.", "Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer challenged Boris Johnson over the provision of \"disgraceful\" food parcels.", "The Earl of Strathmore attacked a woman in her room during an event he was hosting at Glamis Castle.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "Latest results show Sinovac's Covid-19 vaccine is less effective in Brazil than previously suggested.", "The health minister says it is a \"strong start\" but there is more to do.", "One operator told the BBC his staff were working up to 16 hours a day to help traders.", "Earlier this month videos showing supposed empty hospitals were shared on social media.", "A leaked memo warns several Birmingham hospitals risk being \"overwhelmed\" by coronavirus patients.", "The increase is to further discourage shoppers from buying single-use plastic bags.", "Tweeters query why it has not been given to a prominent Kenyan like actress Lupita Nyong'o.", "A Met Office yellow weather warning for ice is in place after heavy snow caused road closures and travel disruption.", "A negative test had been due to be required from Friday, but ministers said people needed time to prepare.", "Sir David will showcase an augmented reality app as part of a drive to prove the uses of 5G.", "Education Secretary Gavin Williamson said this would help teachers to decide \"deserved grades\".", "But Boris Johnson does not rule out tougher restrictions in England, saying they are kept under review.", "Fans of the University of Alabama football team gathered in the streets of Tuscaloosa, ignoring social distancing.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Wednesday morning.", "These are the lawmakers with a big influence on the impeachment process against the former president.", "The last of 14 works identified as looted from Jewish collectors is returned to the owner's heirs.", "Isabella Curry said she now feels safe and will be able to go out and meet friends soon.", "An RAF aircraft breaking the sound barrier causes a loud bang in skies across the East of England.", "Pawel Relowicz committed \"sexually motivated\" burglaries before Libby Squire's death, jurors hear.", "Doctors believed 11-month-old Sofia-Grace Hill was rejecting food because she had tonsillitis.", "It comes as Boris Johnson is quizzed by MPs on the government's coronavirus response.", "Three vaccines have been approved in the UK - what are the differences between them?", "Parents of disabled children are calling for teachers in special schools to receive the Covid-19 vaccine.", "Ivan Cavaleiro's late header earns Premier League strugglers Fulham a hard-fought draw against Tottenham in their hastily rearranged London derby.", "Doctors leaders' want staff to be given the type of high-quality masks usually only worn in intensive care.", "The home secretary says she will back police to enforce virus rules, as another 1,243 die in the UK.", "The Google-owned service said the president had broken its rules over the incitement of violence.", "The prime minister warns there is a \"very substantial\" risk of intensive care being \"overtopped\".", "Mohamud Mohammed Hassan was arrested at home on Friday but released without charge on Saturday.", "The Democrats say they sheltered in a safe room alongside others who refused to wear masks.", "It follows similar moves by Morrisons and Sainsbury's, but those with medical reasons will be exempt.", "Ten members of his own party voted against the president over his role in the deadly riots at the US Capitol.", "Police in Atlanta want to question YFN Lucci, 29, over a fatal shooting in the city last month.", "More than 700 intensive care staff at nine hospitals were asked about their experiences for a study.", "Her novel Heart for a Compass is a fictional historical saga inspired by her great-great-aunt.", "There's speculation over who was involved in the protests and whether they belong to organised groups.", "Production was to begin later this month but filming and transmission will now be later than hoped.", "The PM leads UK politicians from all parties condemning the riot at the US Capitol building.", "The firm says tighter Covid restrictions and falling passenger numbers have prompted the decision.", "Allowing pupils without laptops into schools could limit the impact of the closures, say head.", "The president will be banned \"permanently\" if he breaks the platform's rules again.", "An Alaska state agency emerged as the main bidder at the sale, which was opposed by environmentalists.", "Two boys and a girl, all aged 13 or 14, are charged with murder after the death of Olly Stephens, 13.", "Joe Biden says it is \"totally unacceptable\" police showed more leniency in the Capitol riot than at anti-racism protests.", "Nguyen Huy Hung was one of 39 people who died in a container en route from Belgium to Essex.", "Boris Johnson has \"no doubt\" there is enough supply to vaccinate the first four priority groups by 15 February.", "Gavin Williamson will \"trust in teachers rather than algorithms\" in awarding this year's results.", "The broadcaster will be a part-time replacement for the new Woman's Hour host.", "The sites, including football stadiums and racecourses, will begin operations next week.", "Events in Washington spark dismay and criticism of America's politics and leader.", "Staff at one of London's busiest hospitals say it's not going to take much for services to soon break.", "The police officer who the FBI said fired the fatal shot is dismissed for breaching policy.", "Her family said the British model, who died in December aged 50, had been \"unwell for some time\".", "More than 113,000 Scots have now been given their first dose of a vaccine against Covid-19.", "The drugs, which save an extra life for every 12 intensive care patients treated, can be used immediately, say experts.", "The president is accused of inciting a riot with his divisive rhetoric - he's unlikely to stay silent.", "Health officials say it was the only option due to the demand for beds as a result of Covid-19.", "A ceremony meant to showcase a peaceful power transfer turns into a dark day. Here are the key moments.", "Breakdown of what happened when Trump supporters stormed the Capitol amid a key Senate vote.", "The weekly applause is back - but its founder distances herself from the initiative.", "News photographers captured extraordinary scenes as Trump supporters stormed the building.", "The US Capitol has gone into lockdown amid violent clashes between police and Trump supporters, who broke security lines and are inside the building.", "The UK prime minister also says the US president is \"completely wrong\" over his election fraud claims.", "The airline warns few, if any, flights will operate to or from Ireland or the UK from the end of January.", "Travellers from Namibia, Zimbabwe, Angola, Botswana and Mauritius will be barred from entry.", "US lawmakers and staff are seen wearing protective gas masks as police draw guns on protesters.", "Dave Edwards lit up his home for 42 years but died before the recent festive season.", "At Fullwell Cross Medical Centre in north London, they are now vaccinating almost 1,000 people a week.", "George is recovering after spending three nights in hospital with coronavirus.", "How Trump's favourite social media site banned him - permanently.", "On Wednesday the UK recorded more than 1,000 daily Covid deaths and hospitals are struggling to cope.", "The Tesla and SpaceX owner replaces Jeff Bezos as the richest man on the planet.", "The home secretary says the US president fuelled the violence, as the PM condemns the \"disgraceful scenes\".", "Two boys and a girl are accused of murdering 13-year-old Olly Stephens in Reading.", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "Drive-through and delivery services will still be available while it reviews its safety procedures.", "Leaders from around the world call for peace and a peaceful transfer of power in Washington.", "Worried childcare staff call on ministers to prove it's safe for them to open in England.", "Matthew Mason beat 15-year-old Alex Rodda to death to stop their sexual relationship being revealed.", "Boris Johnson says the armed forces will use \"battle preparation techniques\" to help vaccinate millions.", "Sarah Bingham's son and daughter have the same rare illness and she is a donor match for both.", "Industry body calls for the early vaccination of workers to keep supply chains running smoothly.", "Lorry drivers will need a negative result to cross into France until further notice, the government says.", "Aston Villa are preparing to field a team of youngsters in Friday's FA Cup third-round tie at home to Liverpool.", "GPs in England receive doses of the Oxford Covid jab as medics warn of \"stretched\" wards.", "Families had smaller gatherings, but sales still rose 9.3% in the Christmas trading period, it says.", "There are concerns the new variant may spread too easily to be controlled by lockdown.", "Residents of Shijiazhuang are banned from leaving and will be tested en masse after an outbreak there.", "The Wanted member shares some good news with his fans, three months on from his cancer diagnosis.", "The new lockdown has pushed pubs and restaurants into yet more debt, some of which may never be repaid.", "Jamie Stiehm was in the House of Representatives press gallery when protesters smashed at the door.", "The online retailer wants to buy the brands, not their shops, suggesting any deal would cost jobs.", "The fast fashion retailer is not purchasing the stores or taking on its staff, the BBC understands.", "The head of France's scientific council suggests a third lockdown is needed amid spread of variants.", "Ella Lambert says the period pain she experiences inspired her to help others.", "Israel has vaccinated more than a quarter of its population and now high school students are eligible.", "Ministers have said schools would stay closed until half term unless Covid cases fall significantly.", "Janice Johnston had 18 months of needless chemotherapy, causing her numerous physical problems.", "Underground investigations are due to begin on Saturday after flooding linked to old mine shaft.", "Entrepreneur Elon Musk's SpaceX company delivers 143 satellites to orbit on a single rocket flight.", "England complete a thrilling victory on day four of the second Test against Sri Lanka to take the series 2-0.", "A former Boeing manager says more investigations are needed on the plane, grounded after two crashes.", "Nearly 38,000 people are in hospital in the UK with coronavirus, the health secretary says.", "The highest-risk job roles were in restaurants, care work and manufacturing.", "From credit card fraud to benefit fraud, the problem costs the UK up to £190bn a year, a report says.", "Motorists are urged to take care with sub-zero temperatures forecast into Monday.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Monday morning.", "The crackdown on Alexei Navalny and his supporters fuels calls in the EU for tougher sanctions.", "The health secretary says it is \"difficult\" to put a timeline on when England's lockdown will be lifted.", "Tributes are paid to Robert Rowland following the accident near his home in the Bahamas.", "Budweiser will not advertise during the Super Bowl for the first time in 37 years.", "Boris Johnson says he understands parents' frustrations but the infection rate is \"still very high\".", "Ministers are due to meet on Monday to consider whether to tighten the UK's border restrictions further.", "Footage shows a police car apparently driving through a group at a street race in Washington state.", "The changes affecting some customers take effect as finances are squeezed by Covid and Christmas.", "A geologist says tens of thousands of old mine shafts must be monitored to help stop more flooding.", "An interior decor trend is blamed for the removal of the grass, which forms part of a wind defence.", "Geoff and Jenny Holland married in August after having to twice postpone their wedding.", "The lack of certainty about schools returning is fraying the exhausted nerves of parents.", "A Royal College of Nursing survey found almost 80% were more stressed because of the Covid pandemic.", "As temperatures continue to remain high, parts of Australia are facing their worst fire risk in a year.", "Three psychiatric reports found Olga Freeman was suffering from a severe depressive illness.", "Ambrose O'Neill disappeared after the first day of his trial in 2008.", "Only 18 out of 251 registered traveller sites have any available spaces, research from a charity suggests.", "Some will be able to return on Tuesday but others are urged to stay away due to safety fears.", "The building's owner vows it will continue as a department store despite the departure of current tenant, the House of Fraser.", "The eyes of people with PTSD behave differently when they see exciting images, researchers say.", "One says he is surprised Boris Johnson shared the early data when it is \"not particularly strong\".", "Laboratory tests suggest antibodies can recognise and fight the UK and South Africa variants.", "The media regulator decided not to pursue complaints about decency over the channel's satire.", "Online retailer Boohoo will buy the brand for £55m, but not its shops, putting 12,000 jobs at risk.", "Police describe it as the worst unrest in the Netherlands for decades, with more than 180 arrests.", "The UK's nations and regions are being treated as if they were \"invisible\", the former PM warns.", "What is behind the review of specialist care for mothers and babies in the south Wales valleys?", "Vaccination appointments for over-70s in Scotland will arrive on Monday as planned - but in white envelopes.", "A new report focuses on the experiences of pregnant women at Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board.", "The move sparks concerns that customers could see prices rise if merchants pass on the higher cost.", "Chelsea sack manager Frank Lampard after 18 months in charge, with former Paris St-Germain and Borussia Dortmund boss Thomas Tuchel expected to replace him.", "Andrés Manuel López Obrador, 67, announces he is receiving medical treatment for the coronavirus.", "The Senate has confirmed Janet Yellen as first female treasury secretary in US history.", "The third national lockdown and travel ban meant the travel firm \"had to act\", a spokeswoman says.", "Sir Keir Starmer says he will be working from home until next Monday.", "A pilot programme for 24/7 vaccinations is among options being considered by the Scottish government.", "Why one family finds St Dwynwen's Day - the Welsh patron saint of lovers - more relevant to their heritage.", "Mothers speaking to the Cwm Taf maternity review \"overwhelmingly\" had distressing experiences.", "The mother of Keon Lincoln, 15, who was shot and stabbed, pleads for information about his death.", "Images circulated on social media show mourners at the funeral of an IRA man in Londonderry.", "First Minister Mark Drakeford earlier visited the site of the flooding which led to 80 people being evacuated.", "About 118,000 placements for young people are yet to be filled due to coronavirus lockdowns.", "Community spirit praised as helpers clear 7cm of snow so vulnerable patients could get Covid jab.", "Bruno Fernandes comes off the bench to fire Manchester United past fierce rivals Liverpool in a pulsating FA Cup fourth-round tie.", "Nurseries, pre-schools and childminders call for rapid testing and priority access to vaccines.", "The two men were guests at Cameron House Hotel on the shores of Loch Lomond when the blaze broke out.", "The force said its role is designed to inform prosecutors and does not indicate a crime has taken place.", "The 78-year-old Scottish comedian received his first dose of the vaccine near his home in Florida.", "A report criticises the union after it told its members not to volunteer due to safety concerns.", "A shortage of shipping containers, rising costs, and congestion at ports are holding back imports from China.", "Ministers have said schools would stay closed until half term unless Covid cases fall significantly.", "The majority of applications for the discretionary part of the test and trace grant are unsuccessful.", "Despite Glastonbury's cancellation, smaller festivals could still go ahead, experts say.", "Boris Johnson says it's more important than ever to be vigilant in following rules and staying home.", "The probe into the handling of harassment claims against Alex Salmond wants to see messages between SNP and government officials.", "Eric Vice, 64, was driving to Swansea University when he hit a bridge.", "The premiere of No Time To Die, Daniel Craig's final 007 outing, is pushed back again due to Covid.", "Doctors say people should buy a pulse oximeter to monitor their oxygen levels at home.", "The imam, Sheikh Nuru Mohammed, hopes the centre will dispel false information about the vaccination.", "Boris Johnson has not ruled out further action to secure the borders amid concerns over Covid variants.", "A bunker built during the Cold War is being auctioned with a guide price of £25,000.", "Worship has been suspended as burials average 15-a-day, yet still there is denial about the disease.", "UK retailers may abandon goods EU customers want to return because it is cheaper than bringing them home.", "A geologist says tens of thousands of old mine shafts must be monitored to help stop more flooding.", "The UK's chief medical adviser warns that \"a very small change and it could start taking off again\".", "Health Minister Robin Swann warns restrictions are likely to continue after latest extension.", "Scottish postie Nathan Evans has quit his job and signed to a record label after storming TikTok with sea shanties.", "The TV presenter says Mr Trump went on with the conversation, believing it to be Morgan.", "A 14-year-old boy is suspected of murder over \"inconceivable violence\" before Keon Lincoln's death.", "The Mavisbank care home in Bishopbriggs was recently rated \"weak\" by the care inspectorate for its Covid response.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Friday morning.", "A national charity renews its plea for donations to help museums hit by the coronavirus pandemic.", "Paula Badosa reveals she has the virus and apologises for making complaints about quarantine rules.", "'This is our historic moment of crisis and challenge' - the new president knows how daunting his task is.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 15 and 22 January.", "The chief rabbi has described the event as a \"shameful desecration of all that we hold dear\".", "A £500 payment is already available for those on low incomes who cannot work from home, No 10 says.", "Thirty-nine Vietnamese migrants suffocated in a sealed container en route to Essex in October 2019.", "A teachers' union says a review delivers a \"scathing\" verdict on how exams were handled in 2020.", "Fines of £800 will be handed to anyone attending a house party of more than 15 people from next week.", "Thousands of files hacked from Scotland's environment watchdog appear on the \"dark web\" after it rejected a ransom demand.", "Boris Johnson says England's measures will be reviewed once the priority groups have had the vaccine.", "Paddy McElhone, 24, was shot in the back by a soldier near his home outside Pomeroy in August 1974.", "Investigators have been targeting offenders who operate online since the first coronavirus lockdown.", "CCTV footage has been released showing fire breaking out in a hotel after a porter put a bag of ash and embers in a cupboard.", "Vitinha's superb goal sees Wolves into the fifth round of the FA Cup at the expense of non-league Chorley.", "Two people died in the blaze at the Cameron House hotel in West Dunbartonshire three years ago.", "A consortium including the fashion chain will no longer bid to buy Topshop and Topman out of administration.", "Evidence suggests the variant that emerged in the UK may be more deadly as well as faster-spreading.", "Clothing was the hardest-hit sector last year, seeing a 25% drop in sales overall.", "Liverpool's 68-game unbeaten home run in the Premier League comes to an end as Ashley Barnes fires home a late winner from the penalty spot to secure a famous victory for Burnley.", "The Japanese car maker has told the BBC its Sunderland plant is secure for the long term.", "Police hold aides to Putin critic Alexei Navalny as opposition activists start a string of rallies.", "Parts of Skewen remain underwater with people unable to return to their flooded homes.", "Andy Murray will miss the Australian Open after failing to find a \"workable quarantine\" solution following his positive test for coronavirus.", "Simon Midgley's mother says she still does not have answers about how her son died in the fire at Cameron House.", "Campaigners say a government fund to pay for the removal of dangerous cladding is woefully inadequate.", "The minority \"blatantly flouting\" restrictions will face enforcement action, a senior officer says.", "The couple paid themselves the sum despite heavy losses at Mrs Beckham's fashion brand.", "Muller Milk & Ingredients in Somerset confirms 47 dairy workers have tested positive for Covid-19.", "NHS staff rally to arrange a wedding for a couple as the groom's condition deteriorates in hospital.", "Many of those who took part in the Capitol riot are believed to have subscribed to extremist views.", "The curbs may even continue until Easter in an attempt to drive down Covid-19 case numbers.", "Stars of the Essex-based reality show pay tribute to a \"true gentleman\" and \"one of the good guys\".", "Under coronavirus restrictions a maximum of 30 people are meant to attend a funeral.", "Abimbola Ajoke Bamgbose had been fed up with people asking if she was pregnant, an inquest hears.", "AstraZeneca is the latest company, after Pfizer, to warn of delivery issues, frustrating officials.", "Investigations are ongoing into what caused the road surface to give way, United Utilities say.", "As Covid patients waited at Royal Glamorgan Hospital the nurse had a fear of \"wanting to leave\".", "Under house arrest in Canada on bank fraud charges, Ms Meng has reportedly received death threats.", "As the UK records its highest death toll, Fergal Keane has been to see the strain the NHS is under for the second time.", "Richard Sharp says the BBC represents good value, but how it is funded \"may be worth reassessing\".", "The S21 Ultra's support for an S Pen will fuel speculation that the Note range's days are numbered.", "But the expert says the new Covid variant means any relaxation of rules will be a \"gradual process\".", "Amnesty International says the issue of forced adoptions also needs close scrutiny.", "Carol and David Richards had been fined £60 for driving 20 minutes to see her mother.", "Reports from Manaus say medical staff are begging for help in a critical situation due to Covid-19.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Thursday evening.", "But researchers warn there is still a risk of catching and passing the virus on to others again.", "Nicola Sturgeon announces the areas where restrictions will be tightened in Scotland from Saturday.", "One in three trusts in England was running above safe levels of bed occupancy by the end of 2020.", "Tui, the UK's largest tour operator, says 50% of bookings on their website are currently by over-50s.", "The famous Lauberhorn ski event is cancelled after a spike in Covid-19 cases linked to one tourist.", "Some urgent procedures including cancer surgery are postponed in one health board area due to Covid.", "Six chemists have been chosen initially, with 200 more offering vaccinations in the next fortnight.", "Hundreds of students say it is not right they will have to wait months for rebates during Covid-19.", "Some housed in the military camp say the conditions are so bad it causes them psychological trauma.", "Police and rail bosses condemn a social media post featuring a car parked on a level crossing.", "Armie Hammer dismisses supposedly leaked messages and says he can now not be apart from his children.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "Jack Dorsey acknowledges that banning the president undermines the ideals of an open internet.", "Homes worry about being sued if people contract the virus while they are staying there.", "The health minister says it is a \"strong start\" but there is more to do.", "Arrivals from most of South America - and from Portugal - will be stopped from Friday.", "Dozens cancel Covid jabs and poor road conditions have a \"severe impact\" on Yorkshire's ambulances.", "Founder Charlie Mullins says it is a \"no-brainer\" that workers should get immunised.", "Scientists are racing to find out more about variants of the coronavirus that are spreading fast.", "The co-founder for Cyberpunk 2077's developer is explaining what went wrong with the launch.", "Samantha Hicks attributed her baby's kicking to sickness having been in hospital with Covid-19.", "The footballer joins celebrities and campaigners to call for action in a letter to the prime minister.", "The prime minister has suggested there could be restrictions on travel from Brazil to the UK.", "Services in England are being cut from 87% of normal levels to 72%, the Rail Delivery Group says.", "A Met Office yellow weather warning for ice is in place after heavy snow caused road closures and travel disruption.", "A negative test had been due to be required from Friday, but ministers said people needed time to prepare.", "Post-primary schools get extra time to decide how they will admit pupils after transfer tests are cancelled.", "A Scottish shellfish firm owner says he is on the brink of bankruptcy as EU customers desert his business.", "The 19-year-old mounted pavements and jumped red lights through London and three counties.", "Nintendo's first theme park, modelled on levels of its Mario games, was due to open on 4 February.", "More than 45% of this priority group has now been vaccinated, compared with about 30% in London.", "Travellers from Namibia, Zimbabwe, Angola, Botswana and Mauritius will be barred from entry.", "New Brexit trade rules mean Britain's biggest supermarket faces problems importing some fruit, meat and ready meals.", "James Howells threw away a hard drive containing bitcoin - now worth £210m - by mistake in 2013.", "The last of 14 works identified as looted from Jewish collectors is returned to the owner's heirs.", "It tops up doses already promised as officials worry that Africa is at the back of the vaccine queue.", "England's cancer, critical care, A&E and routine treatments all hit as hospitals accommodate virus patients.", "Boris Johnson pledged to end rough sleeping by 2024, but a watchdog says plans need reviewing post-Covid.", "The government defends its plan to switch to a grant scheme to feed children at half term.", "Our voter panel is divided over the charge of incitement with Trump supporters warning it will deepen divisions.", "A respiratory doctor at the Mater Hospital warns that oxygen supplies are under \"extreme pressure\".", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "Ministers could bring in possible measures after a new Covid variant was found in South America.", "Ivan Cavaleiro's late header earns Premier League strugglers Fulham a hard-fought draw against Tottenham in their hastily rearranged London derby.", "The couple, who both have coronavirus, were given \"precious\" time together, their daughter says.", "Doctors leaders' want staff to be given the type of high-quality masks usually only worn in intensive care.", "The scientists investigating the origins of the coronavirus have landed in the city of Wuhan.", "The prime minister warns there is a \"very substantial\" risk of intensive care being \"overtopped\".", "The home secretary says her focus is on enforcement but doesn't rule out tougher restrictions next week.", "Dom Bess takes 5-30 as a dreadful Sri Lanka batting display leaves England in control after day one of the first Test at Galle.", "A blind social media star could wait years for a new guide dog due to delays linked to the pandemic.", "The government wants bosses to do more to help victims as reports of domestic abuse soar in lockdown.", "Andy Murray is still hopeful of playing in the Australian Open despite not travelling to Melbourne after testing positive for coronavirus.", "On Thursday, 16 more deaths related to Covid-19 were recorded along with 973 new positive cases.", "Ten members of his own party voted against the president over his role in the deadly riots at the US Capitol.", "Illusionist Siegfried Fischbacher and partner Roy Horn were an institution in Las Vegas and beyond.", "Mr Leonard says it is in the best interests of the party if he stands down as leader immediately.", "The retailer insists it has no plans to move online, despite warning shop closures could cost it £1bn.", "A total of 1,596 patients are in Scottish hospitals with Covid as pressures on the NHS continue to build.", "The woman, who was Tasered by officers, is taken to hospital with non life-threatening injuries.", "Sarah Link lived in a caravan on her own drive so she could carry on working and protect her mother.", "Vincent Kane does not know when his operation will happen, having been delayed due to the pandemic.", "The property investment firm is accused of trying to \"jump the queue\".", "It said there may be \"an increase of missing items and substitutions over the next few weeks\".", "Officers \"will not hesitate\" to take action against those breaking the rules, home secretary says.", "The vaccines were administered on Saturday by a household doctor at Windsor Castle, a royal source says.", "Health Secretary Matt Hancock says social media giants are \"taking editorial decisions\".", "The Labour leader urges ministers to give councils more money instead to protect family budgets.", "Three people were arrested during an anti-lockdown protest, including the woman seen in the video.", "Eleanor Wadsworth flew hundreds of aircraft, including Spitfires and Hurricanes, to the front line in WW2.", "People who cannot work from home should be prioritised for rapid tests in England, the government says.", "Bernard Thomas was rescued from the rubble of Pantglas primary school on 21 October, 1966.", "But for now, people must stay at home during lockdown and alleviate 'serious' pressure on the NHS.", "Health Secretary Matt Hancock says the NHS is under \"very serious pressure\" and warns people to stay home.", "Electricity is gradually being restored after a huge outage triggered by a power station fault.", "The riots of 6 January took many by surprise, but to those tracking conspiracy and extreme right groups online, the warning signs were all there.", "Extra measures are taken to distribute Covid vaccines amid fears the snow could turn to ice.", "Crawley Town produce one of the FA Cup third round's most emphatic upsets as they stun Premier League side Leeds United.", "US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says contact between officials should no longer be \"shackled\".", "There are concerns the new variant may spread too easily to be controlled by lockdown.", "At least six police vans are deployed to Clapham Common where about 30 protesters gathered.", "The farm has been left with over 4,000 surplus eggs after schools suddenly closed to most pupils.", "The government says a draft agreement saying flat owners need its approval first is \"standard\".", "Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove says \"work is ongoing\" to improve trade from GB to NI.", "Scott McTominay celebrates captaining Manchester United for the first time with an early winner to see off Watford in the FA Cup third round.", "A 107-year-old woman from County Meath is attempting to attend a virtual Mass in every county.", "Increasing numbers of seriously-ill patients add to the pressure facing Scotland's health service.", "Four deaths are reported as Storm Filomena dumps snow and triggers floods across the country.", "A \"significant step-up\" in rolling out vaccines is promised by the health minister.", "If Parler fails to find a new web hosting service by Sunday, the entire network will go offline.", "The Labour leader calls for tougher coronavirus restrictions and says help for low earners must continue.", "Almost 50,000 people in Wales have been given a first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine.", "He hopes to beat his own lockdown bulge with his \"Get Buzzin' With Bez\" YouTube classes.", "Two landslides hit the same village in Indonesia within hours, leaving emergency teams trapped.", "Another 1,035 people have died, taking the total since the start of the pandemic to 80,868.", "Patients, many shielding, have been offered appointments miles away from their homes.", "The Labour leader rejects a second independence referendum but calls for other changes to devolution.", "More than 100 cars are turned away from a beauty spot in north Wales, police say.", "Boris Johnson will make a televised address at 20:00 GMT to outline further steps as virus cases rise.", "Lockdown measures will see schools closed until half term, and GCSEs and A-levels unable to go ahead as normal.", "The British coin collection will also mark the 75th anniversary of the death of novelist HG Wells.", "Four boys and a girl are held on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder after the Reading attack.", "An NHS chief executive says it 'beggars belief' people took pictures of empty corridors.", "Four people were accused of being a \"supporting cast\" for burglars who targeted west London homes.", "Boris Johnson says the gap between referendums on Europe - 41 years - is \"a good sort of gap\" for independence referendums.", "The PM says the number of vaccine doses will amount to \"tens of millions\" by the end of March.", "Mainland Scotland faces tougher restrictions from midnight, and schools will remain closed until February.", "The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine programme is being rolled out less than a week after it became the second approved in the UK.", "Dr Radha Modgil shares tips on staying mentally and emotionally well during the coronavirus lockdown.", "Dan Eliasson, head of the civil contingencies agency, flew to the Canary Islands to see his daughter.", "Tributes have been paid to trainer Zoe Davison, who died from cancer on the same day two of her horses claimed wins at Plumpton.", "The first minister warns Scotland could be entering the most dangerous period since the outbreak began.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Monday morning.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "The group of more than 200 engineers say Google must live up to its 'Don't be evil' pledge.", "Nóra Quoirin's family say they are disappointed at the ruling and still think she was abducted.", "Boris Johnson warns of \"tough\" weeks ahead, as coronavirus infection rates continue to surge.", "The first minister says restrictions \"similar to March\" will come into force in mainland Scotland from midnight and schools will not re-open in January.", "The border crossings between the UK and the European Union face their first day of significant traffic under new rules.", "Professional sport in England will be allowed to continue behind closed doors, despite a new national lockdown announced by Prime Minister Boris Johnson.", "The Labour leader calls for an immediate lockdown in England to get the virus \"back under control\".", "The Department of Health's aim is for all people older than 80 to receive a jab by the end of January.", "Lockdown losses mean renewing the 10-year contract to lease Yang Guang and Tian Tian may be unaffordable.", "Police help dozens of motorists who became stranded after heavy snow fell in the Peak District.", "Parliament will be recalled for Nicola Sturgeon to make an \"urgent statement\" as case numbers rise by 2,464.", "Schools in Wales given a flexible approach to ensure a \"safe return\", despite concerns by unions.", "Economy Minister Diane Dodds writes to Cabinet Office Secretary Michael Gove over the issue.", "UK nationals resident in Spain say they were wrongly turned back when their flight landed in Barcelona.", "Four boys and a girl are held on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder after the Reading attack.", "Rutherglen MP Margaret Ferrier is charged by police with \"alleged culpable and reckless conduct\".", "After the PM hints at tighter measures in England, our science editor looks at what they could entail.", "Her Majesty said the now 75-year-old show had \"played a significant part in the evolving of women\".", "Schools will close for most pupils from Tuesday as people are told to stay at home in new lockdown.", "The latest government figures show a further 2,137 cases of Covid-19 were confirmed in Scotland on Friday.", "The government said suspected jihadists ambushed the two villages near Niger's border with Mali.", "Boris Johnson says more areas may need tougher rules, as Labour urges England-wide curbs within 24 hours.", "The news comes following confusion after her death was prematurely announced on Monday.", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "The Championship club said \"several first-team staff and players\" had tested positive.", "England all-rounder Moeen Ali tests positive for Covid-19 upon arrival at Hambantota airport in Sri Lanka.", "The Love Island star is alleged to have \"breached quarantine\" regulations on holiday in Barbados.", "Stay-at-home orders are issued in England and Scotland, as UK classrooms face further disruption.", "The executive also plans to give its stay at home message legal force, with new travel restrictions.", "The Gerry and the Pacemakers singer's number one hit became a football terrace anthem.", "The bid approach is the latest attempt by a casino operator to tap into the online gambling boom.", "The locally-produced Covaxin jab was approved on Sunday before completion of third stage trials.", "Supermarkets say card payment problems that led to long queues are resolved, but cause still unknown", "Total deaths involving Covid pass 6,000, including 467 in the week ending 15 January.", "A Cardiff head teacher says keeping schools closed affects disadvantaged pupils most severely.", "The money comes from the liquidation of a firm co-founded by the disgraced film producer.", "Before Wuhan was locked down in January 2020 officials said the outbreak was under control - but the virus had spread inside and outside the city.", "Boris Johnson says he takes \"full responsibility\" for the UK government's response to the pandemic.", "Trinidadian-born British writer Monique Roffey says she is \"pinching herself\" over her win.", "Another 7,700 registered with coronavirus on the death certificate brings the total to nearly 104,000.", "The 71-year-old Lib Dem peer says she is wearing her \"I've had the jab\" badge with pride.", "The tunnel is a danger to public safety, an HS2 spokeswoman told the BBC.", "The UK is the second market - after the US - to get Facebook's latest news feature.", "The NHS says any invitation which asks for vaccine payment or bank account details is a scam.", "The shadow justice secretary calls for seven-member juries to deal with cases delayed by the pandemic.", "Scientists propose 10 golden rules for restoring forests to maximise benefits for the planet.", "Parents reveal the perils of juggling teaching with work and family life.", "The new measures are likely to apply to British residents arriving in England from high-risk countries.", "Boris Johnson says he takes \"full responsibility for everything that the government has done\".", "Major incidents were declared in north and south Wales as Storm Christoph causes flooding.", "The health secretary says it is \"difficult\" to put a timeline on when England's lockdown will be lifted.", "Ex-cabinet minister wants \"Britain's favourite animal\" to get same protections as bats and badgers.", "Budweiser will not advertise during the Super Bowl for the first time in 37 years.", "Boris Johnson says he understands parents' frustrations but the infection rate is \"still very high\".", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Tuesday morning.", "Several pupils at the school admitted visiting other households, breaking Covid-19 lockdown rules.", "Demand for the video game and cloud computing services helped push Microsoft sales to a new quarterly record.", "A geologist says tens of thousands of old mine shafts must be monitored to help stop more flooding.", "Lawyers for SMG deny claims it was penny-pinching before the 2017 Manchester Arena attack.", "An interior decor trend is blamed for the removal of the grass, which forms part of a wind defence.", "There will be \"a lot more deaths\" before the effect of vaccines is felt, England's chief medical officer says.", "Crew are asking to be designated 'key workers' so they can go home without risking public health.", "Campaigners claim changes to the way decisions were made led to a \"shocking\" fall in cases going to court.", "Comedians Meera Syal, Romesh Ranganathan and Adil Ray make a video urging people to get the vaccine.", "The Met says it was a \"poor decision\" to hire a barber to give cuts to 31 officers in the workplace.", "Some will be able to return on Tuesday but others are urged to stay away due to safety fears.", "Nadhim Zahawi says supply is tight, but he expects the UK to meet its February target of 15 million doses.", "The Belfast grammar school says it will use \"other academic criteria\" in the absence of transfer tests.", "As the UK records its 100,000th death from Covid within 28 days of a positive test, Catherine Burns speaks to some of the people behind the figures.", "It comes as the foreign secretary says the UK will return to spending 0.7% of GDP on aid \"as soon as possible\",", "Police describe it as the worst unrest in the Netherlands for decades, with more than 180 arrests.", "The government gives its support to a project to use oral contraceptives to control grey squirrels.", "As the number of people who died reaches six figures, the factors that led to this terrible total.", "The BBC brought a judicial review over reporting restrictions in a now abandoned legal case against Scotland's child abuse inquiry.", "An extra £50m is being directed towards grassroots sport after a \"significant hit\" to activity levels amid the coronavirus pandemic.", "The pharmaceutical giant said the late signing of contracts limited time to sort out supply glitches.", "Part of the grade II-listed bridge over the River Clwyd was swept away during Storm Christoph.", "Chelsea sack manager Frank Lampard after 18 months in charge, with former Paris St-Germain and Borussia Dortmund boss Thomas Tuchel expected to replace him.", "The Senate has confirmed Janet Yellen as first female treasury secretary in US history.", "The company acknowledges its \"Birdwatch\" idea could be \"messy\", but says it is worth trying.", "Parents and teachers are frustrated and worried about the impact of school closures on children.", "Before Wuhan was locked down in January 2020 officials said the outbreak was under control - but the virus had spread inside and outside the city.", "A plan to put the anti-slavery activist on the banknote was delayed under ex-President Donald Trump.", "The third national lockdown and travel ban meant the travel firm \"had to act\", a spokeswoman says.", "The Stormont-commissioned research examined institutions run by churches and other religious groups.", "English-speaking parents whose children go to Welsh-language schools say they struggle to help them.", "Three nights of rioting will not halt night curfews aimed at stopping coronavirus, say Dutch ministers.", "Claudia Marsh had recently qualified as a teacher and also volunteered for two charities.", "We must remember that every one of the lives lost during the pandemic leaves a legacy of sorrow.", "Images circulated on social media show mourners at the funeral of an IRA man in Londonderry.", "The mother of Keon Lincoln, 15, who was shot and stabbed, pleads for information about his death.", "The Welsh Government misses its target of giving 70% of over-80s the vaccine by last weekend.", "Leaders in the House have brought their article of impeachment against Donald Trump to the Senate.", "The border closure is likely to remain even with widespread vaccinations, a top official says.", "Alex Davies-Jones said \"like so many others\" she put off having a test for months.", "The convicted murderer and music producer was described as \"talented but flawed\" in an online story.", "The Welsh Ambulance Service boss warns that difficult weeks lie ahead in Covid-19 fight.", "An eyewitness speaks publicly for the first time about the 2015 death of a man being restrained by police.", "Lisbet Stone was turned away from her flight to London due to having an outdated Covid test.", "The number of people needing intensive care is expected to continue rising for at least two weeks.", "Passengers must also quarantine for up to 10 days following the closure of all UK travel corridors.", "Spector, who was jailed for killing actress Lana Clarkson, transformed pop music with his \"wall of sound\".", "At the age of 14, he sent encrypted messages inciting an Australian teenager to murder police officers.", "The owner of a toy retailer says high transport costs may mean larger toys become more expensive.", "Jonny Bairstow and Dan Lawrence help England seal victory over Sri Lanka on the final morning of the first Test in Galle.", "Ex-Marine John Deacy, 81, died with Covid-19 just two weeks after his last shift at the supermarket.", "A group of pensioners seek compensation for what they say was the excessive pricing of landlines.", "Leaders Manchester United are thwarted by the second-half heroics of keeper Alisson in a goalless draw with title rivals Liverpool at Anfield.", "Northern Health Trust chief says system is under \"huge pressure\" with patients waiting for beds.", "Doctors say the \"patchy supply\" of vaccine to GPs is slowing down efforts to deliver it to patients.", "The \"fiercely competitive\" but \"kind, thoughtful and caring\" news executive has died aged 73.", "Nóra Quoirin's parents do not accept the findings of an inquest into her death in Malaysia.", "Sir Richard Branson's rocket company succeeds in putting its first satellites in space.", "Jonathan Brooks is charged with the attempted murder of Graeme Perks, who was attacked in his home.", "Police have described the killers of 15-year-old Keelan Wilson as a \"pack of animals\".", "Brazil has the world's second-highest Covid death toll but has seen delay and discord over vaccines.", "A red deer had to be put down after being savaged by a red setter in London's Richmond Park.", "David Urpeth says smart motorways without a hard shoulder carry \"an ongoing risk of future deaths.\"", "Former climbing champion Lai Chi-Wai raised HK$5.2 million for spinal cord patients.", "Phil Neville leaves his role as manager of England's women and takes over at Major League Soccer side Inter Miami.", "Students call for more support as they continue their studies through another lockdown.", "The Jewish employee had warned co-workers about the danger of Nazis during the Capitol Riots.", "A group of London firms has written to ministers calling for financial support for the rail firm.", "Small armed groups gathered in several US cities but most state capitols were quiet amid high security.", "Annual growth of 2.3% puts China on course to be the only major economy to have expanded in 2020.", "Boris Johnson promises £23m in compensation for exporters which have lost orders due to delays.", "Someone is being admitted to hospital with coronavirus every 30 seconds, the health secretary says.", "The Perth-born actor was best known for screen roles including \"Chancer\" in City Lights and \"Pete Galloway\" in River City.", "Students at Aberystwyth are told not to return unless \"absolutely necessary\".", "Ambulance service staff in London explain the unique pressures of working during a pandemic.", "A shortage of computer chips is leading to car factories shutting down for days at a time.", "Drivers from Scotland and Portsmouth caught breaking lockdown rules in north Wales.", "Pressure grows on PM after non-binding motion on universal credit top-up is passed by 278 votes.", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "There are very few spare beds for the most seriously ill patients in parts of the country, the NHS says.", "Police found evidence of sub-standard care at the Caerphilly home, an inquest hears.", "Democrats plan to start impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump on Monday, for inciting the invasion of the US Capitol, sources say.", "There's speculation over who was involved in the protests and whether they belong to organised groups.", "As Covid patients waited at Royal Glamorgan Hospital the nurse had a fear of \"wanting to leave\".", "The Welsh Government is in discussions with supermarkets about bringing \"more visible\" regulations.", "While GCSEs and A-levels are cancelled, IGCSEs, often used in independent schools, will continue.", "Terence Glover \"ploughed\" into a group of children in his car as they were leaving school.", "The firm says tighter Covid restrictions and falling passenger numbers have prompted the decision.", "The man charged the 92-year-old £160 and came back a week later asking for a further £100.", "Seventeen million doses have been ordered by the UK and are expected to arrive in spring.", "Sweet Melody becomes the band's fifth number one, and their first since Jesy Nelson left.", "But some performances may be pre-recorded if artists can't travel to Rotterdam.", "The deaths of a further 93 people have been recorded - with the number of patients in hospital at record levels.", "When Trump supporters stormed the Capitol they took out their cameras to record the chaos inside.", "He is remembered for the 7 Up documentary series which followed the lives of 14 children since 1964.", "Secret recordings revealed \"enough profanity, casual sexism and racism to last a lifetime\".", "Criticism of new Brexit trade rules is growing as firms warn of more bureaucracy, higher costs and delays.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "Students say they will refuse to pay for accommodation they cannot use during lockdown.", "It is the third vaccine to be approved for UK use, after the Pfizer and Oxford jabs.", "Ross Kemp and Christopher Biggins do readings at the funeral of the EastEnders and Carry On actress.", "The Competition and Markets Authority will explore whether Google is abusing its market dominance.", "Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove says \"work is ongoing\" to improve trade from GB to NI.", "Her family said the British model, who died in December aged 50, had been \"unwell for some time\".", "We asked people around the US how they responded to the chaotic scenes from the US Capitol.", "The drugs, which save an extra life for every 12 intensive care patients treated, can be used immediately, say experts.", "Shark attacks are rare in the country and it is thought to be the first such death since 2013.", "Breakdown of what happened when Trump supporters stormed the Capitol amid a key Senate vote.", "The weekly applause is back - but its founder distances herself from the initiative.", "The lender says it expects \"downward pressure on house prices\" in 2021 following annual rise of 6% last year.", "Business Secretary Alok Sharma becomes full-time president of November's COP26 conference in Glasgow.", "Data leaked to BBC News shows a rise in the number of hours before patients are offloaded.", "Marks & Spencer's clothes sales overall fall nearly a quarter, but pyjamas are back in fashion.", "The UK prime minister also says the US president is \"completely wrong\" over his election fraud claims.", "The men were detained when special forces stormed the Nave Andromeda off the Isle of Wight.", "Travellers from Namibia, Zimbabwe, Angola, Botswana and Mauritius will be barred from entry.", "Top Democrats call for the president to be removed as he commits to an \"orderly\" transition of power.", "A London fashion student made the \"social distancing bandeau\" out of a Chiltern Railways seat cover.", "The mayor says in some parts of London 1 in 20 people has Covid-19, as he declares a \"major incident\".", "It comes as all of Wales has snow and ice warnings for the next few days.", "The Korean car company originally said it was in talks with the tech titan before backtracking.", "Two women were fined £200 after driving five miles to walk around Foremark Reservoir, Derbyshire.", "Worried childcare staff call on ministers to prove it's safe for them to open in England.", "Boris Johnson says the armed forces will use \"battle preparation techniques\" to help vaccinate millions.", "Vincent Kane does not know when his operation will happen, having been delayed due to the pandemic.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 1 and 8 January.", "Satellite data shows that 2020 and 2016 are essentially tied as the hottest years since records began.", "Lorry drivers will need a negative result to cross into France until further notice, the government says.", "A record 68,053 cases are also reported as a third vaccine is approved for use in the UK.", "Details and reaction as First Minister Mark Drakeford confirms an extended closure of schools.", "The Duke of Cambridge says he wants his three children to appreciate sacrifices made during Covid.", "He claims her evidence to an inquiry into sexual harassment allegations against him was \"untrue\".", "The Wanted member shares some good news with his fans, three months on from his cancer diagnosis.", "Meanwhile almost half of people took advantage of Christmas bubble rules, a national survey suggests.", "Kelvin Hopkins has previously denied claims by a party activist of inappropriate physical contact.", "A series of streamed music events, shows and releases will mark five years since the singer's death.", "With attendance as high as 50% in some areas, heads call for pupil limits in England's lockdown schools.", "Ramsey was loved by fans for her role as Officer Laverne Hooks in the Police Academy film series.", "Lockdown measures will see schools closed until half term, and GCSEs and A-levels unable to go ahead as normal.", "Four boys and a girl are held on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder after the Reading attack.", "That includes some of the most vulnerable patients who should soon have \"significant\" protection against the virus.", "Four people were accused of being a \"supporting cast\" for burglars who targeted west London homes.", "Mainland Scotland faces tougher restrictions from midnight, and schools will remain closed until February.", "The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine programme is being rolled out less than a week after it became the second approved in the UK.", "President Trump initially accused China of the hack against US government agencies in December.", "The first cyclone of Australia’s season has been downgraded but continues to cause danger.", "Reversing earlier assurances, officials say tracing data can be used for criminal investigations.", "Boris Johnson tells a briefing that nearly a quarter of people over 80 have received a Covid-19 jab.", "Dr Radha Modgil shares tips on staying mentally and emotionally well during the coronavirus lockdown.", "Enrique Tarrio was detained as he entered the city ahead of a pro-Trump protest this week.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "BBC Two and CBBC will show content for primary and secondary pupils to watch without the internet.", "Sea Shepherd says the collision happened after it came under attack in the Gulf of California.", "Business groups welcomed the new help as a good start but said more aid and a clear plan would be needed.", "Boris Johnson made the decision on restrictions \"in the face of new information\", the chancellor says.", "The first minister says restrictions \"similar to March\" will come into force in mainland Scotland from midnight and schools will not re-open in January.", "Professional sport in England will be allowed to continue behind closed doors, despite a new national lockdown announced by Prime Minister Boris Johnson.", "The children's commissioner for England and Labour's leader call on firms to help low-income families.", "The Department of Health's aim is for all people older than 80 to receive a jab by the end of January.", "A growing divide over education, jobs, and ethnicity threaten the fabric of society, says Nobel laureate's study.", "Economy Minister Diane Dodds writes to Cabinet Office Secretary Michael Gove over the issue.", "UK nationals resident in Spain say they were wrongly turned back when their flight landed in Barcelona.", "You may be happy to let your phone recognise your face - but what about the police?", "Virgin Holidays joins Tui and Thomas Cook in cancelling holidays after latest coronavirus restrictions.", "In a TV address, Labour's leader says millions of doses need to be given each week by the end of January.", "Rutherglen MP Margaret Ferrier is charged by police with \"alleged culpable and reckless conduct\".", "The cancellations, although rare, reflect the pressure some hospitals are under from Covid.", "Roughly one in 50 people in England has got the virus, Prof Chris Whitty says.", "Demand surges as shoppers rush to secure online delivery slots following news of another lockdown.", "In the tightening of restrictions across the UK there is much that's an echo of March - but a lot that's different too.", "It's been a \"Herculean achievement\" for Marieme and Ndeye, who survived against the odds.", "The news comes following confusion after her death was prematurely announced on Monday.", "Former Manchester City and England midfielder Colin Bell dies aged 74 after a short illness, the Premier League club announces.", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "YouTube says the broadcaster posted banned Covid content, but it has decided to reinstate its channel.", "First Minister Nicola Sturgeon thinks Celtic have questions to answer on the grounds for their winter trip to Dubai and says the club's social distancing \"should be looked into\".", "The stationery chain which has 127 stores and around 1,500 employees says shop closures hit it hard.", "Doctors leaders' want staff to be given the type of high-quality masks usually only worn in intensive care.", "Former Buckingham Palace caterer Adamo Canto attempted to sell some items on eBay, a court hears.", "Vocational exams such as BTECs are not being cancelled by the lockdown like GCSEs and A-levels.", "A hearing will decide whether Khairi Saadallah was motivated by a religious or ideological cause.", "The Love Island star is alleged to have \"breached quarantine\" regulations on holiday in Barbados.", "Stay-at-home orders are issued in England and Scotland, as UK classrooms face further disruption.", "The executive also plans to give its stay at home message legal force, with new travel restrictions.", "The famous building on London's Oxford Street has been put on the market by administrators.", "Strict new Covid-19 restrictions come into force in Scotland, prohibiting people from leaving their homes.", "A fresh move to make non-fatal strangulation a specific criminal offence is under way.", "The personal trainer says he wants to \"give children structure\" during lockdown.", "Regulators say the plane is safe to resume service after two fatal crashes led to its grounding.", "Insurers reject claims that by covering ransomware bills they are funding organised crime.", "But loss of taste and smell may be less likely to affect those with the new strain, a study suggests.", "Travellers share their experiences of isolating in hotels, as the UK announces a similar scheme.", "Boris Johnson says he takes \"full responsibility\" for the UK government's response to the pandemic.", "Nicola Sturgeon says she is \"not ecstatic\" about reports the PM will visit Scotland on Thursday.", "The tunnel is a danger to public safety, an HS2 spokeswoman told the BBC.", "The 71-year-old Lib Dem peer says she is wearing her \"I've had the jab\" badge with pride.", "Philippa Day was found collapsed beside a letter rejecting her request for an at-home assessment.", "The 83-year-old Hollywood royalty is also known as an active climate change campaigner.", "The shadow justice secretary calls for seven-member juries to deal with cases delayed by the pandemic.", "Karen Hobbs' sister says she is in shock, and urges people to follow lockdown rules.", "Boris Johnson says most people in Scotland are focused on defeating Covid rather than another referendum.", "Images of Jonathan Mok's swollen eye were posted on Facebook and shared thousands of times.", "Robin Swann says all health workers are valued and have worked tirelessly during the pandemic.", "A collection of your tributes to some of the thousands of people in the UK who have died with coronavirus.", "The financial regulator will consult \"shortly\" on a rise from the current limit of £45.", "Ministers are due to meet on Monday to consider whether to tighten the UK's border restrictions further.", "Footage shows a banned driver in a stolen car drive into a police officer on his motorbike.", "The PM sets the date he hopes England's lockdown will begin to ease, but warns of a \"perilous situation\".", "Boris Johnson also says he shares the \"frustration\" of parents who want to get children back to school.", "Already 100,000 people in the UK have died with Covid. This is the story of one of them.", "Demand for the video game and cloud computing services helped push Microsoft sales to a new quarterly record.", "Families loaded up on the latest technology and sales increased in China.", "The maps depict the famous sea battle in which the English fleet was victorious in 1588.", "There will be \"a lot more deaths\" before the effect of vaccines is felt, England's chief medical officer says.", "The lack of certainty about schools returning is fraying the exhausted nerves of parents.", "The Army sends a bomb disposal unit to a site where the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is produced.", "Already 100,000 people in the UK have died with Covid. This is the story of one of them.", "The Met says it was a \"poor decision\" to hire a barber to give cuts to 31 officers in the workplace.", "The Oscar-nominated actor and his choreographer wife describe as \"difficult\" their decision to split.", "It is the first time the world-famous event will take place in the autumn.", "Nadhim Zahawi says supply is tight, but he expects the UK to meet its February target of 15 million doses.", "A \"legacy of poor decisions\" in 2020 and before the pandemic led to 100,000 deaths, scientists say.", "Scientists say sharks and rays are disappearing from the world's oceans at an \"alarming\" rate.", "As the UK records its 100,000th death from Covid within 28 days of a positive test, Catherine Burns speaks to some of the people behind the figures.", "Bailiffs move in to remove people who dug a 100ft tunnel to block the high-speed rail line.", "Nicola Sturgeon says she is concerned the UK's travel restrictions will not go far enough.", "The government gives its support to a project to use oral contraceptives to control grey squirrels.", "Leon Briggs was \"like a child crying out for a toy\" as he was held down by officers, a jury hears.", "As the number of people who died reaches six figures, the factors that led to this terrible total.", "Nurse Eva Gicain says when she held Elleana for the first time she \"didn't want to let go\".", "The pharmaceutical giant said the late signing of contracts limited time to sort out supply glitches.", "Has the PM effectively admitted we're heading for a full year of limits on our lives?", "Lockdown led to a surge in reports of fraudsters imitating genuine investment firms, regulator says.", "Jagtar Singh Johal has been held in an Indian jail without conviction for more than three years.", "Labour calls for key workers to be added to the first phase of the vaccination programme.", "Residents hit upon the idea after the annual street parade was cancelled because of the pandemic.", "Boris Johnson faced questions from MPs why the UK's coronavirus death toll is the highest in Europe.", "Claudia Marsh had recently qualified as a teacher and also volunteered for two charities.", "The social media platform removed posts after wrongly identifying the place name as offensive.", "We must remember that every one of the lives lost during the pandemic leaves a legacy of sorrow.", "Details from a briefing by the chief medical officer and chief scientific adviser for health.", "David Solomon is being punished for the bank's involvement in the fraudulent Malaysian investment fund.", "Josh Quigley, from Livingston, suffered multiple fractures after coming off his bike at 40mph while training in Dubai.", "The “phased” lifting of restrictions will depend on data on hospitalisations, deaths and vaccinations.", "The government faces legal action over its decision to allow the use of a pesticide that harms bees.", "UK residents can apply for the new card to access emergency medical care when their EHIC card runs out.", "Khairi Saadallah murdered three friends in a Reading park in a \"ruthless and brutal” terror attack.", "Cardiff City defender Sol Bamba is undergoing chemotherapy after being diagnosed with cancer, the Championship club has announced", "County Mayo man howls with laughter while trying to record a birthday message for his son.", "Derbyshire Police apologises to two women fined £200 for driving five miles for a countryside walk.", "New Covid curbs are necessary but they will hit the economy, Chancellor Rishi Sunak warns.", "Thousands of National Guard troops are being deployed to bolster security in Washington DC.", "Dutch TV films officials confiscating ham sandwiches from UK drivers under new food import rules.", "Unison chooses Christina McAnea to replace Dave Prentis, who has been in the job for 20 years.", "Health Secretary Matt Hancock says 2.3 million people in the UK have now had a Covid-19 vaccine dose.", "James Brokenshire will take leave from his Home Office job during further surgery for lung cancer.", "Medical director warns Wrexham Maelor is under huge pressure as numbers of seriously ill patients rise.", "It said there may be \"an increase of missing items and substitutions over the next few weeks\".", "The new Welsh Government vaccine plan says all eligible adults will be offered a jab by the autumn.", "M&S is buying the brand out of administration, but not Jaeger's scores of shops and concessions.", "University of Surrey tests for BBC News found no evidence of any effect.", "The decision follows a rise in cases across the emirates in the past week, officials say.", "A document advises doctors that the minimum level of oxygen required in the blood is being reduced.", "Scotland's first minister says she has doubts about whether Celtic's trip to Dubai was \"really essential\".", "\"Numbers are increasing not decreasing\" - inside an emergency body storage facility in Surrey.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Monday morning.", "Three people were arrested during an anti-lockdown protest, including the woman seen in the video.", "A number of Scottish schools, pupils and parents report Microsoft Teams running slowly or not at all.", "People who cannot work from home should be prioritised for rapid tests in England, the government says.", "Luke Evans portrays the policeman who brought John Cooper to justice for two double murders.", "Health Secretary Matt Hancock says the NHS is under \"very serious pressure\" and warns people to stay home.", "Extra measures are taken to distribute Covid vaccines amid fears the snow could turn to ice.", "Crawley Town produce one of the FA Cup third round's most emphatic upsets as they stun Premier League side Leeds United.", "As countries look to quickly vaccinate people, BBC reporters explain what's happening across Europe.", "There are concerns the new variant may spread too easily to be controlled by lockdown.", "Manchester United will host Premier League champions Liverpool in the fourth round of the FA Cup.", "Seven mass vaccination centres have opened across England to help deliver the Coronavirus vaccine.", "A study finds that the financial burden on poorer families has increased during the pandemic.", "The much-loved TV series is back with a new name but only three of the original four leads will star.", "The government says a draft agreement saying flat owners need its approval first is \"standard\".", "An industry group wants more state help for people like Jon Wilding, whose business is hit by the pandemic.", "Kitchen robots, new TVs, smart masks and a toilet that analyses your poo are among the new products.", "Doctors at the hospital say they're treating more younger patients than in the first wave.", "Boris Johnson was spotted at the Olympic Park on Sunday, despite government advice to \"stay local\".", "Nicola Sturgeon acknowledges technical problems on the first day the vast majority of pupils in Scotland begin the new term at home.", "About 560,000 people will have been vaccinated by the beginning of next month, the health secretary says.", "He wants businesses to do more to protect the planet as he marks 50 years of environmental campaigning.", "It comes after a Celtic player tested positive less than 48 hours after the squad returned from a training trip there.", "People refusing to wear face coverings who are not medically exempt will not be allowed to shop inside.", "Increasing numbers of seriously-ill patients add to the pressure facing Scotland's health service.", "Celtic's only regret about their Dubai trip was Chris Jullien contracting Covid-19, said coach Gavin Strachan, after the draw with Hibernian.", "Details and reaction to Health Minister Vaughan Gething's vaccination rollout plan.", "Justice Secretary Robert Buckland says too many abusers' sentences are not tough enough.", "Lisa Montgomery's lawyers argued she was a mentally ill victim of abuse who deserved mercy, but her victim's community said otherwise.", "A \"significant step-up\" in rolling out vaccines is promised by the health minister.", "The Labour leader calls for tougher coronavirus restrictions and says help for low earners must continue.", "The social network has hit back asking a federal judge to order it to be reinstated.", "Two landslides hit the same village in Indonesia within hours, leaving emergency teams trapped.", "The content will not count in a mobile data allowance to help keep costs of online learning down.", "Patients, many shielding, have been offered appointments miles away from their homes.", "The health secretary says UK vaccine rollout is on track but urges everyone to play their part by following Covid rules.", "The warning from England's chief medical officer comes as seven mass vaccination centres open.", "Joe Biden's presidential Twitter account launches with no followers transferred from President Trump.", "Some areas could see freezing temperatures and 5-10cm of snow on Saturday, the Met Office says.", "The Daily Telegraph must publish a correction over Covid claims, press regulator Ipso rules.", "Police and rail bosses condemn a social media post featuring a car parked on a level crossing.", "A negative test had been due to be required from Friday, but ministers said people needed time to prepare.", "Post-primary schools get extra time to decide how they will admit pupils after transfer tests are cancelled.", "Plastic surgeons express shock at the stabbing of \"highly respected\" Graeme Perks in his home.", "Red tape plus a \"poor\" Brexit deal mean fishermen fear for the future, says an industry body.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 8 and 15 January.", "In one health board, 30% of four and five-year-olds are overweight or obese.", "The couple, who both have coronavirus, were given \"precious\" time together, their daughter says.", "Even experienced exporters are struggling with the system, says the British Meat Processor Association.", "Details and reaction as First Minister Mark Drakeford promises more protection to shop workers.", "It comes after reports that protections including the 48-hour work week could be dropped.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Friday morning.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson says the action is needed to protect against the risk of new Covid strains.", "He helped kick-start punk and new wave, and was an influence on the Sex Pistols and Guns N' Roses.", "Move follows concern over a new Covid variant which an expert says has already been found in the UK.", "Statistics agency Nisra says 145 deaths were registered last week, bringing its pandemic total to 1,976.", "The show of military strength comes days before the inauguration of Joe Biden as US president.", "Craig Ross was quoted as saying food bank users were \"far from starving\" and more at risk of diabetes.", "The Home Office says it is working to \"assess the impact\" of the issue, which has been resolved.", "Homes worry about being sued if people contract the virus while they are staying there.", "Richard Sharp says the BBC represents good value, but how it is funded \"may be worth reassessing\".", "Scientists warn UK deaths will continue to rise as the global death toll passes two million.", "Coronavirus restrictions in England affected services, with pubs and hairdressers badly hit.", "Antonio says he felt he was discriminated against because of his skin colour when he was sectioned.", "Reports from Manaus say medical staff are begging for help in a critical situation due to Covid-19.", "The NHS fears some communities are being targeted with misinformation, a leading doctor says.", "Replacement exam grades are likely to arrive earlier and be decided by teachers and a test.", "Donations of plasma from people who have recovered from the virus have been suspended.", "A variant that is thought to be more infectious has not been found in the UK, scientist says.", "A letter from police chiefs also says 213,000 records were lost - more than first thought.", "Pharmacist Llyr Hughes said 50 patients would be given the Covid vaccine at his pharmacy on Friday.", "The R number in the UK is officially estimated at 1.2-1.3 as a further 1,280 deaths are reported.", "Hospitals with large critical care capacity are taking patients from other areas to ease pressures.", "The Saved by the Bell actor became ill last week and was taken to hospital.", "Network Rail said a 24m section of side wall fell away from a bridge between Carmont and Stonehaven.", "On Thursday, 16 more deaths related to Covid-19 were recorded along with 973 new positive cases.", "The earthquake struck the island of Sulawesi on Friday, injuring hundreds and destroying a hospital.", "US police held back a mob for hours in a \"barbaric\" battle at the Capitol. Here are their stories.", "A respiratory doctor at the Mater Hospital warns that oxygen supplies are under \"extreme pressure\".", "Wayne Rooney is named as Derby County's new manager, with the ex-England captain also announcing his retirement from playing.", "David Chambers is accused of charging the woman £160 for a bogus jab.", "The footballer joins celebrities and campaigners to call for action in a letter to the prime minister.", "Mr Leonard says it is in the best interests of the party if he stands down as leader immediately.", "The government says the funding will connect \"left-behind\" communities.", "Tens of thousands of people join some of the largest rallies against President Vladimir Putin in years.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Saturday morning.", "It is claimed they were seen drinking on Welsh Parliament premises when a ban on its sale in pubs was in force.", "Campaigners say a government fund to pay for the removal of dangerous cladding is woefully inadequate.", "One says he is surprised Boris Johnson shared the early data when it is \"not particularly strong\".", "It brings the total number of deaths to 97,329.", "Keon Lincoln was attacked by a group of youths in the Handsworth area of Birmingham.", "Police uncover a string of late-night \"incredibly selfish\" parties in Kensington and Chelsea.", "Pressures on intensive care units are seeing one in 10 patients transferred to a different site.", "Photographs of National Guard members sheltering underground spark anger among lawmakers.", "Some elderly people have been told to travel miles to get the jab or face having to wait to get it.", "A shortage of shipping containers, rising costs, and congestion at ports are holding back imports from China.", "Presented as a safe pair of hands, he struggled to make himself heard during tumultuous times.", "Some will enable women to have overnight visits with their children, the Ministry of Justice says.", "Underground investigations are due to begin on Saturday after flooding linked to old mine shaft.", "Booking a jab by following a link in an email meant \"depriving someone else\" of a vaccine, he said.", "Vitinha's superb goal sees Wolves into the fifth round of the FA Cup at the expense of non-league Chorley.", "As the UK rejects £500 Covid pay outs, how are others countries getting people to stick to the rules?", "A study finds the new coronavirus variant is responsible for pushing the R rate above the crucial 1.0 mark.", "Injections are to be delivered at Black Country Living Museum where the series has in part been filmed.", "The vaccination centres temporarily closed in south Wales as a weather warning was extended.", "The popular US broadcaster conducted about 50,000 interviews, from Nelson Mandela to Lady Gaga.", "Pavithra Wanniarachchi, Sri Lanka's health minister, tested positive for Covid on Friday.", "Anybody struggling to get to an appointment will be able to rearrange, a health board says.", "Boris Johnson said he looked forward to \"deepening the longstanding alliance\" between the UK and US.", "NHS staff rally to arrange a wedding for a couple as the groom's condition deteriorates in hospital.", "Evidence suggests the variant that emerged in the UK may be more deadly as well as faster-spreading.", "In the city where the virus first emerged there is now an insistence that it came from elsewhere.", "The chief rabbi has described the event as a \"shameful desecration of all that we hold dear\".", "Delaying second Pfizer doses to give more people their first is \"difficult to justify\", says BMA.", "Inadequate PPE and a new variant may be putting the lives of nurses at risk, says nursing union.", "Manchester City score three times in the last 10 minutes to defeat League Two side Cheltenham and avoid one of the biggest shocks in FA Cup history.", "Thirty-nine Vietnamese migrants suffocated in a sealed container en route to Essex in October 2019.", "Police hold aides to Putin critic Alexei Navalny as opposition activists start a string of rallies.", "Under coronavirus restrictions a maximum of 30 people are meant to attend a funeral.", "Boris Johnson has not ruled out further action to secure the borders amid concerns over Covid variants.", "Worship has been suspended as burials average 15-a-day, yet still there is denial about the disease.", "AstraZeneca is the latest company, after Pfizer, to warn of delivery issues, frustrating officials.", "The UK's chief medical adviser warns that \"a very small change and it could start taking off again\".", "An intensive care doctor says medics are seeing \"unprecedented\" numbers of people dying.", "They were hit while licking freshly laid salt on a road which is a black spot for animal accidents.", "And another 964 people died within 28 days of a positive test, only slightly down on Wednesday's figure.", "Objects are thrown and officers threatened as they break up the New Year's Eve party in Essex.", "As the UK prepares to sever EU ties, Stanley Johnson says he has always regarded himself as French.", "Campaigners say cutting of the 5% VAT rate on tampons and sanitary towels ends a 'sexist' tax.", "Japan's prime minister says the delayed Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics will go ahead this summer despite concern over rising coronavirus cases.", "Doctors urge public to \"take it seriously\" and follow coronavirus restrictions amid rising cases.", "The British dance band make some of their biggest hits available for the first time.", "The new year celebrations featured a tribute to the NHS and a message from David Attenborough.", "Bishop, who recently tested positive for Covid-19, said boarding the Tardis was \"a dream come true\".", "Joe Anderson says Labour should pick another candidate while he seeks to clear his name.", "Former Manchester United and Scotland manager Tommy Docherty dies at the age of 92 following a long illness.", "The first minister warns Scotland could be entering the most dangerous period since the outbreak began.", "Manchester United move level on points with Premier League leaders Liverpool as a Bruno Fernandes penalty seals victory over Aston Villa.", "NHS England says the facility is available to help the capital's hospitals as Covid-19 cases rise.", "The designer of the scene says it is not the first time it has been targeted.", "Several hundred people gathered at Edinburgh Castle despite warnings to stay away.", "Education Secretary Gavin Williamson drops plan to keep primaries open in 10 boroughs in the city.", "Footage is released of the first police-involved death in the US city since George Floyd's in May.", "Staff absences and the new Covid variant are creating a \"challenging situation\", NHS Providers warn.", "A study finds the new coronavirus variant is responsible for pushing the R rate above the crucial 1.0 mark.", "Primary schools in only 10 of London's boroughs are due to reopen next week.", "One of hip-hop's most influential MCs, masked rapper MF Doom died in October, his family confirm.", "It comes as most people heeded warnings to stay home - but police issued fines to those who didn't.", "With a Brexit deal done, we look at the challenges to come at British borders.", "The UK’s new single market is not as big as the country, it now needs to encompass the whole world.", "Some lorries heading for Ireland have already been turned away from Welsh ports over wrong paperwork.", "Health Minister Vaughan Gething urges \"patience\" as the vaccine programme steps up in Wales.", "Nine people are still missing, two days after a hillside collapsed due to flowing clay mud.", "The finance minister had visited the Caribbean while his province is under strict Covid lockdown.", "The UK will now leave a 12-week gap between both parts of the Covid vaccination, rather than 21 days.", "The trade border means most commercial goods entering NI from GB now require a customs declaration.", "Boris Johnson celebrates the \"freedom in our hands\" as the long Brexit process comes to a conclusion.", "Firework displays and some religious rituals go ahead, although Covid mutes celebrations.", "The station will reflect on the world's longest-running serial drama across its output on Friday.", "The deal - yet to become a treaty - enables Spanish workers to continue entering Gibraltar freely.", "Omar Elabdellaoui, who plays for Turkish club Galatasaray, suffers burns and is taken to hospital.", "A new campaign is launched to urge people not to become complacent about the Covid restrictions.", "A total of 1,596 patients are in Scottish hospitals with Covid as pressures on the NHS continue to build.", "Kim Jong-un calls the US his \"biggest enemy\" and says plans for a nuclear submarine are nearly complete.", "Two women were fined £200 after driving five miles to walk around Foremark Reservoir, Derbyshire.", "A self-employed father-of-three calls on UK government to be \"more flexible\" with its Covid support.", "Breakdown of what happened when Trump supporters stormed the Capitol amid a key Senate vote.", "Vincent Kane does not know when his operation will happen, having been delayed due to the pandemic.", "The property investment firm is accused of trying to \"jump the queue\".", "As Covid patients waited at Royal Glamorgan Hospital the nurse had a fear of \"wanting to leave\".", "Advertising campaign warning people not to get complacent comes as 1,325 deaths are recorded in the UK.", "Criticism of new Brexit trade rules is growing as firms warn of more bureaucracy, higher costs and delays.", "The vaccines were administered on Saturday by a household doctor at Windsor Castle, a royal source says.", "The Welsh Government is in discussions with supermarkets about bringing \"more visible\" regulations.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "A record 68,053 cases are also reported as a third vaccine is approved for use in the UK.", "Bernard Thomas was rescued from the rubble of Pantglas primary school on 21 October, 1966.", "The gym owners were given a £1,000 fine after three people were found inside on Friday.", "The friends said they were relieved people would not have to fear being fined for taking a walk.", "Terence Glover \"ploughed\" into a group of children in his car as they were leaving school.", "A timeline of international air crashes from 1998 to the present.", "West Ham manager David Moyes says footballers must not be \"picked on\" for breaching coronavirus guidelines.", "Councillor Kevin Hughes missed his mother's funeral after testing positive for coronavirus.", "US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says contact between officials should no longer be \"shackled\".", "There are concerns the new variant may spread too easily to be controlled by lockdown.", "Apple will also remove the social network from its App Store if it does not change its policies.", "As countries look to quickly vaccinate people, BBC reporters explain what's happening across Europe.", "At least six police vans are deployed to Clapham Common where about 30 protesters gathered.", "Ross Kemp and Christopher Biggins do readings at the funeral of the EastEnders and Carry On actress.", "The farm has been left with over 4,000 surplus eggs after schools suddenly closed to most pupils.", "The Duke of Cambridge says he wants his three children to appreciate sacrifices made during Covid.", "He claims her evidence to an inquiry into sexual harassment allegations against him was \"untrue\".", "Thousands more people have taken up fishing during the pandemic, figures show.", "Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove says \"work is ongoing\" to improve trade from GB to NI.", "Meanwhile almost half of people took advantage of Christmas bubble rules, a national survey suggests.", "How Trump's favourite social media site banned him - permanently.", "A London fashion student made the \"social distancing bandeau\" out of a Chiltern Railways seat cover.", "Kelvin Hopkins has previously denied claims by a party activist of inappropriate physical contact.", "He is remembered for the 7 Up documentary series which followed the lives of 14 children since 1964.", "Eva Williams was unable to travel to the United States for treatment due to coronavirus.", "Four deaths are reported as Storm Filomena dumps snow and triggers floods across the country.", "He hopes to beat his own lockdown bulge with his \"Get Buzzin' With Bez\" YouTube classes.", "The new more infectious variant requires tougher measures to control the spread of Covid, say scientists.", "Another 1,035 people have died, taking the total since the start of the pandemic to 80,868.", "The mayor says in some parts of London 1 in 20 people has Covid-19, as he declares a \"major incident\".", "More than 100 cars are turned away from a beauty spot in north Wales, police say.", "The total number of deaths within 28 days of a positive test during the pandemic is now above 90,000.", "The convicted murderer and music producer was described as \"talented but flawed\" in an online story.", "Police in Greater Manchester and South Yorkshire say they are expecting flooding in their regions.", "An eyewitness speaks publicly for the first time about the 2015 death of a man being restrained by police.", "Tory rebels hope to get another chance to outlaw trade deals with countries involved in mass killings.", "Lisbet Stone was turned away from her flight to London due to having an outdated Covid test.", "US tariffs on Scotch whisky and cashmere remain in place as UK fails to reach deal with Washington.", "Marion Dawson from Renfrewshire is the third oldest person in Scotland to be given the vaccine.", "Europe is gradually easing lockdown measures ahead of the tourist season.", "People accused of crimes in England and Wales - and alleged victims - wait years for a resolution.", "One person is killed and at least 10 are injured after vehicles collide on the Tohoku Expressway.", "Top medical adviser suggests schools in England may reopen region by region after lockdown.", "The Duchess of Sussex is suing the Mail on Sunday over the publication of her letter to her father.", "But researchers warn there is still a risk of catching and passing the virus on to others again.", "Out of 23,000 professors in UK universities only 155 are black, official figures reveal.", "Court cases face serious delays in the UK and lawyers say more investment in technology would help.", "The government is being scrutinised over trade deals with countries with poor human rights records.", "People who say Boris Johnson does not want Joe Biden as president are \"mistaken\", says Lord Sedwill.", "Police found evidence of sub-standard care at the Caerphilly home, an inquest hears.", "Matt Hancock says he will stay at home and urged others to do the same if \"pinged\" by the app.", "A collection of your tributes to some of the thousands of people in the UK who have died with coronavirus.", "The UK's push to secure a deal over fossil fuels is being undercut by a decision to allow a new coal mine, MPs warn.", "The number of people needing intensive care is expected to continue rising for at least two weeks.", "Ex-Marine John Deacy, 81, died with Covid-19 just two weeks after his last shift at the supermarket.", "Mainland Scotland and some islands to remain under toughest coronavirus rules until at least mid-February.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Tuesday evening.", "Labour accuses Kwasi Kwarteng of \"unpicking\" workers' rights, as minister confirms he will review rules.", "The unnamed man lived in Verbier, where the incident happened, police said.", "Boris Johnson promises £23m in compensation for exporters which have lost orders due to delays.", "Many parents struggle to meet their children's needs during the pandemic, say researchers.", "Alex Davies-Jones said \"like so many others\" she put off having a test for months.", "Paul Reid was the first person to reach Saffie-Rose Roussos, eight, after the bomb was detonated.", "Nicola Sturgeon says although there is \"cautious grounds for optimism\" on case numbers, the strictest rules will remain in place.", "Live updates from Trump's last hours in office before Democrat Joe Biden is sworn in as president on Wednesday.", "The artwork has been returned to an Italian museum - whose staff were unaware it was missing.", "A survey by consumer group Which? raises concerns over coronavirus leading to more cashless stores.", "Creator of the BBC crime drama says he \"always wanted to end Peaky with a movie\".", "University of Edinburgh scientists are a step closer to being able to reverse the damage caused by MND.", "Tory MPs want Parliament to debate ending trade deals with countries deemed responsible for genocide.", "Orthodox Christians, Putin among them, take an icy dip to commemorate a special day.", "The BBC speaks to Nirmal Purja, from the team of the first climbers to reach the K2 summit in winter.", "The UK has not always \"lived up to its values\" under Boris Johnson, his predecessor Theresa May says.", "Ambulance service staff in London explain the unique pressures of working during a pandemic.", "Pressure grows on PM after non-binding motion on universal credit top-up is passed by 278 votes.", "Are court backlogs creating miscarriages of justice? Helen Grady investigates.", "The Protection of Workers Bill will make it a new specific offence to assault, abuse or threaten Scottish retail staff.", "India pull off an astonishing run-chase to inflict Australia's first defeat at the Gabba since 1988 and take one of the all-time great series.", "The first minister says her statement to MSPs will concern the duration of Scotland's restrictions.", "Some 10% of the UK population is showing signs of recent infection, a doubling since October, says ONS.", "David Urpeth says smart motorways without a hard shoulder carry \"an ongoing risk of future deaths.\"", "A further 1,610 people die with Covid in the UK as Scotland extends its lockdown to mid-February.", "Campaigners are bringing a judicial review for indirect sexual discrimination on Thursday.", "All practices will have their own rollout plan but they have to meet official targets, says GP committee.", "Staff say there was a Covid outbreak after the \"party\" in a shut patisserie at Marylebone station.", "Hackers are selling Depop app account details on the dark web for as little as 77p each online.", "The bank has named the branches that will close between April and September, but aims to avoid redundancies.", "Large parts of northern and central England are expected to face sustained heavy rain from Tuesday.", "The PM leads UK politicians from all parties condemning the riot at the US Capitol building.", "One hospital boss said a two-week \"lag\" meant things could get worse before they get better.", "He wrote 30 novels about relationships and adventures involving young African American characters.", "That includes some of the most vulnerable patients who should soon have \"significant\" protection against the virus.", "He will lead negotiations with the government over the future of the licence fee.", "New 2020 car registrations sink to a 30-year low and see biggest one-year drop since the Second World War", "The bakery chain says it does not expect profits to return to pre-Covid levels until 2022 at the earliest.", "President Trump initially accused China of the hack against US government agencies in December.", "Joe Biden says it is \"totally unacceptable\" police showed more leniency in the Capitol riot than at anti-racism protests.", "All eyes are on the Senate runoff in Georgia, a key race that could help define Biden's presidency.", "Latest figures show more than 90,000 people in Scotland had received a first vaccination by late December.", "But there are fears bottlenecks in the system may hamper how fast NHS can deliver vaccines.", "The 19-year-old suffered life-changing injuries during the \"vicious\" assault in north London.", "Founder Annemarie Plas says the initiative will return on Thursday under the new name of Clap for Heroes.", "The US star says she had \"no idea\" what questions were included in a game bearing her image.", "Gavin Williamson will \"trust in teachers rather than algorithms\" in awarding this year's results.", "The hip-hop star and producer says he is \"doing great\" and \"getting excellent care\".", "A hearing is deciding whether Khairi Saadallah was motivated by a religious or ideological cause.", "The sites, including football stadiums and racecourses, will begin operations next week.", "Staff at one of London's busiest hospitals say it's not going to take much for services to soon break.", "BBC Two and CBBC will show content for primary and secondary pupils to watch without the internet.", "The police officer who the FBI said fired the fatal shot is dismissed for breaching policy.", "The government closed schools to help reduce the virus spread but says nurseries should stay open.", "Investment company Hipgnosis buys a half share of 1,180 songs by the Canadian folk rocker.", "The latest executive order by the US president will only take effect after he has left office.", "Cases have fallen below England's but the new variant is spreading fast, the health minister says.", "As Trump supporters entered the US Capitol building, politicians halted debate inside.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Wednesday morning.", "The US Capitol has gone into lockdown amid violent clashes between police and Trump supporters, who broke security lines and are inside the building.", "The investigators were turned back, with Beijing saying \"there might be some misunderstanding\".", "President Trump and others have made unsubstantiated claims of fraud in two Senate election run-offs.", "US lawmakers and staff are seen wearing protective gas masks as police draw guns on protesters.", "In a TV address, Labour's leader says millions of doses need to be given each week by the end of January.", "One scam tells recipients they are \"eligible to apply for your vaccine\" with a link to a bogus NHS website.", "At Fullwell Cross Medical Centre in north London, they are now vaccinating almost 1,000 people a week.", "Gordon Ramsay remembers late chef Albert Roux as \"the man who installed gastronomy in Britain\".", "The streaming giant is criticised for \"unfortunate\" timing during the new lockdowns.", "Roughly one in 50 people in England has got the virus, Prof Chris Whitty says.", "Details and reaction to a briefing by Wales' chief medical officer and the head of NHS Wales.", "Stores seek to reassure shoppers that there is no need to bulk-buy in new lockdown.", "It's been a \"Herculean achievement\" for Marieme and Ndeye, who survived against the odds.", "A top Chinese scientist addresses claims the coronavirus leaked from her lab in the city of Wuhan.", "The overnight temperature plunged below -12C in the north west Highlands.", "Former Manchester City and England midfielder Colin Bell dies aged 74 after a short illness, the Premier League club announces.", "The Trump administration pushes ahead with first oil lease sales in an Arctic wildlife refuge.", "A driver, who caused a Fife crash that led to his passenger losing her baby, admits causing death by dangerous driving.", "The news comes following confusion after her death was prematurely announced on Monday.", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "Judge rules he has an incentive to abscond if allowed to leave jail before major appeal hearing.", "Drive-through and delivery services will still be available while it reviews its safety procedures.", "Head teachers warn replacement grades for GCSEs and A-levels must not repeat last year's \"disaster\".", "Leaders from around the world call for peace and a peaceful transfer of power in Washington.", "YouTube says the broadcaster posted banned Covid content, but it has decided to reinstate its channel.", "Poet Helen Mort is calling for a change in the law after images of her were edited with porn.", "Vocational exams such as BTECs are not being cancelled by the lockdown like GCSEs and A-levels.", "The government says it is considering the move to prevent the virus spreading \"across the UK border\".", "Stay-at-home orders are issued in England and Scotland, as UK classrooms face further disruption.", "There are concerns the new variant may spread too easily to be controlled by lockdown.", "The House of Commons approves the government's decision to impose tough restrictions across the country.", "FTSE 100 chiefs will by Wednesday have earned more this year than the average worker's annual wage.", "The BMA in Scotland says it is concerned about the potential impact of delaying the second dose of the Pfizer vaccine.", "There will be a \"gradual unwrapping\" of England's lockdown, Boris Johnson tells MPs ahead of a vote later.", "Police say organisers padlocked the door from the inside to stop officers getting in.", "Tributes are paid to Robert Rowland following the accident near his home in the Bahamas.", "The first minister denies claims she knew about harassment allegations earlier than she told parliament.", "The online retailer wants to buy the brands, not their shops, suggesting any deal would cost jobs.", "It's been 10 years since New Zealand's Pike River mine disaster, and families of victims still feel raw.", "Philip Gannaway served in Wales in World War One and his grave lies thousands of miles from home.", "Tens of thousands of people join some of the largest rallies against President Vladimir Putin in years.", "Despite the furlough scheme, employers decided to cut a record number of jobs during 2020.", "The fast fashion retailer is not purchasing the stores or taking on its staff, the BBC understands.", "Ministers are due to meet on Monday to consider whether to tighten the UK's border restrictions further.", "Firms say they have been advised by officials to set up EU hubs, but the government says it is not policy.", "One says he is surprised Boris Johnson shared the early data when it is \"not particularly strong\".", "Pressures on intensive care units are seeing one in 10 patients transferred to a different site.", "Footage shows a police car apparently driving through a group at a street race in Washington state.", "Israel has vaccinated more than a quarter of its population and now high school students are eligible.", "The claim comes after a coroner ruled two deaths on the M1 motorway were avoidable.", "As high risk groups continue to be immunised there are growing concerns that people with learning disabilities have been missed out.", "Ministers are urged to intervene amid rising Covid infection numbers at the Swansea office.", "Booking a jab by following a link in an email meant \"depriving someone else\" of a vaccine, he said.", "Some of those leading the nation's vaccination effort have told of their experiences.", "A study finds the new coronavirus variant is responsible for pushing the R rate above the crucial 1.0 mark.", "The vaccination centres temporarily closed in south Wales as a weather warning was extended.", "A Sunday Times poll shows 51% of people in favour of holding a border poll in NI within five years.", "The popular US broadcaster conducted about 50,000 interviews, from Nelson Mandela to Lady Gaga.", "Entrepreneur Elon Musk's SpaceX company delivers 143 satellites to orbit on a single rocket flight.", "Pavithra Wanniarachchi, Sri Lanka's health minister, tested positive for Covid on Friday.", "Boris Johnson said he looked forward to \"deepening the longstanding alliance\" between the UK and US.", "Keon Lincoln was attacked by a group of youths in the Handsworth area of Birmingham.", "He replaces Paul Davies who quit after drinking alcohol with other politicians in the Senedd.", "Conor McGregor is left stunned on his return to the UFC as Dustin Poirier wins their rematch at UFC 257 by technical knockout.", "The UK health secretary also says the UK has identified 77 cases of the Covid South Africa variant.", "Bruno Fernandes comes off the bench to fire Manchester United past fierce rivals Liverpool in a pulsating FA Cup fourth-round tie.", "Tens of thousands braved a police crackdown to show support for jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny.", "Vaccination appointments for over-70s in Scotland will arrive on Monday as planned - but in white envelopes.", "Manchester City score three times in the last 10 minutes to defeat League Two side Cheltenham and avoid one of the biggest shocks in FA Cup history.", "Some guests were found hiding in cupboards when police raided student flats in Birmingham.", "Motorists are urged to take care with sub-zero temperatures forecast into Monday.", "England's deputy chief medical officer urges those who have had the jab to stick to lockdown rules.", "TV footage from China shows the first miner being brought to the surface, as emergency workers applaud.", "The extraordinary life of an American who invited hundreds of thousands to his Paris home for dinner.", "UK residents can apply for the new card to access emergency medical care when their EHIC card runs out.", "County Mayo man howls with laughter while trying to record a birthday message for his son.", "New Covid curbs are necessary but they will hit the economy, Chancellor Rishi Sunak warns.", "Health Secretary Matt Hancock says 2.3 million people in the UK have now had a Covid-19 vaccine dose.", "The Countryfile star will present the Friday and Saturday editions of the BBC Radio 4 programme.", "A 20-year-old man who spent a week in intensive care says many young people are in denial about Covid.", "Home Secretary Priti Patel says the \"horrifying\" death toll underlines the need to follow restrictions.", "Seven mass vaccination centres have opened across England to help deliver the Coronavirus vaccine.", "Kitchen robots, new TVs, smart masks and a toilet that analyses your poo are among the new products.", "Customers will only be able to collect from Waitrose stores following a \"change in tone\" from the government.", "The father of a Reading terror attack victim asks why the killer was not considered a danger.", "Deliveries may be delayed in 28 areas due to \"resourcing issues\", the postal group says.", "Khairi Saadallah murdered three friends in a Reading park in a \"ruthless and brutal” terror attack.", "Anna Wintour hit back at claims that the informal picture downplayed Ms Harris's achievements.", "Investors have agreed a deal to save the chain, along with Ponden Home and Bonmarché.", "Officials say 170 individuals involved in deadly Capitol riots have been identified, and many more will be.", "Scotland's first minister says the current restrictions are \"very unlikely\" to be lifted at the end of the month.", "The celebrated 94-year-old broadcaster is the latest celebrity to have a first dose of the vaccine.", "The decision follows a rise in cases across the emirates in the past week, officials say.", "The Earl of Strathmore attacked a woman in her room during an event he was hosting at Glamis Castle.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "A supermarket worker says door staff are facing abuse when they challenge those not wearing masks.", "The facility at the ExCeL Centre also has the capital's first mass vaccination centre on site.", "Overall, patients are now more likely to survive, but death rates are high in intensive care.", "Earlier this month videos showing supposed empty hospitals were shared on social media.", "A leaked memo warns several Birmingham hospitals risk being \"overwhelmed\" by coronavirus patients.", "Boris Johnson was spotted at the Olympic Park on Sunday, despite government advice to \"stay local\".", "A slump in demand for fashion and homeware during lockdown left many retailers struggling.", "Last year saw 697,000 deaths registered in the UK - 14% above what would be expected.", "Eugene Goodman was hailed for luring a mob away from the Senate - now new heroics have emerged.", "Tweeters query why it has not been given to a prominent Kenyan like actress Lupita Nyong'o.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Tuesday morning.", "People are still holding house parties, raves and gambling gatherings, the UK's most senior police officer says.", "Dutch TV films officials confiscating ham sandwiches from UK drivers under new food import rules.", "The increasing number of staff off work could prevent the NHS Louisa Jordan opening to Covid patients.", "The Northern Lights were visible overnight from Shetland, Moray and the Highlands.", "The manager of a care home says they were promised the jab on New Year's Eve - but none have arrived.", "Downing Street defends the PM, while the Met Police chief says he did not act \"against the law\".", "Fans of the University of Alabama football team gathered in the streets of Tuscaloosa, ignoring social distancing.", "We share the stories of some of the 12,000 people who have died with coronavirus in Scotland.", "There has been speculation over moves to make lockdown stricter, as infection rates remain high.", "Isabella Curry said she now feels safe and will be able to go out and meet friends soon.", "An RAF aircraft breaking the sound barrier causes a loud bang in skies across the East of England.", "Three vaccines have been approved in the UK - what are the differences between them?", "Derbyshire Police apologises to two women fined £200 for driving five miles for a countryside walk.", "Cwm Taf Morgannwg saw the highest number of weekly deaths and the highest number since April.", "More than a third of people using screens more in lockdown reported eyesight changes, a study suggests.", "The home secretary says she will back police to enforce virus rules, as another 1,243 die in the UK.", "New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick turns down Donald Trump's offer, citing the Capitol riots.", "Mohamud Mohammed Hassan was arrested at home on Friday but released without charge on Saturday.", "As countries look to quickly vaccinate people, BBC reporters explain what's happening across Europe.", "Donald Trump made the decision days before Joe Biden, who wants friendlier US-Cuban ties, takes office.", "The laptops and tablets will be delivered to schools in England to support disadvantaged pupils.", "It follows similar moves by Morrisons and Sainsbury's, but those with medical reasons will be exempt.", "Doctors at the hospital say they're treating more younger patients than in the first wave.", "People refusing to wear face coverings who are not medically exempt will not be allowed to shop inside.", "The social network has hit back asking a federal judge to order it to be reinstated.", "Ministers are reluctant to make the rules even tougher at the moment - but would never rule it out.", "A Typhoon aircraft \"safely escorts\" a civilian aircraft to Stansted Airport, an RAF spokesman says.", "Leicester City edge a keenly contested Premier League encounter with Southampton to maintain their push for a top-four place.", "Health and frontline workers are first in line for jabs at vaccination centres across the country.", "The number of incidents reported to the child safeguarding panel in England rose by a quarter.", "Some areas could see freezing temperatures and 5-10cm of snow on Saturday, the Met Office says.", "CBBC star's mother, Lucy Lyndhurst, says his death has had a \"catastrophic effect\" on their family.", "Sea port managers fear the shift may be part of a long-term trend to ship from the Irish Republic.", "A critical engine test for Nasa's new \"megarocket\" - the Space Launch System (SLS) - ends early.", "Heavy rain is causing flooding and travel disruption, with a warning for ice also forecast.", "Douglas Jones had been enjoying his dream job before the pandemic forced him to return home to southern Scotland.", "Sir Iain Duncan Smith and Joanna Lumley speak out about employees allegedly owed a total of £200,000.", "The Daily Telegraph must publish a correction over Covid claims, press regulator Ipso rules.", "Plastic surgeons express shock at the stabbing of \"highly respected\" Graeme Perks in his home.", "The UK prime minister wants girls' education in developing countries to be a key international focus.", "Everyone has heard about doctors and nurses catching Covid-19 but cleaners and porters have been worse hit.", "Health groups say NHS staff fear prosecution over decisions if hospitals are overwhelmed.", "Red tape plus a \"poor\" Brexit deal mean fishermen fear for the future, says an industry body.", "Louis Godwin, 95, said he was \"so pleased\" to get his Covid-19 vaccination at Salisbury Cathedral.", "People in parts of eastern England woke to a thick covering of snow on Saturday morning.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson says the action is needed to protect against the risk of new Covid strains.", "Prime Minister Jean Castex said the measures would be in place for at least 15 days.", "Statistics agency Nisra says 145 deaths were registered last week, bringing its pandemic total to 1,976.", "Holiday firms are expecting a \"bumper year\" once lockdown restrictions are lifted.", "As the UK records its highest death toll, Fergal Keane has been to see the strain the NHS is under for the second time.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Saturday.", "The latest UK government data also shows a further 1,295 deaths with 28 days of a positive test.", "Lahiru Thirimanne's unbeaten 76 frustrates England as a spirited Sri Lanka rally on the third day of the first Test in Galle.", "The Gerry and the Pacemakers singer died from a blood infection at the age of 78.", "Hundreds of thousands of DNA and arrest records were deleted after a human error, the Home Office says.", "Centrist Armin Laschet is now in a good position to succeed Angela Merkel as Germany's chancellor.", "Health officials warn the highly contagious UK Covid variant could become the dominant strain in the US by March.", "Replacement exam grades are likely to arrive earlier and be decided by teachers and a test.", "Donations of plasma from people who have recovered from the virus have been suspended.", "Prince William says he \"really worries\" about the effect of the pandemic on front-line workers.", "A letter from police chiefs also says 213,000 records were lost - more than first thought.", "Network Rail said a 24m section of side wall fell away from a bridge between Carmont and Stonehaven.", "US police held back a mob for hours in a \"barbaric\" battle at the Capitol. Here are their stories.", "David Chambers is accused of charging the woman £160 for a bogus jab.", "A Belfast mother says there is \"compelling evidence\" that her daughter was abducted in Malaysia.", "Mount Semeru has erupted, pouring volcanic matter miles into the air and placing locals on alert.", "The latest death and case figures should be a \"bitter warning for us all\", Public Health England says.", "The total number of deaths within 28 days of a positive test during the pandemic is now above 90,000.", "At least three people have died in a suspected gas blast that destroyed four floors of a building.", "Police in Greater Manchester and South Yorkshire say they are expecting flooding in their regions.", "Some 1,820 deaths have been reported in the past 24 hours - surpassing yesterday's previous high.", "The package will also see police target dealers and health services help people with addictions.", "Congratulating Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, the PM said it was a \"big moment\" for the UK and US.", "Marion Dawson from Renfrewshire is the third oldest person in Scotland to be given the vaccine.", "Boris Johnson faced questions on the UK's border policy, and the deletion of police records.", "The Duchess of Sussex is suing the Mail on Sunday over the publication of her letter to her father.", "There has been a fourfold increase in mortgage products for those offering a 10% deposit.", "The president responds to reports he is considering presidential pardons over alleged Russia collusion.", "Doris Hobday's family say they are \"totally heartbroken\" to lose her in this way.", "The big social networks are clamping down on threats of violence amid a tense wait for results.", "Some of the UK's biggest music stars sign an open letter demanding action over post-Brexit touring.", "The President-elect has a laundry list of priorities for his first 100 days in the White House.", "A collection of your tributes to some of the thousands of people in the UK who have died with coronavirus.", "The riots of 6 January took many by surprise, but to those tracking conspiracy and extreme right groups online, the warning signs were all there.", "Mainland Scotland and some islands to remain under toughest coronavirus rules until at least mid-February.", "Taking down pictures and clearing out desks is part of a huge operation readying for a new president.", "Labour accuses Kwasi Kwarteng of \"unpicking\" workers' rights, as minister confirms he will review rules.", "'This is our historic moment of crisis and challenge' - the new president knows how daunting his task is.", "Holidaymakers in 2021 must be fully vaccinated against Covid-19, the travel firm says.", "Boris Johnson calls it an \"outrageous\" error which officers are working \"round the clock\" to rectify.", "The new president is sworn into office by Chief Justice John G Roberts.", "The 22-year-old from LA is the youngest poet to perform at a presidential inauguration.", "Kamala Harris makes history as she is sworn in as US vice-president.", "Delays to smear tests in lockdown prompt cervical cancer charities to call for home-testing kits.", "It comes as industry workers warn their livelihoods are at risk due to Brexit border problems.", "Nine Met Police officers who broke lockdown rules have been asked to \"reflect on their choices\".", "Paul Pogba scores a superb winner as Manchester United reclaim top spot in the Premier League by coming from behind for a club-record equalling away win at Fulham.", "'This is our historic moment of crisis and challenge'. Read the 46th president's address in full.", "Online audiences for singalongs in the Llangollen church have \"exploded\", Father Lee Taylor says.", "Out-of-date tax systems mean people are falling through the cracks for help, MPs say.", "Orthodox Christians, Putin among them, take an icy dip to commemorate a special day.", "The ex-government adviser said the Tories would be seen as the \"nasty party\" by ending the top-up.", "They are all laughing at the camera, but what are the stories of the women next to Kamala Harris?", "More than 2,000 properties in Manchester are affected as police warn some occupants will have Covid.", "Services and waiting times must improve at the NHS's child gender-identity service, inspectors say.", "A further 1,820 people die in the UK within 28 days of a positive test - another all-time high.", "The UK has not always \"lived up to its values\" under Boris Johnson, his predecessor Theresa May says.", "The role of a president's inaugural cabinet goes beyond just policy - let's take a closer look.", "The body of Joy Morgan was found two months after a man was convicted of her murder.", "From \"the best talent in politics\" to \"Sloppy Steve\" and fraud charges - what went wrong for Steve Bannon?", "The Protection of Workers Bill will make it a new specific offence to assault, abuse or threaten Scottish retail staff.", "Donald Trump won a surprise victory in 2016 partly because he promised to shake things up. And boy, did he.", "The health minister asks the Ministry of Defence to help out, primarily at a number of hospitals.", "A National Audit Office report calls on the corporation to produce \"a long-term financial plan\".", "The last four years have been a whirlwind - we asked the experts to break down Trump's key moments.", "More work is needed to understand its benefits in schools in England given the new variant, health officials say.", "The BBC's James Cook returns to Monklands Hospital eight months on to find the staff struggling against the odds.", "President Biden inked 15 executive orders, moving to rejoin the Paris climate accord.", "His most famous Discworld novels were written in the house in Somerset, the estate agent says.", "Police say the van \"careered\" off the road and the man was rescued from the overturned vehicle.", "President Biden has said that democracy and 'freedom' are at stake in the upcoming 2024 election.", "All practices will have their own rollout plan but they have to meet official targets, says GP committee.", "The Duchess of Sussex is suing the Mail on Sunday over the publication of a letter to her father.", "Members of our voter panel all wish Joe Biden well, but they're divided over his chances of success.", "As Donald Trump prepares to leave office, here are some of the key moments of his presidency.", "A tearful President-elect Joe Biden says goodbye to his home state on the eve of his inauguration.", "Joe Biden makes his inaugural address as the 46th president of the United States.", "Parts of England prepare for widespread floods as Boris Johnson announces emergency Cobra meeting.", "Images from Joe Biden's swearing-in and first day as the 46th US President.", "The cupped clap of a butterfly's wings may be the key to their flying abilities and their survival.", "Relegation-threatened Fulham lose some of the momentum built up by their win at Everton but show battling qualities to claim a point at Burnley.", "The medical journal's editor says UK guidelines don't recommend giving different coronavirus jabs.", "They were hit while licking freshly laid salt on a road which is a black spot for animal accidents.", "Objects are thrown and officers threatened as they break up the New Year's Eve party in Essex.", "Former Tottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino is named Paris St-Germain boss following Thomas Tuchel's sacking.", "People driving to visit beauty spots in Wales are breaking Covid rules, a Snowdonia park warden says.", "The first doses of the latest coronavirus vaccination to be approved are due to be given on Monday.", "Japan's prime minister says the delayed Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics will go ahead this summer despite concern over rising coronavirus cases.", "Doctors urge public to \"take it seriously\" and follow coronavirus restrictions amid rising cases.", "Bishop, who recently tested positive for Covid-19, said boarding the Tardis was \"a dream come true\".", "Arsenal continue their Premier League resurgence with a ruthless victory over strugglers West Brom at The Hawthorns.", "Manchester United move level on points with Premier League leaders Liverpool as a Bruno Fernandes penalty seals victory over Aston Villa.", "NHS England says the facility is available to help the capital's hospitals as Covid-19 cases rise.", "New detectorist Owen Thomas says \"the link with a life that's gone\" appeals to him.", "Just one ticket matched all seven numbers in the New Year's Day draw.", "A court has ruled that Lisa Montgomery can be executed on 12 January, despite appeals from lawyers.", "A last-ditch attempt to overturn the result is overturned, days before the White House changes hands.", "Education Secretary Gavin Williamson drops plan to keep primaries open in 10 boroughs in the city.", "Footage is released of the first police-involved death in the US city since George Floyd's in May.", "The New Year's Eve event, held in a warehouse in a village in Brittany, was shut down on Saturday.", "Volunteers at All Saints Church in East Horndon have praised those who donated £8,700 for repairs.", "A study finds the new coronavirus variant is responsible for pushing the R rate above the crucial 1.0 mark.", "Amanda Quinn, diagnosed with rapid early onset dementia, says lockdown has been a \"scary\" time.", "Up to 300 people gather in London's Hyde Park to protest at Covid-19 restrictions.", "Nine people are still missing, two days after a hillside collapsed due to flowing clay mud.", "It comes as a further 57,725 people test positive for the virus, a new daily high.", "Tottenham manager Jose Mourinho says he is \"disappointed\" after three of his players breached coronavirus rules by attending a party over Christmas.", "The frontman, who found success with songs such as Summer in Dublin, \"passed away suddenly\" aged 65.", "The cryptocurrency's gain so far this year was almost $5,000 - after the value surged 300% in 2020.", "The government said soldiers had been sent to protect 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Video footage showed the aftermath of the deadly explosion\n\nAt least three people have died following an explosion that caused a building to partially collapse in centre of the Spanish capital, Madrid.\n\nA fourth person was missing and several others were hurt, officials said.\n\nCity officials said the blast, which destroyed four floors of the building, had been caused by a gas leak.\n\nMayor José Luis Martínez Almeida told reporters after the blast that a fire was raging inside the building, which belongs to the Catholic Church.\n\nThe blast happened shortly before 15:00 local time (14:00 GMT) as gas workers were repairing a boiler at the back of the building in the central Puerta de Toledo area of Madrid.\n\nAn 85-year-old woman passer-by and two men were killed while a third man who had been working on the boiler was missing, Spanish media reported. One of the injured was in a serious condition and taken to hospital, according to officials.\n\nSpanish reports said the upper floors affected were being used to house local priests.\n\nRescue workers evacuated more than 50 people from a care home next-door to the building in Caille de Toledo, but a school on the other side was closed at the time of the blast.\n\nFour floors of the building were destroyed in the explosion, which could be heard in many areas of Madrid. Images shared on social media showed billowing smoke and debris strewn along the street.\n\nEmergency services said nine fire crews and 11 ambulances were at the scene and some of those caught up in the blast were treated on the street.\n\nFour floors of the building were destroyed in the explosion\n\nPolice officers cleared the area, closing it to all traffic and pedestrians, and appealed to local residents not to come near.\n\n\"The noise was very loud, very loud, really,\" Lorenzo Fomento, who was working from home at a nearby apartment, told AFP news agency. \"I never heard anything so loud before,\" he added.\n\nThe director of the nursing home, Antonio Berlanga, said all the elderly residents were fine and places were being found for them to spend the night.", "The EU has maintained its diplomatic mission in the UK after Brexit\n\nA diplomatic row has broken out between the UK and EU over the status of the bloc's ambassador in London.\n\nThe UK is refusing to give Joao Vale de Almeida the full diplomatic status that is granted to other ambassadors.\n\nThe Foreign Office is insisting he and his officials should not have the privileges and immunities afforded to diplomats under the Vienna Convention.\n\nIt is understood not to want to set a precedent by treating an international body in the same way as a nation state.\n\nAs it stands, the ambassador would not have the chance to present his credentials to the Queen like other diplomatic heads of mission.\n\nThe British decision is in marked contrast to 142 other countries around the world where the EU has delegations and where its ambassadors are all granted the same status as diplomats representing sovereign nations.\n\nJosep Borrell, the EU's High Representative for Foreign Affairs, has written to the Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, to express his \"serious concerns\".\n\nThe issue is expected to be discussed by EU foreign ministers next Monday when they meet for the first time since the post-Brexit transition period ended on 31 December.\n\nThe Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office wants to treat the EU delegation only as representatives of an international organisation.\n\nThis means EU diplomats would not have the full protection of the Vienna Convention, giving them immunity from detention, criminal jurisdiction and taxation.\n\nThe rights given to staff of international organisations are more ad hoc and less fixed.\n\nThe EU argues it is not a typical international organisation because it has its own currency, judicial system and the power to make law.\n\nIn his letter to Mr Raab last November, seen by the BBC, Mr Borrell says: \"Your service have sent us a draft proposal for an establishment agreement about which we have serious concerns.\n\nAmbassadors of nation states have certain privileges - including being able to present their credentials to the Queen\n\n\"The arrangements offered do not reflect the specific character of the EU, nor do they respond to the future relationship between the EU and the UK as an important third country.\n\n\"It would not grant the customary privileges and immunities for the delegation and its staff. The proposals do not constitute a reasonable basis for reaching an agreement.\"\n\nEU officials privately accuse the Foreign Office of hypocrisy because when the EU's foreign service - known as the External Action Service - was set up in 2010 as a result of the Lisbon Treaty, the UK signed up to proposals that EU diplomats be granted the \"privileges and immunities equivalent to those referred to in the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations of 18 April 1961\".\n\nOne EU source said: \"It seems petty. This is not about privileges, it's about principle. What does it say about the UK, about how much the British signature is worth?\"\n\nSome in the EU also fear hostile states might copy the UK and downgrade the protections granted to EU diplomats in their own countries. This could open them up to being harassed and make them easier for them to be expelled.\n\nA European Commission spokesman said: \"The UK, as a signatory to the Lisbon Treaty, is well aware of the EU's status in external relations, and was cognisant and supportive of this status while it was a member of the EU.\n\n\"The EU has 143 delegations, equivalent to diplomatic missions, around the world. Without exception, all host states have accepted to grant these delegations and their staff a status equivalent to that of diplomatic missions of states under the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, and the UK is well aware of this fact.\"\n\nHe added: \"Nothing has changed since the UK's exit from the European Union to justify any change in stance on the UK's part.\n\n\"The EU's status in external relations and its subsequent diplomatic status is amply recognised by countries and international organisations around the world, and we expect the United Kingdom to treat the EU Delegation accordingly and without delay.\"\n\nA Foreign Office spokesperson said: \"Engagement continues with the EU on the long-term arrangements for the EU delegation to the UK. While discussions are still ongoing, it would not be appropriate for us to speculate on the detail of an eventual agreement.\"", "\"You need to take care of each other,\" President Macron told students in Paris\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron has promised all university students two meals a day for one euro (88p; $1.21) to help them cope during lockdown.\n\n\"We must be able to provide better support,\" he said at a meeting with students in Paris on Thursday.\n\nIt follows protests in which students called for more help to tackle loneliness and financial problems.\n\nFrance is currently under a 18:00-06:00 curfew, and coronavirus cases have risen steadily in recent weeks.\n\nMr Macron, who addressed students at Paris-Saclay university, also said the government would provide subsidies to pay for counselling and other mental health services.\n\nThe subsidies would take the form of a voucher which students can redeem if they feel the need to talk to a mental health professional, the president said.\n\nHe added that the discounted meals would be available from university canteens and other nearby outlets that are providing takeaways.\n\n\"We remain in a period of uncertainty,\" Mr Macron said. \"We will have a second semester that will have the virus and a lot of constraints.\"\n\n\"You need to take care of each other,\" he added.\n\nThe president spoke a day after students took to the streets to demand more attention from the government. They sought to raise awareness of the rising mental health problems many say they are suffering as a result of the pandemic.\n\nA combination of isolation, inactivity and concerns about the job market has left many students close to breakdown, according to university psychologists.\n\nRyan Kennedy says the French government is failing to take student issues seriously\n\n\"I've lived alone in a studio apartment since September - it's the first time I've ever lived alone,\" Ryan Kennedy, a 19-year-old law student in Montpellier, told the BBC.\n\nHe added: \"Not a day goes by without a friend calling me because they're struggling with their mental health.\"\n\nHeïdi Soupault, a political science student from Strasbourg, sent a letter to Mr Macron last week. \"I no longer have dreams,\" she said. \"If we have no hope or prospects for the future at 19, what do we have left?\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Our mental health goes downhill in situations like this.\"\n\nMany of the protesting students are calling for a return to face-to-face teaching. Some first-year students will be able to return to the classroom from 25 January.\n\nBut, on Thursday, Mr Macron said all students should be allowed on campus once a week providing certain measures are in place.\n\n\"Given what your generation has already gone through, we cannot but take into account your right to some on-site presence, to exchange with your teachers, and to meet with other students,\" he said.\n\nFrance has had a curfew in place since December, but this was tightened on 16 January to the current hours of 18:00-06:00.\n\nBars, restaurants, theatres, cinemas and ski resorts remain shut. Schools, however, are open with extra testing in place.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Johnson: \"It's a big moment for us - we have things we want to do together.\"\n\nThe inauguration of President Joe Biden is a \"step forward\" for the United States, which has \"been through a bumpy period\", Boris Johnson has said.\n\nCongratulating Mr Biden and Vice-President Kamala Harris, the UK PM said it was a \"big moment\" for the UK and the US and their \"joint common agenda\".\n\nMr Johnson said he looked forward to working with the US on tackling climate change and the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMaking his inaugural address, Mr Biden said \"democracy has prevailed\".\n\nHe promised to be a president \"for all Americans\" and said his \"whole soul is in putting America back together again\".\n\nOutgoing President Donald Trump, who has not formally conceded to Mr Biden, did not attend the ceremony.\n\nPresident Biden began work straight away on reversing a number of his predecessor's policies, including rejoining the Paris climate change agreement - gaining the praise of Mr Johnson.\n\nThe PM tweeted it was \"hugely positive news\", adding: \"I look forward to working with our US partners to do all we can to safeguard our planet.\"\n\nEarlier this week the former head of the civil service Lord Sedwill suggested Mr Johnson would be glad Mr Trump had not been re-elected for a second term as US president.\n\nWriting in the Daily Mail, Lord Sedwill said those who believed Boris Johnson would have preferred Mr Trump to win again were \"mistaken\".\n\nThe former cabinet secretary - who stepped down in September - said a second term for Mr Trump \"would not have been to the benefit of British or European security, to transatlantic trade, let alone the environmental agenda to which the prime minister is so committed\".\n\nBoris Johnson with Donald Trump at the G7 summit in 2019\n\nMr Johnson's public stance toward the former president has varied over the years.\n\nIn 2015, when he was Mayor of London, Mr Johnson accused Mr Trump of \"stupefying ignorance\" over his comments about violence in the city.\n\nBut as foreign secretary, following Mr Trump's election as president, he said there was a \"lot to be positive about\", and in 2019, praised his \"many good qualities\".\n\nFor his part, Mr Trump has appeared largely supportive of Mr Johnson, backing his flagship Brexit policy and at one point saying of the British PM: \"They call him Britain Trump.\"\n\nAnd echoing his predecessor, in 2019 Mr Biden described the UK prime minister as a \"physical and emotional clone\" of Mr Trump.\n\nAfter winning the presidential election Mr Biden phoned Mr Johnson ahead of other European leaders and expressed his desire to strengthen the historic \"special relationship\" between the two countries.\n\nSpeaking on Wednesday, Mr Johnson said it was the job of all UK prime ministers to have a \"good, close working relationship\" with US presidents but, right now, there were many things the two countries \"wanted to do together\".\n\n\"When you look at the issues which unite me and Joe Biden, the UK and the US right now, there is a fantastic joint common agenda,\" he said. \"For us and America, it is a big moment.\"\n\nHe said he hoped the UK could help the US commit to a target of net zero carbon emissions by 2050 in the run up to the climate change conference COP 26, to be held in Glasgow this year.\n\nUK prime ministers like to consider American presidents as their best diplomatic friend.\n\nThat relationship, particularly when it comes to security and defence, is unusually close.\n\nWhen, as with Donald Trump, that friend has been unpredictable and unconventional, that has made for some very awkward political moments.\n\nSo for the government, this a really important and positive turning of the page.\n\nThe terribly over-used phrase the 'special relationship', which provokes neurotic behaviour on this side of the Atlantic, has meant the most when there has been a genuine personal chemistry between the two leaders - whether Thatcher and Reagan, or Bush and Blair.\n\nThere is nothing automatic about Mr Biden and Mr Johnson developing that kind of political friendship.\n\nBut in the words of one former senior minister, for the UK Biden means \"we will lose exclusivity but gain predictability: easier to work with, less cringeworthy and more dependable, but we may not be the only girlfriend on speed dial\".\n\nSpeaking to the Guardian, shadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy described Mr Biden as \"a woke guy\".\n\nAsked if he agreed, Mr Johnson said: \"I can't comment on that. What I know is that he's a firm believer in the transatlantic alliance and that's a great thing.\"\n\nHe added that there was \"nothing wrong with being woke - I put myself in the category of people who believe that it's important to stick up for your history, your traditions and your values, the things you believe in.\"\n\nOpposition leader Sir Keir Starmer also sent his congratulations to the new president and vice-president.\n\n\"The US begins a new chapter in its history, one of hope, decency, compassion and strength,\" the Labour leader said, adding \"together, our two nations can build a better, more optimistic future for our world.\"\n\nAnd First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon tweeted: \"Warm congratulations and best wishes to President Biden and Vice President Harris.\n\n\"Scotland and the USA share long-standing bonds of friendship and co-operation. We look forward to building on these in the years ahead.\"\n\nWriting in the Daily Mail, former UK Prime Minister Theresa May said Mr Biden's election presented the UK with a \"golden opportunity\" for Western democracies to reverse the trend towards \"absolutism\" - and a \"few strongmen facing off against each other\" - in global affairs.\n\nThe Queen sent a private message to Mr Biden before his inauguration, Buckingham Palace has said.", "Food supply problems into Northern Ireland from Great Britain are \"clearly a Brexit issue\", Ireland's foreign affairs minister has said.\n\nSimon Coveney said the shortages were \"part of the reality\" of the UK leaving the EU.\n\n\"Let's not pretend Brexit doesn't force that kind of change,\" he said, speaking on ITV's Peston programme\n\nOn Tuesday, the NI secretary said images of empty supermarket shelves had \"nothing to do with the protocol\".\n\nRather, Brandon Lewis argued the disruption caused by coronavirus before Christmas was responsible for the shortages of some food products.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Protocol between the UK and the EU requires health certifications on animal-based food products entering NI from the rest of the UK.\n\nMr Coveney said it meant \"very real change\" for some businesses, as there now had to be a \"certain number of checks\" on goods from Britain into Northern Ireland.\n\nHe said that some companies were not ready for this.\n\nMr Coveney said the Republic of Ireland would work with the UK and EU to \"make sure\" supermarket shelves were not empty in the future.\n\nHe said the Brexit divorce deal agreed with the EU by then-prime minister Theresa May would have caused less separation from Northern Ireland from the UK.\n\nAsked about Mr Coveney's comments, International Trade Secretary Liz Truss said the disruption had been \"down to both\" Covid and Brexit - but defended the situation.\n\nSpeaking on the Peston programme she said \"there was always going to be a period of adjustment for businesses\" and \"we are now seeing a more rapid flow of goods into Northern Ireland those supermarket shelves are being stocked\".\n\nMs Truss said the government would continue to support businesses, and that \"predictions of Armageddon haven't happened\".", "The education secretary has said he would \"certainly hope\" schools in England could reopen before Easter.\n\nGavin Williamson said he was \"not able to exactly say\" when pupils would go back but schools would be given two weeks' notice before reopening.\n\nPrimary and secondary schools remain closed, apart from to vulnerable pupils and the children of key workers.\n\nDowning Street said the prime minister wanted schools to open as quickly as possible but would follow the evidence.\n\n\"If we can open them up before Easter then we obviously will do but that is determined by the latest scientific evidence and data,\" the prime minister's official spokesman said.\n\nThe Downing Street spokesman was also less specific about the promise of two weeks' notice, saying: \"We want to give schools as much notice as possible.\"\n\nSchools have been closed to most pupils so far this term, with primary schools closing after one day back, in response to rising Covid levels.\n\nPupils have been told they will be learning at home until at least half-term in mid-February.\n\nBut Mr Williamson was pressed on BBC Radio 4's Today programme whether he could guarantee that schools would reopen at all this term, before the Easter holidays.\n\n\"I want to see them, as soon as the scientific and health advice is there, open at the earliest possible stage - and I certainly hope that would be certainly before Easter,\" said the education secretary, who's responsible for schools in England.\n\nHe said schools and parents would have \"absolutely proper notice\" of when children were going to return, which he said would be a \"clear two weeks\" for teachers and families to get ready.\n\nA lesson from the first lockdown was that it's much harder to reopen schools than to close them.\n\nParents and teachers have to be persuaded again it's safe to go back, families need advance notice to plan their work and childcare, schools need to organise their staffing.\n\nAnd there are other parents who will be pushing for schools to go back as soon as possible, in addition to the vulnerable and key workers' children already attending.\n\nFor Education Secretary Gavin Williamson, already under pressure, it means a high-stakes balancing act - and it clearly remains uncertain whether this will happen for all schools before the Easter holidays.\n\nWhat seems likely, from Mr Williamson and England's deputy chief medical officer Jenny Harries, is that this could be a patchwork return beginning after half-term, rather than a single starting date, depending on local levels of the virus.\n\nThe biggest teachers' union, the National Education Union, said schools and parents needed certainty and not a \"stop-start approach\".\n\nLast week Mr Williamson indicated to the Commons education committee that schools in some parts of the country might stay closed at the end of the lockdown, with a return to the \"contingency\" arrangements, under which schools in areas of high infection would be shut.\n\nOn Tuesday, England's deputy chief medical officer Jenny Harries also said schools might reopen region by region in a phased return after half-term.\n\nLabour has accused the education secretary of causing \"chaos and confusion\" and called on him to resign.\n\nParty leader Sir Keir Starmer said providing two weeks' advance notice of opening was \"good news coming from an education secretary who normally gives them about 24 hours' notice\".\n\nSir Keir said the government needed to \"give children the ability to learn at home now\" and \"get on with the blindingly obvious\" task of getting testing in place in schools.\n\nAsked about his own future, Mr Williamson said: \"Our focus is making sure that we get the very best of remote education out to all children across the country, making sure that we return schools at the earliest possible moment.\"\n\nIn terms of his own achievements, the education secretary said: \"I'll let other people do the grading.\"\n\nSchools have also been closed by other governments in the UK. In Scotland and Northern Ireland they will remain closed until at least the middle of February, while in Wales the next review of restrictions will be on 29 January.\n\nThe government has also paused plans to roll out rapid daily coronavirus testing in all but a small number of secondary schools and colleges, with health officials saying the new variant meant the risk of missing infections had risen.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer on Gavin Williamson: \"You would struggle... to find many people who would give him more than an F.\"\n\nBut Mr Williamson emphasised that mass testing in schools would continue, clarifying that it was the daily tests for those who had been in contact with a positive case which had been stopped.\n\nThe education secretary was also challenged on the fairness of setting tests as part of the replacement for cancelled GCSEs and A-levels, considering pupils will have missed different amounts of time in school.\n\nMr Williamson said the tests were only \"one element\" for deciding replacement results, which would be based on teachers' grades.\n\n\"That's why we're asking teachers to make a judgement in the round. We're asking teachers to look at the work they've been doing over the whole period of time they've been studying the course,\" he said.", "Low-deposit mortgages have made a return as the market emerges from a Covid-related slowdown.\n\nMortgage products for homeowners with a deposit of 10% of their property's value have risen more than fourfold compared with last summer's low.\n\nThe increase, based on figures from financial information service Moneyfacts, could offer some relief to first-time buyers.\n\nBut the cost of mortgages will remain an issue for many.\n\nIn early September last year, there were only 44 mortgage products available for those able to offer a 10% deposit. At the same time, first-time buyers putting money aside for a deposit were faced with pressures of poor savings rates and rising house prices.\n\nThat choice has now risen to 197 products, according to the Moneyfacts figures, with some big lenders returning in recent weeks.\n\nMortgage products for those able to offer a 15% deposit have also risen sharply, although the choice was already much greater.\n\n\"First-time buyers who may have been concerned that with record low savings rates and increasing house prices, their homeownership dreams may have had to be shelved, may have been pleased to note that we are now seeing some providers return products for those with 10% deposits,\" said Eleanor Williams, from Moneyfacts.\n\nLenders had been grappling with the practical effects that the coronavirus pandemic brought to their business.\n\nWhile some new businesses targeted first-time buyers on social media, many traditional lenders withdrew products from the market.\n\nStaff shortages, and employees working from home, meant they were unable to process applications as fast as they had before the pandemic.\n\nThere were also concerns among lenders that, despite strong activity in the housing market, riskier - and younger - first-time buyers could find it difficult to make mortgage repayments during an economic slowdown caused by the pandemic.\n\nResearch has shown that younger workers are more at risk of redundancy.\n\nAaron Strutt, from mortgage broker Trinity Financial, said lenders were now working more efficiently despite staff still being at home.\n\nHe said that some of the biggest mortgage lenders had returned to the market. Some of the mortgage rates they were offering were not as attractive as they had been, but competition would help push down costs.\n\n\"If you are planning to purchase a property and have a 10% deposit the mortgage rates are not as cheap as they used to be, but they are getting better,\" he said.\n\nMany thousands of existing mortgage-holders who had struggled to make their repayments during the pandemic had taken payment \"holidays\", which are deferrals on payments.\n\nThe latest figures from UK Finance, which represents lenders, show that 130,000 mortgage payment holidays were in place at the end of December 2020, down from a peak of 1.8 million in June last year.", "US President Joe Biden is now speaking from the White House about how his administration will tackle the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nHe says he has been meeting with his Covid response team, and it will “take months” to turn around the situation in the country.\n\nToday he is going to unveil a “national strategy” on Covid-19, he says, which is “comprehensive” and is based on “science and not politics”.\n\nThe plan, which consists of 198 pages, will start with an “aggressive, safe and effective” vaccination campaign.\n\nBut it will take months to protect everyone, he says, so in the meantime, \"mask up\", he tells the American people.\n\nWearing a mask, he says, is \"a patriotic act\".\n\nTo follow our coverage of his first day, head here.", "The emergency department at Glasgow's Queen Elizabeth University Hospital is the biggest and busiest in Scotland.\n\nAmbulances keep arriving, bringing more patients. In a curtained cubicle, one man is explaining to the doctor that he's been in pain for days, but he put off coming in \"because of everything that's going on\".\n\nDr Alan Whitelaw, who runs the department, says that while there might be fewer patients coming through his door, there are no longer any \"easy wins\".\n\n\"Those that are coming are the sick people,\" he says. \"We are undoubtedly seeing the effects of people not seeking healthcare for six to 10 months.\n\n\"We are seeing disease that we wouldn't always see and we are seeing it further down the road.\n\n\"We are making more diagnoses that potentially would be made in primary care or outpatient clinics. On top of that we've got lots of Covid patients coming through the door.\n\n\"So it is those two things together that currently put the NHS under that significant pressure.\"\n\nAll over Scotland, hospitals are under severe pressure, with some treating significantly more coronavirus patients than they did during the first wave of the pandemic.\n\nPublic visitors are not allowed at the QEUH, but BBC Scotland was given special permission to film to highlight the impact of Covid and the importance of following lockdown rules.\n\nOn the day of the BBC's visit, there are 244 Covid patients. Critical care is running at capacity, and across the whole hospital it's a constant challenge to find space for new patients.\n\nDr Whitelaw says the level of unpredictability is extreme. His team has run out of spare beds.\n\n\"We are ten months into strange and difficult times. It's winter, no-one's had a holiday, no-one's had much downtime.\n\n\"Hospitals are fuller in winter, beds are tighter and patients are sick\".\n\nUpstairs, one ward that previously treated patients with infectious diseases like flu or norovirus, is now a Covid ward. All 28 beds are full.\n\nSome patients here are recently diagnosed, others are coming to the end of their isolation, while some have been stepped down from critical care, but need rehabilitation.\n\nSenior charge nurse Karen Paton says it feels like patients are now sicker for longer.\n\n\"We've had this going on for more or less a year now and staff are beginning to feel the emotional distress of it,\" she says.\n\n\"Having to deal with patients succumbing to coronavirus, and just having the emotions of all the patients not being able to have contact from their families.\n\n\"I think it's beginning to take its toll on everybody.\"\n\nCovid patient Gerry Gilroy says QEUH staff have been \"superb\"\n\nIn one room on the ward is Gerry Gilroy, who tested positive for Covid in late December. By 8 January, the day of his 66th birthday, he could barely get out of bed and couldn't eat.\n\n\"It just hit me and I knew there was something not right,\" he says.\n\n\"I know how serious it is. I never thought it would hit me. It's been a bit of an experience but thankfully I'm on the mend.\n\n\"The staff here are superb. When I get out of here, if I can do something for the NHS I'm going to. Doctors, cleaners, nurses, all top drawer.\"\n\nThe impact of Covid is being felt across the hospital. The acute receiving area used to be the first stop for people who needed urgent surgery.\n\nNow it's where medics like Dr Colin Perry assess Covid patients sent in by their GP or NHS 24. It's another area that's full.\n\n\"In the first wave our ICU was busy and it remains very busy, but during that period we had free beds,\" says Dr Perry.\n\n\"This time we have much more pressure on the downstream ward areas, so it is harder to manage the wider needs of the hospital and make room for patients to move through the system.\n\n\"The numbers are far higher than they were a year ago.\"\n\nRepurposing so many wards to treat coronavirus patients has meant some routine work had to be postponed, but staff are working to prioritise all different kinds of treatment.\n\nHelen Dorrance is a senior surgeon who specialises in bowel cancer at the QEUH. On the day the BBC visits she is operating on patients from another hospital to help relieve pressures there.\n\nDemand for critical care makes it difficult to operate some services, but cancer treatment is still running.\n\n\"We work together as a team across the region to make sure people who are the highest priority get dealt with,\" she says. \"But everyone gets their fair share and access to the care they need.\n\n\"It's not a choice, we do have to provide the best care we can for Covid patients and my critical care colleagues are stepping up to the mark.\n\n\"But the rest of us are making sure the rest of the service runs the way it should, so if you have your heart attack or stroke the right people are there to give you the best care.\"\n\nComing to hospital for any reason during the pandemic is a different experience, and services are stretched.\n\nBut the emergency department's Dr Whitelaw adds that no matter what happens, they will cope.\n\n\"We don't come to work to worry or be fearful, we come to work to do our best and to help,\" he says.\n\n\"I think there's an uncertainty about what the next two to three weeks look like.\n\n\"It might be very, very challenging but I have absolute faith that the staff here will continue to do everything that is required.\n\n\"I think the public should be reassured that no matter what is thrown at us we will definitely get through it.\"", "A council worker in Didsbury, Manchester, checks a bridge for damage, after heavy rainfall. On Thursday morning, there were more than 200 flood warnings in place across the country", "There is still no long-term decision on whether to cut fees as a review recommended\n\nUniversity tuition fees in England will be frozen at a maximum of £9,250 for the next academic year.\n\nThe Department for Education (DfE) said a longer-term decision on cuts to fees would be delayed until the next Comprehensive Spending Review.\n\nBut education sector groups said the government \"is wasting an opportunity\" to help university students.\n\nMinisters also set out plans to improve post-16 vocational education including student loans for adult learners.\n\nThe DfE also launched a consultation on changing the timetable for applying to university - to a so-called \"post-qualification admissions\" system.\n\nThis would mean admissions being based on the grades achieve by students, rather than not relying on predictions.\n\nThe government outlined its plans for higher education reforms for over-18s in response to a landmark review, commissioned by the government from finance expert Philip Augar. Its recommendations were published in May 2019.\n\nPlanned reforms include making £2.5bn available for technical qualifications for adult learners through the National Skills Fund, a lifelong student loan entitlement for up to four years of higher education and the prioritising of funding for STEM subjects.\n\nBut the Augar review's recommendations to reduce tuition fees to £7,500, alongside implementing reforms to minimum entry standards and foundation years at universities, were not addressed in this latest response.\n\nThe DfE said given the pandemic \"now is not the right time to conclude the review in full\".\n\nAny further reforms are expected to be announced at the next Spending Review.\n\nMr Augar also suggested the return of maintenance grants for poorer university students as part of his review, but there was not mention of this in the interim response.\n\nUniversity and College Union general secretary Jo Grady said: \"Sadly this interim response confirms that there will not be a radical change to the current system.\n\nThe Augar review recommended tuition fees should be cut to £7,500 and maintenance grants reintroduced\n\n\"The Westminster government is wasting an opportunity to make a real difference for students and institutions.\"\n\nProf Julia Buckingham, president of Universities UK , welcomed the prospect of lifelong loans, saying \"it is encouraging to see government's commitment to making lifelong learning opportunities more accessible to all\".\n\nHowever, Prof Buckingham said \"government should provide maintenance grants for those who need them the most, including those considering studying shorter courses on a modular basis\".\n\nAs part of its Skills for Jobs White Paper, published alongside higher education reforms, the DfE said it wanted to \"put an end to the illusion that a degree is the only route to success and a good job and that further and technical education is the second-class option\".\n\nA white paper is a policy document produced by the government to set out their proposals for future legislation.\n\nIn December, the government announced that tens of thousands of adults without an A-level or equivalent would be able to benefit from nearly 400 fully-funded courses from April.\n\nIt was the first major development in Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Lifetime Skills Guarantee (LSG) scheme, which was launched in September.\n\nThe government wants to boost the status of vocational education\n\nMr Johnson said it would mean \"everyone will be given the chance to get the skills they need, right from the very start of their career\".\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson said: \"These reforms are at the heart of our plans to build back better, ensuring all technical education and training is based on what employers want and need, whilst providing individuals with the training they need to get a well-paid and secure job.\"\n\nBritish Chamber of Commerce director general Adam Marshall welcomed the plans to put the skills needs of businesses at the heart of further education.\n\n\"As local business leaders look to rebuild their firms and communities in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, it is essential to ensure that the right skills and training provision is in place to support growth,\" he added.\n\nBut organisations representing school and college leaders are also sceptical that there is enough funding for the further education sector to deliver on the proposals.\n\nIn November, an the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) said FE colleges and sixth forms faced significant financial uncertainty.\n\nChief executive of the Association of Colleges David Hughes said: \"Colleges have been calling for this, after years of being overlooked and underutilised, but government has to not only recognise the vital college role, it also needs to increase funding.\"", "Video caption: David Olusoga learns the stories of the first inhabitants of the house in the 1840s-50s.\n\nDavid Olusoga learns the stories of the first inhabitants of the house in the 1840s-50s.", "One of the mysteries of Covid-19 is why oxygen levels in the blood can drop to dangerously low levels without the patient noticing.\n\nIt is known as \"silent hypoxia\".\n\nAs a result, patients have been arriving in hospital in far worse health than they realised and, in some cases, too late to treat effectively.\n\nBut a potentially life-saving solution, in the form of a pulse oximeter, allows patients to monitor their oxygen levels at home, and costs about £20.\n\nThey are being rolled out for high-risk Covid patients in the UK, and the doctor leading the scheme thinks everyone should consider buying one.\n\nA normal oxygen level in the blood is between 95% and 100%.\n\n\"With Covid, we were admitting patients with oxygen levels in the 70s or low-or-middle 80s,\" said Dr Matt Inada-Kim, a consultant in acute medicine at Hampshire Hospitals.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Inside Health: \"It was a really curious and scary presentation and really made us rethink what we were doing.\"\n\nDr Inada-Kim became the national clinical lead of the Covid Oximetry@home project.\n\nA pulse oximeter slips over your middle finger and shines a light into the body. It measures how much of the light is absorbed in order to calculate oxygen levels in the blood.\n\nIn England, they are being given to people with Covid who are over 65, younger but have a health problem, or anyone doctors are concerned about. Similar schemes are being rolled out across the UK.\n\nPeople measure and record their oxygen levels three times a day.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Health Education England - HEE This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nIf oxygen levels drop to 93% or 94%, then people speak to their GP or call 111. If they go below 92%, people should go to A&E or call 999 for an ambulance.\n\nStudies, which have not been reviewed by other scientists, have shown even small drops below 95% are linked to an increased risk of dying.\n\nDr Inada-Kim said: \"The point of this whole strategy is to try to get in early to prevent people getting that sick, by admitting patients at a more salvageable point in their illness.\"\n\nChris Harris, who is 70, was one of the first patients to benefit from the scheme.\n\nHe was being treated for a urinary infection in November last year, but then when he developed unexpected flu-like symptoms his GP sent him for a Covid test. It was positive.\n\n\"I don't mind admitting I was in tears, it was a very stressful, frightening time,\" he told Inside Health.\n\nHis oxygen levels dropped a couple of percentage points below the normal zone, so after a call with his GP, he went to hospital.\n\nAt this point he was still feeling fine, but things changed the day after he was admitted.\n\n\"My breathing started to get a little bit laboured, I had a high temperature as the days went on, [my oxygen levels] were progressively getting lower, they were in their 80s,\" he told me.\n\nChris was treated, did not need intensive care and has made a full recovery.\n\nHe said: \"I may have gone [to hospital] as the very last resort and that's the frightening thing. It was the oxygen meter that forced me to go, I would have just sat it out thinking I would recover.\n\n\"I am extremely lucky and very, very grateful.\"\n\nHis GP, Dr Caroline O'Keefe, says she has seen a massive increase in the number of people being monitored.\n\nShe said: \"On Christmas Day we were monitoring 44 patients, today I have 160 patients who I am monitoring daily. So we are certainly busy.\"\n\n\"We've had to quadruple the size of our team in the last two weeks.\"\n\nOverall, NHS England has supplied around 300,000 pulse oximeters for the home-monitoring scheme.\n\nDr Inada-Kim says there isn't definitive proof that the gadget saves lives and it could take until April to know for sure. However, the early signs are all positive.\n\n\"What we think we can see are the early seeds of a reduction in the length of stay after a hospital admission, an improvement in survival and a reduction in the pressures on the emergency services,\" he said.\n\nHe is so convinced of their role in tackling silent hypoxia that he said everyone should consider buying one.\n\n\"Personally I would, and I know a number of colleagues who have bought pulse oximeters to distribute to their loved ones,\" he said.\n\nHe advised checking they had a CE Kitemark and to avoid apps on smartphones, which he said were not as reliable.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA mosque has become the first in the UK to open as a Covid vaccination centre.\n\nThe Al-Abbas Islamic Centre in Balsall Heath, Birmingham is expected to vaccinate up to 500 people a day.\n\nThe imam, Sheikh Nuru Mohammed, said he hoped it would help dispel false information that the vaccine was forbidden in Islamic law.\n\nNHS England said it fears disinformation could be causing some in the UK's South Asian communities to reject the Covid vaccine.\n\n\"It will send a strong message to our Muslim brothers and sisters. We are doing this to say a big 'no' to fake news and a big 'yes' to the vaccine,\" Sheikh Nuru said.\n\n\"Muslim scholars advise us to get the vaccine because the sanctity of life is important in Islam.\"\n\nImam Sheikh Nuru Mohammed said he hopes the opening of the vaccination centre will help dispel false information\n\nDr Rizwan Alidina, a trustee of the mosque and member of the Birmingham and Solihull Clinical Commissioning Group said: \"The significance of the venue is obviously quite evident with particularly the Muslim community being one of the communities with a bit of a lower uptake than we would otherwise have expected.\"\n\nHe said there had been a good response to the opening of the centre at the mosque and hoped it would soon be carrying out between 300 and 500 vaccinations a day.\n\nNHS England regional medical director for London Dr Vin Diwakar told a Downing Street press conference some communities had \"legitimate and understandable concerns about the vaccines\".\n\nHe said despite it being a \"safe and effective vaccine\", for some Asian and black communities there were \"longstanding concerns\" that \"go back generations\".\n\nDr Diwakar said some people were \"told by their grandparents that experiments were done in the early part of the last century, that unethical experiments were done way back in the 60s\".\n\nSpeaking at the Downing Street briefing, Home Secretary Priti Patel also sought to counter disinformation targeted at people from minority ethnic backgrounds.\n\n\"This vaccine is safe for us all,\" she said.\n\n\"It will protect you and your family... So I urge everyone from across our wonderfully diverse country to get the vaccine when their turn comes to keep us all safe.\"\n\nOne of the first to get the jab at he Birmingham mosque, retired GP Dr Masud Ahmad, said his message to others in the local community was \"that it's quite safe to have it and they should have it\".\n\nOther places of worship, including Salisbury Cathedral and Lichfield Cathedral, opened as vaccine centres last week.\n\nThe Al-Abbas Islamic Centre is administering the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Thousands of London taxi drivers plan to sue Uber for damages alleging the ride-hailing firm operated unlawfully.\n\nThe planned group legal action could, if successful, hit Uber with a bill for millions of pounds.\n\nThe action, part of a planned anti-Uber campaign by black-cab drivers this year, claims it didn't follow private hire rules between 2012 and 2018.\n\nUber said it \"operates lawfully in London and these allegations are completely unfounded\".\n\nThe group action, which will be launched by law firm Mishcon de Reya, will allege that for six years Uber operated unlawfully in London.\n\nTaxi rules in London mean that people have to contact a centralised office for minicabs, whereas they can hail a black cab on the street.\n\nThe lawsuit will claim that between 2012 and 2018, Uber let people hail its drivers directly, contravening those rules.\n\nLitigation specialist RGL Management, which is also working with the cabbies to bring the case, said more than 4,000 had signed up so far.\n\nThere are about 5,200 further registrations being processed, with hundreds of enquiries per day, it said. The firm is funding a marketing campaign, and is looking to sign up as many as 30,000 eligible drivers.\n\nA full-time driver over those six years could claim about £25,000 in lost earnings, it added. The group action is aiming to bring a case to the High Court no later than the first quarter of 2022.\n\nThis is not the first time that London's black cabs have done battle with Uber, but today's announcement shows neither side have conceded defeat.\n\nThe proposed claim itself is huge - loss of earnings for up to 30,000 drivers for nearly 6 years - and comes at a time when London black cabs and private hire vehicle drivers are struggling for work after nearly a year of lockdowns and restrictions.\n\nUber might now have its licence back, but the black cabs aren't willing to give them an easy ride.\n\nAn Uber spokeswoman said: \"Uber operates lawfully in London and these allegations are completely unfounded.\n\n\"We are proud to serve this great global city and the 45,000 drivers in London who rely on the app for earnings opportunities, and are committed to helping people move safely.\"\n\nUber has had a torrid history in the UK capital including previous lawsuits.\n\nIn February 2019 cab drivers lost a legal challenge which argued that Uber's London operating licence was granted by a biased judge.\n\nUber then went on to lose its licence to operate in London in November 2019 after safety concerns.\n\nBut in September last year it was spared a London ban after a judge upheld an appeal against Transport for London's decision over safety.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Drone footage captures the extent of the damage the bridge over the River Clwyd\n\nFinancial help has been promised to those affected by serious flooding, the Welsh Government has announced.\n\nPeople have been forced to leave their homes and a major incident declared after Storm Christoph struck.\n\nAbout 80 people were evacuated during flooding thought to be related to mine works in Skewen, Neath, while 30 were evacuated in Bangor-on-Dee, Wrexham.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it would work with councils to deliver £500-£1,000 payments to affected households.\n\nEnvironment minister, Lesley Griffiths, said people across Wales were facing the \"twin problems\" of floods and the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nShe said: \"We will support people in these circumstances just as we did in the aftermath of storms Ciara and Dennis last year, by working with local authorities to make support payments of between £500 and £1,000 available for each household flooded.\"\n\nSevere flood warnings remain in place across Wales as river levels remain high.\n\nIn the Lower Dee Valley a severe flood warning remains in force, from Llangollen to Trevalyn Meadow, and a major incident was declared in Bangor-on-Dee.\n\nWrexham council leader Mark Pritchard said teams worked to ensure the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, made on Wrexham Industrial Estate, was not lost in the floods.\n\nFirefighters in Skewen waded through water up to their thighs amidst reports of evacuated homes\n\nAbout 80 people were evacuated in Skewen, including residents of a care home, after at least eight streets were left under water.\n\nEmergency services said there were no injuries and all those evacuated had been found accommodation, but people are asked to avoid the area.\n\nIn Denbighshire, a bridge linking Trefnant to Tremeirchion over the River Clwyd collapsed in the storm. The council said it would be investigating the cause of the flooding, which forced road closures and evacuations.\n\nNatural Resources Wales (NRW) said the River Dee, which runs through Bangor-on-Dee, was at its highest recorded level since the water gauge became operational in 1996 - 16.45m (54ft).\n\nIt urged people across Wales to remain vigilant, with river levels not set to have peaked until late Thursday evening, adding they would remain high until Friday morning.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Met Office said over the past two days Wales had the highest rainfall of the four UK nations.\n\nBetween 19 and 21 January, Aberllefenni in Gwynedd saw 188mm (7.5in) of rain, more than average rainfall for Wales for the whole of January, which is 156.89mm (63in).\n\nThat was followed by 180mm (7in) in Crai reservoir, Powys, 169.8mm (6.6in) in Treherbert, Rhondda Cynon Taf, and 166mm (6.5in) in both Maerdy, RCT, and Capel Curig, Conwy.\n\nLlechryd bridge in Ceredigion has been completely submerged by the River Teifi\n\nUp to 30 people were forced out of their homes in Bangor-on-Dee, Wrexham\n\nNatural Resources Wales said the River Dee was at its highest level since the water gauge became operational\n\nThe flooding threatened the supply of the coronavirus Oxford vaccine, which is produced at Wrexham Industrial Estate.\n\nWrexham council leader Mr Pritchard said it had to work to \"make sure we didn't lose the vaccinations in the floods\".\n\n\"I've been up all night... it's a very difficult time for us,\" he added.\n\nNorth East Wales Search and Rescue helped people whose homes were flooded in New Broughton, Wrexham\n\nWockhardt UK, which manufactures the vaccine, said at about 16:00 GMT on Wednesday, excess water surrounded part of its buildings.\n\n\"The site is now secure and free from any further flood damage and operating as normal,\" it said.\n\nThe clean-up has begun in Ruthin\n\nA multi-agency statement described the situation in Bangor-on-Dee as a \"major incident\".\n\nIt said: \"As a severe weather warning indicates that there is a risk to life...\n\n\"The evacuation effort continues, with all routes in and out of the village currently closed to the public due to the flooding.\"\n\nEarlier, some residents in Ruthin were told to leave their homes - people have been told Covid rules allow them leave their homes in an emergency.\n\nMeanwhile, a man's body was recovered from the River Taff near Blackweir in Cardiff.\n\nDozens of ducks and chickens, and 12 huskies were rescued by the RSPCA from a flooded farm in Bangor, while they also took hay to two donkeys stranded by flood water in Mold.\n\nSome 12 huskies had to be rescued after their kennels flooded\n\nDave Brown said the flooding in his home in Broughton, Flintshire, was horrific and his mother-in-law was rescued by firefighters.\n\n\"You don't realise the damage water does and everything that floats - the sheer volume of water. I am 6ft tall and it almost took me out,\" he said.\n\nDave Brown's mother-in-law was rescued from their home in Broughton, Flintshire\n\nWrexham council said some of the people forced to leave their homes were with relatives, while it found others accommodation after having to initially seek refuge in a church hall.\n\nNine properties in Berse Road in New Broughton were also evacuated.\n\nThe situation in Ruthin, Denbighshire, overnight was \"horrendous\", town councillor Stephen Beach said.\n\n\"The whole of Ruthin was on edge,\" he said.\n\n\"Some people were accommodated at the leisure centre, and others were offered places to stay by local residents. The community was superb.\n\n\"It was the sheer volume of water that came down - there was no stopping it.\"\n\nA yellow weather warning for ice for Wales has been issued by the Met Office until 10:00 GMT on Friday, with concerns it could lead to travel disruption, slips and falls.\n\nNumerous flood warnings and alerts remain in place across Wales, including two severe flood warnings.\n\nThe agency said flood defences were being used and river levels at Holt, Wrexham, would remain high for some time.\"There is therefore a significant risk of localised flooding problems and due to that the severe flood warning will remain in place until the levels drop,\" Keith Iven of NRW said\n\nIn Monmouthshire roads were closed following flooding, and the council said while water levels at the River Usk were dropping, a \"second peak\" on the River Wye had been expected on Thursday night.\n\nThe council had warned people living in Riverside Park, Monmouth, may be impacted and council workers were prepared to offer support.\n\nRiver Tywi has burst its banks in Carmarthen, affecting nearby businesses\n\nMid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service said it had attended 98 flooding-related incidents\n\nIt said it deployed swift water rescue teams to rescue 13 people from vehicles in floodwater. It also winched vehicles from water and pumped water from properties.\n\nIn Cardiff, emergency services attended a crash involving a number of vehicles at about 07:40 on the A4232 between Culverhouse Cross and the M4.\n\nNo-one was seriously injured, but both carriageways were closed for just over an hour. The road has since reopened.\n\nIn Carmarthen, people were treated for the effects of fumes after using a generator to pump water from their homes.\n\nIn Knighton and Crickhowell in Powys, crews spent Wednesday night pumping out a number of properties.\n\nIn Borth, Ceredigion, floodwater hit the water treatment plant, an electrical substation and eight properties.\n\nOgwen Valley Mountain Rescue Team had to rescue a man from the roof of his car.\n\nIt said he had tried to drive through the river ford along the road from Llandygai to Bangor, in Gwynedd, but had become stuck in deep water and had climbed onto the roof. He was not injured.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Derek Brockway - weatherman This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nRhondda Cynon Taf council said it was aware of a minor landslip on the mountainside above Pentre.\n\nIt said an initial inspection determined there was no immediate threat to the area and a further detailed inspection would be carried out on Friday. It asked people to avoid the area.\n\nBangor-on-Dee has been badly hit by Storm Cristoph\n\nDozens of roads have been closed across Wales, and while Covid rules are in place stopping people from travelling apart from for essential reasons, people are being warned not to travel in affected areas due to widespread flooding.\n\nChris Lloyd from North Wales Mountain Rescue Association warned people to not visit flood-hit areas to view the damage.\n\nHe told BBC Radio Wales: \"People who are going out to look at the floods are not only putting themselves at risk, but putting additional people on the roads which professional emergency services don't want - we don't want any more incidents.\"\n\nDenbighshire council said Ysgol Bodfari in Denbigh and Ysgol Caer Drewyn, Corwen, which had been open for vulnerable children and the children of critical workers, have been closed.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The A9 south of Inverness was among the worst affected routes\n\nHeavy snowfall during Storm Christoph has caused travel disruption in parts of Scotland.\n\nVehicles were stuck on the A9 south of Inverness and many roads in the Borders were affected by snow.\n\nThe Queensferry Crossing was closed for a time earlier due to the risk of falling ice before later reopening.\n\nAn amber alert for south-east Scotland was lifted at 08:00 but yellow alerts are in place in other parts of the country until Friday.\n\nTraffic was queued on the A9 after lorries and cars became stuck in snow between Tomatin and Carrbridge.\n\nTractors were used to tow lorries on to cleared stretches of the road.\n\nHeavy snow has also closed the main route to Applecross at the Bealach na Ba.\n\nThe Queensferry Crossing has been reopened after being closed earlier due to the risk of falling ice\n\nThe A939 Cock Bridge to Tomintoul road in Moray was closed after Police Scotland shut the snowgates due to the wintry conditions.\n\nSnow had also affected traffic on parts of the M8.\n\nOn the Highlands' Far North Line, a landslip between Fearn and Tain stations has affected services.\n\nNetwork Rail Scotland said a section of the railway was open with a 5mph speed restriction in place.\n\nChris Tracey, Bear Scotland's south east unit bridges manager, said the Queensferry Crossing was temporarily closed for the safety of bridge users.\n\nHe said: \"We had already mobilised additional ice patrols in response to the weather forecast and the bridge was closed at 04:00 when staff observed ice falling from the structure.\"\n\nThe bridge was reopened after the risk had passed.\n\nEdinburgh is one of the areas where heavy snow has fallen\n\nPolice Scotland has urged people to avoid travelling in the affected areas.\n\nChief Superintendent Louise Blakelock said: \"Government restrictions on only travelling if your journey is essential remain in place and with an amber warning for snow, please consider if your journey really is essential and whether you can delay it until the weather improves.\n\n\"If you deem your journey is essential, plan ahead and make sure you and your vehicle are suitably prepared by having sufficient fuel and supplies such as warm clothing, food, water and charge in your mobile phone in the event you require assistance.\"\n\nAvalanche debris on Turnhouse in the Pentland Hills photographed from Penicuik\n\nPeople heading for the Pentland Hills, south-west of Edinburgh, have been urged to be aware of potential avalanche risk after avalanche debris was spotted on Turnhouse Hill.\n\nTweed Valley Mountain Rescue Team said the \"full depth\" avalanche had enough snow to knock a person off their feet, or even bury them.\n\nTeam leader Dave Wright said avalanches in the Pentland Hills were unusual and walkers, skiers and snowboarders might not appreciate the potential risk.\n\nHe said there had been heavy snowfalls in the hills this week and the avalanche occurred at some point on Thursday afternoon.\n\nMeanwhile, the potential avalanche hazard in all six mountain areas covered by the Scottish Avalanche Information Service - Glen Coe, Lochaber, Creag Meagaidh, Torridon and Northern and Southern Cairgorms - has been classed as \"considerable\".\n\nThe amber weather warning for snow covered a slice of Scotland from south of Edinburgh to close to the Scotland-England border and was valid until Thursday morning.\n\nHowever, further alerts remain in place.\n\nA Bear NW Trunk Roads' tractor clears snow ahead of a lorry on the A9 at the Slochd\n\nIn north-east Scotland and Orkney, a yellow warning for heavy rain and potential flooding is in place until 04:00 on Friday.\n\nYellow warnings for snow and ice are also in place in parts of northern and western Scotland until 12:00 on Friday.\n\nTransport Scotland said it was \"closely monitoring\" the road network and a multi-agency response team would be operational during the weather warnings.\n\nA snow-covered car in Carlops, in the Scottish Borders\n\nDrivers woke up to snow-covered cars in Haddington, East Lothian\n• None In pictures: Scotland in the snow", "Last March, the government set out new thinking on dealing with Northern Ireland's past\n\nThousands of relatives of Troubles victims have signed an open letter calling for the British and Irish governments to fully investigate decades of violence.\n\nIt calls for the long-delayed set up of an independent team of detectives to pursue new prosecutions and other measures to recover information.\n\nThese are measures included in the 2014 Stormont House Agreement.\n\nThe letter is addressed to Taoiseach Micheál Martin and UK PM Boris Johnson.\n\nIt asks for their assurances that their \"human rights as victims will no longer be disregarded or denied\".\n\n\"The peace process has repeatedly failed to deliver on our rights to truth, justice and accountability,\" they said.\n\nThe letter, signed by 3,500 relatives, is being published in the Irish News, Andersonstown News, and US publication the Irish Echo.\n\nThe letter is being printed in several newspapers\n\nMore than 3,600 people were killed during the 30 years of Northern Ireland's Troubles and thousands more injured.\n\nThe UK government has pledged to \"intensify\" engagement with victims' groups in addressing the legacy of the past.\n\nThe Stormont House proposals included a new independent investigation unit to re-examine all unsolved killings and a separate truth recovery mechanism to enable families to gain answers in cases where prosecutions are unlikely.\n\nLast March, the government set out new thinking on dealing with the past, which radically departed from what had been proposed in the Stormont House Agreement.\n\nHe proposed that after a paper review exercise, most unsolved cases would be closed and a new law would be enacted to prevent the investigations from being reopened.\n\nMark Thompson, chief executive of Belfast-based lobby group Relatives for Justice, said about half of those who signed the open letter are 35 years and under.\n\nHe said the letter \"represents the current and future generations\" and that it \"underlines the ongoing trauma and intergenerational impact that the killing of a relative has also had on surviving families\".", "Glastonbury Festival has been cancelled for a second year running due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nThe news was announced on Thursday on the Worthy Farm event's Twitter page.\n\n\"With great regret, we must announce that this year's Glastonbury Festival will not take place,\" said festival organisers Michael and Emily Eavis.\n\n\"And that this will be another enforced fallow year for us. Tickets for this year will roll over to next year. Michael & Emily.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Glastonbury Festival This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt comes in the same week that the future of UK music was up for debate at a DCMS inquiry into streaming, and in Parliament regarding post-Brexit music touring visas.\n\nThe full statement on the festival website read: \"In spite of our efforts to move heaven and earth, it has become clear that we simply will not be able to make the Festival happen this year. We are so sorry to let you all down.\"\n\nIt confirmed that as with last year, anyone with a ticket will now be offered the opportunity to roll their £50 deposit over to next year, when the festival will hopefully resume. It had been due to take place in June 2021.\n\n\"We are very appreciative of the faith and trust placed in us by those of you with deposits, and we are very confident we can deliver something really special for us all in 2022!\"\n\nCulture Secretary Oliver Dowden shared his \"disappointment\" at the lack of a Glastonbury 2021, on Twitter.\n\n\"This regrettable but understandable decision is recognition that public health comes first\" he posted, \"and that right now, getting 200k fans together in just a few months looks very difficult to make safe\".\n\nHe added: \"We continue to help the arts on recovery, including looking at problems around getting insurance. I'm Glastonbury will be back bigger and better next year.\"\n\nJulian Knight MP, chair of the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport committee, said news of this year's cancellation was \"devastating\".\n\nSir Paul McCartney headlined Glastonbury in 2004, and was supposed to do so again in 2020\n\n\"We have repeatedly called for ministers to act to protect our world-renowned festivals like this one with a government-backed insurance scheme. Our plea fell on deaf ears and now the chickens have come home to roost,\" he said.\n\n\"The jewel in the crown will be absent but surely the government cannot ignore the message any longer - it must act now to save this vibrant and vital festivals sector.\"\n\nOn 5 January the government responded to a report by UK Music called Let the Music Play: Save Our Summer 2021, which outlined a range of measures that could help the industry get back up and running.\n\nThe government said: \"We know these are challenging times for the live events sector and are working flat out to support it.\n\n\"Our £1.57bn Culture Recovery Fund has already seen more than £1bn offered to arts, heritage and performance organisations to support them through the impact of the pandemic, protecting tens of thousands of creative jobs across the UK, including festivals such as Deer Shed Festival, End of the Road and Nozstock.\"\n\nLast year's 50th anniversary Glastonbury was meant to be headlined by Sir Paul McCartney, Taylor Swift and Kendrick Lamar, but it was cancelled during the initial national lockdown in March 2020.\n\nMichael and Emily Eavis previously said that Glastonbury \"lost millions\" after cancelling in 2020\n\nLast month, organiser Emily Eavis told the BBC she hoped this year's festival could go ahead, despite the \"huge uncertainty\" surrounding live music in the pandemic.\n\n\"We're doing everything we can on our end to plan and prepare,\" she told the BBC, \"but I think we're still quite a long way from being able to say we're confident 2021 will go ahead.\"\n\nEavis said Glastonbury lost \"millions\" in 2020. Her father, Michael, has previously warned the festival \"would seriously go bankrupt\" if they had to cancel again next year.\n\nBut that scenario is unlikely \"as long as we can make a firm call either way in advance\", Eavis clarified to the BBC.\n\nNo line-up details had been confirmed for 2021. But just before Christmas, Sir Paul McCartney told the BBC the event was not in his calendar, as it would be a \"superspreader\".\n\nAt the start of January, MPs were told that some of the UK's biggest music festivals could be called off by the end of this month.\n\nThe festival normally welcomes 200,000 people to Pilton in Somerset every year\n\nEvents are \"rapidly approaching the determination point\", after which they'll have to pull the plug, said the Association of Independent Festivals.\n\nOrganisers will be in \"absolutely dire straits\" financially if the season is cancelled, added Anna Wade, of Winchester's Boomtown Fair.\n\nThey were speaking to MPs examining the plight of music festivals in the UK.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "At 12:01, in the midst of his inaugural address, Joe Biden officially became the 46th president of the United States.\n\nHe was already well into outlining exactly how daunting a task he - and the nation - have ahead in what he called its \"winter of peril\".\n\nAmerica is facing a devastating pandemic which has resulted in massive job losses and business closures, a threatened environment, urgent cries for racial justice and resurgence in \"political extremism, white supremacy and domestic terrorism\".\n\nHis speech was not a laundry list of proposals and solutions. Those were reserved for his first 17 executive actions as president - on immigration, climate change, transgender rights and public health, among others.\n\nThe Biden administration has also frozen all of Trump's last-minute regulations pending further review.\n\nInstead, Biden used his speech to offer hope - and to argue, at times forcefully, that the nation must be united in facing the challenges ahead; that it has to move past its current \"uncivil war\".\n\n\"Without unity, there is no peace, only bitterness and fury,\" he said. \"No progress, only exhausting outrage. No nation, only a state of chaos.\"\n\n\"This is our historic moment of crisis and challenge,\" he continued. \"And unity is the path forward\".\n\nAt times, Biden's speech seemed a direct rebuttal to his predecessor's administration, although he did not mention Donald Trump by name.\n\nWhere Trump frequently spoke of American greatness and glorified its founders, Biden noted that the nation's history has been a \"constant struggle\" between its ideals and sometimes harsh realities.\n\nWhere Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway spoke of \"alternative facts\" almost four years ago, Biden said: \"There is truth and there are lies - lies told for power and for profit.\"\n\nBiden wrapped up his inaugural address by warning that America must not \"turn inward\" - both as individuals retreating into \"competing factions\" and as a nation on the world stage.\n\n\"We will repair our alliances and engage with the world once again,\" he said.\n\nRhetorically, Biden turned the page from Trump's days of \"America first\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe first 100 days of any administration are always important to a new president. What are his priorities? What will he try to accomplish when his political capital is at its highest?\n\nJoe Biden and his presidential team have had nearly three months to plan out his first actions upon taking the oath of office, but executive action is the (relatively) easy part.\n\nHis speech reflected the reality that he enters office with his top priorities already determined for him.\n\nHis government will be responsible for distributing the coronavirus vaccine in an efficient and equitable way. After that, he will have to focus on the societal and economic disruptions caused by the pandemic.\n\nThe virus has exacerbated income inequality and pushed many households to the brink of economic ruin. It's devastated the travel and hospitality industries and placed incredible strain on the finances of state and local governments.\n\nHis pledge to seek unity will be tested early, as he pushes a sharply divided Congress to pass another, massive round of pandemic stimulus aid. If he wants to enact it quickly, he will need Republican support in the Senate, and already there are signs that some on the right may be lining up in opposition to more spending.\n\nThen there's Trump's Senate impeachment trial, which will present yet another challenge to national unity. It will keep Trump's name in the news for weeks, as his defenders rally to his side and his detractors call for consequences for his actions.\n\nAfter that, Biden's potential political paths diverge. He has said he wants to improve healthcare in the US, address growing college debt, make new investments in infrastructure and tackle climate change.\n\nHe's pledged to push immigration reform legislation that includes a pathway to citizenship for undocumented migrants - a political lightning rod that helped fuel Trump's first presidential run.\n\nWhat he prioritises, and how successful his first efforts are, could determine the overall success of his administration. To make lasting change - policies that can't be undone by future presidents - he will have to work with Congress.\n\nThe inauguration ceremony is over. But, as Biden noted in his speech, the American people face one of the most challenging times in their nation's history.\n\n\"We will be judged by how we resolve these cascading crises of our era,\" he said.\n\nBiden campaigned against Trump for the opportunity to face those crises. Now he has his chance.", "Anyone going on a Saga holiday or cruise in 2021 must be fully vaccinated against Covid-19, the tour operator has said.\n\nSaga, which specialises in holidays for the over-50s, said it wanted to protect customers' health and safety.\n\nThe firm said it would delay restarting its travel packages until May to give customers enough time to get jabs.\n\nPeople over 50 in the UK have been rushing to book holidays as vaccinations boost confidence.\n\n\"The health and safety of our customers has always been our number one priority at Saga, so we have taken the decision to require everyone travelling with us to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19,\" Saga said in a statement.\n\n\"Our customers want the reassurance of the vaccine and to know others travelling with them will be vaccinated too.\"\n\nThe firm's holidays were due to restart in March and its cruises in April after a long hiatus, but they will now both be delayed.\n\nSaga said that meant all trips before May would no longer go ahead as planned, acknowledging it would be \"a huge disappointment\" to customers.\n\n\"We will be contacting all guests affected to discuss their options,\" it said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Singapore's 'cruises to nowhere' set back by Covid scare\n\nThe firm said its vaccination policy added to stronger safety processes already planned for when its holidays resume.\n\nThese include requiring cruise passengers to have a Covid-19 test before their trip, as well as a full medical screening.\n\nCapacity on its ships will also be kept to a maximum of 800 people.\n\nThere were some severe covid outbreaks on cruise ships early on the pandemic, before coronavirus restrictions were imposed.\n\nBritish-registered ship the Diamond Princess, owned by the company Carnival, was quarantined for nearly a month in February in the Port of Yokohama in Japan.\n\nMore than 700 of its 3,711 passengers and crew were infected, and 14 died.\n\nThe UK has embarked on a mass vaccination programme as Covid-19 cases surge.\n\nPeople in England are being vaccinated at a rate of 140 jabs per minute, NHS England boss Sir Simon Stevens said this week.\n\nExperts believe in future that airlines, concert venues and restaurants could routinely ask customers to prove that they have been vaccinated.\n\nAnd last week, London plumbing firm Pimlico Plumbers said that all of its staff would be contractually obliged to get the jab.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Hill We Climb: Watch 22-year-old Amanda Gorman's poem reading at Joe Biden's inauguration\n\nAmanda Gorman has become the youngest poet ever to perform at a presidential inauguration, calling for \"unity and togetherness\" in her self-penned poem.\n\nThe 22-year-old delivered her work The Hill We Climb to both the dignitaries present in Washington DC and a watching global audience.\n\n\"When day comes, we ask ourselves where can we find light in this never-ending shade?\" her five-minute poem began.\n\nShe went on to reference the storming of the Capitol earlier this month.\n\n\"We've seen a force that would shatter our nation rather than share it, would destroy our country if it meant delaying democracy,\" she declared.\n\n\"And this effort very nearly succeeded. But while democracy can be periodically delayed, it can never be permanently defeated.\"\n\nThe poet was applauded by Vice President Kamala Harris\n\nIn her poem, Gorman described herself as \"a skinny black girl descended from slaves and raised by a single mother [who] can dream of becoming president, only to find her self reciting for one\".\n\nAmerica's first-ever National Youth Poet Laureate did her job, which was to find the right words at the right time.\n\nIt was a beautifully paced, well-judged poem for a special occasion, but it will live long beyond the time and space of the moment.\n\nAmanda Gorman delivered her piece with grace, the words it contained will resonate with people the world over: today, tomorrow, and far into the future.\n\nThe writer and performer, who became the country's first National Youth Poet Laureate in 2017, followed in the footsteps of such famous names as Robert Frost and Maya Angelou.\n\n\"I really wanted to use my words to be a point of unity and collaboration and togetherness,\" Gorman told the BBC World Service's Newshour programme before the ceremony.\n\n\"I think it's about a new chapter in the United States, about the future, and doing that through the elegance and beauty of words.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUS broadcaster and actress Oprah Winfrey tweeted that she had \"never been prouder to see another young woman rise\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Oprah Winfrey This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAlso on Twitter, Joanne Liu, the former head of aid agency Médecins Sans Frontières, described the poem as \"the most inspiring 5:43 minutes for the longest time\".\n\nFormer First Lady Michelle Obama praised Gorman's \"strong and poignant words\" adding: \"Keep shining, Amanda!\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Michelle Obama This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nUS politician and rights activist Stacey Abrams said the poem was \"an inspiration to us all\".\n\nFormer presidential candidate Hillary Clinton tweeted that Gorman had promised to run for president in 2036 and added: \"I for one can't wait.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIllinois poet laureate Angela Jackson said the recitation was \"so rich and just so filled with truth\".\n\n\"I was stunned that she was so young and so wise,\" Jackson told the Chicago Sun-Times.\n\nGorman said she \"screamed and danced her head off\" when she found out she had been chosen to read at President Biden's swearing-in ceremony.\n\nShe said she felt \"excitement, joy, honour and humility\" when she was asked to take part, \"and also at the same time terror\".\n\nAnd she added that she hoped her poem, completed on the day supporters of former President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol, would \"speak to the moment\" and \"do this time justice\".\n\nGorman, pictured with actor Morgan Freeman in 2018, became LA's youth poet laureate at 16\n\nBorn in Los Angeles in 1998, Gorman had a speech impediment as a child - an affliction she shares with America's new president.\n\n\"It's made me the performer that I am and the storyteller that I strive to be,\" she said in a recent interview with the Los Angeles Times.\n\n\"When you have to teach yourself how to say sounds [and] be highly concerned about pronunciation, it gives you a certain awareness of sonics, of the auditory experience.\"\n\nGorman became LA's youth poet laureate at 16. Three years later, while studying sociology at Harvard, she became National Youth Poet Laureate.\n\nShe published her first book, The One for Whom Food Is Not Enough, in 2015 and will publish a picture book, Change Sings, later this year.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Kamala Harris was sworn into office by Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor.\n\nKamala Harris has made history as the first female, first black and first Asian-American US vice-president.\n\nShe was sworn in just before Joe Biden took the oath of office to become the 46th US president.\n\nMs Harris, who is of Indian-Jamaican heritage, initially ran for the Democratic nomination.\n\nBut Mr Biden won the race and chose Ms Harris as his running mate, describing her as \"a fearless fighter for the little guy\".\n\nPrior to taking the oath at the US Capitol, Ms Harris paid tribute to the women who she says came before her.\n\n\"I stand on their shoulders,\" she said in a video.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Kamala Harris This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEugene Goodman, the Capitol police officer who was hailed as a hero for steering a pro-Trump mob away from Senate chambers during the 6 January riot, escorted Ms Harris at the inauguration.\n\nMs Harris, 56, was born in Oakland, California, to two immigrant parents: an Indian-born mother and Jamaican-born father.\n\nKamala, left, as child with her mother and younger sister Maya\n\nShe went on to attend Howard University, one of the nation's preeminent historically black colleges and universities. She has described her time there as among the most formative experiences of her life.\n\nMs Harris says she's always been comfortable with her identity and simply describes herself as \"an American\".\n\nAfter four years at Howard, Ms Harris went on to earn her law degree at the University of California, Hastings, and began her career in the Alameda County District Attorney's Office.\n\nShe became the district attorney - the top prosecutor - for San Francisco in 2003, before being elected the first female and the first African American to serve as California's attorney general, the top lawyer and law enforcement official in America's most populous state.\n\nIn her nearly two terms in office as attorney general, Ms Harris gained a reputation as one of the Democratic party's rising stars, using this momentum to propel her to election as California's junior US senator in 2017. She was only the second black woman ever elected to the US senate.\n\nShe launched her candidacy for president to a crowd of more than 20,000 in Oakland at the beginning of 2019.\n\nBut Ms Harris failed to articulate a clear rationale for her campaign, and gave muddled answers to questions in key policy areas like healthcare.\n\nShe was also unable to capitalise on the clear high point of her candidacy: debate performances that showed off her prosecutorial skills, often placing Mr Biden in the line of attack, most notably criticising his praise for the \"civil\" working relationship he had with former senators who favoured racial segregation.\n\nShe dropped out of the presidential race in December 2019.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBut Mr Biden chose her as his number two in August, calling her \"one of the country's finest public servants\".\n\nAfter Mr Biden was announced as the next president in November, Ms Harris tweeted a video of her congratulating her running mate.\n\n\"We did it, we did it Joe. You're going to be the next president of the United States!\" she beamed.", "Scientists tracking the spread of coronavirus in England say infection levels in the community may have risen at the start of the latest lockdown.\n\nInfections in 6-15 January were up by 50% on early December, with one in 63 people infected, Imperial College London's initial findings suggest.\n\nSwab tests from 143,000 people indicate 1.58% had the virus during in early January - up from 0.91% in December.\n\nMinisters say the report does not yet reflect the impact of the lockdown.\n\nThe latest round of results from Imperial College's React-1 infection survey - one of the country's largest studies into Covid-19 infections - are interim with the full set of results to be published in a week's time.\n\nBut Imperial College London's Prof Paul Elliott warned if the high prevalence continues \"more lives will be lost\".\n\nThe report also says there are \"worrying suggestions of a recent uptick in infections\" and Prof Elliott said the third lockdown - introduced on 6 January - was not having the same impact as the first, in April.\n\nLondon had the highest level in the January period - 2.8%, up from 1.21% in early December.\n\nProf Elliott old BBC Radio 4's Today programme the current R rate - which represents how many people an infected person will pass the virus on to - was \"around 1\".\n\n\"We're seeing this levelling off, it's not going up, but we're not seeing the decline that we really need to see given the pressure on the NHS from the current very high levels of the virus in the population,\" he said.\n\n\"To prevent our already stretched health system from becoming overwhelmed, infections must be brought down,\" Prof Elliot added.\n\nBefore the Covid rules were tightened, the restrictions faced by people in England varied depending on where they lived.\n\nThe researchers say the government's latest daily case figures, which show a slowdown, may reflect a drop in cases just after Christmas, which is only now being registered.\n\nAnd they suggest infection levels may have gone up in early January as a result of people's activity increasing after the Christmas holiday period.\n\nThey admit there is some uncertainty in their data amid a \"fast-changing situation\" but say it is more up to date than the daily government figures because it does not rely on those being tested developing symptoms and then waiting to have their infections confirmed by a laboratory.\n\nThe UK recorded another all-time high of daily coronavirus deaths on Wednesday. A further 1,820 people died within 28 days of a positive Covid test, according to government figures - taking the total number of deaths by that measure to 93,290.\n\nThe findings of the study are seemingly at odds with recent figures from NHS Test and Trace, which has been reporting recent decreases in daily infections and has prompted some experts to suggest that we might be beginning our journey out of the woods.\n\nThe researchers behind the study say the test and trace figures may be reflecting an initial drop in infections just after Christmas, which is only now being registered on the official figures.\n\nThe study's more up to date findings indicate that infection levels did not continue to fall in the first two weeks of January and may even have gone up. So why has this happened?\n\nData on people's movements has shown that there's been increased activity which the scientists involved say has kept transmission of the virus at a high level. The Department of Health says that the study does not yet reflect the impact of the lockdown in England.\n\nBut if this trend continues, say the scientists, the numbers admitted to hospital with severe Covid illness, will not fall in the short term, as some had hoped.\n\nThis is one set of figures over a short number of days so there might be a more optimistic picture when the study reports its full set of results in a week's time. But there is no getting away from the fact that ministers will be disappointed not to have seen a fall at this stage.\n\nUnless things change, even tougher measures will have to be considered.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said there will be \"tough weeks to come\" but he hoped there would be a \"real difference\" by spring as the vaccine programme accelerates.\n\nIt comes as another 60 NHS Covid-19 vaccination centres in England, including a mosque in Birmingham and a cinema in Aylesbury, will welcome their first patients later.\n\nMinisters have sought to reassure people in the top four priority groups for the Covid vaccination that they will get their jab by the government's mid-February target, following complaints from some GPs about unpredictable supplies.\n\nSome 4.6m people in the UK have now received the first dose of a Covid vaccine.\n\nFacebook mobility data, which tracks people's movements, suggested a fall in activity at the end of December but a rise at the start of the new year.\n\nAnd Prof Elliott said everyone should \"reduce their mobility as much as we can\".\n\nA new, more transmissible variant and the fact larger households and deprived communities were more likely to be affected, may also be factors.\n\nThe Imperial survey is one source of data used to estimate the UK's reproduction (R) number, along with other surveys, from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) for example, and figures on confirmed cases and hospital admissions.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the React findings showed \"we must not let down our guard over the weeks to come\".\n\n\"It is absolutely paramount that everyone plays their part to bring down infections,\" he said.\n\n\"This means staying at home and only going out where absolutely necessary, reducing contact with others and maintaining social distancing.\"", "Police checkpoints have seen officers questioning people about whether their travel is essential\n\nNorthern Ireland has been in lockdown since 26 December, in a bid to control the spread of Covid-19.\n\nRestrictions had been eased in the run-up to Christmas, which led to a sharp spike in cases in January, causing severe pressure on the health service.\n\nMedically-trained military personnel will be deployed to help, but a union has questioned the move and said NI should have entered a stricter lockdown sooner.\n\nWith Stormont ministers extending the current lockdown, could other measures could be on the table?\n\nIt's worth bearing in mind that NI is already in tight lockdown restrictions and has been for almost a month.\n\nBut the current measures are now set to remain in place until at least 5 March.\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said health officials had not requested any other measures be toughened up at this time, given the duration and extent of the current rules.\n\nThe initial lockdown began last March, with non-essential retail not permitted to open again until 12 June.\n\nBy law people are required to stay at home during the lockdown unless they have a reasonable excuse, such as going out for exercise, medical or food needs.\n\nPeople are also required to wear face masks in shops and on public transport, with only a limited number of exemptions.\n\nThose who breach the rules can face fines, with businesses that break the law also able to be fined if they do not follow the rules.\n\nHowever, DUP minister Edwin Poots has expressed concern that not enough has been done by the PSNI to enforce the laws.\n\nIt is a difficult balance for the executive to strike.\n\nThey previously announced that \"Covid marshals\" would be deployed in the retail sector to ensure social distancing in queues and adherence to the rules.\n\nMinisters want to ensure as many people as possible follow the restrictions voluntarily while ensuring the PSNI has enough powers to manage the situation.\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann has not ruled out revisiting whether the level of fines people can face should be increased, and said he would raise the matter with his executive colleagues.\n\nThe 2020 lockdown saw many businesses right across Northern Ireland forced to close, with retail and hospitality among them.\n\nThere was confusion over whether construction and manufacturing should stop, with the executive later clarifying that essential work on building sites could continue.\n\nIn the latest lockdown, the sector has been permitted to remain fully open.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, all non-essential construction has been ordered to stop during a fresh lockdown there.\n\nLike in the previous lockdown, people have again been told to work from home unless they cannot.\n\nBut it is worth pointing out many companies have had time to prepare since last March, making their workplaces Covid-secure to allow more staff to attend in person.\n\nThe executive has a defined list of essential businesses here.\n\nFace coverings in shops are mandatory in Northern Ireland's shops\n\nThere has also been confusion about what elements of the retail sector can operate.\n\nAll but essential retail shops were told to close on 26 December, and click-and-collect is only allowed for those essential retailers.\n\nBut concerns were later raised that some larger chains were \"gaming\" the regulations by selling non-essential items, with smaller independent shops who had to close arguing they were being treated unfairly.\n\nThe executive met with retailers last week to discuss this, but it seems unlikely it will act to define essential items in regulations.\n\nA similar situation in Wales last year led to criticism after supermarkets were told by law not to sell certain items.\n\nThe majority of pupils are in an extended period of remote learning until after half-term in February, but some children of key workers and vulnerable children are still permitted to attend the classroom.\n\nLast week it emerged that at least eight times as many pupils in Northern Ireland attended schools in the first week of term in 2021 compared to the first lockdown in 2020.\n\nThough part of this is due to special schools remaining open for all pupils, unlike in March to June last year.\n\nThe executive could potentially revisit the list of services it defines as meeting the \"key worker\" definition for childcare, if it wanted to reduce this further.\n\nIt is also possible schools could remain closed to most pupils for a longer period, in line with extending the lockdown to 5 March.\n\nThe executive says workers, builders, tradespeople and other professionals can continue to go into people's houses to carry out work such as repairs, installations and deliveries.\n\nBut it does not define further what this type of work should include.\n\nIt is possible ministers could tighten the circumstances in which work can be carried out in someone's home, but the guidance already specifies a limited number of exemptions for allowing others inside your home during the lockdown.\n\nHouse moves are also allowed under the regulations, although they were paused in the first lockdown.\n\nMusic lessons and private tutoring are permitted in someone's home, with mitigations.\n\nDuring the first week of lockdown from 26 December, people were told not to leave their homes between 20:00 and 06:00 every day - effectively amounting to a curfew.\n\nMinisters could decide to impose the measure again, if they felt that was necessary - but initially it was imposed to stop house parties over New Year's Eve.\n\nAll but essential travel is not permitted outside of Northern Ireland, and anyone entering Northern Ireland must self-isolate for 10 days on arrival or face a fine.\n\nHowever, there is no formal travel ban on passengers from Great Britain or the Republic of Ireland entering Northern Ireland.\n\nThe executive had voted by a majority before Christmas not to impose such a ban, despite calls from Sinn Féin for it to happen.\n\nOther parties argued that the public health advice did not propose a ban in law, and that travel from the Republic of Ireland to NI should be restricted as well due to its rise in cases.\n\nThe current guidance states that anyone coming into NI from within the Common Travel Area who is staying for more than 24 hours should self-isolate for 10 days, but there are exemptions for those who \"cross the border\" regularly for work or other essential reasons.\n\nThe executive also does not have a formal limit in law for travelling to exercise, unlike in the Republic of Ireland where it is 5km (3 miles).\n\nJustice Minister Naomi Long said there is an \"advisory limit\" of 10 miles for exercise in Northern Ireland.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTwo houses have partially collapsed after a sinkhole measuring 10ft (3m) opened up on a Manchester street.\n\nFour homes were evacuated on Wednesday evening after the hole appeared on Walmer Street in Abbey Hey, Gorton.\n\nFire crews returned hours later after the front of two of the empty properties crashed to the ground.\n\nUnited Utilities said it was dealing with a collapsed sewer but was investigating all possible causes including the recent heavy rain.\n\nThe fire service was first called to Walmer Street just after 21:00 GMT on Wednesday to reports an unoccupied car had fallen down a hole in the road.\n\nA cordon was put in place and residents evacuated as a precaution, the fire service said.\n\nAfter leaving the scene four hours later, the fire service was alerted to the partial collapse of two houses at 11:00 on Thursday.\n\nNo-one was injured in either incident.\n\nEmergency services remain at the scene on Walmer Street\n\nNearby residents Maureen and Louise Kennedy spoke of their shock after the houses collapsed.\n\n\"You're just waiting for your world to crumble. It's not just the bricks and water, said Ms Kennedy.\n\n\"I've lived in there since I was three. It's the memories.\"\n\nResident Nathaniel OKeleafor said he was \"terrified\" when the sinkhole appeared in the street on Wednesday evening.\n\n\"This morning we are out. We are just trying to find somewhere to live,\" he added.\n\nUnited Utilities said it was dealing with a collapsed sewer on Walmer Street\n\nThe collapse comes as rising levels on the River Mersey in Manchester came \"within centimetres\" of breaching flood defences following heavy rain caused by Storm Christoph.\n\nStation Manager Andrew O'Brien, from Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service, praised firefighters who worked \"at the height of the stormy weather\".\n\n\"The safety of the public was our primary concern overnight and again today, and I'm pleased to say no-one has suffered any injuries,\" he said.\n\nUnited Utilities said: \"When it is safe for engineers to go back into the immediate area we will set up emergency drainage and water supply connections to restore services to the area and begin to assess how best to carry out repairs.\n\n\"It is not known what caused the sinkhole but this will be investigated.\"\n\nBBC Radio Manchester and BBC Radio Lancashire will be on air throughout Storm Christoph, bringing you all of the latest information and news updates\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Home Secretary Priti Patel says police have her \"absolute backing\" to enforce coronavirus restrictions\n\nFines of £800 for anyone attending a house party of more than 15 people will be introduced in England from next week, under new Covid measures.\n\nThese will double for each repeat offence to a maximum of £6,400.\n\nAt a No 10 news conference, Home Secretary Priti Patel said there remained a \"small minority that refuse to do the right thing\".\n\n\"To them my message is clear. If you don't follow rules then the police will enforce them,\" she said.\n\nCurrently in England the fine for those attending illegal indoor gatherings stands at £200 - or £100 if paid early.\n\nFines of up to £10,000 for holding large illegal gatherings of more than 30 people will still only apply to the organisers.\n\nPolice will continue to follow the strategy of engaging with the public, explaining the rules and encouraging compliance, but the Home Office has warned that in severe breaches of lockdown rules, offenders should expect to receive a fine.\n\nMs Patel said the government would \"not stand by while a small number of individuals put others at risk\".\n\nShe was joined at the briefing by NHS England regional medical director for London Dr Vin Diwakar, who compared breaking the rules to turning on a light in the middle of a blackout during the Blitz.\n\n\"It doesn't just put you at risk in your house, it puts your whole street and the whole of your community at risk,\" he said.\n\nWelcoming the fines announcement, Martin Hewitt, chairman of the National Police Chiefs' Council, said large gatherings were \"dangerous, irresponsible, and totally unacceptable\".\n\nHe added: \"I hope that the likelihood of an increased fine acts as a disincentive for those people who are thinking of attending or organising such events.\"\n\nOfficial figures will be released next week showing how many fines have been given out since the start of this latest national lockdown, Mr Hewitt said.\n\nHowever, he stressed that \"forces are telling us there has been a significant increase\" in recent weeks.\n\n\"That's reflecting the fact that we've had more officers out on dedicated patrols taking targeted action against those small few who are letting everybody down,\" he said.\n\nAccording to Mr Hewitt, three police officers were injured in Brick Lane, east London, last week, after more than 40 people were found cramped indoors at a house party.\n\nMeanwhile, more than 150 people were found at a party in Hertfordshire, complete with music equipment including mixing decks and amplifiers, and another officer was injured.\n\nHe said forces in England had issued 250 fixed penalty notices (FPNs) to people organising large gatherings between late August, when regulations were introduced, and 17 January.\n\nIn some other recent examples of lockdown breaches:\n\nThe latest fines announcement comes after figures showed that assaults on emergency workers made up more than a quarter of Covid-related crimes prosecuted in the first six months of the pandemic.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said there were 1,688 such offences between 1 April and 30 September in England and Wales.\n\nThey were among almost 6,500 crimes related to coronavirus in that period.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSome 1,137 charges were brought for breaking coronavirus laws, according to the figures published by the CPS - which cover completed prosecutions.\n\nOn Thursday, it was reported that another 1,290 people had died within 28 days of testing positive for Covid-19 in the UK, bringing the total to 94,580.\n\nAnd a further 37,892 lab-confirmed cases of coronavirus were announced, bringing the total number of cases in the UK to 3,543,646.\n• None What powers do police have?", "\"I had no idea at all I was going to be charged any more for deliveries after Brexit. The extra costs were definitely a bit of a shock.\"\n\nEllie Huddleston, a 26-year-old Londoner, thought she would treat herself to some new work clothes in the January sales.\n\nHaving spotted a bargain, she placed an order for a coat and a number of blouses from two of her favourite clothes brands based in Europe.\n\nBut both deliveries were delayed, held up in customs checks for at least a week, she says.\n\nShe was surprised when she then received a text from courier company DPD, containing a link asking her to pay £58 in customs duties, VAT and additional charges for her £180 order.\n\nOn top of that, the UPS courier for the second parcel showed up at her door several days later, asking for an extra payment of £82 for her £200 coat.\n\nThese charges, imposed by new government rules, have to be collected by the courier firms on the authorities' behalf.\n\n\"I didn't even know when the parcels would be coming - so I sent both back without paying the extra fees and won't be ordering anything from Europe again any time soon,\" Ellie says.\n\nWhen the UK was part of the European Union's customs union, goods could move freely between the country and other member states without import taxes being charged.\n\nBut Ellie was one of the shoppers caught unaware of the fact that those rules have changed since the UK's official exit.\n\nEU retailers sending packages to the UK now need to fill out customs declaration forms. Shoppers may also have to pay customs or VAT charges, depending on the value of the product and where it came from.\n\nHowever, customs charges are the responsibility of the customer, not the retailer, who often has no idea of how much the eventual extra cost might be.\n\nThey cannot be paid in advance and are levied only when the item reaches the UK.\n\nAnother unhappy customer, Graeme from Manchester, paid £300 to buy two pairs of suede winter boots from a German firm online.\n\n\"You couldn't get them anywhere in the UK, so I had no choice but to order them from Europe,\" he told the BBC.\n\nThe next thing he knew, courier UPS had sent him a text message saying he had to pay £147 extra before the boots could be delivered. He paid up, but is still waiting for the goods to arrive.\n\n\"It was virtually impossible to find out what the charges would be beforehand,\" he says, \"so I had to take a shot in the dark.\n\n\"I didn't imagine that it would be half as much again.\"\n\nCourier companies are adding charges to some deliveries from the EU\n\nUnder the new rules, anyone in the UK receiving a gift from the EU worth more than £39 may now face a bill for import VAT - with many items charged at 20%.\n\nFor goods costing more than £135, customs duties may also apply, which can range from 0% to 25% of the product you're buying if they have not been paid by the sender already.\n\nThe extra charges are usually collected by the courier on behalf of the government, with customers asked to pay before they can pick up their package.\n\nSome specialist European retailers, such as bicycle part firm Dutch Bike Bits and Belgium-based Beer On Web, recently said that they would stop all deliveries to the UK because of the VAT changes, which came into force on 1 January.\n\nSome firms have started charging additional \"handling fees\" to shoppers to cover costs associated with extra customs checks and paperwork that must be filled out.\n\nRoyal Mail, for example, is charging an £8 fee it says \"reflects the cost of clearing items through customs and presenting them to Border Force\".\n\nMeanwhile, delivery firm DHL says it is charging UK customers 2.5% of the amount paid to clear customs, with a minimum charge of £11.\n\nMail and freight company TNT is also adding £4.31 on all shipments from the UK to the EU and vice versa. It has said this reflects the increased investment it has had to make in adjusting its systems to cope with Brexit.\n\nA spokeswoman for Logistics UK told the BBC that the handling fees were \"a commercial decision by individual businesses\".\n\nBut Michelle Dale, senior manager at accountants UHY Hacker Young, said that new charges could present a major problem for firms in the coming weeks.\n\n\"I think what we'll find is that a lot of trade with the EU from a business-to-customer perspective will come to a stop until some of these rules are eased,\" she said.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"The new VAT model ensures goods from EU and non-EU countries are treated in the same way and that UK businesses are not disadvantaged by competition from VAT-free imports.\n\n\"The new system also addresses the problem of overseas sellers failing to pay the right amount of VAT when they sell goods in the UK. We anticipate this will bring in £300m in tax every year, to fund essential UK public services.\"\n\nThere is speculation the rules may change, but until they do, Ellie says she won't be buying from European firms.\n\n\"With all that uncertainty around things and whether or not these charges might change, I'd rather just avoid the hassle,\" she says.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHomes have been evacuated as Storm Christoph batters Wales with a three-day rainstorm.\n\nNorth Wales Police were called to help some residents in Ruthin who were being told to leave their homes.\n\nThey tweeted that \"people who do not live locally are driving to the area to 'see the floods'\".\n\nA rain warning issued by the Met Office is in place until midday on Thursday, with an ice warning for parts of north and mid Wales.\n\nSouth Wales fire crews pumped out water from homes in Pontypridd and Porth, in Rhondda, and roads were blocked in Powys and Flintshire.\n\nVehicles were pulled from floods by firefighters in Tenby, Llandovery, Llandeilo and Whitland, Mid and West Wales fire service said.\n\nUp to 20cm (8in) of rain is expected to fall, with the heaviest rain forecast for the north west of Wales.\n\nThere were flood warnings in 58 areas as forecasters warned heavy rain and melting snow could affect roads. There were also 57 flood alerts - meaning flooding is possible.\n\nA yellow warning for ice was issued for the north and parts of mid Wales, starting at 01:00 on Thursday and lasting until 10:00, as rain clears.\n\nA minor landslip was reported on the mountainside above Pentre in Rhondda Cynon Taf. Natural Resources Wales, who have responsibility for the land, said there is no immediate threat after an initial inspection, but the council urged residents to keep away from the area.\n\nThe River Taf at Llanglydwen in Carmarthenshire\n\nFlood warnings are in Carmarthenshire - the River Towy and isolated properties between Llandeilo and Abergwili, the River Gwendraeth Fawr at Pontyates and Ponthenry, the River Hydfron at Llanddowror and the River Taf at Trevaughan in Whitland.\n\nThe other flood warnings cover the River Ely at Peterston-Super-Ely in Vale of Glamorgan, the River Vyrnwy in the Meifod area in Powys, the River Rhyd Hir at Riverside Terrace in Gwynedd, two for the River Wye at Glasbury and Builth Wells, the Lower Dee Valley from Llangollen to Trevalyn Meadows, the River Dyfi at Pont ar Dyfi, the River Usk from Brecon to Glangrwyne, two at the River Severn at Abermule to Fron and Aberbechan and the River Lower Clydach at Clydach Bridge, Swansea.\n\nIn River Aeron at Aberaeron, in Ceredigion, the River Loughor at Ammanford and Llandybie and the River Wye at Builth Wells, Powys, are also covered by the warning.\n\nA person had to be saved from a car stuck in floodwater in Corwen, Denbighshire, North East Wales Search and Rescue tweeted.\n\nRest centres have been opened in St Asaph and Ruthin after some localised flooding following heavy rainfall throughout the day. Denbighshire council invited affected residents to use the facilities at the towns' main leisure centres.\n\nAnd Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service said crews were called to help a motorist whose vehicle had become stuck in 3ft of water in Machynlleth.\n\nThe waters lapped the doors of Ruthin's Ocean Pearl restaurant\n\nIn Broughton, Flintshire, Ray and Jacqui Littler said they and their daughter waited all afternoon for help at their flooded bungalow after emergency services told them they were \"flat out\".\n\nThey eventually decided to leave their home on Main Road, which was under 10 inches of water, to stay with friends.\n\nNeighbours blamed a blocked culvert on the fields opposite the road. Police closed the road at about 16:00 GMT and Flintshire council attended, after three houses were affected, with the gardens of two pensioners' bungalows also under water.\n\nOverflowing banks of the River Usk at Brecon\n\nSouth Wales Fire and Rescue Service said it had been called to two incidents overnight with reports of water entering properties in Pontycymmer in Bridgend and Tredegar, Blaenau Gwent.\n\nOn Wednesday morning, it dealt with flooding at properties in Tyfica Road, Pontypridd, and Trebanog Road in Porth, Rhondda, where a crew was helping residents divert and pump out water.\n\nFirefighters also had to rescue 46 sheep from land surrounded by water at Merthyr Road, Llanfoist, Monmouthshire.\n\nCrews from Abergavenny and Ebbw Vale were called to help the stricken animals near the River Usk.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWater in the grounds of Gwydir Castle in Llanrwst\n\nJudy Corbett, owner of 16th Century Gwydir Castle in Llanrwst, Conwy, which flooded last year, told BBC Radio Wales things were \"looking pretty dire here this morning\".\n\nShe said: \"We've been obviously monitoring the levels overnight so we've had another sleepless night worrying about the weather but the levels are rising and the water is very violent this morning and of course, we've got another a whole day ahead of us.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Sabrina Lee This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSeveral roads have been hit by flooding, including the B5106 between Llanrwst and Trefriw\n\nThe Met Office warned spray and flooding could lead to \"difficult driving conditions and some road closures\" and the downpours could cause delays.\n\nTraffic Wales said restrictions were in place on the M48 Severn Bridge where traffic is coming off eastbound at junction two or westbound at junction one before being directed back on to cross the bridge, which remains open.\n\nIn Flintshire, the A548 Coast Road has been closed at Tan Lan and Mostyn, the A5118 at Padeswood, the A541 between Llong to Pontblyddyn, Bagillt High Street and the B5101 between Treuddyn and Llanfynydd.\n\nThe A485 in Garreg is also closed from the Brondaw Arms to Pont Aberglaslyn.\n\nThe Dyfi Bridge near Machynlleth is closed\n\nIn Powys, the A487 over the Dyfi Bridge, near Machynlleth, is closed while the A458 at Llanfair Caereinion is blocked in both directions from Bridge Street to Guilsfield turn-off because of flooding.\n\nThe A483 in Builth Wells at the station is also closed along with the bridge over the River Wye.\n\nCapel Bangor in Ceredigion has temporary traffic lights on the A44 at Lovesgrove Roundabout due to flooding, which is affecting traffic between Aberystwyth and Llangurig.\n\nIn Bridgend, New Inn Road has been closed in both directions at The Dipping Bridge, affecting traffic between Ewenny village and the A48.\n\nSouth Wales Police warned people not to attempt driving through floodwater after the A4118 at Llanddewi on Gower became blocked.\n\nIn Gwynedd, the council tweeted that Ffordd Siliwen, Bangor, had been closed following a landslip.\n\nA section of the A470 Dolgellau Bypass has also been closed along with the A4085 at Garreg.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNational Rail said some lines between North Llanrwst, Conwy, and Blaenau Ffestiniog in Gwynedd were blocked due to heavy rain while services were also disrupted between Shrewsbury and Machynlleth in Powys.\n\nAlterative road transport will run in place of cancelled services, it said.\n\nThe Met Office said 56mm (2.2in) of rain had fallen at Capel Curig in Snowdonia by 18:00 GMT on Tuesday.\n\nA yellow warning for rain is in place for virtually the whole of Wales until Thursday\n\nForecasters also said fast flowing and deep floodwater \"could cause a danger to life\".\n\nThe Met Office warned flooding could lead to some communities being cut off and possible power cuts.\n\nStrong winds will also follow the torrential rain, with forecasters predicting this may cause \"travelling difficulties across areas higher and more exposed routes\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nPaul Pogba scored a superb winner as Manchester United reclaimed top spot in the Premier League by coming from behind for a club-record equalling away win at Fulham.\n\nIn what is becoming a familiar pattern for Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's side outside Manchester this season, they fell behind early in the game, with Ademola Lookman beating the offside trap before firing in an angled drive.\n\nBut for the seventh time away from Old Trafford in 2020-21, United found a winning response - taking their run to 17 games unbeaten away in the Premier League - courtesy of a gift from their opponents and a bit of magic from their French midfielder.\n\nGoalkeeper Alphonse Areola has been a good addition for the Cottagers but in dropping Bruno Fernandes' cross at the feet of Edinson Cavani, he gifted his former Paris St-Germain team-mate the simplest of equalisers.\n\nAnd on the hour mark, Pogba stepped up to decide the contest, firing a superb angled drive across the diving Areola and into the far corner from 20 yards.\n\nThe France international has come in for criticism at times this season but received nothing but praise from his manager after his winner.\n\n\"I am very happy with his performances,\" said Solskjaer.\n\n\"I know what he can do. He does everything. Now he is putting all the elements together in his performances and it is great to see.\n\n\"It was about getting him fit. He is enjoying his football, he is happy and physically in a good shape.\"\n\nThe win takes United to 40 points, two more than both Leicester and Manchester City, who had briefly taken top spot from the Foxes with a 2-0 win over Aston Villa on Wednesday.\n\nSolskjaer, though, was reluctant to get drawn into discussing his side's title credentials with so much of the campaign to go.\n\n\"It is always going to be talked about that when you are halfway through and top of the league, but we are not thinking about this, we just have to go one game at a time,\" he added. \"It is such an unpredictable season.\"\n\nFulham remain in the bottom three, four points behind 17th-placed Burnley.\n• None Man Utd or Man City to end day top? Cassia bassist Lou Cotterill takes on Lawro\n\nSolskjaer felt his side missed a big opportunity to fully assert their title credentials in failing to make the most of their chances in Sunday's 0-0 draw at champions Liverpool.\n\nUnited were clearly in no mood to repeat such a mistake at a wet and windy Craven Cottage on Wednesday against a less daunting and defining opposition, but one that is far more robust now than they were in the season's first month.\n\nThe visitors fell behind, but this is par for the course for this side, who once again did not panic, wrestled control of the game away from their opponents and took the win.\n\nIt is a handy trick for a title-challenging side to have in their locker, although one they would rather not have to repeatedly pull.\n\nIn truth, they should have won more handsomely.\n\nThey had the far greater share of possession and territory and were well ahead of their opponents on shots taken until a frantic finale in which the Cottagers threw in all they had in pursuit of a point.\n\nFred felt he should have had a penalty in the first half courtesy of being caught in the box by a loose challenge from Ruben Loftus-Cheek, but both on-field and VAR officials disagreed.\n\nHarry Maguire twice headed wide from corners, the first from a far less forgivable, unmarked position than the second.\n\nEqually, though, it is a game that could have seen them drop points, especially in light of Fulham's late barrage, which saw David de Gea save superbly with his legs to deny Loftus-Cheek, and the ball pinballing around the United box on more than one occasion.\n\nThe Cottagers demonstrated that they are no pushover, but they are making of habit of being on the rough end of fine margins.\n\nFive straight draws followed by two defeats by a single goal suggests their battle against the drop will go right down to the wire.\n\n\"I'm really pleased but I'm disappointed at the same time, which shows how far we've come,\" said Cottagers boss Scott Parker.\n\n\"I saw a team today that looked threatening and tried their hardest to get back into the game, but we go again. The next challenge is to maintain where we are and don't let defeat sink us.\n\n\"No doubt we can win and operate in this division and we just need to push on and keep improving.\"\n\nUnited lead the way in early concessions\n• None No side has conceded more goals in the opening five minutes of Premier League games this season than Manchester United (4). Manchester United have won seven Premier League games having gone behind this season - only Newcastle in 2001-02 (10) and Man Utd themselves in 2012-13 (9) have done so more in a single campaign.\n• None Manchester United are unbeaten in their last 17 Premier League away games (W13 D4), equalling their longest ever unbeaten run on the road in top-flight history (17 between December 1998 and September 1999).\n• None This was the 41st different game in which Fulham had led in all competitions under Scott Parker, but the first time they had lost such a game (W34 D6).\n• None Edinson Cavani became the first Man Utd player whose first four Premier League goals for the club were all scored away from home.\n• None Since his return to the club in 2016, no Man Utd player has scored more league goals from outside the box than Paul Pogba (6).\n• None Ademola Lookman has been involved in more Premier League goals than any other Fulham player this season (6 - 3 goals, 3 assists).\n• None Bruno Fernandes has gone three Premier League games without a goal or assist for the first time since his Manchester United debut in February 2020.\n\nFulham's next game is in the FA Cup, against Burnley on Sunday (14:30 GMT). Their next league fixture, an away game on Wednesday, 27 January, is a big one. Opponents Brighton are two places and five points above them in the table.\n\nManchester United host Liverpool in the FA Cup on Sunday at 17:00, live on the BBC. They are also in league action the following Wednesday hosting the league's bottom club Sheffield United in a 20:15 kick-off.\n• None Attempt missed. Aleksandar Mitrovic (Fulham) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Kenny Tete with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Ademola Lookman (Fulham) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Mario Lemina.\n• None Offside, Fulham. Aboubakar Kamara tries a through ball, but Kenny Tete is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Mario Lemina (Fulham) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Aboubakar Kamara.\n• None Attempt blocked. Joe Bryan (Fulham) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt missed. Ruben Loftus-Cheek (Fulham) right footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right following a fast break.\n• None Attempt blocked. Fred (Manchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Harry Maguire with a headed pass. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None You can stream five fourth-round games live on the BBC this weekend, including Liverpool's trip to Manchester United. Find out more here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThis is America's day. This is democracy's day. A day of history and hope, of renewal and resolve. Through a crucible for the ages, America has been tested anew and America has risen to the challenge. Today we celebrate the triumph not of a candidate but of a cause, a cause of democracy. The people - the will of the people - has been heard, and the will of the people has been heeded.\n\nWe've learned again that democracy is precious, democracy is fragile and, at this hour my friends, democracy has prevailed. So now on this hallowed ground where just a few days ago violence sought to shake the Capitol's very foundations, we come together as one nation under God - indivisible - to carry out the peaceful transfer of power as we have for more than two centuries.\n\nAs we look ahead in our uniquely American way, restless, bold, optimistic, and set our sights on a nation we know we can be and must be, I thank my predecessors of both parties for their presence here. I thank them from the bottom of my heart. And I know the resilience of our Constitution and the strength, the strength of our nation, as does President Carter, who I spoke with last night who cannot be with us today, but who we salute for his lifetime of service.\n\nI've just taken a sacred oath each of those patriots have taken. The oath first sworn by George Washington. But the American story depends not on any one of us, not on some of us, but on all of us. On we the people who seek a more perfect union. This is a great nation, we are good people. And over the centuries through storm and strife in peace and in war we've come so far. But we still have far to go.\n\nWe'll press forward with speed and urgency for we have much to do in this winter of peril and significant possibility. Much to do, much to heal, much to restore, much to build and much to gain. Few people in our nation's history have been more challenged or found a time more challenging or difficult than the time we're in now. A once in a century virus that silently stalks the country has taken as many lives in one year as in all of World War Two.\n\nMillions of jobs have been lost. Hundreds of thousands of businesses closed. A cry for racial justice, some 400 years in the making, moves us. The dream of justice for all will be deferred no longer. A cry for survival comes from the planet itself, a cry that can't be any more desperate or any more clear now. The rise of political extremism, white supremacy, domestic terrorism, that we must confront and we will defeat.\n\nTo overcome these challenges, to restore the soul and secure the future of America, requires so much more than words. It requires the most elusive of all things in a democracy - unity. Unity. In another January on New Year's Day in 1863 Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. When he put pen to paper the president said, and I quote, 'if my name ever goes down in history, it'll be for this act, and my whole soul is in it'.\n\nMy whole soul is in it today, on this January day. My whole soul is in this. Bringing America together, uniting our people, uniting our nation. And I ask every American to join me in this cause. Uniting to fight the foes we face - anger, resentment and hatred. Extremism, lawlessness, violence, disease, joblessness, and hopelessness.\n\nWith unity we can do great things, important things. We can right wrongs, we can put people to work in good jobs, we can teach our children in safe schools. We can overcome the deadly virus, we can rebuild work, we can rebuild the middle class and make work secure, we can secure racial justice and we can make America once again the leading force for good in the world.\n\nI know speaking of unity can sound to some like a foolish fantasy these days. I know the forces that divide us are deep and they are real. But I also know they are not new. Our history has been a constant struggle between the American ideal, that we are all created equal, and the harsh ugly reality that racism, nativism and fear have torn us apart. The battle is perennial and victory is never secure.\n\nThrough civil war, the Great Depression, World War, 9/11, through struggle, sacrifice, and setback, our better angels have always prevailed. In each of our moments enough of us have come together to carry all of us forward and we can do that now. History, faith and reason show the way. The way of unity.\n\nWe can see each other not as adversaries but as neighbours. We can treat each other with dignity and respect. We can join forces, stop the shouting and lower the temperature. For without unity there is no peace, only bitterness and fury, no progress, only exhausting outrage. No nation, only a state of chaos. This is our historic moment of crisis and challenge. And unity is the path forward. And we must meet this moment as the United States of America.\n\nIf we do that, I guarantee we will not failed. We have never, ever, ever, ever failed in America when we've acted together. And so today at this time in this place, let's start afresh, all of us. Let's begin to listen to one another again, hear one another, see one another. Show respect to one another. Politics doesn't have to be a raging fire destroying everything in its path. Every disagreement doesn't have to be a cause for total war and we must reject the culture in which facts themselves are manipulated and even manufactured.\n\nMy fellow Americans, we have to be different than this. We have to be better than this and I believe America is so much better than this. Just look around. Here we stand in the shadow of the Capitol dome. As mentioned earlier, completed in the shadow of the Civil War. When the union itself was literally hanging in the balance. We endure, we prevail. Here we stand, looking out on the great Mall, where Dr King spoke of his dream.\n\nHere we stand, where 108 years ago at another inaugural, thousands of protesters tried to block brave women marching for the right to vote. And today we mark the swearing in of the first woman elected to national office, Vice President Kamala Harris. Don't tell me things can't change. Here we stand where heroes who gave the last full measure of devotion rest in eternal peace.\n\nAnd here we stand just days after a riotous mob thought they could use violence to silence the will of the people, to stop the work of our democracy, to drive us from this sacred ground. It did not happen, it will never happen, not today, not tomorrow, not ever. Not ever. To all those who supported our campaign, I'm humbled by the faith you placed in us. To all those who did not support us, let me say this. Hear us out as we move forward. Take a measure of me and my heart.\n\nIf you still disagree, so be it. That's democracy. That's America. The right to dissent peacefully. And the guardrail of our democracy is perhaps our nation's greatest strength. If you hear me clearly, disagreement must not lead to disunion. And I pledge this to you. I will be a President for all Americans, all Americans. And I promise you I will fight for those who did not support me as for those who did.\n\nMany centuries ago, St Augustine - the saint of my church - wrote that a people was a multitude defined by the common objects of their love. Defined by the common objects of their love. What are the common objects we as Americans love, that define us as Americans? I think we know. Opportunity, security, liberty, dignity, respect, honour, and yes, the truth.\n\nRecent weeks and months have taught us a painful lesson. There is truth and there are lies. Lies told for power and for profit. And each of us has a duty and a responsibility as citizens as Americans and especially as leaders. Leaders who are pledged to honour our Constitution to protect our nation. To defend the truth and defeat the lies.\n\nLook, I understand that many of my fellow Americans view the future with fear and trepidation. I understand they worry about their jobs. I understand like their dad they lay in bed at night staring at the ceiling thinking: 'Can I keep my healthcare? Can I pay my mortgage?' Thinking about their families, about what comes next. I promise you, I get it. But the answer's not to turn inward. To retreat into competing factions. Distrusting those who don't look like you, or worship the way you do, who don't get their news from the same source as you do.\n\nWe must end this uncivil war that pits red against blue, rural versus urban, conservative versus liberal. We can do this if we open our souls instead of hardening our hearts, if we show a little tolerance and humility, and if we're willing to stand in the other person's shoes, as my mom would say. Just for a moment, stand in their shoes.\n\nBecause here's the thing about life. There's no accounting for what fate will deal you. Some days you need a hand. There are other days when we're called to lend a hand. That's how it has to be, that's what we do for one another. And if we are that way our country will be stronger, more prosperous, more ready for the future. And we can still disagree.\n\nMy fellow Americans, in the work ahead of us we're going to need each other. We need all our strength to persevere through this dark winter. We're entering what may be the darkest and deadliest period of the virus. We must set aside politics and finally face this pandemic as one nation, one nation. And I promise this, as the Bible says, 'Weeping may endure for a night, joy cometh in the morning'. We will get through this together. Together.\n\nLook folks, all my colleagues I serve with in the House and the Senate up here, we all understand the world is watching. Watching all of us today. So here's my message to those beyond our borders. America has been tested and we've come out stronger for it. We will repair our alliances, and engage with the world once again. Not to meet yesterday's challenges but today's and tomorrow's challenges. And we'll lead not merely by the example of our power but the power of our example.\n\nFellow Americans, moms, dads, sons, daughters, friends, neighbours and co-workers. We will honour them by becoming the people and the nation we can and should be. So I ask you let's say a silent prayer for those who lost their lives, those left behind and for our country. Amen.\n\nFolks, it's a time of testing. We face an attack on our democracy, and on truth, a raging virus, a stinging inequity, systemic racism, a climate in crisis, America's role in the world. Any one of these would be enough to challenge us in profound ways. But the fact is we face them all at once, presenting this nation with one of the greatest responsibilities we've had. Now we're going to be tested. Are we going to step up?\n\nIt's time for boldness for there is so much to do. And this is certain, I promise you. We will be judged, you and I, by how we resolve these cascading crises of our era. We will rise to the occasion. Will we master this rare and difficult hour? Will we meet our obligations and pass along a new and better world to our children? I believe we must and I'm sure you do as well. I believe we will, and when we do, we'll write the next great chapter in the history of the United States of America. The American story.\n\nA story that might sound like a song that means a lot to me, it's called American Anthem. And there's one verse that stands out at least for me and it goes like this:\n\n'The work and prayers of centuries have brought us to this day, which shall be our legacy, what will our children say?\n\nLet me know in my heart when my days are through, America, America, I gave my best to you.'\n\nLet us add our own work and prayers to the unfolding story of our great nation. If we do this, then when our days are through, our children and our children's children will say of us: 'They gave their best, they did their duty, they healed a broken land.'\n\nMy fellow Americans I close the day where I began, with a sacred oath. Before God and all of you, I give you my word. I will always level with you. I will defend the Constitution, I'll defend our democracy.\n\nI'll defend America and I will give all - all of you - keep everything I do in your service. Thinking not of power but of possibilities. Not of personal interest but of public good.\n\nAnd together we will write an American story of hope, not fear. Of unity not division, of light not darkness. A story of decency and dignity, love and healing, greatness and goodness. May this be the story that guides us. The story that inspires us. And the story that tells ages yet to come that we answered the call of history, we met the moment. Democracy and hope, truth and justice, did not die on our watch but thrive.\n\nThat America secured liberty at home and stood once again as a beacon to the world. That is what we owe our forbearers, one another, and generations to follow.\n\nSo with purpose and resolve, we turn to those tasks of our time. Sustained by faith, driven by conviction and devoted to one another and the country we love with all our hearts. May God bless America and God protect our troops.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. PM: It's too early to give a lockdown end date\n\nIt is \"too early\" to say whether England's Covid restrictions will be able to end in the spring, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said.\n\nOnce the four priority groups have been vaccinated, by mid-February, \"we'll look then at how we're doing,\" he said.\n\nNearly two million people in the UK have had their first dose of vaccine in the past week, government figures show.\n\nScientist Marc Baguelin, who advises the government, has said restaurants and bars should not reopen before May.\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson has said he \"certainly hopes\" schools in England can fully reopen before Easter, while Downing Street refused to be drawn on whether this would happen by then.\n\nA further 1,290 people have died within 28 days of a positive Covid test and there have been another 37,892 cases, according to the latest government figures.\n\nAnd almost five million people in the UK have had their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine.\n\nSpeaking after a study suggested infections might have increased at the start of the latest lockdown in England, Mr Johnson said it was \"absolutely crucial\" that people observed the restrictions.\n\nReferring to figures from the Imperial College London survey, he said they showed the new variant of the virus was \"not more deadly but it is much more contagious and the numbers are very great\".\n\nFigures published by Public Health England show cases - meaning people who come forward to get tested while they are infected - have fallen across England since early January.\n\nWith the two sets of figures pointing in different directions, it will be some time before it is known for sure how long it will take for lockdown to relieve the pressure on hospitals.\n\nDr Baguelin, from Imperial College, who sits on a sub-group of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) said the premature opening of the hospitality sector would lead to a \"bump\" in Covid-19 cases.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's World at One programme even a partial reopening would generate \"an increase in the R number\". An R number above one means the epidemic is growing.\n\n\"Something of this scale, if it was to happen earlier than May, would generate a bump in transmission, which is already really bad,\" he said.\n\n\"So you have a lot of pressure on hospitals, you will have another wave of some extent. At best you will keep on having very, very unsustainable level of pressure on the NHS.\"\n\nNHS England figures show one in 10 major hospital trusts had no spare adult critical care beds last week.\n\nThis is a debate that is going to start to dominate public discourse.\n\nWith the vaccination programme under way, there is huge clamour to know what will happen once the most vulnerable are vaccinated, by mid-February.\n\nThe problem is there are still so many unknowns.\n\nFirstly, it is hard to predict by how much lockdown will have reduced infection levels, considering there is a new faster-spreading variant to deal with.\n\nThe level of uptake will also be crucial. Surveys suggest as many as one in five may not have the vaccine - although the older, more vulnerable groups tend to be the most willing to be vaccinated.\n\nAnd the fact that no vaccine is 100% effective means come February there could still be significant numbers of very vulnerable people who are not protected.\n\nAnother factor is whether the vaccine stops transmissions - so-called sterilising vaccination.\n\nTrials have shown the vaccines are good at stopping symptoms developing. But that does not mean someone who has received a jab will not pass on the virus.\n\nIf it does not, that, of course, has implications on how many control measures have to be kept in place. It will take us at least until spring to know the answer to this.\n\nAt this stage, it seems hard to see much beyond the possible reopening of schools come March.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was an \"impossible question\" to ask how long the lockdown would need to last.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and only go out for limited reasons.\n\nThis includes for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, coronavirus lockdown restrictions will be extended until 5 March, BBC News understands.\n\nIn Scotland, lockdown has been extended until at least the middle of February, with most school pupils to continue learning from home.\n\nAnd in Wales health minister Vaughan Gething has said no \"significant easing\" of Wales' Covid restrictions should be expected when the current guidelines are reviewed this month.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSir Keir added that the coronavirus vaccines were \"really good news\" but \"should not mask the fact that we have still got a very serious problem\".\n\nThe government is aiming to offer a vaccine to all over-70s, the extremely clinical vulnerable and health and care workers by mid-February.\n\nSixty-five new vaccination centres are opening in England, including a mosque in Birmingham and a cinema in Aylesbury.", "Paddy McElhone was shot in the back by a soldier in 1974\n\nThe shooting dead of a man by the Army in County Tyrone in August 1974 was unjustified, a coroner has ruled.\n\nPaddy McElhone, 24, a farmer, was shot in the back near his home in Limehill, Pomeroy.\n\nAn inquest heard the shot was fired by a soldier from the First Battalion, Royal Regiment of Wales.\n\nJudge Siobhan Keegan said Mr McElhone was an \"innocent man shot in cold blood without warning when he was no threat to anyone\".\n\nThe soldier, now deceased, had been cleared of murder but the circumstances were re-examined in a new inquest ordered by the Attorney General.\n\nPaddy McElhone's family said he was killed without justification, explanation or apology\n\nAfterwards, a statement issued by the McElhone family said it had been a \"very long road\" to reach Thursday's ruling and that the truth \"has been heard\".\n\nIt reads: \"Our family always knew that Paddy was an innocent young man, taken from his home and shot by a British soldier for no reason.\"\n\nEvidence presented to the inquest found Mr McElhone was not on any list associated with the IRA and was an innocent man from a humble background.\n\nThe family said Mr McElhone's parents \"went to their graves broken-hearted knowing that their innocent son had been killed, without justification, explanation or apology\".\n\n\"We feel that, today, Judge Keenan at this inquest has, at long last, exonerated Paddy in full,\" the statement continued.\n\n\"As a family we can grieve Paddy, and respect his memory as an innocent young man.\"\n\nThe inquest into Mr McElhone's death was the first in a series of coroners' investigations into deaths associated with Northern Ireland's Troubles.\n\nIt was held in Omagh courthouse in County Tyrone.", "Nearly nine million people had to borrow more money last year because of the impact of coronavirus, government figures show.\n\nSince June last year, the proportion of workers borrowing £1,000 or more had increased from 35% to 45%, said the Office for National Statistics.\n\nSelf-employed people were more likely than employees to borrow money.\n\nThere was also a large increase in the proportion of disabled people borrowing similar sums, the ONS added.\n\nThis was adding to a \"widening financial gap\" between households.\n\nOverall, young people and low earners have been worst hit by the pandemic, according to the ONS survey.\n\nThose aged under 30 and those with household incomes of less than £10,000 were about 35% and 60% respectively more likely to be furloughed than the population as a whole.\n\nMeanwhile, higher-paid workers were more likely to be on full pay if they were unable to work.\n\nThere has been much focus on a glut of savings ready to be unleashed into the economy when pandemic restrictions are lifted.\n\nThis ONS report shines a light on the reality of this for many ordinary Britons, having to borrow more, amid a hit to incomes during the recession.\n\nDisproportionately this has hit the low paid and the young, and this would have been far worse without the government's support package.\n\nMore homeowners and the over-30s by December expected to be able to save for the year ahead. Fewer renters and under 30s expected to be able to save.\n\nThough the analysis does not include the latest national lockdown, the economic impact of schools closure is also clear.\n\nEmployed parents were twice as likely to experience income loss, though that gap closed when schools reopened. The fear is that this trend will have returned over the past month.\n\nGueorguie Vassilev from the ONS said: \"Many people took a financial hit in the first months of the pandemic, either being furloughed or working fewer hours.\n\n\"What we are seeing now, though, is a widening financial gap between households, where some people are relying on savings or borrowing to make ends meet. Those hardest hit are people on low pay, young people and parents of dependent children.\"\n\nParents living with children were almost twice as likely to report a reduction in income as the rest of the population, the ONS added.\n\nThis gap gradually narrowed throughout the year as schools reopened. Parents were less likely to have a reduced income during the November lockdown than in the first lockdown, as schools stayed open.\n\nHave you needed to borrow a substantial amount of money because of the impact of the pandemic? Tell us your story by emailing: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Biden invited Taiwan's envoy to his inauguration - what does it mean?\n\nBiden’s inauguration was marked by many historic “firsts”, and one of them could be a sign of potential future clashes between Beijing and Washington. Bi-khim Hsiao, Taiwan’s top envoy to the US, was formally invited to the inauguration - the first time this has happened in more than four decades. A video shared on her social media shows her standing in front of the US Capitol ahead of the inauguration ceremony. “Democracy is our common language and freedom is our common objective,” Taiwan’s de facto ambassador to the US said. China views the self-ruled island as part of its territory that it will eventually retake, by force if necessary. And the status of Taiwan has long been a thorny issue in US-China relations, as the US is by far Taiwan’s most important friend. Hsiao’s presence at the inauguration signals the US may continue to demonstrate strong support for Taiwan, despite the fact that many Taiwanese people are concerned that Biden will take a less confrontational stance towards Beijing compared with Trump. By contrast, it’s unclear whether China’s ambassador to the US, Cui Tiankai, attended Biden’s inauguration. Earlier today, China’s foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said Cui had been invited, but did not confirm whether he was present in the ceremony. Hua reiterated China’s position of opposing official interactions between Taiwan and the US. It’s a long-running unspoken rule that Beijing and Taipei’s top diplomats in Washington do not attend the same event, because sharing a stage could be seen as Beijing acknowledging Taiwan as an independent sovereign country.", "Education Minister Peter Weir says that from an educational point of view, he wants \"to keep the extent to which they [children] are out of school to a minimum\".\n\nBut Mr Weir said that decisions about schools during the Covid-19 pandemic must \"be weighed up against the wider public health advice\".\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Evening Extra programme after it was announced that current restrictions will be extended, Mr Weir said that \"nobody wants to see restrictions last longer than they have to\".\n\nHe said the decision to extend lockdown was taken \"very reluctantly but there is a broad consensus in the executive that these are necessary measures that have to be taken to ensure we remain on top of the virus\".\n\nMr Weir added that schools have operated on a slightly different timetable to the rest of the restrictions, and that next week's discussions will consider keeping them closed until 5 March, in line with decisions taken by ministers today.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. While some young people have found it hard at times, others have learnt new skills\n\nYoung people have been asked to share their experiences of how they have coped during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nChildren's Commissioner for Wales Sally Holland said her national survey was important because sometimes views of younger people can be \"surprising\".\n\nShe said the information provided would also help inform the Welsh Government ahead of some tough decisions it will need to make in the future.\n\nA similar survey was carried out in the first lockdown last year.\n\nA recent Prince's Trust Youth Index survey asked young people across the UK about their thoughts and feelings towards the pandemic.\n\nMore than 2,000 responded including 200 from Wales.\n\nIt found 63% of 16 to 25-year-olds said the pandemic had left them \"always\" or \"often\" feeling anxious - 64% said they were feeling like they were \"missing out on being young\".\n\nBBC Wales spoke to a number of children and young people about their thoughts on a variety of issues including home schooling, loneliness and finding out what they are doing to stay positive.\n\nAngel, 16, from Cardiff, is studying for her GCSEs.\n\n\"I've just been confused a lot of the time. All the information out there and it's really hard to process and get to a point where you're in a mindset where you know what's happening.\n\n\"There's such a high level of uncertainty you're constantly worried or actually doubting what's going to happen next.\n\n\"When you have goals for the future it's something to help you get through this but when you're in the circumstances we're in now, it's really hard to find the motivation and a purpose for what you're doing now.\"\n\nTo try and stay positive Angel has been trying to get out for walks during her school breaks or watch Netflix.\n\nShe said she has also tried to learn some sign-language during lockdown and attempted yoga.\n\nEmrys and Clara have been learning home skills\n\nEmrys, 11, from Bridgend, said he misses not having the structure of a school day and seeing his friends.\n\nHe added: \"I'm a social person. I have friends, I chat with them, I play with them, and it's hard not being with my friends but I mean the family will have to do.\"\n\nHe and his six-year-old sister, Clara, have enjoyed going for walks with their parents and have been learning some new skills including washing dishes, cooking dinner and baking cakes.\n\nMeanwhile, 11-year-old Sophie has found it difficult to not get bored during long periods of time in the house.\n\n\"I'd say I cope OK with it at some points, but then not okay with it at other points,\" she added.\n\nSophie said it can be hard sometimes to find things to do\n\nAlicia is studying for her A-levels and has friends who have dropped out of their studies this year because of the stress and anxiety caused by the uncertainty about exams and their futures.\n\nThe 17-year-old also said it was \"heart-breaking\" not being able to see many of her close friends for almost a year.\n\nShe added: \"My thoughts are, it's less of a luxury now, I need to be able to go out to see them and to work.\"\n\nBefore the pandemic, Sarah, 16, from Swansea enjoyed going to her local youth club and took part in a local drama group but it how now moved online, giving a different experience.\n\n\"It's quite sad because I used to enjoy being able to do those things whenever it was on, but I think I'm getting used to do everything online,\" she said.\n\nAs a person who does not cope very well with not knowing what will happen next, the pandemic has caused anxiety at times for Sarah.\n\n\"I am finding it quite scary but hopefully things will change and I'll be able to go back soon,\" she said.\n\n\"I think if you're really struggling with something, talking really helps so it would be nice to see people in person.\"\n\nChildren's commissioner Sally Holland conducted a survey of pupils in Wales during the first lockdown\n\nChildren's helpline MEIC Cymru said it had seen a 10% increase in the number of calls from young people, parents, and carers during the pandemic compared with previous years.\n\nStephanie Hoffman, Head of Social Action at Promo Cymru, the charity which runs the helpline, said: \"We're seeing what I'd say are many more substantive contacts, so a lot more contact dealing with really serious issues to do with social well-being, mental health and relationships, as opposed to what we might have seen more of in the past.\n\n\"Now we're dealing with situations which can be quite complicated.\"\n\nOf the survey, Ms Holland said: \"We've heard a lot from adults showing concern for children at the moment, such as parents, carers and professionals working with children about the potential impact of the lockdown on children.\n\n\"Those voices are important to hear, but it's also important we hear directly from children and young people because sometimes they can be surprising.\"\n\nWe know that Covid-19 vaccinations have been on people's minds in Wales - with many wanting to know when they or their loved-ones will receive theirs.\n\nIf you have a question about this issue, a story you'd like to share or a query about anything else related to coronavirus, you can sent it to us using the form below.\n\nIn some cases your question will be published, displaying your name and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read the terms and conditions.\n\nIf you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic.", "Fashion chain Next has said it will no longer bid to buy Sir Philip Green's Arcadia retail brands Topshop and Topman out of administration.\n\nIt comes after a consortium including the fashion chain was named as frontrunner to buy the brands.\n\nIn a short statement, Next said the consortium had been \"unable to meet the price expectations of the vendor\".\n\nSome 13,000 jobs were put at risk when Arcadia, which also owns Burton and Dorothy Perkins, went bust in November.\n\nIt leaves a clutch of others in the race to buy the 440-store group, including Mike Ashley's Frasers Group, which owns House of Fraser and Sports Direct.\n\nAccording to reports, Authentic Brands, the US owner of the Barneys department store, and JD Sports have tabled a joint offer, while online retailers Asos and Boohoo are also said to be interested.\n\nAdministrators Deloitte have been looking for buyers for some or all of Arcadia, after a slump in sales caused by the pandemic triggered its collapse.\n\nNext, which has 550 UK shops and has weathered the pandemic well, was seen as a good fit to take over the group's assets.\n\nIt had been bidding in partnership with the US hedge fund Davidson Kempner, which was going to put up most of the money.\n\nNext said it wished \"the administrator and future owners [of Arcadia] well in their endeavours to preserve an important part of the UK retail sector\".\n\nExperts expect Arcadia to be broken up, with bidders taking on different parts of the business and brands potentially hived off from their stores.\n\nIn December, Australian collective City Chic said it would buy Arcadia's Evans brand, commerce and wholesale business for £23m but not its store network.\n\nLast year was the worst for the High Street in more than 25 years as the coronavirus accelerated the move towards online shopping, according to the Centre for Retail Research (CRR).\n\nNearly 180,000 retail jobs were lost, up by almost a quarter on the previous year, as shops faced strict curbs and prolonged closures.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nLiverpool's 68-game unbeaten home run in the Premier League came to an end as Ashley Barnes fired in a late winner from the penalty spot to secure a famous victory for Burnley.\n\nBarnes was tripped in the box by goalkeeper Alisson with seven minutes remaining and converted the spot-kick as Burnley won at Anfield for the first time since 1974.\n\nLiverpool's last league loss on their own ground came nearly four years ago, against Crystal Palace in April 2017, and they are now six points behind leaders Manchester United at the midway point in the campaign.\n\nDivock Origi was given his first start of the season and should have scored when he ran free on goal after pouncing on Ben Mee's error but struck the crossbar.\n\nThe hosts pushed to find the net in the second half but ran out of ideas, Nick Pope making a stunning save to deny Mohamed Salah and fellow substitute Roberto Firmino flicking an effort wide.\n\nBurnley's shock win lifts them up to 16th in the table, seven points clear of the relegation zone.\n• None Klopp takes blame but what has happened to Liverpool?\n\nJurgen Klopp said before the game he was \"not worried\" by his side's poor run, but the latest setback means this has now turned into a real problem for the Liverpool manager.\n\nAfter 19 games, Liverpool are out of form and out of confidence, failing to find the net in their last 440 minutes of top-flight action and awaiting their first league victory of 2021.\n\nThey looked to be hitting their stride on 19 December when they took apart Crystal Palace 7-0, but have not won in the league since and scored just a solitary league goal in that time, against relegation strugglers West Brom.\n\nTheir drop-off from the same stage last season is extraordinary - after 19 games last term the Reds were 13 points clear at the top with 55 points, but they have 21 fewer points now.\n\nAside from Pope's save to thwart Salah and stops from Origi and Trent Alexander-Arnold, Liverpool did not look a side who were threatening to find the net.\n\nThey had 72% possession but much of it was slow and ponderous, and although they had spaces out wide and put 30 crosses into the box, the resolute Burnley defenders headed and hacked clear every ball that came in.\n\nLiverpool won 18 of 19 league games at Anfield as they cantered to the title last term.\n\nBurnley were the spoilers on that occasion - earning a 1-1 draw in July 2020 - and they bettered that showing here with another solid and well-organised display.\n\nCaptain Mee had 14 clearances and made two tackles, while centre-back partner James Tarkowski contributed five interceptions and won the ball back four times.\n\nBurnley are a well-drilled outfit and know their limitations, happy to sit back and soak up the pressure before looking to take their chances on the counter-attack.\n\nThey had sniffs on the break but were unable to get the final ball right and while Barnes forced an excellent save out of Alisson, the assistant referee's flag would have ruled it out.\n\nThey remain the lowest scorers in the league with just 10 goals - level with bottom side Sheffield United - but their defensive solidity means they will always pose a threat, even to the biggest teams.\n\n'We dealt with the basics' - manager reaction\n\nBurnley boss Sean Dyche to Match of the Day: \"Performance, we had to work very hard, as you do in these places, be diligent and do your jobs - shape was good, energy was good.\n\n\"We had a golden chance, kept searching, but you have to deal with the basics and we did that very well.\n\n\"We were close last year, you get a feel of a performance and I said 'you are used to playing against these players, working without the ball, there's always a chance and you have to take it'. Barnsey sticks it in there, gets a toe, it's a penalty and he sticks it away very well.\"\n• None This was Burnley's second Premier League win away against the reigning champions (also v Chelsea in August 2017). Indeed, since the 2017-18 season, Burnley are the only side with two away league wins over the reigning English champions.\n• None Liverpool have gone four league games without scoring for the first time since May 2000. The Reds have had a total of 87 shots since Sadio Mane's 12th-minute strike against West Brom, 25 days ago.\n• None This is the first time a Jurgen Klopp side has gone four league games without scoring since his Mainz side did so in the Bundesliga from November to December 2006.\n• None Liverpool have gone five Premier League games without a win (D3 L2) for only the second time under Klopp (also from Jan-Feb 2017).\n• None Liverpool have conceded two penalty goals at Anfield in this season's Premier League (also Sander Berge for Sheff Utd); they had only conceded two penalty goals at the ground under Klopp before 2020-21.\n• None Liverpool had 27 shots without scoring against Burnley, the most they have had in a single league match without finding the net since April 2013 v Reading (28), and most at Anfield since April 2012 v West Brom (30).\n• None Ashley Barnes' penalty for Burnley was his first away goal in the Premier League in 11 appearances on the road, since netting against Watford back in November 2019.\n• None Since the start of last season, no goalkeeper has made more saves against a single opponent in the Premier League than Burnley's Nick Pope against Liverpool (19). Pope has made 14 saves in his last two games at Anfield, including six tonight.\n\nLiverpool have another big game on Sunday against rivals Manchester United in the FA Cup. That game is live on the BBC (17:00 GMT). Burnley travel to Fulham in the same competition on the same day (14:30).\n• None Offside, Burnley. Dwight McNeil tries a through ball, but Chris Wood is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Takumi Minamino (Liverpool) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt missed. Dwight McNeil (Burnley) left footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses the top left corner. Assisted by Ashley Barnes.\n• None Attempt blocked. Roberto Firmino (Liverpool) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Trent Alexander-Arnold.\n• None Attempt missed. Trent Alexander-Arnold (Liverpool) right footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Sadio Mané with a cross.\n• None Joel Matip (Liverpool) is shown the yellow card for hand ball.\n• None Attempt blocked. Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Sadio Mané.\n• None Goal! Liverpool 0, Burnley 1. Ashley Barnes (Burnley) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.\n• None Penalty conceded by Alisson (Liverpool) after a foul in the penalty area.\n• None Attempt blocked. Sadio Mané (Liverpool) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Andrew Robertson. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None You can stream five fourth-round games live on the BBC this weekend, including Liverpool's trip to Manchester United. Find out more here.", "There is a photograph of Kamala Harris, taken in 1986, while she was a student at Howard University.\n\nShe and two other friends, all shoulder pads and plaid, are smiling and laughing, a crowd behind them. It's a picture brimming with energy and hope.\n\nIt's been used a lot in telling the extraordinary story of her rise to become the first black and Asian American woman to be vice-president and the first person who attended one of America's HBCUs (Historically Black Colleges and Universities) to get to such a position.\n\nBut this is the story of the other women in the photograph, her two best friends - Valarie Pippen and Karen Gibbs - as well as of others who might have been milling about in the background there.\n\nThis was the 1980s, when the children of America's civil rights generation came of age. Being at Howard University, an HBCU at a time when solidarity with the global anti-apartheid movement was reaching fever pitch and at the height of Reaganism, was a formative experience for many of them.\n\nNow they are about to witness one of their own become vice-president. What have their journeys been like and what does this moment feel like?\n\nHistorically Black Colleges, like Howard University, were founded in order to educate African Americans who were otherwise prohibited from attending college, after slavery.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAlthough that has now changed, a core part of the Howard message remains its focus on cultivating black leaders - it is not just about academic achievement, but social activism too.\n\nKamala Harris has made clear the influence Howard University had on her career and life goals. Last week, on the anniversary of her sorority's founding date, she posted on Instagram, paying homage to her Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, and referring to her days at Howard, attending anti-apartheid marches and being part of the debate team: \"Howard taught me that while you will often find that you're the only one in the room who looks like you, or who has had the experiences you've had, you must remember: you are never alone.\"\n\nLike Ms Harris, I also went to Howard University and became a member of that same sorority decades later.\n\nI became intrigued by the stories of the other women and graduates who ventured out into the same world during the same time as Kamala.\n\nIn that photograph, Valarie Pippen is on the right and smiling with confidence at the camera.\n\nHer parents attended historically black colleges after moving north with the great migration, which was the movement over decades of millions of African Americans to the North from the South, where economic uncertainty and segregation prevailed. They settled in the Chicago region and forged successful careers.\n\nShe was led to Howard, specifically, after her older brother attended and brought home a yearbook that intrigued her.\n\nHoward had a festive celebratory atmosphere that the friends made the most of while they were there\n\n\"The culture was festive and lively yet focused on academic and cultural advancement of oppressed people,\" says Ms Pippen. \"We knew that our generation would make a difference with our success.\"\n\nMs Pippen says that at Howard University \"we all had more of a striving to do well, a striving to live with integrity and to make your mark on the world\".\n\nComing from a high-achieving and proud black family with high expectations of their children, she was brought up knowing that her college experience was going to be important.\n\nShe is now a healthcare consultant, and after graduating from Howard she attended medical school at Yale.\n\nShe recalls the commitment to academic excellence, the need to prove your worth out there in the world and how that also translated into many nights studying with her good friend Kamala.\n\n\"There was one year at Howard, we both stayed for summer school. We worked during the day, did night classes and we studied together afterwards. We did that for the whole summer and we had fun.\n\n\"She was born for the job. Her dedication - like mine - was to academics, being an all around good person and to integrity.\"\n\nIn the 1990s, 52% of black pharmacy recipients, 30% of dentistry degree recipients, and 27% of theology degree recipients were all educated at HBCUs.\n\nToday, the two oldest HBCU medical schools - Meharry Medical College and Howard University - are responsible for more than 80% of black doctors and dentists practising in the US.\n\nHBCUs have educated three-quarters of all black people holding a doctorate; three-quarters of all black officers in the armed forces; and four-fifths of all black federal judges, according to the US Department of Education.\n\nThe culture they fostered was hugely important for many ambitious and successful middle- and upper-class class black families going out into a world to become leaders in their field, within one generation of getting the right to vote.\n\nKaren Gibbs, pictured on the left in that photo, remains best friends with the vice-president elect and Valarie Pippen.\n\nShe is now an attorney and speaks of her time at Howard in the same way Kamala Harris has in the past.\n\nThere was \"a lot of black pride and a lot of black love\" in the Howard community, says Ms Gibbs.\n\n\"We had black professors who loved us. That was the beauty of going to Howard. They nurtured us, they groomed us. They were realistic to tell us what we would confront when we left Howard - but they equipped us to realise and achieve our dreams.\"\n\nThat environment was especially important as an escape from the realities of society.\n\n\"I was raised in a rural area in Delaware, and the people there were really racist. I had been called bad names by a lot of people, despite having a black family and smaller community filled with educators and proud of their roots,\" says Ms Gibbs.\n\nThat is one of the reasons that she wanted to attend Howard University, to become a civil rights lawyer. She made the move so that she could be surrounded by \"love\" and \"support\".\n\n\"It was never a matter if I would go to an HBCU,\" it was just a matter of which she would go to.\n\nMs Gibbs and Ms Pippen's experience at Howard University strikes a chord with others who were also there in the 1980s.\n\nThey speak of the open fostering of social awareness and political activism in movements happening off campus.\n\nBeing in the nation's capital, Howard in particular had a front-row seat to some memorable episodes in politics.\n\nThe debate team in 1981 at Howard University. Kamala Harris was one of the few women to join the club.\n\nDexter Cole, a Howard alumnus and now top executive at TV One, told the BBC that \"our parents actively participated in the civil rights movements and were at the forefront, and we came to Howard with a sense of commitment to not only improve the lives of ourselves, but others as well\".\n\nAcross the nation, HBCUs were training a generation who would have a large impact on the world, and the progression of the broader African-American community.\n\n\"We understood that we were agents of change.\"\n\nMr Cole explained that \"social unrest was very prevalent, but as a student body we knew that we had a seat at the table because of those we saw who went before us\".\n\n\"I remember marching on Capitol Hill on the National Mall. There was a group of students going to protest to make Martin Luther King Jr's birthday a national holiday, and now I look there is a memorial just where I marched.\n\n\"We knew what our rights were and we were determined to invoke our right. That's why there were so many of us active in the anti-apartheid movement - we saw it play out in the US,\" says Ms Gibbs.\n\n\"It was a time when a lot of people from the era transcended into important places in different parts of society,\" says Lita Rosario-Richardson.\n\nMs Rosario-Richardson is currently an entertainment lawyer. On campus, she recruited Ms Harris on to the debate team.\n\n\"The election of Kamala Harris has really made crystal clear that Howard prepares you for anything,\" she adds.\n\nAlthough it is no surprise to those who knew Kamala Harris that she is now the vice-president of the United States, it feels like a vindication for their own personal journeys and the philosophy they took forward with them into the wider world.\n\n\"It was instilled that with your education comes a responsibility to improve the world - specifically our own people. And, we see that that has benefited everyone in America.\n\n\"Kamala is a child of desegregation, like myself. Her nomination seemed historically fit, and she's the right person for it,\" Ms Rosario-Richardson adds.\n\nDexter Cole is now a top executive at TV One\n\n\"Alumni like Thurgood Marshall - the first black Supreme Court Justice - who attended Howard laid the framework.\"\n\nEven during their time as students, these alumni felt that they were connected to greatness and expected to make big strides in the world.\n\nIt was not a feeling confined to Kamala Harris. The stories of these women show many have become movers and shakers in their own fields.\n\n\"All this has come full circle,\" says Andrea Holmes, a graduate who is now a marketing executive.\n\n\"The vice-presidency is where she belongs. She is the role model of the world and to all women and little girls.\"\n\nThe original photograph of Kamala, Valarie and Karen was taken in 1986 at Howard University's famous Homecoming.\n\nAt most schools in the US, homecoming is an annual tradition marked by an American football game and partying. At Howard University, homecoming is marked by a football game as well as a week of events where all generations come back to meet and celebrate. Notable graduates as well as celebrities and artists come to perform, join discussions, and be part of the week.\n\nAs a graduate, I know Homecoming remains a highly anticipated annual event, an experience like no other. That picture captures the energy, friendship and ambition of a group of women, at Howard in an electric era, who felt capable of anything.\n\nValarie Pippen remembers the moment: \"The weekend was truly exhilarating, and you can see from the looks and smiles on our faces we were having the time of our lives.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMore than 2,000 homes in parts of Manchester are being evacuated due to flooding caused by Storm Christoph.\n\nThe Environment Agency (EA) has issued two severe flood warnings, which means danger to life, for the Didsbury and Northenden areas.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Nick Bailey of Greater Manchester Police has warned some of those affected would \"be Covid-positive or isolating at home\".\n\nHe said the government was working to ensure it was \"totally prepared\" for floods \"in every part of the UK\".\n\nA major incident was earlier declared for the Greater Manchester area where up to 3,000 properties were feared to be at risk.\n\nMr Johnson urged people not to stay in their homes if they were told to evacuate.\n\n\"If you are told to leave your home then you should do so.\n\n\"People may think this is a minor issue at the moment, still relevantly minor by standards of previous floods, but never underestimate the suffering, the misery, that floods can cause people.\"\n\nUnder government restrictions due to the current national lockdown people are allowed to leave their homes to escape harm.\n\nIn an alert to those affected, ACC Bailey said: \"A basin at Didsbury to take water from the Mersey is full. It will over-top in the next few hours. As a result we will be issuing a flood warning to homes.\n\n\"This will be through texted flood alerts to some people, and police officers, PCSOs, firefighters, and volunteers will be knocking on doors.\"\n\nHe said police will be supported by North West Ambulance, the British Red Cross and St John Ambulance.\n\n\"I think it's important to stress that if you are contacted and advised to evacuate then we would strongly urge you to do so,\" he added.\n\nWater levels in the area were expected to peak at about 23:00 GMT on Wednesday.\n\nA major incident has also been declared in Derbyshire, where authorities believe a small number of evacuations are \"likely\" on Thursday morning, when the River Derwent is expected to peak.\n\nCounty council leader Barry Lewis said it could rival levels seen in November 2019, depending on the weather overnight.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The PM says the government is making sure it is “totally prepared in every part of the UK” for flooding after Storm Christoph.\n\nSpeaking after a Cobra emergency meeting on Wednesday, Mr Johnson said work was under way to ensure transport and energy networks, and local council services, were prepared.\n\nHe added that work was also taking place to ensure the necessary numbers of sandbags were available.\n\n\"We want to make sure that we are totally prepared in every part of the UK for flooding, because it is coming on top of the stress people are already under fighting Covid,\" he said.\n\n\"We looked at particularly Manchester, we've got a situation potentially developing there,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\n\"We are looking at a pattern of rainfall possibly not as bad at the end of this week, maybe worse next week.\"\n\nPeople in Greater Manchester have also been advised not to travel.\n\nStephen Rhodes, from Transport from Greater Manchester, said there was disruption across the network.\n\n\"Let's work together and not put our emergency services and the NHS - who are already working extremely hard due to the Covid-19 pandemic - under any more pressure,\" he said.\n\nIn Merseyside, the M57 has been closed in both directions between junction 6 and 7 due to flooding.\n\nThe Environment Agency has issued more than 100 flood warnings, meaning flooding is expected and immediate action required, while there are also more than 200 flood alerts, meaning flooding is possible.\n\nRiver levels have risen rapidly in parts of northern England\n\nThe North West, Yorkshire and the Midlands have been preparing for widespread flooding following the Met Office's amber weather warning for heavy rain until midday Thursday.\n\nThe Met Office said some isolated areas could see up to 200mm (7.8in).\n\nSandbags have been distributed as Storm Christoph batters parts of England\n\n\"Once again the government's response to inevitable flood events has been slow and uncoordinated,\" the Barnsley East MP said.\n\n\"We must ensure councils are supported to protect people, businesses, and local communities, and that all of the necessary precautions are also in place to protect those fighting the floods in light of the Covid-19 pandemic.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sheila Evans was among those to receive the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine at the Al Abbas Mosque in Birmingham\n\nNearly two million people in the UK have received their first dose of a Covid vaccine in the past week, government figures show.\n\nBy the end of Tuesday 4.61 million people had received their initial jab, up from 2.64 million the week before.\n\nBut Boris Johnson warned there were \"unquestionably going to be a tough few weeks\" while the vaccine was rolled out and urged people to observe lockdown.\n\nSpeaking during a visit to flood-hit Didsbury in Manchester, the prime minister said it was still \"too early\" to say when some lockdown restrictions could be lifted in England.\n\nHe said figures from an Imperial College London survey showed the new variant of the virus to be \"not more deadly but it is much more contagious and the numbers are very great\".\n\nThe study suggests there was a rise in infections in the community at the start of the latest lockdown in England.\n\nMeanwhile, NHS England figures show one in 10 major hospital trusts had no spare adult critical care beds last week.\n\nThe UK recorded another all-time high of daily coronavirus deaths on Wednesday. A further 1,820 people died within 28 days of a positive Covid test, according to government figures - taking the total number of deaths by that measure to 93,290.\n\nSixty-five new vaccination centres have opened in England, including a mosque in Birmingham and a cinema in Aylesbury.\n\nTwo million jabs a week are needed for the government to achieve its target of offering a vaccine to all over 70s, the extremely clinical vulnerable and health and care workers by mid-February.\n\nGiving a statement in the Commons, Health Secretary Mr Hancock said the country had an \"immense infrastructure in place that, day by day, is protecting the vulnerable and giving hope to us all\".\n\nDescribing this as a \"huge feat\", he said the government was making \"good progress\" towards its target.\n\nAsked about difficulties in getting vaccines to rural areas and whether the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine could be prioritised for these as it is easier to store, Mr Hancock said the challenge was that supply was \"lumpy\", with manufacturers working \"as fast as possible\".\n\nShadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth said new variants of the virus showed vaccination needed to go \"further and faster\".\n\nHe asked if there was a contingency plan in place in case vaccines needed to be redesigned to contain mutations.\n\nMr Hancock said the early indications were that the new variant was dealt with by the vaccine \"just as much as the old variant\".\n\nHe also said 63% of residents in elderly care homes had now received a vaccine.\n\nFormer Conservative health secretary Jeremy Hunt, who is now chairman of the Common's Health Select Committee, asked about establishing \"quarantine hotels\" to combat new strains, as well as whether there should be further restrictions on household mixing outside bubbles and mandating FFP2 masks in shops and on public transport.\n\nMr Hancock said the clinical advice was that the current guidelines on personal protective equipment (PPE) were \"right and appropriate\" and said \"very significant measures\" had been brought in for international travel.\n\nIn Northern Ireland more than 160,000 people have received a first vaccine dose, while in Wales, where more than 175,000 people have received a jab, people waiting for theirs have been urged to show \"patience\" and \"perspective\".\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon insisted her country's vaccine programme was not lagging behind, during First Minister's Questions on Wednesday.\n\nIn England the rollout of the vaccine started with people aged 80 and over. In some regions where the majority of these have been vaccinated, the programmes are now moving on to the over 70s.\n\nHome Secretary Priri Patel, who will lead a Downing Street press conference later, said ministers were working to ensure police and other front-line workers are moved up the priority list, while Education Secretary Gavin Williamson told BBC Breakfast he hoped teachers and support staff could be moved up the list.\n\nMeanwhile, pumps and sandbags were brought in to protect supplies of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine from the risk of flood water at a warehouse in Wrexham, north-east Wales.\n\nYoung people in Wales have been asked to share their experiences of the pandemic in a survey by the nation's Children's Commissioner.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson has warned there will be \"tough weeks to come\" as the UK reported another all-time high of daily coronavirus deaths.\n\nA further 1,820 people have died within 28 days of a positive Covid test, according to government figures.\n\nIt means the total number of deaths by that measure is now 93,290.\n\nMr Johnson said there was now a \"race against time\" to vaccinate the vulnerable but he hoped there would be a \"real difference\" by spring.\n\nIn an interview with broadcasters, he said the high number of deaths was \"appalling\" and a reflection of the peak infection rates seen a couple of weeks ago.\n\nHe said: \"I must warn people there will be tough weeks to come, but as the vaccine goes in and that programme accelerates, there will be, I think, a real difference by spring.\"\n\nJust under half of the newly reported deaths occurred on Tuesday, while a further quarter took place on Monday or Sunday with the remainder last week or even earlier.\n\nThe previous highest number of daily deaths was the 1,610 reported on Tuesday.\n\nSome 4,609,740 people have now received the first dose of a vaccine - a rise of 343,163 from yesterday.\n\nThere were also a further 38,905 cases, with 3,887 more patients admitted into hospital.\n\nIt is the second consecutive day deaths have hit a new high.\n\nThat, sadly, was to be expected as it is a reflection of the surge in cases seen during December.\n\nIt takes a week or two from the point of infection for someone to become seriously ill - and they can then spend some time in hospital. The high number is also a result of delays reporting deaths - a quarter happened last week or even before.\n\nBut make no mistake the death toll is going up. If you look at the average over the course of a week, the numbers being reported at the moment are twice what they were just two weeks ago.\n\nHowever, we also know they should soon start coming down. Daily infections are falling, with signs lockdown is taking effect. For four days in a row new diagnoses have been below 40,000 - after averaging 60,000 at the start of year.\n\nIt could be another week or so before we start to see the impact of that in the death figures. The hope then would be that within a few weeks we could start seeing a more rapid fall as the impact of the vaccination programme begins to bite.\n\nBut before that happens the daily totals reported could, sadly, go even higher.\n\nNew coronavirus cases are down by 21.5% over the last seven days. But the number of patients being admitted into hospital in the same period has not yet fallen (up by 0.5%).\n\nThe prime minister said it looked as though infection rates across the country overall might now be peaking or flattening, but he cautioned that \"they're not flattening very fast\".\n\nAsked if daily deaths would continue to rise, he said it was \"difficult to predict\".\n\nHe added: \"We must hope that by getting the numbers of daily infections down in the way that perhaps has been happening since the lockdown that will feed through into a reduction in deaths as well.\n\n\"But I must stress that we have tough weeks to come now as we roll out the vaccine.\n\n\"The light will only really begin to dawn as we get those vaccination numbers up.\"\n\nEarlier, the government's chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, told Sky News: \"This is very, very bad at the moment, with enormous pressure, and in some cases it looks like a war zone in terms of the things that people are having to deal with.\"\n\nHe said there was \"light at the end of the tunnel\" in the form of the vaccination programme.\n\nBut he said vaccines were \"not going to do the heavy lifting for us at the moment, anywhere near it\".\n\nMilitary personnel are going to be deployed to a number of hospitals to help staff cope with high numbers of cases, including in Northern Ireland and Exeter.\n\nAnd this week 10 hospital trusts across England consistently reported having no spare adult critical care beds.\n\nIn other developments, Home Secretary Priti Patel said ministers were working to ensure police and other frontline workers were moved up the priority list for the Covid vaccine.\n\nMr Johnson said the government must rely on advice from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, but wanted front-line workers to be immunised \"as soon as possible\".\n\nHe also said the vaccination programme remained \"on track\" despite \"constraints on supply\".", "Politicians in pearls, the colour purple and warm woollen mittens - these are just a few of Washington's favourite things from the 2021 Inauguration.\n\nWith America's leaders in the spotlight on the inauguration - and world - stage, sometimes what they wear can say more than their speeches.\n\nDC-based fashion consultant Lauren Rothman says Americans have always taken an interest in what political leaders don for inaugural celebrations. And in 2021, with an ongoing pandemic and economic crisis as well as the swearing-in of the first female vice-president, things feel \"even more loaded\".\n\nIt's all about optics for the politically fashion-minded, says Ms Rothman, who helps style politicians for events including inaugurations past.\n\nSo let's see how outspoken this year's inauguration crowd really was, from the Bidens to Bernie Sanders - with a little help from some real fashion experts.\n\nVice-President Kamala Harris' purple ensemble has already made an impact.\n\n\"Symbolically, it's a bipartisan colour because it marries [Republican] red and [Democratic] blue,\" says Ms Rothman, noting a number of elected officials or spouses had opted for purple today.\n\nBut that's not the only reason purple has a special place for US women in politics. The suffragettes often wore the colour in the 1900s while campaigning for women's right to vote.\n\nProfessor Elka Stevens, coordinator of the fashion design programme at Howard University, also notes it's a colour of significance in the black community - one tied to the Christian experience as well. Ms Harris' pearl necklace also made reference to a tradition in her Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, the oldest all-black sorority in the US.\n\nAdd it all up and Ms Harris' choice of pearls and a purple sharp-cut Christopher John Rogers coat was \"an excellent first building block on what the legacy is of how to look like a woman in power\", Ms Rothman says.\n\nBoth Mrs Biden and Ms Harris also took care to choose emerging US brands for their inaugural looks. Ms Harris' outfit, from head-to-toe, showed off African-American designers.\n\nAnd we can't forget Doug Emhoff either, America's \"first second gentleman\".\n\n\"He chose to do everything that he should, which is to not distract and perfectly fit in,\" says Rothman.\n\nWe can't discuss political fashion without bringing up Michelle Obama.\n\nHer purple Sergio Hudson sweater and palazzo pants plus coat look, along with perfectly curled hair, did not disappoint fans of the former first lady.\n\n\"It's a different dress code and different expectation for women who are first ladies versus people who aren't, like women who are elected,\" says Ms Rothman.\n\nFrom baring her arms to wearing both high-end and High Street fashion, Mrs Obama was \"legacy-making\" in a way that hearkened back to Nancy Reagan and Jackie Kennedy, Ms Rothman says.\n\nShe also put many \"independent and ethnic American designers\" on the map during her eight years in the White House.\n\nNewly former First Lady Melania Trump, too, had a clear style, often spotted in sleek looks from well-known brands (think Chanel, Hermès).\n\nOne of her favourite designers was French-American Hervé Pierre, but Prof Stevens also notes she faced a challenge dressing all-American as many US labels said they would not dress her.\n\nFor her final look of the day, Melania swapped out the all-black suit she left the White House in for a Gucci dress with a bold orange print.\n\n\"The curtain is down and she's onto the next phase of her life,\" says Ms Rothman of the sharp contrast. \"I think that's what she's using her clothing to signal: that DC is over.\n\nHe may not win the best-dressed award any time soon, but veteran Senator Bernie Sanders certainly won Twitter with his extra large mittens.\n\nMr Sanders' pair of eye-catching woolly mittens were given to him two years ago by a Vermont schoolteacher who made them from repurposed sweaters and recycled plastic bottles. Those, coupled with a snap of him alone in a crossed-arm pose, made for prime meme fodder.\n\n\"What we love about it is that it's so authentically Bernie,\" says Ms Rothman.\n\nWhen asked for his thoughts on all the stir his inauguration look caused, Mr Sanders simply said: \"In Vermont we dress warm...and we're not so concerned about good fashion. We want to keep warm. And that's what I did today.\"\n\nInauguration 2021 featured performances from Jennifer Lopez (in a crisp white ensemble) and Lady Gaga.\n\nBut it was Gaga's custom black-and-red Schiaparelli gown that stole the show or, more specifically, the large golden dove-shaped brooch she wore atop it.\n\nAside from the Hunger Games comparisons, the almost operatic outfit served another fun purpose in Ms Rothman's eyes.\n\n\"She brought the inaugural ball to the stage in a year where you're not going to get all of the dress up, the ball gowns that we have come to look at and adore and criticise.\"\n\nYouth poet laureate Amanda Gorman was another star on today's stage.\n\nThe self-described \"skinny black girl, descended from slaves and raised by a single mother\", touched on many heavy themes in her verses, but her outfit was a breath of fresh air.\n\nYellow is a colour of hope, energy, light. And her bright red Prada headband was a bold complement. To Prof Stevens, it was almost crown-like.\n\n\"It also honed attention on her hair, because no one else had that particular hairstyle. And we know that hair can be political as well.\"\n\nOur last noteworthy youthful garb of the day was Ella Emhoff, stepdaughter to the vice-president.\n\nHer dainty white collar atop a bejewelled plaid Miu Miu coat was particularly striking - or in the words of Teen Vogue, \"just *chef's kiss*\" - and to Prof Stevens, reminiscent of late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.\n\n\"I really thought about our democracy, justice, the collars [Ginsburg] wore and the messages she would send. I think this was [also] an ode to femininity.\"\n\nAnd as for her brother Cole's look? Prof Stevens' takeaway was: \"You need some gloves, young man.\"\n\nAnd last but not least, let's consider the new president and first lady.\n\nProf Stevens says the political dress mirrored a desire to project comfort and to reassure the nation that US democracy is safe and its way of life is \"going back to something familiar\" despite Covid-19.\n\nThere may not have been anything ground-breaking in Mr Biden's Ralph Lauren suit; perhaps the more interesting aspect is the way he wore it.\n\n\"As a Washington insider he's been wearing suits for decades,\" says Ms Rothman. \"He showed that he knows what works.\"\n\nAlso notable with both Biden's ensembles today: the colour blue. Prof Stevens notes that blue is recognised as a colour of trustworthiness; of stability; of confidence, especially for men.\n\nAs for Jill Biden's custom-made, Swarovski-crystal-accented aquamarine coat from the up-and-coming New York Makarian label?\n\nBoth Prof Stevens and Ms Rothman say it signalled responsibility and modesty.\n\n\"We already know [the Bidens] are very united, but it signalled that they're here and ready to do the work,\" Ms Rothman says.", "More than 100 medically-trained military personnel will be deployed\n\nMembers of the military are to be brought in to help medical staff in Northern Ireland in the fight against Covid-19.\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann has asked the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to help out, primarily at a number of hospitals across NI.\n\nMore than 100 medically-trained military personnel will be deployed.\n\nThose brought in will assist nursing staff and help on the wards in a move designed to ease the pressure on staff.\n\nIn the past, the use of the military in Northern Ireland has provoked controversy.\n\nWhile military help has already been used during the pandemic to transport equipment and patients, this is the first time military staff will be used in hospitals.\n\nIt is thought the first military staff will be made available as early as next week.\n\nMr Swann said it would have been an abdication of responsibility if he did not avail of help from the military.\n\nHe said while coronavirus cases were lower than two weeks ago, the challenge posed remained \"intense\" and intensive care pressures were expected to increase further in the next eight to 10 days.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe confirmed that a request for military assistance for NI's health service had been accepted by the MoD.\n\nThe health minister thanked the MoD for the Military Aid to the Civil Authorities agreement, which is being provided in other UK regions.\n\n\"The armed forces have provided invaluable support in this pandemic, including aeromedical evacuation, real-estate and ongoing logistical planning,\" he said.\n\n\"Our hospitals are under immense pressure and an additional staffing complement will be very welcome on the front line.\n\n\"This is a health decision and I am confident it will be supported on that basis.\"\n\nNI Secretary Brandon Lewis tweeted: \"Battling #COVID19 is a national effort. I'm pleased that 110 medically-trained personnel from our Armed Forces will support health and social care teams across Northern Ireland in their vital work on the frontline against coronavirus.\"\n\nThe move has been welcomed by the Democratic Unionist Party.\n\nWhen it was announced last April that the health minster had made requests for military help, Sinn Féin's Michelle O'Neill said Mr Swann had taken that decision unilaterally.\n\nHowever, she later said her party would not rule out any measure necessary to save lives.\n\nReacting to the latest request for help, Sinn Féin said its priority throughout the pandemic had been to save lives, keep people safe and protect the health service.\n\n\"The Minister of Health has made a request for staffing support from the British Ministry of Defence,\" the party said.\n\n\"We do not rule out any measures to do so, and any effort to make the threat posed by Covid-19 into a green and orange issue is divisive and a distraction.\"\n\nAs of Wednesday, there were 832 people in hospital in Northern Ireland with coronavirus, of whom 67 were in intensive care, with 57 ventilated.\n\nA further 22 people with coronavirus died, bringing the Department of Health's total to 1,671 while there were 905 new cases.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, 61 new Covid-19-related deaths were recorded on Wednesday, bringing the country's death toll to 2,768.\n\nA further 2,488 new cases of the virus were also confirmed by the Irish Department for Health.\n\nSpeaking at Stormont's press briefing on Wednesday, Mr Swann confirmed the executive would review the current lockdown regulations on Thursday.\n\nNorthern Ireland began a six-week lockdown on 26 December, in a bid to bring the virus under control.\n\nMinisters promised to review the regulations after four weeks.\n\nMr Swann said he would not pre-empt the outcome of Thursday's meeting but confirmed he would bring recommendations from his officials to the meeting.\n\n\"This is not the time to open floodgates or take premature decisions that would lead to another spike in cases,\" he added.\n\n\"We must stay the course.\"\n\nThe minister also provided the latest update on the number of vaccinations - 160,396 doses have now been administered in NI, with 21,690 of those second doses.\n\nHe said he understood the frustration of some people that they were still waiting to hear when their elderly or vulnerable relatives would receive their vaccine, but he urged patience.\n\n\"We cannot go faster than supplies allow,\" he said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Relatives of some older people in Wales called the vaccinations \"poorly organised\"\n\nA housebound 84-year-old woman said she was told she may have to wait up to two months to have her coronavirus vaccine if she could not get to her GP surgery.\n\nStuart Wilson said his mother Julia was immobile and she required two people with a hoist to get her up.\n\nHe said her surgery in Sketty, Swansea, called on Tuesday offering a jab but they were told it would take time to arrange a house visit.\n\nWelsh Government said a mobile service could take a jab to the housebound.\n\nDr Chris Johns, from Sketty Medical Centre, said: \"I can give assurances that no housebound patient is being asked to wait this long for their vaccination.\n\n\"This is a massive undertaking by GPs and we would ask older patients, if they are mobile, to attend one of our vaccination clinics instead.\"\n\nHe said teams have already made close to 200 house calls to vaccinate those unable to come to the surgery and over the next few weeks GPs would continue to go to patients' homes \"where necessary\".\n\nMore than 175,000 vaccines have been administered across Wales so far.\n\nUnder Welsh Government plans, the goal is for everyone over the age of 70 to be offered a vaccination by mid-February.\n\nMr Wilson said the call left his mother \"concerned and distressed\" so with her permission he spoke to the GP surgery himself.\n\nShe has been with the surgery, which is the Sketty branch of Sketty and Killay Surgeries, for about five years, and they are familiar with her condition as she receives home visits for flu jabs.\n\n\"What I can't understand is how they can invite somebody for a vaccination and then turn around and say because you're housebound, they can't give it yet,\" he added.\n\n\"I'm not asking for preferential treatment; we're not asking to be bumped up the list. I was disgusted by the total lack of information.\"\n\nMr Wilson said he knew of three other cases where patients have been given the same information.\n\nHe said disabled people should receive equal treatment. He has also taken the issue up with the disability rights association, Disability Wales, who have been asked to comment.\n\nA Welsh Government spokesperson said: \"Those who cannot attend their appointment or cannot travel to the vaccination venue can let your health board know through the NHS booking system. They will then be offered another appointment on another day or at a more convenient location.\n\n\"There are also plans in place for people who are housebound and for care homes, which will mean the vaccine can be safely taken to them using a mobile service if they are unable to attend a GP surgery or mass vaccination centre.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the Welsh Government has been criticised over the speed of rolling out vaccines to the over 80s age group.\n\nSteve Hockridge's 92-year-old mother Sheila suffers from Alzheimer's disease and lives alone in Cardiff.\n\nHe contacted her surgery but was told they had \"no information\" about when she would receive a vaccine.\n\n\"My confidence in the Welsh Government has been knocked,\" he said.\n\n\"After all the clarity during this pandemic, with this area they seem to be very, very secretive, giving different messages [which are] quite often conflicting.\"\n\nIn Wrexham, Helen Field said her mother, Eileen, 94, was also still waiting to hear about her vaccine.\n\n\"Our relations over the border in the Wirral area who are in a similar age group of over 80s and 90s have all received their second vaccine,\" she said.\n\n\"The difference is quite alarming and I just want to know what's going on in Wales and why they are so slow in putting the vaccines out?\n\n\"Nobody can seem to give us any information and it seems to be so poorly organised.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government spokesperson said: \"Every day in Wales we are speeding up the vaccination programme.\n\n\"Thousands more people are receiving their first dose of the Covid vaccine and more clinics are opening with 45 vaccination centres operating or due to be operating shortly, and more than 250 GP surgeries being involved by the end of this month. As of 20 January, more than 175,816 people in Wales have been vaccinated.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The company said its milk processing was highly automated with no risk to the products caused by the virus outbreak\n\nOne worker at a dairy has died after contracting coronavirus and 95 others are self-isolating.\n\nMuller Milk & Ingredients said 47 staff members who work at the company's dairy near Bridgwater, Somerset, have tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nIt said it was now testing all 300 workers at its site in North Petherton.\n\nA spokesman for the firm said the safety of its products had not been affected by the outbreak at its factory.\n\nIt was working with Public Health England and the council to help with mass testing, he added.\n\nThe employee was taken to hospital but died. The firm said its thoughts were with the worker's family and friends.\n\nProduction has since been reduced at the site.\n\nThe spokesman added: \"It is important to stress that fresh milk processing is highly automated ensuring no risk to products, with our Bridgwater facility one of the most modern dairies in the UK.\n\n\"As we have done throughout the pandemic, we are placing the safety of our employees first and following best practice as set down by the Health and Safety Executive.\n\n\"Standard measures in place include the use of facemasks, distancing, enhanced deep cleaning and hygiene, underpinned by a programme of e-learning, information and audits to ensure compliance and awareness of the measures.\"\n\nSomerset County Council said it was working closely with Public Health England and the factory and that further testing was being done throughout Thursday.\n\n\"The [council's] rapid outbreak testing team is carrying out further workforce testing today, for workers who were not present on Monday shifts.\n\n\"The testing on Monday identified a number of staff who were positive but asymptomatic, who are now isolating,\" a spokesman said.", "Gabriel is an ardent 'Latino for Trump' who is active in New York Republican circles. He wishes the Biden/Harris administration well but doesn't believe Democrats really want unity and thinks they'll reverse a lot of good Trump policies.\n\nHow did Joe Biden's inaugural speech on unity sit with you?\n\nI caught bits and pieces of the inauguration, but I did not watch the speech. I'll give it a watch when I'm not as busy. Hopefully, his message is not like what we saw on 6 January, when he tried to lambast people as white supremacists for showing up at the Capitol, because that will just alienate people.\n\nThis country has come a long way in terms of race relations and, if we really want unity, let's regain the sense of what an American is. An American isn't white, black or Jewish; it is a person within the United States that takes part in our republic.\n\nWhat do you think of the executive actions he is taking today?\n\nI knew Biden would come out swinging while he stills holds the majority in the legislative branch. It's certainly a statement in the same vein as President Trump's first few days of office, but I think it's horrible. As someone of Hispanic descent, the idea of potentially granting 11 million immigrants citizenship is a slap in the face to everyone who came through the legal process.\n\nJoining the Paris climate agreement again is widely regarded as a farce, even by some ecologists, because nations that are members in the agreement didn't actually hit their targets. The removal of the Keystone Pipeline is not only going to cost people jobs but it could potentially increase our carbon footprint. When it comes to the WHO, they failed us during the Covid pandemic. It's all just smoke and mirrors to undo what President Trump did and stick it in the face of Republicans.", "The former Western Daily Press journalist lived in the property from 1970 until 1994\n\nAn \"inspiring\" house previously owned by fantasy writer Sir Terry Pratchett has been put on the market.\n\nThe creator of the Discworld series lived in the 18th Century property, called Gaze Cottage, in the village of Rowberrow, Somerset, from 1970 until 1994.\n\nSir Terry died aged 66 in 2015, eight years after being diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.\n\nHe wrote more than 70 books during his career and completed his final book in 2014.\n\nAt the turn of the century, Sir Terry was Britain's second most-read author, beaten only by JK Rowling.\n\nIn August 2007, it was reported he had suffered a stroke, but the following December he announced that he had been diagnosed with a very rare form of early-onset Alzheimer's disease.\n\nThe fitted kitchen is in the older half of the house\n\nRuth Treasure-Smith, from Robin King Estate Agent, said: \"He wrote most of his most famous novels in that house in the 80s.\n\n\"The house must have been inspiring. The current owner purchased the property from Terry Pratchett and has lived at the house since.\"\n\nShe said he had received letters to the house addressed to the \"Hogfather\", a quirky and satirical character from the Death collection in the Discworld series.\n\nThe sitting room has an inglenook fireplace complete with bread oven\n\nThe house is being sold at a guide price of £800,000\n\nThe first floor houses the master bedroom which overlooks the garden\n\nThe property has four bedrooms\n\nThe cottage sits on a plot comprising almost a third of an acre\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk", "More than 100 medically-trained military personnel will be deployed\n\nNI's largest healthcare union has said it has not objected to military personnel being brought in to help medical staff deal with Covid-19.\n\nHowever, Unison said it had questions over the move and there had \"disappointingly\" been no consultation.\n\nAn initial statement from the union on the subject was criticised by some politicians.\n\nUlster Unionist leader Steve Aiken described it as \"appallingly inappropriate\".\n\nA new statement issued on social media, from the union's regional secretary Patricia McKeown, said the first statement had been \"misunderstood\".\n\nSpeaking to Good Morning Ulster, she acknowledged the initial statement had caused \"stress and hurt\" to Unison members and apologised for that.\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann has asked the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to help out, primarily at a number of hospitals across NI.\n\nMore than 100 medically-trained military personnel will be deployed.\n\nIn the union's initial statement, issued on Wednesday, it said it would ask Mr Swann for \"detailed reasons\" for the move.\n\nIt said this would include \"seeking information as to what other avenues of support have been sought, such as securing additional staffing from private sector healthcare providers\".\n\nHowever, following criticism, Ms McKeown said in a new statement on Thursday morning that the union was \"happy to clarify\" its position.\n\n\"To be absolutely clear, Unison has not objected to assistance from military personnel.\"\n\nShe added: \"In our experience the deployment of military personnel into public services is a decision taken as a last resort.\n\n\"We were immediately concerned that a request for aid of this nature indicates a crisis that is moving out of control.\n\n\"This is why it is important that we know in advance what options are being explored.\"\n\nThe union said it was important to get detailed information on how, when and where external personnel would be deployed and what the management and accountability structures will be in place for them.\n\nSteve Aiken described the first Unison statement as appallingly inappropriate\n\nSpeaking on Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster on Thursday, Ms McKeown said: \"We put a statement out last night, it said what we were going to do, but it didn't say why we were going to do it.\n\n\"That caused stress and hurt to our members and I am very, very sorry for that. That's why we corrected it.\"\n\nShe added that if military personnel were being brought in \"it means that all options have been exhausted, there's a big decision facing us now and that decision is a stronger lockdown\".\n\nThe earlier statement from the union, issued on Wednesday night, had been criticised by some politicians.\n\nUlster Unionist leader Steve Aiken said: \"Judging by the number of healthcare workers who have contacted me tonight they are absolutely incredulous at the Unison statement this evening.\n\n\"Getting help is what is needed - time for Unison to withdraw its appallingly inappropriate remarks.\"\n\nDUP assembly member Jonathan Buckley said: \"This statement from Unison is extremely disappointing and is out of step with both Unison's own members and the wider public.\n\n\"I have already been contacted by health service staff making clear that this does not represent their views.\"\n\nHis party colleague Paul Frew tweeted: \"Utterly appalling. A lot of anger tonight for a union that is supposed to support its membership.\"\n\nSpeaking on Good Morning Ulster, West Belfast People Before Profit assembly member Gerry Carroll said: \"We all recognise that we're in a really desperate situation, a really difficult situation.\n\n\"But people want to see the health service expanded permanently and not just a short-term fix which people have questioned on a number of grounds.\"\n\nHowever, Ulster Unionist Doug Beattie said nurses and doctors were exhausted.\n\n\"What we're really talking about here is a surge of some personnel in order to support out frontline nurses who are dead on their feet,\" he said.\n\n\"The here and now is about saving lives.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, Sinn Féin responded to Mr Swann's decision by saying it would not \"rule out\" any measures that help save lives and that \"any effort to make the threat posed by Covid-19 into an orange and green issue is divisive and a distraction\".\n\nThe chief executive of the Belfast Health Trust, Dr Cathy Jack, told Stormont's health committee that the move would ensure staff can continue to deliver care to as many patients as possible.\n\nShe said the military personnel are \"band 4 medically-trained technicians\" who will \"be working under normal management structures\".\n\n\"This is another group of highly-trained individuals that will support staff and I welcome this.\"\n\nDr Jack said discussions were \"ongoing\" about how private health care providers could help in this phase of the pandemic.\n\nShe said a small number of private lists were being used for surgeries with low-risk cancers and more would be freed up in March \"to allow us to try and catch up on the backlog\".\n\nThe Military Aid to the Civil Authorities (MACA) request means armed forces staff will assist nurses and help on the wards in a move designed to ease the pressure on staff.\n\nIt is thought the first military staff will be made available as early as next week.\n\nMr Swann said the Army has previously carried out pandemic roles in Northern Ireland with \"aeromedical evacuation, real-estate and ongoing logistical planning\".\n\nThe health minister added it would have been an abdication of responsibility if he did not avail of help from the military.\n\nHe said while coronavirus cases were lower than two weeks ago, the challenge posed remained \"intense\" and intensive care pressures were expected to increase further in the next eight to 10 days.\n\nAs of Wednesday, there were 832 people in hospital in Northern Ireland with coronavirus, of whom 67 were in intensive care, with 57 ventilated.\n\nA further 22 people with coronavirus died, bringing the Department of Health's total to 1,671 while there were 905 new cases.", "An algorithm is trained to pick out an elephant against a complex backdrop such as a forest\n\nAt first, the satellite images appear to be of grey blobs in a forest of green splotches - but, on closer inspection, those blobs are revealed as elephants wandering through the trees.\n\nAnd scientists are using these images to count African elephants from space.\n\nThe pictures come from an Earth-observation satellite orbiting 600km (372 miles) above the planet's surface.\n\nThe breakthrough could allow up to 5,000 sq km of elephant habitat to be surveyed on a single cloud-free day.\n\nAnd all the laborious elephant counting is done via machine learning - a computer algorithm trained to identify elephants in a variety of backdrops.\n\n\"We just present examples to the algorithm and tell it, 'This is an elephant, this is not an elephant,'\"Dr Olga Isupova, from the University of Bath, said.\n\n\"By doing this, we can train the machine to recognise small details that we wouldn't be able to pick up with the naked eye.\"\n\nAfrican elephants are listed as vulnerable to extinction\n\nThe scientists looked first at South Africa's Addo Elephant National Park.\n\n\"It has a high density of elephants,\" University of Oxford conservation scientist Dr Isla Duporge said.\n\n\"And it has areas of thickets and of open savannah.\n\n\"So it's a great place to test our approach.\n\n\"While this is a proof of concept, it's ready to go.\n\n\"And conservation organisations are already interested in using this to replace surveys using aircraft.\"\n\nConservationists will have to pay for access to commercial satellites and the images they capture.\n\nBut this approach could vastly improve the monitoring of threatened elephant populations in habitats that span international borders, where it can be difficult to obtain permission for aircraft surveys.\n\nThe scientists say it could also be used in anti-poaching work.\n\n\"And of course, [because you can capture these images from space,] you don't need anyone on the ground, which is particularly helpful during these times of coronavirus,\" Dr Duporge said.\n\n\"In zoology, technology can move quite slowly.\n\n\"So being able to use the cutting-edge techniques for animal conservation is just really nice.\"", "Four royal aides say they do not wish to \"take sides\" over a letter from the Duchess of Sussex to her father, the High Court has been told.\n\nIn a letter lawyers for the four said they believed their clients could \"shed some light\" on the letter's drafting but the four were \"strictly neutral\".\n\nMeghan is suing the Mail on Sunday and Mail Online publisher over articles that reproduced parts of the letter.\n\nShe claims her privacy and copyright were breached by the newspaper group.\n\nHer lawyers are asking for summary judgement - a dismissal of Associated Newspapers' (ANL) defence instead of a trial.\n\nThe five articles, published in February 2019, were a \"triple-barrelled invasion\" of the duchess's privacy, correspondence and family, the lawyers claim.\n\nShe is seeking damages from the newspaper group for alleged misuse of private information, copyright infringement and breach of the Data Protection Act over the articles.\n\nANL claims Meghan wrote her letter \"with a view to it being disclosed publicly at some future point\" in order to \"defend her against charges of being an uncaring or unloving daughter\", which she denies.\n\nOn the second day of the hearing on Wednesday, ANL's barrister Antony White QC told the court that a letter from the so-called \"palace four\" showed that \"further oral evidence and documentary evidence is likely to be available at trial which would shed light on certain key factual issues in this case\".\n\nHe said it was \"likely\" there was also further evidence about whether Meghan \"directly or indirectly provided private information\" to the authors of an unauthorised biography of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Finding Freedom.\n\nThe four aides are: Jason Knauf, former communications secretary to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Christian Jones, their former deputy communications secretary, Samantha Cohen, formerly the Sussexes' private secretary, and Sara Latham, their ex-director of communications.\n\n\"None of our clients welcomes his or her potential involvement in this litigation, which has arisen purely as a result of the performance of his or her duties in their respective jobs at the material time,\" their lawyers said in a letter sent on their behalf.\n\n\"Nor does any of our clients wish to take sides in the dispute between your respective clients. Our clients are all strictly neutral.\n\n\"They have no interest in assisting either party to the proceedings. Their only interest is in ensuring a level playing field, insofar as any evidence they may be able to give is concerned.\"\n\nTheir letter said that their lawyers' \"preliminary view is that one or more of our clients would be in a position to shed some light\" on \"the creation of the letter and the electronic draft\".\n\nIt also said they may be able to shed light on \"whether or not the claimant anticipated that the letter might come into in the public domain\" and whether or not the duchess \"directly or indirectly provided private information, generally and in relation to the letter specifically, to the authors of Finding Freedom\".\n\nBut Justin Rushbrooke QC, representing the duchess, said the letter from the four \"contains no information at all that supports the defendant's case on alleged co-authorship (of Meghan's letter), and no indication that evidence will be forthcoming that will support the defendant's case should the matter proceed to trial\".\n\nMeghan, 39, sent a handwritten letter to her father in August 2018, following her marriage to Prince Harry in May that year, which Mr Markle did not attend. The couple are now living in the US with their son Archie.\n\nThe full trial of the duchess's claim had been due to be heard at the High Court this month, but last year the case was adjourned until autumn 2021.\n\nAt the conclusion of the hearing on Wednesday afternoon, Mr Justice Warby reserved his judgement, which he said he would deliver \"as soon as possible\".", "Michelle O'Neill and Arlene Foster were advised restrictions may have to remain in place until after Easter\n\nCoronavirus lockdown restrictions in Northern Ireland will be extended until 5 March, the first and deputy first ministers have said.\n\nThe executive backed the health minister's proposal on Thursday and will review the move on 18 February.\n\nBut ministers were also told that restrictions may have to remain in place until after the Easter holidays.\n\nA lockdown closing non-essential retailers and encouraging employees to work from home began after Christmas.\n\nFamily gatherings are prohibited and people have been ordered to stay at home for all but essential reasons.\n\nSchools are closed to most pupils until after February's half-term but a paper looking at reopening will be put to ministers at next week's executive meeting.\n\nThe lockdown came in response to a spike in the number of cases of coronavirus, which followed a relaxation of some rules in the run-up to Christmas.\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster said extending the restrictions was an \"appropriate and necessary response\" to tackle the \"imminent threat\" posed by Covid-19.\n\nShe said she understood it would be difficult for many people to accept, given the uncertainty facing families and businesses, but added: \"To not press forward would risk all of the hard-won gains.\"\n\nThe first and deputy first ministers were right to state just how tough this decision will be for many people.\n\nBut there's an acceptance among the public that restrictions would have to be extended, given how bad things are in our hospitals.\n\nTheir decision also suggests politicians have perhaps learned from the last wave of the pandemic, when restrictions were turned on and off sporadically, and the impact that had both on cases and the messaging.\n\nThey're not alone in sustaining tough lockdown measures, with other UK nations and the Republic of Ireland also keeping their restrictions in place for several more weeks.\n\nBeyond that, it is thought health officials also want to ensure the vaccination programme is also \"well advanced\" before any restrictions are relaxed.\n\nThe hope is that, by spring, the picture will have improved significantly.\n\nUntil then the price we are paying for relaxations before Christmas looks likely to keep rising.\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said she recognised the executive was asking a lot of everybody but insisted the measures were important.\n\n\"We don't know what will come after [5 March],\" she said.\n\nMs O'Neill said there was a commitment not to keep restrictions in place longer than necessary but decisions would have to be taken in line with the health advice and concerns about a new variant of the virus which is more transmissible.\n\nThe executive's decision comes as another 21 deaths were recorded by the Department of Health on Thursday.\n\nThe reproductive rate of the virus - known as the R-number - had risen to about 1.8 due to Christmas relaxations.\n\nBut the latest estimate from the Department of Health says it is sitting between 0.65 and 0.85 for cases within the community but is still above one for hospital admissions and intensive care.\n\nWhile some may wonder why are restrictions are being extended when the executive's policy has always been based on this rate of infection, the difference is that this time around there are three times as many people in Northern Ireland's hospitals than there were in last April's peak.\n\nDaily case numbers are still significantly higher too.\n\nWhile ministers have agreed to keep the current restrictions in place until March, Health Minister Robin Swann said it was possible they could be needed until Easter, which this year falls in the first week of April.\n\nMinisters say they understand the extension of the lockdown will be difficult for people\n\nIt is understood this plan is being discussed across the four UK nations but ministers will have to consider that in the review next month.\n\nMinisters were also warned that restrictions would be eased on a step-by-step basis in line with reducing pressures on the health service and ensuring the vaccination programme is \"well advanced\" before any relaxations are agreed.\n\nMrs Foster pleaded with people struggling with their mental health during the lockdown to \"please seek help\".\n\nMore than 100 medically-trained military personnel are to be deployed to help health staff deal with the pressure the latest phase of the pandemic is placing on hospitals.\n\nThe chief medical officer Dr Michael McBride said the \"sustained pressure on our health service\" would probably last for three to four weeks.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, 51 Covid-19 related deaths and 2,608 new cases of the virus were recorded on Thursday.\n\nSimon Hamilton, the chief executive of the Belfast Chamber of Trade and Commerce, said the extension of the lockdown would be of \"little surprise to most businesses\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Stormont executive has agreed how to allocate almost £300m to help businesses, education, tourism and transport during the next phase of the lockdown.\n\nA total of £100m is going towards the Local Restrictions Support Scheme, the grant for business premises forced to closed due to the restrictions.\n\nThere will also be £16m for tourism and hospitality, two sectors which have largely been unable to operate.\n\nIn addition, two more support schemes for the sector have been opened.\n\nOne aimed at large tourism and hospitality businesses is offering a pot of £26m, with the Department for Economy having identified 250 businesses that will be eligible.\n\nThe other is a £4m scheme to support those who provide bed-and-breakfast accommodation.\n\nMore money is being made available to help businesses affected by the lockdown\n\nJanice Gault from the trade body the Northern Ireland Hotels Federation said the schemes were a \"real lifeline for the sector\".\n\n\"Trading over the last year has been limited with reserves now severely depleted and businesses operating in survival mode,\" she added.\n\nAlso among those to receive the extra cash will be limited company directors, who had not received support since March.\n\nLast week, a scheme was announced to give directors £1,000 grants which one director described as a \"kick in the teeth\" given that he had little to no income for the past 10 months.\n\nBut that scheme is to be boosted with another £20m so the payments on offer will more than treble to £3,500.\n\nLocal newspapers will also benefit from 12 months of rates relief.", "Assaults on emergency workers made up more than a quarter of Covid-related crimes prosecuted in the first six months of the pandemic, figures show.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said there were 1,688 such offences between 1 April and 30 September in England and Wales.\n\nMany of these involved police officers being \"coughed and spat on\" by suspected rule-breakers, the CPS said.\n\nThey were among almost 6,500 crimes related to coronavirus in that period.\n\nAssaults on emergency workers, which were the most common prosecution, were \"particularly appalling\" and incidents were still taking place, said director of public prosecutions Max Hill.\n\nHe added: \"I will continue to do everything in my power to protect those who so selflessly keep us safe during this crisis.\"\n\nAccording to the figures published by the CPS - which cover completed prosecutions - there were 1,137 charges brought for breaking coronavirus laws.\n\nThese included a man who claimed 15 people having a party at his house in Manchester were part of his support bubble and another man in Wales caught travelling between counties to solicit the services of a sex worker.\n\nOverall, 2,106 defendants were prosecuted for 6,469 coronavirus-related offences, with a conviction rate of 90%, according to the CPS.\n\nOther crimes flagged as being coronavirus-related by the CPS, included 480 charges for public order offences, 466 for criminal damage and 464 for common assault.\n\nThese included offences such as coughing and spitting while threatening to infect another person with the virus, thefts of essential items and fraudsters taking advantage of the crisis.\n\nMr Hill added: \"The CPS has had to adapt to a raft of new laws and regulations intended to keep the public safe during the pandemic.\n\n\"Our guiding principle throughout has always been to support the police in ensuring the right person in charged with the right offence.\"", "Marmite is one of Unilever's many brands\n\nUnilever has said that by 2030 it will refuse to do business with any firm that does not pay at least a living wage or income to its staff.\n\nThe consumer goods giant defined a living wage as one that covered a family's basic needs \"and helped them break the cycle of poverty\".\n\nIt said it wanted to raise wages for people outside its own workforce in order to promote economic inclusion.\n\nUnilever is one of the first big companies to make such a commitment.\n\nOxfam called the move a \"step in the right direction\".\n\nUnilever, whose products include Marmite, Ben & Jerry's ice cream and Dove soap, said it was committed to helping to build \"a more equitable and inclusive society\".\n\n\"Our ambition is to improve living standards for low-paid workers worldwide,\" it said.\n\n\"We will therefore ensure that everyone who directly provides goods and services to Unilever earns at least a living wage or income, by 2030.\"\n\nThe wage should be enough to cover food, water, housing, education, healthcare, transport and clothing, and also include a provision for unexpected events, Unilever said.\n\nThe firm said it was working with partners to establish exact rates of pay in the 190 countries where it operates.\n\nHowever, Unilever's chief human resources officer Leena Nair said it would pay twice as much as the minimum wage in some countries.\n\nUnilever said it already paid its own employees at least a living wage, but it wanted to secure the same for more people beyond its workforce, specifically focusing on the most vulnerable workers in manufacturing and agriculture.\n\nWhile there is no doubting Unilever's desire to improve the lot of those who make its products, there is also a commercial reason for its living wage initiative.\n\nIt wants all of its suppliers to pay their staff a decent wage by 2030, a plan that has the potential, given Unilever's enormous size and global reach, to change the lives of millions of people.\n\nBut the company also believes the move will give it an advantage in the fierce battle to attract buyers.\n\nAlan Jope, Unilever's Scottish-born chief executive, says customers want to buy products with good credentials, and that this desire has only increased during the pandemic.\n\nMr Jope's comments suggest that the next consumer battlegrounds might not be price, convenience or range of product, but environmental and social considerations.\n\nUnilever wants to get ahead of that trend, and plans to do well by doing good.\n\n\"We will work with our suppliers, other businesses, governments and NGOs - through purchasing practices, collaboration and advocacy - to create systemic change and global adoption of living wage practices,\" it added.\n\nIt has more than 60,000 direct suppliers worldwide, from smallholder farmers to major companies.\n\nAll of them will be covered by its commitment, it said, with millions of people set to benefit.\n\nUnilever already audits its suppliers over climate change commitments, and will use these existing arrangements to make sure workers are being paid a living wage.\n\nSuppliers not willing to sign up may lose their contracts with the firm, Ms Nair said.\n\nAlso by 2030, Unilever said, it would equip 10 million young people with essential job skills.\n\nAdditionally, it committed to spending €2bn (£1.8bn) with suppliers owned and managed by people from under-represented groups by 2025 in an effort to improve diversity.\n\n\"The two biggest threats that the world currently faces are climate change and social inequality,\" said Unilever chief executive Alan Jope.\n\n\"The past year has undoubtedly widened the social divide, and decisive and collective action is needed to build a society that helps to improve livelihoods, embraces diversity, nurtures talent, and offers opportunities for everyone.\"\n\nUnilever chief executive Alan Jope says the firm wants to be a \"positive force in the world\"\n\nHe told the BBC's Today programme that Unilever wanted to be a \"positive force in the world in tackling this persistent and worsening issue of social inequality.\"\n\n\"Without healthy societies, we don't have a healthy business,\" he said.\n\nThe move is the latest in a series of ethical initiatives by Unilever, including promoting vegan food products and experimenting with a four-day working week.\n\nGabriela Bucher, executive director at Oxfam International, welcomed Unilever's announcement, calling it \"an important step in the right direction\".\n\nShe said: \"Unilever's plan shows the kind of responsible action needed from the private sector that can have a great impact on tackling inequality and help to build a world in which everyone has the power to thrive, not just survive.\"\n\nLaura Gardiner, director of the Living Wage Foundation, said commitments such as Unilever's show how some employers \"are leading the way in spreading the living wage through both their business networks, and across their global operations\".\n\nFood services giants Sodexo and Compass Group, which are on the Living Wage Foundation's list of recognised service providers, have made similar supply chain commitments in the UK.", "Joe Biden has been sworn in as the 46th president of the United States, at a low key inauguration ceremony outside the US Capitol in Washington DC.\n\nIn his maiden speech as president, Mr Biden said: \"We've learned again that democracy is precious, democracy is fragile, and at this hour, my friends, democracy has prevailed.\"\n\nRead more: Joe Biden replaces Trump as US president", "Mr Olowo said his wife was \"as near perfection as it's possible to be\"\n\nA woman who died after having liposuction in Turkey had been fed up with people asking if she was pregnant, an inquest heard.\n\nAbimbola Ajoke Bamgbose, 38, of Dartford, Kent, died in August after having the treatment in Izmir.\n\nHusband Moyosore Olowo said he believed she was on holiday with friends until she called to say she was in pain.\n\nHe went to Turkey after she stopped calling and found she had been rushed to hospital for more surgery.\n\nMrs Bamgbose, who also had a Brazilian butt lift, died there two weeks later, the inquest in Maidstone heard.\n\nMr Olowo, a rail safety officer, said his wife paid £5,000 for the package with Mono Cosmetic Surgery as UK treatment was too expensive.\n\nDescribing why she wanted it, he said: \"When a woman is unhappy and getting feelings about her looks, the clothes she buys do not fit and people ask if she is pregnant because of her tummy, sometimes there is nothing we can do. We are powerless.\n\n\"I wasn't concerned. I told her 'you have three children'. I told her my tummy is bigger than hers.\"\n\nHe said his wife, a social worker who graduated with a first class degree, was \"as near perfection as it's possible to be\".\n\nMr Olowo said the medical director in Turkey \"confessed it had been a mistake\".\n\nAssistant coroner Alan Blundson recorded a narrative conclusion, and said: \"This is a tragic case, the more so because the surgery was elective cosmetic surgery.\n\n\"Whilst Mrs Bamgbose was determined to have it performed, her husband had not seen it in any way as necessary.\"\n\nA post-mortem examination found Mrs Bamgbose had a perforated bowel and her death was caused by peritonitis with multiple organ failure as a complication of liposuction surgery.\n\nMr Olowo has said he is suing Mono and the surgeon, Dr Hakan Aydogan, for £1m in the Turkish courts, claiming medical negligence.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mr Biden took his oath on a Bible that has been in his family since 1893 and was also used each time he was sworn in as Delaware senator. The book itself is five inches (12.5cm) thick with a Celtic cross on the cover", "Wales' former Chief Medical Officer Dame Deirdre Hine thinks the vaccine targets are achievable\n\nPeople waiting for the Covid vaccine need to show \"patience\" and \"perspective\", Wales' former chief medical officer has said.\n\nDame Deirdre Hine said Wales had made a \"very good start\" on delivering jabs.\n\nAged 83, she needs the vaccine herself and accepted there was \"understandable anxiety\" for those still waiting, but said: \"I think we should all quieten down and wait.\"\n\nThere has been criticism of the speed of the roll-out in Wales.\n\nStuart Wilson said he was \"appalled\" his 84-year-old housebound mother had been told she may have to wait up to two months to have her coronavirus vaccine if she cannot get to her GP surgery.\n\nDame Deirdre is regarded as one of Wales' leading medical experts, having not only held the chief medical officer post, but being the woman who established the Welsh breast cancer screening programme.\n\nA past president of the British Medical Association and Royal Society of Medicine, she also oversaw the official inquiry into the 2009 swine flu pandemic in the UK.\n\nIt's not surprising that people are worried and concerned... but I would say to them, let's keep it in proportion, let's look at the perspective\n\nShe told BBC Wales the response from governments had moved forward since then.\n\n\"I can detect some lessons that have been learned from the previous pandemic, the one I reported on. Because, although we had a vaccine then, the arrangements for delivering it were very much less clear and much more protracted than it has been this time.\n\n\"The arrangements for the GPs to deliver, and now pharmacists to deliver, all of that is a tremendous improvement on what I saw at the last pandemic.\"\n\nIn September, Dame Deirdre accused successive governments across the UK of taking \"their eye off the ball\" and failing to prepare for a global pandemic.\n\nShe also correctly warned of the \"real danger\" of a damaging second wave of Covid and has remained critical of failures to get adequate testing and tracing capability up and running in the early stages of the pandemic.\n\nShe added: \"I would say the testing and tracing is another matter, and I think there has been justifiable criticism of that.\"\n\nDame Deirdre, who lives in Cardiff, said she was still \"waiting impatiently\" for her vaccine appointment, but called on people to see the bigger picture.\n\n\"Let's get it in perspective. This is a massive logistical exercise, together with a narrow pipeline of supply of the vaccine, and so I'm not a bit surprised that it's taking as long as it is to get round to everybody. But I have every confidence that they will.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government, along with other UK nations, has committed to vaccinating all four of the highest priority groups by the middle of February, including the over-80s.\n\nLatest figures on vaccination in Wales show that, as of 20 January, there had been 175,816 people to get a first dose of either the Pfizer-BioNTech or Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.\n\nThis accounts for 5.6% of the population in Wales, while 7.1% have received a vaccination in England, 7.3% in Northern Ireland, and 5.7% in Scotland.\n\nHealth Minister Vaughan Gething has denied Covid-19 vaccines were being held back, following comments from First Minister Mark Drakeford that the supply had to last until February to prevent \"vaccinators standing around with nothing to do\".\n\nMr Drakeford later said on social media that \"nobody is holding back vaccines\" and Mr Gething added: \"We're rolling out the vaccination programme as quickly as possible.\"\n\nDame Deirdre said she believed the targets were achievable, but people's anxieties were \"understandable\".\n\nShe added: \"Some recent research by Imperial College shows that people in my age group, people over 70, are the people most worried about this pandemic and about their own safety.\n\n\"So it's not surprising that people are worried and concerned, dismayed, when they don't get the letter and then that turns to anger. But I would say to them, let's keep it in proportion, let's look at the perspective.\n\n\"If you'd asked me last May and June whether we would even have a vaccine, I would have been highly sceptical.\n\n\"Then once you've got the vaccine, there is the whole logistical exercise of the publicity, letting people know what's likely to happen, getting the personnel assembled to do that, getting the premises.\n\n\"And it's not easy, it's not easy to do all that very, very quickly.\"", "Chloé Lopes Gomes says she has faced racial harassment while being a ballet dancer.\n\nThe French performer is the first black female dancer at Berlin's principal ballet company Staatsballett.\n\nMs Gomes claims she was told she did not fit in because of her skin colour, and was asked to wear white make up so she would 'blend in' with the other dancers.\n\nThe company has responded by saying her allegation \"deeply moves us\" and an internal investigation is underway into racism and discrimination at Staatsballett.", "The pandemic has seen most children in England slipping back with their learning - and some have gone significantly back with their social skills, says Ofsted.\n\nA report from the education watchdog warns some young children have forgotten how to use a knife and fork or have regressed back to nappies.\n\nOlder children have lost their \"stamina\" for reading, say inspectors.\n\nThe Department for Education says it shows the need to keep schools open.\n\nOfsted has examined the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on children, based on visits to 900 schools and early years providers this autumn - and found that it has been a very divided experience.\n\nThe chief inspector, Amanda Spielman, says there are three \"broad groups\" to describe what has happened:\n\nBut Ms Spielman says this did not divide along the lines of advantage and deprivation, but instead factors such as whether parents were able to spend time with children and families having what she described as \"good support structures\".\n\nAmong older children, Ofsted warns of a loss of concentration among those returning to school and that \"online squabbles\" that started on social media during the lockdown are now \"being played out in the classroom\".\n\nThere are also reports of a loss of physical fitness, while other pupils are showing \"signs of mental distress\", with concerns over eating disorders and self-harm.\n\nThere are concerns about pupils who have so far not returned to school - and in a third of schools there has been an \"increase in children being removed from school to be educated at home\".\n\nBut inspectors say schools are still \"firefighting\" practical problems about keeping going during the pandemic, with the challenge of operating bubbles and responding to Covid outbreaks.\n\nGeoff Barton, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union, said the report \"starkly shows the educational and emotional impact of school closures, and why we need to do everything possible to keep schools open\".\n\nBut he warned that it was becoming financially unsustainable to keep schools running, with the cost of safety measures and the need to pay for supply staff when teachers had to self-isolate.\n\nA Department for Education spokeswoman said: \"The government has been clear that getting all pupils and students back into full-time education is a national priority.\"\n\nShe said the £1bn catch-up fund, including support for tutoring, would help to make up for lost learning.", "The editor of the British Medical Journal has asked the New York Times to correct an article that says UK guidelines allow two Covid-19 vaccines to be mixed.\n\nThe US publication reported that UK health officials would allow patients to be given a second dose that is a different vaccine to their first.\n\nFiona Godlee pointed out in her letter to the NYT that it was not a recommendation.\n\nShe said the NYT's headline claiming UK guidelines say such substitutions \"may happen\" was \"seriously misleading\".\n\nThe UK has approved the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab - but both require two doses which are now to be administered 12 weeks apart\n\nMs Godlee said the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) does not make any recommendation to mix and match - in other words, having a shot of one vaccine and then a different one 12 weeks later.\n\nDr Mary Ramsay, Public Health England's head of immunisations, said: \"We do not recommend mixing the Covid-19 vaccines - if your first dose is the Pfizer vaccine you should not be given the AstraZeneca vaccine for your second dose and vice versa.\"\n\nDr Ramsay added that on the \"extremely rare occasions\" where the same vaccine is unavailable or it is unknown which jab the patient received, it is \"better to give a second dose of another vaccine than not at all\".\n\nMs Godlee urged the New York Times to print a \"highly visible correction\" as soon as possible.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Princess Royal Hospital at Haywards Heath was among the hospitals receiving a delivery\n\nMeanwhile, health staff have criticised the paperwork needed to gain NHS approval to give the coronavirus vaccine, with some medics being asked for proof they are trained in areas such as preventing radicalisation.\n\nThe first doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine are due to be given on Monday after the jab was approved for use in the UK last week.\n\nThe Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was the first vaccine approved in the UK, and 944,539 people have had their first jab.", "Tian Tian arrived in Scotland, along with Yang Guang, from China in 2011\n\nEdinburgh Zoo's giant pandas may have to return to China next year because of financial pressures.\n\nYang Guang and Tian Tian cost about £1m a year to lease from China.\n\nThe zoo, which had hoped to breed the pair, is nearing the end of its 10-year contract with the Chinese government and may be unable to renew the deal.\n\nCovid lockdown closures led to a £2m loss for the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland, which runs Edinburgh Zoo and the Highland Wildlife Park.\n\nDavid Field, chief executive of the society, said the charity would have to \"seriously consider every potential saving\", including its giant panda contract.\n\nMr Field said closures had had a \"huge financial impact\" on the charity because most of its income was from visitors.\n\n\"Although our parks are open again, we lost around £2m last year and it seems certain that restrictions, social distancing and limits on our visitor numbers will continue for some time, which will also reduce our income,\" Mr Field said.\n\n\"Yang Guang and Tian Tian have made a tremendous impression on our visitors over the last nine years, helping millions of people connect to nature and inspiring them to take an interest in wildlife conservation.\n\n\"I would love for them to be able to stay for a few more years with us and that is certainly my current aim.\"\n\nYang Guang was given a new enclosure in 2019\n\nThe zoo has already taken a government loan, furloughed staff, made redundancies and launched a fundraising appeal, but was not eligible for the UK government's zoo fund, which was aimed at smaller zoos.\n\n\"The support we have received from our members and animal lovers has helped to keep our doors open and we are incredibly grateful,\" Mr Field added.\n\n\"At this stage, it is too soon to say what the outcome will be. We will be discussing next steps with our colleagues in China over the coming months.\"\n\nThe zoo is part of a number of conservation projects, including one to reintroduce Scottish wildcats.\n\nWork to reintroduce Scottish wildcats in to the Highlands may also suffer from the Zoo's funding problems\n\nHowever, Mr Field said projects like that may also have to be scrapped because of Brexit and being unable to apply for grants from the European Union.\n\n\"We received a £3.2m grant from the EU Life programme to support our Saving Wildcats partnership project, which aims to restore wildcats in Scotland by breeding and releasing them into the wild.\n\n\"Wildcats are on the brink of extinction in Britain and this is the last hope for the species' survival.\"\n\nHe added: \"As we are no longer part of the European Union, our charity is no longer eligible to apply for funding from programmes like EU Life, which have proven critical for our wildlife conservation work and wider efforts to protect animals from extinction.\"\n\nEdinburgh Zoo's conservation genetics laboratory, which supports conservation projects around the world, has lost access to both funding and other researchers as a result.\n\nIt also faces challenges around moving animals, many of which are part of European endangered species breeding programmes.\n\nThe programme is currently about £900,000 short, meaning it may have to be cancelled.\n\nMr Field said: \"We still need to reduce costs to secure our future. It may be that some of our incredibly important conservation projects, including the vital lifeline for Scotland's wildcats, may have to be deferred, postponed or even stopped.\"", "Police rescued 22 people from the snow in Cheshire including a two-year-old child\n\nDozens of people, including a two-year-old child, had to be rescued when they became stranded on rural roads.\n\nPolice and volunteers came to the aid of people whose vehicles were stuck in the Derbyshire Peak District on Saturday.\n\nThere were similar scenes in Cheshire where 22 people, had to be rescued from stranded cars.\n\nThe wintry weather is set to continue with a Met Office warning for ice in the East Midlands and North East.\n\nAt around 20:00 GMT on Saturday, Derbyshire Police reported \"sudden snow\" had left dozens of vehicles and their occupants stranded in the Goyt Valley.\n\nSome visitors to the area were caught off-guard by how quickly the weather changed.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Adam White This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDerbyshire Police posted on Twitter: \"We are shuttling people back to Buxton as quickly as we can.\n\n\"Sit tight and we will get to you.\"\n\nThe A57 Snake Pass - a road notorious for becoming dangerous in the snow - had been closed earlier in the day because of the weather.\n\nIn Cheshire, police spent three hours helping families stuck in their vehicles in the White Peak area.\n\nIn total 22 people, including eight children - the youngest of whom was two - were recovered from nine vehicles.\n\nCheshire Police Rural Crime Team said: \"The snow had well and truly caught them all out on the back roads.\n\n\"We were three miles (4.8km) from the nearest village, and the light was fading on us quickly.\n\n\"It was decided to get everyone out of their cars and so began a mile walk in the snow.\"\n\nThey were led to a nearby farm where they could be taken to safety in police vehicles.\n\nMost of those rescued from snow in Cheshire had travelled to the area despite coronavirus restrictions\n\nThe force was critical of the families for travelling into the area, that is under tier four coronavirus restrictions.\n\nIt said: \"All except one car was from out of Cheshire. We had people from Sale, Stockport and Salford with the closest being Congleton.\n\n\"Sadly these people have put all of us at risk today.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Liverpool City Council issued their call after local cases nearly trebled in the past fortnight\n\nLiverpool's leaders have called on the government to impose a new nationwide lockdown to halt the spread of the new variant of Covid-19.\n\nActing mayor Wendy Simon and the city council's cabinet said urgent action is needed because the rise in coronavirus cases had reached \"alarming levels\".\n\nThey said it was \"self-evident\" the tier system has not curbed the variant.\n\nIt had been concentrated in London and south-east England but is believed to be spreading north.\n\nCases in Liverpool have almost trebled in the past two weeks to 350 per 100,000.\n\nThis is despite the city successfully leading the national pilot for community testing, which resulted in it becoming the first city to be taken out of tier 3 and moved into tier 2.\n\nHowever, the recent rise in cases meant Liverpool returned to tier three on Thursday.\n\nWendy Simon is the acting mayor for Liverpool\n\nSpeaking to the BBC News Channel, Ms Simon said: \"I think the difficulty with this new strain of the virus is the speed at which it is infecting.\n\n\"What we have seen in these last weeks is that the tier system hasn't worked with this particular strain of the virus.\n\n\"The way the numbers are going, we're likely to go into tier four very, very quickly.\"\n\nMs Simon said officials wanted to \"pre-empt that catastrophe\" and \"recover the economy quicker\", adding: \"We feel these three things - the mass vaccination, the mass testing and certainly a lockdown for a period - is what we need to get the city up and running again.\n\n\"There's a responsibility on us all to act promptly and bring it under control as soon as we can.\"\n\nIn an earlier statement, Ms Simon joined officials at the Labour-run city council to urge the government to \"listen to those at the frontline, both in our hospitals and frontline services\".\n\n\"We as a nation can cope with a lockdown,\" the statement said. \"We have before and we can again.\"\n\nThe city's leaders also called for \"an additional package of welfare and economic support\" to address the \"pain for our retail and hospitality sectors\".\n\nA further 57,725 confirmed cases were announced by the government on Saturday.\n\nThe sharp rise in numbers is partly down to a lag in reporting over the holiday period but, according to Public Health England, is \"largely a reflection of a real increase\".\n\nAlthough the new variant is now spreading more rapidly than the original version, it is not believed to be more deadly.\n\nLiverpool launched the national pilot for community testing in November\n\nOn Sunday, the prime minister said regional restrictions in England were \"probably about to get tougher\".\n\nHe said possible changes included keeping schools closed, although this is not \"something we want to do\".\n\nBoris Johnson said the government was \"entirely reconciled to doing what it takes to get the virus down,\" and warned of a \"tough period ahead\".\n\nHe said increasing vaccination would provide a way out of restrictions and that he hoped \"tens of millions\" would be vaccinated in the next three months.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine has started to arrive in hospitals, with the first doses due to be given on Monday.\n\nThe Princess Royal Hospital at Haywards Heath in West Sussex was one of the hospitals taking a delivery on Saturday.\n\nThe UK has ordered 100 million doses of the new vaccine - enough to vaccinate 50 million people.", "The Scottish cabinet will meet later to consider further measures to help tackle coronavirus, as 2,464 new cases are reported.\n\nThe Scottish Parliament will then be recalled for First Minister Nicola Sturgeon to make an \"urgent statement\".\n\nMs Sturgeon said the \"rapid increase in Covid cases driven by the new variant\" was of \"very serious concern\".\n\n\"We are in a race between this faster spreading strain of Covid and the vaccination programme,\" she tweeted.\n\nShe warned on Friday that the next few weeks could be the most dangerous period for Scotland since March in the fight against Covid.\n\nThe latest government figures for coronavirus cases showed that 15.2% of Saturday's 17,328 tests were positive.\n\nIt is higher than the 2,137 cases reported on Friday, but still lower than Thursday's 2,539 positive results.\n\nFigures for hospital admissions and deaths over the holiday weekend will not be published until Tuesday.\n\nThe cabinet is likely to consider a further delay to the return of Scottish schools and restrictions that are closer to the stay-at-home lockdown in March.\n\n\"All decisions just now are tough, with tough impacts,\" Ms Sturgeon wrote on twitter. \"Vaccines give us way out, but this new strain makes the period between now and then the most dangerous since start of pandemic.\"\n\nThe Scottish government's emergency resilience committee heard on Saturday that \"quick and decisive action is needed\" as the new variant of the virus is becoming the dominant one in Scotland.\n\nA Scottish government spokesperson said: \"The even steeper rises and severe pressure on the NHS that is being experienced in some other parts of the UK is a sign of what may lie ahead in Scotland if we do not take all possible steps now to slow the spread of the virus, while the vaccination programme progresses.\n\n\"The strong message remains - people should stay at home as much as possible and avoid non-essential interaction with others.\"\n\nThis is just the fifth time the Scottish Parliament has been recalled and the second time within the last week.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Linda Bauld says Scots should be prepared a longer period living with level four restrictions\n\nPublic health expert Prof Linda Bauld, from the University of Edinburgh, has said Scotland should be prepared for Covid restrictions to be extended as infection rates continue to rise.\n\nShe said there were no signs yet that the infection rate was levelling off, having risen suddenly from a daily rate of fewer than 1,000 to more than 2,000 per day in recent days.\n\nShe told BBC Scotland: \"It definitely is a fragile situation and you can see that we have more cases than we would expect at the current time.\n\n\"We may be starting to see some of the impacts of the Christmas mixing, but also we know around four in 10 cases, from recent data, are of the new variant.\n\n\"I would imagine that the new variant is playing a role in these higher rates of infection and if these numbers continue to sit at where they are we are going to have more people in hospital in a week or two's time, and that is very worrying.\"\n\nThe new year offers new hope in the struggle against coronavirus with two vaccines now authorised for UK use - but it looks as if the situation will get worse before it gets better.\n\nMinisters are worried by the rapid spread of the new strain of coronavirus during a holiday period when the highest level of restrictions are already in place.\n\nThey think more needs to be done to suppress the virus, to give the vaccination programme a chance to accelerate and give increasing numbers of people protection.\n\nWhen the Scottish cabinet meets they are likely to consider tightening the current restrictions to something closer to the stay at home lockdown of March 2020.\n\nThat will almost certainly mean a further delay to the return of schools into February.\n\nMinisters will take decisions on Monday morning with First Minister Nicola Sturgeon expected to make a statement at Holyrood in the afternoon.\n\nDaily confirmed cases in Scotland reached record highs on the last three days of 2020, rising to to 2,622 on Thursday.\n\nMs Sturgeon warned last week there might be changes to the plans for reopening schools. Children start online learning from 11 January and are set to return to class by 18 January.\n\nThe education recovery group will meet on Monday.\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross said the situation was \"deteriorating and fast-moving\" but any decision to extend school closures should be clearly explained to parents and teachers.\n\nHe said: \"We have been here before so if schools remain closed, the Scottish government must show that it has learned from past mistakes in order to minimise disruption to education.\"\n\nScottish Greens co-leader Patrick Harvie said the Scottish government should prioritise teachers and school staff as vaccines were rolled out.\n\nHe added: \"We must be honest and accept that most pupils, teachers and support staff cannot go back to schools until the situation is brought under control.\"\n\nScottish Labour leader Richard Leonard called for ministers to publish the evidence behind all of its decisions to ensure public consent and compliance.\n\n\"What is clear is that we need to see an acceleration of the vaccine rollout and a step-change in testing,\" he said.\n\n\"It is also clear that financial support from government has simply not been nearly sufficient to make up for the damage that lockdown measures have done to jobs, livelihoods and businesses. The SNP government must distribute additional funds to the frontline now.\"\n\nScottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie said: \"With tighter restrictions on movement and in schools comes a greater responsibility on the government to show its workings.\n\n\"If we are to restrict people's movement then we need to see what the benefit will be. We need an exit plan to give people hope, as well as to show them what is required to ease the restrictions on our freedoms.\"", "A farmer's field in Scotland has been transformed into a \"pop-up\" ice hockey rink.\n\nLocals in Bishopton, Renfrewshire, have been taking advantage of the clear skies and icy conditions.\n\nOne said the frozen rink had been playing host to skaters and hockey players of all ages and abilities, from six to 60.", "Some schools are due to reopen this week in Wales\n\nSchools are being given a flexible approach to ensure a \"safe return\", according to Wales' first minister.\n\nMark Drakeford said experts would be \"looking at all the evidence again early next week\".\n\nUnions have called for a national decision on reopening schools rather than leaving it to local councils.\n\nAccording to local authorities many secondary schools aim to return from 11 January, with some fully open on 6 January.\n\nA joint statement from nine unions called on the Welsh Government to give a \"centralised, coherent response\" regarding all educational settings \"rather than leaving decisions at local levels\".\n\nThe statement from ASCL Cymru, GMB, NAHT Cymru, NASUWT Cymru, NEU Cymru, Ucac, Unison, Unite and Voice continued: \"We are extremely worried that schools will be opening for face-to-face learning from next Monday, whilst Welsh Government continues to gather information about the nature and impact of the new variant of Covid-19...\n\n\"We strongly believe that we need to err on the side of caution and ensure, in advance, that we have the medical 'evidence and information' to ensure that any decisions are the correct ones.\"\n\nThe National Education Union Cymru has called for in-person learning to be delayed until at least 18 January.\n\nThe NASUWT has also threatened \"appropriate action in order to protect members whose safety is put at risk\", while head teachers' union NAHT Cymru said it had taken legal action.\n\nBut Mr Drakeford said: \"We reached an agreement with our local education colleagues that in Wales we will have a phased and flexible return to school.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said on Sunday parents should send their children to primary school as long as they are open in their area.\n\nMark Drakeford: \"No evidence that young people get the illness more severely as a result of the variant\"\n\nJackie Parker, head of Crickhowell High School in Powys, which reopens for some form years from Wednesday, said \"it would have been more sensible to have had a national decision for the time being until the 18th\".\n\nShe said it would have allowed time to see if cases of Covid had increased over the holiday period.\n\n\"People may have been together during the Christmas holiday,\" she said.\n\nFigures published by Public Health Wales on Sunday showed 56 new deaths from Covid and 4,011 new cases of the virus.\n\nWales has been in lockdown since 20 December with restrictions on people meeting others on all but Christmas Day when it was limited to another household and a person living alone.\n\nMr Drakeford said: \"There is no evidence that young people get the illness more severely as a result of the variant.\n\n\"Our technical advisory group will be looking at all the evidence again early next week.\n\n\"And, of course, we will continue to make decisions in the light of the best knowledge, research and information that's available to us at the time,\" he told BBC Radio Wales' Sunday Supplement.\n\nHe also said mass testing in schools would begin as planned this month, in a decision which has been criticised by NAHT Cymru.\n\n\"It will allow more children and more teachers to stay safely in the classroom without having to be sent home because another child or another staff member has tested positive,\" he said.\n\nThe joint unions' statement also said the Welsh Government's testing proposals were unworkable for most schools.\n\n\"Due to the chaotic and rushed nature of this announcement, the lack of proper guidance, and an absence of appropriate support, the Welsh Government's proposals will be inoperable for most schools and colleges,\" it said.\n\nThe statement continued: \"Any suggestion that schools can safely recruit, train and organise a team of suitable volunteers to staff and run testing stations on their premises by an as yet unspecified date in the new term is simply not realistic.\"\n\nSian Gwenllian, Plaid Cymru's education spokeswoman, said \"parents and teachers need to know what the plan is for the next few weeks\".\n\n\"We don't really know very much about this new variant in the way that it transmits within the school community,\" she said.\n\n\"And if it is becoming inevitable that schools will have to close, well, an early decision is better for everybody.\"\n\nWelsh Conservative education spokeswoman Suzy Davies said: \"We've had conflicting reports in the press and on social media about the effect of the new variant on younger children and their role in transmitting the disease - complete confusion reigns...\n\n\"The Welsh Government hasn't succeeded in reassuring teachers and in some cases parents as well.\"", "A top Swedish official involved in the coronavirus response has defended a Christmas holiday in the Canary Islands in the face of heavy criticism.\n\nDan Eliasson is head of the civil contingencies agency, which earlier in December had texted all Swedes urging them to avoid travel.\n\nHe was photographed in Las Palmas airport on the island of Gran Canaria.\n\nMr Eliasson insisted the trip was necessary \"for family reasons\".\n\nHe told Swedish media that he had \"given up a lot of trips during this pandemic\" but thought this one was necessary because he had a daughter living in the Canaries.\n\n\"I celebrated Christmas with her and my family,\" he told Expressen newspaper. He also said he had been worked remotely while in the Canaries.\n\nSweden has had 437,000 confirmed cases and 8,700 deaths - many more than its Scandinavian neighbours. The country has never imposed a full lockdown.\n\nHowever, alarmed by rising numbers of cases last month, the Swedish government reversed some of its guidance and sent a text message to all Swedes asking them to read updated guidelines.\n\nThe guidelines included asking Swedes to avoid unnecessary trips and not to make new contacts during a journey or at the destination.\n\nMr Eliasson was then photographed several times in Gran Canaria, including at the airport.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Expressen This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThere have been calls for Mr Eliasson, an experienced official who has worked at several important departments, to be fired.\n\nPrime Minister Stefan Löfven and other ministers have not yet commented, according to Swedish media.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. From the pandemic to measles, Smitha Mundasad looks at global health challenges in 2021", "Liam Reilly fronted Bagatelle for more than 40 years\n\nIrish Eurovision singer and frontman of the rock band Bagatelle, Liam Reilly, has died aged 65.\n\nA family statement confirmed that Mr Reilly \"passed away suddenly but peacefully at his home\" on 1 January.\n\nMr Reilly fronted Bagatelle for more than 40 years and they had success with songs including Summer in Dublin and Second Violin.\n\nHe also came joint second at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1990 with the song Somewhere in Europe.\n\nThe song finished on 132 points, joint with France's entry sung by Joëlle Ursull, in the contest in Zagreb.\n\nMr Reilly, from Dundalk, County Louth, also composed Ireland's Eurovision entry for the contest in Rome in 1991, when Kim Jackson performed his song Could It Be That I'm In Love, which was placed 10th.\n\n\"We know that his many friends and countless fans around the world will share in our grief as we mourn his loss, but celebrate the extraordinary talent of the man whose songs meant so much to so many.\" the family statement added.\n\nJoe Gallagher, the band's promoter from Strabane, County Tyrone, told BBC Radio Ulster \"the talent that Liam brought to the music industry in Ireland is second to none\".\n\n\"Some of the songs that he has written are up there with some of the better songs written in Ireland,\" he said.\n\n\"He is one of the best singer-songwriters Ireland has ever seen or produced.\"\n\nMr Reilly also wrote songs for others, including The Wolfe Tones. The Irish group paid tribute to him on social media, describing him as \"a master songwriter\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by The Wolfe Tones 🇮🇪 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by The Wolfe Tones 🇮🇪\n\nStephen Travers, a member of the Miami Showband, said Mr Reilly was a \"national treasure\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Horse Racing\n\nTributes have been paid to trainer Zoe Davison, who died from cancer on the same day two of her horses claimed wins at Plumpton.\n\nDavison, who had breast cancer for four-and-a-half years, died at her Shovelstrode Racing Stables in Sussex.\n\nBrown Bullet and Mr Jack, both trained at the family's stable, had raced to victory at the Sussex track on Sunday.\n\nSimon Clare, part-owner of Brown Bullet, said: \"Zoe was just the most wonderful human being imaginable.\"\n\nHer husband Andrew Irvine - who she married in 2018 - was by her side, along with family.\n\nHe said: \"She was the most wonderful, incredible person. I am blessed to have spent the last 24 years of my life with her.\"\n\nDaughter Gemelle Johnson, who was assistant to her mother, said: \"I just feel a bit numb inside because of everything.\n\n\"I'm a bit overwhelmed we've had a double for mum. Hopefully we have made her proud. It's surreal. Our team is a family business and we put everything into it. She will be thoroughly missed as she is the glue that holds us together.\n\n\"We've had a few winners around here and it is one of our local tracks. It means everything to us as we want to do her proud.\"\n\nDavison sent out the first of over 100 winners when Sails Legend, with AP McCoy in the saddle, won at Towcester in November 1997.\n\nShe enjoyed her best season with 15 winners in the 2017-18 campaign.\n\nJockey Page Fuller has a long association with the stable and should have ridden Mr Jack but had been stood down from an earlier fall.\n\nShe said: \"You couldn't have written it any better today. She was just a kind and genuine person who was a real horsewoman. She loved her horses and did her best by them.\n\n\"She has been struggling for a long time, but fortunately her strength has rubbed off on everybody else and they showed that by sending out the winners today.\n\n\"It has been a great team effort and it is great she has gone out like that. I don't know anybody who would have a bad word to say about her - she was just one of those really nice people.\"\n\nEd Arkell, ex-Fontwell clerk of the course and now at nearby West Sussex track Goodwood, said: \"Zoe was a huge part of the southern racing circuit. I'm so sorry for her family and she will be very much missed. She was a friendly, happy person who everybody loved.\n\n\"As a trainer, she ran a wonderful family operation. There are less of those these days. She supported her local tracks and became a big part of them.\"\n\nClare added: \"Zoe was the most talented horsewoman imaginable. What she didn't know about horses wasn't worth knowing.\n\n\"She is so incredibly well loved and will be desperately missed by everyone who knew her.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nArsenal continued their Premier League resurgence with a ruthless victory over strugglers West Brom at The Hawthorns.\n\nDefender Kieran Tierney's excellent solo run and curling finish put the Gunners in front in the first half, before the impressive Bukayo Saka rounded off a stunning passing move to make it 2-0.\n\nAlexandre Lacazette added the third and fourth goals after the break - smashing in a rebound from Emile Smith Rowe's shot before he was set up by Tierney.\n\nIt was Arsenal's third league victory in a row after they had failed to win their previous seven.\n\nWest Brom, playing their fourth match under new manager Sam Allardyce, remain second from bottom and six points from safety.\n• None Confidence? Youth? How have Arsenal turned relegation talk into European hopes?\n\nArsenal boss Mikel Arteta said he wanted his players to \"show confidence\" at The Hawthorns, and they certainly did that in a dominant and eye-catching display.\n\nHector Bellerin forced Sam Johnstone into a save within two minutes after Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang broke down the left, and Saka tormented full-back Dara O'Shea on the opposite wing constantly during the opening half.\n\nIt was Saka's ball that fizzed past the back post, inches away from the toe of Aubameyang, after the 19-year-old had got the better of O'Shea and hit it straight at Johnstone.\n\nWest Brom were being suffocated and Tierney's burst of pace to get around Darnell Furlong, before bending it into the far corner, was the perfect way to open the scoring.\n\nSaka made it 2-0 by rounding off a slick, one-touch passing move that former Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger would have been proud of.\n\nWest Brom could offer no response after the break either and Arsenal were 3-0 up on the hour when Lacazette eventually blasted in the rebound from a catalogue of errors by defender Semi Ajayi.\n\nThat was game over but Lacazette was allowed to add a fourth when he was left unmarked to divert Tierney's cross into the roof of the net four minutes later.\n\nArteta, knowing the job was done, was able to bring off Saka and Emile Smith Rowe following impressive performances from both youngsters, while Arsenal continued to create chances to round off a very enjoyable evening in the snow.\n\nAllardyce's first match in charge of West Brom - a 3-0 drubbing by Aston Villa after captain Jake Livermore had been sent off - was a sign of just how tough this job was going to be.\n\nThen that 1-1 draw with Liverpool at Anfield provided hope. The Baggies were resilient, organised and tireless.\n\nBut heavy back-to-back defeats by Leeds United and now Arsenal at home have brought things back down to earth.\n\nWest Brom were overawed in defence, out-run in midfield and frustrated by a lack of opportunities in attack throughout this confidence-crushing defeat.\n\nTheir rare sniffs at goal came from a Granit Xhaka error in the first half - Matheus Pereira chipping it through to Matt Phillips who struck it straight at Bernd Leno - before Callum Robinson's finish was ruled out for offside in the second half.\n\nSubstitute Rekeem Harper's long-range strike deep in stoppage time was also comfortably turned behind by Leno.\n\nIt was West Brom's third home loss in three under Allardyce and they have conceded 12 goals with no reply in those games.\n\n'Everything looks much better' - what they said\n\nWest Brom manager Sam Allardyce: \"Another game gone by where we learn more about the players we have. We have learnt an awful lot about what we can and cannot do.\n\n\"We need to work out a way of not trying to be as sloppy as we have been at conceding goals. It appears when we try to open up we leave opportunities for the opposition and we cannot cope.\"\n\nArsenal manager Mikel Arteta: \"We had a big week, three games in seven days, and we managed to win them and everything looks much better. It was difficult conditions but the team looked sharp from the start. It's a big win.\n\n\"After the results we had before we had to lift things straight away. Now we have got some discipline back. We look more creative in the final third and we look solid at the back.\"\n\nThe best of the stats\n• None West Brom are the first side to lose consecutive home Premier League games by at least four goals since Wigan in August 2010.\n• None Arsenal have scored in all 25 of their Premier League meetings with West Brom, the best 100% scoring record by one side against an opponent in the competition's history.\n• None There were 20 passes in the build-up to Arsenal's first goal scored by Kieran Tierney - since Mikel Arteta's first game in charge on Boxing Day 2019, the Gunners have scored more goals following a sequence of 20+ passes than any other Premier League side (3).\n• None Tierney became the first Scottish player to score an away Premier League goal for Arsenal and the first to do so in the top flight since Charlie Nicholas against Ipswich Town in March 1986.\n• None Alexandre Lacazette has scored five away Premier League goals in 2020-21, his best such tally in a single season in the competition.\n\nWest Brom travel to Blackpool for an FA Cup third-round tie on Saturday, 9 January (15:00 GMT kick-off), before returning to Premier League action on Saturday, 16 January against Wolves (12:30 GMT).\n\nArsenal host Newcastle in their FA Cup match on the same day (17:30 GMT), before facing Crystal Palace at home in the league on Thursday, 14 January (20:00 GMT).\n• None Offside, West Bromwich Albion. Charlie Austin tries a through ball, but Kyle Bartley is caught offside.\n• None Attempt saved. Rekeem Harper (West Bromwich Albion) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Matheus Pereira.\n• None Attempt saved. Willian (Arsenal) left footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Dani Ceballos.\n• None Attempt missed. Joseph Willock (Arsenal) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Willian with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Conor Gallagher (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Callum Robinson.\n• None Attempt blocked. Charlie Austin (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Dara O'Shea.\n• None Dani Ceballos (Arsenal) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt saved. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Arsenal) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Kieran Tierney.\n• None Attempt missed. Charlie Austin (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Matt Phillips. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None A special and exclusive one-off chat with the music icon\n• None How has their rise come to define our culture?", "Cases have reached record highs in the past week\n\nThe next few weeks could be the most dangerous period for Scotland since March in the fight against Covid, the first minister has warned.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said the new variant of the virus was \"accelerating spread\" across Scotland.\n\n\"If you first foot someone today, or hug/kiss/handshake them HNY, you are putting yourself, others and the NHS at risk,\" she tweeted.\n\nA further 2,539 cases of Covid-19 were confirmed on Friday.\n\nThe number is slightly down on Thursday's figure, but Ms Sturgeon said cases numbers were still \"worryingly high\".\n\nDaily confirmed cases have reached record highs on each of the previous three days, rising to to 2,622 on Thursday.\n\nThe percentage of positive cases also reached 14.4% on Wednesday - the highest it has been since the second wave of the pandemic began in the summer.\n\nMs Sturgeon tweeted: \"Today's case numbers are worryingly high again. The new variant is accelerating spread.\n\n\"PLEASE do not visit other people's homes just now, even today - if you first foot someone today, or hug/kiss/handshake them HNY, you are putting yourself, others & the NHS at risk.\"\n\nShe said the \"vaccine cavalry\" was on the way, offering \"real hope for 2021\", but she added: \"With this new variant, the next few weeks may be the most dangerous we've faced since Mar/April.\n\n\"We must act together to suppress it, to save lives and protect the NHS. Folded hands stick with it.\"\n\nThe number of daily confirmed cases has reached record highs this week\n\nA new study by London's Imperial College has found that the new variant of Covid-19 is \"hugely\" more transmissible than the virus's previous version.\n\nIt concludes the new variant increases the Reproduction or R number by between 0.4 and 0.7.\n\nThe UK's latest R number has been estimated at between 1.1 and 1.3. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.\n\nThe Scottish government's most recent estimate of the R number in Scotland has put it between 0.9 and 1.1.\n\nEmma Thomson, a professor of infectious disease at the University of Glasgow, said it was important to get people vaccinated quickly.\n\nThe professor, who has been working on the sequencing of the new Covid mutation, told the BBC that lockdown was not controlling the infection \"on its own\".\n\n\"At least we come in armed into the new year with two vaccines which are highly effective at preventing severe disease. We have that,\" she said.\n\n\"We need to roll it out now to add to the public health measures.\"\n\nParties, traditional \"first-footing\" and social events were banned this Hogmanay, with all of mainland Scotland and Skye being under the highest level of Covid restrictions.\n\nAll official events were cancelled, but police had to disperse a crowds of people who gathered at Edinburgh Castle and Calton Hill to see in the new year.\n\nIt has also emerged that 32 people were charged with reckless conduct after police found them gathered at a rented property in Aberfoyle on 27 December.\n\nA Scottish government spokesperson said: \"As the first minister has pointed out, the sharp rise in cases is evidence that the new strain seems to be speeding up transmission.\n\n\"This is why we are asking people to please stay at home as much as possible and avoid non-essential interaction with others.\n\n\"There is light at the end of the tunnel, but we ask everyone to be patient as we work our way through the vaccination programme, and continue to follow FACTS to keep us all safe.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIndia has formally approved the emergency use of two coronavirus vaccines as it prepares for one of the world's biggest inoculation drives.\n\nThe drugs regulatory authority gave the green light to the jabs developed by AstraZeneca with Oxford University and by local firm Bharat Biotech.\n\nIndia plans to inoculate some 300 million people on a priority list this year.\n\nIt has recorded the second-highest number of infections in the world, with more than 10.3 million confirmed cases to date. Nearly 150,000 people have died.\n\nOn Saturday India held nationwide drills to prepare more than 90,000 health care workers to administer vaccines across the country, which has a population of 1.3 billion people.\n\nThe Drugs Controller General of India said both manufacturers had submitted data showing their vaccines were safe to use.\n\nHowever, opposition politicians and some doctors have criticised a lack of transparency in the approval process.\n\nDr Swapneil Parikh, an infectious diseases researcher based in Mumbai, told the BBC doctors were in a difficult position.\n\n\"I understand there is a need to go through the process quickly, remove regulatory hurdles,\" he said. \"However... [governments and regulators] have a duty to be transparent about the data they have reviewed and the process involved in making the decision to authorise a vaccine, because if they don't do this, it can affect the public's faith in the process.\"\n\nThe Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine is being manufactured locally by the Serum Institute of India, the world's largest vaccine manufacturer. It says it is producing more than 50 million doses a month.\n\nAdar Poonawalla, the company's CEO, told the BBC in November that he aimed to ramp up production to 100 million doses a month after receiving regulatory approval.\n\nThe jab, which is known as Covishield in India, is administered in two doses given between four and 12 weeks apart. It can be safely stored at temperatures of 2C to 8C, about the same as a domestic fridge, and can be delivered in existing health care settings such as doctors' surgeries.\n\nThis makes it easier to distribute than some of the other vaccines. The jab developed by Pfizer/BioNTech - which is currently being administered in several countries - must be stored at -70C and can only be moved a limited number of times - a particular challenge in India, where summer temperatures can reach 50C.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Adar Poonawalla This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe local vaccine, however, was approved despite the absence of data on how efficient it can be. It has yet to go through large-scale trials.\n\nThe Drugs Controller General, V.G. Somani, said Bharat Biotech's Covaxin was \"safe and provides a robust immune response\".\n\nMr Somani said it had been approved \"in public interest as an abundant precaution, in clinical trial mode, to have more options for vaccinations, especially in case of infection by mutant strains\".\n\nIndia, which makes about 60% of vaccines globally, plans to immunise about 300 million people by July 2021. It will prioritise health care workers, the emergency services, and those who are clinically vulnerable because of age or pre-existing conditions.\n\nIndia's existing vaccination programme already reaches about 55 million people a year, administering 390 million free jabs against a dozen diseases. It stocks and tracks the vaccines through a well-oiled electronic system.\n\nIndia immunisation programme is one of the largest in the world\n\nPfizer, whose vaccine has already been approved for use in jurisdictions including the UK, the US and the EU, is also seeking emergency authorisation in India.\n\nIn all, some 30 vaccine candidates are being developed in India.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Olly Stephens was pronounced dead in Bugs Bottom fields in Emmer Green, Reading\n\nFour boys and a girl have been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder after a 13-year-old boy was stabbed to death in Reading.\n\nOliver Stephens, known as Olly, was pronounced dead at Bugs Bottom fields, Emmer Green, on Sunday.\n\nThe five teenagers, all aged 13 or 14, remain in custody, according to Thames Valley Police.\n\nDet Supt Kevin Brown said: \"Our thoughts remain with Olly's family at this incredibly difficult time.\"\n\nHe added: \"This is a tragic and shocking incident which has resulted in the death of a young boy.\"\n\nThe victim's family are being supported by specially trained officers.\n\nFloral tributes to Olly have been left outside Highdown School\n\nHighdown School and Sixth Form Centre said it was \"reeling from the tragic news\".\n\nIn a statement, head teacher Rachel Cave said: \"This student was part of our community and many students and staff knew him well.\n\n\"For a life to be ended at such a young age is a total tragedy. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family.\"\n\nThe school, in Emmer Green, said it was arranging counselling support for students and setting up an electronic book of condolence.\n\nThames Valley Police said a \"considerable police presence\" would be in place in the area for several days\n\nOfficers were called just before 16:00 GMT on Sunday following reports of an attack.\n\nOfficers are appealing for anyone who was in the area between 15:00 and 16:30 who might have taken photos or camera footage to contact them if they notice anything suspicious.\n\nDet Supt Brown said he believed there would have been witnesses to the \"dreadful incident\" as the area is popular with dog walkers.\n\nA man said his wife was walking their dog through the park on Sunday afternoon when she saw a boy on the ground with several people around him trying to give him first aid.\n\nAnother dog walker said she saw a group of young people standing in the woods in Bugs Bottom fields at about 15:30 and described it as \"slightly unusual\".\n\nReading East MP Matt Rodda has offered his \"deepest condolences\" to the boy's family.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Matt Rodda This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSt Barnabas Church in Emmer Green has invited residents to pray and light a candle in memory of the boy.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A UK ticket-holder has started the new year by winning the EuroMillions jackpot of nearly £40m.\n\nOne ticket matched all five regular numbers and two lucky stars in the draw on Friday night to win the £39,774,466.40 prize.\n\nCamelot's Andy Carter, senior winners' adviser at the National Lottery, said: \"What an amazing start to 2021 for UK EuroMillions players.\"\n\nA ticket-holder has now come forward to claim their prize.\n\nCamelot, which operates the lottery, said checks were being made on the claim.\n\nMr Carter said: \"It is fantastic news that the jackpot winning lucky ticket-holder has now claimed this enormous prize. We will now focus on supporting the ticket-holder through the process.\"\n\nThe winning numbers were 16, 28, 32, 44 and 48 with the lucky stars 01 and 09.\n\nTen other ticket-holders each won £1m in the UK Millionaire Maker New Year's Day event.\n\nIn 2019, a UK ticket-holder won the full £170m EuroMillions jackpot, making them Britain's richest ever lottery winner.\n\nAnd last year, a £57m EuroMillions prize claim was validated just before the deadline. The ticket had been bought in South Ayrshire.\n\nThe winning ticket holder's newfound cash means they are now wealthier than former One Direction singer Zayn Malik, who is worth £36m, according to the 2020 Sunday Times Rich List.\n\nAnd if they have a bit more money in the bank, they could buy one of the UK's most expensive homes, which went on the market last year.\n\nNobody won the EuroMillons Hotpicks jackpot on Friday, which uses the same numbers as the main draw, but one winner scooped the Thunderball top prize of £500,000.\n\nThe Thunderball numbers were 13, 17, 30, 34, 35 and the Thunderball was 01.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "Wales went into a new lockdown on 20 December\n\nWales is likely to remain in lockdown for the rest of January as the first minister said he does not \"see much headroom for change\".\n\nMinisters are to review restrictions ahead of an announcement on Friday.\n\nBut Mark Drakeford said it was \"very hard to see where the room for manoeuvre is at the moment\" with the NHS \"under huge pressure\".\n\nWithout further changes, restrictions could be kept until the next three-week review at the end of January.\n\nMr Drakeford also said the Welsh Government was unlikely to tighten restrictions despite the emergence of a new more contagious variant of the virus.\n\nHe said there could be some tweaks \"at the margins\" but no wholesale changes because \"it's difficult to see what more could be done\".\n\nThe government introduced a new four-level system of Covid-19 restrictions on 20 December with people told to stay home and avoid all but essential travel.\n\nA study has found the new variant of Covid-19 to be \"hugely\" more transmissible than the virus's previous version.\n\nThe Imperial College study suggests transmission of the new variant tripled during England's November lockdown while the previous version was reduced by a third.\n\nBut Mr Drakeford does not believe the Welsh Government needs to change the system of restrictions it introduced before details of the new variant emerged.\n\n\"We'll keep our plans under review but level four restrictions in Wales are very strict indeed and it's difficult to see what more could be done to them,\" he said.\n\n\"If they need to be tweaked at the margins to take account of the new variation that's what the cabinet here will consider.\"\n\nHe has dismissed calls by teaching unions to suspend the phased return of face-to-face teaching.\n\nThe government's cabinet will meet on Wednesday to review the current restrictions ahead of an announcement by the first minister on Friday.\n\nBut when asked whether he expected any changes, Mr Drakeford said: \"It's very hard to see where the room for manoeuvre is at the moment.\n\n\"Our health service remains under huge pressure and the coming weeks will be very difficult indeed with winter pressures on the one hand and growing numbers of people suffering with coronavirus in our hospitals on the other.\n\n\"We'll review it, as we said we would, but when I look at the figures I don't see much headroom for change.\"\n\nThe Welsh Conservatives have not criticised the decision to remain in lockdown, but have called for greater scrutiny.\n\nSuzy Davies, Member of the Senedd for South Wales West, said questions would remain \"about how legitimate the decisions of the Welsh Government are\" until MSs had the opportunity to question them in the Welsh Parliament.\n\nPlaid Cymru leader Adam Price said the announcement was unsurprising given the pressures on the NHS, but called on the Welsh Government to ensure a \"rapid rollout\" of the Covid vaccine.\n\nMr Price also called for financial support for people forced to self-isolate and businesses \"during the hardest winter of our time\".\n\nAfter Friday's decision, the next three-week review announcement is not expected until 29 January.\n\nA further 56 people have died after contracting coronavirus in Wales, along with 4,011 new cases, according to data published by Public Health Wales on Sunday.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A dozen people were fined in London for playing dominoes\n\nTwelve people have been fined after they were caught playing dominoes in a restaurant in east London.\n\nPolice officers found the group hiding in a dark room when they entered the building in Whitechapel on Tuesday.\n\nThe owner initially claimed those inside were workers, before admitting they were playing the game.\n\nTower Hamlets Council has been asked to consider issuing a fine to the owner of the restaurant for breaching tier four Covid-19 restrictions, the Met said.\n\nA video released by the Met shows the restaurant owner saying: \"They're playing dominoes.\"\n\nCh Insp Pete Shaw said: \"The rules under tier four are in place to keep all of us safe, and they do not exempt people from gathering to play games together in basements.\n\n\"The fact that these people hid from officers clearly shows they knew they were breaching the rules and have now been fined for their actions.\"\n• None Met breaks up more than 50 New Year's Eve parties\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Boris Johnson has reiterated his position that a Scottish independence referendum should be a \"once-in-a-generation\" vote.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr programme, the prime minister said the gap between referendums on Europe - the first in 1975 and the second in 2016 - was \"a good sort of gap\".\n\nHowever, Mr Marr suggested that now \"things had changed\" for Scotland.\n\nNicola Sturgeon wants to see an independent Scotland join the EU.\n\nAndrew Marr asked the prime minister what a voter in Scotland should do if they decided that a second independence referendum was now something they wanted, and what were the \"democratic tools\" to now do that?\n\nMr Johnson replied by saying: \"Referendums in my experience, direct experience, in this country are not particularly jolly events.\n\n\"They don't have a notably unifying force in the national mood, they should be only once-in-a-generation.\"\n\nAsked what the difference was between a referendum on EU membership being granted and one on Scottish independence being requested, he said: \"The difference is we had a referendum in 1975 and we then had another one in 2016.\n\n\"That seems to be about the right sort of gap.\"\n\nThe 2014 independence referendum resulted in a 55.3% vote against Scotland going alone.\n\nOn Hogmanay, Nicola Sturgeon said Europe should \"keep a light on\" as Scotland will be \"back soon\".\n\nThe first minister tweeted just after the Brexit transition period formally ended at 11:00 on 31 December 2020.\n\nScotland's trading and travel relationships with EU countries will now be governed by the agreement announced by the UK government on Christmas Eve.\n\nMs Sturgeon reiterated the SNP's call for an independent Scotland to join the EU.\n\nTweeting a picture of the words Europe and Scotland joined by a love heart, she wrote: \"Scotland will be back soon, Europe. Keep the light on.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Nicola Sturgeon This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSNP depute leader Keith Brown said: \"It may be a new year but it's the same old incoherent bluster from Boris Johnson. The prime minister pretends otherwise but he knows he can't keep on denying democracy.\n\n\"Even his American pal Donald Trump has learned that if you try to stand in the way of the democratic choice of a nation you get swept away.\n\n\"The people who will decide our future are the people of Scotland, not Boris Johnson and the Westminster Tories.\"\n\nFormer Labour prime minister Tony Blair said it was \"extremely difficult\" to challenge the SNP on independence when the party was \"virtually uncontested\" in Scotland.\n\nHe said: \"We had a referendum that rejected Scottish independence, but Brexit put it back on the agenda again. And it's going to require very careful management. The truth of the matter is it's still not in Scotland's interest to separate from England.\n\n\"There are huge economic and political reasons for the United Kingdom to stay the United Kingdom but we're going to have to examine whether there's different constitutional settlements.\n\n\"I also think it's incredibly important, the single most important thing politically to my mind, is that we get a really capable opposition in Scotland - which should be the Labour Party - that's capable of contesting the Scottish nationalist position in Scotland in a way that prevents them from doing what they do at the moment, which is govern Scotland but pretend they're in opposition.\"\n\nScottish Greens co-leader Lorna Slater said: \"Only the people of Scotland have the right to determine Scotland's future.\n\n\"Seventeen consecutive opinion polls have demonstrated majorities in favour of independence, with the most recent indicating a record 58% support.\n\n\"Whether it's the botched handling of the coronavirus crisis, the Brexit catastrophe or just the heartlessness of Tory governments we haven't voted for, it's clear that the UK isn't working for Scotland.\"", "Gerry Marsden was awarded an MBE in 2003 for services to Liverpudlian Charities.\n\nGerry and the Pacemakers singer Gerry Marsden, whose version of You'll Never Walk Alone became a football terrace anthem for his hometown club of Liverpool, has died at the age of 78.\n\nHis family said he died on Sunday after a short illness not linked to Covid-19.\n\nMarsden's band was one of the biggest success stories of the Merseybeat era, and in 1963 became the first to have their first three songs top the chart.\n\nThe band's other best known hit, Ferry Cross The Mersey, came in 1964.\n\nIt was written by Marsden himself as a tribute to his city, and reached number eight.\n\nMarsden was made an MBE in 2003 for services to charity after supporting victims of the Hillsborough disaster.\n\nAt the time, he said he was \"over the moon\" to have received the honour, following his support for numerous charities across Merseyside and beyond.\n\nGerry Marsden in 2009 on the Mersey ferry, which he made famous with his song Ferry Cross The Mersey, as he received the Freedom of the City in Liverpool\n\nMarsden's daughter, Yvette Marbeck, said he went into hospital on Boxing Day after tests showed he had a serious blood infection that had travelled to his heart.\n\nMs Marbeck told the PA news agency: \"It was a very short illness and too quick to comprehend really.\"\n\nHe died in hospital, Ms Marbeck said, adding: \"He was our dad, our hero, warm, funny and what you see is what you got.\"\n\nLiverpool FC posted on social media that Marsden's words would \"live on forever with us\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nGerry and the Pacemakers worked the same Liverpool club circuit as The Beatles in the 1960s and were signed by the Fab Four's manager Brian Epstein.\n\nEpstein gave Marsden's group the song How Do You Do It, which had been turned down by The Beatles and Adam Faith, for their debut single.\n\nSir Paul McCartney described Gerry and the Pacemakers as The Beatles's \"biggest rivals\" on the Merseyside scene.\n\n\"I'll always remember you with a smile,\" Sir Paul said in his tribute to Marsden.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Paul McCartney This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd the other surviving Beatle, Sir Ringo Starr, sent \"peace and love\" to Marsden's family in a tribute on Twitter.\n\nWhile Marsden was a songwriter as well as a singer, his most enduring hit was actually a cover of a Rodgers and Hammerstein musical number from 1945, which he had to convince his bandmates to record as their third single.\n\nIn many interviews over the years, he explained how fate played a part in his band ever recording the song. He was watching a Laurel and Hardy movie at Liverpool's Odeon cinema in the early 1960s and, only because it was raining, he decided to stay for the second part of a double feature.\n\nThat turned out to be the film Carousel - which featured that song on its soundtrack - and Marsden was so moved by the lyrics that he became determined that it should become part of his band's repertoire.\n\nIn a 2013 interview, Marsden told the Liverpool FC website how You'll Never Walk Alone was adopted by the club's fans as soon as it topped the chart in 1963: \"I remember being at Anfield and before every kick off they used to play the top 10 from number 10 to number one, and so You'll Never Walk Alone was played before the match. I was at the game and the fans started singing it.\n\n\"When it went out of the top 10 they took the song off the playlist and then for the next match the Kop were shouting 'Where's our song?' So they had to put it back on.\n\n\"Now, every time I go to the game I still get goose pimples when the song comes on and I sing my head off.\"\n\nSir Kenny Dalglish, who managed Liverpool at the time of the Hillsborough tragedy, tweeted that he was \"saddened\" by the news of Marsden's death, and that You'll Never Walk Alone was an \"integral part of Liverpool Football Club, and never more so than now\".\n\nLiverpool City Region Mayor Steve Rotheram posted a tribute on Twitter, saying he was \"devastated\" by the news.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Steve Rotheram This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nGerry was an entertainer. He loved being an entertainer; he loved people seeing him in the street and asking him for his autograph and the like.\n\nHe had a very distinctive voice, and that is terribly important. You knew instantly it was him on those records. He was best on those ballads.\n\nI think he really did them very well indeed. You'll Never Walk Alone was a big show song that had been around for years and years, and lots of people had done it.\n\nJust before Gerry brought his version out, Johnny Mathis brought his out. If that version had been played on the Kop, I don't think the Kop would have taken to it because you couldn't sing along with Johnny Mathis - he had too big a range and too perfect a voice.\n\nBut Gerry sounded like everyman and it was absolutely perfect for the Kop. I think it's the greatest football anthem of the lot.\n\nAs well as being a Liverpool anthem, You'll Never Walk Alone has also been adopted by fans at both Celtic in Scotland and Borussia Dortmund in Germany.\n\nMarsden's career began at legendary live music venue, The Cavern Club, where The Pacemakers played nearly 200 times.\n\nThe club said on Twitter that Marsden was \"not only a legend, but also a very good friend of The Cavern\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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End of twitter post 4 by The Cavern Club\n\nGerry and The Pacemakers achieved nine hit singles and two hit albums between 1963 and 1965, before splitting up.\n\nMarsden pursued a solo career before the band reformed in 1974 for a world tour.\n\nIn 1985, Marsden was back in the pop spotlight when he was invited to be one of the vocalists of a charity version of You'll Never Walk Alone, which was released to raise funds for victims of a fire at a Bradford City match.\n\nIn doing so, Marsden set another chart record by becoming the first person to sing on two different chart-topping versions of the same song.\n\nSo when, after the Hillsborough tragedy in 1989, the other Pacemakers classic of Ferry Cross The Mersey was chosen to raise funds for its victims and a group of famous Liverpudlian singers was gathered, Marsden was again included and was back at number one once more for a cause he held dear for the rest of his life.\n\nMarsden was awarded the Freedom of Liverpool in April 2009, an occasion he marked by boarding a ferry across the Mersey and getting out his guitar to sing his famous hit which described the scene.", "A woman takes her dog for an early walk in Allendale in Northumberland\n\nMany parts of England have seen snow flurries accompany the arrival of New Year.\n\nAreas which welcomed in 2021 with several centimetres of snow included Northumberland, parts of Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire.\n\nThe Met Office has warned worse is to come with more wintry showers forecast.\n\nDriving conditions on many roads will become \"hazardous\" as the cold weather continues next week, it said.\n\nSeveral football matches were cancelled this weekend due to frozen pitches.\n\nGround staff at West Bromwich Albion were faced with heavy snowfall prior to their Premier League match with Arsenal at The Hawthorns on Saturday evening.\n\nGround staff clear snow from the pitch prior to the Premier League match at The Hawthorns, West Bromwich on Saturday\n\nFurther snow is predicted mainly inland and particularly over higher ground where above 200-300m a further few centimetres of snow is possible.\n\nThe chill in the air is due to high pressure to the north of the UK, which is dragging air from the east \"which at this time of year is cold\", the Met Office said.\n\nThe cold easterly winds are set to develop next week, bringing wintry showers - particularly around eastern parts - while hazardous freezing fog, frost and ice risks will all continue, forecasters said.\n\nSledging in the snow around Silverdale Country Park in Newcastle-under-Lyme\n\nTwo women looking out over the snow covered Huntcliff sea cliffs in Saltburn on the North Yorkshire coast\n\nMeteorologist Alex Burkill said: \"Obviously it's very cold and it's going to stay cold through this week.\n\n\"Whilst there will be some wintry hazards around, it's not really until the end of the week until we see any significant snow.\"\n\nColston Bassett in Nottinghamshire got a light dusting of snow on Saturday\n\nA buried garden Buddha after heavy overnight snow in Buxton in Derbyshire\n\nRAC Breakdown spokesman Simon Williams said: \"The message for those who have to drive is to adjust their speed according to the conditions and leave extra stopping distance so 2021 doesn't begin with an unwelcome bump and an insurance claim.\n\n\"Snow and ice are by far the toughest driving conditions, so if they can be avoided that's probably the best policy.\"\n\nA plough clears snow from the roads in Allendale, Northumberland\n\nA man takes his dogs for an early morning walk through the snow in Allenheads, Northumberland\n\nWaterfowl were still active at a snowy Chapel en le Frith in the Derbyshire Peak District\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Researchers have been tracking changes to the \"spike\" of the virus\n\nThe new variant of Covid-19 is \"hugely\" more transmissible than the virus's previous version, a study has found.\n\nIt concludes the new variant increases the Reproduction or R number by between 0.4 and 0.7.\n\nThe UK's latest R number has been estimated at between 1.1 and 1.3. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.\n\nProf Axel Gandy of London's Imperial College said the differences between the viruses types was \"quite extreme\".\n\n\"There is a huge difference in how easily the variant virus spreads,\" he told BBC News. \"This is the most serious change in the virus since the epidemic began,\" he added.\n\nThe Imperial College study suggests transmission of the new variant tripled during England's November lockdown while the previous version was reduced by a third.\n\nCases of Covid-19 have begun to increase rapidly during the second spike, and the number of cases recorded in a single day reached a new high on Thursday.\n\nEarly results indicated that the virus was spreading more quickly among under-20s, particularly among secondary school age children.\n\nBut the very latest data indicates that it was spreading quickly across all age groups, according to Prof Gandy who was a member of the research team.\n\n\"One possible explanation is that the early data was collected during the time of the November lockdown where schools were open and the activities of the adult population were more restricted. We are seeing now that the new virus has increased infectiousness across all age groups.\"\n\nProf Jim Naismith, of Oxford University, said he believed that the new findings indicated that even tougher restrictions would soon be needed.\n\n\"The data from Imperial represent the best analysis to date and imply that the measures we have employed to date, would - with the new virus - fail to reduce the R number to below 1.\n\n\"In simpler terms, unless we do something different the new virus strain is going to continue to spread, more infections, more hospitalisations and more deaths.\"\n\nThe R number is the average number of people an infected person infects. If it is above 1 the epidemic is growing.\n\nThe most chilling finding from this piece of research is that the November lockdown in England, hard though it was for many people, would not have stopped the variant form of the virus spreading. The same severe restrictions that saw cases of the previous version of the virus fall by a third, would see a tripling of the new variant. This is why there has been such a sudden tightening of restrictions across the country.\n\nIt is unclear whether the current restrictions will be enough to control the spread of the virus. Given the fact that it has taken two lockdowns to stop the earlier version of the virus overwhelming the NHS, many scientists fear that further tightening will be necessary.\n\nInfection levels will begin to drop as enough people are vaccinated. But until then it is now more important than ever for people to follow social distancing guidelines, wear masks where required and to regularly wash their hands.\n\nThe new year brings with it hope of a more normal life in the next few months but also a new form of the virus that all of us will have to combat in the coming days and weeks.\n\nProfessor Lawrence Young, of Warwick University, said early indications suggested that vaccines would be effective against the new form of the virus.\n\n\"Variants virus have been around since the beginning of the pandemic and are a product of the natural process by which viruses develop and adapt to their hosts as they replicate.\n\n\"Most of these mutations have no effect on the behaviour of the virus but very occasionally they can improve the ability of the virus to infect and/or become more resistant to the body's immune response.\"\n\nFurther research is needed to understand why the variant is spreading so quickly. But early indications are that vaccines should be effective against it.\n\nThe new virus has been designated \"Variant of Concern 202012/01\" or VOC by Public Health England.\n\nIt was detected in November and thought to have originated in the south-east England in September.\n\nThere is no evidence to suggest that it is more deadly, but it will increase the number of cases which in turn will add further pressure on the NHS.\n\nThe variant can now be found across the UK, except Northern Ireland, but it is heavily concentrated in London, as well as south-east and eastern England.", "The aftermath of an attack in August in Niger, which has suffered a number claimed by jihadist groups\n\nSuspected Islamist militants have attacked two villages in Niger, with reports of dozens of civilians killed.\n\nAround 49 died and 17 were injured in the village of Tchombangou, while another 30 died in Zaroumdareye - both near Niger's western border with Mali, Reuters reports.\n\nThere have been several recent violent incidents in Africa's Sahel region, carried out by militant groups.\n\nFrance said on Saturday that two of its soldiers were killed in Mali.\n\nHours earlier, a group with links to al-Qaeda said it was behind the killing of three French troops in a separate attack in Mali on Monday.\n\nFrance has been leading a coalition of West African and European allies against Islamist militants in the Sahel.\n\nBut the region continues to be affected by ethnic violence, banditry, and human and drug trafficking.\n\nIn light of Saturday's attacks, Interior Minister Alkache Alhada said soldiers had been sent to the area, according to French outlet RFI. But Mr Alhada did not say how many casualties there had been across the two villages.\n\nA local official, quoted by AFP news agency, said many people were killed, and a local journalist spoke of up to 50 deaths.\n\nNiger's Tillabéri region, where the villages are situated, lies within the so-called tri-border area between Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso, which has been plagued by jihadi attacks in recent years.\n\nTravel by motorbike has been banned in the region for a year, as part of efforts to stop incursions by Islamic militants, who often launch attacks from the vehicles.\n\nAreas of Niger are also facing repeated attacks by jihadists from Nigeria, where the government is fighting an insurgency by Boko Haram.\n\nLast month, members of the group killed at least 27 people in Niger's south-eastern Diffa region.\n\nThe latest attacks in Tillabéri come amid national elections in Niger, as President Mahamadou Issoufou steps down after two five-year terms.\n\nElection officials announced provisional results on Saturday, showing a lead for Mohamed Bazoum - a former minister and a member of Niger's ruling party.\n\nA second round of votes is expected to be held on 21 February, once ballots have been validated by the country's constitutional court.", "The prime minister has said that tougher measures could be needed to help cope with a surge in coronavirus cases.\n\nHe has not yet said whether we will need school closures, or even overnight curfews like those imposed in France.\n\nBut clues about such measures to tackle the new more infectious variant come from the government's Sage advisory committee.\n\nThe headline is that whether we see a return to only being allowed one form of daily outdoor exercise, or stricter controls on travel around the country, we'll be hearing a lot more about something already very familiar: hand hygiene, social distancing, wearing masks and ensuring there is fresh air.\n\nThese may sound familiar but the advisers believe that because the new variant spreads so easily, the measures need to be applied with \"a step change in rigour\" - in other words, a lot more forcefully.\n\nThey suggest considering a return to the two-metre rule because it's more effective than the one-metre plus guidance adopted last year.\n\nMasks need to be made of three layers, not just one, and worn in more locations than now - including workplaces, schools and crowded outdoor spaces.\n\nThe key message is that it is vital to reduce social contact - being close to people, especially indoors for long periods of time, carries the highest risk of infection.\n\nSo expect tier four-type bans on visiting other households to become normal.\n\nThe advisers also say many people still do not recognise the key symptoms of Covid-19 - so ministers need to spell them out and help people understand why they should self-isolate.\n\nBut they also say it is essential to praise the efforts made so far, to recognise sacrifices and emphasise how they've kept infection numbers lower than they would otherwise have been.\n\nWhatever new measures are picked, the advice to ministers is to offer \"clear and convincing explanations\" to motivate people.\n\nThat could be a hint that the government's current \"hands, face, space\" slogan may need to make way for something stronger.", "Last updated on .From the section Man City\n\nManchester City manager Pep Guardiola says he may stay in management much longer than he anticipated.\n\nGuardiola, 49, has previously talked of limiting his time in football to pursue other interests.\n\n\"Before, I thought I was going to retire soon. Now I'm thinking I'm going to retire older. So, I don't know,\" Guardiola said.\n\nThe Spaniard signed a new two-year deal at City in November and has won six major trophies at the club.\n\nPrior to his arrival in Manchester, Guardiola, who turns 50 this month, spent four years as manager of Barcelona and three in charge of Bayern Munich.\n\n\"Experience helps you, especially the way I live my profession,\" he added.\n\nGuardiola's five-year stay at City represents the longest commitment he has made to a club in his management career.\n\nHe has won two Premier League titles, the FA Cup and three League Cups since joining them in 2016.\n\nDespite going into Sunday's match at Chelsea on the back of a six-game unbeaten run and with two games in hand on most clubs around them in the table, he is cautious about talk of winning a third league title.\n\n\"If you think about what [can] happen in January, February - the two games [in hand], we can lose these two games and anything can happen,\" he said.\n\n\"So, in the Premier League, every game is so tough and it is better to be calm. The real Premier League, the people I spoke to before I landed here, said everyone can lose to everyone. I didn't see this until now.\n\n\"Now is the first time when I see in the Premier League, one team is able to lose or win seven, and after draw, and after lose. The results are unpredictable.\"\n\nAmong the challengers this season are arch rivals Manchester United, who City face in the Carabao Cup semi-finals.\n\nOle Gunnar Solskjaer's side have been rejuvenated in recent weeks, shrugging off the disappointment of a Champions League exit with some excellent domestic form.\n\n\"Ole is happier than me,\" said Guardiola, whose preparations have been affected by five players testing positive for Covid-19.\n\n\"But I am not much concerned about United. I am so busy with what we have to do and what we can do with the players.\n\n\"They are there because they deserve it. Since I arrived I expected them to be there all the time. Sometimes in the last seasons it has not been possible, especially in the Premier League.\"\n• None A special and exclusive one-off chat with the music icon\n• None How has their rise come to define our culture?", "Police made 17 arrests at the demonstration in Hyde Park\n\nPolice have made arrests at an anti-lockdown demonstration in central London.\n\nCrowds of between 200 to 300 people began to gather in Hyde Park, which is in a tier four coronavirus area, at about 13:30 GMT on Saturday, the Metropolitan Police said.\n\nSeventeen people were arrested on suspicion of breaching public health regulations.\n\nMost demonstrators had left the park by 16:45, police said.\n\nThe Met tweeted: \"Officers continue to engage with groups of people who have gathered in the Hyde Park area.\n\n\"A number of people have been arrested under health protection regulations and taken into custody.\n\n\"We urge those in the area to leave immediately.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Metropolitan Police Events This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMore than two people are generally not allowed to meet in public under tier four rules.\n\nThe police force added: \"Officers will take enforcement action where we see clear breaches of the tier four rules.\n\n\"It's up to all of us to make the right choices and slow the spread of the virus.\"\n\nA group called The People's Lockdown, Stand For Your Human Rights, had said it was going to hold a event at Hyde Park on Saturday afternoon.\n\nIn an online post, it called on people to \"stand with your loved ones\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Man City\n\nManchester City say they are disappointed after defender Benjamin Mendy breached Covid-19 rules by hosting a New Year's Eve party.\n\nA spokesperson for the France international said the 26-year-old held a dinner party with guests from outside his household.\n\nThe mixing of households indoors is banned under the UK government's tier four restrictions.\n\nCity said they would conduct an internal investigation.\n\nMendy was named on the bench for City's Premier League game away to Chelsea on Sunday (16:30 GMT).\n\n\"While it is understood that elements of this incident have been misinterpreted in the reports [carried by newspapers earlier], and that the player has publicly apologised for his error, the club is disappointed to learn of the transgression and will be conducting an internal investigation,\" the club said in a statement.\n\nA spokesperson for Mendy said: \"Benjamin and his partner allowed a chef and two friends of his partner to attend his property for a dinner party on New Year's Eve.\n\n\"Ben accepts that this is a breach of Covid-19 protocols and is sorry for his actions in this matter. Ben has had a Covid test and is liaising with Manchester City about this.\"\n\nExplaining why Mendy was in his matchday squad on Sunday, manager Pep Guardiola told Sky Sports: \"First of all the club made a statement; second Benjamin already had Covid in the past - he's been tested every day like all of us and he's negative. He knows what he has done and he will learn in the future.\"\n\nMeanwhile, goalkeeper Ederson, forward Ferran Torres, and midfielder Tommy Doyle are among six City players out of the Chelsea game because of coronavirus.\n\nThe trio have tested positive for the virus, adding to the cases of Kyle Walker, Gabriel Jesus and Eric Garcia.\n\nEarlier on Sunday, defender Garcia became the sixth City player to test positive for coronavirus.\n\nGarcia, along with a member of staff who also returned a positive test, will now self-isolate.\n\nCity previously postponed their match against Everton on 28 December because of positive tests.\n\nThere have been a number of apparent coronavirus breaches by players at Premier League clubs in recent days.\n\nTottenham criticised three of their players after they attended a party over Christmas, while Fulham are looking into reports that striker Aleksandar Mitrovic allegedly broke coronavirus rules.\n\nCrystal Palace manager Roy Hodgson also apologised after midfielder Luka Milivojevic was pictured with Mitrovic at a gathering in London.\n\nFulham's match against Burnley on Sunday was postponed after an increase in positive cases at the club.\n\nCity also had to cancel their match against Everton on 28 December because of positive tests.", "Last updated on .From the section Boxing\n\nLuke Campbell's hopes of another world title shot suffered a severe blow as Ryan Garcia rose from the canvas to land a superb stoppage in Dallas.\n\nIn a gripping lightweight fight, Briton Campbell landed a left hook in round two to floor Mexican-American Garcia.\n\nSome asked how the much-hyped Garcia might respond to adversity and while he fought on emotion, he found answers.\n\nCampbell survived a tough attack in the fifth, but a well-placed body shot ended the contest two rounds later.\n\n\"You taught me a lot,\" Garcia, 22, told 33-year-old Campbell as the opponents embraced in the beaten man's corner at the American Airlines Center.\n\nThe jubilant reaction from Garcia's team - including gym-mate Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez - hinted at relief, but unquestionably emphasised the statement they knew their man had made.\n\nIn beating a fighter of Campbell's pedigree - and by rising from the canvas to do so - this win served up plenty of answers about Garcia, whose social media following led him to be identified as the world's 12th most marketable athlete in October.\n\n\"I think I showed a lot of people who I really am. I showed today I am special,\" he told DAZN.\n\n\"They wanted to show me as a social media fighter. Anybody who puts you down, remember you're not who people tell you who you are - you are who you choose to be. I chose to be a champion tonight.\n\n\"He caught me, I was like, 'I got dropped, this is crazy'. I've never been dropped in my life. I had to adjust. I knew I could beat him, I just had to get back up.\"\n\nGarcia is the first man to beat Campbell by stoppage. Shortly after the fight Campbell told Garcia in his dressing room that he punched harder than anyone he had ever faced. The London 2012 Olympic gold medallist then told his Twitter followers that Garcia has a \"massive future ahead\".\n\nThis stoppage win will add to the kind of hype that has led some American broadcasters to suggest Garcia's star status could bring new fans to the sport in the years to come.\n\nThe 1-3 bookmakers' favourite was carried to the ring on a throne while Campbell waited in the ring in Texas.\n\nBut within two rounds a heavy left hook put Garcia on his back and it is to his credit he got up, took the fight to his rival and won rounds in the aftermath.\n\nGarcia had only twice gone past round four, and his last two bouts had lasted less than 180 seconds in total. He carried a fizz in his punches throughout and a left hook-right hand combination in the fifth rocked Campbell and sent him into the ropes as the bell sounded.\n\nIn a contest that ebbed and flowed, Campbell found some poise after a relentless attack from Garcia when the action resumed at the start of the sixth.\n\nBut a round later, Campbell braced for an attack to his head only for Garcia to beautifully drive a left hand to the body that left him on all fours.\n\nGarcia's team raced into the ring, lifted their man and placed a crown on his head.\n\nHis 21st win in as many fights could earn him a world title shot next, or his preferred bout with American Gervonta Davis.\n\nFor now, it has justified the hype and underlined his threat. After the fourth loss of his career, Campbell will need to regroup if he is to attempt to win a world title for the third time.\n• None A special and exclusive one-off chat with the music icon\n• None How has their rise come to define our culture?", "A large poultry flock is to be culled in County Antrim, after an outbreak of bird flu.\n\nThirty thousand birds are to be destroyed as a precautionary measure at the farm near Clough.\n\nIt is the first time the disease has been detected in a commercial flock in Northern Ireland since 1998\n\nThe outbreak affected a business rearing young hens for egg production and it is understood there are other poultry farms in the area.\n\nIt will mean certain movement restrictions in 3km and 10km protection zones around the affected farm, with potential trade implications for other poultry businesses there.\n\nBird flu is a notifiable disease carried by migratory wild birds. It can spread quickly and rapidly causes death in affected flocks.\n\nRestrictions were put in place earlier in the winter in an attempt to prevent transmission to commercial flocks which make up a key part of Northern Ireland's important agri-food industry.\n\nSince 23 December there has been a requirement for all poultry flocks, no matter how small, to be housed.\n\nPublic health advice is that bird flu- or avian influenza - poses a low risk to human health and the Food Standards Agency advises that it does not present a food risk.\n\nPoultry is a £750m a year industry in Northern Ireland which employs 5,000 people. There are around 24 million birds on 650 farms, most of them in counties Tyrone and Antrim.\n\nThe disease has been detected in a number of wild birds in Northern Ireland this winter and in commercial flocks in both Great Britain and in the Republic of Ireland.\n\nIn the short term it will mean no movements on or off poultry farms in the area, with a licensing system being introduced in the coming days.\n\nPoultry products from outside the restricted zone can continue to be traded with EU member states and products from within the zones can be sold on home markets.\n\nOther countries will apply their own rules depending on their assessment of the situation.\n\nNorthern Ireland's chief vet Robert Huey repeated his message for poultry owners to apply rigorous biosecurity measures.\n\n\"Given the level of suspicion and the density of the poultry population around the holding, it is vital that as a matter of precaution, we act now and act fast,\" he said.\n\n\"I have therefore taken the decision to cull the birds as well as introduce temporary control zones around the holding in an effort to protect our poultry industry and stop the spread of the virus.\n\n\"An epidemiological investigation is under way to determine the likely source of infection and determine the risk of disease spread.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Linda Bauld says Scots should be prepared a longer period living with level four restrictions\n\nScotland should be prepared for Covid restrictions to be extended as infection rates continue to rise, a public health expert has said.\n\nThe latest government figures show a further 2,137 cases of Covid-19 were confirmed in Scotland on Friday.\n\nProf Linda Bauld described it as a \"fragile situation\", despite the rate dropping below Thursday's 2,539 cases.\n\nThe latest figures for hospital admissions and deaths will not be published until Tuesday.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon warned on Friday that the next few weeks could be the most dangerous period for Scotland since March in the fight against Covid as the new variant of the virus was \"accelerating spread\" across Scotland.\n\nDaily confirmed cases reached record highs on the last three days of 2020, rising to to 2,622 on Thursday.\n\nThe percentage of positive cases also reached 14.4% on Wednesday - the highest it has been since the second wave of the pandemic began in the summer.\n\nIt had dropped to 10.8% on Friday. A percentage of lower than 5% is needed to show the virus is under control, according to the WHO.\n\nProf Bauld, a public health expert at the University of Edinburgh, said there were no signs yet that the infection rate was levelling off, having risen suddenly from a daily rate of fewer than 1,000 to more than 2,000 per day in recent days.\n\nShe told BBC Scotland: \"It definitely is a fragile situation and you can see that we have more cases than we would expect at the current time.\n\n\"We may be starting to see some of the impacts of the Christmas mixing, but also we know around four in 10 cases, from recent data, are of the new variant.\n\n\"I would imagine that the new variant is playing a role in these higher rates of infection and if these numbers continue to sit at where they are we are going to have more people in hospital in a week or two's time, and that is very worrying.\"\n\nAll of mainland Scotland is under level four restrictions in an attempt to slow down the rate of virus spread\n\nThis would bring \"real challenges\" for hospitals, especially in the central belt, Prof Bauld said, adding that it was \"absolutely imperative that we do not see these number rise more than they are now\".\n\nShe said it would take some time to see the impact of level four restrictions introduced in mainland Scotland on Boxing Day.\n\n\"Mentally we just need to be prepared for the fact that we may be living with the level four restrictions for longer than the Scottish government currently plans,\" Prof Bauld said.\n\nShe said the new, more transmissible coronavirus variant would make it harder to get the R number below one in Scotland and schools may not be able to fully reopen on 18 January.\n\nThe government's education recovery group was preparing with schools for blended learning to go on longer if necessary, she added.\n\nAll of mainland Scotland is under level four restrictions in an attempt to slow down the rate of virus spread.\n\nA new study by London's Imperial College has found that the new variant of Covid-19 is \"hugely\" more transmissible than the virus's previous version.\n\nIt concludes that the new variant increases the Reproduction or R number by between 0.4 and 0.7.\n\nThe Scottish government's most recent estimate of the R number in Scotland has put it between 0.9 and 1.1. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.\n\nThe government has described the vaccination programme as a \"light at the end of the tunnel\" and has urged people to stay at home as much as possible in the meantime.", "Hospitals across the UK are being told to prepare to face the same Covid pressures as the NHS in London and south-east England.\n\nSenior doctor Prof Andrew Goddard said the virus's highly infectious new variant was spreading nationwide.\n\nCase numbers were \"mild\" compared with where he expected them to be next week, he said, with doctors \"really worried\".\n\nIt comes as a further 57,725 people have tested positive for Covid - a new daily high.\n\nThis is the fifth day in a row new daily cases have been over 50,000 and brings the total number of cases to 2,599,789.\n\nAnother 445 deaths, of people who had tested positive within the previous 28 days, were reported on Saturday - bringing the total number of deaths to 74,570, according to government figures.\n\nThe UK-wide total for people in hospital with Covid has already passed the spring peak.\n\nHalf of the major hospital trusts in England are said to be dealing with more Covid-19 patients than at the worst point of the first wave in April, with the NHS facing its \"busiest winter ever\".\n\nProf Goddard, of the Royal College of Physicians, told BBC Breakfast: \"There's no doubt that Christmas is going to have a big impact, the new variant is also going to have a big impact, we know that is more infectious, more transmissible, so I think the large numbers that we're seeing in the South East, in London, in south Wales, is now going to be reflected over the next month, two months even, over the rest of the country.\"\n\nHe said: \"It seems very likely that we are going to see more and more cases, wherever people work in the UK, and we need to be prepared for that.\"\n\nPressure has been so great on hospitals in London and south-east England that some patients have been moved out of the area.\n\nLondon's weekly rate of coronavirus cases is 858 per 100,000 people, double the UK figure.\n\nDominic Harrison, director of public health for Blackburn and Darwen, said a decision on a new lockdown had to be decided \"in the next week\" - instead of waiting for the North to get to the same rates as the capital \"and 'call it late' which has been our pattern of response too often\".\n\nThe most recent UK-wide statistics, from 28 December, showed there were 23,823 people in hospital with Covid. That was already significantly higher than the spring peak, which saw 21,683 in hospital on 12 April.\n\nOnly English hospitals have released figures for the final three days of December - and these show that a further 2,302 Covid patients were occupying hospital beds on 31 December.\n\nLondon's Nightingale emergency hospital is ready to admit patients, the NHS has said, while other sites currently not in use are being readied.\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\nProf Goddard said it was vital the public did not \"let their guard down\" and continued to follow government guidelines, including wearing a face mask, maintaining social distancing and washing hands.\n\n\"Until the vaccination hits and does its job - that's what our best defence is going to be,\" he said.\n\nDr Ami Jones, an intensive care consultant in Wales, told BBC Breakfast that \"hospitals are absolutely bursting\", adding that a quarter of her staff were currently off sick or self-isolating, making managing patients even more challenging.\n\n\"When we see the daily figures - we know that will sting us in about 10-12 days' time in the hospital,\" she said. \"We are not even at day 10 post-Christmas yet and it's already exceedingly busy.\n\n\"We are going to get to the point where we physically don't have the staff to look after people safely anymore.\"\n\nDr Jones also urged the public to \"please just obey the rules\", adding: \"Stop mixing with other households because it is spreading like wildfire - and we haven't got much more space in the hospitals left.\"\n\nDo you work in a hospital? Have you recently been treated in a hospital, or due to be treated? Email your experiences: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRegional restrictions in England are \"probably about to get tougher\" to curb rising Covid infections, the prime minister has warned.\n\nBoris Johnson told the BBC stronger measures may be required in parts of the country in the coming weeks.\n\nHe said this included the possibility of keeping schools closed, although this is not \"something we want to do\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has called for new England-wide restrictions within 24 hours.\n\nSir Keir said coronavirus was \"clearly out of control\" and it was \"inevitable more schools are going to have to close\".\n\nIt comes as the UK recorded more than 50,000 new confirmed Covid cases for the sixth day in a row, with 54,990 announced on Sunday.\n\nAn additional 454 deaths within 28 days of a positive test result have also been reported, meaning the total by this measure is now above 75,000.\n\nSpeaking on BBC One's Andrew Marr Show, Mr Johnson said he stuck by his previous prediction that the situation would be better by the spring, and he hoped \"tens of millions\" would be vaccinated in the next three months.\n\nBut he added: \"It may be that we need to do things in the next few weeks that will be tougher in many parts of the country. I'm fully, fully reconciled to that.\"\n\n\"And I bet the people of this country are reconciled to that because, until the vaccine really comes on stream in a massive way, we're fighting this virus with the same set of tools.\"\n\nThe PM added that ministers had taken \"every reasonable step that we reasonably could\" to prepare for winter, but \"could not have reasonably predicted\" the new, more transmissible variant of the virus that has emerged over the autumn.\n\nSpeaking after Mr Johnson's interview, Sir Keir said introducing new nationwide restrictions in England \"has to be the first step to controlling the virus\".\n\n\"There's no good the prime minister hinting that further restrictions are coming into place in a week or two or three,\" he told reporters on Sunday. \"That delay has been the source of so many problems.\"\n\n\"Let's not have the prime minister saying 'I'm going to do it, but not yet',\" he added.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Johnson defended plans for primary schools to reopen in most of England on Monday, amid opposition from teaching unions and some local councils.\n\nIt came after Amanda Spielman, the head of Ofsted, England's schools watchdog, said closures should be kept to an \"absolute minimum\".\n\nThe rapidly rising infection rates mean it should come as no surprise that tougher measures are being considered.\n\nInfection levels are nearly four times higher now than they were at the start of December - and that in turn has put more pressure on hospitals.\n\nThere are signs the restrictions have started slowing the rises in London, the East of England and the South East.\n\nBut that on its own is not enough. Ministers want to get cases down.\n\nSo what extra can be done? After all most of England is effectively in lockdown already with tier four in place. Those places not in tier four could, of course, follow.\n\nBut some public health experts are warning more needs to be done.\n\nThere is a determination to get primary school children back - they have among the lowest rates of infection if you look at symptomatic cases.\n\nBut infection rates are higher among secondary school age children. The government has bought itself time by delaying their return.\n\nA further 20 million people in England were added to tier four - \"stay at home\" - the toughest set of rules, on 31 December in a bid to stem a surge in Covid cases.\n\nIt means 78% of the population of England is now in tier four, under which non-essential shops are closed and people can only leave their homes for a certain number of reasons.\n\nThe Scottish government will meet on Monday to consider \"further action\" to limit the spread of the disease, Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said.\n\nAll of mainland Scotland is currently under its own level four restrictions - with only some islands under less stringent tier three measures.\n\nWales entered a nationwide lockdown on 20 December, with First Minister Mark Drakeford saying on Sunday it was \"difficult to see\" how the rules could be strengthened further.\n\nHe said Welsh ministers would consider whether restrictions could be \"tweaked at the margins\" at a cabinet meeting on Wednesday.\n\nNorthern Ireland is in the second week of a six-week lockdown that began on Boxing Day. Stricter measures, including a \"stay-at-home curfew\", ended on Saturday.\n\nIn another development, an academic has said there is a \"big question mark\" over whether a vaccine developed at Oxford University will be as effective against a new variant of the virus that has emerged in South Africa.\n\nProf Sir John Bell, Regius professor of medicine at the university, said the team there were currently investigating this question \"right now\".\n\nHe added it was \"unlikely\" the variant would \"turn off the effect of vaccines entirely,\" and in any case it would be possible to tweak the vaccine in around 4-6 weeks.\n\n\"Everybody should stay calm - it's going to be fine,\" he told Times Radio.\n\n\"But we're now in a game of cat and mouse - because these are not the only two variants we're going to see.\"", "Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer described Jo Stevens as a \"dear friend and colleague\"\n\nCardiff Central MP Jo Stevens is being treated in hospital for Covid-19.\n\nA statement was released on her Twitter account on Saturday night in which her team thanked people for their good wishes.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer described Ms Stevens as a \"dear friend and colleague\", and wished her well.\n\nOn New Year's Eve, her Twitter account said she had been \"laid low with Covid for a while\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Keir Starmer This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMs Stevens, who is Labour's shadow culture secretary, was elected as an MP in May 2015.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford tweeted: \"All of our thoughts and best wishes are with Jo for a speedy recovery.\n\n\"Thank you to Jo's constituency team for continuing to support Cardiff Central constituents at this difficult time.\"", "The rapidly rising infection rates mean it should come as no surprise that tougher measures are being considered.\n\nInfection levels are nearly four times higher now than they were at the start of December – and that in turn has put more pressure on hospitals.\n\nThere are signs the restrictions have started slowing the rises in London, the East of England and the South East. But that on its own is not enough. Ministers want to get cases down.\n\nSo what extra can be done? After all, most of England is effectively in lockdown already with tier four in place. Those places not in tier four could, of course, follow.\n\nBut many public health experts are warning more needs to be done.That’s why we have seen so much debate about schools in recent days.There is a determination to get primary school children back – they have among the lowest rates of infection if you look at symptomatic cases.\n\nBut infection rates are higher among secondary school-age children. The government has bought itself time by delaying their return.\n\nIt looks like there is going to be a very difficult trade-off that needs to be made between the damage to education and wellbeing of children and the risk of further spread of the virus.", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "Police said a car which had been parked on a bend in the road in Snowdonia was an \"accident waiting to happen\"\n\nStaff looking after a car park in a Welsh national park have been \"getting abuse\" as crowds continue to gather at popular beauty spots.\n\nA spokeswoman for Snowdonia National Park said the decision to keep car parks open was under \"constant review\".\n\nShe explained closing them could lead to unauthorised parking and would exclude locals with mobility issues.\n\nWales is at alert level four, meaning non-essential travel is banned and exercise must start and finish at home.\n\nOn Saturday, North Wales Police said officers had \"turned away\" people who wanted to walk up Snowdon in breach of stay-at-home rules, including some some from Milton Keynes and London.\n\nA red Honda was towed away at Pen y Pass, near Llanberis, after police said it had been parked unsafely on a bend, in snowy conditions.\n\nAt the start of the first lockdown in March, campsites, caravan parks and tourist hotspots were closed by the Welsh Government after \"unprecedented\" crowds gathered at beauty spots.\n\nThe Welsh Government decided to close beauty spots during the first lockdown after scenes like this at Pen y Gwryd in Snowdonia\n\nSnowdonia National Park Authority said it had chosen not to close its car parks again because the areas remained open to people living nearby.\n\n\"Closing car parks can lead to unauthorised parking on roads, so we are keeping them open at the moment,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\n\"The mountains are open for people to be able to exercise from their front doors. Keeping car parks open allows people with mobility issues to exercise as well.\n\n\"We are working closely with police and Gwynedd council and we are reviewing it constantly.\"\n\nNorth Wales Police say beauty spots have been \"disappointingly busy\" since Christmas\n\nShe said its busiest car park, at Pen y Pass near Snowdon, had been overseen by wardens over the Christmas and New Year period, but in a more educational role than in previous years.\n\n\"Places like Pen y Pass are usually manned anyway but their role has changed slightly. They are getting some abuse, which is a shame,\" she continued.\n\n\"We are adopting a similar approach to police: engaging with people, asking what their plans are then educating them.\n\n\"The majority of the time people are going 'I misunderstood that', or people are saying 'I'm doing what I want anyway'.\"\n\nA breach of Covid rules can incur a £60 fine, which rises to £120 for a second breach.\n\nWales is in an alert level four lockdown\n\nPenny Brockman, of Central Beacons Mountain Rescue Team, called on people to help protect themselves and others, including rescue volunteers, by following government guidelines.\n\n\"It is important for people's well-being to walk, but there are probably lots of wonderful places in their own local areas,\" she added.\n\nSouth Wales Police tweeted a picture of Hamilton the police horse \"staying at home\" in his stable, urging people to be \"more like him\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nLeicester City climbed to second in the Premier League as they won a keenly contested encounter with fellow top-four hopefuls Southampton at King Power Stadium.\n\nJames Maddison fired in from a tight angle after 37 minutes, the Foxes midfielder instructing his team-mates to stand back as he performed a socially distanced celebration, before Harvey Barnes added a second deep into second-half stoppage-time.\n\nVictory takes Leicester within one point of leaders Manchester United, who travel to third-placed Liverpool on Sunday, while Southampton are eighth, three points outside the top four.\n• None How Leicester followed guidance on celebrations - and others didn't\n• None Reaction to Leicester v Southampton, plus the rest of Saturday's Premier League action\n\nThe Saints dominated in the opening stages and created the first opening when Che Adams stretched the home defence on the counter-attack, while Leicester's Barnes' powerful drive forced Alex McCarthy into action with the game's first shot after 19 minutes.\n\nThe visitors, without talisman Danny Ings after the striker tested positive for Covid-19 last week, went close to a response through Ryan Bertrand and Will Smallbone either side of half-time but neither could find a way past Kasper Schmeichel.\n\nIn an entertaining conclusion, Stuart Armstrong rattled the Leicester crossbar with an excellent strike from the edge of the penalty area, while Jan Bednarek produced a superb goalline clearance to deny Barnes and the returning McCarthy saved from Jamie Vardy as both sides pushed for a late goal.\n\nIt took Leicester until the 95th minute to seal the three points, Barnes calmly slotting past McCarthy on the break.\n\nLeicester manager Brendan Rodgers challenged his side to \"disrupt the Premier League hierarchy\" after a 2-1 win over Newcastle in their last league outing maintained their top-four hopes.\n\nVictory in this stern test ensured they continue to do just that.\n\nEnjoying their longest unbeaten run of the season, their streak now at six matches in all competitions since defeat by Everton a month ago, Rodgers' side delivered an assured performance to remain firmly in contention at the top.\n\nDespite their lofty position as the halfway stage approaches, Leicester have struggled at home this campaign - their four defeats at King Power Stadium in 2020-21 is as many as they suffered in the entirety of last season.\n\nThough largely frustrated in the early exchanges as the visitors retained possession, Leicester's superior quality in attack eventually ensured that record was improved with Maddison turning sharply to meet Youri Tielemans' through-ball before drilling home.\n\nThe in-form Barnes once again impressed and eventually got the goal his performance deserved to equal his best season tally of 10 after just 24 games.\n\nUnlike last season's post-Christmas collapse, the Foxes are yet to show signs of falling away. Maddison - involved in six of Leicester's last 12 league goals - and Barnes are easing the pressure on Vardy to deliver every week and there appears the strength in depth to better maintain this challenge.\n\nThe only concern for Rodgers at the end of a pleasing night was the sight of Vardy appearing to limp off as he was replaced by Kelechi Iheanacho in the final minutes.\n\nWhen Southampton claimed victory in the corresponding fixture last January, the 2-1 win marked a remarkable short-term recovery from a club-record defeat by the Foxes less than three months earlier.\n\nOne year on, this match served as another reminder of how quickly the Saints are progressing under Ralph Hasenhuttl.\n\nThey were, however, unable to set a club top-flight record of seven consecutive away games without defeat in the absence of frontman Ings. That was despite their relative freshness, having not played for 12 days after their FA Cup tie against Shrewsbury Town was postponed last weekend because of a Covid-19 outbreak at the League One club.\n\nFollowing their impressive 1-0 victory over Liverpool on 4 January, a triumph which left Hasenhuttl with tears in his eyes, Southampton once again applied themselves with commendable determination but ultimately failed to produce in the final third.\n\nAdams ran out of space at the byeline after breaking clear from the halfway line in the game's first opening, and neither Bertrand nor Smallbone were able to place past Schmeichel as the equaliser their hard work perhaps deserved evaded them.\n\nAt the back, Bednarek produced the heroics to keep his side in the game and full-back Kyle Walker-Peters provided a regular outlet on the right, but Southampton, who named four teenagers on their bench because of an injury crisis, have now scored only once in five league games.\n\nThat is an obvious concern for Hasenhuttl as he looks to ensure his side do not fade after their promising start.\n\n'We took social distancing to the letter' - what the managers said\n\nLeicester boss Brendan Rodgers told BBC Sport: \"It's a very good win against a good team. We were too passive at the start, we took social distancing to the letter and didn't get close to them. After that we had some sustained attacks and ended up getting a brilliant goal.\n\n\"At half-time we had to reiterate the importance of fighting, you have to fight for every result and Southampton keep going. We were outstanding second half and should have scored more goals. We did the dirty work much better and Harvey Barnes showed again that he is a finisher now.\"\n\nOn Maddison's celebration: \"I said to them there is lots of negativity around it but see it as a positive and be creative. Supporters still want to see players celebrate, the happiness, so be creative with it.\"\n\nSouthampton boss Ralph Hasenhuttl said: \"It's never nice to lose a game but we had chances. We hit the bar, we fought with everything we have. We are definitely a team that is never giving up. The quality of the opponent was better than ours today.\n\n\"The first goal, you don't shoot at goal like that every day, it was fantastic from Maddison. We had good chances but we couldn't finish and that was the difference.\n\n\"It doesn't look good at the moment, we have a lot of injuries and not many alternatives. The good news is we have 29 points and they don't take them away from us. We did our best with the options we have. We have nine injured but we are fighting for everything.\"\n• None Leicester earned their first home league victory against Southampton since April 2016, ending a run of four without a win against the Saints at King Power Stadium.\n• None Southampton's first 12 Premier League games in 2020-21 witnessed 41 goals (24 scored) at an average of 3.4 per game. Their past six games have seen just six goals (two scored).\n• None Jamie Vardy had seven shots for Leicester, his highest tally without scoring in a single Premier League match in his career.\n• None Vardy has faced Southampton seven times at home in the Premier League, more than any other side at King Power Stadium without scoring in the competition.\n• None James Maddison scored in consecutive Premier League games for Leicester for the first time since October 2019, matching his goal tally at home from each of the previous two campaigns (three).\n\nBoth sides return to action on Tuesday. Leicester host Chelsea in the Premier League at 20:15 GMT, while Southampton welcome Shrewsbury to St Mary's in their postponed FA Cup third-round tie (20:00).\n• None Goal! Leicester City 2, Southampton 0. Harvey Barnes (Leicester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Youri Tielemans following a fast break.\n• None Attempt missed. Stuart Armstrong (Southampton) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right following a corner.\n• None Offside, Leicester City. Marc Albrighton tries a through ball, but Ayoze Pérez is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Wilfred Ndidi (Leicester City) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Marc Albrighton.\n• None Attempt saved. Jamie Vardy (Leicester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by James Justin.\n• None Attempt missed. Daniel N'Lundulu (Southampton) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Kyle Walker-Peters with a cross.\n• None Offside, Leicester City. Timothy Castagne tries a through ball, but Ayoze Pérez is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Jamie Vardy (Leicester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Ayoze Pérez with a cross.\n• None Marc Albrighton (Leicester City) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. James Ward-Prowse (Southampton) right footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Stuart Armstrong. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Hear how David Bowie always managed to stay ahead of his time\n• None Joe Wicks and guests are here to bring positivity to your day", "Nurseries have stayed open during the latest lockdown, unlike schools\n\nNurseries are \"teetering on the edge\" and will \"find it hard to survive with next-to-no funding\" as children are kept home in lockdown, an owner said.\n\nLittle Stars near Pontypool has seen numbers drop by 35% - and Emma Matthews says nurseries are \"running on empty\".\n\nUnlike schools, they have remained open and an industry association wants support so they are around to \"provide places for children in the future\".\n\nA Welsh Government spokeswoman said funding was available through councils.\n\nDescribing childcare workers as \"front-line\", the National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA) Cymru also called for anxious staff to be made a priority for the Covid vaccine as they work with little protective equipment.\n\n\"We feel we have poured our heart into serving families and want acknowledgement for the early years and the vital part we play in the community,\" Ms Matthews said.\n\nLittle Stars furloughed some staff during the lockdown last March, with nurseries open for children of keyworkers only.\n\nLittle Stars nursery near Pontypool has seen numbers drop by more than a third\n\nThey reopened fully last summer and this has remained under Welsh Government guidance.\n\nHowever, many parents have decided not to send children - some because they are adhering to stay-at-home rules, are self-isolating, have lost their jobs and are struggling to pay bills, or are on furlough.\n\n\"The reasons are varied and valid why parents decide to pull children out,\" Ms Matthews added.\n\n\"The situation isn't great and some say 'we will wait and see next week'. It's very difficult to formulate a plan then or to furlough. We are teetering on the edge.\"\n\nLittle Stars is down the road from the new Grange hospital that opened in Cwmbran last November\n\nBefore coronavirus, the nursery looked after 65 children each day - but last week, 47 attended, made up of babies, toddlers and pre-schoolers.\n\nThere were also 11 babies due to start in January - but only one is attending because of reasons such as new mothers extending their maternity leave.\n\nMs Matthews believes facilities should be open for children of keyworkers only - allowing nurseries to access support for those not attending.\n\nA baby, a toddler and a staff member from Little Stars had coronavirus - and employees are worried for themselves and their families.\n\nIn Wales eligible children can access 30 hours of early-years education and childcare per week for 48 weeks of the year\n\nThey are unable to wear personal protective equipment because of their close contact with children, and describing workers as \"front-line\" who \"keep the economy going\", Ms Matthews said they should be in the priority group for the vaccine and weekly testing.\n\n\"Social distancing is the challenge,\" she added.\n\n\"Face, space and hands... we can only do hands. The others are impossible.\"\n\nThe facility received a grant of £10,000 at the start of the pandemic and a rate relief grant of £1,000, but Ms Matthews wants more support.\n\n\"It's about valuing the service,\" she said. \"It wasn't a very stable industry pre-Covid. But it's made it very fragile now.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government has been urged to give more help, allowing nurseries to survive and \"provide places for children in the future\" by NDNA Cymru.\n\nIt also said early years staff \"must be a priority for the vaccine to enable them to continue providing support for our youngest children and their families\".\n\nWhile nurseries were closed to all but keyworkers initially, they have been open since summer 2020\n\n\"We all know it's impossible to social distance from toddlers and babies who need close care from nappy changing to the contact and affection that supports their development and learning,\" added chief executive Purnima Tanuku.\n\nA Welsh Government spokeswoman said while the rates of coronavirus in Wales remain high, cases in children under five continue to be relatively low.\n\n\"Childcare providers have worked very hard to ensure settings are safe, with low numbers of children on site,\" she added.\n\nThe spokeswoman said funding is provided to councils, enabling them to help childcare settings experiencing financial difficulties and the Childcare Offer for Wales continues to be in place for all eligible children.\n\n\"We are following the advice from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation about the people who should be vaccinated first - all those in the priority groups will be immunised as safely and as quickly as possible,\" she added.\n\nMost school children in Wales will learn from home until at least February half-term, unless there is a big drop in Covid cases\n\nChildren's commissioner Sally Holland said she\"empathises with the concerns of staff\" and thanked them for their work \"during an extremely difficult period\".\n\n\"Nurseries play a really important part in young children's wellbeing and development,\" she said.\n\n\"Any services that can remain open for children is to be welcomed due to the importance for their health and wellbeing.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "CBBC star Archie Lyndhurst, the son of Only Fools and Horses actor Nicholas Lyndhurst, died in his sleep from a brain haemorrhage, his mother has said.\n\nLucy Lyndhurst said a second post-mortem exam had revealed his death was caused by a condition called Acute Lymphoblastic Lymphoma/Leukaemia.\n\nShe described Archie as \"the most magical human being we have ever met\".\n\nThe 19-year-old's death on 22 September had had a \"catastrophic effect\" on their family, she wrote on Instagram.\n\nArchie with his father Nicholas and mother Lucy Smith in 2017\n\nLucy said she and husband Nicholas were assured by the doctor who explained the post-mortem results to them that there \"wasn't anything anyone could have done as Archie showed no signs of illness\". She said it was \"not leukaemia as we know it\" and that acute in medical terms meant \"rapid\".\n\nThe couple were \"utterly floored\" to think something like this could happen, she wrote, adding: \"It's very rare and around only 800 people a year die from it.\"\n\nShe said that just days earlier he had been celebrating his birthday with \"the love of his life Nethra\".\n\n\"Life is fragile, precious and sometimes incredibly cruel,\" Lucy wrote.\n\nShe also criticised some media outlets for attempting to garner information about how her son had died from the coroner, before they knew the results of the post mortem themselves.\n\n\"To have a coroner call you a few days after your child has died to say the press have been calling for the results of Archie's post mortem, I think stoops to an all time low for us,\" she noted.\n\n\"What gives the press the right to badger a coroner's office solely to find the cause of death before the parents? The complete lack of empathy is astounding. We released no information at the time as we had no idea what he had died from.\"\n\nNicholas appeared alongside his son in an episode of So Awkward in 2019\n\nArchie began his acting career at the Sylvia Young Theatre School at the age of 10 and was best known for playing Ollie Coulton in the CBBC comedy show So Awkward.\n\nHe appeared in the sitcom, which followed the lives of a group of friends in secondary school, from its first series in 2015.\n\nNicholas appeared alongside his son in a 2019 episode of the programme.\n\nArchie's other roles included recurring appearances as a younger incarnation of comedian Jack Whitehall in various TV programmes.\n\nThese included BBC Three sitcom Bad Education, in which he was seen as a younger version of Whitehall's Alfie Wickers character.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The four main engines were fired in unison for the first time, but had to be shut down early\n\nA critical engine test for Nasa's new \"megarocket\" has ended early, but the agency denied it amounted to a failure.\n\nShortly before 22:30 GMT (17:30 EST) on Saturday, the four engines ignited, burning for more than a minute before the event was aborted.\n\nThe core stage of the Space Launch System (SLS) was being evaluated at Stennis Space Center, in Mississippi.\n\nThe engines were supposed to fire for eight minutes to simulate the rocket's climb to orbit.\n\nThe SLS is part of Nasa's Artemis programme, which aims to put Americans back on the lunar surface in the 2020s.\n\nWhen it makes its maiden flight - possibly later this year - the SLS will become the most powerful rocket ever to have flown to space.\n\nTeams at Stennis are still poring over the data to find out what happened. John Honeycutt, SLS program manager at Nasa's Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama, said there were \"a lot of dynamics going on\" when the engine shut down.\n\nThe engines' power levels were being throttled down and up again; they were also being prepared to pivot - or gimbal. This movement allows the rocket to be steered during flight.\n\nThe RS-25 engines are the same type that powered the space shuttle orbiter\n\n\"We did see a little bit of a flash come from around the interface between the thermal protection blanket on engine four at the time when we had initiated the gimbal,\" Honeycutt told reporters at a post-test briefing at Stennis.\n\nThe as-yet unknown problem triggered what Nasa calls a failure identification (Fid), followed by a major component failure (MCF). As a result of the fault, an onboard computer known as the engine controller sent a message to another computer called the core stage controller, which took a decision to shut down the vehicle.\n\n\"Any parameter that went awry on the engine could have sent that failure ID,\" said John Honeycutt.\n\nIt was the first time all four RS-25 engines had been ignited together, in a test known as a \"hotfire\".\n\nThe core stage of the rocket was anchored to a massive steel structure called the B-2 test stand on the grounds of the Stennis facility.\n\nTo prepare the core stage, engineers filled its tanks with more than 700,000 gallons (2.6 million litres) of super-cold liquid hydrogen and oxygen propellant.\n\nThis was the eighth and final test in the Green Run, a programme of evaluation carried out by engineers from Nasa and Boeing - the rocket's prime contractor.\n\nAlthough the test was intended to run for eight minutes, engineers would have received all the data required to certify the rocket for flight after 250 seconds.\n\nThey wanted to iron out any problems before the core stage is used for the first SLS launch, in which it will send Nasa's next-generation Orion spacecraft on a loop around the Moon.\n\nNasa's outgoing administrator Jim Bridenstine declined to call Saturday's event a failure: \"This is why we test,\" he said, adding: \"Before we put American astronauts on American rockets, that's when we need it to be perfect.\"\n\nOfficials have not yet decided whether to re-run the hotfire, or proceed with shipping the core stage to Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida to prepare it for the rocket's uncrewed maiden flight, a mission called Artemis-1.\n\n\"It depends what the anomaly was and how challenging it's going to be to fix it,\" said Bridenstine.\n\nNasa administrator Jim Bridenstine said perfection wasn't a realistic expectation for the first engine test\n\nAsked whether a launch this year was still feasible, he added: \"I think it's too early to tell. As we figure out what went wrong, we're going to know what the future holds.\"\n\nHowever, if one or more of the engines needs to be replaced, there are spares waiting to be used at Stennis Space Center.\n\nThe Artemis-1 mission will evaluate how both the SLS and Orion capsule perform prior to Nasa staging a repeat of this lunar loop with astronauts in 2023.\n\nThis will be followed by the first landing on the Moon by humans since the Apollo 17 mission in 1972.\n\nThe SLS consists of the 65m (212 ft) -long core stage with two smaller solid rocket boosters (SRBs) attached to the sides. Engineers at KSC have begun stacking the individual SRB segments for Artemis-1.\n\n\"This powerful rocket is going to put us in a position to be ready to support the agency and the country in deep space missions to the Moon and beyond,\" John Honeycutt said during a media briefing on Tuesday.\n\nArtwork: The initial version of the SLS - known as Block 1 - during the climb to orbit\n\nOfficials have been planning to ship the core stage to Florida in February.\n\nIts engines are of the same type that powered the spaceplane-like shuttle orbiter - America's crewed space vehicle for 30 years from 1981-2011.\n\nNasa is re-using flown hardware: the RS-25 engines used in this test helped launch 21 shuttle missions. Two were used on the last shuttle flight - STS-135 in 2011.\n\nThe four RS-25s can generate 1.6 million lbs (7 Meganewtons) of thrust - the force that propels a rocket through the air.\n\nWhen the solid rocket boosters are added to the core stage, the combined system will produce 8.8 million pounds (39.1 Meganewtons) of thrust. This will make it 15% more powerful than the giant Saturn V rocket that sent astronauts to the Moon in the 1960s and 70s.\n\nPrior to Saturday's test, John Shannon, vice president and SLS program manager at Boeing praised teams at Stennis for keeping the Green Run on track despite the pandemic and this year's particularly active hurricane season.", "Doctors and nurses need protection from prosecution over Covid-19 treatment decisions made under the pressures of the pandemic, medical bodies have said.\n\nGroups including the British Medical Association have written to ministers saying medical workers fear they could be at risk of unlawful killing charges.\n\nIt comes as the UK's chief medical officers said the NHS could be overwhelmed in weeks.\n\nThe government said staff should not have to fear legal action.\n\nThe letter from the health organisations points out that the prime minister warned in November that the NHS being overwhelmed would be a \"medical and moral disaster\", where \"doctors and nurses could be forced to choose which patients to treat, who would live and who would die\".\n\nIt said: \"With the chief medical officers now determining that there is a material risk of the NHS being overwhelmed within weeks, our members are worried that not only do they face being put in this position but also that they could subsequently be vulnerable to a criminal investigation by the police.\"\n\nCo-ordinated by the Medical Protection Society (MPS), the letter was signed by the British Medical Association, the Doctors' Association UK, the Hospital Consultants and Specialists Association, the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, the British Association of Physicians of Indian Origin and Medical Defence Shield.\n\nIt calls for emergency legislation to protect doctors and nurses from \"inappropriate\" legal action when dealing with circumstances outside their control.\n\nExisting guidance for doctors and nurses on when to administer or withdraw treatment does not give legal protection, the letter says.\n\nIt also says the guidance does not consider the circumstances of the pandemic where demand for healthcare may outstrip supply.\n\n\"The first concern of a doctor is their patients and providing the highest standard of care at all times,\" the medical bodies said.\n\n\"We do not believe it is right that healthcare professionals should suffer from the moral injury and long-term psychological damage that could result from having to make decisions on how limited resources are allocated, while at the same time being left vulnerable to the risk of prosecution for unlawful killing.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What does it mean if the NHS is overwhelmed?\n\nThe medical organisations said no healthcare professional should be \"above the law\" and that the emergency legislation should only apply to decisions made \"in good faith\" and \"in circumstances beyond their control and in compliance with relevant guidance\".\n\nThey said the change in the law should be temporary and should apply retrospectively from the start of the pandemic.\n\nMedical staff in the NHS are protected financially from clinical negligence claims by indemnity schemes where the state pays the costs of claims.\n\nBut if someone dies as a result of a lack of treatment, doctors and nurses fear prosecutors could bring charges such as gross negligence manslaughter, which can carry a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.\n\nEarlier this month, a survey by the MPS of 2,420 of its members found that 61% were concerned about facing an investigation following a decision made in a high-pressure situation.\n\nAbout 36% were concerned about being investigated for a decision to withdraw or withhold life-prolonging treatment due to pressure on resources during the pandemic.\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesman said: \"Dedicated frontline NHS staff should be able to focus on treating patients and saving lives during the pandemic without fear of legal action.\"\n\nNHS staff have been told that existing indemnity arrangements will continue and will cover \"the vast majority of liabilities\", the spokesman said.", "Phil Spector pictured in court during his murder trial\n\nUS music producer Phil Spector has died at the age of 81, while serving a prison sentence for murder.\n\nSpector, who transformed pop with his \"wall of sound\" recordings, worked with the Beatles, the Righteous Brothers and Ike and Tina Turner.\n\nIn 2009, he was convicted of the 2003 murder of Hollywood actress Lana Clarkson.\n\nHis death was confirmed by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.\n\n\"California Health Care Facility inmate Phillip Spector was pronounced deceased of natural causes at 6:35 p.m. on Saturday, January 16, 2021, at an outside hospital. His official cause of death will be determined by the medical examiner in the San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office,\" it said.\n\nSpector produced 20 top 40 hits between 1961 and 1965. His production methods influenced major artists including the Beach Boys and Bruce Springsteen.\n\nHis life was ultimately blighted by drug and alcohol addiction, and he all but retired from the music scene during the 1980s and 1990s.\n\nIn February 2003, actress Lana Clarkson was found dead at his house in Alhambra, California with a bullet wound to her head. Clarkson, who was known for her work in the sword-and-sorcery genre and starred in films including Barbarian Queen, had met Spector hours earlier at a nightclub.\n\nSpector claimed the shooting happened when Clarkson \"kissed the gun\" - but his trial heard from four women who claimed Spector had threatened them with guns in the past when they had spurned his advances.\n\nFollowing an initial mistrial, Spector was convicted of second degree murder and given a sentence of 19 years to life.\n\nLana Clarkson was an actress and model who starred in the film 1985 Barbarian Queen\n\nHarvey Phillip Spector was born in New York in 1939, to Russian-Jewish parents. His father killed himself when Spector was a boy, and his mother moved her family to Los Angeles.\n\nHe began his career in his teens as a performer, forming a band - the Teddy Bears - with three high school friends. They had a hit single in 1958 with a song that took its title from the wording on his father's gravestone: \"To know him is to love him.\"\n\nThe record went to number one on the Billboard Hot 100, but the group split the following year.\n\nSpector founded his own record label, Philles, in 1961. He produced high-profile 1960s girl groups such as Crystals and the Ronettes, including on 1963 hits Be My Baby and Baby I Love You.\n\nHe also worked on The Righteous Brothers' hits You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' and Unchained Melody.\n\nSpector produced hits for The Ronettes, later marrying their lead singer Ronnie Bennett\n\nHis signature production technique, the \"Wall of Sound,\" involved layering several instruments, including strings, woodwind and brass, to give a lush, orchestral sound.\n\nIn the early 1970s, Spector collaborated with The Beatles on their final album Let It Be, as well as producing John Lennon's solo album Imagine.\n\nAs the decade progressed, the much-feted producer became reclusive and disturbing accounts of his behaviour became widespread. Spector is said to have held a gun to singer Leonard Cohen's head during sessions for his album Death of a Ladies' Man.\n\nRonettes lead singer Veronica \"Ronnie\" Bennett, who became Spector's second wife and divorced him in 1974, wrote in her 1990 autobiography that he subjected her to years of horrific abuse. She said he had threatened to kill her and display her body in a glass-topped coffin he kept in her basement.\n\n\"I can only say that when I left in the early '70s, I knew that if I didn't leave at that time, I was going to die there,\" Ronnie wrote of the time.\n\nWriting on Instagram after her ex-husband's death, Ronnie Spector said he had been \"a brilliant producer but a lousy husband\".\n\n\"When I was working with Phil Spector, watching him create in the recording studio, I knew I was working with the very best,\" she wrote. \"He was in complete control, directing everyone. So much to love about those days.\n\n\"Meeting him and falling in love was like a fairytale,\" she continued. \"The magical music we were able to make together was inspired by our love. I loved him madly, and gave my heart and soul to him.\n\n\"Unfortunately Phil was not able to live and function outside of the recording studio. Darkness set in, many lives were damaged.\"\n\nSinger Darlene Love, who sang on several songs Spector produced, said he \"changed the sound of rock 'n' roll\" but likened their relationship to \"a bad marriage\".\n\n\"The problem I have with Phil is that he wanted to control Darlene Love's talent,\" she told Variety. \"If he couldn't do that, he was going to do everything in his power to keep my talent from shining.\"\n\nWeeks before Lana Clarkson was shot dead, Spector gave a rare interview to British broadsheet The Telegraph.\n\n\"I would say I'm probably relatively insane, to an extent,\" he told the paper, adding that he had \"devils inside that fight me\".\n\nResponding to news of the producer's death, Blondie guitarist Chris Stein tweeted: \"When we went to Phil Spector's house in the 70s he came to the door holding a bottle of diet Manischewitz wine in one hand and a presumably loaded 45 automatic in the other. Long story.", "The man from Luton was fined £200 for travelling to Devizes and also had his car seized for having no insurance\n\nA man told police he had driven from Luton to Devizes to visit a McDonald's, even though the town does not have a branch of the burger chain.\n\nWiltshire Police called his actions a \"flagrant breach\" of lockdown regulations and fined the man £200.\n\nThe 34-year-old was stopped on Estcourt Street in Devizes, a distance of more than 100 miles (160km) from Luton.\n\nHis car was also seized for having no insurance, police added.\n\n\"The distance travelled across numerous counties to Devizes, which doesn't have a McDonald's restaurant, is a flagrant breach of the regulations currently in place.\n\n\"The majority of people across Wiltshire continue to act responsibly and we thank you for that, however, it is important to protect the NHS that we all stick to the rules,\" said police.\n\nThe man was stopped on Thursday evening.\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Louis Godwin said receiving the vaccine was \"no trouble at all\" and encouraged others to have it as soon as they could\n\nSalisbury Cathedral has been transformed into a vaccination centre with an RAF veteran being one of the first to receive the Covid-19 jab.\n\nFormer Flight Sergeant Louis Godwin, 95, gave a thumbs-up after being vaccinated in the cathedral, which dates back more than 800 years.\n\n\"I was so pleased to get it, especially in a setting like this,\" he said.\n\nOrganisers were aiming to vaccinate 1,000 people aged over 80 with the Pfizer/BioNTech jab on Saturday.\n\nPeople queuing to receive their vaccines at Salisbury Cathedral on Saturday\n\nMr Godwin, a great-grandfather of 12, joined the RAF aged 18 in 1943 and served as an air gunner during World War Two.\n\n\"I've had many jabs in my time, especially in the RAF. After the war, I was sent to Egypt and I had a couple of jabs which knocked me over for a week,\" he said.\n\n\"This one, the doctor said to me 'well that's done' and I thought he hadn't started. So it's no trouble at all and no pain.\"\n\nA health worker prepares the vaccine to be administered at the cathedral\n\nStella Bennett, 88, said she felt \"safer\" after receiving the jab.\n\n\"It was easy. I live on my own so it has been hard but I've managed. At least I'm at home and not in hospital with it,\" she said.\n\nDerek Burnett was also among those inoculated against the virus on Saturday.\n\n\"I feel unbelievably relieved as lockdown has been a big strain. It takes a big weight off my mind,\" said the 81-year-old.\n\nOrganisers hoped to vaccinate 1,000 people aged over 80 during the day\n\nThe Very Rev Nicholas Papadopulos, Dean of Salisbury described the vaccines as \"a real sign of hope for us at the end of this very, very difficult year\".\n\n\"I doubt that anyone is having a jab in surroundings that are more beautiful than this so I hope it will ease people as they come into the building,\" he said.\n\nThe Very Rev Nicholas Papadopulos, Dean of Salisbury, described hosting the event as \"absolutely wonderful\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The French government has imposed a nationwide curfew from 6pm - 6am to fight the surge in cases of coronavirus.\n\nWhile some departments were already under these restrictions, the majority of France was under an 8pm - 6am curfew.\n\nFrench Prime Minister Jean Castex said the measures would be in place for at least 15 days.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nManchester United \"missed an opportunity\" to beat Liverpool, said boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer after his side stayed top of the Premier League with a goalless draw against the champions.\n\nIt was a game that failed to justify the pre-match anticipation and Solskjaer will know his side had the better chances to claim a statement victory at Anfield.\n\nLiverpool, without a recognised centre-back and with midfielders Jordan Henderson and Fabinho in defence, dominated possession in the first half but it was United who came closest when Bruno Fernandes' 20-yard free-kick curled inches wide.\n\nFernandes was then thwarted after the break by the outstretched leg of Liverpool keeper Alisson before Thiago Alcantara's long-range effort finally brought the previously unemployed David de Gea into action.\n\nAlisson was Liverpool's hero late on when he blocked Paul Pogba's drive from point-blank range.\n\n\"It was an opportunity missed with the chances we had but then again we were playing a very good side.\" Solskjaer told BBC Sport. \"I'm disappointed but, still, a point is OK if you win the next one.\n\n\"We have improved and progressed. It's not just the result we're disappointed with, it's some of the performance. I know these boys can play better.\"\n\nUnited are now two points ahead of Manchester City, who moved up to second by beating Crystal Palace 4-0, and Leicester City in third. Liverpool, who have scored just one goal in their past four league games, have dropped to fourth, a point behind the Foxes.\n\n\"The performance was good enough to win it but to win a game you have to score goals and we didn't do that, so that's why we had that result,\" said Reds boss Jurgen Klopp.\n\n\"We try not to not score. We obviously have to ignore the fact and hope it will be good again.\"\n• None 'From dejection to frustration in 12 months, Anfield draw underlines Man Utd progress'\n• None Lawro's predictions v You Me At Six drummer Dan Flint\n\nKlopp cut a frustrated figure pretty much from the first whistle, his voice booming around Anfield with a tone of displeasure, showing unhappiness with his own players and officials.\n\nThe German's team, so used to steamrollering all before them in recent times, are going through a very dry spell and barely created an opening worthy of the name here against a resolute Manchester United defence.\n\nToo often, Liverpool's approach play ended with a careless pass or an aimless cross and the longer this game went on the more United looked the most likely winners.\n\nIt was perhaps inevitable Liverpool would be unable to maintain their relentless style, but there will be concerns they have now gone four league games without a win since Crystal Palace were demolished 7-0 at Selhurst Park.\n\nBefore this draw, West Bromwich Albion left Anfield with a point, while Liverpool also had a goalless draw at Newcastle United and lost at Southampton.\n\nSadio Mane and Mohamed Salah are feeding off scraps, while Roberto Firmino's impact was so minimal that he was withdrawn near the end, even with the hosts chasing a goal.\n\nA team as good as Liverpool will not remain off the boil for too long, but there is no doubt they are struggling for form and spark. The fact this is their longest barren sequence in the league since February and March 2005 tells the tale.\n\nManchester United may have a taken a point before this game and there will be justified satisfaction that they subdued Liverpool so completely, created the game's best chances and remain top of the table.\n\nAnd yet there must also be disappointment that they could not cash in completely on an off-colour Liverpool, with reality dawning on them very late that they could take all three points.\n\nFernandes, despite being poor in general, almost unlocked Liverpool twice, while Solskjaer and his backroom team threw their hands up in frustration as other good positions were wasted late on.\n\nIn the final reckoning, however, there will be few complaints at this outcome, which leaves them three points ahead of Liverpool with the visit to Anfield negotiated without mishap.\n\nUnited were well organised and grew into the game after a poor opening half-hour and had real defensive heroes in captain Harry Maguire and left-back Luke Shaw, with the latter particularly outstanding.\n\nIt is a display that will give them increased confidence and belief as they lead the pack - although they might just look back and think a point could so easily have been three.\n\n'It was an opportunity missed' - reaction\n\nManchester United manager Solskjaer said: \"They are a good side and they have some injury problems but we didn't pounce on that.\n\n\"I felt we grew into the game and got stronger and stronger and were closer to winning.\n\n\"We were a bit disappointed in the performance, not just the result. We didn't do well enough to cause them problems in the first half but we defended well and they didn't create too many chances.\"But I think everyone was a bit disappointed with the way we started the game but that is a good feeling to have - that we were disappointed in the performance.\"\n\nLiverpool boss Klopp told BBC Sport: \"The performance was good and the first half was exceptionally good.\n\n\"With all the things that were said before the game - United are flying and we were struggling - and then to play this kind of game, I was happy with that.\n\n\"We tried in the second half again, but you cannot deny United over 90 minutes, not with the counter-attacking threat they have. So they had two really good chances, I have to say, but we had our chances in the second half as well.\n\n\"The way we understood the game, the way we felt the game, the way we read the moments were really good. But it is not exactly how it should be so we have space for improvement, absolutely. We will keep working on that.\"\n• None Liverpool and Manchester United have drawn 0-0 at Anfield in the league three times in the past five seasons, as many times as in the previous 48 top-flight campaigns.\n• None United are unbeaten in their past 16 away matches in the Premier League (W12 D4) - only once have they gone longer without a defeat on the road in the competition (17 games ending in September 1999).\n• None Liverpool are now unbeaten in their past 68 league games at Anfield, earning 178 out of a possible 204 points over this run.\n• None United are the first side to stop Liverpool scoring at Anfield in a Premier League match since Manchester City in October 2018 - this was Liverpool's 43rd home league game since then.\n• None Under Klopp, Liverpool are unbeaten in all seven of their Premier League games at Anfield when facing the side starting the day top of the table (W3 D4).\n• None Marcus Rashford was caught offside five times in this match, the most of any Premier League player this season and the most by a United player since Robin van Persie (six) against Spurs in January 2013.\n\nUnited are at Fulham in the league on Wednesday (20:15 GMT) and Liverpool host Burnley on Thursday (20:00). Next Sunday, Manchester United and Liverpool will meet again - at Old Trafford this time - in the FA Cup fourth round, a match you can watch live on BBC One and the BBC Sport website.\n• None Marcus Rashford (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Curtis Jones (Liverpool) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Offside, Manchester United. Paul Pogba tries a through ball, but Marcus Rashford is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Paul Pogba (Manchester United) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Luke Shaw with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Paul Pogba (Manchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Thiago (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Georginio Wijnaldum. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Missed all the goals, highlights and talking points from Saturday's Premier League action? Match of the Day is streaming now", "Chris Cramer, a major figure in BBC News and later CNN International, has died at the age of 73 after a period of ill health. Former BBC director of news Richard Sambrook looks back at his life.\n\nChris Cramer's legacy will be the major change in attitudes and support for journalist safety he championed through the BBC and across the wider industry, as well as many achievements in newsgathering and international news.\n\nHe began his career as a teenager on the Portsmouth Evening News, moving to BBC Radio Solent when it launched in 1970.\n\nAfter a year's secondment in Brunei he found his way to the BBC TV Newsroom in the 1970s and developed his reputation as a highly competitive and effective news editor and field producer.\n\nIn 1980 he and a BBC team were in the Iranian Embassy in London collecting visas when it was seized by gunmen opposed to Ayatollah Khomeini. A standoff and siege followed, with Chris among 26 hostages.\n\nHe managed to feign serious illness and was released by the gunmen allowing him to give vital information to the authorities before the SAS stormed the embassy and rescued the hostages.\n\nAt a time when no-one understood or spoke of PTSD, it had a marked effect on his life.\n\nArmed police on the adjoining balcony to the Iranian Embassy during the siege in 1980\n\nMany journalists and crew subsequently spoke of his care and attention when they had difficult experiences and he went on to drive major changes in understanding and support for journalists' safety.\n\nWith BBC Safety manager Peter Hunter, Chris introduced the first hostile environment training courses, risk assessments and equipment for those covering conflicts.\n\nFormer correspondent Martin Bell recalls: \"From Vietnam to Croatia I had covered 10 wars without protection. Then in June 1992 we were shot up crossing the airport runway in Sarajevo in a soft-skinned vehicle. Within two weeks Chris had procured our first armoured Land Rover, the redoubtable 'Miss Piggy', and the body armour to go with it.\"\n\nHe later introduced the first confidential counselling service for news teams, recognising PTSD, and helped found the International News Safety Institute, which spearheaded safety across the news industry.\n\nDuring the 1980s he was at the forefront of organising and overseeing major news coverage, including Michael Buerk's reporting from the Ethiopian famine, coverage of the IRA Brighton bomb attack on the British government, the Zeebrugge ferry disaster, Kate Adie's reporting from Tiananmen Square, the fall of eastern Europe, the first Gulf War and many more major events.\n\nHis fierce competitiveness delivered a series of major exclusives and awards for BBC News.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jeremy Bowen This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn the 1990s he oversaw major investment in BBC Newsgathering and the integration of radio and TV reporting - often against internal resistance. His managerial style could be uncompromising and tough, but he was also bitingly funny, shrewd and his hard exterior hid a warm-hearted and generous core.\n\nHe was crucial to establishing the integrated News division as it exists today.\n\nIn 1996 he left the BBC to move to Atlanta as managing director and executive vice-president of CNN International.\n\nThere he took his passion for news safety and his competitive news edge to develop the network into a greater global force.\n\nAs his former BBC and CNN colleague Tony Maddox has said: \"Among his many accomplishments Chris was a pioneer and innovator in field safety for journalists. He led the development of guidelines and practices now widely adopted across the industry.\"\n\nCramer moved to CNN after his time with the BBC\n\nHe was a larger-than-life figure who generated affection and respect in equal measure, often wielding a rapid and disarming wit.\n\nHe is also remembered for supporting women into senior and executive positions and helping them succeed.\n\nDirector of BBC News Fran Unsworth recalls: \"He was one of journalism's enormous characters and a legend in the television news industry. But the legend and the reported image always belied the man.\n\n\"He was immensely kind, thoughtful and caring underneath that image he sometimes projected.\"\n\nFormer deputy director general Mark Byford said: \"He was probably the greatest newsgathering executive ever in the broadcast news business and his organisational skills, competitiveness, eye for a story and steel were extraordinary.\n\n\"He was also, behind the facade, a gentle giant who cared for his people with amazing passion and love.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by John Simpson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"Many editors, correspondents and presenters in BBC News owe their success to his mentorship - myself included.\"\n\nAfter 11 years he left CNN and took up roles first with Reuters TV and then the Wall Street Journal, where his experience and expertise were used to develop their digital video services.\n\nHe leaves his wife, Nina, son Richard and daughter Nicolette and his daughter Hannah by an earlier marriage to Helen, a former BBC producer.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BMA Scotland GP chief says doctors \"can't plan\" for vaccines\n\nDoctors leaders say the \"patchy supply\" of vaccine to GP surgeries across Scotland is hampering the speed of delivery to patients.\n\nMinisters have pledged a first dose of the vaccine to 1.4 million of the most vulnerable Scots by mid-February.\n\nBut the British Medical Association in Scotland said inconsistencies in supply made it difficult to plan patient appointments to receive the vaccine.\n\nThey also said some GP surgeries had yet to receive any vaccine at all.\n\nThe Scottish government said it was working with health boards to resolve the issues.\n\nCurrently, about 16,000 vaccinations a day are being carried out in Scotland. However, that is expected to rise significantly as efforts to deliver the vaccine are scaled up.\n\nOn Sunday, 1,341 new cases of Covid-19 were reported - the lowest daily figure since 28 December. However, the numbers being admitted to hospital have continued to rise, reaching 1,918.\n\nNo new deaths were registered.\n\nHealth Secretary Jeane Freeman has pledged that the workforce and infrastructure will be in place to vaccinate 400,000 people each week by the end of February.\n\nThe government has already announced plans for large vaccination centres in Aberdeen, Glasgow and Edinburgh.\n\nIt comes after more than 5,000 front-line health and care staff were vaccinated at the NHS Louisa Jordan in Glasgow on Saturday.\n\nGP practices across Scotland are currently providing vaccination services to those aged over 80.\n\nAbout 16,000 vaccinations are currently being carried out a day in Scotland\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Politics Scotland programme, Dr Andrew Buist, who chairs the British Medical Association's (BMA) GP committee in Scotland, said there was inconsistencies across the GP network.\n\nHe said the vaccine deployment plan was \"ambitious\" and so far \"good progress\" had been made in giving it to priority groups such as care homes residents and front-line health staff.\n\nHowever, he told the programme: \"The current problem lies with the next priority group, which is the 80-plus group, which GPs in Scotland are set to vaccinate because the supply of the vaccine so far has been quite patchy.\n\n\"Some practices have a good supply, some have had none so far.\"\n\nHe said his practice had received 100 doses of the vaccine for 600 patients over the age of 80, who all needed to be vaccinated by 5 February.\n\nHe added: \"I then have to do another 1,200 patients in the 70-plus group and the extremely clinically vulnerable by the middle of February, so we need to do 1,700 vaccines in the next four weeks.\n\n\"Now we can do that. We are used to providing large number of flu vaccinations and it is possible, we have our workforce in place, but we need the vaccine, otherwise we can't do it.\"\n\nWhen asked if his practice was running out of vaccine at the end of each day, Dr Buist said: \"Yes - we can't plan, that's the key thing. We can't send out appointments to patients until we're sure we have the vaccine in our fridge.\n\n\"We were given 100 doses on Monday. We used that all up by Friday. We don't want to send out appointments to patients until we know that we can definitively vaccinate them otherwise patients get very upset.\"\n\nVaccinators have reported being able to extract one additional dose from vaccine vials\n\nDr Buist said vaccinators were regularly managing to extract higher numbers of doses from vaccine vials despite claims that some doses were being wasted.\n\nHe said there was widespread experience of six doses being extracted from Pfizer vaccine vials, which were marketed as having five doses, while 11 doses were regularly being taken from AstraZeneca vials.\n\nBut Dr Buist criticised issues around the red tape some retired health professional had faced when volunteering to become vaccinators.\n\n\"I have reports that arrangement to get doctors and nurses back into the system have been quite bureaucratic and I think it's something we need to look at.\"\n\nThe Scottish government acknowledged that there had been delays in vaccine supplies reaching some GP surgeries.\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"GPs have a significant role to play in delivering the vaccine - and we thank them for their hard work and patience as we roll out more vaccines to those in the communities.\n\n\"We know there have been some initial delays in supply reaching some practices and are working with health boards to resolve this. Vaccines are being manufactured as quickly as possible and we will continue to explore all options available to increase supply.\"\n\nThe government said health boards were providing order information for their GP practices to National Procurement who in turn advised the distribution partner.\n\nThe spokeswoman added: \"Once stock is released for ordering, the distribution partner inputs the GP orders on to their ordering system. Once the order has been placed, GP practices will receive an automated email providing an indication of the delivery day.\n\n\"We too want to vaccinate as many people as quickly as possible and are continually working hard to see if distribution can be made faster in any respect.\"", "Hospitals are preparing for the expected peak of the latest Covid-19 surge this week, the Northern Trust's chief executive has said.\n\nJennifer Welsh said there was \"huge pressure across the (healthcare) system\" with more intensive care admissions expected.\n\nThirty patients were awaiting admission to Antrim Area Hospital on Sunday morning, she said.\n\nThere were 25 more deaths linked to Covid-19 reported in NI on Sunday.\n\nThe total number of deaths recorded by the Department of Health since the start of the pandemic is now 1,606.\n\nIt was also reported that there had been 822 more positive cases, with 67 people in intensive care and 50 people on ventilators.\n\nThere are 840 patients being treated for Covid- 19 across Northern Ireland, according to the latest available figures with hospitals working at 93% capacity.\n\nMeanwhile, Northern Ireland has been continuing its vaccination programme having distributed 140,559 first doses and 20,174 second doses.\n\nThe total number of jabs administered in the UK, including both first and second doses, is 4,307,002 according to government data.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland on Sunday, there were 13 further deaths related to Covid-19, bringing the total number to 2,608 since the start of the pandemic.\n\nThere was also a further 2,944 positive cases, bringing the total number of cases in the state to 172,726.\n\nThe Republic of Ireland's Chief Medical Officer Dr Tony Holohan said the situation in the country's hospitals was \"stark\" and that people of all ages were being admitted and taken into intensive care.\n\nAt the beginning of January, Health Minister Robin Swann said that modelling indicated the \"peak of the third surge\" would hit in the third week of January.\n\nFrontline health staff have spoken to BBC News NI about their \"exhaustion\" and stress, as the pressure on the system continues to increase amid the surging number of cases.\n\nNorthern Ireland is currently in the third week of a six-week lockdown, with ministers scheduled to review measures next week.\n\nHowever, health officials have warned that an extension of the restrictions could be required to reduce pressure on the health service.\n\nNorthern Trust chief executive Jennifer Welsh said hospitals were \"coping but at great cost\"\n\nMs Welsh told BBC NI's Sunday Politics programme that the \"ICU surge is yet to come\" and that the Northern Trust - where two major hospitals, Antrim Area and Causeway, are located - has had to redeploy staff to prepare for the coming days.\n\nShe said both hospitals had been \"under significant pressure and have been for some time\".\n\nShe said 30 patients in Antrim Area's Emergency Department are waiting on a bed after a decision was made to admit them - 24 of those patients have been waiting longer than 12 hours.\n\nMs Welsh added that almost half of all patients in Antrim Area Hospital have tested positive for Covid-19.\n\n\"At the peak of the first wave in Antrim and Causeway the highest number of Covid positive patients was 73.\n\n\"In November, the highest number was 102 and we peaked on Thursday at 202. We have now dropped below that slightly.\"\n\nThe chief executive said the hospitals were \"coping but at great cost\", with many urgent surgeries cancelled.\n\n\"Emergency surgery is being done but we are not being able to do any other in the Antrim Area site.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by bbctheview This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"We have been able to deliver some red flag cancer surgery at Causeway but we would like to do more.\"\n\nDespite these emergency measures already in place, the worst of the current surge is only expected to arrive this week.\n\nShe added: \"We are not going to get out of this quickly. It's going to be a challenge for us as a system.\n\n\"It's been building from October.\"\n\n\"We're not yet at the peak of intensive care admissions and we expect that this week.\n\n\"Antrim has doubled its intensive care beds from seven to 14 in anticipation of the coming surge - 11 are already being used.\n\n\"All hospitals have doubled their ICU footprint. There are more than 160 inpatients in Antrim Area Hospital.\"", "Within seconds of being dropped, LauncherOne had ignited its engine\n\nSir Richard Branson's rocket company Virgin Orbit has succeeded in putting its first satellites in space.\n\nTen payloads in total were lofted on the same rocket, which was launched from under the wing of one of the entrepreneur's old 747 jumbos.\n\nSir Richard is hoping to tap into what is a growing market for small, lower-cost satellites.\n\nBy using a jet plane as the launch platform, he can theoretically send up spacecraft from anywhere in the world.\n\nIn reality, of course, his Virgin Orbit system has to be licensed in the locality where it is used, which at the moment is solely California. But there are well-advanced plans to bring the 747 and its rockets to Cornwall in south-west England, for example.\n\nSunday's success was a big fillip for Sir Richard's team who had tried and failed to launch a rocket in May last year. That effort was thwarted by a breached propellant line feeding liquid oxygen to the booster's first-stage Newton-3 engine.\n\nNo such problems occurred this time.\n\nThe modified 747, named Cosmic Girl, left its base in California's Mojave desert at 10:50 PST (18:50 UTC) to fly out over the Pacific Ocean.\n\nA little under 60 minutes later, and cruising at 35,000ft (10,500m), the jet banked hard to the right, dropping as it did so the 21m-long rocket that had been clamped to its underside.\n\nWithin seconds this booster, called LauncherOne, had ignited its engine and was climbing to space.\n\nCorrect deployment of the various spacecraft onboard at an altitude of roughly 500km was confirmed a couple of hours later.\n\n\"A new gateway to space has just sprung open,\" said Virgin Orbit CEO Dan Hart. \"That LauncherOne was able to successfully reach orbit today is a testament to this team's talent, precision, drive, and ingenuity.\"\n\nSir Richard has been trying to find the right solution to get into the satellite launch business since 2009. His concrete proposal was first put before the public at the Farnborough International Air Show three years later.\n\nThere is an emerging market for small, lower-cost spacecraft, whose developers are seeking more flexible and affordable ways of getting their assets above the Earth.\n\nSorry, we're having trouble displaying this content. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nVirgin Orbit is one of a number of companies now racing to meet this demand. Other contenders include the Rocket Lab outfit, which sends up its vehicles from a ground launch pad in New Zealand. But there are tens of other small rocket start-ups at various stages of maturation, and some of these plan to operate from the UK as well.\n\n\"Virgin Orbit has achieved something many thought impossible. It was so inspiring to see our specially adapted Virgin Atlantic 747, Cosmic Girl, send the LauncherOne rocket soaring into orbit,\" Sir Richard said.\n\n\"This magnificent flight is the culmination of many years of hard work and will also unleash a whole new generation of innovators on the path to orbit. I can't wait to see the incredible missions Dan and the team will launch to change the world for good.\"\n\nSir Richard presented the LauncherOne concept at Farnborough in 2012\n\nWill Whitehorn is the president of UKSpace, the trade body representing the space industry in Britain. He's also a former president of Virgin Galactic, Sir Richard's other space company which hopes soon to start flying fare-paying passengers above the atmosphere in a rocket plane.\n\nHe said Virgin Orbit's success on Sunday was hugely significant.\n\n\"This is a momentous day for the small satellite world, as we will be able to launch satellites responsively; and for the UK this event promises sovereign launch capability very soon,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"I plan to push hard for a launch from Cornwall to coincide with the G7 meeting this year if at all possible!\"\n\nSunday's payloads were mostly shoebox-sized and developed by universities\n\nThe air-launched system has the flexibility to operate anywhere - in theory", "Northern Ireland's statistics agency has recorded its highest weekly Covid-19 related registered deaths since the pandemic began.\n\nNisra said 145 deaths were registered in the first week of 2021, although administrative delays over Christmas may have affected the number.\n\nThat brings the agency's death toll to 1,976 by 8 January.\n\nThe figures come as the chief medical officers from NI and the Republic issued a joint stay-at-home plea.\n\nDr Michael McBride and Dr Tony Holohan said they were \"gravely concerned\" about the \"unsustainably high level of Covid-19 infection\" across the island of Ireland.\n\nConcern was raised in the Republic of Ireland this week as figures showed it has the world's highest number of confirmed new Covid-19 cases per million people.\n\nOn Friday evening, the Irish Department of Health reported 50 further deaths with Covid-19 and 3,498 new cases of the virus. More than half (54%) of those newly diagnosed are under the age of 45.\n\nNorthern Ireland is in the third week of a six-week lockdown, with ministers scheduled to review measures next week.\n\nHowever, health officials have warned that an extension of the restrictions could be required to reduce pressure on the health service.\n\nOf the 2,019 deaths recorded by Nisra by 8 January, 1,247 (62%) occurred in hospital, 622 (31%) in care homes, 12 (0.6%) in hospices and 138 (7%) at residential addresses or other locations.\n\nPeople aged 75 and over account for just over three-quarters of all Covid-19 related registered deaths (77.6%) between 19 March 2020 and 8 January 2021.\n\nJust over a fifth (22.2%) of all Covid-19 related registered deaths have been of people with an address in the Belfast council area.\n\nMeanwhile, the Department of Health reported 26 further Covid-related deaths on Friday.\n\nFive of these deaths did not occur in the past 24 hours.\n\nThe Department of Health bases its figures on a positive test result being recorded, whereas Nisra figures are based on mentions of the virus on death certificates, so people may or may not have been confirmed to have contracted the virus prior to death.\n\nA further 1,052 individuals have tested positive for Covid-19 and 63 patients are being treated in intensive care units, 47 of whom are on ventilators.\n\nThe chief medical officers warned the high infection rate was having a \"significant impact\" on the health of the population and the \"safe functioning\" of the healthcare systems.\n\nThey said the public should avoid all unnecessary journeys, including cross-border travel.\n\nPointing out that many of the patients admitted to hospital in January have been younger than 65, they warned coronavirus could affect anyone, \"regardless of age or underlying condition\".\n\n\"It highlights the need for us all to protect one another by staying at home,\" said the medical officers.\n\nNorthern Ireland's spike in infections has been put down to an easing of restrictions over Christmas.\n\nAsked if he regretted being part of the decision to ease restrictions, Health Minister Robin Swann said the executive had tried to be balanced in its approach.\n\n\"I regret the pressures we see now in our hospitals, but let's remember it's caused by this virus, we have it in our power to bring it back under control and get us back to where we were in the summer,\" he told BBC News NI on Friday.\n\nMr Swann pleaded with people to follow the current restrictions.\n\n\"We're in the middle of a very tough six-week scenario, and how we come out of this will be a more graduated approach to make sure we get the benefits of what we've already done, and also the benefits of the vaccine.\"", "Sara Powell-Davies said she was lucky her nursery was able to open following lockdown\n\nA mother with two young children has said it was \"incredibly stressful\" trying to manage without free childcare during lockdown.\n\nThe Welsh Government's scheme was suspended in April, with funds redirected to pay for childcare for key workers' children.\n\nNow the offer, available to working parents of three and four-year-olds, has been reinstated.\n\nBut there are concerns many nurseries have been operating at a loss.\n\nWorking parents of three and four-year-old children are able to claim up 30 hours of early-years education and childcare a week for 48 weeks a year under the Childcare Offer for Wales.\n\nThose whose children become eligible in the autumn term, can apply from September.\n\nSara Powell-Davies, from Caerphilly, said it had been really hard to manage without the help during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe mother to three-year-old Tirion and one-year-old Cadel said the free childcare saved the family about £200 a month.\n\n\"It does make a massive difference to our finances every month,\" she said.\n\nMrs Powell-Davies said, while she was lucky Cadel's nursery was open, after-school clubs would not run in September due to the coronavirus pandemic, which would make juggling childcare around work a challenge.\n\n\"It's incredibly stressful trying to manage this anyway,\" she said.\n\n\"We do rely on support like private nursery provision, after-school care [and] wraparound because we don't have any family that is able to support us.\n\n\"So, this is our lifeline.\"\n\nChildcare Offer for Wales gives those eligible 30 hours of early-years education and childcare per week for 48 weeks of the year\n\nChildcare providers are paid £4.50 per hour for every child who takes up a place through the childcare offer.\n\nBut the National Day Nurseries Association said many of its members were operating at a loss as fewer children had been attending and costs had gone up to comply with Covid-19 safety regulations.\n\nIts chief executive Purnima Tanuku called on the Welsh Government to set up a \"transformation fund to be able to support the sector until occupancy levels pick up and to really review the hourly rate to reflect the additional cost they've had to incur\".\n\nLyn Bourne, of Britannia Day Nursery, said nurseries were a \"forgotten industry\"\n\nBefore the coronavirus pandemic, around 70 children attended Britannia Day Nursery in Caerphilly - now there are about 40.\n\nOwner Lyn Bourne said the nursery was losing money every week, but was determined to keep going.\"It is hard financially and emotionally, but we decided we wanted to keep going so we've just done our best to do that,\" she said.Ms Bourne said she hoped the childcare offer would help some parents to bring children back, but said nurseries needed extra financial help from the government too.\"Nurseries are closing every week,\" she said.\"We seem to be a forgotten industry, but we're so important.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government confirmed that coronavirus guidance restricting children to groups of eight in childcare would be lifted.\n\nDeputy Minister for Social Care Julie Morgan said: \"Bringing the offer back will not only help parents, but it is crucial for providers too in supporting their businesses to recover after what has been a period of great uncertainty and anxiety for many.\"\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said the hourly rate was under review and it was considering extending the offer to parents in education or training or \"on the cusp\" of returning to work.\n\nHe added: \"The childcare offer being restarted funded childcare for an average of 13,000 children per month before the pandemic, a significant investment in the Welsh childcare sector.\n\n\"We have also relaxed some of the regulatory requirements on childcare settings in the national minimum standards to make it easier for them to operate under the current restrictions.\"", "Women selling clothes online are being sent explicit messages, with requests for sex and \"worn\" garments.\n\nBoth businesses and private individuals have experienced the problem when advertising on mainstream platforms.\n\nWomen have been sent '\"creepy\" messages on Facebook, Instagram, eBay, and Depop, the BBC has learned.\n\nSome were asked for additional items including worn tights, explicit photos and used underwear.\n\nWhen inappropriate profiles were blocked or reported, some would reappear with a different account, sources told the BBC.\n\n\"During lockdown, the messages have gotten really creepy,\" said Sara Faye, who has sold her clothes on Depop for years.\n\n\"They always want to know how many times it has been worn and if it is dirty.\"\n\nMs Faye used to post images of herself in the clothes on the platforms but has now stopped because of the messages.\n\nWomen often model the clothing they're selling in the photos\n\n\"Don't message me on an innocent second-hand website, just because you can see a hot girl in the photos,\" she added. \"It feels like a violation, you should be able to sell your clothes online without getting harassed.\"\n\nSellers were sometimes offered additional money for used clothing or explicit images.\n\nJennifer Savin - a Cosmopolitan features writer, who recently investigated the topic - was offered ��5 for more than 50 intimate images after posting items on eBay.\n\n\"I think there are a lot of users out there, just trying their luck,\" she told the BBC. \"Who knows if they'd even pay up if they were to be sent the explicit content in the first place?\"\n\nOne online seller, who relies on the profits made on these platforms for a living, said \"it was a balance between feeling safe and needing the money.\"\n\nEstablished clothing brands have also reported receiving inappropriate messages and requests on Facebook and Instagram.\n\nLovely's Vintage Emporium sells vintage clothes and receives many such comments every week.\n\nLovely's Vintage Emporium says it receives many inappropriate messages every week\n\n\"I get a lot of messages about the model, especially if there are shirts with close-up images,\" said owner Lynnette Peck.\n\n\"I had a fetishist asking what [shoes] smelt like, who wore them and if I could take a photo of myself wearing them.\"\n\nShe has now stopped selling certain items on the website, after receiving explicit photographs through Facebook Messenger.\n\nNaomi Edmondson, who runs lingerie brand Edge o'Beyond, said the business was \"constantly bombarded with creepy comments from men\", often asking for sex.\n\n\"We get so many creepy messages and comments it's too time-consuming to report them all,\" she said. \"A few times I have felt concerned for safety.\n\n\"We create lingerie to empower women, we do not welcome the minority of men who think it's acceptable to send explicit pictures.\"\n\nSome of the women the BBC spoke to said they hadn't reported the messages because they were \"embarrassed\", \"ashamed\" or \"didn't want to risk losing their accounts\".\n\nFacebook, Instagram, Depop and eBay all said they take these kinds of messages seriously and would take action against those who violated policy.\n\nThey all urged users to report and block any accounts which break the rules.\n\nFacebook - which also owns Instagram - said it has built a \"global safety and security team as well as powerful technology\" to remove accounts as quickly as possible.\n\nDepop said it aims to respond to 95% reports of inappropriate behaviour within three hours, during business hours.\n\n\"The issue of women receiving creepy messages when selling clothes online is not a new phenomenon,\" said Jo O'Reilly, digital privacy expert at ProPrivacy.\n\n\"This is particularly concerning because to sell on most popular online selling platforms, including eBay and Depop, it is mandatory for users to provide a postal address - likely to be their home address.\"\n\nBut that is technically against the terms and conditions of most selling platforms.\n\n\"The very nature of selling second-hand clothes means that sellers will often post photos of themselves wearing the items,\" she says.\n\n\"That can, unfortunately, attract unwanted attention from buyers who might wish to buy worn clothes rather than just second-hand items.\"\n\nAlthough sites restrict the selling of certain used items, such as underwear, private messaging provides a \"loophole\", she added.", "Boris Johnson has said there is still a very substantial risk of intensive care units in hospitals being overwhelmed by the spread of the coronavirus.\n\nIt comes on a day when the UK has recorded the highest number of deaths in a single day in Europe.\n\nFergal Keane last visited the Imperial Healthcare Trust’s St Mary’s and Charing Cross hospital in London last April.\n\nHe's been back to see how they're coping.", "UN peacekeepers ended their mission in Darfur last month\n\nThe number of people killed in clashes between different ethnic groups in Sudan's West Darfur state has risen to 83, a medical body has said.\n\nThe fighting in the state capital, El Geneina, began on Saturday after a row in which a man was stabbed to death.\n\nA state-wide curfew has been imposed and Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok has sent a delegation to investigate.\n\nA conflict in Darfur that began in 2003 forced millions to flee and, despite a peace process, tensions remain.\n\nSaturday's violence comes less than three weeks after peacekeepers from the United Nations and African Union handed over security to the Khartoum authorities after 13 years there, reports the BBC's Youssef Taha.\n\nSimilar clashes in El Geneina last year, which saw Arab pastoralists fight with non-Arab groups, caused hundreds of casualties.\n\nThe most recent fighting was centred around a camp for people who had been displaced by the Darfur conflict. A deadly row between two men escalated into a fight involving armed militias, the AFP news agency reports.\n\nThe Central Committee of Sudan Doctors said the death toll had risen from 48 to 83, and the number of wounded from around 100 to 160.\n\nMembers of the armed forces were among the victims, it said.\n\nCasualties were likely to rise further as fighting was continuing, the medical body added.\n\nThe government said on Sunday that troop reinforcements would be sent to the area\n\nThe announcement was made after army chief Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan met top security officials to discuss the violence.\n\nA peace deal involving most, but not all, groups in Darfur was signed last year.\n\nThe Darfur conflict began under the presidency of Omar al-Bashir, who was overthrown in 2019 and is wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for alleged war crimes and genocide in the region.\n\nJustice for the people of Darfur was a key rallying cry for civilian groups who backed the ouster of the president after nearly three decades in power.\n\nThe Sudanese Professionals' Association, which was at the forefront of the anti-Bashir movement, called for the current transitional government to deal with the \"unruly armed groups which have been freely moving and terrorising civilians since the collapse of the former regime\", Sudan's news agency reports.\n\nYou may also be interested in:\n\nLast year Mohanad Hashim visited Kalma camp where some of the millions of people who fled flighting ended up:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The ongoing struggle for peace in Darfur", "A man has scaled a Hong Kong skyscraper in his wheelchair to raise money for spinal cord patients.\n\nLai Chi-Wai, who became paralysed after a road accident ten years ago, climbed 250 metres (820ft) of the Nina Towers building.\n\nBefore his accident, Lai Chi-Wai was a rock-climbing champion in Asia and eighth best in the world.\n\nHe said that \"knowing there was a possibility...that I could be a climber again, I found some direction in life\".", "A financial support scheme for airports in England will open this month, the government says, as the aviation sector faces new Covid travel curbs.\n\nAviation minister Robert Courts said the move was a response to the closure of all UK air corridors from Monday.\n\nThe aim was to provide grants by the end of this financial year, he said.\n\nIndustry groups had warned there was only so long airports could \"run on fumes\", following the announcement of the new quarantine rules.\n\nUnder the new rules beginning at 04:00 GMT on Monday, all travel corridors - which have been in place to allow arrivals from some countries to forgo quarantine - will close.\n\nAll arrivals to the UK after that time will need to isolate for up to 10 days, although the quarantine period can be cut short with a negative test after five days.\n\nPeople will also have to show proof of a negative test taken in the previous 72 hours before travelling.\n\nOn Sunday, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab also told the BBC'S Andrew Marr Show that Public Health England would also be stepping up checks on travellers who must self-isolate, while enforcement checks at borders would also be \"ramped up\".\n\nHe added that asking all arrivals to self-isolate in hotels was a \"potential measure\" the government was keeping under review.\n\nIn a tweet, Mr Courts said the Airport and Ground Operations Support Scheme \"will help airports reduce\" additional costs faced due to the pandemic and that further details would follow soon.\n\nThe scheme had first been announced in November, but without a set start date. It will involve grants of up to £8m per applicant, to be used to cover fixed costs, such as business rates.\n\nIn a statement at the time, the Airport Operators Association said the scheme would be a relief. However, it said support equivalent to business rates would only go so far and with the pandemic crisis deepening, a broader package of support was needed for all four nations, to see the sector through the next few months.\n\nAOA chief executive Karen Dee said the measures would \"provide much-needed support to many embattled airports, helping them through the challenging months ahead\".\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson announced the changes to the UK's travel rules at a Downing Street briefing on Friday, saying they would \"protect against the risk of as yet unidentified new strains\" of Covid.\n\nThe new rules will be in place until at least 15 February, he said.\n\nA ban on travellers from South America, Portugal and Cape Verde also came into force on Friday, having been imposed over concerns about a new variant identified in Brazil.\n\nNew variants causing concern have previously been identified in the UK and South Africa, with many countries imposing restrictions on arrivals from both nations.\n\nScientists fear the variants seen in South Africa and Brazil may interfere with the effectiveness of vaccines and evade parts of the immune system.\n\nThe government's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance told the press briefing on Friday that some of the new variants may be able to \"get round\" the Covid vaccines but it was \"really quite easy\" to adjust the vaccines to deal with mutations in the virus.\n\nThe travel industry said closing the travel corridors was understandable due to the health emergency, but warned it would deepen the crisis for the sector.\n\nTim Alderslade, chief executive of Airlines UK, said the system had been \"a lifeline for the industry\" last summer but \"things change and there's no doubting this is a serious health emergency\". He said he assumed the government would remove the latest restrictions as soon as it was safe.\n\n\"We've had no revenue now effectively for 12 months, give or take a few months in the summer last year. If we're going to have an aviation sector coming out of this we need to open up in the summer,\" he told the BBC.\n\nTravel operators had already been forced to cancel holidays before the latest restrictions were announced.\n\nEarlier this week, Jet2 suspended all flights and holidays until 25 March over \"ongoing uncertainty\" and budget travel provider EasyJet on Thursday began cancelling holidays up to and including 24 March.\n\nThe Department for Transport has said it is supporting the travel industry with an extension to the furlough scheme until the end of April, business rates relief and tax deferrals.\n\nWith all parts of the UK under strict virus rules amid high levels of infection, only essential travel is permitted.\n\nOn Saturday, another 1,295 deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test were reported in the UK, and a further 41,346 lab-confirmed cases of coronavirus.\n\nAre you due to travel back to the UK from overseas? Do you work in the travel industry? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Pilot Douglas Jones, 27, was enjoying his dream job, working for Aegean Airlines and living in Greece, when the pandemic began last spring - and borders began to close.\n\nFearing being stranded in Greece, he booked a flight home to Scotland and within a couple of weeks learned his job was gone.\n\nBack home, in the small Scottish town of Moffat, in Dumfries and Galloway, he found himself “desperate to do something”.\n\n\"When you have been used to living in Berlin and Athens and you move back to Moffat, living with your dad, it is a bit of slowdown,\" he says.\n\nIt was a relative of a friend who spotted south of Scotland firm Alpha Solway was hiring new workers to meet demand for personal protective equipment (PPE).\n\nIt certainly marked a change of pace – the nine-to-five office-based routine was difficult to adjust to for someone accustomed to navigating the skies of Europe – but Douglas says he was \"surprised\" by what parts of his old job he could bring to his new post.\n\n\"A lot in commercial aviation is about awareness - situational awareness - and a lot of that can be built into manufacturing as well,\" he says.\n\nWhile looking forward to returning to the skies one day, he adds: “I have learned a huge amount here.\n\n“There are good people here doing a good job and I am helping at least with that.\"", "Children in England will be able to access books online free during school closures via a virtual library.\n\nInternet classroom Oak National Academy created the library after schools moved to remote learning for the majority of pupils until February half-term.\n\nFormed with The National Literacy Trust, the library will provide a book a week from its author of the week.\n\nThe aim is to increase young readers' access to e-books and audiobooks, particularly the most disadvantaged.\n\nOak National Academy is funded by the Department for Education and has provided more than 28 million lessons since the start of the school term on 4 January.\n\nIn the last two weeks, 4.1 million pupils accessed its resources.\n\nThe latest lockdown has seen schools in England close except for children of key workers and vulnerable pupils.\n\nMatt Hood, principal of Oak National Academy, said: \"It's incredible to be able to add to our offer something vital for children's literacy and their mental wellbeing.\"\n\nJonathan Douglas, chief executive of the National Literacy Trust, said it was \"essential\" to enable as many children as possible to \"access a world of great literature\".\n\nHe added: \"Many children's literacy skills were profoundly affected by the first lockdown and school closures.\n\n\"We will do everything in our power to support children, families and teachers during this new lockdown period.\"\n\nDescribing the virtual library as a \"fantastic resource\", Education Secretary Gavin Williamson said learning and children's development must continue while schools remain closed.\n\nHe said: \"Reading is hugely beneficial not only for children's literacy skills, but also their mental health and wellbeing.\"\n\nThe first book to feature will be Dame Jacqueline Wilson's The Story Of Tracy Beaker, and will be available to access free for a week from 17 January.\n\nDame Jacqueline said with schools closed, the free online library is needed more than ever, adding: \"I think it's vitally important that every child should have an opportunity to access books.\"", "The funeral of Gerry and the Pacemakers singer Gerry Marsden has been held at a church near his beloved River Mersey.\n\nMarsden died, aged 78, in hospital on 3 January following a blood infection.\n\nAs the frontman in the band Gerry and the Pacemakers, his hits included Ferry Cross The Mersey and a cover version of You'll Never Walk Alone.\n\nEx-Liverpool boss Sir Kenny Dalglish was among the mourners at the funeral which had to remain small because of Covid restrictions.\n\nSir Kenny managed the club at the time of the 1989 Hillsborough disaster, which led to the deaths of 96 fans who were attending an FA Cup game between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest.\n\nGerry Marsden sings You'll Never Walk Alone before an Anfield match in 2010\n\nSir Kenny said: \"You'll Never Walk Alone has huge meaning to the lives of Liverpool supporters around the world and is synonymous with the club.\n\n\"He will be sadly missed by those who knew him and the millions he never got to meet.\"\n\nYou'll Never Walk Alone became a football terrace anthem for Marsden's hometown club soon after it topped the charts in 1963.\n\nThe song was played during the funeral by a guitarist while a version of Marsden singing Don't Let The Sun Catch You Crying, a song he wrote for his wife Pauline, also featured.\n\nShe said: \"We, his family, are totally devastated and have been so moved and amazed at the extent of the respect, love and affection received from all over the world.\n\n\"When the time is right and we have come out of this terrible pandemic we hope a fitting memorial can be held for him in the city he loved so much.\"\n\nGerry and the Pacemakers was one of the biggest British bands in the 1960s\n\nReferring to the lyrics from Ferry Cross the Mersey, close friend Arthur Johnson said: \"He lived close to the banks of the Mersey for all his life and as the words of his song say: 'This land's the place I love and here I'll stay'.\"\n\nLiverpool City Region mayor Steve Rotheram said: \"I feel privileged he let me into his life, although that makes his passing even more painful.\"\n\nIn 1962, Beatles manager Brian Epstein signed up Gerry and the Pacemakers and, a year later, they became the first band to have their first three songs top the charts - How Do You Do It, I Like It and You'll Never Walk Alone.\n\nA flag on the Royal Iris Mersey ferry flew at half mast after the death of Gerry Marsden\n\nThey were one of the successes of the Merseybeat era, with former Beatles star Sir Paul McCartney saying at the time of Marsden's death that: \"Gerry was a mate from our early days in Liverpool\".\n\n\"He and his group were our biggest rivals on the local scene.\"", "More than half of the Church of England's 14,000 parishes will not open for Sunday services later, as places of worship are hit hard by Covid-19.\n\nMany of the Church's clergy are shielding, while some parishes have decided it is not safe enough to admit worshippers.\n\nMost mosques in London did not open for Friday prayers.\n\nThe Catholic Church in England and Wales says parishes that are able to follow guidelines will still open.\n\nDespite coronavirus restrictions, places of worship in England and Wales can open - but many are struggling to do so safely.\n\nPlaces of worship remain closed throughout Scotland, while Northern Ireland's main church denominations are to cease public worship until early February.\n\nThe Church of England has told the BBC more than half of its parishes - including some cathedrals - will not open for communal prayer on Sunday. Many have moved their worship online.\n\nThe Church said some of its clergy were shielding, and all parishes were making their own decision.\n\nLincoln Cathedral took the decision to suspend in-person worship and move services online earlier in the week.\n\nRev Canon Nick Brown, Precentor of Lincoln, said the decision was taken \"with a very heavy heart\" but explained: \"To bring people together in worship is at the very heart of our purpose, but having considered expert advice we believe that the best way to help limit the spread of Covid-19 is to suspend public services for the time being.\"\n\nThe Catholic Church in England and Wales says it will keep its churches under review to make sure \"the highest standards of safety are maintained\". It is also organising online masses in many parishes.\n\nBritain's most senior Catholic, Cardinal Vincent Nichols, had criticised previous orders for churches to close.\n\nWith more than half of the Church of England's parishes closed for communal worship, thousands of Christians are being deprived of spiritual sustenance, at a time when many feel sorely in need of it.\n\nOther religions are also grappling with the issue and have worked hard to make their places of worship Covid-compliant by, for example, introducing strict booking and ticketing systems.\n\nMany church parishes have adapted by moving services online, a trend mirrored in some Jewish and Muslim denominations. These have been largely successful, and in some cases attracted new audiences from thousands of miles away. However, it's difficult to replicate the sense of community when people can physically and regularly meet up.\n\nOne Rabbi I spoke to last summer admitted he was worried some of his synagogue regulars, kept away by Covid-19, might never return.\n\nThere's also a financial aspect. Places of worship rely heavily on the generosity of believers. Weekly donations have been hit by church closures, and many revenue-generating schemes, such as hiring out church halls, have been cancelled. Many of the country's ancient cathedrals make much of their income from tourist admission fees.\n\nDifferent parts of the UK have taken different approaches, with all places of worship currently closed in Scotland, for example. Some Christian leaders, largely accepting of initial closures during the first lockdown, have gradually spoken out in favour of being able to make the decision themselves.\n\nBut with most shops and sporting facilities closed in England, some campaigners, such as the National Secular Society, have railed against what they say is \"a worrying deference to religious entitlement\".\n\nMeanwhile, the Mosques and Imams National Advisory Board has told the BBC although most mosques in England and Wales did open for Friday prayers, the majority in London did not - and it says it has asked its members in areas where the infection rate is rising to work closely with Public Health England and local authorities.\n\nUnder the latest lockdowns in the UK, there are changes to usual practices for worshippers of all religions.\n\nIn the areas of the UK where communal worship is allowed, a number of measures are in place, such as carrying out services in the shortest possible time, and ensuring worshippers do not mingle with anyone not in their own household or support bubble.\n\nFaith leaders have accepted the need for restrictions.\n\nThe Muslim Council of Britain urges \"strong caution for mosques wishing to continue remaining open to the public for worship... and for tremendous care to be exercised\".\n\nMeanwhile, the Bishop of London, the Rt Rev Sarah Mullally, who has been in charge of the Church of England's plans for resuming services, has said \"some may feel that it is currently better not to attend in person... Clergy who have concerns, and others who are shielding, should take particular care and stay at home\".\n\nHow have you been affected by the issues relating to coronavirus? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n• None What are the rules for places of worship?", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nEngland need further 36 runs to win\n\nEngland need 36 runs on the final day to win the first Test against Sri Lanka despite losing three wickets in a chaotic end to the fourth day in Galle.\n\nChasing only 74, the tourists slipped to 14-3 as Dom Sibley and Zak Crawley fell to left-arm spinner Lasith Embuldeniya before captain Joe Root was run out after a mix-up with Jonny Bairstow.\n\nBairstow, who survived a run-out chance of his own, and debutant Dan Lawrence saw England to 38 without further loss before bad light ended play early.\n\nBairstow and Lawrence will resume on 11 and seven respectively at 04:15 GMT on Monday.\n\nEarlier, Sri Lanka were bowled out for 359, with Lahiru Thirimanne scoring 111 - his first century for almost eight years - and Angelo Matthews 73.\n\nJack Leach, playing his first Test since 2019, took 5-122 and Dom Bess 3-100 to finish with match figures of 8-130 and set up what should still be a comfortable England victory despite a wearing pitch.\n\nEngland won their most recent series in Sri Lanka 3-0, but their record in Asia - and playing spin - is poor and it reared its head again in a remarkable start to their fourth-innings chase.\n\nSibley, whom many feel is vulnerable against spin, was bowled for two not offering a shot, while Crawley, who was dropped on one, added only eight before a drive was superbly caught at gully by Kusal Mendis.\n\nEngland contributed to their own problems as captain Root, who scored a magnificent 228 in the first innings, was run out by a direct hit by wicketkeeper Niroshan Dickwella, colliding with bowler Dilruwan Perera after Bairstow called for a risky single.\n\nBairstow and Lawrence restored calm in a 24-run stand to steer England to stumps, and they remain firm favourites to take a 1-0 lead in the two-match series.\n\n\"If Sri Lanka had run Bairstow out just after Root it would have been very interesting,\" former England captain Michael Vaughan said on BBC Test Match Special.\n\nSri Lanka, whose first-innings effort of 135 in just 46.1 overs was described as \"one of the worse we've ever seen\", showed significantly more character and application in the second.\n\nOpener Thirimanne, 76 not out as the hosts resumed on 156-2, moved to his second Test century - 54 innings after his first, the third longest gap in Test history - with a cut for four off Bess.\n\nThe left-hander averaged 22 in 36 Tests before this match and his place was in serious doubt, only for captain Dimuth Karunaratne to be ruled out before the game with a thumb injury.\n\nAfter Thirimanne got a faint inside edge to the excellent Jos Buttler off Sam Curran, former captain Mathews played a dogged 219-ball innings containing only two fours to ensure Sri Lanka at least wiped out a 286-run first-innings deficit.\n\nWhen he edged Leach to Root at slip to be last man out, Sri Lanka were left wondering what might have been had they shown the same discipline first time round.\n\nBess, who took 5-30 in the first innings despite struggling with his length, improved throughout the second innings and took a wicket in the first over of his three spells on Sunday.\n\nHe had nightwatchman Embuldeniya caught by Sibley at short cover off the 12th ball of the day, before returning to have stand-in captain Dinesh Chandimal held at slip by Root, and Dickwella caught behind as he attempted to guide the ball to third man.\n\nLeach, who has missed England's past 11 Tests - in part due to illness - yorked Dasun Shanaka and had the dangerous Wanindu Hasaranga superbly taken by Root at slip, before Perera became Buttler's first stumping in Test cricket.\n\nThe wicket of Mathews rounded off Leach's five-wicket haul, the first time two England spinners had achieved the feat in the same match since Derek Underwood and John Emburey in Sri Lanka in 1982.\n\n'It will only mean something if we win' - reaction\n\nEngland spinner Jack Leach on BBC Test Match Special: \"I wouldn't say I bowled well. It has been hard graft out there and I have certainly found I am probably a little rusty.\n\n\"At times I felt I could have done a better job, but the pleasing thing is I felt I bowled better as the game went on.\n\n\"We will come back tomorrow, knock these off and then I can be happy about my five wickets. It will only mean something if we win.\"\n\nFormer England captain Michael Vaughan: \"It has been an exciting day's play. Sri Lanka hung in there.\n\n\"Credit to Sri Lanka - we pelted them but on days three and four have shown they are a team that can compete in home conditions.\"\n\nFormer Sri Lanka all-rounder Russel Arnold: \"The start of England's innings was hectic. We saw panic from England, but Bairstow and Lawrence now look like they have it under control.\"\n• None Find all the resources you need to help with education at home\n• None The hilarious hit history podcast is back for a new series", "There are warnings more children could be plunged into poverty\n\nA decision on whether the £20 weekly rise in Universal Credit will be kept in place is unlikely before March's Budget, a top minister has indicated.\n\nCampaigners say the uplift, worth more than £1,000 a year, has been a lifeline for the vulnerable during the pandemic.\n\nLabour will use a Commons debate on Monday to add pressure on ministers to agree now to extend it beyond 31 March.\n\nBut Dominic Raab told the BBC it was a \"temporary measure\" and the Budget would spell out support \"in the round\".\n\nIn an interview with Andrew Marr, the foreign secretary confirmed that Conservative MPs would be told to abstain in Monday's debate, meaning Labour's \"opposition day\" motion will be approved.\n\nWhile the motion will not be binding on ministers and won't change policy, the BBC's Ben Wright said not opposing it represented an attempt by the government to \"neutralise\" the issue for the time being.\n\nIt showed, he added, how concerned ministers were about the prospect of a rebellion by Tory MPs - many of whom want an end to the uncertainty over the issue - if they had been asked to vote against it.\n\nThe standard Universal Credit allowance, which is claimed by more than 5.5 million households, was increased by £20 a week in April 2020 as part of Chancellor Rishi Sunak's early Covid economic response.\n\nWhile it was designed as a temporary response to help those unable to work or struggling due to the lockdown, opposition parties and charities say failing to extend will cause real hardship for hundreds of thousands of people.\n\nThe Joseph Rowntree Foundation has suggested about 16 million people will be directly affected, with millions of households facing an income loss equivalent to £1,040 a year.\n\nThe organisation has warned 500,000 more people will be driven into poverty, including 200,000 children, while a further 500,000 of those already in poverty will find themselves in even worse hardship.\n\nIts director Helen Barnard said a decision could not be delayed any longer.\n\n\"The chancellor has said the economy is going to get worse before it gets better and our evidence shows it is those with the least who are often suffering the most,\" she said.\n\n\"No one can seriously argue that cutting support for those on the lowest incomes in April will do anything other than weaken our already fragile economy.\"\n\nAsked whether the government should act now, Mr Raab said Monday's debate was a \"political\" move by the opposition and not about the government's overall financial support during the pandemic.\n\nHe promised to \"look at everything in the round\" to make sure support for the most vulnerable was available.\n\n\"Obviously in March there will be a Budget where again that holistic approach can be taken by the chancellor, but we've put that support in place to make sure that the most vulnerable communities can be protected at this very difficult time,\" he told Andrew Marr.\n\nThe government says it has injected an extra £7bn into the welfare system during the pandemic, including boosting Working Tax Credits by more than £1,000 a year for a 12-month period.\n\nLabour has urged the government to \"see sense\" on Universal Credit, saying that it would be both morally and economically wrong to \"take £1,000 a year from Britain's families\" at the peak of the unemployment crisis.", "The leaders of most of the world's biggest economies will get a brief taste of the English seaside this June as they gather for the G7 summit.\n\nCornwall's Carbis Bay, known for its sandy beach and clear waters, will be the venue for discussions on debt, climate change and post-Covid recovery.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson called it the \"perfect location for such a crucial summit\".\n\nThe UK, US, Germany, France, Canada, Italy and Japan make up the G7.\n\nLeaders from Australia, India, South Korea and the EU will also attend the event, from 11 to 13 June, as guests.\n\nVisit Cornwall estimates the county will make £50m, with the summit providing a boost to tourism and the area's international profile.\n\nBut the likes of US President Joe Biden, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron are unlikely to enjoy an ice cream and a barefoot stroll through Carbis Bay's surf.\n\nG7 summits require security cordons, with anti-globalisation protests having affected several previous get-togethers.\n\nMeasures in place for the meeting in Biarritz, France, in 2019, saw the seaside resort likened to a temporary \"fortress\".\n\nThe Cornish meeting will be the first face-to-face G7 since the pandemic started. Last year's event - scheduled to take place at Camp David, Maryland - took place online instead.\n\nThe previous two UK-hosted meetings were at Lough Erne, Co Fermanagh, in 2013, and Gleneagles, Perth and Kinross, in 2005.\n\nBoris Johnson invoked the leading role of Cornwall's mining communities in the industrial revolution\n\nThis year, delegates will be put up - with Covid restrictions in place - at the Tregenna Castle Resort, overlooking nearby St Ives, and other locations.\n\nThe National Maritime Museum Cornwall in Falmouth will host international media.\n\nThe UK is hosting the summit as president of the G7 for the year.\n\n\"As the most prominent grouping of democratic countries, the G7 has long been the catalyst for decisive international action to tackle the greatest challenges we face,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\nHe added that leaders should approach the economic challenges of Covid \"by uniting with a spirit of openness to create a better future\".\n\n\"Two-hundred years ago Cornwall's tin and copper mines were at the heart of the UK's industrial revolution and this summer Cornwall will again be the nucleus of great global change and advancement,\" the prime minister said.\n\nVisit Cornwall chief executive Malcolm Bell said the summit would \"not only showcase the beauty of Cornwall but give us the opportunity to communicate our heritage, culture and the connections\".\n\nLocal leaders said it would provide a \"fantastic opportunity\" to showcase the county on the world stage.\n\nThe government said it would announce more of its plans \"in due course\".\n\nThe G7 meeting comes five months ahead of UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow in November.", "A statue of Edward Colston was thrown into Bristol Harbour last June, after being pulled down and rolled through the streets\n\nThe government is planning new laws to protect statues in England from being removed \"on a whim or at the behest of a baying mob\", Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick has said.\n\nWriting in the Sunday Telegraph, he said generations-old monuments should be \"considered thoughtfully\".\n\nThe legislation would require planning permission for any changes and a minister would be given the final veto.\n\nIt will be revealed in Parliament on Monday.\n\nThe plans follow the toppling of a statue of slave trader Edward Colston last year and a wider discussion on the removal of controversial monuments.\n\nFour people were later charged with criminal damage over the removal of the Colston statue, and six people accepted conditional cautions over their involvement.\n\nIn the paper, the communities secretary said Britain should not try to edit or censor its past.\n\nMr Jenrick said any decision to remove heritage assets in England would require planning permission and a consultation with local communities, adding that he wanted to see a \"considered approach\".\n\nHe wrote: \"Our view will be set out in law, that such monuments are almost always best explained and contextualised, not taken and hidden away.\"\n\nMr Jenrick added that he had noticed an attempt to set a narrative which seeks to erase part of the nation's history, saying this was \"at the hand of the flash mob, or by the decree of a 'cultural committee' of town hall militants and woke worthies\".\n\nHe said: \"We live in a country that believes in the rule of law, but when it comes to protecting our heritage, due process has been overridden. That can't be right.\n\n\"Local people should have the chance to be consulted whether a monument should stand or not.\n\n\"What has stood for generations should be considered thoughtfully, not removed on a whim or at the behest of a baying mob.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Metropolitan Police say they are seeking to identify those responsible for the damage\n\nThe death of George Floyd while in the custody of police in Minneapolis sparked anti-racism protests across the world.\n\nDuring largely peaceful demonstrations in the UK, the controversial Colston statue was dumped into Bristol Harbour and a memorial to Sir Winston Churchill was vandalised with the words \"was a racist\".\n\nSpeaking in June, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"The statue of Winston Churchill in Parliament Square is a permanent reminder of his achievement in saving this country - and the whole of Europe - from a fascist and racist tyranny.\n\n\"It is absurd and shameful that this national monument should ... be at risk of attack by violent protesters.\n\n\"Yes, he sometimes expressed opinions that were and are unacceptable to us today, but he was a hero, and he fully deserves his memorial.\"\n\nColston made his fortune in the slave trade and bequeathed his money to charities in Bristol, which led to many venues, streets and landmarks bearing his name.\n\nThe Society of Merchant Venturers, the Bristol charity which runs institutions named after Edward Colston, said it was right that the statue was removed, along with other memorials to \"a man who benefited from trading in human lives\".\n\nThey said it was part of acknowledging Bristol's \"dark past\" and building \"a city where racism and inequality no longer exist\".\n\nFollowing the toppling of the statue, Colston's Girls School changed its name to Montpelier High School and the city's Colston Hall music venue is now known as the Bristol Beacon.\n\nA statue of a Black Lives Matter protester was placed on the empty plinth without permission in July and was removed shortly afterwards.", "Work to restore hundreds of thousands of fingerprint, DNA and arrest records accidentally wiped from police databases is ongoing, the Home Office has said.\n\nAround 400,000 records were lost, according to The Times, which first reported the story.\n\nThe Home Office did not comment on how many records were likely to be restored, or how long it would take.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said the issue was \"a result of human error\".\n\nData was wiped from the Police National Computer (PNC) - which stores and shares criminal records information across the UK - after being inadvertently flagged for deletion.\n\nThe PNC is used in police investigations and provides real-time checks on people, vehicles and crimes, as well as whether suspects are wanted for any unsolved offences.\n\nThe coding that caused the problem was introduced in November 2020, and the deletions started earlier this week.\n\nInitially, it was thought some 150,000 records were lost, but it since has emerged the number could be significantly higher.\n\nCommenting on the error, Ms Patel said: \"Engineers continue to work to restore data lost as a result of human error during a routine housekeeping process earlier this week.\n\n\"I continue to be in regular contact with the team, and working with our policing partners, we will provide an update as soon as we can.\"\n\nEarlier, Labour shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds called on Ms Patel to take responsibility for the error and be clear about the impact it had had.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Breakfast, he described the situation as \"extraordinarily serious\", adding: \"Priti Patel will be responsible for criminals walking free.\n\n\"We're not going to be able to link suspects to crime scenes without the DNA and fingerprint evidence.\"\n\nThe National Police Chiefs' Council said the lost data had resulted in a couple of \"near misses\" for serious crimes when trying to identify an offender.\n\nPolicing minister Kit Malthouse insisted the affected records \"apply to cases where individuals were arrested and then released with no further action\".\n\nHe added: \"We are working to recover the affected records as a priority. While we do so, the Police National Computer is functioning and the police are taking steps to mitigate any impact.\"", "A group of London business leaders has written to the government calling for financial support for the struggling rail firm Eurostar.\n\nIn a letter to the Treasury and Department for Transport, they urge \"swift action to safeguard its future\".\n\nBosses of firms such as Fortnum & Mason signed the letter asking for access to government loans and business rates relief \"at the very least\".\n\nThe government says it is \"working closely\" with Eurostar.\n\nThe cross-Channel rail company is threatened by a large drop in passenger numbers due to coronavirus-related travel restrictions.\n\nIt reported in November that passenger numbers had been down 95% since March 2020.\n\nWith two trains an hour normally scheduled in peak hours, it now runs just two services a day from London to Paris and Brussels.\n\nThe letter, coordinated by business campaigning group London First and seen by the BBC, describes the firm as one that has \"fallen through the cracks\". Unlike some airlines, it has not been eligible for government-backed loans.\n\n\"If this viable business is allowed to fall between the cracks of support - neither an airline, nor a domestic railway - our recovery could be damaged,\" it says.\n\nCo-signed by 28 leaders, including the vice-chancellor of Middlesex University, the chief executive of West End property company Shaftesbury, as well as the boss of the ExCeL conference centre, the letter points out that the company currently employs 1,200 people in the UK.\n\nThe firm is 55% owned by French state rail firm SNCF. The UK government sold its stake in the business to private companies for £757m in 2015.\n\nThe letter also credits Eurostar with reducing carbon emissions. Since it launched in 1994, it has transported more than 190 million passengers between Britain and mainland Europe.\n\nA spokesman for Eurostar said: \"Without additional funding from government there is a real risk to the survival of Eurostar, the green gateway to Europe.\n\nHe described the current situation as \"very serious\".\n\nA spokesman for the Department for Transport said: \"We recognise the significant financial challenges facing Eurostar as a result of Covid-19 and the unprecedented circumstances currently faced by the international travel industry.\"\n\nHe added the government had been in contact with Eurostar \"on a regular basis\" since the start of the coronavirus crisis and would continue to work closely with the firm.\n• None How are travel rules being relaxed?", "Few people get as unique a take on the movement, mood and feelings of the public than the business owners that sit in its lay-bys.\n\nSince the start of lockdown they have juggled highs and lows.\n\nFrom supporting lorry drivers unable to stop at closed service stations to seeing their customers told to stay at home - and in turn not spend money with them.\n\nSome are now questioning their future and role in a workforce predicted to change its patterns and work from home more in the future.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Duke of Cambridge shared his own experiences of seeing \"death and so much bereavement\"\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have been told the pandemic will leave many emergency workers \"broken\".\n\nMany police and NHS workers are too concerned with battling the pandemic to look after their mental health, they were told.\n\nInsp Phil Spencer from Cleveland Police said staff did not engage enough with counselling \"because we don't want to take anybody else's valuable time\".\n\nPrince William said he \"really worries\" about the effect on front-line workers.\n\n\"When you're surrounded by that level of intense trauma and sadness and bereavement, it really does, it stays with you at home, it stays with you for weeks on end,\" he said.\n\nInsp Spencer said emergency workers \"run towards danger, run towards a terrorist attack, we run towards the pandemic\".\n\n\"Perhaps further down the line when all this is gone we're going to have some broken police officers and emergency services staff, because we're too busy focusing on protecting the most vulnerable,\" he said.\n\nThe couple also spoke to counsellors from Hospice UK's Harrogate-based Just B support line for NHS staff, social care workers, carers and emergency services, which their foundation helps financially.\n\nThe prince said he feared \"you're all so busy caring for everyone else that you won't take enough time to care for yourselves\".\n\nHe and Catherine said the stigma surrounding seeking help for mental health issues must end.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n• None The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Two drivers from Scotland were stopped by police on Anglesey going to see friends.\n\nPeople who drove more than 200 miles to visit friends in Wales and a group having a party in a garden shed have been caught breaking Covid rules.\n\nPolice forces in Wales have broken up parties, football matches and fined people for visiting beauty spots this weekend while Wales is in lockdown.\n\nTwo motorists were reported by North Wales Police in Anglesey after driving from Scotland to visit friends.\n\nWhile in Swansea, eight people were fined after a party was held in a shed.\n\nThe drivers from Scotland were stopped by police at Valley, near Holyhead, and reported for driving without insurance and breaching Covid travel restrictions.\n\nOfficers from North Wales Police on Saturday also stopped a car from Portsmouth as the driver was travelling to \"collect a front bumper\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by South Wales Police Vale of Glamorgan This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by South Wales Police Vale of Glamorgan\n\n\"Travelling nearly 300 miles for a piece of cosmetic plastic for your car is not essential at this time,\" said North Wales Police's Intercept team.\n\n\"The regulations have been broadcast far and wide. Please be mindful you will be reported if your journey is not essential.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEven though national parks have shut car parks in a bid to stop people visiting, North Wales Police said it received about 100 calls on Saturday about potential Covid breaches - and officers told people they need to take \"personal responsibility\" and \"stay home\".\n\nSouth Wales Police officers issued fixed penalty notices after finding people from \"all different households\" in a shed - which had been converted into a bar - in the Sketty area of Swansea all \"mixing together\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Mark Drakeford This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA further nine fixed penalty notices were given out in the Townhill area of the city after different households attended a baby reveal party on Sunday.\n\nFive people were warned about breaking laws in Neath Port Talbot after a group travelled to a field to play football, while four people were fined after a house party in Aberavon.\n\nUnder coronavirus rules people are only allowed to leave their homes for \"essential\" reasons, including to shop for food, get medical treatment and to exercise.\n\nWhile exercise is allowed, people are not allowed to drive to a spot for a walk, run or cycle, and the law means exercising with people you do not live with (or who are your bubble if you live alone) is banned.\n\nThose found to be in breach of Covid laws can be fined £60 for the first offence, with the penalties increasing up to £1,920. If prosecuted, however, a court can impose an unlimited fine.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid lockdown: 'This is why we say to you do not come out'\n\nUntil recently police had been using an education first approach, but the Welsh Government has repeatedly said it wants to see stricter enforcement of the rules.\n\nIn Powys, road officers from Dyfed-Powys Police stopped cars and turned around people driving to exercise.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Traffic Wales North & Mid #KeepWalesSafe This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn Port Talbot, two people sat on a bench drinking alcohol were fined by South Wales Police for \"leaving home without a reasonable excuse\".\n\nGwent Police officers broke-up a house party in Glyn-Gaer, Caerphilly county, on Friday evening and issued fines.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Sunday. We'll have another update for you on Monday.\n\nTen new mass Covid vaccination centres are to open in England from Monday, as the government bids to meet its target of offering 15 million people in the UK a dose by 15 February. Blackburn Cathedral and St Helens Rugby Ground are among the venues chosen to join the seven hubs already in use. NHS England said the new centres would offer \"thousands\" of jabs a week. It comes as another 324,233 vaccine doses have been administered across the UK, taking the total above 3.5 million. Check when you will be eligible for a jab.\n\nA financial support scheme for airports in England will open this month, the government says, as the aviation sector faces new Covid travel curbs. Aviation minister Robert Courts said the move was a response to the closure of all UK air corridors from Monday. The aim is to provide grants before the end of this financial year, he said. Industry groups had warned there was only so long airports could \"run on fumes\", following the announcement of the new quarantine rules. Under the new rules beginning at 04:00 GMT on Monday, all travel corridors - which have been in place to allow arrivals from some countries to forgo quarantine - will close.\n\nMore than half of the Church of England's 14,000 parishes will not open for Sunday services today, as places of worship are hit hard by Covid-19. Many of the Church's clergy are shielding, while some parishes have decided it is not safe enough to admit worshippers. It has also been revealed that most mosques in London remained closed on Friday, meaning Muslims had to make alternative arrangements for Friday prayers. Despite current coronavirus restrictions, places of worship in England and Wales can open - but many are struggling to do so safely. Places of worship remain closed throughout Scotland, while Northern Ireland's main church denominations are to cease public worship until early February. Remind yourself of the rules where you live for places of worship.\n\nChildren in England will be able to access books online free during school closures via a virtual library. Internet classroom Oak National Academy created the library after schools moved to remote learning for the majority of pupils until February half-term. Formed with The National Literacy Trust, the library will provide a book a week from its author of the week. The aim is to increase young readers' access to e-books and audiobooks, particularly the most disadvantaged. The latest lockdown has seen schools in England close to all but children of key workers and vulnerable pupils.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge has expressed his pride at the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh for stepping up and having their Covid-19 vaccinations. In a video call with frontline workers, Prince William spoke about his grandparents after being told medics have witnessed \"vaccine hesitancy\" among some communities during the jab rollout. He praised NHS staff behind the rollout of the vaccine, and described the programme as \"tremendous\", saying it didn't \"just happen\". Staff joked they had been \"thinking and dreaming\" of vaccines all day and night with some describing working seven-day weeks.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In a video call, the Duke of Cambridge said the vaccination programme was \"tremendous\"\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nAnd it's been almost a month since people in some parts of the UK were allowed to meet in Christmas \"bubbles\", so what impact did this have?\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The boss of NHS England reveals Covid-19 jabs are being done much faster than people are newly catching the virus\n\nPeople in England are being vaccinated four times faster than new cases of the virus are being detected, NHS England's chief executive has said.\n\nSir Simon Stevens told the BBC that 140 people a minute were now being given the jab, usually the first dose of two.\n\nBut he said the NHS had never been in a more precarious position, with 75% more Covid patients than at the April peak.\n\nIt comes as a further 298,087 people received their first dose of the vaccine on Saturday.\n\nThere were also 671 more deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test, and another 38,598 positive tests.\n\nSir Simon told the Andrew Marr Show some hospitals would open for vaccinations 24 hours a day, seven days a week on a trial basis in the next 10 days.\n\nHe said England was on course to deliver 1.5 million doses this week. Scotland has delivered a total of more than 224,000 first doses, Wales has given over 126,000 and Northern Ireland nearly 118,000 - although Scotland and Wales do not report figures at the weekend.\n\nHalf of all over-80s have now been vaccinated, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said. \"Each jab brings us one step closer to normal,\" he said.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab told the BBC that the UK was making \"good progress\" in ensuring every adult was offered a vaccine by September and \"if it can be done more swiftly, that's a bonus\".\n\nMore people have now been vaccinated than have had positive tests since the pandemic began, with 10 more mass vaccination sites due to open in England on Monday.\n\nSir Simon said hospitals and staff were under \"extreme pressure\", however. Asked if the NHS has ever been in a more precarious situation, he said \"no\", adding that the pandemic was a \"unique event\" in its 72-year history.\n\nSomeone was being admitted to hospital with coronavirus every 30 seconds, Sir Simon said, and since Christmas patient numbers had risen by 15,000 - the equivalent of 30 full hospitals.\n\nIt means there are 75% more Covid-19 patients in hospital than there were in the April peak, the NHS chief executive said.\n\nAlthough there were promising signs infection rates were falling, he said they were still too high and rising in some areas and age groups, including the over-60s.\n\nHe said the number of critical care beds had been increased by 50% since the first wave of the pandemic but a \"very small number\" of patients were still having to be transferred between regions when hospitals were full.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The foreign secretary said there would be increased UK border checks next week\n\nAsked about the ratio of nurses to patients in London intensive care units, Sir Simon said there were sometimes three patients for every nurse rather than the one-to-one ratio normally expected. But patients were receiving the \"highest quality care possible\".\n\nAbout 53,000 NHS staff are currently off work due to the virus, he added.\n\nSir Simon said the health service would only be able to maintain the vaccination rate and \"hold the line if people continue to do the right thing and prevent the transmission of coronavirus\".\n\nVaccinating priority groups by the spring would not mean that \"with one bound we are free\" of coronavirus restrictions, he said. But he added: \"I don't think we will have to wait until the autumn.\"\n\nHe said he suspected that there would be enough supply of the vaccine - \"the crucial thing\" - to begin lifting restrictions before then.\n\nSir Simon also warned that although starting with the most vulnerable groups reduced the risk of deaths, a quarter of hospital patients with the virus were currently under 55 - and therefore not a priority unless they have a medical condition that puts them at additional risk.\n\nAsked about suggestions that some vaccination centres were having to throw away leftover doses, he said: \"The guidance from the chief medical officer is crystal clear: every last drop of vaccine should be used.\"\n\nMany centres were finding they were able to get six doses out of a five-dose vial, and Sir Simon said they should keep a reserve list of staff and high-risk patients who could be contacted to receive a vaccination at short notice.\n\nDr Rosie Shire from the Doctors' Association UK told the BBC that as well as sometimes getting six doses out of the five-dose Pfizer vials, they had also got 11 or 12 doses out of 10-dose AstraZeneca vials.\n\nBut she said the uncertain dose count made it harder to know how many last-minute appointments to book in order to use up the supply.\n\nMr Raab said that he was not aware of any delays to supplies from manufacturers Pfizer and AstraZeneca and said he was \"confident we have the flexibility\" to deliver enough doses.\n\n\"It is an enormous challenge. We are meeting it,\" he said. \"But we take nothing for granted.\"\n\nThe foreign secretary said the risk that new variants could prove resistant to vaccines or more deadly meant the UK had to take the \"precautionary approach\" of requiring all travellers to quarantine on arrival from Monday, closing the travel corridors which previously been exempt.\n\n\"We don't want to find in two or three weeks time that our vaccine roll out is imperilled because we haven't taken the precautionary measures on travel corridors,\" he said.\n\nChecks by Border Force on the passenger locator forms filled out on arrival would be increased, Mr Raab said, as would the follow-up calls by Public Health England intended to ensure people were isolating for up to 10 days.\n\nAsked whether the UK would introduce quarantine hotels to ensure people maintained their isolation, he said all potential measures were under review but there was a challenge in the \"workability\" of the proposal.\n\nHow have you been affected by the issues relating to coronavirus? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Smoke rises from Mount Semeru, the highest volcano on the Indonesian island of Java\n\nIndonesia's Mount Semeru has erupted, pouring ash an estimated 5.6km (3.4 miles) into the sky above Java, the country's most densely populated island.\n\nNo evacuation orders have so far been issued, and no casualties reported.\n\nThe National Disaster Mitigation Agency (NDMA) warned villagers living on the mountain's slopes to be alert for ongoing volcanic activity.\n\nFootage showed ash from the 3,676m (12,060ft) volcano looming over homes.\n\n\"The villages of Sumber Mujur and Curah Koboan [in Lumajang municipality] are located in the trajectory of the hot clouds,\" local official Thoriqul Haq said on Saturday.\n\nResidents of the Curah Kobokan river basin have been urged to watch for possible \"cold lava\" mudflow, which can be triggered by intense rainfall combining with volcanic material.\n\nMount Semeru erupted at about 17:24 local time (10:24 GMT), authorities said.\n\nA picture from the Indonesian National Board for Disaster Management shows ash rolling over the landscape\n\nIndonesia sits on the Pacific \"Ring of Fire\" where tectonic plates collide, causing frequent volcanic activity as well as earthquakes.\n\nSemeru - also known as \"The Great Mountain\" - is the highest volcano in Java and one of the most active. It is also one of Indonesia's most popular tourist hiking destinations.\n\nThe volcano previously erupted in December, when about 550 people were evacuated.", "A non-binding Labour motion calling for the universal credit top-up to be kept in place beyond 31 March passed by 278 votes to none after a Commons debate.\n\nSix Tory MPs defied party orders to abstain and voted with Labour, adding to the pressure on the PM on the issue.\n\nThe prime minister said the government had provided £280bn worth of support during the pandemic but all measures would be kept under \"constant review\".\n\nThe motion, which will not automatically lead to a change in policy, was put forward by Labour as a way to put additional pressure on the government to continue the increase, worth £1,000 a year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Carl, a roofer, describes going from \"not having enough to barely having enough\" on universal credit.\n\nFormer Work and Pensions Secretary Stephen Crabb was among six Conservative MPs to rebel, along with Peter Aldous, Robert Halfon, Jason McCartney, Anne Marie Morris and Matthew Offord.\n\nAhead of the vote, Mr Crabb told the BBC that although there were \"difficult pressures on the chancellor\" extending the increase for 12 months was \"the right thing to do\".\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said there were dozens of Conservative MPs who were \"deeply uneasy\" about ending the £20 weekly increase to universal credit.\n\nShe added that it was also understood the cabinet minister with responsibility for benefits, Therese Coffey, was arguing that the uplift should not be dropped in April.\n\nCharities and anti-poverty campaigners are pleading with the government to keep the support in place, describing it as a lifeline for more than 5.5 million families who receive the standard universal credit allowance.\n\nFood poverty campaigner and chef Jack Monroe told the BBC that the £20 increase \"has been a lifeline\" for millions of people who have needed to top up their income or rely on universal credit payments in order to get by.\n\nSir Keir said the increase was a vital safety net for those who had lost their jobs, seen their working hours slashed or who were not eligible for the government's wage subsidy furlough scheme.\n\n\"If we don't give a helping hand to families through this pandemic, then we are going to slow our economic recovery as we come out it.\n\n\"We urge Boris Johnson to change course and give families certainty today that their incomes will be protected.\"\n\nSix billion pounds of the benefits bill - the difference between poverty or not for 1.2 million families, according to a think tank.\n\nThe £1,040 a year increase to universal credit is a very emotive issue.\n\nThere's even a battle over what to call it.\n\nTo the government, its introduction was a one-off boost to cope with a crisis. For Labour, taking it away is a cut.\n\nMinisters would prefer we looked at the overall level of support they've provided for workers and businesses during the pandemic. The opposition say the £20 a week boost is a powerful symbol of the state's willingness to help.\n\nEven the act of debating it today is disputed. Labour say they've got the right occasionally to set the agenda in Parliament. Boris Johnson said his MPs risk abuse from campaigners and protestors if they engage.\n\nThe Joseph Rowntree Foundation has suggested about 16 million people will be directly affected if the £20 is rolled back.\n\nIt says 500,000 more people will be driven into poverty, including 200,000 children, while a further 500,000 of those already in poverty will find themselves in even worse hardship.\n\nHowever, free market think tank the Institute for Economic Affairs has argued that \"across-the-board benefit increases are a wasteful use of taxpayers' money\" at a time when the government is borrowing \"a hair-raising amount of money\".\n\nUniversal credit is a single payment replacing old benefits such as housing benefit and child tax credits.\n\nYou can claim universal credit if you are on a low income or are out of work.\n\nThe standard allowance varies from around £340 to just under £600 a month, depending on your age or whether you are single.\n\nYou may be eligible to receive more money on top of the standard allowance if, for example, you have children or a health condition.\n\nSpeaking on behalf of the Northern Research Group, Conservative MP John Stevenson said the £1,000 increase had been \"a real life-saver for people throughout this pandemic\".\n\n\"To end it now would be devastating for the 6 million individuals and families who are already struggling to stay afloat,\" he added.\n\nWhile the vote is not binding, and will not lead to a change in policy, it will increase pressure on the government to keep the increase or come up with an alternative.\n\nLabour said the Conservatives' decision to abstain created \"unnecessary uncertainty\" but minister Nadhim Zahawi described the vote as \"a political stunt\".\n\nThe government says it has strengthened the welfare system with an extra £7bn of funding during the pandemic while families struggling with food and household bills can get help through the £170m Winter Grant Scheme.\n\nMinisters also point to extra support for housing costs, through an increase in local housing allowance for those on housing benefits and hardship payments worth £670m next year for those unable to pay their council tax bills.", "A further 1,295 deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test have been reported in the UK, the third-highest daily total since the pandemic began.\n\nIt brings the total number of deaths by this measure to 88,590.\n\nThere have also been a further 41,346 lab-confirmed cases, and 4,262 more people have been admitted to hospital.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle, medical director for Public Health England, said the \"continuous rise in cases and deaths should be a bitter warning for us all\".\n\n\"We must not forget the basics,\" she added. \"The lives of our friends and family depend on it.\n\n\"Keep your distance from others, wash your hands and wear a mask.\"\n\nThe latest figures come ahead of Monday's change in travel rules for the UK, with all travel corridors closing, meaning arrivals from every country will have to quarantine.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson announced the changes at Downing Street on Friday, saying they would \"protect against the risk of as yet unidentified new strains\" of Covid.\n\nWhile daily figures can fluctuate due to delays in reporting, the seven-day average of Covid deaths in the UK has now risen slightly to 1,103.\n\nFor cases, however, there has been a drop in the seven-day average, with the figure now at 48,565.\n\nThere are currently 37,475 people in hospital with the virus, government figures show, while a further 324,233 people have received their first vaccine dose.\n\nThe government has promised all the over-70s, the extremely clinically vulnerable and front-line health and care workers - about 15 million people - will be offered a jab by mid February.\n\nCurrently, just over 3.5 million doses have been administered.\n\nThe government has also announced £120m in funds for the social care sector to be used by local authorities to increase staffing levels.\n\nStaff absence rates have risen in care homes and among home care staff, due to them testing positive or having to self-isolate.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the money would bolster staffing numbers in a \"controlled and safe way, whilst ensuring people continue to receive the highest quality of care\".\n\nA further £149m funding was announced in December to support rapid testing of care home staff.\n\nSpeaking alongside the PM on Friday, England's chief medical officer, Prof Chris Whitty, said the number of patients being admitted to hospital with coronavirus was set to peak within the next 10 days, while the peak for deaths was also yet to come.\n\nHe added, however, that he hoped the peak in infections had already happened in the South East, East and London, where there was a surge in the new, more transmissible variant.\n\n\"The peak of deaths I fear is in the future, the peak of hospitalisations in some parts of the country may be around about now and beginning to come off the very, very top,\" he said.\n\n\"Because people are sticking so well to the guidelines we do think the peaks are coming over the next week to 10 days for most places in terms of new people into hospital.\"\n\nHowever, chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance stressed it was a \"suppressed peak\" that would \"boil over for sure\" if controls were eased.\n\nHe said: \"This is not the natural peak that's going to come down on its own, it's coming down because of the measures that are in place.\n\n\"Take the lid off now and it's going to boil over for sure and we're going to end up with a big problem.\"\n\nMeanwhile, on Saturday, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer suggested he would back further coronavirus measures, as \"the tougher the restrictions now the quicker we get the virus back under control\".\n\nSir Keir said he was \"still worried\" by the number of infections, despite signs they are falling - and that the \"sense that we are through the worst\" of the third wave was wrong.\n\n\"Nobody likes restrictions but the tougher the restrictions now the quicker we get the virus back under control, the quicker we reduce the number of hospital admissions and the quicker we get that number of deaths, tragically, down,\" he added.", "The Archbishop of Glasgow, the Most Reverend Philip Tartaglia, has died suddenly at his home in the city.\n\nArchbishop Tartaglia had tested positive for Covid-19 shortly after Christmas and was self-isolating.\n\nThe Catholic Church said the cause of his death was not yet clear.\n\nHe was ordained a priest in 1975 and had served as leader of Scotland's largest Catholic community since 2012.\n\nA statement from the Archdiocese of Glasgow said: \"It is with the greatest sorrow that we announce the death of our Archbishop.\n\n\"The Pope's Ambassador to Great Britain, Archbishop Claudio Gugerotti, has been informed.\n\n\"It will be for Pope Francis to appoint a new Archbishop to succeed Archbishop Tartaglia, but until then the Archdiocese will be overseen by an administrator.\"\n\nScotland's Catholic bishops described Archbishop Tartaglia as a \"gentle, caring and warm-hearted pastor\".\n\nThey said in a statement: \"His loss to his family, his clergy and the people of the Archdiocese of Glasgow will be immeasurable but for the entire Church in Scotland this is a day of immense loss and sadness.\n\n\"He was a gentle, caring and warm-hearted pastor who combined compassion with a piercing intellect.\n\n\"His contribution to the work of the Bishops' Conference of Scotland over the past 16 years was significant and we will miss his wisdom, wit and robust Catholic spirit very much.\"\n\nArchbishop Tartaglia had been self-isolating at home after contracting coronavirus\n\nThe statement concluded: \"On behalf of the Bishops of Scotland, we commend his soul into the hands of God and pray that he may enjoy eternal rest.\"\n\nArchbishop Tartaglia was a lifelong Celtic fan and the club tweeted their tribute to him: \"We are saddened to hear of the death of Archbishop Philip Tartaglia who was a huge supporter of the club and regularly attended matches at Celtic Park.\n\n\"Everyone at Celtic offers their sincere condolences to Philip's family and Scotland's Catholic community at this sad time.\"\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the archbishop was \"a fine man who was much loved within the Catholic community and beyond\".\n\nMs Sturgeon tweeted: \"I always valued my interactions with him and he will be greatly missed. My thoughts are with his loved ones and wider community. May he rest in peace.\"\n\nThe leader of the Scottish Conservatives, Douglas Ross, tweeted: \"Tragic news about the sudden passing of Archbishop Philip Tartaglia. My condolences to his friends and family.\n\n\"His death will be keenly felt within the Catholic Church and across the wider community.\"\n\nThe leader of Glasgow City Council described the archbishop as \"a true Glaswegian\" who \"knew its people and the challenges faced by ordinary citizens, regardless of their faith or beliefs\".\n\nCouncillor Susan Aitken added: \"He was also unafraid to use his position to challenge deprivation, austerity and the ill-effects of welfare reform when he believed it was his duty to call them out.\"\n\nArchbishop Tartaglia was born in Glasgow on 11 January 1951 - the eldest son of Guido and Annita Tartaglia.\n\nAfter attending St Thomas' Primary in Riddrie, he began his secondary education at St Mungo's Academy before moving to the national junior seminary at St Vincent's College, Langbank.\n\nHe later attended St Mary's College, at Blairs, Aberdeen, before completing his ecclesiastical studies at the Pontifical Scots College, and the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome.\n\nOn returning to Scotland, he was an assistant and then parish priest at Our Lady of Lourdes, Cardonald, St Patrick's, Dumbarton, and St Mary's, Duntocher.\n\nArchbishop Tartaglia was ordained by then Archbishop Thomas Winning in the Church of Our Lady of Good Counsel, Dennistoun, on 30 June 1975.\n\nHe was a leading opponent of proposals to legalise same-sex marriage in Scotland and also criticised ministers over anti-bigotry legislation.\n\nThe Archdiocese of Glasgow is the largest of Scotland's eight dioceses with an estimated Catholic population of about 200,000. It comprises 95 parishes and is served by about 200 priests.\n\nArchbishop Tartaglia was the eighth person to hold the office since the restoration of the Catholic hierarchy in Scotland in 1878.\n\nHe followed Archbishop Mario Conti and Archbishop Thomas Winning, who later became Cardinal Winning.", "The player told police he had travelled from his home in Bedworth to hunt the characters\n\nA man has been fined for breaking lockdown rules after travelling 14 miles to play Pokemon Go.\n\nHe admitted to Warwickshire Police he had driven from his home in Bedworth to look for the characters in Kenilworth.\n\nHe was fined £200 for \"contravening the requirement to not leave or be outside the place they live without a reasonable excuse\".\n\n\"Everyone has a part to play in ensuring they slow the spread of the virus,\" a police spokeswoman said.\n\n\"We would like to remind people they must not leave or be outside their home unless they have a reasonable excuse.\"\n\nPokemon Go is a Japanese augmented reality game for smartphones. First launched in 2016, it allows players to hunt for characters that \"appear\" in real-life places.\n\nIt has been downloaded around the world more than one billion times.", "Hashem Abedi (left) and Ahmed Hassan are due to appear at Bromley Magistrates' Court\n\nThe Manchester Arena and Parsons Green bombers have been charged with assaulting a prison officer together, the BBC has learned.\n\nHashem Abedi, 23, and Ahmed Hassan, 21, are accused of assaulting an officer in HMP Belmarsh, south London, in May last year.\n\nAnother man who is awaiting sentencing for terror offences is also charged with assaulting the same person.\n\nThe three men are due to appear at Bromley Magistrates' Court on 7 April.\n\nAbedi, who was jailed in August for murdering the 22 victims of the May 2017 Manchester Arena attack, is also charged with assaulting a second prison officer during the same incident on 11 May.\n\nHassan, from London, whose Parsons Green tube bomb injured 51 people in September 2017, was jailed for attempted murder the following year.\n\nMuhammed Saeed, 22, from Manchester, is the third person charged. Last year, he admitted possessing terrorist documents.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Up to 400,000 people could be given the Covid-19 vaccine every week by the end of February, Scottish Health Secretary Jeane Freeman has told MSPs.\n\nHealth teams are ramping up the rollout of jabs, with 1,100 vaccination centres now open and using two vaccines.\n\nMinisters aim to vaccinate care home residents, NHS staff and over-80s by the first week of February.\n\nThey then hope to have completed the over-70 group by mid-February and over-65 and vulnerable groups by March.\n\nThis would see 1.4m people given the jab, and Ms Freeman said the government's \"priority is to vaccinate as many people as quickly as possible\".\n\nHowever, the BMA Scottish GP Committee has warned the vaccine supply is \"stuttering\" and blamed \"bureaucratic hold-ups\" for delaying distribution.\n\nIn a statement at Holyrood, the health secretary said Scotland faces \"a more perilous situation than at any point in this pandemic\", with the new variant of coronavirus \"increasing in its dominance\" of infections north of the border.\n\nHowever Ms Freeman said there was hope in the form of the vaccination programme, which she said was \"scaling up rapidly\".\n\nA first dose of vaccine has now been given to just over 80% of care home residents and 55% of staff, along with 52% of frontline NHS staff.\n\nAnd in the eight days since 4 January, just over 2% of those aged 80 or over in the community have been given a first dose.\n\nMs Freeman said that age was \"the greatest risk factor for serious illness and death from Covid, and represents well over 90% of preventable mortality\".\n\nThe government is prioritising giving a first dose to as many people as possible, which Ms Freeman said provides \"very high protection\", with a second dose of the same vaccine then administered within 12 weeks.\n\nMs Freeman said that by the end of February, an average of 400,000 people should be getting a jab per week.\n\nJeane Freeman said the vaccine programme was \"scaling up rapidly\"\n\nThe government is also working to set up large vaccination centres in the community, which could handle up to 20,000 vaccinations a week in a single location.\n\nSites include the Event Complex conference centre in Aberdeen, Ravenscraig Regional Sports Facility in Motherwell, Queen Margaret University in Musselburgh and the Edinburgh International Conference Centre, and Ms Freeman said work was ongoing to secure more centres in the Glasgow area in particular.\n\nA total of 4.5m adults in Scotland are in line to be vaccinated.\n\nMs Freeman said she was aware that people would \"want to know when it will be their turn\", saying a national advertising campaign would be established to \"inform the public\".\n\nScottish Conservative health spokesman Donald Cameron said it was \"clear not enough people are being vaccinated each day and timetables are slipping\".\n\nHe also asked Ms Freeman whether there were delays to the creation of a national booking system, after speculation that it could hold up the start of mass vaccinations.\n\nThe health secretary said she did not believe it was the case that timetables were slipping, and said there were no delays to the national booking system - adding that it would be \"ready from the beginning of February to do its job\".\n\nMeanwhile Scottish Labour's Monica Lennon asked how quickly the country could move to a 24 hours a day rollout of vaccines.\n\nMs Freeman said this was \"entirely possible\" once the mass vaccination centres are open, saying she \"would anticipate that would be by the end of February or early March\".\n\nShe said: \"The will is there to do that, if that is what it takes, because the objective is to get as many people vaccinated as possible.\"\n\nThe BMA Scottish GP Committee has said practices \"don't know when their next supply is coming in\".\n\nIts chairman, Dr Andrew Buist, told BBC Scotland's Drivetime programme the Scottish government \"must do everything possible to ensure vaccine supply is as good as it can be\".\n\nHe said: \"I've spoken with the chief medical officer about this and emphasised we should remove any bureaucratic hold-up to the distribution of this vaccine.\n\n\"People are obviously very anxious to get it as soon as possible.\n\n\"We know what the priority groups are, we have the practices ready and running to give it to their patients. We just need to get the vaccine to them.\"\n• None All over-80s to be vaccinated by February", "More than six million glasses of pink prosecco were enjoyed by Lidl customers over the festive period as strict Covid rules prompted people to indulge.\n\nThe discount supermarket reported record total sales for the four weeks to 27 December with revenue up 18%.\n\nTakeaway firm Just Eat and online fashion retailer Asos have also reported stellar sales for the period.\n\nAll three benefited as restaurants and non-essential shops faced strict curbs or were forced to close.\n\nDemand was so strong, Lidl said it had shifted 7,000 glasses of mulled wine and almost 17,000 deluxe mince pies every hour in the run up to Christmas.\n\nIt also sold more than 2.7 million servings of panettone, the festive Italian cake.\n\nLidl continued to press ahead with its store expansion programme in the period, opening four new stores in December at a time when many businesses are closing down.\n\nBoss Christian Härtnagel said: \"Despite this Christmas being a difficult time for many across the country, we are pleased to have been able to help our customers enjoy themselves.\n\n\"As we look ahead to this year, we remain committed to our expansion and investment plans,\" he added.\n\nJust Eat said delivery orders in the UK surged 58% in the last three months of 2020 compared with the same period last year.\n\nThe takeaway firm, which operates around the world, said this had been its third consecutive quarter of growth, reflecting the huge demand for takeaway food as restaurants have faced curbs and closures.\n\nBoss Jitse Groen said the firm's progress in the UK was \"particularly exciting\" with demand up nearly five-fold in the fourth quarter of 2020 compared with the same period in 2019.\n\nIts UK sales force has also doubled compared with last year.\n\nIt was a similar story for Asos, whose sales for the four months to 31 December rose 36% to £554.1m, something it credited in part to restrictions on non-essential shops.\n\nThe fashion retailer, which also operates across Europe and the US, said its active customer base was now 24.5 million, up 1.1 million on the same period last year.\n\nRichard Lim, head of analysts Retail Economics, said: \"Lockdowns, fewer opportunities to mix socially and cancelled Christmas parties have decimated the demand for new outfits this year.\n\n\"But what consumers did spend was focused towards casual-wear and channelled online where the retailer was well position to leverage this opportunity.\"", "Boris Johnson has said there is still a very substantial risk of intensive care units in hospitals being overwhelmed by the spread of the coronavirus.\n\nIt comes on a day when the UK has recorded the highest number of deaths in a single day in Europe.\n\nFergal Keane last visited the Imperial Healthcare Trust’s St Mary’s and Charing Cross hospital in London last April.\n\nHe's been back to see how they're coping.", "Plans have been announced to overhaul the mental health system - with the aim of making it less discriminatory towards black people.\n\nMinisters say changes to how people are sectioned in England and Wales will see them treated \"as individuals, with rights, preferences, and expertise\".\n\nBlack people are over four times more likely to be detained under the Mental Health Act, relative to population.\n\nThe mental health charity Mind said the changes \"cannot come soon enough.\"\n\nPeople are detained under the mental health act - or sectioned - for their own safety, or the safety of others.\n\nHow long they are detained for varies - but once detained, they are immediately considered to be \"sectioned\".\n\nUse of the Mental Health Act has increased markedly - from 2005/6 to 2015/16, the number of people detained in hospital increased by 40%.\n\nNHS data for England shows there were at least 50,893 new detentions under the Mental Health Act in 2019/20 - but the overall total will be higher as not all providers submitted data.\n\nOf those detentions, 5,336 people were black or black British.\n\nThe data also shows that in 2019/20 there were 321 detentions per 100,000 population for people who were black or black British - while there were 73 detentions per 100,000 for white people.\n\nWith the act disproportionately used against black people, the reforms will see a Patient and Carers Race Equality Framework introduced across all NHS mental health trusts - which the government describes as a practical tool to improve the outcome for BAME communities.\n\nWhat ministers call \"culturally appropriate advocates\" will also be developed, so patients from all ethnic backgrounds can be supported.\n\n\"We need to bring mental health laws into the 21st Century,\" said Health Secretary Matt Hancock.\n\n\"I want to ensure our health service works for all, yet the Mental Health Act is now 40 years old.\n\n\"This is a significant moment in how we support those with serious mental health issues, which will give people more autonomy over their care and will tackle disparities for all who access services - in particular for people from minority ethnic backgrounds.\"\n\nThe reforms will also ensure that autism or a learning disability cannot be a reason for detaining someone under the act.\n\nIn future, a clinician will have to identify another psychiatric condition to order their detention.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What is it like to be sectioned?\n\nThe current Mental Health Act dates from 1983 and the aim of these reforms, which are widely supported, is to give people greater say over their care and to rebalance the system between the state and the individual.\n\nAmong the recommendations are plans to introduce statutory advance choice documents which will allow people to express their preferred treatment before they reach a crisis and need hospitalisation.\n\n\"This is just the beginning of what is now a long overdue process,\" said Sophie Corlett, director of external relations at the mental health charity Mind.\n\n\"At the moment, thousands of people are still subjected to poor, sometimes appalling, treatment, and many will live with the consequences far into the future.\n\n\"Our understanding of mental health has moved on significantly in recent decades but our laws are rooted in the 19th Century.\"\n\nThe recommendations, set out in a government White Paper, build on the proposals from an independent review of the act, which was ordered by then prime minister Theresa May in October 2017 and which published its conclusions in December 2018.\n\nMinisters intend to publish a Mental Health Bill in 2022, following a consultation on their plans.", "Amnesty says about 7,500 women and girls gave birth in the Northern Ireland homes,\n\nThere have been calls for an inquiry into mother and baby homes in Northern Ireland.\n\nIt comes as the Irish government is to apologise after an investigation found an \"appalling level of infant mortality\" in the Republic of Ireland's homes.\n\nAbout 9,000 children died in the 18 institutions under investigation.\n\nMothers and babies who were in similar homes in Northern Ireland want a full inquiry to be held in NI too.\n\nStormont commissioned research into whether or not there should an inquiry held into the homes which operated in Northern Ireland, is due to be published by the end of January.\n\nPatrick Corrigan from Amnesty International said the issue of forced adoptions also needs close scrutiny.\n\n\"We have had cases of mothers telling us that ultimately, many decades later, when they tried to track down their long-lost children they found adoption certificates where they said their signature had actually been forged,\" he said.\n\n\"So I think that there is criminality to investigate here and that it behoves the Northern Ireland Executive to set up the inquiry that has long been sought here and long been denied.\"\n\nIn 2017 research into infant mortality rates at former mother and baby homes in Northern Ireland had prompted initial calls for a public inquiry.\n\nBBC News NI previously spoke to Eunan Duffy who was 47 years old when he found out he was adopted from Marianvale mother and baby home in Newry, County Down.\n\nIt was one of a network of institutions in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland which offered women the voluntary option, for those who were unmarried, to give birth in private and give their babies up for adoption\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Marian Vale was one of a network of mother and baby institutions in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland\n\nAmnesty says there were more than a dozen mother-and-baby institutions in Northern Ireland.\n\nIt said about 7,500 women and girls gave birth in the Northern Ireland homes, operated by both Catholic and Protestant churches and religious organisations.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, research into mother and baby homes and Magdalene laundries was commissioned three years ago and was initially expected to take 12 months.\n\nIt was completed in February last year, but was then sent to those facing criticism to give them an opportunity to reply.\n\nA Department of Health spokesperson said: \"A paper will be brought to the executive shortly for its consideration. Subject to executive approval, it is intended to publish the research report before the end of January 2021.\"\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, the commission that investigated the homes found that the number of children who died was about 15% of all those who were born in the institutions.\n\nTaoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Mícheál Martin said the report, which can be read in full here, described a \"dark, difficult and shameful chapter\" of Irish history.\n\nSolicitor Claire McKeegan, who represents the Birth Mothers for Justice group, welcomed the apology in the Republic of Ireland, but said mothers and children in NI had not received one.\n\n\"The crimes perpetrated on them have yet to be investigated,\" she said.\n\n\"Those perpetrators who forced them into arbitrary detention, hard labour and colluded in the forced adoption of their babies, remain unchallenged in this jurisdiction.\"\n\nMary O'Neill became pregnant when she was 18 and was sent to Marianvale in Newry in the late 1970s.\n\nThere she gave birth to a baby girl who was taken away from her almost immediately after the birth.\n\nShe wanted to keep the baby, but was not allowed and was told the baby would be put up for adoption.\n\nThe mother and baby scandal became an international news story when 'significant human remains' were found on the grounds of a former home in County Galway\n\nMs O'Neill told Good Morning Ulster she eventually tracked down her daughter after 40 years.\n\n\"It was a long search, everywhere you went you were up against a brick wall,\" she said.\n\n\"There was no help, the social workers didn't want to tell you anything.\"\n\nShe finally found out her daughter was living in America but was coming home for her 40th birthday.\n\nShe said when she met her it was like meeting a stranger.\n\n\"But thank God we have met and we have a good relationship. She's still keeping in touch,\" Ms O'Neill said.\n\n\"It means the world to me, because you always wondered where was she? Was she happy? Did she know about you?\n\n\"It was always in the back of your mind. It never went away, the tears and the heartache.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs O'Neill said she was happy the victims in the Republic of Ireland were getting an apology, but wishes the homes in Northern Ireland could have been included.\n\nMechelle Dillon's mother was 21 and pregnant when she was sent to Marianvale in Newry in 1969.\n\nShe was placed in foster care a few months after her birth.\n\nHer mother returned to her home village and then moved to England. But she came back for Mechelle when she was around eight or nine-months-old.\n\nShe said she believed she was not adopted because she was born with a cyst on her mouth.\n\n\"I would have maybe been classed as a reject, if you want to put it that way,\" she said.\n\n\"It's the same as if you go to look for a little puppy and if the puppy doesn't feel right and you think 'Oh God, I'll have a lot of vet bills here, I don't want that puppy' - I would have probably been classed the same because I would have had that defect.\"\n\nSDLP leader Colum Eastwood said \"the executive should move quickly to publish the research report and then call a full public inquiry\".", "The numbers of care home residents and staff testing positive for Covid-19 have hit their highest levels.\n\nThere were 1,507 positive tests in care homes in Wales in the most recent week, a 78% rise on the week before.\n\nAcross Wales, 37,026 residents and staff were tested by either the NHS or the Lighthouse laboratories the week beginning 4 January, according to Public Health Wales.\n\nBroken down, 6,466 care home residents were tested in the most recent week and 582 (9%) were positive in results from NHS laboratories.\n\nAlso, 248 care home workers tested positive, with about 96% of tests negative.\n\nBut there were another 677 positive test results from Lighthouse labs, which do not distinguish between residents and care home staff.\n\nAll of these categories saw the highest numbers yet recorded.\n\nResidents and staff are supposed to be tested weekly at care homes in Wales.\n\nCare Home Inspectorate Wales also now publish separate figures around testing , which showed 137 care homes in Wales (13%) had notified one or more positive cases in staff or residents in the most recent week available and 31.8% within the last month.\n\nSwansea had 17 care homes which had notified at least one case in the week ending 1 January; Cardiff had 15 homes with at least one case and Bridgend was next with 13 care homes.", "Decima Minhinnick, pictured at her 90th birthday party, lives in a care home and has vascular dementia\n\nA couple who were fined £60 for driving 20 minutes to see a relative in a care home have had their fine cancelled by police.\n\nCarol and David Richards from Bridgend travelled seven miles to Porthcawl to visit her mother Decima Minhinnick, 94.\n\nOn Tuesday, police defended the fine, claiming the couple had broken lockdown rules.\n\nOn Wednesday, South Wales Police said it had \"since been reviewed and the notice has been rescinded\".\n\n\"The individual concerned has been notified\".\n\nIn a statement, it added: \"Wales remains at alert level four and South Wales Police will continue to patrol our communities to ensure the legislation, which has been enacted to slow the spread of coronavirus, is complied with\".\n\nMrs Richards has said she was \"mortified\" they were stopped by police while returning on Sunday from what she said was a compassionate visit.\n\nShe said on Tuesday she did not believe they breached lockdown rules.\n\nMrs Richards said the couple had arranged the visit to Picton Court Care Home in advance with the permission of staff, and spoke to her mother, who has vascular dementia, through the window of her ground-floor room from the car park.\n\nDavid and Carol Richards complained about the £60 fine\n\nShe told the Local Democracy Reporting Service that when she was issued with the fine it was like \"a sort of dystopian novel\", adding that the officer involved was \"pedantic and inflexible\".\n\n\"I was angry - she just would not listen to any protestations, and so she said 'you're going to be issued with a £60 fixed penalty fine'.\n\n\"It's not about the 60 quid, it's about the principle.\"\n\nThe home is just over seven miles from where the couple live", "Tony Parsons was last seen on 29 September 2017\n\nPolice have discovered human remains during a search for a man who went missing more than three years ago during a charity cycle ride.\n\nTony Parsons, from Tillicoultry, was last seen on 29 September 2017 outside the Bridge of Orchy Hotel.\n\nDetectives said the discovery was made during a detailed search of a remote site close to a farm near the A82 at Bridge of Orchy.\n\nPolice said that Mr Parsons' family have been made aware of the discovery.\n\nEfforts to recover the remains will continue over the coming days before a post mortem is held to establish their identity.\n\nTwo men, both aged 29, were arrested and then released pending further inquiries in December in connection with the disappearance of Mr Parsons.\n\nPolice have been carrying out searches in the area in recent days\n\nDet Ch Insp Alan Somerville said: \"This is clearly a significant development and extensive work is ongoing to recover the remains and confirm their identity.\n\n\"We have informed Mr Parsons' family, who are being supported by specialist officers.\n\n\"The thoughts of everyone involved in the investigation are with them at this difficult time.\"\n\nMr Parsons cycled through Glencoe village and was last seen at the Bridge of Orchy Hotel\n\nThe former navy officer, who was 63 when he went missing, was last seen outside the hotel at about 23:30. He then continued south along the A82 in the direction of Tyndrum but there were no more sightings of him after that.\n\nExtensive searches were carried out in the area, involving local mountain rescue teams, volunteers, Police Scotland dogs and the force's air support unit.\n\nMr Parsons had caught the train to Fort William on the day he was last seen with the intention of cycling the 104-mile (167km) journey home to Tillicoultry.", "Covid vaccinations will be offered 24 hours a day, seven days a week as soon as supply allows, Boris Johnson says.\n\nThe prime minister said the plan was to extend opening hours of vaccination centres - at the moment, most sites run from 08:00 to 22:00.\n\nThe 24-7 service will be piloted in a small number of places first - with NHS staff likely to be offered the option of overnight vaccinations first.\n\nBut Mr Johnson said supply was the limiting factor at the moment.\n\nThe NHS had just over a million doses available last week and used up most of them.\n\nThis week, there are thought to be more but not yet enough to vaccinate two million people - the weekly target the government is aiming to reach in the coming weeks.\n\nAt Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Johnson said there would be 24-7 vaccination \"as soon as possible\".\n\nThe UK has access to two vaccines at the moment - the Pfizer-BioNTech jab and another produced in partnership by Oxford University and AstraZeneca.\n\nA third vaccine made by the US company Moderna has been approved but is not yet available to the UK.\n\nMr Johnson praised the work of the more than 200 hospitals and 1,000 GP-led NHS vaccination sites running at the moment.\n\n\"They are going exceptionally fast,\" he added.\n\nBy the end of Monday, 2.4 million people had received their first vaccine dose.\n\nThe government has promised all the over-70s, the extremely clinically vulnerable and front-line health and care workers - about 15 million people - will be offered a jab by mid February.\n\nThere is actually enough vaccine in the country to vaccinate all the highest at-risk groups.\n\nThe problem is that not all of it has been packaged into vials or passed through the final safety checks.\n\nThere should soon be two million doses available each week for the NHS to use.\n\nBut the key question once that is achieved is how quickly and by how much supply can increase from there.\n\nTo make full use of the network of vaccination centres - the ambition is to have 2,700 up and running - many millions of doses will be needed each week.\n\nThere is huge global demand for these vaccines.\n\nAnd while the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab is made in the UK, the Pfizer-BioNTech one is made abroad as is the Moderna vaccine.\n\nSupplies of the latter are not expected until the spring.\n\nThis is an issue the government is likely to be grappling with for some time.\n\nBut despite the concerns, it should also be recognised the UK has been quick out of the blocks.\n\nOnly two countries have vaccinated a larger proportion of the population than the UK.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was vital the government moved quickly.\n\nSpeaking about the planned 24-7 vaccination, he said: \"I obviously welcome that and urge the prime minister and the government to get on with this.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Nadhim Zahawi, the minister in charge of the vaccination programme, was also asked about supply, at an appearance before the Science and Technology Committee.\n\nHe said he had a \"clear line of sight\" for the expected numbers that would be available to the NHS for the next few months but refused to give any more detail.\n\n\"The more we show off about how many vaccine batches we're receiving, the more difficult life becomes for the manufacturers,\" he said.\n\nAstraZeneca vice president Sir Mene Pangalos said one of the issues the firm was facing was that infections among staff had begun to hinder production.\n\n\"I feel that it is critical that those who are working on vaccines are immunised because if you have an outbreak at one of the centres, which we've had actually or in one of the groups in Oxford that's working on new variants, or those working on the regulatory files everything stops.\"", "Changes to Scotland's lockdown restrictions have been announced. The tightening of the rules follows concerns the \"stay at home\" message is not having the same impact it did during last year's lockdown. The changes will come into effect on Saturday.\n\nThe availability and operation of click and collect services will be limited to retailers selling essential items such as clothes, footwear, baby equipment, homeware and books. Also, outlets that sell electrical goods; do key cutting; undertake shoe repairs, plus garden centres and plant nurseries can continue the collect service.\n\nFor qualifying businesses, staggered appointments will need to be offered to avoid any potential for queuing, and access inside premises for collection will not be permitted.\n\nCustomers in Scotland will no longer be allowed to go inside to collect takeaway food or coffee. Businesses will have to operate from a serving hatch or doorway.\n\nThe aim is to reduce the risk of customers coming into contact indoors with each other, or with staff.\n\nIt will be against the law in all level four areas of Scotland to drink alcohol outdoors in public.\n\nThis will mean that buying a takeaway pint and consuming on the street will not be permitted.\n\nIt is intended to underline the message that people should only be leaving home for essential purposes.\n\nThe Scottish government is strengthening the obligation on employers to allow their staff to work from home whenever possible.\n\nThe law already says that people should only be leaving home to go to work if it is work that cannot be done from home. This is a legal obligation that falls on individuals.\n\nHowever, statutory guidance is being introduced to make clear that employers should support employees to work from home wherever possible.\n\nThe Scottish government is strengthening provisions in relation to work inside people's houses.\n\nCurrent guidance says that in level four areas work is only permitted within a private dwelling if it is essential for the upkeep, maintenance and functioning of the household. This guidance is now being put into law.\n\nThe final change is an amendment to the regulations requiring people to stay at home.\n\nThis is intended to close an apparent loophole rather than change the spirit of the law. It will also bring the wording of the stay at home regulations in Scotland into line with the other UK nations.\n\nCurrently the law states that people can only leave home for an essential purpose.\n\nThe amendment will make it clear that people \"must not leave or remain outside\" the home unless it is for an essential purpose.\n\nThe Scottish government's full lockdown guidance is available here.", "The Lauberhorn course is the longest downhill run in the world (file image)\n\nA British tourist has been blamed for a spike in coronavirus cases that led officials to cancel Switzerland's famous Lauberhorn ski race.\n\nThe resort of Wengen, where the race is held, had recorded only 10 cases of the virus by mid-December.\n\nBut the number soon began to rise and many cases have since been linked to the new highly infectious variant of Covid-19 first identified in the UK.\n\nAt least 27 cases are connected to one British tourist, contact tracers say.\n\nThe tourist stayed in a hotel in Wengen over the holiday period.\n\nThe Lauberhorn course is the longest downhill run in the world, and racers can reach speeds of 160km/h (100 mph).\n\nOfficials desperately tried to save the race, shutting schools and offering to close off the resort to everyone but the competitors.\n\nSwiss health officials initially agreed with the plan, but a further jump in cases at the start of this week prompted them to pull the emergency brake and cancel the event.\n\nThe Lauberhorn track is 4,480m (14,700ft) long - and the race will now have to wait until 2022\n\nWengen is devastated. The Lauberhorn is one of the top competitions on the World Cup ski circuit. It is dearly loved by the Swiss, who have watched with delight as some of their own homegrown talent, such as Beat Feuz and Carlo Janka, have triumphed there.\n\nMoreover, the long love affair between Switzerland and British winter tourists has frosted over to some extent.\n\nIt was only last month that the vanishing Brits of Verbier, who reportedly fled Switzerland rather than accept the government mandated quarantine, triggered a flurry of negative headlines.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Italy's Foppolo ski resort was closed until 6 January and missed the all-important Christmas ski season\n\nNow the high point of Switzerland's skiing calendar has been abruptly cancelled, and some Swiss blame the British.\n\nOthers say Switzerland only has itself to blame.\n\nWhile neighbours France and Italy closed their resorts over the festive period, the Swiss government opted for a precarious balancing act. It kept its slopes open, but closed all bars and restaurants and limited ski lifts to two-thirds capacity.\n\nMost Swiss resorts are quiet, with just a few locals enjoying the runs. But still some tourists arrived and, as Wengen's experience shows, just one infected guest is enough to cause major damage.\n\nInstead of hosting a major ski race, Wengen officials are now racing to control the virus. Mass testing has already begun in the resort.\n\nSwitzerland's government has extended the closure of bars, restaurants, museums, and theatres until the end of February in a bid to control the new variant. It has also ordered non-essential shops to close and made working from home obligatory.\n\nAs for the Lauberhorn, Switzerland's oldest and fiercest skiing rival, Austria, will now host the postponed event. Nothing could have been calculated to upset the Swiss more.\n\nThe event was first moved to the Austrian ski resort of Kitzbühel, but an outbreak of coronavirus there has prompted another move, this time to Flachau, 100km to the east.\n\nThe cluster of cases in Jochberg near Kitzbühel broke out among a group of mainly British trainee ski instructors.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nI'm standing in what should be an operating theatre - but instead it's been converted into an intensive care unit for Covid-19 patients on ventilators.\n\nThis is the first time I have seen it full of patients like this. Normally this theatre would be busy with major cancer surgery, but that's been transferred to another building.\n\nA children's recovery area, still decorated with colourful stickers of cartoons, is once again filled with desperately sick adults. Every day, more wards are being transformed into ICU - ready for the next influx of patients.\n\nWe have been given access to University College Hospital, in central London. This is the same intensive care unit that I first visited in April, during the first peak.\n\nIt is one of the busiest hospitals in the capital and intensive care here is expanding across a hospital that is under pressure like never before, from a relentless rise in Covid admissions.\n\nI am struck by the toll the pandemic is taking on staff. It's immense - both physically and mentally. They are shell-shocked. \"My emotions are all over the place. Scared, sad, petrified, worried,\" one ICU nurse tells me.\n\nI asked one of the consultants who I've met several times in the last year, Dr Jim Down, how long they can keep going like this - and the answer was stark. \"At this rate, about a week. After that we really need to see it slow down or we're going to see the care we can deliver suffering.\"\n\nThey have got three times as many critically ill patients in the hospital as normal. The number of Covid admissions to London hospitals has doubled in just two weeks - they're more stretched now than at the peak last April. Senior staff are worried.\n\nDr Alice Carter compares it to an elastic band that is close to snapping. \"It gets to a point where you stretch so far it never returns back to its baseline. I think that's probably where we are now. It's not going to take much more for that elastic band to break, and that's the real fear for us at the moment.\"\n\nDr Alice Carter: 'It's not going to take much more for that elastic band to break'\n\nThat could have very serious consequences, she adds. \"If we get to that point, we can't offer anyone ICU, not just Covid patients, but anyone who has a traffic accident or a heart attack or a stroke - whatever it is, to take them in.\"\n\nFor 38-year-old Rachel Arfin, one of the three pregnant women in intensive care with Covid-19, treatment is more complicated. Her baby is due in five weeks and the staff have to monitor them both.\n\n\"They can't do anything that will harm the baby,\" she says. \"All the time [they are] checking, monitoring the baby.\" She is reassured by the \"beautiful sound\" of her baby's heartbeat.\n\n\"They are looking after two people in one. They're saving lives,\" says Rachel. But her children - she has seven - keep asking when she's coming home.\n\nRachel Arfin's baby is due in five weeks - both are doing well\n\nI've reported from here several times during the pandemic and am always struck by the professionalism and dedication of staff. It's always quiet and calm, but that belies what's actually happening. This is a system under strain like never before.\n\nThe warning signs are clear, the NHS is on the brink. Unless infection rates fall, soon it will have a serious impact. The pressure on staff is unrelenting. I saw two nurses in tears.\n\nCompared to when I visited in April, it's a lot busier. In some ways, it's more structured - they now know what they're dealing with. They've got new treatments, such as the drug dexamethasone, which they didn't have last time. And many of the staff have now had the first dose of the vaccine.\n\nBut other aspects don't get any easier, such as the emotional burden of breaking bad news over a telephone or video call. It is very different to being able to hold someone's hand.\n\nStaff say they don't know which patients to help first\n\nICU staff have incredibly high standards. They're used to doing everything meticulously and perfectly. And they're doing all they can. But sometimes they go home and feel guilty that they can't do more. The impact on nurses - the bedrock of care in intensive care - is visible.\n\nThe highly specialised staff are usually one-to-one with patients. Deputy sister Ashleigh Shillingford is looking after three or four ventilated patients at a time, with one other junior member of staff. It's emotional and often devastating work.\n\n\"We are so stretched we have to prioritise and prioritising care is not the NHS that I grew up in - we shouldn't have to choose which patient gets what care first.\" She says she's never had to make decisions like these before.\n\n\"You just don't know who to help first. The patients are losing their lives at a dramatic speed, we're not just getting old people,\" she says, \"these are young people that we're getting.\"\n\nGerald Williams, 58, is awaiting chemotherapy for lung cancer and had been shielding, but he still caught coronavirus. \"All of a sudden, out of the blue, Covid came knocking on my door and it's frightening - you don't know how you're getting your next breath,\" he says.\n\nGerald Williams had been shielding but he still caught coronavirus\n\nHe wants to get home to his daughters, the youngest of whom is 13. And he's annoyed at those who don't take it seriously. \"People are moaning and groaning. Even in A&E. They need to get a life. Don't be idiots, forget about meeting your mate, stay home. No-one is invulnerable.\"\n\nFor now the Trust is coping better than many others in London and is still taking Covid patients from other hospitals. But the next few weeks could be the biggest challenge the NHS has ever faced - and it will be its doctors and nurses who will bear the brunt for all of us.\n\nAs the BBC's medical editor, Fergus Walsh has been reporting on the Covid-19 pandemic and its immense impact on the UK.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock: 'Together we can make this the peak'\n\n\"We can make this the peak\" of the coronavirus pandemic \"if enough people follow the rules\", Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said.\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast it was \"those individual decisions\" that determine the virus's spread and it \"comes down to the behaviour of everyone\".\n\nPeople \"shouldn't take the mickey out of the rules,\" he said.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and only go out for limited reasons.\n\nThis includes for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nLatest figures show there are now more than 35,000 people in hospital with Covid - an increase on the spring peak.\n\nIt comes as Prime Minister Boris Johnson is set to be questioned by MPs on the vaccine rollout later.\n\nMeanwhile, Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon is also due to announce whether there will be any changes to lockdown restrictions later. Ministers have been discussing the possibility of tightening the current restrictions.\n\nWhen asked on BBC Breakfast if this was the peak of this wave of the pandemic, Mr Hancock replied: \"I want it to be, but that comes down to the behaviour of everyone.\n\n\"Together we can make this the peak if enough people follow the rules which are incredibly clear.\"\n\nMr Hancock said England's lockdown measures were \"always under review\", but he would be \"very reluctant\" to remove the rule of meeting one other person outside for exercise as \"it is a lifeline\" for some people, including those who live alone. Mr Hancock has already ruled out scrapping support bubbles.\n\n\"What I'd rather is that everybody follow that rule and doesn't stretch it or flex it,\" he said.\n\nOn the news that patients at a hospital in London are to be discharged early and sent to a hotel to help free up beds for critically ill coronavirus patients, Mr Hancock said moving patients to hotels \"isn't something we are actively putting in place\".\n\nKing's College Hospital said it would help to create space for the \"high numbers\" of new admissions and would \"temporarily accommodate mainly homeless patients who are ready to safely leave hospital and will benefit from further support from community partners\".\n\nThere are very early signs that infections may have peaked - although as always we should be careful about reading too much into a few days' worth of data.\n\nThe past two days have seen newly diagnosed cases hover around the 46,000-mark. Up to the weekend, the average was close to 60,000.\n\nThe drop has largely been driven by falls in new cases in London, the South East and East of England.\n\nThe national picture does mask some regional differences. Cases are rising in the North West, which is causing particular concern.\n\nIt is too early for the vaccination programme to be having any significant impact so a combination of the national lockdown on top of the tier four restrictions that were imposed in some areas before Christmas look like they may be beginning to have an impact.\n\nThere is also some evidence the new variant may not be quite as fast-spreading as first feared - a Public Health England study suggested rather than being 70% more transmissible it may actually be somewhere between 30% to 50%.\n\nAnd, if it does represent the start of a continuous fall, it is important to remember it will still take some time to translate into fewer hospital cases - people being admitted at the moment are those who would have caught the virus a week or two ago.\n\nBut after six weeks of pretty sustained rises, it is at least an encouraging sign.\n\nAsked about images of elite footballers celebrating goals with hugs, Mr Hancock said: \"I think elite sport is important because these are tough times, and being able to watch the football on the telly is really important because there's loads of things that you can't do.\"\n\nHe said the Premier League has \"special arrangements to ensure that players are safe\" as well as a testing regime.\n\nThe health secretary told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the rollout of the coronavirus vaccine will accelerate over the coming weeks, saying they were \"on track\" to deliver it to 14 million people by mid-February.\n\nVaccines deployment minister Nadhim Zahawi later told the Commons' science and technology committee that he was \"confident\" of achieving this target.\n\nMore than 2.4 million people have now had a first dose of a coronavirus vaccine, while 412,167 people have had a second dose. Mr Hancock said 40% of the 3.4m people over 80 in England had been vaccinated so far.\n\n\"We have the capacity to get that vaccine out. The challenge is that we need to get the vaccine in,\" Mr Hancock said.\n\n\"What I know is that the supply will increase over the next few weeks and that means the very rapid rate that we are going at at the moment will continue to accelerate over the next couple of weeks.\"\n\nOn Tuesday, NHS Providers chief executive Chris Hopson said it was \"pretty clear\" that because of the new strain the Covid-19 infection rate was not going to go down as quickly as it did during the first wave.\n\n\"It now looks like the peak for NHS demand may actually be in February,\" he said.", "Morrisons will become the first UK supermarket to pay at least £10 an hour from April.\n\nIt will increase its minimum pay for up to 96,000 workers from £9.20.\n\nRetail trade union Usdaw negotiated the £10 per hour basic rate which is 50p an hour above the voluntary Living Wage Foundation rate.\n\nHowever, other big supermarkets appear unlikely to follow any time soon, with Asda saying that just looking at hourly rates does not tell the full story.\n\nMorrisons said for the majority of its workers the pay increase will be approximately 9%.\n\nPart of the increase will result from changing the company's annual bonus scheme from a discretionary yearly payment into a guaranteed amount in workers' hourly rates.\n\nIt will boost the weekly pay of someone working 36.75 hours a week from £330.10 to £367.50.\n\nUnion members still need to approve the deal. The result will be announced on 12 February and, if accepted, the new rates will be paid from 5 April 2021.\n\n\"The new consolidated hourly rate is now the leading rate of the major supermarkets,\" said Joanne McGuinness, Usdaw national officer after the Morrisons announcement.\n\n\"It's been a tough time for food retail staff who have worked throughout the pandemic in difficult circumstances,\" said Ms McGuinness.\n\n\"They provide the essential service of keeping the nation fed and deserve our support, respect and appreciation. Most of all they deserve decent pay and this offer is a welcome boost.\"\n\nIn addition to the hourly pay increase, Morrisons will pay a higher London weighting.\n\nRates for inner London will be 85p and for outer London 60p per hour, up from 75p in inner London and 50p in outer London.\n\nDavid Potts, Morrisons chief executive said: \"It's a symbolic and important milestone that represents another step in rewarding the incredibly important work that our colleagues do up and down the country.\"\n\nMorrisons' move propels it to the top of the supermarket pay league, leapfrogging Aldi and Lidl. Will other big rivals follow suit?\n\nSupermarket staff have become frontline heroes in this pandemic and there's a new-found respect for the vital work they do in keeping us fed day-in day-out.\n\nMany consumers may welcome the idea of higher rewards for those staff.\n\nBut supermarkets have already taken on a lot of extra costs in ramping up their operations as well as recruiting thousands of extra staff.\n\nAnd there are no shortage of workers looking for jobs right now, which could keep a lid on pay.\n\nLidl has already announced plans to increase its hourly wage for staff from March, increasing the rate for 20,000 workers from £9.30 to £9.50.\n\nWithin London's M25 motorway boundary the rate has increased from £10.75 to £10.85 an hour.\n\n\"It is only right that we increase the income for our colleagues who are the backbone of our business.,\" said chief executive Christian Härtnagel.\n\n\"This is about recognising their hard work and dedication in keeping the nation fed during a year like no other.\n\nAsda, which pays £9.18 outside London and either £9.76 or £10.31 inside the capital, pointed out that it pays above National Living Wage rules and never employs on 'zero hours' contracts.\n\nAn Asda statement said: \"On top of a competitive wage structure, Asda colleagues also receive a host of benefits which contribute to their yearly earnings, these including colleague discount in our stores and online, special discounts for shops and a yearly performance-based bonus.\n\n\"So simply looking at the hourly rate doesn't tell the full story.\"\n\nSainsbury's basic hourly pay is £9.30, and a statement to the BBC made no mention of any immediate intention to raise the rate.\n\nA spokesperson said, \"Our colleagues do a brilliant job and we are so proud of how they continue to go above and beyond for our customers.\n\n\"We have made two thank you payments to frontline workers in recognition of this in the last year and regularly review colleague pay to make sure we offer leading rates.\"\n\nA Waitrose spokesperson said: \"Our hourly minimum starting pay across the UK for non-management Partners in Waitrose is currently £9.10 following a short induction period, with scope for higher pay according to performance.\n\n\"We review Partner pay annually each April and will do so again this year.\"\n\nM&S said their minimum pay for workers is £9.00 an hour, but pointed out that those that worked during the pandemic last April and May were handed a 15% pay reward on top of the rate.\n\nLatest available data suggests Aldi currently pays £9.40 an hour, Tesco £9.30 and Co-op £9.", "As Scotland's hospitals fill with Covid patients and the daily-registered death toll passes 5,000, there are concerns the \"stay at home\" message has not had the same impact it did during last year's lockdown.\n\nSome of the restrictions announced by Nicola Sturgeon in early January have now been tightened even further.\n\nHow do Scotland's current lockdown rules compare to those imposed last March?\n\nLast March outdoor exercise was allowed only if people were alone or with someone from the same household. It was initially limited to once a day, before this restriction was eased in May 2020.\n\nAll exercise had to be done close to home. No mixing with other households or other any outdoor relaxation was allowed.\n\nNow up to two people from separate households can meet for outdoor sport or exercise. Children under 12 years old do not count towards this number.\n\nThere is no limit on how many times you can go out to exercise each day, but you should still stay close to home and avoid crowded areas.\n\nProf Jason Leitch, Scotland's clinical director, says police enforcement is used as \"last resort\" against people who break the rules.\n\nThese rules are not expected to change in Scotland. However, the UK government has warned that exercise restrictions may be tightened after \"large groups\" have flouted their own two-person rule.\n\nLast March non-essential shops were ordered to shut along with cafes, bars, restaurants and cinemas. Supermarkets and pharmacies were among premises which could stay open.\n\nIn July a new law made it compulsory to wear a face covering in shops across Scotland.\n\nAll pubs, restaurants and cafes must remain closed in Scotland's level four areas - although they can still serve takeaway food. The definition of \"essential retail\" has also been narrowed, forcing homeware shops and garden centres to close once again.\n\nRules on click and collect will be tightened from 16 January. The service will be limited to retailers selling essential items and access inside premises for collection will not be allowed.\n\nTakeaway customers will also no longer be allowed inside premises for pick-up from 16 January. Businesses will have to operate from a serving hatch or doorway.\n\nSchools and nurseries were closed last March, with First Minister Nicola Sturgeon saying there were too many absent staff to continue.\n\nMany teachers prepared homeworking packs and some online learning. Parents and pupils had to get used to home schooling.\n\nChildren of essential workers and vulnerable pupils were looked after by staff in childcare hubs.\n\nSchools began the January 2021 term largely via online and remote learning.\n\nAs before, only children of key workers and vulnerable children are allowed in classrooms - but this time there is more focus on learning than simply child care.\n\nThe number of pupils attending school is much higher than last year.\n\nProf Leitch suggests this may be because Scotland has \"too much open\" in the rest of society with working adults in greater need of childcare. He said a \"sweet spot\" needs to be found to keep children and adults safe.\n\nThe Scottish government hopes pupils can return to the classroom in February, but this plan is to be kept under review.\n\nSee where coronavirus case rates have been rising in Scotland with this interactive map.\n\nPeople were told to stay at home except for essential shopping for food or medicine, going out for their daily exercise, or to care for the vulnerable.\n\nEmployers were asked to make provisions for staff to work from home. Wearing of face coverings on public transport was not initially required, but became mandatory in Scotland in June.\n\nIt is a legal requirement not to leave home for anything other than essential purposes. A \"reasonable excuse\" can include essential shopping, exercise or caring responsibilities.\n\nPeople should only go out to work if it absolutely cannot be done from home. It is illegal to travel between Scotland and other parts of the UK unless the journey is essential.\n\nThere are no expectations of enhanced travel restrictions, as the rules are already \"pretty tight\" says Prof Leitch.\n\n\"We have a stay at home law, it is illegal to fly overseas, it is illegal to travel, it is illegal to leave your home without a reason to do so,\" he added.\n\nThe latest contact tracing figures from Public Health Scotland show that since November, shops have accounted for 19% of the places visited by people the week before their positive test.\n\nWhile these figures don't tell us whether people contracted the virus in a specific location, they do suggest the most likely sources.\n\nThe number of cases traced to shopping-related locations increased by 83% between 27 December and 3 January.\n\nOther large increases were seen when:\n\nIn March \"essential\" was the key word for all employers. Businesses were told they could only stay open if what they do was \"essential\" to the effort of tackling Covid or the wellbeing of society.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said building sites should close unless they involved work on an \"essential building\" such as a hospital. Visits from tradespeople were allowed only for \"essential repairs\".\n\nOutdoor workplaces, construction, manufacturing, veterinary services and film and TV production can remain open. Employers have been told to plan for the minimum number of people needed on site to operate safely and effectively.\n\nHome visits by tradespeople are still allowed for essential maintenance. This guidance is being put into law from 16 January.\n\nProf Leitch says the Scottish government continues to examine rules around what constitutes essential and non-essential construction.", "A deal has been agreed for the sale of the Edinburgh Woollen Mill, Ponden Home and Bonmarché chains, which were on the brink of closure.\n\nThe businesses went into administration last year after a collapse in sales due to the pandemic.\n\nAlmost 2,000 staff will be kept on but as many as 260 stores could close.\n\nThe buyers are a consortium of international investors who will inject fresh funds into the business, led by the existing management team.\n\nEdinburgh Woollen Mill, which sells mid-price knitwear and other clothing to older shoppers, is part of a stable of retail brands owned by billionaire businessman, Philip Day.\n\nIt is understood that Mr Day will effectively lend the group the money to buy the businesses which will be paid back over a number of years.\n\nThe deal also covers two other brands in the group, value retailer Bonmarché, and Ponden Home, an interiors chain based in the south east of England.\n\nThe new owners plan to operate 246 stores across both the Edinburgh Woollen Mill and Ponden Home brands, retaining 1,453 staff in those stores, the head office and distribution centres in Carlisle.\n\nHowever, 85 Edinburgh Woollen Mill stores and 34 Ponden Home stores have been closed permanently, with the loss of 485 jobs.\n\nWakefield-based Bonmarché will retain 72 of its stores and 531 staff including head office and distribution centre staff.\n\nThe majority of its stores, 148 outlets, remain under review with staff on furlough.\n\nAdministrators representing Edinburgh Woollen Mill and Ponden Home said the deal represented the best chance to save stores and jobs, given the difficult outlook for UK retail.\n\n\"We regret that not all of Edinburgh Woollen Mill and Ponden Home could be rescued,\" said Tony Wright, partner at FRP. \"This has resulted in a significant number of redundancies at a particularly challenging time of year and period of economic uncertainty.\"\n\nRetail has been particularly hard hit by measures to curb the spread of Covid-19. Even when shops have been open many shoppers stayed away, wary of the health risks.\n\nThe British Retail Consortium said consumers bought 5% less last year than the year before (not including food). Much of that custom switched from the High Street to online, making it harder for chains whose customers usually shop in person. Physical stores saw sales drop by a quarter, the BRC said.\n\nOther major brands including Topshop-owner Arcadia and Debenhams have also gone into administration, costing hundreds of jobs.\n\n\"Lockdowns have proved hugely damaging for mid-range fashion chains like Edinburgh Woollen Mill and Bonmarché whose traditional customer base has not adapted so quickly to online shopping as younger shoppers,\" said Susannah Streeter, analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown.\n\n\"The backers of this rescue deal clearly believe there is pent-up demand amongst core customers which will be released once the doors are flung open once more,\" she added.\n\nOn Monday, Marks & Spencer announced it was buying Jaeger, another brand that had belonged to Philip Day's portfolio.\n\nPeacocks, another High Street fashion brand in the EWM group remains in administration.", "Sally told the BBC she is still waiting for her P45 despite handing in her notice in November\n\nHairdresser Sally had a surprise when she looked at her tax record with HM Revenue and Customs: \"It said I'd still been getting furlough pay from a job I left in November.\"\n\nShe told BBC Radio 5 Live's Wake up to Money: \"That was a revelation - none of it had landed in my bank account.\"\n\nHers is among more than 21,000 reports of suspected furlough fraud currently being handled by HMRC.\n\nThe money is either due to fraudulent claims, or is being paid out in error.\n\nThe Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, commonly called the furlough scheme was launched in March 2020, at the start of the coronavirus crisis, to minimise unemployment. Under the scheme, the government pays 80% of employees' wages up to £2,500 a month.\n\nThe number of tip offs to the taxman has spiralled since last April, from 3,000 to 21,378 reports of suspect payments by early January.\n\nSally's former employer told the BBC she did not know Sally had resigned\n\nAt the peak of its use in early May, the scheme was supporting 8.9 million jobs.\n\nIt was extended in January until the end of April 2021 and now also applies to those who are unable to work due to caring responsibilities, or because they are clinically extremely vulnerable.\n\nThe scheme has been widely supported for its role in supporting employers and jobs during the pandemic, but it has been found to be open to abuse.\n\nTax lawyer Anita Clifford said at the 'extreme end' of furlough fraud were 'dormant companies being resurrected' and 'fake employees'\n\nSally believes her former employer broke the rules after she resigned from the salon last year.\n\nShe told the BBC she sent her resignation letter and returned her uniform to her employer in the post in November, but \"heard nothing back\". A client later contacted her asking if she was OK, as they had heard she was off work, \"sick\".\n\nSally started to get her paperwork together to register as self-employed but when she opened her online HMRC account, she noticed she was registered as receiving payments equivalent to those she was getting while on furlough - although the money was not reaching her account.\n\nShe left it a couple of weeks in case her resignation was taking a few weeks to be processed.\n\nTo date, Sally has still has not received a P45, and says she is still registered as being paid through the furlough scheme.\n\nHMRC has called on anyone concerned about suspected abuse of the team to get in touch with the department\n\n\"In the middle of the pandemic, where people are losing homes because they can't get any help, I think it's quite sickening,\" she said.\n\n\"It's wrong, and it makes a mockery of all those people who are suffering.\"\n\nThe BBC contacted Sally's former employer, who has denied the claims, saying she did not know that Sally had resigned, and had struggled to get in touch with her.\n\nTax barrister, Anita Clifford, from the firm Bright Line Law, said Sally's experience was \"a classic example\".\n\n\"Whether it's a mistake, or whether some actors are doing it deliberately, continuing furlough payments for former employees is a classic way of defrauding the system.\"\n\nHMRC has previously stressed that some employers may accidentally be committing furlough fraud.\n\nMs Clifford told the BBC that she was seeing businesses coming forward, \"worried about the mistakes that they've made\".\n\nBut she added examples of furlough fraud could be more extreme, where some businesses \"are seeking to claim money for completely fake employees\".\n\n\"In time to come, we'll certainly see enforcement activity, and people very worried about being on the receiving end of a criminal prosecution for some of these things.\n\n\"Certainly where you have dormant companies being resurrected, in order to claim money from the furlough scheme, you have fake employees... businesses being quite unscrupulous, you're not using the funds to pay salaries, I think those are the businesses you'll eventually see being looked at very seriously for criminal prosecution,\" she said.\n\nHMRC told the BBC: \"The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme is part of the collective national effort to protect jobs. This is taxpayers' money and fraudulent claims limit our ability to support people and deprive public services of essential funding.\"\n\nNames have been changed to protect identities\n• None What happens when furlough ends?\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Archbishop of Glasgow, Philip Tartaglia, has died suddenly at his home in Glasgow.\n\nA spokeswoman for the Catholic Church said that Archbishop Tartaglia had tested positive for Covid-19 shortly after Christmas and was self-isolating at home.\n\nThe cause of death is not yet clear.\n\nArchbishop Tartaglia, who was 70, was ordained a priest in 1975 and served as Archbishop of Glasgow since 2012.\n\nThe spokeswoman said it would be for Pope Francis to appoint a new archbishop, but until then the Archdiocese will be overseen by an administrator.", "Senior Conservatives have called for a \"reset\" in UK policy towards China, including sanctions against officials responsible for human rights abuses.\n\nThe Conservative Human Rights Commission demanded a rethink in relations after hearing evidence of abuses from torture to slavery.\n\nIt urged the UK to work with allies to respond to China's behaviour.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab has said the UK plays a \"leading role\" in highlighting abuses.\n\nThe Commission made the recommendations in a new report endorsed by two former Conservative foreign secretaries, Lord Hague and Sir Malcolm Rifkind.\n\nIt adds to growing internal pressure on the government from Conservative circles to harden its line on China.\n\nThe Commission says it has heard first-hand evidence of human rights violations in China from dissidents, lawyers, and human rights campaigners.\n\nThis included violations of media freedom, clampdowns on Uighur Muslims, modern day slavery, and the establishment of an \"Orwellian surveillance state,\" it added.\n\nThe group said this showed the need for a \"comprehensive review\" of China policy across UK government departments.\n\nIt also called for the UK to diversify its supply chains to reduce \"strategic dependency\" on China and further efforts to highlight rights issues at the United Nations.\n\nMr Raab announced fines on Tuesday for UK firms doing business in China if they cannot show that their products aren't linked to forced labour in the country's Xinjiang region.\n\nIn December, the BBC revealed new evidence that China is forcing hundreds of thousands of Uighurs and other minorities into hard, manual labour in the cotton fields of Xinjiang.\n\nMPs and peers are separately pushing for new laws to block trade deals with countries found guilty of genocide, something which for now the government is resisting.\n\nMr Raab told MPs the idea was \"well-meaning\" but it would be wrong to \"sub-contract\" the issue of when to break off trade talks to the courts.\n\nThe Conservative Human Rights Commission, established in 2005, aims to highlight human rights concerns and keep the issue high on the party's agenda.", "David (right) and Frederick Barclay receiving their knighthoods in 2000\n\nSir David Barclay, the co-owner of the Daily Telegraph newspaper, has died at the age of 86.\n\nSir David, together with his twin brother Sir Frederick, built up a business empire spanning hotels, retail and media.\n\nHis death was announced in the Telegraph, which reported that he died on Sunday after a short illness.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson, a former columnist for the paper, paid tribute to Sir David.\n\n\"Farewell with respect and admiration to Sir David Barclay who rescued a great newspaper, created many thousands of jobs across the UK and who believed passionately in the independence of this country and what it could achieve,\" he tweeted.\n\nThe Barclay brothers, who had an estimated wealth of £7bn according to the 2020 Sunday Times Rich List, were known for being media shy and rarely gave interviews.\n\nBorn in Hammersmith, west London, in 1934, Sir David was profoundly shaped by his childhood memories of war, and the death of his father when he was 12.\n\nHe and his twin Frederick - who was 10 minutes younger - started out as painters and decorators, before moving into property and eventually hotels.\n\nTheir success in property and hotels helped them take over Ellerman Lines, a shipping business with interests in brewing, in 1983.\n\nThis provided a launch pad from which they would become billionaires.\n\nAt various times, their hotel portfolio has included a number of trophy assets, including the Ritz Hotel in London, which they sold in March last year.\n\nIn 2012, the BBC’s Panorama reported that the Ritz had not paid any corporation tax since it had been taken over by the Barclays in 1995.\n\nAt the time, Sir David said they had “acted in a responsible way with regard to taxation and have never been involved in any tax avoidance scheme.”\n\nIn 2015, the twins sold off the hospitality group Maybourne, which included luxury hotels like Claridges.\n\nThe brothers first ventured into media ownership with their 1992 purchase of The European, a pan-European newspaper that shut down in 1998.\n\nThey also bought The Scotsman in 1995 and Sunday Business in 1997.\n\n“After these ventures in the publishing arena, the brothers had nurtured since the 1980s an ambition to own the Telegraph group,” The Telegraph said.\n\nThey acquired the Telegraph Group in 2004 for £665m from Canadian media magnate Conrad Black's Hollinger group.\n\nThe brothers also had a number of forays into retail, including Shop Direct, fashion retailer Very and delivery firm Yodel.\n\nThe pair were knighted in 2000 for services to charity. By this point their foundation was thought to have donated about £40m to charity and medical research.\n\nThe notoriously private twins' relationship was the subject of an extraordinary legal case last year, in which Sir David's three sons were accused by his brother of bugging conversations at the Ritz Hotel, which they previously owned.\n\nIn its obituary the Telegraph said Sir David had been a voracious reader, obsessed with newspapers, business, economics and politics, and had always said he had been educated at the \"university of life\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid in Scotland: Lockdown likely to extend to February\n\nScotland's first minister has said the country's current lockdown is \"very unlikely\" to be lifted at the end of the month.\n\nNicola Sturgeon was speaking as she confirmed that more than 5,000 people have now died after testing positive for the virus.\n\nA review of the current restrictions is due to be carried out at the end of January.\n\nMs Sturgeon said it was possible that there would be no easing at that point.\n\nA further 54 deaths have been recorded in the past 24 hours - bringing the total by that measure to 5,023.\n\nBut the most recent figures from the National Records of Scotland - which record all deaths registered in Scotland where Covid-19 was mentioned on the death certificate - put the total at 6,686.\n\nMs Sturgeon told her daily briefing that the figures were a reminder of the toll the virus had taken.\n\nAnd she said every death had caused heartbreak to friends, families and loved ones across the country.\n\nThe first minister also said Scotland's NHS would be under far greater pressure if the current restrictions had not been put in place on Boxing Day.\n\nAnd she urged people not to raise their expectations about what will be announced when the lockdown review is completed in a fortnight as wholesale lifting of the restrictions was \"very unlikely\".\n\nShe added: \"There may not even be any lifting of these restrictions as soon as the end of January - we will have to consider all of that carefully and set it out in due course.\"\n\nAll of mainland Scotland and some islands were placed into level four restrictions on 26 December, with schools remaining closed to most pupils until at least the end of the month.\n\nA further 1,875 positive cases of the virus were recorded on Monday, bringing the total since the pandemic began to 153,423.\n\nThe number of people in hospital with the virus stands at 1,717 - an increase of 53 since yesterday and higher than the peak of about 1,500 in the first wave in April.\n\nOf these, 133 patients are intensive care units, with Ms Sturgeon saying that the virus was putting \"very acute pressure\" on hospitals.\n\nThe first minister also said that 175,942 people in Scotland had received their first vaccine dose by Monday.\n\nOpposition parties have claimed that the rollout of the vaccine has been \"sluggish\" in Scotland compared to south of the border - a charge that the government denies.\n\nAnd they have called for greater transparency over how many people are being given the jab every day.\n\nHealth Secretary Jeane Freeman said on Monday that the government was aiming to vaccinate about 560,000 people in Scotland by 31 January.\n\nNon-essential shops have been closed in Scotland since 26 December\n\nThe Scottish government has previously said it is concerned that too many people have not been following the \"stay at home\" rules that are in place across the whole of the mainland and some islands.\n\nMinisters have been discussing the possibility of imposing tougher rules on click and collect shopping and takeaway food, with an announcement expected to be made on Wednesday.\n\nRetail industry representatives have described click and collect services as a \"lifeline\" for struggling businesses amid the forced closure of all non-essential shops.\n\nAnd they said they had not been shown any evidence that click and collect was driving transmission of the virus.\n\nMs Sturgeon told her daily coronavirus briefing that the government may not stop click and collect services altogether.\n\nBut she added: \"If we are saying to people right now that you should not be out of your home for shopping unless it is essential, then do we need to have click and collect for non-essential services instead of having that for delivery?\"\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross told BBC Scotland that he did not want to see further restrictions put in place unless there was evidence that they would have the desired effect.\n\nHe also suggested that restricting click and collect would simply result in more people going back into supermarkets to do their shopping.\n\nThe Scottish government is also under pressure to lift the the current ban on public Sunday worship, with a group of 500 church leaders from across the UK - including 200 in Scotland - insisting that there is \"no evidence of any tangible contribution to community transmission through churches in Scotland\".\n\nIn a letter to the first minister, they claim that the ban may be unlawful and accuse the government of failing to understand that \"Christian worship is an essential public service, and especially vital to our nation in a time of crisis\".\n\nA Scottish government spokeswoman said: \"Test and Protect tells us where people were in their 48-hour infectious period.\n\n\"So we know that on one day last week the seven-day number for places of worship was 120, and data from yesterday shows the seven-day number for places of worship is 38, underlining the essential decision to require places of worship to close for public health reasons.\"\n\nMeanwhile, it has been confirmed that everyone arriving in Scotland from overseas will need to show proof of a negative test from Friday.\n\nThe test will need to be \"highly reliable\", the first minister said, and will need to have been from the previous three days - although young children may be exempt from the restriction.\n\nThose travelling from countries not on the quarantine exemption list will still need to self-isolate on arrival.\n\nThe new rules, which will also come into force in England, were first outlined last week.", "A Huawei patent has been brought to light for a system that identifies people who appear to be of Uighur origin among images of pedestrians.\n\nThe filing is one of several of its kind involving leading Chinese technology companies, discovered by a US research company and shared with BBC News.\n\nHuawei had previously said none of its technologies was designed to identify ethnic groups.\n\nIt now plans to alter the patent.\n\nThe company indicated this would involve asking the China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) - the country's patent authority - for permission to delete the reference to Uighurs in the Chinese-language document.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUighur people belong to a mostly Muslim ethnic group that lives mainly in Xinjiang province, in north-western China.\n\nGovernment authorities are accused of using high-tech surveillance against them and detaining many in forced-labour camps, where children are sometimes separated from their parents.\n\nBeijing says the camps offer voluntary education and training.\n\nChina's technology companies deny selling software that can be used to pick out Uighur people from the rest of the population by their appearance\n\n\"One technical requirement of the Chinese Ministry of Public Security's video-surveillance networks is the detection of ethnicity - particularly of Uighurs,\" said Maya Wang, from Human Rights Watch.\n\n\"While in the rest of the world, such targeting and persecution of a people on the basis of their ethnicity would be completely unacceptable, the persecution and severe discrimination of Uighurs in many aspects of life in China remain unchallenged because Uighurs have no power in China.\"\n\nHuawei's patent was originally filed in July 2018, in conjunction with the Chinese Academy of Sciences .\n\nIt describes ways to use deep-learning artificial-intelligence techniques to identify various features of pedestrians photographed or filmed in the street.\n\nIt focuses on addressing the fact different body postures - for example whether someone is sitting or standing - can affect accuracy.\n\nBut the document also lists attributes by which a person might be targeted, which it says can include \"race (Han [China's biggest ethnic group], Uighur)\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC News visited the camps where China’s Muslims have their \"thoughts transformed\", in 2019\n\nA spokesman said this reference should not have been included.\n\n\"Huawei opposes discrimination of all types, including the use of technology to carry out ethnic discrimination,\" he said.\n\n\"Identifying individuals' race was never part of the research-and-development project.\n\n\"It should never have become part of the application.\n\n\"And we are taking proactive steps to amend it.\n\n\"We are continuously working to ensure new and evolving technology is developed and applied with the utmost care and integrity.\"\n\nThe patent was brought to light by the video-surveillance research group IPVM.\n\nIt had previously flagged a separate \"confidential\" document on Huawei's website, referencing work on a \"Uighur alert\" system.\n\nIn that case, Huawei said the page referenced a test rather than a real-world application and denied selling systems that identified people by their ethnicity.\n\nOn Wednesday, Tom Tugendhat, who chairs the UK Parliament's Foreign Affairs Select Committee and leads the Conservative Party's China Research Group, told BBC News: \"Chinese tech giants supporting the brutal assault on the Uighur population show us why we as consumers and as a society must be careful with who we buy our products from or award business to.\n\n\"Developing ethnic-labelling technology for use by a repressive regime is clearly not behaviour that lives up to our standards.\"\n\nIPVM also discovered references to Uighur people in patents filed by the Chinese artificial-intelligence company Sensetime and image-recognition specialist Megvii.\n\nSensetime's filing, from July 2019, discusses ways facial-recognition software could be used for more efficient \"security protection\", such as searching for \"a middle-aged Uighur with sunglasses and a beard\" or a Uighur person wearing a mask.\n\nA Sensetime spokeswoman said the references were \"regrettable\".\n\n\"We understand the importance of our responsibilities, which is why we began to develop our AI Code of Ethics in mid-2019,\" she said, adding the patent had predated this code.\n\nMegvii's June 2019 patent, meanwhile, described a way of relabelling pictures of faces tagged incorrectly in a database.\n\nLike Huawei, Megvii now plans to withdraw the original version of its patent\n\nIt said the classifications could be based on ethnicity, for example, including \"Han, Uighur, non-Han, non-Uighur and unknown\".\n\nThe company told BBC News it would now withdraw the patent application.\n\n\"Megvii recognises that the language used in our 2019 patent application is open to misunderstanding,\" it said.\n\n\"Megvii has not developed and will not develop or sell racial- or ethnic-labelling solutions.\n\n\"Megvii acknowledges that, in the past, we have focused on our commercial development and lacked appropriate control of our marketing, sales, and operations materials.\n\n\"We are undertaking measures to correct the situation.\"\n\nIPVM also flagged image-recognition patents filed by two of China's biggest technology conglomerates, Alibaba and Baidu, that referenced classifying people by ethnicity but did not specifically mention the Uighur people by name.\n\nAlibaba responded: \"Racial or ethnic discrimination or profiling in any form violates our policies and values.\n\n\"We never intended our technology to be used for and will not permit it to be used for targeting specific ethnic groups.\"\n\nProtests have been held across the world to highlight China's treatment of Uighur people\n\nAnd Baidu said: \"When filing for a patent, the document notes are meant as an example of a technical explanation, in this case describing what the attribute-recognition model is rather than representing the expected implementation of the invention.\n\n\"We do not and will not permit our technology to be used to identify or target specific ethnic groups.\"\n\nBut Human Rights Watch said it still had concerns.\n\n\"Any company that sells video-surveillance software and systems to the Chinese police would have to ensure that they meet the police's requirements, which includes the capacity for ethnicity detection,\" Ms Wang said.\n\n\"The right thing for these companies to do is to immediately cease their sale and maintenance of surveillance equipment, software and systems, to the Chinese police.\"", "At Prime Minister’s Questions, Boris Johnson said that “the lockdown measures we had in place, combined with tier four measures, are starting to show some signs of effect.”\n\nLooking at cases of Covid-19 in England, the average for the week ending 1 January was almost 55,000 cases.\n\nThese people will have been infected before England’s lockdown came in on January 6, although much of the country was under very strict measures before then.\n\nSo, using publicly available data, it might be too early to make this assessment.\n\nAnd in the past month, we’ve seen that a couple of days of decline can quickly be followed by a sustained increase in cases.\n\nBut what is clear is that hospital admissions from coronavirus appear to be increasing (they usually peak up to a couple of weeks after high numbers of cases).\n\nThe latest seven day average (ending on January 7) saw 3,705 people admitted to hospital daily in England – that’s the highest throughout the entire pandemic.", "A Scottish earl has pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a woman at his ancestral home in Angus.\n\nThe Earl of Strathmore, Simon Bowes-Lyon, forced his way into the sleeping woman's room during a weekend event he was hosting at Glamis Castle.\n\nHe repeatedly assaulted the 26-year-old victim and tried to pull off her nightdress during the 20-minute attack.\n\nBowes-Lyon, 34 - who is the Queen's first cousin twice removed - has been placed on the sex offenders register.\n\nHe was granted bail at Dundee Sheriff Court and sentence was deferred.\n\nSheriff Alistair Carmichael also ordered Glamis Castle be assessed for its suitability to house Bowes-Lyon while under a tagging order.\n\nThe court heard the woman fled the castle the morning after the attack on 13 February last year and flew home to report the matter to police.\n\nBoth Police Scotland and the Metropolitan Police were involved in the investigation.\n\nGlamis Castle was the childhood home of the Queen Mother\n\nOutside court, Bowes-Lyon said he was \"greatly ashamed\" of his actions.\n\nHe added: \"Clearly I had drunk to excess on the night of the incident. I should have known better. I recognise, in any event, that alcohol is no excuse for my behaviour.\n\n\"I did not think I was capable of behaving the way I did but have had to face up to it and take responsibility.\n\n\"My apologies go, above all, to the woman concerned, but I would also like to apologise to family, friends and colleagues for the distress I have caused them.\"\n\nGlamis Castle, near Forfar, has been the seat of the Bowes-Lyon family since 1372.\n\nIt was the childhood home of the Queen Mother, and the Queen's sister Princess Margaret was born there.\n\nBowes-Lyon was a great-great nephew of the Queen Mother.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "The Chinese vaccine is one of two that the Brazilian government has lined up\n\nA coronavirus vaccine developed by China's Sinovac has been found to be 50.4% effective in Brazilian clinical trials, according to the latest results released by researchers.\n\nIt shows the vaccine is significantly less effective than previous data suggested - barely over the 50% needed for regulatory approval.\n\nThe Chinese vaccine is one of two that the Brazilian government has lined up.\n\nBrazil has been one of the countries worst affected by Covid-19.\n\nSinovac, a Beijing-based biopharmaceutical company, is behind CoronaVac, an inactivated vaccine. It works by using killed viral particles to expose the body's immune system to the virus without risking a serious disease response.\n\nSeveral countries, including Indonesia, Turkey and Singapore, have placed orders for the vaccine.\n\nLast week researchers at the Butantan Institute, which has been conducting the trials in Brazil, announced that the vaccine had a 78% efficacy against \"mild-to-severe\" Covid-19 cases.\n\nBut on Tuesday they revealed that calculations for this figure did not include data from a group of \"very mild infections\" among those who received the vaccine that did not require clinical assistance.\n\nWith the inclusion of this data, the efficacy rate is now 50.4%, said researchers.\n\nBut Butantan stressed that the vaccine is 78% effective in preventing mild cases that needed treatment and 100% effective in staving off moderate to serious cases.\n\nThe Sinovac trials have yielded different results across different countries.\n\nLast month Turkish researchers said the Sinovac vaccine was 91.25% effective, while Indonesia, which rolled out its mass vaccination programme on Wednesday, said it was 65.3% effective. Both were interim results from late-stage trials.\n\nThe latest figures for China's coronavirus vaccine show just how difficult it is to compare vaccines.\n\nOn the face of it, the 50% effectiveness figure isn't as good as Oxford's 70% or Pfizer and Moderna's 95%. But trials are run very differently in different countries - the numbers of volunteers enrolled varies wildly, as do the criteria used to test how much protection the vaccines offer.\n\nA figure for efficacy is reached by looking at how many people developed Covid after being given the vaccine, compared with how many were affected when given a dummy injection. Normally, that is based on people developing obvious symptoms but in this Brazilian trial, people with no symptoms also appear to have been included.\n\nSo it's only when the full data from all trials of this vaccine are published that scientists can analyse its real efficacy, and compare like with like. Only limited data for this Sinovac vaccine is currently available - and experts say that is confusing the picture.\n\nIn the long term, many vaccines against Covid are needed to vaccinate the world and, inevitably, some will perform better than others - but giving as many people as possible some protection is the priority.\n\nThere has been concern and criticism that Chinese vaccine trials are not subject to the same scrutiny and levels of transparency as its Western counterparts.\n\nBoth the Sinovac vaccine and the vaccine developed by Oxford University and pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca have requests for emergency use authorisation pending with regulators in Brazil.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe latest news comes as Brazil is dealing with a major spike in cases. The country currently has the third highest number of Covid-19 cases in the world at over 8.1 million, just behind the US and India.\n\nThe BBC World Service's Americas editor Candace Piette says the country is suffering one of the world's deadliest outbreaks but as yet, has not announced when its vaccination programme will begin.\n\nThe delay has been caused in large part by the government's haphazard and divided approach to vaccination, says our correspondent.", "More than 100,000 Covid-19 vaccinations had been issued in Northern Ireland by Tuesday evening, Robin Swann has said.\n\nThe health minister said, of that figure, 91,419 people had received their first vaccine dose.\n\nHe added that 95% of care home residents had received their first dose and about 20% of those aged over 80 have received their first dose.\n\nIt comes as leading GP said the goal to begin a mass vaccine rollout by summer is \"achievable\" but hinges on supply.\n\nThe Department of Health published its plan to deliver vaccines in Northern Ireland on Tuesday.\n\nDr Alan Stout said the timeline was \"very sensible\" but was \"almost 100%\" dependent on getting enough of the vaccine.\n\nAt Wednesday's health briefing, Mr Swann said the programme had made a \"strong start\" but there was more to do.\n\nHe also said he has decided to issue tighter visiting guidelines for hospitals.\n\n\"I have ensured visiting will be permitted to hospices and care homes, but visits to general medical wards will no longer be permitted from this Friday\", he said.\n\nThe minister added that the measure would be kept under constant review.\n\nMr Swann also confirmed a new rapid test for Covid-19, which can return results in 12 minutes, would be used in emergency departments.\n\nHe said a pilot programme has been carried out using the LumiraDX nasal swab, which will enable health staff to \"very quickly identify patients who do not have Covid-19\".\n\nHe also repeated that the current lockdown restrictions were working and had helped to reduce NI's rate of infection, but warned the executive would still have \"difficult decisions\" to take in relation to decisions about whether to extend some restrictions in the coming weeks.\n\nOn Wednesday, a further 19 Covid-related deaths were announced by the Department of Health in Northern Ireland.\n\nA further 1,145 new cases of the virus were also reported.\n\nMeanwhile, Northern Ireland's chief medical officer warned there was \"no doubt\" that levels of the new, more transmissible variant of coronavirus are rising in Northern Ireland.\n\nSpeaking at Stormont's executive briefing, Dr Michael McBride said that the new variant was making the job to contain it \"twice as difficult\".\n\nThe new variant is said to be up to 70% more transmissible, but there is no evidence it is more dangerous.\n\nThe first confirmed case of the new strain was detected in Northern Ireland on 23 December, but officials had said levels in Northern Ireland remained lower than in other areas of the UK.\n\nDr McBride said there would now be situations where the variant could spread, where previously it may not have.\n\n\"We need to be extremely cautious in the weeks ahead,\" he warned, adding that the virus would not \"magically disappear\" on 6 February, when the current lockdown is due to end.\n\nStormont ministers have to review the regulations on or before 22 January, with that scheduled for next Thursday.\n\nDr McBride said Northern Ireland had some distance to go before restrictions are lifted\n\nDr Stout, the chair of NI's GP committee, said practices needed another 22,000 doses to finish vaccinating people aged over 80.\n\nSpeaking to BBC's Good Morning Ulster, he said he was \"very confident\" the next doses would come through shortly.\n\n\"I have been overwhelmed by the desire of practices, the determination just to get going and the one thing we need to give them is vaccine - we need to get the supply in as quickly as possible.\n\n\"This is such a good news story that everybody wants the vaccine and everybody wants to give it.\"\n\nThe plan is for the vaccine to be given to the general population in summer 2021.\n\nGP clinics should have received their first delivery of the vaccine by Tuesday.\n\nResponding to reports in The Daily Telegraph that GPs administering the vaccine in England had been asked to \"slow down\" to let other regions \"catch-up\", Dr Stout said Northern Ireland had taken a different approach to how it rolled out vaccines to GPs.\n\nHe said vaccines were shared among all practices in Northern Ireland.\n\n\"We just don't have the full amount of vaccine in practice to give. We could have given all of the vaccine that a certain number of practices needed to start with but there were issues with inequality and discrimination ... so that's why an amount has gone to every single practice, so at least they have some.\"", "Customs operators have pleaded with the government to prioritise vaccinations for staff they insist are key front-line workers in the effort to keep vital supplies flowing into the UK.\n\nOne operator told the BBC his staff were working flat out - often up to 16 hours a day - to help traders comply with the new post-Brexit customs requirements.\n\n\"A Covid outbreak would be disastrous. Customs clearance staff should be identified as key workers and fast-tracked for vaccination.\"\n\nAnother said he had written to Transport Secretary Grant Shapps and his local MP for Ashford, Damian Green saying any coronavirus-related staff shortages could force them to close.\n\n\"We have 14 staff. Two have already had to self-isolate, if we lose any more we would have to consider closing\".\n\nRod McKenzie of the Road Haulage Association supports the argument to accelerate vaccinations of port and customs staff.\n\n\"Customs agents are absolutely swamped, they are understaffed by tens of thousands and although volumes have been light thanks to pre-Christmas and pre-Brexit stockpiling, we are approaching a critical point:\"\n\nSteve Cock of logistics firm KGH said that volume would begin to build this week and described Friday as \"a moment of truth\" as volumes would be close to normal, imposing the first serious test of the system's capacity.\n\nThe government told the BBC that vaccination priorities were based on clinical vulnerability determined by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation.\n\nAlthough the government said it would be looking at key workers beyond the current priorities - like teachers - that would not come till after phase 1 of the current programme ends. That is not expected till late March at the earliest.\n\nAlthough the ports themselves have been running reasonably smoothly, that is because many traders aren't getting as far as the ports as their documentation is not complete.\n\nThe Dover-Calais crossing last week saw only 40% of its usual traffic for this time of year. Many foreign hauliers have been avoiding the UK for fear of getting stuck on the wrong side of the channel or raising their prices by as much as six times to compensate for the additional risks of congestion.\n\nCracks in the system have already started to show with large European delivery firm DPD cancelling road deliveries from the UK to the EU while Ocado, M&S, and Fortnum and Mason have cited problems delivering to customers in the EU and Northern Ireland.\n\nFish and seafood exports have been particularly hard hit.\n\nMany small traders who usually club together to share the cost of space on large lorries headed to their primary markets in the EU have hit serious roadblocks.\n\nProducts of animal origin now need Export Health Certificates signed off by veterinary professionals.\n\nThe burden of getting multiple certificates for single lorries has brought exports to the EU to a virtual standstill for some traders.\n\nThe focus in the UK is understandably primarily on food supplies into the UK and although there are some limited shortages being reported in fruit and vegetable supplies, shelves in the UK are showing very few gaps.\n\nThe problems are more acute in Northern Ireland, which for the purposes of trade is still part of the EU customs area. For that reason, what is happening to food exports from GB to Northern Ireland is perhaps a useful proxy for what is happening to UK food exports to the EU.\n\nThe last thing the UK-EU trade machinery can afford right now is for critical staff - caught in the crossfire of pandemic and Brexit - to be laid low.", "The men were arrested on suspicion of causing a public nuisance at hospitals in Birmingham and Worcestershire\n\nFour men have been arrested on suspicion of causing a public nuisance at hospitals in the West Midlands.\n\nThe men, aged between 31 and 37, were held in relation to incidents in Birmingham and Worcestershire between 31 December and 9 January.\n\nEarlier this month, police said they were investigating after people posted videos of supposedly empty hospital corridors on social media.\n\nThe videos claiming Covid-19 was a hoax sparked an outcry from medical workers.\n\nWest Mercia Police launched a joint investigation with West Midlands Police, after incidents were reported at Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth Hospital and the Alexandra in Redditch.\n\nHospitals in Worcester and Kidderminster also featured, before the footage was deleted.\n\nThe West Mercia force confirmed it had arrested two men from Bromsgrove aged 31 and 34 as well as a 37 year-old man from Kidderminster and a fourth man, aged 34, from Droitwich.\n\nThey were also detained relating to incidents in a park in Bromsgrove as well as the town centre.\n\nAll four men have since been bailed with conditions not to enter any hospital in England unless they have a medical reason to do so.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Birmingham has one of the largest intensive care capacities in the whole country\n\nTwo hundred doctors will be redeployed to one of England's largest intensive care units amid fears it could be \"overwhelmed\".\n\nA leaked memo warned hospitals in Birmingham were \"in a position of extremis\" as Covid-19 cases rise.\n\nElective surgeries at the city's main Queen Elizabeth Hospital will stop as staff move to critical care duties.\n\nA spokesperson said the approach ensured \"the greatest good for the greatest numbers of people\".\n\nThe trust's decision to redeploy doctors was revealed in a leaked email to the Health Service Journal, which has been verified by the BBC.\n\nSent by consultant Peter Hewins, it said hospitals in Birmingham risked being \"overwhelmed\" amid a \"period of absolute emergency\".\n\nThe University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) said there were 873 patients with Covid-19 across its sites, with 125 in intensive care.\n\nThis was significantly more than in April 2020, it said, as it announced plans to double its intensive care capacity to more than 250 beds.\n\nTime-critical surgery, including cancer operations, will continue, the trust said, but elective procedures at the Queen Elizabeth will be paused, and reduced elsewhere.\n\nThere will also be a \"further reduction of outpatient activity\", a spokesperson said, adding: \"Every member of staff will be supported by the Trust in delivering the best care wherever they are working.\"\n\nThere are currently 873 Covid-19 patients being treated at the trust\n\nNeighbouring University Coventry and Warwickshire Hospitals Trust confirmed it had started taking Covid patients from Birmingham.\n\nUniversity Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) is one of the largest teaching hospital trusts in England.\n\nIt runs several hospitals, including Birmingham Heartlands, the Queen Elizabeth, Solihull Hospital and Good Hope Hospital in Sutton Coldfield. It also runs Birmingham Chest Clinic.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The minimum cost of carrier bags in Scotland is set to double to 10p from 1 April.\n\nThe Scottish government has said it is important to increase the charge periodically to encourage the use of reusable options instead.\n\nEnvironment Secretary Roseanna Cunningham said the move was to deter the use of single-use plastic bags.\n\nThe 5p charge was introduced in 2014, with plastic bag usage dropping by 80% by the following year.\n\nMs Cunningham said: \"Thanks to the people of Scotland, the introduction of the charge has been successful in reducing the amount of single-use carrier bags in circulation.\n\n\"While the 5p bag charge was suitable when it was first introduced, it is important that pricing is updated to ensure that the charge continues to be a factor in making people think twice about using a single-use carrier bag.\"\n\nSome retailers have pledged to donate their carrier bag charges to good causes, with £2.5m raised in 2019.\n\nPrior to the charge being introduced in 2014, 800 million single use carrier bags were issued annually in Scotland.\n\nBy 2015 this fell by 80% with the Marine Conservation Society noting in 2016 that the number of plastic carrier bags being found on Scotland's beaches dropped by 40% two years in a row with a further drop of 42% recorded between 2018 and 2019.\n\nKeep Scotland Beautiful chief executive Barry Fisher said: \"Since 2014 the single use carrier bag charge has significantly helped reduce the number of bags being given out by retailers - saving thousands of tonnes of single use plastic realising a significant net carbon saving and reducing the chances of these items becoming littered.\n\n\"However, there is still an opportunity to challenge individual behaviours and improve consumer awareness which the doubling of the charge will help do.\n\nDue to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Scottish government is looking into creating an exemption on the bag charge for certain deliveries and collections, as was the case last year at the onset of the pubic health crisis.", "Naomi Campbell and Kenyan Tourism Minister Najib Balala sealed the deal over the weekend\n\nThe appointment of British supermodel Naomi Campbell as Kenya's tourism ambassador has caused a Twitter storm in the East African nation.\n\nMany queried why it had not been given to a prominent Kenyan like Hollywood actress Lupita Nyong'o.\n\nOthers leapt to her defence, saying the debate already justified her role.\n\nKenya's tourism sector has been badly hit by coronavirus, with visitor numbers down by 72% between January and October last year.\n\n\"The sector hence lost over 110bn Kenyan shillings [$1bn, £738m] of direct international tourists' revenue due to the Covid-19 pandemic,\" Kenya's Tourism Research Institute reported last month.\n\nThe country is famous for its wildlife safaris and beach resorts.\n\nKenyan Tourism Minister Najib Balala said the deal with Ms Campbell was done over the weekend after he met the model, who is currently on holiday in Kenya.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by Ministry of Tourism & Wildlife-Kenya\n\nThe 50-year-old style icon and philanthropist has been posting images of her stay on Instagram, where she has 10 million followers.\n\n\"We welcome the exciting news that Naomi Campbell will advocate for tourism and travel internationally for the Magical Kenya brand,\" Mr Balala said, without giving further deals of the contract.\n\nBut the statement, posted on Twitter on Tuesday, prompted instant outrage from some, and the supermodel's name has since been trending in the country.\n\nOne tweeter cited other Kenyan celebrities better suited to the ambassadorial role, including models Ajuma Nasenyana and Debra Sanaipei, as well as Nyong'o.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Syombua A. 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This mentality is what causes nepotism and tribalism in Kenyan institutions, it should be about the most suitable candidate not 'one of our own' thing.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs Campbell's defenders praised her for visiting Kenya several times and said it was not only the model's social media following that made her the perfect appointment.\n\nHer circle of friends were equally important as she would attract wealthy tourists willing to spend money.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Mlolwa🐬 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe tourism industry usually contributes about 8.8% to Kenya's annual Gross domestic product (GDP), according to Kenya's East African newspaper.\n• None The supermodel and the warlord", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Large parts of Scotland woke up to a blanket of snow on Thursday, including in Rutherglen where conditions became challenging for drivers\n\nMotorists continue to face difficult conditions after heavy snow across parts of Scotland caused road closures.\n\nA Met Office yellow warning for ice will be in place overnight and for all of Friday for mainland Scotland.\n\nThe A9 at Dunblane was closed due to snow but has now reopened, while driving conditions on the M90 and M8 were reported as difficult.\n\nThere have also been problems in the Scottish Borders where up to a foot of snow fell overnight.\n\nTraffic Scotland has reported difficult driving conditions on the M77 at Fenwick, M80 around Cumbernauld and the A9 at Greenloaning.\n\nA woman walks through the snow in Braco near Dunblane\n\nThe impact of the overnight freeze on a hedgerow near Strathaven, South Lanarkshire\n\nIn the Borders several lorries got stuck on the A7 between Selkirk and Hawick, while difficult driving conditions were also reported on the A68 at the Carter Bar and Soutra.\n\nThere were also delays on the A83 Old Military Road diversion and the A82 at Tyndrum.\n\nMeanwhile, police have urged drivers to properly clear their car windscreens before setting off in the wintry conditions.\n\nOfficers in Dumfries and Galloway shared a picture of a driver they stopped and charged for failing to do this.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPeople should only be leaving home to make essential journeys in parts of Scotland under level four Covid measures, under current Scottish government lockdown regulations.\n\nCh Supt Louise Blakelock, of Police Scotland, said: \"Government guidance on only travelling if your journey is essential remains in place and so with an amber warning for snow, please consider if your journey really is essential and whether you can delay it until the weather improves.\n\n\"If your journey really is essential, plan ahead and make sure you and your vehicle are suitably prepared by having sufficient fuel and supplies such as warm clothing, food, water and charge in your mobile phone in the event you require assistance.\"\n\nA motorist brushes snow off a car in Braco near Dunblane\n\nThe village of Bowden near Melrose woke up to snow\n\nA snowy scene at Fountainhall in the Scottish Borders\n\nPolice in Shetland have also warned of ice badly affecting roads on the islands.\n\nScotRail said its services could be affected, particularly on the Highland mainline.\n\nScottish Borders Council said the effects of the adverse weather could cause disruption into Friday morning.\n\nEmergency planning officer Jim Fraser said: \"With widespread snow and some freezing rain possible over the course of Wednesday and Thursday, there is the strong potential for disruption across our road network and communities.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSome of the deepest snowfalls in recent weeks have been in the Highlands, including the Cairngorms.\n\nEarlier this month, the UK had its coldest night of the winter so far after a temperature of -12.3C was recorded in the north west Highlands.\n\nThe temperature was recorded at Loch Glascarnoch, near Garve, south of Ullapool in Wester Ross.\n\nThe record lowest temperature in the UK is -27.2C, which was recorded in Braemar, Aberdeenshire, in 1895 and 1982 and at Altnaharra in the Highlands in 1995.", "Pre-departure Covid-19 testing will now be required for everyone travelling to England from 04:00 GMT on Monday.\n\nThe rules had been due to come into force on Friday, but the government said people needed time \"to prepare\".\n\nThose arriving by plane, train or boat, including UK nationals, will have to take a test up to 72 hours before leaving the country they are in.\n\nAnyone arriving from places not on the UK's travel corridor list must still self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nThe Scottish government is planning to impose the same rules and has had to defer them coming into effect as a result of changes in England.\n\n\"This meant Scotland was also obliged to delay implementation as we need sight of their final regulations in order to properly draft and approve the relevant Scottish regulations,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\nIt is expected the requirement will come into force in Scotland at 04:00 GMT on Monday as well. Wales and Northern Ireland are expected to announce plans for pre-arrival testing in the coming days.\n\nAnnouncing the deferral on Twitter, Transport Secretary Mr Shapps said: \"To give international arrivals time to prepare, passengers will be required to provide proof of a negative Covid-19 test before departure to England from Monday 18 January at 4am.\"\n\nHe also reminded travellers to fill out the Passenger Locator Form - used in track and trace - and added that those without proof of a negative test faced a fine of £500.\n\nProblems with testing availability and capacity mean some countries will initially be exempt.\n\nFor instance, the requirement will not apply to travellers from St Lucia, Barbados, Antigua and Barbuda until 04:00 GMT on 21 January.\n\nTravellers from Falkland Islands, Ascension Islands and St Helena are exempted permanently.\n\nHauliers are exempt to allow the free flow of freight, as are air, international rail and maritime crew.\n\nThe government has said all forms of PCR test will be accepted, as will other forms of test with \"97% specificity, 80% sensitivity\".\n\nThe move comes as a further 1,564 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test - the biggest figure reported in a single day since the pandemic began.\n\nWednesday's figure brings the total number of deaths by that measure to 84,767.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle, medical director at Public Health England, said there had now been more deaths in the second wave than the first.\n\nMeanwhile on Wednesday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he was \"concerned\" about a new coronavirus variant that is believed to have emerged in Brazil.\n\nHe acknowledged it was not yet clear how effective existing vaccines would be against the latest new variant.\n\nMr Johnson said the UK was taking steps to make sure it was not brought into the country.\n\nA government Covid committee is meeting on Thursday to discuss the possibility of stopping flights from Brazil.\n\nArrivals from Brazil already have to self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nAre you due to travel back to the UK from Brazil? 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Sir David will appear in \"very high-resolution holographic video\"\n\nSir David Attenborough is to front an augmented reality app letting users see exotic plants and animals in their own surroundings, as part of a government drive to prove the uses of 5G.\n\nThe Green Planet AR app has been given £2.3m government funding as one of nine 5G test projects given a total of £28m.\n\nIt will be released alongside The Green Planet, Sir David's forthcoming BBC series that will show plants in detail.\n\nThe five-part documentary series is expected to be broadcast in 2022.\n\nAugmented reality superimposes virtual objects on to the world around us, meaning the app's users will be able to use their smartphones to see Sir David and \"meticulously detailed graphics of exotic plants and animals\" as if they were in front of them.\n\nThe app will help prove \"how new technology can reconnect us with the natural world whilst demonstrating the power of 5G to a huge new audience\", according to Minister for Digital Infrastructure Matt Warman.\n\nThe app will be available in \"set locations\" around the UK. Developer Factory 42 said it does not yet know how many locations, but they could include parks, visitor attractions like Kew Gardens and urban settings. Users will need a 5G-enabled device.\n\nThe other projects sharing the £28m funding include one to provide live, multi-angle HD video streams and replays on phones at sporting events; one to allow people to experience exhibits at The Eden Project in Cornwall from their own homes; and one to control the 113 cranes at the Port of Felixstowe in Suffolk.\n\nThey follow nine other 5G trial projects that were awarded a total of £35m in February 2020.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Pupils are currently learning remotely from home\n\nA-level, AS and GCSE students in England could be asked to sit mini external exams to help teachers with their assessments after formal exams were cancelled last week.\n\nIn a letter to the exams regulator, Ofqual, Education Secretary Gavin Williamson said this would help teachers to decide \"deserved grades\".\n\nHe promised not to use an algorithm which led to controversy last summer.\n\nHead teachers said the \"devil was in the detail\" for these plans.\n\nThe letter was published on Wednesday morning, as Mr Williamson appeared before the education select committee to answer questions on the impact of Covid-19 on education.\n\nIn the letter to Ofqual he said: \"A breadth of evidence should inform teachers' judgments, and the provision of training and guidance will support teachers to reach their assessment of a student's deserved grade.\n\n\"In addition, I would like to explore the possibility of providing externally set tasks or papers, in order that teachers can draw on this resource to support their assessments of students.\"\n\nMr Williamson's pledge not to use an algorithm to determine grades comes after thousands of A-level students had their results downgraded from school estimates last summer - before Ofqual announced a U-turn allowing them to use teachers' predictions.\n\n\"We have agreed that we will not use an algorithm to set or automatically standardise anyone's grade,\" the letter says.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gavin Williamson: \"The top priority is for all those that work in schools\"\n\n\"Schools and colleges should undertake quality assurance of their teachers' assessments and provide reassurance to the exam boards. We should provide training and guidance to support that, and there should also be external checks in place to support fairness and consistency between different institutions and to avoid schools and colleges proposing anomalous grades.\"\n\nBut he added: \"Changes should only be made if those grades cannot be justified, rather than as a result of marginal differences of opinion.\n\n\"Any changes should be based on human decisions, not by an automatic process or algorithm.\"\n\nA consultation on plans for this year is being launched later this week.\n\nGeoff Barton, head of the Association of School and College Leaders, said the letter set out \"broad and sensible parameters\" for assessing GCSEs and A-levels after exams were cancelled.\n\n\"But, as ever, the devil will be in the detail of how this is turned into reality,\" Mr Barton said.\n\nHe welcomed confirmation that no algorithm would be applied this year \"following last summer's grading debacle.\"\n\nBut he questioned how any system of externally set assessment would work and how it could ensures fairness for students whose education had been heavily disrupted.\n\n\"It is vital that the final plans not only provide fairness and consistency but that they are also workable for schools, colleges and teaching staff who will have to put them into practice,\" he added.\n\nNational Education Union joint general secretary Dr Mary Bousted said: \"Had the government listened to the NEU and put in place a contingency plan sooner we would be in a better position now to make sure grades could be awarded reliably and without creating severe workload issues for education staff and students.\n\nShe said the union would continue to work with the Dfe and Ofqual, but they needed to see the full details of the plans as soon as possible to ensure grades are fair and the process is manageable for staff.\n\nTaking questions from MPs on the education select committee, Mr Williamson said he wanted to see schools re-opening at the earliest opportunity and that he would \"never apologise for being the biggest champion for keeping schools open\".\n\nHe said attendance rates of vulnerable and key worker pupils in schools since the start of term were higher than in the first lockdown.", "The prime minister has said lockdown measures are \"starting to show signs of some effect\", but he has refused to rule out extra restrictions in England.\n\nAt PMQs, Boris Johnson said measures were kept under \"constant review\" after Labour's Sir Keir Starmer said it was obvious more restrictions were needed.\n\nMr Johnson added that vaccine centres would move to 24-7 \"as soon as we can\".\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and only go out for limited reasons.\n\nThis includes for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nLater, Mr Johnson told the Commons Liaison Committee there was a \"very substantial\" risk of intensive care capacity in hospitals being \"overtopped\", and appealed to people to follow lockdown rules.\n\nHe said the situation was \"very, very tough\" in the NHS and the strain on staff was \"colossal\".\n\nMeanwhile, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has announced new restrictions in Scotland from Saturday, including limiting click and collect services to essential items only and restricting takeaways.\n\nAt Prime Minister's Questions, Sir Keir said stronger restrictions were needed in England and accused Mr Johnson of being \"slow to act\".\n\nHe asked the prime minister why restrictions were weaker in this lockdown compared with March.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson says the government acted \"within 24 hours\" of advice on the new Covid-19 variant\n\n\"We keep things under constant review,\" Mr Johnson replied. \"If there is any need to toughen up restrictions - which I don't rule out - we will of course come to this House.\n\n\"The lockdown measures we have in place combined with tier four measures that we were using are starting to show signs of some effect and we must take account of that too.\"\n\nHe added it was early days and urged people to abide by the rules.\n\nQuestioned by the liaison committee on Wednesday afternoon, Mr Johnson said it was \"far, far too early\" to say there could be any relaxation of the lockdown in the middle of February, and \"we've got to work very hard to achieve that\".\n\nHe acknowledged that it was a \"tragedy\" that so many children were missing face-to-face teaching at school and said reopening schools was \"the priority\".\n\nTier four - the highest level in England's tier system which bans households mixing indoors - was introduced on 21 December in parts of south-east England, including London.\n\nIt was then widened to include more of southern England on Boxing Day. England has been in a national lockdown since 5 January.\n\nMr Johnson also said the vaccination programme was going \"exceptionally fast\" but \"at the moment the limit is on supply\" of the vaccine.\n\n\"We will be going to 24/7 as soon as we can,\" he told MPs, saying Health Secretary Matt Hancock will set out further details \"in due course\".\n\nMore than 2.4 million people have had a first dose of a coronavirus vaccine, while 412,167 people have had a second dose.\n\nScotland's Health Secretary Jeane Freeman said it was \"entirely possible\" to offer round-the-clock vaccinations in Scotland once mass sites were up and running by late February or early March.\n\nThere are very early signs that infections may have peaked - although as always we should be careful about reading too much into a few days' worth of data.\n\nThe past two days have seen newly diagnosed cases hover around the 46,000-mark. Up to the weekend, the average was close to 60,000.\n\nThe drop has largely been driven by falls in new cases in London, the South East and East of England.\n\nThe national picture does mask some regional differences. Cases are rising in the North West, which is causing particular concern.\n\nIt is too early for the vaccination programme to be having any significant impact so a combination of the national lockdown on top of the tier four restrictions that were imposed in some areas before Christmas look like they may be beginning to have an impact.\n\nThere is also some evidence the new variant may not be quite as fast-spreading as first feared - a Public Health England study suggested rather than being 70% more transmissible, it may actually be somewhere between 30% to 50%.\n\nAnd, if it does represent the start of a continuous fall, it is important to remember it will still take some time to translate into fewer hospital cases - people being admitted at the moment are those who would have caught the virus a week or two ago.\n\nBut after six weeks of pretty sustained rises, it is at least an encouraging sign.\n\nEarlier, Health Secretary Matt Hancock questioned whether there would be demand for a round-the-clock vaccination operation, saying: \"Most people want to get vaccinated in the daytime, and also most people who are doing the vaccinations want to give them in the daytime, but there may be circumstances in which that would help.\"\n\nHe said England's lockdown measures were \"always under review\", but he would be \"very reluctant\" to remove the rule of meeting one other person outside for exercise as \"it is a lifeline\" for some people, including those who live alone. Mr Hancock has already ruled out scrapping support bubbles.\n\n\"What I'd rather is that everybody follow that rule and doesn't stretch it or flex it,\" he said.", "Fans of the University of Alabama football team gathered in the streets of Tuscaloosa in Alabama, ignoring social distancing.\n\nThey were celebrating the university's third national championship in the past six years.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Wednesday morning. We'll have another update for you at 18:00 BST.\n\nThe first Covid patients have begun receiving a new treatment it's hoped will prevent sufferers becoming seriously ill. The patients are part of a large-scale trial testing the effect of inhaling a protein called interferon beta which the body produces when it gets a viral infection. Developed at Southampton University Hospital and produced by biotech company, Synairgen, early findings suggest the treatment cuts the odds of severe illness by almost 80%. Find out more here.\n\nKaye Flitney is one of those enrolled on the clinical trial\n\nMany hospital staff treating the sickest patients during the first wave of the pandemic have been left struggling to cope, a new study suggests. Researchers at King's College London questioned 709 workers at nine units in England and nearly half reported symptoms of severe anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder or problem drinking. Lead researcher Prof Neil Greenberg said it should be a \"wake-up call\" for managers about the need to provide more mental health support. Some staff are they're also facing abuse online and at protests from Covid sceptics and anti-lockdown activists.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nChildren's minister Vicky Ford says caterers must urgently improve the quality of food parcels being provided for low-income families. Catering company Chartwells has apologised after photographs of some parcels were shared online and heavily criticised. The packages - more on them here - are being sent to children who would normally receive free school meals in England. The row could well come up when Education Secretary Gavin Williamson faces MPs' questioning later. Our education correspondent looks closely at Mr Williamson - a man whose political obituary has been written so many times he must sometimes feel like the walking dead.\n\nTwitter user Roadside Mum complained about the parcel she received\n\nNurse Kate Fraser said administering the vaccination to Ms Curry had been \"emotional\"\n\nFind more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nPlus, Britain's top police officer, Dame Cressida Dick, says it's \"preposterous\" to suggest some people are not aware of what the lockdown laws now tell them to do. So how much do you know? Try our quiz.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Democrats, including Jamie Raskin (centre), voted to impeach President Donald Trump, as did 10 Republicans\n\nThe US House of Representatives has voted to impeach President Donald Trump for a second time over his alleged role in the 6 January deadly assault on the Capitol.\n\nHis impeachment for \"incitement to insurrection\" was approved by 232 representatives including 10 Republicans.\n\nDemocrats led the effort to charge Mr Trump with encouraging the riots.\n\nBut some Republicans had backed calls for impeachment.\n\nSo, who are these key players, and what do we know about them?\n\nWhen the impeachment charges go to the Senate for trial, the case for the prosecution will be made by a team of lawmakers, led by Mr Raskin, a Democratic representative from Maryland since 2017 and a former professor of constitutional law.\n\nThe impeachment of Mr Trump represents the continuation of an extremely challenging start to 2021 for Mr Raskin, 58.\n\nJamie Raskin (left) helped to draft the article of impeachment against President Trump\n\nThe congressman's 25-year-old son, Tommy Bloom Raskin, took his own life on New Year's Eve and was laid to rest in early January.\n\nA day after the funeral, Mr Raskin found himself hunkering down with colleagues, shielding from a violent mob that rampaged through the Capitol where lawmakers were meeting to certify November's presidential election result.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOn the day of the assault, Mr Raskin helped to draw up an article of impeachment against President Trump.\n\nSpeaking to the Washington Post, Mr Raskin said his son, who was studying law at Harvard University, would have considered last week's violence \"the absolute worst form of crime against democracy\".\n\n\"It really is Tommy Raskin, and his love and his values and his passion, that have kept me going,\" Mr Raskin said.\n\nIn total, nine Democrats, including Mr Raskin, have been named as impeachment managers. One is Representative Madeleine Dean, from Pennsylvania, who is one of three women on the team.\n\nMs Dean started her career in law, opening her own three-woman practice in Pennsylvania before teaching English at a university.\n\nHaving been active in state politics for decades, she was elected to the House in 2018, using her seat to champion women's reproductive rights, gun law reform, and healthcare for all, among other issues.\n\nMadeleine Dean has called for a quick trial of President Trump in the Senate\n\nIn an interview with MSNBC, Ms Dean, 68, said she favoured a \"speedy trial\" in the Senate if Mr Trump was impeached.\n\n\"This isn't about a party. This isn't about politics. This is about protection of our constitution, of our rule of law,\" Ms Dean said.\n\nAs the Speaker of the House, Ms Pelosi has been in the spotlight since the riots in the Capitol.\n\nMs Pelosi leads the Democrats in the lower chamber of Congress, so the 80-year-old had a huge influence over the decision to introduce an article of impeachment against Mr Trump.\n\nMs Pelosi had the House proceed with impeachment after former Vice-President Mike Pence did not invoked constitutional powers to force out Mr Trump, who was then president.\n\nMr Pence said at the time he believed such a move was against the country's interests.\n\n\"This president is guilty of inciting insurrection. He has to pay a price for that,\" Ms Pelosi said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The storming of the US Capitol\n\nMr McConnell, a 78-year-old Republican senator for Kentucky, is one to watch in the Senate.\n\nThe upper chamber's former majority leader remains the man at the helm of the upper chamber's Republican caucus.\n\nDubbed the \"Grim Reaper\" by Democrats, Mr McConnell was a thorn in the side of former President Barack Obama, often manoeuvring to frustrate his legislative agenda and judicial appointments.\n\nHe was also the driving force behind Mr Trump's acquittal in his first impeachment trial in 2019.\n\nIn his last few weeks as Senate leader, Mr McConnell also delayed Mr Trump's trial until after the former president left office, saying there was no time for a \"fair or serious trial\" ahead of Mr Biden's inauguration.\n\nMr McConnell has not publicly commented on whether he supports convicting or acquitting Mr Trump, but he has sent some mixed messages.\n\nMitch McConnell had been loyal to President Trump until the Capitol riots\n\nThough he spent the last four years in the president's corner, the minority leader said the rioters were \"provoked by\" Mr Trump and that he plans to hear out both sides in the trial.\n\nBut later on in January, he also joined the majority of Republican senators to vote for a motion to toss out the impeachment case as unconstitutional now that Mr Trump is no longer in the White House.\n\nMr McConnell may no longer have the final say on all things impeachment, but as Democrats need Republican support to convict Mr Trump with the required two-thirds majority, he still has a key role to play in the upcoming proceedings.\n\nWith just over a week to go before the trial, Mr Trump parted ways with his legal team, including attorneys Butch Bowers and Deborah Barbier.\n\nThey were quickly replaced by David Schoen, a trial lawyer, and Bruce Castor, a former district attorney, who will lead the defence efforts for the former president.\n\nIn a statement, both attorneys said they didn't believe the push to impeach Mr Trump is constitutional.\n\nDavid Schoen, left, and Bruce Castor will lead the defence efforts for the former president\n\nMr Castor added: \"The strength of our Constitution is about to be tested like never before in our history.\n\n\"It is strong and resilient. A document written for the ages, and it will triumph over partisanship yet again, and always.\"\n\nMr Schoen has previously represented Roger Stone, former adviser to Mr Trump. Stone received a presidential pardon in December.\n\nThe lawyer also made headlines in the past for meeting with Jeffrey Epstein in his final days to discuss possible representation, and for later saying he did not believe the death of the US financier and sex offender was suicide.\n\nMr Castor, a former Pennsylvania district attorney, is known for declining to prosecute Bill Cosby for sexual assault in 2005. The comedian was eventually convicted on three counts of sexual assault in a 2018 retrial of his case.\n\nMs Cheney, 54, is third-highest-ranking Republican leader in the House. As the daughter of former Republican Vice-President Dick Cheney, she has a high profile in the party.\n\nSo, her support for impeachment is particularly significant.\n\nLiz Cheney has accused President Trump of inciting the attack on Congress\n\nMr Trump had \"summoned this mob, assembled the mob, and lit the flame of this attack\", Ms Cheney said of the Capitol riots.\n\n\"There has never been a greater betrayal by a president of the United States of his office and his oath to the Constitution,\" the Wyoming representative said.\n\nHowever, in a recent test of support for conviction on impeachment charges that Mr Trump incited his supporters to mount an insurrection at the US Capitol, 45 out of 50 Senate Republicans voted last week to consider stopping the trial before it even starts.\n\nMs Cheney survived a House Republican vote - 145-61 - to oust her from her leadership position after breaking ranks with other GOP lawmakers last month to impeach the former president.\n\nShe is also now facing a primary challenger for her Wyoming congressional seat after voting to impeach Mr Trump.\n\nBlocking Mr Trump from ever running for office again is one rationale that may motivate some Republicans to impeach the president.\n\nThat reasoning could be attractive to Republican senators like Mr Sasse, who is seen as a possible contender for the presidency in 2024.\n\nElected to the Senate in 2014, the 48-year-old has been an ardent critic of Mr Trump.\n\nBen Sasse refused to overturn the results of November's presidential election in Congress\n\nMr Sasse was firmly opposed to a Republican effort - cheered on by Mr Trump - to overturn the certification of President-elect Joe Biden's election victory in Congress.\n\nOn the question of impeachment, Mr Sasse said he would \"definitely consider whatever articles they might move\" in the House.\n\nA two-thirds majority would be needed to convict Mr Trump in the Senate, meaning at least 17 Republicans - including Mr Sasse - would have to vote for it.\n\nIn Mr Trump's first impeachment trial in 2020, it was Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts who presided over the proceedings.\n\nThis time, he declined to participate, handing the job over to the 80-year-old Vermont Democrat, who will take the gavel in this second impeachment trial.\n\nMr Leahy was first elected to the Senate in 1974, and is the longest serving lawmaker in the upper chamber.\n\nHe will be presiding in his role as the Senate's president pro tempore - a constitutional officer, responsible for presiding over the Senate in the absence of the vice-president.\n\nIn a statement, he said \"the president pro tempore takes an additional special oath to do impartial justice according to the Constitution and the laws\" when presiding over an impeachment trial.\n\n\"It is an oath that I take extraordinarily seriously.\"", "Many of the works in Gurlitt's collection were in poor condition when they were discovered in 2012 (file photo)\n\nWhen a trove of 1,500 artworks hoarded by the son of a Nazi-era art dealer was discovered in 2012, an investigation began to find out how many were looted from Jewish owners.\n\nEventually only 14 were conclusively identified as looted, and now Germany has declared the last of those works has been returned to the owner's heirs.\n\nDas Klavierspiel (Playing the Piano) by Carl Spitzweg was owned by music publisher Henri Hinrichsen.\n\nHe was murdered at Auschwitz in 1942.\n\nGerman Culture Minister Monika Grütters said the return of the work sent an \"important signal\", and that while it could not make up for the deep suffering, it could \"make a contribution to historical justice and fulfil our moral responsibility\".\n\nThe 19th-Century work by Spitzweg was confiscated by the Nazis in 1939, the same year that Hinrichsen had bought it.\n\nDas Klavierspiel by Carl Spitzweg was seized by the Nazis in 1939\n\nIt was bought in 1940 by Hildebrand Gurlitt, a Nazi-era dealer who had been given the task by Adolf Hitler of dealing in art seized from Jewish collectors and of buying up so-called \"degenerate art\" removed from museums for a planned Führermuseum in the Austrian city of Linz.\n\nThe money for the Spitzweg work was paid into a blocked account, so Hinrichsen would never have received it.\n\nIn 2015, the piece was identified as looted, and it was handed over to the auctioneers Christie's on Tuesday, according to the wishes of Hinrichsen's heirs.\n\nAlthough his collection of 1,500 works, plundered from museums as well as individuals, was initially confiscated after the war by the Allies, Hildebrand Gurlitt eventually managed to get it back.\n\nGurlitt died in the 1950s and when German authorities approached his widow in 1961 in search of part of his collection, she claimed the works had been destroyed at the end of World War Two by Allied bombing.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Stephen Evans was granted exclusive access to look at some of the long-lost masterpieces in 2014\n\nIt was only when tax investigators searched the Munich flat of his son Cornelius Gurlitt in 2012 that they found more than 1,400 of the works. Another 60 pieces were discovered at his Austrian home in Salzburg the following year.\n\nThe son died in 2014 with questions still hanging over the ownership of the collection - as he was protected by a statute of limitations.\n\nA court ruled that the works could be bequeathed to the Museum of Fine Arts in the Swiss capital Bern, as Cornelius Gurlitt had requested.\n\nWhile some of the works were deemed to belong to the family, the German Lost Art Foundation then tried to find out, with the Swiss museum, who were the rightful owners of the rest.\n\nFourteen pieces have now conclusively identified as belonging to Jewish owners and returned.\n\nAmong the many masterpieces in the collection was this work by Edouard Manet", "Isabella Curry urged others to get the jab and said it was just a little \"prick in the arm\"\n\nA woman has celebrated her 100th birthday by getting a covid vaccination at home.\n\nIsabella Curry, known as Ella, from Cramlington, was among some of the most vulnerable people in Northumberland to receive the vaccine.\n\nMs Curry, who lives alone, urged others not to be afraid to get the jab and said it was just a little \"prick in the arm\" and she now felt safe.\n\nHer birthday was also marked by the arrival of a card from the Queen.\n\nShe said: \"This vaccine means I'll be able to go out, meet my friends soon and feel safe.\"\n\nIsabella Curry's nephew Neil Curry thanked the \"army\" of helpers who cared for his aunt\n\nMs Curry's nephew, Neil Curry from Bristol, said he was delighted she had had the vaccination but sad the whole family could not get together for the milestone birthday.\n\n\"We had a family reunion for Ella's 90th - we all got together in Newcastle. We would have all got together again to mark this occasion, but we couldn't,\" he said.\n\nHe also said he wanted to thank the \"army\" of people who looked after his aunt including Noreen and Jim Hutchinson, who did her shopping and cut her grass.\n\nHe also thanked June and Peter Marshall and all the other people who collected her prescriptions and mobile library books.\n\nKate Fraser, the community nurse who administered the vaccination, said: \"It's been an emotional time being able to give Isabella her vaccination.\"\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.", "People's reaction to a sonic boom heard across the East of England has been caught on camera.\n\nIt happened after a Typhoon aircraft took off from RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire to escort a plane to Stansted Airport because it had lost communications at about 13:05 GMT.\n\nPeople in Cambridgeshire, Essex and parts of London posted videos on social media, with one person heard asking if it was thunder.\n\nHeather Eastlake, who was filming herself exercising near Cambridge, described her reaction as being like \"a deer in the highlights\".", "Libby Squire was not seen alive after travelling to Oak Road playing fields with Pawel Relowicz, a court heard\n\nA man accused of raping and murdering a student committed a string of \"sexually motivated\" burglaries in the months before her death, a court has heard.\n\nJurors heard \"trophies\" - underwear and sex toys - stolen from other women were found after his arrest.\n\nProsecutors claim he was \"prowling the streets\" of Hull's student area in search of a victim when he intercepted the \"extremely vulnerable\" Ms Squire.\n\nSheffield Crown Court previously heard the defendant drove Ms Squire - who had earlier been refused entry to a nightclub - to the Oak Road playing fields.\n\nOnce there, jurors were told, he subjected her to an \"act of sexual violence\" before he disposed of her body in the River Hull.\n\nHer remains were found in the Humber Estuary almost seven weeks later.\n\nProsecutor Richard Wright QC said Mr Relowicz would claim Ms Squire had \"instigated consensual sexual intercourse\", and he had left her \"safe and well\" on the fields.\n\nRichard Wright QC continued to outline the case against Pawel Relowicz on Wednesday\n\nHowever, Sam Alford, who lives nearby, reported hearing a woman's \"desperate screams\" coming from the direction of the river, the court heard.\n\nProsecutors allege the screams were Ms Squire's and a man seen \"emerging from the darkness\" and fleeing the area was the defendant.\n\n\"Libby was never seen again\", Mr Wright told jurors.\n\nThe screams, and scratches to the defendant's face were evidence Ms Squire had \"fought him off\", the court heard.\n\nMr Wright said the evidence established \"that she was raped by a man whose entire motivation for coming into contact with her that night was to take her away from safety to a remote area well known to him and there to subject her to his uncontrollable sexual urges\".\n\nThe prosecutor said a pathologist concluded he could not establish how Ms Squire died despite \"an obvious bruise\" to the inside of her right thigh.\n\nMr Wright told jurors a CCTV recording made after the last sighting of Ms Squire showed Mr Relowicz performing a sex act in the middle of a street.\n\nA condom found at the scene days later yielded a DNA profile matching the defendant, the court heard.\n\nIn the year leading up to Ms Squire's disappearance, Mr Relowicz exposed himself to women in public and watched them through windows as they changed or had sex, the court heard.\n\nHe also \"burgled their homes with the purpose of stealing their underwear and sexual toys or other objects,\" Mr Wright said.\n\nUniversity of Hull student Libby Squire was last seen in the early hours of 1 February 2019\n\nFollowing his arrest on 6 February, Mr Wright said, police recovered the pink holdall \"full of sex toys... and some photographs of young women and several pairs of women's knickers and thongs\".\n\nA statement made by Ms Squire's mother, Lisa Squire, was read out in court describing her daughter having battled mental health issues including an eating disorder, self-harming - cutting the top of her arms, legs and chest - and depression.\n\nShe said her eldest child had been afraid of water since she was young, to the point she would not go near a swimming pool when on holiday. She was also scared of the dark, jurors were told.\n\nStatements by Ms Squire's boyfriend Connor James-Pye were also read out, in which he described Libby as being \"a happy drunk\" and that she \"didn't understand moderation\".\n\nHowever, on the night she disappeared, the court heard Ms Squire \"didn't want to go out because she had a lecture the next morning, but she didn't want to let the girls down\".\n\nMr James-Pye last heard from his girlfriend at about 22:30 on 31 January, jurors heard.\n\nThe 21-year-old's body was recovered from the Humber Estuary on 20 March 2019\n\nFollow BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The button battery was stuck in Sofia-Grace's throat for four months\n\nAn 11-month-old girl who was rejecting solid food had a button battery lodged in her throat for four months.\n\nDoctors thought Sofia-Grace Hill had tonsillitis or a viral infection until an X-ray revealed the battery the size of a 10p in her oesophagus.\n\nShe underwent a two-hour operation to remove it and is now on a liquid only diet.\n\nA surgeon said her survival may be due to the battery being old and without charge.\n\nDad Calham, from Swindon, first noticed something was wrong in January 2020 and had countless paramedic call-outs and visits to the GP and local hospital.\n\nShe had a two-hour operation to remove the battery\n\nHe was convinced there was something else going on as Sofia-Grace would only eat pureed food.\n\nAfter another hospital trip in May, she was given an X-ray which showed the battery lodged in her oesophagus was causing serious damage as it had corroded.\n\nMr Hill said: \"I was gutted when I saw it and angry at myself. I blamed myself, but now I realise there was nothing we could have done to know.\"\n\nThe button battery is the size of a 10p\n\nSofia-Grace had a feeding tube fitted to help her with food and to stop her throat from closing.\n\nEvery two weeks she has a general anaesthetic to stretch her oesophagus but faces the prospect of further surgery.\n\nMr Hill said: \"The damage has left a pocket in her oesophagus which needs to close but Sofia is improving week by week with regular dilations which is improving her oesophagus.\n\n\"But I know the chance of survival in the first weeks after this happens is very low so we are moving in the right direction.\"\n\nSofia-Grace is improving week by week, her dad said\n\nMr Hill is unsure how Sofia-Grace, now almost two-years-old, got hold of the button battery and warned parents about the dangers.\n\nHe said: \"Just get rid of them or lock them away and don't give your child car keys to play with. Always trust your instincts as a parent.\"\n\nJanet McNally, consultant paediatric surgeon at Bristol Royal Hospital for Children, who is treating Sofia-Grace, said her survival may be because the battery was old and had lost its charge.\n\nShe said that without someone seeing a child swallow a battery or obvious symptoms it was not unusual for it to be missed.\n\n\"Clinicians and the government have been warning of the dangers of button batteries for a long time. But not all parents are aware of how dangerous they can be.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Brazil's variant: Two 'spike' changes flagged up\n\nAs MPs have been mentioning today - a coronavirus variant has been found circulating in the Amazonas state of Brazil, and was picked up in Japan in travellers from the region. It’s different from the UK and South African variants, but it contains common mutations - two changes to the virus’ \"spike\" in particular which have been flagged as potentially making the virus more infectious. This is not going to be the last mutation we hear about. At the moment changes are mainly being picked up in areas that do lots of genetic tracking of the virus - it’s almost certain there are other mutations already circulating unseen in other parts of the world. And the virus will continue to mutate - it’s just a question of how, how much and how fast. For now there’s no evidence the virus is becoming more dangerous - but if more people catch it then, left unchecked, more will potentially become ill or die. But the vaccines, which target several different areas of the virus’ spike, should still work - though that’s something that scientists the world over will be monitoring very closely.", "The three main Covid-19 vaccines are from Pfizer-BioNTech, the University of Oxford and Astra-Zeneca and Moderna.\n\nThe Pfizer, Oxford and Moderna vaccines each require two doses and you are not fully vaccinated until you have had both shots.\n\nBut there are many differences between them.\n\nThe BBC's Laura Foster looks at how much immunity they give, how they prevent infection and how they compare.", "Parents say teachers at special schools often provide medical care and should be treated like other front-line workers\n\nParents of children with special educational needs and disabilities are calling for teachers in special schools to be vaccinated against Covid-19.\n\nMany parents have been told their children cannot attend school because of safety concerns about the virus.\n\nNow they want staff in special schools to be prioritised for the vaccine and considered front-line workers.\n\nThe government said special schools should encourage pupils to attend.\n\nLaura cares for son Oscar alone and says their respite support collapsed during the pandemic\n\nStaff in special schools are often required to provide personal and medical care for pupils, such as clearing tracheotomies, on top of regular teaching responsibilities.\n\nThe schools also offer precious respite to many families of disabled children who require a lot of additional care.\n\nLaura Godfrey, 33, from Norwich, is mum to nine-year-old Oscar, who usually attends a school for children with complex needs. His return was delayed at the start of term, despite government advice for these schools to remain open.\n\n\"His school provision is essential to us as a family. Oscar's mental health suffered a lot in the first lockdown, as did mine. It was a very dark time.\"\n\nHe is currently attending school, but Laura worries it could be forced to close in the event of an outbreak.\n\nShe is calling for staff at special schools to be given PPE and access to the vaccine, to keep schools open and protect vulnerable pupils.\n\n\"They should be recognised and treated as front-line staff and afforded the same protections.\"\n\nLaura's calls have been echoed by Mark Powell, CEO of the Dorset-based Diverse Abilities charity which runs a special school in Poole.\n\nStaff at Langside School in Poole were provided with PPE at the start of the pandemic\n\nThe school bought its own PPE in order to remain open during the pandemic but said it was \"very difficult and extremely costly\".\n\nMr Powell described PPE as a \"wonderful barrier to prevent the spread of the virus\" but said it had also been \"a devastating barrier to the development and well-being of our pupils\".\n\n\"The fact we have nurses, physiotherapists, and occupational therapists on site to form part of our children's school provision means that our school can be classified as a health setting, which are at the top of the list for priority vaccinations.\"\n\nThe Department for Education said the impact of being out of education \"can be greatest on vulnerable children and those with education, health and care plans\".\n\nIt said special schools should \"continue to welcome and encourage pupils to go into school full-time\" where possible and \"ensure pupils with Send can successfully access remote education\" if they are unable to attend.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nIvan Cavaleiro scored a late header to earn Premier League strugglers Fulham a hard-fought draw against Tottenham in their hastily rearranged London derby.\n\nThe Portuguese forward's finish cancelled out Harry Kane's first-half diving header and came just minutes after Son Heung-min hit the post in search of Spurs' second.\n\nCavaleiro sealed a remarkable turnaround for a side whose manager Scott Parker said it was \"scandalous\" to be given just two days' notice to face Jose Mourinho's men after Spurs' game at Aston Villa was postponed because of a Covid-19 outbreak in the Villa camp.\n\nTottenham boss Mourinho had little sympathy for the visitors as the derby itself was a rearranged fixture, having been called off three hours before kick-off when originally scheduled on 30 December.\n\nFor all the complications surrounding the fixture, the intensity from two sides at opposite ends of the table was high at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, with Fulham's fifth successive league draw a valuable point in their efforts to escape the relegation zone.\n• None Relive Tottenham v Fulham as it happened and analysis\n\nFulham made a bright start and Andre-Frank Zambo Anguissa's fierce shot to test Hugo Lloris was a warning of what was to come from a side who remain 18th despite the draw.\n\nThe excellent Alphonse Areola twice denied Son in the first 45 minutes, first blocking a toe-poked effort before palming a header away.\n\nAreola could do nothing, however, to deny Kane the opener in the 25th minute, with the striker beating the Frenchman with a thumping diving header from an excellently-placed Sergio Reguilon cross.\n\nKane was off target with another header and Ruben Loftus-Cheek and Kenny Tete threatened to respond for the visitors, who had the woodwork to thank for denying Son in the second half after the South Korean scuffed a shot past Areola.\n\nSubstitute Ademola Lookman was instrumental following his introduction, creating the equaliser for Cavaleiro seven minutes after coming off the bench.\n\nThe powerful finish extended Fulham's unbeaten run to five league matches, which is their longest such sequence in the top flight in three Premier League campaigns since 2012-13.\n\nThis latest draw highlights just how resolute Parker's men have become after a slow start to the campaign, in which they collected just one point from their first six matches.\n\nSpurs punished for reliance on Kane and Son\n\nWhile the Cottagers may be in the relegation places and had lost a record 13 successive top-flight matches to London rivals, they presented a significantly sterner test of Mourinho's men than non-league side Marine - a team made up of NHS workers, teachers and a refuse collector - which Spurs cruised past in the third round of the FA Cup on Sunday.\n\nThe prolific pair of Kane and Son, a duo that has now scored 23 of Tottenham's 30 league goals this term, were among 10 to return to Spurs' starting line-up.\n\nSon was an unused substitute on their trip to Crosby but Kane, along with Lloris, Eric Dier, Serge Aurier and Harry Winks came back from being rested.\n\nWhile Kane was clinical with the nodded finish, he reacted in frustration as he flicked another header off target.\n\nThat miss, as well as the wastefulness of Reguilon - who sent an early effort over - and Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg's tame strike, ensured Fulham were still in it at half-time.\n\nMoussa Sissoko also dithered in the box when an early second-half chance presented itself, allowing Tosin Adarabioyo to superbly block.\n\nSon's effort off the post, and their reliance on him and Kane for goals, ultimately proved costly as Cavaleiro ended the hosts' run of three clean sheets in January.\n\nAnd while Reguilon did have the ball in the back of the net again for Tottenham in the final minute, it was immediately disallowed for offside as Spurs missed the chance to move up to third in the table.\n\n'Some players had one day's training' - what the managers said\n\nTottenham manager Jose Mourinho, speaking to BBC Sport: \"In the first half Alphonse Areola made some impossible saves, a couple of others in the second, too.\n\n\"We have to kill a game and we didn't - but you have to keep a clean sheet, not make mistakes, so it was a very avoidable goal. The markers are there, there wasn't even an advantage in terms of numbers.\n\n\"Fulham were intelligent enough to understand the way they play, they change, they become more defensive and they are getting results. I thought they were a bit lucky but they were good.\n\n\"We have bad results and we should - and we could have - avoided these results.\"\n\nFulham boss Scott Parker, speaking to BBC Sport: \"I'm very proud of this team for what we've been through. There's a lot of talk around - everyone assumes about what happened. I know what we've been through the last two weeks.\n\n\"We had players out there today who had one day's training. What pleased me most was a desire and a passion and a real quality at times tonight.\n\n\"There's a real determination and hard work from this group of players. They've never shied away from anything.\"\n\nOn Monday's announcement of the game with Tottenham: \"We were told, in the end, at 9:30. It was put to me on Saturday, if there was a possibility, but I just batted it off thinking 'no chance'.\n\n\"This game was supposed to be scheduled 16 days ago - for 10 days some of these boys were locked up in their houses. I was surprised but it wasn't in terms of preparing for this game, we've prepared in two days for a game before, it was more just getting told of the consequences that you face.\"\n\nBest of the stats\n• None Tottenham and Fulham played out their first draw in the Premier League since December 2009, with Spurs winning 10 of the last 11 encounters (L1).\n• None Tottenham are unbeaten in their last eight London derbies in the Premier League (W3 D5), they've never gone longer without defeat against sides from the capital in the competition.\n• None Fulham have drawn five consecutive Premier League games, their longest such run since January 2007 (six games).\n• None Fulham have gained five points in their last four Premier League away games (W1 D2 L1), more than they collected in their previous 13 on the road in the competition (W1 D1 L11).\n• None Only Brighton (12) and Sheffield United (11) have dropped more points from winning positions than Spurs (10) in the Premier League this season.\n• None Tottenham's Harry Kane has become just the third player to score 25 Premier League goals with his head (25), his right foot (94) and his left foot (34) - after Robbie Fowler and Andy Cole.\n• None Ademola Lookman has been directly involved in five goals (two goals, three assists) in the Premier League this season, more than any other Fulham player.\n\nTottenham travel to Bramall Lane on Sunday (14:05 GMT) to face the Premier League's bottom side Sheffield United, who on Tuesday earned their first top-flight win of the season.\n\nFulham face Chelsea in another derby, hosting their west London rivals on Saturday (17:30 GMT).\n• None Offside, Tottenham Hotspur. Erik Lamela tries a through ball, but Son Heung-Min is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Antonee Robinson (Fulham) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Aboubakar Kamara. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Can the TV personality make it as a pro footballer?\n• None New drama brings the chilling crimes of Charles Sobhraj to life", "Doctors' leaders have called for urgent improvements in personal protective equipment for health workers.\n\nThe British Medical Association is appealing for a higher grade of face mask to guard against coronavirus infection.\n\nIt says there is 'growing evidence' that the virus is being spread through the air by aerosols.\n\nThese are tiny virus particles that can build up in stuffy rooms and they have been linked to outbreaks of Covid-19.\n\nThis follows an open letter from more than 1,500 health professionals for staff on general wards to be given the type of high-quality masks usually only worn in intensive care units.\n\nPublic Health England (PHE) has issued guidance on what PPE staff in different settings require. It was last updated in October 2020.\n\nEarly in the pandemic, it was widely believed that to catch the disease you had to either be close to an infected person and hit by droplets from their coughs or sneezes or touch a surface they had contaminated.\n\nBut research during the course of last year highlighted how it is also possible for the virus to be carried in what are called aerosols, drifting and accumulating in the air.\n\nMost infections are thought to have occurred indoors in badly ventilated rooms, and many studies have shown that the 'airborne route' can be an important factor.\n\nAcross the UK, the guidance for hospital staff is to wear surgical masks in most areas.\n\nMore sophisticated masks - a type known as FFP3 that includes an air filter - are only required in intensive care or when certain procedures are carried out that are known to generate aerosols.\n\nIn their letter, the consultants, doctors and nurses say healthcare workers are three to four times more likely to become infected than the general population.\n\nBut they point out that staff in intensive care units, who have the best level of protection, have about half the risk of catching the virus than colleagues on general wards.\n\nThe letter states: \"It is now essential that healthcare workers have their PPE upgraded to protect against airborne transmission\".\n\nBarry McAree, a consultant surgeon in Northern Ireland, is one of many healthcare workers to be ill with Covid.\n\nHe is self-isolating at home right after his testing positive for the second time.\n\nA signatory to the letter, he says his hospital in Antrim followed the guidance about which type of masks should be worn in which areas, but he became infected nonetheless. It is not clear how and when he caught it.\n\n\"There's so much evidence that we are talking about an airborne infection that it has to be said that it is not appropriate just to wear FFP3 in environments when aerosol generating procedures take place.\"\n\nHe believes that with such high levels of the virus in the community and in hospitals, staff should be wearing the higher-grade masks whenever they're close to patients.\n\nSurgical masks can be bought online for about 10p each, while the FFP3 masks are far more expensive about £5.00.\n\nDr Barry Jones, a retired gastroenterologist and leading expert on aerosols, says that's nothing compared to the cost of a patient with Covid,\n\nHe points to data showing that roughly a fifth of people needing hospital treatment for Covid may have acquired the infection in hospital in the first place.\n\n\"We should do everything we can to reduce that possibility - it's the air we share that's killing us.\"\n\nA few hospitals have decided to break with official guidance.\n\nIt's understood that hospitals in Cambridge, Plymouth and Exeter have decided to equip staff with FFP3 masks if they face patients diagnosed with Covid or suspected of having it.\n\nOne consultant, who did not want to be named, said: \"When you realise patients are more infectious at an earlier stage of disease and are presenting at general wards with poorer ventilation than intensive care units and staff are wearing a poorer quality of PPE, you really want those in a position of leadership to listen and to act.\"\n\nRCN General Secretary Dame Donna Kinnair, said: \"Without delay, they must state whether existing PPE guidance is adequate for the new variant.\n\n\"While more research is carried out, we ask for the precautionary principle to be applied and staff to be given a higher level of PPE if working with suspected or confirmed cases.\"\n\nPublic Health England said this was a matter for NHS England to comment on.\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said: \"The safety of NHS and social care staff has always been our top priority and we continue to work tirelessly to deliver PPE that protects those on the frontline.\n\n\"UK guidance on the safest levels of PPE is written by experts and agreed by all four chief medical officers. Our guidance is kept under constant review based on the latest evidence and data.\n\n\"Emerging evidence and data, including on variant strains, will be continually monitored and reviewed, and the guidance updated accordingly if needed.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Home Secretary Priti Patel: \"Our selfless police officers... will enforce the regulations and I will back them to do so\"\n\nPeople have been urged to \"play your part\" and follow Covid rules by Home Secretary Priti Patel, who says she will back police to enforce laws.\n\nAt a No 10 briefing, Ms Patel said a minority were \"putting the health of the nation at risk\" by flouting rules.\n\nPolice are \"moving more quickly to issuing fines\", she added, with nearly 45,000 fixed penalty notices issued across the UK.\n\nAnother 1,243 people have died within 28 days of testing positive for Covid.\n\nAnd there have been a further 45,533 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK.\n\nMeanwhile, another 145,076 people have received a first dose of a coronavirus vaccine, and 20,768 a second dose, bringing the totals respectively to 2,431,648 and 412,167.\n\nAt the briefing, Ms Patel said: \"My message today to anyone refusing to do the right thing is simple: if you do not play your part, our selfless police officers - who are out there risking their own lives every day to keep us safe - they will enforce the regulations.\n\n\"And I will back them to do so, to protect our NHS and to save lives.\"\n\nIt comes after the UK's most senior police officer said lockdown rule-breakers were more likely to be fined as Covid laws would be enforced \"more quickly\".\n\nMetropolitan Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick said her officers had been forced to break up parties, despite hospitals in London struggling to cope with rising patient numbers.\n\nChairman of the National Police Chiefs' Council Martin Hewitt, who also spoke at the Downing Street briefing, said people should be asking themselves whether their reason for leaving home was \"truly essential\".\n\nHe stressed that police officers had been \"putting themselves at risk in order to keep people safe\", and said it had been \"disappointing\" to see some of the behaviour by rule-breakers.\n\nHe said examples of recent breaches included:\n\nMr Hewitt said he made \"no apology\" for police issuing fines, and warned people breaking rules - such as by organising parties or not wearing face coverings on public transport - to \"expect\" a fine.\n\nAsked if there needed to be more clarity on the guidance around exercise and staying local, Mr Hewitt said it would be wrong to put a \"particular distance\" on how far people could exercise from their home - as it would be too difficult for police to enforce.\n\nHe said it was right there was an exception to allow people to exercise, but insisted it was the public's responsibility to make sure they were doing so safely.\n\nThere is a big focus on adherence to lockdown rules. But what has almost gone unnoticed is the fact that cases may have actually started falling.\n\nThere has now been two consecutive days where newly diagnosed cases have hovered around the 46,000 mark. Up to the weekend, the average was close to 60,000.\n\nThe drop has largely been driven by falls in new cases in London, the south east and east of England.\n\nIn some regions, cases are still going up. The north west of England is causing particular concern.\n\nIt is too early for the vaccination programme to be having any significant impact, so a combination of the national lockdown on top of the tier four restrictions that were imposed in some areas before Christmas look like they may be beginning to have an impact.\n\nCare must be taken in reading too much into a couple of days' data.\n\nHospital cases are still rising - patients being admitted at the moment are the ones who were infected a week or so ago - but it does at least offer a glimmer of hope.\n\nLater in the news conference, NHS medical director for London Dr Vin Diwakar said the capital's Nightingale hospital has reopened and was admitting patients to help with the coronavirus spread.\n\nHe told reporters it was taking non-Covid patients to help free up beds in London's hospitals.\n\nDr Diwakar warned that if levels of hospitalisation in the capital continued to rise then more patients would need to be transferred out of London, adding that the NHS across the country was under pressure.\n\nIn Birmingham, 200 doctors are being redeployed to one of the country's largest intensive care units as it nears capacity.\n\nThe University Hospitals Birmingham Trust said there were 873 patients with Covid-19 in their hospitals, with 125 in intensive care.\n\nEarlier, crime and policing minister Kit Malthouse said people have a \"duty\" to make this lockdown \"the last one\".\n\n\"We are urging the small minority of people who aren't taking this seriously to do so now, and [we say] to them that, if they don't, they are much more likely to get fined by the police,\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\nDame Cressida told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the move towards greater enforcement was \"common sense\" rather than a show of \"dictatorial policing\".\n\nFines start at £200 in England and Northern Ireland, and £60 in Wales and Scotland. Large parties can be shut down by the police, with fines of up to £10,000.\n\nEngland is currently under a national lockdown, meaning people must stay at home and can go out only for limited reasons such as food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home.\n\nSimilar lockdown measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland - all of which are in charge of deciding and enforcing their own coronavirus restrictions.\n• None Could I be fined for exercising?", "YouTube has become the latest social network to suspend President Trump.\n\nThe Google-owned service has prevented his account from uploading new videos or live-streaming material for a minimum of seven days, and has said it may extend the period.\n\nThe firm said the channel had broken its rules over the incitement of violence.\n\nThe president had posted several videos on Tuesday night, some of which remain online.\n\nGoogle has not provided details of what Mr Trump said in the video it banned, however the BBC has discovered it was a clip from a press conference he had given on Tuesday.\n\nThe move came hours after civil rights groups had threatened to organise an ads boycott against YouTube.\n\nPresident Trump's YouTube channel remains live but he cannot post new videos\n\nJim Steyer - who previously helped coordinate similar action against Facebook last year - had called on Google to go further and take the president's channel offline.\n\n\"We hope they will make it permanent. It is disappointing that it took a Trump-incited attack to get here, but appears that the major platforms are finally beginning to step up,\" he tweeted after the suspension.YouTube suspends Donald Trump's channel\n\nGoogle said that Mr Trump could still face his page being closed if he falls foul of its three-strikes policy.\n\n\"After review, and in light of concerns about the ongoing potential for violence, we removed new content uploaded to Donald J Trump's channel for violating our policies,\" it said in a statement.\n\n\"It now has its first strike and is temporarily prevented from uploading new content for a minimum of seven days.\n\n\"Given the ongoing concerns about violence, we will also be indefinitely disabling comments on President Trump's channel, as we've done to other channels where there are safety concerns found in the comments section.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Apple chief Tim Cook told CBS News that those involved with the riots on the US Capitol last week should be held accountable.\n\n\"Everyone that had a part in it needs to be held accountable. I think no one is above the law. We're a rule of law country.\"\n\nHe did not mention President Trump by name, but added: \"I don't think we should let it go. This is something we've got to be serious about.\"\n\nMr Trump had already been suspended by Facebook and Instagram following last week's rioting on Capitol Hill, until at least the transition of power to Joe Biden on 20 January.\n\nTwitter has gone further by imposing a permanent ban.\n\nAmazon's Twitch has also disabled his account on its platform. And Snapchat has locked his account.\n\nShopify, Pinterest, TikTok and Reddit have also taken steps to restrict content associated with the president and his calls for the results of the US election to be challenged.\n\nYouTube has often been behind its social media rivals when it comes to moderating user-posted content.\n\nOver the years it has come under fire from campaign groups and big advertisers for not acting swiftly.\n\nNow it has followed Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat in restricting Donald Trump's access to its platform.\n\nAnd as so often, there's a lack of transparency about exactly what prompted the President's suspension.\n\nIt's only saying that a video violated its policies on incitement to violence, but is indicating that the issue was the President's remarks to reporters on Tuesday where he refused to take responsibility for the attack on Congress.\n\nOf course, those comments were broadcast on TV channels, including the BBC, and are still widely available.\n\nIt's not long ago that the social media landscape was being described as the Wild West when it came to moderating content - now the platforms suddenly seem eager to appear more cautious than the mainstream media.\n\nIt's amazing what the threat of regulation can do.", "A further 1,564 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test - the biggest figure reported in a single day since the pandemic began.\n\nIt brings the total number of deaths by that measure to 84,767.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle, medical director at Public Health England, said there have now been more deaths in the second wave than the first.\n\nAnd the prime minister warned there was a \"very substantial\" risk of intensive care capacity being \"overtopped\".\n\nSpeaking to the Commons Liaison Committee, Boris Johnson said the situation was \"very, very tough\" in the NHS and the strain on staff was \"colossal\".\n\nHe appealed to the public to follow lockdown rules, which require people in England to stay at home and only go out for limited reasons, such as for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home.\n\nSimilar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nA further 47,525 new cases have also been recorded.\n\nPerhaps the most distressing element about the latest Covid deaths is that the numbers are almost certainly going to rise from here.\n\nPeople who are dying now are likely to have been infected three or so weeks ago, around Christmas time.\n\nThat was at a point when infection rates were rising quite steeply, so in the coming days and weeks we should, sadly, expect to see more deaths than this being reported.\n\nToday's figures are affected by the weekend, which sees delays in reporting deaths that tend to translate into higher figures from Tuesday onwards.\n\nCurrently around 1,000 people a day on average are dying once you take this into account.\n\nBut the figures also provide some hope. For the third day in a row the number of newly diagnosed infections are well below 50,000.\n\nThere have been several days where they have exceeded 60,000.\n\nIf that trend continues, and the number of new cases keeps coming down, that will eventually translate into the number of deaths falling.\n\nBut it is going to take some weeks for that to happen.\n\nThese are, as many have been saying, the darkest days of the pandemic so far.\n\nEarlier, during Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Johnson said lockdown measures were \"starting to show signs of some effect\".\n\nLabour's Sir Keir Starmer called for tougher restrictions in England, asking why they were weaker in this lockdown compared with March.\n\nDuring the first lockdown, nurseries were closed to most children and it was not permitted to exercise with someone from another household.\n\n\"We keep things under constant review,\" Mr Johnson replied. \"If there is any need to toughen up restrictions - which I don't rule out - we will of course come to this House.\"\n\nHe stressed that it was early days, but said: \"The lockdown measures we have in place combined with tier four measures that we were using are starting to show signs of some effect.\"\n\nLater, asked by the Commons Liaison Committee whether schools could reopen after February half-term, Mr Johnson said: \"It is far, far too early for us to say [early signs of progress mean] we can go into any kind of relaxation in the middle of February, we've got to work very hard to achieve that.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson took questions from MPs on the Commons Liaison Committee\n\nThe prime minister also said on Wednesday that Covid vaccinations will be offered 24 hours a day, seven days a week as soon as supply allows.\n\nThe number of people in the UK who have received the first dose of a vaccine has risen to 2,639,309 - up by 207,661 from the day before.\n\nCommenting on the latest daily figures, PHE's Dr Doyle said: \"With each passing day, more and more people are tragically losing their lives to this terrible virus.\"\n\nShe added: \"It is essential that we stay at home, minimise contact with other people and act as if you have the virus.\"\n\nThe vast majority of the deaths reported on Tuesday happened over the past week. However, at least 100 were in 2020, with one death dating back to May.\n\nThe previous highest daily death toll was on Friday, when 1,325 people were reported to have died.\n\nThese government figures count people who died within 28 days of testing positive, but there are other ways of measuring the total number of deaths.\n\nWhen all deaths where coronavirus is mentioned on the death certificate are counted, plus deaths known to have occurred more recently, the number of deaths involving Covid in the UK is more than 100,000.\n\nAnother method is to count excess deaths - all deaths over and above the usual number at the time of year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Johnson: \"We are taking steps to ensure that we do not see the import of this new variant\".\n\nMeanwhile, the prime minister has said he is \"concerned\" about a new coronavirus variant that is believed to have emerged in Brazil. He acknowledged it is not yet clear how effective existing vaccines will be against the latest new variant.\n\nThe UK is taking steps to make sure it is not brought into the country, Mr Johnson said.\n\nA government Covid committee is meeting on Thursday to discuss the possibility of stopping flights from Brazil.\n\nArrivals from Brazil already have to self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nAnd from Monday, anyone arriving into the UK from any country will have to present a negative Covid test. The new rule had been due to come into force this week but the government said it was being put back to give travellers more time to prepare.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHundreds of people have joined a march organised following claims a man died hours after being released by police in Cardiff.\n\nThe family of Mohamud Mohammed Hassan, 24, claim he was assaulted in custody.\n\nMore than 300 people took part in a march from the city centre to Cardiff Bay police station.\n\nSouth Wales Police said it found no evidence of excessive force. The police watchdog said initial tests showed Mr Hassan was not killed by any injuries.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said toxicology tests were now being carried out and it was awaiting the full post-mortem results.\n\nEarlier, First Minister Mark Drakeford said the reports of Mr Hassan's death were \"deeply concerning\".\n\nMr Hassan was arrested at his Roath home on Friday on suspicion of breach of the peace but released without charge on Saturday morning.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Hassan's aunt Zainab Hassan told BBC Wales she had seen Mr Hassan within an hour of his release.\n\n\"He was released on Saturday morning with lots of wounds on his body and lots of bruises,\" she said.\n\n\"He didn't have these wounds when he was arrested and when he came out of Cardiff Bay police station, he had them.\"\n\nIn a virtual session of the Welsh Parliament on Monday, Plaid Cymru leader Adam Price said: \"Every effort should be made to seek the truth of what happened.\"\n\nHe said he wanted to know why Mr Hassan was arrested and what happened during his arrest.\n\nMr Hassan's aunt Zainab Hassan said she saw him after his release\n\n\"Why did this young man die?,\" he added.\n\nMr Price said any inquiry should not be prejudged, but asked if the first minister would \"help the family find those answers\".\n\nIn response, Mr Drakeford said reports of the story were \"deeply concerning\".\n\n\"Our thoughts must be with the family of a young man who was... a fit and healthy individual,\" the Cardiff West MS said.\n\nMark Drakeford said he was deeply concerned by the reports\n\nMr Drakeford, who said the death must be \"properly investigated\", said the first step in any inquiry would be to allow the IOPC to carry out their work, which he said he expected \"to be done rigorously and with full and visible independence\".\n\nHe added that if there were things the Welsh Government could do \"I will make sure that we attend properly to those\".\n\nProtesters on Tuesday afternoon chanted \"no justice, no peace\" and called for the police force to release CCTV of Mr Hassan's time in custody.\n\nProtesters on Tuesday afternoon marched from the city centre to Cardiff Bay\n\nIn a statement on Monday, South Wales Police said Mr Hassan was arrested at his home in Newport Road on Friday night and taken to Cardiff Bay police station.\n\nHe was released at 08:30 GMT on Saturday and officers returned to the property at about 22:30 following his death.\n\nIt added: \"As part of the South Wales Police investigation CCTV and body-worn video has already been, and will continue to be, examined.\n\n\"This will assist in establishing and understanding the events that took place.\n\n\"Early findings by the force indicate no misconduct issues and no excessive force.\"\n\nProtesters were heard chanting \"no justice, no peace\"\n\nCatrin Evans, the IOPC's director for Wales, said its investigation would focus on Mr Hassan's arrest, the journey in a police van to custody and his time at Cardiff Bay police station, including whether relevant assessments were made before he was released.\n\nShe said they would be \"urgently examining the extensive relevant CCTV footage and body-worn video\" and would be speaking to the officers involved as well as witnesses who saw his arrest on Friday evening and his movements the next day after leaving custody.\n\nShe added: \"I send my condolences to Mr Hassan's family and friends, and to everyone affected by his sad death.\n\n\"We are aware of concerns being expressed and questions being asked about use of force by police officers. We will look carefully at the level of force used during the interaction and I would urge people show patience while our inquiries, which will take some time, are made.\"\n\nMs Evans added: \"An interim report from a post-mortem examination is awaited.\n\n\"Preliminary indications are that there is no physical trauma injury to explain a cause of death, and toxicology tests are required.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Bonnie Watson Coleman is one of three Democratic lawmakers to have tested positive since the invasion of the US Capitol\n\nThree US lawmakers have tested positive for the coronavirus after sheltering for hours with colleagues during last week's deadly assault on the Capitol.\n\nHouse Democrats Bonnie Watson Coleman, Pramila Jayapal and Brad Schneider have announced their diagnoses.\n\nLast Wednesday they hunkered down in secure rooms, seeking refuge from an invasion of Congress in which five people died.\n\nSome Republicans were not wearing masks during the ordeal, footage suggests.\n\nVideo shared by Punchbowl News shows several lawmakers apparently refusing facemasks offered to them.\n\nHowever, CBS pictures from inside the chamber show Ms Jayapal was herself not wearing a mask at one point.\n\nMedical experts fear more lawmakers may have contracted the disease, potentially amounting to a super-spreader event at a time when coronavirus infections and deaths continue to rise in the US.\n\nThe US has recorded the highest number of coronavirus infections (22.6 million) and deaths (367,000) in the world, with no sign of the epidemic abating, despite the limited roll-out of vaccines.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. When a mob stormed the US capitol\n\nOver the weekend, top congressional doctor Brian Monahan told lawmakers and congressional staff who sheltered together from the riots to get tested.\n\n\"The time in this room was several hours for some and briefer for others,\" Mr Monahan said. \"During this time, individuals may have been exposed to another occupant with coronavirus infection.\"\n\nMr Monahan did not say how many lawmakers were in the room, but called on them to observe social-distancing measures and wear masks.\n\nNew Jersey Democratic Representative Bonnie Watson Coleman was the first lawmaker to confirm she had tested positive on Monday. In a tweet, the 75-year-old cancer survivor said she was resting at home with \"mild, cold-like symptoms\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMs Jayapal, a Democrat from Washington state, and Illinois congressman Mr Schneider revealed they had tested positive on Tuesday.\n\nAll three Democrats accused Republican lawmakers of refusing to wear masks as they huddled together for safety last Wednesday.\n\n\"Any member who refuses to wear a mask should be fully held accountable for endangering our lives,\" Ms Jayapal wrote, calling for mask transgressors to be fined.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe wearing of masks has been an explosive political issue throughout the pandemic in the US, with some lawmakers openly refusing to don a face covering.\n\nA Republican congressman, Jake LaTurner of Kansas, tested positive for Covid-19 after participating in a House vote to reject Arizona's presidential election results on Wednesday.\n\nBut on Tuesday, Mr LaTurner's spokesperson told the Topeka Capital-Journal newspaper that he was not in the secure area of the Capitol building where multiple members have since tested positive.\n\nOn Friday Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), had warned that Wednesday's rioting would probably have significant health consequences.\n\n\"You have to anticipate that this is another surge event,\" he told the McClatchy news agency. \"You had largely unmasked individuals in a non-distanced fashion, who were all through the Capitol.\"\n\nCoronavirus has swept through the heart of the American political establishment during the pandemic. One notable outbreak happened in September last year, when an event was held at the White House to announce the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett as a Supreme Court justice.\n\nSoon after, US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump tested positive for the virus, along with numerous other senior government officials.", "Tesco, Asda and Waitrose have become the latest supermarkets to say they will deny entry to shoppers who do not wear face masks unless they are medically exempt.\n\nIt follows a similar move by Morrisons, while Sainsbury's says it will challenge those who flout the rules.\n\nRetailers have been criticised for not doing enough to stop people breaking Covid rules as infections spread.\n\nBut enforcement of face coverings is officially a police responsibility.\n\nHowever, supermarkets can deny entry to their premises which is private property, and can call the police if someone refuses to follow the rules or becomes abusive.\n\nSenior police figures have reportedly said there is little officers can do to enforce the rules in shops because they are so busy.\n\nBut policing minister Kit Malthouse said that they would offer \"backup if things go seriously wrong\".\n\n\"What we hope is that in the vast majority of cases the enforcement, or the reminders if you like, put in place by the store owners will be enough,\" he told BBC News.\n\nA Tesco spokeswoman said the supermarket chain had decided to strengthen its policies.\n\n\"To protect our customers and colleagues, we won't let anyone into our stores who is not wearing a face covering, unless they are exempt in line with government guidance,\" she said.\n\n\"We are also asking our customers to shop alone, unless they're a carer or with children. To support our colleagues, we will have additional security in stores to help manage this.\"\n\nAn Asda spokesman said if customers had forgotten their face coverings, it would continue to offer them one free of charge.\n\nBut he added: \"Should a customer refuse to wear a covering without a valid medical reason and be in any way challenging to our colleagues about doing so, our security colleagues will refuse their entry.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How to wear your mask. Hint: it's not any of these three options\n\nAndrew Murphy, executive director of operations at Waitrose, said: \"We've listened carefully to the clear change in tone and emphasis of the views and information shared by the UK's governments in recent days.\n\n\"By insisting on the wearing of face coverings, over and above the social distancing measures we already have in place, we aim to make our shops even safer for customers.\"\n\nOn Tuesday, Sainsbury's told the BBC it did not have the power to deny entry to shoppers without masks. However, trials showed customers complied more when asked to wear masks by security guards at the door, it said.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC, Sainsbury's boss, Simon Roberts, said \"we are not going to ban customers\".\n\nBut he urged shoppers to wear a mask and shop alone.\n\n\"By doing that we will help keep everybody safe,\" he said.\n\nThe Co-op also said it would not ban shoppers without masks from entering, and instead urged customers to take responsibility for wearing a face covering when visiting its stores, as it was mandatory by law.\n\nBoss of Co-op Food Jo Whitfield said: \"We've increased our in-store messaging to remind customers and government guidance does state that the police can take measures if members of the public don't comply with this law.\"\n\nIceland said it would take a similar approach, adding the vast majority of its customers continued to shop in compliance with the law.\n\n\"In view of the rising tide of abuse and violence being directed at our store colleagues, we do not expect them to confront the small minority of customers who aggressively refuse to comply with the law,\" a spokesman added.\n\nIn England, the police can issue a £200 fine to someone breaking the face covering rules. In Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, a £60 fine can be imposed. Repeat offenders face bigger fines.", "President Trump has just become the first sitting president to be impeached twice by the US House of Representatives.\n\nWe asked members of our BBC voter panel to weigh in as well.\n\nHere's what they said:\n\nQuote Message: Everything he has done is unconstitutional and, as a president, the number one thing he should be doing is upholding the Constitution. If not for him continually fighting the election results and claiming the election was stolen, if not for him holding that rally near the Capitol, if not for him talking about 'uprising', last week would very likely not have happened. Unfortunately it was completely predictable. from Melissa Dangaran 51, from Minnesota Everything he has done is unconstitutional and, as a president, the number one thing he should be doing is upholding the Constitution. If not for him continually fighting the election results and claiming the election was stolen, if not for him holding that rally near the Capitol, if not for him talking about 'uprising', last week would very likely not have happened. Unfortunately it was completely predictable.\n\nQuote Message: Unprecedented. He should not have been impeached at all. There is no justification, no legal basis, no constitutional basis for it. It's a rush to judgment for ulterior motives and a dark stain on our country. I'm concerned about the double standard and I'm afraid our Constitution is on its deathbed. Why would anybody who's rational think that our president meant for people to go break into the Capitol? from Belinda Noah 45, from Florida Unprecedented. He should not have been impeached at all. There is no justification, no legal basis, no constitutional basis for it. It's a rush to judgment for ulterior motives and a dark stain on our country. I'm concerned about the double standard and I'm afraid our Constitution is on its deathbed. Why would anybody who's rational think that our president meant for people to go break into the Capitol?\n\nQuote Message: It's more of a symbolic impeachment at this point because he'll be out soon, but it's necessary nonetheless. Not only is he a threat to our national security, but he doesn't condone white supremacy and other threats. It's deeply saddening to me. from Williams Morales 19, from Georgia It's more of a symbolic impeachment at this point because he'll be out soon, but it's necessary nonetheless. Not only is he a threat to our national security, but he doesn't condone white supremacy and other threats. It's deeply saddening to me.\n\nQuote Message: I was in DC at the rally - not near the Capitol - but I saw the president speak with my own eyes and he did not call for anyone to storm the building or cause harm. It's just a way to ensure he will not run in the next four years. It is political and it will create a bigger divide between left and right. All violence should be condemned fairly and justly. It was a very sad outcome, but I do not believe it was the most horrible day in our country's history. from Gabriel Montalvo 21, from New York I was in DC at the rally - not near the Capitol - but I saw the president speak with my own eyes and he did not call for anyone to storm the building or cause harm. It's just a way to ensure he will not run in the next four years. It is political and it will create a bigger divide between left and right. All violence should be condemned fairly and justly. It was a very sad outcome, but I do not believe it was the most horrible day in our country's history.", "US rapper YFN Lucci is wanted by police in Atlanta, Georgia, for his alleged involvement in the murder of a local man last month.\n\nTwo suspects have been arrested over the killing of the 28-year-old victim.\n\nAuthorities have appealed for help in locating YFN Lucci, 29 - whose birth name is Rayshawn Bennett.\n\nHe is wanted on suspicion of murder, aggravated assault and participation in criminal street gang activity, police told US media.\n\nThey say another man was wounded in the incident.\n\nLast month YFN Lucci released new material under the title Wish Me Well 3.\n\nIn 2018 rapper Cardi B was forced to defend her then-fiancé Offset against allegations of homophobia after he used a lyric by YFN Lucci that included the word \"queer.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Many hospital staff treating the sickest patients during the first wave of the pandemic were left traumatised by the experience, a study suggests.\n\nResearchers at King's College London asked 709 workers at nine intensive care units in England about how they were coping as the first wave eased.\n\nNearly half reported symptoms of severe anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder or problem drinking.\n\nOne in seven had thoughts of self-harming or being \"better off dead\".\n\nNursing staff were more likely to report feelings of distress than doctors or other clinical staff in the anonymous web-based survey, which was carried out in June and July last year.\n\nVictoria Sullivan, an intensive care nurse at Queen's Hospital in Romford, said she often can't sleep because she's thinking about what is happening at the hospital.\n\nHer worst moment was breaking the news of a death on the phone, she said, adding that the screams from the patient's relatives \"will honestly stay with me forever\".\n\n\"Telling someone over the phone and all you can say is 'I'm really sorry', whilst they're crying their heart out, is quite traumatising,\" she said.\n\n\"Although you're saying how sorry you are, in the back of your mind, you're also thinking: 'I've got three other patients I've got to go and see, the infusions need drawing up, and meds need to be given and a nurse needs support'.\n\n\"The guilt is just too much.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn the study, which has been published online but has not yet been peer-reviewed:\n\nThe researchers say the findings are, in some ways, not surprising given the pressures ICU staff have faced.\n\nTheir workload has been relentless, caring for more patients than is ideal and under extremely challenging circumstances.\n\nLead researcher Prof Neil Greenberg said the findings should be a \"wake-up call\" for NHS managers.\n\nHe said: \"The severity of symptoms we identified are highly likely to impair some ICU staff's ability to provide high-quality care as well as negatively impacting on their quality of life.\"\n\nProf Greenberg said it was important to have \"occupationally focused\" mental health care to try to keep staff fighting fit or, where this was not possible, to ensure they got help to access the right sort of care.\n\nAnd he said that, while their work suggested things may have improved over the summer, there were signs the numbers experiencing mental health problems would rise in November and December.\n\nProf Partha Kar, diabetes consultant at Portsmouth Hospitals NHS trust, said it was \"really, really difficult seeing people battling through all sorts of odds\".\n\nHe added: \"We've got sickness rates high all around us and colleagues from all specialities, where they're not accustomed to seeing such ill patients, coming out and trying to help.\n\n\"Understandably the impact of that on everybody's mental health is not insignificant either... it's such a tough place to be in.\"\n\nPTSD is an anxiety disorder caused by very stressful, frightening or distressing events.\n\nSomeone with PTSD often relives the traumatic event through nightmares and flashbacks, and may experience feelings of isolation, irritability and guilt.\n\nThey may also have problems sleeping, such as insomnia, and find concentrating difficult.\n\nThese symptoms are often severe and persistent enough to have a significant impact on the person's day-to-day life.\n\nCauses of PTSD can include:\n\nAn NHS spokesperson said: \"This is an incredibly tough time for NHS staff working on the front line which is why we have invested £15m in support, including 38 local mental health and well-being hubs and a service for staff with complex mental health needs, such as trauma and addiction.\n\n\"The public can also help to support doctors and nurses by following the 'hands, space, face' guidance to reduce pressure on hospitals and save lives.\"\n\nIf you or someone you know has been affected by mental health issues, the organisations listed at this link might be able to help", "Sarah Ferguson has a long-held interest in history, especially that of the royals and the aristocracy\n\nSarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, has written her first novel for adults, to be released by the leading romantic fiction publisher Mills & Boon.\n\nHer Heart for a Compass is based on the life of the duchess's great-great-aunt, Lady Margaret Montagu Douglas Scott.\n\nShe has previously written children's books, non-fiction about Queen Victoria, and her own memoirs.\n\nShe said: \"I am proud to bring my personal brand of historical fiction to the publishing world.\"\n\n\"It all started with researching my ancestry. Digging into the history of the Montagu-Douglas Scotts, I first came across Lady Margaret, who intrigued me because she shared one of my given names,\" she added.\n\n\"But although her parents, the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch, were close friends with Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, I was unable to discover much about my namesake's early life, and so was born the idea which became Her Heart for a Compass.\"\n\nThe story will include some real people and events and also draw on the duchess's own experiences but she said \"my imagination took over\".\n\n\"I have long held a passion for historical research and telling the stories of strong women in history through film and television,\" she added.\n\nFor the big screen, she conceived the idea for the 2009 movie Young Victoria, starring Emily Blunt and written by Julian Fellowes.\n\nShe was a producer on the film and her daughter, Princess Beatrice, had a minor part. The duchess also worked on a documentary about Princess Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, Prince Albert's mother.\n\nShe recently revived her children's book series, Budgie the Helicopter.\n\nHeart for a Compass was written with the collaboration of established Mills & Boon novelist Marguerite Kaye, who has created more than 50 novels for the imprint, set in a variety of eras.\n\nThe duchess's novel is a saga that takes in events at Queen Victoria's court and the grand country houses of Scotland and Ireland, and crosses into the slums of London and on to the bustle of 1870s New York.\n\nMills & Boon described the story as a \"fascinating journey of a woman, born into the higher echelons of society, who desires to break the mould, follow her internal compass (her heart) and discover her raison d'être - and falling in love along the way\".\n\nMills & Boon is the UK's top publisher of romantic fiction and says it sells one of its novels every 10 seconds.\n\nThe stories are \"written by women, for women, it has a romance for every reader promising a happily-ever-after ending every time\", it adds.\n\nOther well-known names to venture into the Mills & Boon world include Made in Chelsea and I'm A Celebrity star Georgia Toffolo, whose debut romance novel, Meet Me in London, came out last year.\n\nBest-selling authors have also created stories for Mills & Boon under a pseudonym, including Destiny writer Sally Beauman (Vanessa James) and The Shell Seekers author Rosamunde Pilcher (Jane Fraser). PG Wodehouse also contributed a story in 1912.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Who were the protesters that broke into buildings on Capitol Hill after attending a rally in support of Donald Trump?\n\nSome were carrying symbols and flags strongly associated with particular ideas and factions, but in practice many of the members and their causes overlap.\n\nImages show individuals associated with a range of extreme and far-right groups and supporters of fringe online conspiracy theories, many of whom have long been active online and at pro-Trump rallies.\n\nOne of the most startling images, quickly shared across social media, shows a man dressed with a painted face, fur hat and horns, holding an American flag.\n\nHe's been identified as Jake Angeli, a well-known supporter of the baseless conspiracy theory QAnon. He calls himself the QAnon Shaman.\n\nHis social media presence shows him attending multiple QAnon events and posting YouTube videos about deep state conspiracies.\n\nHe was pictured in November making a speech in Phoenix, Arizona, about unproven claims the election was fraudulent.\n\nHis personal Facebook page is filled with images and memes relating to all sorts of extreme ideas and conspiracy theories.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAnother group spotted at the storming of the Capitol were members of the far-right group Proud Boys.\n\nThe organisation was founded in 2016 and is anti-immigrant and all male. In the first US presidential debate President Trump in response to a question about white supremacists and militias said: \"Proud Boys - stand back and stand by.\"\n\nThe individual on the right is Nick Ochs, who describes himself as a \"Proud Boy Elder\".\n\nOne of their members, Nick Ochs, tweeted a selfie inside the building saying \"Hello from the Capital lol\". He also filmed a live stream inside.\n\nWe haven't identified the individual standing on the left in the above image.\n\nMr Ochs' profile on the messaging app Telegram describes himself as a \"Proud Boy Elder from Hawaii.\"\n\nIndividuals with large followings online were also spotted at the protests.\n\nAmong them was the social media personality Tim Gionet, who goes under the pseudonym \"Baked Alaska\".\n\nTim Gionet, better known as \"Baked Alaska\", livestreamed himself from the Capitol on Wednesday\n\nHis livestream from inside the Capitol posted on a niche streaming service was watched by thousands of people and showed him talking to other protesters.\n\nA Trump supporter, Mr Gionet has made a name for himself as an internet troll.\n\nYouTube banned his channel in October after he posted videos of himself harassing shop workers and refusing to wear a face-mask during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nOther platforms that have previously shut down his accounts include Twitter and PayPal.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Treason, traitors and thugs' - the words lawmakers used to describe Capitol riot\n\nA photo that went viral of a man who'd entered the office of senior Democrat politician Nancy Pelosi has been named as Richard Barnett from Arkansas.\n\nRichard Barnett left a message for US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi saying \"we will not back down\"\n\nOutside Capitol Hill buildings, he told the New York Times that he took an envelope from the speaker's office and says left a note calling her an expletive.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Matthew Rosenberg This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nReacting to the New York Times interview, Republican congressman Steve Womack said on Twitter: \"I'm sickened to learn that the below actions were perpetrated by a constituent.\"\n\nLocal media reports say Mr Barnett is involved in a group that supports gun rights, and that he was interviewed at a 'Stop the Steal' rally following the presidential election - a movement that refused to accept Joe Biden's victory and supports the president's unsubstantiated claims of electoral fraud.\n\nIn the interview at the rally organised by 'Engaged Patriots' he said: \"If you don't like it, send somebody out to get me 'cause I ain't going down easy.\"\n\nThe group associated with Mr Barnett held a fundraiser in October with proceeds going towards body cameras for the local police department, according to the Westside Eagle Observer local paper.\n\nAs the events were unfolding, many social media users, especially those associated with QAnon and supporters of President Trump, were claiming that agitators from the loose-knit left-wing group antifa were involved.\n\nThe implication was that these activists were disguised as Trump supporters to create disruption.\n\nA number of prominent Republican politicians, such as US Representative Matt Gaetz, claimed it was antifa masquerading as Trump supporters.\n\nOne widely-shared post claimed one protester had a \"communist hammer\" tattoo, as evidence that he wasn't a Trump supporter.\n\nOn closer inspection, the symbol is from the video game series Dishonored.\n\nThere have also been suggestions that Mr Angeli, the man wearing fur and horns, was a Black Lives Matter supporter, with users sharing an image of him at a BLM event in Arizona.\n\nMr Angeli was indeed at that event, but he was there as a counter-protester. In images taken there, he's seen holding a QAnon sign.\n\nAt least one of the rioters was holding a Confederate flag, which represented US states that supported the continuation of slavery during the American civil war. For this reason, it is considered by many to be a symbol of racism and there have been calls to ban it across the US. Others see it as an important part of southern US history.\n\nA protester carries the Confederate flag after breaching US Capitol security\n\nIn July it was announced that the flag could no longer be flown on American military properties because of a new policy to reject \"divisive symbols\".\n\nPresident Trump has defended the use of the Confederate flag in the past, saying: \"I know people that like the Confederate flag and they're not thinking about slavery...I just think it's freedom of speech.\"\n\nThere were also protesters holding aloft flags featuring a coiled rattlesnake on a yellow background, often accompanied by the phrase \"don't tread on me\". This is known as the Gadsden flag, harking back to the American revolution and the war to expel British colonialists.\n\nIt was adopted by libertarians in the 1970s, according to an article in the New Yorker, and more recently became a favourite symbol of conservative Tea Party activists.\n\nThe flag has been adopted by the right over the past couple of decades, says Prof Margaret Weir, a political science expert at Brown University.\n\nIt is also used by anti-government, white supremacist groups who embrace violence, she says.", "The Christmas Day special saw Ashley Banjo (r) sit in for Simon Cowell\n\nThe filming of the next series of ITV show Britain's Got Talent has been postponed due to coronavirus concerns.\n\nProduction on the show was due to begin later this month but will now start at a later date yet to be confirmed.\n\nITV said it had decided to move \"the record and broadcast\" of the show's 15th series\" to safeguard \"the well-being of everyone involved\".\n\nThe filming of the programme's audition shows typically involves hundreds of people congregating en masse.\n\nIt is understood this has been considered to be unviable due to lockdown restrictions currently in place.\n\nWriting on Twitter, ITV thanked viewers for their \"continued love and support\" for the long-running programme.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BGT This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe filming of last year's Christmas special was also postponed after at least three crew members tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nThe Christmas Day programme saw former contestants return to perform again alongside the show's panel of celebrity judges.\n\nThe show saw Ashley Banjo sit in for Simon Cowell, who spent much of last year recovering from an electric bicycle accident.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson has condemned the \"disgraceful scenes\" in the US, after supporters of President Donald Trump stormed Congress and clashed with police.\n\nRioters breached the Capitol building where lawmakers met to confirm Joe Biden's presidential election victory.\n\nThe PM said it was \"vital that there should be a peaceful and orderly transfer of power\".\n\nAnd Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was a \"direct attack on democracy\".\n\n\"The United States stands for democracy around the world and it is now vital that there should be a peaceful and orderly transfer of power,\" Mr Johnson tweeted.\n\nScottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, meanwhile, called the events \"utterly horrifying\".\n\nFriend of President Trump and leader of Reform UK - formerly the Brexit Party - Nigel Farage tweeted: \"Storming Capitol Hill is wrong. The protesters must leave.\"\n\nThe US Congress has now reconvened after the violence - spurred on by Mr Trump's unproven claims of electoral fraud - to certify Mr Biden's victory in the US election in November\n\nHundreds of the president's supporters stormed the Capitol, and staged an occupation of the building in Washington DC.\n\nBoth chambers of Congress were forced into recess, as protesters clashed with police and tear gas was released.\n\nFour people died on Capitol grounds during the violence, including a woman shot by police and three others, who died as a result of \"medical emergencies\", local police said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police place US Capitol Building on lockdown after Trump supporters breached security lines\n\nUK MPs from across the political spectrum have criticised the events in the US.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab said there was \"no justification for these violent attempts to frustrate the lawful and proper transition of power\", while Home Secretary Priti Patel called the scenes \"unacceptable and undemocratic\".\n\nShe added: \"There is no justification for this violence and Donald Trump must condemn it.\"\n\nHer Conservative colleague, and former Foreign Secretary, Jeremy Hunt directly addressed President Trump for telling the crowd to march on Congress, tweeting: \"He shames American democracy tonight and causes its friends anguish - but he is not America.\"\n\nLabour's deputy leader, Angela Rayner said: \"The violence that Donald Trump has unleashed is terrifying, and the Republicans who stood by him have blood on their hands.\"\n\nAnd shadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy said the events were \"the legacy of a politics of hate that pits people against each other and threatens the foundations of democracy\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMeanwhile, Work and Pensions Secretary Therese Coffey has defended the prime minister's response to the rioting.\n\nAsked on ITV's Peston programme why Mr Johnson hadn't criticised Mr Trump, she said: \"The prime minister has been clear tonight that we need a peaceful and orderly transition.\"\n\nMs Coffey added that events in the US were a \"reminder that democracy is something precious - and will only continue to thrive as long as we protect institutions that make this country important and not demean each other when the majority of what we want to achieve is similar outcomes\".\n\nDonald Trump and Boris Johnson at a Nato summit in 2019\n\nMeanwhile, the SNP's leader in Westminster, Ian Blackford, said the end of Mr Trump's presidency \"cannot come quick enough\".\n\nHe tweeted: \"What a legacy the events of today are to his time in office. Shameful, shocking, an affront to democracy.\"\n\nLeader of the Liberal Democrats, Ed Davey, called the scenes \"absolutely horrendous\", while his party's foreign affairs spokeswoman, Layla Moran, said: \"The scenes coming out of Washington tonight are an attack on democracy.\"", "National Express has announced that it is suspending its entire national network of coach services from midnight on Sunday.\n\nThe firm said tighter Covid restrictions and falling passenger numbers had prompted the decision.\n\nIt added that it hoped to restart services in March.\n\nAll customers whose travel has been cancelled will be contacted and offered a free amendment or full refund, the company said.\n\nAll journeys before Monday 11 January will be completed to ensure any passengers making essential journeys are not stranded.\n\nChris Hardy, managing director of National Express UK Coach, said: \"We have been providing an important service for essential travel needs. However, with tighter restrictions and passenger numbers falling, it is no longer appropriate to do this.\n\nHe added that as the vaccination programme was rolled out and government guidance changed, the company would regularly review when services could restart.\n\n\"We plan to be back on the road as soon as the time is right and have put a provisional restart date of Monday 1 March in place,\" he said.\n\nNational Express first suspended coach services during the coronavirus crisis in April, then restarted in July.\n\nServices have been operating at half capacity, with strict cleaning and Covid protocols. As the tier structure came into operation, demand for services reduced.\n\nAs with the previous suspension, employees will be furloughed.\n\nFirms that transport passengers, including coach, rail and aviation businesses, have been under intense pressure during the coronavirus crisis.\n\nAvanti West Coast, the train operating company running services on the West Coast mainline, has confirmed it will cut its timetable from 18 January.\n\nAvanti says the new timetable will 'more closely reflect the current demand for our services whilst still allowing key workers, and those needing to make essential journeys, to travel with confidence'.\n\nDuring the first major lockdown in March, services on key intercity routes were reduced from three an hour to one. This included services from both Manchester and Birmingham to London.\n\nThe Department for Transport has been consulting with all train operators about service reductions during the latest lockdown.\n\nThe exact scale of reduction is still being worked on, but the DfT says service levels may fall to as low as 40% of the normal timetable by some operators.\n\nThe focus is to ensure essential workers can still make essential journeys.\n\n\"Following discussions with the Department for Transport we will be introducing a new timetable on Monday 18 January. This will more closely reflect the current demand for our services whilst still allowing key workers, and those needing to make essential journeys, to travel with confidence.\"\n\nOn Thursday, Ryanair also announced that it would make big cuts to its flight schedule from 21 January, with few, if any flights to or from the UK or Ireland until \"draconian travel restrictions are removed\".\n\nTrain services are expected to be reduced in lockdown, with some in the industry anticipating reductions of between 50% and 60% compared with normal service.\n\nIn the first national lockdown in England, services were reduced to almost half.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Work to get pupils connected in Wolverhampton is well under way\n\nThere are concerns some schools in lockdown could be inundated with pupils without laptops after a change to the vulnerable pupil list.\n\nPupils are learning remotely in England after schools were closed on Tuesday to all but children of key workers and those deemed vulnerable.\n\nBut those without laptops or space to study are now eligible to attend school, under government guidance.\n\nHeads' union, NAHT, said the move could reduce the effect of the shutdown.\n\nSchools were ordered to close to most pupils as a way of limiting the spread of the virus.\n\nNational Association of Head Teachers general secretary Paul Whiteman said demand for key worker and vulnerable places in schools had risen substantially since the last school shutdown.\n\nNearly a third of the 2,000 head teachers who joined an online union meeting on Wednesday afternoon reported having between 20 and 30% of pupils in school, the NAHT said.\n\nMr Whiteman said: \"It is critical that key worker child school places are only used when absolutely necessary to truly reduce numbers and spread of the virus.\n\n\"We have concern that the government has not supplied enough laptops for all the children without them and so has made lack of internet access a vulnerable criteria - only adding to numbers still in school.\n\n\"It is important that all vulnerable pupils have access to a school place, but the government must provide laptops and internet access for every pupil that needs one, so that they can access home learning to take some of the strain off the demand for school places.\n\n\"Nearly half of head teachers who we polled during a webcast on Wednesday evening said that had received fewer than 10% of the laptops they'd requested.\n\n\"It is essential that this is rectified immediately, so that we can keep school attendance figures at a level which will have the desired impact on getting transmission rates under control.\"\n\nJane Girt, head teacher of Carlton Bolling College in Bradford, said the rule change could leave her having to accommodate an extra 200 pupils on top of those already on the key worker and vulnerable children list.\n\nShe told BBC News that having so many pupils in school would \"defeat the object\" of closing amid the England-wide lockdown.\n\nMrs Girt said her secondary, which has more than 1,500 students, had received 261 laptops from the government since March but about 50% of pupils were sharing a device with another family member.\n\nThe prime minister told MPs on Wednesday that 560,000 devices had been given out to schools in 2020 and a further 50,000 so far this week.\n\nAnd Gavin Williamson reiterated that those without access to remote learning via digital devices could attend school.\n\nHe said: \"Schools are much better prepared to deliver online learning, with the delivery of hundreds of thousands of devices at breakneck speed, data support and high quality video lessons.\"\n\nBut Ofcom estimates there are up to 1.5m pupils without digital devices in their homes, on which they can learn.\n\nAmanda Bailey, director of the child poverty commission in north-east England, said pupils without internet access tended to be concentrated in disadvantaged areas and this meant some schools would be \"largely fully open\", she said.\n\n\"And we know that the most deprived communities are the ones most vulnerable to the health impact of the pandemic,\" she added.\n\n\"Our main concerns are that we're now nine months into this situation and we're still talking about families not having sufficient access to digital devices or data or the internet.\"\n\nLabour Councillor Beverley Momenabadi, Wolverhampton's champion for digital innovation, said the guidance massively expands the number of children who are entitled to go into school.\n\nShe said although plans to support those needing access while self-isolating in her city are at an advanced stage, with rental schemes being accessed and donations sought, the new lockdown changes the game completely.\n\nShe called for a national plan for the transition to remote learning.\n\nCouncillor Momenabadi said: \"Even after Gavin Williamson's statement in the Commons, children across the country are still waiting for that national plan.\n\n\"And even on the devices they've said will arrive; how will these be distributed, when will they arrive, will they arrive in time to ensure that no child misses out on their education?\"\n\nWill you have to send your child back to school because you are unable to supervise home learning? 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUS President Donald Trump has been allowed to Tweet again, after being locked out of his account for 12 hours.\n\nPosting a more conciliatory message, he refrained from reiterating false claims of voter fraud.\n\nTwitter said that it would ban Mr Trump \"permanently\" if he breached the platform's rules again.\n\nThe move from Twitter puts clear water between it and Facebook, which suspended him \"indefinitely\" on Thursday.\n\nTwitter has instead given the outgoing president a final warning.\n\nEarlier on Thursday, the popular gaming platform Twitch also placed an indefinite ban on Mr Trump's channel, which he has used for rally broadcasts.\n\nMr Trump tweeted several message on Wednesday, calling the people who stormed Capitol Hill \"patriots\". He also said \"We love you.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. When a mob stormed the US capitol\n\nA spokesperson for Twitter said: \"After the Tweets were removed and the subsequent 12-hour period expired, access to @realDonaldTrump was restored.\n\n\"Any future violations of the Twitter Rules, including our Civic Integrity or Violent Threats policies, will result in permanent suspension of the @realDonaldTrump account.\"\n\nEarlier in the day, the president was suspended from Facebook and Instagram. That suspension will be reviewed after the transition of power to Joe Biden on 20 January.\n\nThe social network had originally imposed a 24-hour ban after the US Capitol attack.\n\nFacebook's chief, Mark Zuckerberg, wrote that the risks of allowing Mr Trump to post \"are simply too great\".\n\nMr Zuckerberg said Facebook had removed the president's posts \"because we judged that their effect - and likely their intent - would be to provoke further violence\".\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Facebook The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts. Skip facebook post by Mark This article contains content provided by Facebook. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\nHe said it was clear Mr Trump intended to undermine the transfer of power to President-elect Joe Biden.\n\n\"Therefore, we are extending the block we have placed on his Facebook and Instagram accounts indefinitely and for at least the next two weeks until the peaceful transition of power is complete,\" he wrote.\n\nMr Trump's favoured platform, Twitter, suspended the president for 12 hours on Wednesday.\n\nThe company said it required the removal of three tweets for \"severe violations of our Civic Integrity policy\".\n\nIt said the president's account would remain locked for good if the tweets were not removed.\n\nTwitter has now confirmed the offending tweets have been removed, and he is free to tweet again.\n\nSnapchat also stopped Mr Trump from creating new posts, but did not say if or when it would end the ban. YouTube also removed Wednesday's video.\n\nThe president's supporters stormed the seat of US government and clashed with police, leading to the death of one woman.\n\nThe violence brought to a halt congressional debate over Democrat Joe Biden's election win.\n\nIn the House and Senate chambers, Republicans were challenging the certification of November's election results.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We will never give up, we will never concede\", Trump tells supporters\n\nBefore the violence, President Trump had told supporters on the National Mall in Washington that the election had been stolen.\n\nHours later, as the violence mounted inside and outside the US Capitol, he appeared on video and repeated the false claim.", "The controversy over drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge has been ongoing since 1977\n\nThe Trump administration has held the first sale for rights to drill for oil in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge - but it drew no interest from major companies.\n\nAn Alaskan state agency emerged as the primary bidder at the auction, which has been heavily criticised by environmental groups.\n\nThe sale raised less than $15m (£11m) - far less than the government had hoped.\n\nThe tepid interest comes amid big changes in the energy industry.\n\nMajor companies, including oil giant Exxon, Shell and BP, have said they are focusing their spending on renewable energy, amid a huge slump in oil prices, in part triggered by the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nAdam Kolton, executive director of the Alaska Wilderness League, said the sale was an \"epic failure\" for the Trump administration and the Alaska Republicans, who had backed the move as a way to create jobs and reduce American dependence on foreign oil.\n\n\"After years of promising a revenue and jobs bonanza they ended up throwing a party for themselves, with the state being one of the only bidders,\" he said in a statement.\n\n\"We have long known that the American people don't want drilling in the Arctic Refuge, the [Alaska native] Gwich'in people don't want it, and now we know the oil industry doesn't want it either.\"\n\nThe refuge is home to more than 200 species of bird including the Northern shrike\n\nMr Kolton said his organisation would continue to fight in court to reverse the sale of the land, which is home to caribou, polar bears and millions of migratory birds.\n\nThe wildlife refuge is estimated to hold some 11 billion barrels of oil.\n\nOpening the wilderness for drilling and development has been a long-term priority for Alaska Republicans, but development was expected to be costly since the area has minimal roads and infrastructure.\n\nAfter decades of controversy, the sale was finally authorised by the US Congress in 2017 as part of a major package of tax cuts. The auction comes just weeks before Donald Trump is due to leave office on 20 January.\n\nPresident-elect Joe Biden had vowed to protect the refuge and environmental groups have also challenged the sale, which they say threatens land that provides a vital home to wildlife.\n\nA federal court rejected arguments by environmental groups seeking to block the auction on Tuesday.\n\nPolar bears are particularly at risk of dying in oil spills\n\nAt Wednesday's auction, the Bureau of Land Management said it had received bids for 12 of the 22 tracts of land offered, covering more than 600,000 acres.\n\nThe Alaska Industrial Development and Industrial Authority, a state agency, was the sole bidder on at least eight of the 12 tracts.\n\nSome bids submitted were \"incomplete\", the bureau said.\n\nThe state agency has said it plans to work with private companies on development of the refuge, which encompasses more than 19,000 million acres overall.\n\nOn social media platform Twitter, Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy called the sale \"historic for Alaska and tremendous for America\".\n\n\"Opening [Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge] for responsible resource development could put more oil in our pipeline, put Alaskans to work, bring billions of dollars of investment to our state, support American energy independence, and provide critical revenues to our state and local communities,\" he wrote.\n\n\"Alaskans have waited two generations for this moment; I stand with them in support of this day.\"", "Olly Stephens was stabbed to death in Emmer Green in Reading on Sunday\n\nThree teenagers have been charged with murder and conspiracy to commit grievous bodily harm after a boy, 13, was stabbed to death in Reading.\n\nOliver Stephens, known as Olly, was pronounced dead at Bugs Bottom fields, Emmer Green, on Sunday.\n\nTwo boys, aged 13 and 14, and a girl, aged 13, will appear in Reading Magistrates' Court on Thursday.\n\nTwo other boys, also aged 13, have been released on bail, with strict conditions, until 1 February.\n\nThe girl has also been charged with perverting the course of justice.\n\nIn a statement, Oliver's family said: \"An Olly-sized hole has been left in our hearts.\"\n\nHis parents said their son was \"an enigma\", and having both autism and suspected pathological demand avoidance meant \"he became a challenge we never shied away from\".\n\nThe family described the ordeal as \"every parents' worst nightmare\".\n\nThey also sought to highlight those who helped at the scene, including \"a Good Samaritan that tried valiantly to save Oliver\", an off-duty doctor who offered help, and the emergency services.\n\nOfficers were called just before 16:00 GMT on Sunday following reports of an attack in fields on the boundary of Emmer Green and Caversham Heights.\n\nParents laying flowers at nearby Highdown School called the killing \"utterly senseless\" and said their children who attended school with Olly were \"devastated\".\n\nDet Supt Kevin Brown urged anyone with information to contact police and not to share any images or footage on social media.\n\n\"This continues to be a very difficult time for the family of Olly. Our thoughts remain with them,\" he said.\n\n\"The Stephens family appreciate all of the kindness shown to them but they have asked that their privacy is respected at this very difficult time.\"\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.", "South Vietnam flags were seen during the unrest Image caption: South Vietnam flags were seen during the unrest\n\nOn Wednesday, as protesters gathered outside before swarming the Capitol building, the yellow flags of the old South Vietnam regime could be seen.\n\nIn fact, the yellow flags of the former South Vietnam are a common sight at pro-Trump rallies across the United States.\n\nVietnamese Americans, especially those of the older generation who fled Vietnam after Saigon fell in 1975, are known for their support for the Republican party and Donald Trump.\n\nA pre-election survey by the group Asian and Pacific Islander American Vote found that Vietnamese Americans are the only major East Asian ethnic community that favoured Trump over Biden . Trump’s anti-China and anti-communist rhetoric resonated greatly with the former refugees who risked their lives to escape communism.\n\nBut the support for President Trump has also become an increasingly divisive issue amongst the Vietnamese American community.\n\nHours after the Capitol riot, there are still calls on pro-Trump internet forums like the \"ABC Trump\" Facebook page for Vietnamese Americans to “take to the streets in support of President Trump” as “the battle continues”.\n\nBut there have also been condemnations.\n\n“This is embarrassing,” one young Vietnamese American wrote on Twitter, adding: “They’ve brought shame to the flag”.", "Nguyen Huy Hung was one of 39 people who died in a container en route from Belgium to Essex\n\nThe father of a 15-year-old boy who was one of 39 people to die in a lorry trailer said he learned of his son's death through social media.\n\nNguyen Huy Hung died in the sealed container en route from Belgium to Purfleet, Essex, in October 2019.\n\nHis father, Nguyen Huy Tung, said the family could not believe it until \"we saw his body by our own eyes\" at the hospital.\n\nEight men are being sentenced for their role in the people-smuggling operation.\n\nThe bodies of 39 Vietnamese nationals were discovered in a refrigerated trailer on 23 October last year\n\nThe 39 Vietnamese migrants, aged 15 to 44, were sealed inside the container for at least 12 hours.\n\nThe Old Bailey heard how it became a \"tomb\" as temperatures reached an \"unbearable\" 38.5C (101F).\n\nThe people trapped inside had used a metal pole to try to punch through the roof, but only managed to dent the interior.\n\nAt a sentencing hearing set to last three days in front of Mr Justice Sweeney, some of their final desperate phone messages were played in court.\n\nIn one message, a man spoke with ragged breaths as he apologised to his family.\n\n\"I can't breathe,\" he said. \"I want to come back to my family. Have a good life.\"\n\nIn the background, a voice could be heard pleading: \"Come on everyone. Open up, open up.\"\n\nProsecutor Jonathan Polnay read out statements from the victims' families, and the mother of another 15-year-old who died, Dinh Dinh Binh, said her family had \"not been able to get back to our normal life yet\".\n\n\"Our economic conditions and work are negatively affected,\" she said. \"We have had to sell some properties of the family to afford our life.\"\n\nThe 39 people who died in the back of a trailer as it crossed the North Sea between Zeebrugge and the UK\n\nTran Hai Loc and his wife Nguyen Thi Van, both 35, were found huddled together in the trailer, and left behind two children, aged six and four.\n\nThe children's grandfather, Tran Dinh Thanh, said: \"At the moment their children are very small - this incident will affect their future.\n\n\"Every day, when they come home from school they always look at the photos of their parents on the altar. The decease of both parents is a big loss to them.\"\n\nThe moment lorry driver Maurice Robinson opened the trailer door and discovered the bodies inside was captured on CCTV\n\nPhan Thi Thanh, 41, had sold the family home and left her son with his godmother before setting off on the journey.\n\nHer son, who is now being looked after by his father in the UK, said he felt \"very heartbroken with mum not around\".\n\nHaulier boss Ronan Hughes, 41, of Tyholland, County Monaghan, Ireland, was described as a ringleader of the operation. He closed his eyes as the phone messages were played to the court. Other defendants hung their heads.\n\nBoth Maurice Robinson (l) and Ronan Hughes (r) admitted 39 counts of manslaughter in connection with the case\n\nHughes had previously admitted manslaughter, as had 26-year-old lorry driver Maurice Robinson, from County Armagh, who discovered the bodies in the trailer.\n\nEamonn Harrison, 24, of Newry, County Down, who dropped off the trailer at Zeebrugge port, and people-smuggler Gheorghe Nica, 43, were convicted of the same charge by a jury.\n\nThey will be sentenced alongside Christopher Kennedy, 24, from County Armagh, Valentin Calota, 38, from Birmingham, Alexandru-Ovidiu Hanga, 28, of Hobart Road, Tilbury, Essex, and Gazmir Nuzi, 43, of Tottenham, north London, who were convicted for their role in the smuggling.\n\nGheorghe Nica and Eamonn Harrison were both found guilty of manslaughter\n\nMr Polnay said: \"These defendants were party to a sophisticated, long-running and profitable conspiracy to smuggle [mainly] Vietnamese migrants to the UK, in the back of lorries, in a deliberate and intentional breach of border control.\"\n\nThe fee was between £10,000 and £13,000 for each migrant, for the \"VIP route\", the court heard.\n\nMr Polnay said seven smuggling trips were identified between May 2018 and 23 October 2019, but there was \"an irresistible inference that there were more events than those that were fortuitously detected\".\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "It is inevitable that part of the politics of a pandemic is the perceived relative performance of different countries.\n\nYou can pick your metric to make your comparison, and plenty have.\n\nThe death toll in the UK, and the economic slump, have come in for particular criticism.\n\nBut the government has, for some time, sought to emphasise how the UK is ahead of the game on vaccinations.\n\nThe UK was considerably quicker than the EU, for instance, in licencing the first vaccine, from Pfizer-BioNTech.\n\nAt today's news conference, the Prime Minister has pointed out that the UK has already given more people a first jab for Covid than all the other countries in Europe put together.\n\nSir Simon Stevens, the Chief Executive of the National Health Service in England, added that the UK has jabbed four times as many people as Germany and 300 times more than France.\n\nBut he acknowledged the scale of the ongoing challenge - trying to vaccinate as many people in the next five weeks as normally happens in five months with the flu jab.\n\nOne final thought: ministers tend to suggest international comparisons are pointless or premature when the comparisons are less than flattering.\n\nThey're rather keener on them when the numbers look better.", "Teachers' estimated grades will be used to replace cancelled GCSEs and A-levels in England this summer, says Education Secretary Gavin Williamson.\n\nHe told MPs he would \"trust in teachers rather than algorithms\", a reference to the U-turn over last year's exams.\n\nFor primaries, he confirmed there would be no Year 6 Sats tests this year.\n\nMr Williamson promised parents it would be \"mandatory\" for schools to provide \"high-quality remote education\" of three to five hours per day.\n\nHe said this would be \"enforced\" by Ofsted, with inspections where there were \"serious concerns\" about what was provided for children now studying at home.\n\nLabour's Shadow Education Secretary, Kate Green, accused Mr Williamson of \"chaos and confusion\" - and said he had failed to listen to the \"expertise of professionals on the front line\".\n\nShe said he had given a \"cast-iron commitment\" that exams would go ahead - and Ms Green said: \"At that moment, we should have known they were doomed to be cancelled.\"\n\nMr Williamson, in a statement to the House of Commons, said there would be \"training and support\" for teachers in estimating grades, \"to ensure these are awarded fairly and consistently\".\n\nHe also told MPs there would be no Sats tests for those at the end of primary school.\n\n\"I can absolutely confirm that we won't be proceeding with Sats this year. We do recognise that this will be an additional burden on schools\n\nGeoff Barton, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union, said rather than a \"vague statement\" of how A-levels and GCSEs would be graded, ministers should already have a system ready in place - and it was a \"dereliction of duty\" that it was not already prepared.\n\nAnd he warned against repeating the \"shambles\" of last summer's cancelled exams.\n\nThe education secretary confirmed to MPs that GCSEs and A-levels are not going ahead - after this week's decision that it was no longer feasible with so much time lost in the Covid pandemic and the latest lockdown.\n\nThe exams watchdog Ofqual will draw up proposals for an alternative way of deciding results, for qualifications that could be used for jobs, staying on in school or university places.\n\nSimon Lebus, the watchdog's interim head, said evidence for replacement grades could include tests, homework, mock exams and teachers' observations - and would take into account how much of the syllabus had been covered.\n\nA consultation is expected to begin next week, with plans to be decided by the end of February or possibly sooner.\n\nLast year's attempts to find an alternative approach to exam results, which initially used an algorithm, descended into chaos - and eventually switched to using teachers' grades.\n\nAnd without any exam papers or standardised mock exams, the use of teachers' assessments, with some process of moderation between schools, will be used for this summer's candidates.\n\nOn vocational qualifications, Labour's Ms Green said the education secretary was \"failing to show leadership on exams in January\".\n\nVocational exams, such as BTecs, are carrying on, if schools and colleges decide to continue with them - but college leaders had complained that there needed to be a national decision to avoid confusion.\n\nIf students cannot take BTec exams this month as planned, they will still be awarded a grade, if they have \"enough evidence to receive a certificate that they need for progression\", says the awarding body Pearson.\n\nAn Ofqual spokeswoman said they would consider options for replacement exam results, academic and vocational, \"to ensure the fairest possible outcome in the circumstances\".\n\nThe exams watchdog's decisions will face much scrutiny - with the previous head of Ofqual resigning after last summer's U-turns over grades.\n\nMr Williamson's statement in the Commons came as all GCSE, AS and A-level exams in Northern Ireland were cancelled due to the Covid-19 crisis.\n\nEducation Minister Peter Weir announced the decision in the Stormont assembly on Wednesday.\n\nScotland has already cancelled its Nationals, Highers and Advanced Highers.\n\nGCSEs and A-levels in Wales were scrapped in November.", "Adrian Chiles first joined 5 Live for its launch in 1994\n\nAdrian Chiles has been confirmed as the broadcaster who will replace Emma Barnett on BBC Radio 5 Live on Thursday mornings.\n\nNaga Munchetty now presents the same show from Monday to Wednesday.\n\nChiles has previously presented the same time slot on Fridays, along with the BBC's The One Show and Match of the Day 2, as well as ITV's Daybreak show.\n\n\"Adrian is a wonderful broadcaster who our audience trust and respect,\" said 5 Live controller Heidi Dawson.\n\n\"He has that unique ability to put listeners at ease and make them smile, whilst remaining relentless in his questioning of those in positions of power.\"\n\nChiles, who will present the show on Thursdays and Fridays, joined the station at its launch in 1994 and has featured regularly on shows like Wake Up To Money, and 5 Live Drive.\n\nFollowing his move to mid-morning, Chiles' Question Time Extra Time show will be replaced by a new programme, hosted by Colin Murray.\n\nBarnett, who has moved to BBC Radio 4 to host Woman's Hour, defended herself this week after a guest who was booked to appear on the BBC Radio 4 programme dropped out due to remarks the presenter made about her off-air.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Epsom Racecourse in Surrey will be one of seven mass vaccination hubs announced by the government\n\nSeven new mass Covid vaccination hubs across England have been announced by the government.\n\nCentres in London, Newcastle, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, Surrey and Stevenage are due to begin operations next week.\n\nVarious venues will be converted into regional centres in a bid to meet the government's target of vaccinating 14 million people in the UK by February.\n\nIt is expected the hubs will be staffed by NHS staff and volunteers.\n\nThe seven sites announced by Downing Street are:\n\nAshton Gate Stadium, home to Bristol City FC, will be used to help the government meet its vaccination target\n\nSupermarket chain Morrisons has confirmed car parks at its stores in Yeovil, Wakefield and Winsford would be used to drive-through vaccinations from Monday. It has also offered an additional 47 sites to the government.\n\nPremier League club Tottenham Hotspur has also offered the use of its stadium to the NHS as a venue to provide the coronavirus vaccine.\n\nThe sites across England will begin operations next week", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. US Capitol riots: How the world's media reacted\n\nShock and contempt for the violent storming of the US Capitol by Donald Trump's supporters is evident in many reports and commentary on the event from around the world.\n\nFrom Germany's Die Welt daily describing \"disturbing, sad, terrifying scenes\", to the Nigerian Tribune saying \"Trump supporters defile US democracy\", many criticise the outgoing president for what what they see as his role in degrading America's institutions and democracy.\n\nOne commentator in Argentina's leading daily Clarin called it \"the 'scorched earth' legacy of Donald Trump\".\n\n\"Narcissism prevailing over all dignity, he harasses institutions, tramples on democracy, divides his own camp,\" says an editorial in France's Le Figaro.\n\n\"In refusing to quit, Donald Trump exposes the fragility of the American system in a final destructive offensive,\" a columnist says in France's Le Monde. Another headline in the paper calls him \"the insurrectional president\".\n\nIn Turkey, the pro-government Turkiye paper notes: \"Trump's stubbornness stirred the US\".\n\n\"I expect Trump to be tried after this turmoil,\" said one pundit on Egypt's MBC Misr TV, adding that \"the US is no longer a superpower in the full sense of the word\".\n\nSeveral of America's adversaries seized the opportunity to portray the incident as an example of the country's structural weaknesses and what they see as its hypocrisy.\n\n\"@SpeakerPelosi once referred to the Hong Kong riots as 'a beautiful sight to behold' — it remains yet to be seen whether she will say the same about the recent developments in Capitol Hill,\" tweeted China's daily Global Times.\n\n\"Capital vandals show fragility of US democracy,\" claimed a headline in the paper.\n\nIn Iran, state TV and radio inaccurately reported that the mayor of Washington DC had imposed \"martial law\", instead of the 12-hour curfew on the capital, which is what actually happened.\n\nAnd in Russia, where the first day of the Orthodox Christmas is currently being celebrated, footage of Trump's supporters ransacking the Capitol dominates state TV.\n\nMorning bulletins have focused on the events in America\n\nRolling news channel Rossiya 24 has played scenes of the violence at length, with no comment other than the caption \"Attack on the Capitol\".\n\nSome channels have also shown sympathy for the pro-Trump supporters, suggesting that they had cause to feel \"cheated\" over November's presidential election, and talked up claims that the event represents a crisis for US and even Western democracy.\n\nRossiya 24 said they were \"dissatisfied with the most scandalous election in US history\", while Rossiya 1 said it was the US system of democracy that was \"to a large degree the cause of today's events\".\n\nEven for those not necessarily unfriendly to America, the incident shows serious rifts in society that Trump's departure won't address.\n\nIt is \"a spectacular demonstration of frustration that has been building in the USA for decades,\" says one commentator in Poland's conservative daily Rzeczpospolita.\n\n\"Behind the façade of plastered smiles… and phrases about 'the best country in the world' lies the drama of a gigantic income gap, society in which more and more people struggle to make ends meet, while the few do not even know how many billions they own.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nI'm standing in what should be an operating theatre - but instead it's been converted into an intensive care unit for Covid-19 patients on ventilators.\n\nThis is the first time I have seen it full of patients like this. Normally this theatre would be busy with major cancer surgery, but that's been transferred to another building.\n\nA children's recovery area, still decorated with colourful stickers of cartoons, is once again filled with desperately sick adults. Every day, more wards are being transformed into ICU - ready for the next influx of patients.\n\nWe have been given access to University College Hospital, in central London. This is the same intensive care unit that I first visited in April, during the first peak.\n\nIt is one of the busiest hospitals in the capital and intensive care here is expanding across a hospital that is under pressure like never before, from a relentless rise in Covid admissions.\n\nI am struck by the toll the pandemic is taking on staff. It's immense - both physically and mentally. They are shell-shocked. \"My emotions are all over the place. Scared, sad, petrified, worried,\" one ICU nurse tells me.\n\nI asked one of the consultants who I've met several times in the last year, Dr Jim Down, how long they can keep going like this - and the answer was stark. \"At this rate, about a week. After that we really need to see it slow down or we're going to see the care we can deliver suffering.\"\n\nThey have got three times as many critically ill patients in the hospital as normal. The number of Covid admissions to London hospitals has doubled in just two weeks - they're more stretched now than at the peak last April. Senior staff are worried.\n\nDr Alice Carter compares it to an elastic band that is close to snapping. \"It gets to a point where you stretch so far it never returns back to its baseline. I think that's probably where we are now. It's not going to take much more for that elastic band to break, and that's the real fear for us at the moment.\"\n\nDr Alice Carter: 'It's not going to take much more for that elastic band to break'\n\nThat could have very serious consequences, she adds. \"If we get to that point, we can't offer anyone ICU, not just Covid patients, but anyone who has a traffic accident or a heart attack or a stroke - whatever it is, to take them in.\"\n\nFor 38-year-old Rachel Arfin, one of the three pregnant women in intensive care with Covid-19, treatment is more complicated. Her baby is due in five weeks and the staff have to monitor them both.\n\n\"They can't do anything that will harm the baby,\" she says. \"All the time [they are] checking, monitoring the baby.\" She is reassured by the \"beautiful sound\" of her baby's heartbeat.\n\n\"They are looking after two people in one. They're saving lives,\" says Rachel. But her children - she has seven - keep asking when she's coming home.\n\nRachel Arfin's baby is due in five weeks - both are doing well\n\nI've reported from here several times during the pandemic and am always struck by the professionalism and dedication of staff. It's always quiet and calm, but that belies what's actually happening. This is a system under strain like never before.\n\nThe warning signs are clear, the NHS is on the brink. Unless infection rates fall, soon it will have a serious impact. The pressure on staff is unrelenting. I saw two nurses in tears.\n\nCompared to when I visited in April, it's a lot busier. In some ways, it's more structured - they now know what they're dealing with. They've got new treatments, such as the drug dexamethasone, which they didn't have last time. And many of the staff have now had the first dose of the vaccine.\n\nBut other aspects don't get any easier, such as the emotional burden of breaking bad news over a telephone or video call. It is very different to being able to hold someone's hand.\n\nStaff say they don't know which patients to help first\n\nICU staff have incredibly high standards. They're used to doing everything meticulously and perfectly. And they're doing all they can. But sometimes they go home and feel guilty that they can't do more. The impact on nurses - the bedrock of care in intensive care - is visible.\n\nThe highly specialised staff are usually one-to-one with patients. Deputy sister Ashleigh Shillingford is looking after three or four ventilated patients at a time, with one other junior member of staff. It's emotional and often devastating work.\n\n\"We are so stretched we have to prioritise and prioritising care is not the NHS that I grew up in - we shouldn't have to choose which patient gets what care first.\" She says she's never had to make decisions like these before.\n\n\"You just don't know who to help first. The patients are losing their lives at a dramatic speed, we're not just getting old people,\" she says, \"these are young people that we're getting.\"\n\nGerald Williams, 58, is awaiting chemotherapy for lung cancer and had been shielding, but he still caught coronavirus. \"All of a sudden, out of the blue, Covid came knocking on my door and it's frightening - you don't know how you're getting your next breath,\" he says.\n\nGerald Williams had been shielding but he still caught coronavirus\n\nHe wants to get home to his daughters, the youngest of whom is 13. And he's annoyed at those who don't take it seriously. \"People are moaning and groaning. Even in A&E. They need to get a life. Don't be idiots, forget about meeting your mate, stay home. No-one is invulnerable.\"\n\nFor now the Trust is coping better than many others in London and is still taking Covid patients from other hospitals. But the next few weeks could be the biggest challenge the NHS has ever faced - and it will be its doctors and nurses who will bear the brunt for all of us.\n\nAs the BBC's medical editor, Fergus Walsh has been reporting on the Covid-19 pandemic and its immense impact on the UK.", "Two US police officers linked to a notorious raid in which young black medic Breonna Taylor was fatally shot have been fired, authorities have said.\n\nDetectives Myles Cosgrove and Joshua Jaynes are the latest officers to be dismissed over the shooting in March last year.\n\nThe incident in Kentucky caused outrage, spurring protests against racism and police brutality.\n\nMs Taylor, 26, died when police raided her home in connection to a drug case.\n\nThe FBI said Mr Cosgrove fired the shot that killed Ms Taylor at her home in Louisville.\n\nLouisville police dismissed Mr Cosgrove for violating procedures for use of force and failing to use a body camera during the search, the Louisville Courier Journal reported on Wednesday.\n\nMr Jaynes, the newspaper said, was fired for violating the police force's policy for truthfulness and search warrant preparation.\n\nDuring the raid, Ms Taylor's boyfriend fired at the officers who he said he believed were attackers breaking into their home.\n\nPolice say they knocked on the door to announce their presence before breaking down the door with a battering ram.\n\nMs Taylor's boyfriend said police did not make their presence known, and he fired out of self-defence. Three officers returned fire with 32 shots, six of which hit Ms Taylor.\n\nMs Taylor's name became a global rallying cry as people demanded a thorough investigation into her death.\n\nBlack Lives Matter activists in the US have demanded that Louisville police take stronger action against the officers in the case and say that police too often escape unpunished after killing members of the public.\n\nBut despite the outcry against Ms Taylor's shooting, no criminal charges were sought relating to her death.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Questions still aren't answered\": Breonna Taylor's family are worried about a \"cover-up\"", "Tennant was remembered as \"a beautiful soul\" and \"a sensitive and talented woman\"\n\nBritish model Stella Tennant took her own life after being \"unwell for some time\", her family has confirmed.\n\nIn a statement, her family said it was \"a matter of our deepest sorrow and despair that she felt unable to go on.\"\n\nTennant, who made her name in the early 1990s modelling for designers like Karl Lagerfeld and Versace, died in December five days after her 50th birthday.\n\nHer family said they were \"humbled by the outpouring of messages of sympathy and support\" they have received.\n\nTennant was \"a beautiful soul, adored by a close family and good friends, a sensitive and talented woman whose creativity, intelligence and humour touched so many\", they said.\n\n\"In grieving Stella's loss, her family renews a heartfelt request that respect for their privacy should continue.\"\n\nBorn in London on 1970, Tennant was known for her androgynous sultry looks and aristocratic heritage.\n\nShe shot to fame after being photographed for British Vogue at the age of 22 in 1993, going on to work with such designers as Alexander McQueen and Jean Paul Gaultier.\n\nTennant retired from the catwalk in 1998 but later returned. She also worked on campaigns to promote saving energy and reducing the environmental impact of fast fashion.\n\nShe had four children with French-born photographer David Lasnet. The couple married in the Scottish borders in 1999 and announced their separation last year.\n\nTennant with David Lasnet on their wedding day in 1999\n\nStella McCartney, Victoria Beckham and fellow model Naomi Campbell were among those to pay tribute after her death was announced last month.\n\nCampbell said she had been \"a class act in every way\", while Beckham remembered her as \"an incredible talent\".\n\nIf you have been affected by any of the issues in this article, information and support is available from BBC Action Line.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Medical staff are \"well over half way through\" vaccinating Scotland's care home residents with their first dose against Covid-19.\n\nThe first minister said this was \"extremely important\", as care homes accounted for more than a third of Covid-related deaths in the past week.\n\nBy Sunday more than 113,000 people in Scotland had been given their first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.\n\nSome 1,100 vaccination centres are set to be operational within a week.\n\nThe government has set a target of giving a first dose to everyone over the age of 80 in Scotland within the next four weeks.\n\nScotland has about 30,000 residents living in care homes for older people.\n\nA further 78 deaths of people who had tested positive for Covid-19 were announced on Thursday, the highest daily number during the second wave of the virus.\n\nMeanwhile, the National Records of Scotland said the virus had been mentioned on 183 death certificates in the week to Sunday - with 63 of these deaths occurring in care homes.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said this underlined the importance of rolling out the vaccine in care homes, saying it would hopefully start to significantly reduce the risk of residents dying due to coronavirus.\n\nAnd she said the government would start issuing a daily update on how many people had been given the jab from next week.\n\nThe first minister said: \"Vaccination ultimately is what will provide us with the route out of this pandemic, so we are absolutely determined to make sure as many people as possible are vaccinated just as quickly as it is possible to do so.\"\n\nAs of Sunday, a total of 113,459 people had been given their first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in Scotland.\n\nThe Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine began to be rolled out on Monday, and will be reflected in statistics from next week.\n\nA total of 36 people have had a second dose of the vaccine, with efforts now focused on giving a first jab to as many people as possible\n\nThis means that people will now not receive their second dose for up to 12 weeks rather than within 21 days - a move that has been criticised by some medics.\n\nBut Chief Medical Officer Dr Gregor Smith said the first dose gave \"substantial\" protection against the virus.\n\nThe vaccine is being rolled out to health and social care workers in the first instance, then care home residents and other over-80s.\n\nEventually everyone in Scotland over the age of 18 - a total of 4.4m people - will be given a jab, although the government has refused to set targets beyond the initial phase due to uncertainty over supplies.\n\nNicola Sturgeon has said Scotland is in a race between the vaccine and the virus\n\nThe UK government had already committed to publishing vaccination figures on a daily basis, and the Scottish Conservatives had been pushing for the Scottish government to follow suit.\n\nTory leader Douglas Ross said that \"publishing these numbers will increase transparency and give the public confidence that progress is being made in our fight against Covid-19\".\n\nThe MP told BBC Scotland that he had been getting inquiries from constituents about when they could expect to get a jab, saying people \"need to know roughly where they are on that list and when they can expect to receive that vaccine\".\n\nScottish Labour called on the government to backdate the statistics and to publish \"a detailed breakdown of how many people in each priority group has been vaccinated\".\n\nThe party's health spokeswoman, Monica Lennon, said: \"Quicker progress must be made on securing vaccinations sites and vaccinators, including the contribution that community pharmacy teams can make.\"\n\nAt her daily briefing, Ms Sturgeon said over-80s should not worry if they had not yet been contacted about a vaccine appointment.\n\nShe said these were being \"aligned with availability of supply\" in different local areas.\n\nThe first minister said there was \"no need to phone your GP\", and that people would be \"contacted with an appointment as soon as possible\".\n\nShe also said the government was considering \"as a matter of ongoing review\" whether tighter restrictions may still be needed.\n\nScotland has been in a new lockdown since Tuesday, and Ms Sturgeon said it was \"probably too early\" for this to be reflected in the number of new infections.\n\nHowever she warned that the number of interactions people are having needed to be \"radically\" cut in order to slow the spread of the virus.\n\nShe said shutting down construction, manufacturing and click-and-collect businesses was \"the kind of thing we need to look at if we have a concern that we are not sufficiently reducing the number of people who are out and about and interacting\".", "Two more life-saving drugs have been found that can cut deaths by a quarter in patients who are sickest with Covid.\n\nThe anti-inflammatory medications, given via a drip, save an extra life for every 12 treated, say researchers who have carried out a trial in NHS intensive care units.\n\nSupplies are already available across the UK so they can be used immediately to save hundreds of lives, say experts.\n\nThere are over 30,000 Covid patients in UK hospitals - 39% more than in April.\n\nThe UK government is working closely with the manufacturer, to ensure the drugs - tocilizumab and sarilumab - continue to be available to UK patients.\n\nAs well as saving more lives, the treatments speed up patients' recovery and reduce the length of time that critically-ill patients need to spend in intensive care by about a week.\n\nBoth appear to work equally well and add to the benefit already found with a cheap steroid drug called dexamethasone.\n\nAlthough the drugs are not cheap, costing around £500 per patient, on top of the £5 course of dexamethasone, the advantage of using them is clear - and less than the cost per day of an intensive care bed of around £2,000, say experts.\n\nLead researcher Prof Anthony Gordon, from Imperial College London, said: \"For every 12 patients you treat with these drugs you would expect to save a life. It's a big effect.\"\n\nIn the REMAP-CAP trial carried out in six different countries, including the UK, with around 800 intensive care patients:\n\nProf Stephen Powis, NHS national medical director, said: \"The fact there is now another drug that can help to reduce mortality for patients with Covid-19 is hugely welcome news and another positive development in the continued fight against the virus.\"\n\nHealth and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock said: \"The UK has proven time and time again it is at the very forefront of identifying and providing the most promising, innovative treatments for its patients.\n\n\"Today's results are yet another landmark development in finding a way out of this pandemic and, when added to the armoury of vaccines and treatments already being rolled out, will play a significant role in defeating this virus.\"\n\nThe drugs dampen down inflammation, which can go into overdrive in Covid patients and cause damage to the lungs and other organs.\n\nDoctors are being advised to give them to any Covid patient who, despite receiving dexamethasone, is deteriorating and needs intensive care.\n\nTocilizumab and sarilumab have already been added to the government's export restriction list, which bans companies from buying medicines meant for UK patients and selling them on for a higher price in another country.\n\nThe research findings have not yet been peer reviewed or published in a medical journal.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We will never give up, we will never concede\", Trump tells supporters\n\nThis is how the Trump presidency ends. Not with a whimper, but with a bang.\n\nFor weeks, Donald Trump had been pointing to 6 January as a day of reckoning. It was when he told his supporters to come to Washington DC, and challenge Congress - and Vice-President Mike Pence - to discard the results of November's election and keep the presidency in his hands.\n\nOn Wednesday morning, the president and his warm-up speakers set the whirlwind in motion.\n\nRudy Giuliani, the president's personal lawyer, said the election disputes should be resolved through \"trial by combat\".\n\nDonald Trump Jr, the president's oldest son, had a message to members of his party who would not \"fight\" for their president.\n\n\"This isn't their Republican Party anymore,\" he said. \"This is Donald Trump's Republican Party.\"\n\nThen the president himself encouraged the growing crowd, which had chanted \"stop the steal\" and \"bullshit\" at the president's prompting, to march the two miles from the White House to the Capitol.\n\n\"We will never give up. We will never concede,\" the president said. \"Our country has had enough. We will not take it anymore.\"\n\nAs the president was concluding his remarks, a different kind of drama was playing out within the Capitol itself, as a joint session of Congress prepared to tabulate the state-by-state results of the election.\n\nFirst, Pence - disregarding the president's urging to throw out the results from contested states - released a statement that he did not have such powers and his role was \"largely ceremonial\".\n\nThen Republicans issued their first challenge, to Arizona votes, and the House and Senate began their separate deliberations on whether to accept Joe Biden's victory there.\n\nThe House proceedings were raucous, with both sides cheering as their speakers made their remarks.\n\n\"The oath that I took this past Sunday to defend and support the Constitution makes it necessary for me to object to this travesty,\" said newly elected Congresswoman Lauren Boebert, who had recently made headlines for insisting that she would carry a handgun with her in Congress. \"I will not allow the people to be ignored.\"\n\nProtesters gathered outside the Capitol as the joint session started\n\nIn the Senate, the debate was taking on a different tone. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, dressed in the kind of dark suit and tie that befits a funeral, was coming to bury Donald Trump, not praise him.\n\n\"If this election were overturned by mere allegations from the losing side, our democracy would enter a death spiral,\" McConnell said. \"We'd never see the whole nation accept an election again. Every four years would be a scramble for power at any cost.\"\n\nThe Kentucky senator, who will become the Senate minority leader as a result of his party's two recent defeats in Georgia, said that the chamber was designed to \"stop short-term passions from boiling over and melting the foundations of our republic\".\n\nHis words were practically still hanging in the air when the passions outside the Capitol boiled over, and the Trump supporters, perhaps inspired by the earlier speeches, stormed the building. They swamped the insufficient security in place and brought the proceedings to a grinding halt, as lawmakers, staff and media rushed to find shelter from the rioters.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How a Trump rally near the White House turned deadly at the Capitol\n\nThe drama unfolded in fits and starts. Television cameras broadcast images of protesters dancing and waving flags on the steps of the Capitol. Photos and snippets popped up on social media of rioters inside the building, attempting to break into the legislative chambers and posing in the offices of elected legislators; of security officers, guns drawn in the House of Representatives, behind barricaded doors.\n\nIn Wilmington, Delaware, President-elect Joe Biden scrapped a planned speech on the economy and condemned what he called an \"insurrection\" in Washington.\n\n\"At this hour our democracy is under unprecedented assault unlike anything we've seen in modern times,\" he said. \"An assault on the citadel of liberty, the Capitol itself.\"\n\nHe concluded his short remarks with a challenge to Trump: to go on national television to condemn the violence and \"demand an end to this siege\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Joe Biden: The scenes of chaos at the Capitol do not reflect a true America, do not represent who we are\n\nMinutes later, Trump would offer his message to the nation - but it was not the one Biden suggested.\n\nInstead, sandwiched between his now familiar complaints about the election being \"stolen\", he told his supporters \"to go home, we love you, you're very special\".\n\nIt was the kind of kid gloves way the president has routinely responded to transgressions from his supporters - whether it was their violent treatment of protesters at his rallies, the \"very fine people on both sides\" statement after the clashes at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville or his \"stand back and stand by\" message to the far-right Proud Boys group during the first debate with Biden.\n\nTrump's tweet, and two subsequent ones which also praised his supporters, were flagged and then removed by Twitter, which took the unprecedented step of locking the president's account for 12 hours. Facebook followed suit, banning Trump for a full day.\n\nFor the first time in his presidency, for the first time in his long, intimate relationship with social media, Donald Trump had been silenced.\n\nIf this is the \"at long last, have you left no sense of decency\" moment for Donald Trump, it arrives as they're cleaning up blood and broken glass in the US Capitol.\n\nAs the afternoon stretched into the evening, and police finally secured the US Capitol, a growing chorus of voices - from the left and right - condemned the violence. It was not surprising that Democrats, like soon-to-be Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, laid the riots at the feet of the president.\n\n\"January 6 will go down as one of the darkest days in American history,\" he said. \"A final warning to our nation of the consequences of the demagogic president, the people who enable him, the captive media that parrot his lies and the people who follow him as he attempts to push America to the brink of ruin.\"\n\nMore noteworthy, however, were the Republicans who followed suit.\n\n\"We just had a violent mob assault the Capitol in an attempt to prevent those from carrying out our Constitutional duty,\" tweeted Congresswoman Lynne Cheney, a frequent Republican critic of the president's. \"There is no question that the president formed the mob, the president incited the mob, the president addressed the mob.\"\n\nThe condemnations were not limited to Trump's reliable intraparty critics, however. Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas, who frequently sides with the president, also spoke out.\n\n\"It's past time for the president to accept the results of the election, quit misleading the American people, and repudiate mob violence,\" he said.\n\nFirst Lady Melania Trump's Chief of Staff Stephanie Grisham and Deputy White House Press Secretary Sarah Matthews both resigned in protest, and there are reports that more administration officials will head for the exits in the next 24 hours.\n\nCBS has reported that Trump administration Cabinet officials are discussing the 25th amendment to the US constitution, which outlines how the vice-president and a majority of the Cabinet can temporarily remove a president from office.\n\nWhether Pence and the Cabinet act or not, Trump's presidency will be over in just two weeks. At that point, Republican Party leaders will have to grapple with a future where it has lost control of the Congress and the White House and has a former president whose reputation is badly tarnished but who still has strong sway over a sizeable segment of the party's base.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mitt Romney warns fellow Republicans not to be complicit in attack on democracy\n\nWednesday's events could presage a pitched battle for the direction of the party, as conservatives within the party attempt to wrest control away from Trump and his loyalists. McConnell, given his remarks earlier in the day, appears willing to chart such a course. Others, like Utah Senator Mitt Romney, a former Republican presidential nominee, may also take a leading role.\n\nThey will be challenged by others within the party who may be more interested in laying claim to Trump's populist mantle. It was notable that Josh Hawley of Missouri, the first senator to announce he would object the results of the election in the Senate, did not step away from his challenge even after the Senate reconvened following the violence in the Capitol.\n\nCrisis can bring political opportunity, and there are many politicians who will not hesitate to use it to gain advantage.\n\nMeanwhile, Trump - for now - is still in power. And while he may be chastened, he may be sitting in the White House residence watching television temporarily without his social media outlet, he will not be silent for long.\n\nAnd once he decamps for his new Florida home, he could begin making plans to settle scores and, perhaps, someday return to power and rebuild a legacy that, for the moment, lies in tatters.", "The Belfast Health Trust has said it has no other option but to cancel urgent cancer surgery.\n\nThese are known as red flag cancer cases where an operation is expected to impact on a person's recovery and even surviving the disease.\n\nThe Department of Health has confirmed to the BBC that it's estimated that one in 60 people in NI have Covid-19.\n\nIt is understood the trust expects \"many 100s\" of new Covid patients in the next three weeks.\n\nThe demand for bed space is described as \"highly significant\", while a source added that all is being done to \"find beds and staff\".\n\nThey continued: \"People in here are moving heaven and earth to find beds in anticipation of what is coming and that's why some cancer patients even those who have been told their case is urgent are having their surgery cancelled.\"\n\nEffectively the move means that choices are already being made within the health service about who should receive critical treatment.\n\nThe daughter of a 66-year-old woman who was told her surgery has been cancelled has described the move as \"deeply worrying\".\n\n\"Mummy was diagnosed with cancer of the lining of the bladder in November, it's since spread to the muscle wall of her bladder. She was told in December her surgery was urgent - but now it's been cancelled.\n\n\"She is so frightened, it is just horrendous and I'm sure mum is not alone.\"\n\nWhile a cancer patient might have been told their case is critical and that treatment is necessary within weeks, some Covid patients are also being told that in order to survive they require treatment immediately.\n\nWith the number of cases soaring this is worse than the first lockdown and according to health professionals there is worse to come.\n\nThe BBC understands that the health minister is expected to respond to the problem in the coming days.\n\nIt is hoped that he will announce a regional approach to tackling cancelled surgeries among the various health trusts.\n\nNorthern Ireland's other health trusts have also begun to cancel operations due to pressures created by coronavirus.\n\nThe Northern, Western, Southern and South-Eastern trusts have said they will be cancelling planned surgeries.\n\nHospitals have said they were facing a surge in coronavirus cases following Christmas.\n\nOn Thursday, 599 people were in hospital with Covid-19.\n\nThe Belfast Trust apologised for the \"distress\" caused by the cancellations.\n\n\"Belfast Trust has made the difficult decision to cancel all planned inpatient surgery this week due to rising numbers of Covid cases,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nThe trust said it was contacting those affected and \"will rearrange this surgery as soon as possible and we will do everything we can to ensure continuity of care throughout this challenging time\".\n\nThe Northern Trust said it had \"regrettably\" cancelled the majority of its planned or elective surgeries to \"both free up staff to support the significant COVID-19 surge experience in the Trust and to reduce the clinical risk to patients who are or may be exposed to the virus\".\n\nIt apologised and said it would contacting people.\n\nThe Western Trust said it is \"facing unprecedented pressures due to the escalating rate\" of Covid infections.\n\nDirector of Acute Hospitals, Geraldine McKay, said routine elective inpatient, outpatient and day case surgeries have now been postponed until further notice.\n\nShe said the decision was \"very regrettable, but necessary\".\n\n\"Red flag and some time critical procedures and clinics will continue, but will be reviewed daily,\" she said.\n\nShould the number of Covid patients further increase, she added, the trust will \"have no option but to move to perform emergency and trauma surgery only\".\n\nA spokesperson for the South Eastern Trust said it was still carrying out some planned surgery, but the majority would be cancelled by next week.\n\nThe Southern Trust said it had taken its decision in response to the \"very significant recent increase\" in the number of Covid-19 cases.\n\nIt said this had been compounded by an increase in trauma workload and recent icy weather.\n\nThe trust said it would continue to provide day surgery and endoscopy across its hospital sites.\n\nOf the 3,359 planned procedures scheduled across NI between 29 December 2020 and 4 January, 3,267 went ahead as planned, according to the Health and Social Care website.\n\nThere were 92 cancellations which amounted to about 3% of all surgeries.", "During a speech earlier in the day, President Trump had asked his supporters to march towards the Capitol in protest. They breached the building while Congress was certifying Joe Biden's win.\n\nProtesters made it all the way to the Senate floor and the office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.\n\nHere are the key moments in a dark day for US democracy.", "The US is reeling after supporters of President Trump stormed the Capitol building in Washington DC on the day Congress was meeting to confirm Joe Biden's election victory.\n\nLawmakers were forced to take shelter, the building was put into lockdown and four people died in the chaos that followed a pro-Trump rally near the White House.\n\nHere's a breakdown of how events unfolded on Wednesday.\n\nJust before midday local time (17:00 GMT) thousands of people gather at the Ellipse, near the White House, to hear the president speak at a \"Save America\" rally.\n\nHe tells them: \"We're going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue... and we're going to the Capitol and we're going to try and give… our Republicans, the weak ones... the kind of pride and boldness that they need to take back our country.\"\n\nAs the speech ends, crowds start to drift towards the Congress building, about a mile and a half away, where they are met by police barriers.\n\nThe Capitol is home to the two chambers of the US government that make up Congress - the House of Representatives and the Senate.\n\nChanting crowds start to gather on both sides of the building at around 13:10, grappling with police at the metal barricades.\n\nTear gas and pepper spray are used to try to keep the protesters at bay.\n\nPolice officers struggle to maintain control of the situation as protesters advance on the building on multiple fronts.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police place US Capitol Building on lockdown after Trump supporters breached security lines\n\nOn the east side, the crowd force their way through barricades on the Capitol Plaza and move on the main entrance, quickly gaining access to the Great Rotunda.\n\nOnce inside, they head for the House and Senate chambers.\n\nIgor Bobic, a journalist for the Huffington Post, captures a group of men forcing a police officer to retreat up a set of stairs as they continue their advance.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Igor Bobic This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSenators are forced to abandon the process of confirming President-elect Biden's victory and the building goes into lockdown.\n\nThe doors of the House chamber are locked and a makeshift barricade is erected in front of them. Security officials guard the entrance, guns drawn.\n\nWithin an hour, protesters have also broken police lines on the west side of the Capitol, scaling walls to reach the building itself before smashing windows and forcing doors open.\n\nOther videos and images show rioters storming through the building's ornately-decorated corridors and chambers chanting \"USA!\" and \"Stop the steal\".\n\nShortly before 15:00, gunshots are reportedly heard inside the building.\n\nPhotos and video footage later show a female protester being shot as she tries to break through the barricaded doors of the Speakers' Lobby.\n\nDespite efforts by police and others at the scene to save her, she is later reported to have died.\n\nOn the other side of the building, protesters break into the Senate chamber, one taking seat in the Speaker's chair.\n\nAnother protester is photographed nearby sitting in Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office, with his foot on the table.\n\nAfter growing condemnation of the riots, President Trump eventually calls for calm, telling the protesters to leave peacefully: \"Go home. We love you, you're very special.\"\n\nBy 17:40, the building is cleared and made secure ahead of the 18:00 curfew ordered by DC Mayor Muriel Bowser.\n\nSeveral thousand National Guard troops, FBI agents and US Secret Service are deployed to help.\n\nMore than six hours after the storming of the building, senators return and resume the day's business of certifying the results of the 2020 presidential election.\n\nAt 03:41 on Thursday, Congress confirms President-elect Joe Biden will succeed President Trump on 20 January.", "Young women clap for heroes outside Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London\n\nA revived initiative to applaud the heroes of the pandemic has returned - but much more quietly than last year.\n\nIt comes after the founder of Clap for Carers distanced herself from its return after facing online abuse.\n\nAnnemarie Plas wanted to bring back the weekly applause under a new name of Clap for Heroes to lift spirits in the new lockdown but it fell a little flat.\n\nSome health workers have said they would rather people stay at home and wear a mask than clap for them.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said he participated at 20:00 GMT on Thursday, but clapping \"isn't enough\".\n\n\"They need to be paid properly and given the respect they deserve,\" he tweeted., of the health workers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The weekly clap returned but Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said clapping alone \"wasn't enough\"\n\nThe idea of clapping and banging pots from doorsteps originally began as a one-off to support NHS staff on 26 March - three days after the UK went into lockdown for the first time.\n\nAfter proving popular it was expanded to cover all key workers and continued every Thursday for 10 weeks last year, with millions of people across the UK taking part.\n\nMembers of the Royal Family and politicians including Prime Minister Boris Johnson also joined in with the show of support.\n\nHowever, the event faced criticism for becoming politicised, with some suggesting the NHS would benefit more from extra funding than applause.\n\nPeople in some streets stood on doorsteps and leaned out windows to clap for the pandemic's heroes, and landmarks in London were illuminated blue for the occasion - but reports suggested the applause was noticeably quieter than last year.\n\nAnnemarie Plas and her family were threatened online for her efforts\n\nOn Wednesday, Ms Plas, a 36-year-old mother-of-one, announced the return of the initiative, saying she hoped to \"lift the spirit of all of us\" including \"all who are pushing through this difficult time\".\n\nBut some NHS workers were less than enthusiastic. Ami Jones, an intensive care consultant from Wales, tweeted: \"No thanks. I'd rather you obey the rules, stay at home, wear masks and wash your hands.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Rachel Clarke 💙 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd palliative care doctor Rachel Clarke said: \"Please don't clap us. Just wear a mask, wash your hands and respect lockdown.\"\n\nIn a tweet posted hours before the weekly clap was due to return, Ms Plas, a Dutch national living in south London, said she had been targeted with personal abuse and threats against her and her family by \"a hateful few\" on social media.\n\n\"I have no political agenda, I am not employed by the government, I do not work in PR, I am just an average mum at home trying to cope with the lockdown situation,\" she said, in a statement.\n\nShe said the newly revived clap could and should still happen at 20:00 GMT.\n\n\"It's up to each person to decide how relevant or worthwhile they feel it is to participate,\" she said.\n\nThe fountains in Trafalgar Square were illuminated blue for the initiative on Thursday\n\nSome incorporated pots and pans during their weekly claps in warmer months", "As violent Trump supporters surged past barricades and into the US Capitol, news agency photographers - who were there to document the vote certifying Joe Biden's election win - captured extraordinary scenes.\n\nThe last time government buildings were breached in Washington was in 1814 and the invaders were British soldiers.\n\nBut in 2021 a Trump supporter, carrying the Confederate flag, is walking freely through the halls near the entrance to the Senate, encountering little resistance.\n\nThe Confederacy was the group of southern states that fought to keep slavery during the American Civil War. In this image, the oil paintings of political figures in the background emphasise this imagery of the past.\n\nThere have been renewed calls for the Confederate flag to be banned across the US following the anti-racism protests sparked by the police killing of George Floyd, a black man.\n\nHowever Mr Trump has defended use of the flag, calling it a matter of free speech.\n\nOne man in a Trump beanie here walks between the red guide ropes, as many visitors might do on a guided-tour to view the Crypt, the Statuary Hall and the Rotunda.\n\nBut this man is carrying a podium bearing the seal of the Speaker of the House, as he poses in front of a painting depicting the surrender of Gen Burgoyne in the war of independence.\n\nAnother man, identified as Jake Angeli, an ardent Trump supporter who has attended a number of the president's rallies, shouts as he makes his way to the Senate Chamber.\n\nHis incongruous garments set him apart from other protesters wearing black hoodies. These Trump activists stand by taking selfies, but he has clearly come here to be photographed by others.\n\nThe apparent lack of a security presence is in sharp contrast to other Washington protests where there is a highly visible presence of heavily armed security forces protecting US institutions.\n\nAnother Trump supporter, identified as Richard Barnett, sits with one boot disrespectfully on a desk that is at the very centre of power in Congress. It is in the office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.\n\nIn the scene, unimaginable days earlier, Barnett in his baseball cap and checked shirt resembles a raconteur regaling friends with tales of his exploits.\n\nThe image went viral as did pictures of the notes he and others left on Ms Pelosi's desk.\n\nThis dramatic image shows how the formal proceedings came to a violent halt as Capitol police officers drew their guns on doors being attacked by protesters intent on entering the House Chamber.\n\nMany commentators asked if they were watching a coup unfold as doors were barricaded and firearms brandished.\n\nThe composition is reminiscent of a scene in a Hollywood Western, the lawmen bracing for the doors to be breached.\n\nUS President-elect Joe Biden made an impassioned TV address describing the scenes as \"an assault on democracy\" - this chilling picture encapsulates what he meant.", "A Joint Session of Congress to certify the election of Joe Biden has gone into an unexpected recess, and the Capitol building into lockdown, after Trump supporters breached security lines.\n\nEarlier, President Trump addressed supporters at a rally outside the White House and encouraged them to protest the election result.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"I condemn encouraging people to behave in the disgraceful way they did in the Capitol\"\n\nDonald Trump was \"completely wrong\" to cast doubt on the US election and encourage supporters to storm the Capitol, Boris Johnson has said.\n\nThe UK prime minister said he \"unreservedly condemns\" the US president's actions.\n\nFour people died after a pro-Trump mob stormed the building in a bid to overturn the election result.\n\nMr Trump had urged protesters to march on the Capitol after making false electoral fraud claims.\n\nHe later called on his supporters to \"go home\", while continuing to make false claims - Twitter and Facebook later froze his accounts.\n\nThe president has now said there will be an \"orderly transition\" to President-elect Joe Biden, whose November election victory has now been certified by US lawmakers.\n\nBut he added that he continued to \"totally disagree\" with the outcome of the vote, repeating his unsubstantiated claims of electoral fraud.\n\nOn Wednesday night, Mr Johnson condemned the \"disgraceful scenes\" and called for a \"peaceful and orderly transfer of power\".\n\nBut asked by the BBC's political correspondent Alex Forsyth if President Trump was directly responsible, he said: \"All my life America has stood for some very important things. An idea of freedom, an idea of democracy.\n\n\"As you say, in so far as he encouraged people to storm the Capitol, and in so far as the president has consistently cast doubt on the outcome of a free and fair election, I believe that was completely wrong.\n\n\"I believe what President Trump has been saying about that has been completely wrong and I unreservedly condemn encouraging people to behave in the disgraceful way that they did in the Capitol.\"\n\nThe PM, speaking at a Downing Street briefing, then welcomed the confirmation of President-elect Biden, saying \"democracy has prevailed\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHundreds of the president's supporters stormed the Capitol on Wednesday - where lawmakers were meeting to confirm Mr Biden's election victory - and staged an occupation of the building in Washington DC.\n\nBoth chambers of Congress were forced into recess, as protesters clashed with police and tear gas was released.\n\nA woman died after being shot by police, and three others died as a result of \"medical emergencies\", local police said.\n\nUK politicians from different parties have all condemned Mr Trump's actions in encouraging the storming of the Capitol.\n\nEarlier, Home Secretary Priti Patel said the president's comments had \"directly led\" to the events and he \"didn't do anything to de-escalate that\".\n\nShe added: \"He basically has made a number of comments yesterday that helped to fuel that violence and he didn't actually do anything to de-escalate that whatsoever... what we've seen is completely unacceptable.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Priti Patel says Donald Trump was wrong for not condemning the violence\n\nSpeaking on Thursday, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said Mr Trump should \"take responsibility\" for what happened, calling it the \"culmination of years of the politics of hate and division\".\n\nSir Keir added he welcomed the outgoing president's agreement to an orderly handover, but told reporters \"he should have said it a long time ago.\"\n\nScottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said Mr Trump had been \"inciting insurrection in his own country,\" and called it a \"dark period\" in US history.\n\n\"What we witnessed last night is not that surprising. In some senses, Donald Trump's presidency has been moving towards this moment almost from the moment it started,\" she told ITV's Good Morning Britain.\n\nScotland's Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf said the home secretary should \"give serious consideration\" to denying Mr Trump entry to the UK after he leaves office.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Treason, traitors and thugs' - the words lawmakers used to describe Capitol riot\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab said certification of Mr Biden's victory was \"good to see\" after the \"shocking events\" on Wednesday, adding the UK condemned the violence \"unequivocally\".\n\nFormer Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May, who shared time in office with Mr Trump, said there should be \"no place for the rule of the mob\".\n\nBut senior Welsh Conservative Andrew RT Davies has been criticised after comparing the rioting to politicians who supported a second referendum on Brexit.\n\nMr Davies, a member of the Welsh Parliament, later tweeted that \"violence must never be tolerated\".\n\nHis party colleague, the Conservative MP Simon Hoare, suggested Mr Trump could be sent to the US detention centre at Guantanamo Bay:\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Simon Hoare MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCommons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle has written to express his \"solidarity\" with US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, whose empty office was broken into by protesters.\n\n\"Seeing your office trashed in that way and its occupation by one of the rioters was particularly outrageous. I am just so relieved you were not hurt,\" he wrote.\n\nTrump supporters left this note on the desk of Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House of Representatives.", "Ryanair is making big cuts to its flight schedule from 21 January in response to the latest Covid lockdowns.\n\nIt warned that few, if any, flights would operate to or from Ireland or the UK from the end of January until \"draconian\" restrictions were removed.\n\nCustomers hit by the cancellations will be advised by email of entitlements to free moves or refunds, it said.\n\nRyanair also cut its full year traffic forecast from currently \"below 35 million\" to 26-30 million passengers.\n\nThe airline said that new Covid restrictions could reduce traffic in February and March to as little as 500,000 passengers each month. It expects January traffic to fall below 1.25 million.\n\nIt said it did not expect these latest flight cuts and further traffic reductions to materially affect its net loss for the year to 31 March 2021, since many of the flights would have been loss-making.\n\nRyanair hit out at Irish and UK governments for the latest lockdowns.\n\n\"The WHO have previously confirmed that governments should do everything possible to avoid brutal lockdowns, because lockdowns 'do not get rid of the virus',\" Ryanair said in a statement.\n\n\"Ireland's Covid-19 travel restrictions are already the most stringent in Europe, and so these new flight restrictions are inexplicable and ineffective when Ireland continues to operate an open border between the Republic and the North of Ireland.\"\n\nIt called on the Irish Government to accelerate the rollout of vaccines.\n\n\"The fact that the Danish Government, with a similar five million population, has already vaccinated 10 times more citizens than Ireland shows that emergency action is needed to speed Covid vaccinations in Ireland.\"\n\nRival low-cost carrier Norwegian said its traffic figures had been hit heavily by the pandemic, with customer numbers down 94% compared to the same period the previous year.\n\nIn December, 129,664 customers flew with Norwegian, with the capacity and total passenger traffic both down by 98%.\n\n\"2020 has been a very challenging year and we now find ourselves fighting for survival,\" said Jacob Schram, chief executive of Norwegian.\n\n\"The vaccination is now being rolled out across the world and is good news for both the aviation industry and those who want to travel.\"", "Mauritius has been removed from the safe list\n\nTravellers from countries near South Africa are to be banned from entering England to stop the spread of the South African Covid variant.\n\nArrivals from Namibia, Zimbabwe, Angola, Botswana, as well as island nations Mauritius and Seychelles, will be affected.\n\nThe rule will take effect on 9 January but there will be an exemption for British and Irish nationals.\n\nThey will need to follow existing quarantine procedures.\n\nA ban by visitors to the UK from South Africa started on 24 December.\n\nThe latest restriction brought in by the Department for Transport also affects travellers arriving from Eswatini, Zambia, Malawi, Lesotho and Mozambique.\n\nIt will apply from 04:00 GMT on Saturday to people who have travelled from or through any of the specified countries in the last 10 days.\n\nIt is understood most flights from the affected countries arrive at airports in England, although it is expected the policy will be formally adopted by the other UK nations.\n\nThe measures will be in place for an initial period of two weeks.\n\nMeanwhile, Botswana, and the islands of Seychelles and Mauritius, are being removed from the UK list of safe travel corridors as there is a high frequency of travel between the islands and South Africa.\n\nThe new variant of coronavirus circulating in South Africa is already being seen in other countries, including the UK.\n\nThe variant, much like the new UK variant first seen in Kent, appears to be more contagious than previous ones.\n\nAnyone arriving into the UK from most destinations must quarantine for 10 days.\n\nBut there are a list of countries exempt from the rules, meaning returning travellers do not need to self-isolate, called the travel corridor list.\n\nUnder the latest announcement, the travel corridor with Israel will also end amid concerns about rising infection levels in that country.\n\nHowever, rules in place across the UK currently ban travel abroad unless for specific reasons.", "Protesters in support of US President Donald Trump swarmed the Capitol building, forcing officials to order lawmakers to shelter in place and halting debate in both the House and Senate. Congress was meeting to confirm President-elect Joe Biden's electoral college victory.", "Mr Christmas' light displays attracted thousands of visitors over the years\n\nThe family of a man known affectionately as Mr Christmas has turned off his festive lights for the last time.\n\nDave Edwards, 86, lit up his home in Croxley Green, Hertfordshire, with extravagant light displays for 42 years to raise money for charity.\n\nHe died from cancer on the eve of his annual switch-on in November.\n\nHis daughter Sharon Markham called on local residents to \"continue to light up Croxley every year\".\n\nMr Edwards started putting up the light display with his wife - who died three years ago - as a competition with a house across the street, and continued to build on the set over the years.\n\nDave Edwards was dubbed Mr Christmas due to the illuminations at his home in Croxley Green\n\nPeople would travel miles to see the festive lights\n\nMrs Markham said each year they raised about £5,000 for charity, but this year a \"record amount\" of more than £10,000 had been donated.\n\nWhen his family said the 2020 display would be the last due to Mr Edwards's failing health, people across the village rallied together by installing their own displays in his honour.\n\nSharon Markham said her parents were \"such amazing people but their light will always be shining\"\n\nResidents of Croxley Green placed a banner opposite Mr Christmas' home to thank him for his displays and fundraising\n\nTurning off the lights at 21:23 GMT on Wednesday, in an event filmed for the Mr Christmas Facebook page, Mrs Markham thanked the community for its support over the years.\n\n\"Without you we could not have achieved the things we have done,\" she said.\n\n\"I thought turning the lights on was hard enough but switching them off - this moment has been worrying me for months and now it's finally here.\n\n\"For now, though, we say goodbye and we thank Mr and Mrs Christmas for all the joy they have brought us all.\n\n\"We ask you all to continue to light up Croxley every year.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Dr Anil Mehta, a GP at Fullwell Cross Medical Centre in North London, told the BBC that staff were working from 7 in the morning until 10pm at night during the three days of their weekly Covid-19 vaccine rollout, describing the process as a 'full team effort.\n\nDr Mehta was also keen to encourage people who might be nervous about the vaccine to take up the offer, emphasising that the evidence behind the vaccine 'was very strong'.\n\nThis message was echoed by Zahin Ahmed, whose grandfather Shafiquz Zaman has now received both doses of the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine at the clinic. Mr Ahmed, who is from the Bangladeshi community, also said it was important that minority communities took up the offer of the vaccine when called upon to do so.", "George had mottled skin, swelling on his lips, a high temperature and could not keep fluids down\n\nThe mother of a baby who was treated in hospital for Covid-19 has urged parents to be alert to symptoms such as mottled skin and sickness.\n\nMyer Rudelhoff's four-month-old son George spent three nights in Basildon hospital, in Essex.\n\nHe had patchy skin, swelling on his lips, a high temperature and could not keep fluids down.\n\nShe said: \"I thought it was a sickness bug. I had no idea it was caused by coronavirus.\"\n\nDiarrhoea, vomiting and abdominal cramps in children can be a sign of coronavirus according to some researchers, but the officially recognised symptoms are a fever, cough and loss of smell or taste.\n\nMrs Rudlehoff, who lives in Basildon, noticed her son had a temperature on New Year's Eve but put it down to teething.\n\nGeorge began vomiting the following evening and on 2 January she called NHS 111, who told her to take him to hospital.\n\nShe said: \"I really did not want to go. I was so scared about him getting the virus there, I had no idea he had it.\n\n\"He got so poorly so quickly when we arrived and was really lethargic. They took a swab and, when they said he was positive, I burst into tears. It was such a shock.\"\n\nMyer Rudelhoff was scared to take her son to hospital but realised he was too poorly and needed treatment\n\nThe mother-of-two said she presumed it was not Covid-19 because he did not have a cough, though he did develop a mild one a few days later while in hospital.\n\nShe said the staff were \"amazing\" and she wanted to reassure parents \"not to be afraid to go to hospital\" if their children were ill.\n\nNurses told her they had treated several other children with the same mottled skin and sickness and asked her to share her story to raise awareness of these symptoms.\n\nMrs Rudelhoff's post on Facebook was shared nearly 7,000 times within three days.\n\nIn the post, she said she felt \"upset, angry and frustrated\" because she had taken the illness very seriously but George had still managed to catch it. He was the only member of the family who tested positive.\n\nGeorge was discharged from hospital and was making a good recovery at home, she said.\n\nGeorge is now making a good recovery at home and is being looked after by his big brother Stanley\n\nDr Kilali Ominu-Evbota, paediatric consultant at Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust, said: \"It's great to hear that George is now back home and on the road to recovery.\n\n\"George's family did the right thing and we encourage parents to seek medical advice with their GP or via the NHS 111 service in order to get the correct treatment for their child.\"\n\nBasildon has an infection rate of 1,265 cases per 100,000 people - compared to the average England rate of 606.9.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n• None 'Upset stomach' in children may be coronavirus\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The president says he hates Big Tech. Yet he has loved using Twitter.\n\nHe's used it as a way, for more than 10 years, to bypass the media and speak directly to voters.\n\nThe 280 characters fits neatly with his style of political engagement - broad brushstrokes rather than details.\n\nAnd Twitter has undoubtedly benefited from President Trump too, the place to go to hear the latest musings from the most powerful person on the planet.\n\nThat decade-long symbiosis has been ended with a shuddering halt.\n\nImmediately after the deadly riots, Twitter locked the President's Twitter feed and asked Mr Trump to delete three tweets for violations around its Civic Integrity policy., which he promptly did.\n\nAfter the suspension he tweeted as a new man, the nonsense claims of mass voter fraud replaced with a more conciliatory tone.\n\nPrivately though Twitter was pondering whether it had gone far enough. Facebook had already acted, banning Donald Trump \"indefinitely\".\n\nAfter more than 48 hours of consideration, Twitter acted. It made unquestionably the most important moderation decision in its history. It banned the president of the United States.\n\nSome have asked why he wasn't kicked off sooner.\n\nMr Trump or one of his associates appears to have deleted some of his most recent tweets\n\nWell, Twitter has very specific rules about world leaders.\n\n\"We recognise that sometimes it may be in the public interest to allow people to view tweets that would otherwise be taken down,\" Twitter's rules say.\n\n\"At present, we limit exceptions to one critical type of public-interest content - tweets from elected and government officials.\"\n\nChief executive Jack Dorsey had felt it was in the public interest to keep the account active, albeit with warning messages.\n\n\"No one is turning a blind eye,\" a senior source told the BBC before the ban.\n\nIn short, Mr Trump had been allowed to remain on Twitter - despite numerous breaches of its rules - because he is the president.\n\nWith less than two weeks to go of Trump's presidency, many social media companies have now decided enough is enough.\n\nCritics say the outgoing president's words on social media, for years, helped to incite Wednesday's storming of Capitol Hill.\n\nAll the big social media companies have made it clear that - as a private citizen - if you continually look to peddle conspiracy theories and promote extremism, you should expect to be kicked out. With just a few days of his presidency left, Mr Trump is already being held to a different standard - his privileges stripped.\n\nWhat's driving this? To be cynical, social media companies are acutely aware that President-elect Joe Biden believes Big Tech hasn't done enough to quell fake news and hate speech on their platforms.\n\nRioters broke into Congress after a speech by Mr Trump on Wednesday\n\nThey are now desperate to show that they can, in fact, police their own platforms without the need for stringent legal reforms.\n\nWhat better way to show you're serious than to act on Mr Trump's misinformation?\n\nWhat will Mr Trump do next? Well he's already said he's looking into the possibility of building his own platform in the future.\n\nBut for now he's consigned to the fringes of the internet. Can Trumpism survive without Big Tech? We're about to find out.\n\nJames Clayton is the BBC's North America technology reporter based in San Francisco. Follow him on Twitter @jamesclayton5.", "For the first since April the UK has recorded more than 1,000 daily Covid-related deaths – one of the highest figures of the pandemic.\n\nRight now, London is at the epicentre of this crisis. Hospitals now have more Covid patients being admitted every day than they did at the peak in April. Many doctors and nurses say they're reaching breaking point.\n\nThe BBC's medical editor Fergus Walsh has been allowed to film inside the intensive care unit at London's University College Hospital, which is one of the busiest in the capital.\n\nRead more: 'How long can we keep going like this? About a week'", "Elon Musk has become the world's richest person, as his net worth crossed $185bn (£136bn).\n\nThe Tesla and SpaceX entrepreneur was pushed into the top slot after Tesla's share price increased on Thursday.\n\nHe takes the top spot from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who had held it since 2017.\n\nMr Musk's electric car company Tesla has surged in value this year, and hit a market value of $700bn (£516bn) for the first time on Wednesday.\n\nThat makes the car company worth more than Toyota, Volkswagen, Hyundai, GM and Ford combined.\n\nMr Musk reacted to the news in signature style, replying to a Twitter user sharing the news with the remark \"how strange\".\n\nAn older tweet pinned to the top of his feed offered further insight into his thoughts on personal wealth.\n\n\"About half my money is intended to help problems on Earth, and half to help establish a self-sustaining city on Mars to ensure continuation of life (of all species) in case Earth gets hit by a meteor like the dinosaurs or WW3 happens and we destroy ourselves,\" it reads.\n\nThe tycoon's fortunes have been buoyed by politics in the US, where the Democrats will have control of the US Senate in the forthcoming session.\n\nDaniel Ives, an analyst with Wedbush Securities wrote: \"A Blue Senate is very bullish and a potential 'game changer' for Tesla and the overall electric vehicle sector, with a more green-driven agenda now certainly in the cards for the next few years.\"\n\nExpected electric vehicle tax credits would benefit Tesla, \"which continues to have an iron grip on the market today\", he added.\n\nMr Bezos is also using his personal wealth to fund space exploration\n\nMr Bezos has also seen his fortunes rise over the past year. The coronavirus pandemic has meant Amazon benefited from stronger demand for both its online store and cloud computing services.\n\nHowever, he gave a 4% stake in the business to his ex-wife MacKenzie Scott after they split, which helped Mr Musk overtake him.\n\nIn addition, the threat of regulation has meant Amazon's stock has not risen as high as it might otherwise have done.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Who is Elon Musk? Meet the meme-loving magnate behind SpaceX and Tesla...published in 2021\n\nThe owner of a business which has only just made its first annual profit and is still a minnow compared to the likes of Toyota - or Amazon - is now the world's richest person.\n\nIt is the fact that Tesla's share price has increased more than seven-fold in the past year that has sent Elon Musk's fortune rocketing past that of Jeff Bezos.\n\nTo believe the electric car-maker's worth could rise so rapidly in just 12 months is the ultimate example of irrational exuberance.\n\nIt means that Musk will have to show within the next five years that Tesla can make more profits than just about the whole of the rest of the motor industry combined to justify the valuation.\n\nMind you, his many fans will point out that the somewhat eccentric tycoon has constantly confounded the sceptics who bet that he would go bust.\n\nAnd of course 20 years ago another tech visionary was staring disaster in the face when the dot com bubble burst and big profits seemed a distant dream - but Jeff Bezos went on to make those who bet on Amazon very rich indeed.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Priti Patel says Donald Trump was wrong for not condemning the violence\n\nDonald Trump's comments \"directly led\" to his supporters storming Congress and clashing with police, Home Secretary Priti Patel has said.\n\nFour people have died after a pro-Trump mob stormed the building in a bid to overturn the election result.\n\nPresident Trump had urged protesters to march on the Capitol after making false claims of electoral fraud.\n\nMs Patel said the president's words had fuelled the violence and he \"didn't do anything to de-escalate that\".\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has condemned the \"disgraceful scenes\" and called for a \"peaceful and orderly transfer of power\".\n\nOn Wednesday evening, President Trump later called on his supporters to \"go home\", while continuing to make false claims of electoral fraud.\n\nHe has been suspended from his Facebook and Instagram accounts for at least two weeks, and possibly indefinitely. Twitter has also frozen his account.\n\nThe president has now said there will be an \"orderly transition\" to Democrat Joe Biden, whose November election victory has now been certified by US lawmakers.\n\nBut he added that he continued to \"totally disagree\" with the outcome of the vote, repeating his unsubstantiated claims of electoral fraud.\n\nHundreds of the president's supporters stormed the Capitol - where lawmakers were meeting to confirm Mr Biden's election victory - and staged an occupation of the building in Washington DC.\n\nBoth chambers of Congress were forced into recess, as protesters clashed with police and tear gas was released.\n\nMs Patel told BBC Breakfast the scenes were \"awful beyond words\".\n\nThe home secretary said: \"His comments directly led to the violence, and so far he has failed to condemn that violence and that is completely wrong.\"\n\nShe added: \"He basically has made a number of comments yesterday that helped to fuel that violence and he didn't actually do anything to de-escalate that whatsoever... what we've seen is completely unacceptable.\"\n\nA woman died after being shot by police, and three others died as a result of \"medical emergencies\", local police said.\n\nPoliticians across the UK's political parties lined up to condemn the scenes in Washington.\n\nSpeaking on Thursday, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said Mr Trump should \"take responsibility\" for what happened, calling it the \"culmination of years of the politics of hate and division\".\n\nSir Keir added he welcomed the outgoing president's agreement to an orderly handover, but told reporters \"he should have said it a long time ago.\"\n\nScottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said Mr Trump had been \"inciting insurrection in his own country,\" and called it a \"dark period\" in US history.\n\n\"What we witnessed last night is not that surprising. In some senses, Donald Trump's presidency has been moving towards this moment almost from the moment it started,\" she told ITV's Good Morning Britain.\n\nScotland's Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf said the home secretary should \"give serious consideration\" to denying Mr Trump entry to the UK after he leaves office.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police place US Capitol Building on lockdown after Trump supporters breached security lines\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab said certification of Mr Biden's victory was \"good to see\" after the \"shocking events\" on Wednesday, adding the UK condemned the violence \"unequivocally\".\n\nFormer Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May, who shared time in office with Mr Trump, said there should be \"no place for the rule of the mob\".\n\nBut senior Welsh Conservative Andrew RT Davies has been criticised after comparing the rioting to politicians who supported a second referendum on Brexit.\n\nMr Davies, a member of the Welsh Parliament, later tweeted that \"violence must never be tolerated\".\n\nHis party colleague, the Conservative MP Simon Hoare, suggested Mr Trump could be sent to the US detention centre at Guantanamo Bay:\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Simon Hoare MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFriend of President Trump and leader of Reform UK - formerly the Brexit Party - Nigel Farage tweeted: \"Storming Capitol Hill is wrong. The protesters must leave.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Work and Pensions Secretary Therese Coffey has defended the prime minister's response to the rioting.\n\nAsked on ITV's Peston programme why Mr Johnson hadn't criticised Mr Trump, she said: \"The prime minister has been clear tonight that we need a peaceful and orderly transition.\"\n\nCommons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle has written to express his \"solidarity\" with US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, whose empty office was broken into by protesters.\n\n\"Seeing your office trashed in that way and its occupation by one of the rioters was particularly outrageous. I am just so relieved you were not hurt,\" he wrote.\n\nTrump supporters left this note on the desk of Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House of Representatives.\n\nIt is a truism of British diplomacy that every occupant of 10 Downing Street has to get on with every occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, regardless of their politics or character.\n\nPersonal consideration is pushed aside. What matters is the national interest and staying close to one of Britain's closest allies.\n\nThus even now, even after Donald Trump's incitement of the Capitol mob, even though there are less than two weeks until the inauguration, even as close Republican allies jump ship, Boris Johnson and Dominic Raab were reluctant to criticise the president by name in their initial response overnight.\n\nYes, they condemned the violence. But of Mr Trump, not a word. This caution was matched by the Prime Ministers of fellow so-called Five Eyes intelligence allies, Australia and New Zealand, both of whom also both failed to mention Mr Trump in their condemnatory tweets.\n\nIn contrast, European leaders were quick to blame the president personally.\n\nIt was only this morning that a British minister, Home Secretary Priti Patel, felt able to follow suit in strong terms.\n\nSo was this natural and sensible diplomatic caution in the midst of a febrile crisis?\n\nOr was this, as some Labour figures are already claiming, a function of the closeness between the current UK government and the Trump administration?\n\nIt was only a few weeks ago that Defence Secretary Ben Wallace told The Sun that he would miss Donald Trump because he was a good friend to Britain.\n\nWhatever one's views, it is certainly the case that the British government is seen on the international stage by some has having ideological proximity to Mr Trump.\n\nChanging that reputation is seen by many diplomats as a priority in the months ahead, a task made more urgent by events overnight.", "Olly Stephens was stabbed to death in Emmer Green in Reading on Sunday\n\nThree teenagers accused of murdering a 13-year-old boy who was stabbed to death have appeared in Crown Court.\n\nOliver Stephens, known as Olly, was pronounced dead at Bugs Bottom fields, Emmer Green in Reading, on Sunday.\n\nTwo boys, aged 13 and 14, and a 13-year-old girl have been charged with murder and conspiracy to commit grievous bodily harm.\n\nThey have all been remanded in youth detention custody and a provisional trial date has been set for 21 June.\n\nThe three teenagers, who cannot be identified because of their ages, had appeared at Reading Youth Court earlier on Thursday before the Crown Court hearing.\n\nThe defendants only spoke at the youth court to confirm their names, ages and addresses.\n\nThe court heard the girl has also been charged with perverting the course of justice.\n\nThe Crown Court hearing was told a potential trial was estimated to last five or six weeks.\n\nPolice were called just before 16:00 GMT on Sunday following reports of an attack in fields on the boundary of Emmer Green and Caversham Heights.\n\nOlly was pronounced dead at the scene.\n\nIn a statement released on Wednesday, his family said: \"An Olly-sized hole has been left in our hearts.\"\n\nHis parents said their son was \"an enigma\", and having both autism and suspected pathological demand avoidance meant \"he became a challenge we never shied away from\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "McDonald's is pausing walk-in takeaway services in the UK as new lockdown restrictions come into force.\n\nDine-in meals and walk-in takeaways will not be available temporarily while it reviews safety procedures, it said.\n\nIts UK boss said it will be testing \"additional measures that may further enhance the safety of our takeaway service.\"\n\nRival food chains Burger King, Subway, KFC and Pret A Manger are still offering takeaways in-store.\n\nMcDonald's UK and Ireland chief executive Paul Pomroy said that safety measures across the firm's 1,300 restaurants will be reviewed by an independent health and safety body.\n\nHe added that customers would be kept updated via the restaurant's app and its website. Drive-through and delivery services across the fast food chain will remain open.\n\nUnder new lockdown restrictions which came into force in England and Scotland this week, hospitality firms are allowed to offer takeaways and deliveries.\n\nBut rules which previously allowed takeaways or click-and-collect services for alcoholic drinks have been scrapped.\n\nWales and Northern Ireland were already in lockdown, which meant that pubs, restaurants and cafes were restricted to takeaway-only too.\n\nAfter the first nationwide lockdown in March, many chains including McDonald's, Burger King and Pret closed their doors to hungry customers.\n\nThey gradually reopened with additional safety measures in place, such as plastic screens in front of the tills, hand sanitiser dispensers and restrictions on the number of customers allowed in at any one point. Some also pared back the number of dishes on offer.\n\nA Burger King spokesperson said that takeaway was still available in some branches and that it would continue to offer click-and-collect and delivery services \"in line with guidance issued\".\n\nSandwich chain Pret A Manger told the BBC that it is keeping some outlets open for both takeaways and delivery, but it would keep the number under review in the coming months.\n\n\"Last year we shifted our business to focus on delivery and expanded our delivery platform partnerships, to make Pret available to a wider customer base\", a spokesperson said.\n\n\"Since then, we have seen a significant increase in the use of delivery.\"\n\nSubway and KFC also confirmed that they remain open for in-store takeaways, deliveries and click-and-collect orders across the UK.\n\nFast food firm Leon, which has 65 outlets, said that 28 of their sites will remain open for takeaways and deliveries.\n\n\"We will continue to keep as many restaurants open as possible, as we did in the previous two lockdowns in line with government guidelines,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nDespite adapting their business models, many casual dining chains have been forced to make job cuts in the last year as lockdown restrictions hit sales. Pret, for example, announced 3,000 job cuts in August, while Greggs made 820 job cuts at the end of 2020.", "Supporters of US President Donald Trump stormed the US Capitol on Wednesday\n\nWorld leaders have condemned violent scenes in Washington after supporters of US President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol building on Wednesday.\n\nThe riot forced the suspension of a joint session of Congress to certify Joe Biden's electoral victory.\n\nMany leaders called for peace and an orderly transition of power, describing what happened as \"horrifying\" and an \"attack on democracy\".\n\n\"The United States stands for democracy around the world and it is now vital that there should be a peaceful and orderly transfer of power,\" he wrote on Twitter.\n\nOther UK politicians joined him in criticising the violence, with opposition leader Sir Keir Starmer calling it a \"direct attack on democracy\".\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel told the BBC that Mr Trump's comments \"directly led\" to his supporters storming Congress and clashing with police.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Home Secretary Priti Patel says Donald Trump was wrong for not condemning the violence\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon tweeted that the scenes from the US Capitol were \"utterly horrifying\".\n\nIn Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel said those who stormed the US legislature were \"attackers and rioters\" and that she felt \"angry and also sad\" after seeing pictures from the scene.\n\nShe told a meeting of German conservatives: \"I regret very much that President Trump has still not admitted defeat, but has kept raising doubts about the elections.\"\n\nChina meanwhile attempted to draw comparisons between the rioters who entered Congress to try and subvert the US election result and pro-democracy protesters who stormed Hong Kong's Legislative Council last year.\n\nForeign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying claimed events in Hong Kong were more \"severe\" than those in Washington but \"not one demonstrator died\".\n\nThe comparisons between the two incidents has caused outrage among Hong Kong's pro-democracy activists and their supporters.\n\nRussia blamed the \"archaic\" US electoral system and the politicisation of the media for Wednesday's unrest in Washington.\n\n\"The electoral system in the United States is archaic, it does not meet modern democratic standards, creating opportunities for numerous violations, and the American media have become an instrument of political struggle,\" foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.\n\nElsewhere in Europe, a chorus of leaders condemned the scenes in Washington as an attack on democracy.\n\nSpanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said: \"I have trust in the strength of US democracy. The new presidency of Joe Biden will overcome this tense stage, uniting the American people.\"\n\nIn a video on Twitter, French President Emmanuel Macron said: \"When, in one of the world's oldest democracies, supporters of an outgoing president take up arms to challenge the legitimate results of an election, a universal idea - that of 'one person, one vote' - is undermined.\n\n\"What happened today in Washington DC is not American, definitely. We believe in the strength of our democracies. We believe in the strength of American democracy\" he added.\n\nSwedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven described the incident as \"worrying\" and said it was \"an assault on democracy\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by SwedishPM This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTop EU leaders have also made their views known. European Council President Charles Michel said he trusted the US \"to ensure a peaceful transfer of power\" to Mr Biden, while European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said she looked forward to working with the Democrat, who \"won the election\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Charles Michel This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLike many other global figures, the Secretary-General of the Nato military alliance, Jens Stoltenberg, said that the outcome of the election \"must be respected\".\n\nFor his part, UN Secretary-General António Guterres was \"saddened\" by the events at the US Capitol, his spokesman said.\n\nThe events also shocked America's close ally and neighbour to its north. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Canadians were \"deeply disturbed and saddened by the attack on democracy\".\n\n\"Violence will never succeed in overruling the will of the people. Democracy in the US must be upheld - and it will be,\" he wrote on Twitter.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. When a mob stormed the US capitol\n\nFrom New Zealand, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, tweeted that \"democracy - the right of people to exercise a vote, have their voice heard and then have that decision upheld peacefully - should never be undone by a mob\".\n\nMeanwhile Prime Minister Scott Morrison of Australia - another close US ally - condemned the \"distressing scenes\" and said he looked forward to a peaceful transfer of power.\n\nIn India, the world's largest democracy, Prime Minister Narendra Modi - who has enjoyed a good relationship with President Trump - said he was \"distressed to see news about rioting and violence\" in Washington.\n\n\"Orderly and peaceful transfer of power must continue,\" he tweeted.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTurkey, an ally through Nato, said it invited \"all parties\" to show \"restraint and common sense\".\n\nThe Venezuelan government, which the US does not recognise as legitimate, said \"with this regrettable episode, the United States suffers the same thing that it has generated in other countries with its policies of aggression\".\n\nIn statements on Twitter, Argentina's President Alberto Fernández and Chile's President Sebastián Piñera also condemned the scenes in Washington. Mr Piñera said Chile \"trusts in the solidity of US democracy to guarantee the rule of law\".\n\nIn Japan, one of America's closest allies and partners, Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato said the government hoped for a \"peaceful transfer of power\" in the United States.\n\nFrom Fiji, Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama, who led a coup in 2006, also expressed outrage at the events that took place.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Frank Bainimarama This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd in Singapore, Senior Minister Teo Chee Hean said he had watched as the \"shocking\" scenes took place, adding: \"Its a sad day.\"", "Nursery staff are not advised to wear face coverings\n\nChildcare organisations are demanding to see evidence that it is safe for them to remain open while schools and colleges have closed to most pupils.\n\nStaff have close contact with children and babies daily, when they change nappies and receive them by the hand from parents, for example.\n\nMinisters have insisted early years settings are safe as young children have very low rates of the virus.\n\nNurseries argue the evidence cited is based on data about old variant Covid.\n\nEngland's three main nursery organisations, the Early Years Alliance, the National Day Nurseries Association and childminders' group, Pacey, have joined together to mount a #ProtectEarlyYears campaign.\n\nThey want the government to provide clear scientific evidence on the risks to early years staff of staying open, particularly in light of the increased transmissibility of the new variant of Covid-19.\n\nSue Cardy, owner and manager of Ready Teddy Go Pre School, in Shoeburyness, Essex said: \"There isn't anyone who has asked: 'Is it 100% safe for us to remain fully open? No one can see the virus and staff may be asymptomatic, and so we all run an element of risk of catching or spreading it.\"\n\nShe added: \"Staff have families and are not all young... 50% of my staff are over 50 and some have underlying medical conditions.\"\n\nVicky, the manager of a church pre-school in Cheshire West and Chester said she could potentially have 30 children plus 10 staff in a church hall, with no PPE recommended, and limited social distancing.\n\n\"As an early years provider, I am increasingly worried about the safety of both staff and children, yet if we chose to partially close, we could be financially penalised.\"\n\nAnd Georgie Morrell from Brighton and Hove said: \"Since re-opening, I have had four households tell me. they are Covid positive.\n\n\"This is clearly very close to home and yet we have been given no choice or support but to remain open and carry on.\"\n\nNeil Leitch, chief executive of the Early Years Alliance, said: \"It is simply not acceptable that, at the height of a global pandemic, early years providers are being asked to work with no support, no protection and no clear evidence that is safe for them to do so.\n\n\"We know how vital access to early education and care is to many families, but it cannot be right to ask the early years workforce to put themselves at risk. That is why it is vital that the government takes the urgent steps needed to safeguard those working in the sector, particularly mass testing and priority access to vaccinations.\n\nNursery providers are calling for staff to be tested, priority for vaccination and for state funding lost due to lower numbers during the pandemic, to be replaced by government.\n\nPurnima Tanuku, chief Executive of National Day Nurseries Association, said nurseries were determined to support families during the current lockdown.\n\nBut, she added: \"Time and again, whether it's on PPE, cleaning costs, testing or staffing, early years providers have been overlooked by the Department for Education.\n\n\"Now, they are the only part of the education sector fully open to all children and must be given priority.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, vaccines minister Nadim Zahawi said there was very little risk to younger children.\n\n\"The nursery sector has taken tremendous care in making sure the premises are also Covid safe. It is the right thing to do.\"\n\nThe Department for Education is yet to comment on the #ProtectEarlyYears demands.", "Matthew Mason will be sentenced later this month\n\nA man who killed a schoolboy after paying him to stop their sexual relationship being revealed has been found guilty of murder.\n\nMatthew Mason admitted bludgeoning 15-year-old Alex Rodda with a wrench in Ashley, Cheshire, in 2019.\n\nThe 19-year-old paid Alex more than £2,000 after he contacted his then girlfriend about \"flirty\" messages, Chester Crown Court heard.\n\nMason, of Ash Lane in Ollerton, will be sentenced on 25 January.\n\nLawyers acting for Mason, who denied murder, had claimed the killing was the result of self-defence or a loss of control.\n\nBut the jury rejected this and found him guilty of murdering Alex by a majority of 10 to two.\n\nAs the verdict was returned, Mason appeared to be crying in the dock.\n\nMembers of Alex's family were also in tears. In a statement, they said they had \"never come across a more selfish, cold and calculating person\" as Mason.\n\n\"Mason has attempted to blame Alex and discredit his name throughout this trial and thankfully the jury were able to see through his web of deceit,\" they said.\n\nSpeaking outside the court, Alex's father Adam Rodda said the trial had been \"very difficult\" for the family and they were relieved Mason had been found guilty of murder.\n\n\"We wouldn't have accepted anything else, we would have been distraught if any other verdict had been given. We prayed and we are obviously delighted that justice has been done,\" he said.\n\nAlex Rodda was killed in woodland in Cheshire\n\nOn the evening of 12 December, Mason said he had picked Alex up from his home and drove him to a remote area of woodland where he told him he could not afford to give him any more money.\n\nThe agricultural engineering student, who was the son of a farmer, told the court he had taken the wrench with him to \"scare him\".\n\nHe claimed that, once in the woods, Alex had threatened to ruin his life \"financially or socially\" and pushed him to the floor, grabbing the wrench and hitting Mason with it.\n\nMason said he managed to get the wrench from Alex and recalled hitting him with it twice, although the court heard evidence of further blows.\n\nAlex, a pupil at Holmes Chapel High School, was struck at least 15 times to the head and his body was found by refuse collectors the next morning.\n\nEvidence showed Alex had been struck at least 15 times with the wrench\n\nThe jury heard Mason had paid Alex more than £2,000 to stop him reporting their \"intimate sexual relationship\".\n\nIn the month before the murder, Alex contacted Mason's girlfriend to tell her that her boyfriend had been messaging him \"in a flirty way\" and had sent an explicit photo and video.\n\nMason denied the claim but began making payments to the 15-year-old's bank account.\n\nBy the time of Alex's death, Mason had transferred more than £2,200 and was asking friends and family to borrow money, the court was told.\n\nGiving evidence, Mason, who lived with his family on a farm near Knutsford, admitted having sex with Alex but said he thought it was \"wrong\".\n\nHe told the court he did not believe his friends would accept him if he was gay or bisexual.\n\nIn the week before Alex's death, Mason made internet searches for phrases including \"what would happen if you kicked someone down the stairs\", \"everyday poison\" and \"the mysteries of Cheshire unsolved deaths of missing people\".\n\nBut he told the court he had been searching the terms because he was suicidal.\n\nAlex's body was found in woodland by refuse collectors\n\nAfter killing Alex, Mason had a drink with friends in the Red Lion pub in Pickmere and The Golden Pheasant pub in Plumley, Cheshire Police said.\n\nHe later returned to the woods and the prosecution believe he dragged Alex's body to the side of the road and attempted to put him inside his car.\n\nAfter failing to do this, he drove away. But a witness had taken a photo of his Renault Clio car parked on the track and reported this to police.\n\nMason was identified as the owner and arrested the next day.\n\nPolice said Mason had dried blood on his hands and there was a bin bag in his boot with a blood-stained fleece, the wrench and Alex's jacket in it.\n\nDet Insp Nigel Reid said: \"Mason had murder on his mind as he drove Alex to his death under the pretence of sexual activity.\n\n\"He chose a secluded place to kill him in cold blood, a place he believed he would go unseen and his crime undetected.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The coronavirus vaccine rollout is a national challenge requiring an unprecedented effort - involving the armed forces - Boris Johnson says.\n\nThe PM confirmed almost 1.5 million people in the UK have now received at least one dose of a Covid vaccine.\n\nMore than 1,000 GP-led sites in England will be able to offer a total of \"hundreds of thousands\" of jabs each day by 15 January, he said.\n\nThe Army will use \"battle preparation techniques\" to help achieve that goal.\n\nIt came as a further 1,162 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were reported on Thursday - the second consecutive day of more than 1,000 recorded fatalities - and 52,618 new cases.\n\nAnd as Simon Stevens, head of the NHS in England, warned 10,000 patients with Covid had been admitted to hospital since Christmas Day.\n\nSpeaking at a Downing Street news conference, Mr Johnson said there would likely be \"lumpiness and bumpiness\" in the rollout of vaccines.\n\nHe said: \"Let's be clear, this is a national challenge on a scale like nothing we've seen before and it will require an unprecedented national effort.\n\n\"Of course, there will be difficulties, appointments will be changed but... the Army is working hand in glove with the NHS and local councils to set up our vaccine network and using battle preparation techniques to help us keep up the pace.\"\n\nAlongside GPs, there will be 223 hospital sites and seven \"giant vaccination centres\" - as well as an initial 200 community pharmacies - offering jabs, Mr Johnson said.\n\nEveryone will have a vaccination centre within 10 miles of their home, he added, with a \"full vaccination deployment plan\" to be published on Monday.\n\nHe also said there would be a national booking system for vaccinations - but did not give any more details.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Brigadier Phil Prosser said his task was to ensure everyone in England had equal access to the vaccine\n\nBrigadier Phil Prosser, commander of military support to the vaccine delivery programme, told the news conference his team was \"embedded\" with the NHS.\n\nHe said his \"day job\" is to deliver combat supplies to UK forces in time of war, \"at speed in the most arduous and challenging conditions\".\n\nThe government has set a target to offer vaccination slots to 15 million in the top four priority groups - including all over-80s - by 15 February.\n\nAnd Mr Johnson said that, with the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine available, he could pledge one of those groups - care home residents - would all receive their jab by the end of January.\n\nThe widespread rollout of the vaccine has begun in earnest with the first doses delivered during the day to family doctors for distribution.\n\nBut there were concerns from some GPs over supplies, as Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the levels of vaccine supply was the \"rate-limiting\" factor as jabs would be delivered as quickly as stock is available.\n\nIt comes as some hospitals in England are at risk of becoming Covid-only sites, with rising admissions for the virus forcing trusts to cut back on other services.\n\nThe latest NHS statistics also show that there were 30,370 patients with Covid in UK hospitals on Tuesday, a much higher figure than the first peak in the spring of 2020.\n\nHospital leaders have warned medics are becoming increasingly stretched with \"untrained staff\" used to fill gaps.\n\nAt 20:00 GMT, people in some streets stepped out onto doorsteps to clap for the heroes of the pandemic, following a weekly initiative which gained popularity during the UK's first lockdown.\n\nHowever, Thursday's clap for heroes was more muted than those seen last year, perhaps reflecting criticism the initiative had become politicised.\n\nLots of detail has been given about how the NHS - working hand-in-hand with the military - will be able to deliver the vaccines.\n\nThere will be more local vaccination centres, hospital hubs and even mass vaccination at sports stadiums.\n\nThousands of extra vaccinators have already been trained - and thousands more are waiting in the wings.\n\nBut the biggest hurdle the UK faces is vaccine supply.\n\nIf it is not available, it cannot be put in arms no matter how good the vaccination network is.\n\nIn the long-term, supply is not likely to be a problem - but in the coming weeks it could be tight.\n\nThere is enough vaccine in the country to offer all those at highest risk a jab by mid-February.\n\nBut it is not yet all ready for the NHS to use, either because the final safety checks have not been done or the vaccine has not been put into vials.\n\nThe former depends on lab work by the medicines regulator, while the latter is the job of a plant in Wrexham.\n\nEach stage takes some time. The target is achievable, but a lot has to go right.\n\nSir Simon Stevens said there were 50% more coronavirus patients in England's hospitals now compared to the peak last April, affecting every region across the country.\n\nHe said: \"That number is accelerating very, very rapidly... the pressures are real and they are growing.\"\n\nIn Northern Ireland, the Belfast Health Trust has said it has no other option but to cancel all of its urgent cancer surgery amid \"highly significant\" demand for bed space.\n\nThe cancelled operations will affect those patients for whom surgery could impact recovery and even survival, the trust said.\n\nBoris Johnson said all parts of government would be throwing everything at the vaccination effort \"round the clock\"\n\nIn one positive development for hospitals, two more life-saving drugs that can cut deaths by a quarter in patients who are sickest with Covid have been cleared for widespread use, with immediate effect.\n\nThe anti-inflammatory medications, given via a drip, save an extra life for every 12 treated, researchers said, following NHS trials.\n\nElsewhere, the UK has implemented restrictions on travellers to England from countries near South Africa to stop the spread of the South African Covid variant.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Johnson and Sir Simon were asked about persistent social media claims that coronavirus does not exist - and that reports of packed hospital wards of people being treated are just a myth.\n\nSir Simon said that such misinformation was an \"insult\" to hard-working critical care staff.\n\n\"There is nothing more demoralising than having that kind of nonsense spouted when it is most obviously untrue,\" he said.", "Sarah Bingham said she is a match donor for her daughter Ariel and eldest son Noah (far right)\n\nA mother with two children who need kidney transplants said she wishes she could help both of them, but can only donate one organ.\n\nSarah Bingham's son Noah, 20, and daughter Ariel, 16, have the same rare genetic condition.\n\nMrs Bingham, 48, is a donor match for her children and said her maternal instinct is to donate to both of them.\n\nBut her organ was always due to go to her daughter and two family friends are matches for her son.\n\nHer husband Darryl, 49, is not a match, so cannot be a donor for their children.\n\nBoth Noah and Ariel have nephronophthisis, which causes inflammation and scarring to the kidneys.\n\nMrs Bingham, of Hexham, Northumberland, said although her son is \"very poorly\", he undergoes regular dialysis and is in a stable condition.\n\nHer daughter's kidney function \"has been deteriorating more in the last year\" and she will probably need a transplant first.\n\nMrs Bingham said: \"I was all set to give a kidney to my daughter and then my son went into renal failure and he also needs a kidney. Obviously, I've only got one that I can donate.\n\n\"The renal teams don't push you [to make a decision], because you're putting yourself on the line to donate a kidney.\n\n\"You have to make that call yourself, but obviously as a mum when you've got two children who both need kidney transplants and you've expected to give your kidney to one, and suddenly the other one needs one as well, you feel this dilemma.\"\n\nNoah Bingham is in a stable condition thanks to regular kidney dialysis\n\nProblems began in 2016 when Ariel started to feel constantly tired.\n\nHer fatigue was initially put down to exam stress, but tests at Newcastle's Royal Victoria Infirmary found she had the kidney condition.\n\nMrs Bingham was told she would be a suitable donor for Ariel when the time came.\n\nThen, in 2019, Noah became ill and was diagnosed with the same condition.\n\nHe is stable, but would need to put on weight to undergo a transplant.\n\nThe couple have another son Casper, 12, who is being tested to see if he also has the condition.\n\nDarryl Bingham is not a suitable match for his two eldest children\n\nProf John Sayer, a kidney specialist at Newcastle's Freeman Hospital who is treating Noah, said nephronophthisis affects about one in 100,000 people.\n\n\"There's clearly a dilemma because there's a shortage of donors for patients needing kidney transplants.\n\n\"But kidney failure itself is not rare. There are 4,500 people across the country waiting for a transplant.\"\n\nHe added patients often face a \"gruelling and terrifying\" wait of about three years for a donor organ.\n\nIn December, Mr Bingham completed the challenge of walking 12,000 steps every day for 12 days to raise money for Kidney Research UK, which has supported the family.\n\nMrs Bingham said that if Ariel's condition was to deteriorate first she would get her kidney\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Some supermarkets faced issues over the festive period due to ports disruption\n\nThe UK meat industry has called for the early vaccination of workers to keep food supplies running smoothly during the coronavirus crisis.\n\nIt warned that absences during the pandemic, coupled with disruption at ports, could hit food supply chains.\n\nAn early vaccination call for supermarket staff was also made by the boss of Sainsbury's on Thursday.\n\nThe government said the food industry remains \"well-prepared\" to make sure people have the food they need.\n\nThe British Meat Processors Association (BMPA) said coronavirus and disruption at ports due to new systems brought in after the Brexit transition period were \"a severe challenge to the industry and to the smooth running of the nation's food supply chain\".\n\nIt argued frontline workers in meat factories should get early vaccinations due to the risk of a rapid spread of the new strains of the virus among key workers.\n\nThe government has set out who will get vaccinated first, which starts with care home residents and the oldest and most vulnerable people.\n\nBut Nick Allen, chief executive of the BMPA, said it would be logical to also prioritise key workers in the food industry.\n\n\"As the new coronavirus variant takes hold across the whole of the UK, we are hearing widespread reports of rapidly rising absences in the food supply chain,\" he said.\n\nSome firms supplying supermarkets \"are seeing a tripling of staff having to take time off work through illness or enforced self-isolation\", he added.\n\nPressures on staff during the lockdown include illness, having to self-isolate, and childcare while some schools are closed under England's lockdown.\n\nDue to the specialised nature of meat production, if even a few key factory personnel such as the foreman or managers are absent, production can stop, Mr Allen said.\n\nEarly vaccinations should not be restricted to the meat industry, according to Mr Allen. All key workers in the food industry should get early vaccinations, he said.\n\nEven supermarkets themselves are having problems with absences, he suggested.\n\n\"The key food supply chains ought to be prioritised,\" he said. \"All food industry key workers should be prioritised [for vaccination]\".\n\nThe government is advised on vaccinations by a group of experts called the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI).\n\nProfessor Wei Shen Lim, Covid-19 Chair for the JCVI, said the committee's advice on vaccine prioritisation \"was developed with the aim of preventing as many deaths as possible.\"\n\n\"As the single greatest risk of death from Covid-19 is older age, prioritisation is primarily based on age,\" he said.\n\n\"It is estimated that vaccinating everyone in the priority groups would prevent 99% of deaths, including those associated with occupational exposure to infection,\" the professor added.\n\nSainsbury's boss Simon Roberts also called for early vaccinations for key workers on Thursday.\n\n\"My view is that priority has to be given to those that need it first,\" he said. \"Those on the frontline should be part of that as and when capacity becomes available.\"\n\nAbsence rates for Sainsbury's staff are lower than at the peak of the crisis, but are rising, and have stepped up in the last few days, he said.\n\nThe Sainsbury's absence rate is currently 8%. The business has 172,000 employees.\n\nAsda said that it had seen an increase in employees self-isolating and shielding in line with the rising UK infection rate.\n\nHowever, it said that absence rates were still lower than at the peak of the pandemic.\n\n\"We are taking proactive steps to manage colleague absences by retaining temporary colleagues hired over the Christmas period and are bringing in additional temporary colleagues in those stores that need them the most,\" and Asda spokesman said.\n\nTesco has asked clinically vulnerable staff to stay at home.\n\nMorrisons, meanwhile, is also seeing more absences, but the rate is still more than half that of the peak of the pandemic. It is also a bigger business having taken on 26,000 extra staff during the crisis.\n\nAndrew Opie, director of food and sustainability at the British Retail Consortium said: \"While absence rates are currently rising, retailers are closely monitoring the situation in stores and distribution centres and supply chains continue to run smoothly.\n\nA spokesperson for the Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs said: \"As we have seen in recent months, the UK has a large, diverse and highly resilient food supply chain.\n\n\"We continue to closely monitor the situation and are working closely with the food industry on the workforce and absence related challenges presented by the pandemic.\"\n\nThey added that the food industry remains \"well-prepared\" to make sure people across the country have the food they need.\n\nUK ports have seen disruption due to the effects of coronavirus on trade and new systems brought in after the Brexit transition period.\n\nMr Roberts of Sainsbury's said that, so far, the flow of goods from Europe is in decent shape, but there had been some problems in sending food to Northern Ireland.There is still some backlog in general merchandising, he added.\n\nHowever, Scottish seafood exporters warned on Thursday that they had been hit by the \"perfect storm of Brexit disruption\".\n\n\"Weakened by Covid-19, and the closure of the French border before Christmas, the end of the Brexit transition period has unleashed layer upon layer of administrative problems, resulting in queues, border refusals and utter confusion,\" said Donna Fordyce, chief executive of Seafood Scotland.\n\nShe said IT problems in France meant consignments were diverted from Boulogne-sur-Mer to Dunkirk, \"which was unprepared as it wasn't supposed to be at the export frontline.\"\n\nThere have also been IT issues on the UK side with HMRC, she added.\n\n\"These businesses are not transporting toilet rolls or widgets,\" she said. \"They are exporting the highest quality, perishable seafood which has a finite window to get to markets in peak condition. If the window closes these consignments go to landfill.\"\n\nThe National Federation of Fishermen's Organisations also warned of delays to fish exports due to \"a brick wall of bureaucracy\".", "Lorry drivers crossing the Channel will continue to need a recent negative Covid test result \"until further notice\", the UK government has said.\n\nHauliers have been required to prove they have tested negative since the border with France reopened last month.\n\nThe decision to continue testing comes from the French government, the Department for Transport said.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps urged \"all hauliers to get tested before getting to the border\".\n\nThe decision comes as the introduction of new trading rules between the UK and European Union prompts disruption for some businesses and hauliers.\n\nMr Shapps said the government was \"offering support to businesses to set-up testing facilities at their own premises, assisting the smooth passage of trucks and good across the border, as well as setting up testing at information and advice sites around the country\".\n\nDrivers and crew of heavy goods vehicles (HGVs), drivers of large goods vehicles (LGVs) and van drivers are advised to obtain a negative test before arriving in Kent or at other Channel crossing points.\n\nThere are now 34 testing sites for hauliers situated in key \"stopping spots\" across the UK, with further sites being set up, the DfT said.\n\nTests must be authorised and taken 72 hours before entry into France.\n\nIn addition to a negative Covid test result, some hauliers require a new 24-hour permit to enter Kent since the introduction of the new UK-EU rules.\n\nFrance reported 21,703 new coronavirus cases on Thursday, while the UK reported 52,618.\n\nLast month, the border crisis saw France refuse arrivals from the UK for 48 hours between 20 and 22 December due to a new virus variant initially discovered in Kent.\n\nPassenger ferries and lorry freight bound for France were suspended from Dover, Portsmouth and Newhaven.\n\nAn emergency procedure devised as part of post-Brexit preparations allowed lorries to be \"stacked\" - leaving thousands of foreign drivers stranded throughout southern England.", "Last updated on .From the section Aston Villa\n\nAston Villa are preparing to field a team of youngsters in Friday's FA Cup third-round tie at home to Liverpool after a \"significant\" Covid-19 outbreak at the club.\n\nA final decision on whether the game will take place at all will be made on Friday.\n\nVilla manager Dean Smith, his coaching staff and the rest of the club's first-team squad will not be involved after the outbreak forced the closure of the club's Bodymoor Heath training headquarters on Thursday.\n\nThe club is in discussions with the Football Association and want to fulfil the fixture (kick-off 19:45 GMT) but final confirmation on whether the tie is played is still on hold pending the results of further testing on the young players who are now being considered for selection.\n\nMark Delaney, Villa's under-23 coach, is scheduled to take charge in the absence of Smith and his backroom staff. He will be accompanied by a doctor, physiotherapist and kit staff.\n\nThe game was thrown into doubt when Villa confirmed the shutdown of the training ground after \"a large number of first-team players and staff\" returned positive Covid-19 results after being tested on Monday.\n\nThose affected went into isolation and a second round of tests was carried out immediately, which produced more positive results on Thursday.\n\nVilla are keen to play the game against Jurgen Klopp's Premier League champions, who they thrashed 7-2 earlier this season. Manager Smith had planned to rest several stars for the game but the Covid-19 outbreak has thrown the club's plans into chaos.\n\nThey will now be hoping the additional Covid-19 testing returns a clean bill of health with Villa liaising closely with the FA in the hope of getting the game played on Friday night.\n\nThe meeting between in-form Villa and Liverpool is one of the most attractive ties of the third round, even if both managers were set to field unfamiliar line-ups.\n\nIt also remains to be seen whether Villa's scheduled Premier League home game against Tottenham Hotspur at Villa Park on Wednesday goes ahead.\n• None What sport has been hit by Covid-19 this weekend?\n\nElswhere, Southampton's FA Cup third-round game against Shrewsbury on Sunday was called off on Thursday after a significant number of Shrews players and staff tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nWayne Rooney and Derby's first-team squad will miss their FA Cup tie at Chorley on Saturday following a Covid-19 outbreak which closed their training ground on Monday.\n\nThe Rams' team for the game at Victory Park will be made up of under-23 and under-18 players.\n\nVilla will be doing all they can to ensure Friday's tie goes ahead but the Covid-19 outbreak could also have Premier League ramifications.\n\nVilla are scheduled to face fourth-placed Spurs at Villa Park on Wednesday and they currently stand only three points behind Jose Mourinho's team.\n\nThere must now be question marks over whether that game will take place.\n\nIf the game is off it will only add to the fixture congestion both clubs are likely to face in an already crowded calendar this season.\n\nVilla, even though they planned to leave out several established first-team players against Liverpool, still had high FA Cup ambitions and would have wanted to maintain the momentum that has given them such an impressive start to the season after only surviving in the top flight on the final day of last season.\n\nThey will hope the latest testing brings no further complications in the FA Cup context - then attention will turn to what has the potential to be a hugely significant game on Wednesday.\n• Stream eight live FA Cup third-round games this weekend on BBC iPlayer, the BBC Sport website and app. Find out more here.", "GPs in England are receiving doses of the Oxford Covid jab as medics warn about overstretched hospitals.\n\nThe rollout of the Oxford vaccine is part of the NHS's biggest-ever effort and aims to offer jabs to 13 million by mid-February - including all over-80s.\n\nBirmingham's NHS said there are enough supplies with more to come as politicians warned doses may run out.\n\nSome hospitals in England are at risk of becoming Covid-only sites, with rising admissions for the virus forcing trusts to cut back on other services.\n\nAnd hospital leaders have warned medics are becoming increasingly stretched with \"untrained staff\" used to fill gaps.\n\nIt came as a further 1,162 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were reported on Thursday - the second consecutive day of more than 1,000 recorded fatalities - and 52,618 new cases.\n\nThe latest NHS statistics also show that there were 30,370 patients with Covid in UK hospitals on Tuesday.\n\nThe rollout of the Oxford vaccine to GPs will help increase vaccinations among the top four priority groups who are first in line to receive doses.\n\nThe Department of Health said 1.3 million people in the UK, including almost a quarter of those aged over 80 in England, have received at least one dose so far.\n\nWriting to Health Secretary Matt Hancock, the Birmingham political leaders criticised communication around the vaccination programme in the city.\n\n\"We acknowledge that the vaccination rollout is in its early days, but we have also learned today that Birmingham has not yet been supplied with any AstraZeneca stock, while current Pfizer stocks are scheduled to run out on Friday this week with currently no clarity on when further supplies will arrive.\"\n\nThey added \"it remains unclear who is responsible for overseeing the vaccination programme in Birmingham, and whom we should hold accountable for progress and delivery\".\n\nThe letter is signed by Labour leader of Birmingham City Council, Ian Ward; Liam Byrne MP, Labour's candidate for the West Midlands mayor, and by Conservative MP and ex-minister Andrew Mitchell.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Liam Byrne This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut NHS Birmingham and Solihull told the BBC: \"Thousands of people in Birmingham and Solihull have already been vaccinated and this continues at pace.\n\n\"We have sufficient supplies and more will be coming.\"\n\nWest Midlands mayor Andy Street said he has been assured supplies of the Oxford vaccine will be delivered to Birmingham on Friday.\n\nElsewhere, Gillian McLauchlan, deputy director of public health at Salford Council, described \"teething\" issues with the vaccine rollout there.\n\nShe told councillors at a local scrutiny committee: \"We have no control over vaccine supplies. We are told literally two days in advance 'your next lot of vaccines are coming'.\"\n\nEngland's vaccination programme is described as the biggest in NHS history, with an aim to offer jabs to most care home residents by the end of January and the most vulnerable by mid-February.\n\nOfficials leading the vaccination programme are adamant rollout is going to plan - and are cautioning against judging performance too early.\n\nOf course, there will be teething problems, but the fact remains the UK has vaccinated more per head of population than any other country apart from Israel and Bahrain.\n\nWhile rollout of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine started on Monday, it was actually only being used at the hospital hubs up to Thursday.\n\nDeliveries are now being made to hundreds of local vaccination centres. There are 17 in the Birmingham region so they should start to receive doses imminently.\n\nThat should mean there is a vaccine available if they do run out of the Pfizer-BioNTech jab.\n\nAlthough disruption to the rollout of the programme in the city may still happen as local centres are warning they cannot book patients in until they know they have stock available.\n\nBut the fact the city's leaders felt compelled to write to the health secretary to warn about this is an illustration of the pressure in the system at the moment.\n\nGiven the high level of infections and current lockdown, there is a desperation in all quarters to get the most at-risk vaccinated as quickly as possible.\n\nAnd until the nation sees that translate into significant numbers of people getting vaccinated - 2 million a week is the goal - people will remain on edge.\n\nThe Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was approved for emergency use on 2 December but requires specialist storage unsuitable for most GP practices, with doses largely delivered in hospitals.\n\nThe Oxford-AstraZeneca jab was approved on 30 December and does not require specialist storage. It was first rolled out on Monday to hospitals and to GPs in England from Thursday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. One medical centre in London is now vaccinating almost 1,000 people a week\n\nMr Hancock visited a GP surgery in London to promote the roll out earlier - but staff there said delivery of the Oxford vaccine had been delayed.\n\nThe health secretary said he was \"delighted\" care home residents would begin receiving their first Oxford jabs from GPs this week.\n\n\"This will ensure the most vulnerable are protected and will save tens of thousands of lives,\" he said.\n\nGP Ammara Hughes, a partner at Bloomsbury Surgery, told broadcasters its first delivery of the Oxford jab had been pushed back 24 hours to Thursday.\n\nShe said: \"It's just more frustrating than a concern because we've got the capacity to vaccinate. And if we had a regular supply - we do have the capacity to vaccinate three to four thousand patients a week.\"\n\nMr Hancock described supply of vaccine as a \"rate-limiting\" step.\n\nHe said: \"For the first three days with the Oxford vaccine we did it in hospitals to check that it was working well and it's working well so now we can make sure that it gets to all those GP surgeries that like this one can do all the vaccinations that are needed.\n\n\"The rate-limiting step is the supply of vaccine. We're working with the companies - both Pfizer and AstraZeneca - to increase the supply.\"\n\nMore than 700 local vaccination sites will administer jabs, with the government announcing a further seven mass vaccination sites across England.\n\nAnother 180 GP-led sites, 100 new hospital sites and a pilot scheme involving local pharmacies will open this week.\n\nMeanwhile, nearly 19,981 second doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech jab - which was the first to be approved for emergency use in the UK last month - were administered between 29 December and 3 January, NHS England said.\n\nIt came as Rupert Pearse, professor of intensive care medicine and a consultant at the Royal London, said his own intensive care staff are having to care for far more sick patients.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme there would usually be a ratio of one fully-trained intensive care nurse for each patient in a unit but staff are becoming increasingly stretched.\n\n\"Right now we are diluting down to one [intensive care] nurse to three [patients] and filling those gaps with untrained staff and in some instances doctors helping nurses deliver their care... and we're even facing diluting that further to one in four,\" he said.\n\nAll of the UK is now under strict virus curbs, with Wales, Northern Ireland and most of Scotland also in lockdown, and vaccinations are progressing across the devolved nations.", "Supermarket giant Sainsbury's has reported a bumper Christmas, with sales up 9.3% for the festive trading period.\n\nMore customers bought their food online than ever before, it said.\n\nIn the 10 days leading up to Christmas, it delivered 1.1 million online orders, twice last year's number.\n\n\"Many customers had to change their Christmas plans at the last minute and we sold smaller turkeys and more lamb and beef than normal,\" said chief executive Simon Roberts.\n\nSainsbury's Christmas trading period covered the nine weeks from 1 November 2020 to 2 January 2021.\n\nFor the 15 weeks to 2 January, like-for-like sales, which strip out the impact of new store openings, were up 8.6%.\n\n\"We now expect, after forgoing business rates relief of £410m, to report underlying profit before tax of at least £330m in the financial year to March 2021,\" the supermarket said.\n\nThat is down from the previous year's figure of £586m.\n\nSainsbury's has delivered bumper festive sales. It's invested heavily in boosting online capacity to keep up with the soaring demand.\n\nSupermarkets have struggled to make money from doing online deliveries, but Sainsbury's says its operation has become more efficient and profitability has improved. As volumes have increased, there are more orders in every van delivering to a smaller radius of customers.\n\nClick-and-collect is a lot cheaper to do than home deliveries. And this accounted for about a quarter of online sales in the final week.\n\nArgos generated more than half its sales from online well before the pandemic. More than 300 Argos counters are now inside Sainsbury's supermarkets, making it easy for people to pick up goods and gifts. Its fast-track delivery service can deliver to customers' homes and collection points within hours and this has seen growth of 62%.\n\nThis is a business that's been well placed to benefit from the huge shift to digital this Christmas.\n\nChristmas and New Year celebrations were constrained by coronavirus restrictions, which limited the number of people and households allowed to meet up.\n\nSainsbury's said that while people had smaller gatherings, they still treated themselves, with sales of the supermarket's premium Taste the Difference range up 11%.\n\nPremium champagne sales were up 52%, it added, echoing similar findings by rival Morrisons.\n\n\"People did more home baking than usual, with mincemeat sales up 24%. Customers still wanted New Year's Eve at home to feel special and we sold a record number of steaks,\" Sainsbury's said.\n\nSales of groceries, general merchandise and clothing were stronger than expected throughout the quarter, particularly since the start of England's second national lockdown, it added.\n\nClothing benefited from better-than-anticipated full-price sales, driven by customers shopping earlier for Christmas and changes to the supermarket's Black Friday trading strategy.\n\nSeparate figures issued by discount retailer B&M indicated that it too had a good Christmas, with like-for-like revenues at its UK stores up 21.1% year-on-year in the 13 weeks to 26 December.\n\n\"With our combination of exceptional value and convenient out-of-town locations, we are confident that our business model will prove highly relevant to the needs of customers in 2021,\" said chief executive Simon Arora.", "Lockdowns have worked before, but can we expect the new one to do the same?\n\nIt feels like we are back in March or April last year, when the strict controls on all our lives led to a fairly quick decline in levels of coronavirus.\n\nBut one of the crucial differences this time is the new variant, which is thought to spread between 50 and 70% faster than previous forms of the virus.\n\nExperts warn there are now no guarantees that lockdown will be enough to bring the variant under control.\n\n\"It still would not have been easy, but it would have been a much easier situation if it had not been for the new variant,\" Prof Neil Ferguson, from Imperial College London, told Inside Health.\n\n\"That really pushes the bounds of our ability to control the spread of the virus, even with measures that were previously relatively quite effective.\"\n\nThe coronavirus spreads when we come into contact with each other so moving classrooms online, telling people to stay at home and closing shops breaks many of those opportunities for human contact.\n\nIf we consider the R number - the average number of people each infected person passes the virus on to - it was about 3.0 in the run up to the first lockdown and anything above 1.0 means cases are climbing.\n\nR fell to 0.6 during the first lockdown.\n\nThen every 1,000 infected people passed the virus on to 600 others, who passed it on to 360 others and so on.\n\nBut if the new variant is 50% more transmissible then the R number, in the same lockdown conditions, would be about 0.9.\n\nThen 1,000 infected people would pass the virus onto 900 others, then 810 and so on.\n\nAs you can see this leads to far slower decline.\n\nAnd that assumes lockdown can get R down to 0.9 in areas where the new variant has become the most common form of the virus.\n\nIf, as some studies suggest, the variant is about 70% more transmissible then R may stay above 1.0 and cases may not fall at all.\n\n\"We'd at best flatten the curve, keep numbers at a roughly constant level, and that's frankly why there is so much emphasis on getting vaccine into people's arms as quickly as possible,\" said Prof Ferguson.\n\nIt is hard to lock down even harder as there are some parts of society - hospitals, supermarkets - that need to be kept open.\n\nWhat happens to the number of cases over the coming weeks will be closely monitored. If this lockdown is less effective then we will have to live with it for longer.\n\nThere have been some encouraging signs over the Christmas break, which was a bit like a lockdown due to school holidays and other restrictions.\n\n\"We are in a very difficult situation here, but my initial assessment of the last few days is that the rate is slowing which is good news,\" Prof John Edmunds, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, told the BBC.\n\nHe added: \"It looks likes those restrictions should be sufficient to stop the increase, whether they will be sufficient to bring cases down sufficiently we are yet to see.\"\n\nEventually the vaccine will give people immunity so we do not need the same controls on our lives.\n\nNow more than ever this is a race between the virus and the vaccine.", "Shijiazhuang authorities have started mass-testing residents following an outbreak in the city\n\nChina has placed 11 million people in the northern city of Shijiazhuang under lockdown after more than 100 new Covid cases were confirmed there.\n\nResidents are banned from leaving the city and schools have also been closed.\n\nMore than 5,000 testing sites have been set up so every resident can be tested.\n\nThe new figures are the highest China has seen in more than five months. The country has been able to contain such outbreaks by immediately taking tough action.\n\nThis has involved consistently using mass testing when new clusters of cases appear, even if they seem relatively small.\n\nHebei province, where Shijiazhuang is located, reported 120 new cases on Thursday and all but one of those infections was in the city. Elsewhere in the country, 22 new cases were confirmed.\n\nThe virus was first detected in the Chinese city of Wuhan in late 2019 before spiralling into a global pandemic.\n\nThursday's lockdown comes just weeks ahead of Chinese New Year, a time when people in China travel en masse to spend the holiday with their families.\n\nBut residents in the Gaocheng district of Shijiazhuang, considered to be the epicentre of the outbreak, are now not allowed to leave their local area. Other residents are banned from leaving the city.\n\nIn terms of transport, bus travel has been halted and many flights have been cancelled.\n\nResidents have been banned from leaving the city\n\nIn a sign of just how seriously the authorities see the situation, even the postal service in and out of Shijiazhuang has been suspended for three days. And the restrictions are being tightly enforced - police were photographed in protective hazmat suits guarding the entrance to an expressway.\n\nThree officials in Shijiazhuang's Gaocheng district have been punished for \"negligence\", according to the state-run China Daily newspaper.\n\n\"Villages should identify, report, isolate and treat cases as early as possible, so as to cut off the transmission,\" Wu Hao, a national health official, was quoted as saying.\n\nFive hospitals in Shijiazhuang have been cleared for Covid-19 patients, with three others standing by, the city's Vice-Mayor Meng Xianghong said.\n\nThursday's lockdown comes just weeks ahead of Chinese New Year - a time when families gather\n\nIt is not the first time China has locked down a city in response to a cluster of cases since the outbreak in Wuhan.\n\nIn October, all nine million residents of the Chinese city of Qingdao were tested in five days after a dozen cases were confirmed. The cases were linked to a hospital treating coronavirus patients arriving from abroad.\n\nThe same month, authorities in Kashgar, in Xinjiang, tested around 4.7m people after an outbreak there.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Many businesses in Beijing say that customers are still staying away", "The star thanked fans for their messages of support\n\nThe Wanted's Tom Parker has told fans he is \"responding well\" to treatment for his brain tumour.\n\nThe singer praised the NHS as he wrote on Instagram: \"Significant reduction: These are the words I received today and I can't stop saying them over and over again.\"\n\nSharing a picture with his wife Kelsey Hardwick and their two children, he added: \"Today is a good day.\"\n\nThe 32-year-old was found to have an inoperable brain tumour last year.\n\nThe diagnosis came after he suffered two seizures last summer. Because of Covid-19 restrictions, his wife was not allowed in the hospital during three days of tests and he received the news alone.\n\nAt the time he vowed to fight the cancer \"all the way\". Two weeks later he became a father for the second time after Hardwick gave birth to a baby boy.\n\nThe singer shared a photo of his young family alongside the latest update on his health\n\nSharing an update on his condition on Thursday, Parker said: \"I had an MRI scan on Tuesday and my results today were a significant reduction to the tumour and I am responding well to treatment.\n\n\"I can't thank our wonderful NHS enough,\" he continued. \"You're all having a tough time out there but we appreciate the work you are all doing on the front line.\"\n\nThe star also thanked his wife, calling her \"my rock\", and thanked fans for their support. \"Your love, light and positivity have inspired me,\" he wrote. \"Every message has not been unnoticed they have given me so much strength.\"\n\nParker achieved fame in the early 2010s as part of The Wanted, reaching number one with the singles All Time Low and Glad You Came.\n\nSince the band went on hiatus in 2014, he has played Danny Zuko in a touring production of Grease and reached the semi-finals of Celebrity Masterchef.\n\nHe married Hardwick, an actress, in 2018. As well as Bodhi, the couple have an 18-month-old daughter.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Just when the hospitality sector thought things couldn't get any worse, it has been hit by another lockdown.\n\nLast year's rolling closures forced Martin Wolstencroft to borrow £4m just to ensure the survival of Arc Inspirations, a bar chain with 17 venues across the north of England that he has spent the last two decades building into a successful business.\n\nAnd the latest lockdown has forced Mr Wolstencroft to ask his bank to lend him another £1m.\n\nHe is far from alone. UK Hospitality says the closure of pubs, restaurants and hotels is costing business owners such as Mr Wolstencroft a total of £500m a month, even allowing for any government support. And that has led to a huge rise in debt.\n\n\"The money that we are borrowing is really just to stand still,\" Mr Wolstencroft said.\n\n\"We'll be coming out of this in a far worse position with far greater debt and it totally reduces our ability to grow our business for the future.\n\n\"And all of this has been brought about through no fault of our own.\"\n\nHe reckons the debt he has taken on so far will take the business six years to pay back, which leaves him facing some difficult decisions.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak has announced a package of grants worth up to £3,000 a month per property to keep retail, hospitality and leisure businesses afloat until the spring.\n\nBut Mr Wolstencroft, who pays rents of more than £16,000 a month on some of his bars, described the grants as a \"mere drop in the ocean\".\n\nThe effect of taking on huge debts with no prospect of reopening soon is a major threat to millions working in the hospitality sector.\n\nMore than 1,600 restaurants closed last year, costing 30,000 jobs, says property adviser Altus.\n\nWhen bars, hotels and other hospitality businesses are included, almost 300,000 jobs were lost last year as a result of the pandemic, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics.\n\nAnd that figure is expected to more than double in the first three months of this year alone.\n\nKate Nicholls, the boss of UK Hospitality, predicts the total will hit 660,000 by the end of March.\n\nUK Hospitality chief executive Kate Nicholls is calling for further support for the industry\n\n\"The longer that these restrictions are in place, the more rapidly businesses will simply run out of cash and be unable to to remain open,\" she said.\n\nA survey of the trade body's members revealed that 80% of businesses did not have enough cash to make it through to April. \"It's going to be unbelievably brutal in the first quarter,\" Ms Nicholls said.\n\nThe latest lockdown follows a bruising Christmas period for the hospitality sector, which typically depends on a busy December to tide it over during January, traditionally a quiet month for pubs and restaurants.\n\n\"It's obviously very worrying for our industry,\" says Tim Hughes, who runs the Plough pub at Sleapshyde in Hertfordshire.\n\n\"They have banned takeaway sales of alcohol from pubs, but off-licences and supermarkets can carry on selling it,\" he said.\n\nBetween them, Mr Hughes, his brother and his father run three pubs in the St Albans area. They have already borrowed £350,000 and Mr Hughes says the latest lockdown will force them to take on even more debt just to survive.\n\nMonthly fixed costs at each of the pubs run to £9,500 and only one of their venues qualifies for the full £3,000 grant, so Mr Hughes says the Treasury's support \"doesn't touch the sides\".\n\nIt's the fourth time Mr Hughes has been forced to close the doors to the Plough - and each time it has cost him about £5,000.\n\nThis time, he also had to give away £4,000 worth of jumbo pork, vegetarian and vegan Bavarian bratwursts, bought to give 2,000 customers a substantial meal in the pub's \"winter garden\" during the festive period.\n\nThat was before an unexpected decision to put St Albans into tier three forced him to close the pub. He cancelled those bookings and refunded customers their £16,000.\n\nThe Plough's \"winter garden\", which was booked up for the Christmas period, stands empty\n\nRalph Findlay, the boss of Marston's, which has 1,700 pubs across the country and employs 14,000 people, said some pubs that had been forced to close their doors because of the lockdown would never reopen.\n\nHalf of Marston's employees are under 25, he said. \"I really worry about the impact of this on their employment prospects in places where it's very difficult to find employment.\"\n\nHe has called for pubs to be given more time before they are required to pay business rates again, which will leave pubs facing an £800m bill as soon as the current rates holiday expires in March, according to the British Beer & Pub Association.\n\nThat would force landlords, including Mr Hughes, to foot a bill that works out at £25,000 a pub.\n\n\"We are kidding ourselves if we think that more debt upon more debt is going to be sustainable,\" said Stephen Welton, executive chairman of the Business Growth Fund.\n\n\"Past recessions have shown very clearly that it's coming out of a recession - when companies are short of working capital - that they fall over.\"\n\nFor Mr Hughes at the Plough, he is looking for all the support he can get to avoid being put into a \"bigger black hole\".\n\nA Treasury spokesman said: \"\"We've taken swift action throughout the pandemic to protect lives and livelihoods.\"\n\nHe said the grant scheme would continue to support businesses and jobs through to the spring.", "Jamie Stiehm is a US political columnist who was in the Capitol building in Washington DC when it was stormed by pro-Trump rioters. Here's what she saw from the press gallery in the House of Representatives.\n\nI had told my sister earlier: \"Something bad is going to happen today. I don't know what, but something bad will happen.\"\n\nOutside the Capitol, I encountered a group of very boisterous supporters of President Donald Trump, all waving flags and pledging their allegiance to him. There was a sense that trouble was brewing.\n\nI went inside to the House of Representatives and up into the press gallery, where we were assigned seats, looking down at the rather sombre gathering. Speaker Nancy Pelosi was holding the gavel, and keeping people to their five-minute statements.\n\nAs we went into the second hour, all of a sudden we heard breaking glass. The air began getting fogged. An announcement from the Capitol Police said, \"An individual has breached the building\". So everyone looked around and then it was business as usual. But after that, the announcements kept coming. And they were getting more and more urgent.\n\nThey announced that the intruders had breached the rotunda, which is under the famed marble dome. The sacred house of democracy was under fire.\n\nMany of us are hardened journalists - I've seen my share of violence covering homicides in Baltimore - but this was very unpredictable. The police didn't seem to know what was happening. They weren't coordinated. They locked the chamber doors but at the same time, they told us we would have to evacuate. So there was a sense of panic.\n\nI was afraid. I'll tell you that. And I've spoken to other journalists who said they were a little ashamed of themselves for feeling afraid.\n\nThere was a sense of \"nobody's in charge here, the Capitol Police have lost control of the building, anything can happen\".\n\nIf you think back to the September 11 attacks in 2001, there was one plane that went down and didn't hit its target. That target was the Capitol. There were echoes of that. I made a call to my family, just to let them know that I was here and it was a dangerous situation.\n\nThere was a shot. We could see there was a standoff in our chamber. Five men were holding guns at the door. It was a frightening sight. Men were looking through a broken glass window and looked like they could shoot at any second.\n\nThankfully there was no gunfire inside the chamber. But for a while there, it felt like it would be a real possibility. Because things were going downhill very fast.\n\nWe had to crawl under railings to get out of the way. I was not dressed to do that. A lot of women were dressed up, wearing heels, because they had come for a formal ritual.\n\nI sheltered in the House cafeteria alongside others. I'm still shaking now.\n\nI have seen a lot as a journalist, but this was something more. This was the collective public sphere being undermined, assaulted, degraded. And I think this was why the Speaker wanted to return and hold the gavel again and go on.\n\nAfterwards I had to decide whether I was going to go back to the chamber too. I decided l probably would, because the message that is sending is: \"You can incite a mob, but we're going to go on\". I think that is a very important political message.", "Asos says it is in \"exclusive\" talks to buy Topshop, Topman, Miss Selfridge and HIIT brands out of administration.\n\nBut the online retailer said it only wanted the brands, not their shops, suggesting any deal would cost jobs.\n\nThe current owner of the brands, Sir Philip Green's Arcadia Group, fell into administration last November putting 13,000 jobs at risk.\n\nAsos said it was \"a compelling opportunity\" to buy \"strong brands that resonate well with its customer base\".\n\n\"However, at this stage, there can be no certainty of a transaction and Asos will keep shareholders updated as appropriate,\" it added.\n\nLast week, a consortium including fashion chain Next dropped its bid to buy Topshop and Topman because it could not meet the price tag.\n\nOthers interested in some or all of Arcadia - which also owns Dorothy Perkins and Burton - include Mike Ashley's Frasers Group, a consortium including JD Sports, and the online retailer Boohoo.\n\nIn addition, the Issa brothers, who recently bought supermarket chain Asda, and Chinese fast fashion giant Shein are said to have made bids for Topshop.\n\nAsos has seen strong sales in the pandemic and is already one of the biggest wholesalers for Topshop, Topman, Burton and Miss Selfridge.\n\nAdministrators from Deloitte requested that final bids be submitted last Monday, with the auction expected to conclude at the end of January.\n\nSir Philip Green is under pressure to use his own money to plug an estimated £350m hole in Arcadia's pension fund, which has about 10,000 members.\n\nLast year the retail tycoon had an estimated fortune of £930m, according to the Sunday Times Rich List.\n\nArcadia employed about 13,000 people and had 444 shops at the time of its collapse.", "Boohoo is set to buy the Debenhams brand and website, the BBC understands.\n\nHowever, the fast fashion retailer will not be taking on any of the company's remaining 118 High Street stores or its workforce.\n\nThe announcement could come as early as Monday morning.\n\nThe 242-year-old chain is already in the process of closing down, after administrators failed to secure a rescue deal for the business, with the likely loss of 12,000 jobs.\n\nA closing down sale at 124 Debenhams stores began in December, as administrators continued to seek offers for all, or parts of the business.\n\nIn the last week or so, the company announced that six shops would not reopen after lockdown, including its flagship department store on London's Oxford Street.\n\nBoohoo has already bought a number of High Street brands out of administration. It snapped up Oasis, Coast and Karen Millen, but not the associated stores.\n\nDebenhams has struggled for years with falling profits and rising debts, as more shopping has moved online. It called in administrators twice in two years, most recently in April.\n\nMike Ashley has bought other struggling businesses including House of Fraser and Evans Cycles\n\nHowever, its position became untenable during the coronavirus pandemic as non-essential retailers were forced to close for prolonged periods.\n\nThe firm had already trimmed its store portfolio and cut about 6,500 jobs since May, as it struggled to stay afloat.\n\nBusinessman Mike Ashley, who founded Sports Direct and also owns House of Fraser, had already made an offer for Debenhams after it was initially put up for sale in April.\n\nHowever the takeover offer, thought to be in the region of £125m, was rejected as being too low, leaving JD Sports as the last remaining bidder.\n\nMr Ashley had previously built up a 29% stake in the chain, but saw his £150m holding wiped out in 2019, when the company fell into administration and then ended up in the hands of its lenders - a consortium led by hedge fund Silverpoint.\n\nIn early December, the Frasers Group confirmed that it was working on a possible last minute rescue of Debenhams.\n\nThe announcement came five days after staff were informed and liquidators moved in to Debenhams' stores to start clearing stock, after a potential rescue deal with JD Sports fell through.\n\nBut Frasers said there was \"no certainty\" it could save the chain.\n\nOne of the biggest issues, it said, was the collapse into administration last week of another High Street giant, Arcadia, which is the biggest concession holder in Debenhams department stores.", "More than 26,000 are now in hospital with the virus, according to government data\n\nFrance's top medical adviser said on Sunday that a third national lockdown would probably soon be needed to combat coronavirus in the country.\n\nA strict curfew was implemented last weekend, but cases continue to climb.\n\nProf Jean-Francois Delfraissy, head of the scientific council that advises leaders on Covid-19, said \"there is an emergency\" and this week was critical.\n\nHe called for swift government action, amid rising concerns about the spread of new variants of the coronavirus.\n\nProf Delfraissy said data showed a new more transmissible variant first detected in the UK now makes up between 7-9% of cases in some French regions and will be hard to stop.\n\nHe said the country was in a better situation than others in Europe, but described the new variants as the \"equivalent of a second pandemic\".\n\n\"If we do not tighten regulations, we will find ourselves in an extremely difficult situation from mid-March,\" the advisor warned during an interview with BFM television.\n\nThe French government is expected to meet on Wednesday to decide if further measures are needed.\n\nOfficials have so far resisted implementing a third national lockdown, preferring an overnight curfew system which allows schools to stay open.\n\nBut daily infection numbers are rising - with the seven-day moving average now above 20,000 despite the 18:00 curfew.\n\nFrench Prime Minister Jean Castex previously said restrictions could be imposed \"without delay\" if the situation deteriorated further.\n\nThe country's virus death toll topped 73,000 on Sunday, as the country tightened restrictions on arrivals into the country.\n\nUnder new rules anyone entering from inside the EU by air or ferry must now present a negative Covid-19 test result within 72 hours of travel. Those entering France from the EU by road, including cross-border workers, will not be required to take a test.\n\nPresident of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, said last week that all non-essential travel \"must be strongly advised against\" but EU nations have so far agreed to keep borders open.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police in Paris ensure shops close at 6pm as France begins a new curfew to tackle Covid-19", "Ella Lambert had never sewn before but borrowed a friend's machine to learn how to make sanitary pads made from cloth\n\nA student whose \"terrible period pains\" inspired her to start a reusable sanitary pad project has helped 600 refugees get out of \"period poverty\".\n\nElla Lambert, 20, from Chelmsford, Essex, started The Pachamama Project during the first coronavirus lockdown.\n\nShe said she wanted to help women who were unable to buy period products.\n\nNearly 2,500 pads sewn by 150 volunteers have been sent to camps in Greece and Lebanon.\n\nWomen are given four pads each, which are washable and can be reused for about five years, she said.\n\nThe pads are distributed to women in refugee camps\n\nMs Lambert said: \"In March I had terrible period pain, I was being sick, it was awful, and it made me think, I know I'm not the only person going through this.\n\n\"The people I want to help, in these camps, they're experiencing period pain and having to use random tissue paper, cardboard, socks, scraps of material and even leaves - whatever they can get hold of.\"\n\nThe University of Bristol languages student set up her not-for-profit group in March and launched her sanitary product - Pacha Pads - in August, with the help of charities and groups in the two countries to distribute them.\n\nThousands of pads have been made by hundreds of volunteers since August\n\nIt started when she put appeals for material on community groups, she said.\n\nVolunteers from all over the UK came forward to make the products after she developed a pattern, created a guide and explained how to source material for free.\n\nThe products are then sent back to her to be posted abroad, after quality checks.\n\nSome of the sewers came from groups formed to make scrubs for NHS workers during the first lockdown, and who still wanted to be useful, she said.\n\nAlice Corrigan, from The Free Shop of Lebanon, said the project helped with the \"fight against period poverty in Lebanon\"\n\nAlice Corrigan, founder of The Free Shop Lebanon, which hands out the products for free in its shop, said: \"Sustainable menstrual products are very new to many Lebanese and in particular Syrian women.\"\n\nShe added it is not common for them to talk about menstrual activity, so it was important they could be helped to understand its importance and accept it as part of their routine.\n\nKaty Chadwick, technical adviser at the charity ActionAid UK, said: \"For too many women and girls and people who menstruate a lack of access to products impacts on their ability to move freely and to access education and other opportunities.\n\n\"It's encouraging to see new initiatives to support the most marginalised women and girls access sustainable products.\"\n\nAll the sanitary pads are washable so they can be reused for up to about five years\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "It is hoped that vaccinating teenagers will allow them to sit exams\n\nIsrael has started vaccinating 16 to 18-year-olds against Covid-19, in an effort to enable them to sit exams.\n\nMore than a quarter of Israel's population of nine million have received at least one dose of the Pfizer vaccine since 19 December, its health ministry says.\n\nIt started with the elderly and others at high risk, but people aged 40 and over can also now get the jab.\n\nIsrael hopes to start reopening its economy in February.\n\nThe inclusion of 16 to 18-year-olds - with parental permission - is meant \"to enable their return (to school) and the orderly holding of exams\", an education ministry spokeswoman said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe matriculation exams that Israeli students sit at the end of high school play an important role in deciding where they will go to university. Their results can also affect their placement in the military, where many young Israelis do compulsory service.\n\nThe education ministry has said it is too early to say whether schools will reopen next month.\n\nIsrael started its rapid vaccination drive - the fastest in the world - on 19 December, reaching 10% of its population by the end of 2020.\n\nIsrael has recorded more than 596,000 cases and 4,392 deaths with Covid-19, according to data collected by Johns Hopkins University.\n\nOn Sunday, the government said it would ban passenger flights in and out of the country from Monday night for the rest of January, in an effort to halt the spread of new virus variants.\n\n\"Other than rare exceptions, we are closing the sky hermetically to prevent the entry of the virus variants and also to ensure that we progress quickly with our vaccination campaign,\" Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.\n\nForeigners have largely been blocked from entering Israel during the pandemic.", "All schools moved to online learning before Christmas, following concerns from unions over the new coronavirus variant\n\n\"Wholesale\" return of pupils to school after February half term is \"unlikely\", Wales' first minister has said.\n\nMark Drakeford said there were \"intermediate positions between where we are today, with very few children in school, and everybody being back\".\n\nPreviously, ministers said schools would stay closed to most until February half term unless Covid cases fell significantly.\n\nThose preparing for qualifications and very young children may return first.\n\nMr Drakeford told a coronavirus briefing on Friday he had recently chaired a meeting of the teaching unions and local education authorities.\n\n\"We all agreed that we would work purposefully together to find ways of bringing more young people back into the classroom,\" he said.\n\n\"Does that mean that we will see a wholesale return of every child in every classroom, every day of the week across Wales? I do think that that is probably unlikely.\n\n\"But there are intermediate positions between where we are today, with very few children in school, and everybody being back.\"\n\nHe said there had been \"practical, creative, imaginative\" proposals put forward which could mean some children being back in the classroom for some of the week.\n\nMinisters previously said schools would stay closed until half term unless Covid cases fell significantly\n\nThese could include \"children preparing for qualifications [and] very young children for whom online learning really isn't a genuine possibility\".\n\n\"I certainly don't rule out making some of those things happen after the February half term, but I do think it's unlikely in the way you said that we would see every child back full-time in every classroom in the way that we would ideally wish to do,\" he added.\n\nAll schools and colleges moved to online learning before Christmas, following concerns from unions over the new coronavirus variant.\n\nThey have remained open for children of critical workers and vulnerable learners, as well as for learners who needed to complete essential exams or assessments.\n\nEarlier this month, when Education Minister Kirsty Williams said schools and colleges would stay closed to most pupils until the February half term, unions welcomed the news, saying the health and safety of pupils and staff \"had to be a priority\".\n\nBut, they added, teachers must now be given the vaccine as a priority, and pupils and staff must be protected before talks about reopening schools could begin.\n\nTeachers are still not on the priority list for immunisation, and have to wait to get the jab dependent on their age and if they have a medical condition.\n\nAt the time, Laura Doel, director of The National Association of Headteachers Cymru, said: \"Any plan that sees school staff return to face-to-face learning should be afforded as much protection as possible against the virus.\n\n\"Once these issues have been addressed, then we can discuss the orderly return to school we all want.\"\n\nOpposition parties have called for clear plans on how schools would return and for support to make sure pupils from poorer backgrounds did not fall behind due to a \"digital divide\".\n\nPlaid Cymru's education spokeswoman Sian Gwenllian said: \"The Welsh Government must plan now for the gradual and safe reopening of schools, putting in place safety measures, and should lay out plans for a vaccination programme for schools staff.\"\n\nWelsh Conservative education spokeswoman Suzy Davies called for the Welsh Government to publish evidence on its reasons for closing schools, bring forward vaccines for teachers, and said money must be made available for all pupils to access laptops for online learning.", "Janice Johnston says doctors who misdiagnosed her \"took so much away from me\"\n\nA care home worker who was wrongly diagnosed with cancer said she thought it was a \"cruel joke\" when she was told doctors had made a mistake and she did not have cancer at all.\n\nMum-of-four Janice Johnston said her \"world crumbled\" when she learned she had a rare form of blood cancer at Kent and Canterbury Hospital in 2017.\n\nShe had 18 months of oral chemotherapy treatment, during which she experienced weight loss, nausea and bone pain, and had to give up her job as an auxiliary nurse.\n\nWhen the treatment did not appear to be working, she says, medics upped the dosage.\n\nIn 2018, she sought alternative treatment at Guy's Hospital in London. It was there a specialist told her she did not have cancer at all but a different condition.\n\nMrs Johnston was awarded £75,950 in damages after East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust admitted liability. Staff at the hospital had failed to do the necessary ultrasound scan and bone marrow biopsy before diagnosing her.\n\nMrs Johnston, 53, said: \"The cancer diagnosis was an absolute shock. They said my life span would be shortened.\n\n\"I was at high risk of a fatal stroke or heart attack and I could drop down at any minute. It was heartbreaking and devastating.\n\n\"It didn't sink in until I saw the haematologist. I was in a room with people having serious chemotherapy who looked incredibly ill. I thought: 'I'm like them'.\"\n\nMrs Johnston says doctors told her she would need chemotherapy for life.\n\nThe side-effects led to her feeling \"wiped out\", her hair thinning, her teeth becoming loose and her gums receding.\n\nShe says occupational health told her that her immune system was jeopardised and she could pick up infections easily. That meant she was forced to resign from her job.\n\n\"Giving up work was horrible,\" Mrs Johnston says.\n\nShe was also worried she would not get to see some of her daughters get married or her grandchildren grow up.\n\nThe trust admitted failing to carry out vital tests before diagnosing Mrs Johnston\n\nAfter searching on the internet to find out more about the blood cancer she was told she had - Polycythaemia vera (PV) - she learned that Guy's Hospital offered a different type of chemotherapy and asked her consultant for an appointment there.\n\nMrs Johnston recalls: \"The specialist at Guy's looked over my blood counts and said: 'I don't think you have blood cancer'.\"\n\nThe doctor told Mrs Johnston she had a different condition called secondary PV which is not cancer.\n\n\"She asked if I'd had a bone marrow test and scan of the spleen to confirm the diagnosis - I hadn't had either. My husband thought it was fantastic but I was angry.\n\n\"I thought it was a cruel joke on me. It didn't sink in. My husband couldn't understand why I wasn't jumping for joy - but it had taken my life.\"\n\nOne of the hardest things to cope with for Mrs Johnston was thinking she had been a \"fraud\".\n\n\"I'd been doing some fundraising to try and have something positive to focus on. Cancer Research UK asked if I'd be guest of honour at a charity run in Margate. I stood on stage in front of 3,000 women saying I had cancer.\n\n\"I'm mortified that people will think I made it up. It has made me feel awful and like I have lied to everyone,\" she said.\n\nMrs Johnston now has severe anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).\n\n\"I still get flashbacks to it,\" she says. \"It was two years of my life. They took so much away from me.\"\n\nShe says she wants to \"raise awareness\" about her experience, and for \"anyone that does get diagnosed with it, to ask questions and learn as much as they can about it and if they feel any doubt, to get a second opinion\".\n\nA spokesperson for East Kent Hospitals said: \"A misdiagnosis of this kind is exceptionally rare and we wholeheartedly apologise to Ms Johnston.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Teresa Dalling says a river of orange water rushed through the village on Thursday\n\nFlood victims will not be able to return to their homes until their safety can be assured, a council leader has said.\n\nThe Coal Authority has said initial checks suggested water built up in a mine shaft causing a \"blow out\" that flooded properties in Skewen, Neath Port Talbot.\n\nAbout 80 people were evacuated as water rushed through the village on Thursday.\n\nCouncil leader Rob Jones said it was unlikely residents could return Monday.\n\nHe said underground investigations would begin on Saturday and the work could take two to three days.\n\n\"Safety is the paramount concern for us,\" he said.\n\n\"Because we can't guarantee the site safety - that's the reason why people will remain away from their properties until such time as we can give the all clear.\n\n\"We don't know what the water has done underground.\"\n\nThe fire service said on Saturday morning the pumping operation was \"making good progress\".\n\nMr Jones told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast people may be able to return next week but \"did not want to raise hopes\" it will be Monday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe said the flooding was \"more than likely\" related to old mine workings with six mines known about in area. He said the industry dated back 300 years.\n\nSkewen resident John Thomas returned home from a funeral with wife Lynne on Thursday to find their house had turned into \"a lake\".\n\nHe said: \"The water was around the level of the bottom of the doors so we couldn't go in, so we just had to stand there and watch this orange-coloured water just piling up and up and up.\n\n\"Other people who were evacuated had the chance to move things upstairs, I didn't have a chance to do that because I couldn't get in to it.\"\n\nAt least 80 people had to leave their homes in the village after flooding\n\nLocal MP Stephen Kinnock said affected residents were staying in \"lots of different places\" across the region.\n\nAnd he praised the \"extraordinary\" generosity of the community and the support of the Salvation Army with donations of food, clothing and toiletries.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNatural Resources Wales (NRW) said officers were continuing to look at how to minimise the risk of pollution to nearby rivers, and investigating any impacts on the River Neath.\n\nThe Coal Authority, which manages the effects of past coal mining, is investigating the incident.\n\nChief executive Lisa Pinney said equipment, due on site on Saturday, would be used to drill into mine workings to \"fully investigate what has happened\".\n\n\"The blow out is likely to have been caused by a blockage underground which has caused water to back up and to break out using the easiest path,\" she said.\n\n\"The excessive rainfall of the past few days and the prolonged rainfall this winter, will have put additional pressure on the system.\n\n\"We know that people will want to get back to their homes and we will continue to progress these works as soon as possible, but public safety has to come first.\"\n\nThere are a number of historical mine workings in Skewen dating back beyond 1850.\n\nOn Saturday, Mr Jones said water was still pouring out of the affected site so workers were diverting it, while machines cleared gulleys and drains to give the water the chance to enter drainage systems.\n\nA residents' incident support centre has been set up at Abbey Primary School to offer help and information over the weekend, between 09:00-17:00 GMT.\n\nThe council has asked residents to be \"patient as the investigation continues\" and has set up a helpline. Tel. 01639 686868.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA new world record has been set for the number of satellites sent to space on a single rocket.\n\nThe 143 payloads, of all shapes and sizes, rode to orbit on a SpaceX Falcon rocket that launched out of Florida.\n\nThe number beats the previous record of 104 satellites carried aloft by an Indian vehicle in 2017.\n\nIt's further evidence of the major structural changes taking place in space activity that are allowing many more actors to get involved.\n\nThis shift is the result of a revolution in robust, miniaturised, low-cost components - many taken direct from consumer electronics such as smartphones - that mean pretty much anyone can now build a capable satellite in a very small package.\n\nAnd with SpaceX offering to transport those packages to orbit for just $1m, the commercial opportunities will continue to open up.\n\nGuatemala's Santa María volcano: Planet is imaging the entire Earth daily with its Dove satellites\n\nSpaceX itself had 10 satellites on the Falcon - the latest additions to its Starlink telecommunications mega-constellation, which is going to deliver broadband internet connections around the globe.\n\nSan Francisco's Planet company had the most satellites of all on the flight - 48.\n\nThese were another batch of its SuperDove models that image the Earth's surface daily at a resolution of 3-5m. The new spacecraft take the firm's operational fleet now in orbit to more than 200.\n\n\"Internet of things\": SpaceBees will connect to all manner of objects on the ground\n\nThe SuperDoves are the size of a shoebox. Many of the other payloads on the Falcon rocket were little bigger than a coffee mug, however; and some were smaller even than a paperback book.\n\nSwarm Technologies is rolling out what it calls the SpaceBees. They're just 10cm by 10cm by 2.5cm.\n\nThey'll act as telecommunications nodes to connect devices that are attached to all manner of objects on the ground, from migrating animals to shipping containers.\n\nThe satellites were mounted on a dispenser that ejected them in sequence\n\nSome of the larger items on the Falcon rocket were suitcase-sized. Among these were several radar satellites. Radar has been one of the major beneficiaries of the revolution in componentry.\n\nTraditionally, radar satellites were big, multi-tonne objects that cost hundreds of millions of dollars to fly, which essentially meant only the military or major space agencies could afford to operate them.\n\nBut the adoption of new materials and compact \"off the shelf\" parts have dramatically shrunk the size (to under 100kg) and price (a couple of million dollars) of these spacecraft.\n\niQPS artwork: The radar satellites unfurl large antennas once they are in space\n\nIceye from Finland, Capella from the US, and iQPS of Japan all took the ride to orbit on Sunday. These start-ups are establishing constellations in the sky that will return rapid, repeat imagery of the Earth.\n\nRadar has the advantage over standard optical cameras of being able to pierce cloud, and to sense the Earth's surface whether it is day or night. We're entering an age when any change on the planet, wherever it happens, will be picked up almost immediately.\n\nThe Falcon carried the 143 satellites into a 500km-high path that runs from pole to pole. This is one of the drawbacks of a big rideshare mission: you go where the rocket goes, and for some that might not be ideal.\n\nA number of satellite missions will want an orbit that's higher or lower in the sky, or on a different inclination to the equator.\n\nThis can be achieved by mounting the satellites on \"space tugs\" which, after coming off the top of the rocket, modify the final parameters for their \"passengers\" over the course of several weeks. Sunday's Falcon carried two such tugs.\n\nBut for some missions a bespoke ride is going to be the only satisfactory solution. It's why we're now witnessing a rush to produce small rockets that can run dedicated flights.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Virgin Orbit's LauncherOne rocket blasts its way to space\n\nThese smaller rockets will not be able to compete on cost with the big vehicles, such as SpaceX's Falcon-9, but they should attract the custom of those with very specific or urgent needs.\n\nDan Hart, the CEO of Virgin Orbit, which has developed a small rocket that can be launched from under the wing of a Boeing 747, says the start-ups are becoming more discerning.\n\n\"These small satellites used to be points of fascination and interest, and it was a case of finding the cheapest way possible to get into space,\" he explained.\n\n\"That's rapidly changing. These are now businesses with critical missions that risk losing revenue if they have to wait on others or go into an unsuitable orbit. And that's why you're going to see people who will pay that little bit more to get to where they want to go when they absolutely need to go there,\" he told BBC News.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Will Marshall: \"Our satellites 'phoned home' and they are healthy\"\n\nWith the roll call of satellites going into orbit now accelerating rapidly, the issue of traffic management is becoming a hot topic.\n\nFull-on collisions are currently rare, but a surprisingly large number (10%) of satellites will even now experience sudden, unexpected momentum changes, most probably the result of being hit by some small fragment from a previous mission.\n\nThe space sector needs to find smarter ways to track objects in orbit and to command timely avoidance manoeuvres, otherwise certain altitudes could ultimately become unusable because of the presence of dangerously dense debris fields.\n\nJonathan McDowell from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics is a noted historian of astronautics.\n\nHe commented: \"There are now over 3,000 working satellites in orbit. The number of satellites launched last year at over 1,200 is over twice as many as in any previous year. And the ones launched today - that used to be the number you'd launch in a whole year. So it's getting really crowded up there.\"\n\nWill Marshall, the CEO of Planet, said his company, and indeed all of the companies on Sunday's flight, were accutley aware of the issue.\n\n\"We are seeing crowded areas in certain orbits,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"Most of the crowded piece that is in danger of what they call Kessler Syndrome (runaway collisions) is quite high up. So one of the tricks that all of these satellites that were launched today use is to just stay really low where there's still a lot of atmospheric drag and eventually those satellites just come down.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nSecond Test, Galle (day four of five)\n\nEngland completed a thrilling victory on day four of the second Test against Sri Lanka to take the series 2-0.\n\nChasing a tricky 164, England were 89-4 on a turning pitch but opener Dom Sibley hit 56 not out to lead them to a six-wicket win.\n\nSibley, who had not reached double figures in the series, put on 75 with Jos Buttler, who made 46 not out.\n\nEarlier, England capitalised on reckless batting to dismiss Sri Lanka for 126 in their second innings.\n\nDom Bess and Jack Leach took four wickets each and the hosts would have been dismissed even more cheaply but for 40 from number 10 Lasith Embuldeniya, who finished with match figures of 10-210.\n\nResuming on 339-9 in their first innings, England conceded a first-innings deficit of 37 when Jack Leach was dismissed with only five runs added.\n\nSri Lanka were favourites at that point but England completed a turnaround on a dramatic day when 15 wickets fell.\n\nThe series win is England's fourth in a row and they are also unbeaten in 10 successive Tests under Joe Root's captaincy, going into a difficult series in India which starts on 5 February.\n\nEngland are fourth in the World Test Championship table, 0.5% behind third-placed Australia.\n• None Root urges England not to 'stand still'\n• None TMS podcast: What does England's series win mean for India tour?\n\nThis was also England's fifth consecutive away Test win, the first time they have achieved that feat since World War One. They are developing an impressive winning habit.\n\nSri Lanka's batting, perhaps spooked by the turning pitch, was inept and their effort in the field lacklustre, but England were clinical.\n\nBess and Leach bowled well - far better than their wicketless showing in the first innings - while James Anderson took a brilliant high catch and Zak Crawley two excellent grabs at short leg.\n\nSri Lanka were leading only by 115 when their eighth wicket fell, before Embuldeniya, who had a remarkable game in defeat, dragged them to a score.\n\nThe target looked competitive - the hosts were possibly even favourites - but the manner England in which overhauled it was mightily impressive.\n\nThere was a wobble when Jonny Bairstow was trapped lbw for a useful 28-ball 29, Root - the dominant player in the series - was bowled for 11 and Dan Lawrence edged behind with a further 85 needed.\n\nHowever, Sibley played the anchor role while Buttler provided impetus in his typically attacking style.\n\nSibley, so at sea in his previous three innings, calmly nudged singles into the leg side. Buttler played thumped drives to the extra-cover boundary, smacked a reverse sweep through point and launched a slog sweep through mid-wicket.\n\nIn the end, England won with ease, Sibley sealing a fine win by tapping for one.\n\nSri Lanka threatened better in this match, having been convincingly beaten by seven wickets in the first.\n\nThey batted well in the first innings and in Embuldeniya they have a fine spinner, playing only his ninth Test.\n\nBut their fourth-day performance was abysmal. Their batting was akin to their performance on day one of the series when they were bowled out for 135.\n\nThe dismissals of captain Dinesh Chandimal - skying a slog sweep to Anderson at mid-on having hit a four a ball earlier - and Niroshan Dickwella, who drove Bess to extra cover two minutes before lunch, were the worst of a series of needlessly aggressive shots.\n\nSri Lanka also disappointed in the field. They were a little unfortunate that Sibley survived three tight lbw reviews, all of which were umpire's call, but their tactics were baffling.\n\nChandimal set the field back and allowed an accumulator in Sibley to tick along as he wished.\n\nThis tour, while important for points in the World Test Championship, always felt like the warm-up act in a huge year for England's Test team.\n\nNext they face a far bigger challenge in India before a summer against New Zealand, top of the Test rankings, India again, and an Ashes series in Australia the winter.\n\nThe biggest plus of this series has been the emphatic run-scoring of Root. He did not score a century in 2019 but made 228 and 186, albeit against a poor Sri Lanka. The skipper amassed 426 runs at an average of 106.50 in the series.\n\nBess and Leach were by no means perfect - they bowl too many bad balls - but finished the series with 12 and 10 wickets respectively.\n\nThe match-winning fifty for Sibley is also a significant boost going into the four Tests in India. Having been dismissed by Embuldeniya in every innings on tour previously, he showed he can grind out a score.\n\nEngland's veteran bowlers, Anderson and Stuart Broad, proved once again they can perform in unhelpful conditions.\n\nThere are question marks, however, about opener Crawley, whose top score in four innings was 13.\n\nThe issues at the top of the order are complicated by the fact Bairstow, who has done well at number three, has been rested for the first two Tests in India.\n\nEngland opener Dom Sibley on Test Match Special: \"I didn't think I'd left any stone unturned with regards playing spin, but then you go back to your room in the evening and think 'maybe I'm not up to this' and have those doubts.\n\n\"It is about accepting those and just believing. It just feels like pure relief at the moment.\"\n\nSri Lanka captain Dinesh Chandimal: \"We were outplayed today. We have done all the hard work in the last three days but as a batting unit we made the same mistakes of the first Test. There are no excuses for the batsmen and we've got to learn how to bat like Joe Root.\"\n\nFormer England captain Michael Vaughan: \"A really, really strong performance from England. If you look down from one to 11, most people have contributed.\n\n\"They will have to bowl better in India. But the confidence that this will do for the team, and for Joe Root at the start of a huge year, is huge.\"", "A former senior manager at Boeing's 737 plant in Seattle has raised new concerns over the safety of the company's 737 Max.\n\nThe aircraft, which was grounded after two accidents in which 346 people died, has already been cleared to resume flights in North America and Brazil, and is expected to gain approval in Europe this week.\n\nBut in a new report, Ed Pierson claims that further investigation of electrical issues and production quality problems at the 737 factory is badly needed.\n\nRegulators in the US and Europe insist their reviews have been thorough, and that the 737 Max aircraft is now safe.\n\nIn his report, Mr Pierson claims that regulators and investigators have largely ignored factors, which he believes, may have played a direct role in the accidents.\n\nHe explicitly links them to conditions at the company's factory in Renton, near Seattle at the time. Boeing says this is unfounded.\n\nInvestigators believe both accidents were triggered by the failure of a single sensor. It sent inaccurate data to a piece of flight control software, called MCAS.\n\nThis automated system then repeatedly forced the nose of the aircraft downwards, when the pilots were trying to gain height. Ultimately each aircraft was pushed into an unrecoverable dive.\n\nEfforts to make the 737 Max safe have focused on redesigning the MCAS software, and ensuring it can no longer be triggered by a single sensor failure.\n\nFor Ed Pierson, this does not go nearly far enough. A US Navy veteran, who had a senior role on the 737 production line from 2015-2018, he was a star witness during congressional hearings into the disasters involving the Max.\n\nHe told lawmakers he had become so concerned about conditions at the factory, he had told his bosses that he was hesitant about taking his own family on a Boeing plane.\n\nEd Pierson (centre), seated next to his attorney Eric Havian (right), at a House Transportation Committee hearing on oversight of the Boeing 737 Max certification, on 11 December 2019\n\nHe testified that during 2018, the factory was in a \"chaotic\" and \"dysfunctional\" state as, he claimed, staff there struggled under pressure from managers to build new planes as quickly as possible.\n\nNow, he is worried that these issues have been overlooked in the rush to get the 737 Max back in the air.\n\nHis report draws on material from the official investigations. It claims that both of the crashed aircraft suffered from - what he believes were - production defects, almost from the moment they entered service.\n\nThese included intermittent flight control system problems and electrical anomalies that occurred in the days and weeks before the accidents.\n\nHe claims these may have been symptoms of flaws in the aircrafts' highly complex wiring systems, which could have contributed to the erroneous deployment of MCAS.\n\nHe also points out that sensor failures contributed to both accidents and asks why such failures were happening on brand new machines.\n\nIn the case of the Lion Air plane, a faulty sensor was replaced with another part that was not properly calibrated.\n\nAll signs, Mr Pierson says, \"point back to where these airplanes were produced, the 737 factory\".\n\nHowever, he insists that the possibility of production defects playing a role in the accidents has not been addressed by regulators.\n\nHe claims this could lead to further tragedies, involving the Max or even a previous version of the 737.\n\nMr Pierson's concerns are supported by the celebrated aviation safety campaigner Captain Chesley Sullenberger.\n\nBest known as \"Sully\", one of the pilots who safely ditched a crippled and engineless Airbus plane in the Hudson river off Manhattan in 2009, he too believes that modifications to the Max do not go far enough.\n\nHe believes changes are needed to warning systems aboard the plane, which were carried over from a previous version of the 737 and are \"not up to modern standards\".\n\nCaptain Chesley \"Sully\" Sullenberger (centre) testifies during a House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee hearing on the status of the grounded Boeing 737 Max in June 2019\n\n\"Ed Pierson's report is very disturbing, about manufacturing issues in the Boeing factories that go well beyond just the Max, and also affect… the previous version of the 737,\" says Capt Sullenberger.\n\n\"There are many critically important unanswered questions that must be answered.\n\n\"Boeing and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) must finally become more transparent, and begin to provide information and data, so that independent experts can determine the worthiness of the work that's been done.\"\n\nThe BBC has also spoken to a former senior inspector with the UK's Air Accident Investigations Branch (AAIB), who now works as a safety specialist. He warns that Mr Pierson's findings should be viewed in a wider context.\n\nThe report, he says, does make some \"valid observations\" about the pressures on Boeing's production line and quality control, and concerns about specific components.\n\nHowever, he adds that \"taking the limited information in any accident report… and making fresh interpretations of it, is not the same as conducting a new investigation\".\n\nThe issues highlighted, he adds, \"may have been investigated and dismissed already, for good reason\".\n\nThe FAA, meanwhile, insists it only approved the return to service of the Max, following a \"comprehensive and methodical safety review process\".\n\nA worker stands by a Boeing 737 Max plane on the tarmac at the Boeing Renton factory in Washington\n\nIt adds: \"None of the many investigations of the two accidents produced evidence that a production flaw played a role\", and emphasises that \"every aircraft leaving the factory is inspected by a team of FAA inspectors before it is cleared for delivery\".\n\nBoeing itself will not comment on whether the electrical and flight control problems highlighted by Mr Pierson may have played a factor in the two accidents, on the grounds that this is a matter for the investigating authorities.\n\nIt has, however, described suggestions of any link between conditions at Renton and the two accidents as \"completely unfounded\", emphasising that none of the authorities investigating the crashes has found any such link.\n\nPatrick Ky, the head of Europe's aviation safety agency, EASA, has previously told the BBC he is \"certain\" the plane is safe to fly.\n\nBut relatives of those who died aboard ET302 are continuing to urge the agency not to allow the 737 Max to operate in Europe, \"until continuing concerns about the aircraft's safety have been fully and openly addressed\".", "People in Lebanon are living under one of the world's strictest lockdowns. Under the round-the-clock curfew, citizens who are not \"essential workers\" have been barred from leaving their homes since 14 January.\n\nLaila, 12, is in Beirut trying to study while her family works from home.\n\n\"We all have our own work to do and when we have meetings we hear each other. It can be a real distraction and stop you from finishing your work on time,\" she says.\n\n\"Sometimes I can't study well because I get stressed with all the work they're giving us. It is definitely not the same studying online as it is in the physical world.\"\n\nFor hairdresser Walid Kanaan this year has been \"extremely difficult psychologically and economically\".\n\n\"I own my shop but still I cannot afford it. I pay the workers' salary so I am really broke,\" says the 45-year-old.\n\n\"It is hitting hard. You can't go out at all or do anything. My wife works in a bank and she is also collapsing. She doesn't know if she will still have her job or not.\n\n\"We don't trust the government that if they bring a vaccine it will be safe to take it. We can only pray for God to protect us.\"\n\nRead more stories from people in lockdown in Lebanon here.", "Teachers were not at significantly higher risk of death from Covid-19 than the general population, Office for National Statistics figures suggest.\n\nRestaurant staff, people working in factories and care workers had among the highest death rates, followed by taxi drivers and security guards.\n\nNurses were more than twice as likely as their peers to die of coronavirus.\n\nSecondary school teachers may have been at slightly, but not measurably, higher risk than the average.\n\nThe ONS looked at death rates from coronavirus in England and Wales between 9 March and 28 December 2020.\n\nIt found 31 in every 100,000 working-age men and 17 in every 100,000 working-age women had died of Covid-19.\n\nThis equated to just under 8,000 deaths among 20-64-year-olds.\n\nBut care workers, security guards and people working in certain manufacturing roles died at more than three times the rate of their peers.\n\nTwo-thirds of deaths were among men.\n\nAs well as being more likely to be male, working-age people who died of Covid last year had other things in common: they were much more likely to work in jobs where they were either regularly exposed to known Covid cases or working in close proximity with other people more generally.\n\nMany of the highest-risk jobs were also relatively low paid and may be more likely to be casual or insecure, without sick pay, including hospitality, care work and taxi driving.\n\nAmong teachers, there were 18 deaths per 100,000 among men and 10 per 100,000 among women.\n\nBreaking that down by role, secondary school teachers appear to have a very slightly elevated risk at 39 deaths per 100,000 people in men and 21 per 100,000 in women.\n\nPer 100,000 men aged 20-64, 31 died in the population as a whole compared with:\n\nPer 100,000 women aged 20-64, 17 died in the population as a whole compared with:\n\nThese are illustrative examples, not an exhaustive league table.\n\nThe ONS calculated the rate by dividing the number of deaths by the number of workers in each job role.\n\nBecause the numbers for secondary teachers were comparatively small - 52 deaths in total - it's difficult to be certain about their exact risk, but any increase there might be compared with the general population was not considered statistically significant.\n\nHowever, while teachers were not at higher risk than the average, they did appear to be at higher risk than some other professional job roles, which have seen very few or no deaths.\n\nThe ONS excluded from its analysis any occupation that had seen fewer than 10 deaths, and the average death rate for the whole population masks this variation.\n\nThe study also covers periods where there were limited numbers of children attending school.\n\nBut the figures do tell us teachers didn't have an elevated risk of the magnitude faced by health and care staff and by lower-paid manual and service workers.\n\nOther groups of staff studied with higher death rates, including hospitality and some factory and construction workers, also had their usual work paused for similar chunks of that period.\n\nWhile these figures tell us the death rates in each occupation group, they do not tell us the jobs are themselves causing more infections.\n\nThe ONS looked at age and sex but did not adjust for ethnicity, health or socioeconomic status which might influence an individual's risk.\n\nONS analyst Ben Humberstone said: \"As the pandemic has progressed, we have learnt more about the disease and the communities it impacts most. There are a complex combination of factors that influence the risk of death; from your age and your ethnicity, where you live and who you live with, to pre-existing health conditions.\n\n\"Our findings do not prove that the rates of death involving COVID-19 are caused by differences in occupational exposure,\" he added.\n\nThis also just refers to deaths, not infections which may result in serious illness.\n\nSome earlier ONS data suggested certain types of teacher may have an increased risk of catching coronavirus, although again the body did not consider this to be statistically significant.\n\nDirector of policy for the Association of School and College Leaders teachers' union, Julie McCulloch, said: \"When trying to understand rates of coronavirus-related deaths, there are likely to be many complex factors and we need to be careful not to jump to conclusions about the relative risks of different workplaces.\n\n\"What we do know is that, when schools are fully open, education staff are asked to work in environments that are inherently busy and crowded. In order to give them reassurance, and to minimise the disruption to education, it is vital that they are prioritised for vaccination as soon as possible.\"\n\nWhether teachers should be prioritised for vaccines has been a matter of debate.\n\nAt the moment the programme is being rolled out based on what will save the most lives and prevent the most severe illness.\n\nAfter the oldest age groups, people with health conditions and frontline staff who are regularly exposed to the virus, the government will have to publish a new raft of priorities.\n\nVaccines minister Nadim Zahawi has indicated more people could be prioritised on the basis of their job role, including teachers, shop workers and police officers.", "Fraud has reached epidemic levels in the UK and should be seen as a national security issue, says think tank the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI).\n\nThe scale of credit card, identity and cyber-fraud makes it the most prevalent crime, costing up to £190bn a year.\n\nUK intelligence agencies should play a greater role in responding, the RUSI argues in a report.\n\nPolicing should be better resourced, working more closely with the private sector, it adds.\n\nThe report argues that the scale of fraud against the private sector has an impact on the reputation of the UK as a place to do business.\n\nMeanwhile, the amount lost by the government in fraudulent claims represents a \"heist\" on the public purse, undermining faith and trust, it says.\n\nIt is the crime UK citizens are most likely to fall victim to, but the failures in responding risk undermining public confidence in the rule of law.\n\nThe Crime Survey for England and Wales found 3.7 million reported incidents in 2019-20 of members of the public being targeted by credit card, identity and cyber-fraud.\n\nThe private sector takes the biggest financial losses. One estimate from 2017 put the cost of fraud to businesses at £140bn.\n\nFraud against the public sector, including benefit, tax credit and student loan fraud, is estimated to cost £31-48bn a year, the upper figure larger than the UK's annual defence budget.\n\nThe losses go beyond the financial, the authors say.\n\n\"Fraud has the potential to disrupt society in multiple ways, by psychologically impacting individuals, undermining the viability of businesses, putting pressure on public services, fuelling organised crime and funding terrorism,\" they add.\n\nThe report cites evidence that terrorist groups and lone actors turn to fraud in order to finance their activities.\n\nIn one case, eight supporters of the Islamic State group were convicted of defrauding UK pensioners out of more than £1m, which was alleged to be used in part to fund travel from the UK to Syria.\n\nThe men carried out a type of courier fraud in which they pretended to be police officers, telling victims that their bank accounts had been compromised and needed to be transferred.\n\nBut despite the growing scale of the problem, there is no national strategy for tackling the issue, while the police response is underfunded and lacking focus.\n\nThis makes fraud \"everyone's problem but no-one's priority\", according to the report, written by RUSI experts Helena Wood, Tom Keatinge, Keith Ditcham and Ardi Janjev.\n\nThe digitisation of everyday life - accelerated by Covid - has only increased the risks, with organised crime groups showing increased sophistication in their tactics.\n\n\"The UK has become a target destination for global fraudsters,\" the RUSI argues.\n\nBut the extent to which international criminals focus on the UK is hard to gauge, because intelligence agencies have not traditionally focused on the issue.\n\nOne senior fraud professional interviewed by the researchers said that despite 30 years of investigating fraud, they still had no idea what proportion of the threat emanated from overseas.\n\nClassifying fraud as a national security issue would help ensure the right level of resourcing and prioritisation, the authors argue.\n\nThey also recommend more focused intelligence direction from the National Security Council, including greater tasking for GCHQ as well as the National Crime Agency to understand the issue.\n\nThey call for better information-sharing and use of data analytics, as well as more money and attention from police forces to address what they call a \"responsibility vacuum\".", "People made the most of the snowy slopes of Gold Hill in Shaftesbury, Dorset\n\nSevere weather warnings are in place across much of the UK after large parts of the country saw heavy snowfall.\n\nThe blanket of snow drew people outside for sledging and winter walks, but motorists have been warned to take extra care on icy roads with sub-zero temperatures forecast overnight.\n\nSeveral coronavirus vaccination and testing centres were closed in England and Wales due to the conditions.\n\nPolice reminded the public to keep to lockdown rules while out in the snow.\n\nOfficers in Wandsworth, south-west London, encouraged people with gardens to play in the snow at home.\n\nAnd police in Rutland, Leicestershire, were among several forces questioning why people were leaving their homes to go sledging.\n\nContinuing coronavirus lockdowns across the four UK nations mean most of the population must stay at home, except for a limited number of reasons.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. For cats Bonny and Freddy, the snow is a chance to explore. Credit: Rachel Prew\n\nAs well as four vaccination centres in Wales, six Covid testing centres in the West Midlands had to close due to heavy snow on Sunday.\n\nHighways England warned that the snow had caused collisions on the M3, M27 and M25 in southern England, with the agency urging drivers to only travel if absolutely necessary.\n\nThose using the roads for essential journeys have been urged to allow plenty of extra time for their travel and pedestrians and cyclists are also advised to be cautious.\n\nThe Met Office put a yellow weather warning for snow in place on Sunday, stretching from coast to coast in southern England and ending just south of Manchester.\n\nIt is also in place for western and northern areas of Scotland, most of Northern Ireland and all of Wales apart from Anglesey.\n\nAn amber warning for snow in Nottingham and Stoke meant travel disruption and power cuts were likely on Sunday evening.\n\nYellow weather warnings for ice are in place until 11:00 GMT Monday for all of Wales and Northern Ireland, northern and eastern Scotland and much of southern England and the Midlands.\n\nMany people swapped their usual daily bout of exercise for sledging on Parliament Hill on Hampstead Heath, north London, but police urged people to stay at home\n\nGritters leapt into action near Touchen-end in Berkshire\n\nIn Wales, appointments at the Bridgend, Rhondda, Abercynon and Merthyr Tydfil coronavirus vaccination centres were rescheduled for safety reasons, the Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board said.\n\nUp to 1in (3cm) of snow was forecast to fall in most areas of Wales, with 4-6in (10-15cm) expected in the Brecon Beacons and Snowdonia.\n\nIn the West Midlands, coronavirus testing centres at Castle Vale Stadium, the Arcadian Centre and Maypole Youth Centre were closed, Birmingham City Council said.\n\nFacilities in Moat Street, Coventry and The Place in Oakengates in Shropshire also closed, along with one in Lichfield, Staffordshire, local MP Michael Fabricant said.\n\nAnd in Devon, a gritting lorry overturned on Dartmoor. Devon County Council urged people to avoid travel unless it was absolutely essential and not to travel to find snow.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Devon County Council This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMet Office forecaster Simon Partridge said a band of hail, sleet, snow and rain moved in through Wales and south-west England in the early hours before sweeping across the UK and stalling over the Midlands, which saw some of the heaviest snow.\n\nColeshill, near Birmingham, had seen had 3.5in (9cm) by Sunday lunchtime.\n\nThe snow clouds eased away on Sunday evening but overnight temperatures could be as low as -4C to -6C (25F to 21F) for a lot of the south of the UK, the forecaster added.\n\n\"Some localised spots, likely in the Midlands, could see it as low as -10C (14F),\" he said.\n\nSnowmen popped up in the grounds of Guildford Castle, Surrey\n\nAs shown on the M1 in Bedfordshire, the wintry showers have caused hazardous driving conditions\n\nChris Fawkes of BBC Weather said some stretches of the M4 and M5 had been completely covered in snow at some points on Sunday morning.\n\nHe said this was partly because traffic has been low due to lockdown restrictions - and vehicles are needed to help grit mix into snow to make it melt.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Monday morning. We'll have another update for you this evening.\n\nMost pupils across the UK have not been in school since before the Christmas holidays - and now Tory MPs are calling for a \"route map\" for the reopening of schools in England. Pupils have been told they will be learning from home until at least the February half-term holidays. And Education Secretary Gavin Williamson says schools will be given at least two weeks' notice to reopen - which he \"hopes\" will happen before Easter. So, with no firm timetable, the chairman of the education select committee, Robert Halfon, has called for a plan to be laid out to MPs. He has asked for an urgent question in the Commons - if granted, Mr Williamson must respond. No part of the UK has yet announced a firm date for schools' reopening - you can read about the different nations' plans here.\n\nThe UK must reform how it is governed or risk becoming a \"failed state\", former Labour prime minister Gordon Brown has warned. Writing in the Daily Telegraph, he says Covid has exposed \"tensions\" between Whitehall and the nations and regions. Recent polls have suggested rising support for Scottish independence - and a potential border vote in Northern Ireland. \"The complaint is that Whitehall does not fully understand the country it is supposed to govern,\" says Mr Brown.\n\nFrance's top medical adviser says a third national lockdown will probably soon be needed to combat Covid-19. Prof Jean-Francois Delfraissy says \"there is an emergency\", adding that the \"UK variant\" now makes up between 7-9% of cases in some French regions. A strict curfew was implemented last weekend but cases continue to climb. You can see police enforcing the 6pm shutdown below.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police in Paris ensure shops close at 6pm as France begins a new curfew to tackle Covid-19\n\nRiot police in the Netherlands have clashed with protesters who are angry at new coronavirus restrictions. Officers used water cannon and tear gas to clear demonstrators in Eindhoven. They had gathered in defiance of a new 9pm curfew. Some protesters threw fireworks, looted supermarkets and smashed shop windows. There were smaller demonstrations in the capital, Amsterdam.\n\nAustralia has suspended a travel bubble with New Zealand - after NZ's first Covid case in months was confirmed to be the South African variant. The infected patient had served 14 days in quarantine and tested negative twice before developing symptoms later. Travellers coming from New Zealand to Australia in the next 72 hours will now have to go through hotel quarantine. Health Minister Greg Hunt said the suspension was done out of an \"abundance of caution\".\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page. This explainer looks at various questions - including whether the vaccine stops you spreading the disease.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Supporters of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny protest against his arrest across Russia\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin has condemned as \"illegal and dangerous\" the mass rallies in support of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny.\n\nTens of thousands defied a heavy police presence to join the rallies across Russia on Saturday. More than 3,500 were detained, monitors say.\n\nEU foreign ministers discussed the protests on Monday, but did not agree on further sanctions on Russia.\n\nIn Moscow riot police were seen beating and dragging away demonstrators.\n\nThe foreign ministers of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are demanding \"restrictive measures against Russian officials responsible for arrests\".\n\nPoland's President Andrzej Duda also urged the EU to step up sanctions on Russia following the arrest of Mr Navalny. A week ago he was sentenced to 30 days in jail for violating parole conditions - a case he condemns as fabricated.\n\nMr Navalny, President Putin's most high-profile critic, called for protests after he was arrested at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport, on arrival from Berlin on 17 January.\n\nDemonstrations were held on Saturday in about 100 cities and towns from Russia's Far East and Siberia to Moscow and St Petersburg.\n\nFrench Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian described the arrests as a \"slide towards authoritarianism\" and called for further sanctions against Russia.\n\n\"Change is in the air in Russia,\" declared Lithuania's new Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis, as he arrived for his first meeting with EU counterparts.\n\nBut he soon discovered that change is not always in the air in Brussels.\n\nA couple of years ago, one seasoned Spanish politician lamented the meetings of the 27 EU foreign ministers as being \"more a valley of tears\" than a place for decision-making: \"We express our condolence and concern… but no capacity for action comes out of it.\"\n\nUnfortunately for that same politician - Josep Borrell - he's now the man who chairs these gatherings.\n\nThe EU has already imposed sanctions on six senior Russian officials - including the head of the FSB security service - over the nerve agent attack on Mr Navalny last August.\n\nBut MEPs are urging the EU to go further and hit Mr Putin's administration \"where it really hurts - the money\".\n\nIn December, the EU unveiled a tougher sanctions regime, including asset freezes and travel bans for foreign individuals accused of human rights violations. It puts the bloc alongside the US and UK, which adopted so-called Magnitsky Acts.\n\nThey take the name of the lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who died in a Moscow prison in 2009 after reporting massive fraud by Russian tax officials. The EU version does not bear his name, to avoid alienating Russia-leaning member states.\n\nAgreeing on EU sanctions is always tough, as it requires all 27 countries to agree and we're told no concrete proposal was discussed by foreign ministers today.\n\nObservers say the scale of the Russia-wide demonstrations was unprecedented for recent years, and the Moscow protest was the capital's largest in almost a decade.\n\nThey appeared to enjoy widespread passive support, with trolley bus passengers waving to the crowds and large numbers of car drivers beeping their horns.\n\nProtesters, like these in St Petersburg, braved freezing cold to rally for Mr Navalny\n\nThe protests were also notable for the high proportion of young Russians who turned out. Opposition rallies have attracted more young people since Mr Navalny began releasing online investigations into alleged government corruption.\n\nMany protesters said they were angered by the findings of that report, and chants of \"Putin is a thief!\" were heard during Saturday's demonstrations.\n\nSocial media also played a key role in driving young people - many of whom have only ever known a Putin-led Russia - to take to the streets. Posts promoting the demonstrations were viewed hundreds of millions of times on TikTok.\n\nThe flood of videos prompted Russia's official media watchdog, Roskomnadzor, to demand the app take down any information \"encouraging minors to act illegally\".\n\nMr Putin has said no underage children should take part in the protests: \"One must under no circumstances push forward underage people. After all, it is terrorists who act like that, when they drive in front of them women and children. The emphasis is slightly different, but essentially, this is the same thing.\"\n\nPolice should also act within the law, he said.\n\nNo-one should seek to advance \"their ambitious objectives and goals, particularly in politics\" through protests, he added, in an apparent reference to Mr Navalny.\n\nMr Navalny's video report into this Black Sea resort has been viewed 85 million times\n\nOn Sunday Mr Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov criticised a message from the US embassy in Moscow warning people to avoid the demonstrations, branding the warning an \"interference in our domestic affairs\".\n\nThe embassy said such warnings were a \"common and routine practice\".\n\nMeanwhile, the Russian embassy in the UK also accused Western nations of using their embassies to encourage the protests.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Russian Embassy, UK This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Health Secretary Matt Hancock says lifting restrictions can only happen when \"facts on the ground\" show it is safe\n\nIt is \"difficult to put a timeline\" on when England's lockdown could be lifted, Matt Hancock has said.\n\nThe health secretary said there were \"early signs\" the measures were working but it was \"not a moment to ease up\".\n\nHe said there were 37,000 people in hospital with coronavirus in the UK and \"more people on ventilators than at any time in this whole pandemic\".\n\n\"The pressure on the NHS remains huge and we've got to get that case rate down,\" he said.\n\nThe number of coronavirus cases in the UK has been falling, but the number of people in hospital remains high, as does the UK's daily death numbers.\n\nA further 592 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test and another 22,195 cases have been recorded, according to Monday's government figures.\n\nThe are 4,076 people in hospital on ventilators.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and only go out for limited reasons.\n\nThis includes for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nAt Monday's Downing Street press briefing, Mr Hancock said: \"I understand the yearning people have to get out of this.\n\n\"The thing is that we have to look at the facts on the ground and we have to monitor those facts.\n\n\"And of course, everybody wants to have a timeline for that, but I think most people understand why it is difficult to put a timeline on it because it's a matter of monitoring the data.\"\n\nHe set out the factors the government would take into account when reaching decisions over lifting the restrictions, including: the death rate, the number of people in hospital, whether there were new coronavirus variants and the success of the vaccine rollout.\n\nAlmost four in five of the UK's over-80s have had the vaccine, Mr Hancock said, with nearly 6.6m people in total having had their first dose.\n\nThe falling numbers of infections being reported and the rising rate of vaccination are incredibly promising - even if the drop in infections reported on Monday may have been partly an artefact of fewer people coming forward for a test because of the snow.\n\nBut that does not offer any guarantees of a rapid lifting of lockdown.\n\nWhat is concerning ministers are the high numbers in hospital.\n\nThe number of new admissions seems to have plateaued - but at a very high rate.\n\nClose to 4,000 patients a day are being admitted to hospital.\n\nTo put that in context, that is four times the total number of all types of respiratory admissions the NHS would normally see in winter.\n\nIt means the numbers in hospital are at nearly twice the level they were at the peak in the spring during the first wave.\n\nWith better treatments available, patients are spending longer in hospital.\n\nSo come mid-February the pressures in hospital are likely to be very high, leaving ministers little wriggle-room to relax restrictions.\n\nThe big unknown, however, is what impact and how quickly vaccination will have an effect on admissions.\n\nThere is encouraging early news from Israel that hospitalisation really starts to drop three weeks after the first dose.\n\nIf that is repeated here, the picture could quickly change.\n\nBut until that happens the government - in the words of Health Secretary Matt Hancock - is urging the country to hold its nerve.\n\nSpeaking at the Downing Street press conference, Jenny Harries, deputy chief medical officer for England, warned: \"We are not out of this by a very long way.\"\n\nShe said current coronavirus rates were still causing concern, patience was needed about the vaccination programme and the NHS still faced its usual winter pressures.\n\nSusan Hopkins, from Public Health England, said the UK need to see the death rate \"fall much lower\" before any decision to ease measures.\n\nShe said teams were currently studying the impact on the UK's vaccine programme of the variant first identified in South Africa.\n\nBut she added the \"consensus view\" from four UK laboratories suggested that \"the current vaccine works against the variant that was first discovered in the UK\".", "Former Brexit Party MEP Robert Rowland was described as a larger than life character\n\nA former Brexit Party MEP has died in a diving accident near his home in the Bahamas.\n\nRobert Rowland, 54, represented the south east of England at the European Parliament from July 2019 until January 2020.\n\nNigel Farage paid tribute to the \"larger than life character\" and \"enthusiastic\" Brexit supporter.\n\nHe announced the death of his former colleague in a statement on Sunday.\n\nThe Royal Bahamas Police Force said it had \"received reports of a drowning incident\" on Saturday and was \"conducting inquires\".\n\nMr Farage said: \"It is with great sadness that I have to announce the death of Robert Rowland, after a diving accident near his home in the Bahamas.\n\n\"Following a successful career in the City, Robert was an enthusiastic Brexit Party MEP and larger than life character.\"\n\nHe said he wished to extend his \"sincerest condolences\" to Mr Rowland's family, including his wife and four children.\n\nFormer Brexit Party MEP David Bull said he was \"beyond devastated,\" adding: \"Robert was a wonderful friend and colleague.\"\n• None Farage's Brexit Party officially changes its name\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Budweiser has said it will not advertise its beer during the Super Bowl this year, joining a growing number of big brands sitting out the annual American football championship.\n\nThe event remains one of the most-watched in the US each year, drawing more than 100 million viewers in 2020.\n\nThe advertisements are often as much a conversation-starter as the game itself, sometimes sparking controversy.\n\nFirms say the virus has made finding the right message especially difficult.\n\nOthers are grappling with financial hits caused by the pandemic, which has dampened spending on many items, while also casting more than 10 million Americans out of work, resurfacing racial and economic inequalities and sharpening political divisions.\n\nBudweiser's parent company, Anheuser-Busch, said it planned to reallocate the money it would have spent on a 30-second Budweiser spot during the game to support an Ad Council campaign promoting coronavirus vaccination.\n\nIt is the first time the flagship brand will not make a game-time appearance in 37 years.\n\n\"This commitment is an investment in a future where we can all get back together safely over a beer\", it said, adding that it would still promote some of its other brands, such as Bud Light, during the game.\n\nOn Monday, Budweiser released a full 90-second Super Bowl ad on YouTube entitled \"Bigger Picture\", which showed US citizens overcoming pandemic challenges together and aimed to raise awareness about Covid-19 vaccines.\n\nCoke, Pepsi and Hyundai are among the other major names also planning to forego airtime during the broadcast.\n\nCoca-Cola said it had made the \"difficult choice\" to \"ensure we are investing in the right resources during these unprecedented times\". The firm did not advertise during the 2019 game either.\n\nHyundai cited \"marketing priorities\" and the timing of upcoming vehicle launches.\n\nPepsi has also said it would not promote its flagship soda during the game. Instead, it is spending money on an advert airing to promote the Super Bowl halftime show it has sponsored for almost a decade.\n\nThe Super Bowl boasts some of the most expensive advertising slots all year\n\nGiven all the economic, political and health questions of 2020, companies may have felt it was prudent to pull back - especially several months ago, when they would have had to start planning for such a high-profile night, said Kimberly Whitler, professor at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business\n\n\"It's the biggest night of TV watching and so they have to plan it months in advance,\" she said. \"There was so much uncertainty that to go and invest in a Super Bowl ad might have actually felt or seemed frivolous at the time.\"\n\nThe decision goes \"beyond finances\", she added. \"It's also, 'How do we identify the right tone that will match the moment'.\"\n\nThis year's Super Bowl will see star quarterback Tom Brady's Tampa Bay Buccaneers face off against reigning champions the Kansas City Chiefs on 7 February.\n\nLast year, firms spent an average of $5.25m (£3.8m) for a 30-second spot during the championship, driving Super Bowl ad spending to a record $450m, according to Kantar consultancy.\n\nThe firm has said its research suggests Super Bowl ads are \"typically 20 times more effective\" in changing a brand's perception than a normal advert.\n\nAnheuser-Busch, an official sponsor of the National Football League, is typically one of the night's top spenders, so the absence of its flagship brand may create its own buzz, said Satya Menon, a Chicago-based managing partner of of ROI practice at Kantar.\n\nChipotle's very first Super Bowl commercial is entitled, \"Can a burrito change the world?\"\n\n\"Budweiser in particular is a very established brand ... so for them, it's all about generating love and goodwill and maybe this is another way,\" she says.\n\n\"They do have a lot of pre-game advertising out there. When people have the expectation that they wil be there and then they don't see the brand, they'll start thinking why are they not.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the sports showdown still seems to be finding plenty of firms ready to fill spots left by the stalwarts. Names of newcomers include Chipotle and Fiverr, a freelance platform that has seen business soar during the pandemic.\n\n\"It doesn't get any bigger than the Super Bowl from a branding and marketing perspective,\" said Fiverr's chief marketing officer Gali Arnon. \"We believe this is a major opportunity for us to introduce the world to Fiverr in a unique and creative way.\"\n\nMany of this year's advertisers are firms coming from the e-commerce sector, which have benefited from the pandemic, Ms Menon said.\n\nAnd though audience numbers for NFL games have slipped this year, for those firms making their game-night debuts, Ms Menon says she still expects ads to have a big impact - even if the pandemic puts a damper on the traditional Super Bowl parties and other festivities, which can make championship feel like an unofficial national holiday.\n\n\"There isn't very much going on in life, so it will always have that great reach,\" she says. \"Some of that excitement may not be there, but watching will definitely be there.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson says teachers and pupils will be told “as much as we can, as soon as we can” about reopening schools\n\nThe government will tell teachers and parents when schools in England can reopen \"as soon as we can\", the prime minister has said.\n\nMPs have called on the government to set out a \"route map\" for reopening amid concerns for children's education.\n\nBoris Johnson said he understood why people wanted a timetable but he did not want to lift restrictions while the infection rate was \"still very high\".\n\nHe would not guarantee schools would reopen before April's Easter break.\n\nMr Johnson said: \"We've now got the R [reproduction rate] down below 1 across the whole of the country, that's a great achievement, we don't want to see a huge surge of infection just when we've got the vaccination programme going so well and people working so hard.\n\n\"I understand why people want to get a timetable from me today, what I can tell you is we'll tell you, tell parents, tell teachers as much as we can as soon as we can.\"\n\nHe said the government would be \"looking at the potential of relaxing some measures\" before mid-February, with Downing Street clarifying that this meant looking at the data to decide \"what we may or may not be able to ease from 15 February onwards\".\n\nA further 592 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test and another 22,195 cases have been recorded, according to Monday's government figures.\n\nAt Monday's Downing Street press briefing, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said almost four in five of the UK's over-80s have had the vaccine, with nearly 6.6m people in total having had their first dose.\n\nBut he said the NHS continues to be under \"intense pressure\", with Jenny Harries, deputy chief medical officer for England, saying there are \"twice the number of people in hospital than we had in the first wave\" of the pandemic.\n\nRobert Halfon, chairman of the education select committee, told BBC Breakfast there was \"enormous uncertainty\" and called for the government to set out what the conditions needed to be for pupils to return to schools.\n\nThe Conservative MP for Harlow suggested the government could consider tighter restrictions in other parts of society and the economy, in order to enable schools to open.\n\nTory MPs were enraged by reports over the weekend that schools might not re-open fully until after the Easter holidays.\n\nMinisters say it's the progress of the pandemic that will determine their decision rather than a pre-agreed timetable.\n\nYet whenever the government speaks, parents hear dates. Whether it's that the situation will be reviewed at half-term. Or a pledge to give two weeks' notice when classes will come back.\n\nMPs are now pushing for more transparency from the government about how they'll assess the data, and for some ideas between school being mostly closed or totally open.\n\nThis issue is a perfect metaphor for the situation facing the entire country. Too much hope breeds disappointment, but living with uncertainty is just as hard. And you can come up with a plan but it might have to be junked if the virus has other ideas.\n\nChildren's Commissioner for England Anne Longfield joined the call for clarity and told the BBC: \"Children are more withdrawn, they are really suffering in terms of isolation, their confidence levels are falling, and for some there are serious issues.\"\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson said the government wanted to \"see all children back at the very earliest moment\".\n\nSchools in England have been closed to most pupils since the national lockdown began on 5 January due to high levels of Covid transmission in the community.\n\nThere have been calls for teachers to be vaccinated sooner, although it is not clear if that would allow schools to reopen earlier.\n\nThe majority of pupils in England are learning from home with schools only open to the children of key workers, vulnerable children and those who cannot learn at home\n\nCovid death rates among educational professionals are not \"statistically significantly different\" to those in the general population, according to Office for National Statistics (ONS) data, but secondary school teachers appeared to have an elevated risk compared particularly with people working in office-type jobs.\n\nAmong secondary school teachers Covid death rates were 39.2 deaths per 100,000 males, compared with 31.4 for all males aged 20 to 64, and 21.2 per 100,000 females, compared with 16.8, but the ONS said these were \"not statistically significantly different than those of the same age and sex in the wider population\".\n\nSchools will remain closed in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales until at least the February half-term - with the Welsh first minister saying it is \"unlikely\" all pupils will return after the break.\n\nGemma Cocker with her children Charlie and Lyla\n\nGemma Cocker from Brighton is one of the many parents struggling to balance childcare, home learning and work.\n\nShe says she's having to share her work laptop with her son, who has already missed learning time after the family moved home and did not have internet access. \"We didn't have any internet. The school said they had reached their limit so couldn't take him,\" she says.\n\nAnd because her children are young, she says: \"They're never just going to watch a classroom by themselves, you have to be with them the whole time.\"\n\nKitty Jones, 11, is in her last year of primary school and she says home learning is \"tricky\" because she is not used to using different remote platforms like Google Classroom and she wants to return \"as soon as possible\".\n\n\"I still think that I'm learning a bit, but I don't think I'm learning as much as I would be in person,\" she tells BBC Radio 4's World at One programme.\n\nHolly Agbukor, 18, is studying for her A-levels, says it is \"quite stressful\" learning at home, as it is a \"different environment, so it is not as easy to be fully present in the lessons\".\n\nBut, she says, while is it \"difficult\" working at home, \"I don't think it is worth the cost of reintroducing the virus into society and making things worse overall\".\n\nHow has home-schooling been going for your family? You can share your experience by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The UK has identified 77 cases of the coronavirus variant first detected in South Africa, the health secretary has said.\n\nCases are linked to travellers arriving in the UK, rather than community transmission, Matt Hancock added.\n\nHe told the BBC's Andrew Marr cases were under \"very close\" observation and enhanced contact tracing was under way.\n\nMinisters are due to meet on Monday to consider imposing tougher restrictions on people arriving from abroad.\n\nScientists have said there is a chance the South African variant may harm the effectiveness of current vaccines.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Hancock said that \"three quarters of all the 80-year-olds in the country and a similar number of care homes\" have received their first doses of the vaccine.\n\nBoth the Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines require two doses, and figures so far reflect those given the first dose.\n\nMr Hancock said that it was \"far too early to say\" what proportion of the population needed to be vaccinated before lockdown restrictions could be eased.\n\nAll viruses, including the one that causes Covid-19, mutate, and variants have been first located in the UK, South Africa and Brazil.\n\nThe South Africa variant has been found in at least 20 other countries, including the UK.\n\nMr Hancock said that all the South Africa variant cases in the UK were linked to travel.\n\n\"That's why we have got such stringent border measures in place against movement from South Africa,\" he added.\n\nThe UK closed all travel corridors last week until at least 15 February, with almost all travellers arriving in the country now required to show proof of a negative Covid-19 test to be allowed entry.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has not ruled out bringing in tougher measures at UK borders, telling a Downing Street news conference on Friday: \"We don't want to put that (efforts to control Covid) at risk by having a new variant come back in.\"\n\nMinisters are set to discuss whether to tighten border restrictions further, including the possibility of hotel quarantines for travellers.\n\nMr Hancock said: \"We have got to be cautious at the borders.\"\n\nAsked for a date on when lockdown restrictions might end, Mr Hancock said it was \"one of the many things that we don't yet know the answer to\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock on easing restrictions: \"We don't know the answer\"\n\nGovernment data on 14 January showed there were 35 confirmed cases of the South Africa variant identified in the UK, and a further 12 \"probable\" cases.\n\nMr Hancock said nine cases of the Brazil variant had been found in the UK, adding \"we are monitoring each and every one very closely\".\n\nShadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show that Labour had been \"pushing the government to take tougher measures at the border since last spring\".\n\nShe said: \"We would fully expect the government to bring in tougher quarantine measures, we would expect them to roll out a proper testing strategy and we would expect them as well to start checking up on the people who are quarantining.\n\n\"Only three out of every hundred people who are asked to quarantine when they arrive into the UK actually face any checks at all - that's just simply not sufficient.\"\n\nOn Friday, Mr Johnson said there was \"some evidence\" the UK variant may be associated with \"a higher degree of mortality\".\n\nThe UK government's chief scientific officer, Sir Patrick Vallance, said there was \"a lot of uncertainty around these numbers\" but that early evidence suggested the variant could be about 30% more deadly.\n\nThe PM said on Friday that there was evidence that both the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine and Oxford-AstraZeneca jab were effective against the variant first detected in the UK.\n\nSir Patrick has warned that the variants in South Africa and Brazil might \"have certain features which means they might be less susceptible to vaccines\".\n\nBut he said \"there is no evidence\" that the two variants have transmission advantages over those already in the UK and so having cases here doesn't mean \"they will take off\".\n\nMeanwhile, England's deputy chief medical officer warned that people who have received a Covid-19 vaccine could still pass the virus on to others and should continue following lockdown rules.\n\nWriting in the Sunday Telegraph, Prof Jonathan Van-Tam stressed that scientists \"do not yet know the impact of the vaccine on transmission\".\n\nHe said vaccines offer \"hope\" but infection rates must come down quickly.\n\nIt's a key question but the fact is that no one can be sure.\n\nThat's because the trials of the vaccines explored the safety of the drugs and how well they prevent people from becoming ill - with good results for both.\n\nBut they did not investigate whether vaccination also stops infection and therefore whether people who've been immunised can still spread the virus to others.\n\nIf a vaccinated person did become infected, they probably wouldn't realise because they wouldn't have any symptoms. That's why health officials and ministers are so concerned.\n\nIt's possible that the antibodies boosted by the vaccine suppress the effects of the virus but don't eliminate it from the upper airway.\n\nMany scientists are cautiously hopeful that in this scenario, the amount of virus would be reduced but they're waiting for the results of studies under way now.\n\nAnd until there's an answer, it's difficult to calculate how and when it's safe to ease restrictions and allow people to mix again.\n\nA further 610 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test were reported in the UK on Sunday - down from 671 deaths last Sunday - in addition to 30,004 new infections.\n\nThe number of positive cases has fallen for the fourth day in a row and is the lowest figure since before Christmas.\n\nThe death figures tend to be lower on a Sunday and Monday because of weekend lags in reporting of the data.\n\nMeanwhile, more than six million people have had their first dose of a Covid vaccine - with the figure now standing at 6,353,321.\n\nNadhim Zahawi, the minister responsible for the vaccine rollout, said on Twitter that 6,353,321 of the \"most vulnerable and frontline heroes\" had received a first dose of the vaccine, but there was still \"much more to do\".\n\nThere were 4,076 Covid patients in mechanical ventilation beds in UK hospitals as of Friday, according to government data.\n\nThat is higher than during the first wave, when the peak was 3,301 on 12 April.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Video filmed in Tacoma, Washington, shows a police car apparently ploughing through a crowd of people\n\nA police officer is under investigation in the US after his vehicle ploughed into a group of people, running over at least one, in Tacoma, Washington.\n\nNobody was killed in the incident, although one person was rushed to hospital with injuries.\n\nA video shows a large group of people surrounding the police car as it revs its engine in an apparent effort to drive off.\n\nThe group refuses to move, and police say people started hitting the car.\n\nThe police officer then speeds through the group, hitting numerous people. One person is dragged under the car.\n\nTacoma Police Department said multiple vehicles and approximately 100 people were blocking an intersection when officers arrived on the scene. The group was apparently watching street racers doing \"burnouts\".\n\n\"During the operation, a responding Tacoma police vehicle was surrounded by the crowd. People hit the body of the police vehicle and its windows as the officer was stopped in the street,\" police said in a statement.\n\n\"The officer, fearing for his safety, tried to back up, but was unable to do so because of the crowd,\" it said.\n\n\"While trying to extricate himself from an unsafe position, the officer drove forward striking one individual and may have impacted others,\" it said.\n\nThe person who was run over was rushed to hospital. Their condition is as yet unclear.\n\nThe Pierce County Force Investigation Team is investigating the incident, the statement said. The police officer has not been identified.\n\n\"I am concerned that our department is experiencing another use of deadly force incident,\" Interim Police Chief Mike Ake said in the statement.\n\n\"I send my thoughts to anyone who was injured in tonight's event, and am committed to our department's full co-operation in the independent investigation and to assess the actions of the department's response during the incident.\"\n\nThe incident comes at a time of rising anger over the use of excessive force by police in the US.\n\nPeople across the world took to the streets last year to demonstrate their anger at the death of George Floyd, a black man who died in police custody in Minneapolis, and to demand an end to police brutality and what they see as systemic racism.", "Some Barclaycard customers will see their minimum repayments rise from Tuesday, at a time when finances are already stretched owing to Covid and Christmas.\n\nThe new requirements are tailored to each customer, although some may see a significant rise in demands.\n\nBut the changes will also see charges for exceeding a credit limit scrapped.\n\nJanuary is a pinch point for many in debt and borrowers are being urged to seek help if they are in trouble.\n\nBarclaycard signalled the changes to their pricing structures in November, although some borrowers may have missed the notice, which was titled \"changes to your terms and conditions\".\n\nThe new repayment rates will affect those with Platinum, Initial, Freedom, Forward, Cashback, Littlewoods, Rewards and Hilton Honors cards, but not Premier or Woolwich cards.\n\nFor cardholders who started using their cards in the last decade, the minimum repayment each month has been calculated as the highest of 2.25% of the full balance, 1% of the balance plus interest, or £5. This differed slightly for longer-standing customers.\n\nThe new charges mean minimum repayments will be the highest of between 2% and 5% of the full balance, between 1% and 3% of the balance plus interest, or £5.\n\nThis means some people could see the minimum repayment rise, although some other charges - such as the late payment fee - will be limited.\n\nThe exact percentage depends on the customer and would have been outlined in the November message.\n\nA Barclaycard spokesman said: \"We are increasing minimum payments for some customers to help them pay off debt quicker and reduce the overall interest they pay.\n\n\"This is part of our ambition to ensure that no Barclaycard customer gets into persistent debt - where they pay more in interest and charges than reducing their debt and take a long time to pay this debt off - and is being put in place to support our customers.\"\n\nSara Williams, who writes the Debt Camel blog, said that the higher minimum payment may well come as a \"nasty shock\".\n\n\"January is always the tightest month for money for most people. December pay is often early, so the money has to stretch further, and if you put any Christmas presents or expenses on your Barclaycard, this month's bill will be high anyway,\" she said.\n\n\"For people who were hardly managing before, the increase to the minimum payments may tip the bill over into being unaffordable.\"\n\nDebt charities had already warned that the coronavirus pandemic meant the UK was \"sleepwalking into a debt crisis\".\n\nThe government-backed Money and Pensions Service - which offers free guidance - said it was expecting a call about debt at least every four minutes throughout January.\n\nBarclaycard said the timing of the changes - which coincide with lockdown and many people on a reduced furlough income - was unintentional and had been signalled some time ago.\n\nAny borrowers who feel the new repayment levels are unaffordable are being asked to contact the company.\n\nMore broadly, anyone struggling to make debt repayments of any kind is being urged to face their difficulties and seek help.\n\n\"Financial worries negatively affect our 'cognition', which are the thinking processes that support and maintain our mental health. When in a poor state, financial worries cause stress and our cognition fails,\" said Keiron Sparrowhawk, a cognition expert from the Being Well Group, which runs the MyCognition app.\n\nThis could lead to depression and hasty, ill-thought-out decisions, he said.\n\n\"Together, depression and anxiety are distressing and disabling, causing us to spiral out of control and enter a pit of hell,\" he said.", "The water is warmer than the air and is creating a mist along Dynevor Road\n\nThe coalmining heritage of Wales has been implicated in flooding of homes - but what has happened in Skewen?\n\nAbout 80 people were evacuated from the Neath Port Talbot village, with at least eight streets left under water.\n\nCouncil leader Rob Jones says the flood appears to be related to mine works - but the volume of water involved has hampered a full assessment so far.\n\nThe Coal Authority is investigating how \"historic underground mining features\" in the area exacerbated the problem.\n\nA geologist says there are tens of thousands of old mine shafts across the former south Wales coalfield and it is \"incredibly difficult\" to monitor them all.\n\nSkewen lies within an old coal mining hotspot, with several former colliery sites near the village that operated in the 19th and early 20th Century.\n\nThere were colliery sites near what is now Drummau Road, in the north of the village and another close to Old Road, near Neath Abbey.\n\nSkewen was part of a collection of collieries that stretched between Neath and Llanelli on the western side of south Wales' coalfield.\n\nGraham Levins, secretary of the Welsh Mines Preservation Trust, said old mines often contain groundwater which can flood in heavy rain.\n\nHe said: \"A lot of them go very, very deep down, much below the local water level and that's why they had all the big wheels to pump the water out.\n\n\"It fills up with water and will find a way out. Normally rainfall you get it doesn't cause a lot of problems but when you get really heavy rain, the water drains down through the ground and builds up.\"\n\nStreets were turned into rivers in Skewen\n\nGeologist Tom Backhouse said water was coming out of an area near the junction of Goshen Park and Drummau Road, where there is a record of a mine shaft dating from the turn of the 20th Century.\n\nIt then started \"rushing down\" Drummau Road, causing the flooding that forced evacuations.\n\n\"What we can expect to have happened is that the water level in the mines rose to a point where it's burst out of that entry point from the mine workings below.\n\n\"Also, there are images of very ochre like orange-coloured water and again, that may well be issuing from the mine workings on the highlands to the east of the property on the hill behind.\n\n\"That may be where the shallow workings have flooded.\"\n\nHe said old mine working across the former coalfield area hold water at a certain depth, but when an event such as Storm Christoph drops \"a huge amount in a small area\", the levels rise quickly.\n\n\"As it gets closer and closer to the surface, it basically looks for an escape, the pressure builds up,\" he continued.\n\n\"What it looks like has happened on the junction of Goshen Park and Drummau Road, where the mine shaft is recorded, is that pressure has built up at that point and then burst out through the shaft which is very likely to have been capped with wood or something like that.\n\n\"Where you've got those mine shafts, which ultimately are vertical tunnels down into the mine workings below, the water has literally forced itself up through that shaft, and the pressure is obviously so great it's caused this devastating flash flood.\"\n\nAs well as properties, vehicles were submerged in water\n\nThere are about 13 shafts recorded within about 820ft (250m) of the one in Goshen Park, so Mr Backhouse said it is possible more than one may have burst.\n\nThere are tens of thousands in south Wales and he said it was \"incredibly difficult\" to check them all, but there were \"tell tale signs\" as to why they may collapse such as age or what type of developments are around them.\n\nThe clean up has continued on Friday morning\n\n\"Not to try and fear-monger or anything but of course this sort of thing can happen again,\" he said.\n\n\"If another event like Storm Christoph happens, the water levels in the mine rises as quickly as it did, there's absolutely nothing to say that it wouldn't happen again in the future.\n\n\"And obviously as climate changes and we have many more events like Storm Christoph, they are going to increase in frequency, they are going to be much more severe.\n\n\"The Coal Authority will have to consider the risk in places like Skewen, and they'll have to understand how it will affect residents and proactively manage that and look at how to reduce the risks for residents.\"", "Pictures of the Pampas grass on social media are thought to have made the area in South Shields popular\n\nA boom in the popularity of Pampas grass with interior decorators has led to \"droves\" of people picking the plant which grows wild near a beach.\n\nThe grass, near Littlehaven Beach in South Shields, forms part of a wind defence to stop sand blowing onto roads and helps protect the coastline.\n\nSouth Tyneside Council warned anyone found removing it could be prosecuted.\n\nCouncillor Ernest Gibson said while the grass may look \"beautiful in vases\" people were \"damaging the environment\".\n\nThe grass, which was popular in the 1970s, can sell for up to £40 a bunch and has proved a popular addition to people's homes.\n\nIt is thought that photographs on social media sites such as Instagram may have influenced people turning up and taking it, Mr Gibson added.\n\n\"Pampas grass is quite expensive to buy if you went to a florist. It's cheaper to come to South Tyneside and take it away,\" he said.\n\n\"But what we are doing is urging people not to come here and take it away, it's there for a reason.\"\n\nPampas grass and Marram grass form part of a defence along the coast at South Shields\n\nThe Pampas grass helps to bond poor soils found at the coast, while Marram grass helps to prevent erosion in the dunes.\n\nSigns are to be erected warning people not to pick the grass because it is already in need of replenishment, the council said.\n\n\"Through Covid, we have a massive amount of people coming to the coastal town, it's Benidorm without the sunshine,\" he added.\n\n\"It's great to see people at the seaside enjoying it [the grass] and that's what it's part of. It's there for everybody to view.\"\n\nGarden designer George Wright said Pampas grass was \"very popular\" and he had seen demand increase two or three times at his nursery in West Boldon. He also expressed concern for the area.\n\n\"Once they take the flower heads themselves they take the seeds. Eventually this will become very much a patchy area and they will all start to decline.\n\n\"Pampas grass is becoming more and and more popular at the moment and I think a lot of it is people are starting to extend their houses into the garden so they want something nice in there, and also it's being used for interior decoration in houses.\"\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Geoff and Jenny Holland married in August after two previous attempts to wed were delayed by the pandemic\n\nTwo newlywed pensioners are urging everyone to get vaccinated as they were among the first to receive a dose at a new centre.\n\nGeoff Holland, 90, and 86-year-old wife Jenny married in August after meeting at Town View independent living centre in Mansfield.\n\nThe pair tied the knot after being forced to postpone their nuptials twice due to the pandemic.\n\nThey both received the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.\n\nThe couple made their vaccination plea as a centre at an old DIY store on Chesterfield Road South, in Mansfield, opened on Monday.\n\nIt has joined 31 other new sites opening across England this week, with anyone aged 75 and over who lives within a 45-minute drive encouraged to book their injections.\n\nMrs Holland praised staff at the vaccination site for the care she and her new husband received.\n\n\"We've been well looked after while we've been here,\" she said.\n\n\"People have worked long and hard to get this vaccine so I think people ought to have it.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Time-lapse footage shows how a DIY store was transformed into a vaccine centre in three weeks\n\nMr and Mrs Holland said they both tested positive for coronavirus a couple of months ago after Mr Holland reported feeling unwell.\n\nBoth managed to recover without developing major symptoms.\n\nDespite the delay to their wedding and the ongoing after-effects of the pandemic, Mrs Holland said married life was turning out to be \"brilliant\".\n\n\"Hopefully, one day soon, we'll be able to have a get together and celebrate with our family and friends who couldn't be there on the day,\" she said.\n\nKathryn Turner, Mr Holland's daughter, said the family was thrilled the pair received their jabs.\n\n\"It's fantastic that they are getting the vaccine so their love story can continue,\" she said.\n\n\"Hopefully this will help us all get back to some sort of normality.\"\n\nThe Hollands met in the summer of 2019 and were engaged the following New Year's Eve\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n• None COVID-19 Vaccination in Nottingham and Nottinghamshire - NHS Nottingham and Nottinghamshire CCG The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Parents are struggling with the sense of uncertainty, says psychologist\n\nHome schooling can be tough. It's difficult to concentrate, there's emotional exhaustion, boredom, a lack of motivation and it's really hard not going out to see friends. And that's just the parents.\n\nThis winter lockdown is taking its toll on families, now struggling even more on the black ice of uncertainty as no-one can say when schools in England are going to reopen for most pupils again.\n\n\"There's a sense of fatigue,\" says Jacqueline Smallwood, who is at home with three secondary-school children. She says her own \"concentration levels have fallen dramatically\".\n\n\"It's so repetitive that it just makes you feel tired,\" she says of the latest lockdown and the \"silent struggle\" facing both parents and their children to try to get motivated.\n\nHome school shows no sign of coming to an early end\n\nThere might have been some guilty enjoyment at the start of the year when the school term was initially delayed, not having to get up and out on cold January mornings.\n\nUntil it dawned on them that this was becoming something much longer than a few weeks.\n\nIt's morphed from early January to half term in mid-February and now maybe Easter in early April or even later. And Jacqueline says, as a matter of \"respect\", parents need to know what's happening about schools.\n\nThe confusion over a return date seems to have further frayed the nerves of parents.\n\nThe mother, who lives outside Canterbury in Kent, says she worries about the pressures building up on young people.\n\nFor teenagers like her sons, she says this \"should be a pivotal time in their lives,\" when they're beginning to get some independence and when social lives are hugely important - but instead they're stuck inside with their parents.\n\n\"We can't live like the Waltons forever,\" she says, referencing the US TV series of a folksy family relying on each other.\n\nJacqueline says families are finding this latest lockdown tougher than the spring or summer\n\nThe first lockdown created an unexpected sense of togetherness, an \"enforced bonding\" that she says turned out to be a \"massive positive\".\n\nBut Jacqueline, who works as a writer, sees no such upside to the latest lockdown. There is a collective frustration - and she says it has been made even worse by the confusion about when schools will go back.\n\nThe online home-schooling seems to be working, she says, with teachers trying to boost the enthusiasm levels, but it's no real substitute for being in school. And she wants much more clarity about when they will go back.\n\n\"I've tried not to be political about decisions being made, but you can't help but feel disappointed. They don't seem to understand how real people are living,\" she says.\n\nShe says when politicians say maybe schools will or won't be back by Easter, they don't realise how much that uncertainty affects families trying to plan for what comes next.\n\nEducational psychologist Dan O'Hare says the \"key word is 'uncertainty'\".\n\nLiving on a laptop can take its toll on parents having to work and home school their children\n\nNot knowing what is coming next adds to the pressure, he says, and children out of school are already facing big unknowns such as what's going to happen about exams or when will they see their friends and teachers.\n\n\"It's really stressful for children and their families,\" says Dr O'Hare, who is co-chair of the British Psychological Society's division for educational and child psychology. \"They need a sense of a plan.\"\n\nThis lockdown is also in the depths of winter - and he says employers need to think about making sure staff working from home are able to take a break in daylight hours, so that families can get outside.\n\nIt's no use asking parents to answer work emails all day and expect them to go out when it's dark.\n\nSchools have been providing more online lessons in this lockdown\n\nFor some families it has got very difficult.\n\n\"It's affected her emotionally a lot,\" says Dave in Bolton, who is worrying about his six-year-old daughter, who has been crying because she misses her friends.\n\n\"It's awful, you can't put a positive spin on it. She's at that age where she's enjoying her friends, becoming more socialised,\" he told BBC 5 Live.\n\n\"She's quite a confident little girl and I can't help worry that being stuck at home is going to impact her in the longer term.\"\n\nThe father says many of her classmates are still going into school - and that makes it even harder when she sees her friends on school Zoom calls.\n\nEmployers should make sure that parents' working hours allow them to get out in daylight, says psychologist\n\nJen Locke in Newcastle makes the point that women can often be \"the most adversely affected by the decision to keep schools closed\".\n\nShe says home schooling has \"fallen squarely on my shoulders\", helping her children in the day and then shifting her work with an IT company into the evening, so it's an early start through to a very late finish.\n\n\"It's a huge mental strain… I'm knackered from it all,\" she says, right down to trying to get children to bed who aren't tired because they're not going out.\n\nA lockdown weariness seems to be out there, despite the best efforts of schools.\n\nSimon Armstrong in Bristol, whose son is in secondary school, says: \"Virtual lessons, no matter how well delivered, are a woeful substitute for real lessons.\"\n\n\"I am at the end of my tether,\" he says.\n\nThe Department for Education said: \"We are committed to reopening schools as soon as the public health picture allows, and will inform schools, parents and pupils of plans ahead of February half term.\"\n\nBut Labour has accused the government of causing \"chaos and confusion\" for parents and schools.\n\nThe National Association of Head Teachers said: \"Now is the moment for calm heads to decide on a sustainable return to school, not another chaotic and last-minute set of decisions that could easily result in a yo-yo return to lockdown.\"", "Of 2,000 Welsh members of the Royal College of Nursing who took part in a survey, 75.9% reported increased stress over the past year\n\nA long-term plan is needed to help nurses cope with post-traumatic stress resulting from the coronavirus pandemic, union officials have said.\n\nLast year the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) ran a survey looking at its impact on front-line staff and how it had changed nurses' lives.\n\nOf 2,000 Welsh members who took part, 75.9% reported increased stress and 52% were worried about their mental health.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it recognised the pressures on NHS workers.\n\nCarol Doggett, senior matron at Swansea's Morriston Hospital, said nurses were often becoming patients' \"next of kin\" during the pandemic, due to the \"absence of family, particularly at end of life\".\n\n\"Which we would do anyway, naturally, but in the absence of family it's far more profound than supporting them in a holistic way if they were present with us,\" she said.\n\nSenior matron Carol Doggett says the extreme pressure experienced in intensive care had been felt throughout the hospital\n\nMs Doggett said the extreme pressure experienced in intensive care had been felt throughout the hospital.\n\n\"Patients are coming in through [the emergency department]. They are sicker. The number of sicker patients has definitely increased,\" she said.\n\n\"That results in them having an extended period in hospital. They can stay beyond Covid. They continue to suffer with those conditions that present themselves as a result of Covid.\"\n\nOn Sunday, Ms Doggett's colleague, Morriston intensive care consultant John Gorst, said as many as five patients are dying with Covid during a single 12-hour shift.\n\nNicky Hughes, associate director of nursing at RCN Wales, said: \"The Welsh Government needs to set a long-term plan in place to deal with post-traumatic stress and other mental health issues amongst nurses as a result of the pandemic.\n\n\"Nurses are exhausted, stressed and nearing burnout. Every day they tell us that they feel that they have nothing left to give and feel devalued.\"\n\nAlmost a year on from the start of the pandemic nurses have had to find \"ever more physical and emotional strength\" to cope with Covid-19, said Ms Hughes.\n\nMental health charity Mind Cymru agreed with the RCN that a \"coherent long-term strategy\" was needed to help front-line workers deal with the pandemic's effect on their mental health.\n\n\"We urge Welsh Government to factor this in to their plans and take the necessary steps to give people the support they need,\" said Simon Jones, Mind Cymru's head of policy.\n\n\"Nursing staff and other healthcare professionals have played, and continue to play, a vital role in combatting the pandemic, often putting their own health and wellbeing at risk.\n\n\"Even before the outbreak, we heard from many healthcare professionals struggling with the mental health impact of things like long working hours without breaks, unsociable shift patterns, and dealing with traumatic events.\"\n\nA mental health support hotline for front-line NHS staff in Wales - Health for Health Professionals (HHP) Wales - has been set up by Cardiff University and has received Welsh Government funding.\n\nThe hotline's director Prof Jonathan Bisson said he was \"encouraged\" by the Welsh Government's investment in HHP Wales along with Traumatic Stress Wales, which helps people who have experienced traumatic events.\n\n\"These two initiatives are taking a long term strategic approach to support health workers exposed to traumatic events,\" Prof Bisson said.\n\n\"HHP Wales offers access to mental health support for any member of NHS staff in Wales and has linked with Traumatic Stress Wales to provide evidence-based treatment to health workers who are experiencing post traumatic stress disorder as a result of traumatic experiences related to the pandemic and other causes.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru said the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on health and care workers \"mustn't be underestimated\".\n\n\"The Welsh Government must demonstrate that they're taking this seriously with a robust workforce strategy that takes into account the mental health needs of workers, including sufficient down time after the pandemic, and addresses the need to retain and recruit more staff,\" said Plaid's health spokesman Rhun ap Iorwerth.\n\nThe Welsh Government called the \"commitment and tireless hard work\" of nurses across Wales \"truly remarkable\".\n\nA spokesman said: \"We recognise the pressures the NHS workforce is experiencing and have worked closely with NHS employers and trade unions to create a comprehensive wellbeing package to help support them, which includes a dedicated and confidential Samaritans listening support helpline.\n\n\"We have also expanded our Health for Health Professionals Wales service which offers psychological and mental health support, as well as a number of free-to-access health and wellbeing support apps.\"\n\nRCN Wales said it was glad the Welsh Government was backing projects supporting health workers.\n\nIt said it encouraged the continued development of a \"long-term strategy to deal with the lasting impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on our nursing workforce.\"", "A heatwave sweeping south-east Australia has sent temperatures soaring in the nation's biggest cities and escalated the threat of bushfires.\n\nA large blaze has been contained in Adelaide, South Australia after it burned through 2,500 hectares.\n\nNeighbouring Victoria state is facing its worst fire risk in a year.\n\nTemperatures in those states have started to cool but New South Wales and Queensland will see their heatwave continue into Tuesday.\n\nSydney recorded temperatures of above 40C by Monday afternoon.\n\nHealth officials have urged people to stay inside and to avoid physical activity, and for those near bushfires to avoid inhaling smoke.\n\nThe blaze in the Adelaide Hills has been contained but is expected to continue to burn for the next few days, local media reports.\n\nIt is believed to have destroyed several houses but has not caused injuries.\n\nThe blaze has burned through more than 2,500 hectares\n\nPeople in the area have been warned to take care.\n\n\"Smoke will reduce visibility on the roads and there is a risk of trees and branches falling,\" a statement from SA police said.\n\nImages taken on Monday show smoke over Adelaide obscuring parts of the city skyline and prompting some residents to wear face masks.\n\nAdelaide was blanketed by smoke on Monday\n\nAfter the hot spell began on Friday, the Bureau of Meteorology (Bom) issued heatwave warnings for South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales, Tasmania and Queensland.\n\nOn Monday, Victoria's state capital Melbourne recorded temperatures of 41.5C at 12.40pm (01.40 GMT).\n\nPeople in Victoria have been urged to be careful when in water after the state recorded seven drownings over the past 10 days, ABC News reports.\n\nPeople in Sydney flocked to beaches at the weekend seeking relief from the heat\n\nThe heat is expected to linger until mid-week as the hot air mass tracks east across the country.\n\nAfter extreme bushfires and heatwaves a year ago, Australia's summer this year has so far been cooler and wetter. Meteorologists say the conditions are influenced by a La Nina phenomenon.\n\nAustralia has warmed on average by 1.4C since national records began in 1910, according to its science and weather agencies.\n\nThat's led to an increase in the number of extreme heat events, as well as increased fire danger days.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Hell to high water: Australia’s summer of extremes in 2019-20\n\n\"In summer we now see a greater frequency of very hot days compared to earlier decades,\" said BoM and the national science agency, CSIRO, in their 2020 State of the Climate report.\n\nThe same report noted that 2019 - Australia's hottest year on record - had 33 days where the national maximum temperature exceeded 39C. That surpassed the total number of days over 39C in the previous six decades.\n\nHeatwaves are Australia's deadliest natural disaster and have killed thousands more people than bushfires or floods.", "Police found Dylan Freeman in his mother's bed surrounded by toys\n\nA woman has admitted suffocating her severely disabled son after suffering a breakdown.\n\nDylan Freeman's body was found in Acton, west London, on 16 August with a sponge in his mouth.\n\nHis mother Olga Freeman pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey to manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility.\n\nThree psychiatric reports said Freeman was suffering from a severe depressive illness with psychotic symptoms at the time of the killing.\n\nFreeman attended Acton Police Station to report herself following the killing.\n\nOfficers later found Dylan in his mother's bed surrounded by toys.\n\nDylan had autism, Cohen syndrome - which is linked to abnormalities in many parts of the body - and significant difficulties with language and communication.\n\nIn the week leading up to the killing, Freeman had spoken about saving the world and being a Messiah, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said.\n\nOlga Freeman had booked flights abroad the night before Dylan's body was found\n\nFreeman appeared by video-link to enter her plea and will be sentenced on 11 February.\n\nSpeaking after the hearing, the CPS's Kristen Katsouris described the death as \"tragic\".\n\nShe added: \"Olga Freeman had loved and cared for Dylan for many years, but the strain and pressures of her son's severe and complex special needs had built up and that, combined with her impaired mental health, led to heart-breaking consequences.\"\n\nA post-mortem examination at Great Ormond Street Hospital recorded Dylan's cause of death as upper airway obstruction.\n\nThe Met Police said Freeman had spoken to friends about struggling with the responsibility of caring for Dylan.\n\nOn the night before his body was found, Freeman booked two seats on a flight to Tel Aviv and told her friend not to go into Dylan's room.\n\nThe body of Dylan was found at a house in Cumberland Park, Acton\n\nAt the time of his death, his father, celebrity photographer Dean Freeman, was in Spain.\n\nHe described his son as \"a beautiful, bright, inquisitive and artistic child who loved to travel, visit art galleries and swim\".\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ambrose O'Neill was sentenced in his absence in 2008\n\nA violent robber who went on the run for nearly 13 years has finally been caught and jailed.\n\nAmbrose O'Neill - dubbed \"The Running Man\" due to his ability to evade capture - skipped his 2008 trial over an attack on an antiques dealer.\n\nHe was sentenced to eight years in prison in his absence but spent years at large, until police got a tip-off he was in hiding in Lincolnshire.\n\nThe 42-year-old was arrested on Friday and is now beginning his sentence.\n\nNottinghamshire Police said in 2007, O'Neill, of Ludgate Close in Arnold, knocked on his victim's front door in Seagrave, Leicestershire, posing as a pizza delivery man.\n\nWhen his victim opened the door, O'Neill pushed him over, punched him in the face and demanded he open a safe, threatening to kill him.\n\nBut he ultimately left empty-handed and was later arrested.\n\nO'Neill attended the first day of his trial at Leicester Crown Court but then went on the run.\n\nPolice said they launched Operation Gladiolus in December 2020 in a bid to track him down.\n\nPC James Gill, from Nottinghamshire Police's \"wanted squad\", said: \"We knew he had changed his appearance and lived in an area where people do not know him and he had an assumed identity,\" he said.\n\n\"He was laughing at the police, so we were determined to do everything to find him.\"\n\nA major breakthrough came from an anonymous tip-off suggesting O'Neill may be living with a woman in the Wyberton area, in Lincolnshire.\n\nPolice narrowed it down to a house in Causeway and arrested the \"surprised\" O'Neill in the early hours of Friday.\n\nPC James Gill worked in his free time to bring O'Neill to justice, Nottinghamshire Police said\n\nOfficers also arrested a 41-year-old woman on suspicion of assisting an offender. She remains in custody.\n\nO'Neill is due to appear at Leicester Crown Court on 29 January, where his sentence could be extended, the force added.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Bethany and her two children have been on a waiting list for more than a year\n\nThere is a \"shocking\" lack of places for traveller families to live in England, according to a charity.\n\nOnly 18 out of 251 registered traveller sites have any spaces available, research from Friends, Families and Travellers (FFT) suggests.\n\nIt says the government must \"do more\" to identify land for the community to live on.\n\nThe government says councils are \"best placed\" to assess the local need for permanent traveller sites.\n\nIn October, FFT wrote to all local authorities and private registered site providers in England to ask how many pitches they had available.\n\nIt received responses relating to 251 out of 266 traveller sites - which represented 3,482 permanent pitches and 304 transit pitches.\n\nA transit pitch is a short-term place where people can stay for a set period of usually up to three months.\n\nBethany says she's near the bottom of the waiting list for a pitch in her local area\n\nBethany Rose, 26, and her two children have been on a waiting list for a pitch in West Sussex for more than a year.\n\nShe is currently staying with her parents in their caravan on a registered traveller site. But this is against the rules of their tenancy contract and she will have to move out once the coronavirus pandemic is over.\n\nBethany has a health condition which means she can often be paralysed from the waist down and she needs to be close to her mum who is her carer.\n\n\"It's frustrating, annoying, aggravating, I feel let down,\" she says. \"I'm disabled. I'm homeless and I have two kids.\n\n\"For anyone normally it would just be like, 'Boof, there you go, there's a property, go and live there'. But I can't do that. I can't even get a house, I can't buy a plot of land, I can't do anything.\"\n\nBethany and her children are currently living with her parents on a traveller site in West Sussex\n\nIt's estimated about 1.1 million households are on local authority housing waiting lists, but Bethany believes it would be easier for her to get a home if she wasn't a traveller.\n\nShe says being a traveller is a huge part of her identity and she wants to live on a site so she can continue to be connected to her heritage.\n\n\"A whole community is there if you need something or something happens,\" she said. \"If you fall or you go to hospital, you can guarantee your neighbour will watch the kids until you come back. If you need a cup of sugar, you can just go round.\"\n\nThe research from FFT comes as MPs were due to debate a petition on Monday against government proposals to criminalise trespassing. However, this has been postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe new measures could see travellers facing a fine or prison if they set up unauthorised encampments - currently it's a civil offence.\n\nIn a consultation paper published in 2019, the Home Office said there had been \"long-standing concerns\" about the distress they caused to local communities.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sarah Tanner posted a video saying she was \"disgusted\" by mess left by travellers in Dorset\n\nIn June 2020, residents in Dorset complained about mess left by travellers on a local park - which included a car being abandoned in the middle of a cricket pitch, rubbish dumped in green spaces and human waste deposited in the pond and lake.\n\nFFT says councils are failing to provide enough sites for travellers to live on.\n\nIn January 2019, plans to spend £5m on new traveller pitches in Milton Keynes were put on hold after a \"heated\" meeting with local residents.\n\nBethany believes councils are not doing more to provide extra sites because of discrimination towards travellers.\n\n\"They're building 50,000 new houses in West Sussex, not one of those places is having a site,\" she said. \"So you've got the Nimby (Not In My Back Yard) culture attached to that.\n\n\"For every 50 houses, they could put a site of five which is a whole little community that they can get used to and go, 'Yeah, OK, they're not as bad as people say.'\n\n\"That also means we're not pulling up the side of the roads. We're not being moved off. We're just trying to live like everyone else.\"\n\nMilton Keynes Council changed its plan to build a new traveller site after listening to residents\n\nWest Sussex County Council says when a vacancy comes up on a permanent site all those who have expressed an interest in that location are considered for the pitch.\n\nThe FFT wants the government to reintroduce pitch targets and a statutory duty on local authorities to meet the assessed need for Gypsy and traveller sites.\n\nIt also calls on the government to abandon its proposal to criminalise trespassing.\n\nSarah Sweeney, policy and communications manager at FFT, said: \"It is deeply unfair that while the government is dramatically failing to identify enough land for Gypsy and traveller families to live on, the home secretary is working to create laws to imprison, fine and remove the homes of families living on roadside camps for the 'crime' of having nowhere else to go.\"\n\nThe Local Government Association says it wants the government to publish \"better data\" on the scale of unauthorised encampments and the availability of authorised sites to help councils in England meet their planning obligations.\n\nA spokeswoman for the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government said: \"Unauthorised encampments cause distress and disruption for many people across the country so it's right we are giving the police the powers they need to address this issue.\n\n\"Councils are best placed to assess the local need for permanent traveller sites and decide where they should be, and can apply for funding through our Shared Ownership and Affordable Homes Programme to help build them.\"", "At least 80 people had to leave their homes in the village after flooding\n\nPeople whose homes were flooded after a \"blow out\" at a mine shaft are said to be \"devastated\" as they face months before they can return home.\n\nSteve Morris said his son Gareth and his girlfriend's home in Skewen, Neath Port Talbot, was inundated by \"orange\" flood water containing sewage.\n\nBut some will be allowed back to their properties on Tuesday.\n\nResidents of Goshen Park and Sunnyland Crescent who have yet to contact Neath Port Talbot council are urged to do so in the next 24 hours.\n\nThe council said access to these properties would continue to be affected beyond 26 January and the Coal Authority wished to have early discussions with them.\n\nMr Morris told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast that his son called him on Thursday to say his house was about to be flooded.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Teresa Dalling says a river of orange water rushed through the village on Thursday\n\n\"I live about half a mile away... and by the time I got to his address I could see the water levels were rising rapidly up the road,\" he explained.\n\n\"Then it was so quick - the water came through his rear patio doors firstly, then the gardens and then the drains couldn't cope on the main road and came through the front door, then the side door.\n\n\"His ground floor was four feet under water, and it was this orange coloured water. There was sewage in the house, so his ground floor needs totally gutting.\"\n\nMr Morris said Gareth and his girlfriend are staying in a hotel as they wait to be allowed back to assess the damage.\n\nHe hopes their insurance firm will pay to rent a home for them, adding: \"I can honestly see them being out of their house for between six and 10 months.\n\n\"They are obviously devastated - they have only been in there for 12 months so everything was near enough brand new.\"\n\nCerys Thomas was at her mother's house with her son, in Goshen Park, when she saw water coming through the front door.\n\nThe stairs at the home of Cerys Thomas' parents were left caked in mud\n\nShe said: \"I said to my mother to get my son and herself out and up toward the street. I phoned the police then, because I could see it was going to be an emergency, and within minutes my parents' conservatory doors just blew through.\n\n\"The pressure of the water just blew through the house and the water, within minutes, was up to my waist.\n\n\"Trying to get out of the house was very scary because the pressure of the front door was getting pushed back.\"\n\nShe said the street was under water \"within seven minutes\".\n\n\"It was something you would see in a movie,\" she said.\n\nWithin minutes of water entering the house Ms Thomas was up to her waist in water\n\nMeanwhile, the Coal Authority said it has identified the cause of the \"blow out\".\n\nChief executive Lisa Pinney told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast: \"Firstly, I just want to say our thoughts are with everyone affected by this flooding and we are genuinely sorry people have been affected in this way.\n\n\"What we know so far is the blow out was caused by a blockage underground which caused water to break out, basically to find the easiest path, and there's no doubt the excessive rainfall in the days before was also a factor in that.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs Pinney said crews had been able to find the site of the collapsed mineshaft which had caused the flooding, and the authority had started to \"develop options\".\n\n\"We really understand people want to get back into their homes, they want to collect things, they want to know what the next steps are,\" she continued.\n\n\"We are working as fast as possible to make that happen and we hope to be able to provide some more information in the next day or so, but you will understand that we have to be sure for public safety.\"\n\nMs Pinney said there are almost 300 mine shafts or entries across the Skewen mine works, which covers an area of about 12 sq km (7.6 sq miles).\n\nShe added: \"We have checked all recorded shafts in the immediate area and we are doing continued checks over the coming days. We have found no problems. They are all safe.\"", "Jenners department store in Edinburgh has been at the site since 1838\n\nThe owner of the Jenners building in Edinburgh has promised that it will remain a department store - despite the departure of its current tenant, the House of Fraser.\n\nFrasers Group said it would cease trading at the site on 3 May, with the loss of 200 jobs.\n\nThe building is owned by Danish billionaire Anders Holch Povlsen.\n\nA company spokesman said it would continue as a store and that \"advanced\" talks were taking place with operators.\n\nThe Jenners building has occupied a prime location on Princes Street for 183 years.\n\nIt was bought by Mr Povlsen - who is one of Scotland's biggest landowners - in 2017, reportedly for £53m.\n\nThe store is currently operated by the Frasers Group, which owns the commercial rights to the Jenners trading name.\n\nIt said it would be quitting the site in May after the two sides were unable to come to an agreement.\n\nA Frasers spokesman claimed that the landlord had not been able to \"work mutually on a fair agreement\".\n\nHe said this had led to \"the loss of 200 jobs and a vacant site for the foreseeable future, with no immediate plans.\n\n\"Our commitment to our Frasers strategy remains but landlords and retailers need to work together in a fair manner, especially when all stores are closed.\"\n\nAnders Holch Povlsen is one of Scotland's biggest landowners\n\nHowever, Anders Krogh Vogdrup - the director of AAA United, which owns the Jenners building - said it had given Frasers a substantial rent reduction and rent-free periods to cover the lockdowns.\n\n\"Frasers has made the decision that it does not wish to continue in occupation,\" he said.\n\n\"This will see the end of the 16-year association between House of Fraser and this building, but not of the 180 years of Jenners department store.\"\n\nMr Vogdrup told BBC Scotland that it had bought the Jenners building \"out of passion for its architecture and history\".\n\n\"We have been sad to read on social media that we are to close the department store, as that is not the case,\" he said.\n\n\"We fought to keep the current tenant and we are now in advanced talks with other partners.\"\n\nHe said their \"first priority\" was to keep it as a department store, while there were also plans to turn some unused parts of the building into a hotel.\n\n\"The Jenners department store and building is the jewel in the crown of Edinburgh,\" he added.\n\n\"We are not turning it into a hotel. It will remain a department store.\"\n\nHe also expects the Jenners name will remain on the side of the building.\n\nMr Povlsen, whose parents set up Scandinavian fashion company Bestseller, is believed to be worth £4.5bn. As well as owning Bestseller he is a major shareholder in online retailer Asos.\n\nHe has previously revealed plans to use parts of the Princes Street building for a hotel, with the rest reserved for retail.\n\nThe plans included the restoration of the building's Victorian facade and central atrium, which is a three-storey, top-lit grand saloon. A rooftop restaurant and bar would overlook nearby St Andrew Square.\n\nMr Vogdrup said the plans to refurbish the store were now on hold due to the current economic climate.\n\nJenners has dominated Edinburgh's main shopping thoroughfare since the mid-19th Century.\n\nIt was opened in 1838 by local drapers Charles Jenner and Charles Kennington, who found themselves out of work after being sacked for taking a day off to go to the races in Musselburgh.\n\nInitially called Kennington & Jenner, the boutique store proved popular for keeping the people of Edinburgh in fine silks and linen, which could normally only be found in London.\n\nBy 1890 the shop had changed name to Charles Jenner & Co and had expanded to adjoining buildings, making it one of the biggest stores in Scotland.\n\nBut just two years later fire destroyed the shop and ambitious plans - backed by the local council - were launched for a new look Jenners.\n\nCelebrated architect William Hamilton Beattie, who also designed the Balmoral and Carlton Hotel, was brought in for the redesign.\n\nCharles Jenner died in 1893 before the work was completed in 1895.\n\nIn 1911 the popular store was given a Royal Warrant.\n\nAfter struggling in the the 21st Century, the Jenners brand was sold to rivals House of Fraser for £46m in 2005.\n\nIn 2018, House of Fraser was bought by Mike Ashley's Sports Direct group.", "The pupils of someone with PTSD have an exaggerated response when viewing exciting or dangerous images, the study found\n\nA person's pupils can reveal if they have suffered a traumatic experience in the past, according to new research.\n\nThe joint Swansea and Cardiff universities study found the eyes of people with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) behave differently.\n\nIt found their pupils have an exaggerated response when viewing exciting or dangerous images.\n\nThose behind the study said it could be useful in diagnosis, treatment and in bench-marking progress.\n\nNormally pupil size fluctuates with changing light levels, but it can also alter when a person is scared, excited, or even concentrating hard.\n\nShocking or surprising images can cause pupils to enlarge, however the researchers discovered this reaction was highly exaggerated in people who have experienced a traumatic event.\n\nThree groups of people were tested - some with diagnosed PTSD, others who had experienced a traumatic event but had no PTSD, and a control group of people with no previous issues.\n\nProf Nicola Gray, of Swansea University, co-authored the study with Prof Robert Snowden of Cardiff University.\n\nShe said: \"The pupil normally shows a fast constriction when the person sees a new image, but then the pupil gets bigger - especially if the picture is arousing, such as a scary image of, for example, fierce animals or weapons.\n\n\"However, the patients with PTSD behaved differently in both phases. First, their pupil did not constrict much when shown a new picture, and then it expanded more to the scary images than for people without PTSD.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Could virtual reality help treat PTSD in veterans?\n\nOne man with PTSD who wished to remain anonymous described how, after his time in the Army, he was left unable to drive at night because his pupils could not contract sufficiently in response to street lights and on-coming headlights, leaving him dazzled and unable to see properly.\n\nThe research found the PTSD group showed enlarged pupils to images which were positive and exciting.\n\n\"When we displayed exciting scenes, such as a sporting triumph or an image of a person sky-diving, these images elicited the same enhanced pupil response in the PTSD group as the frightening pictures,\" Prof Snowden said.\n\n\"The subjects weren't frightened by these images, but the images were arousing. Once again, the people with PTSD showed a far greater response, indicating that they were even more aroused by these images than the other participants\".\n\nAccording to Prof Gray this finding could help to develop new therapies for PTSD.\n\n\"If exciting, but non-threatening, images elicit the same response, then it may be possible in the future to use them to gradually reduce the arousal levels of people experiencing PTSD.\"\n\nPTSD is an anxiety disorder caused by very stressful, frightening or distressing events.\n\nSomeone with PTSD often relives the traumatic event through nightmares and flashbacks, and may experience feelings of isolation, irritability and guilt.\n\nThey may also have problems sleeping, such as insomnia, and find concentrating difficult.\n\nThese symptoms are often severe and persistent enough to have a significant impact on the person's day-to-day life.\n\nCauses of PTSD can include:\n\nThe pupil is the opening in the middle of the iris\n\nProf Gray said the research may also be useful from a diagnostic perspective.\n\n\"PTSD comes in many forms, from people who have experienced a one-off sudden event like a car crash, to those who have gone through many traumatic events over a period of months or years via abuse.\n\n\"Sometimes people struggle to express these thoughts, or might even play them down in order to please the therapist.\n\n\"Having a more objective method to look for these signs of hypervigilance and hyperarousal may be useful in order to obtain a more accurate benchmark of how the person is progressing.\"", "Scientists say signs a new coronavirus variant is more deadly than the earlier version should not be a \"game changer\" in the UK's response to the pandemic.\n\nBoris Johnson has said there is \"some evidence\" the variant may be associated with \"a higher degree of mortality\".\n\nBut the co-author of the study the PM was referring to said the variant's deadliness remained an \"open question\".\n\nAnother adviser said he was surprised Mr Johnson had shared the findings when the data was \"not particularly strong\".\n\nA third top medic said it was \"too early\" to be \"absolutely clear\".\n\nAt a Downing Street coronavirus news conference on Friday, the prime minister said: \"In addition to spreading more quickly, it also now appears that there is some evidence that the new variant - the variant that was first identified in London and the South East - may be associated with a higher degree of mortality.\"\n\nSpeaking alongside the PM, the government's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said there was \"a lot of uncertainty around these numbers\" but that early evidence suggested the variant could be about 30% more deadly.\n\nFor example, Sir Patrick said if 1,000 men in their 60s were infected with the old variant, roughly 10 of them would be expected to die - but this rises to about 13 with the new variant.\n\nThe announcement followed a briefing by scientists on the government's New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag) which concluded there was a \"realistic possibility\" that the variant was associated with an increased risk of death.\n\nBut one of the briefing's co-authors, Prof Graham Medley, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"The question about whether it is more dangerous in terms of mortality I think is still open.\"\n\n\"In terms of making the situation worse it is not a game changer. It is a very bad thing that is slightly worse,\" added Prof Medley, who is a professor of infectious disease modelling at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.\n\nAnother 1,348 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test were reported in the UK on Saturday, in addition to 33,552 new infections, according to the government's coronavirus dashboard.\n\nThere is huge uncertainty in the evidence on how lethal the variant is.\n\nThe scientific experts that reviewed the data used a precise phrase saying it was a \"realistic possibility\" the new variant is more deadly.\n\nThat means there's a roughly 50-50 chance it will turn out to be true.\n\nWith time, and sadly more deaths, the picture will become clearer.\n\nWhile people debate the uncertainties though, we already know this variant has the ability to kill more people than the old ones.\n\nA virus that spreads faster (this one is 30-70% faster) will infect more people, more quickly, putting a greater strain on hospitals and leading to a sharper spike in deaths.\n\nIt is why viruses becoming more transmissible can be a bigger problem than ones becoming more deadly.\n\nNervtag's chairman Prof Peter Horby defended the government's \"transparency\" in making the announcement.\n\n\"Scientists are looking at the possibility that there is increased severity... and after a week of looking at the data we came to the conclusion that it was a realistic possibility,\" he said.\n\n\"We need to be transparent about that. If we were not telling people about this we would be accused of covering it up.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Patrick Vallance: \"There is evidence that there's an increased risk for those who have the new variant\"\n\nBut Dr Mike Tildesley, a member of Sage subgroup the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling (Spi-M), agreed it was too early to draw \"strong conclusions\" as the suggested increased mortality rates were based on \"a relatively small amount of data\".\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast he was \"actually quite surprised\" Mr Johnson had made the early findings public rather than monitoring the data \"for a week or two more\".\n\n\"I just worry that where we report things pre-emptively where the data are not really particularly strong,\" Dr Tildesley added.\n\nPublic Health England medical director Dr Yvonne Doyle also said it was not \"absolutely clear\" the new variant was more deadly than the original.\n\n\"There is some evidence, but it is very early evidence. It is small numbers of cases and it is far too early to say,\" she told the Today programme.\n\nMeanwhile, senior doctors are calling on England's chief medical officer to cut the gap between the first and second doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nThe British Medical Association told Prof Chris Whitty an extension to the maximum gap between jab from three weeks to 12 weeks, to get the first dose to more people, was \"difficult to justify\".", "Moderna's Covid vaccine appears to work against new, more infectious variants of the pandemic virus found in the UK and South Africa, say scientists from the US pharmaceutical company.\n\nEarly laboratory tests suggest antibodies triggered by the vaccine can recognise and fight the new variants.\n\nMore studies are needed to confirm this is true for people who have been vaccinated.\n\nThe new variants have been spreading fast in a number of nations.\n\nThey have undergone changes or mutations that mean they can infect human cells more easily than the original version of coronavirus that started the pandemic.\n\nExperts think the UK strain, which emerged in September, may be up to 70% more transmissible.\n\nCurrent vaccines were designed around earlier variants, but scientists believe they should still work against the new ones, although perhaps not quite as well. There are already some early results that suggest the Pfizer vaccine protects against the new UK variant.\n\nFor the Moderna study, researchers looked at blood samples taken from eight people who had received the recommended two doses of the Moderna vaccine.\n\nThe findings are yet to be peer reviewed, but suggest immunity from the vaccine recognises the new variants.\n\nNeutralising antibodies, made by the body's immune system, stop the virus from entering cells.\n\nBlood samples exposed to the new variants appeared to have sufficient antibodies to achieve this neutralising effect, although it was not as strong for the South Africa variant as for the UK one.\n\nModerna says this could mean that protection against the South Africa variant might disappear more quickly.\n\nProf Lawrence Young, a virus expert at Warwick Medical School in the UK, said this would be concerning.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC health and science journalist Laura Foster compares the three different Covid-19 vaccines\n\nModerna is currently testing whether giving a third booster shot might be beneficial.\n\nLike other scientists, the company is also investigating whether redesigning the booster to be a better match for the new variants will be beneficial.\n\nStephane Bancel, chief executive officer of Moderna, said the company believed it was \"imperative to be proactive as the virus evolves\".\n\nUK regulators have already approved Moderna's vaccine for rollout on the NHS, but the 17m pre-ordered doses are not expected to arrive until Spring.\n\nThe vaccine works in a similar way to the Pfizer one already being used in the UK.\n\nMore than 6.3 million people in the UK have already received a first dose of either the Pfizer or the AstraZeneca vaccine.", "Media regulator Ofcom has decided not to take any action over Channel 4's use of a \"deepfaked\" video of the Queen.\n\nThe \"alternative Christmas message\" attracted 354 complaints about decency after it aired on Christmas Day.\n\nIt showed an AI-generated version of the Queen, who made jokes about the Royal Family and the prime minister, and danced on top of a table.\n\nBut after assessing things, Ofcom decided not to pursue the complaints about disrespecting the monarch.\n\n\"In our view, Channel 4 made clear that the images were deliberately manipulated as a device to question societal trust in what we see online,\" a spokeswoman for the regulator said.\n\n\"We also consider that the satirical tone of the film was in keeping with audience expectations of this broadcaster,\" it added.\n\nThat decision is similar to Channel 4's own defence of the satire, in which it argued that the parody left viewers \"in no doubt that it was not real\".\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Channel 4 This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nIt also argued the message of the video as a whole was a warning about the importance of trust, and how easily convincing fake images and video can be created - even uploading a behind-the-scenes video about its creation.\n\nAfter airing on national television in the UK, the video has spread widely online, racking up nearly two million views on YouTube alone.\n\nIt has not, however, been universally popular - on top of the formal complaints to Ofcom, it has a poor ratio of likes-to-dislikes on YouTube - with more than 19,000 likes, but nearly 5,000 dislikes.\n\nDeepfakes work by training a computer to draw a person's face by showing it thousands of photographs of that person, ideally from many different angles and in different lighting conditions.\n\nThe computer can then draw that person's face on top of another actor's performance.\n\nThe more varied and numerous the images used in training the model, the better the result - which is why it is almost universally used to fake the appearance of celebrities, who already have hours of available film or television footage available.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBut there are other limitations on the technology, too.\n\nThe similarity in facial structure, size, and appearance of the actor whose face is being replaced affects the realism of the finished deepfake. It is also far easier to produce a convincing result if the person remains still, as movement can often reveal the artificial nature of the animation.\n\nThe voice must also be replaced by an impersonator and the entire process is incredibly demanding, even for high-end computers, often taking many days of computation.\n\nHowever, the technique is advancing rapidly, and the results are becoming more convincing with each passing year, with major film firms such as Disney actively exploring the technique and developing their own variants.", "Fashion retailer Boohoo has bought the Debenhams brand and website for £55m.\n\nHowever, it will not take on any of the firm's remaining 118 High Street stores or its workforce.\n\nBoohoo said it was a \"transformational deal\" and a \"huge step\". But the deal means that up to 12,000 jobs at the department store chain are set to go.\n\nThe 242-year-old Debenhams chain is already in the process of closing down, after administrators failed to secure a rescue deal for the business.\n\nIn a separate development, Asos says it is in \"exclusive\" talks to buy the Topshop, Topman, Miss Selfridge and HIIT brands out of administration.\n\nBut the online retailer said it only wanted the brands, not their shops, suggesting any deal would cost jobs.\n\nThe current owner of the brands, Sir Philip Green's Arcadia Group, fell into administration last November putting 13,000 jobs at risk.\n\nA closing-down sale at 124 Debenhams stores began in December, as the administrators continued to seek offers for all or parts of the business.\n\nThe company announced recently that six shops would not reopen after lockdown, including its flagship department store on London's Oxford Street.\n\nThe administrators of Debenhams UK, FRP Advisory, said they had undertaken a \"thorough and robust process\" to achieve \"the best outcome for Debenhams' stakeholders\".\n\n\"This transaction will allow a new Debenhams-branded business to emerge under strong new ownership, including an online operation and the opportunity to secure an international franchise network that will operate under licence using the Debenhams name,\" they added.\n\nBoohoo has already bought a number of High Street brands out of administration. It snapped up Oasis, Coast and Karen Millen, but not the associated stores.\n\nIts executive chairman, Mahmud Kamani, said: \"This is a transformational deal for the group, which allows us to capture the fantastic opportunity as ecommerce continues to grow. Our ambition is to create the UK's largest marketplace.\n\n\"Our acquisition of the Debenhams brand is strategically significant as it represents a huge step which accelerates our ambition to be a leader, not just in fashion ecommerce, but in new categories including beauty, sport and homeware.\"\n\nBoohoo said Debenhams was expected to relaunch on Boohoo's web platform later this year.\n\nIn the meantime, Debenhams will continue to operate its website for an agreed period.\n\nBoohoo's fast-fashion model has come under scrutiny\n\nBoohoo has recently come under fire over workers' pay and conditions and its ultra-low pricing.\n\nAs well as facing questions about the environmental impact of its fast-fashion business model, there have been accusations of widespread abuse of employment law at some of Boohoo's suppliers in Leicester.\n\nInvestigations last year suggested workers were being paid below the minimum wage.\n\nAfter an independent review of the claims found a series of failings, Mr Kamani said last month that the firm was working to fix the problems, adding: \"We will make a better Boohoo.\"\n\nWhile online retailers have been whittling away at their High Street rivals for years, few could have predicted how quickly bricks-and-mortar stalwarts have collapsed. The pandemic has fatally undermined their already parlous finances. Businesses that appeared to have a chance of survival just a year ago have been wiped out and their brands bought by online players.\n\nThe scale of the change is profound: when Debenhams listed on the stock exchange in 2011, investors valued it at £1.6bn. Boohoo, which was founded only in 2006, already has a stock market value of £4.4bn. Asos, a bit player two decades ago when Sir Philip Green's Arcadia group was riding high and toying with a bid for Marks & Spencer, is now valued by the stock market at £5bn.\n\nNeither Boohoo or Asos see any value in the Debenhams or Topshop High Street estates. Instead, they will concentrate on development of the brands and the associated customer data. This is bad news for the 19,000-odd people who work in the branches of Debenhams and Topshop, and will leave councils around the country wondering how they will fill town centres that were based on retail.\n\nBut just as canny entrepreneurs and private equity companies are gearing up to buy struggling pub chains, in the hope of a recovery once lockdown restrictions are eased, so will some investors be wondering what next for the High Street. The British love affair with shopping will not end overnight and a well-placed punt now could have big rewards.\n\nDebenhams has struggled for years with falling profits and rising debts, as more shopping has moved online. It called in administrators twice in two years, most recently in April.\n\nHowever, its position became untenable during the coronavirus pandemic as non-essential retailers were forced to close for prolonged periods.\n\nThe firm had already trimmed its store portfolio and cut about 6,500 jobs since May, as it struggled to stay afloat.\n\nBusinessman Mike Ashley, who founded Sports Direct and also owns House of Fraser, had already made an offer for Debenhams after it was initially put up for sale in April.\n\nHowever, the takeover offer, thought to be in the region of £125m, was rejected as being too low.\n\nMeanwhile, one of House of Fraser's flagship outlets, the Jenners department store in Edinburgh, is to leave its Princes Street home after 183 years. It will close on 3 May with the loss of 200 jobs.\n\nThe building's owner, Danish billionaire Anders Holch Povlsen, announced in November 2019 that he intended to convert the site, replacing Jenners with a hotel, cafes, a rooftop restaurant and luxury shops.\n\nHowever, a spokesperson for Frasers Group said it had been \"unable to reach an agreement\" with Mr Povlsen and that the closure of Jenners would leave \"a vacant site for the foreseeable future with no immediate plans\".\n\nDo you work for Debenhams? Has your job been affected? Please get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dutch police have described it as the worst unrest in four decades\n\nMore than 180 people were arrested in 10 Dutch cities as protesters defying a curfew clashed with riot police for a third night running.\n\nShops in Rotterdam were looted and police used water cannon, as rioters resisted latest Covid restrictions.\n\nPrime Minister Mark Rutte condemned \"criminal violence\" and the justice minister said the curfew would remain.\n\nThe Dutch chief of police said the riots no longer had \"anything to do with the basic right to demonstrate\".\n\nThe Netherlands has had nearly one million confirmed Covid cases since the start of the outbreak, with more than 13,500 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University in the US, which is tracking the pandemic.\n\nThe government recently introduced a night-time curfew which runs from 21:00 (20:00 GMT) to 04:30. Anyone caught violating it faces a €95 (£84) fine.\n\nThere were further violent scenes in many towns and cities. Riot police clashed with protesters in Rotterdam and Amsterdam, as well as Amersfoort, Den Bosch, Alphen and Helmond.\n\nSome of the worst disturbances were in the south of Rotterdam where police said 10 officers were hurt. Across the country 184 people were arrested. Amsterdam's mayor appealed to parents to keep young people indoors.\n\nSeveral cities have vowed to introduce emergency measures in an effort to prevent more disturbances\n\nThe windows of some shops were smashed in Rotterdam\n\nFires were lit on the streets of The Hague, where police on bicycles attempted to move small clusters of men who threw stones and fireworks. There was violence in the southern city of Den Bosch, where rioters set off fireworks, broke windows, looted a supermarket and overturned cars.\n\nA woman living near Den Bosch train station told Dutch radio that masked youths had left a trail of destruction in the city centre. \"I saw windows smashed and fireworks going off. Really crazy, just like a war zone,\" the woman said. Roads into the city were closed to stop people joining the rioters and Mayor Jack Mikkers imposed an emergency order banning gatherings on Tuesday.\n\nThe ignition of discontent has rocked the core of Dutch society.\n\nIn the absence of any legitimate way to socialise, is this simply an outlet for young men to feel part of something, their masks concealing their identities and enabling them to violently channel their frustrations?\n\nThere are more sinister influences at play. Messages on social media, overt and covert, have whipped up anger. Misinformation has even been spread by some politicians.\n\nSome of the worst violence was in Rotterdam\n\nSome feared a curfew would be a tipping point, as Dutch restrictions tighten while some neighbouring countries relax their rules. The vast majority of people in the Netherlands are peacefully observing the curfew.\n\nThe unrest was initially seen as a response to the first \"stay-at-home\" order imposed since Nazi occupation during World War Two. That notion has been dismissed by Prime Minister Mark Rutte, who said the rioters were simply criminals and would be treated as such.\n\nBut there are simmering anxieties in Dutch towns and cities, and with less than two months before a general election, voters are vulnerable and the streets volatile.\n\nThere has been widespread shock at the violence. In Rotterdam, where police used water cannon during clashes with rioters, Mayor Ahmed Aboutaleb signed an emergency decree, giving police broader powers of arrest. He reacted furiously to shops being looted in the south of the city, condemning \"shameless thieves, I can't call it anything else\".\n\nThe prime minister said the police had the government's full support: \"The riots have nothing to do with protesting or fighting for freedom.\"\n\nRotterdam shop-owner Emrah Köker said he had no words for what he had seen. \"How can this happen in the Netherlands?\" he asked Dutch daily newspaper Algemeen Dagblad. Justice Minister Ferd Grapperhuis challenged anyone to explain what looting a shop had to do with coronavirus.\n\nThe mayor of Den Bosch said police had struggled to respond to the violence because they were needed in other nearby towns.\n\nFootball fans of the Willem II club took to the streets of Tilburg to \"protect their city\" against rioters, news site Brabants Dagblad reports.\n\nMayors in several cities have vowed to introduce emergency measures in an effort to prevent more disturbances.\n\nThe Dutch prime minister has condemned the violence\n\nThere has been widespread shock in the Netherlands over the violence", "The public's trust in the way the UK is run is breaking down, former Labour prime minister Gordon Brown has warned.\n\nHe said Covid-19 had exposed \"tensions\" between Whitehall and the nations and regions, who were often treated by the centre as if they were \"invisible\".\n\nMr Brown is urging Boris Johnson to set up a commission to review how the country is governed and powers shared.\n\nBut the PM said his focus was on the pandemic, stressing the benefits of the union could be \"seen everywhere\".\n\nMr Brown's intervention comes amid a looming clash between Mr Johnson and Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, who has demanded the UK agree to another Scottish independence referendum if the SNP wins a majority in May's Holyrood elections.\n\nThe Court of Session is hearing arguments about whether Holyrood can legislate to hold one even if the UK government continues to object.\n\nWriting in the Daily Telegraph, Mr Brown - who advocates a federal system with more power for nations and regions - says the pandemic has \"brought to the surface tensions and grievances that have been simmering for years\" between Downing Street and the various parts of the UK.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Conservatives election win was not 'a signal that the country is at ease' warns Brown\n\nHe points to \"bitter disputes\" over issues such as lockdown restrictions and furlough and said unless underlying tensions were resolved, the UK risked becoming a \"failed state\".\n\nIn an interview with BBC Radio 4's Today, he said at a time \"when all should be pulling together and intensifying co-operation across the UK\" there was division and claims by the leaders of Scotland and Wales and the English regions that they were not being properly consulted.\n\nLast year there were rows between the government and local authorities over coronavirus tiers, with the Labour mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, objecting to plans to put the region into the strictest level of restrictions.\n\nMr Brown told Today that while he was \"confident\" that Scotland would still be part of the UK in ten years time, the way the UK was governed had to change.\n\n\"I think the public are fed up. I think in many ways, they feel they are being treated as second class citizens, particularly in the outlying areas, that they are invisible and forgotten.\"\n\n\"Something has broken down in trust and has to be repaired.\"\n\nMr Brown is advising the Labour Party on its devolution strategy - but has also held talks with government ministers including Michael Gove in recent weeks.\n\nGovernment sources say they are focused on taking tangible steps to demonstrate the value of the UK.\n\nThe idea of a fundamental review of the UK's power structures has been suggested as one possible way to counter support for Scottish independence ahead of May's Holyrood election.\n\nBut a series of polls now suggest support for independence is higher than support for the union - and First Minister Nicola Sturgeon will demand another referendum if, as seems likely, her party - the SNP - wins in May.\n\nHe is calling on Boris Johnson to immediately set up a commission on democracy to review how the UK is governed, something the Conservatives promised in their manifesto before the last general election.\n\nIn his Telegraph article, he suggests it would find that the UK needs a Forum of the Nations and Regions, citizens' assemblies, and a greater focus on the benefits of cooperation in areas such as the NHS and the armed forces.\n\nThe current Labour leader, Sir Keir Starmer also supports devolving more powers from Westminster but opposes another Scottish independence referendum.\n\nThe SNP said last week that there would be a \"legal referendum\" after the pandemic if May's Holyrood election returned a pro-independence majority.\n\nAsked if he would stand in the way of this, Mr Johnson said what the British public wanted was for its political leaders to focus on beating coronavirus, adding that the advantages of the UK's four nations working together \"spoke for themselves\".\n\n\"I think people can see everywhere in the UK the visible benefits of our wonderful union,\" he said.\n\n\"A vaccine programme that is being rolled out by a National Health Service, a vaccine that was developed in labs in Oxford and is being administered by the British Army.\"\n\nBut the SNP said the Scottish people, not Westminster-based politicians, should decide the country's future.\n\n\"No amount of constitutional tinkering from Labour would protect Scotland from Brexit or the Tory power grab - only independence can do that,\" said Kirsten Oswald, the party's deputy Westminster leader.\n\n\"The Scottish people will see right through this attempt to deny their democratic right.\"\n\nA poll commissioned by the Sunday Times in Northern Ireland found 51% of people wanted a referendum on Irish unity in the next five years.\n\nDUP leader and Northern Irish First Minister Arlene Foster said such a vote would be \"absolutely reckless\".\n\nNumbers supporting Wales breaking away from the UK also appear to be rising. The pro-independence campaign group Yes Cymru has said membership swelled from 2,000 at the start of 2020 to more than 17,000.\n\nPlaid Cymru has also promised to hold an independence referendum if it wins the next Senedd election.\n\nResponding to Mr Brown's intervention, the party's Westminster leader Liz Saville Roberts said: \"It's been clear for many years that the UK doesn't work for Wales - I'm glad that the Labour Party are starting to see that.\"", "Prince Charles Hospital now has an expanded special care baby unit and six en-suite delivery rooms\n\nIt followed concerns that emerged in late 2018 that women and babies may have come to harm because of staff shortages and failures to report serious incidents.\n\nThe review by experts from two royal colleges was in addition to the health board's own investigation. Maternity services in Cwm Taf are now in special measures and an independent panel was set up to drive improvements.\n\nHow many incidents are we talking about?\n• None 150cases from 2016-2018 reviewed so lessons can be learnt\n\nThe health board's own investigation looked at 43 cases, including 25 serious incidents. Of these initial cases, 20 were at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital in Llantrisant and 23 at Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr Tydfil. The serious incidents include eight stillbirths and five deaths shortly after birth, all between January 2016 and last September.\n\nThey came to light after concerns were raised that staff had not been reporting serious incidents.\n\nThe health board said it faced \"extreme\" staff shortages and was urgently trying to make improvements.\n\nBut the review team cast doubt on the ability of the health board to make changes, without more support. It said it was \"dismayed\" that an internal report, written by a consultant midwife, highlighting many safety concerns last September was not acted upon, \"thereby continuing to expose women to unacceptable risks\".\n\nA consultant midwife also identified 67 stillbirths, going back to 2010, which had not been reported by the health board.\n\nThe independent panel decided to widen its scope to look at 350 cases of women who were transferred out of the health board area.\n\nIn October 2019, the panel said it was looking at a total of 150 cases between 2016 and 2018 - including the 43 cases initially investigated. There is still scope to look back at further years.\n\nWho has been investigating?\n\nThe health minister Vaughan Gething ordered an \"independent external review\" by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecology and the Royal College of Midwives last October.\n\nIts findings, published in April 2019, were damning and found services \"under extreme pressure\" and \"dysfunctional\", while mothers had distressing experiences in how they were treated.\n\nCwm Taf's maternity services were placed in special measures and the independent panel overseeing changes has indicated as well as looking back in detail at past cases it wanted to ensure improvements were robust and to look at lessons that could be learned across Wales.\n\nHave any changes been made?\n\nThe royal colleges review team ordered urgent action after visiting hospitals in January 2019 - finding \"a number of immediate quality and safety concerns\".\n\nMeasures included more cover by doctors, strengthened processes for flagging up problems and more support for junior doctors. Cwm Taf now says these have all been completed.\n\nThe latest progress report from the independent panel in January 2020 found the most urgent improvements had been made.\n\nStaffing levels and training had improved, there was a better system for flagging up complaints and surveys found \"high levels of satisfaction\" from women using Prince Charles Hospital.\n\nThe panel was \"cautiously optimistic\" that long term improvements would be made.\n\nChioma Udeogu, who has moved back home to Nigeria\n\nThe review's parallel report on how families were dealt with was perhaps the most powerful testimony on the problems at Cwm Taf.\n\nMothers were said to have been ignored or made to feel worthless.\n\nThey spoke of being ignored or patronised.\n\nOne mother said: \"I want having a baby to be a good experience. It's ruined it.\"\n\nThere was the case of Sarah Handy, who was sent home from hospital in pain with laxatives, before giving birth prematurely at home. Her daughter died.\n\nChioma Udeogu's daughter was delivered stillborn after failings in her care at the Royal Glamorgan hospital in January 2017. An internal investigation has already found midwives failed for 12 hours to carry out antenatal checks on Mrs Udeogu, an engineering student at the University of South Wales at the time.\n\n\"I believe that if I was properly monitored in the hospital I wouldn't have lost her,\" she said.\n\nJessica Western, from Rhoose, in the Vale of Glamorgan, said she was not listened to when she could not feel her baby move in the month before the birth.\n\nJessica Western says she was not listened to at different points before and after the birth of her baby\n\nHer daughter Macie died in March 2018, 19 days after she was born.\n\n\"I'm only young and I do want to have more kids eventually, but I'm not prepared to put myself through a pregnancy if this could happen again,\" she said.\n\nAnother, Monique Aziz, from Coedely, Rhondda Cynon Taff, whose baby son died days after leaving hospital, said: \"I just want to know if he would have still been here if things had been done differently.\"\n\nWhat else has been happening?\n\nIn the background, there have been long planned changes in how maternity services are organised.\n\nFrom March 2019, doctor-led care for mothers in labour or for babies needing specialist neonatal care is now only provided on one site - Prince Charles Hospital. The Royal Glamorgan still has a 24-hour midwife unit for less complicated births and will continue to provide all antenatal services, clinic appointments, scans and tests during pregnancy.\n\nThe changes follow long-standing concerns that specialist maternity staff had been spread too thinly. The health board says those changes will help address challenges, including over staffing.\n\nAfter the critical report, the health board's chief executive went on sickness leave and then resigned in August 2019.\n\nStress and sickness absence was reported to be an issue among midwives, in the aftermath of the review.\n\nHow far back to those concerns go?\n\nThe fragility of maternity services in the area can be traced back for at least a decade. In a review in 2011 the Wales Audit Office raised concerns about staffing, skill mix and absences and the health board's ability to deliver maternity services on two sites.\n\nConcerns about the quality of maternity care were also at the heart of a controversial plan in 2014 to centralise some specialist services in fewer hospitals along the M4 corridor. It recommended moving doctor-led care for mothers and children (along with A&E) from the Royal Glamorgan hospital.\n\nCwm Taf health board initially rejected the plan and several months of wrangling followed.\n\nFour years later, the proposals on maternity services are only now being finally implemented.\n\nWhat is the independent panel doing?\n\nThe chairman Mick Giannasi - who has a track record going into troubled organisations, like Anglesey Council and the Welsh Ambulance Service - brings clinical expertise. He is also setting up a system so families can be involved and kept fully informed.\n\nIn the first progress report in October 2019, the panel said there had been progress - around a third of the action points in the improvement plan had been delivered - but a \"significant amount of work\" still needed to be done.\n\nThere had been \"significant\" progress by January 2020 although with more than two thirds of recommendations it was still \"work in progress\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Vaccination appointments for people aged 70-79 are being delivered from Monday - but plans to use distinctive blue envelopes in some parts of the country have been delayed.\n\nThe aim is to have this group receive their first dose by mid-February.\n\nOn Sunday morning, the Scottish government said some letters would be sent out in blue envelopes and given Royal Mail priority.\n\nBut in a statement published later it said the envelopes were not yet ready.\n\nIt added that the change has no impact on the vaccination programme timetable.\n\nVaccinations for over-80s are continuing, with Nicola Sturgeon revealing on Sunday that about 40% of this age group had received a first dose of the vaccine.\n\nAll appointments will initially be sent out in white envelopes which will have a window and a black NHS logo on the right hand side.\n\nThe blue envelopes were due to be sent out in Fife, Forth Valley, Ayrshire and Arran, Lanarkshire, Greater Glasgow and Clyde, and Lothian as part of a new booking system.\n\nUnder the system, patients are scheduled in order of priority and more boards are expected to make use of the technology as the vaccination programme expands.\n\nA Scottish government spokesman said the blue envelopes would be introduced \"as quickly as possible\".\n\nHe added: \"The blue envelopes we hoped to use were not ready in time for the first tranche of vaccine appointment invitations so distinctive NHS branded white envelopes are being used as a temporary measure.\n\n\"The absolute priority remains the roll-out of vaccinations and this temporary change to the envelope colour has absolutely no impact to our timetable.\n\n\"We continue to strongly urge everyone in the 70-79 age group to check all their post in the coming weeks and take up the offer of the vaccine when it is received,\" he added.\n\nAccording to the Scottish government's vaccine deployment plan, the 470,000 people aged in the 70 and 79 age bracket should receive their first dose by mid-February.\n\nSome patients may receive a phone call from their local health board as part of the appointment process.\n\nAnd all patients aged 75 to 79 in NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde will be invited via phone.\n\nA Royal Mail spokesman said \"clearly marked envelopes\" would be used to make it easier for the postal service to identify and prioritise this mail during sorting and delivery process.\n\nHe added: \"We are poised to make these letters even more noticeable in the coming weeks as we have agreed.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the Scottish government has said it is on track for all those aged 80 and over to have received their first dose of the vaccine by the end of the first week in February.\n\nThis age group are being contacted by telephone or another form of letter.\n\nMinisters have faced criticism over the pace of the vaccine rollout, and accusations that Scotland is \"lagging behind\" England on the vaccine roll-out.\n\nOpposition parties say vaccines are not being supplied to GPs' surgeries fast enough.\n\nAnd they point to the latest official figures which show that 13% of over 80s in Scotland had their first dose by Sunday 17 January, while 56.3% of same age group had been vaccinated in England.\n\nMs Sturgeon told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show that, a week on, the figure had reached about 40%.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon says the over 70s are to receive their vaccine date\n\nThe UK government Health Secretary Matt Hancock told Andrew Marr on Sunday that 75% of over-80s and three-quarters of UK care homes had received a first Covid vaccine in England.\n\nAbout 95% of Scottish care home residents have received their first dose, Ms Sturgeon told the Scottish government briefing on Friday.\n\nShe said the over-80s roll-out has been slower because the Scottish government has \"very deliberately\" concentrated on vaccinating care home residents first, which is \"more time consuming and labour intensive\".\n\nThis was designed to target the most vulnerable and was in line with the priority list compiled by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), which advises on vaccine rollout across the UK, she said.\n\nScotland's national clinical director Prof Jason Leitch has defended the plan, which has been challenged by the British Medical Association (BMA) for not getting second doses out quickly enough.\n\nProf Leitch told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"The difficulty with the BMA's position is that we would have to de-prioritise another group, either care home residents or the over-80s, in order to give a second dose to younger people.\n\n\"And that's what the Joint Committee on Vaccination have told us not to do.\n\n\"They have told us in very clear terms - give the first dose to as many vulnerable people as you can and that gives us the best chance of saving the most lives.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Deputy First Minister John Swinney told Politics Scotland that the Scottish government was \"actively exploring\" the possibility of stricter rules around facemasks.\n\nHe said the issue was being \"looked at\" after new rules announced in Germany last week required people to wear medical-grade facemasks on public transport and in shops.\n\nMr Swinney said progress was being made in reducing cases but hospitals were still under \"enormous pressure\" and it would be \"foolish\" to rule out strengthening restrictions further in the future.", "Concerns emerged in late 2018 that women and babies may have come to harm because of staff shortages and failures to report serious incidents\n\nTwo-thirds of women at the heart of a review into maternity services at a Welsh health board could have had very different outcomes if they had received better care, a report has found.\n\nThe Independent Maternity Services Oversight Panel (Imsop) focused on the experiences of pregnant women at Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board.\n\nIts maternity services have been in special measures since \"serious failings\" were found two years ago.\n\nConcerns emerged in late 2018 that women and babies may have come to harm because of staff shortages and failures to report serious incidents.\n\nThis sparked a major independent review, which gave a damning verdict on maternity services in the health board area that covers about 450,000 people living in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Bridgend and Merthyr Tydfil.\n\nPublished on Monday, the Imsop report focuses on the care of 27 women, most of whom were admitted to an intensive care unit during 28 \"episodes of care\" between January 2016 and September 2018.\n\nIt found that 19 reviews of maternal care (68%) revealed at least one factor where \"different management would reasonably have been expected to alter the outcome\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Kayden was born with severe brain damage following mistakes in his mother's maternity care\n\nThe panel's chairman, Mick Giannasi, said: \"These findings will be concerning and potentially distressing for the women and families involved, and it will be difficult for staff.\n\n\"Of the 28 episodes of care, we concluded that in 27 of them, our independent teams who reviewed the care would have done something differently. Put simply, what went wrong, might not have gone wrong if things had been done differently.\"\n\nTwo further reviews of stillbirths and neonatal mortality and morbidity will follow later this year. In total, all three independent reviews will looks at 160 cases.\n\nImsop's findings reinforce those of the Royal College of Midwives and the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.\n\nThe royal colleges' 2019 investigation found mothers faced \"distressing experiences and poor care\" at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital in Llantrisant and Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr Tydfil, with maternity services deemed \"dysfunctional\".\n\nFour key areas have been identified by Imsop as factors which contributed to poor care. These are:\n\nWales' Health Minister Vaughan Gething said the latest report recognises things are moving in the right direction for the health board, but more needs to be done.\n\n\"The report highlights that women weren't always at the centre of their care and that women weren't always listened to, and that led to harm that could have been avoided,\" Mr Gething told reporters at the latest Welsh Government press briefing.\n\n\"Nothing will be able to change what these women and their families experienced at these two hospitals or the outcome for those families whose babies died or came to harm.\n\n\"I am deeply sorry for everything that happened.\"\n\nVaughan Gething says he is \"deeply sorry\" women and their families were not listened to\n\nHe said he hoped \"families can take some comfort\" from the reviews that have provided answers to questions they were asking.\n\n\"My thoughts are with everyone affected by this report today and those who are still awaiting the outcome of their reviews,\" Mr Gething added.\n\nCwm Taf Morgannwg health board said it has been \"working with the panel and families\" to put in place a \"comprehensive maternity and neonatal improvement programme\".\n\n\"It has been a period of reflection during which we have examined the regrettable failings in maternity services of the former Cwm Taf University Health Board and we acknowledge the fact that we still have some way to go,\" said Greg Dix, the health board's executive director of nursing and midwifery.\n\n\"We will never forget the tragedies suffered by women, their families and our staff, and the learning from these cases is a key corner stone on which we are building our improvement plans.\"", "Credit card giant Mastercard is to raise the fees it charges EU merchants when UK cardholders buy goods and services from them online by fivefold.\n\nIt has sparked fears that consumer prices could rise if merchants choose to pass on those costs, especially on items not available from UK retailers.\n\nTransactions with airlines, hotels, car rentals and holiday firms based in the EU could all be affected.\n\nMastercard attributed the move to the UK's decision to leave the EU.\n\nIt said that only online sales would be affected and that \"in practice\" UK consumers would not notice the change.\n\nThe change affects the \"interchange\" fees Mastercard sets on behalf of big banks, so that its customers can use their payment networks.\n\nFrom October, Mastercard said it would increase these fees to 1.5% on every transaction, up from 0.3%.\n\nThe EU introduced a cap on such fees in 2015 after concerns they pushed prices up for consumers and unfairly burdened companies.\n\nBritish customers makes tens of billions of pounds of purchases every year from European merchants on credit cards alone - and the hike in fees from Mastercard will affect the majority of those.\n\nThe increase may be relatively small but it's significant, coming at a time when retailers may face extra paperwork and checks - higher costs - for goods coming into the UK.\n\nWith Covid restrictions bringing their own challenges, businesses, especially smaller ones, may be compelled to pass on the costs to consumers.\n\nAnd it's not just items crossing borders. The payments for most items bought on Amazon in the UK are processed via its Luxembourg headquarters.\n\nWith the increase not coming in for several months, international companies may look at ways to reclassify UK sales, to avoid the charges.\n\nMastercard is implementing the rises simply as it's no longer bound by the restrictions imposed by the UK being in the EU. The banks which receive the fees have said in the past that they are invested in areas such as card security and innovation. This time, however, the trade body which represents them has declined to comment on the rises.\n\nBut Mastercard said that since the end of the Brexit transition period, the cap no longer applied to many payments between the UK and European Economic Area (which also includes Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway).\n\n\"As a result of the UK leaving the EEA, Mastercard will adapt interchange rates on UK cards to the commitments it gave the European Commission in 2019 for non-EEA card transactions,\" the company said.\n\n\"In practice, only EEA merchants making e-commerce sales to UK cardholders will see a change.\"\n\nKevin Hollinrake, chair of the parliamentary group on Fair Business Banking, told the Financial Times, which first reported the story, that the move \"smacks of opportunism\".\n\nAnd Callum Godwin, chief economist at CMSPI, the global payments consultancy, said airlines, hotels, car rentals and travel groups would be hit.\n\n\"[This will happen] anywhere the consumer is in the UK and the merchant is in the EU,\" he said.\n\nHe added that many firms in these industries were already struggling due to the pandemic.\n\nVisa, Mastercard's larger rival, has not announced plans to change its fees but told the FT it was keeping the issue under review.\n\nCompanies in the UK and EU are already facing added costs and delays due to post-Brexit trade rules brought in on 1 January.\n\nSome EU exporters have already stopped deliveries to the UK because of new VAT related charges.\n\nMeanwhile, UK consumers who have bought goods from firms based in the bloc have found themselves facing hefty charges to cover customs duties, taxes and administration.", "Chelsea have sacked manager Frank Lampard after 18 months in charge, with former Paris St-Germain boss Thomas Tuchel expected to replace him.\n\nLampard, 42, leaves with the club ninth in the Premier League after last week's defeat at Leicester City, having won once in their past five league matches.\n\nHis final game was Sunday's 3-1 FA Cup fourth-round win against Luton.\n\nLampard was appointed on a three-year contract when he replaced Maurizio Sarri at Stamford Bridge in July 2019.\n• None Watch Monday Night Club: Is Tuchel right man for Chelsea?\n• None 'Lampard had seen enough Chelsea managers go to know the score'\n• None Why Tuchel will be a popular appointment in the Chelsea dressing room\n• None Tuchel set to come in after Lampard sacking - reaction\n\nIn a statement released on Monday night, Lampard said he was \"disappointed not to have had the time to take the club forward\" and added that it had been a \"huge privilege and an honour\" to manage the club.\n\n\"When I took on this role I understood the challenges that lay ahead in a difficult time for the football club,\" he continued.\n\n\"I am proud of the achievements that we made, and I am proud of the academy players that have made their step into the first team and performed so well. They are the future of the club.\"\n\nChelsea are hopeful that new manager Tuchel will be on the bench for Wednesday's Premier League game against Wolves at Stamford Bridge.\n\nHe will not be exempt from coronavirus quarantine.\n\nBut if Tuchel tests negative on entry to the United Kingdom and then negative again in order to enter a Premier League club's bubble, he will be granted an exemption by the Football Association for attending matches and training.\n\nHe will still have to serve a quarantine period outside of those environments, which will last five days.\n\nFormer Chelsea midfielder Lampard guided them to fourth place and the FA Cup final in his first season in charge, and a 3-1 win against Leeds in early December put the club top of the Premier League.\n\nHowever, the Blues have suffered five defeats in their past eight league games, as many as they had in their previous 23.\n\nIn a statement, Chelsea said: \"This has been a very difficult decision, and not one that the owner and the board have taken lightly.\n\n\"We are grateful to Frank for what he has achieved in his time as head coach of the club. However, recent results and performances have not met the club's expectations, leaving the club mid-table without any clear path to sustained improvement.\n\n\"There can never be a good time to part ways with a club legend such as Frank, but after lengthy deliberation and consideration it was decided a change is needed now to give the club time to improve performances and results this season.\"\n\nOwner Roman Abramovich said Lampard's status as an \"important icon\" of the club \"remains undiminished\" despite his dismissal.\n\n\"This was a very difficult decision for the club, not least because I have an excellent personal relationship with Frank and I have the utmost respect for him,\" said Abramovich.\n\n\"He is a man of great integrity and has the highest of work ethics. However, under current circumstances we believe it is best to change managers.\"\n\nLampard did not sign a single player during his first season as the club were operating under a transfer embargo, but spent more than £200m on seven major signings last summer, including £45m on Leicester's Ben Chilwell and £71m on midfielder Kai Havertz from Bayer Leverkusen.\n\nIt is the most Chelsea have spent in one summer, eclipsing the £186m they invested at the start of the 2017-18 season.\n\nLampard is Chelsea's all-time record scorer, with 211 goals for the club between 2001 and 2014, and is also joint-seventh on the list of most capped England players, having made 106 appearances for his country over 15 years from 1999.\n\nDuring his 13 seasons as a player at Stamford Bridge, he made 648 appearances and won 11 major trophies - including four Premier League titles and the 2012 Champions League.\n\nHis first managerial job was at Derby. In his one season in charge, they reached the Championship play-off final, where they lost to Aston Villa.\n\nLampard became the 10th full-time manager appointed by Abramovich since the billionaire bought the club in 2003.\n\nAccording to football finance journalist Kieran Maguire, Abramovich had spent £110m on sacking managers before Lampard's dismissal.\n\nHaving finished with 66 points last season after 20 wins and 12 defeats, Chelsea have lost six times in their opening 19 league games this season.\n\nLampard's points-per-game average of 1.67 is the lowest of any permanent Chelsea manager in the Premier League. During the Abramovich era, only Andre Villas-Boas (47.5%) has a worse win rate than Lampard's 52.4%, in all competitions among permanent Chelsea bosses.\n\nIn contrast, Jose Mourinho's win rate in all competitions during his first spell in charge was 67.03%, while Sarri, Antonio Conte, Avram Grant, Carlo Ancelotti and Claudio Ranieri all had win rates over 60%.\n\nAnalysis - lack of confidence among squad key to sacking\n\nLampard was sacked because the club could not see him reversing a slide in form.\n\nAfter qualifying for the Champions League last season and spending more than £200m on players in the summer, the aim this campaign was to close the gap on the leaders, but that has not been achieved.\n\nAlthough links will be made between Tuchel's heritage and the poor form of fellow Germans Kai Havertz and Timo Werner, the change was made because of the lack of confidence among the whole squad.\n\nIt is hoped that Tuchel can rejuvenate a team that is five points outside of the top four, and an announcement could be made within 24 hours.\n\nThe decision to sack Lampard was very difficult for Abramovich, who has never made a statement when changing Chelsea managers previously.\n\nIn the end, Lampard paid for his relative inexperience as a manager, which cannot be said of Tuchel.\n\nBest of reaction to Lampard sacking\n\nManchester City boss Pep Guardiola: \"People talk about projects and ideas. They don't exist. You have to win or you will be replaced. I am not judging Chelsea's decision. I respect their decision. But our world is to win as much as possible.\n\n\"I hope to see Frank soon and go to a restaurant with him when lockdown is finished.\"\n\nTottenham boss Jose Mourinho: \"It is the brutality of football. Anything can happen in football now, every time somebody loses their job it is sad news but he is a big boy, [with] a strong personality and strong mentality.\n\n\"I am pretty sure he will be back when he wants to be back and his career will be good. I hope so.\"\n\nWest Ham boss David Moyes: \"I'm disappointed for Frank as I saw him as one of the most up and coming young English managers in the country.\n\n\"It's a big thing we try to encourage our own British managers into the big leagues, if we can. I'm sure he'll come back and learn from it.\n\n\"He did a great job last year - he did a really good job with so many youngsters coming through the academy. It seemed a little bit harder for him this year. I'm sure he'll take time off, come back and get better.\"\n\nLeicester boss Brendan Rodgers: \"Clearly I'm really sad for Frank and his staff. I know how much the club means to him.\n\n\"Looking at the squad and how young they are, they need time. He hasn't been given that time. I really feel for him. He did great at Derby.\n\n\"He had the courage to step out of an amazing career and could have taken an easier route. It was a job he couldn't turn down, even though he didn't have a lot of experience.\n\n\"Results haven't been what he would have wanted, but I feel it's a job that needed time.\"\n\nCrystal Palace manager Roy Hodgson: \"It saddens me. I thought he did an excellent job last season. I was rather hoping that the idol of the fans and Chelsea legend that he is, he'd get a longer shot than 18 months.\n\n\"Managers who have had short stays at Chelsea have gone on to have good careers elsewhere. When you're sacked for the first time, it is a devastating blow. There's no doubt he has a pedigree to be a very good manager.\"\n\nFormer Chelsea striker Chris Sutton speaking on BBC 5 Live's Monday Night Club: \"It is 52 days since Chelsea were top of the Premier League and 48 days ago that Chelsea had been on an unbeaten run of 17 games.\n\n\"So in the space of 48 days the owner has decided to write Frank Lampard off. How are we ever going to know if Frank Lampard is a good manager? You only every really learn about people and their characteristics and traits when they go through a little bit of adversity and Frank has gone through a little bit of adversity.\n\n\"Frank has basically been sacked for the owner's expectations. I feel sorry for Frank because he is a club legend.\n\n\"They are five points off fourth place, but the bottom line is that the owner wants to win the Premier League and that was always going to be the pressure.\n\n\"Chelsea should have been more loyal. We know the owner's track record - he is ruthless, he is brutal and guillotined Frank.\"\n\nScott G: Been a Chelsea fan since Nevin, Speedie and Dixon and admit I've enjoyed all the success money has brought us over the last 20 years. However, there's a sadness about that decision. Some things money can't buy. #SuperFrank\n\nFil Harris: Isn't the whole point of appointing a younger manager to give him time to build and develop? Craziness from Chelsea to sack Lampard after such a short time.\n\nSimon Kirk: Been a Chelsea fan since 1969 and have never been so annoyed at a sacking of a Chelsea manager. He needed at least another 18 months. Shame on you Abramovich and the Chelsea board for supporting such a decision.\n\nRyan Howard: I find it such a weird sacking - a month or so ago Chelsea were in a nice groove, Zouma and Silva were scoring and keeping clean sheets, now after one bad run he gets sacked. Chelsea could be a world-class club if they just gave a manager proper time to build a team.\n\nPeter Josi: Chelsea are totally right to sack Lampard, he lacked the experience or coaching prowess to lead the side. The next phase should start with an investigation into our transfer policy and how our last two record signings turned out to be flops.\n\nThomas Wilson: Why are people surprised Lampard was sacked? Chelsea have been ruthlessly successful for 15 years. They are not going to suddenly resort to being generously unsuccessful because of a club legend being at the helm.\n• None All the goals, highlights and drama from Sunday's fourth-round ties are", "The leader says he is \"optimistic\" and is recieving medical treatment\n\nMexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has announced he has tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nThe 67-year-old said on Twitter that his symptoms were mild and that he was \"optimistic\" following the diagnosis.\n\nThe development comes as Mexico grapples with an upsurge in infections, with deaths nearing 150,000.\n\nMr López Obrador says he will continue working from home, including speaking to President Vladimir Putin about acquiring a Russian-made vaccine.\n\nIt was announced earlier on Sunday that a call between the two leaders will take place on Monday to discuss their bilateral relationship and the possible supply of Sputnik V jabs.\n\nThe Mexican president said last year he would try and acquire 12 million doses of the Russian-made vaccine if it proved effective.\n\nMexico has not yet approved the jab for use, but officials want to expand the country's vaccination program for the population of 128 million people amid delivery delays from Pfizer-BioNTech.\n\nSputnik V has already received authorisation in a number of other countries, including Brazil and Argentina. Hungary became the first in the EU to give it the green light this week.\n\nJosé Luis Alomia Zegarra, a senior health official, described Mr López Obrador's condition as stable and told a news briefing that \"a team of medical specialists\" were attending to the president.\n\nMexico has recorded more than 1.75m virus cases since the pandemic began, according to Johns Hopkins University tracking.\n\nThe nation's confirmed death toll of 149,614 is one of the highest in the world - behind only the US, Brazil and India.", "Janet Yellen has been confirmed as the first ever female US treasury secretary in a Senate vote.\n\nMs Yellen, who headed the US central bank from 2014 to 2018, earlier won bipartisan support from members of the Senate Finance Committee.\n\nShe will be responsible for guiding the Biden administration's economic response to the pandemic.\n\nThe US is struggling to rebound economically from the hit caused by the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nAt her confirmation hearing on 19 January, Ms Yellen urged Congress to approve trillions more in pandemic relief and economic stimulus, saying that lawmakers should \"act big\" without worrying about national debt.\n\nIn response, Republican senators warned the former Federal Reserve head this was not the time for \"a laundry list\" of liberal reforms.\n\nMs Yellen disagreed, highlighting the fact that many families whose incomes have fallen were not reached by jobless programmes. She argued that plans to raise taxes must be seen in the context of financing bigger investments necessary to make the US economy competitive.\n\n\"The focus now is not on tax increases. It is on programmes to help us get through the pandemic,\" she stressed.\n\nJanet Yellen was previously chair of the US Federal Reserve. She was known for focusing more attention on the impact of the central bank's policies on workers and the costs of America's rising inequality.\n\nBefore then-President Barack Obama named her to lead the Fed in 2014, she had served as one of its board members for a decade, including four years as vice-chair.\n\nJanet Yellen speaking at a press conference in 2017 as US Federal Reserve Chair\n\nDonald Trump bucked Washington tradition when he opted not to appoint Ms Yellen to a second four-year term at the Fed.\n\nHowever, her climb to the top of the economics profession had made her a feminist icon in the economics world.\n\nWhen she left the Fed in 2018, many paid tribute to her leadership by imitating her signature look of a blazer with a popped collar.\n\nMs Yellen is seen as someone able to satisfy both progressive and centrist members of Mr Biden's Democratic party. Her nomination to lead the Fed in 2014 won support from some Republicans.\n\nHer focus on employment, rather than inflation, gave her a reputation of favouring low interest rates, which spur economic activity by making it less expensive to borrow money.\n\nBut under her leadership, the Fed raised interest rates for the first time since 2008 - albeit less aggressively than some more conservative commentators supported.\n\nHer stewardship of that process has won praise on Wall Street, even as it remains hotly debated.", "Sunderland-based Hays Travel took over Thomas Cook's stores and staff in 2019\n\nTravel firm Hays Travel is to close 89 of its 535 shops following a review into its take over of Thomas Cook.\n\nThe Sunderland-based firm bought the collapsed company in October 2019 and deferred a review into the performance of its shops until 2021.\n\nA Hays Travel spokeswoman said the third national lockdown and travel ban meant \"the company had to act\".\n\nShe said 388 staff affected by the closures would be offered \"alternative work options\" to minimise redundancies.\n\nChief operating officer Jonathon Woodall said the \"first priority\" was to \"look after our customers\" and ensure \"the highest standards of customer service\".\n\nHe added that the firm was \"continuing with our robust two-year business plan and continue to be ready for the bounce back when it comes\".\n\nDame Irene Hays said business had not bounced back as had been hoped\n\nDame Irene Hays, owner and chair of the Sunderland-based firm, said it was \"always our intention to review the performance of our shops at the end of the licence period\".\n\n\"We had hoped the business would bounce back in January and it has not,\" she said.\n\n\"We have done everything we could to safeguard jobs and the business thus far, and we have come up with a range of options for those at risk of redundancy to help as many colleagues as we can.\"\n\nOptions for staff include working from home or filling vacancies in other shops.\n\nThe spokeswoman said the firm employed about 7,700 people, many of whom were \"working from home taking bookings for holidays for 2021 and beyond\".\n\nThe company has yet to confirm which of its locations will be affected.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sir Keir Starmer is isolating after a contact tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer is self-isolating for the third time, after coming into contact with someone who tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nHe said he would be working from home until next Monday after being notified of the contact earlier.\n\nSir Keir confirmed on Twitter that he had no symptoms.\n\nThe Labour leader last self-isolated in December after a member of his staff tested positive for Covid-19, but he never showed any symptoms of the virus.\n\nHe also self-isolated in September after a member of his family showed symptoms - but they later tested negative, allowing Sir Keir to get back to Westminster.\n\nIf you are contacted by NHS Test and Trace and told you have been in contact with someone who has tested positive for the virus, you have a legal obligation to self-isolate.\n\nYou then have to stay at home, not going out for any reason, for 10 days from the time you last saw the contact.\n\nIf you don't stick to the rules, the police can issue you with a fine, starting at £1,000.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Keir Starmer This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFor Sir Keir, he needs to stay indoors until next Monday and cancel all his upcoming plans for the week.\n\nHe will still be able to take part in Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday via video link.\n\nThe current list of MPs set to question Boris Johnson, shows that only one will now physically be in the Commons with the PM.\n\nA number of politicians have had to self-isolate during the pandemic, including the prime minister.\n\nThe latest was Health Secretary Matt Hancock, who got a notification from the NHS app to stay at home.\n\nHe had the virus last March, but said self-isolation was \"perhaps the most important part of all the social distancing\" and urged others to do the same if contacted.\n\nMr Hancock's isolation period was due to end on Sunday, so he is expected back in Whitehall this week.", "Health and social care staff have been vaccinated at the NHS Louisa Jordan Hospital in Glasgow\n\nThe Scottish government is \"looking at all sorts of ways\" to accelerate its Covid-19 vaccine programme, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said.\n\nThe government is considering a pilot of 24/7 vaccine arrangements, chiefly aimed at younger age groups.\n\nA total of 46% of over-80s in Scotland have now had a first dose, along with 95% of older care home residents.\n\nMs Sturgeon said the programme was \"picking up pace\" and \"on track\" to reach all over-70s by mid-February.\n\nShe said the government was \"looking at all options\" to get the vaccine out to people as quickly as possible.\n\nThe government aims to have the top priority groups - including care home residents and staff, frontline health workers and all those aged over 80 - given a first dose by the end of the first week in February.\n\nFrom Monday, letters are being sent out to people aged 70 to 79 inviting them to receive their first doses. Ms Sturgeon says the programme is \"on track\" to having this group complete by the middle of February.\n\nThere has been some criticism of the speed of the rollout in Scotland, with a greater proportion of over-80s having already received a jab in England.\n\nHowever Ms Sturgeon said the programme was \"making good progress\" and said any differences with the rest of the UK were because of an early focus on vaccinating older care home residents - 95% of whom have now had their first dose.\n\nShe said she was \"absolutely confident\" that the government would hit its targets.\n\nAnd the first minister said consideration was being given to how to speed up the programme further, saying her government is \"looking at all sorts of ways to accelerate things\".\n\nShe said: \"We are looking at piloting 24/7 arrangements so that when we get into wider groups of the population, people will have choices about the time they turn up for vaccines.\n\n\"There's been debate about whether people will want to turn up in the middle of the night to get vaccinated - some will and some won't. If that sort of thing is going to add to what we are able to do, it is likely to have the greatest impact when you get down into the relatively younger age groups.\n\n\"If we think it is appropriate there may be some things we try just to see if they would work, and if they don't we won't continue with them.\n\n\"We are looking at all of these options to make sure that as the supply increases, we can get it to people as quickly as possible.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon said there was \"some early evidence\" that lockdown was reducing the number of new Covid-19 cases, although she said the government would take a \"cautious\" approach to restrictions - which are currently due to run into mid-February at the earliest.\n\nShe also voiced some \"cautious grounds for optimism\" that admissions to hospital are starting to \"tail off slightly\", although she warned that pressure on the NHS would remain \"acute\" for some time.\n\nOpposition leaders called for the vaccine programme to be accelerated and for support to be targeted at key workers.\n\nA mass vaccination centre is being set up at the P&J Live Arena in Aberdeen\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross said: \"People are talking about a 24/7 approach here in Scotland - I think based on the figures so far we need to focus just on a seven day approach, because we are not vaccinating people quickly enough.\n\n\"We are not making the progress we need to, to get people vaccinated as quickly as possible.\"\n\nScottish Labour MSP Sarah Boyack said the vaccine programme \"needs to be accelerated as fast as possible\"\n\nShe said: \"We are all behind this vaccine being rolled out - but it has to be as soon as possible, because people are getting nervous.\n\n\"Whether it's police staff, construction staff, care staff who have been worried for weeks - the vaccine has got to be the top priority, along with the test and trace so we can monitor the impact on the ground and get targeted support to people.\"\n\nScottish Lib Dem leader Willie Rennie said Scotland was \"slipping further and further behind England\" and added: \"The first minister's excuses on the rollout of the vaccine are wearing very thin.\"", "The Francis family said they would be exchanging cards and having a special meal for their lockdown St Dwynwen's Day\n\nIt may not be as well-known as Valentine's Day but St Dwynwen's Day is a special time for some in Wales.\n\nSian and Trystan Francis from Rhiwbina in Cardiff do not celebrate Valentine's Day but on Monday will exchange St Dwynwen cards and have a special meal.\n\nMr Francis, 40, said: \"It's just a part of my culture - I didn't know about Valentine's Day until about Year 6.\n\n\"My parents didn't celebrate Valentine's Day at all but they did send cards on Santes Dwynwen.\"\n\nSian and Trystan Francis perform as Do Re Mi Canu\n\nThe Welsh patron saint of lovers St Dwynwen - or Santes Dwynwen in Welsh - was a 4th Century princess who lived in what is now the Brecon Beacons National Park.\n\nThe story goes she was unlucky in love, became a nun and went on to pray for true lovers to have better luck than she did.\n\nMrs Francis, who grew up in Mountain Ash, Rhondda Cynon Taf, said her family did not speak Welsh but she went to a Welsh medium school and her mother learnt the language as an adult.\n\nMrs Francis, 38, said: \"I think if you're going to celebrate anything that says that you love your partner, then this one is loads more relevant to us because it's part of our heritage and our culture - Valentine's Day is not really that much to do with us.\"\n\nThe family have been busy organising cards and treats for their children, Jac, two, and Mimi, seven.\n\n\"I bought a card for Mimi from a mystery person and that's being delivered tomorrow,\" she said.\n\nShe added Covid had meant the celebration was a bit more low-key this year.\n\n\"I bought some cupcakes but we would normally go out for food and stuff,\" she said.\n\nMenna Llinos and her family celebrated with heart-shaped pizza in Llantwit Major, Vale of Glamorgan\n\nThere was a time when they also marked Valentine's Day before they had a change of heart, she said.\n\n\"Over time we just went, 'actually, it's a bit irrelevant to us',\" she said.\n\n\"And you can never get a restaurant [on Valentine's Day],\" Mr Francis added.\n\nCarys Ingram from Llantwit Major, Vale of Glamorgan, has been making heart-shaped cookies with her children\n\nMr Francis, who grew up speaking Welsh at home, said their choice was not unusual among their friends.\n\n\"My friends, people within the Welsh-speaking community definitely, celebrate Santes Dwynwen,\" he said.\n\n\"There is a subculture within Wales that does exist within Welsh-speaking communities so I would say Santes Dwynwen is part of that.\"\n\nMrs Francis said it meant they were able to avoid the commercialisation of the better-known celebration.\n\n\"Santes Dwynwen isn't particularly commercialised because it is so niche,\" she added.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jessica Western says she is still fighting to find out why her daughter Macie died\n\nThe full extent of the problems with maternity services at two hospitals in the south Wales valleys rings out when the voices of women and families are listened to.\n\nAs one said: \"I want having a baby to be a good experience. It's ruined it.\"\n\nWomen repeatedly stated they were not listened to and their concerns were not taken seriously or valued.\n\nThey spoke of being ignored or patronised while being cared for at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital in Llantrisant and Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr Tydfil.\n\nOften, their suspicions and concerns were found to have reflected a genuine problem that emerged later, but at the time they were dismissed when they tried to voice their concerns.\n\nA major independent review has found Cwm Taf health board's maternity services were \"under extreme pressure\" and the health minister has ordered them be put into special measures.\n\nIt was prompted by 25 serious incidents, including eight stillbirths and four neonatal deaths, between January 2016 and last September.\n\nThe independent review team has released a separate, damning 78-page report, which shares the views of 140 family members, including mothers about their experiences at the hospitals.\n\nNearly two thirds of women questioned felt they had not had good quality care during their pregnancy.\n\nThe review said: \"Many women had felt something was wrong with their baby or tried to convey the level of pain they were experiencing but they were ignored or patronised, and no action was taken, with tragic outcomes including stillbirth and neonatal death of their babies.\"\n\nOne woman said she felt worthless, adding: \"I'm broken from the whole experience, the lack of care and compassion.\"\n\nOn the care itself, repeatedly the review team heard from mothers who did not always believe the right level of skills and expertise were available at the right time.\n\nThere was a failure to seek a second, more senior opinion, and to escalate concerns, especially with women with complex pregnancies.\n\nOne mother said: \"He told me there was no point calling the consultant on a Sunday as no one would come.\"\n\nAnother said: \"I never saw the same consultant. They didn't know me, and they didn't want to know me. I was pushed in and out of rooms with all sorts of people.\"\n\nMothers faced too many variables in the service offered - from the time of day they used it, to staffing levels and the communication skills of the staff they met.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'We picked the wrong day to be ill'\n\nSarah Handy's experience is highlighted in the report as illustrating a number of serious issues.\n\nIn pain, she was begging to see a doctor when she arrived in hospital in April 2017 and was left for nearly three hours without examination before being told it was constipation.\n\nMs Handy, 33, was sent back home to Merthyr Tydfil with laxatives and pain relief and that evening her baby Jennifer was delivered prematurely by her husband and mother-in-law.\n\nDespite their efforts to give CPR to save her life, Jennifer died.\n\nThe review said it showed:\n\nMs Handy said after the report came out: \"Today it's been proven in black and white that we were right to highlight our concerns and push for further investigation into our Jennifer's death.\n\n\"We just wish that this report will now do what it promised and improve the quality of care so that no other family has to go the traumatic experience we went through.\"\n\nOn communication, although individual staff were spoken of as excellent, many women felt during their care this aspect was extremely poor.\n\nWhen concerns were raised, there was a \"significant dissatisfaction\" with how they were dealt with, with dismissive attitudes.\n\nMany women were not listened to or taken seriously, one saying she was \"laughed at\" when she expressed concern.\n\nOther responses included: \"I was never asked, never believed.\n\n\"If only they had asked the right questions.\n\n\"Most importantly, we were not listened to. By the time we were it was too late.\"\n\nThe review said women reported an \"almost callous and brutal use of language\" and disregard for feelings.\n\nWhen one mother was concerned that she may be losing her baby she was told to \"prepare for the worst - it could be a miscarriage\" and then told to go home as \"there wasn't a lot she could do.\"\n\nYounger mothers in particular often felt their concerns were dismissed, which became an \"emerging theme\" for the review team.\n\nThere were failures to apologise, lack of access to notes and comprehensive investigations over concerns.\n\nWith high risk pregnancies, one woman interviewed believed that there was a lack of expertise and that \"anything different from the norm, they didn't seem set up to deal with it\".\n\nAnother described the antenatal clinic as being \"like a cattle-market\".\n\nWhen babies were lost, \"many women and families received no bereavement counselling or support and continue to experience emotional distress\".\n\nOne mother talking about the demand on midwives and doctors in the Royal Glamorgan Hospital, said it was \"no way a reflection on them\".\n\n\"They would always spend as much time as possible with me but unfortunately when needs must I was left with some questions but again this was due to staff shortages,\" she said.\n\nAnother said: \"There were so many jobs for one midwife to do and then people wonder why mistakes get made. They are human and are exhausted\".\n\nThe review published two parallel reports into Cwm Taf maternity services and the experiences of mothers\n\nThe review team said it was disappointing that lessons had not been learnt from a review of Furness General Hospital services four years ago.\n\nProf Jean White, chief nursing officer, said: \"It should be a joyous occasion giving birth to a child. Many of the women who shared their stories had care well below the standards we expect and that's not right.\n\n\"I think over time there appears to be a culture that has developed rather than an open culture where people are encouraged to say what's gone wrong, there is a blame culture.\"\n\nIn the words of another parent: \"Listen to women and families and believe what they tell you when they are in pain.\"\n\nThe review team concludes: \"The strong message heard from women and families in Cwm Taf is that they don't want their experiences to happen to anyone else and the importance to them that the organisation learns from these experiences to ensure that improvement and change occurs.\"\n\nCwm Taf chief executive Allison Williams said she was deeply sorry, is taking the findings very seriously but recognised \"significant work\" was still needed.\n\n\"Some of the feedback we have received from patients is extremely distressing and their experience in our maternity service has been totally unacceptable,\" she added.\n\nIf you have been affected by stillbirth, the following organisations might be able to help:", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe mother of a 15-year-old boy attacked by a group of youths said she heard the gunshots that killed him.\n\nKeon Lincoln was \"set upon\" at about 15:30 GMT on Thursday on Linwood Road in Handsworth, Birmingham, and died later in hospital, police said.\n\nIn an emotional appeal, Sharmaine Lincoln pleaded with the local community to \"help us understand why this has happened\".\n\nFive teenage boys have so far been arrested over his death.\n\nA post-mortem examination revealed Keon was shot and stabbed to death.\n\nKeon Lincoln's mother said not a day would go by when she would not hear her son's \"unbelievable\" laugh\n\nRemembering that afternoon, Ms Lincoln said: \"I heard the gunshots and my first instinct was, 'Where's my son?'\n\n\"A few minutes went by, we heard somebody was in the road and it was my boy.\"\n\nWest Midlands Police arrested three teenagers over the weekend on suspicion of Keon's murder - a 14-year-old boy from Birmingham and two others, aged 15 and 16, at an address in Walsall.\n\nThis is in addition to two 14-year-old boys arrested on Friday, one of whom remains in custody and the other released under investigation.\n\n\"The community needs to step up and put themselves in the shoes of the family,\" police say\n\nDet Ch Insp Alastair Orencas, from West Midlands Police, said the attack on Keon was \"the most pointless use of extreme violence I've witnessed in my 24 years in the police force\".\n\n\"The level of violence has not just caused shock to the family, but to hardened police officers,\" he said. \"It was an absolutely pointless attack, one I can't clear my mind of.\"\n\nThe force is appealing for information and Det Ch Insp Orencas said the community response was \"not where it should be\".\n\n\"These are multiple offenders in broad daylight. I simply don't believe there's not information out there that can help me with the inquiry,\" he said.\n\nKeon Lincoln was attacked on Linwood Road, a residential street in the Handsworth area of Birmingham\n\nMs Lincoln remembered her son as a joker, cheeky - a \"loving child with a jolly spirit\" whose \"unbelievable laugh\" would echo daily around her home.\n\n\"It doesn't make sense, the type of person Keon was, it doesn't make sense as to why someone would want to harm him or take his life in such a brutal way,\" she said.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Pictures of the funeral have led to criticism from unionists\n\nPolice have begun an investigation into potential breaches of Covid-19 regulations at the funeral of an IRA man in Londonderry.\n\nEamon McCourt, 62, who reportedly died with Covid-19, was buried on Monday.\n\nUnder current Covid-19 restrictions funerals in Northern Ireland are limited to 25 people.\n\nThe police said a \"significant number of people\" had gathered, in a manner \"likely to be in breach\" of the coronavirus regulations.\n\nPSNI Ch Supt Darrin Jones said anyone found in breach of public health regulations would be reported to the Public Prosecution Service.\n\nHe said police had \"engaged with representatives of the family of the deceased, the local church and local political representatives\", prior to the funeral.\n\n\"As a result, police were given a number of assurances as to the conduct of the funeral, and that people would seek to pay their respects to the deceased from outside their homes rather than gather at the funeral.\"\n\nPictures of the leading republican's funeral show men in white shirts and black ties flanking the cortege and dozens of others behind them.\n\nCh Supt Jones added: \"Regrettably at the funeral on Monday morning, a significant number of people gathered as part of the cortège, in a manner likely to be in breach of the health protection regulations.\"\n\nUnionist politicians had called on the police to act after images circulated online of mourners.\n\nDUP MLA Gary Middleton said those who had abided by Covid-19 restrictions would view the scenes from the funeral \"with dismay\".\n\nHe said it was \"hard to put into words the sheer recklessness of those involved\".\n\n\"Within republicanism it seems that certain individuals are viewed as being more important than public health regulations,\" Mr Middleton said.\n\n\"In those minds the reality of Covid-19 has not been brought home, or at the very least it is viewed as less important than having a public display at a funeral.\n\n\"Such sights are most painful for relatives who have recognised the need for such painful restrictions to be put in place and have abided by them.\"\n\n\"Eamon 'Peggy' McCourt who passed away on Saturday morning was buried from his family home in Creggan, a right accredited to us all.\n\n\"However, it was evident that social-distancing measures and permitted mourner numbers were completely ignored by those in attendance.\n\n\"Again, the majority of people in Northern Ireland who have followed lockdown measures since March 2020 are asking themselves why can republicans do whatever they like?\"\n\nHe called on the police to explain why such \"a large funeral procession was permitted to take place and what actions will follow\".\n\nIn a statement, Sinn Féin said: \"Everyone has a responsibility to follow the public health guidelines.\n\n\"Sinn Féin held its own tribute to his memory online.\"\n\nIn June last year, about 1,800 people attended the funeral of leading IRA member Bobby Storey in west Belfast.\n\nAmong them was Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill, the Sinn Féin vice-president, who later admitted the public health message had been undermined.\n\nIn May, Assistant Chief Constable Alan Todd said there had been social-distancing breaches at funerals in Northern Ireland in both the unionist and nationalist communities.\n\nThis story was amended on 27 January 2021 to remove the phrase 'IRA veteran'. Whilst referring to Mr McCourt's long history in republicanism, we accept the phrase was open to misinterpretation.", "The first minister visited the site of the flooding, where 80 villagers were evacuated from their homes\n\nResidents have been urged to stay away from homes flooded after a \"blow out\" at a mine shaft following reports some had returned against advice.\n\nEighty people had to be evacuated from Skewen, Neath Port Talbot, on Thursday and the Coal Authority is investigating the cause of the flooding.\n\nOn Sunday First Minister Mark Drakeford visited the village.\n\nSpecialists said mine shafts in the area were stable, but villagers were told it was not safe to return home.\n\nNeath Port Talbot Council tweeted on Sunday afternoon that some evacuated residents had ignored the warnings.\n\nIt said: \"We are getting reports that some residents who have been evacuated are returning to their homes.\n\n\"Investigations are ongoing at the site, including safety checks by utility companies. They have asked us to reiterate the request for residents to stay away and that it is not safe to return today or tomorrow.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Mark Drakeford This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt is not known how many residents were thought to have returned to their flooded homes or how long they were there for.\n\nBigger equipment is being brought in to \"understand in detail what has caused the blow out\", according to Coal Authority chief executive Lisa Pinney.\n\nThe Coal Authority, which manages the effects of past mining on communities, said it believed the \"blow out\" was likely to have been caused by a blockage underground which caused water to back up before breaking out.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Teresa Dalling says a river of orange water rushed through the village on Thursday\n\nCouncil leader Rob Jones warned residents it was unlikely that they could return home by Monday.\n\nMs Pinney said a hand-drilling crew \"determined the precise location and extension of the collapsed mine shaft\" on Saturday.\n\nThe village was flooded after a mine shaft \"blow out\"\n\n\"This now allows us to bring in larger equipment to investigate the wider mine workings and drainage channels in the area around it, so we can understand in detail what has caused the blow out,\" she said.\n\n\"We have checked all recorded shafts in the immediate area and found them all to be safe.\n\n\"We will be checking over a wider area in the days ahead.\"\n\nDuring his visit to the village Mr Drakeford was shown the sinkhole which had opened up on Thursday, leading to the flooding.\n\nOn Friday the Welsh Government confirmed financial support would be made available to people affected by the floods, up to £1,000 per household.\n\nMr Drakeford said on Sunday: \"Particularly for families who have no insurance, this is a devastating event.\n\n\"They will know that the Welsh Government is there to help and we will do that through the local authority which has been here very visibly, helping people in the last couple of days.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rishi Sunak: 'We’re throwing absolutely everything at it'\n\nFewer than 2,000 young people have so far started new roles under the government's £2bn Kickstart jobs scheme, data shows.\n\nThe programme, which launched in September, has created 120,000 temporary jobs to date.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak told the BBC coronavirus restrictions were making it harder for more young people to get started.\n\nHowever, he expected the number to rise once restrictions are lifted.\n\n\"Obviously because of the lockdowns and restrictions, that hampers businesses' ability to bring people into work,\" said Mr Sunak,\n\n\"What we can look forward to, as the restrictions ease, is more of these young people starting those placements.\n\n\"But taking a step back, we announced this scheme first week of July, it went live the first week of September and here we are, just a few months later, with 120,000 jobs having being vetted, funded and created.\"\n\nThe Chancellor insisted that the government had moved at an \"enormous pace\" to set up the programme, which targets youths at risk of long-term unemployment.\n\n\"I've always said my priority through this crisis is to protect, support and create as many jobs as possible, and young people in particular have been at the forefront of my mind,\" said Mr Sunak.\n\n\"We know that they're most likely to work in affected sectors, they're twice as likely to be furloughed, and the ones leaving college are entering a really difficult labour market.\"\n\nYouth unemployment rose to 14.5% between August to October 2020, with 597,000 people aged 16 to 24 unemployed, up from 11% in the same period in 2019.\n\nLatest data from the Department of Work Pensions shows that as of 15 January, 1,868 young people had begun their placements.\n\nHayden Finlayson, recipient of a Kickstart work placement with Whistl in Bedford\n\nHayden Finlayson, 24, is one of them. He was made redundant from a retail job last summer.\n\nLooking for work during the pandemic proved difficult: \"You start thinking about things - whether you're going to find work again.\"\n\nHe has secured a Kickstart placement at a Whistl distribution centre in Bedford, an opportunity for which he is grateful.\n\n\"I gave it a go. It's a new experience and I want to do new things,\" he said. \"[I'm learning] different skills every day, things I've never done before.\"\n\nBusinesses apply to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to create Kickstart places, which are then vetted for suitability.\n\nYoung people aged between 16 and 24 who are on Universal Credit are matched to roles by their job centre work coaches.\n\nThey are then interviewed by the prospective employer, which decides whether to take them on.\n\nFor each successful placement, the government covers the National Minimum Wage for a six-month period, at 25 hours per week.\n\nA further £1,500 grant is available per placement to help cover setup costs and assist in the development of employability skills. The current £2bn budget allows for around 250,000 roles.\n\nFSB's Craig Beaumont says the decision to allow small firms offer placements through a faster, more direct process is four months late\n\nFollowing criticism from small businesses, firms who wish to create just a handful of roles will have the option of applying direct to the Department for Work and Pensions.\n\nPreviously, small firms who wanted to create fewer than 30 Kickstart jobs had to group together, or use a \"gateway\" provider as an intermediary.\n\nMore than 600 gateways have now been approved, but small businesses complained that they found the process slow and difficult.\n\n\"The decision should have been made in September,\" said Craig Beaumont, chief of external affairs at the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB).\n\n\"There is now a backlog of cases of people who've been appointed through intermediaries, who've not been able to access that work yet. So we need a real focus from the government to clear that.\"\n\nAsked if the scheme would need extending because continuing restrictions could prevent its aims being achieved this year, Mr Sunak left the possibility open.\n\nAnna Szymanowska runs Fighter Shots, which makes ginger-based remedy drinks. She is keen to create three digital marketing Kickstart roles as soon as possible.\n\nHowever, she says her application - which was done in a pool with other businesses - took a long time.\n\nSmall business owner Anna Szymanowska would like to hire three young people for digital marketing roles\n\n\"It was a little bit lengthy, because the first time I heard of the scheme was July or August,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"We applied within a month [of hearing about it], and just yesterday we received a contract to sign. So it was lengthy but otherwise well managed.\"\n\nThe Chancellor told the BBC that the changes hadn't been made earlier because Kickstart had been set up \"at speed\". He pointed out other interventions aimed at supporting young people's jobs, including investment in employment support schemes, training and apprenticeships.\n\nTracy Fishwick is the managing director of Transform Lives Company, a social enterprise which helps people into work.\n\nShe believes that the young people chosen to have Kickstart placements will be very important.\n\n\"The young people who really probably would already get a job with a little bit of help - we don't want all the Kickstart jobs going to those young people,\" said Ms Fishwick, who previously worked with the Future Jobs Fund - a scheme for young people created by Labour in 2009.\n\n\"We need to be able to put things in place to support those young people who were already unemployed before Covid.\"", "Volunteers responded to an appeal on social media on Saturday night\n\nVolunteers helped to clear up to 7cm of snow at a community hospital so Covid-19 vaccines could be given to about 300 vulnerable patients.\n\nMore than a dozen people cleared the car park at Maesteg community hospital in Bridgend county on Sunday where the Pfizer-BioNtech jab is being given.\n\nPeople with brushes and shovels came to the rescue after a Facebook appeal and Bridgend council provided a plough.\n\nOne local councillor said their community spirit \"knows no bounds\".\n\nThe Maesteg area had been at or near the top of Wales' Covid case rate chart for a few weeks before Christmas - with an infection rate of more than 1300 cases per 100,000 at its height.\n\nVaccinations were delayed for about an hour on Sunday and Maesteg West councillor Ross Thomas, who helped organise the clear-up, said it would have been a \"disaster\" to have cancelled the appointments.\n\nCovid jabs at four other locations in south Wales had to be cancelled after snow cause widespread disruption across the UK.\n\nAnd Mr Thomas praised the local community for preventing their centre from also falling victim to the weather.\n\n\"With a few Facebook call-outs we had a dozen or so volunteers within the hour together with surgery staff, a number of the GPs,\" Mr Thomas told BBC Radio Wales.\n\nCouncillor Ross Thomas said there would be some aching backs on Monday morning\n\n\"The grounds of the hospital are not small by any stretch of the imagination. It was a valiant effort over two-and-a-half hours to ensure we could allow access to Maesteg community hospital.\n\n\"It's thanks to them that 300 more people in the 80 and over priority group in the Llynfi valley received their jab yesterday.\"\n\nAnother 40 vulnerable patients will receive their Covid jabs on Monday.\n\nMr Thomas said the spirit in his community \"knows no bounds\" and added: \"People rally round, it's a sense of belonging, its genuinely instilled in our DNA in Maesteg and it was on show.\n\n\"Not only did people want to help, I think it's clear there's anxiety in the community about the virus.\n\n\"Ahead of Christmas some local wards here in the Llynfi valley had the highest case rates in Europe.\n\n\"There was the realisation yesterday that it wasn't just shovelling snow out of the way, it was about getting on top of this virus and ensuring the most vulnerable people in this community have a fighting chance moving forward.\"", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nBruno Fernandes' superb 78th-minute free-kick gave Manchester United victory in a thrilling FA Cup tie with old rivals Liverpool at Old Trafford.\n\nLiverpool led a fantastic contest through Mohamed Salah, who then equalised after Mason Greenwood and Marcus Rashford had struck for the hosts either side of the break.\n\nBut in a game which had everything last week's drab stalemate between this pair at Anfield lacked, Fernandes came off the bench to have the final word after Fabinho had fouled Edinson Cavani on the edge of the area.\n• None Don't worry about us, says Reds boss Klopp\n\nFernandes might have been slightly off the pace in recent games but when Ole Gunnar Solskjaer needed his £47m inspiration to come up with another special moment, the Portuguese delivered, bending his shot round the wall and beyond Allison's reach.\n\nThe victory earns United a home meeting with an in-form West Ham side managed by former boss David Moyes in the fifth round.\n\nBut the search for form goes on for Liverpool, whose only win in seven games since that seven-goal hammering of Crystal Palace came against Aston Villa's kids in the last round, and who have a meeting with Jose Mourinho's Tottenham looming on Thursday.\n• None Watch all the goals from the FA Cup fourth round\n\nIt was not quite the ending Solskjaer served up when he won a previous fourth-round meeting between these sides but, as in 1999, they had to come from behind.\n\nAnd while Fernandes applied the devastating finish, that goal should not be allowed to overshadow Rashford's contribution to United's victory.\n\nSo much has been said about the England forward as a social crusader it is sometimes easy to forget he also needs to be judged as a footballer.\n\nAt only 23, he is still a long way off his prime but he is developing into an outstanding forward, with vision to match his speed and finishing ability.\n\nThe pass that created Greenwood's equaliser was superb. Taking possession just inside his own half, Rashford delivered a 60-yard pass with such accuracy all Greenwood needed to do was take one touch to control with his chest before drilling low into the far corner.\n\nRashford's raw pace put Liverpool's defence under constant stress and the delicate touch that took him past Rhys Williams by the touchline in a move that ended with Paul Pogba curling wide was sensational.\n\nAnd then there was his goal, which needed a perfectly-timed run to go beyond the Liverpool defence and reach Greenwood's through ball, and then a cool head to apply the finish.\n\nAt that point, it seemed United had the game under control. It did not quite work out that way and once again, Fernandes, who has won four Premier League player of the month awards out of the seven he has been eligible for since leaving Sporting Lisbon less than 12 months ago, underlined his credentials as English football's most influential player at present.\n\nSalah's effort was the first time Liverpool had been ahead at Old Trafford since January 2017, since when Liverpool have won both the Champions League and Premier League, a clear indication that whatever issues Jurgen Klopp is wrestling with at the moment, they are not insurmountable.\n\nThe finish for the striker's 18th goal of the season did not hint at a lack of confidence as he raced on to Roberto Firmino's precise through ball, having escaped the attentions of Victor Lindelof, and lifted his shot beyond the reach of Dean Henderson.\n\nEvidently, what Klopp needs is to find a solution in defence. Williams was shaky and at fault for Rashford's goal, while Fabinho was exposed by United in this game and Cavani exploited the Brazilian's defensive inexperience to earn the free-kick that won the game.\n\nEven so, after Salah equalised from close range after United had lost possession to James Milner and never recovered their position after working their way up-field from a short goal-kick, the visitors did have chances to win it themselves.\n\nBut Dean Henderson saved from Trent Alexander-Arnold and Salah before Fernandes struck - so Liverpool's wait for a first FA Cup win since 1921 at Old Trafford, and Jurgen Klopp's for a first win at United full stop, goes on.\n\nManchester United are next in action against Sheffield United in the Premier League at Old Trafford on Wednesday, 27 January (20:15GMT). Liverpool play at Tottenham on Thursday, 28 January (20:00GMT).\n• None Manchester United have eliminated Liverpool from the FA Cup proper for the 10th time; in the competition's history, only Liverpool themselves (12 v Everton) have knocked a particular side out more times (including finals).\n• None Liverpool have won just one of their past 15 matches at Old Trafford in all competitions (D4 L10), and are winless in their last eight at the ground (D4 L4).\n• None Manchester United have won each of their past eight home games in the FA Cup; only from 1908 to 1912 have they had a better winning run on home soil in the competition (9 games).\n• None Liverpool are the first reigning Premier League champion to be eliminated from the FA Cup as early as the fourth round since Manchester City in 2014-15.\n• None Liverpool have lost back-to-back games in all competitions for the first time since March 2020.\n• None Roberto Firmino has assisted Mohamed Salah for 18 goals in all competitions for Liverpool, the most any player has set up another for the Reds under Jurgen Klopp. Since they first played together in 2017-18, this is the most one player has assisted another for all Premier League sides in all competitions.\n• None Mason Greenwood scored his first goal for Man Utd in 11 appearances in all competitions, ending his longest run of games without a goal for the club. Aged 19 years and 115 days, he was the youngest Man Utd player to score against Liverpool since Wayne Rooney in January 2005 in the Premier League (19y 83d).\n• None Marcus Rashford has scored more goals at Old Trafford against Liverpool than he has against any other opponent on home soil for Manchester United (4).\n• None Since his Man Utd debut in February 2020, Bruno Fernandes has scored more goals than any other player for Premier League clubs (28).\n• None No player has scored more goals for Premier League clubs in all competitions this season than Salah for Liverpool (19, level with Harry Kane).\n• None Attempt missed. Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) left footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the right following a set piece situation.\n• None Paul Pogba (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Victor Lindelöf (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Edinson Cavani (Manchester United) hits the right post with a header from the centre of the box. Assisted by Bruno Fernandes with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Marcus Rashford (Manchester United) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Aaron Wan-Bissaka.\n• None Goal! Manchester United 3, Liverpool 2. Bruno Fernandes (Manchester United) from a free kick with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None All the goals, highlights and drama from Saturday's fourth-round ties are", "Early years educational providers in England have been told to remain open\n\nMany staff at nurseries, pre-schools and childminders \"don't feel safe at work\", says the Early Years Alliance.\n\nThe group, representing early years providers, wants staff in this sector to be a higher priority for Covid testing and vaccinations.\n\nNurseries and settings for young children in England have been told to remain open during lockdown.\n\nThe government said the under-fives were \"unlikely to be playing a driving role in transmission\".\n\nThe Early Years Alliance received more than 3,500 responses in a survey of staff in nurseries or childcare settings and said these suggested widespread concerns - with half of those who replied saying they did not feel safe at work.\n\nNeil Leitch, chief executive of the group, said the safety worries were \"a cause for serious concern\".\n\nHe called on the government to implement rapid coronavirus testing among early years staff \"as a matter of urgency\", adding they should be \"given priority access to vaccinations in phase two of the rollout\".\n\nThere are currently no confirmed plans for lateral-flow testing in nurseries and pre-schools.\n\nBut the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) is looking at whether some high-risk professions should be prioritised for vaccination.\n\nAnd Education Secretary Gavin Williamson told the BBC's Breakfast programme he would \"very much like to see it\" once the most vulnerable groups had received their jabs.\n\nA Department for Education (DfE) spokesman said: \"Keeping nurseries and childminders open will support parents and deliver the crucial care and education for our youngest children.\n\n\"Current evidence suggests that pre-school children are less susceptible to infection and are unlikely to be playing a driving role in transmission.\"\n\nThe Early Years Alliance survey also found concerns that staff shortages would make it difficult for some nurseries and pre-school settings to stay open.\n\nDr Amelia Massoura, who runs Stepping Stone pre-school, in Sittingbourne, Kent, said: \"Out of six members of staff, four have contracted Covid-19.\n\n\"Fortunately, all have recovered well.\"\n\nVanessa Linehan, manager of Sandbrook Community Playgroup in Hackney in London, said: \"We are happy to stay open to support our families.\n\n\"But we want our staff to have testing and vaccinations as a priority.\n\n\"We encourage local authorities to prioritise appropriate testing for early-years staff through their community testing programmes,\" said the Department for Education spokesman.\n\nThe Department for Education says the under-fives are \"unlikely\" to drive up coronavirus transmission\n\nHowever, Labour's shadow education minister Tulip Siddiq accused the government of \"incompetence and neglect\", saying early-years staff \"deserve... proper access to testing\".\n\nShe questioned why \"the government has refused to publish the scientific basis for keeping early-years settings open in lockdown\" and called on it to \"urgently pull back from the brink of funding changes that could lead to viable early-years providers going bust\".\n\nThe government changed the funding formula for the early years sector in December, basing it on current attendance rather than pre-pandemic levels.\n\nAccording to the DfE, early years attendance is at 54% of the usual daily level, as of 14 January, leading to a shortfall in revenues.\n\nIn primary and secondary schools, which are open to vulnerable children and children of key workers only, average attendance levels have fallen to just 14%.\n\nRoughly half of nurseries and pre-schools and a third of childminders expect to be operating at a loss by the end of the spring term, based on current levels of government support, according to the survey.\n\n\"Early years providers are the only part of the education sector that the government has asked to remain open to all families,\" said Mr Leitch\n\n\"It is surely not too much to ask for the protection - both practical and financial - needed to ensure that we can continue to do so.\"", "Richard Dyson and Simon Midgley were thought to be on a winter break in Scotland\n\nTwo men who died when a fire tore through a luxury five-star hotel on the shores of Loch Lomond have been named.\n\nSimon Midgley and Richard Dyson, believed to be from London, were staying at Cameron House Hotel when the blaze broke out on Monday morning.\n\nPolice have not confirmed the identity of those who died, but relatives have paid tribute on social media.\n\nThe hotel's director has praised the actions of the emergency services in preventing further tragedy.\n\nFirefighters who brought a couple and their baby to safety from an upper floor have been hailed as \"heroes\".\n\nA baby was rescued by firefighters from an upper floor of the hotel\n\nAndrew and Louise Logan, and their son Jimmy, from Worcestershire, were taken to hospital after being brought to safety, but were later discharged.\n\nMore than 200 guests were evacuated from the building when the blaze broke out. A joint investigation into the cause of the fire is under way.\n\nSocial media posts suggested that Mr Midgley and Mr Dyson were on a winter break in Scotland.\n\nA post on Mr Midgley's Instagram account on Saturday showed pictures of Cameron House Hotel and said: \"Home for the weekend.\"\n\nRelatives have been expressing their shock at news of the couple's deaths.\n\nMr Midgley's sister posted a picture of her brother and his partner on Facebook, while another relative wrote: \"I'm beyond heartbroken.\"\n\nKate Baxter wrote on Twitter: \"Such unbearably sad news.. RIP @SimonMidgleyPR, a shining star in our wonderfully close-knit industry.\"\n\nAccording to his Facebook page, Mr Midgley was a freelance journalist at the London Evening Standard and ran his own PR company, while Mr Dyson is believed to be a TV producer.\n\nPolice and firefighters remained at the scene on Tuesday morning, with the scale of the damage becoming more apparent.\n\nBBC Scotland's Andrew Black was allowed on site and said: \"The damage to the building is pretty extensive, especially the upper floors. There's a smell of burning wood and we could hear a fire alarm from part of the building still going off.\"\n\nThe BBC understands that a wedding due to take place at Cameron House hotel this weekend has been moved to another luxury hotel.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Drone footage from above Loch Lomond shows the extent of the damage at Cameron House\n\nIn a new statement, Cameron House's director, Andy Roger, praised the \"very swift actions of the emergency services\".\n\nHe said: \"Everyone associated with Cameron House Hotel is still coming to terms with the events of yesterday and we are all hugely conscious that two people tragically lost their lives in the fire.\n\n\"Their families and friends are foremost in our thoughts as we co-operate fully with the investigation teams to try to establish the circumstances surrounding this terrible incident.\n\n\"The emergency services were on the scene long into the night and I cannot praise their efforts highly enough. They are true heroes. The firemen bringing out a couple and their young child by ladder from a second-floor room was a heart-stopping moment for all those who witnessed it.\n\n\"We're also enormously grateful for the many, many offers of practical support and good wishes from the UK hospitality industry and also from the local community, which has rallied around to help. It's been a humbling experience, but we are a small, tight-knit community on Loch Lomond and a response like that is typical of our many friends and neighbours.\"\n\nMr Roger said the hotel had made arrangements for the vast majority of the guests to travel home or continue with their breaks and he thanked them for their patience and \"good spirits\".\n\nHe also paid tribute to the staff at Cameron House who he said had shown \"an enormous degree of care and teamwork throughout the last two days\".\n\nLocal people have been speaking of their shock and sadness at what happened at the hotel.\n\nOne woman told BBC Scotland: \"We are just very sad for all the families involved and so sorry for the people who work there.\"\n\nAnother added: \"It's absolutely horrific. I think the local community really feels it.\"\n\nReverend Ian Miller, a retired minister who lives locally and was called in to offer guests support in the aftermath of the fire, said those affected \"fell into two groups\".\n\n\"There were those in the side bedrooms which weren't really touched and they just realised they had escaped something terrible,\" he said.\n\n\"But for those in the main building then there were degrees of trauma. Some had escaped with virtually nothing.\n\n\"One man came out in his underwear. Another woman told me she just grabbed her baby, change bag and moved out.\"\n\nThe Scottish Fire and Rescue service remained at the scene on Tuesday morning\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme, John Gow, from forensic investigations firm IFIC, said: \"There will be a number of strands to this investigation, running in tandem.\n\n\"Obviously, sadly, there is the death investigation due to the fatalities that occurred.\n\n\"There is the origin and cause investigation which is establishing how the fire started and spread throughout the property.\n\n\"It is also likely there will be an investigation to establish if the fire precaution measures were adequate and operated as they should.\"\n\nCameron House, an 18th Century mansion, was converted into a luxury hotel and resort in 1986.\n\nIt is a popular wedding venue and houses the Michelin-starred Martin Wishart at Loch Lomond restaurant.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Covid-19 has been reported in 60% of Scotland's care homes\n\nPolice Scotland has confirmed it will support the dedicated Crown Office unit which has been set up to investigate Covid-19 deaths in care homes.\n\nThe force said its involvement does not indicate that crimes have been committed but is designed simply to inform prosecutors.\n\nCases of the virus have been reported in 60% of Scotland's care homes, with a total of 5,635 residents affected.\n\nThe first minister described the impact on the sector as \"heartbreaking\".\n\nEarlier this month Lord Advocate James Wolffe QC announced the new unit and said it would help determine if Fatal Accident Inquiries were to be held into the deaths.\n\nThe outbreaks across Scotland include one on Skye which is under police investigation.\n\nOfficers are looking into the circumstances surrounding the deaths of three women - aged 84, 86 and 88 - at Home Farm in Portree.\n\nOn Friday police outlined the support officers will provide to the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) review.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Duncan Sloan said: \"We understand the significant public anxiety caused by reports of deaths among those being cared for and staff in the health and care sectors as a result of coronavirus.\n\n\"This is a matter of great concern for us all.\"\n\nMr Sloan said COPFS is working with a number of agencies and asked the force to gather \"additional information\".\n\nHe added: \"Our involvement does not necessarily indicate that crimes are being investigated and the information we gather on behalf of COPFS will help inform its decision on whether further action is required.\n\n\"These are challenging times for everyone but Police Scotland will continue to work with COPFS and other partner agencies to maximise public safety, to support and protect the vulnerable in our communities and to support the work of colleagues in the health and care professions.\"", "The comedian's wife shared a picture online of the 78-year-old after he received the vaccination\n\nSir Billy Connolly has received his first dose of the coronavirus vaccine.\n\nThe comedian's wife Pamela Stephenson shared an image on social media of the 78-year-old wearing a mask with a plaster on his left arm.\n\nAlongside the picture, Ms Stephenson wrote: \"Thank God... Billy had his first Covid vaccine today!\"\n\nSir Billy, who lives in Florida, was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 2013 and announced he was \"finished with stand-up\" last year.\n\nHe said at the time: \"The Parkinson's has made my brain work differently and you need to have a good brain for comedy.\"\n\nSir Billy now lives in Florida with his wife Pamela Stephenson\n\nSir Billy joins famous faces including actress Dame Judi Dench, broadcaster Sir David Attenborough and actor Sir Ian McKellen in receiving the vaccine.\n\nHollywood star and former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger also shared a video of him receiving the jab earlier this week.", "The Fire Brigades Union has held back firefighters from efforts to tackle the pandemic in England with \"unreasonable\" safety demands, a report claims.\n\nIn it, the fire service watchdog says the union has insisted on \"unworkable\" rules for testing and self-isolation.\n\nThousands of firefighters assisted health and emergency services last year but in December, as vaccinations began, the FBU asked members not to volunteer.\n\nThe union says it cannot be sure its members will be safe if they do.\n\nThat is because councils and fire chiefs have pulled out of an agreement on health protection measures, it added.\n\nFor most of last year the agreement allowed firefighters to perform a range of additional duties, including delivering meals, driving ambulances and transporting bodies.\n\nFirefighters returning from roles in potential contact with Covid victims would spend several days self-isolating and being tested to show they were not infected.\n\nBy December, when there was the prospect of firefighters helping with vaccinations, a row over the deal resulted in the union giving new advice to members\n\nThe FBU said in message on 9 December: \"At this time, members are asked not to volunteer and to suspend any expression of interest that they have registered until such time as satisfactory arrangements can be secured that allow a national agreement to be reached.\"\n\nOn 13 January, local councils, which employ firefighters, decided the agreement with the union \"was no longer sustainable or appropriate\", partly because of the requirements for staff to have tests and self-isolate.\n\nThey said these made it impossible to run the fire service flexibly. Fire chiefs argued that police officers and paramedics did not have to isolate and await test results.\n\nThe union says it cannot be sure its members will be safe if they volunteer\n\nThe FBU general secretary, Matt Wrack, told the BBC he still was not able to advise firefighters about additional Covid-related duties because the union did not know what the safety risks would be locally.\n\n\"I'm not prepared to ask people to volunteer if there aren't safety measures in place,\" he said. \"I don't want to see a deadly virus brought into workplaces when we have measures in place which have avoided it in the past several months.\"\n\nThe fire minister, Lord Stephen Greenhalgh, said: \"Brave firefighters have been prevented from stepping up to support the pandemic response because of the actions of the Fire Brigades Union.\"\n\nZoe Billingham, an inspector at Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Fire and Rescue Services, said many firefighters had contributed to the effort during the Covid crisis, but much more could have been done.\n\nShe described the union's position as \"deeply regrettable\" and \"not what the public would expect of a fire service\".\n\nThe inspectorate has released several reports calling for the modernisation of fire service working practices and criticising the FBU.\n\nLancashire Fire and Rescue Service said it had begun testing its staff twice a week\n\nAccording to this one, the dispute between firefighters and their employers has held up vital work to protect lives.\n\nIn Greater Manchester requests to the fire service to help with NHS Track and Trace were delayed by 12 weeks.\n\nIn Cleveland, the fire and rescue service had to use non-operational support staff, rather than firefighters, to carry out temperature testing for the local authority.\n\nIn Suffolk and South Yorkshire, there were delays to plans for firefighters to help get into properties where residents were suffering from Covid.\n\nThe FBU says it was not given an opportunity to respond to these claims before the report was published. Mr Wrack dismissed it as poorly-sourced and politically-motivated.\n\nSome fire services have reached agreements with local branches of the union instead so that they can volunteer for the vaccination effort.\n\nLancashire Fire and Rescue Service said it had begun testing its staff twice a week and those giving vaccinations had also received them first.", "Helen White's lighting business is struggling to absorb a six-fold increase in freight costs.\n\n\"We were paying £1,600 per container in November, this month we've been quoted over £10,000,\" says Helen White.\n\nThe founder of start-up Houseof.com, which imports lighting from China, says the rise in shipping costs means she's making a loss on what she sells.\n\nShe's one of many UK importers facing soaring freight costs amid a global shipping crisis that may last months.\n\nA shortage of empty shipping containers in Asia and bottlenecks at the UK's deep sea ports are behind the problems.\n\nIt was hoped the backlogs could be cleared during the Chinese New Year holiday in February, but instead a coronavirus outbreak in China is adding to the uncertainty facing firms.\n\nIn the UK the difficulties in international shipping have coincided with problems faced by businesses trading with the EU after Brexit.\n\nOne Manchester-based freight forwarder said the logistics industry is facing the most challenging conditions he's seen in the 17 years he's been in the business.\n\nCraig Poole from Cardinal Maritime said during lockdowns, people have been turning to online shopping, and that's causing a surge in demand for goods from China.\n\nFreight forwarder Craig Poole says the logistics industry is facing hugely challenging conditions\n\nBut some companies can't absorb the skyrocketing freight costs that shipping lines are charging. That could lead to higher prices for consumers or businesses having to close.\n\n\"The really unfortunate thing is, the small businesses who can't afford to pay those rates are going to go under as a result,\" Mr Poole said.\n\nHelen White's lighting range is designed in the UK and manufactured in Guangzhou, China.\n\nShe said the six-fold increase in shipping costs is hard to take, especially when getting hold of a container \"is like gold dust\".\n\n\"It's really hard for a small business to absorb those costs. We'll be making a loss on the goods we're selling.\"\n\nLighting seller houseof.com is struggling to import stock from China\n\nAt the other end of the supply chain, Chinese manufacturers and logistics firms say they are equally frustrated.\n\nJohnny Tseng is the owner and director of Hong Kong-based J&B Clothing Company Ltd., which manufactures garments for some of the UK's most popular fashion sites including Boohoo and Pretty Little Thing.\n\nHe's been supplying clothes to British retailers for more than 40 years, but he says his family-run firm won't be able to absorb inflated shipping rates for much longer.\n\n\"To be honest I don't even know how we can survive if we carry on shipping things at this kind of cost.\"\n\nJohnny Tseng says sky-high shipping rates are putting his business at risk.\n\nHe says he's now being quoted $14,000 to ship a container to the UK, when the usual price is $2,500.\n\nThe shortage of empty containers in China and congestion at UK ports caused some of his stock to miss the busy Christmas trading period. Now some customers are holding orders for their Autumn-Winter collections until next year.\n\n\"It's chaos,\" he said. \"We are making a loss. We take it as a loss leader and keep our fingers crossed it will go back to normal after Chinese New Year, but it is a major issue if it persists this way.\"\n\nUsually during the Chinese New Year holiday, factories in China shut down for two weeks. There were hopes the pause in production would give UK ports a chance to clear the backlog of ships waiting to dock, and encourage shipping lines to move more empty containers back to Asia, which is a less profitable journey.\n\nChinese workers usually travel home for the Chinese New Year holiday.\n\nBut rising numbers of coronavirus cases have prompted the Chinese authorities to stagger factory closing dates so that not all workers are travelling to their home regions at the same time. A worsening outbreak could lead to travel restrictions, in which case some factories may not stop production at all.\n\nCraig Poole says some companies have been caught out by factories closing earlier than planned.\n\n\"A lot of businesses that can't get those goods away are delaying orders until after Chinese New Year, so this situation could continue 'til March,\" he said.\n\nPatrick Lee from the Hong Kong-based Unique Logistics International said it could be even longer than that.\n\n\"Middle of the year at the earliest is what we're hearing from end customers in the UK, and also from some of our people in the industry. Some of the carriers as well,\" he said.\n\nMr Lee has called on the shipping lines to add more ships to help ease the backlog of stock orders building up at warehouses across China.\n\n\"They are increasing sailing but can increase a lot more. There are idle ships out there that they can reactivate without too much difficulty,\" he said.\n\nThe disruption could last for several months, according to logistics specialist Patrick Lee\n\nBut a spokeswoman for the World Shipping Council said carriers are using all available capacity.\n\n\"The demand for transportation service far exceeds supply. As in any free market, this puts upward pressure on rates,\" she said.\n\nShipping lines have been trying to drive down demand from British importers by charging a premium for deliveries to the UK, or bypassing the country's ports altogether.\n\nOne shipping line recently offered freight rates of $12,050 for a 40ft container from China to Southampton, but charged just $8,450 for the same container to travel from China to Rotterdam, Hamburg, or Antwerp.\n\nThe UK's largest container port at Felixstowe has been experiencing long delays since October. Congestion has also been a problem at the Port of Southampton, albeit to a lesser extent.\n\nThe bottlenecks were initially caused by a surge in imports as business activity picked up after the first wave of the pandemic. Huge shipments of PPE and the usual Christmas rush added to container volumes and ports struggled to cope.\n\nThe UK's largest container port at Felixstowe has been experiencing bottlenecks for months\n\n\"Most of the carriers just don't want UK cargo because of the issues when the vessels dock, so mainly they're favouring European ports and we are having to truck containers over,\" said freight forwarder Craig Poole.\n\nHe said that adds a cost of up to £2,000 per container, and takes an extra seven to ten days to reach the delivery point in the UK.\n\nFor business-owners like Helen White, the difficulties affecting the shipping industry can't be solved quickly enough.\n\n\"Lots of little start-ups are really hurting,\" she said. \"It has been paired with logistical nightmares across Europe as well. It just feels like logistics is falling apart at the moment. It's hard to see where the resolution is.\"", "All schools moved to online learning before Christmas, following concerns from unions over the new coronavirus variant\n\n\"Wholesale\" return of pupils to school after February half term is \"unlikely\", Wales' first minister has said.\n\nMark Drakeford said there were \"intermediate positions between where we are today, with very few children in school, and everybody being back\".\n\nPreviously, ministers said schools would stay closed to most until February half term unless Covid cases fell significantly.\n\nThose preparing for qualifications and very young children may return first.\n\nMr Drakeford told a coronavirus briefing on Friday he had recently chaired a meeting of the teaching unions and local education authorities.\n\n\"We all agreed that we would work purposefully together to find ways of bringing more young people back into the classroom,\" he said.\n\n\"Does that mean that we will see a wholesale return of every child in every classroom, every day of the week across Wales? I do think that that is probably unlikely.\n\n\"But there are intermediate positions between where we are today, with very few children in school, and everybody being back.\"\n\nHe said there had been \"practical, creative, imaginative\" proposals put forward which could mean some children being back in the classroom for some of the week.\n\nMinisters previously said schools would stay closed until half term unless Covid cases fell significantly\n\nThese could include \"children preparing for qualifications [and] very young children for whom online learning really isn't a genuine possibility\".\n\n\"I certainly don't rule out making some of those things happen after the February half term, but I do think it's unlikely in the way you said that we would see every child back full-time in every classroom in the way that we would ideally wish to do,\" he added.\n\nAll schools and colleges moved to online learning before Christmas, following concerns from unions over the new coronavirus variant.\n\nThey have remained open for children of critical workers and vulnerable learners, as well as for learners who needed to complete essential exams or assessments.\n\nEarlier this month, when Education Minister Kirsty Williams said schools and colleges would stay closed to most pupils until the February half term, unions welcomed the news, saying the health and safety of pupils and staff \"had to be a priority\".\n\nBut, they added, teachers must now be given the vaccine as a priority, and pupils and staff must be protected before talks about reopening schools could begin.\n\nTeachers are still not on the priority list for immunisation, and have to wait to get the jab dependent on their age and if they have a medical condition.\n\nAt the time, Laura Doel, director of The National Association of Headteachers Cymru, said: \"Any plan that sees school staff return to face-to-face learning should be afforded as much protection as possible against the virus.\n\n\"Once these issues have been addressed, then we can discuss the orderly return to school we all want.\"\n\nOpposition parties have called for clear plans on how schools would return and for support to make sure pupils from poorer backgrounds did not fall behind due to a \"digital divide\".\n\nPlaid Cymru's education spokeswoman Sian Gwenllian said: \"The Welsh Government must plan now for the gradual and safe reopening of schools, putting in place safety measures, and should lay out plans for a vaccination programme for schools staff.\"\n\nWelsh Conservative education spokeswoman Suzy Davies called for the Welsh Government to publish evidence on its reasons for closing schools, bring forward vaccines for teachers, and said money must be made available for all pupils to access laptops for online learning.", "Three quarters of applications for a £500 discretionary grant, which aims to help those on low incomes self-isolate, have been rejected, figures suggest.\n\nEmployed or self-employed people in England who do not qualify for the Test and Trace Support Payment because they do not receive benefits can apply.\n\nData obtained by Labour and shared with BBC Newsnight suggests just 12,069 of 49,877 applications were successful.\n\nThe government said it was assessing how the scheme is supporting people.\n\nThe cumulative figures obtained by Labour suggest that between October and December last year, 35,252 applications to local authorities in England for the discretionary part of the test and trace support payment scheme were rejected, while 12,069 were granted.\n\nThe government introduced the Test and Trace Support payment in late September as a way of topping up any benefits or Statutory Sick Pay a person receives.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care says it is a targeted scheme designed to help people on low incomes.\n\nThere is a list of specific criteria applicants must meet for the grant, but those who do not qualify for this payment and who are on a low income or may face financial hardship as a result of self-isolating, can apply for a discretionary payment.\n\nLocal authorities in England oversee the entire support scheme, with the qualifying criteria set by the government. They blame overly strict criteria and inadequate government guidance for people being rejected who feel they should qualify for a grant.\n\nThe Local Government Association, which represents councils in England as well as the London boroughs, said some councils were having to turn down applications for the discretionary support because \"people are ineligible or have failed to provide the evidence needed\".\n\nLast month, the self-isolation period for contacts of people with confirmed coronavirus was shortened from 14 to 10 days after the time of exposure.\n\nPeople who are contacted by NHS Test and Trace and told to self-isolate, face fines of up to £10,000 if they fail to comply. Those who don't self-isolate risk spreading the virus to others.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDr Nishant Joshi, a GP trainee working at a practice in Luton, says he meets, on a daily basis, people who are faced with what he calls a \"Sophie's choice\".\n\nHe says: \"People come to me with essentially a Sophie's choice situation - I know I have to isolate but also I don't have enough money to put food on my table.\n\n\"If I say to somebody who comes to me with a health problem, you need to take a couple of weeks off work, I've had patients who have come to me and they're in tears.\"\n\nRachel, a shop worker from East London with a disabled son, tested positive in early January and was left in a desperate situation after having to self-isolate.\n\nShe says: \"I didn't have a hot meal for 10 days. I had two bowls of cornflakes and a hot dog. I was hungry. I was petrified\".\n\nShe adds: \"It's been probably the worst two weeks of my life. On a personal level I knew I had no choice but to isolate to keep my son safe.\n\n\"Had I not been in that position I can't guarantee that I would have done the whole self isolation thing because you get desperate.\"\n\nHer local councillor eventually dropped off a hot meal. Rachel was fortunate and received a £500 grant at the end of her isolation.\n\nJosie Tothill said missing two weeks of work \"could be the difference between feeding your kids or not, or paying rent or not\"\n\nJosie Tothill from Manchester didn't qualify for the scheme, even though her job, as a personal assistant to a woman who needs mental health support, means she is on a low income.\n\nShe had to self-isolate in October after her sister tested positive. But she did not receive a call from Test and Trace despite being a contact. Only people with a Test and Trace number are eligible.\n\nJosie says: \"It was difficult, but I got by. But for a lot of people, especially if you work in care, you are already on poverty wages, so to miss two weeks of work - that could be the difference between feeding your kids or not, or paying rent or not.\n\n\"So you can see, for some people, it's impossible to do that isolation, so it's much harder to control the virus.\"\n\nThe Labour Party, which obtained the figures from local authorities under the Freedom of Information Act, says the government must make sure everyone can afford to self isolate.\n\nShadow communities secretary Steve Reed said it was vital that people who self-isolated were not \"punished for doing the right thing\".\n\nHe told the BBC: \"The problem is the government established a fixed pot of money and, in some cases, councils have eked it out so much that many people applying for the funding haven't received it.\n\n\"In other cases councils have used up all the money because they have more people applying than were expected.\n\n\"So, we end up with a postcode lottery, if you live in one area you might get the funding, if you live in another area you might not.\"\n\nAnalysis of the figures by the BBC shows that of the applications to the discretionary scheme:\n\nWhile most of councils that responded rejected the majority of applications to the discretionary scheme, a smaller number bucked the trend.\n\nLambeth granted 77% of applications, Haringey and Wakefield 75%, and Solihull 64%.\n\nWhile it's impossible to rule out that applications may be coming from people who are taking a chance, it's also clear that some councils are apparently more flexible about the criteria used on the discretionary scheme.\n\nThe government is putting £70 million into funding the scheme. It said: \"Local authorities are responsible for decisions when it comes to making additional discretionary payments to people who fall outside the scope of the main scheme and are facing financial hardship as a result of having to self-isolate.\n\n\"We continue to work closely with the 314 local authorities in England to assess how the scheme is supporting people experiencing financial difficulties.\"\n\nThe Local Government Association said the government \"needs to ensure its £500 self-isolation payment support scheme is available to those in need of financial support\".\n\nIt says it is \"good\" that councils will receive extra government funding \"to support people on low incomes who do not meet the strict criteria for this main scheme, but who may face financial hardship because of the requirement to self-isolate\".", "Because of its scale, work on Glastonbury's site must begin earlier than most festivals\n\nMusic festivals are \"still possible\" this summer, despite the cancellation of Glastonbury, says the head of the Association of Independent Festivals.\n\nPaul Reed said Glastonbury \"is a different beast to most festivals and most likely ran out of time due to the size and complexity of the event\".\n\nSmaller events could still happen if the government ensures organisers can access cancellation insurance, he said.\n\n\"For most festivals, the cut-off point is more likely the end of March.\"\n\nOn Thursday, Glastonbury organisers Michael and Emily Eavis called off their festival for the second year in a row because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\n\"In spite of our efforts to move Heaven & Earth, it has become clear that we simply will not be able to make the festival happen,\" they said in a joint statement. \"We are so sorry to let you all down.\"\n\nTickets for the festival, which normally attracts 200,000 people and was due to take place in June, will roll over to 2022.\n\nGlastonbury is the UK's biggest music festival, but it was not the only event to cancel its plans on Thursday. The Country To Country festival, which was due to take place in March, also said its 2021 edition would not happen.\n\nThe three-day event, which attracts some of country music's biggest names to indoor venues in London, Dublin and Glasgow, said it had pulled the plug due to the \"current restrictions on mass gatherings and international travel\".\n\nThe announcements came as coronavirus deaths soared in England, with more than 8,500 deaths recorded in the past week. On Thursday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said it was \"too early\" to say whether England's Covid restrictions would be lifted by the spring.\n\nStormzy has already been announced as a headliner for August's Reading and Leeds festivals\n\nGlastonbury's cancellation has raised fears for other music festivals this summer. However, the organisers of Glasgow's TRNSMT said there was \"reason to be optimistic\" that it could go ahead in July, with headliners Lewis Capaldi, Liam Gallagher and the Courteeners.\n\n\"Glastonbury is the biggest festival in the world and it's sad to see that, due to its enormous scale and taking several months to get the city-sized festival site ready, it's unable to go ahead this year,\" boss Geoff Ellis told Scotland's Daily Record.\n\n\"By comparison, TRNSMT is a much smaller city centre event with no camping. As such it takes us days rather than months to build TRNSMT. Therefore, we will continue to listen to and follow the advice from the government and remain positive about events later in the summer.\"\n\nHis comments were echoed by Bestival co-founder Rob Da Bank, who tweeted that \"festival season will happen in the UK this summer\", adding: \"Sadly Glasto is such a mammoth beast to plan it ran outta time.\"\n\nSacha Lord, co-founder of Manchester's Parklife festival, added that Glastonbury's cancellation was \"yet another blow\" to freelancers who work in the live music sector.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Breakfast on Friday, Mr Reed said the UK was at a \"serious point in the pandemic and festivals only want to return when it is safe to do so\".\n\nHe added that festivals were currently struggling to get insurance for coronavirus-related cancellations. Last week, MPs from the House of Commons culture select committee wrote to the chancellor, urging him to launch a Covid-19 insurance scheme to protect live music.\n\nThe appeal was backed by more than 100 industry figures, including organisers of the TRNSMT and Parklife festivals. \"We do need government to intervene in this issue,\" said Mr Reed.\n\nIn a tweet on Thursday, Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden expressed his regret at Glastonbury's cancellation and said the government was \"looking at problems around getting insurance\".\n\nA government spokeswoman said on Friday they are in \"regular dialogue\" with public health experts to \"agree a realistic return date for festivals and other large events\". They added they were still helping festivals with the £1.5bn Culture Recovery Fund, \"with many already receiving this support\".\n\nLatitude Festival has been held at Henham Park, near Southwold, since 2006\n\nOther European countries, including Austria and Germany, have launched schemes to cover events that cannot be rescheduled, including music festivals. At present, England has a scheme protecting film and TV shoots, but not music.\n\nHowever, some festivals have been given support by the government's £1.57bn Culture Recovery Fund, including Womad, End of the Road and Nozstock.\n\nMelvin Benn, whose company Festival Republic organises the Latitude, Download and the Reading & Leeds festivals, said that without an insurance scheme, other events would be left \"staring into the same barrel that Glastonbury stared into\".\n\n\"People can't afford to take that financial risk,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nThe government is holding \"early stage talks\" with insurers, confirmed Tim Thornhill of Tyser's Insurance, which counts Glastonbury amongst its clients.\n\n\"We have helped to put in place the film and TV restart scheme, which the chancellor explained saved 14,000 jobs,\" he said. \"So if we can do something for events, that would be welcome across the industry\".\n\nWhile there is \"no guarantee\" that insurance could be provided, he said there was \"significant urgency\" to finding a solution \"within the next few months\".\n\n\"It's really important that the government supports the industry,\" added Radiohead's Colin Greenwood. \"And they need to start thinking about that now, and not when we reach that point - say in October this year - when there are enough people vaccinated for [live music] to become safe.\n\n\"Nobody wants to go to anything, or take part in anything, that's going to turn into a super-spreader event,\" he said.\n\n\"But obviously there has to be a way out of this, through vaccination. And I think we need to make sure that systems are in place so we can get back into doing what we love.\"\n\nJulian Knight MP, chair of the culture select committee, said the government was working on insurance plans, because of the importance of festivals to British culture and the economy.\n\n\"I've been in to see the chancellor,\" he told BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat. \"Finally I think there is some movement. I understand that they are dropping some of the objections that they may have had, and that we may end up with an insurance scheme.\n\n\"However, there's a danger that it's too little too late.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "PM: We are enforcing lockdown with increasing toughness\n\nSky News's Sam Coates asks whether, if the new variant is more dangerous, it is right that more people are \"out and about\" during the current lockdown than the first one last year. The PM says that \"we are enforcing the law very strictly with increasing toughness\", meaning increased fines to dissuade risky behaviour. \"It depends on everybody doing the right thing and avoiding transmission,\" he says, adding that is what will be more effective than police action. On why the new variant may be transmitting more readily, Sir Patrick Vallance says it is not believed the new variant has a higher viral load, meaning people \"shed more virus\". He suggests it may be other factors that make it more transmissible. On the current infection rate, Chris Whitty says that while infections are slowly going down \"it is at a very, very high level\". He says that among some age groups - including those 20 to 30 - infections may still be increasing. And on hospitalisations, he says that they are \"broadly flat\" for the UK as a whole, but there are variations between regions. \"That peak is not yet definitely going down yet,\" he says. Deaths will be delayed further with the peak expected in the future, he adds. Video caption: Infection level 'very, very high' and 'extremely precarious' - Prof Whitty Infection level 'very, very high' and 'extremely precarious' - Prof Whitty", "The Holyrood inquiry into the handling of harassment claims against Alex Salmond is using legal powers to seek documents from the Crown Office.\n\nThe documents include messages between SNP officials, civil servants and advisers relating to Mr Salmond's legal challenge to the complaints process.\n\nIt is the first time MSPs have issued such a formal request in the history of the Scottish Parliament.\n\nConvener Linda Fabiani said the action was necessary to continue its work.\n\nThe committee was established in the wake of a judicial review court case where the Scottish government admitted its internal investigation of two harassment complaints against Mr Salmond had been unlawful.\n\nThe government had to pay out more than £500,000 in legal expenses to the former first minister, who was later acquitted of 13 charges of sexual assault in a separate criminal trial.\n\nThe notice, formally issued by Holyrood chief executive David McGill, states that the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) \"may hold documents relevant and necessary for the committee to fulfil its remit\".\n\nThe committee is seeking the release of documents detailing text or WhatsApp communications between SNP chief operating officer Susan Ruddick and Scottish government ministers, civil servants or special advisers between August 2018 and January 2019, that may be relevant to the inquiry.\n\nIt also wants to see any documents linked to the leaking of complaints to the Daily Record newspaper in August 2018.\n\nMs Fabiani said: \"Throughout this inquiry, the committee has been determined to get as much information as possible to inform its task.\n\n\"This is a step that hasn't been taken lightly, and is a first for this Parliament, but which the committee felt was needed as it continues its vital work.\"\n\nThe Crown Office has been given until 17:00 on 29 January to respond to the notice.\n\nNever before in Holyrood's history has it attempted to use this legal power of compulsion.\n\nSection 23 of the Scotland Act makes it possible to force a witness to give evidence in person or - as in this case - to hand over documents.\n\nIt sounds straightforward but lots of legal terms and conditions apply.\n\nThat's especially true in this case where MSPs are trying to compel the Crown Office - in charge of prosecutions and headed up by the Lord Advocate.\n\nThe Lord Advocate has potential get-outs if he considers releasing documents would \"prejudice criminal proceedings\" or otherwise be \"contrary to the public interest\".\n\nThat public interest test could be key.\n\nClearly, MSPs think social media messages and other material held by the Crown Office could be relevant to their inquiry and should be released.\n\nThe Crown Office has argued that disclosing evidence gathered in a criminal case for other purposes risks undermining confidence in the police and prosecutors.\n\nThe Lord Advocate has a big call to make - has the prosecution service (which he runs) or the parliament (to which he is answerable as a minister) got the better sense of where - on balance - the public interest lies?\n\nIn other developments, Mr Salmond has been given a deadline by which to appear before the committee.\n\nThe former SNP leader has been given the option of giving evidence to the committee either in person in the Parliament or by appearing remotely on a number of dates in the first week of February.\n\nMs Fabiani said if this was not possible then the \"committee regrets that it will not be able to take oral evidence from you\" although he would be free to submit further written evidence.\n\nMr Salmond's lawyers had said he was only available in the second week of February.\n\nIn a letter to the committee, the former first minister said this was because he had still to complete two further submissions but the process had been \"hampered\" by the Scottish government's \"failure\" to release its legal advice and the ongoing bid to recover documents from the Crown Office.\n\nMr Salmond's appearance is much anticipated following his written submission earlier this month in which he alleged that Nicola Sturgeon misled parliament.\n\nMs Sturgeon, who \"entirely rejects\" his claims, is expected to give evidence in the coming weeks and has said she is looking forward to putting her side across.\n\nMeanwhile, the committee has once again written to the Scottish government urging it to waive legal privilege and release the advice it received from lawyers regarding the case.\n\nA Crown Office spokesman said: \"COPFS has received the correspondence from the committee and will respond in early course.\"\n\nA Scottish government spokeswoman said: \"We will consider the committee's letter - but the Scottish government has already taken unprecedented steps to provide the committee with access to relevant information to allow it to fulfil its remit.\n\n\"The government has, exceptionally, provided the committee with access to a summary of the legal advice on the judicial review on a confidential basis.\"", "Eric Vice, 64, was on his way to Swansea University when he crashed into a bridge\n\nA bus driver who crashed his double-decker bus into a bridge, killing a passenger, has been jailed.\n\nJessica Jing Ren, 36, died 11 days after the bus, which was going to Swansea University, hit a bridge on Neath Road on 12 December 2019.\n\nEric Vice, 64, pleaded guilty to causing death by dangerous driving and causing serious injury by dangerous driving at Swansea Crown Court.\n\nHe was sentenced to two years and six months.\n\nMs Ren had been on the front row of the upper deck of the bus and was on her phone at the time of the crash, the court heard.\n\nShe was a visiting academic at the university's accounting and finance department from Huanghuai University in China, where she had a five-year-old son with her husband, who is also a lecturer.\n\nProsecutor Carina Hughes said the crash left trapped passengers covered in debris and forced to crouch down in the flattened upper deck while they waited to be rescued.\n\nOlympic gold medallist and 400m hurdles world record holder Kevin Young, who was studying at the university, saw Ms Ren hit the front windscreen.\n\nEric Vice is \"consumed with guilt\" his defence barrister said\n\n\"Mr Young says that she was slowly trying to mouth some words to him, but it was inaudible.\n\n\"He described that he held her hand to try and comfort her until the police and paramedics arrived.\"\n\nMs Hughes said Ms Ren had been unconscious when cut out of the bus by firefighters 90 minutes later and was airlifted to the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff, with spine injuries, leg fractures, lacerations and a severe brain injury.\n\nAerospace engineering student Richard Thompson, 20, was seriously injured in the crash and required facial reconstruction. Mr Young suffered a head wound and two broken ribs.\n\nThe court heard passenger statements saying the bus appeared to be running late and the driver had been waving passengers on to the bus without scanning their tickets.\n\nMs Hughes said when Vice encountered traffic between Swansea University's Singleton campus and its Swansea Bay campus, he decided to take a different route, one he had taken several times before when driving a single-decker bus.\n\nShe said 21 passengers has been on board, 13 of whom were on the top deck.\n\nMs Hughes said Vice had driven past two height restriction warnings on the route.\n\nThe bus went under the stone arch of the railway bridge, but hit the lower steel bridge.\n\nIan Ibrahim, defending, said it had been \"without doubt a catastrophic error of judgement.\"\n\nHe added: \"He is consumed with guilt - he's been diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder and severe depression.\"\n\nJessica Jing Ren was a visiting academic at Swansea University from Huanghuai University in China\n\nJudge Geraint Williams said: \"That fatal error of yours resulted in the death of a promising young academic.\n\n\"Following the crash you stayed at the scene where you witnessed first-hand the carnage you had created.\n\n\"I can't think of a word short of carnage to describe the scene on the upstairs of that bus - but it could have been many, many times worse.\n\n\"The stark reality in this case is that your impatience that day robbed you of the care which ordinarily you applied to your professional driving.\"\n\nThe scene inside the bus after it crashed into a railway bridge in Neath Road, Swansea\n\nAt the time of her death, Ms Ren's family said in a statement: \"Jessica was the loving wife of Wenquang Wang, a devoted mother to five-year-old Yushu Wang and the cherished Daughter of Mingqi Ren.\n\n\"A much loved and talented academic, Jessica will be deeply missed by her family and her friends both in China and in Swansea and will leave a great void in their lives.\"\n\nIn a statement released after Ms Ren died, Swansea University said: \"We are deeply shocked and saddened to hear of the death of Jessica Jing Ren.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with Jessica's family at this time and we extend our deepest condolences at their tragic loss.\"", "Daniel Craig with director Cary Joji Fukunaga on the No Time To Die set in 2019\n\nThe release of the next James Bond film has been delayed for a third time because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nNo Time To Die had already been pushed back twice, and will now debut globally on 8 October, an announcement on the film's website said.\n\nIt had originally been due to hit screens in April 2020.\n\nThe film is the 25th instalment in the Bond franchise, and marks Daniel Craig's final appearance as British secret service agent 007.\n\nIt also features Lea Seydoux and Rami Malek.\n\nThe delay will come as a further blow to cinemas that have been forced to shut for months at a time because of lockdowns.\n\nEarlier this week, leading film-makers including Danny Boyle and Sir Steve McQueen wrote to the UK Government, calling for financial support for cinema chains because \"UK cinema stands on the edge of an abyss\".\n\nCineworld said in October, when No Time To Die was pushed back for the second time, that delays to big budget releases meant the industry was \"unviable\".\n\nBond's latest move sparked a flurry of other delays to major releases. Sony has pushed back Ghostbusters: Afterlife, Peter Rabbit 2, Jared Leto's Morbius, Tom Holland's Uncharted and Cinderella, which will star singer Camila Cabello; while Universal has moved Tom Hanks' Bios from April to November.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by James Bond 007 This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nThe UK Cinema Association said the decision to postpone No Time To Die again, \"while clearly disappointing, is at the same time not surprising given the current situation around Covid-19 in the UK as well as the US and other major film territories\".\n\nThe postponement of Daniel Craig's swansong and other films \"underlines the need for ongoing support for the UK cinema sector\", the trade body's chief executive Phil Clapp said.\n\nThe association is calling on the government to provide \"direct funding\" to chains, which represent 80% of ticket sales.\n\nOne of the major chains, Vue, said the delay was \"understandable\", and that the continuing attempts to release the film in cinemas \"is further testament to our shared belief in a bright future for the big screen\".\n\nHowever, the latest postponement could stoke speculation that the film may ultimately skip cinemas and be released on a streaming platform.\n\nMajor Disney titles like Pixar's Soul and its live-action remake of Mulan bypassed cinemas, premiering instead on the Disney+ streaming service.\n\nWonder Woman 1984, meanwhile, was made available in the US on the HBO Max streaming service on the same day it received a limited cinema release.\n\nLast year, Warner Bros announced its 2021 titles - including sci-fi epic Dune and The Matrix 4 - would all adopt a similar dual release pattern, escalating tensions between Hollywood and US movie theatres.\n\nRami Malek plays the villainous Safin in the thrice-delayed film\n\nThe Dig, a new historical drama starring Ralph Fiennes and Carey Mulligan, was due to be released in selected UK cinemas this month. Now, the film will only be available on Netflix from 29 January.\n\nAsked whether No Time To Die might go down the same route, Fiennes - who will reprise his role as M in the film - recently told BBC News: \"That's a good question and I'm not really in a position to answer it.\n\n\"I would love the idea that people could go to the cinema and have the full effect of the big-screen energy behind the Bond, but I'm sure it's something the people who make these executive decisions are probably considering.\n\n\"I really hope we come through this so people can go to the cinema. Maybe they just have to hold their nerve. But of course we don't know, and there may be financial reasons or imperatives that [mean] they have to put it on a streaming system.\"\n\nIf No Time To Die is indeed released in cinemas in October, it will arrive a full six years on from the release of its 2015 predecessor Spectre.\n\nThat won't be far behind the six years and four months that separated the release of Licence to Kill in summer 1989 and GoldenEye in late 1995 - the biggest gap between two Bond films.\n\nThe last Bond film, 2015's Spectre, took almost $900m (£690m) at worldwide box offices.\n\nOther blockbusters to have been delayed by the pandemic include action sequel Top Gun: Maverick and Marvel's Black Widow.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "One of the mysteries of Covid-19 is why oxygen levels in the blood can drop to dangerously low levels without the patient noticing.\n\nIt is known as \"silent hypoxia\".\n\nAs a result, patients have been arriving in hospital in far worse health than they realised and, in some cases, too late to treat effectively.\n\nBut a potentially life-saving solution, in the form of a pulse oximeter, allows patients to monitor their oxygen levels at home, and costs about £20.\n\nThey are being rolled out for high-risk Covid patients in the UK, and the doctor leading the scheme thinks everyone should consider buying one.\n\nA normal oxygen level in the blood is between 95% and 100%.\n\n\"With Covid, we were admitting patients with oxygen levels in the 70s or low-or-middle 80s,\" said Dr Matt Inada-Kim, a consultant in acute medicine at Hampshire Hospitals.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Inside Health: \"It was a really curious and scary presentation and really made us rethink what we were doing.\"\n\nDr Inada-Kim became the national clinical lead of the Covid Oximetry@home project.\n\nA pulse oximeter slips over your middle finger and shines a light into the body. It measures how much of the light is absorbed in order to calculate oxygen levels in the blood.\n\nIn England, they are being given to people with Covid who are over 65, younger but have a health problem, or anyone doctors are concerned about. Similar schemes are being rolled out across the UK.\n\nPeople measure and record their oxygen levels three times a day.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Health Education England - HEE This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nIf oxygen levels drop to 93% or 94%, then people speak to their GP or call 111. If they go below 92%, people should go to A&E or call 999 for an ambulance.\n\nStudies, which have not been reviewed by other scientists, have shown even small drops below 95% are linked to an increased risk of dying.\n\nDr Inada-Kim said: \"The point of this whole strategy is to try to get in early to prevent people getting that sick, by admitting patients at a more salvageable point in their illness.\"\n\nChris Harris, who is 70, was one of the first patients to benefit from the scheme.\n\nHe was being treated for a urinary infection in November last year, but then when he developed unexpected flu-like symptoms his GP sent him for a Covid test. It was positive.\n\n\"I don't mind admitting I was in tears, it was a very stressful, frightening time,\" he told Inside Health.\n\nHis oxygen levels dropped a couple of percentage points below the normal zone, so after a call with his GP, he went to hospital.\n\nAt this point he was still feeling fine, but things changed the day after he was admitted.\n\n\"My breathing started to get a little bit laboured, I had a high temperature as the days went on, [my oxygen levels] were progressively getting lower, they were in their 80s,\" he told me.\n\nChris was treated, did not need intensive care and has made a full recovery.\n\nHe said: \"I may have gone [to hospital] as the very last resort and that's the frightening thing. It was the oxygen meter that forced me to go, I would have just sat it out thinking I would recover.\n\n\"I am extremely lucky and very, very grateful.\"\n\nHis GP, Dr Caroline O'Keefe, says she has seen a massive increase in the number of people being monitored.\n\nShe said: \"On Christmas Day we were monitoring 44 patients, today I have 160 patients who I am monitoring daily. So we are certainly busy.\"\n\n\"We've had to quadruple the size of our team in the last two weeks.\"\n\nOverall, NHS England has supplied around 300,000 pulse oximeters for the home-monitoring scheme.\n\nDr Inada-Kim says there isn't definitive proof that the gadget saves lives and it could take until April to know for sure. However, the early signs are all positive.\n\n\"What we think we can see are the early seeds of a reduction in the length of stay after a hospital admission, an improvement in survival and a reduction in the pressures on the emergency services,\" he said.\n\nHe is so convinced of their role in tackling silent hypoxia that he said everyone should consider buying one.\n\n\"Personally I would, and I know a number of colleagues who have bought pulse oximeters to distribute to their loved ones,\" he said.\n\nHe advised checking they had a CE Kitemark and to avoid apps on smartphones, which he said were not as reliable.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA mosque has become the first in the UK to open as a Covid vaccination centre.\n\nThe Al-Abbas Islamic Centre in Balsall Heath, Birmingham is expected to vaccinate up to 500 people a day.\n\nThe imam, Sheikh Nuru Mohammed, said he hoped it would help dispel false information that the vaccine was forbidden in Islamic law.\n\nNHS England said it fears disinformation could be causing some in the UK's South Asian communities to reject the Covid vaccine.\n\n\"It will send a strong message to our Muslim brothers and sisters. We are doing this to say a big 'no' to fake news and a big 'yes' to the vaccine,\" Sheikh Nuru said.\n\n\"Muslim scholars advise us to get the vaccine because the sanctity of life is important in Islam.\"\n\nImam Sheikh Nuru Mohammed said he hopes the opening of the vaccination centre will help dispel false information\n\nDr Rizwan Alidina, a trustee of the mosque and member of the Birmingham and Solihull Clinical Commissioning Group said: \"The significance of the venue is obviously quite evident with particularly the Muslim community being one of the communities with a bit of a lower uptake than we would otherwise have expected.\"\n\nHe said there had been a good response to the opening of the centre at the mosque and hoped it would soon be carrying out between 300 and 500 vaccinations a day.\n\nNHS England regional medical director for London Dr Vin Diwakar told a Downing Street press conference some communities had \"legitimate and understandable concerns about the vaccines\".\n\nHe said despite it being a \"safe and effective vaccine\", for some Asian and black communities there were \"longstanding concerns\" that \"go back generations\".\n\nDr Diwakar said some people were \"told by their grandparents that experiments were done in the early part of the last century, that unethical experiments were done way back in the 60s\".\n\nSpeaking at the Downing Street briefing, Home Secretary Priti Patel also sought to counter disinformation targeted at people from minority ethnic backgrounds.\n\n\"This vaccine is safe for us all,\" she said.\n\n\"It will protect you and your family... So I urge everyone from across our wonderfully diverse country to get the vaccine when their turn comes to keep us all safe.\"\n\nOne of the first to get the jab at he Birmingham mosque, retired GP Dr Masud Ahmad, said his message to others in the local community was \"that it's quite safe to have it and they should have it\".\n\nOther places of worship, including Salisbury Cathedral and Lichfield Cathedral, opened as vaccine centres last week.\n\nThe Al-Abbas Islamic Centre is administering the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ministers will discuss at a meeting on Monday whether to tighten restrictions at UK borders - including the possibility of hotel quarantines for travellers, the BBC has been told.\n\nAt a Downing Street news conference on Friday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson did not rule out taking further action.\n\nIt comes amid increased concerns over the spread of new coronavirus variants.\n\nUnder current travel curbs, almost all people arriving in the UK must test negative for Covid to be allowed entry.\n\nThe test must be taken in the 72 hours before travelling and anyone arriving without one faces a fine of up to £500.\n\nAll passengers are also required to quarantine for up to 10 days, although the isolation period can be cut short with a second negative test after five days in England.\n\nThe only people not subject to the conditions are children under 11, hauliers, air, international rail and maritime crew, and passengers from the Common Travel Area - comprised of the Republic of Ireland, the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man\n\nScotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have their own quarantine rules, which differ slightly.\n\nAs of Monday, travel corridors, which exempted passengers arriving from some countries from quarantine, were suspended throughout the UK.\n\nAsked whether the government would bring in further measures at UK borders, Mr Johnson said: \"I really don't rule it out, we may need to take further measures still.\n\n\"We may need to go further to protect our borders.\n\n\"We don't want to put that [efforts to control Covid] at risk by having a new variant come back in.\"\n\nOne more infectious variant , which was first identified in Kent, has already spread widely across the UK.\n\nAnd, at the briefing, the prime minister announced that early evidence suggests this variant may be more deadly.\n\nOther new variants causing concern have been identified in South Africa and Brazil in the weeks since the Kent variant was discovered.\n\nThose discoveries led to direct flights to the UK from all South American countries and several southern African countries being suspended.\n\nScientists fear these variants discovered in other countries may interfere with the effectiveness of vaccines and evade parts of the immune system.\n\nWhile those travelling into the UK are asked to abide by the 10-day isolation and told they can be subject to checks, London mayor Sadiq Khan is among those who have called for the UK to adopt the use of enforced quarantine in hotel rooms.\n\nThe policy is among the measures in Australia that has limited the country to just 28,750 positive cases during the entire pandemic, fewer than the UK currently has every day.\n\nTravellers who choose to go to Australia have to pay for their rooms at one of a number of selected quarantine facilities - and have all their meals delivered to their room throughout a stay of at least 14 days. They get tested twice for Covid during that period and if they test positive their quarantine is extended for a further 14 days.\n\nMeanwhile, passengers arriving into London's Heathrow airport this week have complained of queues at passport control and what they described as poor social distancing, after the latest travel restrictions - requiring travellers to show proof of their negative Covid tests - came into force.\n\nOn Friday, former British ambassador Peter Westmacott posted a picture on Twitter of long queues at the airport.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Peter Westmacott This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA government spokesman said people \"should not be travelling unless absolutely necessary\".\n\nThe statement added: \"You must have proof of a negative test and a completed passenger locator form before arriving.\n\n\"Border Force have been ramping up enforcement and those not complying could be fined £500.\n\n\"It's ultimately up to individual airports to ensure social distancing on site.\"\n\nWith all parts of the UK under strict virus rules amid high levels of infection, only essential foreign travel is permitted in the current advice from the Foreign Office.\n\nA further 40,261 cases, and 1,401 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test were reported on Friday in the UK.", "The bunker is in a rural location near St Agnes, Cornwall\n\nAn \"eerie\" underground bunker built during the Cold War has been put up for sale with a guide price of £25,000.\n\nThe former monitoring post near St Agnes, Cornwall was built in 1961 and is accessed down a 14ft (4.2m) ladder.\n\nSellers have suggested \"a variety of uses\" for the \"out of the ordinary\" property, subject to planning permission from Cornwall Council.\n\nIt was used in the Cold War to monitor aircraft and any potential nuclear threats, said auctioneer Adam Cook.\n\nThe auction will be held online in February\n\nThe bunker was manned by volunteers and consists of an access shaft, a toilet and a monitoring room.\n\nIt is being auctioned online as part of a triangular piece of land on 18 February.\n\nThe site was first opened in 1961 and closed in 1991 and is accessed down a \"rustic vehicular track\", according to the online advert.\n\nMr Cook said it is a former Royal Observer Corps Monitoring Post \"but people love calling it a nuclear bunker\".\n\nHe said the bunker would have been one of around 1,500 monitoring posts built in coastal regions in the UK between the 1960s and 1990s.\n\nOld bunk beds remain in the bunker\n\nAccessed by a hatch, Mr Cook described the reinforced concrete bunker as \"a little bit eerie when you're there on your own\".\n\n\"I'm glad I've been down there...[to have] half a chance of explaining it to customers.\"\n\nHe said there was still a sense of what it used to be with an \"old bunk bed\" and a toilet \"which I don't think you'd fancy using but it certainly gives you the atmosphere\".\n\nMr Cook explained it is \"difficult to pigeon hole it onto any one kind of purchaser\" and said the buyer could be anyone from a history enthusiast to a landowner.\n\n\"All kinds could be interested and we're already getting lots of calls about it.\"\n\nFollow BBC News South West on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your comments and story ideas to spotlight@bbc.co.uk.\n• None Cold War bunker up for sale for £25,000", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Some of the volunteers are working to prepare bodies for burial\n\nA mosque in east London has closed for all communal prayer. Instead it is serving two purposes - providing funerals and feeding the local community. Michael Buchanan finds a team of volunteers there battling to deal with the pandemic.\n\nThe family shuffled quietly past a crate of milk cartons. They came through the small porch, towards the open coffin. Inside was a woman - a loved one - who died of Covid two days ago. The coffin sat feet away from tins and packets to be distributed by the local food bank. The milk was the latest delivery.\n\nIt is impossible to capture the enormous consequences of the pandemic. But last Saturday lunchtime, this tragic image - one of grief and hardship coming together - came close, for me at least.\n\nCovid-19 has made extraordinary demands of so many different people, but what is currently happening at the Masjid Ibrahim and Islamic Centre in east London is truly remarkable. Situated on a busy road, with the noise of ambulance sirens regularly shattering its peaceful interior, the mosque has closed to communal prayer and is open for two other purposes - to provide a funeral service and a food bank to the local community. Both are inundated.\n\n\"We've had so many bodies coming in. It's quite shocking. It's one after another after another. We've never had that situation before,\" says Sofia Bhatti. Alongside her friend, Tabassum Khokhar - known as Tabs - the pair are unheralded heroes. They volunteer to wash the bodies of Covid-positive women prior to burial.\n\nThe practice, called Ghusl, is a sacred Islamic ritual and is usually performed by the deceased's relatives, who cleanse and shroud the body. But Covid restrictions mean families are currently denied that religious honour, so volunteers like Sofia and Tabs are taking on what they consider to be a privileged task.\n\n\"We actually believe that when we are shrouding here, that God is shrouding the soul at the same time,\" says Tabs, standing by a coffin. By day, she works as a teaching support worker in a local school, so the PPE that the mosque provides - bodysuit, footwear, two sets of gloves, masks and visors - is crucial for her. \"I make sure my PPE is secure because it's not just about me, it's about my family. I have an 81-year-old mother.\"\n\nThe women are seeing first hand - and in graphic detail - the pressure the NHS is under. \"Very often we see bodies coming in with a lot of medical equipment still attached to them,\" says Sofia. \"Tubes and pipes and catheters still attached. So it makes our job a little bit harder.\" One of the women they washed during my visit had died in the ambulance, never actually reaching hospital.\n\nVery often we see bodies coming in with a lot of medical equipment still attached to them. Tubes and pipes and catheters\n\nThere are far more bodies than during the first peak and there is a larger age range. One day this week, the mosque was handling seven bodies. A few days earlier they said they'd processed 10 funerals, all arranged for free and paid for by donations. Before the pandemic, they'd handled two to three funerals a week. The two local hospital trusts in east London have each had more than 1,000 Covid deaths since the start of the pandemic. More have died at home.\n\nThe borough of Newham, where the mosque sits, has suffered a disproportionate number of deaths. Home to the Olympic Park, the 2012 London games were meant to regenerate this area. Yet it retains high levels of poverty and overcrowded housing. Add in a diverse population, rich in south Asian culture, and large numbers of people who can't work from home and the virus has sadly ripped through its residents.\n\nIsfand Aslam said he's shocked by what's going on. His father, Mohammad, died on 3 January, a week after falling ill. His positive Covid test result arrived two days after his death. The 85-year-old was a committee member at the Masjid Ibrahim and despite his age had been in good health. \"It took a week between him passing away and getting buried. Initially I was getting a lot of condolences from friends. But by the end of that week I am giving condolences to three friends because their fathers had passed away. It's now got to the stage where everybody we know knows somebody who has passed away.\"\n\nThe sheer number of deaths is impacting the area's main Muslim cemetery. Normally, the Gardens of Peace buries three to four people each day. They're currently carrying out an average of 15 funerals daily. Overall, they are about 50% busier than usual. They can no longer promise burials within 24 hours, as per Muslim custom.\n\nDespite this, there is still a concerning number of people in the local area who either don't think Covid is real or are resistant to taking a vaccine. There was anger among some community leaders before Christmas when it emerged the Bangladeshi High Commission in London held a cultural evening to celebrate its independence. Photos from the event, on 16 December, showed a group - including the High Commissioner herself - standing close together with no masks or social distancing. The High Commission said performers had been Covid tested and it had issued 10 videos in Bangla urging British-Bangladeshis to adhere to UK government guidance.\n\nIt's now got to the stage where everybody we know knows somebody who has passed away\n\nTo counter disinformation among its members, an imam at the Masjid Ibrahim, Mohammad Ammar, filmed a short video of himself being injected with the vaccine and urged his congregation to follow suit. Imam Ammar has actually been furloughed by the mosque as it focusses all its resources on battling the pandemic, including feeding its local community.\n\nThe virus forced the mosque to open a food bank in March. It is still running 10 months on. On Monday night, I watched a steady stream of people gather in the gloom at the rear of the mosque to fill their bags. Most were collecting on behalf of a larger household, and the mosque says they're currently feeding 350 families each week, including students, refugees, people with no access to public funds and those who've lost income.\n\nAmong those collecting food on Monday was Mohammad Rahman. A 42-year-old chef, he lost his job in an Indian restaurant three months ago. The married father of two boys - aged eight and six - told me he was already in rent arrears and struggling to pay his energy bills. \"My son says 'where is the pizza'? But I have no money. He says '[can I have] chicken and chips'? But I have no money. The shops are open, but no money\", he adds, taking his hands from his pockets.\n\nIn normal times, the Masjid Ibrahim would attract about 1,100 worshippers over three floors for Friday prayers, and there has been some pressure on the leadership to reopen for communal worship. But Asim Uddin, chairman of the mosque, says now is not the time. \"Prayers, yes, it's important. But right now what is the need? The need of the community is they want to be fed and they want a place where they can respectfully bury their loved ones. And the demand is overwhelming. Right now, it's better they stay home, and they can pray at home until the situation goes back to normal.\"\n\nMichael Buchanan is the BBC's social affairs correspondent and has been reporting on the impact of the pandemic on communities in the UK. Last year, he visited the town of Pontypool to find out what impact coronavirus restrictions were having in Wales.", "UK retailers could abandon goods EU customers want to return, with some even thinking of burning them because it is cheaper than bringing them home.\n\nThey say the new EU trade deal has put costly duties on returns at a time when firms are already struggling.\n\nThe BBC has been told UK High Street and luxury brands have a mounting volume of goods stuck with courier services on the continent.\n\nNone of the retailers would comment on the problem.\n\nAdam Mansell, boss of the UK Fashion & Textile Association (UKFT), said it's \"cheaper for retailers to write off the cost of the goods than dealing with it all, either abandoning or potentially burning them.\"\n\nSince 1 January, lots of European customers have been presented with an unexpected customs invoice when signing for goods they've ordered from the UK. These new customs charges are a result of the new EU trade deal with the UK.\n\n\"It's part of the ongoing small print of the deal,\" said Mr Mansell. \"If you're in Germany and buying goods from the UK, you as the German customer are the importer bringing goods into the EU.\n\n\"You then have a courier company knocking on the door giving you a customs clearance invoice that you need to pay to receive your goods.\"\n\nMany customers automatically reject the goods, refusing to pay the additional surcharges, leaving couriers to take them away.\n\nAbout 30% of items bought online are returned, according to figures from Statista. That has meant large volumes of goods are heading back to the UK.\n\nWhen goods arrive back at depots on the Continent, there is new customs paperwork to complete. \"Export clearance charge, import charge arrival, import VAT charge and depending on the goods a rules of origin document as well,\" said Mr Mansell.\n\n\"Lots of large businesses don't have a handle on it, never mind smaller ones.\"\n\nThe BBC has seen a document that states four major UK High Street fashion retailers are stockpiling returns in Belgium, Ireland and Germany. One brand will incur charges of almost £20,000 to get the returns back.\n\nCouriers and freight businesses that ship from the UK to Europe are also experiencing delays getting goods to the Continent because of the new customs clearances.\n\n\"It's a bigger change than we thought possible,\" explained Shona Brown from Speedy Freight, a courier service. \"Before, we'd get the order to Germany and off the driver would go.\n\n\"Now we've got to do export entry detailing where was it made, the driver needs to go to the customs office at Dover, then customs in Germany on arrival and then sort out the VAT. There are so many hoops to jump through, it's so laborious.\"\n\n\"You've got to have manpower to figure out what to do. And with people working from home it's difficult. For small businesses, it is a huge thing for people to do,\" she added.\n\nUlla Vitting Richards runs her sustainable fashion brand VILDNIS from the UK. She has stopped exporting to her fastest growing market, the EU, because of the new customs processes.\n\n\"I've been involved in logistics before. I expected it to be bad and I am used to shipping to the USA which is difficult. But this is just mind-blowing,\" she said.\n\n\"Every day there is another layer. In the first two weeks we couldn't get answers. For two years we were told to get ready for Brexit. But for these we couldn't prepare.\"\n\nShe added: \"I don't think we can increase prices but we might just have to say that we can't make the business with the EU work. It is a real shame. There is a huge interest in sustainable fashion in Europe and we might have to walk away from it.\"\n\nUlla did speak with the Department for International Trade for help and advice. She was told that setting up a subsidiary distribution hub in Europe might be a good idea: \"He told me we'd be best off moving stock to a warehouse in Germany and get them to handle it.\"\n\nRetailers in the UK and Europe that trade across the new customs border are all still adapting to the rules. Hauliers and customs agents are facing a steep learning curve too.\n\nThe government said: \"Now the UK has left the EU customs union and Single Market, there are new rules and processes businesses will need to follow.\n\n\"We have encouraged companies new to dealing with customs declarations to appoint a specialist to deal with import and export declarations on their behalf - and we made more than £80m available to expand the capacity of the customs agents market.\"\n\nIt added: \"Most businesses use a specialist such as a customs broker, freight forwarder or fast parcel operator to deal with this.\n\n\"The government will continue to work closely with businesses to ensure they are able to trade effectively under the new rules.\"", "The water is warmer than the air and is creating a mist along Dynevor Road\n\nThe coalmining heritage of Wales has been implicated in flooding of homes - but what has happened in Skewen?\n\nAbout 80 people were evacuated from the Neath Port Talbot village, with at least eight streets left under water.\n\nCouncil leader Rob Jones says the flood appears to be related to mine works - but the volume of water involved has hampered a full assessment so far.\n\nThe Coal Authority is investigating how \"historic underground mining features\" in the area exacerbated the problem.\n\nA geologist says there are tens of thousands of old mine shafts across the former south Wales coalfield and it is \"incredibly difficult\" to monitor them all.\n\nSkewen lies within an old coal mining hotspot, with several former colliery sites near the village that operated in the 19th and early 20th Century.\n\nThere were colliery sites near what is now Drummau Road, in the north of the village and another close to Old Road, near Neath Abbey.\n\nSkewen was part of a collection of collieries that stretched between Neath and Llanelli on the western side of south Wales' coalfield.\n\nGraham Levins, secretary of the Welsh Mines Preservation Trust, said old mines often contain groundwater which can flood in heavy rain.\n\nHe said: \"A lot of them go very, very deep down, much below the local water level and that's why they had all the big wheels to pump the water out.\n\n\"It fills up with water and will find a way out. Normally rainfall you get it doesn't cause a lot of problems but when you get really heavy rain, the water drains down through the ground and builds up.\"\n\nStreets were turned into rivers in Skewen\n\nGeologist Tom Backhouse said water was coming out of an area near the junction of Goshen Park and Drummau Road, where there is a record of a mine shaft dating from the turn of the 20th Century.\n\nIt then started \"rushing down\" Drummau Road, causing the flooding that forced evacuations.\n\n\"What we can expect to have happened is that the water level in the mines rose to a point where it's burst out of that entry point from the mine workings below.\n\n\"Also, there are images of very ochre like orange-coloured water and again, that may well be issuing from the mine workings on the highlands to the east of the property on the hill behind.\n\n\"That may be where the shallow workings have flooded.\"\n\nHe said old mine working across the former coalfield area hold water at a certain depth, but when an event such as Storm Christoph drops \"a huge amount in a small area\", the levels rise quickly.\n\n\"As it gets closer and closer to the surface, it basically looks for an escape, the pressure builds up,\" he continued.\n\n\"What it looks like has happened on the junction of Goshen Park and Drummau Road, where the mine shaft is recorded, is that pressure has built up at that point and then burst out through the shaft which is very likely to have been capped with wood or something like that.\n\n\"Where you've got those mine shafts, which ultimately are vertical tunnels down into the mine workings below, the water has literally forced itself up through that shaft, and the pressure is obviously so great it's caused this devastating flash flood.\"\n\nAs well as properties, vehicles were submerged in water\n\nThere are about 13 shafts recorded within about 820ft (250m) of the one in Goshen Park, so Mr Backhouse said it is possible more than one may have burst.\n\nThere are tens of thousands in south Wales and he said it was \"incredibly difficult\" to check them all, but there were \"tell tale signs\" as to why they may collapse such as age or what type of developments are around them.\n\nThe clean up has continued on Friday morning\n\n\"Not to try and fear-monger or anything but of course this sort of thing can happen again,\" he said.\n\n\"If another event like Storm Christoph happens, the water levels in the mine rises as quickly as it did, there's absolutely nothing to say that it wouldn't happen again in the future.\n\n\"And obviously as climate changes and we have many more events like Storm Christoph, they are going to increase in frequency, they are going to be much more severe.\n\n\"The Coal Authority will have to consider the risk in places like Skewen, and they'll have to understand how it will affect residents and proactively manage that and look at how to reduce the risks for residents.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Infection level \"very, very high\" and \"extremely precarious\" - Prof Whitty\n\nThe UK is at an \"extremely precarious\" point, according to the chief medical adviser, despite signs Covid infections are beginning to fall.\n\nThe virus's reproduction rate is estimated to be at or below one for the first time since early December.\n\nAnything below one means the epidemic is shrinking.\n\nBut cases are falling from a \"very, very high level\", Prof Chris Whitty said - and may still be increasing in some areas.\n\n\"A very small change and it could start taking off again from an extremely high base,\" he warned.\n\nSpeaking at a Number 10 press conference on Friday evening, the UK's chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, said the \"awful\" death rate would stay high \"for a little while before it starts coming down\".\n\n\"That was always what was predicted...and I think the information about the new variant doesn't change that\".\n\nEarly evidence suggests the variant of coronavirus that emerged in the UK may be more deadly, although findings are preliminary and there is a high level of uncertainty.\n\nDr Susan Hopkins at Public Health England said there was \"evidence from some but not all data sources which suggests that the variant of concern which was first detected in the UK may lead to a higher risk of death than the non-variant.\n\n\"Evidence on this variant is still emerging and more work is under way to fully understand how it behaves.\"\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said while the UK's R or reproduction number, might be below one - meaning a shrinking epidemic - overall, \"cases remain dangerously high and...it is essential that everyone continues to stay at home, whether they have had the vaccine or not.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures suggested cases were decreasing slightly or levelling off across Britain.\n\nBut infections are falling more slowly than they did during the first lockdown - by somewhere around a quarter every fortnight compared with a halving back in April.\n\nA further 40,261 cases, and 1,401 deaths were recorded on Friday in the UK.\n\nMore than five million people had been given a first dose of the vaccine by 21 January, and about half a million had received their second dose.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has previously said it is \"too early\" to say whether England's Covid restrictions will be able to end in the spring.\n\nWhile cases are falling or stable across the rest of the UK, in Northern Ireland cases have continued to rise and the new, more infectious strain has overtaken the older variant of the virus as of the start of January.\n\nDuring the week ending 16 January, about one in 55 people in England had the virus, the ONS estimated, with one in 35 in London testing positive.\n\nOne in 100 people had the virus in Scotland and one in 70 in Wales.\n\nBut in Northern Ireland infections have shot up from an an estimated one in 200 people testing positive in the week to 2 January, to one in 60 last week.\n\nONS statistician Sarah Crofts said while fewer people were testing positive in England, \"rates remain high and we estimate the level of infection is still over one million people\".\n\nAnd, she pointed out, \"the picture across the UK is mixed\".\n\nA survey by tech company ZOE and King's College London, based on swabs of people with and without symptoms, also suggested the R number could be at 0.8.\n\nAnd it estimated symptomatic cases had fallen by a quarter since last week.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What is the R number and what does it mean?\n\nMeanwhile, the proportion of people testing positive for the new Covid variant has risen considerably in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, ONS data suggest.\n\nBut the new strain, which remains by far the main source of infections in England, has yet to overtake the old strain in Scotland and Wales.\n\nWithin England, the proportion of infections that appear to be due to the new variant remained stable, but the gap between the regions is narrowing.\n\nIn the figures covering 2 January, 80% of infections looked like the new variant in London compared to 30% in the North East.\n\nTwo weeks later, that gap had narrowed to 70% in London versus 50% in the North East.\n\nIt is not clear what is behind the small fall in London, but it may be down to behaviour change, or other variants like the South Africa strain now in circulation and diluting the numbers.", "It would be unrealistic to expect all lockdown restrictions in Northern Ireland to be lifted on 5 March, Health Minister Robin Swann has said.\n\nOn Thursday, the executive announced that the current restrictions, which have been in place since 26 December, would be extended to 5 March.\n\nBut ministers were also told restrictions may have to remain in place until after the Easter holidays.\n\nMr Swann said the decision to extend restrictions had not been easy.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster programme, he said: \"Can I say that'll we'll have to extend them at that point [5 March]? At this time, no I can't.\n\n\"But it would, I think, be unrealistic to think that we'd be able to lift every restriction come that date because we do see where this virus is going, the trajectory it's taking, the large number of positive cases that we are managing but also the large number of hospital admissions that we currently have.\n\nRobin Swann says the decision to extend the restrictions had not been easy\n\n\"There has to be a consideration and planning put into place - we know Covid's going to be with us for a very long time, we also know it will take time for our vaccination process to kick in and have that major effect.\"\n\nA lockdown closing non-essential retailers and encouraging employees to work from home began after Christmas.\n\nFamily gatherings are prohibited and people have been ordered to stay at home for all but essential reasons.\n\nSchools are closed to most pupils until after February's half-term break but a paper looking at reopening will be put to ministers at next week's executive meeting.\n\nThe Catholic Church, the Church of Ireland, the Presbyterian Church and the Methodist Church have all confirmed that in-person worship will continue to be suspended until 5 March in accordance with the executive's decision on the restrictions.\n\nThe churches say there are exceptions for weddings and funerals and private prayer.\n\nTwelve more Covid-19 related deaths were recorded in Northern Ireland on Friday, taking the overall death toll recorded by the Department of Health to 1,704.\n\nIt is a story that changes not only by the day but by the hour and is dictated by numbers.\n\nNever before have we scrutinised hospital figures so closely, especially this week.\n\nAnd the numbers are important as we know how many intensive care unit (ICU) beds are available across Northern Ireland and potentially how many will be required in the next 24 hours.\n\nOn Wednesday, 33 ICU beds were available - on Friday that dropped to 18.\n\nBut as we enter a difficult 72 hours, there is a feeling that the health system will cope.\n\nA regional approach to the crisis means no hospital is left to shoulder responsibility on its own.\n\nEvery afternoon a call is made about whether an additional \"pod\" - a bay of beds - is required to be opened at the Nightingale facility at Belfast City Hospital.\n\nIf not, it is felt that hospitals can hold their own for another 24 hours.\n\nCoping is good but comes at a terrible cost - keeping a lid on Covid-19 is only possible because so much else within hospitals has been cancelled.\n\nA heavy price has been paid and will continue to be paid for months, possibly years to come.\n\nOn Wednesday it was announced more than 100 medically-trained military personnel would be deployed in Northern Ireland to help hospital staff deal with Covid-19 pressures after a request by Mr Swann.\n\nSpeaking at Stormont's Health Committee on Thursday, Sinn Féin MLA Pat Sheehan said: \"My only concern is that they [military personnel] don't get in the way of the real professionals who are doing the work to save lives.\n\n\"This is slamming the dead cat down on the table to deflect attention away from the inadequacies in the health department at the minute.\"\n\nOn Friday, Mr Swann responded by saying he was \"disappointed and disgusted\" by Mr Sheehan's comments.\n\nHe added: \"The majority of our health service workers are actually welcoming them because this is a tough period of time that we are entering into in the health service.\n\n\"To hear some of the comments where he's actually, I think, criticising the level of delivery that our health service has given over these past 10-12 months, I think is disappointing.\"\n\n\"It wouldn't be the language that would be reflective of his party leadership in regards to the assistance that we're receiving from the Army.\"\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill, the Sinn Féin vice-president, had previously said her party's priority had \"always been to save lives\" and she would \"never rule out anything that actually supports the health service\".\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster, the DUP leader, said on critics of the move to deploy military medics were putting \"political intolerance before patients\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Swann also said the executive would \"not be found wanting\" in enforcing Covid-19 regulations.\n\nIt came after a district judge said on Wednesday that \"the powers-that-be made a significant error\" in making breaches of some rules punishable only with fines.\n\nDistrict Judge Michael Ranaghan told Dungannon Magistrates' Court he would have remanded two defendants from Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, in custody if he had \"the power to do so\".\n\nShania Devenney, 21, of Kilmacormick Drive, and Nathan Maguire, 20, of Carnmore Lodge, were charged with contravening the regulations when arrested by police who were alerted to anti-social behaviour.\n\nA police officer told the court there had been repeated parties at Ms Devenney's address this month.\n\nThe judge, granting bail, said: \"I cannot consider remanding in custody as these matters are fine-only.\n\n\"The powers-that-be made a significant error when drafting legislation in making these fine-only offences.\n\n\"Had I the power to do so I would definitely be remanding these two in custody.\"\n\nThe PSNI has issued more than 2,000 Covid-19 fines during the pandemic\n\nThe health minister said the executive had asked people \"to work with us\" and had increased the level of fines.\n\nAsked about the judge's comments about enforcement, Mr Swann said he was \"content enough to raise it with executive colleagues and ask the justice minister to have a look at that\".\n\nMr Swann added that the vast majority of people in Northern Ireland were abiding by the regulations as it is the \"right thing to do\".\n\nOn Tuesday, police revealed that 2,159 penalty notices had been issued during the pandemic, with fines starting at £200.\n\nThere have been 55 failure-to-isolate fines, which incur a £1,000 fine.", "Scottish postie Nathan Evans has quit his job and signed to a record label after storming TikTok with sea shanties.\n\nNathan said the singalong craze for his The Wellerman rendition exploded in just a matter of weeks.\n\nAnd Friday sees an official release of the shanty, after he was picked up by Polydor records.\n\nThe 26-year-old from Airdrie said it goes to show that if you keep going anything can happen.", "Mr Trump was duped by the prankster, Morgan said\n\nDonald Trump was called on Air Force One last year by a prankster posing as Piers Morgan, the TV presenter says.\n\nThe president, as he was at the time, only realised he had been tricked when he phoned the real Morgan while on his way to vote in Florida last year.\n\nThe alleged security breach is said to have happened in October, but only emerged in an interview Morgan gave to the BBC's Americast podcast.\n\nThe two recently had a falling out over Mr Trump's handling of the pandemic.\n\nAsked by the BBC's Jon Sopel why Mr Trump had called Morgan out of the blue this past October, the presenter described \"an absolutely hilarious story, where somebody had called [Trump] pretending to be me the day before and got through to him on Air Force One\".\n\nThe 45th US president didn't realise he had been duped, Morgan said. \"They had a conversation with Trump thinking he was talking to me.\"\n\nIt is not clear who the alleged hoaxers were, but if the story is true President Trump would not be the first political leader to have been pranked.\n\nCanadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, while he was foreign secretary, have both been tricked on the phone in recent years.\n\nBut it would revive long-running questions about the security of President Trump's phone conversations.\n\nMorgan became increasingly critical of Mr Trump in the final months of his presidency\n\nThe BBC has asked the Secret Service for comment.\n\nMorgan was a high-profile tabloid editor in the UK who took over from Larry King with a primetime CNN chat show in 2011. He now presents a breakfast show in the UK.\n\nHe was initially supportive of President Trump after his surprise election win but became increasingly critical in the last 12 months.\n\n\"We had a very nice conversation... I always got on well with Trump,\" Morgan said of their October call, but added that Mr Trump's \"character flaws - the chronic narcissism, the desire to make everything about himself\" made him a \"useless leader\".\n\nOn their friendship, Morgan described Mr Trump's behaviour since the November presidential election as \"egregious\" and \"so obviously on a pathway\" to the Capitol Hill riots on 6 January.\n\n\"I just felt - no, I'm done with you now,\" Morgan said.\n\nYou may also be interested in:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The recording of the conversation between Elton John and the man he believed was Vladimir Putin", "Keon Lincoln died after being subjected to \"inconceivable violence\"\n\nA 15-year-old boy has died after being attacked in a residential street by a group of youths \"armed with knives\".\n\nPolice said Keon Lincoln was \"set upon\" at about 15:30 GMT on Thursday on Linwood Road, in Handsworth, Birmingham, and died later in hospital.\n\nThe attackers fled the scene in a car which crashed into a house a short distance away, added police, who said they had since seized the vehicle.\n\nA 14-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of murder and is in custody.\n\nThe investigation is progressing \"at pace\", according to the West Midlands force, which detained the suspect on Friday morning.\n\nDet Ch Insp Alastair Orencas, who is leading a murder inquiry, said Keon died \"in the most violent of circumstances\".\n\nKeon was attacked on Linwood Road, a residential street in the Handsworth area of Birmingham\n\nWitnesses who reported the carrying of knives to officers also said shots were heard.\n\nPolice confirmed Keon, who lived locally, was attacked with weapons but did not specify which sort.\n\nThe motive remained unknown said police, who urged those who could identify the attackers to contact the force.\n\n\"We are not sure of all the details at the moment, but we do know that Keon was set upon by this group and suffered a series of serious injuries,\" said Ch Supt Steve Graham, adding that five or six youths were believed to have been involved.\n\nPolice have not disclosed the nature of Keon's injuries. They say they are unable to say how he died before a post-mortem examination takes place.\n\nOfficers are searching Linwood Road after the attack on Thursday afternoon\n\nDet Ch Insp Orencas said: \"The death of Keon has shocked the whole community.\n\n\"This level of violence in broad daylight on a residential street is inconceivable, let alone the fact the target was a 15-year-old boy.\"\n\nHe said the family, who were being supported by specialist officers, \"had the worst shock imaginable\".\n\nIn a statement issued by police, the family said they were \"devastated\" by their loss, and remembered Keon as \"fun-loving\" and \"full of life and love\".\n\nThe tribute added: \"He had an infectious laugh that lit up the room whenever he was in it.\"\n\nPolice have seized a crashed car they believe to be a getaway vehicle\n\nDetectives are examining a white car they believe to be the getaway vehicle which crashed into a house on Wheeler Street.\n\nCCTV footage has been seized and the area is cordoned off while investigations continue.\n\nA resident of Linwood Road, who did not wish to be named, said she was shocked to hear someone had been killed.\n\nShe said: \"We've lived here 45 years and I've never heard of anything like this.\n\n\"It's just shocking and really, really sad.\"\n\nPolice have appealed for dash cam and CCTV footage as they piece together the events of Thursday afternoon\n\nLocal Labour MP, Khalid Mahmood, described the death as \"extremely tragic\" and \"a needless thing to have happened\".\n\nHe said: \"We must work with police as much as we can to stop this happening again.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A coronavirus outbreak at Mavisbank care home has led to the deaths of 13 residents\n\nA total of 13 residents at an East Dunbartonshire care home have died in a Covid-19 outbreak.\n\nThe owners of Mavisbank care home in Bishopbriggs confirmed the deaths and said that a further seven residents had also tested positive for the virus.\n\nAnother 11 staff members were self-isolating following positive tests.\n\nThe Care Inspectorate rated the home in Lennox Crescent as \"weak\" in its Covid-19 response in an inspection last month.\n\nAt the unannounced check on 26 October, inspectors found the cleanliness of the home a \"significant concern\".\n\nIt went on to describe the cleanliness of the environment and the overall fabric of the building as \"poor\".\n\nInspectors said in their report that they were \"very concerned about the potential risk of infection for residents\".\n\nSenior managers responded immediately and maintenance staff were deployed to clean the home.\n\nHowever, the operators were ordered to carry out a deep clean of the facility by 11 November.\n\nMavisbank owners HC-One said they were monitoring the situation closely.\n\nMavisbank was given a rating of \"weak\" in October\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"Our thoughts and sympathies are with all families who have lost a loved one from coronavirus.\n\n\"As we navigate this outbreak, we continue to work closely with all the relevant authorities to contain the virus and safeguard our residents.\n\n\"We are pleased that a number of residents have now recovered, and we continue to closely monitor the health and wellbeing of all those affected.\n\n\"This includes following all government guidance in relation to infection prevention and control.\"\n\nResponding to the Care Inspectorate report, the company said the health, safety and wellbeing of its residents and staff was a priority.\n\nThe spokeswoman said: \"We were disappointed that inspectors found some elements of our robust infection control plan were not being fully implemented and we acted urgently to respond to this feedback. These issues were immediately rectified so that when inspectors returned, they were able to see and approve of the work that had been completed.\n\n\"Senior staff are also supporting the home and our learning and development team are ensuring that all colleagues complete refresher training which includes our specific coronavirus training modules on the virus, enhanced infection control procedures, and the correct use of PPE.\n\n\"These training modules have been regularly updated to reflect all changes in the guidance over recent months.\"\n\nCaroline Sinclair, of East Dunbartonshire Health and Social Care Partnership, said, \"We are aware of this very sad situation and have been working with Mavisbank care home to provide a high level of clinical support to residents at this difficult time. Our thoughts are with the families of those who have passed and others affected by their loss.\"", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Friday morning. We'll have another update for you this evening.\n\nMinisters wrestling with how to ensure people with coronavirus obey laws to self-isolate are to consider paying £500 to anyone who tests positive. It's among options drawn up for England by the Department of Health to encourage people to stay at home, amid fears the current support leaves some unable to afford the time away from work. However, Treasury sources say funding a universal payment to the tune of £453m a week is unlikely.\n\nBritish retail sales saw their largest annual fall in history last year as the impact of coronavirus took its toll. Sales fell by 1.9% in 2020, when compared with 2019, official figures show. Clothes shops were hit hard, with a record annual fall of more than 25%. Meanwhile, UK government borrowing hit £34.1bn last month, the highest December figure on record, as the cost of pandemic support weighed on the economy, the Office for National Statistics says.\n\nA Crown Office unit set up to probe Covid-related deaths is investigating cases at 474 care homes in Scotland, ahead of prosecutors' decisions on whether they should be the subject of a fatal accident inquiry or prosecution. Care homes say the investigation is \"disproportionate\". But Linda Duncan, whose 91-year-old mother Anne died last April, argues: \"A lot of the focus has been on the government response but we need this investigation to look at the private operators.\"\n\nHalf of all staff at nurseries, pre-schools and childminders \"don't... feel safe at work\", with about one in every 10 having tested positive since 1 December, according to an Early Years Alliance survey of more than 3,000 staff. Providers in England have been told to remain open to all children during lockdown and the government says under-fives are \"unlikely to be playing a driving role in transmission\".\n\nAs lockdown has forced families apart, grandparents have had to find new ways of keeping in touch with their grandchildren. Annette Landy tells us how reading over video calls to Alicia, eight, and Sadie, two, has made things a little easier.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Harry Potter and The Secret Garden have proven to be favourites\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nIf you're struggling to understand why vaccinating the most vulnerable won't immediately end lockdown, health correspondent Nick Triggle explains the reasoning.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "The Florence Nightingale Museum announced it would close for the foreseeable future\n\nMuseums and galleries are \"fighting for survival\" amid the current lockdown, a national charity has warned.\n\nThe Art Fund has predicted that small institutions are likely to suffer most and said more help is needed.\n\nSo far, the charity has only been able to help 15% of applicants to its emergency response fund.\n\nEarlier this month, it was announced London's Florence Nightingale Museum is to close for the foreseeable future due to the impact of the pandemic.\n\nThe Williamson Art Gallery & Museum in Birkenhead is also under threat of closure, according to the Art Fund.\n\nThe charity's director Jenny Waldman said: \"The latest lockdown is a body blow and is leaving our museums and galleries fighting for survival.\n\n\"Smaller museums in particular, which are so vital to their communities, simply do not have the reserves to see them through this winter.\n\nResearch previously conducted by the charity found six in 10 museums, galleries and historic houses were worried about their own survival.\n\n\"Tragically, we are now seeing well-known and much-loved museums facing mothballing or permanent closure,\" Waldman said.\n\nIn November, the charity offered limited edition artworks to members of the public who donated to help coronavirus-hit museums.\n\nSir Anish, Lubaina Himid, David Shrigley and Michael Landy were among the artists who provided their works to the appeal.\n\nArt Fund has renewed its appeal for people to donate to the crowdfunding campaign, which is called Together For Museums.\n\nNew works of art from Howard Hodgkin, Jeremy Deller and Cornelia Parker have been added to the items on offer.\n\nJeremy Deller worked on the 2016 Somme commemoration project featuring 'Ghost Tommies' appearing across UK locations\n\nSir Anish said: \"Museums are where we go to engage with art, witness our psychic history and understand ourselves. Today they face great difficulty.\n\n\"The Art Fund campaign gives us an opportunity to help museums to continue to provide access to all in spite of the difficulties of this time.\"\n\nArt Fund has also announced £750,000 of new grants to help 23 museums respond to the pandemic - taking its total spend so far to £2.25 million.\n\nBut that is only a small proportion of the applications the charity has received, which total over £16 million.\n\nRecipients include the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham, for a health and wellbeing project, and Portland Museum, Dorset, for a plan to recreate Rufus Castle digitally.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Spanish player Paula Badosa has revealed that she has the virus\n\nA Spanish tennis player who was among many Australian Open competitors to complain about quarantine rules has revealed she has coronavirus.\n\nPaula Badosa said she had felt unwell with symptoms before testing positive for the virus in Melbourne on Thursday.\n\nBadosa is believed to be the fourth competitor to test positive in hotel quarantine, but is the first to identify herself publicly.\n\nOn Friday, she said \"sorry guys\", adding quarantine rules were \"pivotal\".\n\n\"Please, don't get me wrong. Health will always comes first & I feel grateful for being in Australia,\" tweeted Badosa, who is ranked 67th globally in singles.\n\nThe 23-year-old said she had been taken to a separate hotel in Melbourne to \"self-isolate and be monitored\".\n\n\"I'll try to recover as soon as possible listening to the doctors,\" she said.\n\nVictoria state health authorities said on Wednesday a total of 10 infections had been linked to the event, but a few were \"viral shedding\" cases where the person was not infectious.\n\nMelbourne endured one of the world's longest lockdowns last year and many locals have concerns about the potential Covid risk posed by the tournament.\n\nTennis Australia chartered 15 flights to bring players and their entourages into the country, but three flights had passengers who later tested positive for the virus.\n\nBadosa is one of 72 players who have been confined full-time to their hotel rooms for 14 days - under a state health order - after the infections were discovered. She has already spent seven days in isolation.\n\nPlayers who arrived on flights with no infections are also in quarantine but are allowed five hours of court practice a day.\n\nSeveral players have complained about the impacts to their tennis preparation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Confined players have been training in their hotel rooms\n\nEarlier this week, in a tweet reported by Australian media that has since been deleted, Badosa wrote: \"At the beginning the rule was the positive section of the plane who was with that person had to quarantine. Not the whole plane.\n\n\"Not fair to change the rules at the last moment. And to have to stay in a room with no windows and no air.\"\n\nBut Tennis Australia and state officials have rejected assertions that any rules were changed or not clear ahead of time.\n\n\"We're thinking of you Paula, and hoping you feel better soon,\" the Australian Open's Twitter account replied in a message to Badosa on Friday.\n\nOrganisers have said that despite the infections, the Grand Slam will go ahead on 8 February.", "At 12:01, in the midst of his inaugural address, Joe Biden officially became the 46th president of the United States.\n\nHe was already well into outlining exactly how daunting a task he - and the nation - have ahead in what he called its \"winter of peril\".\n\nAmerica is facing a devastating pandemic which has resulted in massive job losses and business closures, a threatened environment, urgent cries for racial justice and resurgence in \"political extremism, white supremacy and domestic terrorism\".\n\nHis speech was not a laundry list of proposals and solutions. Those were reserved for his first 17 executive actions as president - on immigration, climate change, transgender rights and public health, among others.\n\nThe Biden administration has also frozen all of Trump's last-minute regulations pending further review.\n\nInstead, Biden used his speech to offer hope - and to argue, at times forcefully, that the nation must be united in facing the challenges ahead; that it has to move past its current \"uncivil war\".\n\n\"Without unity, there is no peace, only bitterness and fury,\" he said. \"No progress, only exhausting outrage. No nation, only a state of chaos.\"\n\n\"This is our historic moment of crisis and challenge,\" he continued. \"And unity is the path forward\".\n\nAt times, Biden's speech seemed a direct rebuttal to his predecessor's administration, although he did not mention Donald Trump by name.\n\nWhere Trump frequently spoke of American greatness and glorified its founders, Biden noted that the nation's history has been a \"constant struggle\" between its ideals and sometimes harsh realities.\n\nWhere Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway spoke of \"alternative facts\" almost four years ago, Biden said: \"There is truth and there are lies - lies told for power and for profit.\"\n\nBiden wrapped up his inaugural address by warning that America must not \"turn inward\" - both as individuals retreating into \"competing factions\" and as a nation on the world stage.\n\n\"We will repair our alliances and engage with the world once again,\" he said.\n\nRhetorically, Biden turned the page from Trump's days of \"America first\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe first 100 days of any administration are always important to a new president. What are his priorities? What will he try to accomplish when his political capital is at its highest?\n\nJoe Biden and his presidential team have had nearly three months to plan out his first actions upon taking the oath of office, but executive action is the (relatively) easy part.\n\nHis speech reflected the reality that he enters office with his top priorities already determined for him.\n\nHis government will be responsible for distributing the coronavirus vaccine in an efficient and equitable way. After that, he will have to focus on the societal and economic disruptions caused by the pandemic.\n\nThe virus has exacerbated income inequality and pushed many households to the brink of economic ruin. It's devastated the travel and hospitality industries and placed incredible strain on the finances of state and local governments.\n\nHis pledge to seek unity will be tested early, as he pushes a sharply divided Congress to pass another, massive round of pandemic stimulus aid. If he wants to enact it quickly, he will need Republican support in the Senate, and already there are signs that some on the right may be lining up in opposition to more spending.\n\nThen there's Trump's Senate impeachment trial, which will present yet another challenge to national unity. It will keep Trump's name in the news for weeks, as his defenders rally to his side and his detractors call for consequences for his actions.\n\nAfter that, Biden's potential political paths diverge. He has said he wants to improve healthcare in the US, address growing college debt, make new investments in infrastructure and tackle climate change.\n\nHe's pledged to push immigration reform legislation that includes a pathway to citizenship for undocumented migrants - a political lightning rod that helped fuel Trump's first presidential run.\n\nWhat he prioritises, and how successful his first efforts are, could determine the overall success of his administration. To make lasting change - policies that can't be undone by future presidents - he will have to work with Congress.\n\nThe inauguration ceremony is over. But, as Biden noted in his speech, the American people face one of the most challenging times in their nation's history.\n\n\"We will be judged by how we resolve these cascading crises of our era,\" he said.\n\nBiden campaigned against Trump for the opportunity to face those crises. Now he has his chance.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 15 and 22 January. Send your photos to scotlandpictures@bbc.co.uk. Please ensure you adhere to the BBC's rules regarding photographs that can be found here.\n\nPlease also ensure you follow current coronavirus guidelines and take your pictures safely and responsibly.\n\nConditions of use: If you submit an image, you do so in accordance with the BBC's terms and conditions.\n\nHot dog: Ann Baldwin thinks it looks warm enough for a swim in this shot looking towards Inchcolm Island and Arthur’s Seat from the sailing club in Dalgety Bay, Fife, 10 minutes before sunrise.\n\nLittle sucker: Tessa McAndrew helped this beautiful octopus back into the water after finding him clinging to driftwood on the beach at Lower Largo.\n\nWindswept: Bad hair day for these trees in the Pentland Hills Regional Park in Edinburgh. Claire Dunbar took this picture during one of the many recent snow dumps in the area.\n\nIntricate web: The sun was making an attempt to defrost this frozen spider web in Colin Sergeant's back garden in Motherwell.\n\nHindsight: David Fox thinks this roe deer fawn that he captured on his camera at Strathbraan in Perthshire will be \"a future Monarch of the Glen\".\n\nTrue snowman: Only Gordon Brandie knows what this Highland fling snowman is wearing under his kilt and peg sporran in Faskally, Perthshire.\n\nStill life: Artistic beauty found when looking through a drainage hole in the Arbroath sea wall.\n\nBlurred lines: Sunrise on top of Falkland Hill in the early hours of the morning, taken by Jordan Moreham.\n\nStick together: Judith McIntyre spotted these wooden friends huddling to keep warm this winter in Kingston, Moray.\n\nHowling wind: Three-year-old Poppy enjoying a very windy afternoon walk on Craiglockhart Hill in Edinburgh with her mum, Sophia Lyons.\n\nCollectivism vs Individualism: Victor Tregubov took this shot of birds in countryside near Glasgow.\n\nStrike a pose: Colin Little on the bank of the River Lossie in Elgin, said: \"This otter posed for a couple of shots before diving under again.\"\n\nBlack and white: Derek Brown took this snowy scene in Stow just outside Galashiels in the Scottish Borders.\n\nEbb and flow: Michelle Moggach said it was \"Baltic but beautiful\" at Aberdeen Beach while she gazed at the sea.\n\nAlan Kemp said about 100 fieldfares descended on his pink berry Rowan trees in Murthly, Perthshire and devoured the lot in one sitting.\n\nMindfulness: Shirley Faichney captured a zen moment during a recent sunrise at West Wemyss beach in Fife.\n\nBridge to nowhere: Rachel Abbie was left puzzled as to where her walk was leading at Belhaven Beach in Dunbar.\n\nWinter wonderland: The path for Ross McKellar looks bright in High Blantyre in Glasgow.\n\nAutumn meets winter: Agnes Neal observed a sole woman walking through this peaceful scene in Queen's Park in Glasgow.\n\nSquirrel Nutkin: David Doogan loves it when this bushy-tailed friend joins him for a picnic in his garden in Glencoe, Argyll.\n\nTop of the world: ...well it was for Katie Gillingham and her friends on Goatfell on the Isle of Arran this week.\n\nEthereal moonlight: Arletta Babicz thought there was a \"magical vibe\" when he took this shot of the most photographed tree in Scotland at Loch Lomond.\n\nFollow the herd: Christopher Barrow thought it was funny when this flock of sheep kept following him while he was out skiing in Almondbank, Perthshire.\n\nPillars of the community: Poll nan Crann pier, known locally as Stinky Bay due to the large amount of seaweed blown onto the beach by storms which then rots in the sun. Seonaidh MacInnes took this picture at night on the Isle of Benbecula.\n\nRising above the herd: Jim Clark thought this beast could have been thinking outside the box when he captured this shot at Glanderston Dam, Barrhead.\n\nVirgin powder: Dan Price-Davies enjoyed Alpine conditions at Clashindarroch Forest while Nordic skiing with his son, Lestin, this week.\n\nCloud inversion: Steve Mitchell took in this stunning view overlooking a snowy drystone dyke at the top of the Cairn o' Mount (B974) road between Banchory and Fettercairn.\n\nWinter Washingland: Louise Harper took this picture of colourful plastic pegs with no job to do during heavy snow in Motherwell.\n\nThe Night Walker: Tamar Lewis thought there was an eerie glow in the sky as she took an evening stroll through Pollok Country Park.\n\nStripped bare: This dead-looking tree brings life to Dave Cullen's picture of the Cramond landscape in Edinburgh.\n\nDuck down: All but one mallard enjoying the food thrown to them at St Fillans in the snow, taken by Kenn Begley.\n\nWinter coat: Glen Tanar cleansed in white, near the summit of Baudy Meg in Aberdeenshire, taken by Neil Marchant.\n\nFyrish sunrise: It's as if Sir Hector Munro ordered his monument to be put in the best light possible for Laura Steel who took this picture in Evanton near Alness.\n\nSun and shadows: Michal Markowski took this eye-catching picture in West Linton using a drone.\n\nHair ice: Jane Tweedie noticed this rare phenomenon while out walking at Craigellachie, Moray. It is also known as ice wool or frost beard and is a type of ice that forms on dead wood and takes the shape of fine, silky hair.\n\nUdderly mootiful: Izabela Bodzioch took this picture of cows admiring the view of Ben Cruachan covered in snow.\n\nIce bath: Jan Overmeer said he changed his mind about going for a swim in Loch Carron when he was greeted by this frozen scene.\n\nJack Frost: Graeme Mackay was mesmerised by the patterns Mother Nature had made on the sunroof of his car in Aberdeen.\n\nSwan Lake: Bob Smart captured the sheer power and might of this magnificent bird at Townhill Loch in Fife.\n\nFine sunset: James MacArthur captured the fresh breath of brightness burning the last corner of Loch Fyne as the sun dropped below the skyline.\n\nPlease ensure that the photograph you send is your own and if you are submitting photographs of children, we must have written permission from a parent or guardian of every child featured (a grandparent, auntie or friend will not suffice).\n\nIn contributing to BBC News you agree to grant us a royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to publish and otherwise use the material in any way, including in any media worldwide.\n\nHowever, you will still own the copyright to everything you contribute to BBC News.\n\nAt no time should you endanger yourself or others, take any unnecessary risks or infringe the law.\n\nYou can find more information here.\n\nAll photos are subject to copyright.", "Guests fled when officers arrived at the Stamford Hill school, where the windows had been covered\n\nPolice broke up a wedding party in north London, where they now say about 150 people had gathered.\n\nOfficers found the windows at the Yesodey Hatorah Senior Girls' School, in Stamford Hill, had been covered when they arrived at 21:15 GMT on Thursday.\n\nGuests fled from the strictly Orthodox Charedi Jewish school when the police arrived. The organisers face a £10,000 fine for breaking lockdown rules.\n\nThe Met originally claimed that about 400 guests were at the gathering.\n\nIn a statement, the school said its hall had been leased out.\n\nA spokesman for the school, whose principal Rabbi Avrahom Pinter died in April after contracting coronavirus, said \"we had no knowledge that the wedding was taking place\".\n\nHe added: \"We are absolutely horrified about last night's event and condemn it in the strongest possible terms.\"\n\nBoris Johnson supports the police for \"taking action against people who flagrantly and selfishly ignore the rules\", according to the prime minister's official spokesman.\n\nThe spokesman said: \"Large gatherings such as that pose a health risk, not just to those who attend but those who they live with or others who they may come into contact with.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nChief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, meanwhile, said the \"overwhelming majority\" of the Jewish community would be appalled at the event.\n\nRabbi Mirvis, who serves as the head of the UK's orthodox Jewish community but is not the leader of the Charedi group, called the wedding party \"a most shameful desecration of all that we hold dear\".\n\nFive guests were issued with £200 fixed penalty notices, according to police, who said their inquiries had established those present at the school had gathered for a wedding.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A video shared with the Jewish Chronicle shows officers in Stamford Hill\n\nVideo shared with the Jewish Chronicle shows officers in Stamford Hill speaking with a man to explain why they are there, although he is not accused of any wrongdoing.\n\nThey are then seen arriving at the Yesodey Hatorah Senior Girls' School.\n\nDet Ch Sup Marcus Barnett of the Met Police said: \"This was a completely unacceptable breach of the law.\n\n\"People across the country are making sacrifices by cancelling or postponing weddings and other celebrations and there is no excuse for this type of behaviour.\n\n\"My officers are working tirelessly with the community and we will not hesitate to take enforcement action if that is required to keep people safe.\"\n\nOn Friday morning, a security guard at the school told the BBC there were more like 100 guests at the party than the much higher number given out by police.\n\nThe Met later said in a statement: \"Although initial calls suggested some 400 people had attended the wedding, it is now believed that approximately 150 people were in attendance.\"\n\nStamford Hill is part of the borough of Hackney, which has a Covid-19 infection rate of 625.43 cases per 100,000 people. The England average rate is 471.31 per 100,000 people.\n\nThe mayor of Hackney, Philip Glanville, said he was \"deeply disappointed\" that the wedding party had taken place, despite \"the number of lives that have already been lost in the Charedi community and across the borough\".\n\nHe added: \"Unfortunately, similar events have taken place even at this venue before and we need to be really clear how unacceptable it is.\n\n\"We will be meeting with the Rabbinate and our community partners over the coming days to see how we can prevent further incidents of this nature.\"\n\nLondon is under an England-wide lockdown, which prevents social mixing between households.\n\nLondoners are asked to only leave home for limited reasons such as shopping, going to work, seeking medical assistance, or avoiding domestic abuse.\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nDo you have any information to share about this incident? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "There are no plans to pay everyone in England who tests positive for Covid £500 to self-isolate, No 10 has said.\n\nThe PM's official spokesman said there was already a £500 payment available for those on low incomes who could not work from home and had to isolate.\n\nA universal £500 payment was among suggestions in a leaked Department of Health document.\n\nThere are fears the current financial support is not working because low paid workers cannot afford to self-isolate.\n\nBut a senior government source said the idea of extending the £500 payments to everyone who tests positive had been drawn up by officials and had not been considered by the prime minister.\n\nBBC Newsnight's Katie Razzall said ministers were aware self-isolation was crucial for stopping the spread of coronavirus and the \"options paper\" had been drawn up by civil servants at the Department of Health.\n\nShe said it would be discussed soon by the Covid operations committee chaired by Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove, adding the move suggested there was an admission in government that too many people were not staying at home and a decision needed to be made quickly.\n\nThe story was first reported by the Guardian which said the options paper suggested the proposal could cost up to £453m per week - 12 times the cost of the current payouts.\n\nEnvironment Secretary George Eustice told the BBC he had not seen the leaked document but said the issue of financial support for people self-isolating was \"always kept under review\".\n\n\"We've got to consider all sorts of policies in order to make sure that people abide by the rules, are able to abide by the rules and we get the infection rate down,\" he said.\n\nBut the prime minister's official spokesman denied the government was planning to introduce the new payment, telling reporters: \"We've given local authorities £70m for the scheme and they are able to provide extra payments on top of those £500 if they think it necessary.\n\n\"That £500 is on top of any other benefits and statutory sick pay that people are eligible for.\"\n\nAsked about document, the spokesman said he would not comment on a leaked paper.\n\nIt's impossible to say exactly what proportion of people stay at home for the full 10 days after being in contact with someone who has tested positive, however some evidence suggests the minority of people do.\n\nA government-backed study from September 2020 suggests that just 10.9% of people remained indoors for the full time.\n\nLabour has often cited this report when arguing that people cannot afford to miss work, but a closer look at it suggests that, of those who break the rules, just 8.9% do \"to go to work\".\n\nMost people reported going out for things like shopping or exercise, but also because they didn't think they needed to quarantine as they didn't develop symptoms.\n\nThis research is quite old (done before self-isolation grants came in) and has a relatively small sample size of just 400 people.\n\nHowever, the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) has also highlighted research that shows that most people don't completely follow the rules.\n\nThis research also suggests that those on lower incomes felt they were three times less able to self-isolate than those better off.\n\nBBC political correspondent Ben Wright said there was concern in government about the huge cost of the proposal for the Treasury.\n\nHowever, he said the issue of financial incentives and trying to get people to self-isolate was clearly a live discussion within government.\n\nIt became a legal requirement last September for anyone in England testing positive for coronavirus to self-isolate.\n\nThe £500 grant already available in England is funded by the government but administered by local authorities.\n\nThe same level of payment is available in Scotland and Wales with similar conditions attached. Northern Ireland offers a discretionary self-isolation grant that covers expenses, such as the cost of groceries.\n\nThere is a list of specific criteria applicants must meet for the grant, but those who do not qualify for this payment and who are on a low income or may face financial hardship as a result of self-isolating can apply for a discretionary payment.\n\nHowever, there have been high rejection rates for this discretionary grant in England, figures obtained by Labour and reported by the BBC this week suggest.\n\nBetween October and December last year, three-quarters of the 49,877 applications were rejected, the data showed.\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said the Scottish government would welcome the introduction of a £500 payment, as the additional funds it would generate for Scotland could allow for a similar scheme to be set up.\n\nSpeaking at her regular coronavirus briefing, she said: \"We will see whether that transpires or not, but any extra resources for self-isolation we would use to support self-isolation.\"\n\nProf Susan Michie, an adviser on the government's Scientific Pandemic Insights Group on Behaviours, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme just 18% of people with symptoms were self-isolating for the full 10 days they were meant to.\n\nShe said financial support currently offered to people having to self-isolate was a \"key weakness\" of the government's pandemic strategy.\n\nSharon, a cleaner from Kent, told the BBC if no money were to come in for two weeks she would not be able to afford to self-isolate.\n\n\"I have a mortgage to pay,\" she said.\n\n\"I can't even afford to heat my property at the moment because my wages were cut and that £500 payment would make all the difference. I would be able to self-isolate.\n\n\"It wouldn't be enough money, but it would help.\"\n\nThe DoH said it would not comment on a leaked paper but stressed it was incumbent on everyone to help protect the NHS by staying at home and following the rules at \"one of the toughest moments of this pandemic\".\n\nA spokesman said £50m was invested at the time the Test and Trace Support Payment scheme launched and it was providing a further £20m to help support people on low incomes who need to self-isolate.\n\nPeople who have tested positive for coronavirus and those considered at risk of having been exposed to it must self-isolate.\n\nOther legal obligations to self-isolate in the UK include:\n\nWould £500 be enough to help you to self-isolate? Please share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The 39 people who died in the back of a trailer as it crossed the North Sea between Zeebrugge and the UK\n\nFour men have been jailed for the manslaughter of 39 Vietnamese migrants found dead in a lorry trailer in Essex.\n\nThe migrants died \"excruciatingly painful\" deaths, having suffocated in the container en route from Belgium to Purfleet in October 2019, a judge said.\n\nRonan Hughes, 41, and Gheorghe Nica, 43, played \"leading roles\" in the smuggling conspiracy and were jailed for 20 and 27 years respectively.\n\nAt the Old Bailey, two lorry drivers were also jailed for manslaughter.\n\n[Left to right] Eamonn Harrison, Ronan Hughes, Gheorghe Nica and Maurice Robinson were all jailed for manslaughter\n\nEamonn Harrison, 24, who towed the trailer to the Belgian port of Zeebrugge before their journey to the UK, was sentenced to 18 years.\n\nMaurice Robinson, 26, was given 13 years and four months, having collected the trailer and opened it in an industrial estate to find the migrants dead.\n\nThree others members of the people-smuggling gang were also sentenced for conspiracy to facilitate unlawful immigration.\n\nChristopher Kennedy, 24, from County Armagh, was jailed for seven years; Valentin Calota, 38, of Birmingham, for four-and-a-half years; and Alexandru-Ovidiu Hanga, 28, of Hobart Road, Tilbury, Essex, was given a three-year sentence.\n\n[Left to right] Valentin Calota, Alexandru-Ovidiu Hanga and Christopher Kennedy were also sentenced on Friday\n\nSentencing, Mr Justice Sweeney said: \"I have no doubt that the conspiracy was a sophisticated, long-running and profitable one to smuggle mainly Vietnamese people across the channel.\"\n\nHe said on the fatal trip the temperature had been rising along with the carbon dioxide levels throughout, hitting 40C (104F) while the container was at sea on 22 October 2019.\n\n\"There were desperate attempts to contact the outside world by phone and to break through the roof of the container,\" the judge said.\n\n\"All were to no avail and, before the ship reached Purfleet, [the victims] all died in what must have been an excruciatingly painful death.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Video evidence showed how the trainer containing 39 Vietnamese migrants made its way to the UK\n\nThe victims had used a metal pole to try to punch through the roof but only managed to dent the interior.\n\nThe court heard some of their final desperate phone messages, including one where a man spoke with ragged breaths as he apologised to his family.\n\n\"I can't breathe,\" he said. \"I want to come back to my family. Have a good life.\"\n\nJustice Sweeney added: \"The willingness of the victims to try and enter the country illegally provides no excuse for what happened to them.\"\n\nThe bodies of 39 Vietnamese nationals were discovered in a refrigerated trailer on 23 October 2019\n\nDuring the trial, jurors were given a snapshot of the victims - who included a bricklayer, a university graduate and a nail bar technician - and their dreams of a better life.\n\nMany of their families borrowed heavily to fund their passage, relying on their potential future earnings once they got into the UK.\n\nThe father of Nguyen Huy Tung, one of two 15-year-olds in the container, later learned of his son's death via social media.\n\nHarrison, of Newry, County Down, claimed he did not know there were people in the trailer when he towed it to the Belgian port, and that he watched \"a wee bit of Netflix\" in bed as they were loaded on.\n\nAfter receiving this message from his boss, Robinson got out of his cab, opened the trailer door and discovered the bodies\n\nRobinson, from County Armagh, collected the trailer when it arrived on UK shores just after midnight on 23 October.\n\nHis boss, Hughes, had messaged him: \"Give them air quickly don't let them out.\"\n\nRobinson gave a thumbs-up in reply. When Robinson stopped on a nearby industrial estate, he found that the migrants were all dead.\n\nHis barrister said Robinson, who admitted manslaughter, being part of the trafficking plot and money laundering, was \"horrified by what he saw\".\n\nThe moment lorry driver Maurice Robinson opened the trailer door and discovered the bodies inside was captured on CCTV\n\nThe trial examined three smuggling attempts by the gang - two that were successful on 11 and 18 October, and the final trip on 23 October.\n\nOn all three runs, Nica, of Basildon, Essex, had arranged cars and a van to transport the migrants at the UK end.\n\nWhen Robinson discovered the bodies, there was a series of telephone conversations between him and Nica and Hughes, of Tyholland, County Monaghan, Ireland, before the driver eventually dialled 999.\n\nIn his evidence, Nica said Robinson told him: \"I have a problem here - dead bodies in the trailer.\"\n\nWhile Hughes admitted manslaughter, both Nica and Harrison were convicted by a jury.\n\nMr Justice Sweeney said that in the conspiracy \"two played leading roles, namely - in order of importance - Hughes and Nica\".\n\nHe accepted Hughes was \"not at the very top of the conspiracy\" but said his role was \"pivotal... in that he ran a haulage business and supplied the trailers and drivers used to transport the migrants\".\n\nThe judge said Nica \"recruited and paid the drivers whose job it was to collect the migrants when they reached the drop-off site in this country and to drive them to the safe house(s) where they were to be held until payment\".\n\nHe added at the top of the conspiracy was a Vietnamese man called \"Fong\", who was based in London.\n\nMr Justice Sweeney told the defendants jailed for manslaughter they would serve two-thirds of the term in custody, instead of the usual half.\n\nEarlier this month, Gazmir Nuzi, 43, of Barclay Road, Tottenham, north London, was sentenced, having admitted his limited role in the people-smuggling operation. It was accepted he was not a member of the organised crime group behind the smuggling operation.\n\nDet Ch Insp Daniel Stoten said: \"May this serve as a warning to those who think it's OK to prey on the vulnerabilities of migrants and their families, transporting them in a way worse than we would transport animals.\n\n\"My message to you is that we will find you and we will stop you.\"\n\nHe said the victims died in an \"unimaginable way, because of the utter greed of these criminals\".\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Last summer's A level results prompted an outcry from students - leading to an independent review\n\nThere was a \"significant failure\" in the way exam bodies in Wales handled awarding student grades in 2020, a report says.\n\nThe independent review found there was \"too much confidence\" in statistical models, and the appeals process in place was inadequate.\n\nQualifications Wales (QW) said it had learnt many lessons and WJEC exam board will look \"in detail\" at the findings.\n\nTeaching union UCAC described the report's findings as \"scathing\".\n\nIts release comes after it was announced this week that teachers will make 2021 grade assessments\n\nThe review was ordered by the Welsh Government following the outcry over initial examination results awarded in August for A-level students.\n\nThe assessment approach resulted in a \"significant breakdown\" in trust, says the review\n\nIn the weeks after the coronavirus pandemic took hold, formal external exams in Wales were scrapped, with schools asked to provide grade assessments for sixth-form and GCSE pupils.\n\nHowever, it later emerged 42% of the A-level grades were lower than those submitted by teachers.\n\nIn her foreword the report panel's chairwoman Louise Casella, said substantial numbers of young people across Wales \"were left feeling bewildered and distressed as they received A level results that bore no relation to their expectation and their abilities\".\n\nThe result decision was reversed, and school's predicted grades reinstated, but not before \"some learners lost their university place and some were not able to progress as planned in 2020\", noted Ms Casella, who is also director of The Open University in Wales.\n\nThe review found that QW and the WJEC board would have known the \"scale of the outliers\" and had \"an insight\" into the likely number of appeals.\n\nBut the bodies failed to fully test \"alternative routes or approaches\" to the statistical models they used to standardise results.\n\nThe review added it was \"surprising\" QW did not explore additional safeguards, after having being previously warned about, and acknowledging that there were potential problems with the statistical process.\n\nThe report said it could not find evidence either WJEC or QW \"acknowledged, accepted or anticipated the scale of the issues\" nor the risk of unfairness to learners, and that it considered this a \"significant failure\".\n\nThe approach last summer had resulted in a \"significant breakdown\" in trust between the teaching profession and the regulator and examining body, added the report authors.\n\nIt said fairness must now be central to planning for 2021, avoiding automated algorithms to predict individual grades, and developing an appeals process.\n\nDelivering the report, the review panel chair added: \"There is now a real opportunity for the education sector of Wales to come together to develop and deliver a qualifications system that puts learners at its heart, not only for the cohort facing qualifications in 2021, but for the longer term.\"\n\nQW said the review had \"some useful findings and recommendations that we are already addressing\".\n\nChair David Jones and Chief Executive Philip Baker said: \"We would have welcomed greater engagement with the review panel so there was full consideration of all the issues.\"\n\nChief Executive of WJEC Ian Morgan, said he was \"disappointed with some aspects of the report\" but the exam board would \"look in detail at the findings to identify areas where we need to take action to continuously improve as an organisation.\"\n\nEducation Minister Kirsty Williams has already said teachers will assess grades in 2021\n\nEducation Minister Kirsty Williams has welcomed the report and how it would help drive how students are graded by teachers and schools this summer.\n\n\"It is my sincere hope and expectation that our education system can continue to work together to support the progression of our learners in exam years, both through the delivery of these assessment arrangements and through a wider package of support,\" she said.\n\nUCAC Deputy General Secretary Rebecca Williams, said the report supported its call for external moderation of grades, to improve fairness to students.\n\n\"There are longer-term recommendations, including the need to be more ambitious in terms of reform of qualifications and assessment in relation to the new curriculum, and we look forward to discussing these over the coming months,\" she said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Home Secretary Priti Patel says police have her \"absolute backing\" to enforce coronavirus restrictions\n\nFines of £800 for anyone attending a house party of more than 15 people will be introduced in England from next week, under new Covid measures.\n\nThese will double for each repeat offence to a maximum of £6,400.\n\nAt a No 10 news conference, Home Secretary Priti Patel said there remained a \"small minority that refuse to do the right thing\".\n\n\"To them my message is clear. If you don't follow rules then the police will enforce them,\" she said.\n\nCurrently in England the fine for those attending illegal indoor gatherings stands at £200 - or £100 if paid early.\n\nFines of up to £10,000 for holding large illegal gatherings of more than 30 people will still only apply to the organisers.\n\nPolice will continue to follow the strategy of engaging with the public, explaining the rules and encouraging compliance, but the Home Office has warned that in severe breaches of lockdown rules, offenders should expect to receive a fine.\n\nMs Patel said the government would \"not stand by while a small number of individuals put others at risk\".\n\nShe was joined at the briefing by NHS England regional medical director for London Dr Vin Diwakar, who compared breaking the rules to turning on a light in the middle of a blackout during the Blitz.\n\n\"It doesn't just put you at risk in your house, it puts your whole street and the whole of your community at risk,\" he said.\n\nWelcoming the fines announcement, Martin Hewitt, chairman of the National Police Chiefs' Council, said large gatherings were \"dangerous, irresponsible, and totally unacceptable\".\n\nHe added: \"I hope that the likelihood of an increased fine acts as a disincentive for those people who are thinking of attending or organising such events.\"\n\nOfficial figures will be released next week showing how many fines have been given out since the start of this latest national lockdown, Mr Hewitt said.\n\nHowever, he stressed that \"forces are telling us there has been a significant increase\" in recent weeks.\n\n\"That's reflecting the fact that we've had more officers out on dedicated patrols taking targeted action against those small few who are letting everybody down,\" he said.\n\nAccording to Mr Hewitt, three police officers were injured in Brick Lane, east London, last week, after more than 40 people were found cramped indoors at a house party.\n\nMeanwhile, more than 150 people were found at a party in Hertfordshire, complete with music equipment including mixing decks and amplifiers, and another officer was injured.\n\nHe said forces in England had issued 250 fixed penalty notices (FPNs) to people organising large gatherings between late August, when regulations were introduced, and 17 January.\n\nIn some other recent examples of lockdown breaches:\n\nThe latest fines announcement comes after figures showed that assaults on emergency workers made up more than a quarter of Covid-related crimes prosecuted in the first six months of the pandemic.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said there were 1,688 such offences between 1 April and 30 September in England and Wales.\n\nThey were among almost 6,500 crimes related to coronavirus in that period.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSome 1,137 charges were brought for breaking coronavirus laws, according to the figures published by the CPS - which cover completed prosecutions.\n\nOn Thursday, it was reported that another 1,290 people had died within 28 days of testing positive for Covid-19 in the UK, bringing the total to 94,580.\n\nAnd a further 37,892 lab-confirmed cases of coronavirus were announced, bringing the total number of cases in the UK to 3,543,646.\n• None What powers do police have?", "Cyber criminals who stole thousands of digital files belonging to environmental regulator Sepa have published them on the internet.\n\nThe public body had about 1.2GB of data stolen from its digital systems on Christmas Eve.\n\nSepa rejected a ransom demand for the attack, which has been claimed by the international Conti ransomware group.\n\nContracts, strategy documents and databases are among the 4,000 files released.\n\nThe data has been put on the dark web - a part of the internet associated with criminality and only accessible through specialised software.\n\nSepa chief executive Terry A'Hearn said: \"We've been clear that we won't use public finance to pay serious and organised criminals intent on disrupting public services and extorting public funds.\n\n\"We have made our legal obligations and duty of care on the sensitive handling of data a high priority and, following Police Scotland advice, are confirming that data stolen has been illegally published online.\n\n\"We're working quickly with multi-agency partners to recover and analyse data then, as identifications are confirmed, contact and support affected organisations and individuals.\"\n\nThe attack locked Sepa's emails and contacts centre but Sepa said \"priority regulatory, monitoring, flood forecasting and warning services were continuing to adapt and operate\".\n\nSepa said the theft was the equivalent to a fraction of the contents of an average laptop hard drive.\n\nSepa chief executive Terry A'Hearn said the organisation had faced a \"significant and sophisticated cyber-attack\"\n\nSome of the information stolen was already publicly available but other files included data about staff and suppliers was not.\n\nWhere information has been identified to date, staff have been contacted and are being supported.\n\nBrett Callow, of cyber security company Emsisoft, has been tracking the Sepa ransomware attack.\n\nHe said: \"Conti may well be the work of the same people behind another type of ransomware called Ryuk.\n\n\"There are similarities in the code, ransom note and attack mechanisms.\n\n\"When the complete haul of data is posted like this, it usually means the group has given up hope of being able to extract payment from the victim of monetise the data in other ways.\n\n\"It's a loss for them. At this point, they've lost all leverage and the action is intended to serve as a warning to future victims.\"\n\nDet Insp Michael McCullagh, of Police Scotland's cybercrime investigations unit, said: \"This remains an ongoing investigation.\n\n\"Inquiries remain at an early stage and continue to progress including deployment of specialist cybercrime resources to support this response.\"\n\nThe authorities will be pleased.\n\nIt looks like Sepa decided not to play ball with the cyber criminals.\n\nRansomware is a scourge that is costing organisations billions of pounds and every time a victim pays, it fuels further attacks.\n\nSadly for Sepa this is far from over.\n\nBy the looks of the stash of files that the hackers stole and encrypted, Sepa will have months of work ahead to try to recover important documents and spreadsheets from backups and rebuild their records.\n\nIt's also telling that, according to the hackers website, almost 1,000 people have so far looked at the documents.\n\nWho knows what other criminals or hackers are poring over the files right now.\n\nMaking the documents open to all means that information can be extracted to potentially be used against Sepa in further attacks or extortion attempts.\n\nIt will be months, perhaps even years until the organisation can say it is safe once more and can put this cyber attack behind it.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. PM: It's too early to give a lockdown end date\n\nIt is \"too early\" to say whether England's Covid restrictions will be able to end in the spring, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said.\n\nOnce the four priority groups have been vaccinated, by mid-February, \"we'll look then at how we're doing,\" he said.\n\nNearly two million people in the UK have had their first dose of vaccine in the past week, government figures show.\n\nScientist Marc Baguelin, who advises the government, has said restaurants and bars should not reopen before May.\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson has said he \"certainly hopes\" schools in England can fully reopen before Easter, while Downing Street refused to be drawn on whether this would happen by then.\n\nA further 1,290 people have died within 28 days of a positive Covid test and there have been another 37,892 cases, according to the latest government figures.\n\nAnd almost five million people in the UK have had their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine.\n\nSpeaking after a study suggested infections might have increased at the start of the latest lockdown in England, Mr Johnson said it was \"absolutely crucial\" that people observed the restrictions.\n\nReferring to figures from the Imperial College London survey, he said they showed the new variant of the virus was \"not more deadly but it is much more contagious and the numbers are very great\".\n\nFigures published by Public Health England show cases - meaning people who come forward to get tested while they are infected - have fallen across England since early January.\n\nWith the two sets of figures pointing in different directions, it will be some time before it is known for sure how long it will take for lockdown to relieve the pressure on hospitals.\n\nDr Baguelin, from Imperial College, who sits on a sub-group of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) said the premature opening of the hospitality sector would lead to a \"bump\" in Covid-19 cases.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's World at One programme even a partial reopening would generate \"an increase in the R number\". An R number above one means the epidemic is growing.\n\n\"Something of this scale, if it was to happen earlier than May, would generate a bump in transmission, which is already really bad,\" he said.\n\n\"So you have a lot of pressure on hospitals, you will have another wave of some extent. At best you will keep on having very, very unsustainable level of pressure on the NHS.\"\n\nNHS England figures show one in 10 major hospital trusts had no spare adult critical care beds last week.\n\nThis is a debate that is going to start to dominate public discourse.\n\nWith the vaccination programme under way, there is huge clamour to know what will happen once the most vulnerable are vaccinated, by mid-February.\n\nThe problem is there are still so many unknowns.\n\nFirstly, it is hard to predict by how much lockdown will have reduced infection levels, considering there is a new faster-spreading variant to deal with.\n\nThe level of uptake will also be crucial. Surveys suggest as many as one in five may not have the vaccine - although the older, more vulnerable groups tend to be the most willing to be vaccinated.\n\nAnd the fact that no vaccine is 100% effective means come February there could still be significant numbers of very vulnerable people who are not protected.\n\nAnother factor is whether the vaccine stops transmissions - so-called sterilising vaccination.\n\nTrials have shown the vaccines are good at stopping symptoms developing. But that does not mean someone who has received a jab will not pass on the virus.\n\nIf it does not, that, of course, has implications on how many control measures have to be kept in place. It will take us at least until spring to know the answer to this.\n\nAt this stage, it seems hard to see much beyond the possible reopening of schools come March.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was an \"impossible question\" to ask how long the lockdown would need to last.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and only go out for limited reasons.\n\nThis includes for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, coronavirus lockdown restrictions will be extended until 5 March, BBC News understands.\n\nIn Scotland, lockdown has been extended until at least the middle of February, with most school pupils to continue learning from home.\n\nAnd in Wales health minister Vaughan Gething has said no \"significant easing\" of Wales' Covid restrictions should be expected when the current guidelines are reviewed this month.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSir Keir added that the coronavirus vaccines were \"really good news\" but \"should not mask the fact that we have still got a very serious problem\".\n\nThe government is aiming to offer a vaccine to all over-70s, the extremely clinical vulnerable and health and care workers by mid-February.\n\nSixty-five new vaccination centres are opening in England, including a mosque in Birmingham and a cinema in Aylesbury.", "Paddy McElhone was shot in the back by a soldier in 1974\n\nThe shooting dead of a man by the Army in County Tyrone in August 1974 was unjustified, a coroner has ruled.\n\nPaddy McElhone, 24, a farmer, was shot in the back near his home in Limehill, Pomeroy.\n\nAn inquest heard the shot was fired by a soldier from the First Battalion, Royal Regiment of Wales.\n\nJudge Siobhan Keegan said Mr McElhone was an \"innocent man shot in cold blood without warning when he was no threat to anyone\".\n\nThe soldier, now deceased, had been cleared of murder but the circumstances were re-examined in a new inquest ordered by the Attorney General.\n\nPaddy McElhone's family said he was killed without justification, explanation or apology\n\nAfterwards, a statement issued by the McElhone family said it had been a \"very long road\" to reach Thursday's ruling and that the truth \"has been heard\".\n\nIt reads: \"Our family always knew that Paddy was an innocent young man, taken from his home and shot by a British soldier for no reason.\"\n\nEvidence presented to the inquest found Mr McElhone was not on any list associated with the IRA and was an innocent man from a humble background.\n\nThe family said Mr McElhone's parents \"went to their graves broken-hearted knowing that their innocent son had been killed, without justification, explanation or apology\".\n\n\"We feel that, today, Judge Keenan at this inquest has, at long last, exonerated Paddy in full,\" the statement continued.\n\n\"As a family we can grieve Paddy, and respect his memory as an innocent young man.\"\n\nThe inquest into Mr McElhone's death was the first in a series of coroners' investigations into deaths associated with Northern Ireland's Troubles.\n\nIt was held in Omagh courthouse in County Tyrone.", "Some 320 of the UK's most dangerous child sex offenders have been arrested since the first coronavirus lockdown, the National Crime Agency (NCA) said.\n\nInvestigators have been focusing on tracking down offenders who operate online.\n\nThe operation led to a total of 4,760 arrests and 6,500 children safeguarded between April and September last year.\n\nMeanwhile, the Home Office has launched a strategy to collect detailed data about child grooming gangs.\n\nThe Tackling Child Sexual Abuse Strategy aims to identify and convict offenders who operate in groups by gathering more information about their characteristics, including ethnicity.\n\nIt also involves investing in the national child abuse image database to identify offenders more quickly, protecting police from frequently being exposed to indecent images, and enabling parents to ask officers if someone with access to their child is known to them for cases of abuse.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said some who had suffered child sexual abuse had told her they felt \"let down by the state\", and insisted she was \"determined to put this right\".\n\nRob Jones, an NCA director, welcomed the initiative \"at a time when the threat to children is more severe than it has ever been\", highlighting that last year there were at least 300,000 people posing a sexual threat to children in the UK.\n\nHe said the NCA was focusing on the most dangerous offenders \"as part of the whole system approach\".\n\n\"Many feel they can operate with impunity online - using anonymisation techniques, secure accounts and the dark web - but as we have shown with this operation they are wrong and we have the capabilities to track them down,\" he said.\n\nMr Jones added: \"These are not just images or videos being viewed online.\n\n\"What we are uncovering here is evidence of the horrific, real-world sexual abuse of children.\"\n\nOut of the 320 arrested as part of the NCA's operation targeting the UK's most dangerous child sex offenders, 122 were targeted by NCA officers.\n\nSeventeen were in positions of trust, including a volunteer with the Scouts, church youth group leaders, a social worker, primary school and college teachers, a hospital care assistant, a police officer, and a civil servant.\n\nIn the year ending March 2020 the NCA and UK policing made 7,212 arrests and safeguarded and protected 8,329 children. This was a 50% increase in arrests and a 10% increase in safeguards compared with the year ending March 2019.\n\nMs Patel said that the national strategy would tackle and respond to \"all forms of child sexual abuse, relentlessly going after abusers, whilst better protecting victims and survivors\".\n\nShe added: \"Crucially, it contains a commitment to collect higher quality data on the characteristics of offenders, so that the government can build a fuller picture of perpetrators, and tackle the abuse that has blighted many towns and cities across our country.\"\n\nThe government has pledged to support local authorities' responses to exploitation through funding for The Children's Society's Prevention Programme initiative, which has so far trained 13,363 professionals to spot signs of child abuse.\n\nThrough the Online Safety Bill, the Home Office has also said it will ensure technology companies are held to account for harmful content on their sites.\n\nThe Children's Society's chief executive, Mark Russell, has described the strategy as a \"golden opportunity to improve support for child victims of horrific crimes and send a clear signal that child sexual abuse and exploitation are crimes that will not be tolerated\".\n\nThe scheme was also welcomed by GCHQ and charity NSPCC, which said it has received more than 40 calls a day about child sexual abuse since the pandemic began.\n\nGCHQ's director of serious and organised crime said: \"Our work to tackle systemic internet problems, the insight we provide into offender behaviour and our efforts alongside law enforcement to identify and pursue the worst offenders will help to ensure there is no safe space online for these people to operate.\"\n\nNSPCC chief executive Sir Peter Wanless said it \"rightly puts the emphasis on early intervention and action across government but added it \"must be backed up with serious investment in support for victims\" - and that children were still being exposed to abuse from teachers and social workers.\n\nSir Peter said: \"It's crucial that no young person is left unprotected which is why it's disappointing the government has not committed to closing the legal loophole that enables some adults to abuse their position of power to have sexual contact with 16 and 17-year-olds in their care.\"", "CCTV footage has been released of the moment a fire took hold in a hotel after a porter put a bag of ash and embers in a cupboard.\n\nSimon Midgley and his partner Richard Dyson died in the fire at Cameron House next to Loch Lomond in December 2017.\n\nCameron House admitted charges under the Fire Scotland Act of failing to take fire safety measures.\n\nChristopher O'Malley, who put the bag in the cupboard, admitted breaching the Health and Safety at Work Act.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nNon-league Chorley were unable to emulate the heroes from 1986 by causing an FA Cup sensation against Wolves - but the National League North side came away with all the credit from their fourth-round tie at Victory Park.\n\nVitinha's superb 30-yard shot after 12 minutes proved enough to secure an all-Premier League tie against Arsenal or Southampton at Molineux in the fifth round.\n\nBut Nuno Espirito Santo's side were less than impressive against their part-time opponents.\n\nChorley had the first shot of the match through Elliot Newby, and after Vitinha had struck his first Wolves goal with the visitors' only shot on target, it was the hosts who had the best chances.\n\nCrucially, they also pocketed around £120,000 in prize money, plus TV fees, to sustain them through what could be a difficult period after their league was suspended for two weeks amid funding concerns earlier in the day.\n\n\"If you are going to lose, I would prefer to lose to a goal like that than a scruffy goal,\" said Chorley boss Jamie Vermiglio.\n\n\"I am proud of what we have done for our community, my kids at school will remember that their head teacher got this far in the FA Cup. Hopefully it can inspire some of them.\n\n\"We are approaching up to half a million [in earnings from the cup run], we have people who are isolating, and those players have given them a little bit of happiness.\n\n\"If it is 2-0 or 3-0 at half-time the game is done and people are turning their TVs off. That did not happen. I felt we were in the game. Every player was outstanding.\"\n• None How to follow FA Cup fourth round on the BBC\n\nIf this does end up being Chorley's last game of the season, it is one they will remember for some time, not only for the action on the pitch but also for the huge volley of fireworks that went off behind the main stand minutes into the contest.\n\nFor visiting Wolves, it was a step into the unknown. Their starting line-up got changed in the away dressing room, while their substitutes - European Championship winner Rui Patricio and Spain international Adama Traore among them - readied themselves in a sponsors' lounge.\n\nSeemingly those starting the game on the bench got the better deal.\n\nWolves boss Nuno paid Chorley the compliment of picking a strong starting line-up, including £35.6m record signing Fabio Silva and England international Conor Coady.\n\nAnd had this match been played in more imposing surroundings, it could have been mistaken for one of those Premier League games where one side sits back, challenges the opposition to break them down and then hits them on the counter.\n\nWolves' return of 76% possession and one shot on target, set against Chorley's five shots on target, suggests home manager Vermiglio got his tactics spot on.\n\nIndeed, had Andy Halls, a personal trainer by day, not had his goal-bound header tipped over by John Ruddy after an hour, Chorley might have forced a different outcome.\n\n\"The scene was set for us to lose this game,\" said Nuno. \"John Ruddy did his job, everybody knows his quality. He helped us to win the game.\"\n\nIt was nevertheless a typically English FA Cup tie, enlivened by Vermiglio yelling \"nothing wrong with that\" when two Wolves players went down under agricultural challenges, and then laughing in Traore's face amid a brief skirmish.\n\nIt was fantastic knockabout stuff. Sadly, the enduring disappointment was that other than staff, media and stewards, no-one was there in person to witness it.\n• None Wolves have reached the FA Cup fifth round in three of the last five seasons, as many as in the 21 seasons prior to this.\n• None Premier League teams have progressed from 45 of their 47 FA Cup ties against non-league teams (96%), with only Norwich vs Luton in 2013 and Burnley vs Lincoln in 2017 failing to progress.\n• None Separated by 120 years and 362 days, Chorley have lost both of their FA Cup games against top-flight opponents, losing against Notts County in January 1900 and Wolves.\n• None Vitinha became the 32nd different Wolves player to score a goal for Nuno Espirito Santo in all competitions and the 11th different Portuguese player to do so, with what was his third shot in his 12th appearance.\n• None Since the start of 2017-18, Wolves have had 11 different Portuguese scorers - more than twice as many as any other English league team in that time (Nottingham Forest, five).\n\nWolves are next in action against Chelsea in the Premier League at Stamford Bridge on Wednesday, 27 January (18:00 GMT).\n• None Attempt blocked. Rayan Aït-Nouri (Wolverhampton Wanderers) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Rúben Neves.\n• None Harry Cardwell (Chorley) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Pedro Neto (Wolverhampton Wanderers) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Rúben Neves.\n• None Arlen Birch (Chorley) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt blocked. Fábio Silva (Wolverhampton Wanderers) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Pedro Neto. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None You can stream five fourth-round games live on the BBC this weekend, including Liverpool's trip to Manchester United. Find out more here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA hotel fire which claimed the lives of two men started after a porter put a bag of ash and embers in a cupboard containing kindling and newspaper.\n\nSimon Midgley and his partner Richard Dyson died in the fire at Cameron House next to Loch Lomond in December 2017.\n\nCameron House pled guilty to charges under the Fire Scotland Act of failing to take fire safety measures.\n\nChristopher O'Malley, who put the bag in the cupboard, admitted breaching the Health and Safety at Work Act.\n\nO'Malley's lawyer said the night porter - from Renton in West Dunbartonshire - deeply regretted his actions, and did not deliberately start the fire.\n\nDumbarton Sheriff Court also heard that Cameron House did not have proper procedures in place for the disposal of ash, or for training staff.\n\nThe owners also failed to keep cupboards that contained potential ignition sources free of combustibles.\n\nAt about 04:00 on 18 December 2017, O'Malley, 35, cleared ash and embers from a fireplace in the Cameron House reception into a metal bucket.\n\nHe then emptied the contents of the bucket into a plastic bag, which he put into the concierge cupboard.\n\nThe cupboard also contained flammable materials including kindling, newspapers and cardboard.\n\nRichard Dyson, left, and Simon Midgley, right, who both died, had been on a winter break in Scotland\n\nAt about 06:40 an initial fire alarm sounded and staff noticed smoke coming from the concierge cupboard.\n\nO'Malley opened the door and flames took hold, spreading to the hall.\n\nHe and two others tried to fight the blaze with fire extinguishers, but were overcome by the flames.\n\nAdvocate depute Michael Meehan QC told the court the cupboard was well alight and the \"blaze immediately took hold and spread from there\".\n\nHe added: \"As a result of [Cameron House's] failure to keep the cupboard free of combustibles, ash and embers ignited and fire spread in the main building.\"\n\nThe night manager sounded the alarm and called 999. Firefighters arrived within 10 minutes to find a \"well developed\" fire in the mansion, which is near Balloch in West Dunbartonshire.\n\nMore than 200 guests were staying in the hotel.\n\nThe court heard one family-of-three on the second floor had to be rescued by firefighters while a couple on the first floor had to crawl to safety because corridors and fire escape pathways were filling with smoke and gases.\n\nIt was after 08:00 when it was discovered that Mr Dyson, 38, and Mr Midgley, 32, were missing.\n\nFirefighters wearing breathing apparatus found Mr Dyson on a landing at the top of a staircase.\n\nMr Midgley was lying in a fire escape passageway. Paramedics pronounced him dead at the scene.\n\nMr Dyson was taken to hospital, where he was also pronounced dead.\n\nPost-mortem examinations said the men's causes of death had been inhalation of smoke and fire gases.\n\nThe couple had travelled from London, and were staying at the five-star resort as the final stop on their winter break to Scotland.\n\nSheriff William Gallacher also heard of an incident three nights before the fatal fire, where O'Malley and another night porter were told not to put ash into plastic bags because it was a fire hazard.\n\nCameron House QC Peter Gray said it was therefore \"extremely difficult to understand\" why O'Malley did not follow this guidance on the night of the fire.\n\nThe court also heard that Cameron House staff were not properly trained in the safe disposal of ash and that no written procedures were in place.\n\nThere was also no procedure in place for emptying the metal ash bins outside the hotel on a regular basis.\n\nThat was contrary to recommendations made in two fire risk assessments carried out by an independent company in 2016 and 2017.\n\nAfter the first report was received by Cameron House management in January 2016, the resort manager agreed there was a lack of a formal procedure for disposing of ash and delegated the responsibility for this to his deputy.\n\nMr Meehan said this report \"should have been a game-changer\" for Cameron House.\n\nWhen the issue was raised again in a follow-up report a year later, managers believed it had already been dealt with.\n\nMr Gray said: \"The resort manager understood incorrectly that all the actions had been completed, including in relation to the written procedure for disposing of ash from open fires.\"\n\nThe Scottish Fire and Rescue Service had also warned Cameron House managers about the risks of storing combustibles in the concierge cupboard in August 2017.\n\nThe audit highlighted the potential danger of fire spreading rapidly through the building because of its age and voids.\n\nA follow-up letter was sent to management in November 2017 - one month before the fire - but combustibles continued to be stored in the cupboard.\n\nCameron House's lawyer added that the failings were not deliberate breaches but occurred \"as a result of genuine errors\".\n\nHe also told the court the fire had gone undetected for a long period before being discovered, and that the hotel had a \"suite of measures in place\" to deal with fire safety.\n\nAn absence of formal procedures for dealing with ashes and embers gave staff the opportunity to improvise, he added.\n\nMr Gray continued: \"I am instructed to extend my deepest sympathies from the accused to the families of Mr Midgley and Mr Dyson.\n\nHe said the hotel takes its duties to ensure the safety of its guests extremely seriously.\n\nDetails of what happened at Cameron House were first revealed in court on 14 December last year, but reporting restrictions meant they could not be published until now.\n\nSentencing is due to take place on 29 January.", "Fashion chain Next has said it will no longer bid to buy Sir Philip Green's Arcadia retail brands Topshop and Topman out of administration.\n\nIt comes after a consortium including the fashion chain was named as frontrunner to buy the brands.\n\nIn a short statement, Next said the consortium had been \"unable to meet the price expectations of the vendor\".\n\nSome 13,000 jobs were put at risk when Arcadia, which also owns Burton and Dorothy Perkins, went bust in November.\n\nIt leaves a clutch of others in the race to buy the 440-store group, including Mike Ashley's Frasers Group, which owns House of Fraser and Sports Direct.\n\nAccording to reports, Authentic Brands, the US owner of the Barneys department store, and JD Sports have tabled a joint offer, while online retailers Asos and Boohoo are also said to be interested.\n\nAdministrators Deloitte have been looking for buyers for some or all of Arcadia, after a slump in sales caused by the pandemic triggered its collapse.\n\nNext, which has 550 UK shops and has weathered the pandemic well, was seen as a good fit to take over the group's assets.\n\nIt had been bidding in partnership with the US hedge fund Davidson Kempner, which was going to put up most of the money.\n\nNext said it wished \"the administrator and future owners [of Arcadia] well in their endeavours to preserve an important part of the UK retail sector\".\n\nExperts expect Arcadia to be broken up, with bidders taking on different parts of the business and brands potentially hived off from their stores.\n\nIn December, Australian collective City Chic said it would buy Arcadia's Evans brand, commerce and wholesale business for £23m but not its store network.\n\nLast year was the worst for the High Street in more than 25 years as the coronavirus accelerated the move towards online shopping, according to the Centre for Retail Research (CRR).\n\nNearly 180,000 retail jobs were lost, up by almost a quarter on the previous year, as shops faced strict curbs and prolonged closures.", "Early evidence suggests the variant of coronavirus that emerged in the UK may be more deadly, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said.\n\nHowever, there remains huge uncertainty around the numbers - and vaccines are still expected to work.\n\nThe data comes from mathematicians comparing death rates in people infected with either the new or the old versions of the virus.\n\nThe new more infectious variant has already spread widely across the UK.\n\nMr Johnson told a Downing Street briefing: \"In addition to spreading more quickly, it also now appears that there is some evidence that the new variant - the variant that was first identified in London and the south east - may be associated with a higher degree of mortality.\n\n\"It's largely the impact of this new variant that means the NHS is under such intense pressure.\"\n\nPublic Health England, Imperial College London, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the University of Exeter have each been trying to assess how deadly the new variant is.\n\nTheir evidence has been assessed by scientists on the New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag).\n\nThe group concluded there was a \"realistic possibility\" that the virus had become more deadly, but this is far from certain.\n\nSir Patrick Vallance, the government's chief scientific adviser, described the data so far as \"not yet strong\".\n\nHe said: \"I want to stress that there's a lot of uncertainty around these numbers and we need more work to get a precise handle on it, but it obviously is a concern that this has an increase in mortality as well as an increase in transmissibility.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Patrick Vallance: \"There is evidence that there's an increased risk for those who have the new variant\"\n\nPrevious work suggests the new variant spreads between 30% and 70% faster than others, and there are hints it is about 30% more deadly.\n\nFor example, with 1,000 60-year-olds infected with the old variant, 10 of them might be expected to die. But this rises to about 13 with the new variant.\n\nThis difference is found when looking at everyone testing positive for Covid, but analysing only hospital data has found no increase in the death rate. Hospital care has improved over the course of the pandemic as doctors get better at treating the disease.\n\nThe new variant was first detected in Kent in September. It is now the most common form of the virus in England and Northern Ireland, and has spread to more than 50 other countries.\n\nThe Pfizer and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine are both expected to work against the variant that emerged in the UK.\n\nHowever, Sir Patrick said there was more concern about two other variants that had emerged in South Africa and Brazil.\n\nHe said: \"They have certain features which means they might be less susceptible to vaccines.\n\n\"They are definitely of more concern than the one in the UK at the moment and we need to keep looking at it and studying this very carefully.\"\n\nThe prime minister said the government was prepared to take further action to protect the country's borders to prevent new variants from entering.\n\n\"I really don't rule it out, we may need to take further measures still,\" he said.\n\nLast week the government extended a travel ban to South America, Portugal and many African countries amid concerns about new variants, while all international travellers must now test negative ahead of departure to the UK and go into quarantine on arrival.", "Shoppers bought far fewer clothes last year as lockdowns meant people had less opportunity to socialise and go out.\n\nClothes sales slumped 25%, the biggest drop in 23 years when records began, official figures suggest.\n\nWhile shops have reported demand for certain clothing such as pyjamas and loungewear has risen, demand for going-out items has fallen sharply.\n\nAnd despite a pick-up in December, clothing sales remain lower than before the pandemic struck.\n\n\"With few opportunities to socialise during lockdown and many people working from home, the clothing sector has been one of the \"worst-affected by restrictions\", the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.\n\nEarlier this month, Marks & Spencer said sales of sleepwear had soared\n\nGrowing numbers of High Street shops have faced financial difficulties due to the temporary store closures imposed during lockdowns.\n\nTopshop-owner Arcadia and competitors Debenhams, Edinburgh Woollen Mill Group, Oasis and Warehouse have all slid into insolvency since lockdown measures were first imposed last March.\n\nThe inability to try clothes on in bricks-and-mortar shops, as well as restrictions on eating out meaning consumers are going out less, have all affected sales, the ONS suggested.\n\nAnd the slump in demand for fashion meant that British retail sales saw their largest annual fall on record in 2020.\n\nSales fell by 1.9% last year, when compared with 2019, the largest year-on-year fall since records began in 1997.\n\nRetail sales, including fuel, did see a small increase last month, growing by 0.3% when compared with November.\n\nIt came following the end of England's national lockdown on 2 December. Sales had slumped by 4.1% in November during a month-long shutdown.\n\nBut \"this was very clearly not a Merry Christmas for most of the High Street\", said Susannah Streeter, senior investment and markets analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown.\n\n\"For most retailers it's the most crucial month of the year to get profit back on track but the large upswing in sales after the pain of the November lockdowns didn't materialise,\" she said.\n\nONS deputy national statistician for economic statistics Jonathan Athow said that some sectors, however, had been \"able to buck the trend\" last year.\n\n\"The increased popularity of click-and-collect and people buying more items from home led to a strong year for overall internet sales, with record highs for food and household goods sales online.\"\n\nIn a sign of the way the pandemic has changed shopping habits, the value of online retail sales jumped by 46.1% in 2020 when compared with 2019 - the highest annual growth reported since 2008.\n\nOnline trade now accounts for more than one-third of all retail sales.\n\nRichard Lim, chief executive of Retail Economics, explained that the rise of online had \"polarised industry performance\".\n\n\"The gap widened between those retailers with the most sophisticated online propositions from those with legacy store-dependent business models,\" he said.\n\nOnline-only retailers such as Boohoo and Asos, for example, have reported strong sales figures in 2020.\n\nSupermarkets in particular have embraced the shift to digital, with online food store sales up 79.3% last year.\n\nThere was also better news from the John Lewis Partnership, which owns Waitrose, on Friday. It said that it would return a £300m emergency coronavirus loan to the government as trading went \"better than anticipated\" over Christmas.\n\nToday's figures show just how badly the clothing sector has been affected these last 12 months.\n\nFashion is the big retail loser from this pandemic. Who needs to splash out on the latest trends when we're working from home and not going out? And even when clothing shops are open, chances are you can't try things on.\n\nWith all of the Covid-19 measures in place, the fun has been sucked out of shopping. We haven't stopped spending, but most of it is going online. Boohoo and Asos have seen very strong sales growth, for instance.\n\nThe going's far harder for retailers with large numbers of physical stores. The pressures have already taken their toll on the likes of Sir Philip Green's Arcadia Group and Debenhams.\n\nAnd things may well get worse on the high street before they better. Many retailers are worried about the end of the business rates holiday and of the temporary ban on eviction for non payment of rent in April. These will result in a big increase in costs when sales have yet to fully recover.\n\nBut Helen Dickinson, chief executive of the British Retail Consortium, called for more help for non-essential shops and High Street retailers who continue to be affected by lockdown restrictions.\n\n\"With no end in sight for retailers closed in lockdown, many will struggle to survive under a mounting rent burden, and a return to full business rates in April,\" she said.\n\nShe called on government to offer \"targeted\" business rates relief to businesses worst-affected by the pandemic.\n\n\"Decisive action is needed to save jobs, shops and local communities, with town and city centres looking to be particularly hard hit unless the government acts now.\"\n\nEarlier in January, a report from the Centre for Retail Research said that 2020 was the worst for High Street job losses in more than 25 years, because of the acceleration towards online shopping.\n\nNearly 180,000 retail jobs were lost last year, up by almost a quarter from 2019, it said.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nLiverpool's 68-game unbeaten home run in the Premier League came to an end as Ashley Barnes fired in a late winner from the penalty spot to secure a famous victory for Burnley.\n\nBarnes was tripped in the box by goalkeeper Alisson with seven minutes remaining and converted the spot-kick as Burnley won at Anfield for the first time since 1974.\n\nLiverpool's last league loss on their own ground came nearly four years ago, against Crystal Palace in April 2017, and they are now six points behind leaders Manchester United at the midway point in the campaign.\n\nDivock Origi was given his first start of the season and should have scored when he ran free on goal after pouncing on Ben Mee's error but struck the crossbar.\n\nThe hosts pushed to find the net in the second half but ran out of ideas, Nick Pope making a stunning save to deny Mohamed Salah and fellow substitute Roberto Firmino flicking an effort wide.\n\nBurnley's shock win lifts them up to 16th in the table, seven points clear of the relegation zone.\n• None Klopp takes blame but what has happened to Liverpool?\n\nJurgen Klopp said before the game he was \"not worried\" by his side's poor run, but the latest setback means this has now turned into a real problem for the Liverpool manager.\n\nAfter 19 games, Liverpool are out of form and out of confidence, failing to find the net in their last 440 minutes of top-flight action and awaiting their first league victory of 2021.\n\nThey looked to be hitting their stride on 19 December when they took apart Crystal Palace 7-0, but have not won in the league since and scored just a solitary league goal in that time, against relegation strugglers West Brom.\n\nTheir drop-off from the same stage last season is extraordinary - after 19 games last term the Reds were 13 points clear at the top with 55 points, but they have 21 fewer points now.\n\nAside from Pope's save to thwart Salah and stops from Origi and Trent Alexander-Arnold, Liverpool did not look a side who were threatening to find the net.\n\nThey had 72% possession but much of it was slow and ponderous, and although they had spaces out wide and put 30 crosses into the box, the resolute Burnley defenders headed and hacked clear every ball that came in.\n\nLiverpool won 18 of 19 league games at Anfield as they cantered to the title last term.\n\nBurnley were the spoilers on that occasion - earning a 1-1 draw in July 2020 - and they bettered that showing here with another solid and well-organised display.\n\nCaptain Mee had 14 clearances and made two tackles, while centre-back partner James Tarkowski contributed five interceptions and won the ball back four times.\n\nBurnley are a well-drilled outfit and know their limitations, happy to sit back and soak up the pressure before looking to take their chances on the counter-attack.\n\nThey had sniffs on the break but were unable to get the final ball right and while Barnes forced an excellent save out of Alisson, the assistant referee's flag would have ruled it out.\n\nThey remain the lowest scorers in the league with just 10 goals - level with bottom side Sheffield United - but their defensive solidity means they will always pose a threat, even to the biggest teams.\n\n'We dealt with the basics' - manager reaction\n\nBurnley boss Sean Dyche to Match of the Day: \"Performance, we had to work very hard, as you do in these places, be diligent and do your jobs - shape was good, energy was good.\n\n\"We had a golden chance, kept searching, but you have to deal with the basics and we did that very well.\n\n\"We were close last year, you get a feel of a performance and I said 'you are used to playing against these players, working without the ball, there's always a chance and you have to take it'. Barnsey sticks it in there, gets a toe, it's a penalty and he sticks it away very well.\"\n• None This was Burnley's second Premier League win away against the reigning champions (also v Chelsea in August 2017). Indeed, since the 2017-18 season, Burnley are the only side with two away league wins over the reigning English champions.\n• None Liverpool have gone four league games without scoring for the first time since May 2000. The Reds have had a total of 87 shots since Sadio Mane's 12th-minute strike against West Brom, 25 days ago.\n• None This is the first time a Jurgen Klopp side has gone four league games without scoring since his Mainz side did so in the Bundesliga from November to December 2006.\n• None Liverpool have gone five Premier League games without a win (D3 L2) for only the second time under Klopp (also from Jan-Feb 2017).\n• None Liverpool have conceded two penalty goals at Anfield in this season's Premier League (also Sander Berge for Sheff Utd); they had only conceded two penalty goals at the ground under Klopp before 2020-21.\n• None Liverpool had 27 shots without scoring against Burnley, the most they have had in a single league match without finding the net since April 2013 v Reading (28), and most at Anfield since April 2012 v West Brom (30).\n• None Ashley Barnes' penalty for Burnley was his first away goal in the Premier League in 11 appearances on the road, since netting against Watford back in November 2019.\n• None Since the start of last season, no goalkeeper has made more saves against a single opponent in the Premier League than Burnley's Nick Pope against Liverpool (19). Pope has made 14 saves in his last two games at Anfield, including six tonight.\n\nLiverpool have another big game on Sunday against rivals Manchester United in the FA Cup. That game is live on the BBC (17:00 GMT). Burnley travel to Fulham in the same competition on the same day (14:30).\n• None Offside, Burnley. Dwight McNeil tries a through ball, but Chris Wood is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Takumi Minamino (Liverpool) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt missed. Dwight McNeil (Burnley) left footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses the top left corner. Assisted by Ashley Barnes.\n• None Attempt blocked. Roberto Firmino (Liverpool) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Trent Alexander-Arnold.\n• None Attempt missed. Trent Alexander-Arnold (Liverpool) right footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Sadio Mané with a cross.\n• None Joel Matip (Liverpool) is shown the yellow card for hand ball.\n• None Attempt blocked. Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Sadio Mané.\n• None Goal! Liverpool 0, Burnley 1. Ashley Barnes (Burnley) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.\n• None Penalty conceded by Alisson (Liverpool) after a foul in the penalty area.\n• None Attempt blocked. Sadio Mané (Liverpool) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Andrew Robertson. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None You can stream five fourth-round games live on the BBC this weekend, including Liverpool's trip to Manchester United. Find out more here.", "Nissan's car plant in Sunderland is the UK's biggest and employs 6,000 people directly\n\nJapanese car maker Nissan has told the BBC its Sunderland plant is secure for the long term as a result of the trade deal reached between the UK and the EU.\n\nIt said it will move additional battery production close to the plant where it has 6,000 direct employees and supports nearly 70,000 jobs in the supply chain.\n\nCurrently, the batteries in its Leaf electric cars are imported from Japan.\n\nNissan would not confirm if this would mean additional jobs at Sunderland, which is the UK's largest car plant.\n\nManufacturing the more powerful batteries in the UK will ensure its cars comply with trade rules agreed with the EU requiring at least 55% of the car's value to be derived from either the UK or the EU to qualify for zero tariffs when exported to the EU.\n\nSome 70% of the cars made in Sunderland are exported and the vast majority of them are sold in the EU.\n\nNissan had issued stark warnings last year that if the UK left the EU without a trade deal, the resulting tariffs on cars and components would make the Sunderland plant \"unsustainable\".\n\nNissan's chief operating officer Ashwani Gupta told the BBC: \"The Brexit deal is positive for Nissan. Being the largest automaker in the UK we are taking this opportunity to redefine auto-making in the UK.\n\nNissan's Ashwani Gupta said the Brexit deal had created a 'competitive environment'\n\n\"It has created a competitive environment for Sunderland, not just inside the UK but outside as well.\n\n\"We've decided to localise the manufacture of the 62kWh battery in Sunderland so that all our products qualify [for tariff-free export to the EU]. We are committed to Sunderland for the long term under the business conditions that have been agreed.\"\n\nIt came as Nissan paused one of its two production lines in Sunderland on Friday as disruption at ports caused by the pandemic affected its supply chain.\n\nThe company said the move would affect the line which produces the Qashqai and Leaf, but work would resume next week.\n\nBusiness Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng welcomed the firm's endorsement of Sunderland as a manufacturing base.\n\n\"Nissan's decision represents a genuine belief in Britain and a huge vote of confidence in our economy thanks to the certainty our trade deal with the EU delivers,\" he said.\n\n\"For the dedicated and highly-skilled workforce in Sunderland, it means the city will be home to Nissan's latest models for years to come and positions the company to capitalise on the wealth of benefits that will flow from electric vehicle production.\"\n\nIt's particularly welcome after the more guarded comments from the boss of Vauxhall's parent company last week.\n\nSpeaking as the tie-up between Fiat Chrsyler and Peugeot Citroen was christened with new umbrella name Stellantis, boss Carlos Tavares said that the future of its Ellesmere Port plant depended on the support the UK government was prepared to offer after its decision to ban sales of new petrol and diesel cars after 2030.\n\n\"If you change, brutally, the rules and if you restrict the rules for business then there is at one point in time a problem,\" he said.\n\nLooking forward, he said it would make more sense to locate an electric vehicle factory closer to the larger EU market.\n\nIndustry voices welcomed the news from Nissan but reinforced the message from Vauxhall's owners that the government needs to do more to secure the future of the car industry as it electrifies.\n\n\"This is obviously good news and will help the Nissan Leaf avoid any future tariffs, but we are going to need to see a lot more investment in battery production in the UK if we are to preserve the UK as a car manufacturer and exporter,\" said Professor David Bailey of Warwick University.\n\nThe head of trade body the Society for Motor Manufacturers and Traders agreed.\n\n\"The battery plant in Sunderland may be enough for Nissan's near-term plans to build tens of thousands of electric cars but the UK made 1.5 million cars last year and all will be partly electric by 2030,\" Mike Hawes said.\n\nAndy Palmer, former boss of Aston Martin and current chairman of electric bus maker Switch Mobility, has gone further. He says that 800,000 jobs are at risk if the UK government doesn't act now to foster battery investment.\n\n\"Without electric vehicle batteries made in the UK, the country's auto industry risks becoming an antiquated relic and overtaken by China, Japan, America and Europe.\"\n\nHe urged the UK government to use every lever at its disposal to make the UK attractive.\n\nUK car investment has fallen sharply since the UK voted to leave the EU.\n\nIn the five years to 2016 it averaged £3.5bn per year. In the four years since it has averaged around £1bn - a fall of 71% at a time when the technology and map of car production are going through their biggest revolution since the car was invented.\n\nThe Nissan decision is therefore a very welcome boost to the UK which is in an international scramble for the investment of the future which is happening right now.", "Police warned that unsanctioned protests would be \"immediately suppressed\"\n\nRussian police have detained close aides of the jailed opposition politician Alexei Navalny, as a string of nationwide protests gets under way.\n\nPolice have broken up demonstrations in the eastern Khabarovsk region, amid stern warnings for people to stay home.\n\nMr Navalny's supporters flooded social media with calls to rally at protests expected in dozens of cities later.\n\nHe is Russian leader Vladimir Putin's most high-profile critic.\n\nHe was arrested last Sunday after he flew back to Moscow from Berlin, where he had been recovering from a near-fatal nerve agent attack in Russia last August.\n\nOn his return, he was immediately taken into custody and found guilty of violating parole conditions. He says it is a trumped-up case designed to silence him.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alexei Navalny was filmed by the BBC saying goodbye to his wife and then being led away by authorities\n\nMore than 60m people have watched his new video about President Vladimir Putin's alleged luxury Black Sea palace.\n\nThe Kremlin denies the property belongs to the president.\n\nAmong those detained in Moscow on Thursday were his spokeswoman, Kira Yarmysh, and one of his lawyers, Lyubov Sobol. They face fines or short jail terms.\n\nMs Sobol, who has a young child, was later released. But Ms Yarmysh has now been jailed for nine days.\n\nProminent Navalny activists are also being held in the cities of Vladivostok, Novosibirsk and Krasnodar.\n\nUnauthorised rallies are being planned in more than 60 cities across Russia for Saturday. Moscow police say any unauthorised demonstrations and provocations will be \"immediately suppressed\".\n\nA thousand people were reported to have come onto the streets in the Khabarovsk region, with some of them already detained.\n\nMr Navalny's wife Yulia, who travelled back to Russia with him from Germany, said she would demonstrate in Moscow \"for myself, for him, for our children, for the values and the ideals that we share\".\n\nAlexei Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) has drawn millions of followers on social media, through slickly produced videos alleging large-scale official corruption. He has long denounced Mr Putin's administration as \"feudal\" and full of \"crooks and thieves\".\n\nFor a long time the Russian authorities made out that Alexei Navalny was irrelevant. Just a blogger. With a tiny following. No threat whatsoever.\n\nRecent events suggest the opposite. First Mr Navalny was targeted with a nerve agent, allegedly by a secret group of FSB state security hitmen. Instead of investigating the poisoning, Russia is investigating him: on his return from Germany the Kremlin critic was arrested.\n\nHaving put Mr Navalny behind bars, the authorities are putting pressure on his supporters. The Kremlin's greatest fear is of a Ukraine-style revolution in Russia that would sweep away those in power.\n\nThere's no indication that such a scenario is imminent. But with economic problems growing, the Kremlin will worry that Mr Navalny could act as a lightning rod for protest sentiment. That explains the police crackdown on Navalny allies ahead of Saturday's potential protests.\n\nPlus, this is getting personal. Mr Navalny's video about \"Putin's Palace\" on the Black Sea was designed to cause maximum embarrassment to the Russian president.\n\nIn the \"Putin's palace\" video Mr Navalny alleges that rich businessmen close to Mr Putin paid for a sumptuous 17,691sq m (190,424sq ft) palace for him at Gelendzhik, by the Black Sea.\n\nIt is alleged to have a casino, a theatre and many other comforts, including a vineyard and tea house in the sprawling grounds. The Kremlin dismissed the YouTube video as a \"pseudo-investigation\" aimed at earning money for Mr Navalny.\n\nProsecutors have warned people against protesting in support of Mr Navalny on Saturday. Russia's education ministry has told parents not to allow their children to attend.\n\nSome Russian celebrities in the arts and sports have pledged support for Mr Navalny. They include ice hockey star Artemi Panarin.\n\nFormer world chess champion Garry Kasparov - now a leading anti-Putin activist based in the US - tweeted that pro-Navalny posts were being widely blocked in Russia.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Garry Kasparov This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn a phone call to President Putin on Friday, EU Council President Charles Michel voiced \"grave concern\" about the jailing of Mr Navalny.\n\nMr Michel said the EU was \"united in its call on Russia to swiftly release Mr Navalny and proceed with the investigation into the assassination attempt on him, in full transparency and without further delay\".\n\nIn October, the EU imposed sanctions on six top Russian officials and a Russian chemical weapons research centre over the Novichok poisoning of Mr Navalny.\n\nThe Kremlin retaliated with tit-for-tat sanctions, denying any role in the attack and rejecting the expert finding that the Russian nerve agent had been used.\n\nThe Black Sea palace allegedly features a casino, an ice rink and a vineyard\n\nThe social media app TikTok has a flood of videos from Russians promoting the protests planned for Saturday. The messages about Mr Navalny have been going viral for several days.\n\nA well-known Russian TikTok user, Slava Varfolomeyev, told BBC Russian: \"I go on TikTok and find that every third video is about 'Putin's palace', the detention of Navalny and the 23 January rally!\"\n\nHe said that on Thursday \"this swelled to a maximum: practically seven out of every 10 videos were on that topic [Navalny]\". TikTok's popularity is based on short-form videos.\n\nOn Wednesday Russia's official media watchdog, Roskomnadzor, demanded that TikTok take down any information \"encouraging minors to act illegally\", threatening large fines.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Teresa Dalling says a river of orange water rushed through the village on Thursday\n\nSerious flooding which forced villagers from their homes was potentially caused by a mine shaft \"blow out\" during Storm Christoph, authorities have said.\n\nAbout 80 people were evacuated as water rushed through Skewen, Neath Port Talbot, on Thursday.\n\nResidents have been told they will not be able to return home this weekend or \"possibly longer\".\n\nThe Coal Authority said initial checks suggested water had built up in the shaft and flooded the village.\n\nCarl Banton, from the Coal Authority, said there had been a \"tremendous amount\" of rain recently and potentially a blockage in the drainage system could have caused the mine shaft to \"blow out\".\n\nMr Banton reassured people that officers had visually checked other mine shafts in the area and were \"not concerned\" any would collapse.\n\n\"The mine shaft in question is the one that was on actually on the water level, it has found its point of weakness,\" he said.\n\nCarl Banton said that while investigations were ongoing heavy rain may have overwhelmed the mine shaft\n\nA major incident was declared as water rushed into the village on Thursday, leaving eight streets underwater as Storm Christoph caused widespread flooding across Wales.\n\nOn Friday, as firefighters continued to pump water out of the village, Natural Resources Wales (NRW) confirmed the Tennant Canal had been polluted \"from mine water\".\n\nLate on Friday evening, Neath Port Talbot council said, for safety reasons, people forced to leave their homes would \"not be able to return home this weekend, and the wait could possibly longer\".\n\nA support centre will open at Abbey Primary School from Saturday, with council officers on site to help people access emergency support.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Coal Authority, which manages the effects of historical coal mining, are investigating the cause of the flooding.\n\nMr Banton said initial findings showed there may have been a build-up of water on the hillside which had \"found its way out\" through the mine shaft, flooding the village.\n\n\"The flow appears to be subsiding... but what we are unsure of is if there is a feed of additional water into the mine workings, from the extensive mine workings on the hillside,\" he added.\n\nAt least 80 people have had to leave their homes in the village after flooding\n\nMr Banton said officers would drill down into the shaft and investigate on Saturday, in the hope that people could soon be allowed back into their homes.\n\n\"A lot of the mining in this area is very old... some of it dates back to the early 1800s... we have no details of how the shaft in question here was originally filled or capped,\" he said.\n\n\"We will ensure the mine shaft is properly capped and sorted out.\"\n\nMartyn Evans, of NRW, said officers were looking at how to minimise the risk of pollution to nearby rivers, and investigating any impacts on the River Neath.\n\n\"We have also carried out tests on other watercourses in the vicinity of the incident. Results indicate there has been no significant impact on those at present,\" he said.\n\nOn Thursday night a further 20 homes were evacuated by emergency services as the water continued to rush through the village.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford confirmed on Friday financial support would be made available to people affected by the recent floods, up to £1,000 per household.\n\n\"This is the same level of support available a year ago when storms Ciara and Dennis hit Wales, just before the pandemic,\" he said.\n\nThe water is warmer than the air and is creating a mist along Dynevor Road\n\nSkewen resident John Thomas said he returned home from a funeral with wife Lynne on Thursday to find their house had turned into \"a lake\", he told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast.\n\nHe said: \"The water was around the level of the bottom of the doors so we couldn't go in, so we just had to stand there and watch this orange-coloured water just piling up and up and up.\"\n\nMr Thomas said that with water up to his waist, he was unable to get in to rescue possessions.\n\nHe added: \"We're in a bit of a dip on the road, so you could see it gradually coming up, they were worried it might have been a sinkhole because of the coal mines.\n\n\"It's definitely mine workings, just by looking at the colour of the water, it's an orange colour.\n\n\"Other people who were evacuated had the chance to move things upstairs, I didn't have a chance to do that because I couldn't get in to it.\"\n\nThe couple are now staying with their daughter, with everyone else who was evacuated from their homes finding accommodation and told to avoid the area.\n\nMore than 30 residents of Cwrt-Clwydi-Gwyn care home were among those moved as a precaution.\n\nIt was a sleepless night for Skewen resident Teresa Dalling\n\nTeresa Dalling, who lives in Dynevor Road, said she had spent the night fearing for her safety.\n\n\"I haven't slept. I was up the back door every two hours checking the water level,\" she said.\n\n\"I didn't know we lived near old mines and if there's been a collapse, my fear is more could follow and that's terrifying.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Stephen Kinnock This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAs well as properties, vehicles were submerged in water\n\nUp to 45 firefighters were involved at the scene at the height of the flooding.\n\nIn a joint statement, the police, fire service and Neath Port Talbot Council urged people not to return to their homes until it was safe.\n\nCh Supt Trudi Meyrick said: \"We appreciate people are eager to get back to their homes and we are working with partners to allow this to happen as soon as it is safe to do so.\n\n\"In the meantime we ask people to please be patient as their safety is our top priority.\"\n\nIn one home, floodwater can be seen filling the living room\n\nFirefighters are continuing to pump water out of the village where people were forced to leave their homes\n\nDeputy Chief Fire Officer Roger Thomas, of Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service, said firefighters remained in the village, pumping out water.\n\nHe said: \"We will continue to monitor the situation and support our partner agencies and those affected over the next few days.\"\n\nHomes were evacuated at Goshen Park, in Skewen\n\nNeath Port Talbot council said a local rest centre was available, and measures had been put in place to protect against Covid-19.\n\nChief executive Karen Jones said they would continue to support residents who had to leave their homes and they would ensure others had a safe place to go if further evacuations were necessary.\n\nNetwork Rail said engineers had checked for any potential damage to the railway line, but had found no \"cause for concern\".\n\nThe water has rushed through the streets of the town\n\nA severe flood warning remains in force for the Lower Dee Valley, from Llangollen to Trevalyn Meadows.\n\nThree flood warnings are in place for the River Wye at Monmouth, River Ritec at Tenby, and Bangor-on-Dee, where people were forced to leave their homes on Thursday as flooding saw a major incident declared. Eleven flood alerts are also in place.\n\nSnow and ice could also exacerbate issues for emergency services and those forced to leave their homes, with temperatures forecast to plummet in coming days.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nFive-time finalist Andy Murray will miss the Australian Open after a solution to find a \"workable quarantine\" following his positive test for coronavirus could not be found.\n\nThe 33-year-old Briton was set to fly out to Melbourne last week, but was not allowed to travel on a charter flight after being found to have Covid-19.\n\nThe former world number one had hoped to travel safely and compete as planned on the back of a negative test.\n\nMurray said he was \"gutted\" not to go.\n\nHe was asymptomatic and is now out of self-isolation, but finding a way for him to travel to Australia and then going into quarantine before the tournament starts on 8 February proved too difficult.\n\n\"We've been in constant dialogue with Tennis Australia to try and find a solution which would allow some form of workable quarantine, but we couldn't make it work,\" said Murray.\n\n\"I want to thank everyone there for their efforts. I'm devastated not to be playing out in Australia. It's a country and tournament that I love.\"\n\nMurray was able to play only seven official matches in 2020 because of a lingering pelvic injury, and the five-month suspension of the tours because of the pandemic.\n\nAt 123rd in the world, he was ranked too low to gain direct entry into Australian Open so the three-time Grand Slam champion was given a wildcard.\n\nThe Australian Open at Melbourne Park is starting three weeks later than usual because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nPlayers had to test negative before taking one of the 15 chartered flights - which were put on last week by tournament organisers and operated at 25% capacity - to Australia.\n\nOn arrival, the players and their support staff went straight into a 14-day quarantine under the conditions imposed by the Australian government.\n\nThat agreement allowed them out of their rooms for up to five hours a day for food and practice.\n\nHowever, 72 players have been confined to their rooms in a tougher quarantine - which led to some complaints and creative ways of staying fit - after they travelled on three flights where positive cases were found on arrival.\n\nHaving missed his flight to Melbourne, and therefore last weekend's window for the players to begin 14 days of quarantine, Murray was always up against it.\n\nThere are no health issues, and no injury concerns, and Murray had been hoping he could make it to Australia to complete quarantine in time to play a first-round match on either 8 or 9 February.\n\nBut the only \"workable quarantine\" would have included five hours out of his room every day. This was no longer available, and no player - irrespective of age or injury history - would want to play a Grand Slam first-round match just hours after two weeks in a hotel room.\n\nMurray is understandably devastated: he knows that at 33, and with two hip operations behind him, he cannot guarantee there will be another opportunity.\n\nBut it would have been a long way to travel potentially to lose in the first round, and receiving a special exemption may not have sat well with Murray over time.\n\nInstead, he will work with his team on his next move. Montpellier and Rotterdam are the next two ATP tournaments in Europe, although nothing is easy with Covid travel restrictions.\n• None You can stream five fourth-round games live on the BBC this weekend, including Liverpool's trip to Manchester United. Find out more here.", "Jane Midgley says she needs answers about the death of her son, Simon\n\nThe mother of a man killed in a fire at a hotel on the shores of Loch Lomond more than two years ago has said it is \"torture\" not knowing why he died.\n\nSimon Midgley, 32, and Richard Dyson, 38, died in the fire which fire broke out at the Cameron House Hotel in 2017.\n\nJane Midgley said she needs answers about what led to Simon's death.\n\nThe Crown Office said it was committed to ensuring the circumstances around the deaths were aired in an \"appropriate legal forum\".\n\nMs Midgley said every day without answers was like the day she found out about his death.\n\n\"I just live it every single day and I can't cope with it much longer,\" she said. \"I need to know why they are not here and it's so difficult.\n\n\"I need answers. Why are these boys not here anymore? Why did this happen? Nearly three years on, no one is telling me.\"\n\nRichard Dyson and Simon Midgley were thought to be on a winter break in Scotland\n\nShe told BBC Scotland she wakes up during the night thinking about her son, asking herself \"has this really happened?\".\n\n\"Nearly three years on, should I still be feeling this hurt and pain?\"\n\nAfter the fire, the emergency services conducted investigations.\n\nWhile this can be a lengthy process, reports from the fire service and the police were passed to the Crown months ago.\n\nMs Midgley criticised prosecutors for not providing her with more information. She added she thinks they should be in contact with her more regularly than every four weeks.\n\nShe said: \"When the Crown say that they regularly update the family and are in regular contact that is always to say... 'it's still ongoing', 'we'll update you with anything significant', 'it's complicated'.\"\n\nShe added that there were many questions she still wanted answers to.\n\n\"The most important thing is finding out why Simon couldn't get out of that hotel that night - what went wrong. I have no idea, I've got to understand, I just need the answers.\n\n\"I need to know how it happened. I need to know why the boys didn't get out of that hotel when it was on fire, how it started, where it started, why they could not get out, could it have been prevented... it is pure torture.\"\n\nFire broke out at the Cameron House hotel in 2017\n\nMr Midgley was a freelance writer with the Evening Standard. Following his death the newspaper's editor, George Osbourne, paid tribute to Mr Midgley's \"adventurous spirit\".\n\nA spokesman for the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service said: \"Our staff have been in regular contact with the nearest relatives and provided them with information at every stage.\n\n\"The information that can be shared while a case is being investigated is limited so as not to prejudice any potential proceedings.\n\n\"The Crown‎ is committed to ensuring that the facts and circumstances surrounding the deaths of Simon Midgley and Richard Dyson are thoroughly investigated by the relevant agencies, fully considered by COPFS and, in due course, aired in an appropriate legal forum.\n\n\"The nearest relatives will continue to be kept updated in relation to any significant developments.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Amy says her flat isn't worth anything until it is made safe\n\nThe government's fund to pay for the removal of dangerous cladding is woefully inadequate, oversubscribed and taking too long to make buildings safe, campaigners say.\n\nMore than three and a half years since the Grenfell Tower fire which killed 72 people, an estimated 700,000 people are still living in high-rise blocks with flammable cladding.\n\nThe £1.6bn Building Safety Programme was set up in 2019. Concerns have emerged about the contract that the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government requires applicants to the fund, usually managing agents or building owners, to sign.\n\nA clause in the contract, seen by the BBC, indicates applicants will be financially liable for any repair work not covered by the fund.\n\nThe BBC has learnt that some managing agents are refusing to sign the document, further delaying the repair work, and have written to the government asking ministers to clarify the position.\n\nChristian Hansen, a solicitor at Bindmans LLP specialising in housing law and fire safety claims, said the contract showed that \"there's going to be a significant shortfall between the costs of the [repair] works that are required and the funding provided under the scheme\".\n\n\"Someone is going to need to pick up the bill and pay the difference. This contract makes clear it's going to be the leaseholders and for many, this could be tens of thousands of pounds, potentially ruinous costs,\" he warned.\n\nMr Hansen said that leaseholders wanted the focus of government action \"to be on the manufacturers of the defective materials and construction companies who built these buildings\".\n\n\"At the moment, they are the ones profiting from putting people's lives at risk.\"\n\n\"It is absolutely terrifying knowing that you are stuck here,\" says Amy\n\nFirst-time buyer Amy Cottenden, who is 28, bought a one-bed flat in Metis Tower in the centre of Sheffield for £85,000 in 2017.\n\nInspections of the 14-storey building in the wake of the Grenfell Tower tragedy revealed it had the same type of flammable ACM cladding and other safety faults.\n\nWork to remove the cladding started last month, but Ms Cottenden, who is a frontline NHS health worker, is frustrated at what she describes as a lack of progress.\n\n\"The pace of work is extremely slow. So far, they've put scaffolding up and removed three panels. They have told us it's going to take between 12 and 24 months just to take the cladding off,\" she said.\n\n\"It is absolutely terrifying knowing that you are stuck here. With lockdown, they are saying not to go out, but you are in a building where all you want to do is not be in it. You can't leave. You can't sell. My flat isn't worth anything until it is made safe.\"\n\nWhile the government's Building Safety Fund is paying for the Grenfell-style cladding to be removed, the building has other fire safety faults, including missing fire breaks, that aren't covered by the scheme.\n\nIt could cost up to £6m to fix. Flat owners fear they may face huge bills of up to £50,000 each.\n\n\"We can't pay it and we shouldn't have to pay it. It is not our fault. We could all go bankrupt because of this,\" Ms Cottenden said.\n\nA spokesperson for Rendall & Rittner, the company which manages Metis Tower, said government funding to remove ACM cladding had been approved totalling £6.3m.\n\nHowever, an application to the same fund to pay for the removal of other types of unsafe cladding was rejected and the company has appealed against that decision.\n\nThe company added: \"We understand and sympathise with residents and owners about the uncertainty that this situation is causing and will do all we can to assist.\"\n\nWhat started as a cladding scandal has now become a much wider building safety crisis, exposing decades of regulatory failure.\n\nSafety inspections have revealed that many buildings have other serious faults, including missing fire breaks, flammable balconies and defective insulation. None of that is covered by the government's Building Safety Fund.\n\nDr Nigel Glen, the chief executive of ARMA, the trade association for residential leasehold management, said the additional costs that leaseholders were currently facing for non-cladding-related issues remained a huge concern.\n\n\"In the longer term, the draining of reserve funds will also mean that in the years to come, any major works that were being saved up for, such as a new roof or lift repairs, will have to be funded anew by the leaseholders,\" he added.\n\nA spokesperson for the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government said that despite the pandemic, significant progress had been made to remove dangerous cladding, but \"building safety remains the responsibility of the building owner and we expect them to ensure any necessary work is carried out safely and effectively\".\n\n\"All applicants to the Building Safety Fund are told the amount of funding they have been awarded before being asked to sign contracts - this is clearly explained in the guidance,\" the spokesperson added.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This is the moment a police officer broke up a house party on Saturday\n\nA minority still breaking Covid lockdown rules could make the pandemic \"stretch longer\" in Wales, a senior police officer has warned.\n\nThe \"gold commander\" for policing lockdown across the Gwent force area said he wanted to thank the vast majority for sticking to the law.\n\nBut Chief Superintendent Mark Hobrough said those \"blatantly flouting\" rules would face enforcement action.\n\nNearly 3,800 fines have been issued in Wales for Covid rule breaches.\n\nThe latest figures released by UK police forces revealed nearly three-quarters of those fines went to men, and the largest group falling foul of Covid rules were aged between 18 and 24.\n\nCh Supt Hobrough, who oversees Gwent Police's response to Covid-19, said he and his officers had seen a change in the way the public responded to the restrictions since the first lockdown was announced in March 2020.\n\n\"When it first started there was certainly a lack of understanding among the public,\" he said.\n\n\"We were called for advice and questions on what was allowed or not allowed, which we've certainly seen diminish.\"\n\nHe said initially his force was dealing with breaches of regulations by pubs and bars, or people holding house parties.\n\n\"That has changed over time. We still have experiences of house parties and people congregating in houses, which just isn't allowed obviously.\n\n\"But I think we are also seeing breaches in relation to people congregating in beauty spots and maybe not exercising in line with the requirements.\"\n\nAccording to the National Police Chiefs' Council, there were 3,770 fixed penalty notices issues by the four Welsh forces between the last Friday in March and 20 December last year.\n\nOf those fines, 2,188 were for breaching rules on movement restrictions, while 823 faced penalties for gathering in private properties outside their own households.\n\nA further 113 notices were issued to individuals for staying in Wales when it was not their main residence, and 89 were hit with fines for entering or leaving local health protection areas, when many counties in Wales had separate travel restrictions in place in the autumn.\n\nThe figures also reveal that just two fines were issued in the period for failing to wear a face covering in designated indoor areas.\n\nSgt Dan Wise says enforcement is sometimes the only option for his team\n\nOut on the streets of Newport, and around the rest of the Gwent force area, the officers on the ground said they wanted to educate the public whenever rules changed, but they will enforce clear breaches.\n\n\"Some of the things people have been stopped for are travelling into Wales to look at the snow,\" said Sgt Dan Wise, as he carried out checks on motorists in Newport.\n\n\"Others are travelling to local beauty spots to exercise. Obviously, these are things that are not acceptable.\"\n\nHe said as the pandemic continues, with high numbers of cases and given how easily the virus can spread, \"we will look to enforce where people are blatantly flouting the rules\".\n\nAt the Gwent Police headquarters, Ch Supt Hobrough said he had this message for the minority of \"those people who aren't abiding\" by the rules: \"It would very much be within everybody's interest for them to reflect on the way they are conducting themselves.\n\n\"Because that minority of people who aren't abiding are possibly making this pandemic stretch longer.\"\n• None Coronavirus legislation and guidance on the law - GOV.WALES The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "David and Victoria Beckham have paid themselves £21m from their sports and media business since 2019, according to the their latest accounts.\n\nThis is despite continued heavy losses at Ms Beckham's fashion business, where trade has worsened during the pandemic.\n\nProfit at David Beckham Ventures Limited (DBVL), the brand management firm owned by the former footballer and his wife, fell £3.5m to £11.3m in 2019.\n\nThis was in part due to money spent on expansion and charitable donations.\n\nHowever, the celebrity couple still paid themselves a £14.5m dividend at the end of 2019, accounts show, and took a further £7.1m in 2020.\n\nA spokesman attributed the payments to \"profitable performance\" at DBVL, which among other things manages Mr Beckham's strategic partnerships with Adidas and Haig Club whisky.\n\nHe also noted that the company's revenue climbed by £600,000 in 2019 to £16.2m.\n\nHowever, Victoria Beckham Holdings (VBHL), which manages the former Spice Girl's fashion label, fared much worse during that time.\n\nLosses at the business - which is also backed by the Beckhams' former business partner Simon Fuller and private equity firm NEO investment Partners - widened to £16.6m during the year, following a loss of £12.5m in 2018.\n\nIt marked the seventh year the brand has been in the red since it was founded in 2008.\n\nVBHL blamed costs associated with the launch of the Victoria Beckham Beauty business, a new cosmetics range in which the group has an 85% shareholding.\n\nIt also noted that total sales across the whole business were up by 7% in 2019.\n\nNevertheless, auditors BDO, who signed off on the accounts, warned that the business was now reliant on shareholder support to keep going which could \"cast significant doubt on the company's ability to continue as a going concern\".\n\nAs the pandemic hammered the business last April, VBHL had to borrow £9.2m from its shareholders to repay an outstanding bank loan to HSBC after breaking its debt covenants.\n\nVBHL said it was doing all it could to \"navigate\" the coronavirus crisis, including taking \"all actions possible to conserve cash\".\n\n\"All non-essential expenditure is being deferred and hiring freezes have been implemented for open positions.to enable the company to navigate through this pandemic,\" it said.", "The company said its milk processing was highly automated with no risk to the products caused by the virus outbreak\n\nOne worker at a dairy has died after contracting coronavirus and 95 others are self-isolating.\n\nMuller Milk & Ingredients said 47 staff members who work at the company's dairy near Bridgwater, Somerset, have tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nIt said it was now testing all 300 workers at its site in North Petherton.\n\nA spokesman for the firm said the safety of its products had not been affected by the outbreak at its factory.\n\nIt was working with Public Health England and the council to help with mass testing, he added.\n\nThe employee was taken to hospital but died. The firm said its thoughts were with the worker's family and friends.\n\nProduction has since been reduced at the site.\n\nThe spokesman added: \"It is important to stress that fresh milk processing is highly automated ensuring no risk to products, with our Bridgwater facility one of the most modern dairies in the UK.\n\n\"As we have done throughout the pandemic, we are placing the safety of our employees first and following best practice as set down by the Health and Safety Executive.\n\n\"Standard measures in place include the use of facemasks, distancing, enhanced deep cleaning and hygiene, underpinned by a programme of e-learning, information and audits to ensure compliance and awareness of the measures.\"\n\nSomerset County Council said it was working closely with Public Health England and the factory and that further testing was being done throughout Thursday.\n\n\"The [council's] rapid outbreak testing team is carrying out further workforce testing today, for workers who were not present on Monday shifts.\n\n\"The testing on Monday identified a number of staff who were positive but asymptomatic, who are now isolating,\" a spokesman said.", "Elizabeth Kerr and Simon O'Brien were married moments before he was put on a mechanical ventilator\n\nAn engaged couple taken to hospital in the same ambulance with Covid-19 were able to marry moments before the man was sedated and put on a ventilator.\n\nElizabeth Kerr, 31, and Simon O'Brien, 36, were taken to Milton Keynes University Hospital with breathing difficulties on 9 January.\n\nStaff rallied to arrange a wedding as the groom's condition worsened.\n\nThey held off intubating Mr O'Brien so the ceremony could go ahead. The couple are now recovering in hospital.\n\nMrs Kerr, a nurse, and Mr O'Brien had planned to marry in June.\n\nBoth contracted the disease and were taken to hospital together when their oxygen levels fell dangerously low.\n\nThey were placed on separate wards but when Mrs Kerr told nurse Hannah Cannon about their wedding plans, she asked her if they would like to marry in the hospital.\n\nMrs Kerr said she was told it could be their only chance.\n\n\"Those are words I never, ever want to hear again,\" she said.\n\nA photo on Mrs Kerr's phone shows the wedding took place in the beds of the intensive care unit\n\nHowever, while staff were securing the wedding licence, Mr O'Brien's condition further deteriorated and on 12 January he was placed on the intensive care unit, to be put on a ventilator.\n\nThey waited to intubate him just long enough for the ceremony to go ahead.\n\nMs Cannon said: \"With lots of teamwork... we were able to give them a wedding, not necessarily the wedding that they would have initially intended, but certainly something positive, remarkable and memorable for them to really hold on to.\"\n\nShe filmed the marriage for the couple's families and friends, and catering staff at the hospital provided a cake.\n\nShortly after saying \"I do\", Mr O'Brien was placed on the ventilator.\n\nThe couple have now been reunited on a recovery ward and were able to kiss for the first time since being married.\n\nMrs Kerr said having the wedding meant \"everything\" to them.\n\n\"If we hadn't had each other and we hadn't been given that opportunity to get married, I don't think both of us would be here now,\" she added.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The White House has just put out a statement marking the 48th anniversary of Roe v Wade, the Supreme Court decision that essentially legalised the right to abortion.\n\n\"In the past four years, reproductive health, including the right to choose, has been under relentless and extreme attack,\" the statement from Biden and Harris begins .\n\nThey go on to say they are committed to \"codifying\" the judgement, which means pass legislation through Congress that enshrines abortion access into law.\n\nThey will also appoint judges who will support abortion access, they say. Trump, during his time in office, was able to give the Supreme Court a conservative majority, making anti-abortion activists hopeful that Roe v Wade could eventually be overturned.\n\nBiden was the only candidate during the primary to say he endorsed the so-called Hyde Amendment, which says that no federal funds can go towards abortions. After nearly all 22 other candidates came out against the Hyde Amendment, he reversed his stance.\n\nAlthough abortion is technically legal across the US, multiple states have instituted laws that make it nearly impossible in practice. Abortion activists hope that a law would make it more difficult for local governments to restrict access.", "Michelle O'Neill and Arlene Foster were advised restrictions may have to remain in place until after Easter\n\nCoronavirus lockdown restrictions in Northern Ireland will be extended until 5 March, the first and deputy first ministers have said.\n\nThe executive backed the health minister's proposal on Thursday and will review the move on 18 February.\n\nBut ministers were also told that restrictions may have to remain in place until after the Easter holidays.\n\nA lockdown closing non-essential retailers and encouraging employees to work from home began after Christmas.\n\nFamily gatherings are prohibited and people have been ordered to stay at home for all but essential reasons.\n\nSchools are closed to most pupils until after February's half-term but a paper looking at reopening will be put to ministers at next week's executive meeting.\n\nThe lockdown came in response to a spike in the number of cases of coronavirus, which followed a relaxation of some rules in the run-up to Christmas.\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster said extending the restrictions was an \"appropriate and necessary response\" to tackle the \"imminent threat\" posed by Covid-19.\n\nShe said she understood it would be difficult for many people to accept, given the uncertainty facing families and businesses, but added: \"To not press forward would risk all of the hard-won gains.\"\n\nThe first and deputy first ministers were right to state just how tough this decision will be for many people.\n\nBut there's an acceptance among the public that restrictions would have to be extended, given how bad things are in our hospitals.\n\nTheir decision also suggests politicians have perhaps learned from the last wave of the pandemic, when restrictions were turned on and off sporadically, and the impact that had both on cases and the messaging.\n\nThey're not alone in sustaining tough lockdown measures, with other UK nations and the Republic of Ireland also keeping their restrictions in place for several more weeks.\n\nBeyond that, it is thought health officials also want to ensure the vaccination programme is also \"well advanced\" before any restrictions are relaxed.\n\nThe hope is that, by spring, the picture will have improved significantly.\n\nUntil then the price we are paying for relaxations before Christmas looks likely to keep rising.\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said she recognised the executive was asking a lot of everybody but insisted the measures were important.\n\n\"We don't know what will come after [5 March],\" she said.\n\nMs O'Neill said there was a commitment not to keep restrictions in place longer than necessary but decisions would have to be taken in line with the health advice and concerns about a new variant of the virus which is more transmissible.\n\nThe executive's decision comes as another 21 deaths were recorded by the Department of Health on Thursday.\n\nThe reproductive rate of the virus - known as the R-number - had risen to about 1.8 due to Christmas relaxations.\n\nBut the latest estimate from the Department of Health says it is sitting between 0.65 and 0.85 for cases within the community but is still above one for hospital admissions and intensive care.\n\nWhile some may wonder why are restrictions are being extended when the executive's policy has always been based on this rate of infection, the difference is that this time around there are three times as many people in Northern Ireland's hospitals than there were in last April's peak.\n\nDaily case numbers are still significantly higher too.\n\nWhile ministers have agreed to keep the current restrictions in place until March, Health Minister Robin Swann said it was possible they could be needed until Easter, which this year falls in the first week of April.\n\nMinisters say they understand the extension of the lockdown will be difficult for people\n\nIt is understood this plan is being discussed across the four UK nations but ministers will have to consider that in the review next month.\n\nMinisters were also warned that restrictions would be eased on a step-by-step basis in line with reducing pressures on the health service and ensuring the vaccination programme is \"well advanced\" before any relaxations are agreed.\n\nMrs Foster pleaded with people struggling with their mental health during the lockdown to \"please seek help\".\n\nMore than 100 medically-trained military personnel are to be deployed to help health staff deal with the pressure the latest phase of the pandemic is placing on hospitals.\n\nThe chief medical officer Dr Michael McBride said the \"sustained pressure on our health service\" would probably last for three to four weeks.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, 51 Covid-19 related deaths and 2,608 new cases of the virus were recorded on Thursday.\n\nSimon Hamilton, the chief executive of the Belfast Chamber of Trade and Commerce, said the extension of the lockdown would be of \"little surprise to most businesses\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Stormont executive has agreed how to allocate almost £300m to help businesses, education, tourism and transport during the next phase of the lockdown.\n\nA total of £100m is going towards the Local Restrictions Support Scheme, the grant for business premises forced to closed due to the restrictions.\n\nThere will also be £16m for tourism and hospitality, two sectors which have largely been unable to operate.\n\nIn addition, two more support schemes for the sector have been opened.\n\nOne aimed at large tourism and hospitality businesses is offering a pot of £26m, with the Department for Economy having identified 250 businesses that will be eligible.\n\nThe other is a £4m scheme to support those who provide bed-and-breakfast accommodation.\n\nMore money is being made available to help businesses affected by the lockdown\n\nJanice Gault from the trade body the Northern Ireland Hotels Federation said the schemes were a \"real lifeline for the sector\".\n\n\"Trading over the last year has been limited with reserves now severely depleted and businesses operating in survival mode,\" she added.\n\nAlso among those to receive the extra cash will be limited company directors, who had not received support since March.\n\nLast week, a scheme was announced to give directors £1,000 grants which one director described as a \"kick in the teeth\" given that he had little to no income for the past 10 months.\n\nBut that scheme is to be boosted with another £20m so the payments on offer will more than treble to £3,500.\n\nLocal newspapers will also benefit from 12 months of rates relief.", "Mick Norcross, 57, was found dead at his home in Essex on Thursday\n\nFormer The Only Way Is Essex star Mick Norcross has died at the age of 57.\n\nThe businessman and father of Kirk Norcross, who also appeared in the ITV show, was found dead at his home in Bulphan at 15:15 GMT on Thursday.\n\nEssex Police said the death was not being treated as suspicious.\n\nIn tributes on social media, fellow Towie stars past and present, including Gemma Collins and James \"Arg\" Argent, called him \"one of the good guys\" and a \"true gentleman\".\n\nNorcross first appeared in the reality show in 2011 in his position as owner of Sugar Hut, a Brentwood nightclub which was often attended by the cast.\n\nHe left the show two years later, stating that the venue's prominent place in Towie had damaged its brand.\n\nThe star posted a tweet to his 505,000 followers on Thursday morning saying: \"At the end remind yourself that you did the best you could. And that's good enough.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Sugar Hut This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe club tweeted that \"Mr Sugarhut\" had been a \"very talented, friendly and fun guy\" and a \"true Essex legend, who will be sorely missed\".\n\nCollins, who briefly dated Norcross during their time on the show, shared a photo of them together on Instagram and said he had been \"one of the good guys\", while Argent tweeted that he had been \"a true gentleman and a very kind man\".\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by gemmacollins This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTributes were also shared by Towie stars Lauren Goodger and Mario Falcone, with the latter tweeting that he was \"thankful I got the privilege of having you in my life\".\n\nIn another tweet, Mark Wright, the Towie star turned TV presenter and professional footballer, said he was \"a great man, an inspiration to many, always so polite and welcoming\".\n\nPresenter Denise Van Outen tweeted that he was \"such a lovely man\" while TV chef James Martin, posted that he was \"a true gentleman, who I had the pleasure to meet and spend evenings with over the years\".\n\nThe Only Way Is Essex posted a tribute on Instagram, saying the team behind the show were \"shocked and deeply saddened\".\n\nThey said: \"He was hugely popular with cast, crew and the audience alike. Charming, generous and host to many of Essex's most glamorous events, Mick will be missed by us all.\"\n\nAn Essex Police spokesman said officers \"were called to an address in Brentwood Road, Bulphan shortly before 15:15 on Thursday\" and \"sadly, a man inside was pronounced dead\".\n\nThe police spokesman said the death was \"not being treated as suspicious and a file will be prepared for the coroner\".\n\nIf you have been affected by any of the issues in this article, information and support is available from BBC Action Line.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Police said they had been in contact with the family before the funeral took place \"in an attempt to ensure safety\"\n\nA funeral director has been fined £10,000 after police were called to a funeral with close to 150 people in attendance.\n\nHertfordshire Police said the large gathering in Welwyn Garden City on Thursday was reported to them by members of the public.\n\nCoronavirus rules mean a maximum of 30 people can attend a funeral.\n\nA second person was fined, by Bedfordshire Police, for when the gathering was in Arlesey, Bedfordshire.\n\nSupt Nick Caveney, of Hertfordshire Police, said: \"This was a clear and blatant breach of the current restrictions.\"\n\nHe said the fine was given to the funeral director \"for not managing this event correctly and advising their clients of the rules\".\n\n\"We implore all business owners to ensure they are following the restrictions safely and responsibly,\" he said.\n\n\"Flagrant breaches such as this will not be tolerated.\"\n\nThe force said it had worked with other agencies and the family in advance of the funeral \"in an attempt to ensure the safety of those attending and that of the wider public\".\n\nBut when officers attended they found the large number of people at the church, and a 41-year-old man from Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, was handed the £10,000 fine after police served a fixed penalty notice.\n\nSeveral members of the public had contacted the force about the funeral at the Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady, Queen of Apostles on Woodhall Lane.\n\nBedfordshire Police said a man in his 30s was issued with the fine over the gathering.\n\nCh Supt John Murphy from the force said: \"Fines and enforcement are a last resort for us, and we will always engage and work with families in the first instance.\n\n\"But we need to take firm action against those who brazenly decide to go against the guidelines outlined by the government and put a large number of people at risk.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Mr Olowo said his wife was \"as near perfection as it's possible to be\"\n\nA woman who died after having liposuction in Turkey had been fed up with people asking if she was pregnant, an inquest heard.\n\nAbimbola Ajoke Bamgbose, 38, of Dartford, Kent, died in August after having the treatment in Izmir.\n\nHusband Moyosore Olowo said he believed she was on holiday with friends until she called to say she was in pain.\n\nHe went to Turkey after she stopped calling and found she had been rushed to hospital for more surgery.\n\nMrs Bamgbose, who also had a Brazilian butt lift, died there two weeks later, the inquest in Maidstone heard.\n\nMr Olowo, a rail safety officer, said his wife paid £5,000 for the package with Mono Cosmetic Surgery as UK treatment was too expensive.\n\nDescribing why she wanted it, he said: \"When a woman is unhappy and getting feelings about her looks, the clothes she buys do not fit and people ask if she is pregnant because of her tummy, sometimes there is nothing we can do. We are powerless.\n\n\"I wasn't concerned. I told her 'you have three children'. I told her my tummy is bigger than hers.\"\n\nHe said his wife, a social worker who graduated with a first class degree, was \"as near perfection as it's possible to be\".\n\nMr Olowo said the medical director in Turkey \"confessed it had been a mistake\".\n\nAssistant coroner Alan Blundson recorded a narrative conclusion, and said: \"This is a tragic case, the more so because the surgery was elective cosmetic surgery.\n\n\"Whilst Mrs Bamgbose was determined to have it performed, her husband had not seen it in any way as necessary.\"\n\nA post-mortem examination found Mrs Bamgbose had a perforated bowel and her death was caused by peritonitis with multiple organ failure as a complication of liposuction surgery.\n\nMr Olowo has said he is suing Mono and the surgeon, Dr Hakan Aydogan, for £1m in the Turkish courts, claiming medical negligence.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Reports suggest AstraZeneca may have warned of a 60% cut to doses available\n\nA second coronavirus vaccine manufacturer has warned of supply issues to the European Union, compounding frustration in the bloc.\n\nAstraZeneca said a production problem meant the number of initial doses available would be lower than expected.\n\nThe fresh blow comes after some nations' inoculation programmes were slowed due to a cut in deliveries of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.\n\nThe EU Health Commissioner expressed \"deep dissatisfaction\" at the news.\n\nOfficials have not confirmed publicly how big the shortfall will be, but an unnamed EU official told Reuters news agency that deliveries would be reduced to 31m - a cut of 60% - in the first quarter of this year.\n\nThe drug firm had been set to deliver about 80 million doses to the 27 nations by March, according to the official who spoke to Reuters.\n\nThe AstraZeneca vaccine, developed with Oxford University, has not yet been approved by the EU's drug regulator but is expected to get the green light at the end of this month, paving the way for jabs to be given.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA spokesman for AstraZeneca said on Friday that \"initial volumes will be lower than originally anticipated\" without giving further details.\n\nHis written statement blamed the discrepancy on \"reduced yields at a manufacturing site within our European supply chain\" and said the firm was continuing to ramp up production volumes.\n\nNews of the delay comes amid criticism and frustration across the region about the speed of vaccination roll-outs.\n\nIsrael, the United Arab Emirates, the UK, and the US are all well ahead of EU nations in terms of doses given per capita so far.\n\nThe European Commission has co-ordinated orders for all member states, with vaccines then distributed based on their population size.\n\nVaccines are increasingly seen by experts as the only way out of the Covid-19 crisis, with many European nations struggling to cope with a deadly surge of the virus over the winter period.\n\nAustrian media have reported that only 600,000 of two million AstraZeneca doses promised by the end of March will arrive in the country on time, with the remaining 1.4m now being delivered in April.\n\nA delay would be \"completely unacceptable\", Austrian Health Minister Rudolf Anschober said on Friday.\n\nAs for Pfizer, the US firm said it had to cut shipments for the next few weeks while it worked to increase capacity at its Belgian processing plant. The EU has ordered 600 million doses from Pfizer.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Ursula von der Leyen This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSome regions, including Germany's most populous state North-Rhine Westphalia and parts of Italy, said earlier this week that they were suspending giving first jabs of the two-dose vaccine because of the shortages.\n\nItaly and Poland have threatened to take legal action in response to the reduction in vaccine supply.\n\nMeanwhile Hungary's government, which has complained over the time it is taking EU regulators to approve the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, has reached a deal with Russia to buy up large quantities of its Sputnik V vaccine, even though it has not received EU approval.\n\nEuropean Council President Charles Michel, who led a call of EU leaders this week, said Thursday that officials were considering all ideas to try and stop future vaccine delays.\n\n\"All possible means will be examined to ensure rapid supply, including early distribution to avoid delays,\" he said.\n\nEuropean Commission president Ursula von der Leyen and Mr Michel both say they are still aiming for the target of 70% of the EU population being vaccinated by summer.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid vaccine safety: How does a vaccine get approved?\n\nThe total number of German Covid deaths climbed above 50,000 on Friday - a day after the country warned that it could close its borders if other EU countries were less strict in controlling the virus. Berlin sounded the alarm amid rising concern about new variants.\n\nEU leaders agreed late on Thursday to keep their internal borders open but warned non-essential travel might need to be restricted to curb the spread of the virus.\n\nMs von der Leyen said Thursday that more testing and \"targeted measures\" were needed throughout the EU in order to keep internal and external borders open.\n\nFor its part, France said it would impose tighter travel restrictions for European arrivals from Sunday, requiring a negative PCR Covid test within three days of travel.\n\nIn the Netherlands, a ban on all flights from the UK, South Africa and South American countries came into effect on Saturday to try and prevent new coronavirus variants gaining a foothold.\n\nLooking forward to the future, officials from EU nations reliant on tourism - including Spain and Greece - have floated the possibility of using vaccination certificates to allow for cross-border travel but there has been scepticism within the bloc.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTwo houses have partially collapsed after a sinkhole measuring 10ft (3m) opened up on a Manchester street.\n\nFour homes were evacuated on Wednesday evening after the hole appeared on Walmer Street in Abbey Hey, Gorton.\n\nFire crews returned hours later after the front of two of the empty properties crashed to the ground.\n\nUnited Utilities said it was dealing with a collapsed sewer but was investigating all possible causes including the recent heavy rain.\n\nThe fire service was first called to Walmer Street just after 21:00 GMT on Wednesday to reports an unoccupied car had fallen down a hole in the road.\n\nA cordon was put in place and residents evacuated as a precaution, the fire service said.\n\nAfter leaving the scene four hours later, the fire service was alerted to the partial collapse of two houses at 11:00 on Thursday.\n\nNo-one was injured in either incident.\n\nEmergency services remain at the scene on Walmer Street\n\nNearby residents Maureen and Louise Kennedy spoke of their shock after the houses collapsed.\n\n\"You're just waiting for your world to crumble. It's not just the bricks and water, said Ms Kennedy.\n\n\"I've lived in there since I was three. It's the memories.\"\n\nResident Nathaniel OKeleafor said he was \"terrified\" when the sinkhole appeared in the street on Wednesday evening.\n\n\"This morning we are out. We are just trying to find somewhere to live,\" he added.\n\nUnited Utilities said it was dealing with a collapsed sewer on Walmer Street\n\nThe collapse comes as rising levels on the River Mersey in Manchester came \"within centimetres\" of breaching flood defences following heavy rain caused by Storm Christoph.\n\nStation Manager Andrew O'Brien, from Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service, praised firefighters who worked \"at the height of the stormy weather\".\n\n\"The safety of the public was our primary concern overnight and again today, and I'm pleased to say no-one has suffered any injuries,\" he said.\n\nUnited Utilities said: \"When it is safe for engineers to go back into the immediate area we will set up emergency drainage and water supply connections to restore services to the area and begin to assess how best to carry out repairs.\n\n\"It is not known what caused the sinkhole but this will be investigated.\"\n\nBBC Radio Manchester and BBC Radio Lancashire will be on air throughout Storm Christoph, bringing you all of the latest information and news updates\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA nurse felt \"overwhelming fear\" as 13 ambulances queued at her hospital's A&E department - in the Welsh region currently hardest hit by Covid deaths.\n\nTo date Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board, which runs Royal Glamorgan Hospital, has reported 1,091 deaths of patients with coronavirus.\n\nBBC Wales was granted access to A&E at the hospital in Rhondda Cynon Taf.\n\nSenior doctor Amanda Farrow said the whole hospital had faced \"unrelenting\" pressure last Saturday.\n\nSarah Fogarasy was the senior nurse on duty as 13 ambulances queued up outside her A&E department\n\nSenior A&E nurse Sarah Fogarasy, who was on shift as the ambulances arrived, said there was no capacity at the unit - a situation that left her wanting \"to leave\".\n\n\"We had to escalate it to our site manager and deputy head of nursing who were liaising with the executive team on call,\" she said.\n\n\"And then it got to 13 patients outside - I had no capacity in this unit, no resuscitation capacity, no capacity to put a patient on CPAP [continuous positive airway pressure] should they require that and no physical areas to put a patient in.\n\nOn Saturday, 13 ambulances queued outside the hospital's A&E department\n\nShe said she found it hard to keep going.\n\n\"This bit makes me quite emotional… for the first time I was sat trying to coordinate this department and I had that overwhelming fear that I just wanted to leave,\" Ms Fogarasy continued.\n\n\"I was just - 'I'm done. I'm done with this'... and it's scary, it fills you full of fear when you have got 13 ambulances outside, queuing around the carpark. Where do you go from that?\"\n\nShe said it was the team that kept her going: \"I started looking around to all the staff working tirelessly and just trying to remember what we're here for and why I became a nurse.\n\n\"I know it sounds soppy but it's literally the humanitarian effort that has gone into [fighting] this pandemic that has kept people going.\n\n\"It's the sheer determination and guts of the staff working in these times that is so powerful, that keeps the shift going.\"\n\nEmergency Medicine Consultant Amanda Farrow said it was a \"very emotional time for everyone\"\n\nDr Farrow, emergency medicine consultant, said staffing and bed numbers were of particular concern.\n\n\"In the emergency department the challenge we have is with regards to flow, so that is our daily challenge,\" she explained.\n\n\"And we say it's like playing a game of Tetris trying to work out which patient you can put where.\"\n\nStaff reported feeling overwhelmed as they work through the second Covid wave\n\nShe said the second wave of the virus had also seen more staff off sick with Covid and isolating - with some becoming very ill.\n\n\"We've had staff in as patients and one of my colleagues - I saw them when they were critically ill and ended up going to intensive care,\" continued Dr Farrow.\n\n\"So it's very emotional time for everyone as well you know, looking after the sick patients and looking after your colleagues.\n\n\"There's a level of anxiety still around - will you be the next person to get this disease?\"\n\nShe said although fewer people were attending A&E, they were seeing more people arriving by ambulance and presenting with more complex needs.\n\n\"The group of patients we are seeing this time I think is different, we're definitely having more younger people with Covid that are becoming sick, the volume is very high in the community.\n\n\"I think people are afraid of come into the hospital as well, so there are still quite a lot of patients who leave it maybe a bit too late before they're seeking hospital attention.\"\n\nSpeaking from her intensive care bed, Helen Whatmore said she was extremely grateful to staff\n\nHelen Whatmore, 45, from Beddau, has been hospital since early December after developing Covid symptoms.\n\nSpeaking from her intensive care bed, she said she had been unwell in February so assumed she had already caught the virus.\n\n\"I honestly didn't believe it was as bad until I caught [Covid] this time,\" she said.\n\n\"This time it's absolutely knocked the socks off me. It's nearly killed me.\n\n\"A friend of mine passed away as I came into hospital and I came down very rapidly with Covid, kidney problems and pneumonia.\"\n\nShe said she was grateful for the care she had received: \"The nurses are coming in [working] all shifts, they're fighting for your loved ones, from the time they enter right until the time they leave, then they're changing over and doing the same again.\n\n\"People are passing away… how much more have they got to do? We're asking them to protect our children and our families. Why are we not protecting them ourselves? Saving our families and our own children.\"", "Top Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou has been sent bullets in the mail while under house arrest in Vancouver, according to court testimony.\n\nIt was one of several alleged death threats revealed on Wednesday by the company providing her security.\n\nMs Meng was detained in 2018 on charges relating to allegedly misleading HSBC about Huawei's dealings in Iran.\n\nHer case has created a rift between China and Canada, with Beijing repeatedly calling for her release.\n\nThe chief financial officer of Huawei was arrested at Vancouver International Airport on a warrant from the US, where she is facing charges of bank fraud and potentially causing HSBC to break US sanctions.\n\nDays after she was released on bail, she was placed under house arrest in Vancouver. She has been fighting against her extradition to the US, which wants her to stand trial.\n\nThe threats were revealed at the British Columbia Supreme Court by Doug Maynard, chief operating officer of security firm Lions Gate Risk Management.\n\nHe said Ms Meng received \"five or six\" threatening letters at her residence in June and July 2020 and that the letters were \"easily identifiable by markings on the outside\". He added that \"sometimes there were bullets inside the envelopes\".\n\nThe role of the Vancouver police and any investigations is unclear.\n\nMs Meng has been in court pushing for conditions of her bail to be loosened, including dropping the daytime security detail that constantly follows her.\n\nShe is permitted to leave home between 6am and 11pm and pays for a round-the-clock security detail. She also wears a GPS tracking anklet as stipulated by her bail conditions.\n\nThe government has also granted family members of Ms Meng permission to travel to Canada, sparking controversy.\n\nConservative MP Raquel Dancho said the exception was an \"insult to the millions of Canadians who were told by this government not to visit loved ones\" over the holidays.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Raquel Dancho This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nShe called the move disappointing, noting that Beijing detained two Canadians soon after Ms Meng's arrest in December 2018 and has held them in prison ever since, subjecting them to interrogations.\n\nMs Meng's defence lawyer has argued that Canada is effectively being asked \"to enforce US sanctions\".\n\nHuawei has been one of the main targets of the Trump administration's attack on Chinese companies that it deems are security threats and pass data to the government.\n\nThe US has placed harsh restrictions on Huawei and has banned its 5G equipment from its networks. It also added 38 names linked to Huawei to a trade blacklist.\n\nThis week Huawei came under fire for technology that identifies people who appear to be of Uighur origin among images of pedestrians.\n\nHuawei had previously said none of its technology was designed to identify ethnic groups.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Boris Johnson has said there is still a very substantial risk of intensive care units in hospitals being overwhelmed by the spread of the coronavirus.\n\nIt comes on a day when the UK has recorded the highest number of deaths in a single day in Europe.\n\nFergal Keane last visited the Imperial Healthcare Trust’s St Mary’s and Charing Cross hospital in London last April.\n\nHe's been back to see how they're coping.", "The licence fee is the \"least worst\" way of funding the BBC, its incoming chairman Richard Sharp has said.\n\nBut Mr Sharp told MPs he had an \"open mind\" about how the corporation should be funded in the future, and it \"may be worth reassessing\" the current system.\n\nHe also said he didn't think the BBC's Brexit coverage was biased overall, but \"there were some occasions when the Brexit representation was unbalanced\".\n\nQuestion Time \"seemed to have more Remainers than Brexiteers\", he said.\n\nBBC Three's Normal People was one of the corporation's biggest hits last year\n\nThe £157.50 licence fee is due to stay in place until at least 2027, when the BBC's Royal Charter ends, with a debate about how the broadcaster should be funded after that.\n\nMr Sharp, who spent 23 years working as a banker for Goldman Sachs, told the House of Commons digital, culture, media and sport select committee: \"At 43p a day, the BBC represents terrific value.\"\n\nThe government is currently reviewing whether its cost should continue rising with inflation from 2022, and whether non-payment should remain a criminal offence. Mr Sharp said he was \"not in favour of decriminalisation\".\n\nHe said other possible options for funding the BBC in the future could include a household tax like the one used in Germany, \"which amounts to the same amount of money\".\n\nHe added: \"So when we next get the chance to review the structure of this then it may be worth reassessing.\"\n\nAsked whether he believed the BBC's coverage of Brexit had been unbalanced, he replied: \"No, actually I don't.\n\n\"I believe there were some occasions when the Brexit representation was unbalanced.\n\n\"So if you ask me if I think Question Time seemed to have more Remainers than Brexiteers, the answer is yes, but the breadth of the coverage I thought was incredibly balanced, in a highly toxic environment that was extremely polarised.\"\n\nQuestion Time has said it has robust processes in place to ensure balance on its panels.\n\nMr Sharp said he was \"considered to be a Brexiteer\" and had donated around £400,000 to the Conservative Party over the past 20 years.\n\nHe said the biggest issue now facing the BBC is impartiality, and that \"trust in leadership and trust in processes\" must be rebuilt after high-profile equal pay cases with journalists such as Carrie Gracie and Samira Ahmed.\n\n\"Clearly some of the problems it's had recently are really rather terrible and reflect a culture that needs to be rebuilt, so everybody who cherishes the BBC and works at the BBC feels proud and happy to work there,\" he said. \"Then in my view that would produce a better output inevitably.\"\n\nMr Sharp also told the committee he would give his £160,000 salary as BBC chairman to charity.\n\nWhen asked \"what's in it for you?\" Mr Sharp, whose heritage is Jewish, said: \"We're all a product of our upbringing and I was very fortunate with the parents I have, my great grandparents came to this country escaping tyranny.\n\n\"I think I won the lottery in life to be British and if I can make a contribution, I couldn't be happier to.\n\n\"The BBC is part of the fabric of all our national identities, it offers education and enrichment and is also important for our position in the world... It is a massive privilege to be chair of the BBC.\"\n\nSir David Clementi, the current BBC chairman, steps down in February. The post-holder is officially appointed by the Queen on the recommendation of the government.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The Galaxy S21 Ultra has hardware built into it to make use of the firm's S Pen stylus\n\nSamsung's new flagship Galaxy S smartphone works with its stylus for the first time.\n\nThe S Pen is an optional add-on for the Galaxy S21 Ultra. But the move will fuel speculation the firm will phase out its separate Note handset range.\n\nSamsung told the BBC it had yet to make a decision about this.\n\nThe company's handset sales have declined more quickly than the wider market. One expert said a streamlined line-up might help address this.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: First look at Samsung's S21 Ultra phone\n\n\"There's increasing logic for Samsung to converge the Galaxy S and Note platforms, because there's so little differentiation between the two kinds of devices now,\" said Ben Wood, from the CCS Insight consultancy.\n\n\"That would align them with Apple, which also has one big phone launch event a year.\n\n\"My concern is that every time Samsung has announced its Note products in the past, it has planted a seed in consumers' minds that the Galaxy S products have become kind of the old ones.\"\n\nThe benefit of having a stylus is that it is easier to write, draw or annotate notes than using a finger. But to work it requires special hardware under the glass of the phone's display to pass power to the stylus and to track its tip.\n\nThe Android-based Galaxy S21 Ultra has a 6.8in (17.3cm) display, which is only slightly smaller than the top-end 6.9in Note.\n\nIn years past, the Note phones were known as \"phablets\", and their size was the other key distinguishing factor with the S range.\n\nUnlike the Note series, the S21 Ultra requires a special case to stow away the pen\n\nProduct manager Mark Notton said \"we haven't decided\", when asked whether Samsung planned to continue the Note family.\n\n\"It does not mean that Samsung is not committed to the Note category, but is expanding the Note experience across device categories,\" the firm said in a follow-up statement.\n\n\"We will actively listen to consumers' feedback and reflect it in our continued product innovation.\"\n\nThe S21 Ultra will start at £1,149 when it goes on sale on 29 January. The S Pen costs an extra £35 on its own, or £85 when bundled with a case that stores it.\n\nThat puts it in the ballpark of the Galaxy Note 20 Ultra's £1,179 starting price, which comes with a stylus that slots into its body.\n\nThere are also two other lower-cost models in the new range, neither of which works with the S-Pen stylus: the 6.2in S21 and 6.7in S21+.\n\nAll three models feature a redesigned camera module on their back.\n\nAll the Galaxy S21 phones feature a redesigned camera module on their back\n\nBut while the two lower-end models have three lenses - ultra-wide, wide and 3x-zoom telephoto - the S21 Ultra adds a further 10x-zoom telephoto lens, letting owners shoot action from even further away.\n\nThe handsets also benefit from a new Director's View facility. It lets users film video while getting thumbnail previews superimposed on-screen of what it would look like if they switched to another lens.\n\nAll three phones can film in 8K - double the maximum resolution of the competing iPhone 12 range's native video app.\n\nThe Director's View mode lets users preview how the recorded shot will change in a video if they switch to a different lens while filming\n\nHowever, the handsets may be more notable for following Apple in two regards.\n\nThey have abandoned a slot for a microSD memory card.\n\nAnd they will be sold without either a charger - a decision over which Samsung had mocked its rival. - or earphones.\n\nSamsung posted this ad in October on social media before deleting it\n\n\"We discovered that more and more Galaxy users are reusing accessories they already have,\" the firm said.\n\nSamsung typically unveils its Galaxy range in late February, but has brought forward this year's launch to coincide with the CES tech show.\n\n\"Samsung needs S21 to be a success given that S20 was launched in the middle of Covid first wave in Europe and didn't gain many fans,\" commented Marta Pinto, from research firm IDC.\n\nShe added the earlier launch date could help it compete in the \"premium market\" with Apple, whose iPhones were released later than normal last year.\n\nThe South Korean firm should also benefit from collapsing sales of Huawei's devices in the West, caused by US sanctions that prevent them offering the Google Play store and some of the search giant's other services.\n\nSamsung dedicated a segment of its Unpacked launch presentation to its partnership with Google\n\nBut Mr Wood said Samsung was facing growing competition from other Chinese brands including Xiaomi, Oppo and Vivo.\n\n\"Samsung's differentiator is going to be its ability to market its strong brand, and the fact it has a very wide product portfolio,\" he commented.\n\nSamsung also aims to widen its appeal with two further accessories.\n\nIt has a new pair of £219 wireless earbuds that monitor what the user is doing.\n\nSamsung's earbuds should automatically adapt their audio output according to what the user is doing\n\nIf they detect the wearer is talking, they automatically turn down the volume of music and amplify the sounds of the nearby environment picked up by their microphones, allowing the owner to have a brief conversation without needing to take them out or manually adjust their settings.\n\nSamsung also is launching the £30 Galaxy SmartTag - a Bluetooth-enabled tracker that can be attached to belongings or pets.\n\nIt will allow an app to show their location, so long as the tag is in range of the owner or anyone else's compatible Samsung device.\n\nThe tracker will compete with similar products from the current market leader Tile.\n\nThe SmartTag will challenge Tile, which already sells a range of Bluetooth trackers\n\nApple is widely rumoured to be working on similar devices of its own.", "The coronavirus growth rate is slowing in the UK and the number of infections is starting to level off in some areas, a top scientist has said.\n\nProf Neil Ferguson told the BBC that in some NHS regions there is a \"sign of plateauing\" in cases and hospital admissions.\n\nBut he warned the overall death toll would exceed 100,000.\n\nOn Wednesday, the UK saw its biggest daily death figure since the start of the pandemic, with 1,564 deaths.\n\nIt has taken the total number of deaths by that measure to 84,767. There were also 47,525 new cases.\n\nIt comes after Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the national lockdown measures were \"starting to show signs of some effect\", but it was early days and urged people to abide by the rules.\n\nPeople in England are required to stay at home and only go out for limited reasons, such as for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home.\n\nSimilar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nProf Ferguson, an epidemiologist at Imperial College London whose modelling led to the first lockdown in March, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme it was \"much too early\" to say when the number of cases would come down.\n\nBut he said: \"It looks like in London in particular and a couple of other regions in the South East and East of England, hospital admissions may even have plateaued.\n\n\"It has to be said this is not seen everywhere - both case numbers and hospital admissions are going up in many other areas, but overall at a national level we are seeing the rate of growth slow.\"\n\nProf Ferguson added: \"I would hope the hospital admissions might plateau… sometime in the next week, but hospital bed occupancy may continue to rise slowly for up to two weeks.\"\n\nHe warned the overall death toll would be \"well over 100,000\", adding \"there's nothing we can do about that now\".\n\nProf Ferguson added Covid restrictions could be in place for many months to come, adding the new variant's increased transmissibility would mean relaxation of the rules will be a \"gradual process to the autumn\".\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said on Thursday that the government will not be introducing tougher social distancing rules \"today or tomorrow\" and insisted that ministers are focusing on increasing enforcement of the current restrictions.\n\nAsked about speculation further measures could include a three-metre social distancing rule or a requirement to wear masks outside, she told ITV's This Morning: \"This isn't about new rules coming in - we're going to stick with enforcing the current measures.\"\n\nMeanwhile, a major study led by Public Health England has shown most people who have had Covid-19 are protected from catching it again for at least five months.\n\nPast infection was linked to an 83% lower risk of getting the virus, compared with those who had never had Covid-19, scientists found.\n\nProf Susan Hopkins, who led the study, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the finding \"doesn't eliminate\" the risk of people catching Covid-19 again, and infecting others.\n\nShe said: \"We found people with very high amounts of virus in their nose and throat swabs, that would easily be in the range which would cause levels of transmission to other individuals.\"\n\nProf Hopkins said she hoped that after Easter, \"we will start to see reduced infection rates, as we did at that time last year\" and the number of people who have been vaccinated at a \"very high level\".\n\nThe UK is continuing efforts to ramp up the rollout of the Covid vaccine, with the prime minister saying that Covid vaccinations will be offered 24 hours a day, seven days a week as soon as supply allows.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock tweeted on Thursday to say that \"three million vaccines have now been administered\" in the UK.\n\nOn Thursday, NHS England published a breakdown of vaccinations by age and region for the first time.\n\nMr Johnson told the Commons Liaison Committee on Wednesday that he was \"concerned\" about a new Covid variant that is believed to have emerged in Brazil and said that the UK was taking steps to ensure it is not brought into the UK.\n\nA Downing Street spokesman said ministers met this morning to discuss \"urgent measures to reduce the potential spread to the UK of the Brazilian variant\".\n\nThey could include a ban on flights from Brazil. Arrivals from Brazil already have to self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nMeanwhile, the Deputy Scottish First Minister John Swinney told BBC Breakfast \"the virus is not accelerating as fast as it was\" in Scotland.\n\nHe said \"there are some early signs of optimism\" but emphasised people should follow all guidance as the \"virus is still at a very strong level\".", "Amnesty says about 7,500 women and girls gave birth in the Northern Ireland homes,\n\nThere have been calls for an inquiry into mother and baby homes in Northern Ireland.\n\nIt comes as the Irish government is to apologise after an investigation found an \"appalling level of infant mortality\" in the Republic of Ireland's homes.\n\nAbout 9,000 children died in the 18 institutions under investigation.\n\nMothers and babies who were in similar homes in Northern Ireland want a full inquiry to be held in NI too.\n\nStormont commissioned research into whether or not there should an inquiry held into the homes which operated in Northern Ireland, is due to be published by the end of January.\n\nPatrick Corrigan from Amnesty International said the issue of forced adoptions also needs close scrutiny.\n\n\"We have had cases of mothers telling us that ultimately, many decades later, when they tried to track down their long-lost children they found adoption certificates where they said their signature had actually been forged,\" he said.\n\n\"So I think that there is criminality to investigate here and that it behoves the Northern Ireland Executive to set up the inquiry that has long been sought here and long been denied.\"\n\nIn 2017 research into infant mortality rates at former mother and baby homes in Northern Ireland had prompted initial calls for a public inquiry.\n\nBBC News NI previously spoke to Eunan Duffy who was 47 years old when he found out he was adopted from Marianvale mother and baby home in Newry, County Down.\n\nIt was one of a network of institutions in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland which offered women the voluntary option, for those who were unmarried, to give birth in private and give their babies up for adoption\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Marian Vale was one of a network of mother and baby institutions in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland\n\nAmnesty says there were more than a dozen mother-and-baby institutions in Northern Ireland.\n\nIt said about 7,500 women and girls gave birth in the Northern Ireland homes, operated by both Catholic and Protestant churches and religious organisations.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, research into mother and baby homes and Magdalene laundries was commissioned three years ago and was initially expected to take 12 months.\n\nIt was completed in February last year, but was then sent to those facing criticism to give them an opportunity to reply.\n\nA Department of Health spokesperson said: \"A paper will be brought to the executive shortly for its consideration. Subject to executive approval, it is intended to publish the research report before the end of January 2021.\"\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, the commission that investigated the homes found that the number of children who died was about 15% of all those who were born in the institutions.\n\nTaoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Mícheál Martin said the report, which can be read in full here, described a \"dark, difficult and shameful chapter\" of Irish history.\n\nSolicitor Claire McKeegan, who represents the Birth Mothers for Justice group, welcomed the apology in the Republic of Ireland, but said mothers and children in NI had not received one.\n\n\"The crimes perpetrated on them have yet to be investigated,\" she said.\n\n\"Those perpetrators who forced them into arbitrary detention, hard labour and colluded in the forced adoption of their babies, remain unchallenged in this jurisdiction.\"\n\nMary O'Neill became pregnant when she was 18 and was sent to Marianvale in Newry in the late 1970s.\n\nThere she gave birth to a baby girl who was taken away from her almost immediately after the birth.\n\nShe wanted to keep the baby, but was not allowed and was told the baby would be put up for adoption.\n\nThe mother and baby scandal became an international news story when 'significant human remains' were found on the grounds of a former home in County Galway\n\nMs O'Neill told Good Morning Ulster she eventually tracked down her daughter after 40 years.\n\n\"It was a long search, everywhere you went you were up against a brick wall,\" she said.\n\n\"There was no help, the social workers didn't want to tell you anything.\"\n\nShe finally found out her daughter was living in America but was coming home for her 40th birthday.\n\nShe said when she met her it was like meeting a stranger.\n\n\"But thank God we have met and we have a good relationship. She's still keeping in touch,\" Ms O'Neill said.\n\n\"It means the world to me, because you always wondered where was she? Was she happy? Did she know about you?\n\n\"It was always in the back of your mind. It never went away, the tears and the heartache.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs O'Neill said she was happy the victims in the Republic of Ireland were getting an apology, but wishes the homes in Northern Ireland could have been included.\n\nMechelle Dillon's mother was 21 and pregnant when she was sent to Marianvale in Newry in 1969.\n\nShe was placed in foster care a few months after her birth.\n\nHer mother returned to her home village and then moved to England. But she came back for Mechelle when she was around eight or nine-months-old.\n\nShe said she believed she was not adopted because she was born with a cyst on her mouth.\n\n\"I would have maybe been classed as a reject, if you want to put it that way,\" she said.\n\n\"It's the same as if you go to look for a little puppy and if the puppy doesn't feel right and you think 'Oh God, I'll have a lot of vet bills here, I don't want that puppy' - I would have probably been classed the same because I would have had that defect.\"\n\nSDLP leader Colum Eastwood said \"the executive should move quickly to publish the research report and then call a full public inquiry\".", "Decima Minhinnick, pictured at her 90th birthday party, lives in a care home and has vascular dementia\n\nA couple who were fined £60 for driving 20 minutes to see a relative in a care home have had their fine cancelled by police.\n\nCarol and David Richards from Bridgend travelled seven miles to Porthcawl to visit her mother Decima Minhinnick, 94.\n\nOn Tuesday, police defended the fine, claiming the couple had broken lockdown rules.\n\nOn Wednesday, South Wales Police said it had \"since been reviewed and the notice has been rescinded\".\n\n\"The individual concerned has been notified\".\n\nIn a statement, it added: \"Wales remains at alert level four and South Wales Police will continue to patrol our communities to ensure the legislation, which has been enacted to slow the spread of coronavirus, is complied with\".\n\nMrs Richards has said she was \"mortified\" they were stopped by police while returning on Sunday from what she said was a compassionate visit.\n\nShe said on Tuesday she did not believe they breached lockdown rules.\n\nMrs Richards said the couple had arranged the visit to Picton Court Care Home in advance with the permission of staff, and spoke to her mother, who has vascular dementia, through the window of her ground-floor room from the car park.\n\nDavid and Carol Richards complained about the £60 fine\n\nShe told the Local Democracy Reporting Service that when she was issued with the fine it was like \"a sort of dystopian novel\", adding that the officer involved was \"pedantic and inflexible\".\n\n\"I was angry - she just would not listen to any protestations, and so she said 'you're going to be issued with a £60 fixed penalty fine'.\n\n\"It's not about the 60 quid, it's about the principle.\"\n\nThe home is just over seven miles from where the couple live", "The governor of Amazonas state warned of a \"critical\" moment and has implemented a curfew\n\nHospitals in the Brazilian city of Manaus have reached breaking point while treating Covid-19 patients, amid reports of severe oxygen shortages and desperate staff.\n\nThe city, in Amazonas state, has seen a surge of deaths and infections.\n\nHealth professionals, quoted by local media, warned \"many people\" could die due to lack of supplies and assistance.\n\nBrazil has recorded more than 205,000 virus deaths - the second-highest tally in the world, behind the US.\n\nA new coronavirus variant has recently emerged in Brazil, with several cases in travellers arriving in Japan traced back to the Amazonas region.\n\nAmazonas suffered heavy losses in the first wave of the pandemic but is also being badly hit by a new rise in infections.\n\nRefrigerated containers were brought to hospitals to help store bodies last week, as authorities declared a state of emergency.\n\nJessem Orellana, from the Fiocruz-Amazonia scientific investigation institute, told the AFP news agency that some hospitals in Manaus had \"run out of oxygen\" with some centres becoming \"a type of suffocation chamber\" for patients.\n\nThe researcher told Brazilian media she had received reports from the front-line of \"dramatic\" scenes playing out in some hospitals.\n\nReports in the daily Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper described desperate staff having to try to keep patients alive through manual ventilation.\n\nIn a widely shared video from the region, a female medical worker asks the internet for help: \"We're in an awful state. Oxygen has simply run out across the whole unit today.\"\n\n\"There is no oxygen and lots of people are dying,\" she says in the clip. \"If anyone has any oxygen, please bring it to the clinic. There are so many people dying.\"\n\nThe UK has banned travellers from much of Latin America over a new variant detected in Brazil\n\nAmazonas Governor Wilson Lima said the state was \"in the most critical moment of the pandemic\" and has announced a nightly curfew will begin at 19:00 local time (23:00 GMT) on Friday to try to stem the spread.\n\nMarcellus Campelo, a local health secretary, said the state needed three times the amount of oxygen it can produce locally and appealed for help.\n\nBrazil's vice-president shared images on Twitter of the air force transporting hospital supplies, including oxygen cylinders and stretchers, to the city as reports of the situation spread throughout the country.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHealth officials also say some patients will be airlifted to other states for treatment due to the demand for intensive care units, Reuters reports.\n\nFelipe Naveca, deputy director of research at the state-run Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, told the BBC's South America correspondent Katy Watson that the new variant had evolved separately from those in the UK and South Africa, but that it showed some of the same characteristics: \"Some of these mutations have been linked to increased transmission and that is of concern.\"\n\nMr Naveca said that they did not yet have any data to suggest that existing vaccines would be any less effective against the new variant. \"We have to do a lot more sequencing of samples to answer that question,\" he said.\n\nHowever, on Thursday UK officials announced a ban on travellers from South America, Portugal and Cape Verde due to the new strain.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Thursday evening. We'll have another update for you on Friday morning.\n\nTravel from South America and Portugal to the UK is being banned, other than for British or Irish citizens and foreign nationals with residence rights. The new ruling is being brought in because of concerns about the new Brazilian coronavirus variant and comes into force from 04:00 GMT on Friday. The ban applies to people who have travelled from, or through, these countries in the 10 days before their departure for the UK: Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Cape Verde, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay and Venezuela. Find out more about the new variants here.\n\nDoctors have warned that the recent surge in Covid hospital cases has left key hospital services in England in crisis. Accident and Emergency departments are facing rising delays in admitting extremely sick patients on to wards, NHS data shows. The total number of people facing year-long waits for routine treatments is more than 100 times higher than it was before the pandemic - and cancer specialists are warning of a \"terrifying\" disruption to their services that would cost lives.\n\nThe government has told schools not to provide free meals to eligible pupils' families over half term, with food to be provided by councils under the Covid Winter Grant Scheme instead. The Department for Education said vulnerable families would continue to receive meals outside of term time through the welfare support they have made available. But councils say the government should be responsible for providing food vouchers during the February half-term, like it did over summer.\n\nA top scientist has said the coronavirus growth rate in the UK is slowing, with the number of infections starting to level off in some areas. Prof Neil Ferguson told the BBC that in some NHS regions there is a \"sign of plateauing\" in cases and hospital admissions. But he warned the overall death toll - currently standing at over 80,000 - would exceed 100,000. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said the national lockdown measures in place across the UK are \"starting to show signs of some effect\" but warned that it was still early days.\n\nMany people feel they've put on weight during the pandemic, due to staying indoors more and turning to comfort food. Samantha Hicks, from Portishead, North Somerset, thought she was one of them - but what she believed was a few extra pounds of weight was actually a baby. She gave birth to her daughter Julia just 10 days after discovering she was pregnant. Her pregnancy was even missed when she was taken to hospital in November with Covid-19. She said: \"My tummy was a bit swollen but again, because I felt sick and I wasn't great, it never occurred to me I was pregnant.\"\n\nThe UK travel rules have been updated again. Find out all the details you need here.\n\nFind more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Most people who have had Covid-19 are protected from catching it again for at least five months, a study led by Public Health England shows.\n\nPast infection was linked to around a 83% lower risk of getting the virus, compared with those who had never had Covid-19, scientists found.\n\nBut experts warn some people do catch Covid-19 again - and can infect others.\n\nAnd officials stress people should follow the stay-at-home rules - whether or not they have had the virus.\n\nProf Susan Hopkins, who led the study, said the results were encouraging, suggesting immunity lasted longer than some people feared, but protection was by no means absolute.\n\nIt was particularly concerning some of those reinfected had high levels of the virus - even without symptoms - and were at risk of passing it on to others, she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Susan Hopkins from Public Health England said immunity from having Covid-19 is \"not 100% protective\"\n\n\"This means even if you believe you already had the disease and are protected, you can be reassured it is highly unlikely you will develop severe infections but there is still a risk that you could acquire an infection and transmit to others,\" she added.\n\n\"Now more than ever, it is vital we all stay at home to protect our health service and save lives.\"\n\nFrom June to November 2020, almost 21,000 healthcare workers across the UK were regularly tested to see whether they:\n\nOf those who had no antibodies to the virus, suggesting they may have never had it, 318 developed potential new infections within this timeframe.\n\nBut among the 6,614 with antibodies, this figure was just 44 potential new infections.\n\nResearchers received various different pieces of evidence suggesting these people had become re-infected - including new symptoms more than 90 days after their first infection, new positive swab tests and blood tests.\n\nSome tests are still being run and researchers say their results will be updated as they come in.\n\nScientists will continue to monitor the healthcare workers for 12 months to see how long immunity lasts.\n\nThey will also look closely at cases with the new variant - which was not widespread at the time of this first analysis - and observe the immunity of participants who receive the vaccine.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Can you become immune to coronavirus?\n\nDr Julian Tang, a virus expert at the University of Leicester, said the results were reassuring for healthcare workers.\n\n\"Having the vaccine after recovering from Covid-19 is not an issue... and will likely boost the natural immunity,\" he added.\n\n\"We also see this with the seasonal flu vaccine.\n\n\"So hopefully the results from this paper will reduce the anxiety of many healthcare-worker colleagues who have concerns about getting Covid-19 twice.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Changes to Scotland's lockdown restrictions have been announced. The tightening of the rules follows concerns the \"stay at home\" message is not having the same impact it did during last year's lockdown. The changes will come into effect on Saturday.\n\nThe availability and operation of click and collect services will be limited to retailers selling essential items such as clothes, footwear, baby equipment, homeware and books. Also, outlets that sell electrical goods; do key cutting; undertake shoe repairs, plus garden centres and plant nurseries can continue the collect service.\n\nFor qualifying businesses, staggered appointments will need to be offered to avoid any potential for queuing, and access inside premises for collection will not be permitted.\n\nCustomers in Scotland will no longer be allowed to go inside to collect takeaway food or coffee. Businesses will have to operate from a serving hatch or doorway.\n\nThe aim is to reduce the risk of customers coming into contact indoors with each other, or with staff.\n\nIt will be against the law in all level four areas of Scotland to drink alcohol outdoors in public.\n\nThis will mean that buying a takeaway pint and consuming on the street will not be permitted.\n\nIt is intended to underline the message that people should only be leaving home for essential purposes.\n\nThe Scottish government is strengthening the obligation on employers to allow their staff to work from home whenever possible.\n\nThe law already says that people should only be leaving home to go to work if it is work that cannot be done from home. This is a legal obligation that falls on individuals.\n\nHowever, statutory guidance is being introduced to make clear that employers should support employees to work from home wherever possible.\n\nThe Scottish government is strengthening provisions in relation to work inside people's houses.\n\nCurrent guidance says that in level four areas work is only permitted within a private dwelling if it is essential for the upkeep, maintenance and functioning of the household. This guidance is now being put into law.\n\nThe final change is an amendment to the regulations requiring people to stay at home.\n\nThis is intended to close an apparent loophole rather than change the spirit of the law. It will also bring the wording of the stay at home regulations in Scotland into line with the other UK nations.\n\nCurrently the law states that people can only leave home for an essential purpose.\n\nThe amendment will make it clear that people \"must not leave or remain outside\" the home unless it is for an essential purpose.\n\nThe Scottish government's full lockdown guidance is available here.", "Covid-19 patients in England's busiest intensive care units in 2020 were 20% more likely to die, University College London research has found.\n\nThe increased risk was equivalent to gaining a decade in age.\n\nBy the end of 2020, one in three hospital trusts in England was running at higher than 85% capacity.\n\nEleven trusts were completely full on 30 December, and the total number of people in intensive care with Covid has continued to rise since then.\n\nThe link between full ICUs and higher death rates was already known, but this study is the first to measure its effect during the pandemic.\n\nTighter lockdown restrictions are needed to prevent hospitals from being overwhelmed, says study author Dr Bilal Mateen.\n\nResearchers looked at more than 4,000 patients who were admitted to intensive care units in 114 hospital trusts in England between April and June last year.\n\nThey found the risk of dying was almost a fifth higher in ICUs where more than 85% of beds were occupied, than in those running at between 45% and 85% capacity.\n\nThat meant a 60-year-old being treated in one of these units had the same risk of dying as a 70-year-old on a quieter ward.\n\nThe Royal College of Emergency Medicine sets 85% as the maximum safe level of bed occupancy.\n\nHowever, the team found there was no tipping point after which deaths rose - instead, survival rates fell consistently as bed-occupancy increased.\n\nThis suggests \"a lot of harm is occurring before you get to 85%\".\n\nPatients admitted to ICUs that were less than 45% full were 25% less likely to die than average.\n\nUsually if a very sick patient's heart stops, everyone on the ward will rush to help them, Dr Mateen explained.\n\nBut when there are too many patients, staff's time is inevitably split, so \"it makes sense that the quality of patient care would be sacrificed\", he said.\n\nWhile extra beds and equipment can, and have, been provided through the Nightingale hospitals and the private sector, finding enough qualified staff has been an issue.\n\n\"You can't just create an ICU nurse who knows how to operate a mechanical ventilator overnight,\" Dr Mateen told the BBC.\n\nThese are highly-skilled roles that take years of training and sometimes decades of experience, he added.\n\nInstead, a \"robust vaccination programme\" and tighter lockdown restrictions are needed to bring down cases and hospitalisations, he believes.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What does it mean if the NHS is overwhelmed?\n\nCo-author Prof Christina Pagel at UCL added: \"This paper highlights for the first time that putting such strain on ICUs during pandemic peaks does, sadly, mean that that chances of someone dying in intensive care are higher.\n\n\"Our work underlines the urgency of both vaccinating vulnerable groups as soon as possible and reducing Covid transmission in the community to relieve pressure on intensive care.\"\n\nIt's difficult to say for sure that fuller ICUs are actually causing more deaths - it's possible that as they get fuller, only the sickest patients are admitted.\n\nBut Dr Mateen says there was no evidence of rationing - of sick patients being turned away.\n\nEven pre-Covid, data suggests larger ICUs had lower death rates - with a 25% increase in bed numbers linked to a corresponding 25% fall in mortality.\n\nAnd the findings are supported by a wealth of evidence from before the pandemic and from around the world.", "Coach and tour operators have seen an unexpected growth in bookings in the last fortnight.\n\nWhilst there is no doubt that the pandemic continues to put huge pressure on lives and the NHS, this is a small amount of sunshine for the travel industry, which has had a tough year.\n\nTUI, the UK's largest tour operator, says 50% of bookings on their website are currently by over-50s.\n\nThis was previously a smaller market for them.\n\nNational Express's coach holiday businesses say bookings made by those 65 and over have increased by 185% in the last fortnight compared to last year.\n\n\"Since the announcement of the vaccine, it's given our customer base, predominantly those over 65, increased confidence to book and have that summer getaway in 2021\" says Jit Desai, head of holidays and travel at National Express.\n\n\"We launched the brochure for spring-summer 2021 just this weekend gone, and on Monday we took a week's worth of bookings in a day and that's continued so far,\" says Mr Desai. \"What the vaccine does is give certainty and confidence.\n\n\"That then allows the customer and ourselves the ability to plan ahead\".\n\nThe pandemic has been devastating for the travel sector. Tens of thousands of jobs have gone in the UK. Millions of Britons cancelled breaks because the health situation was in flux across the world.\n\nBut National Express now points to returning confidence to travel.\n\n\"Many we've spoken to have had the first jab. They know in 12 weeks they'll get a second jab. It gives them certainty that they can enjoy and look forward to their 2021 holiday. It is something to look forward to, to being with people, with friends, like minded and from the same generation.\"\n\nDawn and Ray - 75 and 78 years old - are from Hampshire and are due to have their first jab soon. They have just booked five UK holidays.\n\n\"We are raring to go once we've got that vaccine, we are really looking forward to it - both of us. We are going to Wales, Leicestershire, to York where there is a mystery tour - and to the Cotswolds'\", Dawn said.\n\nFor Dawn and Ray, it's the ease of coach travel that's appealing, as well as the safety. She adds \"they've looked after us so well in the past, the coaches are clean, we'll all wear masks, we all look after each other.\"\n\nAt the moment, 90% of the bookings with National Expresses coach businesses are UK based, so it looks like another good year for the staycation.\n\n\"European bookings are lower because of the uncertainty on the continent,\" says Mr Desai.\n\n\"The UK wins because of the lack of need to quarantine. And uncertainty about the moves other governments might make whilst away also creates fear.\"\n\nIt's not just UK breaks that are selling. The UK's largest tour operator TUI, famous for its sun-drenched European beach holidays, says there has also been a change in the last fortnight.\n\n\"We're seeing a customer base or age group that wasn't booking before, that is starting to book,\" says Andrew Flintham the MD of TUI UK. \"The over 50s, we assume, is on the back to the vaccine news.\"\n\nWhilst TUI UK boss acknowledges that \"the market is still depressed and it's not where we want it - we are seeing glimmers of hope.\"\n\nTrips to towns in England are among those being booked\n\nThere are also interesting changes emerging in the types of breaks holidaymakers plan to take and the months they're planning to travel.\n\n\"People are booking later into the summer, hedging their bets\" said Mr Flintham. \"More July and August and a lot of demand for September and October.\n\n\"People are booking longer holidays, we're seeing more people booking ten or eleven or 14 nights rather than seven. People are maybe catching up on what they've missed.\"\n\nAs TUI analysed its recent booking data, one trend they spotted is the emergence of large, multigenerational group bookings.\n\n\"It is family time we've all missed. We can't get away from our own families, but our broader families we can't see, and that's feeding into our choices\" Mr Flintham explains.\n\nAfter such a bad 10 months, and TUI cancelling all holidays until the middle of February at the earliest because of the new lockdown, how does the rest of the summer look?\n\n\"I think the summer holiday is on\" says Mr Flintham, \"I think we just need time for people to get that confidence, but yes, we think there will be a good summer this summer\".\n\nFor those who've watched the paralysis brought upon the travel industry since last winter, a morsel of good news about customers booking again is being celebrated.\n\n\"This is fantastic news and to be hugely welcomed by an industry that has been utterly devastated by the pandemic\", says Sophie Griffiths, editor of Travel Trade Gazette.\n\n\"Ten months into this crisis and the industry has still received zero dedicated support from the government despite being unique as a sector in terms of giving out thousands in refunds while getting next to nothing back in for 2020.\"", "The Lauberhorn course is the longest downhill run in the world (file image)\n\nA British tourist has been blamed for a spike in coronavirus cases that led officials to cancel Switzerland's famous Lauberhorn ski race.\n\nThe resort of Wengen, where the race is held, had recorded only 10 cases of the virus by mid-December.\n\nBut the number soon began to rise and many cases have since been linked to the new highly infectious variant of Covid-19 first identified in the UK.\n\nAt least 27 cases are connected to one British tourist, contact tracers say.\n\nThe tourist stayed in a hotel in Wengen over the holiday period.\n\nThe Lauberhorn course is the longest downhill run in the world, and racers can reach speeds of 160km/h (100 mph).\n\nOfficials desperately tried to save the race, shutting schools and offering to close off the resort to everyone but the competitors.\n\nSwiss health officials initially agreed with the plan, but a further jump in cases at the start of this week prompted them to pull the emergency brake and cancel the event.\n\nThe Lauberhorn track is 4,480m (14,700ft) long - and the race will now have to wait until 2022\n\nWengen is devastated. The Lauberhorn is one of the top competitions on the World Cup ski circuit. It is dearly loved by the Swiss, who have watched with delight as some of their own homegrown talent, such as Beat Feuz and Carlo Janka, have triumphed there.\n\nMoreover, the long love affair between Switzerland and British winter tourists has frosted over to some extent.\n\nIt was only last month that the vanishing Brits of Verbier, who reportedly fled Switzerland rather than accept the government mandated quarantine, triggered a flurry of negative headlines.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Italy's Foppolo ski resort was closed until 6 January and missed the all-important Christmas ski season\n\nNow the high point of Switzerland's skiing calendar has been abruptly cancelled, and some Swiss blame the British.\n\nOthers say Switzerland only has itself to blame.\n\nWhile neighbours France and Italy closed their resorts over the festive period, the Swiss government opted for a precarious balancing act. It kept its slopes open, but closed all bars and restaurants and limited ski lifts to two-thirds capacity.\n\nMost Swiss resorts are quiet, with just a few locals enjoying the runs. But still some tourists arrived and, as Wengen's experience shows, just one infected guest is enough to cause major damage.\n\nInstead of hosting a major ski race, Wengen officials are now racing to control the virus. Mass testing has already begun in the resort.\n\nSwitzerland's government has extended the closure of bars, restaurants, museums, and theatres until the end of February in a bid to control the new variant. It has also ordered non-essential shops to close and made working from home obligatory.\n\nAs for the Lauberhorn, Switzerland's oldest and fiercest skiing rival, Austria, will now host the postponed event. Nothing could have been calculated to upset the Swiss more.\n\nThe event was first moved to the Austrian ski resort of Kitzbühel, but an outbreak of coronavirus there has prompted another move, this time to Flachau, 100km to the east.\n\nThe cluster of cases in Jochberg near Kitzbühel broke out among a group of mainly British trainee ski instructors.", "Some 13 ambulances queued outside the Royal Glamorgan Hospital hospital's A&E department on Saturday\n\nHospitals in the area with Wales and England's worst Covid death rates are only coping by postponing urgent surgery such as cancer operations.\n\nCwm Taf Morgannwg had already suspended some non-emergency services but the boss of the health board said they have now paused some urgent procedures.\n\nCwm Taf covers Rhondda Cynon Taf and Merthyr Tydfil, which have the highest and second highest Covid death rates.\n\nHealth Minister Vaughan Gething said he \"would not be surprised\" if other health boards were forced to do the same soon, if case rates did not come down.\n\n\"There is real harm being done... because of the level of hospital admissions,\" he said.\n\n\"Our critical care units are at 150% of their capacity and that has very real consequences.\n\n\"It reinforces why all of us need to do the right thing in reducing our contacts with other people and follow the rules, otherwise greater harm will be caused.\"\n\nThe news comes as NHS bosses said the number of Covid patients in Welsh hospitals is double April's peak.\n\nOn Thursday, Public Health Wales (PHW) said a further 54 people had died with coronavirus in Wales, taking the total number of deaths since the start of the pandemic to 4,117.\n\nMr Lyons said on Wednesday night their field hospital Ysbyty Seren in Bridgend had 74 patients, people they \"wouldn't have been able to accommodate within our usual hospitals\".\n\n\"We are coping, but that's coping because we've been cancelling urgent surgery.\n\n\"We even had to cancel some cancer surgery over the last few weeks,\" Mr Lyons told BBC Radio Wales.\n\n\"My heart goes out to families and to patients with all the stress and the worry that gives.\n\n\"It's tough times and we're all in it together, and we do see that optimism, that glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel but it's hard.\"\n\nNearly half of hospital beds in the health board - which covers Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf- are taken up with Covid-19 patients, including 31 in critical care or on ventilation.\n\nThey outnumber those in critical care with other conditions by three to one.\n\nLatest NHS Wales figures show 2,806 hospital patients in Wales with Covid-19 - 35% of all patients. This is twice the proportion in May.\n\nIn Rhondda Cynon Taf, the Covid death rate is 283.9 per 100,000 population - followed by Merthyr Tydfil where the death rate is 253.6.\n\n\"It's an absolute tragedy for the families and the loved ones and very sobering,\" said Mr Lyons.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. See how case rates have changed in each part of Wales\n\n\"We're coping but only because of the dedication of our staff, and it's immensely humbling to see people giving up their spare time coming in doing extra shifts, but the toll on them is immense.\n\n\"In practice our hospitals are full and although we are coping that we're only coping because we've cancelled all but the most urgent surgery.\n\n\"We've redeployed staff who've been incredibly flexible from places they normally work such as outpatients.\"\n\nThe health board oversees three hospitals - Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr Tydfil, Princess of Wales Hospital in Bridgend and the Royal Glamorgan in Rhondda Cynon Taf.\n\nA nurse at Royal Glamorgan Hospital, near Llantrisant, said earlier this week how she felt \"overwhelming fear\" as 13 ambulances queued outside her hospital's A&E department.", "Six pharmacies will be vaccinating people invited by letter to make an appointment online\n\nSome High Street pharmacies in England will start vaccinating people from priority groups on Thursday, with 200 providing jabs in the next two weeks.\n\nSix chemists in Halifax, Macclesfield, Widnes, Guildford, Edgware and Telford are the first to offer appointments to those invited by letter.\n\nBut pharmacists say many more sites should be allowed to give the jab, not just the largest ones.\n\nMore than 2.6 million people in the UK have now received their first dose.\n\nAcross the UK, the target is to vaccinate 15 million people in the top four priority groups - care home residents and workers, NHS frontline staff, the over-70s and the extremely clinically vulnerable - by mid-February.\n\nThe vaccines - made by either Oxford-AstraZeneca or Pfizer-BioNTech - are being administered at hospitals, care homes, GP surgeries and vaccination centres.\n\nIt comes as the UK saw its highest number of daily reported coronavirus deaths since the pandemic began, with the government announcing a further 1,564 deaths of people within 28 days of a positive Covid test.\n\nOn Wednesday evening, the Scottish government published its detailed 16-page plan for rolling out the vaccine, including details of how many vaccines it expects to receive every week until the end of May.\n\nThe first pharmacy sites in England to deliver a vaccine have been chosen because they are capable of delivering large numbers of vaccines quickly while allowing space for social distancing.\n\nPeople will be invited by letter to make an appointment at one of the pharmacies, or a vaccination centre, through the NHS Covid-19 vaccination booking service.\n\nAnyone who doesn't want to travel to these sites can still be vaccinated by their local GP or hospital service, but they may have to wait longer.\n\nUp to 70 more pharmacies will be taking bookings for appointments for next week, with 200 in total offering slots over the next fortnight, according to NHS England.\n\nVaccines are currently being offered at more than 1,000 sites, including :\n\nAn Asda supermarket in Birmingham will also host a vaccination centre, with pharmacy staff giving jabs in the store's former clothing section from 25 January.\n\nBut the National Pharmacy Association says the rules on which pharmacies qualify to deliver Covid vaccines should be relaxed to allow more to take part.\n\nHow people awaiting vaccines will queue and socially distance in the Halifax store of Boots\n\nAt present, pharmacies have to be able to deliver 1,000 vaccines a week, have enough fridge space to store all the doses, and be able to open seven days a week.\n\nAndrew Lane, of the National Pharmacy Association, said now that the Oxford vaccine had been approved, community pharmacies could store and administer it in the same way as they deliver the flu jab.\n\nThe Oxford vaccine only needs to be stored at fridge temperature, as opposed to the freezer temperatures of -70C required by Pfizer.\n\n\"We're here, we're trained, we will deliver,\" said Mr Lane, who represents Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Northamptonshire.\n\nNHS England has said that as more supplies of vaccine become available, more community pharmacists will be able to play a role in the programme.\n\nThe government's vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi said staff across the NHS had \"pulled out all the stops to help ramp up vaccinations\" and were working day and night to keep people safe.\n\nProf Claire Anderson, chair of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's English Pharmacy Board, said pharmacy teams in hospital, primary care and the community were \"working flat out to support the nation's health\".\n\nShe said she looked forward to the vaccination programme being expanded through pharmacies to benefit patients.\n\nBoris Johnson said on Wednesday that vaccinations would also start being offered 24 hours a day, seven days a week \"as soon as possible\" - but supply of doses was currently the limiting factor.\n\nIt comes as hospitals struggle to cope with the rising numbers of patients being admitted with Covid.\n\nA study published today has shown the impact of packed intensive care units on death rates, finding that patients in England's busiest ICUs in 2020 were 20% more likely to die.\n\nMeanwhile, a government committee is meeting later to discuss whether to stop flights from Brazil coming to the UK because of concern about a new variant of the virus believed to have emerged there.\n\nArrivals from Brazil already have to self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nThe strain is one of a small number of new variants which have been spreading, including ones first spotted in the UK and South Africa.\n\nScientists are racing to understand what it means for the vaccines - but most experts think vaccines will still be effective.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Bangor student Michelle Francis said students had hardly used rooms and had not been able to use facilities on campus\n\nHundreds of students are preparing to take part in rent strikes after paying for \"hardly used\" rooms during the pandemic.\n\nSome Welsh universities have already offered refunds to students who have been living away due to Covid-19.\n\nBut students in Cardiff, Swansea and Bangor claim they are being treated unfairly and are threatening to withhold rent.\n\nUniversities said they were trying to work out the implications of Covid-19.\n\nAnd a solicitor warned students they could face legal action for not paying rent, with long-term implications possible if they lose.\n\nFace-to-face teaching was suspended and many students moved back home before Christmas as coronavirus cases continued to rise.\n\nStaggered returns are being introduced in order to \"help stop the spread of the virus in student accommodation\", according to the Welsh Government.\n\nThey said they had not been living in the rooms or using facilities, despite paying for them, because they were abiding by Welsh Government guidelines.\n\nCardiff Metropolitan University, Aberystwyth University, Swansea University, Bangor University and Cardiff University have now offered eligible students rebates or discounts for time not spent living on campus.\n\nUniversity of South Wales said it will be offering a \"rent holiday\" on university-owned accommodation in Treforest, Rhondda Cynon Taf, for the period 4 January to 12 February.\n\nUniversity of Wales Trinity Saint David (UWTSD) said on Thursday it is now offering refunds to students who have not returned to university-owned accommodation while teaching is solely online.\n\nBut students say the offers are inadequate for students already paying £9,000-a-year tuition fees at a time when most of the teaching was online, and they had been unable to use facilities in halls.\n\nWhile the students cannot hold their protests in person due to coronavirus laws, hundreds are now planning to cancel their direct debits, withholding thousands of pounds of rent from universities.\n\nMichelle Francis, who formed the Bangor Rent Strike campaign, said the university's offer of a 10% discount to eligible students living in university-owned accommodation did not go far enough.\n\nShe said students who had chosen to go home for Christmas were not eligible, despite being unable to use facilities paid for during the first term.\n\n\"[We were] advised to have left university from the beginning of December and to come back at 8 February,\" she said.\n\n\"That's 25% of our halls that we've been paying and we're not there... we should be allowed to have that back.\"\n\nSo far over 300 students have joined the campaign to cancel their direct debits paid to Welsh universities and campaigners said the numbers were growing daily.\n\nOn Wednesday, Cardiff University joined other Welsh universities in offering a rent rebate to students living in university-owned accommodation during the pandemic.\n\nBut the full rebate, for the time students are unable to return to live in their accommodation, will not be applied until April.\n\nSwansea University has also confirmed a rent reduction to students in university halls who have been asked to remain at home.\n\nOisin Mulholland of Swansea Rent Strike said the group wanted the university to commit to fairly \"assessing the situation\", including for the coming term, and students who had already moved in should be given rebates as well.\n\n\"There was a window in January, where the Welsh Government said return, but the English government said don't return, and the university said nothing,\" he said.\n\n\"Many students came back and are now trapped in Swansea and can't go back because of lockdown\"\n\nIbrahim Khan said students were struggling and needed the rebate immediately\n\nIbrahim Khan, of the Cardiff Rent Strike campaign, said the rebate was \"too late\" for students struggling financially now.\n\n\"The university should be giving us the rebate this January as opposed to the third instalment in April,\" he said.\n\nLawyers have warned that students would in breach of contract if they cancel the direct debit for their rent.\n\nSiôn Fôn, a solicitor at Darwin Gray, encouraged students to discuss the issue with their families and student unions before taking action.\n\n\"I think a case could be brought forward pretty easily against somebody not paying rent,\" he said.\n\nBut he said students may have a case against the university due to not being able to access advertised facilities, but if the university took legal action it could have long-term consequences for individuals.\n\n\"If the students lose, and even after losing don't pay the rent, that would come up on credit scores, or with the bank, if they're trying to get a mortgage or a credit card it would come up on their record,\" he warned.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"How am I going to afford to do my food shop... if I can't go to work?\"\n\nA spokesperson for Cardiff University said technical reasons meant they had to wait until the April instalment of accommodation fees to provide the rebate.\n\nSwansea University said some students had already returned when the stay at home guidance was issued, and it was working through the \"implications of this\".\n\n\"To help with this the university will not generate invoices for any students with university accommodation until May when we have been able to look at these cases,\" a spokesman said.\n\nBangor University said it did not wish to add anything further following its rebate announcement.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it had provided an extra £40m to help universities, including £10m for towards student hardship and support.\n\n\"It would seem fair that students should be eligible for a rebate for the period when a course is online only and we welcome moves by universities to address this,\" a spokesman said.\n\n\"We are actively considering how we can support our students and universities even further.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Residents of an asylum seeker camp in Pembrokeshire says life is 'very bad'\n\nAsylum seekers housed in a military training camp have claimed the \"very bad\" conditions are making them feel increasingly desperate.\n\nThe Home Office decided to house up to 250 asylum seekers at the site in Penally, Pembrokeshire, from September.\n\nBut some housed at the camp claim the conditions are unsafe and putting them at risk of coronavirus.\n\nPlaid Cymru has called for an urgent inspection, but the Home Office said it was safe and \"Covid-compliant\".\n\nOn Thursday afternoon, the independent chief inspector for borders and immigration David Bolt said he hoped an inspection can begin \"within a few weeks\" and was awaiting further details he requested from the Home Office.\n\nProtests and counter-protests have taken place at the camp, with concerns conditions breach human rights.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford has said the facility was \"unsuitable\" for vulnerable people who have \"fled terror and suffering\".\n\nNow, asylum seekers have spoken to the BBC about their experiences of living in the camp during the pandemic, with some claiming the site does not abide by Covid-19 rules.\n\nPhotos taken inside the camp show the living conditions in one of the rooms\n\nOne man, who wishes to remain anonymous, arrived at the camp on 1 October.\n\nHe said he had pain from \"old injuries\" obtained in Syria, but had to wait \"four days\" to see a doctor. He also has concerns about hygiene facilities at the camp.\n\n\"There is no observance of the Covid safety laws,\" he said, claiming \"six men\" share a small bedroom, dozens eat in the same room, and some staff preparing food do not wear face masks.\n\nVideo footage and photographs of the camp, seen by BBC Wales, show bathroom floors covered with water, every toilet in one bathroom blocked, beds in communal rooms less than 2m (6ft) apart and a bathroom where all the soap dispensers are empty.\n\nThe Home Office said medical need determined GP appointments, social distancing was required, and soap was replenished at the site.\n\nThe man said the camp's conditions had left him in a \"bad psychological state\" and others had attempted self-harm: \"Should I try to hurt myself to get out of here?\"\n\nHe said he and other residents were able to leave the camp as long as they are back by 22:00 GMT, but said he was reluctant to go out due to the \"humiliation, abuse and racism\" he has experienced.\n\nThe site has attracted protests in recent months\n\nWhile some have welcomed the refugees, posting welcome notes outside the gates, the camp has been described as a target for \"hard-right extremist\" protesters.\n\nThe Home Office said that, where someone claims their mental health is suffering, it would consider if their needs can be met at the site.\n\nAnother resident, from Eritrea, north-east Africa, said life in the camp was stressful, and people were being \"treated like prisoners\".\n\n\"For the Eritrean community in this camp, the most difficult thing is we escaped from our country from indefinite military service and illegal imprisonment,\" he said.\n\n\"So we feel like we are imprisoned in a military camp. It is all coming back to us.\"\n\nOne resident said it was impossible to maintain social distancing in a room with six people\n\nThe man said he had been told to be careful and to abide to Covid rules, but there was \"no protection\" as he was sleeping in a room with five others.\n\n\"Most of the bathrooms - they are broken,\" he said.\n\n\"They are filled with tissues, masks, everything you can find, they are blocked, they don't work.\"\n\nHe said he had not been offered a coronavirus test since arriving about three months ago.\n\nThe Home Office said residents had often entered the UK some time ago, and had been mainly placed in the camp after being in the south-east of England and around London.\n\nIt added that coronavirus tests were only necessary in line with Welsh Government guidance.\n\nIt added that Clearsprings Ready Homes, which manage the camp, took immediate steps to repair damage.\n\nSome have welcomed the asylum seekers in the community\n\nBut Plaid Cymru's leader in Westminster, Liz Saville Roberts, has called for an \"urgent\" and \"transparent\" inspection of the site.\n\nIn a letter to the UK's Independent chief inspector of borders and immigration, David Bolt, the MP said: \"We are now not only in the middle of winter, but cases of Covid-19 in Wales are rising at an alarming rate.\n\n\"I am extremely worried that the conditions at the old military barracks are wholly unsuitable to deal with the cold weather and to facilitate effective social distancing.\n\n\"This shows a clear disregard for the health and wellbeing of those being kept in the camp.\"\n\nAbout 40 men took part in the protest outside the camp in November over claims their human rights were being breached\n\nShe told BBC Radio Wales: \"If we aspire to be a nation of sanctuary, surely we should be looking at how people, while they are with us, are integrated into our communities and given all the services that they need, rather than putting them in a convenient enclosed space in a tiny community which is ill equipped itself to deal with this... Let alone far right protests outside and all the pressure that's put on the local population.\n\n\"We need to make sure that this doesn't set a precedent into the future.\"\n\nMr Bolt told Ms Saville Roberts he had \"received assurances\" from the Home Office that the Penally camp had an independent Covid-19 audit on 4 November.\n\nIn a letter, he said he hoped an inspection could be held \"within a few weeks\".\n\nHe said he was keen to understand how the Home Office \"was assuring itself\" individuals who were particularly vulnerable, including torture victims, potential victims of modern slavery, and those with complex health and other needs, were being identified and action taken to safeguard them.\n\nHe said: \"While on site I would expect the only restrictions to be those relating to Covid-19 and that inspectors would be free to examine the premises and facilities, observe daily life and interview staff and service users, and I would look to the Home Office to ensure that whoever is responsible for managing the site understands that they must cooperate with the inspection team.\"\n\nIn December, the Welsh Labour Government deputy minister Jane Hutt called on the Home Secretary Priti Patel to close the camp, describing the conditions as \"unsafe\" and \"inhumane\".\n\nTom Nunn, a solicitor representing some of the residents at camp, said the Home Office had said the camp should only be used as short-term accommodation for single, asylum-seeking males with no known vulnerabilities.\n\nBut he said 20 clients had been transferred away from the camp due to being vulnerable, and feared a serious incident would happen if things did not change.\n\n\"The majority of them have been detained and/or tortured in their country of origin, many have been exploited on their journey to the UK and a large number have fairly severe mental health problems,\" he said.\n\n\"It should not be the case that the only effective way of being transferred out is through making submissions through lawyers, and we are concerned about a large number of individuals who for a myriad of reasons may be unable to obtain this representation.\"\n\nThe UK's Minister for Immigration Compliance, Chris Philp, said: \"We provide asylum seekers in Penally with safe, Covid-compliant and weather-proof accommodation along with free, nutritious meals, all paid for by the taxpayer.\n\n\"We take the welfare of those in our care extremely seriously and asylum seekers can contact the 24/7 helpline run by Migrant Help if they have any issues.\n\n\"We are fixing our asylum system to make it firm and fair. We will be bringing forward legislation which will stop abuse of the system while ensuring it is compassionate towards those who need our help, welcoming people through safe and legal routes.\"", "The TikTok clip was reported to police by Network Rail\n\nA TikTok stunt featuring a car parked on a level crossing has been branded \"staggeringly stupid\".\n\nThe \"reckless\" social media post, recorded on the line at Bromley Cross, Bolton, showed a camera and tripod set up on the railway to record the scene.\n\nAn accompanying caption asked viewers: \"Would you take the risk to get the shot no-one else would?\"\n\nInsp Becky Warren, from British Transport Police, said: \"No picture or video is worth risking your life for.\"\n\nNetwork Rail, which reported the footage after it appeared on the video-sharing app, blasted the \"staggeringly stupid and dangerous\" clip.\n\nIt issued a reminder that trespassing on railway lines is against the law.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by ManchesterPiccadilly This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNorth West route director Phil James said using the tracks \"as a backdrop for a photo shoot beggars belief\".\n\n\"Lives could so easily have been lost by this reckless behaviour,\" he said.\n\nInsp Warren added: \"There is simply no excuse for not following safety procedures at level crossings. The behaviour shown by the individuals in this video is incredibly dangerous and reckless.\"\n\nMany instances of trespass involve people using railway lines as backdrops for selfies and even wedding photos.\n\nLast year, Network Rail and British Transport Police launched a You vs. Train campaign to highlight the issue of young people trespassing.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Armie Hammer has starred in The Social Network and Call Me By Your Name\n\nUS actor Armie Hammer has pulled out of a new film with Jennifer Lopez after what he described as \"vicious and spurious online attacks against me\".\n\nHammer had been set to appear in the action comedy Shotgun Wedding.\n\nHowever, the star's role will now be re-cast after private messages he supposedly sent were circulated online.\n\nIn a statement, Hammer dismissed the messages and said the subsequent abuse meant he could no longer spend months away from his children while filming.\n\n\"I'm not responding to these [false] claims but in light of the vicious and spurious online attacks against me, I cannot in good conscience now leave my children for four months to shoot a film in the Dominican Republic,\" the 34-year-old said, according to Deadline and Variety.\n\nThe Social Network and Call Me By Your Name actor added that film studio Lionsgate \"is supporting me in this and I'm grateful to them for that\".\n\nHammer has two children aged six and three with TV host Elizabeth Chambers. The couple announced their divorce last summer.\n\nHis name began trending over the weekend after explicit messages detailing disturbing sexual fantasies, which were purportedly sent by him, appeared online.\n\nA spokesman for Shotgun Wedding told the PA news agency that the film's producers accepted his decision.\n\n\"Given the imminent start date of Shotgun Wedding, Armie has requested to step away from the film and we support him in his decision,\" they said.\n\nHammer played the Winklevoss twins in 2010's The Social Network and starred opposite Timothée Chalamet in 2017's acclaimed drama Call Me By Your Name. He also appeared alongside Lily James in the Netflix adaptation of Rebecca, which came out last year.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "Twitter boss Jack Dorsey has said banning US President Donald Trump was the right thing to do.\n\nHowever, he expressed sadness at what he described as the \"extraordinary and untenable circumstances\" surrounding Mr Trump's permanent suspension.\n\nHe also said the ban was in part a failure of Twitter's, which hadn't done enough to foster \"healthy conversation\" across its platforms.\n\nTwitter has been praised and criticised for freezing Mr Trump's account.\n\nGerman leader Angela Merkel and Mexican President Andres Manuel López Obrador - neither an ally of the outgoing US president - spoke out against the tech titan's move.\n\nIn a long Twitter thread, Twitter's chief said he did not celebrate or feel pride in the ban - which came after the Capitol riot last week.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by jack This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe reiterated that removing the president from Twitter was made after \"a clear warning\" to Mr Trump.\n\n\"We made a decision with the best information we had based on threats to physical safety both on and off Twitter,\" Mr Dorsey said.\n\nHe also accepted that the move would have consequences for an open and free internet.\n\n\"Having to take these actions fragment the public conversation. They divide us….And sets a precedent I feel is dangerous.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police place US Capitol Building on lockdown after Trump supporters breached security lines\n\nHe also addressed criticism that just a handful of tech bosses can make decisions on who does and doesn't have a voice on the internet - and on accusations of censorship.\n\n\"A company making a business decision to moderate itself is different from a government removing access, yet can feel much the same,\" said Mr Dorsey.\n\nThe decision to remove users, posts and tweets has been criticised by some for violating First Amendment - free speech - rights.\n\nHowever, big tech firms generally argue that as they are private companies, and not state actors, this law does not apply when they moderate their platforms.\n\nFacebook and YouTube have taken steps to silence the president, while Amazon shut down Parler, an app widely used by his supporters.\n\nNow Snapchat has also announced that Mr Trump will be permanently banned from its platform too.\n\nIt had already announced an indefinite suspension, but has now decided that \"in the interest of public safety and based on his attempts to spread misinformation, hate speech, and incite violence\" to permanently terminate his account.\n\nOn Monday, the German chancellor's spokesperson said she found the social media ban \"problematic\". And the Mexican president said: \"I don't like anybody being censored.\"\n\nIncoming US President-elect Joe Biden has said he wants companies like Facebook and Twitter to do more to take down hate speech and fake news.\n\nHe has previously said he wants to repeal Section 230, a law protecting social media companies from being sued for the things people post.\n\nIt's not clear how Mr Biden intends to regulate Big Tech, though it's likely to be a legislative focus of his.", "Despite the huge need to free up space in hospitals, some care homes say insurance issues make it impossible for them to accept Covid-19 patients.\n\nIn October, the government launched a scheme for designated care homes to take patients recovering from the virus but insurance is a stumbling block.\n\nSir David Behan, head of the UK's largest care home company, HC-One, says insurance has become a major concern.\n\nThe government says it is working to resolve the issue.\n\n\"We are aware the adult social care insurance market is changing in response to the pandemic, and recognise some care providers may encounter difficulties as their policies come up for renewal,\" said a Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson.\n\nOne Hampshire care home says it will have to stop taking patients within days because its insurance will expire.\n\nWaterside House in Netley, Hampshire usually provides holidays and respite care for people with disabilities.\n\nBut since the autumn it has been taking Covid-positive patients discharged from hospitals on the south coast.\n\nThey are looked after on a separate floor from other residents, and the home has had to meet high infection control standards.\n\nHome manager Sarah Knight said demand for the 31 beds is unparalleled and added: \"I've been in nursing a long, long time, and I have never known anything like this.\n\n\"People end up in an ambulance sat outside hospitals for hours and hours, or they end up on a trolley in A&E in a corridor for hours and hours.\n\n\"By offering the best that we've got here, we can reduce some of that burden.\"\n\nJan Tregelles is chief executive of the charity Revitalise which runs Waterside House\n\nThe government originally hoped there would be 500 designated care homes taking in Covid-positive patients.\n\nBut Waterside House is one of only 129 which have been set up to take those who have not completed 14 days in isolation.\n\nHowever, its public indemnity insurance protection, which it needs in case someone contracts Covid there, runs out at the end of January.\n\nWaterside House is run by the charity Revitalise, whose chief executive, Jan Tregelles, said they have tried everything, but will soon have to start turning away people.\n\n\"It's shocking,\" she says. \"We are truly helpless. We have a fantastic team of nurses and colleagues already.\n\n\"The facilities are here, everything's arranged and we can't step up to support our communities at this time.\"\n\nOne resident, Alan Washbourne, who has been living at Waterside House since he was discharged from hospital during the first wave of the pandemic, said: \"I feel quite safe here.\"\n\nHe is not on the Covid floor of the home, and added: \"If I were to go to somewhere else, which is possible, I might not feel quite so safe.\"\n\nAlan Washbourne has been at Waterside House since April last year\n\nAfter so many deaths last spring, many care homes will not consider taking patients who are Covid-positive, even with extra infection control measures.\n\nMeanwhile, growing numbers of staff are off sick or self-isolating, leaving care homes facing shortages.\n\nAnd many are also finding it difficult to get the public indemnity insurance.\n\nSir David Behan is chairman of HC-One, the UK's largest care home provider\n\nSince November, HC-One, which is the UK's largest care home provider, has had to cover its own Covid risks because it cannot get the insurance.\n\nSir David said it is one of the reasons why they have not taken part in the designated places scheme.\n\n\"You've got solicitors' firms advertising, taking cases up against care companies,\" he says.\n\n\"So, this isn't a theoretical risk that there may be proceedings, it's an actual risk, and therefore we need cover.\n\n\"The NHS wouldn't operate without similar liability cover and that's what we need to see, and I think governments have a role to play working with the insurance industry to work to find a solution.\"\n\nThe Department for Health and Social Care said it was making efforts to determine what actions it could take.\n\n\"Our priority is to ensure everyone receives the right care, in the right place, at the right time,\" said a spokesperson.", "More than 100,000 Covid-19 vaccinations had been issued in Northern Ireland by Tuesday evening, Robin Swann has said.\n\nThe health minister said, of that figure, 91,419 people had received their first vaccine dose.\n\nHe added that 95% of care home residents had received their first dose and about 20% of those aged over 80 have received their first dose.\n\nIt comes as leading GP said the goal to begin a mass vaccine rollout by summer is \"achievable\" but hinges on supply.\n\nThe Department of Health published its plan to deliver vaccines in Northern Ireland on Tuesday.\n\nDr Alan Stout said the timeline was \"very sensible\" but was \"almost 100%\" dependent on getting enough of the vaccine.\n\nAt Wednesday's health briefing, Mr Swann said the programme had made a \"strong start\" but there was more to do.\n\nHe also said he has decided to issue tighter visiting guidelines for hospitals.\n\n\"I have ensured visiting will be permitted to hospices and care homes, but visits to general medical wards will no longer be permitted from this Friday\", he said.\n\nThe minister added that the measure would be kept under constant review.\n\nMr Swann also confirmed a new rapid test for Covid-19, which can return results in 12 minutes, would be used in emergency departments.\n\nHe said a pilot programme has been carried out using the LumiraDX nasal swab, which will enable health staff to \"very quickly identify patients who do not have Covid-19\".\n\nHe also repeated that the current lockdown restrictions were working and had helped to reduce NI's rate of infection, but warned the executive would still have \"difficult decisions\" to take in relation to decisions about whether to extend some restrictions in the coming weeks.\n\nOn Wednesday, a further 19 Covid-related deaths were announced by the Department of Health in Northern Ireland.\n\nA further 1,145 new cases of the virus were also reported.\n\nMeanwhile, Northern Ireland's chief medical officer warned there was \"no doubt\" that levels of the new, more transmissible variant of coronavirus are rising in Northern Ireland.\n\nSpeaking at Stormont's executive briefing, Dr Michael McBride said that the new variant was making the job to contain it \"twice as difficult\".\n\nThe new variant is said to be up to 70% more transmissible, but there is no evidence it is more dangerous.\n\nThe first confirmed case of the new strain was detected in Northern Ireland on 23 December, but officials had said levels in Northern Ireland remained lower than in other areas of the UK.\n\nDr McBride said there would now be situations where the variant could spread, where previously it may not have.\n\n\"We need to be extremely cautious in the weeks ahead,\" he warned, adding that the virus would not \"magically disappear\" on 6 February, when the current lockdown is due to end.\n\nStormont ministers have to review the regulations on or before 22 January, with that scheduled for next Thursday.\n\nDr McBride said Northern Ireland had some distance to go before restrictions are lifted\n\nDr Stout, the chair of NI's GP committee, said practices needed another 22,000 doses to finish vaccinating people aged over 80.\n\nSpeaking to BBC's Good Morning Ulster, he said he was \"very confident\" the next doses would come through shortly.\n\n\"I have been overwhelmed by the desire of practices, the determination just to get going and the one thing we need to give them is vaccine - we need to get the supply in as quickly as possible.\n\n\"This is such a good news story that everybody wants the vaccine and everybody wants to give it.\"\n\nThe plan is for the vaccine to be given to the general population in summer 2021.\n\nGP clinics should have received their first delivery of the vaccine by Tuesday.\n\nResponding to reports in The Daily Telegraph that GPs administering the vaccine in England had been asked to \"slow down\" to let other regions \"catch-up\", Dr Stout said Northern Ireland had taken a different approach to how it rolled out vaccines to GPs.\n\nHe said vaccines were shared among all practices in Northern Ireland.\n\n\"We just don't have the full amount of vaccine in practice to give. We could have given all of the vaccine that a certain number of practices needed to start with but there were issues with inequality and discrimination ... so that's why an amount has gone to every single practice, so at least they have some.\"", "A ban on travellers to the UK from South America has left one family fearing it could leave them stranded abroad for months.\n\nThe restriction comes into force at 04:00 GMT on Friday amid fears of a new Covid variant identified in Brazil.\n\nBritish and Irish citizens and foreign nationals with residence rights will still be able to travel but must isolate for 10 days.\n\nHowever many flights have now been cancelled.\n\nJon Den travelled to Brazil with his wife Carla, 32, in October so that her family - who live in Goiania - could meet their one-year-old daughter Luiza for the first time.\n\nThe couple, who live in Wolverhampton, are due to fly back to the UK on 6 February but Jon now fears they may be stuck out there for months due to the travel ban.\n\n\"We had planned to visit in February 2020 but we had to postpone because of the lockdown and that was rough on my wife, she suffered a lot,\" the 31-year-old says.\n\n\"Now I think my mum is suffering as she's expecting Luiza to be back, but who knows now?\n\n\"My initial reaction was worry because it's so unknown. The thought of not being able to return home and being stranded is not a nice feeling.\n\n\"I'm hoping British residents will be able to get home but I don't know if the government will organise flights. I think it's a long shot. I hope we can get home and not be stranded out here for months.\n\n\"We've got to be patient but at the same time flexible.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Several Leeds bus drivers were faced with challenging conditions in the snow.\n\nHigh demand and heavy snow have had a \"severe impact\" on Yorkshire's ambulances, with bad weather also affecting coronavirus vaccinations.\n\nThe county ambulance trust declared a major incident, urging calls only in a \"serious or life-threatening emergency\" due to poor road conditions.\n\nA vaccination centre in Barnsley was closed, with patients told to await new appointments.\n\nCovid testing centres in Kirklees and Bradford also suspended operations.\n\nA yellow Met Office warning for snow and ice is in force until 21:00 GMT.\n\nMark Millins, strategic commander at Yorkshire Ambulance Service, said \"very snowy conditions across West, South and North Yorkshire\" had caused gridlock and made driving difficult.\n\nStaff were \"working extremely hard to reach patients\", he said, but \"hazardous driving conditions and blocked roads mean that it is taking us longer than normal in the worst-hit areas.\"\n\nVaccinations taking at the Priory Campus in Lundwood, Barnsley, were suspended from 15:00 GMT\n\nIn Barnsley, the town's Clinical Commissioning Group issued a tweet advising that it had postponed all Covid vaccinations at one centre from 15:00 on Thursday.\n\nIt asked those due to receive jabs at the Priory Campus in Lundwood after this time not to travel, and said patients would be contacted with a rescheduled appointment.\n\nThe group said its two remaining centres at Goldthorpe and Apollo Court, in Dodworth, remained open, but those unable to attend would also get a new time and date.\n\nWest Yorkshire Police said it had also seen a surge in calls and urged people not to call 101 for \"non-urgent matters\".\n\nSupt Chris Bowen said the force had received 300 calls to the 999 and 101 numbers in the space of an hour on Thursday morning.\n\nA large snowball fight on Woodhouse Moor in Leeds was criticised for an apparent lack of social distancing after footage was posted on social media.\n\nLiam Ford, who recorded the video, said he saw the \"awful scenes\" after he \"heard the commotion while on a walk round the block\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A large group of people have been filmed in a snowball fight in Leeds\n\nPolice urged drivers to stay at home until the roads cleared\n\nMotorists reported hazardous driving conditions on many routes and police warned people to stay at home or allow extra time for essential journeys.\n\nPhil Airey said his usual 30-minute commute from Boston Spa to Harrogate took 90 minutes due to the poor conditions.\n\n\"The gritters have been doing their job but any sort of hill then it's not very good and if you go off onto the little roads well they are not good at all,\" he said.\n\nWest Yorkshire's road policing unit said it was dealing with a number of crashes while the North Yorkshire force said the A59 was blocked near Skipton due to a number of vehicles getting stuck in the snow.\n\nThe Met Office has not issued a weather notice for Friday, but a yellow warning for snow and ice on Saturday is in place across most of northern England and Scotland.\n\nPolice say they have dealt with a number of collisions and accidents\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk or send video here.", "Charlie Mullins said workers getting vaccinated is \"a no-brainer\".\n\nA large London plumbing firm plans to rewrite all of its workers' contracts to require them to be vaccinated against coronavirus.\n\nPimlico Plumbers chairman Charlie Mullins said it was \"a no-brainer\" that workers should get the jab.\n\nIf they do not want to comply with the policy, it will be decided on a case-by-case basis whether they are kept on, he said.\n\nEmployment lawyers said the plan carried risks for the business.\n\nThe NHS is seeking to vaccinate 15 million people from priority groups by mid-February as part of efforts to try to control the spread of Covid-19.\n\nBut Mr Mullins said he was prepared to pay for private immunisations for people at the firm, should they become available, which would be done on the company's time.\n\nDoctors have warned that key hospital services in England are in crisis, with reports of hospitals cancelling urgent operations after a surge in Covid patients in recent weeks.\n\nPimlico Plumbers plans to change its contracts for new joiners to require immunisation. It will rewrite its contracts with existing workers and employees as soon as is practical, depending on vaccine availability.\n\nThe firm has about 350 plumbers working as contractors and about 120 employees.\n\nMr Mullins said the firm was \"not putting anyone under any pressure\" to have the jab.\n\nHowever, new starters who were not immunised would not be taken on, he said.\n\nMr Mullins said employees approved of the policy.\n\n\"It's a no-brainer,\" he said. \"I've talked to people who have said: 'I will queue up all night to get the vaccine.'\n\n\"I think it will be the norm in five or six months. To go into a bar or cinema, or go on a plane, you have to have a vaccine,\" he added.\n\nMr Mullins said he had set aside £800,000 to pay for private vaccinations, but estimated costs more in the region of £100,000.\n\n\"Whatever it costs, I will pay,\" he said. \"I would pay £1m tomorrow to safeguard our staff.\n\n\"If people don't want the vaccine, let them sit at home and not have a normal life,\" he added.\n\nHowever, employment lawyers said this vaccination policy could be risky.\n\nLegally, companies cannot force employees to take a vaccine, said Thrive Law managing director Jodie Hill.\n\n\"They can't jab a vaccine in your arm,\" she said.\n\nPeople who refuse vaccination and are dismissed may have grounds to make a legal claim, she said.\n\n\"Even if they put that [requirement] in a new contract, I don't think they'd get away with it,\" she said.\n\nEmployees with more than two years' service could claim unfair dismissal. But this option is not open to workers and self-employed contractors.\n\nBroadly, people can refuse a vaccination for legitimate reasons such as being pregnant or breastfeeding, for religious reasons, because of disability or allergy, or for ethical vegan reasons if the jab contains animal products.\n\nThe two vaccines approved for use in the UK, from Oxford-AstraZeneca and Pfizer/BioNTech, do not contain any components of animal origin, a Department for Health and Social Care spokesman confirmed.\n\nDismissal for employees with one or more of these protected characteristics could give rise to a discrimination claim.\n\nPeople who are hesitant about taking the vaccine for personal reasons would not be able to claim discrimination, but could potentially claim unfair dismissal if they have been with the firm for two years or more.\n\nPeople with strong anti-vaccination beliefs may be protected under equality law, Ms Hill added.\n\nThe company and Mr Mullins have previously faced a lengthy legal battle with one of its former contractors, Gary Smith.\n\nIn 2018, Mr Smith won a Supreme Court ruling over holiday and sick pay. However, an employment tribunal later ruled that he was not entitled to make a claim for the back pay, as he had not completed the necessary paperwork.\n\nMr Mullins insisted that the vaccination change to contracts \"will be done legally\", but said that he was willing to take this matter to the Supreme Court as well, if necessary.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The rapid spread of coronavirus variants has put the world on alert and triggered a new lockdown in the UK. What are these variants and why are they causing concern?\n\nAll viruses naturally mutate over time, and Sars-CoV-2 is no exception.\n\nSince the virus was first identified a year ago, thousands of mutations have arisen.\n\nThe vast majority of mutations are \"passengers\" and will have little impact, says Dr Lucy van Dorp, an expert in the evolution of pathogens at University College London.\n\n\"They don't change the behaviour of the virus, they are just carried along.\"\n\nBut every once in a while, a virus strikes lucky by mutating in a way that helps it survive and reproduce.\n\n\"Viruses carrying these mutations can then increase in frequency due to natural selection, given the right epidemiological settings,\" Dr van Dorp says.\n\nThis is what seems to be happening with the variant that has spread across the UK, known as 202012/01, and a similar, but different variant, recently identified in South Africa (501.V2).\n\nHundreds of thousands of viral genomes have been analysed across the world\n\nThere is no evidence so far that either causes more severe disease, but the worry is that health systems will be overwhelmed by a rapid rise in cases.\n\nIn a rapid risk assessment of these \"variants of concern\", the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control said they place increased pressure on health systems.\n\n\"Although there is no information that infections with these strains are more severe, due to increased transmissibility, the impact of Covid-19 disease in terms of hospitalisations and deaths is assessed as high, particularly for those in older age groups or with co-morbidities,\" the EU agency said.\n\nThe variants have different origins but share a mutation in a gene that encodes the spike protein, which the virus uses to latch on to and enter human cells.\n\nScientists think this could be why they appear more infectious.\n\n\"The UK and South African virus variants have changes in the spike gene consistent with the possibility that they are more infectious,\" says Prof Lawrence Young at the University of Warwick.\n\nBut as Dr Jeff Barrett, director of the Covid-19 genomics initiative at the Wellcome Sanger Institute in Hinxton, UK, points out, it's the combination of what the virus is doing and what we're doing that determines how fast it spreads.\n\n\"With the new variant, the situation changes more quickly as restrictions are relaxed and tightened, and there is less room for error in controlling the spread,\" he says.\n\n\"We don't have any evidence, however, that the new variant can fundamentally evade masks, social distancing, or the other interventions - we just need to apply them more strictly.\"\n\nThe spike protein (foreground) enables the virus to enter and infect human cells\n\nWith vaccine roll-out underway, scientists are racing to understand the repercussions for vaccines, which are based on the spike protein sequence.\n\nThere is particular concern about the South Africa variant, which has several changes in the spike (S) protein.\n\nMost experts think vaccines will still be effective, at least in the short term.\n\nDr Julian W Tang, a virologist at the University of Leicester, says vaccines can be modified to be \"more close-fitting and effective against this variant in a few months\".\n\n\"Meanwhile, most of us believe that the existing vaccines are likely to work to some extent to reduce infection/ transmission rates and severe disease against both the UK and South African variants - as the various mutations have not altered the S protein shape that the current vaccine-induced antibodies will not bind at all.\"\n\nMink outbreaks are a \"spillover\" from the human pandemic\n\nScientists are carrying out laboratory studies to find out more about the variants. And they are tracking every move of the virus as it hopscotches around the world.\n\nBy taking a swab from an infected patient, the genetic code of the virus can be extracted and amplified before being \"read\" using a sequencer.\n\nThe string of letters, or nucleotides, allows genomes and mutations to be compared.\n\n\"It is thanks to these efforts, and UK testing laboratories, that the UK variant has been flagged so quickly as a potential cause of concern,\" Dr van Dorp says.\n\nProf Julian Hiscox, chair in infection and global health at the University of Liverpool, says that, through the efforts of scientists to sequence the virus, \"we've got a really good handle on variants that emerge\".\n\nIn the short-term, only the harshest of lockdowns will reduce case numbers, he says.\n\n\"What lockdown does is reduce the number of people with the virus and reduce the amount of virus out there and that's a good thing.\"\n\nBut in the long term, Prof Hiscox suspects, we may face a scenario like flu, where new vaccines are developed and administered every year.\n\n\"The problem is, the more variants we get, the greater the chance the virus will be able to escape part of the vaccine - and this may reduce [its] efficacy,\" he says.\n• None New coronavirus variant: What do we know?", "The co-founder for Cyberpunk 2077's developer has released a new video explaining what went wrong with the game.\n\nCD Projekt's Marcin Iwiński admitted they \"underestimated the task\" of adapting the game for consoles like the PS4 and Xbox One.\n\nMarcin says he's \"deeply sorry for this and this video is me publicly owning up\".\n\nThe game was arguably the most anticipated release of 2020 but the launch just before Christmas was a disaster.\n\nThe problems led to Sony and Microsoft removing the game from online stores and gamers were offered refunds.\n\nCyberpunk 2077 is a set in the fictional Night City - a dystopian future where pollution and crime are rampant and social inequality is the norm.\n\nIn the video, Marcin explains issues originated from Cyperpunk's \"huge\" scope, particularly the high number \"of custom objects, interacting systems, and mechanics\", making it a complex game.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Cyberpunk 2077 This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nAs this was \"condensed in one big city\" rather than spread over a bigger space - it needed greater hardware capability.\n\nSo despite working well for high-end PCs, it couldn't be adjusted to older generation consoles such as the PS4 and Xbox One, making in-game streaming difficult.\n\n\"We hit the ground running on PC. While not perfect, it's a version of Cyberpunk we're very proud of.\"\n\nMarcin adds that testing did not \"show a big part of the issues\" that gamers experienced.\n\n\"As we got closer to the final release, we saw significant improvements each and every day.\"\n\nHe also blames the coronavirus pandemic for creating issues for CD Projekt as they tried to improve performance after launch.\n\n\"A lot of the dynamics we normally take for granted got lost over video calls or email. And we took that hit too.\"\n\nLooks good right? But this wasn't what the game looked like for a lot of console gamers\n\nMarcin added the \"incredibly hard working and talented\" development team should not be blamed for problems, saying the final decision came down to him and the board.\n\n\"Believe me, we never ever intended for anything like this to happen. I assure you that we will do our best to regain your trust\".\n\nAs part of that, he says they intend to fix the problems and improve the game across platforms.\n\n\"Our ultimate goal is to fix the bugs and crashes,\" he says, with updates to the game expected to arrive in the coming days and weeks.\n\n\"We treat this entire situation very seriously and are working hard to make it right.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Julia is doing well after her surprise arrival into the world\n\nA mother who gave birth just 10 days after discovering she was pregnant thought she had put on weight in lockdown.\n\nSamantha Hicks, from Portishead, North Somerset, attributed her baby Julia's kicking to sickness having been ill.\n\nHer pregnancy was missed even when she was in Southmead Hospital in Bristol with Covid-19 in November .\n\n\"It never occurred to me I was pregnant as I had taken two previous tests which both came back negative,\" she said.\n\nWhen Mrs Hicks was taken to the Covid ward in hospital, doctors asked if she was pregnant and she said no.\n\nShe said she had noticed a small amount of weight gain but put it down to lockdown and that she thought she might have Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) as it runs in the family.\n\nMrs Hicks said: \"I felt a bit of movement but I thought it was because I had not been well.\n\n\"My tummy was a bit swollen but again, because I felt sick and I wasn't great, it never occurred to me I was pregnant.\"\n\nHer husband Joe said: \"On Christmas Day, I asked her if she was sure she wasn't pregnant, but she said no and she knows her own body.\n\n\"Then on January 1, I had my hands on Sammy and we felt a baby kick.\n\n\"We took another pregnancy test which came back positive.\"\n\nAt that stage, Mrs Hicks thought she was only five or six months into her term and returned to her job in a care home, walking 40 minutes to get there.\n\nTen days later, her contractions began and Mr Hicks rushed her to hospital\n\n\"It was unreal, the doctors only realised Julia was full term when she was born,\" he said.\n\nThe couple, who have two sons aged three and eight, said they had not planned on having more children.\n\nThey have since been \"inundated\" with gifts from friends, family and strangers in Portishead, who have offered blankets and essentials to help out.\n\n\"We want to say thank you to everyone really,\" Mr Hicks said.\n\nHelen Blanchard, Director of Nursing and Quality at North Bristol NHS Trust said: \"We would like to pass our congratulations to Mrs Hicks and her family on their new arrival.\n\n\"As Mrs Hicks experienced when she was cared for at Southmead, it is routine practice to ask people if they are, or could be, pregnant upon admission.\n\n\"However, we would ask a patient to do a pregnancy test if they were undergoing specific operations or procedures.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Marcus Rashford and a group of celebrity chefs and campaigners have called on Boris Johnson to review the government's free school meals policy.\n\nThe group, including Jamie Oliver, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Tom Kerridge, have written to the PM asking him to \"fix\" the system long-term.\n\nThey called for a strategy to help \"end child food poverty\" before the summer holidays.\n\nNo 10 said \"no child will ever go hungry\" because of the Covid pandemic.\n\nThe call for a wide review comes after another row over free school meals during February half-term.\n\nThe government has said food will be provided to children by councils under the Covid Winter Grant Scheme while schools are closed for the holiday.\n\nCouncils and unions say the government should provide food vouchers instead, with the Local Government Association's Councillor Richard Watts telling BBC Radio 4's PM programme the grant had already been allocated for other support.\n\nBut Transport Secretary Grant Shapps told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"We are down to semantics whether it is the school delivering the meal or whether it is the local authority - fortunately there is quite a lot of different support available.\"\n\nAs well as getting the backing of Rashford - who has led campaigns around child poverty over the course of the pandemic - the letter has been signed by chefs Oliver, Kerridge and Fearnley-Whittingstall, along with actor Dame Emma Thompson and over 40 charities and education leaders.\n\nOrganised by the Food Foundation charity, the letter said it was time to \"step back and review the policy in more depth\".\n\nThey called for an \"urgent comprehensive review into free school meal policy across the UK\" to feed into the government's next Spending Review, saying it should look at:\n\nThe signatories praised the Department for Education's \"swift response\" to reports earlier this week of inadequate food parcels sent to families, saying the \"robustness of the message from you and the secretary of state on this issue was very welcome\".\n\nBut, they added that \"following the series of problems which have arisen over school food vouchers, holiday provision and food parcels since the start of the pandemic\", now was the time for a review.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tom Kerridge: There has to be a solution to free school meals\n\nAnna Taylor, executive director of the Food Foundation charity, said the last few months had seen \"crisis after crisis with the provision of free school meals\".\n\n\"The result of that is disadvantaged children have often paid the price,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"Our view is that really unless we do a root and branch review these problems are going to still keep appearing.\"\n\nChef Fearnley-Whittingstall also called for a more consistent, long-term response to the issue of food poverty.\n\n\"We need to get out of this fire-fighting, highly reactive series of actions by the government,\" he told the same programme.\n\nThe signatories want a review to be published and debated in Parliament before the 2021 summer holidays.\n\n\"We are ready and willing to support your government in whatever way we can to make this review a reality and to help develop a set of recommendations that everyone can support,\" the letter said.\n\n\"School food is essential in supporting the health and learning of our most disadvantaged children.\n\n\"Now, at a time when children have missed months of in-school learning and the pandemic has reminded us of the importance of our health, this is a vital next step.\"\n\nAnti-poverty campaigner and food writer Jack Monroe welcomed the letter to the PM, but told the BBC: \"We need to be feeding children right now.\"\n\nShe added: \"While it is great to be looking longer term... having an underpinning strategy that means that children aren't put into poverty in the first place, we need to also immediately be putting resources in to ensure people aren't going hungry, today, tonight, next week and in the February half-term.\n\n\"This isn't a rhetorical thing. It isn't a dinner party discussion. We need to be doing this now.\"\n\nA Downing Street spokesperson said: \"It is great that celebrities and groups across society see the importance of school food. The PM thanks Marcus Rashford for his letter and will reply soon.\n\n\"School food is essential in supporting the health and learning of the most disadvantaged pupils. The prime minister has been clear that no child will ever go hungry as a result of the pandemic\".", "The prime minister has suggested there could be restrictions on travel from Brazil to the UK - but a final decision has not been taken.\n\nBoris Johnson was asked by Labour MP Yvette Cooper why checks on people arriving from Brazil have not been strengthened, given that a new variant of coronavirus has been identified there.\n\nMr Johnson said: \"We are taking steps to ensure that we do not see the import of this new variant from Brazil.\"\n\nThe UK government’s 'Covid-O' committee is expected to discuss the new Brazil variant of coronavirus at a meeting on Thursday.", "People needing to travel by rail during lockdown are being urged to double-check train times, as services are being reduced.\n\nServices in England are being cut from 87% of normal levels to 72%, industry body the Rail Delivery Group said.\n\nIt said the number of trains would reflect the drop in passengers, and provide better value for money for taxpayers who are subsidising services.\n\nPeak services will be prioritised to help key workers, it added.\n\nWhile some timetables have already changed, others will be altered in the next few weeks.\n\nSince the early days of the pandemic, the government has spent billions of pounds covering the fall in ticket revenues for rail companies, owing to low passenger numbers.\n\nCutting some services will save public money, the government said.\n\nRail minister Chris Heaton-Harris said: \"It is critical that our railways continue to deliver reliable services for key workers and people who cannot reasonably work from home, and that they respond quickly to changes in demand.\"\n\nRail usage has slumped, with passenger journeys falling more than 90% to 35 million journeys for the three-month period to June, according to the Office of Rail and Road.\n\nThe figures recovered a little to 134 million for the three months to September - the latest published.\n\nWith fewer passengers, the government argues, it makes sense to run fewer services.\n\nNot least because right now, the government are footing much of the bill; since the start of the pandemic, the government has spent more than £4bn covering the fall in ticket revenues because of low passenger numbers.\n\nThe cuts aren't as deep as they were in March - then services were running around 55% of pre-pandemic levels - which is partly because the train companies want to make sure it doesn't take as long getting the services back up again when they are needed.\n\nLonger term, rail companies are nervous about how quickly passengers, particularly commuters, will return, but for now the message is still firmly \"stay at home\".\n\n\"Train timetables must still meet the needs of those who have to travel, said Transport Focus chief executive Anthony Smith.\n\n\"Many key workers rely on the first and last services of the day so it's important that these are maintained. Providing enough capacity for those who are travelling to properly social distance remains vital.\"\n\nAlthough timetables were restored when restrictions were eased over the summer, rail franchising has since been scrapped and replaced with a model which means the taxpayer is currently liable for the losses on the railways.\n\nIn September, the bill had run to more than £3.5bn - and the Department for Transport has said \"significant\" support is still needed.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Large parts of Scotland woke up to a blanket of snow on Thursday, including in Rutherglen where conditions became challenging for drivers\n\nMotorists continue to face difficult conditions after heavy snow across parts of Scotland caused road closures.\n\nA Met Office yellow warning for ice will be in place overnight and for all of Friday for mainland Scotland.\n\nThe A9 at Dunblane was closed due to snow but has now reopened, while driving conditions on the M90 and M8 were reported as difficult.\n\nThere have also been problems in the Scottish Borders where up to a foot of snow fell overnight.\n\nTraffic Scotland has reported difficult driving conditions on the M77 at Fenwick, M80 around Cumbernauld and the A9 at Greenloaning.\n\nA woman walks through the snow in Braco near Dunblane\n\nThe impact of the overnight freeze on a hedgerow near Strathaven, South Lanarkshire\n\nIn the Borders several lorries got stuck on the A7 between Selkirk and Hawick, while difficult driving conditions were also reported on the A68 at the Carter Bar and Soutra.\n\nThere were also delays on the A83 Old Military Road diversion and the A82 at Tyndrum.\n\nMeanwhile, police have urged drivers to properly clear their car windscreens before setting off in the wintry conditions.\n\nOfficers in Dumfries and Galloway shared a picture of a driver they stopped and charged for failing to do this.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPeople should only be leaving home to make essential journeys in parts of Scotland under level four Covid measures, under current Scottish government lockdown regulations.\n\nCh Supt Louise Blakelock, of Police Scotland, said: \"Government guidance on only travelling if your journey is essential remains in place and so with an amber warning for snow, please consider if your journey really is essential and whether you can delay it until the weather improves.\n\n\"If your journey really is essential, plan ahead and make sure you and your vehicle are suitably prepared by having sufficient fuel and supplies such as warm clothing, food, water and charge in your mobile phone in the event you require assistance.\"\n\nA motorist brushes snow off a car in Braco near Dunblane\n\nThe village of Bowden near Melrose woke up to snow\n\nA snowy scene at Fountainhall in the Scottish Borders\n\nPolice in Shetland have also warned of ice badly affecting roads on the islands.\n\nScotRail said its services could be affected, particularly on the Highland mainline.\n\nScottish Borders Council said the effects of the adverse weather could cause disruption into Friday morning.\n\nEmergency planning officer Jim Fraser said: \"With widespread snow and some freezing rain possible over the course of Wednesday and Thursday, there is the strong potential for disruption across our road network and communities.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSome of the deepest snowfalls in recent weeks have been in the Highlands, including the Cairngorms.\n\nEarlier this month, the UK had its coldest night of the winter so far after a temperature of -12.3C was recorded in the north west Highlands.\n\nThe temperature was recorded at Loch Glascarnoch, near Garve, south of Ullapool in Wester Ross.\n\nThe record lowest temperature in the UK is -27.2C, which was recorded in Braemar, Aberdeenshire, in 1895 and 1982 and at Altnaharra in the Highlands in 1995.", "Pre-departure Covid-19 testing will now be required for everyone travelling to England from 04:00 GMT on Monday.\n\nThe rules had been due to come into force on Friday, but the government said people needed time \"to prepare\".\n\nThose arriving by plane, train or boat, including UK nationals, will have to take a test up to 72 hours before leaving the country they are in.\n\nAnyone arriving from places not on the UK's travel corridor list must still self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nThe Scottish government is planning to impose the same rules and has had to defer them coming into effect as a result of changes in England.\n\n\"This meant Scotland was also obliged to delay implementation as we need sight of their final regulations in order to properly draft and approve the relevant Scottish regulations,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\nIt is expected the requirement will come into force in Scotland at 04:00 GMT on Monday as well. Wales and Northern Ireland are expected to announce plans for pre-arrival testing in the coming days.\n\nAnnouncing the deferral on Twitter, Transport Secretary Mr Shapps said: \"To give international arrivals time to prepare, passengers will be required to provide proof of a negative Covid-19 test before departure to England from Monday 18 January at 4am.\"\n\nHe also reminded travellers to fill out the Passenger Locator Form - used in track and trace - and added that those without proof of a negative test faced a fine of £500.\n\nProblems with testing availability and capacity mean some countries will initially be exempt.\n\nFor instance, the requirement will not apply to travellers from St Lucia, Barbados, Antigua and Barbuda until 04:00 GMT on 21 January.\n\nTravellers from Falkland Islands, Ascension Islands and St Helena are exempted permanently.\n\nHauliers are exempt to allow the free flow of freight, as are air, international rail and maritime crew.\n\nThe government has said all forms of PCR test will be accepted, as will other forms of test with \"97% specificity, 80% sensitivity\".\n\nThe move comes as a further 1,564 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test - the biggest figure reported in a single day since the pandemic began.\n\nWednesday's figure brings the total number of deaths by that measure to 84,767.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle, medical director at Public Health England, said there had now been more deaths in the second wave than the first.\n\nMeanwhile on Wednesday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he was \"concerned\" about a new coronavirus variant that is believed to have emerged in Brazil.\n\nHe acknowledged it was not yet clear how effective existing vaccines would be against the latest new variant.\n\nMr Johnson said the UK was taking steps to make sure it was not brought into the country.\n\nA government Covid committee is meeting on Thursday to discuss the possibility of stopping flights from Brazil.\n\nArrivals from Brazil already have to self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nAre you due to travel back to the UK from Brazil? 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Post-primary schools have been given extra time to decide how they will admit pupils in 2021 following the cancellation of transfer tests.\n\nOn Wednesday the AQE said it would not hold any transfer tests in the 2020-21 school year.\n\nThey had originally planned to go ahead with a test in late February after cancelling tests in January.\n\nThe other test provider, PPTC, had also previously announced it would not hold tests this year.\n\nAttention will now focus especially on what criteria grammar schools will use to select pupils.\n\nSome have already published what criteria they would use in the event transfer tests were cancelled but it is not clear if those will now change.\n\nAll post-primaries were to submit their admissions criteria to the Education Authority (EA) by this Friday.\n\nBut following the AQE's move the Department of Education (DE) has written to schools to tell them they do not have to provide criteria to the EA until Friday 22 January.\n\n\"This will allow them to meet the statutory deadline for publication on their website of 2 February 2021,\" the DE letter said.\n\n\"I would also remind you that boards of governors should ensure that any admissions criteria are robust and are able to clearly and objectively rank order applicants.\"\n\nIt is unclear how most grammar schools who have used transfer tests to select pupils in previous years will admit children in 2021.\n\nPatrick Allen, principal of Foyle College in Londonderry, said his school's board of governors was now working to determine this year's admissions criteria.\n\n\"This is and continues to be an exceptional year. It is a very difficult circumstance,\" he said.\n\n\"We are trying to do the best and what is right for as many pupils as possible in looking at various permutations and combinations of criteria\".\n\nEducation Minister Peter Weir said it was \"a very disappointing day\" for many families.\n\n\"The transfer test, while it has never been about being compulsory for either a school or indeed an individual parent, does enable a level of parental choice and that has been dramatically reduced as a result of that,\" he told Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster programme.\n\n\"But sadly what we have seen is for this year, the pandemic has prevented those transfer tests taking place, and I am very disappointed and entirely understand the disappointment and frustration of many families today.\"\n\nMr Weir said there had been \"a lack of consistency\" from AQE.\n\n\"I don't think the way things have worked out from AQE's point of view, particularly over the last couple of weeks, have been particularly helpful,\" he said.\n\nThe minister also apologised for \"clumsy language\" in a statement he issued on Wednesday night.\n\nWriting on Twitter about the cancellation of the transfer test, Mr Weir said: \"This severely limits parental choice and children's opportunities.\"\n\n\"There was no adverse intention towards non-selective schools,\" he said in relation to his tweet.\n\n\"I think both selective and non-selective schools have got excellent records in Northern Ireland.\"\n\n\"But once the opportunities for entry to any school is reduced then that is a reduction in opportunities for all.\"\n\nUUP MLA Robbie Butler has proposed that pupils' results in tests in primary schools could be given to parents and then used by grammar schools to decide which children get a place.\n\nMr Butler said that he had some favourable responses from some grammars and some primary schools to that proposal.\n\n\"Whilst I don't think my solution is absolutely perfect I do believe it to be absolutely fair and absolutely compassionate,\" he told MLAs on the committee.\n\n\"We have the genesis of a solution for these P7 pupils.\"\n\nBut, speaking on Wednesday, Mr Weir replied that there were issues with that approach.\n\n\"There are very major problems, I'm being honest with you, in terms of the models that have been put forward for academic selection without the test,\" he said.\n\nThe minister said it would be difficult to get comparable information for pupils across all primaries.\n\n\"While it's not entirely ruling out those and there is the option for schools to do it, it does leave them in a very difficult position making comparability between pupils on a fair basis,\" he said", "Jamie McMillan said delays in exporting his shellfish would result in them arriving dead\n\nA Scottish shellfish firm has warned it is on the brink of bankruptcy as delays continue at ports following the introduction of post-Brexit red tape.\n\nLochfyne Langoustines managing director Jamie McMillan said his firm had already lost some consignments after they were found to be rotten by the time they arrived in France.\n\nHe also warned EU customers were now going to Denmark to buy langoustines.\n\nMr McMillan described it as a \"very, very serious situation\".\n\nHis comments came after transport company DFDS announced a further delay in exports of group consignments of seafood to the EU.\n\nIt halted groupage exports last week after delays in getting new paperwork for EU border posts in France.\n\nDFDS said it would not resume those exports until Monday.\n\nMr McMillan told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"We've been screaming for the last six months - eight months - that we have to get our produce to market within 12 to 24 hours.\n\n\"Any delays in that process, our shellfish will arrive in France dead.\n\n\"We lost two pallets last week. It took five days to arrive in Boulogne from Scotland, so our goods were rotten on arrival.\"\n\nTransport company DFDS has said it will not resume groupage exports until Monday\n\nHe added: \"Customers are not buying from us any more - we have become unreliable suppliers.\n\n\"Everybody has stopped buying. This has happened for the past two weeks. We can't continue this to happen for another week because we will be out of business.\n\n\"We have had no sales to the EU, our biggest market for live shellfish, in the last two weeks.\n\n\"If we go another week without that, we are finished.\"\n\nMr McMillan said there were \"sticking points\" in both the UK and France, with transportation hubs in Scotland struggling with increased paperwork and checks by vets.\n\n\"There are sticking points down in France as well,\" he said.\n\n\"There are delays at the borders in France for up to 30 hours, I'm hearing, to clear customs by the time they do all their checks.\"\n\nThe UK government's Scotland Office minister David Duguid said he did not underestimate the struggles the industry was facing with paperwork, IT and ports.\n\nHe said the UK and Scottish governments, fish exporters and the EU needed to come together to work through the issues, which he estimated would last \"weeks\" and not months.\n\nHe told Good Morning Scotland: \"What I can commit to is that the UK government, whether that's through Defra or the Scotland Office, we are working day and night in resolving the issues that we know about and that we can fix directly.\n\n\"The other issues that are maybe the responsibility of the Scottish government, or indeed the EU on the other side of the channel, Defra are engaging heavily with those parties as well.\"\n\nHowever, when asked directly on the programme how long the problems would last, Mr Duguid responded: \"How long is a piece of string?\"\n\nFish ate up a lot of the time in negotiating the deal for departing the European customs union and single market.\n\nNow grown to become a much bigger political predator, it has started the post-Brexit era by threatening to devour UK ministers with the task of making the deal work.\n\nThe fisheries minister admitted she was preparing for Christmas rather than seeing how the deal had turned out on 24 December. Asked how long it will take to sort out delays, a Scotland Office minister asked: \"How long's a piece of string?\"\n\nThe prime minister says there will be compensation, but it seems that is due to come from the fund intended to expand the fishing fleet.\n\nAnd Michael Gove, who appears to have more of a grasp of the detail, was in the Commons on Wednesday, acknowledging there's a vast amount for the government yet to sort out - and that was only for Northern Ireland.\n\nAt least the province got a grace period before consignments of food require the paperwork now needed to send fish to France. That was sought by fish and meat exporters.\n\nIt's not clear if the request was made of EU negotiators, but it hasn't materialised. Yet coming the other way, the UK has given a six-month preparation period for EU exporters to Britain.\n\nBecause seafood is freshly delivered, it is the product that hit the obstacles first. Meat and dairy are sure to follow.\n\nBeef exporters to Europe are beginning to face delays, while Brexit chickens are coming home to roast.", "A teenage motorcyclist who led police on a 30-minute pursuit at speeds of up to 180mph (290km/h) through London and three counties has been sentenced.\n\nOfficers in Haringey, London, spotted a speeding rider at about 21:20 BST on 20 May and were joined by a police helicopter as they followed it along the M1, through Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire.\n\nThe biker mounted pavements, drove through multiple red lights and the wrong way down the motorway hard shoulder before he was arrested at a service station.\n\nMarian Vasilica Dragoi, 19, of Teynton Terrace, Haringey, pleaded guilty to dangerous driving, failing to stop for police, driving without a licence and being uninsured and was sentenced at Wood Green Crown Court to 46 weeks' detention.", "The opening of Nintendo's first theme park has been delayed because of rising coronavirus cases in Japan.\n\nSuper Nintendo World, modelled on levels of the company's Mario games, had been due to open on 4 February.\n\nBut Japan has expanded its state of emergency, due to last until at least 7 February, beyond Tokyo to include Osaka prefecture, where the park is located.\n\nThe opening, at Universal Studios Japan, had already been postponed from mid-2020 because of the pandemic.\n\nBut in December, Nintendo posted a video tour of the park in December, starring Shigeru Miyamoto, the creator of Mario, Zelda, and Donkey Kong, among others.\n\nIt is not the first theme park to suffer problems during the pandemic - the shuttered Disneyland theme park in California is set to become a large-scale vaccination centre.\n\nThe state of emergency in Japan, which has so far avoided the types of lockdowns seen in the UK and other European nations, prohibits non-essential trips outside the home.\n\nOn Tuesday, the country's total number of cases reached 300,000, with more than 4,000 deaths.\n\nAnd many of those have been in the past three months.\n\nThe rising number of cases has also led to some doubts over the fate of the Tokyo Olympics, scheduled for this summer, having already been postponed last year.\n\nOrganisers, however, insist the Games will go ahead.", "Nearly 46% of over-80s in England's North East and Yorkshire region have been given their first dose of a Covid vaccine - more than any other area, official figures show.\n\nThis compares with about 30% of over-80s in both London and the East of England who have received a first jab.\n\nLondon Mayor Sadiq Khan claims the capital is not getting its fair share of vaccine doses.\n\nIn total, more than 2.2 million people in England have had one vaccine dose.\n\nAbout 400,000 second doses have also been administered, despite guidance from the UK's chief medical officers and vaccine advisers, the JCVI, that giving a first dose to as many people as possible was a public health priority.\n\nThe NHS England figures cover Covid-19 vaccinations given to people at hospital hubs and GP practices between 8 December 2020 and 10 January 2021.\n\nAmong the over-80s alone, most first doses - 204,140 - were administered in north-east England and Yorkshire, while the lowest number (92,398) were given to this age group in London.\n\nOverall, more than one-third of people aged 80 and over in England have received at least one dose.\n\nThe figures show that in the Midlands more vaccine doses had been administered to all people in the top priority groups - 387,647 - than in any other area of England. In London, a total of 199,986 first doses were given and in the East the figure was 186,291.\n\nThese include care home residents, frontline heath and care staff, the over-80s and people who are clinically extremely vulnerable, who are most at risk of becoming seriously ill and dying from the Covid-19.\n\nThe percentage of the whole population to have received a first dose so far ranged from 4.3% in the north-east and Yorkshire to 2.2% in London.\n\nMr Khan said he was \"hugely concerned\" that Londoners had received only one-tenth of the vaccines that had been given across the country.\n\n\"The situation in London is critical with rates of the virus extremely high, which is why it's so important that vulnerable Londoners are given access to the vaccine as soon as possible,\" he said.\n\nHe said he would hold talks with vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi to ensure more vaccines were delivered to reflect the level of need in the city.\n\nLondon has a younger average population than other parts of England and the smallest number of people aged over 80 compared with other regions.\n\nDr Mary Ramsay, head of immunisation at Public Health England, said vaccinating over a third of all over-80s was \"a great achievement\".\n\nBut she said people must continue to follow the guidance that is in place to protect themselves and their loved ones.\n\n\"These data will help us to evaluate the protection from the vaccine and to effectively target the roll-out of the programme to help control the virus and save lives,\" she added.", "Mauritius has been removed from the safe list\n\nTravellers from countries near South Africa are to be banned from entering England to stop the spread of the South African Covid variant.\n\nArrivals from Namibia, Zimbabwe, Angola, Botswana, as well as island nations Mauritius and Seychelles, will be affected.\n\nThe rule will take effect on 9 January but there will be an exemption for British and Irish nationals.\n\nThey will need to follow existing quarantine procedures.\n\nA ban by visitors to the UK from South Africa started on 24 December.\n\nThe latest restriction brought in by the Department for Transport also affects travellers arriving from Eswatini, Zambia, Malawi, Lesotho and Mozambique.\n\nIt will apply from 04:00 GMT on Saturday to people who have travelled from or through any of the specified countries in the last 10 days.\n\nIt is understood most flights from the affected countries arrive at airports in England, although it is expected the policy will be formally adopted by the other UK nations.\n\nThe measures will be in place for an initial period of two weeks.\n\nMeanwhile, Botswana, and the islands of Seychelles and Mauritius, are being removed from the UK list of safe travel corridors as there is a high frequency of travel between the islands and South Africa.\n\nThe new variant of coronavirus circulating in South Africa is already being seen in other countries, including the UK.\n\nThe variant, much like the new UK variant first seen in Kent, appears to be more contagious than previous ones.\n\nAnyone arriving into the UK from most destinations must quarantine for 10 days.\n\nBut there are a list of countries exempt from the rules, meaning returning travellers do not need to self-isolate, called the travel corridor list.\n\nUnder the latest announcement, the travel corridor with Israel will also end amid concerns about rising infection levels in that country.\n\nHowever, rules in place across the UK currently ban travel abroad unless for specific reasons.", "Tesco says it has seen some disruption to food supplies in Northern Ireland since trading arrangements with the EU changed on 1 January.\n\n\"We see this as a challenge at the moment, but not a crisis,\" boss Ken Murphy said.\n\nBut he said the retailer was working closely with government on both sides of the Irish Sea to \"smooth the flow\".\n\nSince 31 December, Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK that has stayed in the EU's single market for goods.\n\nMr Murphy said certain foodstuffs had faced supply chain disruption going into both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.\n\n\"Ready meals have been the most affected as they have an eight-day shelf life so any wait is more likely to have an impact,\" he said.\n\n\"Some processed meat and some citrus fruit has also been impacted, but it is important to stress that our availability in the Republic and Northern Ireland is strong and is very strong in the mainland UK.\n\nLast week, all the major grocers wrote to Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove asking him to take urgent action.\n\nBut Tesco said its \"comprehensive preparations and... strong relationships with suppliers\" had allowed it to maintain strong levels of availability during the Brexit transition period.\n\nMr Murphy said he was confident Tesco would have the right measures in place to supply Northern Ireland after end of a three month grace period on certain rules and regulations with the EU on 31 March.\n\nHe also said there had also been \"teething problems\" with supply flows from continental Europe to Great Britain.\n\n\"Inevitably there are bedding-in issues, teething issues, that you would expect with any new process that's been set up at relatively short notice,\" he said.\n\n\"We're working our way through those and we would hope over the coming weeks and months that we will end up with a much smoother flow of product.\"\n\nUnder new trading arrangements, food products entering Northern Ireland from Britain need to be professionally certified and are subject to new checks and controls at ports.\n\nMarks & Spencer has temporarily reduced its range of food products in Northern Ireland\n\nA three month \"grace period\" means that supermarkets currently don't need to comply with all the EU's usual certification requirements until 1 April - but there has still been disruption.\n\nM&S has temporarily reduced its range of food products and Sainsbury's has been sourcing Spar-branded products from an NI wholesaler.\n\nThis week the bosses of Tesco, Sainsbury's, Asda, Iceland, Co-Op and Marks & Spencer warned that trade into Northern Ireland would become \"unworkable\" if further new certification requirements were introduced in April .\n\nThe government said a new dedicated team has already been set up and will be working with supermarkets, the food industry and the Northern Ireland Executive to develop ways to streamline the movement of goods.\n\nTesco's comments came as the supermarket giant reported record sales for the Christmas period after customers looked to \"treat themselves\" amid tough Covid restrictions across most of the UK.\n\nUK like-for-like sales were up 8.1% in the six weeks to 9 January, as the supermarket saw a surge in demand for goods in its Tesco Finest range.\n\nBig grocers have benefited at a time when most non-essential shops and restaurants are closed, prompting consumers to spend more on their weekly shop. But they have faced criticism too.\n\nLast month, Tesco said it would repay £585m of business rates relief after it was criticised for paying dividends to shareholders during the crisis. Most big grocers followed suit.\n\nTesco was later criticised for keeping its shops open on Boxing Day despite union calls to give staff the day off.\n\nIn its results the grocer said it had given all frontline staff a 10% bonus over Christmas. It also said it had shielded vulnerable staff and taken on nearly 35,000 additional temporary staff for the season.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. James Howells says he wishes he had never thrown away the hard drive\n\nA man who threw away a laptop hard drive containing bitcoin he believes is now worth about £210m wants his council to let him search for it in landfill.\n\nJames Howells had 7,500 bitcoins, a virtual currency, on the hard drive, which he mistakenly threw away in 2013.\n\nHe said he was willing to donate 25% of the value of the bitcoins to his home city of Newport in south Wales - about £52.5m - if he found the hard drive.\n\nNewport council said excavation was not possible under its licensing permit.\n\nMr Howells said if he was to recover the hard drive, he would want the money to be put into a \"Covid relief fund\" for people in Newport to use \"no questions asked\".\n\n\"Imagine how great it would be to say 'I've given everyone in the city a few hundred pounds',\" he told the BBC.\n\nMr Howells bought the bitcoins for almost nothing in 2009, but the hard drive ended up in a drawer after he spilled a drink on his laptop.\n\nHe kept the hard drive in his office drawer and \"totally forgot about bitcoin all together\" - so when he had a clear out, he believed everything had been taken off it.\n\nWhen he threw the hard drive away in 2013, the value of the bitcoins was about $7.5m (£4.6m).\n\nBut now they are worth almost 50 times more, with the cost of a single bitcoin currently just over £28,000 after a surge in value.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. James Howells: \"When I went up to the landfill site yesterday my first thought was 'I've got not chance'\"\n\nHe said he has asked Newport council if he could search the landfill several times, but had not been granted permission.\n\n\"I offered the local authority 10% of the recovered funds in order to give me permission to search on their property and unfortunately they said no at the time,\" Mr Howells told BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\n\"What actually happened after that was the value of bitcoin skyrocketed even further. In 2017 the value of my hard drive was approximately £125m, at which point I made them another offer of 10% and unfortunately that offer was refused as well.\n\nJames Howells said he wants to donate a quarter of the money to the people of Newport\n\n\"I haven't actually made an offer to them today, but I'm willing to increase my offer to them to 25%. On today's valuation that would be £52.5m and I'd like to put that into a Covid relief fund for the citizens of Newport.\"\n\nMr Howells said searching for the discarded hard drive would \"not be as hard as you might think\" as he would employ a professional team - and knows when he threw it away so could use that to find a grid reference of where the hard drive is buried.\n\nHe added investors had offered to cover the cost of excavating the landfill, in exchange for a large proportion of the recovered bitcoin.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Howells said he wants to meet with the council to discuss what he said would be a \"win-win-win\" situation for him, the council and the city.\n\nBut a spokeswoman for the council said: \"Newport City Council has been contacted a number of times since 2013 about the possibility of retrieving a piece of IT hardware said to contain bitcoins.\n\n\"The first time was several months after Mr Howells first realised the hardware was missing.\n\n\"The council has told Mr Howells on a number of occasions that excavation is not possible under our licencing permit and excavation itself would have a huge environmental impact on the surrounding area.\n\n\"The cost of digging up the landfill, storing and treating the waste could run into millions of pounds - without any guarantee of either finding it or it still being in working order.\"", "Many of the works in Gurlitt's collection were in poor condition when they were discovered in 2012 (file photo)\n\nWhen a trove of 1,500 artworks hoarded by the son of a Nazi-era art dealer was discovered in 2012, an investigation began to find out how many were looted from Jewish owners.\n\nEventually only 14 were conclusively identified as looted, and now Germany has declared the last of those works has been returned to the owner's heirs.\n\nDas Klavierspiel (Playing the Piano) by Carl Spitzweg was owned by music publisher Henri Hinrichsen.\n\nHe was murdered at Auschwitz in 1942.\n\nGerman Culture Minister Monika Grütters said the return of the work sent an \"important signal\", and that while it could not make up for the deep suffering, it could \"make a contribution to historical justice and fulfil our moral responsibility\".\n\nThe 19th-Century work by Spitzweg was confiscated by the Nazis in 1939, the same year that Hinrichsen had bought it.\n\nDas Klavierspiel by Carl Spitzweg was seized by the Nazis in 1939\n\nIt was bought in 1940 by Hildebrand Gurlitt, a Nazi-era dealer who had been given the task by Adolf Hitler of dealing in art seized from Jewish collectors and of buying up so-called \"degenerate art\" removed from museums for a planned Führermuseum in the Austrian city of Linz.\n\nThe money for the Spitzweg work was paid into a blocked account, so Hinrichsen would never have received it.\n\nIn 2015, the piece was identified as looted, and it was handed over to the auctioneers Christie's on Tuesday, according to the wishes of Hinrichsen's heirs.\n\nAlthough his collection of 1,500 works, plundered from museums as well as individuals, was initially confiscated after the war by the Allies, Hildebrand Gurlitt eventually managed to get it back.\n\nGurlitt died in the 1950s and when German authorities approached his widow in 1961 in search of part of his collection, she claimed the works had been destroyed at the end of World War Two by Allied bombing.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Stephen Evans was granted exclusive access to look at some of the long-lost masterpieces in 2014\n\nIt was only when tax investigators searched the Munich flat of his son Cornelius Gurlitt in 2012 that they found more than 1,400 of the works. Another 60 pieces were discovered at his Austrian home in Salzburg the following year.\n\nThe son died in 2014 with questions still hanging over the ownership of the collection - as he was protected by a statute of limitations.\n\nA court ruled that the works could be bequeathed to the Museum of Fine Arts in the Swiss capital Bern, as Cornelius Gurlitt had requested.\n\nWhile some of the works were deemed to belong to the family, the German Lost Art Foundation then tried to find out, with the Swiss museum, who were the rightful owners of the rest.\n\nFourteen pieces have now conclusively identified as belonging to Jewish owners and returned.\n\nAmong the many masterpieces in the collection was this work by Edouard Manet", "A provisional 270 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines have been secured by the African Union (AU) for distribution across the continent.\n\nAll of the doses will be used this year, promises current AU head South African President Cyril Ramaphosa.\n\nThis is on top of 600 million doses already promised but is still not enough to vaccinate the whole region.\n\nThere are fears that poorer countries globally will wait far longer than richer nations to be inoculated.\n\nAlthough infection numbers and death rates are comparatively lower across most of Africa, cases are spiking again in some areas.\n\nA new variant of Covid-19 in South Africa is causing particular alarm and makes up most of the new cases.\n\n\"As a result of our own efforts we have so far secured a commitment of a provisional amount of 270 million vaccines from three major suppliers: Pfizer, AstraZeneca (through Serum Institute of India) and Johnson & Johnson,\" President Ramaphosa said on Wednesday.\n\nAt least 50 million of the doses will be available \"for the crucial period of April to June 2021,\" he said.\n\nIn addition, the region is expecting around 600 million doses from the global Covax effort which aims to provide vaccines to lower-income countries.\n\nBut officials are still waiting for details and are now \"happy we have alternative solutions,\" Nicaise Ndembi, senior science adviser for the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told the AP news agency.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid vaccines in Africa: What you need to know\n\nMr Ramaphosa said officials are worried that the doses from the Covax effort released in the first half of 2021 will only be enough to inoculate health care workers. With a population of 1.3 billion people and each person requiring two vaccine jabs, Africa would need around 2.6 billion doses to eventually vaccinate everyone.\n\n\"These endeavours aim to supplement the Covax efforts, and to ensure that as many dosages of vaccine as possible become available throughout Africa as soon as possible,\" he explained.\n\nAfrica has recorded more than three million cases of Covid-19 and nearly 75,000 deaths. By contrast, the US has reported close to 23 million infections and more than 383,000 fatalities.\n\nThere has been a global rush to buy vaccines, with richer countries accused of buying up most of the supply.\n\nAs many had feared, Africa appears to be at the back of the queue to get Covid-19 vaccines.\n\nThe announcement of 270 million doses by South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa - who is also the current chair of the African Union - is good news. This is in addition to those secured by the Covax facility, which is led by the World Health Organisation and the Vaccine Alliance, Gavi. The facility has secured 600 million doses - enough to vaccinate only a fifth of the continent.\n\nBut it may be a while before any of them get to the continent. The announcements are agreements to supply vaccines. There is still the actual procurement process that needs to happen. Negotiations are ongoing.\n\nWealthier nations had a head start. They already acquired the bulk of the early doses being produced through advance purchase deals with manufacturers. The race is on to meet that demand.\n\nAfrica, on the other hand, still faces funding deficits. There are questions also about the continent's readiness to receive the vaccines. Ultra-cold refrigeration is needed for both the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines. Countries are working on building their cold chains. But even this is marred by a shortage of funds.\n\nSo, the continent can only wait.", "The surge in Covid hospital cases has left key hospital services in England in crisis, doctors are warning.\n\nNHS data showed A&Es were facing rising delays admitting extremely sick patients on to wards.\n\nMeanwhile, the total number of people facing year-long waits for routine treatments is now more than 100 times higher than it was before the pandemic.\n\nCancer experts are also warning the disruption to their services was \"terrifying\" and would cost lives.\n\nReports have emerged of hospitals cancelling urgent operations - London's King's College Hospital has stopped priority two treatments, which are those that need to be done within 28 days.\n\nAnd Birmingham's major hospital trust has temporarily suspended most liver transplants.\n\nIt comes after a surge in Covid patients in recent weeks.\n\nOne in three patients in hospital have the virus - and at some sites it is more than half.\n\nNHS England medical director Prof Stephen Powis said the NHS was facing an \"exceptionally tough challenge\", adding services would continue to be under pressure until the virus was under control.\n\nBut he stressed non-Covid treatment was still happening - with three times as many diagnostic tests and twice as many operations being carried out than in the spring when the pandemic first hit.\n\nThe data published by NHS England showed the scale of the impact from dealing with Covid on key hospital services.\n\nThe figures for cancer date back to November, before the surge in cases.\n\nAt that point, the number of urgent cancer check-ups and treatments being started was at normal levels.\n\nBut since then, concerns have been raised that services have been reduced.\n\nProf Pat Price, of the Catch Up With Cancer campaign, said services were facing the \"biggest crisis\" of her 30-year career.\n\n\"This is a truly terrifying scenario,\" she added.\n\nAnd the Royal College of Surgeons warned the pandemic was having a \"calamitous impact\" on waiting times for planned surgery.\n\nSarah Scobie, from the Nuffield Trust think tank, said services were under \"intolerable strain\", adding \"the worst is yet to come\".\n\nSaffron Cordery, of NHS Providers, which represents hospital bosses, agreed: \"The next few weeks are no doubt going to be the most testing in NHS history.\"", "The government must review its strategy to end rough sleeping in England by 2024 after coronavirus showed it to be \"out of step\", a watchdog warned.\n\nA National Audit Office report praised the 'Everyone In' scheme, which housed about 33,000 people in the crisis.\n\nBut the plan highlighted issues with the current strategy - with thousands more needing help than expected.\n\nThe government said it was \"regularly taking into account the lessons learned\" from the pandemic.\n\nBoris Johnson made the pledge to end rough sleeping by the end of this Parliament shortly before he won the general election in 2019.\n\nAt the time, a snapshot figure taken by the government one evening showed 4,266 people were sleeping on the streets in England.\n\nBut it did not include people in night shelters or assessment centres, and could have missed people sleeping hidden from view.\n\nResearch by the BBC carried out in February 2020 showed more than 28,000 people across the UK had been recorded as sleeping rough in the previous 12 months - and in England, councils were seeing figures five times higher than the snapshot.\n\nThe 'Everyone In' scheme, launched in March 2020, aimed to provide emergency shelter for all rough sleepers during the first wave of the pandemic.\n\nFunding was ended two months later to the anger of many charities, but the government said it had made a number of more targeted funding pledges to tackle the issue since.\n\nThe National Audit Office (NAO) carried out an investigation into the housing of rough sleepers in the pandemic and praised the \"considerable achievement\" of 'Everyone In'.\n\nThe head of the watchdog, Gareth Davies, said the government \"acted swiftly to house rough sleepers and keep transmission rates low during the first wave\".\n\nBut the NAO investigation found between the end of March and November 2020, 33,139 people were given accommodation through the scheme - a number almost eight times greater than the annual snapshot of rough sleepers.\n\nExamples included Bristol City Council which reported it accommodated 400 people in March, despite its most recent snapshot count being 98 rough sleepers.\n\nAnd the London Borough of Southwark had 25 known rough sleepers in March 2020, but within hours of 'Everyone In' launching, it had taken 200 people into hotels, with nearly 1,000 accommodated by November.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How the UK's homeless are coping during the coronavirus pandemic\n\nThe government pledged to carry out a review of its strategy to end rough sleeping early in 2020, but the plans took a back seat as the crisis unfolded.\n\nThe NAO said there was \"an ongoing need for a review of the strategy as it is out of step with the government's target\", adding there were now \"important lessons from Everyone In to consider\".\n\nMr Davies said the scale of the rough sleeping population in England has now been made clear, and it \"far exceeds\" previous government estimates.\n\n\"Understanding the size of this population, and who needs specialist support, is essential to achieve its ambition to end rough sleeping\", he added.\n\nThe report also highlighted the large number of people remaining in emergency accommodation unable to move on as they have no recourse to public funds - a condition put into the residence permit of some immigrants meaning they cannot access benefits.\n\nThe NAO also called on the government to \"keep under close review\" its more targeted response to the current coronavirus resurgence, whether it will \"protect vulnerable individuals as decisively\" as 'Everyone in'.\n\nA spokesman from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government said they were pleased the NAO recognised its achievements with 'Everyone In'.\n\nHe added: \"By November, we had supported around 33,000 people, with nearly 10,000 in emergency accommodation and more than 23,000 in longer-term accommodation.\n\n\"We recently announced an additional £10m to help accommodate rough sleepers and ensure they are registered with a GP to receive the vaccine, and we will invest £750m next year as part of our commitment to end rough sleeping.\"\n\nAsked whether the review into the ending rough sleeping strategy would take place, the spokesman said: \"Our ambition to end rough sleeping within this parliament still stands, and we are regularly taking into account the lessons learned from our ongoing pandemic response, including 'Everyone In'.\"", "The government has defended its scheme to offer free food to struggling families in England over half term - after criticism from teachers' unions and council leaders.\n\nFood will be provided for children by councils under the Covid Winter Grant Scheme, rather than through schools.\n\nBut councils say the government should provide food vouchers over half term.\n\n\"Vulnerable families will continue to receive meals,\" said a Department for Education (DFE) spokeswoman.\n\n\"Our guidance is clear: schools provide free school meals for eligible pupils during term time.\n\n\"Beyond that, there is wider government support in place to support families and children via the billions of pounds in welfare support we've made available,\" said the DFE spokeswoman.\n\nBut the Local Government Association (LGA), representing councils, said \"the government should provide food vouchers to eligible families during February half-term as it did last summer\" - and that the £170m Covid Winter Grant Scheme should be used for other support.\n\n\"During the last full national lockdown, government recognised the significant extra pressures on low income families and extended free school meal provision into the school holidays,\" said Richard Watts, chairman of the LGA's resources board.\n\n\"Government was explicit that the Covid Winter Grant Scheme was not intended to replicate or replace free school meals, but was to enable councils to support low income households, particularly those at risk of food poverty as we moved towards economic recovery.\"\n\nThe row follows the DFE's publication of guidelines on free meals, after an outcry over pictures of food packages to replace free school meals during the lockdown.\n\nThe prime minister and other ministers criticised the quality of what was being sent out by some school food firms.\n\nMarcus Rashford has spear-headed a campaign for holiday food\n\nThe DfE guidance says: \"Schools do not need to provide lunch parcels or vouchers during the February half term.\n\n\"There is wider government support in place to support families and children outside of term-time through the Covid Winter Grant Scheme.\"\n\nThe DFE insists that even though schools will not provide food parcels or vouchers during half term, children will still be supplied with food through the Covid Winter Grant Scheme.\n\nThis aims to support those most in need with the cost of food, energy, water bills and other essentials.\n\nCouncils are required to work out their own local approach to eligibility, using benefits data and their local knowledge to decide how to support vulnerable families.\n\nMoving to this scheme for a replacement for school meals during half term, with the added pressure of a lockdown, has drawn criticism from head teachers and teachers.\n\nKevin Courtney, joint general secretary of the National Education Union, warned that switching schemes meant \"yet more disruption to free schools meals could lie ahead in half term\".\n\nHe said using this scheme could cause an \"unnecessary logistical nightmare\", suggesting continuing with providing meals through schools would be more simple.\n\nMr Courtney said: \"This week, Matt Hancock, Gavin Williamson and Boris Johnson made public statements about how appalled they were by the quality of food parcels shared on Twitter,\" said Mr Courtney.\n\nBut he said ministers should now \"hang their heads in shame\" for threatening more \"chaos and confusion\" over providing food.\n\n\"These are battles which should not have to be repeatedly fought,\" said Mr Courtney.\n\nNational Association of Head Teachers general secretary Paul Whiteman accused the the government of \"badly thought out and last-minute schemes to help with holiday hunger\" which he said were \"leaving families and children anxious\".\n\n\"The government must urgently clarify for families how they will be helped during the upcoming half term holiday so they can be assured that they will not go hungry,\" said Mr Whiteman.\n\nLabour's Tulip Siddiq, shadow minister for children and early years, said: \"Time and time again this government has had to be shamed into providing food for hungry children over school holidays.\"\n\nFood charities and anti-poverty campaigners, including footballer Marcus Rashford, have repeatedly clashed with the government over the issue of food for poor pupils during the Covid-19 pandemic, particularly over school holidays.\n\nThe footballer forced the government to back down in the summer over its plans not to offer free meals in the holidays to poor pupils, whose families were likely to be suffering with reduced incomes.\n\nBut over the October half-term when the provision was withdrawn many local authorities continued to offer them from their own budgets.", "President Donald Trump has just become the only US president to be impeached twice by the House of Representatives. He was impeached on Wednesday for \"incitement of insurrection\" following last week's riot at the US Capitol. However, a recent poll suggests that a majority of Republicans still support President Trump and don't hold him responsible for the violence.\n\nWe've been hearing from lawmakers - but what do Americans think? We asked members of our BBC voter panel to weigh in.\n\nBelinda is an attorney and devoted Trump supporter of Native American and African American ancestry. She says this second impeachment vote is wrong and misconstrues the facts of what happened last week in favour of political expediency.\n\nThis is unprecedented. There is no justification, no legal or constitutional basis for this impeachment. He did not even receive due process. It's a rush to judgment for ulterior motives and a dark stain on our country. I'm afraid our Constitution is on its deathbed. I hope the American people will stand up against this outrage. It's indicative of what would happen in a communist country where we have no free speech rights.\n\nThose who broke in should be charged appropriately for whatever laws they violated. But why would anybody who's rational think that our president meant for people to go break into the Capitol? His rallies have always been peaceful and most of the people on Wednesday were middle-aged and elderly, with children and grandchildren.\n\nIndividuals who violated the law should definitely be prosecuted but I don't see how you can blame someone for a speech and someone else's criminal activity. It can't be selective enforcement of the law.\n\nMelissa is a Filipino American small business owner with two children who had told us the country could not afford four more years of Donald Trump. She says the behaviour he displayed last Wednesday was undoubtedly an impeachable offense.\n\nEverything he has done is unconstitutional and, as a president, the number one thing he should be doing is upholding the Constitution.\n\n[Republican Congresswoman] Liz Cheney said that, if not for the president, last week would not have happened and she's right. If not for him continually fighting the election results, if not for him repeatedly sending the false message the election was stolen, if not for him holding that rally near the Capitol, if not for him talking about an 'uprising', last week would very likely not have happened.\n\nEven three months ago, before all the lawsuits and everything else he was saying, I was not shocked by his behaviour. It's all completely predictable because it's just within his character. So the argument by politicians that impeachment could divide us more, I don't see that as the goal of impeachment.\n\nIt can't help but I don't think it will have any impact on deterring violence. There needs to be some kind of statement that the president is not allowed to attack another branch of government. It's a chance for the Republican Party to rid itself of Trump's stranglehold on them.\n\nGabriel is a regional coordinator for the New York Young Republicans and is an outspoken 'Latino for Trump'. He condemns the violence of last Wednesday but says the reaction has been unfair and worries about where the party will go from here.\n\nI do not think that Donald Trump should be impeached. I was in DC at the rally on 6 January - I did not go near the Capitol and went back to my hotel room - but I saw the president speak with my own eyes and he did not call for anyone to storm the building or cause harm.\n\nThis is just a way to ensure he will not run in the next four years. It is political and it will create a bigger divide between left and right. I fear that people will become reactionary and elected officials will use impeachment in the future not as a last resort to uphold our republic but as a tool to remove whoever they don't agree with.\n\nAll violence should be condemned fairly and justly. It was a very sad outcome, but I do not believe it was the most horrible day in our country's history and it was not a coup. It's important to dictate that violence is not the answer. The day was supposed to be different. January 6 did something to the Republican Party. The actions of the few will discourage many of the new voters that Trump brought in and made his base.\n\nWilliams is a first-generation Mexican American college student in Atlanta who has been extremely concerned about what he has seen in his country over the past four years. He says the events of the past week justify today's vote in the House.\n\nI believe he should have been impeached. Not only is he a threat to our national security, but he doesn't condemn white supremacy and other threats. That affects us internally within the United States as well as abroad.\n\nIt's more of a symbolic impeachment at this point because he'll be out soon, but it's necessary nonetheless. Impeachment failed once, but now he has set the precedent that a president can be impeached more than once.\n\nIn processing the past week, all I could do at first was to ignore it and joke about the situation. It's deeply saddening to me.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA respiratory doctor at Belfast's Mater Hospital has warned that hospital oxygen supplies are under \"extreme pressure\".\n\nDr Nick Magee also said more younger patients were now being treated in hospital than during the first and second waves of the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nHe said in the past they did not have to consult other NI hospitals about how much oxygen they had.\n\n\"That was never a thing in previous January flu problems,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"But that is something we are now having to think of,\" he added.\n\nEarlier this week Northern Ireland's Chief Medical Officer Dr Michael McBride said there is enough oxygen to cope with the current demand.\n\nBut according to Dr Magee the current level of oxygen being used in \"bays\" at the Mater means patients cannot charge their mobile phones by their bedside because of the \"fire risk\".\n\n\"It is all well controlled and we are making sure that we can share out that oxygen burden. That is something we are having to think about,\" he said.\n\n\"I can't say specifically about other regional hospitals but I know that they are under extreme pressure and it's just something we have to think of as a region.\n\n\"Can we supply oxygen adequately for the amounts of oxygen we are using in hospitals?\"\n\nThe number of Covid positive hospital in-patients has increased significantly since last week - up from 599 a week ago to 850 on Thursday.\n\nThe number of people in ICU has also risen from 44 to 58 in the past week.\n\nDr Magee said staff were concerned about having to cope with \"large volumes\" of patients requiring respiratory support.\n\nHe said the number of younger patients becoming increasingly sick with the virus was growing.\n\nOn Wednesday, the Mater Hospital moved six patients who had been on wards into ICU and also took patients from the Southern Health Trust.\n\n\"Recently I saw a 29-year-old patient, also three who were in their mid 30s that all required respiratory support on a ward,\" he told BBC News NI.\n\n\"They are frightened they are wearing specialist masks CPAP masks that help them breathe. They are scared.\"\n\nThe relentless pressure of the past 10 months and the prospect of a further surge in admissions over the next fortnight is weighing heavily on the minds of medics.\n\n\"We are really worried about next week,\" said Dr Magee.\n\n\"It's very busy this week, we are coping well but we are particularly concerned about next week.\n\n\"Normally, if we had somebody who needed a lot of respiratory support we would involve a high dependency unit but all the respiratory wards are becoming like high dependency units.\n\n\"Volume of sicker, younger patients is much greater and it's not something that I would [have] ever seen before,\" he added.\n\nThe Southern Health and Social Care Trust said its hospitals had limited infrastructure to manage high numbers of patients requiring oxygen so a regional agreement was in place to share resources across Trusts to support Covid-positive patients.\n\n\"As a result some patients have been diverted to Belfast or SE Trust to help reduce pressure on the Southern Trust hospital system,\" a statement said.\n\n\"Craigavon and Daisy Hill hospitals remain very busy with high numbers of Covid-19 positive patients who are dependent on oxygen therapy.\n\n\"These protocols are in place as part of regional surge planning to ensure that we can safely manage the current high volume of Covid-19 patients needing hospital care.\n\n\"Patients who are currently being treated in Craigavon and Daisy Hill have secure supplies of oxygen.\"", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "Travel from Brazil to the UK could be banned in response to the discovery of a new coronavirus variant.\n\nMinisters have met to discuss possible measures and a block on flights could also be extended to other South American countries in a bid to stop its spread.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has said he is \"concerned\" about the new variant and \"extra measures\" were being taken.\n\nArrivals from Brazil are currently required to self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nCabinet Office minister Michael Gove chaired a meeting earlier to discuss whether measures should be put in place.\n\nNew variants of Covid-19 have also been identified in the UK and South Africa.\n\nDuring a two-hour appearance in front of the Commons Home Affairs Committee on Wednesday Mr Johnson stopped short of promising a ban on travel from Brazil.\n\n\"We already have tough measures ... to protect this country from new infections coming in from abroad,\" he said.\n\n\"We are taking steps to do that in respect of the Brazilian variant.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Johnson: \"We are taking steps to ensure that we do not see the import of this new variant\".\n\nProf Susan Hopkins, who is Strategic Response Director for Covid-19 with Public Health England, told BBC Breakfast experts were looking at the Brazilian variant and needed to grow the virus in the UK in order to perform laboratory experiments.\n\n\"So we need to understand the biology of these [new strains], as well as understanding mutations,\" she said.\n\n\"We will be watching them all to make sure that they can't escape your immune response, which is the key thing that we're looking at the moment.\"\n\nA travel ban was put in place on arrivals from South Africa on 24 December, which was later extended to several other nearby countries, following the discovery of a new variant.\n\nLuiz Amorim, a graphic designer in London, said he had travelled to Brazil to spend Christmas with his family and was now worried he may not be able to get home.\n\n\"My wife was also supposed to come but didn't in the end,\" he said. \"Now I am worried I won't be able to get back to her in London.\"\n\nMr Amorim said his workplace had been supportive but he may have to take leave if he was unable to return, with his original flight back having been cancelled.\n\nHe has now booked another flight on 27 January and is \"watching the news closely to see what will happen\".\n\nThe discussion comes after it was announced a requirement for arrivals into England to test negative for coronavirus 72 hours before their journey will now come into force at 04:00 GMT on Monday.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps said the new rules had been delayed from Friday \"to give international arrivals time to prepare\".\n\nLabour's Yvette Cooper, chairwoman of the Commons Home Affairs Committee, described the delay in introducing the new rules as \"truly shocking\".\n\nScotland is taking the same approach to international travellers but will implement the policy on Friday, while Wales and Northern Ireland are expected to announce their own plans in the coming days.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer criticised the government for delaying pre-departure testing for arrivals to England, describing the situation as a \"complete mess\".\n\n\"Priti Patel has talked tough about the borders but other countries have been doing testing for months and months,\" he said.\n\nSir Keir said people were \"really worried\" about strains in other parts of the world, including Brazil, and people would be \"bewildered and they will feel that we're exposed\".", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nIvan Cavaleiro scored a late header to earn Premier League strugglers Fulham a hard-fought draw against Tottenham in their hastily rearranged London derby.\n\nThe Portuguese forward's finish cancelled out Harry Kane's first-half diving header and came just minutes after Son Heung-min hit the post in search of Spurs' second.\n\nCavaleiro sealed a remarkable turnaround for a side whose manager Scott Parker said it was \"scandalous\" to be given just two days' notice to face Jose Mourinho's men after Spurs' game at Aston Villa was postponed because of a Covid-19 outbreak in the Villa camp.\n\nTottenham boss Mourinho had little sympathy for the visitors as the derby itself was a rearranged fixture, having been called off three hours before kick-off when originally scheduled on 30 December.\n\nFor all the complications surrounding the fixture, the intensity from two sides at opposite ends of the table was high at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, with Fulham's fifth successive league draw a valuable point in their efforts to escape the relegation zone.\n• None Relive Tottenham v Fulham as it happened and analysis\n\nFulham made a bright start and Andre-Frank Zambo Anguissa's fierce shot to test Hugo Lloris was a warning of what was to come from a side who remain 18th despite the draw.\n\nThe excellent Alphonse Areola twice denied Son in the first 45 minutes, first blocking a toe-poked effort before palming a header away.\n\nAreola could do nothing, however, to deny Kane the opener in the 25th minute, with the striker beating the Frenchman with a thumping diving header from an excellently-placed Sergio Reguilon cross.\n\nKane was off target with another header and Ruben Loftus-Cheek and Kenny Tete threatened to respond for the visitors, who had the woodwork to thank for denying Son in the second half after the South Korean scuffed a shot past Areola.\n\nSubstitute Ademola Lookman was instrumental following his introduction, creating the equaliser for Cavaleiro seven minutes after coming off the bench.\n\nThe powerful finish extended Fulham's unbeaten run to five league matches, which is their longest such sequence in the top flight in three Premier League campaigns since 2012-13.\n\nThis latest draw highlights just how resolute Parker's men have become after a slow start to the campaign, in which they collected just one point from their first six matches.\n\nSpurs punished for reliance on Kane and Son\n\nWhile the Cottagers may be in the relegation places and had lost a record 13 successive top-flight matches to London rivals, they presented a significantly sterner test of Mourinho's men than non-league side Marine - a team made up of NHS workers, teachers and a refuse collector - which Spurs cruised past in the third round of the FA Cup on Sunday.\n\nThe prolific pair of Kane and Son, a duo that has now scored 23 of Tottenham's 30 league goals this term, were among 10 to return to Spurs' starting line-up.\n\nSon was an unused substitute on their trip to Crosby but Kane, along with Lloris, Eric Dier, Serge Aurier and Harry Winks came back from being rested.\n\nWhile Kane was clinical with the nodded finish, he reacted in frustration as he flicked another header off target.\n\nThat miss, as well as the wastefulness of Reguilon - who sent an early effort over - and Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg's tame strike, ensured Fulham were still in it at half-time.\n\nMoussa Sissoko also dithered in the box when an early second-half chance presented itself, allowing Tosin Adarabioyo to superbly block.\n\nSon's effort off the post, and their reliance on him and Kane for goals, ultimately proved costly as Cavaleiro ended the hosts' run of three clean sheets in January.\n\nAnd while Reguilon did have the ball in the back of the net again for Tottenham in the final minute, it was immediately disallowed for offside as Spurs missed the chance to move up to third in the table.\n\n'Some players had one day's training' - what the managers said\n\nTottenham manager Jose Mourinho, speaking to BBC Sport: \"In the first half Alphonse Areola made some impossible saves, a couple of others in the second, too.\n\n\"We have to kill a game and we didn't - but you have to keep a clean sheet, not make mistakes, so it was a very avoidable goal. The markers are there, there wasn't even an advantage in terms of numbers.\n\n\"Fulham were intelligent enough to understand the way they play, they change, they become more defensive and they are getting results. I thought they were a bit lucky but they were good.\n\n\"We have bad results and we should - and we could have - avoided these results.\"\n\nFulham boss Scott Parker, speaking to BBC Sport: \"I'm very proud of this team for what we've been through. There's a lot of talk around - everyone assumes about what happened. I know what we've been through the last two weeks.\n\n\"We had players out there today who had one day's training. What pleased me most was a desire and a passion and a real quality at times tonight.\n\n\"There's a real determination and hard work from this group of players. They've never shied away from anything.\"\n\nOn Monday's announcement of the game with Tottenham: \"We were told, in the end, at 9:30. It was put to me on Saturday, if there was a possibility, but I just batted it off thinking 'no chance'.\n\n\"This game was supposed to be scheduled 16 days ago - for 10 days some of these boys were locked up in their houses. I was surprised but it wasn't in terms of preparing for this game, we've prepared in two days for a game before, it was more just getting told of the consequences that you face.\"\n\nBest of the stats\n• None Tottenham and Fulham played out their first draw in the Premier League since December 2009, with Spurs winning 10 of the last 11 encounters (L1).\n• None Tottenham are unbeaten in their last eight London derbies in the Premier League (W3 D5), they've never gone longer without defeat against sides from the capital in the competition.\n• None Fulham have drawn five consecutive Premier League games, their longest such run since January 2007 (six games).\n• None Fulham have gained five points in their last four Premier League away games (W1 D2 L1), more than they collected in their previous 13 on the road in the competition (W1 D1 L11).\n• None Only Brighton (12) and Sheffield United (11) have dropped more points from winning positions than Spurs (10) in the Premier League this season.\n• None Tottenham's Harry Kane has become just the third player to score 25 Premier League goals with his head (25), his right foot (94) and his left foot (34) - after Robbie Fowler and Andy Cole.\n• None Ademola Lookman has been directly involved in five goals (two goals, three assists) in the Premier League this season, more than any other Fulham player.\n\nTottenham travel to Bramall Lane on Sunday (14:05 GMT) to face the Premier League's bottom side Sheffield United, who on Tuesday earned their first top-flight win of the season.\n\nFulham face Chelsea in another derby, hosting their west London rivals on Saturday (17:30 GMT).\n• None Offside, Tottenham Hotspur. Erik Lamela tries a through ball, but Son Heung-Min is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Antonee Robinson (Fulham) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Aboubakar Kamara. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Can the TV personality make it as a pro footballer?\n• None New drama brings the chilling crimes of Charles Sobhraj to life", "Gerry and Barbara Jarrett were admitted to hospital with Covid-19 two weeks ago\n\nAn elderly couple with coronavirus have been helped by a hospital to say their last goodbyes to each other after the wife's condition deteriorated.\n\nGerry and Barbara Jarrett, from Bracknell, Berkshire, are in separate wards at Frimley Park Hospital, Surrey.\n\nTheir daughter Chloe, who posted a picture of one reunion on Twitter, said her mother \"looked to be at the end\".\n\nShe said her parents had \"precious\" extra time together thanks to the hospital's \"incredible\" efforts.\n\nMrs Keljarrett said her 79-year-old father and mother, 76, who have been together for 50 years, were admitted to hospital with Covid-19 two weeks ago.\n\nOn Tuesday she posted: \"In the midst of a pandemic peak, staff (namely a consultant, a surgeon and a HCA) at FPH just made sure my dad saw my mum for what is likely the last time.\"\n\nShe said another meeting happened on Wednesday when \"mum looked to be at the end\".\n\nFrimley Park Hospital said the reunions were the sort of \"care that matters the most\"\n\nShe said: \"Dad was wheeled in, crying, touched her hand and her eyes flew open. She was awake and bright and could talk.\n\n\"We got a precious extra hour or two before her breathing got worse again and got to say what we wanted.\n\n\"All thanks to the staff who made these meetings possible. In current times I just find that incredible.\"\n\nMrs Keljarrett, a teacher at The Brakenhale School, said her father was \"showing signs of improvement but has a very long journey to complete\".\n\n\"He has a number of other health issues that will make recovery that bit trickier, but I have to remain positive that he will overcome this horrendous virus,\" she added.\n\nShe said she had met hospital workers who were \"pulling unexpected double shifts\" due to short-staffing.\n\n\"How they are managing such compassion when they are stretched to their emotional and physical limits I do not know,\" she added.\n\nResponding to Mrs Keljarrett's Twitter post, the hospital wrote: \"Our hearts go out to you and your family.\n\n\"We are so glad that our staff managed to make this time just a little bit easier for you all.\n\n\"This truly is some of the care we give that matters the most.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Doctors' leaders have called for urgent improvements in personal protective equipment for health workers.\n\nThe British Medical Association is appealing for a higher grade of face mask to guard against coronavirus infection.\n\nIt says there is 'growing evidence' that the virus is being spread through the air by aerosols.\n\nThese are tiny virus particles that can build up in stuffy rooms and they have been linked to outbreaks of Covid-19.\n\nThis follows an open letter from more than 1,500 health professionals for staff on general wards to be given the type of high-quality masks usually only worn in intensive care units.\n\nPublic Health England (PHE) has issued guidance on what PPE staff in different settings require. It was last updated in October 2020.\n\nEarly in the pandemic, it was widely believed that to catch the disease you had to either be close to an infected person and hit by droplets from their coughs or sneezes or touch a surface they had contaminated.\n\nBut research during the course of last year highlighted how it is also possible for the virus to be carried in what are called aerosols, drifting and accumulating in the air.\n\nMost infections are thought to have occurred indoors in badly ventilated rooms, and many studies have shown that the 'airborne route' can be an important factor.\n\nAcross the UK, the guidance for hospital staff is to wear surgical masks in most areas.\n\nMore sophisticated masks - a type known as FFP3 that includes an air filter - are only required in intensive care or when certain procedures are carried out that are known to generate aerosols.\n\nIn their letter, the consultants, doctors and nurses say healthcare workers are three to four times more likely to become infected than the general population.\n\nBut they point out that staff in intensive care units, who have the best level of protection, have about half the risk of catching the virus than colleagues on general wards.\n\nThe letter states: \"It is now essential that healthcare workers have their PPE upgraded to protect against airborne transmission\".\n\nBarry McAree, a consultant surgeon in Northern Ireland, is one of many healthcare workers to be ill with Covid.\n\nHe is self-isolating at home right after his testing positive for the second time.\n\nA signatory to the letter, he says his hospital in Antrim followed the guidance about which type of masks should be worn in which areas, but he became infected nonetheless. It is not clear how and when he caught it.\n\n\"There's so much evidence that we are talking about an airborne infection that it has to be said that it is not appropriate just to wear FFP3 in environments when aerosol generating procedures take place.\"\n\nHe believes that with such high levels of the virus in the community and in hospitals, staff should be wearing the higher-grade masks whenever they're close to patients.\n\nSurgical masks can be bought online for about 10p each, while the FFP3 masks are far more expensive about £5.00.\n\nDr Barry Jones, a retired gastroenterologist and leading expert on aerosols, says that's nothing compared to the cost of a patient with Covid,\n\nHe points to data showing that roughly a fifth of people needing hospital treatment for Covid may have acquired the infection in hospital in the first place.\n\n\"We should do everything we can to reduce that possibility - it's the air we share that's killing us.\"\n\nA few hospitals have decided to break with official guidance.\n\nIt's understood that hospitals in Cambridge, Plymouth and Exeter have decided to equip staff with FFP3 masks if they face patients diagnosed with Covid or suspected of having it.\n\nOne consultant, who did not want to be named, said: \"When you realise patients are more infectious at an earlier stage of disease and are presenting at general wards with poorer ventilation than intensive care units and staff are wearing a poorer quality of PPE, you really want those in a position of leadership to listen and to act.\"\n\nRCN General Secretary Dame Donna Kinnair, said: \"Without delay, they must state whether existing PPE guidance is adequate for the new variant.\n\n\"While more research is carried out, we ask for the precautionary principle to be applied and staff to be given a higher level of PPE if working with suspected or confirmed cases.\"\n\nPublic Health England said this was a matter for NHS England to comment on.\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said: \"The safety of NHS and social care staff has always been our top priority and we continue to work tirelessly to deliver PPE that protects those on the frontline.\n\n\"UK guidance on the safest levels of PPE is written by experts and agreed by all four chief medical officers. Our guidance is kept under constant review based on the latest evidence and data.\n\n\"Emerging evidence and data, including on variant strains, will be continually monitored and reviewed, and the guidance updated accordingly if needed.\"", "It was initially believed that Covid-19 originated at a market in Wuhan\n\nA World Health Organization (WHO) team has arrived in the Chinese city of Wuhan to start its investigation into the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nThe long-awaited probe comes after months of negotiations between the WHO and Beijing.\n\nA group of 10 scientists is set to interview people from research institutes, hospitals and the seafood market linked to the initial outbreak.\n\nCovid-19 was first detected in Wuhan in central China in late 2019.\n\nThe team's arrival on Thursday morning coincides with a resurgence of new coronavirus cases in the north of the country, while life in Wuhan is relatively back to normal.\n\nThey will undergo two weeks of quarantine before beginning their research, which will rely upon samples and evidence provided by Chinese officials.\n\nTeam leader Peter Ben Embarek told AFP news agency just before the trip that it \"could be a very long journey before we get a full understanding of what happened\".\n\n\"I don't think we will have clear answers after this initial mission, but we will be on the way,\" he said.\n\nThe probe, which aims to investigate the animal origin of the pandemic, looks set to begin after some initial hiccups.\n\nChina resisted this investigation because it doesn't want to look back. It sees the potential for more blame, from a group of foreigners. It has its official version of what happened already.\n\nThe government paper published months ago declared \"victory\" in the war against the virus. But it didn't have a verdict - not one it made public anyway - on where the new coronavirus came from nor how it passed to humans. There's been global pressure to answer that, to prevent repeat pandemics.\n\nThe WHO team will be heavily reliant on their Chinese hosts for access: to key places in Wuhan and beyond, and crucially to research material, human and animal samples and data gathered by China's authorities over the past year. The man leading the WHO team said he is open minded. No theories - and there is a range of theories - are off the table. All sides have talked about the importance of the science. But the investigators arrived here as a propaganda effort, lead by China's state media, is in full swing, to question whether the pandemic originated here in the first place.\n\nDespite a lack of any credible evidence it's reported for months now that it was in Spain, Italy or maybe the US before it was seen in China. A campaign intended to undermine the very reason the WHO is, finally, here in Wuhan.\n\nEarlier this month the WHO said its investigators were denied entry into China after one member of the team was turned back and another got stuck in transit. But Beijing said it was a misunderstanding and that arrangements for the investigation were still in discussion.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid-19: How everyday life has changed in Wuhan\n\nChina has been saying for months that the although Wuhan is where the first cluster of cases was detected, it is not necessarily where the virus originated.\n\nProfessor Dale Fisher, chair of the global outbreak and response unit at the WHO, told the BBC that he hoped the world would consider this a scientific visit. \"It's not about politics or blame but getting to the bottom of a scientific question,\" he said.\n\nProf Fisher added that most scientists believed that the virus was a \"natural event\".\n\nThe visit comes as China reports its first fatality from Covid-19 in eight months.\n\nNews of the woman's death in northern Hebei province prompted anxious chatter online and the hashtag \"new virus death in Hebei\" trended briefly on social media platform Weibo.\n\nThe country has largely brought the virus under control through quick mass testing, stringent lockdowns and tight travel restrictions.\n\nBut new cases have been resurfacing in recent weeks, mainly in Hebei province surrounding Beijing and Heilongjiang province in the northeast.", "A further 1,564 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test - the biggest figure reported in a single day since the pandemic began.\n\nIt brings the total number of deaths by that measure to 84,767.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle, medical director at Public Health England, said there have now been more deaths in the second wave than the first.\n\nAnd the prime minister warned there was a \"very substantial\" risk of intensive care capacity being \"overtopped\".\n\nSpeaking to the Commons Liaison Committee, Boris Johnson said the situation was \"very, very tough\" in the NHS and the strain on staff was \"colossal\".\n\nHe appealed to the public to follow lockdown rules, which require people in England to stay at home and only go out for limited reasons, such as for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home.\n\nSimilar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nA further 47,525 new cases have also been recorded.\n\nPerhaps the most distressing element about the latest Covid deaths is that the numbers are almost certainly going to rise from here.\n\nPeople who are dying now are likely to have been infected three or so weeks ago, around Christmas time.\n\nThat was at a point when infection rates were rising quite steeply, so in the coming days and weeks we should, sadly, expect to see more deaths than this being reported.\n\nToday's figures are affected by the weekend, which sees delays in reporting deaths that tend to translate into higher figures from Tuesday onwards.\n\nCurrently around 1,000 people a day on average are dying once you take this into account.\n\nBut the figures also provide some hope. For the third day in a row the number of newly diagnosed infections are well below 50,000.\n\nThere have been several days where they have exceeded 60,000.\n\nIf that trend continues, and the number of new cases keeps coming down, that will eventually translate into the number of deaths falling.\n\nBut it is going to take some weeks for that to happen.\n\nThese are, as many have been saying, the darkest days of the pandemic so far.\n\nEarlier, during Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Johnson said lockdown measures were \"starting to show signs of some effect\".\n\nLabour's Sir Keir Starmer called for tougher restrictions in England, asking why they were weaker in this lockdown compared with March.\n\nDuring the first lockdown, nurseries were closed to most children and it was not permitted to exercise with someone from another household.\n\n\"We keep things under constant review,\" Mr Johnson replied. \"If there is any need to toughen up restrictions - which I don't rule out - we will of course come to this House.\"\n\nHe stressed that it was early days, but said: \"The lockdown measures we have in place combined with tier four measures that we were using are starting to show signs of some effect.\"\n\nLater, asked by the Commons Liaison Committee whether schools could reopen after February half-term, Mr Johnson said: \"It is far, far too early for us to say [early signs of progress mean] we can go into any kind of relaxation in the middle of February, we've got to work very hard to achieve that.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson took questions from MPs on the Commons Liaison Committee\n\nThe prime minister also said on Wednesday that Covid vaccinations will be offered 24 hours a day, seven days a week as soon as supply allows.\n\nThe number of people in the UK who have received the first dose of a vaccine has risen to 2,639,309 - up by 207,661 from the day before.\n\nCommenting on the latest daily figures, PHE's Dr Doyle said: \"With each passing day, more and more people are tragically losing their lives to this terrible virus.\"\n\nShe added: \"It is essential that we stay at home, minimise contact with other people and act as if you have the virus.\"\n\nThe vast majority of the deaths reported on Tuesday happened over the past week. However, at least 100 were in 2020, with one death dating back to May.\n\nThe previous highest daily death toll was on Friday, when 1,325 people were reported to have died.\n\nThese government figures count people who died within 28 days of testing positive, but there are other ways of measuring the total number of deaths.\n\nWhen all deaths where coronavirus is mentioned on the death certificate are counted, plus deaths known to have occurred more recently, the number of deaths involving Covid in the UK is more than 100,000.\n\nAnother method is to count excess deaths - all deaths over and above the usual number at the time of year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Johnson: \"We are taking steps to ensure that we do not see the import of this new variant\".\n\nMeanwhile, the prime minister has said he is \"concerned\" about a new coronavirus variant that is believed to have emerged in Brazil. He acknowledged it is not yet clear how effective existing vaccines will be against the latest new variant.\n\nThe UK is taking steps to make sure it is not brought into the country, Mr Johnson said.\n\nA government Covid committee is meeting on Thursday to discuss the possibility of stopping flights from Brazil.\n\nArrivals from Brazil already have to self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nAnd from Monday, anyone arriving into the UK from any country will have to present a negative Covid test. The new rule had been due to come into force this week but the government said it was being put back to give travellers more time to prepare.", "The home secretary has said the government will not announce new Covid restrictions on Thursday or Friday, but did not rule out further measures being announced next week.\n\nPriti Patel told ITV her focus was on enforcing the current lockdown rules.\n\nIt is thought ministers are considering measures like requiring masks outside or allowing people to exercise only with people from the same household.\n\nOn Wednesday, the UK recorded 1,564 new deaths, the highest daily total so far.\n\nMrs Patel emphasised the current stay-at-home rules, under which people are only allowed to go out for a limited number of reasons, including work, essential shopping and providing care to a vulnerable person.\n\nAsked whether further restrictions could include a three-metre social distancing rule, or the requirement to wear masks outside, the home secretary told ITV's This Morning: \"The plans are very much to enforce the rules.\n\n\"This isn't about new rules coming in - we're going to stick with enforcing the current measures.\"\n\nBut Ms Patel did not rule out new measures being announced next week, saying: \"We are not thinking about bringing in new measures today or tomorrow.\"\n\nAt a press conference on Monday, she said police would move more quickly to fine people who break the rules.\n\nOver the course of the pandemic, more than 30,000 such fines have been issued.\n\nA senior backbench Conservative MP has written to his colleagues to criticise the government's approach to coronavirus restrictions.\n\nSteve Baker, deputy chairman of the Covid Recovery Group of MPs, which is sceptical of lockdown measures, said that if the government did not change its strategy, \"inevitably the prime minister's leadership will be on the table: we strongly do not want that after all we have been through as a country\".\n\nHe asked his colleagues to impress upon the party's chief whip the need for \"a clear plan for when our full freedoms will be restored, with a guarantee that this strategy will not be used again next winter\".\n\nHowever, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has questioned why the current lockdown restrictions are \"weaker\" than those imposed in March last year, when deaths and hospitalisations were lower than they are now.\n\nHe questioned why nurseries were open when primary schools were closed, and whether estate agents should be allowed to continue with house viewings.\n\nRules have been further tightened in Scotland this week, with new restrictions on click and collect and takeaway services.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nSpinner Dom Bess took 5-30 as a woeful Sri Lanka batting display left England in control after the opening day of the first Test in Galle.\n\nThe hosts were bowled out for 135 in only 46.1 overs despite winning the toss on a pitch that offered only a little spin.\n\nEngland closed on 127-2, with Joe Root unbeaten on 66, Jonny Bairstow 47 not out and their third-wicket stand worth 110.\n\nDom Sibley and Zak Crawley fell to left-arm spinner Lasith Embuldeniya for four and nine respectively.\n\nSri Lanka's total was the lowest in a first innings in a Galle Test, and was a pitiful exhibition of indiscipline and poor strokes which demonstrated a clear lack of understanding of how to build a Test innings.\n\nEngland, who made five changes from their previous Test in August, were disciplined with the ball and tidy in the field, aside from a drop from debutant Dan Lawrence, with Stuart Broad superb in taking 3-20.\n\nTheir reward was a strong position on their first day of overseas Test cricket since the coronavirus pandemic took hold, and their opening action of a year that includes home and away series against India, a likely two-Test series against world number one side New Zealand and a bid to regain the Ashes in Australia.\n\nThe second day starts at 04:30 GMT on Friday.\n• None 'Right up there with the worst we've seen' - Sri Lanka collapse shocks pundits\n\nWith England's most recent Test being played five months ago, and Sri Lanka playing in South Africa over Christmas and the new year, there was concern that the tourists would not be as prepared as the hosts.\n\nBroad, who had Lahiru Thirimanne caught at leg slip and Kusal Mendis, who has now made a duck in four successive Test innings, caught behind in the seventh over, showcased his experience and guile by turning to off-cutters almost immediately.\n\nBess, playing his 11th Test, may have taken his second five-wicket haul in Tests but struggled to find a consistent line and length.\n\nKusal Perera reverse swept Bess' second ball to Root at slip, while Niroshan Dickwella slapped a long hop to Sibley at point to fall for 12.\n\nAfter getting Dasun Shanaka in fortunate circumstances as a sweep rebounded off Bairstow at short leg into wicketkeeper Jos Buttler's hands, Bess produced a beautifully flighted delivery to bowl Dilruwan Perera between bat and pad for a duck.\n\nHe rounded off the innings by bowling the reverse-sweeping Wanindu Hasaranga for 19 as the hosts lost their last five wickets for 30 runs.\n\nStand-in captain Dinesh Chandimal and Angelo Mathews offered some fight with a stand of 56 for the fourth wicket, the former becoming the 12th Sri Lankan to reach 4,000 Tests runs and Mathews the fifth to 6,000.\n\nHowever, both fell tamely in the space of three balls as Broad - who had taken three wickets in 80 overs in Sri Lanka before this match - had Mathews slashing to slip, before Chandimal looped a simple catch to Sam Curran at cover to give Jack Leach his first Test wicket since November 2019.\n• None Why the Sri Lanka tour matters for the Ashes\n\nFor England this two-Test tour, which was cut short in March 2020 because of the coronavirus pandemic, is a build-up to the four-Test series in India that follows.\n\nTo stand any chance of beating Virat Kohli's side England must play spin well, and they will be concerned by the early inroads that Sri Lanka made.\n\nOpener Sibley, whom many feel is vulnerable against spin, edged to slip via his back pad as he attempted to work Embuldeniya to leg.\n\nCrawley, promoted to open given Rory Burns' absence to be at the birth of his first child, looked to take Embuldeniya over the top - a shot he played superbly last summer - but mistimed it to mid-off.\n\nHowever, Root, whose fifty was his 50th in Test cricket, will be buoyed by the way he and the recalled Bairstow nullified the spin threat as they shared England's highest partnership in Galle.\n\nIt was a chanceless stand, although Root overturned an lbw decision on 20 with replays showing the ball would have gone over the stumps.\n\nBoth he and Bairstow scored around the wicket, with Root playing the sweep to good effect, and Bairstow cutting and flicking through mid-wicket well.\n\nThey will hope to build a substantial first-innings lead and turn the match into a three-innings game.\n\n'England didn't have to work hard at all' - reaction\n\nEngland spinner Dom Bess on BBC Test Match Special: \"We have put ourselves in a really good position. Rooty and Jonny batted really well because the wicket started to spin.\n\n\"I felt I was quite nervous. I hadn't bowled in a game since the Test matches last summer.\n\n\"I didn't feel I bowled as well as I know I can. That's cricket, isn't it? There might be days bowl exceptionally well and go 1-100.\"\n\nFormer England captain Michael Vaughan: \"It was a fantastic day for England.\n\n\"The partnership with Root and Bairstow was exactly what was required by Sri Lanka.\n\n\"Mathews and Chandimal are experienced pros. They were playing nicely and then played two rash shots. It was so poor from Sri Lanka.\"\n\nSri Lanka batting coach Grant Flower: \"I'm at a loss for words, I've never seen us bat that badly. They know these conditions well and it should have been a big advantage.\n\n\"England's batsmen showed us there's nothing wrong with the pitch. We batted terribly.\"\n\nFormer Sri Lanka all-rounder Russell Arnold: \"It is not a minefield. It was very poor from Sri Lanka. England didn't have to work hard at all.\n\n\"It is very, very disappointing. It surprised me and I expected a lot more.\"\n• None Can the TV personality make it as a pro footballer?\n• None New drama brings the chilling crimes of Charles Sobhraj to life", "Lucy Edwards, pictured with dog Olga, became BBC Radio 1's first blind presenter when she guested in 2019\n\nA blind social media star said she could be waiting for years for a new guide dog because of delays connected with the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nLucy Edwards creates videos on living with sight loss, which have been watched millions of times.\n\nThe 25-year-old has used a guide dog since she was 17 and said she had lost her independence since her latest dog was retired four months ago.\n\nShe said it was like losing her \"eyesight all over again\".\n\n\"It has really knocked my confidence that in a pandemic I don't have my dog any more,\" Ms Edwards, from Sutton Coldfield, in the West Midlands, said.\n\n\"I don't feel comfortable going outside on my own.\"\n\nLucy Edwards says she struggles to socially distance using her cane alone, as she does not know where people are around her\n\nShe now relies on her cane and her sighted partner, but added she found it difficult to socially distance with just a cane and felt \"scared\" without the support of her dog Olga.\n\nThe Guide Dogs for the Blind Association said the pandemic meant it had been forced to stop dog training for five months last year.\n\nIt said 52 dogs had been trained and become qualified in the Midlands in 2020, compared with 125 in 2019, and added the monthly figures showed a big impact in April.\n\nWhile general dog training is continuing during the third England lockdown, with social distancing measures in place, some orientation and other work has stopped, along with puppy training classes.\n\nWest Bromwich marathon runner Dave Heeley, who was appointed an OBE in the New Year Honours, has been waiting for a dog for more than two years.\n\n\"The dog is your best friend, your dog is your mobility and I don't feel that from a stick,\" he said.\n\nDave Heeley has been waiting two years for a dog\n\nThe Guide Dogs for the Blind Association said over the past two years it had matched 80% of people with a guide dog within 16 months.\n\nThe charity currently has about 5,000 guide dogs working in the UK and within the next few years said it was targeting 1,000 new guide dog partnerships a year.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Employers \"have a duty\" to support staff who suffer domestic abuse but few have adequate policies in place, the government says.\n\nIt said bosses were in a unique position to help but a \"lack of awareness and stigma\" held them back.\n\nCalls to domestic abuse services have surged in the pandemic as couples spend more time at home.\n\nBusiness Minister Paul Scully said employers could be a \"bridge between a worker and the support they need\".\n\n\"It was once taboo to talk about mental health, but now most workplaces have well-established policies in place. We want to see the same happen for domestic abuse, but more quickly and more effectively,\" he said in an open letter to employers.\n\nManagers and colleagues are often the only other people outside the home that victims talk to each day and so \"uniquely placed\" to spot signs of abuse, he said.\n\nThese include becoming more withdrawn than usual, sudden drops in performance, mentions of controlling or coercive behaviour in partners, or physical signs such as bruising.\n\nEmployers did not have to become \"specialists\" in handling domestic abuse, Mr Scully said, but could do more to help, including:\n\nFirms already taking action include Vodafone, which offers specialist training to HR and line managers and support for victims including counselling and additional paid leave.\n\nIn August, law firm Linklaters strengthened its policies and now offers people who need to flee their home but can't stay with others three nights' accommodation in a hotel.\n\nIt also offers the option of paid leave, plus one-off payments of £5,000 to help victims trying to become financially independent.\n\nDomestic violence charity Refuge said it saw an 80% increase in calls to its helpline during the first national lockdown, a trend the government believes has continued.\n\nAnd in November, 43% of respondents to a survey by charity Surviving Economic Abuse showed an abuser had interfered with someone's ability to work or study from home during the crisis.\n\nExamples included hiding phones or computers, removing wi-fi connections, and phoning an employer claiming a breach of lockdown rules, in an apparent effort to get them sacked.\n\nDomestic abuse isn't a new problem, nor does today's call to businesses apply only during a pandemic.\n\nBut coronavirus has highlighted new and existing risks.\n\nFor many victims and survivors, work is a place of respite.\n\nBeing based at home, or on furlough, can reduce communication with team members, and prevent face-to-face chats with colleagues.\n\nI've heard of employers finding simple yet effective ways of supporting staff during the pandemic.\n\nFor example, finding a plausible reason for an employee whose remote communications were being overlooked, to go into the office as a one-off, so they could talk freely and hand over an ID document for safe keeping.\n\nOf course, not every business can afford to offer emergency accommodation or financial support to those in urgent need. But the focus of today's letter is on awareness, using free support and removing stigma.\n\nThe charity Surviving Economic Abuse wants the government to go further, and put paid leave for domestic abuse victims into law.\n\nElizabeth Filkin, who chairs the Employer's Initiative on Domestic Abuse, argues there are real benefits in supporting staff - including around productivity, loyalty and reputation.\n\nEmployment lawyer Sarah Chilton, a partner at CM Murray, told the BBC that all employers have a duty to protect their staff's health and safety while working from home. That includes if they are being subjected to domestic abuse.\n\n\"Where an employee is required to work at home during, for example, the pandemic, the employer should take account of any risk to that person's physical and mental health and safety in the environment in which they work.\"\n\nAngela Ogilvie, global director of HR at Linklaters, said training was vital to spot signs of abuse, especially now.\n\n\"Victims may avoid calls or videos for example. They may become quiet, anxious or tearful, secretive about their home life.\n\n\"And it's being conscious of how you start those conversations because they may be overheard, so you may have to switch your conversation to email or text.\"\n\nMr Scully said the government would consult on ways to help domestic abuse victims at work, for instance by making it easier to request flexible working.\n\nThe government's Domestic Abuse Bill also continues to make its way through parliament.\n\nIt will bring into law a statutory definition of domestic abuse that includes coercive or controlling behaviour as well as emotional and economic abuse.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nFormer world number one Andy Murray's participation at the Australian Open is in doubt after the Briton tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nThe 33-year-old Scot was set to fly out to Melbourne on a chartered flight arriving there over the next 36 hours.\n\nInstead he remains in quarantine and isolating at home in London.\n\nMurray, who is said to be in good health, remains hopeful he will be allowed to travel safely at a later date and compete as planned.\n\nThe five-time Australian Open runner-up pulled out of last week's ATP event in Delray Beach as he wanted to \"minimise the risks\" of catching a transatlantic flight to Florida.\n\n'He will be refused'\n\nThe Australian Open will start on 8 February at Melbourne Park, three weeks later than usual, because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nPlayers must test negative before taking one of the 15 chartered flights - which have been put on by tournament organisers and will operate at 25% capacity - to Australia.\n\nOnce they have arrived, they will have to pass a series of Covid tests during a 14-day quarantine in Melbourne before the Grand Slam.\n\n\"Mr Murray, and the other 1,240 people as part of the program, need to demonstrate that if they're coming to Melbourne they have returned a negative test,\" said Victorian state health minister Martin Foley.\n\n\"So should Mr Murray arrive, and I have no indication that he will, he will be subject to those same rigorous arrangements as everyone else. Should he test positive prior to his attempts to come to Australia, he will be refused.\"\n\nMurray's planned appearance at Melbourne Park would come two years after he played there in what he feared would be his final match as a professional.\n\nAt 123rd in the world, Murray is ranked too low to gain direct entry into the tournament so the three-time Grand Slam champion has been given a wildcard.\n\nMurray was able to play only seven official matches in 2020 because of a lingering pelvic injury, and the five-month suspension of the tours because of the pandemic.\n\nThe Scot is among a number of players to have their plans disrupted.\n\nAmerican Madison Keys, who reached the Australian Open women's singles semi-finals in 2015, said she would not be playing in Melbourne after testing positive for coronavirus.\n\nWorld number two Rafael Nadal is travelling to Melbourne in search of a record 21st Grand Slam men's singles title without coach Carlos Moya, who has decided to stay at home in Spain with his family because of the health situation.\n\nWorld number three Dominic Thiem's coach Nicolas Massu has also not travelled after a positive Covid test, Thiem's father Wolfgang told Austrian newspaper Kurier.\n\n'Change of year, but not a change of luck' - analysis\n\nA change of year does not appear to have brought about a change of luck for Andy Murray.\n\nHe is now hoping he will be given permission to arrive in Melbourne late - and outside the window Tennis Australia painstakingly negotiated with the Victorian state government.\n\nIf he does get the green light to travel, having completed self-isolation in the UK and returned a negative test, he will still have to spend 14 days in quarantine on arrival.\n\nThat means he won't be able to play in the warm-up events the week before the Australian Open.\n\nBut it would keep alive his hopes of playing in the first Grand Slam of the year, as players will be allowed out of their rooms to practise for five hours a day during quarantine.\n\nAmerican player Tennys Sandgren, meanwhile, boarded a charter plane to Melbourne despite testing positive for coronavirus.\n\nThe world number 50, a two-time Australian Open quarter-finalist, tweeted that after testing positive in November he had returned another positive on Monday and might not be able to fly on Wednesday.\n\nBut Australian Open organisers said his medical file had been reviewed by Victoria state authorities and he had then been cleared to fly.\n\nThey explained that players are only allowed to enter Australia with proof of a negative test done just before departure or \"with approval to travel as a recovered case at the complete discretion of an Australian government authority\".\n\nSandgren posted on social media that he had been ill in November but was \"totally healthy now\".\n\n\"My two tests were less than eight weeks apart,\" he wrote. \"There's not a single documented case where I would be contagious at this point.\"\n\nLisa Neville, minister for police and emergency services, tweeted: \"Tennys Sandgren's positive result was reviewed by health experts and determined to be viral shedding from a previous infection, so was given the all clear to fly.\n\n\"No-one who is Covid positive for the first time - or could still be infectious - will be allowed in for the Aus Open.\"\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None Can the TV personality make it as a pro footballer?\n• None New drama brings the chilling crimes of Charles Sobhraj to life", "Passengers will need to provide a negative Covid-19 test taken within 72 hours before departure\n\nPassengers arriving into NI from outside the UK and Republic of Ireland will soon have to produce a negative Covid-19 test before departure.\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster confirmed the executive had agreed the plan on Thursday.\n\nPeople arriving from countries not on the government's travel corridors list will also still have to self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nThe move has already been agreed in the Republic of Ireland.\n\nPassengers arriving there will be subject to the new rules from Saturday, with the measure taking effect in England and Scotland from Monday.\n\nNegative tests 72 hours prior to arrival are already a requirement in the Republic of Ireland for passengers travelling from Great Britain and South Africa.\n\nSpeaking at Stormont's press conference on Thursday, the first minister said Northern Ireland's R-number had also fallen to between 0.7 and 0.9 for new cases of the virus.\n\nThe reproductive rate of the virus - known as the R rate, measures the infection rate of Covid-19 and had risen to about 1.8 due to Christmas relaxations.\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said the drop showed the \"very real\" effect of lockdown restrictions imposed on 26 December, but she warned there was still \"no room for complacency\".\n\nShe said she still believed there needed to be an \"two-island approach\" to travel restrictions, including discussions with the British and Irish governments as a \"matter of urgency\".\n\nMrs Foster said Stormont ministers had also expressed frustration at the executive meeting over a lack of data-sharing from authorities in the Republic of Ireland, and called for it to be escalated.\n\nPSNI Chief Constable (centre) Simon Byrne attended Stormont's press briefing on Thursday with the first and deputy first ministers\n\nPSNI Chief Constable Simon Byrne said 40 penalty notices a day are being handed out to those who breach the Covid-19 regulations.\n\nHe told the press briefing that if people continued flouting rules, they could expect \"firm and swift enforcement\".\n\n\"We won't turn a blind eye when people break the rules.\"\n\nOn Thursday, 16 more deaths related to Covid-19 were reported by the Department of Health in Northern Ireland, bringing its total to 1,533.\n\nThere have been 973 new cases diagnosed in the past 24 hours, while 58 Covid-19 patients are being treated in ICUs across Northern Ireland, of which 44 are on ventilators.\n\nMrs Foster said she found it \"incredible and frankly unbelievable\" that some people were still holding house parties and gatherings, despite the pandemic rates and the lockdown.\n\nOn Wednesday, health officials warned that levels of the new, more transmissible variant of the virus are rising.\n\nMr Swann said that meant more \"difficult decisions\" on lockdown restrictions could be required.\n\nNorthern Ireland is in the third week of a six-week lockdown to curb the spread of Covid-19.\n\nThe executive is due to review the current restrictions on 21 January.\n\nThe first and deputy first ministers said they would take evidence from health officials before deciding whether an extension of the lockdown would be required.\n\nMinisters have expressed concerns about keeping non-essential parts of businesses open\n\nMinisters have also expressed concerns about some larger retailers \"gaming\" the regulations and keeping open non-essential parts of their businesses.\n\nA meeting between the first and deputy first ministers and representatives of the retail sector is due to happen on Friday afternoon.\n\nElsewhere, the Chief Medical Officer has confirmed that unpaid carers looking after Clinically Extremely Vulnerable individuals should receive the first dose of their vaccine when phase two of the vaccination programme begins next month.\n\nDr Michael McBride told Stormont's Health Committee they are provided for on a list of prioritisation provided by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, which decides the order of vaccination delivery.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Department of Health This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by Department of Health\n\nMr Swann was asked if his department was \"putting all its eggs in the vaccine basket\".\n\nHe said it was \"not the entirety of the answer\", adding: \"It will take time for the benefits of it to bed in.\n\n\"And while it is doing it, we still have to follow those restrictions that are in place.\n\n\"We may actually have to introduce more.\"\n\nOn Thursday afternoon the department tweeted that 121,711 vaccines have been administered in Northern Ireland.\n\nMrs Foster said that by end of this month, it is hoped all care home residents, health staff and those aged over 80 in Northern Ireland will have received their first vaccination.\n\nShe said that would be an \"incredible achievement\" and make Northern Ireland one of the top-performing countries in rolling out its vaccination programme.\n\nMeanwhile, the chairman of the Police Federation for NI (PFNI) has said officers need more powers to enforce Covid-19 regulations.\n\nAt present officers can only issue guidance and advice on the public health regulations.\n\nPFNI chairman Mark Lindsay said that puts officers in a \"difficult position\".\n\nThe federation represents thousands of rank and file PSNI officers.\n\n\"I think we are well past the stage where police officers are the people that should be giving advice around the guidance,\" Mr Lindsay told BBC Radio Foyle.", "President Trump has just become the first sitting president to be impeached twice by the US House of Representatives.\n\nWe asked members of our BBC voter panel to weigh in as well.\n\nHere's what they said:\n\nQuote Message: Everything he has done is unconstitutional and, as a president, the number one thing he should be doing is upholding the Constitution. If not for him continually fighting the election results and claiming the election was stolen, if not for him holding that rally near the Capitol, if not for him talking about 'uprising', last week would very likely not have happened. Unfortunately it was completely predictable. from Melissa Dangaran 51, from Minnesota Everything he has done is unconstitutional and, as a president, the number one thing he should be doing is upholding the Constitution. If not for him continually fighting the election results and claiming the election was stolen, if not for him holding that rally near the Capitol, if not for him talking about 'uprising', last week would very likely not have happened. Unfortunately it was completely predictable.\n\nQuote Message: Unprecedented. He should not have been impeached at all. There is no justification, no legal basis, no constitutional basis for it. It's a rush to judgment for ulterior motives and a dark stain on our country. I'm concerned about the double standard and I'm afraid our Constitution is on its deathbed. Why would anybody who's rational think that our president meant for people to go break into the Capitol? from Belinda Noah 45, from Florida Unprecedented. He should not have been impeached at all. There is no justification, no legal basis, no constitutional basis for it. It's a rush to judgment for ulterior motives and a dark stain on our country. I'm concerned about the double standard and I'm afraid our Constitution is on its deathbed. Why would anybody who's rational think that our president meant for people to go break into the Capitol?\n\nQuote Message: It's more of a symbolic impeachment at this point because he'll be out soon, but it's necessary nonetheless. Not only is he a threat to our national security, but he doesn't condone white supremacy and other threats. It's deeply saddening to me. from Williams Morales 19, from Georgia It's more of a symbolic impeachment at this point because he'll be out soon, but it's necessary nonetheless. Not only is he a threat to our national security, but he doesn't condone white supremacy and other threats. It's deeply saddening to me.\n\nQuote Message: I was in DC at the rally - not near the Capitol - but I saw the president speak with my own eyes and he did not call for anyone to storm the building or cause harm. It's just a way to ensure he will not run in the next four years. It is political and it will create a bigger divide between left and right. All violence should be condemned fairly and justly. It was a very sad outcome, but I do not believe it was the most horrible day in our country's history. from Gabriel Montalvo 21, from New York I was in DC at the rally - not near the Capitol - but I saw the president speak with my own eyes and he did not call for anyone to storm the building or cause harm. It's just a way to ensure he will not run in the next four years. It is political and it will create a bigger divide between left and right. All violence should be condemned fairly and justly. It was a very sad outcome, but I do not believe it was the most horrible day in our country's history.", "Siegfried and Roy were one of the hottest tickets in Las Vegas\n\nSiegfried Fischbacher, one half of celebrated magic double act Siegfried and Roy, has died from pancreatic cancer in Las Vegas at the age of 81.\n\nThe pair were among the biggest names in the world of magic and were known for working with lions and tigers.\n\nPaying tribute, David Copperfield called him a \"legend in magic\", and Penn Jillette said Siegfried and Roy were \"pure showbiz and pure class\".\n\nRoy Horn died from Covid-19 complications last May.\n\nThe pair \"invented the full length magic show headlining Vegas\", according to Jillette, who is known as part of the duo Penn and Teller.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSiegfried and Roy teamed up in their native Germany in the 1950s, and the highlight of their extravagant shows was their performances with white lions and white tigers.\n\nHorn was attacked by a 400lb white Bengal tiger named Montecore during a performance in Las Vegas in 2003, leaving him partially paralysed and using a wheelchair.\n\nHe underwent lengthy rehabilitation and was later able to walk again, but the attack ended the duo's long-running Las Vegas residency.\n\nRoy Horn (left) had to use a wheelchair after the tiger attack\n\nFischbacher and Horn, whose real name was Uwe Ludwig Horn, had met on a cruise ship and were later signed up by a liner company.\n\nAfter being spotted and signed to perform at a nightclub in Bremen, they went on to tour Europe and brought tigers into their act.\n\nBut they shot to worldwide fame after launching their Las Vegas shows in the 1960s.\n\nTheir unique brand of magic and artistry consistently attracted sell-out crowds. They performed an estimated 5,000 shows for 10 million fans in the city after 1990, when they began performing at the Mirage hotel-casino.\n\nThey were also estimated to have grossed more than $1bn by 2001, which included their thousands of shows at other venues in earlier years.\n\nIn 2004, their act became the basis for the animated comedy Father of the Pride, about the mischievous adventures of a family of white lions who perform with Siegfried & Roy in Las Vegas.\n\nHorn's condition improved and by 2006 he was able to talk and walk with assistance from Fischbacher.\n\nIn 2009, the duo staged a final appearance with a tiger (said to be Montecore, but this was disputed by some) at a benefit for the Lou Ruvo Brain Institute in Las Vegas.\n\nSiegfried Fischbacher was devoted to his partner Roy\n\nThey retired from showbusiness in 2010. After Horn's death last year, Fischbacher said: \"Today, the world has lost one of the greats of magic, but I have lost my best friend.\n\n\"From the moment we met, I knew Roy and I, together, would change the world. There could be no Siegfried without Roy, and no Roy without Siegfried.\"\n\nFischbacher recently had a 12-hour operation to remove a malignant tumour. He had been receiving care at home from two hospice workers in recent days.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRichard Leonard has resigned as Scottish Labour leader, saying it is in the best interests of the party for him to stand down.\n\nMr Leonard said he believed speculation about his leadership had become a \"distraction\".\n\nAnd he said he would be stepping down with immediate effect.\n\nHis resignation comes just months ahead of the Scottish Parliament election, which is scheduled to be held in May.\n\nMr Leonard had been leader of the party for three years after succeeding Kezia Dugdale.\n\nThe former union official had faced open calls to quit from some of his own MSPs last year amid concerns that his leadership style could damage the party in the forthcoming Scottish Parliament election.\n\nPolls have suggested that many Scottish Labour supporters struggle to recognise him, and he is closely associated with former UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nScottish Labour had dominated politics in Scotland for decades, but is currently the third largest party at Holyrood behind the SNP and Conservatives.\n\nAnd Mr Leonard's critics had questioned whether he was capable of turning the party's fortunes around.\n\nMr Leonard was seen as a close ally of former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn\n\nIn a statement, Mr Leonard said the decision to resign had not been easy - but he felt it was the right one for him and his party.\n\nHe said: \"I have thought long and hard over the Christmas period about what this crisis means, and the approach Scottish Labour takes to help tackle it.\n\n\"I have also considered what the speculation about my leadership does to our ability to get Labour's message across. This has become a distraction.\n\n\"I have come to the conclusion it is in the best interests of the party that I step aside as leader of Scottish Labour with immediate effect.\"\n\nHe also insisted that Scotland now needs a Labour government more than ever, and accused both the Scottish and UK governments of mishandling the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMr Leonard added: \"While I step down from the leadership today, the work goes on - and I will play my constructive part as an MSP in winning support for Labour's vision of a better future in a democratic economy and a socialist society.\"\n\nHis decision leaves Scottish Labour looking for its fifth leader since the independence referendum in 2014 - with Johann Lamont, Jim Murphy and Kezia Dugdale all having held the job since then.\n\nA Procedures Committee, to oversee the election of Mr Leonard's successor, has been formed and will have its first meeting on Friday.\n\nMeanwhile, Labour's Scottish Executive Committee will also meet in the coming days to agree a timetable for the process.\n\nMSP Jackie Baillie, who was Scottish Labour's deputy leader, has taken charge of the party on an interim basis.\n\nThis sudden resignation four months from the Holyrood elections seems to have taken Scottish Labour by surprise.\n\nMSPs I've spoken to said they did not see it coming.\n\nThere have been times when Richard Leonard has been under severe pressure from some in his party to stand down.\n\nWhen several MSPs publicly called for him to quit because the party had gone backwards at successive elections on his watch, he stood firm.\n\nHis critics seemed to have accepted that he would lead them and a divided party into the Holyrood election.\n\nThat has now changed and interim leader Jackie Baillie has to quickly organise a contest to replace him.\n\nIt's a contest in which Anas Sarwar, if he stands, would be an obvious frontrunner - even although he lost last time to Mr Leonard, who was seen as much closer to the then UK party leader, Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said Mr Leonard should be \"very proud\" of his achievements as leader of the party in Scotland.\n\nSir Keir added: \"I would like to thank Richard for his service to our party and his unwavering commitment to the values he believes in.\n\n\"Richard has led Scottish Labour through one of the most challenging and difficult periods in our country's history, including a general election and the pandemic.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Neil Findlay MSP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Leonard had been due to face a confidence vote at the party's ruling Executive Committee last September - but the motion was withdrawn at the last minute.\n\nIt came after four Scottish Labour MSPs called for him to go, warning that the party faced \"catastrophe\" at the ballot box under his leadership.\n\nThey pointed to the party's dismal performance in previous elections under Mr Leonard.\n\nScottish Labour finished fifth in the European election in May 2019, and then lost all but one of its MPs in the general election in December of the same year.\n\nMr Leonard insisted at the time that he intended to lead the party into this year's Holyrood election, and accused his opponents of waging \"internal war\" against him.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon, who faced Mr Leonard in her weekly question session in the Scottish Parliament, tweeted that she had \"always liked Richard Leonard\" despite their political difference.\n\nShe added: \"He is a decent guy and I wish him well for the future.\"\n\nRuth Davidson, who quit as leader of the Scottish Tories in 2019 before returning to lead the party at Holyrood, said she had always found Mr Leonard to be a \"thoroughly decent man and a committed campaigner.\"\n\nAnas Sarwar, who was defeated by Mr Leonard in the leadership contest in 2017 and is seen as one of the favourites to replace him, said he was sure Mr Leonard would \"continue to fight for a fairer, more just and more equal society today, tomorrow and long into the future.\"\n\nBut Labour MSP Neil Findlay, an outspoken supporter of Mr Leonard, took aim at those who had sought to oust him last year - describing them as \"flinching cowards\" and \"sneering traitors\".", "Primark stores have been hit hard by lockdown\n\nPrimark says it has no plans to sell its clothes online despite warning that lockdown store closures could cost it more than £1bn in lost sales.\n\nSome 305 of Primark's 389 global stores are shut - including all 190 UK outlets - but unlike rivals it has no online arm to fall back on.\n\nCustomers have said they would welcome the retailer setting up an online shop.\n\nBut Primark, which saw a 30% sales fall to £2bn in the 16 weeks to 2 January, says the cost would mean price rises.\n\nIt contrasts with online only fashion retailers such as Asos and Boohoo, whose sales rose by around 40% in the last four months of 2020.\n\nOn Thursday, consumers called on Primark to embrace e-commerce with one tweeting: \"Online sales are thru the roof during the pandemic. You're missing out on a LOT of money.\"\n\nBut the retailer tweeted back: \"We prefer to sell our products in our physical stores but thanks for the suggestion.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Primark This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSince March last year, non-essential shops in the UK and overseas have faced strict curbs and prolonged closures and all are currently shut in England.\n\nIn a statement, Primark said that if all of its stores stayed closed until 27 February 2021, it expected to miss out on £1.05bn of sales - up from a previous estimate of £650m.\n\nThe retailer said it would partially mitigate this by cutting its costs, but did not say if that would mean job losses. It added that it only expected to break even in the first half of the financial year, after seeing healthy operating profits of £441m last time around.\n\nIn the past Primark has said it won't sell online because the cost of manning the operation and processing high volumes of returns would mean it could no longer offer low prices.\n\n\"As a fast fashion retailer they are on a low margins anyway - they have to be very competitive on price,\" Patrick O'Brien, UK retail research director at GlobalData told the BBC.\n\nHe said pure online players like Asos and Boohoo could make it work because they were \"geared up for it in terms of logistics\".\n\nPrimark shops saw strong sales when they reopened after the first lockdown\n\n\"But Primark would be starting from scratch, and would have to integrate any new online operation with its existing store structure which would be costly.\"\n\nDespite this Mr O'Brien said the retailer was still likely succeed, pointing to the surge in sales it saw when its shops reopened after the first lockdown.\n\nBut Retail Economics' Richard Lim said Primark was at risk of \"potentially alienating its customers\" who increasingly expect to be able to shop online.\n\n\"They have very loyal customers who love the brand, but they are crying out to be able to access it online.\n\n\"The longer they are not online, the more disruptive it is. The more their customers are discovering new brands and ways to shop.\"\n\nAssociated British Foods also owns food and agriculture businesses. Sales across the group were down 13% in the 16 weeks to 2 January at £4.8bn.\n\nThere are always winners and losers in retail but this Christmas the picture is more polarised than ever thanks to the effects of the pandemic. Just contrast the fortunes of Primark, which doesn't sell online, with Boohoo and Asos which have both reported soaring growth in sales.\n\nAll our big supermarkets have now reported bumper Christmas trading, too, which is no real surprise given we can't go out to eat and so many of us are working from home. This growth has also been driven by an extraordinary rise in internet orders.\n\nWhile Primark is bracing itself to lose £1bn in business as a result of store closures, Tesco says it added £1bn of extra sales online this festive quarter. It's been very tough for many traditional non-food retailers, big and small, who've been unable to make up for all the lost sales from their High Street shops. Looking ahead, the big question is where the online dial will settle when our lives eventually return to normal.", "The number of people being treated in Scotland's hospitals for coronavirus has reached another record daily high.\n\nLatest Scottish government figures show a total of 1,596 people are in hospital with recently confirmed Covid.\n\nThis is up from Friday's figure of 1,530 patients.\n\nThe deaths of a further 93 people who had tested positive for the virus have been recorded in the past 24 hours, the same tally as Friday which was the highest daily figure of the pandemic.\n\nIt is the second day in a row there has been a record figure for Covid hospital patients.\n\nOf the 1,596 people in hospital, a total of 109 are in intensive care, up seven on Friday's figure.\n\nNational clinical director Prof Jason Leitch said Scotland's hospitals were \"very busy and fragile\" but coping so far.\n\nHe said: \"People should not be worried we have reached capacity but the best way of getting those numbers down is to reduce the prevalence of the virus.\"\n\nProf Leitch said the NHS could create more intensive care capacity if needed but \"all of that has a cost in what we won't be able to do\" elsewhere in the health service.\n\nThe NHS Louisa Jordan temporary hospital in Glasgow can be used to care for the sickest of Covid patients if the spike in admissions continues, but officials are trying to avoid this \"if we can manage without it\", Prof Leitch added.\n\nThis is because it is better for patients and staff for Covid patients to be in traditional intensive care units, he explained.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon has described the latest Covid figures as \"a big concern\".\n\nOn Twitter, she said: \"Covid case numbers still a big concern and putting huge pressure on the NHS, as hospital and ICU cases increase.\n\n\"Also, 93 further deaths remind us just how dangerous the virus can be - my thoughts are with all those grieving.\"]\n\nThe Scottish government data shows a further 1,865 new cases of Covid have been reported in the last 24 hours, down from the 2,309 cases reported on Friday.\n\nHowever, the daily test positivity rate is 8.7%, up from 8.1% on the previous day.\n\nThis breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refresh the page for the fullest version.\n\nYou can receive Breaking News on a smartphone or tablet via the BBC News App. You can also follow @BBCBreaking on Twitter to get the latest alerts.", "A 28-year-old woman has been arrested on suspicion of murder after two men died at a property in east London.\n\nPolice were called to an address in Tavistock Gardens, Ilford, at 04:24 GMT to reports of a disturbance.\n\nTwo men were found seriously injured inside the property and both died at the scene.\n\nThe woman, who was Tasered during the arrest, also suffered non life-threatening injuries. She has been taken to hospital, the Met Police said.\n\nA man who lives a short way down the street said he was awoken by the sounds of a woman screaming.\n\nKuddus Miah, 44, said: \"She was screaming 'help, help, call the police'.\n\n\"The police and ambulances were there very quick.\"\n\nThe men who were found seriously injured on Sunday morning died at the scene\n\n\"I got changed out my PJs and went outside and asked one of the neighbours opposite what happened.\n\n\"She said a woman was coming in and out of the house crying out for help.\n\n\"Apparently they were new tenants. We've lived here around 15 years and it's a very quiet neighbourhood, it's shocking.\"\n\nSeveral forensics officers were seen outside the house and a large police cordon has been put in place.\n\nForensic officers have been seen working in the house\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sarah and her husband Gary lived in the caravan on the drive for nine months\n\nA nurse who lived in a caravan for nine months to protect her mother from coronavirus says moving back into her house was like \"winning the lottery\".\n\nSarah Link and her husband Gary, who usually share a home with her mother, bought the caravan in March to allow them to isolate.\n\n\"I have cried a river in the caravan, if it wasn't for Gary, I wouldn't have got through it,\" Mrs Link said.\n\nThey moved back home for Christmas after her mother received the vaccine.\n\nThe caravan, bought for £600 and parked on their own drive in Cradley, in the Black Country, allowed Mrs Link to continue working at Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth Hospital and her husband at his fishmonger's business.\n\n\"I'd do it again tomorrow. I would do it every time, I would have done anything to protect mum,\" she said.\n\n\"We were thinking it would be four weeks, 12 weeks max, then the summer came and went and nine months later we were still there. It was incredible, I just can't believe we did it,\" Mrs Link, who has been a nurse for 17 years, said.\n\nThe couple both contracted coronavirus in December, but carried on living in the caravan so they could self-isolate and continue to protect Mrs Link's 84-year-old mother.\n\nMrs Link said her Christmas this year was \"magical\" after moving out of the caravan\n\n\"I went back to work properly last week. I still get tired easily and suffer with fatigue, but I'm OK,\" Mrs Link said.\n\n\"It's getting ridiculous the cases... some people still walk around and don't believe it's real. If people came on my ward and see what I've seen.\"\n\nMrs Link said she had not hugged her mother since before March as they were still taking precautions to keep her safe.\n\nShe said Christmas and new year had been \"magical\" adding it was the \"best\" she had ever experienced after being able to move back home.\n\n\"We all cried when it turned midnight, that year we'd all had.\n\n\"It was like winning the lottery, waking up in a proper bed.\n\n\"We're in the warm... I wouldn't be happier if I'd won a million pounds.\"\n\nThe couple decorated the caravan throughout the year\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Vincent Kane - pictured with his grandson Sonny - is facing uncertainty about his operation\n\nThe son of a man with pancreatic cancer has said the last-minute cancellation of his surgery has been \"devastating\".\n\nJodie Kane said his father Vincent was due to have his operation on Friday.\n\nHowever, that procedure was cancelled by the Belfast Health Trust on Tuesday as the worsening coronavirus crisis increases the pressure on hospitals.\n\nThe trust apologised, saying it had faced an 80% rise in the number of patients with Covid-19 admitted to hospitals since Christmas Day.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio Ulster's Nolan Show, Jodie said that there was now \"no guarantee\" his 68-year-old father would get the treatment.\n\n\"To be told we had the chance of a very successful surgery on offer and then to have it taken away at the last minute is pretty devastating,\" he said.\n\n\"Even the surgeon himself said they would be concerned if it was to go on more than four weeks.\n\n\"There is an uncertainty hanging over us now that we don't know when he'll actually get that surgery or what the impact on his health is going to be.\"\n\nVincent Kane - pictured with his with wife Karen - has been suffering other health issues arising from his cancer\n\nVincent, from Newtownards, County Down, did not receive treatment for some of his other symptoms as it was planned that the surgery would help with those.\n\n\"Because they were hoping to get him straight into surgery he hasn't had the blockage in his gall bladder addressed so he's jaundiced, he's covered in a rash, can't sleep, he's lost a lot of weight,\" Jodie said.\n\n\"Undoubtedly there are people worse off than us out there but it is still a critical illness that he has got and it is one that we don't have an end in sight for, in terms of treatment.\n\n\"There must be a way of helping all those in need, or I suppose if you were being really honest about it those who stand the best chance of surviving - making the decisions for the benefit of them.\n\n\"There's no guarantee that in six weeks' time surgery is going to be an option because who knows what's going to happen with Covid?\"\n\nThe Belfast Health Trust said it had to reduce the number of ill patients on wards to protect them from coronavirus\n\nJodie called on those who were breaking Covid-19 regulations to think about the the \"direct and indirect impacts\" of their actions.\n\n\"We've every sympathy for anyone who has a loved one who needs [intensive] care because of Covid but cancer and Covid are both life-and-death situations.\n\n\"We can minimise the risks of one of them as a collective society just by taking the necessary precautions.\n\n\"It could be someone they love or their neighbour or someone in their community that's in the same situation as us in the very near future.\"\n\nFlo McClements, who was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in December, found out on Tuesday that her surgery - scheduled for Thursday - had been cancelled by the Belfast Health Trust.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Foyle, her son Gregg said the pressure was \"mounting day by day\" on the the 72-year-old from Ballymoney, County Antrim.\n\n\"She had waited all through Christmas for the date and due to the Covid-19 restrictions we as a family had stayed away from her,\" he added.\n\nFlo McClements' family wants to \"give her a hug\" after her operation was cancelled\n\n\"We left her on her own with my dad just to make sure she didn't catch Covid and risk the operation.\n\n\"When you get the date you like to think it's the next step to recovery but unfortunately that didn't happen.\"\n\nGregg said his mother was \"putting on a brave face\" but it was difficult for the family to not be with her in person during what was a difficult time.\n\n\"That's actually the hardest part that we can't go up and have a cup of tea with her or give her a hug to make her feel a bit better even for a few minutes.\"\n\nThe Belfast Health Trust said it \"would like to sincerely apologise\" to those affected by the postponement of surgeries.\n\nIt said the decision was taken to reduce the number of ill patients on wards that would be more at risk from the virus than others.\n\n\"This was an incredibly difficult decision to make and we did not take it without considering all the information available to us,\" said the trust.\n\n\"We do not underestimate the anxiety and distress this causes the patients and families affected and we deeply regret this.\n\nIt said it would do \"everything in our power\" to reschedule their operations \"as soon as possible\".", "The company offered to pay surgeries a £5,000 charitable donation \"or to the staff member directly\" in emails\n\nThe Hacking Trust's medical division approached surgeries in Bristol and Worthing offering to pay the money to charity \"or the staff member directly\".\n\nRobyn Clark, from the Institute of General Practice Management, said it was \"just appalling\".\n\nThe company, based in London, has apologised, saying its \"good intentions\" were \"misinterpreted\".\n\nNHS England said people \"will rightly take a dim view of anyone who tries to jump the queue\".\n\n\"The NHS is free at the point of access for everyone who needs it,\" said Mrs Clark.\n\n\"What we felt this company was trying to do was jump the queue.\"\n\nThe Bristol-based manager said she worried it could \"create more health inequality\".\n\nShe said: \"The JCVI [Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation] is trying to prioritise the vaccine based on the vulnerability to Covid.\"\n\nThe e-mail sent to the GP surgery in Worthing said The Hacking Trust was aware that \"many appointments\" for vaccinations are not kept, and that it would be interested in being informed of \"any no-shows\".\n\nA donation of £5,000 would be paid to a staff member or given to charity for each dose it could secure, the e-mail said.\n\nIn a statement, the Battersea-based company said it \"offered charitable donations to staff or surgeries in this difficult time for any vaccines which were unused\".\n\nIt added: \"We had heard that some vaccines were being unused due to missed appointments. We would apologise that our good intentions have been misinterpreted.\"\n\nNHS England said it knew \"these particular emails were received across the country\".\n\nDr Nikki Kanani, GP and NHS medical director for primary care, said hundreds of NHS teams across the country were \"working hard to deliver vaccines quickly to those who would benefit most\".\n\n\"NHS staff will never ask for, or accept, cash for vaccines,\" she said.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said vaccinations were available from the NHS \"for free\" and \"cannot be sold privately in the UK\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Online supermarket Ocado has become the first big retailer to warn of shortages of some products.\n\nIt told customers in an email that there may be \"an increase of missing items and substitutions over the next few weeks\".\n\nStaff sickness and self-isolation means some food producers are cutting the number of product lines they offer.\n\nWhile customers might not get their exact product choice, plenty of food should be available, Ocado said.\n\n\"Staff absences across the supply chain may lead to an increase in product substitutions for a small number of customers as some suppliers consolidate their offering to maintain output,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nThe news comes after a rush of online food orders for supermarkets, as shoppers try to stay at home after the new lockdown started.\n\nWithin a couple of hours of Prime Minister Boris Johnson's speech to the nation on Monday, shoppers reported problems with Sainsbury's and Tesco, while Ocado customers were placed in a virtual queue.\n\nOcado told its customers that from Friday \"changes to the UK supply chain have affected some of our suppliers and may result in an increase of missing items and substitutions over the next few weeks.\"\n\nIt added: \"We apologise for any inconvenience caused and we are working hard to mitigate any impact.\"\n\nFood suppliers are grappling with staffing problems, hospitality clients who have closed their doors and delays at the border with the EU.\n\nWholesalers the BBC spoke to this week said they faced throwing away thousands of pounds worth of food because of cancelled orders following new restrictions.\n\nThe UK meat industry has called for the early vaccination of its workers to keep food supplies running smoothly during the coronavirus crisis.\n\nIt warned earlier this week that absences during the pandemic, coupled with disruption at ports, could hit food supply chains.\n\nAn early vaccination call for supermarket staff was also made by the boss of Sainsbury's on Thursday.\n\nThe government said the food industry remains \"well-prepared\" to make sure people have the food they need.\n\nThe British Meat Processors Association (BMPA) said coronavirus and disruption at ports due to new systems brought in after the Brexit transition period were \"a severe challenge to the industry and to the smooth running of the nation's food supply chain\".", "Home Secretary Priti Patel has said officers \"will not hesitate\" to enforce lockdown rules as she defended the way police have handled breaches.\n\nShe said rising numbers of coronavirus cases and deaths illustrated the need for \"strong enforcement\".\n\nIt comes after the National Police Chiefs' Council published guidance saying officers should issue fines more quickly when rules are broken.\n\nMore than 30,000 fines have been handed out by forces in England and Wales.\n\nNPCC figures show 32,329 fixed penalty notices were issued between 27 March and 21 December last year.\n\nThe number of people who have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test surpassed 80,000 on Saturday, and a further 59,937 people tested positive.\n\nMinisters have launched a new campaign urging people to act like they have the virus and scientists have warned that lockdown measures in England need to be stricter.\n\n\"The vast majority of the public have supported this huge national effort and followed the rules,\" Ms Patel said.\n\n\"But the tragic number of new cases and deaths this week shows there is still a need for strong enforcement where people are clearly breaking these rules to ensure we safeguard our country's recovery from this deadly virus.\n\n\"Enforcing these rules saves lives. It is as simple as that. Officers will continue to engage with the public across the country and will not hesitate to take action when necessary.\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock has warned the public to follow the lockdown restrictions, telling the BBC's Andrew Marr programme that \"every time you try to flex the rules, that could be fatal\".\n\nBut Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer criticised the government for not providing \"absolute clarity of messaging\", telling the BBC's Andrew Marr that there had been \"mixed messaging over the last nine months\".\n\nNPCC guidance, published on 6 January, says officers should still offer people \"encouragement\" to comply with the regulations and explain any changes.\n\n\"However, if the individual or group does not respond appropriately, then enforcement can follow without repeated attempts to encourage people to comply with the law,\" the NPCC said.\n\nOn Saturday 12 people were arrested during an anti-lockdown protest in south London.\n\nElsewhere, North Wales Police turned away more than 100 cars at Moel Famau in Flintshire by Saturday lunchtime, and Norfolk Police fined one couple who had travelled about 130 miles (209km) to see a seal colony.\n\nHowever, Derbyshire Police has launched an urgent review into how fines were issued after two women were charged £200 each.\n\nThe pair were stopped by officers for walking five miles from their home with hot drinks, which they were told were not allowed as they were \"classed as a picnic\".\n\nJohn Apter, chair of the Police Federation of England and Wales, said officers were under \"immense pressure to do the right thing\" and said with \"such a changing landscape politically and legally\" there were going to be things which did not go right.\n\nHe said the police had to balance the relationship with the public.\n\n\"It's not easy because all we are trying to do in policing is keep as many people safe as possible,\" he said.", "The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh have received Covid-19 vaccinations, Buckingham Palace has said.\n\nA royal source said the vaccinations were administered on Saturday by a household doctor at Windsor Castle.\n\nThe source added the Queen decided to let it be known she had the vaccination to prevent further speculation.\n\nThe Queen, 94, and Prince Philip, 99, are among around 1.5 million people in the UK to have had at least one dose of a Covid vaccine so far.\n\nPeople aged over 80 in the UK are among the high-priority groups who are being given the vaccine first.\n\nThe couple have been spending the lockdown in England at their Windsor Castle home after deciding to have a quiet Christmas at their Berkshire residence, instead of the traditional royal family gathering at Sandringham.\n\nLast month, the Queen appeared alongside several other senior members of the royal family for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic began.\n\nIn 2020 she went seven months - between March and October - without carrying out public engagements outside of a royal residence.\n\nDuring that time, her eldest child, Prince Charles, 72, contracted coronavirus and displayed mild symptoms.\n\nPalace sources also told the BBC that her grandson Prince William tested positive in April - although Kensington Palace refused to comment officially.\n\nThe Queen made a private pilgrimage to the grave of the Unknown Warrior in Westminster Abbey in November\n\nThe Queen used her Christmas Day message to reassure anyone struggling without friends and family this year that they \"are not alone\".\n\nShe said the pandemic had \"brought us closer\" despite causing hardship, adding that the Royal Family has been \"inspired\" by people volunteering in their communities.\n\nOn Friday a third coronavirus vaccine - made by US company Moderna - was approved for use in the UK, joining the Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines already approved by UK regulators.\n\nIt is not known which vaccine the Queen and Prince Philip have received.\n\nAll the approved vaccines require two doses to provide the best possible protection, with the second dose being given up to 12 weeks after the first.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has said the aim is to vaccinate 15 million people in the UK by mid-February, including care home residents and staff, frontline NHS staff, everyone over 70 and those who have been categorised as clinically extremely vulnerable.", "Bans imposed by Twitter, Facebook and Instagram on Donald Trump's accounts raise a \"very big question\" about how social media is regulated, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said.\n\nThe companies acted after supporters of the US president stormed Washington DC's Capitol building on Wednesday.\n\nMr Hancock said the bans showed they were now \"taking editorial decisions\".\n\nCampaigners want social media to be treated as \"publishers\", rather than \"platforms\", meaning more regulation.\n\nBut opponents of the idea argue that it could allow governments to limit debate.\n\nMr Trump faces an impeachment charge, with Democrats accusing the Republican president of encouraging the Washington riots, in which five people died.\n\nTwitter permanently suspended his @realDonaldTrump account on Saturday, citing the \"risk of further incitement of violence\".\n\nBut Mr Trump called this an attack on free speech and suggested he would look at \"building out our own platform in the future\".\n\nThere has been a long-running debate over whether social media companies should be treated in law as \"publishers\", with greater responsibility for dealing with libellous, discriminatory, misleading or incendiary content posted by users.\n\nMr Hancock, a former culture secretary, told BBC One's Andrew Marr Show: \"The scenes, clearly encouraged by President Trump - the scenes at the Capitol - were terrible - and I was very sad to see that because American democracy is such a proud thing.\n\n\"But there's something else that has changed, which is that social media platforms are making editorial decisions now. That's clear because they're choosing who should and shouldn't have a voice on their platform.\"\n\nMr Hancock said that development was likely to have \"consequences\".\n\nAsked earlier about Twitter's decision to ban Mr Trump's account, he told Sky News: \"I think it raises a very important question, which is it means that the social media platforms are taking editorial decisions.\n\n\"And that is a very big question because then it raises questions about their editorial judgements and the way that they're regulated.\"\n\nTwitter's ban on Mr Trump's account followed the increasing use of warning labels on his posts referring to the coronavirus pandemic and the result of the US presidential election.\n\nIn a blog on Friday, the company said its public interest framework existed \"to enable the public to hear from elected officials and world leaders directly\".\n\nIt added: \"However, we made it clear going back years that these accounts are not above our rules and cannot use Twitter to incite violence. We will continue to be transparent around our policies and their enforcement.\"\n\nFacebook and Instagram banned Mr Trump \"indefinitely\" on Thursday, with Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg saying this sanction would not be lifted until at least 20 January, when Joe Biden is sworn in as the new US president.", "\"Absurd\" council tax rises should be scrapped to ease the pressure on family budgets, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has said.\n\nLocal authorities in England will be able to raise council tax by 5% from April, with 3% used to top up adult social care budgets.\n\nSir Keir said this meant those living in a band D property could see bills rise by an average of £90.\n\nHe added that the prime minister should provide extra funding to councils.\n\nBut the government says the rise in council tax bills, plus extra money from central government, will ensure a real-terms increase in support for local services.\n\nSir Keir wrote in the Sunday Telegraph: \"It is absurd that during the deepest recession in 300 years, at the very time millions are worried about the future of their jobs and how they will make ends meet, Boris Johnson and [Chancellor] Rishi Sunak are forcing local government to hike up council tax.\n\n\"The prime minister said he would do 'whatever is necessary' to support local authorities in providing vital services - he needs to make good on that promise.\"\n\nSir Keir urged Mr Johnson to \"give families the security they need\" by dropping the tax increase.\n\nHe said families had been treated as an \"afterthought\" by the government during the pandemic, adding that Labour would become the \"party of the family\" under his leadership.\n\nA Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government spokesperson said: \"Council tax plays an important role in helping fund the frontline services needed to respond to the pandemic.\n\n\"Our approach strikes a balance between allowing local authorities to address service pressures and ensuring local residents have the final say on excessive increases.\"\n\nA £500m fund to support people struggling with finances meant councils could \"cut bills further for some of the most vulnerable households\", they added, while a £7.2bn support package would help meet \"the major Covid-19 service pressures in their local area\".\n\nThe chancellor's Spending Review in November set out the cost to the UK economy so far of dealing with the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMr Sunak warned the \"economic emergency\" caused by the pandemic had only begun, with lasting damage to growth and jobs.\n\nInterviewed on BBC One's Andrew Marr Show, Sir Keir said there was no scope for a \"major renegotiation\" of the UK's post-Brexit trade deal with the EU, but added that there were \"bits already that need to be improved on\".\n\nAnd, asked about the possibility of another Scottish referendum on independence from the UK, he said that a \"further, divisive\" vote was not \"the way forward\".\n\n\"But I do accept that the status quo isn't working\", Sir Keir added. \"I don't accept the argument that the status quo isn't working, the next thing you do is go to a referendum.\"\n\nThe prime minister has said such a vote - last held in 2014 - should be a \"once-in-a-generation\" event.\n\nBut Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said a referendum should take place.", "Dorset Police said officers dispersed dozens of demonstrators from the town centre as they attempted to march\n\nA video shared online apparently showing a woman being arrested in breach of lockdown for sitting on a bench was \"stage-managed\", police said.\n\nDorset Police believe the video was planned and recorded by anti-lockdown protesters during a demonstration in Bournemouth on Saturday.\n\nThree people were arrested for not giving their details so officers could issue fines for breaking Covid rules.\n\nThe BBC has asked one of the protesters who posted the video to comment.\n\nThe force said two of those held were later de-arrested when they confirmed their details in police custody and a third was released when his details were verified - all three were then issued fixed penalty notices.\n\nOfficers also issued at least seven other fines and 10 dispersal notices.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Mark Callaghan, from Dorset Police, said: \"We believe this video was planned, stage-managed and recorded by members of the protest group who turned up in multiple areas, several of whom refused to engage or provide their details.\n\n\"If people refuse to give their details in such circumstances then it leaves officers with little option, but to arrest until the details are established. Our officers would only arrest as a last resort.\n\n\"It was clear that the group was deliberately organising their activities, walking around in twos and then trying to come together in a 'flash mob'-style approach, as they have done previously. This activity went on for a couple of hours.\"\n\nThe force's chief constable James Vaughan earlier said: \"I condemn the actions of these selfish individuals who knowingly flouted the lockdown restrictions.\"\n\nThe force said there were \"repeated attempts\" to engage with the organisers to stop the planned protest and found a number of the protesters had \"travelled considerably\" from out of the Dorset area.\n\nMr Vaughan added: \"Our county is gripped with infections and yet these irresponsible individuals have ignored what is being asked of them and have left their homes to protest. Shame on them.\"\n\nSam Crowe, director of public health for Dorset, said its hospital services were \"close to being overwhelmed\".\n\nMr Crowe said: \"Infection rates locally have been doubling in less than a week. If this carries on, our hospitals will not be able to cope with caring for those needing life-saving treatment. Stay at home means exactly that.\"\n\nLatest figures show Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole has reached 745.2 cases per 100,000 people.\n\nAlso on Saturday, 16 people were also arrested during an anti-lockdown protest in south London.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Eleanor Wadsworth was a civilian pilot with the Air Transport Auxiliary\n\nOne of the last surviving \"Spitfire Women\", who ferried aircraft to the front line in World War Two, has died.\n\nEleanor Wadsworth, who was 103, was part of the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA), a civilian service that transported fighter aircraft and crew.\n\nThe ATA Association said she was among 165 women who flew without radios or instrument flying instructions.\n\nMrs Wadsworth, who lived in Bury St Edmunds, died in December after a month of illness.\n\nDuring the war, about 1,250 men and women from 25 countries transferred some 309,000 aircraft of 147 different types.\n\nMrs Wadsworth said the \"thought of learning to fly for free was a great incentive\" to join the ATA\n\nMrs Wadsworth, who was born in Nottingham, joined the ATA in 1943 after seeing an advertisement for female pilots and was one of the first six successful candidates to be accepted with no or little previous flying experience, historian Sally McGlone said.\n\nIn 2020, the former pilot told her housing association's in-house magazine that she had been \"looking for a new challenge\" when she joined the service.\n\n\"The thought of learning to fly for free was a great incentive [so] I put my name down and didn't think much about it,\" she said.\n\nShe added that she had enjoyed flying Spitfires the most, which she did 132 times.\n\n\"It was a beautiful aircraft, great to handle,\" she said.\n\nTributes have been paid to her bravery on social including one from former RAF Tornado navigator and Gulf prisoner of war John Nichol.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMs McGlone said Mrs Wadsworth and her fellow ATA pilots \"will remain an inspiration to women worldwide\", while fellow historian Howard Cook said she and her fellow \"Spitfire Women\" had been \"incredibly brave\".\n\nAuthor Karen Borden, who interviewed Mrs Wadsworth for an upcoming book, added that \"like many of the women pilots, she was incredibly humble about her contribution to the war effort\".\n\n\"She joked about how flying 'straight and level' was her mark... and how marvellous it was to take to the air on her own.\"\n\nEleanor Wadsworth (bottom row, far left) joined the ATA in 1943\n\nHer son Robert said she had been \"a wonderful mother, an adoring grandmother and great-grandmother\", who had been \"matter of fact\" about her wartime service.\n\nHe said she would say that \"we had a job to do [and] we just got on and did it\".\n\nHer funeral will take place on Tuesday.\n\nMrs Wadsworth had been one of three surviving female ATA pilots, alongside American Nancy Stratford and Briton Jaye Edwards, who lives in Canada.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Asymptomatic testing for Covid can help \"break the chains of transmission\", Matt Hancock says\n\nRegular rapid testing for people without coronavirus symptoms will be made available across England this week, the government has said.\n\nThe community testing regime - expanded to cover all 317 local authorities - uses rapid lateral flow tests, which can return results in 30 minutes.\n\nLocal councils are being encouraged to prioritise tests for those who cannot work from home during the lockdown.\n\nThe health secretary said asymptomatic testing can help break transmission.\n\nMeanwhile, NHS England has invited tens of thousands of people over 80 to book vaccinations.\n\nA further 563 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test and another 54,940 cases reported, according to government figures on Sunday.\n\nThe total number of deaths in the UK after a positive test passed 80,000 on Saturday.\n\nThe government has launched a campaign telling people to act like they have got the virus in a bid to tackle the rise in infections.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and can go out only for limited reasons such as food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said expanding the Community Testing Programme to more people without symptoms was \"crucial given that around one in three people\" who contract Covid-19 show no symptoms.\n\nIt said regular community testing using the rapid tests had already identified more than 14,800 positive Covid-19 cases.\n\nSo far, 131 local authorities in England have enrolled in the government's community testing programme, with Milton Keynes, Slough, Doncaster and Essex the latest to join.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said targeted asymptomatic testing and subsequent isolation was \"highly effective in breaking chains of transmission\".\n\nBut Angela Raffle, a consultant in public health at the University of Bristol Medical School, said increasing lateral flow testing was \"very worrying\" and warned the benefits of finding symptomless cases \"will be outweighed by the many more infectious cases that are missed by these tests\".\n\nDefending lateral flow tests on the BBC's Andrew Marr programme Mr Hancock said mass asymptomatic testing in Liverpool had seen the case rate drop \"more sharply than it did in other similar areas where only restrictions were brought in\".\n\nNHS Test and Trace will also work closely with other government departments to scale up workforce testing, the Department of Health and Social Care said.\n\nMany are already piloting regular workforce testing, with 15 large employers having taken up this offer already across 64 sites, \"including organisations operating in the food, manufacturing, energy and retail sectors, and within the public sector including job centres, transport networks and the military\".\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said plans were already in place for rapid testing of staff and students in schools and colleges and staff in primary schools.\n\nAsked when schools could reopen by the BBC's Andrew Marr, Mr Hancock said there were four conditions: that there is not a major new variant, the vaccine rollout is proceeding effectively, the number of deaths is falling and there is an easing of pressure on the NHS.\n\nMatthew Fell, of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), which represents 190,000 UK businesses, said: \"This expansion of testing will help more critical workers and those unable to work from home to operate safely, while also catching new cases more swiftly.\"\n\nBusiness Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng said the safety of the workforce had been an \"absolute priority\" and said the expansion of testing means \"we can keep our economy on the move while giving individuals in key sectors complete confidence that their workplace is safe\".\n\nBut Prof Susan Michie, professor of health psychology at University College London, told BBC Breakfast the country would continue a \"yo-yoing of lockdown\" without a \"test, trace and isolate system that actually works\" and warned there needed to be tighter restrictions and tougher messaging than in March to prevent \"tens of thousands of avoidable deaths in the next few weeks\".", "Bernard Thomas was interviewed by BBC Wales at the time of the 50th anniversary of the Aberfan disaster\n\nA survivor of the Aberfan disaster has died after contracting Covid-19.\n\nAs a nine-year-old Bernard Thomas was rescued from the rubble of Pantglas primary school after one of the biggest tragedies in Welsh history.\n\nA total of 144 people were killed in the disaster on 21 October, 1966, after thousands of tonnes of coal slurry slid from a tip. Of those 116 were primary school pupils.\n\nLater Bernard was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress.\n\nHe told S4C he \"still heard the sounds of children screaming.\"\n\nPaying tribute to Mr Thomas, 63, who died on Wednesday, his brother Andrew told BBC's Newyddion: \"Bernard was a real character and his death has come as a shock to us as a family and the community of Aberfan.\"\n\n\"We can't be sure where he caught Covid, but he had an eye appointment at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital on 21 December.\n\n\"A few days later, he became ill and at Prince Charles Hospital, he tested positive for Covid-19.\"\n\n\"Although he had been receiving oxygen through a mask, we spoke regularly on the phone and he told us he was getting better.\n\n\"But on Wednesday morning he removed his mask to eat his breakfast, and 10 minutes after eating he faded away.\"\n\n\"It's a huge shock but I don't blame anybody.\"\n\nOn the 50th anniversary of the disaster Bernard told the BBC: \"I still wonder what the others would have been doing if it hadn't happened. Who would have got married to who, you know.\"\n\nBernard is survived by his 90-year-old mother Gwen, with whom he shared a home, and brothers Andrew and Robert.", "Coronavirus does not show much sign of \"abating\" in Scotland, says the deputy first minister as he refused to rule out tougher restrictions.\n\nScotland is facing \"a very alarming situation\" with the virus, according to John Swinney, whose comments come as the country records its highest death toll so far in the pandemic in the last two days, where 93 Scots died from the virus.\n\nSwinney tells Politics Scotland: \"I don't think I'm revealing a state secret when I say that the debate within cabinet [on Monday] was not whether we were going too far but whether we were going far enough.\"\n\nMr Swinney says Scotland recorded around 130 cases per 100,000 people on Boxing Day, but the figure shot up to 300 just 10 days later.\n\nDespite the new measures put in place, Mr Swinney said: \"It doesn't show much sign of abating to any extent.\n\n\"We're seeing case numbers which are hovering around 2,000 per day... so we've got an accelerating situation on our hands and we have to constantly review whether more restrictions are required.\"\n\nHe added: \"We remain open to considering further restrictions if they are necessary.\"", "Flexing the coronavirus lockdown rules could be fatal, the health secretary has warned as hospital admissions soar.\n\nMatt Hancock did not rule out strengthening current restrictions and told the BBC's Andrew Marr the NHS was under \"very serious pressure\".\n\nIt comes after almost 55,000 new cases of coronavirus were reported in the UK and the number of deaths after a positive test passed 80,000.\n\nScientist Prof Peter Horby warned the UK was in \"the eye of the storm\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the rules were tough but \"may not be tough enough\" and called for the government to hold daily press conferences to avoid \"mixed messages\".\n\nThe UK recorded another 563 deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test on Sunday, down from 1,065 deaths on Saturday.\n\nHowever, there tends to be fewer deaths reported on Sundays, due to a reporting lag over the weekend. There were also a further 54,940 daily cases.\n\nMr Hancock told Andrew Marr \"every time you try to flex the rules that could be fatal\" and said staying at home was the \"most important thing we can do collectively as a society\".\n\nThe health secretary said he did not want to speculate on whether the government would further strengthen restrictions, after warnings from scientists on Saturday that they may need to be stricter.\n\n\"People need to not just follow the letter of the rules but follow the spirit as well and play their part,\" he said.\n\nHis comments came after Home Secretary Priti Patel defended police over enforcing lockdown rules following the case of two women who were fined for going for a walk five miles from their homes - a decision which is now under review.\n\nThe government has launched a campaign telling people to act like they have got the virus in a bid to tackle the rise in infections.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and can go out only for limited reasons such as food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nEngland's chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty said that if the virus continued on its current trajectory \"many hospitals will be in real difficulties, and very soon\".\n\nIn a statement released on Sunday, he said that unless people started to follow the rules more strictly, emergency patients will have to be turned away from hospitals, causing \"avoidable deaths\".\n\nProf Horby, chairman of the New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag), said there may be \"early signs that something is beginning to bite\" due to the restrictions - but if they did not then stricter measures would be needed.\n\nHe told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show: \"I really hope people take this very seriously. It was bad in March, it's much worse now.\n\n\"We've seen record numbers across the board, record numbers of cases, record numbers of hospitalisations, record numbers of deaths.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Professor Peter Horby explains why the new Covid-19 variant is up to 70% more transmissible\n\nProf Horby said tougher measures might include those during the March lockdown, such as people only being able to exercise once a day and stricter rules about meeting people.\n\n\"We are in a situation where everything that was risky in the past is now more risky,\" he said.\n\nProf Horby said early signs were encouraging that the vaccines would be effective against the new Covid variants - first identified in the UK and in South Africa - and he did not want people to \"hide under the duvet\".\n\n\"We can see the end game now,\" he said.\n\nHigher cases inevitably mean more hospitalisations and more deaths.\n\nThe most recent figures show that, on average, 894 people per day are now dying within 28 days of a positive Covid test, up from 438 at the start of December.\n\nThe spike in cases since Christmas means that figure is almost certain to get worse before the most recent lockdown measures can start to have any effect.\n\nScientists think the new variant of the disease is more \"transmissible\", possibly because each infected individual produces more of the actual virus - sometimes referred to as the viral load.\n\nVaccination should help to protect the most vulnerable from serious symptoms but we don't yet know if receiving the jab stops an individual contracting the virus and passing it on to others.\n\nScientists say that may mean even tougher restrictions will be needed to bring the R-number below one and start to reduce the overall size of the pandemic.\n\nMass community testing is to be rolled out this week, the government has said, and the health secretary said around two million people had been vaccinated in the UK, with some 200,000 jabs being given in England daily.\n\nMr Hancock said by autumn every adult in the UK would be offered a vaccine.\n\nHe said the government was on course to reach its target of 15 million people vaccinated by mid-February, with the opening of seven mass vaccination centres this week likely to increase the rate of jabs.\n\nMr Hancock told Sky News' Sophy Ridge he hoped coronavirus could be treated like seasonal flu with an annual vaccination programme in the future.\n\nProf Horby said the vaccines may have to be updated \"every few years\" as the virus mutates and said it was unlikely the virus would go away completely.\n\n\"We're going to have to live with it,\" he said. \"But that may change significantly.\n\n\"It may well become more of an endemic virus that's with us all the time and may cause some seasonal pressures and some excess deaths but is not causing the huge disruption that we're seeing now.\"", "Electricity is gradually being restored in Pakistan following a huge power cut across the country, which led to every city reporting outages.\n\nHomes nationwide were suddenly plunged into darkness from about midnight.\n\nPower is now back in most cities but officials warn that it could still be a few hours before electricity is fully restored.\n\nThe outage is believed to have been caused by a fault at a power plant in the south of the country.\n\nPower cuts are not uncommon in Pakistan. Essential facilities such as hospitals often use diesel-fuelled generators as a back-up power supply.\n\n\"A countrywide blackout has been caused by a sudden plunge in the frequency in the power transmission system,\" Pakistan's power minister, Omar Ayub Khan, wrote on Twitter in the early hours of Sunday.\n\nHomes across the country were plunged into darkness at about midnight\n\nMr Khan later said that power had been restored in most major cities but that it would take a few more hours for the grid to go completely back to normal.\n\nHe added that the outage occurred after a fault developed at the Guddu power plant in Sindh province shortly before midnight on Saturday (19:00 GMT).\n\nInvestigators were at the site to ascertain the cause of the fault, Mr Khan said.\n\nBlackouts sometimes occur in Pakistan because of chronic power shortages, with many areas having no electricity for several hours a day. The issue has previously led to street protests.\n\nIn 2013, Pakistan's electricity network broke down completely after a power plant in south-western Balochistan province developed a technical fault.\n\nPakistanis seem to have largely taken this power cut in their stride. Outages lasting a number of hours are not uncommon, though they are rarely on this scale, and normally occur during the hotter summer months. The last time there was a near national blackout like this was in 2015.\n\nSo far, there have been no reports of problems at hospitals, which have their own back-up supplies. A senior member of staff at a major hospital in the city of Karachi told me they could maintain services for 48-72 hours without mainline power.\n\nMany businesses and richer families invariably own diesel or petrol fuelled generators too, allowing them to continue using electricity whenever power cuts occur. There were reports of queues at some petrol stations earlier in the day as people tried to keep refilling their generators.\n\nOthers will have been without internet and phone access, or hot water, but - already used to periods without electricity - appear to have accepted the outage with an air of resignation.", "Many were taken by surprise by the events in Washington, but to those who closely follow conspiracy and extreme right groups online, the warning signs were all there.\n\nAt 02:21 Eastern Standard Time on election night, President Trump walked onto a stage set up in the East Room of the White House and declared victory.\n\n\"We were getting ready to win this election. Frankly, we did win this election.\"\n\nHis speech came an hour after he'd tweeted: \"They are trying to steal the election\".\n\nHe hadn't won. There was no victory to steal. But to many of his most fervent supporters, these facts didn't matter, and still don't.\n\nSixty five days later, a motley coalition of rioters stormed the US Capitol building. They included believers in the QAnon conspiracy theory, members of \"Stop the Steal\" groups, far-right activists, online trolls and others.\n\nOn Friday 8 January - some 48 hours after the Washington riots - Twitter began a purge of some of the most influential pro-Trump accounts that had been pushing conspiracies and urging direct action to overturn the election result.\n\nThen came the big one - Mr Trump himself.\n\nThe president was permanently banned from tweeting to his more than 88 million followers \"due to the risk of further incitement of violence\".\n\nThe violence in Washington shocked the world and seemed to catch the authorities off guard.\n\nBut for anyone who had been carefully watching the unfolding story - online and on the streets of American cities - it came as no surprise.\n\nThe idea of a rigged election was seeded by the president in speeches and on Twitter, months before the vote.\n\nOn election day, the rumors started just as Americans were going to the polls.\n\nA video of a Republican poll watcher being denied entry to a Philadelphia polling station went viral. It was a genuine error, caused by confusion about the rules. The man was later allowed into the station to observe the count.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Will Chamberlain This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by Will Chamberlain\n\nBut it became the first of many videos, images, graphics and claims that went viral in the days that followed, giving rise to a hashtag: #StopTheSteal.\n\nThe message behind it was clear - Mr Trump had won a landslide victory, but dark forces in the establishment \"deep state\" had stolen it from him.\n\nIn the early hours of Wednesday 4 November, while votes were still being counted and three days before the US networks called the election for Joe Biden, President Trump claimed victory, alleging \"a fraud on the American public\".\n\nMr Trump did not provide any evidence to back up his claims. Studies carried out for previous US elections have shown that voter fraud is extremely rare.\n\nBy mid-afternoon a Facebook group called \"Stop the Steal\" was created and quickly became one of the fastest-growing in the platform's history. By Thursday morning, it had added more than 300,000 members.\n\nMany of the posts focused on unsubstantiated allegations of mass voter fraud, including manufactured claims that thousands of dead people had voted and that voting machines had somehow been programmed to flip votes from Mr Trump to Mr Biden.\n\nBut some of the posts were more alarming, speaking of the need for a \"civil war\" or \"revolution\".\n\nBy Thursday afternoon, Facebook had taken down Stop the Steal, but not before it had generated nearly half a million comments, shares, likes, and reactions.\n\nDozens of other groups quickly sprang up in its place.\n\nThe idea of a stolen election continued to spread online and take hold. Soon, a dedicated Stop the Steal website was launched in a bid to register \"boots on the ground to protect the integrity of the vote\".\n\nOn Saturday 7 November, major news organisations declared that Joe Biden had won the election. In Democratic strongholds, throngs of people took to the streets to celebrate. But the reaction online from Mr Trump's most ardent supporters was one of anger and defiance.\n\nThey planned a rally in Washington DC for the following Saturday, dubbed the Million MAGA (Make America Great Again) March.\n\nTrump tweeted that he might try to stop by the demonstration and \"say hello\".\n\nPrevious pro-Trump rallies in Washington had failed to attract large crowds. But thousands gathered at Freedom Plaza that sunny morning.\n\nOne extremism researcher called it the \"debut of the pro-Trump insurgency\".\n\nAs Trump's motorcade drove through the city, supporters screaming with delight rushed to catch a glimpse of the president, who beamed at them wearing a red MAGA hat.\n\nWhile mainstream conservative figures were present, the event was dominated by far-right groups.\n\nDozens of members of the far-right, anti-immigrant, all-male group Proud Boys, who have repeatedly been involved in violent street protests and were among those who would later break into the US Capitol, joined the march. Militia groups, far-right media figures and promoters of conspiracy theories were also there.\n\nAs night fell, clashes between Trump supporters and counter-protesters broke out, including a brawl about five blocks from the White House.\n\nThe violence - although largely contained by police on this occasion - was a clear sign of things to come.\n\nBy now, President Trump and his legal team had invested their hopes in dozens of legal cases.\n\nAlthough a number of courts had already dismissed fraud allegations, many in the pro-Trump online world became fascinated with two lawyers with close ties to the president - Sidney Powell and L Lin Wood.\n\nMs Powell and Mr Wood promised they were preparing cases of voter fraud so comprehensive that when released, they would destroy the case for Mr Biden having won the presidency.\n\nMs Powell, 65, a conservative activist and former federal prosecutor, told Fox News that the effort would \"release the Kraken\" - a reference to a gigantic sea monster from Scandinavian folklore that rises up from the ocean to devour its enemies.\n\nThe \"Kraken\" quickly became an internet meme, representing sprawling, unsubstantiated claims of widespread election fraud.\n\nMs Powell and Mr Wood became heroes to followers of the QAnon conspiracy theory - who believe President Trump and a secret military intelligence team are battling a deep state made up of Satan-worshipping paedophiles in the Democratic Party, media, business and Hollywood.\n\nThe lawyers became a conduit between the president and his most conspiracy-minded supporters - a number of whom ended up inside the Capitol on 6 January.\n\nMs Powell and Mr Wood were successful in whipping up sound and fury online, but their legal efforts came to nothing.\n\nWhen they released almost 200 pages of documents in late November, it became clear that their lawsuit consisted predominantly of conspiracy theories and debunked allegations that had already been rejected by dozens of courts.\n\nThe filings contained simple legal errors - and basic misspellings and typos.\n\nStill, the meme lived on. The terms \"Kraken\" and \"Release the Kraken\" were used more than a million times on Twitter before the Capitol riot.\n\nDeath threats were made against a Georgia election worker, and Republican officials in the state - including Governor Brian Kemp, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and the official in charge of the state's voting systems, Gabriel Sterling - were branded \"traitors\" online.\n\nMr Sterling issued an emotional and prescient warning to the president in a press conference on 1 December.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"This has to stop... someone's gonna get killed\": Mr Sterling calls on President Trump to condemn the threats\n\n\"Someone's going to get hurt, someone's going to get shot, someone's going to get killed, and it's not right,\" he said.\n\nIn Michigan in early December, Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, a Democrat, had just finished trimming her Christmas tree with her four-year-old son when she heard a commotion outside her Detroit home.\n\nAbout 30 protesters with banners stood outside, shouting \"Stop the steal!\" through megaphones.\n\n\"Benson, you are a villain,\" one person yelled.\n\nOne of the demonstrators live-streamed the protest on Facebook, stating that her group was \"not going away\".\n\nIt was just one of a rash of protests targeting people involved in the vote.\n\nIn Georgia, a constant stream of Trump supporters drove past Mr Raffensperger's home, honking their horns. His wife received threats of sexual violence.\n\nIn Arizona, demonstrators gathered outside of the home of Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, a Democrat, at one point warning: \"We are watching you.\"\n\nOn 11 December, the Supreme Court rejected an attempt by the state of Texas to throw out election results.\n\nAs the president's legal and political windows continued to close, the language in pro-Trump online circles became increasingly violent.\n\nOn 12 December, a second Stop the Steal rally was held in the capital. Once again, thousands attended, and once again prominent far-right activists, QAnon supporters, fringe MAGA groups and militia movements were among the demonstrators.\n\nMichael Flynn, Mr Trump's former national security advisor, likened the protesters to the biblical soldiers and priests breaching the walls of Jericho. This echoed the rally organisers' call for \"Jericho Marches\" to overturn the election result.\n\nNick Fuentes, the leader of Groypers, a far-right movement that targets Republican politicians and figures they deem too moderate, told the crowd: \"We are going to destroy the GOP!\"\n\nThe march once again turned violent.\n\nThen two days later, the Electoral College certified Mr Biden's victory, one of the final steps required for him to take office.\n\nOn online platforms, supporters were becoming resigned to the view that all legal avenues were dead ends, and only direct action could save the Trump presidency.\n\nSince election day, alongside Mr Flynn, Ms Powell and Mr Wood, a new figure had rapidly gained prominence among pro-Trump circles online.\n\nRon Watkins is the son of Jim Watkins, the man behind 8chan and 8kun - message boards filled with extreme language and views, violence and extreme sexual content. They gave rise to the QAnon movement.\n\nIn a series of viral tweets on 17 December, Ron Watkins suggested President Trump should follow the example of Roman leader Julius Caesar, and capitalise on \"fierce loyalty of the military\" in order to \"restore the Republic\".\n\nRon Watkins encouraged his more than 500,000 followers to make #CrossTheRubicon a Twitter trend, referring to the moment when Caesar launched a civil war by crossing the Rubicon river in 49BC. The hashtag was also used by more mainstream figures - including the chairwoman of Arizona Republican Party, Kelli Ward.\n\nIn a separate tweet, Ron Watkins said Mr Trump must invoke the Insurrection Act, which empowers the president to deploy the military and federal forces.\n\nMr Trump met Ms Powell, Mr Flynn and others at a strategy meeting at the White House the following day, 18 December.\n\nDuring the meeting, according to the New York Times, Mr Flynn called on Mr Trump to impose martial law and deploy the military to \"rerun\" the election.\n\nThe meeting further stoked online chatter about \"war\" and \"revolution\" in far-right circles. Many came to see the joint session of Congress on 6 January, normally a formality, as a last roll of the dice.\n\nA wishful story began to take hold among QAnon and some MAGA supporters. They hoped that Vice-President Mike Pence, who was set to preside over the 6 January ceremony, would ignore the electoral college votes.\n\nThe president, they said, would then deploy the military to quell any unrest, order the mass arrest of the \"deep state cabal\" who had rigged the election and send them to Guantanamo Bay military prison.\n\nBack in the land of reality, none of this was remotely feasible. But it launched a movement for \"patriot caravans\" to organise ride shares to help transport thousands from around the country to Washington DC on 6 January.\n\nLong processions of vehicles flying Trump flags and sometimes towing elaborately decorated trailers gathered in car parks in cities including Louisville, Kentucky, Atlanta, Georgia, and Scranton, Pennsylvania.\n\n\"We are on our way,\" one caravaner posted on Twitter with a picture of about two dozen supporters.\n\nAt an Ikea parking lot in North Carolina, another man showed off his truck. \"The flags are a little tattered - we'll call them battle flags now,\" he said.\n\nAs it became clear that Mr Pence and other key Republicans would follow the law and allow Congress to certify Mr Biden's win, the language towards them became vicious.\n\n\"Pence will be in jail awaiting trial for treason,\" Mr Wood tweeted. \"He will face execution by firing squad.\"\n\nOnline discussion reached boiling point. References to firearms, war and violence were rife on self-styled \"free speech\" social platforms such as Gab and Parler, which are popular with Trump supporters, as well as on other sites.\n\nIn Proud Boys groups, where members had once supported police, some turned against authorities, whom they deemed to no longer be on their side.\n\nHundreds of posts on a popular pro-Trump site, TheDonald, openly discussed plans to cross barricades, carry firearms and other weapons to the march in defiance of Washington's strict gun laws. There was open chatter about storming the Capitol and arresting \"treasonous\" members of Congress.\n\nOn Wednesday 6 January, Mr Trump addressed a crowd of thousands at the Ellipse, a park just south of the White House, for more than an hour.\n\nEarly on he encouraged supporters to \"peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard\", but he ended with a warning. \"We fight like hell, and if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore.\n\n\"So we're going to, we're going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue… and we're going to the Capitol.\"\n\nTo some observers, the potential for violence that day was clear from the outset.\n\nMichael Chertoff, former secretary of homeland security under President George W Bush, blamed the Capitol Police, who reportedly turned down offers of assistance from the much larger National Guard ahead of time. He characterised it as \"the worst failure of a police force I can think of\".\n\n\"I think it was a very foreseeable potential negative turn of events,\" Mr Chertoff said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"To be blunt, it was obvious. If you read the newspaper and were awake, you understood that you've got a lot of people who have been convinced there was a fraudulent election. Some of them are extremists, and violent. Some of the groups openly said, 'Bring your guns'.\"\n\nStill, many Americans were astonished by Wednesday's scenes, like James Clark, a 68-year-old Republican from Virginia.\n\n\"I find it absolutely shocking. I didn't think it would come to this,\" he told the BBC.\n\nBut the signs were there for weeks. A hodgepodge of extreme and conspiratorial groups were convinced that the election was stolen. Online, they repeatedly talked about arming themselves, and violence.\n\nPerhaps the authorities didn't think their posts were serious, or specific enough to investigate. They now face pointed questions.\n\nFor Joe Biden's inauguration on 20 January, Mr Chertoff is expecting a \"much stronger showing\" by security services than last Wednesday night.\n\nBut that hasn't stopped many on extreme platforms calling for further violence and disruption on the day.\n\nThere are questions, too, for the major social media platforms, which enabled conspiracy theories to reach millions of people.\n\nLate on Friday, Twitter deleted the accounts of Mr Flynn, the former Trump advisor, the \"Kraken\" lawyers Ms Powell and Mr Wood, and Mr Watkins. Then Mr Trump himself.\n\nArrests of those who stormed the Capitol continue. But most of the rioters still live in a parallel online universe - a subterranean world filled with alternative facts.\n\nThey have already come up with fanciful explanations to dismiss Mr Trump's video statement, posted on Twitter the day after the riots, in which he acknowledged for the first time that \"a new administration will be inaugurated on 20 January\".\n\nHe can't possibly be giving up, they contend. Among their new theories - it's not really him in the video but a computer-generated \"deep fake\". Or perhaps the president is being held hostage.\n\nMany still believe Mr Trump will prevail.\n\nThere's no evidence behind any of this, but it does prove one thing.\n\nNo matter what happens to Donald Trump, the rioters who stormed the US Capitol are not backing down anytime soon.", "Spain is in a race against time to clear roads covered by heavy snow, and get Covid vaccines and food supplies to areas affected by Storm Filomena.\n\nUp to 50cm (20 inches) of snow fell on the capital Madrid, one of the worst hit areas, between Friday and Saturday.\n\nAt least four people died and thousands of travellers were left stranded.\n\nOvernight, temperatures plunged to -8C (18F) in parts of Spain, amid warnings by meteorologists that the snow was turning to perilous ice.\n\nThe unusual cold wave on the Iberian peninsula is expected to last until Thursday.\n\nThe Spanish government said it had taken extra steps - including police-escorted convoys - to ensure its expected shipment of some 300,000 coronavirus vaccines can be distributed as planned to regional health authorities later on Monday.\n\n\"The commitment is to guarantee the supply of health, vaccines and food. Corridors have been opened to deliver the goods,\" Transport Minister Jose Luis Abalos said on Sunday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Madrid has been hit by heavy snowfall after Storm Filomena\n\nSoldiers have been deployed to clear some of the 700 major roads.\n\nSome 3,500 tonnes of salt were later brought on lorries to the capital, Spain's El Mundo website reported on Monday.\n\nThe record-breaking snowfall has triggered some unprecedented scenes here in Madrid. People have skied along the city's main commercial street, Gran Vía, and one man was pictured being pulled through the district of Hortaleza on a sled by five huskies.\n\nBut other responses to the snow have been more controversial due to concerns about Covid-19. Dozens of young people had a snowball fight in Callao square, for example, and many of them were without facemasks.\n\nNearby, in Puerta del Sol, others celebrated the snow by dancing a conga. The daily Marca newspaper branded it \"the conga of shame\".\n\nAlthough the snowfall has now stopped, low temperatures have left snow and ice piled up across the capital and the surrounding region. And with residents advised to avoid using their cars, public transport has seen a surge in demand.\n\nThis has compounded coronavirus concerns as many metro train carriages were packed at rush hour on Monday morning, making social distancing impossible.\n\nMadrid's international airport began gradually resuming operations on Sunday afternoon, having cancelled all flights on Friday.\n\nSome 500 people across the Madrid region were forced to spend the night in temporary shelter, including sports centres, after they were trapped by the whiteout.\n\nAbout 100 shoppers and staff spent two nights at a shopping centre in Majadahonda, a town north of the capital. \"There are people sleeping on the ground on cardboard,\" one restaurant employee told TVE television.\n\nSpain's Meteorological Agency said Saturday's snowfall was the heaviest in Madrid since 1971\n\nBut there were stories of heroism too, including doctors and medical workers who abandoned their cars and walked for hours to get to work. One doctor, Alvaro Sanchez, said on social media he had walked 17km (10 miles) over nearly two hours to get to work, while two nurses, Paco and Monica, said they had walked 22km to their hospital.\n\nThey were praised by Spanish Health Minister Salvador Illa, who tweeted: \"The commitment that the entire group of health workers is showing is an example of solidarity and dedication.\"\n\nSome 4x4 vehicle owners offered to transport medical workers, while other volunteers helped to clear hospital entrance ways.\n\n\"Health staff have been working (hard) for more than a year and this is just a short moment for us, so as citizens, we are trying to help; it is everyone's responsibility,\" said Fernando de la Fuente, 60, who helped clear the entrance to Madrid's Gregorio Maranon Hospital.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSpaniards in large parts of the country have been warned to take care in the coming days as temperatures could fall to -12C (10F) in some areas until Thursday.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nCrawley Town delivered one of the FA Cup third round's most emphatic upsets as the League Two underdogs tore apart Marcelo Bielsa's Leeds.\n\nThree second-half goals rewarded a fantastic performance from John Yems' side as they made light of the 62 places between themselves and their Premier League visitors.\n\nNick Tsaroulla, playing only his seventh game in senior football, set the ball rolling, beating three Leeds defenders to fire home a superb solo opener.\n\nUnited keeper Kiko Casilla's error allowed Ashley Nadesan to double the lead before Jordan Tunnicliffe added a third for Crawley, who could have won by more.\n• None Watch all of the goals from the FA Cup third round\n• None Can Mark Wright make it as a pro at Crawley?\n\nBielsa made seven changes to his side but Leeds fielded England midfielder Kalvin Phillips among several regular top-flight starters including Pablo Hernandez, Ezgjan Alioski and club record signing Rodrigo.\n\nHowever, after an even first half, they were completely outplayed in the second period by a Crawley side who have reached the fourth round for only the third time, having spent most of their 125-year existence in non-league football.\n\nCrawley even had the luxury of bringing on reality TV celebrity Mark Wright in stoppage time for the former The Only Way Is Essex star's debut, having signed for the club on non-contract terms in December.\n\nLeeds' loss is the first time in 34 years a top-flight side has lost to a fourth-tier team by three or more goals and only the second ever instance since a fourth division was added to the Football League in 1958.\n\nThey may be the lesser-known of the two Red Devils but Crawley's efforts were no less impressive than Manchester United's 6-2 dissection of Leeds last month.\n\nWhile Bielsa rested first-choice stars such as Patrick Bamford, Luke Ayling, Stuart Dallas and Mateusz Klich, there was still plenty of experience mixed in with the youth in Leeds' line-up.\n\nBut the hosts, sixth in League Two after an eight-game unbeaten run, never gave them the chance to settle and while neither side could break the deadlock before the interval, it was Crawley who went closest as Casilla kept out Tom Nichols' close-range header.\n\nHe was helpless, however, to prevent Tsaroulla - a former Tottenham trainee who spent a year out of the game because of injuries sustained in a car crash - firing Crawley ahead after a twisting run into the area that beguiled the Leeds back-line.\n\nRather than protect their lead, Crawley went for the jugular and Nadesan soon doubled their advantage, although his strike owed much to a bobble that beat Casilla at his near post.\n\nTunnicliffe then fired into the roof of the net after Casilla parried from Nadesan and Crawley could have had a fourth after top scorer Max Watters came off the bench to round the keeper, only to be denied by a covering defender.\n\nThe win marked the first time in four attempts that Crawley have beaten a Premier League side in the FA Cup and so comfortable was the victory that TV personality Wright was given his late cameo.\n\nAnother name added to Leeds' list of cup woes\n\nBielsa was left to mull over back-to-back 3-0 defeats, albeit this one coming in a much different context to Leeds' Premier League loss at Tottenham on 2 January.\n\nThis was the former Argentina manager's first taste of an FA Cup shock, after far more mundane exits against Arsenal and QPR in Bielsa's two previous campaigns since taking the Elland Road reins in 2018.\n\nBut it was not unfamiliar ground for Leeds as Crawley - who have finished in the bottom half of League Two for five successive seasons - emulated non-league pair Histon and Sutton United, as well as lower-league clubs Rochdale and Newport, in upsetting the Whites this century.\n\nThe visitors only forced one real save from Crawley keeper Glenn Morris, who reacted well to push away Ian Poveda's strike from an acute angle in the first half.\n\nLeeds might point to a penalty they perhaps should have had before the interval when Crawley defender Tony Craig got away with pulling back Rodrigo as he attempted to meet Helder Costa's volleyed cross.\n\nBut there was no video assistant referee system at the game, and they offered very little going forward after Rodrigo was substituted at half-time.\n\nIt was a fourth successive third-round exit in a competition they could have looked to with some hope, given their relatively comfortable position in the Premier League.\n\n\"We've got 11 star men\" - what they said\n\nCrawley manager Yems to BBC Sport: \"You have to enjoy these games - you work hard enough for it. It was a really good team performance and it's clear that we've got 11 star men.\n\n\"These players have got a lot to prove to the clubs who have released them and we've showed what we can do against a really good side.\n\n\"Let's see who we get in the next round and enjoy the moment.\"\n\nLeeds midfielder Alioski to BBC Radio 5 Live: \"We are really disappointed and it wasn't the result that we wanted. We took the game really seriously and we wanted to win and go on a run, so it is disappointing.\n\n\"Crawley played the game of their lives, and congratulations. To beat us 3-0 - I still can't believe it.\n\n\"The manager said what he wanted to say. It's important for every player to know what this means. He is sad and the players are sad.\"\n• None Attempt blocked. Sam Greenwood (Leeds United) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt missed. Raphinha (Leeds United) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Pablo Hernández.\n• None Jake Hessenthaler (Crawley Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt saved. Hélder Costa (Leeds United) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Pablo Hernández.\n• None Jamie Shackleton (Leeds United) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt blocked. Max Watters (Crawley Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Tom Nichols. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None All the goals and highlights from a huge Saturday of third-round matches are", "Mike Pompeo said the US-Taiwan relationship should not be \"shackled\" (file photo)\n\nThe US is lifting long-standing restrictions on contacts between American and Taiwanese officials, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says.\n\nThe \"self-imposed restrictions\" were introduced decades ago to \"appease\" the mainland Chinese government, which lays claim to the island, the US state department said in a statement.\n\nThese rules are now \"null and void\".\n\nThe move is likely to anger China and increase tensions between Washington and Beijing.\n\nIt comes as the Trump administration enters its final days ahead of the inauguration of Joe Biden as president on 20 January.\n\nThe Biden transition team have said the president-elect is committed to maintaining the long-standing US policy towards Taiwan.\n\nAnalysts say they will be unhappy with such a policy decision being made in the final days of the Trump administration, but that the move could be reversed easily by Mr Pompeo's successor Antony Blinken.\n\nChina regards Taiwan as a breakaway province, but Taiwan's leaders argue that it is a sovereign state.\n\nRelations between the two are frayed and there is a constant threat of a violent flare up that could drag in the US, an ally of Taiwan.\n\nIn a statement on Saturday, Mr Pompeo said the US state department had introduced complicated restrictions limiting the communication between American diplomats and their Taiwanese counterparts.\n\n\"Today I am announcing that I am lifting all of these self-imposed restrictions,\" he said. \"Today's statement recognises that the US-Taiwan relationship need not, and should not, be shackled by self-imposed restrictions of our permanent bureaucracy.\"\n\nHe added that Taiwan was a vibrant democracy and a reliable US partner, and that the restrictions were no longer valid.\n\nFollowing the announcement, Taiwan Foreign Minister Joseph Wu thanked Mr Pompeo, saying he was \"grateful\".\n\n\"The closer partnership between Taiwan and the US is firmly based on our shared values, common interests and unshakeable belief in freedom and democracy,\" he wrote in a tweet.\n\nLast August, US Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar became the highest-ranking US politician to hold meetings on the island for decades.\n\nIn response, China urged the US to respect what it calls its \"one China\" principle.\n\nThe US also sells arms to Taiwan, though it does not have a formal defence treaty with the country, as it does with Japan, South Korea and the Philippines.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nChina and Taiwan have had separate governments since the end of the Chinese civil war in 1949.\n\nBeijing has long tried to limit Taiwan's international activities and both have vied for influence in the Pacific region.\n\nTensions have increased in recent years and Beijing has not ruled out the use of force to take the island back.\n\nAlthough Taiwan is officially recognised by only a handful of nations, its democratically-elected government has strong commercial and informal links with many countries.", "Lockdowns have worked before, but can we expect the new one to do the same?\n\nIt feels like we are back in March or April last year, when the strict controls on all our lives led to a fairly quick decline in levels of coronavirus.\n\nBut one of the crucial differences this time is the new variant, which is thought to spread between 50 and 70% faster than previous forms of the virus.\n\nExperts warn there are now no guarantees that lockdown will be enough to bring the variant under control.\n\n\"It still would not have been easy, but it would have been a much easier situation if it had not been for the new variant,\" Prof Neil Ferguson, from Imperial College London, told Inside Health.\n\n\"That really pushes the bounds of our ability to control the spread of the virus, even with measures that were previously relatively quite effective.\"\n\nThe coronavirus spreads when we come into contact with each other so moving classrooms online, telling people to stay at home and closing shops breaks many of those opportunities for human contact.\n\nIf we consider the R number - the average number of people each infected person passes the virus on to - it was about 3.0 in the run up to the first lockdown and anything above 1.0 means cases are climbing.\n\nR fell to 0.6 during the first lockdown.\n\nThen every 1,000 infected people passed the virus on to 600 others, who passed it on to 360 others and so on.\n\nBut if the new variant is 50% more transmissible then the R number, in the same lockdown conditions, would be about 0.9.\n\nThen 1,000 infected people would pass the virus onto 900 others, then 810 and so on.\n\nAs you can see this leads to far slower decline.\n\nAnd that assumes lockdown can get R down to 0.9 in areas where the new variant has become the most common form of the virus.\n\nIf, as some studies suggest, the variant is about 70% more transmissible then R may stay above 1.0 and cases may not fall at all.\n\n\"We'd at best flatten the curve, keep numbers at a roughly constant level, and that's frankly why there is so much emphasis on getting vaccine into people's arms as quickly as possible,\" said Prof Ferguson.\n\nIt is hard to lock down even harder as there are some parts of society - hospitals, supermarkets - that need to be kept open.\n\nWhat happens to the number of cases over the coming weeks will be closely monitored. If this lockdown is less effective then we will have to live with it for longer.\n\nThere have been some encouraging signs over the Christmas break, which was a bit like a lockdown due to school holidays and other restrictions.\n\n\"We are in a very difficult situation here, but my initial assessment of the last few days is that the rate is slowing which is good news,\" Prof John Edmunds, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, told the BBC.\n\nHe added: \"It looks likes those restrictions should be sufficient to stop the increase, whether they will be sufficient to bring cases down sufficiently we are yet to see.\"\n\nEventually the vaccine will give people immunity so we do not need the same controls on our lives.\n\nNow more than ever this is a race between the virus and the vaccine.", "Dozens of demonstrators were walking and chanting along Clapham High Street as police attempted to keep them contained to the area\n\nSixteen people have been arrested during an anti-lockdown protest in south London.\n\nPolice officers clashed with some of the maskless protesters who arrived in Clapham Common, some shouting \"take your freedom back\".\n\nSix police vans were deployed to the scene while officers moved the crowd of about 30 people away from the area.\n\nGathering for the purpose of a protest is not an exemption to the rules, the Met Police said.\n\nOne woman shouted from her car at the protesters \"there's a pandemic going\", while another bystander shouted \"idiots\".\n\nOne anti-lockdown protester, who was detained at Clapham Common park, said \"I stand under common law, not maritime law and this is assault\" as he was put into handcuffs by police officers.\n\nA large police presence remains around Clapham Common station, but almost all protesters had left the area as of 14:00 GMT.\n\nIt comes as a \"major incident\" was declared as the spread of Covid-19 threatens to \"overwhelm\" London hospitals.\n\nCity Hall said Covid-19 cases in the capital had exceeded 1,000 per 100,000, while there were 35% more people in hospital with the virus than in the peak of the pandemic in April.\n\nPolice could be seen questioning several people at the demonstration\n\nPolice battled to disperse the protestors gathering in Clapham Common\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ben Jackson said the closure of the farm's bulk-buyers like hotels and schools has left thousands of eggs unsold\n\nA fall in bulk egg orders due to the lockdown could lead to chickens being culled, a poultry-farmer has warned.\n\nFluffetts Farm near Fordingbridge had been supplying free range eggs to 350 Hampshire schools, but orders stopped when schools suddenly closed.\n\nFarm owner, Ben Jackson said: \"If you can't sell the eggs you can't still keep feeding the chickens and therefore something has to give.\"\n\nHe said he hoped to work out a local delivery system to avoid culling birds.\n\nMr Jackson, who has been selling some of the surplus eggs off on social media, has more than 13,000 chickens laying 12,000 eggs each day.\n\nThe cancellation of his school orders has left him with about 4,000 spare eggs a day. The farm has also been hit by restaurants and pubs closing again.\n\nThe farm has a surplus of about 4,000 eggs each day from its 13,000 chickens\n\nHe said: \"If we can't find a home for the eggs the worst-case scenario is that we may have to look to get rid of some of our chickens, but that's what we're trying to avoid.\n\n\"Other chicken farmers are in the same situation - they are talking about potentially having to cull birds in the next week or so - it's not a decision that anyone wants to make.\n\n\"We just want to get through this dark time - we're just taking it a day at time.\"\n\nChickens at the farm are currently in a bird lockdown.\n\nSince 14 December strict biosecurity regulations have been in place following a number of outbreak of avian influenza throughout England.\n• None 'I'll have to throw away £6,000-worth of milk'", "Flat owners applying to a fund to help pay to remove flammable building cladding will be told not to talk to the press without government approval.\n\nA draft agreement, uncovered by the Sunday Times, says that even where there is \"overwhelming public interest\" in speaking to journalists, the government must be told first.\n\nThe government said the wording was \"standard\".\n\nIt set up a £1.6bn fund last year to repair the most dangerous buildings.\n\nBut it warned that the fund might not cover all the costs of removing the cladding.\n\nThe clause might affect building owners and professional managing agents but also residents who manage their building.\n\nSome types of the covering, often added to newer blocks of flats, have been proven to be a fire hazard.\n\nAfter the 2017 Grenfell fire, the government pledged that safe alternatives to dangerous cladding would be provided on all buildings in England taller than 18m.\n\nIt set up the £1.6bn fund to help foot the costs.\n\nThe agreement, between the building owner or leaseholder and the government, says: \"The Applicant shall not make any communication to the press or any journalist or broadcaster regarding the Project or the Agreement (or the performance of it by any Party) without the prior written approval of Homes England and [the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government ]\" and its press offices.\n\nIt says an exception can be made \"where such disclosure is in the overwhelming public interest (in which case disclosure will not be made without first allowing Homes England and MHCLG to make representations on such proposed disclosure).\"\n\nThe UK Cladding Action Group tweeted that it was \"clearly a matter of public interest\" that these issues were aired in public.\n\n\"No department should be hiding behind non-disclosure agreements to stop scrutiny of their actions,\" the group said.\n\nAnother campaign group, Manchester Cladiators, said the existence of the \"gagging clause\" was \"shocking but not necessarily that surprising\".\n\nSpokesperson Rebecca Fairclough said residents would feel \"intimidated\" by it, adding: \"We ask the government to remove this unfair clause immediately and focus on the priority of solving this institutional failure, which still exists and is only growing over three and a half years after the Grenfell tragedy.\"\n\nThe government insists that the wording in the agreement, under the heading \"Marketing material\", is there to ensure applicants come to the government first.\n\n\"The terms set out are standard in commercial agreements and are not specific to this fund - to suggest otherwise is misleading and inaccurate,\" the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) said in a statement.\n\n\"We want a constructive working relationship with building owners who apply to the fund and applicants are asked to work with the department on public communications relating to the project.\"", "Edwin Poots said he has asked senior UK government figures to consider unilaterally revoking the NI Protocol\n\nThe Stormont minister whose officials are responsible for the new Irish Sea border has said some food will be unavailable if changes are not made.\n\nDUP Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots has also said jobs could be at risk.\n\nHe said problems at the ports were being caused by new rules applied on imports of food and other products from Britain to Northern Ireland.\n\nEarlier Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove said trade from GB to NI \"will get worse before it gets better\".\n\nMr Gove said that \"work is ongoing\" and it is \"all part of the process of leaving the European Union\".\n\nHe added that he had spoken to ministers from all parties in the Northern Ireland Executive.\n\nAfter speaking with hauliers, supermarkets and processors this week, Mr Poots predicted the loss of jobs and rising costs.\n\n\"A wide range of frozen and chilled foods will be unavailable after the temporary exemption period ends,\" he tweeted.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Edwin Poots MLA This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThat exemption period applies to supermarkets and other food importers and runs out in April.\n\nAfter that they will have to comply with all the paperwork required to ship food in, or find suppliers on the island of Ireland or elsewhere in the EU.\n\nNew rules - called the Northern Ireland Protocol - were introduced because while the UK has left the EU, Northern Ireland has remained in the Single Market for goods and is continuing to apply EU customs rules.\n\nThe arrangement was agreed between the UK and the EU to prevent a hard border on the island of Ireland.\n\nMr Poots said he had spoken to senior UK government figures to ask them to consider unilaterally revoking the protocol as it was \"damaging Northern Ireland at the economic and societal level\".\n\nAnd he hit out at members of Sinn Fein, the SDLP, and Alliance Party who he claimed had supported it.\n\nMembers of those parties have countered similar claims from other DUP politicians in recent days.\n\nThey said DUP MPs had voted against alternative arrangements that would have been simpler to manage before the government pushed ahead with the protocol plan.\n\nResponding to Mr Poot's tweet on Friday evening, SDLP leader Colum Eastwood wrote: \"You broke it, you own it.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Colum Eastwood This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSinn Féin MLA Martina Anderson accused Mr Poots of being \"asleep at the wheel\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Martina Anderson MLA This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) has called for the assembly to be recalled to discuss difficulties over trading between Great Britain and Northern Ireland due to Brexit.\n\nUUP MLA Roy Beggs said: \"The impact of the Irish Sea border is causing horrendous difficulties for hauliers and this is being seen in shops and businesses across Northern Ireland.\n\n\"It is damaging the Northern Ireland economy and the situation is escalating.\"\n\nEarlier on Friday, Michael Gove said it had been expected that there would be \"some initial disruption\" to trade between GB and NI, but that the government is \"ironing\" issues out.\n\nHe said discussions with the executive in Northern Ireland were \"in order to make sure that the [Northern Ireland] protocol works\".\n\n\"[To make sure] that businesses in Northern Ireland can continue to have access to the rest of the UK market, and that Northern Ireland businesses can have the goods that they need on the shelves, that they have access to at the moment,\" he said.\n\nNorthern Ireland has remained a part of the EU's single market for goods while the rest of the UK has left.\n\nThis means food products from Great Britain are subject to checks when they enter Northern Ireland.\n\nSimilar processes and checks also apply when moving food products from Great Britain into the Republic of Ireland.\n\nMeanwhile, an organisation representing haulage firms has called on the UK and Irish government to relax some of the new Irish Sea trade border rules.\n\nThe Road Haulage Association (RHA) said there is serious disruption to freight movements into the island of Ireland.\n\nThe RHA said relaxing the controls on food products and customs declarations \"would help traders to ship goods that have struggled to move over recent days.\"\n\n\"The problems have led to gaps in supermarket shelves and lorries delayed at ports because of problems with red-tape and the situation is worsening,\" the organisation added.\n\n\"We are facing an inflexible, cumbersome and time consuming process just to move goods.\"\n\nThe UK government said the flow of goods \"between GB and NI has been smooth overall and arrivals of freight have continued to increase substantially over this week\".\n\n\"There are no significant queues at NI ports and supermarkets are reporting healthy supplies into their Northern Ireland stores,\" a spokesperson added.\n\n\"We recognise the need to provide as much support to the haulage sector as possible as industry adapts to new processes. That's why hauliers can benefit from the Trader Support Service, which provides free advice and support to businesses of all sizes moving goods under the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\n\"We have been engaging intensively with the Irish authorities and hauliers on the issues that have been encountered for goods transiting through Dublin port.\"\n\nOn Thursday customs authorities in the Republic of Ireland announced a temporary relaxation of one customs process.\n\nHauliers will be able to use an override code to complete a piece of administration known as ENS.\n\nThe letters ENS refer to an entry summary declaration, an online form which goods carriers are now legally obliged to submit to Irish customs when transporting goods from Great Britain into Ireland.\n\nLorries arriving in Ireland from Great Britain have faced new checks since 1 January\n\nOn Thursday night the Irish Revenue Commissioners said it recognised that \"some businesses are experiencing difficulties on lodging their safety and security ENS declarations\".\n\nIt said that in response it was providing a \"temporary easement\" which would allow an ENS to be produced without all the normally required information.\n\nAn Irish government spokesperson said it is \"absolutely essential that Ireland fulfils its obligations as a member of the EU and that we protect the integrity of the single market and the customs union\".\n\n\"We appreciate that the new requirements and customs formalities present significant challenges and impose additional burdens on businesses.\"\n\nMeanwhile Stena, the ferry company, said it was cancelling a dozen sailings between Wales and Ireland next week due to \"a decline in freight volumes during the first week of Brexit.\"", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nScott McTominay's fourth-minute header was enough to give Manchester United an unconvincing victory in their FA Cup third-round tie against Watford on Saturday.\n\nWearing the captain's armband for the first time in a much-changed side from Wednesday's Carabao Cup semi-final defeat by Manchester City, McTominay found the net after rising to meet Alex Telles' corner.\n\nThe hosts did have chances to increase their lead, but Juan Mata failed to find a finish to an excellent three-man move just before half-time, then Daniel James and substitute Marcus Rashford had shots saved after the break.\n\nBut none of those opportunities were better than that for Hornets defender Adam Masina, who saw his effort blocked by United keeper Dean Henderson not long after McTominay had struck.\n• None Watch all the goals from the FA Cup third round\n• None How all of Saturday's FA Cup action unfolded\n• None How to follow FA Cup third round on the BBC\n\nNow under their fifth manager in two years, Xisco Munoz, Watford had other chances too - Joao Pedro's header went straight to Henderson and Ken Sema was off target with his.\n\nMason Greenwood and Donny van de Beek did little to press their claims for a regular starting slot in manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's side, while Jesse Lingard - making only his third appearance of the season and the subject of interest from a number of clubs in the January transfer window - showed glimpses of form but eventually faded.\n\nUnited will go into the hat for Monday's fourth and fifth-round draws, while Watford are left to focus on winning promotion back to the Premier League at the first attempt.\n\nGiven the increasing awareness of the effects of concussion, the decision of United's medical staff to take no risks with defender Eric Bailly when he was caught in the head by Henderson's knee as the keeper punched clear was a welcome one.\n\nThe Football Association had hoped to introduce concussion substitutes by now but it has not yet been able to as detailed protocols are yet to be received from Ifab, the world game's rulemakers.\n\nAs Bailly was guided towards the tunnel in the last minute of the first half, Harry Maguire replaced him and helped United keep the clean sheet which ensured they reached the fourth round for the 34th time in their past 36 attempts.\n\nAfterwards, United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer said: \"I think it was his neck. I don't think it was concussion so that is a positive. But we have got to do scans.\"\n\n'I wanted to test McTominay and he delivered' - post-match quotes\n\nManchester United manager Solskjaer said: \"Scott has got everything a leader has to have. I wanted to test him by making him captain and see how he would react.\n\n\"He delivered and he always does. He was brilliant today.\n\n\"We have always trusted our young men coming through and Scott is one who we believe has the Manchester United DNA in him and knows what it is to be a Manchester United player.\"\n\nMcTominay on captaining the side: \"When the manager told me it was a surreal moment. I've been here since I had just turned five, so that's 18 or 19 years associated with the club and it is a huge honour.\n\n\"I love this club and it has been my whole life.\"\n\nUnited turn their attentions to a big week in the Premier League. Solskjaer's side travel to Burnley on Tuesday (20:15 GMT) knowing victory will send them top of the table above Liverpool - who they then play at Anfield on Sunday (16:30 GMT).\n\nWatford's miserable run at Old Trafford continues - stats of the day\n• None The last time Manchester United failed to progress in the FA Cup third round was January 2014, when they lost 2-1 to Swansea.\n• None Watford have lost on 10 consecutive visits to Old Trafford, scoring just three goals.\n• None United have progressed from each of their past 17 FA Cup matches against opposition from a lower division, since a 1-0 home defeat by League One side Leeds United in January 2010.\n• None McTominay has scored four goals in 22 matches this season, one short of his best tally in a campaign (five goals in 37 appearances in 2019-20). Three of those goals have been scored in the first five minutes of games.\n• None Watford attempted 18 shots in the match - only in their 2-0 loss at Huddersfield (21) have they had more shots on the road this season.\n• None Attempt blocked. Marc Navarro (Watford) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Will Hughes (Watford) wins a free kick in the attacking half.\n• None Attempt missed. Juan Mata (Manchester United) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right from a direct free kick.\n• None Joseph Hungbo (Watford) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Joseph Hungbo (Watford) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt blocked. Joseph Hungbo (Watford) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by João Pedro. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Calculate the impact and how to change it\n• None Sir David Attenborough shows us the forces of nature that support the Earth", "A 107-year-old woman from Clonard, County Meath is attempting a virtual Mass tour across Ireland while in lockdown.\n\nNancy Stewart and granddaughter, Louise Coghlan, have been shielding together since March last year, and have set themselves the spiritual challenge.\n\nThey are attending Mass services across the 32 counties on the island from the comfort of their own kitchen.\n\nLouise said that because they have been shielding for so long together, she is constantly trying to find \"different ways of keeping granny entertained\".\n\nShe said that when she asks Nancy if she wants to watch Mass her \"eyes light up like I'd just given her a million euros\".\n\nNancy, whose favourite saint is St Anthony, said she can hardly believe she is able to watch Mass on a computer or a phone from her comfy armchair.\n\n\"I feel so happy and so refreshed sitting happily in my own kitchen, in my armchair looking at Mass,\" she told BBC News NI.\n\n\"I can't believe it, I'm trying to believe it's true.\"", "The number of patients in intensive care with Covid has risen sharply, amid warnings that tougher lockdown measures may be needed.\n\nLatest Scottish government figures show 1,877 new cases of Covid were reported in the last 24 hours\n\nThe number of people in intensive care has risen from 109 to 123, the highest daily jump since October.\n\nDeputy First Minister John Swinney said a tightening of restrictions could not be ruled out.\n\nA total of 1,598 people are currently in hospital with recently-confirmed Covid, up from Saturday's figure of 1,596 patients which was the highest number since the outbreak began.\n\nThe daily test positivity rate was10%, up from 8.7% on Saturday, when 1,865 positive cases were recorded.\n\nThe deputy first minister said the country was facing \"a very alarming situation\" with the virus.\n\nSpeaking on Politics Scotland, Mr Swinney said coronavirus does not show much sign of \"abating\" and he would not rule out tougher lockdown measures.\n\nHe said: \"We're seeing case numbers which are hovering around 2,000 per day... so we've got an accelerating situation on our hands and we have to constantly review whether more restrictions are required.\"\n\nThere have been some encouraging signs in recent days with average positivity rates falling, a possible indicator that the lockdown is having an impact, but Prof Linda Bauld, of Edinburgh University, urged caution.\n\nShe said: \"The numbers are not reducing at the rate which we want them to, so [it is] still a very fragile situation.\n\n\"The measures we have now I hope are working but it's not clear whether they are tough enough.\n\n\"I think the key change the government could make is in the sectors which are still open, particularly workplaces but also things like takeaways and click and collect.\"\n\nMr Swinney said the Scottish government is \"open to considering further restrictions if they are necessary\"\n\nProfessional sport, along with manufacturing and construction work have been allowed to continue in this lockdown, whereas they were not in the first wave in March.\n\nThe deputy first minister said the meeting of the cabinet which agreed the latest lockdown saw ministers wondering if they had gone far enough to stop the spread.\n\nMr Swinney added: \"I don't think I'm revealing a state secret when I say that the debate within cabinet was not whether we were going too far but whether we were going far enough.\"\n\nA total of three deaths were recorded in the past 24 hours but these figures are lower at weekends because register offices are generally closed.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Madrid has been hit by heavy snowfall after Storm Filomena\n\nStorm Filomena has blanketed parts of Spain in heavy snow, with half of the country on red alert for more on Saturday.\n\nRoad, rail and air travel has been disrupted and interior minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska said the country was facing \"the most intense storm in the last 50 years\".\n\nMadrid, one of the worst affected areas, is set to see up to 20cm (eight inches) of snow in the next 24 hours.\n\nFurther south the storm caused rivers to burst their banks.\n\nFour deaths have been reported so far as a result of Filomena. Officials said two people had been found frozen to death - one in the town of Zarzalejo, north-west of Madrid, and the other in the eastern city of Calatayud. Two people travelling in a car were swept away by floods near the southern city of Malaga.\n\nAs snow fell on Madrid on Friday evening, a number of vehicles became stranded on a motorway near the capital.\n\nThe city's Barajas airport has closed, along with a number of roads, and all trains to and from Madrid have been cancelled.\n\nFirefighters were called in to assist drivers who had become stuck. In some areas the military were called in to help clear roads.\n\nSpanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez urged people to stay at home and to follow the instructions of emergency services. King Felipe and Queen Letizia took to Twitter to urge \"extreme caution against the risks of accumulation of ice and snow\".\n\nThe country's AEMET weather agency said the snowfall was \"exceptional and most likely historic\".\n\nA number of people were seen making the most of the snowy scenery, walking through Madrid's Puerta del Sol square.\n\nLarge parks in Madrid have since been closed as a precaution, AFP news agency reports.\n\nOne man was pictured skiing along the Gran Via, the capital's famous shopping street.\n\nIn Cañada Real, the largest shanty town in western Europe, residents were seen creating a bonfire to keep warm.\n\nThe cold weather is set to continue beyond the weekend with temperatures in Madrid predicted to hit -12C on Thursday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Wales has received 275,000 doses of the two Covid-19 vaccines to deal with the pandemic.\n\nAbout 70,000 people received a first dose after the first month of the vaccine rollout.\n\nThe Welsh Government confirmed it has had more than 250,000 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and 25,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab.\n\nThe health minister promised a \"really significant step-up\" in the roll-out after opponents criticised its speed.\n\nThe Pfizer jabs were first administered in early December at seven sites across Wales as part of the UK-wide immunisation programme.\n\nThis 82-year-old woman was one of 100 to receives her vaccine at a special clinic in Swansea on Saturday\n\nApproximately 1.6% of people were vaccinated up to 3 January - fewer than all other UK nations.\n\nIn England, about 1.9% of the population had received the first dose, while 2.1% of people in both Scotland and Northern Ireland had received their first jab.\n\nThe Welsh Government has dismissed criticism it is lagging behind, with health officials saying the new Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine would help speed up the programme \"considerably\".\n\nTwo full doses of the Oxford vaccine gave 62% protection, a half dose followed by a full dose was 90% and overall the trial showed 70% protection.\n\nThe rollout of the Oxford vaccine started on Monday, with 25,000 doses received this week, according to the Welsh Government.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said on Friday that Wales would receive another 25,000 Oxford doses next week and 80,000 the week after that.\n\nWhen asked how many doses of the Pfizer vaccine Wales had received, he said he could not recall the exact figure but further deliveries had been received \"on the 23rd and the 27th of December\".\n\nPressed on a figure, he said: \"It's the low hundreds of thousands\", adding: \"The Pfizer vaccine has particular challenges in terms of the conditions that it's got to be stored in and in parts of Wales that is a very particular challenge because it is a hard vaccine to transport over long distances to relatively scattered and remote communities.\n\n\"But the fact that we've got it and the fact that we're able to use more of it than we originally anticipated means we'll be able to accelerate the use of it over the next couple of weeks.\"\n\nThese were the latest comparative weekly totals - daily updates are promised from this week onwards in Wales\n\nOn Sunday, the Welsh Government confirmed it had received 25,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine in the first week but the quantity would increase, allocated to Wales based on a population share on a weekly basis.\n\n\"We are confident in the assurances we have been given that this will increase over the next few weeks to around 100,000 per week,\" they said.\n\n\"We are delivering all the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine allocated to Wales directly to GPs, other primary care providers and hospitals as soon as it is available.\"\n\nConservative MP for the Vale of Clwyd, Dr James Davies, said: \"We all know that the Pfizer vaccine is difficult to transport and store and needs to be stored at -70 degrees, that's understood.\n\n\"But the issue is that actually, if you look at the rest of the UK, including very rural areas, they've managed to deal with it... and it is difficult to see why they haven't been in a position to be organised earlier and to ramp-up the delivery.\"\n\nRhun ap Iorwerth, Plaid Cymru's health spokesman, called for transparency: \"It is very worrying to find out that we have had in Wales more than 250,000 doses but only a relatively small proportion of that have yet ended up in people's arms, protecting people, because that's what we want to happen.\"\n\nHe has written an open letter to Health Minister Vaughan Gething calling for greater clarity on the vaccine deployment programme, asking for a dashboard of information which would allow the public to track the rollout's progress for themselves, including volume of doses delivered and administered by health board and by the nine priority groups.\n\nDr Olwen Williams, vice-president for Wales at the Royal College of Physicians, also called on health boards and Welsh Government to publish regular data showing which groups of people have been vaccinated, with patient-facing health workers prioritised over other colleagues.\n\n\"I think that would give assurance to people working in the NHS and the population in general, that the programme is progressing as planned,\" she said.\n\nAll data will be published daily from Monday but Mr Gething conceded that Wales, from last week's figures, was \"slightly behind on the population share and I'm not getting away from that.\"\n\nHe said the race was not \"necessarily against other UK nations\" but against the virus.\n\nHe also told BBC Radio Wales' Sunday Supplement that, in the next two to three weeks, he expected to see a \"really significant step-up in the delivery of the vaccine\" as more GP practices and community pharmacies help.\n\n\"We're going to get through many more people, giving them significant protection with a first vaccine,\" he said.\n\n\"And that will mean that we're going to be able to prevent most of the avoidable deaths.\"\n\nIt is hoped the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine will speed up the process.\n\nBy the end of last week, it was being offered to patients aged over 80 at 73 GP practices.\n\nMore than 100 are expected to be offering the jabs next week, Mr Gething said, \"and then we get into several hundred thereafter and we'll bring community pharmacies on board.\"\n\nThe UK and Scottish governments did not provide the numbers of Pfizer vaccines supplied to England and Scotland. BBC Wales is still waiting for a response from the Northern Irish Executive.\n\nMeanwhile, regular rapid testing for people without coronavirus symptoms will be made available in England.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it would evaluate its mass testing pilots in Merthyr Tydfil and lower Cynon Valley, as well as elsewhere in the UK, to inform its approach to community testing.\n\nA spokesman added: \"We have announced regular asymptomatic testing of health and social care workers, in education and daily contact testing in South Wales Police.\n\n\"A pilot has also started at the Tata Port Talbot site. We are also exploring other opportunities for regular testing to support critical services.\"", "Amazon is removing \"free speech\" social network Parler from its web hosting service for violating rules.\n\nIf Parler fails to find a new web hosting service by Sunday evening, the entire network will go offline.\n\nParler styles itself as an \"unbiased\" social media and has proved popular with people banned from Twitter.\n\nAmazon told Parler it had found 98 posts on the site that encouraged violence. Apple and Google have removed the app from their stores.\n\nLaunched in 2018, Parler has proved particularly popular among supporters of US President Donald Trump and right-wing conservatives. Such groups have frequently accused Twitter and Facebook of unfairly censoring their views.\n\nWhile Mr Trump himself is not a user, the platform already features several high-profile contributors following earlier bursts of growth in 2020.\n\nTexas Senator Ted Cruz boasts 4.9 million followers on the platform, while Fox News host Sean Hannity has about seven million.\n\nThe move comes after Apple suspended Parler from its app store. The suspension will remain in place for as long as the network continued to spread posts that incite violence, it said.\n\nGoogle removed the app from its store on Friday.\n\nResponding to Google's move earlier, Parler's chief executive John Matze said: \"We won't cave to politically motivated companies and those authoritarians who hate free speech!\"\n\nHe also warned that Parler could be offline for up to a week while \"we rebuild from scratch\".\n\nIt briefly became the most-downloaded app in the United States after the US election, following a clampdown on the spread of election misinformation by Twitter and Facebook.\n\nIn a letter obtained by CNN, Amazon's AWS Trust and Safety team told Parler's Chief Policy Officer Amy Peikoff that the social network \"does not have an effective process to comply with the AWS terms of service\".\n\n\"AWS provides technology and services to customers across the political spectrum, and we continue to respect Parler's right to determine for itself what content it will allow on its site\", the letter said.\n\n\"However we cannot provide services to a customer that is unable to effectively identify and remove content that encourages or incites violence against others.\".\n\nParler will be removed from Amazon's web hosting service shortly before midnight on Sunday Pacific Standard Time (07:59 GMT on Monday).\n\nOn Saturday, Apple removed Parler from its app store after warning the network to remove content that violated its rules or face a ban.\n\n\"Parler has not taken adequate measures to address the proliferation of these threats to people's safety\", it said in a statement announcing the app's suspension on Saturday evening.\n\nFor months, Parler has been one of the most popular social media platforms for right-wing users.\n\nAs major platforms began taking action against viral conspiracy theories, disinformation and the harassment of election workers and officials in the aftermath of the US presidential vote, the app became more popular with elements of the fringe far-right.\n\nThis turned the network into a right-wing echo chamber, almost entirely populated by users fixated on revealing examples of election fraud and posting messages in support of attempts to overturn the election outcome.\n\nIn the days preceding the Capitol riots, the tone of discussion on the app became significantly more violent, with some users openly discussing ways to stop the certification of Joe Biden's victory by Congress.\n\nUnsubstantiated allegations and defamatory claims against a number of senior US figures such as Chief Justice John Roberts and Vice-President Mike Pence were rife on the app.\n\nGoogle and Apple say they are taking necessary action to ensure violent rhetoric is not promoted on their platforms.\n\nHowever, to those increasingly concerned about freedom of speech and expression on online platforms, it represents another example of draconian action by major tech companies which threatens internet freedom.\n\nThis is a debate which is certain to continue beyond the Trump presidency.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer calls for families to be put \"at the heart of our recovery\" from the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has urged the government to \"protect family incomes\" as it deals with the economic effects of coronavirus.\n\nIn his first speech of the year, he demanded teachers, the armed forces and care workers are left out of the public sector pay freeze.\n\nSir Keir also called for tougher restrictions to be considered for tackling coronavirus.\n\nNo 10 said the government had \"shown it is prepared to act\".\n\nWith coronavirus restrictions and lockdowns shutting thousands of businesses, the economy was 7.9% smaller in October last year than it had been six months earlier.\n\nAnd the government's independent forecaster, the Office for Budgetary Responsibility, predicts that unemployment will rise to 2.6 million by the middle of this year.\n\nIn his speech, Sir Keir attacked the government for \"having been found wanting at every turn\", accusing Boris Johnson of being \"indecisive\" and acting \"too slow\" over further lockdowns and support for business and families.\n\nHe said: \"The British people will forgive many things. They know the pandemic is difficult.\n\n\"But they also know serial incompetence when they see it - and they know when a prime minister simply isn't up to the job.\"\n\nBut the PM's official spokeswoman rejected the criticism, saying: \"This government has shown it is prepared to act. When given evidence in the morning it has taken action that evening.\"\n\nAsked by the BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg whether the government should tighten restrictions, such as closing nurseries, Sir Keir said there \"probably is more that we could do [and we] may have to get tougher\".\n\nBut he did not outline what measures he would recommend, instead saying it was \"time to hear from the scientists what else can be done - and that probably should be done in the next few hours\".\n\nThe Labour leader said ministers must \"protect family incomes and support businesses\" from the economic effects of previous restrictions and the current lockdown.\n\nHe added policies must \"make a real difference to millions of people across the country\" and \"put families at the heart of our recovery\".\n\nSir Keir argued the £20-a-week rise given to Universal Credit claimants last April must continue beyond this April's cut-off point.\n\nCouncil tax increases in England of up to 5% this April must not happen, he said, while calling for the ban on evictions and repossessions to be extended.\n\nThe government's pay freeze for at least 1.3 million public sector workers - which does not apply to NHS frontline staff and those earning below £24,000 a year - must not go ahead, said Sir Keir.\n\n\"I know this isn't everything that's needed,\" he added, \"and after so much suffering we can't go back the status quo.\n\n\"We cannot return to an economy where over half our care workers earn less than the living wage, where childcare is among the most expensive in Europe, where our social care system is a national disgrace and where over four million children grow up in poverty.\"\n\nAn opposition leader has no policy leavers to pull. They have to rely on words to persuade the public they are worthy of power.\n\nWith the next general election an eternity away, Sir Keir Starmer knows the question of competence matters far more to voters than ideology right now.\n\nThe Labour leader was unsparing in his criticism of the government's handling of the pandemic - accusing the prime minster of serial incompetence, dithering and delay.\n\nSir Keir said the government could reverse planned changes to council tax and universal credit to ease the financial pressure on families.\n\nBut pressed on how lockdown might be different today if he was in No 10, the Labour leader mirrored the government's messaging.\n\nHe said there was \"probably\" more that could be done around nurseries and estate agent viewings, but Sir Keir's mantra was listen to the scientists.\n\nIt's what ministers say endlessly too.\n\nSir Keir argued that, just as a Labour government \"built the welfare state from the rubble\" of World War Two, a future one can \"secure our economy, protect our NHS and rebuild our country so that Britain is the best country to grow up in and the best country to grow old in\".\n\nBut Conservative Party co-chairman Amanda Milling accused Sir Keir of \"calling for actions the Conservatives are already taking in government\".\n\n\"We have delivered an unprecedented £280bn package of support to protect jobs, livelihoods and public services through this pandemic,\" she added, including the furlough scheme, the temporary increase to Universal Credit and extra funding for councils.\n\n\"The Conservatives will continue to put families and communities at the heart of every decision we take as we deliver on our promises to the British people,\" Ms Milling said.\n\nIn his Spending Review in November, Chancellor Rishi Sunak warned that the \"economic emergency\" caused by the pandemic had only begun.\n\nHe promised to take \"extraordinary measures to protect people's jobs and incomes\".", "The Oxford vaccine rollout started in Wales earlier this week - those figures are not yet included\n\nMore than 14,000 people had their first dose of the Covid-19 jab in Wales in the past week, the latest figures show.\n\nIt takes the numbers on the priority list to have got the Pfizer-BioNTech jab to 49,403 since the rollout started on 8 December.\n\nBut Wales is lagging behind the rest of the UK so far, with a lower proportion of people getting a first dose.\n\nThe Welsh Government said that by next week, 60 GP practices and 20 centres would be vaccinating.\n\nHealth officials said the new Oxford vaccine would help speed up the programme \"considerably\".\n\nThe numbers do not include the first people to receive the new vaccine, which began to be given this week.\n\nPublic Health Wales (PHW) said the real numbers were likely to be higher, with the figures a snapshot based on those vaccines recorded electronically so far.\n\nThey give a breakdown by health board and also show how many people have been given their first dose.\n\nThe figures also include people, such as NHS staff, who work in Wales but live over the border, but do not yet give details of people in different priority categories.\n\nRhun ap Iorwerth, Plaid Cymru's health spokesman, said: \"We need real transparency on progress of the vaccination process.\n\n\"This must include clear targets and data on how many vaccines come to Wales, and how many are distributed and given out by each health board to each priority group - both the first and second doses - so we can measure this against the targets. This is how confidence can be built that Wales is on track.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government said: \"These are early days in our mass vaccination programme. Momentum will continue to build and the speed of our vaccination programme will increase each week.\n\n\"From Monday, the number of people vaccinated will be published daily and we will publish our vaccination rollout plan early next week.\"\n\nThe figure in Wales means approximately 1.6% of people have been vaccinated up to 3 January - fewer than other UK nations - and the gap appears to be growing compared to last week.\n\nIn England, nearly 1.1 million people were given the first dose by 3 January. This is about 1.9% of the population. NHS England said 60% of doses have gone to people aged over 80.\n\nIf vaccinations were being given at the same rate in Wales as in England, a further 13,000 people would have been given a dose.\n\nIn both Scotland and Northern Ireland, 2.1% of people have been given a first dose.\n\nHow many people have had a Covid-19 vaccine? Residents in Wales vaccinated by health board, to 3 January Source: Public Health Wales, 7 January. Excludes 224 unknown and 1,024 doses for priority groups living in England\n\nSamantha is keen to have the vaccine as soon as possible and return to work\n\nDental nurse Samantha Davies, 47, who has shielded since March, was overjoyed at the prospect of having the coronavirus vaccine and returning to work.\n\nBut she is now in limbo after confusion over whether she could have the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab because of her ongoing treatment for Crohn's Disease.\n\nAfter filling out a questionnaire sent by PHW, a consultant recommended she should have the Pfizer-BioNTech jab instead.\n\nThis is because of the inflectra infusion treatment she receives every eight weeks to treat her Crohn's Disease - a type of inflammatory bowel condition.\n\nHowever, the Pfizer vaccine is in shorter supply than the Oxford vaccine and the Swansea practice where Samantha works was only offered 10 vaccinations.\n\nAs Samantha, from Foelgastell, Carmarthenshire, is shielding and not in work, she was not considered a priority for one of these.\n\nSwansea Bay health board has since said the advice about vaccines was given in error and pledged to arrange an appointment for her as soon as possible.\n\n\"It's just being home all the time. Some people I know had it two or three weeks ago. The government put me shielding since March on sick pay and I just want to return to work,\" she said.\n\nWhile she was furloughed from April to August, Samantha has been on statutory sick pay since.\n\nDr Gillian Richardson, the senior officer responsible for the Covid-19 vaccine programme in Wales, said the efforts from NHS Wales and PHW had been \"exceptional\".\n\n\"The number of doses unable to be used have been incredibly low - around 1% - and significantly below anticipated levels, thanks to the robust appointment planning and reserve lists,\" she said.\n\n\"The NHS is providing vaccines as quickly and as safely as possible to people in the priority groups.\"\n\nDerek Hinchliffe, 80, says he is \"frustrated\" at not knowing when he will get his first dose of vaccine\n\nHowever, 80-year-old Derek Hinchliffe, who is eligible for a first dose of a Covid vaccine during this period of the rollout, said he was \"frustrated\" because he has had no information about getting the first dose.\n\nMr Hinchliffe, who lives with his wife in Penpedairheol in Caerphilly county, said: \"We've had nothing - no communication.\n\n\"We've got friends the same as us who live in England who have had their first dose, and some of them are having their second vaccination.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nConservative health spokesman Andrew RT Davies renewed his call for a vaccinations minister to be appointed to take control.\n\n\"Of course we welcome the increase in the number of vaccinations, but the rough calculation is that one in 65 people in Wales has had their jab compared to one in 50 in England,\" he said,\n\n\"Factor in the postcode lottery emerging in Wales, and the picture's not looking great.\n\n\"You're twice as likely in south Wales to have had the vaccination and three times more likely to have had it in mid Wales than in north Wales.\"\n\nDr Richardson called the second Covid vaccine - Oxford-AstraZeneca - which began its roll-out on Monday a \"real game-changer\".\n\nShe said it would help speed up vaccinations considerably.\n\nThere are challenges with the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine because it has to be stored at extremely cold temperatures, while the Oxford vaccine can be be kept in a fridge.\n\nBoth vaccines will be available in Wales and the Welsh Government said 40,000 doses of the Oxford jab would be available within the first two weeks - with 22,000 jabs this week.\n\nTwo full doses of the Oxford vaccine gave 62% protection, a half dose followed by a full dose was 90% and overall the trial showed 70% protection.", "Bez in training for his new exercise classes in a park in Manchester\n\nHappy Mondays star Bez is to launch his own lockdown fitness classes to inspire the nation like Joe Wicks.\n\nThe former maraca-shaking dancer, 56, wants to rival Joe Wicks with his online YouTube classes \"Get Buzzin' With Bez\" to be launched on 17 January.\n\nBez, whose on-stage \"freaky dancing\" made him an icon of the 'Madchester' music scene, has admitted he also wants to budge his own lockdown bulge.\n\nHe won Celebrity Big Brother in 2005 and even made a bid to become an MP.\n\nBez, whose real name is Mark Berry, will be shown being trained in the fitness classes rather than acting as the instructor himself.\n\nHe said: \"I'd like to think I'm somewhere between Joe Wicks and Mr Motivator.\n\n\"I've started this new year seriously unfit, with a fat belly and creaky hips, and I can't stop eating chocolate.\n\n\"Last lockdown I got unfit, fat, lazy and into some seriously bad eating habits.\n\nBez being put through his paces with a personal trainer\n\n\"This year, this lockdown, I need to sort it out sharpish.\"\n\nHe said that people can join him on \"on this mad journey or just sit on the sofa and have a good laugh at me\".\n\nBez said he has \"started this new year seriously unfit, with a fat belly and creaky hips\"\n\nThe former dancer added: \"At the very least, I know I'll be making people smile, at best I'll be helping people get fit and mentally happier alongside me.\"\n\nThe Happy Mondays, along with bands like The Stone Roses and Inspiral Carpets, spearheaded the indie music 'Madchester' scene of the late 80s and early 90s.\n\nBez dancing with his maraca on BBC One's Top of the Pops as the band perform Step On in 1989\n\nBez's bug-eyed dance routines were said to have inspired the group's song Freaky Dancin' and made him one of the best-known members of the group, alongside frontman Shaun Ryder.\n\nTheir hits included Step On, Kinky Afro, Hallelujah and 24 Hour Party People.\n\nHowever, serious drug habits and infighting led to the Salford band's breakup in 1993.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "An ambulance had to be lifted out of the mud\n\nRescuers searching for victims of a landslide in Indonesia were buried by a second mudslide just hours later, officials say.\n\nThe first landslide, in Cihanjuang village, West Java, was triggered by torrential rain.\n\nAnother struck as survivors were still being evacuated. At least 12 people died and dozens more are missing.\n\nLandslides are common in Indonesia during rainy season, and often blamed on deforestation.\n\nThe latest disasters hit the villagers in Sumedang regency, about 150km (95 miles) southeast of the capital Jakarta, three and a half hours apart on Saturday.\n\nThe first happened at 16:00 (09:00 GMT) and the second at 19:30 (12:30 GMT), disaster agency spokesman Raditya Jati said in a statement.\n\n\"The first landslide was triggered by high rainfall and unstable soil conditions. The subsequent landslide occurred while officers were still evacuating victims around the first landslide area,\" he added.\n\nRescuers are believed to be among those killed, he added. A six-year-old boy was also among the dead, according to AFP news agency.\n\nSome 27 people were believed to be missing late on Sunday, local media quoted Deden Ridwansah, the head of the local search and rescue agency as saying. About 46 were known to have survived.\n\nBad weather had forced the search to be suspended, he said, but it was expected to resume on Monday.\n\nIndonesia frequently suffers floods and landslides. Thousands of people had to be evacuated in the capital Jakarta this time last year as the city was inundated.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n• None The fastest-sinking city in the world", "More than 80,000 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test since the start of the pandemic, official figures have shown.\n\nA further 1,035 deaths in the UK were reported on Saturday, taking the total by that measure to 80,868.\n\nThe number of daily cases of people who tested positive for coronavirus increased by 59,937.\n\nOnly the US, Brazil, India and Mexico have recorded more Covid deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University.\n\nIt is the fourth day in a row that the UK has reported more than 1,000 daily deaths.\n\nIt comes as scientists advising the government have warned that lockdown measures in England need to be stricter to achieve the same impact as the March shutdown.\n\nMinisters have launched a new campaign urging people to act like they have the virus.\n\nMeanwhile, Buckingham Palace has said the Queen, 94, and the Duke of Edinburgh, 99, received Covid-19 vaccinations on Saturday.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics recently estimated as many as one in 50 people in England had coronavirus between 27 December and 2 January, while in London it was one in 30.\n\nOn Friday, mayor Sadiq Khan said the spread of Covid in the capital was \"out of control\".\n\nOfficial figures from Public Health England showed London had the highest regional case rate in the UK, exceeding 1,000 per 100,000 people.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and can only go out for essential reasons. Similar measures are in place across most of Scotland, in Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nProf Robert West, a participant in the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Behaviours (SPI-B), which advises the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), said the current rules were \"still allowing a lot of activity which is spreading the virus\".\n\nHe said the new variant of Covid was around 50% more infectious compared to the virus that infected people last March.\n\n\"That means that if we were to achieve the same result as we got in March we would have to have a stricter lockdown, and it (the current regime) is not stricter,\" he added.\n\nThe professor of health psychology at University College London also told the BBC more children were going to school, compared to during the first lockdown.\n\nHe said schools were \"a very important seed of community infection\".\n\nMore children are at school, after the Department for Education widened the categories of vulnerable and key worker pupils allowed to attend. Attendance rates have risen to 50% in some places.\n\nProf Susan Michie, who is also a member of Sage, said the spread of the new, more infectious variant meant current restrictions were \"too lax\".\n\n\"When you look at the data, it shows that almost 90% of people are overwhelmingly adhering to the rules - despite the fact that we're also seeing more people out and about,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nShe said, in comparison to the first lockdown in spring 2020, more people were allowed to go out to work and children's nurseries were open, making public transport busier.\n\nThe number of people travelling by public transport in London has decreased since the latest national lockdown began, with tube journeys now at 18% of the pre-pandemic demand and bus journeys at 30%, according to figures from Transport for London.\n\nHowever, during the first lockdown passenger numbers fell below 10% at some points.\n\nScientists believe the new variant spreads between 50 and 70% faster compared to previous forms of the virus.\n\nProf Kevin Fenton, London regional director for Public Health England, said there were \"things we could do better\" to reduce the number of infections, including greater compliance with mask wearing and social distancing when shopping and using public transport.\n\nTorsten Bell, chief executive of the Resolution Foundation think tank, told BBC Radio 4's PM programme that the UK's statutory sick pay system was \"not fit for purpose for a pandemic\" and more effective measures to encourage people to isolate were needed.\n\nAs cases and deaths soar, the government has launched an advertising campaign, which will be shared across television, radio, newspapers and on social media, urging people to stay at home and not to get complacent.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by Department of Health and Social Care\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"I know the last year has taken its toll - but your compliance is now more vital than ever.\"\n\nGovernment sources say there is also likely to be more focus from police on enforcing rather than explaining rules.\n\nOn Saturday afternoon, 12 people were arrested during an anti-lockdown protest in south London.\n\nIf you would like to send us a tribute to a friend or family member who died after contracting coronavirus, please use the form below.\n\nPlease remember to include a photo of your loved one and their name. Upload your pictures here. Don't forget to include your contact details, so we can get in touch with you.\n\nWe would like to respond to everyone individually and include every tribute in our coverage, but unfortunately that may not be possible. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMary McGarry from Leamington Spa in Warwickshire told BBC News that her letter points to an NHS online booking page which suggests she would have to take her husband, who has cancer and a lung disease, 20 miles to Birmingham.\n\n\"We're very reluctant to go into Birmingham city centre,\" she said.\n\n\"If we can't get somebody to take us, we'd have to go on the train but we're shielding because my husband's got poor health.... we want to know why we've got to travel that far?\"\n\nKay Hayward, from Whitwick in Leicestershire, said she went online to book an appointment for her 85-year-old husband Kenneth and was offered five different places including Widnes in Cheshire and Stevenage in Hertfordshire.\n\n\"I thought they must be joking... we talked about it and we thought it was actually safer to stay here and for him not not have it.\n\n130,000 letters have been sent out by NHS England so far\n\n\"But we were worried if we turned this down, we'd be off the list.. the letter doesn't say anything about having the vaccines anywhere else locally.\"\n\nAndrea Eaton, from Coventry, said she was so angry that her 81-year-old mother, who has heart problems and leukaemia, was offered Birmingham for her appointment that she attempted to ring Downing Street on Saturday night to complain.\n\nShe said she reached the press office and said: \"I want you to give Boris a message please that he has lied to the British public.\n\n\"He has told them they never need to go more than 10 miles... they were really rude and just put the phone down on me.\"\n\nAndrea Eaton said she wanted to get a message to Boris Johnson so rang Downing Street on Saturday evening\n\nA spokesperson from Number 10 told BBC News that they did not wish to comment, but wanted to remind the public to use the government website to write to the prime minister or contact their constituency MP.\n\nCouncillor Shaun Davies, the Labour leader at Telford and Wrekin Council in Shropshire, said he had been contacted by dozens of people who have found the letters misleading, thinking this is their only chance to get the vaccine.\n\nHe said he had spoken to Trafford Council and was aware of people in Shropshire being sent to Manchester and residents there being directed to Birmingham to get their jabs.\n\n\"For many people they have been told consistently to wait for the NHS to contact you in order to get a vaccine and that's what they've had for the first time as a piece of communication.\n\n\"This is really, really concerning for people in their 80s or 90s because of the importance of getting the vaccine.\"\n\nThe letters are not \"going to the heart\" of the public health message which is staying home and staying local, he said.\n\nMore than 500,000 letters will be sent out to homes offering people appointments at the centres over the next seven days\n\nDr Sarah Raistrick, from Coventry and Rugby Clinical Commission group (CCG), said people did not have to travel to the centres but admitted the letter did not make that clear.\n\n\"You can wait and be contacted by your local GP service and have it locally if you'd prefer.\n\n\"If you sit tight, you will be contacted and I'm hopeful that if you're 80 or over, by the end of this month you will have had your vaccination whether that is locally or whether you have chosen to travel,\" she said.\n\nWork will be done with the NHS locally and nationally to make that message clearer, she added.\n\nThe seven centres were chosen to give a geographical spread covering as many people as possible and are capable of delivering thousands of jabs per week, NHS England has said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sir Keir Starmer has said the \"status quo isn't working\" for Scotland but has again rejected calls for a second independence referendum.\n\nThe Labour leader, who backs devolving more powers from Westminster, claimed another vote would be \"divisive\".\n\nHowever, he said he did not agree with Boris Johnson's assessment that there should not be another referendum for at least 40 years.\n\nThe SNP said a vote would allow Scots to choose how to rebuild after Covid.\n\nLast year Sir Keir said he would set up a constitutional commission to offer a \"positive alternative to the Scottish people\".\n\nHe told BBC One's Andrew Marr Show: \"I don't think there should be another referendum, I don't think a further divisive referendum is the way forward.\n\n\"But I do accept that the status quo isn't working. I don't accept the argument that the status quo isn't working, the next thing you do is go to a referendum.\n\n\"I think there are other things you can do, other arguments that can be made in support of the United Kingdom.\"\n\nAsked about Boris Johnson's 40-year position, Sir Keir replied: \"I heard the prime minister say that and I don't agree with him on that.\"\n\nSpeaking on BBC Politics Scotland, Deputy First minister John Swinney rejected suggestions that the recovery from the Covid crisis should be a greater priority than another independence vote.\n\nHe said: \"An independence referendum is an essential priority of the people of Scotland because it gives us the opportunity to choose how we rebuild as a country from Covid.\n\n\"It would give us the opportunity to decide on our constitutional future and to determine the nature of our economy and how we deal with and support our citizens.\"\n\nEarlier this month Prime Minister Boris Johnson told the BBC he thought the 41-year interval between the UK's referendums on joining the EU and leaving it was a \"good sort of gap\".\n\nMr Johnson said in his experience, such votes \"don't have a notably unifying force in the national mood, they should be only once in a generation\".", "This car was one of many turned away by police at Moel Famau on Saturday\n\nPeople are \"blatantly\" ignoring rules on lockdown restrictions despite repeated warnings, police have said.\n\nMore than 100 cars had been turned away from Moel Famau on the Flintshire border by Saturday lunchtime, with some driving past \"road closed\" signs.\n\nIn Snowdonia, Gwynedd, a warden said a group from Leicester would have \"probably ignored our advice\" if police had not arrived and told them to leave.\n\nLevel four restrictions mean travelling for exercise is not allowed in Wales.\n\nKeith Ellis, a warden at Pen y Pass in Snowdonia, said while it had been much quieter this weekend, people were still travelling, despite the restrictions.\n\n\"We've had three from Leicester first thing this morning and if the police hadn't turned up they would have probably ignored our advice and carried on up the mountain,\" he said.\n\n\"What they were wearing was totally inappropriate and they would have probably got into danger.\n\n\"We've had people also from Liverpool and some locals turning up knowing full well what the rules are, but just trying it on.\n\n\"Luckily there are a lot more police officers around and all these people have been spoken to and advised by the police as well.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said: \"Cases of coronavirus are very high in Wales at the moment and there is a new strain of the virus circulating, which is highly infectious and moving quickly.\n\n\"At alert level four, exercise should always be undertaken from home, unless you have special circumstances which requires some flexibility - such as disability or autism.\n\n\"The more people gather, the greater the risk of spreading or catching the virus.\"", "Boris Johnson is expected to announce a set of new national restrictions for England, similar to the March lockdown, in a televised address at 20:00 GMT.\n\nThe PM is likely to urge the public to follow the new rules from midnight.\n\nIt is expected people will be told to work from home if possible and schools will close for most pupils.\n\nIt is not yet clear when the measures will be reviewed, but MPs are likely to be given a vote to approve them retrospectively on Wednesday.\n\nMeanwhile, the UK's chief medical officers warned of a \"material risk of healthcare services being overwhelmed\" in several areas over the next 21 days.\n\nScotland announced a legal requirement to stay at home from midnight, with schools to be closed.\n\nMr Johnson will set out plans for England as the UK's devolved nations have the power to set their own coronavirus regulations.\n\nBoth Wales and Northern Ireland are already under national restrictions.\n\nOn Monday, the UK recorded more than 50,000 new confirmed Covid cases for the seventh day in a row.\n\nAs of 08:00 GMT, there were 26,626 Covid-19 patients in hospital in England, according to the latest figures.\n\nThis is a week-on-week increase of 30%, and a new record high.\n\nMr Johnson is expected to tell people to work from home unless they are a key worker, or it is not possible for them to do so, for example if they work on a construction site, according to BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg.\n\nIt is also understood that England's chief medical officer, Prof Chris Whitty, has told the prime minister the new variant of coronavirus is now spreading throughout the country.\n\nThe new variant - first identified in Kent and since seen across the UK and other parts of the world - has been found to spread much more easily than earlier variants.\n\nA No 10 spokesman said the spread of the new variant had led to \"rapidly escalating case numbers across the country\".\n\n\"The prime minister is clear that further steps must now be taken to arrest this rise and to protect the NHS and save lives,\" he added.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer - who called for a national lockdown in England within 24 hours on Sunday - said: \"I hope the prime minister has been listening to the clear calls for tough national restrictions.\"\n\nHospitals have said they are under \"extreme pressure\" and one of Britain's most senior doctors warned on the weekend that trusts across the UK should prepare themselves for a surge in cases.\n\nThe number of Covid-19 patients in UK hospitals is currently above the level seen in spring 2020.\n\nA further 58,784 cases and an additional 407 deaths within 28 days of a positive test result were reported on Monday, though deaths in Scotland were not recorded.\n\nWhat worked before may not work again - even a repeat of the March lockdown may not be enough to contain the new variant.\n\nConsider the R number - the number of people each infected person passes the virus onto on average.\n\nThe March lockdown brought R down to 0.6 and led to a sharp decline in cases.\n\nEvery 100 infected people passed the virus onto 60 others, who passed it onto 36, then 21, then 12 and so on.\n\nBut the new variant is thought to be around 50% more transmissible so its R number, in the same lockdown conditions, would be around 0.9.\n\nThen 100 infected people would pass the virus onto 90 others, then 81, then 73, then 66 and so on.\n\nThis is a far slower decline.\n\nHowever, uncertainty around the new variant means there are scenarios where its levels plateau rather than fall during lockdown conditions.\n\nIt is going to be a tough start to the year. Even with immediate and tough restrictions there are a projected 20,000 additional deaths in the first months of 2021.\n\nNow more than ever this is a race between the virus and the vaccine.\n\nMr Johnson's address comes as UK chief medical officers recommended the Covid threat level be increased to five - its highest level.\n\nIt means the NHS may soon be unable to handle a further sustained rise in cases, the medical officers said in a joint statement.\n\nNHS Providers, which represents health service trusts, said hospitals were at a \"critical point\" and that \"immediate and decisive action\" is needed.\n\nPreviously, the government described level five as requiring stricter social distancing measures. The first lockdown, which began in March 2020, was when the UK was under level four.\n\nThese Covid threat levels are separate to the regional tier system of restrictions in England.\n\nAnnouncing tougher measures in Scotland, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said: \"It is no exaggeration to say that I am more concerned about the situation we face now than I have been at any time since March last year.\"\n\nThe new restrictions in Scotland mean it will be a legal requirement to stay at home except for certain essential purposes, similar to the first lockdown last March. Schools will be closed to pupils until February.\n\nIn Wales, all schools and colleges will move to online learning until at least 18 January.\n\nNorthern Ireland's Stormont Executive are also meeting to discuss possible new measures in light of Mr Johnson's televised address - which will air on BBC One and the BBC iPlayer from 19:35 GMT.\n\nThe prime minister will speak amid continued uncertainty over whether schools will remain open to all pupils in England, after several councils requested classrooms stay shut.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 82-year-old Brian Pinker is given the Oxford vaccine at the Churchill Hospital in Oxford\n\nEarlier on Monday, an 82-year-old retired maintenance manager became the first person in the UK to receive the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nBrian Pinker said he was \"really proud\" to receive a jab developed in the UK, which will form a large part of the country's mass vaccination plan.\n\n\"The nurses, doctors and staff today have all been brilliant and I can now really look forward to celebrating my 48th wedding anniversary with my wife Shirley later this year,\" Mr Pinker said.", "Most pupils will be studying from home for the rest of this half term\n\nSchools and colleges in England are to be closed to most pupils until at least half term, Boris Johnson has announced.\n\nThe prime minister said the new lockdown had to be \"tough enough\" to stop the variant virus from spreading - and teaching will go online.\n\nA-Levels and GCSEs will be cancelled, a government source confirmed to BBC News - although vocational exams will go ahead.\n\nThe National Education Union accused the government of causing \"chaos\".\n\nIn a television address, Mr Johnson announced the biggest changes to schools since the early days of the first lockdown in March.\n\n\"Because we now have to do everything we possibly can to stop the spread of the disease, primary schools, secondary schools and colleges across England must move to remote provision from tomorrow,\" said the prime minister.\n\nThis means a return to online learning for pupils of all ages - apart from vulnerable children and the children of key workers who can continue to go into school.\n\nPrimary schools went back today - and will then close again tomorrow\n\n\"We recognise that this will mean it's not possible or fair for all exams to go ahead this summer, as normal,\" said Mr Johnson.\n\nIt is understood that vocational exams will continue, but GCSEs and A-levels will be cancelled - and that the exam watchdog Ofqual will make \"alternative arrangements\" for delivering results.\n\nAn attempt to produce replacement exam grades last summer turned into one of the biggest U-turns of the pandemic.\n\nTeachers' unions accused the government of failing to react more swiftly to \"mounting evidence\" about Covid transmission in schools and to make preparations for remote teaching and alternatives to written exams.\n\nBut Mary Bousted, co-leader of the National Education Union, said Education Secretary Gavin Williamson had \"become an expert in putting his head in the sand\".\n\nGeoff Barton of the ASCL head teachers' union criticised ministers for having issued legal threats to keep schools open at the end of last term - and then \"made a series of chaotic announcements about the start of this term\".\n\nThe new term, which began on Monday for primary pupils, has only lasted a day before it has been suspended.\n\nThe prime minister said he hoped that schools would be \"reopening schools after the February half term\".\n\nThere have been assurances that there will be a more thorough approach to home learning than in the first lockdown last year.\n\nThe Department for Education has provided hundreds of thousands of computer devices - with the aim of supporting those without the equipment needed to work online from home.\n\nThere have also been suggestions Ofsted inspectors will play a more active role in checking on what support schools are providing to pupils in their online learning.\n\nUniversities in England had already planned a staggered return for this term - but there will now be even fewer students on campus this month.\n\nThe latest lockdown guidance says university students who are taking hands-on courses such as medicine or veterinary science should return for face-to-face lessons as planned.\n\nThese students will be expected to take two Covid tests or self-isolate for 10 days when they return.\n\nBut students on all other courses are being told not to come back to university if possible and to start their term online \"until at least mid-February\".", "The Queen's 95th birthday will be commemorated on one of five new coins released this year, the Royal Mint has announced.\n\nThe 2021 British coin collection will also mark the 250th anniversary of the birth of novelist Sir Walter Scott, and the 75th anniversary of the death of author HG Wells.\n\nThe release of a £5 coin is typically reserved for significant royal events.\n\nIn April the Queen will become the first UK monarch to reach 95.\n\nThe new £5 coin depicts the royal cypher \"EIIR\", above the words \"my heart and my devotion\", a nod to part of her 1957 Christmas broadcast, which was the first to be televised.\n\nDuring that speech, the Queen told the nation: \"In the old days the monarch led his soldiers on the battlefield and his leadership at all times was close and personal.\n\n\"Today things are very different. I cannot lead you into battle, I do not give you laws or administer justice, but I can do something else, I can give you my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.\"\n\nThe anniversary of the birth of Sir Walter Scott, who wrote the novels Waverley, Rob Roy and Ivanhoe and is considered one of Scotland's most famous figures, will be celebrated with a £2 coin.\n\nThe 75th anniversary of the death of science fiction author HG Wells, who penned works such as The Time Machine and The War Of The Worlds, will also be marked on a £2 coin, with a depiction of images from his novels.\n\nThe 50th anniversary of decimalisation, when Britain's modern coins came into force, will be featured on a 50p coin.\n\nThe 75th anniversary of the death of the inventor John Logie Baird, famous for his early prototypes of the television, will be commemorated on another new 50p coin.\n\nAs the Queen's head already appears on one side of all coins in circulation, these five coins will each offer a different depiction from the various stages of her reign.\n\nClare Maclennan, of the consumer division at the Royal Mint, said this year's commemorative coins marked \"some of the biggest anniversaries in 2021\", with each coin \"a miniature work of art\" designed as \"a treasured keepsake or gift\".\n\nThe commemorative set will be available to purchase from the Royal Mint website.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Olly Stephens was pronounced dead in Bugs Bottom fields in Emmer Green, Reading\n\nA school says its community has been left \"reeling\" after a 13-year-old boy was stabbed to death in Reading.\n\nOliver Stephens, known as Olly, was pronounced dead at Bugs Bottom fields, Emmer Green, on Sunday.\n\nFour boys and a girl, all aged 13 or 14, have been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder. They remain in custody.\n\nHighdown School and Sixth Form Centre head teacher Rachel Cave described the boy's death as a \"total tragedy\".\n\nIn a statement, she said: \"This student was part of our community and many students and staff knew him well.\n\n\"Many have been deeply affected by this tragedy.\n\n\"In normal circumstances we would open the school and welcome in students for support before the start of the term.\n\n\"We are currently unable to do this, of course, but are arranging counselling support and will be establishing an electronic book of condolence.\"\n\nFlowers have been left outside Highdown School\n\nMs Cave said the school was \"a supportive and close-knit community\" which would \"work together over the coming days and weeks\".\n\nDet Supt Kevin Brown, of Thames Valley Police, said: \"Our thoughts remain with Olly's family at this incredibly difficult time.\"\n\nHe added: \"This is a tragic and shocking incident which has resulted in the death of a young boy.\"\n\nThe victim's family are being supported by specially trained officers.\n\nThames Valley Police said a \"considerable police presence\" would be in place in the area for several days\n\nOfficers were called just before 16:00 GMT on Sunday following reports of an attack.\n\nOfficers are appealing for anyone who was in the area between 15:00 and 16:30 who might have taken photos or camera footage to contact them if they notice anything suspicious.\n\nDet Supt Brown said he believed there would have been witnesses to the \"dreadful incident\" as the area is popular with dog walkers.\n\nA man said his wife was walking their dog through the park on Sunday afternoon when she saw a boy on the ground with several people around him trying to give him first aid.\n\nAnother dog walker said she saw a group of young people standing in the woods in Bugs Bottom fields at about 15:30 and described it as \"slightly unusual\".\n\nReading East MP Matt Rodda has offered his \"deepest condolences\" to the boy's family.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Matt Rodda This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSt Barnabas Church in Emmer Green has invited residents to pray and light a candle in memory of the boy.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Nick Hulme said intensive care units at Colchester and Ipswich hospitals were \"at capacity\"\n\nSecurity officers removed Covid-19 \"deniers\" who were taking pictures of empty corridors at a NHS hospital where the intensive care unit is at maximum capacity, its chief executive said.\n\nThe incident took place at Colchester Hospital at the weekend.\n\nChief executive Nick Hulme said it \"beggars belief\" some people were calling the pandemic a hoax.\n\nHe said it was \"the right thing to do\" to keep corridors in outpatients units as empty as possible.\n\nMr Hulme said hospital security had to \"remove people who were taking photographs of empty corridors and then posting them on social media, saying the hospital is not in crisis\".\n\n\"When you've got that sort of social media pressure and those people denying the reality of Covid it really concerns us. Words fail me,\" he said.\n\n\"Why would people do that when we all know somebody who has died from Covid?\n\n\"Of course there are empty corridors at the weekend in outpatients, because that's the right thing to do.\n\n\"We are facing the biggest health challenge we've ever seen and we are still seeing people flouting the [social distancing] rules.\"\n\nPeople had to be removed from Colchester Hospital's outpatients ward for taking pictures of empty corridors and claiming Covid-19 was a hoax\n\nUnder coronavirus pandemic restrictions on social distancing, many outpatient consultations had been moved online or were taking place over the telephone, he added.\n\nPhysical appointments, tests and procedures had been organised differently to avoid crowded waiting areas.\n\nMr Hulme is chief executive of East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust which also runs Ipswich Hospital and he said there were currently 320 patients being treated for Covid-19 across both sites.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "The homes of Frank and Christine Lampard, Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha and Tamara Ecclestone and her husband were broken into in December 2019\n\nFour people have been cleared of being involved in a plot to raid the luxury homes of celebrities in west London.\n\nItems belonging to Frank Lampard, Tamara Ecclestone and the family of tycoon Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha were among the items taken during three burglaries in December 2019.\n\nProsecutors said Maria Mester, 48, Emil Bogdan Savastru, 30, Sorin Marcovici, 53, and Alexandru Stan, 49, were a \"supporting cast\" for the burglars.\n\nBut a jury found all four not guilty.\n\nIsleworth Crown Court heard the three burglaries had netted \"big money\" for the raiders, with \"fabulous jewellery\" stolen and the majority of it having never been recovered.\n\nJay Rutland, Tamara Ecclestone and their daughter had left for Lapland on the morning of the burglary\n\nJewellery and cash worth £25m was taken from Ms Ecclestone's Kensington home while she was on holiday in Lapland with her husband Jay Rutland and their daughter.\n\nMr Lampard and his TV presenter wife Christine had about £60,000 in watches and jewellery stolen when they were out, while raiders also ransacked the family home of Mr Srivaddhanaprabha, who died in 2018 in a helicopter crash, the jury was told.\n\nThe four defendants were accused of eight charges including conspiracy to burgle.\n\nHowever, each denied their involvement with the plot, saying they had no knowledge that the alleged burglars were criminals.\n\nJurors were shown an image from Maria Mester's Facebook account, in which she was said to be wearing Tamara Ecclestone's necklace\n\nThe court heard escort Ms Mester had flown into the UK from Italy on 7 December.\n\nPolice described her as the plot's \"matriarch\", but the 48-year-old told jurors she was only in London after being paid £5,000 to accompany one of the alleged burglars for the week.\n\nSavastru was arrested at Heathrow Airport on 30 January as he prepared to leave for Japan, wearing Mr Srivaddhanaprabha's Tag watch and carrying a Louis Vuitton bag stolen from Mr Rutland.\n\nHe told the court he thought the items had been left behind by the alleged burglars at the Airbnb property he had helped them rent.\n\nThe four Romanian nationals were cleared of all charges apart from Savastru, who was convicted of one count of attempting to conceal criminal property.\n\nThe 30-year-old will be sentenced at a later date.\n\nA group of alleged burglars, who cannot be named for legal reasons, are accused of carrying out the raids.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Boris Johnson has reiterated his position that a Scottish independence referendum should be a \"once-in-a-generation\" vote.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr programme, the prime minister said the gap between referendums on Europe - the first in 1975 and the second in 2016 - was \"a good sort of gap\".\n\nHowever, Mr Marr suggested that now \"things had changed\" for Scotland.\n\nNicola Sturgeon wants to see an independent Scotland join the EU.\n\nAndrew Marr asked the prime minister what a voter in Scotland should do if they decided that a second independence referendum was now something they wanted, and what were the \"democratic tools\" to now do that?\n\nMr Johnson replied by saying: \"Referendums in my experience, direct experience, in this country are not particularly jolly events.\n\n\"They don't have a notably unifying force in the national mood, they should be only once-in-a-generation.\"\n\nAsked what the difference was between a referendum on EU membership being granted and one on Scottish independence being requested, he said: \"The difference is we had a referendum in 1975 and we then had another one in 2016.\n\n\"That seems to be about the right sort of gap.\"\n\nThe 2014 independence referendum resulted in a 55.3% vote against Scotland going alone.\n\nOn Hogmanay, Nicola Sturgeon said Europe should \"keep a light on\" as Scotland will be \"back soon\".\n\nThe first minister tweeted just after the Brexit transition period formally ended at 11:00 on 31 December 2020.\n\nScotland's trading and travel relationships with EU countries will now be governed by the agreement announced by the UK government on Christmas Eve.\n\nMs Sturgeon reiterated the SNP's call for an independent Scotland to join the EU.\n\nTweeting a picture of the words Europe and Scotland joined by a love heart, she wrote: \"Scotland will be back soon, Europe. Keep the light on.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Nicola Sturgeon This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSNP depute leader Keith Brown said: \"It may be a new year but it's the same old incoherent bluster from Boris Johnson. The prime minister pretends otherwise but he knows he can't keep on denying democracy.\n\n\"Even his American pal Donald Trump has learned that if you try to stand in the way of the democratic choice of a nation you get swept away.\n\n\"The people who will decide our future are the people of Scotland, not Boris Johnson and the Westminster Tories.\"\n\nFormer Labour prime minister Tony Blair said it was \"extremely difficult\" to challenge the SNP on independence when the party was \"virtually uncontested\" in Scotland.\n\nHe said: \"We had a referendum that rejected Scottish independence, but Brexit put it back on the agenda again. And it's going to require very careful management. The truth of the matter is it's still not in Scotland's interest to separate from England.\n\n\"There are huge economic and political reasons for the United Kingdom to stay the United Kingdom but we're going to have to examine whether there's different constitutional settlements.\n\n\"I also think it's incredibly important, the single most important thing politically to my mind, is that we get a really capable opposition in Scotland - which should be the Labour Party - that's capable of contesting the Scottish nationalist position in Scotland in a way that prevents them from doing what they do at the moment, which is govern Scotland but pretend they're in opposition.\"\n\nScottish Greens co-leader Lorna Slater said: \"Only the people of Scotland have the right to determine Scotland's future.\n\n\"Seventeen consecutive opinion polls have demonstrated majorities in favour of independence, with the most recent indicating a record 58% support.\n\n\"Whether it's the botched handling of the coronavirus crisis, the Brexit catastrophe or just the heartlessness of Tory governments we haven't voted for, it's clear that the UK isn't working for Scotland.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 82-year-old Brian Pinker is given the Oxford vaccine at the Churchill Hospital in Oxford\n\nDialysis patient Brian Pinker, 82, has become the first person to receive the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nThe retired maintenance manager got the jab at 7:30 GMT from nurse Sam Foster at Oxford's Churchill Hospital.\n\nMore than half a million doses of the vaccine are ready for use on Monday.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said it was a \"pivotal moment\" in the UK's fight against the virus, as vaccines will help curb infections and then allow restrictions to be lifted.\n\nBut Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned on Monday there was \"no question we will have to take tougher measures\", which will be announced in \"due course\", as the UK struggles to control a new, fast-spreading variant of the virus.\n\nOn Sunday more than 50,000 new confirmed Covid cases were recorded in the UK for the sixth day running, prompting Labour to call for a third national lockdown in England.\n\nNorthern Ireland and Wales currently have their own lockdowns in place and Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced a fresh lockdown will begin in Scotland from 00:01 on Tuesday.\n\nThe rollout comes as rows continue over whether pupils should return to school with the current high levels of Covid infections.\n\nSix hospital trusts - in Oxford, London, Sussex, Lancashire and Warwickshire - have begun administering the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab, with 530,000 doses ready for use.\n\nMost other available doses will be sent to hundreds of GP-led services and care homes across the UK later in the week, according to the Department of Health and Social Care.\n\nMr Pinker, who has been having dialysis for kidney disease at the Churchill Hospital for a number of years, said he was \"really proud\" the vaccine was developed in Oxford.\n\n\"The nurses, doctors and staff today have all been brilliant and I can now really look forward to celebrating my 48th wedding anniversary with my wife Shirley later this year,\" he said.\n\nMusic teacher and father-of-three Trevor Cowlett, 88, and Prof Andrew Pollard, a paediatrician working at the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and lead investigator of the Oxford vaccine trial, were also among the first to be vaccinated.\n\nChief nurse Ms Foster, who administered the first dose, told the BBC it was a \"huge privilege\", saying: \"Every single patient that we have vaccinated over the last couple of weeks have got their own personal stories to the difference it's going to make, so it is no different this morning.\"\n\nSpeaking during a visit to London's Chase Farm Hospital, to meet some of the first people to receive the Oxford vaccine, the prime minister said there were \"tough, tough\" weeks to come.\n\nThere will now be a \"massive ramp-up\" in vaccination numbers \"in the weeks ahead\", Mr Johnson said, and the number of vaccine doses will amount to \"tens of millions by the end of March\".\n\nAsked when the government will be able to vaccinate two million people a week, Mr Johnson said the government will give more details \"in the next few days... as soon as we have better numbers to give\".\n\nMr Hancock told BBC Breakfast the Oxford vaccine rollout was a \"pivotal moment\" in the fight against coronavirus, saying: \"It's going to be a tough few weeks ahead, but this is the way out.\"\n\nAsked about reports potential volunteers were being deterred by the additional training and forms, Mr Hancock said they were going to \"reduce the amount of bureaucracy\".\n\n\"For instance there's one of the training programmes about how to tackle terrorism, I don't think that's necessary, we're going to stop that,\" he said.\n\nHowever, he said this was not delaying the delivery of the vaccine, adding that the next delivery of the vaccine will be \"early this week\" to be \"deployed next week\".\n\nEngland's chief medical officer Chris Whitty said the vaccines \"give us a route out in the medium term\" but warned the NHS was \"under considerable and rising pressure in the short term\".\n\nFormer health secretary and Conservative chairman of the Commons' health committee Jeremy Hunt tweeted that it was \"time to act\" and the government needed to close schools and borders, ban all household mixing and impose a 12-week national lockdown in England.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jeremy Hunt This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLabour's shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth agreed that a national lockdown was needed, as well as \"rapidly scaled-up vaccine distribution\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock: 'This way can save more lives'\n\nAs the recent rise in Covid cases puts increased pressure on the NHS, the UK has accelerated its vaccination rollout by planning to give both doses of the vaccine 12 weeks apart, having initially planned to leave 21 days between jabs.\n\nThe UK's chief medical officers have defended the delay to second doses, saying getting more people vaccinated with the first jab \"is much more preferable\".\n\nMake no mistake, the UK is in a race against time.\n\nThat much is clear from the decision to delay the second dose of the vaccine to focus on giving as many people as possible their first doses.\n\nSo how fast can the NHS go? Ultimately it wants to get to two million doses a week.\n\nThat will not be achieved this week.\n\nBut Monday marks the start of the NHS putting the accelerator to the floor.\n\nA rapid increase in the vaccination rate should follow.\n\nBut how quickly the UK can go is dependent on several complex processes.\n\nFirst, the vaccine has to be manufactured, then it has to be put into vials and packaged up (known as fill and finish). After that each batch has to be checked and certified before being sent to NHS vaccination sites where there needs to be enough vaccinators and support staff to ensure those doses are given as quickly as possible.\n\nProblems at any one stage can disrupt how quickly the vaccination programme can be rolled out.\n\nWhile there are millions of doses of each vaccine in the country and a total of 140 million of both vaccines pre-ordered, there are currently just over one million - around 500,000 of each - ready to be given this week.\n\nNHS medical director Professor Stephen Powis said: \"The NHS' biggest vaccination programme in history is off to a strong start, thanks to the tremendous efforts of NHS staff who have already delivered more than one million jabs.\"\n\nHe said the Oxford vaccine rollout was \"chalking up another world first that will protect thousands more over the coming weeks\".\n\nThe Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was the first jab approved in the UK, and more than a million people have had their first one.\n\nThe first person to get the jab on 8 December, Margaret Keenan, has already had her second dose.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dr Nikita Kanani, NHS England's medical director for primary care, says it's crucial to get more patients the first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine\n\nThe Oxford jab - which was approved for use in late December - can be stored at normal fridge temperatures, making it easier to distribute and store than the Pfizer jab. It is also cheaper per dose.\n\nThe UK has secured 100 million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, enough for most of the population.\n\nCare home residents and staff, people aged over 80, and frontline NHS staff will be first to receive it.\n\nGPs and local vaccination services have been asked to ensure every care home resident in their local area is vaccinated by the end of January, the Department of Health and Social Care said.\n\nSome 730 vaccination sites have already been established across the UK, with the total set to surpass 1,000 later this week, the department added.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon announces stay at home rules in new lockdown\n\nScots are to be ordered to stay at home amid a fresh Covid-19 lockdown which will see schools remain closed to pupils until February.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said new curbs would be introduced at midnight in a bid to contain the new, faster-spreading strain of the virus.\n\nNew laws will require people to stay at home and work from home where possible.\n\nOutdoor gatherings are also to be cut back, with people only allowed to meet one person from one other household.\n\nPlaces of worship are to be closed, group exercise banned, and schools will largely operate via online and remote learning.\n\nThese rules will apply across the Scottish mainland until at least the end of January, and will be kept under review.\n\nIsland areas will remain in level three - but Ms Sturgeon said they would be monitored carefully.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson later announced similar lockdown measures for the whole of England with all schools and colleges closing to most pupils until mid February.\n\nA further 1,905 new cases were reported in Scotland on Monday - with 15% of tests returning a positive result, something Ms Sturgeon said \"illustrates the severity and urgency of the situation\".\n\nThe first minister said she was \"more concerned about the situation we face now than I have been at any time since March last year\", with the new coronavirus strain now accounting for half of new cases.\n\nAnd she said a \"steeply rising trend of infections\" was threatening to put \"significant pressure\" on NHS services, saying hospitals could breach capacity within three to four weeks.\n\nThe new rules - which will be put down in law - mean Scots will only be allowed to leave home for essential purposes, such as shopping for food and medicine, exercise and caring responsibilities.\n\nNo limit is to be put on how many times people can go out to exercise, but outdoor meetings are to be limited to a maximum of two people from two households.\n\nEveryone who can work from home will be required to, and people in the \"shielding\" category are advised not to go in to work at all.\n\nThe construction and manufacturing industries will remain open, but Ms Sturgeon said this would be kept under review.\n\nPlaces of worship are to close, the number of people who can attend weddings is to be cut to five, and funeral wakes will no longer be allowed.\n\nSchools are to remain closed to the majority of pupils until February, with Ms Sturgeon saying community transmission of the virus must be brought to a lower level amid concerns that the new variant of the virus spreads more easily among young people.\n\nShe said she knew remote learning presented \"significant challenges\" for parents, teachers and pupils, adding: \"I want to be clear that it remains our priority to get school buildings open again for all pupils are quickly as possible and then keep them open.\"\n\nThe first minister said she was considering whether teachers could be given the Covid-19 vaccine as a priority.\n\nMore than 100,000 people have been given a first dose of the vaccine in Scotland, and the government expects to have access to just over 900,000 doses by the end of January.\n\nHowever Ms Sturgeon said the best way to get schools open again was to drive down transmission of the virus - urging Scots to abide by the rules.\n\nThese are the toughest restrictions Scotland has faced since the lockdown of March 2020.\n\nIt is - once again - becoming compulsory to stay at home except for essential purposes like food shopping, exercise and medical care.\n\nThe extended closure of schools to most pupils is something the Scottish government was particularly keen to avoid.\n\nThese decisions are a measure of how worried ministers are about the rapid spread of the new variant of coronavirus, which is fast becoming the dominant strain.\n\nWith 225 cases per 100,000 people, Scotland is thought to be about four weeks behind London, which already has four times as many cases and NHS services under considerable pressure.\n\nThe Scottish government believes that without further action the NHS here would run out of beds for Covid patients within a month.\n\nThis new alert comes at the start of a new year which also brings new hope for a route out of the pandemic with two vaccines now beginning to offer protection.\n\nAround 100,000 doses have already been administered in Scotland but it is likely to take several months to reach all in the most vulnerable groups.\n\nThe first minister said Scotland was now in \"a race between the vaccine and the virus\".\n\nShe said: \"The Scottish government will do everything we can to speed up distribution of the vaccine. But all of us must do everything we can to slow down the spread of the virus.\n\n\"We can already see - by looking at infection rates in the south of England - some of what could happen here in Scotland. To prevent that, we need to act immediately and firmly.\n\n\"For government, that means introducing tough measures - as we have done today. And for all of us, it means sticking to the rules.\"\n\nScottish Conservative group leader Ruth Davidson raised concerns about online learning, saying it was vital that pupils had \"equal access to high-quality education\".\n\nAnd Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard said teachers and working parents would need support to make the remote learning system work.\n\nMs Sturgeon said her government had \"agonised\" over the decision on schools, and said the \"fundamental priority\" was to re-open them in full as soon as possible.\n\nShe said: \"Just as the last places we ever want to close are schools and nurseries - so it is the case that schools and nurseries will be the first places we want to reopen as we re-emerge from this latest lockdown.\"\n\nThe NHS has coped so far in Scotland - more so than many other parts of the UK.\n\nBut in places like Glasgow and Lanarkshire it has been very, very tight. And here like everywhere else staff are bracing themselves for the post-Christmas effects of rising cases.\n\nThe first minister gave some stark figures on hospital and ICU occupancy - suggesting we are just weeks away from reaching limits.\n\nThere is so little give in the system they will be glad to see everything possible done to prevent stretched services being overwhelmed at a time when we are on our way to getting out the other side.\n\nThere is real anxiety about what the next few weeks might bring.\n• None Covid in Scotland: New lockdown from midnight", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. James Shaw, from Dundee, was among the first to receive the jab\n\nThe first Scottish recipients of the new Oxford University and AstraZeneca vaccine have received their jabs.\n\nJames Shaw, 82, and his 82-year-old wife Malita were among the first to be vaccinated in Dundee.\n\nThe couple received their first doses at Lochee Health and Community Care Centre.\n\nNicola Sturgeon has said she hoped all over-50s and those with underlying health conditions will have been vaccinated by early May.\n\nJames said: \"My wife and I are delighted to be receiving this vaccination. I have asthma and bronchitis and I have been desperate to have it so I am really pleased to be one of the first to be getting it.\n\n\"I know it takes a little while for the vaccine to work but after today I know that I will feel a bit less worried about going out. I will still be very careful and avoid busy places but knowing I have been vaccinated will really help me.\n\n\"All of my friends have said they are going to have the vaccine when it is their turn and I would encourage everyone who is offered this vaccination to take it.\"\n\nJames Shaw, 82, was one of the first people in Scotland to receive the AstraZeneca/Oxford Covid-19 vaccine, administered by advanced nurse practitioner Justine Williams\n\nThe Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine programme is being rolled out less than a week after it was approved by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA). It is the second vaccine approved for use in the UK.\n\nNHS Tayside is rolling out the vaccine through GP practices in the community and will also vaccinate elderly residents and staff in care homes.\n\nIts associate director of public health Dr Daniel Chandleris said: \"The efforts of our vaccination teams have been amazing and it is testament to a real whole team approach that sees the first over-80s in the general population have their jabs today in Tayside.\n\n\"The availability and mobility of the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine gives us the opportunity to start to roll out the biggest vaccine programme that the UK has ever seen across our communities.\n\n\"Over-80s are the first priority group and patients will be contacted directly to attend a vaccination session.\"\n\nScottish Secretary Alister Jack added: \"This is another important moment in our fight against the virus - every vaccination takes us a step closer to getting back to our normal lives as soon as possible.\n\n\"As with the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, the UK is the first country in the world to approve and roll out the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine, with the UK Government ordering and paying for millions of doses for people in all parts of the UK.\"\n\nThe milestone came as First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced a new stricter lockdown.\n\nWith the exception of essential travel, people in mainland Scotland will have to remain at home from midnight.\n\nStatistics released on Monday showed a further 1,905 people had contracted Covid-19.\n\nFigures for hospital admissions and deaths over the holiday weekend will not be published until Tuesday.\n\nMs Sturgeon likened the situation to a race between the vaccine and the virus.\n\nShe said: \"In one lane we have vaccines - our job is to make sure they run as fast as possible.\n\n\"But in the other lane is the virus which - as a result of this new variant - has just learned to run much faster and has most definitely picked up pace in the last couple of weeks.\n\n\"To ensure that the vaccine wins the race, it is essential to speed up vaccination as far as possible. But to give it the time it needs to get ahead, we must also slow the virus down.\"\n\nThe new vaccine will initially be available in the hospitals that have been delivering the Pfizer/BioNtech vaccine, and new community settings will be able to deliver the jabs from 11 January.\n\nPeople in Scotland will be contacted by their health board when it is their turn to be vaccinated.\n\nThe Oxford vaccination marks a major turning point in the pandemic and will lead to a massive expansion in the UK's immunisation campaign, with enough to vaccinate 50 million people throughout the UK already on order.\n\nIt is easier to transport and store than the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, which needs cold storage of about -70C.\n\nThe Oxford vaccine is logistically much easier to distribute\n\nThe UK government has said 530,000 doses of the Oxford vaccine will be available to the UK from Monday, with \"millions due by the beginning of February\".\n\nScotland will ultimately get an 8.2% share of these vaccines, based on its population.\n\nChief Medical Officer Dr Gregor Smith has said he expects the NHS in Scotland to receive 440,360 doses of the vaccine during January.\n\nThe first minister said on Monday about 100,000 people in Scotland have already received a first dose of vaccine.\n\nBoth vaccines require two doses to be administered with an interval of between four and 12 weeks.\n\nPreviously the advice was for the vaccines to have a four-week gap between doses.\n\nThe Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) then recommended as many people as possible in the top priority groups should be offered a first dose as the initial priority.", "Dr Radha Modgil from BBC Radio 1’s Life Hacks shares her top five tips on how to stay mentally and emotionally well during the coronavirus lockdown, all beginning with the letter C.\n\nSticking to a routine, making sure we take care of ourselves, and using our creativity in new ways are all ways she suggests we can ease the psychological toll that staying inside is having on all of us.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "A top Swedish official involved in the coronavirus response has defended a Christmas holiday in the Canary Islands in the face of heavy criticism.\n\nDan Eliasson is head of the civil contingencies agency, which earlier in December had texted all Swedes urging them to avoid travel.\n\nHe was photographed in Las Palmas airport on the island of Gran Canaria.\n\nMr Eliasson insisted the trip was necessary \"for family reasons\".\n\nHe told Swedish media that he had \"given up a lot of trips during this pandemic\" but thought this one was necessary because he had a daughter living in the Canaries.\n\n\"I celebrated Christmas with her and my family,\" he told Expressen newspaper. He also said he had been worked remotely while in the Canaries.\n\nSweden has had 437,000 confirmed cases and 8,700 deaths - many more than its Scandinavian neighbours. The country has never imposed a full lockdown.\n\nHowever, alarmed by rising numbers of cases last month, the Swedish government reversed some of its guidance and sent a text message to all Swedes asking them to read updated guidelines.\n\nThe guidelines included asking Swedes to avoid unnecessary trips and not to make new contacts during a journey or at the destination.\n\nMr Eliasson was then photographed several times in Gran Canaria, including at the airport.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Expressen This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThere have been calls for Mr Eliasson, an experienced official who has worked at several important departments, to be fired.\n\nPrime Minister Stefan Löfven and other ministers have not yet commented, according to Swedish media.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. From the pandemic to measles, Smitha Mundasad looks at global health challenges in 2021", "Last updated on .From the section Horse Racing\n\nTributes have been paid to trainer Zoe Davison, who died from cancer on the same day two of her horses claimed wins at Plumpton.\n\nDavison, who had breast cancer for four-and-a-half years, died at her Shovelstrode Racing Stables in Sussex.\n\nBrown Bullet and Mr Jack, both trained at the family's stable, had raced to victory at the Sussex track on Sunday.\n\nSimon Clare, part-owner of Brown Bullet, said: \"Zoe was just the most wonderful human being imaginable.\"\n\nHer husband Andrew Irvine - who she married in 2018 - was by her side, along with family.\n\nHe said: \"She was the most wonderful, incredible person. I am blessed to have spent the last 24 years of my life with her.\"\n\nDaughter Gemelle Johnson, who was assistant to her mother, said: \"I just feel a bit numb inside because of everything.\n\n\"I'm a bit overwhelmed we've had a double for mum. Hopefully we have made her proud. It's surreal. Our team is a family business and we put everything into it. She will be thoroughly missed as she is the glue that holds us together.\n\n\"We've had a few winners around here and it is one of our local tracks. It means everything to us as we want to do her proud.\"\n\nDavison sent out the first of over 100 winners when Sails Legend, with AP McCoy in the saddle, won at Towcester in November 1997.\n\nShe enjoyed her best season with 15 winners in the 2017-18 campaign.\n\nJockey Page Fuller has a long association with the stable and should have ridden Mr Jack but had been stood down from an earlier fall.\n\nShe said: \"You couldn't have written it any better today. She was just a kind and genuine person who was a real horsewoman. She loved her horses and did her best by them.\n\n\"She has been struggling for a long time, but fortunately her strength has rubbed off on everybody else and they showed that by sending out the winners today.\n\n\"It has been a great team effort and it is great she has gone out like that. I don't know anybody who would have a bad word to say about her - she was just one of those really nice people.\"\n\nEd Arkell, ex-Fontwell clerk of the course and now at nearby West Sussex track Goodwood, said: \"Zoe was a huge part of the southern racing circuit. I'm so sorry for her family and she will be very much missed. She was a friendly, happy person who everybody loved.\n\n\"As a trainer, she ran a wonderful family operation. There are less of those these days. She supported her local tracks and became a big part of them.\"\n\nClare added: \"Zoe was the most talented horsewoman imaginable. What she didn't know about horses wasn't worth knowing.\n\n\"She is so incredibly well loved and will be desperately missed by everyone who knew her.\"", "Cases have reached record highs in the past week\n\nThe next few weeks could be the most dangerous period for Scotland since March in the fight against Covid, the first minister has warned.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said the new variant of the virus was \"accelerating spread\" across Scotland.\n\n\"If you first foot someone today, or hug/kiss/handshake them HNY, you are putting yourself, others and the NHS at risk,\" she tweeted.\n\nA further 2,539 cases of Covid-19 were confirmed on Friday.\n\nThe number is slightly down on Thursday's figure, but Ms Sturgeon said cases numbers were still \"worryingly high\".\n\nDaily confirmed cases have reached record highs on each of the previous three days, rising to to 2,622 on Thursday.\n\nThe percentage of positive cases also reached 14.4% on Wednesday - the highest it has been since the second wave of the pandemic began in the summer.\n\nMs Sturgeon tweeted: \"Today's case numbers are worryingly high again. The new variant is accelerating spread.\n\n\"PLEASE do not visit other people's homes just now, even today - if you first foot someone today, or hug/kiss/handshake them HNY, you are putting yourself, others & the NHS at risk.\"\n\nShe said the \"vaccine cavalry\" was on the way, offering \"real hope for 2021\", but she added: \"With this new variant, the next few weeks may be the most dangerous we've faced since Mar/April.\n\n\"We must act together to suppress it, to save lives and protect the NHS. Folded hands stick with it.\"\n\nThe number of daily confirmed cases has reached record highs this week\n\nA new study by London's Imperial College has found that the new variant of Covid-19 is \"hugely\" more transmissible than the virus's previous version.\n\nIt concludes the new variant increases the Reproduction or R number by between 0.4 and 0.7.\n\nThe UK's latest R number has been estimated at between 1.1 and 1.3. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.\n\nThe Scottish government's most recent estimate of the R number in Scotland has put it between 0.9 and 1.1.\n\nEmma Thomson, a professor of infectious disease at the University of Glasgow, said it was important to get people vaccinated quickly.\n\nThe professor, who has been working on the sequencing of the new Covid mutation, told the BBC that lockdown was not controlling the infection \"on its own\".\n\n\"At least we come in armed into the new year with two vaccines which are highly effective at preventing severe disease. We have that,\" she said.\n\n\"We need to roll it out now to add to the public health measures.\"\n\nParties, traditional \"first-footing\" and social events were banned this Hogmanay, with all of mainland Scotland and Skye being under the highest level of Covid restrictions.\n\nAll official events were cancelled, but police had to disperse a crowds of people who gathered at Edinburgh Castle and Calton Hill to see in the new year.\n\nIt has also emerged that 32 people were charged with reckless conduct after police found them gathered at a rented property in Aberfoyle on 27 December.\n\nA Scottish government spokesperson said: \"As the first minister has pointed out, the sharp rise in cases is evidence that the new strain seems to be speeding up transmission.\n\n\"This is why we are asking people to please stay at home as much as possible and avoid non-essential interaction with others.\n\n\"There is light at the end of the tunnel, but we ask everyone to be patient as we work our way through the vaccination programme, and continue to follow FACTS to keep us all safe.\"", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Monday morning. We'll have another update for you at 18:00 BST.\n\nThe first patients have been given the Oxford vaccine - five days after it was approved for use in the UK. Dialysis patient Brian Pinker, aged 82, was the first to receive it. It's a \"pivotal moment\" in the fight against the virus, according to Health Secretary Matt Hancock. More than 500,000 doses are ready to go, with care home residents and staff, people aged over 80, and NHS workers at the front of the queue. Some 730 vaccination sites have already been established, we're told, with the total set to surpass 1,000 later this week. The Oxford jab is easier to distribute and store than the Pfizer version, which was the first to be approved. It's also cheaper per dose. Find out more about how it was developed, and when you might receive one.\n\nThe vaccine news may be positive, but few deny the coronavirus situation in the UK right now is bleak. On Sunday, more than 50,000 new cases were recorded for the sixth day running and Labour is calling for a third national lockdown in England. Boris Johnson has admitted tougher restrictions are likely. Nicola Sturgeon is expected to announce new restrictions for Scotland later, while Northern Ireland and Wales already have their own lockdowns in place. The obvious next step for England would probably be to move more areas into tier four - a reminder of what that means - but our science editor David Shukman says there are other steps under discussion too.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nJanuary is normally a boom time for gyms, but coronavirus restrictions mean many are closed and others can't offer any group classes. At the same time, there's been an explosion in fitness tech, allowing more of us than ever to work out at home. So what does this mean for the future of the gym sector? Our reporter Eleanor Lawrie looks closely. Meanwhile, wherever you are in the UK, see 21 simple ways to get fitter in 2021.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sports expert Ruth Lowry says exercising outdoors could help us cope with Covid this winter\n\nThe pandemic has prompted many of us to change direction, career-wise, whether out of choice or necessity. Our CEO Secrets series has been documenting some of those forging a new path here in the UK, but the same trends are going on elsewhere too. In India, Shalini Sharma and Mrinali Hariyal have gone from stay-at-home mums cooking for their families to chefs providing meals for paying customers. They're plugging the gap left by restaurant closures and finding new identities for themselves. Watch their stories.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFind more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nPlus, are pandemics the new normal?\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "More than 200 workers at Google-parent Alphabet have taken steps to form a labour union in a rare development for an American tech giant.\n\nThey said the organisation will give staff greater power to voice concerns about discriminatory work practices at the firm and how it handles issues like online hate speech.\n\nThe move follows walkouts and other actions by staff in recent years.\n\nGoogle said it would \"continue engaging directly with all our employees\".\n\n\"We've always worked hard to create a supportive and rewarding workplace for our workforce,\" Kara Silverstein, director of people operations, said in a statement.\n\n\"Of course our employees have protected labour rights that we support. But as we've always done, we'll continue engaging directly with all our employees\".\n\nThe announcement of the Alphabet Workers Union comes weeks after Google's firing of a high-profile black artificial intelligence and ethics researcher generated uproar.\n\nThe US National Labor Relations Board also recently ruled the firm had unlawfully fired employees for attempting to organise a union.\n\nGoogle staff stage a walkout in 2018 over the company's handling of sexual misconduct allegations\n\nStaff have also mobilised against the firm's \"Project Maven\" work with the Department of Defense and the company's handling of sexual harassment complaints.\n\n\"This union builds upon years of courageous organizing by Google workers,\" Nicki Anselmo, program manager, said in the announcement.\n\n\"From fighting the 'real names' policy, to opposing Project Maven, to protesting the egregious, multi-million dollar payouts that have been given to executives who've committed sexual harassment, we've seen first-hand that Alphabet responds when we act collectively.\n\n\"Our new union provides a sustainable structure to ensure that our shared values as Alphabet employees are respected even after the headlines fade.\"\n\nThe group was organised by software engineers but is open to all ranks at the company's US and Canadian workforce, including temporary workers and contractors.\n\nIt is affiliated with the larger labour group, Communication Workers of America, but is not seeking formal recognition from the federal government, limiting its bargaining power.\n\nIt represents a small fraction of Alphabet's workforce, which includes more than 130,000 people as of September and roughly as many contractors, vendors and temporary staff.\n\nMembers who join will contribute about 1% of their compensation to the effort.\n\n\"We want Alphabet to be a company where workers have a meaningful say in decisions that affect us and the societies we live in,\" organisers wrote on Twitter.", "Nóra Quoirin was born with holoprosencephaly, a disorder that affects brain development\n\nA girl whose body was found in a jungle during a holiday in Malaysia died by misadventure, a coroner has recorded.\n\nNóra Quoirin, 15, from Balham, south-west London, was discovered dead nine days after she went missing from an eco-resort in August 2019.\n\nThe family said they were \"utterly disappointed\" with the verdict, which ruled out any criminal involvement.\n\nThey believe \"layers of evidence\" that were heard at the inquest point towards Nora having been abducted.\n\nThe family were staying in Sora House in Dusun eco-resort near Seremban, about 40 miles (65km) south of Kuala Lumpur, when they reported Nóra missing, the day after they had arrived.\n\nNóra, who was born with holoprosencephaly - a disorder which affects brain development - was eventually found by a group of civilian volunteers in a palm-oil plantation less than two miles from the holiday home.\n\nThe Quoirins, whose lawyers had asked the coroner to record an open verdict, said in a statement after the ruling that they have a number of reasons for the abduction theory. These include:\n\nSearch and rescue teams were deployed in an effort to locate Nora\n\nIn the statement, issued through the Lucie Blackman Trust, the family said they witnessed 80 slides presented in court as the verdict was given, adding that none of them \"engaged with who Nóra really was - neither her personality nor her intellectual abilities\".\n\nThey said: \"The coroner made mention several times of her inability to rule on certain points due to not knowing Nóra enough.\n\n\"It is indeed our view that to know Nóra would be to know that she was simply incapable of hiding in undergrowth, climbing out a window and making her way out of a fenced resort in the darkness unclothed.\"\n\nThe statement added: \"We believe we have fought not just for Nóra but in honour of all the special needs children in this world who deserve our most committed support and the most careful application of justice.\n\n\"This is Nóra's unique legacy and we will never let it go.\"\n\nFom the outset Meabh Quoirin believed her daughter had been abducted but Malaysian police insisted Nóra's disappearance had always been a missing persons case and ruled out any criminal involvement.\n\nThe authorities closed the case in January 2020, and Nóra's parents pushed for the inquest.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police played the sound of Nóra's mother's voice through a loudspeaker in the jungle\n\nDuring the inquest, a British pathologist who carried out a second post-mortem examination said Nóra's body had no injuries to suggest she was attacked or restrained.\n\nOn the final day of evidence, an investigating officer who was on duty the morning Nóra was reported missing said he was confident there were no criminal elements involved in her disappearance.\n\nFollowing the coroner's verdict, the Quoirins' legal team have discussed the family's rights moving forward, which include the possibility of applying for a revision of the misadventure verdict at the High Court of Seremban.\n\nLouise Azmi, one lawyer for the family, said they had pressed for an open verdict to reflect the lack of positive evidence in the case regarding what happened to Nora.\n\nAn open verdict would leave open the possibility that a criminal element was involved in Nora's death, Mrs Azmi said.\n\nShe told the BBC based on everything the family know of Nora, \"they continue to believe it is impossible she would have willingly walked away into the jungle\".\n\nThe family's legal team say parents Meabh and Sebastien Quoirin are \"disappointed\" with today's verdict.\n\nBut, Coroner Maimoonah Aid said her verdict was made not on \"theories\" and \"speculation\" surrounding the case, but on the balance of probabilities of the evidence presented before her.\n\nWith no evidence to the contrary she ruled out foul play.\n\nMoving forward, the Quoirin family now have the possibility to apply for a revision of the verdict with the High Court of Seremban.\n\nThere is precedent of a verdict being overturned in Malaysia before.\n\nIn 2019, following an appeal, a Malaysian coroner's verdict of misadventure concerning the death of 18-year-old model Ivana Smit was overturned in Kuala Lumpur and reopened as a murder investigation.\n\nAccording to Quoirin family lawyer Sakthy Vell, the family say they now need time to consider their next course of action.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. PM: 'No question we're going to have to take tougher measures'\n\nBoris Johnson has said there is \"no question\" the government will announce stricter measures to prevent the spread of coronavirus \"in due course\".\n\nHe predicted \"tough, tough\" weeks to come, with more than three-quarters of England's population already under the highest - tier four - restrictions.\n\nOn Sunday, the UK recorded more than 50,000 new confirmed Covid cases for the sixth day in a row.\n\nLabour is calling for new England-wide restrictions to come in immediately.\n\nLeader Sir Keir Starmer said it was \"inevitable\" more schools would have to close to lessen the spread of coronavirus.\n\nIn Scotland, further new restrictions are to come into force at midnight, including a \"legal requirement\" for people to stay at home. except for essential purposes.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said Scotland was effectively returning to conditions similar to Spring's nation-wide lockdown, with the curbs in place until at least the end of January.\n\nAn additional 454 deaths within 28 days of a positive test result were reported across the UK on Sunday, meaning the total by this measure is now above 75,000.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the \"old tier system\" in England was \"no longer strong enough\" to contain increasing infections.\n\nHospitals are coming under increasing pressure, as cases mount up.\n\nThe old tier system is no longer enough…the figures are only heading in one direction.\n\nThese are the words of the health secretary and a health minister.\n\nBoris Johnson says stricter measures are coming, which immediately sparks the questions \"when?,\" and \"what are you waiting for?\"\n\nDowning Street wants to push a tougher message on adherence to the current rules in England while it assesses the latest Christmas data, but is coming under growing pressure to act sooner.\n\nWith Nicola Sturgeon about to go further in Scotland and the Labour leader calling for an immediate national lockdown, it's difficult to see how the prime minister can wait much longer.\n\nAsked what further restrictions would be put in place, Mr Johnson said: \"What we have been waiting for is to see the impact of the tier four measures on the virus and it is a bit unclear, still, at the moment.\n\n\"But if you look at the numbers, there is no question that we are going to have to take tougher measures and we will be announcing those in due course.\"\n\nHe said the faster-spreading coronavirus variant that has developed in south-eastern England required \"extra-special vigilance\".\n\nBBC science editor David Shukman said new measures could include limits on outdoor exercise and a return to the two-metre (rather than one-metre-plus) social distancing rule, as applied during the first lockdown last year.\n\nSpeaking on a visit to Chase Farm Hospital in north London, the prime minister argued that closing primary schools must remain a \"last resort\", adding that the \"risk to kids\" was \"very, very small\".\n\nSecondary schools in England are currently closed until 18 January, except for pupils in their final GCSE and A-level years, who are due to return on 11 January.\n\nAsked whether they could remain closed, Mr Johnson said: \"We are keeping things under review.\"\n\nBut former Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt urged the government to close all schools and UK borders \"right away\", while banning \"all household mixing\".\n\nThe Conservative MP, who now chairs the Commons Health Committee, said these restrictions should be \"time-limited\" to \"12 weeks or so\", after which the roll-out of vaccines would provide \"light at the end of the tunnel\".\n\nMore than 500,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine are now available for use, with the Pfizer BioNTech jab having been issued since early last month.\n\nThe virus is winning at the moment, despite science fighting back with a vaccine. New daily cases of Covid have been rising to record levels, which means hospital numbers and deaths will increase too.\n\nMinisters say more measures are coming, but it is not clear yet what that will mean in practice.\n\nScotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are already in lockdown, and most of England is under tier four rules.\n\nIn recent days the focus has shifted to schools and whether they can be kept open without making the epidemic worse.\n\nExperts agree that the risk the virus poses to children is still low, but they can spread the disease.\n\nWith a new, more transmissible variant of Covid circulating, the government may have to enact this unpalatable \"last resort\" of closing classrooms.\n\nSome 78% of the population of England is now in tier four, under which non-essential shops are closed and people can only leave their homes for a certain number of reasons.\n\nThe Scottish government meets later to consider \"further action\", with all of mainland Scotland currently under its own level four restrictions - only some islands are under less stringent tier three measures.\n\nWales entered a nationwide lockdown on 20 December, while Northern Ireland is in the second week of a six-week lockdown that began on Boxing Day.\n\nIn another development, an academic has said there is a \"big question mark\" over whether a vaccine developed at Oxford University will be as effective against a new variant of the virus that has emerged in South Africa.\n\nProf Sir John Bell, Regius professor of medicine at the university, said the team there were currently investigating this question \"right now\".\n\nHe added it was \"unlikely\" the variant would \"turn off the effect of vaccines entirely\", and in any case it would be possible to tweak the vaccine in around four to six weeks.\n\nBut Matt Hancock told Today he was \"incredibly worried\" about the South African variant, saying: \"This is a very, very significant problem.\"\n\n\"We have shown that we are prepared to move incredibly quickly, within 24 hours if we think that is necessary, and we keep these things under review all the time,\" added the health secretary.", "Quote Message: The return of lockdown for at least the rest of January is a severe blow for much of the Scottish economy. It could be worse: this is not the peak Christmas season for retail and hospitality, though the season they’ve just had was very hard going for many, and non-existent for others. This is also the quietest part of the tourism year, so January is a relatively good month to lose one’s bookings. For many firms, it is better than last spring, because they have infection controls in place. And there is a less harsh closure scheme, meaning construction sites and others can stay open, subject to tight rules. Many employers have settled into patterns of working from home, so this does not carry the shock of last March. There was little expectation of getting staff back into offices for months yet. But that doesn’t make this time any easier for workers who are also parents. They know, from last year, how tough it is to handle childcare and lessons while schools are shut - and this time, they have to manage without good weather. The other, more negative comparison with last spring is that firms now are, typically, deeper in debt and with less spare cash to pay the bills that don’t stop - rent, and utility bills, for instance. Some delayed payments are getting tougher to keep on hold. Their frustration with the slow movement of government grant schemes is showing. They aren’t disputing the case for further lockdown but they are making their own case for support through it, and for a recovery strategy once restrictions are lifted, including a boost to consumer confidence and spending.\" from Douglas Fraser Scotland business & economy editor\n\nThe return of lockdown for at least the rest of January is a severe blow for much of the Scottish economy. It could be worse: this is not the peak Christmas season for retail and hospitality, though the season they’ve just had was very hard going for many, and non-existent for others. This is also the quietest part of the tourism year, so January is a relatively good month to lose one’s bookings. For many firms, it is better than last spring, because they have infection controls in place. And there is a less harsh closure scheme, meaning construction sites and others can stay open, subject to tight rules. Many employers have settled into patterns of working from home, so this does not carry the shock of last March. There was little expectation of getting staff back into offices for months yet. But that doesn’t make this time any easier for workers who are also parents. They know, from last year, how tough it is to handle childcare and lessons while schools are shut - and this time, they have to manage without good weather. The other, more negative comparison with last spring is that firms now are, typically, deeper in debt and with less spare cash to pay the bills that don’t stop - rent, and utility bills, for instance. Some delayed payments are getting tougher to keep on hold. Their frustration with the slow movement of government grant schemes is showing. They aren’t disputing the case for further lockdown but they are making their own case for support through it, and for a recovery strategy once restrictions are lifted, including a boost to consumer confidence and spending.\"", "Northern Ireland's First Minister Arlene Foster has said there \"is a gateway of opportunity\" for the UK and Northern Ireland after Brexit.\n\nShe told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show on Sunday that the trade deal also tackled \"some of the great difficulties that there are with the (Northern Ireland) Protocol\".\n\nThe purpose of the Protocol is to prevent a hardening of the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. It does that by keeping Northern Ireland in the EU's single market for goods and by having Northern Ireland apply EU customs rules at its ports.\n\nAs a result, an 'Irish Sea border' now exists, with most commercial goods entering Northern Ireland from Great Britain requiring a customs declaration.\n\nThe Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), which Mrs Foster leads, opposed the protocol and had criticised the establishment of such a border. She told The Andrew Marr show that her party \"didn't want the protocol but it is here\".\n\n\"I have to mitigate against that and my job from now on is to mitigate against those excesses and to hold the government to account,\" Mrs Foster added.", "Last updated on .From the section Sport\n\nProfessional sport in England can continue behind closed doors, despite a new national lockdown announced by Prime Minister Boris Johnson.\n\nIt means Premier League football and elite leagues in other sports are allowed to carry on.\n\nThe sport and leisure rules in England are similar to those announced in Scotland earlier on Monday.\n\nPeople living in England have been told to stay at home and schools will shut for most pupils from Tuesday.\n\nOn Monday, the UK recorded more than 50,000 new confirmed Covid cases for the seventh day in a row.\n\nFor those in England, exercising outside is allowed once a day. Venues such as gyms, tennis courts and golf courses will be closed.\n\nOrganised outdoor sport for disabled people is exempt from the new measures.\n\nGames and training in non-elite football - which includes all adult and youth grassroots, except for disabled people - have been suspended.\n\nThe Women's FA Cup is among the non-elite competitions placed on hold. All but one of the second-round matches scheduled to take place on Sunday were postponed because of Covid-19 regulations.\n\nTeams from the Women's Super League and Women's Championship enter the draw from the fourth round onwards.\n\nWhich non-elite football has been suspended? Steps three to six of the National League System (all divisions below the National League North and South) Tiers three to seven of the Women's Football Pyramid (all divisions below the Women's Championship) Women's FA Cup (classified as 'non-elite' up to and including the third round) All indoor and outdoor youth and adult grassroots football, including under-18s (except organised outdoor football for disabled people, which is allowed to continue)\n\nFollowing Monday's announcement by the prime minister, this week's sporting fixtures in England are set to go ahead as planned.\n\nIn football, the Carabao Cup semi-finals are being played on Tuesday and Wednesday, while the FA Cup third round - which has 32 fixtures spanning four days - starts on Friday.\n\nThere are also several Women's Super League, English Football League and National League games set to take place, as well as English Premiership and Premier 15s rugby union matches, plus the Masters snooker event in Milton Keynes.\n\nEarlier on Monday, Rochdale chief executive David Bottomley said he believes it is \"inevitable\" that the EFL will have to temporarily suspend fixtures because of rising coronavirus cases.\n\nSeven of last Saturday's EFL games - and 52 across the season - have been called off as teams are affected by the virus.\n\nFour Premier League matches have also been postponed this season because of coronavirus cases.\n\nWhat does the new lockdown mean for sport in England?\n\nThe UK government published its guidance for England's new national lockdown shortly after the prime minister's televised address at 20:00 GMT.\n\nHere are the points relating to sport and physical activity:\n• None Elite sportspeople (and their coaches if necessary, or parents/guardians if they are under 18) - or those on an official elite sports pathway - to compete and train\n• None Outdoor sports courts, outdoor gyms, golf courses, outdoor swimming pools, archery/driving/shooting ranges and riding arenas must also close\n• None Organised outdoor sport for disabled people is allowed to continue\n\nWhile golfing has been allowed to continue in Scotland under strict rules, courses will be closed in England.\n\nEngland Golf said it was \"extremely disappointed\" with the decision, adding it had made a \"strong case\" to keep the sport open in recent months.\n\nWhere can I exercise and who can I exercise with?\n\nYou can exercise in a public outdoor place:\n• None with the people you live with\n• None with your support bubble ( if you are legally permitted to form one)\n• None or, when on your own, with one person from another household\n• None public gardens (whether or not you pay to enter them)\n\nUK Active, a not-for-profit organisation that promotes health and fitness, says the government must act immediately to \"minimise the damaging impact of lockdown\".\n\n\"We know from the millions of people that depend on gyms, pools, and leisure centres to support their physical and mental health, how essential they are,\" said UK Active chief executive Huw Edwards.\n\n\"We cannot afford to wait until the vaccine rollout is advanced before we act, so the government must explore all options at this time and provide a credible plan for maintaining this support to millions of people who rely on these Covid-secure facilities to stay strong and healthy.\n\n\"Furthermore, the UK governments must protect this sector before it becomes too late.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBoris Johnson must bring back \"the spirit of March\" to get control of coronavirus in England, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has said.\n\nSir Keir said the virus was \"out of control\" and a second \"national lockdown\" - including the closure of all schools - was needed.\n\nThe PM had to give a firm \"stay at home message\", Sir Keir told the BBC.\n\nMr Johnson will make a televised address at 20:00 GMT to set out further restrictions amid surging cases.\n\nIt comes as Scotland announced a legal requirement to stay at home from midnight.\n\nSir Keir said Labour would support any move towards tighter restrictions in England, but urged the prime minister to \"stop dithering\" and take action.\n\nThe Labour leader said it was \"inevitable\" that schools would need to close.\n\n\"There is complete chaos, with parents not knowing what is going on. We need to create space for the vaccine now, to be rolled out safely.\n\n\"The virus is out of control. We have got to get it back under control. The more we delay, the worse it will be. The more we delay, the longer schools will be closed.\"\n\nIn March last year, Boris Johnson told people in England they could only leave home to exercise once a day, travel to and from work when it is \"absolutely necessary\", shop for essential items and fulfil any medical or care needs.\n\nCurrently, shops selling non-essential goods have been told to shut and gatherings in public of more than two people who do not live together are prohibited in tier four areas.\n\nSir Keir said the government's message needed to be firmer and backed by law, if necessary, to encourage people to comply.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC's deputy political editor Vicki Young, he urged the country to get back to \"the spirit of March, where there was a very strong stay at home message\".\n\n\"You only need to go out on the streets now and you see lots of people out and about, you see trains that are half full,\" said the Labour leader.\n\n\"We need to go back to where we were in March with very very strong messaging about staying at home.\n\n\"And I'm afraid that the closure of schools is now inevitable, and therefore that needs to be part of that plan, as part of the national plan for further restriction.\n\n\"And that means that we need to have measures in place to protect working parents, most in place to enable children to learn at home, and a plan to get schools safely reopened again and that goes back to vaccination. It must be mission critical now.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Eileen Lynch, 94, was the first person in Northern Ireland to receive the Oxford/AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine\n\nUp to 11,000 people aged over 80 across Northern Ireland are set to receive the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine this week.\n\nThe aim is to ensure everyone in that age group will be offered the vaccine by the end of January.\n\nThirty GP practices will be administering 50,000 doses of the vaccine, which was approved for use in the UK on 30 December.\n\nIt is the second vaccine to be approved in the battle against coronavirus in Northern Ireland.\n\nIt comes ahead of a UK-wide announcement by the prime minister, set to be made at 20:00 GMT on Monday, in which further restrictions will be announced.\n\nIn a statement, a No 10 spokesman said the new variant of Covid-19 had \"led to rapidly escalating case numbers across the country\" and \"further steps must now be taken to arrest this rise\".\n\nOn Monday, Northern Ireland recorded a further 1,801 Covid-19 cases and 12 more virus-related deaths.\n\nThese latest figures from the Department of Health bring the total number of deaths to 1,366, while 79,873 people have tested positive for the virus since the pandemic started.\n\nMore than 12,000 cases have been reported in the past seven days, more than double the week before.\n\nThe seven-day rate per 100,000 people is now 660 positive cases, compared to 200 per 100,000 two weeks ago.\n\nMedical experts believe that is down to the two-week easing of restrictions over the Christmas period.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland on Monday, an additional 6,110 confirmed cases of Covid-19 were announced, with six further deaths linked to the virus.\n\nNorthern Ireland is in the second week of a six-week lockdown in which non-essential retail is closed.\n\nThe first doses of the vaccine were given delivered at a GP surgery on the Falls Road in West Belfast on Monday afternoon.\n\nThe first person in Northern Ireland to receive the Oxford/AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine was 94-year-old Eileen Lynch.\n\nSpeaking after receiving the vaccine, Ms Lynch said she was \"delighted and privileged\" to receive it.\n\n\"I feel like I can really look forward to the year ahead now that I have been vaccinated,\" she said.\n\nThe Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine has already been used to vaccinate care home residents and staff.\n\nBy mid December, 50,000 doses of that vaccine had been made available and by 30 December, Northern Ireland's Department of Health reported that 33,000 people had been vaccinated.\n\nThis included 8,940 care home residents, 10,484 care home staff and 14,259 health and social care staff.\n\nAccording to the latest NI statistics, for the first time the percentage positive cases in the over 80s is down - an indication the vaccination process is working.\n\nThere are approximately 82,000 people over 80 in NI and BBC News NI understands that if deliveries of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine happen as planned, it is thought that all of those over 80, as well as GPs and their staff, could be vaccinated within three weeks.\n\nWhile 50,000 doses have been delivered to Northern Ireland, a further 23,000 vaccines are expected on 19 January while another 68,000 are due on 24 January.\n\nDr Alan Stout, who is a GP in Belfast, told BBC News NI that members are \"very optimistic\" that 11,000 people can be vaccinated this week.\n\nThe Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is the second coronavirus vaccine to be approved in the UK\n\nNI's chief medical officer said the Oxford-AstraZeneca rollout would run alongside the ongoing vaccination programme.\n\nDr Michael McBride said: \"First and foremost we must act to protect those most at risk of severe disease and death.\n\n\"The evidence shows that the initial dose of vaccine offers as much as 70% protection against the effects of the virus.\n\n\"Providing that level of protection on a large scale will have the greatest impact on reducing mortality and hospitalisations, protecting the health and social care system.\"\n\nThe Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine has to be kept at an extremely low temperature which complicates handling constraints.\n\nThe Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is considered easier to store and distribute.\n\nIts rollout consists of two full doses of the vaccine, with the second dose to be given four to 12 weeks after the first.\n\nGPs are appealing to the public to remain calm and wait to be called for their vaccine either by telephone or by letter.\n\nDr Stout said as demand grows worldwide for the vaccine, that schedule could easily change.\n\n\"The public have to be patient, we have a system and must be allowed to get on with it - it really is 'don't call us - we will call you'.\"\n\nWhile some vaccinations will take place in surgeries others will happen in a drive-through system.\n\nCovid-19 is deadlier than flu, which means January 2021 is going to be even tougher than usual.\n\nAlso, Covid patients tend to stay much longer in hospital with more severe symptoms requiring additional beds and care.\n\nBut those rising patient numbers aren't matched by an increased workforce.\n\nInstead it is expected that the nurse-patient ratio will increase (even though many aren't trained to work in critical care) as there simply aren't enough nurses available.\n\nSome health unions fear this will only add to Northern Ireland's excess mortality rate, which is greater than that in Great Britain.\n\nOnce again, this highlights Northern Ireland's failing health care system, which was already below par well before the start of the pandemic.\n\nCoronavirus infection figures here are expected to peak between 15 and 21 January. That will be felt not only in hospitals but also in GP practices as they continue to roll out the vaccine.\n\nWhile at this stage the six weeks look bleak it's hoped that the additional Astra-Zeneca vaccine and the low incidence of flu will go a long way in not only saving lives, but also protecting the health service.\n\nDr Stout said much planning had gone into ensuring the programme happened as smoothly as possible.\n\n\"People will literally stay in their cars and be asked to roll up their sleeves - it has to be safe and efficient in order for us to get through it and safely.\"\n\nThe UK has ordered 100 million doses of the new vaccine - enough to vaccinate 50 million people.\n\nMeanwhile, Dr Tom Black, chair of the British Medical Association in Northern Ireland, said it was \"appalling\" that the Pfizer vaccine was not to be administered in two doses within 21 days as instructed by the company and threatened legal action.\n\nDr Black was responding to news that the UK will give both parts of the Oxford and Pfizer vaccines 12 weeks apart.\n\n\"They have left care workers in Northern Ireland with a gap in their expected immunity,\" he told BBC NI's Radio Foyle on Monday.\n\n\"In that period doctors, nurses, porters or health care professionals could infect patients because they will not be protected against the transmission of the infection to patients.\"\n\nThe UK's chief medical officers have defended their Covid vaccination plan.\n\nThey said getting more people vaccinated with the first jab was \"much more preferable\" and that the great majority of the initial protection from clinical disease is after the first dose of vaccine.\n\nDr Black is to meet NI Health Minister Robin Swann later to express health care workers' concern over the change in vaccine policy.", "Tian Tian arrived in Scotland, along with Yang Guang, from China in 2011\n\nEdinburgh Zoo's giant pandas may have to return to China next year because of financial pressures.\n\nYang Guang and Tian Tian cost about £1m a year to lease from China.\n\nThe zoo, which had hoped to breed the pair, is nearing the end of its 10-year contract with the Chinese government and may be unable to renew the deal.\n\nCovid lockdown closures led to a £2m loss for the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland, which runs Edinburgh Zoo and the Highland Wildlife Park.\n\nDavid Field, chief executive of the society, said the charity would have to \"seriously consider every potential saving\", including its giant panda contract.\n\nMr Field said closures had had a \"huge financial impact\" on the charity because most of its income was from visitors.\n\n\"Although our parks are open again, we lost around £2m last year and it seems certain that restrictions, social distancing and limits on our visitor numbers will continue for some time, which will also reduce our income,\" Mr Field said.\n\n\"Yang Guang and Tian Tian have made a tremendous impression on our visitors over the last nine years, helping millions of people connect to nature and inspiring them to take an interest in wildlife conservation.\n\n\"I would love for them to be able to stay for a few more years with us and that is certainly my current aim.\"\n\nYang Guang was given a new enclosure in 2019\n\nThe zoo has already taken a government loan, furloughed staff, made redundancies and launched a fundraising appeal, but was not eligible for the UK government's zoo fund, which was aimed at smaller zoos.\n\n\"The support we have received from our members and animal lovers has helped to keep our doors open and we are incredibly grateful,\" Mr Field added.\n\n\"At this stage, it is too soon to say what the outcome will be. We will be discussing next steps with our colleagues in China over the coming months.\"\n\nThe zoo is part of a number of conservation projects, including one to reintroduce Scottish wildcats.\n\nWork to reintroduce Scottish wildcats in to the Highlands may also suffer from the Zoo's funding problems\n\nHowever, Mr Field said projects like that may also have to be scrapped because of Brexit and being unable to apply for grants from the European Union.\n\n\"We received a £3.2m grant from the EU Life programme to support our Saving Wildcats partnership project, which aims to restore wildcats in Scotland by breeding and releasing them into the wild.\n\n\"Wildcats are on the brink of extinction in Britain and this is the last hope for the species' survival.\"\n\nHe added: \"As we are no longer part of the European Union, our charity is no longer eligible to apply for funding from programmes like EU Life, which have proven critical for our wildlife conservation work and wider efforts to protect animals from extinction.\"\n\nEdinburgh Zoo's conservation genetics laboratory, which supports conservation projects around the world, has lost access to both funding and other researchers as a result.\n\nIt also faces challenges around moving animals, many of which are part of European endangered species breeding programmes.\n\nThe programme is currently about £900,000 short, meaning it may have to be cancelled.\n\nMr Field said: \"We still need to reduce costs to secure our future. It may be that some of our incredibly important conservation projects, including the vital lifeline for Scotland's wildcats, may have to be deferred, postponed or even stopped.\"", "Police rescued 22 people from the snow in Cheshire including a two-year-old child\n\nDozens of people, including a two-year-old child, had to be rescued when they became stranded on rural roads.\n\nPolice and volunteers came to the aid of people whose vehicles were stuck in the Derbyshire Peak District on Saturday.\n\nThere were similar scenes in Cheshire where 22 people, had to be rescued from stranded cars.\n\nThe wintry weather is set to continue with a Met Office warning for ice in the East Midlands and North East.\n\nAt around 20:00 GMT on Saturday, Derbyshire Police reported \"sudden snow\" had left dozens of vehicles and their occupants stranded in the Goyt Valley.\n\nSome visitors to the area were caught off-guard by how quickly the weather changed.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDerbyshire Police posted on Twitter: \"We are shuttling people back to Buxton as quickly as we can.\n\n\"Sit tight and we will get to you.\"\n\nThe A57 Snake Pass - a road notorious for becoming dangerous in the snow - had been closed earlier in the day because of the weather.\n\nIn Cheshire, police spent three hours helping families stuck in their vehicles in the White Peak area.\n\nIn total 22 people, including eight children - the youngest of whom was two - were recovered from nine vehicles.\n\nCheshire Police Rural Crime Team said: \"The snow had well and truly caught them all out on the back roads.\n\n\"We were three miles (4.8km) from the nearest village, and the light was fading on us quickly.\n\n\"It was decided to get everyone out of their cars and so began a mile walk in the snow.\"\n\nThey were led to a nearby farm where they could be taken to safety in police vehicles.\n\nMost of those rescued from snow in Cheshire had travelled to the area despite coronavirus restrictions\n\nThe force was critical of the families for travelling into the area, that is under tier four coronavirus restrictions.\n\nIt said: \"All except one car was from out of Cheshire. We had people from Sale, Stockport and Salford with the closest being Congleton.\n\n\"Sadly these people have put all of us at risk today.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Scottish cabinet will meet later to consider further measures to help tackle coronavirus, as 2,464 new cases are reported.\n\nThe Scottish Parliament will then be recalled for First Minister Nicola Sturgeon to make an \"urgent statement\".\n\nMs Sturgeon said the \"rapid increase in Covid cases driven by the new variant\" was of \"very serious concern\".\n\n\"We are in a race between this faster spreading strain of Covid and the vaccination programme,\" she tweeted.\n\nShe warned on Friday that the next few weeks could be the most dangerous period for Scotland since March in the fight against Covid.\n\nThe latest government figures for coronavirus cases showed that 15.2% of Saturday's 17,328 tests were positive.\n\nIt is higher than the 2,137 cases reported on Friday, but still lower than Thursday's 2,539 positive results.\n\nFigures for hospital admissions and deaths over the holiday weekend will not be published until Tuesday.\n\nThe cabinet is likely to consider a further delay to the return of Scottish schools and restrictions that are closer to the stay-at-home lockdown in March.\n\n\"All decisions just now are tough, with tough impacts,\" Ms Sturgeon wrote on twitter. \"Vaccines give us way out, but this new strain makes the period between now and then the most dangerous since start of pandemic.\"\n\nThe Scottish government's emergency resilience committee heard on Saturday that \"quick and decisive action is needed\" as the new variant of the virus is becoming the dominant one in Scotland.\n\nA Scottish government spokesperson said: \"The even steeper rises and severe pressure on the NHS that is being experienced in some other parts of the UK is a sign of what may lie ahead in Scotland if we do not take all possible steps now to slow the spread of the virus, while the vaccination programme progresses.\n\n\"The strong message remains - people should stay at home as much as possible and avoid non-essential interaction with others.\"\n\nThis is just the fifth time the Scottish Parliament has been recalled and the second time within the last week.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Linda Bauld says Scots should be prepared a longer period living with level four restrictions\n\nPublic health expert Prof Linda Bauld, from the University of Edinburgh, has said Scotland should be prepared for Covid restrictions to be extended as infection rates continue to rise.\n\nShe said there were no signs yet that the infection rate was levelling off, having risen suddenly from a daily rate of fewer than 1,000 to more than 2,000 per day in recent days.\n\nShe told BBC Scotland: \"It definitely is a fragile situation and you can see that we have more cases than we would expect at the current time.\n\n\"We may be starting to see some of the impacts of the Christmas mixing, but also we know around four in 10 cases, from recent data, are of the new variant.\n\n\"I would imagine that the new variant is playing a role in these higher rates of infection and if these numbers continue to sit at where they are we are going to have more people in hospital in a week or two's time, and that is very worrying.\"\n\nThe new year offers new hope in the struggle against coronavirus with two vaccines now authorised for UK use - but it looks as if the situation will get worse before it gets better.\n\nMinisters are worried by the rapid spread of the new strain of coronavirus during a holiday period when the highest level of restrictions are already in place.\n\nThey think more needs to be done to suppress the virus, to give the vaccination programme a chance to accelerate and give increasing numbers of people protection.\n\nWhen the Scottish cabinet meets they are likely to consider tightening the current restrictions to something closer to the stay at home lockdown of March 2020.\n\nThat will almost certainly mean a further delay to the return of schools into February.\n\nMinisters will take decisions on Monday morning with First Minister Nicola Sturgeon expected to make a statement at Holyrood in the afternoon.\n\nDaily confirmed cases in Scotland reached record highs on the last three days of 2020, rising to to 2,622 on Thursday.\n\nMs Sturgeon warned last week there might be changes to the plans for reopening schools. Children start online learning from 11 January and are set to return to class by 18 January.\n\nThe education recovery group will meet on Monday.\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross said the situation was \"deteriorating and fast-moving\" but any decision to extend school closures should be clearly explained to parents and teachers.\n\nHe said: \"We have been here before so if schools remain closed, the Scottish government must show that it has learned from past mistakes in order to minimise disruption to education.\"\n\nScottish Greens co-leader Patrick Harvie said the Scottish government should prioritise teachers and school staff as vaccines were rolled out.\n\nHe added: \"We must be honest and accept that most pupils, teachers and support staff cannot go back to schools until the situation is brought under control.\"\n\nScottish Labour leader Richard Leonard called for ministers to publish the evidence behind all of its decisions to ensure public consent and compliance.\n\n\"What is clear is that we need to see an acceleration of the vaccine rollout and a step-change in testing,\" he said.\n\n\"It is also clear that financial support from government has simply not been nearly sufficient to make up for the damage that lockdown measures have done to jobs, livelihoods and businesses. The SNP government must distribute additional funds to the frontline now.\"\n\nScottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie said: \"With tighter restrictions on movement and in schools comes a greater responsibility on the government to show its workings.\n\n\"If we are to restrict people's movement then we need to see what the benefit will be. We need an exit plan to give people hope, as well as to show them what is required to ease the restrictions on our freedoms.\"", "Some schools are due to reopen this week in Wales\n\nSchools are being given a flexible approach to ensure a \"safe return\", according to Wales' first minister.\n\nMark Drakeford said experts would be \"looking at all the evidence again early next week\".\n\nUnions have called for a national decision on reopening schools rather than leaving it to local councils.\n\nAccording to local authorities many secondary schools aim to return from 11 January, with some fully open on 6 January.\n\nA joint statement from nine unions called on the Welsh Government to give a \"centralised, coherent response\" regarding all educational settings \"rather than leaving decisions at local levels\".\n\nThe statement from ASCL Cymru, GMB, NAHT Cymru, NASUWT Cymru, NEU Cymru, Ucac, Unison, Unite and Voice continued: \"We are extremely worried that schools will be opening for face-to-face learning from next Monday, whilst Welsh Government continues to gather information about the nature and impact of the new variant of Covid-19...\n\n\"We strongly believe that we need to err on the side of caution and ensure, in advance, that we have the medical 'evidence and information' to ensure that any decisions are the correct ones.\"\n\nThe National Education Union Cymru has called for in-person learning to be delayed until at least 18 January.\n\nThe NASUWT has also threatened \"appropriate action in order to protect members whose safety is put at risk\", while head teachers' union NAHT Cymru said it had taken legal action.\n\nBut Mr Drakeford said: \"We reached an agreement with our local education colleagues that in Wales we will have a phased and flexible return to school.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said on Sunday parents should send their children to primary school as long as they are open in their area.\n\nMark Drakeford: \"No evidence that young people get the illness more severely as a result of the variant\"\n\nJackie Parker, head of Crickhowell High School in Powys, which reopens for some form years from Wednesday, said \"it would have been more sensible to have had a national decision for the time being until the 18th\".\n\nShe said it would have allowed time to see if cases of Covid had increased over the holiday period.\n\n\"People may have been together during the Christmas holiday,\" she said.\n\nFigures published by Public Health Wales on Sunday showed 56 new deaths from Covid and 4,011 new cases of the virus.\n\nWales has been in lockdown since 20 December with restrictions on people meeting others on all but Christmas Day when it was limited to another household and a person living alone.\n\nMr Drakeford said: \"There is no evidence that young people get the illness more severely as a result of the variant.\n\n\"Our technical advisory group will be looking at all the evidence again early next week.\n\n\"And, of course, we will continue to make decisions in the light of the best knowledge, research and information that's available to us at the time,\" he told BBC Radio Wales' Sunday Supplement.\n\nHe also said mass testing in schools would begin as planned this month, in a decision which has been criticised by NAHT Cymru.\n\n\"It will allow more children and more teachers to stay safely in the classroom without having to be sent home because another child or another staff member has tested positive,\" he said.\n\nThe joint unions' statement also said the Welsh Government's testing proposals were unworkable for most schools.\n\n\"Due to the chaotic and rushed nature of this announcement, the lack of proper guidance, and an absence of appropriate support, the Welsh Government's proposals will be inoperable for most schools and colleges,\" it said.\n\nThe statement continued: \"Any suggestion that schools can safely recruit, train and organise a team of suitable volunteers to staff and run testing stations on their premises by an as yet unspecified date in the new term is simply not realistic.\"\n\nSian Gwenllian, Plaid Cymru's education spokeswoman, said \"parents and teachers need to know what the plan is for the next few weeks\".\n\n\"We don't really know very much about this new variant in the way that it transmits within the school community,\" she said.\n\n\"And if it is becoming inevitable that schools will have to close, well, an early decision is better for everybody.\"\n\nWelsh Conservative education spokeswoman Suzy Davies said: \"We've had conflicting reports in the press and on social media about the effect of the new variant on younger children and their role in transmitting the disease - complete confusion reigns...\n\n\"The Welsh Government hasn't succeeded in reassuring teachers and in some cases parents as well.\"", "Economy Minister Diane Dodds has written to Cabinet Office Secretary Michael Gove to call for urgent action to be taken on deliveries to NI.\n\nSince Christmas some orders have been cancelled or delayed and some retailers have suspended deliveries.\n\nThe problem is related to uncertainty about post-Brexit transition rules.\n\nHM Customs announced a grace period on New Year's Eve confirming most parcels from GB-NI will not need customs declarations until at least April.\n\nThe problems have not affected all companies with many continuing to take orders and deliver as normal.\n\nHowever, some companies had already suspended deliveries, including John Lewis.\n\nThe government said the three-month grace period \"recognises the unique circumstances of Northern Ireland, the impacts of any disruption to parcel movements in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic and specific challenges for operators moving express consignments\".\n\nA government spokesman said further details will be published in the new year, adding: \"Our priority is to have a pragmatic approach that allows us to comply with the [Northern Ireland] Protocol without causing undue disruption to businesses and citizens.\n\n\"HMRC is engaging with operators to finalise arrangements.\"\n\nSome changes have already come into effect.\n\nA Northern Ireland-based business receiving goods valued at £135 or more through an express carrier or Royal Mail will need to submit a customs declaration.\n\nThey will need to do this within three months of receiving the goods and can use the government's Trader Support Service to do so.\n\nExcise goods, which mostly refers to alcoholic drinks, will also need a declaration when being sent from GB to NI.\n\nThe government has advised retailers of those goods to contact their delivery company.\n\nIt said: \"They will then tell you if they carry the type of goods you want to send and, if they do, they will ask you to provide any additional information that they need so that a declaration can be made.\"", "About 10 UK nationals resident in Spain say they were wrongly turned back when their flight landed in Barcelona.\n\nThey left Heathrow on the Saturday morning British Airways flight, but were refused entry on arrival.\n\nThey were stopped by border police and ultimately flown back to the UK.\n\nSpain has banned all but Spanish nationals and residents flying from the UK to Spain since 22 December in the hope of containing the spread of the new UK strain of Covid-19.\n\nOne passenger on the flight, who did not wish to be named, said that those on board had been told repeatedly that only Spanish nationals or residents would be allowed to enter the country and that their residency certificates, also known as green certificates, were shown to airline staff several times.\n\nHowever, on arrival, British passengers with green residency certificates were prevented from entering Spain.\n\nBA has confirmed that about 10 people were denied entry into Barcelona, as they did not meet the Spanish authorities' required criteria.\n\nOne of those affected, Ruth O'Leary, said: \"I was very confused, obviously. I asked them what other documents I could provide.\n\n\"They seemed to be just flat-out refusing anything I had and just wouldn't let me on the flight. Very upsetting really.\n\n\"Quite an awful feeling not to be able to go back to your own house and to not really be given an explanation why you can't go home.\"\n\nOther British expat passengers have also said that they have been stopped from boarding planes to Spain.\n\nOne passenger on board said that seven British citizens were prevented from boarding a British Airways/Iberia flight from Heathrow to Madrid on Saturday evening, despite having their green residency certificates, as well as negative Covid tests.\n\nThe exact number of flights and passengers affected has not been released by the Foreign Office.\n\nIn a statement on Monday, Iberia said that on 1 January, it received an email from the border police saying that registration as a European citizen was no longer considered to be a valid document to prove legal residency in Spain as a British citizen.\n\nHowever, by 19:30 on 2 January, the airline received a second email, confirming that the document could be used if it had not expired.\n\nA British Airways spokesperson said: \"In these difficult and unprecedented times with dynamic travel restrictions, we are doing everything we can to help and support our customers.\"\n\nThe Spanish Embassy in London tweeted a letter stating it was aware that during the current travel restrictions, there had been some problems for British nationals resident in Spain who had not been allowed to return.\n\nThe embassy clarified that green certificates were valid proof of residency.\n\nThe Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office said: \"We have worked closely with the Spanish government to resolve these issues.\n\n\"The Spanish Embassy in London has re-confirmed today that both the green residence certificate and the new residence TIE card [Photo-ID card] are equally valid in terms of proving residence in Spain, as set out in the [Brexit] Withdrawal Agreement.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Olly Stephens was pronounced dead in Bugs Bottom fields in Emmer Green, Reading\n\nFour boys and a girl have been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder after a 13-year-old boy was stabbed to death in Reading.\n\nOliver Stephens, known as Olly, was pronounced dead at Bugs Bottom fields, Emmer Green, on Sunday.\n\nThe five teenagers, all aged 13 or 14, remain in custody, according to Thames Valley Police.\n\nDet Supt Kevin Brown said: \"Our thoughts remain with Olly's family at this incredibly difficult time.\"\n\nHe added: \"This is a tragic and shocking incident which has resulted in the death of a young boy.\"\n\nThe victim's family are being supported by specially trained officers.\n\nFloral tributes to Olly have been left outside Highdown School\n\nHighdown School and Sixth Form Centre said it was \"reeling from the tragic news\".\n\nIn a statement, head teacher Rachel Cave said: \"This student was part of our community and many students and staff knew him well.\n\n\"For a life to be ended at such a young age is a total tragedy. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family.\"\n\nThe school, in Emmer Green, said it was arranging counselling support for students and setting up an electronic book of condolence.\n\nThames Valley Police said a \"considerable police presence\" would be in place in the area for several days\n\nOfficers were called just before 16:00 GMT on Sunday following reports of an attack.\n\nOfficers are appealing for anyone who was in the area between 15:00 and 16:30 who might have taken photos or camera footage to contact them if they notice anything suspicious.\n\nDet Supt Brown said he believed there would have been witnesses to the \"dreadful incident\" as the area is popular with dog walkers.\n\nA man said his wife was walking their dog through the park on Sunday afternoon when she saw a boy on the ground with several people around him trying to give him first aid.\n\nAnother dog walker said she saw a group of young people standing in the woods in Bugs Bottom fields at about 15:30 and described it as \"slightly unusual\".\n\nReading East MP Matt Rodda has offered his \"deepest condolences\" to the boy's family.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Matt Rodda This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSt Barnabas Church in Emmer Green has invited residents to pray and light a candle in memory of the boy.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Margaret Ferrier admitted travelling back from London to Glasgow after testing positive for coronavirus\n\nScottish MP Margaret Ferrier has been arrested by police after she admitted using public transport while infected with Covid-19.\n\nMs Ferrier apologised for what she called a \"blip\" in September.\n\nShe was suspended from the SNP group at Westminster and leaders, including First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, urged her to quit as an MP over the row.\n\nPolice Scotland said she had been charged in connection with \"alleged culpable and reckless conduct\".\n\nMs Ferrier apologised in September after travelling from London to Glasgow having tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nThe Rutherglen and Hamilton West MP said she had experienced \"mild symptoms\" and taken a test, but had then decided to travel to Westminster because she was \"feeling much better\".\n\nShe then travelled home again on a train after receiving the positive test result, and said she \"deeply regretted\" her actions.\n\nA Police Scotland spokesman said: \"We can confirm that officers today arrested and charged a 60-year-old woman in connection with alleged culpable and reckless conduct.\n\n\"This follows a thorough investigation by Police Scotland into an alleged breach of coronavirus regulations between 26 and 29 September 2020.\n\n\"A report will be sent to the procurator fiscal and we are unable to comment further.\"\n\nMs Ferrier has been contacted for comment.", "The prime minister has said that tougher measures could be needed to help cope with a surge in coronavirus cases.\n\nHe has not yet said whether we will need school closures, or even overnight curfews like those imposed in France.\n\nBut clues about such measures to tackle the new more infectious variant come from the government's Sage advisory committee.\n\nThe headline is that whether we see a return to only being allowed one form of daily outdoor exercise, or stricter controls on travel around the country, we'll be hearing a lot more about something already very familiar: hand hygiene, social distancing, wearing masks and ensuring there is fresh air.\n\nThese may sound familiar but the advisers believe that because the new variant spreads so easily, the measures need to be applied with \"a step change in rigour\" - in other words, a lot more forcefully.\n\nThey suggest considering a return to the two-metre rule because it's more effective than the one-metre plus guidance adopted last year.\n\nMasks need to be made of three layers, not just one, and worn in more locations than now - including workplaces, schools and crowded outdoor spaces.\n\nThe key message is that it is vital to reduce social contact - being close to people, especially indoors for long periods of time, carries the highest risk of infection.\n\nSo expect tier four-type bans on visiting other households to become normal.\n\nThe advisers also say many people still do not recognise the key symptoms of Covid-19 - so ministers need to spell them out and help people understand why they should self-isolate.\n\nBut they also say it is essential to praise the efforts made so far, to recognise sacrifices and emphasise how they've kept infection numbers lower than they would otherwise have been.\n\nWhatever new measures are picked, the advice to ministers is to offer \"clear and convincing explanations\" to motivate people.\n\nThat could be a hint that the government's current \"hands, face, space\" slogan may need to make way for something stronger.", "The Queen said she wished Woman's Hour \"continued success\" in the programme's \"important work\"\n\nThe Queen has sent her \"best wishes\" to Woman's Hour to mark the BBC Radio 4 show's 75th year.\n\nThe 94-year-old noted that the show had \"played a significant part in the evolving role of women\".\n\n\"As you celebrate your 75th year, it is with great pleasure that I send my best wishes to the listeners and all those associated with Woman's Hour,\" she said in a letter sent to the programme.\n\nEmma Barnett read out the message on her first day as the show's presenter.\n\n\"During this time, you have witnessed and played a significant part in the evolving role of women across society, both here and around the world,\" the Queen added in her message.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Presenter Emma Barnett reads a message from Her Majesty to Woman's Hour listeners.\n\n\"In this notable anniversary year, I wish you continued success in your important work as a friend, guide and advocate to women everywhere.\"\n\nSpice Girl Melanie C also performed a rendition of The Beatles track Here Comes the Sun, after presenter Barnett had declared that 2021 \"has to be better\" than the previous year.\n\nLater, guest Imelda Staunton, who will play Her Majesty in the upcoming series five of Netflix's royal drama, The Crown, described her as being like \"the original Spice Girl\".\n\n\"The Queen, you think, might be an original Spice Girl because girl power is what she is,\" said the actress, who is due to take over the role from Olivia Colman. \"She became the head of state and all that sort of thing.\n\n\"It's the continuity of The Queen that has been so important... Whether you're a royalist or not, this person has got up and gone to work every day for 60 years, and I sort of admire that.\"\n\nLast month, the Queen used her Christmas Day message to reassure anyone struggling without friends and family this year that they \"are not alone\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe message helped to mark a memorable opening day in the hot seat for Barnett, which also saw her discuss Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the British-Iranian under house arrest in Tehran, with her husband Richard and the MP and former foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt.\n\nBarnett - known for hosting Newsnight and shows on 5 Live - has replaced Jane Garvey, who presented her final edition of Woman's Hour after 13 years last week, saying the programme \"needs to move on, and now it can\".\n\nGarvey's exit came three months after her co-host Dame Jenni Murray also left the long-running show after 33 years.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Emma Barnett This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBarnett's 5 Live show has been taken over by BBC Breakfast presenter Naga Munchetty, who also broadcast her first show on Monday.\n\nMunchetty told listeners she was \"absolutely delighted to be here with you on the first Monday of 2021\".\n\n\"I am so excited to be on board with you on this, the morning show we are making together,\" she added. \"We are going to get to know each other, I promise. There is so much to talk about.\"\n\nEmma Barnett interviewed former prime minister Theresa May on her 5 Live show\n\nWoman's Hour is a topical, conversation-led programme; Barnett has a strong news pedigree. Her previous 5 Live show involved thorough interrogation of politicians, and she has made no secret of her love of politics, not least in her outings on Newsnight.\n\nIt doesn't get any bigger than the Queen, obviously. Interestingly, the other big 'get' for her first show is Sonia Khan, former special adviser to the Chancellor.\n\nSo Barnett's first show indicates very clearly that she will make Woman's Hour newsier and more political.\n\nIt's also a safe bet that short, visual clips of the kind that allowed Barnett's 5 Live show to dramatically increase its impact will also be a big feature of her time in the job.\n\nOne early challenge: getting an even bigger name for next Monday. Any thoughts?\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The lockdown announcement contained the clearest indication yet of how quickly the government hopes to vaccinate the at risk groups.\n\nA target of mid February for vaccinating all the over 70s and those deemed extremely clinically vulnerable and frontline health and care staff opens up a pathway to a significant easing of restrictions by the start of March.\n\nBut it will require a rapid acceleration in vaccination rates.\n\nSo far nearly one million people have been vaccinated.\n\nBy the end of the week that number is expected to double.\n\nThe hope is that later in January two million doses a week will be given.\n\nThat will be the minimum needed – there are around 12 million in those priority groups.\n\nBy vaccinating them, there is the potential to prevent close to nine in 10 deaths.\n\nBut achieving that requires a lot to go right.\n\nThere is enough vaccine in the country to vaccinate that many people, but not all of it has been through the final “fill and finish” process which involves packaging it in glass vials (and there is a shortage of those) and then the batches have to be checked and signed off by the regulator – a process that is taking weeks at the moment.\n\nAnd all of that is before it is sent out to the NHS vaccination centres to inject it into people’s arms.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Linda Bauld says Scots should be prepared a longer period living with level four restrictions\n\nScotland should be prepared for Covid restrictions to be extended as infection rates continue to rise, a public health expert has said.\n\nThe latest government figures show a further 2,137 cases of Covid-19 were confirmed in Scotland on Friday.\n\nProf Linda Bauld described it as a \"fragile situation\", despite the rate dropping below Thursday's 2,539 cases.\n\nThe latest figures for hospital admissions and deaths will not be published until Tuesday.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon warned on Friday that the next few weeks could be the most dangerous period for Scotland since March in the fight against Covid as the new variant of the virus was \"accelerating spread\" across Scotland.\n\nDaily confirmed cases reached record highs on the last three days of 2020, rising to to 2,622 on Thursday.\n\nThe percentage of positive cases also reached 14.4% on Wednesday - the highest it has been since the second wave of the pandemic began in the summer.\n\nIt had dropped to 10.8% on Friday. A percentage of lower than 5% is needed to show the virus is under control, according to the WHO.\n\nProf Bauld, a public health expert at the University of Edinburgh, said there were no signs yet that the infection rate was levelling off, having risen suddenly from a daily rate of fewer than 1,000 to more than 2,000 per day in recent days.\n\nShe told BBC Scotland: \"It definitely is a fragile situation and you can see that we have more cases than we would expect at the current time.\n\n\"We may be starting to see some of the impacts of the Christmas mixing, but also we know around four in 10 cases, from recent data, are of the new variant.\n\n\"I would imagine that the new variant is playing a role in these higher rates of infection and if these numbers continue to sit at where they are we are going to have more people in hospital in a week or two's time, and that is very worrying.\"\n\nAll of mainland Scotland is under level four restrictions in an attempt to slow down the rate of virus spread\n\nThis would bring \"real challenges\" for hospitals, especially in the central belt, Prof Bauld said, adding that it was \"absolutely imperative that we do not see these number rise more than they are now\".\n\nShe said it would take some time to see the impact of level four restrictions introduced in mainland Scotland on Boxing Day.\n\n\"Mentally we just need to be prepared for the fact that we may be living with the level four restrictions for longer than the Scottish government currently plans,\" Prof Bauld said.\n\nShe said the new, more transmissible coronavirus variant would make it harder to get the R number below one in Scotland and schools may not be able to fully reopen on 18 January.\n\nThe government's education recovery group was preparing with schools for blended learning to go on longer if necessary, she added.\n\nAll of mainland Scotland is under level four restrictions in an attempt to slow down the rate of virus spread.\n\nA new study by London's Imperial College has found that the new variant of Covid-19 is \"hugely\" more transmissible than the virus's previous version.\n\nIt concludes that the new variant increases the Reproduction or R number by between 0.4 and 0.7.\n\nThe Scottish government's most recent estimate of the R number in Scotland has put it between 0.9 and 1.1. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.\n\nThe government has described the vaccination programme as a \"light at the end of the tunnel\" and has urged people to stay at home as much as possible in the meantime.", "Security has been stepped up in Niger's Tillabéri region, where the two villages are situated\n\nNiger's prime minister says 100 people are now known to have been killed in Saturday's attacks by suspected jihadists on two villages.\n\nBrigi Rafini said 70 people were killed in the village of Tchombangou and 30 others in Zaroumdareye - both near Niger's border with Mali.\n\nIt was one of the deadliest days in living memory, as Niger grapples with ethnic violence and Islamist militancy.\n\nNo group has said it carried out the attacks.\n\nAccording to local mayor Almou Hassane, those responsible travelled on \"about 100 motorcycles,\" AFP news agency reports.\n\nThey split into two groups and carried out the attacks simultaneously.\n\nFormer minister Issoufou Issaka told AFP that jihadists launched the assaults after villagers killed two of their group members, though this hasn't been officially confirmed.\n\nMayor Hassane said 75 other villagers were left wounded in the aftermath, and some have been evacuated for treatment in Ouallam and the capital, Niamey.\n\nPrime Minister Rafini visited both of the villages on Sunday.\n\n\"This situation is simply horrible... but investigations will be conducted so that this crime does not go unpunished,\" he told reporters.\n\nNiger's Tillabéri region lies within the so-called tri-border area between Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso, which has been plagued by jihadist attacks for many years.\n\nNiger's Prime Minister Brigi Rafini visited the two villages on Sunday\n\nLast month, seven Nigerien soldiers were killed in an ambush in the region.\n\nAreas of Niger are also facing repeated attacks by jihadists from neighbouring Nigeria, where the government is fighting an insurgency by Boko Haram.\n\nAs part of efforts to quell the violence, France has been leading a coalition of West African and European allies against Islamist militants in the Sahel.\n\nCoalition forces have become targets, and last week five French soldiers were killed in two separate incidents in Mali.\n\nThe latest attacks in Tillabéri also come amid national elections in Niger, as President Mahamadou Issoufou steps down after two five-year terms.\n\nElection officials announced provisional results on Saturday, showing a lead for Mohamed Bazoum - a former minister and a member of Niger's ruling party.\n\nA second round of votes is expected to be held on 21 February, once ballots have been validated by the country's constitutional court.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRegional restrictions in England are \"probably about to get tougher\" to curb rising Covid infections, the prime minister has warned.\n\nBoris Johnson told the BBC stronger measures may be required in parts of the country in the coming weeks.\n\nHe said this included the possibility of keeping schools closed, although this is not \"something we want to do\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has called for new England-wide restrictions within 24 hours.\n\nSir Keir said coronavirus was \"clearly out of control\" and it was \"inevitable more schools are going to have to close\".\n\nIt comes as the UK recorded more than 50,000 new confirmed Covid cases for the sixth day in a row, with 54,990 announced on Sunday.\n\nAn additional 454 deaths within 28 days of a positive test result have also been reported, meaning the total by this measure is now above 75,000.\n\nSpeaking on BBC One's Andrew Marr Show, Mr Johnson said he stuck by his previous prediction that the situation would be better by the spring, and he hoped \"tens of millions\" would be vaccinated in the next three months.\n\nBut he added: \"It may be that we need to do things in the next few weeks that will be tougher in many parts of the country. I'm fully, fully reconciled to that.\"\n\n\"And I bet the people of this country are reconciled to that because, until the vaccine really comes on stream in a massive way, we're fighting this virus with the same set of tools.\"\n\nThe PM added that ministers had taken \"every reasonable step that we reasonably could\" to prepare for winter, but \"could not have reasonably predicted\" the new, more transmissible variant of the virus that has emerged over the autumn.\n\nSpeaking after Mr Johnson's interview, Sir Keir said introducing new nationwide restrictions in England \"has to be the first step to controlling the virus\".\n\n\"There's no good the prime minister hinting that further restrictions are coming into place in a week or two or three,\" he told reporters on Sunday. \"That delay has been the source of so many problems.\"\n\n\"Let's not have the prime minister saying 'I'm going to do it, but not yet',\" he added.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Johnson defended plans for primary schools to reopen in most of England on Monday, amid opposition from teaching unions and some local councils.\n\nIt came after Amanda Spielman, the head of Ofsted, England's schools watchdog, said closures should be kept to an \"absolute minimum\".\n\nThe rapidly rising infection rates mean it should come as no surprise that tougher measures are being considered.\n\nInfection levels are nearly four times higher now than they were at the start of December - and that in turn has put more pressure on hospitals.\n\nThere are signs the restrictions have started slowing the rises in London, the East of England and the South East.\n\nBut that on its own is not enough. Ministers want to get cases down.\n\nSo what extra can be done? After all most of England is effectively in lockdown already with tier four in place. Those places not in tier four could, of course, follow.\n\nBut some public health experts are warning more needs to be done.\n\nThere is a determination to get primary school children back - they have among the lowest rates of infection if you look at symptomatic cases.\n\nBut infection rates are higher among secondary school age children. The government has bought itself time by delaying their return.\n\nA further 20 million people in England were added to tier four - \"stay at home\" - the toughest set of rules, on 31 December in a bid to stem a surge in Covid cases.\n\nIt means 78% of the population of England is now in tier four, under which non-essential shops are closed and people can only leave their homes for a certain number of reasons.\n\nThe Scottish government will meet on Monday to consider \"further action\" to limit the spread of the disease, Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said.\n\nAll of mainland Scotland is currently under its own level four restrictions - with only some islands under less stringent tier three measures.\n\nWales entered a nationwide lockdown on 20 December, with First Minister Mark Drakeford saying on Sunday it was \"difficult to see\" how the rules could be strengthened further.\n\nHe said Welsh ministers would consider whether restrictions could be \"tweaked at the margins\" at a cabinet meeting on Wednesday.\n\nNorthern Ireland is in the second week of a six-week lockdown that began on Boxing Day. Stricter measures, including a \"stay-at-home curfew\", ended on Saturday.\n\nIn another development, an academic has said there is a \"big question mark\" over whether a vaccine developed at Oxford University will be as effective against a new variant of the virus that has emerged in South Africa.\n\nProf Sir John Bell, Regius professor of medicine at the university, said the team there were currently investigating this question \"right now\".\n\nHe added it was \"unlikely\" the variant would \"turn off the effect of vaccines entirely,\" and in any case it would be possible to tweak the vaccine in around 4-6 weeks.\n\n\"Everybody should stay calm - it's going to be fine,\" he told Times Radio.\n\n\"But we're now in a game of cat and mouse - because these are not the only two variants we're going to see.\"", "Former Bond actress and Charlie's Angel Tanya Roberts has died in hospital in Los Angeles at the age of 65.\n\nRoberts appeared with Sir Roger Moore in his final Bond film, 1985's A View To A Kill, and had a recurring role in That '70s Show.\n\nShe also starred in the final series of Charlie's Angels on TV in 1980.\n\nHer death was prematurely announced on Monday, only for doctors to say she was still alive. However, her death was then confirmed on Tuesday.\n\nRoberts had collapsed while walking her dogs on 24 December and was admitted to Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre.\n\nHer partner Lance O'Brien mistakenly thought she had died on Sunday after visiting her in hospital. After getting a call from doctors to say she was deteriorating quickly, he went to her bedside, her eyes closed and she \"faded\", TMZ reported.\n\nDevastated, he walked out of the room and then the hospital without speaking to medical staff before informing Roberts' agent that he had \"just said goodbye to Tanya\".\n\nBut while being interviewed for US TV show Inside Edition on Monday, Mr O'Brien got a call from the hospital to say she was alive.\n\nThe moment was captured on film, as he picked up his phone and said: \"Now you're telling me she's alive? Thank the Lord.\" However, she died on Monday night.\n\nShe appeared in A View To A Kill alongside Sir Roger Moore and singer Grace Jones\n\nBorn Victoria Leigh Blum in 1955, Roberts grew up in New York before moving to Hollywood in 1977.\n\nHer big break came when she replaced Shelly Hack in Charlie's Angels, joining Jaclyn Smith and Cheryl Ladd as third 'Angel' Julie.\n\nAfter the show's cancellation, she appeared in such fantasy adventure films as The Beastmaster and Hearts and Armour.\n\nShe also played comic book heroine Sheena in a 1984 film that saw her nominated for a Golden Raspberry award for worst actress.\n\nRoberts received another Razzie nomination for her role as geologist Stacey Sutton in 1985 Bond film A View to a Kill.\n\nRoberts in the title role in Sheena: Queen of the Jungle\n\nShe admitted being \"a little cautious\" about taking the role, but said it would have been \"ridiculous\" to have turned it down.\n\nRoberts' subsequent films included Night Eyes and Inner Sanctum, erotic thrillers that did little to advance her career.\n\nShe went on to play Midge Pinciotti in more than 80 episodes of That '70s Show between 1998 and 2004.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "Derby County said several staff members and first-team players tested positive for the virus\n\nChampionship side Derby County has said \"several first-team staff and players\" have tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nIn a statement, the club said it had closed its Moor Farm training ground and was speaking to the EFL and the Football Association about forthcoming fixtures.\n\nThe club said it would not reveal the names of those who had tested positive, due to medical confidentiality.\n\nIt added they would be isolating in line with government guidelines.\n\nThe outbreak at Derby comes after Sheffield Wednesday closed their Middlewood Road training ground following a Covid-19 outbreak at the club.\n\nThe Rams were beaten 1-0 by Wednesday in their most recent match on New Year's Day at Hillsborough.\n\nDerby, who are third from bottom in the Championship, are due to travel to Chorley on Saturday for a third round FA Cup tie.\n\nFormer England striker Wayne Rooney took over as interim manager at Derby after the club sacked former head coach Phillip Cocu in November\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nEngland all-rounder Moeen Ali has tested positive for Covid-19 upon the squad's arrival in Sri Lanka.\n\nThe 33-year-old, who tested negative before departure, will now isolate for 10 days in accordance with the Sri Lanka government's quarantine protocol.\n\nFellow all-rounder Chris Woakes has been deemed as a possible close contact, and will observe a period of self-isolation and further testing.\n\nEngland's two-Test tour of Sri Lanka starts in Galle on 14 January.\n\nEngland had lateral flow tests and a PCR test at Hambantota airport upon arrival, with Moeen's PCR test returning the positive.\n\nThe rest of the touring parting will be retested on Tuesday morning, before being allowed to train for the first time on Wednesday.\n\nMoeen is the first England player to test positive for the virus, with a full summer of games against West Indies, Pakistan, Australia and Ireland being completed without any cases.\n\nEngland's last overseas tour, in South Africa, was cut short in December after positive cases in the Cape Town hotel where England were staying. England returned two positive tests - that were later verified as false positives.\n\nLast week England captain Joe Root said he did not expect the tour to be postponed if there were one or two isolated cases of the virus.\n\nSince England's tour of South Africa was called off, Pakistan's tour of New Zealand and Sri Lanka's of South Africa have both continued despite positive cases.\n\nEngland flew on a chartered flight from London to Hambantota on Saturday evening.\n\nAll of the players, and touring party, tested negative before their departure and were sprayed with disinfectant upon their arrival in Sri Lanka.\n\nThe series was scheduled to take place last year but England flew home after the tour was called off on 13 March as the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic took hold.\n\nSri Lanka has seen 44,774 coronavirus infections and 213 deaths during the pandemic, according to Johns Hopkins University.\n\nGiven the circumstances of their abandoned trip to South Africa, this is clearly alarming for England, however it's important to make the distinction between the two tours. In South Africa, they felt their bubble was breached, whereas this is an issue internal to the tourists.\n\nMoeen will be moved to Galle, the location of the two Tests, for his period of isolation, but given that is not due to end until the day before the first match, he must be considered a huge doubt.\n\nEngland have planned for this sort of issue, travelling with seven reserves in addition to the squad of 16. Three of those reserves - Mason Crane, Amar Virdi and Matt Parkinson - are spinners, but have only Crane's one Test cap between them.\n\nAt the moment, England have not discussed promoting a player to the main squad but should they feel the need to supplement frontline spinners Dom Bess and Jack Leach in their Test XI, then an inexperienced name is set for a big opportunity.", "Zara Holland appeared on the second series of Love Island\n\nLove Island star Zara Holland is to be prosecuted for allegedly breaking Covid rules on holiday in Barbados.\n\nIsland police say the former Miss Great Britain is expected to appear in court on Wednesday, accused of \"breaching quarantine\".\n\nStation Sergeant Michael Blackman told Newsbeat she was \"intercepted\" at the airport and later presented herself at a police station.\n\nIt's not clear whether she will appear in court in person or by video link.\n\nAn apology from the 25-year-old for what she described as \"a massive mix-up and misunderstanding\" was published by the Barbados Today website.\n\nShe told the publication: \"I have been a guest of this lovely island in excess of 20 years and would never do anything to jeopardise an entire nation that I have nothing but love and respect for and which has treated me as a family.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nEveryone in England must stay at home except for permitted reasons during a new coronavirus lockdown expected to last until mid-February, the PM says.\n\nAll schools and colleges will close to most pupils and switch to remote learning from Tuesday.\n\nBoris Johnson warned the coming weeks would be the \"hardest yet\" amid surging cases and patient numbers.\n\nHe said those in the top four priority groups would be offered a first vaccine dose by the middle of next month.\n\nAll care home residents and their carers, everyone aged 70 and over, all frontline health and social care workers, and the clinically extremely vulnerable will be offered one dose of a vaccine by mid-February.\n\nSchools in Northern Ireland will have an \"extended period of remote learning\", the Stormont Executive said.\n\nSpeaking from Downing Street, Mr Johnson told the public to follow the new lockdown rules immediately, before they become law in the early hours of Wednesday.\n\nAll the new measures in England will then last until at least the middle of February, he said, as a new more infectious variant of the virus spreads across the UK.\n\nThe PM added that he believed the country was entering \"the last phase of the struggle\".\n\nHospitals were under \"more pressure from Covid than at any time since the start of the pandemic\", he said.\n\nAnd he reiterated the slogan used earlier in the pandemic, urging people to immediately \"stay at home, protect the NHS and save lives\".\n\nOn Monday, the UK recorded more than 50,000 new confirmed Covid cases for the seventh day in a row.\n\nA further 58,784 cases and an additional 407 deaths within 28 days of a positive test result were reported, though deaths in Scotland were not recorded.\n\nAs of 08:00 GMT, there were 26,626 Covid-19 patients in hospital in England, according to the latest figures.\n\nThis is a week-on-week increase of 30%, and a new record high.\n\nThose who are clinically extremely vulnerable will be contacted by letter and should now shield once more, Mr Johnson said.\n\nSupport and childcare bubbles will continue under the new measures - and people can meet one person from another household for outdoor exercise.\n\nCommunal worship and life events like funerals and weddings can continue, subject to limits on attendance.\n\nWhile Mr Johnson said end-of-year exams would not take place as normal in the summer, he said alternative arrangements would be announced separately.\n\nThe government has published a 22-page document outlining the new rules in detail.\n\nThe House of Commons has been recalled to allow MPs to vote on the new restrictions on Wednesday.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said his MPs would \"support the package of measures\", saying \"we've all got to pull together now to make this work\".\n\nOnce again it is the threat to the NHS that has forced the hand of ministers.\n\nIn England there has been a 50% rise in the number of patients in hospital with Covid since Christmas day.\n\nTo put that into context, it equates to 18 hospitals being filled.\n\nCurrently around three out of 10 beds are occupied by patients with the disease.\n\nIn some hospitals it is more than six in 10.\n\nBut what is worrying ministers and NHS leaders is that the number is just going to increase.\n\nIn the spring it took nearly three weeks after lockdown for hospital cases to peak.\n\nThe last six days have seen in excess of 50,000 new infections confirmed each day across the UK - a number of these infections are next week's hospital admissions.\n\nIt is why the UK's chief medical officers were warning there was a \"material risk\" of some hospitals being overwhelmed if something did not change.\n\nMr Johnson spoke after UK chief medical officers recommended the Covid threat level be increased to five - its highest level.\n\nLevel five means the NHS may soon be unable to handle a further sustained rise in cases, the medical officers said in a joint statement.\n\nNHS Providers, which represents health service trusts, said hospitals were at a \"critical point\" and that \"immediate and decisive action\" was needed.\n\nAnnouncing tougher measures in Scotland, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said: \"It is no exaggeration to say that I am more concerned about the situation we face now than I have been at any time since March last year.\"\n\nFor pupils who returned for their first day of the new term at primary school on Monday, it's turned out to be an extremely short-lived visit.\n\nBoris Johnson's announcement will see primary, secondary and further education colleges closed for at least the next six weeks, except for vulnerable and key workers' children.\n\nIt's a much bigger shift in policy than had been anticipated, even a few days ago.\n\nEven the return date will depend on the progress in tackling the virus.\n\n\"I hope we can steadily move out of lockdown, reopening schools after the February half term,\" said the prime minister.\n\nKeeping schools open was the government's most definite of red lines, a few weeks ago they were threatening councils that wanted to close them - but it's now been overtaken by the spiking lines on the Covid infection charts.\n\nEven after the chaos of last year's replacement grades, GCSEs and A-levels are being cancelled again - with a replacement system still to be decided. Vocational exams are to continue.\n\nFor parents dreading home schooling, there are plans for it to be better supported this time - with more computer devices available and suggestions that Ofsted inspectors will check what schools are offering.\n\nBut there's no escaping that this will feel like another sudden and chaotic change of direction for schools and parents.\n\nMr Johnson's pledge on vaccinations comes after an 82-year-old retired maintenance manager became the first person in the UK to receive the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 jab\n\nSome 13.9 million people are among the four priority groups who will receive a vaccine dose by about 15 February, vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC's Laura Foster explains the order in which the Covid vaccine will be given\n\nHow will you be affected by the latest developments? What questions do you have? 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "First Minister Arlene Foster and Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill met throughout Monday\n\nThere will be an extended period of remote learning for schools in Northern Ireland, the executive has said.\n\nMinisters met on Monday night as other parts of the UK tightened their coronavirus restrictions.\n\nThe Stormont executive also plans to give its stay at home guidance legal force, with new restrictions on travel.\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said details would be formalised on Tuesday.\n\nThe health and education ministers will bring separate papers on the issues to the executive at the meeting, she added.\n\nNorthern Ireland's Education Minister Peter Weir had previously announced a staggered return to school for pupils during the month of January.\n\nThe first transfer test, used by many grammar schools to select pupils, is due to take place on Saturday but there have been calls from some teaching unions and political parties for the test to be cancelled this year, in light of the uncertainty with the pandemic.\n\nIn England, all schools and colleges will close to most pupils and switch to remote learning until the middle of February, and end-of-year exams will not take place this summer as normal.\n\nRecommendations on exams in Northern Ireland are also expected to be brought forward by the executive on Tuesday.\n\nIt is understood ministers will update the assembly on Wednesday about their decisions.\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster said the new restrictions were unfortunate, but necessary.\n\nShe said she believed the stay-at-home message will be in place \"for the rest of January, probably into February\".\n\n\"We will of course review it, as we're legally bound to do every couple of weeks.\"\n\nShe added that ministers would \"much prefer\" for face-to-face education to continue, but said they had to \"take into account the very serious situation that we find ourselves in tonight.\"\n\nBoth organisations which organise transfer tests will be making announcements on Tuesday, she said.\n\n\"We'll wait to hear what they have to say. They do of course have to abide by public health advice, but they are private organisations and they will make their own announcements.\"\n\nThe Irish government is considering a proposal to close schools for the rest of January.\n\nOn Monday, the Department of Health reported that a further 1,801 people had tested positive for the virus in the past 24 hours.\n\nThere have also been 12 more Covid-19 related deaths.\n\nThese latest figures from the Department of Health bring the total number of deaths to 1,366, while 79,873 people have tested positive for the virus since the pandemic started.\n\nMore than 12,000 cases have been reported in the past seven days, more than double the week before.\n\nThe seven-day rate per 100,000 people is now 660 positive cases, compared to 200 per 100,000 two weeks ago.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland on Monday, an additional 6,110 confirmed cases of Covid-19 were announced, with six further deaths linked to the virus.\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has already announced a fresh lockdown there from midnight, with schools closed until February.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio Ulster's Evening Extra programme, Dr Michael McBride said Scotland's measures were \"prudent and sensible\".\n\nMeanwhile, the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine rollout has begun in Northern Ireland.\n\nUp to 11,000 people aged over 80 across Northern Ireland are set to receive the this week, with some of the first doses delivered at a GP surgery on the Falls Road in West Belfast on Monday afternoon.\n\nUp to 11,000 people aged over 80 across Northern Ireland are set to receive the Oxford-AstraZeneca\n\nThe SDLP has called for the assembly to be recalled on Tuesday to discuss the rolling out of the vaccine.\n\nIt can be recalled if at least 30 MLAs sign a petition.\n\nOn Monday, Justice Minister Naomi Long welcomed the opening of Northern Ireland's first Nightingale venue, which will be used for courts and tribunals business.\n\nThe facility was approved by a meeting of the executive on 17 December, and will sit in the International Convention Centre in Belfast (ICC).\n\nActivity at the centre will be phased in, in line with Covid-19 regulations.\n\nIn other coronavirus-related developments on Monday:", "Gerry Marsden was awarded an MBE in 2003 for services to Liverpudlian Charities.\n\nGerry and the Pacemakers singer Gerry Marsden, whose version of You'll Never Walk Alone became a football terrace anthem for his hometown club of Liverpool, has died at the age of 78.\n\nHis family said he died on Sunday after a short illness not linked to Covid-19.\n\nMarsden's band was one of the biggest success stories of the Merseybeat era, and in 1963 became the first to have their first three songs top the chart.\n\nThe band's other best known hit, Ferry Cross The Mersey, came in 1964.\n\nIt was written by Marsden himself as a tribute to his city, and reached number eight.\n\nMarsden was made an MBE in 2003 for services to charity after supporting victims of the Hillsborough disaster.\n\nAt the time, he said he was \"over the moon\" to have received the honour, following his support for numerous charities across Merseyside and beyond.\n\nGerry Marsden in 2009 on the Mersey ferry, which he made famous with his song Ferry Cross The Mersey, as he received the Freedom of the City in Liverpool\n\nMarsden's daughter, Yvette Marbeck, said he went into hospital on Boxing Day after tests showed he had a serious blood infection that had travelled to his heart.\n\nMs Marbeck told the PA news agency: \"It was a very short illness and too quick to comprehend really.\"\n\nHe died in hospital, Ms Marbeck said, adding: \"He was our dad, our hero, warm, funny and what you see is what you got.\"\n\nLiverpool FC posted on social media that Marsden's words would \"live on forever with us\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nGerry and the Pacemakers worked the same Liverpool club circuit as The Beatles in the 1960s and were signed by the Fab Four's manager Brian Epstein.\n\nEpstein gave Marsden's group the song How Do You Do It, which had been turned down by The Beatles and Adam Faith, for their debut single.\n\nSir Paul McCartney described Gerry and the Pacemakers as The Beatles's \"biggest rivals\" on the Merseyside scene.\n\n\"I'll always remember you with a smile,\" Sir Paul said in his tribute to Marsden.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Paul McCartney This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd the other surviving Beatle, Sir Ringo Starr, sent \"peace and love\" to Marsden's family in a tribute on Twitter.\n\nWhile Marsden was a songwriter as well as a singer, his most enduring hit was actually a cover of a Rodgers and Hammerstein musical number from 1945, which he had to convince his bandmates to record as their third single.\n\nIn many interviews over the years, he explained how fate played a part in his band ever recording the song. He was watching a Laurel and Hardy movie at Liverpool's Odeon cinema in the early 1960s and, only because it was raining, he decided to stay for the second part of a double feature.\n\nThat turned out to be the film Carousel - which featured that song on its soundtrack - and Marsden was so moved by the lyrics that he became determined that it should become part of his band's repertoire.\n\nIn a 2013 interview, Marsden told the Liverpool FC website how You'll Never Walk Alone was adopted by the club's fans as soon as it topped the chart in 1963: \"I remember being at Anfield and before every kick off they used to play the top 10 from number 10 to number one, and so You'll Never Walk Alone was played before the match. I was at the game and the fans started singing it.\n\n\"When it went out of the top 10 they took the song off the playlist and then for the next match the Kop were shouting 'Where's our song?' So they had to put it back on.\n\n\"Now, every time I go to the game I still get goose pimples when the song comes on and I sing my head off.\"\n\nSir Kenny Dalglish, who managed Liverpool at the time of the Hillsborough tragedy, tweeted that he was \"saddened\" by the news of Marsden's death, and that You'll Never Walk Alone was an \"integral part of Liverpool Football Club, and never more so than now\".\n\nLiverpool City Region Mayor Steve Rotheram posted a tribute on Twitter, saying he was \"devastated\" by the news.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Steve Rotheram This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nGerry was an entertainer. He loved being an entertainer; he loved people seeing him in the street and asking him for his autograph and the like.\n\nHe had a very distinctive voice, and that is terribly important. You knew instantly it was him on those records. He was best on those ballads.\n\nI think he really did them very well indeed. You'll Never Walk Alone was a big show song that had been around for years and years, and lots of people had done it.\n\nJust before Gerry brought his version out, Johnny Mathis brought his out. If that version had been played on the Kop, I don't think the Kop would have taken to it because you couldn't sing along with Johnny Mathis - he had too big a range and too perfect a voice.\n\nBut Gerry sounded like everyman and it was absolutely perfect for the Kop. I think it's the greatest football anthem of the lot.\n\nAs well as being a Liverpool anthem, You'll Never Walk Alone has also been adopted by fans at both Celtic in Scotland and Borussia Dortmund in Germany.\n\nMarsden's career began at legendary live music venue, The Cavern Club, where The Pacemakers played nearly 200 times.\n\nThe club said on Twitter that Marsden was \"not only a legend, but also a very good friend of The Cavern\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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End of twitter post 4 by The Cavern Club\n\nGerry and The Pacemakers achieved nine hit singles and two hit albums between 1963 and 1965, before splitting up.\n\nMarsden pursued a solo career before the band reformed in 1974 for a world tour.\n\nIn 1985, Marsden was back in the pop spotlight when he was invited to be one of the vocalists of a charity version of You'll Never Walk Alone, which was released to raise funds for victims of a fire at a Bradford City match.\n\nIn doing so, Marsden set another chart record by becoming the first person to sing on two different chart-topping versions of the same song.\n\nSo when, after the Hillsborough tragedy in 1989, the other Pacemakers classic of Ferry Cross The Mersey was chosen to raise funds for its victims and a group of famous Liverpudlian singers was gathered, Marsden was again included and was back at number one once more for a cause he held dear for the rest of his life.\n\nMarsden was awarded the Freedom of Liverpool in April 2009, an occasion he marked by boarding a ferry across the Mersey and getting out his guitar to sing his famous hit which described the scene.", "US casino giant MGM Resorts has made an $11bn (£8.1bn) offer for British gaming company Entain, which owns Ladbrokes.\n\nThe move is the latest attempt by a casino operator to move into the online gambling business.\n\nIn addition to its chain of High Street betting shops, UK-based Entain also owns a number of online sports betting and gambling sites.\n\nEntain confirmed the offer, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, but said the price was too low.\n\nIt had recently rebuffed an earlier $10bn (£7.3bn) all-cash approach from MGM, the newspaper said.\n\nIn a statement, Entain said the latest bid approach \"significantly undervalues the company and its prospects\".\n\nMGM Resorts, which runs the Bellagio casino in Las Vegas, now has until the beginning of next month to decide whether to make a formal bid or to walk away.\n\nFTSE 100-listed Entain. which renamed itself from GVC Holdings last month, describes itself as \"one of the world's largest sports betting and gaming groups operating in the online and retail sector\".\n\nAlong with Ladbrokes, it also owns brands such as Bwin, Partypoker, Coral, Eurobet, Gala and Foxy Bingo.\n\nAfter news of the latest offer for the firm, investors started betting on Entain, pushing its share price up by more than 25% to £14.30 a share - above MGM's offer of roughly £13.83 a share - a sign that market watchers are expecting a higher bid.\n\nIf the two firms do reach an agreement, it would follow another deal in September when MGM rival Caesars Entertainment agreed to buy UK-based William Hill for $3.7bn (£2.9bn).\n\n\"Following Caesar's offer for William Hill last year, a bid by MGM for Ladbroke's owner Entain isn't exactly a surprise,\" said Nicholas Hyett an analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown.\n\n\"The two are working together to take advantage of the recent legalisation of sports betting in the US, a market worth many billions of dollars a year.\"\n\nPredictions about the stockmarket have a habit of making the person trying to guess the future look foolish. No such problem for Laura Foll, a fund manager at the investment firm Janus Henderson. On the Today programme on Monday, she forecast more takeover offers for household names in Britain, noting that the UK markets remained unloved by investors and so - perhaps - undervalued.\n\nAn hour after the prediction a big offer duly landed, with Entain, the London-listed company that owns Ladbrokes and other gambling brands, saying it had received a takeover proposal from MGM Resorts, an American rival.\n\nThe US company is offering to pay shareholders in Entain not in cash, but in new MGM shares - an obvious move given the sky-high rating of US shares compared to those listed in London.\n\nIt looks a carbon copy of last year's deal where Caesars, best known for its Las Vegas properties, bought another venerable name in British bookmaking, William Hill. Get ready for more acquisitive foreign companies looking for deals in bargain basement London.\n\nThe new bid for Entain comes with financial backing from MGM's largest shareholder, InterActiveCorp (IAC), which took a 12% stake in MGM Resorts last August.\n\nAt the time, IAC's chief executive Barry Diller said it planned to work with MGM to expand its online gambling portfolio.\n\nThe attempted acquisition comes as the casino industry faces headwinds from the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nThe economy of Asian casino hub Macau shrank 49% in the first quarter of this year, while unemployment in Las Vegas reached 30% earlier in the year and remains well above the US average.\n\nMGM Resorts, which is the operator of the Bellagio casino in Las Vegas, laid off 18,000 furloughed employees in the US in August.\n\nMany online gambling companies, by contrast, saw a boost during Covid-19 restrictions, prompting many casino owners to pivot their businesses towards online.", "Experts have raised concerns over India's emergency approval of a locally-produced coronavirus vaccine before the completion of trials.\n\nOn Sunday, Delhi approved the vaccine - known as Covaxin - as well as the global AstraZeneca Oxford jab, which is also being manufactured in India.\n\nThe head of Bharat Biotech, which makes Covaxin, defended the approval process, but health experts warn it was rushed.\n\nHealth watchdog All India Drug Action Network said it was \"shocked\".\n\nIt said that there were \"intense concerns arising from the absence of the efficacy data\" as well a lack of transparency that would \"raise more questions than answers and likely will not reinforce faith in our scientific decision making bodies\".\n\nThe statement came after India's Drugs Controller General, VG Somani, insisted Covaxin was \"safe and provides a robust immune response\".\n\nHe added the vaccines had been approved for restricted use in \"public interest as an abundant precaution, in clinical trial mode, to have more options for vaccinations, especially in case of infection by mutant strains\".\n\n\"The vaccines are 100% safe,\" he said, adding that side effects such as \"mild fever, pain and allergy are common for every vaccine\".\n\nThe All India Drug Action Network, however, said it was \"baffled to understand the scientific logic\" to approve \"an incompletely studied vaccine\".\n\nOne of India's most eminent medical experts, Dr Gagandeep Kang, told the Times of India newspaper that she had \"not seen anything like this before\". She added that \"there is absolutely no efficacy data that has been presented or published\".\n\nEven social media users were quick to point out that approving the vaccine before trials were complete was a matter of concern irrespective of how safe or effective the vaccine eventually turned out to be.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Joy This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut Krishna Ella, chairman of Bharat Biotech, met reporters on Monday and said the approval of Covaxin had not been rushed. He cited previous examples where emergency authorisation approvals had been given based only on immunogenicity data.\n\n\"Under Indian laws we can get emergency approval for the vaccine based on fulfilling five parameters after Phase 2 trails. That is what has happened with our vaccine. So it is not a premature approval,\" he said.\n\n\"We will complete the Phase 3 trials soon and provide the efficacy data for the vaccine by February.\"\n\nThe company currently has 20 million doses available and plans to produce about 700 million doses this year, Dr Ella said.\n\n\"We have four facilities coming up and we are planning [to make] around 200 million doses in Hyderabad, 500 million doses in other cities.\"\n\nMany scientists and opposition politicians have raised questions over what they say is the hasty authorisation of Covaxin.\n\nBharat Biotech has developed the vaccine with the state-run Indian Council of Medical Research - and the effort has been touted as an example of India's might in vaccine development and production.\n\nRegulators say the vaccine is safe and effective. The firm says phase 1 and phase 2 trials have shown good results.\n\nBut scientists say that the government's decision not to release data on the vaccine's efficacy for peer review has raised concerns.\n\nMr Modi has welcomed the approval, saying Covaxin is a shining example of his ambitious Atmnirbhar (self-reliance) India campaign.\n\nBut experts worry that questions over the approval process don't bode well for the campaign. And there could be deeper issues. Many believe that the government needs to be more transparent about the authorisation process because the success of the Covid-19 vaccine programme depends on public trust.\n\nThe emergency authorisation also sparked a fierce debate on Indian Twitter on Sunday night between ministers and opposition leaders.\n\nIndia's health minister Dr Harsh Vardhan called out opposition leaders for failing to \"applaud\" the country's \"prowess\" in locally producing a vaccine. India makes about 60% of vaccines globally.\n\nMembers of the main opposition Congress party, Shashi Tharoor and Jairam Ramesh, and former chief minister of Uttar Pradesh state, Akhilesh Yadav, were among those who raised concerns about the manner in which Covaxin was approved.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Shashi Tharoor This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Dr Harsh Vardhan This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe approval comes as India gears up to vaccinate its population of more than 1.3 billon people. Amid fears that richer countries are buying up much of the vaccine supply, India too appears to be stockpiling vaccines.\n\nIn an interview with the Associated Press, Adar Poonawalla, whose Serum Institute of India (SII) is manufacturing the AstraZeneca Oxford vaccine, said the jab was given emergency authorisation on the condition that it would not be exported outside India.\n\nMr Poonawalla said his company, the world's largest vaccine maker, was also not allowed to sell the shot in the private market.\n\nThis has raised concerns in India's neighbouring countries, including Nepal and Bangladesh, which were primarily depending on the SII to start vaccinating their populations.\n\nBangladesh had already ordered 30 million doses of the vaccine in the first phase, Reuters reported, but now the fate of the order is unclear. The country's health secretary told local media in December that it expected the first batch of the jab by February.\n\nIndia plans to vaccinate some 300 million people on a priority list by August.\n\nIt has recorded the second-highest number of infections in the world, with more than 10.3 million confirmed cases to date. Nearly 150,000 people have died.\n\nBoth vaccines approved on Sunday can be transported and stored at normal refrigeration temperatures.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Co-op, Morrisons and their payments processing provider ACI say they are investigating an IT glitch that created problems for card payments in stores.\n\nLong queues were seen outside some of the Co-op's convenience stores from Sunday amid the snow, with some shoppers asked to use cash.\n\nCo-op and Morrisons said customers were no longer experiencing problems but they, and ACI, were studying the cause.\n\nOne MP said the problem exposed the risks of letting cash use \"wither\".\n\nACI, which provides real-time payments processing for the retailers, said: \"We are working closely with the IT teams at our partners to resolve the problem as quickly as possible. We apologise to shoppers for any inconvenience caused.\"\n\nThe issue comes as contactless payments have taken off in the UK during the pandemic, with fewer consumers using cash to pay for groceries.\n\nCustomers complained about the issue on social media.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jen Bartram This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA Co-op spokesman told the BBC: \"All card transactions are being processed as usual and our payment process partner is investigating after we experienced an intermittent issue.\n\n\"We would like to apologise to customers for any inconvenience caused during that time.\"\n\nThe BBC witnessed the card processing issue affecting some of The Co-op's stores meant that self-service checkouts had to be closed, requiring customers to queue to be served at tills manned by staff.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by David of Nottingham This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post 2 by David of Nottingham\n\nAt some stores, customers queuing outside were warned on Monday evening that transactions had to be \"cash-only\" due to the ongoing issue.\n\nSome customers said they had to use the convenience store's cash machine to withdraw money to pay for purchases.\n\nHowever in other stores, the problem was intermittent, impacting some payment card brands, but not others.\n\nShadow economic secretary to the Treasury Pat McFadden said: \"This shows the dangers of letting the cash network just wither away as use declines.\n\n\"The government promised legislation to secure nationwide access to cash a year ago. It hasn't been brought forward.\"", "The case rate in Bridgend peaked just before Christmas, but now we are seeing deaths in hospitals\n\nThe total number of deaths involving Covid-19 in Wales has reached its highest weekly total of the pandemic.\n\nThere were 467 deaths in the week ending 15 January, which is 13 more than the week before.\n\nThis was nearly 40% of all registered deaths, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).\n\nBoth Betsi Cadwaladr and Cwm Taf Morgannwg health boards saw their highest weekly numbers, more than experienced during the first wave.\n\nBetsi Cadwaladr had 74 deaths while Cwm Taf Morgannwg had 116.\n\nUnlike during the peak in the first wave in 2020, Wales is also now seeing higher numbers of deaths in north Wales and west Wales.\n\nIn north-east Wales, where there have been the highest case rates of Covid-19 in recent weeks, there were 30 deaths of Flintshire residents, including 25 in hospital. In Wrexham, there were 27 deaths - with 21 in hospital.\n\nCwm Taf Morgannwg health board saw 49 hospital deaths in Bridgend - the highest weekly number in Wales. There were also 33 patients who died in Rhondda Cynon Taf (RCT) and six in Merthyr Tydfil.\n\nAll counties recorded at least three deaths involving Covid-19 and the total number of deaths in Wales, up to and registered by 15 January, was 5,884.\n\nWhen deaths registered over the following few days are counted, there is now a total of 6,074.\n\nRCT, with 752 deaths, has the largest number in Wales, followed by Cardiff with 637, up to the latest week.\n\nWhen looking at crude mortality rates, the highest number of deaths - when taking into account the size of populations in England and Wales - are Welsh areas: RCT, followed by Merthyr Tydfil and Blaenau Gwent.\n\nSo-called excess deaths, which compare all registered deaths with previous years, continue to be above the five-year average.\n\nLooking at the number of deaths we would normally expect to see at this point in the year is seen as a useful measure of how the pandemic is progressing.\n\nIn Wales, the number of deaths from all causes fell from 1,198 in the previous week - the highest recorded during the pandemic - to 1,170. But this was still 314 (36.7%) higher than the five-year average for that week.\n\nThis means deaths have been more than the peak in the first wave of the pandemic - 1,169 deaths in the week ending 17 April 2020 - for two weeks in a row.\n\nThe highest proportion of excess deaths was 84.1% in London.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Schools and colleges in Wales moved to online learning before Christmas\n\nKeeping schools shut during the Covid pandemic is \"almost like systematic neglect\" to disadvantaged pupils, a head teacher has said.\n\nCardiff head Armando Di-Finizio said there was a \"fair degree of trauma\" among pupils because of the lockdowns.\n\nOne expert said children from disadvantaged backgrounds were falling furthest behind academically.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it ensured vulnerable children could continue to attend school.\n\nBefore the pandemic the proportion of pupils receiving free school meals who achieved five or more GCSEs was 32% lower than the figure for other pupils in Wales.\n\nAt Eastern High School, where 47% of children receive free school meals, Mr Di-Finizio said the challenges of lockdown were greater for pupils who may not have support or structure at home for learning.\n\nArmando Di-Finizio, head teacher of Eastern High School, says the the attainment gap among pupils is \"widening\"\n\nMr Di-Finizio told Wales Live he did not think the balance was right \"between those who are genuinely vulnerable\" with the virus and young people who are vulnerable in terms of their welfare and wellbeing and their academic progress.\n\n\"I think there would have been other ways to handle this because we are seeing students struggling because of it and the attainment gap is widening for this generation,\" he said.\n\n\"It's almost like systematic neglect of young people that is going on day after day, week after week, month after month.\n\n\"We have to somehow pull this back because I do wonder one day, how the children will look back and judge us in terms of our responses.\"\n\nAnother concern since the pandemic began, he said, was the fact the number of child protection cases at his school has doubled.\n\n\"I don't want to sound alarmist, but I do believe it will take a number of years for us to unpick the traumas that young people go through because we don't know yet just what this lasting impact will be,\" he added.\n\nProfessor Chris Taylor says home learning reduces the ability to provide a \"level playing field\" for education\n\nWelsh Chief Inspector of Schools Meilyr Rowlands, has previously said there was evidence of widening inequality in performance as a result of the pandemic.\n\nSocial Sciences Prof Chris Taylor, from Cardiff University, said this gap was continuing to widen.\n\n\"Closing schools exposes and accentuates the deep disadvantage that many families have across Wales in the different circumstances that they're in,\" Prof Taylor said.\n\nHome learning reduces the ability of schools \"to provide that level playing field\" for educational opportunities.\n\n\"Instead, we're relying on what families and households can produce and provide to support that learning,\" he said.\n\nProf Taylor added some children would \"feel like they've left school at the age of 14 or 15, instead of 18\" in terms of their learning, and the focus for them should be preparing for the next step in their education rather than exams that are not going to happen this summer.\n\nHe said some pupils who may have been planning to leave school at 16 should remain in education until they are 18 to \"remedy some of the missed opportunities\", and that summer school and activities should be put on to help address isolation.\n\nAlmost half of all pupils receive free school meals at Eastern High School in Cardiff\n\nSiân Gwenllian MS, Plaid Cymru's education spokeswoman, has called on the Welsh Government to publish a plan on how pupils will be helped to catch up with \"lost education\".\n\n\"Those children in more deprived areas have been doubly disadvantaged - coronavirus has been more prevalent in these areas, meaning they will have lost more school prior to the lockdown, and these children are less likely to have the means to access online learning,\" she said.\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said it had provided \"more than 130,000 [electronic] devices\" since the start of the pandemic for pupils' home learning.\n\n\"We've also recruited more than 1,000 teaching and support staff to provide additional support for learners who may have missed out on teaching time due to the pandemic,\" he said.\n\nThe government has ensured vulnerable children, as well as children of critical workers, could continue to attend school throughout the pandemic, he added.", "A US bankruptcy judge has agreed a $17m (£12.4m) payout to women who accused disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein of sexual misconduct.\n\nWeinstein, 68, was convicted last year and jailed for 23 years for rape and sexual assault.\n\nThe payout for his victims will come from the liquidation of the Weinstein Co, which filed for bankruptcy in 2018.\n\nThe judge overruled an objection from some accusers looking to pursue appeals outside of bankruptcy court.\n\nJudge Mary Walrath said without the settlement, the plaintiffs would get \"minimal, if any, recovery.\"\n\nThe Weinstein Co was set up as an independent film studio with the disgraced Hollywood mogul one of its co-founders.\n\nThe company collapsed in late 2017, following widespread claims of sexual misconduct against Weinstein, who was convicted of sexually assaulting a former production assistant and raping an actress.\n\nThe US judge said that 83% of sexual misconduct claimants in the bankruptcy \"have expressed very loudly that they want closure through acceptance of this plan, that they do not seek to have to go through any further litigation in order to receive some recovery, some possible recompense... although it's clear that money will never give them that\".\n\nThe $17m fund will be divided among more than 50 claimants, with the most serious allegations resulting in payouts of $500,000 or more.\n\nThe settlement was put to a vote of Weinstein's accusers, with 39 voting in favour and eight opposed.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThey will have the option to forgo most of their payout under the plan if they want to continue pursuing their claims.\n\nInsurers contributed $35m under the liquidation plan, which also provides $9.7m to the former officers and directors of the Weinstein Co, allowing them to pay a portion of their legal bills over the last several years.\n\nThe directors and officers, who include Weinstein's brother, Bob, also received releases that absolve them of any potential liability for enabling Weinstein's conduct.\n\nThe Weinstein Co sold its assets to Lantern Entertainment, which later became Spyglass Media Group, for $289m.", "A year ago, the Chinese government locked down the city of Wuhan. For weeks beforehand officials had maintained that the outbreak was under control - just a few dozen cases linked to a live animal market. But in fact the virus had been spreading throughout the city and around China.\n\nThis is the story of five critical days early in the outbreak.\n\nBy 30 December, several people had been admitted to hospitals in the central city of Wuhan, having fallen ill with high fever and pneumonia. The first known case was a man in his 70s who had fallen ill on 1 December. Many of those were connected to a sprawling live animal market, Huanan Seafood Market, and doctors had begun to suspect this wasn't regular pneumonia.\n\nSamples from infected lungs had been sent to genetic sequencing companies to identify the cause of the disease, and preliminary results had indicated a novel coronavirus similar to Sars. The local health authorities and the country's Center for Disease Control (CDC) had already been notified, but nothing had been said to the public.\n\nAlthough no-one knew it at the time, between 2,300 and 4,000 people were by now likely infected, according to a recent model by MOBS Lab at Northeastern University in Boston. The outbreak was also thought to be doubling in size every few days. Epidemiologists say that at this early part of an outbreak, each day and even each hour is critical.\n\nWuhan’s Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market was sealed off on 1 January 2020\n\nAt around 16:00 on 30 December, the head of the Emergency Department at Wuhan Central Hospital was handed the results of a test carried out by sequencing lab Capital Bio Medicals in Beijing.\n\nShe went into a cold sweat as she read the report, according to an interview given later to Chinese state media.\n\nAt the top were the alarming words: \"SARS CORONAVIRUS\". She circled them in bright red, and passed it on to colleagues over the Chinese messaging site WeChat.\n\nWithin an hour and a half, the grainy image with its large red circle reached a doctor in the hospital's ophthalmology department, Li Wenliang. He shared it with his hundreds-strong university class group, adding the warning, \"Don't circulate the message outside this group. Get your family and loved ones to take precautions.\"\n\nWhen Sars spread through southern China in late 2002 and 2003, Beijing covered up the outbreak, insisting that everything was under control. This allowed the virus to spread around the world. Beijing's response invoked international criticism and - worryingly for a regime deeply concerned about stability - anger and protests within China. Between 2002 and 2004, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars) went on to infect more than 8,000 people and kill almost 800 worldwide.\n\nRobert Maguire of the WHO and a Chinese doctor visit a Sars patient in Guangzhou, China – April 2003\n\nOver the coming hours, screen shots of Li's message spread widely online. Across China, millions of people began talking about Sars online.\n\nIt would turn out that the sequencers made a mistake - this was not Sars, but a new coronavirus very similar to it. But this was a critical moment. News of a possible outbreak had escaped.\n\nThe Wuhan Health Commission was already aware that there was something going on in the city's hospitals. That day, officials from the National Health Commission in Beijing arrived, and lung samples were sent to at least five state labs in Wuhan and Beijing to sequence the virus in parallel.\n\nNow, as messages suggesting the possible return of Sars began flying over Chinese social media, the Wuhan Health Commission sent two orders out to hospitals. It instructed them to report all cases direct to the Health Commission, and told them not to make anything public without authorisation.\n\nWithin 12 minutes, these orders were leaked online.\n\nIt might have taken a couple more days for the online chatter to make the leap from Chinese-speaking social media to the wider world if it wasn't for the efforts of veteran epidemiologist Marjorie Pollack.\n\nThe deputy editor of ProMed-mail, an organisation which sends out alerts on disease outbreaks worldwide, received an email from a contact in Taiwan, asking if she knew anything about the chatter online.\n\nDr Marjorie Pollack is an epidemiologist based in New York\n\nBack in February 2003, ProMed had been the first to break the news of Sars. Now, Pollack had deja vu. \"My reaction was: 'We're in trouble,'\" she told the BBC.\n\nThree hours later, she had finished writing an emergency post, requesting more information on the new outbreak. It was sent out to ProMed's approximately 80,000 subscribers at one minute to midnight.\n\nAs word began to spread, Professor George F Gao, director general of China's Center for Disease Control [CDC], was receiving offers of help from contacts around the world.\n\nChina revamped its infectious disease infrastructure after Sars - and in 2019, Gao had promised that China's vast online surveillance system would be able to prevent another outbreak like it.\n\nBut two scientists who contacted Gao say the CDC head did not seem alarmed.\n\n\"I sent a really long text to George Gao, offering to send a team out and do anything to support them,\" Dr Peter Daszak, the president of New York-based infectious diseases research group EcoHealth Alliance, told the BBC. But he says that all he received in reply was a short message wishing him Happy New Year.\n\nDirector of the Chinese Center for Disease Control, George F Gao – 22 January 2020\n\nEpidemiologist Ian Lipkin of Columbia University in New York was also trying to reach Gao. Just as he was having dinner to ring in the New Year, Gao returned his call. The details Lipkin reveals about their conversation offer new insights into what leading Chinese officials were prepared to say at this critical point.\n\n\"He had identified the virus. It was a new coronavirus. And it was not highly transmissible. This didn't really resonate with me because I'd heard that many, many people had been infected,\" Lipkin told the BBC. \"I don't think he was duplicitous, I think he was just wrong.\"\n\nLipkin says he thinks Gao should have released the sequences they had already obtained. My view is that you get it out. This is too important to hesitate.\"\n\nGao, who refused the BBC's requests for an interview, has told state media that the sequences were released as soon as possible, and that he never said publicly that there was no human-to-human transmission.\n\nThat day, the Wuhan Health Commission issued a press release stating that 27 cases of viral pneumonia had been identified, but that there was no clear evidence of human to human transmission.\n\nIt would be a further 12 days before China shared the genetic sequences with the international community.\n\nThe Chinese government refused multiple interview requests by the BBC. Instead, it gave us detailed statements on China's response, which state that in the fight against Covid-19 China \"has always acted with openness, transparency and responsibility, and … in a timely manner.\"\n\nBBC This World's 54 Days: China and the pandemic can be seen on BBC Two at 21:00 GMT on Tuesday 26 January, or 23:30 on Monday 1 February (except BBC Two Northern Ireland). Or watch on BBC iPlayer.\n\nPart two - 54 Days: America and the Pandemic - will be on BBC Two on Tuesday 2 February at 21:00.\n\nInternational law stipulates that new infectious disease outbreaks of global concern be reported to the World Health Organization within 24 hours. But on 1 January the WHO still had not had official notification of the outbreak. The previous day, officials there had spotted the ProMed post and reports online, so they contacted China's National Health Commission.\n\n\"It was reportable,\" says Professor Lawrence Gostin, Director of the WHO Collaborating Center on national and global health law at Georgetown University in Washington DC, and a member of the International Health Regulations roster of experts. \"The failure to report clearly was a violation of the International Health Regulations.\"\n\nDr Maria Van Kerkhove, a WHO epidemiologist who would become the agency's Covid-19 technical lead, joined the first of many emergency conference calls in the middle of the night on 1 January.\n\n\"We had the assumptions initially that it may be a new coronavirus. For us it wasn't a matter of if human to human transmission was happening, it was what is the extent of it and where is that happening.\"\n\nIt was two days before China responded to the WHO. But what they revealed was vague - that there were now 44 cases of viral pneumonia of unknown cause.\n\nChina says that it communicated regularly and fully with the WHO from 3 January. But recordings of internal WHO meetings obtained by the Associated Press (AP) news agency some of which were shared with PBS Frontline and the BBC, paint a different picture, revealing the frustration that senior WHO officials felt by the following week.\n\n\"'There's been no evidence of human to human transmission' is not good enough. We need to see the data,\" Mike Ryan WHO's health emergencies programme director is heard saying.\n\nThe WHO was legally required to state the information it had been provided by China. Although they suspected human to human transmission, the WHO were not able to confirm this for a further three weeks.\n\n\"Those concerns are not something they ever aired publicly. Instead, they basically deferred to China,\" says AP's Dake Kang. \"Ultimately, the impression that the rest of the world got was just what the Chinese authorities wanted. Which is that everything was under control. Which of course it wasn't.\"\n\nThe number of people infected by the virus was doubling in size every few days, and more and more people were turning up at Wuhan's hospitals.\n\nBut now - instead of allowing doctors to share their concerns publicly - state media began a campaign that effectively silenced them.\n\nOn 2 January, China Central Television ran a story about the doctors who spread the news about an outbreak four days earlier. The doctors, referred to only as \"rumour mongers\" and \"internet users\", were brought in for questioning by the Wuhan Public Security Bureau and 'dealt with' 'in accordance with the law'.\n\nOne of the doctors was Li Wenliang, the eye doctor whose warning had gone viral. He signed a confession. In February, the doctor died of Covid-19.\n\nThe Chinese government says that this is not evidence that it was trying to suppress news of the outbreak, and that doctors like Li were being urged not to spread unconfirmed information.\n\nBut the impact of this public dressing down was critical. For though it was becoming apparent to doctors that there was, in fact, human-to-human transmission, they were prevented from going public.\n\nA health worker from Li's hospital, Wuhan Central, told us that over the next few days \"there were so many people who had a fever. It was out of control. We started to panic. [But] The hospital told us that we were not allowed to speak to anyone.\"\n\nThe Chinese government told us that \"it takes a rigorous scientific process to determine if a new virus can be transmitted from person to person\".\n\nThe authorities would continue to maintain for a further 18 days that there was no human-to-human transmission.\n\nLabs across the country were racing to map the complete genetic sequence of the virus. Among them was a renowned virologist in Shanghai, Professor Zhang Yongzhen who began sequencing on 3 January.\n\nAfter having worked for two days straight, he obtained a complete sequence. His results revealed a virus that was similar to Sars, and therefore likely transmissible.\n\nOn 5 January, Zhang's office wrote to the National Health Commission advising taking precautionary measures in public places.\n\n\"On that very day, he was working to try and get information released as soon as possible, so the rest of the world could see what it was and so we could get diagnostics going\", says Zhang's research partner, Professor Edward Holmes an evolutionary virologist at the University of Sydney.\n\nBut Zhang could not make his findings public. On January 3, the National Health Commission had sent a secret memorandum to labs banning unauthorised scientists from working on the virus and disclosing the information to the public.\n\n\"What the notice effectively did,\" says AP's Dake Kang, \"is it silenced individual scientists and laboratories from revealing information about this virus and potentially allowing word of it to leak out to the outside world and alarm people.\"\n\nNone of the labs went public with the genetic sequence of the virus. China continued to maintain it was viral pneumonia with no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission.\n\nIt would be six days before it announced that the new virus was a coronavirus, and even then, it did not share any genetic sequences to allow other countries to develop tests and begin tracing the spread of the virus.\n\nThree days later, on 11 January, Zhang decided it was time to put his neck on the line. As he boarded a plane between Beijing and Shanghai, he authorised Holmes to release the sequence.\n\nThe decision came at a personal cost - his lab was closed the next day for \"rectification\" - but his action broke the deadlock. The next day state scientists released the sequences they had obtained. The international scientific community swung into action, and a toolkit for a diagnostic test was publicly available by 13 January.\n\nDespite the evidence from scientists and doctors, China would not confirm there was human-to-human transmission until 20 January.\n\nIllustration of spike proteins (red) of Covid-19 binding with receptors (blue) on a target human cell\n\nAt the beginning of any emerging disease outbreak, says health law expert Lawrence Gostin, it's always chaotic. \"It was always going to be very difficult to control this virus, from day one. But by the time we knew [the international community] it was transmissible human to human, I think the cat was already out the bag, it already spread.\n\n\"That was the shot we had, and we lost it.\"\n\nAs Wang Linfa, a bat virologist at Duke-Nus Medical School in Singapore, says: \"January 20th is the dividing line, before that the Chinese could have done much better. After that, the rest of the world should be really on high alert and do much better.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMore than 100,000 people have died with Covid-19 in the UK, after 1,631 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were recorded in the daily figures.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said he took \"full responsibility\" for the government's actions, saying: \"We truly did everything we could.\"\n\n\"I'm deeply sorry for every life lost,\" he said.\n\nA total of 100,162 deaths have been recorded in the UK, the first European nation to pass the landmark.\n\nEarlier, figures from the ONS, which are based on death certificates, showed there had been nearly 104,000 deaths since the pandemic began.\n\nThe government's daily figures rely on positive tests and are slightly lower.\n\nMr Johnson told Tuesday's Downing Street news conference that it was \"hard to compute the sorrow contained in this grim statistic\".\n\nHe gave his \"deepest condolences\" to those who had lost loved ones, including \"fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters, sons and daughters, and the many grandparents who've been taken\".\n\nThe UK is the fifth country to pass 100,000 deaths, coming after the US, Brazil, India and Mexico.\n\nA surge in cases in recent weeks - driven in part by a new, fast-spreading variant of the virus - has left the UK with one of the highest coronavirus death rates globally.\n\nA further 20,089 coronavirus cases were recorded on Tuesday, continuing a downward trend in the number of UK cases seen in recent days. The number of people in hospital remains high, as do the UK's daily death figures.\n\nMr Johnson said the coronavirus infection rate remained \"pretty forbiddingly high\" despite lockdown restrictions which have been in place in England since 5 January.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and only go out for limited reasons - including for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nMr Johnson said he would set out more detail in \"the next few days and weeks\" about \"when and how we want to get things open again\".\n\nIt's a terrible milestone - and one that represents unimaginable loss.\n\nMost of the deaths have come in two waves - the sharp, sudden surge in the spring followed by a slow and sustained rise throughout autumn and winter.\n\nMistakes have been made - the delay locking down back in March is one that is often cited even by the government's own advisers.\n\nThe UK, like much of Europe, was also woefully underprepared with limited testing and contact tracing systems.\n\nBut the ageing population, high rates of obesity, the fact the UK is a global hub and its inter-connectedness with Europe are also factors that meant we were tragically never going to escape lightly once the virus got a foothold.\n\nSpeaking alongside the prime minister, Prof Chris Whitty, England's chief medical officer, described it as a \"very sad day\".\n\nHe said the number of people dying \"will come down relatively slowly over the next two weeks - and will probably remain flat for a while now\".\n\nProf Whitty added the new coronavirus variant had changed the UK's situation \"very substantially\" with infection rates \"just about holding\" due to lockdown restrictions.\n\nBut he said the number of people testing positive for Covid-19 in the UK \"has been coming down\" and the number of people in hospital with Covid has \"flattened off\" - including in London, the South East and East of England.\n\nHowever, there were \"some areas\" where the hospital figures were \"still not convincingly reducing\", he said.\n\nNHS chief executive Sir Simon Stevens said there had been \"continuing improvements in hospital treatment for severely sick coronavirus patients\".\n\nHe said he expected more treatments within the next six to 18 months, adding: \"We can see a world in which coronavirus may be more treatable, but for now, it's a combination of reducing infections and getting vaccinations done.\"\n\nOne day there will be a public inquiry - maybe several - seeking to understand why so many died.\n\nLast summer, back when the government was subsidising people to eat out at restaurants, Boris Johnson said there would be an independent inquiry into the government's handling of Covid, but gave no details or dates.\n\nHe still hasn't, despite a recent call from bereaved families, trade unions and charities for lessons to be learnt now.\n\nThe gravest public health crisis for a century would have tested any government.\n\nBut as the pandemic has worsened, the criticisms and questions have mounted - about the timing of lockdowns, the rollout of test and trace and the failure to protect care homes last spring.\n\nThere is now pressure on Boris Johnson from some Tory MPs to ease restrictions as soon as the most vulnerable are vaccinated.\n\nBut this evening a sombre prime minister said the government would first do everything it could to minimise further loss of life.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle, medical director at Public Health England, said it was a \"sobering moment in the pandemic\", saying: \"Each death is a person who was someone's family member and friend.\"\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was a \"national tragedy\" to have reached 100,000 deaths.\n\nThe government had been \"behind the curve at every stage\" of the pandemic and had not learnt lessons over the summer, he added.\n\nThe epidemiologist whose modelling in part prompted the UK's first national lockdown said more action in the autumn of last year could have saved lives.\n\nProf Neil Ferguson told BBC Radio 4's PM programme: \"Had we acted both earlier and with greater stringency back in September when we first saw case numbers going up, and had a policy of keeping case numbers at a reasonably low levels, then I think a lot of the deaths we've seen, not all by any means, but a lot of the deaths we've seen in the last four or five months, could have been avoided.\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the death toll was \"heartbreaking\" and warned there was a \"tough period ahead\".\n\n\"The vaccine offers the way out, but we cannot let up now,\" he added.\n\nMore than 6.8 million people in the UK have had their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine, according to the latest figures.\n\nPlease enable JavaScript or upgrade your browser to see this interactive\n\nIf you would like to send us a tribute to a friend or family member who died after contracting coronavirus, please use the form below.\n\nPlease remember to include a photo of your loved one and their name. 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Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your tribute.", "The Mermaid of Black Conch, a dark love story about a fisherman and a mermaid torn from the sea, has won the Costa Book of the Year award.\n\nTrinidadian-born British writer Monique Roffey beat four other contenders with her sixth novel to scoop the £30,000 prize.\n\nJudges said the book was \"utterly original... and feels like a classic in the making\".\n\nA \"delighted\" Roffey said her win was a vote for Caribbean literature.\n\n\"A huge thank you to the judges for exposing my book to a wide readership. I'll be pinching myself for weeks to come,\" she added.\n\nBased on a Taino legend of a beautiful woman transformed into a mermaid, the story is set in the Caribbean village of St Constance.\n\nDavid, a fisherman, unexpectedly attracts the attention of Aycayia, a mermaid who is drawn to his singing. When she is captured from the sea during an annual fishing competition, he does all he can to save her, with dramatic consequences.\n\nProfessor Suzannah Lipscomb, chair of judges, said: \"The Mermaid of Black Conch is an extraordinary, beautifully written, captivating, visceral book - full of mythic energy and unforgettable characters, including some tremendously transgressive women.\"\n\nThe Costa Book Awards have a reputation for picking popular reads: books you would recommend to a friend. And I would definitely recommend The Mermaid of Black Conch.\n\nAt first, the novel might sound a bit odd. Set on a Caribbean island in the 1970s, it is a bittersweet love story between a beautiful young woman cursed to live as a mermaid and a fisherman.\n\nBased on a legend passed down by the indigenous people of the Caribbean, the Taino, there are touches of magic and snippets of poetry. The book was also shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize last year, which rewards fiction that breaks the mould or extends the possibilities of the novel.\n\nBut while it is unusual it is also a joy to read, brimming with memorable characters and vivid descriptions.\n\nWe see the mermaid's \"hair flying like a nest of cables\" while we are told \"sea moss trailed from her shoulders like slithers of beard\" and \"barnacles speckled the swell of her hips.\"\n\nFor me, this was a hugely entertaining and thought-provoking novel and a worthy winner.\n\nRoffey, a senior lecturer in creative writing at Manchester Metropolitan University, secured her publishing deal through Peepal Tree Press, an independent publisher supporting Caribbean writers.\n\nShe then crowd-funded her publicity campaign with the support of fellow authors.\n\nThe Mermaid of Black Conch is set in the Caribbean\n\nRoffey's entry was also named Costa's Novel of the Year earlier this month, alongside winners from four other categories:\n\nThe Mermaid of Black Conch is the thirteenth novel to take the overall prize. Days Without End by Sebastian Barry was the last novel to be named Costa Book of the Year in 2016.\n\nTuesday's virtual ceremony also saw London-based writer Tessa Sheridan receive the 2020 Costa Short Story Award.\n\nSheridan won the public vote and £3,500 for her story, The Person Who Serves, Serves Again.\n\nThe Costa Book Awards, formerly the Whitbread Book Awards, were established in 1971 to encourage, promote and celebrate the best contemporary British writing.\n\nIt is open to UK and Irish authors.\n\nSeamus Heaney, Ted Hughes and Sebastian Barry are among the authors to have won the book of the year award more than once.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The number of people to have died with coronavirus in the UK has exceeded 100,000.\n\nThere have been nearly 104,000 deaths since the pandemic began, data from the UK's national statisticians shows.\n\nThe figures, which go up to 15 January, are based on death certificates. The government's daily figures, which rely on positive tests, are slightly lower.\n\nIt follows a surge of cases last month, leaving the UK with one of the highest coronavirus death rates globally.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics and its counterparts in Scotland and Northern Ireland registered 7,776 deaths with coronavirus on the death certificate in the most recent week.\n\nThat total is the third highest of the epidemic.\n\nLast April, there were two weeks with more than 9,000 coronavirus deaths registered across the UK - but there have been no other weeks with more than 7,000 deaths registered.\n\nAbout nine in 10 death certificates citing coronavirus registered Covid as the cause of death.\n\nMost of the deaths have been in older age groups - nearly three-quarters of those who have died with the virus were over 75. One in three deaths were care home residents.\n\nChris Hopson, of NHS Providers, which represents health service managers, described the milestone as a \"tragedy\".\n\n\"Behind each death will be a story of sorrow and grief,\" he said.\n\n\"We pay tribute, once again, to NHS and care staff who have done everything they can throughout the long months of this pandemic to avoid each one of these deaths and reduce patient harm.\n\n\"We won't know the true impact of Covid-19 for a long time to come because of its long-term effects.\n\n\"But, as well as the high death rate, it's particularly concerning that this virus has widened health inequalities and affected black, Asian and minority-ethnic communities disproportionately.\"\n\nSarah Scobie, of the Nuffield Trust think tank, said it was a \"harrowing figure\".\n\nShe added: \"While the vaccine rollout for the most vulnerable is continuing at impressive speed, it will be a while until the benefits feed through to the figures.\"\n\nWe were one of the worst hit countries, if not the worst, in the spring - certainly in Europe and the G7.\n\nTwo big drivers of that were the timing of the first lockdown and the terrible numbers of deaths in care homes.\n\nAs a result, the UK could always rank among the hardest hit nations overall.\n\nBut comparing experiences in second waves is harder.\n\nSome countries have very clearly done better than the UK.\n\nAustralia, for example, has seen very few coronavirus deaths overall, and deaths quite close to usual levels throughout 2020.\n\nBut the US, which had a milder first wave than the UK, has seen steady numbers of coronavirus deaths throughout summer and autumn.\n\nIts death toll has been catching up with that of the UK in the most recent data, covering up until Christmas.\n\nAnd some countries that missed the first wave entirely - such as Poland (shown above) or Germany - have seen significant spikes in deaths in recent months.\n\nWith deaths rising since then in many countries and vaccination programmes only getting up and running, there is still a long way to go before we will know who has had the toughest second wave.\n• None Lockdown needs to be stricter, scientists warn", "Baroness Floella Benjamin has spoken of her pride after receiving a first coronavirus vaccine dose.\n\nThe 71-year-old actress said she would wear a badge saying \"I've had the jab\" after being vaccinated.\n\nThe Lib Dem peer, who came to Britain in 1960 and was born in Trinidad, is known for appearing in the children's programme Play School and received a damehood last year.\n\nOver 6.8m people in the UK have now received a first vaccine dose.\n\nAs a member of the House of Lords, Baroness Benjamin has spoken regularly about the disproportionate effect of Covid-19 on black, Asian and minority ethnic communities as well as the knock-on impact of the pandemic.\n\nIn September, she told peers she knew two people who had taken their own lives \"because they could not cope with the uncertainty of the future\".\n\nShe is also a member of the Lords Covid-19 Committee.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Floella Benjamin This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe government has set a target for all those in the top four priority groups - around 15 million - to be offered a vaccine by mid-February.\n\nTwo vaccines - developed by Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca - are being used. A third, from Moderna, has been approved.\n\nAll have been shown to be safe and effective in trials with two doses needed to offer the best protection - now timed 12 weeks apart.\n\nIt comes as British Asian celebrities united to dispel myths about the coronavirus vaccine.\n\nComedians Romesh Ranganathan and Meera Syal and cricketer Moeen Ali appear in a video urging people to get a jab.\n\nA study from the Royal Society for Public Health found 57% of black, Asian and minority ethnic people said they would take the vaccine.\n\nThis figure compared with 79% of white people who would do so.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. One protester said: \"This is the only way I can effect change\"\n\nPeople campaigning against the HS2 rail project have dug a tunnel near Euston station, in a bid to prevent their eviction from a protest camp.\n\nIn September, members of HS2 Rebellion set up a Tree Protection Camp in Euston Square Gardens in central London to protest against the £106bn scheme.\n\nThey claim the tunnel is 100ft (30m) long and has taken two months to dig.\n\nActivists say the tunnel - codenamed \"Kelvin\" - is their \"best defence\" against being evicted.\n\nOne protester, identified only as Blue, told the BBC: \"It is all very dangerous and life-threatening but it is all worth it. This is the only way I can effect change, I would sacrifice everything for the climate ecological emergency to not be happening.\"\n\nThe 18-year-old added: \"We want to be as safe as possible. It is not about us martyring ourselves, it is about delaying and stopping HS2.\"\n\nDemonstrators have previously built tree houses and scaled cranes near the HS2 Euston site\n\nA spokeswoman for HS2 said tunnel protests were \"costly to the taxpayer\".\n\nShe added: \"These are a danger to the safety of the protesters, HS2 staff, High Court enforcement officers and the general public, as well as putting unnecessary strain on the emergency services during the pandemic.\n\n\"Safety is our first priority when taking possession of land and removing illegal encampments.\"\n\nBritish Transport Police said it was aware of the tunnel but it was a matter for the Met Police, which said no complaint yet had been made.\n\nHS2 is set to link London, Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds. It is hoped the 20-year project will reduce rail passenger overcrowding and help to rebalance the UK's economy.\n\nThe campaign group alleges HS2 is the \"most expensive, wasteful and destructive project in UK history\" and that it is \"set to destroy or irreparably damage 108 ancient woodlands and 693 wildlife sites\".\n\nHowever, HS2 bosses have said seven million trees will be planted during phase one of the project and that much ancient woodland will \"remain intact\".\n\nSeasoned activist Daniel Cooper - better known as Swampy - has been at Euston supporting the campaigners\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps told MPs in September that the first phase of the high-speed rail link between London and Birmingham would not open until 2028 at the earliest.\n\nThe second phase, to Manchester and Leeds, was due to open in 2032-33 but that has been pushed back to 2035-40.\n\nNetwork Rail, which owns the land, has been approached for a comment about the tunnel.\n\nHS2 protester Dr Larch Maxey said the tunnel was \"warm and quiet\"\n\nTunnelling as a form of environmental protest has a long history in the UK.\n\nIn the 1990s it was one of the ways that pushed environmental concerns into the headlines and changed perceptions.\n\nIn one of the environmental protesters' tunnelling guides, written by \"Disco Dave\", it says:\n\n\"In the world of NVDA (non-violent direct action) there are few defence tactics that can compare with the protest tunnel. Dangerous, laborious and time consuming, tunnelling is the ultimate and desperate tactic of desperate people in desperate times.\"\n\nThe first protest tunnel goes back to the M11 and 1993 but they only really developed during the Newbury Bypass protests in 1996.\n\nProtest tunnels against the A30 in Devon and Manchester Airport's second runway then followed.\n\nNot only did they make household names of environmental campaigners like \"Swampy\" but they arguably changed transport policy - road-building reduced massively.\n\nWe have seen tunnels more recently in 2017 in Coldharbour in Surrey in a protest against fracking so it's not a massive surprise we are seeing tunnels again.\n\nTunnelling in particular as a direct action slows down developers and it is expensive to dig out protesters safely.\n\nDisco Dave wrote: \"That ultimately is the purpose of tunnels and tree houses. To act as a deterrent warning the authorities that should they decide to evict, then it will hurt them where for them it hurts most - in the pocket.\"\n\nWhat will be interesting is if these tunnels have the same impact on HS2 as they did on the road-building programme of the late 1990s.\n\nWill it reframe HS2 so it will be seen in the same way as fracking or road building? Or can the argument still be made that it is a low-carbon form of travel even though it does cause some destruction of habitat?\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Facebook News, the social network's dedicated section for news content, is launching in the UK.\n\nThe UK is the second market to get Facebook News, which launched in the United States last year.\n\nSeveral major news publishers, including Channel 4, Sky News, and The Guardian have signed deals with Facebook to provide content.\n\nIt comes as the tech industry's relationship with the media comes under increased scrutiny.\n\nAnd French publishers recently agreed a deal with Google on how a new EU copyright law about news excerpts should be applied.\n\nFacebook News is the social network's own attempt to address the long-running friction between it and news publishers, as advertising spend has increasingly moved to the large tech firms instead of individual news outlets.\n\nThe new feature is set to go live on Tuesday afternoon, Facebook said.\n\nThe new feature is a dedicated tab within the Facebook mobile app, accessible by tapping the three-line icon for more options.\n\nThe tab features a mix of major daily news stories and \"personalised\" news selected for each reader based on their interests, as decided by Facebook's algorithm.\n\nFacebook says it pays publishers \"for content that is not already on the platform\", and says the feature will also provide publishers with new advertising and subscription \"opportunities\".\n\nThe dedicated news feed will have personalisation controls, Facebook says\n\nThat may be partly based on data from the United States, which Facebook says shows more than 95% of traffic on Facebook News is from people who have not read those publications before.\n\nThe social network says the new product is a \"a multi-year investment that puts original journalism in front of new audiences\".\n\nAnd news organisations, for which new readers are often in short supply, are signing up.\n\nIn November, when it first announced the product was heading to the UK, major names such as The Economist, The Independent, and Cosmopolitan were already on board.\n\nAhead of Tuesday's launch, The Daily Mail, Financial Times and Telegraph were also announced, among others.\n\nBBC News has not signed a commercial deal with Facebook News, but may still appear on the tab through public posts it makes on the Facebook platform.\n\nFacebook also says that this new product is a direct result of discussions with the news industry, with which it has often been at loggerheads.\n\nThe tech giant is responsible for driving a lot of traffic around the internet, and a story which performs well on Facebook will often attract more readers than one which does not.\n\nBut Facebook has also repeatedly made changes to its algorithms over the years which have affected news organisations, sometimes with little notice. It has also encouraged organisations to use its features such as instant articles, or to make video content for Facebook.\n\nHowever, it envisions Facebook News as a better solution than earlier attempts, and one it plans to roll out to other countries - including France and Germany - in the near future.\n\n\"Our goal has always been to work out the best ways we can support the industry in building sustainable business models,\" Facebook said in its blog post about the UK launch.\n\n\"As we invest more in news, and pay publishers for more content in more countries, we will work with them to support the long-term viability of newsrooms.\"", "The fake email looks like it has come from NHS Test and Trace\n\nThe NHS has warned people to be vigilant about fake invitations to have the coronavirus vaccination, sent by scammers.\n\nThe scam email includes a link to \"register\" for the vaccine, but no registration for the real vaccination is required.\n\nThe fake site also asks for bank details either to verify identification or to make a payment.\n\nThe NHS says it would never ask for bank details, and the vaccine is free.\n\nCyber-security consultant Daniel Card told BBC News that traffic data indicates thousands of people had clicked the link to the fake site - although it is unclear how many then filled in the form.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by NHS This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe urged people to remain vigilant: \"These things spring up, we take them down and then they spring up again.\"\n\nBoth the National Cyber Security Centre and Action Fraud have asked anyone who receives a scam email or text to report it.\n\n\"Vaccines are our way out of this pandemic,\" said health secretary Matt Hancock.\n\n\"It is vital that we do not let a small number of unscrupulous fraudsters undermine the huge team effort under way across the country to protect millions of people from this terrible disease.\"\n\nAt the start of January, Derbyshire police issued a warning about a text message scam which offered Covid vaccinations.\n\n\"If you receive a text or email that asks you to click on a link or for you to provide information, such as your name, credit card or bank details, it's a scam,\" the force said.\n\nLast year, tech firms warned that coronavirus was a popular hook for scammers. In April 2020 Google said it was blocking 18 million scam emails a day on the subject.", "Labour is calling for juries to be cut from 12 members to seven, to stem the \"gravest crisis\" in the justice system since World War Two.\n\nShadow justice secretary David Lammy said action was needed to clear the backlog of thousands of cases.\n\nHe argued that smaller juries and the use of more temporary courts would allow socially distanced trials.\n\nThe government has not ruled out such a move but insists measures it is taking to clear the backlog are working.\n\nLast week four criminal justice watchdogs warned that courts in England and Wales were straining under pressure from the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nJury trials ground to a halt at the start of the first lockdown, when people were advised to stay at home except in limited circumstances.\n\nWhen they resumed, there were severe delays and numerous cancellations due to social-distancing requirements.\n\nRecent figures revealed that the number of unheard cases in crown courts had reached a record 54,000.\n\nThe backlog means some from last year may not go before a jury until 2022, and it could be years before the courts get back on track.\n\nLabour wants the temporary return of so-called \"wartime juries\" of seven rather than 12 members to speed up the process.\n\n\"Victims of rape, murder, domestic abuse, robbery and assault are facing delays of up to four years because of the government's failure to act,\" Mr Lammy said.\n\nHe also urged the government to speed up the rollout of temporary \"Nightingale courts\" to hear civil, family and tribunals work, as well as non-custodial crime cases.\n\nTen of these were announced in July 2020 to help deal with the backlog in court proceedings, and 20 are now in operation across England and Wales.\n\nLeading lawyers are sceptical about Labour's proposal to reach back into wartime history.\n\nThe Criminal Bar Association - representing barristers who prosecute and defend trials - says a panel of seven may allow more courtrooms to be used, but it wouldn't solve what it says is chronic underfunding - and potentially undermines one of the most important safeguards in our society.\n\nThe Law Society, for solicitors, wants to see evidence that smaller panels would ease backlogs without risking injustices.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice's internal modelling calculated last year that reduced juries would lead to a 10% increase in cases - but that was before courtrooms received new Covid-proof screens that have allowed more trials to run.\n\nScotland's courts are using cinemas to host juries - and while that is not being actively discussed in England, it's not been ruled out either.\n\nEven if juries were slimmed, courts would still need to tightly control the number of defendants who can use their cells and courtroom docks to meet Public Health England's guidelines.\n\nIn April last year, the head of judiciary in England and Wales, Lord Burnett, backed the idea of reducing the number of jurors if social distancing continued.\n\nIn June, Justice Secretary Robert Buckland told the BBC he was \"very attracted\" by the idea of smaller juries, as had happened in wartime, and judge-only trials in less serious cases.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice says it has now installed plastic screens in more than 450 courtrooms and jury deliberation rooms to reduce Covid risks.\n\nIt says the safety measures are designed for 12-person juries and that the impact of lowering the number of jurors would be negligible.\n\nHowever, a spokesman said nothing was being ruled out and ministers were continuing to consider every option available to ensure courts recover quickly.\n\n\"This approach is already delivering results, with magistrates' backlogs falling significantly and the number of cases being dealt with in the crown courts reaching pre-Covid levels last month,\" he added.\n\nThe spokesman also said: \"We know more must be done and are investing £110m into a range of measures to drive this recovery further, including opening more Nightingale courts.\"", "Trees must be able to cope with projected climate change\n\nScientists have proposed 10 golden rules for tree-planting, which they say must be a top priority for all nations this decade.\n\nTree planting is a brilliant solution to tackle climate change and protect biodiversity, but the wrong tree in the wrong place can do more harm than good, say experts at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.\n\nThe rules include protecting existing forests first and involving locals.\n\nForests are essential to life on Earth.\n\nThey provide a home to three-quarters of the world's plants and animals, soak up carbon dioxide, and provide food, fuels and medicines.\n\nBut they're fast disappearing; an area about the size of Denmark of pristine tropical forest is lost every year.\n\n\"Planting the right trees in the right place must be a top priority for all nations as we face a crucial decade for ensuring the future of our planet,\" said Dr Paul Smith, a researcher on the study and secretary general of conservation charity, Botanic Gardens Conservation International, in Kew.\n\nIt takes at least a century to restore damaged forests\n\nA raft of ambitious tree-planting projects are underway around the world to replace the forests being lost.\n\nBoris Johnson has said he is aiming to plant 30,000 hectares (300 sq km) of new forest a year across the UK by the end of this parliament.\n\nAn African-led movement to plant a 5,000-mile (8,048km) forest wall to fight the climate crisis is set to become the largest living structure on Earth, three times the size of the Great Barrier Reef.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A solution that's slowing desertification on the front lines of climate change\n\nHowever, planting trees is highly complex, with no universal easy solution.\n\n\"If you plant the wrong trees in the wrong place you could be doing more harm than good,\" said lead researcher Dr Kate Hardwick of RBG Kew.\n\nAll too often natural forests teeming with plants, animals and fungi are replaced by commercial plantations with row upon row of timber trees, which will be harvested after a few decades, she told BBC News.\n\n\"What we're trying to do is to encourage people, wherever possible, to try and recreate forests which are similar to the natural forests and which provide multiple benefits to people, the environment and to nature as well as capturing carbon.\"\n\nThe review of research, published in the journal Global Change Biology, found that in some cases, planned tree planting does not increase carbon capture and can have negative effects.\n\nKeeping forests in their original state is always preferable; undamaged old forests soak up carbon better and are more resilient to fire, storm and droughts. \"Whenever there's a choice, we stress that halting deforestation and protecting remaining forests must be a priority,\" said Prof Alexandre Antonelli, director of science at RGB Kew.\n\nPut local people at the heart of tree-planting projects\n\nStudies show that getting local communities on board is key to the success of tree-planting projects. It is often local people who have most to gain from looking after the forest in the future.\n\nReforestation should be about several goals, including guarding against climate change, improving conservation and providing economic and cultural benefits.\n\nSelect the right area for reforestation\n\nPlant trees in areas that were historically forested but have become degraded, rather than using other natural habitats such as grasslands or wetlands.\n\nUse natural forest regrowth wherever possible\n\nLetting trees grow back naturally can be cheaper and more efficient than planting trees.\n\nSelect the right tree species that can maximise biodiversity\n\nWhere tree planting is needed, picking the right trees is crucial. Scientists advise a mixture of tree species naturally found in the local area, including some rare species and trees of economic importance, but avoiding trees that might become invasive.\n\nMake sure the trees are resilient to adapt to a changing climate\n\nUse tree seeds that are suitable for the local climate and how that might change in the future.\n\nPlan how to source seeds or trees, working with local people.\n\nCombine scientific knowledge with local knowledge. Ideally, small-scale trials should take place before planting large numbers of trees.\n\nThe sustainability of tree re-planting rests on a source of income for all stakeholders, including the poorest.\n• None Will millions more trees really stop climate change?", "Clare Ferguson-Walker says she has struggled with home-schooling her two children\n\nAs kitchen tables are turned back into classrooms across Wales, parents admit they are struggling with the return to home-schooling.\n\nFor Clare Ferguson-Walker from Tavernspite, Pembrokeshire, the experience has been a \"nightmare\".\n\nShe said trying to educate her two children alongside work has resulted in her relying on universal credit.\n\nGetting to grips with home-schooling in the first lockdown was \"a shock to the system\".\n\n\"My heart goes out to teachers, I can't imagine what it was like for them putting together all these packages,\" she said.\n\n\"My son is 12 and loves gaming so he's quite tech-savvy. When I have managed to pin him down he's been 'go away, dinosaur mother, I know how to do it!'\n\n\"I'm not au fait with these subjects I haven't done for years. It's different to how I learned at school.\"\n\nAs a single parent, Clare said she had found it difficult to juggle home-schooling with her work.\n\n\"At first, in the summer, we were doing Joe Wicks exercises every day then some work. Then it fell into chaos. I tried really hard at the beginning to be organised.\n\n\"I'm an artist and sculptor - that work ended and my income has dried up so I'm on universal credit.\n\n\"It's incredibly tough financially. Life has revolved around looking after the kids,\" she said.\n\nBy the end of the year, she said the pressure had all become too much.\n\n\"The thought of going through that again in the winter months - without sunny days in the garden - the stress really got to me.\n\n\"I was finding myself going repeatedly from the kettle to the fridge and back again in this weird loop, thinking what do I do now?\n\n\"It was like being a caged animal, like one of those bears that starts to pace in a cage. The kids had gone feral by then.\n\n\"I think it's been horrendous for young people and families - we can't even rely on grandparents. Mental health struggles are at an all-time high,\" she said.\n\n\"The one positive is I've got to know my kids a hell of a lot more and there have been times that have been lovely.\n\n\"I think they've learned more sat around the kitchen table when we've been talking about what's going on, they've learned about rational thinking, the importance of science and not jumping to conclusions.\n\nJayne Palmer advises not sitting down at a desk\n\nJayne Palmer from Cardiff, who home-educated both her sons, said there was too much pressure on parents to replicate traditional classroom learning.\n\n\"This is not an ideal circumstance for home-education families either because they are not used to being locked indoors.\n\n\"I think there's far too much emphasis in continuing the set curriculum. Right now it's a complete waste of time. There's pressure to compete in a system parents weren't even involved in.\n\nIt is far more important to \"create and interest in learning,\" she said.\n\n\"There's been a tendency of families to rush to buy desks and chairs and pens. What we find is the best way forward is not to sit down and teach your children - watch documentaries with them, play online games with historical content, practise reading to them, do some cooking, Lego or gardening.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSome travellers coming to England will have to quarantine in hotels amid concerns about new Covid variants, the government is expected to announce.\n\nBoris Johnson will discuss proposals with ministers later, but a decision may not be announced until Wednesday.\n\nMost foreign nationals from high-risk countries are already denied UK entry, so the new rules will mainly affect returning UK citizens and residents.\n\nQuarantine rules are set by each of the UK nations but tend to be similar.\n\nThe requirement to isolate in a hotel for 10 days will apply to arrivals from most of southern Africa and South America, as well as Portugal, because many flights from Brazil come via Lisbon, according to BBC Newsnight's political editor Nicholas Watt.\n\nHe said there had been \"no definitive decision yet\" on arrivals from other parts of the world and this was \"still a live issue\".\n\nWhitehall sources said those quarantining in hotels would have to pay for the costs of their own accommodation.\n\nThe prime minister will later chair a meeting of the Covid operations committee, attended by senior ministers, to discuss the options.\n\nMeanwhile, more than 100,000 people have died with Covid-19 in the UK, after 1,631 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were recorded in the daily figures.\n\nAt the moment, almost all arrivals to the UK need to have tested negative for Covid-19 within the 72 hours before they set off to be allowed entry. Then they still have to quarantine for up to 10 days, although this can be done at home.\n\nIn England, this self-isolation period can be cut short with a second negative test after five days.\n\nQuarantine rules are set separately in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland but have only tended to differ slightly, and there has been a \"four nations\" approach to discussions around hotel quarantine, Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said.\n\nBut deputy first minister John Swinney said his government would \"go at least as far\" as any Westminster policy, adding: \"If these UK restrictions are at a minimal level, we will look at other controls we can announce - including additional supervised quarantine measures - that can further protect us from importation of the virus.\"\n\nHotel quarantine is already in use in countries including New Zealand and Australia.\n\nJessica Gold (centre), her son William Copsey (left), and her mother, Rossana Gold, are trying to get home to the UK from South Africa\n\nJessica Gold, from London, has been trying to get home from South Africa with her mother, 77, and son, 13, since 1 January - but their flights have been cancelled three times.\n\nShe says the idea of having to quarantine in a hotel when she eventually manages to get home is \"absolutely absurd\".\n\n\"Now we are booked to return on 16 Feb, and there is no way we can or will stay in a hotel to quarantine when I have my own place and we can quarantine there, as we have done in the past,\" says Jessica, who flew out to her safari lodge in Greater Kruger National Park, on business, at the end of November.\n\nJessica, 42, wants the government to get tougher on enforcing travellers' home quarantines, rather than bringing in the hotel rule which she says is \"ridiculous and an extra unnecessary expense during these very tough times\".\n\nJessica adds that she's looking into other ways of getting home earlier, before any potential new rules kick in.\n\nShadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds told MPs on Tuesday that bringing in hotel quarantine plans for arrivals from a small number of countries would leave \"gaping holes\" in the UK's defences against any new, unknown variants of coronavirus coming from across the globe.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said all current travel measures were being kept under review and the government \"will not hesitate to take further action\" to combat variants, especially as they could effect the efficacy of Covid vaccines.\n\nTravel writer Simon Calder told BBC Breakfast it was \"going to be tricky\" to identify people arriving from the high-risk countries, as travellers could go to a third country before coming to the UK.\n\nHe said British citizens in Portugal, for example, could travel to Madrid in order to fly back to the UK.\n\nPassengers in Australian quarantine hotels have all meals delivered to their room\n\nIn Australia, travellers are allocated a hotel room on arrival and taken there by bus. Often, entire flights are accommodated in the same hotel.\n\nThe New South Wales government promises to make \"every attempt\" to find suitable accommodation for travellers and families. But availability of rooms means there are severe limits on the number of people who can arrive in the country on any given day.\n\nThe hotel quarantine lasts a minimum of 14 days up to 24 days, providing a person tests negative twice.\n\nThe passenger must cover the cost of quarantine - at about £2,800 for a family of two adults and two children.\n\nFees are waived for those who can prove they are unable to pay, and there are certain exemptions.\n\nBut not following the rules is a criminal offence, and in New South Wales carries fines of around £6,000 for individuals, six months in prison, or both - with an extra fine for each day the offence continues.\n\nHotel quarantine is among the measures credited with limiting cases of coronavirus in Australia - which has a population of around 25 million - to just 28,777 positive cases during the entire pandemic, a smaller number of cases than is currently being recorded in the UK every day.\n\nBut international arrivals to Australia have fallen dramatically since its hotel quarantine policy was introduced in March 2020.\n\nBetween July and October 2020, just 72,111 people arrived in Australia to live, work or visit - compared with 7.5 million people in the same period in 2019, according to Australian government figures.\n\nRob Paterson, chief executive of Best Western Hotels, said his hotels would be well-prepared for the expected new policy.\n\nSome already have Covid infection controls in place, he said, as they have been used to host \"step-down\" patients who complete their recovery in hotels to free up hospital beds.\n\nMr Paterson told BBC Breakfast quarantining customers would like to see reduced prices, a contact arrival process, CCTV and security to stop people leaving and meals delivered three times a day outside the door - along with clean linen and towels.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: “That idea of looking at hotels is certainly one thing we are actively now working on.”\n\nJoss Croft, chief executive of UKinbound, which represents the tourism sector, said he hoped hotel quarantine rules would cover as few countries as possible and told the BBC's Newsnight the industry had been \"decimated\".\n\nIn a joint statement, the Airport Operators Association and Airlines UK said the country already had \"some of the highest levels of restrictions in the world\" and tougher rules would be \"catastrophic\".", "President Joe Biden has said that the US might be able to boost its daily vaccination roll-out targets after criticising the Trump administration’s record.\n\nBiden, who has described the previous vaccine programme as a \"dismal failure\", has committed to getting 100 million vaccine doses done in his first 100 days and has since said: \"I think we may be able to get that to 1.5 million a day, rather than one million a day.\"\n\nIs he right about the vaccine roll-out under the Trump administration?\n\nAs of 20 January, when Biden became US president, about 16.5 million vaccines had been administered.\n\nThat is some way off the Trump administration's target of vaccinating 20 million people by the end of 2020. In fact, fewer than three million people had received a jab by 31 December.\n\nVaccinations have sped up since the start of the year.\n\nThe daily average for the week before Trump left office was less than 900,000, according to Our World in Data .\n\nThat figure has since risen above one million doses a day, and Biden has come under some scrutiny for not setting a more ambitious target.\n\nWhen you look at the countries doing the most vaccinations by population, the US is fourth after Israel, the UAE and the UK in terms of doses per 100 people.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Drone footage captures the extent of the damage the bridge over the River Clwyd\n\nFinancial help has been promised to those affected by serious flooding, the Welsh Government has announced.\n\nPeople have been forced to leave their homes and a major incident declared after Storm Christoph struck.\n\nAbout 80 people were evacuated during flooding thought to be related to mine works in Skewen, Neath, while 30 were evacuated in Bangor-on-Dee, Wrexham.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it would work with councils to deliver £500-£1,000 payments to affected households.\n\nEnvironment minister, Lesley Griffiths, said people across Wales were facing the \"twin problems\" of floods and the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nShe said: \"We will support people in these circumstances just as we did in the aftermath of storms Ciara and Dennis last year, by working with local authorities to make support payments of between £500 and £1,000 available for each household flooded.\"\n\nSevere flood warnings remain in place across Wales as river levels remain high.\n\nIn the Lower Dee Valley a severe flood warning remains in force, from Llangollen to Trevalyn Meadow, and a major incident was declared in Bangor-on-Dee.\n\nWrexham council leader Mark Pritchard said teams worked to ensure the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, made on Wrexham Industrial Estate, was not lost in the floods.\n\nFirefighters in Skewen waded through water up to their thighs amidst reports of evacuated homes\n\nAbout 80 people were evacuated in Skewen, including residents of a care home, after at least eight streets were left under water.\n\nEmergency services said there were no injuries and all those evacuated had been found accommodation, but people are asked to avoid the area.\n\nIn Denbighshire, a bridge linking Trefnant to Tremeirchion over the River Clwyd collapsed in the storm. The council said it would be investigating the cause of the flooding, which forced road closures and evacuations.\n\nNatural Resources Wales (NRW) said the River Dee, which runs through Bangor-on-Dee, was at its highest recorded level since the water gauge became operational in 1996 - 16.45m (54ft).\n\nIt urged people across Wales to remain vigilant, with river levels not set to have peaked until late Thursday evening, adding they would remain high until Friday morning.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Met Office said over the past two days Wales had the highest rainfall of the four UK nations.\n\nBetween 19 and 21 January, Aberllefenni in Gwynedd saw 188mm (7.5in) of rain, more than average rainfall for Wales for the whole of January, which is 156.89mm (63in).\n\nThat was followed by 180mm (7in) in Crai reservoir, Powys, 169.8mm (6.6in) in Treherbert, Rhondda Cynon Taf, and 166mm (6.5in) in both Maerdy, RCT, and Capel Curig, Conwy.\n\nLlechryd bridge in Ceredigion has been completely submerged by the River Teifi\n\nUp to 30 people were forced out of their homes in Bangor-on-Dee, Wrexham\n\nNatural Resources Wales said the River Dee was at its highest level since the water gauge became operational\n\nThe flooding threatened the supply of the coronavirus Oxford vaccine, which is produced at Wrexham Industrial Estate.\n\nWrexham council leader Mr Pritchard said it had to work to \"make sure we didn't lose the vaccinations in the floods\".\n\n\"I've been up all night... it's a very difficult time for us,\" he added.\n\nNorth East Wales Search and Rescue helped people whose homes were flooded in New Broughton, Wrexham\n\nWockhardt UK, which manufactures the vaccine, said at about 16:00 GMT on Wednesday, excess water surrounded part of its buildings.\n\n\"The site is now secure and free from any further flood damage and operating as normal,\" it said.\n\nThe clean-up has begun in Ruthin\n\nA multi-agency statement described the situation in Bangor-on-Dee as a \"major incident\".\n\nIt said: \"As a severe weather warning indicates that there is a risk to life...\n\n\"The evacuation effort continues, with all routes in and out of the village currently closed to the public due to the flooding.\"\n\nEarlier, some residents in Ruthin were told to leave their homes - people have been told Covid rules allow them leave their homes in an emergency.\n\nMeanwhile, a man's body was recovered from the River Taff near Blackweir in Cardiff.\n\nDozens of ducks and chickens, and 12 huskies were rescued by the RSPCA from a flooded farm in Bangor, while they also took hay to two donkeys stranded by flood water in Mold.\n\nSome 12 huskies had to be rescued after their kennels flooded\n\nDave Brown said the flooding in his home in Broughton, Flintshire, was horrific and his mother-in-law was rescued by firefighters.\n\n\"You don't realise the damage water does and everything that floats - the sheer volume of water. I am 6ft tall and it almost took me out,\" he said.\n\nDave Brown's mother-in-law was rescued from their home in Broughton, Flintshire\n\nWrexham council said some of the people forced to leave their homes were with relatives, while it found others accommodation after having to initially seek refuge in a church hall.\n\nNine properties in Berse Road in New Broughton were also evacuated.\n\nThe situation in Ruthin, Denbighshire, overnight was \"horrendous\", town councillor Stephen Beach said.\n\n\"The whole of Ruthin was on edge,\" he said.\n\n\"Some people were accommodated at the leisure centre, and others were offered places to stay by local residents. The community was superb.\n\n\"It was the sheer volume of water that came down - there was no stopping it.\"\n\nA yellow weather warning for ice for Wales has been issued by the Met Office until 10:00 GMT on Friday, with concerns it could lead to travel disruption, slips and falls.\n\nNumerous flood warnings and alerts remain in place across Wales, including two severe flood warnings.\n\nThe agency said flood defences were being used and river levels at Holt, Wrexham, would remain high for some time.\"There is therefore a significant risk of localised flooding problems and due to that the severe flood warning will remain in place until the levels drop,\" Keith Iven of NRW said\n\nIn Monmouthshire roads were closed following flooding, and the council said while water levels at the River Usk were dropping, a \"second peak\" on the River Wye had been expected on Thursday night.\n\nThe council had warned people living in Riverside Park, Monmouth, may be impacted and council workers were prepared to offer support.\n\nRiver Tywi has burst its banks in Carmarthen, affecting nearby businesses\n\nMid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service said it had attended 98 flooding-related incidents\n\nIt said it deployed swift water rescue teams to rescue 13 people from vehicles in floodwater. It also winched vehicles from water and pumped water from properties.\n\nIn Cardiff, emergency services attended a crash involving a number of vehicles at about 07:40 on the A4232 between Culverhouse Cross and the M4.\n\nNo-one was seriously injured, but both carriageways were closed for just over an hour. The road has since reopened.\n\nIn Carmarthen, people were treated for the effects of fumes after using a generator to pump water from their homes.\n\nIn Knighton and Crickhowell in Powys, crews spent Wednesday night pumping out a number of properties.\n\nIn Borth, Ceredigion, floodwater hit the water treatment plant, an electrical substation and eight properties.\n\nOgwen Valley Mountain Rescue Team had to rescue a man from the roof of his car.\n\nIt said he had tried to drive through the river ford along the road from Llandygai to Bangor, in Gwynedd, but had become stuck in deep water and had climbed onto the roof. He was not injured.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Derek Brockway - weatherman This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nRhondda Cynon Taf council said it was aware of a minor landslip on the mountainside above Pentre.\n\nIt said an initial inspection determined there was no immediate threat to the area and a further detailed inspection would be carried out on Friday. It asked people to avoid the area.\n\nBangor-on-Dee has been badly hit by Storm Cristoph\n\nDozens of roads have been closed across Wales, and while Covid rules are in place stopping people from travelling apart from for essential reasons, people are being warned not to travel in affected areas due to widespread flooding.\n\nChris Lloyd from North Wales Mountain Rescue Association warned people to not visit flood-hit areas to view the damage.\n\nHe told BBC Radio Wales: \"People who are going out to look at the floods are not only putting themselves at risk, but putting additional people on the roads which professional emergency services don't want - we don't want any more incidents.\"\n\nDenbighshire council said Ysgol Bodfari in Denbigh and Ysgol Caer Drewyn, Corwen, which had been open for vulnerable children and the children of critical workers, have been closed.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Health Secretary Matt Hancock says lifting restrictions can only happen when \"facts on the ground\" show it is safe\n\nIt is \"difficult to put a timeline\" on when England's lockdown could be lifted, Matt Hancock has said.\n\nThe health secretary said there were \"early signs\" the measures were working but it was \"not a moment to ease up\".\n\nHe said there were 37,000 people in hospital with coronavirus in the UK and \"more people on ventilators than at any time in this whole pandemic\".\n\n\"The pressure on the NHS remains huge and we've got to get that case rate down,\" he said.\n\nThe number of coronavirus cases in the UK has been falling, but the number of people in hospital remains high, as does the UK's daily death numbers.\n\nA further 592 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test and another 22,195 cases have been recorded, according to Monday's government figures.\n\nThe are 4,076 people in hospital on ventilators.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and only go out for limited reasons.\n\nThis includes for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nAt Monday's Downing Street press briefing, Mr Hancock said: \"I understand the yearning people have to get out of this.\n\n\"The thing is that we have to look at the facts on the ground and we have to monitor those facts.\n\n\"And of course, everybody wants to have a timeline for that, but I think most people understand why it is difficult to put a timeline on it because it's a matter of monitoring the data.\"\n\nHe set out the factors the government would take into account when reaching decisions over lifting the restrictions, including: the death rate, the number of people in hospital, whether there were new coronavirus variants and the success of the vaccine rollout.\n\nAlmost four in five of the UK's over-80s have had the vaccine, Mr Hancock said, with nearly 6.6m people in total having had their first dose.\n\nThe falling numbers of infections being reported and the rising rate of vaccination are incredibly promising - even if the drop in infections reported on Monday may have been partly an artefact of fewer people coming forward for a test because of the snow.\n\nBut that does not offer any guarantees of a rapid lifting of lockdown.\n\nWhat is concerning ministers are the high numbers in hospital.\n\nThe number of new admissions seems to have plateaued - but at a very high rate.\n\nClose to 4,000 patients a day are being admitted to hospital.\n\nTo put that in context, that is four times the total number of all types of respiratory admissions the NHS would normally see in winter.\n\nIt means the numbers in hospital are at nearly twice the level they were at the peak in the spring during the first wave.\n\nWith better treatments available, patients are spending longer in hospital.\n\nSo come mid-February the pressures in hospital are likely to be very high, leaving ministers little wriggle-room to relax restrictions.\n\nThe big unknown, however, is what impact and how quickly vaccination will have an effect on admissions.\n\nThere is encouraging early news from Israel that hospitalisation really starts to drop three weeks after the first dose.\n\nIf that is repeated here, the picture could quickly change.\n\nBut until that happens the government - in the words of Health Secretary Matt Hancock - is urging the country to hold its nerve.\n\nSpeaking at the Downing Street press conference, Jenny Harries, deputy chief medical officer for England, warned: \"We are not out of this by a very long way.\"\n\nShe said current coronavirus rates were still causing concern, patience was needed about the vaccination programme and the NHS still faced its usual winter pressures.\n\nSusan Hopkins, from Public Health England, said the UK need to see the death rate \"fall much lower\" before any decision to ease measures.\n\nShe said teams were currently studying the impact on the UK's vaccine programme of the variant first identified in South Africa.\n\nBut she added the \"consensus view\" from four UK laboratories suggested that \"the current vaccine works against the variant that was first discovered in the UK\".", "A group of MPs is calling for hedgehog nesting sites to get the same protections as those for bats and badgers, in an effort to boost numbers.\n\nFormer Transport Secretary Chris Grayling has tabled an amendment to the Environment Bill, which he said would help \"Britain's favourite animal\".\n\nThe spiky mammals should be on developers' \"radar\" when they are planning a project, he added.\n\nA report in 2018 suggested UK hedgehog numbers had halved since 2000.\n\nRough estimates put the population at one million, compared with 30 million during the 1950s.\n\nMr Grayling's amendment would add hedgehogs the list of protected animals under the Wildlife and Countryside Act.\n\nThis would place a legal obligation on developers to search for the animals and take action to reduce the risk to them from building.\n\nChris Grayling said hedgehogs should feature on property developers' surveys\n\nIt is illegal to kill or capture hedgehogs using certain methods but Mr Grayling said: \"It seems wrong to me, for example, that whenever a developer has to carry out a wildlife survey before starting work on a project that the hedgehog is not on anyone's radar.\n\n\"It is Britain's favourite animal, its numbers are declining and it should be as well protected as any other popular but threatened British animal.\"\n\nFormer cabinet ministers Liam Fox, Andrew Mitchell and Dame Cheryl Gillan are among 13 fellow Conservative MPs supporting Mr Grayling's amendment.\n\nLabour's Hilary Benn and Debbie Abrahams have also signed it.\n\nThe Environment Bill - which seeks to write environmental principles into UK law for the first time - will be debated in the House of Commons on Tuesday.\n\nIt includes setting legally binding targets to improve air quality, water, biodiversity and waste reduction by 2037.\n\nBut some Conservative backbenchers say this is much too slow. They want the targets brought forward to 2030 at the latest.\n\nAn amendment from the Conservative MP, Chris Loder, calls for unmissable targets to reduce plastics waste.\n\nIt comes as a report from Greenpeace and the Environmental Investigation Agency claims that the UK's 10 largest supermarket chains put plastic equivalent to the weight of 90 Eiffel Towers on to the market in 2019.\n\nThe study found that while the number of single-use carrier bags fell by more than a third, more than one and a half billion plastic \"bags for life\" were issued by the top brands, and that 2.5 billion plastic water bottles were sold or given away.\n\nThe Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said the bill would help \"improve the environment for future generations\".\n\nIt added that ministers were \"ambitious\" to \"drive a world-leading programme of environmental reform\".\n\nFor Labour, shadow environment secretary Luke Pollard said the bill should be prioritised to complete its passage in this session of Parliament.\n\nHe added that the UK needed legislation that \"recognises the urgency of the crisis and doesn't go backwards\".", "Budweiser has said it will not advertise its beer during the Super Bowl this year, joining a growing number of big brands sitting out the annual American football championship.\n\nThe event remains one of the most-watched in the US each year, drawing more than 100 million viewers in 2020.\n\nThe advertisements are often as much a conversation-starter as the game itself, sometimes sparking controversy.\n\nFirms say the virus has made finding the right message especially difficult.\n\nOthers are grappling with financial hits caused by the pandemic, which has dampened spending on many items, while also casting more than 10 million Americans out of work, resurfacing racial and economic inequalities and sharpening political divisions.\n\nBudweiser's parent company, Anheuser-Busch, said it planned to reallocate the money it would have spent on a 30-second Budweiser spot during the game to support an Ad Council campaign promoting coronavirus vaccination.\n\nIt is the first time the flagship brand will not make a game-time appearance in 37 years.\n\n\"This commitment is an investment in a future where we can all get back together safely over a beer\", it said, adding that it would still promote some of its other brands, such as Bud Light, during the game.\n\nOn Monday, Budweiser released a full 90-second Super Bowl ad on YouTube entitled \"Bigger Picture\", which showed US citizens overcoming pandemic challenges together and aimed to raise awareness about Covid-19 vaccines.\n\nCoke, Pepsi and Hyundai are among the other major names also planning to forego airtime during the broadcast.\n\nCoca-Cola said it had made the \"difficult choice\" to \"ensure we are investing in the right resources during these unprecedented times\". The firm did not advertise during the 2019 game either.\n\nHyundai cited \"marketing priorities\" and the timing of upcoming vehicle launches.\n\nPepsi has also said it would not promote its flagship soda during the game. Instead, it is spending money on an advert airing to promote the Super Bowl halftime show it has sponsored for almost a decade.\n\nThe Super Bowl boasts some of the most expensive advertising slots all year\n\nGiven all the economic, political and health questions of 2020, companies may have felt it was prudent to pull back - especially several months ago, when they would have had to start planning for such a high-profile night, said Kimberly Whitler, professor at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business\n\n\"It's the biggest night of TV watching and so they have to plan it months in advance,\" she said. \"There was so much uncertainty that to go and invest in a Super Bowl ad might have actually felt or seemed frivolous at the time.\"\n\nThe decision goes \"beyond finances\", she added. \"It's also, 'How do we identify the right tone that will match the moment'.\"\n\nThis year's Super Bowl will see star quarterback Tom Brady's Tampa Bay Buccaneers face off against reigning champions the Kansas City Chiefs on 7 February.\n\nLast year, firms spent an average of $5.25m (£3.8m) for a 30-second spot during the championship, driving Super Bowl ad spending to a record $450m, according to Kantar consultancy.\n\nThe firm has said its research suggests Super Bowl ads are \"typically 20 times more effective\" in changing a brand's perception than a normal advert.\n\nAnheuser-Busch, an official sponsor of the National Football League, is typically one of the night's top spenders, so the absence of its flagship brand may create its own buzz, said Satya Menon, a Chicago-based managing partner of of ROI practice at Kantar.\n\nChipotle's very first Super Bowl commercial is entitled, \"Can a burrito change the world?\"\n\n\"Budweiser in particular is a very established brand ... so for them, it's all about generating love and goodwill and maybe this is another way,\" she says.\n\n\"They do have a lot of pre-game advertising out there. When people have the expectation that they wil be there and then they don't see the brand, they'll start thinking why are they not.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the sports showdown still seems to be finding plenty of firms ready to fill spots left by the stalwarts. Names of newcomers include Chipotle and Fiverr, a freelance platform that has seen business soar during the pandemic.\n\n\"It doesn't get any bigger than the Super Bowl from a branding and marketing perspective,\" said Fiverr's chief marketing officer Gali Arnon. \"We believe this is a major opportunity for us to introduce the world to Fiverr in a unique and creative way.\"\n\nMany of this year's advertisers are firms coming from the e-commerce sector, which have benefited from the pandemic, Ms Menon said.\n\nAnd though audience numbers for NFL games have slipped this year, for those firms making their game-night debuts, Ms Menon says she still expects ads to have a big impact - even if the pandemic puts a damper on the traditional Super Bowl parties and other festivities, which can make championship feel like an unofficial national holiday.\n\n\"There isn't very much going on in life, so it will always have that great reach,\" she says. \"Some of that excitement may not be there, but watching will definitely be there.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson says teachers and pupils will be told “as much as we can, as soon as we can” about reopening schools\n\nThe government will tell teachers and parents when schools in England can reopen \"as soon as we can\", the prime minister has said.\n\nMPs have called on the government to set out a \"route map\" for reopening amid concerns for children's education.\n\nBoris Johnson said he understood why people wanted a timetable but he did not want to lift restrictions while the infection rate was \"still very high\".\n\nHe would not guarantee schools would reopen before April's Easter break.\n\nMr Johnson said: \"We've now got the R [reproduction rate] down below 1 across the whole of the country, that's a great achievement, we don't want to see a huge surge of infection just when we've got the vaccination programme going so well and people working so hard.\n\n\"I understand why people want to get a timetable from me today, what I can tell you is we'll tell you, tell parents, tell teachers as much as we can as soon as we can.\"\n\nHe said the government would be \"looking at the potential of relaxing some measures\" before mid-February, with Downing Street clarifying that this meant looking at the data to decide \"what we may or may not be able to ease from 15 February onwards\".\n\nA further 592 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test and another 22,195 cases have been recorded, according to Monday's government figures.\n\nAt Monday's Downing Street press briefing, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said almost four in five of the UK's over-80s have had the vaccine, with nearly 6.6m people in total having had their first dose.\n\nBut he said the NHS continues to be under \"intense pressure\", with Jenny Harries, deputy chief medical officer for England, saying there are \"twice the number of people in hospital than we had in the first wave\" of the pandemic.\n\nRobert Halfon, chairman of the education select committee, told BBC Breakfast there was \"enormous uncertainty\" and called for the government to set out what the conditions needed to be for pupils to return to schools.\n\nThe Conservative MP for Harlow suggested the government could consider tighter restrictions in other parts of society and the economy, in order to enable schools to open.\n\nTory MPs were enraged by reports over the weekend that schools might not re-open fully until after the Easter holidays.\n\nMinisters say it's the progress of the pandemic that will determine their decision rather than a pre-agreed timetable.\n\nYet whenever the government speaks, parents hear dates. Whether it's that the situation will be reviewed at half-term. Or a pledge to give two weeks' notice when classes will come back.\n\nMPs are now pushing for more transparency from the government about how they'll assess the data, and for some ideas between school being mostly closed or totally open.\n\nThis issue is a perfect metaphor for the situation facing the entire country. Too much hope breeds disappointment, but living with uncertainty is just as hard. And you can come up with a plan but it might have to be junked if the virus has other ideas.\n\nChildren's Commissioner for England Anne Longfield joined the call for clarity and told the BBC: \"Children are more withdrawn, they are really suffering in terms of isolation, their confidence levels are falling, and for some there are serious issues.\"\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson said the government wanted to \"see all children back at the very earliest moment\".\n\nSchools in England have been closed to most pupils since the national lockdown began on 5 January due to high levels of Covid transmission in the community.\n\nThere have been calls for teachers to be vaccinated sooner, although it is not clear if that would allow schools to reopen earlier.\n\nThe majority of pupils in England are learning from home with schools only open to the children of key workers, vulnerable children and those who cannot learn at home\n\nCovid death rates among educational professionals are not \"statistically significantly different\" to those in the general population, according to Office for National Statistics (ONS) data, but secondary school teachers appeared to have an elevated risk compared particularly with people working in office-type jobs.\n\nAmong secondary school teachers Covid death rates were 39.2 deaths per 100,000 males, compared with 31.4 for all males aged 20 to 64, and 21.2 per 100,000 females, compared with 16.8, but the ONS said these were \"not statistically significantly different than those of the same age and sex in the wider population\".\n\nSchools will remain closed in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales until at least the February half-term - with the Welsh first minister saying it is \"unlikely\" all pupils will return after the break.\n\nGemma Cocker with her children Charlie and Lyla\n\nGemma Cocker from Brighton is one of the many parents struggling to balance childcare, home learning and work.\n\nShe says she's having to share her work laptop with her son, who has already missed learning time after the family moved home and did not have internet access. \"We didn't have any internet. The school said they had reached their limit so couldn't take him,\" she says.\n\nAnd because her children are young, she says: \"They're never just going to watch a classroom by themselves, you have to be with them the whole time.\"\n\nKitty Jones, 11, is in her last year of primary school and she says home learning is \"tricky\" because she is not used to using different remote platforms like Google Classroom and she wants to return \"as soon as possible\".\n\n\"I still think that I'm learning a bit, but I don't think I'm learning as much as I would be in person,\" she tells BBC Radio 4's World at One programme.\n\nHolly Agbukor, 18, is studying for her A-levels, says it is \"quite stressful\" learning at home, as it is a \"different environment, so it is not as easy to be fully present in the lessons\".\n\nBut, she says, while is it \"difficult\" working at home, \"I don't think it is worth the cost of reintroducing the virus into society and making things worse overall\".\n\nHow has home-schooling been going for your family? You can share your experience by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Tuesday morning. We'll have another update for you this evening.\n\nRules for people entering the UK could get tighter later - with the government expected to enforce hotel quarantine in England for some arrivals. Currently, people arriving in the UK must test negative before setting off, and then self-isolate for 10 days on arrival. This can be reduced to five days in England after a second negative test. But it's feared that not everyone follows the rules - so people could now be told to stay in hotels, where the isolation will be enforced. It's thought the rules will definitely apply to UK citizens and residents arriving from southern African, South America, and Portugal (foreign nationals are already banned from arriving from those \"high risk\" areas). The rules could also apply to other countries. And it's expected that people will have to pay their own way. Although each part of the UK sets its own travel rules, Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said a \"four nations\" approach is being discussed. Here's a glimpse from last year of hotel quarantine in Australia.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe UK's unemployment rate rose to 5% in the three months to November, up from 4.9%, as the pandemic continued to hit the jobs market. In November, Chancellor Rishi Sunak said unemployment could peak at 2.6 million by the middle of this year - that's 7.5% of the working population.\n\nThe EU has been criticised for a slow vaccine rollout - which is partly down to delays from manufacturers Pfizer and AstraZeneca (although the latter's jab hasn't actually been approved in the EU yet). Now the EU says vaccine makers must provide \"early notification\" when they want to export vaccines outside the bloc. This could mean more doses stay inside the EU. The UK minister responsible for vaccine deployment, Nadhim Zahawi, has said he is confident Pfizer - which manufactures its vaccine in Belgium - will deliver for both the UK and the EU. This tweet is from the EU's health commissioner.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Stella Kyriakides This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nRiot police in the Netherlands have again clashed with people defying a curfew, following a weekend of unrest. More than 150 were arrested. In Rotterdam, police fired warning shots and tear gas, after an emergency order failed to move demonstrators.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dutch police described the rioting as the worst unrest in four decades\n\nDespite Covid and the strains on the system, there is still kindness - and new life - in NHS hospitals. The BBC's Hugh Pym went to Kings Mill Hospital, part of Sherwood Forest Hospitals Trust, to meet the patients and staff.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: ‘Among all the doom and gloom there’s positives’\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page. This page analyses UK data - including the recent fall in daily cases.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "The school's head teacher said it was unacceptable staff were being put at risk\n\nA school has threatened to withdraw places for pupils who have told teachers they are visiting people outside their households.\n\nYew Tree Community School in Oldham said several children had admitted visiting friends, neighbours and family contrary to Covid-19 lockdown rules.\n\nHead teacher Martine Buckley said she would take the action when \"parents were putting staff in danger\".\n\nThe Department for Education said \"all vulnerable\" pupils should go to school.\n\nDuring the current lockdown schools are open only to pupils listed as vulnerable and the children of key workers.\n\nFamilies can form \"childcare bubbles\" with one other household, and children who live with two parents who live separately can move between households - but any further mixing is forbidden.\n\nIn a letter posted on the Chadderton school's Facebook page, Mrs Buckley said she was \"upset\" to be writing it \"but I feel I must\".\n\n\"Our lovely children are open and honest and they tell us about their lives and activities,\" she said.\n\n\"A number of them are telling us that they are visiting friends, neighbours and family which is against the law.\n\n\"Our teachers and support staff are putting their own safety at risk to look after your children and they should be confident you are doing your bit to follow the lockdown rules.\n\n\"I am afraid I will have to withdraw the offer of a place in school to children whose parents are putting us in danger.\"\n\nWhile a number of parents applauded the message, others have been angered.\n\nOne man told the BBC his two grandchildren were at the school and children as young as four have been asked about their activities at home, which was \"out of order\".\n\n\"My granddaughters are pretty intimidated by the tone,\" he said.\n\n\"Asking them questions like that and then the answers off the back of that. They come to a decision of whether they are going to displace them or not.\"\n\nThe school has about 660 pupils aged between four and 11.\n\nA spokeswoman for the Department for Education said during the current lockdown, schools were \"open for vulnerable children and the children of critical workers\".\n\n\"We expect schools to work with families to ensure all critical worker children are given access to a place if this is required,\" she added.\n\n\"We encourage all vulnerable children to attend.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "Microsoft has reported booming demand for its Xbox gaming consoles as the pandemic continues to lift the fortunes of the American tech giant.\n\nIts Azure cloud computing services also got a boost due to a surge in working and learning from home.\n\nThe gains helped push the firm's overall revenue up 17% to a record $43.1bn (£31.4bn).\n\nBut its growth came as the virus continues to weigh on other industries.\n\nMicrosoft boss Satya Nadella said the firm is benefiting from a long-term shift in behaviour.\n\n\"What we have witnessed over the past year is the dawn of a second wave of digital transformation sweeping every company and every industry,\" he said.\n\nXbox sales jumped 40% in the three months to 31 December while Azure services soared 50%.\n\nThe virus continues to weigh on industries outside of tech\n\nThe pandemic has prompted many firms to switch to remote working, while keeping many entertainment options outside of the home off-limits.\n\nMicrosoft has seized on the changes, focusing energy on updating its remote work software options.\n\nThe firm also released two new Xbox consoles in November, helping to boost the performance of its personal computing unit.\n\nMicrosoft's gaming business topped $5bn in quarterly sales for the first time ever due to gaming subscriptions and sales as well as new consoles.\n\nThe firm said profits in the quarter rose 33% compared with last year to $15.5bn.\n\nIts shares - which climbed roughly 40% last year - were up another 4% in after-hours trade,\n\n\"These were blow out numbers that will be another feather in the cap for the tech sector as the cloud growth party is just getting started,\" said Dan Ives, an analyst at Wedbush Securities.\n\nBut the gains enjoyed by tech firms like Microsoft stand in contrast to the ongoing struggles seen in other industries such as hospitality, retail and travel.\n\nCoffee chain Starbucks on Tuesday said its sales in the last three months of 2020 fell roughly 5% compared to 2019, driven by a drop in business in the US where concerns about Covid-19 have prompted authorities to urge people to stay at home.\n\nIn China, where the virus is under more control, sales rose 5%, the company said.\n\nThe firm said it expected business to return to growth in the next few months, including in the critical US market.\n\nBut profits in the quarter dropped 30% to $622.2m compared with last year, sending the firm's shares lower in after-hours trade.", "The water is warmer than the air and is creating a mist along Dynevor Road\n\nThe coalmining heritage of Wales has been implicated in flooding of homes - but what has happened in Skewen?\n\nAbout 80 people were evacuated from the Neath Port Talbot village, with at least eight streets left under water.\n\nCouncil leader Rob Jones says the flood appears to be related to mine works - but the volume of water involved has hampered a full assessment so far.\n\nThe Coal Authority is investigating how \"historic underground mining features\" in the area exacerbated the problem.\n\nA geologist says there are tens of thousands of old mine shafts across the former south Wales coalfield and it is \"incredibly difficult\" to monitor them all.\n\nSkewen lies within an old coal mining hotspot, with several former colliery sites near the village that operated in the 19th and early 20th Century.\n\nThere were colliery sites near what is now Drummau Road, in the north of the village and another close to Old Road, near Neath Abbey.\n\nSkewen was part of a collection of collieries that stretched between Neath and Llanelli on the western side of south Wales' coalfield.\n\nGraham Levins, secretary of the Welsh Mines Preservation Trust, said old mines often contain groundwater which can flood in heavy rain.\n\nHe said: \"A lot of them go very, very deep down, much below the local water level and that's why they had all the big wheels to pump the water out.\n\n\"It fills up with water and will find a way out. Normally rainfall you get it doesn't cause a lot of problems but when you get really heavy rain, the water drains down through the ground and builds up.\"\n\nStreets were turned into rivers in Skewen\n\nGeologist Tom Backhouse said water was coming out of an area near the junction of Goshen Park and Drummau Road, where there is a record of a mine shaft dating from the turn of the 20th Century.\n\nIt then started \"rushing down\" Drummau Road, causing the flooding that forced evacuations.\n\n\"What we can expect to have happened is that the water level in the mines rose to a point where it's burst out of that entry point from the mine workings below.\n\n\"Also, there are images of very ochre like orange-coloured water and again, that may well be issuing from the mine workings on the highlands to the east of the property on the hill behind.\n\n\"That may be where the shallow workings have flooded.\"\n\nHe said old mine working across the former coalfield area hold water at a certain depth, but when an event such as Storm Christoph drops \"a huge amount in a small area\", the levels rise quickly.\n\n\"As it gets closer and closer to the surface, it basically looks for an escape, the pressure builds up,\" he continued.\n\n\"What it looks like has happened on the junction of Goshen Park and Drummau Road, where the mine shaft is recorded, is that pressure has built up at that point and then burst out through the shaft which is very likely to have been capped with wood or something like that.\n\n\"Where you've got those mine shafts, which ultimately are vertical tunnels down into the mine workings below, the water has literally forced itself up through that shaft, and the pressure is obviously so great it's caused this devastating flash flood.\"\n\nAs well as properties, vehicles were submerged in water\n\nThere are about 13 shafts recorded within about 820ft (250m) of the one in Goshen Park, so Mr Backhouse said it is possible more than one may have burst.\n\nThere are tens of thousands in south Wales and he said it was \"incredibly difficult\" to check them all, but there were \"tell tale signs\" as to why they may collapse such as age or what type of developments are around them.\n\nThe clean up has continued on Friday morning\n\n\"Not to try and fear-monger or anything but of course this sort of thing can happen again,\" he said.\n\n\"If another event like Storm Christoph happens, the water levels in the mine rises as quickly as it did, there's absolutely nothing to say that it wouldn't happen again in the future.\n\n\"And obviously as climate changes and we have many more events like Storm Christoph, they are going to increase in frequency, they are going to be much more severe.\n\n\"The Coal Authority will have to consider the risk in places like Skewen, and they'll have to understand how it will affect residents and proactively manage that and look at how to reduce the risks for residents.\"", "Twenty-two people were killed and hundreds more injured in the 2017 bombing\n\nThe operator of the Manchester Arena has denied it \"deliberately sacrificed safety\" in the aftermath of the 2017 bombing.\n\nAn inquiry has heard how security failures contributed to the arena being unsafe on the night of the attack.\n\nVenue operator SMG has disputed claims it \"was akin to the worst kind of Dickensian factory owner, deliberately and cynically sacrificing safety\".\n\nTwenty-two people were killed and hundreds more injured when Salman Abedi detonated a home-made device as fans left the arena following an Ariana Grande concert.\n\nAndrew O'Connor QC, representing SMG, told the inquiry the firm had always accepted responsibility for security in the City Room, where the bomb exploded.\n\nBut he denied the firm had sought to \"blame others,\" adding it had \"simply sought to explain how SMG discharged its responsibilities\".\n\n\"It is for that purpose and not for prevarication, finger-pointing or buck passing that we have sought to explain to you SMG's relationship with all the other organisations involved,\" he added.\n\nMr O'Connor said the company accepted there were \"shortcomings\" with its written risk assessments but maintained it \"did have a system for assessing terrorism-related risk\".\n\nThe public inquiry into the bombing will look at whether the attack could have been prevented\n\nPatrick Gibbs QC, representing BTP, told the inquiry the force made five key mistakes on the night of the bombing.\n\nThis included having no officers on patrol at Victoria station when Abedi made his final journey to the arena and not having an officer in the City Room at the end of the concert.\n\nOther mistakes included failing to complete a written risk-assessment for the concert, officers not following instructions from their duty sergeant and that PC Stephen Corke, the most experienced officer on duty, was not at the arena complex for the end of the event.\n\nBTP has since made significant changes to its procedures since the attack, the inquiry was told.\n\nThese include monthly meetings with the arena operators to discuss events.\n\nThe inquiry, which began in September, continues.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Pictures of the Pampas grass on social media are thought to have made the area in South Shields popular\n\nA boom in the popularity of Pampas grass with interior decorators has led to \"droves\" of people picking the plant which grows wild near a beach.\n\nThe grass, near Littlehaven Beach in South Shields, forms part of a wind defence to stop sand blowing onto roads and helps protect the coastline.\n\nSouth Tyneside Council warned anyone found removing it could be prosecuted.\n\nCouncillor Ernest Gibson said while the grass may look \"beautiful in vases\" people were \"damaging the environment\".\n\nThe grass, which was popular in the 1970s, can sell for up to £40 a bunch and has proved a popular addition to people's homes.\n\nIt is thought that photographs on social media sites such as Instagram may have influenced people turning up and taking it, Mr Gibson added.\n\n\"Pampas grass is quite expensive to buy if you went to a florist. It's cheaper to come to South Tyneside and take it away,\" he said.\n\n\"But what we are doing is urging people not to come here and take it away, it's there for a reason.\"\n\nPampas grass and Marram grass form part of a defence along the coast at South Shields\n\nThe Pampas grass helps to bond poor soils found at the coast, while Marram grass helps to prevent erosion in the dunes.\n\nSigns are to be erected warning people not to pick the grass because it is already in need of replenishment, the council said.\n\n\"Through Covid, we have a massive amount of people coming to the coastal town, it's Benidorm without the sunshine,\" he added.\n\n\"It's great to see people at the seaside enjoying it [the grass] and that's what it's part of. It's there for everybody to view.\"\n\nGarden designer George Wright said Pampas grass was \"very popular\" and he had seen demand increase two or three times at his nursery in West Boldon. He also expressed concern for the area.\n\n\"Once they take the flower heads themselves they take the seeds. Eventually this will become very much a patchy area and they will all start to decline.\n\n\"Pampas grass is becoming more and and more popular at the moment and I think a lot of it is people are starting to extend their houses into the garden so they want something nice in there, and also it's being used for interior decoration in houses.\"\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Chris Whitty said it was a very sad day, as the UK surpassed 100,000 Covid deaths\n\nThe number of daily coronavirus deaths in the UK is likely to come down \"relatively slowly\", England's chief medical officer has warned.\n\nProf Chris Whitty said the UK was going to see \"a lot more deaths\" over the next few weeks before the effects of the vaccination programme were felt.\n\nCurrent restrictions were \"just about holding\" in lowering infection rates, he told a Downing Street briefing.\n\nIt comes as the UK surpassed 100,000 coronavirus deaths on Tuesday.\n\nA further 1,631 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were recorded in the daily figures.\n\nAnd 20,089 coronavirus cases were reported on Tuesday, continuing a downward trend in the number of UK cases seen in recent days.\n\nProf Whitty told a Downing Street news conference the rolling seven-day average for deaths was 1,242 - \"an incredibly high number\" - and unlikely to come down quickly.\n\n\"I think we have to be realistic that the rate of mortality, the number of people dying a day, will come down relatively slowly over the next two weeks - and will probably be flat for a while now.\"\n\nProf Whitty said the number of people testing positive for coronavirus was \"still at a very high number, but it has been coming down\".\n\nBut he cautioned against relaxing restrictions \"too early\", as Office for National Statistics data showed a \"rather slower\" decrease.\n\nThe number of people in hospital with Covid-19 in the UK had \"flattened off\", he said, but was still an \"incredibly high number\" and \"substantially above the peak in April\".\n\nProf Whitty said the new, more transmissible variant discovered in the south east of England at the end of last year had altered the UK's situation \"very substantially\" and had made it \"much harder\" to bring infection levels down.\n\n\"We were worried two weeks ago that the measures we have at the moment were not enough to hold this new variant,\" he told the news conference.\n\n\"I think what the data I showed you at the beginning of the slide sessions shows is that the rates are just about holding with the new variant, with what everybody's doing.\n\n\"It's going to be much harder because of this new variant and I think we have to be realistic about that.\"\n\nSir Simon Stevens, chief executive of NHS England, said that more than a quarter of a million severely ill coronavirus patients have been looked after in hospital since the pandemic started last year.\n\n\"This is not a year that anybody is going to want to remember nor is it a year that across the health service any of us will ever forget,\" he said.\n\nThe daily Covid figures have seen the number of deaths top 100,000. But they also contain some signs of hope.\n\nJust over 20,000 new infections have been reported - down from 22,000 yesterday.\n\nThis compares to an average of 60,000 at the start of the year.\n\nIt is a sharp fall, although Prof Whitty cautions it may actually be a little slower than that.\n\nNot everyone who is infected comes forward for testing and the government surveillance programme which involves random testing of the population suggests the fall has not been quite so great.\n\nNonetheless, it is clear the infection rate is coming down - and that offers hope.\n\nHospital cases have plateaued and should soon start falling. That will eventually lead to a reduction in the number of deaths.\n\nThen, in February, the vaccination programme should start having an impact, leading, hopefully, to a rapid drop in deaths.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson told the briefing the coronavirus infection rate remained \"pretty forbiddingly high\" to ease lockdown restrictions, which have been in place in England since 5 January.\n\nBut he said \"at a certain stage we will want to be getting things open\".\n\nHe added: \"What I will be doing in the course of the next few days and weeks is setting out in more detail, as soon as we can, when and how we want to get things open again.\"\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and only go out for limited reasons - including for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nMeanwhile, the epidemiologist whose modelling prompted the UK government to impose the first lockdown has told BBC Radio 4's PM he believes more action in autumn last year could have \"drastically reduced\" the number of lives lost in the second wave - some 60,000.\n\nProf Neil Ferguson said: \"They couldn't have been eliminated, but they could have been drastically reduced by earlier action, unfortunately.\n\n\"How much is difficult to judge, the new variant was unpredictable and did change our understanding of how much was needed to control spread, but we did just let the autumn wave get to far, far too high infection levels.\"\n\nReacting to the UK's death toll, Mr Johnson said he took \"full responsibility\" for the government's actions, but added: \"We truly did everything we could.\"", "The fate of more than 200,000 seafarers who play a crucial role in keeping global trade flowing is being labelled a \"humanitarian crisis at sea\".\n\nMore than 300 firms and organisations are urging for them to be treated as \"key workers\", so they can return home without risking public health.\n\nMore than 90% of global trade - from household goods to medical supplies - is moved by sea.\n\nBut governments have banned crew from coming ashore amid Covid-19 fears.\n\nLarge firms including shipping titan AP Moller-Maersk, oil firms BP and Shell, consumer giant Unilever and mining groups Rio Tinto and Vale, as well as maritime transporters, unions, the World Economic Forum (WEF) and other supply chain partners have signed the Neptune Declaration on Seafarer Wellbeing and Crew Change.\n\nThey are calling for all countries to designate seafarers as key workers and implement crew change protocols.\n\nThe signees of the Neptune Declaration are warning global leaders that ignoring the risk to crews' mental and physical wellbeing threatens global supply chains, which are crucial to vaccinating the world from coronavirus.\n\nThe firms and organisations hope that world leaders, gathering at this year's virtual Davos Forum, will heed their call.\n\n\"Unified, prompt action from governments and other key stakeholders is needed to protect the lives and livelihoods of the 1.6 million seafaring men and women who serve us all across the seas, and who continue to face extreme risk to their safety and earnings,\" said WEF's head of supply chain and transport Margi Van Gogh.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. India coronavirus: The stranded sailor yet to meet his daughter\n\n\"By granting stranded seafarers key worker status, and by prioritising vaccine allocation for transport crew, we can prevent a deepening humanitarian and economic crisis.\"\n\nAccording to latest data from the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) and international ship owners body Bimco, there are 1.6 million seafarers serving on internationally trading merchant ships worldwide.\n\nTypically, ICS estimates around 100,000 seafarers are rotated every month, with 50,000 staff disembarking and 50,000 crew embarking ships to comply with international maritime regulations, governing safe working hours and crew welfare.\n\nSeafarers usually work 10-12 hours shifts, seven days a week to man ships, on four or six-month-long contracts, followed by a period of leave.\n\nBut due to the coronavirus crisis and travel bans brought in by many governments to combat new variants of Covid-19, hundreds of thousands of crew are spending extended periods at sea, far beyond the expiry of their contracts.\n\nFor those who have been at sea for months longer than their contract stipulates, there is a growing risk to their mental and physical wellbeing.\n\n\"Seafarers are the unacceptable collateral damage on the war on Covid-19 and this must stop,\" said ICS secretary general Guy Platten.\n\n\"If we want to maintain global trade seafarers must not be put to the back of the vaccine queue. You can't inject a global population without the shipping industry and most importantly our seafarers. We are calling on the supply chain to take action to support seafarers now.\"", "Changes were made to rape prosecution policy that led to a \"shocking\" fall in offences before courts in England and Wales, the Court of Appeal has heard.\n\nThe End Violence Against Women (EVAW) coalition is challenging what it said was an \"unlawful\" move by the Crown Prosecution Service in 2016-18.\n\nThe CPS said there was no \"substantial change\" in how cases were treated.\n\nAnd it denied the coalition's claim it had been taking on only \"strong cases\" to keep conviction rates up.\n\nAccording to the EVAW, the CPS adopted what is known as the \"bookmaker's approach\" to cases, which saw prosecutors considering what may happen based on past experience of similar cases, rather than its earlier \"merits-based approach\" based on objective assessment of the evidence.\n\nIn documents before the court, Phillippa Kaufmann QC said that from September 2016 prosecutors were \"trained away\" from the former CPS policy, including through a series of roadshows.\n\nIn 2017 legally binding guidance on the old approach was removed, and the CPS introduced a 60% conviction rate target in relation to rape cases.\n\nMs Kauffmann said both the volume of cases and the charging rate fell.\n\nShe cited figures showing an average of 3,446 rape cases were charged per year between 2009 and 2016, compared with 2,822 in 2017, a fall of 23%.\n\nAt the same time the charging rate \"declined precipitously\" from 56% in 2016, to 47% in 2017 and 34% in 2018.\n\nThe court documents note the conviction target was removed at some point between 2017 and 2019, and guidance relating to the \"merits-based approach\" to prosecutions was reintroduced.\n\nThe campaigners are aiming to show there was a policy change and the way the CPS went about it was unlawful.\n\nIf a ruling goes in its favour, the EVAW hopes some cases could be looked at again by the CPS.\n\nLawyers for the CPS argue the case was not suitable for a legal challenge.\n\nIn written submissions, Tom Little QC, says the move away from a \"merits-based approach\" was out of a concern that \"some people were being prosecuted when the case ought not to have been charged\".\n\nHe added the decision to initiate the roadshows and remove the guidance \"did not result in any substantial change in the application of the evidential test in the code for Crown prosecutors\".\n\nIn a statement, the CPS said: \"Independent inspectors have found no evidence of a risk-averse approach and have reported a clear improvement in the quality of our legal decision-making in rape cases.\"\n\nThe judges are expected to give their ruling in the case at a later date.", "Celebrities including comedians Romesh Ranganathan and Meera Syal and cricketer Moeen Ali have made a video urging people to get the Covid vaccine.\n\nThe video was co-ordinated by Citizen Khan creator Adil Ray, who said he wanted to dispel vaccination myths for those from ethnic minority communities.\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan and former Conservative Party Chairman Baroness Warsi are among the others taking part.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Adil Ray OBE 💙 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"We all just feel we needed to do something,\" Ray told the BBC.\n\nFake news about the vaccine, particularly in the South Asian community, has led to concerns about uptake.\n\nRay appears in the five-minute video alongside stars like former Coronation Street actress Shobna Gulati, who tells viewers: \"We will find our way through this. And we will be united once again with our friends and our families. All we have to do is take the vaccination.\"\n\nSomali-born British journalist Rageh Omaar and his ITV colleague Ranvir Singh join comedians like Sanjeev Bhaskar, Asim Chaudhry and Ranganathan to debunk common vaccine misinformation and misconceptions.\n\nRanganathan says: \"There's no chip or tracker in the vaccine to keep watching where you go. Your mobile phone actually does a much better job of that.\"\n\nAfter posting the video, Ray told BBC Radio Leicester: \"For the British Asian and black communities, at the very beginning of the pandemic we were told they were perhaps the most vulnerable, that there was a disproportionate number of cases and even deaths.\n\n\"Even now there are a disproportionate number of deaths. But nothing was really done about it and that was really quite confusing for a lot of the community. So we felt that we've got to try and take the lead a little bit here and dispel some of these myths.\"\n\nHe added: \"This was recorded entirely independently from the government - the only thing we did do was we went to the NHS website for the correct medical guidance.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWith the UK aiming to offer Covid vaccinations to every adult by autumn, vaccine minister Nadhim Zahawi said confidence in the vaccines was high in the UK, with 85% saying they would accept the jab.\n\nBut he said that those who were hesitant \"skew heavily\" towards black, Asian and minority ethnic communities.\n\nThe UK is recording the ethnicity and occupations of people who receive the vaccine and figures would be published soon, Mr Zahawi added.\n\nLast month, a poll commissioned by the Royal Society of Public Health suggested 57% of black, Asian and minority ethnic people would be happy to have the coronavirus vaccine, compared with 79% of white people.\n\nDr Harpreet Sood, who is leading an NHS anti-disinformation drive, recently said fake news was likely to be causing some people from the UK's South Asian communities to reject the vaccine.\n\nSuch warnings have led the Mosques and Imams National Advisory Board to urge places of worship and community hubs to be used as vaccination centres in an attempt to inspire confidence.\n\nThe board's chairman, Imam Qari Asim, said: \"As an imam, my message is simple - do not trust 'fake news', verify before you amplify.\"\n\nThe Al Abbas Mosque in Birmingham is being used as a Covid vaccination centre\n\nMany mosques are using their Friday sermons to urge people to have the jab, while some imams are sharing photos of themselves getting the jab on social media.\n\nMeanwhile, the government has announced £23m funding for a network of \"community champions\" to spread accurate information and provide support for people in at-risk groups including older people, disabled people and ethnic minorities.\n\nOn Monday, Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick visited the UK's first vaccination centre to be opened in a mosque, at Al-Abbas Islamic Centre in Birmingham.\n\n\"It is absolutely brilliant to see faith communities like this stepping up and playing their part in the vaccine programme,\" Mr Jenrick said.\n\n\"We have to build trust, ensure that we counter misinformation and ensure that everyone, regardless of their faith, regardless of what community they're from, gets access to the programme.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The police officers were on duty when they had their hair cut, the Met says\n\nThirty-one Met Police officers who broke coronavirus rules to get haircuts are facing £200 fines.\n\nTwo officers who hired a barber to give the cuts to staff at Bethnal Green Police Station, on 17 January, are also facing misconduct investigations, the Met said.\n\nUnder current lockdown restrictions in England, barbers and hairdressers are not allowed to work.\n\nDet Ch Supt Marcus Barnett said he was \"deeply disappointed\" in the officers.\n\n\"Although officers donated money to charity as part of the haircut, this does not excuse them from what was a very poor decision,\" he said. \"I expect a lot more of them.\n\n\"Quite rightly, the public expect police to be role models in following the regulations, which are designed to prevent the spread of this deadly virus.\"\n\nThe investigation comes after fines were handed out to nine officers who were caught eating breakfast together in a Greenwich café.\n\nAll those officers were issued with a £200 fixed penalty notice.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "At least 80 people had to leave their homes in the village after flooding\n\nPeople whose homes were flooded after a \"blow out\" at a mine shaft are said to be \"devastated\" as they face months before they can return home.\n\nSteve Morris said his son Gareth and his girlfriend's home in Skewen, Neath Port Talbot, was inundated by \"orange\" flood water containing sewage.\n\nBut some will be allowed back to their properties on Tuesday.\n\nResidents of Goshen Park and Sunnyland Crescent who have yet to contact Neath Port Talbot council are urged to do so in the next 24 hours.\n\nThe council said access to these properties would continue to be affected beyond 26 January and the Coal Authority wished to have early discussions with them.\n\nMr Morris told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast that his son called him on Thursday to say his house was about to be flooded.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Teresa Dalling says a river of orange water rushed through the village on Thursday\n\n\"I live about half a mile away... and by the time I got to his address I could see the water levels were rising rapidly up the road,\" he explained.\n\n\"Then it was so quick - the water came through his rear patio doors firstly, then the gardens and then the drains couldn't cope on the main road and came through the front door, then the side door.\n\n\"His ground floor was four feet under water, and it was this orange coloured water. There was sewage in the house, so his ground floor needs totally gutting.\"\n\nMr Morris said Gareth and his girlfriend are staying in a hotel as they wait to be allowed back to assess the damage.\n\nHe hopes their insurance firm will pay to rent a home for them, adding: \"I can honestly see them being out of their house for between six and 10 months.\n\n\"They are obviously devastated - they have only been in there for 12 months so everything was near enough brand new.\"\n\nCerys Thomas was at her mother's house with her son, in Goshen Park, when she saw water coming through the front door.\n\nThe stairs at the home of Cerys Thomas' parents were left caked in mud\n\nShe said: \"I said to my mother to get my son and herself out and up toward the street. I phoned the police then, because I could see it was going to be an emergency, and within minutes my parents' conservatory doors just blew through.\n\n\"The pressure of the water just blew through the house and the water, within minutes, was up to my waist.\n\n\"Trying to get out of the house was very scary because the pressure of the front door was getting pushed back.\"\n\nShe said the street was under water \"within seven minutes\".\n\n\"It was something you would see in a movie,\" she said.\n\nWithin minutes of water entering the house Ms Thomas was up to her waist in water\n\nMeanwhile, the Coal Authority said it has identified the cause of the \"blow out\".\n\nChief executive Lisa Pinney told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast: \"Firstly, I just want to say our thoughts are with everyone affected by this flooding and we are genuinely sorry people have been affected in this way.\n\n\"What we know so far is the blow out was caused by a blockage underground which caused water to break out, basically to find the easiest path, and there's no doubt the excessive rainfall in the days before was also a factor in that.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs Pinney said crews had been able to find the site of the collapsed mineshaft which had caused the flooding, and the authority had started to \"develop options\".\n\n\"We really understand people want to get back into their homes, they want to collect things, they want to know what the next steps are,\" she continued.\n\n\"We are working as fast as possible to make that happen and we hope to be able to provide some more information in the next day or so, but you will understand that we have to be sure for public safety.\"\n\nMs Pinney said there are almost 300 mine shafts or entries across the Skewen mine works, which covers an area of about 12 sq km (7.6 sq miles).\n\nShe added: \"We have checked all recorded shafts in the immediate area and we are doing continued checks over the coming days. We have found no problems. They are all safe.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nadhim Zahawi: \"We have 367m vaccines from seven different manufacturers that we have contracted with\"\n\nSupplies of vaccines are \"tight\" but the UK believes it will receive enough doses to meet its targets, the vaccine minister has said.\n\nNadhim Zahawi told BBC Breakfast manufacturers were \"confident\" they would deliver for the UK amid warnings of production delays.\n\nIt comes as the EU said it might tighten vaccine export controls.\n\nCountries should avoid \"vaccine nationalism\" and ensure a fair global supply, Mr Zahawi said.\n\nMeanwhile, more than 100,000 people have died with Covid-19 in the UK, after 1,631 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were recorded in the daily figures.\n\nMr Zahawi said the vaccination programme was still on track to deliver a first dose to 15 million of the most vulnerable by mid-February and to offer all adults their first dose by autumn.\n\nHe said the UK had supplies of the Oxford vaccine manufactured domestically by AstraZeneca as well as the Pfizer one, which is made in Belgium.\n\nThe government is also planning to publish figures on the take-up of the vaccine by ethnicity from Thursday, following concerns that some black, Asian and ethnic minority communities were more hesitant to get the jab.\n\n\"I'm confident we will meet our mid-February target and continue beyond that,\" Mr Zahawi told the BBC.\n\n\"Supplies are tight, they continue to be, these are new manufacturing processes,\" he added. \"It's lumpy and bumpy, it gets better and stabilises and improves going forward.\"\n\nBut he declined to say that he had received guarantees about the number of doses the UK would receive from Pfizer or other manufacturers and refused to confirm how many doses had already arrived.\n\nThe prime minister's spokesman said AstraZeneca had committed to delivering two million doses a week to the UK, and the government was not expecting any changes to that supply.\n\nDowning Street also rejected German media reports claiming a very low efficacy rate for the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine among older people, saying they had been denied by Oxford University, AstraZeneca and the German health ministry.\n\nChief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance told the cabinet the trials showed similar immune responses in younger and older adults.\n\nAnd England's chief medical adviser, Prof Chris Whitty, has defended the UK's strategy of extending the time between first and second doses of coronavirus vaccines from three to 12 weeks in order to immunise more people.\n\nHe told the Downing Street coronavirus briefing on Tuesday that the \"great majority\" of protection came from the first dose.\n\nHe also said there was \"no evidence\" that immunity waned between three and 12 weeks after the first dose was administered.\n\nProf Whitty said: \"We thought very carefully about what the balance of this is, but the balance of risk in terms of reducing the number of deaths in the community - and I really want to stress that, that is the aim of this - is to maximise the number of people who get that first dose, where the great majority of protection comes from.\"\n\nThe latest tension over supply of the Covid vaccine is another illustration of just how fragile this issue is.\n\nThere are huge global demands for Covid vaccine, limited raw materials and constraints on manufacturing.\n\nThe UK already has enough vaccine to jab all the highest-risk groups by mid-February, although not all of it has been packaged up or been through the final safety checks.\n\nThis explains why ministers are confident about the immediate target for the over-70s, health and care workers and the extremely clinically vulnerable.\n\nBut what is in doubt is how quickly the UK can vaccinate in the medium term.\n\nWith the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine manufactured in the UK those supply routes are more guaranteed.\n\nBut the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is made in Belgium. The UK, like the rest of Europe, is affected by the problems with manufacturing that are being experienced with that vaccine.\n\nWith Europe experiencing major problems rolling out its vaccination programme - per head of population five times fewer vaccines have been delivered - this is a story that is going to rumble on for months.\n\nThe UK has placed orders for 367 million doses of vaccines from seven manufacturers, Mr Zahawi said. \"As vaccines come along we will get more volume, millions more in the weeks and months to come,\" he added.\n\nThe tension over vaccine supplies increased after UK-based AstraZeneca warned the EU it would have to reduce planned deliveries because of production problems. Pfizer-BioNTech has also said supplies will be temporarily lower as it works to increase capacity at its Belgian factory.\n\nIt has prompted the EU to accuse AstraZeneca of failing to meet its commitments and to warn that it might require all companies producing Covid vaccines to provide \"early notification\" whenever they planned to export supplies out of the EU.\n\n\"The thing to do now is not to go down the dead end of vaccine nationalism. It's to work together to protect our people,\" Mr Zahawi said.\n\n\"No-one is safe until the whole world is safe.\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock subsequently said the UK government \"oppose protectionism in all its forms\" and urged all international partners to \"be collaborative\" and \"work closely together\" on vaccine distribution.\n\nHe added that the EU's warning that it could restrict exports of vaccines made in the bloc was \"unfortunate and especially so in the midst of a pandemic\".\n\nMeanwhile, the head of NHS England earlier told MPs coronavirus could become a \"much more treatable disease\" over the next six to 18 months, with the hope of a return to a \"much more normal future\".\n\nSir Simon Stevens told the Health and Social Care Committee: \"The first half of the year, vaccination is going to be crucial.\n\n\"I think a lot of us in the health service are increasingly hopeful that in the second half of the year and beyond we will also see more therapeutics and more treatments for coronavirus.\"\n\nHe also said it \"would be great\" if the Covid vaccine and flu vaccine were combined into a single jab, if not for next winter then future ones.\n\nAnd he said vaccines were being used as fast as they arrived in the NHS, with more than half of those aged 75-79 having now had their first dose.\n\nThe UK aims to offer Covid vaccination to every adult by autumn.\n\nMr Zahawi said confidence in the vaccines was high, with 85% of people saying they would accept the jab.\n\nBut he said those who were hesitant \"skew heavily\" towards black, Asian and minority ethnic communities.\n\nThe government is providing £23m of funding to 60 local councils and voluntary groups to boost vaccine take-up among groups such as older people, disabled people, and people from ethnic minority backgrounds.\n\nIt comes as celebrities such as comedians Romesh Ranganathan and Meera Syal and cricketer Moeen Ali appeared in a video urging people in their communities to get vaccinated.\n\nMr Zahawi told ITV's Good Morning Britain his uncle had died from Covid-19 last week. He had been eligible for vaccination but caught the virus before he could receive it, the minister said.\n\nThis \"grim and horrible\" experience made him determined to ensure that the most vulnerable were protected as quickly as possible, Mr Zahawi said.\n\nSir Simon said there was concern about vaccine hesitancy in some groups, where there were access problems as well as \"systematic attempts to misinform and lie about the vaccine programme targeted particularly at minority populations, and - in some cases - long-standing mistrust of public services\".\n\nHe said disruption to vaccine deliveries from EU export restrictions was not thought to be likely.\n\nIn other developments, the UK has offered to carry out genomic sequencing for other countries around the world to help identify further new variants.\n\nPublic Health England said it would give \"crucial early warning\" of any mutations that might cause the virus to spread faster, make people more ill or possibly reduce the effectiveness of vaccines.", "Transfer tests normally used by grammar schools have been cancelled this year\n\nOne of NI's most prominent grammar schools has said it will use primary school test scores to decide which pupils to admit in 2021.\n\nRoyal Belfast Academical Institution said it would \"adopt other academic criteria for admission to the school\".\n\nThat is despite the vast majority of grammar schools not planning to use academic criteria this year.\n\nThe tests run by the AQE and the Post-Primary Transfer Consortium (PPTC) were cancelled in early 2021.\n\nAs a result, grammar schools - which are attended by about 45% of post-primary pupils in Northern Ireland - are drawing up new criteria for how they will select pupils in 2021.\n\nBanbridge Academy, Bangor Grammar, Belfast Royal Academy and Regent House are among those to have published their admissions criteria for 2021.\n\nNone of those schools are using academic criteria, but pupils applying will have to have entered the AQE transfer test.\n\nSome other grammars like Thornhill College and St Columb's College in Londonderry, which decided in 2020 not to use the PPTC transfer test in 2021, have also published admissions criteria.\n\nIn a statement to BBC News NI, Royal Belfast Academical Institution (RBAI) said it was \"committed to the principle that a child should be placed in a school which offers a curriculum best suited to the aptitudes of that child\".\n\n\"For this reason RBAI believes that the use of academic criteria for admission to grammar schools is the outworking of that principle,\" the school said.\n\n\"Accordingly, in the absence of AQE and PPTC tests for admissions, RBAI will adopt other academic criteria for admission to the school.\"\n\nRBAI said scores in practice AQE or PPTC transfer tests will be taken into account\n\nThe school is planning to use standardised scores in the Progress Test in English (PTE) and Progress Test in Maths (PTM) which pupils sat in Primary Five to decide which pupils to admit.\n\nRBAI said that school year was \"the most recent one which has not been interrupted\".\n\nPupils scores in practice AQE or PPTC transfer tests taken under supervision by a teacher will also be taken into account.\n\n\"RBAI is satisfied that this is a reasonable and robust way of selecting pupils based on academic aptitude in the absence of a bespoke test,\" the school said.\n\nRBAI normally admits 150 pupils each year, but received 227 applications for places in 2020.\n\nThe admissions criteria for all post-primary schools will be published on the Education Authority (EA) website on 2 February.\n\nThe UUP assembly member Robbie Butler had proposed that pupils' results in tests in primary schools could be given to parents and then used by grammar schools to decide which children get a place.\n\nBut Education Minister Peter Weir had said there would be \"major problems\" with that approach.", "In March 2020, we were told it would be a ‘’good outcome’’ if coronavirus killed 20,000 people across the UK.\n\nNow the bleakest milestone has been reached: 100,000 deaths.\n\nIn a statement, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said \"behind these heart-breaking figures are friends, families and neighbours. The vaccine offers us the way out, but we cannot let up now and we sadly still face a tough period ahead. The virus is still spreading and we're seeing over 3,500 people per day being admitted into hospital.\"\n\nHealth correspondent Catherine Burns looks at the past year of the UK’s epidemic and hears from families who have lost loved ones.\n\nFilmed and edited by Julius Peacock. Additional filming by Emily Brooks", "The UK government should cancel the debt owed by developing countries struggling with the impact of Covid-19, MPs have said.\n\nThe International Development Committee warned that the pandemic was fuelling extreme poverty and food insecurity.\n\nIt was also disrupting routine healthcare, such as tuberculosis immunisations, it added.\n\nThe Foreign Office said it was spending £1.3bn to protect livelihoods, improve health systems and distribute vaccines.\n\nMore than two million people around the world have died after contracting coronavirus, with almost 100 million cases reported.\n\nAppearing before the Commons International Development Committee, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said he wanted the UK to be a \"force for good in the world\" as it fought the pandemic.\n\nHe defended the government's decision to cut overseas aid spending next year, saying there were \"no easy choices\" given the hit to the public finances from the pandemic.\n\nThe cuts mean the UK will fail to meet the UN target of spending 0.7% of national income on overseas aid in 2021-2, a target that was enshrined into UK law in 2015.\n\nMr Raab said he hoped the UK would be able to reach 0.7% again as \"soon as possible\" but this would only happen once the long-term damage to the UK's balance sheet had been \"corrected\".\n\nLabour said the government was \"betraying the world's poorest.\"\n\nShadow international development secretary Preet Kaur Gill said: \"This move signals a retreat from the world stage, damages the UK's reputation and will only show our allies and detractors that Britain under Boris Johnson is no longer interested in fulfilling our moral or legal responsibilities.\n\n\"Labour are committed to spending 0.7% of Gross National Income on aid to tackle global poverty and injustice and will oppose any attempt from this government to damage this country's reputation.\"\n\nMr Raab said he took seriously warnings from Conservative MPs and ex-ministers that to press ahead with the cuts without passing new legislation would be unlawful.\n\nFormer Solicitor General Lord Garnier said earlier on Tuesday that Mr Raab's \"reputation\" and the government's domestic and international standing would be damaged if it was seen to \"flout a clear legal obligation\".\n\nIn tough financial times, Mr Raab said the UK needed to \"make the most\" of its £10bn spending, avoiding \"salami-slicing\" budgets and focusing on a handful of priorities such as climate, biodiversity, conflict prevention and helping the \"bottom billions\" out of extreme poverty.\n\n\"I think we should unabashedly be proud and confident about the moral responsibility we have to make the world a better place,\" he said.\n\n\"At the same time, I see a range of grittier strategic interests in dealing with climate change and humanitarian suffering and indeed trade.\"\n\nThe Foreign Office took over responsibility for overseas aid in September after absorbing the Department for International Development.\n\nOn debt cancellation, the committee said that, due to disruption caused by the pandemic, millions of people in developing countries were more at risk from diseases such as tuberculosis because of missed immunisations.\n\nMillions were more likely to lose their livelihoods because of the global recession and millions of women were more exposed to sexual violence.\n\nThe MPs want the government to provide more aid to address the problems and cancel long-term national debt that was diverting cash away from those in need.\n\nA Foreign Office spokesperson said: \"We'll only be safe from coronavirus when we're all safe - which is why the UK is leading global efforts to fight this pandemic, committing up to £1.3bn of new UK aid to find and equitably distribute a vaccine, strengthen health systems, protect livelihoods and support the global economy.\"\n\nThey added that the UK would use its 2021 presidency of the G7 group of leading economies \"to help the world build back stronger and fairer after the pandemic\".\n\nThis would include \"promoting open societies, championing gender equality and girls' education, and setting out new international approaches to global health security and climate action\", the spokesperson said.\n\nThe UK has announced it will step up its efforts to help other countries, including some of the poorest in the world, to find new variants of Covid-19.\n\nIn a speech in London, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the UK would share its world-leading genomics expertise worldwide to help countries identify new mutations of the virus and protect global health security.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dutch police have described it as the worst unrest in four decades\n\nMore than 180 people were arrested in 10 Dutch cities as protesters defying a curfew clashed with riot police for a third night running.\n\nShops in Rotterdam were looted and police used water cannon, as rioters resisted latest Covid restrictions.\n\nPrime Minister Mark Rutte condemned \"criminal violence\" and the justice minister said the curfew would remain.\n\nThe Dutch chief of police said the riots no longer had \"anything to do with the basic right to demonstrate\".\n\nThe Netherlands has had nearly one million confirmed Covid cases since the start of the outbreak, with more than 13,500 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University in the US, which is tracking the pandemic.\n\nThe government recently introduced a night-time curfew which runs from 21:00 (20:00 GMT) to 04:30. Anyone caught violating it faces a €95 (£84) fine.\n\nThere were further violent scenes in many towns and cities. Riot police clashed with protesters in Rotterdam and Amsterdam, as well as Amersfoort, Den Bosch, Alphen and Helmond.\n\nSome of the worst disturbances were in the south of Rotterdam where police said 10 officers were hurt. Across the country 184 people were arrested. Amsterdam's mayor appealed to parents to keep young people indoors.\n\nSeveral cities have vowed to introduce emergency measures in an effort to prevent more disturbances\n\nThe windows of some shops were smashed in Rotterdam\n\nFires were lit on the streets of The Hague, where police on bicycles attempted to move small clusters of men who threw stones and fireworks. There was violence in the southern city of Den Bosch, where rioters set off fireworks, broke windows, looted a supermarket and overturned cars.\n\nA woman living near Den Bosch train station told Dutch radio that masked youths had left a trail of destruction in the city centre. \"I saw windows smashed and fireworks going off. Really crazy, just like a war zone,\" the woman said. Roads into the city were closed to stop people joining the rioters and Mayor Jack Mikkers imposed an emergency order banning gatherings on Tuesday.\n\nThe ignition of discontent has rocked the core of Dutch society.\n\nIn the absence of any legitimate way to socialise, is this simply an outlet for young men to feel part of something, their masks concealing their identities and enabling them to violently channel their frustrations?\n\nThere are more sinister influences at play. Messages on social media, overt and covert, have whipped up anger. Misinformation has even been spread by some politicians.\n\nSome of the worst violence was in Rotterdam\n\nSome feared a curfew would be a tipping point, as Dutch restrictions tighten while some neighbouring countries relax their rules. The vast majority of people in the Netherlands are peacefully observing the curfew.\n\nThe unrest was initially seen as a response to the first \"stay-at-home\" order imposed since Nazi occupation during World War Two. That notion has been dismissed by Prime Minister Mark Rutte, who said the rioters were simply criminals and would be treated as such.\n\nBut there are simmering anxieties in Dutch towns and cities, and with less than two months before a general election, voters are vulnerable and the streets volatile.\n\nThere has been widespread shock at the violence. In Rotterdam, where police used water cannon during clashes with rioters, Mayor Ahmed Aboutaleb signed an emergency decree, giving police broader powers of arrest. He reacted furiously to shops being looted in the south of the city, condemning \"shameless thieves, I can't call it anything else\".\n\nThe prime minister said the police had the government's full support: \"The riots have nothing to do with protesting or fighting for freedom.\"\n\nRotterdam shop-owner Emrah Köker said he had no words for what he had seen. \"How can this happen in the Netherlands?\" he asked Dutch daily newspaper Algemeen Dagblad. Justice Minister Ferd Grapperhuis challenged anyone to explain what looting a shop had to do with coronavirus.\n\nThe mayor of Den Bosch said police had struggled to respond to the violence because they were needed in other nearby towns.\n\nFootball fans of the Willem II club took to the streets of Tilburg to \"protect their city\" against rioters, news site Brabants Dagblad reports.\n\nMayors in several cities have vowed to introduce emergency measures in an effort to prevent more disturbances.\n\nThe Dutch prime minister has condemned the violence\n\nThere has been widespread shock in the Netherlands over the violence", "The greys were introduced to Britain from North America in the 19th Century\n\nThe UK government has given its support to a project to use oral contraceptives to control grey squirrel populations.\n\nEnvironment minister Lord Goldsmith says the damage they and other invasive species do to the UK's woodlands costs the UK economy £1.8 billion a year.\n\nThe bizarre-sounding plan is to lure grey squirrels into feeding boxes only they can access with little pots containing hazelnut spread.\n\nThese would be spiked with an oral contraceptive.\n\nLord Goldsmith says the damage from squirrels also threatens the effectiveness of government efforts to tackle climate change by planting tens of thousands of acres of new woodlands.\n\nOn Tuesday, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) told BBC News: \"We hope advances in science can safely help our nature to thrive, including through the humane control of invasive species.\"\n\nA partnership of conservation and forestry organisations called the UK Squirrel Accord (UKSA) is behind the proposal.\n\nIt says grey squirrels, which were first introduced from North America in the late 19th century, cause huge damage to woodlands by stripping bark from trees aged between 10-50 years, the younger trees in a forest.\n\nThey particularly target broad-leafed varieties including oak, which are particularly ecologically important because they support so many other species.\n\nIt is estimated the UK is home to some three million of these invasive rodents.\n\nRed squirrels are now confined mainly to Scotland and Ireland\n\nThey have displaced the native red squirrel across most of the UK.\n\nLord Goldsmith says the government supports the plan as well as a longer-term effort to breed infertility into female grey squirrels to reduce their numbers.\n\nInvasive non-native species such as grey squirrels threaten our native biodiversity, he argues.\n\nWhen regulating grey squirrels with oral contraceptive was first proposed in 2017, the government's Animal and Plant Health Agency said it thought it could reduce their numbers by as much as 90%.\n\nThe project also has royal approval.\n\nPrince Charles was instrumental in founding the UK Squirrel Accord with the objective of \"managing the negative impacts of invasive grey squirrels in the UK\".\n\nHe has written of the importance of protecting Britain's remaining red squirrels.\n\n\"These charming and intelligent creatures never fail to delight\", he wrote last week in his capacity as patron of the Red Squirrel Survival Trust, describing red squirrels as the \"symbol and benchmark\" of healthy woods.\n\nJason Gilchrist, an ecologist from Edinburgh Napier University, has written in defence of the grey squirrel but he says he supports the oral contraceptive plan.\n\nHe acknowledges there is a need to manage grey squirrel populations.\n\n\"It is better than the alternative: a shotgun\", he told BBC News.\n\nIt is the same argument the UKSA makes: dosing the animals with contraceptives provides a humane alternative to culling them.\n\nLast week, the Royal Forestry Society, a member of the Squirrel Accord, called for just such a cull.\n\nSimon Lloyd, its chief executive, says efforts to tackle global warming and improve biodiversity will be undermined unless grey squirrel numbers can be reduced.\n\nNew trees will not survive to \"deliver the carbon capture or biodiversity objectives if grey squirrels cannot be controlled\", he told the Daily Telegraph.\n\nThe UKSA has been experimenting with ways to deliver oral contraceptives to squirrels for more than three years now.\n\nLast year, it tested special feeding stations designed so only grey squirrels can gain access in woodland in East Yorkshire.\n\nInstead of contraceptives, the hazelnut paste bait was dosed with a dye that, when ingested, causes squirrel hair to fluoresce under UV light.\n\nThe researchers found that more than 90% of the grey squirrel population being studied visited the traps.\n\nThey concluded that it was possible to deliver repeat doses of a contraceptive to the majority of grey squirrels in a wood.", "More than 100,000 people in the UK have died from a virus, that, this time last year, felt like a far-off foreign threat. How did we come to be one of the countries with the worst death tolls?\n\nThere is no quick answer to that question, and there is sure to be a long and detailed public inquiry once the pandemic is over. But there are plenty of clues that, when pieced together, help build a picture of why the UK has reached this devastating number.\n\nSome will point a finger at the government - its decision to lock-down later than much of western Europe, the stuttering start to its test-and-trace network and the lack of protection afforded to care home residents.\n\nOthers will spotlight deeper rooted problems with British society - its poor state of public health, with high levels of obesity, for example.\n\nOthers, still, will note that some of the UK's great strengths - its position as a vibrant hub for international air travel, its ethnically diverse and densely-packed urban populations - exposed its vulnerability to a virus that spreads effortlessly between people.\n\nIn some people's eyes, the UK's island status might have helped it. New Zealand, Australia and Taiwan managed to stop the virus getting a foothold and deaths have been kept to a minimum - Australia has seen fewer deaths throughout the pandemic than the UK is recording every day on average.\n\nAll introduced strict border restrictions immediately and lockdowns to contain the virus before it had spread. The UK did not. It was not until June that quarantine rules were introduced for all arrivals and even then travel corridors were soon set up, relaxing the rules for travellers from certain countries. Only this month were these scrapped.\n\nProf Devi Sridhar, an expert in public health from Edinburgh University, is one of those who has been critical of the approach the UK has taken from the start.\n\nShe says the UK, like much of Europe, was \"complacent\" about the threat of infectious disease - choosing to treat the new coronavirus \"like flu\" and allowing it to spread, while talking about the desire to achieve herd immunity.\n\nThis all changed in late March, when a full lockdown eventually came. But there was a crucial delay of a week which is estimated to have cost more than 20,000 lives, according to government modeller Prof Neil Ferguson, because of how quickly infection rates were doubling at that point.\n\nThis, of course, is said with the benefit of hindsight. Government modellers themselves acknowledge the data was \"really quite poor\" making it difficult to make a decision that would have significant repercussions. It is a point acknowledged by Prof Chris Whitty, the UK's chief medical adviser. Speaking in the summer he said there had been \"very limited information\" in early March.\n\nBy then, the virus was ripping through care homes. Around 30% of deaths in the first wave happened in care homes; 40% if you include care home residents who died in hospital.\n\nThose at the heart of government acknowledge mistakes were made. UK chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said recently: \"The lesson is go earlier than you think you want to, go harder than you think you want to, and go a bit broader than you think you want to in terms of applying the restrictions.\"\n\nBy May, restrictions were beginning to be eased. But was this too soon?\n\nThe government seized on the relative lull to focus on building what the prime minister promised would be a \"world-beating\" test-and-trace system. The idea was that new outbreaks could be nipped in the bud, with comprehensive tracking by a centralised team of tracers.\n\nThe mere fact this had to be done some months after the virus had struck, illustrates another factor behind the high number of deaths - the UK was simply not prepared for a pandemic of this nature in the way some Asian nations had been. Countries such as South Korea and Taiwan had established test-and-trace systems in place that were ready to be activated.\n\nThe UK had a chance to bed in its system in the summer but it was riven with teething problems, with tracers struggling to reach many contacts and the testing capacity slowing down as demand rose.\n\nLow levels of infection over the summer had created a false sense of security.\n\nDesperate to boost the economy, the government launched the Eat Out to Help Out scheme, offering people discounted meals out during August. To what extent it contributed to the rise in the autumn is much argued about but certainly some doctors blame it in part for an increase in patients seen.\n\nThe truth is the virus never went away. Testing in the summer showed even at the lowest levels there were still around 500 cases a day being diagnosed - and random testing in the population subsequently showed the true level may have been twice that.\n\nIn late August around 1,000 people a day were testing positive. By mid-September that had trebled and from there it rose five-fold to 15,000 by mid October. The numbers testing positive have never returned below 10,000 a day on average since.\n\nAnother decision that has been heavily criticised was the refusal of ministers to introduce a short two-week lockdown, or \"circuit breaker\", in September - despite their advisers on Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) recommending such a step. The argument was it would have set the spread of the virus back by at least a month, giving test and trace time to regroup.\n\nWales, however, did introduce its own \"fire-breaker\" - a 17-day lockdown in October. It got infection rates down, but as soon as it was lifted they rebounded. This is, of course, why lockdowns have been criticised.\n\nEdinburgh University infectious diseases expert Prof Mark Woolhouse, one of the modellers who feeds data into Sage, is on the record in the autumn questioning the logic of them for this very reason. It remains up for debate how effective a circuit-breaker would actually have been.\n\nThis after all is the time of year when respiratory illnesses start to increase. Schools had returned as had university students, creating new environments for the novel coronavirus to spread.\n\nWhen a lockdown was eventually introduced in England in November it was to last four weeks, with Sage members lamenting the delay. \"The absence of a decision is a decision in itself,\" says Wellcome Trust director Sir Jeremy Farrar.\n\nBut even before that lockdown was lifted cases had started going up in the south-east of England. Within weeks it became clear what was happening. The virus had mutated and a new faster-spreading variant was on the rise.\n\nBy mid-December the clamour for lockdown was growing again, but the plan for a Christmas relaxation of restrictions had already been announced. In every nation of the UK, ministers waited.\n\nAt the start of 2021, with hospital admissions rising rapidly, the UK's four chief medical officers intervened, issuing a joint statement warning the NHS was at \"material risk\" of being overwhelmed. Within hours the UK was back in lockdown.\n\nWhat has struck some is just how similar the mistakes have been in terms of locking down late.\n\n\"It will take years to unpick why Covid has gone so badly in the UK,\" says University College London infectious diseases expert Dr Neil Stone. \"But the failure to learn from wave one stands out.\"\n\nBut it must also be recognised that there are factors outside the control of the government - certainly in terms of its pandemic response - that have contributed to the high number of deaths.\n\nOne of the reasons the virus was able to take a hold and spread so quickly was because of geography and the fact the UK - and London in particular - is a global hub. Genetic analysis has shown the virus was brought into the UK on at least 1,300 separate occasions, mainly from France, Spain and Italy, by the end of March.\n\nIt was here before we knew it. That's not something Australia or New Zealand had to deal with on such a scale.\n\nDensity of population is also a factor. The UK is among the 10 most densely populated big nations - those with populations of more than 20 million. What is more, our cities are more inter-connected than they are in many places.\n\nIt meant the virus was able to seed everywhere quite quickly. Contrast this with Italy which saw the vast majority of cases in the north of the country in the first wave.\n\nThe ageing population also needs to be taken into account. Once you do this, and adjust for the size of the population - known as age-standardised mortality - deaths have risen, but not by as much as some of the headline figures suggest.\n\nThe health of the nation has also been a factor. The UK has one of the highest rates of obesity in the world. And obesity increases the risk of hospitalisation and death, according to Public Health England. One study found the risk of death was almost double for those who are severely obese.\n\nConditions such as diabetes, kidney disease and respiratory problems also increase the risk - a fifth of Covid deaths have listed diabetes on the death certificate.\n\nAgain the UK has relatively high rates of these illnesses.\n\nBut many have argued that these high levels of ill-health have been compounded by the levels of inequality in the UK.\n\nLevels of ill health and life expectancy have always been worst in the poorest areas, but the pandemic certainly seems to have exacerbated this.\n\nOffice for National Statistics data shows mortality rates have been twice as high in deprived areas as they have been in wealthy areas. The Health Foundation is carrying out its own inquiry into the issue, arguing the Covid death toll needs to be seen through the \"lens\" of inequality to fully understand it.\n\nIt is something that has also been raised by Prof Michael Marmot, one of the country's leading experts on health inequalities. \"The UK's dismal record is telling us something important about our society.\"\n\nIf you, or someone you know, have been affected by bereavement, here is a list of organisations that may be able to help.", "A senior judge prevented the BBC from properly reporting a £2.6m legal claim against Scotland's child abuse inquiry, a court has been told.\n\nThe Court of Session heard how Lady Smith, chairwoman of the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry (SCAI), faced an employment tribunal claim in 2019.\n\nLady Smith passed orders which stopped detail of the action being reported.\n\nThe top judge denied any wrongdoing in regard to the claim that was later abandoned.\n\nThe employment tribunal case alleging discrimination, harassment and victimisation was from a former senior member of the inquiry legal team.\n\nBBC Scotland has raised a judicial review of the SCAI restriction orders, arguing they were beyond the powers of Lady Smith and her involvement in the case meant any restriction decision should have been made by the employment tribunal.\n\nBut Roddy Dunlop QC, advocate for the SCAI, told the Court of Session the corporation's case was academic as the original restriction order had been overtaken by another order.\n\nMr Dunlop also argued the BBC had not spelled out to the SCAI what detail it wanted to publish in relation to the tribunal.\n\nKenneth McBrearty QC, acting for the broadcaster, told the court the purpose of the original restriction order was, \"not merely to prohibit disclosure or publication of the documents. It was to prohibit disclosure or publication of the very existence of the proceedings\".\n\nHe said: \"It is in effect what is equivalent to what in England has been described as a super injunction. That is what in effect it amounts to because it prohibits even the disclosure of the proceedings.\n\n\"The importance of this case lies with the way the Restriction Order impinged on the open justice principle. If there was a need for an order restricting the disclosure of any material, that is an order to be sought from the employment judge.\"\n\nThe case before Lord Boyd is being heard at the Court of Session\n\nThe Court of Session heard the employment tribunal claim for £2.6m damages was brought in July, 2019, by the inquiry's former lead junior counsel, John Halley.\n\nA news release, issued by SCAI in October 2019, confirmed existence of the claim and a denial that Lady Smith had discriminated against Mr Halley. An initial hearing took place that month and Mr Halley abandoned the tribunal two months later.\n\nBut Mr McBrearty QC said the SCAI press release did not include the full outline of the claim\n\nHe said: \"All that the media was to be entitled to publish was that which the respondent had considered able to include in a press release in circumstances to which the respondent was herself party in the proceedings.\"\n\nThe BBC is seeking declarators from the Court of Session stating that Lady Smith's restriction orders were unlawful.\n\nRoddy Dunlop QC said the BBC had the option to present to Lady Smith what it wanted to report on in the case, as per the detail of the media restriction order, and then get her permission to publish but failed to do so.\n\nHe said: \"That simple request is all that needed to be done and it wasn't resorted to. That's why the alternative remedy aspect of this is a problem to the BBC.\n\n\"There needs to be a practical effect, the entitlement to publish could have been obtained at any point by asking.\"\n\nMr Dunlop pointed out that the original restriction orders objected to by the BBC have now been replaced by a new order issued in March last year.\n\nHe said: \"What is the point of challenging orders which cease to have any potency.\n\n\"Why is it we continue to expend grey matter, and more importantly public funds on both sides, in fighting on something which is in any view within the terms of the reference [of the SCAI inquiry] and within article ten [of Human Rights legislation].\"\n\nOn Wednesday Mr Dunlop will continue his submissions before Lord Boyd.", "An extra £50m is being directed towards grassroots sport after a \"significant hit\" to activity levels amid the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nFunding agency Sport England - which has already invested £220m since the start of the crisis - announced the additional money as part of a new 10-year strategy.\n\nThousands of clubs, swimming pools, leisure centres and gyms have been forced to shut in recent months.\n\nWith many children having done no sport outside of PE lessons since the start of November, and schools now shut across the county, emphasis will be placed on supporting young people to get active.\n\nEarlier this month, figures showed the majority of young people failed to meet the recommended 60 minutes of daily exercise in the last academic year. Almost a third of children were classed as 'inactive' as a result of the first lockdown, not even doing 30 minutes.\n\nAnother focus in the new 'Uniting the Movement' strategy will be tackling the long-standing inequalities that have existed within the sport sector and reinforced by the recent disruption.\n\nNew data shows the pandemic has disproportionately affected people from lower socio-economic groups and BAME backgrounds, for whom there was already a clear pattern of low activity.\n\n\"This strategy comes at a critical time\" said Tim Hollingsworth, the chief executive of Sport England.\n\n\"We have made significant funding available, but many organisations are struggling, and activity levels have taken a significant hit.\n\n\"At the heart of all this is a ruthless focus on providing opportunities to people and communities that have traditionally been left behind.\"\n\nAndy Reed, Chair of the Sport for Development Coalition, said: \"The impact of the pandemic, growing social challenges and subsequent widening inequalities mean we urgently need a new social contract with sport and physical activity, focused on the wider social outcomes that sport can deliver.\"\n\n\"We must expand understanding, recognition and investment in the contribution that sport can make beyond health and wellbeing, to addressing loneliness and social isolation, improving educational attainment and employability, to community cohesion, and reducing anti-social behaviour and entry into the justice system.\"\n\nA group of more than 50 sports bodies have called for a new government action plan and emergency funding to help them survive the pandemic. The Save Our Sports campaign has warned that the activity sector - which employs nearly 600,000 people in the UK and contributes £16bn to the economy each year - faces an unprecedented crisis.\n\nHuw Edwards, the chief executive of Ukactive, which represents the physical activity industry, said: \"Crucially, before the sector begins its recovery from the impact of Covid-19, it must first survive it.\n\n\"The publication of this strategy needs to be accompanied by a new level of urgency and commitment from the government that it will not leave parts of this sector behind, and provide the necessary financial and regulatory support so desperately needed.\"\n\nBut Sports Minister Nigel Huddleston said it was \"placing sport and physical activity at the heart of its coronavirus recovery plan, and Sport England's new strategy provides a strong base to invest in sports organisations, facilities and people\".\n• None All the goals, highlights and drama from Sunday's fourth-round ties are", "The head of AstraZeneca has defended its rollout of the coronavirus vaccine in the EU, amid tension with member states over delays in supply.\n\nPascal Soriot told Italian newspaper La Repubblica that his team was working \"24/7 to fix the very many issues of production of the vaccine\".\n\nHe said production was \"basically two months behind where we wanted to be\".\n\nHe also said the EU's late decision to sign contracts had given limited time to sort out hiccups with supply.\n\nMr Soriot, chief executive of the UK-Swedish multinational, said a contract with the UK had been signed three months before the one with the EU, giving more time for glitches to be ironed out.\n\nHe told La Repubblica that problems in \"scaling up\" vaccine production were being experienced at two plants, one in the Netherlands and one in Belgium.\n\n\"It's complicated, especially in the early phase where you have to really sort out all sorts of issues,\" he said.\n\n\"We believe we've sorted out those issues, but we are basically two months behind where we wanted to be.\"\n\nHe added: \"We've also had teething issues like this in the UK supply chain. But the UK contract was signed three months before the European vaccine deal. So with the UK we have had an extra three months to fix all the glitches we experienced.\n\nAstraZeneca CEO Pascal Soriot said a vaccine targeting the South African variant was being worked on\n\n\"Would I like to do better? Of course. But, you know, if we deliver in February what we are planning to deliver, it's not a small volume. We are planning to deliver millions of doses to Europe, it is not small.\"\n\nMr Soriot also said AstraZeneca was working on a vaccine with Oxford University that would target the South African variant of the coronavirus.\n\nScientists have warned there is a chance the South African variant may harm the effectiveness of current vaccines.\n\nThe AstraZeneca vaccine is already being used in the UK but has not yet been approved by the EU, although the European Medicines Agency (EMA) is expected to give it the green light at the end of this month.\n\nThe bloc signed a deal in August for 300 million doses, with an option for 100 million more. The EU had hoped that, as soon as approval was given, delivery would start straight away, with some 80 million doses arriving in the 27 nations by March.\n\nThe EU has ordered 600 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, which is already being used on patients around the bloc.\n\nBut Pfizer-BioNTech said last week it was delaying shipments for the next few weeks because of work to increase capacity at its Belgian plant.\n\nIn response to the delays, the EU has said it might restrict exports of vaccines made in the bloc.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sofia Bettiza explains why some countries are far ahead of others in the vaccination race\n\nHealth Commissioner Stella Kyriakides said companies making Covid vaccines in the bloc would have to \"provide early notification whenever they want to export vaccines to third countries\".\n\nShe said the 27-member EU bloc would \"take any action required to protect its citizens\".\n\nEuropean Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, addressing the virtual version of the annual World Economic Forum (WEF), usually held in Davos, said: \"Europe invested billions to help develop the world's first Covid-19 vaccines. And now, the companies must deliver. They must honour their obligations.\"\n\nHave you been affected by vaccine supply issues? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Drone footage captures the extent of the damage the bridge over the River Clwyd\n\nIt could take 18 months to draw up plans to rebuild a bridge which was swept away during last week's Storm Christoph, a council has warned.\n\nLlanerch bridge, between Trefnant and Tremeirchion in Denbighshire, is a backroad link to the A55.\n\nThe grade II-listed bridge crosses the River Clwyd and villagers now face a seven-mile detour.\n\nMeanwhile, some people in Skewen, Neath Port Talbot, can return home later after flooding caused by the storm.\n\nDenbighshire council said diversions would go through St Asaph while Llanerch bridge was repaired.\n\n\"It means it takes much longer now to go from Tremeirchion to Trefnant or St Asaph,\" he said.\n\n\"I know of one couple that have a horse in stables on the other side of the river - so it's a seven-mile journey each way, twice a day, for them now.\n\n\"It's quite a challenge and we're starting to think about how long we'll need to live with it. Are we talking a year, two, three, or maybe much longer than that?\"\n\nVale of Clwyd Conservative MP James Davies said the bridge should be rebuilt: \"There are many who would wish to see the bridge replaced like-for-like, although I appreciate that the new structure will need to take into account the challenges posed by modern-day and projected river flows.\"\n\nDenbighshire council's Meirick Lloyd Davies suggested the structure could be widened, similar to the one in Llangollen.\n\nBut the Trefnant ward councillor added: \"We will need money from the Welsh Government and I hope the UK government are also ready to throw something into the bucket because it is very expensive.\"\n\nA council spokesman said: \"We will seek to resolve this as soon as we are able.\n\n\"Final plans for the bridge will involve a number of third parties and it could take up to 18 months or more to resolve.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government said the condition of the structure was the responsibility of the owner, with local authorities having powers to ensure listed structures were preserved.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Cerys Thomas said her mother's conservatory windows were blown open by the force of the water\n\nSouth Wales was also hit by Storm Christoph on Thursday and in Skewen about 80 people were evacuated as water rushed through the village on Thursday.\n\nThe Coal Authority said initial checks suggested water built up in a mine shaft, causing a \"blow out\" which flooded properties.\n\nThose living in Jubilee Crescent and Dunevor Road have been told they can return home, but others will have to wait until the Coal Authority has made further investigations.\n\nCouncil leader Rob Jones told Breakfast with Claire Summers: \"We haven't got the exact figures of the number of people who will be able to return home today, there's going to be further assessments this morning.\n\n\"As early as we can, we will release the names of the streets of those people who will be able to go back, but it will be conditional. They need to go back in a controlled manner. We've still got Covid around.\"\n\nHe added houses would need to have their electrics checked and information would be provided on how to do this.\n\nOther people have been warned it could take months before they can go home.", "Chelsea have sacked manager Frank Lampard after 18 months in charge, with former Paris St-Germain boss Thomas Tuchel expected to replace him.\n\nLampard, 42, leaves with the club ninth in the Premier League after last week's defeat at Leicester City, having won once in their past five league matches.\n\nHis final game was Sunday's 3-1 FA Cup fourth-round win against Luton.\n\nLampard was appointed on a three-year contract when he replaced Maurizio Sarri at Stamford Bridge in July 2019.\n• None Watch Monday Night Club: Is Tuchel right man for Chelsea?\n• None 'Lampard had seen enough Chelsea managers go to know the score'\n• None Why Tuchel will be a popular appointment in the Chelsea dressing room\n• None Tuchel set to come in after Lampard sacking - reaction\n\nIn a statement released on Monday night, Lampard said he was \"disappointed not to have had the time to take the club forward\" and added that it had been a \"huge privilege and an honour\" to manage the club.\n\n\"When I took on this role I understood the challenges that lay ahead in a difficult time for the football club,\" he continued.\n\n\"I am proud of the achievements that we made, and I am proud of the academy players that have made their step into the first team and performed so well. They are the future of the club.\"\n\nChelsea are hopeful that new manager Tuchel will be on the bench for Wednesday's Premier League game against Wolves at Stamford Bridge.\n\nHe will not be exempt from coronavirus quarantine.\n\nBut if Tuchel tests negative on entry to the United Kingdom and then negative again in order to enter a Premier League club's bubble, he will be granted an exemption by the Football Association for attending matches and training.\n\nHe will still have to serve a quarantine period outside of those environments, which will last five days.\n\nFormer Chelsea midfielder Lampard guided them to fourth place and the FA Cup final in his first season in charge, and a 3-1 win against Leeds in early December put the club top of the Premier League.\n\nHowever, the Blues have suffered five defeats in their past eight league games, as many as they had in their previous 23.\n\nIn a statement, Chelsea said: \"This has been a very difficult decision, and not one that the owner and the board have taken lightly.\n\n\"We are grateful to Frank for what he has achieved in his time as head coach of the club. However, recent results and performances have not met the club's expectations, leaving the club mid-table without any clear path to sustained improvement.\n\n\"There can never be a good time to part ways with a club legend such as Frank, but after lengthy deliberation and consideration it was decided a change is needed now to give the club time to improve performances and results this season.\"\n\nOwner Roman Abramovich said Lampard's status as an \"important icon\" of the club \"remains undiminished\" despite his dismissal.\n\n\"This was a very difficult decision for the club, not least because I have an excellent personal relationship with Frank and I have the utmost respect for him,\" said Abramovich.\n\n\"He is a man of great integrity and has the highest of work ethics. However, under current circumstances we believe it is best to change managers.\"\n\nLampard did not sign a single player during his first season as the club were operating under a transfer embargo, but spent more than £200m on seven major signings last summer, including £45m on Leicester's Ben Chilwell and £71m on midfielder Kai Havertz from Bayer Leverkusen.\n\nIt is the most Chelsea have spent in one summer, eclipsing the £186m they invested at the start of the 2017-18 season.\n\nLampard is Chelsea's all-time record scorer, with 211 goals for the club between 2001 and 2014, and is also joint-seventh on the list of most capped England players, having made 106 appearances for his country over 15 years from 1999.\n\nDuring his 13 seasons as a player at Stamford Bridge, he made 648 appearances and won 11 major trophies - including four Premier League titles and the 2012 Champions League.\n\nHis first managerial job was at Derby. In his one season in charge, they reached the Championship play-off final, where they lost to Aston Villa.\n\nLampard became the 10th full-time manager appointed by Abramovich since the billionaire bought the club in 2003.\n\nAccording to football finance journalist Kieran Maguire, Abramovich had spent £110m on sacking managers before Lampard's dismissal.\n\nHaving finished with 66 points last season after 20 wins and 12 defeats, Chelsea have lost six times in their opening 19 league games this season.\n\nLampard's points-per-game average of 1.67 is the lowest of any permanent Chelsea manager in the Premier League. During the Abramovich era, only Andre Villas-Boas (47.5%) has a worse win rate than Lampard's 52.4%, in all competitions among permanent Chelsea bosses.\n\nIn contrast, Jose Mourinho's win rate in all competitions during his first spell in charge was 67.03%, while Sarri, Antonio Conte, Avram Grant, Carlo Ancelotti and Claudio Ranieri all had win rates over 60%.\n\nAnalysis - lack of confidence among squad key to sacking\n\nLampard was sacked because the club could not see him reversing a slide in form.\n\nAfter qualifying for the Champions League last season and spending more than £200m on players in the summer, the aim this campaign was to close the gap on the leaders, but that has not been achieved.\n\nAlthough links will be made between Tuchel's heritage and the poor form of fellow Germans Kai Havertz and Timo Werner, the change was made because of the lack of confidence among the whole squad.\n\nIt is hoped that Tuchel can rejuvenate a team that is five points outside of the top four, and an announcement could be made within 24 hours.\n\nThe decision to sack Lampard was very difficult for Abramovich, who has never made a statement when changing Chelsea managers previously.\n\nIn the end, Lampard paid for his relative inexperience as a manager, which cannot be said of Tuchel.\n\nBest of reaction to Lampard sacking\n\nManchester City boss Pep Guardiola: \"People talk about projects and ideas. They don't exist. You have to win or you will be replaced. I am not judging Chelsea's decision. I respect their decision. But our world is to win as much as possible.\n\n\"I hope to see Frank soon and go to a restaurant with him when lockdown is finished.\"\n\nTottenham boss Jose Mourinho: \"It is the brutality of football. Anything can happen in football now, every time somebody loses their job it is sad news but he is a big boy, [with] a strong personality and strong mentality.\n\n\"I am pretty sure he will be back when he wants to be back and his career will be good. I hope so.\"\n\nWest Ham boss David Moyes: \"I'm disappointed for Frank as I saw him as one of the most up and coming young English managers in the country.\n\n\"It's a big thing we try to encourage our own British managers into the big leagues, if we can. I'm sure he'll come back and learn from it.\n\n\"He did a great job last year - he did a really good job with so many youngsters coming through the academy. It seemed a little bit harder for him this year. I'm sure he'll take time off, come back and get better.\"\n\nLeicester boss Brendan Rodgers: \"Clearly I'm really sad for Frank and his staff. I know how much the club means to him.\n\n\"Looking at the squad and how young they are, they need time. He hasn't been given that time. I really feel for him. He did great at Derby.\n\n\"He had the courage to step out of an amazing career and could have taken an easier route. It was a job he couldn't turn down, even though he didn't have a lot of experience.\n\n\"Results haven't been what he would have wanted, but I feel it's a job that needed time.\"\n\nCrystal Palace manager Roy Hodgson: \"It saddens me. I thought he did an excellent job last season. I was rather hoping that the idol of the fans and Chelsea legend that he is, he'd get a longer shot than 18 months.\n\n\"Managers who have had short stays at Chelsea have gone on to have good careers elsewhere. When you're sacked for the first time, it is a devastating blow. There's no doubt he has a pedigree to be a very good manager.\"\n\nFormer Chelsea striker Chris Sutton speaking on BBC 5 Live's Monday Night Club: \"It is 52 days since Chelsea were top of the Premier League and 48 days ago that Chelsea had been on an unbeaten run of 17 games.\n\n\"So in the space of 48 days the owner has decided to write Frank Lampard off. How are we ever going to know if Frank Lampard is a good manager? You only every really learn about people and their characteristics and traits when they go through a little bit of adversity and Frank has gone through a little bit of adversity.\n\n\"Frank has basically been sacked for the owner's expectations. I feel sorry for Frank because he is a club legend.\n\n\"They are five points off fourth place, but the bottom line is that the owner wants to win the Premier League and that was always going to be the pressure.\n\n\"Chelsea should have been more loyal. We know the owner's track record - he is ruthless, he is brutal and guillotined Frank.\"\n\nScott G: Been a Chelsea fan since Nevin, Speedie and Dixon and admit I've enjoyed all the success money has brought us over the last 20 years. However, there's a sadness about that decision. Some things money can't buy. #SuperFrank\n\nFil Harris: Isn't the whole point of appointing a younger manager to give him time to build and develop? Craziness from Chelsea to sack Lampard after such a short time.\n\nSimon Kirk: Been a Chelsea fan since 1969 and have never been so annoyed at a sacking of a Chelsea manager. He needed at least another 18 months. Shame on you Abramovich and the Chelsea board for supporting such a decision.\n\nRyan Howard: I find it such a weird sacking - a month or so ago Chelsea were in a nice groove, Zouma and Silva were scoring and keeping clean sheets, now after one bad run he gets sacked. Chelsea could be a world-class club if they just gave a manager proper time to build a team.\n\nPeter Josi: Chelsea are totally right to sack Lampard, he lacked the experience or coaching prowess to lead the side. The next phase should start with an investigation into our transfer policy and how our last two record signings turned out to be flops.\n\nThomas Wilson: Why are people surprised Lampard was sacked? Chelsea have been ruthlessly successful for 15 years. They are not going to suddenly resort to being generously unsuccessful because of a club legend being at the helm.\n• None All the goals, highlights and drama from Sunday's fourth-round ties are", "Janet Yellen has been confirmed as the first ever female US treasury secretary in a Senate vote.\n\nMs Yellen, who headed the US central bank from 2014 to 2018, earlier won bipartisan support from members of the Senate Finance Committee.\n\nShe will be responsible for guiding the Biden administration's economic response to the pandemic.\n\nThe US is struggling to rebound economically from the hit caused by the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nAt her confirmation hearing on 19 January, Ms Yellen urged Congress to approve trillions more in pandemic relief and economic stimulus, saying that lawmakers should \"act big\" without worrying about national debt.\n\nIn response, Republican senators warned the former Federal Reserve head this was not the time for \"a laundry list\" of liberal reforms.\n\nMs Yellen disagreed, highlighting the fact that many families whose incomes have fallen were not reached by jobless programmes. She argued that plans to raise taxes must be seen in the context of financing bigger investments necessary to make the US economy competitive.\n\n\"The focus now is not on tax increases. It is on programmes to help us get through the pandemic,\" she stressed.\n\nJanet Yellen was previously chair of the US Federal Reserve. She was known for focusing more attention on the impact of the central bank's policies on workers and the costs of America's rising inequality.\n\nBefore then-President Barack Obama named her to lead the Fed in 2014, she had served as one of its board members for a decade, including four years as vice-chair.\n\nJanet Yellen speaking at a press conference in 2017 as US Federal Reserve Chair\n\nDonald Trump bucked Washington tradition when he opted not to appoint Ms Yellen to a second four-year term at the Fed.\n\nHowever, her climb to the top of the economics profession had made her a feminist icon in the economics world.\n\nWhen she left the Fed in 2018, many paid tribute to her leadership by imitating her signature look of a blazer with a popped collar.\n\nMs Yellen is seen as someone able to satisfy both progressive and centrist members of Mr Biden's Democratic party. Her nomination to lead the Fed in 2014 won support from some Republicans.\n\nHer focus on employment, rather than inflation, gave her a reputation of favouring low interest rates, which spur economic activity by making it less expensive to borrow money.\n\nBut under her leadership, the Fed raised interest rates for the first time since 2008 - albeit less aggressively than some more conservative commentators supported.\n\nHer stewardship of that process has won praise on Wall Street, even as it remains hotly debated.", "Twitter is asking its users for help in combating fake news.\n\nIt has announced a pilot that allows people to submit notes on tweets that may be false or misleading.\n\nThe initiative, named 'Birdwatch', is being trialled among a small group in the US initially. The firm acknowledged the new system would have to be \"resistant to manipulation attempts\".\n\nCompanies like Twitter are looking at how they can better moderate their platforms.\n\nTwitter said on Monday: \"We know this might be messy and have problems at times, but we believe this is a model worth trying.\"\n\nTwitter, along with other large social media companies, has struggled to deal with disinformation on its platform.\n\nThe pilot will allow users to flag tweets they believe to be \"misleading or false\", provide evidence to the contrary and discuss them with other - on a separate 'Birdwatch' site.\n\nAdditional notes and flags would then be placed on to content.\n\nTwitter says this new approach could help it respond more quickly when misleading information spreads.\n\n\"Eventually we aim to make notes visible directly on Tweets for the global Twitter audience, when there is consensus from a broad and diverse set of contributors,\" Twitter said.\n\nTwitter already adds labels to some misleading news. For example, many of Donald Trump's false claims of voter fraud were labelled by the company.\n\nTwitter also reserves the right to remove tweets - and in extreme circumstances ban users - which it did with the US president after the riots in Washington earlier this month.\n\nTwitter, though, wants to go further: \"We don't want to limit efforts to circumstances where something breaks our rules or receives widespread public attention,\" said Twitter's Vice-President Keith Coleman.\n\nParticipants will have to provide a verified phone number and email to take part, in a bid to keep bots and bad actors away, as well as having no recent rule violations against their Twitter account.\n\nPresident Biden said in his inauguration speech that: \"We must reject a culture where facts are manipulated, or even manufactured.\"\n\nJames Clayton is the BBC's North America technology reporter based in San Francisco. Follow him on Twitter @jamesclayton5.", "Parents and teachers say they are \"frustrated\" schools will be shut until the February half term and fear the impact it will have on children.\n\nSpeaking to Radio Wales' phone-in, one caller said they felt young people were being \"thrown under the bus\".\n\nOthers said they were fed up with \"bitty information\" from the Welsh Government.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said it was the \"best certainty\" he could offer \"in a world which is highly uncertain\".\n\nSo how have parents, pupils and professionals reacted to the announcement that schools may not reopen until 22 February?\n\nDr Dai Samuel welcomed the news as a consultant treating Covid patients - but as a dad he feels some \"trepidation\"\n\nDr Dai Samuel, a consultant at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital in Llantrisant, Rhondda Cynon Taf, is also a father and lives in one of the worst-hit areas in Wales.\n\nHe said he had mixed feelings about the decision as he had \"two hats on\" - one as an NHS doctor treating Covid patients and the other as a dad.\n\n\"The hospitals are full and the ITU units only have beds now because they've expanded that capacity,\" he said.\n\n\"It's a very precarious position and I just hope that this measure now for the next three to six weeks will hopefully allow us to get through this winter, allow the vaccines to take effect and get us out of this mess come the spring and summer.\n\n\"I'm a doctor so, from a medical point of view, yes [the decision is] a massive sigh of relief, but as a father and someone who lives in Merthyr - a town that's been hit already significantly by the virus and the economical impacts of that - I've got some sort of trepidation because I fear that those businesses now that still remain closed will suffer and will go under.\n\n\"What will happen to that generation of children now who might not get the education they deserve and would have had otherwise… who won't achieve what they could have?\"\n\nTrying to home-school four young children and work is a \"challenge\", said Kaarina Rutta Reuter from Sully, Vale of Glamorgan.\n\n\"It's a challenge trying to help all four at the same time and also having in the back of your mind, 'I should also be working and doing other things',\" she said.\n\n\"I was quite sure that this was going to happen. It didn't come as a surprise I have to say, because the situation is just so bad I think there is no other way out of it at the moment. I just wish we had known earlier on and it would have been easier to plan.\"\n\nThe pressures of juggling home-schooling with her career mean she is working at night when the children have gone to bed.\n\n\"I don't even try to work during the day with the children around because I've just realised it's just not possible.\n\n\"My husband is working full-time but I'm only working part-time, I'm teaching at university so I still have quite flexible hours - apart from obviously teaching hours - it just means that I have to work in the evening or over the weekend, just organise yourself differently.\"\n\nShe said it was \"best not to have too high expectations\" when it came to guessing when lockdown would end and schools would reopen.\n\n\"Like we saw in the first lockdown in spring, in the end it was quite a bit longer than we had all thought,\" she said.\n\n\"I would hope they could go back in March, that's my hope for now but I think we'll just have to wait and see what will happen with the numbers over the next few weeks, months and just take it from there really.\"\n\nA father called Ron, from Bridgend, told the phone-in with Dot Davies he was predominantly worried about the effects on children, particularly in the south Wales valleys.\n\n\"I just see children deteriorating on a regular basis. I can only speak about my own - I have a teenage daughter and her mental health, her lack of access to her school, her teachers, to her peers, will cause more harm than the virus will cause children.\n\n\"It feels like we are asking our children to donate their kidneys to the vulnerable. We are throwing them under the bus as far as I'm concerned.\"\n\nAnna, 16, who is studying for her GCSEs at Ysgol Gyfun Gwyr, Swansea, said the decision to keep schools and colleges closed was \"a big disappointment\".\n\n\"The idea of staying in the house until February fills me with dread because we've been in the house for months,\" she told Newyddion.\n\nAfter a case of Covid-19 in her school, she said she had to self-isolate, adding: \"It's been an age since I last saw my friends, went to school, and really learned.\n\n\"It's really hard. We've been back in school since Wednesday and doing everything online but it's nigh-on impossible. It's not the same.\n\n\"It's really hard to learn. There's this feeling of 'why am I even bothering?' - I really want to go back but I appreciate that might not be possible because people are dying. It's not an easy situation.\"\n\nHer mock assessments before her final assessments - which were brought in to replace exams - have been cancelled until the return to school, which she said has taken away some of the pressure.\n\n\"Without practising, there's a lot of uncertainty. What's going to be in the assessment? So, it is nice to hear they've cancelled them. It's a difficult situation so cancelling them takes a bit of the pressure off children and young people my age.\"\n\nMother-of-three Amanda Williams from Bridgend told the Local Democracy Reporting Service she was glad schools would remain closed and hoped it would minimise the spread of the virus.\n\n\"I don't believe schools are safe to open at the moment,\" she said.\n\n\"Until they can classify exactly what the main symptoms are in children I think it's a risk to send children back to school and it's a risk with these new variants.\"\n\nMrs Williams lives in Bridgend county borough, where infection rates are the highest among all Welsh local authority areas. One of her relatives is currently on a ventilator at Bridgend's Princess of Wales Hospital with Covid-19.\n\n\"In the last week I've heard of a lot of people passing away such as friends of friends. It's starting to get closer to home.\"\n\nSarah Curley, a maths teacher and mother of twins, also from Bridgend, said she would \"rather be in school\" but agreed schools remaining shut was the \"safest option\".\n\nShe said: \"In school each day I come into contact with 100-odd pupils and we don't wear PPE.\"\n\nMs Curley said she was glad her school, Coleg Cymunedol Y Dderwen in Bridgend, would not be welcoming students back on Monday, as originally planned, because of the area's high infection rates.\n\n\"My anxiety was through the roof around Christmas. I could see the numbers going up and I was thinking, 'I've got to go back into school next week'.\"", "A year ago, the Chinese government locked down the city of Wuhan. For weeks beforehand officials had maintained that the outbreak was under control - just a few dozen cases linked to a live animal market. But in fact the virus had been spreading throughout the city and around China.\n\nThis is the story of five critical days early in the outbreak.\n\nBy 30 December, several people had been admitted to hospitals in the central city of Wuhan, having fallen ill with high fever and pneumonia. The first known case was a man in his 70s who had fallen ill on 1 December. Many of those were connected to a sprawling live animal market, Huanan Seafood Market, and doctors had begun to suspect this wasn't regular pneumonia.\n\nSamples from infected lungs had been sent to genetic sequencing companies to identify the cause of the disease, and preliminary results had indicated a novel coronavirus similar to Sars. The local health authorities and the country's Center for Disease Control (CDC) had already been notified, but nothing had been said to the public.\n\nAlthough no-one knew it at the time, between 2,300 and 4,000 people were by now likely infected, according to a recent model by MOBS Lab at Northeastern University in Boston. The outbreak was also thought to be doubling in size every few days. Epidemiologists say that at this early part of an outbreak, each day and even each hour is critical.\n\nWuhan’s Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market was sealed off on 1 January 2020\n\nAt around 16:00 on 30 December, the head of the Emergency Department at Wuhan Central Hospital was handed the results of a test carried out by sequencing lab Capital Bio Medicals in Beijing.\n\nShe went into a cold sweat as she read the report, according to an interview given later to Chinese state media.\n\nAt the top were the alarming words: \"SARS CORONAVIRUS\". She circled them in bright red, and passed it on to colleagues over the Chinese messaging site WeChat.\n\nWithin an hour and a half, the grainy image with its large red circle reached a doctor in the hospital's ophthalmology department, Li Wenliang. He shared it with his hundreds-strong university class group, adding the warning, \"Don't circulate the message outside this group. Get your family and loved ones to take precautions.\"\n\nWhen Sars spread through southern China in late 2002 and 2003, Beijing covered up the outbreak, insisting that everything was under control. This allowed the virus to spread around the world. Beijing's response invoked international criticism and - worryingly for a regime deeply concerned about stability - anger and protests within China. Between 2002 and 2004, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars) went on to infect more than 8,000 people and kill almost 800 worldwide.\n\nRobert Maguire of the WHO and a Chinese doctor visit a Sars patient in Guangzhou, China – April 2003\n\nOver the coming hours, screen shots of Li's message spread widely online. Across China, millions of people began talking about Sars online.\n\nIt would turn out that the sequencers made a mistake - this was not Sars, but a new coronavirus very similar to it. But this was a critical moment. News of a possible outbreak had escaped.\n\nThe Wuhan Health Commission was already aware that there was something going on in the city's hospitals. That day, officials from the National Health Commission in Beijing arrived, and lung samples were sent to at least five state labs in Wuhan and Beijing to sequence the virus in parallel.\n\nNow, as messages suggesting the possible return of Sars began flying over Chinese social media, the Wuhan Health Commission sent two orders out to hospitals. It instructed them to report all cases direct to the Health Commission, and told them not to make anything public without authorisation.\n\nWithin 12 minutes, these orders were leaked online.\n\nIt might have taken a couple more days for the online chatter to make the leap from Chinese-speaking social media to the wider world if it wasn't for the efforts of veteran epidemiologist Marjorie Pollack.\n\nThe deputy editor of ProMed-mail, an organisation which sends out alerts on disease outbreaks worldwide, received an email from a contact in Taiwan, asking if she knew anything about the chatter online.\n\nDr Marjorie Pollack is an epidemiologist based in New York\n\nBack in February 2003, ProMed had been the first to break the news of Sars. Now, Pollack had deja vu. \"My reaction was: 'We're in trouble,'\" she told the BBC.\n\nThree hours later, she had finished writing an emergency post, requesting more information on the new outbreak. It was sent out to ProMed's approximately 80,000 subscribers at one minute to midnight.\n\nAs word began to spread, Professor George F Gao, director general of China's Center for Disease Control [CDC], was receiving offers of help from contacts around the world.\n\nChina revamped its infectious disease infrastructure after Sars - and in 2019, Gao had promised that China's vast online surveillance system would be able to prevent another outbreak like it.\n\nBut two scientists who contacted Gao say the CDC head did not seem alarmed.\n\n\"I sent a really long text to George Gao, offering to send a team out and do anything to support them,\" Dr Peter Daszak, the president of New York-based infectious diseases research group EcoHealth Alliance, told the BBC. But he says that all he received in reply was a short message wishing him Happy New Year.\n\nDirector of the Chinese Center for Disease Control, George F Gao – 22 January 2020\n\nEpidemiologist Ian Lipkin of Columbia University in New York was also trying to reach Gao. Just as he was having dinner to ring in the New Year, Gao returned his call. The details Lipkin reveals about their conversation offer new insights into what leading Chinese officials were prepared to say at this critical point.\n\n\"He had identified the virus. It was a new coronavirus. And it was not highly transmissible. This didn't really resonate with me because I'd heard that many, many people had been infected,\" Lipkin told the BBC. \"I don't think he was duplicitous, I think he was just wrong.\"\n\nLipkin says he thinks Gao should have released the sequences they had already obtained. My view is that you get it out. This is too important to hesitate.\"\n\nGao, who refused the BBC's requests for an interview, has told state media that the sequences were released as soon as possible, and that he never said publicly that there was no human-to-human transmission.\n\nThat day, the Wuhan Health Commission issued a press release stating that 27 cases of viral pneumonia had been identified, but that there was no clear evidence of human to human transmission.\n\nIt would be a further 12 days before China shared the genetic sequences with the international community.\n\nThe Chinese government refused multiple interview requests by the BBC. Instead, it gave us detailed statements on China's response, which state that in the fight against Covid-19 China \"has always acted with openness, transparency and responsibility, and … in a timely manner.\"\n\nBBC This World's 54 Days: China and the pandemic can be seen on BBC Two at 21:00 GMT on Tuesday 26 January, or 23:30 on Monday 1 February (except BBC Two Northern Ireland). Or watch on BBC iPlayer.\n\nPart two - 54 Days: America and the Pandemic - will be on BBC Two on Tuesday 2 February at 21:00.\n\nInternational law stipulates that new infectious disease outbreaks of global concern be reported to the World Health Organization within 24 hours. But on 1 January the WHO still had not had official notification of the outbreak. The previous day, officials there had spotted the ProMed post and reports online, so they contacted China's National Health Commission.\n\n\"It was reportable,\" says Professor Lawrence Gostin, Director of the WHO Collaborating Center on national and global health law at Georgetown University in Washington DC, and a member of the International Health Regulations roster of experts. \"The failure to report clearly was a violation of the International Health Regulations.\"\n\nDr Maria Van Kerkhove, a WHO epidemiologist who would become the agency's Covid-19 technical lead, joined the first of many emergency conference calls in the middle of the night on 1 January.\n\n\"We had the assumptions initially that it may be a new coronavirus. For us it wasn't a matter of if human to human transmission was happening, it was what is the extent of it and where is that happening.\"\n\nIt was two days before China responded to the WHO. But what they revealed was vague - that there were now 44 cases of viral pneumonia of unknown cause.\n\nChina says that it communicated regularly and fully with the WHO from 3 January. But recordings of internal WHO meetings obtained by the Associated Press (AP) news agency some of which were shared with PBS Frontline and the BBC, paint a different picture, revealing the frustration that senior WHO officials felt by the following week.\n\n\"'There's been no evidence of human to human transmission' is not good enough. We need to see the data,\" Mike Ryan WHO's health emergencies programme director is heard saying.\n\nThe WHO was legally required to state the information it had been provided by China. Although they suspected human to human transmission, the WHO were not able to confirm this for a further three weeks.\n\n\"Those concerns are not something they ever aired publicly. Instead, they basically deferred to China,\" says AP's Dake Kang. \"Ultimately, the impression that the rest of the world got was just what the Chinese authorities wanted. Which is that everything was under control. Which of course it wasn't.\"\n\nThe number of people infected by the virus was doubling in size every few days, and more and more people were turning up at Wuhan's hospitals.\n\nBut now - instead of allowing doctors to share their concerns publicly - state media began a campaign that effectively silenced them.\n\nOn 2 January, China Central Television ran a story about the doctors who spread the news about an outbreak four days earlier. The doctors, referred to only as \"rumour mongers\" and \"internet users\", were brought in for questioning by the Wuhan Public Security Bureau and 'dealt with' 'in accordance with the law'.\n\nOne of the doctors was Li Wenliang, the eye doctor whose warning had gone viral. He signed a confession. In February, the doctor died of Covid-19.\n\nThe Chinese government says that this is not evidence that it was trying to suppress news of the outbreak, and that doctors like Li were being urged not to spread unconfirmed information.\n\nBut the impact of this public dressing down was critical. For though it was becoming apparent to doctors that there was, in fact, human-to-human transmission, they were prevented from going public.\n\nA health worker from Li's hospital, Wuhan Central, told us that over the next few days \"there were so many people who had a fever. It was out of control. We started to panic. [But] The hospital told us that we were not allowed to speak to anyone.\"\n\nThe Chinese government told us that \"it takes a rigorous scientific process to determine if a new virus can be transmitted from person to person\".\n\nThe authorities would continue to maintain for a further 18 days that there was no human-to-human transmission.\n\nLabs across the country were racing to map the complete genetic sequence of the virus. Among them was a renowned virologist in Shanghai, Professor Zhang Yongzhen who began sequencing on 3 January.\n\nAfter having worked for two days straight, he obtained a complete sequence. His results revealed a virus that was similar to Sars, and therefore likely transmissible.\n\nOn 5 January, Zhang's office wrote to the National Health Commission advising taking precautionary measures in public places.\n\n\"On that very day, he was working to try and get information released as soon as possible, so the rest of the world could see what it was and so we could get diagnostics going\", says Zhang's research partner, Professor Edward Holmes an evolutionary virologist at the University of Sydney.\n\nBut Zhang could not make his findings public. On January 3, the National Health Commission had sent a secret memorandum to labs banning unauthorised scientists from working on the virus and disclosing the information to the public.\n\n\"What the notice effectively did,\" says AP's Dake Kang, \"is it silenced individual scientists and laboratories from revealing information about this virus and potentially allowing word of it to leak out to the outside world and alarm people.\"\n\nNone of the labs went public with the genetic sequence of the virus. China continued to maintain it was viral pneumonia with no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission.\n\nIt would be six days before it announced that the new virus was a coronavirus, and even then, it did not share any genetic sequences to allow other countries to develop tests and begin tracing the spread of the virus.\n\nThree days later, on 11 January, Zhang decided it was time to put his neck on the line. As he boarded a plane between Beijing and Shanghai, he authorised Holmes to release the sequence.\n\nThe decision came at a personal cost - his lab was closed the next day for \"rectification\" - but his action broke the deadlock. The next day state scientists released the sequences they had obtained. The international scientific community swung into action, and a toolkit for a diagnostic test was publicly available by 13 January.\n\nDespite the evidence from scientists and doctors, China would not confirm there was human-to-human transmission until 20 January.\n\nIllustration of spike proteins (red) of Covid-19 binding with receptors (blue) on a target human cell\n\nAt the beginning of any emerging disease outbreak, says health law expert Lawrence Gostin, it's always chaotic. \"It was always going to be very difficult to control this virus, from day one. But by the time we knew [the international community] it was transmissible human to human, I think the cat was already out the bag, it already spread.\n\n\"That was the shot we had, and we lost it.\"\n\nAs Wang Linfa, a bat virologist at Duke-Nus Medical School in Singapore, says: \"January 20th is the dividing line, before that the Chinese could have done much better. After that, the rest of the world should be really on high alert and do much better.\"", "Harriet Tubman was a spy and a nurse for the Union during the US Civil War\n\nThe Biden administration has said it will seek to push forward a plan to make anti-slavery activist Harriet Tubman the face of a new $20 bill.\n\nA note featuring Ms Tubman, who was born a slave in about 1822, was originally due to be unveiled in 2020.\n\nThe US Treasury said she would replace former President Andrew Jackson, a slave owner.\n\nBut the effort was delayed under former President Donald Trump, who branded it \"pure political correctness\".\n\nNow President Joe Biden has revived the project, with White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki telling reporters the Treasury was \"exploring ways to speed up\" the process.\n\nThe move would make Ms Tubman the first African American to appear on a US banknote, and the first woman for more than 100 years.\n\n\"It's important that our notes, our money - if people don't know what a note is - reflect the history and diversity of our country, and Harriet Tubman's image gracing the new $20 note would certainly reflect that,\" Ms Psaki said on Monday.\n\nA mock-up of the new $20 note\n\nThe women last depicted on US notes were former First Lady Martha Washington, on the $1 silver certificate from 1891 to 1896, and Native American Pocahontas, in a group image on the $20 bill from 1865 to 1869.\n\nHowever, given the complexities of redesigning and producing US banknotes, the bill is not expected to be released any time soon.\n\nIn 2019, Mr Trump's Treasury Secretary, Steven Mnuchin, said the redesign would be delayed until at least 2026. At the time, he said he was focused on redesigning bills to address counterfeiting issues, not making changes to their imagery.\n\nMr Trump, an admirer of his populist predecessor Andrew Jackson - whose portrait hung in his office - expressed opposition to the redesign.\n\nWhile campaigning in 2016, Mr Trump suggested that Ms Tubman be put on the $2 bill instead.\n\nBorn into slavery in about 1822, Ms Tubman grew up working in the cotton fields in Dorchester County, Maryland. She was the fourth of nine children born to two enslaved parents, Benjamin Ross and Harriet Rit.\n\nAs a teenager, she was hit in the head by an iron weight thrown by an overseer, leaving her severely injured.\n\nShe escaped from a slave plantation in 1849, fleeing north to the neighbouring state of Pennsylvania.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How Harriet Tubman escaped slavery and then helped others to do so.\n\nIn the years that followed, Ms Tubman returned multiple times to Maryland to rescue others, conducting them along the so-called \"underground railroad\", a network of safe houses used to spirit slaves from the south to the free states in the north.\n\nShe is estimated to have made some 13 missions to rescue more than 70 enslaved people, including family and friends, using the network.\n\nLater, she became a spy for the Union Army during the Civil War, a prominent supporter of the women's suffrage movement, and a famous veteran of the struggle for the abolition of slavery.\n\nAfter the war, Ms Tubman toured eastern cities giving speeches in support of women's suffrage, drawing on her experiences in the fight against slavery.\n\nShe died in 1913, aged 91, surrounded by her family.", "Sunderland-based Hays Travel took over Thomas Cook's stores and staff in 2019\n\nTravel firm Hays Travel is to close 89 of its 535 shops following a review into its take over of Thomas Cook.\n\nThe Sunderland-based firm bought the collapsed company in October 2019 and deferred a review into the performance of its shops until 2021.\n\nA Hays Travel spokeswoman said the third national lockdown and travel ban meant \"the company had to act\".\n\nShe said 388 staff affected by the closures would be offered \"alternative work options\" to minimise redundancies.\n\nChief operating officer Jonathon Woodall said the \"first priority\" was to \"look after our customers\" and ensure \"the highest standards of customer service\".\n\nHe added that the firm was \"continuing with our robust two-year business plan and continue to be ready for the bounce back when it comes\".\n\nDame Irene Hays said business had not bounced back as had been hoped\n\nDame Irene Hays, owner and chair of the Sunderland-based firm, said it was \"always our intention to review the performance of our shops at the end of the licence period\".\n\n\"We had hoped the business would bounce back in January and it has not,\" she said.\n\n\"We have done everything we could to safeguard jobs and the business thus far, and we have come up with a range of options for those at risk of redundancy to help as many colleagues as we can.\"\n\nOptions for staff include working from home or filling vacancies in other shops.\n\nThe spokeswoman said the firm employed about 7,700 people, many of whom were \"working from home taking bookings for holidays for 2021 and beyond\".\n\nThe company has yet to confirm which of its locations will be affected.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "There has been a recent investigation into mother-and-baby homes in the Republic of Ireland\n\nA report into mother-and-baby homes and Magdalene Laundries in Northern Ireland is expected to be published later.\n\nThe Stormont-commissioned research was carried out by Queen's University and Ulster University.\n\nIt examined whether a public inquiry should be held into the homes.\n\nAmnesty has estimated about 7,500 women and girls gave birth in the institutions operated by both Catholic and Protestant churches and other religious organisations.\n\nSome survivors, both unmarried pregnant mothers who were brought to the facilities and children who were later adopted, have long called for a public inquiry.\n\nThe NI Executive is currently meeting to discuss the report and its recommendations.\n\nFirst Minster Arlene Foster tweeted to say she had spoken to survivors of the homes about the report and the next steps.\n\nShe described it as \"a shameful chapter\", adding: \"Now the silence is broken and their stories have rightfully begun to be told\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Arlene Foster #WeWillMeetAgain This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said earlier that Tuesday's research \"breaks the silence\" around what happened.\n\nShe added that \"what happened was so, so wrong\", and that her thoughts were with the survivors \"who deserve answers to their many questions\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe report was commissioned by the Department of Health in 2018 and assessed the period from 1922 to 1999.\n\nIt was completed in February 2020 but was then sent to those facing criticism to give them an opportunity to reply.\n\nSolicitor Claire McKeegan, representing the group Birth Mothers and their Children for Justice NI, said many women were branded as \"fallen\" after becoming pregnant outside marriage and were forced to carry out unpaid labour.\n\nThis \"abuse\", she said, happened on both sides of the Irish border.\n\n\"The state in Northern Ireland not only permitted what happened, but also policed it,\" she added.\n\nAmnesty said there were more than a dozen mother-and-baby home and Magdalene Laundry-type institutions in NI, with the last one closing its doors as recently as 1990.\n\nPatrick Corrigan, NI programme director of Amnesty International, said the report would \"shed new light on the appalling extent and vast scale of the suffering experienced by generations of women and girls in these institutions\".\n\nThe human rights organisation has written to the first and deputy first ministers urging them to meet survivors of mother-and-baby homes.\n\n\"It's time for ministers to listen to the survivors - both the women and girls forced into the homes and the children born there,\" said Mr Corrigan.\n\nThe publication of the report in Northern Ireland comes after a similar investigation into mother-and-baby homes and laundries in the Republic of Ireland, which prompted an apology from Taoiseach (Irish prime minister) Mícheál Martin.\n\nThis report found an \"appalling level of infant mortality\".\n\nAbout 9,000 children died in the 18 institutions which were investigated.\n\nMr Martin said there had been \"profound and generational wrong\", adding it was a \"dark, difficult and shameful chapter\" of Irish history.\n\nFollowing the report's publication, NI's first and deputy first ministers Arlene Foster and Michelle O'Neill met the Irish Children's Minister Roderic O'Gorman.\n\nBoth Mrs Foster and Ms O'Neill said there was a need for the executive and the Irish government to work together in sharing information and to support survivors.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Time out of school has affected some children who have not established their language skills\n\nParents in English-speaking homes whose children go to Welsh-language schools need more support during lockdown, the Welsh language commissioner has said.\n\nSome parents said time away from face-to-face schooling was affecting younger children who have not fully established their language skills.\n\nOne mother said \"not only do you not know how to help them, you don't know what the question is to start with\".\n\nThe Welsh Government said it had given guidance to Welsh-medium schools.\n\nThere are 65,000 children in Welsh-medium or bilingual primary schools across Wales.\n\nCardiff council estimated more than 70% of children in Welsh-medium education in the city did not speak Welsh at home.\n\nWelsh language commissioner Aled Roberts said any parents concerned about remote learning in should let the school and teachers know in the first instance.\n\nHowever, he said it should be ensured there were \"as many resources as possible to support them\" at a national level and these policies should \"recognise the huge investment that these people are making [into] Welsh-medium education\".\n\nAngela Crabtree said her nine-year-old daughter Ffion had to help her younger sisters\n\nAngela Crabtree, from Caerphilly, said her daughters were partly reliant on her eldest child Ffion to translate Welsh schoolwork.\n\nMs Crabtree, who is on furlough, said keeping up Welsh-language skills had been a challenge for her three daughters, Ffion, Natalie and Chloe, who go to Ysgol Gynradd Gymraeg Caerffili.\n\n\"It's hard if they ask you a question, not only do you not know how to help them, you don't know what the question is to start with,\" she said.\n\nNatalie and Chloe are partly reliant on their older sister Ffion to translate Welsh work during lockdown\n\n\"The school has been really good in sending things back bilingually, but I've still got the challenge of trying to make sure that the girls look at the Welsh first.\n\n\"Off the back of the first lockdown I think what suffered most was their Welsh language, especially the middle child, going from the infants to the juniors - her Welsh comprehension fell behind a bit.\"\n\nLisa Jane Thomas, from Cardiff, said she was concerned her youngest child, who attends a Welsh-medium school, was going to be disadvantaged.\n\n\"These are really critical stages and to have so much timeout, it does worry me that may be putting her back [and] is going to make it more difficult for her longer term,\" she said.\n\nMs Thomas said she felt there \"ought to be more recognition\" and more could be offered to help parents and children.\n\nYsgol Gynradd Gymraeg Caerffili headteacher Lynn Griffiths said parents make a \"conscious decision\" to send children to Welsh-medium schools\n\nHead teacher of Ysgol Gynradd Gymraeg Caerffili, Lynn Griffiths, said of almost 440 pupils at the school, three families spoke to him about issues with Welsh-language learning.\n\nMr Griffiths said it was \"a rarity\" after one family that chose not to send their child back to the school this year, while the two other \"listened to what support we can provide them to enable them to do the best for their children\".\n\n\"But also let's not forget our parents have made a conscious decision to send their children to a Welsh medium school because they want their children to be fully bilingual and the advantages that will give them,\" he said.\n\nCampaign group Parents for Welsh medium education said it was launching new website end of this month to help parents by collating Welsh language resources in one place, due to the extra pressure of lockdown home-schooling.\n\nElin Maher, who is a part of the group, said: \"Obviously, we do acknowledge that acquiring language is done best in the classroom, with the teacher at the front and to be surrounded by the language - we want to reassure parents that the language will be there.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government, which has a target of one million people speaking Welsh by 2050, said it appreciated the challenges all parents faced with learning at home.\n\nA spokesman said: \"We have provided guidance to schools to help them during the pandemic, which includes dedicated support for Welsh-medium learners whose families don't speak Welsh.\n\n\"This includes advice for parents and carers on how they can support their children to use the Welsh language while at home.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Maaike Neuféglise said she found blood on the floor of her shop alongside upturned stands and damaged equipment\n\nThe Dutch government says it will not lift a curfew, after a third night of violent protests against increased Covid curbs across the Netherlands.\n\nShops in Rotterdam and other cities were looted and Finance Minister Wopke Hoekstra said: \"It's scum doing this\". More than 180 arrests have been made.\n\nThe Dutch chief of police said the riots no longer had \"anything to do with the basic right to demonstrate\".\n\nThe criminal violence had to stop, said Prime Minister Mark Rutte.\n\nShop-owners in Rotterdam, Den Bosch and other cities spent Tuesday morning cleaning up the debris from Monday night's violence.\n\nRotterdam Mayor Ahmed Aboutaleb sent a passionate message to \"shameless thieves\" who had caused the damage: \"Does it make you feel good that you've helped ruin your city? To wake up with a bag full of stolen stuff beside you?\"\n\nA night-time curfew from 21:00 (20:00 GMT) to 04:30 was imposed last Saturday to halt the spread of the virus. Anyone caught violating it faces a €95 (£84) fine. Mr Hoekstra said they would not \"capitulate to a few idiots\" and anyone who caused damage should be tracked down and be made to pay for it.\n\nSome of the worst damage was caused in the southern city of Den Bosch\n\nThe Netherlands has had nearly a million confirmed Covid cases since the start of the outbreak, with more than 13,500 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University in the US, which is tracking the pandemic.\n\nRiot police clashed with protesters in Rotterdam and Amsterdam, as well as Amersfoort, Den Bosch, Alphen and Helmond.\n\nSome of the worst disturbances were in the south of Rotterdam where police said 10 officers were hurt. Most of the rioters were youths or young men, and Amsterdam's mayor appealed to parents to keep young people indoors.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dutch police have described it as the worst unrest in four decades\n\nFires were lit on the streets of The Hague, where police on bicycles attempted to move small clusters of men who threw stones and fireworks.\n\nIn Den Bosch in the south, rioters set off fireworks, broke windows, looted a supermarket and overturned cars. A local woman told Dutch radio that masked youths had left a trail of destruction in the city centre. \"I saw windows smashed and fireworks going off. Really crazy, just like a war zone,\" she said.\n\nSeveral cities have vowed to introduce emergency measures in an effort to prevent more disturbances\n\nRoads into Den Bosch were closed to stop people joining the rioters and Mayor Jack Mikkers imposed an emergency order banning gatherings on Tuesday.\n\nThe region's chief prosecutor, Heleen Rutgers, urged parents to ensure teenagers stayed at home. \"Start talking about how to respond to calls on social media to go and turn up somewhere,\" she told public broadcaster NOS.\n\nIn some southern cities, such as Maastricht and Breda, football fans marched through the centres promising to protect them from rioters. Ex-football international Robin van Persie appealed to people in Rotterdam to keep \"our beautiful city\" intact.\n\nThe ignition of discontent has rocked the core of Dutch society.\n\nIn the absence of any legitimate way to socialise, is this simply an outlet for young men to feel part of something, their masks concealing their identities and enabling them to violently channel their frustrations?\n\nThere are more sinister influences at play. Messages on social media, overt and covert, have whipped up anger. Misinformation has even been spread by some politicians.\n\nSome of the worst violence was in Rotterdam\n\nSome feared a curfew would be a tipping point, as Dutch restrictions tighten while some neighbouring countries relax their rules. The vast majority of people in the Netherlands are peacefully observing the curfew.\n\nThe unrest was initially seen as a response to the first \"stay-at-home\" order imposed since Nazi occupation during World War Two. That notion has been dismissed by Prime Minister Mark Rutte, who said the rioters were simply criminals and would be treated as such.\n\nBut there are simmering anxieties in Dutch towns and cities, and with less than two months before a general election, voters are vulnerable and the streets volatile.\n\nThere has been widespread shock at the violence. In Rotterdam, where police used water cannon against the rioters, the mayor signed an emergency decree, giving police broader powers of arrest.\n\nThe prime minister said the police had the government's full support: \"The riots have nothing to do with protesting or fighting for freedom.\"\n\nRotterdam shop-owner Emrah Köker said he had no words for what he had seen. \"How can this happen in the Netherlands?\" he asked Dutch daily newspaper Algemeen Dagblad. The justice minister said he challenged anyone to explain what looting a shop had to do with coronavirus.\n\nIn Den Bosch, Maaike Neuféglise said the damage to her shop was heartbreaking and ran into thousands of euros. \"Everything's ruined. I saw the videos, it was a complete invasion. There must have been 40 people in our store,\" she told broadcaster Omroep Brabant.\n\nThe city's mayor said police had struggled to respond to the violence because they were needed in other nearby towns.", "Claudia Marsh was a volunteer for an eating disorder charity which had helped her in the past\n\nAn \"incredible\" recently-qualified teacher has died with coronavirus on her 25th birthday.\n\nClaudia Marsh's death was described as \"sudden and unexpected\" by a charity which had helped her recover from an eating disorder several years ago.\n\nShe had gone on to volunteer for the organisation and became a \"beacon of hope\" for others.\n\nHer mother Tina Marsh, from Heswall in Wirral, said she was \"very proud\" and \"blown away\" by the many tributes.\n\nWriting on Facebook, Ms Marsh said she was a \"beautiful daughter and incredible sister\" who was selfless in her work for Merseyside-based charities Talking Eating Disorders (TEDS) and The Whitechapel Centre.\n\nShe said: \"She loved giving back to people less fortunate than herself.\"\n\nFamily friend Leigh Best, who founded TEDS, described the death as \"heartbreaking\".\n\nShe added: \"Claudia was very special, kind, caring and a dedicated teacher.\n\n\"She supported countless families across the UK. Claudia made her own little packs to give out to others with eating disorders with positive affirmations.\n\n\"She was full of positivity, kindness and hope, and had a smile that would brighten up the whole room.\"\n\nIn a statement, the Whitechapel Centre, where Claudia also volunteered, said staff were \"devastated\", adding she would leave behind a \"legacy of care, dedication and enthusiasm\".\n\nThe charity said she put all of her time and energy into providing food and clothing to those who needed it during the pandemic.\n\n\"Claudia always put others before herself and her memory will live on through the impact and contribution she made to our organisation,\" the centre said.\n\n\"She was instrumental in bringing together our volunteer community.\"\n\nMs Marsh has set up an online fundraising page for the two charities, which has already garnered more than £10,000.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "It wasn't normal when the prime minister stood at the lectern in Downing Street's wood-panelled State Dining Room and announced that four people had died from coronavirus on 9 March last year.\n\nIt wasn't normal, that day, when he announced the obscure-sounding virus was a global pandemic that, in the 21st Century, the UK government would struggle to contain.\n\nIt was unprecedented, in peacetime, when, on 23 March, Boris Johnson instructed the country to stay at home.\n\nIt was shocking when, on 28 March, official figures reported more than 1,000 cases in a single day.\n\nA few weeks later, there were sharp intakes of breath when the UK government's chief scientific adviser told MPs, and all of us, that keeping the numbers of deaths down to around 20,000 would be a \"good outcome\".\n\nIt wasn't normal when the Treasury started paying the wages of millions of people to prevent hardship on a vast scale.\n\nIt wasn't normal when planes stayed on the ground, roads and trains emptied.\n\nIt certainly wasn't normal when classrooms fell largely silent, or when the nooks and crannies of Westminster, usually full of intrigue, emptied.\n\nBut in that new strangeness it became normal, week after week, for millions of us to stand in the street, on balconies or on doorsteps to express thanks to those who care for us.\n\nAnd there is now an emerging routine of the most vulnerable rolling up their sleeves, sometimes in front of the cameras, for vaccines that offer at least part of the route to the future.\n\nYet the daily publication of the numbers of people who have died because of Covid has become an all-too-familiar rhythm.\n\nIn the middle of the afternoon, every day, the latest total emerges. A previously unimaginable communication has become a regular part of the country's conversation.\n\nBut today that number has reached a terrible height. Every one of those 100,000 lives lost leaves its own story, and sorrow, behind.\n\nThis miserable landmark is a moment to remember, maybe, that what has happened in the last year, to our politics, to us all is not normal at all.", "Pictures of the funeral have led to criticism from unionists\n\nPolice have begun an investigation into potential breaches of Covid-19 regulations at the funeral of an IRA man in Londonderry.\n\nEamon McCourt, 62, who reportedly died with Covid-19, was buried on Monday.\n\nUnder current Covid-19 restrictions funerals in Northern Ireland are limited to 25 people.\n\nThe police said a \"significant number of people\" had gathered, in a manner \"likely to be in breach\" of the coronavirus regulations.\n\nPSNI Ch Supt Darrin Jones said anyone found in breach of public health regulations would be reported to the Public Prosecution Service.\n\nHe said police had \"engaged with representatives of the family of the deceased, the local church and local political representatives\", prior to the funeral.\n\n\"As a result, police were given a number of assurances as to the conduct of the funeral, and that people would seek to pay their respects to the deceased from outside their homes rather than gather at the funeral.\"\n\nPictures of the leading republican's funeral show men in white shirts and black ties flanking the cortege and dozens of others behind them.\n\nCh Supt Jones added: \"Regrettably at the funeral on Monday morning, a significant number of people gathered as part of the cortège, in a manner likely to be in breach of the health protection regulations.\"\n\nUnionist politicians had called on the police to act after images circulated online of mourners.\n\nDUP MLA Gary Middleton said those who had abided by Covid-19 restrictions would view the scenes from the funeral \"with dismay\".\n\nHe said it was \"hard to put into words the sheer recklessness of those involved\".\n\n\"Within republicanism it seems that certain individuals are viewed as being more important than public health regulations,\" Mr Middleton said.\n\n\"In those minds the reality of Covid-19 has not been brought home, or at the very least it is viewed as less important than having a public display at a funeral.\n\n\"Such sights are most painful for relatives who have recognised the need for such painful restrictions to be put in place and have abided by them.\"\n\n\"Eamon 'Peggy' McCourt who passed away on Saturday morning was buried from his family home in Creggan, a right accredited to us all.\n\n\"However, it was evident that social-distancing measures and permitted mourner numbers were completely ignored by those in attendance.\n\n\"Again, the majority of people in Northern Ireland who have followed lockdown measures since March 2020 are asking themselves why can republicans do whatever they like?\"\n\nHe called on the police to explain why such \"a large funeral procession was permitted to take place and what actions will follow\".\n\nIn a statement, Sinn Féin said: \"Everyone has a responsibility to follow the public health guidelines.\n\n\"Sinn Féin held its own tribute to his memory online.\"\n\nIn June last year, about 1,800 people attended the funeral of leading IRA member Bobby Storey in west Belfast.\n\nAmong them was Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill, the Sinn Féin vice-president, who later admitted the public health message had been undermined.\n\nIn May, Assistant Chief Constable Alan Todd said there had been social-distancing breaches at funerals in Northern Ireland in both the unionist and nationalist communities.\n\nThis story was amended on 27 January 2021 to remove the phrase 'IRA veteran'. Whilst referring to Mr McCourt's long history in republicanism, we accept the phrase was open to misinterpretation.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe mother of a 15-year-old boy attacked by a group of youths said she heard the gunshots that killed him.\n\nKeon Lincoln was \"set upon\" at about 15:30 GMT on Thursday on Linwood Road in Handsworth, Birmingham, and died later in hospital, police said.\n\nIn an emotional appeal, Sharmaine Lincoln pleaded with the local community to \"help us understand why this has happened\".\n\nFive teenage boys have so far been arrested over his death.\n\nA post-mortem examination revealed Keon was shot and stabbed to death.\n\nKeon Lincoln's mother said not a day would go by when she would not hear her son's \"unbelievable\" laugh\n\nRemembering that afternoon, Ms Lincoln said: \"I heard the gunshots and my first instinct was, 'Where's my son?'\n\n\"A few minutes went by, we heard somebody was in the road and it was my boy.\"\n\nWest Midlands Police arrested three teenagers over the weekend on suspicion of Keon's murder - a 14-year-old boy from Birmingham and two others, aged 15 and 16, at an address in Walsall.\n\nThis is in addition to two 14-year-old boys arrested on Friday, one of whom remains in custody and the other released under investigation.\n\n\"The community needs to step up and put themselves in the shoes of the family,\" police say\n\nDet Ch Insp Alastair Orencas, from West Midlands Police, said the attack on Keon was \"the most pointless use of extreme violence I've witnessed in my 24 years in the police force\".\n\n\"The level of violence has not just caused shock to the family, but to hardened police officers,\" he said. \"It was an absolutely pointless attack, one I can't clear my mind of.\"\n\nThe force is appealing for information and Det Ch Insp Orencas said the community response was \"not where it should be\".\n\n\"These are multiple offenders in broad daylight. I simply don't believe there's not information out there that can help me with the inquiry,\" he said.\n\nKeon Lincoln was attacked on Linwood Road, a residential street in the Handsworth area of Birmingham\n\nMs Lincoln remembered her son as a joker, cheeky - a \"loving child with a jolly spirit\" whose \"unbelievable laugh\" would echo daily around her home.\n\n\"It doesn't make sense, the type of person Keon was, it doesn't make sense as to why someone would want to harm him or take his life in such a brutal way,\" she said.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "People were vaccinated at Cwmbran Stadium on Tuesday\n\nA pledge that 70% of the over-80s would get the Covid-19 vaccine by last weekend was missed, the Welsh Government has admitted.\n\nWeather has been blamed for the problem with figures showing 96,830, or 52.8%, had their first dose.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said many over-80s felt unsafe attending appointments amid the snow and ice.\n\nThe pledge had been made by Health Minister Vaughan Gething in the Senedd, last week.\n\nBut earlier, Mr Gething said that as well as missed appointments, five mass vaccination centres were affected by the conditions and \"a range of additional GP clinics didn't go ahead\".\n\nLatest data shows almost 97,000 of the most vulnerable have had a dose - but there is a lag and it can take up to five days for doses injected to be included in the figures. At least 289,566 people have had a first dose - 9.2% of the population.\n\nThat compares to 10.6% in England, 8.6% in Northern Ireland and 8% in Scotland.\n\nMr Drakeford told First Minister's Questions earlier: \"We will not reach the 70% for over-80s because of the interruption to the programme of vaccination that happened on Sunday and on Monday morning.\n\nA pledge 70% of over-80s would be inoculated by last weekend was missed\n\n\"I won't have people over-80 feeling pressurised to come out to be vaccinated when they themselves decide that it is not safe for them to do so.\"\n\nHe said all of those people would have been offered a further opportunity to be vaccinated by the end of Wednesday.\n\nHowever, Mr Drakeford said Wales was on track to meet plans to offer everybody in the top four priority groups (those aged 70 or over) a vaccination by mid-February.\n\nAround 23,700 first doses a day would need to be given for the first four priority groups to be have a vaccine offered by 14 February.\n\nOn the latest seven day rolling average, it would take 25 days.\n\nBut Mr Davies said: \"Welsh Conservatives would have been the first to congratulate the Welsh Government and its health minister had the target been reached on Friday, but that target has been missed.\n\n\"It's the same old Labour story of taking credit when things go well but look to blame anyone and everything else when it goes wrong.\"\n\nIn the Senedd, he accused the government of running a \"postcode lottery\" for vaccinations, which Mr Drakeford denied.\n\nThe first minister said figures had gone from 162,000 people being vaccinated last week to 230,000 this Tuesday.\n\nHe said that was \"the fastest rate of increase in any part of the United Kingdom\", and accused Mr Davies of wanting to \"run it down\".\n\n\"He leads a Conservative party in Wales, which has reverted to its 19th Century type - for Wales, see England.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru's Rhun ap Iorwerth said he did not think \"blaming snow over the weekend holds water\".\n\n\"Snow did cause problems in certain areas but the problem was that you were still on 24% of over-80s in the middle of last week. There was too high a mountain to climb,\" he added.\n\nBut Mr Gething said the weather was an \"obvious factor\" on both Sunday and Monday.\n\nIn a statement, he said more than 11,000 care home residents - 67% of the priority group - had received their first vaccine dose.\n\nOver 65% of Welsh Ambulance Service staff had also taken up the offer of a vaccine.\n\n\"We have seen a significant escalation in the pace of vaccine deployment here in Wales over the last couple of weeks,\" he told Members of the Senedd (MSs).", "Leaders in the US House of Representatives have officially delivered their article of impeachment against former President Donald Trump to the Senate, the first step in beginning his trial.\n\nRead more: Trump impeachment trial delayed until next month", "Anyone entering Australia has to undergo a mandatory 14-day hotel quarantine\n\nAustralia is unlikely to fully open its borders in 2021 even if most of its population gets vaccinated this year as planned, says a senior health official.\n\nThe comments dampen hopes raised by airlines that travel to and from the country could resume as early as July.\n\nDepartment of Health Secretary Brendan Murphy made the prediction after being asked about the coronavirus' escalation in other nations.\n\nDr Murphy spearheaded Australia's early action to close its borders last March.\n\n\"I think that we'll go most of this year with still substantial border restrictions,\" he told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation on Monday.\n\n\"Even if we have a lot of the population vaccinated, we don't know whether that will prevent transmission of the virus,\" he said, adding that he believed quarantine requirements for travellers would continue \"for some time\".\n\nCitizens, permanent residents and those with exemptions are allowed to enter Australia if they complete a 14-day hotel quarantine at their own expense.\n\nDr Brendan Murphy (left) was Australia's chief medical officer and now leads the Department of Health\n\nQantas - Australia's national carrier - reopened bookings earlier this month, after saying it expected international travel to \"begin to restart from July 2021.\"\n\nHowever, it added this depended on the Australian government's deciding to reopen borders.\n\nThe country opened a travel bubble with neighbouring New Zealand late last year, but currently it only operates one-way with inbound flights to Australia.\n\nAustralia has also discussed the option of travel bubbles with other low-risk places such as Taiwan, Japan and Singapore.\n\nA passenger from New Zealand arriving at Sydney Airport last October\n\nA vaccination scheme is due to begin in Australia in late February. Local authorities have resisted calls to speed up the process, giving more time for regulatory approvals.\n\nAustralia has so far reported 909 deaths and about 22,000 cases, far fewer than many nations. It reported zero locally transmitted infections on Monday.\n\nExperts have attributed much of Australia's success to its swift border lockdown - which affected travellers from China as early as February - and a hotel quarantine system for people entering the country.\n\nLocal outbreaks have been caused by hotel quarantine breaches, including a second wave in Melbourne. The city's residents endured a stringent four-month lockdown last year to successfully suppress the virus.\n\nOther outbreaks - including one in Sydney which has infected about 200 people - prompted internal border closures between states, and other restrictions around Christmas time.\n\nThe state of Victoria said on Monday it would again allow entry to Sydney residents outside of designated \"hotspots\", following a decline in cases.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Travel abroad UK: How to fly during a global pandemic\n\nWhile the measures have been praised, many have also criticised them for separating families across state borders and damaging businesses.\n\nDr Murphy said overall Australia's virus response had been \"pretty good\" but he believed the nation could have introduced face masks earlier and improved its protections in aged care homes.\n\nIn recent days, Australia has granted entry to about 1,200 tennis players, staff and officials for the Australian Open. The contingent - which has recorded at least nine infections - is under quarantine.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ms Davies-Jones wanted to highlight how \"vitally important\" smear tests are\"\n\nAn MP has described how she had to have most of her cervix removed after putting off a smear test for several months.\n\nPontypridd MP Alex Davies-Jones, 31, said she was invited for her first routine screening in December 2015 and \"like so many others, I put it off\".\n\nFollowing a reminder in April 2016 she went for the cervical screening.\n\nShe wrote in the i newspaper it led to her being diagnosed with CIN3, abnormal cells and had to have surgery.\n\nIf left untreated, CIN3 can have a high chance of becoming cancerous.\n\nMs Davies-Jones wrote in the paper she was left \"without the majority of my cervix\" after the surgery.\n\nShe said she used her article to urge others \"don't delay in booking\" and said she felt compelled to write about her experiences for Cervical Cancer Prevention Week.\n\nA cervical screening checks the health of your cervix.\n\nA small sample of cells is taken from the cervix and checked for certain types of human papillomavirus (HPV) that can cause changes to the cells.\n\nIf present the sample is then checked for any changes in the cells which can be treated before they get a chance to turn into cervical cancer.\n\nThe NHS advises women between the ages of 25 to 49 to have a smear test every three years.\n\nAlex Davies-Jones became the Labour MP for Pontypridd in the 2019 General Election\n\nShe wrote: \"I used all of the usual excuses that you may have heard before.\n\n\"I was simply too busy, I couldn't get an appointment and I had no symptoms or abnormalities that were worrying me.\"\n\nMs Davies-Jones wrote she thought the routine screening would \"just be five minutes of awkward conversation with the nurse at my local GP whilst taking my knickers off\".\n\n\"I didn't ever think that there could be a chance that my cells would be 'abnormal' and that the next few months of my life would leave me terrified and constantly contemplating my own mortality.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chloe Delevingne had a smear test live on the Victoria Derbyshire programme to show what the procedure involved\n\nIf she had put off the screening any longer \"the situation could have been different\", the MP wrote.\n\nShe said she first received a type of laser treatment to \"burn off the abnormal cells from my cervix\" but more treatment was needed after the doctor told her the abnormal cells on her cervix were \"embedded deeper and looked more challenging than expected\".\n\nThen she had to have surgery, a \"cold knife biopsy\".\n\n\"I was without the majority of my cervix, but my life was saved. It was over,\" she wrote.\n\n\"Sadly, for many this isn't the case. For the next few years, I attended screenings every six months to ensure the abnormal cells didn't return.\n\n\"My last screening was in April 2018. Thankfully again all was fine but the anxiety and fear that surrounded me as I awaited those results has stayed with me even now.\"\n\nShe went on to give birth to her son Sullivan in March 2019.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "In 2009, Spector was convicted of the 2003 murder of Hollywood actress Lana Clarkson\n\nThe BBC has apologised for the original headline in its reporting of the death of the convicted murderer Phil Spector.\n\nThe former music producer died on Saturday at the age of 81, while serving a prison sentence for the murder of Lana Clarkson in 2003.\n\nThe first version on the breaking news story on the BBC News website carried the headline: \"Talented but flawed producer Phil Spector dies aged 81\".\n\nThe BBC said the headline \"did not meet our editorial standards\".\n\nThe text was quickly changed to: \"Pop producer jailed for murder dies at 81.\"\n\n\"This was changed within minutes and we also deleted a tweet that had gone out automatically with the original headline,\" a statement issued by the BBC read.\n\n\"We apologise for this error.\"\n\n\"Our coverage of the story across BBC News has been clear that Phil Spector was convicted of the murder of Lana Clarkson and had a long history of violence and abuse,\" it continued.\n\nSpector was convicted of murdering Clarkson, an actress, in 2009.\n\nHis death was confirmed by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.\n\nReacting to the original version of the BBC's story, pop star Lily Allen tweeted: \"Rolling eyes at all the journos deliberately downplaying Phil Spector being a murderer in their headlines, so everyone points this out while linking to their articles resulting in lots of clicks.\"\n\n\"How about 'Murderer, Phil Spector dies aged 81'?\" offered author and historian Hallie Rubenhold.\n\nThe headline was also discussed on TV and radio programmes on Monday, including Loose Women and Radio 4's Woman's Hour, and prompted an article in the Guardian.\n\nThe phrasing of the BBC's article - and others like it - were \"a reflection of how a man's 'genius' is often viewed as more important than a woman's humanity,\" said columnist Arwa Mahdawi.\n\nSpector, who transformed pop with his \"wall of sound\" recordings, worked with The Beatles, The Righteous Brothers and Tina Turner.\n\nBut after the commercial failure of Tina Turner's River Deep, Mountain High, he largely withdrew from public life, and entered a long decline, marked by erratic behaviour, heavy drinking, and a fondness for guns.\n\nHis turbulent marriage to Ronettes singer Veronica Bennett, known as Ronnie Spector, ended in divorce.\n\n\"Unfortunately Phil was not able to live and function outside of the recording studio,\" she wrote after his death was announced. \"Darkness set in, many lives were damaged.\"\n\nSinger Darlene Love, who sang on several songs Spector produced, said he \"changed the sound of rock 'n' roll\" but likened their relationship to \"a bad marriage\".\n\n\"The problem I have with Phil is that he wanted to control Darlene Love's talent,\" she told Variety. \"If he couldn't do that, he was going to do everything in his power to keep my talent from shining.\"\n\nWeeks before Lana Clarkson was shot dead, Spector gave a rare interview to British broadsheet The Telegraph.\n\n\"I would say I'm probably relatively insane, to an extent,\" he told the paper, adding that he had \"devils inside that fight me\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'I was spat at working as an ambulance paramedic'\n\nAfter experiencing its most difficult period of the entire Covid-19 pandemic in December, the boss of Welsh Ambulance Service said it was still under \"extreme pressure\".\n\nAt one stage, 400 staff - 12% of all workers - were sick or self-isolating.\n\nJason Killens said this was exacerbated by high call numbers and \"significant delays\" handing patients to hospitals.\n\nOne paramedic described questioning whether he was in the right job after being spat at during the pandemic.\n\nThe chief executive said it meant \"patients with less serious conditions waited much longer than we would like\".\n\nParamedic Stan Baxter was assaulted by someone who spat at him\n\nParamedic Stan Baxter, describing the pressure he and colleagues were under, said at one point an incident caused him to question whether he wanted to continue working.\n\n\"During the peak of the pandemic last year, I was assaulted by a member of the public where I was spat at in the face,\" he said.\n\n\"And that's really the only time that I've stopped and gone: 'Is this for me?'\"\n\nHowever the \"vast majority of the public\" had been \"absolutely fantastic\", he stressed, adding: \"We've had people waving at us, buying us coffee.\"\n\nLuke Robinson and Stan Baxter must wear more protective equipment when they help patients\n\nFor his work partner, Luke Robinson, their job made it clear how coronavirus had made a resurgence across the country.\n\n\"I worked New Year's Eve and I responded to a number of incidents which involved just regular health complaints,\" he said.\n\n\"But next door or in the adjacent building there's people having parties and you can tell that there's large gatherings going on. And it's really frustrating because it really hammers home that some people aren't listening to the rules.\n\n\"And it's not surprising that we're seeing a second wave now.\"\n\nMr Killens said the pressure was now \"palpably less\" compared to last month, but admitted difficult weeks lie ahead.\n\n\"December was probably the most pressurised period during the whole pandemic for a number of reasons,\" he said.\n\n\"Staff that were symptomatic or isolating, that's been at its peak in December.\n\n\"We've seen more work both in the 111 and 999 service, that is patients contacting us with Covid-related symptoms, and of course because of the pressure on the rest of the NHS, we've seen extended handover at some of our emergency departments and what that's meant regrettably is some less serious patients have waited a lot longer in the community than I would have expected.\"\n\nSoldiers have been helping to relieve pressure on ambulance staff\n\nThe ambulance service has been at its highest level of alert - described as \"extreme pressure\" - since early December.\n\nIt was so bad at the beginning of the month, the service had to declare a \"critical incident\", because of severe problems in south east Wales in particular - and one man had to wait 19 hours in an ambulance outside a hospital.\n\nThis strain has been partly blamed for deteriorating ambulance response times, with the situation exacerbated by the fact hospitals are struggling.\n\nAmbulances spent more than 11,661 hours outside emergency departments waiting to transfer patients in December - an equivalent to a total of more than 485 days. The average delay was one hour and eight minutes.\n\nThe Ambulance Service has been hit by high numbers of staff sick or self-isolating\n\n\"We would usually see handover delays through winter - but what's unique this time is the overlay of the pandemic,\" Mr Killens added.\n\n\"There has to be additional distancing, this means less capacity in emergency departments.\n\n\"Testing also needs to be done before patients are admitted - the additional complexities mean the process is slower and there's less space for patients to go into.\"\n\nHe said the impact of implementing Covid precautions is also affecting how quickly crews can respond.\n\n\"As a result of the virus, we're having to clean vehicles and equipment more frequently and thoroughly than before,\" Mr Killens said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"Also there are levels for personal protective equipment that staff have to wear to protect themselves and others. Level three - the highest in some cases.\n\n\"And it takes a number of minutes for crews to put that on before staff treat the patients.\"\n\nTo bolster staffing levels and speed up response times, about 80 soldiers are assisting the Welsh Ambulance Service for the second time since the start of the pandemic - along with smaller number of staff from other services like the fire service.\n\n\"They are driving emergency ambulances for us... which means an emergency ambulance clinician can look after the patient,\" Mr Killens added.\n\n\"They'll drive the ambulance from the scene to hospital... it enables us to put more ambulances on the streets to respond to patients more quickly given the levels of absence that we've seen.\"\n\nParamedics now have to carry out a more rigorous and time-consuming cleaning regime\n\nAfter facing relentless pressure for close to a year, Mr Killens is worried about the impact on mental health and well-being of ambulance and control centre staff.\n\nThe service is focused on \"what we can do to keep them fit and well\", he said.\n\nBut he praised staff for \"stepping up to the plate\" - and insists some of the lessons learnt during the last year will benefit the service during the longer term.\n\n\"I've been in the ambulance sector for 25 years and this is like dealing with a very long incident,\" said Mr Killens.\n\n\"So, a major incident an emergency service routinely responds to generally will be over in a couple of hours. But the level of pressure has been sustained now for 12 months.\n\n\"All of our people have stepped up and done what was necessary and got on with providing the best care in really difficult circumstances.... we will come through it and at the end of the pandemic and will be a stronger organisation for it.\"\n\nHe believes the service is now \"on the home straight\" in dealing with the pandemic.\n\n\"We've had two waves of this virus and learnt much along the way, and with a vaccine rollout we have a real opportunity now to see an end to the disruption, the personal impact and the level of death and harm,\" Mr Killens said.\n\n\"By the time we get to the other side of the spring, probably we will be able to return to some kind of normality whatever that will be 18 months into a pandemic.\n\n\"There's a couple of difficult weeks to come, but if we can emerge through February and March, provided we all stick to the rules, because it's easy for the virus to grab hold again if we get complacent .... we'll be in a far better position as we come to the spring.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sheku Bayoh death: Eyewitness says stamping attack on officer 'never happened'\n\nTwo police officers involved in the death of a black man they were restraining may have provided false statements, the BBC can reveal.\n\nThey said Sheku Bayoh carried out a stamping attack on a female PC before he was brought to the ground and restrained by up to six officers.\n\nBut now an eyewitness has spoken publicly for the first time about the 2015 incident.\n\nHe told a Panorama investigation that the stamping attack \"never happened\".\n\nThe Scottish Police Federation said its officers had cooperated truthfully with investigators.\n\nMr Bayoh, a 31-year-old father of two, died in the incident in the Fife town of Kirkcaldy in 2015.\n\nA public inquiry into the circumstances surrounding his death has recently got under way. One of its tasks is to examine whether his race was a factor.\n\nSheku Bayoh was restrained on the ground for five minutes before falling unconscious\n\nOn the night of 2 May 2015, Sheku Bayoh had taken drugs, which friends said dramatically altered his behaviour.\n\nPolice were called early the following morning after he was spotted behaving erratically with a knife in the streets of his home town.\n\nAccording to police statements, by the time the officers arrived at the scene Mr Bayoh no longer had the knife but he failed to obey instructions to get down on the ground.\n\nEach of the officers used force on Mr Bayoh within seconds of encountering him, including CS Spray and batons.\n\nHe then punched PC Nicole Short, who went to the ground.\n\nTwo officers, PCs Craig Walker and Ashley Tomlinson, would later tell investigators that Mr Bayoh then carried out a violent stamping attack on PC Short while she lay on the ground, a claim reported widely in the media.\n\nThe stamping attack was widely reported in the newspapers\n\nPC Walker told investigators: \"I had a clear view of him… he had his arms raised up at right angles to his body and brought his right foot down in a full-force stamp on to her lower back.\"\n\nPC Tomlinson said: \"I thought he had killed her. He stomped on her back again.\"\n\nNow, evidence obtained by Panorama suggests these accounts may be false.\n\nMr Bayoh was restrained on the ground for five minutes before falling unconscious. He was pronounced dead at hospital a short time later.\n\nA post-mortem examination report revealed 23 separate injuries to Mr Bayoh's body, including a broken rib and gashes to his head. The cause of death was recorded as \"sudden death in a man intoxicated [with drugs] whilst under restraint\".\n\nIn 2018, the Crown Office in Scotland decided there would be no prosecutions against any officers involved.\n\nKevin Nelson gave evidence to investigators two days after the incident\n\nKevin Nelson was in a nearby house and saw events unfold over a garden hedge.\n\nHe gave his account to investigators from Pirc (Police Investigations and Review Commissioner), which investigates deaths in custody, two days after the incident.\n\nSpeaking publicly for the first time, Mr Nelson told Panorama he saw Mr Bayoh attempt to walk away from the officers, ignoring their commands, before being sprayed with CS spray. He said Mr Bayoh retaliated and punched PC Short.\n\nAsked if there had been any further contact with PC Short, he said, \"No. He was running off… after the punch, there was no more attack on her at all.\"\n\nMr Nelson said Mr Bayoh ran off from where PC Short went down and was quickly intercepted by the other officers.\n\nAsked about PC Walker's claim that Mr Bayoh had \"his arms raised up… and brought his right foot down in a full force stamp\", Mr Nelson said: \"That never happened. I didn't see him stamping at all or, other than the punch, any raised arms.\n\n\"After the punch, that was it. There was no more attack on her at all. That's not right.\"\n\nThe officers provided their accounts to investigators 32 days after Mr Bayoh's death.\n\nMr Nelson said no-one from Pirc returned to ask about the discrepancy between their account and his.\n\nThe eyewitness said he decided to speak out because it was unfair on Mr Bayoh's family that the officers had \"made the incident worse than it actually was to justify what had happened and… that's not right\".\n\nMr Nelson's account is supported by CCTV footage of the incident, obtained by the BBC.\n\nIt is poor quality but appears to show that once PC Short is knocked down by Mr Bayoh, the action moves away from her, and he is brought down within five seconds.\n\nPC Short did not mention in her statement she had been stamped on. Now retired, she later said she was unsure if she was conscious, and only learned about the alleged stamping attack when her colleagues told her about it afterwards.\n\nIn the CCTV, PC Short appears to get to her feet a few seconds after Mr Bayoh is brought down.\n\nMike Franklin says conflicts of evidence should have been resolved\n\nMike Franklin, former commissioner for the body which investigated police complaints in England and Wales, looked at Panorama's evidence.\n\nHe said: \"I think there's nothing more serious than a police officer who gives false information in an investigation where somebody has died. So without accusing them of lying, I simply say that there's a big conflict.\n\n\"Two officers who were there say that it did happen. The person to whom it happened didn't mention it. And an eyewitness says it didn't happen.\n\n\"I would've been reluctant to sign off the investigation as complete, without resolving those… conflicts of evidence.\"\n\nMr Bayoh's sister, Kadi Johnson, told Panorama the new allegations had made her \"really angry\".\n\nShe said the way her brother was \"painted\" by the accounts given after his death was not who he was.\n\nMr Bayoh's sister, Kadi Johnson, said the new allegations had made her really angry\n\nA spokesman for the Scottish Police Federation, which represents rank and file officers, said serving officers were unable to comment on matters \"to which they may be called upon to give sworn evidence\" but that they had \"co-operated fully and truthfully with the investigations that have taken place\".\n\nIt added it had seen \"compelling material that Mr Bayoh did violently stamp on the back of a policewoman as she lay unconscious\".\n\nThe BBC asked for this material to be produced but was told the inquiry was the \"proper forum\" for such matters.\n\nThe Crown Office, which directed the Pirc Inquiry, told Panorama it had examined \"eye-witness accounts of police and civilian witnesses\" and instructed \"appropriate investigation\".\n\nIt said after careful consideration it was decided there should be no prosecutions but reserved the right to prosecute should evidence become available.\n\nPirc told Panorama its investigation was \"detailed and extensive\" but could not comment further because of the public inquiry.\n\nPolice Scotland Chief Constable Iain Livingstone expressed his condolences to the Bayoh family and said the force would \"participate fully\" in the inquiry.\n\nKevin Clarke died after being restrained in London by up to nine officers\n\nPanorama's \"I Can't Breathe: Black and Dead in Custody\" also investigates the case of Kevin Clarke, 35, who died in 2018 after being restrained in London by up to nine officers.\n\nAn inquest into his death resulted in a damning verdict on the police and ambulance services.\n\nMr Clarke's sister Tellecia told the programme that if the officers \"hadn't used excessive force he would still be here today… treat him like a human being, and not just see him as a big scary black man\".\n\nMetropolitan Police Commander Bas Javid apologised to Mr Clarke's family and accepted the restraint had not been appropriate.", "Lisbet Stone is stranded at Madrid Airport due to having an out-of-date coronavirus test result\n\nPassenger Lisbet Stone says she is stuck in Madrid Airport after airline officials said her coronavirus test result was out of date.\n\nFrom Monday, travellers arriving in the UK, whether by boat, train or plane, have to show proof of a negative Covid-19 test to be allowed entry.\n\nThe test must be taken in the three days before travelling.\n\nFor those with connecting flights, the test must be 72 hours before your final departure point to England.\n\nAnyone arriving without one faces a fine of up to £500.\n\nMrs Stone originally travelled to Cuba in February 2020 to see family. The British Cuban dual national was unable to fly home to the UK when Cuba closed its borders in March.\n\nThe family say she had several previous flights cancelled before finally being able to leave this weekend. She hasn't been able to see her four children or her husband Trevor in 11 months.\n\nThe government are understood to be speaking to Air Europa to try to get Mrs Stone home. Carriers have been told that they should permit stranded passengers to board and will not be fined for doing so.\n\nWhile Mrs Stone has been caught out by the new restrictions for incoming travellers, the first day of the new regulations appeared to go smoothly.\n\nMrs Stone left Jose Marti International Airport in Havana, Cuba, on Sunday night to fly back to the UK via Madrid.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Coronavirus: How to fly during a global pandemic (this video reflects the rules before the hotel quarantine was introduced in the UK)\n\nShe took a Covid test on Thursday to be guaranteed a result by Saturday. It was negative and Mrs Stone was able to board the plane from Cuba.\n\nHowever, on arrival at Madrid-Barajas Airport, Mrs Stone says she was stopped from boarding the next leg of her journey to London Gatwick by Air Europa staff, because her test had been taken more than 72 hours before the final flight.\n\n\"She's crying her eyes out,\" says Trevor Stone, her husband. \"I feel absolutely helpless. She doesn't have any Euros as she wasn't meant to stay in Spain. The authorities have given her no help whatsoever, we are just trying to understand what to do.\n\n\"She took her test 72 hours before the start of her journey, but had to take a connecting flight onwards. There would be no other way to do it, it is not physically possible.\"\n\nIn the meantime, Mr Stone says he has been home-schooling their four children on his own through the pandemic.\n\nTrevor Stone (left) has been caring for the couple's four children on his own for 11 months since Lisbet Stone was unable to leave Cuba\n\n\"We are just desperate to get her home - I'm so worried about her and after 11 months, she really wants to see her children,\" he added. \"We haven't done anything wrong, I don't know what to do or who to turn to.\"\n\nA Department for Transport spokesman said: \"Passengers travelling to the UK must provide proof of a negative coronavirus test which meets the performance standards set out by the government in the guidance published on gov.uk.\n\n\"The type of test could include a PCR test or antigen test, including a lateral flow test. Anyone who cannot provide the necessary documentation may not be allowed to board their flight.\"\n\nAir Europa and Madrid Airport have been approached by the BBC for comment.", "Medical staff are expected to \"face pressures unlike any other they have faced before\" as NI approaches its toughest week so far in the pandemic.\n\nThe British Medical Association has said while its doctors are \"coping\", many feel they are unable to give care to the \"standard they would want\".\n\nThe peak in intensive care is predicted to happen next weekend.\n\nThe head of the BMA in NI, Dr Tom Black has been critical of the way this wave of the pandemic has been managed.\n\nHe said: \"Staff will do their best in a very difficult situation, where many decisions in this pandemic were made too late.\"\n\nWhile it is expected the number of hospital admissions will peak sometime over the next eight to 10 days, the number requiring intensive care treatment is likely to continue increasing for at least another fortnight.\n\nDr Black said he was concerned for both patients and staff.\n\nHe said: \"It is likely that over the next few weeks doctors will be asked to work in a new location or provide support to areas that are already overstretched.\n\n\"Many have already had planned annual leave cancelled.\"\n\nThere were a further 19 virus-related deaths and 640 more Covid-19 cases reported in Northern Ireland on Monday.\n\nThe latest figures from the Department of Health bring the total number of deaths to 1,625, while 96,001 people have tested positive for the virus since the pandemic began.\n\nSome 65 patients are in ICU, down two from the last report, and 51 patients are being ventilated.\n\nSince the vaccine rollout began in NI, 146,733 people have been vaccinated, according to the Department of Health.\n\nOf that number, 125,717 were first doses and 21,016 were second jabs.\n\nA total of 31,393 people from the over-80 age group have been vaccinated.\n\nEarlier the BMA told BBC News NI that more than 90,000 doses the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine had arrived in Northern Ireland but the Department of Health has said it is anticipated separate deliveries will arrive by this weekend.\n\nDr Black said many staff members had reported feeling \"exhausted and demoralised\" and he warned that when it came to reviewing how the pandemic was handled \"this phase will stand out as one where we could have planned better\".\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann said the next seven days is \"when we will see that real intense pressure coming on our inpatients and intensive care units\".\n\n\"Our worst case scenario has modelling up to 1,200 inpatients - and that's a serious pressure that comes on our system,\" he told Radio Ulster's Evening Extra programme.\n\n\"We can go up into nearly 200 ICU capacity but that comes at a stretch, that comes with putting our staff under severe pressure in ICU units.\n\n\"It also comes by having to shift the ICU specialist nurse from a ratio of one-to-one to a ratio of one-to-two or even one-to-three in extreme pressures.\n\n\"That's not something we want to do,\" he added.\n\nThe past week saw hospitals across Northern Ireland coming together in order to cope with the strain.\n\nOn 10 January, the Southern Health Trust was on the cusp of declaring a major incident amid the mounting pressures across the health service.\n\nThat was avoided as many off-duty staff answered a call to come into work and the health trusts pulled together to provide a regional response to the crisis.\n\nPatients were diverted to those hospitals which could take them and where infrastructure could cope with supplying additional oxygen to the very ill.\n\nOver the weekend of 9/10 January the Southern Health Trust - the smallest of the health trusts - was dealing with the highest number of patients who required oxygen.\n\nIn the past week the Northern and Southern Health Trusts have seen the highest number of patients.\n\nThat reflects the high rate of community transmission in some areas those trusts cover.\n\nMeanwhile, no resolution has been reached between Stormont leaders and the Irish Government over the sharing of passenger data.\n\nLast week, First Minister Arlene Foster and Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill criticised Dublin for failing to share information on travellers arriving there during the pandemic.\n\nMichelle O'Neill said it was \"regrettable\" the issue has not been resolved\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster said repeated efforts to access data on passenger locator forms filled out by people arriving in the Republic of Ireland had failed.\n\nMrs Foster and Ms O'Neill indicated on Thursday that they planned to raise the matter directly with Taoiseach (Irish prime minsiter) Micheál Martin.\n\nMs O'Neill told the Northern Ireland Assembly on Monday that no resolution has been found yet.\n\nShe told MLAs the issue had been raised \"on every occasion we have had the opportunity\" and that it was \"regrettable\" that the issue had not been resolved.\n\nThe travel issue will be discussed at a meeting on Wednesday involving the first minister, the deputy first minister, Irish Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney and NI Secretary of State Brandon Lewis.\n\n\"I hope that perhaps Wednesday's meeting will allow some opportunity for there to be a way forward,\" the deputy first minister added.\n\nIt was announced on Sunday that all travellers who have returned from Portugal or transited through 16 South American countries in the past 14 days will have to - along with their household - self-isolate for 10 days upon return to Northern Ireland.\n\nThis includes travellers who entered these countries en route to another destination. All travellers returning home from South America are advised to be tested, whether or not they have symptoms.\n\nFrom Thursday, all international travellers will be required to present a negative Covid-19 test result before arriving in Northern Ireland.\n\nThis rule comes into effect in England, Scotland and Wales on Monday.\n\nOn Monday, the Department of Health in the Republic of Ireland reported eight more coronavirus-related deaths.\n\nIt brings its death toll to 2,616.\n\nThe department said 2,121 new cases of the virus had been reported, with a cumulative total of 174,843 infections.\n\nIt said that as of 14:00 local time on Monday, 1,975 Covid-19 patients are in hospital, of which 200 are in ICU (intensive care units).\n\nIrish Chief Medical Officer, Dr Tony Holohan, said: \"This third wave of the pandemic has seen higher level of hospitalisations across all age groups.\n\n\"There are now more sick people in hospital than any time in the course of this pandemic\".", "All travellers arriving in the UK will need to show proof of a negative Covid-19 test\n\nAll UK travel corridors, which allow arrivals from some countries to avoid having to quarantine, have now closed.\n\nTravellers arriving in the UK, whether by boat, train or plane, also have to show proof of a negative Covid-19 test to be allowed entry.\n\nThe test must be taken in the 72 hours before travelling and anyone arriving without one faces a fine of up to £500.\n\nAll passengers will still be required to quarantine for up to 10 days.\n\nThe isolation period can be cut short with a negative test after five days in England, but it does not apply in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland.\n\nThe government has said the travel corridor closure will be in force until at least 15 February.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Coronavirus: How to fly during a global pandemic (this video reflects the rules before the hotel quarantine was introduced in the UK)\n\nUnder the new rules, travellers arriving from the Falklands, St Helena and Ascension Islands are exempt.\n\nThose arriving from some Caribbean islands are exempt until 04:00 GMT on Thursday 21 January.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab told the BBC'S Andrew Marr Show on Sunday that Public Health England would be stepping up checks on travellers who must self-isolate.\n\nHe said enforcement checks at borders would also be \"ramped up\" and added that asking all arrivals to self-isolate in hotels was a \"potential measure\" the government was keeping under review.\n\nPassengers arriving into London's Heathrow airport on Monday said they had been met with \"substantial\" queues at passport control and one couple complained they had \"felt unsafe\" due to what they described as poor social distancing.\n\nPassengers speak to staff at the entrance to the Covid-19 Testing Centre at Heathrow\n\nAndy Hart, from London, who had arrived into the UK from Nairobi, said: \"We felt that even though everyone was masked they were far too close together.\n\n\"It took an hour and 10 minutes. I've been flying 30 times a year for 20 years. I mean, once or twice have I ever seen it [airport queues] like this. How can this happen during Covid times?\"\n\nMeanwhile on Sunday, the government announced that a financial support scheme for airports in England would open this month in response to the new travel curbs.\n\nAviation minister Robert Courts said the aim was to provide grants of up to £8m per applicant by the end of this financial year. The scheme was first announced in November but without a start date.\n\nIndustry groups have warned there was only so long airports could \"run on fumes\", following the announcement of the new quarantine rules.\n\nEasyJet chief executive Johan Lundgren said the closure of the travel corridors will not have a \"significant impact\" on his airline in the short term as flight numbers were already limited due to the pandemic.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that the minimum number of days arrivals must wait to take a negative test releasing them from quarantine could be reduced from five days to three days.\n\nKaren Dee, chief executive of trade body the Airport Operators Association, said she supported the decision to close the travel corridors but stressed the need for \"a clear pathway out\".\n\nA ban on travellers from South America, Portugal and Cape Verde also came into force on Friday, having been imposed over concerns about a new variant identified in Brazil.\n\nNew variants causing concern have previously been identified in the UK and South Africa, with many countries imposing restrictions on arrivals from both nations.\n\nScientists fear the variants seen in South Africa and Brazil may interfere with the effectiveness of vaccines and evade parts of the immune system.\n\nThe travel industry has said closing the travel corridors was understandable due to the health emergency, but warned it would deepen the crisis for the sector.\n\nTim Alderslade, chief executive of Airlines UK, said the system had been \"a lifeline for the industry\" last summer but \"things change and there's no doubting this is a serious health emergency\". He said he assumed the government would remove the latest restrictions as soon as it was safe.\n\n\"We've had no revenue now effectively for 12 months, give or take a few months in the summer last year. If we're going to have an aviation sector coming out of this we need to open up in the summer,\" he told the BBC.\n\nThe Department for Transport has said it is supporting the travel industry with an extension to the furlough scheme until the end of April, business rates relief and tax deferrals.\n\nWith all parts of the UK under strict virus rules amid high levels of infection, only essential travel is permitted.\n\nOn Sunday, another 671 deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test were reported in the UK, and a further 38,598 lab-confirmed cases of coronavirus.\n\nAre you due to travel back to the UK from overseas? Do you work in the travel industry? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Phil Spector pictured in court during his murder trial\n\nUS music producer Phil Spector has died at the age of 81, while serving a prison sentence for murder.\n\nSpector, who transformed pop with his \"wall of sound\" recordings, worked with the Beatles, the Righteous Brothers and Ike and Tina Turner.\n\nIn 2009, he was convicted of the 2003 murder of Hollywood actress Lana Clarkson.\n\nHis death was confirmed by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.\n\n\"California Health Care Facility inmate Phillip Spector was pronounced deceased of natural causes at 6:35 p.m. on Saturday, January 16, 2021, at an outside hospital. His official cause of death will be determined by the medical examiner in the San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office,\" it said.\n\nSpector produced 20 top 40 hits between 1961 and 1965. His production methods influenced major artists including the Beach Boys and Bruce Springsteen.\n\nHis life was ultimately blighted by drug and alcohol addiction, and he all but retired from the music scene during the 1980s and 1990s.\n\nIn February 2003, actress Lana Clarkson was found dead at his house in Alhambra, California with a bullet wound to her head. Clarkson, who was known for her work in the sword-and-sorcery genre and starred in films including Barbarian Queen, had met Spector hours earlier at a nightclub.\n\nSpector claimed the shooting happened when Clarkson \"kissed the gun\" - but his trial heard from four women who claimed Spector had threatened them with guns in the past when they had spurned his advances.\n\nFollowing an initial mistrial, Spector was convicted of second degree murder and given a sentence of 19 years to life.\n\nLana Clarkson was an actress and model who starred in the film 1985 Barbarian Queen\n\nHarvey Phillip Spector was born in New York in 1939, to Russian-Jewish parents. His father killed himself when Spector was a boy, and his mother moved her family to Los Angeles.\n\nHe began his career in his teens as a performer, forming a band - the Teddy Bears - with three high school friends. They had a hit single in 1958 with a song that took its title from the wording on his father's gravestone: \"To know him is to love him.\"\n\nThe record went to number one on the Billboard Hot 100, but the group split the following year.\n\nSpector founded his own record label, Philles, in 1961. He produced high-profile 1960s girl groups such as Crystals and the Ronettes, including on 1963 hits Be My Baby and Baby I Love You.\n\nHe also worked on The Righteous Brothers' hits You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' and Unchained Melody.\n\nSpector produced hits for The Ronettes, later marrying their lead singer Ronnie Bennett\n\nHis signature production technique, the \"Wall of Sound,\" involved layering several instruments, including strings, woodwind and brass, to give a lush, orchestral sound.\n\nIn the early 1970s, Spector collaborated with The Beatles on their final album Let It Be, as well as producing John Lennon's solo album Imagine.\n\nAs the decade progressed, the much-feted producer became reclusive and disturbing accounts of his behaviour became widespread. Spector is said to have held a gun to singer Leonard Cohen's head during sessions for his album Death of a Ladies' Man.\n\nRonettes lead singer Veronica \"Ronnie\" Bennett, who became Spector's second wife and divorced him in 1974, wrote in her 1990 autobiography that he subjected her to years of horrific abuse. She said he had threatened to kill her and display her body in a glass-topped coffin he kept in her basement.\n\n\"I can only say that when I left in the early '70s, I knew that if I didn't leave at that time, I was going to die there,\" Ronnie wrote of the time.\n\nWriting on Instagram after her ex-husband's death, Ronnie Spector said he had been \"a brilliant producer but a lousy husband\".\n\n\"When I was working with Phil Spector, watching him create in the recording studio, I knew I was working with the very best,\" she wrote. \"He was in complete control, directing everyone. So much to love about those days.\n\n\"Meeting him and falling in love was like a fairytale,\" she continued. \"The magical music we were able to make together was inspired by our love. I loved him madly, and gave my heart and soul to him.\n\n\"Unfortunately Phil was not able to live and function outside of the recording studio. Darkness set in, many lives were damaged.\"\n\nSinger Darlene Love, who sang on several songs Spector produced, said he \"changed the sound of rock 'n' roll\" but likened their relationship to \"a bad marriage\".\n\n\"The problem I have with Phil is that he wanted to control Darlene Love's talent,\" she told Variety. \"If he couldn't do that, he was going to do everything in his power to keep my talent from shining.\"\n\nWeeks before Lana Clarkson was shot dead, Spector gave a rare interview to British broadsheet The Telegraph.\n\n\"I would say I'm probably relatively insane, to an extent,\" he told the paper, adding that he had \"devils inside that fight me\".\n\nResponding to news of the producer's death, Blondie guitarist Chris Stein tweeted: \"When we went to Phil Spector's house in the 70s he came to the door holding a bottle of diet Manischewitz wine in one hand and a presumably loaded 45 automatic in the other. Long story.", "Now 20, he was jailed for life at Manchester Crown Court after admitting inciting terrorism overseas\n\nThe youngest person convicted of a terrorism offence in the UK - who plotted to murder police in Australia on Anzac Day aged 14 - can be freed from jail, the Parole Board has ruled.\n\nThe 20-year-old, from Blackburn, who can only be identified as RXG, sent encrypted messages inciting an Australian to launch attacks in 2015.\n\nHe was jailed for life that year after admitting inciting terrorism overseas.\n\nBut the Parole Board now says it is \"satisfied\" he is suitable for release.\n\n\"After considering the circumstances of his offending, the progress made while in detention, and the evidence presented at the hearings, the panel was satisfied that RXG was suitable for release,\" the board said in a document detailing the decision.\n\nDuring his trial, the court heard how at the age of 14, the boy adopted an older persona in messages to alleged Australian jihadist Sevdet Besim, 18, instructing him to kill police officers at the remembrance parade.\n\nHe sent thousands of messages suggesting Mr Besim get his \"first taste of beheading\" by attacking \"a proper lonely person\".\n\nAustralian police were alerted to the plot after British officers discovered material on the teenager's phone.\n\nA written summary of the Parole Board decision reveals that two hearings took place to consider the decision - hearings that included evidence from RXG himself.\n\nThe summary records that \"no-one at the hearing considered there to be a need for further time\" in custody and that \"all necessary work had been completed\".\n\nRXG, who became eligible for parole in October, is said to have \"undertaken extensive specialist work in detention to address his offending behaviour, his understanding of Islam and to develop his level of maturity\".\n\nThe Parole Board panel noted that \"considerable progress that had been made\", the summary records.\n\nLicense conditions for the 20-year-old a requirement to live at designated address, wearing an electronic tag, and limits on his contacts, movements and activities.\n\nAnzac Day is a national day of remembrance in Australia and New Zealand\n\nA ban on identifying RXG, made when he was sentenced, would normally have expired on his 18th birthday, but a number of media organisations made representations to the High Court, arguing that he should be named.\n\nBut in 2019, the court ruled identifying him was likely to cause him \"serious harm\", and so granted him lifelong anonymity.\n\nThe decision taken by the judge, Dame Victoria Sharp, has only been made in a small number of cases.\n\nIn 2016, two brothers who had tortured other children in South Yorkshire were granted lifelong anonymity.\n\nLifelong anonymity under new identities was also been granted after release to Mary Bell, the Newcastle child killer; Maxine Carr, who obstructed police investigating the 2002 Soham murders by her partner Ian Huntley; and Jon Venables and Robert Thompson, who murdered Liverpool toddler James Bulger.", "Soaring shipping costs are likely to cause a bounce in the cost of trampolines in the UK this summer, according to one games retailer.\n\nJames Owen, owner of Outdoor Toys, says high transport costs and port congestion may mean larger toys such as swings, trampolines and climbing frames will be more expensive.\n\nTrampoline prices could soar by 40-50%, he told BBC 5 Live's Wake Up to Money.\n\n\"The port congestion just keeps snowballing,\" he said.\n\n\"More and more issues keep arising,\" Mr Owen added. \"We can't get space out of China, there's a container shortage.\n\n\"Hauliers are really stretched, rates keep climbing.\"\n\nHis firm makes some products in the UK already and rising shipping costs will mean it will become economical to make more.\n\n\"For the first time ever, the ocean freight outweighs the cost of the item,\" in some cases, he said.\n\nDemand for Chinese goods has soared around the world in recent months, placing a strain on existing shipping capacity.\n\nThe price of shipping a 40-foot container on major world trade routes has almost tripled since a year ago, according to research firm Drewry.\n\nHauliers in the UK are also charging more. It used to cost about £650 to haul a container from the port of Felixstowe to the company's site in mid-Wales, Mr Owen says.\n\nThe cost is now up to £1,800 per container \"if you can get the haulier to take it,\" he says.\n\nWhether people will pay the premium for a new outdoor toy is \"a good question,\" he said.\n\nIt emerged over the weekend that Irish hauliers are bypassing Welsh ports to avoid Brexit bureaucracy.\n\nSo-called \"teething problems\" with new export rules are causing \"enormous strain on staff\", according to one haulage company.\n\nBut others warn of a longer-term shift by truck firms from using Holyhead, Fishguard and Pembroke Dock.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nEngland won by seven wickets; take 1-0 series lead\n\nEngland wrapped up a seven-wicket victory over Sri Lanka in the first Test of a two-match series in Galle.\n\nResuming on 38-3, needing another 36 for victory, Jonny Bairstow and debutant Dan Lawrence carried England to their target inside 35 minutes on the final morning of an enthralling encounter.\n\nBairstow ended unbeaten on 35 and Lawrence 21, although the latter survived an lbw review against Dilruwan Perera and Sri Lanka did not refer another shout that replays suggested would have been overturned.\n\nAfter England slipped to 14-3 during a frantic end to day four, Bairstow and Lawrence's unbroken 62-run stand guided them to an ultimately comfortable win.\n\nThe second Test starts at 04:30 GMT on Friday at the same ground.\n• None 'It wasn't perfect but England's win ticked a lot of boxes'\n• None 'We are on an upward curve' - Root savours fourth straight away win\n\nEngland are now unbeaten in nine Tests under Joe Root's captaincy, they have won four consecutive overseas Tests for the first time since 1957, and boast five successive wins in Sri Lanka.\n\nVictory improved England's chances of reaching the inaugural World Test Championship final at Lord's in June. They remain fourth in the standings, with the two top sides playing in the final.\n\nEngland out of the blocks quickly\n\nRoot's side have been slow starters in series in recent years - they lost the opening Test against Australia, New Zealand and South Africa in 2019, and against West Indies last summer.\n\nHowever, Sunday's top-order wobble aside, they were rarely troubled in the first of six successive Tests on the subcontinent - an achievement made all the more impressive given they had one day of match practice before this game.\n\nRoot scored a magnificent 226 in the first innings, and off-spinner Dom Bess and slow left-armer Jack Leach, who returned match figures of 8-130 and 6-177 respectively, found more rhythm as the game progressed, which bodes well for the sterner four-Test series in India that follows this tour.\n\nLawrence can take considerable credit for his first-innings 73 and the manner in which he helped negate England's second-innings nerves alongside the efficient Bairstow, while wicketkeeper Jos Buttler was tidy behind the stumps throughout on a dry, turning pitch.\n\nSri Lanka, meanwhile, were left wondering what if. Their collapse to 135 all out on the first day was described as \"one of the worse we've ever seen\", and even an extra 50 runs could have changed the course of this game.\n\n'Very impressive' - what they said\n\nEngland captain and player of the match Joe Root: \"To come here with the little preparation we have had and play in the manner we have is very impressive.\n\n\"We worked extremely hard and for the spinners to come out of the game with two five-fors is a great effort. Without the preparation, it is testament to their characters.\n\n\"It is a good start to the tour. We know we have to keep getting better but I am really pleased with the start we have had.\"\n\nEngland bowler Stuart Broad on BBC Test Match Special: \"It looked like we could lose a wicket every ball last night. We were pretty happy when play finished last night.\n\n\"It felt calm here this morning. We had a job to do and felt we had enough in tank to chase 30-odd. To do it without losing a wicket is awesome.\"\n\nFormer England captain Michael Vaughan: \"When I think about the preparation England have had, in Loughborough in a tent, one day in the middle in Sri Lanka and then rain, to put in this kind of performance is a great effort.\n\n\"I can't think Sri Lanka will gift England two poor days in the next Test - that match will be really tough.\n\n\"I am happy England have played in difficult conditions and won the game.\"\n\nSri Lanka captain Dinesh Chandimal: \"We were outplayed in first innings with bat and ball. As a batting unit, especially playing at home, you have to get a big total in the first innings. It cost us the game.\n\n\"Everyone did their bit in the second innings. We played outstanding knocks in the second innings. We have to take the positives out of this.\"\n\nSri Lanka coach Mickey Arthur: \"The first innings was very poor - it was an unacceptable batting performance.\n\n\"Even if we get 220 in the first innings we keep ourselves massively in the game, so that's where it was lost. We did put it right in the second innings. But it was too late.\"\n• None All the goals, highlights and analysis from the weekend's Premier League matches including Manchester United's visit to Anfield: MOTD2 is streaming now on BBC iPlayer", "Staff gathered outside a supermarket to pay their respects to a colleague who died with coronavirus.\n\nJohn Deacy, 81, worked the Christmas Eve shift at the Tesco Extra store in Gabalfa, Cardiff, died just two weeks later.\n\nFriends and colleagues clapped as the funeral procession went by the store.\n\nFormer members of a jazz band, formed by Mr Deacy in the 1970s, marched in front of the hearse.\n\nHis son, Wayne, 56, said: “My dad put everyone above himself. He’d do anything for anyone.\n\n\"He’d help anyone and would never speak badly of people.”\n\nMr Deacy was in the Royal Marines for seven years and was a semi-professional boxer before starting a career at the industrial gas company BOC.\n\nHe went on to work for the supermarket for 16 years.\n\n“We’ve had loads and loads of messages from hundreds of staff who said he will leave a massive gaping hole,\" his son said.", "BT is facing a class action lawsuit over claims it failed to compensate elderly customers who were overcharged for landlines for years.\n\nIn 2017, Ofcom said people who only had a landline telephone were \"getting poor value for money in a market that is not serving them well enough\".\n\nAs a result, BT reduced the price of its landlines by £7 a month.\n\nBut campaigners are unhappy that \"loyal customers\" have still not been compensated for previous overcharging.\n\n\"Ofcom made it very clear that BT had spent years overcharging landline customers, but did not order it to repay the money it made from this,\" said Justin Le Patourel, founder of consumer group Collective Action on Landlines (CALL) and a telecoms consultant who worked for Ofcom for 13 years.\n\n\"We think millions of BT's most loyal landline customers could be entitled to compensation of up to £500 each, and the filing of this claim starts that process.\"\n\nBT said it \"strongly disagrees\" with the claim that it had engaged in anti-competitive behaviour and intends to defend itself \"vigorously\" in court.\n\nA spokesman for BT said: \"We take our responsibilities to older and more vulnerable customers very seriously and will defend ourselves against any claim that suggests otherwise.\n\n\"For many years we've offered discounted landline and broadband packages in what is a competitive market with competing options available, and we take pride in our work with elderly and vulnerable groups, as well as our work on the Customer Fairness agenda.\"\n\nLaw firm Mishcon de Reya has filed a claim with the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) worth £600m. The claim could result in payments of up to £500 each for 2.3 million BT customers, should it be successful.\n\nThe case represents customers who purchased a BT landline contract, but did not also take BT broadband or pay TV packages.\n\nSince 2009, the wholesale costs of providing landlines to consumers have been falling by at least 25%.\n\nBut in October 2017, Ofcom found that all major landline providers in the UK had increased the line rental charges by 28-41%.\n\nOfcom strongly criticised market leader BT for raising prices, saying that customers were being given \"poor value\" for money.\n\nIt added that many of the affected customers had \"been with BT for decades\" and were more likely to be old, on low incomes and vulnerable.\n\nBT announced that it would slash its landline prices by £84 a year.\n\nBT's argument is that Ofcom's final statement did not explicitly accuse it of engaging in anti-competitive behaviour.\n\nBut independent telecoms analyst Ian Grant says that the telecoms giant \"has a history of abusing its position\".\n\n\"Earlier in 2017, Ofcom fined BT £42m because it was late providing high-speed Ethernet lines, and forced BT to make good the losses of firms like Vodafone and TalkTalk,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"Ofcom, which has a statutory duty to stop consumer abuses, could have done the same for these customers. Instead, it allowed BT to get away with a 37% price cut, at a time when the difference between its costs and what it charged customers had risen between 50-74%.\"\n\nMr Grant added: \"It is especially poor that BT was overcharging customers who were mostly over 65, more than three-quarters of whom had never used a different provider, and for whom the telephone was their only communications link.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nManchester United \"missed an opportunity\" to beat Liverpool, said boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer after his side stayed top of the Premier League with a goalless draw against the champions.\n\nIt was a game that failed to justify the pre-match anticipation and Solskjaer will know his side had the better chances to claim a statement victory at Anfield.\n\nLiverpool, without a recognised centre-back and with midfielders Jordan Henderson and Fabinho in defence, dominated possession in the first half but it was United who came closest when Bruno Fernandes' 20-yard free-kick curled inches wide.\n\nFernandes was then thwarted after the break by the outstretched leg of Liverpool keeper Alisson before Thiago Alcantara's long-range effort finally brought the previously unemployed David de Gea into action.\n\nAlisson was Liverpool's hero late on when he blocked Paul Pogba's drive from point-blank range.\n\n\"It was an opportunity missed with the chances we had but then again we were playing a very good side.\" Solskjaer told BBC Sport. \"I'm disappointed but, still, a point is OK if you win the next one.\n\n\"We have improved and progressed. It's not just the result we're disappointed with, it's some of the performance. I know these boys can play better.\"\n\nUnited are now two points ahead of Manchester City, who moved up to second by beating Crystal Palace 4-0, and Leicester City in third. Liverpool, who have scored just one goal in their past four league games, have dropped to fourth, a point behind the Foxes.\n\n\"The performance was good enough to win it but to win a game you have to score goals and we didn't do that, so that's why we had that result,\" said Reds boss Jurgen Klopp.\n\n\"We try not to not score. We obviously have to ignore the fact and hope it will be good again.\"\n• None 'From dejection to frustration in 12 months, Anfield draw underlines Man Utd progress'\n• None Lawro's predictions v You Me At Six drummer Dan Flint\n\nKlopp cut a frustrated figure pretty much from the first whistle, his voice booming around Anfield with a tone of displeasure, showing unhappiness with his own players and officials.\n\nThe German's team, so used to steamrollering all before them in recent times, are going through a very dry spell and barely created an opening worthy of the name here against a resolute Manchester United defence.\n\nToo often, Liverpool's approach play ended with a careless pass or an aimless cross and the longer this game went on the more United looked the most likely winners.\n\nIt was perhaps inevitable Liverpool would be unable to maintain their relentless style, but there will be concerns they have now gone four league games without a win since Crystal Palace were demolished 7-0 at Selhurst Park.\n\nBefore this draw, West Bromwich Albion left Anfield with a point, while Liverpool also had a goalless draw at Newcastle United and lost at Southampton.\n\nSadio Mane and Mohamed Salah are feeding off scraps, while Roberto Firmino's impact was so minimal that he was withdrawn near the end, even with the hosts chasing a goal.\n\nA team as good as Liverpool will not remain off the boil for too long, but there is no doubt they are struggling for form and spark. The fact this is their longest barren sequence in the league since February and March 2005 tells the tale.\n\nManchester United may have a taken a point before this game and there will be justified satisfaction that they subdued Liverpool so completely, created the game's best chances and remain top of the table.\n\nAnd yet there must also be disappointment that they could not cash in completely on an off-colour Liverpool, with reality dawning on them very late that they could take all three points.\n\nFernandes, despite being poor in general, almost unlocked Liverpool twice, while Solskjaer and his backroom team threw their hands up in frustration as other good positions were wasted late on.\n\nIn the final reckoning, however, there will be few complaints at this outcome, which leaves them three points ahead of Liverpool with the visit to Anfield negotiated without mishap.\n\nUnited were well organised and grew into the game after a poor opening half-hour and had real defensive heroes in captain Harry Maguire and left-back Luke Shaw, with the latter particularly outstanding.\n\nIt is a display that will give them increased confidence and belief as they lead the pack - although they might just look back and think a point could so easily have been three.\n\n'It was an opportunity missed' - reaction\n\nManchester United manager Solskjaer said: \"They are a good side and they have some injury problems but we didn't pounce on that.\n\n\"I felt we grew into the game and got stronger and stronger and were closer to winning.\n\n\"We were a bit disappointed in the performance, not just the result. We didn't do well enough to cause them problems in the first half but we defended well and they didn't create too many chances.\"But I think everyone was a bit disappointed with the way we started the game but that is a good feeling to have - that we were disappointed in the performance.\"\n\nLiverpool boss Klopp told BBC Sport: \"The performance was good and the first half was exceptionally good.\n\n\"With all the things that were said before the game - United are flying and we were struggling - and then to play this kind of game, I was happy with that.\n\n\"We tried in the second half again, but you cannot deny United over 90 minutes, not with the counter-attacking threat they have. So they had two really good chances, I have to say, but we had our chances in the second half as well.\n\n\"The way we understood the game, the way we felt the game, the way we read the moments were really good. But it is not exactly how it should be so we have space for improvement, absolutely. We will keep working on that.\"\n• None Liverpool and Manchester United have drawn 0-0 at Anfield in the league three times in the past five seasons, as many times as in the previous 48 top-flight campaigns.\n• None United are unbeaten in their past 16 away matches in the Premier League (W12 D4) - only once have they gone longer without a defeat on the road in the competition (17 games ending in September 1999).\n• None Liverpool are now unbeaten in their past 68 league games at Anfield, earning 178 out of a possible 204 points over this run.\n• None United are the first side to stop Liverpool scoring at Anfield in a Premier League match since Manchester City in October 2018 - this was Liverpool's 43rd home league game since then.\n• None Under Klopp, Liverpool are unbeaten in all seven of their Premier League games at Anfield when facing the side starting the day top of the table (W3 D4).\n• None Marcus Rashford was caught offside five times in this match, the most of any Premier League player this season and the most by a United player since Robin van Persie (six) against Spurs in January 2013.\n\nUnited are at Fulham in the league on Wednesday (20:15 GMT) and Liverpool host Burnley on Thursday (20:00). Next Sunday, Manchester United and Liverpool will meet again - at Old Trafford this time - in the FA Cup fourth round, a match you can watch live on BBC One and the BBC Sport website.\n• None Marcus Rashford (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Curtis Jones (Liverpool) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Offside, Manchester United. Paul Pogba tries a through ball, but Marcus Rashford is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Paul Pogba (Manchester United) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Luke Shaw with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Paul Pogba (Manchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Thiago (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Georginio Wijnaldum. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Missed all the goals, highlights and talking points from Saturday's Premier League action? Match of the Day is streaming now", "Hospitals are preparing for the expected peak of the latest Covid-19 surge this week, the Northern Trust's chief executive has said.\n\nJennifer Welsh said there was \"huge pressure across the (healthcare) system\" with more intensive care admissions expected.\n\nThirty patients were awaiting admission to Antrim Area Hospital on Sunday morning, she said.\n\nThere were 25 more deaths linked to Covid-19 reported in NI on Sunday.\n\nThe total number of deaths recorded by the Department of Health since the start of the pandemic is now 1,606.\n\nIt was also reported that there had been 822 more positive cases, with 67 people in intensive care and 50 people on ventilators.\n\nThere are 840 patients being treated for Covid- 19 across Northern Ireland, according to the latest available figures with hospitals working at 93% capacity.\n\nMeanwhile, Northern Ireland has been continuing its vaccination programme having distributed 140,559 first doses and 20,174 second doses.\n\nThe total number of jabs administered in the UK, including both first and second doses, is 4,307,002 according to government data.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland on Sunday, there were 13 further deaths related to Covid-19, bringing the total number to 2,608 since the start of the pandemic.\n\nThere was also a further 2,944 positive cases, bringing the total number of cases in the state to 172,726.\n\nThe Republic of Ireland's Chief Medical Officer Dr Tony Holohan said the situation in the country's hospitals was \"stark\" and that people of all ages were being admitted and taken into intensive care.\n\nAt the beginning of January, Health Minister Robin Swann said that modelling indicated the \"peak of the third surge\" would hit in the third week of January.\n\nFrontline health staff have spoken to BBC News NI about their \"exhaustion\" and stress, as the pressure on the system continues to increase amid the surging number of cases.\n\nNorthern Ireland is currently in the third week of a six-week lockdown, with ministers scheduled to review measures next week.\n\nHowever, health officials have warned that an extension of the restrictions could be required to reduce pressure on the health service.\n\nNorthern Trust chief executive Jennifer Welsh said hospitals were \"coping but at great cost\"\n\nMs Welsh told BBC NI's Sunday Politics programme that the \"ICU surge is yet to come\" and that the Northern Trust - where two major hospitals, Antrim Area and Causeway, are located - has had to redeploy staff to prepare for the coming days.\n\nShe said both hospitals had been \"under significant pressure and have been for some time\".\n\nShe said 30 patients in Antrim Area's Emergency Department are waiting on a bed after a decision was made to admit them - 24 of those patients have been waiting longer than 12 hours.\n\nMs Welsh added that almost half of all patients in Antrim Area Hospital have tested positive for Covid-19.\n\n\"At the peak of the first wave in Antrim and Causeway the highest number of Covid positive patients was 73.\n\n\"In November, the highest number was 102 and we peaked on Thursday at 202. We have now dropped below that slightly.\"\n\nThe chief executive said the hospitals were \"coping but at great cost\", with many urgent surgeries cancelled.\n\n\"Emergency surgery is being done but we are not being able to do any other in the Antrim Area site.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by bbctheview This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"We have been able to deliver some red flag cancer surgery at Causeway but we would like to do more.\"\n\nDespite these emergency measures already in place, the worst of the current surge is only expected to arrive this week.\n\nShe added: \"We are not going to get out of this quickly. It's going to be a challenge for us as a system.\n\n\"It's been building from October.\"\n\n\"We're not yet at the peak of intensive care admissions and we expect that this week.\n\n\"Antrim has doubled its intensive care beds from seven to 14 in anticipation of the coming surge - 11 are already being used.\n\n\"All hospitals have doubled their ICU footprint. There are more than 160 inpatients in Antrim Area Hospital.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BMA Scotland GP chief says doctors \"can't plan\" for vaccines\n\nDoctors leaders say the \"patchy supply\" of vaccine to GP surgeries across Scotland is hampering the speed of delivery to patients.\n\nMinisters have pledged a first dose of the vaccine to 1.4 million of the most vulnerable Scots by mid-February.\n\nBut the British Medical Association in Scotland said inconsistencies in supply made it difficult to plan patient appointments to receive the vaccine.\n\nThey also said some GP surgeries had yet to receive any vaccine at all.\n\nThe Scottish government said it was working with health boards to resolve the issues.\n\nCurrently, about 16,000 vaccinations a day are being carried out in Scotland. However, that is expected to rise significantly as efforts to deliver the vaccine are scaled up.\n\nOn Sunday, 1,341 new cases of Covid-19 were reported - the lowest daily figure since 28 December. However, the numbers being admitted to hospital have continued to rise, reaching 1,918.\n\nNo new deaths were registered.\n\nHealth Secretary Jeane Freeman has pledged that the workforce and infrastructure will be in place to vaccinate 400,000 people each week by the end of February.\n\nThe government has already announced plans for large vaccination centres in Aberdeen, Glasgow and Edinburgh.\n\nIt comes after more than 5,000 front-line health and care staff were vaccinated at the NHS Louisa Jordan in Glasgow on Saturday.\n\nGP practices across Scotland are currently providing vaccination services to those aged over 80.\n\nAbout 16,000 vaccinations are currently being carried out a day in Scotland\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Politics Scotland programme, Dr Andrew Buist, who chairs the British Medical Association's (BMA) GP committee in Scotland, said there was inconsistencies across the GP network.\n\nHe said the vaccine deployment plan was \"ambitious\" and so far \"good progress\" had been made in giving it to priority groups such as care homes residents and front-line health staff.\n\nHowever, he told the programme: \"The current problem lies with the next priority group, which is the 80-plus group, which GPs in Scotland are set to vaccinate because the supply of the vaccine so far has been quite patchy.\n\n\"Some practices have a good supply, some have had none so far.\"\n\nHe said his practice had received 100 doses of the vaccine for 600 patients over the age of 80, who all needed to be vaccinated by 5 February.\n\nHe added: \"I then have to do another 1,200 patients in the 70-plus group and the extremely clinically vulnerable by the middle of February, so we need to do 1,700 vaccines in the next four weeks.\n\n\"Now we can do that. We are used to providing large number of flu vaccinations and it is possible, we have our workforce in place, but we need the vaccine, otherwise we can't do it.\"\n\nWhen asked if his practice was running out of vaccine at the end of each day, Dr Buist said: \"Yes - we can't plan, that's the key thing. We can't send out appointments to patients until we're sure we have the vaccine in our fridge.\n\n\"We were given 100 doses on Monday. We used that all up by Friday. We don't want to send out appointments to patients until we know that we can definitively vaccinate them otherwise patients get very upset.\"\n\nVaccinators have reported being able to extract one additional dose from vaccine vials\n\nDr Buist said vaccinators were regularly managing to extract higher numbers of doses from vaccine vials despite claims that some doses were being wasted.\n\nHe said there was widespread experience of six doses being extracted from Pfizer vaccine vials, which were marketed as having five doses, while 11 doses were regularly being taken from AstraZeneca vials.\n\nBut Dr Buist criticised issues around the red tape some retired health professional had faced when volunteering to become vaccinators.\n\n\"I have reports that arrangement to get doctors and nurses back into the system have been quite bureaucratic and I think it's something we need to look at.\"\n\nThe Scottish government acknowledged that there had been delays in vaccine supplies reaching some GP surgeries.\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"GPs have a significant role to play in delivering the vaccine - and we thank them for their hard work and patience as we roll out more vaccines to those in the communities.\n\n\"We know there have been some initial delays in supply reaching some practices and are working with health boards to resolve this. Vaccines are being manufactured as quickly as possible and we will continue to explore all options available to increase supply.\"\n\nThe government said health boards were providing order information for their GP practices to National Procurement who in turn advised the distribution partner.\n\nThe spokeswoman added: \"Once stock is released for ordering, the distribution partner inputs the GP orders on to their ordering system. Once the order has been placed, GP practices will receive an automated email providing an indication of the delivery day.\n\n\"We too want to vaccinate as many people as quickly as possible and are continually working hard to see if distribution can be made faster in any respect.\"", "Chris Cramer, a major figure in BBC News and later CNN International, has died at the age of 73 after a period of ill health. Former BBC director of news Richard Sambrook looks back at his life.\n\nChris Cramer's legacy will be the major change in attitudes and support for journalist safety he championed through the BBC and across the wider industry, as well as many achievements in newsgathering and international news.\n\nHe began his career as a teenager on the Portsmouth Evening News, moving to BBC Radio Solent when it launched in 1970.\n\nAfter a year's secondment in Brunei he found his way to the BBC TV Newsroom in the 1970s and developed his reputation as a highly competitive and effective news editor and field producer.\n\nIn 1980 he and a BBC team were in the Iranian Embassy in London collecting visas when it was seized by gunmen opposed to Ayatollah Khomeini. A standoff and siege followed, with Chris among 26 hostages.\n\nHe managed to feign serious illness and was released by the gunmen allowing him to give vital information to the authorities before the SAS stormed the embassy and rescued the hostages.\n\nAt a time when no-one understood or spoke of PTSD, it had a marked effect on his life.\n\nArmed police on the adjoining balcony to the Iranian Embassy during the siege in 1980\n\nMany journalists and crew subsequently spoke of his care and attention when they had difficult experiences and he went on to drive major changes in understanding and support for journalists' safety.\n\nWith BBC Safety manager Peter Hunter, Chris introduced the first hostile environment training courses, risk assessments and equipment for those covering conflicts.\n\nFormer correspondent Martin Bell recalls: \"From Vietnam to Croatia I had covered 10 wars without protection. Then in June 1992 we were shot up crossing the airport runway in Sarajevo in a soft-skinned vehicle. Within two weeks Chris had procured our first armoured Land Rover, the redoubtable 'Miss Piggy', and the body armour to go with it.\"\n\nHe later introduced the first confidential counselling service for news teams, recognising PTSD, and helped found the International News Safety Institute, which spearheaded safety across the news industry.\n\nDuring the 1980s he was at the forefront of organising and overseeing major news coverage, including Michael Buerk's reporting from the Ethiopian famine, coverage of the IRA Brighton bomb attack on the British government, the Zeebrugge ferry disaster, Kate Adie's reporting from Tiananmen Square, the fall of eastern Europe, the first Gulf War and many more major events.\n\nHis fierce competitiveness delivered a series of major exclusives and awards for BBC News.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jeremy Bowen This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn the 1990s he oversaw major investment in BBC Newsgathering and the integration of radio and TV reporting - often against internal resistance. His managerial style could be uncompromising and tough, but he was also bitingly funny, shrewd and his hard exterior hid a warm-hearted and generous core.\n\nHe was crucial to establishing the integrated News division as it exists today.\n\nIn 1996 he left the BBC to move to Atlanta as managing director and executive vice-president of CNN International.\n\nThere he took his passion for news safety and his competitive news edge to develop the network into a greater global force.\n\nAs his former BBC and CNN colleague Tony Maddox has said: \"Among his many accomplishments Chris was a pioneer and innovator in field safety for journalists. He led the development of guidelines and practices now widely adopted across the industry.\"\n\nCramer moved to CNN after his time with the BBC\n\nHe was a larger-than-life figure who generated affection and respect in equal measure, often wielding a rapid and disarming wit.\n\nHe is also remembered for supporting women into senior and executive positions and helping them succeed.\n\nDirector of BBC News Fran Unsworth recalls: \"He was one of journalism's enormous characters and a legend in the television news industry. But the legend and the reported image always belied the man.\n\n\"He was immensely kind, thoughtful and caring underneath that image he sometimes projected.\"\n\nFormer deputy director general Mark Byford said: \"He was probably the greatest newsgathering executive ever in the broadcast news business and his organisational skills, competitiveness, eye for a story and steel were extraordinary.\n\n\"He was also, behind the facade, a gentle giant who cared for his people with amazing passion and love.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by John Simpson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"Many editors, correspondents and presenters in BBC News owe their success to his mentorship - myself included.\"\n\nAfter 11 years he left CNN and took up roles first with Reuters TV and then the Wall Street Journal, where his experience and expertise were used to develop their digital video services.\n\nHe leaves his wife, Nina, son Richard and daughter Nicolette and his daughter Hannah by an earlier marriage to Helen, a former BBC producer.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nóra Quoirin's parents: \"The inquest is a battle we must continue in Nóra's name\"\n\nThe mother of a 15-year-old girl found dead in a Malaysian jungle says she believes her daughter's body was placed by somebody in the spot she was found.\n\nNóra Quoirin, from Balham in south London, vanished from her room at the Dusun rainforest resort in August 2019.\n\nHer body was found near the resort nine days after she went missing. A coroner recorded her death was by misadventure.\n\nMeabh Quoirin, who thinks Nora was abducted, said the family would \"never give up their fight for justice\".\n\nNóra was born with holoprosencephaly, a disorder that affects brain development, and her parents have always believed that wandering off from the resort - which is about 40 miles from Kuala Lumpur - was not something their daughter would have done.\n\nA post-mortem examination found Nóra had died three days before her body was found, due to gastrointestinal bleeding from hunger and stress endured over a prolonged period.\n\nBut Mrs Quoirin points out that the jungle had been searched on four occasions in the seven days leading up to her death, with police suggesting the teenager been \"alive and moving\" during the first stages of the search.\n\n\"The fact that search teams were there, along with many hundreds of volunteers in that particular area so close to her death, makes us feel that she was placed there at a later point,\" Mrs Quoirin told the BBC.\n\nNóra's parents Maebh and Sebastien Quoirin want there to be a revision of the inquest verdict\n\nThe teenager's mother pointed out that the inquest had not explained how her daughter ended up in the jungle, where her unclothed body was eventually found by a group of volunteers.\n\n\"I suppose the easiest one to dwell on was the fact there was an open window [in the family's chalet],\" said Mrs Quoirin, who is originally from Belfast.\n\n\"Someone opened that window, it wasn't any of us. That is totally unexplained.\"\n\nMalaysian police have always treated Nóra's disappearance as a missing person case. They maintain there was no suggestion of abduction, kidnap or foul play.\n\nDuring the search for her daughter, Mrs Quoirin told emergency services that their work meant \"the world to us\"\n\n\"Nóra always looked to someone else for reassurance on what she should do next so the idea that she would have climbed out a window - even found a window or seen a window in the pitch black - is in our view crazy,\" Mrs Quorin said.\n\n\"If she had somehow mistaken which door was for the bathroom and had gone out the front door for instance... she was barefoot, she would have instantly felt pain and she would have been absolutely petrified.\"\n\nNóra's parents have asked for a revision of the inquest verdict as \"so many questions have been left unanswered\".\n\nNóra was born with holoprosencephaly, a disorder which affects brain development\n\n\"I think it will be impossible to ever have all the answers to questions that inevitably we will agonise over for the rest of our lives,\" Mrs Quoirin said.\n\n\"We can do more justice by at least recognising who this child was and that she wouldn't have - couldn't have - done the things that have been ruled through this verdict of misadventure.\n\n\"It's our duty to Nora to stand up for that, to really recognise who she was and stand up in the name of all children with special needs, to recognise who these children are, what they represent in our society.\"", "Within seconds of being dropped, LauncherOne had ignited its engine\n\nSir Richard Branson's rocket company Virgin Orbit has succeeded in putting its first satellites in space.\n\nTen payloads in total were lofted on the same rocket, which was launched from under the wing of one of the entrepreneur's old 747 jumbos.\n\nSir Richard is hoping to tap into what is a growing market for small, lower-cost satellites.\n\nBy using a jet plane as the launch platform, he can theoretically send up spacecraft from anywhere in the world.\n\nIn reality, of course, his Virgin Orbit system has to be licensed in the locality where it is used, which at the moment is solely California. But there are well-advanced plans to bring the 747 and its rockets to Cornwall in south-west England, for example.\n\nSunday's success was a big fillip for Sir Richard's team who had tried and failed to launch a rocket in May last year. That effort was thwarted by a breached propellant line feeding liquid oxygen to the booster's first-stage Newton-3 engine.\n\nNo such problems occurred this time.\n\nThe modified 747, named Cosmic Girl, left its base in California's Mojave desert at 10:50 PST (18:50 UTC) to fly out over the Pacific Ocean.\n\nA little under 60 minutes later, and cruising at 35,000ft (10,500m), the jet banked hard to the right, dropping as it did so the 21m-long rocket that had been clamped to its underside.\n\nWithin seconds this booster, called LauncherOne, had ignited its engine and was climbing to space.\n\nCorrect deployment of the various spacecraft onboard at an altitude of roughly 500km was confirmed a couple of hours later.\n\n\"A new gateway to space has just sprung open,\" said Virgin Orbit CEO Dan Hart. \"That LauncherOne was able to successfully reach orbit today is a testament to this team's talent, precision, drive, and ingenuity.\"\n\nSir Richard has been trying to find the right solution to get into the satellite launch business since 2009. His concrete proposal was first put before the public at the Farnborough International Air Show three years later.\n\nThere is an emerging market for small, lower-cost spacecraft, whose developers are seeking more flexible and affordable ways of getting their assets above the Earth.\n\nSorry, we're having trouble displaying this content. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nVirgin Orbit is one of a number of companies now racing to meet this demand. Other contenders include the Rocket Lab outfit, which sends up its vehicles from a ground launch pad in New Zealand. But there are tens of other small rocket start-ups at various stages of maturation, and some of these plan to operate from the UK as well.\n\n\"Virgin Orbit has achieved something many thought impossible. It was so inspiring to see our specially adapted Virgin Atlantic 747, Cosmic Girl, send the LauncherOne rocket soaring into orbit,\" Sir Richard said.\n\n\"This magnificent flight is the culmination of many years of hard work and will also unleash a whole new generation of innovators on the path to orbit. I can't wait to see the incredible missions Dan and the team will launch to change the world for good.\"\n\nSir Richard presented the LauncherOne concept at Farnborough in 2012\n\nWill Whitehorn is the president of UKSpace, the trade body representing the space industry in Britain. He's also a former president of Virgin Galactic, Sir Richard's other space company which hopes soon to start flying fare-paying passengers above the atmosphere in a rocket plane.\n\nHe said Virgin Orbit's success on Sunday was hugely significant.\n\n\"This is a momentous day for the small satellite world, as we will be able to launch satellites responsively; and for the UK this event promises sovereign launch capability very soon,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"I plan to push hard for a launch from Cornwall to coincide with the G7 meeting this year if at all possible!\"\n\nSunday's payloads were mostly shoebox-sized and developed by universities\n\nThe air-launched system has the flexibility to operate anywhere - in theory", "A doctor has appeared in court charged with the attempted murder of a \"highly-respected\" fellow plastic surgeon who was stabbed in his own home.\n\nGraeme Perks, 65, was stabbed in his abdomen and chest in Halam, Nottinghamshire, on Thursday.\n\nJonathan Peter Brooks, also charged with three counts of attempted arson with intent to endanger life, appeared at Nottingham Magistrates' Court.\n\nMr Perks is currently in a serious but stable condition, police said.\n\nMr Brooks, 56, of Landseer Road, Southwell, has also been charged with possession of a knife in a public place.\n\nHe was remanded in custody to appear at Nottingham Crown Court on 15 February.\n\nPolice said they were not looking for anyone else in connection with the attack.\n\nGraeme Perks has been described as \"one of the most highly regarded and respected surgeons in the profession\"\n\nThe two men were colleagues at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust.\n\nA spokeswoman for the trust said: \"This incident has affected many of our staff who worked closely with, and are friends with Graeme.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with Graeme and his family at this time.\"\n\nMr Perks had served as president of the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (BAPRAS), which described him as \"one of the most highly-regarded and respected surgeons in the profession\".\n\nPolice previously said Mr Perks had gone to investigate the sound of breaking glass at about 04:15 GMT on Thursday, after an intruder was believed to have smashed their way into the house.\n\nPolice said Mr Perks was stabbed at his home in Halam, Nottinghamshire, while his family were upstairs\n\nThey said Mr Perks was stabbed and the suspect ran off.\n\nMr Perks worked in London, Sheffield, Newcastle and Melbourne, Australia, but returned to the UK in the mid-1990s and started working in Nottingham.\n\nHe and his wife have raised thousands of pounds for charity by opening their garden to visitors, and were featured on BBC Radio Nottingham after raising more than £34,000.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Keelan Wilson was 15 when he was stabbed more than 40 times\n\nFour men have been found guilty of murdering a boy stabbed more than 40 times in a \"well-planned execution\".\n\nKeelan Wilson, 15, was fatally injured on Langley Road in Merry Hill, Wolverhampton, on 29 May, 2018.\n\nThe four murderers acted \"like a pack of animals\" amid rising gang violence in the city, police said.\n\nKeelan's mother Kelly Ellitts said the convictions meant justice for her son, but added \"nothing would bring Keelan back\".\n\nIt emerged a few days after the murder that when an ambulance was called for the wounded boy, his final words included \"tell my mum I love her\".\n\nThe trial at Wolverhampton Crown Court heard how the night time attack - carried out by Brian Sasa and Nehemie Tampwo, each aged 20, along with Tyrique King and Zenay Pennant-Phillips, both 19 - was \"not in any way spontaneous\".\n\nDet Sgt Nick Barnes from the West Midlands force said Keelan had the \"single worst set of injuries\" he had seen on a victim in more than six years investigating homicide.\n\nThere had been increasing acts of violence between opposing gangs leading up to the murder, including disorder earlier that day, police said.\n\nThat included weapons being brandished in Wolverhampton city centre, and in another incident, Keelan and two others being shot at by a group of youngsters on bikes. No one was hurt.\n\nBut later on, the court heard, the group of four killers ran towards Keelan as he sat in a taxi close to his home, then pulled open the rear door and \"set about him with weapons\", inflicting more than 40 knife wounds.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Keelan Wilson's mother Kelly Ellitts 'hit the floor' when she saw he had been stabbed\n\nMichael Duck QC, prosecuting, said the killing \"was not in any way a spontaneous act of violence\".\n\nHe said: \"This was a well-planned, targeted group attack by a number of youths armed with knives, and that was with the plan to execute another young man.\"\n\nDuring the 13-week trial, jurors heard there was evidence to suggest the victim had \"become embroiled in gang culture\", with his killers believing he had switched factions.\n\nDet Sgt Barnes said it was \"difficult\" to pinpoint a motive \"because Keelan wasn't on the police radar particularly for any such activity\".\n\nKeelan was wounded just metres from his home, receiving 43 stab wounds in total, according to police.\n\nHe had been driving with a friend - with whom he met up after the shooting incident - when their car broke down, which led to a taxi being called.\n\nA spokesperson for the Crown Prosecution Service said while Keelan was attacked on boarding the vehicle, his friend was \"left unscathed\" and fled, making it \"evident\" to authorities that \"Keelan was the only target\".\n\nMs Ellitts said she lived with the shock of her son's death daily.\n\n\"This isn't something that you think of every now and again, this is a daily thing that you have to live with.\n\n\"It's terrible my daughters won't know who he is.\"\n\nOn the day of Keelan's death, CCTV captured a scene from the Wolverhampton city centre disorder that police said was linked to gang activity\n\nSasa, of Long Ley, Heath Town, Wolverhampton; King, of Chelwood Gardens, Wolverhampton; Tampwo of Fern Grove in Bletchley, Milton Keynes; and Pennant-Phillips, whose address cannot be published for legal reasons, had all denied murder.\n\n\"Keelan was a child who had his whole life ahead of him,\" Det Sgt Barnes said.\n\nThe convictions, he added, came after a \"very difficult and long investigation,\" with more than 2,000 lines of inquiry having to be examined.\n\nSome lines of investigation had been met with a \"wall of silence,\" he said.\n\nJudge Michael Chambers said: \"It is an utter tragedy that a 15-year-old child lost his life at the hands of others who are barely older than he.\"\n\nSentencing is set to take place at Wolverhampton Crown Court on 19 March.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n• None 'Tell mum I love her' said stabbed boy\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Monica Calazans, a 54-year-old nurse in São Paulo, was given a Chinese-developed vaccine\n\nA nurse has received Brazil's first Covid-19 vaccine dose after regulators gave emergency approval to two jabs.\n\nRegulator Anvisa gave the green light to vaccines from Oxford-AstraZeneca and China's Sinovac, doses of which will be distributed among all 27 states.\n\nBrazil has the world's second-highest death toll from Covid-19 and cases are rising again across the country.\n\nPresident Jair Bolsonaro has been heavily criticised for his handling of the pandemic.\n\nThe president, who caught Covid-19 last year and recovered, has said he will not take a vaccine.\n\nAuthorities reported 551 new fatalities on Sunday, the first time in six days that it had fallen short of 1,000 although this could reflect a delay in the reporting of numbers over the weekend.\n\nIn all, more than 209,000 Covid-related deaths have been recorded in Brazil, a raw total figure only exceeded by the US.\n\nOver 8.4 million infections have been confirmed since the start of the pandemic - the third-highest tally in the world.\n\nHealth Minister Eduardo Pazuello told reporters that the national vaccination programme in the country of 211 million people would begin in earnest in the coming days. Two Brazilian biomedical centres which have been given approval to produce the jabs will be heavily involved.\n\nAbout six million doses of the Sinovac-developed CoronaVac have already been produced in Brazil, while the government is waiting for shipments of the AstraZeneca vaccine from a laboratory in India.\n\nShortly after Anvisa's board gave emergency approval, Monica Calazans, a 54-year-old nurse in São Paulo, became the first person to be inoculated with CoronaVac.\n\nHer vaccination was organised by the São Paulo state government, which is led by Mr Bolsonaro's main political rival, João Doria.\n\nThis has been a rare piece of good news today for Brazilians who are grappling with a devastating second wave.\n\nFrom where I am, the city of Manaus, the vaccine does not feel real. People here are trying to recover a collapsed health system and doing what they can to keep their sick relatives alive.\n\nThe pandemic has become deeply political in Brazil. President Bolsonaro continues to present himself as a vaccine sceptic and he was notably absent as the vaccines were approved. Instead, Monday's newspapers will no doubt have São Paulo Governor Doria slapped on their front pages.\n\nHe is expected to run in next year's presidential elections and has backed the Sinovac vaccine from the very start. He was once a Bolsonaro ally and is now his nemesis - but there is no doubt who is leading the way in trying to get the population vaccinated.\n\nEarlier this week researchers said the Chinese vaccine had been found to be 50.4% effective in Brazilian clinical trials. This, results showed, was significantly less effective than previous data suggested - barely over the 50% needed for regulatory approval.\n\nCoronaVac is also being used in China, Indonesia and Turkey.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe news comes after revelations that a new coronavirus variant has emerged in Brazil. Several cases were traced back to the Amazonas state, where a state of emergency is in place.\n\nManaus, the state capital, has been hit especially hard, with beds and life-saving oxygen running low. Refrigerated containers have also been brought to hospitals to help store bodies.\n\nNeighbouring Venezuela said it had sent a convoy of trucks with oxygen supplies to help Amazonas.\n\nPresident Bolsonaro has faced mounting criticism for his handling of Brazil's outbreak, and several anti-government protests were held last week.\n\nAn opponent of lockdowns, he has previously blamed state governors and mayors for the Covid crisis, saying the federal government has provided all the resources needed to tackle the virus.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The deer had to be put down by a gamekeeper after the attack\n\nA warning has been issued by royal parks police after a dog carried out a \"relentless\" attack on a deer that had to be put down.\n\nFootage shows the dog savaging the red deer in London's Richmond Park.\n\nCases of pets worrying deer in London's eight royal parks have shot up during lockdown, police say. They are urging owners to keep dogs on leads.\n\nSeparately, on Sunday, a 10-year-old child was injured by a herd of deer being chased by a dog in Bushy Park.\n\nPolice said the incident in the park in Richmond-upon-Thames, which left the child needing hospital treatment, underlined the need for people to keep their dogs on a lead if they are unsure how they will react to deer.\n\nOn Friday, Franck Hiribarne, 44, from Kingston in south-west London, admitted causing or permitting an animal he was in charge of to injure another animal, in relation to the Richmond Park attack.\n\nWimbledon magistrates heard the doe suffered deep wounds, then received a broken leg when it was hit by a car as it tried to flee from the dog. Witnesses described the attack as \"relentless\".\n\nThe deer had to be put down by a gamekeeper after the attack in October.\n\nMr Hiribarne, who reported the matter himself to the Royal Parks Office, said he usually walked his red setter Alfie on a lead until he was well away from any grazing deer, and that the dog had been responding well to \"off-lead\" commands.\n\nThe dog owner, who was fined £600, said in a statement: \"I was genuinely shocked and sorry for what had happened and since then I have refrained completely from letting Alfie off the leash in any park.\n\n\"I have also taken a special dog trainer specialised in gundogs to control more accurately any of his hunting instincts. He has made great progress.\"\n\nFour deer have died from dog attacks in the royal parks since March 2020, while there have been 58 incidents of dogs chasing the herds - a big increase on previous years - according to the manager of Richmond Park.\n\nPart of the increase is thought to be down to new dog owners who are unfamiliar with the best conduct around wildlife.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Alexandru Murgeanu (l) and Jason Mercer were killed in the crash on the M1 in South Yorkshire\n\nA coroner has called for a review of smart motorways after an inquest heard the deaths of two men on a stretch of the M1 could have been avoided.\n\nJason Mercer, 44, and Alexandru Murgeanu, 22, died when Prezemyslaw Szuba crashed his lorry into their vehicles near Sheffield on 7 June 2019.\n\nCoroner David Urpeth said smart motorways without a hard shoulder carry \"an ongoing risk of future deaths\".\n\nHighways England said it was \"addressing many of the points raised\".\n\nMr Urpeth recorded a verdict of unlawful killing at Sheffield Town Hall. He added he would be writing to Highways England and the transport secretary asking for a review.\n\nThe inquest heard the deaths of the two men may have been avoided had there had been a hard shoulder.\n\nOn the stretch of the M1 where the crash took place, the hard shoulder has been replaced by an active lane.\n\nSzuba, 40, from Hull, was jailed last year after admitting causing their deaths by careless driving.\n\nHe was speaking from prison to the inquest.\n\nPrezemyslaw Szuba was jailed over the deaths\n\nAnswering questions over the phone, Szuba told the hearing he accepted he was driving without paying proper attention.\n\n\"I have already accepted that at my trial,\" he said, but added: \"If there had been a hard shoulder on this bit of motorway, the collision would have been avoidable.\n\n\"I would have driven past these two cars as it would be safer and they would have been able to come home safely and I would be able to come back home.\"\n\nSzuba said he had only three to five seconds to react, and asked if he would have avoided the crash had he been paying attention, he said: \"It's difficult to say after everything now.\"\n\nSgt Mark Brady, who oversees major collision investigations for South Yorkshire Police, told the hearing: \"Had there been a hard shoulder, had Jason and Alexandru pulled on to the hard shoulder, my opinion is that Mr Szuba would have driven clean past them.\"\n\nBut he accepted the primary cause of the crash was Szuba's inattention to the road.\n\nThe crash happened after a collision between a Ford Focus driven by Mr Mercer, from Rotherham, South Yorkshire, and a Ford Transit driven by Mr Murgeanu, who was living in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, but was originally from Romania.\n\nWhen Mr Mercer and Mr Murgeanu got out to exchange details they were hit by the lorry, and both died at the scene.\n\nMr Mercer's wife Claire has campaigned against smart motorways since her husband's death, and was at the hearing on Monday.\n\nClaire Mercer has campaigned against the use of smart motorways since her husband's death\n\nIn a statement, Highways England said it was \"determined\" to do everything it could to make roads as safe as possible and was already addressing many of the points raised by the coroner \"as published in the Government's Smart Motorway Evidence Stocktake and Action Plan of March 2020\".\n\n\"We will carefully consider any further comments raised by the coroner once we receive the report,\" it added.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A man has scaled a Hong Kong skyscraper in his wheelchair to raise money for spinal cord patients.\n\nLai Chi-Wai, who became paralysed after a road accident ten years ago, climbed 250 metres (820ft) of the Nina Towers building.\n\nBefore his accident, Lai Chi-Wai was a rock-climbing champion in Asia and eighth best in the world.\n\nHe said that \"knowing there was a possibility...that I could be a climber again, I found some direction in life\".", "Last updated on .From the section England\n\nPhil Neville has left his role as manager of England's women and been appointed in charge of David Beckham's Major League Soccer side Inter Miami.\n\nThe 43-year-old was appointed as England boss in January 2018 and his contract was set to end in July.\n\nThe Football Association says it will \"shortly confirm\" an interim head coach until Sarina Wiegman's arrival.\n\nNetherlands manager Wiegman will take on the role after the delayed Tokyo Olympics in August.\n\nFormer Manchester United and Everton defender Neville was the leading contender to manage Great Britain at the Games, but his move to the United States has left the FA needing another option.\n\n\"This is a very young club with a lot of promise and upside, and I am committed to challenging myself, my players and everyone around me to grow and build a competitive soccer culture we can all be proud of,\" Neville said of his American move.\n\nBeckham said of his former Manchester United team-mate: \"I have known Phil since we were both teenagers at the academy.\n\n\"We share a footballing DNA having been trained by some of the best leaders in the game, and it's those values that I have always wanted running through our club.\"\n\nThe MLS side had been managed by former Uruguay striker Diego Alonso before the 45-year-old left by mutual consent earlier this month.\n\nBeckham added: \"Anyone who has played or worked with Phil knows he is a natural leader, and I believe now is the right time for him to join.\"\n\nNeville led the Lionesses to their first SheBelieves Cup title in 2019 and fourth place at the Women's World Cup later the same year, but results since that tournament have been poor.\n\nEngland's struggles under Neville continued at the 2020 SheBelieves Cup, where a late defeat by Spain in the final match was their seventh loss in 11 games.\n\nThe Lionesses have not played since that game last March because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\n\"It has been an honour to manage England and I have enjoyed three of the best years of my career,\" said Neville, who won 19 of his 35 games in charge.\n\n\"The players who wear the England shirt are some of the most talented and dedicated athletes I have ever had the privilege to work with.\n\n\"They have challenged me and improved me as a coach, and I am very grateful to them for the fantastic memories we have shared.\"\n\nNeville, who had no previous experience in the women's game before taking over, has made a \"significant contribution\" during his three-year spell, said Baroness Campbell, the FA's director of women's football.\n\n\"The commitment, dedication and respect he has shown the position has been clear to see,\" she added.\n\n\"I will personally miss our many conversations about ways we can improve and progress.\"\n\nEngland are ranked sixth in the world, having been third when Neville succeeded Mark Sampson.\n\nNeville's record against the best sides came under particular scrutiny, with England winning one of their nine games against teams ranked in the top five in the world during his reign.\n\nNeville's record against teams ranked in the world's top five\n\n\"After steadying the ship at a challenging period, he helped us to win the SheBelieves Cup for the first time, reach the World Cup semi-finals and qualify for the Olympics,\" added Campbell.\n\n\"Given his status as a former Manchester United and England player, he did much to raise the profile of our team.\n\n\"He has used his platform to champion the women's game, worked tirelessly to support our effort to promote more female coaches and used his expertise to develop many of our younger players.\"\n\nWhat happens next with England?\n\nThe FA is expected to name England's interim head coach in the next few days.\n\nAmong the favourites is former Norway midfielder Hege Riise, one of the greatest players of her generation - a European Championship winner in 1993, a World Cup winner in 1995 and an Olympic gold medallist in 2000.\n\nAfter retiring as a player, Riise moved into club management in Norway and also coached the country's Under-23 side before spending three years as assistant to then-USA head coach Pia Sundhage from 2009.\n\nShe then joined the set-up at Norwegian club LSK Kvinner in 2012 - becoming head coach in 2017 - as they won six successive titles between 2014 and 2019, while also reaching the 2018-19 Champions League quarter-finals.\n\nRiise was one of seven nominees for the Fifa best women's coach award in 2020, won by Wiegman in December.\n\nThe new interim manager has no England fixtures booked in the diary, though there has reportedly been discussions over a mini-tournament during the next international window in February.\n\nEngland will not be taking part in the SheBelieves Cup but could host a tournament which would see three other nations take part in a round-robin event.\n• None All the goals, highlights and analysis from the weekend's Premier League matches, including Manchester United's visit to Liverpool: MOTD2 is streaming now on BBC iPlayer", "Morgan Le-Riche and other students have questioned if they should be paying full tuition fees\n\n\"I am paying £9,000 for a university degree that is causing me nothing but anxiety and stress.\"\n\nFor Morgan Le-Riche, the university experience since the coronavirus pandemic hit has not been worth the fee.\n\nSome students are calling for reduced tuition fees and more support.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it provided the most generous student support package in the UK and has appointed a dedicated minister for mental health.\n\nIn announcing a lockdown earlier this week, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said students in England would not return to the classroom until mid February, with calls for clarity over what will happen in Wales.\n\nMorgan, who is studying criminology and criminal justice at the University of South Wales, said \"something needs to be done to help us students\".\n\nHer Facebook post calling for more help was shared 3,000 times in three days - something that surprised her but also highlighted the depth of feeling.\n\nStudents face an uncertain time with with restrictions currently in place\n\nThe second year student said: \"I don't think the government is understanding students, instead they are only recognising primary and secondary schools - there's no recognition for university students.\"\n\nMorgan was given assignments to complete over Christmas, but said her lecturers had turned off their emails so she could not seek guidance when she was finding work difficult.\n\n\"I feel like the amount of stress I've had has meant I'm not doing a high enough standard of work, that I would normally do, due to the lack of assistance,\" she said.\n\nShe said more time with tutors and spaces for students to come together to discuss mental health would be beneficial.\n\nThe University of South Wales said their course teams are committed to providing \"comprehensive support\" and are \"readily available to offer help and guidance for students\".\n\nStudents in England have been told to work online and remain where they are\n\nA petition calling for the UK government to reduce university student tuition fees from £9,250 to £3,000 has gained more than 400,000 signatures online.\n\nMorgan thinks she has been \"massively let down\" and there needs to be a \"heavy reduction\" on the amount students are paying for their courses.\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said: \"We are the only country in the whole of Europe that provides equivalent up front living costs grants and loans for full and part-time undergraduates, and for post-graduates.\n\n\"This already covers campus-based and distance learners and will continue throughout the academic year.\"\n\nDanielle Herbert believes university students need more focus from government\n\nJournalism student Danielle Herbert, who also studies at the University of South Wales, said online learning has helped her mental health because otherwise a lot of her face-to-face interactions would be limited.\n\nDespite \"lecturers trying their best\", students' experiences since March last year have not been \"adequate for a £9,000 fee\".\n\nThe third-year student from Swindon said the prime minister's announcement of an England-wide lockdown was stressful \"because there was no mention of universities\".\n\nShe said: \"I was left very unclear and confused as to where I stood on travelling back to Wales. As someone who suffers from anxiety, I rely on concrete facts and that wasn't provided. We have been ignored by the prime minister.\n\n\"I had just paid my rent for this term - which was £2,300 - and I looked at my mum and dad and said: 'Am I even going to be able to go back to my student flat'?\"\n\nDanielle has called for more help for students in dealing with mental health issues during the pandemic\n\nShe does not believe students have had the same level of support as secondary school pupils, adding: \"We're still expected to produce the same standard of work without protection whilst there's a pandemic going on - it's really unrealistic.\"\n\nDanielle said having a \"no detriment\" policy in place would help to relieve students' stress.\n\n\"I think there's a real issue amongst students and students' mental health and it's only grown because of coronavirus. I think we will see the consequences of that if nothing is done.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government said: \"To support mental health services, we have made an additional £9.9m available, as part of efforts to ensure people can access the right support when they need it.\n\n\"In October we announced an additional £10m to support mental health services for higher education students in Wales to increase capacity in students' unions and universities to provide support services.\n\n\"This is in addition to the £27m Higher Education Investment and Recovery Fund announced in the summer.\"\n\nThe University of South Wales said the safety and wellbeing of students is its priority and students have access to a \"wide range of comprehensive support for their health, mental health and wellbeing\".\n\n\"Recognising that a number of staff would be on leave over the Christmas and New Year holidays, the course team let students know they were available for help and support right up until the end of term and students were encouraged to ask for support if they needed it,\" said a spokesperson.\n\n\"We are providing a full and interactive blended learning offer this term, in line with Welsh Government guidance, so that students can receive good experiences and a high-quality education, enabling them to progress and complete their studies on time.\"", "Software giant Github has apologised for firing a Jewish employee who warned co-workers to be careful about Nazis.\n\nThe employee was fired two days after using the word to describe participants in the US Capitol riots.\n\nBut Github now says that decision was a mistake, and its head of HR has resigned over the scandal.\n\nThe company says it has offered the fired employee his job back, and clarified that \"employees are free to express concerns about Nazis\".\n\nMicrosoft-owned Github is one of the most popular software development tools in the world, with more than 50 million users. News of the internal row was first reported by Business Insider.\n\nPeople associated with a range of extreme and far-right groups and supporters of fringe online conspiracy theories stormed Congress.\n\nAs it happened, the Jewish employee posted to an internal Github Slack channel: \"Stay safe homies, Nazis are about.\"\n\nBut the comment sparked criticism from a co-worker about the use of the word \"Nazi\" to describe the rioters, calling it \"untasteful conduct\" for the workplace.\n\nThe Jewish employee, who wished to remain anonymous, told Techcrunch he had been \"genuinely concerned about his co-workers in the area, in addition to his Jewish family members\".\n\nTwo days later, he was fired for his \"patterns of behaviour\".\n\nBut the firing led to an outcry from many more co-workers, with hundreds signing an internal letter calling on Github to explain the decision - and to publicly denounce Nazis.\n\nAmid the outcry, the company opened an investigation with an external investigator.\n\n\"The investigation revealed significant errors of judgment and procedure,\" chief executive Erica Brescia wrote in a blogpost. \"Our head of HR has taken personal accountability and resigned from GitHub.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Joe Biden: \"Yesterday, in my view, was one of the darkest days in the history of our nation.\"\n\nShe said the firm had \"reversed the decision to separate with the employee\", and had contacted him - but it is not clear if the employee wishes to return after the treatment he received.\n\nThe company has also issued statements condemning white supremacists, Nazism, anti-Semitism, and those who took part in the Capitol riots.", "A group of London business leaders has written to the government calling for financial support for the struggling rail firm Eurostar.\n\nIn a letter to the Treasury and Department for Transport, they urge \"swift action to safeguard its future\".\n\nBosses of firms such as Fortnum & Mason signed the letter asking for access to government loans and business rates relief \"at the very least\".\n\nThe government says it is \"working closely\" with Eurostar.\n\nThe cross-Channel rail company is threatened by a large drop in passenger numbers due to coronavirus-related travel restrictions.\n\nIt reported in November that passenger numbers had been down 95% since March 2020.\n\nWith two trains an hour normally scheduled in peak hours, it now runs just two services a day from London to Paris and Brussels.\n\nThe letter, coordinated by business campaigning group London First and seen by the BBC, describes the firm as one that has \"fallen through the cracks\". Unlike some airlines, it has not been eligible for government-backed loans.\n\n\"If this viable business is allowed to fall between the cracks of support - neither an airline, nor a domestic railway - our recovery could be damaged,\" it says.\n\nCo-signed by 28 leaders, including the vice-chancellor of Middlesex University, the chief executive of West End property company Shaftesbury, as well as the boss of the ExCeL conference centre, the letter points out that the company currently employs 1,200 people in the UK.\n\nThe firm is 55% owned by French state rail firm SNCF. The UK government sold its stake in the business to private companies for £757m in 2015.\n\nThe letter also credits Eurostar with reducing carbon emissions. Since it launched in 1994, it has transported more than 190 million passengers between Britain and mainland Europe.\n\nA spokesman for Eurostar said: \"Without additional funding from government there is a real risk to the survival of Eurostar, the green gateway to Europe.\n\nHe described the current situation as \"very serious\".\n\nA spokesman for the Department for Transport said: \"We recognise the significant financial challenges facing Eurostar as a result of Covid-19 and the unprecedented circumstances currently faced by the international travel industry.\"\n\nHe added the government had been in contact with Eurostar \"on a regular basis\" since the start of the coronavirus crisis and would continue to work closely with the firm.\n• None How are travel rules being relaxed?", "A small group of armed protesters held a rally in front of the capitol building in Texas\n\nSmall groups of protesters - some of them armed - gathered on Sunday at statehouses in the US, where tensions are high after the deadly riots at the Capitol in Washington.\n\nProtests were held outside capitol buildings in Texas, Oregon, Michigan, Ohio and elsewhere.\n\nBut many other statehouses were quiet, amid a ramping up of security across US legislatures. No clashes were reported.\n\nThe FBI has warned of armed protests ahead of Wednesday's inauguration.\n\nPresident-elect Joe Biden will take office two weeks after pro-Trump protesters stormed the US Capitol in Washington DC on 6 January, leaving five dead, including a police officer.\n\nMore than 25,000 National Guard troops are being deployed to secure Washington. In a sign of just how worried officials are about potential unrest, Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy told the Associated Press on Sunday that all Guard members were being vetted because of fears of an insider threat.\n\nAlso on Sunday, a county official from New Mexico was arrested in Washington in connection with the riots at the US Capitol on 6 January.\n\nCouy Griffin, the founder of a group called Cowboys for Trump, had vowed to return on inauguration day with firearms to \"embrace my Second Amendment\".\n\nMany cities had prepared for potentially violent protests over the weekend, erecting barriers and deploying thousands of National Guard troops.\n\nPosts on pro-Trump and far-right online networks had called for armed demonstrations on Sunday in particular, but some militias told their followers not to attend, citing heavy security or claiming the planned events were police traps.\n\nSmall crowds of protesters numbering in the dozens gathered in only some cities, leaving the streets surrounding many statehouses largely empty.\n\nMembers of the the Boogaloo Bois were seen outside the Michigan State Capitol in Lansing\n\nThe New York Times reported about 25 members of the Boogaloo Bois movement were among heavily-armed protesters who gathered at the statehouse in Columbus, Ohio. But the men - who are part of a loosely organised extremist group that wants to overthrow the US government - said they were there for a long-planned gun rights rally.\n\nMeanwhile in Michigan, about two dozen people - some carrying rifles - protested outside the statehouse in Lansing, as police watched on.\n\n\"I am not here to be violent and I hope no one shows up to be violent,\" one protester told Reuters news agency.\n\nA similarly small group of about a dozen protesters, a few armed with rifles, stood outside the Texas Capitol in Austin.\n\nOutside Pennsylvania's capitol in Harrisburg, one Trump supporter noted the poor turn-out, telling Reuters: \"There's nothing going on.\"\n\nMore protests are expected on Wednesday, when Mr Biden will officially be sworn into office, replacing Mr Trump as president.\n\nMr Biden will issue executive orders to reverse President Trump's travel bans and re-join the Paris climate accord on his first day in the White House.\n\nThe president-elect is also expected to focus on reuniting families separated at the US-Mexico border, and to issue mandates on Covid-19 and mask-wearing.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The US Capitol is on high alert ahead of Biden's inauguration\n\nMuch of Washington DC has been locked down ahead of the inauguration. The National Mall, which is usually thronged with thousands of people for inaugurations, has been shut at the request of the Secret Service.\n\nThe Biden team had already asked Americans to avoid travelling to the nation's capital for the inauguration because of the Covid-19 pandemic. Local officials said people should watch the event remotely.", "China's economy grew at the slowest pace in more than four decades last year, official figures show, but remains on course to be the only major economy to have expanded in 2020.\n\nThe economy grew 2.3% last year, despite Covid-19 shutdowns causing output to slump in early 2020.\n\nStrict virus containment measures and emergency relief for businesses helped the economy recover.\n\nGrowth in the final three months of the year picked up to 6.5%.\n\n\"The GDP data shows the economy has almost normalised. This momentum will continue, although the current Covid-19 outbreak in a couple of provinces in northern China might temporarily cause fluctuation,\" said Yue Su, principal economist for the Economist Intelligence Unit.\n\nChina's mainland share markets as well as Hong Kong's Hang Seng posted modest gains on the latest figures, which exceeded economists' expectations, according to a Reuters poll.\n\nHowever, Covid-19 was still a major drain on growth in 2020, with nationwide shutdowns of factories and manufacturing plants forcing economic growth down to its slowest rate for four decades.\n\nChina's manufacturing sector appears to have recovered, with Monday's data showing a 7.3% increase in industrial output.\n\nExports have also led the way. Data last week showed Chinese exports grew by more than expected in December, as coronavirus disruptions around the world fuelled demand for Chinese goods.\n\nThat is despite a stronger yuan, which makes Chinese exports more expensive for overseas buyers.\n\nChina's economy has seen a strong rebound, while the rest of the world struggles with anaemic demand, millions of job losses, and businesses shutting down.\n\nChina's economic engine roared back to life after a brutal lockdown that saw the Chinese economy contract by a historic 6.8% in the first quarter of 2020.\n\nWe should always be circumspect about Chinese data - with the usual caveat that the trajectory of the data rather than the figures themselves are a useful guide to how China's economy is growing.\n\nWhat these numbers show is that China's strategy of locking down cities hard and quickly has worked.\n\nA combination of government-led investment and global demand for Chinese goods also helped to power a rapid recovery, and boost exports.\n\nStill - this is the lowest rate of annual growth in more than 40 years for the economic giant. Worries over a resurgence of the virus are also clouding China's growth outlook, with consumer demand still weak.\n\nAnd Beijing is trying to navigate a prickly trade relationship with the US, with the incoming administration unlikely to be softer on China than President Donald Trump.\n\nAll of these challenges will no doubt weigh on Chinese growth in 2021 - but they seem to be in a better place than the rest of the world's major economies.\n\nIt was not all good news from the latest figures.\n\nLi Wei, a senior economist at Standard Chartered Bank, said pandemic-related exports and credit-fuelled car and housing sales accounted for much of the growth, while domestic demand lagged behind.\n\n\"Domestic household consumption of food, clothing, furniture and utilities remains below pre-pandemic levels, while the hospitality and transportation sectors continue to face capacity and travel restrictions,\" he told Reuters.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why does China’s economy matter to you?\n\nAlthough retail sales grew by 4.6% in the fourth quarter of 2020, they fell by 3.9% for the year.\n\nMany analysts are tipping growth to accelerate in 2021, but the China Bureau of Statistics has warned of a \"grave and complex environment both at home and abroad\", with the pandemic having a \"huge impact\".\n\nChina still faces many challenges, including continuing trade tensions with the US and how they might play out under the administration of President-elect Joe Biden, who takes office later this week.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lorry drivers have been holding up the traffic in Westminster.\n\nBoris Johnson has pledged £23m to help businesses affected by Brexit delays amid protests by fishing firms.\n\nDemonstrations took place outside government departments in central London by exporters who are warning their livelihoods are under threat.\n\nExports of fresh fish and seafood have been severely disrupted by new border controls since the UK's transition period ended earlier this month.\n\nThe PM said firms would be compensated for delays that were not their fault.\n\nIndustry associations have complained that extra paperwork has made it difficult to deliver fresh produce to mainland Europe before it goes off.\n\nThey have warned that if the situation continues, jobs could soon be at risk.\n\nPressed on what he would do in response, Mr Johnson said the government would step in to support firms which \"through no fault of their own have experienced bureaucratic delays, difficulties getting their goods through, where there is a genuine willing buyer on the other side of the channel\".\n\n\"There's a £23m compensation fund we've set up and we'll make sure they get help,\" he said.\n\nDetails of the scheme are expected later this week.\n\nAfter a day of protests in central London, which saw 20 lorries drive up Whitehall, the Metropolitan Police said 14 people had been reported for Covid-related offences, but no arrests were made.\n\nMark Moore, manager of the Dartmouth Crab Company, said his business and others were protesting to \"raise awareness\" of the impact of new border checks.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 5 Live his company had faced delays of up to eight and a half hours when delivering produce into the European Union.\n\nHe added that the situation was \"especially difficult\" for the shellfish sector, where goods were at risk of going off before reaching customers.\n\n\"It's not about the increased documentation per se,\" he said.\n\n\"We have taken that on board, and we ourselves - and I know many others - have had no issues with producing the actual paperwork.\n\n\"It's the volume required and the timeframe in which to produce it, which doesn't lend itself to live shellfish and fish generally.\"\n\nThere are 24 lorries in total, overwhelmingly from seafood exporters in Scotland. Businesses taking part say the Brexit trade deal has left their industry high and dry.\n\nAnd although one haulier from Aberdeenshire I spoke to was keen to stress that their coordinated protest was peaceful, it is clear that they all feel that direct action is now necessary to make the government sit up and take notice.\n\nGood natured though their action was, it did for a time cause serious traffic congestion along Whitehall and Parliament Square.\n\nHowever, low levels of traffic perhaps caused by the Covid lockdown meant the roads around Whitehall didn't grind to a complete halt.\n\nAt stake, they believe, is an industry, but also thousands of livelihoods. Exporters say they are backed by fishermen who are struggling to land their catches.\n\nAnd although the rural Scottish communities which are sustained by fishing might seem like a long way from the streets of SW1, the hauliers certainly made their presence felt this morning.\n\nHaving left the EU's customs union and the single market, UK exports are subject to new customs and veterinary checks which have caused problems at the border.\n\nSome Scottish fishermen have been landing their catch in Denmark to avoid the \"bureaucratic system\" involved in exporting to Europe, according to Scotland's rural economy secretary.\n\nLast week, Boris Johnson told a committee of MPs that fishing firms impacted by disruption would be compensated for \"temporary frustrations\".\n\nBut the BBC was told that the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) did not know about the promise of compensation before it was made by Mr Johnson.\n\nSpeaking to reporters, the prime minister said he understood the \"frustrations\" of the fishing industry, noting its plight had been \"exacerbated by the Covid pandemic\".\n\n\"Unfortunately, the demand in restaurants on the continent for UK fish has not been what it was before the pandemic, just because the restaurants have been closed for so long,\" he added.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer accused ministers of trying to \"blame fishing communities\" for problems \"rather than accepting it's their failure to prepare\".\n\n\"The government has known there would be a problem with fishing and particularly the sale of fish into the EU for years,\" he told reporters.\n\nMuch media attention has been focussed on Scotland as this export crisis has unfolded.\n\nBut exactly the same problem is rearing its head in the UK's other great fishing stronghold - at the other end of the UK in Devon and Cornwall.\n\nA virtual Who's Who of South West fishing leaders wrote to the environment secretary back in November warning that the new post-Brexit export requirements would have a \"seriously detrimental effect\" on the industry, claiming this \"could be the final straw for many businesses\".\n\nHere, too, many fish exports have now ground to a halt and others have encountered obstacles and long delays.\n\nAnd exporters have reacted angrily to the government's repeated insistence that the issues they've been experiencing over the last two weeks are just \"teething problems\".", "Although it has been common to hear and see the impact on care homes internationally throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, one country where such insight has been rare is China.\n\nPrivate care homes have been growing in popularity in China in recent years, but there are some stigmas associated with the industry.\n\nIn China, many view nursing homes as going against the cultural concept of “filial piety”. This is the belief that the young should respect for and care for their elders, and so many believe the elderly should live with their children, and not live in care homes.\n\nHowever, as cases of the virus grow in the northeast of the country, the official broadcaster CCTV has offered viewers a rare insight into how China’s elderly in these facilities are being protected.\n\nA journalist today has visited the Shijiazhuang Nursing Home. Shijiazhuang is the Chinese city that has been hardest hit by the virus in recent weeks.\n\nIn a 30-minute livestream in which he is clad in hazmat suit and visor, journalist Gu Junling introduces viewers to how the facilities are kept safe, and shows viewers inside the care home’s stockrooms, packed with ample provisions for its residents.\n\nMany of the residents seem happy to speak to the journalist and talk about how they are healthy, and happy. Masks are mandatory for both residents and staff, even in the areas outside on-site. However, far from being kept under house arrest, residents are shown to have sufficient space to go outside, use computers and games rooms.", "Tributes have been paid to the actor Andy Gray who has died at the age of 61.\n\nThe Perth-born star was a well known face on TV and the stage for more than 40 years.\n\nAmong his best known on-screen roles were \"Chancer\" in the 1980s comedy City Lights and more recently \"Pete Galloway\" in BBC soap River City.\n\nHis River City co-star Gayle Telfer Stevens said Gray was a \"national treasure\".\n\nShe added: \"Not only was he an exceptional actor and entertainer who brought so much joy to so many people, he was an extraordinary man.\n\n\"When you were in his presence you could feel it was of greatness. The most kind, clever, funny beyond measure, beautiful man.\"\n\nAndy Gray, second from the left in the back row, starred as \"Chancer\" in the hit 1980s comedy show \"City Lights\"\n\nAndy Gray performing at the Edinburgh Festival in 2013\n\nSteve Carson, director of BBC Scotland, said: \"We are deeply saddened by the news that one of Scotland's much loved comedy actors and close friend to many at BBC Scotland, Andy Gray has passed away.\n\n\"On screen and in person he could always make you laugh and was one of the kindest people to have around on any production. Our thoughts are with his family at this difficult time.\"\n\nAndy Gray, pictured with Grant Stott, had been one of the stars at Edinburgh's King's Theatre pantomime for years\n\nMartin McCardie, executive producer at BBC Scotland Studios, added: \"When Andy joined River City in 2016 he had an extremely successful stage, TV and film career behind him, but the character of Pete Galloway turned out to be one of the most popular ever to pass through Shieldinch.\n\n\"Andy took ill in 2018 and he had to leave the show and he had a difficult time. His ongoing recovery was borne with humour and gratitude for what he had. He had unfinished business on River City and we were looking forward to welcoming him back to film with us before the end of the current series.\"\n\nAndy Gray was genuinely one of the nicest people in the world of showbusiness.\n\nWhether you were an actor, or a journalist, or just someone who'd seen him in panto, he was always ready to have a chat.\n\nWhen he dropped out of his Fringe show in 2018, after being diagnosed with a rare form of leukaemia, he was inundated with good wishes, but said he wanted privacy to deal with his illness.\n\nHe retreated to his home in Perthshire and took the time to recover.\n\nWhen he returned to the stage of the Kings Theatre in Edinburgh for their 2019 panto, it was an emotional milestone.\n\nWrapped in his Batman dressing gown backstage (he was a huge fan with a shed full of film paraphernalia) he admitted it could be overwhelming. Sometimes the whoops and cheers of the audience at his arrival in the midst of a glitzy song and dance routine would go on for several minutes.\n\nHis co-stars Grant Stott and Allan Stewart watched from the wings and said it had restored the balance of their long established trio. The Kings is one of the only theatres to have a tradition of a pantette - where the cast sit in the auditorium and watch the front of house staff performing the show. Andy wasn't spared the merciless send up, nor would he have wanted to.\n\nDaughter Claire was also in the show - as one of the three bears - and her baby daughter was in Andy's arms for the curtain call. But whether his actual family, or his panto family, or the generations of people who've seen him onstage or screen, it was a moment of hope, as well as joy, that someone who'd brought so much laughter and entertainment to Scotland was back.\n\nThat's why his sudden death at 61 is such a cruel blow.\n\nHe had been campaigning to keep the Kings afloat, and was involved in online performances. He and Allan Stewart had hoped to appear in one of the few surviving pantomimes in Milton Keynes but that too was cancelled.\n\nFriends and colleagues knew he'd been admitted to hospital in the last few days, and feared the worst. Those who simply knew him as someone who made them laugh, on stage or screen, are no less bereft.\n\nTonight the world of Scottish entertainment is in mourning for a gifted comic actor, writer and genuinely nice man.", "Aberystwyth University's vice chancellor told students not to attend lectures unless \"absolutely necessary\"\n\nAberystwyth University has told its students not to return to campus following new advice from the Welsh Government.\n\nA phased return had been planned from 11 January, but this has now been postponed.\n\nVice-chancellor Prof Elizabeth Treasure said students should not attend the university, in Ceredigion, unless \"absolutely necessary.\"\n\nOn Friday the Welsh Government told learners \"study from home if you can\".\n\nMs Treasure said: \"We are reviewing our plans for in-person teaching and will inform you as soon as we can. Whilst we are reviewing those plans, we don't want students travelling to the university unnecessarily.\"\n\nShe said there were certain exceptions, including students without internet access and those for whom laboratory access was essential.\n\nWales' Education Minister, Kirsty Williams, said universities were reviewing their plans based on their individual circumstances.\n\n\"On return, students are also expected to take two asymptomatic tests and comply with rules as they re-join their term time household,\" she said.\n\nDespite the announcement, Bangor University said on Facebook on Friday that it \"falls under the rules of the Welsh Government which allow for a staggered return to blended learning\".\n\nCardiff University said earlier this week that most students would not return to face-to-face teaching until 22 February.\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said: \"Our message to students, staff and universities in general is the same as the rest of the population: Stay home, work or study from home if you can.\n\n\"Only attend your place of work or study if you can't work from home.\"\n\nThe new announcement came after calls for clarity were made because of differences with the rules in England.\n\nAt that point, the Welsh Government and Universities Wales said the plans agreed before Christmas would remain in place.\n\nOn Friday, it was announced that schools and colleges would stay closed to most pupils until the February half term unless there is a \"significant\" fall in Covid cases.", "LAS received almost 200,000 calls in December - up 50,000 on November, when London was in the second national lockdown\n\nLast week London exceeded the grim milestone of 10,000 deaths linked to Covid-19. Thousands of people are critically ill in hospital, and as many as 5% of Londoners are thought to have the virus in some parts of the city. As coronavirus continues to circulate silently around the capital, staff at the London Ambulance Service (LAS) are under immense pressure.\n\nThe service is currently taking up to 8,500 calls a day, compared with a pre-Covid figure of 5,000 to 6,000, according to its chief executive Garrett Emmerson.\n\nLizzie Cooke is one of the workers at LAS's south London headquarters who are dealing with strangers at what is a distressing time.\n\nI covered the London Bridge terror attacks and Grenfell but this is a different scale\n\nCalmly, the 30-year-old answers the phone and usually asks first if the patient is breathing.\n\n\"In the first wave we were getting a lot of calls of [people seeking] reassurance,\" Lizzie says. \"But now there are more and more who have symptoms, and family members are really frightened.\"\n\nIt is a fear that Lizzie knows all too well, having been hospitalised with Covid-19 in March. She spent a week receiving treatment for the virus.\n\n\"I was at work taking calls and struggling to concentrate,\" the call-handling supervisor says. \"At times I would just have my head on the desk in between calls.\n\n\"I started to develop chest pains five days later so my parents took me to Royal County Hospital, in Hampshire, and an X-ray showed a lot of fluid in my lungs. It was quite horrible.\n\n\"Luckily, I wasn't on a ventilator but I had the oxygen hood, and the nurses were so rushed off their feet. I didn't have my phone with me or know my parents' numbers off by heart so for that week I was quite alone and isolated.\n\n\"It was just a mixture of the unknown and not knowing when it was going to stop that was so daunting.\"\n\nThe unprecedented volume of calls means waiting times for patients are increasing\n\nLizzie's personal battle with coronavirus has helped her to empathise with people who call up with breathing problems.\n\nIt's something she says she's having to do more and more.\n\n\"Just before Christmas we were getting a lot of respiratory and cardiac arrest calls,\" she says. \"You could just hear colleagues counting to four [for chest compressions] and it was echoing around the room. It has been tough.\n\n\"We are getting calls from family members who are really frightened. I covered the London Bridge terror attacks and Grenfell but this is a different scale.\n\n\"I did get one call for toothache, but that's part of the job.\"\n\nLizzie, who lives in Hampshire, says that because the coverage of coronavirus is everywhere, it is \"difficult to escape\".\n\nWhen she's not at work she binge-watches Line of Duty on Netflix, but she says winding down isn't easy.\n\nLizzie sometimes thinks about the people who aren't following the rules aimed at helping stop the spread of the virus, and those who deny Covid-19 even exists.\n\n\"It's a kick in the teeth,\" she says. \"It is frustrating on the way to work when you see people not wearing masks or even posting stuff on social media not believing the virus is real.\n\n\"I just don't know where the disconnect is coming from; there are many people in hospital, many people dying, and I don't know what more needs to be said to make them realise how dangerous the illness is.\"\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\nSitting a few metres away from Lizzie is 24-year-old Louise Essam, who has been in the job for two years.\n\n\"Every call we take at the moment is coronavirus,\" she says. \"My record was 108 calls in a day back in March during the first wave.\n\n\"But easily in the last few weeks I've been taking around 100 a day at times,\" Louise adds.\n\n\"We are just doing the best we can,\" says emergency call co-ordinator Louise Essam\n\n\"Sometimes I'll come in for a shift and can just hear colleagues counting one, two, three, four, for the compressions, and you just know what kind of shift it is going to be.\n\n\"It has been tough and quite frustrating, really. We are trying to help people. We are under so much pressure as there are high waiting times, but we are just doing the best we can.\"\n\nHelp is at hand though from the LAS workers' fellow emergency services personnel.\n\nMet Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick visited Wembley Stadium on Wednesday, where her officers are being trained to drive ambulances\n\nSeventy-five Met Police officers are currently being trained at Wembley Stadium to drive ambulances.\n\nThey will start work as drivers from 20 January, joining the 200 firefighters who are already helping LAS.\n\n\"It came as a huge relief when they announced it,\" says 37-year-old paramedic Ben West.\n\nBen West has been with the London Ambulance Service for 13 years\n\nAs is the case with many frontline workers, Ben says he is concerned about the dangers of exposure to coronavirus.\n\nHe has lost four colleagues to Covid-19, including Ian Reynolds, a paramedic based in Croydon, and Melonie Mitchell, a member of the NHS 111 team. They both died during the first wave in April.\n\n\"I wouldn't be a normal person if I said I wasn't scared,\" he says.\n\n\"I am scared and I do worry but we take every day as it comes, take our precautions and we just see where we go with that.\n\n\"We know the virus is out there in the community and we are not immune.\"", "Audi factories, like others, will make thousands fewer cars at the start of this year\n\nAudi is having to slow production because of a computer-chip shortage it is calling a \"crisis upon a crisis\".\n\nBoss Markus Duesmann said it was now aiming to make 10,000 fewer cars in the first quarter of the year and putting more than 10,000 workers on furlough.\n\nIts parent company, Volkswagen, announced its own go-slow due to a lack of chips last week, alongside rivals such as Honda.\n\nMr Duesmann told the Financial Times carmakers had been caught by surprise.\n\nAfter a poor start to 2020 for new car sales, manufacturers cut their orders from the Chinese factories making computer chips.\n\nBut then, at the end of the year, \"everybody was quite surprised by the strength of the market\", Mr Duesmann said.\n\nHowever, ordering new chips is not simple.\n\nCCS Insight analyst Geoff Blaber said: \"Semiconductors have a broad range of applications but a very limited pool of companies capable of manufacturing the silicon.\n\n\"Demand is high, and supply is tight\" and any sudden needs \"can prove very difficult to accommodate\".\n\n\"Modern cars are becoming computers on wheels, with an abundance of silicon required to control everything from the infotainment system to camera, radar and lidar,\" he said.\n\nThe demand from carmakers \"competes for manufacturing capacity with smartphones, servers and a host of other segments\".\n\nAnd a boom in the market for devices such as PCs and new game consoles was making it doubly difficult to book manufacturing time.\n\nThe shortages have seen Mercedes-maker Daimler, Fiat, Ford, Honda, Nissan, Subaru and Toyota all reportedly suspend production for days or weeks at a time.\n\nAnd German car-parts company Continental described \"largescale supply shortages\", with lead times of six to nine months, adding bottlenecks were expected to continue \"well into 2021, causing major disruptions\".", "Two drivers from Scotland were stopped by police on Anglesey going to see friends.\n\nPeople who drove more than 200 miles to visit friends in Wales and a group having a party in a garden shed have been caught breaking Covid rules.\n\nPolice forces in Wales have broken up parties, football matches and fined people for visiting beauty spots this weekend while Wales is in lockdown.\n\nTwo motorists were reported by North Wales Police in Anglesey after driving from Scotland to visit friends.\n\nWhile in Swansea, eight people were fined after a party was held in a shed.\n\nThe drivers from Scotland were stopped by police at Valley, near Holyhead, and reported for driving without insurance and breaching Covid travel restrictions.\n\nOfficers from North Wales Police on Saturday also stopped a car from Portsmouth as the driver was travelling to \"collect a front bumper\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEven though national parks have shut car parks in a bid to stop people visiting, North Wales Police said it received about 100 calls on Saturday about potential Covid breaches - and officers told people they need to take \"personal responsibility\" and \"stay home\".\n\nSouth Wales Police officers issued fixed penalty notices after finding people from \"all different households\" in a shed - which had been converted into a bar - in the Sketty area of Swansea all \"mixing together\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Mark Drakeford This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA further nine fixed penalty notices were given out in the Townhill area of the city after different households attended a baby reveal party on Sunday.\n\nFive people were warned about breaking laws in Neath Port Talbot after a group travelled to a field to play football, while four people were fined after a house party in Aberavon.\n\nUnder coronavirus rules people are only allowed to leave their homes for \"essential\" reasons, including to shop for food, get medical treatment and to exercise.\n\nWhile exercise is allowed, people are not allowed to drive to a spot for a walk, run or cycle, and the law means exercising with people you do not live with (or who are your bubble if you live alone) is banned.\n\nThose found to be in breach of Covid laws can be fined £60 for the first offence, with the penalties increasing up to £1,920. If prosecuted, however, a court can impose an unlimited fine.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid lockdown: 'This is why we say to you do not come out'\n\nUntil recently police had been using an education first approach, but the Welsh Government has repeatedly said it wants to see stricter enforcement of the rules.\n\nIn Powys, road officers from Dyfed-Powys Police stopped cars and turned around people driving to exercise.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Traffic Wales North & Mid #KeepWalesSafe This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn Port Talbot, two people sat on a bench drinking alcohol were fined by South Wales Police for \"leaving home without a reasonable excuse\".\n\nGwent Police officers broke-up a house party in Glyn-Gaer, Caerphilly county, on Friday evening and issued fines.", "A non-binding Labour motion calling for the universal credit top-up to be kept in place beyond 31 March passed by 278 votes to none after a Commons debate.\n\nSix Tory MPs defied party orders to abstain and voted with Labour, adding to the pressure on the PM on the issue.\n\nThe prime minister said the government had provided £280bn worth of support during the pandemic but all measures would be kept under \"constant review\".\n\nThe motion, which will not automatically lead to a change in policy, was put forward by Labour as a way to put additional pressure on the government to continue the increase, worth £1,000 a year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Carl, a roofer, describes going from \"not having enough to barely having enough\" on universal credit.\n\nFormer Work and Pensions Secretary Stephen Crabb was among six Conservative MPs to rebel, along with Peter Aldous, Robert Halfon, Jason McCartney, Anne Marie Morris and Matthew Offord.\n\nAhead of the vote, Mr Crabb told the BBC that although there were \"difficult pressures on the chancellor\" extending the increase for 12 months was \"the right thing to do\".\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said there were dozens of Conservative MPs who were \"deeply uneasy\" about ending the £20 weekly increase to universal credit.\n\nShe added that it was also understood the cabinet minister with responsibility for benefits, Therese Coffey, was arguing that the uplift should not be dropped in April.\n\nCharities and anti-poverty campaigners are pleading with the government to keep the support in place, describing it as a lifeline for more than 5.5 million families who receive the standard universal credit allowance.\n\nFood poverty campaigner and chef Jack Monroe told the BBC that the £20 increase \"has been a lifeline\" for millions of people who have needed to top up their income or rely on universal credit payments in order to get by.\n\nSir Keir said the increase was a vital safety net for those who had lost their jobs, seen their working hours slashed or who were not eligible for the government's wage subsidy furlough scheme.\n\n\"If we don't give a helping hand to families through this pandemic, then we are going to slow our economic recovery as we come out it.\n\n\"We urge Boris Johnson to change course and give families certainty today that their incomes will be protected.\"\n\nSix billion pounds of the benefits bill - the difference between poverty or not for 1.2 million families, according to a think tank.\n\nThe £1,040 a year increase to universal credit is a very emotive issue.\n\nThere's even a battle over what to call it.\n\nTo the government, its introduction was a one-off boost to cope with a crisis. For Labour, taking it away is a cut.\n\nMinisters would prefer we looked at the overall level of support they've provided for workers and businesses during the pandemic. The opposition say the £20 a week boost is a powerful symbol of the state's willingness to help.\n\nEven the act of debating it today is disputed. Labour say they've got the right occasionally to set the agenda in Parliament. Boris Johnson said his MPs risk abuse from campaigners and protestors if they engage.\n\nThe Joseph Rowntree Foundation has suggested about 16 million people will be directly affected if the £20 is rolled back.\n\nIt says 500,000 more people will be driven into poverty, including 200,000 children, while a further 500,000 of those already in poverty will find themselves in even worse hardship.\n\nHowever, free market think tank the Institute for Economic Affairs has argued that \"across-the-board benefit increases are a wasteful use of taxpayers' money\" at a time when the government is borrowing \"a hair-raising amount of money\".\n\nUniversal credit is a single payment replacing old benefits such as housing benefit and child tax credits.\n\nYou can claim universal credit if you are on a low income or are out of work.\n\nThe standard allowance varies from around £340 to just under £600 a month, depending on your age or whether you are single.\n\nYou may be eligible to receive more money on top of the standard allowance if, for example, you have children or a health condition.\n\nSpeaking on behalf of the Northern Research Group, Conservative MP John Stevenson said the £1,000 increase had been \"a real life-saver for people throughout this pandemic\".\n\n\"To end it now would be devastating for the 6 million individuals and families who are already struggling to stay afloat,\" he added.\n\nWhile the vote is not binding, and will not lead to a change in policy, it will increase pressure on the government to keep the increase or come up with an alternative.\n\nLabour said the Conservatives' decision to abstain created \"unnecessary uncertainty\" but minister Nadhim Zahawi described the vote as \"a political stunt\".\n\nThe government says it has strengthened the welfare system with an extra £7bn of funding during the pandemic while families struggling with food and household bills can get help through the £170m Winter Grant Scheme.\n\nMinisters also point to extra support for housing costs, through an increase in local housing allowance for those on housing benefits and hardship payments worth £670m next year for those unable to pay their council tax bills.", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "Staff are in \"the eye of the storm\" amid the coronavirus pandemic, the NHS says\n\nTen hospital trusts across England consistently reported having no spare adult critical care beds in the most recent figures.\n\nIt comes as hospital waiting times, coronavirus admissions and patients requiring intensive care are rising.\n\nEngland's 140 acute trusts had 5,503 adult critical care beds on 10 January, with 4,632 in use.\n\nNHS bosses have warned hospitals could \"hit the limit\" of their capacity this week.\n\n\"I think, this next week, we will be at the limit of what we probably have the physical space and the people to safely do,\" Danny Mortimer, the chief executive of the NHS Confederation, said.\n\n\"And, of course, this is the week when we expect also the highest rate of admissions, the highest demand for the care that we're providing.\"\n\nThe latest figures from NHS England show the number of trusts that were, on average, at full capacity in adult critical care across an entire week rose from four to 10 in the week to 10 January.\n\nThis was the highest number in the last 10 weeks for which data was available.\n\nThe increase comes despite trusts adding an additional 50% \"surge\" capacity across the summer and autumn to cope with winter pressures, according to NHS England.\n\nOverall, 30 acute hospital trusts in England had no spare adult critical care beds on 10 January alone. But daily admissions figures can vary from day-to-day as patients move in and out of intensive care.\n\nSpeaking on the Andrew Marr Show on Sunday, NHS England chief executive Sir Simon Stevens said nine critical care patients had recently been transferred to other parts of the country because of no beds being available in their local area.\n\nSpeaking about all admissions, Sir Simon said hospitals in England had seen an increase of 15,000 inpatients since Christmas Day.\n\n\"That's the equivalent of filling 30 hospitals full of coronavirus patients and staggeringly every 30 seconds across England another patient is being admitted to hospital with coronavirus,\" he added.\n\nHelen Buckingham, from Health think-tank The Nuffield Trust, said the NHS was facing a winter \"like no other\" and, on top of rising coronavirus hospital admissions, critical care beds were also required for non-Covid patients.\n\n\"The NHS has pulled out all the stops to create more beds this year, and hospitals are working together so that patients who need critical care can be moved to other hospitals as necessary - but without more fully trained critical care staff there isn't much further the service can go,\" she said.\n\nThe figures only tell part of the story. The creation of extra beds to cope with rising numbers of Covid patients has come at a price.\n\nCritical care beds have been set up in overspill areas including departments usually reserved for operations. What is more, there is no extra staff to look after these extra patients - so specialist intensive care nurses have been stretched across more patients than normal. Instead of providing one-to-one care for the most sick, some areas are seeing nurses looking after three or four patients.\n\nStaff from other areas have had to be redeployed into critical care departments too.\n\nThat of course comes at a cost to non-Covid services and is part of the reason we have seen planned surgery and even cancer care being cut back on.\n\nA leaked email recently revealed about 200 doctors would be redeployed to Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham amid fears its intensive care unit could be \"overwhelmed\".\n\nUniversity Hospitals Birmingham NHS Trust said it had \"significantly\" more patients in hospital with Covid-19 than in April last year.\n\nThe trust had 147 critical care beds available across its hospitals as of 10 January, all of which were full as of the latest figures.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What does it mean if the NHS is overwhelmed?\n\nA spokesman said the trust would continue to extend its intensive care teams \"so they are able to treat the rising number of Covid-19 patients and those who require time-critical surgery, including cancer operations\".\n\nAiredale NHS Foundation Trust, despite having nine critical care beds overall, said it did not normally experience full occupancy at this time in the year and the ward had both Covid and non-Covid patients.\n\n\"We are experiencing normal winter pressures across the trust, combined with an increasing number of Covid-19 patients, particularly over the last week,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\n\"Every bed in ICU that is occupied by a Covid-19 patient is one less available for people who need that level of care for other reasons.\"\n\nSir Simon said the current number of patients in critical care was a \"clear indication of the huge pressure on the NHS\", including ambulance and mental health services as well as hospitals.\n\n\"The likelihood is, even with a stabilising of infections in some parts of the country, we're still seeing increases in infections among the over-60s in many parts of the country,\" he added.\n\n\"The forecasts are the pressure on hospitals will only get more intense over the next several weeks.\"\n\nNHS England said critical care services were under \"unprecedented pressure\".\n\nA spokeswoman added that hospitals had \"tried and tested plans in place\" to manage pressure from increased Covid-19 and non-Covid patients, including mutual aid practices where hospitals work together to manage admissions.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Evelyn Jones was one of the care home residents whose family raised concerns\n\nSix care home residents died after suffering dehydration and malnourishment because of alleged neglect, an inquest has been told.\n\nStanley James, 89, June Hamer, 71, Stanley Bradford, 76, Edith Evans, 85, Evelyn Jones, 87, and William Hickman, 71 all died between 2003 and 2005.\n\nThey were residents at Brithdir Nursing Home in New Tredegar, Caerphilly.\n\nThe inquest in Newport follows Operation Jasmine, an £11.6m inquiry into alleged neglect at six homes.\n\nOne of Wales' biggest inquiries, it was launched after the death of an 84-year-old patient at a nursing home in Newbridge, Caerphilly.\n\nOpening the inquest, Assistant Coroner for Gwent Geraint Williams said police started investigating in 2005 following the death of an 84-year-old \"mentally infirm\" woman at another care home in Newbridge.\n\nMr Williams said it led to officers uncovering a \"pattern of concerns linked to other deaths in other care homes\".\n\nJune Hamer went into Brithdir in 2003\n\nIn relation to the Brithdir inquiry, Mr Williams said: \"Operation Jasmine uncovered evidence suggesting poor care of residents, including allegations of poor pressure sore and peg [percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy] feed management, malnourishment, and general neglect of the residents' long-term needs, together with deficient standards of care and nursing practice.\"\n\nThe inquest heard resident Mr James, who had dementia and was not mobile, developed several pressure sores in the 18 months before he died in August 2003.\n\nMr Bradford, who had schizophrenia, was admitted to the Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr Tydfil on several occasions for complaints of \"dehydration, chest and urine infections\".\n\nBefore he died in August 2005 he was \"observed to be seriously malnourished\", by doctors.\n\nDementia patient Mrs Evans was admitted to the same hospital in September 2005, where nurses found the site around her feeding tube \"infected\", while broken skin was found on her buttocks and she appeared \"unkempt and dirty, and her mouth and lips were dry and her tongue was thick\".\n\nThe trial of the late Dr Prana Das for care home neglect collapsed after he suffered brain damage in an attack\n\nDr Prana Das, who owned and ran the nursing home along with several other facilities in Wales, faced a string of charges relating to failings in care.\n\nHe suffered a brain injury during a burglary at his home in 2012 and was declared medically unfit to stand trial.\n\nDr Das died in January 2020 aged 73, but his widow and co-owner of the home, Dr Nishebita Das, who is said not to have taken part in running it, is expected to give evidence at the inquest.\n\nMr Williams told the hearing that, even before the couple purchased the home in April 2002 under their company Puretruce Health Care Limited, \"serious concerns\" were raised by state agencies regarding the number of residents who had suffered pressure ulcers.\n\n\"Those issues continued, even after Dr Das assumed ownership of the home,\" he said.\n\nMr Williams said the inquest will consider the actions of nurses and carers at the home, \"many of whom came to this country from abroad to work and have since returned there, and are now not available to participate in the inquest\".\n\nThe inquest is set to last until March.\n\nA hearing into the death of a seventh resident, Matthew Higgins, 86, will be held following the conclusion of this inquest.", "A Republican lawmaker who had been in office for less than a week when she invoked German dictator Adolf Hitler in a Washington speech has apologised for saying that she agreed with the mass murderer.\n\nIllinois Congresswoman Mary Miller had said in a speech on Tuesday outside the Capitol, one day before her fellow Trump supporters ransacked the building, that Hitler had been \"right\".\n\nMiller told the crowd: \"You know, if we win a few elections we’re still going to be losing unless we win the hearts of our children.\n\n\"It’s the battle. Hitler was right on one thing - that whoever has the youth has the future.\"\n\nHitler, among his supporters in Germany in 1933 Image caption: Hitler, among his supporters in Germany in 1933\n\nThe comments drew large-scale condemnation, with the US Holocaust Memorial Museum saying in a statement that it \"unequivocally condemns any leader trying to advance a position by claiming Adolf Hitler was ‘right.’\"\n\nUnder Hitler, millions of Jews and other minority groups were murdered across Europe by Germany and its allies during World War Two.\n\nOn Friday, Miller insisted that she is not anti-semitic and accused other of \"trying to intentionally twist my words\".\n\n\"I sincerely apologise for any harm my words caused and regret using a reference to one of the most evil dictators in history to illustrate the dangers that outside influences can have on our youth,\" she said.\n\nCorrection 23rd June 2022: This post originally described Mary Miller as having praised Hitler and has been amended to make clear that she invoked Hitler in her speech.", "Who were the protesters that broke into buildings on Capitol Hill after attending a rally in support of Donald Trump?\n\nSome were carrying symbols and flags strongly associated with particular ideas and factions, but in practice many of the members and their causes overlap.\n\nImages show individuals associated with a range of extreme and far-right groups and supporters of fringe online conspiracy theories, many of whom have long been active online and at pro-Trump rallies.\n\nOne of the most startling images, quickly shared across social media, shows a man dressed with a painted face, fur hat and horns, holding an American flag.\n\nHe's been identified as Jake Angeli, a well-known supporter of the baseless conspiracy theory QAnon. He calls himself the QAnon Shaman.\n\nHis social media presence shows him attending multiple QAnon events and posting YouTube videos about deep state conspiracies.\n\nHe was pictured in November making a speech in Phoenix, Arizona, about unproven claims the election was fraudulent.\n\nHis personal Facebook page is filled with images and memes relating to all sorts of extreme ideas and conspiracy theories.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAnother group spotted at the storming of the Capitol were members of the far-right group Proud Boys.\n\nThe organisation was founded in 2016 and is anti-immigrant and all male. In the first US presidential debate President Trump in response to a question about white supremacists and militias said: \"Proud Boys - stand back and stand by.\"\n\nThe individual on the right is Nick Ochs, who describes himself as a \"Proud Boy Elder\".\n\nOne of their members, Nick Ochs, tweeted a selfie inside the building saying \"Hello from the Capital lol\". He also filmed a live stream inside.\n\nWe haven't identified the individual standing on the left in the above image.\n\nMr Ochs' profile on the messaging app Telegram describes himself as a \"Proud Boy Elder from Hawaii.\"\n\nIndividuals with large followings online were also spotted at the protests.\n\nAmong them was the social media personality Tim Gionet, who goes under the pseudonym \"Baked Alaska\".\n\nTim Gionet, better known as \"Baked Alaska\", livestreamed himself from the Capitol on Wednesday\n\nHis livestream from inside the Capitol posted on a niche streaming service was watched by thousands of people and showed him talking to other protesters.\n\nA Trump supporter, Mr Gionet has made a name for himself as an internet troll.\n\nYouTube banned his channel in October after he posted videos of himself harassing shop workers and refusing to wear a face-mask during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nOther platforms that have previously shut down his accounts include Twitter and PayPal.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Treason, traitors and thugs' - the words lawmakers used to describe Capitol riot\n\nA photo that went viral of a man who'd entered the office of senior Democrat politician Nancy Pelosi has been named as Richard Barnett from Arkansas.\n\nRichard Barnett left a message for US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi saying \"we will not back down\"\n\nOutside Capitol Hill buildings, he told the New York Times that he took an envelope from the speaker's office and says left a note calling her an expletive.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Matthew Rosenberg This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nReacting to the New York Times interview, Republican congressman Steve Womack said on Twitter: \"I'm sickened to learn that the below actions were perpetrated by a constituent.\"\n\nLocal media reports say Mr Barnett is involved in a group that supports gun rights, and that he was interviewed at a 'Stop the Steal' rally following the presidential election - a movement that refused to accept Joe Biden's victory and supports the president's unsubstantiated claims of electoral fraud.\n\nIn the interview at the rally organised by 'Engaged Patriots' he said: \"If you don't like it, send somebody out to get me 'cause I ain't going down easy.\"\n\nThe group associated with Mr Barnett held a fundraiser in October with proceeds going towards body cameras for the local police department, according to the Westside Eagle Observer local paper.\n\nAs the events were unfolding, many social media users, especially those associated with QAnon and supporters of President Trump, were claiming that agitators from the loose-knit left-wing group antifa were involved.\n\nThe implication was that these activists were disguised as Trump supporters to create disruption.\n\nA number of prominent Republican politicians, such as US Representative Matt Gaetz, claimed it was antifa masquerading as Trump supporters.\n\nOne widely-shared post claimed one protester had a \"communist hammer\" tattoo, as evidence that he wasn't a Trump supporter.\n\nOn closer inspection, the symbol is from the video game series Dishonored.\n\nThere have also been suggestions that Mr Angeli, the man wearing fur and horns, was a Black Lives Matter supporter, with users sharing an image of him at a BLM event in Arizona.\n\nMr Angeli was indeed at that event, but he was there as a counter-protester. In images taken there, he's seen holding a QAnon sign.\n\nAt least one of the rioters was holding a Confederate flag, which represented US states that supported the continuation of slavery during the American civil war. For this reason, it is considered by many to be a symbol of racism and there have been calls to ban it across the US. Others see it as an important part of southern US history.\n\nA protester carries the Confederate flag after breaching US Capitol security\n\nIn July it was announced that the flag could no longer be flown on American military properties because of a new policy to reject \"divisive symbols\".\n\nPresident Trump has defended the use of the Confederate flag in the past, saying: \"I know people that like the Confederate flag and they're not thinking about slavery...I just think it's freedom of speech.\"\n\nThere were also protesters holding aloft flags featuring a coiled rattlesnake on a yellow background, often accompanied by the phrase \"don't tread on me\". This is known as the Gadsden flag, harking back to the American revolution and the war to expel British colonialists.\n\nIt was adopted by libertarians in the 1970s, according to an article in the New Yorker, and more recently became a favourite symbol of conservative Tea Party activists.\n\nThe flag has been adopted by the right over the past couple of decades, says Prof Margaret Weir, a political science expert at Brown University.\n\nIt is also used by anti-government, white supremacist groups who embrace violence, she says.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA nurse felt \"overwhelming fear\" as 13 ambulances queued at her hospital's A&E department - in the Welsh region currently hardest hit by Covid deaths.\n\nTo date Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board, which runs Royal Glamorgan Hospital, has reported 1,091 deaths of patients with coronavirus.\n\nBBC Wales was granted access to A&E at the hospital in Rhondda Cynon Taf.\n\nSenior doctor Amanda Farrow said the whole hospital had faced \"unrelenting\" pressure last Saturday.\n\nSarah Fogarasy was the senior nurse on duty as 13 ambulances queued up outside her A&E department\n\nSenior A&E nurse Sarah Fogarasy, who was on shift as the ambulances arrived, said there was no capacity at the unit - a situation that left her wanting \"to leave\".\n\n\"We had to escalate it to our site manager and deputy head of nursing who were liaising with the executive team on call,\" she said.\n\n\"And then it got to 13 patients outside - I had no capacity in this unit, no resuscitation capacity, no capacity to put a patient on CPAP [continuous positive airway pressure] should they require that and no physical areas to put a patient in.\n\nOn Saturday, 13 ambulances queued outside the hospital's A&E department\n\nShe said she found it hard to keep going.\n\n\"This bit makes me quite emotional… for the first time I was sat trying to coordinate this department and I had that overwhelming fear that I just wanted to leave,\" Ms Fogarasy continued.\n\n\"I was just - 'I'm done. I'm done with this'... and it's scary, it fills you full of fear when you have got 13 ambulances outside, queuing around the carpark. Where do you go from that?\"\n\nShe said it was the team that kept her going: \"I started looking around to all the staff working tirelessly and just trying to remember what we're here for and why I became a nurse.\n\n\"I know it sounds soppy but it's literally the humanitarian effort that has gone into [fighting] this pandemic that has kept people going.\n\n\"It's the sheer determination and guts of the staff working in these times that is so powerful, that keeps the shift going.\"\n\nEmergency Medicine Consultant Amanda Farrow said it was a \"very emotional time for everyone\"\n\nDr Farrow, emergency medicine consultant, said staffing and bed numbers were of particular concern.\n\n\"In the emergency department the challenge we have is with regards to flow, so that is our daily challenge,\" she explained.\n\n\"And we say it's like playing a game of Tetris trying to work out which patient you can put where.\"\n\nStaff reported feeling overwhelmed as they work through the second Covid wave\n\nShe said the second wave of the virus had also seen more staff off sick with Covid and isolating - with some becoming very ill.\n\n\"We've had staff in as patients and one of my colleagues - I saw them when they were critically ill and ended up going to intensive care,\" continued Dr Farrow.\n\n\"So it's very emotional time for everyone as well you know, looking after the sick patients and looking after your colleagues.\n\n\"There's a level of anxiety still around - will you be the next person to get this disease?\"\n\nShe said although fewer people were attending A&E, they were seeing more people arriving by ambulance and presenting with more complex needs.\n\n\"The group of patients we are seeing this time I think is different, we're definitely having more younger people with Covid that are becoming sick, the volume is very high in the community.\n\n\"I think people are afraid of come into the hospital as well, so there are still quite a lot of patients who leave it maybe a bit too late before they're seeking hospital attention.\"\n\nSpeaking from her intensive care bed, Helen Whatmore said she was extremely grateful to staff\n\nHelen Whatmore, 45, from Beddau, has been hospital since early December after developing Covid symptoms.\n\nSpeaking from her intensive care bed, she said she had been unwell in February so assumed she had already caught the virus.\n\n\"I honestly didn't believe it was as bad until I caught [Covid] this time,\" she said.\n\n\"This time it's absolutely knocked the socks off me. It's nearly killed me.\n\n\"A friend of mine passed away as I came into hospital and I came down very rapidly with Covid, kidney problems and pneumonia.\"\n\nShe said she was grateful for the care she had received: \"The nurses are coming in [working] all shifts, they're fighting for your loved ones, from the time they enter right until the time they leave, then they're changing over and doing the same again.\n\n\"People are passing away… how much more have they got to do? We're asking them to protect our children and our families. Why are we not protecting them ourselves? Saving our families and our own children.\"", "The Welsh Government is in discussions about bringing in \"more visible\" coronavirus regulations.\n\nStricter enforcement of coronavirus rules could return to supermarkets in Wales, Mark Drakeford has said.\n\nThe first minister said he had heard concerns from people \"expressing anxiety\" about a lack of \"visible protections\" in supermarkets.\n\nThe Welsh Government is now in talks with stores about social-distancing measures.\n\nMr Drakeford said he wanted to see stores policed as they were during the first lockdown.\n\nAmong the measures previously used was a strict limit of the numbers of people allowed in a store however Mr Drakeford said people were worried the rules \"don't appear to be there this time\".\n\n\"Given the fact the new variant is so much easier to catch... we are looking at supermarkets and other places where people leave their homes, to make sure they are organised in a way that keeps their staff and customers safe,\" he said.\n\nHe said previously sanitising arrangements had been \"very visible\", one-way markings were prominently displayed, regular reminders were announced to customers and staff were also posted at the front entrance of supermarkets\n\n\"That person was carefully controlling the numbers of people going in, to make sure that they were no more than a certain number of people in the store at any one time,\" he said.\n\n\"There was somebody directing people to the checkout, to make sure people weren't queuing next to each other over prolonged periods, and markings on the floor so people kept at a two-metre distance\".\n\nHowever the first minister said some of those measures are no longer as apparent to people.\n\n\"I want to make sure that those visible signs of the protections that are being offered to the public and the shop workers are in place again.\"\n\nFederation of Small Businesses Wales said has called for clarity on what support would be available and the possible new measures required of shops.\n\nPolicy Chair, Ben Francis, said: \"We've already asked to see more information on the technical data that informs the decisions that Welsh Government are making.\n\n\"It seems clear that businesses will require funding support for longer than was originally anticipated if they are to survive this troubling period.\n\n\"Welsh Government should urgently give clarity on what additional funding will be made available to support businesses beyond this next three week period to allow them to plan.\"", "While GCSEs and A-levels are being cancelled, the IGCSE exams will go ahead this summer\n\nThe IGCSE exams, usually only taken in private schools, are still going ahead this summer - even though GCSEs and A-levels have been cancelled.\n\nExam boards that run IGCSEs plan to offer them, while many other exams have been stopped by the pandemic.\n\nIGCSE qualifications, alternative exams to GCSEs, are not usually available in state schools.\n\nPupils in England whose A-levels and GCSEs are cancelled will depend on replacement grades from teachers.\n\nBut Education Secretary Gavin Williamson's scrapping of exams this summer does not apply to students taking IGCSEs.\n\nA Department for Education report in 2019 found 94% of IGCSEs were taken in private schools, accounting for 164,000 exam entries.\n\nThe decision not to cancel them was welcomed by the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference (HMC), representing some of the most prestigious independent schools.\n\nThe HMC's general secretary, Simon Hyde, said their schools \"would be the first to cheer if pupils educated by the state had the same opportunity\".\n\n\"The decision to cancel GCSEs was premature. Exams are the fairest way of assessing what learners know and understand and we would like to see as many pupils as possible take a form of exam in the summer,\" said Dr Hyde.\n\nIndependent schools often offer a mix of IGCSEs and GCSEs for different subjects, although IGCSEs do not count towards school league tables.\n\nThe qualifications - International GCSEs - are offered by Cambridge Assessment and Pearson and are taken in other countries as well as the UK. Both boards say they are planning to go ahead with exam papers for UK schools this summer.\n\nIGCSEs were not included in the cancellation of exams announced by England's Department for Education and it will be up to individual schools to decide whether to continue with them.\n\nJulie McCullloch of the ASCL head teachers' union said: \"It creates another inconsistency, but none of this is easy.\"\n\nShe said it created an \"odd situation\" when GCSEs were cancelled but IGCSEs were going ahead, but she recognised that an international qualification could need a common approach across different countries.\n\nWith the latest lockdown and most pupils studying at home, GCSEs and A-levels have been cancelled in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nIn England, the exams watchdog Ofqual will launch a consultation next week on a replacement way of deciding grades - but Ofqual does not regulate IGCSEs and they will not be part of the watchdog's proposals.", "Harley Watson's mother Jo described him as a \"kind, caring, selfless, intelligent and comical young man\"\n\nA man who killed a 12-year-old boy by driving into schoolchildren in a \"deliberate\" hit and run has been detained in a secure hospital.\n\nHarley Watson died after he was hit by a car outside Debden Park High School in Loughton, Essex, on 2 December 2019.\n\nTerence Glover, 52, pleaded guilty to manslaughter by diminished responsibility at an earlier hearing.\n\nHe also admitted 10 counts of attempted murder and has been detained under the Mental Health Act indefinitely.\n\nAt the sentencing hearing at Snaresbrook Crown Court, Harley's mother Jo described her son as a \"kind, caring, selfless, intelligent and comical young man\".\n\nHe was hit by Glover's Ford Ka as he left school with friends and died later in Whipps Cross University Hospital.\n\nTerence Glover has been sentenced indefinitely under the Mental Health Act\n\nChristine Agnew, prosecuting, said eye-witnesses saw Glover's car \"ploughing through and hitting children from behind\".\n\nShe said he \"deliberately mounted the pavement... and drove directly at a group of people, mostly children, intending to kill them\".\n\nGlover, previously of Newmans Lane, Loughton, also pleaded guilty to the attempted murder of 23-year-old Raquel Jimeno and six boys and three girls aged between 12 and 16 who were outside the school.\n\nThe court heard he suffered from paranoid schizophrenia and medical experts agreed his \"significant\" mental illness \"provided an explanation for his conduct\".\n\nHe was given a hospital order under the Mental Health Act 1983, meaning if his illness was treated successfully, he would be transferred to prison.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Harley Watson's classmates paid tribute to him in 2019\n\nJudge Andrew Edis said if transferred, Glover must serve a life sentence with a minimum of 15 years.\n\nIn his sentencing statement, Judge Edis noted his history of mental illness and cocaine use, but said Glover's actions were \"appalling\".\n\n\"He caused the death of a much-loved and admired 12-year-old boy who had done no harm to anyone,\" he said.\n\nHe added that Glover's behaviour \"requires punishment as well as treatment\" and there was \"no doubt that this defendant is dangerous\".\n\nHe also ordered that Glover be banned from driving for life and that the car should be destroyed.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "National Express has announced that it is suspending its entire national network of coach services from midnight on Sunday.\n\nThe firm said tighter Covid restrictions and falling passenger numbers had prompted the decision.\n\nIt added that it hoped to restart services in March.\n\nAll customers whose travel has been cancelled will be contacted and offered a free amendment or full refund, the company said.\n\nAll journeys before Monday 11 January will be completed to ensure any passengers making essential journeys are not stranded.\n\nChris Hardy, managing director of National Express UK Coach, said: \"We have been providing an important service for essential travel needs. However, with tighter restrictions and passenger numbers falling, it is no longer appropriate to do this.\n\nHe added that as the vaccination programme was rolled out and government guidance changed, the company would regularly review when services could restart.\n\n\"We plan to be back on the road as soon as the time is right and have put a provisional restart date of Monday 1 March in place,\" he said.\n\nNational Express first suspended coach services during the coronavirus crisis in April, then restarted in July.\n\nServices have been operating at half capacity, with strict cleaning and Covid protocols. As the tier structure came into operation, demand for services reduced.\n\nAs with the previous suspension, employees will be furloughed.\n\nFirms that transport passengers, including coach, rail and aviation businesses, have been under intense pressure during the coronavirus crisis.\n\nAvanti West Coast, the train operating company running services on the West Coast mainline, has confirmed it will cut its timetable from 18 January.\n\nAvanti says the new timetable will 'more closely reflect the current demand for our services whilst still allowing key workers, and those needing to make essential journeys, to travel with confidence'.\n\nDuring the first major lockdown in March, services on key intercity routes were reduced from three an hour to one. This included services from both Manchester and Birmingham to London.\n\nThe Department for Transport has been consulting with all train operators about service reductions during the latest lockdown.\n\nThe exact scale of reduction is still being worked on, but the DfT says service levels may fall to as low as 40% of the normal timetable by some operators.\n\nThe focus is to ensure essential workers can still make essential journeys.\n\n\"Following discussions with the Department for Transport we will be introducing a new timetable on Monday 18 January. This will more closely reflect the current demand for our services whilst still allowing key workers, and those needing to make essential journeys, to travel with confidence.\"\n\nOn Thursday, Ryanair also announced that it would make big cuts to its flight schedule from 21 January, with few, if any flights to or from the UK or Ireland until \"draconian travel restrictions are removed\".\n\nTrain services are expected to be reduced in lockdown, with some in the industry anticipating reductions of between 50% and 60% compared with normal service.\n\nIn the first national lockdown in England, services were reduced to almost half.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police have issued CCTV footage of a man they want to speak to in connection with the incident\n\nA fraudster claiming to work for the NHS injected a 92-year-old woman with a fake Covid-19 vaccine, City of London Police has said.\n\nDetectives are hunting the man who charged the victim in Surbiton, south-west London, £160.\n\nPolice said it was \"crucial\" he was caught as soon as possible as he \"may endanger people's lives\".\n\nDet Insp Kevin Ives described it as a \"disgusting and totally unacceptable assault\".\n\nIt comes after the NHS warned people that no-one should be turning up at doorsteps offering a vaccine for payment, following a spate of fake text messages.\n\nUnder the current coronavirus vaccine rollout plans, people will be invited to receive the vaccine by their GP or healthcare provider.\n\nPolice said the victim allowed the man into her home on the afternoon of 30 December after he said he was from the NHS and there to administer the Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nShe said she was jabbed in the arm with a \"dart-like implement\" before being charged £160, which the man said would be refunded by the NHS.\n\nPolice said it was not known what substance, if any, was administered, but the woman had been checked at her local hospital and showed no ill effects.\n\nDet Insp Ives appealed for information to help identify the suspect.\n\nHe added: \"It is crucial we catch him as soon as possible as not only is he defrauding individuals of money, he may endanger people's lives.\"\n\nThe man made a second visit to the woman's home on 4 January, when he asked for another £100, police said.\n\nThe man was spotted in the Tolworth area of Kingston-upon-Thames on 4 January\n\nOfficers released CCTV footage on Friday of a man dressed in a navy blue tracksuit with white stripes down the side, who they want to speak to in connection with the incident.\n\nHe is described as a white man in his early 30s, who is about 5ft 9ins (1.75m) tall, of medium build, with light brown hair that is combed back. He speaks with a London accent.\n\nA spokesman for the Department of Health said: \"NHS England will never ask for bank details, Pin numbers or passwords, when contacting you about a vaccination.\n\n\"Any communication which claims to be from the NHS but asks for payment, or bank details, is fraudulent and can be ignored. It can be reported to police via Action Fraud.\n\n\"You will never be charged for the vaccine.\"\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said it is \"excellent news\" that a third coronavirus vaccine has been approved for use in the UK.\n\nIt is made by US company Moderna and works in a similar way to the Pfizer one already being offered on the NHS.\n\nThe UK has pre-ordered 17 million doses of the Moderna vaccine - 10 million more than planned - but supplies are not expected to arrive until spring.\n\nIt is the last Covid vaccine with final trial data published.\n\nThere are hundreds still in development, with some expected to report findings in the near future.\n\nAround 1.5 million people in the UK have had at least one dose of a Covid vaccine so far, with either the Pfizer or AstraZeneca vaccines already approved by UK regulators.\n\nThat figure includes almost a quarter of those aged over 80 in England - people at highest risk of severe illness or death from the virus.\n\nVaccines are being given to the most vulnerable first, as set out in a list of nine high-priority groups, covering around 30 million people in the UK.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Vaccine Deployment Minister Nadhim Zahawi welcomed the approval of the Moderna jab\n\nThe prime minister has said the aim is to vaccinate 15 million people in the UK by mid-February, including care homes residents and staff, frontline NHS staff, everyone over 70 and those who are clinically extremely vulnerable.\n\nHealth and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock said: \"This is further great news and another weapon in our arsenal to tame this awful disease.\"\n\nThe UK had originally ordered 7 million doses of the Moderna jab, but has increased this to get even more people immunised as quickly as possible.\n\nIn total, the UK has now ordered 367 million doses of vaccines to protect against Covid-19.\n\nNadhim Zahawi, vaccine deployment minister, said: \"The NHS is pulling out all the stops to vaccinate those most at risk as quickly as possible, with over 1,000 vaccination sites live across the UK by the end of the week to provide easy access to everyone, regardless of where they live.\n\n\"The Moderna vaccine will be a vital boost to these efforts and will help us return to normal faster.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid vaccine safety: How does a vaccine get approved?\n\nThe Moderna vaccine, an RNA vaccine like Pfizer's, injects part of the virus's genetic code in order to provoke an immune response.\n\nIt requires temperatures of around -20C for shipping - similar to a normal freezer.\n\nIn comparison, the Pfizer/BioNTech one requires temperatures closer to -75C, making transport logistics much more difficult.\n\nThe AstraZeneca jab is easier to store and distribute, as it can be kept at normal fridge temperature.\n\nAll of these vaccines require a second booster shot, but a first dose is likely to be given to as many people as possible.\n\nIn trials with more than 30,000, the Moderna vaccine offered nearly 95% protection from severe Covid.\n\nNo vaccine is 100% effective and it takes time for protection to build. For all of the Covid vaccines, we still do not know how long immunity will last.\n\nPeople who have received a coronavirus vaccine should continue to follow social distancing rules to protect themselves and others.\n\nEU and US regulators have already approved the Moderna vaccine.", "The band recently became a trio (left-right): Leigh-Anne Pinnock, Jade Thirlwall and Perrie Edwards\n\nLittle Mix have risen to top the top of UK singles chart after Christmas songs released their grip on the top 40.\n\nSweet Melody has become the band's fifth number one, three months after it was released - and will be their last with Jesy Nelson, who quit last year.\n\nThe 29-year-old said in December that nine years in the girl group had taken \"a toll on her mental health\".\n\nLittle Mix's victory is part of a huge chart upheaval, after 56 Christmas songs dropped out of the top 100.\n\nAmong them was last week's number one, Wham's Last Christmas, which set a new record for the biggest-ever fall from the top. The festive ballad has now left the chart altogether.\n\nThe previous record-holder - Three Lions, by The Lightning Seeds with Frank Skinner and David Baddiel - fell from number one to 96 after England crashed out of the World Cup in 2018.\n\nSweet Melody has risen from number nine to number one this week, giving Little Mix their first chart-topper since Shout Out To My Ex in 2016.\n\nJade Thirlwall told BBC Radio 1 the milestone was particularly important because it was \"the last single we did as a four with Jesy\".\n\n\"And it's even more special that now, going into 2021 as a three, we've got the first number one,\" she added.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Official Charts This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. End of youtube video by Official Charts\n\nAcknowledging a fan campaign to boost the song's chart position, bandmate Perrie Edwards said: \"I just want to squish every single fan who managed to get it to number one.\n\n\"The power they have, I'm sorry. The song's been out for months!\"\n\nWith fans abandoning their festive playlists, the stage was also set for singles that had previously been forced out of the top 40 to stage a dramatic return.\n\nDua Lipa's Levitating jumped 63 places to number five, reclaiming a position it last held on 3 December; and Tate McRae's You Broke Me First rocketed from number 74 to nine. In total, there were 39 new entries or re-entries in the top 75.\n\nIn the album chart, Taylor Swift's Evermore returned to number one, four weeks after its surprise pre-Christmas release, while companion album Folklore climbed to number 12.\n\nMeanwhile, Harry Styles' Fine Line reached a new chart peak at number two following the release of a video for his latest single Treat People With Kindness, which sees him dance with Fleabag's Phoebe Waller-Bridge.\n\nLewis Capaldi's Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent - the UK's biggest-selling album of both 2019 and 2020 - also climbed to number six, notching up its 86th week in the top 10.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Graham Norton has been the BBC's Mr Eurovision since 2009\n\nGraham Norton, who commentates for the UK's BBC Eurovision coverage, has said the song contest will go ahead this year despite the coronavirus pandemic.\n\n\"There's definitely going to be a Eurovision... The competition element is going to happen,\" he said.\n\nContest organisers told the BBC: \"We can confirm the Eurovision Song Contest will definitely take place this year.\"\n\nBut pre-recorded performances may be used if acts cannot travel to Rotterdam or have to isolate when they get there.\n\nLast year's contest was cancelled due to the pandemic. It was replaced in the UK with a programme looking back at the event's history, including a vote to find the greatest Eurovision song of all time.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNorton told US radio station Sirius XM that if some artists are unable to travel to the Netherlands in 2021, \"they can Zoom in a performance\". He added: \"I doubt we'll be in a stadium full of 20,000 people.\"\n\nOrganisers stressed that while \"the general gist of Graham's comments is correct\", pre-recorded performances will be used if an act can't travel, rather than asking them to perform live from their home country.\n\nThe filmed routines will be shown \"if a participant cannot travel to Rotterdam due to the current pandemic, or in the unfortunate instance of an artist having to quarantine on site\", a spokesman said.\n\nBroadcasters will have to follow a \"strict set of guidelines\" to help them record their \"live on tape\" performances \"to keep the competition fair should it not go ahead in the traditional way\", he added.\n\nThe new rules state: \"The recording will take place in real time (as it would be at the contest) without making any edits to the vocals or any part of the performance itself after the recording.\"\n\nThis year's contest will take place on 22 May.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk", "The number of people in Scotland who have died within 28 days of testing positive for the virus now stands at 4,872\n\nScotland's hospitals have more Covid patients than ever before - with the number of deaths also \"distressingly high\", the first minister has said.\n\nThe latest figures showed that the deaths of 93 people who had tested positive for the virus have been recorded in the past 24 hours.\n\nBut the figure includes some people who died over Christmas and New Year.\n\nThere were also 1,530 people in hospital with the virus, higher than the peak of 1,520 last April.\n\nOf these, 102 patients were in intensive care - with Ms Sturgeon saying the statistics showed the \"severity of the pressure\" that hospitals are facing.\n\nThe 93 deaths recorded on Friday is the highest daily figure since the outbreak began - with the previous high being 84 on 15 April.\n\nBut Ms Sturgeon said the figure will \"undoubtedly include some people who died over the Christmas and New Year period and the delay in registration because of the bank holidays means that their deaths are only being reported today.\"\n\nShe added: \"To be clear, that is not more than 90 people who died yesterday. It will be people who have died over a period of time.\n\n\"That does not change the fact they are all individuals who have died and have died of Covid.\"\n\nA further 2,309 people have tested positive for Covid-19, which was 8.1% of the tests carried out on Thursday and takes the total number of cases in Scotland to 146,024.\n\nThe figures mean that the total number of people in Scotland who have died within 28 days of testing positive for the virus now stands at 4,872.\n\nThe Scottish government has said it is concerned that too many people have not been following the \"stay at home\" rules that are in place across the whole of the mainland and some islands.\n\nIt believes that more people are using the country's road and public transport networks than during the lockdown last spring.\n\nAnd it has warned that tougher restrictions could be needed to increase compliance with the travel restrictions.\n\nMs Sturgeon told her daily briefing that the areas being looked at included non-essential click and collect shopping, further restrictions on takeaway food, non-essential construction and whether more people should be working from home.\n\nThe first minister also confirmed that universities and colleges will not resume in-person teaching until at least the end of February.\n\nThis means that students should stay at home rather than travelling back to their campus or accommodation.\n\nThere will be exceptions for cases where remote study is not possible - for example for a student nurse or a doctor on a practical placement.\n\nAnd Ms Sturgeon said any students who have remained on campus will be \"fully supported\" by their institution.\n\nAll of mainland Scotland was placed into level four restrictions from 26 December before additional measures, including closing schools to most pupils until at least the end of the month, was introduced on Tuesday.\n\nScotland's interim chief medical officer, Dr Dave Caesar, insisted on Friday morning that coronavirus case numbers in January \"could have been worse\".\n\nHe said the restrictions that were introduced on Boxing Day had helped to \"blunt the spike\" but warned that the country was \"not out of the woods yet\".\n\nDr Caesar told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"Our case numbers are high, but they're not as high as they could have been if we hadn't taken the measures that we undertook from Boxing Day.\n\n\"Our health system is under serious pressure but is coping.\n\n\"I hate to say it, but it could have been worse by this time in January. We're not out of the woods yet by any stretch of the imagination, but I suppose we're holding our own in very significantly challenging circumstances.\"\n\nNew Covid testing measures for international travellers are to be introduced\n\nNew plans to make international passengers test negative for Covid-19 before travelling to Scotland and England have also been unveiled, with Ms Sturgeon saying she hoped the scheme could start by the end of next week.\n\nIt will mean people arriving by plane, train or boat - including UK nationals - will have to take a test up to 72 hours before leaving the country they are travelling from.\n\nProf Linda Bauld of Edinburgh University said the move was long overdue as the UK had \"really struggled from the beginning\" with limiting the impact of international travel on the pandemic.\n\nBut she said the country should also consider introducing supervised quarantine for people arriving from overseas.", "When Trump supporters stormed the Capitol they took out their cameras to record the chaos inside. The BBC looked through hours of phone footage to paint a picture of what happened.", "Film director Michael Apted, best known for the Up series of TV documentaries following the lives of 14 people every seven years, has died aged 79.\n\nHe also directed Coal Miner's Daughter, Gorillas In The Mist and the 1999 Bond movie The World Is Not Enough.\n\nThe original 7 Up in 1964 set out to document the life prospects of a range of children from all walks of life.\n\nThe show was inspired by the Aristotle quote \"give me a child until he is seven and I will show you the man\".\n\nThe first 7 Up show was followed by 14 Up at the start of the next decade, which interviewed the same children as teenagers - and the pattern was set right up until 63 Up in 2019.\n\nThroughout all those intervening years ITV viewers became engrossed with the stories of private school trio Andrew, Charles and John, of Jackie who went through two divorces, of Neil who went from jobless and homeless to Liberal Democrat councillor, and of working class chatterbox Tony, whose life ambition was to become a jockey.\n\nApted's shows - which won three Bafta awards - have often been described as the forerunner of modern-day reality TV series, giving its participants the time to tell their own stories on screen.\n\nBut unlike their modern counterparts, the original Up children tended to fade away from the limelight in the seven years between each chapter.\n\nIn 2008, Apted was made a companion of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George in the Queen's Birthday Honours for services to the British film and television industries.\n\nThomas Schlamme, president of the Directors Guild of America, said Apted was a \"fearless visionary\" whose legacy would live on.\n\nHe said Apted, who was born in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, \"saw the trajectory of things when others didn't and we were all beneficiaries of his wisdom and lifelong dedication\".\n\nITV's managing director Kevin Lygo said the director's six-decade career was \"in itself truly remarkable\".\n\nHe said the Up series \"demonstrated the possibilities of television at its finest in its ambition and its capacity to hold up a mirror to society and engage with and entertain people while enriching our perspective on the human condition\".\n\nApted directed the 19th James Bond film The World Is Not Enough\n\n\"The influence of Michael's contribution to film and programme-making continues to be felt and he will be sadly missed,\" Lygo added.\n\nMichael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, producers of the James Bond film franchise, said Apted \"was a director of enormous talent\" and \"beloved by all those who worked with him\".\n\n\"We loved working with him on The World Is Not Enough and send our love and support to his family, friends and colleagues,\" they said.\n\nA post on the Twitter account of the band Garbage, who performed the theme for The World Is Not Enough, labelled Apted a \"delightful, charming soul\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Garbage This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nComposer David G Arnold, who composed the Bond theme and worked with Apted on three other non-Bond movies, said he felt \"lucky\" to work with him.\n\n\"A more trusting, funny, friendly and, most importantly, kind, person you'd never meet. So pleased to have known him and so sad that he's gone,\" Arnold wrote on Twitter.", "Former Det Insp Tim Ireson led the unit for two years and would have been sacked if he was still serving\n\nThree members of a \"toxic\" police unit have been sacked for gross misconduct after their \"offensive\" conversations were secretly bugged.\n\nThe devices picked up \"homophobic, racist and sexist\" conversations in the offices of Hampshire's Serious and Organised Crime Unit in Basingstoke in 2018, a misconduct panel heard.\n\nA number of force staff referred to it as a \"lads' pad\".\n\nTwo other officers would have been sacked but had already left the force.\n\nThe misconduct hearing was told in the 24 days the office was bugged - following concerns raised by a whistleblower - there was \"enough profanity, casual sexism and racism to last a lifetime\".\n\nDet Sgt Oliver Lage, Det Sgt Gregory Willcox and PC James Oldfield have been dismissed while retired Det Insp Tim Ireson and former PC Craig Bannerman were the two who had previously left the force.\n\nTrainee Det Con Andrew Ferguson, who sent colleagues a fake pornographic image of members of the royal family, has been given a final written warning.\n\nThe six men were based at the Serious and Organised Crime Unit in Basingstoke\n\nImposing the sanctions, panel chairman John Bassett said the conduct had been \"shameful\".\n\nHe said police officers could not \"pick and choose the standards they will abide by\" in order to create more \"cohesive\" teams.\n\nMr Bassett said PC Ferguson was \"essentially a good officer\" who joined the team three months before the recordings, by which time the \"culture was well-established\".\n\nHe said the officer was \"conflicted by what he witnessed\" and \"felt unable to raise the matter with a supervisor\".\n\nChief Constable Olivia Pinkney said the force's internal investigation had revealed a \"catalogue of sexist, racist, homophobic and ableist language and commentary that has rightly shocked us all\".\n\nShe added: \"These officers have failed to deliver on the promise they made to uphold fundamental human rights and accord equal respect to all people.\n\n\"[They] have undermined the trust and confidence of our communities and damaged the reputations of their colleagues.\"\n\nThe six officers have apologised but some told the disciplinary panel swearing was in the \"fabric\" of the police force.\n\nOne also said they felt they were being \"made an example of\" by the force which should have learned from other previous incidents.\n\nIn all, 20 police officers and staff from the unit have faced some sort of disciplinary action.\n\nDuring the misconduct hearing at Hampshire Constabulary's headquarters in Eastleigh, it was heard a \"toxic, abhorrent culture\" developed with officers using offensive terms for women, black people, immigrants, disabled, gay and transgender people and foreign nationals.\n\nJason Beer QC, prosecuting, said the only black member of the team was referred to using racist tropes and references to slavery.\n\nWomen were described using derogatory terms and stared at in the canteen, he added.\n\nThe men admitted some of the charges of breaching standards of professional behaviour against them but claimed it only amounted to misconduct not gross misconduct.\n\nZoe Wakefield, chair of Hampshire Police Federation, said: \"The outdated and offensive views we heard during the hearing have no place in society and they certainly have no place in policing.\n\n\"We should not let the awful language and terminology used by a very small number of police officers tarnish the hard work and dedication of thousands of police officers and staff in Hampshire...\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Marks & Spencer has temporarily stopped selling hundreds of items in its Northern Ireland stores due to Brexit red tape.\n\nThe retailer said it feared its food would be blocked due to new rules governing shipments between Great Britain and Northern Ireland.\n\nA growing number of firms have spoken out about paperwork delays at ports.\n\nThe government said traders and hauliers need to take steps to comply with new border rules.\n\nM&S took the decision to temporarily drop hundreds of products, including chocolate fudge pudding and sweet and sour chicken, from its Northern Ireland stores after it saw competitors' lorries barred from travelling between the mainland and Northern Ireland.\n\nAn entire consignment in a lorry can be held up if only one item in the truck doesn't have the correct customs forms filled out.\n\nThe retailer said it aimed to get the products back up for sale soon.\n\nAn M&S spokesperson said: \"We have served customers in Northern Ireland for over 50 years and our priority is to make sure we continue to deliver the same choice and great quality range that our loyal customers have always enjoyed.\n\n\"Stores have been receiving regular deliveries this week, however following the UK's recent departure from the EU, we are transitioning to new processes and we're working closely with our partners and suppliers to ensure customers can continue to enjoy a great range of products.\"\n\nIn addition to problems shipping goods internally in the UK, the new Brexit trade rules are creating problems for exporters and traders transporting goods to and from the EU, say firms.\n\nThe UK sealed a trade deal with the European Union (EU) on 24 December that was billed as preserving its zero-tariff and zero-quota access to the bloc's single market.\n\nBut in addition to red tape causing delays, major retailers that use the UK as a distribution hub for European business could face possible tariffs if they re-export goods to the EU.\n\nOn Friday, M&S chief executive Steve Rowe warned of more red tape and a rise in export costs to some countries.\n\n\"The best example I can give you of that is Percy Pig,\" he said,\n\n\"Percy Pig is actually manufactured in Germany. If it comes to the UK and we then send it to Ireland, in theory it would have some tax on it,\" he added.\n\nM&S said it was \"actively working to mitigate\" the effects of the \"rules of origin\" regulations, under which products are taxed differently depending on which country they come from.\n\nOther firms have also been hit by the confusion caused by new Brexit trading rules.\n\nParcels giant DPD has suspended some services, while seafood exporter John Ross said the chaos was like being \"thrown in the cold Atlantic without a lifejacket\".\n\nShane Brennan, chief executive of the Cold Chain Federation, which represents chilled transport and storage companies, said the emerging problems had come despite the amount of cross-border traffic still being quite low.\n\n\"Trade flows are still only about 50% of what we would expect, but even at those levels we are seeing levels of confusion and delays,\" he told the BBC's Today programme. \"The feeling is we are building to quite a significant potential disruption.\"\n\nA government spokesman acknowledged that there had been \"some issues\", but said ministers had always been clear there would be some disruption at the end of the transition period.\n\nThe Cabinet Office said in a statement that the volume of border crossings had been low so far this year, but that it expected crossings to steadily increase to normal levels.\n\nThis brings the potential for \"significant disruption if traders and hauliers have not taken the necessary steps to comply with the new rules,\" the Cabinet Office said.\n\nOut of about 1,500 lorries per day trying to get from Great Britain to the EU in the new year, 700 have been turned away - mainly due to a lack of a negative Covid test for drivers, it said.\n\n\"We have always been clear there would be changes now that we are out of the customs union and single market, so full compliance with the new rules is vital to avoid disruption,\" said Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove.\n\nHowever, anger is growing among companies whose livelihoods depend on export trade.\n\nIn a letter on Friday to Business Secretary Alok Sharma, Scottish salmon producer John Ross Jr launched a stinging attack on the government's handling of the situation.\n\nThe firm's sales director, Victoria Leigh-Pearson, wrote that the company had in recent months \"had to endure the government issuing a barrage of useless information\" and an \"absence of factually correct information from all government agencies.\" It amounted, she said, to \"gross incompetence\".\n\nJohn Ross exports to 36 countries and has won the Queen's Award twice\n\nPart of the letter to Alok Sharma:\n\nAs I write, perishable goods that were dispatched from our facility five days ago, headed for France following a process that your department advised, have still not crossed the border. This usually takes only 24 hours because they are consolidated with the produce of other companies, which have not been able to follow the correct procedures due to a knowledge gap directly attributable to your department.\n\nEntire trucks are currently being rejected without explanation by the French customs authority. Our hauliers have now pulled their services as such a backlog has been created. Other hauliers are not taking on new customers. Today, we've even had confirmation that the IT systems of the UK and France are incompatible. After four years you only establish this now?\n\nYour so-called 'deal' is worthless if this situation is not fixed immediately, and unless you put in place measures to address the issues that continue to unfold on a daily basis. Moreover, as a seafood exporter, it feels as though our own government has thrown us into the cold Atlantic waters without a lifejacket.\n\nJohn Ross is not the only Scottish seafood exporter suffering. The industry says it has been hit by a \"perfect storm\" of Brexit disruption, which could sink a centuries-old industry.\n\n\"These businesses are not transporting toilet rolls or widgets. They are exporting the highest quality, perishable seafood which has a finite window to get to markets in peak condition,\" said Donna Fordyce, chief executive of Seafood Scotland.\n\n\"If the window closes, these consignments go to landfill.\"\n\nShe said the sector has already been weakened by Covid-19, the closure of the French border before Christmas as well as \"layer upon layer\" of problems associated with Brexit.\n\nThe group fears that without exports, the fishing fleet will have little reason to go out.\n\n\"In a very short time, we could see the destruction of a centuries-old market which contributes significantly to the Scottish economy,\" added Ms Fordyce.\n\nUK government Minister for Scotland David Duguid blamed Scottish leaders for the issues.\n\n\"The Scottish Government has persistently refused to accept the democratic vote to leave the EU, but that does not allow them to abdicate their responsibilities to Scottish businesses,\" he said.\n\n\"Over the past 18 months they have assured the fishing industry that the systems they were putting in place would be adequate. They clearly are not.\"\n\nParcel delivery service DPD UK said it had paused its European Road Service because of the '\"increased burden\" of customs paperwork for packages heading to the EU, including the Republic of Ireland.\n\nDPD said 20% of parcels had \"incorrect or incomplete data attached\", which meant they would have to be returned.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What Brexit means for Britons travelling, shopping, studying or owning properties in the EU.\n\nIn an email to its business customers, the company said that it had been a \"challenging few days\" for its international operation, and that it would \"pause and review\" its service. It plans to restart on 13 January.\n\n\"It has now become evident that we have an increased burden with the new, more complex processes, and additional customs data we require from you for your parcels destined to Europe\" the firm wrote.\n\nThe boss of one of Wales' largest hauliers said logistical problems have emerged at the Irish border too.\n\nAndrew Kinsella, managing director of Gwynedd Shipping, said his company has a backlog of 60 lorries waiting to be shipped to Dublin.\n\nHe said many hauliers are finding that their customers are not able to generate the special declarations that are needed to ultimately enable a lorry to get onto a ferry.\n\n\"Whilst you don't see queues at ports and terminals the reality is that these queues are developing elsewhere in our depot in Holyhead, in our depot in Deeside and in our depot in Newport in South Wales, and lots of hauliers have depots in the proximity of ports,\" he said.\n\n\"There are a lot of issues about demarcation about who is going to arrange the export declaration with the UK revenue authorities, who's going to arrange the import declaration, the hauliers then trying to arrange the import safety and security declaration to create an ENS number which helps you generate a PBN number so there has been a lot of everyone finding their feet\".\n\nCorrection 9th April 2021: An earlier version of this article included a photo showing queues of lorries at Dover Port. This photo was replaced in the hours after publication after it was established that it had been taken months earlier.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "Growing numbers of students in England have pledged to withhold rent on university accommodation they cannot use during the Covid lockdown.\n\nOrganisers say this is building up to be a major protest, estimating that about 15,000 students at dozens of universities have signed up so far.\n\nThey want a rebate on rent when many students are being kept off campus at the start of term.\n\nBut universities say they only provide 20% of student accommodation.\n\nUniversities UK says this means \"many decisions on refunds will be made by private landlords and other providers\".\n\nIn November, University of Manchester offered a 30% rent rebate for the first half of the academic year, worth about £1,000 to each student in halls.\n\nThe move followed protests over lack of support during the coronavirus pandemic which saw students tear down temporary fencing in one demonstration.\n\nUniversity of Manchester students have been calling for a rent strike\n\nThe reduction will be applied to direct debit payments this month, with students who have already paid for the whole year getting a refund.\n\nBut organiser of the Rent Strike Now campaign, Ben McGowan, said the new lockdown means students are still paying for halls they are unable to return to which has prompted a wave of student anger.\n\nOn Twitter, campaigners listed more than 40 universities where they said students were pledging to withhold rent.\n\nThe campaign group Rent Strike Now tweeted a list of universities where there are campaigns\n\n\"Most of us are being told not to go back so we're paying for accommodation we can't use and there's been no extra support from universities and government,\" added Saranya Thambiranjah, a first year at Bristol University who also helps run the campaign.\n\n\"Rent striking is a great way to make our voices heard and get universities to listen our concerns.\"\n\nStudents at universities not yet part of this campaign have said they will organise similar challenges on their own campuses, including Coventry and Keele.\n\nRebecca Hyde is having to do her journalism course in her bedroom\n\nAt Nottingham Trent University, student campaigner Rebecca Hyde, who is doing a masters in broadcast journalism, said 244 students had so far pledged to withhold rent on university halls since their campaign was launched a few days ago.\n\nShe believes universities should do more to help students who are having to pay for rooms they are unable to use through no fault of their own.\n\nShe says her course leaders have been brilliant but missing out on using studios and running \"news days\" with her fellow students \"is just so disappointing\".\n\nNottingham Trent University says it understands student concerns over rents and urged the government \"to show leadership to find a solution that is fair to all students\".\n\n\"At NTU, only a minority of our students are in accommodation operated by or on behalf of the university.\n\n\"We do not want a repeat of the situation in the summer term of 2020 where most of our students were reliant on the goodwill of private accommodation providers who did not always do the right thing,\" said the university in a statement.\n\nAt King's College London, campaign secretary \"Juno\" likewise reported hundreds of new pledges to withhold rent in the past few days, saying students felt they had been \"lured\" into their accommodation at the start of the academic year.\n\nA King's spokesperson promised that students would not be charged for accommodation they are unable to use during lockdown.\n\nAbout a quarter of students are in privately-run purpose built accommodation, and one of the biggest of these providers, Unite Students, is also facing demands.\n\nLiverpool John Moores student Suhail Accad, in Unite accommodation, says his rent strike post on Instagram has gained 3,000 followers and has had 8,000 shares in just a few days.\n\n\"It's expensive to stay here,\" says Suhail.\n\nUnite was unable to comment directly on the threat of rent strikes but maintains that it is doing all it can to help keep students and staff safe \"during this challenging period\".\n\nUniversities UK said universities were looking at the issue \"actively\" and considering what support they can offer students.\n\n\"Universities recognise the financial pressures the pandemic has placed on students and are providing increased financial and other support as a result.\n\n\"With government restrictions reducing the numbers of students returning in person to universities, now is the time for the government to seriously consider the financial implications for students and institutions and what support they will provide.\"", "Prof Chris Whitty will front one of the adverts Image caption: Prof Chris Whitty will front one of the adverts\n\nThe government is urging people in England to stay at home and \"act like you've got it\" as part of a new advertising campaign.\n\nThe \"stay at home, save lives\" campaign will run across TV, radio, out-of-home advertising and social media.\n\nThe campaign will include a new advert fronted by England's Chief Medical Officer, Prof Chris Whitty, which will air for the first time on ITV at 19:15 GMT tonight.\n\nThe UK reported a record number of deaths and cases today, as hospitals come under growing pressure, with some in the South East at extreme capacity.\n\nAround one in three people with Covid-19 don’t have any symptoms and can pass it on without realising, the government said, \"which is why it’s essential everyone stays at home and remembers Hands, Face, Space\".\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"Our hospitals are under more pressure than at any other time since the start of the pandemic, and infection rates across the entire country continue to soar at an alarming rate.\n\n“The vaccine has given us renewed hope in our fight against the virus but we must not be complacent.\n\n\"The NHS is under severe strain and we must take action to protect it, both so our doctors and nurses can continue to save lives and so they can vaccinate as many people as possible as quickly as we can.\n\n“I know the last year has taken its toll – but your compliance is now more vital than ever. So once again, I must urge everyone to stay at home, protect the NHS and save lives.”", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. One floral tribute had Dame Barbara's photograph in the centre\n\nThe funeral of EastEnders and Carry On actress Dame Barbara Windsor has taken place in London.\n\nRoss Kemp, who played her on-screen son in the soap, was among the 30 mourners and gave a reading, as did actor and friend Christopher Biggins.\n\nDame Barbara died in December at the age of 83, having had dementia.\n\nThere were floral arrangements spelling Babs, The Dame and Saucy, and a mock pub sign showing her as The Queen Peggy in the style of the soap's Queen Vic.\n\nDame Barbara played pub landlady Peggy Mitchell in EastEnders for more than two decades.\n\nA version of the EastEnders Queen Vic pub sign was painted in tribute\n\nScott Mitchell, who was married to Dame Barbara for 20 years, was joined at Golders Green Crematorium by family and friends including comedians Matt Lucas and David Walliams.\n\n\"As Covid has denied so many of Barbara's family, friends and fans a chance to say farewell properly, I wanted to share the order of service to let people be a small part of it,\" Mr Mitchell told the PA news agency.\n\n\"My heart goes out to every family who have experienced the same restrictions at their loved ones' funerals.\"\n\nLeft-right: Christopher Biggins, Ross Kemp and David Walliams were among the mourners\n\nHe added: \"I would again like to thank my family, friends, the media and the public for their incredible support and well wishes since Barbara's passing.\"\n\nDame Barbara's coffin was brought into the crematorium to sound of Frank Sinatra's On The Sunny Side Of The Street, and the service featured a recording of Sparrows Can't Sing from the actress's 1963 film of the same.\n\nIt finished with the famous topless photo of Dame Barbara from the film Carry On Camping, alongside her quote: \"That picture will follow me to the end.\"\n\nLong-time friend Anna Karen, who played Dame Barbara's on-screen sister Aunt Sal in EastEnders, also paid tribute during the service.\n\nThe funeral was also attended by Loose Women's Jane Moore and EastEnders actor Jamie Borthwick. However, the numbers were limited due to coronavirus social distancing.\n\nAlzheimer's Research UK recently said it had seen a spike in donations since Dame Barbara's death, and a JustGiving page set up as a tribute to her and in aid of the charity has raised more than £150,000 (including Gift Aid).\n\nMr Mitchell said that was \"beyond anything we may have dreamed of\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Google's plan to replace web browser cookies with a system that shares less data with advertisers is being investigated in the UK.\n\nThe Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said Google's plan could have a \"significant impact\" on news websites and the digital advertising market.\n\nIt had already raised concerns that publishers' profits could sink if they were unable to run personalised ads.\n\nBut Google said digital advertising practices had to \"evolve\".\n\nCookies are small files a web browser stores on a user's device when they visit a webpage.\n\nThey can be used to remember what items a person has added to their online basket and deliver personalised content.\n\nThey can also be used to track somebody's activity online and deliver targeted advertising.\n\nSome cookies known as cross-site or third-party cookies can let publishers track a person's web activity as they move from one website to another.\n\nBy default, Apple's Safari and Mozilla's Firefox browsers already block cross-site cookies.\n\nBut Google intends to go further by ending support for all cookies except first-party ones - those used by sites to track activity within their own pages.\n\nIt wants to replace them with new tools that give advertisers more limited, anonymised information such as how many users visited a promoted product's page after seeing a relevant ad - but not tie this information to individual users.\n\nAccording to one industry group opposing the move, Google's Chrome browser is installed on more than 70% of computers in the UK.\n\nSo even if other web browsers do not adopt the same approach the move would still be significant.\n\n\"Google's Privacy Sandbox proposals will potentially have a very significant impact on publishers like newspapers, and the digital advertising market. But there are also privacy concerns to consider,\" said Andrea Coscelli, chief executive of the CMA.\n\nA coalition of about a dozen small tech companies and publishers - Marketers for an Open Web (Mow) - claims some of its members' revenues could drop by as much as two-thirds.\n\nMoreover, it suggests the move would put too much power into Google's hands.\n\n\"Google will effectively control how websites can monetise and operate their business,\" it warned last month.\n\n\"This means that any business that buys or sells advertising will be reliant on Google for a part of the process, whether they like it or not.\n\n\"This will reduce the ability of independent players to compete with Google, strengthening its monopoly control of online commerce.\"\n\nThe group has also raised concerns about other related matters, including the tech firm's plan to end support for user-agent strings.\n\nThese are bits of text that browsers send to websites at the start of a user's visit to reveal details about the device and browser being used.\n\nPublishers use this information to optimise the way their sites appear.\n\nBut Google is phasing out support on the grounds that they are also used as an alternative to cookies to track users, and sometimes cause compatibility issues.\n\nThe CMA previously issued a report into the matter in July.\n\nAt that point it acknowledged that while there were benefits to consumers from the kinds of privacy measures Google was proposing, they might be outweighed by other concerns.\n\nIt added that \"many news publishers\" had expressed concern that their news sites would become \"unsustainable\".\n\nUntil recently, the European Commission was responsible for most large and complex competition cases involving the UK.\n\nOn 1 January, the CMA took over these responsibilities on a local level due to Brexit.\n\nLast November, the government announced it would create a new Digital Markets Unit within the CMA.\n\nThe organisation subsequently detailed how it would to govern the behaviour of Google, Facebook and other tech platforms \"that currently dominate\" online markets, and give consumers \"more control over how their data is used\".\n\nThe new unit becomes operational in April, but is dependent on legislation going through Parliament before it gets new powers, and that may not happen until 2022.\n\nSince that would be too late to block Google's Privacy Sandbox plans, the probe is being carried out under the existing regime.\n\nEven so, all those involved will be watching closely for signs of how willing the authority is to confront the US's largest tech companies.", "Edwin Poots said he has asked senior UK government figures to consider unilaterally revoking the NI Protocol\n\nThe Stormont minister whose officials are responsible for the new Irish Sea border has said some food will be unavailable if changes are not made.\n\nDUP Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots has also said jobs could be at risk.\n\nHe said problems at the ports were being caused by new rules applied on imports of food and other products from Britain to Northern Ireland.\n\nEarlier Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove said trade from GB to NI \"will get worse before it gets better\".\n\nMr Gove said that \"work is ongoing\" and it is \"all part of the process of leaving the European Union\".\n\nHe added that he had spoken to ministers from all parties in the Northern Ireland Executive.\n\nAfter speaking with hauliers, supermarkets and processors this week, Mr Poots predicted the loss of jobs and rising costs.\n\n\"A wide range of frozen and chilled foods will be unavailable after the temporary exemption period ends,\" he tweeted.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThat exemption period applies to supermarkets and other food importers and runs out in April.\n\nAfter that they will have to comply with all the paperwork required to ship food in, or find suppliers on the island of Ireland or elsewhere in the EU.\n\nNew rules - called the Northern Ireland Protocol - were introduced because while the UK has left the EU, Northern Ireland has remained in the Single Market for goods and is continuing to apply EU customs rules.\n\nThe arrangement was agreed between the UK and the EU to prevent a hard border on the island of Ireland.\n\nMr Poots said he had spoken to senior UK government figures to ask them to consider unilaterally revoking the protocol as it was \"damaging Northern Ireland at the economic and societal level\".\n\nAnd he hit out at members of Sinn Fein, the SDLP, and Alliance Party who he claimed had supported it.\n\nMembers of those parties have countered similar claims from other DUP politicians in recent days.\n\nThey said DUP MPs had voted against alternative arrangements that would have been simpler to manage before the government pushed ahead with the protocol plan.\n\nResponding to Mr Poot's tweet on Friday evening, SDLP leader Colum Eastwood wrote: \"You broke it, you own it.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Colum Eastwood This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSinn Féin MLA Martina Anderson accused Mr Poots of being \"asleep at the wheel\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Martina Anderson MLA This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) has called for the assembly to be recalled to discuss difficulties over trading between Great Britain and Northern Ireland due to Brexit.\n\nUUP MLA Roy Beggs said: \"The impact of the Irish Sea border is causing horrendous difficulties for hauliers and this is being seen in shops and businesses across Northern Ireland.\n\n\"It is damaging the Northern Ireland economy and the situation is escalating.\"\n\nEarlier on Friday, Michael Gove said it had been expected that there would be \"some initial disruption\" to trade between GB and NI, but that the government is \"ironing\" issues out.\n\nHe said discussions with the executive in Northern Ireland were \"in order to make sure that the [Northern Ireland] protocol works\".\n\n\"[To make sure] that businesses in Northern Ireland can continue to have access to the rest of the UK market, and that Northern Ireland businesses can have the goods that they need on the shelves, that they have access to at the moment,\" he said.\n\nNorthern Ireland has remained a part of the EU's single market for goods while the rest of the UK has left.\n\nThis means food products from Great Britain are subject to checks when they enter Northern Ireland.\n\nSimilar processes and checks also apply when moving food products from Great Britain into the Republic of Ireland.\n\nMeanwhile, an organisation representing haulage firms has called on the UK and Irish government to relax some of the new Irish Sea trade border rules.\n\nThe Road Haulage Association (RHA) said there is serious disruption to freight movements into the island of Ireland.\n\nThe RHA said relaxing the controls on food products and customs declarations \"would help traders to ship goods that have struggled to move over recent days.\"\n\n\"The problems have led to gaps in supermarket shelves and lorries delayed at ports because of problems with red-tape and the situation is worsening,\" the organisation added.\n\n\"We are facing an inflexible, cumbersome and time consuming process just to move goods.\"\n\nThe UK government said the flow of goods \"between GB and NI has been smooth overall and arrivals of freight have continued to increase substantially over this week\".\n\n\"There are no significant queues at NI ports and supermarkets are reporting healthy supplies into their Northern Ireland stores,\" a spokesperson added.\n\n\"We recognise the need to provide as much support to the haulage sector as possible as industry adapts to new processes. That's why hauliers can benefit from the Trader Support Service, which provides free advice and support to businesses of all sizes moving goods under the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\n\"We have been engaging intensively with the Irish authorities and hauliers on the issues that have been encountered for goods transiting through Dublin port.\"\n\nOn Thursday customs authorities in the Republic of Ireland announced a temporary relaxation of one customs process.\n\nHauliers will be able to use an override code to complete a piece of administration known as ENS.\n\nThe letters ENS refer to an entry summary declaration, an online form which goods carriers are now legally obliged to submit to Irish customs when transporting goods from Great Britain into Ireland.\n\nLorries arriving in Ireland from Great Britain have faced new checks since 1 January\n\nOn Thursday night the Irish Revenue Commissioners said it recognised that \"some businesses are experiencing difficulties on lodging their safety and security ENS declarations\".\n\nIt said that in response it was providing a \"temporary easement\" which would allow an ENS to be produced without all the normally required information.\n\nAn Irish government spokesperson said it is \"absolutely essential that Ireland fulfils its obligations as a member of the EU and that we protect the integrity of the single market and the customs union\".\n\n\"We appreciate that the new requirements and customs formalities present significant challenges and impose additional burdens on businesses.\"\n\nMeanwhile Stena, the ferry company, said it was cancelling a dozen sailings between Wales and Ireland next week due to \"a decline in freight volumes during the first week of Brexit.\"", "Tennant was remembered as \"a beautiful soul\" and \"a sensitive and talented woman\"\n\nBritish model Stella Tennant took her own life after being \"unwell for some time\", her family has confirmed.\n\nIn a statement, her family said it was \"a matter of our deepest sorrow and despair that she felt unable to go on.\"\n\nTennant, who made her name in the early 1990s modelling for designers like Karl Lagerfeld and Versace, died in December five days after her 50th birthday.\n\nHer family said they were \"humbled by the outpouring of messages of sympathy and support\" they have received.\n\nTennant was \"a beautiful soul, adored by a close family and good friends, a sensitive and talented woman whose creativity, intelligence and humour touched so many\", they said.\n\n\"In grieving Stella's loss, her family renews a heartfelt request that respect for their privacy should continue.\"\n\nBorn in London on 1970, Tennant was known for her androgynous sultry looks and aristocratic heritage.\n\nShe shot to fame after being photographed for British Vogue at the age of 22 in 1993, going on to work with such designers as Alexander McQueen and Jean Paul Gaultier.\n\nTennant retired from the catwalk in 1998 but later returned. She also worked on campaigns to promote saving energy and reducing the environmental impact of fast fashion.\n\nShe had four children with French-born photographer David Lasnet. The couple married in the Scottish borders in 1999 and announced their separation last year.\n\nTennant with David Lasnet on their wedding day in 1999\n\nStella McCartney, Victoria Beckham and fellow model Naomi Campbell were among those to pay tribute after her death was announced last month.\n\nCampbell said she had been \"a class act in every way\", while Beckham remembered her as \"an incredible talent\".\n\nIf you have been affected by any of the issues in this article, information and support is available from BBC Action Line.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The storming of the US Capitol building in Washington DC stunned viewers around the world.\n\nBut how did Americans feel seeing the seat of their government being ransacked?\n\nWe asked members of our BBC voter panel for their views.\n\nSimon grew up in Uganda during its civil war and became a US citizen last year. A master's student and stay-at-home father, he warns that, while things may settle down, \"democracy is not guaranteed\".\n\nI'm disgusted but not surprised. I anticipated this would happen and it was a matter of when, not if.\n\nI didn't anticipate that it would happen in the capital. This is the president whose people - since the racial justice movement in the summer - said they were for \"law and order\". So the \"law and order\" people broke into the Capitol and changed the American flag with the Trump flag. History shows that has not happened in over 200 years, so it tells you how dangerous this man is.\n\nIn Uganda, in November, when the opposition was arrested, people took to the streets and got shot. Here, in the summer, the Capitol building was protected and they were breaking up peaceful protests.\n\nIt's clear that [Trump supporters] have been organising, we've seen this was going to happen, yet we subconsciously did not think that white people are a threat. That is the construct of this country and how law enforcement viewed it.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Treason, traitors and thugs' - the words lawmakers used to describe Capitol riot\n\nTaylor is a staunch Trump supporter and recently travelled to Washington DC for a post-election pro-Trump rally. A photographer by trade, she was upset by the rioting but believes unsubstantiated claims that left-wing radicals were behind the violence.\n\nIt was just heart-breaking to watch what was going on and the behaviour of protesters is just not like the Trump people I've been around. If it did come from any conservatives, then I condemn it. There's no excuse for violence.\n\nIt doesn't change my support for Trump. The people that love Trump, that's not going to change no matter if he gets a second term or not. It just means we're going to hold out for 2024 and hope either he runs again or his kids do.\n\nOur country is going to go downhill over the next four years if Biden does take office. I'm actually moving today out of the city into the suburbs of a Republican county because I am afraid of how Democratic counties will end up under a Biden presidency.\n\nWe're going to catapult towards socialism and communism. I'm worried for the country's future, but regardless of who takes office, we have a lot of healing to do. I hope we can all find our common humanity and embrace each other when this is all over, which is hopefully soon.\n\nJames is a lifelong Republican who worked on Capitol Hill for the party for nearly two decades, but cast his first ever vote for a Democrat in the 2020 election. He was stunned by 6 January's events and expects it to become a bad footnote in the country's history.\n\nI find it absolutely shocking. I didn't think it would come to this.\n\nI had actually thought about going down to the protests with a sign that said \"Republicans Against Trump\". My brother said, if I had done that, there would have been five deaths, not four, and he may have been right. I'm astounded by the stupidity of these people who show up without masks and who are being filmed. Quite a few of them are going to prison. It's a serious situation when you break past a police barricade and go into a building that's supposed to be secure.\n\nI have a lot of friends who say things couldn't get worse, but I have to remind them, as a student of history, that it has been worse. The Civil War was much worse. There was a lot of violence in the South during the Reconstruction period. This is something the country will get over. I was heartened by President-elect Biden's speech yesterday. Finally we've got someone who's sounding presidential. We haven't had it for the last four years.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA'Kayla is a college student who supports the Black Lives Matter movement. She says law enforcement \"coddled\" the rioters at the Capitol and thus made an argument for police reform because they were far more aggressive at protests she attended.\n\nIt's so irritating I can't put into words how frustrating it is. They stormed the Capitol and the police were gentle and lackadaisical with them. I expected the police to use force, but they were so kind and gentle. During the summer, when the Black Lives Matter protests were going on, so many people were injured, locked up and lost their lives.\n\nFrom my own experience, marching peacefully on the front lines in Charleston, we had tear gas thrown at us and had to pour milk in our eyes. It was excruciating. And for what? We're marching for a cause, because we had the murder of somebody by the police. What are they upset about? They're upset because we are living in a democracy and they didn't get their way.\n\nDuring one of the debates, when Trump said \"stand back and stand by\", is this what he was talking about? This is the calm before the storm. I think it's going to get way more ugly, but Kamala [Harris] and Joe [Biden] are a symbol of change and hope.\n\nWhether [Trump supporters] like it or not, America is moving towards a more progressive country and there's going to be a lot of changes.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Joe Biden: Black Lives Matter protesters would have been treated \"differently\"", "Two more life-saving drugs have been found that can cut deaths by a quarter in patients who are sickest with Covid.\n\nThe anti-inflammatory medications, given via a drip, save an extra life for every 12 treated, say researchers who have carried out a trial in NHS intensive care units.\n\nSupplies are already available across the UK so they can be used immediately to save hundreds of lives, say experts.\n\nThere are over 30,000 Covid patients in UK hospitals - 39% more than in April.\n\nThe UK government is working closely with the manufacturer, to ensure the drugs - tocilizumab and sarilumab - continue to be available to UK patients.\n\nAs well as saving more lives, the treatments speed up patients' recovery and reduce the length of time that critically-ill patients need to spend in intensive care by about a week.\n\nBoth appear to work equally well and add to the benefit already found with a cheap steroid drug called dexamethasone.\n\nAlthough the drugs are not cheap, costing around £500 per patient, on top of the £5 course of dexamethasone, the advantage of using them is clear - and less than the cost per day of an intensive care bed of around £2,000, say experts.\n\nLead researcher Prof Anthony Gordon, from Imperial College London, said: \"For every 12 patients you treat with these drugs you would expect to save a life. It's a big effect.\"\n\nIn the REMAP-CAP trial carried out in six different countries, including the UK, with around 800 intensive care patients:\n\nProf Stephen Powis, NHS national medical director, said: \"The fact there is now another drug that can help to reduce mortality for patients with Covid-19 is hugely welcome news and another positive development in the continued fight against the virus.\"\n\nHealth and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock said: \"The UK has proven time and time again it is at the very forefront of identifying and providing the most promising, innovative treatments for its patients.\n\n\"Today's results are yet another landmark development in finding a way out of this pandemic and, when added to the armoury of vaccines and treatments already being rolled out, will play a significant role in defeating this virus.\"\n\nThe drugs dampen down inflammation, which can go into overdrive in Covid patients and cause damage to the lungs and other organs.\n\nDoctors are being advised to give them to any Covid patient who, despite receiving dexamethasone, is deteriorating and needs intensive care.\n\nTocilizumab and sarilumab have already been added to the government's export restriction list, which bans companies from buying medicines meant for UK patients and selling them on for a higher price in another country.\n\nThe research findings have not yet been peer reviewed or published in a medical journal.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A young woman has died after a rare suspected shark attack in New Zealand.\n\nPolice named the victim as 19-year-old Kaelah Marlow, from Hamilton.\n\nMarlow was taken out of the water still alive but died at the scene despite efforts to save her life. Police said it appeared she had been injured by a shark.\n\nThe attack happened at Waihi Beach on North Island not far from the country's biggest city Auckland.\n\n\"Police extend our deepest sympathies to Kaelah's family and loved ones at this very difficult time,\" police said in a statement.\n\n\"We appreciate her death was extremely traumatic for those who were at Waihi Beach yesterday and we are offering victim support services to anyone who requires it,\" the statement said.\n\nShark attacks are unusual in the country and this is thought to be the first fatality since 2013. Local media cited witnesses as saying the woman had been swimming right in front of the lifeguard flags on Thursday.\n\nWhen they heard screams, lifeguards went out by boat immediately and pulled her to shore.\n\nIt is not clear what kind of shark attacked Kaelah Marlow, but an eyewitness reportedly claimed it was a great white, a species which is protected in the waters around New Zealand.\n\n\"Sharks are reasonably common near all northern beaches of New Zealand, most are harmless and even species considered dangerous very rarely interact with swimmers,\" shark researcher Kina Scollay told the BBC.\n\n\"My thoughts and sympathies are with the victim's family and we need to remember that this is a real tragedy to real people. I worry that this gets lost sight of in the media scramble after such events.\"\n\nOne witness quoted by local media said he believed a great white shark attacked the woman\n\nMr Scolley said that while attacks were rare, there were ways to be careful about interactions that could go wrong. Among the risk factors are, for instance, fish feeding events or dead animals in the water.\n\n\"If a large shark approaches or is seen nearby people should stay calm, warn those nearby and calmly exit the water,\" he said.\n\nA seven-day rahui, a traditional Maori prohibition restricting access to an area, has been placed on the beach.\n\nThe last recorded shark attack was in 2018 when a man was injured - but survived - at Baylys Beach. Over the past 170 years, there have only been 13 fatal shark attacks documented in New Zealand, according to the country's department of conservation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "The US is reeling after supporters of President Trump stormed the Capitol building in Washington DC on the day Congress was meeting to confirm Joe Biden's election victory.\n\nLawmakers were forced to take shelter, the building was put into lockdown and four people died in the chaos that followed a pro-Trump rally near the White House.\n\nHere's a breakdown of how events unfolded on Wednesday.\n\nJust before midday local time (17:00 GMT) thousands of people gather at the Ellipse, near the White House, to hear the president speak at a \"Save America\" rally.\n\nHe tells them: \"We're going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue... and we're going to the Capitol and we're going to try and give… our Republicans, the weak ones... the kind of pride and boldness that they need to take back our country.\"\n\nAs the speech ends, crowds start to drift towards the Congress building, about a mile and a half away, where they are met by police barriers.\n\nThe Capitol is home to the two chambers of the US government that make up Congress - the House of Representatives and the Senate.\n\nChanting crowds start to gather on both sides of the building at around 13:10, grappling with police at the metal barricades.\n\nTear gas and pepper spray are used to try to keep the protesters at bay.\n\nPolice officers struggle to maintain control of the situation as protesters advance on the building on multiple fronts.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police place US Capitol Building on lockdown after Trump supporters breached security lines\n\nOn the east side, the crowd force their way through barricades on the Capitol Plaza and move on the main entrance, quickly gaining access to the Great Rotunda.\n\nOnce inside, they head for the House and Senate chambers.\n\nIgor Bobic, a journalist for the Huffington Post, captures a group of men forcing a police officer to retreat up a set of stairs as they continue their advance.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Igor Bobic This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSenators are forced to abandon the process of confirming President-elect Biden's victory and the building goes into lockdown.\n\nThe doors of the House chamber are locked and a makeshift barricade is erected in front of them. Security officials guard the entrance, guns drawn.\n\nWithin an hour, protesters have also broken police lines on the west side of the Capitol, scaling walls to reach the building itself before smashing windows and forcing doors open.\n\nOther videos and images show rioters storming through the building's ornately-decorated corridors and chambers chanting \"USA!\" and \"Stop the steal\".\n\nShortly before 15:00, gunshots are reportedly heard inside the building.\n\nPhotos and video footage later show a female protester being shot as she tries to break through the barricaded doors of the Speakers' Lobby.\n\nDespite efforts by police and others at the scene to save her, she is later reported to have died.\n\nOn the other side of the building, protesters break into the Senate chamber, one taking seat in the Speaker's chair.\n\nAnother protester is photographed nearby sitting in Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office, with his foot on the table.\n\nAfter growing condemnation of the riots, President Trump eventually calls for calm, telling the protesters to leave peacefully: \"Go home. We love you, you're very special.\"\n\nBy 17:40, the building is cleared and made secure ahead of the 18:00 curfew ordered by DC Mayor Muriel Bowser.\n\nSeveral thousand National Guard troops, FBI agents and US Secret Service are deployed to help.\n\nMore than six hours after the storming of the building, senators return and resume the day's business of certifying the results of the 2020 presidential election.\n\nAt 03:41 on Thursday, Congress confirms President-elect Joe Biden will succeed President Trump on 20 January.", "Young women clap for heroes outside Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London\n\nA revived initiative to applaud the heroes of the pandemic has returned - but much more quietly than last year.\n\nIt comes after the founder of Clap for Carers distanced herself from its return after facing online abuse.\n\nAnnemarie Plas wanted to bring back the weekly applause under a new name of Clap for Heroes to lift spirits in the new lockdown but it fell a little flat.\n\nSome health workers have said they would rather people stay at home and wear a mask than clap for them.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said he participated at 20:00 GMT on Thursday, but clapping \"isn't enough\".\n\n\"They need to be paid properly and given the respect they deserve,\" he tweeted., of the health workers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The weekly clap returned but Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said clapping alone \"wasn't enough\"\n\nThe idea of clapping and banging pots from doorsteps originally began as a one-off to support NHS staff on 26 March - three days after the UK went into lockdown for the first time.\n\nAfter proving popular it was expanded to cover all key workers and continued every Thursday for 10 weeks last year, with millions of people across the UK taking part.\n\nMembers of the Royal Family and politicians including Prime Minister Boris Johnson also joined in with the show of support.\n\nHowever, the event faced criticism for becoming politicised, with some suggesting the NHS would benefit more from extra funding than applause.\n\nPeople in some streets stood on doorsteps and leaned out windows to clap for the pandemic's heroes, and landmarks in London were illuminated blue for the occasion - but reports suggested the applause was noticeably quieter than last year.\n\nAnnemarie Plas and her family were threatened online for her efforts\n\nOn Wednesday, Ms Plas, a 36-year-old mother-of-one, announced the return of the initiative, saying she hoped to \"lift the spirit of all of us\" including \"all who are pushing through this difficult time\".\n\nBut some NHS workers were less than enthusiastic. Ami Jones, an intensive care consultant from Wales, tweeted: \"No thanks. I'd rather you obey the rules, stay at home, wear masks and wash your hands.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Rachel Clarke 💙 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd palliative care doctor Rachel Clarke said: \"Please don't clap us. Just wear a mask, wash your hands and respect lockdown.\"\n\nIn a tweet posted hours before the weekly clap was due to return, Ms Plas, a Dutch national living in south London, said she had been targeted with personal abuse and threats against her and her family by \"a hateful few\" on social media.\n\n\"I have no political agenda, I am not employed by the government, I do not work in PR, I am just an average mum at home trying to cope with the lockdown situation,\" she said, in a statement.\n\nShe said the newly revived clap could and should still happen at 20:00 GMT.\n\n\"It's up to each person to decide how relevant or worthwhile they feel it is to participate,\" she said.\n\nThe fountains in Trafalgar Square were illuminated blue for the initiative on Thursday\n\nSome incorporated pots and pans during their weekly claps in warmer months", "UK house prices rose by 6% last year, according to the Halifax, but the lender is predicting \"downward pressure\" on values in 2021.\n\nThe mortgage lender, part of Lloyds Banking Group, said that prices \"soared\" in the second half of 2020.\n\nPent-up demand, a clamour for more space, and stamp duty holidays led to higher prices.\n\nBut the Halifax said the economic realities of 2021 meant activity would slow as the year progressed.\n\n\"With the pace of the UK's economic recovery expected to be constrained by the renewed national lockdown, and unemployment widely predicted to rise in the coming months, downward pressure on house prices remains likely as we move through 2021,\" said Russell Galley, managing director at the Halifax.\n\nHe said that last year was a market of two halves - starting with slow growth, and stalling when the market was closed during the first national lockdown, but then booming when it reopened.\n\nThis meant that overall, demand and price growth were relatively high.\n\nThe conclusion mirrors the findings of rival lender, the Nationwide, which said that UK house prices climbed 7.5% in 2020, the highest growth rate for six years.\n\nBoth mortgage lenders base their findings on their customer data.\n\nLucy Pendleton, from estate agents James Pendleton, said: \"The simple truth is that extra space has become non-negotiable for legions of homeowners with families, and the usual winter slowdown has met the immovable force that is hundreds of thousands of people all trying to jump to larger properties at the same time.\"\n\nThe Halifax said there were already signs of the market slowing, with prices rising by 0.2% in December compared with the previous month.\n\nThat was the slowest monthly rise of the last six months.\n\nThe lender said the average home was valued at £253,374.\n• None Where can I afford to live?", "The switch has been welcomed by climate campaigners\n\nAlok Sharma is to leave his position as business secretary to focus full-time on his role as president of the UN COP26 climate conference in November.\n\nThe Glasgow event is expected to be the biggest summit the UK has ever hosted.\n\nMr Sharma, who will remain in the cabinet, said he was \"delighted to have been asked by the PM to dedicate all my energies\" to the position.\n\nKwasi Kwarteng replaces him as business secretary while Anne-Marie Trevelyan becomes the new energy minister.\n\nThe government says a successful summit will be critical if the UK wants to meet the objectives set out by the Paris Agreement and reduce global emissions.\n\nThe event had originally been scheduled for November 2020 but was delayed by a year due to Covid-19.\n\nThe BBC's political correspondent Jessica Parker said the decision to move Alok Sharma wasn't a surprise and would be seen as a recognition of the need to free him up to do more of the crucial diplomatic leg-work required.\n\nSome MPs had previously warned that Mr Sharma lacked the \"bandwidth\" to head the conference alongside his cabinet job, especially given the strains on business due to the pandemic.\n\nIn his new role, which is based in the Cabinet Office, Mr Sharma's will remain a member of Boris Johnson's top team but be focused solely on coordinating global action to tackle climate change\n\nBoris Johnson chose Mr Sharma to head the event after ex-minister Claire O'Neill was ousted from the position in the summer of 2019.\n\nShe later condemned what she called broken promises and backsliding on climate commitments.\n\nFormer Conservative PM David Cameron turned down the chance to head the conference and ex-Foreign Secretary Lord Hague was also involved in discussions.\n\nMr Sharma's move will be welcomed by climate campaigners, who worried he was over-stretched running a frantically busy department while also orchestrating the most important climate meeting on Earth.\n\nMany of these summits - known as COPs - yielded little because the leadership was poor.\n\nThe French produced a triumphant agreement in the 2015 Paris COP after mustering the mighty force of French diplomacy.\n\nMr Sharma is reported to accept that he now needs to concentrate full time on the challenge.\n\nHe will need subtle diplomatic skills, a mastery of detail and the stamina of an ox as he attempts to corral world leaders into agreement on curbing emissions faster. He'll also need 100% support from the PM.\n\nThe greatest obstacle to action - Donald Trump - will soon disappear from the scene, and with China making bold promises, the COP has potential.\n\nBut politicians have been so slow to act that some key tipping points in the climate might already have been breached.\n\nReflecting on his new role, Mr Sharma said: \"The biggest challenge of our time is climate change and we need to work together to deliver a cleaner, greener world and build back better for present and future generations.\n\n\"Through the UK's Presidency of COP26 we have a unique opportunity, working with friends and partners around the world, to deliver on this goal.\"\n\nRichard Black, senior associate at the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU) said: \"Allowing Alok Sharma to focus full-time on his COP26 role is a sensible decision, not least as it signals the government's commitment to ensuring that the summit is a success.\n\n\"With the election of Joe Biden as the next US President and China's recent carbon neutrality pledge, the diplomatic opportunities have opened up for more ambitious action on climate change. Mr Sharma's job will be to seize them.\"\n\nAnd ex-cabinet minister Amber Rudd, who led the UK delegation at the Paris climate change conference, said the move showed the government \"recognises the importance and opportunity for a global agreement this year\".\n\nResponding to his new appointment, Mr Kwarteng said he was \"thrilled\" and pledged to help businesses through this period of \"extremely challenging circumstances\".\n\nThe Spelthorne MP, who entered Parliament in 2010, has been energy minister since July 2019.\n\nLabour's shadow business secretary Ed Miliband said Mr Kwarteng had \"a massive task\" in providing business with \"a plan to help them through this year, not the inadequate sticking plaster measures we have seen\".\n\nHe welcomed the decision to make Mr Sharma's COP role full time.\n\n\"It's absolutely crucial that the full political, diplomatic and strategic resources of government are now directed to the most ambitious outcome at Glasgow, which is a 1.5 degree deal.\"", "The number of hours ambulances spent waiting to offload patients in parts of England is \"off the scale\", the Royal College of Emergency Medicine says.\n\nData leaked to BBC News shows ambulance waiting times at hospitals in the South East rose by 36% in December compared to the same month in 2019.\n\nPeople are also having to wait longer for ambulances to arrive when called.\n\nAmbulance services say it is taking longer to hand over patients but they are doing all they can to meet demand.\n\nIt comes as the NHS faces unprecedented pressure because of the Covid pandemic.\n\nA paramedic working in London told BBC News he had encountered patients left waiting up to 12 hours for an ambulance in the last week.\n\nOne patient in London with a broken leg had to wait outside at night for six hours before an ambulance arrived to collect him, he said.\n\nOn another occasion, paramedics were called to attend to a young man with Covid-19 whose oxygen levels were \"so low\". He was given oxygen when they arrived - but that was eight hours after the ambulance was called.\n\nIncidents such as these are \"dangerous\" and the service is \"on its knees\", the paramedic added.\n\nThe figures also show that at one point on Monday this week more than 700 patients were left waiting for an ambulance to arrive in London when none was available.\n\nDifferent statistics obtained by BBC News highlight the number of hours spent waiting to offload patients at hospitals half an hour after ambulances arrived at hospitals in the South East.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What does it mean if the NHS is overwhelmed?\n\nSouth East Coast Ambulance service lost 7,803 hours queuing outside hospitals, an increase on 5,732 hours in 2019.\n\nKent saw the greatest rise in this period. One of its hospitals, Medway Maritime Hospital, saw a doubling in ambulance waiting times.\n\nThese figures are \"off the scale\", according to Royal College of Emergency Medicine Vice President Adrian Boyle.\n\n\"It is not because more ambulances are being called, it's because the amount of time they're spending outside a hospital has increased,\" he said.\n\nDr Boyle says ambulances left queuing outside hospitals meant crews were not available to respond to other emergencies.\n\nHe says services are facing a \"crisis\" unlike any other he has seen.\n\n\"People may feel they have a winter crisis every year but this is a different order of magnitude\", he added.\n\n\"This is the worst winter crisis I've been through in my 25 years of practising as a doctor.\"\n\nAmbulance services say they are are doing everything they can to meet the demand.\n\nA London Ambulance Service Trust spokesperson said: \"We are continuing to prioritise the most seriously ill and injured patients, and our team of trained clinicians in our control rooms are working hard to monitor and maintain contact with many other patients as needed while they are waiting for ambulance crews to arrive.\"\n\nA South East Coast Ambulance Service Trust spokesperson said: \"We are doing everything we can to increase the number of staff available to meet this demand, including increasing overtime, to ensure crews are as available as possible to respond to patients in the community.\"\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this story? You can share your experience by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Marks & Spencer says sales of sleepwear have soared as people spend more time at home because of Covid restrictions.\n\nThe retailer sold 20% more women's pyjamas during the 13 weeks to 26 December, with many of them being bought as Christmas presents.\n\n\"The great British public are back in their pyjamas,\" said chief executive Steve Rowe.\n\nDespite this, clothing sales as a whole fell nearly a quarter, although food sales showed modest growth.\n\nM&S said its trading was \"robust\" over the Christmas period, but UK revenues for the quarter were £2.52bn, 8.2% lower than last year.\n\nM&S blamed \"on-off restrictions and distortions in demand patterns\" due to the coronavirus crisis.\n\nM&S also said that potential post-Brexit tariffs on part of its range exported to the EU, together with \"very complex\" administrative processes, would \"significantly impact\" its businesses in Ireland and the Czech Republic, as well as its franchise business in France.\n\nMr Rowe said the chain's popular Percy Pig sweets, made in Germany, were one product that could face tax rises.\n\nIt said it was \"actively working to mitigate\" those effects.\n\nMr Rowe thanked staff for \"a first-class execution of Christmas for our customers in near impossible conditions\".\n\nThe High Street stalwart said customers had responded to its \"innovative seasonal product\" during the four-week run-up to Christmas.\n\nLike-for-like food sales had risen 2.6% during the period, it said.\n\nHowever, clothing and home sales fell by 24.1%, and UK sales overall were down 7.6% on a like-for-like basis.\n\nTrading was hit particularly badly in November by the national lockdown in England, with clothing and home sales slumping 40.5% in the month and food sales down 4.5%.\n\n\"Near-term trading remains very challenging, but we are continuing to accelerate change under our Never the Same Again programme to ensure the business emerges from the pandemic in very different shape,\" Mr Rowe said.\n\nOn the positive side, M&S said its tie-up with online firm Ocado had produced \"very strong\" results, while customers had responded to its \"innovative seasonal product\" during the four-week run-up to Christmas.\n\nRoss Hindle, retail sector analyst at Third Bridge, said: \"Despite the pressure faced by their clothing division, the M&S food division is expected to deliver solid results, propelled by both stockpiling and its Ocado partnership.\n\nHe pointed to reports that M&S was poised to acquire the Jaeger clothing brand as a possible way forward, saying it \"hints at the potential for a more aggressive shift into the multi-brand space\".\n\n\"M&S have numerous large stores which could be filled with non-M&S merchandise in order to drive their top-line. The risk here is whether such brands might cannibalise M&S branded products,\" he added.\n\nEmily Salter, retail analyst at GlobalData, said M&S was \"paying the cost for its inability to adapt fast enough to changing shopping habits\".\n\n\"M&S's recovery is slow versus other apparel players, as it continues to be hurt by an online platform unable to make up for lost store sales,\" she added.\n\nShe saw little point in a potential purchase of Jaeger, as it would be \"costly to turn around and do little to boost the retailer's fortunes\".\n\nHowever, she said M&S's focus on value in food had \"started to pay off, with decent sales growth, especially considering dampened footfall on High Streets\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"I condemn encouraging people to behave in the disgraceful way they did in the Capitol\"\n\nDonald Trump was \"completely wrong\" to cast doubt on the US election and encourage supporters to storm the Capitol, Boris Johnson has said.\n\nThe UK prime minister said he \"unreservedly condemns\" the US president's actions.\n\nFour people died after a pro-Trump mob stormed the building in a bid to overturn the election result.\n\nMr Trump had urged protesters to march on the Capitol after making false electoral fraud claims.\n\nHe later called on his supporters to \"go home\", while continuing to make false claims - Twitter and Facebook later froze his accounts.\n\nThe president has now said there will be an \"orderly transition\" to President-elect Joe Biden, whose November election victory has now been certified by US lawmakers.\n\nBut he added that he continued to \"totally disagree\" with the outcome of the vote, repeating his unsubstantiated claims of electoral fraud.\n\nOn Wednesday night, Mr Johnson condemned the \"disgraceful scenes\" and called for a \"peaceful and orderly transfer of power\".\n\nBut asked by the BBC's political correspondent Alex Forsyth if President Trump was directly responsible, he said: \"All my life America has stood for some very important things. An idea of freedom, an idea of democracy.\n\n\"As you say, in so far as he encouraged people to storm the Capitol, and in so far as the president has consistently cast doubt on the outcome of a free and fair election, I believe that was completely wrong.\n\n\"I believe what President Trump has been saying about that has been completely wrong and I unreservedly condemn encouraging people to behave in the disgraceful way that they did in the Capitol.\"\n\nThe PM, speaking at a Downing Street briefing, then welcomed the confirmation of President-elect Biden, saying \"democracy has prevailed\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHundreds of the president's supporters stormed the Capitol on Wednesday - where lawmakers were meeting to confirm Mr Biden's election victory - and staged an occupation of the building in Washington DC.\n\nBoth chambers of Congress were forced into recess, as protesters clashed with police and tear gas was released.\n\nA woman died after being shot by police, and three others died as a result of \"medical emergencies\", local police said.\n\nUK politicians from different parties have all condemned Mr Trump's actions in encouraging the storming of the Capitol.\n\nEarlier, Home Secretary Priti Patel said the president's comments had \"directly led\" to the events and he \"didn't do anything to de-escalate that\".\n\nShe added: \"He basically has made a number of comments yesterday that helped to fuel that violence and he didn't actually do anything to de-escalate that whatsoever... what we've seen is completely unacceptable.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Priti Patel says Donald Trump was wrong for not condemning the violence\n\nSpeaking on Thursday, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said Mr Trump should \"take responsibility\" for what happened, calling it the \"culmination of years of the politics of hate and division\".\n\nSir Keir added he welcomed the outgoing president's agreement to an orderly handover, but told reporters \"he should have said it a long time ago.\"\n\nScottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said Mr Trump had been \"inciting insurrection in his own country,\" and called it a \"dark period\" in US history.\n\n\"What we witnessed last night is not that surprising. In some senses, Donald Trump's presidency has been moving towards this moment almost from the moment it started,\" she told ITV's Good Morning Britain.\n\nScotland's Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf said the home secretary should \"give serious consideration\" to denying Mr Trump entry to the UK after he leaves office.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Treason, traitors and thugs' - the words lawmakers used to describe Capitol riot\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab said certification of Mr Biden's victory was \"good to see\" after the \"shocking events\" on Wednesday, adding the UK condemned the violence \"unequivocally\".\n\nFormer Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May, who shared time in office with Mr Trump, said there should be \"no place for the rule of the mob\".\n\nBut senior Welsh Conservative Andrew RT Davies has been criticised after comparing the rioting to politicians who supported a second referendum on Brexit.\n\nMr Davies, a member of the Welsh Parliament, later tweeted that \"violence must never be tolerated\".\n\nHis party colleague, the Conservative MP Simon Hoare, suggested Mr Trump could be sent to the US detention centre at Guantanamo Bay:\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Simon Hoare MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCommons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle has written to express his \"solidarity\" with US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, whose empty office was broken into by protesters.\n\n\"Seeing your office trashed in that way and its occupation by one of the rioters was particularly outrageous. I am just so relieved you were not hurt,\" he wrote.\n\nTrump supporters left this note on the desk of Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House of Representatives.", "The Liberia-flagged oil tanker Nave Andromeda docked at Southampton after the incident\n\nSeven men, including two who had already been charged, will face no action over a suspected hijacking of an oil tanker off the Isle of Wight.\n\nSpecial forces stormed the Nave Andromeda on 25 October after the crew raised concerns about stowaways.\n\nMatthew Okorie, 25, and Sunday Sylvester, 22, had been charged with conduct endangering ships.\n\nBut prosecutors dropped their case after evidence analysis \"cast doubt\" on whether the tanker was put in danger.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said initial reports had indicated there was a \"real and imminent threat\" to the vessel, but added mobile phone footage and witness accounts \"could not show that the ship or crew were threatened\" and there was no evidence the men had any intention to seize control of the vessel.\n\nThe CPS said the new evidence meant the \"legal test\" for the offence was \"no longer met\".\n\n\"Our case was that the actions of the men were responsible for the endangerment of the vessel, but further material was then supplied by a maritime expert which significantly undermined whether there was a threat of danger,\" prosecutors said in a statement.\n\nThe Home Office said it was \"disappointed\" by the CPS's decision and added it was working with prosecutors to \"urgently resolve the issues raised by this case\".\n\nA spokesman said: \"It is frustrating that there will be no prosecution in relation to this very serious incident and the British people will struggle to understand how this can be the case.\"\n\nHampshire Constabulary said the five other men, who were arrested on suspicion of seizing or exercising control of a ship by use of threats or force, also face no police action.\n\nThey will remain detained under immigration regulations.\n\nThe 748ft-long (228m) ship left Lagos in Nigeria on 5 October bound for Southampton.\n\nAs it approached the Isle of Wight 20 days later, an emergency call came from the ship concerned about stowaways on board while the 22 crew members had locked themselves in the ship's citadel - secure area.\n\nThe men had been found on the ship earlier in the voyage and the vessel had made unsuccessful attempts to dock in other ports.\n\nIt was reported the men became hostile as the tanker approached the UK - but the CPS said it was thought this may have occurred while the ship was outside of UK waters.\n\nAt the time the Ministry of Defence called the incident a \"suspected hijacking\" and said Defence Secretary Ben Wallace and Home Secretary Priti Patel authorised a special forces operation in response to a police request following a 10-hour stand-off.\n\nIn a nine-minute operation carried out under the cover of darkness, Special Boat Service commandos boarded the vessel and arrested the seven men, believed to be Nigerian nationals seeking asylum in the UK.\n\nThe Liberian-registered tanker later docked in Southampton.\n\nSpecial forces boarded the Nave Andromeda on the evening of 25 October\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mauritius has been removed from the safe list\n\nTravellers from countries near South Africa are to be banned from entering England to stop the spread of the South African Covid variant.\n\nArrivals from Namibia, Zimbabwe, Angola, Botswana, as well as island nations Mauritius and Seychelles, will be affected.\n\nThe rule will take effect on 9 January but there will be an exemption for British and Irish nationals.\n\nThey will need to follow existing quarantine procedures.\n\nA ban by visitors to the UK from South Africa started on 24 December.\n\nThe latest restriction brought in by the Department for Transport also affects travellers arriving from Eswatini, Zambia, Malawi, Lesotho and Mozambique.\n\nIt will apply from 04:00 GMT on Saturday to people who have travelled from or through any of the specified countries in the last 10 days.\n\nIt is understood most flights from the affected countries arrive at airports in England, although it is expected the policy will be formally adopted by the other UK nations.\n\nThe measures will be in place for an initial period of two weeks.\n\nMeanwhile, Botswana, and the islands of Seychelles and Mauritius, are being removed from the UK list of safe travel corridors as there is a high frequency of travel between the islands and South Africa.\n\nThe new variant of coronavirus circulating in South Africa is already being seen in other countries, including the UK.\n\nThe variant, much like the new UK variant first seen in Kent, appears to be more contagious than previous ones.\n\nAnyone arriving into the UK from most destinations must quarantine for 10 days.\n\nBut there are a list of countries exempt from the rules, meaning returning travellers do not need to self-isolate, called the travel corridor list.\n\nUnder the latest announcement, the travel corridor with Israel will also end amid concerns about rising infection levels in that country.\n\nHowever, rules in place across the UK currently ban travel abroad unless for specific reasons.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Trump calls for an 'orderly transition of power' to the Biden administration on January 20th\n\nA US Capitol police officer has died from injuries sustained in the attack on Congress by a pro-Trump mob as top Democrats have called for the president to be removed for \"inciting\" the riot.\n\nHouse Speaker Nancy Pelosi urged Vice-President Mike Pence to invoke the 25th amendment to the Constitution to declare the president unfit for office.\n\nAlternatively, she vowed to initiate the process to impeach the president.\n\nWednesday's violence came hours after Mr Trump encouraged his supporters to fight against the election results as Congress was certifying President-elect Joe Biden's victory in the November vote.\n\nFive people have died in relation to the riot, including Brian Sicknick, an officer at the US Capitol Police (USCP) who was \"injured while physically engaging with protesters\", the police said.\n\nMeanwhile, the top congressional Democrats - Speaker Pelosi and Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer - have urged Vice-President Pence and Mr Trump's cabinet to remove the president for \"his incitement of insurrection\".\n\n\"The President's dangerous and seditious acts necessitate his immediate removal from office,\" they said in a joint statement.\n\nThe duo called for Mr Trump to be ousted using the 25th Amendment, which allows the vice-president to step up if the president is unable to perform his duties owing to a mental or physical illness.\n\nBut it would require Mr Pence and at least eight cabinet members to break with Mr Trump and invoke the amendment, something they have so far seemed unlikely to do. Mr Trump is due to leave office on 20 January, when Mr Biden will be sworn in.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMrs Pelosi indicated that if the vice-president failed to act, she would convene the House to launch their second impeachment proceedings against Mr Trump.\n\nHowever, to succeed in convicting and removing the president, Democrats would need a two-thirds majority in the Senate, and there is no indication they would get those numbers. And it was not clear whether enough time remained to carry out the process.\n\nMrs Pelosi's deputy, Katherine Clark, told CNN the House could move on impeachment next week.\n\nMedia reports, quoting unnamed sources, said Mr Trump had suggested to aides he was considering granting a pardon to himself in the final days of his presidency. The legality of such a move is untested.\n\nIt wasn't until Thursday night, more than 24 hours after the US Capitol had been ransacked by his supporters, that Donald Trump released a recorded statement calling for \"healing and reconciliation\" in a wounded nation.\n\nThat was the very least that could be expected from a US president in a time of crises, and it probably will not be enough to silence calls for his removal, impeachment or resignation. Those demands have been coming from the political left, of course, but also from parts of the right - longtime critics, from former allies and, remarkably, even the conservative editorial page of Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street Journal.\n\nEver since November's election, when Trump chose to attack the results rather than admit defeat, a reckoning was coming. The pressure, like a malfunctioning steam engine, was building toward a catastrophic ending.\n\nOn Thursday night, the president began trying to pick up the pieces.\n\nTeleprompter Trump had spoken. In past crises, unscripted Trump has quickly returned, with words and actions that reveal his earlier comments were insincere.\n\nWith 12 days left in his presidency, the question is whether, or more likely when, that Trump will return - and what happens when he does.\n\nPresident Trump returned to Twitter on Thursday following a 12-hour freeze of his account. His message was the closest he has come to a formal acceptance of his defeat after weeks of falsely insisting he actually won the election in a \"landslide\".\n\n\"Now Congress has certified the results a new administration will be inaugurated on January 20th,\" the Republican said in a video, without mentioning Mr Biden by name.\n\n\"My focus now turns to ensuring a smooth, orderly and seamless transition of power. This moment calls for healing and reconciliation.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Treason, traitors and thugs' - the words lawmakers used to describe Capitol riot\n\nMr Trump said he had \"immediately deployed\" the National Guard to expel the intruders, though some US media reported he had hesitated to send in the troops, leaving his vice-president to give the order.\n\nHe also praised his \"wonderful supporters\" and promised \"our incredible journey is only just beginning\".\n\nLaw enforcement have been heavily criticised after they were overrun by the protesters. Mr Biden said: \"Nobody could tell me that if it was a group of Black Lives Matter protesters yesterday they wouldn't have been treated very differently than the thugs that stormed the Capitol.\"\n\nImages captured inside the Capitol building showed protesters roaming through some of the corridors unimpeded.\n\nThe FBI is seeking to identify those involved in the rampage, and the Washington DC police have released pictures of \"persons of interest\" for their involvement in the riot. The Department of Justice says people could face charges of seditious conspiracy, as well as rioting and insurrection.\n\nWashington police say 68 people have so far been arrested. One of those detained at the Capitol had a \"military-style automatic weapon and 11 Molotov cocktails (petrol bombs)\", according to the federal attorney for Washington DC.\n\nThe official responsible for security in the House of Representatives, the sergeant at arms, has resigned. Mr Schumer has called for his counterpart in the Senate to be sacked. USCP chief Steven Sund is also resigning, effective 16 January, following calls from Mrs Pelosi.\n\nOn Thursday, crews began installing a non-scalable 7ft (2m) fence around the Capitol which will remain in place for at least 30 days.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Joe Biden: Black Lives Matter protesters would have been treated \"differently\"\n\nAshli Babbitt, a 35-year-old US Air Force veteran from San Diego, California, was named as the woman fatally shot by a police officer who has now been placed on leave. Law enforcement told US media the victim was unarmed.\n\nThree others died after suffering unspecified medical emergencies on Capitol grounds: Benjamin Philips, 50, from Pennsylvania; Kevin Greeson, 55, from Alabama; and Rosanne Boyland, 34, from Georgia. Mr Greeson's family said he died of a heart attack.\n\nPolice said that 14 officers had been injured in the riot.\n\nOn Thursday evening, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos - one of the longest serving members of the president's administration - became the second cabinet member to quit following the Capitol riot.\n\nIn her resignation letter, Ms DeVos accused the president of fomenting Wednesday's disorder. \"There is no mistaking the impact your rhetoric had on the situation, and it is the inflection point for me.\"\n\nEarlier in the day, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao stepped down, saying she had been \"deeply troubled\" by the rampage.\n\nOther aides to quit include special envoy Mick Mulvaney, a senior national security official, and the chief of staff to First Lady Melania Trump. A state department adviser was also sacked after calling Mr Trump \"unfit for office\" in a tweet.", "Fashion student Mhari Thurston-Tyler posted an advert for the \"crop top\" (right) on Depop after she says she found some discarded Chiltern Railways seat covers (like those on the left)\n\nA fashion student has been warned not to sell prohibited items on the clothes app, Depop, after she posted an advert for a top made from a train seat cover.\n\nMhari Thurston-Tyler made the bandeau out of a Chiltern Railways seat cover designed to promote social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe 20-year-old sold the top for £15 but later refunded her customer and took the advert down.\n\nDepop said the item \"clearly violates our terms of service\".\n\nThe app for buying and selling second-hand clothes said the sale of stolen goods was banned - but Ms Thurston-Tyler denied stealing.\n\nShe told BBC News she found two of the blue seat covers \"balled up on the floor\" outside Marylebone station in London in September.\n\nMs Thurston-Tyler, who is a fashion student at Central Saint Martins, re-sewed one of the covers to make it fit her, before deciding to advertise the second cover on Depop.\n\n\"I have no money at the moment so decided to put the second one on Depop to see if anyone would buy it,\" she said, adding that the app had become her main source of income as she has struggled to find other work during the pandemic.\n\n\"I have to resort to little things like this to make ends meet, to pay the bills.\"\n\nMs Thurston-Tyler's advert went viral on social media after being shared by Depop Drama's Instagram and Twitter accounts.\n\nMhari Thurston-Tyler said she has been unable to find a job during the coronavirus pandemic and sells clothes on Depop \"to make ends meet\"\n\nIn the advert, Ms Thurston-Tyler models the seat cover and describes it as a \"social distancing crop\", adding: \"Got a few of these can do different sizes.\"\n\nMs Thurston-Tyler, from Kenilworth in Warwickshire, said a Depop customer paid her £15 and ordered a crop top \"in extra small\".\n\nBut realising she should not be making money out of Chiltern Railways' property, Ms Thurston-Tyler refunded the customer 15 minutes later and took the advert down shortly afterwards.\n\n\"I didn't steal it but I understand it's not right to re-sell it,\" she said.\n\nA Depop spokesperson said Ms Thurston-Tyler would be banned from the platform if she listed any other prohibited goods.\n\n\"We explicitly prohibit the sale of illegal and unlawful content on the app, including any stolen goods,\" they said.\n\n\"This item clearly violates our terms of service, but as it has been removed by the seller and is no longer for sale on the platform, we will not be taking immediate steps to ban this user.\"\n\nMs Thurston-Tyler said she hopes to make her own line of crop tops with the words \"children railways\" on the design, while \"the hype\" of the viral moment continues.\n\nChiltern Railways said it has been using the social distancing \"seat sashes\" since the beginning of the UK's Covid epidemic.\n\nA spokeswoman added: \"Whilst we appreciate this new take on railway memorabilia, these items are there to help customers travel with confidence and we would respectfully ask that they are left in place.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. London mayor Sadiq Khan: \"Unless the virus reduces... we could run out of beds\"\n\nThe spread of Covid in London is \"out of control\" according to Sadiq Khan, who has declared a \"major incident\".\n\nThe coronavirus infection rate in London has exceeded 1,000 per 100,000 people, based on the latest figures from Public Health England.\n\nHowever, the Office for National Statistics recently estimated as many as one in 30 Londoners has coronavirus.\n\nMr Khan told BBC political reporter Karl Mercer that the figure is as high as one in 20 in some parts of London.\n\nMajor incidents have previously been called for the Grenfell Tower fire in June 2017 and the terror attacks at Westminster Bridge and London Bridge.\n\nA major incident is any emergency that requires the implementation of special arrangements by one or all of the emergency services, the NHS or the local authority.\n\nIt means the emergency services and hospitals cannot guarantee their normal level of response.\n\nCurrently, there are more than 7,000 people in hospital with Covid-19, the mayor said.\n\nThis is a 35% increase compared to last April's peak of the pandemic, he added.\n\nDr Samantha Batt-Rawden, an ICU registrar and President of the Doctors' Association UK, tweeted: \"We tried. We really tried. NHS staff pleaded with people that Christmas is not worth it. Now one in 30 people in London have Covid and ICUs are overwhelmed. My heart is broken.\"\n\nAn analysis of Public Health England figures show in the week to 3 January, the number of cases rose across all of the London's boroughs compared with the previous week, with 17 individually recording more than 1,000 cases per 100,000 people.\n\nTesting increased in parts of the city after a drop over the Christmas period but positivity was high among people taking lab-based tests - suggesting more testing is needed to find undiagnosed cases in the community.\n\nIn the past week, many parts of the capital saw a rise in deaths where a person had tested positive for coronavirus in the previous 28 days - with some areas recording more than double the number of deaths compared with the previous week.\n\nHowever, reporting over the Christmas period may have affected this.\n\nOut of the 18 acute hospital trusts in London providing figures to the government, all of them recorded having more beds being filled by coronavirus patients than in the previous week.\n\nBarts NHS Health, one of London's largest trusts, saw a 30% increase in coronavirus patients between 29 December and 5 January, to 830.\n\nThe London Ambulance Service is now taking up to 8,000 emergency calls a day, the mayor says\n\nThe mayor of London's announcement comes after the counties of Sussex and Surrey declared similar major incidents on Thursday.\n\nHe said the London Ambulance Service was currently taking up to 8,000 emergency calls a day, compared to 5,500 on a typical busy day.\n\nThe London Fire Brigade said more than 100 firefighters had been drafted in to drive ambulances to help cope with the demand.\n\nEvery frontline agency involved in protecting the public has a legal duty to prepare for emergencies by devising and testing major incident plans.\n\nThese public bodies declare a major incident when the situation they're confronting is so big or terrible that it's not only likely to cause serious harm, but it will also compromise their ability to respond effectively.\n\nIn general terms, that means public bodies can legally stop delivering some everyday services, so that their personnel, attention and resources can be diverted to the emergency confronting them.\n\nAt other times, the plans will lead to the military sending soldiers to aid the civilian effort, as we have seen already during the pandemic.\n\nPrevious major incidents include the Grenfell Tower disaster in London, the Salisbury Novichok poisonings and the 2017 terrorism attacks.\n\nLondon's regional director for Public Health England Kevin Fenton said the current wave of coronavirus was \"the biggest threat\" the capital has faced in this pandemic to date.\n\nHe added: \"The emergence of the new variant means we are setting record case rates at almost double the national average, with at least one in 30 people now thought to be carrying the virus.\n\n\"We know this will sadly lead to large numbers of deaths, so strong and immediate action is needed.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What does it mean if the NHS is overwhelmed?\n\nMr Khan is warning that London is \"at crisis point\".\n\n\"If we do not take immediate action now, our NHS could be overwhelmed and more people will die,\" he said.\n\n\"Londoners continue to make huge sacrifices and I am today imploring them to please stay at home unless it is absolutely necessary for you to leave. Stay at home to protect yourself, your family, friends and other Londoners and to protect our NHS.\"\n\nHe said he had written to Prime Minister Boris Johnson asking for more financial support for Londoners who need to self-isolate and are unable to work, and for daily vaccination data.\n\nMr Khan also called for the closure of places of worship and for face masks to be worn routinely outside the home, including in crowded places and supermarket queues, in a bid to curb case numbers.\n\nTwo hospital trusts in London have recorded more than 1,000 coronavirus deaths\n\nThe mayor of London was in a sombre mood when I spoke to him earlier this afternoon. One in 20 Londoners in some areas now has Covid, and there is a real fear that hospitals will simply be overwhelmed in the next two weeks.\n\nDeclaring a major incident is a real indication of the levels of concern felt not just at City Hall but across London's emergency services and the NHS.\n\nMore Londoners are now in hospital with coronavirus than at the peak of the first wave last April - and those numbers are growing by more than 800 every day.\n\nIt's believed the last mayor to declare a London-wide major incident was Boris Johnson in response to the 2011 riots.\n\nThe coming days will be some of the most challenging in the city's recent history.\n\nKatie Sanderson, a junior doctor working in London, said she is worried how long medical staff can cope with the surge of patients.\n\n\"[Staff] are working on wards and spending long amounts of time with patients who need high-intensive oxygen therapy,\" she said.\n\n\"It is technically challenging and the emotional burden is enormous. I see it in a flatness in their demeanour, like we've all got used to doing things which before were totally inconceivable.\"\n\nGeorgia Gould, chair of London Councils, described London's rising coronavirus rate as \"dangerous\".\n\nShe added: \"One in 30 Londoners now has Covid. This is why public services across London are urging all Londoners to please stay at home except for absolutely essential shopping and exercise.\n\n\"This is a dark and difficult time for our city but there is light at end of the tunnel with the vaccine rollout. We are asking Londoners to come together one last time to stop the spread - lives really do depend on it.\"\n\nEarlier this week as the prime minister introduced an England-wide lockdown, the Met Police said officers were going to be \"more inquisitive\" towards Londoners seen outside.\n\nThe Met handed out 1,761 fines for breaches of coronavirus laws between 27 March and 20 December.\n\nDeputy Assistant Commissioner Matt Twist said the major incident was a \"stark reminder\" of the point London is at in the pandemic.\n\nHe said: \"These rule-breakers cannot continue to feign ignorance of the risk that this virus poses or listen to the false information and lies that some promote downplaying the dangers.\n\n\"Every time the virus spreads it increases the risk of someone needlessly losing their life.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'One of the worst shifts of my life - it's overwhelming'\n\nIn response to Mr Khan's announcement the government said the NHS is continuing to \"face a huge challenge\"\n\nA spokeswoman added: \"It is absolutely paramount people in London, and the rest of the country, follow the rules and stay at home to protect the NHS and save lives.\n\n\"We are working closely with NHS England to support hospitals in the capital, including additional bed capacity at the London Nightingale.\n\n\"Financial support is in place for workers who need to self-isolate - including a £500 payment for those on the lowest incomes who have been contacted by NHS Test and Trace.\"\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nHave any of the issues raised in this article had an impact on you? You can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid lockdown: 'This is why we say to you do not come out'\n\nPeople are being warned about breaking lockdown restrictions after the police got stuck in snow due to rule-breakers.\n\nA car driving on Moel Famau hill, Flintshire, despite roadblocks, skidded off the road on Thursday night, with officers deployed to help the passengers.\n\nHowever, they then became stuck and had to call mountain rescuers.\n\nA yellow warning for snow and ice has been issued by the Met Office for all of Wales, until midnight on Friday.\n\nPolice said: \"This is why we say to you do not come out.\"\n\nOn a video posted on Twitter, an officer for the North Wales Police Rural Crime Team warned people about the consequences of breaking the rules.\n\n\"It is now involving two agencies, two police vehicles, two mountain rescue vehicles and three police officers and the casualty.\"\n\nRob Taylor from North Wales Police Rural Crime Team said the person who was driving the car, which travelled 200m when it lost control was \"very, very lucky to be alive and escape uninjured\".\n\n\"We've been having problems with people lately flouting the law and going where they shouldn't be going,\" he said.\n\n\"People have been going through them for various reasons whether that's a walk or sledge and gathering in large groups. So we have been paying attention.\n\n\"This issue that was highlighted perfectly yesterday where someone's gone there thinking it's okay to flout the law. They get themselves in trouble and cause an emergency response from police and actually put those police officers' lives at risk.\n\n\"Their actions can really affect many people.\"\n\nSnow and ice warnings are in place for all of Wales\n\nThe snow warning for Friday said 5cm of snow could also fall on hills and mountains, with a widespread frost forecast for the morning.\n\nRoad agencies said driving conditions on the A55 in Flintshire were difficult, with snow on Rhuallt Hill.\n\nOne lane on the expressway has been closed eastbound between Pentre Halkyn and Northop following a crash.\n\nRoads have also been closed in Denbighshire following the heavy snow.\n\nThe Met Office warned there was a risk of slips and falls with sleet and snow predicted to fall on to already-frozen ground, creating icy patches.\n\nForecasters said that while snow was likely to fall on hills and mountains, flurries could be seen elsewhere, but this was likely to \"be slight and temporary\".\n\nFurther ice warnings have also been issued until 11:00 GMT on Saturday.\n\nResidents in parts of Wales have been waking to snow, including in Mold, Flintshire\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Hyundai has sparked confusion over a possible electric car tie-up with Apple.\n\nThe South Korean car company initially said it was in the \"early stage\" of talks with the iPhone maker about a possible electric car partnership.\n\nBut hours later it backtracked and said it was talking with a number of potential partners without naming Apple.\n\nHyundai's share price rose more than 20% when the tie-up was announced.\n\n\"Apple and Hyundai are in discussions but they are at an early stage and nothing has been decided,\" it said in a statement which was later revised. Hyundai's value shot up $9bn (£6.5bn) after the Apple announcement.\n\nWhile an updated statement said it was talking to a number of companies about a possible electric car tie-up including Apple, a later version omitted the US tech firm.\n\nApple is known for its secretiveness when it comes to new products and partnerships.\n\n\"I'm not surprised to see a big jump in the valuation of Hyundai. The stock market loves car companies who are tech firms as seen with Tesla rise,\" said Sarwant Singh, managing partner at consultants Frost & Sullivan. \"This partnership helps Hyundai be seen as a tech innovator.\"\n\nLast month, news emerged that Apple was moving forward with self-driving car technology with a 2024 launch date.\n\nThe electric vehicle (EV) market is becoming increasingly competitive, with companies such as Tesla grabbing the headlines with its rapidly-increasing valuation. Tesla chief executive Elon Musk is now the richest man in the world, displacing Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.\n\nExperts say an electric vehicle from Apple is still at least five years away.\n\nThey say pandemic-related delays could push the start of production into 2025 or beyond.\n\nHyundai has already been pushing into new technologies such as electric, driverless and flying cars.\n\nLast month, it took a controlling stake in Boston Dynamics in a deal that valued the mobile robot firm at $1.1bn.\n\nThe company is also setting up a $4bn autonomous-driving joint venture with auto parts supplier Aptiv.\n\nBoth partners will invest $2bn, while Ireland-based Aptiv will contribute about 700 engineers and transfer patents and intellectual property to the venture.\n\n\"Apple could certainly jumpstart that project and Hyundai brings the vehicle development and manufacturing expertise,\" said Jeff Schuster at automobile data firm LMC Automotive\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nApple's efforts to produce an electric car, known as Project Titan, have been on and off ever since plans were revealed in 2014.\n\nThere have been rumours over who would assemble an Apple-branded car as it may be difficult for the tech giant to manufacture them on its own.\n\nIts rival Alphabet's Waymo chose a factory in Detroit to mass produce its own self-driving cars.", "Jessica Allen (left) and Eliza Moore are now sticking to walks nearer their homes\n\nA police force that was criticised for its \"intimidating\" approach to two walkers is to review its lockdown fines policy.\n\nJessica Allen and Eliza Moore said they were surrounded by police after driving five miles from their home for a walk on Wednesday, and fined £200 each.\n\nDerbyshire Police initially said driving to exercise was \"not in the spirit\" of lockdown.\n\nBut it now says new national guidelines mean it will review its position.\n\nIn a statement, the force said all of its fixed penalties issued during the new national lockdown will be reviewed.\n\nMs Allen, from Ashby-de-la-Zouch in Leicestershire, said she assumed \"someone had been murdered\" when she arrived at Foremark Reservoir on Wednesday afternoon.\n\nWhen she and her friend were questioned by police, they were also told by officers the hot drinks they had brought along were not allowed as they were \"classed as a picnic\".\n\nShe said: \"The next thing, my car is surrounded. I got out of my car thinking 'There's no way they're coming to speak to us'. Straight away they start questioning us.\n\n\"I said we had come in separate cars, even parked two spaces away and even brought our own drinks with us. He said 'You can't do that as it's classed as a picnic'.\"\n\nMs Allen said the experience was \"very intimidating\" and had left her feeling scared of police in general.\n\nForemark Reservoir is five miles away from where Jessica Allen and Eliza Moore live\n\nHer friend, Ms Moore, said she was \"stunned at the time\" so did not challenge police and gave her details so they could send a fixed penalty notice.\n\nAt the time Derbyshire Police said that driving to a location to exercise \"is clearly not in the spirit of the national effort to reduce our travel, reduce the possible spread of the disease and reduce the number of deaths\".\n\nThe force added: \"Where there are cases of blatant breaches of the regulations then fines will be issued by officers.\"\n\nDerbyshire Police has also been giving fixed penalty notices to people who visit Calke Abbey and Elvaston Castle.\n\nFixed penalty notices have been given to people who visit Calke Abbey, a National Trust property\n\nBut in a statement, the force said further guidance issued by the National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) had \"clarified the policing response concerning travel and exercise\".\n\nThe guidance said: \"The Covid regulations which officers enforce and which enables them to issue FPNs [fixed penalty notices] for breaches, do not restrict the distance travelled for exercise.\"\n\nThe NPCC added that rather than issue fines for people who travel out of their local area \"but are not breaching regulations, officers will encourage people to follow the guidance\".\n\nThe force has now said it will be \"aligning to adhere to this stance\".\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Kem Mehmet said: \"We are grateful for the guidance from the NPCC.\n\n\"The actions of our officers continues to be to protect the public, the NHS and to help save lives.\"\n\nIt is not the first time the force has been accused of being overzealous in enforcing alleged lockdown breaches.\n\nIn the country's first lockdown in March the use of a drone to film people walking in the Peak District was labelled \"nanny policing\".\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Nursery staff are not advised to wear face coverings\n\nChildcare organisations are demanding to see evidence that it is safe for them to remain open while schools and colleges have closed to most pupils.\n\nStaff have close contact with children and babies daily, when they change nappies and receive them by the hand from parents, for example.\n\nMinisters have insisted early years settings are safe as young children have very low rates of the virus.\n\nNurseries argue the evidence cited is based on data about old variant Covid.\n\nEngland's three main nursery organisations, the Early Years Alliance, the National Day Nurseries Association and childminders' group, Pacey, have joined together to mount a #ProtectEarlyYears campaign.\n\nThey want the government to provide clear scientific evidence on the risks to early years staff of staying open, particularly in light of the increased transmissibility of the new variant of Covid-19.\n\nSue Cardy, owner and manager of Ready Teddy Go Pre School, in Shoeburyness, Essex said: \"There isn't anyone who has asked: 'Is it 100% safe for us to remain fully open? No one can see the virus and staff may be asymptomatic, and so we all run an element of risk of catching or spreading it.\"\n\nShe added: \"Staff have families and are not all young... 50% of my staff are over 50 and some have underlying medical conditions.\"\n\nVicky, the manager of a church pre-school in Cheshire West and Chester said she could potentially have 30 children plus 10 staff in a church hall, with no PPE recommended, and limited social distancing.\n\n\"As an early years provider, I am increasingly worried about the safety of both staff and children, yet if we chose to partially close, we could be financially penalised.\"\n\nAnd Georgie Morrell from Brighton and Hove said: \"Since re-opening, I have had four households tell me. they are Covid positive.\n\n\"This is clearly very close to home and yet we have been given no choice or support but to remain open and carry on.\"\n\nNeil Leitch, chief executive of the Early Years Alliance, said: \"It is simply not acceptable that, at the height of a global pandemic, early years providers are being asked to work with no support, no protection and no clear evidence that is safe for them to do so.\n\n\"We know how vital access to early education and care is to many families, but it cannot be right to ask the early years workforce to put themselves at risk. That is why it is vital that the government takes the urgent steps needed to safeguard those working in the sector, particularly mass testing and priority access to vaccinations.\n\nNursery providers are calling for staff to be tested, priority for vaccination and for state funding lost due to lower numbers during the pandemic, to be replaced by government.\n\nPurnima Tanuku, chief Executive of National Day Nurseries Association, said nurseries were determined to support families during the current lockdown.\n\nBut, she added: \"Time and again, whether it's on PPE, cleaning costs, testing or staffing, early years providers have been overlooked by the Department for Education.\n\n\"Now, they are the only part of the education sector fully open to all children and must be given priority.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, vaccines minister Nadim Zahawi said there was very little risk to younger children.\n\n\"The nursery sector has taken tremendous care in making sure the premises are also Covid safe. It is the right thing to do.\"\n\nThe Department for Education is yet to comment on the #ProtectEarlyYears demands.", "The coronavirus vaccine rollout is a national challenge requiring an unprecedented effort - involving the armed forces - Boris Johnson says.\n\nThe PM confirmed almost 1.5 million people in the UK have now received at least one dose of a Covid vaccine.\n\nMore than 1,000 GP-led sites in England will be able to offer a total of \"hundreds of thousands\" of jabs each day by 15 January, he said.\n\nThe Army will use \"battle preparation techniques\" to help achieve that goal.\n\nIt came as a further 1,162 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were reported on Thursday - the second consecutive day of more than 1,000 recorded fatalities - and 52,618 new cases.\n\nAnd as Simon Stevens, head of the NHS in England, warned 10,000 patients with Covid had been admitted to hospital since Christmas Day.\n\nSpeaking at a Downing Street news conference, Mr Johnson said there would likely be \"lumpiness and bumpiness\" in the rollout of vaccines.\n\nHe said: \"Let's be clear, this is a national challenge on a scale like nothing we've seen before and it will require an unprecedented national effort.\n\n\"Of course, there will be difficulties, appointments will be changed but... the Army is working hand in glove with the NHS and local councils to set up our vaccine network and using battle preparation techniques to help us keep up the pace.\"\n\nAlongside GPs, there will be 223 hospital sites and seven \"giant vaccination centres\" - as well as an initial 200 community pharmacies - offering jabs, Mr Johnson said.\n\nEveryone will have a vaccination centre within 10 miles of their home, he added, with a \"full vaccination deployment plan\" to be published on Monday.\n\nHe also said there would be a national booking system for vaccinations - but did not give any more details.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Brigadier Phil Prosser said his task was to ensure everyone in England had equal access to the vaccine\n\nBrigadier Phil Prosser, commander of military support to the vaccine delivery programme, told the news conference his team was \"embedded\" with the NHS.\n\nHe said his \"day job\" is to deliver combat supplies to UK forces in time of war, \"at speed in the most arduous and challenging conditions\".\n\nThe government has set a target to offer vaccination slots to 15 million in the top four priority groups - including all over-80s - by 15 February.\n\nAnd Mr Johnson said that, with the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine available, he could pledge one of those groups - care home residents - would all receive their jab by the end of January.\n\nThe widespread rollout of the vaccine has begun in earnest with the first doses delivered during the day to family doctors for distribution.\n\nBut there were concerns from some GPs over supplies, as Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the levels of vaccine supply was the \"rate-limiting\" factor as jabs would be delivered as quickly as stock is available.\n\nIt comes as some hospitals in England are at risk of becoming Covid-only sites, with rising admissions for the virus forcing trusts to cut back on other services.\n\nThe latest NHS statistics also show that there were 30,370 patients with Covid in UK hospitals on Tuesday, a much higher figure than the first peak in the spring of 2020.\n\nHospital leaders have warned medics are becoming increasingly stretched with \"untrained staff\" used to fill gaps.\n\nAt 20:00 GMT, people in some streets stepped out onto doorsteps to clap for the heroes of the pandemic, following a weekly initiative which gained popularity during the UK's first lockdown.\n\nHowever, Thursday's clap for heroes was more muted than those seen last year, perhaps reflecting criticism the initiative had become politicised.\n\nLots of detail has been given about how the NHS - working hand-in-hand with the military - will be able to deliver the vaccines.\n\nThere will be more local vaccination centres, hospital hubs and even mass vaccination at sports stadiums.\n\nThousands of extra vaccinators have already been trained - and thousands more are waiting in the wings.\n\nBut the biggest hurdle the UK faces is vaccine supply.\n\nIf it is not available, it cannot be put in arms no matter how good the vaccination network is.\n\nIn the long-term, supply is not likely to be a problem - but in the coming weeks it could be tight.\n\nThere is enough vaccine in the country to offer all those at highest risk a jab by mid-February.\n\nBut it is not yet all ready for the NHS to use, either because the final safety checks have not been done or the vaccine has not been put into vials.\n\nThe former depends on lab work by the medicines regulator, while the latter is the job of a plant in Wrexham.\n\nEach stage takes some time. The target is achievable, but a lot has to go right.\n\nSir Simon Stevens said there were 50% more coronavirus patients in England's hospitals now compared to the peak last April, affecting every region across the country.\n\nHe said: \"That number is accelerating very, very rapidly... the pressures are real and they are growing.\"\n\nIn Northern Ireland, the Belfast Health Trust has said it has no other option but to cancel all of its urgent cancer surgery amid \"highly significant\" demand for bed space.\n\nThe cancelled operations will affect those patients for whom surgery could impact recovery and even survival, the trust said.\n\nBoris Johnson said all parts of government would be throwing everything at the vaccination effort \"round the clock\"\n\nIn one positive development for hospitals, two more life-saving drugs that can cut deaths by a quarter in patients who are sickest with Covid have been cleared for widespread use, with immediate effect.\n\nThe anti-inflammatory medications, given via a drip, save an extra life for every 12 treated, researchers said, following NHS trials.\n\nElsewhere, the UK has implemented restrictions on travellers to England from countries near South Africa to stop the spread of the South African Covid variant.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Johnson and Sir Simon were asked about persistent social media claims that coronavirus does not exist - and that reports of packed hospital wards of people being treated are just a myth.\n\nSir Simon said that such misinformation was an \"insult\" to hard-working critical care staff.\n\n\"There is nothing more demoralising than having that kind of nonsense spouted when it is most obviously untrue,\" he said.", "Vincent Kane - pictured with his grandson Sonny - is facing uncertainty about his operation\n\nThe son of a man with pancreatic cancer has said the last-minute cancellation of his surgery has been \"devastating\".\n\nJodie Kane said his father Vincent was due to have his operation on Friday.\n\nHowever, that procedure was cancelled by the Belfast Health Trust on Tuesday as the worsening coronavirus crisis increases the pressure on hospitals.\n\nThe trust apologised, saying it had faced an 80% rise in the number of patients with Covid-19 admitted to hospitals since Christmas Day.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio Ulster's Nolan Show, Jodie said that there was now \"no guarantee\" his 68-year-old father would get the treatment.\n\n\"To be told we had the chance of a very successful surgery on offer and then to have it taken away at the last minute is pretty devastating,\" he said.\n\n\"Even the surgeon himself said they would be concerned if it was to go on more than four weeks.\n\n\"There is an uncertainty hanging over us now that we don't know when he'll actually get that surgery or what the impact on his health is going to be.\"\n\nVincent Kane - pictured with his with wife Karen - has been suffering other health issues arising from his cancer\n\nVincent, from Newtownards, County Down, did not receive treatment for some of his other symptoms as it was planned that the surgery would help with those.\n\n\"Because they were hoping to get him straight into surgery he hasn't had the blockage in his gall bladder addressed so he's jaundiced, he's covered in a rash, can't sleep, he's lost a lot of weight,\" Jodie said.\n\n\"Undoubtedly there are people worse off than us out there but it is still a critical illness that he has got and it is one that we don't have an end in sight for, in terms of treatment.\n\n\"There must be a way of helping all those in need, or I suppose if you were being really honest about it those who stand the best chance of surviving - making the decisions for the benefit of them.\n\n\"There's no guarantee that in six weeks' time surgery is going to be an option because who knows what's going to happen with Covid?\"\n\nThe Belfast Health Trust said it had to reduce the number of ill patients on wards to protect them from coronavirus\n\nJodie called on those who were breaking Covid-19 regulations to think about the the \"direct and indirect impacts\" of their actions.\n\n\"We've every sympathy for anyone who has a loved one who needs [intensive] care because of Covid but cancer and Covid are both life-and-death situations.\n\n\"We can minimise the risks of one of them as a collective society just by taking the necessary precautions.\n\n\"It could be someone they love or their neighbour or someone in their community that's in the same situation as us in the very near future.\"\n\nFlo McClements, who was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in December, found out on Tuesday that her surgery - scheduled for Thursday - had been cancelled by the Belfast Health Trust.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Foyle, her son Gregg said the pressure was \"mounting day by day\" on the the 72-year-old from Ballymoney, County Antrim.\n\n\"She had waited all through Christmas for the date and due to the Covid-19 restrictions we as a family had stayed away from her,\" he added.\n\nFlo McClements' family wants to \"give her a hug\" after her operation was cancelled\n\n\"We left her on her own with my dad just to make sure she didn't catch Covid and risk the operation.\n\n\"When you get the date you like to think it's the next step to recovery but unfortunately that didn't happen.\"\n\nGregg said his mother was \"putting on a brave face\" but it was difficult for the family to not be with her in person during what was a difficult time.\n\n\"That's actually the hardest part that we can't go up and have a cup of tea with her or give her a hug to make her feel a bit better even for a few minutes.\"\n\nThe Belfast Health Trust said it \"would like to sincerely apologise\" to those affected by the postponement of surgeries.\n\nIt said the decision was taken to reduce the number of ill patients on wards that would be more at risk from the virus than others.\n\n\"This was an incredibly difficult decision to make and we did not take it without considering all the information available to us,\" said the trust.\n\n\"We do not underestimate the anxiety and distress this causes the patients and families affected and we deeply regret this.\n\nIt said it would do \"everything in our power\" to reschedule their operations \"as soon as possible\".", "Gordy Philip took an icy bike ride on the Great Glen Way between Blackfold and Abriachan in the hills above Loch Ness. He said of his image: \"Could be the light at the end of the road on the first day of another lockdown.\"", "New data from EU satellites shows that 2020 is in a statistical dead heat with 2016 as the world's warmest year.\n\nThe Copernicus Climate Change Service says that last year was around 1.25C above the long-term average.\n\nThe scientists say that unprecedented levels of heat in the Arctic and Siberia were key factors in driving up the overall temperature.\n\nThe past 12 months also saw a new record for Europe, around 0.4C warmer than 2019.\n\nLast December, the World Meteorological Organization predicted that 2020 would be one of the three warmest years on record.\n\nThis new, more complete report from Copernicus says that last year is right at the top of the list.\n\nHigh temperatures saw fires rage in spring and summer in many locations inside the Arctic circle\n\nThe Copernicus data comes from a constellation of Sentinel satellites that monitor the Earth from orbit, as well as measurements taken at ground level.\n\nTemperature data from the system shows that 2020 was 1.25C warmer than the average from 1850-1900, a time often described as the \"pre-industrial\" period.\n\nOne key factor driving up the temperatures was the heating experienced in the Arctic and Siberia.\n\nIn some locations there, temperatures for the year as a whole were 6C above the long-term average.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThis exceptional warming led to a very active wildfire season. Fires in the Arctic Circle released a record amount of CO2, according to the study, up over a third from 2019.\n\nThe Copernicus service concludes that while 2020 was very marginally cooler than 2016, the two years are statistically on a par as the differences between the figures for the two years are smaller than the typical differences found in other temperature databases for the same period.\n\nMore data on 2020's temperature will be released in the next week or so from other agencies, including Nasa and the UK Met Office.\n\nThe scientists say that the closeness between the years is all the more remarkable considering the impacts of the El Niño/La Niña weather cycle.\n\nPeople saw their homes burnt down in some parts of Siberia\n\nEurope also saw a new record level of warming for the year, 0.4C warmer than 2019. A major heat wave in July and August was an important factor driving up the mercury across the continent.\n\nGlobally, the 10-year period from 2011-2020 is the warmest decade, with the last six years being the six hottest on record.\n\n\"Twenty-twenty stands out for its exceptional warmth in the Arctic and a record number of tropical storms in the North Atlantic,\" said Carlo Buontempo, director of the Copernicus Climate Change Service.\n\n\"It is no surprise that the last decade was the warmest on record, and is yet another reminder of the urgency of ambitious emissions reductions to prevent adverse climate impacts in the future.\"\n\nWhile a strong La Niña may cool temperatures a little in 2021, levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are likely to remain high, contributing to ongoing warming.\n\nNew data from the UK's Met Office suggests that average concentrations of CO2 will reach levels that are 50% higher than they were before the industrial revolution.\n\nResearchers predict that annual average CO2 concentration at the Mauna Loa recording station in Hawaii will be around 2.29 parts per million (ppm) higher in 2021 than in 2020.\n\nDespite the global slowdowns caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, the scientists say this rise is being driven by emissions from the use of fossil fuels and from deforestation.\n\nEurope saw a prolonged heat wave in July and August that pushed the year to a new record\n\nWhile weather patterns linked to the La Niña event may boost growth in tropical forests and increase the amount of the gas that's absorbed, it won't be enough to slow the overall rise.\n\nThe Met Office says that CO2 will exceed 417ppm in the atmosphere for several weeks from April to June.\n\nThis is 50% higher than the level of 278ppm that pertained in the late 18th Century as widespread industrial activity was just beginning.\n\n\"The human-caused build-up of CO2 in the atmosphere is accelerating,\" said Prof Richard Betts from the Met Office.\n\n\"It took over 200 years for levels to increase by 25%, but now just over 30 years later we are approaching a 50% increase.\"\n\n\"Reversing this trend and slowing the atmospheric CO2 rise will need global emissions to reduce, and bringing them to a halt will need global emissions to be brought down to net zero. This needs to happen within about the next 30 years if global warming is to be limited to 1.5C.\"", "Lorry drivers crossing the Channel will continue to need a recent negative Covid test result \"until further notice\", the UK government has said.\n\nHauliers have been required to prove they have tested negative since the border with France reopened last month.\n\nThe decision to continue testing comes from the French government, the Department for Transport said.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps urged \"all hauliers to get tested before getting to the border\".\n\nThe decision comes as the introduction of new trading rules between the UK and European Union prompts disruption for some businesses and hauliers.\n\nMr Shapps said the government was \"offering support to businesses to set-up testing facilities at their own premises, assisting the smooth passage of trucks and good across the border, as well as setting up testing at information and advice sites around the country\".\n\nDrivers and crew of heavy goods vehicles (HGVs), drivers of large goods vehicles (LGVs) and van drivers are advised to obtain a negative test before arriving in Kent or at other Channel crossing points.\n\nThere are now 34 testing sites for hauliers situated in key \"stopping spots\" across the UK, with further sites being set up, the DfT said.\n\nTests must be authorised and taken 72 hours before entry into France.\n\nIn addition to a negative Covid test result, some hauliers require a new 24-hour permit to enter Kent since the introduction of the new UK-EU rules.\n\nFrance reported 21,703 new coronavirus cases on Thursday, while the UK reported 52,618.\n\nLast month, the border crisis saw France refuse arrivals from the UK for 48 hours between 20 and 22 December due to a new virus variant initially discovered in Kent.\n\nPassenger ferries and lorry freight bound for France were suspended from Dover, Portsmouth and Newhaven.\n\nAn emergency procedure devised as part of post-Brexit preparations allowed lorries to be \"stacked\" - leaving thousands of foreign drivers stranded throughout southern England.", "A further 1,325 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test - the biggest figure reported in a single day since the pandemic began.\n\nIt means there have been just short of 80,000 deaths by that measure - as another 68,053 new cases were recorded.\n\nPublic Health England (PHE) said the number of deaths would \"continue to rise until we stop the spread\".\n\nIt comes as the government launches a new campaign in England urging people to \"act like you've got\" the virus.\n\nThe campaign, including an advert fronted by England's chief medical officer, Prof Chris Whitty, is intended to remind the public Covid is spreading fast, with large numbers showing no symptoms.\n\nIn the advert, Prof Whitty says: \"Covid-19, especially the new variant, is spreading quickly across the country.\n\n\"This puts many people at risk of serious disease and is placing a lot of pressure on our NHS.\n\n\"Once more, we must all stay home. If it is essential to go out remember, wash your hands, cover your face indoors and keep your distance from others.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"Our hospitals are under more pressure than at any other time since the start of the pandemic, and infection rates across the entire country continue to soar at an alarming rate.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Department of Health and Social Care This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by Department of Health and Social Care\n\nHospital leaders have warned of stretched staffing with 31,624 coronavirus patients in UK hospitals on Wednesday - 46% above the peak during the first wave last year.\n\nDr Ian Higginson, vice president of Royal College of Emergency Medicine, said the situation in London and south-east England was \"pretty dire\" and would get worse in the rest of the country before long.\n\n\"We're heading for some really dark times, I fear, in this phase of the pandemic,\" he said.\n\nRichard Mitchell, chief executive of Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Trust, said the increase in patients seen in London was now affecting his area in Nottinghamshire.\n\nHe said: \"Critical care is exceptionally busy and the colleagues who work here are tired, they're fatigued and they're worn out.\"\n\nMeanwhile, a third Covid vaccine received emergency approval for use in the UK with 17 million doses of the jab, made by US firm Moderna, pre-ordered by the UK.\n\nThe vaccine joins the Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca jabs in being approved, with close to 1.5 million people now vaccinated in the UK.\n\nDr William Welfare, Covid-19 response director at PHE, said: \"Each life lost to this virus is a tragedy, but sadly we can expect the death toll to continue to rise until we stop the spread.\n\n\"Approximately one in three people who have coronavirus have no symptoms and could be spreading it without realising it.\n\n\"To protect our loved ones it is essential we all stay at home where possible. This will reduce new infections, ease the pressure on the NHS and save lives.\"\n\nLondon Mayor Sadiq Khan said the spread of Covid in the capital was now \"out of control\", as he declared a \"major incident\".\n\nThis means the emergency services and hospitals cannot guarantee their normal level of response, and allows special arrangements to be implemented.\n\nThe previous highest daily death toll - 1,224 - was recorded on 21 April 2020 during the UK's first lockdown. Daily deaths were in the single figures as recently as September.\n\nThe UK has recorded the fifth-highest number of deaths behind the United States, Brazil, India and Mexico, according to Johns Hopkins University.\n\nWe are now seeing the record numbers of cases over the Christmas period translate into record numbers of deaths.\n\nAnd with new infections rising rapidly - more than 1.1 million people in England estimated to be infected with Covid-19 last week - these tragic numbers are set to continue for some time.\n\nAnd that is mainly because of the new variant form of the virus which is thought to be between 30-70% more transmissible.\n\nThe administration of the vaccines to at-risk groups should see a reduction in the numbers dying by the end of the month and the numbers having to go into hospital going down sometime after that.\n\nThat is the other way around from what you normally hear - but that it because a successful vaccine programme will initially remove those most likely to die from the path of the virus.\n\nFitter or younger people - who are less likely to die but could still end up occupying hospital beds - won't be getting their jabs for some time yet.\n\nThe advent of spring's better weather should also help cases to fall, but ministers will have to decide what level of risk - and deaths - society is prepared to tolerate.\n\nFriday saw 619,941 tests conducted in the 24 hours to 09:00 GMT - also a new record.\n\nEngland, much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland continue to be under strict national measures, with stay-at-home orders in place for most people.\n\nThe R number - the rate at which an infected person passes on the virus to someone else - is now estimated to be between 1.0 to 1.4, meaning the epidemic is growing between 0% and 6% per day.\n\nCovid infections rose by almost a third between Boxing Day and 3 January, reaching 70,000 new cases a day according to a major study.\n\nIn a different piece of research, an estimated 1.2 million people in total had Covid over a similar time period, the Office for National Statistics said.\n\nBoris Johnson pledged on Thursday to use England's lockdown to implement an \"unprecedented national effort\" to offer vaccination to those at the highest risk from Covid by 15 February.\n\nHe said the Army would be drafted in to use \"battle preparation techniques\" to achieve the goal, which could see up to 15 million people offered a vaccine by the middle of next month.\n\nIn another development, from next week all travellers to the UK will need to show a recent negative test result before they arrive.\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this story? You can share your experience by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Parents and teachers are \"frustrated\" about plans to keep schools closed until the February half term and concerned about the impact on children.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC Radio Wales phone-in, callers said they felt young people were being \"thrown under the bus\".\n\nOthers said they were fed up with \"bitty information\" from the Welsh Government.\n\nKaarina Rutta from Sully, Vale of Glamorgan, told the programme she was having to work at night when her four children had gone to bed after home schooling.\n\n\"It's a challenge trying to help all four at the same time and also having in the back of your mind I should also be working and doing other things,\" she said.\n\n\"I was quite sure that this was going to happen,\" she added.\n\n\"It didn't come as a surprise I have to say, because the situation is just so bad I think there is no other way out of it at the moment.\n\n\"I just wish we had known earlier on and it would have been easier to plan.\"\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said it was the \"best certainty\" he could offer \"in a world which is highly uncertain\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Duke of Cambridge asked how staff were coping during the pandemic and thanked them for their sacrifice\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge has said he talks to his three children about NHS staff \"every day\" to help them to understand the \"sacrifices\" made during Covid.\n\nPrince William's comments were part of a video call to London hospital staff.\n\n\"Catherine and I and all the children talk about all of you guys every day, so we're making sure the children understand all of the sacrifices that all of you are making,\" he said.\n\nIt comes after the London mayor said the virus was \"out of control\".\n\nSadiq Khan declared a major incident on Friday - meaning the emergency services and hospitals cannot guarantee their normal level of response - after the number of Covid patients in the capital's hospitals surpassed 7,000.\n\nStaff at Homerton University Hospital in east London told the Duke of Cambridge that queues of people waiting to be vaccinated at the hospital offered hope, but that the way out of the crisis was for the public to \"stay at home\" during lockdown.\n\nIn recent days the hospital has seen its highest number of admissions since the pandemic began.\n\nDuring the UK's first national lockdown, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and their three children Prince George (left), Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis joined in with the weekly Clap for Carers event\n\nThe duke, who is joint patron of NHS Charities Together, said: \"A huge thank you for all the hard work, the sleepless nights, the lack of sleep, the anxiety, the exhaustion and everything that you are doing, we are so grateful.\n\n\"Good luck, we are all thinking of you.\"\n\nHis video call, which took place on Thursday, is one of many he and the duchess have made to NHS staff during the pandemic.\n\nPrince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis have also shown their support for the health service by getting involved with the weekly Clap for Carers applause during the UK's first national lockdown.\n\nAnd on Saturday, the Duchess's birthday, Kensington Palace said the family's thoughts \"continue to be with all those working on the front line at this hugely challenging time\".\n\nChief nurse Catherine Pelley told the prince her hospital had used funds from NHS Charities Together to set up various support initiatives such as a \"wobble room\" for colleagues to relax in.\n\n\"For us this week, starting vaccinating has been one of the single most significant impacts on people feeling that there is a future out of this, and the queues out the door here where they have been vaccinating have been really hopeful for people,\" she said.\n\n\"But the support we need is stay at home, help us. Because that will get us all out of this, whatever our role is, and we will get society out of this.\"\n\nAfter speaking to Ms Pelley and her colleagues about how they supported one another, the prince said: \"It's good that you and your team are keeping your spirits high and I always find that having some sort of sense of humour through everything is very important, otherwise we all go mad.\"\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge said he wants his children to appreciate the sacrifices made by NHS staff during the pandemic", "Ms Sturgeon has rejected claims made by former first minister Alex Salmond\n\nAlex Salmond has accused Nicola Sturgeon of misleading parliament, calling evidence she gave to an inquiry into the handling of sexual harassment claims against him \"simply untrue\".\n\nMr Salmond's comments emerged in a written submission to a separate investigation into whether the first minister breached the ministerial code.\n\nThe submission has been shared with the Holyrood committee.\n\nMs Sturgeon says she \"entirely rejects Mr Salmond's claims\".\n\nIn the submission, the former first minister said that Ms Sturgeon had misled parliament and broken the ministerial code with breaches including failing to inform the civil service in good time of her meetings with him.\n\nHe claimed she allowed the Scottish government to contest a civil court case against him despite having had legal advice that it was likely to collapse.\n\nMs Sturgeon told the Holyrood inquiry she had become aware of allegations at a meeting with Mr Salmond at her home.\n\nIt since emerged she met his former chief of staff in the days before, but she said she had forgotten about that meeting.\n\nMr Salmond said that claim was untenable.\n\nHis submission said that she misled parliament, and that amounted to a breach of the code. He also said she breached the code by failing to to inform civil servants of the nature of the meetings that took place between the two of them at her home where the allegations were discussed.\n\nAlex Salmond walked free from court in March having been cleared of charges of sexual assault\n\nMr Salmond's statement read: \"The pre-arranged meeting in the Scottish Parliament of 29 March 2018 was \"forgotten\" about because acknowledging it would have rendered ridiculous the claim made by the first minister in parliament that it had been believed that the meeting on 2 April was on SNP Party business and thus held at her private residence.\"\n\nBoth Mr Salmond and Ms Sturgeon are expected to give evidence to the committee in the coming weeks.\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross responded to the claims, saying: \"Nobody ever bought Nicola Sturgeon's tall tales to have suddenly turned forgetful, especially about the devastating moment she found out of sexual harassment allegations against her friend and mentor of 30 years.\n\n\"What has been revealed are allegations of shocking, deliberate and corrupt actions at the heart of government. There is now clear evidence of Nicola Sturgeon abusing her power to deceive the Scottish public.\n\n\"If this proves to be correct, it is a resignation matter. No first minister, at any time, can be allowed to get away with repeatedly and blatantly lying to the Scottish Parliament and breaking the ministerial code.\"\n\nScottish Labour deputy leader Jackie Baillie said Alex Salmond's explosive allegations demanded answers from the first minister to the committee.\n\nShe said: \"The bombshell accusation that Nicola Sturgeon has broken the ministerial code has the potential to end her political career and demands a robust and honest answer from the first minister.\n\n\"This committee demands truthfulness and honesty from every witness it calls - it is vital that the first minister tells the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth when she appears.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon has repeatedly dismissed any notion of a conspiracy against Mr Salmond.\n\nHer spokeswoman said: \"The first minister entirely rejects Mr Salmond's claims about the ministerial code.\n\n\"We should always remember that the roots of this issue lie in complaints made by women about Alex Salmond's behaviour whilst he was first minister, aspects of which he has conceded. It is not surprising therefore that he continues to try to divert focus from that by seeking to malign the reputation of the first minister and by spinning false conspiracy theories.\n\n\"The first minister is concentrating on fighting the pandemic, stands by what she has said, and will address these matters in full when she appears at committee.\"\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 4's Any Questions on Friday evening, SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford MP said he did not believe the accusations about the first minister were correct.\n\nHe said: \"I believe that the first minister has acted in an honourable way, she's someone that I've every faith and trust in.\n\n\"I can tell you that the approval ratings for the first minister, the respect that she has right up and down the country of Scotland is enormous and this is something that will pass, when she appears in front of the committee these matters will be dealt with.\"\n\nAlex Salmond has just turned up the heat on his successor with a submission that presents a direct and serious challenge to the reputation of Nicola Sturgeon - who was once his closest political ally.\n\nWhat he no doubt considers as an attempt to secure justice, some others will see as a case of deflection and revenge.\n\nAllegations of breaking the ministerial code of conduct and misleading parliament are serious and, if upheld, potentially career threatening.\n\nYet even some of Ms Sturgeon's fiercest critics at Holyrood do not expect the inquiries into the Scottish government's mishandling of harassment complaints against Mr Salmond to force her from office.\n\nMr Salmond seems to expect the review of the first minister's actions under the ministerial code of conduct to remain narrow enough that it could not possibly find against her.\n\nThe first minister herself appears confident of persuading all comers, including a cross-party committee of MSPs (before which both she and Mr Salmond are due to appear in the coming weeks) that she has acted properly throughout.", "The star thanked fans for their messages of support\n\nThe Wanted's Tom Parker has told fans he is \"responding well\" to treatment for his brain tumour.\n\nThe singer praised the NHS as he wrote on Instagram: \"Significant reduction: These are the words I received today and I can't stop saying them over and over again.\"\n\nSharing a picture with his wife Kelsey Hardwick and their two children, he added: \"Today is a good day.\"\n\nThe 32-year-old was found to have an inoperable brain tumour last year.\n\nThe diagnosis came after he suffered two seizures last summer. Because of Covid-19 restrictions, his wife was not allowed in the hospital during three days of tests and he received the news alone.\n\nAt the time he vowed to fight the cancer \"all the way\". Two weeks later he became a father for the second time after Hardwick gave birth to a baby boy.\n\nThe singer shared a photo of his young family alongside the latest update on his health\n\nSharing an update on his condition on Thursday, Parker said: \"I had an MRI scan on Tuesday and my results today were a significant reduction to the tumour and I am responding well to treatment.\n\n\"I can't thank our wonderful NHS enough,\" he continued. \"You're all having a tough time out there but we appreciate the work you are all doing on the front line.\"\n\nThe star also thanked his wife, calling her \"my rock\", and thanked fans for their support. \"Your love, light and positivity have inspired me,\" he wrote. \"Every message has not been unnoticed they have given me so much strength.\"\n\nParker achieved fame in the early 2010s as part of The Wanted, reaching number one with the singles All Time Low and Glad You Came.\n\nSince the band went on hiatus in 2014, he has played Danny Zuko in a touring production of Grease and reached the semi-finals of Celebrity Masterchef.\n\nHe married Hardwick, an actress, in 2018. As well as Bodhi, the couple have an 18-month-old daughter.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Covid infections rose by almost a third between 26 December and 3 January, reaching 70,000 new cases a day according to a major study.\n\nIn a different piece of research, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) estimated 1.2 million people in total had Covid over a similar time period.\n\nDaily infections are understood to have risen to about 150,000 since then.\n\nThat would bring daily coronavirus cases above the first peak.\n\nThe R or reproduction number for the virus is now between 1 and 1.4 for the UK, reflecting the sharp rise in cases in recent weeks.\n\nSeparate ONS data suggests just under half (44%) of British adults formed a Christmas bubble.\n\nThese temporary rules let up to three households mix indoors on 25 December - unless they were living in a Tier 4 area.\n\nThe ONS estimated how much of the population had Covid in the week of 27 December- 2 January:\n\nThe ONS data suggests cases rose by three-quarters between its two most recent study periods: 12-18 December and 27 December - 2 January.\n\nThe ZOE Covid Symptom Study was able to track more recent changes since there was no pause in its research for Christmas.\n\nIt found the epidemic is growing throughout the UK.\n\nResearchers estimate the virus's reproduction or R number is currently 1.2 across the UK.\n\nBoth sources indicate London has the most severe epidemic with the highest number of cases.\n\nConfirmed cases, published on the government's dashboard, are always lower than those in surveys because they mainly reflect the test results of people coming in with symptoms.\n\nBoth the ONS and ZOE also look at asymptomatic cases - people who may not otherwise get tests.\n\nSome asymptomatic testing is now available in the community but it is not being widely taken up.\n\nAbout a fifth of people responding to a separate ONS survey looking at the social impacts of the pandemic, said they had found it difficult to follow the Christmas rules.\n\nAnd half of those gave the fact that they had already made plans as the reason.\n\nRules, which were set to allow everyone in the UK to mix in a five-day window, were changed at the last minute, on 19 December.\n\nIn England, people living in Tiers 1-3 were allowed to form a one-day Christmas bubble with a maximum of two other households.\n\nThose in Tier 4, including about 10 million people in Greater London, were not permitted to mix at all.\n\nMixing was permitted in Scotland and Wales for Christmas Day only.\n\nHow has coronavirus affected you? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nOr use this form to get in touch:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your comment or send it via email to HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any comment you send in.", "A former Labour MP has quit the party before disciplinary proceedings against him concerning sexual harassment could be concluded, Labour has said.\n\nKelvin Hopkins was suspended by the party in 2017 after a Labour activist, Ava Etemadzadeh, accused him of inappropriate physical contact.\n\nMs Etemadzadeh said the ex-MP's exit from the party was \"disappointing\".\n\nThe BBC has attempted to contact Mr Hopkins, 79, for a response, but he has previously denied the accusations.\n\nA Labour spokesperson said it \"takes all complaints of sexual harassment extremely seriously and they are fully investigated in line with our rules and procedures, and any appropriate disciplinary action is taken.\n\n\"We are disappointed that the party's disciplinary processes did not reach a conclusion due to Kelvin Hopkins' decision to resign his membership,\" they added.\n\n\"We are establishing an independent process to investigate complaints, including sexual harassment, to ensure complainants can feel confident that in coming forward they will be heard and get the justice they deserve.\"\n\nMr Hopkins, who first won the seat of Luton North from the Conservatives in 1997, stood down ahead of the 2019 election - a decision, he said, which was to do with his wife's health, not the accusations.\n\nHe had originally been referred to the party's National Constitutional Committee following the allegations in 2017 and had expressed frustration at the length of time the hearing was taking.\n\nResponding to his decision to leave the party, Ms Etemadzadeh tweeted: \"This is very disappointing news. I hope Keir Starmer listens to my concerns and fixes this broken system.\"", "David Bowie left his mark with songs like Space Oddity, Let's Dance and Under Pressure\n\nA series of streamed music events, shows and new releases are marking David Bowie's birthday and the fifth anniversary of his death.\n\nThe musician would have turned 74 on Friday, while Sunday is five years since he died of cancer.\n\nA star-studded tribute concert and his 2015 stage musical Lazarus will both be streamed over the weekend.\n\nTwo previously unreleased Bowie tracks have also been released, while his music has now arrived on TikTok.\n\nThe tribute gig, titled A Bowie Celebration: Just For One Day, will feature Bowie's former bandmates alongside stars including Boy George, Duran Duran, Trent Reznor, Adam Lambert, Gary Barlow and actor Gary Oldman.\n\nStarting at 18:00 PT on Friday (02:00 GMT Saturday), the show will be led by Bowie's longtime pianist Mike Garson and will be available for 24 hours.\n\nDuran Duran released a timely cover of Bowie's track Five Years ahead of the show. \"My life as a teenager was all about David Bowie,\" singer Simon Le Bon said.\n\n\"He is the reason why I started writing songs. Part of me still can't believe in his death five years ago, but maybe that's because there's a part of me where he's still alive and always will be.\"\n\nOn Friday, Bowie's previously unreleased covers of Bob Dylan's Tryin' to Get to Heaven and John Lennon's Mother were also put out into the world.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by David Bowie - Topic This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nBBC Four is hosting a Bowie Night on Friday, while there will be special programmes on BBC Radio 4 and 6 Music. They include Bowie: Dancing Out in Space, which will air simultaneously on the two stations on Sunday.\n\nIn it, producer Tony Visconti describes how Bowie and Lennon first met awkwardly in a New York hotel room ahead of their collaborations on the former's cover of The Beatles' Across the Universe and his own 1975 song Fame.\n\n\"He was terrified of meeting John Lennon,\" says Visconti. \"About one in the morning I knocked on the door and for about the next two hours, John Lennon and David weren't speaking to each other.\n\n\"Instead, David was sitting on the floor with an art pad and a charcoal and he was sketching things and he was completely ignoring Lennon.\n\n\"So, after about two hours of that, he [John] finally said to David, 'Rip that pad in half and give me a few sheets. I want to draw you.' So David said, 'Oh, that's a good idea', and he finally opened up. So John started making caricatures of David, and David started doing the same of John and they kept swapping them and then they started laughing and that broke the ice.\"\n\nMeanwhile, next weekend will see the release of Stardust, a film biopic about Bowie's journey to becoming Ziggy Stardust, starring singer and actor Johnny Flynn.\n\nHowever, Bowie's family have not given it their blessing, meaning the film-makers were not allowed to use any of his music. Instead Flynn, as Bowie, is seen performing songs by Jacques Brel, The Yardbirds and one of Flynn's own compositions.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Heads are calling for limits to the number of pupils in school during lockdown in England, with attendance rates surging to 50% in some places.\n\nThe two head teachers' unions, NAHT and ASCL, say the high numbers attending could hamper the fight against the virus.\n\nThe Department for Education has widened the categories of vulnerable and key worker pupils who can attend.\n\nIt is insisting that schools ensure all children who qualify can attend.\n\nThe widened categories not only include vulnerable pupils and children of workers in critical occupations but also those who cannot access remote learning either because they do not have devices or space to study.\n\nChildren of parents working on the Brexit arrangements are also included.\n\nTeachers have described streets around schools being packed with parents dropping off their children and almost all staff having to come in and work despite the lockdown.\n\nHeads say they fear schools could be overwhelmed by children who do not have access to lap tops to learn remotely.\n\nJessica Jane, a learning assistant at a school in Hampshire, told the BBC: \"I work in a primary school where we are having to bring in every single member of staff as the list of key-workers is vast in our area and over 50% of our children are attending.\n\n\"Our community school is not closed and streets are packed with parents morning and afternoon collecting their children from open schools.\"\n\nShe added: \"My colleagues and I are still being put at risk every single day as are our families.\"\n\nA teacher from the Midlands who did not wish to be named said the number had risen from 10 pupils a day in the first lockdown to about 90 a day this week.\n\n\"We're talking just under to just over a third of the usual amount of pupils for our school here.\n\n\"The vast majority are key worker children, not vulnerable.\n\n\"I also know that other primary schools in our area have similar amounts of children in school - one neighbouring school in particular, which is only slightly larger than us, is estimating/averaging 100 to 160 children in school every day.\"\n\nGeoff Barton, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, called the lack of limits \"bizarre... in a week when the prime minister has told the nation that it is necessary to move schools to remote education in order to suppress coronavirus transmission\".\n\n\"We are hearing reports that attendance in some primary schools is in excess of 50% because of demand from critical workers and families with children classed as vulnerable under criteria which has been significantly widened,\" he said.\n\n\"We are urgently seeking clarification about the maximum number who should be in school while protecting public health.\n\n\"This seems completely illogical given the fact that the government has taken the drastic action of a full national lockdown precisely in order to limit contacts.\"\n\nPaul Whiteman, general secretary of National Association of Head Teachers, said schools could not \"meet the demand created by government and reduce social mixing in the way the prime minister announced\".\n\n\"The government acknowledges that schools do play a role in the transmission of the virus. Therefore, there comes a point when occupancy levels might be so high that they work against the efforts to bring down infection rates in communities, as is the national aim.\n\n\"This could result in prolonging the amount of time pupils are away from the classroom, which we are all anxious to avoid.\"\n\nA Department for Education spokesman said: \"Schools are open for vulnerable children and the children of critical workers. We expect schools to work with families to ensure all critical worker children are given access to a place if this is required.\n\n\"If critical workers can work from home and look after their children at the same time then they should do so, but otherwise this provision is in place to enable them to provide vital services.\n\n\"The protective measures that schools have been following throughout the autumn term remain in place to help protect staff and students, while the national lockdown helps reduce transmission in the wider community.\"\n\nBut Emma Knights, chief executive of the National Governance Association, reflected head teachers' concerns, saying between 40 and 60% of pupils were attending schools across England.\n\n\"The real problem is we have got two different national narratives going on,\" she said - with the prime minister saying \"stay at home\" but the DfE telling schools to take all eligible children who turn up.\n\nDr Mary Bousted, joint general secretary of the National Education Union, said the government seemed unable to decide whether schools were safe or unsafe.\n\nCommenting on the latest Coronavirus Infection Survey from the Office for National Statistics, Dr Bousted, said: \"Let this data end their confusion. Schools are clearly driving infection amongst children, and then onto the wider community.\n\n\"This peaked on Christmas Day with one in every 27 secondary-age children and one in 40 primary-age children infected.\n\n\"In London this rises to one in 18 secondary pupils and one in 23 primary pupils. These figures are truly shocking and entirely the result of government negligence.\"\n• None How are Covid rules changing across UK schools?", "Marion Ramsey will be remembered by fans for her notable role in the US comedy series Police Academy\n\nMarion Ramsey, best known for her acting in the American film series Police Academy, has died at the age of 73, her agent has announced.\n\nHer management at Roger Paul Inc told the BBC she died at her Los Angeles home on Thursday morning.\n\nThe agency said Ramsey had recently fallen ill, but did not give a cause of death.\n\nRamsey was adored by fans for her portrayal of the squeaky-voiced Officer Laverne Hooks in Police Academy.\n\nShe also had an illustrious career on Broadway, starring in the 1978 production Eubie!, a biographical musical about celebrated jazz pianist Eubie Blake.\n\n\"Her passion for performing and sharing her heart with the world was immense,\" Roger Paul Inc said in a statement.\n\n\"Marion carried with her a kindness and permeating light that instantly filled a room upon her arrival.\n\n\"The dimming of her light is already felt by those who knew her well. We will miss her, and always love her.\"\n\nRamsey featured in six Police Academy films as Officer Laverne Hooks\n\nBorn in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1947, Ramsey started her career in the theatre, appearing in both the original Broadway and subsequent touring productions of Hello, Dolly!.\n\nShe was prolific on Broadway, co-starring in many shows, including Harold Prince's Grind with Ben Vereen, and Eubie! with Gregory and Maurice Hines.\n\nHer agent said Ramsey was \"particularly proud\" about Broadway's Dreamgirls finally becoming a major motion picture in 2006, because she was one of the singers that the original Broadway show's producer, Tom Eyen, based the three main characters on.\n\nRamsey's career in TV and film career took off after she appeared as a guest on the hit sitcom The Jeffersons in 1976.\n\nFollowing that, she was a regular on Cos, Bill Cosby's sketch show.\n\nShe starred in six Police Academy films in total, making her a familiar face to fans of the franchise.\n\nRamsey's agent said she had an immense passion for performing\n\nAmerican actor Michael Winslow wrote in a tweet that he had \"no words to say or explain the pain\" of losing Ramsey.\n\n\"In the 80s the Police Academy films cast a long shadow over the comedy genre - they were everywhere & everyone watched them,\" British producer Jonathan Sothcott wrote. \"#MarionRamsey was hilarious as Hooks - a fine comedic actress.\"\n\nA message on the Twitter account for the movie When I Sing read: \"It is with great sadness that I share our loss of my friend, and one of the shining stars of When I Sing (her final role), the beautiful, kind, hilarious, #MarionRamsey. I will miss you, my silly sister.\"", "Most pupils will be studying from home for the rest of this half term\n\nSchools and colleges in England are to be closed to most pupils until at least half term, Boris Johnson has announced.\n\nThe prime minister said the new lockdown had to be \"tough enough\" to stop the variant virus from spreading - and teaching will go online.\n\nA-Levels and GCSEs will be cancelled, a government source confirmed to BBC News - although vocational exams will go ahead.\n\nThe National Education Union accused the government of causing \"chaos\".\n\nIn a television address, Mr Johnson announced the biggest changes to schools since the early days of the first lockdown in March.\n\n\"Because we now have to do everything we possibly can to stop the spread of the disease, primary schools, secondary schools and colleges across England must move to remote provision from tomorrow,\" said the prime minister.\n\nThis means a return to online learning for pupils of all ages - apart from vulnerable children and the children of key workers who can continue to go into school.\n\nPrimary schools went back today - and will then close again tomorrow\n\n\"We recognise that this will mean it's not possible or fair for all exams to go ahead this summer, as normal,\" said Mr Johnson.\n\nIt is understood that vocational exams will continue, but GCSEs and A-levels will be cancelled - and that the exam watchdog Ofqual will make \"alternative arrangements\" for delivering results.\n\nAn attempt to produce replacement exam grades last summer turned into one of the biggest U-turns of the pandemic.\n\nTeachers' unions accused the government of failing to react more swiftly to \"mounting evidence\" about Covid transmission in schools and to make preparations for remote teaching and alternatives to written exams.\n\nBut Mary Bousted, co-leader of the National Education Union, said Education Secretary Gavin Williamson had \"become an expert in putting his head in the sand\".\n\nGeoff Barton of the ASCL head teachers' union criticised ministers for having issued legal threats to keep schools open at the end of last term - and then \"made a series of chaotic announcements about the start of this term\".\n\nThe new term, which began on Monday for primary pupils, has only lasted a day before it has been suspended.\n\nThe prime minister said he hoped that schools would be \"reopening schools after the February half term\".\n\nThere have been assurances that there will be a more thorough approach to home learning than in the first lockdown last year.\n\nThe Department for Education has provided hundreds of thousands of computer devices - with the aim of supporting those without the equipment needed to work online from home.\n\nThere have also been suggestions Ofsted inspectors will play a more active role in checking on what support schools are providing to pupils in their online learning.\n\nUniversities in England had already planned a staggered return for this term - but there will now be even fewer students on campus this month.\n\nThe latest lockdown guidance says university students who are taking hands-on courses such as medicine or veterinary science should return for face-to-face lessons as planned.\n\nThese students will be expected to take two Covid tests or self-isolate for 10 days when they return.\n\nBut students on all other courses are being told not to come back to university if possible and to start their term online \"until at least mid-February\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Olly Stephens was pronounced dead in Bugs Bottom fields in Emmer Green, Reading\n\nA school says its community has been left \"reeling\" after a 13-year-old boy was stabbed to death in Reading.\n\nOliver Stephens, known as Olly, was pronounced dead at Bugs Bottom fields, Emmer Green, on Sunday.\n\nFour boys and a girl, all aged 13 or 14, have been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder. They remain in custody.\n\nHighdown School and Sixth Form Centre head teacher Rachel Cave described the boy's death as a \"total tragedy\".\n\nIn a statement, she said: \"This student was part of our community and many students and staff knew him well.\n\n\"Many have been deeply affected by this tragedy.\n\n\"In normal circumstances we would open the school and welcome in students for support before the start of the term.\n\n\"We are currently unable to do this, of course, but are arranging counselling support and will be establishing an electronic book of condolence.\"\n\nFlowers have been left outside Highdown School\n\nMs Cave said the school was \"a supportive and close-knit community\" which would \"work together over the coming days and weeks\".\n\nDet Supt Kevin Brown, of Thames Valley Police, said: \"Our thoughts remain with Olly's family at this incredibly difficult time.\"\n\nHe added: \"This is a tragic and shocking incident which has resulted in the death of a young boy.\"\n\nThe victim's family are being supported by specially trained officers.\n\nThames Valley Police said a \"considerable police presence\" would be in place in the area for several days\n\nOfficers were called just before 16:00 GMT on Sunday following reports of an attack.\n\nOfficers are appealing for anyone who was in the area between 15:00 and 16:30 who might have taken photos or camera footage to contact them if they notice anything suspicious.\n\nDet Supt Brown said he believed there would have been witnesses to the \"dreadful incident\" as the area is popular with dog walkers.\n\nA man said his wife was walking their dog through the park on Sunday afternoon when she saw a boy on the ground with several people around him trying to give him first aid.\n\nAnother dog walker said she saw a group of young people standing in the woods in Bugs Bottom fields at about 15:30 and described it as \"slightly unusual\".\n\nReading East MP Matt Rodda has offered his \"deepest condolences\" to the boy's family.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Matt Rodda This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSt Barnabas Church in Emmer Green has invited residents to pray and light a candle in memory of the boy.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"We've now vaccinated over 1.3m people across the UK\"\n\nSome 1.3 million people in the UK have now received their first dose of a Covid vaccine, says the government.\n\nIn England, that includes nearly a quarter of the most elderly, vulnerable patients.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said it meant that within a two to three weeks they should have a \"significant degree of immunity\" to the virus.\n\nHe said there would be a ramping up to get more people immunised - up to 2 million a week.\n\nThe ambition is to vaccinate all the over-70s, the most clinically vulnerable and front-line health and care workers by mid-February. That will require around 13 million vaccinations.\n\nHe defended the UK's policy of immunising more people with one dose immediately - rather than holding some stock back to give people a second booster shot - in order to save \"the most lives the fastest\".\n\nUS regulators have questioned the policy, saying it is premature without more trial evidence, but the UK's Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency says it is a pragmatic decision to protect more people.\n\nBoth the Pfizer and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines require two doses to provide the best possible protection.\n\nInitially, the strategy for the Pfizer vaccine was to offer people the second dose 21 days after their initial jab - full immunity starts seven days after the second dose.\n\nBut when approval was announced for the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine on 30 December, it was also announced that the policy would now change - the new priority would be to give as many people a first shot of either vaccine, rather than providing the required two doses in as short a time as possible.\n\nEveryone will still receive their second dose, but this will now be within 12 weeks of their first.\n\nEngland's chief medical officer Professor Chris Whitty told the Downing Street press conference that extending the gap between the first and second jabs would mean the number of people vaccinated can be doubled over three months.\n\n\"If over that period there is more than 50% protection then you have actually won. More people will have been protected than would have been otherwise.\n\n\"Our quite strong view is that protection is likely to be lot more than 50%.\"\n\nAsked whether the longer gap could lead to an increase risk of the virus mutating into a version that could escape the vaccine, he said it was a worry, but a small one.\n\nChief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said vaccines would probably need to be changed further down the line to continue to be a good match for the virus - but that this was relatively quick to do.\n\nOne of the exciting things about the science of the RNA vaccines is that they are incredibly fast to make in response to new mutations, he said.", "The homes of Frank and Christine Lampard, Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha and Tamara Ecclestone and her husband were broken into in December 2019\n\nFour people have been cleared of being involved in a plot to raid the luxury homes of celebrities in west London.\n\nItems belonging to Frank Lampard, Tamara Ecclestone and the family of tycoon Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha were among the items taken during three burglaries in December 2019.\n\nProsecutors said Maria Mester, 48, Emil Bogdan Savastru, 30, Sorin Marcovici, 53, and Alexandru Stan, 49, were a \"supporting cast\" for the burglars.\n\nBut a jury found all four not guilty.\n\nIsleworth Crown Court heard the three burglaries had netted \"big money\" for the raiders, with \"fabulous jewellery\" stolen and the majority of it having never been recovered.\n\nJay Rutland, Tamara Ecclestone and their daughter had left for Lapland on the morning of the burglary\n\nJewellery and cash worth £25m was taken from Ms Ecclestone's Kensington home while she was on holiday in Lapland with her husband Jay Rutland and their daughter.\n\nMr Lampard and his TV presenter wife Christine had about £60,000 in watches and jewellery stolen when they were out, while raiders also ransacked the family home of Mr Srivaddhanaprabha, who died in 2018 in a helicopter crash, the jury was told.\n\nThe four defendants were accused of eight charges including conspiracy to burgle.\n\nHowever, each denied their involvement with the plot, saying they had no knowledge that the alleged burglars were criminals.\n\nJurors were shown an image from Maria Mester's Facebook account, in which she was said to be wearing Tamara Ecclestone's necklace\n\nThe court heard escort Ms Mester had flown into the UK from Italy on 7 December.\n\nPolice described her as the plot's \"matriarch\", but the 48-year-old told jurors she was only in London after being paid £5,000 to accompany one of the alleged burglars for the week.\n\nSavastru was arrested at Heathrow Airport on 30 January as he prepared to leave for Japan, wearing Mr Srivaddhanaprabha's Tag watch and carrying a Louis Vuitton bag stolen from Mr Rutland.\n\nHe told the court he thought the items had been left behind by the alleged burglars at the Airbnb property he had helped them rent.\n\nThe four Romanian nationals were cleared of all charges apart from Savastru, who was convicted of one count of attempting to conceal criminal property.\n\nThe 30-year-old will be sentenced at a later date.\n\nA group of alleged burglars, who cannot be named for legal reasons, are accused of carrying out the raids.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon announces stay at home rules in new lockdown\n\nScots are to be ordered to stay at home amid a fresh Covid-19 lockdown which will see schools remain closed to pupils until February.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said new curbs would be introduced at midnight in a bid to contain the new, faster-spreading strain of the virus.\n\nNew laws will require people to stay at home and work from home where possible.\n\nOutdoor gatherings are also to be cut back, with people only allowed to meet one person from one other household.\n\nPlaces of worship are to be closed, group exercise banned, and schools will largely operate via online and remote learning.\n\nThese rules will apply across the Scottish mainland until at least the end of January, and will be kept under review.\n\nIsland areas will remain in level three - but Ms Sturgeon said they would be monitored carefully.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson later announced similar lockdown measures for the whole of England with all schools and colleges closing to most pupils until mid February.\n\nA further 1,905 new cases were reported in Scotland on Monday - with 15% of tests returning a positive result, something Ms Sturgeon said \"illustrates the severity and urgency of the situation\".\n\nThe first minister said she was \"more concerned about the situation we face now than I have been at any time since March last year\", with the new coronavirus strain now accounting for half of new cases.\n\nAnd she said a \"steeply rising trend of infections\" was threatening to put \"significant pressure\" on NHS services, saying hospitals could breach capacity within three to four weeks.\n\nThe new rules - which will be put down in law - mean Scots will only be allowed to leave home for essential purposes, such as shopping for food and medicine, exercise and caring responsibilities.\n\nNo limit is to be put on how many times people can go out to exercise, but outdoor meetings are to be limited to a maximum of two people from two households.\n\nEveryone who can work from home will be required to, and people in the \"shielding\" category are advised not to go in to work at all.\n\nThe construction and manufacturing industries will remain open, but Ms Sturgeon said this would be kept under review.\n\nPlaces of worship are to close, the number of people who can attend weddings is to be cut to five, and funeral wakes will no longer be allowed.\n\nSchools are to remain closed to the majority of pupils until February, with Ms Sturgeon saying community transmission of the virus must be brought to a lower level amid concerns that the new variant of the virus spreads more easily among young people.\n\nShe said she knew remote learning presented \"significant challenges\" for parents, teachers and pupils, adding: \"I want to be clear that it remains our priority to get school buildings open again for all pupils are quickly as possible and then keep them open.\"\n\nThe first minister said she was considering whether teachers could be given the Covid-19 vaccine as a priority.\n\nMore than 100,000 people have been given a first dose of the vaccine in Scotland, and the government expects to have access to just over 900,000 doses by the end of January.\n\nHowever Ms Sturgeon said the best way to get schools open again was to drive down transmission of the virus - urging Scots to abide by the rules.\n\nThese are the toughest restrictions Scotland has faced since the lockdown of March 2020.\n\nIt is - once again - becoming compulsory to stay at home except for essential purposes like food shopping, exercise and medical care.\n\nThe extended closure of schools to most pupils is something the Scottish government was particularly keen to avoid.\n\nThese decisions are a measure of how worried ministers are about the rapid spread of the new variant of coronavirus, which is fast becoming the dominant strain.\n\nWith 225 cases per 100,000 people, Scotland is thought to be about four weeks behind London, which already has four times as many cases and NHS services under considerable pressure.\n\nThe Scottish government believes that without further action the NHS here would run out of beds for Covid patients within a month.\n\nThis new alert comes at the start of a new year which also brings new hope for a route out of the pandemic with two vaccines now beginning to offer protection.\n\nAround 100,000 doses have already been administered in Scotland but it is likely to take several months to reach all in the most vulnerable groups.\n\nThe first minister said Scotland was now in \"a race between the vaccine and the virus\".\n\nShe said: \"The Scottish government will do everything we can to speed up distribution of the vaccine. But all of us must do everything we can to slow down the spread of the virus.\n\n\"We can already see - by looking at infection rates in the south of England - some of what could happen here in Scotland. To prevent that, we need to act immediately and firmly.\n\n\"For government, that means introducing tough measures - as we have done today. And for all of us, it means sticking to the rules.\"\n\nScottish Conservative group leader Ruth Davidson raised concerns about online learning, saying it was vital that pupils had \"equal access to high-quality education\".\n\nAnd Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard said teachers and working parents would need support to make the remote learning system work.\n\nMs Sturgeon said her government had \"agonised\" over the decision on schools, and said the \"fundamental priority\" was to re-open them in full as soon as possible.\n\nShe said: \"Just as the last places we ever want to close are schools and nurseries - so it is the case that schools and nurseries will be the first places we want to reopen as we re-emerge from this latest lockdown.\"\n\nThe NHS has coped so far in Scotland - more so than many other parts of the UK.\n\nBut in places like Glasgow and Lanarkshire it has been very, very tight. And here like everywhere else staff are bracing themselves for the post-Christmas effects of rising cases.\n\nThe first minister gave some stark figures on hospital and ICU occupancy - suggesting we are just weeks away from reaching limits.\n\nThere is so little give in the system they will be glad to see everything possible done to prevent stretched services being overwhelmed at a time when we are on our way to getting out the other side.\n\nThere is real anxiety about what the next few weeks might bring.\n• None Covid in Scotland: New lockdown from midnight", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. James Shaw, from Dundee, was among the first to receive the jab\n\nThe first Scottish recipients of the new Oxford University and AstraZeneca vaccine have received their jabs.\n\nJames Shaw, 82, and his 82-year-old wife Malita were among the first to be vaccinated in Dundee.\n\nThe couple received their first doses at Lochee Health and Community Care Centre.\n\nNicola Sturgeon has said she hoped all over-50s and those with underlying health conditions will have been vaccinated by early May.\n\nJames said: \"My wife and I are delighted to be receiving this vaccination. I have asthma and bronchitis and I have been desperate to have it so I am really pleased to be one of the first to be getting it.\n\n\"I know it takes a little while for the vaccine to work but after today I know that I will feel a bit less worried about going out. I will still be very careful and avoid busy places but knowing I have been vaccinated will really help me.\n\n\"All of my friends have said they are going to have the vaccine when it is their turn and I would encourage everyone who is offered this vaccination to take it.\"\n\nJames Shaw, 82, was one of the first people in Scotland to receive the AstraZeneca/Oxford Covid-19 vaccine, administered by advanced nurse practitioner Justine Williams\n\nThe Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine programme is being rolled out less than a week after it was approved by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA). It is the second vaccine approved for use in the UK.\n\nNHS Tayside is rolling out the vaccine through GP practices in the community and will also vaccinate elderly residents and staff in care homes.\n\nIts associate director of public health Dr Daniel Chandleris said: \"The efforts of our vaccination teams have been amazing and it is testament to a real whole team approach that sees the first over-80s in the general population have their jabs today in Tayside.\n\n\"The availability and mobility of the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine gives us the opportunity to start to roll out the biggest vaccine programme that the UK has ever seen across our communities.\n\n\"Over-80s are the first priority group and patients will be contacted directly to attend a vaccination session.\"\n\nScottish Secretary Alister Jack added: \"This is another important moment in our fight against the virus - every vaccination takes us a step closer to getting back to our normal lives as soon as possible.\n\n\"As with the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, the UK is the first country in the world to approve and roll out the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine, with the UK Government ordering and paying for millions of doses for people in all parts of the UK.\"\n\nThe milestone came as First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced a new stricter lockdown.\n\nWith the exception of essential travel, people in mainland Scotland will have to remain at home from midnight.\n\nStatistics released on Monday showed a further 1,905 people had contracted Covid-19.\n\nFigures for hospital admissions and deaths over the holiday weekend will not be published until Tuesday.\n\nMs Sturgeon likened the situation to a race between the vaccine and the virus.\n\nShe said: \"In one lane we have vaccines - our job is to make sure they run as fast as possible.\n\n\"But in the other lane is the virus which - as a result of this new variant - has just learned to run much faster and has most definitely picked up pace in the last couple of weeks.\n\n\"To ensure that the vaccine wins the race, it is essential to speed up vaccination as far as possible. But to give it the time it needs to get ahead, we must also slow the virus down.\"\n\nThe new vaccine will initially be available in the hospitals that have been delivering the Pfizer/BioNtech vaccine, and new community settings will be able to deliver the jabs from 11 January.\n\nPeople in Scotland will be contacted by their health board when it is their turn to be vaccinated.\n\nThe Oxford vaccination marks a major turning point in the pandemic and will lead to a massive expansion in the UK's immunisation campaign, with enough to vaccinate 50 million people throughout the UK already on order.\n\nIt is easier to transport and store than the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, which needs cold storage of about -70C.\n\nThe Oxford vaccine is logistically much easier to distribute\n\nThe UK government has said 530,000 doses of the Oxford vaccine will be available to the UK from Monday, with \"millions due by the beginning of February\".\n\nScotland will ultimately get an 8.2% share of these vaccines, based on its population.\n\nChief Medical Officer Dr Gregor Smith has said he expects the NHS in Scotland to receive 440,360 doses of the vaccine during January.\n\nThe first minister said on Monday about 100,000 people in Scotland have already received a first dose of vaccine.\n\nBoth vaccines require two doses to be administered with an interval of between four and 12 weeks.\n\nPreviously the advice was for the vaccines to have a four-week gap between doses.\n\nThe Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) then recommended as many people as possible in the top priority groups should be offered a first dose as the initial priority.", "US intelligence agencies have said they believe Russia was behind the \"serious\" cyber compromise revealed in December.\n\nPresident Trump had previously suggested China might have been behind the hack, although other members of his administration had pointed the finger at Moscow.\n\nIn a joint statement, the intelligence bodies say they currently believe fewer than 10 US government agencies saw their data compromised, although other organisations outside of government were also affected.\n\nThey say work is still going on to understand the scope of the incident, which appears to have been aimed at gathering intelligence and which they say is \"ongoing\" a month after details first emerged.\n\nThe update on the investigation came in a statement from a task force called the Cyber Unified Coordination Group which was set up to deal with the incident. It comprises intelligence and law enforcement agencies including the FBI and NSA.\n\nThe group said it was still working to understand the scope of what had taken place.\n\nEighteen thousand customers who used Orion product from the company Solar Winds were exposed but US intelligence says it believes a much smaller number saw follow-on activity from the hackers in which they stole data. The US Treasury was among those which previously acknowledged being targeted.\n\n\"This is a serious compromise that will require a sustained and dedicated effort to remediate,\" the statement said. Many organisations are having to scour their systems for signs that they may have been compromised.\n\nThe incident sent shockwaves across the US partly because the breach was undiscovered for many months and was potentially far-reaching in terms of who it might have affected. It also suggested a degree of sophistication and stealth which was widely seen as a trademark of hackers from the SVR, Russia's foreign intelligence agency.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Experts have been warning for years that it's not a matter of if, but when, hackers will kill somebody\n\nSoon after the incident was revealed, President Trump raised the possibility that China might be responsible, but members of his own administration including the secretary of state and attorney general pointed the finger at Moscow. The latest statement shows the assessment of US intelligence agencies is that Russia was behind it, although it does not go so far as accusing the Russian state itself, saying only that the actor was \"likely Russian in origin\". Moscow has denied playing any part.\n\nPresident-elect Joe Biden has previously said it was important to take \"meaningful steps\" to hold those responsible to account. It is not yet clear, though, what that might involve. While some US politicians suggested the breach might even be compared to an \"act of war\", most cyber-experts disputed this and the US intelligence community has now played down suggestions that it could have had destructive impact.\n\n\"At this time, we believe this was, and continues to be, an intelligence-gathering effort,\" the latest statement says. This is significant since it suggests no evidence has been found that this was preparatory activity for a more destructive cyber-attack which might switch off systems. This may limit the US response since espionage operations do not breach the cyber norms the US itself promotes (largely because it too carries out such intelligence-gathering operations against other nations).\n\nIn December UK officials say they believed a small number of UK organisations were affected but said they did not believe they were in the public sector.", "Queensland in Australia has seen heavy rainfall as an ex-tropical cyclone crosses the state, bringing warnings of “life-threatening\" flash flooding.\n\nMeteorologists say cyclones are more likely in Australia this year because of La Nina weather conditions.", "Singapore's Covid app is widely used across the country\n\nSingapore has admitted data from its Covid contact tracing programme can also be accessed by police, reversing earlier privacy assurances.\n\nOfficials had previously explicitly ruled out the data would be used for anything other than the virus tracking.\n\nBut parliament was told on Monday it could also be used \"for the purpose of criminal investigation\".\n\nClose to 80% of residents are signed up to the TraceTogether programme, which is used to check in to locations.\n\nThe voluntary take up increased after it was announced it would soon be needed to access anything from the supermarket to your place of work.\n\nThe TraceTogether programme, which uses either a smartphone app or a bluetooth token, also monitors who you have been in contact with.\n\nIf someone tests positive with the virus, the data allows tracers to swiftly contact anyone that might have been infected. This prompted concerns over privacy - fears which have been echoed across the world as other countries rolled out their own tracing apps.\n\nTo encourage people to enrol, Singaporean authorities promised the data would never be used for any other purpose, saying \"the data will never be accessed, unless the user tests positive for Covid-19 and is contacted by the contact tracing team\".\n\nBut Minister of State for Home Affairs Desmond Tan told parliament on Monday that it can in fact also be used \"for the purpose of criminal investigation\", adding that \"otherwise, TraceTogether data is to be used only for contact tracing and for the purpose of fighting the Covid situation\".\n\nHowever, the privacy statement on the TraceTogether site was then updated on the same day to state that \"the Criminal Procedure Code applies to all data under Singapore's jurisdiction\".\n\n\"Also, we want to be transparent with you,\" the statement reads. \"TraceTogether data may be used in circumstances where citizen safety and security is or has been affected.\n\n\"The Singapore Police Force is empowered under the Criminal Procedure Code (CPC) to obtain any data, including TraceTogether data, for criminal investigations.\"\n\nOn Tuesday, the country's Minister for Foreign Affairs, Vivian Balakrishnan, clarified that it was not just TraceTogether data that was used in cases of serious criminal investigations.\n\nHe said under the CPC, \"other forms of sensitive data like phone or banking records\" would also have their privacy regulations overruled in such cases.\n\nMr Balakrishnan added that to his knowledge, police had so far only once accessed contact tracing data, in the case of a murder investigation.\n\nThe minister stressed though that \"once the pandemic is over and there will no longer be a need for contact tracing, we will happily stand down the TraceTogether programme.\"\n\nMonday's announcement though sparked some controversy on social media, with people calling out the government and some users posting that they had now deleted the app.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"I'm disappointed, but not at all surprised,\" local journalist and activist Kirsten Han told the BBC. \"This is actually something that I've been flagging as a concern since the earlier days of TraceTogether - and was sometimes told that I was just a paranoid fearmonger undermining efforts to fight Covid-19.\n\n\"It doesn't feel good at all to discover I was right.\"\n\n\"I think why most people are so angry about this is not that they feel like they're constantly being watched,\" one Singaporean, who did not want to be named, told the BBC. \"We already have that through other means like CCTV.\n\n\"It's more that they feel like they've been cheated. The government had assured us many times that TraceTogether would only be used for contact tracing, but now they've suddenly added this new caveat.\"\n\nAnother person told the BBC they wished they could delete the app, but daily life would be impossible without it.\n\n\"So I'm just going to disable my Bluetooth for TraceTogether from now on, unless I have to use it to enter somewhere. If the app is not only going to be used for contact tracing, then it's too much of an invasion of privacy.\"\n\nAustralian privacy watchdog Digital Rights Watch, told the BBC they were \"extremely concerned\" about the news from Singapore.\n\n\"This is the worst case scenario that privacy advocates have warned about since the start of the pandemic,\" Programme Director Lucie Krahulcova told the BBC. \"Such an approach will erode public trust in future health responses and therefore impede their efficacy.\"\n\nLike most countries, Australia has rolled out its own contact tracing app but uptake has been sluggish precisely because of privacy concerns.\n\nSingapore was among the first countries to introduce a contact tracing app nationally in March last year.\n\nThe introduction of the token in June had sparked a rare backlash against the government over concerns the device would be mandatory. An online petition calling for it to be ditched has gathered some 55,000 signatures so far.\n\nSingapore has been been one of the most successful countries in tackling the pandemic. Despite a big outbreak among its foreign workers early on, local infection rates have for months been close to zero.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Singapore rolled out its Covid tracing tokens last June", "Whitty: Priority to vaccinate those who would die from virus\n\nAndy Woodcock from the Independent asks about testing for people arriving into the UK from abroad and why it wasn't done sooner. The prime minister says the government will be bringing in measures to \"ensure that we test people coming into this country and preventing the virus from being readmitted\". Responding to a second question on schools and whether teachers and pupils should be vaccinated, Prof Chris Whitty says there is no evidence of hospitals filling up with children and it appears, that even with the new variant, \"children are relatively much less affected than other groups\". He says from a clinical point of view the real priority is to vaccinate the people that we know \"are by far the most likely to die and by far most likely to end up in hospital\". He adds there will have to be decisions made once the most vulnerable groups are vaccinated but we are not yet at that stage. The chief medical officer adds that neither vaccine currently in use in the UK has been licensed for children yet.", "Dr Radha Modgil from BBC Radio 1’s Life Hacks shares her top five tips on how to stay mentally and emotionally well during the coronavirus lockdown, all beginning with the letter C.\n\nSticking to a routine, making sure we take care of ourselves, and using our creativity in new ways are all ways she suggests we can ease the psychological toll that staying inside is having on all of us.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Enrique Tarrio says his far-right group will turn out in numbers on Wednesday\n\nThe leader of the far-right Proud Boys group has been released after his arrest on suspicion of burning a Black Lives Matter flag last month.\n\nEnrique Tarrio faces destruction of property charges. On Tuesday, a judge ordered him to stay out of Washington.\n\nHe has reportedly admitted torching a banner taken from a black church during a rally in December in the city.\n\nPresident Donald Trump has been urging supporters to gather in the capital this week for another demonstration.\n\nOn Tuesday, a judge released him on his own recognisance pending his trial.\n\nOn Wednesday, members of Congress are due to certify Democratic President-elect Joe Biden's election victory before he takes office on 20 January.\n\nMr Tarrio has said on the social media app Parler that the Proud Boys will \"turn out in record numbers on Jan 6th\", referring to his members as \"the most notorious group of extraordinary gentlemen\".\n\nThe National Guard has been deployed by Washington DC's mayor to assist local authorities. Officials say the troops will not be armed and will be there to assist with crowd management and traffic control.\n\nA spokesman for the Metropolitan Police Department, Dustin Sternbeck, told the Washington Post on Monday that Mr Tarrio had been stopped in a vehicle shortly after it entered the district.\n\nThe 36-year-old was also found during his arrest to be in unlawful possession of two devices that allow guns to hold additional bullets, a source told CBS News.\n\nThe destruction of property charge relates to a protest in Washington DC on 12 December in support of the outgoing Republican president's unsubstantiated claims of systemic election fraud.\n\nThe mostly peaceful demonstration ended in isolated scuffles as confrontations with counter-protesters broke out. Police said more than three dozen people were arrested and four churches were vandalised.\n\nMr Tarrio - who lives in Miami, where he also reportedly runs a grassroots organisation called Latinos for Trump - told the Washington Post at the time that he had burned the Black Lives Matter flag.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"Let's make this simple,\" he said. \"I did it.\"\n\nBut he maintained he did not know the Asbury United Methodist Church, where the flag had reportedly flown, was predominantly attended by African American worshippers.\n\nMr Tarrio also said Proud Boy members have had their flags and hats stolen in past demonstrations without anyone being arrested for those alleged incidents.\n\nEarlier on Monday, another black church that was vandalised during December's protest sued Mr Tarrio and the Proud Boys.\n\nCounter-demonstrators were mostly kept at a distance from Trump supporter last month by Washington DC police\n\nThe Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church accused the group of climbing over a fence and tearing down a Black Lives Matter sign.\n\nKristen Clarke, head of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, said in a statement: \"Black churches and other religious institutions have a long and ugly history of being targeted by white supremacists in racist and violent attacks meant to intimidate and create fear.\n\n\"Our lawsuit aims to hold those who engage in such action accountable.\"\n\nThe city's police department said last month it had been considering a potential hate crime charge over the incident.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "Kate Thistleton will front new content from Bitesize Daily\n\nBBC TV is to help children keep up with their studies during the latest lockdown by broadcasting lessons on BBC Two and CBBC, as well as online.\n\nSchools have been closed to most children across the UK as part of tougher measures to control Covid-19.\n\nThe BBC will show curriculum-based programmes on TV from Monday.\n\nThey will include three hours of primary school programming every weekday on CBBC, and at least two hours for secondary pupils on BBC Two.\n\nDuring the first lockdown in the spring, lessons were available on iPlayer, red button and online, but not on regular TV channels.\n\nThe move comes amid concerns that low-income families may struggle to afford data packages for their children to take part in online learning.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson praised the BBC's \"fantastic\" plans on Tuesday. BBC Director-General Tim Davie said \"education is absolutely vital\".\n\nHe continued: \"The BBC is here to play its part and I'm delighted that we have been able to bring this to audiences so swiftly.\"\n\nThe primary programmes, which will be broadcast on CBBC from 09:00 every day, will include BBC Live Lessons and BBC Bitesize Daily as well as Our School, Celebrity Supply Teacher, Horrible Histories and Operation Ouch.\n\nBBC Two will cater for secondary students with programming to support the GCSE curriculum, including adaptations of Shakespeare plays alongside science, history and factual titles.\n\nBitesize Daily primary and secondary will also air every day on the red button as well as episodes being available on demand on iPlayer.\n\nCulture Secretary Oliver Dowden said the BBC \"has helped the nation through some of the toughest moments of the last century\".\n\n\"And for the next few weeks it will help our children learn whilst we stay home, protect the NHS and save lives,\" he added. \"This will be a lifeline to parents and I welcome the BBC playing its part.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Sea Shepherd is working to protect the endangered vaquita porpoise\n\nA Mexican fisherman has died after his boat collided with a larger vessel used by US conservationist group Sea Shepherd, reports say.\n\nSea Shepherd said the clash happened after fishing boats attacked one of its vessels in the Gulf of California, where it is working to protect the endangered vaquita porpoise.\n\nIt said its vessel was trying to leave when one of the boats smashed into it.\n\nThe man's family allege that his boat was intentionally rammed.\n\nHealth official Alonso Perez told AFP news agency on Monday that one fisherman died after sustaining serious injuries, while a second remained in a stable condition.\n\nSea Shepherd said its Farley Mowat vessel was removing an illegal net from a protected area on 31 December when a group of people on small fishing boats launched a \"violent attack\", including throwing Molotov cocktails.\n\n\"Following routine anti-piracy procedures, the Farley Mowat undertook defensive manoeuvring to avoid the attacks. As the vessel attempted to leave the scene, one of the [boats] aggressively swerved in front of the Farley Mowat, crashing directly into the hull\" and splitting in two, it said.\n\nThe group said it provided emergency first aid to the two men who had been on board the fishing boat.\n\nConservationists working for Sea Shepherd have been attacked several times while patrolling the vaquita refuge.\n\nThe group works with Mexican authorities to remove illegal gillnets used to catch totoaba fish, which are highly valued in Chinese traditional medicine. The nets are designed to trap the heads of fish but not their bodies, but are blamed for trapping and killing the endangered porpoises as well.", "Businesses in retail, hospitality and leisure will receive new grants to help them keep afloat until spring, Chancellor Rishi Sunak has said.\n\nThe grants will be worth up to £9,000 per property, the Treasury says.\n\nMr Sunak told the BBC he was \"committed to protecting jobs and supporting businesses\".\n\nBusiness groups welcomed the new help as a good start but warned the money still wouldn't be enough to save many firms from collapse.\n\nThe help is in addition to business rates relief and the furlough scheme, which has been extended until the end of April.\n\nFirms do not have to pay the grant money back.\n\nMr Sunak said he would consider whether or how to extend support packages in its Budget on 3 March.\n\n\"The Budget early in March is an excellent opportunity to take stock of the range of support we have put in place and set out the next stage of our economic response,\" he said.\n\nThe director general of the CBI business group, Tony Danker, earlier warned leaving additional support until the Budget could be too late for many firms, saying. \"the comprehensive restrictions required a new comprehensive response\".\n\nIt was a fear echoed by other business groups, the BCC and the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB).\n\nBCC director general, Adam Marshall, warned many smaller firms would not qualify for help and \"will be left struggling to see how this new top-up grant will help them out of their cashflow problems.\"\n\nHe also called for the support to be extended to firms in other sectors \"who are also feeling the devastating impacts of these restrictions.\"\n\nFSB chair Mike Cherry also said the funds would be a lifeline to many, but \"do not go far enough to match the scale of the crisis that small firms are facing.\"\n\nThe British Beer & Pub Association described the grants as a \"lifeline\", but added that companies on which pubs rely, such as breweries, would also need help.\n\nSeb Heeley, owner of distillery Manchester Gin, says he needs dates to plan around\n\nSeb Heeley, owner of distillery Manchester Gin, told the BBC that fixed dates to aim for are crucial for his business.\n\n\"We need a date to work towards and we don't have that so, again, we're in limbo,\" he said. \"It takes three or four weeks\" to prepare, including retraining staff, he added.\n\nHis business has been closed since October because of restrictions in the Manchester area. It borrowed money under the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CBILS).\n\n\"We start repayment in June and there's good chance we won't be open, so they are going to have to extend that,\" he said.\n\nHe said much of the £9,000 grant will be taken up by the £6,000 a month his business owes in pension contributions and national insurance alone.\n\nMr Sunak said the new support would \"help businesses to get through the months ahead - and crucially it will help sustain jobs, so workers can be ready to return when they are able to reopen\".\n\nBusinesses such as cafes, restaurants, leisure centres and shops that do not sell essentials have been particularly hard hit by coronavirus lockdown measures as people are told to stay at home.\n\nAll non-essential shops, leisure and entertainment venues are now closed, with pubs and restaurants allowed to offer takeaway food and non-alcoholic drinks only.\n\nThe new measures contained no additional support for self-employed people.\n\nMel Stride, chair of parliament's Treasury Committee, which scrutinises the finance department's work, warned the chancellor \"must not forget those who have fallen through the gaps around previous support packages.\"\n\nWhile this is welcome and essential support, it is now clear that the most optimistic timetable for economic lift-off from the pandemic is going to be put back.\n\nThis raises questions about the length of the furlough scheme, and government-guaranteed loans.\n\nBefore this, the best-case scenario was that mass vaccination, enabling a confident reopening of the economy, would allow furloughed workers to go straight back to their jobs in late spring.\n\nThis was never the government's central forecast, but looked possible amid optimism about the vaccine last month.\n\nEven if all vulnerable people can be vaccinated by March, the first three months of the year will see school lockdowns which will harm growth, and therefore a possible double dip recession.\n\nBusiness groups which welcomed this support say they now need a clear long-term plan. They want to know that current levels of support will stay in place until most of the population is vaccinated.\n\nHundreds of thousands of self-employed workers who fell through the gaps of support remain under huge pressure, particularly ahead of the self assessment tax deadline.\n\nA decision on extending the £20 a week increase to universal credit will also be required.\n\nEngland's lockdown rules are due to be reviewed on 15 February while Scotland's will be reviewed at the end of January.\n\nIn the UK, the unemployment rate rose to 4.9% in the three months to October, with the jobless total up to 1.7 million people.\n\nThe Office for Budgetary Responsibility, the government's independent forecaster, predicts the UK economy will have shrunk by 11.3% in 2020 - the biggest decline in 300 years. It expects unemployment to peak at 9.7%.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe PM acted \"decisively\" in announcing a new lockdown in England \"in the face of new information\", Rishi Sunak says.\n\nPeople must now stay at home except for a handful of permitted reasons and schools have closed to most pupils.\n\nThe chancellor said the action was \"regrettable\" but it was \"right we take these measures\", which will be reviewed on 15 February, to suppress the virus.\n\nIt came after UK chief medical officers recommended the Covid threat level be increased to five - its highest level.\n\nBoris Johnson said vaccinating the top four priority groups by mid-February could allow restrictions to be eased, with Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove telling Sky News the measures may remain until March.\n\nMeanwhile, the prime minister is due to hold a press conference in Downing Street at 17:00 GMT with chief medical officer for England Prof Chris Whitty and the government's chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance.\n\nTough new lockdown restrictions forbidding people from leaving home for non-essential reasons have also come into force across the Scottish mainland. Wales has been in a national lockdown since 20 December and Northern Ireland entered a six-week lockdown on 26 December.\n\nThe UK reported a record 58,784 cases on Monday, as well as a further 407 deaths within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nMr Gove told BBC Breakfast: \"The four chief medical officers of the United Kingdom met and discussed the situation yesterday and their recommendation was that the country had to move to level five, the highest level available of alert that meant there was an imminent danger to the NHS of being overwhelmed unless action was taken.\n\n\"And so in the circumstances we felt that the only thing we could do was to close those primary schools that were open.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gove:\" With a heavy heart but with clear evidence we had to act.\"\n\nHe said the action was taken \"with the heaviest of hearts\" and \"we had to act\" following that advice.\n\n\"It is a very, very difficult time for the whole country, that's why it's so important we do everything we can in government to vaccinate people,\" he said.\n\nHe said a million people had been vaccinated so far \"up until the weekend\" and it was hoped that number would reach more than 13 million in February.\n\nWhen asked about the target of two million vaccines a week and concerns over logistics and the safety systems, Mr Gove said the vaccination process was a \"complicated exercise\" but the NHS \"has more than risen to the challenge\".\n\nThe government was \"looking at further options\" to restrict international travel, he said.\n\nMr Gove told Sky News he could not say exactly when the lockdown in England would end, adding: \"I think it is right to say that as we enter March we should be able to lift some of these restrictions but not necessarily all.\"\n\nCabinet Office minister Michael Gove saying the lockdown may have to last to March may not come as much of a surprise to many.\n\nWhile the government has set a target of offering the most at-risk a jab by mid February, it will take several weeks longer for the full effect to be felt given it takes time for an immune response to kick in.\n\nThe bigger question is whether or not the government could have acted earlier.\n\nIt was clear before Christmas the new variant was pushing up infection rates - and that in turn would mean more hospital admissions.\n\nThe delay looks costly. Since Christmas Day, the number of Covid-19 patients in hospital has risen by 50% alone - enough to fill 18 hospitals.\n\nWhile the government did introduce tier four the weekend before Christmas in parts of the south east of England, which banned mixing over the festive period and led to the closure of non-essential shops and gyms, most of the country were allowed to meet up on Christmas Day.\n\nInfections from Christmas Day are now being felt - the numbers have been rising sharply ever since. Some of these are next week's hospital admissions - and is why the chief medical officers warned of the risk of hospitals becoming overwhelmed, which Mr Gove said persuaded them to act on Monday.\n\nIf lockdown had come earlier, it may well have been shorter.\n\nProf Andrew Hayward - a member of the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) - told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the lockdown measures \"will save tens of thousands of lives\".\n\nBut he said \"the virus is different\" and \"it may be that the lockdown measures that we have are not enough\"\n\n\"This lockdown period we need to do more than just stay at home, wait for the vaccine, we need to be actively bearing down on it,\" he said.\n\nAt Scotland's daily briefing, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon called for people to hold on to the fact there was now \"a clear route out of this pandemic\".\n\nShe said there had been urgent discussions between the four home nations about whether border controls should be tightened - and she hoped there would be an announcement soon.\n\nAnnouncing England's lockdown on Monday, Mr Johnson said hospitals were under \"more pressure from Covid than at any time since the start of the pandemic\".\n\nHe ordered people to stay indoors other than for limited exceptions - such as essential medical needs, food shopping, exercise and work that cannot be done at home - and said schools and colleges should move to remote teaching for the majority of students until at least half term.\n\nPeople who are clinically extremely vulnerable will be contacted by letter and should now shield once more, Mr Johnson said.\n\nWhile the rules become law in the early hours of Wednesday, people should follow them now, Mr Johnson added.\n\nMr Johnson said the new variant of coronavirus, which is up to 70% more transmissible, was spreading in a \"frustrating and alarming\" manner and warned that the number of Covid-19 patients in English hospitals is 40% higher than the first peak.\n\nThe House of Commons has been recalled to allow MPs to vote on England's new restrictions on Wednesday.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said his MPs would \"support the package of measures\", saying \"we've all got to pull together now to make this work\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC's Laura Foster explains the order in which the Covid vaccine will be given\n\nHow will you be affected by the latest developments? What questions do you have? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Quote Message: The return of lockdown for at least the rest of January is a severe blow for much of the Scottish economy. It could be worse: this is not the peak Christmas season for retail and hospitality, though the season they’ve just had was very hard going for many, and non-existent for others. This is also the quietest part of the tourism year, so January is a relatively good month to lose one’s bookings. For many firms, it is better than last spring, because they have infection controls in place. And there is a less harsh closure scheme, meaning construction sites and others can stay open, subject to tight rules. Many employers have settled into patterns of working from home, so this does not carry the shock of last March. There was little expectation of getting staff back into offices for months yet. But that doesn’t make this time any easier for workers who are also parents. They know, from last year, how tough it is to handle childcare and lessons while schools are shut - and this time, they have to manage without good weather. The other, more negative comparison with last spring is that firms now are, typically, deeper in debt and with less spare cash to pay the bills that don’t stop - rent, and utility bills, for instance. Some delayed payments are getting tougher to keep on hold. Their frustration with the slow movement of government grant schemes is showing. They aren’t disputing the case for further lockdown but they are making their own case for support through it, and for a recovery strategy once restrictions are lifted, including a boost to consumer confidence and spending.\" from Douglas Fraser Scotland business & economy editor\n\nThe return of lockdown for at least the rest of January is a severe blow for much of the Scottish economy. It could be worse: this is not the peak Christmas season for retail and hospitality, though the season they’ve just had was very hard going for many, and non-existent for others. This is also the quietest part of the tourism year, so January is a relatively good month to lose one’s bookings. For many firms, it is better than last spring, because they have infection controls in place. And there is a less harsh closure scheme, meaning construction sites and others can stay open, subject to tight rules. Many employers have settled into patterns of working from home, so this does not carry the shock of last March. There was little expectation of getting staff back into offices for months yet. But that doesn’t make this time any easier for workers who are also parents. They know, from last year, how tough it is to handle childcare and lessons while schools are shut - and this time, they have to manage without good weather. The other, more negative comparison with last spring is that firms now are, typically, deeper in debt and with less spare cash to pay the bills that don’t stop - rent, and utility bills, for instance. Some delayed payments are getting tougher to keep on hold. Their frustration with the slow movement of government grant schemes is showing. They aren’t disputing the case for further lockdown but they are making their own case for support through it, and for a recovery strategy once restrictions are lifted, including a boost to consumer confidence and spending.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Sport\n\nProfessional sport in England can continue behind closed doors, despite a new national lockdown announced by Prime Minister Boris Johnson.\n\nIt means Premier League football and elite leagues in other sports are allowed to carry on.\n\nThe sport and leisure rules in England are similar to those announced in Scotland earlier on Monday.\n\nPeople living in England have been told to stay at home and schools will shut for most pupils from Tuesday.\n\nOn Monday, the UK recorded more than 50,000 new confirmed Covid cases for the seventh day in a row.\n\nFor those in England, exercising outside is allowed once a day. Venues such as gyms, tennis courts and golf courses will be closed.\n\nOrganised outdoor sport for disabled people is exempt from the new measures.\n\nGames and training in non-elite football - which includes all adult and youth grassroots, except for disabled people - have been suspended.\n\nThe Women's FA Cup is among the non-elite competitions placed on hold. All but one of the second-round matches scheduled to take place on Sunday were postponed because of Covid-19 regulations.\n\nTeams from the Women's Super League and Women's Championship enter the draw from the fourth round onwards.\n\nWhich non-elite football has been suspended? Steps three to six of the National League System (all divisions below the National League North and South) Tiers three to seven of the Women's Football Pyramid (all divisions below the Women's Championship) Women's FA Cup (classified as 'non-elite' up to and including the third round) All indoor and outdoor youth and adult grassroots football, including under-18s (except organised outdoor football for disabled people, which is allowed to continue)\n\nFollowing Monday's announcement by the prime minister, this week's sporting fixtures in England are set to go ahead as planned.\n\nIn football, the Carabao Cup semi-finals are being played on Tuesday and Wednesday, while the FA Cup third round - which has 32 fixtures spanning four days - starts on Friday.\n\nThere are also several Women's Super League, English Football League and National League games set to take place, as well as English Premiership and Premier 15s rugby union matches, plus the Masters snooker event in Milton Keynes.\n\nEarlier on Monday, Rochdale chief executive David Bottomley said he believes it is \"inevitable\" that the EFL will have to temporarily suspend fixtures because of rising coronavirus cases.\n\nSeven of last Saturday's EFL games - and 52 across the season - have been called off as teams are affected by the virus.\n\nFour Premier League matches have also been postponed this season because of coronavirus cases.\n\nWhat does the new lockdown mean for sport in England?\n\nThe UK government published its guidance for England's new national lockdown shortly after the prime minister's televised address at 20:00 GMT.\n\nHere are the points relating to sport and physical activity:\n• None Elite sportspeople (and their coaches if necessary, or parents/guardians if they are under 18) - or those on an official elite sports pathway - to compete and train\n• None Outdoor sports courts, outdoor gyms, golf courses, outdoor swimming pools, archery/driving/shooting ranges and riding arenas must also close\n• None Organised outdoor sport for disabled people is allowed to continue\n\nWhile golfing has been allowed to continue in Scotland under strict rules, courses will be closed in England.\n\nEngland Golf said it was \"extremely disappointed\" with the decision, adding it had made a \"strong case\" to keep the sport open in recent months.\n\nWhere can I exercise and who can I exercise with?\n\nYou can exercise in a public outdoor place:\n• None with the people you live with\n• None with your support bubble ( if you are legally permitted to form one)\n• None or, when on your own, with one person from another household\n• None public gardens (whether or not you pay to enter them)\n\nUK Active, a not-for-profit organisation that promotes health and fitness, says the government must act immediately to \"minimise the damaging impact of lockdown\".\n\n\"We know from the millions of people that depend on gyms, pools, and leisure centres to support their physical and mental health, how essential they are,\" said UK Active chief executive Huw Edwards.\n\n\"We cannot afford to wait until the vaccine rollout is advanced before we act, so the government must explore all options at this time and provide a credible plan for maintaining this support to millions of people who rely on these Covid-secure facilities to stay strong and healthy.\n\n\"Furthermore, the UK governments must protect this sector before it becomes too late.\"", "Internet providers are under pressure to do more to help low-income families afford data packages for their children to take part in remote learning.\n\nIt follows a decision to close UK schools to most pupils to enforce new coronavirus lockdowns.\n\nThe children's commissioner for England told the BBC that \"broadband companies really need to step up\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer added he thought the cost of data was \"a big problem\".\n\n\"We're asking people to endure very tough restrictions. And there has to be the other side of that contract,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"Everybody needs to try and make this work. And that includes the companies that can take away the charging for data. It's a serious situation.\"\n\nWhen questioned about the topic at a Downing Street press conference, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"We are looking at... the potential costs to parents of online teaching, and we're going to do our best to support them in any way that we can and to work with the internet companies.\"\n\nThere is concern that some disadvantaged pupils are currently dependent on pay-as-you-go or monthly mobile phone subscriptions that only include a small data allowance because their families cannot afford or otherwise obtain a separate fixed broadband connection.\n\n\"There are 25 million pay-as-you go customers in the UK, and about seven million of those struggle with the cost of topping up their data,\" commented Chris Thorpe from the Centre For The Acceleration Of Social Technology charity.\n\nMany schools are using video-chat software including Microsoft Teams, Zoom and Google Meet to live-stream classes, assemblies and other activities, which all benefit from a fast, stable connection and can consume a lot of data.\n\nIn addition, other tools including Google Classroom, Tapestry and Class Dojo are used by pupils to submit schoolwork and receive marks and other feedback.\n\nThe situation became more pressing after the prime minister announced last night that England's lockdown would mean schools and colleges would remain closed to most pupils until at least the February half-term.\n\nTech for UK - a coalition of technologists and other concerned business leaders - has suggested one way forward would be for internet providers to \"zero rate\" edtech apps and websites, so that their data use would be deducted from a mobile subscriber's monthly allowance.\n\nHowever, it acknowledges the challenge in doing so is to pick which platforms to support without giving some providers an unfair advantage over others.\n\nThe Department for Education already runs a scheme for disadvantaged children who do not have access to a home broadband connection to temporarily increase their mobile data allowance.\n\nIn some cases, this involves an extra 20 gigabytes a month. In others - such as Three - it provides an \"unlimited\" data upgrade.\n\nSchools, trusts and local authorities need to request the support on a pupil's behalf.\n\nThe networks involved in the initiative include:\n\nIn cases when this is not available, the government offers 4G wireless routers - which use mobile networks to offer a wi-fi connection - as an alternative.\n\nIn addition, Vodafone provided 350,000 \"free data\" Sim cards to thousands of primary and secondary schools and colleges in November.\n\n\"We are actively considering what to do now about this new situation,\" it said.\n\nO2 pledged in October to donate 10,000 devices and 12 months of free data to \"vulnerable individuals\".\n\nAnd Virgin Media noted it had launched a discounted home broadband service for families facing financial difficulties and receiving universal credit.\n\nBT says it has already removed all caps on its home broadband plans to help ensure children can stay connected to their schools.\n\nAnne Longfield, the children's commissioner for England, said she was also concerned about the provision of devices.\n\n\"A lot of children still don't have laptops. They're surviving on broken phones,\" she told the Today programme.\n\nThe Department for Education said it had delivered more than 560,000 devices to schools and councils in England between the start of the pandemic and the end of last year.\n\nIn addition, it aims to have delivered a further 100,000 laptops and tablets to schools by the end of this week to help get closer to its overall target of one million devices.\n\nHowever, teaching groups have raised concerns about the rollout.\n\nSome children are being provided with tablets to keep them connected to their schools\n\n\"We must hear no more of rationing of equipment, as we did late last year,\" Dr Mary Bousted, joint general secretary of the National Education Union (NEU) told the BBC.\n\n\"If the stockpiles exist, as the Department for Education claim they do, then they must be distributed urgently. We have heard too many stories of requests from schools not being met, or not being fully met.\"\n\nSteven George of head teachers' union, NAHT added that a website used to order laptops had been inaccessible over the Christmas break, so some members had been unable to make requests.\n\nIn addition, the Association of School and College Leaders suggested the government had \"never really got to grips\" with the issue.\n\n\"It is certainly sending out lots of laptops for disadvantaged children to schools. But there's clearly still a gap, not just in terms of the number of devices that are required but also in terms of whether families have sufficient connectivity,\" said general secretary Geoff Barton.\n\n\"This has happened because it is a crisis situation, and there hasn't been a great deal of time in which to properly assess the level of need that exists, but it does expose the fact that pre-crisis, there hadn't been a properly joined-up national strategy on digital learning.\"\n\nOthers have noted that the device allocation scheme does not extend to printers - which are needed for worksheets and other materials sent by teachers - putting low-income families at a further disadvantage.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Eileen Lynch, 94, was the first person in Northern Ireland to receive the Oxford/AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine\n\nUp to 11,000 people aged over 80 across Northern Ireland are set to receive the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine this week.\n\nThe aim is to ensure everyone in that age group will be offered the vaccine by the end of January.\n\nThirty GP practices will be administering 50,000 doses of the vaccine, which was approved for use in the UK on 30 December.\n\nIt is the second vaccine to be approved in the battle against coronavirus in Northern Ireland.\n\nIt comes ahead of a UK-wide announcement by the prime minister, set to be made at 20:00 GMT on Monday, in which further restrictions will be announced.\n\nIn a statement, a No 10 spokesman said the new variant of Covid-19 had \"led to rapidly escalating case numbers across the country\" and \"further steps must now be taken to arrest this rise\".\n\nOn Monday, Northern Ireland recorded a further 1,801 Covid-19 cases and 12 more virus-related deaths.\n\nThese latest figures from the Department of Health bring the total number of deaths to 1,366, while 79,873 people have tested positive for the virus since the pandemic started.\n\nMore than 12,000 cases have been reported in the past seven days, more than double the week before.\n\nThe seven-day rate per 100,000 people is now 660 positive cases, compared to 200 per 100,000 two weeks ago.\n\nMedical experts believe that is down to the two-week easing of restrictions over the Christmas period.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland on Monday, an additional 6,110 confirmed cases of Covid-19 were announced, with six further deaths linked to the virus.\n\nNorthern Ireland is in the second week of a six-week lockdown in which non-essential retail is closed.\n\nThe first doses of the vaccine were given delivered at a GP surgery on the Falls Road in West Belfast on Monday afternoon.\n\nThe first person in Northern Ireland to receive the Oxford/AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine was 94-year-old Eileen Lynch.\n\nSpeaking after receiving the vaccine, Ms Lynch said she was \"delighted and privileged\" to receive it.\n\n\"I feel like I can really look forward to the year ahead now that I have been vaccinated,\" she said.\n\nThe Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine has already been used to vaccinate care home residents and staff.\n\nBy mid December, 50,000 doses of that vaccine had been made available and by 30 December, Northern Ireland's Department of Health reported that 33,000 people had been vaccinated.\n\nThis included 8,940 care home residents, 10,484 care home staff and 14,259 health and social care staff.\n\nAccording to the latest NI statistics, for the first time the percentage positive cases in the over 80s is down - an indication the vaccination process is working.\n\nThere are approximately 82,000 people over 80 in NI and BBC News NI understands that if deliveries of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine happen as planned, it is thought that all of those over 80, as well as GPs and their staff, could be vaccinated within three weeks.\n\nWhile 50,000 doses have been delivered to Northern Ireland, a further 23,000 vaccines are expected on 19 January while another 68,000 are due on 24 January.\n\nDr Alan Stout, who is a GP in Belfast, told BBC News NI that members are \"very optimistic\" that 11,000 people can be vaccinated this week.\n\nThe Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is the second coronavirus vaccine to be approved in the UK\n\nNI's chief medical officer said the Oxford-AstraZeneca rollout would run alongside the ongoing vaccination programme.\n\nDr Michael McBride said: \"First and foremost we must act to protect those most at risk of severe disease and death.\n\n\"The evidence shows that the initial dose of vaccine offers as much as 70% protection against the effects of the virus.\n\n\"Providing that level of protection on a large scale will have the greatest impact on reducing mortality and hospitalisations, protecting the health and social care system.\"\n\nThe Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine has to be kept at an extremely low temperature which complicates handling constraints.\n\nThe Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is considered easier to store and distribute.\n\nIts rollout consists of two full doses of the vaccine, with the second dose to be given four to 12 weeks after the first.\n\nGPs are appealing to the public to remain calm and wait to be called for their vaccine either by telephone or by letter.\n\nDr Stout said as demand grows worldwide for the vaccine, that schedule could easily change.\n\n\"The public have to be patient, we have a system and must be allowed to get on with it - it really is 'don't call us - we will call you'.\"\n\nWhile some vaccinations will take place in surgeries others will happen in a drive-through system.\n\nCovid-19 is deadlier than flu, which means January 2021 is going to be even tougher than usual.\n\nAlso, Covid patients tend to stay much longer in hospital with more severe symptoms requiring additional beds and care.\n\nBut those rising patient numbers aren't matched by an increased workforce.\n\nInstead it is expected that the nurse-patient ratio will increase (even though many aren't trained to work in critical care) as there simply aren't enough nurses available.\n\nSome health unions fear this will only add to Northern Ireland's excess mortality rate, which is greater than that in Great Britain.\n\nOnce again, this highlights Northern Ireland's failing health care system, which was already below par well before the start of the pandemic.\n\nCoronavirus infection figures here are expected to peak between 15 and 21 January. That will be felt not only in hospitals but also in GP practices as they continue to roll out the vaccine.\n\nWhile at this stage the six weeks look bleak it's hoped that the additional Astra-Zeneca vaccine and the low incidence of flu will go a long way in not only saving lives, but also protecting the health service.\n\nDr Stout said much planning had gone into ensuring the programme happened as smoothly as possible.\n\n\"People will literally stay in their cars and be asked to roll up their sleeves - it has to be safe and efficient in order for us to get through it and safely.\"\n\nThe UK has ordered 100 million doses of the new vaccine - enough to vaccinate 50 million people.\n\nMeanwhile, Dr Tom Black, chair of the British Medical Association in Northern Ireland, said it was \"appalling\" that the Pfizer vaccine was not to be administered in two doses within 21 days as instructed by the company and threatened legal action.\n\nDr Black was responding to news that the UK will give both parts of the Oxford and Pfizer vaccines 12 weeks apart.\n\n\"They have left care workers in Northern Ireland with a gap in their expected immunity,\" he told BBC NI's Radio Foyle on Monday.\n\n\"In that period doctors, nurses, porters or health care professionals could infect patients because they will not be protected against the transmission of the infection to patients.\"\n\nThe UK's chief medical officers have defended their Covid vaccination plan.\n\nThey said getting more people vaccinated with the first jab was \"much more preferable\" and that the great majority of the initial protection from clinical disease is after the first dose of vaccine.\n\nDr Black is to meet NI Health Minister Robin Swann later to express health care workers' concern over the change in vaccine policy.", "Food banks have seen increased demand during the pandemic\n\nThe UK \"cannot duck\" tackling inequalities of health, ethnicity, education and jobs post-Covid, a major review has warned.\n\nThe report's chairman, Nobel laureate Sir Angus Deaton, says a lot of work to repair and rebuild the damage will be needed after the pandemic.\n\nThe Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) Deaton Review of Inequalities warned the fabric of society was under threat.\n\nThe review says there is a \"once-in-a-generation opportunity to tackle the disadvantages faced by many that this pandemic has so devastatingly exposed\".\n\n\"We now face a set of challenges which we cannot duck.\"\n\nSir Angus said: \"As the vaccines should, at some point this year, take us into a world largely free of the pandemic, it is imperative to think about policies that will be needed to repair the damage and that focus on those who have suffered the most.\n\n\"We need to build a country in which everyone feels that they belong.\"\n\nWhile the pandemic had highlighted the disproportionate impact on ethnic minority groups and deprived communities, it also showed that the UK's best-paid and most highly educated have been \"much better able to ride out the crisis\", the report said.\n\nYoung people have been among the worst hit economically\n\nChildren from poorer households found it harder to do schoolwork during lockdown and have been more likely to miss school since September, it noted.\n\nAnd while the biggest risk factor for coronavirus is age, younger people have been hit harder by the economic consequences of the crisis.\n\nThe cost of the pandemic is \"just colossal\" IFS director Paul Johnson told the BBC's Today programme.\n\n\"We've seen the biggest reduction in national income, essentially in history, over the last year, we've seen the biggest public deficit in history outside of the two world wars, so there's no getting around the fact that the pandemic and the response to it has had a bigger effect on the economy than anything essentially in the whole of history.\"\n\nThe report highlighted the effects of the pandemic on different groups, including on education, which is \"probably more worrying\" than the overall economic effect, Mr Johnson said.\n\n\"The first lockdown lockdown saw a dreadful impact on the education particularly of poorer children... they were getting less in the way of online lessons from their schools.\n\n\"There's a huge private school/state school divide in this, but also a big divide within state schools between those children who had support at home, had the facilities at home - laptops and internet and so on - but who also had the support from school - so there's a big impact on education but also a very unequal one,\" he added.\n\nThe review is calling for extra support for children who have fallen behind and help for school and university leavers to find jobs.\n\nIt says the welfare safety net must be adapted so it supports non-traditional forms of employment, including insecure and self-employed workers, and minority ethnic groups must be given greater economic opportunities.\n\nProgress in reducing poor mental and physical health could be \"one of the clearest indications of success of economic and social policy\", it adds.\n\nMark Franks, director of welfare at the Nuffield Foundation, which funded the review, said: \"Individuals are subject to a wide range of potential vulnerabilities around dimensions including age, ethnicity, place of birth, education, income and the nature of their employment.\n\n\"Where these vulnerabilities intersect, they can amplify and reinforce one another and play a huge role in driving unequal outcomes.\"\n\nHowever, the government said it was already spending vast sums to support people and the economy through the pandemic.\n\nA spokesman said: \"We're doing everything we can to ensure our coronavirus support reaches those who need it the most, which is why we've invested more than £280bn to protect the incomes, livelihoods and health of millions of people across the UK.\"\n\nThis included an additional £9bn for the welfare system and £2bn for the Kickstart Scheme, tripling traineeships, incentives for firms hiring apprentices and doubling the number of work coaches \"so that nobody is left without hope or opportunity\", the spokesman said.", "Economy Minister Diane Dodds has written to Cabinet Office Secretary Michael Gove to call for urgent action to be taken on deliveries to NI.\n\nSince Christmas some orders have been cancelled or delayed and some retailers have suspended deliveries.\n\nThe problem is related to uncertainty about post-Brexit transition rules.\n\nHM Customs announced a grace period on New Year's Eve confirming most parcels from GB-NI will not need customs declarations until at least April.\n\nThe problems have not affected all companies with many continuing to take orders and deliver as normal.\n\nHowever, some companies had already suspended deliveries, including John Lewis.\n\nThe government said the three-month grace period \"recognises the unique circumstances of Northern Ireland, the impacts of any disruption to parcel movements in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic and specific challenges for operators moving express consignments\".\n\nA government spokesman said further details will be published in the new year, adding: \"Our priority is to have a pragmatic approach that allows us to comply with the [Northern Ireland] Protocol without causing undue disruption to businesses and citizens.\n\n\"HMRC is engaging with operators to finalise arrangements.\"\n\nSome changes have already come into effect.\n\nA Northern Ireland-based business receiving goods valued at £135 or more through an express carrier or Royal Mail will need to submit a customs declaration.\n\nThey will need to do this within three months of receiving the goods and can use the government's Trader Support Service to do so.\n\nExcise goods, which mostly refers to alcoholic drinks, will also need a declaration when being sent from GB to NI.\n\nThe government has advised retailers of those goods to contact their delivery company.\n\nIt said: \"They will then tell you if they carry the type of goods you want to send and, if they do, they will ask you to provide any additional information that they need so that a declaration can be made.\"", "About 10 UK nationals resident in Spain say they were wrongly turned back when their flight landed in Barcelona.\n\nThey left Heathrow on the Saturday morning British Airways flight, but were refused entry on arrival.\n\nThey were stopped by border police and ultimately flown back to the UK.\n\nSpain has banned all but Spanish nationals and residents flying from the UK to Spain since 22 December in the hope of containing the spread of the new UK strain of Covid-19.\n\nOne passenger on the flight, who did not wish to be named, said that those on board had been told repeatedly that only Spanish nationals or residents would be allowed to enter the country and that their residency certificates, also known as green certificates, were shown to airline staff several times.\n\nHowever, on arrival, British passengers with green residency certificates were prevented from entering Spain.\n\nBA has confirmed that about 10 people were denied entry into Barcelona, as they did not meet the Spanish authorities' required criteria.\n\nOne of those affected, Ruth O'Leary, said: \"I was very confused, obviously. I asked them what other documents I could provide.\n\n\"They seemed to be just flat-out refusing anything I had and just wouldn't let me on the flight. Very upsetting really.\n\n\"Quite an awful feeling not to be able to go back to your own house and to not really be given an explanation why you can't go home.\"\n\nOther British expat passengers have also said that they have been stopped from boarding planes to Spain.\n\nOne passenger on board said that seven British citizens were prevented from boarding a British Airways/Iberia flight from Heathrow to Madrid on Saturday evening, despite having their green residency certificates, as well as negative Covid tests.\n\nThe exact number of flights and passengers affected has not been released by the Foreign Office.\n\nIn a statement on Monday, Iberia said that on 1 January, it received an email from the border police saying that registration as a European citizen was no longer considered to be a valid document to prove legal residency in Spain as a British citizen.\n\nHowever, by 19:30 on 2 January, the airline received a second email, confirming that the document could be used if it had not expired.\n\nA British Airways spokesperson said: \"In these difficult and unprecedented times with dynamic travel restrictions, we are doing everything we can to help and support our customers.\"\n\nThe Spanish Embassy in London tweeted a letter stating it was aware that during the current travel restrictions, there had been some problems for British nationals resident in Spain who had not been allowed to return.\n\nThe embassy clarified that green certificates were valid proof of residency.\n\nThe Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office said: \"We have worked closely with the Spanish government to resolve these issues.\n\n\"The Spanish Embassy in London has re-confirmed today that both the green residence certificate and the new residence TIE card [Photo-ID card] are equally valid in terms of proving residence in Spain, as set out in the [Brexit] Withdrawal Agreement.\"", "South Wales Police piloted the use of facial recognition in Cardiff - it was later ruled unlawful\n\nPolice should be allowed more access to facial recognition technology, a firm developing it for use in the private sector has said.\n\nLast year, appeal court judges ruled a trial project to scan thousands of faces by South Wales Police was unlawful. The force did not appeal.\n\nWelsh company Credas said laws were not keeping up with the latest technology.\n\nThe Home Office said it wants police to use new crime-reducing technology while \"maintaining public trust\".\n\nCredas believes such facial recognition technology could be a vital tool in fighting crime.\n\n\"Ten years ago it would have felt space age, but now it's everywhere - just logging into my phone or laptop, we're all used to it now,\" said chief executive Rhys David.\n\n\"But the legislation will never keep up with the technological advancements.\"\n\nThe firm, based in Penarth in the Vale of Glamorgan, works with firms to prevent crime in commercial settings, helping them confirm a client's identity.\n\nIt can include estate agents, the legal sector, accountancy or gambling operations - any businesses regulated to reduce fraud and money laundering.\n\n\"There's common stories of people buying houses with someone else's identity and manipulating the paperwork so that the funds get transferred into the wrong account and it's too late then - we can't recover that,\" said Mr David.\n\n\"It's a very difficult position to be in, but technologies like ours are closing the gap.\"\n\nApps can compare people's picture to that on their passport\n\nCredas's app uses facial recognition - people take a selfie and the app compares it to a photograph of their passport to verify they are who they claim to be.\n\nClaire Williams works for FBM estate agent in Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, which has been using the software for the past two years.\n\n\"Before we would take people's passports or driver's licence, they would either come into the office and we would photocopy it, or we would even accept a scanned, emailed copy.\n\n\"There would be no way of knowing whether these were legitimate passports and driver's licences.\n\n\"They might have been using fake IDs, trying to launder money through the property industry - putting money into the properties, then reselling them to launder the money.\"\n\nBut scanning faces to confirm details for a mortgage is a very different beast to automated facial recognition, which is what was being trialled by South Wales Police - scanning faces in a crowd, often without people's knowledge.\n\nThat was ruled unlawful after a challenge by civil rights group Liberty and Ed Bridges from Cardiff.\n\n\"Real-time surveillance is considerably more complex than in the commercial space where it's a fairly static, controlled environment. But we should be adopting it and encouraging it to reduce a criminal footprint,\" added Mr David.\n\n\"I find it really sad that the police aren't encouraged to use technology like this to keep our country safe.\n\n\"Let's be honest, the police don't want to sell us trainers. They're not looking to capture our images or biometric footprints to sell us goods. It's to keep us safe, so the police can run very sophisticated facial matching programmes in real time to identify criminals.\"\n\nThe frustration was echoed by the surveillance camera commissioner, Tony Porter, who is the independent regulator appointed to oversee the use of camera systems in England and Wales.\n\nFollowing the appeal court ruling on South Wales Police in August, he said he had been \"fruitlessly and repeatedly\" calling for an updated code the police could follow.\n\nWhile campaigners Liberty felt the court's ruling left little room for the technology to be safely used, Mr Porter disagreed, adding: \"I believe adoption of new and advancing technologies is an important element of keeping citizens safe.\"\n\nHe has issued new guidance on the use of facial recognition in light of the case, but it remains just that - guidance, not law.\n\nIt has left police forces still trying to iron out the problems raised by the Court of Appeal - the potential for gender and ethnic biases and a robust code to cover when, how and where the technology can be used, and in search of whom.\n\nProf Martin Innes, from the Universities' Police Sciences Institute, evaluated the rollout of automatic facial recognition for South Wales Police in 2018, flagging ethical and regulatory challenges facing forces.\n\n\"If you look back at the history of new and innovative technologies in policing this is what always happens. You have to let the law catch up a little bit and find out what matters and where the key points of regulation are,\" he said.\n\nAt present, different standards between the private and public sectors \"could be very, very confusing,\" he added.\n\n\"There is a risk that these technologies get introduced almost by stealth and they start popping up everywhere.\"\n\nPembrokeshire estate agent Claire Williams now uses a facial recognition app to match faces to identity\n\nIn a way, some of that has already happened, from mobile phones that can detect your face to hi-tech doorbells\n\nStopping criminal harm \"seems to be an equally justifiable reason\" to use the technology, argued Prof Innes.\n\n\"But we need to think quite carefully about how far do we want this to go, and where is it appropriate for us to introduce these technologies in our lives.\n\n\"There are issues - but there are potentially opportunities and benefits to be gained if it can be done in the right way, as well.\"\n\nThe Home Office and the police say they will consider any ideas that could improve the way live facial recognition technology is used.\n\n\"We want police to use new technologies, like live facial recognition, in a way that reduces crime while maintaining public trust,\" said a Home Office spokesperson.\n\n\"We are working closely with the police to ensure national College of Policing guidance complies with the Court of Appeal's request to clarify how live facial recognition will be used.\n\n\"The government committed in the Home Office Biometrics Strategy to review the Surveillance Camera Code of Practice and it will be updated in due course.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Virgin Holidays has become the latest travel firm to cancel holidays after new coronavirus lockdown restrictions were imposed.\n\nIt said schedules will be cancelled until mid-February, joining similar moves by Tui, Jet2 and Thomas Cook.\n\nThe companies said customers would be contacted about their future travel options during what Virgin described as \"these extraordinary circumstances\".\n\nThomas Cook said it will call customers to offer refunds or rebooking.\n\nTui said it was \"cancelling all holidays in line with international travel restrictions\". It added that said customers due to depart from England, Scotland and Wales would be contacted to discuss options.\n\nThe company said that customers due to travel from an English airport before mid-February, or from a Scottish or Welsh airport up to 31 January, would not be able to do so.\n\nThose customers will be contacted \"in departure date order to discuss their options\", Tui said, which include rebooking \"with an incentive\", getting a credit note, or a full refund.\n\n\"Customers currently overseas can continue to enjoy their holidays as planned and we will update them directly if there are any changes to their holidays,\" Tui added.\n\nIn a statement, Virgin said: \"In line with the new national lockdown restrictions we have reviewed the upcoming holiday schedule and will be cancelling all holidays up to and including 14 February 2021.\n\n\"To simplify the options and to provide immediate peace of mind for customers whose holidays will no longer be going ahead, we're automatically providing a digital voucher for the value of their trip, redeemable up until 30 September 2021, which they can use to rebook a holiday, departing any time before 31 December 2022.\"\n\nVirgin added that customers \"may also request a refund\".\n\nMeanwhile, Jet2 said it was extending \"the suspension of flights and holidays up to and including 11 February 2021\".\n\nA spokesman said: \"For customers due to travel from 12th February onwards, we will provide another update closer to the time.\"\n\nThomas Cook, which became an online-only travel brand in September after its earlier collapse, said: \"Following the announcement of the latest lockdown, we are calling our customers to offer refunds or move their holidays to a later date.\".\n\nChief executive Alan French said: \"We've seen over the festive period that customers are looking ahead to the summer and beginning to book in earnest for those important summer weeks in the sun.\n\n\"I am sure that after many more weeks spent at home - and with the progress of the vaccine rollout - we will see an even bigger demand for people to escape to the beach this summer.\"\n\nLast month, a number of countries suspended routes to the UK due to the rapid spread of a new variant of coronavirus.\n\nThe blanket travel ban to the EU was then lifted, but with rules varying from country to country. The suspension of flights between the UK and China remains in place.\n\nLast year Tui was investigated by competition authorities after complaints that it had not given prompt refunds.\n\nBritish Airways Holidays, part of Britain's biggest airline, said it would be offering refunds if customers are no longer allowed travel.\n\nThe firm said in a statement: \"We are contacting all affected British Airways Holidays customers following the announcement of new national lockdown restrictions.\n\n\"Customers due to depart by 12 February 2021 will be offered a refund for their holiday. Our teams continue to monitor the situation and update our policy accordingly.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Keir Starmer: \"If we pull together as a nation, we can win\"\n\nSir Keir Starmer has called for a \"round the clock\" vaccination programme to tackle the rise in Covid cases.\n\nAs part of a televised speech, the Labour leader said the government needed to deliver \"millions of doses a week by the end of the month\".\n\nHe said there were \"serious questions for the government to answer\" over the timing of the lockdown in England, but Labour would support the restrictions.\n\nBoris Johnson said daily vaccination figures would be published from Monday.\n\nThe prime minister has also said the four most vulnerable groups of people across the UK should receive their first dose by mid-February.\n\nBoth the PM and Scotland's First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, have announced lockdowns this week.\n\nWales has been in a national lockdown since 20 December and Northern Ireland entered a six-week lockdown on 26 December.\n\nEngland's lockdown will become law from 00:01 GMT Wednesday and MPs will return to the Commons later that day to vote on the measures retrospectively.\n\nThe restrictions come into force as the number of new daily confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK topped 60,000 for the first time since the pandemic started.\n\nOn Tuesday, 60,914 had tested positive in the previous 24 hours and a further 830 people had died within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nIn an address to the nation on BBC One, in response to Boris Johnson's televised address on Monday, Sir Keir said the UK had reached a \"critical moment in our fight against coronavirus\".\n\nThe Labour leader said people were \"angry at the mistakes the government has made\" and ministers needed to answer questions on why they did not act sooner over locking down England.\n\nHe stressed that Labour would continue to hold the government to account, but added: \"Whatever our quarrels with the government and with the prime minister, the country now needs us to come together.\n\n\"At this darkest of moments, we need a new national effort to re-kindle the spirit of last March - to come together and to do everything possible to stay at home [and] to protect the NHS and save lives.\"\n\nSir Keir reiterated that Labour would support the new lockdown when it comes to the retrospective Commons vote on Wednesday and \"join in this national effort\".\n\nBut he called for the government to use the lockdown to establish \"a massive, immediate, and round the clock vaccination programme\" to \"deliver millions of doses a week by the end of the month in every village and town, every high street and every GP surgery\".\n\nThe Labour leader added: \"This is now a race between the virus and the vaccine and if we pull together as a nation, we can win.\n\n\"We need a new contract between the government and the British people: The country stays at home, the government delivers the vaccine.\"\n\nEarlier at a Downing Street press conference, Mr Johnson said more than 1.3 million people across the UK had now been vaccinated with either the Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines.\n\nThe figure included 23% of over-80s in England - part of a programme Mr Johnson said aimed to save \"the most lives the fastest\".\n\nThe PM said there will \"still be long weeks ahead\", but that he wanted to give \"maximum possible transparency\" about the vaccination roll-out.\n\nMore details will be announced on Thursday, with daily updates starting on Monday, \"so that you can see day by day and jab by jab how much progress we are making\", he added.\n\nAsked whether the target could be met, Chief Medical Officer for England, Professor Chris Whitty, said the timetable was \"realistic but not easy\".", "Margaret Ferrier admitted travelling back from London to Glasgow after testing positive for coronavirus\n\nScottish MP Margaret Ferrier has been arrested by police after she admitted using public transport while infected with Covid-19.\n\nMs Ferrier apologised for what she called a \"blip\" in September.\n\nShe was suspended from the SNP group at Westminster and leaders, including First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, urged her to quit as an MP over the row.\n\nPolice Scotland said she had been charged in connection with \"alleged culpable and reckless conduct\".\n\nMs Ferrier apologised in September after travelling from London to Glasgow having tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nThe Rutherglen and Hamilton West MP said she had experienced \"mild symptoms\" and taken a test, but had then decided to travel to Westminster because she was \"feeling much better\".\n\nShe then travelled home again on a train after receiving the positive test result, and said she \"deeply regretted\" her actions.\n\nA Police Scotland spokesman said: \"We can confirm that officers today arrested and charged a 60-year-old woman in connection with alleged culpable and reckless conduct.\n\n\"This follows a thorough investigation by Police Scotland into an alleged breach of coronavirus regulations between 26 and 29 September 2020.\n\n\"A report will be sent to the procurator fiscal and we are unable to comment further.\"\n\nMs Ferrier has been contacted for comment.", "Potentially life-saving cancer operations have been put on hold at a major London NHS trust because of the number of beds taken by Covid patients.\n\nKing's College Hospital Trust has cancelled all \"Priority 2\" operations - those doctors judge need to be carried out within 28 days.\n\nCancer Research UK said such cancellations did not appear to be widespread across the country.\n\nAnd surgery has not been stopped on the same scale as during the first wave.\n\nRebecca Thomas, who has had her bowel cancer surgery at King's College Hospital \"cancelled indefinitely\", told the BBC she felt like she had been left \"in limbo\".\n\nUntil she has surgery her tumour cannot be studied to see how aggressive it is, and so she won't know until then how significant this wait will turn out to be.\n\nA spokesperson for the Trust, which mainly serves patients in south London, said: \"Due to the large increase in patients being admitted with Covid-19, including those requiring intensive care, we have taken the difficult decision to postpone all elective procedures, with the exception of cases where a delay would cause immediate harm.\n\n\"A small number of cancer patients due to be operated on this week have had their surgery postponed, with patients being kept under close review by senior doctors.\"\n\nProf Neil Mortensen, President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, said he had heard from members that \"hospitals across London are having to cancel cancer surgeries as a result of the huge number of Covid-19 patients being hospitalised.\"\n\nBut it hasn't yet emerged as an issue affecting hospitals outside London.\n\nWhen Covid-19 hit last March, NHS England developed guidance on prioritising patients who needed operations, with emergency procedures that needed to be carried out within 24 hours coming first.\n\nThese life-saving operations have continued throughout the pandemic and there is no prospect of that stopping.\n\nHowever, patients in the \"priority 2\" category - who should have surgery within 28 days, to save their life or stop their disease progressing \"beyond operability\" - have found their operations being cancelled at King's.\n\nThe 28-day guideline is based on the patient's individual symptoms and the expected growth rate of their particular cancer.\n\n\"Delays further than that could have a negative impact on that person's chance of survival,\" according to Kruti Shrotri at Cancer Research UK.\n\nAnd delays in diagnosis and treatment in general can lead to worsening chances of recovery, she said.\n\nThis will vary dramatically by person and cancer type, but in some cases, a matter of a few weeks can make the difference between a cancer that can be survived or not.\n\nGenevieve Edwards, chief executive at Bowel Cancer UK, said research showed \"even a month's delay to cancer treatment can increase a person's risk of dying by up to 13% - a risk that keeps rising the longer their treatment is delayed\".\n\nWhile this was \"really concerning to hear,\" she said, \"it's not by and large something we've heard is happening widespread across the country\".\n\nThis is an improvement from the first wave of Covid-19 when the NHS had to put a near-blanket ban on non-urgent surgery.\n\nBut for those patients who are affected, this news will be \"incredibly hard,\" and Ms Shrotri stressed that patients with any symptoms that could be cancer should not put off going to see their GP.\n\n\"The NHS is open,\" she said.\n\nSurgery is most at risk because of the shortage of intensive care beds - but other forms of cancer treatment, including radiotherapy, should continue.\n\nNHS Providers, which represents hospital bosses in England, said trusts were doing all they could to \"prioritise on the basis of clinical need\".", "The number of new daily confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK has topped 60,000 for the first time since the pandemic started.\n\nAccording to government figures on Tuesday, the number of people who tested positive was 60,916.\n\nOne in 50 people in private households in England had Covid last week - and one in 30 in London, according to estimates based on the latest data.\n\nA further 830 people have also died within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nIt comes as England and Scotland announced new strict lockdowns, with people told to stay at home.\n\nAt a press conference at Downing Street on Tuesday, Boris Johnson said 1.3 million people had now been vaccinated in the UK - including 23% of over 80s in England, some 650,000 people.\n\nBut he said more than one million people were currently infected - with the number of patients in hospitals 40% higher than in the first peak.\n\nThe government's chief medical adviser Prof Chris Whitty cited the Office for National Statistics' random sampling data for England as showing how widespread the virus is.\n\n\"We're now into a situation where across the country as a whole, roughly one in 50 people have got the virus, higher in some parts of the country, lower in others,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Professor Chris Whitty: \"No evidence\" the new variant is \"more dangerous\"\n\nThe number of new daily cases has consistently been above 50,000 since 29 December.\n\nBack in the first peak of the pandemic in the spring, the number of daily confirmed cases never went above 7,000.\n\nHowever, it is thought the true number of cases then was much higher but not picked up because testing capacity was limited. It was estimated there were about 100,000 new infections a day at the end of March - but there was not the testing to detect it.\n\nHospital admissions of people with Covid-19 in England also reached another record high on Tuesday, NHS England figures show.\n\nAt a hospital in Lincolnshire, a \"critical\" incident has been declared after a sharp rise in patients requiring admission.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How NHS nurses and doctors are struggling to cope with Covid as cases continue to rise in England\n\nAnd potentially life-saving cancer operations have been put on hold at a major London NHS trust because of the number of beds taken by Covid patients.\n\nHowever, Cancer Research UK said such cancellations did not appear to be widespread across the country.\n\nIn a statement after the case numbers were released, Public Health England medical director Yvonne Doyle said the rapid rise in cases was \"highly concerning and will sadly mean yet more pressure on our health services in the depths of winter\".\n\nAfter seven consecutive days of more than 50,000 cases being confirmed, the fact that more than 60,000 have been recorded should not come as a surprise.\n\nIt will take a week, if not more, for the impact of lockdown to be felt.\n\nAnd all the evidence suggests the new variant of coronavirus, which is more transmissible than previous ones, means the impact is likely to be more limited than it was in previous ones.\n\nThe figures are also a warning about what the NHS is facing.\n\nSome of this week's infections are next week's hospital admissions.\n\nAbout three in 10 beds are now occupied by Covid patients. In some hospitals more than six in 10 are.\n\nHospitals are now busy making more spaces on their wards - that means cancelling planned work, including in some places cancer treatment.\n\nBoris Johnson and Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon both announced new lockdowns on Monday.\n\nWales has been in a national lockdown since 20 December and Northern Ireland entered a six-week lockdown on 26 December.\n\nRestrictions are also being tightened further in Northern Ireland, and an order for people to stay at home will become legally enforceable from Friday.\n\nIn a televised address to the nation, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer urged the government to use the lockdown to create a \"round the clock\" vaccination programme.\n\nHe also called on people to \"recapture the spirit\" of the beginning of the pandemic.\n\nAt the press conference on Tuesday, Mr Johnson repeated his suggestion that there is a \"prospect\" of the lockdown being eased in mid-February.\n\n\"But you will also appreciate there are a lot of caveats, a lot of ifs built into that, the most important of which is that we all now follow the guidance,\" he said.\n\nEarlier, Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove told Sky News he could not say exactly when the lockdown in England would end, but \"as we enter March we should be able to lift some of these restrictions but not necessarily all\".\n\nMr Whitty said the virus \"is not going to go away, just as flu doesn't go away, just as many other viruses don't go away\".\n\n\"We shouldn't kid ourselves that this just disappears with spring,\" he said.\n\nMr Whitty said although hopefully there would be nearly no measures needed from the spring onwards, the government might have to bring in a few restrictions next winter.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"We've now vaccinated over 1.3m people across the UK\"\n\nOn Monday the UK's chief medical officers recommended the Covid threat level be increased to five - its highest level.\n\nAlthough the new variant is now spreading more rapidly than the original version, it is not believed to be more deadly.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC's Laura Foster explains the order in which the Covid vaccine will be given", "Supermarkets' online shopping operations have come under strain with customers rushing to book deliveries as the new coronavirus lockdown began.\n\nWithin a couple of hours of Prime Minister Boris Johnson's speech to the nation on Monday, shoppers reported problems with Sainsbury's and Tesco.\n\nSainsbury's said on Tuesday that earlier it had restricted access to its online services to manage high demand.\n\nThe surge in demand echoes consumers' reaction at the start of the pandemic.\n\nSainsbury's said: \"We temporarily limited access to our groceries online service last night so that we could manage high demand for slots and updates customers were making to existing orders.\n\n\"We're continuing to monitor the situation and are sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused.\"\n\nA spokeswoman said customers should now be able to use the Sainsbury's app and website \"as usual\".\n\nAfter the first lockdown in March, supermarkets reported panic buying and a rush to book online delivery slots despite grocers insisting there would be no shortages if consumers shopped sensibly.\n\nShoppers used social media to vent their frustration on Monday, with Twitter user Auld Bryan saying: \"Ocado have already introduced their virtual queue process on their app. It's March 2020 all over again.\"\n\nAnother tweet, by Karl Dyson, said of Ocado: \"You'd think ~10 months in to this, they'd have worked on scalable infrastructure for the website?\"\n\nThere were also reports of people having problems with the Tesco app and website, including when trying to check out and complete payment.\n\nHowever, a spokesman for Britain's biggest supermarket said on Monday evening that there had been no reports from Tesco's technical department of any website problems.\n\nThe supermarket had increased the number of slots available for online delivery before the latest lockdown measures.\n\nAn email from Tesco UK boss Jason Tarry already sent to customers said: \"Since March, we have more than doubled home delivery and Click+Collect slots to 1.5 million a week, with over 760,000 vulnerable customers registered with us who are eligible for priority slots.\"\n\nUsers complained that the Sainsbury's app was down following the prime minister's announcement on Monday.\n\nTwitter user Francesca Balgobind wrote: \"What's happening with the Sainsbury's shopping app tonight? Website is down too?\"\n\nAnother social media user, Matt, said some 40 minutes after Mr Johnson had finished speaking: \"Sainsbury's app and website down\".\n\nAsda saw more demand for online shopping after the lockdown announcement, but said it had increased the number of slots available since the first two national lockdowns.\n\nMorrisons also reported a jump in the number of shoppers using its website after the announcement.\n\nHowever, despite the longer waiting queues, the grocer said it continued to have \"good slot availability\" for home deliveries.\n\nThroughout the pandemic, supermarkets have urged people to shop normally.\n\nBefore Christmas, in the run-up to the end of the Brexit transition period, some grocers reported temporary shortages of fresh goods due to congestion at UK shipping ports.", "By 8pm on Monday it felt inevitable.\n\nBut it doesn't mean that a national instruction to close the doors was automatic. Or indeed that new lockdowns in England and Scotland aren't still dramatic and painful.\n\nWith tightening up in Wales and Northern Ireland too, the spread of coronavirus this winter has been faster than governments' attempts to keep up with it - leaving leaders with little choice but to take more of our choices away.\n\nThere is much that's an echo of March. Work, school, life outside the home will be constrained in so many ways, with terrible and expensive side-effects for the economy.\n\nThis time, it's already spluttering - restrictions being turned on and off for months have starved so much trade of vital business.\n\nBut there's a lot that's different too. After so long, the public is less forgiving of the actions taken, and there is frustration particularly over last-minute changes for schools; fatigue too with having to live under such limits.\n\nBy now, Boris Johnson's opponents, inside and outside the Tory party, have plenty of evidence to suggest that he would rather put off difficult decisions.\n\nBut there is another profound change, that the prime minister was unsurprisingly keen to point out on live TV, where the UK, at the moment, has a leading reputation.\n\nVaccines exist, partly due to UK science, and are being injected into willing arms already.\n\nThe scientific triumph still needs to be turned into a logistical victory. But if around 13 million vaccines can be offered over the next six weeks, we may be on the way.\n\nOne member of the cabinet told me: \"We should do absolutely nothing but this, the vaccine - it should be the entire focus of the government; every government shoulder should be put to every government wheel.\"\n\nIt's not just the country's health and economic fortunes riding on hitting that stretching target, but the government's reputation too.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The twins' father says what they have achieved is a 'herculean achievement'\n\nConjoined twins who were expected to die within days when they were born are nearly four years later said to be settling in at their Cardiff school.\n\nMarieme and Ndeye Ndiaye were brought to the UK from Senegal in 2017 by their father Ibrahima for treatment at London's Great Ormond Street Hospital.\n\nThe girls, now four, are learning to stand and their father said their progress was \"a Herculean achievement\".\n\nTheir head teacher said the girls had made friends and were \"laughing a lot\".\n\nThe girls, who have separate hearts and spines but share a liver, bladder and digestive system, have conditions which put them at higher risk of complications from Covid.\n\nHowever, Mr Ndiaye said he had wanted them to start school for their development.\n\n\"When you look in the rear view mirror, it was an unachievable dream,\" he said.\n\n\"From now, everything ahead will be a bonus to me. My heart and soul is shouting out loud, 'Come on! Go on girls! Surprise me more!'.\"\n\nMr Ndiaye brought the girls to the UK through funding from a charitable foundation run by Senegal's first lady Marieme Faye Sall, before he sought asylum.\n\nIn March 2018, the family were moved by the Home Office to Cardiff as asylum seekers can be moved anywhere in the UK and they now have discretionary leave to remain.\n\nIn 2019, Great Ormond Street surgeons considered attempting separation but it was something Mr Ndiaye did not want because of the risks involved.\n\nThe girls have such complex circulatory systems medics now believe they would not survive being separated\n\nSince then, doctors have found the girls' circulatory systems to be more closely linked than previously thought and neither would survive without the other, making separation now impossible.\n\nThe girls' head teacher Helen Borley said they were learning well since starting reception in September and had made new friends.\n\nShe said: \"Children either say, 'I'm Marieme's friend' or 'I'm Ndeye's friend' - they don't say, 'I'm the twins' friend'. Children very much identify as being one person's friend or another - because the girls are very different characters.\n\n\"They are laughing a lot - which is always a good sign, isn't it? Any child that is laughing a lot is a happy child.\"\n\nMarieme receives oxygen from Ndeye's stronger heart and food via their linked stomachs\n\nFor the twins, school needs to fit around hospital visits.\n\nIn October, the girls needed surgery at Great Ormond Street Hospital.\n\nDr Gillian Body, a paediatric consultant at the Children's Hospital for Wales in Cardiff, said the procedure was important, despite the risks.\n\nShe said: \"The girls have complex anatomies and that makes them prone to infections and potentially sepsis.\n\n\"One of the challenges we had was getting antibiotics into them quickly, and this tube or cannula they've had fitted, means we can get them into them more quickly with less distress to the girls.\"\n\nThe girls have been experiencing the feeling of standing, at children's hospice Ty Hafan\n\nShe said Marieme's heart was complex with lots of abnormalities that cause her problems with doing exercise and can lead to breathlessness.\n\nAt children's' hospice Ty Hafan in Sully, Vale of Glamorgan, the girls have been learning what it feels like to stand.\n\nA special frame gives them the experience of being upright, helping build strength in their legs.\n\nPhysiotherapist Sara Wade-West said it had been hard for them.\n\n\"It's a really different sensation when you're used to being sat down, to be upright can be scary,\" she said.\n\n\"To start with, particularly Ndeye wasn't very keen. We try and sneak the therapy in around the play, encouraging them to reach for toys to make them work a bit harder, but if they know it's therapy it's not so fun.\n\n\"Because of their cardiac function we can't push them too much so it's finding that balance - challenging them to get stronger but not exhausting them.\"\n\nThe twins' father Ibrahima Ndiaye said they were his \"warriors\"\n\nWatching his daughters stand is more than just a breakthrough for their father.\n\n\"They are showing that they don't only want to live, but be active and play their part in society,\" he said.\n\n\"All these achievements bring light and hopes for the future. But I know how fragile, complex and unpredictable their lives can be.\"\n\nMr Ndiaye said his hopes were \"parallel to my fears\" as the girls had \"so many times come close to the worst\".\n\n\"But the very least I can do for the girls is figure out my hopes for them,\" he said.\n\n\"The most I can do is to be beside them and live inside that hope and never allow anything to take that hope away.\n\n\"They are my warriors. They have proved they will never surrender without fighting. It is not yet over.\"", "Former Bond actress and Charlie's Angel Tanya Roberts has died in hospital in Los Angeles at the age of 65.\n\nRoberts appeared with Sir Roger Moore in his final Bond film, 1985's A View To A Kill, and had a recurring role in That '70s Show.\n\nShe also starred in the final series of Charlie's Angels on TV in 1980.\n\nHer death was prematurely announced on Monday, only for doctors to say she was still alive. However, her death was then confirmed on Tuesday.\n\nRoberts had collapsed while walking her dogs on 24 December and was admitted to Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre.\n\nHer partner Lance O'Brien mistakenly thought she had died on Sunday after visiting her in hospital. After getting a call from doctors to say she was deteriorating quickly, he went to her bedside, her eyes closed and she \"faded\", TMZ reported.\n\nDevastated, he walked out of the room and then the hospital without speaking to medical staff before informing Roberts' agent that he had \"just said goodbye to Tanya\".\n\nBut while being interviewed for US TV show Inside Edition on Monday, Mr O'Brien got a call from the hospital to say she was alive.\n\nThe moment was captured on film, as he picked up his phone and said: \"Now you're telling me she's alive? Thank the Lord.\" However, she died on Monday night.\n\nShe appeared in A View To A Kill alongside Sir Roger Moore and singer Grace Jones\n\nBorn Victoria Leigh Blum in 1955, Roberts grew up in New York before moving to Hollywood in 1977.\n\nHer big break came when she replaced Shelly Hack in Charlie's Angels, joining Jaclyn Smith and Cheryl Ladd as third 'Angel' Julie.\n\nAfter the show's cancellation, she appeared in such fantasy adventure films as The Beastmaster and Hearts and Armour.\n\nShe also played comic book heroine Sheena in a 1984 film that saw her nominated for a Golden Raspberry award for worst actress.\n\nRoberts received another Razzie nomination for her role as geologist Stacey Sutton in 1985 Bond film A View to a Kill.\n\nRoberts in the title role in Sheena: Queen of the Jungle\n\nShe admitted being \"a little cautious\" about taking the role, but said it would have been \"ridiculous\" to have turned it down.\n\nRoberts' subsequent films included Night Eyes and Inner Sanctum, erotic thrillers that did little to advance her career.\n\nShe went on to play Midge Pinciotti in more than 80 episodes of That '70s Show between 1998 and 2004.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Last updated on .From the section Man City\n\nManchester City legend Colin Bell has died, aged 74, after a short illness, the Premier League club have announced.\n\nThe former England midfielder made 501 appearances for City between 1966 and 1979, scoring 153 goals. He won 48 caps for his country.\n\n\"Few players have left such an indelible mark on City,\" said a club statement on Tuesday.\n\nIn 2004, Manchester City fans voted to name one of the stands at Etihad Stadium in Bell's honour.\n\n\"Colin Bell will always be remembered as one of Manchester City's greatest players and the very sad news today of his passing will affect everybody connected to our club,\" said City chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak.\n\n\"I am fortunate to be able to speak regularly to his former manager and team-mates, and it's clear to me that Colin was a player held in the highest regard by all those who had the privilege of playing alongside him or seeing him play.\n\n\"The passage of time does little to erase the memories of his genius.\"\n• None 'Bell will always be king of Man City' - tributes paid after death of club great\n\nAfter starting his career at Bury, Bell moved to Manchester City - then in the second tier - midway through the 1965-66 season in a £47,500 deal.\n\nHe helped Joe Mercer's team win promotion that season and was instrumental in the Blues winning the First Division title two years later.\n\nDuring his 13 years as a player at Maine Road, he also won the FA Cup, League Cup and Cup Winners' Cup.\n\nHowever, his career was hampered by a serious knee injury he suffered in a League Cup tie against Manchester United in November 1975, when he was 29.\n\nAfter making a comeback later that season, he was injured again against Arsenal and out for another 18 months.\n\nBell regained fitness and received an emotional ovation on his return at Maine Road on 26 December 1977.\n\nHowever, he did not have the same freedom and mobility as he had done and played only a handful more games.\n\nBell finished his career with a brief spell in the United States playing for San Jose Earthquakes.\n\nIn 2004, he was awarded an MBE for his services to football and remained a regular presence at City games in recent seasons.\n\n'De Bruyne reminds me a lot of Colin' - tributes pour in for the 'King of the Kippax'\n\nFormer City team-mate Mike Summerbee, who was part of their 'Holy Trinity' alongside Bell and Francis Lee in the 1960s and 1970s, described Bell as \"just the greatest footballer\" the club has had.\n\n\"Colin was a lovely, humble man. He was a huge star for Manchester City but you would never have known it,\" said ex-forward Summerbee, 78.\n\n\"He was quiet, unassuming and I always believe he never knew how good he actually was.\n\n\"[Current City midfielder] Kevin de Bruyne reminds me a lot of Colin in the way he plays and the way he is as a person.\"\n\nFormer England forward Lee says he thinks the knee injury curtailed Bell's career \"by a good four or five years\".\n\n\"Colin had tremendous stamina. He was a very good player technically and had the ability to score goals,\" said Lee, 76.\n\n\"He goes into the top five City players of all time - only in the last 10, 15 years has anyone else come along who can take that mantle.\"\n\nSummerbee and Lee were among a number of former and current City players to pay tribute to Bell, along with celebrity fans including former Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher.\n\nBell would \"always have a smile\" and \"meet and greet everyone\" he knew, said former City midfielder Michael Brown.\n\n\"He's done lots of charity work and always tried to help people,\" added Brown, who first met Bell as a youngster having come up through City's academy.\n\n\"It's a huge loss. To have done so much and be so low key was admirable.\"\n\nEx-City defender Micah Richards said Bell was \"one of the nicest men ever\", while their former full-back Pablo Zabaleta added he was \"absolutely devastated\" by the news.\n\nFormer England striker Gary Lineker said Bell was one of his favourite players when he was growing up.\n\n\"Terrific box to box midfielder. A real gem for Manchester City and England,\" added the Match of the Day host.\n\nThe Times' chief football writer Henry Winter said Bell \"oozed class, skill and glamour\" as he was \"flowing across rutted pitches, taking people on, creating and scoring\".", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "YouTube has reinstated TalkRadio's channel on its platform hours after saying it had been \"terminated\" for breaking the tech firm's rules.\n\nIt said the broadcaster had posted material that contradicted expert advice about the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nBut it explained its U-turn saying it sometimes made exceptions to guidelines that state repeat offenders face a permanent ban.\n\nTalkRadio said it had yet to be given a full explanation for the affair.\n\nThe decision to ban TalkRadio had appalled digital rights campaigners, with one group - Big Brother Watch - claiming it was evidence that \"big tech censorship is spiralling out of control\".\n\nThe Google-owned service has issued a brief statement explaining its actions.\n\n\"TalkRadio's YouTube channel was briefly suspended, but upon further review, has now been reinstated,\" it said.\n\n\"We quickly remove flagged content that violate our community guidelines, including Covid-19 content that explicitly contradict expert consensus from local health authorities or the World Health Organization. We make exceptions for material posted with an educational, documentary, scientific or artistic purpose, as was deemed in this case.\"\n\nYouTube has not published details of the offending posts.\n\nBut independent fact-checkers have repeatedly challenged some of the claims made by interviewees featured by the London-based radio station.\n\nYouTube operates a \"three strikes\" policy, whereby channels that break its community guidelines three times within a 90-day period can be permanently banned, but other infractions lead to temporary restrictions.\n\nProhibited content includes \"medically unsubstantiated claims\" relating to Covid-19, and videos that contradict expert consensus from local health authorities such as the NHS.\n\n\"YouTube is making decisions about which opinions the public are allowed to hear, even when they are sourced to responsible and regulated new providers,\" TalkRadio said in a statement this evening.\n\n\"This sets a dangerous precedent and is censorship of free speech and legitimate national debate.\"\n\nThe broadcaster tweeted the statement minutes after YouTube's change of heart. It did not appear to be aware that its channel had been reinstated at the time, but has since acknowledged the move.\n\nTalkRadio has about 424,000 listeners, according to the latest figures from market research provider Rajar.\n\nIt uses YouTube as a means to livestream shows from its studios and to provide an archive of past broadcasts.\n\nIts channel on the platform has 242,000 subscribers.\n\nYouTube's action had meant that TalkRadio's website had featured articles featuring broken embedded clips for most of the day, and that users who had shared its clips would have been unable to view them.\n\nThe US firm has previously imposed a permanent ban against conspiracy theorist David Icke, and a one-week video suspension of right-wing outlet One America News Network's ability to publish new clips - in both cases for breaches of its Covid rules.\n\nIt's pretty clear something has gone wrong at YouTube in the last 24 hours.\n\nIt appeared as though TalkRadio had been banned for good on YouTube - or \"terminated\" as the company put it.\n\nYouTube is now saying it was a short suspension, which certainly seems like a backtrack.\n\nEven now, it's not obvious what the offending material was that caused this action. The whole process reinforces the idea that YouTube's moderation policies - where it draws the line between freedom of expression and clamping down on misinformation - can be messy and inconsistent.\n\nAnd when YouTube takes such an action without giving full details, it rains controversy down on its own head.\n\nThis plays to a broader movement by YouTube and other social media companies to take a harder line on disinformation.\n\nJoe Biden is about to become US President - and he wants social media companies to do more to remove fake news.\n\nBut as they are increasingly finding out, refereeing their own platforms can be hugely difficult, and this highlights the need for greater transparency about moderation decisions.", "Last updated on .From the section Celtic\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says Celtic have questions to answer about their trip to Dubai.\n\nMs Sturgeon says possible breaches of social distancing rules while in the Middle East \"should be looked into\".\n\nHowever, Celtic insist the training camp was approved by the Scottish government, while the Scottish FA have no plans to investigate the trip.\n\n\"For me, the question for Celtic is what is the purpose of them being there,\" Ms Sturgeon said.\n\n\"I've seen comments from the club that it's more for R&R than training.\n\n\"I have also seen some photographs - and I don't know the full circumstances - that would raise a question in my mind about whether all the rules elite players have to follow in their bubble around social distancing are being complied with.\"\n\nPictures have emerged of members of the Celtic party in the UAE not wearing face masks and potentially breaching the social distancing rules that those in Scottish football must adhere to.\n\nIt remains unclear if the Scottish FA will investigate that matter.\n\nCeltic travelled to the United Arab Emirates on Saturday just hours after their 1-0 defeat by Rangers.\n\nTravellers returning from the UAE are exempt from self-isolation protocols in Scotland, with elite athletes in Scotland permitted to travel abroad to compete.\n\n\"Elite sport has been in a privileged position and as long as that is the case it's really important they don't abuse it,\" said Ms Sturgeon at her daily coronavirus briefing on Tuesday.\n\n\"I saw their [Celtic's] statement and have not spent a lot of time looking into it, but as I understand it the government gave advice to the Scottish FA about the rules around training camps in November.\n\n\"The world has changed quite a bit since then but it's not our role to sign off what a club does around these training camps.\n\n\"The rules may have to change, but they were that elite sportspeople and teams can go overseas if it is important in the context of training and competitions.\"\n\nMainland Scotland has been in Tier 4 - the highest level of restrictions - since 26 December, and Ms Sturgeon addressed the nation on Monday ordering people to stay at home where possible.\n\nDeputy first minister John Swinney has accused Celtic of not setting \"a particularly great example\".\n\n\"I don't think it's a good idea,\" he told BBC Radio Scotland on Monday.\n\n\"When we are asking members of the public to take on very, very significant restrictions on the way in which they live their lives, I think we have all got to demonstrate leadership on this particular question.\"\n\nWhen approached for comment on Monday, a Celtic spokesman told BBC Scotland: \"The training camp was arranged a number of months ago and approved by all relevant footballing authorities and the Scottish government through the Joint Response Group on 12 November.\n\n\"The team travelled prior to any new lockdown being in place, to a location exempt from travel restrictions. The camp, the same one as we have undertaken for a number of years, has been fully risk assessed.\n\n\"If the club had not received Scottish government approval, then we would not have travelled.\"\n\nIn November, Celtic requested their fixture with Hibernian, originally scheduled for this weekend, be moved to Monday, 11 January to accommodate the trip.\n\nThe SPFL granted the change, despite objections from the Easter Road side.", "Stationery chain Paperchase is on the brink of administration after most of its stores were forced to close over the Christmas period.\n\nThe firm has filed a notice to appoint administrators, a move that will give it breathing space from its creditors while it works out a rescue plan.\n\nThe company has 127 stores and about 1,500 employees.\n\nThe second lockdown in November came at a crucial period for the firm, which makes a high proportion of sales then.\n\nJust under half its sales, 40%, come from trade in November and December.\n\nPaperchase said: \"The cumulative effects of lockdown one, lockdown two - at the start of the Christmas shopping period - and now the current restrictions have put unbearable strain on retail businesses across the country.\"\n\nThe company went through an insolvency process, known as a Company Voluntary Arrangement or CVA, almost two years ago to cut costs.\n\nThe chain now has 10 working days to find a solution.\n\nPaperchase said its strong online trading had not made it \"immune\" from the impact of shop closures across the country.\n\n\"Out of lockdown we've traded well, but as the country faces further restrictions for some months to come, we have to find a sustainable future for Paperchase,\" it added.\n\n\"We are working hard to find that solution and this [notice of administration] is a necessary part of this work. This is not the situation we wanted to be in.\n\nThe chain is the latest of a string of high-profile retailers to hit trouble in the past year.\n\nThe sector was already battling with the shift to online sales, coupled with rising costs, including rents and higher minimum wages.\n\nCoronavirus restrictions which shut non-essential shops piled on the pressure.\n\nOthers that have run into trouble recently include Debenhams, which last month said it would cease trading putting 12,000 jobs at risk. Arcadia Group, which owns Topshop and Dorothy Perkins, has also gone into administration, putting a further 13,000 jobs at risk.\n\nMeanwhile, Edinburgh Woollen Mills' brands Peacocks and Jaeger also fell into administration in November, putting 21,000 jobs at risk.\n\nAnd earlier last year, Oasis and Warehouse fell into administration in mid-April after failing to find buyers, and online fashion group Boohoo said in June it was buying the brands but closing all stores.", "Doctors' leaders have called for urgent improvements in personal protective equipment for health workers.\n\nThe British Medical Association is appealing for a higher grade of face mask to guard against coronavirus infection.\n\nIt says there is 'growing evidence' that the virus is being spread through the air by aerosols.\n\nThese are tiny virus particles that can build up in stuffy rooms and they have been linked to outbreaks of Covid-19.\n\nThis follows an open letter from more than 1,500 health professionals for staff on general wards to be given the type of high-quality masks usually only worn in intensive care units.\n\nPublic Health England (PHE) has issued guidance on what PPE staff in different settings require. It was last updated in October 2020.\n\nEarly in the pandemic, it was widely believed that to catch the disease you had to either be close to an infected person and hit by droplets from their coughs or sneezes or touch a surface they had contaminated.\n\nBut research during the course of last year highlighted how it is also possible for the virus to be carried in what are called aerosols, drifting and accumulating in the air.\n\nMost infections are thought to have occurred indoors in badly ventilated rooms, and many studies have shown that the 'airborne route' can be an important factor.\n\nAcross the UK, the guidance for hospital staff is to wear surgical masks in most areas.\n\nMore sophisticated masks - a type known as FFP3 that includes an air filter - are only required in intensive care or when certain procedures are carried out that are known to generate aerosols.\n\nIn their letter, the consultants, doctors and nurses say healthcare workers are three to four times more likely to become infected than the general population.\n\nBut they point out that staff in intensive care units, who have the best level of protection, have about half the risk of catching the virus than colleagues on general wards.\n\nThe letter states: \"It is now essential that healthcare workers have their PPE upgraded to protect against airborne transmission\".\n\nBarry McAree, a consultant surgeon in Northern Ireland, is one of many healthcare workers to be ill with Covid.\n\nHe is self-isolating at home right after his testing positive for the second time.\n\nA signatory to the letter, he says his hospital in Antrim followed the guidance about which type of masks should be worn in which areas, but he became infected nonetheless. It is not clear how and when he caught it.\n\n\"There's so much evidence that we are talking about an airborne infection that it has to be said that it is not appropriate just to wear FFP3 in environments when aerosol generating procedures take place.\"\n\nHe believes that with such high levels of the virus in the community and in hospitals, staff should be wearing the higher-grade masks whenever they're close to patients.\n\nSurgical masks can be bought online for about 10p each, while the FFP3 masks are far more expensive about £5.00.\n\nDr Barry Jones, a retired gastroenterologist and leading expert on aerosols, says that's nothing compared to the cost of a patient with Covid,\n\nHe points to data showing that roughly a fifth of people needing hospital treatment for Covid may have acquired the infection in hospital in the first place.\n\n\"We should do everything we can to reduce that possibility - it's the air we share that's killing us.\"\n\nA few hospitals have decided to break with official guidance.\n\nIt's understood that hospitals in Cambridge, Plymouth and Exeter have decided to equip staff with FFP3 masks if they face patients diagnosed with Covid or suspected of having it.\n\nOne consultant, who did not want to be named, said: \"When you realise patients are more infectious at an earlier stage of disease and are presenting at general wards with poorer ventilation than intensive care units and staff are wearing a poorer quality of PPE, you really want those in a position of leadership to listen and to act.\"\n\nRCN General Secretary Dame Donna Kinnair, said: \"Without delay, they must state whether existing PPE guidance is adequate for the new variant.\n\n\"While more research is carried out, we ask for the precautionary principle to be applied and staff to be given a higher level of PPE if working with suspected or confirmed cases.\"\n\nPublic Health England said this was a matter for NHS England to comment on.\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said: \"The safety of NHS and social care staff has always been our top priority and we continue to work tirelessly to deliver PPE that protects those on the frontline.\n\n\"UK guidance on the safest levels of PPE is written by experts and agreed by all four chief medical officers. Our guidance is kept under constant review based on the latest evidence and data.\n\n\"Emerging evidence and data, including on variant strains, will be continually monitored and reviewed, and the guidance updated accordingly if needed.\"", "Adamo Canto had worked as a catering assistant at the palace's Royal Mews since 2015\n\nA Buckingham Palace catering assistant who stole medals and photographs from the Queen's residence has been jailed.\n\nAdamo Canto, 37, stole items including signed photos of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and a photo album of US President Donald Trump's UK visit.\n\nPolice said some of the goods, worth between £10,000 and £100,000, had been listed for sale on eBay.\n\nCanto, from Scarborough, North Yorkshire, was jailed for eight months after he admitted stealing the items.\n\nSouthwark Crown Court heard police recovered a \"significant quantity\" of stolen items when they searched his quarters at the palace's Royal Mews, where he had worked as a catering assistant since 2015.\n\nCanto stole an album of photos from US President Donald Trump's visit to the UK\n\nA total of 37 items were offered for sale \"well under\" their true value, with Canto making £7,741.\n\nOne item was a photo album of US President Donald Trump's visit to the UK, worth £1,500.\n\nCanto also took official signed photographs of the Duke of Sussex and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.\n\nSome 77 items were taken from the palace shop, while others were stolen from staff lockers, the Queen's Gallery shop and the Duke of York's storeroom.\n\nCanto also admitted stealing a Companion of Bath medal belonging to the Master of the Household, which was sold online for £350, and a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order medal from the locker of former British Army officer Maj Gen Richard Sykes.\n\nCanto pleaded guilty to three counts of theft by an employee at a hearing in November and was jailed on Monday.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Vocational exams, including BTEcs, are to go ahead this month in England - despite calls for them to be cancelled alongside GCSEs and A-levels.\n\n\"Schools and colleges can continue with the vocational and technical exams that are due to take place in January, where they judge it right to do so,\" said a Department for Education spokeswoman.\n\nFurther education college leaders had complained this was unfair to students.\n\nThey said students would face \"stress\" from taking exams in the lockdown.\n\nThe Association of Colleges warned the decision, giving schools and colleges the option on whether to carry on with BTecs, would create more confusion.\n\nChief executive David Hughes said some colleges would cancel exams and others would continue - but without any clarity about what would happen to \"students in colleges which do cancel for safety reasons\".\n\n\"A national decision would have allowed for more fairness,\" said Mr Hughes.\n\nThe announcement from the Department for Education has left it open for schools and colleges to decide whether to go ahead with vocational and technical exams.\n\n\"Schools and colleges have already implemented extensive protective measures to make them as safe as possible,\" said the DFE's spokeswoman.\n\nThe Department for Education said it recognised \"this is a difficult time\" but wanted to allow students who had prepared for exams and assessments to continue, including those who needed to take hands-on practical tests for qualifications for jobs.\n\nA joint statement from the mayors of Manchester and Liverpool said it was wrong to go ahead with these vocational exams when other academic exams had been cancelled.\n\n\"It is unfair to ask these students to go into colleges when everyone else is being told to stay at home.\n\n\"This will cause unnecessary anxiety and concern just when they need to be able to focus,\" said the statement from Andy Burnham and Steve Rotheram.\n\nThe mayors highlighted that students taking BTecs were more likely to be from \"working-class backgrounds and ethnic minority communities\" and they should not be treated any less well than those following an \"academic route\" in exams.\n\nHow will you be affected by the latest developments? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Khairi Saadallah admitted three counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder\n\nA man who stabbed three people to death in a Reading park believed he was carrying out \"an act of religious jihad\", a court has heard.\n\nKhairi Saadallah, 26, stabbed to death James Furlong, 36, David Wails, 49, and Joseph Ritchie-Bennett, 39, during the attack in Forbury Gardens in June.\n\nAs part of his sentencing, a hearing will decide if he was motivated by a religious or ideological cause.\n\nThe prosecution claim the stabbing spree was a terror attack.\n\nSaadallah has admitted three counts of murder and attempted murder, but denies he was motivated by an ideology.\n\nProsecutor Alison Morgan QC told the court he \"executed\" his victims and intended to \"kill as many people as he could\" in the name of violent jihad.\n\nShe said: \"In less than a minute, shouting Allahu Akhbar the defendant carried out a lethal attack with a knife, killing all three men before they had a chance to respond and try to defend themselves.\n\n\"Within the same minute, the defendant went on to attack others nearby, stabbing three more people, Stephen Young, Patrick Edwards and Nishit Nisudan, causing them significant injuries.\"\n\nThe court was shown CCTV footage of Saadallah in Morrisons buying the knife he used in the attack\n\nSaadallah was captured on CCTV leaving his flat on the day of the attack\n\nStating the prosecution's case she said the attack was \"carefully planned and executed\" by the defendant with \"determination and precision\".\n\nShe added: \"The defendant believed that in carrying out this attack he was acting in pursuit of his extreme ideology, an ideology he appears to have held for some time.\n\n\"He believed that in killing as many people as possible that day he was performing an act of religious jihad.\"\n\nAfter the attack Sadallah fled but was chased down by police, and later admitted the attacks in his cell, the court heard.\n\nIn interviews with police he \"howled like a dog\" and claimed to have magic powers, which the prosecution said was a \"disingenuous\" attempt to suggest he had a mental disorder.\n\n\"After a careful period of assessment and treatment at Belmarsh prison, it is clear that he does not have a major mental illness\", a report by a psychiatrist read out in court said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A friend of the victims, Michael Main, said: \"They were always happy\"\n\nSaadallah arrived in the UK as an asylum seeker in 2012, having fled the civil war in his home country of Libya in North Africa.\n\nThe court heard the defendant, who had been refused asylum, had been involved with militias as part of the uprising against Muammar Gaddafi.\n\nBetween 2013 and 2020 he was repeatedly arrested and convicted of various offences in the UK.\n\nWhile in HMP Bullingdon, Saadallah was observed to be keen to interact with radical preacher Omar Brooks - associated with banned terror group Al-Muhajiroun - who was also at the jail at the time, the court heard. He was released from the prison in June, days before the attack.\n\nSaadallah had been due to be deported, but was told by the government circumstances in Libya at the time were a \"legal barrier\".\n\nThe court was told he had also searched on the internet \"how to disappear with magic\" and accessed a website with the flag associated with Islamic State.\n\nA probation officer who had contact with Saadallah flagged his concerns about his mental health, but a psychiatrist has since concluded the attack on June 20 was \"unrelated to the effects of either mental disorder or substance misuse\".\n\nSaadallah, of Basingstoke Road in Reading, launched his attack as people enjoyed a summer Saturday evening in Forbury Gardens on 20 June.\n\nEyewitnesses said he walked along a footpath when he suddenly ran towards a group of men sitting on the grass.\n\nHistory teacher Mr Furlong and Mr Ritchie-Bennett, a US citizen, were both stabbed once in the neck, while scientist Mr Wails was stabbed in the back.\n\nAll three were pronounced dead at the scene.\n\nThree others - their friend Stephen Young, as well as Patrick Edwards and Nishit Nisudan, who were sitting in a nearby group - were also injured by Saadallah.\n\nThe sentencing before Mr Justice Sweeney is expected to conclude on January 11.\n\nFloral tributes were left near the entrance to the park where the men were killed\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Zara Holland appeared on the second series of Love Island\n\nLove Island star Zara Holland is to be prosecuted for allegedly breaking Covid rules on holiday in Barbados.\n\nIsland police say the former Miss Great Britain is expected to appear in court on Wednesday, accused of \"breaching quarantine\".\n\nStation Sergeant Michael Blackman told Newsbeat she was \"intercepted\" at the airport and later presented herself at a police station.\n\nIt's not clear whether she will appear in court in person or by video link.\n\nAn apology from the 25-year-old for what she described as \"a massive mix-up and misunderstanding\" was published by the Barbados Today website.\n\nShe told the publication: \"I have been a guest of this lovely island in excess of 20 years and would never do anything to jeopardise an entire nation that I have nothing but love and respect for and which has treated me as a family.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nEveryone in England must stay at home except for permitted reasons during a new coronavirus lockdown expected to last until mid-February, the PM says.\n\nAll schools and colleges will close to most pupils and switch to remote learning from Tuesday.\n\nBoris Johnson warned the coming weeks would be the \"hardest yet\" amid surging cases and patient numbers.\n\nHe said those in the top four priority groups would be offered a first vaccine dose by the middle of next month.\n\nAll care home residents and their carers, everyone aged 70 and over, all frontline health and social care workers, and the clinically extremely vulnerable will be offered one dose of a vaccine by mid-February.\n\nSchools in Northern Ireland will have an \"extended period of remote learning\", the Stormont Executive said.\n\nSpeaking from Downing Street, Mr Johnson told the public to follow the new lockdown rules immediately, before they become law in the early hours of Wednesday.\n\nAll the new measures in England will then last until at least the middle of February, he said, as a new more infectious variant of the virus spreads across the UK.\n\nThe PM added that he believed the country was entering \"the last phase of the struggle\".\n\nHospitals were under \"more pressure from Covid than at any time since the start of the pandemic\", he said.\n\nAnd he reiterated the slogan used earlier in the pandemic, urging people to immediately \"stay at home, protect the NHS and save lives\".\n\nOn Monday, the UK recorded more than 50,000 new confirmed Covid cases for the seventh day in a row.\n\nA further 58,784 cases and an additional 407 deaths within 28 days of a positive test result were reported, though deaths in Scotland were not recorded.\n\nAs of 08:00 GMT, there were 26,626 Covid-19 patients in hospital in England, according to the latest figures.\n\nThis is a week-on-week increase of 30%, and a new record high.\n\nThose who are clinically extremely vulnerable will be contacted by letter and should now shield once more, Mr Johnson said.\n\nSupport and childcare bubbles will continue under the new measures - and people can meet one person from another household for outdoor exercise.\n\nCommunal worship and life events like funerals and weddings can continue, subject to limits on attendance.\n\nWhile Mr Johnson said end-of-year exams would not take place as normal in the summer, he said alternative arrangements would be announced separately.\n\nThe government has published a 22-page document outlining the new rules in detail.\n\nThe House of Commons has been recalled to allow MPs to vote on the new restrictions on Wednesday.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said his MPs would \"support the package of measures\", saying \"we've all got to pull together now to make this work\".\n\nOnce again it is the threat to the NHS that has forced the hand of ministers.\n\nIn England there has been a 50% rise in the number of patients in hospital with Covid since Christmas day.\n\nTo put that into context, it equates to 18 hospitals being filled.\n\nCurrently around three out of 10 beds are occupied by patients with the disease.\n\nIn some hospitals it is more than six in 10.\n\nBut what is worrying ministers and NHS leaders is that the number is just going to increase.\n\nIn the spring it took nearly three weeks after lockdown for hospital cases to peak.\n\nThe last six days have seen in excess of 50,000 new infections confirmed each day across the UK - a number of these infections are next week's hospital admissions.\n\nIt is why the UK's chief medical officers were warning there was a \"material risk\" of some hospitals being overwhelmed if something did not change.\n\nMr Johnson spoke after UK chief medical officers recommended the Covid threat level be increased to five - its highest level.\n\nLevel five means the NHS may soon be unable to handle a further sustained rise in cases, the medical officers said in a joint statement.\n\nNHS Providers, which represents health service trusts, said hospitals were at a \"critical point\" and that \"immediate and decisive action\" was needed.\n\nAnnouncing tougher measures in Scotland, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said: \"It is no exaggeration to say that I am more concerned about the situation we face now than I have been at any time since March last year.\"\n\nFor pupils who returned for their first day of the new term at primary school on Monday, it's turned out to be an extremely short-lived visit.\n\nBoris Johnson's announcement will see primary, secondary and further education colleges closed for at least the next six weeks, except for vulnerable and key workers' children.\n\nIt's a much bigger shift in policy than had been anticipated, even a few days ago.\n\nEven the return date will depend on the progress in tackling the virus.\n\n\"I hope we can steadily move out of lockdown, reopening schools after the February half term,\" said the prime minister.\n\nKeeping schools open was the government's most definite of red lines, a few weeks ago they were threatening councils that wanted to close them - but it's now been overtaken by the spiking lines on the Covid infection charts.\n\nEven after the chaos of last year's replacement grades, GCSEs and A-levels are being cancelled again - with a replacement system still to be decided. Vocational exams are to continue.\n\nFor parents dreading home schooling, there are plans for it to be better supported this time - with more computer devices available and suggestions that Ofsted inspectors will check what schools are offering.\n\nBut there's no escaping that this will feel like another sudden and chaotic change of direction for schools and parents.\n\nMr Johnson's pledge on vaccinations comes after an 82-year-old retired maintenance manager became the first person in the UK to receive the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 jab\n\nSome 13.9 million people are among the four priority groups who will receive a vaccine dose by about 15 February, vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC's Laura Foster explains the order in which the Covid vaccine will be given\n\nHow will you be affected by the latest developments? What questions do you have? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "First Minister Arlene Foster and Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill met throughout Monday\n\nThere will be an extended period of remote learning for schools in Northern Ireland, the executive has said.\n\nMinisters met on Monday night as other parts of the UK tightened their coronavirus restrictions.\n\nThe Stormont executive also plans to give its stay at home guidance legal force, with new restrictions on travel.\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said details would be formalised on Tuesday.\n\nThe health and education ministers will bring separate papers on the issues to the executive at the meeting, she added.\n\nNorthern Ireland's Education Minister Peter Weir had previously announced a staggered return to school for pupils during the month of January.\n\nThe first transfer test, used by many grammar schools to select pupils, is due to take place on Saturday but there have been calls from some teaching unions and political parties for the test to be cancelled this year, in light of the uncertainty with the pandemic.\n\nIn England, all schools and colleges will close to most pupils and switch to remote learning until the middle of February, and end-of-year exams will not take place this summer as normal.\n\nRecommendations on exams in Northern Ireland are also expected to be brought forward by the executive on Tuesday.\n\nIt is understood ministers will update the assembly on Wednesday about their decisions.\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster said the new restrictions were unfortunate, but necessary.\n\nShe said she believed the stay-at-home message will be in place \"for the rest of January, probably into February\".\n\n\"We will of course review it, as we're legally bound to do every couple of weeks.\"\n\nShe added that ministers would \"much prefer\" for face-to-face education to continue, but said they had to \"take into account the very serious situation that we find ourselves in tonight.\"\n\nBoth organisations which organise transfer tests will be making announcements on Tuesday, she said.\n\n\"We'll wait to hear what they have to say. They do of course have to abide by public health advice, but they are private organisations and they will make their own announcements.\"\n\nThe Irish government is considering a proposal to close schools for the rest of January.\n\nOn Monday, the Department of Health reported that a further 1,801 people had tested positive for the virus in the past 24 hours.\n\nThere have also been 12 more Covid-19 related deaths.\n\nThese latest figures from the Department of Health bring the total number of deaths to 1,366, while 79,873 people have tested positive for the virus since the pandemic started.\n\nMore than 12,000 cases have been reported in the past seven days, more than double the week before.\n\nThe seven-day rate per 100,000 people is now 660 positive cases, compared to 200 per 100,000 two weeks ago.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland on Monday, an additional 6,110 confirmed cases of Covid-19 were announced, with six further deaths linked to the virus.\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has already announced a fresh lockdown there from midnight, with schools closed until February.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio Ulster's Evening Extra programme, Dr Michael McBride said Scotland's measures were \"prudent and sensible\".\n\nMeanwhile, the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine rollout has begun in Northern Ireland.\n\nUp to 11,000 people aged over 80 across Northern Ireland are set to receive the this week, with some of the first doses delivered at a GP surgery on the Falls Road in West Belfast on Monday afternoon.\n\nUp to 11,000 people aged over 80 across Northern Ireland are set to receive the Oxford-AstraZeneca\n\nThe SDLP has called for the assembly to be recalled on Tuesday to discuss the rolling out of the vaccine.\n\nIt can be recalled if at least 30 MLAs sign a petition.\n\nOn Monday, Justice Minister Naomi Long welcomed the opening of Northern Ireland's first Nightingale venue, which will be used for courts and tribunals business.\n\nThe facility was approved by a meeting of the executive on 17 December, and will sit in the International Convention Centre in Belfast (ICC).\n\nActivity at the centre will be phased in, in line with Covid-19 regulations.\n\nIn other coronavirus-related developments on Monday:", "The 90,000 sq ft store is a familiar sight for commuters coming out of Oxford Circus Tube station\n\nThe building that houses Topshop's Oxford Street store is up for sale.\n\nThe High Street chain's owner Arcadia went into administration in November, putting 13,000 jobs at risk.\n\nNews of the sale of the three-storey building has prompted an outpouring of emotion on social media, with shoppers recounting how important the flagship store is to them.\n\nThe store, which boasted a DJ booth, nail bar and food stalls, was a retail sensation when it opened in 1994.\n\nHuge crowds gathered at the store for the launch of Kate Moss's Topshop collection in 2014\n\nArcadia - which owns Topshop, Miss Selfridge and Dorothy Perkins - entered administration on 30 November\n\nThe sale of 214 Oxford Street, managed by agents Savills and Eastdil, follows the failure of Sir Philip Green's retail empire to secure funding to pay its debts after sales slumped during the pandemic.\n\nThe Oxford Street building also houses Nike and Vans stores.\n\nArcadia said that although it was in administration, and so all its assets are to be sold, that did not mean the shops in the building would have to close.\n\nPeople have been sharing their feelings about the London landmark, which was often used as a meeting point for friends and was a must-visit for fashion-loving tourists.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nArcadia, which also owns Miss Selfridge, Dorothy Perkins and Burton, had already closed other Topshop stores across the UK, citing the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nIts brands were struggling before the pandemic, partly due to competition from online-only fashion retailers such as Asos, Boohoo and Pretty Little Thing.\n\nBeyonce launched her Ivy Park collection at Topshop in 2016\n\nThe flagship store is currently closed, in line with the rules about non-essential retailers\n\nThe Oxford Street store pictured during Pride in 2018", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sturgeon: Vaccination programme needs to win the race\n\nTough new lockdown restrictions forbidding people from leaving home for non-essential reasons have come into force across the Scottish mainland.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the clampdown was necessary to contain the spread of the new strain of Covid-19.\n\nPeople are now required by law to stay in their homes and to work from home.\n\nOutdoor gatherings have been restricted to one-on-one meet-ups, and schools will close to most pupils until February at the earliest.\n\nMs Sturgeon told MSPs on Monday that Scotland faced an \"extremely serious\" situation, with the new, faster-spreading variant of coronavirus \"a massive blow\".\n\nSchools will remain closed to most pupils until at least the beginning of February.\n\nThe first minister has said she cannot guarantee when children will be allowed back in classrooms or when the latest lockdown restrictions will be lifted.\n\nShe also told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme on Tuesday that she hoped 2.7 million people in Scotland would have received one dose of the Covid vaccine by the middle of May.\n\nShe said: \"I can't be definitive right now about when we will lift these restrictions.\n\n\"I have described this as a race - we've got the vaccine in one lane and we are trying to accelerate that.\n\n\"We've got the virus which has learned to run faster in the other lane and we've got to slow it down.\n\n\"Lockdown is about pushing rates of the virus back, and if we manage to do that then hopefully we will be able to start lifting restrictions while the vaccination programme is ongoing.\"\n\nA government document revealed there were now more than 90 patients in intensive care units, with new modelling suggesting that figure could more than double by early February.\n\nThe modelling sets out different scenarios with the most pessimistic predicting hospitals admissions could soar to more than 8,000 with over 700 patients requiring intensive care.\n\nThe document also revealed that Inverclyde - which a few weeks ago had relatively low levels of Covid - now has the highest case rate, almost 550 per 100,000 - while Dumfries and Galloway has seen its rate increase to 475 per 100,000.\n\nDundee City, East Ayrshire, East Renfrewshire, North Lanarkshire, Renfrewshire and the Scottish Borders all now have case rates exceeding 300 per 100,000.\n\nOnly limited data was released by the government in recent days but a full update on deaths, hospital admissions and local infection rates has now been issued.\n\nCases of Covid have risen sharply in recent days\n\nThe new restrictions came into force at midnight and are, in effect, an enhancement to the level four curbs already in place across the mainland and Skye.\n\nThey will run until at least the end of January and could yet be extended both in scope and duration.\n\nScotland's island communities, with the exception of Skye, are to remain in level three for now, although Ms Sturgeon warned this would also remain under review.\n\nNew regulations mean Scots are prohibited from leaving their homes for anything other than \"essential\" purposes - although the law provides a lengthy list of examples of \"reasonable excuses\".\n\nThese include shopping for food or medical supplies, providing or accessing childcare, exercise, and participation in extended households.\n\nAnyone who can do their job from home must do so, and people in the \"shielding\" category have been advised not to go out to work at all.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon announces stay at home rules in new lockdown\n\nNew restrictions have been placed on outdoor gatherings in level four areas, with only two people from separate households now permitted to meet up.\n\nThese restrictions do not include children under the age of 12, who are still allowed to gather to play, but everyone else must abide by them or face a fixed penalty notice.\n\nTravel restrictions remain in place between local authority areas and in and out of Scotland, and people have been urged to stay as close to home as possible when going out for exercise.\n\nSchools will now operate on a remote-learning basis for the majority of pupils when the new term starts on 11 January, with only the children of key workers and vulnerable children to receive face-to-face teaching.\n\nThis is to run until at least 1 February, with a review on 18 January - with Ms Sturgeon saying her \"fundamental priority\" was still to get children back in school full time as quickly as possible.\n\nThe new measures are a bid to control the spread of the new variant of Covid, which is now thought to be responsible for nearly half of all new cases of the virus in Scotland.\n\nOfficials believe Scotland is roughly four weeks behind London - where health services are coming under increasing pressure - and warn that hospitals could hit capacity within the month without major new curbs.\n\nBetween 23 and 30 December, the average number of cases per 100,000 people in Scotland increased by 65%, from 136 to 225.", "\"It could be something as simple as: 'I don't like what you have got on' - that would end in strangulation\"\n\nA fresh move is under way to make non-fatal strangulation a specific criminal offence in England and Wales, after the House of Lords debated the Domestic Abuse Bill.\n\nThe government has said it has no plans to change the law, arguing that non-fatal strangulation is already covered by existing legislation.\n\nHowever, campaigners say abusers who use non-fatal strangulation are telling their victims: \"I am controlling you and I can kill you\" - but too often are charged only with common assault.\n\nThis is what happened in Jenny's case. Her abusive partner used non-fatal strangulation as a means of control throughout the five years they were together.\n\n\"It was like his favourite thing to do,\" says Jenny, who asked the BBC not to use her real name.\n\n\"That sounds really awful and trivial but that is how it becomes as an abuse victim. You learn to accept that is part of your life. It was like something I had to manage.\"\n\n\"We would wake up in the morning and he would be in one of those moods, and I would see it in his eyes and I would think today's the day I'm going to get it.\n\n\"It could be something as simple as: 'I don't like what you have got on' - that would end in strangulation.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Domestic abuse victim - 'He threw me against the wall and strangled me'\n\nEventually one night she did call the police during an attack.\n\n\"He chased me round the house and every time he caught me he would pin me to the floor and strangle me until I had marks.\n\n\"I had burst blood vessels. I was streaming with tears. I just kept thinking: 'This is how I am going to die.'\n\n\"The doors were locked. He'd smashed my phone. I managed to get to the window and shout and one of the neighbours called the police.\"\n\nHowever, she was dismayed by the police response. \"I thought it was quite lax. They didn't take the strangulation as seriously as they should have.\"\n\nHer partner was charged with common assault. He pleaded guilty and was given a three-month sentence, suspended for 18 months.\n\n\"Strangulation needs to be a specific offence. I think the weak police response contributed to keeping me in the relationship,\" she says.\n\nJenny believed her partner would eventually kill her.\n\n\"I just kept looking in the mirror and thinking: you need to leave and you're the only person who can do it.\n\n\"So one day while he was asleep, I picked up whatever I could carry and I ran and got on a train.\"\n\nBaroness Newlove is bringing forward an amendment to the Domestic Abuse Bill in the House of Lords\n\nPoliticians and campaigners tried and failed to have a new offence of non-fatal strangulation introduced in the Domestic Abuse Bill when it was going through the House of Commons.\n\nDuring Tuesday's debate on the bill in the Lords, the Conservative peer and former victims' commissioner, Baroness Newlove, said she intended to table an amendment to the bill when it reached the committee stage.\n\nShe said non-fatal strangulation was currently not being picked up adequately by the police, as it often left no physical marks on the victim.\n\nShe described it as a terrifying crime, with many victims testifying they felt as though their heads were going to explode and they were about to die.\n\nPeers from other parties also spoke in support of a new offence.\n\nNogah Offer, a lawyer with the Centre for Women's Justice, which has been at the forefront of the campaign for a new offence, says: \"We believe this is a real opportunity to make a difference.\"\n\nCommon assault is a summary offence that can be charged by the police.\n\nBut when it involves domestic abuse, it should be referred to the Crown Prosecution Service, its guidance says.\n\nIn a statement, the Ministry of Justice said: \"Non-fatal strangulation is a serious crime which is already covered by existing laws such as common assault and attempted murder.\"\n\nA spokesperson said the government would keep this area of the law under review, but said a specific offence of attempting to choke, strangle or suffocate a person is included in the Offences Against the Person Act 1861 and, according to the 2015 Serious Crime Act, attempted strangulation can fall under the offence of coercive or controlling behaviour.\n\nDr Catherine White: \"Ultimately it can lead to death\"\n\nDr Catherine White, clinical director of St. Mary's Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Manchester, says: \"Strangulation often ends up being treated the same as a slap or a punch.\n\n\"It's a very different crime. Often there is no external injury to the neck, which is why it's a very powerful tool for the perpetrator.\n\n\"It can cause confusion but ultimately it can lead to death.\"\n\nA research project led by Dr White describes non-fatal strangulation as a \"gendered crime, with nearly all the patients female and the alleged perpetrators male\".\n\nAnd figures from the Femicide Census, which looked at the cases of women killed by men in the UK, found that in 2018, 29% died through strangulation.\n\nCampaigners point to New Zealand and some parts of the United States and Australia, where non-fatal strangulation has become a specific offence.\n\nMeanwhile, after help from a women's centre and counselling, Jenny now feels stronger and happier.\n\nDespite the pandemic, she says, having finally escaped her abuser: \"2020 was one of the best years of my life.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Body Coach says he will be running PE lessons online for children\n\nJoe Wicks is restarting his online PE lessons from next week, to help families keep fit during lockdown.\n\nThe personal trainer told the BBC he wanted to \"give children structure\" and help them feel \"more optimistic\".\n\nHe said live sessions would run on his YouTube channel at 09:00 GMT on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.\n\nSchools across the UK are reopening later than normal, amid tighter measures to curb the spread of coronavirus.\n\nConfirming the return of his \"PE with Joe\" sessions in an Instagram post, Wicks, known as the Body Coach, said: \"We all need this for our mental health more than ever and exercising can help.\"\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast he had \"a really emotional moment last night\", after Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced a new national lockdown for England on Monday evening.\n\n\"I was thinking about all the children in the UK and all around the world that are at home in tiny little flats… and they feel like they miss their friends and they miss school,\" he said.\n\n\"And so PE with Joe three days a week is going to really help them get through those days and give them some structure and hopefully help them feel a little bit happier and a bit more optimistic.\"\n\nWicks first began his free online workouts during the national lockdown in March, with the sessions attracting millions of viewers.", "Boeing's 737 Max plane is safe to return to service in the UK and the European Union, regulators have said.\n\nIt ends a 22-month flight ban for the jet, which followed two crashes which caused 346 deaths.\n\nThe plane had already been cleared to resume flying in North America and Brazil.\n\nBut this week a senior manager at Boeing's 737 plant in Seattle warned that recertification had happened too quickly.\n\nRegulators in the US and Europe insist their reviews have been thorough, and that the 737 Max aircraft is now safe.\n\nThe European Union Aviation Safety Agency (Easa), which regulates aviation in 31 mainly EU countries, said it now had \"every confidence\" in the plane following an independent review.\n\n\"But we will continue to monitor 737 Max operations closely as the aircraft resumes service,\" said executive director Patrick Ky.\n\n\"In parallel, and at our insistence, Boeing has also committed to work to enhance the aircraft still further in the medium term, in order to reach an even higher level of safety.\"\n\nThe UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), which oversees UK aviation now Britain has left the EU, said the work to return the 737 Max to the skies had been \"the most extensive project of this kind\".\n\nIt said it was in close contact with Tui, currently the only UK operator of the aircraft, as it returned the plane to service.\n\n\"As part of this we will have full oversight of the airline's plans including its pilot training programmes and implementation of the required aircraft modifications.\"\n\nThe 737 Max's first accident occurred in October 2018, when a Lion Air jet came down in the sea off Indonesia.\n\nThe second involved an Ethiopian Airlines version that crashed shortly after takeoff from Addis Ababa, just four months later.\n\nBoth have been attributed to flawed flight control software, which became active at the wrong time and prompted the aircraft to go into a catastrophic dive.\n\nEasa said it had done a full investigation independent of Boeing or the US Federal Aviation Administration and \"without any economic or political pressure\".\n\nAs a result, it demanded software upgrades, electrical working rework, maintenance checks, operations manual updates and crew training.\n\n\"We asked difficult questions until we got answers and pushed for solutions which satisfied our exacting safety requirements,\" Mr Ky said.\n\nThe CAA said it had based its decision on information from Easa, the US Federal Aviation Agency and Boeing, as well as \"extensive engagement\" with airline operators and pilots.\n\nIt comes days after a report by Ed Pierson, a former Boeing manager, claimed that regulators and investigators had largely ignored factors that may have played a direct role in the accidents.\n\nMr Pierson said that further investigation of electrical issues and production quality problems at the 737 factory in Seattle was badly needed.\n\nOn Wednesday Naoise Connolly Ryan, whose husband Mick died in the Ethiopian Airlines crash, said that the families of victims \"still do not have a full accounting of what happened and why\".\n\n\"Ultimately we are more determined than ever to find out exactly what Boeing knew about this dangerous aircraft, and hold them accountable for the deaths of our loved ones.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Paul Njoroge says his family died because of Boeing's \"negligence\"\n\nBoeing has already agreed to pay $2.5bn (£1.8bn) to settle US criminal charges that it hid information from safety officials about the design of the planes.\n\nThe US Justice Department said the firm chose \"profit over candour\", impeding oversight of the planes.\n\nAbout $500m of that will go to families of the people killed in the tragedies.\n\nHowever, attorneys for the victims of the Ethiopian Airlines crash have said the deal would not end their pending civil lawsuit against Boeing.\n\nOn Wednesday, Boeing posted a record $12bn annual loss after it delayed its all-new 777X jet for the third time, incurring huge charges.\n\nThe coronavirus crisis has caused demand for the industry's largest jetliners to fall, with airline customers shunning deliveries of planes due international travel restrictions.\n\nThe 737 Max has already been cleared to fly in North America and Brazil - now it has the go-ahead from European regulators as well.\n\nIt's a major step for Boeing - although with the current travel restrictions in place, it's likely to be a while before the decision has much practical effect.\n\nBut the controversy won't end there. Relatives of those who died in the Ethiopian Airlines accident have made it clear they haven't heard enough to be sure the aircraft - modified in accordance with regulators' wishes - is truly safe.\n\nAnd this week, a former senior manager at the 737 factory told the BBC why he thought existing planes might still be carrying potentially dangerous manufacturing defects.\n\nThat may explain why Easa has also chosen to publish a report setting out the detailed reasoning behind its decision.\n\nUltimately, the 737 Max may we'll have decades of successful service ahead of it. But for the moment, winning back passenger confidence will be a formidable challenge.", "The Association of British Insurers (ABI) has defended the inclusion of ransomware payments in first-party cyber-insurance policies.\n\nIt said insurance was \"not an alternative\" to doing everything possible to first minimise the risk.\n\nHowever, it added that firms could face financial ruin without the cover.\n\nProf Ciaran Martin, former head of the National Cyber Security Centre, said the UK needed to rethink its policies on ransomware.\n\nRansomware is a form of malware in which infected computers are remotely locked by cyber-criminals, who then demand a ransom, often in the form of Bitcoin, to unlock them and return the data they hold.\n\nThere are many examples of businesses and public bodies which have chosen to pay because they do not have the data backed up, or cannot afford - or do not have time - to rebuild their systems from scratch.\n\nThe Guardian reported that Prof Martin, now at Oxford University's Blavatnik School of Government, said he believed insurers were \"funding organised crime\" by accepting ransomware claims, but he told the BBC the issue of how to tackle ransomware was far broader than just the insurance sector.\n\nWhile official advice is not to pay the demand, it is not illegal to do so in the UK, he said.\n\n\"I have some sympathy with insurers, because as long as it's legal, there are incentives to pay.\"\n\nWhile the ransom demand may be high, the alternative impact can also be devastating.\n\nWhen the global aluminium producer Norsk Hydro was attacked in 2019, it cost the firm around £45m, and its profits in the immediate aftermath plummeted by 82%, reported Reuters.\n\nNorsk Hydro refused to pay the demand, which would arguably have been cheaper - but it did have insurance.\n\nA spokesman for the ABI said insurers do require that \"reasonable precautions\" are taken to prevent cyber-attacks from succeeding in the first place, just as cars and houses require security measures in place to deter thieves.\n\n\"Some might argue that any insurance that covers against a criminal act could lull the policyholder into a false sense of security,\" he said.\n\nProf Martin said he did not think that banning ransomware insurance claims would necessarily solve the problem.\n\n\"But it's worth a serious piece of consultation because if we continue as we are, things will get worse,\" he said.", "Cough, fatigue, sore throat and muscle pain may be more common in people who test positive for the new UK variant of coronavirus, a study by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) suggests.\n\nThe ONS findings are based on positive tests from a random sample of 6,000 people in England.\n\nLoss of taste and smell may be slightly less likely to affect those with the new form of the virus.\n\nHowever, it is still one of the three main symptoms of the virus.\n\nThe NHS website lists the symptoms as a high temperature, a new continuous cough and a loss or change to sense of smell or taste.\n\nMost people infected with the virus develop at least one of these symptoms.\n\nThe new variant, which was first spotted in Kent in September, spreads more easily than the previous form of the virus and has now spread across the UK, causing a surge in cases which prompted the current lockdown.\n\nThere is some evidence it could be more deadly than other variants, although the data isn't strong enough yet to say for certain.\n\nTwo other variants - one from South Africa and another from Brazil - are also circulating, although at lower levels.\n\nThe ONS analysis looked at the symptoms reported by people up to a week before testing positive for the new variant of coronavirus, compared with those testing positive for the old variant.\n\nThey were tested over two months between mid-November and mid-January.\n\nTest results compatible with the new variant show up as being positive for two genes, rather than three for the other variant.\n\nIn a group of about 3,500 people with the new variant:\n\nIn a group of 2,500 people with the old variant:\n\nThe study found 16% of those with the new variant experienced losing their sense of taste while 15% lost their sense of smell.\n\nThis was slightly lower than reported by people with the old variant (18% for both).\n\nThere was no difference found in levels of headaches, shortness of breath or diarrhoea and vomiting in both groups.\n\nProf Lawrence Young, virologist and professor of molecular oncology at the University of Warwick, said the new variant of the virus had 23 changes compared to the original Wuhan virus.\n\n\"Some of these changes in different parts of the virus could affect the body's immune response and also influence the range of symptoms associated with infection,\" he said.\n\nInfected people appear to produce more virus and this could result in more widespread infection within the body \"perhaps accounting for more coughs, muscle pain and tiredness\", Prof Young added.\n\nThe analysis is part of a long-term study to track coronavirus in the UK population, carried out jointly with Public Health England, the University of Oxford and the University of Manchester.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "UK nationals and residents returning from \"red list\" countries will be made to quarantine in accommodation such as hotels for 10 days, Boris Johnson has said. While exact details of the policy remain unclear, similar schemes are already in place elsewhere, including in Australia and New Zealand. So how does it work?\n\nAfter finally securing her family's place in Australia's quarantine system, Keri McMenamin prepared for the worst - and ordered a vacuum cleaner.\n\nThe 38-year-old was returning to the country with her husband and two children after securing a job offer - leaving the UK in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic last year.\n\n\"It is literally luck of the draw,\" she says of where her family would spend 14 days together once they arrived. \"You didn't know what to expect.\" Having done some research, Keri discovered Facebook groups busy with people relaying their experiences of quarantine.\n\n\"A lot of people were saying, 'Look, just expect the worst and then whatever you get is a bonus.'\"\n\nKeri's children Quinn and Nyala kept busy with board games\n\n\"There were people who had, like, filthy hotel rooms, appalling food, you know, really sort of tiny spaces, no opening windows, no balconies,\" she adds.\n\nThat's when she ordered the vacuum for a friend to deliver when the time came.\n\nIn the end, the family was taken to a hotel in Surfers' Paradise on the Gold Coast and given an interconnecting room. But still, the windows were sealed and their only time outside was 20-minute stints every two to three days.\n\n\"I think what kept us sane was having a routine,\" she adds. \"Joe Wicks in the morning and our yoga in the evening and sort of keeping up your 12,000 steps a day walking around in loops.\" The vacuum came in useful.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThere are strict caps on the numbers travelling to countries using hotels to quarantine arrivals.\n\nBetween July and October 2019, 7.5m people arrived into Australia to live, work and visit. But over the same period last year, when enforced quarantine was in place, just 72,111 people arrived, according to government figures.\n\nPeople like Keri who have been through quarantine in Australia told BBC News that airlines will only confirm seats once a spot in a hotel is secured - leading to last-minute scrambles.\n\nOnline forums suggest expats desperate to get home are facing months of delays, cancellations and uncertainty - around 39,000 have said they want to return.\n\nQuarantine hotel stays themselves are costly - with fees paid for by travellers.\n\nThe quality of food provided to those placed into quarantine in Australia has improved since the start of the pandemic\n\nIn New South Wales, it costs the equivalent of around £1,700 per adult and £2,800 for a family of two adults and two children - billed after the quarantine is completed.\n\nArrivals into New Zealand are charged £1,630 for the first adult, with an extra £500 for each additional adult and £250 for each child.\n\nThe costs include the accommodation and a basic food service and even more basic cleaning - perhaps once per week, or not at all, with one change of linen and towels, depending on the facility.\n\nBut it comes on top of airfares, which have increased due to the pandemic. Fees can be waived for those who cannot pay and there are some exemptions.\n\nEach region has its own rules. In Australia, packages can be brought in from outside, and in New Zealand some of those in quarantine are taken to fields to exercise.\n\nMark Dickinson, from Liverpool, has lived in New Zealand with his wife Lisa for four years but returned to the UK to see their newborn granddaughter in December - he spoke to the BBC 10 days into a 14-day isolation near Auckland.\n\n\"We had to have a test on day zero, then day three, then we're having a test tomorrow on day 11,\" Mark says.\n\n\"The area at the front of the hotel is surrounded by a double-guarded fence. It may have cost us £2,000 but if that means New Zealand stays safe, then we're happy doing it.\"\n\nMark and his wife Lisa added photographs of their newborn granddaughter to a display in a small walking area at their hotel\n\nMany of those isolating found life does not stop in quarantine. Australian Brad Thiele started a new job and celebrated his 51st birthday alone in a 300 sq ft room at the Novotel in central Sydney.\n\nAfter being asked by a person wearing a full hazmat suit at Sydney airport whether he had any concerns about being held in a room for 14 days, Brad was taken to the hotel with a blue-light police escort. On arrival, the military were on hand to ensure he checked in.\n\n\"I quite like practising meditation. So I was able to just sort of just sit and be at peace with the fact this was the first two weeks of the rest of my life having lived abroad in Britain for the past 23 years,\" he says.\n\n\"I had some regimen, it was important to get up in the morning, make the bed, shower, iron a shirt and be smart casual for work. Just finding a rhythm and a pattern in the day.\"\n\nHe's yet to decide whether to take the Novotel up on an offer of a 30% discount on a future stay.\n\nOther countries' experience of setting up a hotel quarantine system provides an insight into the sort of challenges politicians and civil servants in the UK may soon be grappling with.\n\nInitially those in quarantine across the world complained about the quality of food being provided.\n\nThen outbreaks at just two hotels in the Australian state of Victoria were traced to 99% of cases in a second wave across Melbourne that led to around 750 deaths.\n\nA public inquiry found a lack of training, cleaning and contact tracing seeded infections into the local community.\n\nAn urgent review of the hotel quarantine system in New Zealand is under way\n\nReports at the time suggested encounters between private security staff and those staying in quarantine caused the virus to spread. The inquiry did not find evidence to back up the claims.\n\nBut former judge Jennifer Coate criticised a lack of \"health focus\" in the quarantine system in Melbourne, saying risks \"were foreseeable and may have actually been foreseen\".\n\nMeanwhile, New Zealand is investigating after a woman who had served 14 days in quarantine and tested negative twice went on to develop symptoms which were confirmed to be the South Africa variant of Covid-19.\n\nThe 56-year-old woman had recently returned from Europe and is said to have visited almost 30 places in New Zealand before her case was detected. Local officials say she is likely to have been infected by a fellow returnee.\n\nBack in Australia, knowing why the quarantine system is in place and the benefits it brings - the country has largely eradicated the virus - helps motivate people to keep to the rules, Keri McMenamin says.\n\nKeri's family have since been able to enjoy a Christmas with minimal restrictions following their stay in hotel quarantine\n\nShe has just spent a public holiday going about the sort of activities many of us in the UK can but dream of - and her children will be in school this week.\n\n\"We went to a local gym and had a group workout with 30 people,\" she says.\n\n\"And then we went to the countryside, and the kids built little boats out of wood and mingled around and there were families picnicking.\n\n\"I almost feel guilty for having gone through this process and now living a normal life,\" she adds. \"I feel like I don't want to talk to my friends in the UK about how easy our life here is and how normal it is.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMore than 100,000 people have died with Covid-19 in the UK, after 1,631 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were recorded in the daily figures.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said he took \"full responsibility\" for the government's actions, saying: \"We truly did everything we could.\"\n\n\"I'm deeply sorry for every life lost,\" he said.\n\nA total of 100,162 deaths have been recorded in the UK, the first European nation to pass the landmark.\n\nEarlier, figures from the ONS, which are based on death certificates, showed there had been nearly 104,000 deaths since the pandemic began.\n\nThe government's daily figures rely on positive tests and are slightly lower.\n\nMr Johnson told Tuesday's Downing Street news conference that it was \"hard to compute the sorrow contained in this grim statistic\".\n\nHe gave his \"deepest condolences\" to those who had lost loved ones, including \"fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters, sons and daughters, and the many grandparents who've been taken\".\n\nThe UK is the fifth country to pass 100,000 deaths, coming after the US, Brazil, India and Mexico.\n\nA surge in cases in recent weeks - driven in part by a new, fast-spreading variant of the virus - has left the UK with one of the highest coronavirus death rates globally.\n\nA further 20,089 coronavirus cases were recorded on Tuesday, continuing a downward trend in the number of UK cases seen in recent days. The number of people in hospital remains high, as do the UK's daily death figures.\n\nMr Johnson said the coronavirus infection rate remained \"pretty forbiddingly high\" despite lockdown restrictions which have been in place in England since 5 January.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and only go out for limited reasons - including for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nMr Johnson said he would set out more detail in \"the next few days and weeks\" about \"when and how we want to get things open again\".\n\nIt's a terrible milestone - and one that represents unimaginable loss.\n\nMost of the deaths have come in two waves - the sharp, sudden surge in the spring followed by a slow and sustained rise throughout autumn and winter.\n\nMistakes have been made - the delay locking down back in March is one that is often cited even by the government's own advisers.\n\nThe UK, like much of Europe, was also woefully underprepared with limited testing and contact tracing systems.\n\nBut the ageing population, high rates of obesity, the fact the UK is a global hub and its inter-connectedness with Europe are also factors that meant we were tragically never going to escape lightly once the virus got a foothold.\n\nSpeaking alongside the prime minister, Prof Chris Whitty, England's chief medical officer, described it as a \"very sad day\".\n\nHe said the number of people dying \"will come down relatively slowly over the next two weeks - and will probably remain flat for a while now\".\n\nProf Whitty added the new coronavirus variant had changed the UK's situation \"very substantially\" with infection rates \"just about holding\" due to lockdown restrictions.\n\nBut he said the number of people testing positive for Covid-19 in the UK \"has been coming down\" and the number of people in hospital with Covid has \"flattened off\" - including in London, the South East and East of England.\n\nHowever, there were \"some areas\" where the hospital figures were \"still not convincingly reducing\", he said.\n\nNHS chief executive Sir Simon Stevens said there had been \"continuing improvements in hospital treatment for severely sick coronavirus patients\".\n\nHe said he expected more treatments within the next six to 18 months, adding: \"We can see a world in which coronavirus may be more treatable, but for now, it's a combination of reducing infections and getting vaccinations done.\"\n\nOne day there will be a public inquiry - maybe several - seeking to understand why so many died.\n\nLast summer, back when the government was subsidising people to eat out at restaurants, Boris Johnson said there would be an independent inquiry into the government's handling of Covid, but gave no details or dates.\n\nHe still hasn't, despite a recent call from bereaved families, trade unions and charities for lessons to be learnt now.\n\nThe gravest public health crisis for a century would have tested any government.\n\nBut as the pandemic has worsened, the criticisms and questions have mounted - about the timing of lockdowns, the rollout of test and trace and the failure to protect care homes last spring.\n\nThere is now pressure on Boris Johnson from some Tory MPs to ease restrictions as soon as the most vulnerable are vaccinated.\n\nBut this evening a sombre prime minister said the government would first do everything it could to minimise further loss of life.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle, medical director at Public Health England, said it was a \"sobering moment in the pandemic\", saying: \"Each death is a person who was someone's family member and friend.\"\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was a \"national tragedy\" to have reached 100,000 deaths.\n\nThe government had been \"behind the curve at every stage\" of the pandemic and had not learnt lessons over the summer, he added.\n\nThe epidemiologist whose modelling in part prompted the UK's first national lockdown said more action in the autumn of last year could have saved lives.\n\nProf Neil Ferguson told BBC Radio 4's PM programme: \"Had we acted both earlier and with greater stringency back in September when we first saw case numbers going up, and had a policy of keeping case numbers at a reasonably low levels, then I think a lot of the deaths we've seen, not all by any means, but a lot of the deaths we've seen in the last four or five months, could have been avoided.\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the death toll was \"heartbreaking\" and warned there was a \"tough period ahead\".\n\n\"The vaccine offers the way out, but we cannot let up now,\" he added.\n\nMore than 6.8 million people in the UK have had their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine, according to the latest figures.\n\nPlease enable JavaScript or upgrade your browser to see this interactive\n\nIf you would like to send us a tribute to a friend or family member who died after contracting coronavirus, please use the form below.\n\nPlease remember to include a photo of your loved one and their name. Upload your pictures here. Don't forget to include your contact details, so we can get in touch with you.\n\nWe would like to respond to everyone individually and include every tribute in our coverage, but unfortunately that may not be possible. Please be assured your message will be read and treated with the utmost respect.\n\nPlease note the contact details you provide will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your tribute.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNicola Sturgeon has suggested that Boris Johnson should not visit Scotland as it is not an \"essential\" journey.\n\nThe prime minister is widely expected to travel to Scotland on Thursday.\n\nBut Ms Sturgeon said she was \"not ecstatic\" about the plan, saying leaders should abide by the same rules as they ask of the general public.\n\nAsked about the trip, Scottish Secretary Alister Jack said Mr Johnson would go \"wherever he needs to go in his vital work against this pandemic\".\n\nAnd Downing Street has insisted that it is important for the prime minister to be \"visible and accessible\" during the pandemic.\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman did not confirm details of the visit, but said: \"It remains the fact that it is a fundamental role of the PM to be the physical representative of the UK government\".\n\nThe spokesman added: \"It is right that he is visible and accessible to businesses, communities and the public across all parts of the UK, especially during the pandemic.\"\n\nReports have suggested Mr Johnson is due to visit Scotland on Thursday to thank staff involved in the fight against Covid-19, despite the \"stay at home\" lockdown in place across the country.\n\nSpeaking at her daily coronavirus briefing, Ms Sturgeon stressed that she was not saying Mr Johnson was unwelcome in Scotland, but added that she was \"not ecstatic\" about the idea of him travelling up from London.\n\nDowning Street says it is important for the prime minister to be \"visible and accessible\" across the UK during the pandemic\n\nShe said: \"We are living in a global pandemic and every day I stand and look down the camera and say 'don't travel unless it is essential, work from home if you possibly can' - that has to apply to all of us.\n\n\"People like me and Boris Johnson have to be in work for reasons people understand, but we don't have to travel across the UK. We have a duty to lead by example.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon said her team had suggested she visit a mass vaccination centre in Aberdeen in the coming weeks, but that she had questioned whether the journey was \"genuinely essential\".\n\nShe said: \"If I'm standing here every day saying to all of you watching, don't leave your house unless it is essential, I have a duty to subject myself to that same discipline and decision making.\n\n\"I would say me travelling from Edinburgh to Aberdeen to visit a vaccine centre is not essential - Boris Johnson travelling from London to wherever in Scotland to do the same is not essential.\n\n\"If we're asking other people to abide by that then I'm sorry, I think it's incumbent on us to do likewise.\"\n\nThere are currently cross-border travel restrictions in place for anything other than essential travel, as well as a stay at home order\n\nThe Scottish secretary was asked about the move at Westminster by SNP MP Neale Hanvey, who described the trip as a \"futile\" attempt to bolster the union following a trend of polls suggesting majority support for independence.\n\nMr Jack replied: \"That's ridiculous - the prime minister is the prime minister of the United Kingdom, and wherever he needs to go in his vital work against this pandemic, he will go.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. One protester said: \"This is the only way I can effect change\"\n\nPeople campaigning against the HS2 rail project have dug a tunnel near Euston station, in a bid to prevent their eviction from a protest camp.\n\nIn September, members of HS2 Rebellion set up a Tree Protection Camp in Euston Square Gardens in central London to protest against the £106bn scheme.\n\nThey claim the tunnel is 100ft (30m) long and has taken two months to dig.\n\nActivists say the tunnel - codenamed \"Kelvin\" - is their \"best defence\" against being evicted.\n\nOne protester, identified only as Blue, told the BBC: \"It is all very dangerous and life-threatening but it is all worth it. This is the only way I can effect change, I would sacrifice everything for the climate ecological emergency to not be happening.\"\n\nThe 18-year-old added: \"We want to be as safe as possible. It is not about us martyring ourselves, it is about delaying and stopping HS2.\"\n\nDemonstrators have previously built tree houses and scaled cranes near the HS2 Euston site\n\nA spokeswoman for HS2 said tunnel protests were \"costly to the taxpayer\".\n\nShe added: \"These are a danger to the safety of the protesters, HS2 staff, High Court enforcement officers and the general public, as well as putting unnecessary strain on the emergency services during the pandemic.\n\n\"Safety is our first priority when taking possession of land and removing illegal encampments.\"\n\nBritish Transport Police said it was aware of the tunnel but it was a matter for the Met Police, which said no complaint yet had been made.\n\nHS2 is set to link London, Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds. It is hoped the 20-year project will reduce rail passenger overcrowding and help to rebalance the UK's economy.\n\nThe campaign group alleges HS2 is the \"most expensive, wasteful and destructive project in UK history\" and that it is \"set to destroy or irreparably damage 108 ancient woodlands and 693 wildlife sites\".\n\nHowever, HS2 bosses have said seven million trees will be planted during phase one of the project and that much ancient woodland will \"remain intact\".\n\nSeasoned activist Daniel Cooper - better known as Swampy - has been at Euston supporting the campaigners\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps told MPs in September that the first phase of the high-speed rail link between London and Birmingham would not open until 2028 at the earliest.\n\nThe second phase, to Manchester and Leeds, was due to open in 2032-33 but that has been pushed back to 2035-40.\n\nNetwork Rail, which owns the land, has been approached for a comment about the tunnel.\n\nHS2 protester Dr Larch Maxey said the tunnel was \"warm and quiet\"\n\nTunnelling as a form of environmental protest has a long history in the UK.\n\nIn the 1990s it was one of the ways that pushed environmental concerns into the headlines and changed perceptions.\n\nIn one of the environmental protesters' tunnelling guides, written by \"Disco Dave\", it says:\n\n\"In the world of NVDA (non-violent direct action) there are few defence tactics that can compare with the protest tunnel. Dangerous, laborious and time consuming, tunnelling is the ultimate and desperate tactic of desperate people in desperate times.\"\n\nThe first protest tunnel goes back to the M11 and 1993 but they only really developed during the Newbury Bypass protests in 1996.\n\nProtest tunnels against the A30 in Devon and Manchester Airport's second runway then followed.\n\nNot only did they make household names of environmental campaigners like \"Swampy\" but they arguably changed transport policy - road-building reduced massively.\n\nWe have seen tunnels more recently in 2017 in Coldharbour in Surrey in a protest against fracking so it's not a massive surprise we are seeing tunnels again.\n\nTunnelling in particular as a direct action slows down developers and it is expensive to dig out protesters safely.\n\nDisco Dave wrote: \"That ultimately is the purpose of tunnels and tree houses. To act as a deterrent warning the authorities that should they decide to evict, then it will hurt them where for them it hurts most - in the pocket.\"\n\nWhat will be interesting is if these tunnels have the same impact on HS2 as they did on the road-building programme of the late 1990s.\n\nWill it reframe HS2 so it will be seen in the same way as fracking or road building? Or can the argument still be made that it is a low-carbon form of travel even though it does cause some destruction of habitat?\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Baroness Floella Benjamin has spoken of her pride after receiving a first coronavirus vaccine dose.\n\nThe 71-year-old actress said she would wear a badge saying \"I've had the jab\" after being vaccinated.\n\nThe Lib Dem peer, who came to Britain in 1960 and was born in Trinidad, is known for appearing in the children's programme Play School and received a damehood last year.\n\nOver 6.8m people in the UK have now received a first vaccine dose.\n\nAs a member of the House of Lords, Baroness Benjamin has spoken regularly about the disproportionate effect of Covid-19 on black, Asian and minority ethnic communities as well as the knock-on impact of the pandemic.\n\nIn September, she told peers she knew two people who had taken their own lives \"because they could not cope with the uncertainty of the future\".\n\nShe is also a member of the Lords Covid-19 Committee.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Floella Benjamin This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe government has set a target for all those in the top four priority groups - around 15 million - to be offered a vaccine by mid-February.\n\nTwo vaccines - developed by Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca - are being used. A third, from Moderna, has been approved.\n\nAll have been shown to be safe and effective in trials with two doses needed to offer the best protection - now timed 12 weeks apart.\n\nIt comes as British Asian celebrities united to dispel myths about the coronavirus vaccine.\n\nComedians Romesh Ranganathan and Meera Syal and cricketer Moeen Ali appear in a video urging people to get a jab.\n\nA study from the Royal Society for Public Health found 57% of black, Asian and minority ethnic people said they would take the vaccine.\n\nThis figure compared with 79% of white people who would do so.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAuthorities who dealt with a benefits claim from a single mother, who took a fatal overdose after her payments were cut, made 28 errors in managing her case, a coroner has found.\n\nPhilippa Day, 27, was found collapsed at her Nottingham home beside a letter rejecting her request for an at-home benefits assessment in August 2019.\n\nShe died after two months in a coma.\n\nNottingham Coroner's Court heard the way her claim was dealt with was the \"predominant factor\" in her overdose.\n\nRecording a narrative conclusion, coroner Gordon Clow said he could not determine whether she intended to die rather than put her life at risk.\n\nMiss Day, who had been diagnosed with unstable personality disorder, had been receiving disabled living allowance (DLA) payments as she had type 1 diabetes.\n\nThose payments stopped in January 2019 after she made an application for a personal independence payment (PIP), reducing her income from £228 a week to £60.\n\nThis, the inquest heard, was because a form she had sent went missing and her payments were not reinstated for months, despite her eligibility.\n\nThis led to her taking out short-term loans and ending up in debt.\n\nThe court heard in June, she called the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to say she was \"starving\" and \"couldn't survive like this for much longer\".\n\nPhilippa Day (left) took a fatal overdose and died in October 2019\n\nShe was then asked to attend a face-to-face assessment despite it being \"distressing\" for her, Mr Clow said.\n\nThe coroner added Miss Day's mental health problems were \"exacerbated\" by the benefits process.\n\nHe accepted it had been \"the last straw\" for Miss Day who was already experiencing a range of stressors.\n\nHe said: \"Were it not for this problem, it is not likely that she would have [overdosed] on the 7th or 8th of August.\"\n\nCall handlers repeatedly failed to flag that the case required \"additional support\" due to her mental health problems, the coroner said.\n\nThe DWP did not tell her community psychiatric nurse that she had not returned the form before refusing her application, which could have resolved the issue.\n\nThe coroner said call handlers received little to no training on personality disorders like Miss Day's - all that was available was a factsheet.\n\nCapita was made aware of the risks to Miss Day's health from a face-to-face interview by her community psychiatric nurse, but did not act on it, he added.\n\nMr Clow said: \"Given the sheer number of problems in the handling of her claim, I am unable to conclude that each of these was attributable to individual human error.\"\n\nHe concluded the failure to administer her benefit claim in a way that avoided exacerbating her mental health problems was the \"predominant factor\" that caused Miss Day to overdose.\n\nMr Clow recommended changes at both the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and Capita, the authorities involved.\n\nIn a prevention of future deaths report, Mr Clow said the DWP should consider timely mental health training for call handlers and address \"poor record keeping\".\n\nThe DWP and Capita were also directed to review the change of assessment process so that it does not \"create unnecessary distress\".\n\nA spokesman for the DWP said: \"This is a deeply tragic case. Our sincere condolences are with Miss Day's family and we will carefully consider the coroner's findings.\"\n\nA Capita spokesman said the company also apologised for the mistakes made.\n\n\"We have strengthened our processes over the last 18 months and are committed to continuously working to deliver a high-quality, empathetic service for every claimant,\" he said.\n\n\"In partnership with the DWP, we will act upon the coroner's findings and make further improvements to our processes.\"\n\nThis conclusion amounts to a near dismantling of the process for applying for the main disability benefit for people with psychiatric problems.\n\nWhile around 40% of claimants for personal independence payments have mental health conditions, the inquest found that call handlers for the DWP didn't receive adequate mental health training.\n\nThe coroner found there was an \"institutional assumption\" in the DWP that problems with a claim were the claimants' fault.\n\nLast year a report from the National Audit Office (NAO) found the department had investigated 69 suicides of benefit claimants since 2014-15.\n\nThere were more cases they could have looked into, said the NAO, but in any case the department couldn't demonstrate any improvements from their investigations had actually been implemented.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jane Fonda has had a glittering acting career spanning six decades\n\nUS actress Jane Fonda is to be honoured with a lifetime achievement award at next month's Golden Globes, which celebrate excellence in film and TV.\n\n\"Her undeniable talent has gained her the highest level of recognition,\" said the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) - the ceremony's organiser.\n\n\"While her professional life has taken many turns, her unwavering commitment to evoking change has remained.\"\n\nFonda, 83, has had a glittering acting career spanning six decades.\n\nThe HFPA said she would be given the Cecil B deMille Award at the annual ceremony in Beverly Hills, California, on 28 February.\n\nThe Oscar-winning actress made her debut in 1960, later becoming one of the brightest Hollywood stars with films like Barbarella, Nine to Five and On Golden Pond.\n\nHer most recent performance was in the Netflix comedy series Grace and Frankie.\n\nFonda is also well known as a political activist, most recently as a campaigner against climate change. In 2016, she spent Thanksgiving among the protesters at Standing Rock, demonstrating against the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline.\n\nIn the 1960s she vocally opposed the Vietnam War.\n\nThe actress - who has written a book about how people can get involved in such activism - has been arrested several times during protests, and hopes her actions have raised awareness.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Labour is calling for juries to be cut from 12 members to seven, to stem the \"gravest crisis\" in the justice system since World War Two.\n\nShadow justice secretary David Lammy said action was needed to clear the backlog of thousands of cases.\n\nHe argued that smaller juries and the use of more temporary courts would allow socially distanced trials.\n\nThe government has not ruled out such a move but insists measures it is taking to clear the backlog are working.\n\nLast week four criminal justice watchdogs warned that courts in England and Wales were straining under pressure from the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nJury trials ground to a halt at the start of the first lockdown, when people were advised to stay at home except in limited circumstances.\n\nWhen they resumed, there were severe delays and numerous cancellations due to social-distancing requirements.\n\nRecent figures revealed that the number of unheard cases in crown courts had reached a record 54,000.\n\nThe backlog means some from last year may not go before a jury until 2022, and it could be years before the courts get back on track.\n\nLabour wants the temporary return of so-called \"wartime juries\" of seven rather than 12 members to speed up the process.\n\n\"Victims of rape, murder, domestic abuse, robbery and assault are facing delays of up to four years because of the government's failure to act,\" Mr Lammy said.\n\nHe also urged the government to speed up the rollout of temporary \"Nightingale courts\" to hear civil, family and tribunals work, as well as non-custodial crime cases.\n\nTen of these were announced in July 2020 to help deal with the backlog in court proceedings, and 20 are now in operation across England and Wales.\n\nLeading lawyers are sceptical about Labour's proposal to reach back into wartime history.\n\nThe Criminal Bar Association - representing barristers who prosecute and defend trials - says a panel of seven may allow more courtrooms to be used, but it wouldn't solve what it says is chronic underfunding - and potentially undermines one of the most important safeguards in our society.\n\nThe Law Society, for solicitors, wants to see evidence that smaller panels would ease backlogs without risking injustices.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice's internal modelling calculated last year that reduced juries would lead to a 10% increase in cases - but that was before courtrooms received new Covid-proof screens that have allowed more trials to run.\n\nScotland's courts are using cinemas to host juries - and while that is not being actively discussed in England, it's not been ruled out either.\n\nEven if juries were slimmed, courts would still need to tightly control the number of defendants who can use their cells and courtroom docks to meet Public Health England's guidelines.\n\nIn April last year, the head of judiciary in England and Wales, Lord Burnett, backed the idea of reducing the number of jurors if social distancing continued.\n\nIn June, Justice Secretary Robert Buckland told the BBC he was \"very attracted\" by the idea of smaller juries, as had happened in wartime, and judge-only trials in less serious cases.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice says it has now installed plastic screens in more than 450 courtrooms and jury deliberation rooms to reduce Covid risks.\n\nIt says the safety measures are designed for 12-person juries and that the impact of lowering the number of jurors would be negligible.\n\nHowever, a spokesman said nothing was being ruled out and ministers were continuing to consider every option available to ensure courts recover quickly.\n\n\"This approach is already delivering results, with magistrates' backlogs falling significantly and the number of cases being dealt with in the crown courts reaching pre-Covid levels last month,\" he added.\n\nThe spokesman also said: \"We know more must be done and are investing £110m into a range of measures to drive this recovery further, including opening more Nightingale courts.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Karen Hobbs, from Cardiff, had a heart attack and died, weeks after testing positive for Covid\n\nThe family of a 40-year-old mother-of-five who died with coronavirus have urged people to respect lockdown rules.\n\nKaren Hobbs had a heart attack and died, weeks after testing positive for Covid-19.\n\nThe former EasyJet cabin crew member developed symptoms a week before Christmas, was not able to get out of bed and started struggling to breathe.\n\nShe was taken to hospital and died on 19 January.\n\nKaren's sister Rachel Hobbs said her normally healthy sister became very ill over Christmas.\n\n\"She just looked dreadful, Christmas Day she was laid up in bed, she couldn't do anything,\" she said.\n\n\"I knew she was really bad but I'd never seen anybody like that before, it was shocking, for someone that healthy to be barely able to walk to a car is quite shocking.\"\n\nOn 2 January, Karen was put into an induced coma.\n\n\"She was really terrified, she said 'I need to come out of this and see my children again'. She never came out of it,\" her sister added.\n\nKaren Hobbs' children are now 14, 11, nine, eight and four.\n\nThe family were told Karen's organs were beginning to fail and she was \"going downhill\" about a week before she died, and they were allowed to visit.\n\n\"She did look a little bit better, she had more colour, she was quite puffy - swelling and a bit of a rash on her. Her lungs were struggling, so we came home a little bit shocked.\n\n\"They started feeding her in a tube and were able to move her, I thought perhaps she's recovering a little bit and then I had the phone call to say that she'd gone.\n\n\"Her body just couldn't take it any more. I don't think it's sunk in. I think the children are still in a bit of shock as well, I thought she would come out of it but she just had it so severe. \"\n\nKaren's children made her a get well soon card while she was in hospital\n\nRachel said her sister, from Cardiff, was healthy with no underlying conditions.\n\n\"She didn't go anywhere - she did online shopping, she was in the house - so we don't even know where it could have come from, she was one of the ones who stayed safest.\n\n\"It's just shocking to think a young mum of five is no longer here. They've lost their mum and they lost their grandfather and nan a couple of years ago so they must feel 'who will be next'?\n\nRachel Hobbs says it still has not sunk in that she has lost her sister\n\nRachel said her sister was a fantastic mother to her five children, aged 14, 11, nine, eight and four.\n\n\"I don't think the youngest understands, I think she thinks mummy's still just in the hospital.\n\n\"She was a very hands-on mum, she spent a lot of time with the children. She'd sit and play with them for hours, sit and colour, she was always there for them.\"\n\nRachel says her youngest niece does not yet understand what has happened to her mother\n\nRachel added that Karen had no patience with people who broke lockdown rules: \"She used to get quite annoyed about people who broke the rules and she wasn't slow on coming forward, she'd say it as well.\n\n\"It just goes to show how bad this virus is. She would say 'make sure you follow the rules because nobody is safe, it is real this virus, stay at home and only go out when you need to'.\"\n\nIn the days since Karen's death a fundraising page has been set up by friends to support her children and their dad, and has raised more than £20,000.\n\nKaren spoke of how frightened she was in her final post on Facebook\n\n\"I'm absolutely amazed at how generous people have been and how kind people have been, the community has come together and I think she'd be proud too that it's raising awareness about the pandemic.\n\n\"That'll help the children going forward now. Out of a bad thing, it's been nice people getting in touch, kind words, messages, little things about what she was like.\"\n\nKaren loved colouring and playing with her children, her sister said", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson joined the production line at the Lighthouse Laboratory in Glasgow for the unpacking of Covid tests\n\nBoris Johnson has insisted that Scotland's independence debate is \"irrelevant\" to most people as he urged the country to unite against Covid.\n\nThe PM was speaking during a trip to Scotland to emphasise the strength of the UK working together during the pandemic.\n\nThe SNP said he was panicking as opinion polls show declining support for the union.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon also questioned if his trip is essential.\n\nThe PM started his day-long visit by going to the Lighthouse Laboratory - which processes Covid tests - at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital campus in Glasgow.\n\nHe later visited troops who are setting up a vaccination centre in the Castlemilk area of the city, and toured the Valneva vaccine factory in Livingston.\n\nThe factory is expected to deliver 60 million doses to the UK by the end of the year if its vaccine is approved.\n\nMr Johnson used the visit to argue that the priority should be \"fighting this pandemic and coming back more strongly together\" rather than arguing about the constitution.\n\nAnd he praised the \"amazing performance\" of Scottish people in the \"national effort\" to fight the pandemic.\n\nThe prime minister said: \"I think endless talk about a referendum without any clear description of what the constitutional situation would be after that referendum is completely irrelevant now to the concerns of most people\".\n\nMr Johnson also criticised the SNP's record in government, and added: \"We don't actually know what the referendum would set out to achieve.\n\n\"We don't know what the point of it would be - what happens to the army, what happens to the Crown, what happens to the pound, what happens to the Foreign Office. Nobody will tell us what it's all meant to be about.\"\n\nHe told reporters that \"the very same people\" who wanted independence \"also said only a few years ago, in 2014, that this was a once-in-a-generation event\".\n\n\"I'm inclined to stick with what they said last time,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\nMr Johnson met troops who are setting up a vaccination centre\n\nUnder the current Covid regulations, people are only able to travel between Scotland and England for essential reasons, with similar regulations also in place to stop travel across council boundaries within Scotland.\n\nAsked at her daily coronavirus briefing on Wednesday how she felt about the prime minister's visit while the strict travel restrictions were in place, Ms Sturgeon replied she was \"not ecstatic\" about it.\n\nShe argued that leaders should abide by the same rules they impose on the general public, adding that she had herself rejected a suggested visit to a vaccine centre in Aberdeen for this reason.\n\nDowning Street has insisted it is important for the prime minister to be \"visible and accessible\" across the whole of the UK during the pandemic.\n\nIn response to Ms Sturgeon's criticism, the prime minister's official spokesman said: \"These are Covid-related visits. You've seen the prime minister do a number of them over the past few weeks.\n\n\"It is obviously important that he is continuing to meet and see those who are on the front line in terms of those who are providing tests, in terms of those who are working so hard to deliver the vaccination plan.\"\n\nMr Johnson's visit to Scotland is widely seen as being part of a \"charm offensive\" in response to polls indicating a rise in support for independence.\n\nHowever, polls have also suggested that the independence question is currently a lower priority for many people than other issues such as the pandemic, health and education.\n\nA series of opinion polls have suggested that support for independence is now ahead of support for remaining in the UK\n\nCabinet Office Minister Michael Gove said it was \"only right\" the prime minister visited people on the front line of the vaccine roll-out to make sure it is operating effectively.\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast Mr Johnson has visited other crucial locations in the UK's pandemic response, such as the Wrexham plant making the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, adding: \"No one thinks that's illegitimate.\"\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer also said he backed the visit. \"I'm with the prime minister on this one,\" he told LBC Radio.\n\n\"He is the prime minister of the UK. It's important that he travels to see what is going on, on the ground.\"\n\nIt comes as the Scottish government sets out its budget, described as the \"most important in the history of devolution\" in the wake of huge spending increases to support people and businesses during the pandemic.\n\nBoris Johnson had a clear purpose on his visit to Scotland - to talk up what he calls the power of cooperation across the UK.\n\nDressed in white lab coat and protective gear, he was happy to tell me how the UK government is supporting the fight against coronavirus in Scotland.\n\nThat includes spending lots of money supporting jobs and businesses, building test centres, and procuring vaccine supplies from companies like the one he was visiting in Livingston.\n\nNo matter what the prime minister does, or that the UK and Scottish governments are following broadly similar Covid strategies - the public in Scotland perceives that Nicola Sturgeon and her team are handling the pandemic response better.\n\nThis visit was controversial because it happened during lockdown but it went ahead because the UK government recognises how much work it has to do to make the case for the union in Scotland, with Scottish elections due in May when the question of indyref2 will be to the fore.\n\nOn Sunday, the SNP revealed an 11-point \"roadmap to a referendum\" on Scottish independence, which sets out how the party intends to take forward its plan for another vote on the issue.\n\nIt says a \"legal referendum\" will be held after the pandemic if there is a pro-independence majority at Holyrood following May's election.\n\nAnd it says it will \"vigorously oppose\" any legal challenge from the UK government.\n\nNicola Sturgeon's SNP has published a \"roadmap\" aimed at holding a legal referendum once the pandemic ends\n\nMr Johnson has repeatedly stated his opposition to a referendum, and has suggested that another one should not be held for 40 years.\n\nOpposition parties in Scotland have also accused Ms Sturgeon and the SNP of putting the push for independence ahead of the Covid pandemic.\n\nBut SNP deputy leader Keith Brown said the prime minister's trip was evidence that he is in a \"panic\" about the prospect of another referendum.", "Jonathan Mok posted a selfie and another photo of his injuries on Facebook\n\nA 16-year-old boy has been sentenced for racially attacking a Singapore student who was told \"we don't want your coronavirus in our country\".\n\nJonathan Mok was beaten up on Oxford Street last February by a group of boys in an \"unprovoked attack\".\n\nThe teenager was convicted of racially aggravated grievous bodily harm following a trial at Highbury Corner Youth Court.\n\nThe chair of the bench gave the boy an 18-month youth rehabilitation order.\n\nHe was also ordered to wear an electronic tag, follow a curfew order between 20:00 and 07:00 for 10 weeks and must pay £600 compensation to Mr Mok.\n\nChair of the bench Mervyn Mandell warned that had he been an adult he \"would have gone to jail for a very long time\".\n\n\"This was an unprovoked attack for no reason other than his [Mr Mok's] appearance,\" he said.\n\nJonathan Mok had been walking home after having dinner in central London\n\nMr Mok, 23, suffered a complicated fracture to his nose and cheekbone which required surgery, screws and stitches.\n\nImages of his swollen eye were shared widely on social media following the attack.\n\nThe court heard previously how the UCL law student turned around after a friend of the attacker made a remark about coronavirus towards him.\n\nWitnesses described a \"commotion on the street\" where Mr Mok and his friend were \"confronted by a group of white males\".\n\nThey heard someone shout \"you are diseased don't come near me\".\n\nMr Mok was then punched in the face. The teenager joined the attack and continued to punch and kick Mr Mok.\n\nProsecutor Simon Maughan said the teenager was \"quick to get involved\" in the group attack.\n\nA victim impact statement read out on behalf of Mr Mok said the crime had \"taken a heavy toll\" on him and his family.\n\nHe added: \"My legal education had to be halted for a month due to surgery and follow up medical appointments.\n\n\"I have anxiety and have problems sleeping. I believe the defendant is a threat to Singaporeans and South East Asians. He has shown no remorse.\"\n\nThe teenager's defence barrister Gerard Pitt said the boy handed himself in following a police CCTV appeal last March.\n\nNo-one else has been charged in connection with the attack.\n\nMr Pitt said: \"He has always maintained he did not say anything about coronavirus and that was vindicated at the trial.\"\n\nThe court heard Mr Mok could not be 100% sure the defendant was the boy who said anything about coronavirus.\n\nThe boy had no previous convictions, but had two youth cautions for common assaults, the court was told.\n\nBefore being sentenced the teenager said: \"When I saw the picture I felt disgusted.\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Robin Swann says all health workers are valued and have worked tirelessly during the pandemic\n\nHealth workers in Northern Ireland are to get a \"special recognition\" payment for their work during the pandemic.\n\nIt is intended that all staff will receive a payment of £500, said Health Minister Robin Swann.\n\nHowever, it will be subject to approval from the Department of Finance.\n\nThere had been calls from some political parties and health unions for staff to be recognised for their efforts.\n\nScotland has already announced a similar one-off payment and Mr Swann said it would reflect the \"principle of parity\".\n\n\"There are no words to properly convey what health workers have done for us, we will never be able to repay that debt,\" added the minister.\n\nThe development comes as Northern Ireland's Department of Health has recorded 16 more coronavirus-related deaths, taking its toll so far to 1,779.\n\nA further 527 people have tested positive for the virus in the past 24 hours.\n\nThere are 775 people in Northern Ireland's hospitals who are being treated for the virus - 68 of them are in intensive care and the number of people requiring ventilators has risen to 56.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, 54 more Covid-19 related deaths were recorded on Wednesday. It brings the Republic of Ireland's death toll to 3,120.\n\nThe Irish Department of Health also confirmed 1,335 more Covid-19 cases.\n\nSpeaking at the weekly health news conference on Wednesday, Mr Swann said the pandemic had caused \"destruction\" and left \"heartbreak in its wake\".\n\n\"Staying at home is making a difference. The R-number has been moving in the right direction,\" he said.\n\n\"We have to sustain and build on that progress.\"\n\nThe reproductive rate of the virus - known as the R rate, measures the infection rate of Covid-19 and had risen to about 1.8 after Christmas relaxations.\n\nIt has been falling since lockdown restrictions were introduced on 26 December, and Chief Medical Officer Dr Michael McBride said NI's R-number for hospital admissions has now fallen back below one.\n\nBut he warned that the pressure on the system was still significant and would continue for several more weeks.\n\nHe added that there would need to be a \"sustained\" drop in the figures before relaxations of the lockdown could be considered by the executive.\n\nIt has also been confirmed that the number of people in Northern Ireland who have received their first Covid-19 now stands at 168,140.\n\nMore than 50,000 people aged over 80 have been vaccinated.\n\nOn the payment to health workers, Mr Swann said it would \"not be without its challenges\" but that he valued all staff in the health service.\n\n\"For some people, especially some of our lower paid workers, it may in fact have an adverse impact on their social security payments or supports that recipients may be claiming,\" he added.\n\n\"I have written to the ministers of finance and communities asking them to urgently consider the issue and to engage with the tax and benefit authorities in Great Britain to request that these payments are excluded from consideration in this regard.\"\n\nThere will also be a one-off payment of £2,000 for all non-salaried students on clinical placements in the health service.\n\nMr Swann added that he intends to provide a one-off payment for carers as well, describing them as \"among the greatest unsung heroes\" of the pandemic.\n\nBut he said: \"There is still more work to be done in this regard and it will be significantly more complex to administer than the staff payment.\"\n\nKevin McAdam, who is from Unite the union, said the \"recognition payments\" will be allocated with assurances that this will not affect pay negotiations with healthcare workers.\n\nMr McAdam welcomed that health care workers and non-salaried students on placements will be \"receiving something more tangible than applause\".\n\n\"The student payment is a recognition payment, it does not solve the problems around whether student placements should be paid, I think that is an argument for another day.\"\n\nMeanwhile, a senior Department of Finance official has warned there is \"a higher than usual risk\" of some £430m unspent by the NI Executive being returned to the Treasury.\n\nMinisters must submit further funding bids, or risk it being handed back at the end of the financial year.\n\nA department official, Jeff McGuinness, said the Treasury was being pressed to show flexibility in carrying unspent money over but added that it was \"imperative\" Stormont pressed ahead, rather then rely on agreement from Treasury.\n\nHe said the other devolved administrations were also asking the Treasury for similar levels of carry-forward of unspent fiscal allocations.", "More than 127,000 people in the UK who contracted coronavirus have lost their lives - with the pandemic claiming more than 3.4 million deaths worldwide. As the UK marks a year since the first coronavirus lockdown was called, it's a time for reflection.\n\nWe have gathered tributes to more than 770 of those who have died. Below are words of remembrance from friends, family and colleagues.\n\nPlease enable JavaScript or upgrade your browser to see this interactive\n\nThe tributes are displayed at random, which means that you will see different faces each time you visit this page.\n\nIf we have used your tribute to your friend or family member, it will appear in the carousel above, or you can find it by entering their name in the search box below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. Enter a name to search the tributes\n\nFor more on NHS and healthcare workers, please see this page dedicated to 100 people who died while helping to look after others.\n\nFor more on how it has affected people's lives, from family tragedy to its impact on everyday life, we have a collection of personal stories about life in lockdown.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The limit on a single payment using contactless card technology could rise to £100 - more than double the current limit.\n\nThe coronavirus pandemic led to larger amounts spent via contactless payments on debit cards, credit cards, and cards connected to smartphones.\n\nIt has been less than a year since the limit was raised from £30 to £45.\n\nThe Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said it will consult \"shortly\" on a change in the rules.\n\n\"It is important that payments regulation keeps pace with consumer and merchant expectations,\" the regulator said.\n\n\"Recognising changing behaviour in how people pay, as part of a wider consultation, we will shortly be seeking views on amending our rules to allow for a possible increase in the contactless limit to £100.\"\n\nThe FCA can set the boundaries for payments, under its rules, but the card issuers would have the power to set the actual limits.\n\nThe pandemic has changed the way we pay for things\n\nThe use of contactless technology by consumers has risen sharply in recent years, with more services adopting the technology and most shops offering it as an option.\n\nTo protect workers and consumers during the Covid outbreak, an increase to the current limit of £45 was rushed through by the regulator in April last year.\n\nThe latest figures show that the proportion of contactless payments had fallen slightly compared with pre-pandemic levels, because lockdown measures hit the use of pubs, restaurant, and public transport. They accounted for 41% of card transactions.\n\nHowever, there was a 16% increase in the total value of contactless payments in the UK in October, compared with the same month a year earlier, the latest data from UK Finance - which represents banks - shows.\n\nThe amount spent on contactless hit a monthly record in August, boosted by the Eat Out to Help Out scheme and fewer coronavirus-related restrictions. A total of £8.4bn was spent on credit and debit cards using contactless during that month.\n\n\"The industry believes that a more flexible approach could be merited in future, which takes into account consumer demand, fraud prevention, security and convenience,\" said a spokesman for UK Finance.\n\n\"Contactless is one of a range of payment methods and the industry will also continue to work closely with the regulator to ensure that customers can pay in a way that suits them.\"\n\nHowever, there may be less enthusiasm from some shopkeepers concerned about higher-value theft as a result of the proposed changes.\n\nAndrew Cregan, payments policy advisor at the British Retail Consortium, said: \"We have concerns about raising the contactless limit, with losses from incomplete contactless payments at self-checkouts currently costing retailers millions in lost revenue.\n\n\"Card companies should take measures to reduce incomplete payments and we urge customers to make sure their own transactions always go through. However, the overwhelming priority at the moment must be for the government to address the rocketing card fees.\"", "The UK has identified 77 cases of the coronavirus variant first detected in South Africa, the health secretary has said.\n\nCases are linked to travellers arriving in the UK, rather than community transmission, Matt Hancock added.\n\nHe told the BBC's Andrew Marr cases were under \"very close\" observation and enhanced contact tracing was under way.\n\nMinisters are due to meet on Monday to consider imposing tougher restrictions on people arriving from abroad.\n\nScientists have said there is a chance the South African variant may harm the effectiveness of current vaccines.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Hancock said that \"three quarters of all the 80-year-olds in the country and a similar number of care homes\" have received their first doses of the vaccine.\n\nBoth the Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines require two doses, and figures so far reflect those given the first dose.\n\nMr Hancock said that it was \"far too early to say\" what proportion of the population needed to be vaccinated before lockdown restrictions could be eased.\n\nAll viruses, including the one that causes Covid-19, mutate, and variants have been first located in the UK, South Africa and Brazil.\n\nThe South Africa variant has been found in at least 20 other countries, including the UK.\n\nMr Hancock said that all the South Africa variant cases in the UK were linked to travel.\n\n\"That's why we have got such stringent border measures in place against movement from South Africa,\" he added.\n\nThe UK closed all travel corridors last week until at least 15 February, with almost all travellers arriving in the country now required to show proof of a negative Covid-19 test to be allowed entry.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has not ruled out bringing in tougher measures at UK borders, telling a Downing Street news conference on Friday: \"We don't want to put that (efforts to control Covid) at risk by having a new variant come back in.\"\n\nMinisters are set to discuss whether to tighten border restrictions further, including the possibility of hotel quarantines for travellers.\n\nMr Hancock said: \"We have got to be cautious at the borders.\"\n\nAsked for a date on when lockdown restrictions might end, Mr Hancock said it was \"one of the many things that we don't yet know the answer to\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock on easing restrictions: \"We don't know the answer\"\n\nGovernment data on 14 January showed there were 35 confirmed cases of the South Africa variant identified in the UK, and a further 12 \"probable\" cases.\n\nMr Hancock said nine cases of the Brazil variant had been found in the UK, adding \"we are monitoring each and every one very closely\".\n\nShadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show that Labour had been \"pushing the government to take tougher measures at the border since last spring\".\n\nShe said: \"We would fully expect the government to bring in tougher quarantine measures, we would expect them to roll out a proper testing strategy and we would expect them as well to start checking up on the people who are quarantining.\n\n\"Only three out of every hundred people who are asked to quarantine when they arrive into the UK actually face any checks at all - that's just simply not sufficient.\"\n\nOn Friday, Mr Johnson said there was \"some evidence\" the UK variant may be associated with \"a higher degree of mortality\".\n\nThe UK government's chief scientific officer, Sir Patrick Vallance, said there was \"a lot of uncertainty around these numbers\" but that early evidence suggested the variant could be about 30% more deadly.\n\nThe PM said on Friday that there was evidence that both the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine and Oxford-AstraZeneca jab were effective against the variant first detected in the UK.\n\nSir Patrick has warned that the variants in South Africa and Brazil might \"have certain features which means they might be less susceptible to vaccines\".\n\nBut he said \"there is no evidence\" that the two variants have transmission advantages over those already in the UK and so having cases here doesn't mean \"they will take off\".\n\nMeanwhile, England's deputy chief medical officer warned that people who have received a Covid-19 vaccine could still pass the virus on to others and should continue following lockdown rules.\n\nWriting in the Sunday Telegraph, Prof Jonathan Van-Tam stressed that scientists \"do not yet know the impact of the vaccine on transmission\".\n\nHe said vaccines offer \"hope\" but infection rates must come down quickly.\n\nIt's a key question but the fact is that no one can be sure.\n\nThat's because the trials of the vaccines explored the safety of the drugs and how well they prevent people from becoming ill - with good results for both.\n\nBut they did not investigate whether vaccination also stops infection and therefore whether people who've been immunised can still spread the virus to others.\n\nIf a vaccinated person did become infected, they probably wouldn't realise because they wouldn't have any symptoms. That's why health officials and ministers are so concerned.\n\nIt's possible that the antibodies boosted by the vaccine suppress the effects of the virus but don't eliminate it from the upper airway.\n\nMany scientists are cautiously hopeful that in this scenario, the amount of virus would be reduced but they're waiting for the results of studies under way now.\n\nAnd until there's an answer, it's difficult to calculate how and when it's safe to ease restrictions and allow people to mix again.\n\nA further 610 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test were reported in the UK on Sunday - down from 671 deaths last Sunday - in addition to 30,004 new infections.\n\nThe number of positive cases has fallen for the fourth day in a row and is the lowest figure since before Christmas.\n\nThe death figures tend to be lower on a Sunday and Monday because of weekend lags in reporting of the data.\n\nMeanwhile, more than six million people have had their first dose of a Covid vaccine - with the figure now standing at 6,353,321.\n\nNadhim Zahawi, the minister responsible for the vaccine rollout, said on Twitter that 6,353,321 of the \"most vulnerable and frontline heroes\" had received a first dose of the vaccine, but there was still \"much more to do\".\n\nThere were 4,076 Covid patients in mechanical ventilation beds in UK hospitals as of Friday, according to government data.\n\nThat is higher than during the first wave, when the peak was 3,301 on 12 April.", "A banned driver in a stolen car who drove into a police officer on his motorbike has been detained for three years at a young offender's institute.\n\nPC Steve Lovering was deliberately hit by Callum Fellows in Oldbury, West Midlands, after recognising him as a car crime suspect, police said.\n\nFellows, 18, admitted dangerous driving, driving while disqualified and assault at Wolverhampton Crown Court.\n\nFootage from 27 August shows Fellows reversing and knocking Mr Lovering off his bike \"sending him sprawling into the road\" before he sped off on the wrong side of the road and through red traffic lights.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The prime minister said he knew pupils and teachers wanted \"nothing more than to get back to the classroom\"\n\nSchools in England will not be able to reopen to all pupils after the February half-term, but could do so from 8 March, the prime minister has said.\n\nBoris Johnson said this was the earliest schools could reopen and \"depends on lots of things going right\".\n\nThe BBC has been told the aim is for all schools and year groups in England to return at the same time.\n\nTheir return would mark the first stage in lifting the lockdown, the PM said.\n\nHe told a Downing Street news conference: \"The date of 8 March is the earliest that we think it is sensible to set for schools to go back and obviously we hope that all schools will go back.\"\n\n\"I'm hopeful, but that's the earliest that we can do it and it depends on lots of things going right, and... it also depends on us all now continuing to work together to drive down the incidence of the disease through the basic methods we've used throughout this pandemic,\" he added.\n\nThere was not enough data yet to decide when to end the lockdown, he said, but intended to set out a plan for how it could be eased - and the criteria involved - in the final week of February\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg described the 8 March date as \"very much a hope and certainly not a guarantee\".\n\nMeanwhile, a further 1,725 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test, according to the latest government figures. The UK's official coronavirus death toll surpassed 100,000 on Tuesday.\n\nMr Johnson told MPs the country remained in a \"perilous situation\" as he said UK nationals and residents arriving from 30 high-risk countries would soon be ordered to quarantine in hotels.\n\nHe revealed a plan for the \"gradual and phased\" lifting of the lockdown in England could come in the week beginning 22 February.\n\nOther restrictions on daily life could be eased after schools reopen, but he explained this would depend on hitting vaccination targets, the capacity of the NHS, and deaths falling.\n\nAn earlier plan for mass testing for pupils and staff remains in place, the BBC has been told.\n\nEngland's schools have been closed to all but vulnerable children and those of key workers since the Christmas break.\n\nIn Scotland, it is hoped schools may begin a phased return in the middle of February.\n\nIn Wales, measures including school and college closures will be reviewed on Friday. In Northern Ireland, a review will take place on Thursday.\n\nThe prime minister said he understood frustration among pupils and teachers \"and for parents and for carers who spent so many months juggling their day jobs, not only with home schooling but meeting the myriad other demands of their children from breakfast until bedtime\".\n\nThe government initially planned to review England's lockdown measures - including school closures - on 15 February, which had raised hopes that pupils could return to classes after half term.\n\nAcknowledging the impact of continued school closures, Mr Johnson pledged to \"work with parents, teachers and schools to develop a long-term plan to make sure that pupils have the chance to make up their learning\" before 2024.\n\nHe said £300m \"of new money to schools\" would fund a catch-up programme over the coming year, with financial incentives for providers to educate pupils who have missed lessons due to the pandemic.\n\nAfter complaints about confusion and drift about when schools in England are going back, Boris Johnson has sought to bring some certainty.\n\nThey won't be going back straight after half term - but the target date will be 8 March.\n\nSources say the aim is for all schools and year groups in England, in primary and secondary, to return back on that date - rather than it being the starting date of a phased or regional return.\n\nAlthough that could be subject to any changes in local Covid-19 levels.\n\nWhen schools do go back it is expected there will be mass testing for pupils and staff, in the scheme initially planned for the start of term.\n\nIt still leaves parents home schooling for another five weeks - and means most of this term will have been without face-to-face lessons.\n\nThis will be a particular worry for pupils heading for whatever replaces GCSEs and A-levels this summer, after almost a full year of stop-start lessons.\n\nHead teachers say the delay is \"no surprise\" - and reopening must be done safely.\n\nAnd Labour says half term should be used to vaccinate teachers to help schools stay open.\n\nBut the prime minister will hope that parents would rather have some clarity about what's happening with schools, even if that means a longer delay.\n\nTeachers' and head teachers' unions said they supported reopening schools but added that it must be safe and not rushed.\n\nMary Bousted, joint general secretary of the National Education Union, said that although the most vulnerable would be protected by March, most parents would not be.\n\n\"It fails completely to recognise the role schools have played in community transmission. The prime minister has already forgotten what he told the nation at the beginning of this lockdown, that schools are a 'vector for transmission',\" she said.\n\nPaul Whiteman, general secretary of school leaders' union NAHT, said the government needs to work with head teachers to review safety measures and create a \"workable plan\" for schools to reopen fully.\n\n\"The government will also have to put effort into reassuring families that it is safe to send their children back to school - there is a confidence test the government must pass to make the return a success,\" he said.\n• None How are Covid rules changing across UK schools?", "Times Radio's Tom Newton-Dunn asked about transmission rates in people given the vaccine Image caption: Times Radio's Tom Newton-Dunn asked about transmission rates in people given the vaccine\n\nTom Newton Dunn from Times Radio asks what we know so far about the rate at which people who have had the vaccine can transmit coronavirus.\n\nJonathan Van Tam says there is no clear data on how the vaccine impacts transmission of coronavirus but there are studies working on finding out and we will have that information in time.\n\nHe said the question is less \"will they\" and more \"to what extent\" do they stop transmission.\n\nSir Patrick Vallance says \"you don't have vaccines of this efficacy without there being some effect on transmission\".\n\nHe says it's an important question as \"it will also determine to what extent these vaccines can be used across wider society to reduce transmission overall\".\n\nNewton Dunn asks how the prime minister came to the date of 8 March to reopen schools and whether it would have been \"wiser to wait until you were sure\".\n\nThe prime minister says the date depends on the vaccines working in reducing mortality and serious disease.... and we need to make sure the infection rate is in the right place.\n\n\"We will keep it all under constant review,\" he says.", "Already 100,000 people in the UK have died with Covid, according to the official count. The idea of 100,000 deaths is hard for many of us to comprehend. But each was a human being who lived and loved in their own unique way. This is the story of one of them.\n\nBy 3:01am, alone in a hospital room, Ann Fitzgerald reached for her phone. This would be her last chance to contact her husband of four decades, the man she'd raised two children with, her Tony - to Ann, he was always her Tony.\n\nThe couple had made a pact. So long as Ann was in hospital with Covid, Tony would spend his nights dozing upright in a chair at their bungalow in Pewfall, Merseyside. That way, he would wake up if there was a message alert.\n\nIt wasn't much of a sacrifice, Tony thought, not when the woman he'd loved for 47 years was all by herself and frightened. And besides, each time his phone bleeped Tony would know she was still alive, and silently he'd thank the stars.\n\nAnd so in the early hours of Tuesday 7 April, Ann's last message arrived. She'd summoned the energy to take a farewell selfie as she lay in bed wearing an oxygen mask. \"She must have thought: 'Here's something so you won't forget me,'\" says Tony.\n\nTwo-and-a-half hours later, Ann was dead. She was 65, a mother, a wife, a neighbour, a colleague and a friend, and one of 999 people in the UK who died that day with the novel coronavirus.\n\nSoon after the hospital rang and told Tony of her death, he was at her bedside, dressed from head to toe in PPE. No visitors had been allowed to see her while she was alive, but now she was gone it was apparently fine - for reasons he didn't understand.\n\nTony wept as he apologised to his wife's lifeless body for letting her go like this, with no loved ones by her side. Then he turned and cursed the sterile white hospital ceiling and walls, because they'd been with her at the end and he hadn't.\n\nBack then, few could have imagined the UK's death toll would reach 100,000, or anything close to it.\n\nAt that point, the tally stood at 10,000; three weeks previously the UK government's Chief Scientific Adviser Sir Patrick Vallance had said limiting the final figure to twice that sum would be a \"good outcome\".\n\nNow, 10 months on, the total number of people in the UK who have died within 28 days of a coronavirus diagnosis has increased tenfold, while UK excess deaths in 2020 were at their highest level since World War Two. The UK has had one of the highest rates of recorded coronavirus deaths in the world so far.\n\nBy any measure, 100,000 is a devastating amount, roughly equivalent to two Premier League football grounds, or the number of people who attend the Reading festival every year. For many people, the sheer scale of loss conveyed by the figure will be impossible to grasp.\n\n\"Numbers with lots of zeros are very difficult to interpret, and can be made to look large or small,\" says Sir David Spiegelhalter, a statistician at the University of Cambridge.\n\n\"If I say that 100,000 deaths is two months' worth of normal mortality, then it may not look so bad. If I say that it is more than all the [UK] civilian deaths in WW2, or as if everyone in a city the size of Durham got killed, then it sounds worse. It is challenging to adequately convey such a large number of individual tragedies.\"\n\nBut while many may have become numb to the daily death figures, behind every statistic is a real life lost - a real life like Ann's. \"That is why this arbitrary numerical milestone is important,\" says Hetan Shah, chief executive of the British Academy and a former executive director of the Royal Statistical Society. \"It is a chance to reflect again on the terrible toll this pandemic has taken on so many British families.\"\n\nIn a Manchester nightclub one evening in 1973, 18-year-old Tony felt a tap on his arm. It was Ann, a year his senior, whom he knew by sight as a barmaid in one of the city-centre pubs he sometimes drank in. She'd always stood out to him, with her olive skin and striking good looks, but he'd never dared imagine she might be interested in him romantically.\n\n\"I'm here with that fella over there,\" she told him, gesturing towards across the room. \"But I don't like him and I don't know what to do.\"\n\nTony walked over to Ann's date and told him to clear off. Then Tony returned to Ann, and the two of them had a drink together, and then another. Before long they were a couple and Tony decided he was the luckiest man in the world.\n\nSoon he learned all about Ann's background. Her Lithuanian-born Jewish father had died when she was two years old, and with her mother unable to cope she'd been passed between relatives throughout her childhood. By 16 she was living in a bedsit, supporting herself with waitressing and bar work - she'd also been employed at the legendary art-deco Kardoma café on Market Street and at George Best's nightclub, Oscar's.\n\n\"As a consequence of her upbringing she was really, really independent,\" says Tony. \"She was really good at talking to people, and she was sharp - the sharpest, wittiest person I've ever met.\"\n\nThey rented a flat in Fallowfield together and made it their home. After Ann was offered relief work running bars around Manchester, Tony quit his job as a sales rep to join her. Eventually, in 1981, they took on their own pub. It was in what was then a tough part of Salford, but Ann had grown up nearby and knew how to handle the local characters: \"She could have you in stitches, but she could throw you a look, and you knew you had to behave yourself,\" Tony says.\n\nThe couple were offered the chance to take on another pub in Sale Moor. They thought they were going upmarket, but it turned out to be quite the reverse; Tony would joke that he should take away all the tables and chairs and install a boxing ring instead.\n\nBut Ann wasn't intimidated by anyone. According to Tony, when a notorious local villain turned up and demanded a free drink, Ann stood her ground: \"My husband's name is above the front door, and he pays for his drinks, so you're going to pay for yours,\" she told him. Impressed, the villain ended up buying one for Ann instead.\n\nShe and Tony knew it was time to quit when burglars broke in one night while their baby daughter slept in her cot upstairs. Tony went back on the road as a salesman; Ann worked variously as a debt counsellor, an incident manager for the RAC, and a sales trainer at a cotton firm. Their children, Gary, and Rachel, never once heard them argue, Tony says.\n\nFor six years the couple had a stall at Altrincham Market selling women's clothes. \"People would come, not necessarily to buy something - they just wanted to see Ann,\" says Tony. \"And as a consequence, they'd buy something they didn't really want.\" Each time this happened, Ann would give Tony a wink.\n\nBy the start of 2020, Ann and Tony were looking forward to a long retirement together. Both their children had left home, and they'd recently moved to the bungalow. The news broadcasts had begun describing a deadly pandemic that had spread from China. But Ann wasn't leaving the house much while she recovered from an operation to replace both hips.\n\nThen one Thursday in March she went for a haircut; she asked for the colour to be darkened slightly too, and when he first saw her afterwards Tony told her how much he loved it. Ann mentioned that the hairdresser had been coughing.\n\nThree days later, Ann began coughing too, and soon afterwards so did Tony. But with a fever, she felt worse, and within a few more days she was barely able to stand. She asked Tony to call 999.\n\nThe paramedics helped her to the ambulance. It haunts Tony now that he didn't hug or kiss her as they said goodbye. \"Neither of us thought for one moment that it would be the last day I would ever see her alive,\" he says. She told him they'd probably give her antibiotics and he could come and pick her up in a few hours.\n\nBut later that day she phoned him to say the doctors suspected Covid and they would be keeping her in. As in many hospitals during the first wave, no visiting was allowed.\n\nTony could only stay in touch with her by phone. When a doctor told him the next 24 hours were critical, he didn't tell Ann, because he knew how scared she was already by then.\n\nBut he did pass on something else the medic had said - that they were deeply impressed by her upbeat attitude and fighting spirit. Tony told her, too, that he believed she would be home soon: \"I had to say that to keep her fighting, and fight she did for 10 days.\"\n\nThe last time they spoke was Saturday 4 April. Ann told Tony she thought she'd turned a corner; she'd eaten a sandwich and some yoghurt. After that, talking became too difficult for her; she wasn't in intensive care but the mask she wore to help her breathe was getting in the way.\n\nThree days after their last conversation, Tony was sitting in a white hospital room beside Ann's body. He sat with her there for an hour. He didn't just apologise, he also promised he'd make sure she was remembered properly. When it was time to leave, a nurse gave him a booklet about bereavement and a black bag in which to put Ann's belongings. Tony carried them along a hospital corridor, wondering how he would tell Gary and Rachel their mum was dead.\n\nThere are eight photographs of Ann in Tony's living room. In each of them she looks full of joy. \"Every time I look around, there's a picture of Ann somewhere,\" Tony says. \"She's smiling and I'm thinking, 'If only I could turn back the clock.' But I can't, you know, and nor can all those other families and relations, either.\"\n\nNearly 10 months after Ann's death, Tony finds himself resenting the home he's been left alone inside. If they hadn't moved there, he reasons, Ann wouldn't have gone to that hairdresser's that day and caught the virus - she'd still be alive, perhaps.\n\nHe feels robbed of the 20 additional years he hoped they'd spend together, as surely will thousands of other bereaved relatives. While the impact on the very oldest has been widely recognised, those who might have looked forward to a long retirement have been badly hit, too - during the pandemic, around 15% of all UK fatalities with Covid mentioned on the death certificate have been among those aged 65-74.\n\nTony desperately wishes his life would go back to how it was, but knows it won't.\n\nAnn's funeral didn't give him any closure. Tony would rather she had been buried, but the undertaker warned him to hurry - extra restrictions could be introduced any time - so he took the date that was offered by the crematorium.\n\nAs it was, under the rules that were already in force, only 10 mourners were permitted, spaced out around the chapel. No flowers or photographs on display, no hugging.\n\nTony understood why all this was necessary - but it wasn't the celebration of Ann's bright, gregarious, love-filled life that he thought she deserved. He'd have to plan another one when all this was over.\n\nAs the months went on, Tony joined online Covid support groups. It helped talking to others who understood how it felt to have lost someone. There was the family of a 19-year-old boy. A woman who was mourning both her mum and her dad. Another woman whose husband had died in the car as she drove him to hospital.\n\nHe thought of these stories each time he switched on the news and watched the Covid mortality figures climb higher and higher. Behind these cold statistics were human lives. And each was as unique as Ann, with a personality and backstory entirely of their own.\n\nIt would have been Ann and Tony's 41st wedding anniversary on 6 October, the day before the six-month anniversary of her death. The following month, a few days after the UK's Covid death toll reached 50,000, Tony once again felt Ann's absence bitterly on what would have been her 66th birthday.\n\n\"Christmas was a nightmare for me,\" he says. Under the rules for the festive season, Gary and Rachel and their partners were able to be there with him, and cooking lunch kept him busy most of the day. But afterwards, when he was on his own again, the reality hit that another celebration had gone by without Ann beside him, and Tony sat down and sobbed.\n\nFor millions the arrival of the Covid vaccines has brought hope, but it is a cold comfort for those who have lost someone. If every one of the 100,000 were loved by a dozen people, \"that's a million people in Britain who have been bereaved\", says the bioethicist and sociologist Prof Sir Tom Shakespeare. \"We need a national monument, some form of remembering.\"\n\nTony is not one of those who will find it hard to grasp the significance of this bleak milestone.\n\n\"To me it's 100,000 poor souls fighting for breath, and they've not had a hug from anyone in their family,\" he says. \"There's a name - there's a person behind that number. And then they've passed away, and the family goes through the grief that I've been through - the numbness, the shock, the anguish and the pain to come.\"", "Microsoft has reported booming demand for its Xbox gaming consoles as the pandemic continues to lift the fortunes of the American tech giant.\n\nIts Azure cloud computing services also got a boost due to a surge in working and learning from home.\n\nThe gains helped push the firm's overall revenue up 17% to a record $43.1bn (£31.4bn).\n\nBut its growth came as the virus continues to weigh on other industries.\n\nMicrosoft boss Satya Nadella said the firm is benefiting from a long-term shift in behaviour.\n\n\"What we have witnessed over the past year is the dawn of a second wave of digital transformation sweeping every company and every industry,\" he said.\n\nXbox sales jumped 40% in the three months to 31 December while Azure services soared 50%.\n\nThe virus continues to weigh on industries outside of tech\n\nThe pandemic has prompted many firms to switch to remote working, while keeping many entertainment options outside of the home off-limits.\n\nMicrosoft has seized on the changes, focusing energy on updating its remote work software options.\n\nThe firm also released two new Xbox consoles in November, helping to boost the performance of its personal computing unit.\n\nMicrosoft's gaming business topped $5bn in quarterly sales for the first time ever due to gaming subscriptions and sales as well as new consoles.\n\nThe firm said profits in the quarter rose 33% compared with last year to $15.5bn.\n\nIts shares - which climbed roughly 40% last year - were up another 4% in after-hours trade,\n\n\"These were blow out numbers that will be another feather in the cap for the tech sector as the cloud growth party is just getting started,\" said Dan Ives, an analyst at Wedbush Securities.\n\nBut the gains enjoyed by tech firms like Microsoft stand in contrast to the ongoing struggles seen in other industries such as hospitality, retail and travel.\n\nCoffee chain Starbucks on Tuesday said its sales in the last three months of 2020 fell roughly 5% compared to 2019, driven by a drop in business in the US where concerns about Covid-19 have prompted authorities to urge people to stay at home.\n\nIn China, where the virus is under more control, sales rose 5%, the company said.\n\nThe firm said it expected business to return to growth in the next few months, including in the critical US market.\n\nBut profits in the quarter dropped 30% to $622.2m compared with last year, sending the firm's shares lower in after-hours trade.", "Apple sales have hit another record, as families loaded up on the firm's latest phones, laptops and gadgets during the Christmas period.\n\nSales in the last three months of 2020 hit more than $111bn (£81bn) - up 21% from the prior year.\n\nThe gains come as the pandemic pushes more activity online, fuelling demand for new technology.\n\nApple now counts more than 1.65 billion active devices globally, including more than 1 billion iPhones.\n\nApple's gains follow the release of its new iPhone 12 suite of phones, which executives said had convinced a record number of people to switch to the company or upgrade from older models.\n\nThe firm said growth in China - where the pandemic has already loosened its grip on the economy - was particularly strong, helped in part by demand for phones compatible with new 5G networks.\n\nSales in the firm's greater China region, which includes Hong Kong and Taiwan, jumped 57%. In Europe, sales roles 17%, and they rose 11% in the Americas.\n\n\"The products are doing very well all around the world,\" said Luca Maestri, Apple's chief financial officer. \"As we look ahead into the March quarter, we're very optimistic.\"\n\nAnalyst Dan Ives of Wedbush Securities said he thought the firm was just at the beginning of a \"super-cycle\" as Apple devotees finally trade in old phones, coinciding with upgrades to telecommunications networks.\n\n\"With 5G now in the cards and roughly 40% of its 'golden jewel' iPhone installed base not upgrading their phones in the last 3.5 years, [Apple chief Tim] Cook & Co have the stage set for a renaissance of growth,\" he wrote.\n\nBig Tech is having an exceptionally lucrative pandemic.\n\nIt's hard not to be wowed by some of these figures.\n\nThat Apple recorded more than $100bn in sales in just three months is simply astonishing.\n\nFacebook figures are also well up on where they were last year.\n\nAs other companies have struggled to survive, Big Tech has flourished.\n\nThere are other reasons for some of these incredible figures. Certainly it seems iPhone enthusiasts were holding out for the new 5G enabled iPhone12.\n\nBut it's not just Apple and Facebook, all of the massive tech companies are having a bumper year.\n\nCovid-19 means people are spending more time indoors - buying things online, watching things online and chatting online.\n\nPerhaps then it's no surprise that these companies are posting record breaking figures.\n\nBut others point to these figures as yet more evidence that Big Tech has become too big to fail.\n\nThese figures are impressive. But they also attract the attention of politicians who are increasingly asking difficult questions - like are these tech mega companies operating in a market that is fair and with enough competition?\n\nApple said profits in the quarter reached nearly $28.8bn, up 29% compared with the same quarter last year.\n\nThe gains seen by technology firms like Apple contrast with losses hitting many other economic sectors, as the virus restricts activity and keeps shoppers at home.\n\nOther tech firms, such as Microsoft and Facebook, have also enjoyed strong growth.\n\nFacebook on Wednesday said increased online shopping during the pandemic helped lift ad revenue in the quarter by 30%.\n\nThe number of people active on its apps - which also include WhatsApp and Instagram - also rose to 2.6 billion daily, up 15% compared to 2019.\n\nIt said ad spending could slow as the Covid crisis relaxes and shopper appetite returns for services like travel rather than products.\n\nIt also warned that plans by Apple to change how it shares user data could weigh on growth.", "The ink and watercolour maps are believed to have been created the year after the battle\n\nHand-drawn, Elizabethan-era maps depicting the Spanish Armada have been saved for the nation after £600,000 was raised to buy them.\n\nThe 10 maps, believed to have been drawn the year after the famous battle of 1588, were sold to an overseas buyer in July but an export ban was imposed.\n\nThe National Museum of the Royal Navy (NMRN) in Portsmouth raised the money in eight weeks.\n\nIt is now seeking further funds to put the maps on display for the first time.\n\nIt is believed the drawings, completed by an unknown draughtsman, possibly from the Netherlands, were based on a set of engravings from the same year by Elizabethan cartographer Robert Adams.\n\nIn the summer of 1588 the Spanish Armada set sail for England after decades of hostility between Spain's Catholic King Philip II and the Protestant Queen Elizabeth I.\n\nIt is regarded as one of the most significant naval battles in history, when the English fleet of 66 ships defeated the Armada, twice its size, by sailing fire ships into its formation off Calais.\n\nThe English fleet defeated the Spanish Armada in the English Channel in 1588\n\nThe ink and watercolour maps were sold for £600,000, but culture minister Caroline Dinenage imposed an export ban until January and called for a museum or institution to raise funds to purchase them.\n\nNMRN director general Prof Dominic Tweddle said members of the public had \"dug deep in extremely difficult times\".\n\nThe target was reached with the help of £212,800 from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and £200,000 from the Art Fund.\n\nMs Dinenage said: \"The export bar system exists so we can keep nationally important works in the country and I am delighted that, thanks to the tireless work of the National Museum of the Royal Navy, the Armada maps will now go on display to educate and inspire future generations.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Chris Whitty said it was a very sad day, as the UK surpassed 100,000 Covid deaths\n\nThe number of daily coronavirus deaths in the UK is likely to come down \"relatively slowly\", England's chief medical officer has warned.\n\nProf Chris Whitty said the UK was going to see \"a lot more deaths\" over the next few weeks before the effects of the vaccination programme were felt.\n\nCurrent restrictions were \"just about holding\" in lowering infection rates, he told a Downing Street briefing.\n\nIt comes as the UK surpassed 100,000 coronavirus deaths on Tuesday.\n\nA further 1,631 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were recorded in the daily figures.\n\nAnd 20,089 coronavirus cases were reported on Tuesday, continuing a downward trend in the number of UK cases seen in recent days.\n\nProf Whitty told a Downing Street news conference the rolling seven-day average for deaths was 1,242 - \"an incredibly high number\" - and unlikely to come down quickly.\n\n\"I think we have to be realistic that the rate of mortality, the number of people dying a day, will come down relatively slowly over the next two weeks - and will probably be flat for a while now.\"\n\nProf Whitty said the number of people testing positive for coronavirus was \"still at a very high number, but it has been coming down\".\n\nBut he cautioned against relaxing restrictions \"too early\", as Office for National Statistics data showed a \"rather slower\" decrease.\n\nThe number of people in hospital with Covid-19 in the UK had \"flattened off\", he said, but was still an \"incredibly high number\" and \"substantially above the peak in April\".\n\nProf Whitty said the new, more transmissible variant discovered in the south east of England at the end of last year had altered the UK's situation \"very substantially\" and had made it \"much harder\" to bring infection levels down.\n\n\"We were worried two weeks ago that the measures we have at the moment were not enough to hold this new variant,\" he told the news conference.\n\n\"I think what the data I showed you at the beginning of the slide sessions shows is that the rates are just about holding with the new variant, with what everybody's doing.\n\n\"It's going to be much harder because of this new variant and I think we have to be realistic about that.\"\n\nSir Simon Stevens, chief executive of NHS England, said that more than a quarter of a million severely ill coronavirus patients have been looked after in hospital since the pandemic started last year.\n\n\"This is not a year that anybody is going to want to remember nor is it a year that across the health service any of us will ever forget,\" he said.\n\nThe daily Covid figures have seen the number of deaths top 100,000. But they also contain some signs of hope.\n\nJust over 20,000 new infections have been reported - down from 22,000 yesterday.\n\nThis compares to an average of 60,000 at the start of the year.\n\nIt is a sharp fall, although Prof Whitty cautions it may actually be a little slower than that.\n\nNot everyone who is infected comes forward for testing and the government surveillance programme which involves random testing of the population suggests the fall has not been quite so great.\n\nNonetheless, it is clear the infection rate is coming down - and that offers hope.\n\nHospital cases have plateaued and should soon start falling. That will eventually lead to a reduction in the number of deaths.\n\nThen, in February, the vaccination programme should start having an impact, leading, hopefully, to a rapid drop in deaths.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson told the briefing the coronavirus infection rate remained \"pretty forbiddingly high\" to ease lockdown restrictions, which have been in place in England since 5 January.\n\nBut he said \"at a certain stage we will want to be getting things open\".\n\nHe added: \"What I will be doing in the course of the next few days and weeks is setting out in more detail, as soon as we can, when and how we want to get things open again.\"\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and only go out for limited reasons - including for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nMeanwhile, the epidemiologist whose modelling prompted the UK government to impose the first lockdown has told BBC Radio 4's PM he believes more action in autumn last year could have \"drastically reduced\" the number of lives lost in the second wave - some 60,000.\n\nProf Neil Ferguson said: \"They couldn't have been eliminated, but they could have been drastically reduced by earlier action, unfortunately.\n\n\"How much is difficult to judge, the new variant was unpredictable and did change our understanding of how much was needed to control spread, but we did just let the autumn wave get to far, far too high infection levels.\"\n\nReacting to the UK's death toll, Mr Johnson said he took \"full responsibility\" for the government's actions, but added: \"We truly did everything we could.\"", "Parents are struggling with the sense of uncertainty, says psychologist\n\nHome schooling can be tough. It's difficult to concentrate, there's emotional exhaustion, boredom, a lack of motivation and it's really hard not going out to see friends. And that's just the parents.\n\nThis winter lockdown is taking its toll on families, now struggling even more on the black ice of uncertainty as no-one can say when schools in England are going to reopen for most pupils again.\n\n\"There's a sense of fatigue,\" says Jacqueline Smallwood, who is at home with three secondary-school children. She says her own \"concentration levels have fallen dramatically\".\n\n\"It's so repetitive that it just makes you feel tired,\" she says of the latest lockdown and the \"silent struggle\" facing both parents and their children to try to get motivated.\n\nHome school shows no sign of coming to an early end\n\nThere might have been some guilty enjoyment at the start of the year when the school term was initially delayed, not having to get up and out on cold January mornings.\n\nUntil it dawned on them that this was becoming something much longer than a few weeks.\n\nIt's morphed from early January to half term in mid-February and now maybe Easter in early April or even later. And Jacqueline says, as a matter of \"respect\", parents need to know what's happening about schools.\n\nThe confusion over a return date seems to have further frayed the nerves of parents.\n\nThe mother, who lives outside Canterbury in Kent, says she worries about the pressures building up on young people.\n\nFor teenagers like her sons, she says this \"should be a pivotal time in their lives,\" when they're beginning to get some independence and when social lives are hugely important - but instead they're stuck inside with their parents.\n\n\"We can't live like the Waltons forever,\" she says, referencing the US TV series of a folksy family relying on each other.\n\nJacqueline says families are finding this latest lockdown tougher than the spring or summer\n\nThe first lockdown created an unexpected sense of togetherness, an \"enforced bonding\" that she says turned out to be a \"massive positive\".\n\nBut Jacqueline, who works as a writer, sees no such upside to the latest lockdown. There is a collective frustration - and she says it has been made even worse by the confusion about when schools will go back.\n\nThe online home-schooling seems to be working, she says, with teachers trying to boost the enthusiasm levels, but it's no real substitute for being in school. And she wants much more clarity about when they will go back.\n\n\"I've tried not to be political about decisions being made, but you can't help but feel disappointed. They don't seem to understand how real people are living,\" she says.\n\nShe says when politicians say maybe schools will or won't be back by Easter, they don't realise how much that uncertainty affects families trying to plan for what comes next.\n\nEducational psychologist Dan O'Hare says the \"key word is 'uncertainty'\".\n\nLiving on a laptop can take its toll on parents having to work and home school their children\n\nNot knowing what is coming next adds to the pressure, he says, and children out of school are already facing big unknowns such as what's going to happen about exams or when will they see their friends and teachers.\n\n\"It's really stressful for children and their families,\" says Dr O'Hare, who is co-chair of the British Psychological Society's division for educational and child psychology. \"They need a sense of a plan.\"\n\nThis lockdown is also in the depths of winter - and he says employers need to think about making sure staff working from home are able to take a break in daylight hours, so that families can get outside.\n\nIt's no use asking parents to answer work emails all day and expect them to go out when it's dark.\n\nSchools have been providing more online lessons in this lockdown\n\nFor some families it has got very difficult.\n\n\"It's affected her emotionally a lot,\" says Dave in Bolton, who is worrying about his six-year-old daughter, who has been crying because she misses her friends.\n\n\"It's awful, you can't put a positive spin on it. She's at that age where she's enjoying her friends, becoming more socialised,\" he told BBC 5 Live.\n\n\"She's quite a confident little girl and I can't help worry that being stuck at home is going to impact her in the longer term.\"\n\nThe father says many of her classmates are still going into school - and that makes it even harder when she sees her friends on school Zoom calls.\n\nEmployers should make sure that parents' working hours allow them to get out in daylight, says psychologist\n\nJen Locke in Newcastle makes the point that women can often be \"the most adversely affected by the decision to keep schools closed\".\n\nShe says home schooling has \"fallen squarely on my shoulders\", helping her children in the day and then shifting her work with an IT company into the evening, so it's an early start through to a very late finish.\n\n\"It's a huge mental strain… I'm knackered from it all,\" she says, right down to trying to get children to bed who aren't tired because they're not going out.\n\nA lockdown weariness seems to be out there, despite the best efforts of schools.\n\nSimon Armstrong in Bristol, whose son is in secondary school, says: \"Virtual lessons, no matter how well delivered, are a woeful substitute for real lessons.\"\n\n\"I am at the end of my tether,\" he says.\n\nThe Department for Education said: \"We are committed to reopening schools as soon as the public health picture allows, and will inform schools, parents and pupils of plans ahead of February half term.\"\n\nBut Labour has accused the government of causing \"chaos and confusion\" for parents and schools.\n\nThe National Association of Head Teachers said: \"Now is the moment for calm heads to decide on a sustainable return to school, not another chaotic and last-minute set of decisions that could easily result in a yo-yo return to lockdown.\"", "The Army sent a bomb disposal unit to Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine producer Wockhardt's unit\n\nProduction of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine has resumed at a plant after it was suspended when a suspicious package was received.\n\nThe Wockhardt UK plant on Wrexham Industrial Estate was evacuated and the Army sent a bomb disposal unit.\n\nPolice said the package had been made safe and its contents would be \"taken away for analysis\".\n\nWockhardt said staff had been allowed to return and its production schedule had not been affected.\n\nBoth Downing Street and Wales' First Minister Mark Drakeford had been receiving updates on the incident since police were called at about 10:40 GMT.\n\nA police cordon was put in place near the plant and the public were asked to keep away. There are no reports of any injuries.\n\n\"There are no wider concerns for public safety, however, some roads on the industrial estate will remain closed whilst we continue our investigations,\" North Wales Police said in a statement.\n\nPolice have asked the public to keep away from the site in Wrexham\n\nForensic police officers were seen examining items on the road outside the plant, which remained closed after the cordon had been lifted.\n\nWockhardt UK said: \"We can confirm that the investigation on the suspicious package received today has been concluded.\n\n\"Given that staff safety is our main priority, manufacturing was temporarily paused whilst this took place safely.\n\n\"We can now confirm that the package was made safe and staff are now being allowed back into the facility.\n\n\"This temporary suspension of manufacturing has in no way affected our production schedule and we are grateful to the authorities and experts for their swift response and resolution of the incident.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn an earlier statement, the global pharmaceutical and biotechnology company confirmed it had \"partially evacuated\" its site to protect staff.\n\nThe Wrexham plant has the capability to produce about 300 million doses of the vaccine a year.\n\nEarlier on Wednesday, John Roberts, who runs CMS Wrexham Ltd, next door to the plant, said he heard a \"big bang\" at about 11:35 GMT - although he could not say where the noise came from.\n\n\"We're next door to Wockhardt. Three of us were talking then we heard a hell of an explosion or a bang,\" he said.\n\n\"I went outside, couldn't see anything. I looked the other side and two blokes were on the roof.\n\n\"The next thing the police had blocked off the road and were looking in the bushes.\"\n\nPolice were at the scene on Wrexham Industrial Estate for most of the day\n\nA police cordon had been put in place near the Wockhardt plant\n\nHis son Mark Roberts said: \"The police just closed the road off and we've heard there's a bomb disposal unit.\n\n\"They've been here about an hour or so - we're on tenterhooks.\n\n\"Boris Johnson toured the factory around December time, so I wonder if that's raised the profile, as it's where they make the Oxford vaccine.\"\n\nThe Wrexham plant has the capability to produce about 300 million doses of the vaccine a year\n\nDave Picken, 53, who lives near Wrexham Industrial Estate, said: \"We've seen lots of police cars and a fire engine.\n\n\"Bomb disposal are here with a robot. We were closer to the factory but police told us to move and cordoned off a bigger area.\n\n\"I did ask an officer how big the bomb is but he said he couldn't say it's a bomb.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson saw the production line for vaccines when he visited the factory\n\nVisiting the plant in November, Prime Minister Boris Johnson it could provide \"salvation for humanity\".\n\nWockhardt UK entered an agreement in August to help prepare the vaccine for distribution.\n\nWhen the company's contract was announced, Ravi Limaye, managing director, said: \"We are immensely proud to have been selected to partner with the UK government on this project.\n\n\"We have a sophisticated sterile manufacturing facility and a highly skilled workforce.\"\n\nOn Thursday, Wrexham council leader Mark Pritchard said teams had worked to ensure the vaccine was not lost in the floods.\n\nThe Welsh Government said there had been \"no adverse effects\" on the coronavirus vaccine roll-out.", "Already 100,000 people in the UK have died with Covid, according to the official count. The idea of 100,000 deaths is hard for many of us to comprehend. But each was a human being who lived and loved in their own unique way. This is the story of one of them.\n\nBy 3:01am, alone in a hospital room, Ann Fitzgerald reached for her phone. This would be her last chance to contact her husband of four decades, the man she'd raised two children with, her Tony - to Ann, he was always her Tony.\n\nThe couple had made a pact. So long as Ann was in hospital with Covid, Tony would spend his nights dozing upright in a chair at their bungalow in Pewfall, Merseyside. That way, he would wake up if there was a message alert.\n\nIt wasn't much of a sacrifice, Tony thought, not when the woman he'd loved for 47 years was all by herself and frightened. And besides, each time his phone bleeped Tony would know she was still alive, and silently he'd thank the stars.\n\nAnd so in the early hours of Tuesday 7 April, Ann's last message arrived. She'd summoned the energy to take a farewell selfie as she lay in bed wearing an oxygen mask. \"She must have thought: 'Here's something so you won't forget me,'\" says Tony.\n\nTwo-and-a-half hours later, Ann was dead. She was 65, a mother, a wife, a neighbour, a colleague and a friend, and one of 999 people in the UK who died that day with the novel coronavirus.\n\nSoon after the hospital rang and told Tony of her death, he was at her bedside, dressed from head to toe in PPE. No visitors had been allowed to see her while she was alive, but now she was gone it was apparently fine - for reasons he didn't understand.\n\nTony wept as he apologised to his wife's lifeless body for letting her go like this, with no loved ones by her side. Then he turned and cursed the sterile white hospital ceiling and walls, because they'd been with her at the end and he hadn't.\n\nBack then, few could have imagined the UK's death toll would reach 100,000, or anything close to it.\n\nAt that point, the tally stood at 10,000; three weeks previously the UK government's Chief Scientific Adviser Sir Patrick Vallance had said limiting the final figure to twice that sum would be a \"good outcome\".\n\nNow, 10 months on, the total number of people in the UK who have died within 28 days of a coronavirus diagnosis has increased tenfold, while UK excess deaths in 2020 were at their highest level since World War Two. The UK has had one of the highest rates of recorded coronavirus deaths in the world so far.\n\nBy any measure, 100,000 is a devastating amount, roughly equivalent to two Premier League football grounds, or the number of people who attend the Reading festival every year. For many people, the sheer scale of loss conveyed by the figure will be impossible to grasp.\n\n\"Numbers with lots of zeros are very difficult to interpret, and can be made to look large or small,\" says Sir David Spiegelhalter, a statistician at the University of Cambridge.\n\n\"If I say that 100,000 deaths is two months' worth of normal mortality, then it may not look so bad. If I say that it is more than all the [UK] civilian deaths in WW2, or as if everyone in a city the size of Durham got killed, then it sounds worse. It is challenging to adequately convey such a large number of individual tragedies.\"\n\nBut while many may have become numb to the daily death figures, behind every statistic is a real life lost - a real life like Ann's. \"That is why this arbitrary numerical milestone is important,\" says Hetan Shah, chief executive of the British Academy and a former executive director of the Royal Statistical Society. \"It is a chance to reflect again on the terrible toll this pandemic has taken on so many British families.\"\n\nIn a Manchester nightclub one evening in 1973, 18-year-old Tony felt a tap on his arm. It was Ann, a year his senior, whom he knew by sight as a barmaid in one of the city-centre pubs he sometimes drank in. She'd always stood out to him, with her olive skin and striking good looks, but he'd never dared imagine she might be interested in him romantically.\n\n\"I'm here with that fella over there,\" she told him, gesturing towards across the room. \"But I don't like him and I don't know what to do.\"\n\nTony walked over to Ann's date and told him to clear off. Then Tony returned to Ann, and the two of them had a drink together, and then another. Before long they were a couple and Tony decided he was the luckiest man in the world.\n\nSoon he learned all about Ann's background. Her Lithuanian-born Jewish father had died when she was two years old, and with her mother unable to cope she'd been passed between relatives throughout her childhood. By 16 she was living in a bedsit, supporting herself with waitressing and bar work - she'd also been employed at the legendary art-deco Kardoma café on Market Street and at George Best's nightclub, Oscar's.\n\n\"As a consequence of her upbringing she was really, really independent,\" says Tony. \"She was really good at talking to people, and she was sharp - the sharpest, wittiest person I've ever met.\"\n\nThey rented a flat in Fallowfield together and made it their home. After Ann was offered relief work running bars around Manchester, Tony quit his job as a sales rep to join her. Eventually, in 1981, they took on their own pub. It was in what was then a tough part of Salford, but Ann had grown up nearby and knew how to handle the local characters: \"She could have you in stitches, but she could throw you a look, and you knew you had to behave yourself,\" Tony says.\n\nThe couple were offered the chance to take on another pub in Sale Moor. They thought they were going upmarket, but it turned out to be quite the reverse; Tony would joke that he should take away all the tables and chairs and install a boxing ring instead.\n\nBut Ann wasn't intimidated by anyone. According to Tony, when a notorious local villain turned up and demanded a free drink, Ann stood her ground: \"My husband's name is above the front door, and he pays for his drinks, so you're going to pay for yours,\" she told him. Impressed, the villain ended up buying one for Ann instead.\n\nShe and Tony knew it was time to quit when burglars broke in one night while their baby daughter slept in her cot upstairs. Tony went back on the road as a salesman; Ann worked variously as a debt counsellor, an incident manager for the RAC, and a sales trainer at a cotton firm. Their children, Gary, and Rachel, never once heard them argue, Tony says.\n\nFor six years the couple had a stall at Altrincham Market selling women's clothes. \"People would come, not necessarily to buy something - they just wanted to see Ann,\" says Tony. \"And as a consequence, they'd buy something they didn't really want.\" Each time this happened, Ann would give Tony a wink.\n\nBy the start of 2020, Ann and Tony were looking forward to a long retirement together. Both their children had left home, and they'd recently moved to the bungalow. The news broadcasts had begun describing a deadly pandemic that had spread from China. But Ann wasn't leaving the house much while she recovered from an operation to replace both hips.\n\nThen one Thursday in March she went for a haircut; she asked for the colour to be darkened slightly too, and when he first saw her afterwards Tony told her how much he loved it. Ann mentioned that the hairdresser had been coughing.\n\nThree days later, Ann began coughing too, and soon afterwards so did Tony. But with a fever, she felt worse, and within a few more days she was barely able to stand. She asked Tony to call 999.\n\nThe paramedics helped her to the ambulance. It haunts Tony now that he didn't hug or kiss her as they said goodbye. \"Neither of us thought for one moment that it would be the last day I would ever see her alive,\" he says. She told him they'd probably give her antibiotics and he could come and pick her up in a few hours.\n\nBut later that day she phoned him to say the doctors suspected Covid and they would be keeping her in. As in many hospitals during the first wave, no visiting was allowed.\n\nTony could only stay in touch with her by phone. When a doctor told him the next 24 hours were critical, he didn't tell Ann, because he knew how scared she was already by then.\n\nBut he did pass on something else the medic had said - that they were deeply impressed by her upbeat attitude and fighting spirit. Tony told her, too, that he believed she would be home soon: \"I had to say that to keep her fighting, and fight she did for 10 days.\"\n\nThe last time they spoke was Saturday 4 April. Ann told Tony she thought she'd turned a corner; she'd eaten a sandwich and some yoghurt. After that, talking became too difficult for her; she wasn't in intensive care but the mask she wore to help her breathe was getting in the way.\n\nThree days after their last conversation, Tony was sitting in a white hospital room beside Ann's body. He sat with her there for an hour. He didn't just apologise, he also promised he'd make sure she was remembered properly. When it was time to leave, a nurse gave him a booklet about bereavement and a black bag in which to put Ann's belongings. Tony carried them along a hospital corridor, wondering how he would tell Gary and Rachel their mum was dead.\n\nThere are eight photographs of Ann in Tony's living room. In each of them she looks full of joy. \"Every time I look around, there's a picture of Ann somewhere,\" Tony says. \"She's smiling and I'm thinking, 'If only I could turn back the clock.' But I can't, you know, and nor can all those other families and relations, either.\"\n\nNearly 10 months after Ann's death, Tony finds himself resenting the home he's been left alone inside. If they hadn't moved there, he reasons, Ann wouldn't have gone to that hairdresser's that day and caught the virus - she'd still be alive, perhaps.\n\nHe feels robbed of the 20 additional years he hoped they'd spend together, as surely will thousands of other bereaved relatives. While the impact on the very oldest has been widely recognised, those who might have looked forward to a long retirement have been badly hit, too - during the pandemic, around 15% of all UK fatalities with Covid mentioned on the death certificate have been among those aged 65-74.\n\nTony desperately wishes his life would go back to how it was, but knows it won't.\n\nAnn's funeral didn't give him any closure. Tony would rather she had been buried, but the undertaker warned him to hurry - extra restrictions could be introduced any time - so he took the date that was offered by the crematorium.\n\nAs it was, under the rules that were already in force, only 10 mourners were permitted, spaced out around the chapel. No flowers or photographs on display, no hugging.\n\nTony understood why all this was necessary - but it wasn't the celebration of Ann's bright, gregarious, love-filled life that he thought she deserved. He'd have to plan another one when all this was over.\n\nAs the months went on, Tony joined online Covid support groups. It helped talking to others who understood how it felt to have lost someone. There was the family of a 19-year-old boy. A woman who was mourning both her mum and her dad. Another woman whose husband had died in the car as she drove him to hospital.\n\nHe thought of these stories each time he switched on the news and watched the Covid mortality figures climb higher and higher. Behind these cold statistics were human lives. And each was as unique as Ann, with a personality and backstory entirely of their own.\n\nIt would have been Ann and Tony's 41st wedding anniversary on 6 October, the day before the six-month anniversary of her death. The following month, a few days after the UK's Covid death toll reached 50,000, Tony once again felt Ann's absence bitterly on what would have been her 66th birthday.\n\n\"Christmas was a nightmare for me,\" he says. Under the rules for the festive season, Gary and Rachel and their partners were able to be there with him, and cooking lunch kept him busy most of the day. But afterwards, when he was on his own again, the reality hit that another celebration had gone by without Ann beside him, and Tony sat down and sobbed.\n\nFor millions the arrival of the Covid vaccines has brought hope, but it is a cold comfort for those who have lost someone. If every one of the 100,000 were loved by a dozen people, \"that's a million people in Britain who have been bereaved\", says the bioethicist and sociologist Prof Sir Tom Shakespeare. \"We need a national monument, some form of remembering.\"\n\nTony is not one of those who will find it hard to grasp the significance of this bleak milestone.\n\n\"To me it's 100,000 poor souls fighting for breath, and they've not had a hug from anyone in their family,\" he says. \"There's a name - there's a person behind that number. And then they've passed away, and the family goes through the grief that I've been through - the numbness, the shock, the anguish and the pain to come.\"", "The police officers were on duty when they had their hair cut, the Met says\n\nThirty-one Met Police officers who broke coronavirus rules to get haircuts are facing £200 fines.\n\nTwo officers who hired a barber to give the cuts to staff at Bethnal Green Police Station, on 17 January, are also facing misconduct investigations, the Met said.\n\nUnder current lockdown restrictions in England, barbers and hairdressers are not allowed to work.\n\nDet Ch Supt Marcus Barnett said he was \"deeply disappointed\" in the officers.\n\n\"Although officers donated money to charity as part of the haircut, this does not excuse them from what was a very poor decision,\" he said. \"I expect a lot more of them.\n\n\"Quite rightly, the public expect police to be role models in following the regulations, which are designed to prevent the spread of this deadly virus.\"\n\nThe investigation comes after fines were handed out to nine officers who were caught eating breakfast together in a Greenwich café.\n\nAll those officers were issued with a £200 fixed penalty notice.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Actor Elliot Page and choreographer Emma Portner have decided to divorce after three years of marriage.\n\n\"After much thought and careful consideration, we have made the difficult decision to divorce following our separation last summer,\" the Canadian couple said in a statement.\n\n\"We have the utmost respect for each other and remain close friends.\" They provided no further details.\n\nPage, the 33-year-old Oscar-nominated actor, came out as transgender in 2020.\n\nThat decision was widely praised by his many fans and fellow actors.\n\nPage said at the time that he could not \"begin to express how remarkable it feels to finally love who I am enough to pursue my authentic self\".\n\nHe also used the occasion to address discrimination towards trans people.\n\nPage received international acclaim for starring as a pregnant teenager in the 2007 film Juno. Other major films include Inception and the X-Men series, while the actor has more recently starred in Netflix series The Umbrella Academy.\n\nPortner, 26, has said she has always supported Page's decision to come out.", "The famous event has been held at London's Royal Hospital Chelsea since 1913\n\nThe Chelsea Flower Show will take place in September for the first time in its history as a result of the pandemic.\n\nOrganisers had planned to hold a six-day show in May but announced it would be postponed as there was no guarantee what tier London would be in then.\n\nA virtual show will take place in May like in 2020, with the physical event taking place later at London's Royal Hospital Chelsea.\n\nThe Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) said it would be a \"moment in history\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chelsea Flower Show exhibitors had to display their gardens online last year\n\nThe world-famous show has been taking place for 108 years but has never happened in September.\n\nThis year's event will go ahead between 21-26 September, with the virtual event showing online from 18-23 May.\n\nIt is usually filled with spring and summer colours but the RHS said it hoped the delay will allow a celebration of autumn horticulture.\n\nThousands of people normally attend the week-long event\n\nThe society, which runs the event, said it had a responsibility to exhibitors, visitors, volunteers and staff to delay the flower show, as more people would be vaccinated and levels of infection may have reduced substantially.\n\nDirector general Sue Biggs said: \"Whilst we are sad to have had to delay RHS Chelsea and are sorry for the disruption this will cause, we are excited that we are still planning to bring the world's best-loved gardening event to the nation at a time when more people are gardening more than ever.\n\n\"We know that the autumn dates may not be suitable for everyone, but with our fantastic industry partners we will do everything we can to support them and create a show that will be a moment in history,\" she added.\n\nThose who bought tickets for the event when it was due to happen in May will be contacted by the RHS.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nadhim Zahawi: \"We have 367m vaccines from seven different manufacturers that we have contracted with\"\n\nSupplies of vaccines are \"tight\" but the UK believes it will receive enough doses to meet its targets, the vaccine minister has said.\n\nNadhim Zahawi told BBC Breakfast manufacturers were \"confident\" they would deliver for the UK amid warnings of production delays.\n\nIt comes as the EU said it might tighten vaccine export controls.\n\nCountries should avoid \"vaccine nationalism\" and ensure a fair global supply, Mr Zahawi said.\n\nMeanwhile, more than 100,000 people have died with Covid-19 in the UK, after 1,631 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were recorded in the daily figures.\n\nMr Zahawi said the vaccination programme was still on track to deliver a first dose to 15 million of the most vulnerable by mid-February and to offer all adults their first dose by autumn.\n\nHe said the UK had supplies of the Oxford vaccine manufactured domestically by AstraZeneca as well as the Pfizer one, which is made in Belgium.\n\nThe government is also planning to publish figures on the take-up of the vaccine by ethnicity from Thursday, following concerns that some black, Asian and ethnic minority communities were more hesitant to get the jab.\n\n\"I'm confident we will meet our mid-February target and continue beyond that,\" Mr Zahawi told the BBC.\n\n\"Supplies are tight, they continue to be, these are new manufacturing processes,\" he added. \"It's lumpy and bumpy, it gets better and stabilises and improves going forward.\"\n\nBut he declined to say that he had received guarantees about the number of doses the UK would receive from Pfizer or other manufacturers and refused to confirm how many doses had already arrived.\n\nThe prime minister's spokesman said AstraZeneca had committed to delivering two million doses a week to the UK, and the government was not expecting any changes to that supply.\n\nDowning Street also rejected German media reports claiming a very low efficacy rate for the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine among older people, saying they had been denied by Oxford University, AstraZeneca and the German health ministry.\n\nChief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance told the cabinet the trials showed similar immune responses in younger and older adults.\n\nAnd England's chief medical adviser, Prof Chris Whitty, has defended the UK's strategy of extending the time between first and second doses of coronavirus vaccines from three to 12 weeks in order to immunise more people.\n\nHe told the Downing Street coronavirus briefing on Tuesday that the \"great majority\" of protection came from the first dose.\n\nHe also said there was \"no evidence\" that immunity waned between three and 12 weeks after the first dose was administered.\n\nProf Whitty said: \"We thought very carefully about what the balance of this is, but the balance of risk in terms of reducing the number of deaths in the community - and I really want to stress that, that is the aim of this - is to maximise the number of people who get that first dose, where the great majority of protection comes from.\"\n\nThe latest tension over supply of the Covid vaccine is another illustration of just how fragile this issue is.\n\nThere are huge global demands for Covid vaccine, limited raw materials and constraints on manufacturing.\n\nThe UK already has enough vaccine to jab all the highest-risk groups by mid-February, although not all of it has been packaged up or been through the final safety checks.\n\nThis explains why ministers are confident about the immediate target for the over-70s, health and care workers and the extremely clinically vulnerable.\n\nBut what is in doubt is how quickly the UK can vaccinate in the medium term.\n\nWith the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine manufactured in the UK those supply routes are more guaranteed.\n\nBut the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is made in Belgium. The UK, like the rest of Europe, is affected by the problems with manufacturing that are being experienced with that vaccine.\n\nWith Europe experiencing major problems rolling out its vaccination programme - per head of population five times fewer vaccines have been delivered - this is a story that is going to rumble on for months.\n\nThe UK has placed orders for 367 million doses of vaccines from seven manufacturers, Mr Zahawi said. \"As vaccines come along we will get more volume, millions more in the weeks and months to come,\" he added.\n\nThe tension over vaccine supplies increased after UK-based AstraZeneca warned the EU it would have to reduce planned deliveries because of production problems. Pfizer-BioNTech has also said supplies will be temporarily lower as it works to increase capacity at its Belgian factory.\n\nIt has prompted the EU to accuse AstraZeneca of failing to meet its commitments and to warn that it might require all companies producing Covid vaccines to provide \"early notification\" whenever they planned to export supplies out of the EU.\n\n\"The thing to do now is not to go down the dead end of vaccine nationalism. It's to work together to protect our people,\" Mr Zahawi said.\n\n\"No-one is safe until the whole world is safe.\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock subsequently said the UK government \"oppose protectionism in all its forms\" and urged all international partners to \"be collaborative\" and \"work closely together\" on vaccine distribution.\n\nHe added that the EU's warning that it could restrict exports of vaccines made in the bloc was \"unfortunate and especially so in the midst of a pandemic\".\n\nMeanwhile, the head of NHS England earlier told MPs coronavirus could become a \"much more treatable disease\" over the next six to 18 months, with the hope of a return to a \"much more normal future\".\n\nSir Simon Stevens told the Health and Social Care Committee: \"The first half of the year, vaccination is going to be crucial.\n\n\"I think a lot of us in the health service are increasingly hopeful that in the second half of the year and beyond we will also see more therapeutics and more treatments for coronavirus.\"\n\nHe also said it \"would be great\" if the Covid vaccine and flu vaccine were combined into a single jab, if not for next winter then future ones.\n\nAnd he said vaccines were being used as fast as they arrived in the NHS, with more than half of those aged 75-79 having now had their first dose.\n\nThe UK aims to offer Covid vaccination to every adult by autumn.\n\nMr Zahawi said confidence in the vaccines was high, with 85% of people saying they would accept the jab.\n\nBut he said those who were hesitant \"skew heavily\" towards black, Asian and minority ethnic communities.\n\nThe government is providing £23m of funding to 60 local councils and voluntary groups to boost vaccine take-up among groups such as older people, disabled people, and people from ethnic minority backgrounds.\n\nIt comes as celebrities such as comedians Romesh Ranganathan and Meera Syal and cricketer Moeen Ali appeared in a video urging people in their communities to get vaccinated.\n\nMr Zahawi told ITV's Good Morning Britain his uncle had died from Covid-19 last week. He had been eligible for vaccination but caught the virus before he could receive it, the minister said.\n\nThis \"grim and horrible\" experience made him determined to ensure that the most vulnerable were protected as quickly as possible, Mr Zahawi said.\n\nSir Simon said there was concern about vaccine hesitancy in some groups, where there were access problems as well as \"systematic attempts to misinform and lie about the vaccine programme targeted particularly at minority populations, and - in some cases - long-standing mistrust of public services\".\n\nHe said disruption to vaccine deliveries from EU export restrictions was not thought to be likely.\n\nIn other developments, the UK has offered to carry out genomic sequencing for other countries around the world to help identify further new variants.\n\nPublic Health England said it would give \"crucial early warning\" of any mutations that might cause the virus to spread faster, make people more ill or possibly reduce the effectiveness of vaccines.", "\"A legacy of poor decisions\" by the UK before and during the pandemic led to one of the worst death rates in the world, scientists have said.\n\nLabour also criticised \"monumental mistakes\" by the prime minister in delaying acting on scientific advice over lockdowns three times.\n\nAfter UK deaths passed 100,000, Boris Johnson said he took \"full responsibility\" for the actions taken.\n\nBut he said it was too soon to learn the lessons from the pandemic response.\n\nProf Linda Bauld, public health expert from the University of Edinburgh, said the UK's current position was \"a legacy of poor decisions that were taken when we eased restrictions\".\n\nShe told the BBC the lack of focus on test and trace and the \"absolute inability to recognise\" the need to address international travel had also led to a more deadly winter surge.\n\nProf Sir Michael Marmot, who carried out a review of inequalities in Covid-19 deaths, said the UK had entered the pandemic \"in a bad state\" with rising health inequality, a slowdown in life expectancy improvements and a lack of investment in the public sector.\n\nShadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth rejected Mr Johnson's claim that he had done \"everything we could\" to minimise the death toll, adding: \"I do not accept that.\"\n\nHe said the prime minister had been given scientific advice to impose lockdowns and \"pushed that back\" - not only in March but again in September and December.\n\nThe government also failed to create a working contact-tracing system, did not introduce effective health controls at the borders and still did not offer \"proper sick pay\", he said.\n\nAt Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Johnson said: \"I mourn every death in this pandemic and we share the grief of all those who have been bereaved. I and the government take full responsibility for all the actions we have taken to fight this pandemic.\"\n\nHe said there would be time to reflect on the decisions taken, but he did not think the right time was in the middle of the pandemic when \"37,000 people are struggling with Covid in our hospitals\".\n\nThe government needed to focus on keeping the virus under control and continuing the fastest vaccine roll-out in Europe, he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe said his message to grieving families was that he \"deeply, personally\" regretted the loss of life and that the best way to honour the memory of those who had died and honour those who were currently grieving was \"to work together to bring this virus down, to keep it under control in the way that we are\".\n\nAsked about the government's \"legacy of poor decisions\", Mr Johnson said ministers followed scientific advice and did everything they could to minimise suffering. He said there were \"no easy solutions\" but the UK could be proud of its efforts to distribute the vaccine.\n\nAfter leading a minute's silence in the Scottish Parliament, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said she was \"truly sorry\" for any mistakes, as Scotland recorded a total of 5,888 deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test.\n\nShe said the government did everything it could, but added: \"I don't think any of us, reflecting on numbers like these, can conclude that we have always succeeded.\"\n\nNext month, the prime minister hopes to publish a document giving details of the criteria he will use to start lifting the lockdown, a senior government source told the BBC.\n\nIt will include factors such as the number of hospitalisations and deaths, the progress of the vaccination programme, any changes to the virus and the impact easing restrictions might have on the epidemic - but will be dependent on emerging data about how effectively the vaccine stops the virus spreading.\n\nThe UK is the fifth country to pass 100,000 deaths, coming after the US, Brazil, India and Mexico.\n\nA scientist advising the government has warned the UK could face as many as 50,000 more coronavirus deaths.\n\nProf Calum Semple, a member of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies, told the BBC's Newsnight: \"It would really not surprise me if we're looking at another 40-50,000 deaths before this burns out.\n\n\"The deaths on the way up are likely to be mirrored by the number of deaths on the way down in this wave. Each one again is a tragedy and each one represents probably four or five people who survive but are damaged by Covid.\"\n\nHe said the UK had experienced some \"bad luck\" with the emergence of a new, more transmissible variant but had also suffered from \"decades of underinvestment\" in the NHS and \"a public health authority that's been eroded\" .\n\nMeanwhile, Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby and Archbishop of York Stephen Cottrell asked people, regardless of whether they had faith, to reflect on the \"enormity\" of the pandemic and join in a \"prayer for the nation\" at 18:00 GMT every day from 1 February.\n\nThey said the death statistics were were not \"just an abstract figure\", saying: \"Each number is a person: someone we loved and someone who loved us.\"\n\nMuslim leaders backed the call for a daily prayer. Qari Asim, chair of the Mosques and Imams National Advisory Board, said Muslims and wider black, Asian and minority ethnic communities had been disproportionately affected by the \"tsunami of pain, grief and devastation\" - with many unable to properly mourn due to Covid restrictions.\n\nOn Tuesday, a further 1,631 coronavirus deaths were recorded, taking the total number of people who had died within 28 days of a positive test to 100,162.\n\nSeparate figures from the Office for National Statistics, which are based on death certificates, show there have been nearly 104,000 deaths since the pandemic began.\n\nA further 20,089 coronavirus cases were recorded on Tuesday, continuing a downward trend in the number of UK cases seen in recent days. The number of people in hospital remains high, as do the UK's daily death figures.\n\nSpeaking alongside the prime minister, England's chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty said the number of people dying would come down \"relatively slowly\" over the next two weeks - and would probably \"remain flat for a while now\".\n\nElsewhere, bereavement support charities have written to the health secretary calling for more funding in the light of what they call \"the terrible toll of 100,000 deaths\".\n\nThe National Bereavement Alliance, representing a range of charities, said many families had been unable to be with loved ones as they died or to support one another.\n\nThey called for £500m allocated to mental health in England to be used to support the bereaved.\n\nMinister for bereavement Nadine Dorries said the government had given more than £10.2m to charities since March to ensure services were available to those who needed them.\n\nPlease enable JavaScript or upgrade your browser to see this interactive\n\nIf you would like to send us a tribute to a friend or family member who died after contracting coronavirus, please use the form below.\n\nPlease remember to include a photo of your loved one and their name. 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Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your tribute.", "Scientists say sharks and rays are disappearing from the world's oceans at an \"alarming\" rate.\n\nThe number of sharks found in the open oceans has plunged by 71% over half a century, mainly due to over-fishing, according to a new study.\n\nThree-quarters of the species studied are now threated with extinction.\n\nAnd the researchers say immediate action is needed to secure a brighter future for these \"extraordinary, irreplaceable animals\".\n\nThey are calling on governments to implement science-based fishing limits.\n\nStudy researcher, Dr Richard Sherley of the University of Exeter, said the declines appear to be driven very much by fishing pressures.\n\nHe told BBC News: \"That's the driver for the 70% reduction in the last 50 years. For every 10 sharks you had in the open ocean in the 1970s, you would have three today, across these species, on average.\"\n\nSharks and rays are caught for their meat, fins and liver oil. They are also captured for recreational fishing and turn up by accident in the catch of fishing boats that are targeting other stocks.\n\nSharks are long-lived species that tend to produce few young\n\nOf the 31 species studied, 24 are now threatened with extinction, and three shark species (the oceanic whitetip shark, and the scalloped and great hammerhead sharks) have declined so sharply they are now classified as critically endangered - the highest threat category, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).\n\nProf Nicholas Dulvy of Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada, said oceanic sharks and rays are at exceptionally high risk of extinction, much more so than the average bird, mammal or frog, despite ranging far from land.\n\n\"Overfishing of oceanic sharks and rays jeopardises the health of entire ocean ecosystems as well as food security for some of the world's poorest countries,\" he said.\n\nThe researchers compiled global data on sharks and rays found in the open oceans (as opposed to reef sharks or those found close to shore).\n\nOf the 1,200 or so species of sharks and rays in the world, 31 are oceanic, travelling large distances across water.\n\n\"These are some of the big, important, open ocean predators that people will be familiar with,\" said Dr Sherley. \"The kind of sharks that people might describe as awe-inspiring or charismatic.\"\n\nHe said political will is needed to reverse the trends.\n\n\"The science is there, there needs to be the desire to do those stock assessments, to implement the measures that are needed to reduce the take of sharks and that political will has to come from pressure from citizens,\" Dr Sherley explained.\n\nDespite this \"gloomy\" picture, the scientists said a few shark conservation stories give cause for hope.\n\nSonja Fordham, president of Shark Advocates International, a non-profit project of The Ocean Foundation, said a couple of species, including the great white, have started to recover through science-based fishing limits.\n\n\"Relatively simple safeguards can help to save sharks and rays, but time is running out,\" she said.\n\n\"We urgently need conservation action across the globe to prevent myriad negative consequences and secure a brighter future for these extraordinary, irreplaceable animals.\"\n\nPopulations can recover with appropriate conservation\n\nSharks are at the top of the food chain, and crucial to the health of the oceans. Their loss impacts other marine animals as well as human livelihoods.\n\n\"Oceanic sharks and rays are vital to the health of vast marine ecosystems, but because they are hidden beneath the ocean surface, it has been difficult to assess and monitor their status,\" said Nathan Pacoureau of Simon Fraser University.\n\n\"Our study represents the first global synthesis of the state of these essential species at a time when countries should be addressing insufficient progress towards global sustainability goals.\n\n\"While we initially intended it as a useful report card, we now must hope it also serves as an urgent wake-up call.\"\n\nThe research is published in the journal, Nature.", "In March 2020, we were told it would be a ‘’good outcome’’ if coronavirus killed 20,000 people across the UK.\n\nNow the bleakest milestone has been reached: 100,000 deaths.\n\nIn a statement, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said \"behind these heart-breaking figures are friends, families and neighbours. The vaccine offers us the way out, but we cannot let up now and we sadly still face a tough period ahead. The virus is still spreading and we're seeing over 3,500 people per day being admitted into hospital.\"\n\nHealth correspondent Catherine Burns looks at the past year of the UK’s epidemic and hears from families who have lost loved ones.\n\nFilmed and edited by Julius Peacock. Additional filming by Emily Brooks", "Enforcement agents have removed protesters from the makeshift camp near Euston station\n\nBailiffs from HS2 have started to evict activists who dug a tunnel near Euston station in protest against the £106bn rail project.\n\nIt comes after the BBC revealed campaigners spent months digging the tunnel they claim is 100ft (30m) long.\n\nSince August, HS2 Rebellion members have been living in tree houses and tents at a camp nearby.\n\nA HS2 spokeswoman said the protesters were \"trespassing\" on land owned by the company.\n\nThe land being occupied is needed for continued building work around Euston, she added.\n\nEnforcement agents from the National Eviction Team have removed some protesters from the makeshift camp in the park.\n\nPolice have arrested five men and a woman at the site, although one male was later de-arrested.\n\nActivists say the tunnel - codenamed \"Kelvin\" - was dug as their \"best defence\" against being evicted.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Protesters have filmed themselves inside the tunnels\n\nProtesters said they were continuing to dig tunnels and have vowed to stay for as long as possible.\n\nAn 18-year-old, who gave his name as Al, said the tunnels can only be accessed through a section of the makeshift camp and were about 15ft (4.5m) deep.\n\n\"I will stay as long as I can,\" he said, but he added the activists \"have not got much food and water\".\n\nHS2 Rebellion told the BBC four people had \"locked themselves\" to fixing points inside the tunnels.\n\nOne activist, Blue Sandford, admitted the stunt was \"dangerous\" but felt it was \"worth it\".\n\nHS2 protester Dr Larch Maxey said the tunnel was \"warm and quiet\"\n\nEnforcement agents dismantle the make shift camp where HS2 Rebellion members have been living\n\nThe 18-year-old, who is currently on school strike for climate, said HS2 \"is a waste of money\".\n\n\"I'm in this tunnel because they [the government] are irresponsibly putting my life at risk from the climate and ecological emergency,\" she said.\n\n\"They are behaving in a way that is so reckless and unsafe that I don't feel they are giving us any option but to protest in this way to help save our own lives and the lives of all the people round the world.\n\n\"I shouldn't have to do this - I should be in school - the trouble is they are stealing that future and I have to stop them.\"\n\nEnforcement officers have used aerial platforms to try and coax protesters down from the trees\n\nA protester was brought down from the trees by officers\n\nMartin Andryjankczyk, who was carried out of the camp by enforcement agents earlier, predicted it would take \"at least a week or two\" to evict all the protesters.\n\nThe 20-year-old was taken to Holloway Police Station when he was led away but said he had been \"de-arrested\" and returned to the park.\n\n\"I have been living here for the last four months. They (the remaining demonstrators) aren't going to give up that easily,\" he said.\n\nOne activist used to a rope to tie himself between trees at the camp\n\nThe Met Police confirmed a number of officers were sent to the eviction site at Euston Square Gardens to assist High Court enforcement officers should there be any breach of the peace and to uphold Covid legislation.\n\nThe force said five people who were arrested at the site remain in custody.\n\nA spokeswoman for HS2 said tunnel protests were \"costly to the taxpayer\".\n\nShe added: \"HS2 has taken legal temporary possession of Euston Square Gardens in order to progress with works necessary for the construction of the new Euston station.\n\n\"These protests are a danger to the safety of the protesters, our staff and the general public, and put unnecessary strain on the emergency services during a pandemic.\"\n\nHS2 is set to link London, Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds. It is hoped the 20-year project will reduce rail passenger overcrowding and help to rebalance the UK's economy.\n\nThe campaign group alleges HS2 is the \"most expensive, wasteful and destructive project in UK history\" and that it is \"set to destroy or irreparably damage 108 ancient woodlands and 693 wildlife sites\".\n\nHowever, HS2 bosses have said seven million trees will be planted during phase one of the project and that much ancient woodland will \"remain intact\".\n\nThere is a ring of security surrounding the square outside Euston Station and a crowd of journalists reporting on today's event.\n\nEvery now and then there is a burst of singing through a loud hailer and motivational speeches echo from the trees.\n\nMost of the protesters we can see are among the branches, some have cut their safety lines, others are swinging in harnesses.\n\nEarlier, enforcement officers were lifted up in a cherry picker into one of the tree camps . They have spoken with the demonstrators and are now fixing ropes to the high level platforms.\n\nWe've been told at least four people are inside the tunnels HS2 Rebellion have dug under the site.\n\nPeople inside the fence have said they predict the eviction to \"take weeks\".\n\nThe atmosphere is calm but the police have begun to push back people watching, reminding them of Covid-19 regulations and asking to see press passes.\n\nA fence is being erected by officers around the site\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Scotland is to initially follow UK travel rules, but could introduce stricter measures next week\n\nScotland could introduce tougher quarantine rules for international travellers than other parts of the UK, the first minister has said.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has announced that UK arrivals from regions with new virus variants will be provided accommodation for 10 days to isolate.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said she was \"concerned the proposal does not go far enough\".\n\nScotland will \"initially emulate\" the UK government measures, she said.\n\nBut further Scottish rules will be set out next week if the four nations do not reach an agreement on a UK-wide approach - which Ms Sturgeon said would be preferable.\n\nThe prime minister has said there are 22 countries with the risk of known new variants, including the South American nations, Portugal and South Africa.\n\nMr Johnson said anyone travelling from these countries who cannot be refused entry to the UK - such as British citizens - will be provided accommodation for 10 days to isolate \"without exception\".\n\nThey will be met at the airport and transferred to specific places, such as hotels.\n\nFurther details of the plan are expected to be outlined by Home Secretary Priti Patel later.\n\nHowever Ms Sturgeon - who was briefed on the UK government proposals in advance - told her daily coronavirus briefing that a \"comprehensive system of supervised quarantine\" was required in the next stage of the pandemic.\n\nAnd she said she was \"seeking urgently\" to persuade the UK government \"to go much further\" while providing additional support to the aviation industry.\n\nThe first minister said: \"Our best route back to greater domestic normality right now, as we continue with the vaccine programme, is firstly to suppress the virus here to as low as level as possible - as we did over the summer - then give ourselves a better chance of controlling it through test and protect, and next by doing much more than we did last year to protect our borders.\"\n\nThe Welsh government has also said the PM's proposals do not go far enough.\n\nWhen questioned by journalists, Ms Sturgeon said she would \"not give arbitrary dates\" on when the travel restrictions might come to an end.\n\nBut she said people \"might not be able to go on holiday overseas\" in order to \"get domestic normality\" back - including the reopening of schools and allowing people more interactions with loved ones.\n\n\"I'm not saying that's easy but maybe that might be a price we all need to be prepared to pay,\" she added.\n\nScottish Conservatives leader Douglas Ross told the BBC that he believed that countries with higher infection rates and strains with quicker transmission should be prioritised.\n\n\"We've got to look at dealing with this in stages,\" he said. \"This doesn't need to be dragged into a Scotland versus England issue or the rest of the UK issue.\n\n\"This is as big an issue within Scotland. We shouldn't be moving around local authority areas so whether it's north or south of the border or within our own communities we've got to reduce travel as much as possible.\"\n\nIt comes as the deaths of a further 92 people who had tested positive for coronavirus were recorded in Scotland - bringing the total to 5,888.\n\nThe total number of deaths across the UK by that measure passed the grim milestone of 100,00 on Tuesday.\n\nMs Sturgeon said she was \"truly sorry\" for any mistakes that had been made in the handling of the pandemic.\n\nShe added: \"She said the death toll should make all political leaders \"think very hard about what more we could have done and what lessons we must continue to learn\".\n\nShe added: \"I know that I, and everyone in my government, have tried every day to do everything we possibly can.\n\n\"But I don't think any of us, reflecting on numbers like these, can conclude that we have always succeeded.\"\n\nA total of 1,330 new cases were recorded in the last 24 hours, representing 6.2% of people tested.\n\nMeanwhile 462,092 people have received the first dose of the vaccine in Scotland - including 56% of the over 80s and 95% of people in care homes.", "The greys were introduced to Britain from North America in the 19th Century\n\nThe UK government has given its support to a project to use oral contraceptives to control grey squirrel populations.\n\nEnvironment minister Lord Goldsmith says the damage they and other invasive species do to the UK's woodlands costs the UK economy £1.8 billion a year.\n\nThe bizarre-sounding plan is to lure grey squirrels into feeding boxes only they can access with little pots containing hazelnut spread.\n\nThese would be spiked with an oral contraceptive.\n\nLord Goldsmith says the damage from squirrels also threatens the effectiveness of government efforts to tackle climate change by planting tens of thousands of acres of new woodlands.\n\nOn Tuesday, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) told BBC News: \"We hope advances in science can safely help our nature to thrive, including through the humane control of invasive species.\"\n\nA partnership of conservation and forestry organisations called the UK Squirrel Accord (UKSA) is behind the proposal.\n\nIt says grey squirrels, which were first introduced from North America in the late 19th century, cause huge damage to woodlands by stripping bark from trees aged between 10-50 years, the younger trees in a forest.\n\nThey particularly target broad-leafed varieties including oak, which are particularly ecologically important because they support so many other species.\n\nIt is estimated the UK is home to some three million of these invasive rodents.\n\nRed squirrels are now confined mainly to Scotland and Ireland\n\nThey have displaced the native red squirrel across most of the UK.\n\nLord Goldsmith says the government supports the plan as well as a longer-term effort to breed infertility into female grey squirrels to reduce their numbers.\n\nInvasive non-native species such as grey squirrels threaten our native biodiversity, he argues.\n\nWhen regulating grey squirrels with oral contraceptive was first proposed in 2017, the government's Animal and Plant Health Agency said it thought it could reduce their numbers by as much as 90%.\n\nThe project also has royal approval.\n\nPrince Charles was instrumental in founding the UK Squirrel Accord with the objective of \"managing the negative impacts of invasive grey squirrels in the UK\".\n\nHe has written of the importance of protecting Britain's remaining red squirrels.\n\n\"These charming and intelligent creatures never fail to delight\", he wrote last week in his capacity as patron of the Red Squirrel Survival Trust, describing red squirrels as the \"symbol and benchmark\" of healthy woods.\n\nJason Gilchrist, an ecologist from Edinburgh Napier University, has written in defence of the grey squirrel but he says he supports the oral contraceptive plan.\n\nHe acknowledges there is a need to manage grey squirrel populations.\n\n\"It is better than the alternative: a shotgun\", he told BBC News.\n\nIt is the same argument the UKSA makes: dosing the animals with contraceptives provides a humane alternative to culling them.\n\nLast week, the Royal Forestry Society, a member of the Squirrel Accord, called for just such a cull.\n\nSimon Lloyd, its chief executive, says efforts to tackle global warming and improve biodiversity will be undermined unless grey squirrel numbers can be reduced.\n\nNew trees will not survive to \"deliver the carbon capture or biodiversity objectives if grey squirrels cannot be controlled\", he told the Daily Telegraph.\n\nThe UKSA has been experimenting with ways to deliver oral contraceptives to squirrels for more than three years now.\n\nLast year, it tested special feeding stations designed so only grey squirrels can gain access in woodland in East Yorkshire.\n\nInstead of contraceptives, the hazelnut paste bait was dosed with a dye that, when ingested, causes squirrel hair to fluoresce under UV light.\n\nThe researchers found that more than 90% of the grey squirrel population being studied visited the traps.\n\nThey concluded that it was possible to deliver repeat doses of a contraceptive to the majority of grey squirrels in a wood.", "Leon Briggs died in hospital after being restrained and detained at Luton police station in November 2013\n\nA man shouted \"help me\" and \"get off me\" as he was restrained face-down by police officers hours before he died, an inquest heard.\n\nLeon Briggs, 39, died in 2013 after being detained under the Mental Health Act at Luton police station.\n\nA jury was told one witness described the father-of-two as \"like a child crying out for a toy\" as he was held down by officers.\n\nAnother said he looked her in the eyes and said \"please help me\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe jury has been shown CCTV of Mr Briggs skipping between shops and across roads, before two Bedfordshire Police officers handcuffed him and placed him in leg restraints on Marsh Road in Luton on 4 November 2013.\n\nMr Briggs was detained in a cell at about 14:25 GMT, but he became unconscious and was pronounced dead in hospital at about 16:15.\n\nThe inquest heard his primary cause of death was \"amphetamine intoxication with prone restraint and prolonged struggling\" with a secondary cause of coronary heart disease.\n\nMr Briggs was described as \"a really good dad\" who loved spending time with his children\n\nThe inquest heard Wendy Hamilton was shopping when she saw one officer restraining Mr Briggs on his lower legs, with another on his shoulders, and a third appeared to be looking through his wallet.\n\nMs Hamilton said she \"thought the amount of pressure being used was not needed\", adding she heard Mr Briggs shout \"get off me\" and \"why are you doing this to me?\".\n\n\"He lifted his head from the pavement, he looked me in the eyes and said 'please help me',\" she said.\n\nShe added when two paramedics arrived \"around 45 minutes\" after she first saw Mr Briggs, she was \"surprised\" they \"did not check Leon at all\".\n\nShe said he was later lifted into a police van \"front first\" and \"face down\", \"like he was a bag of potatoes\" or \"like they were picking up a dog\".\n\n\"They lifted him not in a rough way... but it was not very dignified,\" she said.\n\nFootage showed Mr Briggs walking out of a shop with officers before he was restrained\n\nAnother witness, Raja Khan, said: \"Mr Briggs was crying out... but not in an aggressive manner... in a similar way to a child crying out for a toy.\n\n\"I'm not going to forget what I saw in regard to the restraint... I do not agree with how Mr Briggs was treated... it would have been fair enough if he was being violent but from what I saw, he was not.\"\n\nFormer chairman of the College of Paramedics, Andrew Newton, said paramedics on Marsh Road were likely to have had \"inadequate knowledge\" of dealing with acute behavioural disorder patients like Mr Briggs in 2013, due to a lack of national guidance.\n\nBut Mr Newton added Mr Briggs \"received no meaningful medical care\" because they failed to properly check his vital signs, and this \"fell below the standards of care\".\n\nHe said Mr Briggs should have been taken to hospital in an ambulance.\n\nThe inquest heard part of a statement from Sgt Loren Short, who said he told paramedics Mr Briggs had been detained under the Mental Health Act when they arrived.\n\nPolice Community Support Officer (PCSO) James Collings described Mr Briggs as \"aggressive\" and \"nonsensical\", and \"shouting 'no, no' and snarling\" while in the police van.\n\nPCSO Collings said when he questioned whether Mr Briggs was on drugs, one officer said: \"[He is] mental\", and Mr Briggs replied: \"Don't take the [expletive]\", to which the officer said: \"I'm not taking the [expletive], I just want to get you back and get you some help.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "More than 100,000 people in the UK have died from a virus, that, this time last year, felt like a far-off foreign threat. How did we come to be one of the countries with the worst death tolls?\n\nThere is no quick answer to that question, and there is sure to be a long and detailed public inquiry once the pandemic is over. But there are plenty of clues that, when pieced together, help build a picture of why the UK has reached this devastating number.\n\nSome will point a finger at the government - its decision to lock-down later than much of western Europe, the stuttering start to its test-and-trace network and the lack of protection afforded to care home residents.\n\nOthers will spotlight deeper rooted problems with British society - its poor state of public health, with high levels of obesity, for example.\n\nOthers, still, will note that some of the UK's great strengths - its position as a vibrant hub for international air travel, its ethnically diverse and densely-packed urban populations - exposed its vulnerability to a virus that spreads effortlessly between people.\n\nIn some people's eyes, the UK's island status might have helped it. New Zealand, Australia and Taiwan managed to stop the virus getting a foothold and deaths have been kept to a minimum - Australia has seen fewer deaths throughout the pandemic than the UK is recording every day on average.\n\nAll introduced strict border restrictions immediately and lockdowns to contain the virus before it had spread. The UK did not. It was not until June that quarantine rules were introduced for all arrivals and even then travel corridors were soon set up, relaxing the rules for travellers from certain countries. Only this month were these scrapped.\n\nProf Devi Sridhar, an expert in public health from Edinburgh University, is one of those who has been critical of the approach the UK has taken from the start.\n\nShe says the UK, like much of Europe, was \"complacent\" about the threat of infectious disease - choosing to treat the new coronavirus \"like flu\" and allowing it to spread, while talking about the desire to achieve herd immunity.\n\nThis all changed in late March, when a full lockdown eventually came. But there was a crucial delay of a week which is estimated to have cost more than 20,000 lives, according to government modeller Prof Neil Ferguson, because of how quickly infection rates were doubling at that point.\n\nThis, of course, is said with the benefit of hindsight. Government modellers themselves acknowledge the data was \"really quite poor\" making it difficult to make a decision that would have significant repercussions. It is a point acknowledged by Prof Chris Whitty, the UK's chief medical adviser. Speaking in the summer he said there had been \"very limited information\" in early March.\n\nBy then, the virus was ripping through care homes. Around 30% of deaths in the first wave happened in care homes; 40% if you include care home residents who died in hospital.\n\nThose at the heart of government acknowledge mistakes were made. UK chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said recently: \"The lesson is go earlier than you think you want to, go harder than you think you want to, and go a bit broader than you think you want to in terms of applying the restrictions.\"\n\nBy May, restrictions were beginning to be eased. But was this too soon?\n\nThe government seized on the relative lull to focus on building what the prime minister promised would be a \"world-beating\" test-and-trace system. The idea was that new outbreaks could be nipped in the bud, with comprehensive tracking by a centralised team of tracers.\n\nThe mere fact this had to be done some months after the virus had struck, illustrates another factor behind the high number of deaths - the UK was simply not prepared for a pandemic of this nature in the way some Asian nations had been. Countries such as South Korea and Taiwan had established test-and-trace systems in place that were ready to be activated.\n\nThe UK had a chance to bed in its system in the summer but it was riven with teething problems, with tracers struggling to reach many contacts and the testing capacity slowing down as demand rose.\n\nLow levels of infection over the summer had created a false sense of security.\n\nDesperate to boost the economy, the government launched the Eat Out to Help Out scheme, offering people discounted meals out during August. To what extent it contributed to the rise in the autumn is much argued about but certainly some doctors blame it in part for an increase in patients seen.\n\nThe truth is the virus never went away. Testing in the summer showed even at the lowest levels there were still around 500 cases a day being diagnosed - and random testing in the population subsequently showed the true level may have been twice that.\n\nIn late August around 1,000 people a day were testing positive. By mid-September that had trebled and from there it rose five-fold to 15,000 by mid October. The numbers testing positive have never returned below 10,000 a day on average since.\n\nAnother decision that has been heavily criticised was the refusal of ministers to introduce a short two-week lockdown, or \"circuit breaker\", in September - despite their advisers on Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) recommending such a step. The argument was it would have set the spread of the virus back by at least a month, giving test and trace time to regroup.\n\nWales, however, did introduce its own \"fire-breaker\" - a 17-day lockdown in October. It got infection rates down, but as soon as it was lifted they rebounded. This is, of course, why lockdowns have been criticised.\n\nEdinburgh University infectious diseases expert Prof Mark Woolhouse, one of the modellers who feeds data into Sage, is on the record in the autumn questioning the logic of them for this very reason. It remains up for debate how effective a circuit-breaker would actually have been.\n\nThis after all is the time of year when respiratory illnesses start to increase. Schools had returned as had university students, creating new environments for the novel coronavirus to spread.\n\nWhen a lockdown was eventually introduced in England in November it was to last four weeks, with Sage members lamenting the delay. \"The absence of a decision is a decision in itself,\" says Wellcome Trust director Sir Jeremy Farrar.\n\nBut even before that lockdown was lifted cases had started going up in the south-east of England. Within weeks it became clear what was happening. The virus had mutated and a new faster-spreading variant was on the rise.\n\nBy mid-December the clamour for lockdown was growing again, but the plan for a Christmas relaxation of restrictions had already been announced. In every nation of the UK, ministers waited.\n\nAt the start of 2021, with hospital admissions rising rapidly, the UK's four chief medical officers intervened, issuing a joint statement warning the NHS was at \"material risk\" of being overwhelmed. Within hours the UK was back in lockdown.\n\nWhat has struck some is just how similar the mistakes have been in terms of locking down late.\n\n\"It will take years to unpick why Covid has gone so badly in the UK,\" says University College London infectious diseases expert Dr Neil Stone. \"But the failure to learn from wave one stands out.\"\n\nBut it must also be recognised that there are factors outside the control of the government - certainly in terms of its pandemic response - that have contributed to the high number of deaths.\n\nOne of the reasons the virus was able to take a hold and spread so quickly was because of geography and the fact the UK - and London in particular - is a global hub. Genetic analysis has shown the virus was brought into the UK on at least 1,300 separate occasions, mainly from France, Spain and Italy, by the end of March.\n\nIt was here before we knew it. That's not something Australia or New Zealand had to deal with on such a scale.\n\nDensity of population is also a factor. The UK is among the 10 most densely populated big nations - those with populations of more than 20 million. What is more, our cities are more inter-connected than they are in many places.\n\nIt meant the virus was able to seed everywhere quite quickly. Contrast this with Italy which saw the vast majority of cases in the north of the country in the first wave.\n\nThe ageing population also needs to be taken into account. Once you do this, and adjust for the size of the population - known as age-standardised mortality - deaths have risen, but not by as much as some of the headline figures suggest.\n\nThe health of the nation has also been a factor. The UK has one of the highest rates of obesity in the world. And obesity increases the risk of hospitalisation and death, according to Public Health England. One study found the risk of death was almost double for those who are severely obese.\n\nConditions such as diabetes, kidney disease and respiratory problems also increase the risk - a fifth of Covid deaths have listed diabetes on the death certificate.\n\nAgain the UK has relatively high rates of these illnesses.\n\nBut many have argued that these high levels of ill-health have been compounded by the levels of inequality in the UK.\n\nLevels of ill health and life expectancy have always been worst in the poorest areas, but the pandemic certainly seems to have exacerbated this.\n\nOffice for National Statistics data shows mortality rates have been twice as high in deprived areas as they have been in wealthy areas. The Health Foundation is carrying out its own inquiry into the issue, arguing the Covid death toll needs to be seen through the \"lens\" of inequality to fully understand it.\n\nIt is something that has also been raised by Prof Michael Marmot, one of the country's leading experts on health inequalities. \"The UK's dismal record is telling us something important about our society.\"\n\nIf you, or someone you know, have been affected by bereavement, here is a list of organisations that may be able to help.", "Eva Gicain has been celebrating a belated Christmas with her daughter Elleana and husband Limuel Lina after being discharged from Royal Papworth Hospital in Cambridge\n\nA nurse who gave birth nearly three months ago while seriously ill with Covid-19 has held her daughter for the first time.\n\nEva Gicain, 30, had the long-awaited reunion with her baby after being discharged from Royal Papworth Hospital in Cambridge earlier this month.\n\nBaby Elleana had to be delivered about a month early by C-section, but Mrs Gicain has no memory of her birth.\n\n\"When I held Elleana for the first time I didn't want to let go,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid-19: New mum thanks hospitals after recovery\n\nMrs Gicain was taken to her local hospital with a severe case of Covid-19 at the end of October when she was 34 weeks pregnant, and gave birth a week later.\n\nBut the NHS nurse, who was on maternity leave from her job in London, has no recollection of it or the traumatic weeks that followed.\n\nDays later she was transferred 50 miles (80km) away to Royal Papworth Hospital's critical care unit and became one of the youngest patients ever to be put on to its \"artificial lung\" for acute respiratory failure.\n\nThe extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) machine acted as Mrs Gicain's lungs so they could recover while she was treated for Covid-19.\n\n\"The first thing I remember is just a few days before Christmas and being told where I was, what I had been through and that Elleana was doing well,\" Mrs Gicain said.\n\nMrs Gicain was given a round of applause by hospital staff after spending the first few weeks of her baby's life in a hospital 50 miles away\n\nHer husband Limuel Lina, 30, who also had Covid-19, was unable to visit her and had to wait three weeks to see Elleana, who was in a special care baby unit.\n\n\"It was so horrible the three of us being in separate places at a time when we should all have been together,\" Mr Lina said.\n\nAlthough the couple knew they were having a girl and had discussed her name, Mr Lina, a healthcare assistant, said he did not know his wife's preferred spelling.\n\n\"[It] meant I couldn't yet get her registered,\" he said.\n\n\"Luckily, I found some personalised pyjamas that Eva had bought as a Christmas present and so I managed to get the spelling from there!\"\n\nThe couple and their daughter celebrated a belated Christmas last week at their home in Basildon, Essex.\n\n\"Life is unpredictable and we are now just looking forward to being a little family and spending time together,\" added Mrs Gicain.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The head of AstraZeneca has defended its rollout of the coronavirus vaccine in the EU, amid tension with member states over delays in supply.\n\nPascal Soriot told Italian newspaper La Repubblica that his team was working \"24/7 to fix the very many issues of production of the vaccine\".\n\nHe said production was \"basically two months behind where we wanted to be\".\n\nHe also said the EU's late decision to sign contracts had given limited time to sort out hiccups with supply.\n\nMr Soriot, chief executive of the UK-Swedish multinational, said a contract with the UK had been signed three months before the one with the EU, giving more time for glitches to be ironed out.\n\nHe told La Repubblica that problems in \"scaling up\" vaccine production were being experienced at two plants, one in the Netherlands and one in Belgium.\n\n\"It's complicated, especially in the early phase where you have to really sort out all sorts of issues,\" he said.\n\n\"We believe we've sorted out those issues, but we are basically two months behind where we wanted to be.\"\n\nHe added: \"We've also had teething issues like this in the UK supply chain. But the UK contract was signed three months before the European vaccine deal. So with the UK we have had an extra three months to fix all the glitches we experienced.\n\nAstraZeneca CEO Pascal Soriot said a vaccine targeting the South African variant was being worked on\n\n\"Would I like to do better? Of course. But, you know, if we deliver in February what we are planning to deliver, it's not a small volume. We are planning to deliver millions of doses to Europe, it is not small.\"\n\nMr Soriot also said AstraZeneca was working on a vaccine with Oxford University that would target the South African variant of the coronavirus.\n\nScientists have warned there is a chance the South African variant may harm the effectiveness of current vaccines.\n\nThe AstraZeneca vaccine is already being used in the UK but has not yet been approved by the EU, although the European Medicines Agency (EMA) is expected to give it the green light at the end of this month.\n\nThe bloc signed a deal in August for 300 million doses, with an option for 100 million more. The EU had hoped that, as soon as approval was given, delivery would start straight away, with some 80 million doses arriving in the 27 nations by March.\n\nThe EU has ordered 600 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, which is already being used on patients around the bloc.\n\nBut Pfizer-BioNTech said last week it was delaying shipments for the next few weeks because of work to increase capacity at its Belgian plant.\n\nIn response to the delays, the EU has said it might restrict exports of vaccines made in the bloc.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sofia Bettiza explains why some countries are far ahead of others in the vaccination race\n\nHealth Commissioner Stella Kyriakides said companies making Covid vaccines in the bloc would have to \"provide early notification whenever they want to export vaccines to third countries\".\n\nShe said the 27-member EU bloc would \"take any action required to protect its citizens\".\n\nEuropean Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, addressing the virtual version of the annual World Economic Forum (WEF), usually held in Davos, said: \"Europe invested billions to help develop the world's first Covid-19 vaccines. And now, the companies must deliver. They must honour their obligations.\"\n\nHave you been affected by vaccine supply issues? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The prime minister has responded to calls that were getting louder for clarity about what might happen next and when.\n\nHe pencilled in a date for the country's diary. But 8 March is the hoped-for beginning of the end of lockdown - far from a guarantee.\n\nPolitical demands for more information from his backbench MPs and the opposition were part of the reason for his announcement. But there was also the relentless march of the clock.\n\nThe government had promised it would give schools in England two weeks' notice of whether they would be able to open after half-term.\n\nWith Boris Johnson not expected in Westminster on Thursday, Wednesday was the last viable moment to keep that vow.\n\nWith cases still so high, and hospitals still so full, in theory the announcement wasn't that much of a surprise.\n\nNorthern Ireland is already in lockdown until 5 March, but will confirm its position on schools on Thursday.\n\nWales and Scotland are reviewing whether to extend closures beyond the middle of February in the next couple of days. Without dramatic falls in case numbers, they seem likely to be in step soon too.\n\nIn practice, though, Mr Johnson's announcement still felt like a big admission: that we're heading for 12 months of limits - starting last March - on our lives in one way or another.\n\nFirms and families around the UK will have had to cope with moving in and out of lockdown for a whole year.\n\nLike Tuesday's terrible 100,000-deaths mark, it's a milestone that at the beginning of all of this simply wouldn't have been imagined.\n\nBut as time as worn on, the pattern has become familiar: push the dates back, confront the worst rather than hope for the best.\n\nThe prime minister altered, maybe, too. You could hear it in his tone when asked what the chances of sticking to his date were. \"That's the earliest,\" he warned, suggesting that a long list of things have to go right.\n\nOne cabinet minister described the government's position: \"The decision making has been more and more cautious as they've been caught out so many times.\"\n\nNo one perhaps would be more delighted than Mr Johnson if the pace of the disease slows dramatically and the promise of the vaccine comes good very soon.\n\nBut at this time, with a buffer of several weeks to keep looking at the information, that's not a commitment that ministers are willing to make.", "Victims lost an average of £45,242 last year after investing with fraudsters imitating genuine investment firms.\n\nMore than £78m was lost in total, according to fraud reporting centre Action Fraud.\n\nReports of clone firm investment scams rose by 29% in April - at the time of the first national lockdown - compared with the previous month.\n\nA UK financial watchdog warned people to be alert, particularly when their finances were stretched.\n\nScammers set up clone firms using the name, address and firm reference number (FRN) of real companies authorised by the regulator - the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).\n\nThey then send out sales materials linking to the websites of legitimate firms, to trick potential investors into thinking they are dealing with the real firm.\n\nThey use their own, similar contact details, so victims still think they are dealing with the genuine firm as they invest money.\n\nLosses can be high as fraudsters tend to encourage large or regular investments before disappearing with the money.\n\nThe ongoing financial impact of Covid-19 may make people more susceptible to clone scams, the FCA said.\n\nMark Steward, executive director of enforcement and market oversight at the FCA, said: \"Fraudsters use literature and websites that mirror those of legitimate firms, as well as encouraging investors to check the firm reference number (FRN) on the FCA Register to sound as convincing as possible.\"\n\nHe said alerts were raised about 1,100 firms, including clones, last year - twice as many as the previous year.\n\nHe said the authorities were taking down clone sites when discovered.\n\n\"When it comes to clones, I cannot emphasise enough how important it is to double check every detail,\" Mr Steward said.\n\nOne victim, called Janet, said: \"After searching the internet for high-return bonds, I received a call the next day about investing in student accommodation.\n\n\"I found legitimate details of the company online - everything seemed genuine, so I invested.\n\n\"A few months later, after a couple more investments, I started to get a bit worried - I still hadn't received confirmation of the latest investment.\n\n\"I tried to call the contacts I had been speaking to, but the numbers were invalid. It was clear I had been scammed.\n\nThe ScamSmart campaign, run by the FCA, has tips to protect yourself from clone investment firms:", "Jagtar Singh Johal, from Dumbarton, is being held under India's anti-terror law\n\nA Scottish man who has been held in an Indian jail without conviction for three years has told the BBC he was tortured to sign a blank confession.\n\nJagtar Singh Johal, from Dumbarton, is being held under India's anti-terror laws, accused of conspiring to murder a number of right-wing Hindu leaders.\n\nCourt documents allege he helped fund the crimes and claim he was a member of a \"terrorist gang\".\n\nMr Johal told the BBC via his lawyer he had been \"falsely implicated\".\n\nIn answers to BBC questions obtained by his lawyer during a virtual prison meeting, the 33-year-old says he was physically tortured into signing a blank confession and forced to record a video which was broadcast on Indian TV.\n\n\"They made me sign blank pieces of paper and asked me to say certain lines in front of a camera under fear of extreme torture,\" he said via his lawyer.\n\nMr Johal's legal team also shared a copy of what they say is a handwritten letter from shortly after his arrest in November 2017 in which he details allegations of how the torture took place.\n\n\"Multiple shocks were administered by placing (the) crocodile clips on my earlobes, nipples and private parts,\" the letter says. \"Multiple shocks were given each day.\n\n\"Two people would stretch my legs, another person would slap and strike me from behind, and the shocks were given by the seated officers.\"\n\n\"At some stages I was left unable to walk and had to be carried out of the interrogation room.\"\n\nThe BBC has been unable to independently verify these allegations of torture.\n\nThe Indian authorities strongly deny them, and have said \"there is no evidence of mistreatment or torture as alleged\".\n\nJagtar got married in India in 2017\n\nMr Johal travelled to India in October 2017 for his wedding.\n\nVideos of the occasion show the new groom jumping enthusiastically to Bhangra music as he celebrated.\n\nIn another he is seen holding his wife's hand, as they perform their first dance in front of friends and family.\n\n\"It was a cheerful day for us, it went exactly as planned,\" recalls his brother Gurpreet Singh Johal.\n\nBut a fortnight later, while on a shopping trip with his new bride in the North Indian state of Punjab, Mr Johal was taken away by police and has been in detention ever since.\n\nHis brother Gurpreet, who lives in Scotland, says Mr Johal was a peaceful activist and is convinced he was arrested because he had written about historical human rights violations against Sikhs in India.\n\n\"I believe my brother is being targeted because he was outspoken,\" Gurpreet says. \"I believe he is innocent and will be proved innocent once the trial starts.\n\n\"Otherwise Indian officials should release him and return him back to his country.\"\n\nJagtar Singh Johal (right) arrives at court in India in November 2017\n\nCharge-sheets from the Indian authorities outline the case against Mr Johal and a group of men whom they believe were involved in a \"series of killings\" of right wing Hindu leaders.\n\nIt is claimed Mr Johal was a member of Khalistan Liberation Front (KLF), described in the documents as an international \"terrorist gang\".\n\nHe is accused of paying £3,000 to the former head of the KLF to help fund the crimes. The documents claim he \"actively participated and had complete knowledge of the conspiracy\".\n\n\"There are very serious charges against him including murder and abetment of terrorism,\" an Indian government official told the BBC.\n\n\"The seriousness of charges against him have been shared with the British authorities,\" they added.\n\nFootage which claims to show Mr Johal in custody was broadcast on Indian TV\n\nMr Johal's lawyer, Jaspal Singh Manjphur, who has represented him since he was first arrested, told the BBC he was concerned by the length of time it was taking for the case to go through the Indian legal system.\n\n\"He has been in custody for over three years,\" Mr Manjphur said. \"Normally, if the prosecution wants, they can complete the case in that much time.\"\n\nMr Manjphur said the authorities had yet to provide any him with any evidence linking his client to the crimes and feared he was being framed, a charge denied by officials.\n\nA few weeks ago, Mr Johal was accused of being involved in another crime. While in prison he has been arrested for helping to plot the murder of a man in October 2020.\n\n\"He is in a high security jail, he is under CCTV surveillance for 24 hours. How can he be in contact with anyone?\", Mr Manjphur said.\n\nMr Johal was last seen in public at court in Delhi earlier this month\n\nMr Johal is being held at Delhi's maximum security Tihar jail.\n\nHe claims he is often forced to stay in solitary confinement and is denied the same facilities as other prisoners, such as hot water.\n\n\"By making me stay in these conditions, they are ensuring that my mental condition remains disturbed,\" he said.\n\n\"It is very tough to live here,\" he said.\n\nThe vast majority of inmates at the prison are, like Mr Johal, held before a conviction in what is known as an \"under-trial\" in India.\n\nAt the end of 2019, 82% of prisoners held in Tihar jail had yet to complete the trial process.\n\nIn India it can take many years before under-trial prisoners ever get to court, especially in terror cases where bail is hard to secure, a concern for Mr Johal's lawyer.\n\n\"He will languish in jail until the trial is completed, in such cases it could take anywhere between five to 10 years,\" Mr Manjphur said.\n\nUK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has raised the case with his Indian counterpart\n\nThe human rights charity Reprieve has written to the UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, asking that he calls for Mr Johal's immediate release.\n\nReprieve is also worried that some of the charges Mr Johal is awaiting trial for carry the death penalty as the maximum punishment. But experts stress that executions in India are extremely rare.\n\nThe UK's Foreign Commonwealth and Development office told the BBC that Mr Raab did raise the case with his Indian counterpart during his trip to India in December.\n\n\"We have consistently raised concerns about his case with the Government of India, including allegations of torture and mistreatment and his right to a fair trial,\" it said in a statement.\n\n\"Our staff continue to support Jagtar Singh Johal following his detention in India, and are in regular contact with his family and prison officials about his health and wellbeing.\"\n\nHundreds of people protested outside the Foreign Office\n\nBut Mr Johal's brother Gurpreet said the family was still waiting for a meeting with the foreign secretary.\n\nHe said: \"We are calling for either Jagtar to be charged and a fair trial to take place or to be returned back to his country so he can spend his life with his wife in the UK.\"\n\nIn August last year Gurpreet Singh Johal was joined by dozens who protested outside Downing Street.\n\nJagtar Singh Johal's case has sparked protests around the world, from Westminster to Washington, Geneva to Toronto.\n\nIn his statement to the BBC, Mr Johal had this message for officials back home: \"I plead to the UK government to support me, I'm a British citizen and the government should understand that.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer calls for teachers and support staff to be vaccinated during the February half term\n\nSir Keir Starmer has called on the government to \"use the window\" of the February half-term to vaccinate all teachers and support staff.\n\nSpeaking at Prime Ministers Questions, the Labour leader said reopening schools must be a national priority.\n\nLabour wants to bring forward the vaccination of key workers alongside others in high risk groups.\n\nBut Boris Johnson said the proposal would \"delay our ability to move forward out of lockdown\".\n\nThe PM said teachers in the top nine priority groups would be vaccinated as a \"matter of priority\", adding: \"I know how deeply frustrating it is, the extra burden that we have placed on families by closing the schools.\"\n\nMr Johnson said he remained confident that the top four priority groups - taking in all over-70s, health and care staff and elderly care home residents - would receive a first jab by mid-February \"if we can get the supply\" of vaccines.\n\nBy the end of April those in the next five priority groups, including all over-50s and younger adults with underlying health conditions, should have been offered a jab, under the government's plans.\n\nLabour wants to see workers in critical professions - such as police officers, firefighters and transport workers, as well as teachers - vaccinated alongside these groups.\n\nShadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth said: \"The NHS rightly deserve congratulations for their impressive and speedy roll out of vaccinations.\n\n\"But now we need to go further and faster.\n\n\"Not only will vaccination acceleration save lives it will help us to carefully and responsibly reopen our economy and crucially ensure children are back in school as transmission reduces.\"\n\nBut asked about the proposal in the Commons, Mr Johnson said it would \"take vaccines away from the more vulnerable groups and... delay our ability to move forward out of lockdown\".\n\nThe government has said it will prioritise the reopening of schools as it begins the process of lifting lockdown restrictions, but in a Commons statement after PMQs, Mr Johnson indicated that schools would remain closed until early March.\n\n\"We hope it will... be safe to begin the reopening of schools from Monday, 8 March, with other economic and social restrictions being removed thereafter as and when the data permits,\" he told MPs.", "The coronavirus pandemic has forced the cancellation of many much-loved events and traditions but the good people of New Orleans were not going to let it ruin their annual Mardi Gras.\n\nWhen the mayor of the Louisiana city announced that the raucous, crowd-filled street carnival parades would not be going ahead, residents decided to turn their houses into floats instead.\n\nThousands have been transformed for the two-week long carnival that runs until Ash Wednesday on 17 February. In the picture below, you can see The Queen's Jubilee House.\n\nA special project was set up encouraging home-owners to hire the many artists who would normally have months of work preparing for the event.\n\nRené Pierre's company usually looks after 75 floats during Mardi Gras and he has managed to get contracts to build 53 house floats.\n\n\"My wife and I were trying to sleep one night, and we kept hearing notifications coming from the website. It was like instant success. It was incredible,\" he told CNN.\n\nThere were a variety of themes such as this reference to the Bernie Sanders meme from last month's presidential inauguration.\n\nAnd this homage to influential women including Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg who died last year.\n\nThe idea for the house floats came from a carnival regular, Megan Joy Boudreaux, who had suggested it in a post on Twitter after the mayor's announcement in November.\n\n\"It doesn't matter if your budget is zero and you're recycling cardboard boxes, or whether your budget is tens of thousands of dollars and you've got a mansion on St Charles. We want everyone who wants to do this to participate,\" she told the New York Times.\n\nShe said she had expected a few friends and neighbours to join in, but by the beginning of January more than 9,000 people had signed up - some as far afield as the UK and Australia, the AP reports.\n\nSome homes were decorated in honour of musicians, like this house below that paid tribute to former New Orleans resident and jazz clarinet payer Pete Fountain.\n\nAnd this house which referenced country music star Dolly Parton.\n\nThere were also tributes to musician Dr John.\n\nAnd others evoked Zydeco music pioneers Boozoo Chavis and Clifton Chenier and the 'Cajun Hank Williams', DL Menard.\n\nAn online map of the decorated houses is being made available for people to visit in their own time and, it is hoped, in a socially-distanced way.", "Starmer: Get a grip on getting laptops to children\n\nSir Keir says he is \"no wiser\" over where the PM stands on vaccinating teachers. But he moves on to the supplies of technology for children at home. \"The government has got a duty to make sure every single child can learn at home,\" says the Labour leader. But he says a third of families say they don't have enough laptops or home computers, and over 400,000 children are still not able to get online at home. He asks if the PM understands the anger of families that the government \"still haven't got to grips with this\". Johnson says he \"fully understands the frustration and impatience across the country.\" He says the government has provided 1.3 million laptops to children and a £1bn catch up fund, but he promises more details in his statement this afternoon on \"what more we propose to do on reopening of schools\".", "Claudia Marsh was a volunteer for an eating disorder charity which had helped her in the past\n\nAn \"incredible\" recently-qualified teacher has died with coronavirus on her 25th birthday.\n\nClaudia Marsh's death was described as \"sudden and unexpected\" by a charity which had helped her recover from an eating disorder several years ago.\n\nShe had gone on to volunteer for the organisation and became a \"beacon of hope\" for others.\n\nHer mother Tina Marsh, from Heswall in Wirral, said she was \"very proud\" and \"blown away\" by the many tributes.\n\nWriting on Facebook, Ms Marsh said she was a \"beautiful daughter and incredible sister\" who was selfless in her work for Merseyside-based charities Talking Eating Disorders (TEDS) and The Whitechapel Centre.\n\nShe said: \"She loved giving back to people less fortunate than herself.\"\n\nFamily friend Leigh Best, who founded TEDS, described the death as \"heartbreaking\".\n\nShe added: \"Claudia was very special, kind, caring and a dedicated teacher.\n\n\"She supported countless families across the UK. Claudia made her own little packs to give out to others with eating disorders with positive affirmations.\n\n\"She was full of positivity, kindness and hope, and had a smile that would brighten up the whole room.\"\n\nIn a statement, the Whitechapel Centre, where Claudia also volunteered, said staff were \"devastated\", adding she would leave behind a \"legacy of care, dedication and enthusiasm\".\n\nThe charity said she put all of her time and energy into providing food and clothing to those who needed it during the pandemic.\n\n\"Claudia always put others before herself and her memory will live on through the impact and contribution she made to our organisation,\" the centre said.\n\n\"She was instrumental in bringing together our volunteer community.\"\n\nMs Marsh has set up an online fundraising page for the two charities, which has already garnered more than £10,000.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Facebook is taking steps to rectify the error that saw posts referring to Plymouth Hoe taken down\n\nFacebook has apologised for removing posts that named part of a city it deemed to contain an offensive word.\n\nPlymouth Hoe is a historic part of the Devon city's seafront but the social media platform wrongly identified it as an offensive term.\n\nFacebook users have recently had posts taken down for breaching bullying rules after innocently using the place name.\n\nThe company said it \"will take steps to rectify the error\".\n\nDawn Lapthorn, who created the 'Don't Dump it, Plymouth and Surrounding areas' page said she was surprised to receive notifications from Facebook telling her \"community standards on harassment and bullying\" had been breached.\n\nPlymouth Hoe is famous as the place where Sir Francis Drake finished off a game of bowls before setting off to fight the Spanish Armada in 1588\n\nShe said: \"One woman on the group had been making hats, and she forgot to say where the collection point was so people asked her and she wrote Plymouth Hoe.\n\n\"Suddenly I started getting notifications asking me to remove the comments.\n\n\"And then her daughter contacted me asking why her mum had been banned from commenting on the group.\"\n\nOther people commenting on the group's posts have also received notifications and had posts taken down.\n\nMs Lapthorn said: \"I've heard that some Facebook groups have been closed down because of this, and with the work we do in the community and 26,000 members, I've worked too hard to have that put at risk.\"\n\nA Facebook company spokesperson said: \"These posts were removed in error and we apologise to those who were affected. We're looking into what happened and will take steps to rectify the error.\"\n\nFollow BBC News South West on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to spotlight@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "It wasn't normal when the prime minister stood at the lectern in Downing Street's wood-panelled State Dining Room and announced that four people had died from coronavirus on 9 March last year.\n\nIt wasn't normal, that day, when he announced the obscure-sounding virus was a global pandemic that, in the 21st Century, the UK government would struggle to contain.\n\nIt was unprecedented, in peacetime, when, on 23 March, Boris Johnson instructed the country to stay at home.\n\nIt was shocking when, on 28 March, official figures reported more than 1,000 cases in a single day.\n\nA few weeks later, there were sharp intakes of breath when the UK government's chief scientific adviser told MPs, and all of us, that keeping the numbers of deaths down to around 20,000 would be a \"good outcome\".\n\nIt wasn't normal when the Treasury started paying the wages of millions of people to prevent hardship on a vast scale.\n\nIt wasn't normal when planes stayed on the ground, roads and trains emptied.\n\nIt certainly wasn't normal when classrooms fell largely silent, or when the nooks and crannies of Westminster, usually full of intrigue, emptied.\n\nBut in that new strangeness it became normal, week after week, for millions of us to stand in the street, on balconies or on doorsteps to express thanks to those who care for us.\n\nAnd there is now an emerging routine of the most vulnerable rolling up their sleeves, sometimes in front of the cameras, for vaccines that offer at least part of the route to the future.\n\nYet the daily publication of the numbers of people who have died because of Covid has become an all-too-familiar rhythm.\n\nIn the middle of the afternoon, every day, the latest total emerges. A previously unimaginable communication has become a regular part of the country's conversation.\n\nBut today that number has reached a terrible height. Every one of those 100,000 lives lost leaves its own story, and sorrow, behind.\n\nThis miserable landmark is a moment to remember, maybe, that what has happened in the last year, to our politics, to us all is not normal at all.", "The Royal Welsh Show - the biggest agricultural show in Europe - has been cancelled for the second year running because of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nThe board met on Wednesday to discuss holding the show as scheduled in July, but after discussions with Welsh Government decided it wouldn't be feasible.\n\nSteve Hughson, chief executive of the Royal Welsh Agricultural Society, said: “We continue to work alongside the Welsh Government and Public Health Wales to create a road map for the safe re-opening of events.\n\n\"Our events are central to the rural economy and way of life and mean so much to members, exhibitors, traders and visitors.\n\n\"We fully understand the responsibility on all of us to ensure we deliver our events as soon as it is safe to do so.\"\n\nMr Hughson said the society had provided free facilities for a Covid testing centre and a mass vaccination centre at its showground in Llanelwedd, Powys.", "Goldman Sachs' chief executive David Solomon will get a $10m (£7.3m) pay cut for the bank's involvement in the 1MDB corruption scandal.\n\n1MDB was an investment fund set up by the Malaysian government that lost billions due to fraudulent activity.\n\nThe global web of fraud and corruption led to a 12-year jail term for Malaysia's ex-prime minister Najib Razak which he is appealing.\n\nGoldman Sachs called its involvement in the scandal an \"institutional failure\".\n\nGoldman Sachs helped raise $6.5bn for 1MDB by selling bonds to investors, the proceeds of which were largely stolen.\n\nProsecutors alleged that senior Goldman executives ignored warning signs of fraud in their dealings with 1MDB and Jho Low, an adviser to the fund. Two Goldman bankers have been criminally charged in the scandal.\n\nMr Solomon's pay would have been $10m higher but for the actions its board of directors took in response to the 1MDB saga, Goldman Sachs said on Tuesday.\n\nWhile disclosing his salary had dropped to $17.5m for 2020, the bank stressed that Mr Solomon was unaware of the corruption.\n\nHe was not \"involved in or aware of the firm's participation in any illicit activity at the time... the board views the 1MDB matter as an institutional failure, inconsistent with the high expectations it has for the firm\".\n\nMr Solomon's package consists of $2m in cash base pay, a $4.65m cash bonus, and $10.85m in stock-based compensation.\n\nIn October, Goldman agreed to pay nearly $3bn to government officials in four countries to end an investigation into work it performed for 1MDB. The bank collected $600m for arranging the bond sales in 2012 and 2013.\n\nIt has spent years being investigated by regulators across the globe including those in the US, UK, Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong.In total, Goldman's dealings with 1MDB cost the bank more than $5bn.\n\nDespite the costs and fines from the fallout from the 1MDB scandal, 2020 was a bumper year for Goldman's businesses with annual revenue of $44.6bn, its highest since 2009.\n\nThe US-based bank got a huge boost from the recovery in global stock markets from the depths of the coronavirus recession.\n\nIn 2018 Malaysian police raided the home of former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak, as part of their investigation in his involvement with 1MDB.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Handbags and money seized in raids on former Malaysian PM's home (video published in 2018)", "Josh Quigley crashed while cycling at 40mph downhill in Dubai\n\nA record-breaking Scottish cyclist is recovering from his second serious crash in little over a year.\n\nJosh Quigley fractured his spine, pelvis, shoulder, collarbone and elbow after falling off his bike at 40mph while training in Dubai on Tuesday.\n\nThe 28-year-old from Livingston is in hospital awaiting surgery.\n\nLast September he broke the North Coast 500 cycling world record just months after suffering life-threatening injuries while riding across the USA.\n\nMr Quigley told BBC Scotland he was in a lot of pain and unable to walk after his latest crash.\n\nHe said: \"I think a gust of wind took my front wheel out.\"\n\n\"Not sure what the recovery process is looking like yet,\" he added on social media.\n\n\"Very grateful to Ben and Tobias who I was riding with for getting me an ambulance and making sure I got to hospital OK.\n\n\"There's a great cycling community here who have been great to me since I've been here and they're all doing a lot to make sure I am looked after and have what I need in here.\n\n\"Huge thanks also to a few people who stopped at the scene and all of the first responders and medical staff who have helped at the hospital so far.\"\n\nMr Quigley shaved six minutes off the existing North Coast 500 world record when he completed the 516-mile Highland route in 31hrs and 17 minutes last September.\n\nThe route is ranked as one of the world's toughest endurance challenges as it has 34,423ft (10,492m) of ascent - more than Mount Everest, which stands at 29,031ft (8,848m).\n\nHis feat came after he was hit by a vehicle in Texas during a round-the-world-trip in December 2019.\n\nHe had life-threatening injuries and operations on a broken heel and ankle as well as a stent fitted in an artery in his neck, which feeds blood to his brain.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The PM has said he hopes a \"gradual and phased\" relaxation of Covid restrictions can begin in early March.\n\nBoris Johnson told MPs he intended to set out a plan for how the lockdown in England could be eased and the criteria involved in the final week of February.\n\nFactors will include death and hospitalisation numbers, progress of vaccinations and changes in the virus.\n\nHe has ruled out schools in England re-opening after the February half term, instead setting an 8 March target.\n\nIn a statement to Parliament, Mr Johnson said the scientific data was not sufficiently clear to make any decisions now but he hoped to publish a detailed roadmap in just under a month's time as the \"picture became clearer\".\n\nHe also announced plans for tighter border restrictions to combat new variants of Covid, confirming all those arriving from high-risk countries will have to quarantine in hotels and other accommodation for 10 days.\n\nThe PM, who is under pressure from Tory MPs to spell out how the current lockdown will end, said relaxing restrictions would depend on emerging data about how effectively the vaccine stops virus transmission.\n\nHe signalled any easing of restrictions would start with schools, setting a potential re-opening date of 8 March - when he said he hoped the 15 million or so people in the top four vulnerable groups earmarked for vaccinations by mid-February will have had their jabs and have full protection.\n\n\"Our aim will be to set out a gradual and phased approach to easing the restrictions in a sustainable way,\" he said, adding that the \"first sign of normality\" should be pupils returning to school.\n\nHe added: \"We hope it will be safe to begin the re-opening of schools from 8 March with other economic and social restrictions being removed thereafter as the data permits.\"\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said reopening schools should be a national priority and urged the government to vaccinate teachers and support staff during the February half term.\n\nLabour is also calling for the government to prioritise key workers in critical professions, seeing them added to the first phase of the vaccination programme, alongside those might likely to become seriously ill.\n\nCases are falling and the vaccination programme is going well. So why is the government waiting?\n\nFirstly, there are doubts about how fast infections are falling.\n\nWhile the daily figures show they have almost halved in just over a fortnight, the government's surveillance programmes which involve random testing suggest the drop may be slower.\n\nIt is unclear why there is this discrepancy, but understanding the true trajectory is crucial to knowing what will happen to pressures on hospitals.\n\nWhat impact the vaccination programme has will also be vital.\n\nEarly results from Israel, which is leading the world on vaccination, suggest cases in older age groups start falling three weeks after significant numbers are vaccinated. But ministers want to see that pattern repeated here.\n\nThey also want to know what effect vaccination has on transmission - it is possible vaccinated people can still transmit the infection even if they are protected from illness.\n\nThis will not be completely clear by March, but scientists should at least have a better idea.\n\nWhen a plan for exiting lockdown is set out, the government wants to be certain it can be kept to. But given the cost of lockdown the pressure to lift restrictions will grow if progress keeps being made.\n\nLast week, chair of the Covid Recovery Group Conservative MP Mark Harper said if the government meets its 15 February vaccination deadline, then ministers should begin easing lockdown by 8 March.\n\nHe welcomed the announcement from the prime minster.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Mark Harper This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nUnder the current lockdown, people in England must stay at home and only go out for limited reasons such as food shopping and exercise.\n\nSimilar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nEngland's lockdown laws are due to end on 31 March. Mr Johnson has previously said this date is to allow for a \"controlled\" easing of restrictions back into local tiers.\n\nUnder the tier system, different rules are applied to different parts of the country, depending on factors such as pressure on the NHS, number of cases and rates at which case numbers fall.\n\nPupils in England are not expected to return to school before the February half term. Mr Johnson has said schools will be reopened \"as soon as we can\" but did not guarantee that would happen before Easter.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said restrictions in Scotland will continue until mid-February at the earliest.\n\nIn Wales, the lockdown will be reviewed at the end of January, but the government has previously said it does not see \"much headroom for change\".\n\nNorthern Ireland's lockdown has been extended until 5 March.", "As a family of chemicals, neonicotinoids cause harm to pollinating insects such as bees\n\nThe Wildlife Trusts is to take legal action against the UK government over its decision to allow a pesticide that is almost entirely banned in the EU.\n\nIn 2018, the EU banned the outdoor use of neonicotinoid pesticides, which harm pollinating insects such as bees.\n\nBut following Brexit, the government approved the emergency use of one neonicotinoid to combat a crop disease.\n\nThe charity has told Environment Secretary George Eustice of their intention to challenge the decision.\n\nIn a letter to Mr Eustice, the Trusts says it will push for a judicial review unless the government can \"prove it has acted lawfully\".\n\nMultiple studies, including large-scale field trials, have found that neonicotinoids harm pollinators and aquatic life. Research has also shown that they can be linked to the wider collapse in biodiversity.\n\nThe government says it allowed the use of the neonicotinoid thiamethoxam because of the \"potential danger\" to the sugar beet crop from beet yellows virus, which is spread by aphids.\n\nThe virus can have a severe impact on sugar beet.\n\nIt stressed that use of the chemical would be strictly limited, and the risk to bees was \"acceptable\" because sugar beet doesn't flower. Alternative chemicals should be used to kill any wild flowering plants in and around the crops, the government said.\n\nNeonicotinoids are the most widely-used class of insecticides in the world and they work by disrupting the insect central nervous system.\n\nTwo years ago, the EU's ban was supported by then-Environment Secretary Michael Gove, who said the weight of evidence was \"greater than previously understood\". Unless the evidence changed, he said, the restrictions would be maintained post-Brexit.\n\nThe government says the change in policy is based on \"new evidence\". But, so far, they haven't made this science public.\n\nHowever, Craig Bennett, chief executive of the Wildlife Trusts, said there was no new evidence to justify the change in policy.\n\nHe said: \"The government refused a request for emergency authorisation in 2018 and we want to know what's changed. Where's the new evidence that it's okay to use this extremely harmful pesticide?\n\n\"Using neonicotinoids not only threatens bees but is also extremely harmful to aquatic wildlife because the majority of the pesticide leaches into soil and then into waterways. Worse still, farmers are being recommended to use weedkiller to kill wildflowers in and around sugar beet crops in a misguided attempt to prevent harm to bees in the surrounding area. This is a double blow for nature.\"\n\nIt was the National Farmers' Union (NFU) and British Sugar that applied for the authorisation. Victoria Prentis, a minister with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) told BBC News that it \"wasn't ideal\". But she was \"convinced it was appropriate\" and that the government was \"committed to reducing pesticide use and integrated pest management\".\n\nSugar beet affected by the yellowing disease spread by aphids\n\nThe pesticide will be authorised for use if there is a large enough outbreak of the disease. And it can only be used for a period of up to 120 days. Around a dozen other EU countries, including France and Germany, have also agreed emergency permits.\n\nMs Prentis said the authorisation was very specific, and \"targeted at a non-flowering crop, which bees are not attracted to\".\n\nHowever research, shows that the highly toxic chemicals can persist in the wider ecosystem for some time, potentially to be absorbed by wildflowers that pollinators then visit.\n\nProf Glen Jeffery, from University College London (UCL), said he felt \"horror\" when he learned of the government's decision.\n\n\"We've slowly moved away from it and yet it's creeping back in,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"It's very prevalent in other parts of the world, but then you find in other parts of the world vast numbers of pollinating insects have just vanished and they've just gone through heavy pesticide use. We reach the ridiculous situation where in parts of California thousands of beehives are trucked from Texas and from Florida into California to pollinate crops.\"\n\nThere has been one full sugar beet harvest since outdoor neonicotinoid use was banned. According to the NFU, the 2019-20 harvest was largely unaffected by beet yellows disease. This year's sugar beet harvest is currently underway, and yields are expected to be down by around 25% compared with the five-year average, with some farmers losing as much as 80% of their crop.\n\nAccording to the NFU, there are 3,000 farmers who grow sugar beet, and the wider industry supports around 9,500 jobs in England, largely in the East.\n\nThe NFU has called the situation \"unprecedented\" and its sugar board chairman Michael Sly said: \"I am relieved that our application for emergency use of a neonicotinoid seed treatment for the 2021 sugar beet crop has been granted.\"\n\nNeurobiologist and environmental pharmacologist Dr Chris Connolly said that, since 2018, when neonicotinoids were banned in the EU, around 400 papers had been published looking into thiamethoxam, and none said they were less harmful.\n\nThe peach potato aphid is responsible for spreading the beet yellows virus\n\nHe said he could be in favour of using it: \"But rarely, and when it's really needed - when it's an emergency. It's not an emergency if you apply for it before an emergency.\n\nHe added: \"Is adding pesticides to pesticides the way to go towards better sustainability?\"\n\nWhen they were introduced in 2005, neonicotinoids were seen as a good alternative to traditional pesticides. They are systemic, which means they are absorbed by the plant, so are applied to seeds as a coating - instead of being sprayed. However, it has become clear they are highly toxic to invertebrates such as insects.\n\nThe government recently committed to spending £3bn of international climate finance to \"supporting nature and biodiversity\".\n\nSeveral hundred thousand people have now signed various online petitions against the move. Earlier this month, more than 30 wildlife and environmental organisations, including Pesticide Action Network and the RSPB, wrote a joint letter to Mr Eustice calling on the government to publish the new evidence that led to the derogation being approved.", "The EHIC card is making way for the GHIC card under a new agreement with the EU\n\nUK residents can apply for a Global Health Insurance Card (GHIC) to access emergency medical care in the EU when their current EHIC card runs out.\n\nUnder a new agreement with the EU, both cards will offer equivalent healthcare protection when people are on holiday, studying or travelling for business.\n\nThis includes emergency treatment as well as treatment needed for a pre-existing condition.\n\nThe new GHIC card is free and can be obtained via the official GHIC website.\n\nCurrent European Health Insurance Cards (EHIC) are valid as long as they are in date, and can continue to be used when travelling to the EU.\n\nYou don't need to apply for a GHIC until your current EHIC expires.\n\nPeople should apply at least two weeks before they plan to travel to ensure their card arrives on time.\n\nHealth Minister Edward Argar said: \"Our deal with the EU ensures the right for our citizens to access necessary healthcare on their holidays and travels to countries in the EU will continue.\n\n\"The GHIC is a key element of the UK's future relationship with the EU and will provide certainty and security for all UK residents.\"\n\nIf a UK resident is travelling without a card, they are still entitled to necessary healthcare, and should contact the NHS Business Services Authority (which covers the whole of the UK), which can arrange for payment should they require treatment when abroad.\n\nEHICs from EU member states will continue to be accepted by the NHS.\n\nIt is advised that anyone travelling overseas, whether to the EU or elsewhere in the world, should take out comprehensive travel insurance.", "Khairi Saadallah admitted three counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder\n\nA killer who stabbed three men to death in a Reading park has been handed a whole-life jail term.\n\nKhairi Saadallah murdered James Furlong, 36, David Wails, 49, and 39-year-old Joe Ritchie-Bennett, in June last year in Forbury Gardens.\n\nLondon's Old Bailey previously heard the 26-year-old \"executed\" the men as an \"act of religious jihad\".\n\nPassing sentence Judge Mr Justice Sweeney said it was a \"ruthless and brutal\" terror attack.\n\nSaadallah, who admitted the murders, had also pleaded guilty to the attempted murders of three other men who were also in the park.\n\nThe judge said the victims \"had no chance to react, let alone defend themselves\".\n\n(L-R) David Wails, Joe Ritchie-Bennett and James Furlong were pronounced dead at the scene\n\nHe said he was sure the attack \"involved a substantial degree of premeditation or planning\" and was carried out \"for the purpose of advancing a political, religious, or ideological cause\".\n\nBBC News correspondent Helena Wilkinson, who was in court, said the families of James Furlong and David Wails were present, while Joseph Ritchie-Bennett's loved ones watched via a link from America.\n\nSaadallah showed no emotion as Mr Justice Sweeney went through his sentencing remarks.\n\nOn the afternoon of 20 June, the park was busy due to the first lockdown restrictions being relaxed in England.\n\nAndrew Cafe, who witnessed the stabbings, said he saw Saadallah wielding the \"biggest kitchen knife\" and charging towards him shouting \"Allahu Akbar\".\n\nPharmaceutical manager Mr Ritchie-Bennett and teacher Mr Furlong died from single stab wounds to their necks, while scientist Mr Wails was stabbed once in the back.\n\nDespite treatment from paramedics and doctors, all three friends, who were members of the LGBT community, died at the scene.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Witness Andrew Cafe visited Forbury Gardens for the first time since the attack\n\nThree other people - Nishit Nisudan, Patrick Edwards and Stephen Young - were also injured, before Saadallah threw away the knife and fled the scene, pursued by police.\n\nFollowing his arrest, Saadallah initially said he wanted to plead guilty to the \"jihad that I done\", but the prosecution claimed he later feigned mental illness in police interviews.\n\nAt a previous hearing, the court heard he had developed an emotionally unstable and anti-social personality disorder, with his behaviour worsened by alcohol and cannabis misuse.\n\nBut the judge said it was \"clear that the defendant did not, and does not, have any major mental illness\".\n\nAn examination of Saadallah's phone revealed an interest in extremist material, including images of the flag of Islamic State and Jihadi John, the court previously heard.\n\nWhile at HMP Bullingdon in 2017, he was seen to associate with radical preacher Omar Brookes, who has connections with banned terrorist organisation Al-Muhajiroun.\n\nThe court heard Saadallah, who arrived in Britain from Libya in 2012, had previously been involved with militias who had been part of the uprising against Muammar Gaddafi, and was pictured handling weapons, including firearms.\n\nSince seeking asylum in Britain, he had been repeatedly arrested and convicted of various offences, including theft and assault, between 2013 and 2020.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. CCTV cameras captured Khairi Saadallah before and after the stabbing\n\nHe briefly came to the attention of MI5 in 2019, but the information provided did not meet the threshold of investigation.\n\nSaadallah had been released from prison on 5 June, days before the attack, the court heard.\n\nOn 17 June, he researched the location for his attack online and carried out reconnaissance in the park.\n\nThe following day his probation officer alerted his mental health team over comments he made about magic.\n\nA day later, Saadallah contacted the crisis team himself, but when they visited he did not answer.\n\nFollowing concerns from his brother, police visited the killer the same day, but he told officers he was \"alright\" while he stood near a knife he bought from a supermarket.\n\nAndrew Wails said losing his brother had been devastating\n\nAfter the sentencing, James Furlong's father, Gary, said: \"The secretary of state needs to tell us why this guy wasn't put into some form of detention centre before they could deport him.\n\n\"He was not safe to be released back on the streets.\"\n\nReferring to the fact that Saadallah had been visited by police the night before the attack, Mr Furlong said: \"Given the volume of crimes he's committed and the information that they had on him, for an assessment to be done the night before to say that he's not a danger to the public - it is beyond me.\"\n\nHe described Mr Furlong, originally from Liverpool, as \"a lovely man, loved by his family, idolised by his mother\".\n\nDavid Wails' brother Andrew said: \"For us as a family it's been devastating to lose our much loved son, brother and uncle.\"\n\nIn a statement, the Bennett family described Mr Ritchie-Bennett as a \"devoted and loving husband\" and \"a man who cared strongly about family\".\n\nThe park had been busy due to the first lockdown restrictions being relaxed in England\n\nDet Ch Supt Kath Barnes, head of Counter Terrorism Policing South East, described Saadallah as \"a committed jihadist\".\n\nShe said: \"He has caused unspeakable hurt and distress to the families of the three men who were brutally murdered as they were relaxing and enjoying socialising with friends on a Saturday evening.\n\n\"I'm sure there will also be lasting effects on those who were injured in the attack, who were fortunate not to have been even more seriously harmed.\"\n\nReading Borough Council leader Jason Brock described the attacks as \"horrific\" and \"senseless\" and said a permanent memorial to the victims was planned.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Cardiff\n\nCardiff City defender Sol Bamba is being treated for cancer, the Championship club has announced.\n\nThe 35-year-old Ivory Coast international has been diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin lymphoma and is undergoing chemotherapy.\n\n\"Sol has begun his battle in typically positive spirits and will continue to be an integral part of the Bluebirds family,\" said the Bluebirds.\n\nBamba joined Cardiff in October 2016 under former manager Neil Warnock.\n\nThe National Health Service Wales describes the illness as \"a type of cancer that develops in the lymphatic system, a network of vessels and glands spread throughout your body.\n\n\"The lymphatic system is part of your immune system\".\n\nThe Bluebirds said Bamba is \"universally admired by team-mates, staff and supporters in the Welsh capital\".\n\nThe club's statement added: \"During treatment Sol will support his team mates at matches and younger players within the Academy, with whom he will continue his coaching development.\n\n\"While we request privacy for him and his family at this time, messages of support to be passed on to Sol may be sent to club@cardiffcityfc.co.uk.\"\n\n\"We are all with you Sol.\"\n\nBamba helped Cardiff win promotion to the Premier League in 2018 and has made more than 100 appearances for the club.\n\nThe former Paris St Germain player has been a hugely popular member of the squad, though this season he has been restricted to five Championship substitute appearances and one League Cup start.\n\nHe is a much travelled player who has had spells at Dunfermline, Hibernian, Leicester City, Trazbonspor and Italian club Palermo as well as Leeds United.\n\nFrance-born Bamba has played 46 times for the Ivory Coast, including World Cup appearances and was part of their African Cup of Nations squad when they were runners-up in 2012.", "A video featuring footage of a County Mayo man being consumed by fits of laughter while trying to record a birthday message for his son, has gone viral.\n\nVincent McDonnell was sending the message to his son David, who was celebrating his 40th birthday in Australia.\n\nHis younger son Paul got the video rolling, but the pair could not contain their laughter as they racked up the attempts.\n\nThe video has been viewed more than 1.5m times on Paul's Twitter account.", "Jessica Allen and Eliza Moore said their cars were surrounded by police when they arrived at the reservoir\n\nTwo women who were fined £200 each when they drove five miles for a walk have had the penalties withdrawn.\n\nJessica Allen and Eliza Moore were walking at Foremark Reservoir, Derbyshire, when they were \"surrounded\" by officers.\n\nAt the time Derbyshire Police insisted driving to exercise was \"not in the spirit\" of the most recent lockdown.\n\nBut new national guidance for police has led the force to quash the fines, and apologise to the women.\n\nChief Constable Rachel Swann said the fines \"have been withdrawn and we have notified the women directly, apologising for any concern caused\".\n\nThe two friends travelled the short distance to the reservoir from their homes in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire, on Wednesday afternoon.\n\nThey said their cars were \"surrounded\" by police. They were then questioned on why they were there and told the hot drinks they had brought along were not allowed as they were \"classed as a picnic\".\n\nIn a statement, the women said: \"This afternoon we both received a phone call from Derbyshire Police.\n\n\"After reviewing our case, our fines have been rescinded and we have received an apology on behalf of the constabulary for the treatment we received.\n\n\"We welcomed this apology and we are pleased to draw a line under this event.\"\n\nAfter the incident gained media attention, the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) \"clarified the policing response concerning travel and exercise\".\n\nThe guidance said: \"The Covid regulations which officers enforce and which enables them to issue FPNs [fixed penalty notices] for breaches, do not restrict the distance travelled for exercise.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid: Fined women 'could have been dealt with differently'\n\nDerbyshire Police said: \"Having received clarification of the guidance issued by the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) on Friday, these FPNs as well as a small number of others issued, were reviewed in line with that latest advice, and so it is right that we have taken this action.\"\n\nThe county's police and crime commissioner Hardyal Dhinsda said: \"While the police are doing their absolute best to protect public safety during what is a critical time of the pandemic, the public should rightly expect a proportionate and balanced approach, taking full consideration of individual circumstances.\n\n\"We recognise that errors will occur in the face of complex guidance and legislation and it is important such situations are resolved quickly and fairly, as has been the case here.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The UK economy will \"get worse before it gets better\" as the country battles the pandemic, Chancellor Rishi Sunak has warned.\n\nThe chancellor told MPs the new national restrictions were necessary to control the spread of coronavirus.\n\nHowever, he said they would have a further significant economic impact,\n\n\"Even with the significant economic support we've provided, over 800,000 people have lost their job since February,\" he said.\n\n\"Sadly, we have not and will not be able to save every job and every business.\n\n\"But I am confident that our economic plan is supporting the finances of millions of people and businesses.\"\n\nThe chancellor said \"the road ahead will be tough\", but maintained that the government was \"taking the difficult but right long-term decisions for our country\".\n\nHe said that fiscal stimulus provided so far amounted to more than £280bn, while 1.2 million employers had furloughed almost 10 million employees.\n\nAt the same time, three million people had benefited from self-employment grants.\n\nMr Sunak said he would \"bear in mind\" calls to extend business rate relief and provide further support for the hospitality sector at the Budget in March.\n\nShadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds accused Mr Sunak of being \"out of ideas\" and providing \"nothing new\".\n\nShe said: \"The purpose of an update is to provide us with new information, not to repeat what we already know.\"\n\nThe chancellor's words reflect the fact that with a widespread lockdown, the first months of 2021 are likely to see a further contraction in the UK economy and probably an official double-dip recession. This reflects the physical shutdown nationwide of hospitality and retail, as well as the effect in the data of school shutdowns too.\n\nIn addition, consumers and workers are likely to be more cautious as the vaccine starts to be rolled out. So this is a very odd sort of economic tripwire. The challenge in the next weeks and months gets bigger, although not as big as it was last April. But beyond that, there is the hope of something normal.\n\nThe implication for the chancellor as he prepares a vital early March Budget, however, is further delay to the measures, such as tax rises, to deal with historic levels of pandemic government borrowing.", "In his letter to staff, circulated on social media, Chad Wolf said he had hoped to remain as acting secretary to homeland security until the end of the Trump administration.\n\n\"Unfortunately, this action is warranted by the recent events, including the ongoing and meritless court rulings regarding the validity of my authority as acting secretary,\" he said, \"which serve to divert attention and resources away from the important work of the Department in this critical time of a transition of power\".\n\nWolf's resignation comes after he last week called on Trump and all elected officials to \"strongly condemn\" the Capitol riot.\n\nHis exit throws the department into turmoil just as it is gearing up for inauguration of Joe Biden as president on 20 January, which has been designated a national security special event.", "Rules governing the import of personal goods from the UK to the EU changed after Brexit formally came into effect\n\nA Dutch TV network has filmed border officials confiscating ham sandwiches and other foods from drivers arriving in the Netherlands from the UK, under post-Brexit rules.\n\nThe officials were shown explaining import regulations imposed since the UK formalised its separation from the EU.\n\nUnder EU rules, travellers from outside the bloc are banned from bringing in meat and dairy products.\n\nThe rules appeared to bemuse one driver.\n\n\"Since Brexit, you are no longer allowed to bring certain foods to Europe, like meat, fruit, vegetables, fish, that kind of stuff,\" a Dutch border official told the driver in footage broadcast by TV network NPO 1.\n\nIn one scene, a border official asked the driver whether several of his tin-foil wrapped sandwiches had meat in them.\n\nWhen the driver said they did, the border official said: \"Okay, so we take them all.\"\n\nSurprised, the driver then asked the officials if he could keep the bread, to which one replied: \"No, everything will be confiscated - welcome to the Brexit, sir. I'm sorry.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe UK officially finished its formal separation from the EU on 31 December, 2020.\n\nFrom 23:00 GMT on that date, the UK stopped following EU rules, with new arrangements for travel, trade, immigration and security co-operation coming into force.\n\nA trade deal with the EU was agreed on 24 December, and a week later, UK lawmakers voted in favour of the agreement.\n\nThe UK's departure means big changes for business - with the UK and EU forming two separate markets - the end of free movement, and new regulations, including those governing the import of personal goods.\n\nThe UK government has issued guidance to commercial drivers travelling to the EU, warning them to \"be aware of additional restrictions to personal imports\".\n\n\"You cannot bring POAO (products of an animal origin) such as those containing meat or dairy (e.g. a ham and cheese sandwich) into the EU,\" the guidance says. \"There are exceptions to this rule for certain quantities of powdered infant milk, infant food, special foods, or special processed pet feed.\"\n\nOn its website, the European Commission says the ban is necessary because such goods \"continue to present a real threat to animal health throughout the Union\".\n\n\"It is known, for example, that dangerous pathogens that cause animal diseases such as Foot and Mouth Disease and classical swine fever can reside in meat, milk or their products,\" the Commission says.\n\nSeparately, the Dutch customs agency shared a picture of foodstuffs it had confiscated from motorists in the ferry terminal the Hook of Holland.\n\n\"Since 1 January, you can't just bring more food from the UK,\" the agency said. \"So prepare yourself if you travel to the Netherlands from the UK and spread the word. This is how we prevent food waste and together ensure that the controls are speeded up.\"\n\nThe BBC's economics editor Faisal Islam described the confiscation of ham sandwiches and other foodstuffs at the EU's borders with the UK as \"a standard implication of [the] Brexit deal\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Faisal Islam This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Unison, the UK's biggest trade union, has elected a woman as leader for the first time.\n\nChristina McAnea won 47.7% of the vote and takes over as general secretary from Dave Prentis, who has been in the job since 2001.\n\nThe former assistant general secretary beat fellow officials Paul Holmes, Roger McKenzie and Hugo Pierre in the contest, which began in October.\n\nMs McAnea said: \"I become general secretary at the most challenging time in recent history - both for our country and our public services.\n\n\"Health, care, council, police, energy, school, college and university staff have worked throughout the pandemic, and it's their skill and dedication that will see us out the other side.\n\n\"Their union will continue to speak up for them and do all it can to protect them in the difficult months ahead.\"\n\nUnison is promising action against the government's pay freeze for 1.3 million public sector workers, which it has described as an \"attack\" on members' livelihoods.\n\nMs McAnea said: \"Despite the risks, the immense pressures and their sheer exhaustion, the dedication and commitment of our key workers knows no end. I will not let this government, nor any future one, forget that.\"\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has also demanded a U-turn on public sector pay, as he urges ministers to \"protect family incomes\" from the effects of lockdowns and other restrictions in his first speech of the year.\n\nBut Chancellor Rishi Sunak has said he cannot \"justify a significant, across-the-board\" salary increase while the economy and public finances are suffering in the wake of the pandemic.\n\nMs McAnea, an experienced negotiator and former NHS worker, is expected to be broadly supportive of Sir Keir, as Mr Prentis has been.\n\nThe Labour leader welcomed her victory, saying: \"I know you will be a brilliant representative for Unison members.\n\n\"And it's a significant moment for the union to elect its first woman general secretary. I look forward to working with you.\"\n\nHer election comes at a strained time between Sir Keir and several other unions whose general secretaries have spoken out in support of his predecessor Jeremy Corbyn, who is currently suspended from the Parliamentary Labour Party.\n\nMr Holmes came second in the Unison contest, with 33.8%, followed by Mr McKenzie, on 10.8%, and Mr Pierre, on 7.8%.\n\nMs McAnea grew up in Glasgow and worked as a housing officer before becoming a union employee.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe UK is at the \"worst point\" of the pandemic, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has warned, but said the actions of the public \"could make a difference\".\n\nAt a No 10 briefing, Mr Hancock pleaded with people to follow the government's Covid rules until the vaccine could provide a \"way out\" of the pandemic.\n\nThe government earlier published its plan to immunise tens of millions of people by spring.\n\nSo far 2.3 million people in the UK have had a first Covid vaccine shot.\n\nAnd a total of 2.6 million doses have been given out across the country, with some people having received both doses.\n\nMr Hancock said the new variant of coronavirus was putting the NHS under \"significant pressure\", adding it was \"imperative\" that people limit their social contacts.\n\n\"The NHS, more than ever before, needs everybody to be doing something right now - and that something is to follow the rules,\" he said.\n\n\"I know there has been speculation about more restrictions, and we don't rule out taking further action if it is needed, but it is your actions now that can make a difference.\"\n\nThe health secretary said he could \"rule out\" tightening restrictions by removing support and childcare bubbles, however.\n\nHis comments follow similar warnings from Prime Minister Boris Johnson, and England's chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty, who said that the next few weeks will be \"the worst\" of the pandemic for the NHS.\n\nAccording to the latest figures, there have been another 529 deaths within 28 days of a positive test in the UK, and another 46,169 cases reported. There are also more than 32,000 people in hospital with coronavirus, data shows.\n\nMatt Hancock has previously said he's learned to rule nothing out when it comes to dealing with the pandemic.\n\nBut today he took the unusual step of doing just that.\n\nSupport bubbles and childcare bubbles, hugely valued by so many, will stay.\n\nSenior Whitehall sources have previously told me bubbles were \"untouchable\" but for a minister to say as much, so explicitly and on the record, means there's now very little wriggle room for the government to change its mind.\n\nMinisters will know that scrapping bubbles, for those that rely on them, could have proved deeply unpopular. But this certainty is a rarity.\n\nWhilst the current emphasis is on compliance, the idea of toughening up controls in other areas is not being ruled out.\n\nThe vaccine delivery plan says it is expected to take until spring to give a first dose to all 32 million people in the UK's priority groups, including everyone over 55 and those who are clinically vulnerable.\n\nUnder the plan, the government has pledged to carry out at least two million vaccinations in England per week by the end of January, which it says will be made possible by rolling out jabs at 206 hospital sites, 50 vaccination centres and around 1,200 local vaccination sites.\n\nIt also reiterates the government's aim of offering vaccinations to around 15 million people in the UK - the over-70s, older care home residents and staff, frontline healthcare workers and the clinically extremely vulnerable - by mid-February.\n\nAccording to Mr Hancock, two fifths of over-80s have now received their first dose, and almost a quarter of care home residents have received theirs.\n\nAlso at the briefing, NHS England's national medical director, Prof Stephen Powis, said the NHS was aiming to vaccinate the rest of the top nine priority groups by April, with a final push to offer all adults over 18 a jab by the autumn.\n\nHe stressed it would take until February before there were \"early signs\" that vaccination was leading to a drop in hospitalisations.\n\nThe country has still not seen the full impact of the Christmas loosening of lockdown restrictions, Prof Powis added, although he noted there are now 13,000 more Covid patients in hospital than there were on Christmas Day.\n\nSpeaking in Bristol earlier, Mr Johnson warned the vaccination programme was in a \"race against time\" because of pressure on the NHS.\n\nHe said it was \"a very perilous moment because everyone can sense the vaccine is coming in - my worry is that will breed false complacency\".\n\nThe newly-published vaccination plan also says ministers are aiming to offer jabs at more than 2,700 sites across the UK.\n\nAnd it says that daily vaccination figures for England will be published from now on - showing the total number vaccinated to date, including first and second doses.\n\nEarlier, NHS England's chief executive, Sir Simon Stevens, told MPs that there was a \"strong case\" for asking the the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) to consider prioritising \"teachers and other key workers\" for vaccination after the \"first nine [priority] groups have been vaccinated\".\n\nA quarter of coronavirus admissions to hospital are for people under the age of 55, he added.\n\nIn the first four weeks of the vaccination campaign, the NHS did 1.3 million vaccinations.\n\nNews that in the past week almost the same again has been done shows progress is being made - even though there has been some concern rollout to care home residents has been slower than hoped.\n\nHitting two million doses a week is the next target - and is something the NHS is aiming to get close to this week.\n\nWith more vaccination sites opening by the day, it should be achievable as long as there is good supply.\n\nThere is already enough vaccine in the country to vaccinate all 15 million people in the highest at-risk groups that have been promised an offer of a vaccine by mid-February.\n\nHowever, not all of it has been through the final safety checks or been packaged up ready for distribution.\n\nChallenges remain, but even at this early stage it is clear there is growing optimism that the programme is on track.\n\nAs seven mass vaccination centres opened across England on Monday, NHS England said hundreds more GP-led and hospital services would also open later this week.\n\nBut with all centres, people will need to wait until they receive an invitation.\n\nTwo vaccines - Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca - are currently being administered in the UK.\n\nOn Friday, a third coronavirus vaccine - made by US company Moderna - was approved for use, although supplies are not expected to arrive until spring.\n\nVaccine programmes are also progressing in the UK's devolved nations.\n\nAll over-50s and everyone who is at greater risk from Covid in Wales will be offered a vaccine by spring, under new plans.\n\nAnd Scotland's health secretary has said every aged over 80 or over in the nation will be offered a jab by February, while care workers in Northern Ireland who provide services to ill or elderly patients living at home can now book an appointment to get a Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nEngland is currently under a national lockdown, meaning people must stay at home and can go out only for limited reasons such as food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home.\n\nSimilar lockdown measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has questioned why there are \"less restrictions in place\" now than there were last March.\n\nIn his first speech of the year, he said: \"I do think it's time to hear from the scientists [about] what else could be done and that probably should be done in the next few hours\".\n\nMeanwhile, the United Arab Emirates is being removed from the UK list of travel corridors amid a spike in Covid cases.\n\nAnd England's Test and Trace scheme has revised one of its definitions of a \"close contact\" - the people who need to be reached if they have been near to someone who has tested positive for Covid.\n\nThis now refers to anyone who has been within two metres of someone for more than 15 minutes, whether in a single period or cumulatively over the course of one day.\n\nPreviously the definition was just a single period of at least 15 minutes.", "Home Office Minister James Brokenshire, who was diagnosed with lung cancer three years ago, is taking leave to have surgery on a lung tumour.\n\nThe Old Bexley and Sidcup MP resigned as Northern Ireland secretary in 2018 for surgery to remove a lesion on his right lung.\n\nOn Monday he confirmed that \"frustratingly\" there had been a recurrence of a tumour there.\n\nHe said he was in \"good hands\" with the \"fantastic NHS team\" looking after him.\n\n\"[I'm] keeping positive and blessed to have the love of Cathy and the kids to support me through this,\" the 53-year-old wrote on Twitter.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said his thoughts were with Mr Brokenshire and his family.\n\n\"Wishing you all the best for your treatment and looking forward to welcoming you back on the team soon,\" he added.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said she was \"saddened\" by the news, adding: \"All my thoughts and prayers are with James and his family during this time\".\n\n\"All colleagues across government send James our love and best wishes, and we look forward to having him back soon,\" she added.\n\nHealth secretary Matt Hancock was among government colleagues wishing him well, adding he was \"sending my best wishes for a speedy recovery\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer tweeted: \"Wishing you all the best for your treatment, James. Get well soon.\"\n\nMr Brokenshire, who was first elected to Parliament in 2005 as MP for the former constituency of Hornchurch, has also previously served as housing secretary under former PM Theresa May.\n\nHe has called for efforts to \"break some of the stigma around lung cancer\" and raise awareness of the disease.\n• None Brokenshire: There were some pretty dark moments", "Medical director Steve Stanaway says numbers of Covid patients are rising at the hospital\n\nHospital staff in Wrexham are under immense pressure after a \"rapid increase\" in seriously ill coronavirus patients, a medical director has warned.\n\nWrexham now has the highest rate of Covid-19 in Wales, with 851.7 cases per 100,000 of the population.\n\nThis is more than double the Welsh average.\n\nSteve Stanaway, medical director at Wrexham Maelor Hospital, pleaded with people to abide by rules.\n\n\"The worry from a staff's point of view is how much more stretching can we take, how many more staff can we deploy?\" he said.\n\nThe hospital - which is part of Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board - was the latest to suspend routine surgery as it tries to deal with rising numbers of Covid patients.\n\n\"That's created more feelings of stress and anxiety, not least to the people who were hoping to get their surgery this week,\" Mr Stanaway said.\n\nThe health board has postponed the majority of surgeries planned for the next two weeks at Wrexham, although some patients will be offered appointments in Bangor instead.\n\nEmergency surgery, upper gastro-intestinal surgery, endoscopy procedures and caesarean sections will continue at the Wrexham hospital.\n\nProf Arpan Guha, acting executive medical director, said: \"There are many patients expecting to undergo an operation in Wrexham over the coming weeks and we recognise how anxious and worried they will already be about having surgery during the current surge of the pandemic.\n\n\"We are sorry for any further distress or inconvenience this decision may cause and would like to reassure those affected that we are doing all we can to prioritise patients in the most urgent need of care.\"\n\nThe spike in cases in communities in north-east Wales has been blamed on the newer \"faster-spreading\" variant.\n\nWhile case rates in many communities have fallen slightly in recent weeks, in Wrexham numbers are continuing to rise.\n\nThe area now has the highest rate in Wales, followed by Flintshire with 754.6 per 100,000 of the population.\n\nBus services in the area have been affected after 28 drivers of Arriva Buses Wales tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nMeanwhile, Gwynedd, has the lowest case rate in the whole of Wales, with 110.\n\nThe average case rate for Wales stands at 435.9, according to the most recent Public Health Wales figures.\n\nThere have been calls for mass testing - as seen in parts of the south Wales Valleys - in the area as case rates continue to rise, but Wrexham council has said it has no plans to offer this to the wider community.\n\nMr Stanaway said the critical care unit and respiratory unit at the Wrexham hospital was now under huge pressure with the number of new patients needing this level of care \"rapidly increasing\" in recent weeks.\n\n\"The numbers are really quite alarming\", he told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast on Monday. \"It's a huge amount of disease burden within a community.\"\n\nMr Stanaway said there were 125 inpatients being treated with Covid on Sunday night, which he estimated was an increase of 117% since Christmas.\n\nHe said 14 of them where in critical care, with some on ventilators, while 16 where being treated in the hospital's high care respiratory unit - a 45% increase in just four days.\n\n\"There are now so many in that unit they've had to expand it to a completely different part of the hospital,\" he said.\n\n\"If you look at the graphs of the cases they are going up exponentially, they are terrifying to look at, and I think people are very aware that this is what is happening out in the community around them,\" he said.\n\nMr Stanaway said staff were working tirelessly and under huge amounts of pressure to keep caring for the sickest patients, but it was unclear how much more demand the hospital could take.\n\n\"Our current predictions for admissions coming through the door in January are currently sitting at about 350, if you compare that to April, the height of the pandemic, we had 286 people,\" he said.\n\n\"It's a lot more, we've already had 112 people in the first nine days of January. And the numbers are going up and up.\"\n\nHe pleaded with people to abide by the rules.\n\n\"This virus is hurting, and has hurt, a lot of people within Wrexham and Flintshire,\" he said.\n\n\"I can't say it strongly enough... we will get through this, but you just have to play by the rules.\"\n\nLatest figures show 149 staff were isolating and, with high nursing vacancy rates, staff were under huge pressure and were working tirelessly.\n\n\"Of all the years I've worked in the NHS... the resilience, dedication and professionalism our staff are showing is absolutely unbelievable,\" he said.\n\n\"But you have to bear in mind that people are tired, people are stressed, and it does put a strain,\" he said.\n\n\"We absolutely want to see you if you are unwell, but if you can wait or seek care somewhere else... please do that to give us that little bit of headspace.\"", "Online supermarket Ocado has become the first big retailer to warn of shortages of some products.\n\nIt told customers in an email that there may be \"an increase of missing items and substitutions over the next few weeks\".\n\nStaff sickness and self-isolation means some food producers are cutting the number of product lines they offer.\n\nWhile customers might not get their exact product choice, plenty of food should be available, Ocado said.\n\n\"Staff absences across the supply chain may lead to an increase in product substitutions for a small number of customers as some suppliers consolidate their offering to maintain output,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nThe news comes after a rush of online food orders for supermarkets, as shoppers try to stay at home after the new lockdown started.\n\nWithin a couple of hours of Prime Minister Boris Johnson's speech to the nation on Monday, shoppers reported problems with Sainsbury's and Tesco, while Ocado customers were placed in a virtual queue.\n\nOcado told its customers that from Friday \"changes to the UK supply chain have affected some of our suppliers and may result in an increase of missing items and substitutions over the next few weeks.\"\n\nIt added: \"We apologise for any inconvenience caused and we are working hard to mitigate any impact.\"\n\nFood suppliers are grappling with staffing problems, hospitality clients who have closed their doors and delays at the border with the EU.\n\nWholesalers the BBC spoke to this week said they faced throwing away thousands of pounds worth of food because of cancelled orders following new restrictions.\n\nThe UK meat industry has called for the early vaccination of its workers to keep food supplies running smoothly during the coronavirus crisis.\n\nIt warned earlier this week that absences during the pandemic, coupled with disruption at ports, could hit food supply chains.\n\nAn early vaccination call for supermarket staff was also made by the boss of Sainsbury's on Thursday.\n\nThe government said the food industry remains \"well-prepared\" to make sure people have the food they need.\n\nThe British Meat Processors Association (BMPA) said coronavirus and disruption at ports due to new systems brought in after the Brexit transition period were \"a severe challenge to the industry and to the smooth running of the nation's food supply chain\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Health Minister Vaughan Gething aims to offer all adults a jab by the autumn.\n\nAll over-50s and everyone who is at greater risk from Covid will be offered a vaccine by spring, under new Welsh Government plans.\n\nA vaccine strategy unveiled by Health Minister Vaughan Gething aims to offer all adults a jab by the autumn.\n\nIt comes after criticism that the rollout of the vaccine has been slower than in other parts of the UK.\n\nThe latest figures show 86,039 doses had been administered by 22:00 GMT on Sunday.\n\nA total of 327,000 doses - 280,000 of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and 47,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab - have now been delivered to the Welsh NHS.\n\nThe figures mean 2.7% of Wales population has so far been vaccinated - compared to just over 4% in Northern Ireland, about 3.5% in England and 3% in Scotland.\n\nAcross the UK nearly 400,000 second doses have been administered, including 374,613 in England, 79 in Wales, 13,949 in Northern Ireland and, as of January 3, 36 in Scotland.\n\nMr Gething admitted the rest of the UK had \"gone slightly faster than we have\", but said the latest vaccinations figures showed a \"significant acceleration\" in the rollout.\n\nThe Welsh Conservatives accused the government of a \"stuttering start\", while Plaid Cymru said the plan was \"late in the day\".\n\nEveryone over 70, all care home residents and staff, and front-line NHS and social care workers will be offered a jab by mid-February, under similar timescales to other UK nations.\n\nThis 82-year-old woman was one of 100 to receive her vaccine at a special clinic in Swansea on Saturday\n\nThe Welsh Government's vaccination plans aim to cover 2.5 million people by September, with vaccines supplied by the UK government.\n\nMr Gething said: \"Delivering this vaccination programme to the people in Wales is a huge task but an enormous amount of work is going on to make it a success.\n\n\"We are making good progress with thousands more people being vaccinated every day.\"\n\nThe plan sets out a series of \"milestones\" for the vaccine rollout in Wales - all depending on the supply of vaccines approved for use.\n\nAt a press conference, Mr Gething said the government aimed to vaccinate:\n\nMr Gething said 700,000 people would be vaccinated by mid-February.\n\nAccording to the plan, the number of GPs' surgeries delivering vaccines will be increased from around 100 to more than 250 by the end of January.\n\nThe number of mass vaccination centres will increase in the next couple of weeks to 35, according to Welsh Government's plan.\n\nOne of those is Margam Orangery, in Neath Port Talbot, where about 500 people will be vaccinated each day.\n\nAt the press conference, Mr Gething defended the UK-wide decision to increase the gap between giving the two doses of the Pfizer vaccine and said it would \"avoid more deaths\".\n\n\"Each of the vaccines provide a high level of protection against harm from coronavirus. That's really good news for all of us,\" he added.\n\nWelsh Conservative health spokesman Andrew RT Davies said the Welsh Government should have a vaccinations minister who \"gets up in the morning thinking about vaccinations and goes to bed thinking about vaccinations\".\n\nHe said such a move would help the government recover from a \"stuttering start\" to the vaccines programme. Mr Davies said the government needed \"focus and direction to drive this forward\".\n\nPlaid Cymru leader Adam Price welcomed the strategy but said it was \"late in the day\".\n\nMr Price said many people, including his own parents, wanted clarity: \"My parents, who are in their 80s, have been told their surgery won't have the ability to vaccinate them for another three weeks, yet the GP surgery next door is starting this week.\"\n\nLarger supplies of the Oxford jab will be needed to speed up vaccinations\n\nThe Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is crucial to ensuring everyone aged over 70 can have at least one jab by Valentine's Day.\n\nHealth boards plan to use reserves of the Pfizer vaccine, but they alone will not reach the Welsh Government's first milestone. To speed things up, bigger supplies of the Oxford vaccine are needed.\n\nUnlike the Pfizer vaccine however, the stock is not held by the Welsh Government. Instead, it is delivered directly to the frontline - including GPs and community pharmacies - by Public Health England.\n\nAround 24,000 Oxford doses arrived in Wales last week; 26,000 are due this week; and another 80 to 100,000 are expected to arrive in four batches next week.\n\nIf the mid-February milestone is reached, attention then turns to the over-50s and younger people whose health puts them at greater risk.\n\nThey can expect a dose by the Spring, but discussions are continuing between the four UK nations to nail down a more specific date.\n\nDr Helen Alefounder is a GP in Colwyn Bay, Conwy county and part of a team that administered 400 vaccines at care comes last week after receiving the vaccine herself on Wednesday.\n\n\"Between us and the surgery next door that we're working with we've got just shy of 20,000 patients to vaccinate,\" she told BBC Radio Wales.\n\n\"It's an absolutely huge task, it's really scary, but we are really keen and committed to get it done because everybody is sick of lockdown and let's be honest, everybody wants life to return to as normal as possible and the only way we're going to do that is to mass vaccinate people.\"\n\nA mass-vaccination centre has been set up at Margam Orangery near Port Talbot\n\nOther GP surgeries have posted on social media that they have not received as many doses of the vaccine as promised.\n\nVaccination numbers will now be published daily and the number of mass vaccination centres will rise from 22 to 35. The vaccination plan also suggests pharmacies could be used to deploy the vaccine.\n\nDr Gill Richardson, the senior responsible officer for the Covid vaccination programme in Wales, said GPs were \"raring to go\" to get the vaccine distributed.\n\nShe said the model for Wales' vaccination programme was focused around the Oxford-Astrazeneca vaccine, which was approved in late December and \"much larger quantities\" were expected.\n\nShe also said: \"I know it's very difficult if you haven't had a letter and you're feeling anxious but you are going to be approached and when you're approached we'd like it to be as soon as possible and as convenient as possible to you.\"\n\nMichael Sullivan, 93, from Radyr, Cardiff, is one of those who is yet to receive his letter.\n\nHe said: \"I hear of all these other people having their second jabs and nobody's even thought of contacting me to say I'm going to have one in the first place. It's a bit depressing. It makes me think somebody's not doing what they should be doing.\n\n\"It gets stressful more easily, that's another thing one has to bare in mind - it's going to save my life.\"\n\nTwo full doses of the Oxford vaccine gave 62% protection, a half dose followed by a full dose was 90% and overall the trial showed 70% protection.\n\nElen Jones, the Wales director of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, said community pharmacists were \"willing and skilled to help deliver the vaccination programme, as they do with flu every year\".\n\nShe added pharmacists could help deliver the vaccine \"at a more local level\".\n\nWelsh ministers have been under intense pressure since it became clear that Wales was lagging behind every other home nation in the initial weeks of vaccine rollout.\n\nIt's still not clear why that should be the case - the logistical challenges of rollout and the change in advice over the time period between first and second doses apply across the UK, not just to Wales.\n\nThe health minister says that there has already been \"a significant step-up in delivery\".\n\nThe test of that will be whether the system in Wales can meet the delivery goals set out in the vaccination strategy - which (as for the other home nations) also rely on a regular and sufficient supply of vaccine.", "Marks & Spencer has announced that it has bought the Jaeger fashion brand, which fell into administration last November.\n\nM&S is taking on the brand, but not Jaeger's scores of shops and concessions.\n\nIt is now in the process of finalising a deal to buy its products and \"supporting marketing assets\".\n\nM&S announced in May 2020 that it planned to stock other complementary brands to boost sales.\n\nSince then, it has started to sell products online from the Early Learning Centre, as well as from two designers, Nobody's Child and Ghost London.\n\nRichard Price, managing director of M&S Clothing & Home, said: \"We have set out our plans to sell complementary third party brands as part of our Never the Same Again programme to accelerate our transformation and turbocharge online growth.\n\n\"In line with this, we have bought the Jaeger brand and are in the final stages of agreeing the purchase of product and supporting marketing assets from the administrators of Jaeger Retail Limited. We expect to fully complete later this month.\"\n\nIn a call with journalists last week, chief executive Steve Rowe said M&S wanted to partner with other brands, largely for its online business, but stressed: \"We have no intention of turning into a department store.\"\n\nJaeger had 244 staff and some 63 stores and concessions. In addition, 13 stores closed after administrators were appointed, with the loss of more than 120 posts across stores, head office and distribution.\n\nIt is unclear if any jobs will be saved. There has been no update from the administrators, FRP.\n\nJaeger was founded in 1884, the same year as Marks & Spencer, which started out as a stall in an open market in Leeds known as Marks' Penny Bazaar.\n\nLast week, M&S unveiled quarterly figures showing that its clothing division had seen sales fall nearly a quarter, although sales of sales of sleepwear had soared.\n\nThe retailer sold 20% more women's pyjamas during the 13 weeks to 26 December. However, UK revenues for the quarter were £2.52bn, 8.2% lower than last year.\n\nM&S blamed \"on-off restrictions and distortions in demand patterns\" due to the coronavirus crisis.", "Stickers supposed to protect users against mobile-phone radiation have no effect, scientists have found.\n\nEnergydots says they \"counteract the harmful energy emitted by wireless and electronic equipment\" to aid sleep, cure headaches and give a clearer mind.\n\nBut University of Surrey tests for BBC News found no evidence of any effect.\n\nThe Devon-based company told BBC News the stickers were programmed with \"scalar energy\", which the scientists' equipment would be unable to detect.\n\nEnergydots markets a range of stickers, including the SmartDot, the SleepDot and even the PetDot.\n\nBBC News bought five SmartDots - a special offer for £55 - and sent them to the university's 6th Generation Innovation Centre.\n\nResearchers tested 4G mobile phones and wi-fi access points with and without the stickers applied to them.\n\nAnd a spokesman for the lab said: \"We could not find any evidence that these products had any effect on frequency or power when used as instructed.\"\n\nAn Energydots spokeswoman told BBC News: \"We state clearly that our products harmonise the fields.\n\n\"And the way to test this is to assess via biological testing.\"\n\nLast November, the company published a press release saying it was extremely proud to announce a partnership with the NHS that would see \"brand-new patient engagement units\" installed in Torbay and Royal College of London hospitals.\n\nAt the time, an Energydots spokeswoman told BBC News adverts for its products would appear in the two hospitals, though she clarified the London hospital was in fact University College Hospital.\n\nBut a Torbay Hospital spokesman then told BBC News it knew nothing of this partnership.\n\nAnd within hours, the press release had disappeared from the company's website.\n\nEnergydots later said there had been a misunderstanding with the agency that had promised to organise the adverts.\n\nIts stickers are among a wide range of products on Amazon from companies offering electric-and-magnetic-field (EMF) protection.\n\nEnergydots also suggests placing its SmartDot stickers on wi-fi routers\n\nThese include protective clothing, canopies to be placed over beds and even devices that block radiation from wi-fi routers - making them effectively useless.\n\nCampaigners claiming radiation from mobile phones and other devices poses a health risk have stepped up protests as 5G networks are rolled out.\n\nBut most scientists say even the higher part of the electromagnetic spectrum that may be used by 5G should not harm humans.\n\nAnd within those limits, there are no known consequences for health, the World Health Organization says.", "The United Arab Emirates is being removed from the UK list of travel corridors amid a spike in Covid cases.\n\nThat means anyone who arrives from the UAE after 04:00 GMT on Tuesday now needs to self-isolate for 10 days, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said.\n\nUK officials say Covid cases have risen 52% in the UAE in the last seven days and cite \"a significant acceleration in the number of imported cases\".\n\nIt comes after Scotland removed the UAE city Dubai from its safe travel list.\n\nThe Foreign Office has also updated its advice to advise against all but essential travel to the emirates.\n\nThe recent lockdown restrictions imposed across the UK mean leisure travel is currently banned.\n\nBut the UAE has been in particular focus in recent weeks after a number of UK reality TV and social media stars posted photographs of themselves holidaying there before the rules came into place.\n\nAnd a Celtic footballer tested positive for Covid-19 after the club took a trip to Dubai for a winter training camp.\n\nCeltic were allowed to go as a group under exemptions for elite athletes. As a result,15 playing and coaching staff are now required to self-isolate.\n\nDubai was added to Scotland's travel quarantine list from 04:00 GMT on Monday - with the rule also applying retrospectively for passengers who have arrived in Scotland from the city since January 3.\n\nThe Department for Transport said the removal of the whole of the UAE from the travel corridor is being adopted by all four UK nations.\n\nArrivals to the UK from most destinations now have to quarantine for 10 days.\n\nHowever, arrivals from some countries are exempt from the rules. Those countries make up the so-called travel corridor list.\n\nFrom this week, passengers arriving by boat, train or plane, including UK nationals, must also take a Covid test up to 72 hours before leaving the country of departure.\n\nAre you affected by the government decision to remove UAE from the UK travel corridor list? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "A hospital's oxygen supply has \"reached a critical situation\" due to rising numbers of Covid-19 infections.\n\nA document shared with the BBC showed Southend Hospital has had to reduce the amount it uses to treat patients.\n\nIt said the target range for oxygen levels that should be in patients' blood had been cut from 92% to a baseline of 88-92%.\n\nHospital managing director, Yvonne Blucher, said it was \"working to manage\" the situation.\n\n\"We are experiencing high demand for oxygen because of rising numbers of inpatients with Covid-19 and we are working to manage this,\" she said.\n\n\"The public can play their part by staying home and, where they cannot, following the 'hands, face, space' advice to cut the spread of the virus.\"\n\nIn the document, from the Mid and South Essex Hospitals Foundation Trust, which has been shared with frontline NHS staff, the oxygen supply was said to have \"reached a critical situation\".\n\nIt said it was \"imperative we use oxygen efficiently and safely\" and states patients who are being fed oxygen and have an oxygen saturation of above 92% \"should have their oxygen weaned within the target range\", which is now 88-92%. This means very gradually reducing the saturation level.\n\nIt added that \"maintaining saturations within this target range is safe and no patient will come to harm as a result\".\n\nGPs in Essex have told the BBC that the threshold for sending a patient to hospital for supplemental oxygen is if their oxygen saturation is at 92%. A level of 96-100% is deemed normal.\n\nChris Hopson, chief executive of NHS Providers which represents hospital trusts in England, said there was \"huge pressure\" on hospital oxygen stocks because giving patients extra oxygen was a \"key part\" of coronavirus treatment.\n\nHe said there were a number of hospitals where this happened in the first phase of coronavirus and over the past few weeks \"similar things have happened\" elsewhere.\n\nChris Hopson, chief executive of NHS Providers which represents hospital trusts in England, said there was \"huge pressure on oxygen systems\"\n\n\"This is the kind of problem that chief executives and trust leadership teams are having to solve day in, day out,\" he said.\n\n\"If you [a hospital] push your oxygen to an absolutely critical level, then the thing that you can't do is have the oxygen system break down... so effectively you will have to dial it down, in which case you will probably have to transfer patients to the nearest neighbouring hospital for a short period of time.\n\n\"I cannot tell you how much work has been done over the summer and autumn to ensure that people [hospital trusts] have been prepared for this... they knew they would come under pressure if there were to be further waves, as has now proved to be the case.\"\n\nEssex has one of the highest rates of Covid-19 per 100,000 people in the country, with seven of the 14 council areas in the county in the top 20 most infected areas of England.\n\nThe Mid and South Essex Hospitals Foundation Trust said it was \"imperative we use oxygen efficiently and safely\"\n\nNews of oxygen issues is understandably worrying, but not unexpected. Tanks may be full, but flow is a problem.\n\nMany people who are sick with Covid will need extra oxygen to help them breathe. As Covid admissions increase, it can put huge demand on a hospital's piped oxygen supply system to provide this high flow.\n\nHospital bosses have been planning for such scenarios for months, learning from experiences during the first wave of Covid when some trusts ran into difficulties.\n\nMany wards have made improvements to their pipework in preparation for a very busy winter, but there is still a limit to what hospitals can provide.\n\nWhen stretched to the maximum, other steps are needed, such transferring patients elsewhere or limiting how much oxygen is pumped to each patient.\n\nSouthend Hospital has taken this latter measure.\n\nAlthough not ideal, it is not unsafe. Patients will be closely monitored and the trust hopes the situation will improve if new Covid admissions start to go down as people follow the stay at home lockdown rules.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n• None 'One in 18 have Covid-19' in parts of Essex", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon says exemption from quarantine travel requirements for elite sport are to be reviewed\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon has urged football clubs not to \"abuse\" the privileges they are afforded while the rest of Scotland is in lockdown.\n\nPlayers and staff from Celtic FC are having to self-isolate after one tested positive for Covid-19 on return from a mid-season training camp in Dubai.\n\nMs Sturgeon said she had doubts about whether the trip was really necessary.\n\nAnd she said \"everyone, including football, should be erring on the side of caution\" amid a rise in infections.\n\nScottish football below Championship level is to be suspended for three weeks in light of the current lockdown, with Scottish Cup and lower league ties to be rescheduled.\n\nTop flight football in Scotland is continuing while most Scots are subject to a \"stay at home\" order due to the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nCeltic's home fixture against Hibernian went ahead on Monday evening, despite the club having lost 13 players and three staff to Covid-19 issues.\n\nDefender Christopher Jullien tested positive for the virus on return from the club's training camp in Dubai, with others including the club's manager Neil Lennon being forced to isolate as close contacts.\n\nMs Sturgeon said she was \"disappointed and frustrated\" that her daily coronavirus briefing was again being \"dominated by football\".\n\nCeltic trained in Scotland on Saturday after returning from Dubai\n\nShe said she had doubts about whether Celtic's trip \"was really essential\" and whether rules were strictly adhered to, saying it was for the footballing authorities to decide if further action was necessary.\n\nThe first minister issued a warning to clubs that they must stick to the rules set out for them while the rest of the populace is subject to tight restrictions.\n\nShe said: \"Football and elite sport more generally enjoys a number of privileges right now that the rest of us don't have. These privileges include the right to go to overseas training camps and be exempt from quarantine on return.\n\n\"It is really vital, obviously for public health reasons but also I think out of respect for the rest of the population living under really heavy restrictions, that these privileges are not abused.\"\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross is an assistant referee in the game.\n\nHe said that at a time when people are staying at home football games were something many looked forward to.\n\nMr Ross said: \"We don't want to see the whole of Scottish football affected by the actions of one club.\" He also called for financial support to be made available to clubs in the Scottish lower leagues and Scottish Cup who had had their games suspended for three weeks.\n\nCeltic manager Neil Lennon is among those who are self-isolating\n\nMs Sturgeon said Scotland was currently in \"the most perilous and serious position since the start of the pandemic\", with a record number of people in hospital with Covid-19.\n\nShe said everyone should be doing their utmost not to add to pressure on the health services by following the rules.\n\nShe said: \"This whole episode should underline how serious the situation we are in now is. Everyone including football should be erring on the side of caution.\n\n\"I know fans of other clubs feel very strongly that the whole of football should not pay the price for the actions of any one club, and I agree with that.\n\n\"But of course a situation like this does make it essential for us to review the rules - including those around travel exemptions - and that's what we will be doing. As we do, I do hope that Celtic themselves will reflect seriously on all of this.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon cited photographs which emerged of players socialising in Dubai, but Celtic's assistant manager John Kennedy said these created a \"false picture\" and that there had been \"minor slip-ups\" at worst.\n\nThe club had previously claimed the government had given permission for the trip to go ahead, but Ms Sturgeon said it had only provided guidance to the footballing authorities on the rules.\n\nShe said: \"It's not our role to give approval or not to what a football club is doing.\"\n\nA statement posted on the Celtic website said that \"the reality is that a case could well have occurred had the team remained in Scotland\".\n\nIt added: \"Celtic has done everything it can to ensure we have in place the very best procedures and protocols. From the outset of the pandemic, Celtic has worked closely with the Scottish government and Scottish football and we will continue to do so.\"", "As hospital mortuaries fill up in Surrey, England, some of the dead from the coronavirus pandemic are being brought to an emergency body storage facility.\n\nSurrey currently has one of the highest infection rates in the country, and some are concerned the facility may reach capacity.\n\nBBC home editor Mark Easton paid a visit to the site which has been set up in a Surrey woodland.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Monday morning. We'll have another update for you at 18:00 BST.\n\nSeven centres begin operating this morning across England, a key part of efforts to vaccinate 15 million in the top four priority groups by mid-February. To begin with, more than 600,000 aged 80 or over are being sent letters inviting them to book an appointment at one of the hubs - but if the journey is too long, they're being told closer options will be available soon. The centres will be open 12 hours a day and more large-scale sites will follow. The health secretary will give more details later, while the Welsh government will publish its own vaccination plan. In Scotland, more clinics should start to receive the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine. Here's how vaccines are approved for use, and some of the challenges a rollout on this scale faces.\n\nScientists have warned stricter measures might be needed to curb infections in England but, right now, the government is focusing on an \"all-out public information\" campaign to improve compliance with the existing rules. Chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty is appearing on TV and radio this morning urging the public to \"stay at home\" given what he called the \"appalling situation\" we are in. He told BBC One's Breakfast that getting case numbers down was \"everybody's problem\", and \"every unnecessary contact\" with someone from another household gave the virus an opportunity to be transmitted. \"We need to really double down\", he added, because \"this is the most dangerous time we've had in terms of numbers into the NHS.\" If you've seen videos online claiming some hospital wards and corridors are empty, BBC Reality Check explains what's really going on.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Federation of Small Businesses says a record quarter of a million firms could close over the coming year. The organisation's chairman, Mike Cherry, said financial support provided to businesses during the pandemic had \"not kept pace with intensifying restrictions\". It also wants more help for many self-employed workers who are currently excluded from aid. There's another call for more government support this morning from Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer. He wants teachers, the armed forces and care workers to be left out of a public sector pay freeze, and is urging ministers not to end the temporary £20-a-week boost to Universal Credit.\n\nThe Federation of Small Businesses said the government had met the latest national lockdown \"with a whimper\"\n\nThe body representing prison staff says courts should cease hearing trials to help stop the spread of coronavirus in jails. Mark Fairhurst, from the Prison Officers' Union, said there had been a \"massive outbreak\" at Cardiff Prison, and the site was struggling to find space for newly-sentenced arrivals. However, others within the criminal justice sector argue courts must be kept open to prevent the case backlog growing further. The rate of spread in prisons is still well below the wider population, and a prison service spokesman said shielding, mass testing and limited regimes were in place at all facilities.\n\nPrimary and secondary schools are closed to most pupils, and the switch to virtual learning presents challenges for many families. The BBC is trying to help, and from today lessons and programmes will be broadcast on TV, on BBC Two and CBBC. They'll also be available on iPlayer, with additional content online. Find out all you need to know here. If you're looking for some inspiration for PE, Joe Wicks is also back today. For many families, he was one of the fixtures of the first lockdown, and live classes start at 09:00 GMT on his YouTube channel.\n\nFind more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Dorset Police said officers dispersed dozens of demonstrators from the town centre as they attempted to march\n\nA video shared online apparently showing a woman being arrested in breach of lockdown for sitting on a bench was \"stage-managed\", police said.\n\nDorset Police believe the video was planned and recorded by anti-lockdown protesters during a demonstration in Bournemouth on Saturday.\n\nThree people were arrested for not giving their details so officers could issue fines for breaking Covid rules.\n\nThe BBC has asked one of the protesters who posted the video to comment.\n\nThe force said two of those held were later de-arrested when they confirmed their details in police custody and a third was released when his details were verified - all three were then issued fixed penalty notices.\n\nOfficers also issued at least seven other fines and 10 dispersal notices.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Mark Callaghan, from Dorset Police, said: \"We believe this video was planned, stage-managed and recorded by members of the protest group who turned up in multiple areas, several of whom refused to engage or provide their details.\n\n\"If people refuse to give their details in such circumstances then it leaves officers with little option, but to arrest until the details are established. Our officers would only arrest as a last resort.\n\n\"It was clear that the group was deliberately organising their activities, walking around in twos and then trying to come together in a 'flash mob'-style approach, as they have done previously. This activity went on for a couple of hours.\"\n\nThe force's chief constable James Vaughan earlier said: \"I condemn the actions of these selfish individuals who knowingly flouted the lockdown restrictions.\"\n\nThe force said there were \"repeated attempts\" to engage with the organisers to stop the planned protest and found a number of the protesters had \"travelled considerably\" from out of the Dorset area.\n\nMr Vaughan added: \"Our county is gripped with infections and yet these irresponsible individuals have ignored what is being asked of them and have left their homes to protest. Shame on them.\"\n\nSam Crowe, director of public health for Dorset, said its hospital services were \"close to being overwhelmed\".\n\nMr Crowe said: \"Infection rates locally have been doubling in less than a week. If this carries on, our hospitals will not be able to cope with caring for those needing life-saving treatment. Stay at home means exactly that.\"\n\nLatest figures show Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole has reached 745.2 cases per 100,000 people.\n\nAlso on Saturday, 16 people were also arrested during an anti-lockdown protest in south London.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Pupils across Scotland have been experiencing problems accessing Microsoft Teams as the majority move to home learning.\n\nA number of schools, pupils and parents have reported the technology running slowly or not at all.\n\nIt is one of the main platforms being used for remote learning with schools shut to most pupils until at least the beginning of February.\n\nMicrosoft Teams tweeted that the issue was being investigated.\n\nA Microsoft spokesperson said: \"Our engineers are working to resolve difficulties accessing Microsoft Teams that some customers are experiencing.\"\n\nWhen pressed on whether demand as a result of home schooling was causing the issue, Microsoft declined to comment.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon highlighted the problem during her daily coronavirus briefing.\n\n\"This is not an issue that is unique to Scotland or indeed unique to schools, but I understand Microsoft is currently working to address it,\" she said.\n\n\"More generally I don't underestimate how difficult this is both for young people learning away from friends… and for parents to juggle home schooling with working.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon was also asked about problems which were being experienced by users of digital learning platform Glow.\n\nShe replied: \"It is not an issue with Glow. It is affecting Glow, but the core issue is not with Glow… the issue is with Microsoft Teams.\"\n\nTwo schools in Wishaw, North Lanarkshire, said the problem was a \"national issue\" although Renfrew High School urged pupils experiencing difficulties not to panic.\n\nClyde Valley High School tweeted: \"Our online learning provision begins today for all of our pupils. Due to the very high demand for Microsoft Teams across Scotland, there may be issues initially getting logged on or accessing some files.\n\n\"This is a national issue on the site and may take a little time to rectify.\"\n\nColtness High School said: \"Unfortunately it appears Microsoft Teams is struggling to cope with the traffic this morning.\n\n\"This is across Scotland and not isolated to Coltness. Pupils and staff are having difficulty loading files. We have reported the issue and hopefully this will be resolved soon.\"\n\nEdinburgh City Council have texted all parents saying: \"There is a city-wide problem with Microsoft Teams this morning. Please be patient as the council is working to resolve it.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by RHS Digital Learning This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by D&G Council This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA Scottish government spokesman said: \"Microsoft has confirmed that this issue is affecting users in the UK and elsewhere in northern Europe. Education Scotland is working closely with the company to resolve the issues.\"\n\nAfter one teacher complained to Microsoft Teams on Twitter, a staff member said: \"We're currently investigating an issue where some users in the UK region are unable to access Microsoft Teams. We will provide further information as soon as this is available.\"\n\nAccording to an Ofcom report in December, about 34,000 (1.2%) premises in Scotland were without a decent broadband connection, while superfast broadband coverage had increased to 94% of homes.\n\nIt also said that fixed and mobile networks in Scotland had \"generally coped well\" with increased demands during the pandemic.\n\nIt comes as plans for remote learning during the latest lockdown reveal big disparities between Scotland's 32 councils.\n\nNot all pupils will be offered live lessons - instead the decision on the best approach has been left to individual schools and teachers.\n\nGuidance on remote learning published by the Scottish government on Friday recommended a \"a balance of live learning and independent activity\".\n\nThe Scottish government said it had invested £25m to address digital exclusion in schools with funding allocations for digital devices and connectivity solutions made to all 32 local authorities.\n\nMore than 50,000 devices such as laptops have been distributed to children and young people to help with remote learning and the programme in total is expected to deliver about 70,000 devices for disadvantaged children and young people across Scotland.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Asymptomatic testing for Covid can help \"break the chains of transmission\", Matt Hancock says\n\nRegular rapid testing for people without coronavirus symptoms will be made available across England this week, the government has said.\n\nThe community testing regime - expanded to cover all 317 local authorities - uses rapid lateral flow tests, which can return results in 30 minutes.\n\nLocal councils are being encouraged to prioritise tests for those who cannot work from home during the lockdown.\n\nThe health secretary said asymptomatic testing can help break transmission.\n\nMeanwhile, NHS England has invited tens of thousands of people over 80 to book vaccinations.\n\nA further 563 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test and another 54,940 cases reported, according to government figures on Sunday.\n\nThe total number of deaths in the UK after a positive test passed 80,000 on Saturday.\n\nThe government has launched a campaign telling people to act like they have got the virus in a bid to tackle the rise in infections.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and can go out only for limited reasons such as food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said expanding the Community Testing Programme to more people without symptoms was \"crucial given that around one in three people\" who contract Covid-19 show no symptoms.\n\nIt said regular community testing using the rapid tests had already identified more than 14,800 positive Covid-19 cases.\n\nSo far, 131 local authorities in England have enrolled in the government's community testing programme, with Milton Keynes, Slough, Doncaster and Essex the latest to join.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said targeted asymptomatic testing and subsequent isolation was \"highly effective in breaking chains of transmission\".\n\nBut Angela Raffle, a consultant in public health at the University of Bristol Medical School, said increasing lateral flow testing was \"very worrying\" and warned the benefits of finding symptomless cases \"will be outweighed by the many more infectious cases that are missed by these tests\".\n\nDefending lateral flow tests on the BBC's Andrew Marr programme Mr Hancock said mass asymptomatic testing in Liverpool had seen the case rate drop \"more sharply than it did in other similar areas where only restrictions were brought in\".\n\nNHS Test and Trace will also work closely with other government departments to scale up workforce testing, the Department of Health and Social Care said.\n\nMany are already piloting regular workforce testing, with 15 large employers having taken up this offer already across 64 sites, \"including organisations operating in the food, manufacturing, energy and retail sectors, and within the public sector including job centres, transport networks and the military\".\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said plans were already in place for rapid testing of staff and students in schools and colleges and staff in primary schools.\n\nAsked when schools could reopen by the BBC's Andrew Marr, Mr Hancock said there were four conditions: that there is not a major new variant, the vaccine rollout is proceeding effectively, the number of deaths is falling and there is an easing of pressure on the NHS.\n\nMatthew Fell, of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), which represents 190,000 UK businesses, said: \"This expansion of testing will help more critical workers and those unable to work from home to operate safely, while also catching new cases more swiftly.\"\n\nBusiness Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng said the safety of the workforce had been an \"absolute priority\" and said the expansion of testing means \"we can keep our economy on the move while giving individuals in key sectors complete confidence that their workplace is safe\".\n\nBut Prof Susan Michie, professor of health psychology at University College London, told BBC Breakfast the country would continue a \"yo-yoing of lockdown\" without a \"test, trace and isolate system that actually works\" and warned there needed to be tighter restrictions and tougher messaging than in March to prevent \"tens of thousands of avoidable deaths in the next few weeks\".", "Luke Evans plays police officer Steve Wilkins who reopened and solved the two double murders\n\nHollywood actor Luke Evans says telling the true story of the murder of four people was a \"huge responsibility\".\n\nEvans, who was brought up in Aberbargoed, Caerphilly county, returned to Wales to star in ITV drama The Pembrokeshire Murders.\n\nHe plays Dyfed-Powys Police officer Steve Wilkins who in 2006 reopened two unsolved double murders from the 1980s.\n\n\"I just wanted to tell it right and show justice for the victims, which is the most important part,\" Evans said.\n\n\"This is a very serious, sad story where four people lost their lives and their families have struggled and suffered greatly because of it,\" he told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast.\n\n\"So you do feel a huge sense of responsibility.\"\n\nThe Pembrokeshire Murders has been adapted from a book about the case written by Mr Wilkins and ITV journalist Jonathan Hill.\n\nIn 1985 brother and sister Richard and Helen Thomas were shot at their remote mansion near Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, before the property was set alight.\n\nThen in 1989, Peter and Gwenda Dixon were shot dead at close range on the Pembrokeshire coastal path near Little Haven.\n\nThe drama also stars Newport actress Alexandria Riley as Det Insp Ella Richards\n\nBut it was only years later that microscopic DNA and fibres linked the murders to John Cooper, who was already in prison for a string of burglaries.\n\nIn 2011 he was jailed for life.\n\nThe Dracula Untold star said he had not been aware of the notorious case: \"I knew almost nothing about these murders, to the point where when I read what was a treatment two or three years ago… I couldn't believe what I was reading.\n\n\"So I did my own research into it and realised that the story was completely true - it hadn't been embellished, none of this was fiction and it sort of blew my mind.\"\n\nHe said being able to speak to Mr Wilkins while filming was invaluable: \"Me and Steve had a dialogue almost every week for a few hours.\n\n\"We had a lot of conversations before we started shooting where I would speak to him and ask him, not just about the case - obviously that that was very important - but about things like how was it standing in front of John Cooper, having to interview John Cooper, having to deal with his family.\n\n\"You see both sides of the effect of these terrible crimes, you see what the aftermath of what it does to people and how they suffer and you meet Cooper's family as well.\n\n\"Steve has his own family and that also is played into the storyline very powerfully.\"\n\nEvans said the only other time he has worked in Wales was when filming Visit Wales commercials: \"Being Welsh and not getting to work in Wales very often - that certainly was an attraction for me,\" he said.\n\n\"I've done them [the commercials] for a few years - one of them was about the coastal walks of Wales and our beautiful coastline... and then right in this beautiful place I was there back there, portraying a character and trying to find the killer of somebody who murdered people on this coastal path.\"\n\nBut he said he enjoyed playing a Welsh character: \"To go right back to my roots with my accent and that was a really, really exciting to do.\n\nThe series, made by World Productions, the makers of Line of Duty and Bodyguard, finished filming just before Wales' first coronavirus lockdown.\n\n\"When we started The Pembrokeshire Murders it was January so we didn't hear anything really, and then just before we finished there was rumblings of this virus,\" he said.\n\n\"We were very lucky in a way, we wrapped basically on the Friday then on the Monday everything closed.\n\n\"So it was a big sigh of relief when we got to the final wrap of that day and it was very special.\"\n\nThe three-part series also stars Keith Allen, Owen Teale, Alexandria Riley, Caroline Berry, Oliver Ryan and David Fynn.\n\nThe Pembrokeshire Murders in on ITV at 21:00 GMT on 11, 12 and 13 January", "Flexing the coronavirus lockdown rules could be fatal, the health secretary has warned as hospital admissions soar.\n\nMatt Hancock did not rule out strengthening current restrictions and told the BBC's Andrew Marr the NHS was under \"very serious pressure\".\n\nIt comes after almost 55,000 new cases of coronavirus were reported in the UK and the number of deaths after a positive test passed 80,000.\n\nScientist Prof Peter Horby warned the UK was in \"the eye of the storm\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the rules were tough but \"may not be tough enough\" and called for the government to hold daily press conferences to avoid \"mixed messages\".\n\nThe UK recorded another 563 deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test on Sunday, down from 1,065 deaths on Saturday.\n\nHowever, there tends to be fewer deaths reported on Sundays, due to a reporting lag over the weekend. There were also a further 54,940 daily cases.\n\nMr Hancock told Andrew Marr \"every time you try to flex the rules that could be fatal\" and said staying at home was the \"most important thing we can do collectively as a society\".\n\nThe health secretary said he did not want to speculate on whether the government would further strengthen restrictions, after warnings from scientists on Saturday that they may need to be stricter.\n\n\"People need to not just follow the letter of the rules but follow the spirit as well and play their part,\" he said.\n\nHis comments came after Home Secretary Priti Patel defended police over enforcing lockdown rules following the case of two women who were fined for going for a walk five miles from their homes - a decision which is now under review.\n\nThe government has launched a campaign telling people to act like they have got the virus in a bid to tackle the rise in infections.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and can go out only for limited reasons such as food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nEngland's chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty said that if the virus continued on its current trajectory \"many hospitals will be in real difficulties, and very soon\".\n\nIn a statement released on Sunday, he said that unless people started to follow the rules more strictly, emergency patients will have to be turned away from hospitals, causing \"avoidable deaths\".\n\nProf Horby, chairman of the New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag), said there may be \"early signs that something is beginning to bite\" due to the restrictions - but if they did not then stricter measures would be needed.\n\nHe told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show: \"I really hope people take this very seriously. It was bad in March, it's much worse now.\n\n\"We've seen record numbers across the board, record numbers of cases, record numbers of hospitalisations, record numbers of deaths.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Professor Peter Horby explains why the new Covid-19 variant is up to 70% more transmissible\n\nProf Horby said tougher measures might include those during the March lockdown, such as people only being able to exercise once a day and stricter rules about meeting people.\n\n\"We are in a situation where everything that was risky in the past is now more risky,\" he said.\n\nProf Horby said early signs were encouraging that the vaccines would be effective against the new Covid variants - first identified in the UK and in South Africa - and he did not want people to \"hide under the duvet\".\n\n\"We can see the end game now,\" he said.\n\nHigher cases inevitably mean more hospitalisations and more deaths.\n\nThe most recent figures show that, on average, 894 people per day are now dying within 28 days of a positive Covid test, up from 438 at the start of December.\n\nThe spike in cases since Christmas means that figure is almost certain to get worse before the most recent lockdown measures can start to have any effect.\n\nScientists think the new variant of the disease is more \"transmissible\", possibly because each infected individual produces more of the actual virus - sometimes referred to as the viral load.\n\nVaccination should help to protect the most vulnerable from serious symptoms but we don't yet know if receiving the jab stops an individual contracting the virus and passing it on to others.\n\nScientists say that may mean even tougher restrictions will be needed to bring the R-number below one and start to reduce the overall size of the pandemic.\n\nMass community testing is to be rolled out this week, the government has said, and the health secretary said around two million people had been vaccinated in the UK, with some 200,000 jabs being given in England daily.\n\nMr Hancock said by autumn every adult in the UK would be offered a vaccine.\n\nHe said the government was on course to reach its target of 15 million people vaccinated by mid-February, with the opening of seven mass vaccination centres this week likely to increase the rate of jabs.\n\nMr Hancock told Sky News' Sophy Ridge he hoped coronavirus could be treated like seasonal flu with an annual vaccination programme in the future.\n\nProf Horby said the vaccines may have to be updated \"every few years\" as the virus mutates and said it was unlikely the virus would go away completely.\n\n\"We're going to have to live with it,\" he said. \"But that may change significantly.\n\n\"It may well become more of an endemic virus that's with us all the time and may cause some seasonal pressures and some excess deaths but is not causing the huge disruption that we're seeing now.\"", "Spain is in a race against time to clear roads covered by heavy snow, and get Covid vaccines and food supplies to areas affected by Storm Filomena.\n\nUp to 50cm (20 inches) of snow fell on the capital Madrid, one of the worst hit areas, between Friday and Saturday.\n\nAt least four people died and thousands of travellers were left stranded.\n\nOvernight, temperatures plunged to -8C (18F) in parts of Spain, amid warnings by meteorologists that the snow was turning to perilous ice.\n\nThe unusual cold wave on the Iberian peninsula is expected to last until Thursday.\n\nThe Spanish government said it had taken extra steps - including police-escorted convoys - to ensure its expected shipment of some 300,000 coronavirus vaccines can be distributed as planned to regional health authorities later on Monday.\n\n\"The commitment is to guarantee the supply of health, vaccines and food. Corridors have been opened to deliver the goods,\" Transport Minister Jose Luis Abalos said on Sunday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Madrid has been hit by heavy snowfall after Storm Filomena\n\nSoldiers have been deployed to clear some of the 700 major roads.\n\nSome 3,500 tonnes of salt were later brought on lorries to the capital, Spain's El Mundo website reported on Monday.\n\nThe record-breaking snowfall has triggered some unprecedented scenes here in Madrid. People have skied along the city's main commercial street, Gran Vía, and one man was pictured being pulled through the district of Hortaleza on a sled by five huskies.\n\nBut other responses to the snow have been more controversial due to concerns about Covid-19. Dozens of young people had a snowball fight in Callao square, for example, and many of them were without facemasks.\n\nNearby, in Puerta del Sol, others celebrated the snow by dancing a conga. The daily Marca newspaper branded it \"the conga of shame\".\n\nAlthough the snowfall has now stopped, low temperatures have left snow and ice piled up across the capital and the surrounding region. And with residents advised to avoid using their cars, public transport has seen a surge in demand.\n\nThis has compounded coronavirus concerns as many metro train carriages were packed at rush hour on Monday morning, making social distancing impossible.\n\nMadrid's international airport began gradually resuming operations on Sunday afternoon, having cancelled all flights on Friday.\n\nSome 500 people across the Madrid region were forced to spend the night in temporary shelter, including sports centres, after they were trapped by the whiteout.\n\nAbout 100 shoppers and staff spent two nights at a shopping centre in Majadahonda, a town north of the capital. \"There are people sleeping on the ground on cardboard,\" one restaurant employee told TVE television.\n\nSpain's Meteorological Agency said Saturday's snowfall was the heaviest in Madrid since 1971\n\nBut there were stories of heroism too, including doctors and medical workers who abandoned their cars and walked for hours to get to work. One doctor, Alvaro Sanchez, said on social media he had walked 17km (10 miles) over nearly two hours to get to work, while two nurses, Paco and Monica, said they had walked 22km to their hospital.\n\nThey were praised by Spanish Health Minister Salvador Illa, who tweeted: \"The commitment that the entire group of health workers is showing is an example of solidarity and dedication.\"\n\nSome 4x4 vehicle owners offered to transport medical workers, while other volunteers helped to clear hospital entrance ways.\n\n\"Health staff have been working (hard) for more than a year and this is just a short moment for us, so as citizens, we are trying to help; it is everyone's responsibility,\" said Fernando de la Fuente, 60, who helped clear the entrance to Madrid's Gregorio Maranon Hospital.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSpaniards in large parts of the country have been warned to take care in the coming days as temperatures could fall to -12C (10F) in some areas until Thursday.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nCrawley Town delivered one of the FA Cup third round's most emphatic upsets as the League Two underdogs tore apart Marcelo Bielsa's Leeds.\n\nThree second-half goals rewarded a fantastic performance from John Yems' side as they made light of the 62 places between themselves and their Premier League visitors.\n\nNick Tsaroulla, playing only his seventh game in senior football, set the ball rolling, beating three Leeds defenders to fire home a superb solo opener.\n\nUnited keeper Kiko Casilla's error allowed Ashley Nadesan to double the lead before Jordan Tunnicliffe added a third for Crawley, who could have won by more.\n• None Watch all of the goals from the FA Cup third round\n• None Can Mark Wright make it as a pro at Crawley?\n\nBielsa made seven changes to his side but Leeds fielded England midfielder Kalvin Phillips among several regular top-flight starters including Pablo Hernandez, Ezgjan Alioski and club record signing Rodrigo.\n\nHowever, after an even first half, they were completely outplayed in the second period by a Crawley side who have reached the fourth round for only the third time, having spent most of their 125-year existence in non-league football.\n\nCrawley even had the luxury of bringing on reality TV celebrity Mark Wright in stoppage time for the former The Only Way Is Essex star's debut, having signed for the club on non-contract terms in December.\n\nLeeds' loss is the first time in 34 years a top-flight side has lost to a fourth-tier team by three or more goals and only the second ever instance since a fourth division was added to the Football League in 1958.\n\nThey may be the lesser-known of the two Red Devils but Crawley's efforts were no less impressive than Manchester United's 6-2 dissection of Leeds last month.\n\nWhile Bielsa rested first-choice stars such as Patrick Bamford, Luke Ayling, Stuart Dallas and Mateusz Klich, there was still plenty of experience mixed in with the youth in Leeds' line-up.\n\nBut the hosts, sixth in League Two after an eight-game unbeaten run, never gave them the chance to settle and while neither side could break the deadlock before the interval, it was Crawley who went closest as Casilla kept out Tom Nichols' close-range header.\n\nHe was helpless, however, to prevent Tsaroulla - a former Tottenham trainee who spent a year out of the game because of injuries sustained in a car crash - firing Crawley ahead after a twisting run into the area that beguiled the Leeds back-line.\n\nRather than protect their lead, Crawley went for the jugular and Nadesan soon doubled their advantage, although his strike owed much to a bobble that beat Casilla at his near post.\n\nTunnicliffe then fired into the roof of the net after Casilla parried from Nadesan and Crawley could have had a fourth after top scorer Max Watters came off the bench to round the keeper, only to be denied by a covering defender.\n\nThe win marked the first time in four attempts that Crawley have beaten a Premier League side in the FA Cup and so comfortable was the victory that TV personality Wright was given his late cameo.\n\nAnother name added to Leeds' list of cup woes\n\nBielsa was left to mull over back-to-back 3-0 defeats, albeit this one coming in a much different context to Leeds' Premier League loss at Tottenham on 2 January.\n\nThis was the former Argentina manager's first taste of an FA Cup shock, after far more mundane exits against Arsenal and QPR in Bielsa's two previous campaigns since taking the Elland Road reins in 2018.\n\nBut it was not unfamiliar ground for Leeds as Crawley - who have finished in the bottom half of League Two for five successive seasons - emulated non-league pair Histon and Sutton United, as well as lower-league clubs Rochdale and Newport, in upsetting the Whites this century.\n\nThe visitors only forced one real save from Crawley keeper Glenn Morris, who reacted well to push away Ian Poveda's strike from an acute angle in the first half.\n\nLeeds might point to a penalty they perhaps should have had before the interval when Crawley defender Tony Craig got away with pulling back Rodrigo as he attempted to meet Helder Costa's volleyed cross.\n\nBut there was no video assistant referee system at the game, and they offered very little going forward after Rodrigo was substituted at half-time.\n\nIt was a fourth successive third-round exit in a competition they could have looked to with some hope, given their relatively comfortable position in the Premier League.\n\n\"We've got 11 star men\" - what they said\n\nCrawley manager Yems to BBC Sport: \"You have to enjoy these games - you work hard enough for it. It was a really good team performance and it's clear that we've got 11 star men.\n\n\"These players have got a lot to prove to the clubs who have released them and we've showed what we can do against a really good side.\n\n\"Let's see who we get in the next round and enjoy the moment.\"\n\nLeeds midfielder Alioski to BBC Radio 5 Live: \"We are really disappointed and it wasn't the result that we wanted. We took the game really seriously and we wanted to win and go on a run, so it is disappointing.\n\n\"Crawley played the game of their lives, and congratulations. To beat us 3-0 - I still can't believe it.\n\n\"The manager said what he wanted to say. It's important for every player to know what this means. He is sad and the players are sad.\"\n• None Attempt blocked. Sam Greenwood (Leeds United) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt missed. Raphinha (Leeds United) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Pablo Hernández.\n• None Jake Hessenthaler (Crawley Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt saved. Hélder Costa (Leeds United) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Pablo Hernández.\n• None Jamie Shackleton (Leeds United) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt blocked. Max Watters (Crawley Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Tom Nichols. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None All the goals and highlights from a huge Saturday of third-round matches are", "A 78-year-old French woman received the first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in France\n\nA global race is on to vaccinate people against Covid-19 - and with infections soaring in Europe many have complained that the roll-out is too slow in the EU.\n\nMember states decide individually who to vaccinate, when and where, but the EU is coordinating strategy and buying vaccines in bulk. On Friday, the EU Commission agreed to buy an extra 300 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine - that would give the EU nearly half of the firm's global output for 2021.\n\nBBC reporters in seven European capitals explain how the vaccinations are going on their patch.\n\nIn an election year, the vaccine has become a political battleground, writes Jenny Hill, in Berlin.\n\nThe fact it was German scientists who developed the first effective Covid vaccine has been the source of great national pride. And, by and large, Germans appear to be reasonably comfortable with the idea of immunisation.\n\nA recent survey found 65% were prepared to have the vaccine. Other research indicates that less than a quarter of those surveyed would not. But politically - and perhaps unsurprisingly, given this is an election year - Germany's vaccination programme has become a battleground.\n\nVaccinations began here just under two weeks ago and prioritise the over 80s and care home workers. By Thursday evening, more than 477,000 first doses had been administered.\n\nGermany's share of the EU order amounts to 56 million doses. So far, 1.3 million doses have been delivered.\n\nBut some of the hundreds of specially prepared vaccination centres are still not in use and even the government has admitted there simply isn't enough to go around. Angela Merkel and her health minister Jens Spahn have been accused of failing to secure enough doses.\n\nMuch of the criticism has come from Mrs Merkel's own coalition partners but some within the scientific community have echoed their concerns - that Germany put European interests above its own by insisting on a joint EU procurement process. The scientists who developed the vaccine have said publicly that the EU originally turned down an offer for a further order.\n\nGermany's share of the EU order amounts to 56 million doses. So far, 1.3 million doses have been delivered and it's thought that by the end of the month a further 2.68 million will have followed.\n\nMr Spahn, whose assured performance through the pandemic led some to wonder whether he might be a potential successor to Mrs Merkel, has blamed the shortage on the inability of the manufacturers of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to meet global demand.\n\nGermany has now ordered an extra 30 million doses and, following the recent European approval of the Moderna vaccine, expects to start rolling that out next week. The government is sticking to its pledge that the vaccination programme will be complete by the end of the summer.\n\nThe Czech prime minister has hit out at apparent delays in distributing the vaccine, writes Rob Cameron, in Prague.\n\nThe Czech vaccination effort began on 27 December, when the prime minister, Andrej Babis, became the first person in the country to receive the jab. Mr Babis, who is 66, had previously questioned whether he would be eligible, as he'd had his spleen removed as a teenager.\n\nBut the country's programme has got off to a sluggish start. Mr Babis - a billionaire businessman who has been dogged by both European and Czech investigations into alleged misuse of EU funds - has lost no time venting his (figurative) spleen at the European Commission over the delay. \"We believed when we contributed €12m to the European fund in November that we'd receive the vaccine,\" he told a newspaper this week.\n\nThe health minister conceded this week that immunising the higher-risk groups will take months.\n\nThe country has received 30,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine. So far, it has managed to administer it to 19,918 people. The government says it is ready to roll out the jab en masse as soon as supplies arrive from the manufacturers.\n\nIt has also published a strategy, which envisages a three-stage process. The first will see targeted vaccination of high-risk groups. This will gradually give way to mass vaccination in 31 centres, using an online reservation system that will be open to all from 1 February. And the final stage will see the country's GPs deployed, hopefully to administer the Oxford-AstraZeneca and other jabs, which unlike the previous two can be stored and transported at fridge temperature.\n\nHowever, the timing in the original strategy document now appears optimistic. The health minister conceded this week that immunising the higher-risk groups - all health and social care staff, teachers, everyone over 65, all those with serious health conditions - will take months. GPs may not begin vaccinating young, healthy members of society until late spring, or summer.\n\nA sluggish start is being blamed on bureaucracy and vaccine scepticism, writes Hugh Schofield, in Paris.\n\nFrance's boast of a big, effective state apparatus has been badly exposed by the sluggish start to the Covid vaccination programme. After the first week, when neighbouring Germany had inoculated around 250,000 people, France was on a mere 530. By Friday, the figure had gone up to 45,500 - still so small as to be statistically meaningless.\n\nSo why has it taken so long for France to put the plan into action? It is not as if the authorities did not have time to prepare. And it is certainly not a question of a lack of vaccine. In fact, more than a million Pfizer doses are already in cold storage, waiting to be used.\n\nPolls suggest as many as 58% of the public do not want to be given the jab.\n\nThe primary reason for the delay seems to be the cumbersome, over-centralised nature of France's health bureaucracy. A 45-page dossier of instructions issued by the ministry in Paris had to be read and understood by staff at old people's homes.\n\nEach recipient then had to give informed consent in a consultation with a doctor, held no less than five days before injection. The lengthy procedure is in theory to save lives - those of patients who might have an adverse reaction. But as the critics have been arguing, delay in inoculating the population is also costing lives.\n\nAnother problem in France is the high level of scepticism towards vaccination - product of a more general suspicion of government. Polls suggest as many as 58% of the public do not want to be given the jab. The effect - critics say - has been to make the government unduly cautious. When urgency was required, the authorities were reluctant to move fast for fear of galvanising the anti-vaxxers.\n\nAfter President Emmanuel Macron communicated his anger at the delays at the weekend, the pace is picking up. The procedure for consent is being simplified. By the end of January, the plan is to have 500-600 vaccination centres open across the country - either in hospitals or other big public buildings.\n\nPolitically a lot is at stake. The government has already come under fire for failings in providing masks and tests. With opposition voices calling the vaccine delay a \"state scandal\", President Macron needs a roll-out that is fast and problem-free.\n\nNational pride accelerated Russia's rollout, but one man is conspicuously absent from the list of people vaccinated, writes Sarah Rainsford, in Moscow.\n\nRussia registered its main Covid vaccine for domestic use way back in August, before mass safety and efficacy trials had even begun. In December, with those trials still underway, it began rolling out Sputnik V to the public ahead of mass vaccination launches everywhere else in Europe. The rush was driven by national pride as well as medical necessity.\n\nSputnik was initially offered to front line health and education workers but early take-up of the two-dose vaccination was slow and the list of those eligible soon expanded.\n\nA poll by the Levada Centre in late December showed only 38% of respondents were willing to get the jab: wary of domestic healthcare and medicines, Russians were sceptical of bold early claims made for the vaccine and nervous about possible adverse reactions. Even so, and despite similar delays scaling-up production as in other countries, Sputnik's backers announced this week that more than a million people had been vaccinated.\n\nRussia began rolling out its Sputnik V vaccine in December\n\nBut one man still conspicuously absent from the list of the vaccinated is Vladimir Putin, despite the Kremlin saying he will - eventually - get the jab. In the meantime, those who meet him in person are obliged to test for Covid first and even quarantine. The president may need to lead by example, though. Mr Putin has said repeatedly that protecting the economy is his priority so he's banking on mass vaccination to avoid a return to national lockdown.\n\nRussia has built giant, temporary hospitals since the start of the pandemic and the health minister said this week that 25% of Covid beds remain free. There's also been a fall in the number of new daily cases reported - around 25,000 for the past 5 days. But that's not down to the vaccine yet. The country is nearing the end of a 10-day New Year holiday period and the number of Covid tests has also dropped.\n\nAs infection rates grow in a country praised by many for its no-lockdown approach, a successful vaccine programme is crucial writes Maddy Savage, in Stockholm.\n\nAlmost two weeks since 91-year-old care home resident Gun-Britt Johnsson became the first Swede to get the initial dose of a Pfizer jab, there is still no official tally of how many others have received the vaccination.\n\nThe Public Health Agency of Sweden says it's in the process of compiling data from the country's 21 regional health authorities tasked with vaccinating the entire adult population - around eight million people - by 26 June. The date isn't arbitrary, it's the biggest public holiday weekend of the year, when Swedes traditionally hold Midsummer celebrations. Karin Tegmark, a senior manager at the agency, says the date remains \"feasible\". But she says it depends on the delivery of vaccines to the country.\n\nAfter months of high trust levels in the country's no-lockdown approach, support for the health agency has dwindled.\n\nAlongside 4.5 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, Sweden has ordered 3.6 million jabs from Moderna, the first of which are expected to arrive next week. The country also plans to roll-out the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine as soon as possible after it is approved by the EU - ideally by February.\n\nSwedes initially appeared lukewarm to the idea of taking a speedily-developed coronavirus vaccine, although a poll at the end of December found 71% would take one. A key driver of the initial scepticism is thought to be the failure of a voluntary mass vaccination programme for swine flu in 2009. Hundreds of Swedish children and young adults under 30 developed the sleeping disorder narcolepsy, which was found to be a side effect of the Pandemrix vaccine.\n\nA successful vaccination programme will be crucial, not least because it comes at a time when Swedish authorities are struggling to maintain public confidence. After months of high trust levels in the country's no-lockdown approach, support for the health agency has dwindled as Sweden has struggled with the second wave of coronavirus.\n\nMeanwhile, several high profile officials have faced heavy criticism for breaching their own recommendations - including the head of the civil contingencies agency (pictured), who resigned after spending Christmas with his daughter in the Canary Islands.\n\nA new government in Belgium seems unified on the vaccine rollout - for now at least, writes Nick Beake, in Brussels.\n\nIt seemed fitting that the first person in Belgium to receive a Covid jab lives in the place where the world's first approved Covid vaccine is being produced. Jos Hermans, a 96-year-old from the municipality of Puurs, was given the injection on 28 December, in his care home. A further 700 elderly residents were also administered a dose in what was a small, initial trial.\n\nThe mass vaccination programme in Belgium began on 5 January, but has been criticised for starting slowly. Federal Health Minister Frank Vandenbroucke had promised in November that the rollout would be \"seamless and fast\", tweeting: \"If that does not work, shoot me.\"\n\nThe first phase looks to vaccinate up to 200,000 nursing home residents by the end of this month, or early February. Healthcare professionals will be next in line and the aim was for the whole population to be inoculated by the end of September.\n\nJos Hermans, a 96-year-old from Puurs, was given the injection on 28 December\n\nYou may think the country would be at an advantage being the epicentre of the Pfizer-BioNTech production. While this clearly helps with distribution, Belgium cannot receive more doses - relative to its population - than other EU countries under strict Commission rules. That didn't stop the minister-president of the Flanders region, who admitted this week that he had contacted Pfizer directly in the hope of procuring more doses, only to be rebuffed.\n\nAfter getting a guarantee from Pfizer over supply of the jab, the federal Belgian authorities have adapted their strategy: they now propose giving as many available doses to as many people as they can - and no longer reserving vials for patients' second dose, given three weeks after the first. In general, the federal government, rather than the European Commission has faced any criticism for a delay and has defended its \"careful\" approach.\n\nAnd there appears to be an interesting regional or cultural discrepancy when it comes to whether people are willing to take the vaccine. Of the Flemish population interviewed in a poll, half have said they wanted the vaccine as soon as possible. Among French speakers - it was 20% fewer, which chimes with the deeper scepticism over the border in France.\n\nIn a country where politics are notoriously complicated and fractious - they've only recently agreed a government, after a 500-day vacuum - the Federal Coalition appears unified on its Covid vaccine strategy. For now, at least.\n\nRegional variances and political rows have marked the beginning of Spain's vaccination programme writes Guy Hedgecoe, in Madrid.\n\nSpain started administering the vaccine on 27 December. So far, 743,925 doses have been distributed to regional administrations, with 277,976 people vaccinated, according to the health ministry. The objective of the coalition government is to immunise 2.3 million people within 12 weeks. Priority is being given to elderly residents of care homes, those who look after them, and healthcare personnel.\n\nEach of the country's 17 regions has a high degree of control over healthcare and should receive the number of doses that corresponds to their populations. However, already there has been substantial geographical disparity.\n\nGovernment data showed, for example, that while the northern region of Asturias had used 55% of the doses it had received by 3 January, the Madrid region had only administered 5% by the same date. Some regions are holding back doses to administer a second follow-up jab to the same person in several weeks' time, and some have been vaccinating on national holidays while others have not.\n\nThe pandemic has been the cause of constant political conflict, with the right-wing opposition accusing the leftist government of incompetence.\n\nAlthough vaccination is voluntary, the government has said it is making a register of those who do not wish to be inoculated. That initiative has generated controversy, although the government has insisted the register will merely seek to clarify why people refuse the vaccination.\n\nHowever, the pandemic has been the cause of constant political conflict, with the right-wing opposition accusing the leftist government of Pedro Sánchez of incompetence, lack of transparency and using coronavirus to accumulate power.\n\nThe arrival of a vaccine has not stopped the rancour. Alberto Núñez Feijóo, the conservative Popular Party (PP) president of Galicia, warned the number of doses being distributed to each region was being dictated by \"political affiliations or parliamentary needs\", a claim the central government has rejected.", "Lockdowns have worked before, but can we expect the new one to do the same?\n\nIt feels like we are back in March or April last year, when the strict controls on all our lives led to a fairly quick decline in levels of coronavirus.\n\nBut one of the crucial differences this time is the new variant, which is thought to spread between 50 and 70% faster than previous forms of the virus.\n\nExperts warn there are now no guarantees that lockdown will be enough to bring the variant under control.\n\n\"It still would not have been easy, but it would have been a much easier situation if it had not been for the new variant,\" Prof Neil Ferguson, from Imperial College London, told Inside Health.\n\n\"That really pushes the bounds of our ability to control the spread of the virus, even with measures that were previously relatively quite effective.\"\n\nThe coronavirus spreads when we come into contact with each other so moving classrooms online, telling people to stay at home and closing shops breaks many of those opportunities for human contact.\n\nIf we consider the R number - the average number of people each infected person passes the virus on to - it was about 3.0 in the run up to the first lockdown and anything above 1.0 means cases are climbing.\n\nR fell to 0.6 during the first lockdown.\n\nThen every 1,000 infected people passed the virus on to 600 others, who passed it on to 360 others and so on.\n\nBut if the new variant is 50% more transmissible then the R number, in the same lockdown conditions, would be about 0.9.\n\nThen 1,000 infected people would pass the virus onto 900 others, then 810 and so on.\n\nAs you can see this leads to far slower decline.\n\nAnd that assumes lockdown can get R down to 0.9 in areas where the new variant has become the most common form of the virus.\n\nIf, as some studies suggest, the variant is about 70% more transmissible then R may stay above 1.0 and cases may not fall at all.\n\n\"We'd at best flatten the curve, keep numbers at a roughly constant level, and that's frankly why there is so much emphasis on getting vaccine into people's arms as quickly as possible,\" said Prof Ferguson.\n\nIt is hard to lock down even harder as there are some parts of society - hospitals, supermarkets - that need to be kept open.\n\nWhat happens to the number of cases over the coming weeks will be closely monitored. If this lockdown is less effective then we will have to live with it for longer.\n\nThere have been some encouraging signs over the Christmas break, which was a bit like a lockdown due to school holidays and other restrictions.\n\n\"We are in a very difficult situation here, but my initial assessment of the last few days is that the rate is slowing which is good news,\" Prof John Edmunds, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, told the BBC.\n\nHe added: \"It looks likes those restrictions should be sufficient to stop the increase, whether they will be sufficient to bring cases down sufficiently we are yet to see.\"\n\nEventually the vaccine will give people immunity so we do not need the same controls on our lives.\n\nNow more than ever this is a race between the virus and the vaccine.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nPremier League rivals Manchester United and Liverpool will meet at Old Trafford in the fourth round of the FA Cup later this month.\n\nNon-league Chorley will host Premier League Wolverhampton Wanderers after beating a depleted Derby County in the third round.\n\nLeague Two Cheltenham Town are set to welcome Pep Guardiola's Manchester City to Whaddon Road.\n\nThe fourth-round ties will be played the weekend of 23-24 January.\n\nCrawley Town, who celebrated a famous 3-0 win over Leeds United on Sunday, will travel to Championship side Bournemouth in the next round.\n\nJose Mourinho's Tottenham will face Wycombe Wanderers at Adams Park, while Fulham take on Burnley in an all-Premier League tie.\n\nChorley would face 14-time winners Arsenal in the fifth round - if the National League North side overcome Wolves and the Gunners beat Southampton.\n\nDavid Moyes could return to former club Manchester United in the last 16 if West Ham beat League One Doncaster Rovers and United seal victory over Liverpool in the fourth round.\n\nThe fifth-round ties will be played 9-11 February.\n• None Watch all the goals and highlights from the FA Cup third round\n• None Goals, highlights and knockouts. All the action from Sunday's third-round ties are", "Seven new mass vaccination centres have opened up across England to help deliver the Coronavirus vaccine, as the Prime Minister says we are facing a \"perilous moment\" in the fight against the virus.\n\nThe Centre of Life in Newcastle is home to one of them, with others in Bristol, Epsom, London, Manchester, Stevenage and Birmingham.\n\nInitially they will be used to vaccinate the over 80's, alongside NHS staff and health and social care workers. It's part of a drive that the government hopes will see 15 million people vaccinated against the virus by mid-February.", "Caroline Rice couldn't afford the ink to print off her child's maths homework\n\nThere are few benefits from lockdown, but one often touted is that people are managing to save a little money: lower transport costs, fewer shop-bought office lunches, cheaper childcare costs and no foreign holidays.\n\nSingle mum Caroline Rice gives a wry smile when asked if she's managed to squirrel away extra cash over the past few months during pandemic restrictions.\n\n\"My spending is up,\" she says. \"The heating costs are higher because it's very cold. I'm having to shop locally because of lockdown, where the prices are slightly higher. The nearest Asda is 12 miles away.\"\n\nThe small savings on little luxuries that many people are making - fewer coffees or restaurant meals - were never an option for her in the first place.\n\nHer meagre finances meant the registered child minder, who lives in rural County Fermanagh, was already living week-to-week. Now it seems like day-to-day, she says.\n\n\"There's a mental stress, fatigue, in having to check the bank balance every day to see how much I'm down,\" she says. \"My child and I haven't bought any clothes in almost a year.\"\n\nShe's having to home-school her child. Many people wouldn't think twice about printing off their child's maths homework project. Caroline had to write it out by hand because they could not afford the ink.\n\nAnd she is not alone. A new report on the finances of low-income families during the pandemic says they are twice as likely to have increased their spending.\n\nIt says extra costs for food, energy and remote learning equipment have piled financial pressure on the poor.\n\nThe study - Pandemic Pressures - was a collaboration between the Resolution Foundation and the Nuffield Foundation-funded Covid Realities research project at the University of York.\n\nDr Ruth Patrick, a social policy lecturer at the University of York, says talk of saving money during the pandemic is \"worlds away\" from the experiences of many low-income parents and carers.\n\n\"Parents have found their spending increases, as some of the usual strategies they use to get by on a low income - shopping around for the best deal, going to families and friends for a meal when the cupboards are empty - have become suddenly impossible,\" she said.\n\nFor Shirley Widdop, an increase in food costs has been one of the biggest issues. The disabled single parent, who lives in Keighley, now has to shield for health reasons. That means using online deliveries a lot.\n\nShe says: \"There's a minimum basket size [with online orders]. You often have to bulk buy in case there's a problem getting delivery slots.\"\n\nShirley Widdop has not saved on life's little luxuries - because she could not afford them in the first place\n\nWhen not shielding, Shirley would seek out food in her supermarket's reduced-price section. \"There used to be just a couple of people. Now there are crowds,\" she says. \"Not everyone has easy access to the internet. And not everyone has a functioning bus service.\"\n\nThe report notes that the pandemic has been marked by a huge reduction in overall spending, with entertainment and social activities restricted by lockdown.\n\nHigher-income households have been the main beneficiaries of this \"enforced saving\", as they spend 40% more of their income on recreation and leisure activities than the poorest fifth of households.\n\nThe report says that in contrast to this overall picture, the pandemic has in many cases made it more expensive to live on a low income with children.\n\nMore than one in three (36%) low-income households with children have increased their spending during the pandemic so far, compared with about one in six (18%) who have reduced their spending.\n\nAmong high-income households without children, 13% have increased their spending, compared with 40% who have reduced it.\n\nUse of food banks has increased significantly during the pandemic\n\nThe report highlights three main reasons for these extra pressures:\n\nIt should also be noted, the report says, that these extra spending pressures are squeezing living standards that had stagnated even before the pandemic.\n\nTo ease the burden, the report says the government should be seeking to maintain the £20-a-week rise in Universal Credit (UC) into next year. Otherwise, six million households face having their incomes cut by more than £1,000.\n\nMike Brewer, chief economist at the Resolution Foundation, said: \"The pandemic has forced society as a whole to spend less and save more. But these broad spending patterns don't hold true for everyone.\n\n\"The extra cost of feeding, schooling and entertaining children 24/7 means that, for many families, lockdowns have made life more expensive to live on a low income.\"\n\nHowever, a government spokesperson said measures had been put in place to \"ensure that nobody is left behind\", including extra welfare payments, job protection safeguards, the £170m Covid Winter Grant Scheme, and equipment for home-schooling.\n\n\"We are committed to supporting the lowest-paid families through the pandemic and beyond,\" the spokesperson said.\n\nSometimes the overall economic figures can not capture the actual on-the-ground financial reality.\n\nThe pandemic lockdowns have led to a \"K-shaped\" recovery. Across the entire economy, staying at home has meant less capacity to spend on going out and a surge in savings. But the economic picture is both up and down at the same time, depending on which household.\n\nThe average picture is composed of wealthier people saving a huge amount and poorer families more squeezed than ever. This report shows how children staying at home have increased food and energy bills. The cost of buying food has increased with fewer store promotions and a requirement to use more expensive local shops. The furlough scheme has kept people paid, but not necessarily on full pay.\n\nSo the chancellor hopes that the vaccine rollout could unleash pent up demand in the form of huge levels of savings from the already well-off. And yet at the same time, will continue to face pressure over extending support - for example, the £20-a-week increase to universal credit.", "A Sex and the City revival is heading to the small screen, more than 20 years after the hit series made its debut.\n\nThe original HBO show followed the lives of four New York women negotiating work and relationships in the late 90s and early 2000s.\n\nBut only three of the fab four are returning for the new TV series - Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon and Kristin Davis.\n\nKim Cattrall, who played the popular character Samantha, will not feature.\n\nThe US network did not say why Cattrall wasn't cast in the revival, titled And Just Like That - a nod to one of the show's original catchphrases.\n\nHowever, Cattrall has had a strained relationship with the show in recent years, and in particular with her former co-star Parker.\n\nThe new series will consist of 10 half-hour episodes. Production will begin in late spring.\n\nThe trailer for the HBO Max show gives nothing away; It features numerous shots of New York, but none of the characters is seen on screen.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Kristin Davis This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"I grew up with these characters, and I can't wait to see how their story has evolved in this new chapter, with the honesty, poignancy, humour and the beloved city that has always defined them,\" Sarah Aubrey, head of original content at HBO Max, said in a statement.\n\nThe original Sex and the City series, created by Darren Star, was based on Candace Bushnell's 1997 book of the same name. It premiered on HBO in 1998 and ran for six seasons until 2004.\n\nThe show inspired two films, Sex and the City in 2008 and Sex and the City 2 in 2010. A prequel series titled The Carrie Diaries, starring Anna Sophia Robb, aired on The CW in 2013/14.\n\nStar also created Netflix show Emily in Paris, and many have drawn inevitable comparisons between that show and SATC.\n\nWhen it first burst on to our TV screens, Sex and the City was seen as revolutionary - four women talking openly about their love and sex lives, not to mention the sex scenes themselves.\n\nThe first series of SATC began filming in 1998\n\nCosmopolitans and rabbit vibrators were trending before trending was a thing.\n\nWhile it was praised by many for its liberating female-led content, it also attracted criticism from some quarters who felt Carrie's ongoing pursuit of Mr Big (Christopher Noth) was not exactly an advert for female independence.\n\nIt was also accused of trivialising issues such as sexual harassment and for its lack of diversity, a criticism levelled at many older shows including Friends.\n\nFashion was a hugely influential part of the series - the tutu worn by Sarah Jessica Parker in the opening credits, teamed with a fur coat and heels, was described as \"an ensemble rich in cultural resonance\".\n\nAnd Manolo Blahnik could never have dreamed of attracting so much publicity for his designer footwear.\n\nIt was a ratings smash, with the hotly anticipated finale in 2004 drawing an audience of 10.6 million viewers in the US.\n\nIn the UK, the final episode was watched by 4.1m on Channel 4.\n\nThe series was predictably most popular in the 18-34 age group.\n\nMany SATC fans will be disappointed that larger-than-life favourite Samantha Jones - played by Kim Cattrall - will not be returning for the sequel series.\n\nSamantha was Sex and the City's most outlandish character and arguably, the star of the show.\n\nWhile Miranda was juggling a career and motherhood, Charlotte was focused on marriage and motherhood and Carrie poured her neuroses into her New York Star column, Samantha was the character perhaps harder to relate to but someone we all wanted to be (at least a little).\n\nShe was fiercely independent and while caring for her friends, she always put her own needs before men.\n\nBut news Cattrall won't reprise the role in And Just Like That comes as no surprise after years of feud rumours which were later confirmed by the British-born Canadian actress.\n\nIn 2017, Cattrall told Piers Morgan she had \"never been friends\" with her co-stars.\n\nShe said there was a \"toxic relationship\" and ruled out appearing in a third Sex and the City movie, denying that her decision was down to pay or \"diva\" demands.\n\nCattrall commented that former co-star Parker \"could have been nicer\" about the situation.\n\nA different actress could play Samantha in the future, she suggested.\n\n\"I played it past the finish line and then some and I loved it and another actress should play it,\" she said. \"Maybe they could make it an African-American Samantha Jones or a Hispanic Samantha Jones, or bring in another character.\"\n\nShe later criticised Parker for being \"cruel\" after she sent condolences following the death of Cattrall's brother.\n\nIn an interview with People magazine shortly afterwards, SJP acknowledged Cattrall \"said things that were really hurtful about me\".\n\nParker said: \"So there was no fight; it was completely fabricated, because I actually never responded.\"\n\nOn Monday, Parker replied on Instagram to someone posting that SJP \"didn't tag Samantha Jones\" into her post announcing the new series.\n\n\"I don't dislike her. I've never said that. Never would. Samantha isn't part of this story. But she will always be part of us. No matter where we are or what we do. x.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Flat owners applying to a fund to help pay to remove flammable building cladding will be told not to talk to the press without government approval.\n\nA draft agreement, uncovered by the Sunday Times, says that even where there is \"overwhelming public interest\" in speaking to journalists, the government must be told first.\n\nThe government said the wording was \"standard\".\n\nIt set up a £1.6bn fund last year to repair the most dangerous buildings.\n\nBut it warned that the fund might not cover all the costs of removing the cladding.\n\nThe clause might affect building owners and professional managing agents but also residents who manage their building.\n\nSome types of the covering, often added to newer blocks of flats, have been proven to be a fire hazard.\n\nAfter the 2017 Grenfell fire, the government pledged that safe alternatives to dangerous cladding would be provided on all buildings in England taller than 18m.\n\nIt set up the £1.6bn fund to help foot the costs.\n\nThe agreement, between the building owner or leaseholder and the government, says: \"The Applicant shall not make any communication to the press or any journalist or broadcaster regarding the Project or the Agreement (or the performance of it by any Party) without the prior written approval of Homes England and [the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government ]\" and its press offices.\n\nIt says an exception can be made \"where such disclosure is in the overwhelming public interest (in which case disclosure will not be made without first allowing Homes England and MHCLG to make representations on such proposed disclosure).\"\n\nThe UK Cladding Action Group tweeted that it was \"clearly a matter of public interest\" that these issues were aired in public.\n\n\"No department should be hiding behind non-disclosure agreements to stop scrutiny of their actions,\" the group said.\n\nAnother campaign group, Manchester Cladiators, said the existence of the \"gagging clause\" was \"shocking but not necessarily that surprising\".\n\nSpokesperson Rebecca Fairclough said residents would feel \"intimidated\" by it, adding: \"We ask the government to remove this unfair clause immediately and focus on the priority of solving this institutional failure, which still exists and is only growing over three and a half years after the Grenfell tragedy.\"\n\nThe government insists that the wording in the agreement, under the heading \"Marketing material\", is there to ensure applicants come to the government first.\n\n\"The terms set out are standard in commercial agreements and are not specific to this fund - to suggest otherwise is misleading and inaccurate,\" the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) said in a statement.\n\n\"We want a constructive working relationship with building owners who apply to the fund and applicants are asked to work with the department on public communications relating to the project.\"", "Small business owner Jon Wilding is facing a dilemma: his livelihood is on hold because of Covid restrictions and he has a big tax bill to settle.\n\nIf his company supplying marquees to outdoor events goes bust, the taxman will get paid, but his reputation as a businessman will be ruined forever.\n\n\"If I shut the business down, I then become director of a business that's gone bankrupt, at which stage getting loans in the future becomes nigh-on impossible,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"I feel like I'm one of those people who's been left out. We don't need a lot to keep going,\" said Mr Wilding, of Cannock in the West Midlands.\n\n\"The government say their support system is the best in the world, we've done furlough, this that and whatever, but it's not getting to all the people that need it.\"\n\nApart from the Bounce Back Loan scheme, his two-person business has received no government assistance.\n\nHis colleague was furloughed in March last year, but because Mr Wilding is the director, he is not allowed to furlough himself.\n\nThe Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) is particularly concerned about people like Mr Wilding.\n\nIt says directors of small companies, who pay themselves in dividends rather than drawing a salary, are not receiving any help from the government.\n\nThe FSB says somewhere between 700,000 and 1.1 million people fall into this category.\n\nIt has put forward ideas to help some of those firms, which it hopes ministers will adopt.\n\nThe FSB's proposed Directors Income Support Scheme would pay them grants of up to £7,500 to cover three months of lost trading profits. It would be limited to those who earn less than £50,000 a year.\n\n\"Company directors, the newly self-employed, those in supply chains and those without commercial premises are still being left out in the cold,\" said FSB national chairman Mike Cherry.\n\nWithout further government help to cope with the effects of the pandemic, a record 250,000 small businesses could be lost in the next 12 months, the FSB said.\n\n\"The development of business support measures has not kept pace with intensifying restrictions,\" Mr Cherry added.\n\n\"As a result, we risk losing hundreds of thousands of great, ultimately viable small businesses this year, at huge cost to local communities and individual livelihoods.\"\n\nThe Federation of Small Businesses said the government had met the latest national lockdown \"with a whimper\"\n\nThe FSB based its prediction on a survey of 1,400 small firms, 5% of which said they expected to close this year.\n\nIf those figures were replicated across the country, some 250,000 of the UK's 5.9 million small firms could disappear, it said.\n\nMr Cherry said the government had met the latest national lockdown \"with a whimper\" and called for help that went beyond the retail, leisure and hospitality businesses.\n\nThe FSB said it had submitted its support scheme proposals to the Treasury and was expecting a decision this month.\n\nThe Treasury said nothing was planned at present, but added: \"Our support schemes are designed to get help to those who need it most whilst protecting the taxpayer from fraud, but of course we keep everything under review and are always open to further ideas.\"", "But it delivered a fascinating look behind the scenes at two cutting-edge ways the firm is creating video content.\n\nThe first involved the use of a giant screen which is matched with movement-sensors on a camera to create a fake backdrop that shifts in turn with the lens.\n\nA similar technique was pioneered by Industrial Light & Magic and used in the Star Wars spin-off series The Mandalorian, but this opens the door to other filmmakers.\n\nThe screens involved use Sony's Crystal LED technology, which the firm first unveiled at CES in 2012, but has been unable to bring low down enough in price to take mainstream.\n\nIn effect, this is its version of micro-LED tech, using millions of tiny light emitting diodes (LEDs) to match the number of pixels. The result is much greater brightness and contrast than a normal LCD or OLED display would be capable of.\n\nThe background footage moves in time with the camera to aid the illusion Image caption: The background footage moves in time with the camera to aid the illusion\n\nUntil now, the firm has marketed the tech at building owners wanting the ultimate video walls. But this has the potential to help film and advert-makers place actors within environments they can see, rather than relying on greenscreen effects.\n\nThe second innovation was the creation of an \"immersive reality\" performance, which uses body sensors to create a highly-detailed animated version of an artist.\n\nIt was demoed by the singer-songwriter Madison Beer.\n\nMotion capture has been used for years to add special effects to characters in movies and to place real-world actors into video games.\n\nBut the aim here is to create a lifelike representation of a performer on stage at a concert.\n\nThe footage shown didn't quite escape the \"uncanny valley\" - there's still some way to go before we can't tell the difference between a real person and even a highly detailed avatar.\n\nBut it's easy to imagine that the tech being more impressive when viewed in virtual reality, where users can move about and choose their view.\n\nThe computer-generated image looks less real the closer you get to the performer Image caption: The computer-generated image looks less real the closer you get to the performer\n\nUntil now, VR apps of concerts have either offered a pick of different static camera locations or involved much lower-resolution characters.\n\nWith Covid meaning it's impossible for artists to tour, this second-best experience could be very timely when it's offered to PlayStation VR headsets and other devices soon.", "Many hospitals are still under intense pressure with the increasing number of Covid patients arriving.\n\nDoctors say they are seeing more younger patients in their thirties and forties compared to the first wave.\n\nThe overall pattern of those at risk of becoming seriously ill or dying has not changed significantly and the older someone is, the greater their risk from Covid-19 - particularly those over the age of 65.\n\nThe BBC's Health Editor Hugh Pym was given access to film at Croydon University Hospital in South London.", "Boris Johnson - pictured here in 2013 - has long been a fan of cycling\n\nBoris Johnson has been criticised for travelling seven miles from Downing Street to go cycling during lockdown.\n\nThe Evening Standard reported the prime minister had been spotted in the Olympic Park in East London on Sunday.\n\nGovernment advice allows people to exercise outside, but says you should not travel outside your local area.\n\nA No 10 spokesman would not confirm if Mr Johnson had been driven to the park or cycled there, but said the PM had complied with Covid-19 guidelines.\n\nLabour's Andy Slaughter said: \"Once again it is do as I say, not as I do, from the prime minister.\"\n\nThe Hammersmith MP added: \"London has some of the highest infection rates in the country. Boris Johnson should be leading by example.\"\n\nIn response to the criticism, a Downing Street source told the BBC: \"The PM has exercised within the Covid rules and any suggestion to the contrary is wrong.\"\n\nA woman told the PA news agency she had seen the prime minister in the park: \"He was leisurely cycling with another guy with a beanie hat and chatting, while around four security guys, possibly more, cycled behind them.\n\n\"Considering the current situation with Covid I was shocked to see him cycling around looking so care-free.\n\n\"Also, considering he's advising everyone to stay at home and not leave their area, shouldn't he stay in Westminster and not travel to other boroughs?\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock was asked at Monday's Downing Street press conference whether travelling seven miles for a cycle ride was within the rules.\n\nMr Hancock said: \"It is OK, if you went for a long walk and ended up seven miles from home, that is OK, but you should stay local.\n\n\"It is OK to go for a long walk or a cycle ride or to exercise, but stay local.\"\n\nThe issue of travelling for exercise was highlighted at the weekend after two women said they were surrounded by police and fine £200 after driving five miles from home to take a walk.\n\nDerbyshire Police have now dropped the fine and apologised to the women, but the incident led to a debate over the guidance.\n\nGovernment advice for England says you can leave your home to exercise, but adds: \"This should be limited to once per day, and you should not travel outside your local area.\"\n\nThe guidance adds: \"Stay local means stay in the village, town, or part of the city where you live.\"\n\nIn Scotland, the advice is more precise, saying exercise can be taken if it \"starts and finishes at the same place, which can be up to five miles from the boundary of your local authority area\".\n\nFormer Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron, who represents a constituency in the Lake District, has written to the PM calling for clearer guidance on exercise similar to that in Scotland.\n\nHe wrote: \"On the one hand, our local police force here in Cumbria are reporting that people... have travelled hundreds of miles to take their exercise in the Lake District.\n\n\"And on the other hand, I have constituents writing to me, worried whether they will be punished for driving five minutes up the road to go for a walk in their local park.\"\n\nMr Farron added: \"We need a solution that clearly deters people from making lengthy trips and potentially spreading the virus, but also that doesn't discourage people from keeping fit and healthy.\"", "Douglas Ross: 'All of Scottish football should not be affected by the actions of one club'\n\nScottish Conservatives leader Douglas Ross tells viewers he thinks politics should be put aside and the UK and Scottish governments should work together to get the vaccinations out as quickly as possible. He is reluctant, as an assistant referee, to comment on the Celtic Dubai situation, but he does say that people have to look at the message it sends out. He points out that for many people at home alone at the moment, football is something they look forward to and \"we don't want to see the whole of Scottish football affected by the actions of one club\". He adds that financial support should be made available to clubs in the Scottish lower leagues & Scottish Cup who have had their games suspended for three weeks.", "Terry Irving, 83, from Dumfries, was given the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine on Monday\n\nEveryone aged 80 or over in Scotland will be given the Covid vaccine by February, the health secretary has said.\n\nJeane Freeman also said care home staff and residents, as well as front-line health and social care staff would be vaccinated in the next few weeks.\n\nAs of Sunday, 163,377 Scots had been given a first dose of vaccine.\n\nMs Freeman told BBC Scotland that just under 560,000 people will have been vaccinated by the end of the month.\n\nThe Oxford vaccine will be available at more than 1,100 locations from Monday.\n\nScotland has been given an initial allocation of more than 500,000 doses to use in January.\n\nMs Freeman told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"We intend that by the end of this month, the very beginning of February, we will have vaccinated all residents in care homes and staff, all front-line health and social care workers and all those aged 80 or over.\n\n\"So that's just under 560,000. We've already vaccinated about 70% of people in care homes and about half of the health and social care workforce.\"\n\nShe said the Scottish government was on course to match the UK government's commitment to offer a vaccine jab to everyone in the top four priority groups by the middle of February.\n\nThe health service will be able to vaccinate people as supplies of the jabs arrive, she said, with over-80s being contacted by their GPs.\n\nThe government has now started publishing vaccination figures on a daily basis, with 163,377 Scots having been given a first dose as of Sunday.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the health authorities in Scotland now had enough supplies to give jabs to all over-80s over the coming four weeks.\n\nShe said the aim was to get through the priority list as quickly as possible.\n\nThis had been expected to be complete by mid-May, but Ms Sturgeon said she was \"very, very hopeful we will be able to accelerate that to an earlier point\".\n\nA total of 1,664 people are in hospital being treated for Covid-19, the highest number since the pandemic began - with Ms Sturgeon saying the country was in a \"dangerous situation\".\n\nThe Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine has already been administered in the Tayside, Lothian, Orkney and Highlands health board areas but this week will see it being used at vaccination centres across the whole country.\n\nRecent figures suggest a slight fall in the average positivity rates for Covid in many parts of Scotland, but pressures on the NHS have intensified.\n\nThe number of patients in hospital in with Covid rose to new highs at the weekend, and Sunday saw a sharp increase in the number of patients requiring treatment in intensive care.\n\nDeputy First Minister John Swinney said there were few signs that the threat was \"abating\" and that a tightening of restrictions could not be ruled out.\n\nThe majority of Scotland's schools are closed until at least February with pupils now learning from home as the new term begins this week..\n\nOnly vulnerable pupils and the children of key workers will receive face-to-face teaching.\n\nLocal authorities said schools were better prepared to roll out digital learning than they were during the first lockdown.\n\nBut one parents' group has raised concerns about \"equal and fair access to home learning\".", "The Prince of Wales is urging firms to back a more sustainable future and do more to protect the planet, as he marks 50 years of environmental campaigning.\n\nPrince Charles wants companies to join what he is calling \"Terra Carta\" - or Earth charter.\n\nThe charter is being launched alongside a fund run by the Natural Capital Investment Alliance.\n\nIt aims to mobilise $10 billion towards natural capital by 2022.\n\nTerra Carta will harness the \"irreplaceable power of nature\", the prince said in his virtual address to the One Planet Summit on Monday.\n\nHe hopes the new charter will help \"reunite people and planet\".\n\nHe said: \"I can only encourage, in particular, those in industry and finance to provide practical leadership to this common project, as only they are able to mobilise the innovation, scale and resources that are required to transform our global economy.\"\n\nIn his foreword to Terra Carta, the prince writes: \"If we consider the legacy of our generation, more than 800 years ago, Magna Carta inspired a belief in the fundamental rights and liberties of people.\n\n\"As we strive to imagine the next 800 years of human progress, the fundamental rights and value of nature must represent a step-change in our 'future of industry' and 'future of economy' approach.\"\n\nCharles has previously said that people thought he was \"completely dotty\" when he started talking about environmental issues in the 1970s.", "A number of positive cases have been identified among passengers who had flown into Glasgow from Dubai since the new year\n\nDubai has been added to Scotland's travel quarantine list with anyone coming from the country told to self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nThe rule, which came into effect at 04:00, will also apply retrospectively for passengers who have made the journey since 3 January.\n\nCeltic confirmed one of their players tested positive for the virus less than 48 hours after the squad returned from a training trip to Dubai on Friday.\n\nIt is not known if he was on the trip.\n\nThe Scottish government said clinicians and the local NHS health protection team were in contact with Celtic providing advice. It also confirmed that quarantine rules did not apply to sports people who had attended \"elite training\" abroad.\n\nHowever, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon last week questioned the purpose of Celtic's trip and whether they were following social-distancing rules after seeing photos from their Dubai base.\n\nShe warned that professional sport's privileges could be lost if protocols were not followed by all participants.\n\nThe government said the change was due to a number of positive cases being identified in passengers who had flown into Glasgow from Dubai since the new year.\n\nIt said the \"preventative action\" would help stem the rise in coronavirus cases.\n\nTransport Secretary Michael Matheson said: \"It is evident, both in Scotland and in countries across the world, that the virus continues to pose real risks to health and to life and we need to interrupt the rise in cases.\"\n\nHe added: \"Imposing quarantine requirements on those arriving in the UK is our first defence in managing the risk of imported cases from communities with high risks of transmission. That is why we have made the decision to remove Dubai from the country exemptions list.\n\n\"Whether or not an overseas destination has been designated for quarantine restrictions, our message remains clear that people should not currently be undertaking non-essential foreign travel.\n\n\"People need to stay at home to help suppress the virus, protect our NHS and save lives.\"\n\nJoanne Dooey, president of the Scottish Passenger Agents' Association (SPAA), said: \"Removing Dubai from the safe list is understandable. We believe that there has been a cluster of infections around Scots who travelled to Dubai over the Christmas and New Year period.\n\n\"Whilst we're keen to see a return to increased international travel, protecting the health of the whole country remains our key concern and we are supportive of this move.\"", "Morrisons will bar customers who refuse to wear face coverings from its shops amid rising coronavirus infections.\n\nFrom Monday, shoppers who refuse to wear face masks offered by staff will not be allowed inside, unless they are medically exempt.\n\nSainsbury's also said it would challenge those not wearing a mask or who were shopping in groups.\n\nThe announcements come amid concerns that social distancing measures are not being adhered to in supermarkets.\n\nVaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi said the government is \"concerned\" shops are not enforcing rules strictly enough.\n\n\"Ultimately, the most important thing to do now is to make sure that actually enforcement - and of course the compliance with the rules - when people are going into supermarkets are being adhered to,\" Mr Zahawi told Sky News.\n\n\"We need to make sure people actually wear masks and follow the one-way system,\" he said.\n\nMorrisons said it had \"introduced and consistently maintained thorough and robust safety measures in all our stores\" since the start of the pandemic.\n\nBut it said: \"From today we are further strengthening our policy on masks.\"\n\nSecurity guards at the UK's fourth-biggest supermarket chain will be enforcing the new rules.\n\nMorrisons' chief executive, David Potts, said: \"Those who are offered a face covering and decline to wear one won't be allowed to shop at Morrisons unless they are medically exempt.\n\n\"Our store colleagues are working hard to feed you and your family, please be kind.\"\n\nFollowing Morrisons' announcement, Sainsbury's said that it was also putting trained security guards at the front of its stores to challenge shoppers who did not comply.\n\nChief executive Simon Roberts said: \"I've spent a lot of time in our stores reviewing the latest situation over the last few days and on behalf of all my colleagues, I am asking our customers to help us keep everyone safe.\n\n\"The vast majority of customers are shopping safely, but I have also seen some customers trying to shop without a mask and shopping in larger family groups.\n\n\"Please help us to keep all our colleagues and customers safe by always wearing a mask and by shopping alone. Everyone's care and consideration matters now more than ever.\"\n\nEarlier on Monday, Mr Zahawi stopped short of saying that supermarket staff should be responsible for enforcing rules on face masks.\n\nEnforcement of face coverings is the responsibility of the police, not retailers. Wearing face masks in supermarkets and shops is compulsory across the UK.\n\nIn England, the police can issue a £200 fine to someone breaking the face covering rules. In Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, a £60 fine can be imposed. Repeat offenders face bigger fines.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How to wear your mask. Hint: it's not any of these three options\n\nHowever, retail industry body the British Retail Consortium said that, workers have faced an increase in incidents of violence and abuse when trying to encourage shoppers to put them on.\n\nAndrew Opie, director of food and sustainability at the British Retail Consortium, added: \"Supermarkets continue to follow all safety guidance and customers should be reassured that supermarkets are Covid-secure and safe to visit during lockdown and beyond.\n\n\"Customers should play their part too by following in-store signage and being considerate to staff and fellow shoppers.\"\n\nUnder current lockdown restrictions across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, people must only leave home for essential reasons, such as buying food or medicine.\n\nIn a bid to contain the spread of coronavirus, supermarkets introduced social distancing measures during the UK's first nationwide lockdown last March. They included limits on the numbers of customers in the shops at any one time, protective plastic screens at tills and \"marshals\" to ensure shoppers were maintaining a two-metre distance.\n\nBut amid rising numbers of infections, some have expressed concerns about a \"lack of visible protections\" implemented by supermarkets in recent weeks.\n\nThe First Minister of Wales, Mark Drakeford, said on Saturday that he wanted to see stores policed as they were during the first lockdown as people were worried the strict enforcement of rules did not \"appear to be there this time\".\n\n\"Given the fact the new variant is so much easier to catch... we are looking at supermarkets and other places where people leave their homes, to make sure they are organised in a way that keeps their staff and customers safe,\" he said.\n\nSupermarket Waitrose said that it was taking a \"cautious approach\" to the virus, with marshals checking that customers are wearing face coverings on the door, hand sanitiser stations at its entrances and written communications to shoppers reminding them to maintain their distance.\n\nTesco said it was limiting the number of customers in store and was also reminding customers to wear masks.\n\n\"We have clear signage explaining this, and we have packs of face coverings available for purchase near the front of our stores for any customers who have forgotten them.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Asda announced last week that it would extend its marshals' hours to 08:00 to 20:00 and increase how often baskets and trollies are cleaned.\n\nShop workers' union Usdaw has also called for firms to apply more stringent measures again.\n\nThe union's general secretary, Paddy Lillis, said that it had received reports that \"too many customers are not following necessary safety measures like social distancing, wearing a face covering and only shopping for essential items\".\n\n\"It is going to take some time to roll out the vaccine and we cannot afford to be complacent in the meantime, particularly with a new strain sweeping the nation,\" Mr Lillis said.\n\nThe trade union also suggested that \"'one-in one-out\" policies and proper queuing systems should be reintroduced in supermarkets.\n\nIt added that these systems should be managed by trained security staff where necessary.", "The number of patients in intensive care with Covid has risen sharply, amid warnings that tougher lockdown measures may be needed.\n\nLatest Scottish government figures show 1,877 new cases of Covid were reported in the last 24 hours\n\nThe number of people in intensive care has risen from 109 to 123, the highest daily jump since October.\n\nDeputy First Minister John Swinney said a tightening of restrictions could not be ruled out.\n\nA total of 1,598 people are currently in hospital with recently-confirmed Covid, up from Saturday's figure of 1,596 patients which was the highest number since the outbreak began.\n\nThe daily test positivity rate was10%, up from 8.7% on Saturday, when 1,865 positive cases were recorded.\n\nThe deputy first minister said the country was facing \"a very alarming situation\" with the virus.\n\nSpeaking on Politics Scotland, Mr Swinney said coronavirus does not show much sign of \"abating\" and he would not rule out tougher lockdown measures.\n\nHe said: \"We're seeing case numbers which are hovering around 2,000 per day... so we've got an accelerating situation on our hands and we have to constantly review whether more restrictions are required.\"\n\nThere have been some encouraging signs in recent days with average positivity rates falling, a possible indicator that the lockdown is having an impact, but Prof Linda Bauld, of Edinburgh University, urged caution.\n\nShe said: \"The numbers are not reducing at the rate which we want them to, so [it is] still a very fragile situation.\n\n\"The measures we have now I hope are working but it's not clear whether they are tough enough.\n\n\"I think the key change the government could make is in the sectors which are still open, particularly workplaces but also things like takeaways and click and collect.\"\n\nMr Swinney said the Scottish government is \"open to considering further restrictions if they are necessary\"\n\nProfessional sport, along with manufacturing and construction work have been allowed to continue in this lockdown, whereas they were not in the first wave in March.\n\nThe deputy first minister said the meeting of the cabinet which agreed the latest lockdown saw ministers wondering if they had gone far enough to stop the spread.\n\nMr Swinney added: \"I don't think I'm revealing a state secret when I say that the debate within cabinet was not whether we were going too far but whether we were going far enough.\"\n\nA total of three deaths were recorded in the past 24 hours but these figures are lower at weekends because register offices are generally closed.", "Last updated on .From the section Scottish Premiership\n\nCeltic's only regret about their Dubai trip was Chris Jullien contracting Covid-19, said coach Gavin Strachan, after the draw with Hibernian.\n\nThirteen Celtic players missed the game as they self-isolate after being deemed close contacts of Jullien.\n\nThe hosts led through David Turnbull's free-kick, but are now 21 points behind Scottish Premiership leaders Rangers after Kevin Nisbet's late Hibs strike.\n\n\"There's regret that one person has caught the virus,\" said Strachan.\n\n\"But there's not a regret in terms of the permission we got to go and the protocols that we followed, which we have done the whole season.\"\n• None 'Celtic's lack of remorse over Dubai farce is risible'\n• None Trouble in paradise? Timeline of Dubai bid to Covid crisis\n\nStrachan, who managed the team against Hibs as Neil Lennon and assistant John Kennedy are also in enforced quarantine, defended the decision to take Jullien - who is out injured for up to four months - on last week's controversial training trip.\n\n\"It was to maintain his treatment with the backroom staff, he went over there so we can get him back as fast as we can,\" Strachan added.\n\n\"Yeah, I can understand the frustration from everybody, because we end up playing with a weaker team, but that could have happened if we were training at home as well.\"\n\nCeltic, who still have three games in hand, fielded an unfamiliar line-up showing six changes, though one of those was enforced by Nir Bitton's suspension, and teenage American forward Cameron Harper was handed a debut.\n\nHibs' request for Celtic players to be retested pre-match was turned down and Jack Ross gave a first appearance to on-loan Arsenal goalkeeper Matt Macey.\n\nAnd it was the visitors who tried to stamp their authority on the game early on with Nisbet heading over and later testing Conor Hazard with a shot after Joe Newell's strike had been pushed out by the Celtic keeper.\n\nHarper shot instead of passing from a promising position in Celtic's first incisive move and long-range efforts from Ismaila Soro and Diego Laxalt drew fine saves from Macey.\n\nTurnbull's superb chip found Callum McGregor in behind the Hibs defence but he could not make the right connection.\n\nLewis Stevenson made his 500th Hibernian appearance as a half-time replacement for Josh Doig and Harper limped off to be replaced by another Celtic debutant Armstrong Oko-Flex on the hour.\n\nChances were at a premium and Hazard was quick off his line to snuff out a chance for Melker Hallberg and Drey Wright's replacement Christian Doidge could not get a header on Jamie Murphy's teasing corner.\n\nMikey Johnston claimed unsuccessfully for a penalty after going down in the Hibs box following Ryan Porteous' challenge and soon made way for Karamoko Dembele.\n\nHibs also made a change with Stephen McGinn replacing Hallberg and the midfielder fouled Turnbull to give the Celtic midfielder the chance to put Celtic ahead, and he did. It was a fantastic strike by Turnbull and his fifth goal for Celtic.\n\nHibs went back on the attack and won a free-kick of their own after Laxalt's foul on Paul McGinn and the latter's header from Stevie Mallan's delivery was cleared on the line only for Nisbet to fire high into the net for parity. A point took Hibs to within two of Aberdeen in third.\n\nWhat did we learn?\n\nUnsurprisingly, Celtic took a while to settle into the match and lacked a focal point in the absence of Leigh Griffiths and Odsonne Edouard.\n\nFor long spells in the second half, the hosts did not look likely to win but took their chance when it came. Defensively, though, they were caught out badly at a set play.\n\nHibs may rue not throwing more caution to the wind at 0-0 but, after three league defeats, a point in Glasgow is a positive result.\n\nWhat did they say?\n\nCeltic coach Gavin Strachan: \"The players put a lot into the game and we thought we did enough to nick it. The sucker punch at the end was frustrating. We were hoping we would have enough bodies back to see that out.\n\n\"There's a lot of football still to be played and you never know what's going to happen. Obviously it's a frustrating time just now but we need to get the win on Saturday, keep racking up the points and see what happens.\"\n\nHibernian head coach Jack Ross: \"We wanted to come and win the game. I certainly think we merited taking something from it. It's good for us to stop the bleeding. It hopefully just propels our side in the right direction again.\n\n\"Kevin Nisbet's goalscoring return has been excellent. The accuracy of the finish and the trust in his finishing ability with the goal has to be like that otherwise I don't think he scores it.\"\n\nCeltic will still be without their isolating players when they host Livingston on Saturday (15:00 GMT). Hibs are at home to Kilmarnock at the same time.\n• None Attempt blocked. Stephen Mallan (Hibernian) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Kevin Nisbet.\n• None Goal! Celtic 1, Hibernian 1. Kevin Nisbet (Hibernian) left footed shot from the right side of the six yard box to the top right corner following a set piece situation.\n• None Attempt blocked. Paul McGinn (Hibernian) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Stephen Mallan with a cross.\n• None Paul McGinn (Hibernian) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. Stephen Mallan (Hibernian) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Paul McGinn with a headed pass.\n• None Attempt blocked. Christian Doidge (Hibernian) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Paul McGinn with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Jamie Murphy (Hibernian) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Paul McGinn.\n• None Goal! Celtic 1, Hibernian 0. David Turnbull (Celtic) from a free kick with a right footed shot to the top left corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Wales' health minister has acknowledged it was \"entirely understandable people are concerned\" about when they will receive their vaccine.\n\nBut Vaughan Gething also stressed that supplies will increase over the coming weeks.\n\n\"I think a number of people are are anxious because this is a worrying time. And it's entirely understandable on a human level why people are concerned\", he said.\n\nMr Gething admitted that other UK nations had made a better start in rolling out the vaccine.\n\nBut he said that he believed Wales had still made a \"good start\" and \"that's evidenced by the figures\".\n\nWhen asked about the concerns made by some GP practices, Mr Gething said he understands why some of them \"will be frustrated\".\n\nHe added: \"But we're delivering the AstraZeneca vaccine in supplies that we have to keep it going.\n\n\"And as I said, the availability of that vaccine is the current rate limiting step and significantly increasing our delivery because we know there are a range of general practices and others who could deliver more if we had more supply.\n\n\"The supply they're being given is supplied for the week - it's not to stretch through for the whole population that they're covering.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Domestic abuse victim - 'He threw me against the wall and strangled me'\n\nJustice Secretary Robert Buckland has said he hopes to make non-fatal strangulation a specific offence after a call by domestic abuse campaigners.\n\nToo many violent offenders' sentences are not tough enough, he said.\n\nAnd he added that strangulation can be a precursor to even more serious crimes against women.\n\nCampaigners argue that perpetrators are often only charged with common assault, which carries a maximum of six months in prison.\n\nBecause non-fatal strangulation may not leave any marks on the victim, prosecutors do not bring more serious charges, they say.\n\nMr Buckland said: \"There are too many violent offenders not getting sentences proportionate to the seriousness of their crimes because in many cases, prosecutors don't have adequate charging options where the victim has been strangled.\n\n\"The vast majority of these crimes are committed against women and they are often a precursor to even more serious violence.\"\n\nThe justice secretary hopes the new offence can be included in the Police and Sentencing Bill, although discussions are at an early stage.\n\nCampaigners had called for a new offence to be part of the Domestic Abuse Bill. The Conservative peer Baroness Newlove was planning to table an amendment to this bill as it goes through the House of Lords. She won cross-party support during a debate in the Lords last week.\n\nBut the Ministry of Justice believes that as non-fatal strangulation can be used in situations other than domestic abuse, the legislation should have a broader context.\n\nJustice Secretary Robert Buckland said strangulation was often a precursor to even more serious attacks on women\n\nWelcoming the move, Nogah Ofer, a lawyer with the Centre for Women's Justice, which has been at the forefront of the campaign for a new offence said: \"It is time that as a society we stopped normalising and ignoring strangulation.\n\n\"We look forward to police, prosecutors and medical professionals working together to address this with the seriousness it deserves, and hope that survivors of domestic abuse will have greater confidence to seek justice.\"\n\nCampaigner Rachel Williams, who suffered strangulation during an abusive relationship, tweeted that it was \"a great victory\". She was shot and severely injured by her violent partner in 2011, who then killed himself.\n\nLast week, the government said that non-fatal strangulation was already covered by existing legislation from common assault to attempted murder.\n\nIt is now looking at how a new offence was introduced in New Zealand. Parts of Australia and the US have also brought in similar measures.\n\nDuring the Lords debate, crossbench peer Lord Anderson of Ipswich, a QC and former Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation, warned that \"hurried law can be bad law\".\n\nHe asked whether a more generic offence of aggravated assault or recklessly endangering life might cover these circumstances and questioned how strangulation and suffocation would be defined in the law.", "Lisa Montgomery - the only female inmate on federal death row in the US - has been executed for murder in the state of Indiana. Her lawyers had argued she was a mentally ill victim of abuse who deserved mercy. Her victim's community said otherwise.\n\nThis story was first published on 11 January - before Lisa Montgomery's execution on 13 January.\n\nFor Diane Mattingly, there is one moment from her childhood for which she feels both enormous gratitude and guilt.\n\nShe credits this moment for her \"fairly normal\" life - a house on eight peaceful acres, a loving relationship with her children, nearly two decades at a job working for the state of Kentucky.\n\nAt the same time, she blames it for the fate of her younger half-sister, Lisa Montgomery.\n\nMontgomery was sentenced for the murder of a 23-year-old woman who was eight months pregnant. In December 2004, Montgomery, who was 36 at the time, strangled Bobbie Jo Stinnett before cutting the baby out of her womb and kidnapping it. Stinnett bled to death.\n\nMattingly and Montgomery lived together until Mattingly was eight and her half-sister was four. It was a terrifying household, she says, where physical, psychological and sexual abuse at the hands of Judy Shaughnessy, Montgomery's mother, and her boyfriends was routine.\n\nThe girls' biological father left the home, and after a while, Mattingly was whisked away to foster care. Montgomery was left behind with her mother.\n\nLisa Montgomery and her half-sister Diane Mattingly as children\n\nIt would be 34 years before the half-sisters would see each other again. And that would be from across a courtroom, where lawyers for the US government were trying to persuade a jury to sentence Montgomery to death.\n\n\"One sister got taken out and got put into a loving home and was nurtured and had time to heal,\" says Mattingly. \"The other sister stayed in that situation, and it got worse and worse and worse. And then at the end, she was broken.\"\n\nIn late December, Montgomery's legal team submitted a petition to President Donald Trump that makes the case that after a lifetime of abuse - which they characterise as torture - she is too mentally ill to be executed and deserves mercy.\n\nHowever, in the tiny town of Skidmore, Missouri, where the crime was committed, there is little sympathy for that argument. Many there believe the final moments of Bobbie Jo Stinnett were so horrific, the death sentence is warranted.\n\nLisa Montgomery and Bobbie Jo Stinnett got to know each other online through a shared love of dogs. They had corresponded for weeks on an online forum for rat terrier breeders and enthusiasts called \"Ratter Chatter\". Montgomery told Stinnett that she was also expecting, and the pair shared pregnancy stories.\n\nIn December 2004, Montgomery drove 281.5 km (175 miles) from her home in Kansas to Skidmore, where she had an appointment to look at some puppies owned by Stinnett.\n\nBut it wasn't Montgomery that Stinnett was expecting, it was a woman who went by the name of Darlene Fischer. But Fischer was a name that Montgomery had been using when she separately began messaging Stinnett from a different email address inquiring about buying one of her puppies.\n\nWhen Stinnett answered the door, Montgomery overpowered the pregnant woman, strangled her with a piece of rope, and cut the baby out of her womb.\n\nInvestigators quickly realised that \"Darlene Fischer\" did not exist, and tracked Montgomery down the next day using her emails and computer IP address. They found her cradling a new-born girl she claimed to have given birth to the previous day. Her story quickly fell apart and she confessed to the killing.\n\nSince 2008, Montgomery has been held in a federal prison in Texas for female inmates with special medical and psychological needs, where she has been receiving psychiatric care. Since receiving her execution date, she's been placed on suicide watch in an isolated cell.\n\nMontgomery is scheduled to be put to death by a lethal injection of pentobarbital at Terre Haute prison in Indiana. It is the only federal prison with an active death chamber.\n\nMontgomery's lawyers argue that because of a combination of years of horrific abuse, and a raft of psychological issues, she should never have been given the death penalty. They believe that at the time of the crime, Montgomery was psychotic and out of touch with reality. They have been joined by a chorus of supportive voices from the legal field, including 41 former and current prosecutors, as well as human rights entities like the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.\n\nHowever, calls for Trump to be merciful are hardly unanimous. According to Gallup, while support for the death penalty in the US is at its lowest level in more than 50 years, 55% of Americans still believe it is an appropriate punishment for murder. And nowhere is that support more palpably felt in this case than in Skidmore.\n\n\"Bobbie deserves to be here today. Bobbie's family deserves her,\" says Meagan Morrow, a high school classmate of Stinnett's. \"And Lisa deserves to pay.\"\n\nIf you or someone you know needs support for issues about emotional distress, these organisations may be able to help.\n\nLisa Montgomery's current legal team has conducted some 450 interviews with family members, friends, case workers, doctors and social workers. Stitched together, they form a tapestry of family dysfunction, abuse, neglect, professional negligence, substance abuse and untreated mental illness.\n\n\"The whole story is tragic,\" says Kelley Henry, one of Montgomery's federal defence lawyers. \"But one of the things that the president can do is say - to women who have been trafficked, and who have been sexually abused - 'Your abuse matters'.\"\n\nFor Montgomery, her lawyers argue, it began before she was born. According to an interview with her father, Montgomery's mother Judy Shaughnessy drank heavily throughout her pregnancy, and their daughter was born with foetal alcohol syndrome. Multiple medical experts have given statements agreeing with that diagnosis.\n\nWhen Mattingly and Montgomery were young, Shaughnessy beat them and doled out cruel forms of punishment, like taping Montgomery's mouth shut, or pushing Mattingly out into the snow, naked. After their biological father left the home, Mattingly says they were left alone with Shaughnessy's boyfriends, at least one of whom started raping Mattingly.\n\n\"Judy was manipulative and - I hate to use this word, but - evil. She enjoyed torturing the people around her,\" says Mattingly. \"She got joy out of it.\"\n\nAfter Mattingly was removed from the home by social services, Montgomery fell prey to her mother's new husband, who according to statements from his other children, was a violent alcoholic who began sexually abusing Montgomery when she was a pre-teen. The family moved from place to place dozens of times, but it was in a trailer in Sperry, Oklahoma, where her lawyers say the abuse turned into something more akin to torture.\n\nAccording to interviews with her half-siblings and others who spent time with the family, Montgomery's stepfather built a shed onto the trailer where he, and eventually his friends, raped and beat her. Her mother also began trafficking her, allowing handymen like electricians and plumbers to sexually abuse Montgomery in exchange for work on the house.\n\nAs a teenager, Montgomery confided in a cousin, telling him the men would tie her up, beat her and even urinate on her afterwards.\n\nBut the cousin, a sheriff's deputy, confessed to Montgomery's current legal team that he did nothing. In fact, he drove her back home and dropped her off in the hands of her abusers.\n\nLawyer Kelley Henry says one of the things that disturbs her most is that adults in positions of authority were told about what was going on but did nothing.\n\nWhen Shaughnessy eventually split from her second husband, she and Montgomery testified in divorce proceedings about the sexual assaults. The judge in the case scolded Shaughnessy for not reporting the abuse - but did not report the abuse himself.\n\n\"There were so many opportunities where people could have intervened and prevented this,\" says Henry.\n\nMontgomery's cousin told her legal team that he lived with \"regret for not speaking up about what happened to Lisa\".\n\nWhen she was 18, Montgomery married her stepbrother. The couple had four children in five years, but the relationship was not the escape from violence that Montgomery might have hoped it would be. At one point, one of Montgomery's brothers found a home movie that showed Montgomery's husband raping and beating her.\n\n\"It was violent and like a scene out of a horror movie,\" he said in a statement. \"I felt sick watching the video. I didn't know what to do or how to talk to my sister about it.\"\n\nFriends and family began noticing Montgomery's tendency to slip into \"a world of her own\". Her children were disturbed by it. Henry says this was an early sign of her mental illnesses, which include bipolar disorder, complex post-traumatic stress disorder, dissociative disorder and traumatic brain injury.\n\nMontgomery eventually divorced her first husband and married Kevin Montgomery. Around this time, she repeatedly claimed to be pregnant again, although she had undergone sterilisation after her fourth baby was born.\n\nOne theory her lawyers put forward regarding the chain of events that led to the murder, is that Montgomery feared her ex-husband would expose her lies about being pregnant and use it against her as he sought custody of their children.\n\n\"There was so much pressure on her at that point,\" says Henry. She describes Montgomery's ex-husband as cruel and harassing. \"She was completely detached from reality.\"\n\nHer lawyers say that as she lost touch with reality, she fantasised about being pregnant.\n\nHenry says Montgomery's original legal defence after she was arrested and charged with murder was woefully inadequate, and presented few of the details about her abuse, trauma and mental illness.\n\nHer lawyers at the time also presented an alternative theory of the crime, which was that Montgomery's brother had actually committed the murder, even though he had an alibi. That was ultimately dropped in favour of an insanity defence, but Henry believes the damage to Montgomery's credibility was already done.\n\nAfter five hours of deliberation, the jury found Montgomery guilty. They recommended a sentence of death.\n\nDiane Mattingly has been speaking publicly for the first time in the hope it can make a difference.\n\n\"I would say, 'President Trump, I want you to look at the life that Lisa had led, I want to look at all the people that have failed her, I want you to look at the rape, the torture, the mental abuse, the physical abuse that this woman had endured,'\" she says. \"I'm asking him to have compassion on her as a person that has been failed over and over and over again. And to not fail her.\"\n\nThe tiny farming town of Skidmore sits in the far northwest corner of Missouri. A generation ago, it was the kind of place where you could \"get your hair cut, see a show, buy rabbit feed and eat dinner\" - but those days are long gone. Today there is a single restaurant and few of the streets are paved.\n\nThe population hovers around just 250, and everyone knew Bobbie Jo Stinnett and her family. Friends recall her as a good student with a love of horses and dogs. She liked going down to the Nodaway River to swim, and playing Nintendo games at slumber parties. She was quiet and kind, they say.\n\nAt the time of her murder, she was newly married and pregnant with her first child.\n\nAlthough the alumni have scattered somewhat, in recent years, the Nodaway-Holt R-VII High School graduating class of 2000 - which had only 22 members - has a tradition to mark the anniversary of the death of their classmate Bobbie Jo Stinnett.\n\nThey hold a collection and try to do something nice for Stinnett's mother. \"Last year, we got flowers, and gave her a $100-plus gift card and then paid her water bill,\" says Jena Baumli.\n\nThe murder 16 years ago is never far from the minds of the town's residents.\n\nFor one thing, the wider world won't let them forget. It has been the subject of two books, multiple true crime television shows, documentaries and countless podcast episodes. And though there's been much recent debate over the fairness of Montgomery's sentence in courthouses and in the opinion pages of newspapers like the New York Times, a similar debate does not exist here.\n\n\"I think that in a lot of the opinion pieces that are being posted, in a lot of things that people are sharing, Bobbie Jo and her daughter, and her mother and her husband and other friends and family, are kind of being forgotten,\" says Tiffany Kirkland, another member of the class of 2000.\n\n\"She always wanted to be a mom,\" says Baumli. \"She was really the first one to have a decent marriage, you know, and I guess looking at Bobbie Jo was like, what your dreams were when you were younger.\"\n\nBecause of Stinnett's easy-going reputation, Morrow remembers instantly dismissing the initial reports of her murder.\n\n\"I was like, 'Oh, she was not.' You know, like, that doesn't happen to Bobbie,\" Morrow says.\n\nBut what happened at the modest clapboard house where Stinnett lived with her husband still haunts some of those involved in the investigation.\n\nNodaway County Sheriff Randy Strong says that the scene that he and his four colleagues found that day was so bloody, they are still traumatised by it. It makes him even angrier that it was Stinnett's mother who discovered her that way.\n\n\"The people that are defending [Montgomery], I wish I could take them back in time, and put them in that room,\" he says. \"And then go, 'Look at this body'. And then go, 'Stand there and listen to the 911 call of [Stinnett's mother]. This is the stuff of nightmares.\"\n\nMany of the residents of Skidmore cite the details of the crime, and the amount of planning that went into it, as evidence that Montgomery was a calculating killer.\n\nShe had catfished Stinnett online under a fake name. She had bought supplies, including a home birth kit, and searched online for how to perform a caesarean section. Sheriff Strong insists that the crime was meticulously planned and that the woman he arrested continued to lie until backed into a corner.\n\nDr Katherine Porterfield, a clinical psychologist who evaluated Montgomery and spent about 18 hours with her, says that psychosis does not always look the way people expect it to.\n\n\"Being psychotic, it does not mean you are not intelligent, nor that you cannot act in a planful way,\" she says. \"We've seen crime for years and years in our country in which people enact terrible violence coming out of a psychotic set of beliefs or thought process. Lisa Montgomery is no different. She enacted this in the grip of a very broken mind.\"\n\nThe baby was returned to her father, after being recovered from Montgomery.\n\nBobbie Jo's mother and husband have have not spoken publicly in many years. But Strong says this is the first year he's heard directly from Stinnett's husband. He thanked the sheriff for recovering his daughter and allowing him to be the parent that his wife couldn't be.\n\n\"I cried,\" says Strong. \"The whole community over there's traumatised by this.\"\n\nSchool friend Baumli says she's read the descriptions of Montgomery's abuse, but it mostly just makes her angry. She says it's not as if all the other people of Skidmore lead idyllic lives free from abuse, poverty and other destructive tragedies. She gives herself as an example - when Stinnett was murdered, Baumli was in rehab for a drug addiction. She missed the funeral because of it.\n\n\"Let's say I didn't stay clean very long,\" she says.\n\n\"I'm sick of hearing about Lisa Montgomery and what she went through. And it's never about what my friend went through,\" she adds. \"I get these images in my head of [Bobbie Jo's mother] finding her daughter that way.\"\n\nThree federal inmates - Orlando Hall, Alfred Bourgeois and Brandon Bernard - have been put to death since the 3 November presidential election. Several high-profile figures had appealed for clemency in Brandon's case but Mr Trump did not heed those calls.\n\nPresident-elect Joe Biden has already pledged to end death penalty proceedings, although he hasn't said when.\n\nUntil July 2020, there had been no federal executions for 17 years. At state level, the number of sentences and executions continues a historic decline. Only 18 death sentences were handed down in 2020 and the number of executions carried out hit a 30-year low. More recently, the states that have been carrying out executions, such as Texas and Tennessee, have halted and delayed executions because of the pandemic.\n\nHowever, the executions ordered by President Trump are continuing. If they all go ahead, the federal government will have executed more people than any administration in nearly 100 years.\n\nProtest against federal executions of death row inmates - outside the US Justice Department, Washington DC, December 2020\n\nTwo other inmates are scheduled to die at Terre Haute prison before Mr Trump's presidency ends. Recently, there has been a virus outbreak on death row at the institution, and previous executions have been linked to outbreaks among the execution team and prison staff.\n\n\"They made this a priority at the risk of the health and lives of corrections officials, of the prisoners on death row, and the communities that all of those Bureau of Prisons officials who flew in from across the country were returning to,\" says Ngozi Ndulue, senior director of research and special projects at the Death Penalty Information Center.\n\n\"This was a very coordinated and determined plan to ensure that as many people could be executed on federal death row as possible before the end of this administration term.\"\n\nMontgomery's lawyers want her sentence commuted to a life sentence, which would allow her to remain under psychiatric care in prison for the rest of her days.\n\nMattingly says looking back to the moment life changed for her as an eight-year-old, she feels guilty that when the social workers came for her, she didn't tell them what was going on in that house.\n\n\"If I had, would they have taken Lisa out of the home also?\" she says. \"There's so many people that failed her throughout her whole life. And I am just asking for somebody - once - not to fail her.\"", "Wales has received 275,000 doses of the two Covid-19 vaccines to deal with the pandemic.\n\nAbout 70,000 people received a first dose after the first month of the vaccine rollout.\n\nThe Welsh Government confirmed it has had more than 250,000 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and 25,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab.\n\nThe health minister promised a \"really significant step-up\" in the roll-out after opponents criticised its speed.\n\nThe Pfizer jabs were first administered in early December at seven sites across Wales as part of the UK-wide immunisation programme.\n\nThis 82-year-old woman was one of 100 to receives her vaccine at a special clinic in Swansea on Saturday\n\nApproximately 1.6% of people were vaccinated up to 3 January - fewer than all other UK nations.\n\nIn England, about 1.9% of the population had received the first dose, while 2.1% of people in both Scotland and Northern Ireland had received their first jab.\n\nThe Welsh Government has dismissed criticism it is lagging behind, with health officials saying the new Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine would help speed up the programme \"considerably\".\n\nTwo full doses of the Oxford vaccine gave 62% protection, a half dose followed by a full dose was 90% and overall the trial showed 70% protection.\n\nThe rollout of the Oxford vaccine started on Monday, with 25,000 doses received this week, according to the Welsh Government.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said on Friday that Wales would receive another 25,000 Oxford doses next week and 80,000 the week after that.\n\nWhen asked how many doses of the Pfizer vaccine Wales had received, he said he could not recall the exact figure but further deliveries had been received \"on the 23rd and the 27th of December\".\n\nPressed on a figure, he said: \"It's the low hundreds of thousands\", adding: \"The Pfizer vaccine has particular challenges in terms of the conditions that it's got to be stored in and in parts of Wales that is a very particular challenge because it is a hard vaccine to transport over long distances to relatively scattered and remote communities.\n\n\"But the fact that we've got it and the fact that we're able to use more of it than we originally anticipated means we'll be able to accelerate the use of it over the next couple of weeks.\"\n\nThese were the latest comparative weekly totals - daily updates are promised from this week onwards in Wales\n\nOn Sunday, the Welsh Government confirmed it had received 25,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine in the first week but the quantity would increase, allocated to Wales based on a population share on a weekly basis.\n\n\"We are confident in the assurances we have been given that this will increase over the next few weeks to around 100,000 per week,\" they said.\n\n\"We are delivering all the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine allocated to Wales directly to GPs, other primary care providers and hospitals as soon as it is available.\"\n\nConservative MP for the Vale of Clwyd, Dr James Davies, said: \"We all know that the Pfizer vaccine is difficult to transport and store and needs to be stored at -70 degrees, that's understood.\n\n\"But the issue is that actually, if you look at the rest of the UK, including very rural areas, they've managed to deal with it... and it is difficult to see why they haven't been in a position to be organised earlier and to ramp-up the delivery.\"\n\nRhun ap Iorwerth, Plaid Cymru's health spokesman, called for transparency: \"It is very worrying to find out that we have had in Wales more than 250,000 doses but only a relatively small proportion of that have yet ended up in people's arms, protecting people, because that's what we want to happen.\"\n\nHe has written an open letter to Health Minister Vaughan Gething calling for greater clarity on the vaccine deployment programme, asking for a dashboard of information which would allow the public to track the rollout's progress for themselves, including volume of doses delivered and administered by health board and by the nine priority groups.\n\nDr Olwen Williams, vice-president for Wales at the Royal College of Physicians, also called on health boards and Welsh Government to publish regular data showing which groups of people have been vaccinated, with patient-facing health workers prioritised over other colleagues.\n\n\"I think that would give assurance to people working in the NHS and the population in general, that the programme is progressing as planned,\" she said.\n\nAll data will be published daily from Monday but Mr Gething conceded that Wales, from last week's figures, was \"slightly behind on the population share and I'm not getting away from that.\"\n\nHe said the race was not \"necessarily against other UK nations\" but against the virus.\n\nHe also told BBC Radio Wales' Sunday Supplement that, in the next two to three weeks, he expected to see a \"really significant step-up in the delivery of the vaccine\" as more GP practices and community pharmacies help.\n\n\"We're going to get through many more people, giving them significant protection with a first vaccine,\" he said.\n\n\"And that will mean that we're going to be able to prevent most of the avoidable deaths.\"\n\nIt is hoped the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine will speed up the process.\n\nBy the end of last week, it was being offered to patients aged over 80 at 73 GP practices.\n\nMore than 100 are expected to be offering the jabs next week, Mr Gething said, \"and then we get into several hundred thereafter and we'll bring community pharmacies on board.\"\n\nThe UK and Scottish governments did not provide the numbers of Pfizer vaccines supplied to England and Scotland. BBC Wales is still waiting for a response from the Northern Irish Executive.\n\nMeanwhile, regular rapid testing for people without coronavirus symptoms will be made available in England.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it would evaluate its mass testing pilots in Merthyr Tydfil and lower Cynon Valley, as well as elsewhere in the UK, to inform its approach to community testing.\n\nA spokesman added: \"We have announced regular asymptomatic testing of health and social care workers, in education and daily contact testing in South Wales Police.\n\n\"A pilot has also started at the Tata Port Talbot site. We are also exploring other opportunities for regular testing to support critical services.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer calls for families to be put \"at the heart of our recovery\" from the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has urged the government to \"protect family incomes\" as it deals with the economic effects of coronavirus.\n\nIn his first speech of the year, he demanded teachers, the armed forces and care workers are left out of the public sector pay freeze.\n\nSir Keir also called for tougher restrictions to be considered for tackling coronavirus.\n\nNo 10 said the government had \"shown it is prepared to act\".\n\nWith coronavirus restrictions and lockdowns shutting thousands of businesses, the economy was 7.9% smaller in October last year than it had been six months earlier.\n\nAnd the government's independent forecaster, the Office for Budgetary Responsibility, predicts that unemployment will rise to 2.6 million by the middle of this year.\n\nIn his speech, Sir Keir attacked the government for \"having been found wanting at every turn\", accusing Boris Johnson of being \"indecisive\" and acting \"too slow\" over further lockdowns and support for business and families.\n\nHe said: \"The British people will forgive many things. They know the pandemic is difficult.\n\n\"But they also know serial incompetence when they see it - and they know when a prime minister simply isn't up to the job.\"\n\nBut the PM's official spokeswoman rejected the criticism, saying: \"This government has shown it is prepared to act. When given evidence in the morning it has taken action that evening.\"\n\nAsked by the BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg whether the government should tighten restrictions, such as closing nurseries, Sir Keir said there \"probably is more that we could do [and we] may have to get tougher\".\n\nBut he did not outline what measures he would recommend, instead saying it was \"time to hear from the scientists what else can be done - and that probably should be done in the next few hours\".\n\nThe Labour leader said ministers must \"protect family incomes and support businesses\" from the economic effects of previous restrictions and the current lockdown.\n\nHe added policies must \"make a real difference to millions of people across the country\" and \"put families at the heart of our recovery\".\n\nSir Keir argued the £20-a-week rise given to Universal Credit claimants last April must continue beyond this April's cut-off point.\n\nCouncil tax increases in England of up to 5% this April must not happen, he said, while calling for the ban on evictions and repossessions to be extended.\n\nThe government's pay freeze for at least 1.3 million public sector workers - which does not apply to NHS frontline staff and those earning below £24,000 a year - must not go ahead, said Sir Keir.\n\n\"I know this isn't everything that's needed,\" he added, \"and after so much suffering we can't go back the status quo.\n\n\"We cannot return to an economy where over half our care workers earn less than the living wage, where childcare is among the most expensive in Europe, where our social care system is a national disgrace and where over four million children grow up in poverty.\"\n\nAn opposition leader has no policy leavers to pull. They have to rely on words to persuade the public they are worthy of power.\n\nWith the next general election an eternity away, Sir Keir Starmer knows the question of competence matters far more to voters than ideology right now.\n\nThe Labour leader was unsparing in his criticism of the government's handling of the pandemic - accusing the prime minster of serial incompetence, dithering and delay.\n\nSir Keir said the government could reverse planned changes to council tax and universal credit to ease the financial pressure on families.\n\nBut pressed on how lockdown might be different today if he was in No 10, the Labour leader mirrored the government's messaging.\n\nHe said there was \"probably\" more that could be done around nurseries and estate agent viewings, but Sir Keir's mantra was listen to the scientists.\n\nIt's what ministers say endlessly too.\n\nSir Keir argued that, just as a Labour government \"built the welfare state from the rubble\" of World War Two, a future one can \"secure our economy, protect our NHS and rebuild our country so that Britain is the best country to grow up in and the best country to grow old in\".\n\nBut Conservative Party co-chairman Amanda Milling accused Sir Keir of \"calling for actions the Conservatives are already taking in government\".\n\n\"We have delivered an unprecedented £280bn package of support to protect jobs, livelihoods and public services through this pandemic,\" she added, including the furlough scheme, the temporary increase to Universal Credit and extra funding for councils.\n\n\"The Conservatives will continue to put families and communities at the heart of every decision we take as we deliver on our promises to the British people,\" Ms Milling said.\n\nIn his Spending Review in November, Chancellor Rishi Sunak warned that the \"economic emergency\" caused by the pandemic had only begun.\n\nHe promised to take \"extraordinary measures to protect people's jobs and incomes\".", "Parler has hit back after Amazon pulled support for its so-called \"free speech\" social network.\n\nParler is suing the tech giant, accusing it of breaking anti-trust laws by removing it.\n\nParler had been reliant on the tech giant's Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud computing service to provide its alternative to Twitter.\n\nThe platform was popular among supporters of Donald Trump, although the president is not a user.\n\nAmazon took the action after finding dozens of posts on the service that it said encouraged violence.\n\nIn response, the platform has asked a federal judge to order Amazon to reinstate it.\n\n\"AWS's decision to effectively terminate Parler's account is apparently motivated by political animus,\" the complaint reads.\n\n\"It is also apparently designed to reduce competition in the microblogging services market to the benefit of Twitter.\"\n\n\"There is no merit to these claims,\" it said.\n\n\"AWS provides technology and services to customers across the political spectrum, and we respect Parler's right to determine for itself what content it will allow. However, it is clear that there is significant content on Parler that encourages and incites violence against others, and that Parler is unable or unwilling to promptly identify and remove this content, which is a violation of our terms of service.\n\n\"We made our concerns known to Parler over a number of weeks and during that time we saw a significant increase in this type of dangerous content, not a decrease, which led to our suspension of their services Sunday evening.\"\n\nExamples Amazon had provided included posts calling for the killing of Democrats, Muslims, Black Lives Matter leaders, and mainstream media journalists.\n\nGoogle and Apple had already removed Parler from their app stores towards the end of last week saying it had failed to comply with their content-moderation requirements.\n\nHowever, it had still been accessible via the web - although visitors had complained of being unable to create new accounts over the weekend, without which it was not possible to view its content.\n\nParler has been online since 2018, and may return if it can find an alternative host.\n\nHowever, chief executive John Matze told Fox News on Sunday that \"every vendor from text message services to email providers to our lawyers all ditched us too\".\n\n\"We're going to try our best to get back online as quickly as possible, but we're having a lot of trouble because every vendor we talk to says they won't work with us because if Apple doesn't approve and Google doesn't approve, they won't,\" he added.\n\nAWS's move is the latest in a series of actions affecting social media following the rioting on Capitol Hill last week.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Capitol riots: ‘We would have been murdered’\n\nFacebook and Twitter have also banned President Trump's accounts on their platforms, citing concerns that he might incite further violence.\n\nParler's users included the Republican Senator Ted Cruz, who had led an effort in the Senate to delay certifying Joe Biden's electoral college victory.\n\nHe had about five million followers on the platform - more than his tally on Twitter.\n\nParler's app now shows an error message and its website is offline\n\n\"Why should a handful of Silicon Valley billionaires have a monopoly on political speech?\" he tweeted over the weekend.\n\nParler's downfall appears to have benefited Gab - another \"free speech\" social network that is popular with far-right commentators.\n\nIt has claimed to have \"gained more users in the past two days than we did in our first two years of existing\".\n\nParler has long been a home for what you might call untouchables, people who had been excluded from mainstream services for offences such as blatant racism or incitement to violence.\n\nDuring a brief excursion onto the site over the weekend, I observed plenty of examples of such behaviour, with users exhibiting vile anti-Semitism, displaying Nazi symbols such as the swastika and uttering incoherent threats against those they perceive to be enemies of America.\n\nBut as Amazon's deadline approached something like panic took hold, with users desperately urging their followers to join them on other platforms.\n\nMost seemed to accept that Parler was doomed, while vowing to continue their fight elsewhere.\n\n\"Well this is the end,\" wrote one user, who proclaimed his support for the American Nazi Party.", "An ambulance had to be lifted out of the mud\n\nRescuers searching for victims of a landslide in Indonesia were buried by a second mudslide just hours later, officials say.\n\nThe first landslide, in Cihanjuang village, West Java, was triggered by torrential rain.\n\nAnother struck as survivors were still being evacuated. At least 12 people died and dozens more are missing.\n\nLandslides are common in Indonesia during rainy season, and often blamed on deforestation.\n\nThe latest disasters hit the villagers in Sumedang regency, about 150km (95 miles) southeast of the capital Jakarta, three and a half hours apart on Saturday.\n\nThe first happened at 16:00 (09:00 GMT) and the second at 19:30 (12:30 GMT), disaster agency spokesman Raditya Jati said in a statement.\n\n\"The first landslide was triggered by high rainfall and unstable soil conditions. The subsequent landslide occurred while officers were still evacuating victims around the first landslide area,\" he added.\n\nRescuers are believed to be among those killed, he added. A six-year-old boy was also among the dead, according to AFP news agency.\n\nSome 27 people were believed to be missing late on Sunday, local media quoted Deden Ridwansah, the head of the local search and rescue agency as saying. About 46 were known to have survived.\n\nBad weather had forced the search to be suspended, he said, but it was expected to resume on Monday.\n\nIndonesia frequently suffers floods and landslides. Thousands of people had to be evacuated in the capital Jakarta this time last year as the city was inundated.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n• None The fastest-sinking city in the world", "There are concerns about the cost of education for families reliant on mobile connections\n\nCustomers using BT Mobile, EE, and Plusnet Mobile can use BBC Bitesize content from the end of January without eating into their data allowance.\n\nBitesize provides structured lessons in maths and English for all year groups, as well as offering other curriculum material.\n\nContent from other providers is likely to be made free in the coming days.\n\nMore mobile companies are expected to follow suit in making such content free to use.\n\nThe current UK lockdowns mean most children are now learning from home.\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson has mandated that schools must provide between three and five hours of online content per day.\n\nThis has led to concerns that children in families without access to broadband could fall behind.\n\nSchools remain open for children classed as vulnerable and those whose parents are key workers.\n\nAll contract and pay-as-you-go customers of BT Mobile, EE and Plusnet Mobile will be eligible and the free package will continue while schools remain closed. No registration is required - the free access will happen automatically.\n\nBT has also asked the Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish administrations to each suggest one online resource for schoolchildren in its regions, which it will also zero-rate, as the curriculums differ from English schools.\n\nAccording to UK media watchdog Ofcom, some 880,000 families are reliant solely on mobile connections, and many of those will have data limitations.\n\nBBC director general Tim Davie said: \"With the pandemic forcing schools to close again, we should not allow a lack of digital access to further impact children's education.\n\n\"The BBC will continue to do all we can to ensure every child, whatever their circumstances, can continue to access vital educational materials during this time.\"\n\nThe corporation is also running three hours of curriculum-based TV programmes alongside the BBC Bitesize collection of educational resources. Primary school programming will be on CBBC, with two hours for secondary pupils on BBC Two.\n\nDuring the first lockdown, content was available on iPlayer, Red Button services and online, but not on regular TV channels, although viewers in Scotland did have some programming.\n\nBT said the move was part of its wider Lockdown Learning programme.\n\nBT consumer brands chief executive Marc Allera said: \"We want to ensure that no child is left behind in their education as a result of this pandemic and recognise that we all have a role we can play to help families and carers continue their children's education while schools are closed.\"", "Kay and Kenneth Hayward said they felt the journey was too unsafe\n\nPeople waiting to receive the Covid-19 vaccine say they are confused by NHS letters inviting them to travel to centres miles away from their homes.\n\nThe first 130,000 letters have been sent to people aged 80 or older who live about 30 to 45 minutes' drive away from one of seven new regional centres.\n\nBut patients, many of whom are shielding, questioned why they had to travel so far in a pandemic.\n\nLocal jabs are available to people if they wait, the NHS said.\n\nThe seven centres include Ashton Gate in Bristol, Epsom racecourse in Surrey, London's Nightingale hospital, Newcastle's Centre for Life, the Manchester Tennis and Football Centre, Robertson House in Stevenage and Birmingham's Millennium Point.\n\nPeople will not miss out on their vaccination if they do not use the letters to make an appointment at one of the centres, the NHS said.\n\nTwo Labour MPs tweeted about their concerns about the letters being delayed in getting out to people due to coronavirus affecting Royal Mail staff.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMary McGarry from Leamington Spa in Warwickshire told BBC News that her letter points to an NHS online booking page which suggests she would have to take her husband, who has cancer and a lung disease, 20 miles to Birmingham.\n\n\"We're very reluctant to go into Birmingham city centre,\" she said.\n\n\"If we can't get somebody to take us, we'd have to go on the train but we're shielding because my husband's got poor health.... we want to know why we've got to travel that far?\"\n\nKay Hayward, from Whitwick in Leicestershire, said she went online to book an appointment for her 85-year-old husband Kenneth and was offered five different places including Widnes in Cheshire and Stevenage in Hertfordshire.\n\n\"I thought they must be joking... we talked about it and we thought it was actually safer to stay here and for him not not have it.\n\n130,000 letters have been sent out by NHS England so far\n\n\"But we were worried if we turned this down, we'd be off the list.. the letter doesn't say anything about having the vaccines anywhere else locally.\"\n\nAndrea Eaton, from Coventry, said she was so angry that her 81-year-old mother, who has heart problems and leukaemia, was offered Birmingham for her appointment that she attempted to ring Downing Street on Saturday night to complain.\n\nShe said she reached the press office and said: \"I want you to give Boris a message please that he has lied to the British public.\n\n\"He has told them they never need to go more than 10 miles... they were really rude and just put the phone down on me.\"\n\nAndrea Eaton said she wanted to get a message to Boris Johnson so rang Downing Street on Saturday evening\n\nA spokesperson from Number 10 told BBC News that they did not wish to comment, but wanted to remind the public to use the government website to write to the prime minister or contact their constituency MP.\n\nCouncillor Shaun Davies, the Labour leader at Telford and Wrekin Council in Shropshire, said he had been contacted by dozens of people who have found the letters misleading, thinking this is their only chance to get the vaccine.\n\nHe said he had spoken to Trafford Council and was aware of people in Shropshire being sent to Manchester and residents there being directed to Birmingham to get their jabs.\n\n\"For many people they have been told consistently to wait for the NHS to contact you in order to get a vaccine and that's what they've had for the first time as a piece of communication.\n\n\"This is really, really concerning for people in their 80s or 90s because of the importance of getting the vaccine.\"\n\nThe letters are not \"going to the heart\" of the public health message which is staying home and staying local, he said.\n\nMore than 500,000 letters will be sent out to homes offering people appointments at the centres over the next seven days\n\nDr Sarah Raistrick, from Coventry and Rugby Clinical Commission group (CCG), said people did not have to travel to the centres but admitted the letter did not make that clear.\n\n\"You can wait and be contacted by your local GP service and have it locally if you'd prefer.\n\n\"If you sit tight, you will be contacted and I'm hopeful that if you're 80 or over, by the end of this month you will have had your vaccination whether that is locally or whether you have chosen to travel,\" she said.\n\nWork will be done with the NHS locally and nationally to make that message clearer, she added.\n\nThe seven centres were chosen to give a geographical spread covering as many people as possible and are capable of delivering thousands of jabs per week, NHS England has said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Hancock: We are willing to tighten the rules\n\nThe health secretary stresses the importance of the public following the restrictions of the current lockdown. Asked by Emily Morgan of ITV whether it was time to make the rules stricter amid reports of people not sticking to them at the weekend, Matt Hancock says: \"We keep these things under review and we have demonstrated that we're willing to tighten the rules if they need to be tightened. \"But the thing that really matters right here, right now is that everybody follows the rules as they are today. \"And everybody can play their part in doing that.\" He adds he applauds the action supermarket Morrisons has taken in enforcing the wearing of masks by its customers unless they have a medical reason. \"I want to see all parts of society playing their part in this,\" he says.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Professor Whitty: \"We need to really double down – this is everybody’s problem\"\n\nThe UK will go through the \"most dangerous time\" of the pandemic in the weeks before vaccine rollout has an impact, England's chief medical officer has warned.\n\nProf Chris Whitty urged people to minimise all unnecessary contact with others.\n\nThe next few weeks will be \"the worst\" of the pandemic for the NHS, he said.\n\nThousands more people are due to receive a vaccine this week after seven mass centres opened across England.\n\nNHS England said hundreds more GP-led and hospital services would also open later this week.\n\nBut with all centres, people will need to wait until they receive an invitation.\n\nThe government is aiming to offer vaccinations to around 15 million people in the UK - the over-70s, older care home residents and staff, frontline healthcare workers and the clinically extremely vulnerable - by mid-February.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock will set out the government's vaccine delivery plan at a news conference later.\n\nHe said the proposals would be the \"keystone of our exit out of the pandemic\".\n\nOutlining the vaccine rollout in Scotland, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon confirmed that ministers aim to give all over-80s the first dose of the vaccine over the next four weeks.\n\nThe Welsh Government plans to offer a vaccine to all over-50s and everyone who is at greater risk by spring.\n\nMr Hancock said on Sunday about two million people in the UK had been vaccinated so far.\n\nOver the weekend, the UK passed the milestone of 80,000 deaths with coronavirus since the start of the pandemic.\n\nCurrently, around one in 50 people across the UK is infected and Prof Whitty told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"There's a very high chance that if you meet someone unnecessarily they will have Covid.\"\n\nIn a separate interview with BBC One's Breakfast, he said: \"This is everybody's problem. Any single unnecessary contact you have with someone is a potential link in a chain of transmission that will lead to a vulnerable person.\"\n\nHe said there were over 30,000 people [in English hospitals alone] with Covid-19 - compared to about 18,000 [in England] at the peak last April.\n\nHe added that \"anybody who is not shocked\" by the number of people in hospital \"has not understood this at all\".\n\n\"This is an appalling situation,\" he said.\n\nIn Essex, Southend Hospital has had to reduce the amount of oxygen used to treat patients after supply \"reached a critical situation\", according to a document shared with the BBC.\n\nIn Surrey, a temporary mortuary has been opened as hospital mortuaries have reached capacity.\n\nAlmost 200 bodies are being stored at the emergency site, which is a former military hospital, and other local authorities have told the BBC they expect to open similar facilities soon.\n\nProf Stephen Powis, NHS England national medical director, said \"this is much bigger than the first wave back in April\".\n\n\"I don't think anyone in the NHS has known anything like this, this is a once-in-a-century pandemic,\" he said.\n\nProf Rupert Pearse, an intensive care doctor, told BBC Breakfast that in a \"normal\" winter it would be \"unlikely\" that more than three of four flu patients would need intensive care at any one time, but his unit is now running 130 intensive care beds because of the effects of Covid.\n\n\"To compare this to a normal winter flu epidemic is out of all proportion, it's orders of magnitude larger,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and can go out only for limited reasons such as food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home.\n\nSimilar lockdown measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nMinisters held two meetings on Sunday to discuss how to enforce the current lockdown measures more strictly and whether even tighter restrictions may be needed.\n\nBBC political correspondent Iain Watson said no decisions on further restrictions were taken as there was a desire within government to wait until reliable data on existing measures becomes available in 10 days.\n\nHowever, he added there had been a discussion on better enforcement of existing regulations, including at shops and workplaces.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer questioned why there are \"less restrictions in place\" now than there were last March.\n\nIn his first speech of the year, he said \"we need to see the evidence behind nurseries\" remaining open.\n\nAsked whether tighter restrictions were needed, he said: \"I do think it's time to hear from the scientists [about] what else could be done and that probably should be done in the next few hours\".\n\nThere is a lot of debate about whether the lockdown restrictions need to be tightened.\n\nThere are certainly some anomalies. For example, we are told to only leave the home for essential purposes, but coffee shops remain open for takeaways and retail shops for click-and-collect in England and Wales.\n\nHowever, even if those elements are tightened up, there is a limit to what the government can do. It is why, in his round of media interviews on Monday, Prof Whitty repeatedly talked about individual decision-making.\n\nThe mixing of different households continues. Some of it is allowed under the support bubble exemptions, but undoubtedly some of it is taking place outside of this. It is, after all, virtually impossible to police what goes on in people's homes.\n\nIt is why messaging is so important - and so ministers and officials are stressing the pressure the NHS is under. A further tightening of the restrictions could also help make the point.\n\nBut there is also a recognition this is hard. People are fatigued. A further crackdown could also erode goodwill.\n\nThe vaccination programme is described as the biggest in NHS history.\n\nThe seven mass testing sites, which NHS England said were chosen to give a geographical spread, are:\n\nThe new centres will each be capable of delivering thousands of vaccinations each week and will be followed by \"dozens more\" large-scale sites, NHS England said.\n\nThere will be about 1,200 vaccination sites when more GP-led and hospital services open later this week, along with the first pharmacy-led pilot sites, it added.\n\nSome vulnerable people have questioned why they have been asked to travel to centres miles away from their homes during a pandemic, but the NHS has said people would not miss out on their vaccination if they wait for an appointment at a centre closer to home in the coming weeks.\n\nVaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi said nobody should be asked to travel more than 10 miles to get a vaccine once more centres open.\n\nAsked on Today why the centres were not open 24 hours a day, he said it was \"more convenient\" for older people to attend during the day.\n\n\"If we need to go to 24-hour work we will absolutely go to 24 hours a day to make sure we vaccinate as quickly as we can,\" he said.\n\nBut he cautioned: \"We are limited by the amount of vaccine that is coming through the system.\"\n\nPharmaceutical firm Boots said its first vaccination site was due to open later this week to offer the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab to the people most vulnerable.\n\nIt said sites in Huddersfield and Gloucester were planned to open in the coming weeks.\n\nTwo vaccines - Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca - are currently being administered in the UK.\n\nOn Friday a third coronavirus vaccine - made by US company Moderna - was approved for use, although supplies are not expected to arrive until spring.\n\nAre you due to have a vaccination today? 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "US president-elect Joe Biden has been given his new official presidential Twitter account, but has been forced to start it with zero followers.\n\nThe Biden campaign is unhappy with the move, which marks a change from the previous transition from Barack Obama.\n\nThe new account, @PresElectBiden, will transform into the official @POTUS (President of the United States) one on inauguration day on 20 January.\n\nIn its first six hours online it gained nearly 400,000 followers.\n\nHis team has also registered new accounts - @FLOTUSBiden for the future first lady, Jill Biden, and for the first time, @SecondGentleman, for Ms Harris's husband Doug Emhoff.\n\nDonald Trump inherited the Potus account's 13 million or so followers when it moved to him from Mr Obama - but that will not happen this time.\n\nMr Biden's team was told about the move less than a month ago, and said it meant \"the administration will have to start from zero\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTwitter has not explained why the decision was made, and said it had nothing further to add beyond an official blog post laying out transition plans.\n\nIn that post it said: \"These institutional accounts will not automatically retain the followers from the prior administration,\" without a reason why.\n\nBut it said that people who previously followed the official @POTUS and @VP (Vice-President) accounts, or the personal accounts of Mr Biden and Vice-President-elect Kamala Harris - would receive notifications giving them the option to follow the new official ones.\n\nMr Obama was the first US leader to have an official Twitter account. The @POTUS account was set up during his tenure in 2015.\n\nAt the end of his second term, a transition plan for handing over the official accounts to Mr Trump was drawn up - with @POTUS going to the new administration.\n\nAll of Mr Obama's official tweets were archived for posterity on a separate account, @POTUS44 (where they can still be read today).\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by President Obama This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTwitter said that the official @POTUS account under Mr Trump will be archived in a similar way, under @POTUS45. But Mr Trump rarely used that account, favouring his own Twitter handle.\n\nTwitter notably omitted any mention of the now-suspended @realDonaldTrump account, and declined to answer questions about whether its contents would be archived.\n\nThat is despite a declaration by the White House in 2017 that tweets from that account are considered official statements by the President.\n\nHowever, the US National Archives has already announced - through a tweet - that it will archive all social media content from that account, despite Twitter's lack of a commitment to doing so.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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End of twitter post 4 by US National Archives\n\nIt said that the White House has been using a special archiving tool to capture all content, including deleted tweets, because of the Presidential Records Act.\n\nThat is likely to result in a record system similar to The Obama White House Social Media Archive, built after the last transition.\n\nA key goal of the Obama transition was to preserve social media posts \"on the platforms where they were created\".\n\nBut Twitter has permanently suspended Mr Trump from its platform and it remains unclear if it will ever archive his account for posterity.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. UK weather: Will it snow where you are?\n\nSnow and ice weather warnings are in place for much of England and Scotland after widespread recent snowfall.\n\nThe Met Office has issued yellow weather warnings across England and Scotland for Saturday and warned of possible travel disruption.\n\nParts of England and Scotland could see as much as 5-10cm of snow in higher areas, the weather service said.\n\nIt comes as hundreds of schools remain closed after heavy snow hit the north of England on Thursday.\n\nA snow warning is in place for south-east England, including London, the east of England and the East Midlands. The Met Office said East Anglia and parts of Kent and Sussex are most at risk of snow.\n\nSome 1-3 cm of snow may fall fairly widely over these areas, with 5-10 cm possible in places, mostly over parts of East Anglia and any higher ground.\n\nA snow and ice warning is in place for most of Scotland, north-west and north-east England, Yorkshire and Humber, the East Midlands and parts of the West Midlands.\n\nSnow is likely to fall to low levels over east Scotland and northern England.\n\nThe Met Office said 1-3 cm is possible at low levels in these areas but is more likely at higher elevations, where 5-10 cm of snow is possible above 200m - and even 20cm at the highest places.\n\nFog is also forecast for parts of the Midlands and the North, along with mist around Glasgow which may pose hazards for motorists.\n\nPolice forces in Yorkshire have urged people to stay at home unless their travel is essential\n\nTwo girls took their sledge to a golf course near Penicuik, Midlothian\n\nThe coronavirus vaccine rollout has been affected by the weather.\n\nOver-80s who were due to receive their jab at Newcastle's Centre for Life were told they could re-book rather than risk making a trip in the icy conditions.\n\nNewcastle Hospitals tweeted: \"There's enough vaccine for everyone, so don't worry about making a trip to Newcastle.\"\n\nAnd Leeds University has delayed the opening of its asymptomatic Covid-19 test centre.\n\nHeavy snowfall has already caused travel disruption across sections of northern England and Scotland.\n\nTemperatures were as low as -6C on Friday morning in parts of Yorkshire and Cumbria, with yellow warnings set to last through most of Friday.\n\nThere was a loss of gas supply to approximately 700 homes in the Hebden Bridge area after water got into the local gas network and froze.\n\nThe Met Office has published advice from the Department for Transport advising people to clear snow and ice from footpaths outside their homes, preferably in the morning.\n\n\"You can then cover the path with salt before nightfall to stop it refreezing overnight,\" the advice says.\n\nTemperatures in the Greater London area are expected to drop to 1C on Friday and parts of the South East could fall to -2C.\n\nIt comes after \"hazardous\" conditions on Thursday caused problems for the ambulance service in Yorkshire, which struggled to keep up with the high demand, while Covid vaccinations were also affected.\n\nMark Millins, of Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust, said the bad weather was having a \"severe impact\" on its operations and urged people to \"take extra care\" when out walking or driving.\n\nIn Scotland, heavy snow in some areas resulted in road closures.\n\nThe deepest snow on Thursday was in Bingley, West Yorkshire, and Strathallan in Perth, Scotland, both of which recorded 11cm.", "The Daily Telegraph must publish a correction over a \"significantly misleading\" column written by Toby Young, press regulator Ipso has ruled.\n\nThe July 2020 article claimed the common cold could provide \"natural immunity\" to Covid-19 and London was \"probably approaching herd immunity\".\n\nBut on Thursday Ipso found the paper had \"failed to take care not to publish inaccurate and misleading information\".\n\nIpso said the paper \"did not accept it has breached the [Editors] Code\".\n\nIt said the newspaper said that Young's comments on immunity referred to \"cross-reactive T-cells\" that work to combat the virus.\n\nHowever, the media watchdog sided with the complainant, James Whitehead, in its decision, who said that while these cells \"may lessen the impact of Covid-19\" after infection, they \"would not confer 'natural immunity'\"\n\nThe ruling added Young's statement \"misrepresented the nature of immunity\".\n\nIpso also found Young's suggestion that \"London is probably approaching herd immunity, even though only 17% tested positive [for antibodies] in the most recent seroprevalence survey\" could be misleading.\n\nThere is an antibody response and a cellular response to the coronavirus\n\nThe Telegraph referred to surveys listed in an article on Young's own Lockdown Sceptics website in its defence, but the Ipso committee judged these did not accurately reflect \"how herd immunity is reached and whether it exists in London\".\n\nThe ruling concluded that the paper had breached accuracy standards on a topic of \"public importance\", but deemed a correction an appropriate sanction, given the level of \"significant scientific uncertainty\" at the time of publication.\n\nYoung told the BBC: \"I think Ipso has been put in a difficult position because our scientific understanding of the virus is constantly evolving and there is a great deal about it that scientists still disagree about.\n\n\"While some of the things I wrote in that article would be contested by some scientists, they would be confirmed by others... Have we achieved herd immunity in London? I think that's an open question and the 'case' data is unreliable because of the well-documented shortcomings of the PCR test.\n\n\"I may have been over-emphatic in putting the anti-lockdown case, but it's not as if the advocates of a pro-lockdown position are any less emphatic.\n\n\"Don't forget the WHO initially estimated the global IFR [infection fatality rate] of Covid-19 at 3.4%. The consensus now is that it's less than 1% and almost certainly a lot less. Lots of journalists faithfully reported that alarmist figure. Why hasn't Ipso reprimanded them?\"\n\nLast week Young told BBC Newsnight that some of his claims from an article he wrote in June had been \"wrong\", where he had said a second spike of Covid-19 had \"refused to materialise\" and that one-metre rule is \"unnecessary\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAt the start of the year, Young, an associate editor at The Spectator and general secretary of the Free Speech Union, installed an app that auto-deletes tweets more than a week old.\n\nHe said he did so to protect against \"politically-motivated offence archaeologists\" - a move unrelated to the Ipso ruling.\n\nReacting to criticism of his past comments on coronavirus from Neil O'Brien, Conservative MP for Harborough, Oadby and Wigston, after the deletion, Young then tweeted a defence of his stance against lockdowns.\n\n\"This is an important public debate to have,\" he wrote, \"both because it helps us assess the present government's management of the pandemic and because it will help us prepare better for the next one.\"\n\nThe UK entered a second national lockdown last week in a bid to control spiralling virus infection rates. On Wednesday, the UK saw its biggest daily death figure since the start of the pandemic, with 1,564 deaths.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The TikTok clip was reported to police by Network Rail\n\nA TikTok stunt featuring a car parked on a level crossing has been branded \"staggeringly stupid\".\n\nThe \"reckless\" social media post, recorded on the line at Bromley Cross, Bolton, showed a camera and tripod set up on the railway to record the scene.\n\nAn accompanying caption asked viewers: \"Would you take the risk to get the shot no-one else would?\"\n\nInsp Becky Warren, from British Transport Police, said: \"No picture or video is worth risking your life for.\"\n\nNetwork Rail, which reported the footage after it appeared on the video-sharing app, blasted the \"staggeringly stupid and dangerous\" clip.\n\nIt issued a reminder that trespassing on railway lines is against the law.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by ManchesterPiccadilly This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNorth West route director Phil James said using the tracks \"as a backdrop for a photo shoot beggars belief\".\n\n\"Lives could so easily have been lost by this reckless behaviour,\" he said.\n\nInsp Warren added: \"There is simply no excuse for not following safety procedures at level crossings. The behaviour shown by the individuals in this video is incredibly dangerous and reckless.\"\n\nMany instances of trespass involve people using railway lines as backdrops for selfies and even wedding photos.\n\nLast year, Network Rail and British Transport Police launched a You vs. Train campaign to highlight the issue of young people trespassing.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Pre-departure Covid-19 testing will now be required for everyone travelling to England from 04:00 GMT on Monday.\n\nThe rules had been due to come into force on Friday, but the government said people needed time \"to prepare\".\n\nThose arriving by plane, train or boat, including UK nationals, will have to take a test up to 72 hours before leaving the country they are in.\n\nAnyone arriving from places not on the UK's travel corridor list must still self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nThe Scottish government is planning to impose the same rules and has had to defer them coming into effect as a result of changes in England.\n\n\"This meant Scotland was also obliged to delay implementation as we need sight of their final regulations in order to properly draft and approve the relevant Scottish regulations,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\nIt is expected the requirement will come into force in Scotland at 04:00 GMT on Monday as well. Wales and Northern Ireland are expected to announce plans for pre-arrival testing in the coming days.\n\nAnnouncing the deferral on Twitter, Transport Secretary Mr Shapps said: \"To give international arrivals time to prepare, passengers will be required to provide proof of a negative Covid-19 test before departure to England from Monday 18 January at 4am.\"\n\nHe also reminded travellers to fill out the Passenger Locator Form - used in track and trace - and added that those without proof of a negative test faced a fine of £500.\n\nProblems with testing availability and capacity mean some countries will initially be exempt.\n\nFor instance, the requirement will not apply to travellers from St Lucia, Barbados, Antigua and Barbuda until 04:00 GMT on 21 January.\n\nTravellers from Falkland Islands, Ascension Islands and St Helena are exempted permanently.\n\nHauliers are exempt to allow the free flow of freight, as are air, international rail and maritime crew.\n\nThe government has said all forms of PCR test will be accepted, as will other forms of test with \"97% specificity, 80% sensitivity\".\n\nThe move comes as a further 1,564 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test - the biggest figure reported in a single day since the pandemic began.\n\nWednesday's figure brings the total number of deaths by that measure to 84,767.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle, medical director at Public Health England, said there had now been more deaths in the second wave than the first.\n\nMeanwhile on Wednesday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he was \"concerned\" about a new coronavirus variant that is believed to have emerged in Brazil.\n\nHe acknowledged it was not yet clear how effective existing vaccines would be against the latest new variant.\n\nMr Johnson said the UK was taking steps to make sure it was not brought into the country.\n\nA government Covid committee is meeting on Thursday to discuss the possibility of stopping flights from Brazil.\n\nArrivals from Brazil already have to self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nAre you due to travel back to the UK from Brazil? 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Post-primary schools have been given extra time to decide how they will admit pupils in 2021 following the cancellation of transfer tests.\n\nOn Wednesday the AQE said it would not hold any transfer tests in the 2020-21 school year.\n\nThey had originally planned to go ahead with a test in late February after cancelling tests in January.\n\nThe other test provider, PPTC, had also previously announced it would not hold tests this year.\n\nAttention will now focus especially on what criteria grammar schools will use to select pupils.\n\nSome have already published what criteria they would use in the event transfer tests were cancelled but it is not clear if those will now change.\n\nAll post-primaries were to submit their admissions criteria to the Education Authority (EA) by this Friday.\n\nBut following the AQE's move the Department of Education (DE) has written to schools to tell them they do not have to provide criteria to the EA until Friday 22 January.\n\n\"This will allow them to meet the statutory deadline for publication on their website of 2 February 2021,\" the DE letter said.\n\n\"I would also remind you that boards of governors should ensure that any admissions criteria are robust and are able to clearly and objectively rank order applicants.\"\n\nIt is unclear how most grammar schools who have used transfer tests to select pupils in previous years will admit children in 2021.\n\nPatrick Allen, principal of Foyle College in Londonderry, said his school's board of governors was now working to determine this year's admissions criteria.\n\n\"This is and continues to be an exceptional year. It is a very difficult circumstance,\" he said.\n\n\"We are trying to do the best and what is right for as many pupils as possible in looking at various permutations and combinations of criteria\".\n\nEducation Minister Peter Weir said it was \"a very disappointing day\" for many families.\n\n\"The transfer test, while it has never been about being compulsory for either a school or indeed an individual parent, does enable a level of parental choice and that has been dramatically reduced as a result of that,\" he told Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster programme.\n\n\"But sadly what we have seen is for this year, the pandemic has prevented those transfer tests taking place, and I am very disappointed and entirely understand the disappointment and frustration of many families today.\"\n\nMr Weir said there had been \"a lack of consistency\" from AQE.\n\n\"I don't think the way things have worked out from AQE's point of view, particularly over the last couple of weeks, have been particularly helpful,\" he said.\n\nThe minister also apologised for \"clumsy language\" in a statement he issued on Wednesday night.\n\nWriting on Twitter about the cancellation of the transfer test, Mr Weir said: \"This severely limits parental choice and children's opportunities.\"\n\n\"There was no adverse intention towards non-selective schools,\" he said in relation to his tweet.\n\n\"I think both selective and non-selective schools have got excellent records in Northern Ireland.\"\n\n\"But once the opportunities for entry to any school is reduced then that is a reduction in opportunities for all.\"\n\nUUP MLA Robbie Butler has proposed that pupils' results in tests in primary schools could be given to parents and then used by grammar schools to decide which children get a place.\n\nMr Butler said that he had some favourable responses from some grammars and some primary schools to that proposal.\n\n\"Whilst I don't think my solution is absolutely perfect I do believe it to be absolutely fair and absolutely compassionate,\" he told MLAs on the committee.\n\n\"We have the genesis of a solution for these P7 pupils.\"\n\nBut, speaking on Wednesday, Mr Weir replied that there were issues with that approach.\n\n\"There are very major problems, I'm being honest with you, in terms of the models that have been put forward for academic selection without the test,\" he said.\n\nThe minister said it would be difficult to get comparable information for pupils across all primaries.\n\n\"While it's not entirely ruling out those and there is the option for schools to do it, it does leave them in a very difficult position making comparability between pupils on a fair basis,\" he said", "Police said Graeme Perks had gone to investigate the sound of breaking glass when he was stabbed\n\nPlastic surgeons have expressed shock at the stabbing of \"one of the most highly regarded and respected surgeons\" in their profession.\n\nGraeme Perks, 65, was stabbed in his abdomen and chest during a break-in at his house in Halam, a village near Southwell in Nottinghamshire.\n\nPolice said the attack on Thursday morning had left him \"fighting for his life\" and left his family, who were upstairs at the time, \"extremely upset\".\n\nGraeme Perks has been described as \"one of the most highly regarded and respected surgeons in the profession\"\n\nMr Perks previously served as president of the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (BAPRAS).\n\nCurrent president Ruth Waters said BAPRAS had been contacted by colleagues all around the world as news of the attack spread.\n\n\"All have expressed their shock at what has happened and also their deep concern for his wellbeing and their hope for his speedy recovery,\" she said.\n\n\"It has been my good fortune and honour to know Graeme for many years. I have benefited from his kindness, generosity and extensive knowledge throughout my career in plastic surgery.\"\n\nBAPRAS described him as \"one of the most highly regarded and respected surgeons in the profession\".\n\nAs well as being a leading plastic surgeon, Mr Perks and his wife have raised thousands of pounds for charity by opening their garden to visitors. They were previously featured on BBC Radio Nottingham after raising more than £34,000.\n\nPolice were still outside the house in Halam more than 24 hours later\n\nPolice said Mr Perks had gone to investigate the sound of breaking glass at about 04:15 GMT, after an intruder is believed to have smashed his way into the house.\n\nThey said Mr Perks was stabbed and the suspect ran off.\n\nMr Perks was taken to the Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham for surgery, where he remains in a serious condition.\n\nDet Insp Gayle Hart, who is leading the investigation, said: \"The swift arrest of this suspect we hope will provide some reassurance to local residents.\n\n\"This is a horrific incident which has left a man fighting for his life and his family who were upstairs at the time are extremely shocked and upset by the ordeal.\"\n\nMr Perks has served as president of the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (BAPRAS)\n\nMr Perks has previously worked in London, Sheffield, Newcastle and Melbourne, Australia.\n\nHe returned to the UK in the mid-1990s and started working in Nottingham, with a special interest in microsurgical reconstruction after cancer surgery.\n\nHe later became head of the department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Burns Surgery at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust.\n\nOutgoing BAPRAS president Mark Henley said: \"Graeme is an amazing colleague who it has been my pleasure and privilege to work with over the last 26 years.\n\n\"His dedication to patients, family and friends is an inspiration to us all and with his wisdom, kindness and humanity he has enabled us to achieve many things that I would never have thought possible. We are all willing him on.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Scottish fishermen have resorted to sailing to Denmark to land their catch as Brexit red tape continues to delay exports, an industry body has said.\n\nThe Scottish Fishermen's Federation, which campaigned to leave the EU, also said the Brexit trade deal was the worst of both worlds for the industry.\n\nMany fishermen \"now fear for their future\", it said.\n\nThe UK government said the deal would \"bring immediate gains to our fishermen and women across the whole UK\".\n\nLate last year, the Scottish Fishermen's Federation (SFF) said it was \"deeply aggrieved\" by the Brexit deal.\n\nFishing firms have also warned of impending bankruptcy as delays continue at ports following the introduction of post-Brexit regulations.\n\nOn Friday, the SFF kept up the pressure on the UK government.\n\nIn a letter to Prime Minister Boris Johnson, it said some fishermen \"are now making a 72-hour round trip to land fish in Denmark, as the only way to guarantee that their catch will make a fair price and actually find its way to market while still fresh enough to meet customer demands\".\n\nQuotas are used by many countries to manage shared fish stocks. They determine how many fish of each species each country's fleets are allowed to catch.\n\nThe SFF said that Brexit quota gains \"can hardly be claimed as a resounding success\" and that the Brexit deal \"actually leaves the Scottish industry in a worse position on more than half of the key stocks\".\n\n\"This industry now finds itself in the worst of both worlds,\" said SFF chief executive Elspeth Macdonald, accusing Prime Minister Boris Johnson of broken promises on quotas.\n\nThe \"desperately poor deal\" reached on quotas, under which the EU \"have full access to our waters\" means that the UK has \"no ability to leverage more fish from the EU\", she said.\n\n\"This, coupled with the chaos experienced since 1 January in getting fish to market, means that many in our industry now fear for their future, rather than look forward to it with optimism and ambition,\" Ms Macdonald added.\n\nThe Scottish National Party said the letter was \"an utterly devastating verdict on Brexit from Scotland's fishing industry\".\n\nAn SNP spokesperson said the Scottish fishing industry was \"right to be angry\" about the Brexit deal, which it said was costing Scotland's fishing communities millions of pounds.\n\nThe spokesman called on the prime minister to deliver \"a multi-billion pound package of Brexit compensation for Scotland\", adding: \"Communities across Scotland will never forgive the Tories for the damage they are doing to our country with their extreme Brexit obsession.\"\n\nA UK government spokesperson said the Prime Minister would respond to the SFF letter in due course.\n\nThe spokesperson said: \"We have now taken back control of our waters and the agreement we have reached with the EU secures a 25% transfer of quota from EU to UK vessels over five years, starting with 15% this year.\"\n\nThe spokesperson said the government was looking at providing additional financial support for the Scottish fishing industry, which it recognised was facing \"some temporary issues\".\n\n\"The Prime Minister has already committed to investing £100m in the UK's fishing industry and provided the Scottish government with nearly £200m to minimise disruption for businesses,\" the spokesperson added.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 8 and 15 January. Send your photos to scotlandpictures@bbc.co.uk. Please ensure you adhere to the BBC's rules regarding photographs that can be found here.\n\nPlease also ensure you follow current coronavirus guidelines and take your pictures safely and responsibly.\n\nConditions of use: If you submit an image, you do so in accordance with the BBC's terms and conditions.\n\nThe hills are alive: This impressive shot of 11-year-old Hamish at sunrise up the Pentland Hills, with the snow starting to be blown off the peak, was captured by dad Andy Dryden.\n\nMinus coo degrees: \"Hardy Highlander at Abriachan\" is how Gordon Bain described his photo.\n\nRed sky thinking: \"I always walk the dog to catch the sunrise and to gather my thoughts before attempting to juggle home schooling of my two primary school kids with working from home and looking after a toddler\", says Mairi Brittan at Cammo Estate, Edinburgh.\n\nRobin red brrr-east: Graham Laird spotted a little feathered friend not looking entirely delighted while taking a breather in the cold in his garden in Wishaw.\n\nUp at the crack of dawn: \"The Beveridge Park pond in Kirkcaldy looking rather icy\", says John Pow.\n\nAn uphill struggle: It's all downhill from here - but in a fun way - for three-year-old Zachary in King's Park, Glasgow.\n\nFire and ice: \"Taken at Dunbar harbour, East Lothian, in the snowfall on the way to work\", says Rowan Davies.\n\nAbbey thoughts: \"Jedburgh Abbey on a crisp January morning\", says Alan Morrison. \"The sun was captured just as it shone through\".\n\nSon rise: Jeanette Taylor says her two boys loved the adventure of getting up early to see the sun come up at Aberdeen beach. \"A chilly visit but oh so worth it\", she says.\n\nLight on her feet: \"As keen figure skaters my daughter Ada (pictured) and I have had an amazing week skating outdoors on our local frozen pond near Glasgow\", says Helen Campbell. \"I was very careful to check it is safe to skate on first; the ice was absolutely solid\".\n\nFlagging up a beautiful sunrise: An Aberdeen morning, from Finlay Gray.\n\nWell-trained eye: \"My husband Kris took this picture of our 12-year-old son Finlay at our local running track in a Falkirk park with the Ochils in the background\", says Emma Horne. \"Finlay can’t play his beloved rugby at the moment due to Covid but is keeping as fit as he can in other ways\".\n\nA strange light in the sky: Joe Gillies captured this Glasgow scene, complete with reflected light shade, on his phone.\n\nSmiles more fun: First sledging experience for the happy pair of 16-month-old Annabel and 21-month-old Hugh in granny's garden, Isle of Skye, courtesy of Hermione Lamond.\n\nThe gloves are off: \"A walk up Culter Fell (near Biggar), in near-Arctic conditions\", says Chris Green.\n\nPark life: Mark McGuire captured Queen's Park in Glasgow looking like a winter wonderland.\n\nSpecial branch: \"I have seen the Kingfisher darting by on the River Carron over the last two years\", says Paul Ross. \"This is the first time I have managed to get a sharpish image\".\n\nTrees frame: Carole Brunton captured this calming, if cold, scene at home in East Neuk, Fife.\n\nCold feet: \"A coot on one of Dundee's frozen Stobsmuir ponds\", from Sandy Forbes.\n\nHaving the foggiest idea: \"An image of atmospheric fog as it envelops Paisley\", says Gary Chittick. \"Hardly a single recognisable part of Glasgow could be seen\".\n\nSniffer dog: \"Ollie, our 12-week-old cockapoo pup, experiences snow for the first time\" says Iain Clow. \"Lockdown garden fun in East Kilbride\".\n\n... and it seems they never learn! \"Zizou enjoying his sunny snowy morning walk at the river Spey in Knockando\", says Colin Coutts.\n\nI love Arran: \"My wife and I stopped at the top of Fairlie Moor Road, looked back, and this is what we saw\", explains Phil Cowling.\n\nOutstanding in its field: \"Look who we spotted on our walk\", says Ruth Moss. \"He was very bold - wish we’d had something to feed him\".\n\nWatercolour art: \"This is a photo of the Ythan in the centre of Ellon\", says Andy Leonard. \"The colour of the sky is reflected in the water - I used a slow shutter speed to emphasise the water movement.\"\n\nHatman and robin: \"After an overnight fall of snow, Frosty and his friendly robin return to a Glasgow garden\", says John McQueeney.\n\nSmall wonder: \"These mini snowmen on the Prince of Wales Bridge in Kelvingrove Park brightened up a dull and foggy day\", says Geoff Der.\n\nOne man and his dog: \"Snowy walk with my husband and rescue dog Nico\", says Laura Johnstone in Airdrie.\n\nSpot the ball: \"Haggs Castle golf course is closed - maybe!\", says Alan Crozier.\n\nSolar energy: Robert Young's sunset shot from Chapelton looking towards Whitelee wind farm features all sorts of power.\n\nTwo for the price of one: \"Duck!\" could have been the cry from this heron in flight over a fellow bird at the River Avon, Hamilton, as seen by Wilma Phillips.\n\nRoom with a view: A nicely-framed sunset from Audrey Philpott of Skene, Aberdeenshire.\n\nBonnie picture: Sharon Donald was walking Bonnie the collie when she took this shot near Spean Bridge.\n\nKeep it in the family: Derek Warrander making sure lockdown learning is music to the ears of Jessica, 11, and three-year-old Matthew in Aberdeenshire, courtesy of Caseydee Warrander.\n\nFeeling on top of the world: The Cobbler sunset, from Tomasz Zajac.\n\nIce to see you: \"A photo of my husband, Stephen, and Sophie, through a sheet of ice which they then had great fun smashing\", says Leigh Titterington in Menstrie, Clackmannanshire.\n\nSpace station: All quiet outside Glasgow Central, courtesy of Eva Brodie.\n\nSnow angel: \"Exploring a winter wonderland with my daughter Cora at Tyrebagger woods just outside Aberdeen\", says Katherine Blum.\n\nTaps aff: \"Hope this brings a smile to your face\", says Stewart Paul in Cruden Bay. It certainly did!\n\nPlease ensure that the photograph you send is your own and if you are submitting photographs of children, we must have written permission from a parent or guardian of every child featured (a grandparent, auntie or friend will not suffice).\n\nIn contributing to BBC News you agree to grant us a royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to publish and otherwise use the material in any way, including in any media worldwide.\n\nHowever, you will still own the copyright to everything you contribute to BBC News.\n\nAt no time should you endanger yourself or others, take any unnecessary risks or infringe the law.\n\nYou can find more information here.\n\nAll photos are subject to copyright.", "Doctors fear the impact of the lockdown and school closures could worsen child obesity\n\nThe health board with the worst child obesity rates in Wales is setting up a unit to tackle the issue.\n\nData from the Child Measurement Programme showed 30.3% of four and five-year-olds in north Wales measured as overweight or obese.\n\nThe Welsh average is 26.4%, but doctors fear this could worsen in the pandemic.\n\nBetsi Cadwaladr University Health Board is recruiting a dietetic lead for a new children's healthy weight management service.\n\nThe service is not being launched directly because of the pandemic, but there are fears lockdowns and school closures could compound the problem.\n\nDr Naomi Simmons, consultant paediatrician at Ysbyty Glan Clwyd in Bodelwyddan, Denbighshire, said: \"I do fear that the pandemic will contribute to an exacerbation of what's already a really, really significant problem.\n\n\"Whilst we're pleased that children are not suffering the acute effects of Covid in the same way as older patients are, on the whole, it's the long-term effects of the country being in this pandemic that we're worried about in terms of the long-term health of these children.\n\n\"It's that lack of routine, it's being out of school, and not being able to access their usual forms of physical activity.\"\n\nDaniel, from Denbighshire - not his real name - is the father of a six-year-old girl who was referred to Dr Simmons's clinic when a GP became concerned about her weight two years ago. She is still under the care of the clinic.\n\nHe said: \"We presumed we were feeding her correctly. She was getting fruit, veg, home-cooked meals. But I think our issue was, we kind of let her have treats, like chocolates and sweets.\n\n\"To be told the news [that she was obese], it was horrible. We were very upset. We were kind of angry about it - we didn't see a problem in her, we didn't believe she was overweight or obese. We were both asking what we had done wrong as parents - we gave her fruit, vegetables, home-cooked meals... we were asking ourselves, 'how have we failed as parents?'\"\n\nWith support from Dr Simmons, his daughter made \"great progress\" and lost weight, he said. Previous signs of health issues such as liver problems had improved. Then the pandemic struck and the country went into its first lockdown, followed by the firebreak, then the current lockdown.\n\nExperts said they feared the impact of children not being able to take part in their usual physical activity\n\nDespite making efforts to keep active and eat healthily, Daniel has seen the gradual effects on his daughter, both physically and mentally.\n\n\"It had a bad effect on her, and not just the weight - mental health-wise it's also affected her. She's six years old and is worried about being around other people in the street,\" he said.\n\n\"In years to come, Covid will be gone, we'll have control of it. But obesity, that's the issue that's going to be prolonged.\n\n\"The long-term mental health impact really scares me - not just for my daughter, but for so many other children.\"\n\nDr Simmons said increasing rates of childhood obesity in recent years meant experts were treating more children with conditions normally associated with adults.\n\n\"Even children as young as primary school age, I'm seeing those children with fatty liver changes for example, as a result of their obesity. We're seeing them with high blood pressure and we're seeing children and young people developing type 2 diabetes and many more with pre-diabetic states because of their obesity.\"\n\nDoctors said they were seeing primary school children with high blood pressure\n\nShe revealed her youngest patient was only a year old and encouraged families to get their children \"used to being fit and healthy and consuming a healthy diet\".\n\n\"It's lack of exercise, it's the sedentary lifestyle that we as a nation are sadly embracing these days,\" she added.\n\nIf children remain overweight and remain obese into adolescence, they have an 80% chance of being obese into adulthood, said Dr Simmons.\n\nShe said she hoped the new service would give \"the very best chance of turning things around\".\n\nSteven Grayston, Betsi Cadwaladr health board's assistant area director of therapy services, said the health board had been working for the past five years to develop its obesity services.\n\n\"This is a specialist weight management service for children who are already obese,\" he said.\n\n\"We want to stop them becoming obese, therefore we want to develop preventative services as well as treatment services.\n\n\"We're very concerned about the impact of Covid and the pandemic on children's activity levels, certainly in terms of team-based sports and access to leisure facilities - particularly things like swimming, which we know children enjoy.\n\n\"We're concerned that children just aren't getting out of the house and doing things, and the impact that'll have and the knock-on effect on obesity levels in the future, as children are just less active and less interested in doing those activities.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government said: \"We will shortly be publishing a revised delivery plan for Healthy Weight: Healthy Wales for 2021-22, which will focus on the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on children and families.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Gerry and Barbara Jarrett were admitted to hospital with Covid-19 two weeks ago\n\nAn elderly couple with coronavirus have been helped by a hospital to say their last goodbyes to each other after the wife's condition deteriorated.\n\nGerry and Barbara Jarrett, from Bracknell, Berkshire, are in separate wards at Frimley Park Hospital, Surrey.\n\nTheir daughter Chloe, who posted a picture of one reunion on Twitter, said her mother \"looked to be at the end\".\n\nShe said her parents had \"precious\" extra time together thanks to the hospital's \"incredible\" efforts.\n\nMrs Keljarrett said her 79-year-old father and mother, 76, who have been together for 50 years, were admitted to hospital with Covid-19 two weeks ago.\n\nOn Tuesday she posted: \"In the midst of a pandemic peak, staff (namely a consultant, a surgeon and a HCA) at FPH just made sure my dad saw my mum for what is likely the last time.\"\n\nShe said another meeting happened on Wednesday when \"mum looked to be at the end\".\n\nFrimley Park Hospital said the reunions were the sort of \"care that matters the most\"\n\nShe said: \"Dad was wheeled in, crying, touched her hand and her eyes flew open. She was awake and bright and could talk.\n\n\"We got a precious extra hour or two before her breathing got worse again and got to say what we wanted.\n\n\"All thanks to the staff who made these meetings possible. In current times I just find that incredible.\"\n\nMrs Keljarrett, a teacher at The Brakenhale School, said her father was \"showing signs of improvement but has a very long journey to complete\".\n\n\"He has a number of other health issues that will make recovery that bit trickier, but I have to remain positive that he will overcome this horrendous virus,\" she added.\n\nShe said she had met hospital workers who were \"pulling unexpected double shifts\" due to short-staffing.\n\n\"How they are managing such compassion when they are stretched to their emotional and physical limits I do not know,\" she added.\n\nResponding to Mrs Keljarrett's Twitter post, the hospital wrote: \"Our hearts go out to you and your family.\n\n\"We are so glad that our staff managed to make this time just a little bit easier for you all.\n\n\"This truly is some of the care we give that matters the most.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "UK meat exporters have claimed post-Brexit customs systems are \"not fit for purpose\", with goods delayed for hours, sometimes days, at the border.\n\nThe British Meat Processor Association said even experienced exporters were struggling with the system.\n\nIt said meat exports to the EU were 25% of normal levels for this time of year.\n\nOne large French meat importer told the BBC that he and his competitors were starting to look at alternative suppliers in Spain and Ireland.\n\nThe BBC has contacted the government for comment.\n\nNick Allen, chief executive of the British Meat Processor Association, said: \"Fundamentally, this is not a system that was designed for a 24/7, just-in-time supply chain.\n\n\"The export health certification process was designed for moving containers of frozen meat around the world where you have a bit of leeway on time.\n\n\"No matter how much better we get at filling in the forms, it's really not fit for purpose. This is going back to the dark ages in terms of a process really, in this digital age.\"\n\nHe added \"It's going to be a problem for quite a time until we move forward and hopefully get a better digital system in place and can make it work a bit better, but until then, we've got to put up with all this paperwork and lorries arriving in Ireland with box files full of paper.\"\n\nRizvan Khalid, a lamb exporter based in Shropshire, cannot afford to get the paperwork wrong.\n\nHis company, Euro Quality Lambs, exports 70% of its meat to the EU, including France, Germany, Belgium and Portugal. He says what was once a once well-oiled machine now has a spanner in it.\n\n\"What used to take us 15 minutes is now taking us three or four hours on average before we can get the paperwork completed for one particular load,\" he says.\n\n\"It's taking them [on the French side] up to six hours to go through the health certificates, to open up the lorry and check the goods.\n\n\"All of that is adding time and costs. It's now an extra day before our product gets into the markets of Paris.\"\n\nMeanwhile, some buyers in the EU are losing patience and are beginning to consider other options.\n\nFrancis Ochoa's meat company, Fory Viandes, is based in one of the world's biggest fresh produce markets - the Rungis market, south of Paris.\n\n\"The delays and extra costs mean me and my competitors in the market are obliged to start looking for other solutions,\" he says.\n\n\"One of the solutions unfortunately is to try produce from other countries, Spain for instance. Some of our competitors are ordering lambs from Ireland instead of the UK, so the consequences for UK meat and UK lambs could be disastrous.\"\n\nDown at the international freight checkpoint in Ashford, near the entrance to the Eurotunnel, customs consultant Steve Cocks gave a downbeat assessment.\n\n\"The temporary border post lorry park is full, roads are being closed off and lorries are being sent back to the Covid testing site to hold them there,\" he said.\n\n\"Last week wasn't much to write home about as it was very quiet, but volumes are building and it's just going to get worse. Exports are grinding to a halt and that will affect imports, but if you are a haulier. you don't want to get a lorry stuck on this side of the Channel.\"\n\nAfter decades of friction-free trade, there are bound to be teething problems. Indeed, the government predicted that there would be \"significant additional disruption\" as traders, officials and customers became accustomed to new procedures.\n\nHowever, some things cannot \"bed in\" and will become permanent features. HMRC estimates the additional cost to UK business of bog-standard customs declarations alone at £7bn.\n\nWhen buyers and sellers want to trade, they will find a way, but significant additional cost and complexity is here to stay.", "Patients have been arriving in a steady flow at a community pharmacy in Llanbedrog, Gwynedd, the first in Wales to offer coronavirus vaccines by appointment.\n\nRosie Bennett, who lives in the village Pwllheli, said: “I’m 82 and don’t have a car, so it was a huge relief to know that I wouldn’t have to travel a long distance to have the vaccine.\n\n“Here in the village, we know the staff at the chemists. They’ve been doing a great job during the pandemic and it’s reassuring to have the vaccine from someone you know.\n\n“And it’s a huge relief to be vaccinated. The last few months haven’t been easy for any of us and hopefully today is another small step towards a better future.”\n\nSteffan John, pharmacist on duty, gave Rosie the vaccine and said: “as pharmacists, we give out flu vaccines regularly, so we’re used to organising clinics like this.\n\n“We’re really pleased to do our bit for our community.\n\n“We have had extra training for today, and we also have to make sure there are enough appointments on the list.\n\n\"The vaccine comes in vials of ten doses, so it’s important to vaccinate that many people at a time and not to waste any.”", "Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng has denied reports that his department is planning to dilute UK workers' rights.\n\nIt comes after the Financial Times said some protections brought in under EU law - such as the 48-hour limit on the working week - could be scrapped.\n\nNew rules on rest breaks and changes to how holiday pay is calculated from overtime could be proposed, it added.\n\nBut Mr Kwarteng insisted he wanted to \"protect and enhance workers' rights going forward, not row back on them\".\n\nIn a social media post, he said that the UK \"has one of the best workers' rights records in the world - going further than the EU in many areas.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Kwasi Kwarteng This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLabour said the newspaper report suggested the government was out of step with public feeling on workplace rules.\n\nShadow business secretary Ed Miliband said: \"These proposals are not about cutting red tape for businesses but ripping up vital rights for workers. They should not even be up for discussion.\"\n\nThe FT said the proposals were being drawn up with the approval of Downing Street, but that they hadn't yet been approved by ministers or cabinet.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"We have absolutely no intention of lowering the standards of workers' rights.\n\n\"The UK has one of the best workers' rights records in the world, and it is well known that the UK goes further than the EU in many areas.\n\n\"Leaving the EU allows us to continue to be a standard setter and protect and enhance UK workers' rights.\"\n\nWhen the UK left the EU it retained many of its laws, but it is now able to change them.\n\nOne aspect of EU employment regulation is the EU's Working Time Directive.\n\nIt governs the hours employees in the EU can be asked to work. This must not exceed 48 hours on average, including any overtime.\n\nBut employees can choose to opt out of the 48-hour week, if they often work overtime in roles in the emergency services, for example.\n\nIn the 2019 Queen's Speech outlining the government's agenda for the coming parliamentary session, changes in employment law were promised.\n\nA new Employment Bill is expected to be published in 2021. One issue it is thought it will address is over the distribution of tips.\n\nTUC General Secretary Frances O'Grady urged the prime minister to \"make good on his promises to his voters\" on Friday.\n\n\"The best way to do that is to bring forward the long-awaited Employment Bill, to make sure everyone is treated fairly at work,\" she said.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Friday morning. We'll have another update for you at 18:00 GMT.\n\nA ban on travellers from South America entering the UK has come into force, amid fears over a potentially more contagious coronavirus variant identified in Brazil. The ban also applies to Portugal and Cape Verde - off West Africa - because of their links to Brazil, along with Panama in southern Central America. British and Irish citizens, and foreign nationals with residence rights, are exempt but must isolate for 10 days on entering the UK. Find out which other countries are subject to a UK travel ban.\n\nThe UK economy shrank by 2.6% in November as lockdown restrictions reduced economic activity, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics. The closure of businesses such as pubs, hairdressers and many shops meant the services sector shrank by 3.4%. The setback came after sixth consecutive months of growth, with the ONS saying UK gross domestic product at the end of November was 8.5% below its pre-pandemic peak.\n\nConcerns over child poverty have been raised throughout the pandemic, with a focus on school food vouchers, holiday meal provision and food parcels. Now campaigning Manchester United footballer Marcus Rashford has been joined by celebrity chefs Jamie Oliver, Tom Kerridge and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, and actress Dame Emma Thompson, in backing charities' calls for a review to \"fix\" the free school meals policy. Downing Street insists \"no child will ever go hungry\" because of the pandemic.\n\nFalse claims are likely to be causing people from ethnic minorities to reject Covid vaccines, warns a doctor leading an NHS campaign. Dr Harpreet Sood says much of the disinformation surrounds the contents of the vaccines. \"We need to be clear and make people realise there is no meat in the vaccine, there is no pork in the vaccine, it has been accepted and endorsed by all the religious leaders and councils and faith communities,\" he says.\n\nA surprise delivery of pizza from sixth-formers who clubbed together left staff at a hospital critical care unit \"lost for words\". Nurse Tina Waltho says the gift came as a welcome boost to deflated staff at the Royal Stoke University Hospital. \"The nurse who had been in charge on the day shift was in tears,\" Mrs Waltho says. \"She had barely eaten all day and was a little emotional.\" While the act drew praise on social media, the identity and school of the pupils remains a mystery.\n\nIf you're wondering how concerned we should be about the new virus variants, our health editor Michelle Roberts examines what we know so far.\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prime Minister Boris Johnson: \"We will temporarily close all travel corridors from 0400 on Monday\"\n\nThe UK is to close all travel corridors from Monday morning to \"protect against the risk of as yet unidentified new strains\" of Covid, the PM has said.\n\nAnyone flying into the country from overseas will have to show proof of a negative Covid test before setting off.\n\nIt comes as a ban on travellers from South America and Portugal came into force on Friday over concerns about a new variant identified in Brazil.\n\nBoris Johnson said the new rules would be in place until at least 15 February.\n\nA further 1,280 people with coronavirus have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive test, taking the total to 87,291.\n\nThe latest government figures on Friday also showed another 55,761 new cases had been reported - up from 48,682 the previous day.\n\nMeanwhile, more than two million people around the world have now died with the virus since the pandemic began, according to figures from Johns Hopkins University.\n\nSpeaking at a Downing Street press conference, the prime minister said it was \"vital\" to take extra measures now \"when day by day we are making such strides in protecting the population\".\n\n\"It's precisely because we have the hope of that vaccine and the risk of new strains coming from overseas that we must take additional steps now to stop those strains from entering the country.\"\n\nAll travel corridors will close from 04:00 GMT on Monday. After that, arrivals to the UK will need to quarantine for up to 10 days, unless they test negative after five days.\n\nMr Johnson, who said the rules would apply across the UK after talks with the devolved administrations, added that the government would be stepping up enforcement at the border and in the country.\n\nTravel corridors were introduced in the summer to allow people travelling from some countries with low numbers of Covid cases to come to the UK without having to quarantine on arrival.\n\nTrade body Airlines UK said it supported the latest restrictions \"on the assumption\" that the government would remove them \"when it is safe to do so\".\n\nChief executive Tim Alderslade said travel corridors were \"a lifeline for the industry\" last summer but \"things change and there's no doubting this is a serious health emergency\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was the \"right step\" but called the timing of the decision \"slow again\", adding that the public would be thinking \"why on earth didn't this happen before\".\n\nThe prime minister warned that the NHS was facing \"extraordinary pressures\", having had the highest number of hospital admissions on a single day of the pandemic earlier this week.\n\nHe said that came on Tuesday when there were 4,134 new admissions, while the UK currently has more than 37,000 Covid patients in hospitals.\n\nMr Johnson said that once the most vulnerable have been vaccinated by mid-February \"we will think about what steps we could take to lift the restrictions\".\n\nEngland is currently under a national lockdown, meaning people must stay at home and can go out only for limited reasons such as food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home.\n\nSimilar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nAlso speaking at the No 10 briefing, England's chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty said the restrictions would need to be lifted gradually by \"testing what works, and then if that works going the next step\".\n\nHe said the peak of people entering hospital would be in the next week to 10 days for most places, but \"we hope\" the peak of infections \"already has happened\" in the south-east, east and London.\n\n\"The peak of deaths I fear is in the future, the peak of hospitalisations in some parts of the country may be around about now and beginning to come off the very, very top,\" he said.\n\nA ban on travellers from South America, Portugal and Cape Verde entering the UK came into force on Friday morning as a result of a new, potentially more infectious variant of coronavirus linked to Brazil.\n\nThe government's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance told the press briefing that some of the new variants may be able to \"get round\" the Covid vaccines but it was \"really quite easy\" to adjust the vaccines to deal with mutations in the virus.\n\nNew variants causing concern have previously been identified in the UK and South Africa, with many countries imposing restrictions on arrivals from both nations.\n\nPublic Health England said a total of 35 genomically confirmed and 12 genomically probable cases of the Covid-19 variant which originated in South Africa have been identified in the UK as of 14 January.\n\nEarlier, a leading scientist said one of the two variants first detected in Brazil had been found in the UK - but not the variant that was causing concern.\n\n\"I think it is likely that the vaccine we have now is going to protect against the UK variant and is going to provide protection I suspect against the other variants as well,\" said Sir Patrick. \"The question is to what degree.\"\n\nLatest figures show that more than three million people in the UK have now received the first dose of a vaccine - 3,234,946 - an increase of 316,694 from the previous day.\n\nSir Patrick said he expected the vaccines would reduce transmission of the virus but that \"we shouldn't go mad\" as jabs are rolled out because a risk would remain.\n\n\"Just because you've been vaccinated doesn't mean you can't catch this and pass it on, it means you're protected against severe disease,\" he added.\n\nMeanwhile, the latest estimate of the UK's R number - which is the number of people that one infected person will pass on a virus to on average - is 1.2 to 1.3, compared with 1-1.4 last week.\n\nBut in London, where tight restrictions came in earlier, the R number is lower - between 0.9 and 1.2.\n\nIn Wales, new laws for shoppers and staff are to be introduced after \"significant evidence\" coronavirus is being spread in supermarkets.\n\nAre you due to travel back to the UK from overseas? Share your experiences. Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The guitarist also contributed songwriting and piano to the band's explosive debut album\n\nSylvain Sylvain, guitarist with trailblazing 1970s rock band New York Dolls, has died at the age of 69.\n\nOne of the group's founding members, his visceral riffs bridged the divide between punk and glam, and helped kick-start the punk and new wave movements.\n\n\"As most of you know, Sylvain battled cancer for the past two and 1/2 years,\" his wife, Wanda O'Kelley Mizrahi, wrote in a statement on his Facebook page.\n\n\"Though he fought it valiantly, yesterday he passed away.\"\n\nShe added: \"While we grieve his loss, we know that he is finally at peace and out of pain. Please crank up his music, light a candle, say a prayer and let's send this beautiful doll on his way.\"\n\nSylvain's death leaves only one surviving member of the New York Dolls' original line-up from their 1973 debut album, frontman David Johansen. The singer posted his own tribute on Instagram.\n\n\"My best friend for so many years, I can still remember the first time I saw him bop into the rehearsal space/bicycle shop with his carpetbag and guitar straight from the plane after having been deported from Amsterdam, I instantly loved him,\" he wrote.\n\n\"I'm gonna miss you old pal. I'll keep the home fires burning.\"\n\nThe New York Dolls bridged the gap between glam rock and punk\n\nBorn Sylvain Mizrahi in Cairo, Egypt, on Valentine's Day 1951, the musician lived in France as a child before moving to New York with his family.\n\nAfter playing in several bands as a teenager, he co-founded the New York Dolls in 1971, taking the name from a doll repair shop called the New York Doll Hospital (Sylvain had worked across the street before becoming a musician).\n\nLike the punk movement they helped inspire, the band wanted to shake up the self-indulgent state of 70s rock.\n\n\"The reason why the Dolls got together was because of the boredom with the norm of the day, which was like the stadium-rock era,\" Sylvain told Brooklyn Vegan in 2006. \"The 20-minute drum solos, songs that were a big operetta. They were sort of boring, they'd lost their sex appeal.\"\n\nThe Dolls cut through with urgent, punchy songs about sex, drugs, alienation and dysfunction.\n\nThe band's provocative and vulgar live shows gained them a huge following in New York, but many record labels were reluctant to sign them. That situation not helped by their androgynous look - shocking at the time - with their wardrobe sourced from cheap women's clothing stores on New York's Lower East Side.\n\nLate in 1972, tragedy struck when, during a tour of England, Dolls drummer Billy Murcia died in a drug-related accident. He was replaced by Jerry Nolan, after which the Dolls finally secured a contract with Mercury Records.\n\nTheir debut album, simply called New York Dolls, stalled at number 113 in the US chart but is now regarded as a classic, full of sleazy, raucous anthems like Personality Crisis and Trash.\n\nRolling Stone magazine recently named it one of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, writing: \"Glammed-out punkers the New York Dolls snatched riffs from Chuck Berry and Fats Domino and fattened them with loads of attitude and reverb.\n\n\"It's hard to imagine the Ramones or the Replacements or a thousand other trash-junky bands without them.\"\n\nSylvain worked in fashion before becoming a musician\n\nHowever, the band's lack of commercial success saw them dropped after two albums and, despite hiring Sex Pistols guru Malcolm McLaren as a manager, eventually fell apart.\n\nOutside the Dolls, Sylvain toured and recorded with several bands and led various solo projects as his former band's reputation grew.\n\nArtists from the Sex Pistols to Guns N' Roses cited them as an influence, and Morrissey was famously president of their UK fan club before forming The Smiths. In 2004, the singer reunited his idols for a show at London's Meltdown Festival, adding an unexpected second act to their career.\n\nOver the subsequent decade, Sylvain and Johansen, the only remaining members, released three well-received albums.\n\nIn 2019, Sylvain announced his cancer diagnosis, and a GoFundMe was set up to pay his medical bills, raising $79,500 (£58,000).\n\nThe band are cited as an influence by hundreds of musicians\n\nGuitarist Lenny Kaye, best known for playing with Patti Smith, paid tribute to Sylvain's \"heart, belief, and the way you whacked that E chord\".\n\n\"His onstage joy, his radiant smile as he chopped at his guitar, revealed the sense of wonder he must have felt at the age of 10, emigrating from his native Cairo with his family in 1961, the ship pulling into New York Harbor and seeing the Statue of Liberty for the first time.\n\n\"His role in the band was as lynchpin, keeping the revolving satellites of his bandmates in precision.\n\n\"Though he tried valiantly to keep the band going, in the end the Dolls' moral fable overwhelmed them, not before seeding an influence that would engender many rock generations yet to come.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Travellers from South America are no longer allowed to come into the UK, amid fears over a new coronavirus variant first identified in Brazil.\n\nThe UK's new travel ban - which also applies to Portugal and Cape Verde - came into force at 04:00 GMT on Friday.\n\nLike variants discovered in the UK and South Africa, it is thought the Brazil variant could be more contagious.\n\nVirologist Prof Wendy Barclay said one Brazilian variant had already been detected in the UK.\n\nHowever, she said this was not \"the variant of concern\", which is thought to be more infectious.\n\nProf Barclay, head of G2P-UK National Virology Consortium, which is studying the effects of emerging coronavirus mutations, said: \"There are two different types of Brazilian variants and one of them has been detected and one of them has not.\"\n\nShe added: \"The new Brazilian variant of concern, that was picked up in travellers going to Japan, has not been detected in the UK.\n\n\"Other variants that may have originated from Brazil have been previously found.\"\n\nEarlier, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps had told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that the Brazilian variant of concern was not \"as far as we are aware\" already in the UK, adding that he did not believe there had been any flights from Brazil in the last week.\n\nIt comes as a further 1,248 people with coronavirus have died in the UK.\n\nLatest government figures on Thursday also showed another 48,682 new cases had been reported.\n\nMeanwhile, the number of people in the UK to have received the first dose of a vaccine is now approaching three million.\n\nThe UK's new travel ban applies to people who have travelled from, or through, Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay and Venezuela in the last 10 days.\n\nIt also applies to Portugal - because of its strong links to Brazil - and the former Portuguese colony of Cape Verde off the coast of west Africa, as well as Panama in central America.\n\nBritish and Irish citizens and foreign nationals with residence rights are still allowed to return - but must isolate for 10 days.\n\nAlso exempt are hauliers who are travelling from Portugal to transport essential goods.\n\nBrazil has seen more than 200,000 deaths and there is concern about the impact the new mutation could have on its health system.\n\nHowever, the UK's travel ban was prompted by fears of how quickly the new variant could spread through the region - since Brazil borders 10 countries.\n\nMr Shapps has said the ban is \"precautionary\", adding he \"can't provide an end date\" to the new rules.\n\n\"We're so close now, we've got three million of these vaccines in people's arms in the UK,\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\n\"We want to make sure we don't fall at this last hurdle.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBecause holidays are not currently allowed, Mr Shapps said he did not \"expect a large number of Brits to have jaunted off to South America\", and the government was \"not expecting to see a big repatriation issue as a result\".\n\nOne family, who live in Wolverhampton, told the BBC they feared being stuck out in Brazil.\n\n\"I don't know if the government will organise flights,\" said Jon Dent, 31. He and his wife Carla travelled to the Brazilian city of Goiania in October to introduce their baby daughter to Carla's family.\n\n\"I think it's a long shot,\" he said. \"I hope we can get home and not be stranded out here for months. We've got to be patient but at the same time flexible.\"\n\nJon, pictured here with wife Carla and daughter Luiza, said his initial reaction to the news was worry\n\nMany countries imposed travel restrictions after new variants of Covid-19 were identified in the UK and South Africa.\n\nSeveral Central and South American nations - including Brazil - had already restricted travel from the UK before the latest ban on arrivals.\n\nThere is currently no evidence to suggest that any of the variants cause more serious illness, and scientists are confident that vaccines should work against them.\n\nAccording to Felipe Naveca, deputy director of research at the Brazilian state-run Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, the new variant's origin was \"undoubtedly\" from the Amazon region.\n\nHe told the BBC's South America correspondent Katy Watson the new variant showed some of the same mutations as the UK and South Africa variants - and \"some of these mutations have been linked to increased transmission and that is of concern\".\n\nMr Shapps also announced Qatar and the Caribbean islands of Aruba, Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba were being removed from the UK's travel corridor list, meaning arrivals from those places will need to self-isolate for 10 days from 04:00 GMT on Saturday.\n\nMeanwhile, France has cracked down on the type of tests that travellers can take to show they are negative.\n\nFrom Monday, travellers will need to show a negative PCR test. Antigen tests - which are the rapid lateral flow tests - will no longer be accepted.\n\nHowever, Mr Shapps said arrangements allowing hauliers to use rapid lateral flow tests before crossing the border from the UK into France remained in place at the moment.\n\nFrom Monday, everyone travelling to England and Scotland will also have to show proof of a negative test. Wales and Northern Ireland are expected to announce their own plans in the coming days.\n\nHow have you been affected by the travel ban? Email: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Northern Ireland's statistics agency has recorded its highest weekly Covid-19 related registered deaths since the pandemic began.\n\nNisra said 145 deaths were registered in the first week of 2021, although administrative delays over Christmas may have affected the number.\n\nThat brings the agency's death toll to 1,976 by 8 January.\n\nThe figures come as the chief medical officers from NI and the Republic issued a joint stay-at-home plea.\n\nDr Michael McBride and Dr Tony Holohan said they were \"gravely concerned\" about the \"unsustainably high level of Covid-19 infection\" across the island of Ireland.\n\nConcern was raised in the Republic of Ireland this week as figures showed it has the world's highest number of confirmed new Covid-19 cases per million people.\n\nOn Friday evening, the Irish Department of Health reported 50 further deaths with Covid-19 and 3,498 new cases of the virus. More than half (54%) of those newly diagnosed are under the age of 45.\n\nNorthern Ireland is in the third week of a six-week lockdown, with ministers scheduled to review measures next week.\n\nHowever, health officials have warned that an extension of the restrictions could be required to reduce pressure on the health service.\n\nOf the 2,019 deaths recorded by Nisra by 8 January, 1,247 (62%) occurred in hospital, 622 (31%) in care homes, 12 (0.6%) in hospices and 138 (7%) at residential addresses or other locations.\n\nPeople aged 75 and over account for just over three-quarters of all Covid-19 related registered deaths (77.6%) between 19 March 2020 and 8 January 2021.\n\nJust over a fifth (22.2%) of all Covid-19 related registered deaths have been of people with an address in the Belfast council area.\n\nMeanwhile, the Department of Health reported 26 further Covid-related deaths on Friday.\n\nFive of these deaths did not occur in the past 24 hours.\n\nThe Department of Health bases its figures on a positive test result being recorded, whereas Nisra figures are based on mentions of the virus on death certificates, so people may or may not have been confirmed to have contracted the virus prior to death.\n\nA further 1,052 individuals have tested positive for Covid-19 and 63 patients are being treated in intensive care units, 47 of whom are on ventilators.\n\nThe chief medical officers warned the high infection rate was having a \"significant impact\" on the health of the population and the \"safe functioning\" of the healthcare systems.\n\nThey said the public should avoid all unnecessary journeys, including cross-border travel.\n\nPointing out that many of the patients admitted to hospital in January have been younger than 65, they warned coronavirus could affect anyone, \"regardless of age or underlying condition\".\n\n\"It highlights the need for us all to protect one another by staying at home,\" said the medical officers.\n\nNorthern Ireland's spike in infections has been put down to an easing of restrictions over Christmas.\n\nAsked if he regretted being part of the decision to ease restrictions, Health Minister Robin Swann said the executive had tried to be balanced in its approach.\n\n\"I regret the pressures we see now in our hospitals, but let's remember it's caused by this virus, we have it in our power to bring it back under control and get us back to where we were in the summer,\" he told BBC News NI on Friday.\n\nMr Swann pleaded with people to follow the current restrictions.\n\n\"We're in the middle of a very tough six-week scenario, and how we come out of this will be a more graduated approach to make sure we get the benefits of what we've already done, and also the benefits of the vaccine.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Kim Jong-un has been overseeing a huge military showcase broadcast by state media in North Korea\n\nNorth Korea has unveiled a new type of submarine-launched ballistic missile, described by state media as \"the world's most powerful weapon\".\n\nSeveral of the missiles were displayed at a parade overseen by leader Kim Jong-un, reported state media.\n\nThe weapon's actual capabilities remain unclear, as it is not known to have been tested.\n\nThe show of military strength comes days before the inauguration of Joe Biden as US president.\n\nIt also follows a rare political meeting where Mr Kim decried the US as his country's \"biggest enemy\".\n\nImages released by North Korean state media showed at least four large black-and-white missiles being driven past flag-waving crowds.\n\nAnalysts noted it was a previously unseen weapon. \"New year, new Pukguksong,\" tweeted North Korea expert Ankit Panda, using the North Korean name for their submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs).\n\nClad in a leather coat and fur hat, Mr Kim is pictured smiling and waving as he watched the display in Pyongyang's Kim Il Sung Square, which also included infantry troops, artillery and tanks.\n\nThe missile was debuted at a military parade which came at the end of an important and rare political meeting\n\n\"The world's most powerful weapon, submarine-launch ballistic missile, entered the square one after another, powerfully demonstrating the might of the revolutionary armed forces,\" the official Korean Central News Agency said.\n\nThe event on Thursday did not showcase North Korea's largest intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), which was unveiled at a much larger military parade in October. That colossal weapon is believed to be able to deliver a nuclear warhead to anywhere in the US, and its size had surprised even seasoned analysts when it was put on show last year.\n\nThe country's latest display of its arsenal comes at the end of a five-yearly congress of the ruling Workers' Party.\n\nIn his address to members last week, Mr Kim had pledged to expand North Korea's nuclear weapons and military potential, outlining a list of desired weapons including long-range ballistic missiles capable of being launched from land or sea and \"super-large warheads\".\n\nHe also said that the US was Pyongyang's \"biggest obstacle for our revolution and our biggest enemy... no matter who is in power, the true nature of its policy against North Korea will never change\".\n\nUnder Mr Kim's leadership North Korea has made rapid progress in its weapons programme, which it says is necessary to defend itself against a possible US invasion.\n\nThe unveiling of the new missiles appears designed to send the incoming Biden administration a message of the North's growing military prowess, say experts.\n\n\"They'd like us to notice that they're getting more proficient with larger solid rocket boosters,\" Mr Panda tweeted, noting what appeared to be new solid-fuel short-range ballistic missiles on display too. These missiles can be launched more quickly than liquid-fuelled varieties.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un: From enemies to frenemies\n\nOver the last four years, Pyongyang has had an erratic relationship with the US under President Donald Trump's administration. Mr Kim and Mr Trump engaged in mutual insults and threats of war before an unprecedented summit in Singapore in 2018 and declarations of love by the outgoing US leader.\n\nDespite the apparent warming of relations, little concrete progress was made on negotiations over North Korea's nuclear programme and a second summit in Hanoi in 2019 broke down after the US refused Pyongyang's demands for sanctions relief.\n\nKim Jong-un has had a busy week. In this rare party congress at the start of a new year he's earned a new title, pledged to build new nuclear weapons and now he's shown the world some new missiles.\n\nThe general secretary, the title posthumously awarded to his father by which he is now known, had been pretty quiet in 2020 and appeared very few times in state media.\n\nBut 2021 is looking rather different. The party congress has offered him a grand daily domestic platform - even if it is not getting the international attention it may have done due to events in the United States and a global pandemic.\n\nThe parading vehicles include a new submarine-launched ballistic missile and new short-range ballistic missiles. This is a show of strength - flexing the military muscle once more to show the people of North Korea that despite the current bleak economic outlook, this impoverished country is capable of designing and building new strategic weapons.\n\nIt also offers a direct challenge to the incoming US administration.\n\nNorth Korea appears willing to continue with its self-imposed isolation and being subject to strict economic sanctions, and the state has vowed to continue to build nuclear weapons in defiance of the international community.\n\nDuring the transfer of power, President Obama told Donald Trump that North Korea should be his top national security concern.\n\nIn the last four years a combination of US and UN sanctions, so-called \"maximum pressure\" policies and three summits between Mr Trump and Mr Kim have done nothing to alleviate those concerns.\n\nKim Jong-un has shown the new US president this week that he faces the daunting prospect of coming up with new solutions for this decades-old problem.", "Craig Ross had been quoted making comments about food bank users on a podcast\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives have dropped a Holyrood candidate over what they called \"unacceptable comments\".\n\nCraig Ross recorded a podcast last year in which he described food bank users as being more at risk of diabetes than starvation.\n\nHe also questioned the influence footballer Marcus Rashford has on UK government welfare policy.\n\nThe Conservatives suspended Mr Ross, then later announced he was \"no longer a candidate or a member of the party\".\n\nThe party had launched an investigation after the comments came to light, saying: \"These unacceptable comments do not reflect the views of the party.\"\n\nJustice Secretary Humza Yousaf had called for Mr Ross to be thrown out the party and dropped as the Conservative candidate in Glasgow Pollok.\n\nThe Holyrood elections are due to be held on 6 May.\n\nMr Ross, a former lecturer at Langside College, runs a podcast in which he delivers reaction to pieces in The Guardian newspaper \"from the centre-right\".\n\nIn one episode recorded in June 2020, Mr Ross talked about the percentage of body fat of \"ordinary people\".\n\nOriginally reported in the Daily Record, his comments were in response to a Channel 4 News piece featuring foodbanks.\n\nHe said: \"We have no real grasp of just how ridiculously overweight the population is.\n\n\"I'm not saying that every single person who claims to be really hungry and is reliant on charity is also very overweight.\n\n\"But what I am saying is if Channel 4 News is having a reasonable go at showing the reality of food bank usage, then we know the people that they filmed are far from starving. If anything their biggest risk is not starvation, it's diabetes.\"\n\nOn Manchester United striker Marcus Rashford, who has called on Boris Johnson to review the UK government's free school meals policy, Mr Ross said: \"Has Marcus Rashford stood for election to anything? Not that I'm aware of.\"", "The government is assessing the impact of a \"technical issue\" that led to 150,000 records being deleted from police databases.\n\nThe error, first reported in the Times, saw data including fingerprint, DNA and arrest histories wiped after being accidentally flagged for deletion.\n\nThe Home Office said the lost entries related to people who were arrested and then released without further action.\n\nBut Labour said it presented \"huge dangers\" for public safety.\n\nThe data was lost from the Police National Computer - a system that stores and shares criminal records information across the UK.\n\nIt is used to help police investigations and provides real-time checks on people, vehicles and crimes, as well as whether suspects are wanted for any unsolved offences.\n\nA coding error resulted in records that had been flagged for deletion being lost from the database before checks had been carried out to determine whether they could be lawfully held or not.\n\nThe data loss could hinder future police investigations because the fingerprint or DNA evidence would not be able to be cross-checked against evidence from other crime scenes.\n\nPolicing minister Kit Malthouse said the problem had been identified and the process corrected so \"it cannot happen again\" - with the Home Office, National Police Chiefs' Council and other law enforcement partners working \"at pace\" to recover the data.\n\n\"While the loss relates to individuals who were arrested and then released with no further action, I have asked officials and the police to confirm their initial assessment that there is no threat to public safety,\" he said.\n\nThe Home Office said no records of criminal or dangerous persons had been deleted.\n\nThe records are linked to police investigations that were terminated before charge (No Further Action or NFA cases) or to those where an individual had been acquitted at court.\n\nIt is not yet known how many records of each type were lost and full extent of deletions is still being investigated.\n\nThe loss of the data means that officers on the ground may get an incomplete search result when interrogating the system.\n\nShadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds called on Home Secretary Priti Patel to take responsibility for the error and be clear about the impact it had had.\n\n\"She must urgently make a statement about what has gone wrong, the extent of the issue, and what action is being taken to reassure the public. Answers must be given.\"\n\n\"This is an extraordinarily serious security breach that presents huge dangers for public safety.\"\n\nFormer Cumbria Police chief constable Stuart Hyde told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the \"very large\" loss of arrest records presented a \"risk to public safety\".\n\nHe said: \"In order to understand the scale, if you think that about between 6-700,000 people are arrested every year in the UK, that's a very large proportion of those people.\"\n\nIt comes after around 40,000 alerts relating to European criminals were removed from the same database, the PNC, following Britain's post-Brexit deal with the EU.", "Despite the huge need to free up space in hospitals, some care homes say insurance issues make it impossible for them to accept Covid-19 patients.\n\nIn October, the government launched a scheme for designated care homes to take patients recovering from the virus but insurance is a stumbling block.\n\nSir David Behan, head of the UK's largest care home company, HC-One, says insurance has become a major concern.\n\nThe government says it is working to resolve the issue.\n\n\"We are aware the adult social care insurance market is changing in response to the pandemic, and recognise some care providers may encounter difficulties as their policies come up for renewal,\" said a Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson.\n\nOne Hampshire care home says it will have to stop taking patients within days because its insurance will expire.\n\nWaterside House in Netley, Hampshire usually provides holidays and respite care for people with disabilities.\n\nBut since the autumn it has been taking Covid-positive patients discharged from hospitals on the south coast.\n\nThey are looked after on a separate floor from other residents, and the home has had to meet high infection control standards.\n\nHome manager Sarah Knight said demand for the 31 beds is unparalleled and added: \"I've been in nursing a long, long time, and I have never known anything like this.\n\n\"People end up in an ambulance sat outside hospitals for hours and hours, or they end up on a trolley in A&E in a corridor for hours and hours.\n\n\"By offering the best that we've got here, we can reduce some of that burden.\"\n\nJan Tregelles is chief executive of the charity Revitalise which runs Waterside House\n\nThe government originally hoped there would be 500 designated care homes taking in Covid-positive patients.\n\nBut Waterside House is one of only 129 which have been set up to take those who have not completed 14 days in isolation.\n\nHowever, its public indemnity insurance protection, which it needs in case someone contracts Covid there, runs out at the end of January.\n\nWaterside House is run by the charity Revitalise, whose chief executive, Jan Tregelles, said they have tried everything, but will soon have to start turning away people.\n\n\"It's shocking,\" she says. \"We are truly helpless. We have a fantastic team of nurses and colleagues already.\n\n\"The facilities are here, everything's arranged and we can't step up to support our communities at this time.\"\n\nOne resident, Alan Washbourne, who has been living at Waterside House since he was discharged from hospital during the first wave of the pandemic, said: \"I feel quite safe here.\"\n\nHe is not on the Covid floor of the home, and added: \"If I were to go to somewhere else, which is possible, I might not feel quite so safe.\"\n\nAlan Washbourne has been at Waterside House since April last year\n\nAfter so many deaths last spring, many care homes will not consider taking patients who are Covid-positive, even with extra infection control measures.\n\nMeanwhile, growing numbers of staff are off sick or self-isolating, leaving care homes facing shortages.\n\nAnd many are also finding it difficult to get the public indemnity insurance.\n\nSir David Behan is chairman of HC-One, the UK's largest care home provider\n\nSince November, HC-One, which is the UK's largest care home provider, has had to cover its own Covid risks because it cannot get the insurance.\n\nSir David said it is one of the reasons why they have not taken part in the designated places scheme.\n\n\"You've got solicitors' firms advertising, taking cases up against care companies,\" he says.\n\n\"So, this isn't a theoretical risk that there may be proceedings, it's an actual risk, and therefore we need cover.\n\n\"The NHS wouldn't operate without similar liability cover and that's what we need to see, and I think governments have a role to play working with the insurance industry to work to find a solution.\"\n\nThe Department for Health and Social Care said it was making efforts to determine what actions it could take.\n\n\"Our priority is to ensure everyone receives the right care, in the right place, at the right time,\" said a spokesperson.", "The licence fee is the \"least worst\" way of funding the BBC, its incoming chairman Richard Sharp has said.\n\nBut Mr Sharp told MPs he had an \"open mind\" about how the corporation should be funded in the future, and it \"may be worth reassessing\" the current system.\n\nHe also said he didn't think the BBC's Brexit coverage was biased overall, but \"there were some occasions when the Brexit representation was unbalanced\".\n\nQuestion Time \"seemed to have more Remainers than Brexiteers\", he said.\n\nBBC Three's Normal People was one of the corporation's biggest hits last year\n\nThe £157.50 licence fee is due to stay in place until at least 2027, when the BBC's Royal Charter ends, with a debate about how the broadcaster should be funded after that.\n\nMr Sharp, who spent 23 years working as a banker for Goldman Sachs, told the House of Commons digital, culture, media and sport select committee: \"At 43p a day, the BBC represents terrific value.\"\n\nThe government is currently reviewing whether its cost should continue rising with inflation from 2022, and whether non-payment should remain a criminal offence. Mr Sharp said he was \"not in favour of decriminalisation\".\n\nHe said other possible options for funding the BBC in the future could include a household tax like the one used in Germany, \"which amounts to the same amount of money\".\n\nHe added: \"So when we next get the chance to review the structure of this then it may be worth reassessing.\"\n\nAsked whether he believed the BBC's coverage of Brexit had been unbalanced, he replied: \"No, actually I don't.\n\n\"I believe there were some occasions when the Brexit representation was unbalanced.\n\n\"So if you ask me if I think Question Time seemed to have more Remainers than Brexiteers, the answer is yes, but the breadth of the coverage I thought was incredibly balanced, in a highly toxic environment that was extremely polarised.\"\n\nQuestion Time has said it has robust processes in place to ensure balance on its panels.\n\nMr Sharp said he was \"considered to be a Brexiteer\" and had donated around £400,000 to the Conservative Party over the past 20 years.\n\nHe said the biggest issue now facing the BBC is impartiality, and that \"trust in leadership and trust in processes\" must be rebuilt after high-profile equal pay cases with journalists such as Carrie Gracie and Samira Ahmed.\n\n\"Clearly some of the problems it's had recently are really rather terrible and reflect a culture that needs to be rebuilt, so everybody who cherishes the BBC and works at the BBC feels proud and happy to work there,\" he said. \"Then in my view that would produce a better output inevitably.\"\n\nMr Sharp also told the committee he would give his £160,000 salary as BBC chairman to charity.\n\nWhen asked \"what's in it for you?\" Mr Sharp, whose heritage is Jewish, said: \"We're all a product of our upbringing and I was very fortunate with the parents I have, my great grandparents came to this country escaping tyranny.\n\n\"I think I won the lottery in life to be British and if I can make a contribution, I couldn't be happier to.\n\n\"The BBC is part of the fabric of all our national identities, it offers education and enrichment and is also important for our position in the world... It is a massive privilege to be chair of the BBC.\"\n\nSir David Clementi, the current BBC chairman, steps down in February. The post-holder is officially appointed by the Queen on the recommendation of the government.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "It's likely there are variants all over the world - Vallance\n\nITV's Libby Wiener asks if the move to put restrictions in at the borders is too late. The PM says the government is taking steps to protect against the new variants. \"We have a situation now where we have a very high rate of domestic infection in the UK combined with a vaccination programme,\" he says. \"There will come a point in the next weeks and months where the vaccination programme will take effect... and you will see a decline in the death rate. \"What you can't have is a situation where you have new variants with unknown qualities coming in from abroad and that's why we have set up the system to stop arrivals where new variants are a concern.\" Sir Patrick Vallance says the virus is changing all the time and he suspects there are variants \"all over the world of different types\". \"The countries which have detected them first have got good sequencing,\" he says.", "The UK economy shrank by 2.6% in November as England was placed in lockdown for a second time, official figures show.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics said it meant gross domestic product was 8.5% below its pre-pandemic peak.\n\nNovember's decline came after six consecutive months of growth.\n\nPubs and hairdressers were badly hit as the service sector suffered, the ONS said, but some manufacturing and construction activity improved.\n\nThe hit to the service sector - which accounts for about three-quarters of the UK economy - meant it contracted by 3.4% in November, and is now 9.9% below the level of February 2020.\n\nSome economists said the November figure was better than expected, and it appeared many companies were better prepared for the second lockdown, with some sectors staying open for business and many firms having already put in place plans to expand online operations.\n\n\"Steps taken by businesses earlier in the year to Covid-proof their operations - combined with the time-limited nature of the restrictions, and schools remaining open - meant more companies were able to continue trading safely,\" said Alpesh Paleja, lead economist at the CBI employers' group.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak said the figures showed \"it's clear things will get harder before they get better and today's figures highlight the scale of the challenge we face\".\n\nBut he said the vaccine roll-out and economic support measures meant there were reasons to be hopeful. \"With this support, and the resilience and enterprise of the British people, we will get through this,\" he said.\n\nShadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds said the figures showed the UK has an economic \"mountain to climb\".\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, she said it would be a \"serious mistake\" if Mr Sunak waited until the Budget in March before providing more support and confidence for business.\n\nONS director for economic statistics Darren Morgan said: \"The economy took a hit from restrictions put in place to contain the pandemic during November, with pubs and hairdressers seeing the biggest impact.\"\n\nHowever, he said many firms adjusted to the new pandemic working conditions, such as by expanding click and collect and other online operations.\n\nHe added: \"Manufacturing and construction generally continued to operate, while schools also stayed open, meaning the impact on the economy was significantly smaller in November than during the first lockdown.\n\n\"Car manufacturing, bolstered by demand from abroad, housebuilding and infrastructure grew and are now all above their pre-pandemic levels.\" Construction activity grew by 1.9% during the month.\n\nGross domestic product (GDP) is the sum (measured in pounds) of the value of goods and services produced in the economy.\n\nBut the measurement most people focus on is the percentage change - the growth of the country's economy over a period of time, typically a quarter (three months) or a year.\n\nIf the GDP measure is up on the previous three months, the economy is growing. That generally means more wealth and more new jobs.\n\nIf it is negative, the economy is shrinking.\n\nDespite the GDP figure being better than some analysts had forecast, there are still concerns that the UK could be heading back into recession.\n\nEconomists have warned the UK could see a double-dip recession if restrictions remain in place in the first three months of 2021.\n\nRory Macqueen, from the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, said the November figures confirm a significant slowdown in the last quarter of 2020, \"despite November's lockdown in England clearly having a far smaller effect than the first\".\n\nJames Smith, research director of the Resolution Foundation, said there would be a lot of comment about whether these figures point to the UK heading for only its second-ever double-dip recession on record.\n\nBut, he said, the real \"story of the year will be a vaccine-driven bounce back in economic activity for sectors like hospitality and leisure\".\n\n\"The chancellor must do everything he can to support that recovery once public health restrictions ease,\" he added.\n\nAnalysts at Capital Economics also said there was cause for optimism, saying that the current third lockdown could have less impact than feared.\n\n\"The economy has built up a fair bit of immunity to lockdowns, as November's lockdown was much less painful for the economy than the first lockdown.\n\n\"As a result, the Covid-19 economic hole is smaller than we thought, the economy may get back to its pre-crisis crisis level a bit sooner and it makes us more confident that the Bank of England probably won't resort to negative interest rates.\"\n\nThe fall in the economy in November was still considerable, but the figures show businesses adapting to difficult conditions. The hit was a fraction of what occurred in the first lockdown last April, and was mainly confined to the service sector, with pubs and hairdressing for example in sharp decline.\n\nManufacturing and construction largely remained open, as did previously shut public services such as schools. By November car manufacturing and house building were back above the level of output before the pandemic.\n\nThe trade figures also showed a £7bn increase in EU imports in the three months to November as traders stockpiled car parts, medicines and other goods ahead of the end of the Brexit transition period.\n\nThe renewed regional tiered restrictions in December, and more severe national lockdowns this month, still indicate a possible return to overall recession in this tough winter.\n\nBusiness groups continue to argue that extra support is required to support jobs and cash flow well before the Budget in March. But a more sustained lifting of restrictions as vaccines are rolled out should see growth return after the spring.", "Black people are four more times more likely than white people to be sectioned under the Mental Health Act, according to NHS figures.\n\nWhen Antonio Ferreira was sectioned he says he felt he was discriminated against because of his skin colour.\n\nNow a student at Essex University, he hopes to improve police understanding of mental health problems.\n\nIf you are experiencing emotional stress, help and support is available via BBC Action Line.", "The governor of Amazonas state warned of a \"critical\" moment and has implemented a curfew\n\nHospitals in the Brazilian city of Manaus have reached breaking point while treating Covid-19 patients, amid reports of severe oxygen shortages and desperate staff.\n\nThe city, in Amazonas state, has seen a surge of deaths and infections.\n\nHealth professionals, quoted by local media, warned \"many people\" could die due to lack of supplies and assistance.\n\nBrazil has recorded more than 205,000 virus deaths - the second-highest tally in the world, behind the US.\n\nA new coronavirus variant has recently emerged in Brazil, with several cases in travellers arriving in Japan traced back to the Amazonas region.\n\nAmazonas suffered heavy losses in the first wave of the pandemic but is also being badly hit by a new rise in infections.\n\nRefrigerated containers were brought to hospitals to help store bodies last week, as authorities declared a state of emergency.\n\nJessem Orellana, from the Fiocruz-Amazonia scientific investigation institute, told the AFP news agency that some hospitals in Manaus had \"run out of oxygen\" with some centres becoming \"a type of suffocation chamber\" for patients.\n\nThe researcher told Brazilian media she had received reports from the front-line of \"dramatic\" scenes playing out in some hospitals.\n\nReports in the daily Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper described desperate staff having to try to keep patients alive through manual ventilation.\n\nIn a widely shared video from the region, a female medical worker asks the internet for help: \"We're in an awful state. Oxygen has simply run out across the whole unit today.\"\n\n\"There is no oxygen and lots of people are dying,\" she says in the clip. \"If anyone has any oxygen, please bring it to the clinic. There are so many people dying.\"\n\nThe UK has banned travellers from much of Latin America over a new variant detected in Brazil\n\nAmazonas Governor Wilson Lima said the state was \"in the most critical moment of the pandemic\" and has announced a nightly curfew will begin at 19:00 local time (23:00 GMT) on Friday to try to stem the spread.\n\nMarcellus Campelo, a local health secretary, said the state needed three times the amount of oxygen it can produce locally and appealed for help.\n\nBrazil's vice-president shared images on Twitter of the air force transporting hospital supplies, including oxygen cylinders and stretchers, to the city as reports of the situation spread throughout the country.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHealth officials also say some patients will be airlifted to other states for treatment due to the demand for intensive care units, Reuters reports.\n\nFelipe Naveca, deputy director of research at the state-run Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, told the BBC's South America correspondent Katy Watson that the new variant had evolved separately from those in the UK and South Africa, but that it showed some of the same characteristics: \"Some of these mutations have been linked to increased transmission and that is of concern.\"\n\nMr Naveca said that they did not yet have any data to suggest that existing vaccines would be any less effective against the new variant. \"We have to do a lot more sequencing of samples to answer that question,\" he said.\n\nHowever, on Thursday UK officials announced a ban on travellers from South America, Portugal and Cape Verde due to the new strain.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. At Fullwell Cross Medical Centre, north London, they are now vaccinating almost 1,000 people a week\n\nFake news is likely to be causing some people from the UK's South Asian communities to reject the Covid vaccine, a doctor has warned.\n\nDr Harpreet Sood, who is leading an NHS anti-disinformation drive, said it was \"a big concern\" and officials were working \"to correct so much fake news\".\n\nHe said language and cultural barriers played a part in the false information.\n\nA GP in the West Midlands told the BBC some of her South Asian patients had refused the vaccine when offered it.\n\nDr Sood, from NHS England, said officials were working with South Asian role models, influencers, community leaders and religious leaders to help debunk myths about the vaccine.\n\nMuch of the disinformation surrounds the contents of the vaccine.\n\nHe said: \"We need to be clear and make people realise there is no meat in the vaccine, there is no pork in the vaccine, it has been accepted and endorsed by all the religious leaders and councils and faith communities.\"\n\n\"We're trying to find role models and influencers and also thinking about ordinary citizens who need to be quick with this information so that they can all support one another because ultimately everyone is a role model to everyone\", he added.\n\n\"There's a big piece of work happening where we're translating information, we're making sure the look and feel of it reaches the populations that matter.\"\n\nSome of the disinformation seen by the BBC on social media and on WhatsApp is religiously targeted. Messages falsely claim the vaccines contain animal produce - eating pork goes against the religious beliefs of Muslims, as does eating beef for Hindus.\n\nDr Samara Afzal has been vaccinating people in Dudley, West Midlands. She said: \"We've been calling all patients and booking them in for vaccines but the admin staff say when they call a lot of the South Asian patients they decline and refuse to have the vaccination.\n\n\"Also talking to friends and family have found the same. I've had friends calling me telling me to convince their parents or their grandparents to have the vaccination because other family members have convinced them not to have it\".\n\nWe need to be clear and make people realise there is no meat in the vaccine, there is no pork in the vaccine, it has been accepted and endorsed by all the religious leaders\n\nReena Pujara is a beauty therapist in Hampshire and a practising Hindu. She said she's been bombarded with false information.\n\n\"Some of the videos are quite disturbing especially when you actually see the person reporting is a medic and telling you that the vaccine is going to alter your DNA,\" she said.\n\n\"For a layman it is very confusing. And also when you read that the ingredients in the vaccine derive from a cow - and as Hindus the cow is sacred to us - it is disturbing.\"\n\nAbout 100 mosques have a joined a campaign to counter vaccine disinformation and persuade their communities to take the vaccine. They've said they'll use their Friday sermons to urge people to have the jab.\n\n\"There should be no hesitation in taking [the vaccine] from a moral perspective,\" said Qari Asim, chair of the Mosques and Imams National Advisory Board (MINAB), which has organised the campaign. \"It is our ethical duty to protect ourselves and others from harm.\"\n\nVaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi told the BBC's Asian Network that faith and community leaders had a big role to play in ensuring a high take-up of the vaccine. He said he had met with more than 150 leaders from Sikh, Hindu, Jewish and Muslim communities who were taking the message out \"that it's the right thing to do\".\n\nHe added that the government was taking steps to tackle online disinformation around the vaccine, as well as making sure vaccine guidance was available in many different languages.\n\nA recent poll, commissioned by the Royal Society of Public Health, suggested just over half of black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) people would be happy to have the coronavirus vaccine.\n\nIt found 57% said they would take the vaccine - compared with 79% of white people.", "Exam results are likely to appear before the end of the summer term\n\nExam results for A-levels and GCSEs in England could be published in early July this year, according to proposals for replacing cancelled exams.\n\nA consultation launched by the exams watchdog and the Department for Education confirmed that grades will be decided by teacher assessment.\n\nBut results this summer are likely to be released much earlier than usual.\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson said pupils would receive \"a grade that reflects their ability\".\n\nThere are also likely to be written test papers set by exam boards, but marked by teachers, with some later checks if there are concerns about fairness.\n\nFor vocational qualifications, exams which use mostly written papers are also likely to use teachers' grades - but qualifications which need a test of practical, hands-on skills will have separate arrangements.\n\nOfqual and the Department for Education have formally launched a two-week consultation on a system for how results will be decided, after disruption from the pandemic forced the cancellation of exams.\n\nThis is the second year of exam results being disrupted by the pandemic\n\nFor A-levels and GCSEs this could see the scrapping of the traditional results days in August, with a proposal to publish the results in \"early July\", increasing the time for appeals and adding more time before the start of the university term.\n\nLast year the process of replacement results ended with U-turns and confusion, as an algorithm initially used for deciding grades was abandoned and teachers' assessments used instead.\n\nThis time there will be no algorithm, but from the outset the process will rely on the judgement of teachers, who will be asked to use evidence such as coursework, essays, homework and mock exams.\n\nThere are also proposals for test papers, or mini-exams, which would be set by examiners but which would be likely to be marked within schools by teachers.\n\nThese would inform teachers' decisions rather than be a fixed proportion of the final grade - and could be used as evidence for any scrutiny of the reliability of a school's results or if there were appeals over grades.\n\nThere is also a recognition they might have to be taken by some pupils at home.\n\nBut it has still to be decided whether it would be mandatory to take these exams, and whether there would be a single paper per subject or the option to take more.\n\nThe Department for Education has said pupils will not face tests in subject areas they have not covered.\n\nGeoff Barton, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union, said the proposals seemed \"sensible\".\n\nBut he said the written tests would have to be \"exceptionally well designed\" to make them fair between students \"whose learning has been disrupted by the pandemic to greatly varying extents\".\n\n\"There are still many questions left unanswered,\" said the National Education Union's co-leader Kevin Courtney, about how tests could be flexible enough and how appeals will be decided.\n\nThere will be a process of training teachers in how the grading system will operate and be consistent between different schools.\n\nFor vocational qualifications, the proposals say those closer to written A-level and GCSE exams will be graded in a similar way to the academic exams, using teacher assessment to replace written papers.\n\nThere will be different approaches for qualifications requiring proof of practical skills, but there will be arrangements to make this possible.\n\nSome BTec exams have already gone ahead this month and IGCSE exams are still planned to continue this summer.\n\nA-levels and GCSEs have been cancelled in Wales and Northern Ireland, and in Scotland the Nationals, Highers and Advanced Highers have also been scrapped.\n\nEngland's Education Secretary, Mr Williamson, said: \"Fairness to young people has been and will continue to be fundamental to every decision we take on these issues.\"", "Men who had already had the virus were asked to donate blood plasma for the trial\n\nA potential treatment for Covid using blood plasma does not reduce deaths among hospital patients, trials show.\n\nThe results are a blow to researchers and the NHS, which led the drive to collect plasma donations.\n\nThis arm of the Recovery trial, which is investigating a number of promising Covid treatments, has now been closed.\n\nThe Oxford researchers involved say they are \"incredibly grateful\" for the contribution of patients across the country.\n\nDonations of plasma were temporarily suspended, according to NHS Blood and Transplant.**\n\nThere had been huge international interest in the role of convalescent plasma as a possible treatment for hospital patients with Covid-19.\n\nThe treatment involves blood plasma being taken from people who have recovered from the disease - which contains antibodies to coronavirus - and transfused into seriously ill patients.\n\nIt was hoped the plasma donation would give the recipient's struggling immune system a boost to fight off Covid.\n\nThe NHS had been urging people to donate, particularly men who are thought to have higher levels of antibodies in their blood.\n\nBut early analysis of 1,873 deaths in a study of 10,400 UK patients shows the treatment made \"no significant difference\".\n\nIn the group treated with convalescent plasma, 18% of patients died within 28 days - the same figure for the group given standard treatment.\n\nPatients in the study are still being followed up and the final results will be published shortly.\n\nEarlier this week, a separate study showed no evidence that the same treatment improved outcomes for patients in intensive care.\n\nMartin Landray, chief investigator and professor of medicine and epidemiology at the Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, said the Recovery trial showed \"the value of large randomised trials to properly assess the role of potential treatments\".\n\nThe trial is still investigating other treatments, including tocilizumab, aspirin and an antibody cocktail.\n\nProf Peter Horby, who also worked on the trial, said the largest ever trial of convalescent plasma \"was only possible thanks to the generous donation of plasma by recovered patients and the willingness of current patients to contribute to advancing medical care\".\n\n\"While the overall result is negative, we need to await the full results before we can understand whether convalescent plasma has any role in particular patient sub-groups,\" he said.\n\n**NHS Blood and Transplant restarted donations of blood plasma on 20 January. They could be used to see whether particular groups of patients, such as those with low antibody levels, could benefit.\n\nInternational trials are also testing if plasma helps people when it's used much earlier in the disease, before people get to hospital.", "One of two coronavirus variants first detected in Brazil has been found in the UK, says a leading scientist advising the government.\n\nBut the version discovered is not the \"variant of concern\", Prof Wendy Barclay clarified.\n\nThe \"variant of concern\" from Brazil, detected in travellers to Japan, is thought to be more infectious.\n\nIt led to travellers from South America and Portugal being banned from entering the UK on Friday.\n\nProf Wendy Barclay, who is heading a newly-launched project to study the effects of emerging coronavirus mutations called the G2P-UK National Virology Consortium, said: \"There are two different types of Brazilian variants and one of them has been detected and one of them has not.\"\n\nProf Barclay, who also sits on Nervtag, a committee which advises government on new and emerging respiratory virus threats, said the variant was \"probably introduced some time ago\" and it \"will be being traced very carefully\".\n\nShe added: \"The new Brazilian variant of concern, that was picked up in travellers going to Japan, has not been detected in the UK.\n\n\"Other variants that may have originated from Brazil have been previously found.\"\n\nThe body which collects and analyses the genomes of virus samples - Covid-19 Genomics UK Consortium (Cog-UK) - said this variant seen in the UK contained one of the mutations found in the Brazilian \"variant of concern\".\n\nThe mutation, also found in the South African variant, has been linked to a reduced antibody response meaning our bodies might be less able to fight it off.\n\nCog-UK said this alone was not enough to qualify it as a \"variant of concern\", thought it acknowledged \"no internationally agreed definition of a variant of concern has yet been agreed\".\n\nIn other variants of concern, the mutation sits alongside a \"constellation\" of others which together amount to a high chance of making the virus more transmissible.\n\nIt comes as a further 1,248 people with coronavirus have died in the UK.\n\nThe latest government figures on Thursday also showed another 48,682 new cases had been reported.\n\nMeanwhile, the latest estimate for the reproduction (R) number in the UK - which represents the average number of people that one infected person will pass on a virus to - is between 1.2 and 1.3.\n\nLast week it was estimated at between 1 and 1.4 by the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies.\n\nWhen the figure is above 1, the number of cases increases exponentially.\n\nDespite other variants entering the country since, the Kent variant remains dominant in the UK and is believed to be 30-50% more infectious than the previous form of the virus.\n\nViruses acquire random changes to their genes constantly as they replicate.\n\nMany are neutral or even hurt the virus's ability to spread, but those that give it an advantage will become more common.\n\nMutations are being detected now because enough time has passed for those random changes to take hold.\n\nEven though there is no evidence any of these mutations make the virus more deadly, a virus that infects more people is likely to have a higher death toll.\n\nWhen the virus gets better at sticking onto and breaking into human cells, in theory someone exposed to the same dose is more likely to become ill.\n\nThe use of masks and personal protective equipment, social distancing and hand washing remain the best defences against the virus's spread.\n\nDowning Street said current evidence did not suggest the concerning Brazilian variant affected vaccines or treatment.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Shapps described the travel ban, which came into force at 04:00 GMT on Friday, as a \"precautionary\" measure.\n\nIt covers people who have travelled from or through, Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay and Venezuela in the last 10 days.\n\nThe ban also applies to Portugal - because of its strong links to Brazil - and the former Portuguese colony of Cape Verde off the coast of west Africa, as well as Panama in central America.\n\nBritish and Irish citizens and foreign nationals with residence rights are still allowed to return - but must isolate for 10 days.\n\nAlso exempt are hauliers who are travelling from Portugal to transport essential goods.\n\nDr Mike Tildesley, an epidemiologist who is part of the government's Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling, said the travel ban should minimise the risk from a \"more transmissible\" variant.\n\n\"We always have this issue with travel bans, of course, that we're always a little bit behind the curve,\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\n\"My understanding is that there haven't really been any flights coming from Brazil for about the past week, so hopefully the immediate travel ban should really minimise the risk.\"\n\nDowning Street said it acted \"as quickly as possible\" to impose the travel ban because the concerning Brazilian variant \"could pose a significant risk to the UK\".\n\nHowever, Portugal's government has described the ban as \"absurd\" and illogical\".\n\nThe country's minister of foreign affairs Augusto Santos Silva said he had requested a conversation with his British counterpart after the \"sudden and unexpected\" suspension of flights.\n\nHe added Portugal was already restricting flights from Brazil and there was \"no evidence\" the new variant existed in his country.", "Police investigations have been compromised by an error that led to hundreds of thousands of records being deleted from UK-wide databases, according to a letter seen by the BBC.\n\nThe National Police Chiefs' Council said 213,000 records were deleted - more than the 150,000 first reported.\n\nThis resulted in a couple of \"near misses\" for serious crimes when trying to identify an offender, it said.\n\nThe Home Office has said it is assessing the impact of the mistake.\n\nData including fingerprint, DNA, and arrest histories was wiped from the Police National Computer (PNC) - which stores and shares criminal records information across the UK - after being inadvertently flagged for deletion.\n\nThe PNC is used in police investigations and provides real-time checks on people, vehicles and crimes, as well as whether suspects are wanted for any unsolved offences.\n\nThe Home Office said the lost entries related to people who were arrested and then released without further action.\n\nBut the letter from the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) says officers are aware of at least one instance where the DNA profile from a suspect in custody did not generate a match to a crime scene as expected, potentially impeding the investigation.\n\nIt says that some of the records had been marked for indefinite retention following earlier convictions for serious offences.\n\nAnd it reveals that a \"weeding system\", developed and deployed by a Home Office PNC team, started to delete records wrongly last November.\n\nThe process was only brought to a halt at the start of this week.\n\nThe letter was sent on Friday afternoon by Deputy Chief Constable Naveed Malik of the NPCC to chief constables and police and crime commissioners.\n\nThe deletion of the records has been blamed on a coding error.\n\nThis resulted in records that had been flagged for deletion being lost from the database before checks had been carried out to determine whether they could be lawfully held or not.\n\nPolicing minister Kit Malthouse said the problem had been identified and the process corrected so \"it cannot happen again\".\n\nHe said the Home Office, National Police Chiefs' Council and other law enforcement partners were working \"at pace\" to recover the data.\n\nThe Home Office said no records of criminal or dangerous persons had been deleted.\n\nBut Labour shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds called on Home Secretary Priti Patel to take responsibility for the error and be clear about the impact it had had.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Breakfast, he described the situation as \"extraordinarily serious\", adding: \"Priti Patel will be responsible for criminals walking free. We're not going to be able to link suspects to crime scenes without the DNA and fingerprint evidence.\"\n\nA home office source said the accusation was \"scaremongering and irresponsible\".\n\nFormer Cumbria Police Chief Constable Stuart Hyde told BBC Radio 4's Today programme on Friday the \"very large\" loss of arrest records presented a \"risk to public safety\".\n\nThe records are linked to police investigations that were terminated before charge (No Further Action or NFA cases) or to those where an individual had been acquitted at court.\n\nIt is not yet known how many records of each type were lost and full extent of deletions is still being investigated. A minister is expected to update the House of Commons on Monday.\n\nIt comes after about 40,000 alerts relating to European criminals were removed from the PNC following the UK's post-Brexit security deal with the EU.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The pharmacy in Gwynedd is offering the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab\n\nA pharmacy has become the first in Wales to offer Covid jabs, as community vaccine trials begin.\n\nFifty people with appointments are to visit the pharmacy near Pwllheli, Gwynedd, on Friday to receive their first shot of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.\n\nThe pilot has begun in pharmacies in Betsi Cadwaladr health board.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said community pharmacists can help with vaccinations \"in more than one way\".\n\nIt follows a letter from Community Pharmacy Wales to Wales' health minister which said there was an \"urgent need\" to use pharmacies in Wales to help roll out coronavirus vaccines.\n\nUK Government figures show 126,375 people in Wales, 4% of the population, have received their first coronavirus jab so far.\n\nThat compares with 4.1% (224,840) in Scotland, 4.9% in England (2,769,164) and 6% (114,567) in Northern Ireland.\n\nHundreds more pharmacies in Wales will offer the jab in the next two weeks.\n\nRosie Bennett, one of the patients to receive a vaccination at Fferyllwyr H L Taylor Pharmacy in Llanbedrog, said getting her vaccine was a \"small step to a better future\".\n\nThe 82-year-old said: \"I don't have a car, so it was a huge relief to know that I wouldn't have to travel a long distance to have the vaccine.\n\n\"Here in the village, we know the staff at the chemists. They've been doing a great job during the pandemic and it's reassuring to have the vaccine from someone you know.\"\n\nSteffan John, the pharmacist who administered the vaccine to Rosie, said the staff are \"really pleased to do their bit for the community\".\n\nPharmacist Llyr Hughes, who runs four pharmacies, including Fferyllwyr H L Taylor Pharmacy, said \"vaccinating at scale\" was the \"only way out of the pandemic\".\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio Wales Breakfast, Mr Hughes said he expected the rollout to happen \"very quickly across all community pharmacies in Wales\".\n\n\"I don't forsee any big problems,\" he said.\n\n\"Community pharmacists have a wealth of experience in delivering flu vaccinations.\n\n\"We will tailor our work model to accommodate for this, as we did for the flu vaccine.\"\n\nMr Hughes said his pharmacy will have vaccinated in the region of more than 100 people by Saturday afternoon.\n\nHe added: \"If we can deliver locally we can provide easier access to older patients.\"\n\nHe explained local patients would be contacted about an appointment for the vaccine at the pharmacy.\n\nMr John said that the vaccine comes in vials of ten doses which means it's \"important to vaccinate that many people at a time and not to waste any\".\n\nLlyr Hughes who runs Fferyllwyr H L Taylor Pharmacy said 50 patients will be vaccinated today\n\nHowever, Mr Drakeford told Friday's Welsh Government press briefing that not all pharmacy premises would be suitable to deliver the Covid vaccines.\n\nHe said some community pharmacists could be asked to administer vaccinations at mass vaccination centres instead, in cases where spaces for vaccinations are small at pharmacies with high volumes of people.\n\nWales' Health Minister Vaughan Gething said the rollout was still in the \"early stages\" of the \"largest vaccination programme Wales has ever seen\".\n\n\"People can be expected to be asked to attend either a mass or community centre, hospital, GP practice, pharmacy or mobile unit,\" he added.\n\nMr Gething said a mix of vaccination sites and centres were chosen so \"everyone across the country has equal access to a vaccination\".\n\nHe added that people will be notified for an appointment, and before that they should not call GPs or health services to request a vaccine and \"add undue pressure\" to their workloads.\n\nPlaid Cymru's health spokesman Rhun ap Iorwerth said Wales' vaccination programme was \"improving far, far too slowly\".\n\n\"As important as it is that we have one pharmacy doing it, what's happening in all the others?\"\n\nPaul Davies, leader of the Conservatives in the Senedd, said it was clear Wales was \"lagging behind\" the rest of the UK on delivering the vaccinations.\n\n\"It's certainly not happening quickly enough, we need to see the Welsh Government stepping up to the plate,\" he said.\n\nThe Welsh Government has said more pharmacists and other primary care services, such as dentists and opticians - are being invited to help with the rollout, subject to vaccine supply.", "The UK's epidemic is still officially estimated to be growing, according to the latest R number, but data suggests new cases are beginning to fall.\n\nThe R number - which takes into account cases, hospitalisations and deaths - is estimated to be between 1.2 and 1.3, compared with 1 and 1.4 last week.\n\nThis suggests the total number of people with the virus is still rising across the UK.\n\nBut in London, where tight restrictions came in earlier, the R number is lower.\n\nIn the capital, the estimate - based on data up until 11 January - is between 0.9 and 1.2, compared with 1.1 and 1.4 the previous week.\n\nIt comes as a further 1,280 people with coronavirus have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive test, taking the total to 87,291.\n\nThe latest government figures on Friday also showed another 55,761 new cases had been reported.\n\nMeanwhile, more than three million people in the UK have now received the first dose of a vaccine - latest figures show the number at 3,234,946.\n\nAlthough the number of people sick with coronavirus is growing in the UK, data from various sources suggests new infections are declining.\n\nThis provides early signs that lockdown restrictions may be taking effect.\n\nThe government's scientific advisory group Sage, which calculates the R number, said areas that have been under tougher restrictions for a longer period of time - including east of England, London, and the south east - are showing \"a slight decline in the number of people infected\".\n\nHowever, they warned that regions such as north-west and south-west England continue to see infections rise, where the spread of the new UK variant may be playing a role.\n\nThe R number is a way of rating coronavirus or any disease's ability to spread. In theory, it describes the number of people that one infected person will pass the virus onto, on average.\n\nIn reality, though, the government's estimate of R gives a wider view of the epidemic's general trend since it also looks at what is happening in hospitals.\n\nCases, hospitalisations and deaths from Covid-19 have been alarmingly high since the beginning of the year and the latest estimate of the R number indicates that the pandemic is continuing to grow.\n\nBut because of the way the data to estimate R is collected - it reflects the situation a week ago. More up to date indicators suggest that there's a slight decline in infections in the east of England, London, and the South East.\n\nThese areas have had the highest prevalence and therefore the toughest restrictions the longest but infections are continuing to rise in the North West and South West probably because of the spread of the new variant of the virus.\n\nDespite this there's some relief at these figures among the government's scientific advisors. They were not sure whether the current restrictions would be enough to prevent the more contagious variant getting out of control. Now they expect Covid-related deaths to level off in a week or so and then decline as the benefits of the vaccine programme begin to take effect.\n\nCases should also begin to decrease in the coming weeks. But all this depends on people continuing to observe the government's social distancing guidelines - and come into contact with others only if it is essential.\n\nProf Sir David Spiegelhalter, a statistician at the University of Cambridge, said coronavirus deaths were likely to peak in the next week to 10 days.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's The World At One that the lockdown measures were having an impact, with the peak in infections having passed \"a good few days ago\" which would lead to a reduction in the numbers dying from the disease.\n\n\"They are likely to level off in a week - 10 days maybe - at a peak which is probably going to be bigger than the first wave peak of 1,000-a-day, but then should decline due the reductions in cases that we are seeing and, of course, the vaccine programme.\"\n\nData from the ZOE Covid Symptom Study app gives its own estimate of 0.9 for the virus's R or reproduction number. This is based on cases alone, rather than a wider number of data sources included in the official estimate.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What is the R number and what does it mean?\n\nWhile this leaves out the fact that hospitals are still filling up, looking at cases on their own allows assessment of whether lockdown restrictions are working.\n\nBut the large number of infections recorded at the end of December and the beginning of January means, despite receding cases, hospitalisations and deaths will inevitably continue to rise for some time.\n\nMeanwhile, a ban on travellers from South America, Portugal and Cape Verde entering the UK came into force on Friday as a result of a new, potentially more infectious strain linked to Brazil.\n\nProf Wendy Barclay, a scientist at Imperial College London advising the government, said this \"variant of concern\" had not been detected in the UK but another variant from Brazil was already in circulation.\n\nIt is not clear whether this second strain is more contagious or not.", "Ambulances were lined up outside the Royal London Hospital on Thursday\n\nCovid patients have been transferred to hospitals in Newcastle from over-stretched London intensive care units.\n\nA small number, fewer than five, have been moved hundreds of miles from the south east, the BBC has been told.\n\nHospitals with the largest critical care capacity have been asked to take patients from other areas to ease pressures.\n\nHowever, NHS England has denied that patients have been transferred to Newcastle from London.\n\nThe patient transfers were first reported by The Guardian.\n\nIt is not uncommon for patients to be transferred from one busy hospital to another within the region, but moving the sick from out of their areas is unusual.\n\nThe North of England Critical Care Network, which co-ordinates provision in the North East, north Cumbria and North Yorkshire, confirmed patients had been moved from other parts of England.\n\nIn statement, director Lesley Durham said: \"During this pandemic and at these times of unprecedented pressures, we have ensured equity of patient access to critical care though mutual aid between units in the form of critical care patient transfers.\n\n\"We are also working with our colleagues and networks further afield.\n\n\"Whilst not ideal, it is correct to ensure that every person, regardless of location, has access to a critical care bed if they require one.\"\n\nOne medical expert described transferring people across the country as \"a challenge\"\n\nElsewhere, Northampton General Hospital - which is about 70 miles from London - has been receiving critical care patients from outside its area.\n\nA spokesman said: \"Some patients have been transferred to our critical care unit in recent weeks from other parts of the country, including London.\n\n\"We currently have one 'out-of-area' patient, but they are not from London.\"\n\nNHS England said in a statement: \"The NHS has tried and tested plans in place to manage significant pressure either from high Covid-19 infection rates and non-Covid winter demands and this has always included mutual aid practices whereby hospitals work together to manage admissions.\"\n\nIt added that no patients had been transferred from London to Newcastle, Birmingham, Northampton or Sheffield.\n\nAcross England in the week to 12 January, there were 32,202 patients in hospital with Covid-19, a rise of 5,735 on the previous week.\n\nIn the week up to 10 January there were 330,616 new cases.\n\nHospitals across the North East are already seeing many more patients than the first wave of the pandemic, and the next few weeks are likely to be the toughest yet.\n\nBut right now some - like Newcastle - have room in intensive care and are being asked to take patients from critical care units in the south which have become overwhelmed and run out of room.\n\nNewcastle and Northumbria NHS trusts have already been taking in patients from across their own patch - most notably from Cumbria where there are not nearly enough intensive care beds for the soaring numbers of Covid patients.\n\nBut patient numbers are growing in the North East's hospitals too, and many are already struggling.\n\nThey expect next week will be the worst week they have experienced yet.\n\nTo prepare, elective work is being postponed, wards are being cleared to take in new patients, and intensive care units are being expanded.\n\nConcerns have been raised about seriously-ill patients travelling such long distances.\n\nDr Uwe Franke, intensive care lead at Middlesbrough's James Cook Hospital, said: \"The critical care networks work regionally and nationally and are trying to spread the workload about the country without pushing other units to their limits or out of the durability of their capacity.\n\n\"But there is a difficulty in this; we know that Covid patients are incredibly ill, they are dependent on breathing machines, they are dependent on other machines that need organ support.\n\n\"To transfer these people across the country is quite a challenge.\"\n\nDr Franke added that while hospitals in the North were keen to support colleagues across the country, some - like his own - were already reaching their limit.\n\nHis hospital currently has in excess of 200 Covid patients, with 32 of those in intensive care.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.", "Dustin Diamond made his name as the studious \"Screech\" in the US sitcom Saved by the Bell\n\nSaved by The Bell actor Dustin Diamond has been diagnosed with cancer, his representative has said.\n\nThe 44-year-old, who played Samuel \"Screech\" Powers in the popular 1990s US school-based sitcom, fell ill last week and was taken to hospital.\n\nHis representative, Roger Paul, said the actor is now waiting for further details.\n\n\"We will know the severity of it when the tests are done,\" Paul said, adding they expect an update next week.\n\nSaved by the Bell ran for four seasons from 1989 to 1993 and followed a group of high school friends and their principal.\n\nDiamond reprised his role in follow-up series Saved by the Bell: The New Class, and Saved by the Bell: The College Years. But he did not appear in the recent revival series.\n\nThe American was also a contestant on Celebrity Big Brother in 2013.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "A 24m section of the bridge parapet collapsed one mile from where a fatal crash took place\n\nPart of a rail bridge has collapsed near the site of the fatal Stonehaven train derailment.\n\nA 24m (79ft) section of the side wall has fallen from the bridge, about a mile north of where three people died when a train left the track and crashed last August.\n\nNetwork Rail said it was a \"structural fault\" and not caused by a landslip.\n\nThe line between Aberdeen and Dundee remains closed while structural engineers assess the fault.\n\nThe structure is located three miles north of Carmont signal box. The collapse was discovered just before 10:00 on Friday.\n\nThe rail company said the damage to the parapet was \"extensive\" and that the line was expected to be closed for a \"significant\" period of time while repairs to the bridge take place.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Network Rail Scotland This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Network Rail Twitter account told followers engineers would be working around the clock to complete repairs.\n\nSpecialist staff are also checking similar bridges as a precaution.\n\nThe line between Aberdeen and Dundee had just reopened in November, nearly three months after the Stonehaven derailment.\n\nThe driver, a conductor and a passenger died when the Aberdeen to Glasgow service derailed near Stonehaven on 12 August after heavy rain.\n\nNetwork Rail Scotland carried out \"complex\" repairs at the scene of the derailment\n\nAn interim report said the train hit washed-out rocks and gravel.\n\nA Network Rail spokesman said: \"The line is currently closed while our engineers repair a damaged side wall on a bridge between Carmont and Stonehaven.\n\n\"Specialist structural engineers are currently assessing the fault and putting plans in place for its repair.\n\n\"Our engineers will be working around-the-clock to complete this work as quickly as possible.\"", "Passengers will need to provide a negative Covid-19 test taken within 72 hours before departure\n\nPassengers arriving into NI from outside the UK and Republic of Ireland will soon have to produce a negative Covid-19 test before departure.\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster confirmed the executive had agreed the plan on Thursday.\n\nPeople arriving from countries not on the government's travel corridors list will also still have to self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nThe move has already been agreed in the Republic of Ireland.\n\nPassengers arriving there will be subject to the new rules from Saturday, with the measure taking effect in England and Scotland from Monday.\n\nNegative tests 72 hours prior to arrival are already a requirement in the Republic of Ireland for passengers travelling from Great Britain and South Africa.\n\nSpeaking at Stormont's press conference on Thursday, the first minister said Northern Ireland's R-number had also fallen to between 0.7 and 0.9 for new cases of the virus.\n\nThe reproductive rate of the virus - known as the R rate, measures the infection rate of Covid-19 and had risen to about 1.8 due to Christmas relaxations.\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said the drop showed the \"very real\" effect of lockdown restrictions imposed on 26 December, but she warned there was still \"no room for complacency\".\n\nShe said she still believed there needed to be an \"two-island approach\" to travel restrictions, including discussions with the British and Irish governments as a \"matter of urgency\".\n\nMrs Foster said Stormont ministers had also expressed frustration at the executive meeting over a lack of data-sharing from authorities in the Republic of Ireland, and called for it to be escalated.\n\nPSNI Chief Constable (centre) Simon Byrne attended Stormont's press briefing on Thursday with the first and deputy first ministers\n\nPSNI Chief Constable Simon Byrne said 40 penalty notices a day are being handed out to those who breach the Covid-19 regulations.\n\nHe told the press briefing that if people continued flouting rules, they could expect \"firm and swift enforcement\".\n\n\"We won't turn a blind eye when people break the rules.\"\n\nOn Thursday, 16 more deaths related to Covid-19 were reported by the Department of Health in Northern Ireland, bringing its total to 1,533.\n\nThere have been 973 new cases diagnosed in the past 24 hours, while 58 Covid-19 patients are being treated in ICUs across Northern Ireland, of which 44 are on ventilators.\n\nMrs Foster said she found it \"incredible and frankly unbelievable\" that some people were still holding house parties and gatherings, despite the pandemic rates and the lockdown.\n\nOn Wednesday, health officials warned that levels of the new, more transmissible variant of the virus are rising.\n\nMr Swann said that meant more \"difficult decisions\" on lockdown restrictions could be required.\n\nNorthern Ireland is in the third week of a six-week lockdown to curb the spread of Covid-19.\n\nThe executive is due to review the current restrictions on 21 January.\n\nThe first and deputy first ministers said they would take evidence from health officials before deciding whether an extension of the lockdown would be required.\n\nMinisters have expressed concerns about keeping non-essential parts of businesses open\n\nMinisters have also expressed concerns about some larger retailers \"gaming\" the regulations and keeping open non-essential parts of their businesses.\n\nA meeting between the first and deputy first ministers and representatives of the retail sector is due to happen on Friday afternoon.\n\nElsewhere, the Chief Medical Officer has confirmed that unpaid carers looking after Clinically Extremely Vulnerable individuals should receive the first dose of their vaccine when phase two of the vaccination programme begins next month.\n\nDr Michael McBride told Stormont's Health Committee they are provided for on a list of prioritisation provided by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, which decides the order of vaccination delivery.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Department of Health This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by Department of Health\n\nMr Swann was asked if his department was \"putting all its eggs in the vaccine basket\".\n\nHe said it was \"not the entirety of the answer\", adding: \"It will take time for the benefits of it to bed in.\n\n\"And while it is doing it, we still have to follow those restrictions that are in place.\n\n\"We may actually have to introduce more.\"\n\nOn Thursday afternoon the department tweeted that 121,711 vaccines have been administered in Northern Ireland.\n\nMrs Foster said that by end of this month, it is hoped all care home residents, health staff and those aged over 80 in Northern Ireland will have received their first vaccination.\n\nShe said that would be an \"incredible achievement\" and make Northern Ireland one of the top-performing countries in rolling out its vaccination programme.\n\nMeanwhile, the chairman of the Police Federation for NI (PFNI) has said officers need more powers to enforce Covid-19 regulations.\n\nAt present officers can only issue guidance and advice on the public health regulations.\n\nPFNI chairman Mark Lindsay said that puts officers in a \"difficult position\".\n\nThe federation represents thousands of rank and file PSNI officers.\n\n\"I think we are well past the stage where police officers are the people that should be giving advice around the guidance,\" Mr Lindsay told BBC Radio Foyle.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rescuers pull a woman from the rubble after the 6.2 magnitude earthquake\n\nA powerful earthquake has rocked Indonesia's Sulawesi island, killing at least 42 people, with more feared dead as rescuers search for survivors.\n\nThe 6.2-magnitude earthquake struck on Friday morning, just hours after an earlier, smaller tremor.\n\nHundreds of people were injured and thousands displaced by the quake.\n\nIndonesia has a history of devastating earthquakes and tsunamis, with more than 2,000 killed in a 2018 Sulawesi quake.\n\nEight people died when the five-storey Mitra Manakarra Hospital in Mamuju partially collapsed on Friday, officials said. About 60 people were safely evacuated from the hospital.\n\n\"It happened so quickly, around 10 seconds,\" Syamsu Ridwan, a local police spokesman, told the BBC. He said the power in the hospital cut out during the earthquake.\n\nOfficials fear the death toll will increase as rescue efforts continue. Rescuers were still searching for survivors late on Friday, but they have been hampered by power cuts and poor mobile phone service.\n\nIndonesian President Joko Widodo offered condolences to the victims, urging people to stay calm and for the authorities to step up search efforts.\n\nThe epicentre of Friday's quake was six kilometres (3.73 miles) northeast of Majene city at a depth of 10km.\n\nVideo footage on social media showed collapsed houses and a girl pinned under rubble calling for help.\n\nThe situation was \"pretty bad\", Dr Gayatri Marliyani, of the geology department at Gajah Mada University in Yogyakarta, told the BBC. She said the governor's office was among the collapsed buildings and confirmed that several hospitals and one hotel had also been damaged.\n\nShe also warned that getting response teams to the area could be hampered by the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nTremors were felt at around 01:00 local time on Friday (17:00 Thursday GMT) for about seven seconds.\n\nNo tsunami warning was issued but thousands are reported to have left their homes, fleeing to safety.\n\nAuthorities have warned that strong aftershocks could follow the two main quakes and that they could still trigger a tsunami.\n\nIndonesia is prone to earthquakes because it lies on the so-called Ring of Fire - a line of frequent quakes and volcanic eruptions on the Pacific rim.\n\nIn 2004, a tsunami triggered by an earthquake off the Indonesian island of Sumatra killed 226,000 people across the Indian Ocean, including more than 120,000 in Indonesia.\n\nThe Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004 killed 170,000 people on the Indonesian island of Sumatra after a quake of magnitude 9.1.\n\nAre you in the area? If it is safe to do so, share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Police officers who were targeted by a pro-Trump mob have been speaking out about the \"medieval battle\" that unfolded on the steps of the Capitol and inside the halls of American democracy last week.\n\nPolice faced off against rioters equipped with clubs, shields, pitchforks, firearms, and metal poles stripped from seating set up for next week's inauguration.\n\nHere's what we've learned from their interviews with US media.\n\nMichael Fanone, a 40-year-old DC plainclothes narcotics detective who was told to wear his uniform that day, rushed to the West Terrace of the Capitol where he took turns holding back the crowd, and resting to rinse his face of the the chemical irritants that that crowd was spraying on police.\n\n\"We weren't battling 50 or 60 rioters in this tunnel,\" the MPD (Metropolitan Police Department of District of Columbia) veteran told the Washington Post. \"We were battling 15,000 people. It looked like a medieval battle scene.\"\n\nAfter he was grabbed by his helmet and dragged face-first down several steps, he said the crowd started stripping gear from his vest, including spare ammo, his radio and his badge - all while chanting \"USA!\".\n\nMichael Fanone, a DC detective, was dragged into the crowd and beaten\n\n\"We got one! We got one!\" Mr Fanone said he heard people shout, with others chanting: \"Kill him with his own gun!\"\n\nSome members of the crowd protected him after he started yelling that he has children, the father of four told CNN. He sustained only minor injuries but later found out in hospital that he had suffered a mild heart attack during the brawl.\n\nMPD Officer Daniel Hodges, 32, had already been on shift for several hours before the rioting began.\n\n\"We were battling, you know, tooth and nail for our lives,\" he told ABC News.\n\nIn one viral video, Mr Hodges is seen pinned in a glass doorway between officers and the crowd, as rioters strip his gas mask from his face and beat him with his own police-issued baton. One rioter tried to gouge his eyes.\n\n\"That was one of the three times that day where I thought: Well, this might be it,\" said Mr Hodges. \"This might be the end for me.\"\n\nAs he choked on tear gas, he is seen on video gasping for air to call out for help. Enough police were eventually able to push through the melee to extract him.\n\n\"I had conspiracy theorists and everyone you could think of yelling at me, saying, 'Why are you doing this, you're the traitor,'\" Mr Hodges told radio station WAMU.\n\n\"We're not the traitors. We're the ones who saved Congress that day, and we'll do it as many times as necessary.\"\n\nDespite fearing for his life, Mr Hodges says he decided not to use his gun on the crowd.\n\n\"I didn't want to be the guy who starts shooting, because I knew they had guns - we had been seizing guns all day,\" he told the Post.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRobert Glover, the commander on scene for MPD, declared a riot at 13:50 local time, nearly two hours after Trump's speech at the White House where he instructed his followers to go to the Capitol.\n\nHe quickly told officers to retake the inauguration bleachers, to stop the crowd from raining down heavy objects on officers from above.\n\nMr Glover told the Post that some rioters may have been caught up in the moment, but others seemed to be moving in \"military formation\" as if they had prepared for the assault. He said that some appeared to be using hand signals to co-ordinate tactics.\n\nSeveral US military veterans, as well as off-duty police officers from Virginia, Maryland and Texas, have since been suspended or arrested for participating in the riot.\n\nMPD Officer Christina Laury, 32, was among the first city police officers to arrive on the scene. When she got to the Capitol, officers were already being brutally attacked by rioters attempting to storm the building.\n\n\"They had bear mace, which is literally used for bears. I got hit with it plenty of times that day and it just seals your eyes shut. You just would see officers going down trying to douse themselves with water, trying to open their eyes up so they can see again.\"\n\n\"The bravery and the heroism that I saw in these officers - the second they were able to open their eyes, they were back up front and they were just trying to stop these individuals from coming in.\"\n\nOne officer being lauded as a hero has yet to speak about his experience - Officer Eugene Goodman, a member of Congress' 2,100 member Capitol Police force.\n\nMr Goodman, an African American Iraq War veteran, was seen singlehandedly distracting a rampaging mob, giving lawmakers enough time to clear the chamber and get to safety.\n\nOn Thursday, a cross-party group of lawmakers introduced a bill calling for him to receive the Congressional Gold Medal for his effort to defend democracy.\n\nThe Capitol Police have been criticised over their response and preparation.\n\nSeveral top Capitol security officials, including the Capitol Police chief and the sergeants-at-arms for the House and Senate, resigned in the wake of the siege amid claims from lawmakers that they had not done enough to prepare for the mob.\n\nProtesters climbed the bleachers that were erected for Biden's inauguration\n\nOn Friday, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi announced General Russel Honoré would be leading an immediate investigation of the Capitol's security infrastructure.\n\nVideo footage has also emerged showing an officer taking a selfie with a rioter inside the Capitol. Some officers reportedly gave directions to rioters telling them how to get to the offices of Democratic lawmakers.\n\nSeveral Capitol Police officers have been suspended for allegedly violating policies as the agency conducts an internal probe.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA respiratory doctor at Belfast's Mater Hospital has warned that hospital oxygen supplies are under \"extreme pressure\".\n\nDr Nick Magee also said more younger patients were now being treated in hospital than during the first and second waves of the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nHe said in the past they did not have to consult other NI hospitals about how much oxygen they had.\n\n\"That was never a thing in previous January flu problems,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"But that is something we are now having to think of,\" he added.\n\nEarlier this week Northern Ireland's Chief Medical Officer Dr Michael McBride said there is enough oxygen to cope with the current demand.\n\nBut according to Dr Magee the current level of oxygen being used in \"bays\" at the Mater means patients cannot charge their mobile phones by their bedside because of the \"fire risk\".\n\n\"It is all well controlled and we are making sure that we can share out that oxygen burden. That is something we are having to think about,\" he said.\n\n\"I can't say specifically about other regional hospitals but I know that they are under extreme pressure and it's just something we have to think of as a region.\n\n\"Can we supply oxygen adequately for the amounts of oxygen we are using in hospitals?\"\n\nThe number of Covid positive hospital in-patients has increased significantly since last week - up from 599 a week ago to 850 on Thursday.\n\nThe number of people in ICU has also risen from 44 to 58 in the past week.\n\nDr Magee said staff were concerned about having to cope with \"large volumes\" of patients requiring respiratory support.\n\nHe said the number of younger patients becoming increasingly sick with the virus was growing.\n\nOn Wednesday, the Mater Hospital moved six patients who had been on wards into ICU and also took patients from the Southern Health Trust.\n\n\"Recently I saw a 29-year-old patient, also three who were in their mid 30s that all required respiratory support on a ward,\" he told BBC News NI.\n\n\"They are frightened they are wearing specialist masks CPAP masks that help them breathe. They are scared.\"\n\nThe relentless pressure of the past 10 months and the prospect of a further surge in admissions over the next fortnight is weighing heavily on the minds of medics.\n\n\"We are really worried about next week,\" said Dr Magee.\n\n\"It's very busy this week, we are coping well but we are particularly concerned about next week.\n\n\"Normally, if we had somebody who needed a lot of respiratory support we would involve a high dependency unit but all the respiratory wards are becoming like high dependency units.\n\n\"Volume of sicker, younger patients is much greater and it's not something that I would [have] ever seen before,\" he added.\n\nThe Southern Health and Social Care Trust said its hospitals had limited infrastructure to manage high numbers of patients requiring oxygen so a regional agreement was in place to share resources across Trusts to support Covid-positive patients.\n\n\"As a result some patients have been diverted to Belfast or SE Trust to help reduce pressure on the Southern Trust hospital system,\" a statement said.\n\n\"Craigavon and Daisy Hill hospitals remain very busy with high numbers of Covid-19 positive patients who are dependent on oxygen therapy.\n\n\"These protocols are in place as part of regional surge planning to ensure that we can safely manage the current high volume of Covid-19 patients needing hospital care.\n\n\"Patients who are currently being treated in Craigavon and Daisy Hill have secure supplies of oxygen.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Derby\n\nChampionship side Derby County have appointed England's record goalscorer Wayne Rooney as their new manager on a two-and-a-half-year contract.\n\nThe 35-year-old, who had been in interim charge since Phillip Cocu was sacked on 14 November, has now also officially retired as a player.\n\nRooney has overseen nine games so far, winning three and drawing four.\n\n\"The opportunity to follow Brian Clough, Jim Smith, Frank Lampard and Phillip Cocu is an honour,\" he said.\n\n\"I knew instinctively Derby County was the place for me.\"\n\nLiam Rosenior takes up the role of assistant manager, with former England boss Steve McClaren continuing as technical director and advisor to the board of directors.\n\nShay Given will become first-team coach and Justin Walker will remain as first-team development coach.\n\nThe Rams are third from bottom in the Championship, level on points with fourth-from-bottom Sheffield Wednesday.\n\nA takeover for the club is expected to go through this week, with a deal between current owner Mel Morris and the Derventio Holdings Group having been agreed in November.\n\nRams chief executive Stephen Pearce said in an interview with BBC Radio Derby on Thursday that there were no problems with the takeover, despite the delays meaning players have not been paid their December wages.\n\n\"Our recent upturn in results under Wayne was married together with some positive performances, notably the 2-0 home win over Swansea City and the 4-0 victory at Birmingham City,\" said Pearce.\n\n\"During that nine-game run we also dramatically improved their defensive record and registered five clean sheets in the process, while in the attacking third we became more effective and ruthless too.\n\n\"Those foundations have provided a platform for the club to build on in the second half of the season.\"\n\nRooney made his professional debut for boyhood club Everton in August 2002 aged just 16 and became the Premier League's youngest scorer with a superb long-range goal against Arsenal before his 17th birthday.\n\nAfter a strong Euro 2004 he moved to Manchester United for £27m, then a world record fee for a teenager.\n\nDuring 13 years with United he won the Premier League five times, the Champions League, the FA Cup and three League Cups.\n\nHis time with England was less successful in terms of team honours, although he did break Sir Bobby Charlton's long-standing record of 49 goals before retiring from international football in August 2017.\n\nHe made a farewell appearance for the Three Lions against the United States in a friendly in November 2018 to finish with 53 goals in 120 appearances.\n\nAfter a second stint at Everton and a spell with American side DC United, Rooney joined Derby in January 2020 as a player-coach on an initial 18-month contract.\n\nHe retires as the second-highest goalscorer in Premier League history, with 208 goals.\n\nWayne Rooney's presence at Derby County was felt on that hot August evening in 2019 when Phillip Cocu won his first match as manager at Huddersfield, a result overshadowed by the announcement of his signing.\n\nRooney's ambition to become a manager was there for all to see when chairman Mel Morris afforded him the opportunity to be a player-coach on arrival in January. He in fact arrived a few months before that but was unable to play, and stayed low key, observing from the sidelines.\n\nA year ago this month he made an instant impact to Derby's fortunes on the field. Players who were underachieving and perhaps found the grind of the Championship a little hard to handle, were taken up a notch by his presence.\n\nSome would say Rooney saved the Rams' season, but this term he struggled on the field and so did Derby.\n\nI am told it was written into his contract that he would have a chance to take control one day and he has already shown in his nine games in interim charge that he can get the squad playing in his image. Gone is the side-to-side, slow build-up possession game, it is a better product to watch.\n\nThe people around him have good pedigree in the game. Shay Given, Liam Rosenior, Justin Walker and Jason Pearcey have experience at all levels - but his relationship with Steve McClaren will be the most important of all.\n\nDerby fans have been calling out for a positive piece of news. Rooney's appointment is the first duck in a row with the takeover expected to be completed any time now and then Championship survival is the hope.\n• None Hear how David Bowie always managed to stay ahead of his time\n• None Joe Wicks and guests are here to bring positivity to your day", "A man accused of allegedly tricking a 92-year-old woman out of £160 for a fake coronavirus vaccination has been charged with fraud and common assault.\n\nDavid Chambers is accused of administering the fake vaccine at her Surbiton home in London last month.\n\nThe 33-year-old, also from Surbiton, is charged with five offences including fraud and going outside in a tier four area without a good reason.\n\nHe denied the charges when he appeared before magistrates on Friday.\n\nMr Chambers was remanded in custody until a hearing on 12 February.\n\nIn the UK, coronavirus vaccines are free of charge and available via the NHS.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Marcus Rashford and a group of celebrity chefs and campaigners have called on Boris Johnson to review the government's free school meals policy.\n\nThe group, including Jamie Oliver, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Tom Kerridge, have written to the PM asking him to \"fix\" the system long-term.\n\nThey called for a strategy to help \"end child food poverty\" before the summer holidays.\n\nNo 10 said \"no child will ever go hungry\" because of the Covid pandemic.\n\nThe call for a wide review comes after another row over free school meals during February half-term.\n\nThe government has said food will be provided to children by councils under the Covid Winter Grant Scheme while schools are closed for the holiday.\n\nCouncils and unions say the government should provide food vouchers instead, with the Local Government Association's Councillor Richard Watts telling BBC Radio 4's PM programme the grant had already been allocated for other support.\n\nBut Transport Secretary Grant Shapps told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"We are down to semantics whether it is the school delivering the meal or whether it is the local authority - fortunately there is quite a lot of different support available.\"\n\nAs well as getting the backing of Rashford - who has led campaigns around child poverty over the course of the pandemic - the letter has been signed by chefs Oliver, Kerridge and Fearnley-Whittingstall, along with actor Dame Emma Thompson and over 40 charities and education leaders.\n\nOrganised by the Food Foundation charity, the letter said it was time to \"step back and review the policy in more depth\".\n\nThey called for an \"urgent comprehensive review into free school meal policy across the UK\" to feed into the government's next Spending Review, saying it should look at:\n\nThe signatories praised the Department for Education's \"swift response\" to reports earlier this week of inadequate food parcels sent to families, saying the \"robustness of the message from you and the secretary of state on this issue was very welcome\".\n\nBut, they added that \"following the series of problems which have arisen over school food vouchers, holiday provision and food parcels since the start of the pandemic\", now was the time for a review.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tom Kerridge: There has to be a solution to free school meals\n\nAnna Taylor, executive director of the Food Foundation charity, said the last few months had seen \"crisis after crisis with the provision of free school meals\".\n\n\"The result of that is disadvantaged children have often paid the price,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"Our view is that really unless we do a root and branch review these problems are going to still keep appearing.\"\n\nChef Fearnley-Whittingstall also called for a more consistent, long-term response to the issue of food poverty.\n\n\"We need to get out of this fire-fighting, highly reactive series of actions by the government,\" he told the same programme.\n\nThe signatories want a review to be published and debated in Parliament before the 2021 summer holidays.\n\n\"We are ready and willing to support your government in whatever way we can to make this review a reality and to help develop a set of recommendations that everyone can support,\" the letter said.\n\n\"School food is essential in supporting the health and learning of our most disadvantaged children.\n\n\"Now, at a time when children have missed months of in-school learning and the pandemic has reminded us of the importance of our health, this is a vital next step.\"\n\nAnti-poverty campaigner and food writer Jack Monroe welcomed the letter to the PM, but told the BBC: \"We need to be feeding children right now.\"\n\nShe added: \"While it is great to be looking longer term... having an underpinning strategy that means that children aren't put into poverty in the first place, we need to also immediately be putting resources in to ensure people aren't going hungry, today, tonight, next week and in the February half-term.\n\n\"This isn't a rhetorical thing. It isn't a dinner party discussion. We need to be doing this now.\"\n\nA Downing Street spokesperson said: \"It is great that celebrities and groups across society see the importance of school food. The PM thanks Marcus Rashford for his letter and will reply soon.\n\n\"School food is essential in supporting the health and learning of the most disadvantaged pupils. The prime minister has been clear that no child will ever go hungry as a result of the pandemic\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRichard Leonard has resigned as Scottish Labour leader, saying it is in the best interests of the party for him to stand down.\n\nMr Leonard said he believed speculation about his leadership had become a \"distraction\".\n\nAnd he said he would be stepping down with immediate effect.\n\nHis resignation comes just months ahead of the Scottish Parliament election, which is scheduled to be held in May.\n\nMr Leonard had been leader of the party for three years after succeeding Kezia Dugdale.\n\nThe former union official had faced open calls to quit from some of his own MSPs last year amid concerns that his leadership style could damage the party in the forthcoming Scottish Parliament election.\n\nPolls have suggested that many Scottish Labour supporters struggle to recognise him, and he is closely associated with former UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nScottish Labour had dominated politics in Scotland for decades, but is currently the third largest party at Holyrood behind the SNP and Conservatives.\n\nAnd Mr Leonard's critics had questioned whether he was capable of turning the party's fortunes around.\n\nMr Leonard was seen as a close ally of former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn\n\nIn a statement, Mr Leonard said the decision to resign had not been easy - but he felt it was the right one for him and his party.\n\nHe said: \"I have thought long and hard over the Christmas period about what this crisis means, and the approach Scottish Labour takes to help tackle it.\n\n\"I have also considered what the speculation about my leadership does to our ability to get Labour's message across. This has become a distraction.\n\n\"I have come to the conclusion it is in the best interests of the party that I step aside as leader of Scottish Labour with immediate effect.\"\n\nHe also insisted that Scotland now needs a Labour government more than ever, and accused both the Scottish and UK governments of mishandling the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMr Leonard added: \"While I step down from the leadership today, the work goes on - and I will play my constructive part as an MSP in winning support for Labour's vision of a better future in a democratic economy and a socialist society.\"\n\nHis decision leaves Scottish Labour looking for its fifth leader since the independence referendum in 2014 - with Johann Lamont, Jim Murphy and Kezia Dugdale all having held the job since then.\n\nA Procedures Committee, to oversee the election of Mr Leonard's successor, has been formed and will have its first meeting on Friday.\n\nMeanwhile, Labour's Scottish Executive Committee will also meet in the coming days to agree a timetable for the process.\n\nMSP Jackie Baillie, who was Scottish Labour's deputy leader, has taken charge of the party on an interim basis.\n\nThis sudden resignation four months from the Holyrood elections seems to have taken Scottish Labour by surprise.\n\nMSPs I've spoken to said they did not see it coming.\n\nThere have been times when Richard Leonard has been under severe pressure from some in his party to stand down.\n\nWhen several MSPs publicly called for him to quit because the party had gone backwards at successive elections on his watch, he stood firm.\n\nHis critics seemed to have accepted that he would lead them and a divided party into the Holyrood election.\n\nThat has now changed and interim leader Jackie Baillie has to quickly organise a contest to replace him.\n\nIt's a contest in which Anas Sarwar, if he stands, would be an obvious frontrunner - even although he lost last time to Mr Leonard, who was seen as much closer to the then UK party leader, Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said Mr Leonard should be \"very proud\" of his achievements as leader of the party in Scotland.\n\nSir Keir added: \"I would like to thank Richard for his service to our party and his unwavering commitment to the values he believes in.\n\n\"Richard has led Scottish Labour through one of the most challenging and difficult periods in our country's history, including a general election and the pandemic.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Neil Findlay MSP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Leonard had been due to face a confidence vote at the party's ruling Executive Committee last September - but the motion was withdrawn at the last minute.\n\nIt came after four Scottish Labour MSPs called for him to go, warning that the party faced \"catastrophe\" at the ballot box under his leadership.\n\nThey pointed to the party's dismal performance in previous elections under Mr Leonard.\n\nScottish Labour finished fifth in the European election in May 2019, and then lost all but one of its MPs in the general election in December of the same year.\n\nMr Leonard insisted at the time that he intended to lead the party into this year's Holyrood election, and accused his opponents of waging \"internal war\" against him.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon, who faced Mr Leonard in her weekly question session in the Scottish Parliament, tweeted that she had \"always liked Richard Leonard\" despite their political difference.\n\nShe added: \"He is a decent guy and I wish him well for the future.\"\n\nRuth Davidson, who quit as leader of the Scottish Tories in 2019 before returning to lead the party at Holyrood, said she had always found Mr Leonard to be a \"thoroughly decent man and a committed campaigner.\"\n\nAnas Sarwar, who was defeated by Mr Leonard in the leadership contest in 2017 and is seen as one of the favourites to replace him, said he was sure Mr Leonard would \"continue to fight for a fairer, more just and more equal society today, tomorrow and long into the future.\"\n\nBut Labour MSP Neil Findlay, an outspoken supporter of Mr Leonard, took aim at those who had sought to oust him last year - describing them as \"flinching cowards\" and \"sneering traitors\".", "A rejuvenated Northumberland Line will help connect local communities to Newcastle city centre, say supporters\n\nTwo railway lines, closed to passengers since the 1960s, are to get almost £800m funding from the government.\n\nEast West Rail, which will eventually connect Oxford and Cambridge, will get £760m to open new parts of the line.\n\nThe Northumberland Line, which still carries freight, will get £34m for initial work aimed at reintroducing passenger services.\n\nReopening closed lines like these would help connect \"left-behind\" communities, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said.\n\n\"Restoring railways helps put communities back on the map and this investment forms part of our nationwide effort to build back vital connections and unlock access to jobs, education and housing,\" he said.\n\nThese investments would return these routes \"to their former glory\" and was part of the government's \"levelling up\" agenda, Mr Shapps added.\n\nDiesel engines will initially run on the lines, but Mr Shapps said he hoped more environmentally friendly trains, for example powered by hydrogen or new battery technology, would replace them in the future.\n\nWhen asked by the BBC why the lines wouldn't be electrified, he said these lines might potentially bypass the overhead wire technology altogether.\n\n\"We're building it in such a way that we can use, probably, the very latest technology, potentially, in the future,\" he said.\n\n\"The most important thing is the infrastructure,\" he said. \"It's about building the stations, things you need to do no matter what kind of train you're going to run on there, if it's going to take passengers.\"\n\nBut Labour MP Daniel Zeichner, who represents Cambridge, said: \"Every rail expert will tell you it will cost more later to electrify a line.\"\n\n\"In a time of climate emergency, we really shouldn't be building railway lines for diesel, it's got to be electric.\"\n\nThe line connecting Oxford and Cambridge would serve new housing developments, he said, and rail was \"the right way to get people in and out of a city like Cambridge\".\n\n\"It's very important for the UK economy, but it's got to be done in an environmentally sustainable way,\" he said. \"It seems crazy to be building new railways which aren't electrified in the first place, and I really hope the government will reconsider.\"\n\nThe East West Rail investment will rebuild a train line between Bicester and Bletchley which was closed in 1968.\n\nThe project is being delivered by a publicly-owned body called the East West Company.\n\nThe first phase of East West Rail, which was completed in 2016, connected Oxford and Bicester.\n\nBut at the moment, rail passengers wishing to go from Oxford to Bletchley have to take a detour via Coventry.\n\nThe aim is to get trains running between Oxford and Bletchley by 2025, with new stations at Winslow and Bletchley.\n\nThe Department for Transport said the works will create 1,500 jobs, and have a wider economic benefit for the area.\n\nThe eventual aim of the project, which the government expects to be completed by the end of the decade, is to connect Oxford and Cambridge by rail via Bedford, taking in Milton Keynes and Aylesbury on branches.\n\nThe Northumberland Line was closed to passengers in 1964 as part of a rationalisation of the railway network known as the Beeching cuts.\n\nHenri Murison, director of the Northern Powerhouse Partnership, said the Northumberland Line was \"a really critical piece of local infrastructure\" that would help bring people in south east Northumberland and north Tyneside closer to Newcastle city centre, and closer to well-paid jobs.\n\nPassengers would be able to take the train between Ashington and Newcastle\n\n\"Having better connectivity will help attract businesses to that area, and it will help to deliver genuine levelling-up,\" he said.\n\nThe new £34m investment, which aims to reopen the line between Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Ashington, will include funds for preparatory works and land acquisition.\n\nThere are plans for new stations at at Ashington, Bedlington, Blyth, Bebside, Newsham, Seaton Delaval, and Northumberland Park, in North Tyneside, as well as upgrades to the track and changes to level crossings where new bridges or underpasses were needed, the Department for Transport said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Supporters of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny protest against his arrest across Russia\n\nRussian police have detained more than 3,000 people in a crackdown on protests in support of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny, monitors say.\n\nTens of thousands of people defied a heavy police presence to join some of the largest rallies against President Vladimir Putin in years.\n\nIn Moscow, riot police were seen beating and dragging away protesters.\n\nMr Navalny, President Putin's most high-profile critic, called for protests after his arrest last Sunday.\n\nHe was detained after he flew back to Moscow from Berlin, where he had been recovering from a near-fatal nerve agent attack in Russia last August.\n\nOn his return, he was immediately taken into custody and found guilty of violating parole conditions. He says it is a trumped-up case designed to silence him.\n\nOVD Info, an independent NGO that monitors rallies, said about 3,100 people had been detained, more than 1,200 of them in Moscow alone. The Kremlin has not commented.\n\nThe unauthorised demonstrations were held in about 100 cities and towns from Russia's Far East and Siberia to Moscow and St Petersburg. Protesters ranged from teenage students to elderly people who demanded Mr Navalny's release.\n\nAt least 40,000 people joined a rally in central Moscow, Reuters news agency estimated. But Russia's interior ministry put the number of protesters at 4,000.\n\nObservers say the scale of the demonstrations across the country was unprecedented while the protest in the capital was the largest in almost a decade.\n\nRiot police used batons against protesters in Moscow\n\nIn the city's Pushkin square, some protesters chanted \"Freedom to Navalny\" and \"Putin go away!\" One woman told the BBC she had decided to join the demonstration because \"Russia has been turned into a prison camp\".\n\nSergei Radchenko, a 53-year-old protester in Moscow, told Reuters: \"I'm tired of being afraid. I haven't just turned up for myself and Navalny, but for my son because there is no future in this country.\"\n\nLyubov Sobol, a prominent aide of Mr Navalny who had already been fined for urging Russians to join the protests, tweeted a video of police roughly pulling her away from an interview with reporters.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Соболь Любовь This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Navalny's wife, Yulia, was briefly held at the rally. She posted an image on her Instagram account with the caption: \"Apologies for the poor quality. Very bad light in the police van.\"\n\nSome protesters marched on the high-security prison where Mr Navalny is being held, and many were arrested.\n\nMeanwhile, one independent news source, Sota, said at least 3,000 people had joined a demonstration in the city of Vladivostok, but local authorities there put the figure at 500.\n\nAFP footage showed riot police running into a crowd, and beating some of the protesters with batons.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police used batons to break up protests in Vladivostok\n\nIn the Siberian city of Yakutsk, attendees at a small protest saw temperatures dip as low as -50C (-58F).\n\nPrior to the rallies, Russian authorities had promised a tough crackdown. Several of Mr Navalny's close aides, including his spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh, were arrested earlier in the week.\n\nHis supporters called for more protests next weekend.\n\nThere were reports of disruption to mobile phone and internet coverage on Saturday, though it is not known if this was related to the protests.\n\nThe social media app TikTok had been flooded with videos promoting the demonstrations and sharing viral messages about Mr Navalny.\n\nIn response, Russia's official media watchdog, Roskomnadzor, demanded that TikTok take down any information \"encouraging minors to act illegally\", threatening large fines. The education ministry had told parents not to allow their children to attend any demonstrations.\n\nProtesters ignored extreme cold and threats of arrest in Moscow and other cities and towns\n\nIn a push to gain support ahead of the protests, Mr Navalny's team released a video about a luxury Black Sea resort that they allege belongs to President Putin - an accusation denied by the Kremlin. The video has been watched by more than 65 million people.\n\nThe UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, condemned the \"use of violence against peaceful protesters and journalists\" on Saturday, calling on the authorities to release those detained during peaceful demonstrations.\n\nThe US state department condemned what it called \"harsh tactics\" used against protesters and journalists, saying: \"We call on Russian authorities to release all those detained for exercising their universal rights and for the immediate and unconditional release of Aleksey Navalny\".\n\nThe EU foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, said the bloc's foreign ministers would discuss the Russian crackdown on Monday. \"I deplore widespread detentions, disproportionate use of force, cutting down internet and phone connections.\"", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic. We'll have another update for you on Sunday morning.\n\nSenior doctors have asked England's chief medical officer to halve the current 12-week gap between the first and second doses of the Pfizer-Biontech Covid-19 vaccine. The wait was originally three weeks but was then extended, a decision which Prof Chris Whitty said would double the number of people receiving jabs. But, in a letter seen by the BBC, the British Medical Association said the delay was \"difficult to justify\". It comes after the prime minister revealed the UK variant of Covid-19 may be more deadly.\n\nEfforts to distribute the jab in the European Union have faced another setback after UK drug-maker AstraZeneca warned of supply issues. Vaccinations have already been halted in some parts of Europe due to a cut in deliveries of the Pfizer vaccine. Cases in many European countries are surging. Germany has reached 50,000 Covid deaths and Spain has seen record infections in recent weeks.\n\nElizabeth Kerr and Simon O'Brien were engaged to be married when they were taken to hospital in the same ambulance with Covid-19. As his condition worsened, staff at Milton Keynes University Hospital rallied to arrange a wedding for them - and they were able to marry moments before he was sedated and put on a ventilator. Mrs Kerr said she was told it could be their only chance.\"Those are words I never, ever want to hear again,\" she said.\n\nElizabeth Kerr and Simon O'Brien were married moments before he was put on a mechanical ventilator\n\nOn 23 January last year, the Chinese authorities severed transport links out of Wuhan and confined the city's population to their homes. Wuhan has long since recovered from the world's first outbreak of Covid-19. Its streets are bustling again. A year on, John Sudworth explores how it is now being remembered not as a disaster but as a victory, and with an insistence that the virus came from somewhere - anywhere - else.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Robin Brant visits the Wuhan market where Covid-19 was first traced\n\nMillions of us are less physically active than we were before Covid-19. For those working from home, days on end can be spent hunched over a laptop without ever leaving the house. A survey of people working remotely, by Opinium for the charity Versus Arthritis, found 81% of respondents were experiencing some back, neck or shoulder pain. Here are some tips that could help.\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nWondering when you might be able to get a vaccine? Health reporter Philippa Roxby takes you through what you need to know.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Questions should be asked if politicians who drank on Welsh Parliament premises during a pub alcohol ban can stand for re-election, an ex-standards official has said.\n\nSenedd Tory leader Paul Davies, Darren Millar and Labour's Alun Davies have apologised - they are not thought to have broken the rules, but the two Tories admitted it would not be seen as in their spirit.\n\nA fourth Senedd Member Nick Ramsay has denied being part of the gathering.", "Amy says her flat isn't worth anything until it is made safe\n\nThe government's fund to pay for the removal of dangerous cladding is woefully inadequate, oversubscribed and taking too long to make buildings safe, campaigners say.\n\nMore than three and a half years since the Grenfell Tower fire which killed 72 people, an estimated 700,000 people are still living in high-rise blocks with flammable cladding.\n\nThe £1.6bn Building Safety Programme was set up in 2019. Concerns have emerged about the contract that the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government requires applicants to the fund, usually managing agents or building owners, to sign.\n\nA clause in the contract, seen by the BBC, indicates applicants will be financially liable for any repair work not covered by the fund.\n\nThe BBC has learnt that some managing agents are refusing to sign the document, further delaying the repair work, and have written to the government asking ministers to clarify the position.\n\nChristian Hansen, a solicitor at Bindmans LLP specialising in housing law and fire safety claims, said the contract showed that \"there's going to be a significant shortfall between the costs of the [repair] works that are required and the funding provided under the scheme\".\n\n\"Someone is going to need to pick up the bill and pay the difference. This contract makes clear it's going to be the leaseholders and for many, this could be tens of thousands of pounds, potentially ruinous costs,\" he warned.\n\nMr Hansen said that leaseholders wanted the focus of government action \"to be on the manufacturers of the defective materials and construction companies who built these buildings\".\n\n\"At the moment, they are the ones profiting from putting people's lives at risk.\"\n\n\"It is absolutely terrifying knowing that you are stuck here,\" says Amy\n\nFirst-time buyer Amy Cottenden, who is 28, bought a one-bed flat in Metis Tower in the centre of Sheffield for £85,000 in 2017.\n\nInspections of the 14-storey building in the wake of the Grenfell Tower tragedy revealed it had the same type of flammable ACM cladding and other safety faults.\n\nWork to remove the cladding started last month, but Ms Cottenden, who is a frontline NHS health worker, is frustrated at what she describes as a lack of progress.\n\n\"The pace of work is extremely slow. So far, they've put scaffolding up and removed three panels. They have told us it's going to take between 12 and 24 months just to take the cladding off,\" she said.\n\n\"It is absolutely terrifying knowing that you are stuck here. With lockdown, they are saying not to go out, but you are in a building where all you want to do is not be in it. You can't leave. You can't sell. My flat isn't worth anything until it is made safe.\"\n\nWhile the government's Building Safety Fund is paying for the Grenfell-style cladding to be removed, the building has other fire safety faults, including missing fire breaks, that aren't covered by the scheme.\n\nIt could cost up to £6m to fix. Flat owners fear they may face huge bills of up to £50,000 each.\n\n\"We can't pay it and we shouldn't have to pay it. It is not our fault. We could all go bankrupt because of this,\" Ms Cottenden said.\n\nA spokesperson for Rendall & Rittner, the company which manages Metis Tower, said government funding to remove ACM cladding had been approved totalling £6.3m.\n\nHowever, an application to the same fund to pay for the removal of other types of unsafe cladding was rejected and the company has appealed against that decision.\n\nThe company added: \"We understand and sympathise with residents and owners about the uncertainty that this situation is causing and will do all we can to assist.\"\n\nWhat started as a cladding scandal has now become a much wider building safety crisis, exposing decades of regulatory failure.\n\nSafety inspections have revealed that many buildings have other serious faults, including missing fire breaks, flammable balconies and defective insulation. None of that is covered by the government's Building Safety Fund.\n\nDr Nigel Glen, the chief executive of ARMA, the trade association for residential leasehold management, said the additional costs that leaseholders were currently facing for non-cladding-related issues remained a huge concern.\n\n\"In the longer term, the draining of reserve funds will also mean that in the years to come, any major works that were being saved up for, such as a new roof or lift repairs, will have to be funded anew by the leaseholders,\" he added.\n\nA spokesperson for the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government said that despite the pandemic, significant progress had been made to remove dangerous cladding, but \"building safety remains the responsibility of the building owner and we expect them to ensure any necessary work is carried out safely and effectively\".\n\n\"All applicants to the Building Safety Fund are told the amount of funding they have been awarded before being asked to sign contracts - this is clearly explained in the guidance,\" the spokesperson added.", "Scientists say signs a new coronavirus variant is more deadly than the earlier version should not be a \"game changer\" in the UK's response to the pandemic.\n\nBoris Johnson has said there is \"some evidence\" the variant may be associated with \"a higher degree of mortality\".\n\nBut the co-author of the study the PM was referring to said the variant's deadliness remained an \"open question\".\n\nAnother adviser said he was surprised Mr Johnson had shared the findings when the data was \"not particularly strong\".\n\nA third top medic said it was \"too early\" to be \"absolutely clear\".\n\nAt a Downing Street coronavirus news conference on Friday, the prime minister said: \"In addition to spreading more quickly, it also now appears that there is some evidence that the new variant - the variant that was first identified in London and the South East - may be associated with a higher degree of mortality.\"\n\nSpeaking alongside the PM, the government's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said there was \"a lot of uncertainty around these numbers\" but that early evidence suggested the variant could be about 30% more deadly.\n\nFor example, Sir Patrick said if 1,000 men in their 60s were infected with the old variant, roughly 10 of them would be expected to die - but this rises to about 13 with the new variant.\n\nThe announcement followed a briefing by scientists on the government's New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag) which concluded there was a \"realistic possibility\" that the variant was associated with an increased risk of death.\n\nBut one of the briefing's co-authors, Prof Graham Medley, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"The question about whether it is more dangerous in terms of mortality I think is still open.\"\n\n\"In terms of making the situation worse it is not a game changer. It is a very bad thing that is slightly worse,\" added Prof Medley, who is a professor of infectious disease modelling at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.\n\nAnother 1,348 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test were reported in the UK on Saturday, in addition to 33,552 new infections, according to the government's coronavirus dashboard.\n\nThere is huge uncertainty in the evidence on how lethal the variant is.\n\nThe scientific experts that reviewed the data used a precise phrase saying it was a \"realistic possibility\" the new variant is more deadly.\n\nThat means there's a roughly 50-50 chance it will turn out to be true.\n\nWith time, and sadly more deaths, the picture will become clearer.\n\nWhile people debate the uncertainties though, we already know this variant has the ability to kill more people than the old ones.\n\nA virus that spreads faster (this one is 30-70% faster) will infect more people, more quickly, putting a greater strain on hospitals and leading to a sharper spike in deaths.\n\nIt is why viruses becoming more transmissible can be a bigger problem than ones becoming more deadly.\n\nNervtag's chairman Prof Peter Horby defended the government's \"transparency\" in making the announcement.\n\n\"Scientists are looking at the possibility that there is increased severity... and after a week of looking at the data we came to the conclusion that it was a realistic possibility,\" he said.\n\n\"We need to be transparent about that. If we were not telling people about this we would be accused of covering it up.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Patrick Vallance: \"There is evidence that there's an increased risk for those who have the new variant\"\n\nBut Dr Mike Tildesley, a member of Sage subgroup the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling (Spi-M), agreed it was too early to draw \"strong conclusions\" as the suggested increased mortality rates were based on \"a relatively small amount of data\".\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast he was \"actually quite surprised\" Mr Johnson had made the early findings public rather than monitoring the data \"for a week or two more\".\n\n\"I just worry that where we report things pre-emptively where the data are not really particularly strong,\" Dr Tildesley added.\n\nPublic Health England medical director Dr Yvonne Doyle also said it was not \"absolutely clear\" the new variant was more deadly than the original.\n\n\"There is some evidence, but it is very early evidence. It is small numbers of cases and it is far too early to say,\" she told the Today programme.\n\nMeanwhile, senior doctors are calling on England's chief medical officer to cut the gap between the first and second doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nThe British Medical Association told Prof Chris Whitty an extension to the maximum gap between jab from three weeks to 12 weeks, to get the first dose to more people, was \"difficult to justify\".", "In 2002 Julienne created a motor stunt show that ran for many years at Disney theme parks in Paris and Florida. Image caption: In 2002 Julienne created a motor stunt show that ran for many years at Disney theme parks in Paris and Florida.\n\nRémy Julienne, one of the world's best-known stuntmen, has died in France with coronavirus, aged 90.\n\nOver a 50-year career, Julienne devised the crashes, crunches and collisions witnessed in more than 1,400 films.\n\nHe also starred in many of them, albeit anonymously.\n\nThe legendary cascadeur (stunt performer) appeared as a body double for a host of stars, including Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Charles Bronson and Jean-Paul Belmondo.\n\nIn wig and appropriate clothing, he also took on the form of Sophia Loren, Carole Bouquet and Gina Lollobrigida.\n\nAmong his most famous works are the chase scenes in 1969's The Italian Job, in which a fleet of Mini-Coopers in Turin cross a river, dive into the metro and jump from the roof of the Fiat factory.\n\nHe also worked on six Bond films, notably going behind the wheel of a battered yellow Citroën 2CV in For Your Eyes Only.\n\nA life-long lover of motorbikes and anything driven at speed, Julienne specialised in spectacular destruction. But he was committed to the maximum elimination of risk and calculated his stunts with extreme precision.\n\n\"What is beautiful about the job is that you can never be 100% certain,\" he said. \"If you could, then frankly it wouldn't be interesting.", "Keon Lincoln died after being subjected to \"inconceivable violence\"\n\nA second boy has been arrested on suspicion of murdering a 15-year-old who was attacked by a group of youths.\n\nKeon Lincoln was \"set upon\" at about 15:30 GMT on Thursday on Linwood Road in Handsworth, Birmingham, and died later in hospital, police said.\n\nA 14-year-old boy was arrested at a Birmingham address on Friday and is in custody, said West Midlands Police.\n\nAnother 14-year-old, arrested earlier on Friday, also remains in custody.\n\nDet Ch Insp Alastair Orencas, who is leading a murder inquiry, said Keon died \"in the most violent of circumstances\".\n\nThe latest arrest was \"another step forward and Keon's family have been fully updated with this latest development,\" he said.\n\n\"This is a challenging investigation given the number of offenders we believe were involved, but I have a dedicated team of officers working 24/7 to identify those involved and we are making swift progress.\"\n\nKeon was attacked on Linwood Road, a residential street in the Handsworth area of Birmingham\n\nThe attackers fled the scene in a car which crashed into a house a short distance away. Police have seized the vehicle.\n\nCordons placed at the scene in Linwood Road and Wheeler Street, where the car was abandoned, have now been lifted, said the West Midlands force.\n\nPolice confirmed Keon, who lived locally, was attacked with weapons but did not specify which sort.\n\nDetectives say they are unable to say how he died before a post-mortem examination takes place.\n\nAnyone who could identify the attackers has been urged to contact the force.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police released body-worn camera footage of people streaming from the premises\n\nTwo officers were injured as they broke up an \"incredibly selfish\" party, involving about 200 people, in one of London's most expensive neighbourhoods.\n\nOfficers investigated an address on Beauchamp Place, Kensington, at about 03.30 GMT on 17 January, following reports of a mass gathering.\n\nAttendees became hostile and pushed through to avoid being fined, injuring two officers, police said.\n\nThe owner has previously been issued with a £1,000 fine, police said.\n\nPolice discovered about 200 guests at a party on Beauchamp Place, Kensington\n\nSupt Michael Walsh said: \"Attending or organising such parties during this critical period is an incredibly selfish decision to make.\n\n\"While the majority of breaches have been resolved without incident, it deeply saddens me that some individuals have chosen to assault police who are simply doing their part in the collective battle against this deadly virus.\"\n\nPolice said the event was one of a string of late-night parties uncovered in Kensington over the last month.\n\nOn 20 December, police shut down an illegal gathering at a commercial property on Montpelier Street. The property has since been closed.\n\nAn owner of a venue on Harrow Road is facing a £10,000 fine after police found more than 30 socialising during a raid on 16 January.\n\nOn Thursday, police also broke up a wedding party in north London.\n\nThe Met Police originally claimed about 400 guests were at the gathering, but then on Friday said 150 people were present at the Yesodey Hatorah Senior Girls' School.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The number of coronavirus patients on mechanical ventilation in the UK has passed 4,000 for the first time in the pandemic.\n\nA total of 4,076 Covid patients were in ventilator beds as of Friday, according to government data.\n\nThat is higher than during the first wave, when the peak was 3,301 on 12 April.\n\nIt comes as another 1,348 deaths and 33,552 new infections were reported on Saturday.\n\nThe UK's chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, told a Downing Street news briefing on Friday: \"The death rate's awful and it's going to stay, I'm afraid, high for a little while before it starts coming down.\"\n\nMeanwhile, new figures show that a record number of seriously-ill Covid patients are being transferred from over-stretched hospitals because of a lack of bed space.\n\nAbout 1 in 10 patients admitted to intensive care are being sent to a different site, according to the body which audits critical care services.\n\nIn a series of reports in the past week, the BBC's Clive Myrie has been to a mortuary and the Royal London Hospital, where 12 out of 15 floors are occupied by Covid patients and staff are struggling to cope.\n\nMartin Freeborn's wife Helen, 64, died with Covid-19 at the hospital shortly before he spoke to the BBC.\n\nMr Freeborn urged people to \"be over-careful\" in taking precautions to stay safe from the virus because \"you don't want this to happen\".\n\n\"Nobody wants to go through this... Don't end up like us, please,\" he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Martin Freeborn's wife, Helen, died from Covid at the Royal London Hospital: 'Don't end up like us, please'\n\nThe number of people in mechanical ventilation beds has climbed every day since 18 December when it was 1,364 and now stands at 4,076.\n\nIt is one of the key figures the government considers when deciding its policy on when to ease coronavirus lockdown restrictions.\n\nWhen the pandemic first struck the UK, the government saw what had happened in hospitals in China and Italy and prioritised the provision of ventilators in British hospitals.\n\nIt set about buying as many ventilators as possible, and encouraged British manufacturers to design the machines to build stocks to cope with the worst-case Covid scenario. In September last year, a report found the NHS now had 30,000 ventilators available - about one for every 2,200 people in the UK.\n\nPeople in hospital are also being treated differently from the early days of the pandemic - which may explain why figures suggest slightly more people go on to recover after being on ventilation than back in March, April and May.\n\nA number of drugs are being tested as possible treatments for people with the disease, the BBC's health and science correspondent James Gallagher has said.\n\nThey include the steroid dexamethasone, which has been shown to reduce the risk of death by a third for ventilated patients and by a fifth for those on oxygen. Encouraging results have also been reported from two anti-inflammatory medications, tocilizumab and sarilumab.\n\nDr Ami Jones, intensive care consultant at Aneurin Bevan University Health Board, in Wales, said there had been \"carnage\" for the \"last few weeks\".\n\nSpeaking whilst on shift, she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"We're maybe at 150% capacity and I know London are much worse than that.\n\n\"We've a steady stream of fit, young patients requiring critical care and sadly we're losing some of those patients.\n\n\"We lost a patient overnight and I've replaced them with a patient of similar age.\n\n\"It's heartbreaking - and it's been going on for weeks and weeks and we haven't seen any kind of stop yet.\"\n\nDr Jones said the average Covid patient stays in hospital between two to four weeks \"and it really puts them through it\".\n\nShe added: \"You really want people who are going to be able to survive that three or four weeks and actually come out the other end and make a good recovery.\n\n\"We're not stopping people having care but we're giving it to the people we feel have the best chance of getting through what is a horrific situation we're going to put them through.\"\n\nDr Jones said nurses are \"broken\", both physically, from months of long shifts in personal protective equipment (PPE), and emotionally - partly due to the impact of the virus on them, their families and the community.\n\nDr Rupert Pearse, consultant in intensive care medicine at a London hospital, speaking on behalf of the Intensive Care Society, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that a \"huge number\" of patients were still attending hospital.\n\nHe said: \"Whilst we know the infection rate has probably now peaked, and we can be hopeful to soon be sure we've hit a hospital admissions peak, admissions to ICU [the intensive care unit] usually lag 48 hours behind that.\n\n\"So we're still very very worried that we're being pushed right up to the wire in terms of the resources we're able to deliver for patient care.\"\n\nDr Pearse added that there were three or four times more critical care beds in some hospitals than they would usually have.\n\nHe said: \"I can remember a time when it would take years for an intensive care unit to negotiate one extra bed on a complement of 14 or 15 beds.\n\n\"We, within a few weeks, have massively increased the number of beds and finding the staff - most importantly of all - to deliver that has been a huge logistical exercise.\"\n\nReacting to the ventilation figures, Dr Charlotte Hopkins, deputy chief medical officer for Barts Health NHS trust in east London, said on Twitter there had been a \"fast-paced increase\" since 18 December, and that more than a third of the 4,076 ventilated patients were in London.\n\nIt comes as some scientists said that signs a new Covid variant is more deadly than the earlier version should not be a \"game changer\" in the UK's response to the pandemic.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said on Friday that there was \"some evidence\" the variant that emerged in the UK may be associated with \"a higher degree of mortality\".\n\nBut Prof Graham Medley, the co-author of the study the PM was referring to, said the variant's deadliness remained an \"open\" question.\n\nDr Mike Tildesley, a member of Sage subgroup the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling (Spi-M), said he was \"surprised\" Mr Johnson had shared the findings when the data was \"not particularly strong\".\n\nPublic Health England medical director Dr Yvonne Doyle said it was \"too early\" to be \"absolutely clear\".\n\n\"There is some evidence, but it is very early evidence. It is small numbers of cases and it is far too early to say,\" she told the Today programme.\n\nUp to and including 22 January, 5,861,351 people have now had their first Covid jab and 468,617 have had their second dose.\n\nSenior doctors are calling on England's chief medical officer to cut the gap between the first and second doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nThe British Medical Association told Prof Chris Whitty an extension to the maximum gap between jab from three weeks to 12 weeks, to get the first dose to more people, was \"difficult to justify\".\n\nThe UK's four chief medical officers have previously defended the delay to the second jab in a letter to medical staff, saying: \"unvaccinated people are far more likely to end up severely ill, hospitalised [or] in some cases dying\".", "Even while posted at the US Capitol, many troops have been seen sleeping on the floor\n\nUS President Joe Biden has apologised after some members of the National Guard stationed at the Capitol were pictured sleeping in a car park.\n\nMore than 25,000 troops were deployed to Washington DC for his inauguration after violence earlier this month.\n\nImages spread on Thursday showing them forced to rest in a nearby parking garage after lawmakers returned.\n\nThe conditions sparked anger among politicians, and some state governors recalled troops over the controversy.\n\nMr Biden called the chief of the National Guard Bureau on Friday to apologise and ask what could be done, according to US media reports.\n\nFirst Lady Jill Biden also visited some of the troops to thank them personally, bringing biscuits from the White House as a gift.\n\n\"I just wanted to come today to say thank you to all of you for keeping me and my family safe,\" she said.\n\nThe photographs showing hundreds of troops in a parking garage went viral on Thursday and sparked outrage, including from members of Congress.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMany voiced concerns about the conditions, with guardsmen exposed to car fumes and without proper access to facilities like toilets after having been on alert for days.\n\nImages of the cramped conditions also sparked fears about the spread of coronavirus.\n\nA US official, speaking anonymously to Reuters news agency, said on Friday that between 100 and 200 of those deployed had tested positive for Covid-19. The figure - which would represent a small proportion of the more than 25,000 deployed, has not been publicly confirmed.\n\nChuck Schumer, a Democrat and the new Senate majority leader, said that the move was \"an outrage\" and pledged it \"will never happen again\".\n\nRon DeSantis, Florida's governor, was among those who said he had ordered guards from his state to return home following the controversy.\n\n\"This is a half-cocked mission at this point and the appropriate thing is to bring them home,\" he told Fox News on Friday.\n\nThe Senate Rules Committee is also investigating the issue, Senator Roy Blunt told Politico.\n\nThere are conflicting reports about why the troops were moved from the Capitol.\n\nA National Guard spokesman told US media they were moved on Thursday afternoon at the request of the Capitol Police because of \"increased foot traffic\" as Congress came back into session.\n\nThe acting chief of the Capitol Police, Yogananda Pittman, later said her agency \"did not instruct the National Guard to vacate the Capitol Building facilities\", while two officers contradicted her statement in comments to the Associated Press news agency.\n\nThe decision was reversed later on Thursday, when the troops were allowed to return to the Capitol.\n\nA joint statement from the US National Guard and US Capitol Police on Friday said they had worked together to make sure those in the Capitol Complex had \"appropriate spaces\" to take on-duty breaks.\n\nThey also said off-duty troops were being housed in hotel rooms or other accommodation and thanked members of Congress for their concern.\n\nSome 19,000 guardsmen will return to their home states in the coming days with about 7,000 expected to stay on in Washington, according to the New York Times.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Relatives of older people in Wales called the vaccinations \"poorly organised\"\n\nRural GPs are to run new community vaccination centres after concerns over the speed of the roll-out in Wales.\n\nFrom Saturday, three new vaccination hubs will open to give over-80s and those with mobility issues the jab.\n\nIt comes after some living in rural areas said they had been told to travel miles to get the jab or wait weeks to have their first dose.\n\nHealth Minister Vaughan Gething said it would help immunise hundreds of over-80s this weekend.\n\nThere has been criticism of the speed of the roll-out in Wales, with some telling the BBC elderly and housebound relatives had been told there would be a wait if they could not get to their GP surgery.\n\nA total of 212,317 people have been given their first dose of vaccine in Wales, up to 21 January - just over 6.7% of the population.\n\nThe Welsh Government hopes to have 70% of over-80s immunised by the end of this weekend.\n\nBy 21 January, 30% of the over-80s and 60% of care home residents had been given the first dose.\n\nOn Saturday, the Welsh Government announced doctors surgeries in rural areas would join forces to help administer the jab to the elderly and vulnerable.\n\nThe first of the new community centres, run by clusters of GP practices, are to open on the Llyn Peninsula, in Buckley in Flintshire, and Bridgend.\n\nThey will be able to administer both the Pfizer-BioNTech and the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccines.\n\nUntil now, the Pfizer vaccine could only be administered at special mass-vaccination centres, due to the low temperatures it needs to be stored at.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it hoped 3,000 people would get the vaccine administered at the centres this weekend.\n\nHealth Minister Vaughan Gething said: \"Vaccination is our top priority so I want to thank all the GP practices right across Wales that are working in unison to set up these new community vaccination centres.\n\n\"This enables GPs to use both of the vaccines available to us and will help more people to be vaccinated somewhere that is much closer to home than the large vaccination centres.\n\n\"Every week, our vaccination programme speeds up as more centres are opened and more vaccines are available for the small army of healthcare professionals administering vaccines.\"\n\nIn north Wales, a group of GPs have formed a group to deliver about 1,000 vaccines to elderly and vulnerable people.\n\nDr Eilir Hughes, a GP at Ty Doctor Surgery, Gwynedd, said rural GPs had faced a \"real challenge\" to get the most vulnerable patients vaccinated as soon as possible.\n\nThe surgery is about 50 miles away from the nearest vaccination centre in north-west Wales.\n\nHe said bringing three GP practices together to vaccinate hundreds of patients in two days was a \"Herculean effort\".", "Helen White's lighting business is struggling to absorb a six-fold increase in freight costs.\n\n\"We were paying £1,600 per container in November, this month we've been quoted over £10,000,\" says Helen White.\n\nThe founder of start-up Houseof.com, which imports lighting from China, says the rise in shipping costs means she's making a loss on what she sells.\n\nShe's one of many UK importers facing soaring freight costs amid a global shipping crisis that may last months.\n\nA shortage of empty shipping containers in Asia and bottlenecks at the UK's deep sea ports are behind the problems.\n\nIt was hoped the backlogs could be cleared during the Chinese New Year holiday in February, but instead a coronavirus outbreak in China is adding to the uncertainty facing firms.\n\nIn the UK the difficulties in international shipping have coincided with problems faced by businesses trading with the EU after Brexit.\n\nOne Manchester-based freight forwarder said the logistics industry is facing the most challenging conditions he's seen in the 17 years he's been in the business.\n\nCraig Poole from Cardinal Maritime said during lockdowns, people have been turning to online shopping, and that's causing a surge in demand for goods from China.\n\nFreight forwarder Craig Poole says the logistics industry is facing hugely challenging conditions\n\nBut some companies can't absorb the skyrocketing freight costs that shipping lines are charging. That could lead to higher prices for consumers or businesses having to close.\n\n\"The really unfortunate thing is, the small businesses who can't afford to pay those rates are going to go under as a result,\" Mr Poole said.\n\nHelen White's lighting range is designed in the UK and manufactured in Guangzhou, China.\n\nShe said the six-fold increase in shipping costs is hard to take, especially when getting hold of a container \"is like gold dust\".\n\n\"It's really hard for a small business to absorb those costs. We'll be making a loss on the goods we're selling.\"\n\nLighting seller houseof.com is struggling to import stock from China\n\nAt the other end of the supply chain, Chinese manufacturers and logistics firms say they are equally frustrated.\n\nJohnny Tseng is the owner and director of Hong Kong-based J&B Clothing Company Ltd., which manufactures garments for some of the UK's most popular fashion sites including Boohoo and Pretty Little Thing.\n\nHe's been supplying clothes to British retailers for more than 40 years, but he says his family-run firm won't be able to absorb inflated shipping rates for much longer.\n\n\"To be honest I don't even know how we can survive if we carry on shipping things at this kind of cost.\"\n\nJohnny Tseng says sky-high shipping rates are putting his business at risk.\n\nHe says he's now being quoted $14,000 to ship a container to the UK, when the usual price is $2,500.\n\nThe shortage of empty containers in China and congestion at UK ports caused some of his stock to miss the busy Christmas trading period. Now some customers are holding orders for their Autumn-Winter collections until next year.\n\n\"It's chaos,\" he said. \"We are making a loss. We take it as a loss leader and keep our fingers crossed it will go back to normal after Chinese New Year, but it is a major issue if it persists this way.\"\n\nUsually during the Chinese New Year holiday, factories in China shut down for two weeks. There were hopes the pause in production would give UK ports a chance to clear the backlog of ships waiting to dock, and encourage shipping lines to move more empty containers back to Asia, which is a less profitable journey.\n\nChinese workers usually travel home for the Chinese New Year holiday.\n\nBut rising numbers of coronavirus cases have prompted the Chinese authorities to stagger factory closing dates so that not all workers are travelling to their home regions at the same time. A worsening outbreak could lead to travel restrictions, in which case some factories may not stop production at all.\n\nCraig Poole says some companies have been caught out by factories closing earlier than planned.\n\n\"A lot of businesses that can't get those goods away are delaying orders until after Chinese New Year, so this situation could continue 'til March,\" he said.\n\nPatrick Lee from the Hong Kong-based Unique Logistics International said it could be even longer than that.\n\n\"Middle of the year at the earliest is what we're hearing from end customers in the UK, and also from some of our people in the industry. Some of the carriers as well,\" he said.\n\nMr Lee has called on the shipping lines to add more ships to help ease the backlog of stock orders building up at warehouses across China.\n\n\"They are increasing sailing but can increase a lot more. There are idle ships out there that they can reactivate without too much difficulty,\" he said.\n\nThe disruption could last for several months, according to logistics specialist Patrick Lee\n\nBut a spokeswoman for the World Shipping Council said carriers are using all available capacity.\n\n\"The demand for transportation service far exceeds supply. As in any free market, this puts upward pressure on rates,\" she said.\n\nShipping lines have been trying to drive down demand from British importers by charging a premium for deliveries to the UK, or bypassing the country's ports altogether.\n\nOne shipping line recently offered freight rates of $12,050 for a 40ft container from China to Southampton, but charged just $8,450 for the same container to travel from China to Rotterdam, Hamburg, or Antwerp.\n\nThe UK's largest container port at Felixstowe has been experiencing long delays since October. Congestion has also been a problem at the Port of Southampton, albeit to a lesser extent.\n\nThe bottlenecks were initially caused by a surge in imports as business activity picked up after the first wave of the pandemic. Huge shipments of PPE and the usual Christmas rush added to container volumes and ports struggled to cope.\n\nThe UK's largest container port at Felixstowe has been experiencing bottlenecks for months\n\n\"Most of the carriers just don't want UK cargo because of the issues when the vessels dock, so mainly they're favouring European ports and we are having to truck containers over,\" said freight forwarder Craig Poole.\n\nHe said that adds a cost of up to £2,000 per container, and takes an extra seven to ten days to reach the delivery point in the UK.\n\nFor business-owners like Helen White, the difficulties affecting the shipping industry can't be solved quickly enough.\n\n\"Lots of little start-ups are really hurting,\" she said. \"It has been paired with logistical nightmares across Europe as well. It just feels like logistics is falling apart at the moment. It's hard to see where the resolution is.\"", "Paul Davies had been preparing to lead his party's Senedd election campaign in the coming months\n\nPaul Davies has been something of an understated figure leading the Welsh Conservative group in Cardiff Bay since he won the race to succeed Andrew RT Davies in September 2018.\n\nThe Senedd member for Preseli Pembrokeshire tried to move the party group in the direction of being more sceptical of devolution.\n\nBut a row over drinking on Senedd premises ended his ambitions to be the first Conservative first minister of Wales.\n\nBorn in 1969, Paul Davies grew up in the village of Pontsian in Ceredigion.\n\nHe attended Llandysul Grammar School and Newcastle Emlyn Comprehensive School before working for a bank for 20 years.\n\nMr Davies entered Cardiff Bay politics in 2007 when he was elected to the then National Assembly for Wales. He was appointed deputy leader of the Welsh Conservative group in 2011 before becoming interim leader and then leader in 2018.\n\nPaul Davies backed Boris Johnson in the UK Conservative leadership campaign in 2019\n\nPresented as a safe pair of hands during his leadership campaign he has, at times, almost appeared to have been overshadowed by his predecessor Andrew RT Davies, who sometimes seems to enjoy media appearances more than his leader.\n\nFaced with the potential rise of the Abolish the Welsh Assembly Party, Paul Davies attempted to steer the Welsh Tories towards a more devo-sceptic, if not anti-devolution, approach.\n\nHe pledged a future Conservative Welsh Government would not \"tread on Westminster's turf\", and \"respect what is not devolved\" by \"unpicking\" the Welsh Government's international relations department.\n\nThere were also promises to halve the current number of Welsh ministers to seven, freeze civil servant recruitment and not increase the budget of the body which runs the Senedd if he became first minister.\n\nWelsh political structures need a \"dose\" of Dominic Cummings, Paul Davies has said\n\nBut the coronavirus pandemic has, arguably, made it even harder for opposition party leaders in the Senedd to cut through to the wider electorate.\n\nThe crisis has given Labour First Minister Mark Drakeford a much bigger profile, on a Wales and UK stage, making it more difficult for other Welsh party leaders to get onto the news agenda.\n\nLast July, there were raised eyebrows when Paul Davies suggested \"a dose of Dom\" was needed in Wales to \"shake up\" its governance.\n\nThe reference to the prime minister's now departed chief advisor and brutal political operator Dominic Cummings was interesting, given the criticism heaped on Mr Cummings a couple of months earlier for driving his family 260 miles from his London home to Durham during lockdown, and a subsequent 25-mile trip to check his eyesight before a return trip.\n\nBacking Remain at the 2016 referendum on EU membership, Paul Davies aimed to steer a steady course during a fractious period for a Conservative Party dealing with the polarising issue of Brexit.\n\nHe has been loyal to the UK party leader of the day, and often stuck to the Westminster line rather than try to carve an independent stance.\n\nDespite this, Mr Davies had wanted the Tory Senedd group leader to be given the title Welsh Conservative leader.\n\nIt is something the party has never formally agreed to do despite a review of its Welsh structures.", "Up to 500 new prison cells are to be built in women's jails, the Ministry of Justice has announced.\n\nThese will be built in existing women's prisons to increase the number of single cells available and improve conditions.\n\nThey will include in-cell showers, and some will enable women to have overnight visits with their children to prepare for life at home after release.\n\nIn future, older cells could also be shut if the prison population reduces.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has also pledged almost £2m in funding to 38 charities so their \"vital work in steering women away from crime can continue\".\n\nThis may include addressing mental health problems and drug use, both of which affect around half of women in prison.\n\nPrisons minister Lucy Frazer said: \"This funding boost will allow frontline services to continue the incredible work they do with some of the most vulnerable women in our society to prevent them being drawn into crime.\"\n\nAnnouncing the funding, the government reiterated its promise to cut the number of women in custody and provide effective support to deal with problems which could lead to crime in the first place or reoffending.\n\nBut it admitted there could be a temporary rise of inmates in the near future as the number of investigations and prosecutions is expected to increase amid the hiring of 20,000 more police officers.\n\nIt added that the number of women in custody has fallen by 10% since 2010 and stressed that government investment in community services should see this trend continue in the long-term.\n\nIf the number of women in prison falls longer term, the MoJ says the new modern facilities will allow the Prison Service to close old accommodation.\n\nCampaigners largely welcomed the announcement, but warned the efforts do not go far enough to tackle longstanding problems.\n\nKate Paradine, chief executive of charity Women in Prison, said: \"This pledge and funding are just the start, and a far cry from what is needed in order to provide stability for women who face the sharp end of our society.\"\n\nShe called on the government in its upcoming Budget to safeguard the future of women's centres, which she described as an \"anchor that stop women being swept up into crime\" but warned were \"facing a funding cliff edge in April\".\n\nEmily Evison, policy officer at the Prison Reform Trust, said the plans would need to be backed up by \"action on the ground to prove effective\", adding: \"Instead of planning for a rise (in women prisoners), the government should redouble its efforts to ensure women are not being sent to prison to serve pointless short sentences.\"\n\nAndrew Neilson, director of campaigns at the Howard League for Penal Reform, said: \"If the goal is to reduce the number of women entering the criminal justice system, then today's announcement shows that ministers are looking at the issue down the wrong end of a telescope\", claiming the funding promised was \"dwarfed\" by the cost of the extra prison places.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Teresa Dalling says a river of orange water rushed through the village on Thursday\n\nFlood victims will not be able to return to their homes until their safety can be assured, a council leader has said.\n\nThe Coal Authority has said initial checks suggested water built up in a mine shaft causing a \"blow out\" that flooded properties in Skewen, Neath Port Talbot.\n\nAbout 80 people were evacuated as water rushed through the village on Thursday.\n\nCouncil leader Rob Jones said it was unlikely residents could return Monday.\n\nHe said underground investigations would begin on Saturday and the work could take two to three days.\n\n\"Safety is the paramount concern for us,\" he said.\n\n\"Because we can't guarantee the site safety - that's the reason why people will remain away from their properties until such time as we can give the all clear.\n\n\"We don't know what the water has done underground.\"\n\nThe fire service said on Saturday morning the pumping operation was \"making good progress\".\n\nMr Jones told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast people may be able to return next week but \"did not want to raise hopes\" it will be Monday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe said the flooding was \"more than likely\" related to old mine workings with six mines known about in area. He said the industry dated back 300 years.\n\nSkewen resident John Thomas returned home from a funeral with wife Lynne on Thursday to find their house had turned into \"a lake\".\n\nHe said: \"The water was around the level of the bottom of the doors so we couldn't go in, so we just had to stand there and watch this orange-coloured water just piling up and up and up.\n\n\"Other people who were evacuated had the chance to move things upstairs, I didn't have a chance to do that because I couldn't get in to it.\"\n\nAt least 80 people had to leave their homes in the village after flooding\n\nLocal MP Stephen Kinnock said affected residents were staying in \"lots of different places\" across the region.\n\nAnd he praised the \"extraordinary\" generosity of the community and the support of the Salvation Army with donations of food, clothing and toiletries.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNatural Resources Wales (NRW) said officers were continuing to look at how to minimise the risk of pollution to nearby rivers, and investigating any impacts on the River Neath.\n\nThe Coal Authority, which manages the effects of past coal mining, is investigating the incident.\n\nChief executive Lisa Pinney said equipment, due on site on Saturday, would be used to drill into mine workings to \"fully investigate what has happened\".\n\n\"The blow out is likely to have been caused by a blockage underground which has caused water to back up and to break out using the easiest path,\" she said.\n\n\"The excessive rainfall of the past few days and the prolonged rainfall this winter, will have put additional pressure on the system.\n\n\"We know that people will want to get back to their homes and we will continue to progress these works as soon as possible, but public safety has to come first.\"\n\nThere are a number of historical mine workings in Skewen dating back beyond 1850.\n\nOn Saturday, Mr Jones said water was still pouring out of the affected site so workers were diverting it, while machines cleared gulleys and drains to give the water the chance to enter drainage systems.\n\nA residents' incident support centre has been set up at Abbey Primary School to offer help and information over the weekend, between 09:00-17:00 GMT.\n\nThe council has asked residents to be \"patient as the investigation continues\" and has set up a helpline. Tel. 01639 686868.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "It is not clear if anyone not entitled succeeded in getting a Covid jab\n\nA health board boss has criticised council staff for potentially sharing Covid vaccine invites with colleagues.\n\nThe board meeting in North Wales heard some council staff, not within groups currently being vaccinated, booked appointments by following a link in an email only intended for the recipient.\n\nBetsi Cadwaladr health board's chairman Mark Polin said such actions could deprive someone else of a jab.\n\nDenbighshire council said it had warned staff the emails were not to be abused.\n\nIt is not clear if anyone not entitled succeeded in getting a Covid jab, the Local Democracy Reporting Service said.\n\nOnly front-line social care and health workers, those over 80 and 70 years old, care home residents and their carers are currently being vaccinated.\n\nIndependent member Jackie Hughes spoke about the matter at Thursday's monthly health board meeting.\n\nAnswering her query, Dr Chris Stockport, the health board's executive director of primary care and community services, said: \"We are very clear with our local authority partners and teams of what frontline means in the same way we are elsewhere.\n\n\"When you arrive [for a vaccine] there's a process of validation.\n\n\"The likelihood is they will experience some difficulties working through the booking system [if they try to get into a higher vaccination cohort].\n\n\"It adds complications for a busy team and I would ask them not to do that when it's a clear effort to circumvent the cohort.\"\n\nAt Thursday's daily press briefing the UK Government Home Secretary Priti Patel said people who jumped the queue for the vaccine were \"morally reprehensible\" as they were putting the lives of vulnerable people at risk.\n\nShe said all the UK Government's measures were under review but \"our focus is getting that vaccine to the most vulnerable to make sure we can protect them and obviously protect others in the community\".\n\nMr Polin added: \"Whilst we understand the concerns people should not be doing what they are doing.\n\n\"The priority groups have been identified with clear medical guidance and sound reasoning behind it.\n\n\"So people jumping the queue are depriving someone else, potentially, of receiving the vaccine at the point at which they should.\"\n\nHe said it was a temporary problem, adding: \"We are changing the booking system, so this opportunity is not going to last much longer.\"\n\nHe said staff were looking out for any inappropriate bookings.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nNon-league Chorley were unable to emulate the heroes from 1986 by causing an FA Cup sensation against Wolves - but the National League North side came away with all the credit from their fourth-round tie at Victory Park.\n\nVitinha's superb 30-yard shot after 12 minutes proved enough to secure an all-Premier League tie against Arsenal or Southampton at Molineux in the fifth round.\n\nBut Nuno Espirito Santo's side were less than impressive against their part-time opponents.\n\nChorley had the first shot of the match through Elliot Newby, and after Vitinha had struck his first Wolves goal with the visitors' only shot on target, it was the hosts who had the best chances.\n\nCrucially, they also pocketed around £120,000 in prize money, plus TV fees, to sustain them through what could be a difficult period after their league was suspended for two weeks amid funding concerns earlier in the day.\n\n\"If you are going to lose, I would prefer to lose to a goal like that than a scruffy goal,\" said Chorley boss Jamie Vermiglio.\n\n\"I am proud of what we have done for our community, my kids at school will remember that their head teacher got this far in the FA Cup. Hopefully it can inspire some of them.\n\n\"We are approaching up to half a million [in earnings from the cup run], we have people who are isolating, and those players have given them a little bit of happiness.\n\n\"If it is 2-0 or 3-0 at half-time the game is done and people are turning their TVs off. That did not happen. I felt we were in the game. Every player was outstanding.\"\n• None How to follow FA Cup fourth round on the BBC\n\nIf this does end up being Chorley's last game of the season, it is one they will remember for some time, not only for the action on the pitch but also for the huge volley of fireworks that went off behind the main stand minutes into the contest.\n\nFor visiting Wolves, it was a step into the unknown. Their starting line-up got changed in the away dressing room, while their substitutes - European Championship winner Rui Patricio and Spain international Adama Traore among them - readied themselves in a sponsors' lounge.\n\nSeemingly those starting the game on the bench got the better deal.\n\nWolves boss Nuno paid Chorley the compliment of picking a strong starting line-up, including £35.6m record signing Fabio Silva and England international Conor Coady.\n\nAnd had this match been played in more imposing surroundings, it could have been mistaken for one of those Premier League games where one side sits back, challenges the opposition to break them down and then hits them on the counter.\n\nWolves' return of 76% possession and one shot on target, set against Chorley's five shots on target, suggests home manager Vermiglio got his tactics spot on.\n\nIndeed, had Andy Halls, a personal trainer by day, not had his goal-bound header tipped over by John Ruddy after an hour, Chorley might have forced a different outcome.\n\n\"The scene was set for us to lose this game,\" said Nuno. \"John Ruddy did his job, everybody knows his quality. He helped us to win the game.\"\n\nIt was nevertheless a typically English FA Cup tie, enlivened by Vermiglio yelling \"nothing wrong with that\" when two Wolves players went down under agricultural challenges, and then laughing in Traore's face amid a brief skirmish.\n\nIt was fantastic knockabout stuff. Sadly, the enduring disappointment was that other than staff, media and stewards, no-one was there in person to witness it.\n• None Wolves have reached the FA Cup fifth round in three of the last five seasons, as many as in the 21 seasons prior to this.\n• None Premier League teams have progressed from 45 of their 47 FA Cup ties against non-league teams (96%), with only Norwich vs Luton in 2013 and Burnley vs Lincoln in 2017 failing to progress.\n• None Separated by 120 years and 362 days, Chorley have lost both of their FA Cup games against top-flight opponents, losing against Notts County in January 1900 and Wolves.\n• None Vitinha became the 32nd different Wolves player to score a goal for Nuno Espirito Santo in all competitions and the 11th different Portuguese player to do so, with what was his third shot in his 12th appearance.\n• None Since the start of 2017-18, Wolves have had 11 different Portuguese scorers - more than twice as many as any other English league team in that time (Nottingham Forest, five).\n\nWolves are next in action against Chelsea in the Premier League at Stamford Bridge on Wednesday, 27 January (18:00 GMT).\n• None Attempt blocked. Rayan Aït-Nouri (Wolverhampton Wanderers) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Rúben Neves.\n• None Harry Cardwell (Chorley) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Pedro Neto (Wolverhampton Wanderers) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Rúben Neves.\n• None Arlen Birch (Chorley) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt blocked. Fábio Silva (Wolverhampton Wanderers) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Pedro Neto. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None You can stream five fourth-round games live on the BBC this weekend, including Liverpool's trip to Manchester United. Find out more here.", "A restaurant worker in Lisbon, where benefits to those with symptoms, and those without, are generous\n\nThe idea of a flat £500 payment to anyone who tests positive for Covid-19 has been dismissed by the UK government. Health officials had come up with the suggestion in the hope of encouraging people with the illness to self-isolate.\n\nThere are concerns the virus is continuing to spread because some people are ignoring the instruction to stay home when they show symptoms or test positive. Downing Street has said there is already a £500 sum for those on low incomes who could not work from home and had to isolate. But this must be applied for and there have been high rejection rates in England at least, A behaviour expert who advises the government, told the BBC just 18% of people with symptoms were self-isolating for the full 10 days they were meant to.\n\nSo how do other countries handle the question of paying people to stay at home, or just trusting they will do the right thing? Here, BBC correspondents from Prague to New York, offer an insight.\n\nIn Portugal, even those who are just at-risk of contracting Covid - having been in direct contact with a confirmed case - are entitled to 100% of their basic salary, for 14 days, writes Alison Roberts, in Lisbon.\n\nFor those who show symptoms, or have tested positive, the same is available for up to 28 days. And the normal waiting times people are used to when claiming while ill have also been done away with - these Covid payments kick in on day one of isolation.\n\nThose not on permanent work contracts tend to be treated as self-employed and are eligible for benefits based on income declared. But there are a lot of people, including many immigrants, who lack the necessary paperwork, and are therefore not eligible to claim.\n\nNevertheless, it's perhaps not surprising that, because people are able to claim full basic pay, there hasn't been much, if any, debate about people obeying self-isolation. If there are reports of people not seeking tests, or not isolating, it seems to be more out of ignorance, which is certainly rather worrying.\n\nSlovenia has been offering compensation to people forced to self-isolate after exposure to coronavirus since it first introduced emergency measures in March, writes Guy De Launey in Ljubljana.\n\nDepending on the circumstances, this covers anything from 80% to the full amount of usual earnings. The payments may be made directly to people in quarantine, or as compensation to employers. A government official told the BBC that with its socialist past, it was normal for Slovenia to take care of people in quarantine by providing payments - and that without compensation, it would be impossible to deal with coronavirus.\n\nWhen the measures were first introduced, they enjoyed broad public support. But the second wave of the epidemic has seen case numbers skyrocket - Slovenia's per capita death-rate is now the third highest in the world - and public confidence overall has dipped.\n\nBy the end of 2020, market research company Valicon said that only 12% of Slovenians viewed the government's measures as \"appropriate\", adding that people were \"worried and dissatisfied with the social situation\", suggesting compensation is not a panacea.\n\nIn March last year, the US agreed to pay for some workers to stay at home - a big change for a country that had never paid sick leave requirement before, writes Natalie Sherman in New York.\n\nThe measure guaranteed up to 14 days of pay for workers forced to isolate because they had symptoms, had received medical advice to self-quarantine, or were under government lockdown orders. It also said it would guarantee two-thirds of pay for people caring for someone with the virus for up to two weeks. One study suggested it helped prevent hundreds of news cases a day.\n\nBut the assistance - paid by employers which were then reimbursed by the government via tax credits - expired on 31 December. And even before that, analysts estimated that loopholes meant roughly half of the country's workforce, including many grocery workers and medical staff were potentially excluded.\n\nAs part of his $1.9tn stimulus plan, President Joe Biden is pushing to renew the law, and end the exemptions. But the proposal - which his team estimates would expand the benefit to as many as 106 million more Americans - faces stiff resistance from Republicans and key business lobbies.\n\nIn Germany financial support is generous for people ordered to self-isolate by the authorities because of infection risk, writes Damien McGuinness in Berlin.\n\nAs a result there hasn't been a debate in Germany about breaking self-isolation rules because of financial need. Fines can be huge - tens of thousands of euros - and are strictly enforced. Overall there's no great issue with compliance and Germany's financial package has widespread cross-party backing, and is supported by voters.\n\nEmployees who are unable to work at home receive full pay for up to six weeks. This is paid by the employer, who is then reimbursed by the state. After that, workers may be eligible for sick-pay.\n\nFreelancers and self-employed people are generally also entitled to full pay for six weeks. But they would apply directly to their regional government. The exact rules and level of efficiency for payments vary from region to region. For those in the gig economy - Germany has it, though less so than Britain - this should be covered by state aid, based on tax returns.\n\nThe level of state support was agreed by Germany's national parliament in Berlin. But payments are administered and funded by regional governments.\n\nThere's been some discussion here about paying people to stay home if they test positive for Covid, writes Rob Cameron, in Prague.\n\nThe idea is advocated by at least one independent expert group. But it would be expensive, and the Czech state coffers are already stretched from keeping employees on furlough and paying compensation.\n\nInstead, salaried employees who receive a positive diagnosis are left with two choices: work from home - if they're up to it, if their job allows it and if their employer agrees, or go on sick leave for 10 days and receive 60% salary.\n\nFor the self-employed it's worse. Only those who have chosen to pay state sickness insurance will receive anything. Most opt out - the benefits are marginal. So most continue working from home - if their health and profession allows it.\n\nFor many workers, in other words, a positive Covid test can be a real blow to the wallet. It's an open secret that many people - especially freelancers in creative professions - beg friends and colleagues who test positive not to declare them as contacts, to avoid having to go into quarantine. For some the fear of losing work and money outweighs social responsibility.\n\nMoves to compensate people for taking time off work have largely been well received, writes Maddy Savage in Stockholm.\n\nTo encourage people to stay at home from the moment they develop coronavirus symptoms, the government changed the rules to allow Swedish employees and the self-employed to claim sick pay from the first day they are off, rather than the second. Employees receive about 80% of their salary while they isolate (capped at SEK 700 or £61.88 per day), and the self-employed are entitled to payments capped at 804 SEK or £71.05. The government has also introduced an allowance for people isolating because they live with someone who has coronavirus.\n\nWhile Sweden has largely kept primary schools open throughout the pandemic, parents have been able to make use of a pre-existing benefit which allows them to take state-funded time off work if their children are ill (with the virus or any other illness), and an additional benefit has been introduced for parents who are forced to take time off work to look after children affected by school closures as a result of a local outbreak.\n\nBut these measures have also stirred debates about welfare inequality. There are concerns that workers who are paid by the hour or on temporary contracts aren't entitled to the same level of sickness benefits as permanent staff - there are reports that this has encouraged some to keep working despite developing Covid-19 symptoms.", "Researchers have been tracking changes to the \"spike\" of the virus\n\nThe new variant of Covid-19 is \"hugely\" more transmissible than the virus's previous version, a study has found.\n\nIt concludes the new variant increases the Reproduction or R number by between 0.4 and 0.7.\n\nThe UK's latest R number has been estimated at between 1.1 and 1.3. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.\n\nProf Axel Gandy of London's Imperial College said the differences between the viruses types was \"quite extreme\".\n\n\"There is a huge difference in how easily the variant virus spreads,\" he told BBC News. \"This is the most serious change in the virus since the epidemic began,\" he added.\n\nThe Imperial College study suggests transmission of the new variant tripled during England's November lockdown while the previous version was reduced by a third.\n\nCases of Covid-19 have begun to increase rapidly during the second spike, and the number of cases recorded in a single day reached a new high on Thursday.\n\nEarly results indicated that the virus was spreading more quickly among under-20s, particularly among secondary school age children.\n\nBut the very latest data indicates that it was spreading quickly across all age groups, according to Prof Gandy who was a member of the research team.\n\n\"One possible explanation is that the early data was collected during the time of the November lockdown where schools were open and the activities of the adult population were more restricted. We are seeing now that the new virus has increased infectiousness across all age groups.\"\n\nProf Jim Naismith, of Oxford University, said he believed that the new findings indicated that even tougher restrictions would soon be needed.\n\n\"The data from Imperial represent the best analysis to date and imply that the measures we have employed to date, would - with the new virus - fail to reduce the R number to below 1.\n\n\"In simpler terms, unless we do something different the new virus strain is going to continue to spread, more infections, more hospitalisations and more deaths.\"\n\nThe R number is the average number of people an infected person infects. If it is above 1 the epidemic is growing.\n\nThe most chilling finding from this piece of research is that the November lockdown in England, hard though it was for many people, would not have stopped the variant form of the virus spreading. The same severe restrictions that saw cases of the previous version of the virus fall by a third, would see a tripling of the new variant. This is why there has been such a sudden tightening of restrictions across the country.\n\nIt is unclear whether the current restrictions will be enough to control the spread of the virus. Given the fact that it has taken two lockdowns to stop the earlier version of the virus overwhelming the NHS, many scientists fear that further tightening will be necessary.\n\nInfection levels will begin to drop as enough people are vaccinated. But until then it is now more important than ever for people to follow social distancing guidelines, wear masks where required and to regularly wash their hands.\n\nThe new year brings with it hope of a more normal life in the next few months but also a new form of the virus that all of us will have to combat in the coming days and weeks.\n\nProfessor Lawrence Young, of Warwick University, said early indications suggested that vaccines would be effective against the new form of the virus.\n\n\"Variants virus have been around since the beginning of the pandemic and are a product of the natural process by which viruses develop and adapt to their hosts as they replicate.\n\n\"Most of these mutations have no effect on the behaviour of the virus but very occasionally they can improve the ability of the virus to infect and/or become more resistant to the body's immune response.\"\n\nFurther research is needed to understand why the variant is spreading so quickly. But early indications are that vaccines should be effective against it.\n\nThe new virus has been designated \"Variant of Concern 202012/01\" or VOC by Public Health England.\n\nIt was detected in November and thought to have originated in the south-east England in September.\n\nThere is no evidence to suggest that it is more deadly, but it will increase the number of cases which in turn will add further pressure on the NHS.\n\nThe variant can now be found across the UK, except Northern Ireland, but it is heavily concentrated in London, as well as south-east and eastern England.", "The Black Country Living Museum normally gives visitors a taste of ordinary life in the Victorian era\n\nA venue that has doubled as a set for TV series Peaky Blinders is to operate as a Covid-19 vaccination centre.\n\nUsing Black Country Living Museum, a largely open-air site, to deliver jabs is said to be a \"game-changer\" for the local community.\n\nThe Dudley attraction, which is closed to tourists during lockdown, is expected to help administer thousands of injections a week.\n\nPeople are reminded they need an NHS letter of invitation before turning up.\n\nThe formal appointments will initially prioritise doses for people most at risk of complications from the virus.\n\nThe latest figures from NHS England showed 97,310 Covid jabs had been administered in Dudley and the surrounding area by Thursday - the second highest amount in the Midlands.\n\nBut rollout at the museum - which begins on Monday - will see it become Dudley's first vaccination centre.\n\nIt will complement existing GP-led vaccination services which are already up and running locally.\n\nCillian Murphy stars in Peaky Blinders, a Birmingham-set drama filmed in part at the museum\n\nThe museum normally gives visitors a taste of life in the Black Country during bygone days and has been used as a location for Peaky Blinders, the BBC TV series set in nearby Birmingham in the early 20th Century.\n\nSaying the step was a game-changer, Nicholas Barlow, Dudley Council member for health, said: \"Having the Black Country Living Museum on board as a vaccination centre will greatly increase the amount of jabs we can deliver, and the speed at which we can administer them.\n\n\"It will make people safer from this deadly virus more quickly.\"\n\nSally Roberts, Black Country and West Birmingham Clinical Commissioning Group chief nurse, said: \"Our progress [in the area] to date has been incredible and I am delighted that our first vaccination centre, which will be capable of delivering thousands more vaccines each week, is going live.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Appointments were brought forward or rescheduled for safety reasons\n\nFour vaccination centres were shut as snow caused some travel disruption in Wales.\n\nSunday appointments in Bridgend, Rhondda, Abercynon and Merthyr Tydfil were rescheduled for safety reasons, but centres will reopen on Monday, the Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board said.\n\nThe Met Office has extended a yellow weather warning to midnight on Sunday for all of Wales except Anglesey.\n\nA yellow warning for ice runs from midnight until 11:00 GMT on Monday.\n\nPolice have warned of difficult conditions due to snow and ice.\n\nUp to 3cm of snow is forecast to fall in most areas, with 10 to 15cm expected in the Brecon Beacons and Snowdonia.\n\nCwm Taf Morgannwg health board urged anyone with queries about Sunday's vaccination appointments to call the number on their appointment letters.\n\nSnow volunteers cleared pathways so a Covid vaccine pilot in Maesteg could keep running\n\n\"We can confirm that no vaccines have been wasted as a consequence of this temporary Sunday closure and we are grateful to all those who were able to turn up at such short notice yesterday as we brought forward a significant number of Sunday appointments during the course of Saturday,\" it said.\n\n\"Additionally, our 4x4 arrangements are enabling us to continue to reach care homes to vaccinate the staff and residents there.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNorth Wales Police tweeted there was \"widespread snow this morning, particularly in some higher areas, making driving conditions difficult\".\n\nAnd Dyfed-Powys Police said some roads were \"impassable\" and advised people to \"stay home\".\n\nIn Bridgend, officers from South Wales Police were pelted with snowballs as they helped an injured sledger on Heol y Nant.\n\nNorth Wales Police warned of difficult conditions due to \"widespread snow\", particularly on high ground.\n\nIt said the A499 near Pwllheli had received heavy snowfall overnight.\n\nWelsh Ambulance Service boss Jason Killens tweeted, thanking the public for helping crews continue to work despite the conditions.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nVillages were dusted with snow, such as in Llanfynydd, Carmarthenshire\n\nNick Rolfe shared this garden view in Nercwys, near Mold, Flintshire\n\nThe Met Office warned travellers that \"longer journey times by road, bus and train services\" could be expected, although Wales is in a level four lockdown with all but essential travel banned.\n\nIt also said the snow could lead to power cuts and other services, such as mobile phone coverage, may be affected.\n\nThose going out for daily exercise have been warned there could be icy patches on some untreated roads, pavements and cycle paths.\n\nIn Powys, this was the view over Newtown on Sunday\n\nThe hills around Llangollen, Denbighshire, were covered in snow on Saturday\n\nPower cuts and travel delays are possible, the Met Office says\n\nThe drop in temperatures is likely to exacerbate problems after widespread flooding caused by Storm Christoph.\n\nTwo flood warnings issued by Natural Resources Wales remain in place, meaning flooding is expected.\n\nThese cover the River Ritec at Tenby in Pembrokeshire, which could affect the Kiln Park caravan site, and the lower Dee Valley from Llangollen to Trevalyn Meadows.\n\nPretty as a picture... Suzy shared this garden view in Snowdonia\n\nSun up: Heath in Cardiff awakes to a covering of snow\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Larry King, giant of US broadcasting who achieved worldwide fame for interviewing political leaders and celebrities, has died at the age of 87.\n\nKing conducted an estimated 50,000 interviews in his six-decade career, which included 25 years as host of the popular CNN talk show Larry King Live.\n\nHe died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, according to Ora Media, a production company he co-founded.\n\nEarlier this month, he was treated in hospital for Covid-19, US media say.\n\nThe talk show host, famous for his braces and rolled-up sleeves, had faced several health problems in recent years, including heart attacks.\n\nKing was married eight times to seven women and had five children. Two of them died last year within weeks of each other - daughter Chaia died from lung cancer and son Andy of a heart attack.\n\nKing carried out interviews with every sitting US president from Gerald Ford to Barack Obama and a number of world leaders. His other high-profile guests included Dr Martin Luther King, the Dalai Lama, Nelson Mandela and Lady Gaga.\n\n\"For 63 years and across the platforms of radio, television and digital media, Larry's many thousands of interviews, awards, and global acclaim stand as a testament to his unique and lasting talent as a broadcaster,\" Ora Media said in a statement, without giving the cause of death.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Larry King: \"I like spontaneity. That's the kind of broadcaster I am\".\n\nBorn Lawrence Harvey Zeiger in Brooklyn, New York, in 1933, King rose to fame in the 1970s with his radio programme The Larry King Show, on the commercial network Mutual Broadcasting System.\n\nIn 1985 he launched Larry King Live on the fledgling CNN, and became one of the network's biggest stars. The programme, broadcast around the world, was a success with audiences, with King answering thousands of phone calls from viewers.\n\nHe earned a number of honours, including two Peabody awards, but was also criticised for his non-confrontational approach and open-ended questions. King boasted of not doing much research for the interviews so, he said, he could learn along with viewers.\n\nBy 2010 his ratings had dropped significantly, with critics saying King's approach felt outdated in an era of more aggressive interviewing styles. King then announced his retirement, saying: \"It's time to hang up my nightly suspenders.\"\n\nIn his final programme on CNN, he told his viewers: \"I don't know what to say, except to you, my audience, thank you. Instead of goodbye, how about so long?\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by CNN Communications This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCNN replaced him with British journalist and broadcaster Piers Morgan, whose programme King criticised for being \"too much about him\".\n\nMorgan, whose programme was cancelled three years later, said on Twitter on Saturday: \"Larry King was a hero of mine until we fell out after I replaced him at CNN & he said my show was 'like watching your mother-in-law go over a cliff in your new Bentley.' (He married 8 times so a mother-in-law expert).\"\n\nIn a statement, CNN president Jeff Zucker said: \"The scrappy young man from Brooklyn had a history-making career spanning radio and television. His curiosity about the world propelled his award-winning career in broadcasting, but it was his generosity of spirit that drew the world to him.\"\n\nMost recently, King hosted another programme, Larry King Now, broadcast on Hulu and RT, Russia's state-controlled international broadcaster.\n\nA Kremlin spokesman was quoted as saying by state RIA Novosti news agency: \"King repeatedly interviewed Putin. The president has always appreciated his great professionalism and unquestioned journalistic authority.\"\n\nOutside broadcasting, King founded the Larry King Cardiac Foundation in 1988, a charity which helps to fund heart treatment for those with limited financial means or no medical insurance.", "Pavithra Wanniarachchi (L) has become the fourth Sri Lankan minister to test positive\n\nSri Lanka's health minister, who endorsed herbal syrup to prevent Covid, has tested positive for the virus.\n\nPavithra Wanniarachchi tested positive on Friday, a media secretary at the Ministry of Health told the BBC.\n\nShe had promoted the syrup, manufactured by a shaman who claimed it worked as a life-long inoculation against the virus.\n\nSri Lanka recorded 56,076 cases and 276 deaths since the pandemic began, with cases surging in recent months.\n\nMs Wanniarachchi is the fourth minister to test positive. A junior minister, who also took the potion, tested positive earlier this week.\n\nThe health minister had publicly consumed and endorsed the syrup as a way of stopping the spread of the virus. The shaman who invented the syrup, which contains honey and nutmeg, said the recipe was given to him in a visionary dream.\n\nDoctors in the country have quashed claims the herbal syrup works, but AFP news agency reports thousands have travelled to a village to obtain it.\n\nMs Wanniarachchi took two Covid-19 tests and both returned positive results, Viraj Abeysinghe, media secretary at the Ministry of Health told the BBC.\n\nThe minister has been asked to self-isolate and all of her immediate contacts have gone into isolation.\n\nNews of Ms Wanniarachchi's positive test came hours after Sri Lanka approved the emergency use of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine. The first doses are expected to arrive in the country next week.\n\nSri Lanka isn't the only place where people in positions of power have promoted unproven treatments for Covid.\n\nLast year, Madagascar's President Andry Rajoelina was criticised for promoting a herbal concoction that he claimed could prevent the virus. He was pictured distributing the tonic to poor communities in the capital.\n\nSince the pandemic began, a number of world leaders and cabinet members have contracted Covid. French President Emmanuel Macron, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and former President Donald Trump all caught the virus at various points last year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The people who think Coronavirus is caused by 5G", "Skewen in Neath Port Talbot has been badly hit by flooding over the past two days\n\nThere have been \"no adverse effects\" on the coronavirus vaccine roll-out caused by recent flooding, the Welsh Government has said.\n\nHomes were evacuated in Skewen, Neath Port Talbot, on Thursday as heavy rain caused issues across the country.\n\nSwansea Bay health board said none of its mass vaccination centres or GP surgeries had been affected by floods.\n\nIt added anyone struggling to get to a vaccination appointment because of the flooding would be able to rearrange.\n\nBetsi Cadwaladr University Health Board also said it was not aware of flooding in north Wales causing any issues for the vaccine roll-out.\n\nWrexham council leader Mark Pritchard said on Thursday that teams worked to ensure the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, made on Wrexham Industrial Estate, was not lost in the floods.\n\nThe latest figures released on Friday showed 212,317 people in Wales had received their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine, with a further 415 receiving a second dose.\n\nAs well as properties, vehicles were submerged in water\n\nAbout 80 people in Skewen had to be evacuated from their homes after streets were left under water.\n\nFire crews returned to the scene on Friday to continue to pump floodwater away from houses.\n\nMeanwhile, a family in Rossett, Wrexham county, had to be rescued by helicopter after their home became surrounded by floodwater on Thursday night.\n\nNorth Wales has also been hit by floods\n\nOn Friday, Health Minister Vaughan Gething told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast that efforts to rehouse those affected by the floods were being done in \"as Covid-secure a way as possible\".\n\nDorothy Edwards, Covid-19 vaccination programme director for Swansea Bay health board, said: \"None of our mass vaccination centres have been impacted by flooding and we're not aware of any particular issues in primary care.\n\n\"Of course we will be sympathetic if there are people struggling to get to their appointment and if they are booked in at an mass vaccination centres they need to ring the booking line and the appointment will be rearranged.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government said: \"There have been no adverse effects on the vaccine roll-out due to flooding.\"", "Mr Johnson raised the benefits of a UK-US trade deal during his phone call with Mr Biden\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has spoken to Joe Biden for the first time since the new US president was inaugurated.\n\nMr Johnson said on Twitter that he looked forward to \"deepening the longstanding alliance\" between the UK and the US as they drove a \"green and sustainable recovery from Covid-19\".\n\nMr Biden was sworn in as president and Kamala Harris as vice-president in a ceremony in Washington on Wednesday.\n\nThe PM said their inauguration was a \"step forward\" for the US.\n\nA Downing Street spokesman said Mr Johnson \"warmly welcomed\" the president's decision to rejoin the Paris Agreement on climate change and the World Health Organization - both abandoned by Mr Biden's predecessor, Donald Trump.\n\n\"The prime minister praised President Biden's early action on tackling climate change and commitment to reach net zero by 2050,\" the spokesman said.\n\nThe spokesman added that, in building on the two nations' \"long history of cooperation in security and defence, the leaders \"re-committed to the Nato alliance and our shared values in promoting human rights and protecting democracy\".\n\nThe two leaders also talked about \"the benefits of a potential free trade deal\" between the UK and the US, with Mr Johnson reiterating his intention \"to resolve existing trade issues as soon as possible\".\n\nAfter the inauguration of any American president, a political spectator sport immediately begins: the order in which the new occupant of the White House speaks to other world leaders.\n\nIt is a crude metric of relative importance, but a metric nonetheless.\n\nI understand the call lasted for around 35 minutes and was the first conversation Joe Biden has had with a European leader as president.\n\nThe focus on climate change makes political and diplomatic sense. It's a topic where a Conservative prime minister and Democrat president can agree, and it matters particularly to the UK as the host of the COP26 UN Climate Change Summit in Glasgow in November.\n\nBut when you compare what Downing Street said about the call and what the White House said, one thing leaps out.\n\nNo 10's readout refers to a conversation about a trade deal. President Biden's does not.\n\nIt's widely expected there'll be no such agreement any time soon.\n\nMr Johnson and Mr Biden \"looked forward to to meeting in person as soon as the circumstances allow\" and to working together during the forthcoming G7, G20 and COP26 summits, the spokesman added.\n\nA White House statement said Mr Biden \"conveyed his intention to strengthen the special relationship\" between the US and UK and \"revitalize transatlantic ties\".\n\nCongratulating Mr Biden and Ms Harris - who is the first woman and first black and Asian-American person to serve as vice-president - the PM said earlier that their inauguration was a \"step forward\" for the US, which had \"been through a bumpy period\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Johnson: \"It's a big moment for us - we have things we want to do together.\"\n\nMr Johnson said it was a \"big moment\" for the UK and the US and their \"joint common agenda\".\n\nThe BBC's political editor, Laura Kuenssberg has said the Biden Presidency \"brings some hope to government\" because No 10 believes \"there is a lot of overlap\" between what Mr Biden and Mr Johnson want to do.\n\nThe US president has previously said that he does not want a \"guarded border\" between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland following Brexit, and that any UK-US post-Brexit trade deal had to be \"contingent\" on respect for the Good Friday Agreement.\n\nThe PM and Mr Biden have never met in real life, but the new US president once referred to Mr Johnson as a \"physical and emotional clone\" of Mr Trump.\n\nAfter winning the presidential election, Mr Biden phoned Mr Johnson ahead of other European leaders and expressed his desire to strengthen the historic \"special relationship\" between the two countries.", "Elizabeth Kerr and Simon O'Brien were married moments before he was put on a mechanical ventilator\n\nAn engaged couple taken to hospital in the same ambulance with Covid-19 were able to marry moments before the man was sedated and put on a ventilator.\n\nElizabeth Kerr, 31, and Simon O'Brien, 36, were taken to Milton Keynes University Hospital with breathing difficulties on 9 January.\n\nStaff rallied to arrange a wedding as the groom's condition worsened.\n\nThey held off intubating Mr O'Brien so the ceremony could go ahead. The couple are now recovering in hospital.\n\nMrs Kerr, a nurse, and Mr O'Brien had planned to marry in June.\n\nBoth contracted the disease and were taken to hospital together when their oxygen levels fell dangerously low.\n\nThey were placed on separate wards but when Mrs Kerr told nurse Hannah Cannon about their wedding plans, she asked her if they would like to marry in the hospital.\n\nMrs Kerr said she was told it could be their only chance.\n\n\"Those are words I never, ever want to hear again,\" she said.\n\nA photo on Mrs Kerr's phone shows the wedding took place in the beds of the intensive care unit\n\nHowever, while staff were securing the wedding licence, Mr O'Brien's condition further deteriorated and on 12 January he was placed on the intensive care unit, to be put on a ventilator.\n\nThey waited to intubate him just long enough for the ceremony to go ahead.\n\nMs Cannon said: \"With lots of teamwork... we were able to give them a wedding, not necessarily the wedding that they would have initially intended, but certainly something positive, remarkable and memorable for them to really hold on to.\"\n\nShe filmed the marriage for the couple's families and friends, and catering staff at the hospital provided a cake.\n\nShortly after saying \"I do\", Mr O'Brien was placed on the ventilator.\n\nThe couple have now been reunited on a recovery ward and were able to kiss for the first time since being married.\n\nMrs Kerr said having the wedding meant \"everything\" to them.\n\n\"If we hadn't had each other and we hadn't been given that opportunity to get married, I don't think both of us would be here now,\" she added.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Early evidence suggests the variant of coronavirus that emerged in the UK may be more deadly, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said.\n\nHowever, there remains huge uncertainty around the numbers - and vaccines are still expected to work.\n\nThe data comes from mathematicians comparing death rates in people infected with either the new or the old versions of the virus.\n\nThe new more infectious variant has already spread widely across the UK.\n\nMr Johnson told a Downing Street briefing: \"In addition to spreading more quickly, it also now appears that there is some evidence that the new variant - the variant that was first identified in London and the south east - may be associated with a higher degree of mortality.\n\n\"It's largely the impact of this new variant that means the NHS is under such intense pressure.\"\n\nPublic Health England, Imperial College London, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the University of Exeter have each been trying to assess how deadly the new variant is.\n\nTheir evidence has been assessed by scientists on the New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag).\n\nThe group concluded there was a \"realistic possibility\" that the virus had become more deadly, but this is far from certain.\n\nSir Patrick Vallance, the government's chief scientific adviser, described the data so far as \"not yet strong\".\n\nHe said: \"I want to stress that there's a lot of uncertainty around these numbers and we need more work to get a precise handle on it, but it obviously is a concern that this has an increase in mortality as well as an increase in transmissibility.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Patrick Vallance: \"There is evidence that there's an increased risk for those who have the new variant\"\n\nPrevious work suggests the new variant spreads between 30% and 70% faster than others, and there are hints it is about 30% more deadly.\n\nFor example, with 1,000 60-year-olds infected with the old variant, 10 of them might be expected to die. But this rises to about 13 with the new variant.\n\nThis difference is found when looking at everyone testing positive for Covid, but analysing only hospital data has found no increase in the death rate. Hospital care has improved over the course of the pandemic as doctors get better at treating the disease.\n\nThe new variant was first detected in Kent in September. It is now the most common form of the virus in England and Northern Ireland, and has spread to more than 50 other countries.\n\nThe Pfizer and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine are both expected to work against the variant that emerged in the UK.\n\nHowever, Sir Patrick said there was more concern about two other variants that had emerged in South Africa and Brazil.\n\nHe said: \"They have certain features which means they might be less susceptible to vaccines.\n\n\"They are definitely of more concern than the one in the UK at the moment and we need to keep looking at it and studying this very carefully.\"\n\nThe prime minister said the government was prepared to take further action to protect the country's borders to prevent new variants from entering.\n\n\"I really don't rule it out, we may need to take further measures still,\" he said.\n\nLast week the government extended a travel ban to South America, Portugal and many African countries amid concerns about new variants, while all international travellers must now test negative ahead of departure to the UK and go into quarantine on arrival.", "An exhibition now celebrates Wuhan's success in controlling the outbreak\n\nWuhan has long since recovered from the world's first outbreak of Covid-19. It is now being remembered not as a disaster but as a victory, and with an insistence that the virus came from somewhere - anywhere - but here.\n\nFrom the moment a new, pandemic coronavirus emerged in the same city as a laboratory dedicated to the study of new coronaviruses with pandemic potential, Prof Shi Zhengli has found herself the focus of one of the biggest scientific controversies of our time.\n\nFor much of the past year she has met the suggestion that Sars-Cov-2 might have escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology with angry denial.\n\nNow though, she has offered her own thoughts on how the initial outbreak may have begun in the city.\n\nIn an article in this month's edition of Science Magazine she referred to a number of studies that, she said, suggest the virus existed outside of China before Wuhan's first known case in December 2019.\n\n\"Given the finding of Sars-Cov-2 on the surface of imported food packages, contact with contaminated uncooked food could be an important source of Sars-Cov-2 transmission,\" she wrote.\n\nFrom one of the world's leading experts on coronaviruses, even the discussion of such a possibility seems unusual.\n\nCould a spiralling outbreak of infection that almost destroyed Wuhan's health system, sparked the world's first Covid lockdown and spawned a global catastrophe really have arrived on imported food without any signs of similarly devastating outbreaks elsewhere?\n\n\"The virus came from America,\" this fishmonger told the BBC\n\nBut with the virus vanquished, the idea that it is a foreign import is repeated with almost unanimity across this city of 11 million people.\n\n\"It came here from other countries,\" one woman running a hotpot stall in a busy street tells me. \"China is a victim.\"\n\n\"Where did it come from?\" the next-door fishmonger repeats my question aloud, and then answers: \"It came from America.\"\n\nOn 23 January last year, the Chinese authorities severed transport links out of Wuhan and confined the city's population to their homes.\n\nThe tough lockdown coincided with the annual spring festival celebrations and came too late to prevent the global spread of the disease - five million people had already left the city ahead of the holiday.\n\nDoctors' warnings had gone unheeded and, in an outpouring of anger on the Chinese internet, the authorities stood accused of covering up the initial outbreak in the interests of political stability.\n\nOne year on, there's little sign of that anger in Wuhan today. In fact it's the humdrum normality that is striking - the traffic jams, the bustling markets and busy restaurants.\n\nIts success in eventually bringing the virus under control is now being celebrated in a giant exhibition hall, complete with models of medical workers in hazmat suits, installations of hospital beds and - everywhere you look - giant portraits of President Xi Jinping.\n\nThe accompanying texts mention his \"all-out war\" against the pandemic, his \"resolute decision making\" and how he has been willing to share \"China's solutions\" with the world.\n\nThere can be no doubting the success of China's mass testing programmes, its tracing apps and the widespread mask wearing.\n\nBut its strict enforcement of lockdowns, with little hand-wringing over the impact on individual rights, may be far less easy for democratic countries to emulate.\n\n\"The strategic success achieved in this battle fully manifested the strong leadership of the Communist Party of China and the significant advantages of the socialist system of our country,\" the exhibition proclaims.\n\nDespite China's promise of international co-operation, the world is still no closer to an answer to the biggest question of them all - where did the virus come from?\n\nMany prominent scientists believe that - based on past outbreaks - the most likely source of the coronavirus is a natural one, a \"zoonotic\" leap from bats - known to harbour such viruses - to humans, possibly via an intermediate species.\n\nBut China has produced very little evidence to show the work that's been done in its search for the source, in particular the testing of historic human samples stored by hospitals to determine where and when the virus really started spreading.\n\nThose scientists who argue that the possibility of an accident at the Wuhan Institute of Virology should also be included as part of any investigation are curious about this apparent silence.\n\n\"I find it very unlikely that such investigations would not have already occurred,\" Alina Chan, a molecular biologist at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, told me.\n\n\"It's a serious risk to resume life as usual without knowing where a dangerous human pathogen came from.\"\n\nWuhan's exhibition also has a display of hospital beds\n\nInstead of publishing its own evidence though, China appears to be taking an anywhere-but-Wuhan approach, with state media cheerleading the idea that the virus may have arrived in Wuhan on frozen food imports or talking cryptically of \"multiple origins\".\n\nAt a recent daily press briefing, I asked China's Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Hua Chunying, why such narratives were being promoted in the absence of real scientific evidence.\n\n\"Your question reveals your prejudice against China,\" she replied. \"Reports have emerged from Australia, Italy and many other countries that the coronavirus was found in multiple places in the autumn of 2019.\"\n\n\"Aren't these all facts?\" she asked.\n\nNot according to Alina Chan, who told me that such studies \"lack validation\" and some have been conducted without \"the most basic controls\".\n\n\"They do not present persuasive scientific evidence that the virus was circulating outside of China before the late 2019 outbreak in Wuhan,\" she said.\n\n\"The earliest detected cases and outbreak were in Wuhan. Early cases outside of China were found to have travelled from Wuhan. The most similar viruses have been found inside China.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Robin Brant visits the Wuhan market where Covid-19 was first traced\n\nInterestingly, scientists who have found themselves disagreeing strongly about the likelihood of the lab-leak theory, suddenly find themselves very much aligned on whether the virus came from abroad.\n\n\"I do not find the data linking Sars-Cov-2 to frozen foods to be credible,\" Kristian Andersen, a professor of immunology and microbiology at the Scripps Research Institute in the US, told me.\n\nAs someone who is a firm supporter of China's insistence that the virus could not have escaped from a lab, he gives its latest position much shorter shrift.\n\n\"All the available evidence points to an emergence of the virus somewhere in China in late 2019,\" he said.\n\nChinese virologist Shi Zhengli, seen here inside the laboratory in Wuhan\n\nProf Shi Zhengli recently told the BBC in an exchange of emails that she'd welcome \"any form of visit\" by an inquiry team to the Wuhan Institute of Virology to rule out the possibility of a lab leak.\n\nBut to a follow-up email asking about the alignment of her discussion of possible foreign origins with the Chinese government's own narrative, she sent another reply.\n\n\"Your question is not friendly,\" she wrote.\n\nAfter months of delay and wrangling with China about access, a World Health Organization team has arrived in Wuhan to begin its inquiry into the origins of the virus.\n\nTheir terms of reference hint at the politics behind the scenes, with the document mentioning many of China's talking points, including foreign origins and food-chain transmission.\n\nLast year Wuhan endured one of the strictest lockdowns the world has seen\n\nDr Daniel Lucey, a physician and infectious disease professor at the Georgetown Medical Centre in Washington, suggests the stage is being set for a foregone conclusion.\n\n\"In my view, if you line up side-by-side the WHO's terms of reference with the Shi Zhengli Science article,\" he told me, \"then it is clear that the overarching strategic narrative is that the origin of the virus is outside of China.\"\n\nThe crisis that began in Wuhan is now the world's crisis and, with so many lives and livelihoods lost, answers are desperately needed.\n\nIf the virus came naturally from bats, an understanding of that pathway is important to protect humanity from the risk of repeated \"spillover\" events from the same source.\n\nIf it leaked from a lab, an urgent review of safety protocols is needed - not just in China but globally.\n\nBoards in Wuhan say the virus broke out \"in multiple places around the world\"\n\nScientists are beginning to wonder if those answers will ever be forthcoming.\n\n\"It's undeniable now that politics have gotten in the way of science,\" Alina Chan said.\n\n\"I just hope that the WHO team will relay the details of their experience so that the public can understand what the limitations of their investigation are.\"\n\nIn Wuhan's giant exhibition hall, the city's place in history is again called into question by one of the concluding sign boards which says Covid-19 broke out \"in multiple places around the world\".\n\nFor China, this city's past is now propaganda and the truth, like the virus, is being brought under tight control.", "Guests fled when officers arrived at the Stamford Hill school, where the windows had been covered\n\nPolice broke up a wedding party in north London, where they now say about 150 people had gathered.\n\nOfficers found the windows at the Yesodey Hatorah Senior Girls' School, in Stamford Hill, had been covered when they arrived at 21:15 GMT on Thursday.\n\nGuests fled from the strictly Orthodox Charedi Jewish school when the police arrived. The organisers face a £10,000 fine for breaking lockdown rules.\n\nThe Met originally claimed that about 400 guests were at the gathering.\n\nIn a statement, the school said its hall had been leased out.\n\nA spokesman for the school, whose principal Rabbi Avrahom Pinter died in April after contracting coronavirus, said \"we had no knowledge that the wedding was taking place\".\n\nHe added: \"We are absolutely horrified about last night's event and condemn it in the strongest possible terms.\"\n\nBoris Johnson supports the police for \"taking action against people who flagrantly and selfishly ignore the rules\", according to the prime minister's official spokesman.\n\nThe spokesman said: \"Large gatherings such as that pose a health risk, not just to those who attend but those who they live with or others who they may come into contact with.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nChief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, meanwhile, said the \"overwhelming majority\" of the Jewish community would be appalled at the event.\n\nRabbi Mirvis, who serves as the head of the UK's orthodox Jewish community but is not the leader of the Charedi group, called the wedding party \"a most shameful desecration of all that we hold dear\".\n\nFive guests were issued with £200 fixed penalty notices, according to police, who said their inquiries had established those present at the school had gathered for a wedding.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A video shared with the Jewish Chronicle shows officers in Stamford Hill\n\nVideo shared with the Jewish Chronicle shows officers in Stamford Hill speaking with a man to explain why they are there, although he is not accused of any wrongdoing.\n\nThey are then seen arriving at the Yesodey Hatorah Senior Girls' School.\n\nDet Ch Sup Marcus Barnett of the Met Police said: \"This was a completely unacceptable breach of the law.\n\n\"People across the country are making sacrifices by cancelling or postponing weddings and other celebrations and there is no excuse for this type of behaviour.\n\n\"My officers are working tirelessly with the community and we will not hesitate to take enforcement action if that is required to keep people safe.\"\n\nOn Friday morning, a security guard at the school told the BBC there were more like 100 guests at the party than the much higher number given out by police.\n\nThe Met later said in a statement: \"Although initial calls suggested some 400 people had attended the wedding, it is now believed that approximately 150 people were in attendance.\"\n\nStamford Hill is part of the borough of Hackney, which has a Covid-19 infection rate of 625.43 cases per 100,000 people. The England average rate is 471.31 per 100,000 people.\n\nThe mayor of Hackney, Philip Glanville, said he was \"deeply disappointed\" that the wedding party had taken place, despite \"the number of lives that have already been lost in the Charedi community and across the borough\".\n\nHe added: \"Unfortunately, similar events have taken place even at this venue before and we need to be really clear how unacceptable it is.\n\n\"We will be meeting with the Rabbinate and our community partners over the coming days to see how we can prevent further incidents of this nature.\"\n\nLondon is under an England-wide lockdown, which prevents social mixing between households.\n\nLondoners are asked to only leave home for limited reasons such as shopping, going to work, seeking medical assistance, or avoiding domestic abuse.\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nDo you have any information to share about this incident? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Senior doctors are calling on England's chief medical officer to cut the gap between the first and second doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nProf Chris Whitty said extending the maximum wait from three to 12 weeks was a \"public health decision\" to get the first jab to more people across the UK.\n\nBut the British Medical Association said that was \"difficult to justify\" and should be changed to six weeks.\n\nIt comes as early evidence suggests the UK virus variant may be more deadly.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson told a Downing Street briefing on Friday: \"In addition to spreading more quickly, it also now appears that there is some evidence that the new variant - the variant that was first identified in London and the south east - may be associated with a higher degree of mortality.\"\n\nPrevious work suggests the new variant spreads between 30% and 70% faster than others, and there are hints it is about 30% more deadly.\n\nFor example, the government's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said if 1,000 men in their 60s were infected with the old variant, roughly 10 of them would be expected to die - but this rises to about 13 with the new variant.\n\nAnother 1,348 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test were reported in the UK on Saturday, in addition to 33,552 new infections, according to the government's coronavirus dashboard.\n\nThe government's Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) says unpublished data suggests the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is still effective with doses 12 weeks apart - but Pfizer has said it has tested its vaccine's efficacy only when the two doses were given up to 21 days apart.\n\nThe World Health Organization has recommended a gap of four weeks between doses - to be extended only in exceptional circumstances to six weeks.\n\nGovernment minister Robert Jenrick said the current strategy ensured \"millions more people can get the first jab\" and the \"high level of protection\" which it offered.\n\nHe said the BMA's concerns would be taken into account but that the government was following the \"very clear advice\" of the medicines regulator and the UK's four chief medical officers who, he said, \"could not have been clearer that this is the right thing to do for this country\".\n\nA spokeswoman for the Department of Health and Social Care added: \"Our number one priority is to give protection against coronavirus to as many vulnerable people as possible, as quickly as possible.\"\n\nIn the letter to Prof Whitty, seen by the BBC, the British Medical Association (BMA) said it agreed that the vaccine should be rolled out \"as quickly as possible\" - but called for an urgent review and for the gap to be reduced.\n\nThe doctors' union said the UK's strategy \"has become increasingly isolated internationally\" and \"is proving evermore difficult to justify\".\n\n\"The absence of any international support for the UK's approach is a cause of deep concern and risks undermining public and the profession's trust in the vaccination programme,\" the letter said.\n\nDr Chaand Nagpaul, chair of the BMA, said there were \"growing concerns\" that the vaccine could become less effective with doses 12 weeks apart.\n\n\"Obviously the protection will not vanish after six weeks, but what we do not know is what level of protection will be offered [after that point],\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\n\"We should not be extrapolating data when we don't have it.\"\n\nHe said while he understands the rationale behind the decision, \"no other nation has adopted the UK's approach\".\n\n\"We think the flexibility that the WHO offers of extending to 42 days is being stretched far too much to go from six weeks right through to 12 weeks,\" he added.\n\nThere has been understandable enthusiasm over a promising start to the hugely ambitious UK vaccination rollout.\n\nBut there has been some tension over the decision to lengthen the time between doses for the Pfizer vaccine to 12 weeks.\n\nProf Whitty and other health leaders and experts say this will allow many more people to get vaccinated quickly and the first dose gives most of the protection.\n\nBut critics argue this goes against Pfizer's recommendation of a three-week gap and there is no data to back up the long delay.\n\nThe intervention of the BMA is significant as it shows senior doctors now have widespread concerns, including worries about reliability of supplies if people have to wait longer for a second jab.\n\nThis is a private letter to Chris Whitty seen by the BBC and not a grandstanding press release. The BMA wants to have talks with the chief medical adviser about moving to six weeks.\n\nProf Whitty will no doubt restate his case, but it will be interesting to see whether the BMA argument gains traction in the wider medical world.\n\nThe BMA also suggested second doses might not be guaranteed after a 12-week delay \"given the unpredictability of supplies\".\n\nHowever, Public Health England's medical director said people would get their second dose.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that she backed the current strategy, saying it was \"about bearing down on transmission\" to reduce deaths and reduce the chance of more dangerous variants of the virus emerging.\n\n\"The more people that are protected against this virus, the less opportunity it has to get the upper hand,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOther issues highlighted in the letter include:\n\nThe UK's chief medical officers have said the \"great majority\" of initial protection comes from the first jab, while the second dose is likely to help that protection last longer.\n\nIn total, the UK has ordered 100 million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine and 40 million of the Pfizer vaccine.\n\nBoth vaccines are expected to work against the variant of Covid-19 that emerged in the UK.\n\nWhat has been your experience of receiving the vaccine? Are you waiting for your second dose? Email: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Nurses are calling for all UK staff to be given a higher grade of face mask to protect them against new variants of coronavirus.\n\nThe Royal College of Nursing warns that inadequate PPE may be putting the lives of nursing staff at risk.\n\nIt has written to the workplace safety watchdog detailing its concerns, soon after a similar appeal from doctors.\n\nEngland's Department of Health says there is no reason to change current guidance.\n\nIt follows a comprehensive review of all the evidence around the new variants and the impact on PPE.\n\nAt present, most nurses working outside of intensive care wear standard surgical masks.\n\nBut the RCN says they may not protect them against the new variant of the virus, and very small airborne viral particles spread in hospitals.\n\nInstead, it wants all NHS staff to be given the kinds of high-grade face masks used in intensive care units, called FFP2 or FFP3 masks.\n\nThe UK guidance on infection prevention and control has recently been updated, but nurses say it allows individual trusts to decide what PPE to use.\n\nAs a result, some hospitals are offering staff high-grade PPE while many are not - and that is leading to unequal levels of protection depending on where nurses work.\n\nMany nurses wear standard surgical masks outside of intensive care\n\nDame Donna Kinnair, chief executive and general secretary of the RCN, said: \"The government's silence on this issue is creating a postcode lottery for nursing staff.\n\n\"It must stop dragging its feet on this issue. Nursing staff need to have full confidence that they are protected.\"\n\nShe added: \"Staff picking up this virus at work are angered at any suggestion they have stopped following the rules - this is down to the new variant and the dangerous shortage of adequate protection.\"\n\nNHS England data shows a 22% rise in the average number of healthcare staff off sick because of Covid-19 in the first week of January, compared with the last week in December.\n\nA spokesman from the Department of Health and Social Care in England said the safety of NHS and social care staff was \"top priority\" but the current guidance did not need changing.\n\n\"In response to the new Covid-19 variants, the UK Infection Prevention Control Cell conducted a comprehensive review of all available evidence and concluded that current guidance and PPE recommendations remain the right ones.\n\n\"New and emerging evidence is continually scrutinised and evaluated by the government, in conjunction with our world-leading scientists,\" the spokesman said.\n\nThe Royal College of Nursing is asking the governments of the UK to:\n\nIt is also calling for the Health and Safety Executive to review the guidance on appropriate use of PPE in all health and care settings.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nCheltenham Town came within nine minutes of one of the biggest shocks in recent FA Cup history before Manchester City staged a dramatic late rally to crush the dreams of the gallant League Two side.\n\nThe Robins, 72 places below City who sit second in the Premier League, threatened huge embarrassment for Pep Guardiola's side after Alfie May put Cheltenham ahead on the hour after a trademark long throw from captain Ben Tozer caused chaos in the area.\n\nCity, who made ten changes to the team that beat Aston Villa in the Premier League on Wednesday, spared their embarrassment when Phil Foden, the game's outstanding player, arrived at the far post to turn in substitute Joao Cancelo's long cross in the 81st minute.\n\nAnd the turnaround was complete three minutes later when a rare moment of slackness in the outstanding Cheltenham defence, with goalkeeper Josh Griffiths superb, switched off and Gabriel Jesus scored from Fernandinho's delivery.\n\nFerran Torres scored Manchester City's third with the last kick of the game to give the scoreline a cruel reflection on Cheltenham's heroic efforts.\n\nIt was so cruel on manager Michael Duff and his players, who now go back the battle for promotion from League Two, while City will be away at Swansea in the fifth round.\n\n\"I'm incredibly proud,\" the Robins boss said of his side's display. \"The players they brought on from the bench and they way they celebrated the goals tells you something. They know they've been in a game. They've done that to better teams than us.\"\n\nThe sight of Manchester City manager Guardiola disputing where Cheltenham could take a throw-in said everything about the way the League Two underdogs gave their mighty opponents a serious fright.\n\nTozer's throw-ins were causing all manner of problems and led to Cheltenham's goal but there was so much more to their performance than that set-piece weapon, a threat any manager in the game would utilise.\n\nCheltenham tried to play football when they got the chance, with goalscorer May, who has done the hard yards in non-league before playing for Doncaster and now Cheltenham, a leading light.\n\nRobins keeper Griffiths, who suffered the ignominy of being beaten from 71 yards by his Newport County opposite number Tom King in midweek, was in defiant form as he saved well from Riyad Mahrez and Torres, showing command throughout. Tozer's headed goalline clearance from Benjamin Mendy in the first half was also symbolic of their 'they shall not pass' approach.\n\nThere may have been no fans inside this compact stadium but there was still a real sense of occasion, the game being halted in the first half because of a firework display nearby.\n\nIn the end this will be a bitter disappointment to Cheltenham but they can be rightly proud and take huge confidence into their League Two promotion battle.\n\nDuff highlighted how financially important the cup run was for his club.\n\n\"It's essential,\" he added. \"Every pound coming in is probably worth a tenner in normal times.\n\n\"These games don't come around very often. It's a shame because [with fans] the place would've been bouncing. Would that have seen us through in the last 10 minutes? I'm not so sure - but the key is to enjoy it.\"\n\nGuardiola made 10 changes to his line-up to give Manchester City's shadow squad a chance to impress.\n\nSome, like the erratic Mendy, did not take that opportunity and it was someone establishing himself in City's side that spared the blushes of this expensively assembled squad.\n\nFoden was magnificent, so light on his feet with glorious ball control, endless creativity and the man pulling the strings for City even when they were struggling to break down resilient Cheltenham.\n\nThe 20-year-old was head and shoulders above his City team-mates. He was the one who was going to pull them out of their grim predicament if anyone was, and so it proved when he popped up with the crucial late equaliser that lifted Guardiola's team and deflated Cheltenham.\n\nFoden had already carved out chances for Mahrez and Gabriel Jesus that were not taken so it was a case of 'do it yourself' when he was the player on target.\n\nThe fact Guardiola was forced to use three subs in Ruben Dias, Ilkay Gundogan and Joao Cancelo once Cheltenham went ahead proved how worried the Premier League giants were.\n\nThis was an unimpressive, scratchy display from City's much-changed team, with Guardiola resting so many of the players who are giving them such an ominous look in the Premier League - luckily they had the brilliance of Foden to pull them out of a deep hole.\n\nGuardiola praised the England attacking midfielder for his impressive performance.\n\n\"Foden is in a great moment and with great confidence,\" he said.\n\n\"He is clinical in front of goal and he had a similar chance to the goal we scored at [Chelsea's] Stamford Bridge - he is playing really well.\"\n\nThe City manager suggested he was confident in the players he put out on the pitch.\n\n\"I didn't have regrets even when we were 1-0 down, we had clear chances from the first minute,\" he added.\n\n\"When they take advantage it gets complicated, but we got it to 1-1 and it was tight. We came here with humility and had the quality to make the difference.\"\n• None Cheltenham have lost all nine of their competitive meetings with Premier League sides, by an aggregate score of 6-23.\n• None City have won 10 consecutive games in all competitions for the first time since a run of 11 from August to October 2017.\n• None May's opener for Cheltenham was the first goal City had conceded in 509 minutes of action in all competitions, since Callum Hudson-Odoi's strike for Chelsea at the start of the month.\n• None Foden is City's top scorer in all competitions this season with nine goals in 25 appearances, one more than he netted in 38 games last season.\n• None Jesus has been involved in 12 goals in 13 FA Cup appearances for City, scoring eight and assisting four.\n• None May has scored four goals in his four FA Cup games for Cheltenham, with each of his eight goals in total in the competition coming in home games.\n• None Goal! Cheltenham Town 1, Manchester City 3. Ferran Torres (Manchester City) right footed shot from very close range to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Ilkay Gündogan.\n• None Attempt missed. Matty Blair (Cheltenham Town) right footed shot from the right side of the box is too high following a corner.\n• None Goal! Cheltenham Town 1, Manchester City 2. Gabriel Jesus (Manchester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Fernandinho with a through ball.\n• None Goal! Cheltenham Town 1, Manchester City 1. Phil Foden (Manchester City) left footed shot from very close range to the bottom left corner. Assisted by João Cancelo with a cross.\n• None Attempt missed. João Cancelo (Manchester City) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Riyad Mahrez.\n• None Attempt missed. Phil Foden (Manchester City) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by João Cancelo with a cross. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Hear from the former US president as he reflects on his time in office\n• None How can you eat well for £1 a portion?", "The 39 people who died in the back of a trailer as it crossed the North Sea between Zeebrugge and the UK\n\nFour men have been jailed for the manslaughter of 39 Vietnamese migrants found dead in a lorry trailer in Essex.\n\nThe migrants died \"excruciatingly painful\" deaths, having suffocated in the container en route from Belgium to Purfleet in October 2019, a judge said.\n\nRonan Hughes, 41, and Gheorghe Nica, 43, played \"leading roles\" in the smuggling conspiracy and were jailed for 20 and 27 years respectively.\n\nAt the Old Bailey, two lorry drivers were also jailed for manslaughter.\n\n[Left to right] Eamonn Harrison, Ronan Hughes, Gheorghe Nica and Maurice Robinson were all jailed for manslaughter\n\nEamonn Harrison, 24, who towed the trailer to the Belgian port of Zeebrugge before their journey to the UK, was sentenced to 18 years.\n\nMaurice Robinson, 26, was given 13 years and four months, having collected the trailer and opened it in an industrial estate to find the migrants dead.\n\nThree others members of the people-smuggling gang were also sentenced for conspiracy to facilitate unlawful immigration.\n\nChristopher Kennedy, 24, from County Armagh, was jailed for seven years; Valentin Calota, 38, of Birmingham, for four-and-a-half years; and Alexandru-Ovidiu Hanga, 28, of Hobart Road, Tilbury, Essex, was given a three-year sentence.\n\n[Left to right] Valentin Calota, Alexandru-Ovidiu Hanga and Christopher Kennedy were also sentenced on Friday\n\nSentencing, Mr Justice Sweeney said: \"I have no doubt that the conspiracy was a sophisticated, long-running and profitable one to smuggle mainly Vietnamese people across the channel.\"\n\nHe said on the fatal trip the temperature had been rising along with the carbon dioxide levels throughout, hitting 40C (104F) while the container was at sea on 22 October 2019.\n\n\"There were desperate attempts to contact the outside world by phone and to break through the roof of the container,\" the judge said.\n\n\"All were to no avail and, before the ship reached Purfleet, [the victims] all died in what must have been an excruciatingly painful death.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Video evidence showed how the trainer containing 39 Vietnamese migrants made its way to the UK\n\nThe victims had used a metal pole to try to punch through the roof but only managed to dent the interior.\n\nThe court heard some of their final desperate phone messages, including one where a man spoke with ragged breaths as he apologised to his family.\n\n\"I can't breathe,\" he said. \"I want to come back to my family. Have a good life.\"\n\nJustice Sweeney added: \"The willingness of the victims to try and enter the country illegally provides no excuse for what happened to them.\"\n\nThe bodies of 39 Vietnamese nationals were discovered in a refrigerated trailer on 23 October 2019\n\nDuring the trial, jurors were given a snapshot of the victims - who included a bricklayer, a university graduate and a nail bar technician - and their dreams of a better life.\n\nMany of their families borrowed heavily to fund their passage, relying on their potential future earnings once they got into the UK.\n\nThe father of Nguyen Huy Tung, one of two 15-year-olds in the container, later learned of his son's death via social media.\n\nHarrison, of Newry, County Down, claimed he did not know there were people in the trailer when he towed it to the Belgian port, and that he watched \"a wee bit of Netflix\" in bed as they were loaded on.\n\nAfter receiving this message from his boss, Robinson got out of his cab, opened the trailer door and discovered the bodies\n\nRobinson, from County Armagh, collected the trailer when it arrived on UK shores just after midnight on 23 October.\n\nHis boss, Hughes, had messaged him: \"Give them air quickly don't let them out.\"\n\nRobinson gave a thumbs-up in reply. When Robinson stopped on a nearby industrial estate, he found that the migrants were all dead.\n\nHis barrister said Robinson, who admitted manslaughter, being part of the trafficking plot and money laundering, was \"horrified by what he saw\".\n\nThe moment lorry driver Maurice Robinson opened the trailer door and discovered the bodies inside was captured on CCTV\n\nThe trial examined three smuggling attempts by the gang - two that were successful on 11 and 18 October, and the final trip on 23 October.\n\nOn all three runs, Nica, of Basildon, Essex, had arranged cars and a van to transport the migrants at the UK end.\n\nWhen Robinson discovered the bodies, there was a series of telephone conversations between him and Nica and Hughes, of Tyholland, County Monaghan, Ireland, before the driver eventually dialled 999.\n\nIn his evidence, Nica said Robinson told him: \"I have a problem here - dead bodies in the trailer.\"\n\nWhile Hughes admitted manslaughter, both Nica and Harrison were convicted by a jury.\n\nMr Justice Sweeney said that in the conspiracy \"two played leading roles, namely - in order of importance - Hughes and Nica\".\n\nHe accepted Hughes was \"not at the very top of the conspiracy\" but said his role was \"pivotal... in that he ran a haulage business and supplied the trailers and drivers used to transport the migrants\".\n\nThe judge said Nica \"recruited and paid the drivers whose job it was to collect the migrants when they reached the drop-off site in this country and to drive them to the safe house(s) where they were to be held until payment\".\n\nHe added at the top of the conspiracy was a Vietnamese man called \"Fong\", who was based in London.\n\nMr Justice Sweeney told the defendants jailed for manslaughter they would serve two-thirds of the term in custody, instead of the usual half.\n\nEarlier this month, Gazmir Nuzi, 43, of Barclay Road, Tottenham, north London, was sentenced, having admitted his limited role in the people-smuggling operation. It was accepted he was not a member of the organised crime group behind the smuggling operation.\n\nDet Ch Insp Daniel Stoten said: \"May this serve as a warning to those who think it's OK to prey on the vulnerabilities of migrants and their families, transporting them in a way worse than we would transport animals.\n\n\"My message to you is that we will find you and we will stop you.\"\n\nHe said the victims died in an \"unimaginable way, because of the utter greed of these criminals\".\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Police warned that unsanctioned protests would be \"immediately suppressed\"\n\nRussian police have detained close aides of the jailed opposition politician Alexei Navalny, as a string of nationwide protests gets under way.\n\nPolice have broken up demonstrations in the eastern Khabarovsk region, amid stern warnings for people to stay home.\n\nMr Navalny's supporters flooded social media with calls to rally at protests expected in dozens of cities later.\n\nHe is Russian leader Vladimir Putin's most high-profile critic.\n\nHe was arrested last Sunday after he flew back to Moscow from Berlin, where he had been recovering from a near-fatal nerve agent attack in Russia last August.\n\nOn his return, he was immediately taken into custody and found guilty of violating parole conditions. He says it is a trumped-up case designed to silence him.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alexei Navalny was filmed by the BBC saying goodbye to his wife and then being led away by authorities\n\nMore than 60m people have watched his new video about President Vladimir Putin's alleged luxury Black Sea palace.\n\nThe Kremlin denies the property belongs to the president.\n\nAmong those detained in Moscow on Thursday were his spokeswoman, Kira Yarmysh, and one of his lawyers, Lyubov Sobol. They face fines or short jail terms.\n\nMs Sobol, who has a young child, was later released. But Ms Yarmysh has now been jailed for nine days.\n\nProminent Navalny activists are also being held in the cities of Vladivostok, Novosibirsk and Krasnodar.\n\nUnauthorised rallies are being planned in more than 60 cities across Russia for Saturday. Moscow police say any unauthorised demonstrations and provocations will be \"immediately suppressed\".\n\nA thousand people were reported to have come onto the streets in the Khabarovsk region, with some of them already detained.\n\nMr Navalny's wife Yulia, who travelled back to Russia with him from Germany, said she would demonstrate in Moscow \"for myself, for him, for our children, for the values and the ideals that we share\".\n\nAlexei Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) has drawn millions of followers on social media, through slickly produced videos alleging large-scale official corruption. He has long denounced Mr Putin's administration as \"feudal\" and full of \"crooks and thieves\".\n\nFor a long time the Russian authorities made out that Alexei Navalny was irrelevant. Just a blogger. With a tiny following. No threat whatsoever.\n\nRecent events suggest the opposite. First Mr Navalny was targeted with a nerve agent, allegedly by a secret group of FSB state security hitmen. Instead of investigating the poisoning, Russia is investigating him: on his return from Germany the Kremlin critic was arrested.\n\nHaving put Mr Navalny behind bars, the authorities are putting pressure on his supporters. The Kremlin's greatest fear is of a Ukraine-style revolution in Russia that would sweep away those in power.\n\nThere's no indication that such a scenario is imminent. But with economic problems growing, the Kremlin will worry that Mr Navalny could act as a lightning rod for protest sentiment. That explains the police crackdown on Navalny allies ahead of Saturday's potential protests.\n\nPlus, this is getting personal. Mr Navalny's video about \"Putin's Palace\" on the Black Sea was designed to cause maximum embarrassment to the Russian president.\n\nIn the \"Putin's palace\" video Mr Navalny alleges that rich businessmen close to Mr Putin paid for a sumptuous 17,691sq m (190,424sq ft) palace for him at Gelendzhik, by the Black Sea.\n\nIt is alleged to have a casino, a theatre and many other comforts, including a vineyard and tea house in the sprawling grounds. The Kremlin dismissed the YouTube video as a \"pseudo-investigation\" aimed at earning money for Mr Navalny.\n\nProsecutors have warned people against protesting in support of Mr Navalny on Saturday. Russia's education ministry has told parents not to allow their children to attend.\n\nSome Russian celebrities in the arts and sports have pledged support for Mr Navalny. They include ice hockey star Artemi Panarin.\n\nFormer world chess champion Garry Kasparov - now a leading anti-Putin activist based in the US - tweeted that pro-Navalny posts were being widely blocked in Russia.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Garry Kasparov This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn a phone call to President Putin on Friday, EU Council President Charles Michel voiced \"grave concern\" about the jailing of Mr Navalny.\n\nMr Michel said the EU was \"united in its call on Russia to swiftly release Mr Navalny and proceed with the investigation into the assassination attempt on him, in full transparency and without further delay\".\n\nIn October, the EU imposed sanctions on six top Russian officials and a Russian chemical weapons research centre over the Novichok poisoning of Mr Navalny.\n\nThe Kremlin retaliated with tit-for-tat sanctions, denying any role in the attack and rejecting the expert finding that the Russian nerve agent had been used.\n\nThe Black Sea palace allegedly features a casino, an ice rink and a vineyard\n\nThe social media app TikTok has a flood of videos from Russians promoting the protests planned for Saturday. The messages about Mr Navalny have been going viral for several days.\n\nA well-known Russian TikTok user, Slava Varfolomeyev, told BBC Russian: \"I go on TikTok and find that every third video is about 'Putin's palace', the detention of Navalny and the 23 January rally!\"\n\nHe said that on Thursday \"this swelled to a maximum: practically seven out of every 10 videos were on that topic [Navalny]\". TikTok's popularity is based on short-form videos.\n\nOn Wednesday Russia's official media watchdog, Roskomnadzor, demanded that TikTok take down any information \"encouraging minors to act illegally\", threatening large fines.", "Police said they had been in contact with the family before the funeral took place \"in an attempt to ensure safety\"\n\nA funeral director has been fined £10,000 after police were called to a funeral with close to 150 people in attendance.\n\nHertfordshire Police said the large gathering in Welwyn Garden City on Thursday was reported to them by members of the public.\n\nCoronavirus rules mean a maximum of 30 people can attend a funeral.\n\nA second person was fined, by Bedfordshire Police, for when the gathering was in Arlesey, Bedfordshire.\n\nSupt Nick Caveney, of Hertfordshire Police, said: \"This was a clear and blatant breach of the current restrictions.\"\n\nHe said the fine was given to the funeral director \"for not managing this event correctly and advising their clients of the rules\".\n\n\"We implore all business owners to ensure they are following the restrictions safely and responsibly,\" he said.\n\n\"Flagrant breaches such as this will not be tolerated.\"\n\nThe force said it had worked with other agencies and the family in advance of the funeral \"in an attempt to ensure the safety of those attending and that of the wider public\".\n\nBut when officers attended they found the large number of people at the church, and a 41-year-old man from Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, was handed the £10,000 fine after police served a fixed penalty notice.\n\nSeveral members of the public had contacted the force about the funeral at the Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady, Queen of Apostles on Woodhall Lane.\n\nBedfordshire Police said a man in his 30s was issued with the fine over the gathering.\n\nCh Supt John Murphy from the force said: \"Fines and enforcement are a last resort for us, and we will always engage and work with families in the first instance.\n\n\"But we need to take firm action against those who brazenly decide to go against the guidelines outlined by the government and put a large number of people at risk.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Ministers will discuss at a meeting on Monday whether to tighten restrictions at UK borders - including the possibility of hotel quarantines for travellers, the BBC has been told.\n\nAt a Downing Street news conference on Friday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson did not rule out taking further action.\n\nIt comes amid increased concerns over the spread of new coronavirus variants.\n\nUnder current travel curbs, almost all people arriving in the UK must test negative for Covid to be allowed entry.\n\nThe test must be taken in the 72 hours before travelling and anyone arriving without one faces a fine of up to £500.\n\nAll passengers are also required to quarantine for up to 10 days, although the isolation period can be cut short with a second negative test after five days in England.\n\nThe only people not subject to the conditions are children under 11, hauliers, air, international rail and maritime crew, and passengers from the Common Travel Area - comprised of the Republic of Ireland, the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man\n\nScotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have their own quarantine rules, which differ slightly.\n\nAs of Monday, travel corridors, which exempted passengers arriving from some countries from quarantine, were suspended throughout the UK.\n\nAsked whether the government would bring in further measures at UK borders, Mr Johnson said: \"I really don't rule it out, we may need to take further measures still.\n\n\"We may need to go further to protect our borders.\n\n\"We don't want to put that [efforts to control Covid] at risk by having a new variant come back in.\"\n\nOne more infectious variant , which was first identified in Kent, has already spread widely across the UK.\n\nAnd, at the briefing, the prime minister announced that early evidence suggests this variant may be more deadly.\n\nOther new variants causing concern have been identified in South Africa and Brazil in the weeks since the Kent variant was discovered.\n\nThose discoveries led to direct flights to the UK from all South American countries and several southern African countries being suspended.\n\nScientists fear these variants discovered in other countries may interfere with the effectiveness of vaccines and evade parts of the immune system.\n\nWhile those travelling into the UK are asked to abide by the 10-day isolation and told they can be subject to checks, London mayor Sadiq Khan is among those who have called for the UK to adopt the use of enforced quarantine in hotel rooms.\n\nThe policy is among the measures in Australia that has limited the country to just 28,750 positive cases during the entire pandemic, fewer than the UK currently has every day.\n\nTravellers who choose to go to Australia have to pay for their rooms at one of a number of selected quarantine facilities - and have all their meals delivered to their room throughout a stay of at least 14 days. They get tested twice for Covid during that period and if they test positive their quarantine is extended for a further 14 days.\n\nMeanwhile, passengers arriving into London's Heathrow airport this week have complained of queues at passport control and what they described as poor social distancing, after the latest travel restrictions - requiring travellers to show proof of their negative Covid tests - came into force.\n\nOn Friday, former British ambassador Peter Westmacott posted a picture on Twitter of long queues at the airport.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Peter Westmacott This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA government spokesman said people \"should not be travelling unless absolutely necessary\".\n\nThe statement added: \"You must have proof of a negative test and a completed passenger locator form before arriving.\n\n\"Border Force have been ramping up enforcement and those not complying could be fined £500.\n\n\"It's ultimately up to individual airports to ensure social distancing on site.\"\n\nWith all parts of the UK under strict virus rules amid high levels of infection, only essential foreign travel is permitted in the current advice from the Foreign Office.\n\nA further 40,261 cases, and 1,401 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test were reported on Friday in the UK.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Some of the volunteers are working to prepare bodies for burial\n\nA mosque in east London has closed for all communal prayer. Instead it is serving two purposes - providing funerals and feeding the local community. Michael Buchanan finds a team of volunteers there battling to deal with the pandemic.\n\nThe family shuffled quietly past a crate of milk cartons. They came through the small porch, towards the open coffin. Inside was a woman - a loved one - who died of Covid two days ago. The coffin sat feet away from tins and packets to be distributed by the local food bank. The milk was the latest delivery.\n\nIt is impossible to capture the enormous consequences of the pandemic. But last Saturday lunchtime, this tragic image - one of grief and hardship coming together - came close, for me at least.\n\nCovid-19 has made extraordinary demands of so many different people, but what is currently happening at the Masjid Ibrahim and Islamic Centre in east London is truly remarkable. Situated on a busy road, with the noise of ambulance sirens regularly shattering its peaceful interior, the mosque has closed to communal prayer and is open for two other purposes - to provide a funeral service and a food bank to the local community. Both are inundated.\n\n\"We've had so many bodies coming in. It's quite shocking. It's one after another after another. We've never had that situation before,\" says Sofia Bhatti. Alongside her friend, Tabassum Khokhar - known as Tabs - the pair are unheralded heroes. They volunteer to wash the bodies of Covid-positive women prior to burial.\n\nThe practice, called Ghusl, is a sacred Islamic ritual and is usually performed by the deceased's relatives, who cleanse and shroud the body. But Covid restrictions mean families are currently denied that religious honour, so volunteers like Sofia and Tabs are taking on what they consider to be a privileged task.\n\n\"We actually believe that when we are shrouding here, that God is shrouding the soul at the same time,\" says Tabs, standing by a coffin. By day, she works as a teaching support worker in a local school, so the PPE that the mosque provides - bodysuit, footwear, two sets of gloves, masks and visors - is crucial for her. \"I make sure my PPE is secure because it's not just about me, it's about my family. I have an 81-year-old mother.\"\n\nThe women are seeing first hand - and in graphic detail - the pressure the NHS is under. \"Very often we see bodies coming in with a lot of medical equipment still attached to them,\" says Sofia. \"Tubes and pipes and catheters still attached. So it makes our job a little bit harder.\" One of the women they washed during my visit had died in the ambulance, never actually reaching hospital.\n\nVery often we see bodies coming in with a lot of medical equipment still attached to them. Tubes and pipes and catheters\n\nThere are far more bodies than during the first peak and there is a larger age range. One day this week, the mosque was handling seven bodies. A few days earlier they said they'd processed 10 funerals, all arranged for free and paid for by donations. Before the pandemic, they'd handled two to three funerals a week. The two local hospital trusts in east London have each had more than 1,000 Covid deaths since the start of the pandemic. More have died at home.\n\nThe borough of Newham, where the mosque sits, has suffered a disproportionate number of deaths. Home to the Olympic Park, the 2012 London games were meant to regenerate this area. Yet it retains high levels of poverty and overcrowded housing. Add in a diverse population, rich in south Asian culture, and large numbers of people who can't work from home and the virus has sadly ripped through its residents.\n\nIsfand Aslam said he's shocked by what's going on. His father, Mohammad, died on 3 January, a week after falling ill. His positive Covid test result arrived two days after his death. The 85-year-old was a committee member at the Masjid Ibrahim and despite his age had been in good health. \"It took a week between him passing away and getting buried. Initially I was getting a lot of condolences from friends. But by the end of that week I am giving condolences to three friends because their fathers had passed away. It's now got to the stage where everybody we know knows somebody who has passed away.\"\n\nThe sheer number of deaths is impacting the area's main Muslim cemetery. Normally, the Gardens of Peace buries three to four people each day. They're currently carrying out an average of 15 funerals daily. Overall, they are about 50% busier than usual. They can no longer promise burials within 24 hours, as per Muslim custom.\n\nDespite this, there is still a concerning number of people in the local area who either don't think Covid is real or are resistant to taking a vaccine. There was anger among some community leaders before Christmas when it emerged the Bangladeshi High Commission in London held a cultural evening to celebrate its independence. Photos from the event, on 16 December, showed a group - including the High Commissioner herself - standing close together with no masks or social distancing. The High Commission said performers had been Covid tested and it had issued 10 videos in Bangla urging British-Bangladeshis to adhere to UK government guidance.\n\nIt's now got to the stage where everybody we know knows somebody who has passed away\n\nTo counter disinformation among its members, an imam at the Masjid Ibrahim, Mohammad Ammar, filmed a short video of himself being injected with the vaccine and urged his congregation to follow suit. Imam Ammar has actually been furloughed by the mosque as it focusses all its resources on battling the pandemic, including feeding its local community.\n\nThe virus forced the mosque to open a food bank in March. It is still running 10 months on. On Monday night, I watched a steady stream of people gather in the gloom at the rear of the mosque to fill their bags. Most were collecting on behalf of a larger household, and the mosque says they're currently feeding 350 families each week, including students, refugees, people with no access to public funds and those who've lost income.\n\nAmong those collecting food on Monday was Mohammad Rahman. A 42-year-old chef, he lost his job in an Indian restaurant three months ago. The married father of two boys - aged eight and six - told me he was already in rent arrears and struggling to pay his energy bills. \"My son says 'where is the pizza'? But I have no money. He says '[can I have] chicken and chips'? But I have no money. The shops are open, but no money\", he adds, taking his hands from his pockets.\n\nIn normal times, the Masjid Ibrahim would attract about 1,100 worshippers over three floors for Friday prayers, and there has been some pressure on the leadership to reopen for communal worship. But Asim Uddin, chairman of the mosque, says now is not the time. \"Prayers, yes, it's important. But right now what is the need? The need of the community is they want to be fed and they want a place where they can respectfully bury their loved ones. And the demand is overwhelming. Right now, it's better they stay home, and they can pray at home until the situation goes back to normal.\"\n\nMichael Buchanan is the BBC's social affairs correspondent and has been reporting on the impact of the pandemic on communities in the UK. Last year, he visited the town of Pontypool to find out what impact coronavirus restrictions were having in Wales.", "Reports suggest AstraZeneca may have warned of a 60% cut to doses available\n\nA second coronavirus vaccine manufacturer has warned of supply issues to the European Union, compounding frustration in the bloc.\n\nAstraZeneca said a production problem meant the number of initial doses available would be lower than expected.\n\nThe fresh blow comes after some nations' inoculation programmes were slowed due to a cut in deliveries of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.\n\nThe EU Health Commissioner expressed \"deep dissatisfaction\" at the news.\n\nOfficials have not confirmed publicly how big the shortfall will be, but an unnamed EU official told Reuters news agency that deliveries would be reduced to 31m - a cut of 60% - in the first quarter of this year.\n\nThe drug firm had been set to deliver about 80 million doses to the 27 nations by March, according to the official who spoke to Reuters.\n\nThe AstraZeneca vaccine, developed with Oxford University, has not yet been approved by the EU's drug regulator but is expected to get the green light at the end of this month, paving the way for jabs to be given.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA spokesman for AstraZeneca said on Friday that \"initial volumes will be lower than originally anticipated\" without giving further details.\n\nHis written statement blamed the discrepancy on \"reduced yields at a manufacturing site within our European supply chain\" and said the firm was continuing to ramp up production volumes.\n\nNews of the delay comes amid criticism and frustration across the region about the speed of vaccination roll-outs.\n\nIsrael, the United Arab Emirates, the UK, and the US are all well ahead of EU nations in terms of doses given per capita so far.\n\nThe European Commission has co-ordinated orders for all member states, with vaccines then distributed based on their population size.\n\nVaccines are increasingly seen by experts as the only way out of the Covid-19 crisis, with many European nations struggling to cope with a deadly surge of the virus over the winter period.\n\nAustrian media have reported that only 600,000 of two million AstraZeneca doses promised by the end of March will arrive in the country on time, with the remaining 1.4m now being delivered in April.\n\nA delay would be \"completely unacceptable\", Austrian Health Minister Rudolf Anschober said on Friday.\n\nAs for Pfizer, the US firm said it had to cut shipments for the next few weeks while it worked to increase capacity at its Belgian processing plant. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSome regions, including Germany's most populous state North-Rhine Westphalia and parts of Italy, said earlier this week that they were suspending giving first jabs of the two-dose vaccine because of the shortages.\n\nItaly and Poland have threatened to take legal action in response to the reduction in vaccine supply.\n\nMeanwhile Hungary's government, which has complained over the time it is taking EU regulators to approve the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, has reached a deal with Russia to buy up large quantities of its Sputnik V vaccine, even though it has not received EU approval.\n\nEuropean Council President Charles Michel, who led a call of EU leaders this week, said Thursday that officials were considering all ideas to try and stop future vaccine delays.\n\n\"All possible means will be examined to ensure rapid supply, including early distribution to avoid delays,\" he said.\n\nEuropean Commission president Ursula von der Leyen and Mr Michel both say they are still aiming for the target of 70% of the EU population being vaccinated by summer.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid vaccine safety: How does a vaccine get approved?\n\nThe total number of German Covid deaths climbed above 50,000 on Friday - a day after the country warned that it could close its borders if other EU countries were less strict in controlling the virus. Berlin sounded the alarm amid rising concern about new variants.\n\nEU leaders agreed late on Thursday to keep their internal borders open but warned non-essential travel might need to be restricted to curb the spread of the virus.\n\nMs von der Leyen said Thursday that more testing and \"targeted measures\" were needed throughout the EU in order to keep internal and external borders open.\n\nFor its part, France said it would impose tighter travel restrictions for European arrivals from Sunday, requiring a negative PCR Covid test within three days of travel.\n\nIn the Netherlands, a ban on all flights from the UK, South Africa and South American countries came into effect on Saturday to try and prevent new coronavirus variants gaining a foothold.\n\nLooking forward to the future, officials from EU nations reliant on tourism - including Spain and Greece - have floated the possibility of using vaccination certificates to allow for cross-border travel but there has been scepticism within the bloc.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Infection level \"very, very high\" and \"extremely precarious\" - Prof Whitty\n\nThe UK is at an \"extremely precarious\" point, according to the chief medical adviser, despite signs Covid infections are beginning to fall.\n\nThe virus's reproduction rate is estimated to be at or below one for the first time since early December.\n\nAnything below one means the epidemic is shrinking.\n\nBut cases are falling from a \"very, very high level\", Prof Chris Whitty said - and may still be increasing in some areas.\n\n\"A very small change and it could start taking off again from an extremely high base,\" he warned.\n\nSpeaking at a Number 10 press conference on Friday evening, the UK's chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, said the \"awful\" death rate would stay high \"for a little while before it starts coming down\".\n\n\"That was always what was predicted...and I think the information about the new variant doesn't change that\".\n\nEarly evidence suggests the variant of coronavirus that emerged in the UK may be more deadly, although findings are preliminary and there is a high level of uncertainty.\n\nDr Susan Hopkins at Public Health England said there was \"evidence from some but not all data sources which suggests that the variant of concern which was first detected in the UK may lead to a higher risk of death than the non-variant.\n\n\"Evidence on this variant is still emerging and more work is under way to fully understand how it behaves.\"\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said while the UK's R or reproduction number, might be below one - meaning a shrinking epidemic - overall, \"cases remain dangerously high and...it is essential that everyone continues to stay at home, whether they have had the vaccine or not.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures suggested cases were decreasing slightly or levelling off across Britain.\n\nBut infections are falling more slowly than they did during the first lockdown - by somewhere around a quarter every fortnight compared with a halving back in April.\n\nA further 40,261 cases, and 1,401 deaths were recorded on Friday in the UK.\n\nMore than five million people had been given a first dose of the vaccine by 21 January, and about half a million had received their second dose.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has previously said it is \"too early\" to say whether England's Covid restrictions will be able to end in the spring.\n\nWhile cases are falling or stable across the rest of the UK, in Northern Ireland cases have continued to rise and the new, more infectious strain has overtaken the older variant of the virus as of the start of January.\n\nDuring the week ending 16 January, about one in 55 people in England had the virus, the ONS estimated, with one in 35 in London testing positive.\n\nOne in 100 people had the virus in Scotland and one in 70 in Wales.\n\nBut in Northern Ireland infections have shot up from an an estimated one in 200 people testing positive in the week to 2 January, to one in 60 last week.\n\nONS statistician Sarah Crofts said while fewer people were testing positive in England, \"rates remain high and we estimate the level of infection is still over one million people\".\n\nAnd, she pointed out, \"the picture across the UK is mixed\".\n\nA survey by tech company ZOE and King's College London, based on swabs of people with and without symptoms, also suggested the R number could be at 0.8.\n\nAnd it estimated symptomatic cases had fallen by a quarter since last week.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What is the R number and what does it mean?\n\nMeanwhile, the proportion of people testing positive for the new Covid variant has risen considerably in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, ONS data suggest.\n\nBut the new strain, which remains by far the main source of infections in England, has yet to overtake the old strain in Scotland and Wales.\n\nWithin England, the proportion of infections that appear to be due to the new variant remained stable, but the gap between the regions is narrowing.\n\nIn the figures covering 2 January, 80% of infections looked like the new variant in London compared to 30% in the North East.\n\nTwo weeks later, that gap had narrowed to 70% in London versus 50% in the North East.\n\nIt is not clear what is behind the small fall in London, but it may be down to behaviour change, or other variants like the South Africa strain now in circulation and diluting the numbers.", "Morriston is seeing \"unprecedented\" numbers of people die in intensive care\n\nAn intensive care consultant said as many as five patients are dying with Covid during a single 12-hour shift.\n\nDr John Gorst said the number was \"unprecedented\" at his unit in Swansea's Morriston Hospital that would normally only see one person die.\n\nHe said the second wave of the pandemic was more challenging with patients more severely unwell.\n\nIn Wales, there has been an average of about 34 deaths a day during the pandemic up to 19 January.\n\nNew Year's Day saw the most Covid-related deaths in a single day in Wales - 55 - since the pandemic began.\n\n\"In some 12-hour periods we have lost up to five coronavirus patients,\" said Dr Gorst.\n\n\"Usually we expect to see, on average, one patient a day dying in the intensive care unit. To have five die on one day is unprecedented.\n\n\"That's been a real struggle for their families and for the staff dealing with it.\"\n\nFour additional medical wards have opened to cope with the impact of coronavirus at Morriston, with about 300 patients being treated.\n\nDr John Gorst and senior matron Carol Doggett say Covid patients are sicker and younger in the second wave\n\nDr Gorst said: \"If it wasn't for the treatment given on the wards, intensive care would have been completely overwhelmed.\n\n\"However, when patients have failed on these treatments, sadly the safety net of the intensive care unit [and] getting them on an invasive ventilator, largely doesn't work.\n\n\"Most patients who come to intensive care to go on an intensive ventilator, sadly, will not survive.\n\n\"These patients are mostly of working age. They don't have any significant medical conditions.\"\n\n\"This is alien to us as an intensive care unit. We expect far more patients to survive. Now they are not.\"\n\nMorriston's senior matron Carol Doggett agreed that the \"number of sicker patients has definitely increased\", and she said they were younger than had been experienced in the first wave of the pandemic.\n\n\"That should be a stark warning to anyone not to take chances with this,\" she said.\n\nOn Friday, First Minister Mark Drakeford said there was cause for concern over new variants of Covid-19.\n\n\"We know the new highly contagious strain - sometimes called the Kent variant - is now widespread across Wales,\" he said.\n\nHe also said the government was closely monitoring three new variant variants: one from South Africa and two from Brazil.\n\nSix cases of the South African variant have been identified in Wales.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police tweeted this photo, which appears to show the vehicle severely damaged in the crash\n\nFour ponies have been killed in a collision with a vehicle in the New Forest National Park.\n\nThe animals were hit on Thursday night while licking freshly laid salt on Roger Penny Way, Hampshire Constabulary said.\n\nThree ponies died at the scene while a fourth was found dead later a short distance away.\n\nIn December, three donkeys were killed on the road, which is a black spot for animal accidents.\n\nMark Ferrett, whose daughter owned the ponies, said the deaths were \"unacceptable\"\n\nThe crash happened at about 21:00 GMT on a 40mph (64km/h) section of the road north of Brook.\n\nThe car, a Land Rover Discovery, appears to have been severely damaged in the collision, according to a police tweet, which gave no further details.\n\nMark Ferrett, whose daughter owned the ponies, said the deaths were \"unacceptable\".\n\nHe said: \"I would favour a reduction in the speed [limit]. Please, everyone needs to slow down and stop this carnage.\"\n\nThe New Forest is one of the largest remaining areas of unenclosed land where commoners' cattle, ponies and donkeys roam throughout the open heath.\n\nIn 2019, 58 animals were killed and 32 were injured, according to the New Forest National Park Authority.\n\nThe crash happened on Roger Penny Way, where donkeys, cattle and horses roam freely\n\nAndrew Napthine, a New Forest Agister who helps manage the area's free-roaming animals, attended the scene of the crash, and said the male driver was not injured.\n\nHe said three of the ponies were killed on the road while a fourth fled the scene and died behind a bush.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The UK has reported another 55,892 daily cases of coronavirus, the highest figure on record.\n\nAnd another 964 people died within 28 days of a positive test, only slightly down on the 981 on Wednesday.\n\nIt comes as Health Secretary Matt Hancock appealed to everyone to \"take personal responsibility this New Year's Eve and stay at home\".\n\nHe said he knew how much had been sacrificed this year but, with the NHS under pressure, \"we cannot let up\".\n\nOn Thursday, just after midnight, 20 million more people in England were placed under the toughest restrictions and told to stay at home.\n\nThe new restrictions mean 44 million people, or 78% of the population of England, are now in tier four, where non-essential shops, gyms, cinemas and hairdressers have to stay shut.\n\nPublic Health England medical director Dr Yvonne Doyle said Christmas week had seen a worrying rise in cases - particularly among adults in their 20s and 30s.\n\n\"We have all had to make huge sacrifices this year, but please ensure that you keep your distance from others, wash your hands and wear a mask,\" she said.\n\n\"A night in at new year will mean you are significantly reducing your social contacts and can help stop the spread of the virus.\"\n\nThe 981 deaths recorded on Wednesday was the highest daily figure since April.\n\nMuch of the rise in cases has been blamed on the spread of a new variant, which scientists believe is able to transmit more easily.\n\nIt was initially concentrated in the London, the South East and eastern England, but Mr Hancock has said it is now responsible for the \"majority\" of new cases across the UK.\n\nWith the number of Covid patients in hospitals increasing, some are being moved long distances for intensive care.\n\nDr Michael Marsh, NHS England medical director for the south-west region, said patients had come from Kent to Plymouth and Bristol, where services were \"less stretched\".\n\nThe latest NHS Test and Trace figures show 232,169 people tested positive for Covid in England at least once in the week to 23 December, up 33% on the previous week and the highest weekly rise on record.\n\nCovid case rates are continuing to rise in all regions of England - with London's rate at 735.5 per 100,000 people in the seven days to 27 December, up from 711.9 the previous week, the latest Public Health England report showed.\n\nEastern England saw the second highest rate, 551.3 up from 510.8, followed by south-east England at 450.6, up from 427.4.\n\nMeanwhile, Scotland recorded 2,622 new Covid cases in the past 24 hours - a record high for the third day in a row.\n\nPublic Health Wales reported a further 1,831 cases in Wales, with the highest case rates in Bridgend (825.6 for every 100,000 people) and Merthyr Tydfil (754.2).\n\nAnd Northern Ireland has seen another 1,929 cases in the last 24 hours, as hospitals come close to capacity with latest figures showing only six empty beds.\n\nSome hospital trusts in the south of England have also been reporting that they are under extreme pressure because of increasing numbers of Covid patients.\n\nOn Wednesday, Essex and Buckinghamshire declared major incidents, while an intensive care doctor at London's Whittington Hospital said they were facing a \"tsunami\" of Covid cases.\n\nProf Hugh Montgomery said people who did not follow social distancing rules or wear masks \"have blood on their hands\".\n\nThe NHS said London's Nightingale Hospital had been \"reactivated\" and was ready to admit patients, in anticipation of rising pressures from the spread of the new variant.", "Officers dispersed the party at the Grade II* listed church before midnight\n\nA 500-year-old church was damaged during an illegal New Year's Eve party at the venue.\n\nAll Saints' Church in East Horndon, near Brentwood, was broken into before crowds entered, Essex Police said.\n\nOfficers were threatened and had objects thrown at them as they dispersed hundreds of people and seized equipment, the force said.\n\nTwo men from Harlow, aged 27 and 22, and a 35-year-old from Southwark were arrested.\n\nThey were held on suspicion of public order and drugs offences.\n\nAstrid Gillespie, a volunteer with the Friends of All Saints', said event organisers had smashed a window to put in an extractor fan unit and wired sound equipment into the church's fuse box.\n\nShe said: \"It was a professional set-up, they'd hired portable loos, they had a bar area where you had to exchange tokens... obviously it's a mess.\n\n\"It's such a beautiful church, to find out it's been damaged is devastating.\"\n\nThe conservation group believes it will cost at least £1,000 to repair the Tudor building.\n\nEquipment was seized and fines issued over three illegal parties broken up by officers\n\nPolice later dispersed about 100 people at an illegal party at an abandoned warehouse in Brentwood and made two arrests.\n\nA woman was also fined £10,000 for organising a house party with 100 guests at Bury Road, Sewardstonebury, in Epping Forest.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Andy Prophet said: \"Unfortunately, there were [those] who decided to blatantly flout the coronavirus rules and regulations and, ultimately, they decided that partying was more important than protecting other people.\n\n\"We've seized their equipment, arrested five people, and issued a large number of fines to those who think this behaviour is acceptable.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Father (left) and son have had divergent views on Brexit in the past\n\nThe father of UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson says he is applying for French citizenship now that Britain has severed ties with the European Union.\n\nStanley Johnson told France's RTL radio he had always seen himself as French as his mother was born in France.\n\nThe 80-year-old former Conservative Member of the European Parliament voted Remain in the 2016 Brexit referendum.\n\nHis son Boris spearheaded the Leave campaign and later took the UK out of the EU as prime minister.\n\nStanley Johnson explained his reasons for seeking French citizenship in an interview broadcast on Thursday, hours before the UK was due to leave EU trading rules.\n\n\"It's not about becoming French,\" he told RTL. \"It's about reclaiming what I already have.\"\n\nHe pointed out that his mother was born in France to a French mother. \"I will always be European,\" he added.\n\nStanley Johnson won a seat in the European Parliament when direct elections were first held in 1979, and later worked for the European Commission. As a result, Boris spent part of his childhood in Brussels.\n\nBrexit issues have divided the Johnson family. The prime minister's sister, the journalist Rachel Johnson, left the Conservative Party to join the Liberal Democrats ahead of the 2017 election in protest against Brexit.\n\nTheir brother, the Conservative MP Jo Johnson, resigned from the cabinet in 2018 to highlight his support for closer links with the EU.", "Tampon tax activist Laura Coryton says scrapping the tampon tax is an important move ‘ending a symptom of sexism’\n\nThe 5% rate of VAT on sanitary products - referred to as the \"tampon tax\" - will be abolished in the UK from 1 January.\n\nEU law required members to tax tampons and sanitary towels at 5%, treating period products as non-essential.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak committed to scrapping the tax in his March Budget.\n\nCampaigners welcomed the end to what they called a \"sexist tax\" with activist Laura Coryton saying it was \"about ending a symptom of sexism\".\n\nThe UK was able to get rid of the tax now because it is no longer subject to European Union rules on sanitary products.\n\nThe EU is itself in the process of abolishing the tampon tax. In 2018 the European Commission published proposals to change the VAT rules, which would give countries the right to stop taxing tampons and other period products, but the move has not yet been agreed by all members. The Republic of Ireland has zero VAT on sanitary products as the rate was in place prior to EU legislation imposing the 5% minimum VAT rate on EU members.\n\nMs Coryton, 27, who began campaigning to end the tampon tax when she was 21, told the BBC the move \"challenged the negative message that this tax sent to society about women\".\n\nThe move follows Scotland becoming the first in the world to make period products free in November.\n\nFelicia Willow, chief executive of women's rights charity the Fawcett Society, agreed, saying: \"It's been a long road to reach this point, but at last the sexist tax that saw sanitary products classed as non-essential, luxury items can be consigned to the history books.\"\n\nThe Treasury has estimated the move will save the average woman nearly £40 over her lifetime, with a cut of 7p on a pack of 20 tampons and 5p on 12 pads.\n\nIt's been a long road to getting the tampon tax abolished in the UK. Campaigning and debates in parliament by then-MP for Dewsbury Ann Taylor led to the Labour government moving sanitary products to a reduced rate of 5% from January 2001- the lowest rate possible under the EU's VAT rules.\n\nAnd following more campaigning in 2014 by Ms Coryton and lobbying in parliament by former Dewsbury MP Paula Sherriff in 2016, the Conservative government announced that all VAT collected on sanitary products would henceforth be given to charities working with vulnerable women and girls.\n\nAt the same time, the government enshrined in legislation that it would abolish the tampon tax.\n\n\"I'm just so happy and relieved and excited at the same time for this tax to finally be axed,\" said Ms Coryton.\n\n\"It will mean a reduction in prices for period products, and that reduction in cost will be important for the increasing number of people who are battling with poverty, especially due to the pandemic.\"\n\nGemma Abbott is a lawyer and campaigner with the Free Periods group, which successfully campaigned for the government to provide free sanitary products to schools and colleges across England in 2019. The scheme launched in January.\n\nGemma Abbott wants clarity from the government on why the free sanitary products for schools scheme is not mandatory\n\n\"I think it's great news and a real testament to the determined campaigning of many people, like Paula Sheriff and Laura Coryton,\" she said.\n\n\"I think we can agree that any tax that characterises period products as non-essential is absurd and it has no place in a society that is seeking genuine gender equality.\"\n\nFree Periods is now campaigning to ensure that schools and colleges know that the free sanitary products scheme exists and that they sign up for them.\n\nMs Abbott said: \"The latest statistics we have are from last term - at that point only 40% of schools had signed up for the scheme.\"\n\nMs Coryton has set up a social enterprise called Sex Ed Matters with her sister Julia, providing talks in schools and toolkits for teachers to help them deliver the mandatory new sex education curriculum for primary and secondary schools issued in early 2020.\n\nThey did an online survey of 150 teachers and students across the UK, and 100% of respondents said that there is still a stigma attached to periods.\n\n\"If there is a stigma attached to periods, then you're unlikely to speak up when you need period products, or to talk about the free sanitary products scheme that exists,\" stressed Ms Coryton.\n\nBut Free Periods' Ms Abbott is also concerned about the charities supporting women and girls, who will no longer benefit from the proceeds of the previous 5% tax on sanitary products.\n\n\"The tampon tax fund has provided much needed support and funding to a chronically underfunded area,\" she said.\n\n\"I'm worried that the removal of the tampon tax will spell the end of the ring-fenced funding for charities to address really vital issues like domestic violence and rape.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Olympics\n\nThe delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics will go ahead this summer despite concern over rising coronavirus cases, says Japan's prime minister.\n\nThe Olympics are due to begin on 23 July with the Paralympics following a month later from 24 August.\n\nCases have surged in Japan in recent days with Tokyo reporting over 1,000 daily infections for the first time.\n\nBut prime minister Yoshihide Suga said the \"Games will be held this summer\" and be \"safe and secure\".\n\nJapan is responding to cases of the new variant of coronavirus first found in the UK, with Tokyo governor Yuriko Koike warning the number of infections could \"explode\".\n\nThere were a record 1,337 cases in Tokyo on 31 December with 783 new infections announced on Friday.\n\nJapan has recorded 239,041 coronavirus cases and 3,337 deaths during the pandemic, according to Johns Hopkins University.\n\nCosts for the Games have increased by $2.8bn (£2.1bn) because of measures needed to prevent the spread of coronavirus but organisers have ruled out a delay.\n\nThe Games could be the most expensive summer Olympics in history.\n\nA poll by national broadcaster NHK showed that the majority of the Japanese general public oppose holding the Games in 2021, favouring a further delay or outright cancellation of the event.\n\nSuga said the Games going ahead could serve as a \"symbol of global solidarity\".", "The next few weeks will be \"nail-bitingly difficult\" for the NHS, hospital bosses have warned.\n\nStaff absences and the new Covid variant are creating a \"challenging situation\", Saffron Cordery, of NHS Providers, which represents hospital trusts in England, said.\n\nDoctors are urging the public to \"take it seriously and follow the rules\" to protect the health service.\n\nThe year started with 53,285 more Covid cases and 613 deaths being reported.\n\nThe day's figures do not include data from Northern Ireland or Wales, or the numbers of deaths from Scotland - as these are not being published on certain days during the Christmas and New Year period.\n\nIt comes after the UK reported its highest daily cases on Thursday, with a record 55,892 infections.\n\nOn Friday evening, the government confirmed that all primary schools in London would remain closed for the start of the new term, following a review of Covid transmission rates.\n\nFrom Monday, all schools in the capital will now be required to provide remote learning.\n\nPrimaries in nine London boroughs and the City of London district had been set to reopen - while those in the remaining 23 boroughs would have stayed closed from 4 January.\n\nMeanwhile, new analysis by Imperial College London has confirmed the new variant of coronavirus has a much quicker rate of transmission than the original strain.\n\nAnd an analysis of NHS England data from 23 hospital trusts by the Health Service Journal shows that Covid-19 is putting intense pressure on adult acute care and general beds, as well as those in intensive care.\n\nIt found that more than a third of these beds were occupied by patients with Covid-19 on Tuesday, and in three trusts - North Middlesex in London, and Medway and Dartford and Gravesham in Kent - the figure was more than half.\n\nBased on the recent rise in numbers, the analysis suggests that all acute and general beds might soon be filled with Covid-19 patients.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Breakfast, Ms Cordery said the surging transmission and death rates were \"incredibly hard to deal with\".\n\n\"When we are seeing major London trusts saying they are under pressure, that's when we know we're in a very challenging space,\" she said.\n\nA leading intensive care doctor has urged people to follow restrictions until the vaccination programme is fully rolled out.\n\nProf Anthony Gordon, of Imperial College, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"There is light at the end of the tunnel so I would urge people to hold on for these few more months while the vaccination programme makes that difference and then we can truly get back to normal.\n\n\"But we can't overrun the health service because this will just lead to thousands more deaths.\"\n\nAdrian Boyle, vice-president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, urged people to follow guidance on hand washing, social distancing and face coverings to stop the \"entirely preventable\" spread of the virus.\n\nDr Boyle said staff are \"tired\" and at risk of \"burnout\", having \"worked really hard over the summer\" and \"put up with a lot of disruption\".\n\n\"This time people are frustrated, this is now an entirely preventable disease, we know what we did in spring made a lot of this go away. There's also now a vaccine,\" he added.\n\nMore than three-quarters of England is currently under the strictest tier four - \"stay at home\" - coronavirus measures, and other parts of the country have joined higher tiers.\n\nMainland Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales are under lockdown.\n\nThere are also concerns the added pressures of rising numbers of Covid patients seen at London hospitals have begun to spread across the country.\n\nSpeaking on Today, Dr Alison Pittard, of the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine, said it was \"only a matter of time before it starts to spread to other parts of country\", adding that \"we're already starting to see that\".\n\nShe stressed it was \"really important that we try and stop the transmission in the community because that translates into hospital admissions\".\n\nIt comes as almost half the major hospital trusts in England are said to be dealing with more Covid-19 patients than at the peak of the first wave in April.\n\nAnd pressure has been so great on some hospitals in London and south-east England that some patients have been moved out of the area.\n\nLondon's Nightingale emergency hospital is ready to admit patients, the NHS has said, while other sites currently not in use are being readied.\n\nHowever, Mike Adams, director of the Royal College of Nursing, questioned whether there were the staff available to run the hospital.\n\n\"Nursing is already stretched beyond capacity so there is no magic pile of nurses we can call upon,\" he told BBC Radio 4's World at One programme.\n\n\"I think the real battle is reducing the spread of the virus and getting the vaccine rolled out.\"\n\nThe new coronavirus variant has driven a big rise in cases, with the worst effects felt so far in London.\n\nResearchers at Imperial College London have confirmed it increases the R number - the number of people that one infected person will pass on a virus to - by about 0.4 to 0.7.\n\nThe UK's latest R number has been estimated at between 1.1 and 1.3. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.\n\nProf Axel Gandy, from the statistic section of Imperial College London, told the Today programme this higher rate of infection means that transmission of the disease would have tripled even during England's November lockdown conditions.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC's Laura Foster explains how to wear your mask correctly and help stop coronavirus spreading\n\nThe hunt is now on to find new ways to slow the spread of coronavirus, with the rules on mask wearing potentially coming up for review.\n\nBehavioural science group SPI-B (Scientific Pandemic Insights Group on Behaviours), which reports to the Sage group of government advisers, has said that mandatory face coverings may be necessary in a wider number of settings, such as in workplaces and possibly outdoors.\n\nHowever, Dr Simon Clarke, associate professor of cellular microbiology at the University of Reading, told BBC Radio 4's World at One he was not convinced a move towards making the wearing of face coverings mandatory outdoors would make \"much difference\" to transmission rates.\n\nHe said the \"bigger problem\" was people touching their face covering or wearing it incorrectly, adding ministers should focus on ensuring people knew how to wear them and to change and wash them regularly.\n\nThe rollout of the newly approved Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine will begin on Monday, almost a month after the Pfizer-BioNTech jab.\n\nSecond doses of either will now take place within 12 weeks rather than 21 days as had been initially planned with the Pfizer vaccine.", "After years of silence, The KLF have uploaded a selection of their most famous songs to streaming services like Spotify, YouTube and Apple Music.\n\nThe band's music has been officially unavailable since 1992, when they deleted their entire back catalogue.\n\nBut eight songs, including dance anthems like 3AM Eternal and What Time Is Love, are now available on an eight-track compilation, Solid State Logik.\n\nFly posters in London suggested The KLF would release more music this year.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by KLF This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nSolid State Logik collects all of the band's biggest hits - including the Tammy Wynette collaboration Justified & Ancient, and the Gary Glitter-sampling Doctorin' The Tardis.\n\nIt comes 29 years after founders Jimmy Cauty and Bill Drummond turned their backs on music, with a provocative performance at the 1992 Brit Awards - where they tied for best group with Simply Red.\n\nThe duo made their disdain for the industry clear by performing 3AM Eternal while firing blanks from a machine gun into the stunned audience, before an announcer said: \"The KLF have left the music business.\"\n\nDriving the point home, they later dumped a dead sheep on the steps of an after-show party with a note reading, \"I died for ewe\".\n\nCauty and Drummond later burned £1m of their royalties in bundles of £50 notes, on the remote Scottish island of Jura.\n\nIn recent decades the duo have concentrated on book and art projects, including plans to build a \"people's pyramid\", inspired by the death of Cauty's brother and constructed from bricks, each containing 23 grams of human ashes.\n\nBut fans have clamoured for their music - with bootleg clips of their videos and performances achieving tens of millions of views on YouTube, and several \"sound-alike\" versions of their biggest hits appearing on Spotify.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video 2 by KLF This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nWhen other streaming holdouts like AC/DC and Neil Young relented and made their back catalogues available, The KLF still held out. In 2018, Billboard named their absence as one of the eight most significant gaps on streaming services, alongside records by De La Soul and Aaliyah.\n\nThe band announced their surprise resurrection in two posters pasted under a railway bridge in Shoreditch, East London, alongside graffiti referencing The KLF.\n\nThe Instagram account of Cauty's girlfriend showed a figure creating the graffiti creating the graffiti on New Year's Eve.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by sistersofperpetualresistance This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAccording to a statement on the band's YouTube page, Solid State Logik (named after the mixing desk the band used to create their biggest hits) is the first of five planned releases, covering all of the band's releases, under a variety of names.\n\nIt read: \"KLF have appropriated the work done between 1 January 1987 and 31 December 1991 by The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, The Timelords [and] The KLF.\n\n\"This appropriation was in order to tell a story in five chapters using the medium of streaming. The name of the story is Samplecity Thru Transcentral.\"\n\nThe text goes on to name several projects that are being prepared for release, some of which have never been heard before, including Kick Out The Jams, the Pure Trance Series, and a second volume of Solid State Logik.\n\n\"If you need to know more about the work done by The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, The Timelords or The KLF, you can find truths, rumours and half-truths scattered across the internet,\" the statement continued.\n\n\"From these truths, rumours and half-truths, you can form your own opinions.\n\n\"The actual facts were washed down a storm drain in Brixton some time in the late 20th Century.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The UK celebrated the start of 2021 with a fireworks and light display over London that included tributes to NHS staff and the Black Lives Matter movement.\n\nRevellers were not able to gather to celebrate the London mayor's display in the usual way because of the coronavirus pandemic, with people instead told to stay at home.\n\nThe new year celebrations also featured a message of hope from David Attenborough.\n\nWatch the full display on the BBC iPlayer", "The star started filming his role in secret last year\n\nComedian John Bishop is to join Jodie Whittaker for the 13th series of Doctor Who, the BBC has revealed.\n\nThe 54-year-old, who recently tested positive for coronavirus, said boarding the Tardis was a \"dream come true\".\n\nHe will play a character called Dan, who \"becomes embroiled in the Doctor's adventures\" and faces \"evil alien races beyond his wildest nightmares\".\n\nBishop fills the gap left by Bradley Walsh and Tosin Cole, who bowed out in a special New Year's Day episode.\n\nHe began filming his role last November, but the BBC kept the signing under wraps until the broadcast of Revolution Of The Daleks on Friday night.\n\nBishop, who grew up on a Merseyside council estate, had a brief career as a professional footballer before turning his hand to comedy.\n\nHe has previously acted in the Channel 4 drama Skins and the Ken Loach film Route Irish.\n\nEarlier this week, the comedian revealed that he and his wife had tested positive for Coronavirus over Christmas, saying he had been \"flattened\" by \"the worst illness I have ever had\".\n\nWriting on Instagram, he described his symptoms as including \"incredible headaches, muscle and joint point, no appetite, nausea, dizziness [and] chronic fatigue like I didn't know existed\".\n\nHe updated fans on New Year's Eve, saying he and his wife were \"getting a little stronger\" every day, and promising he would return to work in January.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by johnbish100 This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt is not thought his illness will disrupt production on Doctor Who. The show is on a scheduled break for Christmas and not due to resume filming until later this month.\n\nThe 13th series of the rebooted sci-fi stalwart will see Whittaker return as the extra terrestrial Time Lord, alongside Mandip Gill, who returns as Yaz.\n\nIn a statement, Bishop said: \"If I could tell my younger self that one day I would be asked to step on board the Tardis, I would never have believed it.\n\n\"It's an absolute dream come true to be joining Doctor Who and I couldn't wish for better company than Jodie and Mandip.\"\n\nJodie Whittaker became the first female actress to play The Doctor in 2017\n\nProgramme boss Chris Chibnall added: \"It's time for the next chapter of Doctor Who, and it starts with a man called Dan. Oh, we've had to keep this one secret for a long, long time.\n\n\"Our conversations started with John even before the pandemic hit.\n\n\"The character of Dan was built for him, and it's a joy to have him aboard the Tardis.\"\n\nDoctor Who will return to BBC One later this year.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Liverpool Mayor Joe Anderson is one of five men who have been rebailed by police\n\nLiverpool Mayor Joe Anderson says he will not fight for re-election in May due to an ongoing bribery and witness intimidation investigation.\n\nMr Anderson, 62, made the announcement after Merseyside Police said he had been rebailed until February following his arrest earlier this month.\n\nHe tweeted he was \"disappointed\" with the police decision as he had \"provided all of the information they asked for\".\n\nHe said it was in the Labour Party's best interests to pick a new candidate.\n\nMr Anderson was arrested on 4 December, along with four other men, on suspicion of conspiracy to commit bribery and witness intimidation.\n\nThe year-long investigation, Operation Aloft, has focused on a number of building and development contracts in Liverpool.\n\nFollowing his arrest, Mr Anderson said he was \"stepping away from decision-making\" and would take unpaid leave while the police investigation continued.\n\nThe Labour Party also suspended Mr Anderson pending its outcome.\n\nMr Anderson said he would \"continue to fight to demonstrate that I am innocent of any wrongdoing [and] also to protect my legacy as mayor of this city of which I am proud\".\n\nHe said the timing of the police investigation meant \"it would be in the best interests of the Labour Party to select a new candidate for the mayoral election\".\n\nMr Anderson also wrote: \"I have dedicated my life to this city with loyalty and passion and I am not prepared to throw that away.\"\n\nRichard Kemp, leader of the Liberal Democrat opposition on Liverpool City Council, called on Mr Anderson to immediately resign from the local authority.\n\nMr Kemp said his Labour opponent was a \"lame duck mayor\" who was \"preventing the city from moving on\".\n\nMr Anderson said he hoped the police investigation would be completed \"long before\" the expiry of his term of office.\n\nHe said it would confirm he had \"done nothing wrong\" and his name and reputation \"will be exonerated\".\n\n\"I have never done anything that would harm this city,\" he said.\n\nEarlier, Merseyside Police said five men had been rebailed until 19 February.\n\nThe Labour Party has been contacted by the BBC for a comment.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nFormer Manchester United and Scotland manager Tommy Docherty has died at the age of 92 following a long illness.\n\nAs a player, Glasgow-born Docherty made more than 300 appearances for Preston and won 25 caps for Scotland.\n\nHe went on to manage 12 clubs, leading Chelsea to League Cup success in 1965 and United to a 2-1 win over Liverpool in the 1977 FA Cup final.\n\n\"Tommy passed away peacefully surrounded by his family at home,\" his family said in a statement.\n\n\"He was a much-loved husband, father and papa and will be terribly missed.\n\n\"We ask that our privacy be respected at this time.\"\n• None Docherty - manager of many clubs, quicks and one-liners\n\nDocherty - affectionately known by his nickname 'The Doc' - died at home in the north west of England on 31 December.\n\nAfter spells managing Chelsea, Rotherham, QPR, Aston Villa and Porto, he took over as Scotland boss in September 1971 on a temporary basis before getting the job full-time two months later.\n\nBut he was best known for his five-year spell at Manchester United, who approached him to succeed Frank O'Farrell in December 1972 while Scotland were on course to qualify for the 1974 World Cup finals.\n\nUnited were relegated in 1974 under Docherty but they kept the Scot and returned to the top flight at the first time of asking. Two years later, they won the FA Cup with victory over Bob Paisley's Liverpool, who had won the league and would go on to also win the European Cup that year.\n\nDocherty's time at Old Trafford also saw George Best fail to revive his United career, the retirement of Bobby Charlton, and the departure of Denis Law.\n\nIn 2014, he told the BBC he still regretted his decision to leave the Scotland job for United.\n\n\"I was stupid,\" he said. \"I should have stayed with Scotland. [It was] partly the money, I have to be honest about that.\"\n\nDocherty was sacked shortly after the Wembley triumph for having an affair with Mary Brown, the wife of United physiotherapist Laurie Brown.\n\nThe pair later married and they remained together until his death.\n\nDocherty returned to management with First Division side Derby in September 1977, then rejoined QPR two years later. A turbulent time at Loftus Road saw him sacked in May 1980, reinstated after just nine days, then sacked again the following October.\n\nSpells at Sydney Olympic, Preston, South Melbourne and Wolves followed, with Docherty's final managerial job coming at non-league Altrincham in 1987-88.\n\nPost-retirement, he worked as an after-dinner speaker and media pundit.\n\nDocherty was inducted into the Scottish Football Hall of Fame in November 2013.\n\n\"He was tenacious on the park and a great leader off it,\" Petrie added.\n\n\"Tommy was a regular in the Scotland side in the 1950s that qualified for two World Cups, and his record as Scotland manager was impressive, albeit cut short.\n\n\"Looking at the results and performances he inspired, it is hard not to wonder what might have been had he remained.\n\n\"His charisma and love for the game shone even after he stopped managing and it was entirely fitting Tommy should be inducted into the Scottish Football Hall of Fame for his lifelong service.\"", "Cases have reached record highs in the past week\n\nThe next few weeks could be the most dangerous period for Scotland since March in the fight against Covid, the first minister has warned.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said the new variant of the virus was \"accelerating spread\" across Scotland.\n\n\"If you first foot someone today, or hug/kiss/handshake them HNY, you are putting yourself, others and the NHS at risk,\" she tweeted.\n\nA further 2,539 cases of Covid-19 were confirmed on Friday.\n\nThe number is slightly down on Thursday's figure, but Ms Sturgeon said cases numbers were still \"worryingly high\".\n\nDaily confirmed cases have reached record highs on each of the previous three days, rising to to 2,622 on Thursday.\n\nThe percentage of positive cases also reached 14.4% on Wednesday - the highest it has been since the second wave of the pandemic began in the summer.\n\nMs Sturgeon tweeted: \"Today's case numbers are worryingly high again. The new variant is accelerating spread.\n\n\"PLEASE do not visit other people's homes just now, even today - if you first foot someone today, or hug/kiss/handshake them HNY, you are putting yourself, others & the NHS at risk.\"\n\nShe said the \"vaccine cavalry\" was on the way, offering \"real hope for 2021\", but she added: \"With this new variant, the next few weeks may be the most dangerous we've faced since Mar/April.\n\n\"We must act together to suppress it, to save lives and protect the NHS. Folded hands stick with it.\"\n\nThe number of daily confirmed cases has reached record highs this week\n\nA new study by London's Imperial College has found that the new variant of Covid-19 is \"hugely\" more transmissible than the virus's previous version.\n\nIt concludes the new variant increases the Reproduction or R number by between 0.4 and 0.7.\n\nThe UK's latest R number has been estimated at between 1.1 and 1.3. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.\n\nThe Scottish government's most recent estimate of the R number in Scotland has put it between 0.9 and 1.1.\n\nEmma Thomson, a professor of infectious disease at the University of Glasgow, said it was important to get people vaccinated quickly.\n\nThe professor, who has been working on the sequencing of the new Covid mutation, told the BBC that lockdown was not controlling the infection \"on its own\".\n\n\"At least we come in armed into the new year with two vaccines which are highly effective at preventing severe disease. We have that,\" she said.\n\n\"We need to roll it out now to add to the public health measures.\"\n\nParties, traditional \"first-footing\" and social events were banned this Hogmanay, with all of mainland Scotland and Skye being under the highest level of Covid restrictions.\n\nAll official events were cancelled, but police had to disperse a crowds of people who gathered at Edinburgh Castle and Calton Hill to see in the new year.\n\nIt has also emerged that 32 people were charged with reckless conduct after police found them gathered at a rented property in Aberfoyle on 27 December.\n\nA Scottish government spokesperson said: \"As the first minister has pointed out, the sharp rise in cases is evidence that the new strain seems to be speeding up transmission.\n\n\"This is why we are asking people to please stay at home as much as possible and avoid non-essential interaction with others.\n\n\"There is light at the end of the tunnel, but we ask everyone to be patient as we work our way through the vaccination programme, and continue to follow FACTS to keep us all safe.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nManchester United moved level on points with Premier League leaders Liverpool as a Bruno Fernandes penalty saw off stubborn Aston Villa.\n\nFernandes drilled his 11th league goal this season - and his fifth from the spot - into the bottom corner to punish Douglas Luiz's clip on Paul Pogba and hand United an eighth win in 10 games.\n\nBertrand Traore's calm finish underneath David de Gea had deservedly drawn Villa level, cancelling out Anthony Martial's stooping first-half header for the hosts.\n\nBut Fernandes' penalty extended United's hold over Villa - they have now won 32 and lost just one of the past 44 league meetings between the sides - and leaves Liverpool top only by virtue of goal difference.\n\nThe spot-kick award angered Aston Villa boss Dean Smith who claimed Pogba \"tripped himself\" and that the video assistant referee should have asked on-pitch official Michael Oliver to review his decision.\n\n\"I don't see why Michael couldn't have looked at it. That's what VAR is for isn't it?\" Smith told BBC Sport.\n\n\"I thought it was a penalty at the time, but I looked at it after the game and saw he tripped himself. I don't think it's a penalty.\n\n\"I think there's enough doubt there to send the referee over to the screen.\"\n\nSmith's side were perhaps unfortunate not to have left Old Trafford with at least a point from a thoroughly entertaining game but they also needed several fine saves from Emiliano Martinez to keep them in it.\n\nAfter Fernandes' spot-kick put United back in front, Martinez superbly tipped a stinging 25-yarder from the Portuguese on to the crossbar as well as denying Martial a second.\n\nMartinez's counterpart David de Gea was just as busy, with a late save from Matty Cash's long-range strike preserving the points, not long after Tyrone Mings had headed wide a glorious chance to level.\n\nOle Gunnar Solskjaer's side have displayed their ability to grind out points at Old Trafford in recent weeks, as evidenced in 1-0 home wins over both West Bromwich Albion and Wolves.\n\nBut they have also shown a willingness to go toe-to-toe with teams who are happy to open up the game and, while this was not quite the shootout of the 6-2 win over Leeds, it was just as easy on the eye.\n\nA number of fluid first-half moves produced chances before Martial's opener as the France forward saw a curler tipped over by Martinez, while Fernandes and Wan-Bissaka were narrowly off target with similar efforts.\n\nMartial stole between Mings and Ezri Konsa to nod the Red Devils ahead from Wan-Bissaka's inviting cross for only his second league goal of the season on his return to Solskjaer's starting line-up.\n\nWhile Luiz was unfortunate to be penalised for what might have been an accidental clip on Pogba, there was enough contact for the penalty to be given and Fernandes continued his excellent record from the spot.\n\nUnited were nine points behind Liverpool after a 1-0 defeat by Arsenal at Old Trafford on 1 November but have made up that gap in just two months to set an intriguing title race into motion.\n\nA minute's silence before the game paid tribute to former boss Tommy Docherty, who famously prevented Liverpool claiming the treble by leading United to an FA Cup win over the Reds in 1977.\n\nAnd while talk of foiling a second successive Liverpool title might be premature, moving alongside them at the Premier League's summit will give Solskjaer's side even more confidence as they eye up a trip to Anfield on 17 January.\n\nWhile Villa were ultimately outgunned by their hosts, their brave display was further evidence of the progress Smith's side have made this season.\n\nThey held their own in the first half, causing United a number of problems down the flanks, with playmaker Jack Grealish prompting and probing to show why the hosts have long considered a move for the Villa captain.\n\nBut they were even more impressive in the early stages of the second period, Grealish crossing for an Ollie Watkins header that was saved by De Gea before collecting a quick free-kick and finding Traore to tuck home the equaliser.\n\nLuiz's foul on Pogba came with Villa very much in the ascendancy and while they then had to ride a storm the visitors still came close to pinching a point as Mings beat fellow England centre-half Harry Maguire to a free-kick only to nod wide.\n\nWith Ross Barkley's return from a hamstring injury imminent, this performance should keep Villa optimistic even if defeat halted a five-game unbeaten run and saw them slip a place to sixth, behind Chelsea on goal difference.\n\nAnd while their rotten record at Old Trafford continues - just one win in 34 visits since 1983, which came courtesy of a Gabriel Agbonlahor header in 2009 - they have still only conceded five times in eight away games this campaign.\n\n'We have improved a lot in a year' - what they said\n\nManchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer told BBC Sport: \"You are always delighted with three points. The performance was good and we created chances.\n\n\"It was maybe a little too open and we wasted chances. We tried to play the Hollywood pass instead of securing the first one and using the space that was there.\n\n\"We are happy with what we are doing. We have shown we have improved a lot in a year. We lost to Arsenal away last New Year's Day. We have improved immensely.\"\n\nAston Villa boss Dean Smith told BBC Sport: \"I wasn't happy with the first half. We were miles off the levels where we have been. It felt like a testimonial pace then they deservedly had the lead at half-time. I told the players we needed to be upping our levels.\n\n\"We competed a lot better [in the second half], showed more quality and created chances. I'd take the second-half performance all day long. A dubious penalty has lost us the game.\n\n\"When you look at our performances and results, it shows we are very competitive in this league now, which is what we wanted it to be.\"\n\nUnited's hold over Villa goes on - the stats\n• None Manchester United are unbeaten in their past 16 Premier League matches against Aston Villa (W12 D4).\n• None Aston Villa have lost 13 of their past 15 away Premier League games against Manchester United at Old Trafford (W1 D1).\n• None In Premier League history, the only player to be directly involved in more goals in their first 30 appearances in the competition than Bruno Fernandes (33 - 19 goals, 14 assists) is Andrew Cole (37 - 28 goals, nine assists).\n• None Anthony Martial has now scored on all seven days of the week in the Premier League for Manchester United, becoming the fifth player to do so, after Ryan Giggs, Andrew Cole, David Beckham and Wayne Rooney.\n• None Only Tottenham's Harry Kane (10) has assisted more Premier League goals this season than Jack Grealish (7), while the last Aston Villa player to assist more than seven Premier League goals in a season was Ashley Young in 2010-11 (10).\n• None Since Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's first Premier League match in charge of Manchester United in December 2018, the Red Devils have taken (27) and scored (21) the most Premier League penalties.\n\nManchester United host local rivals Manchester City in the Carabao Cup semi-finals on Wednesday (19:45 GMT) and welcome Watford in the FA Cup on Saturday 9 January (20:00 GMT). Their next Premier League game is away at Burnley on Tuesday 12 January (20:15 GMT).\n\nAston Villa host Liverpool in the FA Cup next Friday (19:45 GMT) before returning to Premier League action at home to Tottenham on Wednesday 13 January (20:15 GMT).\n• None Attempt blocked. Keinan Davis (Aston Villa) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt blocked. Keinan Davis (Aston Villa) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Ollie Watkins with a cross.\n• None Offside, Manchester United. Paul Pogba tries a through ball, but Marcus Rashford is caught offside.\n• None Attempt saved. Matthew Cash (Aston Villa) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Jack Grealish.\n• None Nemanja Matic (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Luke Shaw (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None A special and exclusive one-off chat with the music icon\n• None How has their rise come to define our culture?", "London's Nightingale Hospital is ready to admit patients as hospitals in the capital struggle, the NHS has said.\n\nThe Excel Centre site in east London has been \"reactivated\" amid a rise in the number of Covid-19 patients.\n\nOther Nightingale hospital sites across England are also being readied, with the UK recording a record daily rise in coronavirus cases.\n\nAn NHS spokesman said hospitals in London remain under \"significant pressure\".\n\nHe said: \"In anticipation of pressures rising from the spread of the new variant infection, NHS London were asked to ensure the London Nightingale was reactivated and ready to admit patients as needed, and that process is under way.\"\n\nSeveral NHS hospitals in London and the south-east are now reporting they are under extreme pressure as a result of a surge in the number of people falling seriously ill with Covid-19.\n\nAn email to staff at the Royal London Hospital says they are operating in disaster medicine mode - warning they can no longer provide high-standard critical care.\n\nNightingale hospitals in Manchester, Bristol and Harrogate are in use currently for non-Covid patients, the spokesman added.\n\nThe Exeter site received its first Covid patients in November when it began accepting those transferred from the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust, which was described as \"very busy\".\n\nHe said: \"Covid inpatient numbers are rising sharply so the remaining Nightingales are being readied to admit patients once again should they be needed, in line with best clinical practice developed over the first and second waves of coronavirus.\"\n\nSenior intensive care doctor Prof Hugh Montgomery warned those who fail to follow the rules on social distancing, hand washing and wearing a face covering \"have blood on their hands\".\n\nNHS England medical director Stephen Powis has described the Nightingale hospitals as \"our insurance policy, there as our last resort\".\n\nLondon's Nightingale hospital was built in nine days, with the help of hundreds of soldiers\n\nHe told a Downing Street press conference on Wednesday: \"We asked all the Nightingale hospitals a few weeks ago to be ready to take patients if that was required.\n\n\"Indeed, some of them are already doing that, in Manchester taking step-down patients, in Exeter managing Covid patients, and in other places managing diagnostics, for instance.\n\n\"Our first steps though, in managing the extra demands on the NHS, are to expand capacity within existing hospitals - that's the best way to use our staff.\"\n\nLondon's Nightingale Hospital was opened on 3 April and placed on standby weeks later after fewer than 20 patients were treated there.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA £2,500 reward has been offered after a nativity scene was petrol-bombed on Christmas Eve.\n\nThe scene in Raglan, Monmouthshire, had been installed in a bus shelter for families to enjoy over Christmas.\n\nThe fire destroyed statues of a shepherd, Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus - with only the three wise men surviving as they stood outside the shelter.\n\nMiguel Santiago, of the Beaufort Hotel which funded the £10,000 scene, said the attack was \"really disappointing\".\n\n\"I was in the hotel when I saw the fire and I went into panic mode,\" he said.\n\n\"It was about 21:45 on Christmas Eve when it all happened and I ended up using nine extinguishers to put it out.\"\n\nThe wooden nativity was funded by the hotel and put together by retired theatre design lecturer Liz Friendship.\n\nMs Friendship said the festive scene had also been targeted by thieves in the past.\n\n\"In 2018 Mary was taken, in 2019 two shepherds were stolen and never came back, and in 2020 it's burnt down.\n\n\"It's now just three kings staring at the bus stop. It's very sad.\"\n\nThe scene was in ruins following the petrol bomb attack\n\nVillagers are now appealing for help to catch the suspects responsible for the Christmas crime.\n\nMr Santiago added: \"It's a shame because so much effort went into putting it together this year.\n\n\"We added three kings which really made it a great sight, we made sure the figures couldn't be taken by fixing them down.\n\n\"It's really disappointing that this has happened but the locals have been great and we will be back next year with a bigger and better nativity.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for Gwent Police said: \"Officers are investigating a report of criminal damage to a nativity scene on the High Street, in Raglan on Christmas Eve.\n\n\"It has been reported that fire damage was caused to the set at approximately 9.45pm on the evening of Thursday 24th December 2020.\n\n\"The scene that belonged to the Beaufort Hotel was totally damaged as a result.\"\n\nAnyone with information should contact police on 101, she said.", "The crowd at Edinburgh Castle dispersed after police arrived\n\nCrowds of several hundred people gathered at Edinburgh Castle to see in the new year despite police and government warnings to stay away.\n\nPeople sang and danced before dispersing when several police vans and cars drove on to the castle esplanade.\n\nMost Scots heeded warnings to hold Hogmanay celebrations at home with household members.\n\nThere were no midnight fireworks at the castle, but a display was held at the Wallace Monument in Stirling.\n\nA Police Scotland spokesperson said: \"We were aware of gatherings at Edinburgh Castle and Calton Hill around midnight on Hogmanay.\n\n\"Officers safely engaged with those in attendance and explained the current government regulations resulting in the groups dispersing without incident.\"\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said on Thursday that there should be \"no gatherings, no house parties and no first footing\" at Hogmanay.\n\nAll of mainland Scotland and Skye are under level four restrictions, while the other islands are in level three.\n\nDetails have meanwhile emerged of another police enforcement action against a group who gathered at a rented property in Aberfoyle during the festive period.\n\nPolice Scotland confirmed that 32 people were charged with culpable and reckless conduct after officers were called out on 27 December.\n\nAccording to the Scottish Sun, the group had travelled from Glasgow but police were tipped off by locals who spotted vehicles parked outside the property.\n\nPeople in Scotland were urged to stay at home and celebrate the new year with their families\n\nAt Edinburgh Castle, one Hogmanay tradition endured as a lone piper played in the new year at midnight.\n\nWith the capital's traditional new year party cancelled, the organisers of its annual Hogmanay celebration instead released a series of \"drone swarm\" videos titled Fare Well.\n\nThe display featured a swarm of 150 illuminated drones forming symbols and animals in a \"beautiful ode to Scotland\".\n\nEach video was narrated by actor David Tennant and included verses written by Scotland's official poet, makar Jackie Kay.\n\nWhile they appear to be flying above landmarks like Edinburgh Castle, the drones were flown elsewhere before being edited into other footage.\n\nDrones write a message in the sky above the Forth Bridge\n\nThe streets of central Edinburgh were quiet, in contrast to last year's Hogmanay celebrations when about 100,000 visitors attended the street party with live performances from Idlewild and Mark Ronson in Princes Street Gardens.\n\nElsewhere in the UK this year a fireworks and light display, including tributes to NHS staff, was held over the River Thames in London, but people were also told to stay at home rather than go out and celebrate.\n• None UK sees in 2021 with fireworks and light show", "All primary schools in London will remain closed for the start of the new term, the government has confirmed.\n\nLondon mayor Sadiq Khan said the government had \"finally seen sense and U-turned\" on its plan to allow pupils in some areas to return on Monday.\n\nLeaders of nine London local authorities had written to Education Secretary Gavin Williamson urging him to rethink the decision.\n\nMr Williamson said the city-wide closures were \"a last resort\".\n\nThe government said it had decided all primary schools in the capital would be required to provide remote learning after a further review of coronavirus transmission rates.\n\nVulnerable pupils and the children of key workers will continue to attend school, the government said.\n\nEarly years care, alternative provision and special schools will remain open, it added.\n\nSchools in nine London boroughs and the City of London district had been set to reopen - while those in the remaining 23 boroughs would have stayed closed from 4 January.\n\nThe decision was criticised and branded \"illogical\" by councillors and residents in the affected areas, who called for primary schools across the capital to move to online learning until 18 January.\n\nThey pointed out that Covid-19 infection rates were higher in some boroughs told to reopen schools than in others where they were not.\n\nIn a tweet, Mr Khan said a city-wide closure was \"the right decision\" and thanked education minister Nick Gibb for \"our constructive conversations over the past two days\".\n\n\"The government's original decision was ridiculous and has been causing immense confusion for parents, teachers and staff across the capital,\" Mr Khan said.\n\n\"It is right that all schools in London are treated the same, and that no primary schools in London will be forced to open on Monday\".\n\nDan Thorpe, leader of Greenwich council, said he was \"absolutely delighted\" to hear Mr Williamson had \"finally climbed down and reversed his decision\".\n\nKingston Council leader Caroline Kerr said she was \"dismayed\" at the government's handling of situation while a council statement added: \"It never made sense that neighbouring boroughs were being instructed to have different arrangements despite having similar rates of infection.\"\n\nIslington council leader Richard Watts said waiting until New Year's day to announce the further closures was \"unacceptable\".\n\nHe said the decision \"should have been made weeks ago, as the public health situation became clear\".\n\nMary Bousted, of the National Education Union, said the government was right to reverse its \"obviously nonsensical position\".\n\n\"What is right for London is right for the rest of the country,\" she said, and she called on ministers to \"do their duty\" by closing all primary and secondary schools nationwide for at least two weeks.\n\nPaul Whiteman, general secretary of school leaders' union NAHT, accused the government of damaging public confidence with a \"confusing and last-minute approach\".\n\n\"Just at the moment when we need some decisive leadership, the government is at sixes and sevens,\" he said.\n\nShadow education secretary Kate Green said the move was \"yet another government U-turn creating chaos for parents just two days before the start of term\".\n\n\"Gavin Williamson must still clarify why some schools in tier 4 are closing and what the criteria for reopening will be,\" she said.\n\nGavin Williamson said closing schools across London was a \"last resort\"\n\nIn a statement, Mr Williamson said children's education and wellbeing remained \"a national priority\" and moving the whole of London to remote education \"really is a last resort and a temporary solution\".\n\n\"We will continue keep the list of local authorities under review, and reopen classrooms as soon as we possibly can,\" he said.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the situation in London had continued to worsen in the past week and infections and hospital admissions had risen sharply.\n\n\"While our priority is to keep as many children as possible in school, we have to strike a balance between education and infection rates and pressures on the NHS,\" he said.\n\nThe Department for Education had previously said decisions on school closures and openings were based on new infections, positivity rates, and pressures on the NHS.\n\nA spokeswoman for the department said: \"In response to concerning data about the spread of coronavirus, we have implemented the contingency framework for education in a small number of areas of the country, requiring schools to provide remote learning to all but vulnerable and critical worker children and exam years.\n\n\"Decisions on which areas will be subject to the contingency framework are based on close work with PHE, the NHS, the Joint Biosecurity Centre and across government.\"\n\nAre you a parent or teacher who will be affected by the London primary school closures? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Bodycam footage shows the moments before a black man was killed by a police shooting in Minneapolis\n\nMinneapolis police have released bodycam footage of a fatal shooting by officers, the first death at the hands of police in the US city since that of George Floyd, a black man, in May.\n\nThe victim, Dolal Idd, 23, was a suspect in a felony and was stopped by police on Wednesday. He was also black.\n\nInitial witness statements and police say Mr Idd fired first and was shot dead when the officers returned fire.\n\nMinneapolis saw months of unrest after Mr Floyd's death in police custody.\n\nThe protests spread across the US amid allegations of police brutality.\n\nMr Floyd died after a police officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes.\n\nThe footage from Wednesday's fatal shooting, from the bodycam of one of the officers involved, was released late on Thursday.\n\nIt shows the officers' cars blocking a white vehicle at a petrol station on the city's south side, not far from where Mr Floyd died.\n\nThe police are heard shouting \"Stop your car, hands up, hands up!\" before shots are fired, including by the officers.\n\nA female passenger in the car with Mr Idd was not hurt, police said, nor were the officers.\n\nMinneapolis police chief Medaria Arradondo said a gun was found at the scene.\n\n\"When I viewed the video that everyone else is viewing - and certainly the real-time slow-down version - it appears the individual inside the vehicle fired his weapon at the officers first,\" he said.\n\nPeople including Mr Idd's father Bayle Gelle gathered at the scene the following day, prompting fears of renewed protests.\n\n\"He was just sitting in the car, and bullets were shot at him, and no reason,\" he said, quoted by CBS News.\n\n\"Why are we here?... Because of colour. He is a black man. We want to know why my sweet son gets shot and killed.\"\n\nGeorge Floyd's death led to violent protests in the city, including this police station set on fire in May\n\nCity mayor Jacob Frey said he was committed to getting the facts and pursuing justice.\n\n\"We know a life has been cut short tonight and that trust between communities of colour and law enforcement is fragile,\" he said in a statement.\n\n\"Rebuilding that trust will depend on complete transparency.\"\n\nMr Floyd's death in May led to calls for reform or even abolition of the city's police department, but those efforts have stalled.", "Much of England has been placed in a new top tier of restrictions - tier four - as the new variant spreads Image caption: Much of England has been placed in a new top tier of restrictions - tier four - as the new variant spreads\n\nEarlier we reported that a study by Imperial College had concluded the new coronavirus variant is \"hugely\" more transmissible. Now some experts are saying that means even tougher restrictions will soon be needed.\n\nProf Jim Naismith, of Oxford University, said: \"The data from Imperial represent the best analysis to date and imply that the measures we have employed to date, would - with the new virus - fail to reduce the R number to below 1.\n\n\"In simpler terms, unless we do something different the new virus strain is going to continue to spread - more infections, more hospitalisations and more deaths.\"\n\nThe R number is the average number of people an infected person passes the virus onto. If it is above 1 the epidemic is growing.\n\nEarly data suggested that the virus was spreading more quickly among the under-20s, particularly among secondary school age children, but the latest results indicate that it is more infectious in all age groups.\n\nProf Axel Gandy, part of the research team, suggested that it may have appeared to spread more easily among school children simply because the early data was collected during the November lockdown, when adults' movements were restricted but schools remained open.", "Researchers have been tracking changes to the \"spike\" of the virus\n\nThe new variant of Covid-19 is \"hugely\" more transmissible than the virus's previous version, a study has found.\n\nIt concludes the new variant increases the Reproduction or R number by between 0.4 and 0.7.\n\nThe UK's latest R number has been estimated at between 1.1 and 1.3. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.\n\nProf Axel Gandy of London's Imperial College said the differences between the viruses types was \"quite extreme\".\n\n\"There is a huge difference in how easily the variant virus spreads,\" he told BBC News. \"This is the most serious change in the virus since the epidemic began,\" he added.\n\nThe Imperial College study suggests transmission of the new variant tripled during England's November lockdown while the previous version was reduced by a third.\n\nCases of Covid-19 have begun to increase rapidly during the second spike, and the number of cases recorded in a single day reached a new high on Thursday.\n\nEarly results indicated that the virus was spreading more quickly among under-20s, particularly among secondary school age children.\n\nBut the very latest data indicates that it was spreading quickly across all age groups, according to Prof Gandy who was a member of the research team.\n\n\"One possible explanation is that the early data was collected during the time of the November lockdown where schools were open and the activities of the adult population were more restricted. We are seeing now that the new virus has increased infectiousness across all age groups.\"\n\nProf Jim Naismith, of Oxford University, said he believed that the new findings indicated that even tougher restrictions would soon be needed.\n\n\"The data from Imperial represent the best analysis to date and imply that the measures we have employed to date, would - with the new virus - fail to reduce the R number to below 1.\n\n\"In simpler terms, unless we do something different the new virus strain is going to continue to spread, more infections, more hospitalisations and more deaths.\"\n\nThe R number is the average number of people an infected person infects. If it is above 1 the epidemic is growing.\n\nThe most chilling finding from this piece of research is that the November lockdown in England, hard though it was for many people, would not have stopped the variant form of the virus spreading. The same severe restrictions that saw cases of the previous version of the virus fall by a third, would see a tripling of the new variant. This is why there has been such a sudden tightening of restrictions across the country.\n\nIt is unclear whether the current restrictions will be enough to control the spread of the virus. Given the fact that it has taken two lockdowns to stop the earlier version of the virus overwhelming the NHS, many scientists fear that further tightening will be necessary.\n\nInfection levels will begin to drop as enough people are vaccinated. But until then it is now more important than ever for people to follow social distancing guidelines, wear masks where required and to regularly wash their hands.\n\nThe new year brings with it hope of a more normal life in the next few months but also a new form of the virus that all of us will have to combat in the coming days and weeks.\n\nProfessor Lawrence Young, of Warwick University, said early indications suggested that vaccines would be effective against the new form of the virus.\n\n\"Variants virus have been around since the beginning of the pandemic and are a product of the natural process by which viruses develop and adapt to their hosts as they replicate.\n\n\"Most of these mutations have no effect on the behaviour of the virus but very occasionally they can improve the ability of the virus to infect and/or become more resistant to the body's immune response.\"\n\nFurther research is needed to understand why the variant is spreading so quickly. But early indications are that vaccines should be effective against it.\n\nThe new virus has been designated \"Variant of Concern 202012/01\" or VOC by Public Health England.\n\nIt was detected in November and thought to have originated in the south-east England in September.\n\nThere is no evidence to suggest that it is more deadly, but it will increase the number of cases which in turn will add further pressure on the NHS.\n\nThe variant can now be found across the UK, except Northern Ireland, but it is heavily concentrated in London, as well as south-east and eastern England.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Parents and teachers have criticised the closure decisions\n\nNine London boroughs have written to the education secretary asking him to reverse plans to reopen primary schools in some areas.\n\nAbout a million primary school pupils will not return to lessons next week in a bid to cut Covid transmission rates.\n\nHowever, schools in 10 London boroughs are due to remain open.\n\nIn the letter, the leaders said they were \"struggling to understand the rationale\" behind the idea as pupils and teachers moved between boroughs.\n\nThe government has said the measure would be reviewed fortnightly.\n\nAll primary schools had been due to fully reopen on 4 January but under government plans those in 23 London boroughs will remain closed.\n\nHowever, schools in the City of London, Camden, Greenwich, Hackney, Haringey, Harrow, Islington, Kingston, Lambeth and Lewisham will open.\n\nThe letter to Gavin Williamson has been signed by leaders of all of those boroughs apart from Kingston. It has also been signed by the City of London's policy chair.\n\nIt calls for primary school pupils across the capital to \"move to online learning until 18 January\", apart from vulnerable children and those of key workers.\n\n\"The omission of 10 boroughs ignores the deep interconnectedness of our city, and the many thousands of teachers and students that study or teach in one borough and live in another,\" the letter states.\n\nThe councils also said they had received legal advice that omitting some councils from the list of areas told to take teaching online \"is unlawful on a number of grounds and can be challenged in court\".\n\nRichard Watts, leader of Islington Council, told the BBC there \"seems to be no reason at all to look at this on a borough by borough basis\".\n\n\"The entirety of the rest of the government's handling of the pandemic has rightly treated London as a single entity and this is the first time anyone... has tried to implement different public health measures in different boroughs,\" he said.\n\nIn a statement Dan Thorpe, leader of the Royal borough of Greenwich, accused the government of providing \"a lack of clarity and answers\", adding that the situation was \"causing uncertainty and concern among our schools, families, carers, and undoubtedly children and young people\".\n\nAlthough Kingston Council did not sign the letter, leader Caroline Kerr said reopening primary schools in the borough \"doesn't make any sense\" and that they were \"urgently seeking clarity on the reasoning for the decision\".\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan has called the plans \"nonsensical\" and has also written to the government calling for a \"delay to all London schools opening until mid-January\".\n\nKevin Courtney, joint leader of the National Education Union, said the education secretary \"must listen to the leaders of the community, he must listen to school staff and he must listen to the general public who are all telling him that it is not safe to reopen schools on Monday\".\n\nThe Department for Education has previously said decisions on school closures and openings were based on new infections, positivity rates, and pressures on the NHS.\n\nA spokeswoman for the department said: \"In response to concerning data about the spread of coronavirus, we have implemented the contingency framework for education in a small number of areas of the country, requiring schools to provide remote learning to all but vulnerable and critical worker children and exam years.\n\n\"Decisions on which areas will be subject to the contingency framework are based on close work with PHE, the NHS, the Joint Biosecurity Centre and across government.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The musician was known for his performances in which he always wore a mask\n\nHip-hop star MF Doom has died at the age of 49, his family confirmed on social media.\n\nThe London-born musician, real name Daniel Dumile, was known for his sharp, intricate rhymes and his signature mask, which he never removed in public.\n\nIn a post on the rapper's Instagram account on Thursday, his wife Jasmine confirmed that he died on 31 October.\n\nA number of artists have paid tribute to MF Doom including Run The Jewels and Tyler, The Creator.\n\nIn a note addressed to the rapper, his wife paid tribute to \"the greatest husband, father, teacher, student, business partner, lover and friend I could ever ask for\".\n\nHis representatives confirmed his death to Rolling Stone magazine. No cause of death was disclosed.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by mfdoom This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMF Doom was born in London but moved to New York as a child.\n\nAs a teenager he performed in hip-hop group KMD. Following the loss of his younger brother and bandmate DJ Subroc, he disappeared from music becoming, in his own words, \"damn near homeless\".\n\nBut in 1997, he remerged at open mic events in Manhattan, wearing tights over his face. He protected his anonymity for the rest of his career, adopting a mask based on the Marvel villain Doctor Doom for all his public appearances.\n\nHis debut as MF Doom, Operation: Doomsday, was released in 1999, and he followed it up with an almost non-stop outpouring of music.\n\nAs well as six solo albums, he produced a wealth of bootlegs, compilations, collaborations, mixtapes and instrumental albums - including the influential, 10-part Special Herbs series.\n\nHe may be best known for 2004's Madvillainy, which was recorded with crate-digging producer Madlib under the moniker Madvillain, and gave the rapper his first entry on the US album chart.\n\nAnother of his high-profile collaborations was Danger Doom alongside DJ Danger Mouse, and he appeared with Damon Albarn's Gorillaz on their UK number one album Demon Days. Other collaborators included Ghostface Killah, Flying Lotus, The Avalanches and Radiohead.\n\nOne of hip-hop's most respected MCs, he made appearances on BBC Radio 4 and Radio 1 in which he discussed his own music and projects with other artists.\n\nMany of them lined up to pay tribute after news of his death broke on New Year's Eve.\n\n\"RIP to another Giant, your favourite MC's MC... MF DOOM,\" wrote A Tribe Called Quest's Q-Tip on Twitter. \"Crushing news.\"\n\n\"He was a writer's writer,\" added El-P of Run The Jewels. \"Grateful I got to know you a little, king. Proud to be your fan. Thank you for keeping it weird and raw always. You inspired us all and always will.\"\n\n\"All u ever needed in hip-hop was this record,\" Flying Lotus tweeted alongside the album cover to Madvillainy. \"My soul is crushed.\"\n\nApple Music presenter Zane Lowe said: \"Rest In Peace to the great MF Doom. A true artist who gifted us with eternal innovation and creativity.\"\n\nWhile the Sleaford Mods said: \"RIP MF DOOM. Sleep well mate.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. London's new year celebrations featured a message of hope from David Attenborough\n\nThe UK has seen off 2020 and celebrated the dawn of 2021 with a fireworks and light display over London that included tributes to NHS staff.\n\nRevellers were not able to ring in the New Year in the usual way because of the coronavirus pandemic, with people instead told to stay at home.\n\nPolice had to break up various parties and events across England overnight.\n\nForces have handed out hundreds of fines, with several issuing the maximum £10,000 to event organisers.\n\nMuch of the UK saw in the new year while under lockdown rules, with about 44 million people in England - or 78% of the population - in tier four, the top level of Covid restrictions.\n\nMainland Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales are also under lockdown.\n\nAlthough people were warned not to attend any parties outside their own homes, there were many around the country who ignored the rules.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said police attended 58 parties and unlicensed music events in breach of tier four rules across London overnight, the vast majority of which ended when police intervened, they added.\n\nFixed penalty fines were given to 217 people while five others could be fined £10,000 for organising large gatherings. The police force said four other people were arrested for breaching Covid regulations by gathering in central London.\n\nElsewhere, other forces also broke up parties and handed out hundreds of fines. They included Greater Manchester Police, which issued 105 fixed penalty notices at house parties and larger gatherings. And Leicestershire Police had to issue six on-the-spot £10,000 fines to party organisers.\n\nIn Essex, hundreds of people were dispersed from an illegal New Year's Eve party at a church, while Lancashire Police broke up a party in Hyndburn, near Blackburn, attended by 80.\n\nMeanwhile, in Scotland, Edinburgh's traditional Hogmanay street party was cancelled, with videos of a drone display released instead.\n\nThe series of videos showed a swarm of 150 lit-up drones over the Scottish Highlands and Edinburgh were released, which organisers said it was the largest drone show ever produced in the UK.\n\nDespite the cancellation of Edinburgh's traditional Hogmanay celebration - which normally attracts 100,000 people on the city's streets - there were some people who ignored the pleas to stay at home.\n\nCrowds of several hundred people gathered at Edinburgh Castle to see in the new year. They sang Auld Lang Syne and danced before eventually dispersing when several police vans and cars pulled on to the castle esplanade.\n\nAn anti-lockdown protest and New Year's Eve celebration was also held in London\n\nPeople cross Hungerford Bridge in London on New Year's Eve\n\nOn New Year's Eve, Health Secretary Matt Hancock called on people to take \"personal responsibility\" and stay at home to avoid spreading Covid-19.\n\nLondon's 10-minute display over the Thames aired on the BBC at midnight, and began with a poem which addressed the pandemic, that said: \"In the year of 2020 a new virus came our way; We knew what must be done and so to help we hid away.\"\n\nLight projections lit up the sky over the O2 Arena, including the NHS logo in a heart accompanied by a child's voice saying: \"Thank you NHS heroes\".\n\nThe show also recognised Captain Sir Tom Moore, who raised £33m for the NHS by walking laps of his garden and the Black Lives Matter movement. One 2020 phenomena - working from home - was represented with a mute logo backed by a voiceover saying \"You're on mute\".\n\nThe display ended with a call from Sir David Attenborough about the need for action on climate change.\n\nLondon mayor Sadiq Khan said the display had reflected the resolve of Londoners to endure\n\n300 drones were used in the display to create images in the sky\n\nIn a speech being broadcast on BBC One between Doctor Who and EastEnders this evening, Sir David will say that this \"could be a year for positive change - for ourselves, for our planet and for the wonderful creatures with which we share it\".\n\nDespite the \"challenging\" times we live in, \"the reactions to these extraordinary times has proved that when we work together there is no limit to what we can accomplish\", he will say, as he looks ahead to the United Nations Climate Change Conference later this year.\n\nThe sounds of a video conference call starting up were played\n\nMuch of London was far quieter than usual\n\nEdinburgh's streets were largely empty, with Police Scotland warning against Hogmanay gatherings\n\nOfficial figures showed 10.75 million viewers watched the 2021 New Year celebrations on BBC One. It's down from the 11.18m who saw in the start of 2020 on the channel.\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan said he was proud of the show, which he said \"paid tribute to our NHS heroes and the way that Londoners continue to stand together\".\n\n\"We showed how our capital and the UK have made huge sacrifices to support one another through these difficult times, and how they will continue to do so as the vaccine is rolled out.\"\n\nUsually, around 100,000 people pack into the streets around Victoria Embankment to watch the New Year's Eve fireworks.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn his New Year's message, the Archbishop of Canterbury said he saw \"reasons to be hopeful for the year ahead\" despite the \"tremendous pain and sadness\" brought by 2020.\n\nThe Most Reverend Justin Welby spoke of his experience volunteering as an assistant chaplain at St Thomas' hospital during the pandemic, saying: \"Sometimes the most important thing we do is just sit with people, letting them know they are not alone.\"\n\nIn his message, filmed at the London hospital and broadcast on BBC One on Friday afternoon, he said: \"This crisis has shown us how fragile we are. It has also shown us how to face this fragility.\n\n\"Here at the hospital, hope is there in every hand that's held, and every comforting word that's spoken.\n\n\"Up and down the country, it's there in every phone call. Every food parcel or thoughtful card. Every time we wear our masks.\"\n\nDid you make a special effort to celebrate this New Year? How did you mark it? Share your experiences and pictures of what you got up to by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "For months, the government has been urging businesses to get ready for a new era in trading with the EU. But it was only on Boxing Day that details of all the new rules were actually published.\n\nBusiness groups are relieved that the threat of a no-deal Brexit, which would have meant tariffs (or taxes) on goods crossing the border with the EU, has been removed. But companies that trade with the EU are still facing a lot of new bureaucracy.\n\nAnd the disruption in mid-December, caused by border closures related to the new variant of Covid-19, was a reminder of how dependent the UK economy is on trade across the English Channel.\n\nFrom 1 January 2021, goods entering the EU from Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) face large amounts of new paperwork and checks, including:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHauliers will also need to make sure they have the right transportation paperwork before they drive to the border.\n\nThere is particular focus on the \"short straits\" route between Dover and Calais, and the nearby Channel Tunnel, which taken together handle about four million lorries a year.\n\n\"This is the biggest imposition of red tape that businesses have had to deal with in 50 years,\" says William Bain from the British Retail Consortium.\n\nFull controls on British exports to the EU began on 1 January. The first day of the new regime appears to have gone relatively smoothly.\n\nBut it's feared that later in the year, the new controls could cause disruption, even though new border infrastructure has been built at ports such as Calais, to help process vehicles more efficiently.\n\nThere are some mitigating measures though.\n\nIn response to the Covid crisis, the government is delaying full controls on goods entering Great Britain from the EU for a further six months.\n\nThere will be checks from 1 January on controlled substances such as alcohol and tobacco, and traders deemed to be a risk will also be asked to fill in customs declarations.\n\nBut most checks on goods coming in from the EU will be delayed until 1 July, a deadline that could in theory be extended.\n\n\"I think we will want to monitor it,\" the chief executive of HM Revenue and Customs, Jim Harra, told MPs in November. \"Hopefully we will not still be in a situation where Covid-19 is consuming as much of people's attention.\"\n\nOther measures to tackle potential disruption include diverting trade to other ports around the country and opening lorry parks in Kent, to avoid gridlock on the roads.\n\nSome of these contingencies were put into action early, to deal with the Covid border closures in December.\n\nOperation Brock, for example, involved changing the layout of a section of the M20, using a concrete barrier to allow lorries heading for mainland Europe to queue safely on the motorway.\n\nThousands of lorries were also diverted to temporary parking at a disused airport at Manston.\n\nFrom 1 January drivers of lorries weighing more than 7.5 tonnes will need to acquire a Kent Access Permit before they enter the county. They will have to show that they have all the paperwork they need to ferry goods to Europe.\n\nBut that doesn't deal with the challenge of the thousands of vans that cross the Channel every week.\n\n\"What has been serially misunderstood by various parts of government is the scale of the complexity for people on the ground dealing with the paperwork,\" says Duncan Buchanan, the Policy Director of the Road Haulage Association.\n\nThat could mean that instead of queues on motorways, many traders won't be able to leave their depots.\n\n\"Either they won't be able to get vets to sign off on their meat exports, or they won't be able to get their permit because they don't have the right bits of paper,\" says Shane Brennan, chief executive of the Cold Storage Federation.\n\n\"We might see a quite significant holding off of trading - people just not moving stuff in the first few weeks.\"\n\nEighty-five per cent of the volume of trade between the EU and Great Britain is carried by EU hauliers, who are often paid not by the hour, but by the kilometre. If they think there will be too many delays, many may simply not come.\n\nThe government says the readiness of traders to deal with the new system remains its biggest concern.\n\nLorries parked on the M20 in Kent\n\n\"The sheer scale of the overall operation means there are literally many millions of moving parts,\" permanent secretary of the cabinet office Alex Chisholm told MPs. \"Inevitably there are going to be some difficulties for some individual people as they adjust to the new regime.\"\n\nThe government has also announced a new Border Operations Centre as part of plans \"for the UK to have the world's most effective border by 2025\".\n\nQuestions have been asked about how changes at the border might affect food supply. The short answer is no-one can say for sure, but nearly 30% of all the food consumed in the UK is imported from the EU.\n\nThe good news is that there is a deal, which makes a big difference. But the challenge is particularly acute because the UK grows relatively small amounts of fruit and vegetables in January and February and is most dependent on supplies from southern Europe at this time of year.\n\nSo, if there are delays, they could cause some shortages on the shelves.\n\n\"Some gaps are possible but we're not going to run out of food - that's not going to happen\" says Ian Wright.\n\nWhen it comes to non-perishable items, there had been some stockpiling in preparation for either outcome, but extra supplies won't last forever.\n\n\"The crunch point is probably not going to be in the first few days or weeks of January,\" William Bain argues. \"Towards the end of the month, when new orders start being placed and delivered, we will start to see the processes in Kent and the other ports really tested.\"\n\nAnd it's not only about food.\n\nOther retailers, which are used to moving their stock freely around the EU customs union, have had to create separate supply chains for the UK. That is costing them more money, and their new systems have yet to be tested properly.\n\nIt's not just about trade across the English Channel.\n\nTrade across the Irish Sea between Great Britain and the Republic of Ireland will be subject to the same pressures, while Northern Ireland will be a special case under the terms of the Northern Ireland protocol in the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement.\n\nNorthern Ireland will remain in the EU single market for goods, and unlike the rest of the UK it will continue to enjoy frictionless trade with the EU with no checks of any kind at the land border with the Republic.\n\nBut there is a price to pay for that - new bureaucracy within the UK between Great Britain and Northern Ireland.\n\nThe EU, for example, has strict rules on products of animal origin: meat, milk, fish and eggs.\n\nThese products must enter the single market (and, from 1 January, Northern Ireland) through a border control post where paperwork is checked, and a proportion of goods physically inspected.\n\nThere will be a grace period of three months for supermarkets and their suppliers, but some smaller traders may have to get used to the new rules straight away.\n\nAll shipments from Great Britain to Northern Ireland will also need a safety and security declaration, and a customs declaration from a new IT system which none of the traders have used before.\n\nThe government has set up a Trader Support Service to help.\n\nThe details of the new trading arrangements for Northern Ireland were announced separately in early December, and provided some clarity. They include an agreement which means the vast majority of goods being shipped from GB to NI will not be at risk of having tariffs imposed.\n\nBut there are plenty of unresolved issues.\n\nTraders are seeking answers about how to send parcels from Great Britain to Northern Ireland, and some online retailers have already suspended deliveries.\n\nThe trade from British to Northern Irish ports often involves multiple small shipments on a single lorry - all of which will need the right paperwork.\n\n\"We need clear rules for everyone in the supply chain,\" says Duncan Buchanan, \"and when you scratch the surface it is just not ready.\"\n\nIt is expected that many checks will be carried out on a 'light touch' basis to begin with.\n\nBut anyone trading between Great Britain and Northern Ireland is going to have to get used to a new way of working very quickly.", "Nearly half a century of the UK's membership of the European Union and its predecessor organisations ended in January of course.\n\nWhat has now ended is the UK's economic membership of the bloc. Forty-eight years in the European customs union, basically the Common Market, and 28 years in the single market.\n\nThe Single Market was a creation for which the UK has paternity rights. It was Margaret Thatcher's rallying call for European reform, her calling card to unleash a wave of Japanese investment in post-industrial Britain and shepherded into existence by her appointee as commissioner Arthur Cockfield.\n\nIts creation served the UK's economic interests, as it grew the home domestic market available for British exporters without tariff or non-tariff barriers, eventually to nearly half a billion Europeans. It was not without irony that the tortuous negotiations of the past four years were made tougher by the EU's insistence on defending what it calls the \"internal market\", itself created by the British.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIndeed the institutional underpinning of this huge marketplace became too much for Mrs Thatcher. Famously she became suspicious of Commission President Delors turning up to tell the TUC that through the European Union workers could reassert rights rolled back by the Conservative Government.\n\nAt her 1988 Bruges speech PM Thatcher replied: \"We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers of the state in Britain, only to see them re-imposed at European level, with a European super-state exercising a new dominance from Brussels.\"\n\nThe car industry was the prototype for the single market\n\nPerhaps this was the beginning of the path to Brexit, carried along by the push to monetary union and resentment at the overreach of the European Court of Justice and the considerable impact of the \"direct effect\" of community and then union law.\n\nThe car industry was the prototype for the single market. Mrs Thatcher's campaigning for EEC membership was quickly followed by a charm offensive that began as opposition leader to get Japanese investors to build high tech factories to sell cars tariff-free across Europe.\n\nFor the UK it would provide employment, technology, capital and competition for the languishing nationalised UK-owned auto sector.\n\nOngoing membership of the EEC, restrictions on union activity and investment tax breaks were part of the deal communicated in writing to the then chairman of Nissan.\n\nThe Datsun Bluebird was being developed in Sunderland and around the same time the Italians and the French threatened to slap tariffs on what they saw as a Japanese ruse to avoid tariffs and undercut their industry.\n\nThe UK government quickly communicated that it was willing to take this matter to the European Court of Justice. The attempt to kill the Nissan factory at birth was fended off.\n\nFrom this, the UK car industry and other advanced manufacturing prospered from being plugged into rapid continent-wide supply chains, delivering each part just in time and just in sequence.\n\nAll of that was enabled by conformity of regulations, standards, zero tariffs and the eradication of non-tariff barriers, for sale, but also within the manufacturing process.\n\nThe UK became the financial centre for the euro\n\nSimilar stories could be told about the pharmaceutical industry, chemicals, the food industry, aerospace, and financial services.\n\nWithin the EU, the UK even became the financial centre for a new currency, the euro, which it did not participate in.\n\nThe single market itself, with regulations set and enforced in Brussels, became a player on the world stage. And yet there was a balancing act. The UK could influence the direction of one of the biggest tankers in the sea but was restricted in acting more nimbly in new industries. In some sectors, the UK's trade dealings with the US or Asia were more important than with Europe.\n\nAnd so this tension led to breaking point. And for the Conservative Party in particular the single market's institutions it created and championed, became something akin to Frankenstein's monster.\n\nThe EU has agreed an investment deal with China\n\nSome Brexiteers had hoped that the edifice would collapse once the UK left. But it has proven more robust than that. Indeed, Brexit has proven a catalyst of the EU to sign trade and investment deals far more quickly, including even with China.\n\nSo now the UK finds itself outside of the machine it created as its strategic competitor. The trade negotiation wasn't primarily about trade. Great Britain has declared regulatory independence, or to be more specific, has declared as much regulatory independence as is compatible with a zero-tariff trade deal.\n\nThe EU retains levers and switches to turn off some of these tariff advantages should the UK use the deal to turn into an offshore tariff free assembly hub for US and Asian manufacturing to be traded into the single market. Unlike with Nissan four decades ago, the European Court of Justice will no longer be there.\n\nThe global pharmaceutical industry offers an opportunity for the UK\n\nThe PM wants regulatory competition but his own deal contains disincentives, if not actual restrictions, on competing \"unfairly\" or too much.\n\nSo the strategy matters. Britain is free, but to do what exactly? To level up? Well the regions that need levelling up are the ones that are actually most dependent on exports to Europe. Exports to Europe will be spared tariffs, thanks to the deal, but there will be literally millions of non-tariff barriers, that the economists calculate matter more, from health checks, customs formalities, origin paperwork, assessments of standards etc.\n\nEven to qualify for tariff-free treatment means, according to new government guidance on \"rules of origin\", analysis of how complicated is the process of grating cheese, of the shelling of nuts, and formalities on where the eyes of a doll come from. Most apply legally from tonight, having been absent for decades.\n\nThe sweet spot for UK will now be to deploy regulatory freedom in sectors that are truly global, where we are not already overly dependent on EU markets.\n\nCertain sub-sectors within technology, finance and pharmaceuticals, for example. In each of these sectors the UK is likely to have to offer more friendly regulation to the multinational private sector, than the EU.\n\nIt doesn't necessarily mean lower standards: It could be that UK medicines regulators, for example, build on the record of rapid approval for Covid vaccines in other medical areas.\n\nThe deployment of massive scientific networks within the National Health service, used for rapid clinical testing, could become the envy of the world.\n\nBrexit Britain is likely to become a laboratory for the global economy. Car companies will need to be attracted with more permissive rules on data and, say autonomous driving testing. Some tech companies are already porting their UK customers to be served under US data privacy laws rather than more restrictive EU ones.\n\nBut the government will also have to be very active and judicious. We are already \"picking winners\" again, at least in the satellite business. What about electric power, where the EU will fight aggressively, versus hydrogen power?\n\nThere are a number of structural economic problems, from poor training, declining productivity and low investment that were not caused by EU membership which, in terms of non-tariff barriers, are made immediately worse by this type of Brexit, for which the UK has no option but to deal with.\n\nNorthern Ireland is mostly left in the EU single market\n\nThat process of looking outwards may not come quickly. Holyrood and Stormont rejected the Brexit trade deal. The UK has replaced a single market of 500 million Europeans free of non-tariff barriers with a single market smaller than the size of the UK.\n\nThere is a trade border in the Irish Sea. Northern Ireland is mostly left in the EU single market. There are non-tariff barriers between Great Britain and Northern Ireland as a result of this deal.\n\nLastly there are some big unknowns and unknowables.\n\nThe inadvertent diplomatic consequences of changes in trade patterns can be profound. If, for example, the eminent historian RW Johnson is to be believed, the UK's accession to the EEC in the first place created the conditions for the fall of South Africa's apartheid regime which was \"hurt in several ways\".\n\nBritish trade was remodelled away from the Commonwealth to Europe, the EEC offered favourable trade with all of Africa except Pretoria. And then when Portugal followed its ally the UK into the EEC, its African colonies and white rule quickly lost to revolutions by black liberation movements in Angola and Mozambique.\n\n\"Thus the seeds of the 1976 Soweto uprising were sown\" in part by the UK joining the EEC. Which is obviously not to suggest the reverse would be true. It is merely to say that events such as these can have very unpredictable knock on effects.\n\nThe Prime Minister has succeeded in taking the UK out of the Single Market created by his heroes. The UK now stands outside a system that it helped invent. For now its new single market is not the size of the country.\n\nThe test of all of this, is to make the UK's new single market the size of the globe.", "Some lorries have been turned away for not having the correct paperwork\n\nPlans are in place to minimise disruption at Welsh ports - especially Holyhead - as the UK enters a post-Brexit new year.\n\nThe EU Brexit transition period is over, and lorry drivers heading to and from the Republic of Ireland require additional paperwork to travel.\n\nOfficials at Holyhead said some lorries have already been turned away because they had the wrong documentation.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it was doing what it could to \"protect\" the port.\n\nTransport Minister Ken Skates said it was \"imperative\" contingency plans were in place for the island, as it wakes up to the new customs regime.\n\nFerry operators in Wales will now require freight customers to link customs information to their booking as they head for the Irish Republic.\n\nWithout that paperwork, port access will be refused.\n\n\"We've had the first few rejects, which is not unexpected,\" said Stena Line's Head of UK Ports, Ian Davies.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Wales from Holyhead on New Year's Day, he said it showed the new system was working.\n\n\"We've had people that have been passed and allowed to be shipped, and we've had a few failures as well, so it will be a learning curve for these customers.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government said a \"worst case scenario\" published by the UK suggested 40% to 70% of heavy goods vehicles arriving at ports after transition ended on New Year's Eve may not have the right documentation to travel.\n\nThe peak period for turning vehicles away is expected to be mid-January.\n\n\"We simply don't know whether things are going to work,\" said Rod McKenzie, who is managing director of policy for the body representing lorry drivers and operators, the Road Haulage Association.\n\n\"There is no question there will be problems, even if all the IT works, things could go wrong, and given traders' unfamiliarity with it there is the potential for a lot of mistakes to be made.\"\n\nA contraflow will allow lorries to be \"stacked\" on parts of the A55 if traffic builds\n\nThe association said it was more worried about \"invisible delays\" in the supply chain, rather than queues at ferry ports.\n\n\"Lorries might not leave their factory gate or depot because the paperwork isn't done,\" he said.\n\n\"It's really, really important that people try to get their paperwork right. The consequences of any mistakes will be a disruption of the supply chain.\"\n\nHe said the sector would know in about a week \"how it's going\".\n\nPembrokeshire council said it had been working to ensure any vehicles turned away from Pembroke Dock and Fishguard were dealt with away from the ports.\n\nIt has arranged overflow locations at Goodwick and Pembroke Dock for its own version of Dover's \"Operation Stack\", where lorries queue along the M20.\n\n\"The importance of Pembrokeshire's ports to the county, Wales and UK as a whole cannot be overestimated,\" said council leader David Simpson.\n\nHolyhead is the UK's second busiest roll-on roll-off ferry port\n\nOn Anglesey, a temporary contraflow is in force on the A55 expressway, eastbound between junctions two and four, allowing any traffic turned away from the port to be redirected back.\n\nIt will be moved to parking locations at Parc Cybi on the outskirts of the town, and if necessary, lorries will be parked on the cordoned-off A55 sections.\n\n\"We will monitor the situation carefully and as soon as it's safe to do so we will remove the temporary contraflow,\" said Mr Skates.\n\n\"While the next few days are expected to be quiet, we know it will become busier as we approach mid-January.\n\n\"Our aim is to do what we can to protect the port, town of Holyhead and wider community from any possible disruption.\"\n\nOn Friday, port authorities on Anglesey said freight traffic has been quiet, as expected over the bank holiday period.\n\nIt follows an steep rise in lorry crossings in the run up to Christmas and the end of the transition period.\n\nFerry operator Stena Line is also responsible for running Holyhead Port.\n\n\"We can't get complacent over the next few days,\" said a Stena spokesman.\n\n\"It's when freight levels come back up that we'll know whether the systems are really working and whether the hauliers are ready. That will be the real test.\"", "More than 35,000 people have received the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in Wales\n\nThe Covid vaccine programme is at the \"very beginning\" and vaccination rates are increasing, Wales' Health Minister Vaughan Gething has insisted.\n\nIt follows concerns raised by some politicians over the speed of Welsh vaccine rollout.\n\nInitial figures on how many people have received the first Pfizer-BioNTech jab show Wales is slightly behind those vaccinated elsewhere in the UK.\n\nMr Gething said there were likely to be \"small differences between nations\".\n\n\"Comparisons are naturally being made on the number of vaccinations administered by the four nations of the UK,\" he said in a ministerial statement to Senedd members.\n\n\"Whilst I recognise the data indicates there are other nations ahead of us, the national data presented at this very early stage of the vaccination roll out should be considered provisional and a snapshot of ongoing activity.\"\n\nHe said there would be \"lags\" in data being entered, and local factors affecting vaccinations.\n\n\"For example the vaccination centre in Cardiff and the Vale was unable to operate for two days because of a virus outbreak linked to the site,\" he added.\n\nMore than 35,000 people have now received the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in Wales, including healthcare workers who work in Wales but live over the border in England.\n\nAlmost 13,000 of these vaccines were given in the past week.\n\nThe number of vaccinations in Wales up until 27 December account for 1.12% of the Welsh population.\n\nIn England, 1.4% have received a jab, while in Scotland it is 1.7%, and 1.6% in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe Welsh Conservative health spokesman Andrew RT Davies flagged his concerns about the vaccine delivery programme on Thursday.\n\n\"Three weeks ago, the first Covid-19 vaccine was given in Wales, and since that time we have sadly seen confusion and hope drop away,\" he said.\n\n\"Many people over 80 in Wales were desperately waiting for their appointment to do their bit and have the vaccine but as we quickly learnt they would have to wait longer,\" he said.\n\nBut the health minister said daily vaccination rates were \"increasing across Wales\".\n\nThe focus is on delivering vaccines effectively and safely, says Vaughan Gething\n\n\"Looking ahead, all health boards are preparing for significant expansion in capacity from the beginning of January,\" added Mr Gething.\n\nHe said the new Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine approved earlier this week would be available from some GPs in Wales from Monday.\n\n\"This is only the very beginning of what will be a programme spanning many months,\" he said.\n\n\"Whilst the urgency and priority required is clear to all, we must also have some patience and allow the NHS to do what it does so well.\n\n\"My focus, and that of the NHS, is on delivering the vaccine programme quickly but also effectively, safely and equitably.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government has also confirmed it will be following the latest advice from medical advisers on introducing a 12-week gap between the two doses of vaccines needed, for both types of approved jabs.\n\nAll four chief medical officers in the UK have supported the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, which said the focus should be on giving at-risk people the first dose of whichever vaccine they receive.\n\n\"It will ensure that more at-risk people are able to get protection from a vaccine in the coming weeks and months, reducing deaths and starting to ease pressure on our NHS,\" said Mr Gething.\n\nVaccinations started earlier in December after regulators approved the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine\n\nPlaid Cymru has called on the Welsh Government to ask the UK government to publish evidence to justify increasing the period for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.\n\nIn a letter to Mr Gething, the party's health spokesman Rhun ap Iorwerth said the \"sudden switch\" represented \"a very significant departure\" from previous guidelines.\n\nHe added there were \"very real concerns\" that a longer delay between doses \"could significantly decrease the effectiveness of the vaccine\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"I wish I could switch place with my daughter\" - Odd Steinar Sørengen's daughter is missing\n\nA body has been found shortly after rescuers and dog handlers began a risky ground search for 10 people missing in a hillside collapse in Norway.\n\nInitially it was thought too dangerous to send rescuers on to the site, after flowing mud sent homes toppling into a giant chasm in the village of Ask.\n\nHelicopters and drones spent two days searching the scene.\n\nBut on Friday police commander Roy Alkvist said one or two houses appeared safe to enter.\n\nRescuers, who included a Swedish specialist team, began moving into the danger zone on Styrofoam boards. The bright orange boards were laid down on the mud in a domino-effect as rescuers tried to reach one of the wrecked homes, which are 25km (15 miles) north-east of the capital Oslo.\n\nA missing Dalmatian dog was rescued on Thursday and police believe there is still a chance survivors could be found.\n\nHowever, on Friday afternoon an air ambulance helicopter landed near the site and police said a body had been found at 14:30 (13:30 GMT) without giving further details.\n\nRescuers are using orange Styrofoam boards to move around the landslide area\n\nPrime Minister Erna Solberg said her thoughts went out to the victim's family, and to those waiting for news of the other nine people who were missing.\n\nIn Friday's operation the rescuers also prepared a giant army vehicle called a \"paver\", which has a giant steel bridge on which rescuers can move.\n\nHowever, conditions were not yet good enough for the 50-tonne machine to be deployed.\n\nThe plan is to deploy a Norwegian army bridge-laying vehicle as soon as conditions are good enough\n\nFriday's search was a race against time, as the rescuers only had a few hours of daylight in the Norwegian winter. Medics and geologists were reportedly part of the ground rescue team.\n\nThe ground search was called off for the night at 17:30 and police said drones and heat-seeking cameras would continue overnight until rescue crews could return on Saturday morning.\n\nAbout 1,000 people have been evacuated from Gjerdrum municipality, which contains Ask village. Dozens more were moved out of their homes on New Year's Eve.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Aerial footage shows the scale of the landslide\n\nAlthough police have not given details of the missing, they are believed to include men, women and children.\n\nAmong them is a woman who was talking to her husband on the phone while walking the dog when the line went dead, according to Bergens Tidende newspaper.\n\nFurther reports say a couple and their small child are also missing, as well as a woman in her 50s and her adult son.\n\nMore than 30 homes have been destroyed, but officials say more could be lost as the edges of the crater left by the landslide are still breaking away.\n\nThe conditions have proved challenging, with temperatures dropping to -1C (30F) and the clay ground proving too unstable for emergency workers to walk on.\n\nThe scale of the landslide is shown by this aerial view of the disaster site\n\nThe landslide began early on Wednesday, with residents calling emergency services and telling them that their houses were moving, police said.\n\n\"There were two massive tremors that lasted for a long while and I assumed it was snow being cleared or something like that,\" Oeystein Gjerdrum, 68, told broadcaster NRK.\n\n\"Then the power suddenly went out, and a neighbour came to the door and said we needed to evacuate, so I woke up my three grandchildren and told them to get dressed quickly.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for the Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate (NVE) told AFP that the landslide was a so-called \"quick clay slide\" measuring about 300m by 700m (985ft by 2,300ft).\n\n\"This is the largest landslide in recent times in Norway, considering the number of houses involved and the number of evacuees,\" Laila Hoivik said.\n\nQuick clay is a kind of clay found in Norway and Sweden that can collapse and behave as a fluid when it comes under stress.\n\nBroadcaster NRK said heavy rainfall may have made the soil unstable, but questions have since emerged over why construction was permitted in the area.\n\nA 2005 geological survey labelled the area as at high risk of landslides, according to a report seen by the broadcaster TV2. Despite this, the homes were built three years later in 2008.", "Ontario Premier Doug Ford has announced the resignation of his finance minister who took a trip to the Caribbean while the province remained under lockdown.\n\nMr Ford on Thursday said Mr Phillips' departure showed his government \"takes seriously our obligation to hold ourselves to a higher standard\".\n\nCanada's most populous province has discouraged all non-essential travel amid record-high new case counts.\n\nMr Phillips, who is a member of the Progressive Conservative Party, had taken a personal trip to St Barts on 13 December and returned on Thursday morning.\n\nAhead of the holiday season, Ontario health officials had urged residents to stay at home when possible amid an ongoing rise in Covid-19 cases.\n\nPeople line up on Christmas Day at a Covid test site in Ontario\n\nMr Phillips told reporters when he arrived at Toronto Pearson Airport he hoped to keep his job, but would respect the premier's decision.\n\n\"Obviously, I made a significant error in judgment, and I will be accountable for that,\" Mr Phillips said. \"I do not make any excuses for the fact that I travelled when we shouldn't have travelled.\"\n\nLater on Thursday, Mr Ford said in a statement he had accepted Mr Phillips' resignation following a conversation with him. Mr Ford has asked Peter Bethlenfalvy, currently president of the treasury board, to step into the finance minister role.\n\nOn Wednesday, Mr Ford had said he learned of Mr Phillips travel two weeks ago, but said the minister \"never told anyone\" he was going to St Barts, according to CBC.\n\nOntario's New Democratic Party leader Andrea Horwath on Wednesday had pushed for Mr Phillip's firing, saying it was unacceptable for him to \"ignore public health advice\" while the government \"demands sacrifice from everyday Ontarians\".\n\n\"It's not believable that a senior member of cabinet didn't tell the premier's office he was leaving the country for weeks during the height of a global emergency,\" she said in a statement. \"If he didn't, that in itself would be enough reason to demote him.\"", "The UK's chief medical officers have defended the Covid vaccination plan, after criticism from a doctors' union.\n\nThe UK will give both parts of the Oxford and Pfizer vaccines 12 weeks apart, having initially planned to leave 21 days between the Pfizer jabs.\n\nThe British Medical Association said cancelling patients booked in for their second doses was \"grossly unfair\".\n\nBut the chief medical officers said getting more people vaccinated with the first jab \"is much more preferable\".\n\nThe Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was the first jab approved in the UK, and 944,539 people have had their first jab.\n\nThe first person to get the jab on 8 December, Margaret Keenan, has already had her second jab.\n\nPfizer has said it has tested the vaccine's efficacy only when the two vaccines were given up to 21 days apart.\n\nBut the chief medical officers said the \"great majority\" of initial protection came from the first jab.\n\n\"The second vaccine dose is likely to be very important for duration of protection, and at an appropriate dose interval may further increase vaccine efficacy,\" they said.\n\n\"In the short term, the additional increase of vaccine efficacy from the second dose is likely to be modest; the great majority of the initial protection from clinical disease is after the first dose of vaccine.\"\n\nThe decision to delay the second dose has, understandably, caused concern.\n\nThere is some evidence regulators say - at least for the Oxford vaccine - that it will actually boost immunity.\n\nBut for those who are due to get a second dose soon it will undoubtedly be upsetting that they now have to wait.\n\nBut the move is about practicalities. The UK is in the middle of a public health crisis and despite the fact that millions of doses are pre-ordered, there is concern the supply of the vaccine will not be as smooth as everyone would ideally want.\n\nThere is a global demand for these vaccines and there are bound to be times when supply does not meet demand.\n\nSo the logic of the move is that by spreading this thin resource the most widely, it will have the greatest benefit - not only to the vulnerable but to everyone.\n\nLives have been put on hold and livelihoods lost.\n\nThis is the quickest way back to some degree of normality.\n\nEven if it does leave some of the vaccinated susceptible to infection, it should in theory at least protect them from serious illness.\n\nGiven where we are now, the argument is that that is a price worth paying.\n\nAs well as approving the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine on Wednesday - the second approved for use in the UK - regulators also said that doctors could wait longer between the two courses.\n\nThis means more people will get the first jab sooner, even if they have to wait longer for their second jab.\n\nExperts advising the government, including the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), said the focus should be on giving at-risk people the first dose of whichever vaccine they receive.\n\nDefending the move, the UK's four chief medical officers - including England's Prof Chris Whitty - said in a statement released on New Year's Eve: \"In terms of protecting priority groups, a model where we can vaccinate twice the number of people in the next two to three months is obviously much more preferable.\"\n\nThey said they recognised that rescheduling second appointments was \"operationally very difficult\" and would \"distress patients who were looking forward to being fully immunised\".\n\nHowever, they said that for every 1,000 patients booked in for a second dose, which will \"gain marginally on protection from severe disease\", that would mean 1,000 more people missing out on \"substantial initial protection\".\n\nThe chief medics said that, while one million people had already been vaccinated, approximately 30 million UK patients and health and social care workers eligible in the first phase \"remain totally unprotected and many are distressed or anxious about the wait for their turn\".\n\nThey added that the JCVI was \"confident\" 12 weeks was a reasonable interval between doses \"to achieve good longer-term protection\".\n\n\"We have to follow public health principles and act at speed if we are to beat this pandemic which is running rampant in our communities, and we believe the public will understand and thank us for this decisive action.\"\n\nEarlier, the BMA's Dr Richard Vautrey said GPs were unhappy they were being asked to cancel appointments that had already been made for second doses.\n\nHe said the BMA would support practices who honour the existing appointments for the follow-up vaccination, calling for the government to do the same.", "The first lorries to transport freight under the new arrangements arrived in Belfast on Friday afternoon\n\nThe first goods have crossed the new trade border between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK.\n\nThe 'Irish Sea border' is a consequence of Brexit and means that most commercial goods entering NI from GB require a customs declaration.\n\nAbout a dozen lorries arrived on a ferry from Cairnryan in Scotland to Belfast at 14:00 GMT on Friday.\n\nThey were met by officials, with some vehicles directed to new border control posts.\n\nMany food products from GB now have to enter NI through these border posts where they can be inspected by the Department of Agriculture.\n\nThese products also need health certificates, though some of the new certification processes will be phased in over the next three months.\n\nThe UK government also announced a three-month \"grace period\" for parcels, meaning those sent by online retailers will be exempt from customs declarations until at least April.\n\nIt said the grace period was necessary to avoid disruption to deliveries at a time when many shops are closed due to pandemic restrictions.\n\nMeanwhile the secretary of state for Northern Ireland has continued to insist the new range of checks, controls and paperwork is not actually a sea border.\n\nBrandon Lewis tweeted: \"There is no 'Irish Sea Border'. As we have seen today, the important preparations the government and businesses have taken to prepare for the end of the Transition Period are keeping goods flowing freely around the country, including between GB and NI.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Brandon Lewis This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTransport companies are not expecting significant volumes of freight over the next few days.\n\nThere has been significant stockpiling ahead of the changes and it may take one or two weeks before freight volumes are at normal seasonal levels.\n\nSome businesses, particularly haulage companies, are anxious about the new IT systems which are necessary for the border to function.\n\nThey have had less than two weeks to familiarise themselves with the new systems.\n\nPolice officers carried out random vehicle checks near Larne Port on New Year's Eve\n\nSeamus Leheny from Logistics UK said: \"With any reconfiguration of supply chains and new systems there will be teething problems and we expect that.\"\n\nThere will be no new processes or checks for the vast majority of goods leaving NI for GB.\n\nThe new arrangements flow from the Northern Ireland Protocol, a deal reached by the UK and EU in 2019.\n\nIts purpose is to prevent a hard land border in Ireland.\n\nThat is achieved by keeping Northern Ireland in the EU's single market for goods and by having Northern Ireland apply EU customs rules at its ports.\n\nThis will allow goods to flow from NI to the Republic of Ireland and the rest of the EU as they do now, without customs checks or new paperwork.\n\nThe Protocol is opposed by Northern Ireland's unionist parties who fear it will weaken Northern Ireland's position in the UK.\n\nThe arrangement does not change Northern Ireland's constitutional position.\n\nHowever, it does mean a significant new economic barrier within the UK.\n\nUnionist parties fear the sea border will weaken NI's position in the UK\n\nThe UK government has allocated more than £300m for a Trader Support Service to help businesses deal with the new customs arrangements.\n\nThe government is also covering the costs of the new certification requirements for food products.\n\nA Movement Assistance Scheme will pay vets up to £150 to complete the Export Health Certificates which will need to accompany all live animals and products of animal origin entering Northern Ireland from Great Britain.\n\nTrucks pass through a customs post at Dublin Port on Friday morning\n\nThere are also new checks and controls on freight arriving at Dublin Port from GB.\n\nOn Friday morning, the first ferry to arrive in Dublin from Holyhead had about 12 lorries on board.\n\nWhile they all cleared customs checks for the first time without delays, Irish Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney said the change in trading arrangements with the UK would inevitably cause disruption.\n\n\"We have avoided the kind of dramatic disruption of a no trade deal Brexit, but that doesn't mean that things aren't changing very fundamentally, because they are,\" he said.\n\n\"We're now going to see the €80b (£71.2bn) worth of trade across the Irish Sea between Britain and Ireland disrupted by an awful lot more checks and declarations, and bureaucracy and paperwork, and cost and delay.\"\n\nOn Saturday new freight sailings will begin between Rosslare in the Republic of Ireland and Dunkirk in France, allowing cargo to bypass GB and go straight to mainland Europe.\n\nThe six-times weekly service will take 24 hours, which is longer than the \"landbridge\" route via GB.", "A new era has begun for the United Kingdom after it completed its formal separation from the European Union.\n\nThe UK stopped following EU rules at 23:00 GMT, as replacement arrangements for travel, trade, immigration and security co-operation came into force.\n\nBoris Johnson said the UK had \"freedom in our hands\" and the ability to do things \"differently and better\" now the long Brexit process was over.\n\nBut opponents of leaving the EU maintain the country will be worse off.\n\nScottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, whose ambition it is to take an independent Scotland back into the EU, tweeted: \"Scotland will be back soon, Europe. Keep the light on.\"\n\nBBC Europe editor Katya Adler said there was a sense of relief in Brussels that the Brexit process was over, \"but there is regret still at Brexit itself\".\n\nThe first lorries arriving at the borders entered the UK and EU without delay.\n\nOn Friday evening, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps tweeted that border traffic had been \"low due to [the] bank holiday\" but there had been no disruption in Kent as \"hundreds\" of lorries crossed the Channel with a \"small\" number turned back.\n\nSix freight loads travelling from Holyhead in Wales to Ireland had to be turned away due to not having the correct paperwork, the Stena Line ferry and port group said on Friday morning.\n\nBut later on Friday, the group said freight traffic was flowing well through its ports and government customs systems were working well.\n\nIt added that the fall in freight traffic after the Christmas and Brexit stockpiling period meant \"it is too early to draw any conclusions\", but the company remained \"cautiously optimistic that, as freight volumes begin to rise again, we will be able to ensure the continued free movement of goods\".\n\nUK ministers have warned there will be some disruption in the coming days and weeks, as new rules bed in and British firms come to terms with the changes.\n\nBut officials have insisted new border systems are \"ready to go\".\n\nAs the first customs checks were completed after midnight, Eurotunnel spokesman John Keefe said: \"It all went fine, everything's running just as it was before 11pm.\"\n\nNorthern Ireland has different arrangements from other parts of the UK, meaning there will be some customs checks on goods moving between Great Britain and the province.\n\nOn Friday afternoon, the first ferry from Great Britain operating under the terms of Northern Ireland trading protocol docked in Belfast, on schedule at 13:45 GMT.\n\nSeamus Leheny, policy manager at Logistics UK, said six out of the 15 lorries that were on the first ship to arrive into Belfast were brought in for inspection, with one being kept at the port for more than three hours.\n\n\"Inevitably there are going to be teething problems because with such a new, complex system as this there are going to be issues in the first few days,\" he told BBC Radio 4's PM programme.\n\nThe first lorry loads on to the Eurotunnel shuttle after the UK left the single market and customs union\n\nMandy Ridyard, whose aerospace components company makes daily shipments to Northern Ireland, told BBC Radio 4's World at One programme she was \"filling in the same declaration to send goods to the Philippines that I am sending them within the UK\".\n\n\"And obviously that all adds a lot of cost to my business.\"\n\nThe UK officially left the 27-member political and economic bloc on 31 January, three and half years after the UK public voted to leave in the 2016 Brexit referendum.\n\nBut it stuck to the EU's trading rules for 11 months while the two sides negotiated their future economic partnership.\n\nA treaty was finally agreed on Christmas Eve, and became law in the UK on Wednesday.\n\nUnder the new arrangements, UK manufacturers will have tariff-free access to the EU's internal market, meaning there will be no import taxes on goods crossing between Britain and the continent.\n\nBut it does mean more paperwork for businesses and people travelling to EU countries, while there is still uncertainty about what will happen to banking and services.\n\nThe UK and Spain have also reached an agreement meaning the border between Gibraltar and Spain will remain open.\n\nFabian Picardo, Gibraltar's chief minister, said the deal still needed to be formalised, but by abolishing controls between Gibraltar and the EU's passport-free Schengen area, he said it would prevent queues at the border \"which make people's lives a misery and make business difficult\".\n\nIt is a moment that some will regard with huge optimism, others with deep regret.\n\nAnd while this historic move happens at a moment in time, the impact, in some areas, may be less instant or obvious than others - for example, it's expected there'll be relatively little traffic at Dover on the first day of 2021 as new border checks kick in.\n\nNevertheless, significant changes are here - whether on trade, travel, security or immigration - and those changes could well become more apparent in the months ahead.\n\nMr Johnson - who took the UK out of the EU in January six months after becoming prime minister - said it was an \"amazing moment\" for the UK in his New Year message.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWriting in the Daily Telegraph, he added that the combination of the Brexit deal and rollout of the Oxford vaccine means \"we are creating the potential trampoline for the national bounceback\".\n\nLord Frost, the UK's chief negotiator, tweeted that Britain had become a \"fully independent country again\".\n\nAnd the deputy chairman of the pro-Brexit European Research Group of Tory backbench MPs, David Jones, told the BBC: \"We can now say clearly Britain is a sovereign and independent state.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut opponents of Brexit say the country will be worse off than it was while it was a member of the EU.\n\nIreland's Foreign Minister Simon Coveney said it was \"not something to celebrate\" and the UK's relationship with Ireland will be different from now on, but \"we wish them well\".\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron said the UK remained a \"friend and ally\", but he added that the choice to leave the EU was \"the child of European malaise and many lies and false promises\".\n\nIn Brussels, there is a sense of relief the Brexit process is over, but there is regret still at Brexit itself.\n\nBasically, the European Union thinks that Brexit makes it - the EU - and the UK weaker.\n\nBut the EU view is this is less bye-bye Britain and more au revoir, because there are so many loose ends between the two sides.\n\nFor example, there are the ongoing practicalities surrounding Gibraltar, the UK is still waiting to find out what access Brussels is going to give its financial services to the single market, there is cooperation on climate change, and there is a reviewal mechanism written into the treaty for every five years.\n\nFor all of those reasons and more, this is not the end of the EU-UK conversation for the foreseeable future.\n\nThe culmination of the Brexit process means major changes in different areas. These include:", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Countries around the world welcomed 2021 with fireworks, but crowds were only allowed at some displays\n\nMillions around the world have been seeing out 2020 and marking the start of 2021, although the coronavirus pandemic has forced many celebrations to take place in muted form behind closed doors.\n\nWith lockdowns or other restrictions in place in many countries, would-be New Year partygoers were told to have a quiet night in.\n\nOthers have attended ceremonies or festivals wearing masks or taking other precautions.\n\nIn Tokyo, below, people visited the Kanda Myojin Shrine to offer prayers. The popular Shinto shrine reduced the number of visitors allowed, as Japan faces another wave of Covid-19 infections.\n\nIn Wuhan, China, crowds gathered in the city with balloons and festive outfits to count down to midnight on New Year's Eve.\n\nFireworks lit up the night sky in Taiwan to mark the beginning of 2021, witnessed by thousands of spectators who gathered in the centre of Taipei.\n\nLike this family in Seoul, South Korea, many globally have marked the celebration in a small way and often at home.\n\nIt was a chilly celebration in Yekaterinburg, Russia, as people gathered at the city hall, waving sparklers in the 1905 Square.\n\nWhile in the United Arab Emirates, one of the largest New Year fireworks displays saw spectacular colours light up the sky over the emirate of Ras al-Khaimah.\n\nPyrotechnics also illuminated the sky around the tallest building in the world, the Burj Khalifa, as the clock struck midnight in Dubai.\n\nThe New Year's Eve party at Brandenburg Gate in Berlin is usually one of Europe's biggest street parties. But this year revellers were told to stay at home and watch the fireworks and music performances on TV or online instead.\n\nThese worshippers in Abuja, Nigeria, marked the end of 2020 with a gospel service.\n\nMeanwhile, people in the city of Abidjan in the Ivory Coast were able to watch the fireworks display outside with friends and family.\n\nBut in New York City, just a handful of people were allowed into Times Square to watch confetti rain down and the traditional crystal ball drop.\n\nBrazilian authorities closed Copacabana Beach, in Rio de Janeiro, but that did not stop some people enjoying celebrations.\n\nA fireworks and light show was held across various locations in London. A number of drones filled the sky close to the O2 Arena in East London forming messages referencing the pandemic, including the NHS logo.", "The Archers returned to BBC Radio 4 in May with \"a new style\" forced upon the show by the coronavirus lockdown\n\nBBC Radio 4 will mark 70 years of The Archers with a series of features across its output on Friday.\n\nAs well as broadcasting episode number 19,343 of the world's longest-running serial drama, stars from it will appear on the station's other programmes.\n\nThis will include inserts into Woman's Hour, Farming Today, and a quiz.\n\nThe Archers, set in the fictional village of Ambridge, began in 1951 with the original purpose of educating farmers on modern agricultural methods.\n\nThe show's editor, Jeremy Howe, said its achievements over the years, coming up to the modern day, are incomparable.\n\n\"Almost daily and in real time The Archers has tracked life in the village of Ambridge across years and more than 19,000 episodes,\" he said.\n\n\"No work of fiction or drama can truly compare to that. As I look back on this incredible legacy, I am looking forward to the next 70 years of The Archers.\"\n\nBack in May, The Archers returned to BBC Radio 4 on Monday, with a \"new style\" forced upon the show by the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nLarge cast recordings with interaction between multiple characters were scrapped in favour of monologues recorded at the actors' homes.\n\nThe storyline of Friday's anniversary episode remains a secret, but celebratory programming on Radio 4 on the day will also include a special edition of With Great Pleasure at Christmas, where cast members from the series share their favourite prose and poetry.\n\nHowe, meanwhile, will appear alongside actor Timothy Bentinck (David Archer) and agricultural story advisor Sarah Swadling in an Archers-flavoured edition of Farming Today.\n\nWoman's Hour will focus on the female characters and storylines that have shaped the show.\n\nFinally, on the day, listeners will be invited to head over to The Bull pub - not literally of course - for the The Archers Anniversary Quiz, hosted by landlords Jolene (Buffy Davis) and Kenton Archer (Richard Attlee).\n\nOn Saturday 2 January, historian David Kynaston will then delve into the history of the programme further documentary feature entitled A Social History of The Archers.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Spain has reached a deal with the UK to maintain free movement to and from Gibraltar once the UK formally leaves the EU on Friday.\n\nTo avoid a hard border, Gibraltar will join the EU's Schengen zone and follow other EU rules, while remaining a British Overseas Territory.\n\nThe deal was announced by Spanish Foreign Minister Arancha González Laya, just hours before the UK exits the EU.\n\nThe Rock voted Remain in 2016 and about 15,000 Spanish workers go there daily.\n\n\"With this [agreement], the fence is removed, Schengen is applied to Gibraltar... it allows for the lifting of controls between Gibraltar and Spain,\" said Ms González Laya.\n\nThe Gibraltar deal will mean the EU sending Frontex border guards to facilitate free movement to and from Gibraltar. Their role is planned to last four years.\n\nGibraltarians are British citizens. They elect their own representatives to the territory's parliament, while the British monarch appoints a governor.\n\nThe territory - home to a British military garrison and naval base - is self-governing in all areas except defence and foreign policy.\n\nMs González Laya did not say whether Spanish border guards would eventually be posted at Gibraltar's airport and/or seaport which, under the deal, will be de facto part of the EU's external border.\n\nThe Gibraltar deal would also mean the territory complying with EU fair competition rules in areas such as financial policy, the environment and the labour market, Ms González Laya said.\n\nTwenty-two EU states are in the passport-free Schengen zone, as are Norway, Switzerland, Iceland and Liechtenstein, but the UK has never been in it.\n\nOnce Gibraltar joins it, EU citizens arriving from Spain or another Schengen country will avoid passport checks, while arrivals from the UK will have to go through passport control, as is already the case.\n\nUK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab called Thursday's deal a \"political framework\" to form the basis of a separate treaty with the EU regarding Gibraltar.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why Gibraltar is British - in 60 secs\n\nThe deal does not address the thorny issue of sovereignty. Spain has long disputed British sovereignty over the Rock which was ceded to Britain in 1713 and which is now home to about 34,000 people. The Remain vote there was an overwhelming 96% in the 2016 EU referendum.\n\nThe plan is to have a six-month transition period and then formalise the new arrangements with a treaty.\n\nUnder the current tight Covid rules, there are restrictions on UK citizens arriving via Gibraltar's airport, the UK Foreign Office says.\n\nDominic Raab said \"all sides are committed to mitigating the effects of the end of the [Brexit] Transition Period on Gibraltar, and in particular ensure border fluidity, which is clearly in the best interests of the people living on both sides.\n\n\"We remain steadfast in our support for Gibraltar, and its sovereignty is safeguarded.\"", "Omar Elabdellaoui is receiving treatment in hospital after an accident with a firework\n\nNorway and Galatasaray footballer Omar Elabdellaoui has been injured by a firework during a New Year's Eve celebration.\n\nThe Norwegian vice-captain's club said he was taken to hospital after \"an unfortunate accident at his home\".\n\nHe suffered burns to his face and damage to his eyes, the club said, adding that further tests would assess the extent of his injuries.\n\nThe New Year's Eve incident was one of many involving fireworks in Europe.\n\nIn Elabdellaoui's case, Turkish reports say a firework exploded in the hand of the 29-year-old defender.\n\nTurkish newspaper Hurriyet said the former Manchester City player may have lost vision, without giving further details.\n\nBut in a statement cited by the newspaper, Galatasaray said Elabdellaoui was conscious, in a stable condition and had not undergone surgery.\n\nGalatasaray's manager Fatih Terim and the team captain Arda Turan went to the hospital to visit Elabdellaoui, who joined the club in 2020 from the Greek side Olympiacos FC.\n\nTurkish clubs - including Galatasaray's Turkish Super Lig rivals Fenerbahce, Besiktas and Trabzonspor - took to social media to wish Elabdellaoui a speedy recovery.\n\nTurkish reports say a firework exploded in the hand of 29-year-old Omar Elabdellaoui\n\nElsewhere in Europe, at least four people were killed by fireworks during events to mark the new year.\n\nPolice in Alsace in eastern France said a 25-year-old man died after being hit by a rocket in the village of Boofzheim.\n\nA statement said the device beheaded him and severely injured the face of another young man standing next to him.\n\nA similar incident cost the life of a 28-year-old man in Pulle, a village east of Antwerp in Belgium.\n\nFireworks exploded over Berlin's landmark Brandenburg Gate to usher in the new year\n\nMeanwhile in Italy's north-western province of Asti, a 13-year-old boy died shortly after midnight of injuries to his abdomen caused by a firecracker.\n\nThere were fireworks casualties in Germany as well. In the state of Brandenburg, police said a 24-year-old man died after setting alight \"self-made pyrotechnics\" while a 63-year-old man lost his hand when handling a firecracker.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Countries around the world welcomed 2021 with fireworks, but crowds were only allowed at some displays\n\nInjuries and deaths from fireworks are not unknown over the New Year period. But fewer public fireworks displays than usual were held on New Year's Eve 2020, as coronavirus restrictions placed limits on gatherings worldwide.\n\nSome European countries had moved to limit the use of fireworks ahead of 31 December, with Germany imposing a ban on the sale of pyrotechnics.", "Rachael Powell is \"angry and upset\" about her daughter Emmeline missing out during lockdown Image caption: Rachael Powell is \"angry and upset\" about her daughter Emmeline missing out during lockdown\n\nNew parents missing baby classes and playdates due to lockdown say their children's development has been hit by the impact of coronavirus.\n\nWhen Rachael Powell's one-year-old daughter Emmeline met her grandparents for the first time she \"absolutely screamed the place down\" as she \"didn't know who they were\".\n\n\"I was really looking forward to going to coffee shops, meeting other mums and going to baby classes and then everything stopped,\" says the 39-year-old from Greater Manchester.\n\n\"I felt guilty that she didn't get any of that and have that interaction.\"\n\nEducation consultant and child psychologist Paul Kelly says Covid is having a \"massive impact\" on babies.\n\n\"We are social creatures, social beings - it is pre-programmed in our brains,\" he says. \"When children's brains are stimulated, they grow.\"\n\nDr Kelly says there is also an impact on parents, who are missing out on \"mutual support\".\n\nHe says people should \"grab what they can, when they can\" during these uncertain times and focus on \"how you can enhance [your baby's] development... rather than spending time thinking about how your child might be behind\".", "The number of people being treated in Scotland's hospitals for coronavirus has reached another record daily high.\n\nLatest Scottish government figures show a total of 1,596 people are in hospital with recently confirmed Covid.\n\nThis is up from Friday's figure of 1,530 patients.\n\nThe deaths of a further 93 people who had tested positive for the virus have been recorded in the past 24 hours, the same tally as Friday which was the highest daily figure of the pandemic.\n\nIt is the second day in a row there has been a record figure for Covid hospital patients.\n\nOf the 1,596 people in hospital, a total of 109 are in intensive care, up seven on Friday's figure.\n\nNational clinical director Prof Jason Leitch said Scotland's hospitals were \"very busy and fragile\" but coping so far.\n\nHe said: \"People should not be worried we have reached capacity but the best way of getting those numbers down is to reduce the prevalence of the virus.\"\n\nProf Leitch said the NHS could create more intensive care capacity if needed but \"all of that has a cost in what we won't be able to do\" elsewhere in the health service.\n\nThe NHS Louisa Jordan temporary hospital in Glasgow can be used to care for the sickest of Covid patients if the spike in admissions continues, but officials are trying to avoid this \"if we can manage without it\", Prof Leitch added.\n\nThis is because it is better for patients and staff for Covid patients to be in traditional intensive care units, he explained.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon has described the latest Covid figures as \"a big concern\".\n\nOn Twitter, she said: \"Covid case numbers still a big concern and putting huge pressure on the NHS, as hospital and ICU cases increase.\n\n\"Also, 93 further deaths remind us just how dangerous the virus can be - my thoughts are with all those grieving.\"]\n\nThe Scottish government data shows a further 1,865 new cases of Covid have been reported in the last 24 hours, down from the 2,309 cases reported on Friday.\n\nHowever, the daily test positivity rate is 8.7%, up from 8.1% on the previous day.\n\nThis breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refresh the page for the fullest version.\n\nYou can receive Breaking News on a smartphone or tablet via the BBC News App. You can also follow @BBCBreaking on Twitter to get the latest alerts.", "North Korean leader Kim Jong-un said US policy towards his country would \"never change\"\n\nNorth Korean leader Kim Jong-un has said the US is his country's \"biggest enemy\" and that he does not expect Washington to change its policy toward Pyongyang - whoever is president.\n\nAddressing a rare congress of his ruling Workers' Party, Mr Kim also pledged to expand North Korea's nuclear weapons arsenal and military potential.\n\nHe said that plans for a nuclear submarine were almost complete.\n\nHis comments come as US President-elect Joe Biden prepares to take office.\n\nAnalysts suggest Mr Kim's remarks are an effort to apply pressure on the incoming government, with Mr Biden set to be sworn in on 20 January.\n\nMr Kim enjoyed a warm rapport with outgoing US President Donald Trump, even if little concrete progress was made on negotiations over North Korea's nuclear programme.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn his latest address to the Workers' Party - only the eighth congress in its history - Mr Kim said Pyongyang did not intend to use its nuclear weapons unless \"hostile forces\" were planning to use them against North Korea first.\n\nHe said the US was his country's \"biggest obstacle for our revolution and our biggest enemy... no matter who is in power, the true nature of its policy against North Korea will never change,\" state news agency KCNA reported.\n\nHis speech outlined a list of desired weapons including long-range ballistic missiles capable of being launched from land or sea and \"super-large warheads\".\n\nNorth Korea has managed to significantly advance its arsenal despite being subject to strict economic sanctions.\n\nEarlier this week, Mr Kim admitted that his five-year economic plan for the isolated country failed to meet its targets in \"almost every sector\".\n\nNorth Korea closed its borders last January to prevent Covid from entering the country.\n\nIts authorities say the country has not had a single Covid case since the pandemic began but experts say this is highly unlikely due to North Korea's cross-border trade with China.\n\nTrade with China has plummeted by about 80%. Typhoons and floods have devastated homes and crops in North Korea, which remains under strict international sanctions, including over its nuclear programme.\n\nThe speech is likely to be Mr Kim's way of setting the stage for talks with President-elect Joe Biden who will take office in less than two weeks' time.\n\nThe aim is perhaps to put pressure on Washington to show that Pyongyang has no intention of being cowed by sanctions and will continue to expand its nuclear arsenal.\n\nMr Kim had three summits with Donald Trump - but they failed to reach a deal. However, North Korea is in a difficult and bleak economic position caused by strict sanctions, border blockades to prevent the spread of Covid-19 and devastating floods.\n\nThis message may seem threatening, but some analysts believe that there is still room for diplomacy.", "Jessica Allen (left) and Eliza Moore are now sticking to walks nearer their homes\n\nA police force that was criticised for its \"intimidating\" approach to two walkers is to review its lockdown fines policy.\n\nJessica Allen and Eliza Moore said they were surrounded by police after driving five miles from their home for a walk on Wednesday, and fined £200 each.\n\nDerbyshire Police initially said driving to exercise was \"not in the spirit\" of lockdown.\n\nBut it now says new national guidelines mean it will review its position.\n\nIn a statement, the force said all of its fixed penalties issued during the new national lockdown will be reviewed.\n\nMs Allen, from Ashby-de-la-Zouch in Leicestershire, said she assumed \"someone had been murdered\" when she arrived at Foremark Reservoir on Wednesday afternoon.\n\nWhen she and her friend were questioned by police, they were also told by officers the hot drinks they had brought along were not allowed as they were \"classed as a picnic\".\n\nShe said: \"The next thing, my car is surrounded. I got out of my car thinking 'There's no way they're coming to speak to us'. Straight away they start questioning us.\n\n\"I said we had come in separate cars, even parked two spaces away and even brought our own drinks with us. He said 'You can't do that as it's classed as a picnic'.\"\n\nMs Allen said the experience was \"very intimidating\" and had left her feeling scared of police in general.\n\nForemark Reservoir is five miles away from where Jessica Allen and Eliza Moore live\n\nHer friend, Ms Moore, said she was \"stunned at the time\" so did not challenge police and gave her details so they could send a fixed penalty notice.\n\nAt the time Derbyshire Police said that driving to a location to exercise \"is clearly not in the spirit of the national effort to reduce our travel, reduce the possible spread of the disease and reduce the number of deaths\".\n\nThe force added: \"Where there are cases of blatant breaches of the regulations then fines will be issued by officers.\"\n\nDerbyshire Police has also been giving fixed penalty notices to people who visit Calke Abbey and Elvaston Castle.\n\nFixed penalty notices have been given to people who visit Calke Abbey, a National Trust property\n\nBut in a statement, the force said further guidance issued by the National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) had \"clarified the policing response concerning travel and exercise\".\n\nThe guidance said: \"The Covid regulations which officers enforce and which enables them to issue FPNs [fixed penalty notices] for breaches, do not restrict the distance travelled for exercise.\"\n\nThe NPCC added that rather than issue fines for people who travel out of their local area \"but are not breaching regulations, officers will encourage people to follow the guidance\".\n\nThe force has now said it will be \"aligning to adhere to this stance\".\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Kem Mehmet said: \"We are grateful for the guidance from the NPCC.\n\n\"The actions of our officers continues to be to protect the public, the NHS and to help save lives.\"\n\nIt is not the first time the force has been accused of being overzealous in enforcing alleged lockdown breaches.\n\nIn the country's first lockdown in March the use of a drone to film people walking in the Peak District was labelled \"nanny policing\".\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Andy Stonely is not eligible for the UK government Covid support scheme\n\nA father who has lived on Universal Credit since the Covid-19 pandemic started has called on the UK government to be \"more flexible\" with its support.\n\nDriving instructor and dad-of-three Andy Stonely is not eligible for the government's Covid support scheme.\n\nThe Federation of Small Businesses Wales has also asked for changes ahead of the next round of grants.\n\nThe Treasury said its Self-Employment Income Support Scheme was \"one of the most generous in the world\".\n\nThis scheme requires claimants to show accounts for the 2018-19 year as well as 2019-20.\n\nHowever, Mr Stonely from Newport hasn't been self-employed for long enough to qualify - so the 35-year-old has had to rely on financial support from his parents.\n\n\"I count myself somewhat lucky because I have been able to claim for Universal Credit,\" he said.\n\n\"But obviously it's minimal and luckily through the help of parents I've been able to keep afloat.\n\n\"It's been tough. It would have been ideal if the government was just slightly more flexible.\"\n\nMr Stonely, who hasn't been able to work for much of the past year due to lockdown restrictions, said Universal Credit was worth \"less than half\" of his normal earnings.\n\nDriving school firm owner Gareth Denny said almost a quarter of his drivers can't claim Covid help\n\nThe coronavirus crisis forced his wife to give up her job to look after their three children, aged three, six and 17, when Mr Stonely was able to work for a short period at the end of the initial lockdown period.\n\nAsked how much longer his family could sustain itself if the current restrictions continue, Mr Stonely told the BBC's Politics Wales show: \"Not too much longer… we're going to be in a very tough situation.\"\n\nMr Stonely is part of a local driving school franchise managed by Gareth Denny, who said 11 of his 43 instructors were in this position.\n\n\"If you imagine that somebody lives their life to their income and suddenly there's absolutely no income to pay their mortgage and their bills, Universal Credit simply doesn't pay most people's mortgage,\" Mr Denny said.\n\nRecent research commissioned by the Community and Prospect trade unions and the Federation of Small Businesses found 53% of self-employed people across the UK had lost more than 60% of their income since the pandemic began.\n\nIn addition, 64% of people said they were now either \"unsure\" or \"less likely\" to want to be self-employed or freelance in the future.\n\n\"These are normal people who have mortgages, families to support, who've just had to fund a Christmas for the families,\" said Ben Francis of Federation of Small Businesses Wales.\n\n\"All those bills are now mounting up the other side of Christmas, and after having an already extremely difficult 12 months, they've now got to see how they manage through the months ahead.\n\n\"We would ask UK government to be flexible in their approach to verifying the statuses of these newly self-employed businesses.\"\n\nThe Community union warns with small businesses \"struggling to get back on their feet\", more people will leave self-employment.\n\nAll non-essential businesses shut in Wales just before Christmas\n\n\"That will be a disaster for our economy, for local economies, for their livelihoods and their families,\" said Kate Dearden of Community.\n\n\"This section of the UK workforce plays a fundamental role and should be properly supported to continue to do so.\"\n\nThe Treasury has already committed to extending the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme until April 2021, although the eligibility criteria for the next round of grants is yet to be published.\n\nA spokesman said the scheme had \"helped more than 2.7 million people so far, claiming over £13.7bn\".\n\nHe added: \"Funding is designed to target those who need it most and protect the taxpayer against fraud and abuse.\n\n\"Those not eligible may still be able to access our loans schemes, tax deferrals, mortgage holidays and business support grants.\"\n• None What extra help will the self-employed get?", "The US is reeling after supporters of President Trump stormed the Capitol building in Washington DC on the day Congress was meeting to confirm Joe Biden's election victory.\n\nLawmakers were forced to take shelter, the building was put into lockdown and four people died in the chaos that followed a pro-Trump rally near the White House.\n\nHere's a breakdown of how events unfolded on Wednesday.\n\nJust before midday local time (17:00 GMT) thousands of people gather at the Ellipse, near the White House, to hear the president speak at a \"Save America\" rally.\n\nHe tells them: \"We're going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue... and we're going to the Capitol and we're going to try and give… our Republicans, the weak ones... the kind of pride and boldness that they need to take back our country.\"\n\nAs the speech ends, crowds start to drift towards the Congress building, about a mile and a half away, where they are met by police barriers.\n\nThe Capitol is home to the two chambers of the US government that make up Congress - the House of Representatives and the Senate.\n\nChanting crowds start to gather on both sides of the building at around 13:10, grappling with police at the metal barricades.\n\nTear gas and pepper spray are used to try to keep the protesters at bay.\n\nPolice officers struggle to maintain control of the situation as protesters advance on the building on multiple fronts.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police place US Capitol Building on lockdown after Trump supporters breached security lines\n\nOn the east side, the crowd force their way through barricades on the Capitol Plaza and move on the main entrance, quickly gaining access to the Great Rotunda.\n\nOnce inside, they head for the House and Senate chambers.\n\nIgor Bobic, a journalist for the Huffington Post, captures a group of men forcing a police officer to retreat up a set of stairs as they continue their advance.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Igor Bobic This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSenators are forced to abandon the process of confirming President-elect Biden's victory and the building goes into lockdown.\n\nThe doors of the House chamber are locked and a makeshift barricade is erected in front of them. Security officials guard the entrance, guns drawn.\n\nWithin an hour, protesters have also broken police lines on the west side of the Capitol, scaling walls to reach the building itself before smashing windows and forcing doors open.\n\nOther videos and images show rioters storming through the building's ornately-decorated corridors and chambers chanting \"USA!\" and \"Stop the steal\".\n\nShortly before 15:00, gunshots are reportedly heard inside the building.\n\nPhotos and video footage later show a female protester being shot as she tries to break through the barricaded doors of the Speakers' Lobby.\n\nDespite efforts by police and others at the scene to save her, she is later reported to have died.\n\nOn the other side of the building, protesters break into the Senate chamber, one taking seat in the Speaker's chair.\n\nAnother protester is photographed nearby sitting in Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office, with his foot on the table.\n\nAfter growing condemnation of the riots, President Trump eventually calls for calm, telling the protesters to leave peacefully: \"Go home. We love you, you're very special.\"\n\nBy 17:40, the building is cleared and made secure ahead of the 18:00 curfew ordered by DC Mayor Muriel Bowser.\n\nSeveral thousand National Guard troops, FBI agents and US Secret Service are deployed to help.\n\nMore than six hours after the storming of the building, senators return and resume the day's business of certifying the results of the 2020 presidential election.\n\nAt 03:41 on Thursday, Congress confirms President-elect Joe Biden will succeed President Trump on 20 January.", "Vincent Kane - pictured with his grandson Sonny - is facing uncertainty about his operation\n\nThe son of a man with pancreatic cancer has said the last-minute cancellation of his surgery has been \"devastating\".\n\nJodie Kane said his father Vincent was due to have his operation on Friday.\n\nHowever, that procedure was cancelled by the Belfast Health Trust on Tuesday as the worsening coronavirus crisis increases the pressure on hospitals.\n\nThe trust apologised, saying it had faced an 80% rise in the number of patients with Covid-19 admitted to hospitals since Christmas Day.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio Ulster's Nolan Show, Jodie said that there was now \"no guarantee\" his 68-year-old father would get the treatment.\n\n\"To be told we had the chance of a very successful surgery on offer and then to have it taken away at the last minute is pretty devastating,\" he said.\n\n\"Even the surgeon himself said they would be concerned if it was to go on more than four weeks.\n\n\"There is an uncertainty hanging over us now that we don't know when he'll actually get that surgery or what the impact on his health is going to be.\"\n\nVincent Kane - pictured with his with wife Karen - has been suffering other health issues arising from his cancer\n\nVincent, from Newtownards, County Down, did not receive treatment for some of his other symptoms as it was planned that the surgery would help with those.\n\n\"Because they were hoping to get him straight into surgery he hasn't had the blockage in his gall bladder addressed so he's jaundiced, he's covered in a rash, can't sleep, he's lost a lot of weight,\" Jodie said.\n\n\"Undoubtedly there are people worse off than us out there but it is still a critical illness that he has got and it is one that we don't have an end in sight for, in terms of treatment.\n\n\"There must be a way of helping all those in need, or I suppose if you were being really honest about it those who stand the best chance of surviving - making the decisions for the benefit of them.\n\n\"There's no guarantee that in six weeks' time surgery is going to be an option because who knows what's going to happen with Covid?\"\n\nThe Belfast Health Trust said it had to reduce the number of ill patients on wards to protect them from coronavirus\n\nJodie called on those who were breaking Covid-19 regulations to think about the the \"direct and indirect impacts\" of their actions.\n\n\"We've every sympathy for anyone who has a loved one who needs [intensive] care because of Covid but cancer and Covid are both life-and-death situations.\n\n\"We can minimise the risks of one of them as a collective society just by taking the necessary precautions.\n\n\"It could be someone they love or their neighbour or someone in their community that's in the same situation as us in the very near future.\"\n\nFlo McClements, who was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in December, found out on Tuesday that her surgery - scheduled for Thursday - had been cancelled by the Belfast Health Trust.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Foyle, her son Gregg said the pressure was \"mounting day by day\" on the the 72-year-old from Ballymoney, County Antrim.\n\n\"She had waited all through Christmas for the date and due to the Covid-19 restrictions we as a family had stayed away from her,\" he added.\n\nFlo McClements' family wants to \"give her a hug\" after her operation was cancelled\n\n\"We left her on her own with my dad just to make sure she didn't catch Covid and risk the operation.\n\n\"When you get the date you like to think it's the next step to recovery but unfortunately that didn't happen.\"\n\nGregg said his mother was \"putting on a brave face\" but it was difficult for the family to not be with her in person during what was a difficult time.\n\n\"That's actually the hardest part that we can't go up and have a cup of tea with her or give her a hug to make her feel a bit better even for a few minutes.\"\n\nThe Belfast Health Trust said it \"would like to sincerely apologise\" to those affected by the postponement of surgeries.\n\nIt said the decision was taken to reduce the number of ill patients on wards that would be more at risk from the virus than others.\n\n\"This was an incredibly difficult decision to make and we did not take it without considering all the information available to us,\" said the trust.\n\n\"We do not underestimate the anxiety and distress this causes the patients and families affected and we deeply regret this.\n\nIt said it would do \"everything in our power\" to reschedule their operations \"as soon as possible\".", "The company offered to pay surgeries a £5,000 charitable donation \"or to the staff member directly\" in emails\n\nThe Hacking Trust's medical division approached surgeries in Bristol and Worthing offering to pay the money to charity \"or the staff member directly\".\n\nRobyn Clark, from the Institute of General Practice Management, said it was \"just appalling\".\n\nThe company, based in London, has apologised, saying its \"good intentions\" were \"misinterpreted\".\n\nNHS England said people \"will rightly take a dim view of anyone who tries to jump the queue\".\n\n\"The NHS is free at the point of access for everyone who needs it,\" said Mrs Clark.\n\n\"What we felt this company was trying to do was jump the queue.\"\n\nThe Bristol-based manager said she worried it could \"create more health inequality\".\n\nShe said: \"The JCVI [Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation] is trying to prioritise the vaccine based on the vulnerability to Covid.\"\n\nThe e-mail sent to the GP surgery in Worthing said The Hacking Trust was aware that \"many appointments\" for vaccinations are not kept, and that it would be interested in being informed of \"any no-shows\".\n\nA donation of £5,000 would be paid to a staff member or given to charity for each dose it could secure, the e-mail said.\n\nIn a statement, the Battersea-based company said it \"offered charitable donations to staff or surgeries in this difficult time for any vaccines which were unused\".\n\nIt added: \"We had heard that some vaccines were being unused due to missed appointments. We would apologise that our good intentions have been misinterpreted.\"\n\nNHS England said it knew \"these particular emails were received across the country\".\n\nDr Nikki Kanani, GP and NHS medical director for primary care, said hundreds of NHS teams across the country were \"working hard to deliver vaccines quickly to those who would benefit most\".\n\n\"NHS staff will never ask for, or accept, cash for vaccines,\" she said.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said vaccinations were available from the NHS \"for free\" and \"cannot be sold privately in the UK\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA nurse felt \"overwhelming fear\" as 13 ambulances queued at her hospital's A&E department - in the Welsh region currently hardest hit by Covid deaths.\n\nTo date Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board, which runs Royal Glamorgan Hospital, has reported 1,091 deaths of patients with coronavirus.\n\nBBC Wales was granted access to A&E at the hospital in Rhondda Cynon Taf.\n\nSenior doctor Amanda Farrow said the whole hospital had faced \"unrelenting\" pressure last Saturday.\n\nSarah Fogarasy was the senior nurse on duty as 13 ambulances queued up outside her A&E department\n\nSenior A&E nurse Sarah Fogarasy, who was on shift as the ambulances arrived, said there was no capacity at the unit - a situation that left her wanting \"to leave\".\n\n\"We had to escalate it to our site manager and deputy head of nursing who were liaising with the executive team on call,\" she said.\n\n\"And then it got to 13 patients outside - I had no capacity in this unit, no resuscitation capacity, no capacity to put a patient on CPAP [continuous positive airway pressure] should they require that and no physical areas to put a patient in.\n\nOn Saturday, 13 ambulances queued outside the hospital's A&E department\n\nShe said she found it hard to keep going.\n\n\"This bit makes me quite emotional… for the first time I was sat trying to coordinate this department and I had that overwhelming fear that I just wanted to leave,\" Ms Fogarasy continued.\n\n\"I was just - 'I'm done. I'm done with this'... and it's scary, it fills you full of fear when you have got 13 ambulances outside, queuing around the carpark. Where do you go from that?\"\n\nShe said it was the team that kept her going: \"I started looking around to all the staff working tirelessly and just trying to remember what we're here for and why I became a nurse.\n\n\"I know it sounds soppy but it's literally the humanitarian effort that has gone into [fighting] this pandemic that has kept people going.\n\n\"It's the sheer determination and guts of the staff working in these times that is so powerful, that keeps the shift going.\"\n\nEmergency Medicine Consultant Amanda Farrow said it was a \"very emotional time for everyone\"\n\nDr Farrow, emergency medicine consultant, said staffing and bed numbers were of particular concern.\n\n\"In the emergency department the challenge we have is with regards to flow, so that is our daily challenge,\" she explained.\n\n\"And we say it's like playing a game of Tetris trying to work out which patient you can put where.\"\n\nStaff reported feeling overwhelmed as they work through the second Covid wave\n\nShe said the second wave of the virus had also seen more staff off sick with Covid and isolating - with some becoming very ill.\n\n\"We've had staff in as patients and one of my colleagues - I saw them when they were critically ill and ended up going to intensive care,\" continued Dr Farrow.\n\n\"So it's very emotional time for everyone as well you know, looking after the sick patients and looking after your colleagues.\n\n\"There's a level of anxiety still around - will you be the next person to get this disease?\"\n\nShe said although fewer people were attending A&E, they were seeing more people arriving by ambulance and presenting with more complex needs.\n\n\"The group of patients we are seeing this time I think is different, we're definitely having more younger people with Covid that are becoming sick, the volume is very high in the community.\n\n\"I think people are afraid of come into the hospital as well, so there are still quite a lot of patients who leave it maybe a bit too late before they're seeking hospital attention.\"\n\nSpeaking from her intensive care bed, Helen Whatmore said she was extremely grateful to staff\n\nHelen Whatmore, 45, from Beddau, has been hospital since early December after developing Covid symptoms.\n\nSpeaking from her intensive care bed, she said she had been unwell in February so assumed she had already caught the virus.\n\n\"I honestly didn't believe it was as bad until I caught [Covid] this time,\" she said.\n\n\"This time it's absolutely knocked the socks off me. It's nearly killed me.\n\n\"A friend of mine passed away as I came into hospital and I came down very rapidly with Covid, kidney problems and pneumonia.\"\n\nShe said she was grateful for the care she had received: \"The nurses are coming in [working] all shifts, they're fighting for your loved ones, from the time they enter right until the time they leave, then they're changing over and doing the same again.\n\n\"People are passing away… how much more have they got to do? We're asking them to protect our children and our families. Why are we not protecting them ourselves? Saving our families and our own children.\"", "People in England are being told to act like they have got Covid as part of a government advertising campaign aimed at tackling the rise in infections.\n\nBoris Johnson said the public should \"stay at home\" and not get complacent.\n\nOn Friday 1,325 deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test were recorded in the UK - the highest daily figure yet - along with 68,053 new cases.\n\nGovernment sources say there is likely to be more focus from police on enforcing rather than explaining rules.\n\n\"With over 1,000 people dying yesterday it's more important than ever everyone sticks to rules,\" a source told the BBC.\n\nAs cases and deaths soar, the government is releasing its advertising campaign, which will be shared across television, radio, newspapers and on social media.\n\nEngland's chief medical officer, Prof Chris Whitty, says in the advert: \"Vaccines give clear hope for the future, but for now we must all stay home, protect the NHS and save lives.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by Department of Health and Social Care\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson says hospitals are \"under more pressure than at any other time since the start of the pandemic\", with infection rates increasing at an \"alarming rate\" across the country and the NHS under \"severe strain\".\n\nIt comes after London's mayor Sadiq Khan said the spread of coronavirus was \"out of control\" as he declared a \"major incident\" in the capital on Friday.\n\nSuch an incident is an emergency that requires the implementation of special arrangements by one or all of the emergency services, the NHS or the local authority.\n\nIt means the emergency services and hospitals cannot guarantee their normal level of response.\n\nWhile the government seeks to reinforce its \"stay at home\" message, some police forces have faced criticism for their approaches to tackling potential breaches of coronavirus restrictions.\n\nDerbyshire Police has said it will review fixed penalties issued during the new national lockdown after two women were ordered to pay £200 each after driving five miles from their home for a walk on Wednesday.\n\nSusan Michie, a professor of health psychology at University College London, said \"more support and enablement\" was needed for people to adhere to the regulations, for example support to help people self-isolate, rather than punishment.\n\nProf Michie, who sits on a subcommittee of the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies, also said the current restrictions were \"too lax\".\n\n\"When you look at the data, it shows that almost 90% of people are overwhelmingly adhering to the rules despite the fact that we're also seeing more people out and about,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nHowever, she said in comparison to the first lockdown last spring the restrictions were less strict, with more people allowed to go out to work and children's nurseries open, meaning public transport is busier.\n\nThe number of people travelling by public transport in London has decreased since the latest national lockdown began, with tube journeys now at 18% pre-pandemic demand and bus journeys at 30%, according to figures from Transport for London.\n\nHowever, during the first lockdown passenger numbers fell below 10% at some points.\n\nProf Michie added that the winter season posed extra challenges because the virus survives longer in the cold and people spend more time indoors, where the virus can spread more easily.\n\nCombined with the more transmissible new variant, she said \"we should have a stricter rather than less strict lockdown than we had back in March\".\n\nDr Adam Kucharski, another scientist advising the government and an associate professor of infectious disease epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said that because the new variant was more transmissible \"each interaction we have has become riskier than it was before\".\n\n\"So even if we went back to that kind of last spring level of reduction in contacts we couldn't be confident that we would see the same effect that we saw last year because of this increased transmission,\" he said.\n\nEngland, much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland continue to be under strict national measures, with stay-at-home orders in place for most people.\n\nThere is considerable concern in government about the continued spread of the virus.\n\nNo 10 believes more needs to be done to emphasise how severe the current situation is - which is why we are getting some very stark warnings from the medical experts.\n\nMinisters continue to praise the public - but there is also more emphasis on people taking the rules seriously, as was the case last spring when the first lockdown was imposed.\n\nThe prime minister warns people against complacency, saying: \"Your compliance is now more vital than ever\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Staff at Portsmouth's Queen Alexandra Hospital are struggling to cope with an increase in the number of Covid-19 patients\n\nLatest figures from Public Health England reveal the coronavirus infection rate in London has exceeded 1,000 per 100,000 people.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics recently estimated as many as one in 30 Londoners has coronavirus.\n\nLondon councils have urged places of worship to close and the bishop of London Sarah Mullally said churches should \"consider the seriousness of the situation\" before holding in person services this weekend.\n\nDr Simon Walsh, an emergency care doctor in London, told BBC Breakfast all London hospitals had \"effectively been working in major incident mode for the last couple of weeks\".\n\n\"Most hospitals have expanded their intensive care capacity to somewhere in the region of three times their normal capacity. Obviously we don't have three times the number of staff so our staff are being spread more thinly,\" he said.\n\nHospitals in other parts of the UK are also under pressure.\n\nIn Wales, senior A&E nurse Sarah Fogarasy said she felt \"overwhelming fear\" as 13 ambulances queued at Royal Glamorgan Hospital last Saturday, with no capacity at the unit.\n\nAnd Dr Justin Varney, director of public health in Birmingham, said he was \"very worried\" about the situation in the city, where hospital bosses have warned they don't have enough intensive care nurses to deal with the growing case load.\n\nHe warned the NHS had still not seen the impact of the rise in cases following the relaxation of restrictions over Christmas \"so it is going to get a lot, lot worse unless we really get this under control\".", "Marks & Spencer has temporarily stopped selling hundreds of items in its Northern Ireland stores due to Brexit red tape.\n\nThe retailer said it feared its food would be blocked due to new rules governing shipments between Great Britain and Northern Ireland.\n\nA growing number of firms have spoken out about paperwork delays at ports.\n\nThe government said traders and hauliers need to take steps to comply with new border rules.\n\nM&S took the decision to temporarily drop hundreds of products, including chocolate fudge pudding and sweet and sour chicken, from its Northern Ireland stores after it saw competitors' lorries barred from travelling between the mainland and Northern Ireland.\n\nAn entire consignment in a lorry can be held up if only one item in the truck doesn't have the correct customs forms filled out.\n\nThe retailer said it aimed to get the products back up for sale soon.\n\nAn M&S spokesperson said: \"We have served customers in Northern Ireland for over 50 years and our priority is to make sure we continue to deliver the same choice and great quality range that our loyal customers have always enjoyed.\n\n\"Stores have been receiving regular deliveries this week, however following the UK's recent departure from the EU, we are transitioning to new processes and we're working closely with our partners and suppliers to ensure customers can continue to enjoy a great range of products.\"\n\nIn addition to problems shipping goods internally in the UK, the new Brexit trade rules are creating problems for exporters and traders transporting goods to and from the EU, say firms.\n\nThe UK sealed a trade deal with the European Union (EU) on 24 December that was billed as preserving its zero-tariff and zero-quota access to the bloc's single market.\n\nBut in addition to red tape causing delays, major retailers that use the UK as a distribution hub for European business could face possible tariffs if they re-export goods to the EU.\n\nOn Friday, M&S chief executive Steve Rowe warned of more red tape and a rise in export costs to some countries.\n\n\"The best example I can give you of that is Percy Pig,\" he said,\n\n\"Percy Pig is actually manufactured in Germany. If it comes to the UK and we then send it to Ireland, in theory it would have some tax on it,\" he added.\n\nM&S said it was \"actively working to mitigate\" the effects of the \"rules of origin\" regulations, under which products are taxed differently depending on which country they come from.\n\nOther firms have also been hit by the confusion caused by new Brexit trading rules.\n\nParcels giant DPD has suspended some services, while seafood exporter John Ross said the chaos was like being \"thrown in the cold Atlantic without a lifejacket\".\n\nShane Brennan, chief executive of the Cold Chain Federation, which represents chilled transport and storage companies, said the emerging problems had come despite the amount of cross-border traffic still being quite low.\n\n\"Trade flows are still only about 50% of what we would expect, but even at those levels we are seeing levels of confusion and delays,\" he told the BBC's Today programme. \"The feeling is we are building to quite a significant potential disruption.\"\n\nA government spokesman acknowledged that there had been \"some issues\", but said ministers had always been clear there would be some disruption at the end of the transition period.\n\nThe Cabinet Office said in a statement that the volume of border crossings had been low so far this year, but that it expected crossings to steadily increase to normal levels.\n\nThis brings the potential for \"significant disruption if traders and hauliers have not taken the necessary steps to comply with the new rules,\" the Cabinet Office said.\n\nOut of about 1,500 lorries per day trying to get from Great Britain to the EU in the new year, 700 have been turned away - mainly due to a lack of a negative Covid test for drivers, it said.\n\n\"We have always been clear there would be changes now that we are out of the customs union and single market, so full compliance with the new rules is vital to avoid disruption,\" said Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove.\n\nHowever, anger is growing among companies whose livelihoods depend on export trade.\n\nIn a letter on Friday to Business Secretary Alok Sharma, Scottish salmon producer John Ross Jr launched a stinging attack on the government's handling of the situation.\n\nThe firm's sales director, Victoria Leigh-Pearson, wrote that the company had in recent months \"had to endure the government issuing a barrage of useless information\" and an \"absence of factually correct information from all government agencies.\" It amounted, she said, to \"gross incompetence\".\n\nJohn Ross exports to 36 countries and has won the Queen's Award twice\n\nPart of the letter to Alok Sharma:\n\nAs I write, perishable goods that were dispatched from our facility five days ago, headed for France following a process that your department advised, have still not crossed the border. This usually takes only 24 hours because they are consolidated with the produce of other companies, which have not been able to follow the correct procedures due to a knowledge gap directly attributable to your department.\n\nEntire trucks are currently being rejected without explanation by the French customs authority. Our hauliers have now pulled their services as such a backlog has been created. Other hauliers are not taking on new customers. Today, we've even had confirmation that the IT systems of the UK and France are incompatible. After four years you only establish this now?\n\nYour so-called 'deal' is worthless if this situation is not fixed immediately, and unless you put in place measures to address the issues that continue to unfold on a daily basis. Moreover, as a seafood exporter, it feels as though our own government has thrown us into the cold Atlantic waters without a lifejacket.\n\nJohn Ross is not the only Scottish seafood exporter suffering. The industry says it has been hit by a \"perfect storm\" of Brexit disruption, which could sink a centuries-old industry.\n\n\"These businesses are not transporting toilet rolls or widgets. They are exporting the highest quality, perishable seafood which has a finite window to get to markets in peak condition,\" said Donna Fordyce, chief executive of Seafood Scotland.\n\n\"If the window closes, these consignments go to landfill.\"\n\nShe said the sector has already been weakened by Covid-19, the closure of the French border before Christmas as well as \"layer upon layer\" of problems associated with Brexit.\n\nThe group fears that without exports, the fishing fleet will have little reason to go out.\n\n\"In a very short time, we could see the destruction of a centuries-old market which contributes significantly to the Scottish economy,\" added Ms Fordyce.\n\nUK government Minister for Scotland David Duguid blamed Scottish leaders for the issues.\n\n\"The Scottish Government has persistently refused to accept the democratic vote to leave the EU, but that does not allow them to abdicate their responsibilities to Scottish businesses,\" he said.\n\n\"Over the past 18 months they have assured the fishing industry that the systems they were putting in place would be adequate. They clearly are not.\"\n\nParcel delivery service DPD UK said it had paused its European Road Service because of the '\"increased burden\" of customs paperwork for packages heading to the EU, including the Republic of Ireland.\n\nDPD said 20% of parcels had \"incorrect or incomplete data attached\", which meant they would have to be returned.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What Brexit means for Britons travelling, shopping, studying or owning properties in the EU.\n\nIn an email to its business customers, the company said that it had been a \"challenging few days\" for its international operation, and that it would \"pause and review\" its service. It plans to restart on 13 January.\n\n\"It has now become evident that we have an increased burden with the new, more complex processes, and additional customs data we require from you for your parcels destined to Europe\" the firm wrote.\n\nThe boss of one of Wales' largest hauliers said logistical problems have emerged at the Irish border too.\n\nAndrew Kinsella, managing director of Gwynedd Shipping, said his company has a backlog of 60 lorries waiting to be shipped to Dublin.\n\nHe said many hauliers are finding that their customers are not able to generate the special declarations that are needed to ultimately enable a lorry to get onto a ferry.\n\n\"Whilst you don't see queues at ports and terminals the reality is that these queues are developing elsewhere in our depot in Holyhead, in our depot in Deeside and in our depot in Newport in South Wales, and lots of hauliers have depots in the proximity of ports,\" he said.\n\n\"There are a lot of issues about demarcation about who is going to arrange the export declaration with the UK revenue authorities, who's going to arrange the import declaration, the hauliers then trying to arrange the import safety and security declaration to create an ENS number which helps you generate a PBN number so there has been a lot of everyone finding their feet\".\n\nCorrection 9th April 2021: An earlier version of this article included a photo showing queues of lorries at Dover Port. This photo was replaced in the hours after publication after it was established that it had been taken months earlier.", "The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh have received Covid-19 vaccinations, Buckingham Palace has said.\n\nA royal source said the vaccinations were administered on Saturday by a household doctor at Windsor Castle.\n\nThe source added the Queen decided to let it be known she had the vaccination to prevent further speculation.\n\nThe Queen, 94, and Prince Philip, 99, are among around 1.5 million people in the UK to have had at least one dose of a Covid vaccine so far.\n\nPeople aged over 80 in the UK are among the high-priority groups who are being given the vaccine first.\n\nThe couple have been spending the lockdown in England at their Windsor Castle home after deciding to have a quiet Christmas at their Berkshire residence, instead of the traditional royal family gathering at Sandringham.\n\nLast month, the Queen appeared alongside several other senior members of the royal family for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic began.\n\nIn 2020 she went seven months - between March and October - without carrying out public engagements outside of a royal residence.\n\nDuring that time, her eldest child, Prince Charles, 72, contracted coronavirus and displayed mild symptoms.\n\nPalace sources also told the BBC that her grandson Prince William tested positive in April - although Kensington Palace refused to comment officially.\n\nThe Queen made a private pilgrimage to the grave of the Unknown Warrior in Westminster Abbey in November\n\nThe Queen used her Christmas Day message to reassure anyone struggling without friends and family this year that they \"are not alone\".\n\nShe said the pandemic had \"brought us closer\" despite causing hardship, adding that the Royal Family has been \"inspired\" by people volunteering in their communities.\n\nOn Friday a third coronavirus vaccine - made by US company Moderna - was approved for use in the UK, joining the Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines already approved by UK regulators.\n\nIt is not known which vaccine the Queen and Prince Philip have received.\n\nAll the approved vaccines require two doses to provide the best possible protection, with the second dose being given up to 12 weeks after the first.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has said the aim is to vaccinate 15 million people in the UK by mid-February, including care home residents and staff, frontline NHS staff, everyone over 70 and those who have been categorised as clinically extremely vulnerable.", "The Welsh Government is in discussions about bringing in \"more visible\" coronavirus regulations.\n\nStricter enforcement of coronavirus rules could return to supermarkets in Wales, Mark Drakeford has said.\n\nThe first minister said he had heard concerns from people \"expressing anxiety\" about a lack of \"visible protections\" in supermarkets.\n\nThe Welsh Government is now in talks with stores about social-distancing measures.\n\nMr Drakeford said he wanted to see stores policed as they were during the first lockdown.\n\nAmong the measures previously used was a strict limit of the numbers of people allowed in a store however Mr Drakeford said people were worried the rules \"don't appear to be there this time\".\n\n\"Given the fact the new variant is so much easier to catch... we are looking at supermarkets and other places where people leave their homes, to make sure they are organised in a way that keeps their staff and customers safe,\" he said.\n\nHe said previously sanitising arrangements had been \"very visible\", one-way markings were prominently displayed, regular reminders were announced to customers and staff were also posted at the front entrance of supermarkets\n\n\"That person was carefully controlling the numbers of people going in, to make sure that they were no more than a certain number of people in the store at any one time,\" he said.\n\n\"There was somebody directing people to the checkout, to make sure people weren't queuing next to each other over prolonged periods, and markings on the floor so people kept at a two-metre distance\".\n\nHowever the first minister said some of those measures are no longer as apparent to people.\n\n\"I want to make sure that those visible signs of the protections that are being offered to the public and the shop workers are in place again.\"\n\nFederation of Small Businesses Wales said has called for clarity on what support would be available and the possible new measures required of shops.\n\nPolicy Chair, Ben Francis, said: \"We've already asked to see more information on the technical data that informs the decisions that Welsh Government are making.\n\n\"It seems clear that businesses will require funding support for longer than was originally anticipated if they are to survive this troubling period.\n\n\"Welsh Government should urgently give clarity on what additional funding will be made available to support businesses beyond this next three week period to allow them to plan.\"", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "A further 1,325 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test - the biggest figure reported in a single day since the pandemic began.\n\nIt means there have been just short of 80,000 deaths by that measure - as another 68,053 new cases were recorded.\n\nPublic Health England (PHE) said the number of deaths would \"continue to rise until we stop the spread\".\n\nIt comes as the government launches a new campaign in England urging people to \"act like you've got\" the virus.\n\nThe campaign, including an advert fronted by England's chief medical officer, Prof Chris Whitty, is intended to remind the public Covid is spreading fast, with large numbers showing no symptoms.\n\nIn the advert, Prof Whitty says: \"Covid-19, especially the new variant, is spreading quickly across the country.\n\n\"This puts many people at risk of serious disease and is placing a lot of pressure on our NHS.\n\n\"Once more, we must all stay home. If it is essential to go out remember, wash your hands, cover your face indoors and keep your distance from others.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"Our hospitals are under more pressure than at any other time since the start of the pandemic, and infection rates across the entire country continue to soar at an alarming rate.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Department of Health and Social Care This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by Department of Health and Social Care\n\nHospital leaders have warned of stretched staffing with 31,624 coronavirus patients in UK hospitals on Wednesday - 46% above the peak during the first wave last year.\n\nDr Ian Higginson, vice president of Royal College of Emergency Medicine, said the situation in London and south-east England was \"pretty dire\" and would get worse in the rest of the country before long.\n\n\"We're heading for some really dark times, I fear, in this phase of the pandemic,\" he said.\n\nRichard Mitchell, chief executive of Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Trust, said the increase in patients seen in London was now affecting his area in Nottinghamshire.\n\nHe said: \"Critical care is exceptionally busy and the colleagues who work here are tired, they're fatigued and they're worn out.\"\n\nMeanwhile, a third Covid vaccine received emergency approval for use in the UK with 17 million doses of the jab, made by US firm Moderna, pre-ordered by the UK.\n\nThe vaccine joins the Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca jabs in being approved, with close to 1.5 million people now vaccinated in the UK.\n\nDr William Welfare, Covid-19 response director at PHE, said: \"Each life lost to this virus is a tragedy, but sadly we can expect the death toll to continue to rise until we stop the spread.\n\n\"Approximately one in three people who have coronavirus have no symptoms and could be spreading it without realising it.\n\n\"To protect our loved ones it is essential we all stay at home where possible. This will reduce new infections, ease the pressure on the NHS and save lives.\"\n\nLondon Mayor Sadiq Khan said the spread of Covid in the capital was now \"out of control\", as he declared a \"major incident\".\n\nThis means the emergency services and hospitals cannot guarantee their normal level of response, and allows special arrangements to be implemented.\n\nThe previous highest daily death toll - 1,224 - was recorded on 21 April 2020 during the UK's first lockdown. Daily deaths were in the single figures as recently as September.\n\nThe UK has recorded the fifth-highest number of deaths behind the United States, Brazil, India and Mexico, according to Johns Hopkins University.\n\nWe are now seeing the record numbers of cases over the Christmas period translate into record numbers of deaths.\n\nAnd with new infections rising rapidly - more than 1.1 million people in England estimated to be infected with Covid-19 last week - these tragic numbers are set to continue for some time.\n\nAnd that is mainly because of the new variant form of the virus which is thought to be between 30-70% more transmissible.\n\nThe administration of the vaccines to at-risk groups should see a reduction in the numbers dying by the end of the month and the numbers having to go into hospital going down sometime after that.\n\nThat is the other way around from what you normally hear - but that it because a successful vaccine programme will initially remove those most likely to die from the path of the virus.\n\nFitter or younger people - who are less likely to die but could still end up occupying hospital beds - won't be getting their jabs for some time yet.\n\nThe advent of spring's better weather should also help cases to fall, but ministers will have to decide what level of risk - and deaths - society is prepared to tolerate.\n\nFriday saw 619,941 tests conducted in the 24 hours to 09:00 GMT - also a new record.\n\nEngland, much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland continue to be under strict national measures, with stay-at-home orders in place for most people.\n\nThe R number - the rate at which an infected person passes on the virus to someone else - is now estimated to be between 1.0 to 1.4, meaning the epidemic is growing between 0% and 6% per day.\n\nCovid infections rose by almost a third between Boxing Day and 3 January, reaching 70,000 new cases a day according to a major study.\n\nIn a different piece of research, an estimated 1.2 million people in total had Covid over a similar time period, the Office for National Statistics said.\n\nBoris Johnson pledged on Thursday to use England's lockdown to implement an \"unprecedented national effort\" to offer vaccination to those at the highest risk from Covid by 15 February.\n\nHe said the Army would be drafted in to use \"battle preparation techniques\" to achieve the goal, which could see up to 15 million people offered a vaccine by the middle of next month.\n\nIn another development, from next week all travellers to the UK will need to show a recent negative test result before they arrive.\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this story? You can share your experience by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Bernard Thomas was interviewed by BBC Wales at the time of the 50th anniversary of the Aberfan disaster\n\nA survivor of the Aberfan disaster has died after contracting Covid-19.\n\nAs a nine-year-old Bernard Thomas was rescued from the rubble of Pantglas primary school after one of the biggest tragedies in Welsh history.\n\nA total of 144 people were killed in the disaster on 21 October, 1966, after thousands of tonnes of coal slurry slid from a tip. Of those 116 were primary school pupils.\n\nLater Bernard was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress.\n\nHe told S4C he \"still heard the sounds of children screaming.\"\n\nPaying tribute to Mr Thomas, 63, who died on Wednesday, his brother Andrew told BBC's Newyddion: \"Bernard was a real character and his death has come as a shock to us as a family and the community of Aberfan.\"\n\n\"We can't be sure where he caught Covid, but he had an eye appointment at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital on 21 December.\n\n\"A few days later, he became ill and at Prince Charles Hospital, he tested positive for Covid-19.\"\n\n\"Although he had been receiving oxygen through a mask, we spoke regularly on the phone and he told us he was getting better.\n\n\"But on Wednesday morning he removed his mask to eat his breakfast, and 10 minutes after eating he faded away.\"\n\n\"It's a huge shock but I don't blame anybody.\"\n\nOn the 50th anniversary of the disaster Bernard told the BBC: \"I still wonder what the others would have been doing if it hadn't happened. Who would have got married to who, you know.\"\n\nBernard is survived by his 90-year-old mother Gwen, with whom he shared a home, and brothers Andrew and Robert.", "Three people were found inside the gym in Stean Street in Hackney on Friday\n\nThe owners of a London gym have been fined for breaching Covid-19 rules by remaining open during lockdown.\n\nPolice were called to the fitness centre in Stean Street, Hackney, on Friday to reports of a regulation breach.\n\nThree people were found inside the gym at 09:30 GMT. The owners were given a £1,000 fixed penalty notice.\n\nIt comes as a \"major incident\" was declared as the spread of Covid-19 threatens to \"overwhelm\" its hospitals.\n\nCity Hall said Covid-19 cases in London had exceeded 1,000 per 100,000, while there are 35% more people in hospital with the virus than in the peak of the pandemic in April.\n\nNHS England figures published on Friday showed the number of Covid patients in London hospitals stands at 7,277, up 32% on the previous week.\n\nCh Insp Pete Shaw said: \"Whilst there are certain rules around people being allowed to exercise in public under this lockdown, nowhere in the legislation does it allow people to go to gyms to work out.\n\n\"Those found to be flouting the rules, as with this instance, should expect necessary enforcement action to be taken against them.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jessica Allen (left) and Eliza Moore said their cars were \"surrounded\" by police\n\nTwo women who criticised a police force for its \"intimidating\" approach to lockdown fines have welcomed a review.\n\nJessica Allen and Eliza Moore were walking at a reservoir five miles from their home when they were stopped by officers and fined £200 each.\n\nDerbyshire Police insisted driving to exercise was \"not in the spirit\" of lockdown but later said new guidance meant it would look again at the issue.\n\nBoth women said they were pleased the force had decided to think again.\n\nDerbyshire Police and Crime Commissioner Hardyal Dhindsa said an \"urgent review\" was under way about how fines had been issued.\n\nLongstanding guidance from the College of Policing says officers should follow the \"Four Es\" and only give fixed penalty notices as a last resort.\n\nJessica Allen and Eliza Moore said their cars were surrounded by police when they arrived\n\nMs Allen said: \"We are happy to hear that Derbyshire Police have been told to not be so heavy handed with fines and return to the Four Es they were originally doing.\n\n\"We are yet to hear anything regarding our fine but if we have managed to save somebody the worry of going for a walk and fearing they would be fined then we have done what we set out to do.\"\n\nMs Allen and Ms Moore drove separately from Ashby-de-la-Zouch in Leicestershire the five miles to Foremark Reservoir on Wednesday afternoon.\n\nThey said their cars were \"surrounded\" by police, questioned on why they were there and told the hot drinks they had brought along were not allowed as they were \"classed as a picnic\".\n\nMs Allen said the experience was \"very intimidating\" and had left her feeling scared of police in general.\n\nInitially Derbyshire Police defended its actions, saying legislation said trips should be \"local\" and driving to a location to exercise \"is clearly not in the spirit of the national effort to reduce our travel, reduce the possible spread of the disease and reduce the number of deaths\".\n\nDerbyshire police also fined visitors to other beauty spots like Calke Abbey\n\nDerbyshire Police has also been giving fixed penalty notices to people who visit beauty spots at Calke Abbey and Elvaston Castle.\n\nBut later, the force said new guidance from the National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) had \"clarified the policing response concerning travel and exercise\".\n\nThe guidance said: \"The Covid regulations which officers enforce and which enables them to issue FPNs [fixed penalty notices] for breaches, do not restrict the distance travelled for exercise.\"\n\nMr Dhindsa said: \"It would appear that the force has been a little over-zealous in its interpretation of the guidance.\n\n\"While the police can enforce the regulations, guidance is just that which can make this a very challenging and complex situation to police.\"\n\nThe chief constable of neighbouring Nottinghamshire, Craig Guildford, said: \"We are not out and about telling people they have gone too far from home. We trust the public to take these regulations seriously.\n\n\"Derbyshire to be fair to them have some unique places that people may want to go to from a load of counties.\n\n\"But our approach is around reasonableness. If someone has gone 50 miles, we will take action, if someone has gone a couple of miles we are very sensible.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Harley Watson's mother Jo described him as a \"kind, caring, selfless, intelligent and comical young man\"\n\nA man who killed a 12-year-old boy by driving into schoolchildren in a \"deliberate\" hit and run has been detained in a secure hospital.\n\nHarley Watson died after he was hit by a car outside Debden Park High School in Loughton, Essex, on 2 December 2019.\n\nTerence Glover, 52, pleaded guilty to manslaughter by diminished responsibility at an earlier hearing.\n\nHe also admitted 10 counts of attempted murder and has been detained under the Mental Health Act indefinitely.\n\nAt the sentencing hearing at Snaresbrook Crown Court, Harley's mother Jo described her son as a \"kind, caring, selfless, intelligent and comical young man\".\n\nHe was hit by Glover's Ford Ka as he left school with friends and died later in Whipps Cross University Hospital.\n\nTerence Glover has been sentenced indefinitely under the Mental Health Act\n\nChristine Agnew, prosecuting, said eye-witnesses saw Glover's car \"ploughing through and hitting children from behind\".\n\nShe said he \"deliberately mounted the pavement... and drove directly at a group of people, mostly children, intending to kill them\".\n\nGlover, previously of Newmans Lane, Loughton, also pleaded guilty to the attempted murder of 23-year-old Raquel Jimeno and six boys and three girls aged between 12 and 16 who were outside the school.\n\nThe court heard he suffered from paranoid schizophrenia and medical experts agreed his \"significant\" mental illness \"provided an explanation for his conduct\".\n\nHe was given a hospital order under the Mental Health Act 1983, meaning if his illness was treated successfully, he would be transferred to prison.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Harley Watson's classmates paid tribute to him in 2019\n\nJudge Andrew Edis said if transferred, Glover must serve a life sentence with a minimum of 15 years.\n\nIn his sentencing statement, Judge Edis noted his history of mental illness and cocaine use, but said Glover's actions were \"appalling\".\n\n\"He caused the death of a much-loved and admired 12-year-old boy who had done no harm to anyone,\" he said.\n\nHe added that Glover's behaviour \"requires punishment as well as treatment\" and there was \"no doubt that this defendant is dangerous\".\n\nHe also ordered that Glover be banned from driving for life and that the car should be destroyed.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "9 January A Boeing 737, operated by Sriwijaya Air, crashes into the Java Sea minutes after taking off from Jakarta. All 62 people on board are killed, including seven children and three babies. Officials say a problem with the aircraft's autothrottle had been reported a few days before the crash.\n\n22 May An Airbus A320 carrying 91 passengers and eight members of crew crashes in a residential area of the southern Pakistani city of Karachi, killing more than 90 people. At least two passengers survive the crash.\n\nFlight PK8303 crashed just short of the perimeter at Karachi's Jinnah International Airport\n\n8 January Ukraine International Airlines flight PS752 crashes shortly after taking off from the Iranian capital Tehran, killing all 176 passengers and crew members on board. The incident took place amid escalating tensions between the US and Iran, and the Iranian government eventually admitted it had downed the plane \"unintentionally\".\n\n10 March An Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 Max crashes six minutes after take-off from Addis Ababa. All 157 people onboard are killed. The victims come from more than 30 countries.\n\n29 October A Boeing 737 Max, operated by Lion Air, crashes into the Java Sea shortly after taking off from Jakarta, Indonesia. All 189 passengers and crew are killed, and a volunteer diver dies in the subsequent recovery operation. Investigators said the plane - which had had technical problems on previous flights - should have been grounded.\n\n18 May A Boeing 737 passenger plane crashes shortly after take-off from Jose Marti International Airport in Havana, killing 112 people. One passenger survives.\n\n11 April A military plane crashes shortly after take-off near the Algerian capital Algiers, killing all 257 people on board, including 10 crew members. Most of the dead are soldiers and their families.\n\n12 March A plane carrying 71 passengers and crew crashes on landing at Kathmandu airport. More than 50 people are killed when the Bombardier Dash 8 turboprop comes down.\n\n18 February A passenger plane crashes into the Zagros mountains in Iran killing all 66 people on board. The Aseman Airlines ATR turboprop crashes about an hour after taking off in the capital, Tehran, heading for the south-western city of Yasuj.\n\n11 February A Russian passenger plane crashes minutes after leaving Moscow's Domodedovo airport with 71 people on board. The Antonov An-148 belonging to Saratov Airlines was en route to the city of Orsk in the Ural mountains when it crashed near the village of Argunovo, about 80km (50 miles) south-east of Moscow.\n\nThere were no passenger jet crashes in 2017 - the safest year in the history of commercial airlines.\n\n25 December A Russian military Tu-154 jet airliner crashes in the Black Sea, with the loss of all 92 passengers and crew. The plane came down soon after take-off from an airport near the city of Sochi. It was carrying artistes due to give a concert for Russian troops in Syria, along with journalists and military.\n\nBereaved residents of the Black Sea resort of Sochi must now come to terms with the latest air disaster\n\n7 December All 48 people on board a Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) plane were killed when it crashed in the north of the country. The national airline - accused of safety failures in the past - insisted this time that strict checks on Flight PK-661 from Chitral to Islamabad left \"no room for any technical error\".\n\nAll 48 people on board the Pakistan International Airlines plane were killed when it crashed in the north of the country on 7 December\n\n28 November The plane carrying the football team of the Brazilian club Chapecoense runs out of fuel and crashes near Medellin, Colombia, killing 71 people, including most of the players and management. Three players were among the six survivors, while nine did not travel.\n\n19 May French President Francois Hollande confirms that an EgyptAir flight reported missing between Paris and Cairo has crashed, with 66 people on board.\n\n19 March A FlyDubai Boeing 737-800 crashes in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, killing all 62 people on board.\n\n31 October An Airbus A321, operated by Russian airline Kogalymavia, crashes over central Sinai some 22 minutes after taking off from Sharm el-Sheikh, killing all 224 people on board. The Islamic State group's local affiliate later says it brought down the plane in response to Russian intervention in Syria.\n\n30 June Indonesian Hercules C-130 military transport plane crashes into a residential area of Medan. The army says all 122 people on board died, along with at least 19 on the ground.\n\n24 March: Germanwings Airbus A320 airliner crashes in the French Alps near Digne, on a flight from Barcelona to Dusseldorf. All 148 people on board were feared dead.\n\n28 December: AirAsia QZ8501 flying from Surabaya in Indonesia to Singapore goes missing over the Java sea. The pilot radioed for permission to divert around bad weather but no mayday alert was issued. There were 162 passengers and crew on board.\n\n24 July: Air Algerie AH5017 disappears over Mali amid poor weather near the border with Burkina Faso. The McDonnell Douglas MD-83 was operated by Spain's Swiftair, and was heading from Ouagadougou to Algiers carrying 116 passengers - 51 of them French. All are thought to have died.\n\n23 July: Forty-eight people die when a Taiwanese ATR-72 plane crashes into stormy seas during a short flight. TransAsia Airways GE222 was carrying 54 passengers and four crew to the island of Penghu. It made an abortive attempt to land before crashing on a second attempt.\n\nMalaysia Airlines Flight MH17 was travelling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur when it was believed to have been shot down over conflict-hit Ukraine\n\n17 July: Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 crashes near Grabove in eastern Ukraine, killing all 298 people on board, 193 of them Dutch. Pro-Russian rebels are widely accused of shooting the plane down using a surface-to-air missile - they deny responsibility.\n\n8 March: The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines MH370 during a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing leads to the largest and most expensive search in aviation history. Despite vast effort, notably in the hostile South Indian Ocean, nothing was found until July 2015, when an aircraft wing part washed up on Reunion Island. French officials confirmed the debris was from MH370.\n\n11 February: A military transport plane - a Hercules C-130 - carrying 78 people crashes in a mountainous part of north-eastern Algeria. Reports suggest there is one survivor from among the military personnel, family members and crew.\n\n17 November: Tatarstan Airlines Boeing 737 crashes on landing in Kazan, Russia, killing all 50 people on board.\n\n16 October: Forty-nine people, including foreigners from some 10 countries as well as Laotian nationals, die when a Lao Airlines ATR 72-600 plunges into the Mekong River as it came in to land.\n\n3 June: A Dana Air passenger plane with about 150 people on board crashes in a densely populated area of Nigeria's largest city, Lagos.\n\n20 April: A Bhoja Air Boeing 737 crashes on its approach to the main airport in the Pakistani capital Islamabad, killing all 121 passengers and six crew.\n\n26 July: Some 78 people are killed when a Moroccan military C-130 Hercules crashes into a mountain near Guelmim in Morocco. Officials blamed bad weather.\n\nThe pilot of the IranAir Boeing 727 which crashed near the north-western city of Orumiyeh reported a technical failure before trying to land\n\n8 July: A Hewa Bora Airways plane crash-lands in bad weather in Democratic Republic of Congo, killing 74 of the 118 people on board.\n\n9 January: An IranAir Boeing 727 breaks into pieces near the city of Orumiyeh, killing 77 of the 100 people on board. The pilots had reported a technical failure before trying to land.\n\n5 November: An Aerocaribbean passenger turboprop crashes in mountains in central Cuba, killing all 68 people on board.\n\n28 July: A Pakistani plane on an Airblue domestic flight from Karachi crashes into a hillside while trying to land at Islamabad airport, killing all 152 people on board.\n\n22 May: An Air India Express Boeing 737 overshot a hilltop airport in Mangalore, southern India, and crashed into a valley, bursting into flames and killing 158.\n\n12 May: An Afriqiyah Airways Airbus 330 crashes while trying to land near Tripoli airport in Libya, killing more than 100 people.\n\n10 April: A Tupolev 154 plane carrying Polish President Lech Kaczynski crashes near the Russian airport of Smolensk, killing more than 90 people on board.\n\n25 January: Ethiopian Airlines passenger jet crashes into the sea with 89 people on board shortly after take-off from Beirut.\n\n15 July: A Caspian Airlines Tupolev plane crashes in the north of Iran en route to Armenia. All 168 passengers and crew are reported dead.\n\n30 June: A Yemeni passenger plane, an Airbus 310, crashes in the Indian Ocean near the Comoros archipelago. Only one of the 153 people on board survives.\n\n1 June: An Air France Airbus 330 travelling from Rio de Janeiro to Paris crashes into the Atlantic with 228 people on board. Search teams later recover some 50 bodies in the ocean.\n\nAll 168 passengers and crew were reported dead when a Caspian Airlines Tupolev plane crashed in the north of Iran en route to Armenia\n\n20 May: An Indonesian army C-130 Hercules transport plane crashes into a village on eastern Java, killing at least 97 people.\n\n12 February: A passenger plane crashes into a house in Buffalo, New York, killing all 49 people on board and one person on the ground.\n\n14 September: A Boeing-737 crashes on landing near the central Russian city of Perm, killing all 88 passengers and crew members on board.\n\n20 August: A Spanair plane veers off the runway on take-off at Madrid's Barajas airport, killing 154 people and injuring 18.\n\n30 November: All 56 people on board an Atlasjet flight are killed when it crashes near the town of Keciborlu in the mountainous Isparta province, about 12km (7.5 miles) from Isparta airport.\n\n16 September: At least 87 people are killed after a One-Two-Go plane crashed on landing in bad weather at the Thai resort of Phuket.\n\n17 July: A TAM Airlines jet crashes on landing at Congonhas airport in Sao Paulo, in Brazil's worst-ever air disaster. A total of 199 people are killed - all 186 on board and 13 on the ground.\n\n5 May: A Kenya Airways Boeing 737-800 crashes in swampland in southern Cameroon, killing all 114 on board. The official inquiry is yet to report on the cause of the disaster.\n\n1 January: An Adam Air Boeing 737-400 carrying 102 passengers and crew comes down in mountains on Sulawesi Island on a domestic Indonesian flight. All on board are presumed dead.\n\n29 September: A Boeing 737 carrying 154 passengers and crew crashed into the Amazon rainforest in Brazil, killing all on board, after colliding with a private jet in mid-air.\n\n22 August: A Russian Tupolev-154 passenger plane with 170 people on board crashes north of Donetsk, in eastern Ukraine.\n\n9 July: A Russian S7 Airbus A-310 skids off the runway during landing at Irkutsk airport in Siberia. A total of 124 people on board die, but more than 50 survive the crash.\n\n3 May: An Armavia Airbus A-320 crashes into the Black Sea near Sochi, killing all 113 people on board.\n\n10 December: A Sosoliso Airlines DC-9 crashes in the southern Nigerian city of Port Harcourt, killing 103 people on board.\n\n6 December: A C-130 military transport plane crashes on the outskirts of the Iranian capital Tehran, killing 110 people, including some on the ground.\n\nA mass funeral was held for those who died when a Mandala Airlines plane with 112 passengers and five crew on board crashed after take-off in the Indonesian city of Medan\n\n22 October: A Bellview airlines Boeing 737 carrying 117 people on board crashes soon after take-off from the Nigerian city of Lagos, killing everyone on board.\n\n5 September: A Mandala Airlines plane with 112 passengers and five crew on board crashes after take-off in the Indonesian city of Medan, killing almost all on board and dozens on the ground.\n\n16 August: A Colombian plane operated by West Caribbean Airways crashes in a remote region of Venezuela, killing all 160 people on board. The airliner, heading from Panama to Martinique, was packed with residents of the Caribbean island.\n\n14 August: A Helios Airways flight from Cyprus to Athens with 121 people on board crashes north of the Greek capital Athens, apparently after a drop in cabin pressure.\n\n16 July: An Equatair plane crashes soon after take-off from Equatorial Guinea's island capital, Malabo, west of the mainland, killing all 60 people on board.\n\n3 February: The wreckage of Kam Air Boeing 737 flight is located in high mountains near the Afghan capital Kabul, two days after the plane vanished from radar screens in heavy snowstorms. All 104 people on board are feared dead.\n\n21 November: A passenger plane crashes into a frozen lake near the city of Baotou in the Inner Mongolia region of northern China, killing all 53 on board and two on the ground, officials say.\n\n3 January: An Egyptian charter plane belonging to Flash Airlines crashes into the Red Sea, killing all 141 people on board. Most of the passengers are thought to be French tourists.\n\n25 December: A Boeing 727 crashes soon after take-off from the West African state of Benin, killing at least 135 people en route to Lebanon.\n\n8 July: A Boeing 737 crashes in Sudan shortly after take-off, killing 115 people on board. Only one passenger, a small child survived.\n\nThe Benin air crash happened when a Boeing 727 dropped out of the sky soon after take-off, killing at least 135 people travelling to Lebanon\n\n26 May: A Ukrainian Yak-42 crashes near the Black Sea resort of Trabzon in north-west Turkey, killing all 74 people on board - most of them Spanish peacekeepers returning home from Afghanistan.\n\n8 May: As many as 170 people are reported dead in DR Congo after the rear ramp of an old Soviet plane, an Ilyushin 76 cargo plane, apparently falls off, sucking them out.\n\n6 March: An Algerian Boeing 737 crashes after taking off from the remote Tamanrasset airport, leaving up to 102 people dead.\n\n19 February: An Iranian military transport aircraft carrying 276 people crashes in the south of the country, killing all on board.\n\n8 January: A Turkish Airlines plane with 76 passengers and crew on board crashes while coming in to land at Diyarbakir.\n\n23 December: An Antonov 140 commuter plane carrying aerospace experts crashes in central Iran, killing all 46 people aboard. The delegation had been due to review an Iranian version of the same plane built under licence.\n\n27 July: A fighter jet crashes into a crowd of spectators in the west Ukrainian town of Lviv, killing 77 people, in what is the world's worst air show disaster.\n\n1 July: Seventy-one people, many of them children die when a Russian Tupolev 154 aircraft on a school trip to Spain collides with a Boeing 757 transport plane over southern Germany.\n\n25 May: A Boeing 747 belonging to Taiwan's national carrier - China Airlines - crashes into the sea near the Taiwanese island of Penghu, with 225 passengers and crew on board.\n\n7 May: China Northern Airlines plane carrying 112 people crashes into the sea near Dalian in north-east China.\n\n7 May: On the same day, an EgyptAir Boeing 735 crash lands near Tunis with 55 passengers and up to 10 crew on board. Most people survive.\n\n4 May: A BAC1-11-500 plane operated by EAS Airlines crashes in the Nigerian city of Kano, killing 148 people - half of them on the ground.\n\n15 April: Air China flight 129 crashes on its approach to Pusan, South Korea, with over 160 passengers and crew on board.\n\n12 February: A Tupolev 154 operated by Iran Air crashes in mountains in the west of Iran, killing all 117 on board.\n\n29 January: A Boeing 727 from the Ecuadorean TAME airline crashes in mountains in Colombia, killing 92 people.\n\n12 November: An American Airlines A-300 bound for the Dominican Republic crashes after takeoff in a residential area of the borough of Queens, New York, killing all 260 people on board and at least five people on the ground.\n\n8 October: A Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) airliner collides with a small plane in heavy fog on the runway at Milan's Linate airport, killing 118 people.\n\nThe crashed American Airlines flight of November 2000 left much of the Rockaway neighbourhood of New York enveloped by smoke\n\n4 October: A Russian Sibir Airlines Tupolev 154,en route from Tel Aviv to Novosibirsk in Siberia, explodes in mid-air and crashes into the Black Sea, killing 78 passengers and crew.\n\n3 July: A Russian Tupolev 154,en route from Yekaterinburg in the Ural mountains to the Russian port of Vladivostok, crashes near the Siberian city of Irkutsk, killing 133 passengers and 10 crew.\n\n30 October: A Singapore Airlines Boeing 747 bound for Los Angeles crashes after take-off from Taipei airport in Taiwan, killing 78 of the 179 people on board.\n\n23 August: A Gulf Air Airbus crashes into the sea as it comes in to land in Bahrain, killing all 143 people on board.\n\n25 July: Air France Concorde en route for New York crashes into a hotel outside Paris shortly after takeoff, killing 113 people, including four on the ground.\n\nThe Singapore Airlines Boeing 747 heading for Los Angeles crashed soon after take-off from Taipei airport in Taiwan\n\n17 July: Alliance Air Boeing 737-200 crashes into houses attempting to land at Patna, India, killing 51 people on board and four on the ground.\n\n19 April: Air Philippines Boeing 737-200 from Manila to Davao crashes on approach to landing, killing all 131 people on board.\n\n31 January: Alaska Airlines MD-83 from Mexico to San Francisco plunges into ocean off southern California, killing all 88 people on board.\n\n30 January: Kenya Airways A-310 crashes into Atlantic Ocean shortly after takeoff from Abidjan, Ivory Coast, en route for Lagos, Nigeria. All but 10 of the 179 people on board die.\n\n31 October: EgyptAir Boeing 767 crashes into Atlantic Ocean after taking off from John F. Kennedy Airport in New York on flight to Cairo, Egypt, killing all 217 on board.\n\n24 February: China Southwest Airlines plane crashes in a field in China's coastal Zhejiang province after a mid-air explosion. All 61 people on board the Russian-built TU-154 flying from Chongqing to the south-eastern city of Wenzhou are killed.\n\n11 December: Thai Airways International A-310 crashes on a domestic flight during its third attempt to land at Surat Thani, Thailand, killing 101 people.\n\n2 September: Swissair MD-11 from New York to Geneva crashes in the Atlantic Ocean off Canada killing all 229 people on board.\n\n16 February: Airbus A-300 owned by Taiwan's China Airlines crashes near Taipei's Chiang Kai-shek airport while trying to land in fog and rain after a flight from Bali, Indonesia. All 196 on board and seven people on ground are killed.\n\n2 February: Cebu Pacific Air DC-9 crashes into mountain in southern Philippines, killing all 104 people aboard.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section West Ham\n\nFootballers \"can get things wrong\" but must not be \"picked on\" despite several breaches of coronavirus guidelines, says West Ham manager David Moyes.\n\nHammers midfielder Manuel Lanzini was one of numerous Premier League players to attend a party over Christmas.\n\nMore than 60 games in England have been called off because of coronavirus outbreaks at clubs.\n\n\"We have to be careful that everybody isn't picking on football players,\" said Moyes.\n\n\"We will all know people who have broken the rules in their own way.\n\n\"The players have followed the protocols. Every day at the training ground they have to go through rituals just to get into the building. They know what their job is. Like most human beings at times, they can get things wrong.\"\n\nArgentina international Lanzini was reminded of his responsibilities by the club and later apologised for his actions on Twitter.\n\nOn Friday, he announced he would be donating to a local foodbank as he wanted \"something good\" to come of his actions.\n\nMoyes praised Lanzini for his \"really good gesture\" but does not want to see players treated unfairly.\n\n\"If you are going to take tough measures on players, then you might as well take on the government people as well who have broken the rules because it's certainly not just football players who have done it,\" he said.\n\n\"You have got to be careful. A lot of people are throwing stones in glass houses at the moment regarding this. We all know what the protocols are, we all know we have to be ever-vigilant and make sure we're doing the right things.\"\n\nThe Premier League has implemented stronger coronavirus protocols in light of a recent surge in cases, including reminding players and managers to avoid handshakes and high fives.\n\nCompliance officers will also apply more robust policies to reporting breaches of protocols and will be tasked with checking hotel stays, travel plans and behaviour in dressing rooms.\n\nThe number of staff attending training grounds will also be reduced, social distancing will be enforced more strictly and the use of canteens will be further limited.\n\nStricter matchday protocols include avoiding unnecessary contact at all times, and substitutes wearing face masks.\n\nIn a note sent to clubs, the Premier League has warned it may take disciplinary action if they fail to to ensure people who breach the rules are \"appropriately investigated and sanctioned\".", "Kevin Hughes was treated at Wrexham Maelor Hospital before he died with coronavirus\n\nA man has died with Covid-19 less than a month after the funeral of his mother, who also died with the virus.\n\nFlintshire councillor Kevin Hughes, 63, was being treated at Wrexham Maelor Hospital but died on Friday morning, the authority said.\n\nHe had previously spoken of his sadness at missing his mother's funeral last month after he tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nCouncil colleague Chris Dolphin said he was a \"big man with a big heart\".\n\nThe independent councillor, also a former policeman and journalist, sat with the Liberal Democrat group.\n\nHe said missing the funeral of his mother, June Margaret Hughes, was one of the \"darkest days\" of his life.\n\nGroup leader, Mr Dolphin, called him a \"friend, fellow councillor, above all, a good man. Not one to stand on the side-lines - a doer. A man of enthusiasm, who was in life to be really involved.\"\n\nCouncil chief executive, Colin Everett, said: \"Kevin was a wonderful person with a big heart. Kevin was one of the most thoughtful and generous people I have worked with in my long career.\n\n\"I will miss him so much as both a councillor and as a friend.\"\n\nThe politician (left) will be remembered by the council at a meeting on 26 January\n\nAuthority leader, Ian Roberts, called Mr Hughes a \"special person and friend who will be very sadly missed by all\".\n\nHe added: \"His contribution as a councillor has been considerable and he was highly respected by his community, members of the council and officers.\n\n\"He was an active local member and represented his community with integrity and in a positive and engaging way.\"\n\nMr Hughes will be remembered by the council at a meeting on 26 January.\n\nThe authority's chairwoman, Marion Bateman, said: \"Our sincere condolences go to his wife Sally, along with his family and friends, at this very sad time.\"", "Mike Pompeo said the US-Taiwan relationship should not be \"shackled\" (file photo)\n\nThe US is lifting long-standing restrictions on contacts between American and Taiwanese officials, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says.\n\nThe \"self-imposed restrictions\" were introduced decades ago to \"appease\" the mainland Chinese government, which lays claim to the island, the US state department said in a statement.\n\nThese rules are now \"null and void\".\n\nThe move is likely to anger China and increase tensions between Washington and Beijing.\n\nIt comes as the Trump administration enters its final days ahead of the inauguration of Joe Biden as president on 20 January.\n\nThe Biden transition team have said the president-elect is committed to maintaining the long-standing US policy towards Taiwan.\n\nAnalysts say they will be unhappy with such a policy decision being made in the final days of the Trump administration, but that the move could be reversed easily by Mr Pompeo's successor Antony Blinken.\n\nChina regards Taiwan as a breakaway province, but Taiwan's leaders argue that it is a sovereign state.\n\nRelations between the two are frayed and there is a constant threat of a violent flare up that could drag in the US, an ally of Taiwan.\n\nIn a statement on Saturday, Mr Pompeo said the US state department had introduced complicated restrictions limiting the communication between American diplomats and their Taiwanese counterparts.\n\n\"Today I am announcing that I am lifting all of these self-imposed restrictions,\" he said. \"Today's statement recognises that the US-Taiwan relationship need not, and should not, be shackled by self-imposed restrictions of our permanent bureaucracy.\"\n\nHe added that Taiwan was a vibrant democracy and a reliable US partner, and that the restrictions were no longer valid.\n\nFollowing the announcement, Taiwan Foreign Minister Joseph Wu thanked Mr Pompeo, saying he was \"grateful\".\n\n\"The closer partnership between Taiwan and the US is firmly based on our shared values, common interests and unshakeable belief in freedom and democracy,\" he wrote in a tweet.\n\nLast August, US Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar became the highest-ranking US politician to hold meetings on the island for decades.\n\nIn response, China urged the US to respect what it calls its \"one China\" principle.\n\nThe US also sells arms to Taiwan, though it does not have a formal defence treaty with the country, as it does with Japan, South Korea and the Philippines.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nChina and Taiwan have had separate governments since the end of the Chinese civil war in 1949.\n\nBeijing has long tried to limit Taiwan's international activities and both have vied for influence in the Pacific region.\n\nTensions have increased in recent years and Beijing has not ruled out the use of force to take the island back.\n\nAlthough Taiwan is officially recognised by only a handful of nations, its democratically-elected government has strong commercial and informal links with many countries.", "Lockdowns have worked before, but can we expect the new one to do the same?\n\nIt feels like we are back in March or April last year, when the strict controls on all our lives led to a fairly quick decline in levels of coronavirus.\n\nBut one of the crucial differences this time is the new variant, which is thought to spread between 50 and 70% faster than previous forms of the virus.\n\nExperts warn there are now no guarantees that lockdown will be enough to bring the variant under control.\n\n\"It still would not have been easy, but it would have been a much easier situation if it had not been for the new variant,\" Prof Neil Ferguson, from Imperial College London, told Inside Health.\n\n\"That really pushes the bounds of our ability to control the spread of the virus, even with measures that were previously relatively quite effective.\"\n\nThe coronavirus spreads when we come into contact with each other so moving classrooms online, telling people to stay at home and closing shops breaks many of those opportunities for human contact.\n\nIf we consider the R number - the average number of people each infected person passes the virus on to - it was about 3.0 in the run up to the first lockdown and anything above 1.0 means cases are climbing.\n\nR fell to 0.6 during the first lockdown.\n\nThen every 1,000 infected people passed the virus on to 600 others, who passed it on to 360 others and so on.\n\nBut if the new variant is 50% more transmissible then the R number, in the same lockdown conditions, would be about 0.9.\n\nThen 1,000 infected people would pass the virus onto 900 others, then 810 and so on.\n\nAs you can see this leads to far slower decline.\n\nAnd that assumes lockdown can get R down to 0.9 in areas where the new variant has become the most common form of the virus.\n\nIf, as some studies suggest, the variant is about 70% more transmissible then R may stay above 1.0 and cases may not fall at all.\n\n\"We'd at best flatten the curve, keep numbers at a roughly constant level, and that's frankly why there is so much emphasis on getting vaccine into people's arms as quickly as possible,\" said Prof Ferguson.\n\nIt is hard to lock down even harder as there are some parts of society - hospitals, supermarkets - that need to be kept open.\n\nWhat happens to the number of cases over the coming weeks will be closely monitored. If this lockdown is less effective then we will have to live with it for longer.\n\nThere have been some encouraging signs over the Christmas break, which was a bit like a lockdown due to school holidays and other restrictions.\n\n\"We are in a very difficult situation here, but my initial assessment of the last few days is that the rate is slowing which is good news,\" Prof John Edmunds, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, told the BBC.\n\nHe added: \"It looks likes those restrictions should be sufficient to stop the increase, whether they will be sufficient to bring cases down sufficiently we are yet to see.\"\n\nEventually the vaccine will give people immunity so we do not need the same controls on our lives.\n\nNow more than ever this is a race between the virus and the vaccine.", "Google has suspended \"free speech\" social network Parler from its Play Store over its failure to remove \"egregious content\".\n\nParler styles itself as \"unbiased\" social media and has proved popular with people banned from Twitter.\n\nBut Google said the app had failed to remove posts inciting violence.\n\nApple has also warned Parler it will remove the app from its App Store if it does not comply with its content-moderation requirements.\n\nOn Parler, the app's chief executive John Matze said: \"We won't cave to politically motivated companies and those authoritarians who hate free speech!\"\n\nLaunched in 2018, Parler has proved particularly popular among supporters of US President Donald Trump and right-wing conservatives. Such groups have frequently accused Twitter and Facebook of unfairly censoring their views.\n\nWhile Mr Trump himself is not a user, the platform already features several high-profile contributors following earlier bursts of growth in 2020.\n\nTexas Senator Ted Cruz boasts 4.9 million followers on the platform, while Fox News host Sean Hannity has about seven million.\n\nIt briefly became the most-downloaded app in the United States after the US election, following a clampdown on the spread of election misinformation by Twitter and Facebook.\n\nHowever, both Apple and Google have said the app fails to comply with content-moderation requirements.\n\nFor months, Parler has been one of the most popular social media platforms for right-wing users.\n\nAs major platforms began taking action against viral conspiracy theories, disinformation and the harassment of election workers and officials in the aftermath of the US presidential vote, the app became more popular with elements of the fringe far-right.\n\nThis turned the network into a right-wing echo chamber, almost entirely populated by users fixated on revealing examples of election fraud and posting messages in support of attempts to overturn the election outcome.\n\nIn the days preceding the Capitol riots, the tone of discussion on the app became significantly more violent, with some users openly discussing ways to stop the certification of Joe Biden's victory by Congress.\n\nUnsubstantiated allegations and defamatory claims against a number of senior US figures such as Chief Justice John Roberts and Vice-President Mike Pence were rife on the app.\n\nGoogle and Apple say they are taking necessary action to ensure violent rhetoric is not promoted on their platforms.\n\nHowever, to those increasingly concerned about freedom of speech and expression on online platforms, it represents another example of draconian action by major tech companies which threatens internet freedom.\n\nThis is a debate which is certain to continue beyond the Trump presidency.\n\nIn a statement, Google confirmed it had suspended Parler from its Play Store, saying: \"Our longstanding policies require that apps displaying user-generated content have moderation policies and enforcement that removes egregious content like posts that incite violence.\n\n\"In light of this ongoing and urgent public safety threat, we are suspending the app's listings from the Play Store until it addresses these issues.\"\n\nApple has warned Parler it will be removed from the App Store on Saturday in a letter published by Buzzfeed News.\n\nIt said it had seen \"accusations that the Parler app was used to plan, coordinate, and facilitate\" the attacks on the US Capitol on 6 January.\n\nMr Matze said Parler had \"no way to organise anything\" and pointed out that Facebook groups and events had been used to organise action.\n\nBut Apple said: \"Our investigation has found that Parler is not effectively moderating and removing content that encourages illegal activity and poses a serious risk to the health and safety of users in direct violation of your own terms of service.\"\n\n\"We won't distribute apps that present dangerous and harmful content.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn a related development, Google has kicked Steve Bannon's War Room podcast off YouTube, saying it had repeatedly violated the platform's rules.\n\nThe ex-White House aide's channel had more than 300,000 subscribers.\n\nSteve Bannon served as President Trump's chief strategist for eight months in 2017\n\n\"In accordance with our strikes system, we have terminated Steve Bannon's channel 'War room' and one associated channel for repeatedly violating our Community Guidelines,\" Google said in a statement.\n\n\"Any channel posting new videos with misleading content that alleges widespread fraud or errors changed the outcome of the 2020 US Presidential election in violation of our policies will receive a strike, a penalty which temporarily restricts uploading or live-streaming. Channels that receive three strikes in the same 90-day period will be permanently removed from YouTube.\"\n\nThe action was taken shortly after the channel posted an interview with Donald Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, in which he blamed the Democrats for the rioting on Capitol Hill on Wednesday.\n\nOne anti-misinformation group said the action was long overdue after \"months of Steve Bannon calling for revolution and violence\".\n\n\"The truth is YouTube should have taken down Steve Bannon's account a long time ago and they shouldn't rely on the labour of extremism researchers to moderate the content on their platform,\" said Madeline Peltz, Senior Researcher at Media Matters for America.", "A 78-year-old French woman received the first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in France\n\nA global race is on to vaccinate people against Covid-19 - and with infections soaring in Europe many have complained that the roll-out is too slow in the EU.\n\nMember states decide individually who to vaccinate, when and where, but the EU is coordinating strategy and buying vaccines in bulk. On Friday, the EU Commission agreed to buy an extra 300 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine - that would give the EU nearly half of the firm's global output for 2021.\n\nBBC reporters in seven European capitals explain how the vaccinations are going on their patch.\n\nIn an election year, the vaccine has become a political battleground, writes Jenny Hill, in Berlin.\n\nThe fact it was German scientists who developed the first effective Covid vaccine has been the source of great national pride. And, by and large, Germans appear to be reasonably comfortable with the idea of immunisation.\n\nA recent survey found 65% were prepared to have the vaccine. Other research indicates that less than a quarter of those surveyed would not. But politically - and perhaps unsurprisingly, given this is an election year - Germany's vaccination programme has become a battleground.\n\nVaccinations began here just under two weeks ago and prioritise the over 80s and care home workers. By Thursday evening, more than 477,000 first doses had been administered.\n\nGermany's share of the EU order amounts to 56 million doses. So far, 1.3 million doses have been delivered.\n\nBut some of the hundreds of specially prepared vaccination centres are still not in use and even the government has admitted there simply isn't enough to go around. Angela Merkel and her health minister Jens Spahn have been accused of failing to secure enough doses.\n\nMuch of the criticism has come from Mrs Merkel's own coalition partners but some within the scientific community have echoed their concerns - that Germany put European interests above its own by insisting on a joint EU procurement process. The scientists who developed the vaccine have said publicly that the EU originally turned down an offer for a further order.\n\nGermany's share of the EU order amounts to 56 million doses. So far, 1.3 million doses have been delivered and it's thought that by the end of the month a further 2.68 million will have followed.\n\nMr Spahn, whose assured performance through the pandemic led some to wonder whether he might be a potential successor to Mrs Merkel, has blamed the shortage on the inability of the manufacturers of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to meet global demand.\n\nGermany has now ordered an extra 30 million doses and, following the recent European approval of the Moderna vaccine, expects to start rolling that out next week. The government is sticking to its pledge that the vaccination programme will be complete by the end of the summer.\n\nThe Czech prime minister has hit out at apparent delays in distributing the vaccine, writes Rob Cameron, in Prague.\n\nThe Czech vaccination effort began on 27 December, when the prime minister, Andrej Babis, became the first person in the country to receive the jab. Mr Babis, who is 66, had previously questioned whether he would be eligible, as he'd had his spleen removed as a teenager.\n\nBut the country's programme has got off to a sluggish start. Mr Babis - a billionaire businessman who has been dogged by both European and Czech investigations into alleged misuse of EU funds - has lost no time venting his (figurative) spleen at the European Commission over the delay. \"We believed when we contributed €12m to the European fund in November that we'd receive the vaccine,\" he told a newspaper this week.\n\nThe health minister conceded this week that immunising the higher-risk groups will take months.\n\nThe country has received 30,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine. So far, it has managed to administer it to 19,918 people. The government says it is ready to roll out the jab en masse as soon as supplies arrive from the manufacturers.\n\nIt has also published a strategy, which envisages a three-stage process. The first will see targeted vaccination of high-risk groups. This will gradually give way to mass vaccination in 31 centres, using an online reservation system that will be open to all from 1 February. And the final stage will see the country's GPs deployed, hopefully to administer the Oxford-AstraZeneca and other jabs, which unlike the previous two can be stored and transported at fridge temperature.\n\nHowever, the timing in the original strategy document now appears optimistic. The health minister conceded this week that immunising the higher-risk groups - all health and social care staff, teachers, everyone over 65, all those with serious health conditions - will take months. GPs may not begin vaccinating young, healthy members of society until late spring, or summer.\n\nA sluggish start is being blamed on bureaucracy and vaccine scepticism, writes Hugh Schofield, in Paris.\n\nFrance's boast of a big, effective state apparatus has been badly exposed by the sluggish start to the Covid vaccination programme. After the first week, when neighbouring Germany had inoculated around 250,000 people, France was on a mere 530. By Friday, the figure had gone up to 45,500 - still so small as to be statistically meaningless.\n\nSo why has it taken so long for France to put the plan into action? It is not as if the authorities did not have time to prepare. And it is certainly not a question of a lack of vaccine. In fact, more than a million Pfizer doses are already in cold storage, waiting to be used.\n\nPolls suggest as many as 58% of the public do not want to be given the jab.\n\nThe primary reason for the delay seems to be the cumbersome, over-centralised nature of France's health bureaucracy. A 45-page dossier of instructions issued by the ministry in Paris had to be read and understood by staff at old people's homes.\n\nEach recipient then had to give informed consent in a consultation with a doctor, held no less than five days before injection. The lengthy procedure is in theory to save lives - those of patients who might have an adverse reaction. But as the critics have been arguing, delay in inoculating the population is also costing lives.\n\nAnother problem in France is the high level of scepticism towards vaccination - product of a more general suspicion of government. Polls suggest as many as 58% of the public do not want to be given the jab. The effect - critics say - has been to make the government unduly cautious. When urgency was required, the authorities were reluctant to move fast for fear of galvanising the anti-vaxxers.\n\nAfter President Emmanuel Macron communicated his anger at the delays at the weekend, the pace is picking up. The procedure for consent is being simplified. By the end of January, the plan is to have 500-600 vaccination centres open across the country - either in hospitals or other big public buildings.\n\nPolitically a lot is at stake. The government has already come under fire for failings in providing masks and tests. With opposition voices calling the vaccine delay a \"state scandal\", President Macron needs a roll-out that is fast and problem-free.\n\nNational pride accelerated Russia's rollout, but one man is conspicuously absent from the list of people vaccinated, writes Sarah Rainsford, in Moscow.\n\nRussia registered its main Covid vaccine for domestic use way back in August, before mass safety and efficacy trials had even begun. In December, with those trials still underway, it began rolling out Sputnik V to the public ahead of mass vaccination launches everywhere else in Europe. The rush was driven by national pride as well as medical necessity.\n\nSputnik was initially offered to front line health and education workers but early take-up of the two-dose vaccination was slow and the list of those eligible soon expanded.\n\nA poll by the Levada Centre in late December showed only 38% of respondents were willing to get the jab: wary of domestic healthcare and medicines, Russians were sceptical of bold early claims made for the vaccine and nervous about possible adverse reactions. Even so, and despite similar delays scaling-up production as in other countries, Sputnik's backers announced this week that more than a million people had been vaccinated.\n\nRussia began rolling out its Sputnik V vaccine in December\n\nBut one man still conspicuously absent from the list of the vaccinated is Vladimir Putin, despite the Kremlin saying he will - eventually - get the jab. In the meantime, those who meet him in person are obliged to test for Covid first and even quarantine. The president may need to lead by example, though. Mr Putin has said repeatedly that protecting the economy is his priority so he's banking on mass vaccination to avoid a return to national lockdown.\n\nRussia has built giant, temporary hospitals since the start of the pandemic and the health minister said this week that 25% of Covid beds remain free. There's also been a fall in the number of new daily cases reported - around 25,000 for the past 5 days. But that's not down to the vaccine yet. The country is nearing the end of a 10-day New Year holiday period and the number of Covid tests has also dropped.\n\nAs infection rates grow in a country praised by many for its no-lockdown approach, a successful vaccine programme is crucial writes Maddy Savage, in Stockholm.\n\nAlmost two weeks since 91-year-old care home resident Gun-Britt Johnsson became the first Swede to get the initial dose of a Pfizer jab, there is still no official tally of how many others have received the vaccination.\n\nThe Public Health Agency of Sweden says it's in the process of compiling data from the country's 21 regional health authorities tasked with vaccinating the entire adult population - around eight million people - by 26 June. The date isn't arbitrary, it's the biggest public holiday weekend of the year, when Swedes traditionally hold Midsummer celebrations. Karin Tegmark, a senior manager at the agency, says the date remains \"feasible\". But she says it depends on the delivery of vaccines to the country.\n\nAfter months of high trust levels in the country's no-lockdown approach, support for the health agency has dwindled.\n\nAlongside 4.5 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, Sweden has ordered 3.6 million jabs from Moderna, the first of which are expected to arrive next week. The country also plans to roll-out the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine as soon as possible after it is approved by the EU - ideally by February.\n\nSwedes initially appeared lukewarm to the idea of taking a speedily-developed coronavirus vaccine, although a poll at the end of December found 71% would take one. A key driver of the initial scepticism is thought to be the failure of a voluntary mass vaccination programme for swine flu in 2009. Hundreds of Swedish children and young adults under 30 developed the sleeping disorder narcolepsy, which was found to be a side effect of the Pandemrix vaccine.\n\nA successful vaccination programme will be crucial, not least because it comes at a time when Swedish authorities are struggling to maintain public confidence. After months of high trust levels in the country's no-lockdown approach, support for the health agency has dwindled as Sweden has struggled with the second wave of coronavirus.\n\nMeanwhile, several high profile officials have faced heavy criticism for breaching their own recommendations - including the head of the civil contingencies agency (pictured), who resigned after spending Christmas with his daughter in the Canary Islands.\n\nA new government in Belgium seems unified on the vaccine rollout - for now at least, writes Nick Beake, in Brussels.\n\nIt seemed fitting that the first person in Belgium to receive a Covid jab lives in the place where the world's first approved Covid vaccine is being produced. Jos Hermans, a 96-year-old from the municipality of Puurs, was given the injection on 28 December, in his care home. A further 700 elderly residents were also administered a dose in what was a small, initial trial.\n\nThe mass vaccination programme in Belgium began on 5 January, but has been criticised for starting slowly. Federal Health Minister Frank Vandenbroucke had promised in November that the rollout would be \"seamless and fast\", tweeting: \"If that does not work, shoot me.\"\n\nThe first phase looks to vaccinate up to 200,000 nursing home residents by the end of this month, or early February. Healthcare professionals will be next in line and the aim was for the whole population to be inoculated by the end of September.\n\nJos Hermans, a 96-year-old from Puurs, was given the injection on 28 December\n\nYou may think the country would be at an advantage being the epicentre of the Pfizer-BioNTech production. While this clearly helps with distribution, Belgium cannot receive more doses - relative to its population - than other EU countries under strict Commission rules. That didn't stop the minister-president of the Flanders region, who admitted this week that he had contacted Pfizer directly in the hope of procuring more doses, only to be rebuffed.\n\nAfter getting a guarantee from Pfizer over supply of the jab, the federal Belgian authorities have adapted their strategy: they now propose giving as many available doses to as many people as they can - and no longer reserving vials for patients' second dose, given three weeks after the first. In general, the federal government, rather than the European Commission has faced any criticism for a delay and has defended its \"careful\" approach.\n\nAnd there appears to be an interesting regional or cultural discrepancy when it comes to whether people are willing to take the vaccine. Of the Flemish population interviewed in a poll, half have said they wanted the vaccine as soon as possible. Among French speakers - it was 20% fewer, which chimes with the deeper scepticism over the border in France.\n\nIn a country where politics are notoriously complicated and fractious - they've only recently agreed a government, after a 500-day vacuum - the Federal Coalition appears unified on its Covid vaccine strategy. For now, at least.\n\nRegional variances and political rows have marked the beginning of Spain's vaccination programme writes Guy Hedgecoe, in Madrid.\n\nSpain started administering the vaccine on 27 December. So far, 743,925 doses have been distributed to regional administrations, with 277,976 people vaccinated, according to the health ministry. The objective of the coalition government is to immunise 2.3 million people within 12 weeks. Priority is being given to elderly residents of care homes, those who look after them, and healthcare personnel.\n\nEach of the country's 17 regions has a high degree of control over healthcare and should receive the number of doses that corresponds to their populations. However, already there has been substantial geographical disparity.\n\nGovernment data showed, for example, that while the northern region of Asturias had used 55% of the doses it had received by 3 January, the Madrid region had only administered 5% by the same date. Some regions are holding back doses to administer a second follow-up jab to the same person in several weeks' time, and some have been vaccinating on national holidays while others have not.\n\nThe pandemic has been the cause of constant political conflict, with the right-wing opposition accusing the leftist government of incompetence.\n\nAlthough vaccination is voluntary, the government has said it is making a register of those who do not wish to be inoculated. That initiative has generated controversy, although the government has insisted the register will merely seek to clarify why people refuse the vaccination.\n\nHowever, the pandemic has been the cause of constant political conflict, with the right-wing opposition accusing the leftist government of Pedro Sánchez of incompetence, lack of transparency and using coronavirus to accumulate power.\n\nThe arrival of a vaccine has not stopped the rancour. Alberto Núñez Feijóo, the conservative Popular Party (PP) president of Galicia, warned the number of doses being distributed to each region was being dictated by \"political affiliations or parliamentary needs\", a claim the central government has rejected.", "Dozens of demonstrators were walking and chanting along Clapham High Street as police attempted to keep them contained to the area\n\nSixteen people have been arrested during an anti-lockdown protest in south London.\n\nPolice officers clashed with some of the maskless protesters who arrived in Clapham Common, some shouting \"take your freedom back\".\n\nSix police vans were deployed to the scene while officers moved the crowd of about 30 people away from the area.\n\nGathering for the purpose of a protest is not an exemption to the rules, the Met Police said.\n\nOne woman shouted from her car at the protesters \"there's a pandemic going\", while another bystander shouted \"idiots\".\n\nOne anti-lockdown protester, who was detained at Clapham Common park, said \"I stand under common law, not maritime law and this is assault\" as he was put into handcuffs by police officers.\n\nA large police presence remains around Clapham Common station, but almost all protesters had left the area as of 14:00 GMT.\n\nIt comes as a \"major incident\" was declared as the spread of Covid-19 threatens to \"overwhelm\" London hospitals.\n\nCity Hall said Covid-19 cases in the capital had exceeded 1,000 per 100,000, while there were 35% more people in hospital with the virus than in the peak of the pandemic in April.\n\nPolice could be seen questioning several people at the demonstration\n\nPolice battled to disperse the protestors gathering in Clapham Common\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. One floral tribute had Dame Barbara's photograph in the centre\n\nThe funeral of EastEnders and Carry On actress Dame Barbara Windsor has taken place in London.\n\nRoss Kemp, who played her on-screen son in the soap, was among the 30 mourners and gave a reading, as did actor and friend Christopher Biggins.\n\nDame Barbara died in December at the age of 83, having had dementia.\n\nThere were floral arrangements spelling Babs, The Dame and Saucy, and a mock pub sign showing her as The Queen Peggy in the style of the soap's Queen Vic.\n\nDame Barbara played pub landlady Peggy Mitchell in EastEnders for more than two decades.\n\nA version of the EastEnders Queen Vic pub sign was painted in tribute\n\nScott Mitchell, who was married to Dame Barbara for 20 years, was joined at Golders Green Crematorium by family and friends including comedians Matt Lucas and David Walliams.\n\n\"As Covid has denied so many of Barbara's family, friends and fans a chance to say farewell properly, I wanted to share the order of service to let people be a small part of it,\" Mr Mitchell told the PA news agency.\n\n\"My heart goes out to every family who have experienced the same restrictions at their loved ones' funerals.\"\n\nLeft-right: Christopher Biggins, Ross Kemp and David Walliams were among the mourners\n\nHe added: \"I would again like to thank my family, friends, the media and the public for their incredible support and well wishes since Barbara's passing.\"\n\nDame Barbara's coffin was brought into the crematorium to sound of Frank Sinatra's On The Sunny Side Of The Street, and the service featured a recording of Sparrows Can't Sing from the actress's 1963 film of the same.\n\nIt finished with the famous topless photo of Dame Barbara from the film Carry On Camping, alongside her quote: \"That picture will follow me to the end.\"\n\nLong-time friend Anna Karen, who played Dame Barbara's on-screen sister Aunt Sal in EastEnders, also paid tribute during the service.\n\nThe funeral was also attended by Loose Women's Jane Moore and EastEnders actor Jamie Borthwick. However, the numbers were limited due to coronavirus social distancing.\n\nAlzheimer's Research UK recently said it had seen a spike in donations since Dame Barbara's death, and a JustGiving page set up as a tribute to her and in aid of the charity has raised more than £150,000 (including Gift Aid).\n\nMr Mitchell said that was \"beyond anything we may have dreamed of\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Ben Jackson said the closure of the farm's bulk-buyers like hotels and schools has left thousands of eggs unsold\n\nA fall in bulk egg orders due to the lockdown could lead to chickens being culled, a poultry-farmer has warned.\n\nFluffetts Farm near Fordingbridge had been supplying free range eggs to 350 Hampshire schools, but orders stopped when schools suddenly closed.\n\nFarm owner, Ben Jackson said: \"If you can't sell the eggs you can't still keep feeding the chickens and therefore something has to give.\"\n\nHe said he hoped to work out a local delivery system to avoid culling birds.\n\nMr Jackson, who has been selling some of the surplus eggs off on social media, has more than 13,000 chickens laying 12,000 eggs each day.\n\nThe cancellation of his school orders has left him with about 4,000 spare eggs a day. The farm has also been hit by restaurants and pubs closing again.\n\nThe farm has a surplus of about 4,000 eggs each day from its 13,000 chickens\n\nHe said: \"If we can't find a home for the eggs the worst-case scenario is that we may have to look to get rid of some of our chickens, but that's what we're trying to avoid.\n\n\"Other chicken farmers are in the same situation - they are talking about potentially having to cull birds in the next week or so - it's not a decision that anyone wants to make.\n\n\"We just want to get through this dark time - we're just taking it a day at time.\"\n\nChickens at the farm are currently in a bird lockdown.\n\nSince 14 December strict biosecurity regulations have been in place following a number of outbreak of avian influenza throughout England.\n• None 'I'll have to throw away £6,000-worth of milk'", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Duke of Cambridge asked how staff were coping during the pandemic and thanked them for their sacrifice\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge has said he talks to his three children about NHS staff \"every day\" to help them to understand the \"sacrifices\" made during Covid.\n\nPrince William's comments were part of a video call to London hospital staff.\n\n\"Catherine and I and all the children talk about all of you guys every day, so we're making sure the children understand all of the sacrifices that all of you are making,\" he said.\n\nIt comes after the London mayor said the virus was \"out of control\".\n\nSadiq Khan declared a major incident on Friday - meaning the emergency services and hospitals cannot guarantee their normal level of response - after the number of Covid patients in the capital's hospitals surpassed 7,000.\n\nStaff at Homerton University Hospital in east London told the Duke of Cambridge that queues of people waiting to be vaccinated at the hospital offered hope, but that the way out of the crisis was for the public to \"stay at home\" during lockdown.\n\nIn recent days the hospital has seen its highest number of admissions since the pandemic began.\n\nDuring the UK's first national lockdown, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and their three children Prince George (left), Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis joined in with the weekly Clap for Carers event\n\nThe duke, who is joint patron of NHS Charities Together, said: \"A huge thank you for all the hard work, the sleepless nights, the lack of sleep, the anxiety, the exhaustion and everything that you are doing, we are so grateful.\n\n\"Good luck, we are all thinking of you.\"\n\nHis video call, which took place on Thursday, is one of many he and the duchess have made to NHS staff during the pandemic.\n\nPrince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis have also shown their support for the health service by getting involved with the weekly Clap for Carers applause during the UK's first national lockdown.\n\nAnd on Saturday, the Duchess's birthday, Kensington Palace said the family's thoughts \"continue to be with all those working on the front line at this hugely challenging time\".\n\nChief nurse Catherine Pelley told the prince her hospital had used funds from NHS Charities Together to set up various support initiatives such as a \"wobble room\" for colleagues to relax in.\n\n\"For us this week, starting vaccinating has been one of the single most significant impacts on people feeling that there is a future out of this, and the queues out the door here where they have been vaccinating have been really hopeful for people,\" she said.\n\n\"But the support we need is stay at home, help us. Because that will get us all out of this, whatever our role is, and we will get society out of this.\"\n\nAfter speaking to Ms Pelley and her colleagues about how they supported one another, the prince said: \"It's good that you and your team are keeping your spirits high and I always find that having some sort of sense of humour through everything is very important, otherwise we all go mad.\"\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge said he wants his children to appreciate the sacrifices made by NHS staff during the pandemic", "Ms Sturgeon has rejected claims made by former first minister Alex Salmond\n\nAlex Salmond has accused Nicola Sturgeon of misleading parliament, calling evidence she gave to an inquiry into the handling of sexual harassment claims against him \"simply untrue\".\n\nMr Salmond's comments emerged in a written submission to a separate investigation into whether the first minister breached the ministerial code.\n\nThe submission has been shared with the Holyrood committee.\n\nMs Sturgeon says she \"entirely rejects Mr Salmond's claims\".\n\nIn the submission, the former first minister said that Ms Sturgeon had misled parliament and broken the ministerial code with breaches including failing to inform the civil service in good time of her meetings with him.\n\nHe claimed she allowed the Scottish government to contest a civil court case against him despite having had legal advice that it was likely to collapse.\n\nMs Sturgeon told the Holyrood inquiry she had become aware of allegations at a meeting with Mr Salmond at her home.\n\nIt since emerged she met his former chief of staff in the days before, but she said she had forgotten about that meeting.\n\nMr Salmond said that claim was untenable.\n\nHis submission said that she misled parliament, and that amounted to a breach of the code. He also said she breached the code by failing to to inform civil servants of the nature of the meetings that took place between the two of them at her home where the allegations were discussed.\n\nAlex Salmond walked free from court in March having been cleared of charges of sexual assault\n\nMr Salmond's statement read: \"The pre-arranged meeting in the Scottish Parliament of 29 March 2018 was \"forgotten\" about because acknowledging it would have rendered ridiculous the claim made by the first minister in parliament that it had been believed that the meeting on 2 April was on SNP Party business and thus held at her private residence.\"\n\nBoth Mr Salmond and Ms Sturgeon are expected to give evidence to the committee in the coming weeks.\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross responded to the claims, saying: \"Nobody ever bought Nicola Sturgeon's tall tales to have suddenly turned forgetful, especially about the devastating moment she found out of sexual harassment allegations against her friend and mentor of 30 years.\n\n\"What has been revealed are allegations of shocking, deliberate and corrupt actions at the heart of government. There is now clear evidence of Nicola Sturgeon abusing her power to deceive the Scottish public.\n\n\"If this proves to be correct, it is a resignation matter. No first minister, at any time, can be allowed to get away with repeatedly and blatantly lying to the Scottish Parliament and breaking the ministerial code.\"\n\nScottish Labour deputy leader Jackie Baillie said Alex Salmond's explosive allegations demanded answers from the first minister to the committee.\n\nShe said: \"The bombshell accusation that Nicola Sturgeon has broken the ministerial code has the potential to end her political career and demands a robust and honest answer from the first minister.\n\n\"This committee demands truthfulness and honesty from every witness it calls - it is vital that the first minister tells the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth when she appears.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon has repeatedly dismissed any notion of a conspiracy against Mr Salmond.\n\nHer spokeswoman said: \"The first minister entirely rejects Mr Salmond's claims about the ministerial code.\n\n\"We should always remember that the roots of this issue lie in complaints made by women about Alex Salmond's behaviour whilst he was first minister, aspects of which he has conceded. It is not surprising therefore that he continues to try to divert focus from that by seeking to malign the reputation of the first minister and by spinning false conspiracy theories.\n\n\"The first minister is concentrating on fighting the pandemic, stands by what she has said, and will address these matters in full when she appears at committee.\"\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 4's Any Questions on Friday evening, SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford MP said he did not believe the accusations about the first minister were correct.\n\nHe said: \"I believe that the first minister has acted in an honourable way, she's someone that I've every faith and trust in.\n\n\"I can tell you that the approval ratings for the first minister, the respect that she has right up and down the country of Scotland is enormous and this is something that will pass, when she appears in front of the committee these matters will be dealt with.\"\n\nAlex Salmond has just turned up the heat on his successor with a submission that presents a direct and serious challenge to the reputation of Nicola Sturgeon - who was once his closest political ally.\n\nWhat he no doubt considers as an attempt to secure justice, some others will see as a case of deflection and revenge.\n\nAllegations of breaking the ministerial code of conduct and misleading parliament are serious and, if upheld, potentially career threatening.\n\nYet even some of Ms Sturgeon's fiercest critics at Holyrood do not expect the inquiries into the Scottish government's mishandling of harassment complaints against Mr Salmond to force her from office.\n\nMr Salmond seems to expect the review of the first minister's actions under the ministerial code of conduct to remain narrow enough that it could not possibly find against her.\n\nThe first minister herself appears confident of persuading all comers, including a cross-party committee of MSPs (before which both she and Mr Salmond are due to appear in the coming weeks) that she has acted properly throughout.", "Fishing \"clears the mind of other worries\" says John Ellis from the Canal and Rivers Trust\n\nAnglers have hailed the mental health benefits of the sport after it was given the all-clear to continue, despite lockdown.\n\nThe government said it would be treated as a form of exercise, but subject to restrictions such as social distancing.\n\nRegulations mean people in England must stay at home except for specific purposes, including exercise, shopping for essentials and childcare.\n\nFigures show thousands more people have taken up fishing during the pandemic.\n\nJohn Ellis, national fisheries and angling manager for the Canal and Rivers Trust, said rod licence sales increased by 17% over the last year, the equivalent of about 100,000 people - some new to the sport and others returning.\n\nHe said, despite the colder weather which usually causes a drop in fishing, there are more people out than in a typical January.\n\n\"It is certainly one of few things people can do legally, can do locally,\" he said.\n\nSpencer Moore said it was easy to maintain social distance while fishing\n\nUnder current restrictions in England, anglers must fish alone, or with members of their household, and must not travel outside their local area.\n\nThe government regulations permit people to meet for exercise, but not \"for recreational or leisure purposes\".\n\nThe Department for Culture Media and Sport told the BBC while angling could continue, overarching government guidance meant people should minimise time spent outside their homes.\n\nMr Ellis said he had received emails from parents pleased their children could go fishing at the weekend, adding that for some people it was linked to their mental wellbeing.\n\n\"When you are focussing on fishing, it is very hard to think about anything else, it clears the mind of other worries, at least temporarily,\" he said.\n\nHeadway said fishing was one of its most popular sporting activities for clients\n\nHeadway Birmingham & Solihull, a charity which helps people living with brain injuries, runs regular fishing sessions, which were very popular with its clients.\n\n\"It encourages them to be more active and get some fresh air out in the countryside,\" she said.\n\n\"It also helps their motivation and mental wellbeing, giving them something to look forward to each week, something to talk about and a chance to form friendships with others who enjoy fishing too.\"\n\nSpencer Moore, a bailiff for Blackfords Progressive Angling Society, based in South Staffordshire, said the sport was perfect for social distancing.\n\n\"There are people furloughed, sitting in their house or working from home, but at least they can fish and can get out and wind down,\" he said.\n\n\"Being a fisherman, you are on your own on your peg. Someone might be on another peg, but they can be 20 to 30ft away, so you are nowhere near anyone else.\"\n\nChris Wood advised people to speak to their local angling club before going fishing for the first time\n\nChris Wood, from Shrewsbury Anglers Club, said the group had seen a definite \"upsurge\" in interest during the pandemic.\n\nBut, he said, it had also seen an increase in illegal fishing by people who were not aware of the proper permits needed.", "Edwin Poots said he has asked senior UK government figures to consider unilaterally revoking the NI Protocol\n\nThe Stormont minister whose officials are responsible for the new Irish Sea border has said some food will be unavailable if changes are not made.\n\nDUP Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots has also said jobs could be at risk.\n\nHe said problems at the ports were being caused by new rules applied on imports of food and other products from Britain to Northern Ireland.\n\nEarlier Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove said trade from GB to NI \"will get worse before it gets better\".\n\nMr Gove said that \"work is ongoing\" and it is \"all part of the process of leaving the European Union\".\n\nHe added that he had spoken to ministers from all parties in the Northern Ireland Executive.\n\nAfter speaking with hauliers, supermarkets and processors this week, Mr Poots predicted the loss of jobs and rising costs.\n\n\"A wide range of frozen and chilled foods will be unavailable after the temporary exemption period ends,\" he tweeted.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThat exemption period applies to supermarkets and other food importers and runs out in April.\n\nAfter that they will have to comply with all the paperwork required to ship food in, or find suppliers on the island of Ireland or elsewhere in the EU.\n\nNew rules - called the Northern Ireland Protocol - were introduced because while the UK has left the EU, Northern Ireland has remained in the Single Market for goods and is continuing to apply EU customs rules.\n\nThe arrangement was agreed between the UK and the EU to prevent a hard border on the island of Ireland.\n\nMr Poots said he had spoken to senior UK government figures to ask them to consider unilaterally revoking the protocol as it was \"damaging Northern Ireland at the economic and societal level\".\n\nAnd he hit out at members of Sinn Fein, the SDLP, and Alliance Party who he claimed had supported it.\n\nMembers of those parties have countered similar claims from other DUP politicians in recent days.\n\nThey said DUP MPs had voted against alternative arrangements that would have been simpler to manage before the government pushed ahead with the protocol plan.\n\nResponding to Mr Poot's tweet on Friday evening, SDLP leader Colum Eastwood wrote: \"You broke it, you own it.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) has called for the assembly to be recalled to discuss difficulties over trading between Great Britain and Northern Ireland due to Brexit.\n\nUUP MLA Roy Beggs said: \"The impact of the Irish Sea border is causing horrendous difficulties for hauliers and this is being seen in shops and businesses across Northern Ireland.\n\n\"It is damaging the Northern Ireland economy and the situation is escalating.\"\n\nEarlier on Friday, Michael Gove said it had been expected that there would be \"some initial disruption\" to trade between GB and NI, but that the government is \"ironing\" issues out.\n\nHe said discussions with the executive in Northern Ireland were \"in order to make sure that the [Northern Ireland] protocol works\".\n\n\"[To make sure] that businesses in Northern Ireland can continue to have access to the rest of the UK market, and that Northern Ireland businesses can have the goods that they need on the shelves, that they have access to at the moment,\" he said.\n\nNorthern Ireland has remained a part of the EU's single market for goods while the rest of the UK has left.\n\nThis means food products from Great Britain are subject to checks when they enter Northern Ireland.\n\nSimilar processes and checks also apply when moving food products from Great Britain into the Republic of Ireland.\n\nMeanwhile, an organisation representing haulage firms has called on the UK and Irish government to relax some of the new Irish Sea trade border rules.\n\nThe Road Haulage Association (RHA) said there is serious disruption to freight movements into the island of Ireland.\n\nThe RHA said relaxing the controls on food products and customs declarations \"would help traders to ship goods that have struggled to move over recent days.\"\n\n\"The problems have led to gaps in supermarket shelves and lorries delayed at ports because of problems with red-tape and the situation is worsening,\" the organisation added.\n\n\"We are facing an inflexible, cumbersome and time consuming process just to move goods.\"\n\nThe UK government said the flow of goods \"between GB and NI has been smooth overall and arrivals of freight have continued to increase substantially over this week\".\n\n\"There are no significant queues at NI ports and supermarkets are reporting healthy supplies into their Northern Ireland stores,\" a spokesperson added.\n\n\"We recognise the need to provide as much support to the haulage sector as possible as industry adapts to new processes. That's why hauliers can benefit from the Trader Support Service, which provides free advice and support to businesses of all sizes moving goods under the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\n\"We have been engaging intensively with the Irish authorities and hauliers on the issues that have been encountered for goods transiting through Dublin port.\"\n\nOn Thursday customs authorities in the Republic of Ireland announced a temporary relaxation of one customs process.\n\nHauliers will be able to use an override code to complete a piece of administration known as ENS.\n\nThe letters ENS refer to an entry summary declaration, an online form which goods carriers are now legally obliged to submit to Irish customs when transporting goods from Great Britain into Ireland.\n\nLorries arriving in Ireland from Great Britain have faced new checks since 1 January\n\nOn Thursday night the Irish Revenue Commissioners said it recognised that \"some businesses are experiencing difficulties on lodging their safety and security ENS declarations\".\n\nIt said that in response it was providing a \"temporary easement\" which would allow an ENS to be produced without all the normally required information.\n\nAn Irish government spokesperson said it is \"absolutely essential that Ireland fulfils its obligations as a member of the EU and that we protect the integrity of the single market and the customs union\".\n\n\"We appreciate that the new requirements and customs formalities present significant challenges and impose additional burdens on businesses.\"\n\nMeanwhile Stena, the ferry company, said it was cancelling a dozen sailings between Wales and Ireland next week due to \"a decline in freight volumes during the first week of Brexit.\"", "Covid infections rose by almost a third between 26 December and 3 January, reaching 70,000 new cases a day according to a major study.\n\nIn a different piece of research, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) estimated 1.2 million people in total had Covid over a similar time period.\n\nDaily infections are understood to have risen to about 150,000 since then.\n\nThat would bring daily coronavirus cases above the first peak.\n\nThe R or reproduction number for the virus is now between 1 and 1.4 for the UK, reflecting the sharp rise in cases in recent weeks.\n\nSeparate ONS data suggests just under half (44%) of British adults formed a Christmas bubble.\n\nThese temporary rules let up to three households mix indoors on 25 December - unless they were living in a Tier 4 area.\n\nThe ONS estimated how much of the population had Covid in the week of 27 December- 2 January:\n\nThe ONS data suggests cases rose by three-quarters between its two most recent study periods: 12-18 December and 27 December - 2 January.\n\nThe ZOE Covid Symptom Study was able to track more recent changes since there was no pause in its research for Christmas.\n\nIt found the epidemic is growing throughout the UK.\n\nResearchers estimate the virus's reproduction or R number is currently 1.2 across the UK.\n\nBoth sources indicate London has the most severe epidemic with the highest number of cases.\n\nConfirmed cases, published on the government's dashboard, are always lower than those in surveys because they mainly reflect the test results of people coming in with symptoms.\n\nBoth the ONS and ZOE also look at asymptomatic cases - people who may not otherwise get tests.\n\nSome asymptomatic testing is now available in the community but it is not being widely taken up.\n\nAbout a fifth of people responding to a separate ONS survey looking at the social impacts of the pandemic, said they had found it difficult to follow the Christmas rules.\n\nAnd half of those gave the fact that they had already made plans as the reason.\n\nRules, which were set to allow everyone in the UK to mix in a five-day window, were changed at the last minute, on 19 December.\n\nIn England, people living in Tiers 1-3 were allowed to form a one-day Christmas bubble with a maximum of two other households.\n\nThose in Tier 4, including about 10 million people in Greater London, were not permitted to mix at all.\n\nMixing was permitted in Scotland and Wales for Christmas Day only.\n\nHow has coronavirus affected you? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nOr use this form to get in touch:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your comment or send it via email to HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any comment you send in.", "The president says he hates Big Tech. Yet he has loved using Twitter.\n\nHe's used it as a way, for more than 10 years, to bypass the media and speak directly to voters.\n\nThe 280 characters fits neatly with his style of political engagement - broad brushstrokes rather than details.\n\nAnd Twitter has undoubtedly benefited from President Trump too, the place to go to hear the latest musings from the most powerful person on the planet.\n\nThat decade-long symbiosis has been ended with a shuddering halt.\n\nImmediately after the deadly riots, Twitter locked the President's Twitter feed and asked Mr Trump to delete three tweets for violations around its Civic Integrity policy., which he promptly did.\n\nAfter the suspension he tweeted as a new man, the nonsense claims of mass voter fraud replaced with a more conciliatory tone.\n\nPrivately though Twitter was pondering whether it had gone far enough. Facebook had already acted, banning Donald Trump \"indefinitely\".\n\nAfter more than 48 hours of consideration, Twitter acted. It made unquestionably the most important moderation decision in its history. It banned the president of the United States.\n\nSome have asked why he wasn't kicked off sooner.\n\nMr Trump or one of his associates appears to have deleted some of his most recent tweets\n\nWell, Twitter has very specific rules about world leaders.\n\n\"We recognise that sometimes it may be in the public interest to allow people to view tweets that would otherwise be taken down,\" Twitter's rules say.\n\n\"At present, we limit exceptions to one critical type of public-interest content - tweets from elected and government officials.\"\n\nChief executive Jack Dorsey had felt it was in the public interest to keep the account active, albeit with warning messages.\n\n\"No one is turning a blind eye,\" a senior source told the BBC before the ban.\n\nIn short, Mr Trump had been allowed to remain on Twitter - despite numerous breaches of its rules - because he is the president.\n\nWith less than two weeks to go of Trump's presidency, many social media companies have now decided enough is enough.\n\nCritics say the outgoing president's words on social media, for years, helped to incite Wednesday's storming of Capitol Hill.\n\nAll the big social media companies have made it clear that - as a private citizen - if you continually look to peddle conspiracy theories and promote extremism, you should expect to be kicked out. With just a few days of his presidency left, Mr Trump is already being held to a different standard - his privileges stripped.\n\nWhat's driving this? To be cynical, social media companies are acutely aware that President-elect Joe Biden believes Big Tech hasn't done enough to quell fake news and hate speech on their platforms.\n\nRioters broke into Congress after a speech by Mr Trump on Wednesday\n\nThey are now desperate to show that they can, in fact, police their own platforms without the need for stringent legal reforms.\n\nWhat better way to show you're serious than to act on Mr Trump's misinformation?\n\nWhat will Mr Trump do next? Well he's already said he's looking into the possibility of building his own platform in the future.\n\nBut for now he's consigned to the fringes of the internet. Can Trumpism survive without Big Tech? We're about to find out.\n\nJames Clayton is the BBC's North America technology reporter based in San Francisco. Follow him on Twitter @jamesclayton5.", "Fashion student Mhari Thurston-Tyler posted an advert for the \"crop top\" (right) on Depop after she says she found some discarded Chiltern Railways seat covers (like those on the left)\n\nA fashion student has been warned not to sell prohibited items on the clothes app, Depop, after she posted an advert for a top made from a train seat cover.\n\nMhari Thurston-Tyler made the bandeau out of a Chiltern Railways seat cover designed to promote social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe 20-year-old sold the top for £15 but later refunded her customer and took the advert down.\n\nDepop said the item \"clearly violates our terms of service\".\n\nThe app for buying and selling second-hand clothes said the sale of stolen goods was banned - but Ms Thurston-Tyler denied stealing.\n\nShe told BBC News she found two of the blue seat covers \"balled up on the floor\" outside Marylebone station in London in September.\n\nMs Thurston-Tyler, who is a fashion student at Central Saint Martins, re-sewed one of the covers to make it fit her, before deciding to advertise the second cover on Depop.\n\n\"I have no money at the moment so decided to put the second one on Depop to see if anyone would buy it,\" she said, adding that the app had become her main source of income as she has struggled to find other work during the pandemic.\n\n\"I have to resort to little things like this to make ends meet, to pay the bills.\"\n\nMs Thurston-Tyler's advert went viral on social media after being shared by Depop Drama's Instagram and Twitter accounts.\n\nMhari Thurston-Tyler said she has been unable to find a job during the coronavirus pandemic and sells clothes on Depop \"to make ends meet\"\n\nIn the advert, Ms Thurston-Tyler models the seat cover and describes it as a \"social distancing crop\", adding: \"Got a few of these can do different sizes.\"\n\nMs Thurston-Tyler, from Kenilworth in Warwickshire, said a Depop customer paid her £15 and ordered a crop top \"in extra small\".\n\nBut realising she should not be making money out of Chiltern Railways' property, Ms Thurston-Tyler refunded the customer 15 minutes later and took the advert down shortly afterwards.\n\n\"I didn't steal it but I understand it's not right to re-sell it,\" she said.\n\nA Depop spokesperson said Ms Thurston-Tyler would be banned from the platform if she listed any other prohibited goods.\n\n\"We explicitly prohibit the sale of illegal and unlawful content on the app, including any stolen goods,\" they said.\n\n\"This item clearly violates our terms of service, but as it has been removed by the seller and is no longer for sale on the platform, we will not be taking immediate steps to ban this user.\"\n\nMs Thurston-Tyler said she hopes to make her own line of crop tops with the words \"children railways\" on the design, while \"the hype\" of the viral moment continues.\n\nChiltern Railways said it has been using the social distancing \"seat sashes\" since the beginning of the UK's Covid epidemic.\n\nA spokeswoman added: \"Whilst we appreciate this new take on railway memorabilia, these items are there to help customers travel with confidence and we would respectfully ask that they are left in place.\"", "A former Labour MP has quit the party before disciplinary proceedings against him concerning sexual harassment could be concluded, Labour has said.\n\nKelvin Hopkins was suspended by the party in 2017 after a Labour activist, Ava Etemadzadeh, accused him of inappropriate physical contact.\n\nMs Etemadzadeh said the ex-MP's exit from the party was \"disappointing\".\n\nThe BBC has attempted to contact Mr Hopkins, 79, for a response, but he has previously denied the accusations.\n\nA Labour spokesperson said it \"takes all complaints of sexual harassment extremely seriously and they are fully investigated in line with our rules and procedures, and any appropriate disciplinary action is taken.\n\n\"We are disappointed that the party's disciplinary processes did not reach a conclusion due to Kelvin Hopkins' decision to resign his membership,\" they added.\n\n\"We are establishing an independent process to investigate complaints, including sexual harassment, to ensure complainants can feel confident that in coming forward they will be heard and get the justice they deserve.\"\n\nMr Hopkins, who first won the seat of Luton North from the Conservatives in 1997, stood down ahead of the 2019 election - a decision, he said, which was to do with his wife's health, not the accusations.\n\nHe had originally been referred to the party's National Constitutional Committee following the allegations in 2017 and had expressed frustration at the length of time the hearing was taking.\n\nResponding to his decision to leave the party, Ms Etemadzadeh tweeted: \"This is very disappointing news. I hope Keir Starmer listens to my concerns and fixes this broken system.\"", "Film director Michael Apted, best known for the Up series of TV documentaries following the lives of 14 people every seven years, has died aged 79.\n\nHe also directed Coal Miner's Daughter, Gorillas In The Mist and the 1999 Bond movie The World Is Not Enough.\n\nThe original 7 Up in 1964 set out to document the life prospects of a range of children from all walks of life.\n\nThe show was inspired by the Aristotle quote \"give me a child until he is seven and I will show you the man\".\n\nThe first 7 Up show was followed by 14 Up at the start of the next decade, which interviewed the same children as teenagers - and the pattern was set right up until 63 Up in 2019.\n\nThroughout all those intervening years ITV viewers became engrossed with the stories of private school trio Andrew, Charles and John, of Jackie who went through two divorces, of Neil who went from jobless and homeless to Liberal Democrat councillor, and of working class chatterbox Tony, whose life ambition was to become a jockey.\n\nApted's shows - which won three Bafta awards - have often been described as the forerunner of modern-day reality TV series, giving its participants the time to tell their own stories on screen.\n\nBut unlike their modern counterparts, the original Up children tended to fade away from the limelight in the seven years between each chapter.\n\nIn 2008, Apted was made a companion of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George in the Queen's Birthday Honours for services to the British film and television industries.\n\nThomas Schlamme, president of the Directors Guild of America, said Apted was a \"fearless visionary\" whose legacy would live on.\n\nHe said Apted, who was born in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, \"saw the trajectory of things when others didn't and we were all beneficiaries of his wisdom and lifelong dedication\".\n\nITV's managing director Kevin Lygo said the director's six-decade career was \"in itself truly remarkable\".\n\nHe said the Up series \"demonstrated the possibilities of television at its finest in its ambition and its capacity to hold up a mirror to society and engage with and entertain people while enriching our perspective on the human condition\".\n\nApted directed the 19th James Bond film The World Is Not Enough\n\n\"The influence of Michael's contribution to film and programme-making continues to be felt and he will be sadly missed,\" Lygo added.\n\nMichael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, producers of the James Bond film franchise, said Apted \"was a director of enormous talent\" and \"beloved by all those who worked with him\".\n\n\"We loved working with him on The World Is Not Enough and send our love and support to his family, friends and colleagues,\" they said.\n\nA post on the Twitter account of the band Garbage, who performed the theme for The World Is Not Enough, labelled Apted a \"delightful, charming soul\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Garbage This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nComposer David G Arnold, who composed the Bond theme and worked with Apted on three other non-Bond movies, said he felt \"lucky\" to work with him.\n\n\"A more trusting, funny, friendly and, most importantly, kind, person you'd never meet. So pleased to have known him and so sad that he's gone,\" Arnold wrote on Twitter.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Eva's father, Paul Slapa, says the generosity of strangers has been \"amazing\"\n\nA 10-year-old girl who needed to travel to the United States for treatment on an inoperable brain tumour has died.\n\nFamily of Eva Williams raised £250,000 needed for a new life-extending trial.\n\nBut the schoolgirl, from Marford, Wrexham, was unable to travel due to coronavirus lockdown measures.\n\nAt the start of 2020, she was diagnosed with diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG) and died on Friday. Her father said in a tribute: \"We love you Eva - more than you'll have ever known.\"\n\nPaul Slapa, said on social media that his daughter was surrounded by all of her family when she died.\n\nHe posted: \"Over the past week, Eva had lost the ability to speak, eat and swallow fluids, and she has suffered more than any child should ever have to suffer.\n\n\"Watching her still fight each day has been heart-breaking.\n\n\"Eva is an inspiration to many, certainly to me, and I cannot begin to imagine how we will go forward from here.\n\n\"How do we wake up each day and go on? How do we face the world without our baby girl with us? Why did this happen to the most caring and loving of little girls?\n\n\"Every single part of us is in pain and I can't see how that can change. We love you Eva - more than you'll have ever known - and we will keep you with us every day for the rest of our lives.\"\n\nAfter Eva was diagnosed with a high-grade DIPG she had been undergoing radiotherapy treatment to shrink the tumour.\n\nHer father and mother Carran Williams started a fundraising campaign to access the trial treatment in the US, and managed to raise the money in the space of three weeks.\n\nThey had been originally due to take part in the trial in New York in April.\n\nBut then Covid-19 measures saw international flight bans and travel restrictions imposed.\n\nHer plight was raised by the Wrexham MP Sarah Atherton during Prime Minister's Questions in July and Boris Johnson said he would look at what help can be offered to get her to the United States.\n\nEva also had radiotherapy as part of her treatment", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Madrid has been hit by heavy snowfall after Storm Filomena\n\nStorm Filomena has blanketed parts of Spain in heavy snow, with half of the country on red alert for more on Saturday.\n\nRoad, rail and air travel has been disrupted and interior minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska said the country was facing \"the most intense storm in the last 50 years\".\n\nMadrid, one of the worst affected areas, is set to see up to 20cm (eight inches) of snow in the next 24 hours.\n\nFurther south the storm caused rivers to burst their banks.\n\nFour deaths have been reported so far as a result of Filomena. Officials said two people had been found frozen to death - one in the town of Zarzalejo, north-west of Madrid, and the other in the eastern city of Calatayud. Two people travelling in a car were swept away by floods near the southern city of Malaga.\n\nAs snow fell on Madrid on Friday evening, a number of vehicles became stranded on a motorway near the capital.\n\nThe city's Barajas airport has closed, along with a number of roads, and all trains to and from Madrid have been cancelled.\n\nFirefighters were called in to assist drivers who had become stuck. In some areas the military were called in to help clear roads.\n\nSpanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez urged people to stay at home and to follow the instructions of emergency services. King Felipe and Queen Letizia took to Twitter to urge \"extreme caution against the risks of accumulation of ice and snow\".\n\nThe country's AEMET weather agency said the snowfall was \"exceptional and most likely historic\".\n\nA number of people were seen making the most of the snowy scenery, walking through Madrid's Puerta del Sol square.\n\nLarge parks in Madrid have since been closed as a precaution, AFP news agency reports.\n\nOne man was pictured skiing along the Gran Via, the capital's famous shopping street.\n\nIn Cañada Real, the largest shanty town in western Europe, residents were seen creating a bonfire to keep warm.\n\nThe cold weather is set to continue beyond the weekend with temperatures in Madrid predicted to hit -12C on Thursday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Bez in training for his new exercise classes in a park in Manchester\n\nHappy Mondays star Bez is to launch his own lockdown fitness classes to inspire the nation like Joe Wicks.\n\nThe former maraca-shaking dancer, 56, wants to rival Joe Wicks with his online YouTube classes \"Get Buzzin' With Bez\" to be launched on 17 January.\n\nBez, whose on-stage \"freaky dancing\" made him an icon of the 'Madchester' music scene, has admitted he also wants to budge his own lockdown bulge.\n\nHe won Celebrity Big Brother in 2005 and even made a bid to become an MP.\n\nBez, whose real name is Mark Berry, will be shown being trained in the fitness classes rather than acting as the instructor himself.\n\nHe said: \"I'd like to think I'm somewhere between Joe Wicks and Mr Motivator.\n\n\"I've started this new year seriously unfit, with a fat belly and creaky hips, and I can't stop eating chocolate.\n\n\"Last lockdown I got unfit, fat, lazy and into some seriously bad eating habits.\n\nBez being put through his paces with a personal trainer\n\n\"This year, this lockdown, I need to sort it out sharpish.\"\n\nHe said that people can join him on \"on this mad journey or just sit on the sofa and have a good laugh at me\".\n\nBez said he has \"started this new year seriously unfit, with a fat belly and creaky hips\"\n\nThe former dancer added: \"At the very least, I know I'll be making people smile, at best I'll be helping people get fit and mentally happier alongside me.\"\n\nThe Happy Mondays, along with bands like The Stone Roses and Inspiral Carpets, spearheaded the indie music 'Madchester' scene of the late 80s and early 90s.\n\nBez dancing with his maraca on BBC One's Top of the Pops as the band perform Step On in 1989\n\nBez's bug-eyed dance routines were said to have inspired the group's song Freaky Dancin' and made him one of the best-known members of the group, alongside frontman Shaun Ryder.\n\nTheir hits included Step On, Kinky Afro, Hallelujah and 24 Hour Party People.\n\nHowever, serious drug habits and infighting led to the Salford band's breakup in 1993.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Lockdown measures in England need to be stricter to achieve the same impact as the March shutdown, scientists advising the government have said.\n\nProf Robert West said the current rules were \"still allowing a lot of activity which is spreading the virus\".\n\nProf Susan Michie also said the spread of the new more infectious variant meant the restrictions were \"too lax\".\n\nThe government said it had adapted its approach and taken \"swift action\" to try and stop the spread of the virus.\n\nThe warnings come after ministers launched a new campaign urging people to act like they have the virus.\n\nMeanwhile, Buckingham Palace has said the Queen, 94, and the Duke of Edinburgh, 99, received Covid-19 vaccinations on Saturday.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and can only go out for essential reasons. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nProf West, a participant in the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Behaviours (SPI-B), which advises the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), said the new variant of Covid is around 50% more infectious compared to the virus that infected people last March.\n\n\"That means that if we were to achieve the same result as we got in March we would have to have a stricter lockdown, and it's not stricter,\" he said\n\nThe professor of health psychology at University College London, also told the BBC more children were going to school, compared to the first lockdown and he said schools were \"a very important seed of community infection\".\n\nMore people are in schools, after the Department for Education has widened the categories of vulnerable and key worker pupils allowed to attend, with attendance rates surging to 50% in some places.\n\nProf Michie, who is also a member of Sage, agreed the current lockdown was \"too lax\".\n\n\"When you look at the data, it shows that almost 90% of people are overwhelmingly adhering to the rules - despite the fact that we're also seeing more people out and about,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nShe said in comparison to the first lockdown last spring more people were allowed to go out to work and children's nurseries were open, making public transport busier.\n\nThe number of people travelling by public transport in London has decreased since the latest national lockdown began, with tube journeys now at 18% of the pre-pandemic demand and bus journeys at 30%, according to figures from Transport for London.\n\nHowever, during the first lockdown passenger numbers fell below 10% at some points.\n\nProf Michie, a professor of health psychology at University College London, added that the winter season posed extra challenges because the virus survives longer in the cold and people spend more time indoors, where the virus can spread more easily.\n\nCombined with the more transmissible new variant, she said \"we should have a stricter rather than less strict lockdown than we had back in March\".\n\nScientists believe the new variant spreads between 50 and 70% faster compared to previous forms of the virus.\n\nDr Adam Kucharski, another scientist advising the government and an associate professor of infectious disease epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said that because the new variant was more transmissible \"each interaction we have has become riskier than it was before\".\n\nHe said that even if people reduced their contacts to levels seen last spring, it would not have the same effect on virus transmission.\n\nProf Kevin Fenton, London regional director for Public Health England, said there were \"things we could do better\" to reduce the number of infections, including greater compliance with mask wearing and social distancing when shopping and using public transport.\n\nOn Friday 1,325 deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test were recorded in the UK - the highest daily figure yet - along with 68,053 new cases.\n\nAs cases and deaths soar, the government has launched an advertising campaign, which will be shared across television, radio, newspapers and on social media, urging people to stay at home and not to get complacent.\n\nGovernment sources say there is also likely to be more focus from police on enforcing rather than explaining rules.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by Department of Health and Social Care\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson says hospitals are \"under more pressure than at any other time since the start of the pandemic\", with infection rates increasing at an \"alarming rate\" across the country and the NHS under \"severe strain\".\n\nIt comes after London's mayor Sadiq Khan said the spread of coronavirus was \"out of control\" as he declared a \"major incident\" in the capital on Friday.\n\nDr Simon Walsh, an emergency care doctor in London, told BBC Breakfast the \"unprecedented\" numbers of patients requiring intensive care treatment meant staff were spread \"more and more thinly\".\n\nHospitals in other parts of the UK are also under pressure.\n\nDr Justin Varney, director of public health in Birmingham, said he was \"very worried\" about the situation in the city, where hospital bosses have warned they do not have enough intensive care nurses to deal with the growing case load.\n\nHe warned that the NHS had still not seen the impact of the rise in cases following the relaxation of restrictions over Christmas and added: \"It is going to get a lot, lot worse unless we really get this under control\".\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"Our priority from the outset has been to protect the NHS to save lives and we have taken advice from scientific and medical experts throughout. As new evidence has emerged, we have adapted our approach and taken swift action to try and stop the spread of the virus.\"\n\nTell us how you have been affected by coronavirus by emailing: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "More than 80,000 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test since the start of the pandemic, official figures have shown.\n\nA further 1,035 deaths in the UK were reported on Saturday, taking the total by that measure to 80,868.\n\nThe number of daily cases of people who tested positive for coronavirus increased by 59,937.\n\nOnly the US, Brazil, India and Mexico have recorded more Covid deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University.\n\nIt is the fourth day in a row that the UK has reported more than 1,000 daily deaths.\n\nIt comes as scientists advising the government have warned that lockdown measures in England need to be stricter to achieve the same impact as the March shutdown.\n\nMinisters have launched a new campaign urging people to act like they have the virus.\n\nMeanwhile, Buckingham Palace has said the Queen, 94, and the Duke of Edinburgh, 99, received Covid-19 vaccinations on Saturday.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics recently estimated as many as one in 50 people in England had coronavirus between 27 December and 2 January, while in London it was one in 30.\n\nOn Friday, mayor Sadiq Khan said the spread of Covid in the capital was \"out of control\".\n\nOfficial figures from Public Health England showed London had the highest regional case rate in the UK, exceeding 1,000 per 100,000 people.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and can only go out for essential reasons. Similar measures are in place across most of Scotland, in Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nProf Robert West, a participant in the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Behaviours (SPI-B), which advises the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), said the current rules were \"still allowing a lot of activity which is spreading the virus\".\n\nHe said the new variant of Covid was around 50% more infectious compared to the virus that infected people last March.\n\n\"That means that if we were to achieve the same result as we got in March we would have to have a stricter lockdown, and it (the current regime) is not stricter,\" he added.\n\nThe professor of health psychology at University College London also told the BBC more children were going to school, compared to during the first lockdown.\n\nHe said schools were \"a very important seed of community infection\".\n\nMore children are at school, after the Department for Education widened the categories of vulnerable and key worker pupils allowed to attend. Attendance rates have risen to 50% in some places.\n\nProf Susan Michie, who is also a member of Sage, said the spread of the new, more infectious variant meant current restrictions were \"too lax\".\n\n\"When you look at the data, it shows that almost 90% of people are overwhelmingly adhering to the rules - despite the fact that we're also seeing more people out and about,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nShe said, in comparison to the first lockdown in spring 2020, more people were allowed to go out to work and children's nurseries were open, making public transport busier.\n\nThe number of people travelling by public transport in London has decreased since the latest national lockdown began, with tube journeys now at 18% of the pre-pandemic demand and bus journeys at 30%, according to figures from Transport for London.\n\nHowever, during the first lockdown passenger numbers fell below 10% at some points.\n\nScientists believe the new variant spreads between 50 and 70% faster compared to previous forms of the virus.\n\nProf Kevin Fenton, London regional director for Public Health England, said there were \"things we could do better\" to reduce the number of infections, including greater compliance with mask wearing and social distancing when shopping and using public transport.\n\nTorsten Bell, chief executive of the Resolution Foundation think tank, told BBC Radio 4's PM programme that the UK's statutory sick pay system was \"not fit for purpose for a pandemic\" and more effective measures to encourage people to isolate were needed.\n\nAs cases and deaths soar, the government has launched an advertising campaign, which will be shared across television, radio, newspapers and on social media, urging people to stay at home and not to get complacent.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by Department of Health and Social Care\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"I know the last year has taken its toll - but your compliance is now more vital than ever.\"\n\nGovernment sources say there is also likely to be more focus from police on enforcing rather than explaining rules.\n\nOn Saturday afternoon, 12 people were arrested during an anti-lockdown protest in south London.\n\nIf you would like to send us a tribute to a friend or family member who died after contracting coronavirus, please use the form below.\n\nPlease remember to include a photo of your loved one and their name. Upload your pictures here. Don't forget to include your contact details, so we can get in touch with you.\n\nWe would like to respond to everyone individually and include every tribute in our coverage, but unfortunately that may not be possible. Please be assured your message will be read and treated with the utmost respect.\n\nPlease note the contact details you provide will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your tribute.\n• None Lockdown needs to be stricter, scientists warn", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. London mayor Sadiq Khan: \"Unless the virus reduces... we could run out of beds\"\n\nThe spread of Covid in London is \"out of control\" according to Sadiq Khan, who has declared a \"major incident\".\n\nThe coronavirus infection rate in London has exceeded 1,000 per 100,000 people, based on the latest figures from Public Health England.\n\nHowever, the Office for National Statistics recently estimated as many as one in 30 Londoners has coronavirus.\n\nMr Khan told BBC political reporter Karl Mercer that the figure is as high as one in 20 in some parts of London.\n\nMajor incidents have previously been called for the Grenfell Tower fire in June 2017 and the terror attacks at Westminster Bridge and London Bridge.\n\nA major incident is any emergency that requires the implementation of special arrangements by one or all of the emergency services, the NHS or the local authority.\n\nIt means the emergency services and hospitals cannot guarantee their normal level of response.\n\nCurrently, there are more than 7,000 people in hospital with Covid-19, the mayor said.\n\nThis is a 35% increase compared to last April's peak of the pandemic, he added.\n\nDr Samantha Batt-Rawden, an ICU registrar and President of the Doctors' Association UK, tweeted: \"We tried. We really tried. NHS staff pleaded with people that Christmas is not worth it. Now one in 30 people in London have Covid and ICUs are overwhelmed. My heart is broken.\"\n\nAn analysis of Public Health England figures show in the week to 3 January, the number of cases rose across all of the London's boroughs compared with the previous week, with 17 individually recording more than 1,000 cases per 100,000 people.\n\nTesting increased in parts of the city after a drop over the Christmas period but positivity was high among people taking lab-based tests - suggesting more testing is needed to find undiagnosed cases in the community.\n\nIn the past week, many parts of the capital saw a rise in deaths where a person had tested positive for coronavirus in the previous 28 days - with some areas recording more than double the number of deaths compared with the previous week.\n\nHowever, reporting over the Christmas period may have affected this.\n\nOut of the 18 acute hospital trusts in London providing figures to the government, all of them recorded having more beds being filled by coronavirus patients than in the previous week.\n\nBarts NHS Health, one of London's largest trusts, saw a 30% increase in coronavirus patients between 29 December and 5 January, to 830.\n\nThe London Ambulance Service is now taking up to 8,000 emergency calls a day, the mayor says\n\nThe mayor of London's announcement comes after the counties of Sussex and Surrey declared similar major incidents on Thursday.\n\nHe said the London Ambulance Service was currently taking up to 8,000 emergency calls a day, compared to 5,500 on a typical busy day.\n\nThe London Fire Brigade said more than 100 firefighters had been drafted in to drive ambulances to help cope with the demand.\n\nEvery frontline agency involved in protecting the public has a legal duty to prepare for emergencies by devising and testing major incident plans.\n\nThese public bodies declare a major incident when the situation they're confronting is so big or terrible that it's not only likely to cause serious harm, but it will also compromise their ability to respond effectively.\n\nIn general terms, that means public bodies can legally stop delivering some everyday services, so that their personnel, attention and resources can be diverted to the emergency confronting them.\n\nAt other times, the plans will lead to the military sending soldiers to aid the civilian effort, as we have seen already during the pandemic.\n\nPrevious major incidents include the Grenfell Tower disaster in London, the Salisbury Novichok poisonings and the 2017 terrorism attacks.\n\nLondon's regional director for Public Health England Kevin Fenton said the current wave of coronavirus was \"the biggest threat\" the capital has faced in this pandemic to date.\n\nHe added: \"The emergence of the new variant means we are setting record case rates at almost double the national average, with at least one in 30 people now thought to be carrying the virus.\n\n\"We know this will sadly lead to large numbers of deaths, so strong and immediate action is needed.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What does it mean if the NHS is overwhelmed?\n\nMr Khan is warning that London is \"at crisis point\".\n\n\"If we do not take immediate action now, our NHS could be overwhelmed and more people will die,\" he said.\n\n\"Londoners continue to make huge sacrifices and I am today imploring them to please stay at home unless it is absolutely necessary for you to leave. Stay at home to protect yourself, your family, friends and other Londoners and to protect our NHS.\"\n\nHe said he had written to Prime Minister Boris Johnson asking for more financial support for Londoners who need to self-isolate and are unable to work, and for daily vaccination data.\n\nMr Khan also called for the closure of places of worship and for face masks to be worn routinely outside the home, including in crowded places and supermarket queues, in a bid to curb case numbers.\n\nTwo hospital trusts in London have recorded more than 1,000 coronavirus deaths\n\nThe mayor of London was in a sombre mood when I spoke to him earlier this afternoon. One in 20 Londoners in some areas now has Covid, and there is a real fear that hospitals will simply be overwhelmed in the next two weeks.\n\nDeclaring a major incident is a real indication of the levels of concern felt not just at City Hall but across London's emergency services and the NHS.\n\nMore Londoners are now in hospital with coronavirus than at the peak of the first wave last April - and those numbers are growing by more than 800 every day.\n\nIt's believed the last mayor to declare a London-wide major incident was Boris Johnson in response to the 2011 riots.\n\nThe coming days will be some of the most challenging in the city's recent history.\n\nKatie Sanderson, a junior doctor working in London, said she is worried how long medical staff can cope with the surge of patients.\n\n\"[Staff] are working on wards and spending long amounts of time with patients who need high-intensive oxygen therapy,\" she said.\n\n\"It is technically challenging and the emotional burden is enormous. I see it in a flatness in their demeanour, like we've all got used to doing things which before were totally inconceivable.\"\n\nGeorgia Gould, chair of London Councils, described London's rising coronavirus rate as \"dangerous\".\n\nShe added: \"One in 30 Londoners now has Covid. This is why public services across London are urging all Londoners to please stay at home except for absolutely essential shopping and exercise.\n\n\"This is a dark and difficult time for our city but there is light at end of the tunnel with the vaccine rollout. We are asking Londoners to come together one last time to stop the spread - lives really do depend on it.\"\n\nEarlier this week as the prime minister introduced an England-wide lockdown, the Met Police said officers were going to be \"more inquisitive\" towards Londoners seen outside.\n\nThe Met handed out 1,761 fines for breaches of coronavirus laws between 27 March and 20 December.\n\nDeputy Assistant Commissioner Matt Twist said the major incident was a \"stark reminder\" of the point London is at in the pandemic.\n\nHe said: \"These rule-breakers cannot continue to feign ignorance of the risk that this virus poses or listen to the false information and lies that some promote downplaying the dangers.\n\n\"Every time the virus spreads it increases the risk of someone needlessly losing their life.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'One of the worst shifts of my life - it's overwhelming'\n\nIn response to Mr Khan's announcement the government said the NHS is continuing to \"face a huge challenge\"\n\nA spokeswoman added: \"It is absolutely paramount people in London, and the rest of the country, follow the rules and stay at home to protect the NHS and save lives.\n\n\"We are working closely with NHS England to support hospitals in the capital, including additional bed capacity at the London Nightingale.\n\n\"Financial support is in place for workers who need to self-isolate - including a £500 payment for those on the lowest incomes who have been contacted by NHS Test and Trace.\"\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nHave any of the issues raised in this article had an impact on you? You can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This car was one of many turned away by police at Moel Famau on Saturday\n\nPeople are \"blatantly\" ignoring rules on lockdown restrictions despite repeated warnings, police have said.\n\nMore than 100 cars had been turned away from Moel Famau on the Flintshire border by Saturday lunchtime, with some driving past \"road closed\" signs.\n\nIn Snowdonia, Gwynedd, a warden said a group from Leicester would have \"probably ignored our advice\" if police had not arrived and told them to leave.\n\nLevel four restrictions mean travelling for exercise is not allowed in Wales.\n\nKeith Ellis, a warden at Pen y Pass in Snowdonia, said while it had been much quieter this weekend, people were still travelling, despite the restrictions.\n\n\"We've had three from Leicester first thing this morning and if the police hadn't turned up they would have probably ignored our advice and carried on up the mountain,\" he said.\n\n\"What they were wearing was totally inappropriate and they would have probably got into danger.\n\n\"We've had people also from Liverpool and some locals turning up knowing full well what the rules are, but just trying it on.\n\n\"Luckily there are a lot more police officers around and all these people have been spoken to and advised by the police as well.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said: \"Cases of coronavirus are very high in Wales at the moment and there is a new strain of the virus circulating, which is highly infectious and moving quickly.\n\n\"At alert level four, exercise should always be undertaken from home, unless you have special circumstances which requires some flexibility - such as disability or autism.\n\n\"The more people gather, the greater the risk of spreading or catching the virus.\"", "A further 1,610 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test - the biggest figure reported in a single day since the pandemic began.\n\nIt means the total number of deaths by that measure is now above 90,000.\n\nA total of 4,266,577 people have now received the first dose of a vaccine, according to the latest government figures.\n\nAnother 33,355 positive Covid cases have been recorded - less than half the peak figure of 68,053 on 8 January.\n\nIt is the lowest number of daily cases seen since 27 December - before the start of England's third nationwide lockdown.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle, medical director at Public Health England, said: \"Whilst there are some early signs that show our sacrifices are working, we must continue to strictly abide by the measures in place.\"\n\nShe said reducing contact with others and staying at home will lead to \"a fall in the number of infections over time\".\n\nThe figures come as new estimates from the Office for National Statistics show about one in 10 people across the UK tested positive for Covid-19 antibodies in December - roughly double the October figure.\n\nThe rising number of deaths was to be expected, sadly, after the surge in cases during December.\n\nAnd it is likely that the coming weeks will see figures even higher than this.\n\nToday's numbers are, though, inflated by the fact that delays in registering deaths over the weekend tends to lead to higher figures being reported on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.\n\nOn average, the UK is recording more than 1,100 deaths a day.\n\nTo put that in context, at Christmas it was less than half of that.\n\nBut there are two rays of hope in the daily update.\n\nFirstly, the number of cases is below 40,000 for a third day in a row. Just two weeks ago we saw a few days above 60,000.\n\nThat means in the coming weeks we should start to see fewer people in hospital and eventually fewer deaths.\n\nThe number of vaccinations also continues to rise.\n\nIt seems unlikely the NHS will manage its target of two million doses a week just yet.\n\nBut each increase at least takes us one step closer to getting on top of the virus.\n\nMeanwhile, NHS England said 400 military personnel were now assisting in hospitals in London and the Midlands, as wards face \"unprecedented pressure\".\n\nOn Monday, Prof Stephen Powis, national medical director for NHS England, said it would be \"some time\" before the vaccination programme begins to reduce pressures on hospitals.\n\nAnd in other developments, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said he is self-isolating after being alerted by the UK's NHS Covid-19 app .that he had been in close contact with somebody who tested positive.\n\nHe said self-isolation was \"perhaps the most important part of all the social distancing\" and urged others to do the same if contacted.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Martin Freeborn's wife, Helen, died from Covid at the Royal London Hospital: 'Don't end up like us, please'\n\nThe previous highest number of daily deaths was last Wednesday, when 1,564 deaths were recorded.\n\nTuesday's figure brings the total number of deaths recorded during the pandemic in the UK to 91,470.\n\nThese government figures count people who died within 28 days of testing positive, but there are other ways of measuring the total number of deaths.\n\nAnother method is to count all deaths where coronavirus is mentioned on the death certificate. That figure has now officially reached 95,829, although that is only measured up to 8 January.\n\nThe UK has recorded the fifth-highest number of deaths globally, according to Johns Hopkins University - behind the US, Brazil, India and Mexico.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer tweeted: \"British people are paying the price for the government's serial incompetence.\"", "In 2009, Spector was convicted of the 2003 murder of Hollywood actress Lana Clarkson\n\nThe BBC has apologised for the original headline in its reporting of the death of the convicted murderer Phil Spector.\n\nThe former music producer died on Saturday at the age of 81, while serving a prison sentence for the murder of Lana Clarkson in 2003.\n\nThe first version on the breaking news story on the BBC News website carried the headline: \"Talented but flawed producer Phil Spector dies aged 81\".\n\nThe BBC said the headline \"did not meet our editorial standards\".\n\nThe text was quickly changed to: \"Pop producer jailed for murder dies at 81.\"\n\n\"This was changed within minutes and we also deleted a tweet that had gone out automatically with the original headline,\" a statement issued by the BBC read.\n\n\"We apologise for this error.\"\n\n\"Our coverage of the story across BBC News has been clear that Phil Spector was convicted of the murder of Lana Clarkson and had a long history of violence and abuse,\" it continued.\n\nSpector was convicted of murdering Clarkson, an actress, in 2009.\n\nHis death was confirmed by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.\n\nReacting to the original version of the BBC's story, pop star Lily Allen tweeted: \"Rolling eyes at all the journos deliberately downplaying Phil Spector being a murderer in their headlines, so everyone points this out while linking to their articles resulting in lots of clicks.\"\n\n\"How about 'Murderer, Phil Spector dies aged 81'?\" offered author and historian Hallie Rubenhold.\n\nThe headline was also discussed on TV and radio programmes on Monday, including Loose Women and Radio 4's Woman's Hour, and prompted an article in the Guardian.\n\nThe phrasing of the BBC's article - and others like it - were \"a reflection of how a man's 'genius' is often viewed as more important than a woman's humanity,\" said columnist Arwa Mahdawi.\n\nSpector, who transformed pop with his \"wall of sound\" recordings, worked with The Beatles, The Righteous Brothers and Tina Turner.\n\nBut after the commercial failure of Tina Turner's River Deep, Mountain High, he largely withdrew from public life, and entered a long decline, marked by erratic behaviour, heavy drinking, and a fondness for guns.\n\nHis turbulent marriage to Ronettes singer Veronica Bennett, known as Ronnie Spector, ended in divorce.\n\n\"Unfortunately Phil was not able to live and function outside of the recording studio,\" she wrote after his death was announced. \"Darkness set in, many lives were damaged.\"\n\nSinger Darlene Love, who sang on several songs Spector produced, said he \"changed the sound of rock 'n' roll\" but likened their relationship to \"a bad marriage\".\n\n\"The problem I have with Phil is that he wanted to control Darlene Love's talent,\" she told Variety. \"If he couldn't do that, he was going to do everything in his power to keep my talent from shining.\"\n\nWeeks before Lana Clarkson was shot dead, Spector gave a rare interview to British broadsheet The Telegraph.\n\n\"I would say I'm probably relatively insane, to an extent,\" he told the paper, adding that he had \"devils inside that fight me\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "In Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, residents have prepared their homes and businesses ahead of the heavy rain\n\nEmergency services in the north of England are preparing for widespread flooding caused by Storm Christoph.\n\nThe Environment Agency has warned of a \"volatile situation\" as heavy rain combines with melting snow, while police in South Yorkshire and Greater Manchester declared major incidents.\n\nAn amber rain warning is in place for Yorkshire, the North West, East Midlands and the east of England.\n\nA yellow rain warning was issued for the rest of the country.\n\nGreater Manchester Police Assistant Chief Constable Nick Bailey said the force had declared a major incident to ensure it was \"as prepared as possible\".\n\n\"The safety of the public is our number one priority and we're continuing to work alongside partner agencies across the region,\" he said.\n\nA government spokesperson said it had provided additional advice to local agencies to help them manage any evacuations and shelter provision in a Covid-secure way.\n\n\"The government has robust plans in place to support any areas affected by extreme weather this winter,\" they added.\n\nSandbags were laid in at-risk areas, with up to 70mm (2.75in) of rain due.\n\nIn isolated spots, particularly in the northern Peak District and parts of the southern Pennines, 200mm (7.87in) could be possible.\n\nNorthern Rail said buses were being used instead of trains on services between Bolton and Blackburn due to flooding at Darwen.\n\nSome motorists attempted to drive through floodwater on Derby Road in Hathern, Leicestershire\n\nIn the amber warning area, the Met Office said there was a \"danger to life\" due to fast-flowing or deep floodwater, and told some communities they might be \"cut off\" by flooded roads.\n\nIt also predicted delays and cancellations to public transport, with the amber warning in place until 12:00 GMT on Thursday.\n\nRos Jones, mayor of Doncaster, said key risk areas had been inspected over the past 36 hours, with the delivery of sandbags continuing on Tuesday.\n\n\"I do not want people to panic, but flooding is possible so please be prepared,\" she said.\n\nResidents of Fishlake, South Yorkshire, which saw severe flooding hit 160 homes and businesses in November 2019, said they felt much better prepared this time round.\n\nFlood warden and parish councillor Peter Trimingham said the arrival of sandbags had been a welcome sight.\n\n\"It gives us confidence,\" he said.\n\nResidents in Fishlake, near Doncaster, say they are better prepared than when flooding hit in 2019\n\nMr Trimingham added: \"We're absolutely hoping it doesn't rise to the same level. But, if it does, we're reasonably comfortable we've still got a chance because the Environment Agency have done tremendous work here along with Doncaster Council.\"\n\nHe said new defences had been built and their team of flood wardens had been expanded to 22 people.\n\nOn Yarlborough Terrace in Bentley, Doncaster, many residents were out of their homes for months after the 2019 floods.\n\nAnna Booth, 37, who was forced to live in a caravan on her drive, said residents were worried about it happening again.\n\n\"Being in the pandemic doesn't help either. Morale's a bit down but I think we'll all pull together again like last time,\" she said.\n\n\"It breaks your heart, it's really sad, but we can't stop the weather.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Environment Agency issued more than 30 flood warnings, meaning flooding is expected and immediate action required, covering parts of Yorkshire, Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, Merseyside, Staffordshire and Northamptonshire as of 03:00 GMT on Wednesday.\n\nThere are also more than 150 flood alerts, meaning flooding is possible, issued across northern England, the Midlands and the east.\n\nRiver levels in the Ouse, which flows through York in North Yorkshire, are high before the arrival of Storm Christoph\n\nCatherine Wright, acting executive director for flood and coastal risk management at the Environment Agency, said: \"That rain is falling on very wet ground and so we are very concerned that it's a very volatile situation and we are expecting significant flooding to occur on the back of that weather.\"\n\nShe said the agency would be working with local authorities to help with evacuation efforts should a severe flood warning be issued, adding: \"If you do need to evacuate then that is allowed within the Covid rules.\"\n\nWork took place on Tuesday morning to increase defences near the River Ouse\n\nDiscussing the different levels of flood warnings, she said: \"If you receive a flood alert, please pack valuables like medicines and insurance documents in a bag ready to go.\n\n\"If you receive a flood warning, please move valuables and precious possessions upstairs and be ready to turn off gas, electricity and water.\n\n\"If you receive a severe flood warning, which means you will be evacuated, please listen out and take heed of the advice from the local emergency services.\"\n\nSandbags have been used to help defend homes in Fishlake, Doncaster, which suffered devastating floods in November 2019\n\nBarry Greenwood, from the Upper Calder Valley Flood Prevention Group in West Yorkshire, has been \"sick\" with worry.\n\n\"I went round after the last [flood], people were there with their heads in their hands, thinking 'what am I going to do now?',\" he said.\n\nFlood sirens were sounded in Walsden on Tuesday evening after a flood warning was issued for the area.\n\nIn a tweet, Calderdale Council asked residents to put their flood plan into action and move valuables to a safe place.\n\n\"River levels across the Upper River Calder have risen and are now approaching levels where we expect properties to flood,\" it warned.\n\nEarlier it had said staff were on standby to respond overnight.\n\nThe amber rain warning is in place until Thursday, with yellow warnings covering most of the UK coming in over the next three days\n\nA yellow rain alert is also in place for Wales, Northern Ireland, central and northern England and southern Scotland on Tuesday.\n\nThis yellow warning extends to the rest of England from Wednesday, with a yellow alert for snow and ice in north east Scotland.\n\nHighways England advised drivers to take extra care on motorways and major A roads, while the RAC breakdown service said motorists should only drive if absolutely necessary.\n\nDrivers faced wet road conditions and reduced visibility on the A1(M) near Boston Spa, West Yorkshire, on Tuesday morning\n\nHebden Bridge's volunteer flood warden Keith Crabtree has been monitoring the river levels of Hebden Beck closely\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sheku Bayoh death: Eyewitness says stamping attack on officer 'never happened'\n\nTwo police officers involved in the death of a black man they were restraining may have provided false statements, the BBC can reveal.\n\nThey said Sheku Bayoh carried out a stamping attack on a female PC before he was brought to the ground and restrained by up to six officers.\n\nBut now an eyewitness has spoken publicly for the first time about the 2015 incident.\n\nHe told a Panorama investigation that the stamping attack \"never happened\".\n\nThe Scottish Police Federation said its officers had cooperated truthfully with investigators.\n\nMr Bayoh, a 31-year-old father of two, died in the incident in the Fife town of Kirkcaldy in 2015.\n\nA public inquiry into the circumstances surrounding his death has recently got under way. One of its tasks is to examine whether his race was a factor.\n\nSheku Bayoh was restrained on the ground for five minutes before falling unconscious\n\nOn the night of 2 May 2015, Sheku Bayoh had taken drugs, which friends said dramatically altered his behaviour.\n\nPolice were called early the following morning after he was spotted behaving erratically with a knife in the streets of his home town.\n\nAccording to police statements, by the time the officers arrived at the scene Mr Bayoh no longer had the knife but he failed to obey instructions to get down on the ground.\n\nEach of the officers used force on Mr Bayoh within seconds of encountering him, including CS Spray and batons.\n\nHe then punched PC Nicole Short, who went to the ground.\n\nTwo officers, PCs Craig Walker and Ashley Tomlinson, would later tell investigators that Mr Bayoh then carried out a violent stamping attack on PC Short while she lay on the ground, a claim reported widely in the media.\n\nThe stamping attack was widely reported in the newspapers\n\nPC Walker told investigators: \"I had a clear view of him… he had his arms raised up at right angles to his body and brought his right foot down in a full-force stamp on to her lower back.\"\n\nPC Tomlinson said: \"I thought he had killed her. He stomped on her back again.\"\n\nNow, evidence obtained by Panorama suggests these accounts may be false.\n\nMr Bayoh was restrained on the ground for five minutes before falling unconscious. He was pronounced dead at hospital a short time later.\n\nA post-mortem examination report revealed 23 separate injuries to Mr Bayoh's body, including a broken rib and gashes to his head. The cause of death was recorded as \"sudden death in a man intoxicated [with drugs] whilst under restraint\".\n\nIn 2018, the Crown Office in Scotland decided there would be no prosecutions against any officers involved.\n\nKevin Nelson gave evidence to investigators two days after the incident\n\nKevin Nelson was in a nearby house and saw events unfold over a garden hedge.\n\nHe gave his account to investigators from Pirc (Police Investigations and Review Commissioner), which investigates deaths in custody, two days after the incident.\n\nSpeaking publicly for the first time, Mr Nelson told Panorama he saw Mr Bayoh attempt to walk away from the officers, ignoring their commands, before being sprayed with CS spray. He said Mr Bayoh retaliated and punched PC Short.\n\nAsked if there had been any further contact with PC Short, he said, \"No. He was running off… after the punch, there was no more attack on her at all.\"\n\nMr Nelson said Mr Bayoh ran off from where PC Short went down and was quickly intercepted by the other officers.\n\nAsked about PC Walker's claim that Mr Bayoh had \"his arms raised up… and brought his right foot down in a full force stamp\", Mr Nelson said: \"That never happened. I didn't see him stamping at all or, other than the punch, any raised arms.\n\n\"After the punch, that was it. There was no more attack on her at all. That's not right.\"\n\nThe officers provided their accounts to investigators 32 days after Mr Bayoh's death.\n\nMr Nelson said no-one from Pirc returned to ask about the discrepancy between their account and his.\n\nThe eyewitness said he decided to speak out because it was unfair on Mr Bayoh's family that the officers had \"made the incident worse than it actually was to justify what had happened and… that's not right\".\n\nMr Nelson's account is supported by CCTV footage of the incident, obtained by the BBC.\n\nIt is poor quality but appears to show that once PC Short is knocked down by Mr Bayoh, the action moves away from her, and he is brought down within five seconds.\n\nPC Short did not mention in her statement she had been stamped on. Now retired, she later said she was unsure if she was conscious, and only learned about the alleged stamping attack when her colleagues told her about it afterwards.\n\nIn the CCTV, PC Short appears to get to her feet a few seconds after Mr Bayoh is brought down.\n\nMike Franklin says conflicts of evidence should have been resolved\n\nMike Franklin, former commissioner for the body which investigated police complaints in England and Wales, looked at Panorama's evidence.\n\nHe said: \"I think there's nothing more serious than a police officer who gives false information in an investigation where somebody has died. So without accusing them of lying, I simply say that there's a big conflict.\n\n\"Two officers who were there say that it did happen. The person to whom it happened didn't mention it. And an eyewitness says it didn't happen.\n\n\"I would've been reluctant to sign off the investigation as complete, without resolving those… conflicts of evidence.\"\n\nMr Bayoh's sister, Kadi Johnson, told Panorama the new allegations had made her \"really angry\".\n\nShe said the way her brother was \"painted\" by the accounts given after his death was not who he was.\n\nMr Bayoh's sister, Kadi Johnson, said the new allegations had made her really angry\n\nA spokesman for the Scottish Police Federation, which represents rank and file officers, said serving officers were unable to comment on matters \"to which they may be called upon to give sworn evidence\" but that they had \"co-operated fully and truthfully with the investigations that have taken place\".\n\nIt added it had seen \"compelling material that Mr Bayoh did violently stamp on the back of a policewoman as she lay unconscious\".\n\nThe BBC asked for this material to be produced but was told the inquiry was the \"proper forum\" for such matters.\n\nThe Crown Office, which directed the Pirc Inquiry, told Panorama it had examined \"eye-witness accounts of police and civilian witnesses\" and instructed \"appropriate investigation\".\n\nIt said after careful consideration it was decided there should be no prosecutions but reserved the right to prosecute should evidence become available.\n\nPirc told Panorama its investigation was \"detailed and extensive\" but could not comment further because of the public inquiry.\n\nPolice Scotland Chief Constable Iain Livingstone expressed his condolences to the Bayoh family and said the force would \"participate fully\" in the inquiry.\n\nKevin Clarke died after being restrained in London by up to nine officers\n\nPanorama's \"I Can't Breathe: Black and Dead in Custody\" also investigates the case of Kevin Clarke, 35, who died in 2018 after being restrained in London by up to nine officers.\n\nAn inquest into his death resulted in a damning verdict on the police and ambulance services.\n\nMr Clarke's sister Tellecia told the programme that if the officers \"hadn't used excessive force he would still be here today… treat him like a human being, and not just see him as a big scary black man\".\n\nMetropolitan Police Commander Bas Javid apologised to Mr Clarke's family and accepted the restraint had not been appropriate.", "Protests against China's alleged abuse of the Muslim Uighur community\n\nThe government has narrowly seen off a rebellion by 33 Tory MPs, who want to outlaw trade deals with countries judged to be committing genocide.\n\nMPs voted by 319 to 308 to remove an amendment to the Trade Bill which would have forced ministers to withdraw from deals with nations the UK High Court ruled guilty of mass killings.\n\nIt comes amid condemnation of China's treatment of the Uighur people.\n\nThe rebels believe they have enough support to secure another vote soon.\n\nAmong those to defy the government were ex-Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith, former cabinet ministers David Davis and Damian Green and Tom Tugendhat, chair of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee.\n\nThe rebellion is one of the largest on an issue not related to the Covid-19 pandemic during Boris Johnson's time as prime minister.\n\nThe government has a Commons majority of 80 but this was whittled down to just 11 as prominent ex-ministers such as Tobias Ellwood, Caroline Nokes and Nusrat Ghani, as well as a number of MPs first elected last year, sided with the opposition.\n\nMPs have been debating proposals, tabled by cross-bench peer Lord Alton, to give British courts the right to decide if a country is committing genocide, a decision currently left to the jurisdiction of international courts.\n\nThe proposals, also backed by Labour, would mean that ministers would have to revoke post-Brexit trade deals with countries that were ruled to be carrying out systematic mass killings.\n\nThe issue is expected to resurface when the Trade Bill returns to the House of Lords.\n\nEarlier on Tuesday, Conservative rebels, led by former leader Iain Duncan Smith, were unable to force a vote on a separate amendment they had proposed.\n\nEvery speaker in today's debate - from the front and back benches - said genocide was abhorrent. The worst of crimes. There was united criticism of China's brutal treatment of the Uighurs too.\n\nBut the question Parliament has been wrestling with is whether the High Court should have the right to decide if a country is committing genocide. And if they did judge a country has been carrying out mass killings, should the High Court be able to compel the government to revoke any trade treaty it has with that country?\n\nMinisters insist it should be the job of elected governments, not judges, to determine trade policy. But opposition parties and a large cohort of Tory backbenchers argue it's essential the High Court can rule on genocide and ensure the UK's new trade-making freedom has an obligation to uphold human rights too.\n\nThis also is an argument about where power lies after Brexit and what role Parliament should have in shaping trade policy after decades in the EU.\n\nBut BBC Newsnight political editor Nick Watt said that by securing large, but not overwhelming, support for Lord Alton's amendment in the Commons, the rebels hope the government will accept Mr Duncan Smith's own amendment - which would give the Commons the right to debate whether trade deals can be halted if genocide is proven.\n\nThe debate came as the US government formally declared that China was committing genocide in its repression of Uighur muslims in Xinjiang.\n\nThe UK government has been critical of China's treatment of the Uighurs and last week announced measures to cut UK business links with forced labour camps in the region.\n\nBut some MPs suspect the government is pulling its punches to avoid antagonising Beijing.\n\nMr Duncan Smith said the debate was \"all about simply shining a light of hope to all those out there who have failed to get their day in court and failed to be treated properly\".\n\n\"If this country doesn't stand up for that then I want to know what would it ever stand up for again?,\" he added.\n\nBut Trade Minister Greg Hands said it was unprecedented and unacceptable to give the courts powers to revoke trade deals agreed by elected governments.\n\nAnd he argued that no one would benefit from the proposal because the UK currently had no free trade deal with China.", "Lisbet Stone is stranded at Madrid Airport due to having an out-of-date coronavirus test result\n\nPassenger Lisbet Stone says she is stuck in Madrid Airport after airline officials said her coronavirus test result was out of date.\n\nFrom Monday, travellers arriving in the UK, whether by boat, train or plane, have to show proof of a negative Covid-19 test to be allowed entry.\n\nThe test must be taken in the three days before travelling.\n\nFor those with connecting flights, the test must be 72 hours before your final departure point to England.\n\nAnyone arriving without one faces a fine of up to £500.\n\nMrs Stone originally travelled to Cuba in February 2020 to see family. The British Cuban dual national was unable to fly home to the UK when Cuba closed its borders in March.\n\nThe family say she had several previous flights cancelled before finally being able to leave this weekend. She hasn't been able to see her four children or her husband Trevor in 11 months.\n\nThe government are understood to be speaking to Air Europa to try to get Mrs Stone home. Carriers have been told that they should permit stranded passengers to board and will not be fined for doing so.\n\nWhile Mrs Stone has been caught out by the new restrictions for incoming travellers, the first day of the new regulations appeared to go smoothly.\n\nMrs Stone left Jose Marti International Airport in Havana, Cuba, on Sunday night to fly back to the UK via Madrid.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Coronavirus: How to fly during a global pandemic (this video reflects the rules before the hotel quarantine was introduced in the UK)\n\nShe took a Covid test on Thursday to be guaranteed a result by Saturday. It was negative and Mrs Stone was able to board the plane from Cuba.\n\nHowever, on arrival at Madrid-Barajas Airport, Mrs Stone says she was stopped from boarding the next leg of her journey to London Gatwick by Air Europa staff, because her test had been taken more than 72 hours before the final flight.\n\n\"She's crying her eyes out,\" says Trevor Stone, her husband. \"I feel absolutely helpless. She doesn't have any Euros as she wasn't meant to stay in Spain. The authorities have given her no help whatsoever, we are just trying to understand what to do.\n\n\"She took her test 72 hours before the start of her journey, but had to take a connecting flight onwards. There would be no other way to do it, it is not physically possible.\"\n\nIn the meantime, Mr Stone says he has been home-schooling their four children on his own through the pandemic.\n\nTrevor Stone (left) has been caring for the couple's four children on his own for 11 months since Lisbet Stone was unable to leave Cuba\n\n\"We are just desperate to get her home - I'm so worried about her and after 11 months, she really wants to see her children,\" he added. \"We haven't done anything wrong, I don't know what to do or who to turn to.\"\n\nA Department for Transport spokesman said: \"Passengers travelling to the UK must provide proof of a negative coronavirus test which meets the performance standards set out by the government in the guidance published on gov.uk.\n\n\"The type of test could include a PCR test or antigen test, including a lateral flow test. Anyone who cannot provide the necessary documentation may not be allowed to board their flight.\"\n\nAir Europa and Madrid Airport have been approached by the BBC for comment.", "US tariffs have hit the Scotch whisky industry hard\n\nThe UK and US have failed to do a much hoped for \"mini-deal\" over trade in the last days of the Trump administration.\n\nThere were hopes the US would lift tariffs on imports of Scotch whisky and cashmere imposed last year as part of the Boeing-Airbus trade dispute.\n\nBut those duties will now stay in place while President-elect Biden awaits confirmation of his trade team.\n\nThe talks were revealed in a BBC interview with US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer in December.\n\nAt the time he said he was hopeful that he and his UK counterpart, International Trade Secretary Liz Truss, could \"get some kind of an agreement out\".\n\nBut the BBC understands that a broad offer from the US was rejected last week by the UK after concerns were expressed by the Business Department about the impact on Airbus' business in the UK.\n\nSince 2019, the EU and US have both imposed tariffs on each others' goods amid a long-running trade dispute between the planemakers Boeing and Airbus.\n\nThe tariffs centre on a long-running dispute between Boeing and Airbus\n\nEarlier last month the UK's Trade Department announced it would unilaterally break from the EU's position of levying tariffs on imports of Boeing aeroplanes, after the end of the Brexit transition period.\n\nIt was, said Ms Truss, an attempt to create goodwill to solve the 16-year old dispute.\n\nBut the UK aerospace industry was furious with what it saw as the government reneging on promises made in early 2020 to support Airbus in the dispute, even after Brexit.\n\nThese concerns were the main block to a deal, but the chaos in Washington DC over the past week also played a part.\n\nThe US was also looking for tariffs on its exports of bourbon to the UK - part of a separate trade dispute over steel - to be settled.\n\nA government source said: \"Ultimately we came close to resolving an intractable 16-year dispute, but didn't quite get there. Any deal must be balanced and work for the whole UK and all of UK industry.\"\n\nThey added: \"No one has fought harder on this than Liz, and she's going to continue pushing it with the Biden administration. She absolutely understands the pain of affected businesses and is determined to get these tariffs lifted and support jobs.\"\n\nThe source said the government had pursued a \"clear de-escalation strategy\" with the Trump administration over the dispute which meant it had avoided being hit with further US tariffs, unlike the EU.\n\nMs Truss still hopes to settle the dispute quickly and has committed to meet Katherine Tai, the new US Trade Representative, in Washington DC as soon as she assumes office, the source added.\n\nKaren Betts, head of the Scotch Whisky Association, said her industry was \"very frustrated\" a deal was not reached.\n\n\"There is deep disappointment across the Scotch whisky industry that distillers are still paying the price for an aerospace dispute that has nothing to do with us.\n\n\"The tariff on single malt Scotch whisky, now in place for 15 months, has caused us to lose over £450m in exports to the US, and our losses continue to mount.\"", "Marion Dawson is the third oldest person in Scotland to be given the vaccine.\n\nA 108-year-old woman has received the Covid vaccination on her birthday.\n\nMarion Dawson, from Houston in Renfrewshire, is the third oldest person in Scotland to be given the vaccine.\n\nShe received her jab at Houston and Killellan Kirk, which is being used by the local GP surgery to deliver vaccinations to the community.\n\nBorn in 1913, Mrs Dawson has lived through two world wars and the Spanish flu pandemic.\n\nDr Diane Fisher, who gave the injection said: \"We are so excited to be starting vaccinations of our over-80s, and that our first patient to be vaccinated is doing so on her birthday.\"\n\nMrs Dawson is the most senior person in NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde to be given the vaccine.\n\nAfter receiving her injection, she said: \"I'm glad it's passed. I never felt a thing.\"\n\nKirk minister, Rev Gary Noonan said: \"Mrs Dawson is a local treasure in Houston, until the lockdown she never missed a week at church.\n\n\"It's fitting she can get her vaccine in the Kirk, a place she loves.\"\n\nDr Mark Storey, partner at Strathgryffe Medical Practice, added: \"It's been a very difficult year in general practice and society as a whole.\n\n\"In our practice we have a family of 10,000 patients, so we are delighted to start vaccinating, especially with Mrs Dawson.\"", "The pace of Europe's Covid-19 vaccination campaign has picked up and in many countries infection rates have been falling.\n\nLockdowns are gradually being eased as the summer tourist season gets under way, and there are plans for an EU-wide digital vaccination certificate to be in place by 1 July.\n\nNationwide curfew ended on 20 June, 10 days earlier than planned. Face masks are no longer required outdoors.\n\nRestaurants, cafes and bars can serve customers indoors, with 50% capacity and up to six people per table.\n\nStanding concerts will resume on 30 June and nightclubs on 9 July (with 75% capacity). People attending will need a health pass which shows either full vaccination, a negative test within the previous 72 hours, or else a previous coronavirus infection.\n\nMedical grade masks are compulsory in shops and on public transport.\n\nFrom 30 June, working from home will no longer be compulsory.\n\nOn 21 June, Italy's curfew was scrapped and the whole country, except for the northwest region of Valle d'Aosta, became \"white zone\" - the country's lowest-risk category.\n\nAmong the measures still in place are social distancing (1m) and the wearing of masks indoors (and in crowded outdoor places), and a ban on house parties and large gathering.\n\nNightclubs and discos are also closed.\n\nAll indoor businesses, with the exception of nightclubs, are open.\n\nThe government introduced a \"corona pass\" in April, the first to do so in Europe.\n\nThis shows - either on a phone or on paper - that you have been vaccinated, previously infected or that you have had a negative test within 72 hours.\n\nPeople need to show it for entry to cinemas, museums, hairdressers or indoor dining.\n\nThe Greek government is welcoming tourists from many countries, if they are fully vaccinated or can provide a negative coronavirus test.\n\nFace coverings must be worn in all public places and there is a curfew from 01:30-05:00, but bars, restaurants, museums and archaeological sites are all open.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Greek island of Milos is aiming to become \"Covid-free\" so it can welcome back tourists\n\nCinemas, theatres, museums and restaurants are open at 50% capacity. From 26 June, this increases to 75%.\n\nNightclubs and discos will also be allowed to reopen, with a limit of 150 people.\n\nFace coverings must be worn in enclosed spaces and 1.5m social distancing observed.\n\nShops, bars, restaurants and museums are open, although face coverings remain compulsory in most public places.\n\nNightclubs can now reopen in parts of Spain with low infection rates.\n\nIn Barcelona, they are restricted to 50% of capacity and can stay open until 03:30 - dancers have to wear masks.\n\nSpain began welcoming vaccinated tourists from 7 June. Most European travellers still have to present a negative Covid test on arrival.\n\nBrussels: Outdoor dining resumed in Belgium on 8 May\n\nShops, cinemas, gyms, cafes and restaurants are open, with restrictions. Households can invite up to four people inside.\n\nFrom 1 July, working from home will no longer be mandatory, if the situation continues to improve.\n\nCultural performances, shows and sports competitions can also go ahead, with limited numbers, and more people will be allowed at weddings and other ceremonies and parties.\n\nPortugal has lifted many of its restrictions but face coverings must still be worn in indoor public spaces and some outdoor settings.\n\nBars and nightclubs remain closed, and it's illegal to drink alcohol outdoors in public places, except for pavement cafés and restaurants.\n\nAlcohol cannot be sold after 21:00 unless it is with a meal.\n\nRestaurants, cafes and cultural venues have to close at 01:00 and have capacity limits.\n\nA weekend travel ban is in force in the Lisbon area, starting at 15:00 on Friday, with residents only allowed to leave for essential journeys.\n\nIn Lisbon and in Albufeira (Algarve), cafes, restaurants and non-essential shops have to close by 15:30 at the weekend and 22:30 on weekdays.\n\nPortugal's summer season looks uncertain, yet its Covid figures have improved\n\nRestaurants, cafes, museums and historic buildings have reopened with capacity limits.\n\nFrom 26 June, a number of restrictions are being lifted.\n\nAlcohol can be sold after 22:00, and nightclubs can open, with an entry pass system.\n\nEvents held in public venues such as cinemas, conference centres and concert halls will be allowed, subject to social distancing.\n\nMasks will no longer be compulsory except on public transport, airports and in secondary schools.\n\nOutdoor services in restaurants and bars returned in June. Theme parks, funfairs, cinemas and theatres, gyms and swimming pools, have reopened as well.\n\nFrom 5 July, restaurants and bars will be able to serve customers indoors. Weddings and other indoor events for up to 50 people will be permitted and the numbers at outdoor organised events will increase.\n\nSince June, pubs have been able to stay open until 22:30 and more people are now allowed at sports events, outdoor concerts, cinemas and markets.\n\nOn 1 July, limits on private gatherings will be raised, and the recommendation to interact with a small circle of people removed.\n\nFurther easing is planned on 15 July and in September.", "'Paul' was accused of committing a domestic burglary in June 2018.\n\nIn early 2019 he was told by police that no further action would be taken against him. However, he was subsequently charged.\n\nLast week - over two years since the alleged offence - he appeared at Inner London Crown Court.\n\nBut his barrister told the court that the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) had still not served the sole evidence - DNA - in the case on the defence.\n\nPaul (not his real name) is on bail and had his trial put on provisional \"warned\" list - for December 2021.\n\nIt means there is no guarantee it will take place at that time - just that it might.\n\nThe judge explained apologetically that priority is being given to cases where defendants are being held in custody.\n\nSo, three and a half-years from the date of the alleged offence, there has been no justice for the alleged burglary victim - or the accused.\n\nPaul's was one of a number of cases I saw on a visit to Inner London with the chair of the Criminal Bar Association (CBA) James Mulholland QC. He told me it was typical.\n\n\"This is justice 2020, but it has been like this for the last 10 years, delay after delay, inbuilt into the system. These cases are being pushed back continuously.\n\n\"Lack of investment is at the heart of it and government needs to understand that you don't create a proper justice system without proper investment.\n\n\"What we are seeing here are the fruits of a lack of interest.\"\n\nThat apparent \"lack of interest\" is reflected in the state of some court buildings. Outside Inner London I saw a dead pigeon decaying on netting, vast weeds growing up the side of the building and old pipes leaking water.\n\nMeanwhile, a court official told me that some court centres are now listing trials for 2023.\n\nThe delays are caused by a range of factors.\n\nLawyers point to huge cuts to the police, CPS and other agencies such as probation.\n\nThere are a range of things malfunctioning within the system. They include long initial delays caused by police \"releasing suspects under investigation\" - sometimes for years - before a charging decision is made.\n\nSystemic problems continue with the CPS serving evidence late on the defence, meaning lawyers cannot advise their clients in a timely manner.\n\nAnd perhaps most significantly - the decisions by government to cut thousands of crown court sitting days. That has meant that courts have been mothballed while trials stack up in a growing backlog.\n\nNone of these problems are caused by the coronavirus pandemic and lockdown, but they are of course exacerbated by it. Pre-lockdown the crown court backlog in England and Wales stood at some 37,000.\n\n\"Adam\" - not his real name - was accused of rape in March 2018. He denies the charge. His trial has been put back twice, once because of the pandemic.\n\nHe is now on a \"warned\" list for November, while his chosen career in one of the public services is on hold.\n\n\"I have suffered really bad with my mental health through it,\" he says. \"I've had to up my dosage of anti-depressants. It's affected my potential career.\n\n\"The hard work I have done at university and everything to get me there it's all basically going out of the window now. I haven't got any trust or hope that it will be anywhere near the end of this year.\n\n\"I think it will be more like April next year.\"\n\nThe next case I saw involved two young men charged with possession of drugs with intent to supply. The alleged offence took place in December 2017.\n\nNo one in court could explain the delay.\n\nIt was followed by a case in which the judge needed a pre-sentence report from the probation service in order to sentence the defendant. Despite repeated requests, no one was available.\n\nIn order to achieve a conclusion of the case, the judge had to devise a sentence which did not require a report. It was not ideal, but it showed professionals trying to do their best in the face of a lack of resources.\n\n\"Defendants are suspended from their jobs with trial dates one to two years away. Some are losing university places with dates from the alleged offence to trial of four years.\n\n\"And some who are awaiting trial for 18-24 months on bail, can be on electronic tagged curfew from 7-7 every day, for up to two years.\"\n\nTo help deal with the situation, the government has announced that the period of time an accused person can be held before a trial - known as the Custody Time Limit (CTL) - will be increased from six to eight months.\n\nBut the government admitted - in response to a Freedom of Information request from the group Fair Trials - that it did not know how many people had been held in prison beyond the time limit since lockdown.\n\nLawyers fear some accused will spend more time in custody awaiting trial than the sentence they would eventually receive if they pleaded guilty - and that some might falsely plead guilty simply to bring an end to their case.\n\nLife is bleak for those in custody awaiting trial, says Ms Fenn,\n\n\"There are often no visits from family or in-person visits from lawyers. Defendants can be locked up for 23.5 hours a day, education classes and courses are suspended, jobs within the prison restricted, and there are reports of showers being limited to 1-2 a week.\"\n\nCovid has also removed a \"huge amount of mental health, drug and alcohol agency support\", she says.\n\nA Ministry of Justice spokesperson said justice had been kept moving \"despite the unprecedented challenges posed by the pandemic\" and overall, cases are falling.\n\nHowever, they acknowledged that \"more needs to be done\".\n\nThe government has launched an £80 million Criminal Courts Recovery plan which includes:\n\nHowever, only three of the new Nightingale Courts are dealing with crime.\n\nI visited one, Prospero House, a short walk from Inner London. It is a state of the art commercial building with three large courtrooms allowing ample room for social distancing. Every desk has hand sanitiser and protective gloves.\n\nBut Mr Mulholland says: \"We need 60 criminal Nightingale Court buildings. At the moment we have just three.\"\n\nThe CBA says there are around 460 crown courtrooms in England and Wales. Currently around 100 are able to hear trials, though not all are hosting them.\n\nThe government says its plan will bring on stream another 250 of the existing rooms to hear jury trials by the end of October. The CBA believes that simply will not cut into the backlog.\n\nLawyers believe that the Treasury has long seen justice as a poor relation to health and education in terms of public spending.\n\n\"Investing in the criminal justice system is investing in the wealth and prosperity of the country,\" says Mr Mulholland.\n\n\"It is an empty and insulting promise for any minister to declare a war on crime if a government can't fund a system that keeps us safe - and ensures crimes are swiftly investigated and cases come to court on time.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Aerial footage shows the 130-car pile-up on the Tohoku Expressway\n\nA huge snowstorm has struck a highway in Japan, causing a 130-vehicle pile-up, killing one person and injuring 10.\n\nThe storm blanketed a stretch of the Tohoku Expressway in Miyagi prefecture at around noon (03:00 GMT) on Tuesday.\n\nSome 200 people have been caught up in the pile-up and rescuers are currently at the scene, officials said.\n\nJapan has been hit by severe snow storms in recent weeks with some parts of the country seeing double the average expected snowfall.\n\nImages from the expressway in the north of the country show the sheer scale of the pile-up.\n\nOne person died and at least 10 were injured after the vehicles collided\n\nAuthorities had already enforced a 50km/h (31mph) speed limit on the road due to visibility.\n\nThere was a maximum wind speed of about 100km/h (62mph) at the time of the incident, local weather officials said.\n\nThose who were involved have been given drinking water and food, and have been provided with blankets to keep warm, NHK News reports (in Japanese).\n\nThose stuck behind the vehicles have been given food, water and blankets\n\nThe snow has affected some of Japan's high-speed railway network, with a number of train services in the Tohoku region cancelled.\n\nAccording to local media, the region is expected to record up to 40cm (15 inches) of snow in the next 24 hours.\n\nThe country has been experiencing a large amount of snowfall this winter.\n\nLast month, heavy snow left more than 1,000 vehicles stranded on the Kanetsu expressway for two days.\n\nThe weather was so bad that an emergency meeting was called and the country's Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga called on members of the public to be cautious.", "Pupils are currently learning remotely from home\n\nSchools in England may reopen region by region after half term, the government's deputy chief medical officer Jenny Harries has said.\n\nSpeaking to the Commons education committee, Dr Harries suggested there would be different rates of infection across the country when lockdown ends.\n\nThis would mean a \"differential application\" of restrictive measures would be required, she said.\n\nSchools were closed at the start of January to stem the spread of Covid-19.\n\nAlthough schools remain open to vulnerable children and those of keyworkers, all others are due to learn remotely from home until after the February half term holiday.\n\nBut the Health Secretary, Matt Hancock, has suggested they may not return fully then.\n\nA Department for Education spokesperson said the department was continuing to keep plans for the return to school under review and that it would inform schools, parents and pupils of the plans ahead of February half term.\n\nCommittee chairman Robert Halfon said he suspected schools would be closed for quite \"a few weeks yet\", but there has been no formal confirmation of this.\n\nMedical and science advisers were warning the government before Christmas that the NHS would not be able to manage the number of Covid-19 cases if schools remained open.\n\nThe new, more transmissible variant of the virus had been increasing exponentially in London and the south-east before Christmas.\n\nBut in some parts of the north and north-east saw rates of increase were reducing.\n\nDr Harries said: \"It is highly likely that when we come out of this national lockdown we will not have consistent patterns of infection in our communities across the country.\n\n\"And therefore, as we had prior to the national lockdown, it may well be possible that we need to have some differential application.\"\n\nBut Dr Harries said schools would be at the top of the priority to ensure that the balance of education and wellbeing were \"right at the forefront\" of consideration.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Deputy chief medical officer Jenny Harries says schools in England might reopen ''region by region''\n\nGeoff Barton, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said: \"Although the government intends that schools will fully reopen after the February half-term holiday, it is clearly in the balance when this happens and whether there will be any sort of regional approach.\n\n\"We expect that it will depend on coronavirus infection rates and the pressure on the NHS, and that the government will make a call on this issue nearer the time.\n\n\"What is important is that when schools fully reopen, everything possible is done to keep them open and to keep disruption to a minimum.\n\n\"This is why we are calling for education staff to be prioritised for vaccinations as soon as possible, and for schools to be given more support in the use of rapid turnaround mass testing.\"\n\nPaul Whiteman, general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers, said if the government was planning to stagger opening of schools by region, it needed to \"provide clarity sooner rather than later\".\n\n\"This will give vital time to prepare for a smoother reopening of schools and business,\" he said.\n\nOn calls for vaccination of teachers, Dr Harries suggested the safe re-opening of schools did not depend on this.\n\nBut members of the committee suggested education would be less disrupted by teachers needing to go home and isolate when infected.\n\nThe vaccination programme had been worked out in order of vulnerability to the disease, she stressed.\n\nAnd Dr Harries added that although pupils could and did transmit the virus, she did not have evidence of them being \"a significant driver\" of \"large-scale community infections\".", "The publication of a letter from the Duchess of Sussex to her father was a \"triple-barrelled invasion\" of her privacy, the High Court has been told.\n\nMeghan is suing the publisher of the Mail on Sunday and Mail Online over articles that reproduced parts of the private handwritten letter.\n\nShe claims her privacy and copyright were breached by the newspaper group.\n\nHer lawyers are asking for summary judgement - a dismissal of Associated Newspapers' defence instead of a trial.\n\nMeghan's lawyers argue Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL) has \"no prospect\" of defending the privacy and copyright claims being brought against them.\n\nThey claim the publication of extracts from the private, handwritten letter to Thomas Markle was \"self-evidently... highly intrusive\".\n\nMeghan, 39, sent the letter to her father in August 2018, following her marriage to Prince Harry in May that year, which Mr Markle did not attend. The couple are now living in the US with their son Archie.\n\nThe five articles, published in February 2019, were a \"triple-barrelled invasion\" of the duchess's privacy, correspondence and family, the lawyers claim.\n\nMr Markle said in a witness statement provided to the remote hearing, which started on Tuesday, that he wanted the letter published to \"set the record straight\" about his relationship with his daughter - but one of Meghan's lawyers described this claim as \"ridiculous\".\n\nMeghan is seeking damages from the newspaper group for alleged misuse of private information, copyright infringement and breach of the Data Protection Act over the articles.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex now live in the US with their son\n\nHer lawyers told the court the letter was written in sorrow rather than anger and was an attempt to get her father to stop talking to the press.\n\nBut the newspaper group said in its response to the court that Meghan had written the letter \"with a view to it being disclosed publicly at some future point\" in order to \"defend her against charges of being an uncaring or unloving daughter\".\n\nIn written submissions, the newspaper group's barrister Antony White said \"she must, at the very least, have appreciated that her father might choose to disclose it\" and pointed out that the Kensington Palace communications team had been shown the letter before it was sent.\n\n\"No truly private letter from daughter to father would require any input from the Kensington Palace communications team,\" said Mr White.\n\nBut Meghan's lawyers also pointed out the articles themselves had emphasised the private nature of the correspondence - and dismissed any argument that it was in the public interest for the newspaper to reproduce the letter, saying the public interest was at the \"very end of the bottom end of the scale\".\n\nJustin Rushbrooke, representing the duchess, described the handwritten letter as \"a heartfelt plea from an anguished daughter to her father\".\n\nHe said the \"contents and character of the letter were intrinsically private, personal and sensitive in nature\" and that Meghan \"had a reasonable expectation of privacy in respect of the contents of the letter\".\n\nThe effect of publishing the letter was \"self-evidently likely to be devastating for the claimant\", said Mr Rushbrooke.\n\nThe barrister argued that, even if ANL was justified in publishing parts of the letter, \"on any view the defendant published far more by way of extracts from the letter than could have been justified in the public interest\".\n\nMr White said that the newspaper group would argue that Meghan's status as a member of the royal family was relevant to the case.\n\nIn response to that point, Mr Rushbrooke said: \"Yes, she is in some senses a public figure, but that does not reduce her expectation of privacy in relation to information of this kind.\"\n\nIn Thomas Markle's evidence, he said the letter \"signalled the end\" of his relationship with his daughter, and instead of a reconciliation attempt, the letter was a \"criticism\" of him.\n\nHe said that he had to \"defend himself\" against an article in People magazine. It carried an interview with a \"long-time friend\" of his daughter, who suggested Meghan sent the letter to repair her relationship with her father - something he claimed was false.\n\nThe People article, he claimed, made him appear \"dishonest, exploitative, publicity-seeking, uncaring and cold-hearted\".\n\nHe said he had \"never intended to talk publicly about Meg's letter\" until he read the People magazine piece which, he claimed, suggested he was \"to blame for the end of the relationship\".\n\nThe full trial of the duchess's claim had been due to be heard at the High Court this month, but last year the case was adjourned until autumn 2021.\n\nThis interim remote hearing - to consider the request for summary judgement - is due to last two days. Mr Justice Warby, who is hearing the case, is expected to reserve his judgement to a later date.", "Most people who have had Covid-19 are protected from catching it again for at least five months, a study led by Public Health England shows.\n\nPast infection was linked to around a 83% lower risk of getting the virus, compared with those who had never had Covid-19, scientists found.\n\nBut experts warn some people do catch Covid-19 again - and can infect others.\n\nAnd officials stress people should follow the stay-at-home rules - whether or not they have had the virus.\n\nProf Susan Hopkins, who led the study, said the results were encouraging, suggesting immunity lasted longer than some people feared, but protection was by no means absolute.\n\nIt was particularly concerning some of those reinfected had high levels of the virus - even without symptoms - and were at risk of passing it on to others, she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Susan Hopkins from Public Health England said immunity from having Covid-19 is \"not 100% protective\"\n\n\"This means even if you believe you already had the disease and are protected, you can be reassured it is highly unlikely you will develop severe infections but there is still a risk that you could acquire an infection and transmit to others,\" she added.\n\n\"Now more than ever, it is vital we all stay at home to protect our health service and save lives.\"\n\nFrom June to November 2020, almost 21,000 healthcare workers across the UK were regularly tested to see whether they:\n\nOf those who had no antibodies to the virus, suggesting they may have never had it, 318 developed potential new infections within this timeframe.\n\nBut among the 6,614 with antibodies, this figure was just 44 potential new infections.\n\nResearchers received various different pieces of evidence suggesting these people had become re-infected - including new symptoms more than 90 days after their first infection, new positive swab tests and blood tests.\n\nSome tests are still being run and researchers say their results will be updated as they come in.\n\nScientists will continue to monitor the healthcare workers for 12 months to see how long immunity lasts.\n\nThey will also look closely at cases with the new variant - which was not widespread at the time of this first analysis - and observe the immunity of participants who receive the vaccine.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Can you become immune to coronavirus?\n\nDr Julian Tang, a virus expert at the University of Leicester, said the results were reassuring for healthcare workers.\n\n\"Having the vaccine after recovering from Covid-19 is not an issue... and will likely boost the natural immunity,\" he added.\n\n\"We also see this with the seasonal flu vaccine.\n\n\"So hopefully the results from this paper will reduce the anxiety of many healthcare-worker colleagues who have concerns about getting Covid-19 twice.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Only 155 out of more than 23,000 university professors in the UK are black, according to official figures.\n\nIt remains below 1%, the same as for the past five years, and is an increase of only 50 posts despite the number of professorships rising by more than 3,000 in that time.\n\nAt this senior academic level, women hold 28% of professorships, up from 23% five years ago.\n\n\"The pace of change is glacial,\" said lecturers' union leader Jo Grady.\n\n\"Universities must do more to ensure a more representative mix of staff at a senior level and stop this terrible waste of talent,\" said Dr Grady, general secretary of the UCU university union.\n\nThe figures on black professors were \"disappointing\" and \"inexplicable\", said Halima Begum, chief executive of the Runnymede Trust race equality think tank, \"given the symbolic importance of education as the foundation of our values.\"\n\n\"Around a quarter of British postgraduates are from ethnic minorities, there is clearly no shortage of qualified black and minority academics seeking elevation to senior teaching and research roles in our universities,\" said Dr Begum.\n\nShe called on vice chancellors to take action over a problem they can \"literally discern with their own eyes every single day they are on campus\".\n\nThe annual figures, published by the Higher Education Statistics Agency, provide a breakdown of the UK's academic workforce - and show while there has been a focus on widening access for students, there are still few black academic staff.\n\nAt the level of professor, the number of black professors rose from 105 to 155 between 2014-15 to 2019-20.\n\nBut new higher education providers included in the figures meant an additional 3,200 staff at professor grade, with the proportion of black professors only increasing marginally from 0.5% to 0.7% over five years.\n\nThis compared to 7% of professors who are Asian and 89% white in the figures for 2019-20.\n\nKehinde Andrews, professor of black studies at Birmingham City University, said that rather than universities being \"progressive dreamlands\", the \"make-up of professors is the perfect reflection of the narrow Eurocentric views still produced by universities\".\n\n\"I have seen very few genuine attempts to address the issues of racism at any level across the sector,\" said Prof Andrews.\n\nAmong all academic staff, 2% are black, 10% are Asian, 75% are white, with the remainder under categories of \"mixed\", \"other or not known\".\n\nThere is still a significant gender gap in professorships, among a group that is also heavily skewed to older age groups, with most in their fifties, sixties and above.\n\nFive years ago, more than 4,500 professors were women, which has risen to 6,300 - from 23% to 28% of these senior posts.\n\nThis is despite women representing 46% of all academic staff.\n\nBaroness Amos, who was the UK's first black female university head, has previously warned of \"deep-seated prejudices and stereotypes which need to be overcome\" in the recruitment of senior staff in higher education.\n\nUniversities UK said \"the evidence is clear that black and minority ethnic staff continue to be under-represented\" at these senior academic levels.\n\n\"More needs to be done to address this inequality which exists within higher education, which mirrors inequalities evident in wider UK society and which will require an unequivocal commitment to change,\" said the universities' organisation.", "Many think the courts system needs to invest more in technology\n\nWhen Louise Westra and her partner decided to adopt a child in November 2018, they were aware of the long process that was ahead of them, but they were not to know that the coronavirus pandemic would hold them back from completing the adoption of their son.\n\nOn 27 March, their petition was due in court. As lockdown had taken effect, telephone conferencing would be used instead of going to court.\n\nHowever, after the phone call, Ms Westra received an email from her solicitor explaining that the papers had not been served to the biological parents of the child. This continued every month after lockdown, as it wasn't possible for the papers to be physically served.\n\n\"It's farcical because one of them is the biological father who lives with the biological mother who has had her petition but the biological father hasn't and they live in the same premises,\" Ms Westra says.\n\nServing papers has to be completed by post via Royal Mail or in some cases lawyers would instruct a process server to physically take the papers and hand them to the person.\n\n\"It sounds very archaic but if [the person] won't take them by hand, the processor can drop the papers near them and tell them what the document contains and that's technically counted as full service,\" says Rebecca Ranson, a solicitor for Maguire Family Law.\n\nUnless a judge approves it, emailing or any other forms of digital communication are not considered valid - even though the majority of people in the UK have access to email and the internet. It is this kind of process, in need of a digital upgrade, that is frustrating for Ms Westra.\n\nMs Westra's case is one of many that have been delayed. The number of outstanding Crown court cases was 43,676 on 26 July, and the entire backlog across magistrates' and Crown courts is more than 560,000. The Commons Justice Committee has announced an inquiry into how these delays could be addressed.\n\nThe reality, however, is that there was already a huge backlog back in December, and Covid-19 has just exacerbated an existing problem. Cases like Ms Westra's have been affected by the pandemic, but many lawyers believe that the legal system could have been better prepared through technology investment over the years.\n\n\"We've got people being held for longer than they otherwise would be, and for every person in custody waiting for trial or waiting on bail for trial, there are witnesses, and complainants and their families awaiting a resolution. Whether it's the lack of technology links in prison, using Skype and improvising or not having enough Nightingale courts - it all boils down to a lack of investment,\" says Joanna Hardy, a London-based barrister.\n\nIn 2016 HM Courts & Tribunals Service began a £1bn court reform programme. This included a video-conferencing tool called the Cloud Video Platform (CVP), which allows for a dedicated private conference area, so criminal lawyers can speak to their clients without visiting prison.\n\nA programme for testing and adopting video technology was planned out until 2022, but in the pandemic, the government had to get CVP up and running in 10 weeks. This has since been extended to civil courts. But this implementation has been challenging, as there are only a restricted number of physical video links allowed.\n\n\"As we weren't ready for this huge technological revolution no-one had manned the tech rooms or built enough rooms on the other end in the prison. We can have as many laptops as we like, as much software as we like but if we can't put a prisoner into a room with a screen, the other end is pointless,\" Ms Hardy says.\n\nAccording to Ms Hardy, the waiting times to get these slots have been \"completely unacceptable\", and it has meant that sometimes hearings had to go ahead without the defendant present.\n\n\"It's like human beings failing where technology could have bridged the gap,\" she says.\n\nA Ministry of Justice spokesperson said that it had offered more than 400 CVP meeting rooms since the outbreak of coronavirus, but added that it is taking steps to increase the available capacity of video conferencing at some locations by extending operating hours. The spokesperson said that the MoJ is also undertaking urgent action to increase the physical number of video link outlets at critical sites.\n\nAt the moment, criminal trials are going ahead using social distancing - meaning sometimes a second courtroom is linked by technology, but this is creating further backlogs, as it means one case is occupying the same space as two.\n\nJustice, the all-party law reform and human rights organisation, has trialled a virtual jury trial with a mock case, and suggested it should be considered as a possible option, but this hasn't been taken on by the courts.\n\nThe issue with virtual jury trials is whether or not they could affect the outcome of a trial. Some lawyers feel like juries should see a witness, feel an exhibit and dispense justice to a fellow human being in the confines of a court room.\n\nJodie Hill says it is more difficult to cross-examine people in video hearings\n\n\"You can lose the impact of cross examination. When you're challenging their evidence in person it's easier to get them to trip up if they're not being honest, whereas if they're on video it might be easier for them to cover it up,\" says Jodie Hill, solicitor and managing director of Thrive Law, an employment law specialist.\n\nFor smaller hearings, online alternatives could be here for the long term, as it means lawyers don't have to travel all over the UK unnecessarily. This doesn't mean that every hearing that can be done remotely, should be done remotely.\n\n\"We don't want overkill. We think some cases still need to be in the room, particularly if you're dealing with vulnerable people or sensitive cases. It has to be a balancing act of harnessing the benefits of technology and thinking about the specific case,\" says Ms Hardy.", "The UK is forging its post-Brexit path as a \"confident, independent nation - and an energetic force for good\", according to the government.\n\nIt's free to set trade on its own terms, pursue opportunities and higher living standards. But can it square profit with principle?\n\nIs turning a blind eye to human rights violations worth it to have a trade deal that knocks a couple of quid off the price of an imported shirt?\n\nThat New Year's resolution is already being tested, as China falls increasingly out of favour.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab has referred to conditions, under which over a million Uighur Muslims are being held in camps and forced into work, as \"at the worst... torture and inhumane and degrading treatments\".\n\nHe warned that British companies will face fines, if they can't show that their supply chains are free from forced labour.\n\nIn December, a BBC investigation revealed thousands of Uighurs and other minorities have been compelled to toil in the cotton fields of Xinjiang. The region accounts for a fifth of the world's crop - it's not always easy to tell where your t-shirt hails from.\n\nThe UK and Canada have led the charge here, but one wonders how much further can it go.\n\nMr Raab told the BBC that the UK should not be engaging in free trade negotiations with countries whose record was \"well below the level of genocide\".\n\nThere are several issues with this: first, working out who gets to decree human rights abuses.\n\nAmendments to the Trade Bill currently going through Parliament would oblige the government to assess the human rights records of potential partners.\n\nIn July, Dominic Raab accused China of \"gross and egregious\" human rights abuses against its Uighur population\n\nOne amendment proposes allowing the High Court to declare a genocide in other countries, and forcing the immediate cancellation of trade deals with said nations.\n\nMr Raab, however, says the decision to declare a genocide can't, and shouldn't be, delegated to the courts. Rather, it's for MPs to hold the government to account over trade deals.\n\nBut Labour MPs, who have written to their Conservative counterparts urging them to support the amendments, say they've already been denied powers of scrutiny.\n\nThey highlight trade deals rolled over with Egypt, Cameroon and Turkey, with whom the UK previously enjoyed similar deals the EU had struck.\n\nThese three countries, they argue, have questionable records on human rights.\n\nAnd then there's China. The UK is not planning a deal with Beijing and has indicated it won't do a deal with countries that don't share its democratic values.\n\nBut both nations have their eye on joining the wider Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement.\n\nWith imports and exports worth almost £80bn in 2019, China already scores as one of the UK's largest trading partners, and it's not just about frocks and financial services crossing borders.\n\nSince Xi Jinping and David Cameron famously sipped a pint in a Buckinghamshire pub in 2015, Chinese investment in the UK has exploded, backing everything from football clubs to restaurant chains.\n\nNow China's appeal has soured, but it may not be easy to back away from encouraging investment, or a trade deal which touts lower import prices and greater opportunities for exporters, when the UK economy is already reeling.\n\nThe Wolverhampton Wanderers are owned by Chinese investors Fosun International\n\nTake textiles - a free trade deal would do away with a 12% tariff on clothes hailing from China. Ultimately, trade deals build on an existing - in this case very lucrative - relationship.\n\nCritics argue it's not enough to refrain from boosting ties with nations with chequered records - they should be lessened.\n\nBut it's even harder to snub countries that are already providing jobs for thousands, or items from the frivolous, such as smartphones, to the vital, like billions of PPE items.\n\nSome say the UK has its own issues elsewhere. It resumed the sales of arms to Saudi Arabia last year, after the government said the method for licensing had been reformulated to ensure they wouldn't be used in Yemen. Human rights groups are less sure.\n\nBalancing its quest to be a responsible citizen, together with exploring fresh fortunes, is just one dilemma the UK faces, as it shapes its new identity on the global stage.", "Boris Johnson will be glad Donald Trump has not been re-elected for a second term as US president, ex-Civil Service head Lord Sedwill has suggested.\n\nWriting in the Daily Mail, Lord Sedwill said those who believed Boris Johnson would have preferred Mr Trump to win again were \"mistaken.\"\n\nHe said he \"would not have been to the benefit\" of British or European security, trade or environment issues.\n\nDowning Street said Mr Johnson looked forward to working with Joe Biden.\n\nThis month he said Mr Trump was \"completely wrong\" to cast doubt on the US election and encourage supporters to storm the Capitol.\n\nAnd in 2015, when he was Mayor of London, Mr Johnson accused him of \"stupefying ignorance\" over his comments about violence in the city.\n\nBut after Mr Trump's victory in the US election in 2016, then Foreign Secretary Mr Johnson said there was a \"lot to be positive about\", and while running for the Conservative leadership in 2019, he said the President had \"many good qualities\".\n\nMr Trump later praised Mr Johnson, saying: \"they call him Britain Trump\".\n\nMr Johnson congratulated Mr Biden in a phone call after his US election win, saying he looked forward to \"strengthening the partnership\" between the US and UK.\n\nBut BBC political correspondent Chris Mason said Lord Sedwill's remarks would not be unhelpful to Downing Street as any perception in Washington that Mr Johnson was like Mr Trump becomes a liability with the arrival of President Biden.\n\nIn his Daily Mail article, Lord Sedwill, who was the UK's most senior civil servant until he stood down in September, said there was \"relief in Western capitals\" that normal diplomatic relationships will be restored once Mr Biden is inaugurated on Wednesday.\n\nThe former Cabinet Secretary said: \"Those of us who regard ourselves as close American allies have badly missed US leadership over the past four years.\n\n\"Based on my time working for Boris Johnson in Downing Street, I believe those who have said he would have preferred a second Trump term are mistaken. That would not have been to the benefit of British or European security, to transatlantic trade, let alone the environmental agenda to which the prime minister is so committed.\"\n\nLord Sedwill added: \"With Brexit accomplished and the Biden administration ready to re-engage, this is the moment for Global Britain to step up.\"", "Evelyn Jones was one of the care home residents whose family raised concerns\n\nSix care home residents died after suffering dehydration and malnourishment because of alleged neglect, an inquest has been told.\n\nStanley James, 89, June Hamer, 71, Stanley Bradford, 76, Edith Evans, 85, Evelyn Jones, 87, and William Hickman, 71 all died between 2003 and 2005.\n\nThey were residents at Brithdir Nursing Home in New Tredegar, Caerphilly.\n\nThe inquest in Newport follows Operation Jasmine, an £11.6m inquiry into alleged neglect at six homes.\n\nOne of Wales' biggest inquiries, it was launched after the death of an 84-year-old patient at a nursing home in Newbridge, Caerphilly.\n\nOpening the inquest, Assistant Coroner for Gwent Geraint Williams said police started investigating in 2005 following the death of an 84-year-old \"mentally infirm\" woman at another care home in Newbridge.\n\nMr Williams said it led to officers uncovering a \"pattern of concerns linked to other deaths in other care homes\".\n\nJune Hamer went into Brithdir in 2003\n\nIn relation to the Brithdir inquiry, Mr Williams said: \"Operation Jasmine uncovered evidence suggesting poor care of residents, including allegations of poor pressure sore and peg [percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy] feed management, malnourishment, and general neglect of the residents' long-term needs, together with deficient standards of care and nursing practice.\"\n\nThe inquest heard resident Mr James, who had dementia and was not mobile, developed several pressure sores in the 18 months before he died in August 2003.\n\nMr Bradford, who had schizophrenia, was admitted to the Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr Tydfil on several occasions for complaints of \"dehydration, chest and urine infections\".\n\nBefore he died in August 2005 he was \"observed to be seriously malnourished\", by doctors.\n\nDementia patient Mrs Evans was admitted to the same hospital in September 2005, where nurses found the site around her feeding tube \"infected\", while broken skin was found on her buttocks and she appeared \"unkempt and dirty, and her mouth and lips were dry and her tongue was thick\".\n\nThe trial of the late Dr Prana Das for care home neglect collapsed after he suffered brain damage in an attack\n\nDr Prana Das, who owned and ran the nursing home along with several other facilities in Wales, faced a string of charges relating to failings in care.\n\nHe suffered a brain injury during a burglary at his home in 2012 and was declared medically unfit to stand trial.\n\nDr Das died in January 2020 aged 73, but his widow and co-owner of the home, Dr Nishebita Das, who is said not to have taken part in running it, is expected to give evidence at the inquest.\n\nMr Williams told the hearing that, even before the couple purchased the home in April 2002 under their company Puretruce Health Care Limited, \"serious concerns\" were raised by state agencies regarding the number of residents who had suffered pressure ulcers.\n\n\"Those issues continued, even after Dr Das assumed ownership of the home,\" he said.\n\nMr Williams said the inquest will consider the actions of nurses and carers at the home, \"many of whom came to this country from abroad to work and have since returned there, and are now not available to participate in the inquest\".\n\nThe inquest is set to last until March.\n\nA hearing into the death of a seventh resident, Matthew Higgins, 86, will be held following the conclusion of this inquest.", "Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said he is self-isolating after being alerted by the UK's NHS Covid-19 app.\n\nThe West Suffolk MP said self-isolation was \"perhaps the most important part of all the social distancing\" and urged others to do the same if contacted.\n\nIn a tweet, Mr Hancock said he would be working from home until Sunday, adding \"we all have a part to play in getting this virus under control\".\n\nHe contracted coronavirus in March 2020 and suffered \"mild symptoms\".\n\nMr Hancock said he learned from the app he had been \"in close contact with somebody who's tested positive\" and so self-isolating was \"how we break the chains of transmission\".\n\n\"So you must follow these rules like I'm going to,\" he said. \"I've got to work from home for the next six days, and together, by doing this, by following this, and all the other panoply of rules that we've had to put in place, we can get through this and beat this virus.\"\n\nMr Hancock said he was alerted by the app on Monday night, having earlier led a Downing Street press conference alongside NHS England medical director Prof Stephen Powis and Public Health England's Dr Susan Hopkins.\n\nThe NHS app tells a person if they have been in close contact with someone who has later tested positive for coronavirus and tells them to isolate for 10 full days from their last contact.\n\nWhile it is not clear from Mr Hancock's statement if his isolation ends on Sunday or Monday, his period of quarantine suggests he was last in contact with the person who was infected on Wednesday or Thursday.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDowning Street confirmed that Mr Hancock would not receive the vaccine early because he is leading the pandemic response.\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman said: \"The PM and the rest of the cabinet will take the vaccine when it's their turn to do so based on the priority lists that have been published.\n\n\"We don't think it's right that the PM or other members of cabinet take the vaccine in place of somebody who is at higher clinical risk.\"\n\nIn March, the health secretary revealed he had tested positive for Covid-19 shortly after Prime Minister Boris Johnson had confirmed he too had the virus.\n\nWhile the health secretary recovered fairly swiftly, and was able to work from home during his illness, Mr Johnson required hospital treatment.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid symptoms: What are they and how long should I self-isolate for?\n\nSelf-isolation, which means staying at home and not leaving, is a legal requirement for anybody who has Covid symptoms, has tested positive for the virus, lives with someone who has symptoms, has arrived from abroad or has been contacted by NHS Test and Trace.\n\nIn December, the self-isolation period required was cut from 14 days to 10 days.\n\nUsing Bluetooth technology the NHS app makes contact between mobile phones when they are near each other, if an owner of a phone later tests positive for the virus and shares that with the app, alerts are sent to anyone who is deemed to have been a close contact.", "More than 127,000 people in the UK who contracted coronavirus have lost their lives - with the pandemic claiming more than 3.4 million deaths worldwide. As the UK marks a year since the first coronavirus lockdown was called, it's a time for reflection.\n\nWe have gathered tributes to more than 770 of those who have died. Below are words of remembrance from friends, family and colleagues.\n\nPlease enable JavaScript or upgrade your browser to see this interactive\n\nThe tributes are displayed at random, which means that you will see different faces each time you visit this page.\n\nIf we have used your tribute to your friend or family member, it will appear in the carousel above, or you can find it by entering their name in the search box below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. Enter a name to search the tributes\n\nFor more on NHS and healthcare workers, please see this page dedicated to 100 people who died while helping to look after others.\n\nFor more on how it has affected people's lives, from family tragedy to its impact on everyday life, we have a collection of personal stories about life in lockdown.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Britain's climate change leadership is being undercut by a government decision to allow a new coal mine in Cumbria, MPs have warned.\n\nThe UK is hosting a UN climate summit in November, where it will urge other nations to phase out fossil fuels.\n\nThe MPs say the government's decision to allow a new colliery at home will make it harder to secure a deal.\n\nThe Woodhouse mine was approved by Cumbria County Council because it will create jobs in an area of high unemployment.\n\nThe planning minister Robert Jenrick could have overruled it, but said the issue was best decided at a local level.\n\nThat verdict was derided by environmentalists, who pointed out that climate change from fossil fuel burning is a global problem.\n\nAlok Sharma, who is leading the COP26 climate summit and who co-ordinates UK policies on climate change, was asked by the Commons business select committee whether the mine approval was \"an embarrassment\". He replied: \"I take your point\".\n\nBusiness Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng told the committee there was a \"slight tension\" between approving the mine, near Whitehaven, and broader attempts to clean up the economy.\n\nBut he said ministers decided to allow the pit because it will produce coking coal for steel-making, which otherwise would have to be imported.\n\nHe said: \"There's a slight tension between the decision to open this mine and our avowed intention to take coal off the grid… there was a debate in the government about what we could do about this, but this was a local planning decision.\n\n\"If we don't have sources of coking coal in the UK we would be importing those anyway\".\n\nThis appears to run counter to advice from the Climate Change Committee which has said all coal - including coking coal - should be phased out by 2035. Doubts have been raised about investors in the mine being left with a \"stranded asset\" if the pit is forced to close on climate grounds.\n\nThe mine approval is even more poignant because the UK founded the 'Powering Past Coal Alliance\" - a global club to persuade nations to leave coal in the ground.\n\nA source close to the Alliance secretariat told BBC News that staff were enraged by the decision. They believed the decision had been made to help secure so-called \"Red Wall\" votes in areas which previously voted Labour .\n\nMohamed Adow, from a pressure group, Powershift Africa, told BBC News: \"It is quite bizarre that the UK government, in the year it hosts the biggest global climate talks since the signing of the Paris Agreement, has approved a new coal mine.\"\n\nThe young campaigner Greta Thunberg said the decision showed pledges to achieve net zero emissions targets by 2050 \"basically mean nothing\".\n\nDarren Jones, chair of the business committee, told BBC News it would be hard for the UK to persuade countries like Poland to abandon coal whilst building a mine.\n\nHe argued that the government should have found another way to bring jobs to Cumbria. He said: \"Carbon-intensive industries are looking to the government for leadership on the transition to a green future.\n\n\"Backing coal at home doesn't look in line with the recent Energy White Paper and certainly makes our efforts to secure international agreement on ambitious decarbonisation harder to achieve.\"\n\nThe Environmental Audit Committee Chairman, Philip Dunne, told BBC News: \"If the UK is to achieve its ambition to be an environmental world leader, the government must offer clear guidance on how we can take every industry to net-zero, and offer a pipeline of investable projects.\n\n\"The steel sector needs to develop alternatives to importing coking coal. This could also support the next generation of green jobs - which are urgently needed.\"\n\nThe cross-bench peer Baroness Worthington told BBC News: \"This decision is real laziness of thinking from the government. Just think of signal it sends to all those countries who want to cling on to coal.\n\n\"The government doesn't yet have a cohesive strategy that makes sense. It's crazy. Absolute madness.\"", "Medical staff are expected to \"face pressures unlike any other they have faced before\" as NI approaches its toughest week so far in the pandemic.\n\nThe British Medical Association has said while its doctors are \"coping\", many feel they are unable to give care to the \"standard they would want\".\n\nThe peak in intensive care is predicted to happen next weekend.\n\nThe head of the BMA in NI, Dr Tom Black has been critical of the way this wave of the pandemic has been managed.\n\nHe said: \"Staff will do their best in a very difficult situation, where many decisions in this pandemic were made too late.\"\n\nWhile it is expected the number of hospital admissions will peak sometime over the next eight to 10 days, the number requiring intensive care treatment is likely to continue increasing for at least another fortnight.\n\nDr Black said he was concerned for both patients and staff.\n\nHe said: \"It is likely that over the next few weeks doctors will be asked to work in a new location or provide support to areas that are already overstretched.\n\n\"Many have already had planned annual leave cancelled.\"\n\nThere were a further 19 virus-related deaths and 640 more Covid-19 cases reported in Northern Ireland on Monday.\n\nThe latest figures from the Department of Health bring the total number of deaths to 1,625, while 96,001 people have tested positive for the virus since the pandemic began.\n\nSome 65 patients are in ICU, down two from the last report, and 51 patients are being ventilated.\n\nSince the vaccine rollout began in NI, 146,733 people have been vaccinated, according to the Department of Health.\n\nOf that number, 125,717 were first doses and 21,016 were second jabs.\n\nA total of 31,393 people from the over-80 age group have been vaccinated.\n\nEarlier the BMA told BBC News NI that more than 90,000 doses the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine had arrived in Northern Ireland but the Department of Health has said it is anticipated separate deliveries will arrive by this weekend.\n\nDr Black said many staff members had reported feeling \"exhausted and demoralised\" and he warned that when it came to reviewing how the pandemic was handled \"this phase will stand out as one where we could have planned better\".\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann said the next seven days is \"when we will see that real intense pressure coming on our inpatients and intensive care units\".\n\n\"Our worst case scenario has modelling up to 1,200 inpatients - and that's a serious pressure that comes on our system,\" he told Radio Ulster's Evening Extra programme.\n\n\"We can go up into nearly 200 ICU capacity but that comes at a stretch, that comes with putting our staff under severe pressure in ICU units.\n\n\"It also comes by having to shift the ICU specialist nurse from a ratio of one-to-one to a ratio of one-to-two or even one-to-three in extreme pressures.\n\n\"That's not something we want to do,\" he added.\n\nThe past week saw hospitals across Northern Ireland coming together in order to cope with the strain.\n\nOn 10 January, the Southern Health Trust was on the cusp of declaring a major incident amid the mounting pressures across the health service.\n\nThat was avoided as many off-duty staff answered a call to come into work and the health trusts pulled together to provide a regional response to the crisis.\n\nPatients were diverted to those hospitals which could take them and where infrastructure could cope with supplying additional oxygen to the very ill.\n\nOver the weekend of 9/10 January the Southern Health Trust - the smallest of the health trusts - was dealing with the highest number of patients who required oxygen.\n\nIn the past week the Northern and Southern Health Trusts have seen the highest number of patients.\n\nThat reflects the high rate of community transmission in some areas those trusts cover.\n\nMeanwhile, no resolution has been reached between Stormont leaders and the Irish Government over the sharing of passenger data.\n\nLast week, First Minister Arlene Foster and Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill criticised Dublin for failing to share information on travellers arriving there during the pandemic.\n\nMichelle O'Neill said it was \"regrettable\" the issue has not been resolved\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster said repeated efforts to access data on passenger locator forms filled out by people arriving in the Republic of Ireland had failed.\n\nMrs Foster and Ms O'Neill indicated on Thursday that they planned to raise the matter directly with Taoiseach (Irish prime minsiter) Micheál Martin.\n\nMs O'Neill told the Northern Ireland Assembly on Monday that no resolution has been found yet.\n\nShe told MLAs the issue had been raised \"on every occasion we have had the opportunity\" and that it was \"regrettable\" that the issue had not been resolved.\n\nThe travel issue will be discussed at a meeting on Wednesday involving the first minister, the deputy first minister, Irish Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney and NI Secretary of State Brandon Lewis.\n\n\"I hope that perhaps Wednesday's meeting will allow some opportunity for there to be a way forward,\" the deputy first minister added.\n\nIt was announced on Sunday that all travellers who have returned from Portugal or transited through 16 South American countries in the past 14 days will have to - along with their household - self-isolate for 10 days upon return to Northern Ireland.\n\nThis includes travellers who entered these countries en route to another destination. All travellers returning home from South America are advised to be tested, whether or not they have symptoms.\n\nFrom Thursday, all international travellers will be required to present a negative Covid-19 test result before arriving in Northern Ireland.\n\nThis rule comes into effect in England, Scotland and Wales on Monday.\n\nOn Monday, the Department of Health in the Republic of Ireland reported eight more coronavirus-related deaths.\n\nIt brings its death toll to 2,616.\n\nThe department said 2,121 new cases of the virus had been reported, with a cumulative total of 174,843 infections.\n\nIt said that as of 14:00 local time on Monday, 1,975 Covid-19 patients are in hospital, of which 200 are in ICU (intensive care units).\n\nIrish Chief Medical Officer, Dr Tony Holohan, said: \"This third wave of the pandemic has seen higher level of hospitalisations across all age groups.\n\n\"There are now more sick people in hospital than any time in the course of this pandemic\".", "Staff gathered outside a supermarket to pay their respects to a colleague who died with coronavirus.\n\nJohn Deacy, 81, worked the Christmas Eve shift at the Tesco Extra store in Gabalfa, Cardiff, died just two weeks later.\n\nFriends and colleagues clapped as the funeral procession went by the store.\n\nFormer members of a jazz band, formed by Mr Deacy in the 1970s, marched in front of the hearse.\n\nHis son, Wayne, 56, said: “My dad put everyone above himself. He’d do anything for anyone.\n\n\"He’d help anyone and would never speak badly of people.”\n\nMr Deacy was in the Royal Marines for seven years and was a semi-professional boxer before starting a career at the industrial gas company BOC.\n\nHe went on to work for the supermarket for 16 years.\n\n“We’ve had loads and loads of messages from hundreds of staff who said he will leave a massive gaping hole,\" his son said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid in Scotland: Schools to stay closed until mid-February at least\n\nScotland's Covid-19 lockdown has been extended until at least the middle of February, with most school pupils to continue learning from home.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon told MSPs that transmission of the virus appeared to be declining but was still too high to ease restrictions.\n\nBut she hopes schools will be able to at least begin a phased return to the classroom in the middle of next month.\n\nThe level four restrictions have been in place since Boxing Day.\n\nMeanwhile the islands of Barra and Vatersay are being moved into the top level of restrictions due to a \"significant outbreak\" there.\n\nThe current restrictions, which have closed non-essential shops and seen a \"stay at home\" message put down in law, had been due to expire at the end of this month.\n\nBut Scottish government ministers agreed they should be extended after a cabinet meeting on Tuesday morning.\n\nMs Sturgeon told MSPs that lockdown was \"beginning to have an impact\" on the number of new infections, but said Scotland remained in a \"very precarious position\".\n\nShe added: \"We need to be realistic that any improvement we are seeing is down, at this stage, to the fact that we are staying at home and reducing our interactions.\n\n\"Any relaxation of lockdown while case numbers, even though they might be declining, nevertheless remain very high, could quickly send the situation into reverse.\"\n\nThe vast majority of Scottish pupils have been home learning since the Christmas holiday\n\nThe announcement came as 1,165 new cases of Covid-19 were registered in Scotland, representing 11.1% of tests carried out.\n\nA total of 1,989 people are in hospital with the virus while a further 71 deaths of people who recently tested positive have been logged.\n\nMs Sturgeon said there was \"real and severe\" pressure on health services, with around 30% more patients in hospital than at the peak of the first wave in April 2020, and that this was \"almost certain to rise for a further period yet\".\n\nSchool buildings and nurseries have been closed to most pupils since the start of term, with all but the children of some key workers and vulnerable pupils learning from home.\n\nNot only will schools remain closed to most pupils until at least mid-February, they are unlikely to return to normal at that point.\n\nThe first minister has indicated that her aim is to begin a phased return, if coronavirus allows. So what might that mean?\n\nThe groups that will get back into class first are likely to include secondary school exam year pupils, the youngest primary school children and those in P7 getting ready to move to high school.\n\nFor others, online learning is likely to last a bit longer.\n\nBoth the return to school and the continuation of the wider lockdown will be reviewed again in a fortnight on 2 Feb.\n\nBy that week, first doses of vaccine should have been offered to all over 80s in Scotland as well as frontline NHS and social care staff and care home residents.\n\nWith only 15-20% of the over 80s reached so far, opposition parties think the programme is slipping behind schedule, which the first minister denies.\n\nMs Sturgeon said she knew how \"challenging and stressful\" home schooling was for families, but said community transmission was \"too high\" to allow a safe return to classrooms.\n\nShe said: \"If it is at all possible, as I very much hope it will be, to begin even a phased return to in-school learning in mid-February, we will.\n\n\"But I also have to be straight with families and say that it is simply too early to be sure about whether and to what extent this will be possible.\"\n\nStatistics released on Monday showed that Scotland had vaccinated 6% of its adult population so far - the same percentage as Wales, but lower than the 8% that have been vaccinated in England and 8.7% in Northern Ireland.\n\nEngland has also given a second dose of the vaccine to 427,386 people, compared to only 3,698 in Scotland.\n\nMs Sturgeon said approximately 100,000 people were being vaccinated per week in Scotland, and that health teams were \"on track\" to expand this to 400,000 per week by the end of February.\n\nStatistics have suggested the vaccination programme in Scotland is currently lagging behind England\n\nMore than 90% of care home residents have now been given a first dose, along with 70% of care home staff and 70% of all frontline health and care workers.\n\nThe first minister said the focus on care homes - where it is \"time consuming and labour intensive\" to give out jabs - was \"why overall figures are at this stage lower than in England\", where more over-80s have received the vaccine.\n\nShe said the \"pace of progress in the over-80s group is also now picking up\", and that the government remained on track to hit its target of completing everyone on the priority list by early May.\n\nScottish Conservative group leader Ruth Davidson said the Scottish government were \"lagging behind their own targets\" on vaccination, saying the focus on care homes \"doesn't explain how slowly the vaccine is reaching GP surgeries and the public\".\n\nShe read out a series of letters from elderly people who had not been contacted about getting a jab, saying they were \"anxious they don't get left behind\".\n\nMs Sturgeon said she would not apologise for \"prioritising the most vulnerable first\", saying all four UK nations were \"working to the same targets\".\n\nScottish Labour's interim leader Jackie Baillie asked if Ms Sturgeon was confident the government could hit its \"critical\" targets, saying GPs were still complaining about \"patchy\" distribution of vaccines.\n\nThe first minister replied that her government would hit its goals, saying it was \"always the intention\" to increase the pace of vaccination as infrastructure and supplies became available.\n\nThis would see care home residents, healthcare staff and all over-80s get a first dose by the start of February, with over-70s and those deemed \"extremely vulnerable\" by mid-February and all over-65s by the beginning of March.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Tuesday evening. We'll have another update for you on Wednesday morning.\n\nScotland's Covid-19 lockdown has been extended until at least the middle of February, with most school pupils to continue learning from home at least until then. First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said transmission of the virus appeared to be declining but was still too high to ease restrictions, which have been in place since Boxing Day. It comes as England's deputy chief medical officer said schools may reopen region by region after February half term.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock has said he is self-isolating after being alerted by the UK's NHS Covid-19 app. He urged others to do the same if \"pinged\" by the app and said self-isolation was \"perhaps the most important part of all the social distancing\". Mr Hancock, who is MP for West Suffolk, suffered \"mild symptoms\" when he contracted coronavirus in March 2020.\n\nA group of politicians drank alcohol on Welsh Parliament premises, days after a coronavirus rule banning pubs from serving drinks took effect. BBC Wales has been told Conservative Senedd leader Paul Davies, Darren Millar and Nick Ramsay were drinking together in early December, with Labour Senedd member Alun Davies also involved. Senedd authorities said they are investigating an \"incident\". Elsewhere, an internal investigation has began after railway workers allegedly held a surprise baby shower in a closed Patisserie Valerie bakery at London's Marylebone station during lockdown.\n\nHeadlines about footballers and Covid have been hard to miss lately - with questions about dressing room distancing, off-pitch partying and all those post-goal hugs. But what's football in lockdown actually like for players and their families? BBC Newsbeat has found out by speaking to Wycombe Wanderers footballer Joe Jacobson and his wife Louise.\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng has confirmed the government is looking at scrapping some EU labour laws now it is no longer bound by the bloc's rules.\n\nBut he promised there would be no dilution of workers' rights.\n\nMeasures under consideration include relaxing the working time directive which enshrines a 48-hour week.\n\nShadow business secretary Ed Miliband warned the government wanted to take a \"wrecking ball\" to hard-won rights.\n\nEarlier this week Mr Kwarteng said he wanted to \"protect and enhance\" labour law after the Financial Times reported that some rules could be weakened.\n\nThe minister later told business leaders the UK had an opportunity to reform regulation derived from EU law, but would not deliberately antagonise the EU - its biggest trading partner - immediately after the Brexit deal.\n\nConfirming the review on Tuesday, Mr Kwarteng told MPs there would be no \"bonfire of rights\".\n\n\"I think the view was that we wanted to look at the whole range of issues relating to our EU membership and examine what we wanted to keep, if you like,\" he said.\n\nBut he said \"the idea that we are trying to whittle down standards, that's not at all plausible or true\".\n\nAppearing before MPs, the business secretary said: \"I'm very struck as I look at EU economies how many EU countries - I think it's about 17 or 18 - have essentially opted out of the working time directive.\n\n\"So even by just following that we are way above the average European standard and I want to maintain that. I think we can be a high-wage, high-employment economy, a very successful economy, and that's what we should be aiming for.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Kwasi Kwarteng This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Miliband said that after denying the FT's report, Mr Kwarteng had now \"let the cat out of the bag\" in admitting the government was conducting a review.\n\nHe warned that opting out of the 48-hour week would harm workers in key sectors like the NHS, road haulage and airlines from working excessive hours.\n\n\"A government committed to maintaining existing protections would not be reviewing whether they should be unpicked. This exposes that the government's priorities for Britain are totally wrong.\"\n\nDrew Hendry, the SNP's business spokesman, echoed the criticism, accusing the government of planning an \"assault\" on workers' rights.\n\nMeanwhile the boss of the UK's biggest recruitment firm, Reed, told the BBC's Today programme that there was \"no wish\" among employers to see \"a so-called bonfire of workers' rights.\n\n\"They must be protected because fair treatment is the bedrock of good workplace relations,\" James Reed said.\n\nThe chairman of the firm said the government should instead focus on lower-paid workers and measures that could be taken to improve unemployment, which is set to rise further into mid-2021.\n\n\"I would suggest two things are looked at before any EU rules: The apprenticeship levy, which is clearly failing... and also National Insurance on jobs. It's a tax on jobs - how can that be improved? Especially to help the low-paid back into work.\"\n\nUnder the post-Brexit trade deal with the EU, the UK has agreed to conditions that maintain fair competition, or a level playing field, between the two sides.\n\nHowever, the EU's ambassador to the UK, Joao Vale de Almeida, said Brussels could retaliate if Boris Johnson's government went too far in with deregulation.\n\n\"It will be for us to judge the extent to which it violates this principle of 'level playing field' and if that is the case there are mechanisms in the treaty, in the agreement, that allow us to discuss and eventually to come to an understanding,\" he said on Tuesday.\n\n\"If no understanding there are retaliation measures that can be applied on both sides.\"", "The death happened in the alpine resort of Verbier, in Switzerland\n\nA British man has been killed in an avalanche in the Swiss Alps, police have said.\n\nThe man was among 10 people swept away at the alpine resort of Verbier, to the east of Geneva, on Monday morning.\n\nPolice said the skier, who has not been named, lived in Verbier and died at the scene.\n\nOne person was flown to hospital with serious injuries, while eight others were uninjured, local police said.\n\nA police spokesman said: \"The avalanche occurred outside the piste between the Verbier ski area and 'Les Attelas'.\n\n\"At around 10:20, a skier was driving down a corridor below the 'Attelas' area.\n\n\"A snow drift came loose and carried the skier as well as another person who had been further down at the time.\"\n\nAn investigation has been launched.\n\nThe Foreign Office said it was offering support to the British man's family and was in contact with the authorities in Switzerland.\n\nThe death comes after several days of heavy snowfall across Switzerland, which led to the death of another skier who was killed in an avalanche while skiing in Gstaad.\n\nIt takes the total deaths due to avalanches in the country to seven since last weekend.\n\nMore than 200 British skiers left the popular Verbier resort in December after Switzerland imposed a coronavirus quarantine following the discovery of a new variant of the virus.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lorry drivers have been holding up the traffic in Westminster.\n\nBoris Johnson has pledged £23m to help businesses affected by Brexit delays amid protests by fishing firms.\n\nDemonstrations took place outside government departments in central London by exporters who are warning their livelihoods are under threat.\n\nExports of fresh fish and seafood have been severely disrupted by new border controls since the UK's transition period ended earlier this month.\n\nThe PM said firms would be compensated for delays that were not their fault.\n\nIndustry associations have complained that extra paperwork has made it difficult to deliver fresh produce to mainland Europe before it goes off.\n\nThey have warned that if the situation continues, jobs could soon be at risk.\n\nPressed on what he would do in response, Mr Johnson said the government would step in to support firms which \"through no fault of their own have experienced bureaucratic delays, difficulties getting their goods through, where there is a genuine willing buyer on the other side of the channel\".\n\n\"There's a £23m compensation fund we've set up and we'll make sure they get help,\" he said.\n\nDetails of the scheme are expected later this week.\n\nAfter a day of protests in central London, which saw 20 lorries drive up Whitehall, the Metropolitan Police said 14 people had been reported for Covid-related offences, but no arrests were made.\n\nMark Moore, manager of the Dartmouth Crab Company, said his business and others were protesting to \"raise awareness\" of the impact of new border checks.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 5 Live his company had faced delays of up to eight and a half hours when delivering produce into the European Union.\n\nHe added that the situation was \"especially difficult\" for the shellfish sector, where goods were at risk of going off before reaching customers.\n\n\"It's not about the increased documentation per se,\" he said.\n\n\"We have taken that on board, and we ourselves - and I know many others - have had no issues with producing the actual paperwork.\n\n\"It's the volume required and the timeframe in which to produce it, which doesn't lend itself to live shellfish and fish generally.\"\n\nThere are 24 lorries in total, overwhelmingly from seafood exporters in Scotland. Businesses taking part say the Brexit trade deal has left their industry high and dry.\n\nAnd although one haulier from Aberdeenshire I spoke to was keen to stress that their coordinated protest was peaceful, it is clear that they all feel that direct action is now necessary to make the government sit up and take notice.\n\nGood natured though their action was, it did for a time cause serious traffic congestion along Whitehall and Parliament Square.\n\nHowever, low levels of traffic perhaps caused by the Covid lockdown meant the roads around Whitehall didn't grind to a complete halt.\n\nAt stake, they believe, is an industry, but also thousands of livelihoods. Exporters say they are backed by fishermen who are struggling to land their catches.\n\nAnd although the rural Scottish communities which are sustained by fishing might seem like a long way from the streets of SW1, the hauliers certainly made their presence felt this morning.\n\nHaving left the EU's customs union and the single market, UK exports are subject to new customs and veterinary checks which have caused problems at the border.\n\nSome Scottish fishermen have been landing their catch in Denmark to avoid the \"bureaucratic system\" involved in exporting to Europe, according to Scotland's rural economy secretary.\n\nLast week, Boris Johnson told a committee of MPs that fishing firms impacted by disruption would be compensated for \"temporary frustrations\".\n\nBut the BBC was told that the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) did not know about the promise of compensation before it was made by Mr Johnson.\n\nSpeaking to reporters, the prime minister said he understood the \"frustrations\" of the fishing industry, noting its plight had been \"exacerbated by the Covid pandemic\".\n\n\"Unfortunately, the demand in restaurants on the continent for UK fish has not been what it was before the pandemic, just because the restaurants have been closed for so long,\" he added.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer accused ministers of trying to \"blame fishing communities\" for problems \"rather than accepting it's their failure to prepare\".\n\n\"The government has known there would be a problem with fishing and particularly the sale of fish into the EU for years,\" he told reporters.\n\nMuch media attention has been focussed on Scotland as this export crisis has unfolded.\n\nBut exactly the same problem is rearing its head in the UK's other great fishing stronghold - at the other end of the UK in Devon and Cornwall.\n\nA virtual Who's Who of South West fishing leaders wrote to the environment secretary back in November warning that the new post-Brexit export requirements would have a \"seriously detrimental effect\" on the industry, claiming this \"could be the final straw for many businesses\".\n\nHere, too, many fish exports have now ground to a halt and others have encountered obstacles and long delays.\n\nAnd exporters have reacted angrily to the government's repeated insistence that the issues they've been experiencing over the last two weeks are just \"teething problems\".", "Not all parents have found it easy to home school their children during coronavirus lockdowns\n\nLevels of stress, depression and anxiety among parents and carers have increased with the pressures of the lockdowns, suggests research from the University of Oxford.\n\nMany parents, especially those of secondary-age pupils, say they are worried about their children's futures.\n\nThe government has said it is aware how challenging it is for parents to support children with home learning.\n\nThe research, based on responses from 6,246 parents and carers between mid-March and the end of December 2020, found problems including:\n\nOn an established scale of depression, anxiety and stress, parents' depression scores increased from April through to June from an average of 9.03 to 9.71, says the study funded by the Economic and Social Research Council.\n\nWhile these average scores decreased over the summer, when Covid-19 restrictions were eased, to a low of 8.23 in September, they rose again over the course of the autumn term to a high of 10.1 points in December.\n\nParents' stress scores were at their lowest in August and September at 11.4 points, but increased to a high of 13.2 in December, following the pre-Christmas lockdown.\n\nThe researchers said higher levels of stress were detected particularly in low-income families, as well as single-parent households and those with children with special educational needs.\n\nWhile average anxiety scores were relatively stable throughout the whole period - ranging from a 4.71 points in April to 4.24 in July - they hit a high of 5 points in December.\n\nThe study also found just over a third (36%) of parents with young children (10 years or younger) said they were \"substantially worried\" about their children's behaviour, in contrast to just over a quarter (28%) of parents who had older children only (11 years or older).\n\nHowever, nearly half (45%) of those with secondary-age children were worried about their children's education and future, compared to 32% of those with young children.\n\nLeticea, a parent who took part in the study, said: \"I think that UK leaders should have access to this data to see what is going on with the mental health of families and how they are being affected by Covid-19 with increased levels of stress, depression and anxiety - we need something to look forward to.\n\n\"I am also worried that the next three months will show a sharper increase in anxiety and stress where parents are having to do more teaching at home.\n\n\"Children are more worried as their teachers are becoming ill - the 'new variant' sounds more scary, my daughter keeps commenting on an increasing worry of catching Covid-19 which she didn't do so much before.\"\n\nAnother parent, Madiha, said: ''Current times are hard enough as they are.\n\n\"As a working parent, the most important thing for me is to ensure my family's wellbeing, their safety, and their continued development.\n\n\"Prolonged screen time, disruption to daily routine, frequent arguments, lack of exercise, and stress of exams have all been contributing factors to our mental health and wellbeing.\n\nMadiha said she hoped the study would play a part in informing policy and developing interventions to help families.\n\nCathy Creswell, professor of clinical developmental psychology at Oxford University and co-leader of the study, said the findings showed parents were particularly vulnerable to distress during the first lockdown.\n\n\"Our data highlight the particular strains felt by parents during lockdown when many feel that they have been spread too thin by the demands of meeting their children's needs during the pandemic, along with home-schooling and work commitments.\"\n\nSchools were first closed to most pupils in March\n\nJohn Jolly, head of the charity Parentkind, said the research highlighted \"the additional stress and pressure that partial school closures place on parents\".\n\n\"Given the disruption to family life, it is vital that policymakers consult and listen to the concerns of parents on issues that directly impact them and their children's futures.\n\n\"This includes the safety and reopening of schools, the fair allocation of grades in the absence of exams, and remote learning provision.\"\n\nThe Oxford researchers are tracking children's and parents' mental health throughout the current crisis, to help them identify what protects young people from deteriorating mental health and how this may vary according to child and family characteristics.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ms Davies-Jones wanted to highlight how \"vitally important\" smear tests are\"\n\nAn MP has described how she had to have most of her cervix removed after putting off a smear test for several months.\n\nPontypridd MP Alex Davies-Jones, 31, said she was invited for her first routine screening in December 2015 and \"like so many others, I put it off\".\n\nFollowing a reminder in April 2016 she went for the cervical screening.\n\nShe wrote in the i newspaper it led to her being diagnosed with CIN3, abnormal cells and had to have surgery.\n\nIf left untreated, CIN3 can have a high chance of becoming cancerous.\n\nMs Davies-Jones wrote in the paper she was left \"without the majority of my cervix\" after the surgery.\n\nShe said she used her article to urge others \"don't delay in booking\" and said she felt compelled to write about her experiences for Cervical Cancer Prevention Week.\n\nA cervical screening checks the health of your cervix.\n\nA small sample of cells is taken from the cervix and checked for certain types of human papillomavirus (HPV) that can cause changes to the cells.\n\nIf present the sample is then checked for any changes in the cells which can be treated before they get a chance to turn into cervical cancer.\n\nThe NHS advises women between the ages of 25 to 49 to have a smear test every three years.\n\nAlex Davies-Jones became the Labour MP for Pontypridd in the 2019 General Election\n\nShe wrote: \"I used all of the usual excuses that you may have heard before.\n\n\"I was simply too busy, I couldn't get an appointment and I had no symptoms or abnormalities that were worrying me.\"\n\nMs Davies-Jones wrote she thought the routine screening would \"just be five minutes of awkward conversation with the nurse at my local GP whilst taking my knickers off\".\n\n\"I didn't ever think that there could be a chance that my cells would be 'abnormal' and that the next few months of my life would leave me terrified and constantly contemplating my own mortality.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chloe Delevingne had a smear test live on the Victoria Derbyshire programme to show what the procedure involved\n\nIf she had put off the screening any longer \"the situation could have been different\", the MP wrote.\n\nShe said she first received a type of laser treatment to \"burn off the abnormal cells from my cervix\" but more treatment was needed after the doctor told her the abnormal cells on her cervix were \"embedded deeper and looked more challenging than expected\".\n\nThen she had to have surgery, a \"cold knife biopsy\".\n\n\"I was without the majority of my cervix, but my life was saved. It was over,\" she wrote.\n\n\"Sadly, for many this isn't the case. For the next few years, I attended screenings every six months to ensure the abnormal cells didn't return.\n\n\"My last screening was in April 2018. Thankfully again all was fine but the anxiety and fear that surrounded me as I awaited those results has stayed with me even now.\"\n\nShe went on to give birth to her son Sullivan in March 2019.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Expert’s report finds eight-year-old Saffie \"could have been saved\" if treated properly for her injuries\n\nA man has described how he tried to help the youngest victim of the Manchester Arena attack as she lay badly injured after the explosion.\n\nPaul Reid, 46, was the first person to reach eight-year-old Saffie-Rose Roussos after the bomb was detonated.\n\nHe said she asked for her mum and said he tried to keep her awake by talking about the Ariana Grande gig.\n\nIt comes after a new report found Saffie could have survived if she had received better medical help.\n\nTwenty-two people were murdered and hundreds more injured when Salman Abedi detonated a bomb in the arena foyer as fans left the concert on 22 May 2017.\n\nMr Reid, who was selling posters at the concert, told the BBC he ran into the foyer seconds after the bomb went off.\n\n\"There was a big bang and I could see up on to the foyer, and there was smoke and you could hear things pinging off the wall,\" he said.\n\n\"I still had the posters in my hand. It was mad because it was like I wasn't there, like I was watching myself.\n\n\"People were just screaming and running in every direction you could think of.\"\n\nSaffie-Rose Roussos was the youngest victim of the Manchester Arena bombing\n\nMr Reid said he tried to help two other people before he noticed Saffie lying on the floor.\n\n\"She was still conscious. I asked her her name and I thought she said Sophie,\" he said.\n\n\"She just got a little bit upset. She asked me for her mum and I said not to worry, we're going to find her in a minute.\n\n\"And I sat there trying to keep her calm. I had to talk to her about the concert, and did she enjoy it.\n\n\"All the time I was sat there, I just thought hundreds of people are just going to come running in here and help us. And, well, hardly anybody came in.\"\n\nThe public inquiry into the attack, which started in September, began to examine the emergency response to the atrocity on Monday.\n\nMr Reid said he began watching the inquiry but said some details given in the opening days did not marry up with his recollection of what happened, and he switched it off.\n\nHe told the BBC after a while another person came to help, but after cutting away some of Saffie's clothing they left and went to the aid of someone else.\n\n\"I gave her [Saffie] a sip of water, because in all this madness there's somebody handing water out,\" he said.\n\n\"So you can imagine in the foyer now, all this is going on and there's a man walking about with water.\"\n\nPaul Reid said he was still haunted by what happened that night\n\nMr Reid said a police officer suggested moving Saffie out of the foyer, but with no stretchers to lift her they had to use a piece of plastic hoarding.\n\n\"The policeman came and said 'she's got to go, I'll take her in my car',\" he added.\n\n\"There was a plastic sheet under somebody's leg who was injured, I started pulling the sheet from under his leg. We put her on it and I started to carry her out, but the board was slippy.\"\n\nHe said they could not get the makeshift stretcher into the officer's car, so they flagged down an ambulance.\n\nMr Reid said he then returned to the foyer, where he went back to the man who he had taken the hoarding from.\n\n\"He had a gash in his stomach, and a paramedic was sitting there holding something against his stomach,\" he said.\n\n\"I held his hand. He had a Liverpool accent so I talked to him about football to take his mind off things, and my mind off things.\"\n\nMr Reid said he was still haunted by what happened that night.\n\n\"It's like yesterday. I can still smell the smoke in that foyer. Still hear the alarms when I go to sleep, when I close my eyes,\" he said.\n\n\"I'm first aid trained, but the most I'd done is put a plaster on.\n\n\"To step in that foyer, it was carnage. It was a war zone.\"\n\nSaffie's parents have said they would not have expected member of the public to have known how to treat her injuries.\n\nHer father Andrew Roussos told the BBC: \"There was a member of the public with her, I can't expect him to tourniquet her, splint her legs and so on.\n\n\"But the medically trained people that were with her, and were with her throughout and didn't apply basic first aid to give Saffie a chance.\"\n\nThe inquiry has previously heard it is important to acknowledge the enormous pressure which those who responded that night came under.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "News of the extended lockdown has not been welcomed by business leaders.\n\nLast month, the Scottish Retail Consortium (SRC) estimated that each week of lockdown meant non-essential stores missing out on £135m of lost sales.\n\nSince then, garden centres and homeware shops have been compelled to close too, and the government has placed curbs on retailers’ click and collect services.\n\nThe SRC says today's extension is a further blow to non-food stores who have already borne a lot during the pandemic.\n\nIt said Scottish stores were set to miss out on almost £950m of lost revenues during the current lockdown period.\n\nQuote Message: The extended lockdown will serve to make it harder for some retailers to emerge from this crisis. Even when we do eventually emerge from enforced hibernation the stark reality is that shops will be unable to trade at capacity due to physical distancing restrictions and caps on the number of customers in stores. This means that April’s abrupt ‘reverse cliff edge’ - which is set to see a 100% re-instatement of business rates – is simply not sustainable. from David Lonsdale Director of the Scottish Retail Consortium The extended lockdown will serve to make it harder for some retailers to emerge from this crisis. Even when we do eventually emerge from enforced hibernation the stark reality is that shops will be unable to trade at capacity due to physical distancing restrictions and caps on the number of customers in stores. This means that April’s abrupt ‘reverse cliff edge’ - which is set to see a 100% re-instatement of business rates – is simply not sustainable.", "On his final full day in office, outgoing president Donald Trump delivered a farewell speech from the White House.\n\nCurrently locked out of his personal social media accounts, Trump struck a concilatory yet defiant tone in the video released via the government's official social media accounts.\n\n\"We did what we came here to do - and so much more,\" he said. \"I took on the tough battles, the hardest fights, the most difficult choices – because that’s what you elected me to do.\"\n\nHe warned that \"the greatest danger\" now facing the country was \"a loss of confidence in our national greatness\".\n\nThe 45th president ran through actions taken by his administration - from \"stand[ing] up to China like never before\" to \"a series of historic peace deals in the Middle East\".\n\nHe added: \"I am especially proud to be the first president in decades who has started no new wars.\"\n\nReferring to the riot at the US Capitol on 6 January, he said: \"All Americans were horrified by the assault on the Capitol... It can never be tolerated.\"\n\nTrump acknowledged that a new administration would take office, but said: \"I want you to know that the movement we started is only just beginning.\"", "It is not known when the artwork was taken as no one reported it missing\n\nA 500-year-old painting has been discovered in a flat in Italy and returned to a museum - where staff were unaware it had even been stolen.\n\nThe copy of Salvator Mundi, which is believed to have been painted by Leonardo da Vinci, was found in a bedroom cupboard in Naples on Saturday.\n\nThis copy is thought to have been painted by one of da Vinci's students.\n\nThe 36-year-old owner of the flat was arrested on suspicion of receiving stolen goods, police said.\n\n\"The painting was found on Saturday thanks to a brilliant and diligent police operation,\" Naples prosecutor Giovanni Melillo told the AFP news agency.\n\nThe artwork is usually part of the Doma Museum collection at the San Domenico Maggiore church in the city.\n\nBut Mr Melillo said officials were not aware it had been stolen because \"the room where the painting is kept has not been open for three months\" due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nIt is not known when the artwork was taken as no one had reported it missing, but the museum said it was in its possession as recently as last January.\n\nSome experts believe Leonardo's student Giacomo Alibrandi may have painted the artwork\n\nPolice are now investigating the circumstances of the theft, but there was no sign of a break-in at the museum.\n\n\"It is plausible that it was a commissioned theft by an organisation working in the international art trade,\" Mr Melillo said.\n\nIt is not known who painted the artwork, but some experts believe Leonardo's student Giacomo Alibrandi may have done so in the early 1500s.\n\nIt shows Christ with one hand raised, with the other holding a glass sphere.\n\nAnd to add to the mystery - whether or not the original painting is an authentic Leonardo da Vinci is disputed. Leonardo died in 1519 and there are fewer than 20 of his paintings in existence.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The original painting was cleaned and restored from the image on the left to the one on the right\n\nThe original Salvator Mundi has had major cosmetic surgery - its walnut panel base has been described as \"worm-tunnelled\" and at some point it seems to have been split in half. Efforts to restore it have also resulted in abrasions.\n\nThis did not detract buyers, however, and the painting became the most expensive ever sold when it was auctioned for a record $450m (£341m) in 2017.\n\nThe unidentified buyer was involved in a bidding contest, via telephone, that lasted nearly 20 minutes.", "A refusal to accept cash is \"creeping into the wider UK economy\", an expert has said, after a survey suggested coronavirus had hastened a shift towards a cashless society.\n\nConsumer group Which? said that 34% of people asked said they had been unable to pay with cash at least once since March when trying to buy something.\n\nGrocery stores, pubs and restaurants were most likely to refuse.\n\nNatalie Ceeney, who wrote a report on the issue, called for ministers to act.\n\n\"The figures show that it's not simply the odd coffee shop going cashless, but this is creeping into the wider economy,\" said Ms Ceeney, who wrote the Access to Cash Review.\n\n\"We can't just blame individual businesses - many are going cashless because they can't easily bank cash takings because their local branch is closed or some distance away. The government needs to urgently legislate to protect the viability of cash - as it promised to do so last year. Time is running out.\"\n\nWhich? said the lack of cash access was a problem for those who relied on notes and coins - such as people with certain health conditions or without computer access.\n\nSome shops are still keen to accept cash\n\nJenny Ross, Which? Money editor, said: \"We have repeatedly warned about the consequences that coronavirus will have on what was an already fragile cash system, but nowhere near enough action has been taken by the government or the regulator to understand the scale of this issue.\"\n\nThe Treasury has proposed giving the City regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority, control of overseeing future access to cash and has thrown its weight behind the idea of cashback in shops, without the requirement to buy anything.\n\nDavid Fagleman, director at financial consultancy Enryo, said: \"Our own research shows that despite a decline in use for day-to-day purchases, nearly three-quarters of people think the move to a cashless society is happening too fast and risks leaving some people, particularly the vulnerable, behind.\"", "Cillian Murphy stars in Peaky Blinders, a drama which follows Tommy Shelby and his family\n\nPeaky Blinders creator Steven Knight has confirmed the hit BBC crime drama will conclude with a film following the show's final TV series.\n\nOn Monday, Knight said the upcoming sixth series would be the last but teased that \"the story will continue in another form\".\n\nHe has now confirmed to Deadline: \"My plan from the beginning was to end Peaky with a movie.\n\n\"This is what is going to happen,\" he added.\n\nHe explained that \"Covid had changed our plans\" but did not elaborate.\n\nHelen McCrory, who plays Polly, is the Shelby family matriarch\n\nThe final BBC TV series has resumed filming after being hit by Covid-related production delays.\n\nOn Monday, Knight described the show as being \"back with a bang\" and warned fans that the mobsters would face \"extreme jeopardy\" in the sixth season.\n\nKnight had previously planned for a seven-season run of the drama, which is set in post-World War One Birmingham.\n\n\"My ambition is to make it a story of a family between two wars,\" he said in 2018 ahead of season five. \"I've wanted to end it with the first air raid siren in Birmingham in 1939. It'll take three more series to reach that point.\"\n\nIt now looks like the film might be replacing his plan for series seven.\n\nKnight, an Oscar-nominated screenwriter, previously revealed he had been \"approached\" to take the Shelby crime family universe to the big-screen.\n\nSam Claflin as Tommy's political rival Oswald Mosley was a central figure in series five\n\nThe sixth series of the show, which follows Tommy Shelby and his family, will see Anthony Byrne return as director and Nick Goding produce.\n\nTommy Bulfin, executive producer for the BBC, said he was \"very excited\" filming had begun and promised a \"truly remarkable... fitting send-off that will delight fans\".\n\nHe added he was \"so grateful to everyone for all their hard work to make it happen\".\n\nThe production team have developed comprehensive safety protocols to ensure that the series will be produced responsibly and in accordance with government guidelines during the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nExecutive producer Caryn Mandabach said the \"safety of our cast and crew is always our priority\" and that they had been \"working diligently\" to get safely back into production since filming was halted last March.\n\n\"Thank you to all the Peaky fans who have been so unwaveringly supportive and patient,\" she added.\n\nPeaky Blinders, which stars Cillian Murphy, first aired on BBC Two eight years ago to widespread critical acclaim.\n\nRatings quickly grew from over two million for the first series to over four million by series four and it found further popularity on Netflix.\n\nIt made the transition to BBC One for the fifth series in 2019, achieving audiences of over five million.\n\nThroughout its run, a host of awards have followed, including NTAs, which are voted for by the public, and a Bafta for best drama series in 2018.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Scientists are a step closer to being able to reverse the damage caused by motor neurone disease (MND).\n\nUniversity of Edinburgh experts have found a problem with MND patients' nerve cells which could be repaired by repurposing drugs approved for other diseases.\n\nThe study has been welcomed by charities including the foundation set up by Scots rugby legend Doddie Weir.\n\nMy Name'5 Doddie foundation described it as \"a very exciting breakthrough\".\n\nMore than 1,500 people are diagnosed with the degenerative condition in the UK every year.\n\nThere is no known cure and more than half die within two years of diagnosis.\n\nThe research found that the damage to nerve cells caused by MND could be repaired by improving the energy levels in mitochondria - the power supply to the motor neurons.\n\nThey discovered in human stem cell models of MND, the axon - the long part of the motor neuron cell that connects to the muscle - was shorter than in healthy cells.\n\nAnd the movement of the mitochondria, which travel up and down the axons, was impaired\n\nThe scientists showed that this was caused by a defective energy supply from the mitochondria and that by boosting the mitochondria, the axon reverted back to normal.\n\nDr Arpan Mehta, who led the study at Euan MacDonald Centre for MND research said: \"The importance of the axon in motor nerve cells cannot be overstated.\n\n\"Our data provides hope that by restoring the cell's energy source we can protect the axons and their connection to muscle from degeneration.\n\n\"Work is already under way to identify existing licensed drugs that can boost the mitochondria and repair the motor neurons. This will then pave the way to test them in clinical trials.\"\n\nThe research centre was established by Euan MacDonald, who was 29 years old when he was diagnosed with MND in 2003\n\nCraig Stockton, the chief executive of MND Scotland, said the \"exciting\" results of the research were another piece of the puzzle to finding an effective treatment for the degenerative condition.\n\n\"We look forward to seeing if these positive results can be replicated for patients,\" he said.\n\n\"Once researchers have identified a drug they believe could have the desired effect, this treatment could then be fast-tracked for human trials using the pioneering MND-SMART clinical trial platform - into which MND Scotland has invested £1.5m.\n\n\"Researchers, clinicians, charities and supporters are all working hard to take us closer to finding a cure and by joining together we'll get to that day even sooner.\"\n\nThe researchers used stem cells taken from people with the C9orf72 gene mutation that causes both MND and frontotemporal dementia.\n\nThey used the stem cells to generate motor neuron cells in the lab.\n\nThe study also used human post-mortem spinal cord tissue from people with MND.\n\nAlthough the research focused on the people with the commonest genetic cause of MND, the researchers said they were hopeful the results would also apply to other forms of the disease.\n\nThe results of the study are now being used to look for existing drugs that boost mitochondrial function.\n\nThe study was funded by the Medical Research Council, Motor Neurone Disease Association, Euan MacDonald Centre for MND Research, My Name'5 Doddie Foundation, UK Dementia Research Institute and Anne Rowling Regenerative Neurology Clinic.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Protests against China's alleged abuse of the Muslim Uighur community\n\nThe government is facing a rebellion over the Trade Bill, and opposition proposals to give British courts the right to decide if a country is committing genocide.\n\nRebel Tory MPs want to allow Parliament to debate ending trade deals with countries responsible for genocide.\n\nThe government says trade policy should not be set by the courts.\n\nBut some MPs think the proposal would be a good way of targeting China and its treatment of the Uighur people.\n\nOn Tuesday, America's top diplomat Mike Pompeo, in his last day in the role, said the US had determined that China's persecution of the Muslim group and other minorities in Xinjiang province represented genocide and crimes against humanity under international law.\n\nThe UK has repeatedly condemned the actions of the Chinese authorities but stopped short of describing them as genocide - saying only international courts should determine this.\n\nAnd ministers also argue that trade deals are matters for governments, not the courts, to decide upon.\n\nThe MPs' amendment to the Trade Bill is a watered-down version of an earlier proposal from the House of Lords, which would force the government to withdraw from any free trade agreement with any country found guilty of genocide by the High Court of England and Wales.\n\nThe new proposal is signed by 10 Conservative MPs, one of whom described their amendment as \"tidier\" than the Lords version and designed to attract more support.\n\nSpeaking in the Commons, Sir Edward Leigh asked \"is there any way we can acknowledge that genocide is taking place in a discussion on a trade deal\".\n\nIn response, International Trade minister Greg Hands said ministers were prepared to have further discussions but not within the scope of the current legislation.\n\nHe told MPs the government was \"answerable to Parliament, not the courts\" and the Lords version would have led to an \"unacceptable erosion\" of its authority.\n\nThe UK, he added, had \"no plans\" to negotiate a bilateral trade agreement with China due to concerns about its human rights record, particularly its persecution of the Muslim Uighur community.\n\nNusrat Ghani urged ministers to consider the \"compromise\" proposal, which she said recognised the \"separation of powers\" between the executive, Parliament and the courts.\n\nThe Conservative ex-minister said the UK should \"never let economic concerns trump ethical ones by dealing with genocidal states\".\n\n\"Why would we want to use our newfound freedom to trade with states that commit and profit from genocide? Britain is better than that.\"\n\nSpeaking to Politics Live, former Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith said it is currently \"impossible\" for international courts to rule on whether there has been genocide, as other countries can block hearings in the UN.\n\nHe argued it is therefore important to allow British courts to make the judgement.\n\nThe MP insisted he is not \"anti-China\" but said the Chinese government need to be \"reasonable and behave in a way that is acceptable\" if it wanted to be part of global trading organisations.\n\nShadow international trade secretary Emily Thornberry said Labour would be supporting the new amendment arguing that the government \"does not consider human rights abuses enough before signing up to trade deals\".\n\nThis is an interesting story in its own right because of the issues involved but it's also a neat metaphor for Brexit.\n\nThe government has taken back control of trade policy from the EU but is already having to share it with the House of Lords, Tory MPs and potentially with the High Court.\n\nDuring the passage of the Trade Bill, the government also had to beef up the powers of the Trade and Agriculture Commission - an independent body of experts - in response to lobbying from farmers who were worried about the dilution of food standards.\n\nSoon trade disputes with other countries will partly be overseen by the new Trade Remedies Authority, another organisation that reports to ministers but is independent of them.\n\nAnd of course, everything has to be compatible with World Trade Organisation rules, anyway.\n\nThe government has control of trade. It's just not total.", "19 January is a special day for Orthodox Christians across Russia, including President Vladimir Putin. It's a day reserved for commemorating the baptism of Jesus in the River Jordan, and it's called Epiphany. Though temperatures are as low as -20 Celsius, some celebrated this by submerging themselves in ice-cold water.", "A team of Nepalese climbers has become the first ever to summit the world’s second highest mountain, K2, in winter.\n\nK2, along the Pakistan-China border, is notoriously challenging - with high winds and sub-zero temperatures.\n\nOne of the leading members of the team is a former Gurkha and British special forces soldier, Nirmal Purja. He spoke to BBC Pakistan correspondent Secunder Kermani.", "Theresa May has accused her successor Boris Johnson of \"abandoning\" the UK's moral leadership on the world stage.\n\nThe ex-prime minister said Mr Johnson's decision to cut the overseas aid budget below 0.7% of national income had reduced the UK's global \"credibility\".\n\nShe wrote in the Daily Mail the UK had to \"live up to its values\" and would be judged by its actions not its rhetoric.\n\nMr Johnson said the UK was \"embarking on a quite phenomenal year\" of global leadership.\n\nQuestioned about Mrs May's comments by the SNP's Westminster leader Ian Blackford at Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Johnson said: \"I think it's very important the prime minister of the UK has the best possible relationship with the president of the United States.\n\n\"That's part of the job description.\"\n\nHe cited the UK's hosting of a global vaccine summit, the upcoming COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, as well as the G7 summit of leading industrial nations, in Cornwall, and his pledge to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050 as examples of the UK's global leadership.\n\nMr Blackford called on the PM to reverse \"his cruel policy of cutting international aid for the world's poorest\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The SNP Westminster leader called in the PM to reverse his \"cruel\" international aid policy\n\nLater on Wednesday, Joe Biden will be inaugurated as the 46th president of the United States, succeeding Donald Trump.\n\nIn advance of the event, Mr Johnson said he looked forward to working \"hand-in-hand\" with the new administration and that post-Covid challenges could only be tackled by \"international co-operation\".\n\nBut, in an article in the Daily Mail, Mrs May suggested Mr Johnson had squandered international goodwill by choosing not to meet the longstanding UN target of spending 0.7% of income on international development.\n\nThe government says it cannot meet the figure - enshrined in UK law - this year because of the strain placed on the public finances by the pandemic.\n\nTheresa May has made these criticisms - on overseas aid and the threat by the government to override international law - before.\n\nQuite often she gets a dig in when she stands up in the House of Commons.\n\nBut packaging it all up in this way, on this day, is, in the words of one of her close former advisers, \"quite punchy\".\n\nThe government would rather focus on the relationship it is going to forge with the new US president.\n\nMinisters feel they have quite a lot in common with Joe Biden when it comes to working together on the world stage, fighting climate change and co-operating on global security.\n\nMrs May also criticised Mr Johnson's support for legislation which could have allowed the UK to go back on parts of its Withdrawal Agreement with the EU, had it been passed.\n\nControversial clauses were ultimately removed from the Internal Market Bill in December, after the UK and EU reached an agreement.\n\nBut Mr Johnson's threat to break international law was criticised in Europe and the US - where Mr Biden warned it could imperil peace in Northern Ireland.\n\nMrs May said the UK was \"well placed to play a decisive role in shaping this more co-operative world but to lead we must live up to our values\".\n\n\"Other countries listen to what we say not simply because of who we are, but because of what we do. The world does not owe us a prominent place on its stage,\" she added.\n\n\"Whatever the rhetoric we deploy, it is our actions which count. So, we should do nothing which signals a retreat from our global commitments.\"\n\nMrs May suggested the end of the Trump presidency could be a catalyst for a change in world politics\n\nMrs May, who had a sometimes strained relationship with Mr Trump, said Mr Biden's election presented the UK with a \"golden opportunity\" for Western democracies to reverse the trend towards \"absolutism\" - and a \"few strongmen facing off against each other\" - in global affairs.\n\nThe UK holds the presidency of the G7 this year and hosts the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow.\n\nMr Johnson said he looked forward to welcoming Mr Biden to the UK at least twice in 2021.\n\n\"In our fight against Covid and across climate change, defence, security, and in promoting and defending democracy, our goals are the same and our nations will work hand-in-hand to achieve them,\" he added.", "LAS received almost 200,000 calls in December - up 50,000 on November, when London was in the second national lockdown\n\nLast week London exceeded the grim milestone of 10,000 deaths linked to Covid-19. Thousands of people are critically ill in hospital, and as many as 5% of Londoners are thought to have the virus in some parts of the city. As coronavirus continues to circulate silently around the capital, staff at the London Ambulance Service (LAS) are under immense pressure.\n\nThe service is currently taking up to 8,500 calls a day, compared with a pre-Covid figure of 5,000 to 6,000, according to its chief executive Garrett Emmerson.\n\nLizzie Cooke is one of the workers at LAS's south London headquarters who are dealing with strangers at what is a distressing time.\n\nI covered the London Bridge terror attacks and Grenfell but this is a different scale\n\nCalmly, the 30-year-old answers the phone and usually asks first if the patient is breathing.\n\n\"In the first wave we were getting a lot of calls of [people seeking] reassurance,\" Lizzie says. \"But now there are more and more who have symptoms, and family members are really frightened.\"\n\nIt is a fear that Lizzie knows all too well, having been hospitalised with Covid-19 in March. She spent a week receiving treatment for the virus.\n\n\"I was at work taking calls and struggling to concentrate,\" the call-handling supervisor says. \"At times I would just have my head on the desk in between calls.\n\n\"I started to develop chest pains five days later so my parents took me to Royal County Hospital, in Hampshire, and an X-ray showed a lot of fluid in my lungs. It was quite horrible.\n\n\"Luckily, I wasn't on a ventilator but I had the oxygen hood, and the nurses were so rushed off their feet. I didn't have my phone with me or know my parents' numbers off by heart so for that week I was quite alone and isolated.\n\n\"It was just a mixture of the unknown and not knowing when it was going to stop that was so daunting.\"\n\nThe unprecedented volume of calls means waiting times for patients are increasing\n\nLizzie's personal battle with coronavirus has helped her to empathise with people who call up with breathing problems.\n\nIt's something she says she's having to do more and more.\n\n\"Just before Christmas we were getting a lot of respiratory and cardiac arrest calls,\" she says. \"You could just hear colleagues counting to four [for chest compressions] and it was echoing around the room. It has been tough.\n\n\"We are getting calls from family members who are really frightened. I covered the London Bridge terror attacks and Grenfell but this is a different scale.\n\n\"I did get one call for toothache, but that's part of the job.\"\n\nLizzie, who lives in Hampshire, says that because the coverage of coronavirus is everywhere, it is \"difficult to escape\".\n\nWhen she's not at work she binge-watches Line of Duty on Netflix, but she says winding down isn't easy.\n\nLizzie sometimes thinks about the people who aren't following the rules aimed at helping stop the spread of the virus, and those who deny Covid-19 even exists.\n\n\"It's a kick in the teeth,\" she says. \"It is frustrating on the way to work when you see people not wearing masks or even posting stuff on social media not believing the virus is real.\n\n\"I just don't know where the disconnect is coming from; there are many people in hospital, many people dying, and I don't know what more needs to be said to make them realise how dangerous the illness is.\"\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\nSitting a few metres away from Lizzie is 24-year-old Louise Essam, who has been in the job for two years.\n\n\"Every call we take at the moment is coronavirus,\" she says. \"My record was 108 calls in a day back in March during the first wave.\n\n\"But easily in the last few weeks I've been taking around 100 a day at times,\" Louise adds.\n\n\"We are just doing the best we can,\" says emergency call co-ordinator Louise Essam\n\n\"Sometimes I'll come in for a shift and can just hear colleagues counting one, two, three, four, for the compressions, and you just know what kind of shift it is going to be.\n\n\"It has been tough and quite frustrating, really. We are trying to help people. We are under so much pressure as there are high waiting times, but we are just doing the best we can.\"\n\nHelp is at hand though from the LAS workers' fellow emergency services personnel.\n\nMet Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick visited Wembley Stadium on Wednesday, where her officers are being trained to drive ambulances\n\nSeventy-five Met Police officers are currently being trained at Wembley Stadium to drive ambulances.\n\nThey will start work as drivers from 20 January, joining the 200 firefighters who are already helping LAS.\n\n\"It came as a huge relief when they announced it,\" says 37-year-old paramedic Ben West.\n\nBen West has been with the London Ambulance Service for 13 years\n\nAs is the case with many frontline workers, Ben says he is concerned about the dangers of exposure to coronavirus.\n\nHe has lost four colleagues to Covid-19, including Ian Reynolds, a paramedic based in Croydon, and Melonie Mitchell, a member of the NHS 111 team. They both died during the first wave in April.\n\n\"I wouldn't be a normal person if I said I wasn't scared,\" he says.\n\n\"I am scared and I do worry but we take every day as it comes, take our precautions and we just see where we go with that.\n\n\"We know the virus is out there in the community and we are not immune.\"", "A non-binding Labour motion calling for the universal credit top-up to be kept in place beyond 31 March passed by 278 votes to none after a Commons debate.\n\nSix Tory MPs defied party orders to abstain and voted with Labour, adding to the pressure on the PM on the issue.\n\nThe prime minister said the government had provided £280bn worth of support during the pandemic but all measures would be kept under \"constant review\".\n\nThe motion, which will not automatically lead to a change in policy, was put forward by Labour as a way to put additional pressure on the government to continue the increase, worth £1,000 a year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Carl, a roofer, describes going from \"not having enough to barely having enough\" on universal credit.\n\nFormer Work and Pensions Secretary Stephen Crabb was among six Conservative MPs to rebel, along with Peter Aldous, Robert Halfon, Jason McCartney, Anne Marie Morris and Matthew Offord.\n\nAhead of the vote, Mr Crabb told the BBC that although there were \"difficult pressures on the chancellor\" extending the increase for 12 months was \"the right thing to do\".\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said there were dozens of Conservative MPs who were \"deeply uneasy\" about ending the £20 weekly increase to universal credit.\n\nShe added that it was also understood the cabinet minister with responsibility for benefits, Therese Coffey, was arguing that the uplift should not be dropped in April.\n\nCharities and anti-poverty campaigners are pleading with the government to keep the support in place, describing it as a lifeline for more than 5.5 million families who receive the standard universal credit allowance.\n\nFood poverty campaigner and chef Jack Monroe told the BBC that the £20 increase \"has been a lifeline\" for millions of people who have needed to top up their income or rely on universal credit payments in order to get by.\n\nSir Keir said the increase was a vital safety net for those who had lost their jobs, seen their working hours slashed or who were not eligible for the government's wage subsidy furlough scheme.\n\n\"If we don't give a helping hand to families through this pandemic, then we are going to slow our economic recovery as we come out it.\n\n\"We urge Boris Johnson to change course and give families certainty today that their incomes will be protected.\"\n\nSix billion pounds of the benefits bill - the difference between poverty or not for 1.2 million families, according to a think tank.\n\nThe £1,040 a year increase to universal credit is a very emotive issue.\n\nThere's even a battle over what to call it.\n\nTo the government, its introduction was a one-off boost to cope with a crisis. For Labour, taking it away is a cut.\n\nMinisters would prefer we looked at the overall level of support they've provided for workers and businesses during the pandemic. The opposition say the £20 a week boost is a powerful symbol of the state's willingness to help.\n\nEven the act of debating it today is disputed. Labour say they've got the right occasionally to set the agenda in Parliament. Boris Johnson said his MPs risk abuse from campaigners and protestors if they engage.\n\nThe Joseph Rowntree Foundation has suggested about 16 million people will be directly affected if the £20 is rolled back.\n\nIt says 500,000 more people will be driven into poverty, including 200,000 children, while a further 500,000 of those already in poverty will find themselves in even worse hardship.\n\nHowever, free market think tank the Institute for Economic Affairs has argued that \"across-the-board benefit increases are a wasteful use of taxpayers' money\" at a time when the government is borrowing \"a hair-raising amount of money\".\n\nUniversal credit is a single payment replacing old benefits such as housing benefit and child tax credits.\n\nYou can claim universal credit if you are on a low income or are out of work.\n\nThe standard allowance varies from around £340 to just under £600 a month, depending on your age or whether you are single.\n\nYou may be eligible to receive more money on top of the standard allowance if, for example, you have children or a health condition.\n\nSpeaking on behalf of the Northern Research Group, Conservative MP John Stevenson said the £1,000 increase had been \"a real life-saver for people throughout this pandemic\".\n\n\"To end it now would be devastating for the 6 million individuals and families who are already struggling to stay afloat,\" he added.\n\nWhile the vote is not binding, and will not lead to a change in policy, it will increase pressure on the government to keep the increase or come up with an alternative.\n\nLabour said the Conservatives' decision to abstain created \"unnecessary uncertainty\" but minister Nadhim Zahawi described the vote as \"a political stunt\".\n\nThe government says it has strengthened the welfare system with an extra £7bn of funding during the pandemic while families struggling with food and household bills can get help through the £170m Winter Grant Scheme.\n\nMinisters also point to extra support for housing costs, through an increase in local housing allowance for those on housing benefits and hardship payments worth £670m next year for those unable to pay their council tax bills.", "How has the justice system responded to the pandemic? Stories from inside prisons and courts, where lawyers fear delays are creating miscarriages of justice. Helen Grady reports.\n\nAre court backlogs creating miscarriages of justice? When the UK locked down, so did its court system, adding to a backlog that’s left defendants, witnesses and victims facing long waits for trials. Helen Grady speaks to people inside the justice system to find out how it’s coped with the pandemic - from delays in making courts covid-secure to a lack of PPE and overcrowding in prisons. We hear stories from prisons under lockdown and talk to lawyers who fear delays are leading to abuses of the criminal justice system.\n\nProducer: Rob Cave", "New legislation has been passed to protect Scottish shop workers from abuse from customers.\n\nThe Protection of Workers Bill will make it a new specific offence to assault, abuse or threaten staff.\n\nIncidents involving an age-restricted product, such as alcohol or cigarettes, could be treated more seriously.\n\nThe MSP behind the bill, Labour's Daniel Johnson, said attacks on retail workers had increased during the Covid pandemic.\n\nHe told Holyrood: \"Shop staff have been spat at for asking customers to socially distance, and stock has been smashed in retaliation for item limits being imposed.\n\n\"Violence, threats and abuse should not be just part of anyone's job.\"\n\nMr Johnson said that staff requesting age ID could be a \"trigger factor\" in many incidents of abuse.\n\nThe new legislation will also cover people working in bars, restaurants and hotels, and those delivering items bought online who may have to ask for proof of age.\n\nThe bill was supported by all parties at Holyrood, despite the government initially arguing that its provisions were already covered by existing criminal laws.\n\nThe Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service told MSPs that further legislation was not needed, noting that \"violence, threats and abuse against retail workers, or indeed any other person, are prosecuted every day in the courts in Scotland using offences which are commonly understood\".\n\nPolice Scotland meanwhile said there would be \"no significant change in how we go about our business\" as a result of it.\n\nCommunity safety minister Ash Denham said that while there was a \"wide range of existing criminal laws\" currently in place to protect staff, the new legislation could \"make the general public think more about their behaviour when they interact with retail workers\".\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives also backed the bill, although they argued that the presumption against short sentences in Scotland meant anyone convicted under the new law would ultimately not be jailed.\n\nPaul Gerrard, public affairs director for the Co-Op, told BBC Radio Scotland's Drivetime that the retailer had seen a 450% rise in violent incidents in the last few years.\n\n\"It is a huge problem,\" he said. \"We've seen an explosion in violence and abuse toward my colleagues.\n\n\"Now across 350 stores in Scotland we have someone attacked every day. And 10 colleagues are threatened or abused every day.\n\n\"Increasingly we have seen knives, syringes and axes all used against shopworkers.\"\n\nMr Gerrard added that previous incidents were centred on shoplifting or age-restricted sales, but staff were now facing more abuse around enforcing Covid shopping rules.\n\nThe new legislation was passed by 118 votes to 0 in the Scottish Parliament.\n\nThe Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers (Usdaw) is now urging the UK government to introduce similar legislation to protect retail staff in England - something Labour MP Alex Norris is pursuing at Westminster.\n\nUsdaw general secretary Paddy Lillis said: \"It is a great result for our members in Scotland, who will now have the protection of the law that they deserve.\n\n\"So we are looking for MPs to support key workers across the retail sector and help turn around the UK government's opposition.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nIndia pulled off an astonishing run-chase to inflict Australia's first defeat at the Gabba since 1988, win the fourth Test by three wickets and take one of the all-time great series. Needing 328, a Brisbane record run-chase, the injury-hit tourists got home with three overs to spare. Shubman Gill made 91 and Rishabh Pant was unbeaten on 89. They win the series 2-1, keeping the Border-Gavaskar they won in Australia two years ago. It is perhaps one of the finest Test series wins by any away side, especially given the list of players unavailable to India by the time the final match was played. That included captain and talisman Virat Kohli, who only played in the first Test before departing to be at the birth of his first child, a host of fast bowlers and first-choice spin pair Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja. In addition to the absent players, India somehow recovered from being bowled out for 36 - their lowest total in Test cricket - in losing the series opener by eight wickets. What followed were three Tests of the highest quality and drama, with India producing a stunning comeback to win the second Test by eight wickets, then defiantly batting through the final day to earn a draw in the third. But they saved their best performance for last, a superb contest that ensured the series went down to the final hour of the last day, with the shadows lengthening and a near-empty Gabba filled with the sound of a smattering of raucous India supporters. The tourists were 4-0 overnight and, for them to even get to the point where victory might be possible, Cheteshwar Pujara had to come through a barrage of hostile bowling from the Australia quicks - he was hit 10 times in his 56. He added 114 for the second wicket with the free-scoring Gill, while stand-in captain Ajinkya Rahane, who has presided over India's fightback, signalled their intent with 24 off only 22 balls. Tireless Australia fast bowler Pat Cummins was a threat throughout, removing Pujara, Rahane and Rohit Sharma. Fast bowler Pat Cummins took four wickets for Australia Still, even though India knew a draw would see them retain the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, they never lost sight of the chance of victory and promoted wicketkeeper Pant to number five. At the beginning of the final hour, India were 259-4, meaning they needed 69 runs and Australia six wickets from the final 15 overs. Though Cummins had Mayank Agarwal caught at cover for his fourth wicket, Pant attacked in the company of debutant Washington Sundar. Runs came with increasing freedom and, although Sundar was bowled trying to reverse-sweep Nathan Lyon and Shardul Thakur miscued Josh Hazlewood, Pant could not be stopped. The left-hander's drive down the ground off Hazlewood secured a famous win and sparked joyous India celebrations. 'One of the top three series of all time' - reaction India captain Rahane: \"I don't know how to describe this victory. I'm really proud of all the boys. We didn't talk about anything after Adelaide, we just wanted to show good character and express ourselves. It was all about a team effort.\" Australia captain Tim Paine: \"In the key moments we were found wanting and completely outplayed by India, who fully deserved their series win.\" Man of the match Pant: \"This is one of the biggest things in my life. It has been a dream series.\" Player of the series Cummins: \"The whole India side played fantastically and deserved to win. The game was there for to win, but we didn't take the wickets.\" Former Australia fast bowler Stuart Clark on ABC: \"What a victory that is by India. They have been absolutely outstanding. The man of the moment is Rishabh Pant. He played some of the most insane shots you will ever see. Australia bowled their hearts out, but it wasn't enough.\" Former Australia captain Ian Chappell: \"It had everything. It was an absolutely amazing day. This has been one of top three Test series of all time.\"\n• None Can this British team make an impact on the global scene?\n• None The show must go on in lockdown:", "Nicola Sturgeon is to announce later whether Scotland's Covid-19 lockdown is to continue past the end of January.\n\nThe first minister said Tuesday's statement at Holyrood would concern the \"duration\" of restrictions rather than whether any new ones would be imposed.\n\nMinsters will also decide at a cabinet meeting whether schools will be allowed to re-open in full from 1 February.\n\nEducation Secretary John Swinney has suggested it would be a \"tall order\" for pupils to return to classrooms.\n\nMs Sturgeon said on Monday that she did not want to \"raise parents' expectations\", saying transmission of the virus \"is still higher than we would want it to be\".\n\nThe whole Scottish mainland and several islands have been in a strict lockdown since early January, with a \"stay at home\" message in force.\n\nThis was initially due to run until February, but this will be reviewed by ministers on Tuesday morning with a view to having the restrictions last longer.\n\nWhile Ms Sturgeon has warned that the government would consider further measures if necessary, she said \"it is the duration rather than the content of restrictions that we will be looking at\" on Tuesday.\n\nThe outcome of this review will then be announced to MSPs in a statement at Holyrood in the afternoon.\n\nNicola Sturgeon will announce the result of the latest review in a Holyrood statement\n\nThe review will also cover the situation in schools, with the majority learning remotely from home and only some children of key workers and vulnerable pupils being allowed into school buildings.\n\nOn Monday, the first minister said she did not want to \"raise expectations\" about classes returning to normal, but added that she was \"not going to make any assumptions\" ahead of the cabinet meeting.\n\nShe said: \"I am not going to raise parents' expectations, you can see from the numbers we are seeing some positive signs in the numbers that lockdown is starting to stabilise things and tip them into decline, but transmission is still higher than we would want it to be.\n\n\"We want to get schools back as quickly as we possibly can, it is not in the interests of kids to be out of school for any longer than is absolutely necessary, but community transmission has always been a key factor in these decisions.\"\n\nThis echoed comments from Mr Swinney, who had previously said it would be \"a tall order\" for schools to fully re-open with \"the virus still at a very high level in general within society\".\n\nI am expecting continuity rather than change from today's announcement on coronavirus restrictions.\n\nThe continuation of the current lockdown and presumably the extension of remote learning for most school pupils into the February break at least.\n\nBoth decisions are likely to be reviewed again next month. But it's not clear if the first minister will feel able to suggest a target date for restrictions to ease.\n\nCabinet will also be giving special attention to the serious Covid outbreak on Barra and considering if the level three restrictions that apply in the Western Isles remain appropriate.\n\nWhile there are signs the pace at which the current wave of coronavirus is spreading is starting to slow, evidence of much greater suppression will be required before the stay at home lockdown in place across mainland Scotland is lifted.\n\nThe review comes less than a week after restrictions in Scotland were tightened, with some click and collect services ordered to close and outdoor alcohol consumption banned.\n\nThe entire Scottish mainland has been in the top level of restrictions - level four - since Boxing Day, with level three measures in place in Orkney, Shetland, the Western Isles and some islands in Argyll and Bute and the Highlands.\n\nScots are subject to a legal requirement not to leave home for anything other than essential purposes, such as shopping for essentials, exercise and caring responsibilities.\n\nThe number of new cases reported each day on average has begun to fall, but the number of people in hospital with the virus continues to rise and is now \"significantly\" above that seen in the first wave in 2020.\n\nMs Sturgeon said the \"position overall is very precarious, very concerning in terms of the level of transmission\", but said there were \"some early signs to be optimistic that measures are having an effect\".\n\nThe first minister will take questions from opposition leaders following her statement.\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives have voiced concerns that Covid-19 vaccines are not being rolled out quickly enough, saying the Scottish government are \"trailing their own targets\".\n\nStatistics released on Monday showed that Scotland has vaccinated 264,991 people so far - 6% of its adult population.\n\nThis is lower than the figure for England, where 8% of the adult population - 3,520,056 people - have been vaccinated, and Northern Ireland, which has the highest vaccination rate in the UK at 8.7%.\n\nWales has a similar figure to Scotland at 6%.\n\nEngland has also given a second dose of the vaccine to 427,386 people, compared to only 3,698 in Scotland.\n\nHowever, Ms Sturgeon has insisted that all parts of the UK are \"working to the same targets\" to vaccinate priority groups, and said her government is \"on track\" to hit them subject to supplies arriving.\n\nThis would see care home residents, healthcare staff and all over-80s get a first dose by the start of February, with over-70s and those deemed \"extremely vulnerable\" by mid-February and all over-65s by the beginning of March.\n\nBy that time the government aims to be vaccinating up to 400,000 people a week on average, with all priority groups getting a first jab by early May and the rest of the adult population in line thereafter.", "About one in 10 people across the UK tested positive for Covid-19 antibodies in December, roughly double the October figure, data has shown.\n\nEstimates from the Office for National Statistics suggest between 8% of people in Northern Ireland and 12% of people in England showed signs of past Covid infection.\n\nIn October, antibody positivity ranged from 2% to 7% around the UK.\n\nAnd 6,586 Covid deaths were registered in the UK in the week to 8 January.\n\nThat brings the total registered so far close to 96,000.\n\nNearly a quarter of deaths were people living in care homes - a disproportionate impact on a group of people which accounts for less than 1% of the population.\n\nBack in July, though, care home residents accounted for 40% of deaths.\n\nThe ONS regularly tests a representative sample of the population, both for current infection and for antibodies indicating a past infection.\n\nPeople taking part in the survey are tested whether or not they have had symptoms.\n\nThis is used to estimate how common both the virus and antibodies are in the population as a whole.\n\nAntibodies are proteins in the blood which fight off specific infections.\n\nThey are developed if somebody catches an infection and their body fights it off, or if they have been vaccinated.\n\nYorkshire and the Humber topped the chart with 17% of people having positive antibodies, followed by London.\n\nProf Lawrence Young, a virologist at Warwick Medical School, said: \"This study shows that infection with the Sars-Cov-2 virus is much more widespread in the UK than previously realised, with around 1 in 10 people estimated to have been infected by December 2020.\n\n\"The implications are that infection rates increased significantly between November and December.\"\n\nBut Scotland had a considerably smaller growth in antibodies than the rest of the UK, rising from 7% to 9% of the population.\n\nThe fact that more people show signs of having at least some protection against Covid-19 is consistent with the dramatic rise in infections during that period.\n\nBut we know that antibodies from natural infection can fade.\n\nIn England, the ONS said, positive antibody tests equated to 5.4 million people aged over 16 having signs of past infection.\n\nThat does not tell you the total number of people infected, however, but acts as a snapshot in time.\n\nIn London, about 16% of people had antibodies in December, up from 11% in October. But at the last peak in May, an estimated 15% of the population had antibodies. This proportion fell, as detectable antibodies recede with time.\n\nExactly what this means for someone's likelihood to become infected again, however, is not fully known.\n\nIt also remains to be seen how long vaccines will protect people for, before they need a booster jab.\n\nBut Public Health England data suggests natural immunity provides at least five months' protection on average, and vaccines often give better protection than natural immunity.\n\nMore than 4 million people in the UK have been given their first dose of the vaccine.\n\nProf Janet Lord, director of the Institute of Inflammation and Ageing at the University of Birmingham, urged caution among those who have already been vaccinated.\n\nAsked whether people who have received the jab can hug their children, she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"I would certainly advise not to do that at the moment because, as you probably know, with the vaccines they take several weeks before they are maximally effective.\n\n\"It's really important that people stay on their guard even if they've had that first vaccination.\"", "Alexandru Murgeanu (l) and Jason Mercer were killed in the crash on the M1 in South Yorkshire\n\nA coroner has called for a review of smart motorways after an inquest heard the deaths of two men on a stretch of the M1 could have been avoided.\n\nJason Mercer, 44, and Alexandru Murgeanu, 22, died when Prezemyslaw Szuba crashed his lorry into their vehicles near Sheffield on 7 June 2019.\n\nCoroner David Urpeth said smart motorways without a hard shoulder carry \"an ongoing risk of future deaths\".\n\nHighways England said it was \"addressing many of the points raised\".\n\nMr Urpeth recorded a verdict of unlawful killing at Sheffield Town Hall. He added he would be writing to Highways England and the transport secretary asking for a review.\n\nThe inquest heard the deaths of the two men may have been avoided had there had been a hard shoulder.\n\nOn the stretch of the M1 where the crash took place, the hard shoulder has been replaced by an active lane.\n\nSzuba, 40, from Hull, was jailed last year after admitting causing their deaths by careless driving.\n\nHe was speaking from prison to the inquest.\n\nPrezemyslaw Szuba was jailed over the deaths\n\nAnswering questions over the phone, Szuba told the hearing he accepted he was driving without paying proper attention.\n\n\"I have already accepted that at my trial,\" he said, but added: \"If there had been a hard shoulder on this bit of motorway, the collision would have been avoidable.\n\n\"I would have driven past these two cars as it would be safer and they would have been able to come home safely and I would be able to come back home.\"\n\nSzuba said he had only three to five seconds to react, and asked if he would have avoided the crash had he been paying attention, he said: \"It's difficult to say after everything now.\"\n\nSgt Mark Brady, who oversees major collision investigations for South Yorkshire Police, told the hearing: \"Had there been a hard shoulder, had Jason and Alexandru pulled on to the hard shoulder, my opinion is that Mr Szuba would have driven clean past them.\"\n\nBut he accepted the primary cause of the crash was Szuba's inattention to the road.\n\nThe crash happened after a collision between a Ford Focus driven by Mr Mercer, from Rotherham, South Yorkshire, and a Ford Transit driven by Mr Murgeanu, who was living in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, but was originally from Romania.\n\nWhen Mr Mercer and Mr Murgeanu got out to exchange details they were hit by the lorry, and both died at the scene.\n\nMr Mercer's wife Claire has campaigned against smart motorways since her husband's death, and was at the hearing on Monday.\n\nClaire Mercer has campaigned against the use of smart motorways since her husband's death\n\nIn a statement, Highways England said it was \"determined\" to do everything it could to make roads as safe as possible and was already addressing many of the points raised by the coroner \"as published in the Government's Smart Motorway Evidence Stocktake and Action Plan of March 2020\".\n\n\"We will carefully consider any further comments raised by the coroner once we receive the report,\" it added.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Today's rising number of UK deaths was to be expected, sadly, after the surge in cases during December.\n\nAnd it is likely that the coming weeks will see figures even higher than this.\n\nToday’s numbers are, though, inflated by the fact that delays registering deaths over the weekend tend to lead to higher figures being reported on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.\n\nOn average, the UK is recording more than 1,100 deaths a day.\n\nTo put that in context, at Christmas it was less than half that.\n\nBut there are two chinks of light in the daily update.\n\nFirstly, the number of cases is below 40,000 - for a third day in a row. At the turn of the year it was touching 60,000 new diagnoses.\n\nThat means, in the coming weeks, we should start to see fewer hospitalisations and, eventually, deaths.\n\nThe number of vaccinations also continues to rise.\n\nIt seems unlikely the NHS will manage its target of two million doses a week just yet.\n\nBut each increase at least takes us one step closer to getting on top of the virus.", "Campaigners are bringing a judicial review for indirect sexual discrimination on Thursday.\n\nThey say the way the self-employed income support scheme or SEISS is calculated- by averaging out profits between 2016 to 19 - is unfair to to around 75,000 women who’ve taken time off in that period for maternity leave. The government insists using a three-year average is the best way of reflecting a self-employed worker’s income.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Health workers can book an appointment at seven vaccination centres in operation across NI\n\nDoctors have insisted there is no postcode lottery when it comes to rolling out the coronavirus vaccines.\n\nNorthern Ireland's vaccination plan means all those over 80 should receive their first dose by the end of January.\n\nMore than 154,000 doses of a vaccine have now been administered, health officials said.\n\nDr Frances O'Hagan, deputy chairwoman of NI's GP committee, said practices had their own rollout plans but she expected them to meet official targets.\n\n\"As soon as we get the vaccine, we will get it to you,\" she told BBC News NI. \"But please, please wait until we contact you.\"\n\n\"We tailor our programmes to our individual patients and to our geography and to our surroundings.\n\n\"It's not actually a postcode lottery. It's the best way of doing it because we know what suits our patients.\"\n\nDr O'Hagan said she had not heard reports of some practices holding back vaccines until they received bigger amounts to allow for a larger number of vaccinations to be done.\n\nShe said rolling out the programme was a logistical challenge which fell on top of an already heavy workload but the jab would be given out in a \"safe and timely\" fashion.\n\nSinn Féin MP Órfhlaith Begley said doctors in her West Tyrone constituency were working above and beyond to administer the vaccine to as many people as possible.\n\n\"But unfortunately I am hearing that some GPs cannot access supplies of the vaccine,\" she said.\n\n\"There does appear to be, and it is a consistent message from GPs in my own constituency, a feeling the distribution of the vaccine has been unequal to date.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Health Minister Robin Swann has welcomed a further delivery of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine into Northern Ireland on Tuesday morning.\n\nIn a tweet, Robin Swann said: \"We now have the supply to complete all our over 80s and when that group is finished, there will be enough to start into the over 75 programme.\"\n\nPatricia Donnelly, the head of NI's vaccination programme said there had been 154,436 doses of the vaccine administered here, with 132,857 of those being first doses.\n\nOn Tuesday, she said three quarters of care home residents had already received both doses.\n\n\"With the arrival of additional vaccine today, which have been issued this afternoon and tomorrow to GPs, there will be enough to complete the over 80 population and to commence in the over 70 population,\" she added.\n\nA further 24 virus-related deaths and 713 more Covid-19 cases were reported in Northern Ireland on Tuesday.\n\nIt brings the total number of deaths recorded by the Department of Health to 1,649.\n\nThere are currently 842 people in hospital with the virus, 70 people in intensive care units (ICU) and 57 being ventilated.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, a further 93 Covid-19 related deaths were reported on Tuesday, bringing the country's death toll to 2,708.\n\nA further 2,001 positive cases were also recorded in the latest figures from the Republic's Department of Health.\n\nNorthern Ireland's rate of Covid-19 infection is now below one and has been at that level for a couple of weeks, according to the chief medical officer.\n\nHowever, Dr Michael McBride warned the reproduction (R) number for hospital transmission remains above one.\n\nDr McBride said new variants of the virus had made the job of curtailing the spread even more difficult, and warned he did not foresee any relaxation of restrictions any time soon.\n\n\"We need to ensure that we have as many people who remain at risk of severe disease vaccinated and prioritised with the first dose as possible before we consider significant relaxations in the current restrictions,\" he said.\n\nMeanwhile concerns have been raised that \"social media myths\" are encouraging some care home staff to reject the Covid vaccine.\n\nPauline Shepherd, from the Independent Health and Care Providers, said young women were especially vulnerable to misinformation about the vaccine and fertility.\n\nLast week, the Department of Health said there had been an uptake level of about 80% among care home staff.\n\n\"We are very keen obviously that everyone takes the vaccine, that is really the only way that we are going to get through this,\" she told BBC Radio Foyle.\n\n\"Obviously there are myths going around on social media about the vaccine and some are opting not to take it.\n\n\"Particularly younger females seem to have the view through social media that it may impact fertility\".\n\nA consultant anaesthetist says there is a \"reluctance\" among members of the black, Asian and minority ethnic communities to take Covid-19 vaccines\n\nThere are currently 139 confirmed Covid-19 outbreaks in NI's 483 care homes.\n\nThe Public Health Agency (PHA) and Department of Health were now exploring how \"to dispel the myths\", Ms Shepherd added.\n\nDr Mukesh Chugh, a consultant anaesthetist at Altnagelvin Hospital in Londonderry, said there had been a \"reluctance\" among black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) people to take Covid-19 vaccines.\n\nDr Chugh says this is because of \"anti-vaccine messages\" posted across various social media platforms and messenger apps \"targeted at certain ethnic and religious groups\".\n\n\"I encourage them not to believe the messages they are getting on WhatsApp - these are not scientific messages,\" he said.\n\nOn Tuesday, Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots said a number of groups of key workers should be given priority access to vaccinations.\n\nPrioritisation was decided by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), which advises UK health departments on immunisation.\n\nEdwin Poots said meat plant workers should be among those given priority vaccine access\n\nAsked if he supported prioritisation for food workers in meat plants, Mr Poots told the assembly he did and had raised it with the executive.\n\n\"It's been identified as an essential service - those people working in them are there in cold, wet conditions where we have had a number of outbreaks,\" he said.\n\n\"We should seek to introduce those people somewhat earlier than is currently the case - I will continue to endeavour to press that case.\"\n\nHe said other groups of workers who should be prioritised included \"teachers and police officers\".", "An Instagram post said the alleged baby shower was a \"lovely surprise\"\n\nA rail company has begun an internal investigation after staff allegedly held a surprise baby shower in a closed Patisserie Valerie bakery at London's Marylebone station during lockdown.\n\nChiltern Railways workers told BBC News up to 20 colleagues, including some who were on shift, attended the gathering.\n\nThey claim some party-goers then had positive Covid tests, forcing most of the team to self-isolate.\n\nChiltern said \"appropriate action\" would be taken after its investigation.\n\nMembers of Chiltern Railways customer services staff based at the station told BBC News that about 30 people had been invited to the baby shower on the afternoon of 23 November - both via WhatsApp before the alleged gathering, and face to face on the day of the event.\n\nA national coronavirus lockdown was in place in England in November, so people were banned from meeting anyone indoors who was not part of their household.\n\nOne worker, David [not his real name], said he declined an invitation to the event but walked past the bakery later in his shift to see about 20 colleagues gathered inside.\n\nHe said he was \"shocked and alarmed\" to see people hugging each other, with most of them not wearing masks.\n\nPhotos of the alleged gathering, seen by the BBC, show a table inside a Patisserie Valerie outlet covered with dozens of cupcakes, mince pies, crisps and sandwiches, bunting saying \"it's a boy!\" and handmade flags reading \"happy baby shower\".\n\nOne photo appears to show a group of eight colleagues posing in front of the table of party food, without socially distancing from one another.\n\nSome images were shared on Instagram on 23 November with the caption: \"What a lovely surprise being thrown a baby shower at work today!\"\n\nA Patisserie Valerie spokesman said the company had not been informed of any such event and that none of its team members had access to the Marylebone station cafe, which has remained closed since March due to Covid restrictions.\n\nHe added it was normal for a member of station staff to have keys to the premises for \"security reasons\".\n\nDavid and another colleague claimed three people who allegedly attended the event tested positive over the following four days.\n\nThe positive tests meant 16 members of staff out of the team of about 26 people had to self-isolate for 14 days, David said.\n\nHe said colleagues who lived with, or cared for, vulnerable people were \"petrified\" to hear there had been a staff outbreak, with some \"scared to go home\" for fear of endangering loved ones.\n\nDavid added that he had been caring for his elderly grandmother so self-isolation was \"a real nightmare\" as he had to arrange alternative care for her.\n\nChiltern Railways confirmed a \"small number\" of workers tested positive for Covid or had to self-isolate in the 14-day period after 23 November, but a spokeswoman said \"none of the staff who were alleged to have attended [the baby shower] tested positive\".\n\nShe said Chiltern Railways was investigating and was \"making every effort\" to maintain a Covid-secure environment for staff and customers.\n\nChiltern Railways staff members congratulated their colleague using information boards at the station\n\nIn an email seen by the BBC, which was sent to Chiltern Railways employees on 24 November, a manager said one team member had tested positive and added: \"It is disappointing that social distancing measures do not appear to have been followed and I will be investigating this further.\"\n\nDavid's colleague Peter (not his real name) said he was one of about 10 team members who had to work while the rest of the team was self-isolating.\n\nPeter said the outbreak left those at work feeling \"stretched\" and \"raised the anxiety levels of everyone\" as they worried they might have caught Covid as a result of having worked alongside the alleged party's attendees.\n\n\"A lot of us don't want to be at work during this time, for obvious reasons. We're doing a job where we do come into contact with a lot of people - it's stressful enough with your own family, who are a bit worried about you going in to work at a train station and asking if you're getting the proper protection,\" Peter said.\n\nHe added he felt \"demoralised\" to hear about the alleged party when he spends his shifts encouraging customers to wear masks and socially distance.\n\nThe Department for Transport said it had been made aware of the incident and had contacted Chiltern Railways for a \"full explanation\".\n\nA spokesman for the Office of Rail and Road - which protects the interests of rail and road users - said it had investigated \"an issue relating to Covid-19 concerns\" and had taken action, jointly with Westminster City Council, to \"ensure Chiltern Railways tightens its risk assessment for workers and to revise working arrangements\".", "When Amelia Strike, 21, was logged out of her Depop social shopping app account in October, nothing seemed out of the ordinary.\n\n\"I thought I had just forgotten my password when I couldn't get back in, but a couple of days passed and I realised something wasn't right,\" says the Birmingham-based law student.\n\nShe then received a message from a stranger on Instagram, alerting her to the fact that her account had been taken over by a scammer advertising Apple AirPod headphones for £50.\n\nShe immediately used her brother's Depop account to comment on the offending post and contact the app. It was removed by the firm in a few hours and her password was reset.\n\nBut when Ms Strike logged back in, she was shocked by what she found.\n\n\"I felt sick - I scrolled and scrolled through hundreds of messages people had sent the scammer,\" she says.\n\nThe fraudster had been instructing shoppers to pay them directly through PayPal's \"Friends and Family\" option, which sidesteps Depop's fees and doesn't offer any protection for buyers.\n\nThe scammer sent messages like this one to other Depop users from Amelia's account\n\nMs Strike counted at least three Depop users who made unauthorised payments of £50 to the scammer.\n\nIn Ms Strike's situation, to get users to trust scam listing, the hacker had also uploaded a photo of her name on a post-it note next to the headphones that were supposedly for sale.\n\nThis is a common tactic used by people selling second-hand items online, to prove that the photos were not stolen from another listing.\n\n\"I just felt so violated,\" she says.\n\nShe is not alone - 14 other users have told BBC News that their Depop accounts have been hacked in recent months. In all cases, the fraudsters demanded to be paid directly, rather than through the app.\n\nBlending the look and social elements of Instagram with the buy-and-sell format of eBay, 90% of Depop's users are aged 26 or under.\n\nEmily Goold, 21, a journalism student in Tewkesbury, was scared when her account was hacked and a fraudster posted a listing for a £350 jacket.\n\nEmily Goold, 21, told the BBC a fraudster hacked her Depop account and advertised a £350 Moncler jacket\n\nDepop took the listing down within 12 hours and reset her password, but Ms Goold says such incidents are becoming commonplace.\n\n\"You always know somebody who's had a Depop horror story. It's such a widespread problem now.\"\n\nScammers have continued to plague many online services through the pandemic.\n\nOne \"have a go\" method called \"credential stuffing\" involves using automated tools to repeatedly log into accounts, entering usernames and password information previously exposed from data breaches of other popular online services.\n\nIf a user doesn't use the same password on multiple services or has changed their passwords after being exposed in a data breach, this won't work.\n\nAccording to Liv Rowley, a threat intelligence analyst at cyber-security firm Blueliv, cyber criminals are now targeting Depop accounts on an \"industrial scale\" using this method, capitalising on the fact that people often use similar passwords.\n\nBlending the look and social elements of Instagram with the buy-and-sell format of eBay, 90% of Depop's users are aged 26 or under\n\nDepop told the BBC that the safety and security of its community is its \"number one priority\", and that the service has never had a data breach or had its infrastructure compromised.\n\nThe firm confirmed that credential stuffing is a big part of the problem.\n\n\"Weak passwords and the use of the same password across multiple accounts is the greatest source of account takeover, which is why we have initiated a campaign in the second half of 2020 to force some users to strengthen their passwords and to remind others of the importance of strong and unique passwords,\" says Depop's chief operating officer Dominic Rose.\n\nDepop has started resetting passwords for some 12 million users that have not changed them in over a year and told the BBC it had sent reminders to a similar number to make sure their log-in details are unique.\n\n\"We will continue to remind our community about the importance of account security and updating their passwords.\"\n\nThe firm, founded in 2011, told the BBC that although the number of its users increased nearly two-fold to 26 million last year, it had seen a 50% decrease in account \"takeovers\" since its campaign began.\n\nBut Blueliv found that login details for several thousand hacked Depop accounts are being advertised for as little as $1.05 (77p) each on the dark web - a part of the internet that is only accessible using specialised tools.\n\nWhile a Vice investigation first highlighted the problem in May, there is now evidence that account logins are being sold across multiple dark web \"marketplaces\".\n\nThe information for sale includes usernames and passwords, with extra charged for details such as follower count, the number of sales completed by a user and their ratings by other shoppers.\n\nOn the dark net marketplace White House Market, \"premium\" Depop accounts are being sold for $5\n\n\"The accounts are being compromised and that definitely is concerning,\" Ms Rowley says. \"While it's not a Depop-specific problem, I think [credential stuffing] is one we're going to see expand in the next five years.\"\n\nOne Depop user told the BBC they would feel \"much more comfortable\" if the app introduced two-factor authentication, where users enter a one-time code sent to them via email or text, for example, after attempting to sign in.\n\nDepop confirmed that it intends to implement multi-factor authentication in 2021.\n\nBut Aman Johal, director at law firm Your Lawyers, which specialises in consumer action claims, says the platform needs to act urgently, \"particularly given its relatively young user base, where the duty of care is greater\".\n\n\"The fact that this has been going on for months...is unacceptable. Given the volume of compromised accounts for sale, the horse has already bolted,\" he added.\n\nFor some users, trust in the company has been dented.\n\n\"I feel like their security measures need to be amped up because it's just not good enough,\" says Ms Strike, who has been a Depop user since 2015.\n\n\"I've used [Depop] for a long time but I'm reluctant to continue because it just doesn't feel safe anymore.\"", "HSBC is to close 82 branches in the UK between April and September this year, claiming customers are turning to digital banking.\n\nThe company will have 511 branches across the country following the closure programme.\n\nManagers said they did not expect to make any redundancies, with staff moved to nearby branches instead.\n\nCoronavirus and changing customer habits have altered the way we bank, but there are concerns over closures.\n\nCampaigners say that local branches provide a lifeline for those who need access to cash and face-to-face services, and allow small businesses to bank without too much disruption to their own trade.\n\nHSBC said all but one of the branches earmarked for closure were within one mile of a Post Office, where these day-to-day transactions could be carried out.\n\nIt said - even stripping out the effects of the pandemic - the number of customers using branches had fallen by a third in the past five years, and 90% of all customer contact was over the phone, internet or smartphone, in addition to contacts on social media.\n\nJackie Uhi, HSBC UK's head of network, said: \"The Covid-19 pandemic has emphasised the need for the changes that we are making.\n\n\"It hasn't pushed us in a different direction but reinforces the things that we were focusing on before and has crystallised our thinking. This is a strategic direction that we need to take to have a branch network fit for the future.\"\n\nThis would include changing some branches to concentrate on cash access, as well as the use of \"pop-up\" branches in some areas by the end of the year. It means some remaining branches will offer fewer services.\n\nThe branches to close are:\n\nMay: Brighton, Ditchling Road; Hull, Merit House; Wednesbury; Sutton Coldfield, Four Oaks; Hull, Holderness Road; Pontyclun, Talbot Green; London, Fleet Street; London, Fenchurch Street; London, Old Broad Street; London, Charing Cross; Sheffield, Darnall; Oxford, Summertown; Leeds, Chapel Allerton; Cardiff, Rumney; Torquay, Strand; Staines", "The Met Office warned heavy rain combined with melting snow on higher ground was likely to cause flooding\n\nAn amber rain warning has been issued for parts of northern and central England as Storm Christoph approaches.\n\nThe Met Office told people in Yorkshire and the Humber, the North West, East Midlands and the east of England to expect heavy rain and potential floods.\n\nYellow warnings have been issued for England, Wales, Northern Ireland and southern Scotland.\n\nUp to 70mm (2.75in) of rain is forecast to fall within 48 hours in the worst-hit areas from Tuesday.\n\nThe Met Office said the downpours, set to last throughout Tuesday and Wednesday, were likely to cause flooding when combined with melting snow on higher ground.\n\nIt said there was a \"danger to life\" due to fast-flowing or deep floodwater, and warned some communities there was a good chance they would be \"cut off\" by flooded roads.\n\nIt also predicted delays and cancellations to public transport, with the amber warning in place until 12:00 GMT on Thursday.\n\nCouncils and emergency services have warned people to prepare for potential flooding.\n\nMayor of Doncaster Ros Jones declared a major incident in South Yorkshire ahead of possible flooding.\n\nIn a tweet, she said emergency protocols were instigated on Sunday, with sandbags handed out in flood-risk areas, and told people not to panic but to be prepared.\n\nCalderdale councillor Scott Patient urged residents and businesses to \"take all the steps they can to protect themselves and their property\".\n\nDue to Covid-19 restrictions, Mr Patient said, the authority was preparing \"virtual community support hubs\" to help people if there was flooding.\n\n\"The virtual hubs work similarly to the physical ones, but everything will be done remotely to reduce the need for face-to-face contact and to protect staff, volunteers, those affected by flooding and vulnerable people in our communities,\" he said.\n\nThe Environment Agency has 14 flood warnings - meaning \"immediate action\" is required - in place across England, stretching from the south east to the north east.\n\nThe Met Office amber rain area initially covered parts of the north, but has since been expanded to include some central areas\n\nMet Office forecaster Jon Griffiths said about 40-70mm (1.57-2.75 in) of rain was expected in the north-west over three days, potentially rising to 100-120mm (3.93-4.72 in) in hilly areas.\n\nMr Griffiths said river systems in some areas were already close to capacity.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson has condemned the \"disgraceful scenes\" in the US, after supporters of President Donald Trump stormed Congress and clashed with police.\n\nRioters breached the Capitol building where lawmakers met to confirm Joe Biden's presidential election victory.\n\nThe PM said it was \"vital that there should be a peaceful and orderly transfer of power\".\n\nAnd Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was a \"direct attack on democracy\".\n\n\"The United States stands for democracy around the world and it is now vital that there should be a peaceful and orderly transfer of power,\" Mr Johnson tweeted.\n\nScottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, meanwhile, called the events \"utterly horrifying\".\n\nFriend of President Trump and leader of Reform UK - formerly the Brexit Party - Nigel Farage tweeted: \"Storming Capitol Hill is wrong. The protesters must leave.\"\n\nThe US Congress has now reconvened after the violence - spurred on by Mr Trump's unproven claims of electoral fraud - to certify Mr Biden's victory in the US election in November\n\nHundreds of the president's supporters stormed the Capitol, and staged an occupation of the building in Washington DC.\n\nBoth chambers of Congress were forced into recess, as protesters clashed with police and tear gas was released.\n\nFour people died on Capitol grounds during the violence, including a woman shot by police and three others, who died as a result of \"medical emergencies\", local police said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police place US Capitol Building on lockdown after Trump supporters breached security lines\n\nUK MPs from across the political spectrum have criticised the events in the US.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab said there was \"no justification for these violent attempts to frustrate the lawful and proper transition of power\", while Home Secretary Priti Patel called the scenes \"unacceptable and undemocratic\".\n\nShe added: \"There is no justification for this violence and Donald Trump must condemn it.\"\n\nHer Conservative colleague, and former Foreign Secretary, Jeremy Hunt directly addressed President Trump for telling the crowd to march on Congress, tweeting: \"He shames American democracy tonight and causes its friends anguish - but he is not America.\"\n\nLabour's deputy leader, Angela Rayner said: \"The violence that Donald Trump has unleashed is terrifying, and the Republicans who stood by him have blood on their hands.\"\n\nAnd shadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy said the events were \"the legacy of a politics of hate that pits people against each other and threatens the foundations of democracy\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMeanwhile, Work and Pensions Secretary Therese Coffey has defended the prime minister's response to the rioting.\n\nAsked on ITV's Peston programme why Mr Johnson hadn't criticised Mr Trump, she said: \"The prime minister has been clear tonight that we need a peaceful and orderly transition.\"\n\nMs Coffey added that events in the US were a \"reminder that democracy is something precious - and will only continue to thrive as long as we protect institutions that make this country important and not demean each other when the majority of what we want to achieve is similar outcomes\".\n\nDonald Trump and Boris Johnson at a Nato summit in 2019\n\nMeanwhile, the SNP's leader in Westminster, Ian Blackford, said the end of Mr Trump's presidency \"cannot come quick enough\".\n\nHe tweeted: \"What a legacy the events of today are to his time in office. Shameful, shocking, an affront to democracy.\"\n\nLeader of the Liberal Democrats, Ed Davey, called the scenes \"absolutely horrendous\", while his party's foreign affairs spokeswoman, Layla Moran, said: \"The scenes coming out of Washington tonight are an attack on democracy.\"", "An ambulance service has experienced its busiest day of calls on record.\n\nOn Monday, West Midlands Ambulance Service dealt with 5,383 calls in 24 hours. The previous record was 5,001 calls in March 2018.\n\nSeven hundred of those calls came from London as its calls system struggled, according to BBC health correspondent Michele Paduano.\n\nThe ambulance service said Covid-19 and winter weather had resulted in hospitals being \"extremely busy\".\n\nAt the hosptials, the longest a patient waited was five hours and 39 minutes, with two of the longest waits at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital and Heartlands Hospital in Birmingham.\n\nA combination of Covid-19 and winter weather has resulted in hospitals being \"extremely busy\"\n\nAt one point on Monday night, 15 ambulances were waiting to hand over patients outside New Cross Hospital in Wolverhampton.\n\nA source told the BBC it was \"a very challenging day\" and in total, handovers had accounted for 759 hours of crews' time, equivalent to taking 63 ambulances off the road.\n\nWhile another said at 06:00 GMT on Tuesday, ambulances were still responding to emergency calls from the night before.\n\nTraditionally, the first Monday after New Year is always busy. GP surgeries have been closed and people wait until after the festivities to get medical treatment.\n\nThis year, the number of calls was exacerbated by the service taking about 700 calls for the London ambulance service after its system struggled.\n\nThere was also the perfect storm of snow and ice coupled with coronavirus - made worse because many of our trusts, particularly University Hospitals Birmingham have been struggling with capacity for many months. Usually hospitals would put patients on corridors, they can't because of Covid risks.\n\nThey also have fewer beds due to wider spacing to prevent infection and fewer staff on duty. Hence patients left for hours on ambulances outside.\n\nWest Midlands Ambulance Service is the best performing in the country, but even with near to 500 ambulances a day on the road, it cannot keep up with demand.\n\nProf David Loughton, the chief executive of the Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, warned its capacity would \"soon be compromised\".\n\n\"The numbers are ramping up enormously and I don't think we've seen the full impact of what happened on Christmas Day yet, that will take time to come through,\" Prof Loughton said.\n\nHe added a two-week \"lag\" meant things could get worst before they get better.\n\n\"As I always say today's Covid rate is my order book for intensive care in two weeks' time.\"\n\nA West Midlands Ambulance Service spokesman said: \"A combination of Covid-19 and winter weather has resulted in hospitals being extremely busy which unfortunately resulted in hospital handover delays.\n\n\"We work closely with the hospitals to try and ensure our crews are able to handover patients quickly and safely, but due to the extremely high demand some patients did wait longer to be handed over than we would normally see.\"\n\nIn a statement London Ambulance Service NHS Trust said : \"As is standard practice during periods of high demand and high levels of staff sickness, ambulance services provide support for each other, which includes answering 999 calls.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Dickey emerged during a boom for African-American literature in the 1990s\n\nAuthor Eric Jerome Dickey, whose novels of romance, mystery and adventure were best-selling page-turners over more than 20 years, has died aged 59.\n\nThe US writer wrote 30 novels about breathless relationships and thrilling adventures involving young African American characters.\n\nThey included Friends & Lovers, Milk In My Coffee, Cheaters and Finding Gideon.\n\nHe also wrote a series of Marvel comics about a love story between Storm from the X-Men and the Black Panther.\n\n\"His work has become a cultural touchstone over the course of his multi-decade writing career, earning him millions of dedicated readers around the world,\" his publicist Becky Odell told USA Today in a statement.\n\nWriter Roxane Gay was among those paying tribute, describing him as \"a great storyteller\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by roxane gay This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOther authors to add their voices included Luvvie Ajayi, who described him as \"a literary legend\", and ReShonda Tate Billingsley, who said he was \"an amazing author and an even better friend\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Luvvie is the #ProfessionalTroublemaker This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post 2 by Luvvie is the #ProfessionalTroublemaker\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by ReShonda Tate Billingsley This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Wesley This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBorn in Memphis, Tennessee, Dickey started out as a software developer in the aerospace industry. Being laid off from that job gave him a chance to take writing classes and see whether he could make it as an author.\n\nHe emerged during a boom for African-American literature in the 1990s, and his 1996 debut Sister, Sister - about the lives and loves of three siblings - was recently named one of the 50 Most Impactful Black Books of the Last 50 Years by Essence magazine.\n\nHe was particularly praised for his ability to write \"believable\" female characters, and many of his readers were women.\n\nWhen the New York Times profiled him in 2004, it billed him as the \"chick lit king\". Patrik Henry Bass, Essence's books editor, told the paper: \"He is singular in the way he is tapping into the African-American female psyche.\"\n\nAnd Calvin Reid, an editor at trade magazine Publishers Weekly, said: \"He captures black language and black middle-class characters with more depth than you often see in commercial fiction.\"\n\nBy that time, he was selling 500,000 books a year. He was nominated four times for the NAACP Image Award for best work of fiction, winning in 2015 for A Wanted Woman.\n\nBy then, he had branched out into stories of crime, suspense, thrills and spills as well as the steamy and tangled relationships with which he made his name.\n\nHe had four daughters, but said he never based his plots on his own life. \"I avoid my life,\" he once said. \"It bores me. Trust me. A book about me would be a snoozefest.\"\n\nHis final novel, The Son of Mr Suleman, will be published in April.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"We've now vaccinated over 1.3m people across the UK\"\n\nSome 1.3 million people in the UK have now received their first dose of a Covid vaccine, says the government.\n\nIn England, that includes nearly a quarter of the most elderly, vulnerable patients.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said it meant that within a two to three weeks they should have a \"significant degree of immunity\" to the virus.\n\nHe said there would be a ramping up to get more people immunised - up to 2 million a week.\n\nThe ambition is to vaccinate all the over-70s, the most clinically vulnerable and front-line health and care workers by mid-February. That will require around 13 million vaccinations.\n\nHe defended the UK's policy of immunising more people with one dose immediately - rather than holding some stock back to give people a second booster shot - in order to save \"the most lives the fastest\".\n\nUS regulators have questioned the policy, saying it is premature without more trial evidence, but the UK's Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency says it is a pragmatic decision to protect more people.\n\nBoth the Pfizer and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines require two doses to provide the best possible protection.\n\nInitially, the strategy for the Pfizer vaccine was to offer people the second dose 21 days after their initial jab - full immunity starts seven days after the second dose.\n\nBut when approval was announced for the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine on 30 December, it was also announced that the policy would now change - the new priority would be to give as many people a first shot of either vaccine, rather than providing the required two doses in as short a time as possible.\n\nEveryone will still receive their second dose, but this will now be within 12 weeks of their first.\n\nEngland's chief medical officer Professor Chris Whitty told the Downing Street press conference that extending the gap between the first and second jabs would mean the number of people vaccinated can be doubled over three months.\n\n\"If over that period there is more than 50% protection then you have actually won. More people will have been protected than would have been otherwise.\n\n\"Our quite strong view is that protection is likely to be lot more than 50%.\"\n\nAsked whether the longer gap could lead to an increase risk of the virus mutating into a version that could escape the vaccine, he said it was a worry, but a small one.\n\nChief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said vaccines would probably need to be changed further down the line to continue to be a good match for the virus - but that this was relatively quick to do.\n\nOne of the exciting things about the science of the RNA vaccines is that they are incredibly fast to make in response to new mutations, he said.", "Former Goldman Sachs banker Richard Sharp is set to be named the BBC's next chairman, the corporation's media editor Amol Rajan says.\n\nMr Sharp spent 23 years working for the banking giant and was reportedly Chancellor Rishi Sunak's boss there.\n\nHe has recently been acting as an unpaid economic adviser to Mr Sunak during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nHis new role will see him lead negotiations with the government over the future of the licence fee.\n\nThe licence fee is due to stay in place until at least 2027, when the BBC's Royal Charter ends, with a debate about how the broadcaster should be funded after that.\n\nThe government is currently reviewing whether its cost, currently £157.50, should continue rising with inflation from 2022, and whether non-payment should remain a criminal offence.\n\nMr Sharp's career at Goldman Sachs culminated as chairman of its principal investment business in Europe before his departure in 2007. He was then on the Bank of England's Financial Policy Committee for six years until 2019.\n\nAs an advisor to the Treasury about its pandemic response, the 63-year-old reportedly played a key role in the £1.57bn arts rescue package, and the film and television production restart scheme.\n\nMr Sharp is a former donor to the Conservative party.\n\nHe was chairman of the Royal Academy of Arts from 2007 to 2012, and founded the charity London Music Masters.\n\nSir David Clementi, the current BBC chairman, steps down in February. The post-holder is officially appointed by the Queen on the recommendation of the government.\n\nJulian Knight, the chair of the DCMS Committee, said in a statement: \"It is disappointing to see this news about the next BBC chairman has leaked out ahead of a formal announcement from the Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. The Committee previously expressed some concerns over the appointments process, calling for it to be fair and transparent.\n\n\"The DCMS Committee looks forward to questioning the preferred candidate for the post in a pre-appointment hearing next week on their views at a critical time for the BBC about its role and the future of public service broadcasting more generally.\"\n\nHis views on the BBC itself are unknown. But like new director general Tim Davie, who he met a few weeks before Christmas, he has a commercial background. Just as the relationship between Lord Hall, Davie's predecessor, and Sir David was strong, so the bond between the new DG and chair will be critical.\n\nWhether Sharp supports the licence fee as the pillar of a future BBC settlement is unclear.\n\nThe last time the BBC's future was negotiated with a sceptical Conservative government, the relationship between the director general and the chancellor - then George Osborne - was critical, as Lord Hall explained to me in his exit interview.\n\nThis time, Davie will go into that negotiation with a very close ally of the current chancellor - though Sharp's first duty is to support Davie, and the BBC, and not his old mentee.", "New car registrations fell to their lowest level in nearly three decades last year, according to preliminary figures from the industry's trade body.\n\nIt was also the biggest one-year fall since World War Two, when factories were being turned over to military production, the Society for Motor Manufacturers and Traders said.\n\nAbout 1.63 million new cars were registered in 2020, compared with 2.3 million in 2019 - a decline of 29%.\n\nIt was the lowest total since 1992.\n\nThe bulk of the lost sales occurred during the first lockdown in the Spring, when showrooms were forced to close, and factories shut down.\n\n\"We lost half a million units from March, April, May - and we never recovered them,\" said the SMMT's chief executive, Mike Hawes.\n\nThe restrictions introduced later in the year were less damaging, largely because dealers were able to sell cars remotely, using 'click and collect' services.\n\nThat remains the case during the new lockdown, announced on Monday.\n\n\"We can still do click and collect, which is important, because that's the very minimum we need,\" said Mr Hawes. \"Not just to keep retail going, but also to keep manufacturing going.\"\n\nOverall, the SMMT said the Covid crisis has cost the car industry some £20bn - and cost the exchequer nearly £2bn in lost VAT.\n\nThere are also serious questions about the extent to which the car market can recover this year. Previous forecasts, which had suggested new registrations could rise to about 2 million in 2021, have been thrown into doubt by the latest restrictions.\n\nBut while the market as a whole has suffered over the past year, sales of electric cars have risen dramatically, increasing their share of the market from 1.5% to 6.5%. Sales of plug-in hybrids also rose sharply.\n\nCar showrooms re-opened from the first lockdown in June\n\n\"If we see this continued level of uptake in electric vehicles, then we anticipate that sales of new EVs and plug-in hybrids will overtake diesel cars in 2021,\" said Ian Plummer, commercial director of motoring website Auto Trader. \"Then, pure EVs will overtake those of their internal combustion engine counterparts in 2026.\"\n\nWith the pandemic continuing to inflict serious damage on the industry, Mr Hawes says the trade deal between the UK and the EU came as a \"massive relief\".\n\nIt confirmed that cars and car parts could continue to move between the two regions, without tariffs - or taxes - being imposed, provided certain conditions are met.\n\nThe SMMT had previously warned that failing to reach a deal could have cost the industry £55bn over five years - and add £2,000 to the cost of each vehicle\n\nBut manufacturers still face potentially significant additional costs due to so-called non-tariff barriers - including border formalities, and the need to obtain extra regulatory approvals for new designs.\n\n\"This is not a free deal\", said Mr Hawes.\n\nAnother consequence of the trade deal is that the UK will need to focus on battery production, if it is to maintain its car industry while phasing out petrol and diesel engines.\n\nThat's because in order to qualify for tariff-free access to the European market, the value of car components made outside the UK and the EU will have to be strictly limited.\n\nSpecific rules relating to batteries effectively mean that from 2027, they themselves will have to be made in the EU or the UK.\n\nThe SMMT believes that, based on current investment plans, UK battery factories will have a capacity of 15 gigawatt-hours (GWh) by 2024.\n\nThat is more than seven times the current level, and would be enough to produce 250,000 electric cars per year.\n\nBut the SMMT insists much more is needed: 60GWh in order to produce 1 million cars per year by 2030, and 120GWh to produce 2mby 2040.\n\nThat, says Mr Hawes, will require \"massive investment\".", "Greggs expects up to a £15m loss for the year, which would be its first annual loss since it listed its shares on the stock exchange in 1984.\n\nThe bakery chain said it does not expect profits to return to pre-Covid levels until 2022 at the earliest.\n\nIt has been battling a sales slump due to the coronavirus pandemic, but sales declines have been lessening.\n\nGreggs made 820 job cuts at the end of last year, after its sales were hit by coronavirus lockdowns and restrictions.\n\nChief executive Roger Whiteside said the impact of the Covid-19 crisis had been \"enormous\" and that a fresh lockdown meant \"significant uncertainties remain in the near term\".\n\nCoronavirus restrictions towards the end of last year led to \"variable trading conditions across the UK\", he said.\n\nSales in the final three months of the year fell by nearly a fifth, but this decline was less than its sales slump in the third quarter.\n\nIn September, Greggs, which is based in Newcastle, said it was in talks with staff to cut hours in an effort to minimise job losses.\n\nBut it still decided to cut 820 jobs because of \"lockdown levels of business\" as High Streets were hit by the crisis.\n\n\"Looking ahead, the significant uncertainty over the duration of social restrictions, along with the impact of higher unemployment levels, makes it difficult to predict performance,\" the firm said.\n\n\"However, we do not expect that profits will return to pre-Covid levels until 2022 at the earliest.\"\n\nGreggs said on Wednesday that total sales for the year were down nearly a third to £811m, but government support had helped to limit pre-tax losses.\n\nIt said it had developed its takeaway business and a delivery tie-up with Just Eat, and had also seen \"strong sales\" through its partnership with retailer Iceland.\n\n\"We have taken action to position Greggs to withstand further short-term shocks and are optimistic about our prospects for growth once social restrictions are lifted,\" Mr Whiteside added.\n\nGreggs wants to open about 100 new stores, on a net basis, over the year ahead.\n\nJulie Palmer, a partner at insolvency consultants Begbies Traynor, said: \"The latest national lockdown will be unwelcome news for Greggs, which has operated shrewdly during the past year in spite of a lack of footfall, with non-essential stores forced to close and millions working from home.\n\n\"The bakery chain has had to adapt its business model and invest digitally to accommodate for the rapid change in shopping habits, offering click-and-collect purchases, as well as a nationwide delivery service through its partnership with Just Eat.\n\n\"This should provide a solid base for the business to expand when government restrictions are eased and the world returns to some normality.\"", "US intelligence agencies have said they believe Russia was behind the \"serious\" cyber compromise revealed in December.\n\nPresident Trump had previously suggested China might have been behind the hack, although other members of his administration had pointed the finger at Moscow.\n\nIn a joint statement, the intelligence bodies say they currently believe fewer than 10 US government agencies saw their data compromised, although other organisations outside of government were also affected.\n\nThey say work is still going on to understand the scope of the incident, which appears to have been aimed at gathering intelligence and which they say is \"ongoing\" a month after details first emerged.\n\nThe update on the investigation came in a statement from a task force called the Cyber Unified Coordination Group which was set up to deal with the incident. It comprises intelligence and law enforcement agencies including the FBI and NSA.\n\nThe group said it was still working to understand the scope of what had taken place.\n\nEighteen thousand customers who used Orion product from the company Solar Winds were exposed but US intelligence says it believes a much smaller number saw follow-on activity from the hackers in which they stole data. The US Treasury was among those which previously acknowledged being targeted.\n\n\"This is a serious compromise that will require a sustained and dedicated effort to remediate,\" the statement said. Many organisations are having to scour their systems for signs that they may have been compromised.\n\nThe incident sent shockwaves across the US partly because the breach was undiscovered for many months and was potentially far-reaching in terms of who it might have affected. It also suggested a degree of sophistication and stealth which was widely seen as a trademark of hackers from the SVR, Russia's foreign intelligence agency.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Experts have been warning for years that it's not a matter of if, but when, hackers will kill somebody\n\nSoon after the incident was revealed, President Trump raised the possibility that China might be responsible, but members of his own administration including the secretary of state and attorney general pointed the finger at Moscow. The latest statement shows the assessment of US intelligence agencies is that Russia was behind it, although it does not go so far as accusing the Russian state itself, saying only that the actor was \"likely Russian in origin\". Moscow has denied playing any part.\n\nPresident-elect Joe Biden has previously said it was important to take \"meaningful steps\" to hold those responsible to account. It is not yet clear, though, what that might involve. While some US politicians suggested the breach might even be compared to an \"act of war\", most cyber-experts disputed this and the US intelligence community has now played down suggestions that it could have had destructive impact.\n\n\"At this time, we believe this was, and continues to be, an intelligence-gathering effort,\" the latest statement says. This is significant since it suggests no evidence has been found that this was preparatory activity for a more destructive cyber-attack which might switch off systems. This may limit the US response since espionage operations do not breach the cyber norms the US itself promotes (largely because it too carries out such intelligence-gathering operations against other nations).\n\nIn December UK officials say they believed a small number of UK organisations were affected but said they did not believe they were in the public sector.", "South Vietnam flags were seen during the unrest Image caption: South Vietnam flags were seen during the unrest\n\nOn Wednesday, as protesters gathered outside before swarming the Capitol building, the yellow flags of the old South Vietnam regime could be seen.\n\nIn fact, the yellow flags of the former South Vietnam are a common sight at pro-Trump rallies across the United States.\n\nVietnamese Americans, especially those of the older generation who fled Vietnam after Saigon fell in 1975, are known for their support for the Republican party and Donald Trump.\n\nA pre-election survey by the group Asian and Pacific Islander American Vote found that Vietnamese Americans are the only major East Asian ethnic community that favoured Trump over Biden . Trump’s anti-China and anti-communist rhetoric resonated greatly with the former refugees who risked their lives to escape communism.\n\nBut the support for President Trump has also become an increasingly divisive issue amongst the Vietnamese American community.\n\nHours after the Capitol riot, there are still calls on pro-Trump internet forums like the \"ABC Trump\" Facebook page for Vietnamese Americans to “take to the streets in support of President Trump” as “the battle continues”.\n\nBut there have also been condemnations.\n\n“This is embarrassing,” one young Vietnamese American wrote on Twitter, adding: “They’ve brought shame to the flag”.", "The US is facing another huge election - one that could define how much new president Joe Biden can get done in his first term.\n\nMore than 100 people are gathered in the grey and damp cold in Stone Mountain.\n\nIt's a miserable start to the New Year but this city near Georgia's capital, Atlanta, feels anything but sleepy or hung over.\n\n\"The energy we get here in Georgia is something I've never seen before,\" says Mr Gardner, who was born and raised in local DeKalb County.\n\n\"We've had other Senate races and I'm just excited.\"\n\nHe is joined by fellow Democratic supporters who are singing and dancing outside a house-turned-campaign centre.\n\nIt's to rally support for the two men who are probably President-elect Joe Biden's most important friends right now: Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock.\n\nThis traditionally Republican state was won by Mr Biden in November's election - but there were no clear winners for the state's two Senate seats. Now there is a run-off between the top candidates in each race.\n\nIf the two Democrats, Mr Ossoff and Rev Warnock, beat incumbent Republicans David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler, Mr Biden's party effectively controls the Senate.\n\nShirley Shepphard is handing out stickers, with a smile and confidence.\n\n\"The Democrats can win! Yes we can, yes we can, yes we can!\" she says.\n\nThere's a huge cheer as Mr Ossoff's large blue bus makes its way down the road and pulls up opposite the house.\n\nHe is only 33 years old and, in case his youth wasn't clear enough, he makes a point of jogging on to the small stage.\n\nDuring a polished speech he exclaims: \"The place we demand better is at the ballot box.\"\n\nIf Mr Ossoff wins, he'd be the youngest member of the Senate - a title once held by Joe Biden himself.\n\nNo pressure, but I put to him that the fate of Mr Biden's presidency is in his hands.\n\nIf he loses, is Mr Biden a weakened president before he's even begun?\n\nWithout missing a beat, Mr Ossoff says: \"We will win.\"\n\nFellow Democrat and Senate candidate Mr Warnock could make history alongside him.\n\nHe could become Georgia's first black senator, in a state that has a higher proportion of black people than any other in the US.\n\nRallies have been held for all four candidates, including this one featuring the US vice-president\n\nGeorgia has also found itself becoming the final battleground for an aggrieved President Donald Trump.\n\nThe Republican Senate candidates here - Mr Perdue and Ms Loeffler - are his last foot soldiers.\n\nBoth appeared at his rally the previous night, where he focused on repeating his unsubstantiated claims of election fraud.\n\n\"There's no way we lost Georgia, that was a rigged election,\" were the first words out of his mouth.\n\n\"We run all over the world telling people how to run their elections and we don't even know how to run ours.\"\n\nMr Trump has also gone after Georgia's Republican governor and begged another official here, in an astonishing phone call, to find votes to overturn Mr Biden's victory.\n\nThe president has also called the Georgia Senate races \"invalid and illegal\" without any evidence.\n\nThere are concerns from some Republicans he's putting people off voting on Tuesday.\n\nI asked supporters at Trump's rally why they would take part in an election process if they didn't believe it was fair. Some hesitated and suggested it was their civic duty.\n\nFor those who won't vote, it's an advantage that may work for the Democrats.\n\nWhen I ask two Ossoff and Warnock supporters about the claims of election fraud, both women throw their heads back, burst into a long laugh in perfect unison and shake their heads bemused: \"Yeah, that's a good one.\"\n\nThere's another factor in this runoff - teenagers.\n\nSince the 3 November presidential election, more than 23,000 people will have turned 18 in the state and can now vote in this Senate race.\n\nMany young voters have been holding live-streaming events in counties across Georgia.\n\nValerie Ponomarev just turned 18 and is very excited at getting to vote. She was upset she couldn't cast a ballot in the recent presidential election.\n\n\"I did the math in my head and was short by a month as I was born in December,\" she says.\n\n\"I was mad at my mum that I hadn't been born sooner!\"\n\nShe said at first, she didn't even realise the Senate runoff was so crucial in Georgia.\n\nShe's voting for the Democrats, Ms Ponomarev says, adding that a lot of younger people have shown support for Mr Ossoff.\n\n\"I think the youth finally want representation in government because we're so often underrepresented and now that we have Jon Ossoff who is closer to our age,\" she says.\n\nMichael Guisto found himself in the same situation as Ms Ponomarev - too young to cast a ballot in November - and says missing out on that vote was painful.\n\n\"It feels like a redemption,\" he says of this Senate race.\n\nThe polls are suggesting it's a very tight race. But this state knows that whatever it decides, it will have an impact on the country as a whole.\n\nMr Guisto says even though he missed out on the November election, this vote matters.\n\n\"I get to in some ways influence the country but this time it's a bit closer to home.\"", "The deaths of a further 68 people who tested positive for Covid have been recorded in Scotland in the past 24 hours.\n\nIt comes as official figures show 33,381 people received their first dose of the coronavirus vaccine in the week to 27 December.\n\nThat takes the total number of people to get a vaccine in Scotland since 8 December to 92,188.\n\nPatients in hospital with coronavirus rose from 1,347 on Tuesday to 1,384.\n\nHospital admissions have been rising sharply but are still 136 short of the peak figure of 1,520 recorded on 20 April last year.\n\nThe latest statistics show 2,039 new cases of the virus, which is 10.5% of those recently tested, a slightly lower figure than in recent days.\n\nA total of 95 people are in intensive care - a slight increase but significantly lower than the April peak of 208.\n\nHealth officials have expressed concern about the situation in Inverclyde, Dumfries & Galloway and the Scottish Borders, in particular, which have seen sharp rises in positive tests.\n\nWeekly figures show Inverclyde recorded 538.5 cases per 100,000, Dumfries & Galloway 538.1 and the Scottish Borders 435.5.\n\nThere were a further 603 confirmed coronavirus cases in the NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde area in the past 24 hours, with an additional 296 in NHS Lanarkshire, 206 in NHS Grampian and 164 in the NHS Lothian area.\n\nSince the start of the pandemic, there have been 141,066 cases in Scotland, with a total of 4,701 people dying within 28 days of first testing positive.\n\nThe latest vaccine figures were released after doctors in Scotland raised concerns about plans to delay the second dose of the Pfizer vaccine.\n\nAll four UK nations will now leave up to 12 weeks between the first and second doses of the jab rather than giving both within 21 days.\n\nDr Lewis Morrison, head of the BMA in Scotland, said members had concerns about the potential impact of leaving such a big gap between the two doses.\n\nBut the UK's chief medical officers have defended the move, saying the first dose will give people substantial protection against the virus within two to three weeks.", "Doctors are calling for a significant ramping up of the vaccination programme following approval of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.\n\nThe first patients are expected to receive the jab - the second approved for use in the UK - on Monday.\n\nBut with just over 500,000 doses available to use next week, experts are worried there may be a bottleneck in the system.\n\nThere are more than 25m people in the nine priority groups identified so far.\n\nThis includes all those over 50 and younger adults with health conditions, as well as frontline health and care staff.\n\nMeanwhile, GPs have questioned the wisdom of cancelling patients already booked in for their second doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, the first jab that was approved and has been used since early December.\n\nAs well as approving the Oxford vaccine on Wednesday, regulators also said that doctors could wait longer between the two courses needed, to ensure faster rollout of vaccination.\n\nBut the British Medical Association's Dr Richard Vautrey said GPs were unhappy they were being asked to cancel appointments that had already been made for second doses. The original advice said they should be given three weeks apart.\n\nHe said it was \"grossly unfair\" and would waste staff time.\n\nOne of those who has been affected is Stella Joseph, who is 82 and has a chronic lung condition.\n\n\"The thing I feel most is utterly helpless, that there's nobody to appeal to, that you can't get any assistance with this at all.\n\n\"I think it is so hard that those of us who were in this first wave were obviously people who are at high risk and we're the ones who have been left high and dry.\"\n\nThe move has also prompted some debate about how strong the evidence is for delaying the second dose.\n\nProf Peter Openshaw, of Imperial College London, said there was \"pretty convincing\" data showing it would enhance the effect of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.\n\nBut he said because the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine had not been tested in the same way, there was no comparable evidence.\n\nSo far nearly 950,000 people have received a first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.\n\nThe hope was that when the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine was approved, it would lead to a significant increase in the rate of vaccination.\n\nThe jab is easier to store and distribute as it can be kept at normal fridge temperature, unlike the Pfizer-BioNTech one that has to be kept in ultra-cold storage.\n\nThere are thought to be more than five million doses of the Oxford vaccine in the UK, but only just over 500,000 are ready for use.\n\nThat is because vaccines have to be put into vials and batched and certified.\n\nSources at the NHS expressed frustration at the situation. \"The NHS is ready to go, but we can only go as quickly as supply allows,\" one said.\n\nQueen Mary University epidemiologist Deepti Gurdasani said there appeared to be a \"bottleneck\", and the government looked like it was still going to be under its target of two million doses a week.\n\n\"We really need to speed up rollout,\" she said.\n\nThere are currently more than 700 vaccination sites up and running, with several hundred more thought to be ready to go once vaccines are available.\n\nBut the limited supply of the Pfizer vaccine, which has to be shipped in from Belgium, has meant some centres have not been able to vaccinate people every week.\n\nDame Clare Gerada, a former chair of the Royal College of GPs, said: \"We really now need a massive operational system. We need a 24/7 system with GPs, mass vaccination centres and hospitals - this needs to be scaled up.\n\n\"It's got to be football stadia, all these large venues that we've got currently lying dormant.\n\n\"If we can really get a mass operational system up and running, then I can't see why we can't be getting the whole population immunised by the spring.\"\n\nNHS England's medical director for primary care, Dr Nikki Kanani, promised there would be a significant expansion of the vaccination programme in the coming weeks.\n\nShe predicted the majority of care home residents would be protected by the end of January, and frontline staff would start to get a vaccination in large numbers.\n\nShe also praised the progress made so far, thanking the \"tireless efforts of staff\".\n\nEngland Health Secretary Matt Hancock also praised staff, adding the numbers being vaccinated would \"rapidly increase in the months ahead\".", "The 19-year-old victim was attacked on Canonbury Road in Islington shortly before 19:00 GMT on 29 December\n\nA man was left partially blind after he was repeatedly hit in the face during a street robbery in north London.\n\nThe 19-year-old had been walking along Canonbury Road in Islington on 29 December when he was approached by two men, one of whom stole his bag and hit him with a \"baton-style weapon\".\n\nThe Met said he had suffered \"life-changing injuries\" in the \"vicious and unprovoked attack\".\n\nNo arrests have been made and the detectives have appealed for witnesses.\n\nThe attacker has been described by police as black, aged in his late teens with spikey hair and of a skinny build.\n\nDet Con Faisal Issaouni said the 19-year-old victim had been \"left with injuries that will affect him for the rest of his life\".\n\n\"We're reviewing CCTV from the area and have spoken to a number of witnesses as we try to track down the man responsible,\" he added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Clap for Carers is to return under a new name of Clap for Heroes, the initiative's founder has said.\n\nThe weekly applause for front-line NHS staff and other key workers ran for 10 weeks during the UK's first coronavirus lockdown last spring.\n\nFounder Annemarie Plas tweeted that it would return at 20:00 GMT on Thursday.\n\nMs Plas said she hoped the initiative would \"lift the spirit of all of us\" including \"all who are pushing through this difficult time\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Annemarie This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe idea of clapping and banging pots from doorsteps originally began as a one-off to support NHS staff on 26 March - three days after the UK went into lockdown for the first time.\n\nAfter proving popular it was expanded to cover all key workers and continued every Thursday for 10 weeks, with millions of people across the UK taking part.\n\nMembers of the Royal Family and politicians including Prime Minister Boris Johnson also joined in with the show of support.\n\nHowever, the event later faced criticism for becoming politicised, with some suggesting the NHS would benefit more from extra funding than applause.\n\nLast May, Ms Plas, a Dutch national living in south London, said the weekly applause should end after its 10th week and instead become an annual event.\n\nAt the time, she said the public had \"shown our appreciation\" and it was now up to ministers to \"reward\" key workers.\n\n\"Without getting too political, I share some of the opinions that some people have about it becoming politicised,\" she told the PA news agency ahead of the final clap in May.\n\n\"I think the narrative is starting to change and I don't want the clap to be negative.\"", "YouTuber JoJo Siwa has said she had \"no idea\" that \"gross\" and \"inappropriate\" questions were featured in a board game bearing her image.\n\nIt follows a parental backlash about the Nickelodeon-branded game, marketed to children aged six and over.\n\nThe \"Truth or Dare\" category contained questions like: \"Have you ever gone outside without underwear?\" and \"Have you ever been arrested?\".\n\nParents have expressed disapproval on social media in recent days.\n\nIn response to the online outcry, the 17-year-old internet star said she was \"really upset\" to discover the content of the game, which is called JoJo's Juice.\n\nShe added she was working with Nikelodeon to have removed it from the shops.\n\n\"Over the weekend, it has been brought to my attention by my fans and followers on TikTok that my name and my image have been used to promote this board game that has some really inappropriate content,\" said Siwa, in an Instagram video message.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by itsjojosiwa This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"When companies make these games, they don't run every aspect by me and so I had no idea of the types of questions that were on these playing cards.\"\n\nShe added: \"Now when I first saw this, I was really really really upset at how gross these questions were. And so I brought it to Nickelodeon's attention immediately and since then, they have been working to get this game stopped being made, and also pulled from all shelves wherever it's being sold.\"\n\nShe went on to say that she would have \"never approved or agreed to be associated with this game,\" if she had seen the cards beforehand.\n\nOther questions featured in the board game included: \"Have you ever stolen from a store?\" and \"Have you ever walked in on someone naked?\"\n\nThe US teenager posts videos of her day-to-day life on her YouTube channel, Its JoJo Siwa.\n\nShe is also a singer and dancer, having appeared on the reality TV series Dance Moms, alongside her mother, Jessalynn Siwa.\n\nHer musical offerings so far include the singles Boomerang and Kid in a Candy Store.\n\nLast year, she was included on Time magazine's annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Teachers' estimated grades will be used to replace cancelled GCSEs and A-levels in England this summer, says Education Secretary Gavin Williamson.\n\nHe told MPs he would \"trust in teachers rather than algorithms\", a reference to the U-turn over last year's exams.\n\nFor primaries, he confirmed there would be no Year 6 Sats tests this year.\n\nMr Williamson promised parents it would be \"mandatory\" for schools to provide \"high-quality remote education\" of three to five hours per day.\n\nHe said this would be \"enforced\" by Ofsted, with inspections where there were \"serious concerns\" about what was provided for children now studying at home.\n\nLabour's Shadow Education Secretary, Kate Green, accused Mr Williamson of \"chaos and confusion\" - and said he had failed to listen to the \"expertise of professionals on the front line\".\n\nShe said he had given a \"cast-iron commitment\" that exams would go ahead - and Ms Green said: \"At that moment, we should have known they were doomed to be cancelled.\"\n\nMr Williamson, in a statement to the House of Commons, said there would be \"training and support\" for teachers in estimating grades, \"to ensure these are awarded fairly and consistently\".\n\nHe also told MPs there would be no Sats tests for those at the end of primary school.\n\n\"I can absolutely confirm that we won't be proceeding with Sats this year. We do recognise that this will be an additional burden on schools\n\nGeoff Barton, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union, said rather than a \"vague statement\" of how A-levels and GCSEs would be graded, ministers should already have a system ready in place - and it was a \"dereliction of duty\" that it was not already prepared.\n\nAnd he warned against repeating the \"shambles\" of last summer's cancelled exams.\n\nThe education secretary confirmed to MPs that GCSEs and A-levels are not going ahead - after this week's decision that it was no longer feasible with so much time lost in the Covid pandemic and the latest lockdown.\n\nThe exams watchdog Ofqual will draw up proposals for an alternative way of deciding results, for qualifications that could be used for jobs, staying on in school or university places.\n\nSimon Lebus, the watchdog's interim head, said evidence for replacement grades could include tests, homework, mock exams and teachers' observations - and would take into account how much of the syllabus had been covered.\n\nA consultation is expected to begin next week, with plans to be decided by the end of February or possibly sooner.\n\nLast year's attempts to find an alternative approach to exam results, which initially used an algorithm, descended into chaos - and eventually switched to using teachers' grades.\n\nAnd without any exam papers or standardised mock exams, the use of teachers' assessments, with some process of moderation between schools, will be used for this summer's candidates.\n\nOn vocational qualifications, Labour's Ms Green said the education secretary was \"failing to show leadership on exams in January\".\n\nVocational exams, such as BTecs, are carrying on, if schools and colleges decide to continue with them - but college leaders had complained that there needed to be a national decision to avoid confusion.\n\nIf students cannot take BTec exams this month as planned, they will still be awarded a grade, if they have \"enough evidence to receive a certificate that they need for progression\", says the awarding body Pearson.\n\nAn Ofqual spokeswoman said they would consider options for replacement exam results, academic and vocational, \"to ensure the fairest possible outcome in the circumstances\".\n\nThe exams watchdog's decisions will face much scrutiny - with the previous head of Ofqual resigning after last summer's U-turns over grades.\n\nMr Williamson's statement in the Commons came as all GCSE, AS and A-level exams in Northern Ireland were cancelled due to the Covid-19 crisis.\n\nEducation Minister Peter Weir announced the decision in the Stormont assembly on Wednesday.\n\nScotland has already cancelled its Nationals, Highers and Advanced Highers.\n\nGCSEs and A-levels in Wales were scrapped in November.", "Dr Dre, seen here in 2018, is one of hip-hop's most successful stars\n\nRapper and producer Dr Dre, one of hip-hop's most successful and influential stars, is being treated in hospital after suffering a brain aneurysm.\n\nThe 55-year-old was taken to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles on Monday, TMZ reported.\n\nIn a post on Instagram, he said: \"I'm doing great and getting excellent care from my medical team.\"\n\nHe is \"resting comfortably\" after the aneurysm, his lawyer told Billboard.\n\nIn his post, Dr Dre also wrote: \"I will be out of the hospital and back home soon. Shout out to all the great medical professionals at Cedars. One Love!!\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by drdre This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFriends and fellow stars have sent their well wishes after the reports of his ill health emerged.\n\nIce Cube, his former bandmate in trailblazing 1980s hip-hop group NWA, tweeted: \"Send your love and prayers to the homie Dr. Dre.\"\n\nSnoop Dogg, who was discovered by Dr Dre in the early 1990s, wrote on Instagram: \"GET WELL DR DRE WE NEED U CUZ.\"\n\nMissy Elliott wrote: \"Prayers up for Dr. Dre and his family for healing & Strength over his mind & body.\" And singer Ciara tweeted: \"Praying for you Dr. Dre. Praying for a full recovery.\"\n\nWith NWA and then as a solo artist, leading producer and record label mogul, Dr Dre shaped west coast rap and was instrumental in the careers of other stars like Eminem, 50 Cent and Kendrick Lamar.\n\nAn aneurysm is a bulge in a weakened blood vessel where the blood pressure causes a small area to bulge outwards.\n\nMost brain aneurysms only cause noticeable symptoms if they burst, leading to bleeding on the brain, which can cause a very serious condition and can be fatal.", "(L-R) David Wails, Joe Ritchie-Bennett and James Furlong were pronounced dead at the scene\n\nA man who stabbed three people to death in a Reading park was suffering from psychosis \"right up to the day\" of the killings, a court has heard.\n\nKhairi Saadallah, 26, attacked James Furlong, 36, David Wails, 49, and Joseph Ritchie-Bennett, 39, in the Forbury Gardens in June.\n\nA hearing to decide if he was motivated by a religious or ideological cause has been told he was \"no radical Islamist\".\n\nThe hearing at the Old Bailey is part of his sentencing.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. CCTV cameras captured Khairi Saadallah before and after the stabbing\n\nSaadallah, of Basingstoke Road, Reading, has pleaded guilty to three murders and three attempted murders.\n\nAn examination of his mobile phone revealed extremist material, including an image of the Islamic State flag and the 9/11 Twin Towers attack, the court was told.\n\nThe prosecution is seeking a whole-life prison order, meaning he would never be considered for release.\n\nRossano Scamardella QC, defending, said the sentence should be one of life imprisonment with a starting point of 30 years, due to a lack of serious premeditation, the \"fleeting\" strength of his commitment to Islamist jihad, and his mental health issues.\n\nKhairi Saadallah previously admitted three counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder\n\nHe said while the attack in Reading was \"terrifying\" and \"senseless\", it did not justify the failed Libyan asylum seeker being jailed for more than 30 years.\n\nHe added that \"as brutal as these killings were\", the suggestion they were \"ruthlessly efficient\" had been \"exaggerated\".\n\nSaadallah took \"certain steps to facilitate the killings\", he said, but \"significant planning or premeditation simply does not exist\".\n\nHe told the hearing Saadallah had \"come to the attention of the authorities on hundreds of occasions\", and had a history of frequent interactions with the police, criminal justice system and mental health services.\n\nHe said Saadallah had developed an emotionally unstable and anti-social personality disorder and \"right up until the day of killing he was plainly suffering from episodes of psychosis\".\n\nMr Scamardella said there is no suggestion this caused his offending but insisted his \"culpability [for the attack] is reduced\".\n\nThe court heard earlier that a psychiatrist has since concluded the attack on June 20 was \"unrelated to the effects of either mental disorder or substance misuse\".\n\nKhairi Saadallah was visited and filmed by police during a welfare check the day before the attack\n\nThe court was shown CCTV footage of Saadallah in Morrisons buying the knife he used in the attack\n\nSaadallah had described himself in interview as \"part Muslim and part Catholic\", said Mr Scamardella, adding: \"No radical Islamist would countenance adoption of another faith, it's inconceivable.\"\n\nHe said portraying Saadallah as a committed jihadist was a \"superficially attractive proposition\" based on \"pieces of evidence that exist that demonstrate or at least might demonstrate a fleeting interest\".\n\nThree others - Stephen Young, Patrick Edwards and Nishit Nisudan - were also injured by Saadallah.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Epsom Racecourse in Surrey will be one of seven mass vaccination hubs announced by the government\n\nSeven new mass Covid vaccination hubs across England have been announced by the government.\n\nCentres in London, Newcastle, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, Surrey and Stevenage are due to begin operations next week.\n\nVarious venues will be converted into regional centres in a bid to meet the government's target of vaccinating 14 million people in the UK by February.\n\nIt is expected the hubs will be staffed by NHS staff and volunteers.\n\nThe seven sites announced by Downing Street are:\n\nAshton Gate Stadium, home to Bristol City FC, will be used to help the government meet its vaccination target\n\nSupermarket chain Morrisons has confirmed car parks at its stores in Yeovil, Wakefield and Winsford would be used to drive-through vaccinations from Monday. It has also offered an additional 47 sites to the government.\n\nPremier League club Tottenham Hotspur has also offered the use of its stadium to the NHS as a venue to provide the coronavirus vaccine.\n\nThe sites across England will begin operations next week", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nI'm standing in what should be an operating theatre - but instead it's been converted into an intensive care unit for Covid-19 patients on ventilators.\n\nThis is the first time I have seen it full of patients like this. Normally this theatre would be busy with major cancer surgery, but that's been transferred to another building.\n\nA children's recovery area, still decorated with colourful stickers of cartoons, is once again filled with desperately sick adults. Every day, more wards are being transformed into ICU - ready for the next influx of patients.\n\nWe have been given access to University College Hospital, in central London. This is the same intensive care unit that I first visited in April, during the first peak.\n\nIt is one of the busiest hospitals in the capital and intensive care here is expanding across a hospital that is under pressure like never before, from a relentless rise in Covid admissions.\n\nI am struck by the toll the pandemic is taking on staff. It's immense - both physically and mentally. They are shell-shocked. \"My emotions are all over the place. Scared, sad, petrified, worried,\" one ICU nurse tells me.\n\nI asked one of the consultants who I've met several times in the last year, Dr Jim Down, how long they can keep going like this - and the answer was stark. \"At this rate, about a week. After that we really need to see it slow down or we're going to see the care we can deliver suffering.\"\n\nThey have got three times as many critically ill patients in the hospital as normal. The number of Covid admissions to London hospitals has doubled in just two weeks - they're more stretched now than at the peak last April. Senior staff are worried.\n\nDr Alice Carter compares it to an elastic band that is close to snapping. \"It gets to a point where you stretch so far it never returns back to its baseline. I think that's probably where we are now. It's not going to take much more for that elastic band to break, and that's the real fear for us at the moment.\"\n\nDr Alice Carter: 'It's not going to take much more for that elastic band to break'\n\nThat could have very serious consequences, she adds. \"If we get to that point, we can't offer anyone ICU, not just Covid patients, but anyone who has a traffic accident or a heart attack or a stroke - whatever it is, to take them in.\"\n\nFor 38-year-old Rachel Arfin, one of the three pregnant women in intensive care with Covid-19, treatment is more complicated. Her baby is due in five weeks and the staff have to monitor them both.\n\n\"They can't do anything that will harm the baby,\" she says. \"All the time [they are] checking, monitoring the baby.\" She is reassured by the \"beautiful sound\" of her baby's heartbeat.\n\n\"They are looking after two people in one. They're saving lives,\" says Rachel. But her children - she has seven - keep asking when she's coming home.\n\nRachel Arfin's baby is due in five weeks - both are doing well\n\nI've reported from here several times during the pandemic and am always struck by the professionalism and dedication of staff. It's always quiet and calm, but that belies what's actually happening. This is a system under strain like never before.\n\nThe warning signs are clear, the NHS is on the brink. Unless infection rates fall, soon it will have a serious impact. The pressure on staff is unrelenting. I saw two nurses in tears.\n\nCompared to when I visited in April, it's a lot busier. In some ways, it's more structured - they now know what they're dealing with. They've got new treatments, such as the drug dexamethasone, which they didn't have last time. And many of the staff have now had the first dose of the vaccine.\n\nBut other aspects don't get any easier, such as the emotional burden of breaking bad news over a telephone or video call. It is very different to being able to hold someone's hand.\n\nStaff say they don't know which patients to help first\n\nICU staff have incredibly high standards. They're used to doing everything meticulously and perfectly. And they're doing all they can. But sometimes they go home and feel guilty that they can't do more. The impact on nurses - the bedrock of care in intensive care - is visible.\n\nThe highly specialised staff are usually one-to-one with patients. Deputy sister Ashleigh Shillingford is looking after three or four ventilated patients at a time, with one other junior member of staff. It's emotional and often devastating work.\n\n\"We are so stretched we have to prioritise and prioritising care is not the NHS that I grew up in - we shouldn't have to choose which patient gets what care first.\" She says she's never had to make decisions like these before.\n\n\"You just don't know who to help first. The patients are losing their lives at a dramatic speed, we're not just getting old people,\" she says, \"these are young people that we're getting.\"\n\nGerald Williams, 58, is awaiting chemotherapy for lung cancer and had been shielding, but he still caught coronavirus. \"All of a sudden, out of the blue, Covid came knocking on my door and it's frightening - you don't know how you're getting your next breath,\" he says.\n\nGerald Williams had been shielding but he still caught coronavirus\n\nHe wants to get home to his daughters, the youngest of whom is 13. And he's annoyed at those who don't take it seriously. \"People are moaning and groaning. Even in A&E. They need to get a life. Don't be idiots, forget about meeting your mate, stay home. No-one is invulnerable.\"\n\nFor now the Trust is coping better than many others in London and is still taking Covid patients from other hospitals. But the next few weeks could be the biggest challenge the NHS has ever faced - and it will be its doctors and nurses who will bear the brunt for all of us.\n\nAs the BBC's medical editor, Fergus Walsh has been reporting on the Covid-19 pandemic and its immense impact on the UK.", "Kate Thistleton will front new content from Bitesize Daily\n\nBBC TV is to help children keep up with their studies during the latest lockdown by broadcasting lessons on BBC Two and CBBC, as well as online.\n\nSchools have been closed to most children across the UK as part of tougher measures to control Covid-19.\n\nThe BBC will show curriculum-based programmes on TV from Monday.\n\nThey will include three hours of primary school programming every weekday on CBBC, and at least two hours for secondary pupils on BBC Two.\n\nDuring the first lockdown in the spring, lessons were available on iPlayer, red button and online, but not on regular TV channels.\n\nThe move comes amid concerns that low-income families may struggle to afford data packages for their children to take part in online learning.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson praised the BBC's \"fantastic\" plans on Tuesday. BBC Director-General Tim Davie said \"education is absolutely vital\".\n\nHe continued: \"The BBC is here to play its part and I'm delighted that we have been able to bring this to audiences so swiftly.\"\n\nThe primary programmes, which will be broadcast on CBBC from 09:00 every day, will include BBC Live Lessons and BBC Bitesize Daily as well as Our School, Celebrity Supply Teacher, Horrible Histories and Operation Ouch.\n\nBBC Two will cater for secondary students with programming to support the GCSE curriculum, including adaptations of Shakespeare plays alongside science, history and factual titles.\n\nBitesize Daily primary and secondary will also air every day on the red button as well as episodes being available on demand on iPlayer.\n\nCulture Secretary Oliver Dowden said the BBC \"has helped the nation through some of the toughest moments of the last century\".\n\n\"And for the next few weeks it will help our children learn whilst we stay home, protect the NHS and save lives,\" he added. \"This will be a lifeline to parents and I welcome the BBC playing its part.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Two US police officers linked to a notorious raid in which young black medic Breonna Taylor was fatally shot have been fired, authorities have said.\n\nDetectives Myles Cosgrove and Joshua Jaynes are the latest officers to be dismissed over the shooting in March last year.\n\nThe incident in Kentucky caused outrage, spurring protests against racism and police brutality.\n\nMs Taylor, 26, died when police raided her home in connection to a drug case.\n\nThe FBI said Mr Cosgrove fired the shot that killed Ms Taylor at her home in Louisville.\n\nLouisville police dismissed Mr Cosgrove for violating procedures for use of force and failing to use a body camera during the search, the Louisville Courier Journal reported on Wednesday.\n\nMr Jaynes, the newspaper said, was fired for violating the police force's policy for truthfulness and search warrant preparation.\n\nDuring the raid, Ms Taylor's boyfriend fired at the officers who he said he believed were attackers breaking into their home.\n\nPolice say they knocked on the door to announce their presence before breaking down the door with a battering ram.\n\nMs Taylor's boyfriend said police did not make their presence known, and he fired out of self-defence. Three officers returned fire with 32 shots, six of which hit Ms Taylor.\n\nMs Taylor's name became a global rallying cry as people demanded a thorough investigation into her death.\n\nBlack Lives Matter activists in the US have demanded that Louisville police take stronger action against the officers in the case and say that police too often escape unpunished after killing members of the public.\n\nBut despite the outcry against Ms Taylor's shooting, no criminal charges were sought relating to her death.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Questions still aren't answered\": Breonna Taylor's family are worried about a \"cover-up\"", "Paul Trauberman from Rainbow Smiles said it was hard to give reassurance without knowing the facts about the new variant\n\nNursery staff say they are being \"treated like the bottom of the rung\" after schools in England were told to shut to reduce the virus transmission.\n\nPaul Trauberman, of Rainbow Smiles in Weston-super-Mare, said despite his staff being \"scared\" about the new Covid-19 variant they had come to work.\n\nThe government announced a strict lockdown across the country on Monday.\n\nIt was after the UK moved to Covid-19 threat level five, meaning there is a risk the NHS could be overwhelmed.\n\nMr Trauberman, who took over Rainbow Smiles nursery in 2016, said he felt conflicted.\n\n\"I've come in this morning and I've got staff crying and saying they are scared of this new variant.\"\n\n\"We don't have PPE, we can't social distance, on the other hand we still have a business that is operational and we are not going bankrupt.\"\n\nHe said prolonged closure also carried the risk of going out of business but it was difficult to reassure staff when \"you don't have any of the facts\".\n\n\"One minute it is fine and the schools are going back, and two days later they are sending everyone home.\n\n\"It makes the staff feel insecure and... they just feel like they are being treated like the bottom of the rung.\n\nSchools are expected to remain closed until after the February half-term\n\n\"With this new variant ... they are having to deal with very close contact with children, with a virus around, which they are saying is very, very bad, but with no more information than that.\"\n\nA Department for Education spokesperson said: \"Early years settings remain low risk environments for children and staff and there is no evidence that the new variant of coronavirus disproportionately affects young children.\"\n\nIt said keeping nurseries open supported parents and delivered crucial education for children as Bristol mother-of-three Eleni Franklin has found.\n\nShe said she \"really valued\" Acorns Nursery in Henbury Hill, being open as she and her husband are both key workers - so their children, Allegra, five, Aria, two and Rafe nine-months-old, will attend school and nursery throughout the lockdown.\n\n\"I can see that nurseries are different to schools. There has been one case at Aria's nursery during this whole period, whereas in school there has been quite a few,\" she said.\n\nEleni Franklin said she could see why nurseries were being treated differently to schools\n\n\"The nursery have been pretty good and although I understand there is a risk to staff, they have put a lot of measures in place to keep people safe.\"\n\nOne of the biggest challenges for nurseries - with some staff now unable to work because of their own childcare responsibilities - is maintaining child-to-staff ratios.\n\nMr Trauberman said they worked on a basis of one-to-three for babies, one-to-four for under-three's and one-to-eight with under five-year-olds.\n\n\"We are trying to maintain these bubbles, but normally we would move staff around to accommodate highs and lows of staff and children, to balance it out, but we are unable to do that to enable these bubbles,\" he said.\n\nHis nursery is now identifying families that could potentially keep their children at home if they were unable to meet those ratios.\n\nMr Trauberman, who is a member of an online group for nursery owners, said some people were calling for nurseries to shut, but said if that happened they risked \"not having a business to come back to\".\n\n\"Small businesses are the backbone of the country and if a lot of those go under, the financial implications for the whole country are going to be catastrophic.\"\n\nMother-of-two Kara Willetts, from Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire, said she felt it was important her daughter Isobel continued going to nursery as she noticed her behaviour had changed when she had to stop going during the first lockdown in March.\n\n\"Isobel is a really sociable, outgoing child and she really suffered with not going in and seeing her friends during the first lockdown. Her mental health suffered and she displayed behaviour I had never seen from her before,\" she said.\n\nKara Willetts said her daughter Isobel's mental health suffered when nurseries closed during the first lockdown\n\nMrs Willetts said she had full confidence in the measures introduced at the nursery three-and-a-half-year-old Isobel attends in Cheltenham.\n\nShe said that with her husband working from home and a seven-month-old son also at home, the option of Isobel going to nursery was \"beneficial to the whole family\".\n\n\"It is quite difficult for my husband to concentrate on work with two kids at home. Transmission rates in young children are very low and if I had any safety concerns I wouldn't send Isobel there,\" she added.\n\nTom Shea, a former advisor to the Early Year's minister, said: \"The biggest issue is that as a society we regard childcare as something like babysitting, rather than the start of the early year's development of learning.\n\n\"Sadly it seems the main reason for keeping us open is for protecting employment rather than protecting children.\"\n\nMr Shea owns Child First Nursery in Worksop and said he thought there was a \"hierarchy\" among key workers in terms of vaccination priorities. He said \"sensibly\" the first priority was NHS staff, followed by social carers for the elderly. He said teachers ranked a \"reasonable\" third, but that Early Years workers did not feature at all.\n\n\"They are expected just to work, and I am not sure if the government thinks that we are invisible,\" he said.\n\nHe called for early vaccination of Early Years workers to allow them to stay open and be protected.\n\n\"The irony now is that we are being told to keep open even though we are private businesses, we are dictated to about the funding we can receive and how we receive it… and if parents are frightened of their children going into the childcare setting then suddenly we don't get paid for that, so you find nurseries half empty being forced to open and it is not economical to do that.\"\n\nA Department for Education spokesperson said: \"We are funding nurseries as usual and all children are able to attend their early years setting in all parts of England.\n\n\"Working parents on coronavirus support schemes will still remain eligible for childcare support even if their income levels fall below the minimum requirement.\"", "An investment firm has bought 50% of the rights to all Neil Young's songs.\n\nHipgnosis Songs Fund spent an estimated $150m (£110m) on 1,180 songs written by the Canadian folk rocker.\n\nThe fund, which lets people invest in hit songs, has previously splashed out about £1bn snapping up rights to songs from the likes of Mark Ronson, Chic, Barry Manilow and Blondie.\n\nFounded by music industry veteran Merck Mercuriadis, Hipgnosis turns music royalties into an income stream.\n\n\"This is a deal that changes Hipgnosis forever,\" said Mr Mercuriadis.\n\n\"I bought my first Neil Young album aged seven. Harvest was my companion and I know every note, every word, every pause and silence intimately.\n\n\"Neil Young, or at least his music, has been my friend and constant ever since.\"\n\nHipgnosis has been listed on the London Stock Exchange since July 2018. When songs owned by the fund get played on the radio or placed in a film or TV show, it makes money.\n\nBefore setting up Hipgnosis, Mr Mercuriadis managed artists such as Beyoncé, Elton John, Iron Maiden and Guns 'N' Roses.\n\nIn his view, songs are \"as investible as gold or oil\".\n\nHe says hit songs are a stable investment because their revenue is unaffected by fluctuations in the economy.\n\nThe sale of song catalogues has become a booming business during the Covid-19 pandemic, with investors seeing music as a relatively stable asset in an otherwise turbulent market.\n\nEarlier this week, Hipgnosis bought 100% of the rights to Lindsey Buckingham's 161 songs for an undisclosed amount.\n\nThe songs include hits that Buckingham wrote or co-wrote for Fleetwood Mac, including Go Your Own Way and The Chain.\n\nThe group's Stevie Nicks sold 80% of her publishing rights last year to Hipgnosis rival Primary Wave for about $80m.\n\nLast month, Universal Music Group announced it had bought 100% of Bob Dylan's 600 songs for between an estimated $200m and $450m (£150m-£340m).\n\nThe singer-songwriter was the latest of a number of artists to join up with the Los Angeles-based Universal, following other big names such as Bruce Springsteen, Billie Eilish, Kendrick Lamar and Post Malone.\n\nNeil Young rose to prominence in the 1960s and 70s and is one of the most influential songwriters of all time.\n\nHe is known not only for his work as a solo artist, but also with the bands Buffalo Springfield, Crazy Horse and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.\n\nYoung has released almost 50 studio albums and more than 20 live albums, of which 18 have been certified gold, seven are platinum and three are multi-platinum.\n\nSeven of his albums were included on Rolling Stone Magazine's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time chart: Everybody Knows This is Nowhere, After The Gold Rush, Déjà Vu (with Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young) Harvest, On The Beach, Tonight's the Night and Rust Never Sleeps.\n\n\"I built Hipgnosis to be a company Neil would want to be a part of,\" said Mr Mercuriadis.\n\n\"We have a common integrity, ethos and passion born out of a belief in music and these important songs.\n\n\"There will never be a 'Burger of Gold', but we will work together to make sure everyone gets to hear them on Neil's terms.\"", "US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order banning transactions with eight Chinese apps.\n\nThe apps include popular payments platform Alipay, as well as QQ Wallet and WeChat Pay.\n\nThe order, which takes effect in 45 days, says that the apps are being banned because they are a threat to US national security.\n\nIt flags the possibility that the apps could be used to track and build dossiers on US federal employees.\n\nTencent QQ, CamScanner, SHAREit, VMate and WPS Office are also included within the order, which only kicks in after Mr Trump has left office.\n\n\"The United States must take aggressive action against those who develop or control Chinese connected software applications to protect our national security,\" the order said.\n\nPresident Trump's order says \"by accessing personal electronic devices such as smartphones, tablets, and computers, Chinese connected software applications can access and capture vast swaths of information from users, including sensitive personally identifiable information and private information.\"\n\nThe Trump administration has ratcheted up pressure on Chinese companies in its final months in office, including those it considers a national security risk.\n\nPresident Trump has signed executive orders against a range of Chinese firms arguing they could share data with the Chinese government.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Panorama: How safe is TikTok for young users?\n\nChinese social media app TikTok and telecoms giant Huawei have been among the casualties of Washington's crackdown.\n\nLast month, the Commerce Department added dozens of Chinese companies, including the country's top chipmaker SMIC and drone manufacturer DJI Technology, to a trade blacklist.\n\nThe administration also restricted a number of Chinese and Russian companies with alleged military ties from buying sensitive US goods and technology.\n\nChina has consistently denied claims that these firms share their data with the Chinese government and has responded by imposing its own export laws restricting the export of military technology.\n\nIn August, the US ordered ByteDance, the owner of social media app TikTok, to either shut down or sell off its US assets.\n\nDespite missing a deadline to complete the sale, the US is yet to shut down the app and negotiations continue over its future.\n\nThe latest ban comes as the White House quietly pushed the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) to consider a second U-turn on its decision to delist three Chinese telecoms giants.\n\nLast week the NYSE announced it would delist the China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom in line with another executive order.\n\nOn Monday, however, the NYSE reversed that decision, announcing it had decided not to delist the three companies after further consultation with US regulators.\n\nThe NYSE made the decision based on ambiguity about whether the securities were actually covered by the order.\n\nHowever, the exchange has come under pressure over its decision.\n\nThe US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin called the NYSE President Stacey Cunningham to tell her he disagrees with the decision, according to Reuters.\n\nRepublican Senator and China hardliner Marco Rubio has also spoken out, saying that the NYSE's refusal to delist the companies was an \"outrageous effort\" to undermine the President's executive order.\n\nThe NYSE is owned by Atlanta-based Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), which is run by billionaire Jeffrey Sprecher.\n\nHis wife Kelly Loeffler is one of two Republican senators facing run-off elections on Tuesday in Georgia.", "The new \"highly infectious\" variant of coronavirus is spreading rapidly throughout Wales, the health minister has said.\n\nGiving the first coronavirus briefing of the year, Vaughan Gething said cases of the virus remained very high.\n\nHowever, the case rate across Wales has fallen from a high of 636 per 100,000 people on 17 December to 446 on Monday.\n\nBut cases are rising quickly in north Wales, which Mr Gething believed was due to the new variant.", "This video can not be played\n\nTo play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Wednesday morning. We'll have another update for you at 18:00 BST.\n\nThe measures announced on Monday have now become law, but MPs will actually vote retrospectively to approve them later today. They're expected to pass with ease - Labour has pledged its support, but said ministers must deliver a round-the-clock vaccination programme. The regulations allow restrictions to potentially be in place until mid-March. Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have all imposed lockdowns too, but will they be enough? An estimated one in 50 people in private households in England had coronavirus last week - one in 30 in London, while the number of daily confirmed cases topped 60,000 for the first time. Our health correspondent has more - as we've come to understand, the R number is everything. This graph shows how the R number could drop this time (in red), compared with how it fell during the first lockdown - the slower decline is down to the new, more transmissible variant.\n\nStudents have been anxiously waiting for news after the cancellation of A-Level and GCSE exams in England - not least because of the chaos that surrounded last year's results. Exams had already been cancelled elsewhere in the UK. Education Secretary Gavin Williamson will reveal more in a statement to MPs later. He'll also give more details of support for pupils following the switch by schools and colleges to remote learning. There are fears a digital divide will mean some children are excluded. We've got some advice for parents on virtual learning, and BBC Bitesize will be broadcasting lessons on BBC Two, CBBC and online from Monday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Parents spoke to the BBC after Monday's announcement about school closures in England\n\nPeople arriving in the UK from abroad could soon be required to prove they've had a negative coronavirus test before setting off. The Department for Transport says it's one of several measures being considered to prevent new cases arriving from abroad. Full details are still to be agreed, but it's thought hauliers coming through ports would be exempt. Currently, arrivals from countries not exempt under the travel corridor programme have to isolate for 10 days. See more on the existing rules. Travel firms have been cancelling trips since the latest lockdowns were imposed.\n\n2020 was a dreadful year for the UK car industry and preliminary figures from the industry's trade body show just how bad it was. New car registrations dropped to levels not seen since 1992, and saw the biggest one-year fall since World War Two when factories were turned over to military production. Showrooms and even factories were forced to close in the spring, and the switch to working from home means fewer of us need a vehicle on a daily basis. The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders said firms were desperately trying to minimise redundancies.\n\nUnable to leave Taiwan due to the pandemic, Peter Lowe decided to get a boat to pass the time. A leisurely hobby soon turned into a quest to clear the country's waterways, river banks and mangrove forests of plastic. His efforts have inspired local volunteers to join in the clean-up, and even prompted the government to take notice. Peter has some advice for all of us feeling trapped right now: \"Do something positive, do something meaningful, particularly towards saving and protecting the earth.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFind more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nPlus, when lockdown was imposed last Spring, some of life's most basic household tasks suddenly got a lot harder. What are they like now?\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "A Joint Session of Congress to certify the election of Joe Biden has gone into an unexpected recess, and the Capitol building into lockdown, after Trump supporters breached security lines.\n\nEarlier, President Trump addressed supporters at a rally outside the White House and encouraged them to protest the election result.", "It was initially believed that Covid-19 originated at a market in Wuhan\n\nA World Health Organization (WHO) team due to investigate the origins of Covid-19 in the city of Wuhan has been denied entry to China.\n\nTwo members were already en route, with the WHO saying the problem was a lack of visa clearances.\n\nHowever, China has challenged this, saying details of the visit, including dates, were still being arranged.\n\nThe long-awaited probe was agreed upon by Beijing after many months of negotiations with the WHO.\n\nThe virus was first detected in Wuhan in late 2019, with the initial outbreak linked to a market.\n\nWHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said he was \"very disappointed\" that China had not yet finalised the permissions for the team's arrivals \"given that two members had already begun their journeys and others were not able to travel at the last minute\".\n\n\"I have been assured that China is speeding up the internal procedure for the earliest possible deployment,\" he told reporters in Geneva on Tuesday, explaining that he had been in contact with senior Chinese officials to stress \"that the mission is a priority for WHO and the international team\".\n\nChinese foreign ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying told the BBC \"there might be some misunderstanding\" and \"there's no need to read too much into it\".\n\n\"Chinese authorities are in close co-operation with WHO but there has been some minor outbreaks in multiple places around the world and many countries and regions are busy in their work preventing the virus and we are also working on this,\" she said.\n\n\"Still we are supporting international co-operation and advancing internal preparations. We are in communication with the WHO and as far as I know with dates and arrangements we are still in discussions.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid-19: How everyday life has changed in Wuhan\n\nThe WHO has been working to send a 10-person team of international experts to China for months with the aim of probing the animal origin of the pandemic and exactly how the virus first crossed over to humans.\n\nLast month it was announced that the investigation would begin in January 2021.\n\nThe two members of the international team that had already departed for China had set off early on Tuesday, said the WHO. According to Reuters news agency, WHO emergencies chief Mike Ryan said one had turned back and one was in a third country.\n\nCovid-19 was first detected in the Chinese city of Wuhan in central Hubei province in late 2019.\n\nIt was initially believed the virus originated in a market selling exotic animals for meat. It was suggested that this was where the virus made the leap from animals to humans.\n\nBut the origins of the virus remain deeply contested. Some experts now believe the market may not have been the origin, and that it was instead only amplified there.\n\nSome research has suggested that coronaviruses capable of infecting humans may have been circulating undetected in bats for decades. It is not known, however, what intermediate animal host transmitted the virus between bats and humans.", "US President Donald Trump and others have made new unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud following the rerun of two crucial Senate races in the state of Georgia.\n\nWith the Democrats looking likely to win both seats and with them control of the US Senate, we've debunked some of the theories that have been widely shared on social media.\n\nSince the November election, the president has repeatedly made baseless allegations that Dominion voting machines have been manipulated to engineer electoral fraud.\n\nReferring to the vote in Georgia, Mr Trump said these machines had stopped working in Republican strongholds for \"over an hour\".\n\nThe official in charge of Georgia's voting systems, Gabriel Sterling, said there has been an issue in one county due to \"a programming error on security keys\" but that it was resolved hours before the president made his comments.\n\nMr Sterling tweeted: \"The, votes of everyone will be protected and counted. Sorry you received old intel Mr President.\"\n\nGeorgia's Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger also clarified in a statement that there had been some issues but they did not stop people from voting, Reuters news agency reports.\n\n\"At no point did voting stop as voters continued casting ballots on emergency ballots, in accordance with the procedures set out by Georgia law,\" said Mr Raffensperger.\n\nAn image that has been shared thousands of times on Twitter purported to show a pile of destroyed ballots in Georgia on election day.\n\n\"Our team is in Georgia. They took a little walk. They found shredded ballots in Dell boxes,\" the tweet said.\n\nAlthough the post provided no detail as to where exactly the picture had been taken, we were able to geolocate it to the absentee ballot processing centre at the Georgia World Congress Center in Fulton County, which includes Atlanta.\n\nFulton County elections director Richard Barron told the BBC that the papers in the picture were \"definitely not ballots\", but waste from a letter-opening machine used to cut ballot envelopes.\n\nWe've reported on similar claims about alleged ballot shredding in Georgia before.\n\nIn November, an investigation into the shredding of papers in Cobb County concluded that it was part of a \"routine clean-up operation\" and the documents disposed of were not actual votes \"relevant to the election or the re-tally\".\n\nIn a tweet generating some 300,000 likes and retweets, President Trump claimed there was a \"voter dump\" planned against Republican candidates.\n\nBut there's no evidence of wrongdoing.\n\nIt's not clear exactly what he means by a \"voter dump\", but he may be referring to the fact that large batches of votes are released at once.\n\nThis is standard practice and a valid part of the vote-counting process.\n\nIn Georgia, as in the presidential elections, larger districts, often including cities that may lean Democrat, take longer to report their results.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Trump has falsely claimed on multiple occasions that millions of genuine votes in November's presidential election that were counted after polls closed were \"fake\".\n\nIn Georgia, election official Gabriel Sterling noted after the polls closed that some 171,000 early, in-person ballots from DeKalb County, which is Democrat-leaning, were yet to be counted.\n\nAuthorities knew how many of these \"advanced\" votes were coming.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Gabriel Sterling This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA number of Republican officials and activists, including White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany and the founder of conservative activist group Turning Point USA, claimed workers at the Chatham county count had suddenly stopped counting for the rest of the night and gone home, raising the prospect of foul play.\n\n\"They're doing this again. You can't make this up,\" Charlie Kirk tweeted.\n\nSimilar claims of fraud or suspicious activity were made during the presidential election count in the county, after it took a few days for all the absentee and mail-in ballots to be tabulated.\n\nBut Gabriel Sterling, Georgia's voting systems implementation manager, took to Twitter to say the count \"didn't just stop\".\n\nWorkers had finished counting all the ballots they had except absentee ballots received on election day, Mr Sterling, a Republican, added.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Gabriel Sterling This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe county's board of elections chairman, Tom Mahoney, confirmed later that about 3,000 to 4,000 election day absentee ballots were left to count.", "Protesters in support of US President Donald Trump swarmed the Capitol building, forcing officials to order lawmakers to shelter in place and halting debate in both the House and Senate. Congress was meeting to confirm President-elect Joe Biden's electoral college victory.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Keir Starmer: \"If we pull together as a nation, we can win\"\n\nSir Keir Starmer has called for a \"round the clock\" vaccination programme to tackle the rise in Covid cases.\n\nAs part of a televised speech, the Labour leader said the government needed to deliver \"millions of doses a week by the end of the month\".\n\nHe said there were \"serious questions for the government to answer\" over the timing of the lockdown in England, but Labour would support the restrictions.\n\nBoris Johnson said daily vaccination figures would be published from Monday.\n\nThe prime minister has also said the four most vulnerable groups of people across the UK should receive their first dose by mid-February.\n\nBoth the PM and Scotland's First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, have announced lockdowns this week.\n\nWales has been in a national lockdown since 20 December and Northern Ireland entered a six-week lockdown on 26 December.\n\nEngland's lockdown will become law from 00:01 GMT Wednesday and MPs will return to the Commons later that day to vote on the measures retrospectively.\n\nThe restrictions come into force as the number of new daily confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK topped 60,000 for the first time since the pandemic started.\n\nOn Tuesday, 60,914 had tested positive in the previous 24 hours and a further 830 people had died within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nIn an address to the nation on BBC One, in response to Boris Johnson's televised address on Monday, Sir Keir said the UK had reached a \"critical moment in our fight against coronavirus\".\n\nThe Labour leader said people were \"angry at the mistakes the government has made\" and ministers needed to answer questions on why they did not act sooner over locking down England.\n\nHe stressed that Labour would continue to hold the government to account, but added: \"Whatever our quarrels with the government and with the prime minister, the country now needs us to come together.\n\n\"At this darkest of moments, we need a new national effort to re-kindle the spirit of last March - to come together and to do everything possible to stay at home [and] to protect the NHS and save lives.\"\n\nSir Keir reiterated that Labour would support the new lockdown when it comes to the retrospective Commons vote on Wednesday and \"join in this national effort\".\n\nBut he called for the government to use the lockdown to establish \"a massive, immediate, and round the clock vaccination programme\" to \"deliver millions of doses a week by the end of the month in every village and town, every high street and every GP surgery\".\n\nThe Labour leader added: \"This is now a race between the virus and the vaccine and if we pull together as a nation, we can win.\n\n\"We need a new contract between the government and the British people: The country stays at home, the government delivers the vaccine.\"\n\nEarlier at a Downing Street press conference, Mr Johnson said more than 1.3 million people across the UK had now been vaccinated with either the Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines.\n\nThe figure included 23% of over-80s in England - part of a programme Mr Johnson said aimed to save \"the most lives the fastest\".\n\nThe PM said there will \"still be long weeks ahead\", but that he wanted to give \"maximum possible transparency\" about the vaccination roll-out.\n\nMore details will be announced on Thursday, with daily updates starting on Monday, \"so that you can see day by day and jab by jab how much progress we are making\", he added.\n\nAsked whether the target could be met, Chief Medical Officer for England, Professor Chris Whitty, said the timetable was \"realistic but not easy\".", "Fraudsters are sending out bogus text messages about the coronavirus vaccine in an attempt to steal bank details.\n\nThe scam tells recipients they are \"eligible to apply for your vaccine\" with a link to a bogus NHS website, trading standards officers have warned.\n\nThat, in turn, asks for personal information and - crucially - bank details \"for verification\".\n\nThe warning comes the same day as MPs heard that Covid is leading some people into the net of pension fraudsters.\n\nThe fake NHS message is one of a range of scams which have sought to take advantage of the pandemic and the isolation and legitimate worries of potential victims, according to the Chartered Trading Standards Institute.\n\nOthers have included people travelling door-to-door selling counterfeit or useless protection equipment, or fraudsters claiming to be from the official test and trace service and demanding payments.\n\nThe latest scam is preying on those elderly or vulnerable people who are fully expecting to receive legitimate information about their vaccine.\n\nHealth authorities have stressed they would never ask for an individual's banking details.\n\nKatherine Hart, lead office at the CTSI, said: \"I have been tracking and warning the public about Covid-related scams since the beginning of the pandemic, and at every stage of response, unscrupulous individuals have modified their campaigns to defraud the public.\n\n\"The vaccine brings great hope for an end to the pandemic and lockdowns, but some only wish to create even further misery by defrauding others. The NHS will never ask you for banking details, passwords, or PIN numbers and these should serve as instant red flags.\"\n\nShe urged people to report the scams to Action Fraud or Police Scotland.\n\nPensions have been stolen or put into high-risk schemes\n\nThe warning came as MPs on the Work and Pensions Select Committee heard how fraudsters were seizing on victims' financial uncertainty during the pandemic to draw them into pension scams.\n\nRules allowing people to withdraw cash from their pension pot from the age of 55 have led some people to move money into investment schemes which look generous, but are simply vehicles to steal money.\n\n\"Household finances are stretched and so the temptations to use savings or to be tempted by offers of 'free pension reviews', for example, which we've warned about, are very real,\" Mark Steward, from the Financial Conduct Authority told the committee.\n\n\"Of course, a 'free pension review' is hardly free. It is the first step on a process that will lead someone to investing in something that is too good to be true.\"\n\nHe said that fraudsters had used social media advertising to \"industrialise\" this kind of fraud.\n\nWhereas previously, fraudsters had to produce sophisticated glossy brochures and office fronts, they could now operate in anonymity on social media, sending fake information to millions of people.\n\nMillions of pounds have been lost to pension scams in recent years, but it is a crime considered to be widely under-reported by victims and pension companies.\n\nGraeme Biggar, director general of the National Economic Crime Centre, told the committee that fraudsters were continuing to use new avenues to reach potential victims.\n\n\"What we're looking to do next is to move on to fake comparison websites, which is this new gateway into investment frauds, to spot those and take them down at source,\" he said.", "Dr Anil Mehta, a GP at Fullwell Cross Medical Centre in North London, told the BBC that staff were working from 7 in the morning until 10pm at night during the three days of their weekly Covid-19 vaccine rollout, describing the process as a 'full team effort.\n\nDr Mehta was also keen to encourage people who might be nervous about the vaccine to take up the offer, emphasising that the evidence behind the vaccine 'was very strong'.\n\nThis message was echoed by Zahin Ahmed, whose grandfather Shafiquz Zaman has now received both doses of the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine at the clinic. Mr Ahmed, who is from the Bangladeshi community, also said it was important that minority communities took up the offer of the vaccine when called upon to do so.", "Albert Roux pictured in the kitchen of Le Gavroche in 1989\n\nChef and restaurateur Albert Roux, who brought great French cooking to the UK with his brother Michel, has died at the age of 85.\n\nThe pair made gastronomic history in 1982 when their London restaurant, Le Gavroche, became the first in Britain to earn three Michelin stars.\n\nAlbert's death comes almost a year after Michel died at the age of 78.\n\nGordon Ramsay, one of many leading chefs who earned their stripes in Le Gavroche's kitchen, led the tributes.\n\n\"So so sad the hear about the passing of this legend, the man who installed Gastronomy in Britain,\" Ramsay wrote on Instagram.\n\nMarco Pierre White, Marcus Wareing, Pierre Koffman and Monica Galetti are among the other chefs who rose through the ranks at Le Gavroche.\n\nIn his tribute, TV chef James Martin described Albert Roux as \"a true titan of the food scene in this country [who] inspired and trained some of the best and biggest names in the business\".\n\nA family statement said: \"The Roux family has announced the sad passing of Albert Roux, OBE, KFO, who had been unwell for a while, at the age 85 on 4th January 2021.\n\n\"Albert is credited, along with his late brother Michel Roux, with starting London's culinary revolution with the opening of Le Gavroche in 1967.\"\n\nHis son Michel Roux Jr, who now runs Le Gavroche and is a former judge on MasterChef: The Professionals, said: \"He was a mentor for so many people in the hospitality industry, and a real inspiration to budding chefs, including me.\"\n\nFood critic Jay Rayner described Albert Roux as \"an extraordinary man who left a massive mark on the food story of his adopted country\".\n\nHe added: \"The roll call of chefs who went through the kitchens of Le Gavroche alone, is a significant slab of a part of modern UK restaurant culture.\"\n\nChef Tom Kitchin wrote that \"one of the true culinary greats has left us\", and baker and food writer Dan Lepard said it was the \"end of an era\".\n\nAlbert and Michel Roux came from a family of butchers in eastern France, and trained to be patissiers before moving to the UK.\n\nAlbert arrived in the mid-1950s, and in 1967 put his £3,000 savings with money borrowed from friends to open the first Gavroche off Sloane Square in Chelsea.\n\nWith uncompromising standards, elaborate presentation and first-rate service, it raised the standards of haute cuisine in a then-limited English restaurant scene.\n\nIt moved to Mayfair in 1981, and soon became the first British-based establishment to carry the maximum three Michelin stars.\n\n\"An Olympic gold medal,\" Albert said at the time. \"I have had no other ambition.\"\n\nThe Roux dynasty (left-right): Alain Roux, Michel Roux Jnr, Michel Roux and Albert Roux in 2009\n\nIts kitchen would also become the training ground for a new, enlightened generation of British chefs.\n\n\"If cooking is an art form, Le Gavroche was the Royal College of Music, Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, Rada and the Courtauld and Warburg institutes all rolled up into one, poached, wrapped in a puff pastry shell with foie gras and served with truffle sauce,\" The Guardian wrote in 2010.\n\nThe brothers also launched the Roux Scholarship, an annual chef competition, in 1983, with many scholars having gone on to win Michelin stars themselves.\n\nAlbert and Michel opened a string of other restaurants, fronted a 13-part TV series on BBC Two in 1990, and published a series of best-selling books about French cookery.", "Shows like Tiger King kept people entertained during the first UK lockdown\n\nNetflix is raising the cost of some of its UK subscriptions from next month, its customers have been told.\n\nThe streaming service said the price rises reflected money spent on content.\n\nIts standard monthly package will go up from £8.99 to £9.99 and its premium one will rise from £11.99 to £13.99, but its basic plan remains at £5.99.\n\nHowever, comparison site Uswitch said the timing of the price rises was unfortunate with UK citizens living under new national lockdowns.\n\nThe streaming service's subscriber numbers have jumped during the pandemic, with almost 16 million new customers added worldwide in the first three months of 2020 alone.\n\nIn the UK, during the first national lockdown which started in March 2020, the amount of streaming content watched by consumers rose by a third compared with the previous year.\n\nBut Netflix faces tough competition from rivals, such as Disney+, which has also announced price rises of £2 per month up to £7.99 or £79.90 for a full year.\n\nNetflix said: \"This year we're spending over $1bn [£736m] in the UK on new, locally-made films, series and documentaries, helping to create thousands of jobs and showcasing British storytelling at its best - with everything from The Crown, to Sex Education and Top Boy, plus many, many more.\n\n\"Our price change reflects the significant investments we've made in new TV shows and films, as well as improvements to our product.\"\n\nA standard Netflix subscription gives users HD streaming on two devices at the same time with the ability to download to two phones or tablets. The premium service allows streaming on up to four screens at once, as well as offering 4K streaming and downloading to four phones or tablets.\n\nSubscribers who do not want to pay the extra can cancel their plan at any time without penalty or simply shift to the basic package, which allows users to watch movies and TV shows in standard definition on one device only and download to one mobile or tablet.\n\nNick Baker, streaming and TV expert at Uswitch.com, said: \"Netflix has been a lifeline for many people during lockdown, so this price rise is an unwanted extra expense for households feeling the financial pressure.\n\n\"It's unfortunate timing that this price hike coincides with another national lockdown, when all of us will be streaming more television and films than ever.\"", "The number of new daily confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK has topped 60,000 for the first time since the pandemic started.\n\nAccording to government figures on Tuesday, the number of people who tested positive was 60,916.\n\nOne in 50 people in private households in England had Covid last week - and one in 30 in London, according to estimates based on the latest data.\n\nA further 830 people have also died within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nIt comes as England and Scotland announced new strict lockdowns, with people told to stay at home.\n\nAt a press conference at Downing Street on Tuesday, Boris Johnson said 1.3 million people had now been vaccinated in the UK - including 23% of over 80s in England, some 650,000 people.\n\nBut he said more than one million people were currently infected - with the number of patients in hospitals 40% higher than in the first peak.\n\nThe government's chief medical adviser Prof Chris Whitty cited the Office for National Statistics' random sampling data for England as showing how widespread the virus is.\n\n\"We're now into a situation where across the country as a whole, roughly one in 50 people have got the virus, higher in some parts of the country, lower in others,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Professor Chris Whitty: \"No evidence\" the new variant is \"more dangerous\"\n\nThe number of new daily cases has consistently been above 50,000 since 29 December.\n\nBack in the first peak of the pandemic in the spring, the number of daily confirmed cases never went above 7,000.\n\nHowever, it is thought the true number of cases then was much higher but not picked up because testing capacity was limited. It was estimated there were about 100,000 new infections a day at the end of March - but there was not the testing to detect it.\n\nHospital admissions of people with Covid-19 in England also reached another record high on Tuesday, NHS England figures show.\n\nAt a hospital in Lincolnshire, a \"critical\" incident has been declared after a sharp rise in patients requiring admission.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How NHS nurses and doctors are struggling to cope with Covid as cases continue to rise in England\n\nAnd potentially life-saving cancer operations have been put on hold at a major London NHS trust because of the number of beds taken by Covid patients.\n\nHowever, Cancer Research UK said such cancellations did not appear to be widespread across the country.\n\nIn a statement after the case numbers were released, Public Health England medical director Yvonne Doyle said the rapid rise in cases was \"highly concerning and will sadly mean yet more pressure on our health services in the depths of winter\".\n\nAfter seven consecutive days of more than 50,000 cases being confirmed, the fact that more than 60,000 have been recorded should not come as a surprise.\n\nIt will take a week, if not more, for the impact of lockdown to be felt.\n\nAnd all the evidence suggests the new variant of coronavirus, which is more transmissible than previous ones, means the impact is likely to be more limited than it was in previous ones.\n\nThe figures are also a warning about what the NHS is facing.\n\nSome of this week's infections are next week's hospital admissions.\n\nAbout three in 10 beds are now occupied by Covid patients. In some hospitals more than six in 10 are.\n\nHospitals are now busy making more spaces on their wards - that means cancelling planned work, including in some places cancer treatment.\n\nBoris Johnson and Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon both announced new lockdowns on Monday.\n\nWales has been in a national lockdown since 20 December and Northern Ireland entered a six-week lockdown on 26 December.\n\nRestrictions are also being tightened further in Northern Ireland, and an order for people to stay at home will become legally enforceable from Friday.\n\nIn a televised address to the nation, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer urged the government to use the lockdown to create a \"round the clock\" vaccination programme.\n\nHe also called on people to \"recapture the spirit\" of the beginning of the pandemic.\n\nAt the press conference on Tuesday, Mr Johnson repeated his suggestion that there is a \"prospect\" of the lockdown being eased in mid-February.\n\n\"But you will also appreciate there are a lot of caveats, a lot of ifs built into that, the most important of which is that we all now follow the guidance,\" he said.\n\nEarlier, Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove told Sky News he could not say exactly when the lockdown in England would end, but \"as we enter March we should be able to lift some of these restrictions but not necessarily all\".\n\nMr Whitty said the virus \"is not going to go away, just as flu doesn't go away, just as many other viruses don't go away\".\n\n\"We shouldn't kid ourselves that this just disappears with spring,\" he said.\n\nMr Whitty said although hopefully there would be nearly no measures needed from the spring onwards, the government might have to bring in a few restrictions next winter.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"We've now vaccinated over 1.3m people across the UK\"\n\nOn Monday the UK's chief medical officers recommended the Covid threat level be increased to five - its highest level.\n\nAlthough the new variant is now spreading more rapidly than the original version, it is not believed to be more deadly.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC's Laura Foster explains the order in which the Covid vaccine will be given", "Lockdowns have worked before, but can we expect the new one to do the same?\n\nIt feels like we are back in March or April last year, when the strict controls on all our lives led to a fairly quick decline in levels of coronavirus.\n\nBut one of the crucial differences this time is the new variant, which is thought to spread between 50 and 70% faster than previous forms of the virus.\n\nExperts warn there are now no guarantees that lockdown will be enough to bring the variant under control.\n\n\"It still would not have been easy, but it would have been a much easier situation if it had not been for the new variant,\" Prof Neil Ferguson, from Imperial College London, told Inside Health.\n\n\"That really pushes the bounds of our ability to control the spread of the virus, even with measures that were previously relatively quite effective.\"", "Supermarkets are seeking to reassure shoppers that there is no need to bulk-buy products as new lockdown restrictions come into force.\n\nAsda asked its customers to \"continue to shop considerately and not buy more than they normally would.\"\n\nThere was a surge in online grocery shopping after new lockdown restrictions were announced on Monday, but demand has since dropped back.\n\nStores said they have good availability and have increased delivery slots.\n\nTesco and Sainsbury's have doubled the number of delivery slots since March.\n\nWhen fresh lockdown restrictions were announced on Monday there was a rush online by supermarket shoppers to book delivery slots.\n\nThat surge has since calmed down, but big supermarkets were keen on Wednesday to reassure customers that there is no need to bulk-buy, as stores would like to avoid a repeat of the panic-buying that was triggered by the first lockdown.\n\nAsda said it \"currently has strong product availability across its stores and depots and its colleagues are working around the clock to keep the shelves stocked.\"\n\nSainsbury's said it had \"good availability and encourage customers to shop as normal. We aren't currently restricting products.\"\n\nTesco has had buying limits on various products since the first lockdown, and most recently limited items including eggs, rice, soap and toilet roll after freight delays in December as ports got snarled up.\n\nTesco said on Wednesday that it had \"good availability in stores and online, with plenty of stock to go round, and we would encourage our customers to shop as normal.\"\n\nDuring the first lockdown supermarkets saw a huge spike in demand for online shopping as people tried to avoid mixing in shops.\n\nThe big chains have all increased their capacity to deliver food.\n\nTesco, the biggest UK supermarket chain, has more than doubled the number of online delivery slots available since the start of the crisis, and now has 1.5 million slots per week.\n\nNot all of these get used across the UK at present, so Tesco has no plans at the moment for further slots.\n\nSainsbury's, the second biggest, has also more than doubled the number of its online delivery slots since March, and can meet more than 800,000 orders per week.\n\nAsda, the third biggest chain, has upped the number of available weekly slots by 90% since March to 850,000, and by the start of April it's planning to offer 900,000 slots per week.\n\nMorrison's, the fourth largest UK supermarket chain, said it had increased its online operation fivefold since March.\n\nAsda said on Wednesday that it was also doubling the size of its partnership with Uber Eats. From February Asda will offer a 30-minute delivery service from 200 stores.\n\nAsda is also stepping-up Covid safety measures, including doubling safety marshal hours, more sanitation stations, increasing cleaning, and \"adding a protective antimicrobial coating to customer 'touch points' in stores such as fridge and freezer handles, checkout areas, plus all trolley and basket handles\".\n\nThe chain also has a virtual queueing app called \"Quidini\" whereby customers can sit in their car to wait for a slot in a store if it is busy.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The twins' father says what they have achieved is a 'herculean achievement'\n\nConjoined twins who were expected to die within days when they were born are nearly four years later said to be settling in at their Cardiff school.\n\nMarieme and Ndeye Ndiaye were brought to the UK from Senegal in 2017 by their father Ibrahima for treatment at London's Great Ormond Street Hospital.\n\nThe girls, now four, are learning to stand and their father said their progress was \"a Herculean achievement\".\n\nTheir head teacher said the girls had made friends and were \"laughing a lot\".\n\nThe girls, who have separate hearts and spines but share a liver, bladder and digestive system, have conditions which put them at higher risk of complications from Covid.\n\nHowever, Mr Ndiaye said he had wanted them to start school for their development.\n\n\"When you look in the rear view mirror, it was an unachievable dream,\" he said.\n\n\"From now, everything ahead will be a bonus to me. My heart and soul is shouting out loud, 'Come on! Go on girls! Surprise me more!'.\"\n\nMr Ndiaye brought the girls to the UK through funding from a charitable foundation run by Senegal's first lady Marieme Faye Sall, before he sought asylum.\n\nIn March 2018, the family were moved by the Home Office to Cardiff as asylum seekers can be moved anywhere in the UK and they now have discretionary leave to remain.\n\nIn 2019, Great Ormond Street surgeons considered attempting separation but it was something Mr Ndiaye did not want because of the risks involved.\n\nThe girls have such complex circulatory systems medics now believe they would not survive being separated\n\nSince then, doctors have found the girls' circulatory systems to be more closely linked than previously thought and neither would survive without the other, making separation now impossible.\n\nThe girls' head teacher Helen Borley said they were learning well since starting reception in September and had made new friends.\n\nShe said: \"Children either say, 'I'm Marieme's friend' or 'I'm Ndeye's friend' - they don't say, 'I'm the twins' friend'. Children very much identify as being one person's friend or another - because the girls are very different characters.\n\n\"They are laughing a lot - which is always a good sign, isn't it? Any child that is laughing a lot is a happy child.\"\n\nMarieme receives oxygen from Ndeye's stronger heart and food via their linked stomachs\n\nFor the twins, school needs to fit around hospital visits.\n\nIn October, the girls needed surgery at Great Ormond Street Hospital.\n\nDr Gillian Body, a paediatric consultant at the Children's Hospital for Wales in Cardiff, said the procedure was important, despite the risks.\n\nShe said: \"The girls have complex anatomies and that makes them prone to infections and potentially sepsis.\n\n\"One of the challenges we had was getting antibiotics into them quickly, and this tube or cannula they've had fitted, means we can get them into them more quickly with less distress to the girls.\"\n\nThe girls have been experiencing the feeling of standing, at children's hospice Ty Hafan\n\nShe said Marieme's heart was complex with lots of abnormalities that cause her problems with doing exercise and can lead to breathlessness.\n\nAt children's' hospice Ty Hafan in Sully, Vale of Glamorgan, the girls have been learning what it feels like to stand.\n\nA special frame gives them the experience of being upright, helping build strength in their legs.\n\nPhysiotherapist Sara Wade-West said it had been hard for them.\n\n\"It's a really different sensation when you're used to being sat down, to be upright can be scary,\" she said.\n\n\"To start with, particularly Ndeye wasn't very keen. We try and sneak the therapy in around the play, encouraging them to reach for toys to make them work a bit harder, but if they know it's therapy it's not so fun.\n\n\"Because of their cardiac function we can't push them too much so it's finding that balance - challenging them to get stronger but not exhausting them.\"\n\nThe twins' father Ibrahima Ndiaye said they were his \"warriors\"\n\nWatching his daughters stand is more than just a breakthrough for their father.\n\n\"They are showing that they don't only want to live, but be active and play their part in society,\" he said.\n\n\"All these achievements bring light and hopes for the future. But I know how fragile, complex and unpredictable their lives can be.\"\n\nMr Ndiaye said his hopes were \"parallel to my fears\" as the girls had \"so many times come close to the worst\".\n\n\"But the very least I can do for the girls is figure out my hopes for them,\" he said.\n\n\"The most I can do is to be beside them and live inside that hope and never allow anything to take that hope away.\n\n\"They are my warriors. They have proved they will never surrender without fighting. It is not yet over.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A BBC team came across roadblocks as they tried to report on research into viruses that bats carry\n\nA Chinese scientist at the centre of unsubstantiated claims that the coronavirus leaked from her laboratory in the Chinese city of Wuhan has told the BBC she is open to \"any kind of visit\" to rule it out.\n\nThe surprise statement from Prof Shi Zhengli comes as a World Health Organization team prepares to travel to Wuhan next month to begin its investigation into the origins of Covid-19.\n\nThe remote district of Tongguan, in China's south-western province of Yunnan, is hard to reach at the best of times. But when a BBC team tried to visit recently, it was impossible.\n\nPlain-clothes police officers and other officials in unmarked cars followed us for miles along the narrow, bumpy roads, stopping when we did, backtracking with us when we were forced to turn around.\n\nWe found obstacles in our way, including a \"broken-down\" lorry, which locals confirmed had been placed across the road a few minutes before we arrived.\n\nAnd we ran into checkpoints at which unidentified men told us their job was to keep us out.\n\nAt first sight, all of this might seem like a disproportionate effort given our intended destination, a nondescript, abandoned copper mine in which, back in 2012, six workers succumbed to a mystery illness that eventually claimed the lives of three of them.\n\nBut their tragedy, which would otherwise almost certainly have been largely forgotten, has been given new meaning by the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nThose three deaths are now at the centre of a major scientific controversy about the origins of the virus and the question of whether it came from nature, or from a laboratory.\n\nAnd the attempts of Chinese authorities to stop us reaching the site are a sign of how hard they're working to control the narrative.\n\nFor more than a decade, the rolling, jungle-covered hills in Yunnan - and the cave systems within - have been the focus of a giant scientific field study.\n\nChinese virologist Shi Zhengli is seen here inside the laboratory in Wuhan\n\nIt has been led by Prof Shi Zhengli from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV).\n\nProf Shi won international acclaim for her discovery that the illness known as Sars, which killed more than 700 people in 2003, was caused by a virus that probably came from a species of bat in a Yunnan cave.\n\nEver since, Prof Shi - often referred to as \"China's Batwoman\" - has been in the vanguard of a project to try to predict and prevent further such outbreaks.\n\nBy trapping bats, taking faecal samples from them, and then carrying those samples back to the lab in Wuhan, 1,600km (1,000 miles) away, the team behind the project has identified hundreds of new bat coronaviruses.\n\nBut the fact that Wuhan is now home to the world's leading coronavirus research facility, as well as the first city to be ravaged by a pandemic outbreak of a deadly new one, has fuelled suspicion that the two things are connected.\n\nI would personally welcome any form of visit, based on an open, transparent, trusting, reliable and reasonable dialogue. But the specific plan is not decided by me.\n\nThe Chinese government, the WIV, and Prof Shi have all angrily dismissed the allegation of a virus leak from the Wuhan lab.\n\nBut with scientists appointed by the World Health Organization (WHO) scheduled to visit Wuhan in January for an inquiry into the origin of the pandemic, Prof Shi - who has given few interviews since the pandemic began - answered a number of BBC questions by email.\n\n\"I have communicated with the WHO experts twice,\" she wrote, when asked if an investigation might help rule out a lab leak and end the speculation. \"I have personally and clearly expressed that I would welcome them to visit the WIV,\" she said.\n\nTo a follow-up question about whether that would include a formal investigation with access to the WIV's experimental data and laboratory records, Prof Shi said: \"I would personally welcome any form of visit based on an open, transparent, trusting, reliable and reasonable dialogue. But the specific plan is not decided by me.\"\n\nThe BBC subsequently received a call from the WIV's press office, saying that Prof Shi was speaking in a personal capacity and her answers had not been approved by the WIV.\n\nThe BBC denied a request to send the press office a copy of this article in advance.\n\nDr Peter Daszak: \"I've yet to see any evidence at all of a lab leak or a lab involvement in this outbreak\"\n\nMany scientists believe that by far the most likely scenario is that Sars-Cov-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, jumped naturally from bats to humans, possibly via an intermediary species. And despite Prof Shi's offer, for now there appears to be little chance of the WHO inquiry looking into the lab-leak theory.\n\nThe terms of reference for the WHO inquiry make no mention of the theory, and some members of the 10-person team have all but ruled it out.\n\nPeter Daszak, a British zoologist, has been chosen as part of the team because of his leading role in a multimillion dollar, international project to sample wild viruses.\n\nIt has involved close collaboration with Prof Shi Zhengli in her mass sampling of bats in China, and Dr Daszak previously called the lab-leak theory a \"conspiracy theory\" and \"pure baloney\".\n\n\"I've yet to see any evidence at all of a lab leak or a lab involvement in this outbreak,\" he said. \"I have seen substantial evidence that these are naturally occurring phenomena driven by human encroachment into wildlife habitat, which is clearly on display across south-east Asia.\"\n\nAsked about seeking access to the Wuhan lab to rule the lab-leak theory out, he said: \"That's not my job to do that.\n\n\"The WHO negotiated the terms of reference, and they say we're going to follow the evidence, and that's what we've got to do,\" he added.\n\nThe Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan was linked to early cases of the new coronavirus\n\nOne focus of the inquiry will be a market in Wuhan which was known to be trading in wildlife and was linked to a number of early cases, though the Chinese authorities appear to have already discounted it as a source of the virus.\n\nDr Daszak said the WHO team would \"look at those clusters of cases, look at the contacts, look at where the animals in the market have come from and see where that takes us\".\n\nThe deaths of the three Tongguan workers following exposure to a mineshaft full of bats raised suspicions that they'd succumbed to a bat coronavirus.\n\nIt was exactly the kind of animal-to-human \"spillover\" that was driving the WIV to sample and test bats in Yunnan.\n\nIt is no surprise then that, following those deaths, the WIV scientists began sampling bats in the Tongguan mineshaft in earnest, making multiple visits over the next three years and detecting 293 coronaviruses.\n\nBut apart from one brief paper, very little was published about the viruses they collected on those trips.\n\nIn January this year, Prof Shi Zhengli became one of the first people in the world to sequence Sars-Cov-2, which was already spreading rapidly through the streets and homes of her city.\n\nShe then compared the long string of letters representing the virus's unique genetic code with the extensive library of other viruses collected and stored over the years.\n\nAnd she discovered that her database contained the closest known relative of Sars-Cov-2.\n\nRaTG13 is a virus whose name has been derived from the bat it was extracted from (Rhinolophus affinis, Ra), the place it was found (Tongguan, TG), and the year it was identified, 2013.\n\nSeven years after it was found in that mineshaft, RaTG13 was about to become one of the most hotly contested scientific subjects of our time.\n\nChina imposed tough restrictions on Wuhan to stop the spread of the virus\n\nThere have been many well-documented cases of viruses leaking from labs. The first Sars virus, for example, leaked twice from the National Institute of Virology in Beijing in 2004, long after the outbreak had been brought under control.\n\nThe practice of genetically manipulating viruses is also not new, allowing scientists to make them more infectious or more deadly, so they can assess the threat and, perhaps, develop treatments or vaccines.\n\nAnd from the moment it was isolated and sequenced, scientists have been struck by the remarkable ability of Sars-Cov-2 to infect humans.\n\nThe possibility that it acquired that ability as a result of manipulation in a laboratory was taken seriously enough for an influential group of international scientists to address it head on.\n\nIn what has become the definitive paper ruling out the possibility of a lab leak, RaTG13 has a starring role.\n\nPublished in March in the magazine Nature Medicine, it suggests that if there had been a leak, Prof Shi Zhengli would have found a much closer match in her database than RaTG13.\n\nWhile RaTG13 is the closest known relative - at 96.2% similarity - it is still too distant to have been manipulated and changed into Sars-Cov-2.\n\nSars-Cov-2, the authors concluded, was likely to have gained its unique efficiency through a long, undetected period of circulation in humans or animals of a natural and milder precursor virus that eventually evolved into the potent, deadly form first detected in Wuhan in 2019.\n\nMedics and scientists in Wuhan battled to control the early stages of the pandemic\n\nWhere though, some scientists are beginning to wonder, are those reservoirs of earlier natural infection?\n\nDr Daniel Lucey is a physician and infectious disease professor at the Georgetown Medical Centre in Washington DC and a veteran of many pandemics - Sars in China, Ebola in Africa, Zika in Brazil.\n\nHe is certain that China has already conducted thorough searches for evidence of precursor viruses in stored human samples in hospitals and in animal populations.\n\n\"They have the capability, they have the resources and they have the motivation, so of course they've done the studies in animals and in humans,\" he said.\n\nFinding the origin of an outbreak was vital, he said, not just for wider scientific understanding, but also to stop it emerging again.\n\n\"We should search until we find it. I think it's findable and I think it's quite possible it's already been found,\" he said. \"But then the question arises, why hasn't it been disclosed?\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid-19: How everyday life has changed in Wuhan\n\nDr Lucey still believes that Sars-Cov-2 is most likely to have a natural origin, but he does not want the alternatives to be so readily ruled out.\n\n\"So here we are, 12, 13 months out since the first recognised case of Covid-19 and we haven't found the animal source,\" he said. \"So, to me, it's all the more reason to investigate alternative explanations.\"\n\nMight a Chinese laboratory have had a virus they were working on that was genetically closer to Sars-Cov-2, and would they tell us now if they did? \"Not everything that's done is published,\" Dr Lucey said.\n\nIt's a point I put to Peter Daszak, the member of the WHO origins study team.\n\n\"You know, I've worked with the WIV for a good decade or more,\" he said. \"I know some of the people there pretty well and I have visited the labs frequently, I've met and had dinner with them over 15 years.\n\n\"I'm working in China with eyes wide open, and I'm racking my brain back in time for the slightest hint of something untoward. And I've never seen that.\"\n\nAsked if those friendships and funding relationships with the WIV presented a conflict of interest with his role on the inquiry, he said: \"We file our papers; it's all there for everyone to see.\"\n\nAnd his collaboration with the WIV, he said, \"makes me one of the people on the planet who knows the most about the origins of these bat coronaviruses in China\".\n\nThe conclusion [of the Kunming Hospital University thesis] is neither based on evidence nor logic. But it’s used by conspiracy theorists to doubt me\n\nChina may have provided only limited data about its hunt for the origin of Sars-Cov-2, but it has begun to promote a theory of its own.\n\nBased on a few inconclusive studies conducted by scientists in Europe that suggest Covid-19 may have been circulating earlier than previously thought, state propaganda is full of stories suggesting the virus didn't start in China at all.\n\nIn the absence of proper data, speculation is only likely to grow, much of it focused on RaTG13 and its origins in a Tongguan mineshaft. Old academic papers have been dug up online that appear to differ from the WIV's statements about the sick mine workers - among them a thesis by a student at the Kunming Hospital University.\n\n\"I've just downloaded the Kunming Hospital University student's masters thesis and read it,\" Prof Shi told the BBC.\n\n\"The narrative doesn't make sense,\" she said. \"The conclusion is neither based on evidence nor logic. But it's used by conspiracy theorists to doubt me. If you were me, what you would do?\"\n\nProf Shi has also faced questions about why the WIV's online public database of viruses was suddenly taken offline.\n\nShe told the BBC that the WIV's website and the staff's work emails and personal emails had been attacked, and the database taken offline for security reasons.\n\n\"All our research results are published in English journals in the form of papers,\" she said. \"Virus sequences are saved in the [US-run] GenBank database too. It's completely transparent. We have nothing to hide.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Can you become immune to coronavirus?\n\nThere are important questions to be asked in the Yunnan countryside, not just by scientists, but by journalists too.\n\nAfter a decade of sampling and experimenting on viruses collected from bats, we now know that back in 2013 the closest known ancestor was discovered of a future threat that would claim well over a million lives and devastate the global economy.\n\nYet the WIV, according to the published information, did nothing with it, except sequence it and enter it into a database.\n\nOught that to call into question the very premise on which the expensive, and some would say risky, mass sampling of wild viruses is based?\n\n\"To say that we didn't do enough is absolutely correct,\" Peter Daszak told the BBC. \"To say that we failed is not fair at all. What we should have been doing is 10 times the amount of work on these viruses.\"\n\nBoth Dr Daszak and Prof Shi are adamant that pandemic prevention research is vital, urgent work.\n\n\"Our research is forward-looking, and it's difficult for non-professionals to understand,\" Prof Shi wrote by email. \"In the face of countless micro-organisms that exist in nature, we humans are very small.\"\n\nThe WHO is promising an \"open-minded\" inquiry into the origins of the novel coronavirus, but the Chinese government is not keen on questions, at least not from journalists.\n\nAfter leaving Tongguan, the BBC team tried to drive a few hours north to the cave where Prof Shi carried out her ground-breaking research on Sars almost a decade ago.\n\nStill being followed by several unmarked cars, we hit another roadblock, and were told there was no way through.\n\nA few hours later, we discovered that local traffic had been diverted onto a dirt track that skirted the obstruction, but as we attempted to use the same route, we met yet another \"broken down\" car in our path.\n\nWe were trapped in a field for over an hour, before finally being forced to head for the airport.", "The low temperature was recorded at Loch Glascarnoch\n\nThe UK has had its coldest night of the winter so far after a temperature of -12.3C was recorded in the north west Highlands.\n\nThe temperature was recorded at Loch Glascarnoch, near Garve, south of Ullapool in Wester Ross.\n\nThe record lowest temperature in the UK is -27.2C, which was recorded in Braemar, Aberdeenshire, in 1895 and 1982.\n\nThe same temperature was recorded at Altnaharra in the Highlands in 1995.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe coldest night of the winter so far has come amid days of freezing temperatures in Scotland, and more widely across the UK.\n\nThe Met Office has issued yellow \"be aware warnings\" for snow and ice for Scotland for Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.\n\nForecasters said a band of sleet and snow was expected arrive across north west Scotland on Wednesday afternoon and move south east across most parts of Scotland overnight.\n\nThe Met Office said up to 2cm, almost an inch, of snow was likely to settle at low levels \"quite widely\" with up to 6cm (2in) above 200m (656ft) and as much as 10cm (4in) above 300m (984ft).", "Last updated on .From the section Man City\n\nManchester City legend Colin Bell has died, aged 74, after a short illness, the Premier League club have announced.\n\nThe former England midfielder made 501 appearances for City between 1966 and 1979, scoring 153 goals. He won 48 caps for his country.\n\n\"Few players have left such an indelible mark on City,\" said a club statement on Tuesday.\n\nIn 2004, Manchester City fans voted to name one of the stands at Etihad Stadium in Bell's honour.\n\n\"Colin Bell will always be remembered as one of Manchester City's greatest players and the very sad news today of his passing will affect everybody connected to our club,\" said City chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak.\n\n\"I am fortunate to be able to speak regularly to his former manager and team-mates, and it's clear to me that Colin was a player held in the highest regard by all those who had the privilege of playing alongside him or seeing him play.\n\n\"The passage of time does little to erase the memories of his genius.\"\n• None 'Bell will always be king of Man City' - tributes paid after death of club great\n\nAfter starting his career at Bury, Bell moved to Manchester City - then in the second tier - midway through the 1965-66 season in a £47,500 deal.\n\nHe helped Joe Mercer's team win promotion that season and was instrumental in the Blues winning the First Division title two years later.\n\nDuring his 13 years as a player at Maine Road, he also won the FA Cup, League Cup and Cup Winners' Cup.\n\nHowever, his career was hampered by a serious knee injury he suffered in a League Cup tie against Manchester United in November 1975, when he was 29.\n\nAfter making a comeback later that season, he was injured again against Arsenal and out for another 18 months.\n\nBell regained fitness and received an emotional ovation on his return at Maine Road on 26 December 1977.\n\nHowever, he did not have the same freedom and mobility as he had done and played only a handful more games.\n\nBell finished his career with a brief spell in the United States playing for San Jose Earthquakes.\n\nIn 2004, he was awarded an MBE for his services to football and remained a regular presence at City games in recent seasons.\n\n'De Bruyne reminds me a lot of Colin' - tributes pour in for the 'King of the Kippax'\n\nFormer City team-mate Mike Summerbee, who was part of their 'Holy Trinity' alongside Bell and Francis Lee in the 1960s and 1970s, described Bell as \"just the greatest footballer\" the club has had.\n\n\"Colin was a lovely, humble man. He was a huge star for Manchester City but you would never have known it,\" said ex-forward Summerbee, 78.\n\n\"He was quiet, unassuming and I always believe he never knew how good he actually was.\n\n\"[Current City midfielder] Kevin de Bruyne reminds me a lot of Colin in the way he plays and the way he is as a person.\"\n\nFormer England forward Lee says he thinks the knee injury curtailed Bell's career \"by a good four or five years\".\n\n\"Colin had tremendous stamina. He was a very good player technically and had the ability to score goals,\" said Lee, 76.\n\n\"He goes into the top five City players of all time - only in the last 10, 15 years has anyone else come along who can take that mantle.\"\n\nSummerbee and Lee were among a number of former and current City players to pay tribute to Bell, along with celebrity fans including former Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher.\n\nBell would \"always have a smile\" and \"meet and greet everyone\" he knew, said former City midfielder Michael Brown.\n\n\"He's done lots of charity work and always tried to help people,\" added Brown, who first met Bell as a youngster having come up through City's academy.\n\n\"It's a huge loss. To have done so much and be so low key was admirable.\"\n\nEx-City defender Micah Richards said Bell was \"one of the nicest men ever\", while their former full-back Pablo Zabaleta added he was \"absolutely devastated\" by the news.\n\nFormer England striker Gary Lineker said Bell was one of his favourite players when he was growing up.\n\n\"Terrific box to box midfielder. A real gem for Manchester City and England,\" added the Match of the Day host.\n\nThe Times' chief football writer Henry Winter said Bell \"oozed class, skill and glamour\" as he was \"flowing across rutted pitches, taking people on, creating and scoring\".", "A polar bear cub playing in a snow drift in the area of the proposed oil lease sales\n\nThe Trump administration is pushing ahead with the first sale of oil leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.\n\nThe giant Alaskan wilderness is home to many important species, including polar bears, caribou and wolves.\n\nNow, after decades of dispute, the rights to drill for oil on about 5% of the refuge will go ahead.\n\nOpponents have criticised the rushed nature of the sale, coming just days before President Trump's term ends.\n\nCovering some 19 million acres (78,000 sq km) the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) is often described as America's last great wilderness.\n\nIt is a critically important location for many species, including polar bears.\n\nIn the winter months, pregnant bears build dens in which to give birth.\n\nAs temperatures have risen and sea ice has become thinner, these bears have started building their dens on land.\n\nMany indigenous groups with strong links to the ANWR have opposed oil exploration\n\nThe coastal plain of the ANWR now has the highest concentration of these dens in the state.\n\nThe refuge is also home to Porcupine caribou, one of the largest herds in the world, numbering around 200,000 animals.\n\nIn the spring, the herd moves to the coastal plain region of the ANWR as it is their preferred calving ground.\n\nThe same coastal plain is now the subject of the first ever oil lease sale in the refuge.\n\nThe push for exploration in the park has been a decades long battle between oil companies supported by the state government and environmental and indigenous opponents.\n\nMany of Alaska's political representatives believe that drilling in the refuge could lead to another major oil find, like the one in Prudhoe Bay, just west of the ANWR.\n\nPrudhoe Bay is the largest oil field in North America and supporters believe the ANWR shares the same geology, and potential reserves of crude oil.\n\nOil revenues are critical for Alaska, with every resident getting a cheque for around $1,600 every year from the state's permanent fund.\n\nIn 2017, the Trump administration's tax cutting bill contained a provision to open up the ANWR coastal plain for drilling. It was seen as a way of offsetting the costs of the tax cuts.\n\nThe US Bureau of Land Management is now selling the drilling rights to 22 tracts of land covering about one million acres. These oil and gas leases last for 10 years.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Bernadette Demientieff This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA last-minute attempt to stop the sale in the courts failed but opponents say it will not be the end of their efforts to protect the refuge from drilling.\n\n\"The Trump administration is barrelling forward without doing the careful, legally required analyses of the impacts such activity will have on the environment or the Gwich'in people who have relied on this land for millennia,\" said Kristen Monsell, a senior attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity, which is headquartered in Tucson, Arizona, who had sought an injunction against the sale.\n\n\"That's why we've taken them to court. We can't let Trump turn this amazing landscape into an oil field.\"\n\nReports indicate that interest in the lease sales has been low.\n\nThinning ice has seen more polar bears make their dens on land\n\nWhile estimates suggest around 11 billion barrels of oil lie under the refuge, it has no roads or other infrastructure, making it a very expensive place to drill for oil.\n\nSeveral large US banks have said they will not fund oil and gas exploration in the area.\n\nThere is also the matter of a change of leadership in the White House. The Biden team have nominated Deb Haaland as Secretary of the Interior. She is on record as being strongly opposed to drilling in the ANWR.\n\nWith climate change set to be a central focus for the Biden administration, it's likely that efforts to extract new fossil fuels in Alaska will be subject to review and delay.\n\nThis could ultimately limit the interest and opportunity for oil exploration in the refuge.\n\nYou might also be interested in:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Climate change: The woman watching the ice melt from under her feet", "Stephen Stennett had a head on collision with a van on the B9157 near Kirkcaldy in Fife\n\nA driver who caused a crash in Fife that led to his passenger losing her baby has admitted causing death by dangerous driving.\n\nStephen Stennett, 23, had a head-on collision with a van on the B9157 near Kirkcaldy on 3 October 2018.\n\nThe High Court in Glasgow heard he had attempted a \"dangerous\" overtaking manoeuvre.\n\nJudge Lady Stacey deferred sentence until next month for background reports.\n\nPassenger, Shannon Myers, 18, who was 30 weeks pregnant, had to have an emergency caesarean section due to her injuries in the crash.\n\nHowever, her son Luke Myers died 32 minutes later.\n\nProsecutor Murdoch McTaggart said: \"The accused pulled out and drove into the path of an oncoming van.\n\n\"The accused's vehicle ended up in a ditch on the side of the road.\"\n\nMs Myers, who was in the front passenger seat, complained about pain in her abdomen and was taken to hospital.\n\nA scan showed the baby had a heartbeat of 60 beats per minute.\n\nMr McTaggart said this was regarded as low and gave cause for concern, prompting doctors to perform an emergency C-section.\n\nLuke's cause of death was recorded as \"complications of traumatic abruption due to road traffic collision\".\n\nPathologists said the baby had red marks on his face as well as fractures to his collarbone and four ribs.\n\nA 15-year-old girl, who was also a passenger in the car, sustained a fractured spine, collarbone and sternum.\n\nA fourth passenger, a boy also aged 15, suffered a fractured spine and eye bone as well as a minor head injury.\n\nVan driver Ian Baker, his wife Clara and their 10-year-old daughter had minor injuries.\n\nThe baby's mother paid tribute to Luke on Facebook shortly after his death.\n\nShe said: \"I love you so much my handsome little boy.\"\n\nThe judge Lady Stacey said: \"You will understand you pleaded guilty to a serious crime which had tragic results.\n\n\"When a life is lost, the court will almost always impose a period of imprisonment.\"\n\nStennett said: \"I'm sorry\" before being bailed.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Former Bond actress and Charlie's Angel Tanya Roberts has died in hospital in Los Angeles at the age of 65.\n\nRoberts appeared with Sir Roger Moore in his final Bond film, 1985's A View To A Kill, and had a recurring role in That '70s Show.\n\nShe also starred in the final series of Charlie's Angels on TV in 1980.\n\nHer death was prematurely announced on Monday, only for doctors to say she was still alive. However, her death was then confirmed on Tuesday.\n\nRoberts had collapsed while walking her dogs on 24 December and was admitted to Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre.\n\nHer partner Lance O'Brien mistakenly thought she had died on Sunday after visiting her in hospital. After getting a call from doctors to say she was deteriorating quickly, he went to her bedside, her eyes closed and she \"faded\", TMZ reported.\n\nDevastated, he walked out of the room and then the hospital without speaking to medical staff before informing Roberts' agent that he had \"just said goodbye to Tanya\".\n\nBut while being interviewed for US TV show Inside Edition on Monday, Mr O'Brien got a call from the hospital to say she was alive.\n\nThe moment was captured on film, as he picked up his phone and said: \"Now you're telling me she's alive? Thank the Lord.\" However, she died on Monday night.\n\nShe appeared in A View To A Kill alongside Sir Roger Moore and singer Grace Jones\n\nBorn Victoria Leigh Blum in 1955, Roberts grew up in New York before moving to Hollywood in 1977.\n\nHer big break came when she replaced Shelly Hack in Charlie's Angels, joining Jaclyn Smith and Cheryl Ladd as third 'Angel' Julie.\n\nAfter the show's cancellation, she appeared in such fantasy adventure films as The Beastmaster and Hearts and Armour.\n\nShe also played comic book heroine Sheena in a 1984 film that saw her nominated for a Golden Raspberry award for worst actress.\n\nRoberts received another Razzie nomination for her role as geologist Stacey Sutton in 1985 Bond film A View to a Kill.\n\nRoberts in the title role in Sheena: Queen of the Jungle\n\nShe admitted being \"a little cautious\" about taking the role, but said it would have been \"ridiculous\" to have turned it down.\n\nRoberts' subsequent films included Night Eyes and Inner Sanctum, erotic thrillers that did little to advance her career.\n\nShe went on to play Midge Pinciotti in more than 80 episodes of That '70s Show between 1998 and 2004.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "Julian Assange will remain in jail as he continues to fight against extradition to the United States.\n\nDistrict Judge Vanessa Baraitser said there were substantial grounds to believe he would abscond.\n\nOn Monday, she ruled the Wikileaks founder cannot be extradited to the US because he might kill himself.\n\nThe US is now appealing that decision - and had opposed releasing the 49-year-old from a maximum security prison before the case is heard.\n\nMr Assange, who was wearing a dark suit and face mask, was not seen to react to the decision at Westminster Magistrates Court.\n\nHe's been held in prison since 2019, after hiding for seven years inside the Ecuadorian Embassy to avoid extradition.\n\nUS prosecutors want to put him on trial for hacking and disclosing classified information - including the identities of informants who were helping intelligence agencies in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere.\n\nIn her ruling, DJ Baraitser said Mr Assange still had the incentive to abscond.\n\n\"He is willing to flout the order of this court,\" she said. \"As a matter of fairness, the US must be allowed to challenge my decision and if Mr Assange absconds during this process they will lose the opportunity to do so.\"\n\nDuring the bail application, Mr Assange's barrister Ed Fitzgerald QC said his client had been offered a London home by a supporter, where he could be with his partner and their two young children - but also compelled to remain under the strictest bail conditions.\n\n\"Your decision [on Monday] changes everything and it certainly changes any motive to abscond,\" said Mr Fitzgerald.\n\n\"On any view... [Mr Assange] would be safer isolating with his family in the community, subject to severe restrictions, than if he were in Belmarsh which has, very recently, had a severe outbreak...(of coronavirus). He wishes to live a sheltered life with his family.\"\n\nBut Clair Dobbin, for the USA, told the court Mr Assange had the \"resources, abilities and the sheer wherewithal\" to secretly arrange a flight to another country.\n\n\"[Mr Assange] regards himself as above the law and no cost is too great, whether that cost be to himself or others,\" said the barrister.\n\nJulian Assange's partner, Stella Moris, was among a large group of his supporters who had gathered at court.\n\n\"This a huge disappointment,\" she said. \"Julian should not be in Belmarsh prison in the first place. I urge the [US] Department of Justice to drop the charges and the President of the United States to pardon Julian.\"\n\nDistrict Judge Baraitser blocked Julian Assange's extradition on Monday, ruling that that while he had a case to answer, he was so mentally unwell that the US authorities could not guarantee he would not kill himself once inside a maximum security prison in the country.\n\nThe USA's appeal against that ruling - which will go to more senior judges later this year - will challenge that finding.", "McDonald's is pausing walk-in takeaway services in the UK as new lockdown restrictions come into force.\n\nDine-in meals and walk-in takeaways will not be available temporarily while it reviews safety procedures, it said.\n\nIts UK boss said it will be testing \"additional measures that may further enhance the safety of our takeaway service.\"\n\nRival food chains Burger King, Subway, KFC and Pret A Manger are still offering takeaways in-store.\n\nMcDonald's UK and Ireland chief executive Paul Pomroy said that safety measures across the firm's 1,300 restaurants will be reviewed by an independent health and safety body.\n\nHe added that customers would be kept updated via the restaurant's app and its website. Drive-through and delivery services across the fast food chain will remain open.\n\nUnder new lockdown restrictions which came into force in England and Scotland this week, hospitality firms are allowed to offer takeaways and deliveries.\n\nBut rules which previously allowed takeaways or click-and-collect services for alcoholic drinks have been scrapped.\n\nWales and Northern Ireland were already in lockdown, which meant that pubs, restaurants and cafes were restricted to takeaway-only too.\n\nAfter the first nationwide lockdown in March, many chains including McDonald's, Burger King and Pret closed their doors to hungry customers.\n\nThey gradually reopened with additional safety measures in place, such as plastic screens in front of the tills, hand sanitiser dispensers and restrictions on the number of customers allowed in at any one point. Some also pared back the number of dishes on offer.\n\nA Burger King spokesperson said that takeaway was still available in some branches and that it would continue to offer click-and-collect and delivery services \"in line with guidance issued\".\n\nSandwich chain Pret A Manger told the BBC that it is keeping some outlets open for both takeaways and delivery, but it would keep the number under review in the coming months.\n\n\"Last year we shifted our business to focus on delivery and expanded our delivery platform partnerships, to make Pret available to a wider customer base\", a spokesperson said.\n\n\"Since then, we have seen a significant increase in the use of delivery.\"\n\nSubway and KFC also confirmed that they remain open for in-store takeaways, deliveries and click-and-collect orders across the UK.\n\nFast food firm Leon, which has 65 outlets, said that 28 of their sites will remain open for takeaways and deliveries.\n\n\"We will continue to keep as many restaurants open as possible, as we did in the previous two lockdowns in line with government guidelines,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nDespite adapting their business models, many casual dining chains have been forced to make job cuts in the last year as lockdown restrictions hit sales. Pret, for example, announced 3,000 job cuts in August, while Greggs made 820 job cuts at the end of 2020.", "There are warnings that replacement grades must avoid the problems that saw protests and U-turns last summer\n\nHead teachers have warned a replacement system for cancelled exams in England must avoid the \"shambles\" of last year's results.\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson is to make a statement on \"alternative arrangements\" for GCSE and A-level exams cancelled in the pandemic.\n\nThis could include using teachers' estimated grades.\n\nA replacement system must not \"inflict further disadvantage on students\", says the exams watchdog Ofqual.\n\nGeoff Barton, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union, said there were \"no easy answers\" in picking an approach - but it had to avoid repeating the \"disaster\" of last summer's cancelled exam season.\n\nHe said there was a \"real need for urgency\" to allow schools time to plan - and that any system for grading had to show \"fairness and consistency\".\n\nWritten papers for GCSEs and A-levels are not going ahead - after this week's decision that it was no longer feasible with so much time lost in the Covid pandemic and the latest lockdown.\n\nMr Williamson will instruct the exams watchdog to come up with proposals for an alternative way of deciding results, which could be used for jobs, staying on in school or university places.\n\nLast year's attempts to find an alternative approach to exam results, which initially used an algorithm, descended into chaos - and eventually switched to using teachers' grades.\n\nAnd without any exam papers or standardised mock exams, the use of teachers' grades, with some process of moderation, is likely to be a key option once again.\n\nVocational exams, such as BTecs, are carrying on, if schools and colleges decide to continue with them.\n\nBut if students cannot take BTec exams this month as planned, they will be able to take them at a later date or otherwise still be awarded a grade, if they have \"enough evidence to receive a certificate that they need for progression\", says the awarding body Pearson.\n\nAn Ofqual spokeswoman said they could consider options for replacement exam results, academic and vocational, \"to ensure the fairest possible outcome in the circumstances\".\n\nAlthough the process is only formally beginning, with a consultation likely on proposals, it is understood that contingency planning had already started to find a back-up if exams were cancelled.\n\nThe exams watchdog's decisions will face much scrutiny - with the previous head of Ofqual resigning after last summer's U-turns over grades.\n\n\"We are discussing alternative arrangements with the Department for Education. We know that many are seeking clarity as soon as possible,\" said Simon Lebus, Ofqual's interim chief regulator.", "Supporters of US President Donald Trump stormed the US Capitol on Wednesday\n\nWorld leaders have condemned violent scenes in Washington after supporters of US President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol building on Wednesday.\n\nThe riot forced the suspension of a joint session of Congress to certify Joe Biden's electoral victory.\n\nMany leaders called for peace and an orderly transition of power, describing what happened as \"horrifying\" and an \"attack on democracy\".\n\n\"The United States stands for democracy around the world and it is now vital that there should be a peaceful and orderly transfer of power,\" he wrote on Twitter.\n\nOther UK politicians joined him in criticising the violence, with opposition leader Sir Keir Starmer calling it a \"direct attack on democracy\".\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel told the BBC that Mr Trump's comments \"directly led\" to his supporters storming Congress and clashing with police.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Home Secretary Priti Patel says Donald Trump was wrong for not condemning the violence\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon tweeted that the scenes from the US Capitol were \"utterly horrifying\".\n\nIn Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel said those who stormed the US legislature were \"attackers and rioters\" and that she felt \"angry and also sad\" after seeing pictures from the scene.\n\nShe told a meeting of German conservatives: \"I regret very much that President Trump has still not admitted defeat, but has kept raising doubts about the elections.\"\n\nChina meanwhile attempted to draw comparisons between the rioters who entered Congress to try and subvert the US election result and pro-democracy protesters who stormed Hong Kong's Legislative Council last year.\n\nForeign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying claimed events in Hong Kong were more \"severe\" than those in Washington but \"not one demonstrator died\".\n\nThe comparisons between the two incidents has caused outrage among Hong Kong's pro-democracy activists and their supporters.\n\nRussia blamed the \"archaic\" US electoral system and the politicisation of the media for Wednesday's unrest in Washington.\n\n\"The electoral system in the United States is archaic, it does not meet modern democratic standards, creating opportunities for numerous violations, and the American media have become an instrument of political struggle,\" foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.\n\nElsewhere in Europe, a chorus of leaders condemned the scenes in Washington as an attack on democracy.\n\nSpanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said: \"I have trust in the strength of US democracy. The new presidency of Joe Biden will overcome this tense stage, uniting the American people.\"\n\nIn a video on Twitter, French President Emmanuel Macron said: \"When, in one of the world's oldest democracies, supporters of an outgoing president take up arms to challenge the legitimate results of an election, a universal idea - that of 'one person, one vote' - is undermined.\n\n\"What happened today in Washington DC is not American, definitely. We believe in the strength of our democracies. We believe in the strength of American democracy\" he added.\n\nSwedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven described the incident as \"worrying\" and said it was \"an assault on democracy\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by SwedishPM This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTop EU leaders have also made their views known. European Council President Charles Michel said he trusted the US \"to ensure a peaceful transfer of power\" to Mr Biden, while European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said she looked forward to working with the Democrat, who \"won the election\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Charles Michel This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLike many other global figures, the Secretary-General of the Nato military alliance, Jens Stoltenberg, said that the outcome of the election \"must be respected\".\n\nFor his part, UN Secretary-General António Guterres was \"saddened\" by the events at the US Capitol, his spokesman said.\n\nThe events also shocked America's close ally and neighbour to its north. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Canadians were \"deeply disturbed and saddened by the attack on democracy\".\n\n\"Violence will never succeed in overruling the will of the people. Democracy in the US must be upheld - and it will be,\" he wrote on Twitter.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. When a mob stormed the US capitol\n\nFrom New Zealand, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, tweeted that \"democracy - the right of people to exercise a vote, have their voice heard and then have that decision upheld peacefully - should never be undone by a mob\".\n\nMeanwhile Prime Minister Scott Morrison of Australia - another close US ally - condemned the \"distressing scenes\" and said he looked forward to a peaceful transfer of power.\n\nIn India, the world's largest democracy, Prime Minister Narendra Modi - who has enjoyed a good relationship with President Trump - said he was \"distressed to see news about rioting and violence\" in Washington.\n\n\"Orderly and peaceful transfer of power must continue,\" he tweeted.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTurkey, an ally through Nato, said it invited \"all parties\" to show \"restraint and common sense\".\n\nThe Venezuelan government, which the US does not recognise as legitimate, said \"with this regrettable episode, the United States suffers the same thing that it has generated in other countries with its policies of aggression\".\n\nIn statements on Twitter, Argentina's President Alberto Fernández and Chile's President Sebastián Piñera also condemned the scenes in Washington. Mr Piñera said Chile \"trusts in the solidity of US democracy to guarantee the rule of law\".\n\nIn Japan, one of America's closest allies and partners, Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato said the government hoped for a \"peaceful transfer of power\" in the United States.\n\nFrom Fiji, Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama, who led a coup in 2006, also expressed outrage at the events that took place.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Frank Bainimarama This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd in Singapore, Senior Minister Teo Chee Hean said he had watched as the \"shocking\" scenes took place, adding: \"Its a sad day.\"", "YouTube has reinstated TalkRadio's channel on its platform hours after saying it had been \"terminated\" for breaking the tech firm's rules.\n\nIt said the broadcaster had posted material that contradicted expert advice about the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nBut it explained its U-turn saying it sometimes made exceptions to guidelines that state repeat offenders face a permanent ban.\n\nTalkRadio said it had yet to be given a full explanation for the affair.\n\nThe decision to ban TalkRadio had appalled digital rights campaigners, with one group - Big Brother Watch - claiming it was evidence that \"big tech censorship is spiralling out of control\".\n\nThe Google-owned service has issued a brief statement explaining its actions.\n\n\"TalkRadio's YouTube channel was briefly suspended, but upon further review, has now been reinstated,\" it said.\n\n\"We quickly remove flagged content that violate our community guidelines, including Covid-19 content that explicitly contradict expert consensus from local health authorities or the World Health Organization. We make exceptions for material posted with an educational, documentary, scientific or artistic purpose, as was deemed in this case.\"\n\nYouTube has not published details of the offending posts.\n\nBut independent fact-checkers have repeatedly challenged some of the claims made by interviewees featured by the London-based radio station.\n\nYouTube operates a \"three strikes\" policy, whereby channels that break its community guidelines three times within a 90-day period can be permanently banned, but other infractions lead to temporary restrictions.\n\nProhibited content includes \"medically unsubstantiated claims\" relating to Covid-19, and videos that contradict expert consensus from local health authorities such as the NHS.\n\n\"YouTube is making decisions about which opinions the public are allowed to hear, even when they are sourced to responsible and regulated new providers,\" TalkRadio said in a statement this evening.\n\n\"This sets a dangerous precedent and is censorship of free speech and legitimate national debate.\"\n\nThe broadcaster tweeted the statement minutes after YouTube's change of heart. It did not appear to be aware that its channel had been reinstated at the time, but has since acknowledged the move.\n\nTalkRadio has about 424,000 listeners, according to the latest figures from market research provider Rajar.\n\nIt uses YouTube as a means to livestream shows from its studios and to provide an archive of past broadcasts.\n\nIts channel on the platform has 242,000 subscribers.\n\nYouTube's action had meant that TalkRadio's website had featured articles featuring broken embedded clips for most of the day, and that users who had shared its clips would have been unable to view them.\n\nThe US firm has previously imposed a permanent ban against conspiracy theorist David Icke, and a one-week video suspension of right-wing outlet One America News Network's ability to publish new clips - in both cases for breaches of its Covid rules.\n\nIt's pretty clear something has gone wrong at YouTube in the last 24 hours.\n\nIt appeared as though TalkRadio had been banned for good on YouTube - or \"terminated\" as the company put it.\n\nYouTube is now saying it was a short suspension, which certainly seems like a backtrack.\n\nEven now, it's not obvious what the offending material was that caused this action. The whole process reinforces the idea that YouTube's moderation policies - where it draws the line between freedom of expression and clamping down on misinformation - can be messy and inconsistent.\n\nAnd when YouTube takes such an action without giving full details, it rains controversy down on its own head.\n\nThis plays to a broader movement by YouTube and other social media companies to take a harder line on disinformation.\n\nJoe Biden is about to become US President - and he wants social media companies to do more to remove fake news.\n\nBut as they are increasingly finding out, refereeing their own platforms can be hugely difficult, and this highlights the need for greater transparency about moderation decisions.", "Helen Mort was told no action could be taken over the deepfake porn images\n\nA woman who has been the victim of deepfake pornography is calling for a change in the law.\n\nLast year, Helen Mort discovered that non-sexual images of her had been uploaded to a porn website.\n\nUsers of the site were invited to edit the photos, merging Helen's face with explicit and violent sexual images.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 5 Live's Mobeen Azhar, Helen said she wanted to see the creation and distribution of these images made an offence.\n\n\"This is a crime which in many cases is going on invisibly,\" Helen said. \"Those images of me had been out there for years and I didn't know about them, and I'm still having nightmares about some of them now. It's an incredibly serious form of abuse.\"\n\nDeepfakes are realistic computer-generated images or video, based on a real person.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Actress Bella Thorne opens up about her experience of deepfake abuse\n\nHelen, a poet and writer from Sheffield, was alerted to the deepfake images by an acquaintance.\n\nThe original images were taken from her social media and included holiday pictures and photos from her pregnancy.\n\nShe said although some of the images were clearly manipulated, there were a few more \"chilling\" examples that were a \"lot more plausible'.\n\n\"You go through different phases with things like this,\" she said. \"There was one point where I was just trying to laugh about the almost ridiculous nature of some of it.\n\n\"But obviously, the underlying feeling was shock and actually I initially felt quite ashamed, as if I'd done something wrong. That was quite a difficult thing to overcome. And then for a while I got incredibly anxious about even leaving the house.\"\n\nShe alerted the police to the images but was told that no action could be taken.\n\nDr Aislinn O'Connell, a lecturer in law at Royal Holloway University of London, explained that Helen's case fell outside the current law.\n\n\"In England and Wales, under section 33 of the Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015, it is an offence to non-consensually distribute a private sexual photograph or film with the intent to cause distress to the person depicted,\" she said.\n\n\"But this only applies where the original photo or video was private and sexual.\n\n\"In Helen's situation, where non-sexual photos were merged with sexual photos, this isn't covered by the criminal offence.\n\n\"Furthermore, as the photos were not shared with Helen directly, nor did the intention seem to be to cause distress to Helen, the second element is not fulfilled - even though it did, evidently, cause distress. The other potential criminal offence would be harassment, but given the perpetrator here did not direct it at Helen herself, this didn't apply either.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Deepfake videos: Can you really believe what you see?\n\nThe independent Law Commission is currently reviewing the law as it applies to taking, making and sharing intimate images without consent. The outcome of the consultation is due to be published later this year.\n\nHowever, Dr O'Connell said the process of changing the law would take years which she says is \"too long\".\n\nHelen hopes to use her experience to raise awareness around deepfake pornography and has launched a petition calling for a change in the law.\n\nIt has received more than 3,400 signatures.\n\nShe has also written a poem in response to the images.\n\n\"I'm a writer by trade,\" she said. \"And I thought the only thing that is going to allow me to reclaim any sense of agency here is to say something about it using my art form. That's the only power that I have.\n\n\"The intention of this person, as they said in their post, was to humiliate. They said they wanted to see this person humiliated, and I thought well actually I'm not humiliated, and I'm going to speak out about it because I shouldn't be the one who feels ashamed.\"\n\nThe Home Office said it was taking steps to tackle new and emerging forms of violence against women and girls, including intimate image abuse, \"whether this be cyber flashing, revenge porn or deep fake videos.\"\n\n\"We are currently consulting on the development of our new strategy to tackle violence against women and girls and we encourage people to give their views,\" a spokesperson said.\n\n\"This new strategy will ensure victims and survivors are supported, and that perpetrators are identified and brought to justice.\"", "Vocational exams, including BTEcs, are to go ahead this month in England - despite calls for them to be cancelled alongside GCSEs and A-levels.\n\n\"Schools and colleges can continue with the vocational and technical exams that are due to take place in January, where they judge it right to do so,\" said a Department for Education spokeswoman.\n\nFurther education college leaders had complained this was unfair to students.\n\nThey said students would face \"stress\" from taking exams in the lockdown.\n\nThe Association of Colleges warned the decision, giving schools and colleges the option on whether to carry on with BTecs, would create more confusion.\n\nChief executive David Hughes said some colleges would cancel exams and others would continue - but without any clarity about what would happen to \"students in colleges which do cancel for safety reasons\".\n\n\"A national decision would have allowed for more fairness,\" said Mr Hughes.\n\nThe announcement from the Department for Education has left it open for schools and colleges to decide whether to go ahead with vocational and technical exams.\n\n\"Schools and colleges have already implemented extensive protective measures to make them as safe as possible,\" said the DFE's spokeswoman.\n\nThe Department for Education said it recognised \"this is a difficult time\" but wanted to allow students who had prepared for exams and assessments to continue, including those who needed to take hands-on practical tests for qualifications for jobs.\n\nA joint statement from the mayors of Manchester and Liverpool said it was wrong to go ahead with these vocational exams when other academic exams had been cancelled.\n\n\"It is unfair to ask these students to go into colleges when everyone else is being told to stay at home.\n\n\"This will cause unnecessary anxiety and concern just when they need to be able to focus,\" said the statement from Andy Burnham and Steve Rotheram.\n\nThe mayors highlighted that students taking BTecs were more likely to be from \"working-class backgrounds and ethnic minority communities\" and they should not be treated any less well than those following an \"academic route\" in exams.\n\nHow will you be affected by the latest developments? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Travellers to the UK from abroad could soon be required to prove they have had a negative coronavirus test.\n\nThe Department for Transport (DfT) said the measure is one of several being considered to \"prevent the spread of Covid-19 across the UK border\".\n\n\"Additional measures, including testing before departure, will help keep the importation of new cases to an absolute minimum,\" the department added.\n\nIt is thought that haulage drivers coming through ports would be exempt.\n\nHowever, the DfT said full details are still to be agreed and will be set out in \"due course\".\n\nAny such measure would be a devolved issue, so the the DfT would need to agree a path forward with Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to make it UK-wide.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"With a new strain of the virus on the loose in South Africa and a more infectious variant already widespread in the UK we need to do more.\"\n\nThe measures were being discussed as Boris Johnson imposed the third national lockdown in England to prevent the NHS being overwhelmed.\n\nThe prime minister has faced some calls to strengthen border protections to prevent the arrival of new cases, particularly of new and concerning strains.\n\nHowever, there was no mention of tougher border controls during his address to the nation on Monday, or press conference on Tuesday.\n\nEarlier on Tuesday, Cabinet Office Secretary Michael Gove said announcements will come in the days ahead on \"how we will make sure that our ports and airports are safe\".\n\n\"It is already the case that there are significant restrictions on people coming into this country and of course we're stressing that nobody should be travelling abroad,\" he told ITV.\n\nCurrently, international arrivals from countries that are not exempt under the travel corridor programme have to isolate for 10 days.\n\nBut under the test and release scheme introduced in December, this can be shortened if they have a private test five days after their departure and it comes back negative.\n\nIt is possible lorry drivers could be exempt, but no final decision has been made\n\nDuring the first lockdown, the government argued against introducing border restrictions while the prevalence was so high in the UK, with experts arguing it would do little to bring down infection rates.\n\nA quarantine period, however, was introduced in June after the first peak, when cases were more under control.\n\nEarlier, Home Secretary Priti Patel was accused of leaving the \"nation's doors unlocked\" to new coronavirus variants coming to Britain from overseas.\n\nLabour shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds wrote to Ms Patel calling for an \"urgent review and improvement plan\" as he raised concerns over checks on the arrival of people who are meant to go into quarantine.\n\nHe wrote: \"It is especially worrying given the concerns regarding mutation of the virus that emerged in South Africa, which the health secretary rightly said is 'incredibly worrying'.\n\n\"However, the lack of a robust quarantine system as a result of shortcomings from the government mean that it is virtually impossible to keep a grip on this spread or other variants that may come from overseas, leaving the UK defenceless, and completely exposed, with the nation's doors unlocked to further Covid mutations.\"\n\nThe Home Office defended its \"stringent measures\", and pointed to its move to stop direct flights from South Africa to the UK amid concerns over a new coronavirus variant in high prevalence there.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nEveryone in England must stay at home except for permitted reasons during a new coronavirus lockdown expected to last until mid-February, the PM says.\n\nAll schools and colleges will close to most pupils and switch to remote learning from Tuesday.\n\nBoris Johnson warned the coming weeks would be the \"hardest yet\" amid surging cases and patient numbers.\n\nHe said those in the top four priority groups would be offered a first vaccine dose by the middle of next month.\n\nAll care home residents and their carers, everyone aged 70 and over, all frontline health and social care workers, and the clinically extremely vulnerable will be offered one dose of a vaccine by mid-February.\n\nSchools in Northern Ireland will have an \"extended period of remote learning\", the Stormont Executive said.\n\nSpeaking from Downing Street, Mr Johnson told the public to follow the new lockdown rules immediately, before they become law in the early hours of Wednesday.\n\nAll the new measures in England will then last until at least the middle of February, he said, as a new more infectious variant of the virus spreads across the UK.\n\nThe PM added that he believed the country was entering \"the last phase of the struggle\".\n\nHospitals were under \"more pressure from Covid than at any time since the start of the pandemic\", he said.\n\nAnd he reiterated the slogan used earlier in the pandemic, urging people to immediately \"stay at home, protect the NHS and save lives\".\n\nOn Monday, the UK recorded more than 50,000 new confirmed Covid cases for the seventh day in a row.\n\nA further 58,784 cases and an additional 407 deaths within 28 days of a positive test result were reported, though deaths in Scotland were not recorded.\n\nAs of 08:00 GMT, there were 26,626 Covid-19 patients in hospital in England, according to the latest figures.\n\nThis is a week-on-week increase of 30%, and a new record high.\n\nThose who are clinically extremely vulnerable will be contacted by letter and should now shield once more, Mr Johnson said.\n\nSupport and childcare bubbles will continue under the new measures - and people can meet one person from another household for outdoor exercise.\n\nCommunal worship and life events like funerals and weddings can continue, subject to limits on attendance.\n\nWhile Mr Johnson said end-of-year exams would not take place as normal in the summer, he said alternative arrangements would be announced separately.\n\nThe government has published a 22-page document outlining the new rules in detail.\n\nThe House of Commons has been recalled to allow MPs to vote on the new restrictions on Wednesday.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said his MPs would \"support the package of measures\", saying \"we've all got to pull together now to make this work\".\n\nOnce again it is the threat to the NHS that has forced the hand of ministers.\n\nIn England there has been a 50% rise in the number of patients in hospital with Covid since Christmas day.\n\nTo put that into context, it equates to 18 hospitals being filled.\n\nCurrently around three out of 10 beds are occupied by patients with the disease.\n\nIn some hospitals it is more than six in 10.\n\nBut what is worrying ministers and NHS leaders is that the number is just going to increase.\n\nIn the spring it took nearly three weeks after lockdown for hospital cases to peak.\n\nThe last six days have seen in excess of 50,000 new infections confirmed each day across the UK - a number of these infections are next week's hospital admissions.\n\nIt is why the UK's chief medical officers were warning there was a \"material risk\" of some hospitals being overwhelmed if something did not change.\n\nMr Johnson spoke after UK chief medical officers recommended the Covid threat level be increased to five - its highest level.\n\nLevel five means the NHS may soon be unable to handle a further sustained rise in cases, the medical officers said in a joint statement.\n\nNHS Providers, which represents health service trusts, said hospitals were at a \"critical point\" and that \"immediate and decisive action\" was needed.\n\nAnnouncing tougher measures in Scotland, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said: \"It is no exaggeration to say that I am more concerned about the situation we face now than I have been at any time since March last year.\"\n\nFor pupils who returned for their first day of the new term at primary school on Monday, it's turned out to be an extremely short-lived visit.\n\nBoris Johnson's announcement will see primary, secondary and further education colleges closed for at least the next six weeks, except for vulnerable and key workers' children.\n\nIt's a much bigger shift in policy than had been anticipated, even a few days ago.\n\nEven the return date will depend on the progress in tackling the virus.\n\n\"I hope we can steadily move out of lockdown, reopening schools after the February half term,\" said the prime minister.\n\nKeeping schools open was the government's most definite of red lines, a few weeks ago they were threatening councils that wanted to close them - but it's now been overtaken by the spiking lines on the Covid infection charts.\n\nEven after the chaos of last year's replacement grades, GCSEs and A-levels are being cancelled again - with a replacement system still to be decided. Vocational exams are to continue.\n\nFor parents dreading home schooling, there are plans for it to be better supported this time - with more computer devices available and suggestions that Ofsted inspectors will check what schools are offering.\n\nBut there's no escaping that this will feel like another sudden and chaotic change of direction for schools and parents.\n\nMr Johnson's pledge on vaccinations comes after an 82-year-old retired maintenance manager became the first person in the UK to receive the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 jab\n\nSome 13.9 million people are among the four priority groups who will receive a vaccine dose by about 15 February, vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC's Laura Foster explains the order in which the Covid vaccine will be given\n\nHow will you be affected by the latest developments? What questions do you have? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Lockdowns have worked before, but can we expect the new one to do the same?\n\nIt feels like we are back in March or April last year, when the strict controls on all our lives led to a fairly quick decline in levels of coronavirus.\n\nBut one of the crucial differences this time is the new variant, which is thought to spread between 50 and 70% faster than previous forms of the virus.\n\nExperts warn there are now no guarantees that lockdown will be enough to bring the variant under control.\n\n\"It still would not have been easy, but it would have been a much easier situation if it had not been for the new variant,\" Prof Neil Ferguson, from Imperial College London, told Inside Health.\n\n\"That really pushes the bounds of our ability to control the spread of the virus, even with measures that were previously relatively quite effective.\"\n\nThe coronavirus spreads when we come into contact with each other so moving classrooms online, telling people to stay at home and closing shops breaks many of those opportunities for human contact.\n\nIf we consider the R number - the average number of people each infected person passes the virus on to - it was about 3.0 in the run up to the first lockdown and anything above 1.0 means cases are climbing.\n\nR fell to 0.6 during the first lockdown.\n\nThen every 1,000 infected people passed the virus on to 600 others, who passed it on to 360 others and so on.\n\nBut if the new variant is 50% more transmissible then the R number, in the same lockdown conditions, would be about 0.9.\n\nThen 1,000 infected people would pass the virus onto 900 others, then 810 and so on.\n\nAs you can see this leads to far slower decline.\n\nAnd that assumes lockdown can get R down to 0.9 in areas where the new variant has become the most common form of the virus.\n\nIf, as some studies suggest, the variant is about 70% more transmissible then R may stay above 1.0 and cases may not fall at all.\n\n\"We'd at best flatten the curve, keep numbers at a roughly constant level, and that's frankly why there is so much emphasis on getting vaccine into people's arms as quickly as possible,\" said Prof Ferguson.\n\nIt is hard to lock down even harder as there are some parts of society - hospitals, supermarkets - that need to be kept open.\n\nWhat happens to the number of cases over the coming weeks will be closely monitored. If this lockdown is less effective then we will have to live with it for longer.\n\nThere have been some encouraging signs over the Christmas break, which was a bit like a lockdown due to school holidays and other restrictions.\n\n\"We are in a very difficult situation here, but my initial assessment of the last few days is that the rate is slowing which is good news,\" Prof John Edmunds, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, told the BBC.\n\nHe added: \"It looks likes those restrictions should be sufficient to stop the increase, whether they will be sufficient to bring cases down sufficiently we are yet to see.\"\n\nEventually the vaccine will give people immunity so we do not need the same controls on our lives.\n\nNow more than ever this is a race between the virus and the vaccine.", "I'm standing in what should be an operating theatre - but instead it's been converted into an intensive care unit for Covid-19 patients on ventilators. This is the first time I have seen it full of patients like this.\n\nNormally this theatre would be busy with major cancer surgery, but that's been transferred to another building.\n\nA children's recovery area, still decorated with colourful stickers of cartoons, is once again filled with desperately sick adults. Every day, more wards are being transformed into ICU - ready for the next influx of patients.\n\nWe have been given access to University College Hospital, in central London. This is the same intensive care unit that I visited in April, during the first peak.\n\nIt is one of the busiest hospitals in the capital and intensive care here is expanding across a hospital that is under pressure like never before, from a relentless rise in Covid admissions.\n\nI am struck by the toll the pandemic is taking on staff. It's immense - both physically and mentally. They are shell-shocked. \"My emotions are all over the place. Scared, sad, petrified, worried,\" one ICU nurse tells me.\n\nThey have got three times as many critically ill patients in the hospital as normal. The number of Covid admissions to London hospitals has doubled in just two weeks - they're more stretched now than at the peak last April. Senior staff are worried.", "Bosses of Britain's biggest companies will earn more in the first three days of this week than the average worker's annual wage, research claims.\n\nBy 17:30 GMT on Wednesday, the pay of FTSE 100 chiefs will have overtaken the £31,461 annual median wage for full time workers, the High Pay Centre says.\n\nBosses' pay was flat last year, while average wages generally rose slightly.\n\nThat meant that FTSE chief executives had to work 34 hours to beat median annual pay, not the 33 hours in 2020.\n\nThe High Pay Centre think-tank based its annual calculations on analysis of disclosures in companies' annual reports, combined with government statistics.\n\nHigh Pay Centre director Luke Hildyard said chief executive pay is about 120 times that of the typical UK worker, up significantly from two decades ago.\n\n\"Estimates suggest it was around 50 times at the turn of the millennium or 20 times in the early 1980s,\" he said.\n\n\"Factors such as the increasing role played by the finance industry in the economy, the outsourcing of low-paid work and the decline of trade union membership have widened the gaps between those at the top and everybody else over recent decades.\"\n\nHe said the figures should raise concern about the governance of Britain's biggest companies. \"They should also prompt debate about the effects that high levels of inequality can have on social cohesion, crime, and public health and wellbeing,\" he said.\n\nMedian FTSE 100 chief executive pay was £3.61m in 2019, the last year for which a full set of data is available, the High Pay Centre said.\n\nThe centre said its analysis was based on chief executives' average working day being 12 hours.\n\nHowever, critics said such analysis just fuels the politics of envy without looking at why chief executives matter and the contribution they make.\n\nDaniel Pryor, head of programmes at the Adam Smith Institute, said: \"Good management is more important than ever in a globalised world and small differences in top talent make a big impact on a business' bottom line.\n\n\"That bottom line makes a big difference to workers across the UK, anyone with a private pension, and shareholders.\"\n\nHe pointed out that there is strong, if morbid, evidence about chief executive deaths that shows why the corporate and investment world believe leadership makes a huge difference to the fortunes of their companies.\n\n\"In the past 60 years, unexpected CEO deaths have consistently affected stock price, profitability, investment and sales growth - for better or worse,\" he said, adding: \"Which is why it makes sense for firms to open their wallets to attract the best talent.\"", "Doctors in Scotland have raised concerns about plans to delay the second dose of the Pfizer vaccine.\n\nAll four UK nations will now leave up to 12 weeks between the first and second doses of the jab rather than giving both within 21 days.\n\nDr Lewis Morrison, head of the BMA in Scotland, said members had concerns about the potential impact of leaving such a big gap between the two doses.\n\nBut the UK's chief medical officers have defended the move.\n\nThey said that the first dose of either the Pfizer or the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccines - the only two so far approved for use in the UK - will give people substantial protection against the virus within two to three weeks of being administered.\n\nAnd they said that the second dose was \"likely to be very important for duration of protection, and at an appropriate dose interval may further increase vaccine efficacy\".\n\nThe Joint Committee of Vaccination and Immunisation, which advises UK health departments and recommended the new strategy, said data showed that one dose of the Pfizer vaccine would be \"90% effective\".\n\nBut the World Health Organization (WHO) has said it would not recommend following the UK's decision to delay giving the second Pfizer dose, saying there was no evidence to support the decision.\n\nPfizer has said it has tested the vaccine's efficacy only when the two doses were given up to 21 days apart.\n\nThe Pfizer vaccine was the first to be approved for use in the UK, with more than a million people having already been given the first dose.\n\nThe change to the vaccination strategy has meant health boards have had to change plans and cancel people booked in for their second doses of the Pfizer jabs.\n\nThis includes medics who are among the priority groups for Covid vaccinations.\n\nDr Lewis Morrison, chairman of the British Medical Association's Scottish Council, raised concerns about the logistical impact of changing the vaccination strategy\n\nDr Morrison told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme that some doctors had told him they would have waited for the AstraZeneca jab, which has been proven to work in the longer timetable, if they had known the second Pfizer dose was going to be delayed.\n\nHe said: \"We are concerned because there's clearly disagreement about the effectiveness of the second dose of Pfizer after that period of time.\n\n\"Furthermore I think if you give more people the first dose when you don't know what vaccine supplies are going to be within that 12-week window, that's a worry that has been expressed to me by a lot of doctors.\n\n\"If we give more people the first dose, do we definitely know that the second one is coming?\n\n\"The announcement about this before a four-day NHS holiday weekend left many places with great difficulty in reorganising vaccinations, with a real risk that vaccination numbers might perversely drop because of the organisational issues.\"\n\nOpposition parties want the Scottish government to publish daily figures for how many people have been vaccinated\n\nIt comes as NHS staff were left queueing for hours outside Glasgow Royal Infirmary on Tuesday after an \"scheduling error\" meant vaccination staff did not turn up.\n\nNHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde has apologised to those affected and said it was rearranging the appointments.\n\nThe Scottish government has said it aims to have given at least one vaccine dose to everyone over the age of 50 and younger people with underlying health conditions by the start of May.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said on Tuesday that the timetable could be accelerated if there were sufficient supplies of the jab.\n\nThe Scottish government is being pressured to provide daily figures on the number of people being vaccinated, as the UK government has already pledged to do.\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross said: \"There are now no excuses left for the SNP government to dodge publishing daily vaccination rates alongside the daily infection numbers as soon as possible.\n\n\"The SNP's evasion to try and avoid scrutiny is nothing new but on something so important, the Scottish public must have the same information as will be provided across the UK.\"\n\nHis call was echoed by Scottish Labour health spokeswoman Monica Lennon, who added: \"It is simply unacceptable that scores of NHS staff were left queueing outside in the cold for hours, and well into the evening.\n\n\"It's time for Health Secretary Jeane Freeman to get to grips with the vaccination programme, publish daily figures on the number of vaccinations available and administered, and ensure that our NHS staff do not pay the price of a bungled rollout.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The prime minister says schools will be the first places to reopen\n\nThe end of England's lockdown will not happen with a \"big bang\" but will instead be a \"gradual unwrapping\", Boris Johnson has told MPs.\n\nThe prime minister made the comments in the Commons ahead of a retrospective vote later on the lockdown measures.\n\nHe said the legislation runs until 31 March to allow a \"controlled\" easing of restrictions back into local tiers.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the government's decisions \"have led us to the position we're now in\".\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said there were now 30,074 patients with coronavirus in UK hospitals.\n\nAll of the UK is now under strict virus curbs, with Wales, Northern Ireland and most of Scotland also in lockdown.\n\nIt came as the UK reported a further 1,041 people have died with coronavirus, the highest daily death toll since April.\n\nIn a statement to the Commons, Mr Johnson said the new variant had \"led to more cases than we've seen ever before\" and that this had left the government with \"no choice but to return to national lockdown\".\n\nHe said the legislation ran until the end of March \"not because we expect the full national lockdown to continue until then, but to allow a steady, controlled and evidence-led move down through the tiers on a regional basis\".\n\nHe said this would happen \"brick-by-brick... without risking the hard-won gains that protections have given us\".\n\nBut in response to MPs' questions, he said there was a \"cautious presumption\" that restrictions could start being eased from mid-February.\n\n\"And as was the case last spring, our emergence from the lockdown cocoon will be not a big bang but a gradual unwrapping,\" he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We need a plan\", Keir Starmer told MPs while declaring Labour would support new lockdown\n\nUnder the measures, which came into force legally on Wednesday, people in England will only be able to go out for essential reasons, for exercise outdoors only once a day, and outdoor sports venues must close.\n\nPolice have the powers to enforce the new restrictions with a £200 fine for each breach, doubling on every offence up to a maximum of £6,400 - and a £10,000 penalty for mass gatherings.\n\nOfficers in London arrested at least a dozen people in Parliament Square after a protest against the new measures on Wednesday.\n\nThe need to debate and vote on the restrictions means the Commons has been recalled from its Christmas break for the second time - the first being for the post-Brexit trade deal with the EU.\n\nWith Sir Keir saying Labour will support the motion, the measures are expected to pass with ease.\n\nThe restrictions will be kept under \"continuous review\", Mr Johnson added, with a statutory requirement to reconsider them every two weeks.\n\nAddressing the closure of schools, the PM said \"we did everything in our power to keep them open as long as possible\" and that was why schools were the \"very last thing to close\".\n\nThey would be the \"very first thing to reopen\" after lockdown - that could be after the February half term - but \"we must be very cautious\" about the timetable, he said.\n\nMeanwhile, Education Secretary Gavin Williamson told the Commons that GCSEs, A-level and AS-level exams would be cancelled this year in England, replaced by a form of teacher-assessed grades.\n\n\"This year, we're going to put our trust in teachers, rather than algorithms,\" he said, referencing controversy over the way exam grades were awarded to some students last year.\n\nAll national curriculum tests for primary school children, often known as Sats, are now cancelled, Mr Williamson confirmed.\n\nHe said every school will be expected to provide between three and five hours of virtual teaching each day and that 750,000 laptop and tablet devices will have been distributed by the end of next week.\n\nThe prime minister wasted no time in emphasising the \"fundamental difference\" between this and previous lockdowns.\n\nTo keep opposition from his own MPs at bay he needs to demonstrate that the government's aim to vaccinate the most at-risk groups by mid-February is viable.\n\nHe is also under pressure to give a sense of how quickly restrictions might be lifted after that.\n\nThe course of the pandemic has changed swiftly at times, though, and may do so again, so it's unlikely we'll get any firm new timelines from Boris Johnson today.\n\nMost Conservative backbenchers seem resigned to the need for this new national lockdown and agree the prime minister had \"no choice\" but to act.\n\nBut MPs on all sides are impatient to hear how soon things may start returning to something like life as normal at last.\n\nMr Johnson said unlike in March last year, during the first lockdown, vaccines offered \"the means of our escape\".\n\nBut he said there was now a race to vaccinate vulnerable people quickly, with the government setting a target of immunising the four most vulnerable groups - some 13 million people - by mid-February.\n\n\"After the marathon of last year, we are indeed now in a sprint, a race to vaccinate the vulnerable faster than the virus can reach them,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\n\"Every needle in every arm makes a difference.\"\n\nEarlier, Covid vaccine deployment minister Nadhim Zahawi said he was \"confident\" the government would meet its \"ambitious\" target, adding that community pharmacies would be brought in to assist the vaccination programme.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that new daily vaccination figures for the UK - which will be released for the first time on Monday - will show there has been a \"significant increase\" in the number of people who have received the jab.\n\nOn Tuesday, Mr Johnson said 1.3 million people in the UK had been vaccinated so far.\n\nMr Zahawi also said nursery schools presented \"very little risk\", are Covid-safe and he defended the decision to keep them open during England's lockdown.\n\nResponding to the prime minister's statement, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said his party will support the new restrictions and urged people to comply with them.\n\n\"The virus is out of control, over a million people in England now have Covid, the number of hospital admissions is rising, tragically so are the numbers of people dying,\" he said.\n\n\"It's only the early days of January and the NHS is under huge strain. In those circumstances, tougher restrictions are necessary.\"\n\nBut he added \"this is not just bad luck, it's not inevitable, it follows a pattern\" of the government being slow to respond.\n\n\"These are the decisions that have led us to the position we're now in - and the vaccine is now the only way out and we must all support the national effort to get it rolled out as quickly as possible.\"\n\nHow have you been affected by Covid? What will lockdown mean for you? Please get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police raided an illegal rave in a railway arch attended by 300 people.\n\nPolice have issued more than £15,000 in fines after 300 people attended an illegal rave in a railway arch.\n\nOfficers raided an unlicensed music event in Nursery Road, Hackney, at 01.30 GMT on Sunday.\n\nMany people fled the scene, while organisers padlocked the doors from the inside to stop officers getting in, police said.\n\nNo arrests were reported, but 78 fines of up to £200 for breaching lockdown restrictions were issued.\n\nA dog unit and helicopter were deployed to the scene, with police saying they made numerous attempts to contact the organisers.\n\nOrganisers padlocked the door from the inside to prevent officers getting in, police said\n\nCh Supt Roy Smith said: \"This was a serious and blatant breach of the public health regulations and the law.\n\n\"Officers were forced, yet again, to put their own health at risk to deal with a large group of incredibly selfish people who were tightly packed together in a confined space - providing an ideal opportunity for this deadly virus to spread.\n\n\"Not just organisers, but all those present at such illegal parties can expect to be issued a fine.\"\n\nOfficers surrounded the property as dozens of guests scaled fences at the rear of the arch to escape\n\nThere is an England-wide lockdown in place which prevents any social mixing between households.\n\nUnder these restrictions people are asked to only leave home for limited reasons such as shopping, going to work, seeking medical assistance or avoiding domestic abuse.\n\nThe Met Police has broken up several large gatherings in London over the last month including a 150-person wedding at a north London school.\n\nTwo officers were injured as police broke up a party involving about 200 people in Kensington on 17 January.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Former Brexit Party MEP Robert Rowland was described as a larger than life character\n\nA former Brexit Party MEP has died in a diving accident near his home in the Bahamas.\n\nRobert Rowland, 54, represented the south east of England at the European Parliament from July 2019 until January 2020.\n\nNigel Farage paid tribute to the \"larger than life character\" and \"enthusiastic\" Brexit supporter.\n\nHe announced the death of his former colleague in a statement on Sunday.\n\nThe Royal Bahamas Police Force said it had \"received reports of a drowning incident\" on Saturday and was \"conducting inquires\".\n\nMr Farage said: \"It is with great sadness that I have to announce the death of Robert Rowland, after a diving accident near his home in the Bahamas.\n\n\"Following a successful career in the City, Robert was an enthusiastic Brexit Party MEP and larger than life character.\"\n\nHe said he wished to extend his \"sincerest condolences\" to Mr Rowland's family, including his wife and four children.\n\nFormer Brexit Party MEP David Bull said he was \"beyond devastated,\" adding: \"Robert was a wonderful friend and colleague.\"\n• None Farage's Brexit Party officially changes its name\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon: 'It's right that I am properly scrutinised'\n\nScotland's first minister has insisted she did not mislead parliament about when she learned harassment allegations had been made against her predecessor Alex Salmond.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said \"false conspiracy theories were being spun\" about her involvement by Mr Salmond's supporters.\n\nA Holyrood inquiry into how the government handled the allegations against Mr Salmond is under way.\n\nShe said she expects to give evidence to the inquiry in the coming weeks.\n\nThe BBC's Andrew Marr asked Ms Sturgeon how she responded to Mr Salmond saying that parliament had been repeatedly misled, and that evidence she gave to the inquiry was \"simply\" and \"manifestly untrue\".\n\nMs Sturgeon replied that she would \"refute that vigorously\".\n\nHer interview came after the inquiry announced it would use legal powers to seek documents from the Crown Office.\n\nIn response to Ms Sturgeon's interview, a spokeswoman for Mr Salmond said: \"The evidence, if published, will speak for itself\".\n\nA committee of MSPs is investigating the government's handling of two harassment claims against the former first minister, after he successfully challenged the complaints process in court.\n\nShe said it was right that she was scrutinised and that she had hoped to appear before the committee on Tuesday but that this had been delayed by \"a couple of weeks\".\n\nAsked if Alex Salmond was \"spinning false conspiracy theories\", Nicola Sturgeon said: \"There are false conspiracy theories being spun about this... by Alex Salmond, by people around him - you can draw your own conclusions around that.\"\n\nShe added: \"What I certainly reflect on is that at times I appear to be simultaneously accused of colluding with Mr Salmond to somehow cover up accusations of sexual harassment on the one hand.\n\n\"And then on the other hand, being part of some dastardly conspiracy to bring him down.\n\n\"Neither of those are true.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon added: \"I didn't collude with Alex Salmond and I didn't conspire against him.\"\n\nThe first minister reiterated that Mr Salmond had told her about the allegations during a meeting at her home on 2 April 2018.\n\nHowever, Mr Salmond has insisted that she already knew about the allegations as she had been told about them four days earlier by one of his aides.\n\nNicola Sturgeon has previously acknowledge that she initially \"forgot\" about this meeting.\n\nIn evidence to the Holyrood inquiry which was published in October, she said: \"From what I recall, the discussion [with Mr Salmond's aide] covered the fact that Alex Salmond wanted to see me urgently about a serious matter, and I think it did cover the suggestion that the matter might relate to allegations of a sexual nature.\"\n\nSpeaking to The Andrew Marr Show, she added: \"I, at the time I became aware of all of this, just tried hard not to interfere with what was going on and not to do anything that would see these swept aside rather than properly investigated.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon conceded that the Scottish government had made mistakes in how it handled the allegations.\n\n\"What I will never do is apologise for doing everything I could to make sure that complaints about sexual harassment were investigated, and not simply swept under the carpet because of the seniority and powerful position of the person who was subject to them,\" she added.\n\nLast March, Mr Salmond was cleared of 13 charges of sexual assault at the High Court in Edinburgh.\n\nA spokeswoman for Mr Salmond said: \"The two inquiries under way are into why Nicola Sturgeon's government acted unlawfully.\n\n\"Alex has submitted his evidence as requested and the parliamentary committee is now challenging the Crown Office to produce some of the text messages which they believe are being suppressed.\n\n\"The evidence, if published, will speak for itself\"", "Asos says it is in \"exclusive\" talks to buy Topshop, Topman, Miss Selfridge and HIIT brands out of administration.\n\nBut the online retailer said it only wanted the brands, not their shops, suggesting any deal would cost jobs.\n\nThe current owner of the brands, Sir Philip Green's Arcadia Group, fell into administration last November putting 13,000 jobs at risk.\n\nAsos said it was \"a compelling opportunity\" to buy \"strong brands that resonate well with its customer base\".\n\n\"However, at this stage, there can be no certainty of a transaction and Asos will keep shareholders updated as appropriate,\" it added.\n\nLast week, a consortium including fashion chain Next dropped its bid to buy Topshop and Topman because it could not meet the price tag.\n\nOthers interested in some or all of Arcadia - which also owns Dorothy Perkins and Burton - include Mike Ashley's Frasers Group, a consortium including JD Sports, and the online retailer Boohoo.\n\nIn addition, the Issa brothers, who recently bought supermarket chain Asda, and Chinese fast fashion giant Shein are said to have made bids for Topshop.\n\nAsos has seen strong sales in the pandemic and is already one of the biggest wholesalers for Topshop, Topman, Burton and Miss Selfridge.\n\nAdministrators from Deloitte requested that final bids be submitted last Monday, with the auction expected to conclude at the end of January.\n\nSir Philip Green is under pressure to use his own money to plug an estimated £350m hole in Arcadia's pension fund, which has about 10,000 members.\n\nLast year the retail tycoon had an estimated fortune of £930m, according to the Sunday Times Rich List.\n\nArcadia employed about 13,000 people and had 444 shops at the time of its collapse.", "27 of the 29 miners that died in tragedy\n\nThe Pike River mining disaster was a tragedy that shocked the world. Twenty-nine men who were in the New Zealand coal mine died when it collapsed in a series of explosions. The BBC's Phil Mercer covered the accident 10 years ago and has been talking to families of victims still coming to terms with their loss.\n\nThe day after his 17th birthday, Joseph Ray Dunbar began his first shift underground at the Pike River coal mine in New Zealand.\n\nHe was a \"strong-minded boy\" who wanted to carve his own path in life, but on that day in November 2010 he became the youngest victim of a mining disaster that killed 29 men.\n\nTheir bodies have never been recovered, and a decade later the teenager's father Dean is still looking for answers.\n\n\"In a modern society you don't wipe out 29 men and just walk away,\" he told the BBC. \"Joseph's legacy is righting the wrongs of the past whether it be by government agencies, police or politicians.\"\n\nJoseph Dunbar was the youngest among the victims\n\nIn 2012, a Royal Commission found the miners and contractors were exposed to \"unacceptable risk\" and that \"there were numerous warnings of a potential catastrophe at Pike River,\" but there have been no prosecutions.\n\nThe inquiry concluded the men \"died immediately, or shortly afterwards\" from a methane gas blast or the \"toxic atmosphere\". Two workers did manage to escape the blast and survived.\n\nNews of an accident at the mine in the Paparoa Ranges began to emerge in the middle of the afternoon on Friday, 19 November, 2010.\n\nFamily members soon gathered, and in the hours and days that followed, there was hope that the men might still be alive, although the authorities said a rescue mission was too dangerous. A nation prayed for another mining miracle.\n\nOn the right, the tags of the 29 miners who never made it out\n\nA few months earlier, 33 miners in Chile's Atacama Desert had been pulled out alive after being trapped underground for 69 days.\n\n\"That was totally on my mind the whole time,\" explained Anna Osborne, whose husband, Milton, died at Pike River.\n\n\"I saw how successfully those Chilean miners were rescued and I thought if they can all come out alive, it can happen to us. But little did I know that that mine (in Chile) wasn't a gassy one.\"\n\nFor five long days the families waited. As a reporter sent to cover the story at the time, it was excruciating for me to watch their anguish and frustration grow.\n\nThere would be no rescue, and on 24 November another explosion ripped through the mine, and all hope was gone.\n\nFire at the entrance to the mine\n\nMs Osborne told the BBC that she is \"still fighting to get the truth and still wondering why our guys were allowed underground when the mine was so volatile (and) was a ticking time bomb.\"\n\nNot all of the families want the men's remains to be recovered, but she said it would be a great comfort to bring her husband home.\n\n\"He was working in the south (part of the mine), which was flooded. My husband couldn't swim, so he hated the water and I close my eyes every night and visualise him floating in this water that he hated so much and I just thought I can't have him down there. If we can, I would like as many men to be retrieved,\" she added.\n\nI close my eyes every night and visualise him floating in this water\n\nThe Pike River Recovery Agency is a government department that has re-entered the so-called drift, a 2.3km (1.4 miles) tunnel that connects the entrance of the mine to the working areas and coal seams.\n\nIt is looking for clues that might help explain the explosions and to \"help prevent future mining tragedies.\" Re-entering the mine was delayed by safety concerns.\n\nThe end of the drift is blocked by a huge mass of fallen rock. This roof collapse was caused by the ignition of methane, and there are no plans for the agency to move further into the mine where most, if not all, of the bodies remain.\n\nRecovery teams only made it into an initial tunnel but not the mine proper\n\n\"The Agency's mandate from the government did not include recovering beyond the drift access tunnel,\" said a PRRA spokesperson. \"It remains less likely that we will recover human remains.\"\n\n\"That rockfall is impenetrable,\" said Tony Kokshoorn, the former mayor of the local Grey District. \"The 29 miners are in the coal mine proper. At least they are all together and that is their final resting place.\"\n\n\"Many of the families want them to be together in there because it would have been pretty tough on a lot of families if some had come out and the others couldn't come out.\"\n\nThe police inquiry into the disaster is continuing, with a spokesperson saying they \"remain committed to a full and thorough investigation into events\" and will everything they can to \"provide answers\".\n\nThe grief was felt far beyond New Zealand's rugged West Coast by bereaved families in Australia, Scotland and South Africa.\n\nThe mine will almost certainly never reopen, but Bernie Monk, whose 23-year old son Michael died in the disaster, wants one, final push to bring the men out.\n\n\"The times that I went up to the mine portal with anniversaries, I swore and declared and I looked down that tunnel, and I said to them, 'we're coming to get you guys out'. It was an emotional day for me when I first went down into the mine,\" he said.\n\n\"We're are only 50 to 100 metres away from them. I think we've got a right to go and get those men,\" Mr Monk told the BBC.\n\nOut of tragedy comes pain, anger and calls for accountability and change. It is 10 years since Anna Osborne's husband, affectionately known as Milt, never came home, and she continues to agitate for stronger health and safety laws, and for employers to be prosecuted when things go wrong.\n\n\"We have had 700 people lose their lives in workplace accidents since Pike River. That is like a Pike River every five months in New Zealand,\" she said.\n\nBut above all else there is a sadness that may never fade.\n\n\"I love him so much. It still hurts. It is still very, very raw.\"", "National Museum of the Royal New Zealand Navy Philip Gannaway (left) on the SS Demosthenes in 1916, when it was being used as a troop ship\n\nAn appeal has been made to trace the family of a sailor from New Zealand buried more than a century ago on an island off Anglesey.\n\nLt Philip Gannaway had recently married his wife Muriel when he enlisted during World War One.\n\nHe joined the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, serving on motor launches on the Menai Strait.\n\nBut he died aged 32 during the Spanish flu pandemic in 1918, and is buried on Church Island in the strait.\n\nLocal historian Bridget Geoghegan says she has already had responses following a story about Lt Gannaway on the New Zealand news website Stuff.\n\nHowever, she is still waiting to hear from his direct relatives.\n\n\"I have met family members of some people I have researched, and that is always a delight - a bonus,\" she said.\n\nThe grave notes Lt Gannaway's military service with the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve\n\nLt Gannaway's funeral took place on 9 November 1918 with full naval honours, just two days before the armistice that brought fighting to an end.\n\nNewspaper reports found by Ms Geoghegan said more than 200 men and officers joined the procession, with shipyard work pausing as a mark of respect.\n\n\"I found he had married his sweetheart not long before volunteering and coming over to UK,\" she said.\n\n\"It seemed like a bitter end to a love story.\"\n\nHe is buried at St Tysilio's on Church Island, which is linked to the rest of Anglesey by a short causeway.\n\nThe Australian and New Zealander are both remembered on the war memorial\n\nBut Lt Gannaway is not the only man on the island buried so far from home.\n\nRemembered alongside him on the war memorial is William Connington, a 23-year-old corporal in the Australian Flying Corps who died with flu in Buckinghamshire.\n\n\"Connington had family in the area - his father must have emigrated to Australia,\" Ms Geoghegan said.\n\n\"His aunt and cousin lived in Menai Bridge. I think it likely that he had been up to stay with the family and when he died his aunt brought him back to Menai Bridge from Aylesbury so that he would be buried amongst friends.\"\n\nSt Tysilio's sits on Church Island in the Menai Strait\n\nFor several years Ms Geoghegan has joined others in researching and commemorating the people named on local war memorials and graves.\n\nBefore the latest lockdown restrictions, she created a walk for Church Island with the stories behind the names.\n\n\"I devised a walk round St Tysilio to include the graves of those lost and the family commemorations for their loved-ones buried elsewhere or lost at sea - the pain is almost palpable,\" she said.\n\nThe inscription from Lt Gannaway's parents to their \"beloved son\" reads simply: \"In peace he lived, in peace he died\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Supporters of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny protest against his arrest across Russia\n\nRussian police have detained more than 3,000 people in a crackdown on protests in support of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny, monitors say.\n\nTens of thousands of people defied a heavy police presence to join some of the largest rallies against President Vladimir Putin in years.\n\nIn Moscow, riot police were seen beating and dragging away protesters.\n\nMr Navalny, President Putin's most high-profile critic, called for protests after his arrest last Sunday.\n\nHe was detained after he flew back to Moscow from Berlin, where he had been recovering from a near-fatal nerve agent attack in Russia last August.\n\nOn his return, he was immediately taken into custody and found guilty of violating parole conditions. He says it is a trumped-up case designed to silence him.\n\nOVD Info, an independent NGO that monitors rallies, said about 3,100 people had been detained, more than 1,200 of them in Moscow alone. The Kremlin has not commented.\n\nThe unauthorised demonstrations were held in about 100 cities and towns from Russia's Far East and Siberia to Moscow and St Petersburg. Protesters ranged from teenage students to elderly people who demanded Mr Navalny's release.\n\nAt least 40,000 people joined a rally in central Moscow, Reuters news agency estimated. But Russia's interior ministry put the number of protesters at 4,000.\n\nObservers say the scale of the demonstrations across the country was unprecedented while the protest in the capital was the largest in almost a decade.\n\nRiot police used batons against protesters in Moscow\n\nIn the city's Pushkin square, some protesters chanted \"Freedom to Navalny\" and \"Putin go away!\" One woman told the BBC she had decided to join the demonstration because \"Russia has been turned into a prison camp\".\n\nSergei Radchenko, a 53-year-old protester in Moscow, told Reuters: \"I'm tired of being afraid. I haven't just turned up for myself and Navalny, but for my son because there is no future in this country.\"\n\nLyubov Sobol, a prominent aide of Mr Navalny who had already been fined for urging Russians to join the protests, tweeted a video of police roughly pulling her away from an interview with reporters.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Соболь Любовь This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Navalny's wife, Yulia, was briefly held at the rally. She posted an image on her Instagram account with the caption: \"Apologies for the poor quality. Very bad light in the police van.\"\n\nSome protesters marched on the high-security prison where Mr Navalny is being held, and many were arrested.\n\nMeanwhile, one independent news source, Sota, said at least 3,000 people had joined a demonstration in the city of Vladivostok, but local authorities there put the figure at 500.\n\nAFP footage showed riot police running into a crowd, and beating some of the protesters with batons.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police used batons to break up protests in Vladivostok\n\nIn the Siberian city of Yakutsk, attendees at a small protest saw temperatures dip as low as -50C (-58F).\n\nPrior to the rallies, Russian authorities had promised a tough crackdown. Several of Mr Navalny's close aides, including his spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh, were arrested earlier in the week.\n\nHis supporters called for more protests next weekend.\n\nThere were reports of disruption to mobile phone and internet coverage on Saturday, though it is not known if this was related to the protests.\n\nThe social media app TikTok had been flooded with videos promoting the demonstrations and sharing viral messages about Mr Navalny.\n\nIn response, Russia's official media watchdog, Roskomnadzor, demanded that TikTok take down any information \"encouraging minors to act illegally\", threatening large fines. The education ministry had told parents not to allow their children to attend any demonstrations.\n\nProtesters ignored extreme cold and threats of arrest in Moscow and other cities and towns\n\nIn a push to gain support ahead of the protests, Mr Navalny's team released a video about a luxury Black Sea resort that they allege belongs to President Putin - an accusation denied by the Kremlin. The video has been watched by more than 65 million people.\n\nThe UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, condemned the \"use of violence against peaceful protesters and journalists\" on Saturday, calling on the authorities to release those detained during peaceful demonstrations.\n\nThe US state department condemned what it called \"harsh tactics\" used against protesters and journalists, saying: \"We call on Russian authorities to release all those detained for exercising their universal rights and for the immediate and unconditional release of Aleksey Navalny\".\n\nThe EU foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, said the bloc's foreign ministers would discuss the Russian crackdown on Monday. \"I deplore widespread detentions, disproportionate use of force, cutting down internet and phone connections.\"", "British employers made plans to cut 795,000 jobs last year, a record number, as Covid lockdowns took their toll on the economy.\n\nMore than 10,000 firms planned job cuts, however the pace of planned cuts slowed at the end of the year.\n\nWithout the government's furlough scheme, designed to protect jobs, the numbers might have been higher still.\n\nThe figures were obtained in response to a BBC Freedom of Information request to the Insolvency Service.\n\nEmployers must notify the Insolvency Service when they plan to cut 20 or more jobs, giving an earlier indication of changes in the labour market than waiting for official joblessness statistics.\n\nLarge parts of the British economy were brought to a standstill for weeks on end during 2020 by the measures imposed to contain Covid-19, and many employers were forced to cut staff as a result.\n\nThe number of job cuts proposed through the year was well above the 530,000 seen the last time the UK was in recession, in 2010, and higher than any year in the records which go back to 2006.\n\nHowever, in recent months the pace of layoffs has slowed, even though the new Covid variant has seen surging case numbers and new lockdowns imposed across the UK.\n\nLast month employers notified government of plans to cut 23,100 job cuts, which is the lowest monthly figure for 2020, though still a third higher than December 2019.\n\nThe decision to extend the furlough scheme, where government pays most of a worker's wages if their employer can't, will have enabled more firms to keep their staff, believes Tony Wilson, Director of the Institute for Employment Studies.\n\n\"The question now though is where redundancy figures go next,\" he says.\n\n\"If they start to stabilise around these levels, then [job cuts] would be at least one third higher than what we've seen over most of the last decade, and it's possible that a combination of this lockdown and then furlough unwinding from May could see numbers creeping up.\"\n\nDespite that, Mr Wilson sees the situation as \"pretty positive\".\n\nEmployers planning to cut 20 or more staff have to notify the Insolvency Service of their plans at the start of the process.\n\nThese notifications give an earlier indication of the state of the labour market than data published by the Office for National Statistics, which appear with a time lag of a few months.\n\nInsolvency Service figures showed record levels in redundancies in June and July, which was confirmed when the ONS published its own figures three months later.\n\nThe latest figures, for the period from August to October, saw a new record of 370,000 redundancies across the UK.\n\nAs redundancy processes covering fewer than 20 workers aren't included, the total number of job cuts planned will be higher than the Insolvency Service totals.\n\nBut individual firms often make fewer cuts than the number they first propose to government.\n\nEmployers in Northern Ireland file HR1 forms with the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency and they are not included in these figures.", "Boohoo is set to buy the Debenhams brand and website, the BBC understands.\n\nHowever, the fast fashion retailer will not be taking on any of the company's remaining 118 High Street stores or its workforce.\n\nThe announcement could come as early as Monday morning.\n\nThe 242-year-old chain is already in the process of closing down, after administrators failed to secure a rescue deal for the business, with the likely loss of 12,000 jobs.\n\nA closing down sale at 124 Debenhams stores began in December, as administrators continued to seek offers for all, or parts of the business.\n\nIn the last week or so, the company announced that six shops would not reopen after lockdown, including its flagship department store on London's Oxford Street.\n\nBoohoo has already bought a number of High Street brands out of administration. It snapped up Oasis, Coast and Karen Millen, but not the associated stores.\n\nDebenhams has struggled for years with falling profits and rising debts, as more shopping has moved online. It called in administrators twice in two years, most recently in April.\n\nMike Ashley has bought other struggling businesses including House of Fraser and Evans Cycles\n\nHowever, its position became untenable during the coronavirus pandemic as non-essential retailers were forced to close for prolonged periods.\n\nThe firm had already trimmed its store portfolio and cut about 6,500 jobs since May, as it struggled to stay afloat.\n\nBusinessman Mike Ashley, who founded Sports Direct and also owns House of Fraser, had already made an offer for Debenhams after it was initially put up for sale in April.\n\nHowever the takeover offer, thought to be in the region of £125m, was rejected as being too low, leaving JD Sports as the last remaining bidder.\n\nMr Ashley had previously built up a 29% stake in the chain, but saw his £150m holding wiped out in 2019, when the company fell into administration and then ended up in the hands of its lenders - a consortium led by hedge fund Silverpoint.\n\nIn early December, the Frasers Group confirmed that it was working on a possible last minute rescue of Debenhams.\n\nThe announcement came five days after staff were informed and liquidators moved in to Debenhams' stores to start clearing stock, after a potential rescue deal with JD Sports fell through.\n\nBut Frasers said there was \"no certainty\" it could save the chain.\n\nOne of the biggest issues, it said, was the collapse into administration last week of another High Street giant, Arcadia, which is the biggest concession holder in Debenhams department stores.", "The UK has identified 77 cases of the coronavirus variant first detected in South Africa, the health secretary has said.\n\nCases are linked to travellers arriving in the UK, rather than community transmission, Matt Hancock added.\n\nHe told the BBC's Andrew Marr cases were under \"very close\" observation and enhanced contact tracing was under way.\n\nMinisters are due to meet on Monday to consider imposing tougher restrictions on people arriving from abroad.\n\nScientists have said there is a chance the South African variant may harm the effectiveness of current vaccines.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Hancock said that \"three quarters of all the 80-year-olds in the country and a similar number of care homes\" have received their first doses of the vaccine.\n\nBoth the Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines require two doses, and figures so far reflect those given the first dose.\n\nMr Hancock said that it was \"far too early to say\" what proportion of the population needed to be vaccinated before lockdown restrictions could be eased.\n\nAll viruses, including the one that causes Covid-19, mutate, and variants have been first located in the UK, South Africa and Brazil.\n\nThe South Africa variant has been found in at least 20 other countries, including the UK.\n\nMr Hancock said that all the South Africa variant cases in the UK were linked to travel.\n\n\"That's why we have got such stringent border measures in place against movement from South Africa,\" he added.\n\nThe UK closed all travel corridors last week until at least 15 February, with almost all travellers arriving in the country now required to show proof of a negative Covid-19 test to be allowed entry.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has not ruled out bringing in tougher measures at UK borders, telling a Downing Street news conference on Friday: \"We don't want to put that (efforts to control Covid) at risk by having a new variant come back in.\"\n\nMinisters are set to discuss whether to tighten border restrictions further, including the possibility of hotel quarantines for travellers.\n\nMr Hancock said: \"We have got to be cautious at the borders.\"\n\nAsked for a date on when lockdown restrictions might end, Mr Hancock said it was \"one of the many things that we don't yet know the answer to\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock on easing restrictions: \"We don't know the answer\"\n\nGovernment data on 14 January showed there were 35 confirmed cases of the South Africa variant identified in the UK, and a further 12 \"probable\" cases.\n\nMr Hancock said nine cases of the Brazil variant had been found in the UK, adding \"we are monitoring each and every one very closely\".\n\nShadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show that Labour had been \"pushing the government to take tougher measures at the border since last spring\".\n\nShe said: \"We would fully expect the government to bring in tougher quarantine measures, we would expect them to roll out a proper testing strategy and we would expect them as well to start checking up on the people who are quarantining.\n\n\"Only three out of every hundred people who are asked to quarantine when they arrive into the UK actually face any checks at all - that's just simply not sufficient.\"\n\nOn Friday, Mr Johnson said there was \"some evidence\" the UK variant may be associated with \"a higher degree of mortality\".\n\nThe UK government's chief scientific officer, Sir Patrick Vallance, said there was \"a lot of uncertainty around these numbers\" but that early evidence suggested the variant could be about 30% more deadly.\n\nThe PM said on Friday that there was evidence that both the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine and Oxford-AstraZeneca jab were effective against the variant first detected in the UK.\n\nSir Patrick has warned that the variants in South Africa and Brazil might \"have certain features which means they might be less susceptible to vaccines\".\n\nBut he said \"there is no evidence\" that the two variants have transmission advantages over those already in the UK and so having cases here doesn't mean \"they will take off\".\n\nMeanwhile, England's deputy chief medical officer warned that people who have received a Covid-19 vaccine could still pass the virus on to others and should continue following lockdown rules.\n\nWriting in the Sunday Telegraph, Prof Jonathan Van-Tam stressed that scientists \"do not yet know the impact of the vaccine on transmission\".\n\nHe said vaccines offer \"hope\" but infection rates must come down quickly.\n\nIt's a key question but the fact is that no one can be sure.\n\nThat's because the trials of the vaccines explored the safety of the drugs and how well they prevent people from becoming ill - with good results for both.\n\nBut they did not investigate whether vaccination also stops infection and therefore whether people who've been immunised can still spread the virus to others.\n\nIf a vaccinated person did become infected, they probably wouldn't realise because they wouldn't have any symptoms. That's why health officials and ministers are so concerned.\n\nIt's possible that the antibodies boosted by the vaccine suppress the effects of the virus but don't eliminate it from the upper airway.\n\nMany scientists are cautiously hopeful that in this scenario, the amount of virus would be reduced but they're waiting for the results of studies under way now.\n\nAnd until there's an answer, it's difficult to calculate how and when it's safe to ease restrictions and allow people to mix again.\n\nA further 610 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test were reported in the UK on Sunday - down from 671 deaths last Sunday - in addition to 30,004 new infections.\n\nThe number of positive cases has fallen for the fourth day in a row and is the lowest figure since before Christmas.\n\nThe death figures tend to be lower on a Sunday and Monday because of weekend lags in reporting of the data.\n\nMeanwhile, more than six million people have had their first dose of a Covid vaccine - with the figure now standing at 6,353,321.\n\nNadhim Zahawi, the minister responsible for the vaccine rollout, said on Twitter that 6,353,321 of the \"most vulnerable and frontline heroes\" had received a first dose of the vaccine, but there was still \"much more to do\".\n\nThere were 4,076 Covid patients in mechanical ventilation beds in UK hospitals as of Friday, according to government data.\n\nThat is higher than during the first wave, when the peak was 3,301 on 12 April.", "Simon Spurrell (C) from the Cheshire Cheese Company says he was advised to set up an EU hub\n\nUK firms that export to the EU say they are being encouraged by the government to set up subsidiaries in the bloc to avoid disruption under new trade rules.\n\nFirms have been hit by extra charges, taxes and paperwork, leading some to stop exporting to the EU altogether.\n\nBut several say they have been told that setting up hubs in Europe would minimise the disruption, even if it means moving investment out of the UK.\n\nThe Department for International Trade said it was \"not government policy\".\n\n\"The Cabinet Office have issued clear guidance, available at www.gov.uk/transition, and we encourage all businesses to follow that guidance.\"\n\nThe Cheshire Cheese Company said it had been advised by an official to set up in the EU after it was forced to stop its exports to the bloc due to trade rules that came in on 1 January.\n\nThe firm, which sold £180,000 of cheese to the EU last year, found that every £25-30 gift box of cheese it sends to consumers on the Continent now needs a veterinary-approved health certificate costing £180.\n\n\"I spoke to someone at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs for advice. They told me setting up a fulfilment centre in the EU where we could pack the boxes was my only solution,\" co-founder Simon Spurrell told the BBC.\n\nThe firm, which had been optimistic about Brexit, is now looking at setting up a hub in France where it would \"test the water\".\n\nBut it has also scrapped plans to build a new £1m warehouse in Macclesfield employing 20-30 people.\n\n\"Instead we might end up employing French workers and paying tax to the EU,\" Mr Spurrell said.\n\n\"I left the EU as a UK citizen but now they are suggesting I rejoin my company to the EU, so what was Brexit for?\"\n\nThe issue, he said, was that the under the post-Brexit trade deal, a vet must approve every consignment of fresh food that his company ships to the EU.\n\nIt is a complex and costly process that has hit exporters of fresh meat and fish as well, and was partly why the government set up a £23m support fund for UK fishing companies.\n\nUK retailers who export to the EU have also complained about being hit with unsustainable costs when customers in the bloc return goods bought online. This is due to new customs clearance charges incurred by shipping firms.\n\nSome retailers have even warned they could burn clothes stuck at borders as it is cheaper than bringing them home.\n\nUlla Vitting Richards, who runs her sustainable fashion brand Vildnis from the UK, told the BBC last week she had stopped exporting to the EU, which was her fastest growing market, because of the new processes.\n\nShe also said that she had been advised - this time by a Department for International Trade (DIT) representative - that setting up a subsidiary distribution hub might help.\n\n\"He told me we'd be best off moving stock to a warehouse in Germany and get them to handle it,\" she said.\n\nAs early as last October, trade consultants Blick Rothenberg warned that thousands of UK businesses might need to set up an EU presence in order to keep exporting to European markets.\n\nHowever, experts say EU firms exporting to the UK - which currently enjoy a grace period over the imposition of some rules - will soon face the same issues.\n\nIndeed, some EU exporters have already stopped deliveries to the UK because of new VAT related charges.\n\nThe DIT said it was not government policy to advise UK firms to set up EU hubs and that it was \"ensuring all officials are properly conveying\" the right information.", "Scientists say signs a new coronavirus variant is more deadly than the earlier version should not be a \"game changer\" in the UK's response to the pandemic.\n\nBoris Johnson has said there is \"some evidence\" the variant may be associated with \"a higher degree of mortality\".\n\nBut the co-author of the study the PM was referring to said the variant's deadliness remained an \"open question\".\n\nAnother adviser said he was surprised Mr Johnson had shared the findings when the data was \"not particularly strong\".\n\nA third top medic said it was \"too early\" to be \"absolutely clear\".\n\nAt a Downing Street coronavirus news conference on Friday, the prime minister said: \"In addition to spreading more quickly, it also now appears that there is some evidence that the new variant - the variant that was first identified in London and the South East - may be associated with a higher degree of mortality.\"\n\nSpeaking alongside the PM, the government's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said there was \"a lot of uncertainty around these numbers\" but that early evidence suggested the variant could be about 30% more deadly.\n\nFor example, Sir Patrick said if 1,000 men in their 60s were infected with the old variant, roughly 10 of them would be expected to die - but this rises to about 13 with the new variant.\n\nThe announcement followed a briefing by scientists on the government's New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag) which concluded there was a \"realistic possibility\" that the variant was associated with an increased risk of death.\n\nBut one of the briefing's co-authors, Prof Graham Medley, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"The question about whether it is more dangerous in terms of mortality I think is still open.\"\n\n\"In terms of making the situation worse it is not a game changer. It is a very bad thing that is slightly worse,\" added Prof Medley, who is a professor of infectious disease modelling at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.\n\nAnother 1,348 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test were reported in the UK on Saturday, in addition to 33,552 new infections, according to the government's coronavirus dashboard.\n\nThere is huge uncertainty in the evidence on how lethal the variant is.\n\nThe scientific experts that reviewed the data used a precise phrase saying it was a \"realistic possibility\" the new variant is more deadly.\n\nThat means there's a roughly 50-50 chance it will turn out to be true.\n\nWith time, and sadly more deaths, the picture will become clearer.\n\nWhile people debate the uncertainties though, we already know this variant has the ability to kill more people than the old ones.\n\nA virus that spreads faster (this one is 30-70% faster) will infect more people, more quickly, putting a greater strain on hospitals and leading to a sharper spike in deaths.\n\nIt is why viruses becoming more transmissible can be a bigger problem than ones becoming more deadly.\n\nNervtag's chairman Prof Peter Horby defended the government's \"transparency\" in making the announcement.\n\n\"Scientists are looking at the possibility that there is increased severity... and after a week of looking at the data we came to the conclusion that it was a realistic possibility,\" he said.\n\n\"We need to be transparent about that. If we were not telling people about this we would be accused of covering it up.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Patrick Vallance: \"There is evidence that there's an increased risk for those who have the new variant\"\n\nBut Dr Mike Tildesley, a member of Sage subgroup the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling (Spi-M), agreed it was too early to draw \"strong conclusions\" as the suggested increased mortality rates were based on \"a relatively small amount of data\".\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast he was \"actually quite surprised\" Mr Johnson had made the early findings public rather than monitoring the data \"for a week or two more\".\n\n\"I just worry that where we report things pre-emptively where the data are not really particularly strong,\" Dr Tildesley added.\n\nPublic Health England medical director Dr Yvonne Doyle also said it was not \"absolutely clear\" the new variant was more deadly than the original.\n\n\"There is some evidence, but it is very early evidence. It is small numbers of cases and it is far too early to say,\" she told the Today programme.\n\nMeanwhile, senior doctors are calling on England's chief medical officer to cut the gap between the first and second doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nThe British Medical Association told Prof Chris Whitty an extension to the maximum gap between jab from three weeks to 12 weeks, to get the first dose to more people, was \"difficult to justify\".", "The number of coronavirus patients on mechanical ventilation in the UK has passed 4,000 for the first time in the pandemic.\n\nA total of 4,076 Covid patients were in ventilator beds as of Friday, according to government data.\n\nThat is higher than during the first wave, when the peak was 3,301 on 12 April.\n\nIt comes as another 1,348 deaths and 33,552 new infections were reported on Saturday.\n\nThe UK's chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, told a Downing Street news briefing on Friday: \"The death rate's awful and it's going to stay, I'm afraid, high for a little while before it starts coming down.\"\n\nMeanwhile, new figures show that a record number of seriously-ill Covid patients are being transferred from over-stretched hospitals because of a lack of bed space.\n\nAbout 1 in 10 patients admitted to intensive care are being sent to a different site, according to the body which audits critical care services.\n\nIn a series of reports in the past week, the BBC's Clive Myrie has been to a mortuary and the Royal London Hospital, where 12 out of 15 floors are occupied by Covid patients and staff are struggling to cope.\n\nMartin Freeborn's wife Helen, 64, died with Covid-19 at the hospital shortly before he spoke to the BBC.\n\nMr Freeborn urged people to \"be over-careful\" in taking precautions to stay safe from the virus because \"you don't want this to happen\".\n\n\"Nobody wants to go through this... Don't end up like us, please,\" he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Martin Freeborn's wife, Helen, died from Covid at the Royal London Hospital: 'Don't end up like us, please'\n\nThe number of people in mechanical ventilation beds has climbed every day since 18 December when it was 1,364 and now stands at 4,076.\n\nIt is one of the key figures the government considers when deciding its policy on when to ease coronavirus lockdown restrictions.\n\nWhen the pandemic first struck the UK, the government saw what had happened in hospitals in China and Italy and prioritised the provision of ventilators in British hospitals.\n\nIt set about buying as many ventilators as possible, and encouraged British manufacturers to design the machines to build stocks to cope with the worst-case Covid scenario. In September last year, a report found the NHS now had 30,000 ventilators available - about one for every 2,200 people in the UK.\n\nPeople in hospital are also being treated differently from the early days of the pandemic - which may explain why figures suggest slightly more people go on to recover after being on ventilation than back in March, April and May.\n\nA number of drugs are being tested as possible treatments for people with the disease, the BBC's health and science correspondent James Gallagher has said.\n\nThey include the steroid dexamethasone, which has been shown to reduce the risk of death by a third for ventilated patients and by a fifth for those on oxygen. Encouraging results have also been reported from two anti-inflammatory medications, tocilizumab and sarilumab.\n\nDr Ami Jones, intensive care consultant at Aneurin Bevan University Health Board, in Wales, said there had been \"carnage\" for the \"last few weeks\".\n\nSpeaking whilst on shift, she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"We're maybe at 150% capacity and I know London are much worse than that.\n\n\"We've a steady stream of fit, young patients requiring critical care and sadly we're losing some of those patients.\n\n\"We lost a patient overnight and I've replaced them with a patient of similar age.\n\n\"It's heartbreaking - and it's been going on for weeks and weeks and we haven't seen any kind of stop yet.\"\n\nDr Jones said the average Covid patient stays in hospital between two to four weeks \"and it really puts them through it\".\n\nShe added: \"You really want people who are going to be able to survive that three or four weeks and actually come out the other end and make a good recovery.\n\n\"We're not stopping people having care but we're giving it to the people we feel have the best chance of getting through what is a horrific situation we're going to put them through.\"\n\nDr Jones said nurses are \"broken\", both physically, from months of long shifts in personal protective equipment (PPE), and emotionally - partly due to the impact of the virus on them, their families and the community.\n\nDr Rupert Pearse, consultant in intensive care medicine at a London hospital, speaking on behalf of the Intensive Care Society, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that a \"huge number\" of patients were still attending hospital.\n\nHe said: \"Whilst we know the infection rate has probably now peaked, and we can be hopeful to soon be sure we've hit a hospital admissions peak, admissions to ICU [the intensive care unit] usually lag 48 hours behind that.\n\n\"So we're still very very worried that we're being pushed right up to the wire in terms of the resources we're able to deliver for patient care.\"\n\nDr Pearse added that there were three or four times more critical care beds in some hospitals than they would usually have.\n\nHe said: \"I can remember a time when it would take years for an intensive care unit to negotiate one extra bed on a complement of 14 or 15 beds.\n\n\"We, within a few weeks, have massively increased the number of beds and finding the staff - most importantly of all - to deliver that has been a huge logistical exercise.\"\n\nReacting to the ventilation figures, Dr Charlotte Hopkins, deputy chief medical officer for Barts Health NHS trust in east London, said on Twitter there had been a \"fast-paced increase\" since 18 December, and that more than a third of the 4,076 ventilated patients were in London.\n\nIt comes as some scientists said that signs a new Covid variant is more deadly than the earlier version should not be a \"game changer\" in the UK's response to the pandemic.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said on Friday that there was \"some evidence\" the variant that emerged in the UK may be associated with \"a higher degree of mortality\".\n\nBut Prof Graham Medley, the co-author of the study the PM was referring to, said the variant's deadliness remained an \"open\" question.\n\nDr Mike Tildesley, a member of Sage subgroup the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling (Spi-M), said he was \"surprised\" Mr Johnson had shared the findings when the data was \"not particularly strong\".\n\nPublic Health England medical director Dr Yvonne Doyle said it was \"too early\" to be \"absolutely clear\".\n\n\"There is some evidence, but it is very early evidence. It is small numbers of cases and it is far too early to say,\" she told the Today programme.\n\nUp to and including 22 January, 5,861,351 people have now had their first Covid jab and 468,617 have had their second dose.\n\nSenior doctors are calling on England's chief medical officer to cut the gap between the first and second doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nThe British Medical Association told Prof Chris Whitty an extension to the maximum gap between jab from three weeks to 12 weeks, to get the first dose to more people, was \"difficult to justify\".\n\nThe UK's four chief medical officers have previously defended the delay to the second jab in a letter to medical staff, saying: \"unvaccinated people are far more likely to end up severely ill, hospitalised [or] in some cases dying\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Video filmed in Tacoma, Washington, shows a police car apparently ploughing through a crowd of people\n\nA police officer is under investigation in the US after his vehicle ploughed into a group of people, running over at least one, in Tacoma, Washington.\n\nNobody was killed in the incident, although one person was rushed to hospital with injuries.\n\nA video shows a large group of people surrounding the police car as it revs its engine in an apparent effort to drive off.\n\nThe group refuses to move, and police say people started hitting the car.\n\nThe police officer then speeds through the group, hitting numerous people. One person is dragged under the car.\n\nTacoma Police Department said multiple vehicles and approximately 100 people were blocking an intersection when officers arrived on the scene. The group was apparently watching street racers doing \"burnouts\".\n\n\"During the operation, a responding Tacoma police vehicle was surrounded by the crowd. People hit the body of the police vehicle and its windows as the officer was stopped in the street,\" police said in a statement.\n\n\"The officer, fearing for his safety, tried to back up, but was unable to do so because of the crowd,\" it said.\n\n\"While trying to extricate himself from an unsafe position, the officer drove forward striking one individual and may have impacted others,\" it said.\n\nThe person who was run over was rushed to hospital. Their condition is as yet unclear.\n\nThe Pierce County Force Investigation Team is investigating the incident, the statement said. The police officer has not been identified.\n\n\"I am concerned that our department is experiencing another use of deadly force incident,\" Interim Police Chief Mike Ake said in the statement.\n\n\"I send my thoughts to anyone who was injured in tonight's event, and am committed to our department's full co-operation in the independent investigation and to assess the actions of the department's response during the incident.\"\n\nThe incident comes at a time of rising anger over the use of excessive force by police in the US.\n\nPeople across the world took to the streets last year to demonstrate their anger at the death of George Floyd, a black man who died in police custody in Minneapolis, and to demand an end to police brutality and what they see as systemic racism.", "It is hoped that vaccinating teenagers will allow them to sit exams\n\nIsrael has started vaccinating 16 to 18-year-olds against Covid-19, in an effort to enable them to sit exams.\n\nMore than a quarter of Israel's population of nine million have received at least one dose of the Pfizer vaccine since 19 December, its health ministry says.\n\nIt started with the elderly and others at high risk, but people aged 40 and over can also now get the jab.\n\nIsrael hopes to start reopening its economy in February.\n\nThe inclusion of 16 to 18-year-olds - with parental permission - is meant \"to enable their return (to school) and the orderly holding of exams\", an education ministry spokeswoman said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe matriculation exams that Israeli students sit at the end of high school play an important role in deciding where they will go to university. Their results can also affect their placement in the military, where many young Israelis do compulsory service.\n\nThe education ministry has said it is too early to say whether schools will reopen next month.\n\nIsrael started its rapid vaccination drive - the fastest in the world - on 19 December, reaching 10% of its population by the end of 2020.\n\nIsrael has recorded more than 596,000 cases and 4,392 deaths with Covid-19, according to data collected by Johns Hopkins University.\n\nOn Sunday, the government said it would ban passenger flights in and out of the country from Monday night for the rest of January, in an effort to halt the spread of new virus variants.\n\n\"Other than rare exceptions, we are closing the sky hermetically to prevent the entry of the virus variants and also to ensure that we progress quickly with our vaccination campaign,\" Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.\n\nForeigners have largely been blocked from entering Israel during the pandemic.", "The Department for Transport said \"smart motorways are as safe as, or safer than, the conventional ones\"\n\nA police and crime commissioner (PCC) has written to the government to say smart motorways are \"inherently unsafe and dangerous and should be abandoned\".\n\nSouth Yorkshire PCC Dr Alan Billings wrote his open letter to Grant Shapps, the Secretary of State for Transport.\n\nHis comments come after a coroner found two men had been unlawfully killed on a \"smart\" section of the M1.\n\nThe Department for Transport said \"smart motorways are as safe as, or safer than, the conventional ones\".\n\nOn 19 January coroner David Urpeth called for a review of the road schemes.\n\nMr Urpeth said smart motorways without a hard shoulder carry \"an ongoing risk of future deaths\".\n\nHe was speaking following the inquests for Jason Mercer, 44, from Rotherham and Alexandru Murgeanu, 22, of Mansfield, who died when a lorry crashed into their vehicles near Sheffield on 7 June 2019.\n\nNow Labour's Dr Billings has told Grant Shapps: \"I believe smart motorways of this kind - where what would be a hard shoulder is a live lane with occasional refuges - are inherently unsafe and dangerous and should be abandoned.\n\n\"The relevant test for us is whether someone who breaks down on this stretch of the motorway, where there is no hard shoulder, would have had a better chance of escaping death or injury had there still been a hard shoulder - and the coroner's verdict makes it clear that the answer to that question is - Yes.\"\n\nAlexandru Murgeanu (l) and Jason Mercer were killed in the crash on the M1 in South Yorkshire\n\nJason Mercer's widow, Claire, had previously told Nicky Campbell on BBC Radio 5Live she considered a government review of the smart motorway system \"was just a paperwork exercise and a PR exercise.\"\n\nTalking to BBC Look North Yorkshire after publishing the letter on Sunday, Dr Billings said: \"The Department for Transport and Highways England have argued all along that these sorts of motorways are actually safe, they even go as far as to say they are safer than ordinary motorways, now I think that whatever formula they are using to come to that conclusion is wrong.\n\n\"The coroner in his verdict has made it pretty clear that these two particular lives in South Yorkshire would not have come to such a sad end if there had been a hard shoulder there, so I think this is new evidence they have to take into account.\"\n\nHe added: \"If they thought this type of motorway was even smarter, or safer, than a conventional motorway, then why not convert the entire system to smart motorways, making it safer? As soon as you say it, I think you realise it's absurd.\n\n\"I think they (smart motorways) were done originally not because it was a safer way of doing a motorway, I think it was done in order to expand the capacity, get the traffic flowing by having an extra lane, but to do it cheaply, and I think we're trading cost - cheapness - for other people's lives.\"\n\nIn response to Dr Billings' open letter, the Department for Transport said: \"The stocktake [of smart motorways] showed that in most ways smart motorways are as safe as, or safer than, the conventional ones.\n\n\"The Transport Secretary has tasked Highways England with delivering an 18-point action plan to ensure they are safer still, and he has called an urgent meeting with the company to discuss their progress.\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.", "As high risk groups continue to be immunised there are growing concerns that people with learning disabilities have been missed out.\n\nDespite a recent Public Health England report warning they are six times more likely to die from coronavirus, as a group, they have not been prioritised for a vaccine.\n\nLegal action is being taken against the Department of Health and Social Care, which says it is working hard to vaccinate all those at risk.", "A Covid outbreak was declared at the DVLA's contact centre in December\n\nStaff are scared to work at the UK vehicle licensing agency's contact centre in Swansea where 500 workers have contracted coronavirus since the pandemic began, a union says.\n\nThe PCS union has urged ministers to intervene and described the numbers as a \"scandal\".\n\nA DVLA spokesperson insisted safety was a priority and it followed guidance to \"help keep our offices Covid secure\".\n\nThe Welsh Government said it had been \"worried about the DVLA for a while\".\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said he has repeatedly raised concerns over case numbers at the offices.\n\nMinister Eluned Morgan said the decision to introduce tougher Covid regulations for workplaces in Wales was made, in part, due to the situation at the DVLA.\n\nIn December, a coronavirus outbreak was declared at the centre at Swansea Vale in Llansamlet after 352 cases of Covid-19 in the space of four months.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe DVLA has about 6,000 staff based in Swansea but said it was currently operating on a \"far reduced capacity\".\n\nA DVLA worker, who did not want to be identified, told BBC Wales News that close contacts of people testing positive are not always sent home to self-isolate, social-distancing is not being followed and homeworking is not always possible because of \"archaic\" systems.\n\n\"There are certain elements within management who are trying to bend the rules and regulations,\" they said.\n\n\"It has been mentioned that you don't need your track and trace [contact tracing app] on. If someone's off with Covid, the people who haven't had their app on haven't been sent home.\n\n\"They'll say 'your app hasn't pinged, you're not going home'.\"\n\nThe worker said it was difficult for staff to adhere to the two-metre distancing rule because of the way the office was laid out and some staff had resigned.\n\n\"The atmosphere sucks, people are scared. I have heard of some people walking out,\" they said.\n\nOne worker said two-metres distancing was not always being observed\n\n\"I think they have been raising concerns. They probably didn't get the answer they wanted. It's not necessarily the manager's fault, the managers are struggling too.\"\n\nPCS General Secretary Mark Serwotka said: \"It is a scandal that DVLA are not doing more to reduce numbers in the workplace when Covid infections are on the rise.\n\n\"Our members are telling us they are scared to enter the workplace for fear of catching Covid 19.\n\n\"Minsters must intervene and ensure DVLA are doing their utmost to enable staff to work from home and temporarily cease non-critical services.\"\n\nEluned Morgan told Radio Cymru the Welsh Government has been keeping an eye on the situation at the Swansea offices.\n\nEluned Morgan said the Welsh Government has been concerned at the situation at the DVLA for \"some time\".\n\nThe wellbeing minister said: \"We've been worried about the DVLA for a while, now. We've been putting pressure on them.\n\n\"It comes up time and again from the people who represent Swansea, and we're worried the pressure on people working there hasn't helped.\n\n\"The situation is one of the reasons why we've introduced new rules, new legislation, to tighten the restrictions on people at work.\"\n\nHealth Minister Vaughan Gething added: \"We're concerned about anecdotal reports we've heard from the trade union side, individuals, that all of the requirements weren't being followed.\"\n\nHe said there would be questions for management to answer if there had been a breach of the rules.\n\nThe DVLA said some staff have been able to work from home \"in line with government advice\", though others were required to be in the office due to their roles\n\n\"In view of the essential nature of the public services we provide, some operational staff are required to be in the office where their role means they cannot work from home,\" said a spokesman.\n\nThe DVLA said it has worked closely with Public Health Wales, Swansea council's environmental health staff and union officials to try to make its buildings Covid safe, including opening an additional site in Swansea.\n\nHowever, there were currently four Covid cases across its estate, with none at its contact centre.\n\n\"Before Christmas, when transmission infection rates were extremely high in the local community where most of our staff live, we saw a rise in staff testing positive for Covid,\" he said.\n\nSwansea MP Carolyn Harris said, during the first lockdown, she was in \"constant contact\" with the DVLA due to concerns raised by workers.\n\n\"Since Christmas, I've not been able to get hold of anyone from the DVLA,\" she told BBC Radio Wales' Sunday Supplement.\n\n\"Last night I spent a long time trying to hold of the chief executive.\n\n\"Some of the stuff that I am now reading, and some of the stuff I've had in over the last 24 hours, really worries me.\"\n\nThe Health and Safety Executive (HSE) said its inspector had been tackling \"a series of concerns\" since August and had spoken to the PCS, which it said was \"broadly supportive of DVLA's approach\".\n\nA spokesperson added: \"Most recently HSE joined Swansea Environmental Health Officers and Public Health Wales for some joint visits to premises, in our role to assist public health to assess the potential of work place transmission as part of their wider work to contain outbreaks.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "It is not clear if anyone not entitled succeeded in getting a Covid jab\n\nA health board boss has criticised council staff for potentially sharing Covid vaccine invites with colleagues.\n\nThe board meeting in North Wales heard some council staff, not within groups currently being vaccinated, booked appointments by following a link in an email only intended for the recipient.\n\nBetsi Cadwaladr health board's chairman Mark Polin said such actions could deprive someone else of a jab.\n\nDenbighshire council said it had warned staff the emails were not to be abused.\n\nIt is not clear if anyone not entitled succeeded in getting a Covid jab, the Local Democracy Reporting Service said.\n\nOnly front-line social care and health workers, those over 80 and 70 years old, care home residents and their carers are currently being vaccinated.\n\nIndependent member Jackie Hughes spoke about the matter at Thursday's monthly health board meeting.\n\nAnswering her query, Dr Chris Stockport, the health board's executive director of primary care and community services, said: \"We are very clear with our local authority partners and teams of what frontline means in the same way we are elsewhere.\n\n\"When you arrive [for a vaccine] there's a process of validation.\n\n\"The likelihood is they will experience some difficulties working through the booking system [if they try to get into a higher vaccination cohort].\n\n\"It adds complications for a busy team and I would ask them not to do that when it's a clear effort to circumvent the cohort.\"\n\nAt Thursday's daily press briefing the UK Government Home Secretary Priti Patel said people who jumped the queue for the vaccine were \"morally reprehensible\" as they were putting the lives of vulnerable people at risk.\n\nShe said all the UK Government's measures were under review but \"our focus is getting that vaccine to the most vulnerable to make sure we can protect them and obviously protect others in the community\".\n\nMr Polin added: \"Whilst we understand the concerns people should not be doing what they are doing.\n\n\"The priority groups have been identified with clear medical guidance and sound reasoning behind it.\n\n\"So people jumping the queue are depriving someone else, potentially, of receiving the vaccine at the point at which they should.\"\n\nHe said it was a temporary problem, adding: \"We are changing the booking system, so this opportunity is not going to last much longer.\"\n\nHe said staff were looking out for any inappropriate bookings.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "More than five million people in the UK have now received the first dose of a coronavirus vaccine - thanks to an army of more than 80,000 volunteers and NHS workers who have been trained to give the jabs.\n\nMany of the vaccine volunteers have had no previous medical training and come from all walks of life. So why did they sign up? And how does it feel to stick a needle into a stranger's arm?\n\nYou could see their relief. A lot of them have been waiting 10 months without leaving the house\n\nCallum Finnegan, 23, has been juggling his 40-hour week as a Tesco delivery driver with giving Covid jabs at Manchester's Etihad tennis centre. A St John Ambulance volunteer, he completed extensive online and face-to-face training, which included practising administering jabs on silicon arms before giving them to patients. He says he'd never given an injection before.\n\nThe biomedical science graduate wanted to get involved in the vaccination effort as soon as the call was put out and says he feels \"grateful and privileged\" to be helping the rollout - an effort he hopes will save as many lives as possible.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC Radio 5 Live This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCallum, who volunteered for four weeks at London's Nightingale hospital at the beginning of the pandemic, says his first shift giving jabs was \"one of the best days\" he's had since Covid hit.\n\n\"They were incredibly emotional,\" he says of the people he has given the jab to. \"You could see their relief. A lot of them have been waiting 10 months without leaving the house, or seeing only one or two people. One of those could have been a Tesco delivery driver - there's a lot of people I deliver to who tell me that I'm the only person they're seeing face-to-face at the minute.\"\n\nIt just makes me feel better about the world, especially when it can get you down. It's nice to do something good for other people\n\nKate Donaghy, who runs an IT team for a travel company, was inspired to train as a vaccinator after seeing the impact of the disease first hand. A St John Ambulance volunteer for four years, Kate, 28, spent time at a London hospital last year helping to care for recovering Covid patients - before volunteering at an A&E department.\n\nAfter seeing just how desperate the situation was, she switched her focus to becoming a vaccinator. \"I just thought how can we stop this happening to people in the first place? If we can vaccinate people, that feels like a better way forward to solve the problem, and a great use of my time.\"\n\nShe says she overcame her initial nerves in giving the jabs thanks to some supportive colleagues and has already signed up for shifts at London's ExCel centre most weekends going forward.\n\nHer elderly patients were \"so happy it was the beginning of the end to their isolation\". \"It just makes me feel better about the world, especially when it can get you down. It's nice to do something good for other people.\"\n\nIt did feel good - it felt good to be fighting back\n\nDr Andy Bates, a 57-year-old dentist from North Yorkshire, recently gave his first vaccinations at Long Lee surgery, in Keighley. He is used to giving injections - albeit in the mouth - but he says helping to protect people against this virus \"did feel good - it felt good to be fighting back\".\n\nDr Bates is working as a paid vaccinator alongside a four-day week at his dental practice. He says both roles have served as a reminder that he could be the first person a patient has seen for months. And he says his day job - particularly calming people who are nervous about lying back in his dentist's chair - has helped him.\n\nHe says he managed to relax a \"very nervous\" lady in her 90s, who hadn't left the house since last March, by talking about their shared love of alpine cycling.\n\nAnd it's not just Dr Bates and his fellow vaccinators that have stepped up. He says after a \"huge dump\" of snow in the area, the community sprang into action to ensure elderly patients could safely come for their jabs - with a local farmer towing the van delivering the vaccines up the hill to the surgery, and volunteers clearing snow and ice from the car park.\n\nI just thought this is enough, this has got to stop. I wanted to help all the other elderly people who are so vulnerable to this virus\n\nWhen theatres closed last year, Amanda Baldwin's career as a full-time chorus member at London's Royal Opera House came to a \"heartbreaking\" standstill.\n\nStuck at home in south-east London with nothing to do, Amanda and her husband Julian Johnson, 55 - a freelance theatre stage manager - decided to volunteer for the NHS through the GoodSam app, which later connected them with the vaccinator training run by St John Ambulance.\n\nAmanda applied shortly after her 84-year-old mother tested positive for the virus - just before she was due to have the vaccine. \"Luckily she came through it, and she wasn't hospitalised. But I just thought this is enough, this has got to stop. I wanted to help all the other elderly people who are so vulnerable to this virus.\"\n\nAmanda recently passed her full SJA training in London and is now waiting for her first shift as a vaccinator. She thinks her performance background will help keep her nerves in check for when she administers her first jabs - joking that she hopes her patients \"don't wriggle about as much\" as her pet cat did when she had to give it injections for its diabetes.\n\nAfter feeling \"like a part of [her] soul was missing\" when theatres closed, she says training as vaccinator has given her a \"purpose\" again. \"I feel like I've now got [another] skill that can really help people.\"", "Researchers have been tracking changes to the \"spike\" of the virus\n\nThe new variant of Covid-19 is \"hugely\" more transmissible than the virus's previous version, a study has found.\n\nIt concludes the new variant increases the Reproduction or R number by between 0.4 and 0.7.\n\nThe UK's latest R number has been estimated at between 1.1 and 1.3. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.\n\nProf Axel Gandy of London's Imperial College said the differences between the viruses types was \"quite extreme\".\n\n\"There is a huge difference in how easily the variant virus spreads,\" he told BBC News. \"This is the most serious change in the virus since the epidemic began,\" he added.\n\nThe Imperial College study suggests transmission of the new variant tripled during England's November lockdown while the previous version was reduced by a third.\n\nCases of Covid-19 have begun to increase rapidly during the second spike, and the number of cases recorded in a single day reached a new high on Thursday.\n\nEarly results indicated that the virus was spreading more quickly among under-20s, particularly among secondary school age children.\n\nBut the very latest data indicates that it was spreading quickly across all age groups, according to Prof Gandy who was a member of the research team.\n\n\"One possible explanation is that the early data was collected during the time of the November lockdown where schools were open and the activities of the adult population were more restricted. We are seeing now that the new virus has increased infectiousness across all age groups.\"\n\nProf Jim Naismith, of Oxford University, said he believed that the new findings indicated that even tougher restrictions would soon be needed.\n\n\"The data from Imperial represent the best analysis to date and imply that the measures we have employed to date, would - with the new virus - fail to reduce the R number to below 1.\n\n\"In simpler terms, unless we do something different the new virus strain is going to continue to spread, more infections, more hospitalisations and more deaths.\"\n\nThe R number is the average number of people an infected person infects. If it is above 1 the epidemic is growing.\n\nThe most chilling finding from this piece of research is that the November lockdown in England, hard though it was for many people, would not have stopped the variant form of the virus spreading. The same severe restrictions that saw cases of the previous version of the virus fall by a third, would see a tripling of the new variant. This is why there has been such a sudden tightening of restrictions across the country.\n\nIt is unclear whether the current restrictions will be enough to control the spread of the virus. Given the fact that it has taken two lockdowns to stop the earlier version of the virus overwhelming the NHS, many scientists fear that further tightening will be necessary.\n\nInfection levels will begin to drop as enough people are vaccinated. But until then it is now more important than ever for people to follow social distancing guidelines, wear masks where required and to regularly wash their hands.\n\nThe new year brings with it hope of a more normal life in the next few months but also a new form of the virus that all of us will have to combat in the coming days and weeks.\n\nProfessor Lawrence Young, of Warwick University, said early indications suggested that vaccines would be effective against the new form of the virus.\n\n\"Variants virus have been around since the beginning of the pandemic and are a product of the natural process by which viruses develop and adapt to their hosts as they replicate.\n\n\"Most of these mutations have no effect on the behaviour of the virus but very occasionally they can improve the ability of the virus to infect and/or become more resistant to the body's immune response.\"\n\nFurther research is needed to understand why the variant is spreading so quickly. But early indications are that vaccines should be effective against it.\n\nThe new virus has been designated \"Variant of Concern 202012/01\" or VOC by Public Health England.\n\nIt was detected in November and thought to have originated in the south-east England in September.\n\nThere is no evidence to suggest that it is more deadly, but it will increase the number of cases which in turn will add further pressure on the NHS.\n\nThe variant can now be found across the UK, except Northern Ireland, but it is heavily concentrated in London, as well as south-east and eastern England.", "Appointments were brought forward or rescheduled for safety reasons\n\nFour vaccination centres were shut as snow caused some travel disruption in Wales.\n\nSunday appointments in Bridgend, Rhondda, Abercynon and Merthyr Tydfil were rescheduled for safety reasons, but centres will reopen on Monday, the Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board said.\n\nThe Met Office has extended a yellow weather warning to midnight on Sunday for all of Wales except Anglesey.\n\nA yellow warning for ice runs from midnight until 11:00 GMT on Monday.\n\nPolice have warned of difficult conditions due to snow and ice.\n\nUp to 3cm of snow is forecast to fall in most areas, with 10 to 15cm expected in the Brecon Beacons and Snowdonia.\n\nCwm Taf Morgannwg health board urged anyone with queries about Sunday's vaccination appointments to call the number on their appointment letters.\n\nSnow volunteers cleared pathways so a Covid vaccine pilot in Maesteg could keep running\n\n\"We can confirm that no vaccines have been wasted as a consequence of this temporary Sunday closure and we are grateful to all those who were able to turn up at such short notice yesterday as we brought forward a significant number of Sunday appointments during the course of Saturday,\" it said.\n\n\"Additionally, our 4x4 arrangements are enabling us to continue to reach care homes to vaccinate the staff and residents there.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNorth Wales Police tweeted there was \"widespread snow this morning, particularly in some higher areas, making driving conditions difficult\".\n\nAnd Dyfed-Powys Police said some roads were \"impassable\" and advised people to \"stay home\".\n\nIn Bridgend, officers from South Wales Police were pelted with snowballs as they helped an injured sledger on Heol y Nant.\n\nNorth Wales Police warned of difficult conditions due to \"widespread snow\", particularly on high ground.\n\nIt said the A499 near Pwllheli had received heavy snowfall overnight.\n\nWelsh Ambulance Service boss Jason Killens tweeted, thanking the public for helping crews continue to work despite the conditions.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nVillages were dusted with snow, such as in Llanfynydd, Carmarthenshire\n\nNick Rolfe shared this garden view in Nercwys, near Mold, Flintshire\n\nThe Met Office warned travellers that \"longer journey times by road, bus and train services\" could be expected, although Wales is in a level four lockdown with all but essential travel banned.\n\nIt also said the snow could lead to power cuts and other services, such as mobile phone coverage, may be affected.\n\nThose going out for daily exercise have been warned there could be icy patches on some untreated roads, pavements and cycle paths.\n\nIn Powys, this was the view over Newtown on Sunday\n\nThe hills around Llangollen, Denbighshire, were covered in snow on Saturday\n\nPower cuts and travel delays are possible, the Met Office says\n\nThe drop in temperatures is likely to exacerbate problems after widespread flooding caused by Storm Christoph.\n\nTwo flood warnings issued by Natural Resources Wales remain in place, meaning flooding is expected.\n\nThese cover the River Ritec at Tenby in Pembrokeshire, which could affect the Kiln Park caravan site, and the lower Dee Valley from Llangollen to Trevalyn Meadows.\n\nPretty as a picture... Suzy shared this garden view in Snowdonia\n\nSun up: Heath in Cardiff awakes to a covering of snow\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "DUP leader Arlene Foster said people in NI need to \"come together to fight against Covid\"\n\nDUP leader Arlene Foster has said a potential vote on a united Ireland would be \"absolutely reckless\".\n\nShe was speaking after a poll commissioned by the Sunday Times in NI found 51% of people want a referendum on Irish unity in the next five years.\n\nSpeaking to Sky News, the first minister said \"we all know how divisive a border poll would be\".\n\nSinn Féin's Michelle O'Neill said there was an \"unstoppable conversation under way\" on the issue.\n\nThe deputy first minister called on the Irish government \"to step up preparations\" for a border poll.\n\nProvisions for a possible border poll on Irish reunification are included in the the Good Friday Agreement - the deal which led to peace in Northern Ireland after decades of violence.\n\nIt states that the Northern Ireland Secretary must call a border poll if it at any time it appears \"likely\" to that a majority of people in Northern Ireland would vote for a united Ireland.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMrs Foster said she thought it was \"very disappointing\" that some nationalist parties in the UK were focusing on \"constitutional politics\" during the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\n\"We all know how divisive a border poll would be, and for us in Northern Ireland what we have to do is come together to fight against Covid, and not be distracted by what would be absolutely reckless at this time,\" she said.\n\nShe added if there was a vote on Irish unity, the arguments for the union are \"rational, logical, and they will win through\".\n\nThe polling was carried out by Lucidtalk in Northern Ireland, with similar polling in England, Scotland and Wales to gauge attitudes towards the union.\n\nIt found that in Northern Ireland, 47% still want to remain in the UK, with 42% in favour of a united Ireland and 11% undecided.\n\nHowever for those aged under 45, supporters of Irish reunification outnumber those who want to stay in the UK by 47% to 46%.\n\nRespondents also said they believed there would be a united Ireland within 10 years, by a margin of 48% to 44%.\n\nPolls like this come with the usual health warning - they are a snapshot in a moment in time.\n\nNonetheless there is some interesting reading here - not least the fact that it paints a picture of a disunited kingdom.\n\nWe shouldn't really be surprised about that because we have had very different approaches to the global Covid-19 pandemic with different outcomes.\n\nWe know that Brexit is starting to bite and there is a lot of frustration out there and uncertainty and that, I'm sure, has fed into these figures.\n\nThe big question for NI, unsurprisingly, is around constitutional change.\n\nIt shows that 51% of those polled would want to see a border poll within the next five years, compared to 44% who would not.\n\nHowever, if they flip that question around it's interesting to see that 42% would want to see a united Ireland, but 47% would want to remain, with 11% of don't knows.\n\nSo according to these figures there may be an appetite for a border poll - but if that question was posed the majority are saying they would stay in the UK.\n\nSDLP leader Colum Eastwood said the poll placed a \"solemn obligation\" on those seeking a united Ireland \"to engage with every community, sector and generation\".\n\n\"The United Kingdom may be coming to an end but we are all called to build a new future together. That's the work the SDLP is engaged in,\" said the Foyle MP.\n\nThe polling found 47% of people in Northern Ireland wish to remain in the UK, with 42% in favour of a united Ireland, and 11% undecided\n\nUlster Unionist leader Steve Aiken said \"all political energy should be focused on making Northern Ireland a better place to live and work rather than a divisive border poll\".\n\n\"We need to concentrate on the here and now, fostering better relationships and plotting a way through and out of the Covid-19 pandemic,\" he added.\n\n\"As Northern Ireland enters its second century, we should be talking about recovery, renewal and reconciliation.\"\n\nThe polls also found across the UK, respondents believed Scotland would become independent within the next 10 years.\n\nIn Scotland, it found a large poll lead for the Scottish National Party, with them potentially being on course to win 70 of 129 seats in Holyrood.\n\nThe SNP is set to reveal its 'roadmap to a referendum' to its national assembly on Sunday.\n\nIt outlines plans to pursue a vote after the pandemic if there is a pro-independence majority at Holyrood following May's election.\n\nThe research was carried out by Lucidtalk in Northern Ireland, Panelbase in Scotland, and YouGov in England and Wales.\n\nThe polling was carried out between 15 and 22 of January, with 2,392 people polled in Northern Ireland, 1,206 in Scotland, 1,416 in England, and 1,059 in Wales.", "Larry King, giant of US broadcasting who achieved worldwide fame for interviewing political leaders and celebrities, has died at the age of 87.\n\nKing conducted an estimated 50,000 interviews in his six-decade career, which included 25 years as host of the popular CNN talk show Larry King Live.\n\nHe died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, according to Ora Media, a production company he co-founded.\n\nEarlier this month, he was treated in hospital for Covid-19, US media say.\n\nThe talk show host, famous for his braces and rolled-up sleeves, had faced several health problems in recent years, including heart attacks.\n\nKing was married eight times to seven women and had five children. Two of them died last year within weeks of each other - daughter Chaia died from lung cancer and son Andy of a heart attack.\n\nKing carried out interviews with every sitting US president from Gerald Ford to Barack Obama and a number of world leaders. His other high-profile guests included Dr Martin Luther King, the Dalai Lama, Nelson Mandela and Lady Gaga.\n\n\"For 63 years and across the platforms of radio, television and digital media, Larry's many thousands of interviews, awards, and global acclaim stand as a testament to his unique and lasting talent as a broadcaster,\" Ora Media said in a statement, without giving the cause of death.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Larry King: \"I like spontaneity. That's the kind of broadcaster I am\".\n\nBorn Lawrence Harvey Zeiger in Brooklyn, New York, in 1933, King rose to fame in the 1970s with his radio programme The Larry King Show, on the commercial network Mutual Broadcasting System.\n\nIn 1985 he launched Larry King Live on the fledgling CNN, and became one of the network's biggest stars. The programme, broadcast around the world, was a success with audiences, with King answering thousands of phone calls from viewers.\n\nHe earned a number of honours, including two Peabody awards, but was also criticised for his non-confrontational approach and open-ended questions. King boasted of not doing much research for the interviews so, he said, he could learn along with viewers.\n\nBy 2010 his ratings had dropped significantly, with critics saying King's approach felt outdated in an era of more aggressive interviewing styles. King then announced his retirement, saying: \"It's time to hang up my nightly suspenders.\"\n\nIn his final programme on CNN, he told his viewers: \"I don't know what to say, except to you, my audience, thank you. Instead of goodbye, how about so long?\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by CNN Communications This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCNN replaced him with British journalist and broadcaster Piers Morgan, whose programme King criticised for being \"too much about him\".\n\nMorgan, whose programme was cancelled three years later, said on Twitter on Saturday: \"Larry King was a hero of mine until we fell out after I replaced him at CNN & he said my show was 'like watching your mother-in-law go over a cliff in your new Bentley.' (He married 8 times so a mother-in-law expert).\"\n\nIn a statement, CNN president Jeff Zucker said: \"The scrappy young man from Brooklyn had a history-making career spanning radio and television. His curiosity about the world propelled his award-winning career in broadcasting, but it was his generosity of spirit that drew the world to him.\"\n\nMost recently, King hosted another programme, Larry King Now, broadcast on Hulu and RT, Russia's state-controlled international broadcaster.\n\nA Kremlin spokesman was quoted as saying by state RIA Novosti news agency: \"King repeatedly interviewed Putin. The president has always appreciated his great professionalism and unquestioned journalistic authority.\"\n\nOutside broadcasting, King founded the Larry King Cardiac Foundation in 1988, a charity which helps to fund heart treatment for those with limited financial means or no medical insurance.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA new world record has been set for the number of satellites sent to space on a single rocket.\n\nThe 143 payloads, of all shapes and sizes, rode to orbit on a SpaceX Falcon rocket that launched out of Florida.\n\nThe number beats the previous record of 104 satellites carried aloft by an Indian vehicle in 2017.\n\nIt's further evidence of the major structural changes taking place in space activity that are allowing many more actors to get involved.\n\nThis shift is the result of a revolution in robust, miniaturised, low-cost components - many taken direct from consumer electronics such as smartphones - that mean pretty much anyone can now build a capable satellite in a very small package.\n\nAnd with SpaceX offering to transport those packages to orbit for just $1m, the commercial opportunities will continue to open up.\n\nGuatemala's Santa María volcano: Planet is imaging the entire Earth daily with its Dove satellites\n\nSpaceX itself had 10 satellites on the Falcon - the latest additions to its Starlink telecommunications mega-constellation, which is going to deliver broadband internet connections around the globe.\n\nSan Francisco's Planet company had the most satellites of all on the flight - 48.\n\nThese were another batch of its SuperDove models that image the Earth's surface daily at a resolution of 3-5m. The new spacecraft take the firm's operational fleet now in orbit to more than 200.\n\n\"Internet of things\": SpaceBees will connect to all manner of objects on the ground\n\nThe SuperDoves are the size of a shoebox. Many of the other payloads on the Falcon rocket were little bigger than a coffee mug, however; and some were smaller even than a paperback book.\n\nSwarm Technologies is rolling out what it calls the SpaceBees. They're just 10cm by 10cm by 2.5cm.\n\nThey'll act as telecommunications nodes to connect devices that are attached to all manner of objects on the ground, from migrating animals to shipping containers.\n\nThe satellites were mounted on a dispenser that ejected them in sequence\n\nSome of the larger items on the Falcon rocket were suitcase-sized. Among these were several radar satellites. Radar has been one of the major beneficiaries of the revolution in componentry.\n\nTraditionally, radar satellites were big, multi-tonne objects that cost hundreds of millions of dollars to fly, which essentially meant only the military or major space agencies could afford to operate them.\n\nBut the adoption of new materials and compact \"off the shelf\" parts have dramatically shrunk the size (to under 100kg) and price (a couple of million dollars) of these spacecraft.\n\niQPS artwork: The radar satellites unfurl large antennas once they are in space\n\nIceye from Finland, Capella from the US, and iQPS of Japan all took the ride to orbit on Sunday. These start-ups are establishing constellations in the sky that will return rapid, repeat imagery of the Earth.\n\nRadar has the advantage over standard optical cameras of being able to pierce cloud, and to sense the Earth's surface whether it is day or night. We're entering an age when any change on the planet, wherever it happens, will be picked up almost immediately.\n\nThe Falcon carried the 143 satellites into a 500km-high path that runs from pole to pole. This is one of the drawbacks of a big rideshare mission: you go where the rocket goes, and for some that might not be ideal.\n\nA number of satellite missions will want an orbit that's higher or lower in the sky, or on a different inclination to the equator.\n\nThis can be achieved by mounting the satellites on \"space tugs\" which, after coming off the top of the rocket, modify the final parameters for their \"passengers\" over the course of several weeks. Sunday's Falcon carried two such tugs.\n\nBut for some missions a bespoke ride is going to be the only satisfactory solution. It's why we're now witnessing a rush to produce small rockets that can run dedicated flights.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Virgin Orbit's LauncherOne rocket blasts its way to space\n\nThese smaller rockets will not be able to compete on cost with the big vehicles, such as SpaceX's Falcon-9, but they should attract the custom of those with very specific or urgent needs.\n\nDan Hart, the CEO of Virgin Orbit, which has developed a small rocket that can be launched from under the wing of a Boeing 747, says the start-ups are becoming more discerning.\n\n\"These small satellites used to be points of fascination and interest, and it was a case of finding the cheapest way possible to get into space,\" he explained.\n\n\"That's rapidly changing. These are now businesses with critical missions that risk losing revenue if they have to wait on others or go into an unsuitable orbit. And that's why you're going to see people who will pay that little bit more to get to where they want to go when they absolutely need to go there,\" he told BBC News.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Will Marshall: \"Our satellites 'phoned home' and they are healthy\"\n\nWith the roll call of satellites going into orbit now accelerating rapidly, the issue of traffic management is becoming a hot topic.\n\nFull-on collisions are currently rare, but a surprisingly large number (10%) of satellites will even now experience sudden, unexpected momentum changes, most probably the result of being hit by some small fragment from a previous mission.\n\nThe space sector needs to find smarter ways to track objects in orbit and to command timely avoidance manoeuvres, otherwise certain altitudes could ultimately become unusable because of the presence of dangerously dense debris fields.\n\nJonathan McDowell from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics is a noted historian of astronautics.\n\nHe commented: \"There are now over 3,000 working satellites in orbit. The number of satellites launched last year at over 1,200 is over twice as many as in any previous year. And the ones launched today - that used to be the number you'd launch in a whole year. So it's getting really crowded up there.\"\n\nWill Marshall, the CEO of Planet, said his company, and indeed all of the companies on Sunday's flight, were accutley aware of the issue.\n\n\"We are seeing crowded areas in certain orbits,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"Most of the crowded piece that is in danger of what they call Kessler Syndrome (runaway collisions) is quite high up. So one of the tricks that all of these satellites that were launched today use is to just stay really low where there's still a lot of atmospheric drag and eventually those satellites just come down.\"", "Pavithra Wanniarachchi (L) has become the fourth Sri Lankan minister to test positive\n\nSri Lanka's health minister, who endorsed herbal syrup to prevent Covid, has tested positive for the virus.\n\nPavithra Wanniarachchi tested positive on Friday, a media secretary at the Ministry of Health told the BBC.\n\nShe had promoted the syrup, manufactured by a shaman who claimed it worked as a life-long inoculation against the virus.\n\nSri Lanka recorded 56,076 cases and 276 deaths since the pandemic began, with cases surging in recent months.\n\nMs Wanniarachchi is the fourth minister to test positive. A junior minister, who also took the potion, tested positive earlier this week.\n\nThe health minister had publicly consumed and endorsed the syrup as a way of stopping the spread of the virus. The shaman who invented the syrup, which contains honey and nutmeg, said the recipe was given to him in a visionary dream.\n\nDoctors in the country have quashed claims the herbal syrup works, but AFP news agency reports thousands have travelled to a village to obtain it.\n\nMs Wanniarachchi took two Covid-19 tests and both returned positive results, Viraj Abeysinghe, media secretary at the Ministry of Health told the BBC.\n\nThe minister has been asked to self-isolate and all of her immediate contacts have gone into isolation.\n\nNews of Ms Wanniarachchi's positive test came hours after Sri Lanka approved the emergency use of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine. The first doses are expected to arrive in the country next week.\n\nSri Lanka isn't the only place where people in positions of power have promoted unproven treatments for Covid.\n\nLast year, Madagascar's President Andry Rajoelina was criticised for promoting a herbal concoction that he claimed could prevent the virus. He was pictured distributing the tonic to poor communities in the capital.\n\nSince the pandemic began, a number of world leaders and cabinet members have contracted Covid. French President Emmanuel Macron, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and former President Donald Trump all caught the virus at various points last year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The people who think Coronavirus is caused by 5G", "Mr Johnson raised the benefits of a UK-US trade deal during his phone call with Mr Biden\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has spoken to Joe Biden for the first time since the new US president was inaugurated.\n\nMr Johnson said on Twitter that he looked forward to \"deepening the longstanding alliance\" between the UK and the US as they drove a \"green and sustainable recovery from Covid-19\".\n\nMr Biden was sworn in as president and Kamala Harris as vice-president in a ceremony in Washington on Wednesday.\n\nThe PM said their inauguration was a \"step forward\" for the US.\n\nA Downing Street spokesman said Mr Johnson \"warmly welcomed\" the president's decision to rejoin the Paris Agreement on climate change and the World Health Organization - both abandoned by Mr Biden's predecessor, Donald Trump.\n\n\"The prime minister praised President Biden's early action on tackling climate change and commitment to reach net zero by 2050,\" the spokesman said.\n\nThe spokesman added that, in building on the two nations' \"long history of cooperation in security and defence, the leaders \"re-committed to the Nato alliance and our shared values in promoting human rights and protecting democracy\".\n\nThe two leaders also talked about \"the benefits of a potential free trade deal\" between the UK and the US, with Mr Johnson reiterating his intention \"to resolve existing trade issues as soon as possible\".\n\nAfter the inauguration of any American president, a political spectator sport immediately begins: the order in which the new occupant of the White House speaks to other world leaders.\n\nIt is a crude metric of relative importance, but a metric nonetheless.\n\nI understand the call lasted for around 35 minutes and was the first conversation Joe Biden has had with a European leader as president.\n\nThe focus on climate change makes political and diplomatic sense. It's a topic where a Conservative prime minister and Democrat president can agree, and it matters particularly to the UK as the host of the COP26 UN Climate Change Summit in Glasgow in November.\n\nBut when you compare what Downing Street said about the call and what the White House said, one thing leaps out.\n\nNo 10's readout refers to a conversation about a trade deal. President Biden's does not.\n\nIt's widely expected there'll be no such agreement any time soon.\n\nMr Johnson and Mr Biden \"looked forward to to meeting in person as soon as the circumstances allow\" and to working together during the forthcoming G7, G20 and COP26 summits, the spokesman added.\n\nA White House statement said Mr Biden \"conveyed his intention to strengthen the special relationship\" between the US and UK and \"revitalize transatlantic ties\".\n\nCongratulating Mr Biden and Ms Harris - who is the first woman and first black and Asian-American person to serve as vice-president - the PM said earlier that their inauguration was a \"step forward\" for the US, which had \"been through a bumpy period\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Johnson: \"It's a big moment for us - we have things we want to do together.\"\n\nMr Johnson said it was a \"big moment\" for the UK and the US and their \"joint common agenda\".\n\nThe BBC's political editor, Laura Kuenssberg has said the Biden Presidency \"brings some hope to government\" because No 10 believes \"there is a lot of overlap\" between what Mr Biden and Mr Johnson want to do.\n\nThe US president has previously said that he does not want a \"guarded border\" between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland following Brexit, and that any UK-US post-Brexit trade deal had to be \"contingent\" on respect for the Good Friday Agreement.\n\nThe PM and Mr Biden have never met in real life, but the new US president once referred to Mr Johnson as a \"physical and emotional clone\" of Mr Trump.\n\nAfter winning the presidential election, Mr Biden phoned Mr Johnson ahead of other European leaders and expressed his desire to strengthen the historic \"special relationship\" between the two countries.", "Keon Lincoln died from a gunshot and stab wounds police said\n\nThree more teenagers have been arrested on suspicion of murdering a 15-year-old who was attacked by a group of youths.\n\nKeon Lincoln was \"set upon\" at about 15:30 GMT on Thursday on Linwood Road in Handsworth, Birmingham, and died later in hospital, police said.\n\nA post mortem examination has revealed Keon died from a gunshot and stab wounds.\n\nDetectives have been granted extra time to question a 14-year-old boy arrested on Friday morning.\n\nAnother 14-year-old boy arrested later on Friday has been released under investigation.\n\nA boy, also aged 14, was arrested from his home in Birmingham on Saturday night, the force said.\n\nTwo other boys aged 15 and 16 were arrested from an address in Walsall in the early hours of Sunday.\n\nThe attackers fled the scene in a car which crashed into a house a short distance away\n\nDet Ch Insp Alastair Orencas, who is leading the murder inquiry, described the arrests as \"significant\".\n\n\"We are gathering a substantial amount of evidence which will take time to analyse, but we must be thorough to get justice for Keon's family.\n\n\"They have been fully updated with the latest developments.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Andrew RT Davies has taken over as leader of the Welsh Conservatives for the second time\n\nAndrew RT Davies has been named as the new leader of the Welsh Conservatives in the Senedd for a second time.\n\nMr Davies succeeds Paul Davies who resigned from his post on Saturday after drinking with other politicians in the Senedd, four days into a Wales-wide alcohol ban in licensed premises.\n\nIn a statement, Andrew RT Davies said it was \"a great honour and privilege\".\n\nHe has already announced his shadow cabinet, which includes four women.\n\nThere are no responsibilities for Paul Davies or Darren Millar, who also previously apologised for being part of the group who were drinking at the Senedd.\n\nMr Davies said his party \"will put forward a positive plan to get Wales moving again\" and \"unleash our country's potential\" at the Senedd election, scheduled for May.\n\n\"I'm pleased to have moved quickly this afternoon and announce my Welsh Conservative shadow cabinet which is built on the strong foundations of experience, talent and vision,\" he said.\n\n\"We are in a moment like no other, and the Covid-19 pandemic has sadly only served to shine a spotlight on the challenges in people's everyday lives.\n\n\"We shouldn't doubt our country's potential. Wales is full of ambitious people and communities that crave the opportunity to succeed.\"\n\nThe Conservatives' shadow cabinet reshuffle sees Angela Burns MS replace the new leader as shadow health minister and Mark Isherwood MS replace Darren Millar MS as chief whip.\n\nDavid Melding MS has been appointed shadow minister for mental health, wellbeing, culture and sport.\n\nJanet Finch-Saunders MS remains as shadow minister for environment, energy and rural affairs, and Suzy Davies MS in education, skills and Welsh language.\n\nLaura Anne Jones MS stays as shadow minister for equalities, children and young people, but with extra responsibilities for housing and local government.\n\nRussell George MS remains in the shadow cabinet, responsible for the economy, transport and mid Wales.\n\nIn 2018, Mr Davies, the Member of the Senedd for South Wales Central, quit as leader of the Conservative group after seven years in charge.\n\nHe was given the unanimous backing of fellow Welsh Conservatives in the Senedd.\n\nWelsh secretary Simon Hart, MP for Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire, tweeted his congratulations to \"a formidable campaigner\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAndrew RT Davies faced criticism earlier this month from former Tory politicians and Labour after comparing rioting in the US Congress to people who backed a second referendum on Brexit.\n\nThe deputy leader of the UK Labour Party said it was was a \"disgrace that the Welsh Conservatives\" had appointed \"this Donald Trump tribute act\" as leader.\n\nAngela Rayner MP said: \"Just weeks ago, Labour called on the Conservatives to suspend Andrew RT Davies and remove him as a candidate over his disgraceful and dangerous comments equating peaceful democratic debate in the UK with deadly violence at the US Capitol.\n\n\"The Conservative Party failed to act and he has refused to apologise.\n\n\"It is a disgrace that the Welsh Conservatives have just appointed him leader and their candidate for first minister of Wales.\n\n\"The people of Wales deserve so much better than this Donald Trump tribute act.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru leader Adam Price MS said: \"After a car crash the backseat driver returns to put Wales in reverse.\n\n\"Once rejected by his own Senedd team, he will now embark on his pet project of stripping our Senedd of powers and setting Welsh democracy back decades.\"\n\nHis appointment comes just a day after Paul Davies stood down along with Tory MS Darren Millar, who was chief whip, in connection with the same incident.\n\nBoth have apologised for drinking alcohol with their meals on 8 and 9 December but both deny having broken the Covid-19 rules in place at the time.\n\nWelsh Conservatives chairman Glyn Davies said: \"They've both been friends of mine a long time but I could see the way the story was developing and I must say I think it was inevitable in the end.\n\n\"Obviously, I've been pretty disappointed with the position that we find ourselves in but this is politics and it's a challenge.\"\n\nAn investigation by the Senedd's authorities found five people, including four members of the Welsh Parliament, drank alcohol on its premises during the Wales-wide alcohol ban.\n\nA third member of the Senedd, Labour's Alun Davies, apologised earlier in the week and has been suspended by his party.\n\nBBC Wales has asked for clarification as to the identity of the fourth Senedd member investigators have referred to.\n\nPaul Smith, the Tory group chief of staff, was the fifth person involved.\n\nThe Senedd has referred the \"possible breach\" of Covid rules to Cardiff council and its own standards watchdog.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Mixed Martial Arts\n\nDustin Poirier (left) has had nine mixed martial arts fights since November 2016, while Conor McGregor has had just three Former two-weight world champion Conor McGregor was left stunned on his return to the UFC as Dustin Poirier claimed victory in their rematch at UFC 257. McGregor came out of retirement for a third time to face fellow 32-year-old Poirier at Abu Dhabi's Fight Island. And although the Irishman edged the first round, Poirier unleashed a flurry of punches to seal a technical knockout two minutes 32 seconds into round two. \"I'm gutted, it's a tough one to swallow,\" said McGregor. \"I felt stronger than him, but his leg kicks were good. I didn't adjust. My leg was badly compromised, I've never experienced those low calf kicks, and I wasn't as comfortable as I needed to be. \"I have no excuses. It was a phenomenal performance by Dustin. I have to dust it off and come back. I need activity, you don't get away with being inactive in this business.\"\n• None Trilogies, Pacquiao or YouTuber - what next for beaten McGregor?\n• None UFC 257 - All the action as it happened When the pair first met in a featherweight bout in September 2014, McGregor stopped the American inside 106 seconds, setting \"the Notorious\" on course for global stardom. He became the UFC's first simultaneous two-weight champion before facing Floyd Mayweather in one of the richest bouts in boxing history in 2017. Poirier, meanwhile, had to gradually work his way back into title contention and is now the number-two ranked lightweight contender, losing just two of his 13 fights since 2014. McGregor now has a 22-5 mixed martial arts record having lost three of his past six UFC fights McGregor has been relatively inactive though. Since losing to Khabib Nurmagomedov in 2018, he has had just 40 seconds in the octagon - beating Donald 'Cowboy' Cerrone in style last January. But McGregor seemed to start well in front of about 2,000 fans at the new 18,000-capacity Etihad Arena. He survived an early takedown and pinned Poirier against the fence for most of the first round, landing a few shoulder strikes like those that did so much damage against Cerrone. McGregor said before the fight that what motivates him now is building a \"highlights reel like a movie\", and he tagged Poirier with a couple of right-hand shots. But, unlike their first fight, Poirier was unmoved. Poirier admitted McGregor won the mind games before they met in 2014. This time round, instead of swapping verbal barbs before the fight, McGregor pledged to donate $500,000 (£367,000) to Poirier's charity and at the weigh-in Poirier presented McGregor with a bottle of his own brand of Louisiana hot sauce. And it was the American southpaw that brought the heat midway through the second round. Having replied to that early pressure with a series of leg kicks, he pounced to inflict the first TKO/KO defeat of McGregor's MMA career and take his own record to 27-6. \"It was a lot of things, but it wasn't payback. That wasn't the driving force,\" said Poirier. \"The first time I was a deer in the headlights. This time I was just fighting another man who bleeds like me. \"The goal was to be technical, pick my shots and not brawl at all. Then I had him hurt so I went a little crazy.\" What now for Poirier? Poirier's first world title shot - against Nurmagomedov - came 31 fights into his MMA career Since beating McGregor in 2018, lightweight champion Nurmagomedov won unification bouts against Poirier and Justin Gaethje to stay undefeated, announcing his retirement immediately after beating Gaethje in October. Nurmagomedov's title is yet to be vacated and UFC president Dana White said this week that the Russian may consider returning for a rematch with McGregor or Poirier if he \"saw something spectacular\". But speaking after UFC 257, White said: \"He said to me, 'be honest with yourself, I'm so many levels above these guys. I've beaten these guys'. \"I don't know, it doesn't sound very positive, but he won't hold the division up.\" In the co-main event, former Bellator world champion Michael Chandler marked his UFC debut with an impressive first-round knockout of sixth-ranked lightweight Dan Hooker, who Poirier beat last time out. Poirier said: \"It was a great win, but to come in and beat a guy I just beat and get a title shot? I've had more than 20 UFC fights, fighting the toughest of the toughest guys to get my hands on gold [a belt]. \"Let Chandler and Charles Oliveira go at it. That [Chandler] doesn't interest me at this point - or I'll go and sell hot sauce. A rematch with Conor interests me, and I've always wanted to beat Nate Diaz.\" \"Conor McGregor's not an old dog, he's definitely ready to keep going. \"Going around doing other things is not what Conor needs. He's young, fit and still ready to go. He'll 100% be back.\"\n• None All the goals, highlights and drama from Saturday's fourth-round ties are", "Watch: Vaccine plea to prioritise those with learning disabilities\n\nAs high risk groups continue to be immunised, there are growing concerns that people with learning disabilities have been missed out. \"Just because we've got a learning disability, doesn't mean we should sit in the corner and rot,\" says Amanda. \"We need help now.\" \"There are so many people that are going to die, and it's not fair.\" \"Even before Covid, more than four in 10 people with a learning disability died of a lung condition like pneumonia,\" says Professor Tuffney-Wijne, of Kingston University. \"As a group of people, they really are at risk.\" Legal action is being taken against the Department of Health and Social Care, which says it is working hard to vaccinate all those at risk. The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation said it had made \"a clinical decision to prioritise those with profound and severe learning disabilities within our first six categories\".", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nBruno Fernandes' superb 78th-minute free-kick gave Manchester United victory in a thrilling FA Cup tie with old rivals Liverpool at Old Trafford.\n\nLiverpool led a fantastic contest through Mohamed Salah, who then equalised after Mason Greenwood and Marcus Rashford had struck for the hosts either side of the break.\n\nBut in a game which had everything last week's drab stalemate between this pair at Anfield lacked, Fernandes came off the bench to have the final word after Fabinho had fouled Edinson Cavani on the edge of the area.\n• None Don't worry about us, says Reds boss Klopp\n\nFernandes might have been slightly off the pace in recent games but when Ole Gunnar Solskjaer needed his £47m inspiration to come up with another special moment, the Portuguese delivered, bending his shot round the wall and beyond Allison's reach.\n\nThe victory earns United a home meeting with an in-form West Ham side managed by former boss David Moyes in the fifth round.\n\nBut the search for form goes on for Liverpool, whose only win in seven games since that seven-goal hammering of Crystal Palace came against Aston Villa's kids in the last round, and who have a meeting with Jose Mourinho's Tottenham looming on Thursday.\n• None Watch all the goals from the FA Cup fourth round\n\nIt was not quite the ending Solskjaer served up when he won a previous fourth-round meeting between these sides but, as in 1999, they had to come from behind.\n\nAnd while Fernandes applied the devastating finish, that goal should not be allowed to overshadow Rashford's contribution to United's victory.\n\nSo much has been said about the England forward as a social crusader it is sometimes easy to forget he also needs to be judged as a footballer.\n\nAt only 23, he is still a long way off his prime but he is developing into an outstanding forward, with vision to match his speed and finishing ability.\n\nThe pass that created Greenwood's equaliser was superb. Taking possession just inside his own half, Rashford delivered a 60-yard pass with such accuracy all Greenwood needed to do was take one touch to control with his chest before drilling low into the far corner.\n\nRashford's raw pace put Liverpool's defence under constant stress and the delicate touch that took him past Rhys Williams by the touchline in a move that ended with Paul Pogba curling wide was sensational.\n\nAnd then there was his goal, which needed a perfectly-timed run to go beyond the Liverpool defence and reach Greenwood's through ball, and then a cool head to apply the finish.\n\nAt that point, it seemed United had the game under control. It did not quite work out that way and once again, Fernandes, who has won four Premier League player of the month awards out of the seven he has been eligible for since leaving Sporting Lisbon less than 12 months ago, underlined his credentials as English football's most influential player at present.\n\nSalah's effort was the first time Liverpool had been ahead at Old Trafford since January 2017, since when Liverpool have won both the Champions League and Premier League, a clear indication that whatever issues Jurgen Klopp is wrestling with at the moment, they are not insurmountable.\n\nThe finish for the striker's 18th goal of the season did not hint at a lack of confidence as he raced on to Roberto Firmino's precise through ball, having escaped the attentions of Victor Lindelof, and lifted his shot beyond the reach of Dean Henderson.\n\nEvidently, what Klopp needs is to find a solution in defence. Williams was shaky and at fault for Rashford's goal, while Fabinho was exposed by United in this game and Cavani exploited the Brazilian's defensive inexperience to earn the free-kick that won the game.\n\nEven so, after Salah equalised from close range after United had lost possession to James Milner and never recovered their position after working their way up-field from a short goal-kick, the visitors did have chances to win it themselves.\n\nBut Dean Henderson saved from Trent Alexander-Arnold and Salah before Fernandes struck - so Liverpool's wait for a first FA Cup win since 1921 at Old Trafford, and Jurgen Klopp's for a first win at United full stop, goes on.\n\nManchester United are next in action against Sheffield United in the Premier League at Old Trafford on Wednesday, 27 January (20:15GMT). Liverpool play at Tottenham on Thursday, 28 January (20:00GMT).\n• None Manchester United have eliminated Liverpool from the FA Cup proper for the 10th time; in the competition's history, only Liverpool themselves (12 v Everton) have knocked a particular side out more times (including finals).\n• None Liverpool have won just one of their past 15 matches at Old Trafford in all competitions (D4 L10), and are winless in their last eight at the ground (D4 L4).\n• None Manchester United have won each of their past eight home games in the FA Cup; only from 1908 to 1912 have they had a better winning run on home soil in the competition (9 games).\n• None Liverpool are the first reigning Premier League champion to be eliminated from the FA Cup as early as the fourth round since Manchester City in 2014-15.\n• None Liverpool have lost back-to-back games in all competitions for the first time since March 2020.\n• None Roberto Firmino has assisted Mohamed Salah for 18 goals in all competitions for Liverpool, the most any player has set up another for the Reds under Jurgen Klopp. Since they first played together in 2017-18, this is the most one player has assisted another for all Premier League sides in all competitions.\n• None Mason Greenwood scored his first goal for Man Utd in 11 appearances in all competitions, ending his longest run of games without a goal for the club. Aged 19 years and 115 days, he was the youngest Man Utd player to score against Liverpool since Wayne Rooney in January 2005 in the Premier League (19y 83d).\n• None Marcus Rashford has scored more goals at Old Trafford against Liverpool than he has against any other opponent on home soil for Manchester United (4).\n• None Since his Man Utd debut in February 2020, Bruno Fernandes has scored more goals than any other player for Premier League clubs (28).\n• None No player has scored more goals for Premier League clubs in all competitions this season than Salah for Liverpool (19, level with Harry Kane).\n• None Attempt missed. Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) left footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the right following a set piece situation.\n• None Paul Pogba (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Victor Lindelöf (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Edinson Cavani (Manchester United) hits the right post with a header from the centre of the box. Assisted by Bruno Fernandes with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Marcus Rashford (Manchester United) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Aaron Wan-Bissaka.\n• None Goal! Manchester United 3, Liverpool 2. Bruno Fernandes (Manchester United) from a free kick with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None All the goals, highlights and drama from Saturday's fourth-round ties are", "A protester holds a poster that reads \"One for all and all for one\" in support of opposition leader Navalany\n\nTens of thousands of people rallied across Russia on Saturday in some of the largest demonstrations held against President Vladimir Putin in years.\n\nCrowds defied police to show support for opposition leader Alexei Navalny - who was arrested last weekend after returning to the country following a near-fatal nerve agent attack last year.\n\nMonitors say more than 3,000 were arrested for taking part in rallies in dozens of cities across the country.\n\nReuters estimated that some 40,000 gathered in Moscow alone, but authorities played down the figure and said only a tenth of that number showed up.\n\nRiot police were pictured dragging away and beating some protesters. The US and UK have condemned the heavy-handed response and called for the release of peaceful protesters.\n\nJosep Borrell, the EU foreign policy chief, also expressed concern and said foreign ministers would discuss \"next steps\" on Monday.\n\nOVD Info, an independent NGO that monitors rallies, said more than 1,200 had been detained in Moscow alone.\n\nDemonstrations, held from Russia's Far East to St Petersburg, were some of the biggest seen in years.\n\nIn Omsk protesters braced freezing temperatures of almost -30C (-22F) to protest against Mr Navalny's detention.\n\nAnd conditions were even colder, -52C (-62F), at another protest held in Yakutsk in Siberia.\n\nMr Navalny, a lawyer and blogger, has long been a thorn in the side of the Kremlin. He forged reputation as an anti-corruption campaigner and has become the most prominent face of the country's opposition.\n\nHe was arrested immediately on arrival into the country last Sunday after flying home from Germany, where he had been recovering from an attempted assassination attempt which he and investigative journalists have blamed on Russian authorities - a claim officials deny.\n\nPolice said Mr Navalny had violated parole conditions and have kept him in custody pending further hearings.\n\nMuch of the international community have condemned his arrest and called for his immediate release.\n\nMr Navalny called for street protests and his team further galvanised support this week after releasing an investigative documentary about an opulent Black Sea property allegedly owned by President Putin.\n\nThe investigation, now watched more than 70m times, alleges the property cost £1bn ($1.37bn) and was paid for \"with the largest bribe in history\" but the Kremlin denies it belongs to the president.\n\nRussian authorities had warned in advance of Saturday that any unauthorised demonstrations would be \"immediately suppressed\".\n\nSome demonstrators were pictured with injuries, including wounds to the head, following the promised crackdown.", "Vaccination appointments for people aged 70-79 are being delivered from Monday - but plans to use distinctive blue envelopes in some parts of the country have been delayed.\n\nThe aim is to have this group receive their first dose by mid-February.\n\nOn Sunday morning, the Scottish government said some letters would be sent out in blue envelopes and given Royal Mail priority.\n\nBut in a statement published later it said the envelopes were not yet ready.\n\nIt added that the change has no impact on the vaccination programme timetable.\n\nVaccinations for over-80s are continuing, with Nicola Sturgeon revealing on Sunday that about 40% of this age group had received a first dose of the vaccine.\n\nAll appointments will initially be sent out in white envelopes which will have a window and a black NHS logo on the right hand side.\n\nThe blue envelopes were due to be sent out in Fife, Forth Valley, Ayrshire and Arran, Lanarkshire, Greater Glasgow and Clyde, and Lothian as part of a new booking system.\n\nUnder the system, patients are scheduled in order of priority and more boards are expected to make use of the technology as the vaccination programme expands.\n\nA Scottish government spokesman said the blue envelopes would be introduced \"as quickly as possible\".\n\nHe added: \"The blue envelopes we hoped to use were not ready in time for the first tranche of vaccine appointment invitations so distinctive NHS branded white envelopes are being used as a temporary measure.\n\n\"The absolute priority remains the roll-out of vaccinations and this temporary change to the envelope colour has absolutely no impact to our timetable.\n\n\"We continue to strongly urge everyone in the 70-79 age group to check all their post in the coming weeks and take up the offer of the vaccine when it is received,\" he added.\n\nAccording to the Scottish government's vaccine deployment plan, the 470,000 people aged in the 70 and 79 age bracket should receive their first dose by mid-February.\n\nSome patients may receive a phone call from their local health board as part of the appointment process.\n\nAnd all patients aged 75 to 79 in NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde will be invited via phone.\n\nA Royal Mail spokesman said \"clearly marked envelopes\" would be used to make it easier for the postal service to identify and prioritise this mail during sorting and delivery process.\n\nHe added: \"We are poised to make these letters even more noticeable in the coming weeks as we have agreed.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the Scottish government has said it is on track for all those aged 80 and over to have received their first dose of the vaccine by the end of the first week in February.\n\nThis age group are being contacted by telephone or another form of letter.\n\nMinisters have faced criticism over the pace of the vaccine rollout, and accusations that Scotland is \"lagging behind\" England on the vaccine roll-out.\n\nOpposition parties say vaccines are not being supplied to GPs' surgeries fast enough.\n\nAnd they point to the latest official figures which show that 13% of over 80s in Scotland had their first dose by Sunday 17 January, while 56.3% of same age group had been vaccinated in England.\n\nMs Sturgeon told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show that, a week on, the figure had reached about 40%.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon says the over 70s are to receive their vaccine date\n\nThe UK government Health Secretary Matt Hancock told Andrew Marr on Sunday that 75% of over-80s and three-quarters of UK care homes had received a first Covid vaccine in England.\n\nAbout 95% of Scottish care home residents have received their first dose, Ms Sturgeon told the Scottish government briefing on Friday.\n\nShe said the over-80s roll-out has been slower because the Scottish government has \"very deliberately\" concentrated on vaccinating care home residents first, which is \"more time consuming and labour intensive\".\n\nThis was designed to target the most vulnerable and was in line with the priority list compiled by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), which advises on vaccine rollout across the UK, she said.\n\nScotland's national clinical director Prof Jason Leitch has defended the plan, which has been challenged by the British Medical Association (BMA) for not getting second doses out quickly enough.\n\nProf Leitch told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"The difficulty with the BMA's position is that we would have to de-prioritise another group, either care home residents or the over-80s, in order to give a second dose to younger people.\n\n\"And that's what the Joint Committee on Vaccination have told us not to do.\n\n\"They have told us in very clear terms - give the first dose to as many vulnerable people as you can and that gives us the best chance of saving the most lives.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Deputy First Minister John Swinney told Politics Scotland that the Scottish government was \"actively exploring\" the possibility of stricter rules around facemasks.\n\nHe said the issue was being \"looked at\" after new rules announced in Germany last week required people to wear medical-grade facemasks on public transport and in shops.\n\nMr Swinney said progress was being made in reducing cases but hospitals were still under \"enormous pressure\" and it would be \"foolish\" to rule out strengthening restrictions further in the future.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nCheltenham Town came within nine minutes of one of the biggest shocks in recent FA Cup history before Manchester City staged a dramatic late rally to crush the dreams of the gallant League Two side.\n\nThe Robins, 72 places below City who sit second in the Premier League, threatened huge embarrassment for Pep Guardiola's side after Alfie May put Cheltenham ahead on the hour after a trademark long throw from captain Ben Tozer caused chaos in the area.\n\nCity, who made ten changes to the team that beat Aston Villa in the Premier League on Wednesday, spared their embarrassment when Phil Foden, the game's outstanding player, arrived at the far post to turn in substitute Joao Cancelo's long cross in the 81st minute.\n\nAnd the turnaround was complete three minutes later when a rare moment of slackness in the outstanding Cheltenham defence, with goalkeeper Josh Griffiths superb, switched off and Gabriel Jesus scored from Fernandinho's delivery.\n\nFerran Torres scored Manchester City's third with the last kick of the game to give the scoreline a cruel reflection on Cheltenham's heroic efforts.\n\nIt was so cruel on manager Michael Duff and his players, who now go back the battle for promotion from League Two, while City will be away at Swansea in the fifth round.\n\n\"I'm incredibly proud,\" the Robins boss said of his side's display. \"The players they brought on from the bench and they way they celebrated the goals tells you something. They know they've been in a game. They've done that to better teams than us.\"\n\nThe sight of Manchester City manager Guardiola disputing where Cheltenham could take a throw-in said everything about the way the League Two underdogs gave their mighty opponents a serious fright.\n\nTozer's throw-ins were causing all manner of problems and led to Cheltenham's goal but there was so much more to their performance than that set-piece weapon, a threat any manager in the game would utilise.\n\nCheltenham tried to play football when they got the chance, with goalscorer May, who has done the hard yards in non-league before playing for Doncaster and now Cheltenham, a leading light.\n\nRobins keeper Griffiths, who suffered the ignominy of being beaten from 71 yards by his Newport County opposite number Tom King in midweek, was in defiant form as he saved well from Riyad Mahrez and Torres, showing command throughout. Tozer's headed goalline clearance from Benjamin Mendy in the first half was also symbolic of their 'they shall not pass' approach.\n\nThere may have been no fans inside this compact stadium but there was still a real sense of occasion, the game being halted in the first half because of a firework display nearby.\n\nIn the end this will be a bitter disappointment to Cheltenham but they can be rightly proud and take huge confidence into their League Two promotion battle.\n\nDuff highlighted how financially important the cup run was for his club.\n\n\"It's essential,\" he added. \"Every pound coming in is probably worth a tenner in normal times.\n\n\"These games don't come around very often. It's a shame because [with fans] the place would've been bouncing. Would that have seen us through in the last 10 minutes? I'm not so sure - but the key is to enjoy it.\"\n\nGuardiola made 10 changes to his line-up to give Manchester City's shadow squad a chance to impress.\n\nSome, like the erratic Mendy, did not take that opportunity and it was someone establishing himself in City's side that spared the blushes of this expensively assembled squad.\n\nFoden was magnificent, so light on his feet with glorious ball control, endless creativity and the man pulling the strings for City even when they were struggling to break down resilient Cheltenham.\n\nThe 20-year-old was head and shoulders above his City team-mates. He was the one who was going to pull them out of their grim predicament if anyone was, and so it proved when he popped up with the crucial late equaliser that lifted Guardiola's team and deflated Cheltenham.\n\nFoden had already carved out chances for Mahrez and Gabriel Jesus that were not taken so it was a case of 'do it yourself' when he was the player on target.\n\nThe fact Guardiola was forced to use three subs in Ruben Dias, Ilkay Gundogan and Joao Cancelo once Cheltenham went ahead proved how worried the Premier League giants were.\n\nThis was an unimpressive, scratchy display from City's much-changed team, with Guardiola resting so many of the players who are giving them such an ominous look in the Premier League - luckily they had the brilliance of Foden to pull them out of a deep hole.\n\nGuardiola praised the England attacking midfielder for his impressive performance.\n\n\"Foden is in a great moment and with great confidence,\" he said.\n\n\"He is clinical in front of goal and he had a similar chance to the goal we scored at [Chelsea's] Stamford Bridge - he is playing really well.\"\n\nThe City manager suggested he was confident in the players he put out on the pitch.\n\n\"I didn't have regrets even when we were 1-0 down, we had clear chances from the first minute,\" he added.\n\n\"When they take advantage it gets complicated, but we got it to 1-1 and it was tight. We came here with humility and had the quality to make the difference.\"\n• None Cheltenham have lost all nine of their competitive meetings with Premier League sides, by an aggregate score of 6-23.\n• None City have won 10 consecutive games in all competitions for the first time since a run of 11 from August to October 2017.\n• None May's opener for Cheltenham was the first goal City had conceded in 509 minutes of action in all competitions, since Callum Hudson-Odoi's strike for Chelsea at the start of the month.\n• None Foden is City's top scorer in all competitions this season with nine goals in 25 appearances, one more than he netted in 38 games last season.\n• None Jesus has been involved in 12 goals in 13 FA Cup appearances for City, scoring eight and assisting four.\n• None May has scored four goals in his four FA Cup games for Cheltenham, with each of his eight goals in total in the competition coming in home games.\n• None Goal! Cheltenham Town 1, Manchester City 3. Ferran Torres (Manchester City) right footed shot from very close range to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Ilkay Gündogan.\n• None Attempt missed. Matty Blair (Cheltenham Town) right footed shot from the right side of the box is too high following a corner.\n• None Goal! Cheltenham Town 1, Manchester City 2. Gabriel Jesus (Manchester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Fernandinho with a through ball.\n• None Goal! Cheltenham Town 1, Manchester City 1. Phil Foden (Manchester City) left footed shot from very close range to the bottom left corner. Assisted by João Cancelo with a cross.\n• None Attempt missed. João Cancelo (Manchester City) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Riyad Mahrez.\n• None Attempt missed. Phil Foden (Manchester City) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by João Cancelo with a cross. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Hear from the former US president as he reflects on his time in office\n• None How can you eat well for £1 a portion?", "Some of the party-goers have travelled from Newcastle and London, police said\n\nA student party that attracted people from up to 200 miles away has been broken up by police.\n\nSome of the guests were found hiding in cupboards when officers raided the gathering in Lower Loveday Street, Birmingham, on Friday night.\n\nOne officer was assaulted as one guest made off but was not hurt, West Midlands Police said.\n\nParty-goers had travelled to the event from places such as Newcastle, Nottingham and London.\n\nThe flats are private accommodation but predominantly used by students from Aston University and University College Birmingham, West Midlands Police said.\n\nInsp Steve Barnes added: \"We understand that young people are frustrated at not being able to enjoy themselves and I do feel their pain, but we have to stick to the rules so that we can get back to some sort of normality sooner rather than later.\n\n\"People are dying and we have to prevent the spread of this virus.\"\n\nOfficers were also called to a party on Soho Road where shop owners had set up a sound system, and a 30th birthday party attended by about 20 people in Kingstanding.\n\nAcross 32 breaches of Covid-19 lockdown rules on Friday night, the force issued 58 fines of £200 and five of £1,000.\n\nThe West Midlands is under an England-wide lockdown with people not allowed to leave home to meet others socially.\n\nOn Thursday, the government said fines of £800 would be introduced in England this week for anyone attending a house party of more than 15 people.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "People made the most of the snowy slopes of Gold Hill in Shaftesbury, Dorset\n\nSevere weather warnings are in place across much of the UK after large parts of the country saw heavy snowfall.\n\nThe blanket of snow drew people outside for sledging and winter walks, but motorists have been warned to take extra care on icy roads with sub-zero temperatures forecast overnight.\n\nSeveral coronavirus vaccination and testing centres were closed in England and Wales due to the conditions.\n\nPolice reminded the public to keep to lockdown rules while out in the snow.\n\nOfficers in Wandsworth, south-west London, encouraged people with gardens to play in the snow at home.\n\nAnd police in Rutland, Leicestershire, were among several forces questioning why people were leaving their homes to go sledging.\n\nContinuing coronavirus lockdowns across the four UK nations mean most of the population must stay at home, except for a limited number of reasons.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. For cats Bonny and Freddy, the snow is a chance to explore. Credit: Rachel Prew\n\nAs well as four vaccination centres in Wales, six Covid testing centres in the West Midlands had to close due to heavy snow on Sunday.\n\nHighways England warned that the snow had caused collisions on the M3, M27 and M25 in southern England, with the agency urging drivers to only travel if absolutely necessary.\n\nThose using the roads for essential journeys have been urged to allow plenty of extra time for their travel and pedestrians and cyclists are also advised to be cautious.\n\nThe Met Office put a yellow weather warning for snow in place on Sunday, stretching from coast to coast in southern England and ending just south of Manchester.\n\nIt is also in place for western and northern areas of Scotland, most of Northern Ireland and all of Wales apart from Anglesey.\n\nAn amber warning for snow in Nottingham and Stoke meant travel disruption and power cuts were likely on Sunday evening.\n\nYellow weather warnings for ice are in place until 11:00 GMT Monday for all of Wales and Northern Ireland, northern and eastern Scotland and much of southern England and the Midlands.\n\nMany people swapped their usual daily bout of exercise for sledging on Parliament Hill on Hampstead Heath, north London, but police urged people to stay at home\n\nGritters leapt into action near Touchen-end in Berkshire\n\nIn Wales, appointments at the Bridgend, Rhondda, Abercynon and Merthyr Tydfil coronavirus vaccination centres were rescheduled for safety reasons, the Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board said.\n\nUp to 1in (3cm) of snow was forecast to fall in most areas of Wales, with 4-6in (10-15cm) expected in the Brecon Beacons and Snowdonia.\n\nIn the West Midlands, coronavirus testing centres at Castle Vale Stadium, the Arcadian Centre and Maypole Youth Centre were closed, Birmingham City Council said.\n\nFacilities in Moat Street, Coventry and The Place in Oakengates in Shropshire also closed, along with one in Lichfield, Staffordshire, local MP Michael Fabricant said.\n\nAnd in Devon, a gritting lorry overturned on Dartmoor. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMet Office forecaster Simon Partridge said a band of hail, sleet, snow and rain moved in through Wales and south-west England in the early hours before sweeping across the UK and stalling over the Midlands, which saw some of the heaviest snow.\n\nColeshill, near Birmingham, had seen had 3.5in (9cm) by Sunday lunchtime.\n\nThe snow clouds eased away on Sunday evening but overnight temperatures could be as low as -4C to -6C (25F to 21F) for a lot of the south of the UK, the forecaster added.\n\n\"Some localised spots, likely in the Midlands, could see it as low as -10C (14F),\" he said.\n\nSnowmen popped up in the grounds of Guildford Castle, Surrey\n\nAs shown on the M1 in Bedfordshire, the wintry showers have caused hazardous driving conditions\n\nChris Fawkes of BBC Weather said some stretches of the M4 and M5 had been completely covered in snow at some points on Sunday morning.\n\nHe said this was partly because traffic has been low due to lockdown restrictions - and vehicles are needed to help grit mix into snow to make it melt.", "People who have received a Covid-19 vaccine could still pass the virus on to others and should continue following lockdown rules, England's deputy chief medical officer has warned.\n\nWriting in the Sunday Telegraph, Prof Jonathan Van-Tam stressed that scientists \"do not yet know the impact of the vaccine on transmission\".\n\nHe said vaccines offer \"hope\" but infection rates must come down quickly.\n\nMatt Hancock said 75% of over-80s in the UK have now had a first virus jab.\n\nBoth the Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines require two doses, and figures so far reflect those given the first dose.\n\nThe health secretary told the BBC's Andrew Marr that around three quarters of care homes had also been vaccinated.\n\nProf Van-Tam said \"no vaccine has ever been\" 100% effective, so there is no guaranteed protection.\n\nIt is possible to contract the virus in the two- to three-week period after receiving a jab, he said - and it is \"better\" to allow \"at least three weeks\" for an immune response to fully develop in older people.\n\n\"Even after you have had both doses of the vaccine you may still give Covid-19 to someone else and the chains of transmission will then continue,\" Prof Van-Tam said.\n\n\"If you change your behaviour you could still be spreading the virus, keeping the number of cases high and putting others at risk who also need their vaccine but are further down the queue.\"\n\nLast week, the person coordinating Israel's Covid response reportedly suggested a single dose of the Pfizer vaccine might not be as effective as reported.\n\nIsrael has one of the highest vaccination rates in the world against coronavirus, with scientists keenly watching data shared by the country for signs of how effective the vaccine is when given to the whole population.\n\nThe country's health minister Yuli Edelstein told the Andrew Marr Show that some people \"still get sick\" with coronavirus after getting the first dose of the vaccine, but said there were \"some encouraging signs of less severe diseases, less people hospitalised after the first dose\".\n\nSenior doctors have called on health officials in England to cut the gap between the first and second doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.\n\nThe maximum wait was extended from three to 12 weeks in order to get the first jab to more people across the UK.\n\nBut the British Medical Association said the policy was \"difficult to justify\" and the gap should be reduced to six weeks.\n\nIts chair, Dr Chaand Nagpaul, told the BBC there were \"growing concerns\" that the vaccine could become less effective with doses 12 weeks apart.\n\nResponding to the criticism, Prof Van-Tam said: \"What none of these (who ask reasonable questions) will tell me is: who on the at-risk list should suffer slower access to their first dose so that someone else who's already had one dose (and therefore most of the protection) can get a second?\"\n\nA further 32 vaccine sites are set to open across England this week.\n\nMore than 5.8 million people in the UK have received their first dose of a vaccine, according to the government's coronavirus dashboard.\n\nNHS England said new vaccine sites were preparing to open across England from Monday.\n\nThey include Dudley's Black Country Living Museum, which doubled as a set for TV series Peaky Blinders, Plymouth Argyle FC's stadium Home Park and an old Ikea store in Stratford, London.\n\nThe 32 sites will prioritise health and social care staff on Monday, and other priority patients from Tuesday.\n\nThey will bring the number of mass vaccination sites across England to 49 - as well as 70 pharmacies, more than 1,000 GP surgeries and 250 hospitals offering the jab.\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said on Friday that more than a third of over-80s had received their first dose of a vaccine.\n\nMore than half of over-80s in Northern Ireland have had the jab, though Health Minister Robin Swann said \"it will take time\" for the programme to have a \"major effect.\"\n\nIn Wales, four vaccination centres have been shut as officials brace for more snowy weather.\n\nProf Van-Tam stressed that the UK needs to \"bring the number of cases down as soon as we can whilst we vaccinate our most vulnerable\".\n\nAnother 1,348 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test were reported in the UK on Saturday, in addition to 33,552 new infections.\n\nThere were 4,076 Covid patients were on hospital ventilators in the UK as of Friday, according to government data.\n\nThat is higher than during the first wave, when the peak was 3,301 on 12 April.\n\nHow has coronavirus affected you? What have been your experiences of vaccination, lockdown, work or travel? Email: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Rescuers in China have freed the first of a group of miners who have been trapped 600m underground for two weeks, state media report.\n\nAn explosion closed the entrance tunnel to the Hushan gold mine in Shandong province on 10 January.\n\nTV footage from China has shown the first miner being brought to the surface, as emergency workers applaud.", "Jim Haynes was both an icon and a relic of the Swinging Sixties, an American in Paris who was famous for inviting hundreds of thousands of strangers to dinner at his home. He died this month.\n\nLast February, I took my last trip abroad before lockdown closed in on us. I bought a last-minute ticket and jumped on the Eurostar to Paris, motivated by a sudden urge to have dinner with a friend. Jim Haynes had entered his late 80s and his health was declining, yet I knew he would welcome a visit. Jim always welcomed visitors.\n\nThe essence of that trip now feels like the antithesis of Covid times. I was far from the only guest wandering into the warm glow of his atelier in the 14th arrondissement on a wet winter's night. Inside, people were squeezing, shoulder to shoulder, through the narrow kitchen. Strangers struck up conversations, bunched together in groups, balancing their dinners on paper plates and reaching over each other to press the plastic spout on a communal box of wine.\n\nJim had operated open-house policy at his home every Sunday evening for more than 40 years. Absolutely anyone was welcome to come for an informal dinner, all you had to do was phone or email and he would add your name to the list. No questions asked. Just put a donation in an envelope when you arrive.\n\nThere would be a buzz in the air, as people of various nationalities - locals, immigrants, travellers - milled around the small, open-plan space. A pot of hearty food bubbled on the hob and servings would be dished out on to a trestle table, so you could help yourself and continue to mingle. It was for good reason that Jim was nicknamed the \"godfather of social networking\". He led the way in connecting strangers, long before we outsourced it all to Silicon Valley.\n\nA ballet dancer staying with Jim in the late 1970s suggested cooking for him and friends to repay the hospitality; the dinners became weekly for 40-plus years\n\nI only knew Jim in his later years, but his entire life was extraordinary. Born in Louisiana in 1933, he had lived in Venezuela as a teenager; founded the alternative culture centre Arts Lab in London, where he mixed with David Bowie, John Lennon and Yoko Ono; ran a sexual liberation magazine in Amsterdam, and all before becoming a university lecturer in sexual politics in Paris, his home since 1969.\n\nAnd yet he was often seen as a son of Scotland, following an influential stint there in the late '50s and late '60s, when he established Edinburgh's first paperback bookshop, co-founded the Traverse Theatre and helped kickstart the Fringe festival.\n\nWhen Jim died, at 87, earlier this month, a Herald obituary called him \"the unofficial agent for the beat generation in Scotland\".\n\nWhile a lot of highly regarded people tend to retreat into their own circles after finding success, Jim never stopped reaching out to new people. The first time I heard from him was an email out of the blue in 2008.\n\nI had written a newspaper article from Barcelona - not the one in Spain but the one on the coast of Venezuela - and it had brought back memories for him. His father worked in the oil business and had moved the family there when Jim was in his early teens.\n\nMy article was about meeting people through the Couchsurfing website, where locals opened their homes to strangers for free around the world. This was before AirBnB worked out how to monetise the idea, and the concept of non-commercial cultural exchange was right up Jim's street. \"When you are back in Europe, come to dinner,\" he wrote, promising to tell me about an old travel project of his own that he thought I might like.\n\nIntrigued, I headed to Paris soon after my return. I had imagined some sort of intimate dinner party with cultural elites, but what I found was more like a student house party - albeit with more mature attendees and only moderate alcohol consumption. (Jim was teetotal and proceedings ended strictly by 23:00.)\n\nJim never cooked himself, instead he invited guest cooks\n\nJim instantly greeted me like an old friend and, as we chatted, he reached up on to his living room shelves to offer me a book. People to People read the cover line. It was the project he had wanted to tell me about.\n\nHe explained that, in the late 1980s, he had founded a guidebook series for countries behind the Iron Curtain. Instead of the standard descriptions of sights and hotel listings, the format was like an address book, including the contact details for hundreds of in-country hosts. The idea was that if people could not easily see the Western world themselves, he would bring it to them via travellers. It was \"couchsurfing\", but offline.\n\nThe hand-sized copy he pressed into my palm centred on Poland. I loved it and decided to travel there to see if the participants were still up for receiving random visitors, even though so much had changed.\n\nJim created the People to People guidebooks for multiple Eastern European countries\n\nEach person was filed under the town where they lived, followed by two or three lines, including their address, date of birth, phone number and hobbies. Through a combination of Google and snail-mail, I managed to get hold of several of them. Most had all known Jim either personally or through friends of friends. All had fond memories of the project and all were still willing to act as local guides to show me around.\n\nIn Gdansk, I asked civil servant Krystyna Wróblewska why she had signed up originally. She told me she had been working as a media fixer, helping reporters cover the anti-communist shipyard strikes. \"They [the media] went looking for women with handkerchiefs on their heads and horses with carts, perpetuating the same old picture. I suppose I wanted to meet people to subvert stereotypes and show that not all the pictures you have in your head are real.\"\n\nKrystyna Wroblewska signed up in the late 1980s to show travellers around Gdansk\n\n\"It surprised me how easy it was,\" Jim insisted to me. He produced guides for Romania, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, the Baltics and Russia, featuring thousands upon thousands of locals. Some of his contacts came from his personal, multi-volume address books, and he got new sign-ups after placing interviews in local papers and jazz magazines.\n\n\"Some of the older people in Russia were scared about being put on a Western list, because they thought it would be easier to be rounded up and carted away,\" he said. \"But a lot of younger people wanted to be in the book… I was getting sackfuls of mail. I'm sure the local postman wondered what the hell was going on.\"\n\nOver the years, the authorities often wondered what was going on at Jim's place. Not least during the period when he started issuing fake passports. It was back in the 1970s, after he had caught wind of an American traveller, who, 20 years before, had renounced his American citizenship and created his own \"world passport\".\n\nFor Jim, non-national passports seemed to encapsulate his ideals of peace and global freedom. So he turned his home into an \"embassy\" and started producing world passports for anyone who wanted one. The documents were so convincing that some people used them to cross borders.\n\n\"Look, you can't do this any more. You have to stop making passports,\" exasperated French police would say when they came to his door. But Jim continued until he ended up in court. Though he was eventually acquitted of fraud and counterfeiting, he was found guilty of \"confusing the public\".\n\nJim always dismissed the idea that it was a naïve undertaking, but he was trusting to a fault, according to some of his friends, and this led to financial mistakes and legal troubles over the years. He wouldn't deal with problems, waiting until they blew up instead.\n\n\"I often had to stop him signing things. Sometimes he didn't even read them,\" says Jesper, his son, who was born during Jim's marriage to Viveka Reuterskiold in the 1960s.\n\nJesper grew up in Stockholm after they separated, but visited Paris every summer from the age of 10.\n\n\"There were mattresses on every spare bit of floor, people sleeping everywhere,\" he says, as he recalls his earlier visits. \"It was exciting and fun, but sometimes I felt jealous. Lots of people did. People were very possessive of him. People wanted to claim him, but he was unclaimable.\"\n\nJesper credits his father with opening the world to him. He used Jim's contacts books extensively as he travelled and he is currently living with his own family in Bangkok, where he briefly replicated the Sunday dinners. \"Just for six months... It was a lot of work.\"\n\nDuring the 1990s, the crowds started to dwindle at the Paris dinners, as the original hippy crowd aged. But then a new wave of younger visitors started to get in touch. The bloggers had discovered him.\n\n\"The internet both ruined and saved the dinners,\" says Seamas McSwiney, a close friend who helped on Sunday evenings for decades. \"It became less spontaneous as people tried to book six months ahead - which was anathema to how Jim travelled and also annoying as those people were more likely to do a no-show - but at the same time, these online articles re-energised the idea. There was a younger crowd and new momentum.\"\n\nAt the dinners' peak, Jim would welcome up to 120 guests, filling his atelier and spilling out into the cobbled back garden. An estimated 150,000 people have come over the years.\n\n\"The door was always open,\" says Amanda Morrow, an Australian journalist who stayed with Jim for a year-and-a-half. \"It was a revolving door of guests - some who wanted to stay over, and others who just wanted to say hello. Jim never said no to anyone.\"\n\nThe only thing that really got Jim down was people leaving,\" says Jesper. \"He struggled with that. He didn't like being on his own... Though fortunately there was usually a new person to distract him.\"\n\nIn the final years, Jim would sit quietly, as others gravitated into his orbit. On my last visit, he looked frail and pained by his various ailments, but he also had an air of contentment, clearly never tiring of being the conduit for human interactions.\n\n\"I was wondering when you'd come back,\" he said to me, in the rasping American accent he somehow had never lost.\n\nHere was a man who had spent time with Lennon and Bowie, who was once friends with Sonia Orwell and used to walk round Paris with Samuel Beckett. And yet he made everyone feel special. Every connection mattered.\n\n\"It felt like politician's trick, but it was natural,\" says Seamas.\n\nIn very recent times, Covid restrictions reduced the dinners' clockwork schedule, but his friends say he was not depressed by the pandemic. He had figured the get-togethers would resume and, until then, had enjoyed a smaller stream of visiting carers and, whenever possible, friends.\n\nAmid the outpouring of online tributes since his death in his sleep on 6 January, these words from Jesper stand out: \"His goal from early on was to introduce the whole world to each other. He almost succeeded.\"\n\nYou may also be interested in:", "The EHIC card is making way for the GHIC card under a new agreement with the EU\n\nUK residents can apply for a Global Health Insurance Card (GHIC) to access emergency medical care in the EU when their current EHIC card runs out.\n\nUnder a new agreement with the EU, both cards will offer equivalent healthcare protection when people are on holiday, studying or travelling for business.\n\nThis includes emergency treatment as well as treatment needed for a pre-existing condition.\n\nThe new GHIC card is free and can be obtained via the official GHIC website.\n\nCurrent European Health Insurance Cards (EHIC) are valid as long as they are in date, and can continue to be used when travelling to the EU.\n\nYou don't need to apply for a GHIC until your current EHIC expires.\n\nPeople should apply at least two weeks before they plan to travel to ensure their card arrives on time.\n\nHealth Minister Edward Argar said: \"Our deal with the EU ensures the right for our citizens to access necessary healthcare on their holidays and travels to countries in the EU will continue.\n\n\"The GHIC is a key element of the UK's future relationship with the EU and will provide certainty and security for all UK residents.\"\n\nIf a UK resident is travelling without a card, they are still entitled to necessary healthcare, and should contact the NHS Business Services Authority (which covers the whole of the UK), which can arrange for payment should they require treatment when abroad.\n\nEHICs from EU member states will continue to be accepted by the NHS.\n\nIt is advised that anyone travelling overseas, whether to the EU or elsewhere in the world, should take out comprehensive travel insurance.", "A video featuring footage of a County Mayo man being consumed by fits of laughter while trying to record a birthday message for his son, has gone viral.\n\nVincent McDonnell was sending the message to his son David, who was celebrating his 40th birthday in Australia.\n\nHis younger son Paul got the video rolling, but the pair could not contain their laughter as they racked up the attempts.\n\nThe video has been viewed more than 1.5m times on Paul's Twitter account.", "The UK economy will \"get worse before it gets better\" as the country battles the pandemic, Chancellor Rishi Sunak has warned.\n\nThe chancellor told MPs the new national restrictions were necessary to control the spread of coronavirus.\n\nHowever, he said they would have a further significant economic impact,\n\n\"Even with the significant economic support we've provided, over 800,000 people have lost their job since February,\" he said.\n\n\"Sadly, we have not and will not be able to save every job and every business.\n\n\"But I am confident that our economic plan is supporting the finances of millions of people and businesses.\"\n\nThe chancellor said \"the road ahead will be tough\", but maintained that the government was \"taking the difficult but right long-term decisions for our country\".\n\nHe said that fiscal stimulus provided so far amounted to more than £280bn, while 1.2 million employers had furloughed almost 10 million employees.\n\nAt the same time, three million people had benefited from self-employment grants.\n\nMr Sunak said he would \"bear in mind\" calls to extend business rate relief and provide further support for the hospitality sector at the Budget in March.\n\nShadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds accused Mr Sunak of being \"out of ideas\" and providing \"nothing new\".\n\nShe said: \"The purpose of an update is to provide us with new information, not to repeat what we already know.\"\n\nThe chancellor's words reflect the fact that with a widespread lockdown, the first months of 2021 are likely to see a further contraction in the UK economy and probably an official double-dip recession. This reflects the physical shutdown nationwide of hospitality and retail, as well as the effect in the data of school shutdowns too.\n\nIn addition, consumers and workers are likely to be more cautious as the vaccine starts to be rolled out. So this is a very odd sort of economic tripwire. The challenge in the next weeks and months gets bigger, although not as big as it was last April. But beyond that, there is the hope of something normal.\n\nThe implication for the chancellor as he prepares a vital early March Budget, however, is further delay to the measures, such as tax rises, to deal with historic levels of pandemic government borrowing.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe UK is at the \"worst point\" of the pandemic, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has warned, but said the actions of the public \"could make a difference\".\n\nAt a No 10 briefing, Mr Hancock pleaded with people to follow the government's Covid rules until the vaccine could provide a \"way out\" of the pandemic.\n\nThe government earlier published its plan to immunise tens of millions of people by spring.\n\nSo far 2.3 million people in the UK have had a first Covid vaccine shot.\n\nAnd a total of 2.6 million doses have been given out across the country, with some people having received both doses.\n\nMr Hancock said the new variant of coronavirus was putting the NHS under \"significant pressure\", adding it was \"imperative\" that people limit their social contacts.\n\n\"The NHS, more than ever before, needs everybody to be doing something right now - and that something is to follow the rules,\" he said.\n\n\"I know there has been speculation about more restrictions, and we don't rule out taking further action if it is needed, but it is your actions now that can make a difference.\"\n\nThe health secretary said he could \"rule out\" tightening restrictions by removing support and childcare bubbles, however.\n\nHis comments follow similar warnings from Prime Minister Boris Johnson, and England's chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty, who said that the next few weeks will be \"the worst\" of the pandemic for the NHS.\n\nAccording to the latest figures, there have been another 529 deaths within 28 days of a positive test in the UK, and another 46,169 cases reported. There are also more than 32,000 people in hospital with coronavirus, data shows.\n\nMatt Hancock has previously said he's learned to rule nothing out when it comes to dealing with the pandemic.\n\nBut today he took the unusual step of doing just that.\n\nSupport bubbles and childcare bubbles, hugely valued by so many, will stay.\n\nSenior Whitehall sources have previously told me bubbles were \"untouchable\" but for a minister to say as much, so explicitly and on the record, means there's now very little wriggle room for the government to change its mind.\n\nMinisters will know that scrapping bubbles, for those that rely on them, could have proved deeply unpopular. But this certainty is a rarity.\n\nWhilst the current emphasis is on compliance, the idea of toughening up controls in other areas is not being ruled out.\n\nThe vaccine delivery plan says it is expected to take until spring to give a first dose to all 32 million people in the UK's priority groups, including everyone over 55 and those who are clinically vulnerable.\n\nUnder the plan, the government has pledged to carry out at least two million vaccinations in England per week by the end of January, which it says will be made possible by rolling out jabs at 206 hospital sites, 50 vaccination centres and around 1,200 local vaccination sites.\n\nIt also reiterates the government's aim of offering vaccinations to around 15 million people in the UK - the over-70s, older care home residents and staff, frontline healthcare workers and the clinically extremely vulnerable - by mid-February.\n\nAccording to Mr Hancock, two fifths of over-80s have now received their first dose, and almost a quarter of care home residents have received theirs.\n\nAlso at the briefing, NHS England's national medical director, Prof Stephen Powis, said the NHS was aiming to vaccinate the rest of the top nine priority groups by April, with a final push to offer all adults over 18 a jab by the autumn.\n\nHe stressed it would take until February before there were \"early signs\" that vaccination was leading to a drop in hospitalisations.\n\nThe country has still not seen the full impact of the Christmas loosening of lockdown restrictions, Prof Powis added, although he noted there are now 13,000 more Covid patients in hospital than there were on Christmas Day.\n\nSpeaking in Bristol earlier, Mr Johnson warned the vaccination programme was in a \"race against time\" because of pressure on the NHS.\n\nHe said it was \"a very perilous moment because everyone can sense the vaccine is coming in - my worry is that will breed false complacency\".\n\nThe newly-published vaccination plan also says ministers are aiming to offer jabs at more than 2,700 sites across the UK.\n\nAnd it says that daily vaccination figures for England will be published from now on - showing the total number vaccinated to date, including first and second doses.\n\nEarlier, NHS England's chief executive, Sir Simon Stevens, told MPs that there was a \"strong case\" for asking the the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) to consider prioritising \"teachers and other key workers\" for vaccination after the \"first nine [priority] groups have been vaccinated\".\n\nA quarter of coronavirus admissions to hospital are for people under the age of 55, he added.\n\nIn the first four weeks of the vaccination campaign, the NHS did 1.3 million vaccinations.\n\nNews that in the past week almost the same again has been done shows progress is being made - even though there has been some concern rollout to care home residents has been slower than hoped.\n\nHitting two million doses a week is the next target - and is something the NHS is aiming to get close to this week.\n\nWith more vaccination sites opening by the day, it should be achievable as long as there is good supply.\n\nThere is already enough vaccine in the country to vaccinate all 15 million people in the highest at-risk groups that have been promised an offer of a vaccine by mid-February.\n\nHowever, not all of it has been through the final safety checks or been packaged up ready for distribution.\n\nChallenges remain, but even at this early stage it is clear there is growing optimism that the programme is on track.\n\nAs seven mass vaccination centres opened across England on Monday, NHS England said hundreds more GP-led and hospital services would also open later this week.\n\nBut with all centres, people will need to wait until they receive an invitation.\n\nTwo vaccines - Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca - are currently being administered in the UK.\n\nOn Friday, a third coronavirus vaccine - made by US company Moderna - was approved for use, although supplies are not expected to arrive until spring.\n\nVaccine programmes are also progressing in the UK's devolved nations.\n\nAll over-50s and everyone who is at greater risk from Covid in Wales will be offered a vaccine by spring, under new plans.\n\nAnd Scotland's health secretary has said every aged over 80 or over in the nation will be offered a jab by February, while care workers in Northern Ireland who provide services to ill or elderly patients living at home can now book an appointment to get a Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nEngland is currently under a national lockdown, meaning people must stay at home and can go out only for limited reasons such as food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home.\n\nSimilar lockdown measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has questioned why there are \"less restrictions in place\" now than there were last March.\n\nIn his first speech of the year, he said: \"I do think it's time to hear from the scientists [about] what else could be done and that probably should be done in the next few hours\".\n\nMeanwhile, the United Arab Emirates is being removed from the UK list of travel corridors amid a spike in Covid cases.\n\nAnd England's Test and Trace scheme has revised one of its definitions of a \"close contact\" - the people who need to be reached if they have been near to someone who has tested positive for Covid.\n\nThis now refers to anyone who has been within two metres of someone for more than 15 minutes, whether in a single period or cumulatively over the course of one day.\n\nPreviously the definition was just a single period of at least 15 minutes.", "Rani has co-hosted BBC One's Countryfile since 2015\n\nCountryfile host Anita Rani is to join Emma Barnett as a presenter of BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour.\n\nShe will present the Friday and Saturday editions of the long-running programme, beginning on 15 January.\n\nRani, 43, said she had \"long been a fan\" of the programme and that she was \"really looking forward to getting to know the listeners and discussing issues that matter to them the most\".\n\nLong-time hosts Jane Garvey and Dame Jenni Murray left the show last year.\n\nBarnett, 35, who made her name on Radio 5 Live and Newsnight, made her Woman's Hour debut on 4 January. She hosts the show from Monday to Thursday.\n\nWriting on Twitter, Rani said it was \"an honour\" to be joining Radio 4's \"mothership\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by anita rani This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nRani joined the BBC's Asian Network in 2005 and is a regular presenter on BBC Radio 2. She is also known for her appearances on The One Show and Watchdog, and for competing on the 2015 series of Strictly Come Dancing.\n\n\"Woman's Hour has always given a voice to people who may not be heard elsewhere and I want to continue that important tradition,\" she said.\n\nRadio 4 controller Mohit Bakaya said he wanted the station to \"better reflect and be relevant to the audience across the UK\". Rani will bring \"a wealth of broadcasting experience\" as well as a \"valuable\" perspective and insight, he added.\n\nComedian Shappi Khorsandi was among those to welcome her new role, saying she would be \"listening even more\".\n\nRani's appointment means the new Woman's Hour presenters are considerably younger than their predecessors. Dame Jenni was 70 when she left on 1 October, while Garvey was 56 when she signed off last month.\n\nEmma Barnett took the reins of Woman's Hour earlier this month\n\nBefore leaving, Garvey expressed a hope that whoever joined Barnett would be closer to her own age.\n\n\"Emma is in her 30s and that's great,\" she told the Daily Telegraph. \"It will give the programme a real energy, which I think is brilliant.\n\n\"So I think the person working alongside her should be somebody nearer my age to make sure we give the audience as broad a range of life experience and interests as possible. I would prefer it if the other presenter were in her 50s.\"\n\nBarnett had an eventful first week on the Radio 4 institution, opening her stint by reading out a message from The Queen.\n\nTwo days later, one of her guests dropped out of a discussion after objecting to remarks the presenter made about her off air.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "A twenty-year-old from Cambridgeshire who spent a week in intensive care with Covid-19 says he can't believe so many young people are in denial about the virus.\n\nJay Clack fell ill on December 27th and within five days, 80% of his lungs has stopped functioning.\n\nWhile in intensive care he had a goodbye phone call with his family.\n\nBut now, he's showing signs of recovery and spoke to the BBC's Jon Ironmonger.", "The police are stepping up enforcement because they believe many people breaking the Covid regulations are doing so because they are stubborn, not because they don’t understand what is allowed.\n\nThe public, police, and legal experts do struggle to keep up with the ever-changing rules.\n\nBut the organisers of a party on a boat in Hertfordshire, the passengers on a minibus heading for Wales, and the couple who travelled 120 miles to \"watch seals\" would have struggled to explain to the officers issuing them with fines that they were confused.\n\nThose were clear breaches. More complicated is the fine line between the law - which police officers can enforce - and the government guidance, which they can’t.\n\nNo law says exercise can only be conducted once a day, or for a specific duration. These are pieces of firm guidance, along with the request to \"stay local\", which resulted in criticism of the prime minister after his bike ride in east London.\n\nIt would be difficult to set a distance limit which would work for both people living in rural areas and inner cities. Impossible to prove that a 65-minute run was in breach of the law.\n\nWhich is why the success of the measures will rely on personal responsibility in the end.\n\nAnd why some experts are saying that different messages such as \"act like you’ve got it\" or \"thanks for doing the right thing\" might cut through better than a list of regulations to be obeyed.", "Seven new mass vaccination centres have opened up across England to help deliver the Coronavirus vaccine, as the Prime Minister says we are facing a \"perilous moment\" in the fight against the virus.\n\nThe Centre of Life in Newcastle is home to one of them, with others in Bristol, Epsom, London, Manchester, Stevenage and Birmingham.\n\nInitially they will be used to vaccinate the over 80's, alongside NHS staff and health and social care workers. It's part of a drive that the government hopes will see 15 million people vaccinated against the virus by mid-February.", "But it delivered a fascinating look behind the scenes at two cutting-edge ways the firm is creating video content.\n\nThe first involved the use of a giant screen which is matched with movement-sensors on a camera to create a fake backdrop that shifts in turn with the lens.\n\nA similar technique was pioneered by Industrial Light & Magic and used in the Star Wars spin-off series The Mandalorian, but this opens the door to other filmmakers.\n\nThe screens involved use Sony's Crystal LED technology, which the firm first unveiled at CES in 2012, but has been unable to bring low down enough in price to take mainstream.\n\nIn effect, this is its version of micro-LED tech, using millions of tiny light emitting diodes (LEDs) to match the number of pixels. The result is much greater brightness and contrast than a normal LCD or OLED display would be capable of.\n\nThe background footage moves in time with the camera to aid the illusion Image caption: The background footage moves in time with the camera to aid the illusion\n\nUntil now, the firm has marketed the tech at building owners wanting the ultimate video walls. But this has the potential to help film and advert-makers place actors within environments they can see, rather than relying on greenscreen effects.\n\nThe second innovation was the creation of an \"immersive reality\" performance, which uses body sensors to create a highly-detailed animated version of an artist.\n\nIt was demoed by the singer-songwriter Madison Beer.\n\nMotion capture has been used for years to add special effects to characters in movies and to place real-world actors into video games.\n\nBut the aim here is to create a lifelike representation of a performer on stage at a concert.\n\nThe footage shown didn't quite escape the \"uncanny valley\" - there's still some way to go before we can't tell the difference between a real person and even a highly detailed avatar.\n\nBut it's easy to imagine that the tech being more impressive when viewed in virtual reality, where users can move about and choose their view.\n\nThe computer-generated image looks less real the closer you get to the performer Image caption: The computer-generated image looks less real the closer you get to the performer\n\nUntil now, VR apps of concerts have either offered a pick of different static camera locations or involved much lower-resolution characters.\n\nWith Covid meaning it's impossible for artists to tour, this second-best experience could be very timely when it's offered to PlayStation VR headsets and other devices soon.", "John Lewis is suspending its click and collect services and tightening safety measures after a \"change in tone\" from the government over the virus.\n\nThe department store will also pause in-home services, unless they are \"essential to customers' wellbeing\".\n\nThe retailer said it felt the changes were right with the country at a \"critical point in the pandemic\".\n\nHowever customers will be able to collect John Lewis orders from Waitrose stores.\n\nWaitrose, which belongs to the John Lewis Partnership, is also tightening rules over face coverings, following moves from the other supermarkets to make face masks mandatory for shoppers unless they have a medical exemption.\n\n\"We've listened carefully to the clear change in tone and emphasis of the views and information shared by the UK's governments in recent days,\" said Andrew Murphy, Executive Director, Operations.\n\n\"While we recognise that the detail of formal guidance has not changed, we feel it is right for us - and in the best interests of our Partners and customers - to take proactive steps to further enhance our Covid-security and related operational policies.\"\n\nJohn Lewis said click and collect from its department stores would be switched off for new orders from the end of Tuesday.\n\nExisting orders and bookings for services, such as installing washing machines, will still be carried out, if customers wish to proceed, but there will be no further bookings for non-essential services.\n\nMany other shops from coffee chains to craft suppliers are offering click and collect services. However, with the continued rise in coronavirus cases the government is examining ways to reduce social contact further.\n\nThe book chain Waterstones stopped offering click and collect services from its shops at the start of the current lockdown.\n\nMarks and Spencer said it was continuing to offer customers the opportunity to collect other items at its food halls, which are still open for grocery shopping.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gary Furlong described his son as \"an amazing, kind boy\"\n\nThe father of one of three men murdered in a park terror attack has called on the home secretary to \"tell us why\" the killer was deemed safe to be free.\n\nGary Furlong, whose son James, 36, was killed in Reading's Forbury Gardens attack in June, said it was \"beyond\" him why Khairi Saadallah was considered \"not a danger to the public\".\n\nSaadallah was jailed for the rest of his life over the murders.\n\nThe Home Office has not yet responded to a BBC request for comment.\n\nAt the time of the attack Home Secretary Priti Patel said: \"We must learn the lessons from what has happened... to prevent anything like this from happening again.\"\n\nDuring his trial, London's Old Bailey heard Saadallah \"executed\" James Furlong, David Wails, 49, and Joe Ritchie-Bennett, 39, as an \"act of religious jihad\" on the afternoon of 20 June.\n\nHe was jailed on Monday having previously admitted the three murders and the attempted murders of three other men.\n\nKhairi Saadallah admitted three counts of murder and three of attempted murder\n\nThe Ministry of Justice said a Serious Further Offence (SFO) review had been completed into how Saadallah was managed by the National Probation Service.\n\nThe victims' families would be offered a meeting to discuss the findings of the review, it added.\n\nIt comes after the killer had been subject to licence conditions at the time of the attack.\n\nThe court previously heard on the 18 June, two days before the attack, Saadallah's probation officer had emailed his mental health team as he had been talking about \"magic\".\n\nSaadallah also contacted the mental health crisis team himself, but he did not not open the door when they visited on 19 June.\n\nThe court heard Saadallah, who arrived in Britain from Libya in 2012, had previously been involved with militias who had been part of the uprising against Muammar Gaddafi, and was pictured handling weapons, including firearms.\n\nSince seeking asylum in Britain, he had been repeatedly arrested and convicted of various offences, including theft and assault, between 2013 and 2020.\n\nAnalysis of Saadallah's phone revealed an interest in extremist material and the court heard while at HMP Bullingdon in 2017, he was seen to associate with radical preacher Omar Brookes, who has connections with banned terrorist organisation Al-Muhajiroun.\n\nSpeaking after the sentencing, Gary Furlong, from Liverpool, said Ms Patel needed to \"tell us why this guy wasn't put into some form of detention centre before they could deport him\".\n\n\"He was not safe to be released back on the streets,\" he added.\n\nSaadallah, 26, had been told just before his release from prison that the Home Office wanted to deport him, but it was not legally possible due to the situation in Libya.\n\nIn law, what are known as the Hardial Singh principles place certain limits on the government's power to detain people ahead of deportation.\n\nThe Prime Minister's spokesman said the government \"always tries to remove foreign national offenders where possible\".\n\nHe was released from custody on 5 June, and proceeded to research the location for his attack online and carry out reconnaissance in the park.\n\n(L-R) David Wails, Joe Ritchie-Bennett and James Furlong were pronounced dead at the scene\n\nFollowing concerns from his brother, police visited the killer on 19 June, but he told officers he was \"alright\" while he stood near to a knife he bought from a supermarket.\n\nSaadallah's brother, Aiman, said he had asked for police to detain him under the Mental Health Act, and added \"lives would have been saved\" if more had been done.\n\nThames Valley Police has been contacted for comment.\n\nReading Refugee Support Group's (RRSG) also said it had raised concerns about his potential for radicalisation over three years and the possibility of a \"London Bridge\" scenario.\n\nIn a statement, it said Saadallah had a \"known, significant mental health problem\".\n\n\"This in no way excuses what he did. He murdered three innocent people. But there must be accountability on the part of services that should have supported him,\" it said.\n\nBut passing sentence Mr Justice Sweeney said it was \"clear that the defendant did not, and does not, have any major mental illness\".\n\nGary Furlong said: \"Given the volume of crimes he's committed and the information that they had on him, for an assessment to be done the night before to say that he's not a danger to the public - it is beyond me.\n\n\"How was he ever allowed to stay in this country? How was he allowed in, in the first place?\"\n\nHistory teacher James Furlong and pharmaceutical manager Mr Ritchie-Bennett each died from a single stab wound to the neck, while scientist Mr Wails was stabbed once in the back.\n\nDespite treatment from paramedics and doctors, all three friends, who were members of the LGBT community, died at the scene.\n\nGary Furlong described his son as \"an amazing, kind boy\" who was loved by family, friends and students.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Royal Mail has published a list of areas where there have been delivery delays due to its workforce being affected by the Covid pandemic.\n\nThe postal service said some areas will see a reduced service due to workers being off sick or self-isolating.\n\nRoyal Mail listed 28 areas where post might be late, with 27 in England and one in Northern Ireland.\n\nProblems with deliveries over Christmas had prompted shoppers to complain about parcels not arriving on time.\n\nRoyal Mail said: \"Despite our best efforts and significant investment in extra resource, some customers may experience slightly longer delivery timescales than our usual service standards.\n\n\"This is due to the exceptionally high volumes we are seeing, exacerbated by the coronavirus-related measures we have put in place in local mail centres and delivery offices to keep our people and customers safe.\"\n\nMany of the affected areas are in or near London, while others include Chelmsford in Essex, Leeds in West Yorkshire, Margate in Kent, and Widnes in Cheshire.\n\nLabour MP Wes Streeting, whose Ilford constituency is one of the areas affected, tweeted on Sunday that he was concerned about vaccination invitations getting caught up in Royal Mail delays.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Wes Streeting MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut Covid vaccine deployment minister Nadhim Zahawi replied that the government would work with Royal Mail to ensure that vaccine invitations were prioritised.\n\nCustomers have taken to Twitter to complain about delays to their postal service.\n\n\"Unfortunately I live in one of these areas.,\" wrote Matt S. \"N8 has been receiving an absolutely dreadful service since April 2020 - @RoyalMail what are you going to do to improve the situation?\"\n\nMark Harrison wrote: \"We could manage and expect a bit of disruption - but we've had only 2 deliveries in a month. Nothing for a fortnight. SE11 not even on the list of disrupted areas. Royal Mail need to get a grip.\"\n\nIn a service update on Tuesday, Royal Mail said: \"Due to resourcing issues, deliveries in the following areas are likely to be limited.\"", "Khairi Saadallah admitted three counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder\n\nA killer who stabbed three men to death in a Reading park has been handed a whole-life jail term.\n\nKhairi Saadallah murdered James Furlong, 36, David Wails, 49, and 39-year-old Joe Ritchie-Bennett, in June last year in Forbury Gardens.\n\nLondon's Old Bailey previously heard the 26-year-old \"executed\" the men as an \"act of religious jihad\".\n\nPassing sentence Judge Mr Justice Sweeney said it was a \"ruthless and brutal\" terror attack.\n\nSaadallah, who admitted the murders, had also pleaded guilty to the attempted murders of three other men who were also in the park.\n\nThe judge said the victims \"had no chance to react, let alone defend themselves\".\n\n(L-R) David Wails, Joe Ritchie-Bennett and James Furlong were pronounced dead at the scene\n\nHe said he was sure the attack \"involved a substantial degree of premeditation or planning\" and was carried out \"for the purpose of advancing a political, religious, or ideological cause\".\n\nBBC News correspondent Helena Wilkinson, who was in court, said the families of James Furlong and David Wails were present, while Joseph Ritchie-Bennett's loved ones watched via a link from America.\n\nSaadallah showed no emotion as Mr Justice Sweeney went through his sentencing remarks.\n\nOn the afternoon of 20 June, the park was busy due to the first lockdown restrictions being relaxed in England.\n\nAndrew Cafe, who witnessed the stabbings, said he saw Saadallah wielding the \"biggest kitchen knife\" and charging towards him shouting \"Allahu Akbar\".\n\nPharmaceutical manager Mr Ritchie-Bennett and teacher Mr Furlong died from single stab wounds to their necks, while scientist Mr Wails was stabbed once in the back.\n\nDespite treatment from paramedics and doctors, all three friends, who were members of the LGBT community, died at the scene.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Witness Andrew Cafe visited Forbury Gardens for the first time since the attack\n\nThree other people - Nishit Nisudan, Patrick Edwards and Stephen Young - were also injured, before Saadallah threw away the knife and fled the scene, pursued by police.\n\nFollowing his arrest, Saadallah initially said he wanted to plead guilty to the \"jihad that I done\", but the prosecution claimed he later feigned mental illness in police interviews.\n\nAt a previous hearing, the court heard he had developed an emotionally unstable and anti-social personality disorder, with his behaviour worsened by alcohol and cannabis misuse.\n\nBut the judge said it was \"clear that the defendant did not, and does not, have any major mental illness\".\n\nAn examination of Saadallah's phone revealed an interest in extremist material, including images of the flag of Islamic State and Jihadi John, the court previously heard.\n\nWhile at HMP Bullingdon in 2017, he was seen to associate with radical preacher Omar Brookes, who has connections with banned terrorist organisation Al-Muhajiroun.\n\nThe court heard Saadallah, who arrived in Britain from Libya in 2012, had previously been involved with militias who had been part of the uprising against Muammar Gaddafi, and was pictured handling weapons, including firearms.\n\nSince seeking asylum in Britain, he had been repeatedly arrested and convicted of various offences, including theft and assault, between 2013 and 2020.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. CCTV cameras captured Khairi Saadallah before and after the stabbing\n\nHe briefly came to the attention of MI5 in 2019, but the information provided did not meet the threshold of investigation.\n\nSaadallah had been released from prison on 5 June, days before the attack, the court heard.\n\nOn 17 June, he researched the location for his attack online and carried out reconnaissance in the park.\n\nThe following day his probation officer alerted his mental health team over comments he made about magic.\n\nA day later, Saadallah contacted the crisis team himself, but when they visited he did not answer.\n\nFollowing concerns from his brother, police visited the killer the same day, but he told officers he was \"alright\" while he stood near a knife he bought from a supermarket.\n\nAndrew Wails said losing his brother had been devastating\n\nAfter the sentencing, James Furlong's father, Gary, said: \"The secretary of state needs to tell us why this guy wasn't put into some form of detention centre before they could deport him.\n\n\"He was not safe to be released back on the streets.\"\n\nReferring to the fact that Saadallah had been visited by police the night before the attack, Mr Furlong said: \"Given the volume of crimes he's committed and the information that they had on him, for an assessment to be done the night before to say that he's not a danger to the public - it is beyond me.\"\n\nHe described Mr Furlong, originally from Liverpool, as \"a lovely man, loved by his family, idolised by his mother\".\n\nDavid Wails' brother Andrew said: \"For us as a family it's been devastating to lose our much loved son, brother and uncle.\"\n\nIn a statement, the Bennett family described Mr Ritchie-Bennett as a \"devoted and loving husband\" and \"a man who cared strongly about family\".\n\nThe park had been busy due to the first lockdown restrictions being relaxed in England\n\nDet Ch Supt Kath Barnes, head of Counter Terrorism Policing South East, described Saadallah as \"a committed jihadist\".\n\nShe said: \"He has caused unspeakable hurt and distress to the families of the three men who were brutally murdered as they were relaxing and enjoying socialising with friends on a Saturday evening.\n\n\"I'm sure there will also be lasting effects on those who were injured in the attack, who were fortunate not to have been even more seriously harmed.\"\n\nReading Borough Council leader Jason Brock described the attacks as \"horrific\" and \"senseless\" and said a permanent memorial to the victims was planned.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Vogue editor Anna Wintour said images of Vice-President-elect Kamala Harris were meant to celebrate her achievements\n\nUS Vogue editor Anna Wintour has defended the magazine following criticism of its front-cover portrait of Vice-President-elect Kamala Harris.\n\nThe image shows Ms Harris wearing an informal outfit including jeans and a pair of Converse trainers.\n\nSocial media users have criticised Vogue for the photo's \"washed out\" lighting and styling, saying it does not reflect Ms Harris's achievements.\n\nBut Ms Wintour said the photos were intended to highlight her success.\n\n\"We want nothing but to celebrate Vice-President-elect Harris's amazing victory and the important moment this is for America's history and particularly women of colour all over the world,\" Ms Wintour said in a statement to the New York Times' Kara Swisher.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Vogue Magazine This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nShe also defended Vogue's decision to use the picture for the print cover of its February issue, rather than an alternative portrait of her in a more formal suit.\n\nA member of Ms Harris's team told AP news agency that Vogue staff, including Ms Wintour, agreed to feature the blue-suited image on cover. But Ms Wintour denied that any formal agreement had been made.\n\n\"All of us felt very, very strongly that the less formal portrait of the vice-president-elect really reflected the moment that we were living in,\" said Ms Wintour.\n\n\"We felt to reflect this tragic moment in global history, a much less formal picture... really reflected the hallmark of the Biden/Harris campaign and everything they were trying to - and I'm sure they will - achieve,\" the editor - herself an influential supporter of the Democratic Party - added.\n\nSources at Vogue told the New York Times that the second, more formal image may be used as a cover for a separate print edition.\n\nBoth pictures were taken by Tyler Mitchell who, in 2018, became the first black photographer to shoot a Vogue cover.\n\nThe magazine has been criticised in the past over issues relating to race.\n\nSeveral former employees previously shared experiences of alleged racism in the workplace with the New York Times.\n\nEarlier this year, British Vogue editor Edward Enninful spoke out after he was allegedly \"racially profiled\" by a security guard at the magazine's UK offices.\n\nYou might also be interested in:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. HBO's Insecure is making sure lighting people of colour is not an afterthought", "A deal has been agreed for the sale of the Edinburgh Woollen Mill, Ponden Home and Bonmarché chains, which were on the brink of closure.\n\nThe businesses went into administration last year after a collapse in sales due to the pandemic.\n\nAlmost 2,000 staff will be kept on but as many as 260 stores could close.\n\nThe buyers are a consortium of international investors who will inject fresh funds into the business, led by the existing management team.\n\nEdinburgh Woollen Mill, which sells mid-price knitwear and other clothing to older shoppers, is part of a stable of retail brands owned by billionaire businessman, Philip Day.\n\nIt is understood that Mr Day will effectively lend the group the money to buy the businesses which will be paid back over a number of years.\n\nThe deal also covers two other brands in the group, value retailer Bonmarché, and Ponden Home, an interiors chain based in the south east of England.\n\nThe new owners plan to operate 246 stores across both the Edinburgh Woollen Mill and Ponden Home brands, retaining 1,453 staff in those stores, the head office and distribution centres in Carlisle.\n\nHowever, 85 Edinburgh Woollen Mill stores and 34 Ponden Home stores have been closed permanently, with the loss of 485 jobs.\n\nWakefield-based Bonmarché will retain 72 of its stores and 531 staff including head office and distribution centre staff.\n\nThe majority of its stores, 148 outlets, remain under review with staff on furlough.\n\nAdministrators representing Edinburgh Woollen Mill and Ponden Home said the deal represented the best chance to save stores and jobs, given the difficult outlook for UK retail.\n\n\"We regret that not all of Edinburgh Woollen Mill and Ponden Home could be rescued,\" said Tony Wright, partner at FRP. \"This has resulted in a significant number of redundancies at a particularly challenging time of year and period of economic uncertainty.\"\n\nRetail has been particularly hard hit by measures to curb the spread of Covid-19. Even when shops have been open many shoppers stayed away, wary of the health risks.\n\nThe British Retail Consortium said consumers bought 5% less last year than the year before (not including food). Much of that custom switched from the High Street to online, making it harder for chains whose customers usually shop in person. Physical stores saw sales drop by a quarter, the BRC said.\n\nOther major brands including Topshop-owner Arcadia and Debenhams have also gone into administration, costing hundreds of jobs.\n\n\"Lockdowns have proved hugely damaging for mid-range fashion chains like Edinburgh Woollen Mill and Bonmarché whose traditional customer base has not adapted so quickly to online shopping as younger shoppers,\" said Susannah Streeter, analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown.\n\n\"The backers of this rescue deal clearly believe there is pent-up demand amongst core customers which will be released once the doors are flung open once more,\" she added.\n\nOn Monday, Marks & Spencer announced it was buying Jaeger, another brand that had belonged to Philip Day's portfolio.\n\nPeacocks, another High Street fashion brand in the EWM group remains in administration.", "As major social media platforms crack down on accounts promoting US election conspiracy theories, many conspiracy and far-right groups in the US are looking for a new home online.\n\nTwitter hasn’t just kicked the president off the platform. It’s also closed down some 70,000 accounts associated with the QAnon conspiracy, while Facebook said it is continuing efforts to shut down “Stop the Steal” groups which allege, with no evidence, that Donald Trump was cheated of the presidency.\n\nOne of the most popular alternatives had been the self-styled “free speech” social media outlet Parler, but then over the weekend that was banned too for posts inciting violence.\n\nThen there’s Gab, a Twitter-like platform popular with right-wing groups, which is awash with extreme content and welcomes QAnon followers with open arms. It claims to have added 600,000 new users since the riots.\n\nIt’s thought Gab’s user base is far smaller than that of the now-closed Parler, which had around 16m users.\n\nOthers seem to be moving to MeWe, which is similar to Facebook.\n\nThere are some parallels with online jihadists, who also found their voices silenced after the rise of Islamic State in the Middle East.\n\nThe Islamic State group and al-Qaeda frequently have to re-establish their online presence after social media companies identify and close their accounts, leading to a nomadic online existence.\n\nThey have already adapted to life outside the big social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook and have exploited less well known platforms and apps to get their messages out.\n• 65 days that led to chaos at the Capitol", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid in Scotland: Lockdown likely to extend to February\n\nScotland's first minister has said the country's current lockdown is \"very unlikely\" to be lifted at the end of the month.\n\nNicola Sturgeon was speaking as she confirmed that more than 5,000 people have now died after testing positive for the virus.\n\nA review of the current restrictions is due to be carried out at the end of January.\n\nMs Sturgeon said it was possible that there would be no easing at that point.\n\nA further 54 deaths have been recorded in the past 24 hours - bringing the total by that measure to 5,023.\n\nBut the most recent figures from the National Records of Scotland - which record all deaths registered in Scotland where Covid-19 was mentioned on the death certificate - put the total at 6,686.\n\nMs Sturgeon told her daily briefing that the figures were a reminder of the toll the virus had taken.\n\nAnd she said every death had caused heartbreak to friends, families and loved ones across the country.\n\nThe first minister also said Scotland's NHS would be under far greater pressure if the current restrictions had not been put in place on Boxing Day.\n\nAnd she urged people not to raise their expectations about what will be announced when the lockdown review is completed in a fortnight as wholesale lifting of the restrictions was \"very unlikely\".\n\nShe added: \"There may not even be any lifting of these restrictions as soon as the end of January - we will have to consider all of that carefully and set it out in due course.\"\n\nAll of mainland Scotland and some islands were placed into level four restrictions on 26 December, with schools remaining closed to most pupils until at least the end of the month.\n\nA further 1,875 positive cases of the virus were recorded on Monday, bringing the total since the pandemic began to 153,423.\n\nThe number of people in hospital with the virus stands at 1,717 - an increase of 53 since yesterday and higher than the peak of about 1,500 in the first wave in April.\n\nOf these, 133 patients are intensive care units, with Ms Sturgeon saying that the virus was putting \"very acute pressure\" on hospitals.\n\nThe first minister also said that 175,942 people in Scotland had received their first vaccine dose by Monday.\n\nOpposition parties have claimed that the rollout of the vaccine has been \"sluggish\" in Scotland compared to south of the border - a charge that the government denies.\n\nAnd they have called for greater transparency over how many people are being given the jab every day.\n\nHealth Secretary Jeane Freeman said on Monday that the government was aiming to vaccinate about 560,000 people in Scotland by 31 January.\n\nNon-essential shops have been closed in Scotland since 26 December\n\nThe Scottish government has previously said it is concerned that too many people have not been following the \"stay at home\" rules that are in place across the whole of the mainland and some islands.\n\nMinisters have been discussing the possibility of imposing tougher rules on click and collect shopping and takeaway food, with an announcement expected to be made on Wednesday.\n\nRetail industry representatives have described click and collect services as a \"lifeline\" for struggling businesses amid the forced closure of all non-essential shops.\n\nAnd they said they had not been shown any evidence that click and collect was driving transmission of the virus.\n\nMs Sturgeon told her daily coronavirus briefing that the government may not stop click and collect services altogether.\n\nBut she added: \"If we are saying to people right now that you should not be out of your home for shopping unless it is essential, then do we need to have click and collect for non-essential services instead of having that for delivery?\"\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross told BBC Scotland that he did not want to see further restrictions put in place unless there was evidence that they would have the desired effect.\n\nHe also suggested that restricting click and collect would simply result in more people going back into supermarkets to do their shopping.\n\nThe Scottish government is also under pressure to lift the the current ban on public Sunday worship, with a group of 500 church leaders from across the UK - including 200 in Scotland - insisting that there is \"no evidence of any tangible contribution to community transmission through churches in Scotland\".\n\nIn a letter to the first minister, they claim that the ban may be unlawful and accuse the government of failing to understand that \"Christian worship is an essential public service, and especially vital to our nation in a time of crisis\".\n\nA Scottish government spokeswoman said: \"Test and Protect tells us where people were in their 48-hour infectious period.\n\n\"So we know that on one day last week the seven-day number for places of worship was 120, and data from yesterday shows the seven-day number for places of worship is 38, underlining the essential decision to require places of worship to close for public health reasons.\"\n\nMeanwhile, it has been confirmed that everyone arriving in Scotland from overseas will need to show proof of a negative test from Friday.\n\nThe test will need to be \"highly reliable\", the first minister said, and will need to have been from the previous three days - although young children may be exempt from the restriction.\n\nThose travelling from countries not on the quarantine exemption list will still need to self-isolate on arrival.\n\nThe new rules, which will also come into force in England, were first outlined last week.", "Sir David Attenborough has previously spoken of his support for the Covid-19 vaccines\n\nSir David Attenborough has become the latest well-known name to receive the Covid-19 vaccine, his representative has confirmed.\n\nThe news about the 94-year-old natural historian comes a few days after it was revealed the Queen had been vaccinated.\n\nIt's not known which vaccine Sir David has been given or exactly when he had it.\n\nThe Perfect Planet host is one of several stars to receive the first of two doses of the vaccine.\n\nThey include The Great British Bake Off's Prue Leith, actor Sir Ian McKellen, choreographer Lionel Blair, actor Brian Blessed and actress Dame Joan Collins.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThere are currently three vaccines approved for administration in the UK - Oxford-AstraZeneca, Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna, although supplies of the latter are not expected to arrive until spring.\n\nSir David, who has been isolating at his London home, has previously talked about his support for the work in developing a means of protection from Covid-19.\n\nIn an interview with The Telegraph last month he said he would definitely accept an invitation to be vaccinated when his time came.\n\n\"At 94, I think I'm entitled!\" he told the newspaper.\n\n\"I'm sufficient of a scientist still, I hope, to realise this is the thing to do.\"\n\nHe added that the work that had gone into developing the vaccines showed the positive effects of international cooperation in combating global problems, such as the climate crisis.\n\n\"It (the virus) has drawn attention to the fact we aren't as omnipotent and all-controlling as we think we are,\" he told the paper.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The United Arab Emirates is being removed from the UK list of travel corridors amid a spike in Covid cases.\n\nThat means anyone who arrives from the UAE after 04:00 GMT on Tuesday now needs to self-isolate for 10 days, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said.\n\nUK officials say Covid cases have risen 52% in the UAE in the last seven days and cite \"a significant acceleration in the number of imported cases\".\n\nIt comes after Scotland removed the UAE city Dubai from its safe travel list.\n\nThe Foreign Office has also updated its advice to advise against all but essential travel to the emirates.\n\nThe recent lockdown restrictions imposed across the UK mean leisure travel is currently banned.\n\nBut the UAE has been in particular focus in recent weeks after a number of UK reality TV and social media stars posted photographs of themselves holidaying there before the rules came into place.\n\nAnd a Celtic footballer tested positive for Covid-19 after the club took a trip to Dubai for a winter training camp.\n\nCeltic were allowed to go as a group under exemptions for elite athletes. As a result,15 playing and coaching staff are now required to self-isolate.\n\nDubai was added to Scotland's travel quarantine list from 04:00 GMT on Monday - with the rule also applying retrospectively for passengers who have arrived in Scotland from the city since January 3.\n\nThe Department for Transport said the removal of the whole of the UAE from the travel corridor is being adopted by all four UK nations.\n\nArrivals to the UK from most destinations now have to quarantine for 10 days.\n\nHowever, arrivals from some countries are exempt from the rules. Those countries make up the so-called travel corridor list.\n\nFrom this week, passengers arriving by boat, train or plane, including UK nationals, must also take a Covid test up to 72 hours before leaving the country of departure.\n\nAre you affected by the government decision to remove UAE from the UK travel corridor list? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "A Scottish earl has pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a woman at his ancestral home in Angus.\n\nThe Earl of Strathmore, Simon Bowes-Lyon, forced his way into the sleeping woman's room during a weekend event he was hosting at Glamis Castle.\n\nHe repeatedly assaulted the 26-year-old victim and tried to pull off her nightdress during the 20-minute attack.\n\nBowes-Lyon, 34 - who is the Queen's first cousin twice removed - has been placed on the sex offenders register.\n\nHe was granted bail at Dundee Sheriff Court and sentence was deferred.\n\nSheriff Alistair Carmichael also ordered Glamis Castle be assessed for its suitability to house Bowes-Lyon while under a tagging order.\n\nThe court heard the woman fled the castle the morning after the attack on 13 February last year and flew home to report the matter to police.\n\nBoth Police Scotland and the Metropolitan Police were involved in the investigation.\n\nGlamis Castle was the childhood home of the Queen Mother\n\nOutside court, Bowes-Lyon said he was \"greatly ashamed\" of his actions.\n\nHe added: \"Clearly I had drunk to excess on the night of the incident. I should have known better. I recognise, in any event, that alcohol is no excuse for my behaviour.\n\n\"I did not think I was capable of behaving the way I did but have had to face up to it and take responsibility.\n\n\"My apologies go, above all, to the woman concerned, but I would also like to apologise to family, friends and colleagues for the distress I have caused them.\"\n\nGlamis Castle, near Forfar, has been the seat of the Bowes-Lyon family since 1372.\n\nIt was the childhood home of the Queen Mother, and the Queen's sister Princess Margaret was born there.\n\nBowes-Lyon was a great-great nephew of the Queen Mother.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid lockdown: Are supermarkets following the rules?\n\nSupermarket workers are facing abuse for challenging shoppers not wearing masks during the pandemic, staff say.\n\nOne Mold supermarket worker said she was challenging people every day and seeing \"loads of people walking around\" the store without masks and in groups.\n\nThe Welsh Government has hinted rules will be tightened amid concerns Covid-19 rules are not being followed.\n\n\"This is not a social event, come in on your own, not as a family of five,\" the supermarket worker said.\n\nSupermarket workers spoke to BBC Radio Wales as Health Minister Vaughan Gething said the \"onus\" was on supermarkets to make sure shoppers abided by the rules.\n\nThere has been an \"escalation of abuse\" towards supermarket staff in the last nine months, and the role of policing such rules must not fall on those on the shop floor, Nick Ireland Divisional Officer of the Union of Shop Distributive and Allied Workers (Usdaw) said.\n\nHe said measures in stores had \"rolled back\", with many no longer enforcing systems, and people walking the wrong way down one-way systems, and \"whole families\" shopping with just one basket.\n\nMeanwhile Bally Auluk, an area organiser in Cardiff and Barry for Usdaw, said abuse towards shopworkers was happening on \"a daily and weekly basis\".\n\nHe said retailers and the Welsh Government should \"start protecting shop workers\" after dealing with members himself who were \"threatened with physical violence and spat on\".\n\n\"Customers now are treating it almost like it was last year, that it's not a problem, that is where the big issues arises,\" he said.\n\nThe Welsh Government is in discussions about bringing in \"more visible\" coronavirus regulations.\n\nMorrisons and Sainsbury's had pledged to challenge shoppers not wearing face coverings in store, unless they have a medical exemption.\n\nTesco, Asda and Waitrose are the latest supermarkets to follow the move and challenge those who flout the rules.\n\nUnder coronavirus rules, people must wear face coverings in order to enter shops across the UK, while supermarkets should have social distancing and strict hygiene measures in place.\n\nThe Welsh Government has been in talks with retailers on how to improve safety and return to the strict observance of social distancing from the first lockdown, although no new guidance has been issued.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said he had heard concerns from people \"expressing anxiety\" about a lack of \"visible protections\" in supermarkets, such as limited numbers allowed in store, hand sanitiser and security on doors.\n\nThe Mold supermarket worker said staff had been told not to challenge people not wearing masks, and had seen people being yelled at.\n\nJane, who did not give her last name, told BBC Wales customers were offered a mask on the way in, but many did not want them.\n\n\"You do see a lot of customers walking around without a mask on,\" she said.\n\n\"Of course there are people with hidden disabilities who can't wear a mask but there can't be that many of them.\"\n\nJane said enforcement needed to be greater, but it should not be led by the shopfloor staff.\"We're told not to challenge people as we don't know someone's personal situation and we don't want to face any abuse if they don't want to wear it or don't agree with it,\" she said.\n\n\"At the moment people will ask politely, but I have witnessed quite a few occasions where customers have been verbally abusive to the person greeting them on their way in.\n\n\"There needs to be someone enforcing this, it can't be left to retail staff: whether its a police officer or a security guard.\"\n\nSupermarket aisles carrying non-essential items are closed off again, as they were during the firebreak lockdown\n\nOne security guard at a supermarket in Aberdare said he had had more \"hassle\" working in the past 10 months at the store, than from drinkers while working as a nightclub doorman for more than 20 years.\n\n\"The attitude towards yourself... they don't appreciate that you're standing there for 12 hours a day, they don't understand how hard it is to try and keep people distancing,\" he told Dot Davies on BBC Radio Wales.\n\n\"When they go inside the shop it all goes out the window... we keep the two metres outside, but we've got people coming outside to tell us we should be in there sorting it out.\"\n\nOne supermarket manager said the lengths people were going to in order to shop together were \"ridiculous\", with families coming in with a number of trolleys or baskets in order not to be challenged.\n\n\"We've seen families turning up to go shopping for a basket shop, it's just not on,\" said Mr Ireland, who called on supermarket staff to be prioritised for vaccines.\n\nHe suggested those who do not observe the rules should be banned and fined.\n\nBut one mother said that she had no choice but to shop with her children, and she had been unable to get a click and collect or delivery slot.\n\n\"It's easy to get caught up in the fear of it, but some people are at the shops as they have no choice,\" she said.\n\nOthers have spoken of shop staff themselves not wearing masks.\n\nJames Lowman, chief executive of the Association of Convenience Stores, said it was \"everyone's responsibility\" to abide by the rules, rather than for shop workers to enforce.\n\n\"Doing that [enforcement of rules] in a small store, where you don't have lots of colleagues around, has been a trigger for more abuse and even violence,\" he said.\n\nMr Lowman said making businesses Covid secure was down to the local authority, while individuals' behaviour was a matter for police, but \"in practicality\" it is everyone's responsibility.\n\nBut Mr Gething said the \"onus\" for getting shoppers to follow Covid-19 rules, such as wearing masks, social-distancing and cordoning off non-essential items, was on the supermarket managers.\n\n\"[It needs to be made] clear that you do need to wear a mask unless you can demonstrate that you have a particular exemption,\" he said.\n\n\"I don't think there's any lack of understanding. We've been through this before and I do think a number of supermarkets are going to go and make clear there are a range of items that are off-limits for shoppers coming in.\n\n\"Supermarkets understand what they need to do.\"", "London's Nightingale hospital was built in nine days, with the help of hundreds of soldiers\n\nLondon's Nightingale hospital has been reopened and is admitting patients to help with the coronavirus spread in the capital.\n\nMedical director Dr Vin Diwakar said the facility at London's ExCeL Centre also had a vaccination centre on site.\n\nIt was placed on standby in May after fewer than 20 patients were treated following a grand opening on 3 April.\n\nDr Diwakar said the Nightingale was being used to treat non-coronavirus patients.\n\nIn the Downing Street press conference, he explained it was taking non-Covid patients to help free up beds in London's hospitals.\n\nHe said: \"This means that hospitals have more beds to care for Covid-19 patients and for our very sickest patients. We cannot do this indefinitely.\n\n\"There comes a point where if the infection gets further out of control, more and more patients from London will need to be transferred elsewhere.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What does it mean if the NHS is overwhelmed?\n\nAt the start of November, he said, London had 1,000 Covid-19 patients.\n\nThis increased four-fold to 4,000 on Christmas Day and has doubled to just under 8,000 today, with more than 1,000 of those on critical care, he told the press conference.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC News (UK) This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut Dr Diwakar said there was \"hope\", with one hall of the ExCel Centre having opened as London's first mass vaccination centre.\n\n\"I can tell you Covid-19 is a horrible, horrible disease that leaves so many, including young people, breathless and gasping for life,\" he said.\n\nOn Friday, the Mayor of London declared a \"major incident\" as he described the coronavirus spread in the capital as \"out of control\".\n\nMore than 120 firefighters and 75 Met Police officers have been drafted in to help the London Ambulance Service cope with demand.", "The data showed men were more likely to be admitted to intensive care units\n\nAround half of patients admitted to Welsh intensive care units during the second wave of the pandemic have died, a study has found.\n\nThe Intensive Care National Audit and Research Centre (ICNARC) found men aged in their 60s were more likely to need intensive care.\n\nIt also found those from Asian backgrounds and deprived areas were disproportionately affected.\n\nBut a leading doctor said, overall, people were more likely to survive now.\n\nIntensive care consultant Matt Morgan said new treatments meant only the sickest patients were reaching intensive care, where outcomes were poorer.\n\nICNARC collected information on 431 Welsh patients who were critically ill with coronavirus from 1 September to 31 December 2020 as part of a UK-wide audit of intensive care patients.\n\nOf the patients who were admitted, 68% were men and 32% women. The average age of a patient was 59.5 years.\n\nIntensive care consultant Matt Morgan said, overall, patients were more likely to survive Covid now\n\nWhile the vast majority of patients were white (91.6%), the number of patients of Asian ethnicity was more than double the proportion of the Asian population, with 6.3% of patients recorded as being Asian, compared to an average of 2.4% in their local population.\n\nThe audit of patients found that, excluding those still being treated at the unit, half had died while half had been discharged.\n\nAlthough the numbers of patients surveyed is relatively low for statistical purposes, Dr Morgan said the survival rate reflected the situation in hospitals.\n\n\"We are putting fewer people, who are in the first stage of their illness, on to life support machines. And that is because we have treatments now that we know can help,\" he said.\n\n\"Overall, you are more likely now to survive Covid than ever before, and that is in every age group - sometimes by as much as 10% more.\n\n\"What we do know is that overall, out of every ten people who come to intensive care with Covid about six of them will survive and will leave the intensive care unit. Which means sadly four of them won't, four of them will die.\n\n\"That's similar overall to the first wave but that data is based on some patients who are still in the intensive care unit. So that may change and it's more likely to get worse rather than better.\"\n\n\"We also know patients who are on life support machines in the intensive care unit will do worse than those who come to the intensive care unit and are not on life support machines.\n\n\"For those people, it's probably five out of 10 people who will survive and five who will sadly die and that may be worse when we have the data on those who are still there.\n\n\"And there's a big effect of age. So for those over the age of 70 it may be as little as four people out of 10 who survive, maybe less. And for those over the age of 80 it may be as low as one or two people out of ten who survive.\n\nThe figures from ICNARC also highlight how people from poorer backgrounds were more likely to need treatment in intensive care.\n\nUsing a deprivation score from 1 to 5, more than half of patients scored 4 or 5, representing the most deprived postcodes in Wales.\n\nDr Morgan said: \"Sadly, disease is an illness of deprivation.\n\n\"And so that's why we feel it, particularly in Wales where the industrial scars of our past are still very much there - and our health is there.\"", "The men were arrested on suspicion of causing a public nuisance at hospitals in Birmingham and Worcestershire\n\nFour men have been arrested on suspicion of causing a public nuisance at hospitals in the West Midlands.\n\nThe men, aged between 31 and 37, were held in relation to incidents in Birmingham and Worcestershire between 31 December and 9 January.\n\nEarlier this month, police said they were investigating after people posted videos of supposedly empty hospital corridors on social media.\n\nThe videos claiming Covid-19 was a hoax sparked an outcry from medical workers.\n\nWest Mercia Police launched a joint investigation with West Midlands Police, after incidents were reported at Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth Hospital and the Alexandra in Redditch.\n\nHospitals in Worcester and Kidderminster also featured, before the footage was deleted.\n\nThe West Mercia force confirmed it had arrested two men from Bromsgrove aged 31 and 34 as well as a 37 year-old man from Kidderminster and a fourth man, aged 34, from Droitwich.\n\nThey were also detained relating to incidents in a park in Bromsgrove as well as the town centre.\n\nAll four men have since been bailed with conditions not to enter any hospital in England unless they have a medical reason to do so.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Birmingham has one of the largest intensive care capacities in the whole country\n\nTwo hundred doctors will be redeployed to one of England's largest intensive care units amid fears it could be \"overwhelmed\".\n\nA leaked memo warned hospitals in Birmingham were \"in a position of extremis\" as Covid-19 cases rise.\n\nElective surgeries at the city's main Queen Elizabeth Hospital will stop as staff move to critical care duties.\n\nA spokesperson said the approach ensured \"the greatest good for the greatest numbers of people\".\n\nThe trust's decision to redeploy doctors was revealed in a leaked email to the Health Service Journal, which has been verified by the BBC.\n\nSent by consultant Peter Hewins, it said hospitals in Birmingham risked being \"overwhelmed\" amid a \"period of absolute emergency\".\n\nThe University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) said there were 873 patients with Covid-19 across its sites, with 125 in intensive care.\n\nThis was significantly more than in April 2020, it said, as it announced plans to double its intensive care capacity to more than 250 beds.\n\nTime-critical surgery, including cancer operations, will continue, the trust said, but elective procedures at the Queen Elizabeth will be paused, and reduced elsewhere.\n\nThere will also be a \"further reduction of outpatient activity\", a spokesperson said, adding: \"Every member of staff will be supported by the Trust in delivering the best care wherever they are working.\"\n\nThere are currently 873 Covid-19 patients being treated at the trust\n\nNeighbouring University Coventry and Warwickshire Hospitals Trust confirmed it had started taking Covid patients from Birmingham.\n\nUniversity Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) is one of the largest teaching hospital trusts in England.\n\nIt runs several hospitals, including Birmingham Heartlands, the Queen Elizabeth, Solihull Hospital and Good Hope Hospital in Sutton Coldfield. It also runs Birmingham Chest Clinic.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Boris Johnson - pictured here in 2013 - has long been a fan of cycling\n\nBoris Johnson has been criticised for travelling seven miles from Downing Street to go cycling during lockdown.\n\nThe Evening Standard reported the prime minister had been spotted in the Olympic Park in East London on Sunday.\n\nGovernment advice allows people to exercise outside, but says you should not travel outside your local area.\n\nA No 10 spokesman would not confirm if Mr Johnson had been driven to the park or cycled there, but said the PM had complied with Covid-19 guidelines.\n\nLabour's Andy Slaughter said: \"Once again it is do as I say, not as I do, from the prime minister.\"\n\nThe Hammersmith MP added: \"London has some of the highest infection rates in the country. Boris Johnson should be leading by example.\"\n\nIn response to the criticism, a Downing Street source told the BBC: \"The PM has exercised within the Covid rules and any suggestion to the contrary is wrong.\"\n\nA woman told the PA news agency she had seen the prime minister in the park: \"He was leisurely cycling with another guy with a beanie hat and chatting, while around four security guys, possibly more, cycled behind them.\n\n\"Considering the current situation with Covid I was shocked to see him cycling around looking so care-free.\n\n\"Also, considering he's advising everyone to stay at home and not leave their area, shouldn't he stay in Westminster and not travel to other boroughs?\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock was asked at Monday's Downing Street press conference whether travelling seven miles for a cycle ride was within the rules.\n\nMr Hancock said: \"It is OK, if you went for a long walk and ended up seven miles from home, that is OK, but you should stay local.\n\n\"It is OK to go for a long walk or a cycle ride or to exercise, but stay local.\"\n\nThe issue of travelling for exercise was highlighted at the weekend after two women said they were surrounded by police and fine £200 after driving five miles from home to take a walk.\n\nDerbyshire Police have now dropped the fine and apologised to the women, but the incident led to a debate over the guidance.\n\nGovernment advice for England says you can leave your home to exercise, but adds: \"This should be limited to once per day, and you should not travel outside your local area.\"\n\nThe guidance adds: \"Stay local means stay in the village, town, or part of the city where you live.\"\n\nIn Scotland, the advice is more precise, saying exercise can be taken if it \"starts and finishes at the same place, which can be up to five miles from the boundary of your local authority area\".\n\nFormer Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron, who represents a constituency in the Lake District, has written to the PM calling for clearer guidance on exercise similar to that in Scotland.\n\nHe wrote: \"On the one hand, our local police force here in Cumbria are reporting that people... have travelled hundreds of miles to take their exercise in the Lake District.\n\n\"And on the other hand, I have constituents writing to me, worried whether they will be punished for driving five minutes up the road to go for a walk in their local park.\"\n\nMr Farron added: \"We need a solution that clearly deters people from making lengthy trips and potentially spreading the virus, but also that doesn't discourage people from keeping fit and healthy.\"", "Retailers suffered their worst annual sales performance on record in 2020, driven by slump in demand for fashion and homeware products, figures show.\n\nWhile food sales growth rose 5.4% on 2019, non-food fell about 5%, the British Retail Consortium (BRC) said.\n\nIt meant an overall fall of 0.3% in a year dominated by the Covid-19 impact, the worst annual change since the BRC began collating the figures in 1995.\n\nChristmas offered little cheer, with much of the High Street still closed.\n\n\"Physical non-food stores, including all of non-essential retail, saw sales drop by a quarter compared with 2019,\" said Helen Dickinson, BRC chief executive.\n\n\"Christmas offered little respite for these retailers, as many shops were forced to shut during the peak trading period,\" she said.\n\nThe 5.4% rise in food sales was fuelled by shoppers flocking to supermarkets and online grocers to ensure they were stocked up during the pandemic.\n\nIn December, total retail sales increased by 1.8% as shoppers spent more in the run-up to Christmas. Like-for-like sales for the month were up 4.8% as overall shop takings were still affected by restrictions and temporary closures.\n\nOnline non-food sales jumped by 44.8% in December, according to the new figures, as a higher proportion of shopping took place online.\n\nThe BRC's sales monitor is collated with the consultancy KPMG, whose UK head of retail, Paul Martin, said: \"In the most important month for the retail industry, there was some positive growth due to the ongoing shift of expenditure from other categories such as travel and leisure.\n\n\"Once again we saw big swings in the types of products being purchased and the channels used for shopping, with much of the growth taking place online, where nearly half of all non-food purchases were made.\"\n\nBut he warned that the new lockdown would worsen conditions for many non-essential shops and the High Street generally.\n\nLast week, a report from the Centre for Retail Research (CRR) said that 2020 was the worst for High Street job losses in more than 25 years, as the coronavirus accelerated the move towards online shopping.\n\nNearly 180,000 retail jobs were lost last year, up by almost a quarter from 2019, the CRR said.", "The Covid pandemic has caused excess deaths to rise to their highest level in the UK since World War Two.\n\nThere were close to 697,000 deaths in 2020 - nearly 85,000 more than would be expected based on the average in the previous five years.\n\nThis represents an increase of 14% - making it the largest rise in excess deaths for more than 75 years.\n\nWhen the age and size of the population is taken into account, 2020 saw the worst death rates since the 2000s.\n\nThis measure - known as age-standardised mortality - takes into account population growth and age.\n\nThe data is only available until November - so the impact of deaths in December have not yet been taken into account - but it shows the death rate at that stage was at its highest in England since 2008.\n\nThe data on deaths can be confusing.\n\nOn one hand, excess deaths are at their highest since World War Two, while on the other, death rates, once age and size of population are taken into account, are at their worst level for a little over a decade 'only'.\n\nHow should that be interpreted?\n\nExcess deaths are basically a measure of how many more people are dying than would be expected based on the previous few years.\n\nClearly, 2020 saw a huge and unexpected rise in deaths because of the pandemic, just as World War Two led to a sudden jump.\n\nBut in determining how much those jumps affected the chances of dying, a measure known as age-standardised mortality, which takes into account the age and size of the population, is important.\n\nIt shows the pandemic has undone the progress made in the last decade or so. That is significant - especially given this has happened despite lockdowns and social-distancing measures to stop the spread of the virus.\n\nBut it also helps put the death toll over the past 12 months in a wider context.\n\nKing's Fund chief executive Richard Murray said the picture was likely to worsen, given Covid deaths were rising following the surge in infections over recent weeks.\n\n\"The UK has one of the highest rates of excess deaths in the world, with more excess deaths per million people than most other European countries or the US,\" he said.\n\n'It will take a public inquiry to determine exactly what went wrong, but mistakes have been made.\n\n\"In a pandemic, mistakes cost lives. Decisions to enter lockdown have consistently come late, with the government failing to learn from past mistakes or the experiences of other countries.\n\n\"The promised 'protective ring' around social care in the first wave was slow to materialise and often inadequate, a contributing factor to the excess deaths among care home residents last year.\n\n'Like many countries, the UK was poorly prepared for this type of pandemic.\"\n\nMatthew Reed, of the end-of-life care charity Marie Curie said the focus on Covid should not hide the fact there has been a \"silent crisis\" of deaths at home.\n\nHe said people have died prematurely in 2020 from other causes - with a big jump in deaths at home.\n\n\"We are concerned many have not had the care they needed,\" he added.\n• None Lockdown needs to be stricter, scientists warn", "Officer Eugene Goodman is being celebrated for his heroics\n\nCapitol Police Officer Eugene Goodman is being called a hero for a second time after footage shown at the impeachment trial shows him directing Mitt Romney away from an advancing mob.\n\nIn the video, the officer is seen notifying Mr Romney that the rioters were heading in his direction and guiding him away.\n\nThe Utah senator, an unpopular figure among Trump supporters, said he looked forward to thanking the police officer for his actions.\n\nOfficer Goodman was already being praised for his bravery that day, after singlehandedly steering a mob away from the Senate chambers.\n\nVideo footage showed him just steps ahead of rioters as they chase him up a flight of stairs.\n\nMr Goodman is then seen glancing towards the Senate entrance before luring the men in the opposite direction.\n\nFive people, including a police officer, died as a result of the riots.\n\nThe officer was seen confronting a pro-Trump rioter during the attack\n\nMembers of the 2,000-person Capitol police department are tasked with protecting the Capitol building and those inside, it.\n\nA group of senators has introduced a bill to award Officer Goodman with the Congressional Gold Medal.\n\nNews of his additional heroics involving Senator Romney will only amplify calls for him to be recognised.\n\nThe senator said he was unaware of the danger he was in until he saw the footage at the trial on Wednesday.\n\nSenator Mitt Romney said he was looking forward to thanking Officer Goodman\n\nIt formed part of the Democratic prosecution in trying to underline the peril the heart of US government was under as Trump supporters ransacked the Capitol.\n\nSenator Romney said it was \"overwhelmingly distressing and emotional\" to see the violence again, six weeks after the attack.\n\nAnd reflecting on his own narrow escape, he added he was looking forward to thanking Officer Goodman \"when I next see him\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. See how close the mob got to Mike Pence, Mitt Romney and other lawmakers\n\nNew York Law School criminal law professor and 20-year veteran of the New York City Police Department Kirk Burkhalter called Mr Goodman's response to the rioters \"tremendous\".\n\n\"I don't think there was any type of training that would prepare you for that situation,\" Mr Burkhalter told the BBC, speaking days after the attack.\n\nIn the video shot by Huffington Post reporter Igor Bobic, Mr Goodman, who is black, is antagonised by the group of Trump supporters - who are all white men.\n\nThe man at the front of the pack, wearing a QAnon T-shirt, has been identified as Doug Jensen of Iowa. He was later arrested by local police and the FBI for his role in the riots.\n\nFootage shows Mr Jensen leading the mob that chased Mr Goodman up a flight of stairs - just a few feet away from the entrance to the Senate floor. As he is pursued, Mr Goodman shouts \"second floor!\" into his radio, seemingly alerting other officers of the group approaching the chamber.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Igor Bobic This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAfter Mr Goodman glances toward the Senate chamber entrance, he shoves Mr Jensen - a move seemingly designed to draw attention on to himself, luring the mob away from the chambers and those hiding inside.\n\nThe image of Mr Goodman trailed by a mob - some armed with Confederate flags, others with allusions to the Nazi flag - was extremely disturbing, Mr Burkhalter said.\n\n\"Police officer, not a police officer, to see a black man being chased by someone carrying a Confederate flag - there is something wrong with that picture. That should never happen again,\" he said.\n\n\"It just reeks of everything we need to correct.\"\n\nMr Goodman's standoff with the mob came just minutes before authorities were able to seal the chamber, according to reporting from the Washington Post.\n\nHis heroics were noted at the highest level - he was invited to the inauguration as a guest of Vice-President Kamala Harris.", "Naomi Campbell and Kenyan Tourism Minister Najib Balala sealed the deal over the weekend\n\nThe appointment of British supermodel Naomi Campbell as Kenya's tourism ambassador has caused a Twitter storm in the East African nation.\n\nMany queried why it had not been given to a prominent Kenyan like Hollywood actress Lupita Nyong'o.\n\nOthers leapt to her defence, saying the debate already justified her role.\n\nKenya's tourism sector has been badly hit by coronavirus, with visitor numbers down by 72% between January and October last year.\n\n\"The sector hence lost over 110bn Kenyan shillings [$1bn, £738m] of direct international tourists' revenue due to the Covid-19 pandemic,\" Kenya's Tourism Research Institute reported last month.\n\nThe country is famous for its wildlife safaris and beach resorts.\n\nKenyan Tourism Minister Najib Balala said the deal with Ms Campbell was done over the weekend after he met the model, who is currently on holiday in Kenya.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by Ministry of Tourism & Wildlife-Kenya\n\nThe 50-year-old style icon and philanthropist has been posting images of her stay on Instagram, where she has 10 million followers.\n\n\"We welcome the exciting news that Naomi Campbell will advocate for tourism and travel internationally for the Magical Kenya brand,\" Mr Balala said, without giving further deals of the contract.\n\nBut the statement, posted on Twitter on Tuesday, prompted instant outrage from some, and the supermodel's name has since been trending in the country.\n\nOne tweeter cited other Kenyan celebrities better suited to the ambassadorial role, including models Ajuma Nasenyana and Debra Sanaipei, as well as Nyong'o.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Syombua A. Kibue 🇰🇪 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOne tweeter said the backlash revealed an unhealthy attitude in Kenya: \"At the end of the day, it's all about who will get the job done. This mentality is what causes nepotism and tribalism in Kenyan institutions, it should be about the most suitable candidate not 'one of our own' thing.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs Campbell's defenders praised her for visiting Kenya several times and said it was not only the model's social media following that made her the perfect appointment.\n\nHer circle of friends were equally important as she would attract wealthy tourists willing to spend money.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Mlolwa🐬 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe tourism industry usually contributes about 8.8% to Kenya's annual Gross domestic product (GDP), according to Kenya's East African newspaper.\n• None The supermodel and the warlord", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Tuesday morning. We'll have another update for you at 18:00 BST.\n\nPolice patrols were stepped up around the Scotland-England border around Christmas\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How to wear your mask. Hint: it's not any of these three options\n\nSo many of us are spending more time staring at a screen right now and an eye health charity is recommending we learn the \"20-20-20\" rule to protect our sight. Fight for Sight advises looking at something 20 feet away for 20 seconds, every 20 minutes you're working at a screen, in order to reduce eye strain. The charity also commissioned a survey of 2,000 people which found more than a third believed their eyesight had worsened in the past year. It says the number of us getting regular eye tests is also down and is urging people not to miss their appointments.\n\nIt sadly comes as no surprise to learn that 2020 was the worst year on record for UK retailers, especially those focused on clothing and homeware. Food bucked the trend, particularly over Christmas, with the highest ever festive spending on groceries. But overall, retail sales declined by 0.3% across the year, and non-food by nearly a quarter, the biggest annual dip since the British Retail Consortium began collating the figures in 1995. The BRC says many retailers are struggling to survive and the government should extend the business rates holiday to save jobs.\n\nA father who'd campaigned for a change in the coronavirus rules to make life easier for non-resident parents to see their children has welcomed a government rethink. Previously, parents could visit children they don't live with during lockdown, but restrictions prevented them from staying overnight in a hotel. Ex-BBC journalist Tom De Castella said the ban \"had a massive bearing on seeing my daughter\", who lives a three-and-a-half hour drive away from his home. Now the rules have been rewritten, he's relieved. \"This is about building a bond with your child, it's crucial to their development,\" he added.\n\nTom De Castella said the rethink was \"great news\" for parents like him\n\nFind more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nPlus, three vaccines are now approved for use in the UK, but there are many differences between them. BBC health correspondent Laura Foster explains.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Lockdown rule-breakers are more likely to be fined as Covid laws will be enforced \"more quickly\", the UK's most senior police officer has said.\n\nLondon's Metropolitan Police commissioner Dame Cressida Dick said her officers have had to break up parties, despite hospitals struggling to cope with rising patient numbers.\n\nA minister confirmed her pledge that fines were \"increasingly likely\".\n\nKit Malthouse said people have a \"duty\" to make this lockdown \"the last one\".\n\n\"We are urging the small minority of people who aren't taking this seriously to do so now, and [are illustrating] to them that if they don't they are much more likely to get fined by the police,\" Mr Malthouse, the policing minister, told BBC Breakfast.\n\n\"These current measures should in theory, if we all stick by them, be enough to drive the numbers down so that we can start to move through the gears of tiers from mid-February,\" he added.\n\nAsked if tighter restrictions for England were on the way - something the health secretary has refused to rule out - Mr Malthouse said ministers were \"on tenterhooks\" watching the daily figures for Covid deaths, new cases and hospital admissions, as rules continue to be kept under review.\n\nHe said the government's ramped-up efforts to give vulnerable people the coronavirus vaccine should help the UK to \"get back to some sort of normality later this year\".\n\nThe BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg said there was currently no expectation that Westminster will impose more extensive restrictions.\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said she discussed possible tighter restrictions with members of her cabinet on Tuesday morning.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel and chair of the National Police Chiefs' Council, Martin Hewitt, will hold a coronavirus press conference at Downing Street later.\n\nThe latest figures on Monday showed a further 529 people had died within 28 days of a positive test in the UK, while another 46,169 cases were reported.\n\nThere are also more than 32,200 people in hospital in the UK with coronavirus, data shows.\n\nDame Cressida told BBC Radio 4's Today programme some 75 police officers are joining 185 firefighters in being trained to drive ambulances in the capital, to help London Ambulance Service as the number of cases of the virus continues to rise.\n\nAnd writing in the Times, she said her officers had found people hosting raves, house parties and basement gambling events, despite clear laws that ban social gatherings.\n\n\"It is preposterous to me that anyone could be unaware of our duty to do all we can to stop the spread of the virus,\" she said, adding that people breaking Covid laws were \"increasingly likely to face fines\".\n\nPolice chiefs in other parts of England have also warned \"patience is running out\" with rule-breakers, with the public increasingly willing to report alleged rule breaches.\n\nSince March, some 32,000 penalties for breaching Covid laws have been issued in England and Wales - with a sharp rise in penalties during England's November lockdown.\n\nAlmost 6,500 penalty tickets were handed out in the weeks up to Christmas as police began moving more quickly from \"engage\", \"explain\" and \"encourage\" to the fourth \"e\" - \"enforcement\".\n\nExpect the rate of fines to continue upwards during January, given the scale of the emergency and the pressure from government on constabularies to enforce the law.\n\nBut there is also a tension here. Police chiefs have told their officers they will often have to use their own judgement because the list of \"reasonable excuses\" in the law for why someone can be outside is not fixed in stone.\n\nThere is a lot of wriggle room in the law to allow daily lives to continue.\n\nWhile ministers, scientists and health experts are all hammering home the message that people should stay at home as much as possible, the law is more liberal - for instance, there is no restriction on exercise in England.\n\nAnd that's why some police officers believe they are stuck between a rock and a hard place as people who don't want to be locked down find more and more creative ways to stretch the rules to breaking point.\n\nFines start at £200 in England and Northern Ireland, and £60 in Wales and Scotland. Large parties can be shut down by the police, with fines of up to £10,000.\n\nDame Cressida told the Today programme the move towards greater enforcement was \"common sense\" rather than a show of \"dictatorial policing\".\n\nShe also said Prime Minister Boris Johnson's cycle in east London at the weekend was \"not against the law\", but added the \"stay local\" guidance on exercise for England could be made more clear.\n\nUnder Scotland's lockdown restrictions, people must start and finish their exercise in the same place - and to do so, they may travel up to five miles from the boundary of their local authority area. People in Wales should start and finish exercising from their home, while those in Northern Ireland are advised not to go more than 10 miles from home when exercising.\n\nAsked if she would like to see similar detail in England's guidance, Dame Cressida said: \"That is certainly something the government could consider.\n\n\"Anything that brings greater clarity, for officers and the public, in general, will be a good thing.\"\n\nDame Cressida also said she was delighted that a proposal to prioritise frontline officers for vaccines was being discussed\n\nPolice chiefs have been under increasing pressure to enforce the lockdown laws - with a number of news reports about breaches of Covid rules in recent days.\n\nIn one case, Derbyshire Police withdrew penalties for two women who had been fined £200 each when they drove five miles for a walk together - following widespread media attention.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel has defended the way police have handled breaches, saying there is a need for \"strong enforcement\".\n\nFour people were arrested in Edinburgh on Monday after anti-lockdown protesters clashed with police\n\nEngland is currently under a national lockdown, meaning people must stay at home and can go out only for limited reasons such as food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home.\n\nSimilar lockdown measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland - which are in charge of making their own coronavirus restrictions.\n\nIn her article, Dame Cressida said she was \"delighted to hear\" that a proposal to prioritise frontline officers to get vaccinated was being \"actively discussed\", as the rate of officers self-isolating has risen.\n\nSo far 2.3 million people in the UK have had a first dose of the coronavirus vaccine, as part of the government's plan to vaccinate tens of millions of people by the spring.\n\nDefence Secretary Ben Wallace said members of the armed forces were working \"hand in hand with the NHS\" to help with the response to the UK's epidemic.\n\nSome 5,300 members of the armed forces are currently involved in the Covid response including personnel to help with vaccinations and community testing across the UK, he said.", "Rules governing the import of personal goods from the UK to the EU changed after Brexit formally came into effect\n\nA Dutch TV network has filmed border officials confiscating ham sandwiches and other foods from drivers arriving in the Netherlands from the UK, under post-Brexit rules.\n\nThe officials were shown explaining import regulations imposed since the UK formalised its separation from the EU.\n\nUnder EU rules, travellers from outside the bloc are banned from bringing in meat and dairy products.\n\nThe rules appeared to bemuse one driver.\n\n\"Since Brexit, you are no longer allowed to bring certain foods to Europe, like meat, fruit, vegetables, fish, that kind of stuff,\" a Dutch border official told the driver in footage broadcast by TV network NPO 1.\n\nIn one scene, a border official asked the driver whether several of his tin-foil wrapped sandwiches had meat in them.\n\nWhen the driver said they did, the border official said: \"Okay, so we take them all.\"\n\nSurprised, the driver then asked the officials if he could keep the bread, to which one replied: \"No, everything will be confiscated - welcome to the Brexit, sir. I'm sorry.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe UK officially finished its formal separation from the EU on 31 December, 2020.\n\nFrom 23:00 GMT on that date, the UK stopped following EU rules, with new arrangements for travel, trade, immigration and security co-operation coming into force.\n\nA trade deal with the EU was agreed on 24 December, and a week later, UK lawmakers voted in favour of the agreement.\n\nThe UK's departure means big changes for business - with the UK and EU forming two separate markets - the end of free movement, and new regulations, including those governing the import of personal goods.\n\nThe UK government has issued guidance to commercial drivers travelling to the EU, warning them to \"be aware of additional restrictions to personal imports\".\n\n\"You cannot bring POAO (products of an animal origin) such as those containing meat or dairy (e.g. a ham and cheese sandwich) into the EU,\" the guidance says. \"There are exceptions to this rule for certain quantities of powdered infant milk, infant food, special foods, or special processed pet feed.\"\n\nOn its website, the European Commission says the ban is necessary because such goods \"continue to present a real threat to animal health throughout the Union\".\n\n\"It is known, for example, that dangerous pathogens that cause animal diseases such as Foot and Mouth Disease and classical swine fever can reside in meat, milk or their products,\" the Commission says.\n\nSeparately, the Dutch customs agency shared a picture of foodstuffs it had confiscated from motorists in the ferry terminal the Hook of Holland.\n\n\"Since 1 January, you can't just bring more food from the UK,\" the agency said. \"So prepare yourself if you travel to the Netherlands from the UK and spread the word. This is how we prevent food waste and together ensure that the controls are speeded up.\"\n\nThe BBC's economics editor Faisal Islam described the confiscation of ham sandwiches and other foodstuffs at the EU's borders with the UK as \"a standard implication of [the] Brexit deal\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Faisal Islam This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The NHS Louisa Jordan was built in two weeks in April response to concerns over hospital capacity\n\nA shortage of NHS staff could prevent the opening of the NHS Louisa Jordan to Covid patients if capacity is exceeded elsewhere, a leading doctor has said.\n\nPresident of the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh, Prof Mike Griffin, said the increasing numbers off work was a \"major problem\".\n\nThe Scottish government says the NHS is not being \"overwhelmed\" and staffing plans are in place to deal with demand.\n\nThe NHS Louisa Jordan is currently being used for outpatient services.\n\nThe temporary hospital at the SEC in Glasgow was set up in April in response to concerns over hospital capacity.\n\nIt was not used for Covid care during the first surge of the pandemic and has since been made available for outpatient services, such as orthopaedics, plastic surgery and dermatology.\n\nIt is also being used for Covid vaccinations.\n\nProf Mike Griffin told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme that the pressure on the NHS workforce was particularly acute in the west of Scotland, where the number of cases was high.\n\n\"Particularly in Glasgow and Lanarkshire, there's been significant increases recently because of the new variant. Without any doubt, that new variant is increasing transmissibility, and therefore increasing infection rates and increasing hospital admissions,\" he said.\n\n\"But it's not just the admissions that's the problem. Our doctors, surgeons, nurses and everyone are really working extremely hard - but there is an increase in absenteeism because of illness and because of self-isolation amongst nursing staff.\"\n\nTwo of Scotland's health boards - NHS Ayrshire and Arran and NHS Lanarkshire - are currently over their capacity for Covid patients.\n\nNHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde has reached 85% capacity and NHS Tayside is at 81% capacity, according to the latest Scottish government figures.\n\nThe NHS Louisa Jordan has capacity for 1,000 Covid patients if it is needed, but Prof Griffin said that using it as a Covid facility could be dependent on retired or former staff returning to work for NHS Scotland.\n\n\"Opening the Louisa Jordan as a Covid institution without staff is impossible,\" he said.\n\n\"It is equipped to be able to do it. And if the staffing is there, if we get returners and so on, then perhaps that might happen.\"\n\nThe number of Covid patients in hospital across Scotland is now higher than it was in April, although the numbers in intensive care are lower.\n\nNumbers initially appeared to be declining in November, but never reached low levels and began to climb sharply again at the end of the year.\n\nProf Griffin added that it was likely that better treatments for Covid patients were also reducing mortality and so keeping those patients in hospital for longer.\n\nNHS Scotland has an overall capacity for 13,000 beds, with 2,400 assigned to Covid patients.\n\nThis is down from a capacity of about 3,600 in the autumn because of additional seasonal pressures on the NHS, including weather-related issues and increased staff absence.\n\nScotland's national clinical director, Prof Jason Leitch, accepted that having around 1,500 patients in hospital with Covid had forced the cancellation of procedures such as cataract operations and hip replacements.\n\nBut he said that ability to \"flex\" within the system meant that the NHS remained within capacity.\n\nProf Leitch also pointed to the situation in England where there have been reports of limits being put on the amount of oxygen that patients can receive and some intensive care patients having to be treated in non-ICU beds.\n\nSpeaking at the first minister's coronavirus briefing, he said: \"People shouldn't be scared that the health service is full or overwhelmed - it isn't.\n\n\"It is fragile, and you just have to look a few hundred miles south to see what happens when it is even more fragile.\n\n\"So we need to avoid that as much as we can in Scotland.\"", "The Northern Lights from Munlochy on the Black Isle in the Highlands\n\nDisplays of the Aurora Borealis were visible from north and north east Scotland overnight.\n\nAlso known as the Northern Lights, the aurora appear as shimmering waves of light when atoms in the Earth's high-altitude atmosphere collide with energetic charged particles from the sun.\n\nBBC Weather Watchers photographed the \"lights\" from Shetland, the Highlands and Moray.\n\nBrae, Shetland, was among the vantage points for observing the aurora overnight on Monday into Tuesday\n\nA view of the aurora from Hopeman on the Moray Firth coast\n\nA colourful scene at Nairn on the Highlands' Moray Firth coast\n\nThe aurora from Glenelg in the west Highlands\n\nThis stunning image was captured at Durness by Andy Walker\n\nClear skies over Moray offered opportunities to see the lights, including from Elgin\n\nFreck Fraser's image of the aurora from a snowy Belladrum near Beauly\n\nThe green glow of the aurora from Portmahomack in the Highlands\n\nAnother image of the aurora from Brae in Shetland\n\nBright lights of the aurora from Uig in the Highlands", "Meddyg Care Dementia Home was due to receive vaccinations last week\n\nA care home manager is \"frightened\" for the residents after its delivery of Covid vaccinations failed to arrive.\n\nLorna Jones said Meddyg Care Dementia Home in Criccieth, Gwynedd, was due to have a delivery of the new Oxford-AstraZeneca jab a week ago.\n\nHowever the vaccine has not arrived amid claims other people in the area have already had the jab.\n\nBetsi Cadwaladr University Health Board admitted there had been \"logistical problems\" in north west Wales.\n\nThe health board insisted it is \"committed\" to vaccinating those most vulnerable.\n\nOn Monday, it was announced that all over-50s in Wales are to be offered jab by spring, after criticism the rollout of the vaccine in Wales has been slower than in other parts of the UK.\n\nWith family visits suspended, the care home has not recorded a single Covid-19 case and a phone call on New Year's Eve to say it was to receive the vaccine was met with \"glee and happiness\".\n\nUnder the Welsh Government's vaccination rollout plan, care home residents and staff are first in line to get the immunisation - or priority one - ahead of elderly people within communities across Wales.\n\nHowever the vaccine has not arrived while, the home claimed, local GP surgeries have been administering the vaccine to over 80s in the community.\n\nLorna Jones is demanding answers as to why the vaccine has not arrived\n\nMs Jones said: \"I can't understand why Betsi Cadwaladr have veered away from the priority list.\n\n\"It's very clear. If there are vaccines coming into the local community, which there are, why have our residents not been vaccinated?\n\n\"I know some care homes have had it in Caernarfon, so why haven't we. What's the difference?\"\n\nMs Jones said the delay is causing concern among staff, residents and families.\n\n\"I'm frightened for our residents. I'm getting a lot of contact from families and I just can't give them anything,\" she said.\n\nThe home's owner said he had now taken matters into his own hands.\n\nKevin Edwards, managing director of Meddyg Care, said he had spent hours ringing around GP surgeries \"begging\" for spare vaccines.\n\nHe said the residents would now be vaccinated on Tuesday.\n\n\"We're a specialist dementia home, you can't just turn up one day and give the vaccine to the residents, there needs to be an element of preparation,\" he told BBC Radio Wales.\n\nBetsi Cadwaladr health board said it was working to ensure those with the highest priority are vaccinated.\n\nTeresa Owen, the health board's executive director of public health, said: \"Last week we vaccinated nearly 10,000 people in north Wales.\n\n\"This week, staff from primary care practices will be going into the local nursing and residential homes to administer the Oxford-Astra Zeneca vaccination to residents.\n\n\"The initial supply of vaccinations to the west of BCUHB has caused some logistical problems with commencing this programme, but vaccines have now been allocated for all the nursing and residential homes in the locality.\"", "Boris Johnson - pictured here in 2013 - is a keen cyclist\n\nDowning Street has defended Boris Johnson for riding his bicycle seven miles from home, saying he complied with Covid rules during his trip.\n\nLabour accused the prime minister of having double standards, after it was reported he had been spotted in the saddle at east London's Olympic Park.\n\nGovernment guidance says daily outdoor exercise is allowed but people should not travel outside their local area.\n\nThe PM's spokesman said any suggestion he had broken the rules was \"wrong\".\n\nBut he did not confirm whether Mr Johnson had been driven to the Olympic Park from Downing Street or cycled there.\n\nMetropolitan Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the trip had not been \"against the law - that's for sure\".\n\nPeople should go for exercise \"from your front door and come back to your front door\", she said, adding: \"That's my view of local.\"\n\nThe prime minister's press secretary said the Commissioner's words were \"wise\".\n\n\"The instruction is to stay local and for her a reasonable interpretation was to exercise from their front door but for some people it's more complicated. Everyone needs to exercise their own judgement\", she added.\n\nThe Evening Standard reported that the prime minister had been seen in the Olympic Park, with his security detail, on Sunday.\n\nThere's nothing in English lockdown law that says Boris Johnson shouldn't have pedalled around London's Olympic park on Sunday, seven miles from Downing Street.\n\nBut this comes at a time when the government is desperately pleading with people to take Covid-19 seriously and follow the rules.\n\nIn England that means leaving home only for essential work, shopping and exercise. The guidance also says \"stay local\" without defining how far people can roam.\n\nTravel for exercise is allowed \"a short distance within your area\" to access an open space.\n\nNumber 10 will insist that's precisely what Mr Johnson did.\n\nBut his ride highlights the problem everyone faces trying to interpret rules, and relying on people using common sense.\n\nThe outing certainly doesn't help ministers straining to tell the public - in clear, consistent, easy-to-understand terms - to stay at home.\n\nAndy Slaughter, Labour MP for Hammersmith, west London, criticised the prime minister for having a \"do-as-I-say, not-as-I-do\" attitude.\n\nSpeaking to Today, Policing Minister Kit Malthouse said: \"What we are asking people to do is when they exercise to stay local.\n\n\"Now local is, obviously, open to interpretation, but people broadly know what local means.\n\n\"If you can get there under your own steam and you are not interacting with somebody... then that seems perfectly reasonable to me.\"\n\nThe PM's official spokesman added: \"We have always trusted the public to exercise good judgement. We did throughout the first lockdown and continue to do so.\"\n\nDame Cressida Dick said Boris Johnson had not broken the law\n\nThe issue of travelling for exercise was highlighted at the weekend after police in Derbyshire fined two women £200 after they drove five miles from home to take a walk - a penalty that was later dropped.\n\nGovernment advice for England says people can leave home to exercise, but adds: \"This should be limited to once per day, and you should not travel outside your local area.\"\n\nThe guidance adds: \"Stay local means stay in the village, town, or part of the city where you live.\"\n\nThe government also states: \"The law is what you must do; the guidance might be a mixture of what you must do and what you should do.\"\n\nIn Scotland, the advice is that exercise can be taken if it \"starts and finishes at the same place, which can be up to five miles from the boundary of your local authority area\".\n\nIn Wales, exercise also has to start from and finish at home. There no limits on distance travelled, although the advice is that \"the nearer you stay to your home, the better\".\n\nPeople in Northern Ireland are advised not to go more than 10 miles from home when exercising.", "Fans of the University of Alabama football team gathered in the streets of Tuscaloosa in Alabama, ignoring social distancing.\n\nThey were celebrating the university's third national championship in the past six years.", "More than 12,500 people have died with coronavirus, since the first reported death in Scotland on 13 March 2020.\n\nHere are the stories of some of those who have lost their lives.\n\nIf you would like to pay tribute to a loved one lost to Covid, please use the form below or email newsonline-scotland@bbc.co.uk and ensure you have read our terms and conditions and privacy policy.\n\nJean was born in 1937 Maryhill and spoke often and fondly of her childhood in \"the Butney\". This involved real hardships - including war-time evacuation to Holytown - though Jean's memories were all good and Maryhill became a touchstone when dementia became a factor in recent years.\n\nWorking at Rolls-Royce Hillington, Jean was transferred to its Derby HQ where, as a young woman, she made small component parts for jet engines. Even in her 80s, Jean could still perform all the machinist actions (with sound effects).\n\nShe loved to paint landscapes and had a life-long passion for music, especially jazz (with Frankie and Ella being constants). She was a great singer and dancer, always up for fun and laughs, brightening up any party.\n\nHer family said Jean was a fabulous mum to two daughters, a brilliant friend, and a warm-hearted women with kindness for everyone and anyone. She died on 27 October 2020.\n\nRashelle Baird's family describe her as \"kind, bubbly, and always the life and soul of the party\".\n\nThe 27-year-old mother-of-three from Brechin had put off appointments to get the vaccine because she was busy with her children.\n\nHer family stressed she was not anti-vaccine. \"She wanted to get her vaccine but she put her kids first,\" her father Stephen said.\n\nRashelle, who had asthma, initially thought she had caught a cold from her children, but her symptoms worsened and she was admitted to hospital.\n\nShe died in November 2021 after several days in Ninewells Hospital, Dundee, having been placed in an induced coma in the intensive care unit.\n\nDavid Trower worked as a clerical officer in the A&E department of University Hospital Monklands in Airdrie before retiring in 2016.\n\nBut he was committed to the NHS and even in retirement he chose to continue to work shifts, through NHS Lanarkshire's staff bank, right up until February. He died on 9 March 2021, aged 67.\n\nHis colleagues thought highly of him, saying: \"We have many happy memories of shifts together, laughs, nights out, and listening to all his stories of his many holidays abroad. We will miss him.\"\n\nBernadette White, his sister, said he was a caring, gentle and loving man with a wicked sense of humour.\n\nShe added: \"The last seven years, I would say, is when David started to live his life, doing the things that made him happy without having to worry about anyone else.\"\n\nStephen Stewart met his future wife, Heather, at a youth club when he was just 14. They got engaged on his 17th birthday and he had just turned 20 when they married.\n\nThe couple, who lived in Motherwell, came from \"very different\" backgrounds but they grew up together during their 25-year marriage while raising their only child.\n\nStephen took pride in his work for concrete manufacturer FP McCann, latterly as a lab technician working out what strength the concrete needed to be for certain projects.\n\nOutside work, he loved fishing, computer games, gadgets and during the first lockdown he managed to build a hot tub shelter with the help of a series of YouTube videos.\n\nHe died of Covid pneumonia at University Hospital Wishaw on 19 February 2021, aged 45.\n\nNan Douglas worked her way up from shorthand typist to headteacher during a remarkable career.\n\nShe was already a mother of three when she left her job as a school secretary at West Calder High School to enrol at Moray House in Edinburgh where she qualified as a primary school teacher.\n\nAfter losing her husband John when she was just 43, she found solace in working with disabled children and went on to be appointed head of Pinewood Special School in Blackburn, West Lothian.\n\nFollowing a spell living in Cornwall during her retirement, she returned to Scotland where she hosted a \"living wake\" with 80 friends and family on her 90th birthday.\n\nShe lived independently in Milnathort, Kinross, and was admitted to hospital for a minor issue just before Christmas 2020. But she picked up Covid and never left. She died on 19 February 2021, aged 95.\n\nGraeme McGrath's greatest passions were rowing and the River Clyde.\n\nOn the day of his funeral, fellow rowers held oars in a guard of honour at Glasgow Green in a tribute appreciated by his wife Anne and their three sons.\n\nFor 40 years Graeme volunteered with the Glasgow Humane Society and was often called on to row rescue boats on the Clyde, or to help evacuate families during floods.\n\nAfter undergoing a kidney transplant in his 50s, he was unable to get out on the river as much. He retired from his job as a Thomas Cook travel agent and moved to Prestwick in Ayrshire.\n\nBut he still felt the pull of the Clyde and regularly returned to the city to meet friends and row safety boats at regattas.\n\nHe died with Covid on 15 February 2021 at Crosshouse Hospital in Kilmarnock, aged 66, after being admitted for an infection affecting his heart.\n\nTommy Morrow spent most of his life in the Maryhill area of Glasgow, where he met his partner Jackie and raised their children, Demi and Mark.\n\nHis family described him as a character and not a day went by without them laughing at his jokes.\n\nHe loved camping and fishing in places like Stornoway with his friends but the most important people in his life were his family, including grandchildren, Lacey and Louden.\n\nDuring his career he worked in various well-known hotels and restaurants in Glasgow but he had not worked for some years due to poor health, including COPD.\n\nHe died with Covid on 15 February 2021, aged 53. \"It was so cruel - he was so close to getting the vaccine,\" his family said.\n\nTommy Rooney was a bus driver for 36 years and hugely popular with colleagues at First Bus in Larbert.\n\nOn the day of his funeral they were among dozens of people who lined the streets and applauded as his cortege passed the depot.\n\nFirst Bus operations manager Jason Hackett told the Falkirk Herald that Tommy was the \"heart and soul\" of the Larbert station.\n\nMarried to Margaret, the Bonnybridge man had two daughters and a granddaughter who described him as a \"humble but proud family man who put everyone else's needs before his own\".\n\nAn avid Celtic fan, he spent much of the pandemic driving key workers to their essential duties. He died on 12 February 2021, aged 57.\n\nDavid Gray's first grandchild - a girl called Islay - was born in July 2020. The proud \"papa\" used to say that she was the love of his life and she gave him a reason to wake up in the morning.\n\nTragically, the 62-year-old only got to spend five months with her before falling ill with Covid. He died on 3 February 2021.\n\nDavid lived in Erskine and worked for BAE Systems for 20 years, first as a mechanical fitter then as records manager dealing with secret files for the Ministry of Defence.\n\nHis family describe him as \"music daft\" - he played guitar and he was performing a gig with his band in Glasgow when he met his wife, Joyce, 40 years ago.\n\nThey went on to have two children - Darren and Danielle - as well as his beloved Cocker Spaniels, Buster and Shimmer, who he described as his \"bairns\".\n\nHarry Osborne was a Dunkirk veteran whose life was full of adventures - his daughter said he was still able to recall stories until just a few days before he died.\n\nMr Osborne was deployed to France months after joining the Territorial Army in Glasgow, served with the 77th Highland Field Regiment of the Royal Artillery and later became a surveyor.\n\nFriends recall how upon joining, he promised his mother he would not swear and instead would say \"cricky jings\", which became his nickname in the forces.\n\nHe was also known as a keen golfer with a \"wicked sense of humour\".\n\nMr Osborne died from Covid-19 on 25 January, nine months after celebrating his 100th birthday.\n\nConnie Simpson's grandchildren say she was more like a pal than a granny - she was full of fun and laughter, and was always the first up to dance at a party.\n\nBorn in Kinning Park, Glasgow, she moved to the east end after marrying John who she met at the Barrowlands when they were teenagers.\n\nWhile John was away with the Merchant Navy, she brought up their four children in a house \"surrounded by love\", before taking work as a curtain consultant.\n\nShe was fabulous even in her 80s - she loved getting her hair, eyebrows and manicure done, meeting friends at Mecca Bingo in Parkhead and at a local pensioners' club.\n\nConnie died on 23 January 2021 at Stobhill Hospital in Glasgow, aged 82.\n\nSheila Gartly was as \"bright as a button\" and the \"heart of our family\", her loved ones said.\n\nShe was born and brought up in Deskford, Moray, before marrying and moving to Keith in 1954. Widowed in 1975, she remarried but lost her second husband in 2005.\n\nDuring her working life she had jobs in a florist and in a fish shop - both of which she thoroughly enjoyed.\n\nShe loved to watch the birds in her garden, read her daily newspaper, listen to traditional Scottish music, and the spring and summer when the nights were lighter and flowers bloomed.\n\nIn 2019 she had surgery on a broken leg but she was recovering well. She died with Covid on 19 January 2021, aged 86.\n\nAlex Goldie was an electrical engineer who latterly worked as a lecturer at Stow College in Glasgow before his retirement.\n\nHis family said he was a gregarious man, always interested in other people, who took great delight and pride in the antics and education of his two great-grandsons, Charlie and Joe.\n\nDuring his long life he enjoyed skiing, tennis, pottery, sailing, golf, holidays in Europe, Australia and North America, single malts and red wine.\n\nHe had been well cared for by Randolph Hill nursing home in Dunblane for 19 months after developing dementia. Covid restrictions meant he had not seen his family, other than by Skype, for a year.\n\nHe is thought to have contracted the virus on a trip to A&E after a fall. He died on 14 January, aged 100.\n\nVincent Logan became one of the youngest bishops in the world when he was ordained Bishop of Dunkeld in 1981, aged 39.\n\nHe served the Roman Catholic diocese for almost 32 years before his retirement in 2012.\n\nThe Scottish Catholic Church said he was \"dedicated and energetic\" and had \"an energy and zeal in all he did\".\n\nBorn in Bathgate in 1941, he was ordained a priest in Edinburgh in 1964. He died on 14 January, aged 79, the day after his friend the Archbishop of Glasgow, Philip Tartaglia.\n\n\"Both bishops succumbed to the lethal effects of the coronavirus,\" the current Bishop of Dunkeld, Stephen Robson, added.\n\nThe Archbishop of Glasgow, the Most Reverend Philip Tartaglia, died suddenly at his home in the city on 13 January - the Feast of St Mungo, the Patron Saint of Glasgow.\n\nHe had been self-isolating after testing positive for Covid shortly after Christmas.\n\nBorn in Glasgow in 1951, he was ordained a priest in 1975 and had served as leader of Scotland's largest Catholic community since 2012.\n\nScotland's Catholic bishops described Archbishop Tartaglia as a \"gentle, caring and warm-hearted pastor who combined compassion with a piercing intellect\".\n\nAmong those who paid tribute were First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and Glasgow City Council leader Susan Aitken, who described the archbishop as \"a true Glaswegian\".\n\nLiz Shingleston was a well-known figure in the village of Dunragit and her death on 13 January had a big impact on the small community near Stranraer.\n\n\"Her hearse passed the bottom of the village and the amount of people who turned out to pay their respects was overwhelming,\" said her daughter, Lisa.\n\nLiz spent her early childhood in New Luce but moved to the railway station cottage in Dunragit where her father worked as a signalman.\n\nDuring a varied working life, Liz left school to work in the laboratory of the nearby Nestle factory and later replaced her own mother as the local school's dinner lady.\n\nThe 73-year-old was devoted to her grandchildren and great-grandson but she also liked to treat herself to afternoon tea (with Prosecco) at Trump Turnberry.\n\nHugh Polland, who was known as Shug to his friends and family, was born and raised in Glasgow's Easterhouse.\n\nHe was well known in the area where he ran the Casbah Pub for many years during the 1980s and early 90s.\n\nA huge Celtic fan, he loved to play golf and took up photography later in life - becoming \"unofficial photographer\" at many friends' weddings, christening and parties.\n\n\"Everyone wanted him at their party not just to take photos but because of his personality,\" said his son, Tony McAllister. \"Everyone loved him because what you seen is what you got.\"\n\nShug died at Glasgow Royal Infirmary on 5 January, aged 70. His sudden death has left his family heartbroken.\n\nFor more than 75 years George Wight lived on his dairy farm in the village of Drumoak in Aberdeenshire.\n\nBut he had more than one string to his bow - as well as being a dairy farmer, for 25 years he was also the publican of his local, the Irvine Arms.\n\nA loyal Aberdeen FC fan, he was one of the lucky ones - he was in Gothenburg in 1983 to see the his beloved Dons lift the European Cup Winners Cup.\n\nHe was devoted to his family, including wife Claire and their four children, and despite suffering a series of bereavements and health setbacks, he always bounced back.\n\n\"He was an inspiration and a hardy soul who kept going no matter what life threw at him,\" they said. George died at a nursing home on 4 January 2021, aged 85.\n\nHugh Bell loved to dance. As a young man, when he doing his national service with the RAF, he was a regular at the dancing at the YMCA in Paisley.\n\nIt was there he met the love of his life, Margaret. They were married for 63 years and had two children Alan and Stuart. Margaret passed away in 2013.\n\nA keen ballroom dancer, Hugh was often first on the dance floor and in his later years he enjoyed dancing to the entertainment at Southerness caravan park, near Dumfries, where Stuart and his friend had a holiday home.\n\nHe was a bright, bubbly sociable man who spent a career in logistics before working as a lollipop man in his retirement.\n\nHugh died on 31 December at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley, aged 92.\n\nDavid Warnock was a keen sportsman who loved squash, tennis, rugby, football, cycling and climbing munros.\n\nIn fact, it was on the tennis courts in Aberdeen that he met his teenage sweetheart, Zena. He was 17 and she was 14 - they were married for 62 years.\n\nAn electrical engineer, he worked for Pye Communications, moving first to Cambridge and then Edinburgh.\n\nHe was a quiet man who never complained about anything and was happiest around his family - including four children, 11 grandchildren and one great-grandchild.\n\nHis second great-grandchild was born shortly after he died in Edinburgh Royal Infirmary on 31 December. He was 85.\n\nHenry Anderson, an SNP councillor on Perth and Kinross Council, died with Covid on 27 December.\n\nHe had represented the Almond and Earn ward since 2012 and colleagues said he would be \"hugely missed\".\n\nAmong those who paid tribute to the 68-year-old was Deputy First Minister John Swinney, who described him as \"a good, decent man and a faithful councillor\".\n\nMurray Lyle, the leader of Perth and Kinross Council, said Mr Anderson was an excellent advocate for his ward and \"passionate about local issues\".\n\n\"I had the pleasure of working with Henry for several years on the Local Review Body and always his enjoyed his company, good humour and sense of fun when we were out visiting planning sites.\"\n\nTeenage sweethearts Bryson Mitchell and his wife Irene were due to celebrate their diamond wedding anniversary in January,\n\nThey met when he was an 18-year-old apprentice electrician and was assigned to a contract with the company where Irene, who was 16, was working.\n\nAfter marrying in 1961, Bryson spent his adult life in Paisley and 35 years working as an aircraft electrician with British Airways.\n\nThe couple had two children and four grandchildren, who described him as a quiet man with a great sense of humour. \"He was kind and generous, very hardworking, and he lived for his family,\" they said.\n\nHe was in hospital being treated for an acute illness when he contracted Covid. He died on Christmas Eve, aged 82.\n\nAs a child, Sandy Adam survived pioneering surgery to remove his voice box - an operation that left him unable to speak normally.\n\nInstead he learned a different way to communicate - oesophageal speech (swallowing air) - by drinking lots of lemonade. He had a life-long hatred of the fizzy drink after that.\n\nAfter training to be a dentist in Dundee, he returned to his hometown of Aberdeen. In addition to surgeries around the city, at one time he worked at Craiginches Prison one afternoon a week.\n\nA father and a grandfather, he loved tinkering with cars, pranking his two children and sitting in the sun with a glass of red wine.\n\nThe 81-year-old, who had dementia, died on 16 December, shortly after testing positive for Covid.\n\nDavid Barr was born and grew up in Paisley and for more than 40 years he worked in the town's Anchor Mill.\n\nAs well as being a keen bowler, a church elder, and an active member of Martyrs Church Men's Club, he had a gift for carpentry.\n\nThe dolls houses and garages that he made for his children and grandchildren were much loved and they are still treasured.\n\nHis favourite place in the world was the East Neuk of Fife, where he spent many happy holidays.\n\nDavid had an underlying respiratory condition and he was admitted to hospital with shortness of breath in December. He died within days of being diagnosed with Covid on 16 December, aged 86.\n\nAna Lisa Sayson was a nurse who moved from the Philippines to work for the NHS in Scotland.\n\nShe was a staff nurse at Stobhill Hospital in Glasgow before she moved to Glasgow Royal Infirmary during the Covid crisis. The mother-of-two died on 15 December after testing positive for the virus.\n\n\"Ana Lisa was a much-loved member of the team and an incredibly compassionate nurse who was devoted to the care of her patients,\" said John Stuart, the chief nurse at Glasgow Royal Infirmary.\n\n\"Ana Lisa came to our country from the Philippines to care for our loved ones and my heart goes out to her family and especially her husband and children.\n\n\"My thoughts, and the thoughts of all of her NHS family here in Glasgow, are with them at this terribly sad time.\"\n\nBilly and May Fannin were married for 62 years after meeting at a ballroom in Glasgow in 1955.\n\nMay was a bookkeeper who gave up her job to look after her grandchildren in the 1980s. \"Her life revolved around her four grandchildren,\" their younger daughter Jennifer told BBC Scotland.\n\nBilly was a joiner by trade but his real passion was singing, performing under the name Scott Allan. And as a member of Equity, he also took on work as an extra on TV programmes like Take the High Road and Taggart.\n\nHe loved being the centre of attention and \"if he was chocolate he would have eaten himself\", Jennifer joked.\n\nWhen the couple from Barrhead caught Covid, their two daughters also fell ill with the virus and had to self-isolate. They were heartbroken they could not be with their 84-year-old mother when she died in hospital on 6 December.\n\nBut they chose not tell their 88-year-old father about her death, as he was also in hospital and had dementia. Jennifer was able to visit him to say goodbye before he slipped away just eight days after the passing of his wife.\n\nShe was president of the city's Bangladesh Association, a civil servant at Glasgow City Council and, according to her family, \"a pillar of the community\".\n\nThey said she was a \"devoted mother, daughter, aunt and friend [but] she would prefer to be remembered as a social activist, volunteer and community advocate\".\n\nBoth Mridula and her husband, Sarwar Hassan, were admitted to hospital with Covid in November. He was discharged but Mridula was moved to Aberdeen for specialist treatment.\n\nHer husband and two sons were able to spend time with her before she died at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary on 12 December, aged 50.\n\nBridget Turner and her husband Alan worked for years in the window blinds industry before setting up their own business, A&B Window Blinds, in 1992.\n\nThey lived next door to the shop in Paisley, where Bridget worked in the office and Alan went out to do the measuring. Their years of hard work paid off and the family business remains successful.\n\nThe mother-of-three \"loved a good gab and a good catch-up with friends\", according to her daughter, Lisa. \"She was amazing, such a good friend to lots of people.\"\n\nWhen the children were young, family holidays were spent at the Isle of Whithorn but later the couple, who moved to Greenock, spent winters in Gran Canaria where they made friends from around the world.\n\nBridget was treated for Covid at Inverclyde Royal Hospital, where she received \"amazing care\". She died, aged 71, on 7 December after saying goodbye to her family.\n\nAndrew Slorance was a civil servant in charge of the Scottish government's planning and response to crisis situations - including the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nHe grew up in Hawick and became a journalist before joining the Scotland Office. He led the new Scottish Parliament's media team when it opened in 1999, then became the official spokesman for First Minister Alex Salmond.\n\nA father-of-five, he was diagnosed with Mantle Cell Lymphoma in 2015. He documented his experience of the rare cancer - including six rounds of chemotherapy - in a blog he called \"The fight of my life\".\n\nHe relapsed in 2019 and a stem cell transplant scheduled for Easter 2020 was delayed by Covid. While shielding at home in Edinburgh, he spent the first part of the pandemic working on the government's response from a spare room.\n\nMr Slorance was finally admitted to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Glasgow for his stem cell transplant in October. He tested positive for Covid shortly after that and died on 5 December, aged 49.\n\nTributes from across the political spectrum, including First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, have been paid to Mr Slorance. His wife, Louise, told BBC Scotland: \"He was a proud family man who was the life and soul of any party, loving and loyal.\"\n\nAllan Harper was a salesman at Topps Tiles for 23 years, mainly in the Hillington branch.\n\nHe met Caroline through a dating website 21 years ago. They were due to celebrate their 20th wedding anniversary in July.\n\nA father-of-one, he lived in Craigton, in the south-west of Glasgow, where he enjoyed computer games and playing pool with work colleagues.\n\nCaroline said they would spend their days off and holidays together with their three cats \"who sometimes got more attention than me\".\n\nHe was a kind man, a \"true gentleman\" and her \"forever love\", she added. He died on 1 December 2020, aged 60.\n\nEileen Terry was born and brought up in Renfrew before marrying Bob and moving to Milngavie in 1968.\n\nHe was a keen golfer and when their sons, Robert and David, reached secondary school she decided the time was right to join him on the golf course.\n\nIt led to a lifetime's love of the sport and she became the ladies captain of Clober Golf Club in 2001 - the club's centenary year.\n\nHer family say she was a kind and generous lady who was well-known in her local community, where she worked as a home help until her retirement.\n\nShe spent her final years in Mavisbank Nursing Home in Bishopbriggs after developing vascular dementia. She died in hospital on 25 November 2020, aged 84.\n\nDavie Burgess was one of 10 siblings born in the Townhead area of Glasgow, but he had a lifelong love of the fresh air and the scenery of the Scottish countryside.\n\nAs a young man, he worked as a fireman on the steam train to Crianlarich - a trip which included a two-hour stopover allowing him to explore the hills.\n\nLater in life he loved driving up to Acharacle to visit his son and his family, where he could go for long walks with his grandchildren and their dog, Mac.\n\nMarried for 60 years to May, the father-of-three worked for the Milk Marketing Board at Hogganfield Loch. He was a hard worker who even after he \"retired\" took on three jobs, including running a caravan park.\n\nHis family described him as a \"gentleman\" and a \"man of pride\". He died on 25 November, aged 86.\n\nRod Moore spent 40 years with the ambulance service, working as a technician, a paramedic, a trainer and then in managerial roles before returning to the front line and the job he loved.\n\nThe football fan from Falkirk was married to Clare for 31 years and they had a son, Craig.\n\n\"He was my best friend, he was always happy, joking around all the time, he was so funny... he made me laugh every day,\" Clare told BBC Scotland.\n\nAnd he was so close to their son \"you wouldn't have got a sheet of paper between them\", she added.\n\nAlthough they were not able to see Rod for four weeks while he was treated in hospital for Covid, they we allowed one final visit to say goodbye before he died on 21 November, aged 63.\n\nTom Kenmure was a manager at the Tesco distribution centre in Livingston, where he had worked for 28 years.\n\nThe 51-year-old was a friendly, sociable man and in normal times he liked nothing better than driving around the country exploring \"any little shop he could find\".\n\nAfter the restrictions came into force, the father-of-two from Carluke did everything he could to keep himself and his family safe from Covid.\n\nBut on the 6 October he felt a tightness in his chest on his way to work and had to get tested. It came back positive the next day.\n\nHe spent two weeks in Wishaw General before being transferred to an ECMO machine at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary. He died on 17 November.\n\nAndrew, or \"Andra\", Kettrick was a porter at Stirling Royal Infirmary for 28 years.\n\nHe would take patients out on \"mystery tours\" in a \"big blue hospital ambulance bus\" his son, also Andrew, told BBC Scotland.\n\n\"The old people loved my dad as he would often stop and buy them all fish and chips or ice cream - all this was paid for out of his pocket,\" he said.\n\nMr Kettrick's work was recognised by hospital bosses and they put him forward for a British Empire Medal which he received in 1991.\n\nThe father-of-three, from Cowie, Stirling, died at Caledonia Court care home in Larbert on 17 November. He was 86.\n\nJim - Flocky - Flockhart was the public face of the firefighters' strike in Glasgow in 1973.\n\nA leading figure in the Fire Brigade Union, he regularly appeared on TV and in newspapers during the controversial 10-day strike over pay.\n\nFirefighting was a dangerous - sometimes fatal - job in the \"tinderbox city\" and Jim was hailed a hero by colleagues after the dispute ended with a famous victory for the strikers.\n\nHe retired to Darvel in Ayrshire where he enjoyed a pint in the Black Bull and spent many years driving friends and local elderly men on trips around Scotland and to Ireland.\n\nA father and grandfather, he died with Covid on 13 November with his daughters Yvonne and Julie by his side. He was 77.\n\nTom Maley never wanted for anything, but after enduring months of Covid restrictions this year the 73-year-old retired joiner set his heart on a big Christmas tree.\n\nIt had been a tough year for the normally sociable pensioner who was renowned for his jokes (good and bad) and was devoted to his wife of 53 years, Georgina, and their family.\n\nThey usually decorate a small table-top tree for the festive season, but this year Mr Maley ordered a 5ft showstopper illuminated with multi-coloured stars to fill the window of their Grangemouth home.\n\nThe great-grandfather will never get to see the tree in its full glory. He died at Forth Valley Royal Hospital in Larbert on 12 November, shortly after falling ill with Covid-19.\n\nHis granddaughter Claire Taylor told BBC Scotland, said: \"My gran has made sure that the tree he ordered will go up and it will shine bright for Granda.\"\n\nTracey Donnelly was born and brought up in Edinburgh but she moved to the north-east of England after meeting her husband, George.\n\n\"I loved her the first time I saw her, and I always will,\" he said. \"She was so loving and kind - just an extra-special person in every way.\"\n\nTracey had four children, three step-children and eight grandchildren, and she worked as a support worker for the North East Autism Society.\n\nCare manager Michael Ross, said: \"She loved her family, and she loved the service-users in her care. This tragic news has ripped the heart out of the team and her colleagues are absolutely devastated.\"\n\nShe died at Sunderland General Hospital in mid-November after testing positive for coronavirus. She was 53.\n\nJim Grant was originally from Bo'ness but he spent most of his life in Grangemouth where he brought up two daughters, Margaret and Senga, with his wife Mary.\n\nHe worked as a labourer at BP before taking early retirement when he was 60.\n\nThe 88-year-old great-grandfather spent his last months at the Caledonian Court care home in Larbert before his death on 8 November. He was one of 20 residents who died in the space of a month after testing positive for Covid-19.\n\nHis granddaughter, Nicole Ritchie, said he was a gentleman who always had a huge smile on his face, and his death had had a huge impact on the family.\n\nShe told BBC Scotland \"As a family, we would like to thank Caledonian Court from the bottom of our hearts. They looked after my grandad for the last 11 months of his life and they couldn't have done a better job, he was so happy and very well looked after.\"\n\nFor more than 20 years until her retirement in February 2020, Liz Khan was a support worker for adults with learning and physical disabilities.\n\nShe also ran a drama group for them - it was always more than a job to her, her family said.\n\nLiz was also an elder at her local church, St Margaret's Parish Church in the Muirhouse area of Motherwell, North Lanarkshire.\n\n\"She devoted her life to her work, church and family,\" her children Stephen, Sonia and Lorraine told BBC Scotland.\n\nLiz died in hospital with Covid on 26 October 2020, aged 67 - eight months into her retirement.\n\nWhen Marie Ward broke her wrist in 2019, she asked her consultant whether she would be able to play the piano once it had healed.\n\nHe assured her she would, but when she replied \"that's great because I couldn't before\", the previously serious and solemn medic cracked up.\n\nShe was always laughing and joking, according to her granddaughter, Abby McNicol, and she enjoyed nothing more than knitting, shopping and a \"good blether\".\n\nMarried to Robert for 53 years, they started life together in a single-end tenement in Househillwood in Glasgow. Moving to a three-bedroom council house in Johnstone was \"like winning the lottery\".\n\nThe mother-of-three and grandmother-of-11 died on 18 October 2020, aged 83.\n\nFrances Brown spent lockdown shielding in her room in the Glasgow care home where she had lived for almost 10 years.\n\nAfter months of keeping in touch via video calls, the 76-year-old was finally able to meet up with her sister, Anne Turnbull, in August.\n\nMs Turnbull said her sister, who had chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and bi-polar disorder, had a special bond with staff at the David Cargill care home.\n\nAnd she praised the home which remained Covid-free until a staff member tested positive on 4 October. Frances contracted the virus and died in hospital on 13 October.\n\nIn a statement, the care home described Frances as \"the most incredible woman, a real character, and an absolute pleasure to know and care for\".\n\nAfter a long battle against illness throughout the year, great grandfather Charlie Armstrong died on 10 October.\n\nThe 82-year-old retired property manager from Kirkintilloch, East Dunbartonshire, had been allowed home after receiving treatment at Glasgow Royal Infirmary for chest problems.\n\nEight days later he was readmitted to the hospital and tested positive for coronavirus. The family say they were told he must have contracted Covid during his earlier stay at the Infirmary.\n\nHis wife, Joyce, who was also treated in hospital for the virus, said: \"He was very generous, very loving and very funny and he hated seeing anybody being put down. He didn't like to see injustice. He would stand up for people.\n\n\"We were together for 40 years and he was a very good father and a very good husband to me.\"\n\nMargaret Kerrigan was a \"force to be reckoned with\", according to her family - a matriarch who commanded respect.\n\nShe was born in Plymouth but her family moved to Glasgow when she was young. Growing up in Govan in the 1950s, she learned to be a \"tough cookie\".\n\nIt meant she must have been perfectly suited to her job as bar manager at Curlers in Byres Road in the 1960s. And it was there she met Joe, a customer at the pub, who she married in 1970.\n\nHe worked as a school janitor during many of their 50 years of marriage, and they had four sons, 12 grandchildren and one great-granddaughter.\n\nClydebank Bowling Club provided Joe with a good social life, while Margaret loved having her family around her and going to the bingo.\n\nJoe had dementia and he died at Hill View care home in Dalmuir on 19 April 2020, aged 78. Margaret fell ill during the second wave and died in hospital on 8 October, aged 73.\n\nFormer ambulance technician George Cairns was a resident at LittleInch Care Home in Inchinnan, Renfrewshire.\n\nHis family said the move from his Renfrew flat to the home in January had reinvigorated him and brought out his mischievous sense of humour.\n\nDuring the lockdown period Mr Cairns, who was bipolar, even joked about topping up his tan in the garden.\n\nThe 71-year-old tested positive for Covid-19 on 8 May despite displaying no symptoms, but his condition deteriorated and he died in the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley nine days later.\n\nHis daughter, Gillian, paid tribute to his caring nature, saying: \"Even if you only met him once he would tell you a story, a terrible joke or offer a supportive ear when you needed it the most.\"\n\nRetired farmer Jock Brown was a keen ice hockey player in his youth, and he represented Scotland for six years in the 1950s.\n\nHe told his family that he was selected for the team because he was the only Scotsman who played as goal tender (goalkeeper) at the time. They insist this is not true.\n\nMarried to Mary for 48 years, they had two children and four grandchildren.\n\nHe farmed near Falkirk - on land next to what is now home to The Kelpies - until his retirement in the 1980s.\n\nMr Brown's family said he was a quiet man with a great sense of humour. He had dementia and he died with Covid-19 at Burnbrae care home in Falkirk on 14 May. He was 89.\n\nIna Beaton was a well-known figure on the Isle of Skye and she lived in her own home in Balmaqueen until two years ago.\n\nShe died on 11 May aged 103, the seventh resident of Home Farm care home in Portree to die after contracting Covid-19.\n\nIna lived through the Great War and the 1919 Spanish Flu outbreak. During World War Two she moved to Glasgow to work as a conductress on the trams and survived the Clydebank blitz.\n\nHer grandson, Ailean Beaton, said his loss was shared across the island, especially the north end \"where she was mum, granny, friend to more than just the Beatons.\n\n\"Her crystal memory and broad experience of life in Skye over several generations meant that she contributed to our shared knowledge of the place we're from, its language and culture,\" he added.\n\nBetty Steele grew up in Paisley but later moved to Corby, Northamptonshire - the town known as \"little Scotland\".\n\nShe had seven children, 11 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren, and she lived for her family, according to her granddaughter, Debbie Smiley.\n\nHer house was always the meeting point, and she was the life and soul of the party.\n\n\"She had such a zest for life, and anything she did it was done with care and love for others,\" Debbie added.\n\nJohn Angus Gordon, 83, spent the last few years of his life at the Home Farm care home in Portree on Skye.\n\nHe had dementia and the sense of touch reassured him - he liked to shake a hand or hold the hand of the person he was talking to.\n\nUnable to visit the home, his family spoke to him for the last time in a video-call a few hours before he died on 5 May.\n\nAs he listened to their voices, he reached out to the hand of the carer sitting with him, dressed in full personal protective equipment.\n\n\"We found it quite poignant that my dad put out his hand to hers and she was wearing these blue protective gloves,\" said his son, John.\n\nPaul McCaffrey was an \"amazing dad\" of two children and two step-children who was always busy, according to his partner Caroline McNultry.\n\n\"He was always helping someone, whether he was in someone's house helping them out or just on-the-go in work all the time,\" she said.\n\nThe healthy 49-year-old from Glasgow fell ill after returning home from work at a care home where he was a highly-regarded maintenance manager.\n\nRather than the traditional coronavirus symptoms, he complained of a headache and aching limbs but he was eventually admitted to hospital in Glasgow where he tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nHe was transferred to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary where he could be hooked up to an ECMO machine, which performs the tasks of the lungs. After three weeks, he died on 4 May.\n\nHGV driver Jim Russell kept his lorries so spotlessly clean he was known as \"Big Gorgeous\" by colleagues who joked that he must have worn his slippers in his cab.\n\nHe was a big character who loved cars, trucks, motorbikes, lorries and going to Truckfest with his fiancée Connie McCready, who he affectionately nicknamed \"Isa\" after the Still Game character.\n\nThis photograph was taken at the last concert the couple attended together on 8 March 2020.\n\nThey met online in 2014 and were due to get married last summer but Mr Russell fell ill with Covid three weeks after the concert. He died on 4 May, aged 51.\n\n\"Everyone is talking about life getting back to normal when coming out of lockdown, however for myself and many many others we are terrified as our lives will never be normal again,\" Connie said.\n\nClive Andrews was born in Trinidad and in 1967 he moved to Edinburgh where he \"immediately felt like he belonged\", according to his daughter, Nadine.\n\nThe father-of-six worked as a senior lecturer in ergonomics at Napier College, but he was also committed to the arts.\n\nDevoted to promoting and supporting artists and musicians, he held committee roles with groups including Theatre Alba and the Scottish Arts Council.\n\nHe helped establish the Edinburgh International Harp Festival and volunteered every year for decades with the Edinburgh International Jazz Festival.\n\nClive was a lover of life (and of salsa dancing), his family said. He died at The Elms Care Home in Edinburgh on 3 May 2020, aged 86.\n\nRobert Black was a paramedic but he was also a talented musician and part of the team behind Argyll FM.\n\nPaying tribute to him on social media, the community radio station said he was \"a genuine good guy... everyone was his pal\".\n\nThe Mull of Kintyre Music Festival described him as \"one of our pals\" and a \"true gent, wonderful musician\".\n\nHe was a well-known and loved character in Campbeltown, according to Kintyre Community Resilience Group.\n\nThe father-of-two died in hospital in Glasgow on 2 May.\n\nKaren Hutton was a \"much-loved\" care home nurse who died with coronavirus days after her granddaughter was born.\n\nThe 58-year-old was a staff nurse in the dementia unit at Lochleven Care Home in Broughty Ferry, Dundee.\n\nHer only daughter, Lauren, gave birth to a girl just two weeks ago, according to care home operators Thistle Healthcare.\n\nCare home manager Andrew Chalmers-Gall said: \"Karen was a tenacious advocate for her residents and she always put their needs first.\"\n\nShe died at home in Carnoustie, Angus, on 28 April after testing positive for Covid-19.\n\nMark McCarron Gillan bought his wife, Jan, flowers every Friday - a small gesture but something that she still misses following his death on 27 April.\n\nThey were married for 23 years, after first meeting as teenagers, and they have three daughters - twins Ebony and Hope, who are 20, and Brenna, 19.\n\nWhen his colleagues at a soap factory in Queenslie, Glasgow, learned of his death, they stopped production for the first time since opening.\n\nThey were among dozens of people - including friends and neighbours - who lined the streets on the day of his funeral to say a final farewell to the 53-year-old.\n\nMark loved golf, football and hill walking but he was also a family man. \"There is a such a void left in each of us and every life that he touched,\" his wife said.\n\nAlastair Sinclair split his younger years between Reay in Caithness and Lanark before being called up for national service.\n\nBut his army career was cut short when he stood on a mine in Korea and lost a foot.\n\nHis son told BBC Scotland that he was persuaded to pursue a career in developing artificial limbs as he was being fitted for his own prosthetic.\n\nIn retirement, the father-of-three moved with his wife from Newtown Mearns in East Renfrewshire to Wishaw in North Lanarkshire.\n\nHe moved into Erskine Park care home in Bishopton shortly before lockdown and died, aged 87, five weeks later on 27 April.\n\nPearl Paterson grew up in Dennistoun in the east end of Glasgow and was just 10 years old when World War II broke out.\n\nShe was a teenager when she joined the Women's Land Army but it wasn't until she was in her 80s that she received official recognition - and a badge - for her efforts from the UK government.\n\nPearl spent much of her working life employed as a domestic assistant in hotels across Scotland, before settling in Largs, Ayrshire, with her daughter, Fiona.\n\nAn animal lover, she had a special Chihuahua called Flash, and she read the People's Friend magazine every week.\n\nOn her 91st birthday in March, her family was able wave to her in the conservatory at her care home in Glasgow. She died with Covid-19 on 26 April.\n\nAnnie Munro's home was always filled with people - her husband, six children and many nieces and nephews who would often come to visit.\n\nHer family used to joke that the house in Eaglesham must have \"rubber walls\" and they often had to share beds and would \"wake up with somebody's feet up their nose\".\n\nShe was a real homemaker who could as easily run up a set of curtains as make a batch of jam from fruit she had grown in her own garden. She never turned anyone away who needed help.\n\nA mild-mannered woman, she never had any need to raise her voice - a look over the top of her spectacles was enough to keep her children under control.\n\nIn later life she was diagnosed with Alzheimer's and her daughter, Linda, became her main carer before she moved into a care home. Annie died on 25 April, aged 84.\n\nKnown to all as Gogs, Gordon Reid was a taxi driver from Edinburgh who loved football, played golf, enjoyed a pint and doted on his grandchildren.\n\nHe stopped working as a precaution four days before the lockdown came into force but within a week had fallen ill with Covid-19.\n\nHis wife, Elaine, and daughter Leemo Goudie, were able to spend some time with him in Edinburgh Royal Infirmary before he died on 24 April, aged 68.\n\nLeemo said: \"My dad was a normal guy, no health issues, a non-smoker, fairly fit. It can happen to anyone.\"\n\nAs only a small number of mourners could attend his funeral, people stood and applauded as his hearse passed some of his favourite places in the city.\n\nDavid Allan joined a local running club in Edinburgh in retirement, after spending 36 years as a science technician at the city's Trinity Academy.\n\nThe fit and healthy 64-year-old was training for a half marathon and was planning to take part in some Park Runs in Sydney during a trip to visit his nephew in Australia this year.\n\nWhen the holiday - including a trip to Fiji - was cancelled due to coronavirus restrictions, David was pragmatic and told his wife, Glenda, they could rearrange for a later date.\n\nIt was a shock when he tested positive for Covid-19 after being admitted to hospital with a chest infection. He died on 24 April after more than four weeks in ICU.\n\nGlenda took comfort from the funeral, when neighbours lined the streets, running club friends and former colleagues stood outside the crematorium, and hundreds watched the service online.\n\nAngie Cunningham worked for NHS Borders for more than 30 years before her death.\n\nThe 60-year-old from Tweedbank was a much-respected and valued colleague who provided \"amazing care\" to her patients, the health board said.\n\nAs well as being a much-loved mother, sister, granny and great-granny, she was proud to be a nurse, her family added.\n\nShe died in the intensive care unit at Borders General Hospital from Covid-19 on 22 April, NHS Borders confirmed.\n\nKirsty Jones, a healthcare support worker with NHS Lanarkshire, was a bubbly, larger than life character, according to her colleagues.\n\nShe joined the health board after leaving school at 17 and spent much of her career working with older patients.\n\nBut the 41-year-old recently took up a role on the frontline of the pandemic, working at an assessment centre in Airdrie.\n\nHer husband, Nigel, said she devoted her life to caring for others and was a wonderful wife and mother to their two sons.\n\nAndy McGinley used to say he didn't need to win the lottery - his family meant he was already a millionaire.\n\nHe was brought up by adoptive parents in Glasgow's Maryhill area during World War Two and went on to become a carpenter at John Brown's Shipyard.\n\nAlthough he first met his wife, Margaret, at primary school they lost touch and got together after meeting at the Barrowland Ballroom years later.\n\nThey spent almost all of their 62 years of married life in the same house in Barmulloch, where they had five children. They also had 15 grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren.\n\nHe loved his garden, bowls, and a sing-song at family gatherings - his party piece was \"I'm glad that I was born in Glasgow\". He died on 29 April 2020, aged 84.\n\nEvelyn Brown dedicated her life to her family and her community. Born and bred in Peterhead, she was married to Charles for 50 years and they had two children.\n\nShe gave up her job as a bank manager to care for her son Craig after he was born with Down's syndrome in the 1970s.\n\nHer daughter Emma, who was born two years later, said her mother was a selfless woman who loved spoiling her grandchildren with \"gifts and love\".\n\nMrs Brown was an adult Guide leader and later a district commissioner, she volunteered with Barnardo's and was an active member of the Church of Scotland.\n\nAfter her death at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary on 19 April, aged 75, her family raised £3,000 in her name for the hospital's staff garden.\n\nWaqar Hussain Choudhry was a popular shopkeeper in the north of Glasgow.\n\nThe 65-year-old ran a convenience store on Skerray Street in Milton where he was affectionately known as Wacca.\n\nFollowing his death on 17 April 2020, well-wishers left flowers outside the shop he ran for almost 40 years.\n\nThey told The Glasgow Times that the father-of-three served generations of school children and put an extra sweet in their bags.\n\nHis son Zeeshan Chaudhry told the BBC: \"My beloved father was the most amazing hardworking human and parent.\"\n\nJane Murphy was known as \"Mama Murphy\" by close friends and colleagues at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.\n\nShe worked at the city hospital for almost 30 years, first as a cleaner before retraining as a clinical support worker.\n\nThe 73-year-old, from Bonnyrigg, was placed on sick leave due to her age when the pandemic broke out.\n\nIt's understood the mother-of-two died on 16 April.\n\nHer friend Gerry Taylor said: \"She wasn't afraid to tell nurses, doctors or consultants if they were not pulling their weight and they loved her for it.\"\n\nMary McCann, 70, was a \"strong, wonderful woman\" who was dedicated to her family, according to her son, David.\n\nShe spent the last three months of her life in an East Kilbride care home, having being diagnosed with cancer last year.\n\nThe grandmother was doing well in the Whitehills home, where she was putting on weight and smiling again, David said.\n\nBut in early April she developed a urinary tract infection. Her condition deteriorated quickly and within days she was struggling to breathe.\n\nShe died in the care home on 16 April with her son, Derek, by her side.\n\nVerity Watson met her husband Adam (Adie) in a bible class and together they raised three sons, Alan, Gordon and Adam.\n\nThey lived in South Africa for a few years but returned to their beloved home of Rutherglen in 1970.\n\nShe worked at the local Coulls Bakers until retiring aged 72 but in her spare time she enjoyed bowls, knitting and - best of all - a cream cake with a cup of tea.\n\nHer family were unable to be with her when she died at Roger Park Care Home on 15 April 2020, after a short stay in hospital.\n\nHer son Adam said he couldn't thank staff enough for their \"invaluable support\", sitting with his mother in her final moments. She was 98.\n\nDavid Whittick joined the Royal Navy as a pilot on his 18th birthday in the midst of World War Two. Aged 19, as part of 835 Naval Air Squadron, he was flying off aircraft carrier HMS Nairana in the Arctic.\n\nAlmost 70 years later he received the Arctic Star for his role in Arctic Convoys - described by Sir Winston Churchill as \"the worst journey in the world\".\n\nHe survived two serious accidents during his long civilian career with Scottish Airways and later British Airways, before dedicating himself to supporting the Riding for the Disabled charity in his retirement.\n\nHis work - including helping to raise funds for a purpose-built facility at Summerston in Glasgow - led to him being appointed an OBE by the Queen for his services to charity.\n\nHe was married to Joyce for more than 60 years and they had four children. His son, Peter, said he lived a full and active life, even enjoying a trip on a seaplane in January this year. He died at Erskine care home in Bishopton on 14 April, aged 95, after falling ill with coronavirus.\n\nHer daughter Linda, a lawyer for the BBC, had hoped she would survive the virus as she was from \"strong stock\".\n\nShe last saw her mother in March when she travelled from London to warn her they may not be able to visit her during the pandemic.\n\nThe pensioner had been \"extremely distressed\" afterwards, Ms Duncan said.\n\nShe was taken to Edinburgh's Western General Hospital on 12 April and died three days later.\n\nDerek Wilkie worked for 27 years as a firefighter before retiring in December 2017.\n\nHe had senior roles in Badenoch and Strathspey, and Shetland before becoming station commander for Inverness and Nairn District.\n\nColleagues said he was a \"diligent and capable firefighter... with a larger than life personality\".\n\nHis wife and two sons - who all work for the NHS - thanked those who cared for Mr Wilkie and urged people to stay at home.\n\nHe died at Raigmore Hospital in Inverness on 12 April.\n\nFormer Merchant Navy engineer Bill Campbell died of suspected Covid-19 at Erskine Park care home in Bishopton.\n\nThe 86-year-old had dementia and carers initially thought he had a chest infection but he developed a cough and a high temperature.\n\nHis condition deteriorated and he died on Easter Sunday, with his daughter, Linda Verlaque - in full protective clothing - by his side.\n\nShe praised the work of carers at the home but she said his death was \"horrific\" as undertakers came to take away his body in full hazmat gear and goggles.\n\n\"Instead of having people surrounding me and giving me a hug to say everything was all right, everyone was just standing there and we were watching my dad being taken away, which was traumatic,\" she said.\n\nProud Welshman Glyn Edwards did not learn to speak English until he was five years old, but in adulthood he made Edinburgh his home.\n\nA contemporary of Neil Kinnock at Cardiff University, he worked as a civil servant in London before marrying and moving to Scotland.\n\nHe was a regular at Robbie's Bar on Leith Walk where he was known as \"McTaffy\" but he could be a solitary character who could easily lose himself in a book or a concert.\n\nClassical music, politics and poetry were his passions - as a teenager he won a major Welsh poetry contest and his daughter, Mhairi Jarvie, treasures a ring-binder full of his poems.\n\nShe affectionately described her father as a cross between Coronation Street's Ken Barlow and Victor Meldrew - \"intelligent, opinionated, political, but grumpy and a tad anti-social\".\n\nMaths teacher Gerry McHugh was a \"true gentleman\", able to inspire every single student who walked through his door.\n\nHis death would have a \"devastating effect\" on the Notre Dame High School community in Greenock, head teacher Katie Couttie said.\n\nUnable to attend his funeral due to the lockdown, past and current pupils found a unique way to pay tribute to the 58-year-old.\n\nThey wore red and posted images on social media in memory of the lifelong Manchester United fan.\n\nEileen McCarron died in Glasgow Royal Infirmary less than 24 hours after falling ill. She had no underlying health concerns.\n\nA mother of three daughters, she spent 18 years working as a nursery teacher at Save the Children's Charles Street playgroup in Glasgow's Germiston.\n\nShe gave up the job to look after her only grandson, Patrick. Her husband of more than 35 years, also Patrick, died suddenly in 1997, aged just 57.\n\nAs well as volunteering at a Barnardo's charity shop, she liked shopping, knitting, going out for coffees and lunches, and holidays with her family.\n\nShe was 79 when she died on 9 April, leaving her family devastated and unable to comfort each other during lockdown. They had still not been able to hold a memorial service nine months later.\n\nHelen McMillan was 10 days short of her 85th birthday when she died at Almond Court care home in Glasgow's Drumchapel on 9 April.\n\nShe spent most of her life in Summerston, where she widely known as \"Auntie Ellen\" - even to those she wasn't related to.\n\n\"Everybody loved my mum,\" her daughter, Jackie Marlow, told BBC Scotland. \"She knew everybody in the community and was the life and soul of the party.\"\n\nHelen worked in McLellan's rubber factory in Maryhill until she was in her 50s.\n\nA grandmother to Hayley and Josh, she developed dementia in later life but she was still \"pretty agile and loving life\", her daughter said.\n\nMary Martin and her husband, Alex, were keen ballroom dancers.\n\nAlthough their roots were firmly in Glasgow, they spent seven years in Dunblane where they were tasked with encouraging people on to the dancefloor at the Dunblane Hydro.\n\nBefore that, Mrs Martin brought up her family in Mount Vernon, later moving to Bearsden. She had three children, six grandchildren, three great-grandchildren and a great-great grandchild.\n\nHer daughter, Sandra O'Neill, told BBC Scotland she was \"just a wonderful person - gentle and kind\".\n\nIn her later years she had vascular dementia and she lived at the Almond Court care home in Drumchapel. She died there on 8 April, aged 88.\n\nVic and Maureen Sharp, who were both 74, had been together since they were teenagers.\n\nUnderlying health conditions meant the couple from Oakley in Fife were both asked to shield themselves during lockdown.\n\nBut their daughter, Yvonne Sharp, believes the letter came too late and they caught the virus during a weekly trip to the supermarket.\n\nMaureen died in hospital on 8 April and then, Yvonne said, her father \"just gave up\". He died the following day.\n\nOnly six members of the family could attend their funeral but a piper led the funeral cortege through Oakley, where locals lined the streets.\n\nWhen Ann Tonner left the Nazareth House orphanage in Glasgow as teenager, she was one of the few women of colour in the city, according to her son, Tony McCaffery.\n\nShe was \"exotic-looking and quite glamourous\" and was soon in demand as a model for local shops and boutiques before working as a celebrated hot-dog girl in an Odeon cinema.\n\nHer first husband tragically died and her second was largely absent, leaving her to bring up six children and - at times - hold down five jobs at once.\n\nShe was a \"remarkable, formidable woman with a strong work ethic\", Mr McCaffery told BBC Scotland, but she was also a \"gentle soul with an incredibly child-like sense of humour\".\n\nA grandmother and great-grandmother, Mrs Tonner died at a nursing home in Glasgow where she was living with Alzheimer's, on 8 April. She was 84.\n\nMary Nixon was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis when she was just 18 but she was determined to never let it hold her back.\n\nBorn and raised in Greenock, she was a lone parent to four children who described her as a \"strong, independent woman who lived life to the full\".\n\n\"My mum made being a single parent look easy\", her daughter Alexis said. \"We were very happy kids growing up. Everyone loved her and always said she was a 'wee gem'.\"\n\nWhen she fell seriously ill in 2014, her family was told to prepare for the worst, but their \"invincible\" mum rallied, though she lost her mobility.\n\nShe died with Covid on 7 April 2020, aged 66. After everything she had been through in life, her family said they felt \"robbed... that this awful virus has taken her from us\".\n\nJanice Graham was the first NHS worker to die with coronavirus in Scotland.\n\nThe health care support worker and district nurse died at Inverclyde Royal Hospital on 6 April.\n\nOne colleague said she had a \"bright and engaging personality and razor sharp wit\".\n\nAnother said the 58-year-old was the \"most kind, caring and compassionate HCA I have had the privilege to work with\".\n\nHer son, Craig, told STV News he would miss everything about her.\n\nNewly-wed Andy Wyness developed a high temperature and a cough following a trip to Wales.\n\nWhen his symptoms worsened the 53-year-old drove himself from his Wishaw home to an appointment at an assessment centre.\n\nThat was the last time his wife, Sandra, saw him.\n\nThe grandfather, who was a keen bowler, was taken straight to hospital by ambulance. He died on 6 April.\n\n\"Even walking out the house that night, although I knew he wasn't well, I never imagined he would never walk back in,\" Sandra said.\n\nRita Hawthorn spent the first 35 years of her life in Hamilton, where she was born, grew up and had her own family.\n\nBut when her husband, Robert, lost his job as a miner the couple and their three children re-located from the west of Scotland to the far north in 1973.\n\nWhile Robert took up a new job at the Scottish Instruments Factory in Wick, she worked as a cleaner at a nearby job centre and became secretary of the Highlands and Islands Civil Service Union.\n\nShe was sadly widowed at 51 but she was \"fiercely independent\" and went on to fulfil her dreams of travelling - a trip up the Nile, a safari in South Africa, and solo bus tours to Austria and Paris.\n\nRita, who was a mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, fell ill during the first week of lockdown. She died at Caithness General Hospital on 6 April, aged 82.\n\nBill Paul grew up in Giffnock on the south side of Glasgow and did his national service as a radar operator with the RAF in Malta.\n\nIn his youth he was an extremely accomplished tennis player and it was through the sport that he met his first wife, Frances, who died in 1984.\n\nWith his second wife, Liz, he loved to play golf and travel - hobbies that he continued after her death in 2012.\n\nAn extremely active man, he loved to go on cruises with a group of like-minded friends. However his last cruise to the Caribbean was cut short by the pandemic in March.\n\nHe returned home to Arran and fell ill with Covid within a week. He died at Lamlash Hospital on 5 April, aged 81.\n\nMofizul Islam was beginning a new life in Scotland after relocating from Bangladesh when he fell ill with coronavirus.\n\nHis family believe the 49-year-old caught the virus on his daily three-hour journeys between their Edinburgh home and his job at a pizza outlet in Midlothian.\n\nHe died on 5 April and was buried in the Muslim section of a city cemetery but his wife and children were in isolation and unable to attend.\n\nHis death has left the family \"completely helpless\", according to a family friend as they have no documents, no bank account and they are struggling for money.\n\n\"We are very worried about our future because we don't have our father,\" said Mofizul's 19-year-old son, Azahural. \"He was everything for us. And now we are just hopeless.\"\n\nCatherine Sweeney was a \"wonderful mother, sister and beloved aunty\", her family said after her death on 4 April.\n\nBorn and raised in Dumbarton, she worked as a home carer for more than 20 years.\n\nHer family said she would be sorely missed after a \"lifetime of service\" to the community.\n\nAnd they praised the medics at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley who \"heroically\" looked after her in her final days.\n\nJimmy Andrews was 17 years old when began his career in Glasgow Corporation's finance department in 1955.\n\nBy the turn of the century, he had risen to become chief executive of Glasgow City Council and in 2001 he was appointed CBE for services to local government - a \"career highlight\".\n\nHe was born in Kilsyth but spent much of his life living in Strathblane, Stirlingshire, with his wife of 52 years, Mary.\n\nIn retirement, he \"enjoyed life to the full\", spending time with his three children and six grandchildren, and visiting horse racing courses throughout the country.\n\nA gentle, intelligent man with a great sense of humour, he died at Glasgow Royal Infirmary on 3 April 2020, aged 81.\n\nLord Gordon of Strathblane was a former political editor of STV and he founded Radio Clyde.\n\nHe died at Glasgow Royal Infirmary on 31 March after contracting coronavirus, Radio Clyde reported. He was 83.\n\nHis family paid tribute to his \"generosity, his kindness and his enthusiasm for life\".\n\nFormer First Minister Jack McConnell said Lord Gordon had \"an outstanding career in business and public service\".\n\nRyan Storrie was in Scotland to celebrate his 40th birthday with a trip to a Rangers match when he fell ill.\n\nThe father-of-two was from Ardrossan but lived in Dubai.\n\nWhen he developed symptoms, the asthmatic isolated in his hotel room and waited for the virus to run its course.\n\nHis condition deteriorated but he wouldn't let his wife, Hilary, phone 999 as he was convinced he would recover and didn't want to bother the NHS.\n\nShe found him dead in his room on 31 March.\n\nMary and Andy Leaman began self-isolating at the end of March after falling ill with flu-like symptoms.\n\nTheir son, Andy, told the Glasgow Evening Times the couple were married 50 years and doted on their only granddaughter, nine-year-old Anna.\n\nMrs Leaman died at home in Castlemilk on 30 March - four days after the death of Anna's maternal grandfather, Dougie Chambers.\n\nThe schoolgirl lost her third grandparent almost three weeks later when Mr Leaman died in hospital on 19 April.\n\nHer mother, Lynsey Chalmers, told BBC Scotland: \"For a nine-year-old girl whose three grandparents were her world... why does a wee girl need to get punished like that over and over again?\"\n\nRobert Tarbet was \"self-opinionated and witty\", according to his daughter, Paula Karoly, but also \"hardworking, loyal and beautiful\".\n\nHe spent his working life as a plumber with Glasgow City Council before retiring in the early 2000s.\n\nIn his spare time, the sociable man was a mason who was a keen follower of Rangers FC. He loved country and western music and watching musicals in the theatre.\n\nA father and a grandfather-of-three, he was being treated for cancer when he contracted coronavirus.\n\nHe died on 29 March at Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley, aged 76.\n\nSchool janitor Ian Wilson was at home in Coatbridge for two weeks with a high temperature and delirium before being admitted to hospital.\n\nDespite his worsening condition, doctors initially told his wife, Sandra, she would not be able to visit the 72-year-old who had a heart condition and diabetes.\n\nStaff eventually granted access provided she wore protective equipment - a decision which meant she could be at her husband's side when he died on 29 March.\n\nAlthough nurses were unable to comfort her with a hug due to social distancing protocols, Mrs Wilson is grateful they allowed her to be with her partner at the end.\n\n\"I was able to talk to him and just say goodbye. I've got strength from that,\" she said.\n\nDougie Chambers was one of several people who fell ill after the 40th birthday party of his daughter, Wendy, on 7 March.\n\nWithin days, the 66-year-old, who had an underlying health condition, went into hospital and tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nMr Chambers, who was from Castlemilk in Glasgow, died two weeks later, on 26 March.\n\nTwo other members of his extended family - Andy and Mary Leaman - also contracted the virus and later died.\n\nWendy said: \"If we knew then what we know now, we wouldn't have had the party. It wouldn't have happened.\"\n\nDanny Cairns was a healthy 68-year-old before he fell ill with coronavirus, according to his brother, Hugh.\n\nWhen he developed a cough and sore throat at the end of March, he isolated at home in Greenock.\n\nBut within days he was so ill he had to be taken to hospital by ambulance.\n\nIn a video call from his hospital bed, his last words to his brother were: \"I'm on my way out, mate\".\n\nHe died on 26 March, three days after arriving in hospital.\n\nMargaret Innes lived with her daughter, Sally McNaught, in Edinburgh for four years before her death at the very beginning of the pandemic.\n\nShe was housebound and very frail but she loved sitting with their pet cat and dog, doing crosswords and watching quiz shows.\n\nHer favourite soap was Neighbours and she used to say \"I'm off to Australia now\".\n\nMs McNaught said they stopped visitors coming to the house a week before lockdown, they washed their hands, cleaned everything and thought they would be safe.\n\nBut Ms Innes woke up on Mother's Day with severe breathing difficulties. She died on 25 March, three days after going into hospital. She was 93.\n\nHas one of your loved ones died recently after contracting Covid? We would like to pay tribute to some of them on the BBC Scotland website.\n\nIf you would like to see your relative or friend featured, use the form below to send us your details and we could be in touch.\n\nIn some cases your details will be published, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read the terms and conditions.\n\nIf you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic.", "England is currently under a third national lockdown, in an attempt to keep hospitals from being overwhelmed by coronavirus cases.\n\nBut there has been speculation that ministers could be considering tightening restrictions, amid concerns the \"stay-at-home\" message isn't being followed by enough people.\n\nAt Monday evening's Downing Street briefing, Health Secretary Matt Hancock urged people to follow the existing rules but added, \"we won't rule out taking further action if it's needed\". Other ministers have struck a similar tone.\n\nBut what is the case for more changes?\n\nIn March, nurseries closed to all but vulnerable children and those whose parents were key workers.\n\nBut so far this lockdown, early-years provision has remained open in England.\n\nScotland and Northern Ireland have chosen to keep nurseries closed to most children for now.\n\nBut England's chief medical officer, Prof Chris Whitty, said keeping them open \"would allow people who need to go to work, or need to do particular activities, to do so\".\n\nYounger children carry a lower risk of transmission than adolescents, scientists say.\n\nBut according to Public Health England, 10% of coronavirus outbreaks or clusters in educational settings since September have been in early-years provision.\n\nEngland's three main nursery organisations have called on the government to provide clear scientific evidence on the risks to early-years staff now there is a more transmissible variant of Covid-19.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show he too would like to hear more from scientists about the risks - and nurseries should \"probably\" close.\n\nGoing out to exercise once a day is one of the \"reasonable excuses\" for leaving home during lockdown.\n\nPeople can walk, run, cycle or swim with those they live - or are in a support bubble - with.\n\nIn addition, they can exercise, on their own, with one person, each time, from another household - as long as they stay 2m (6ft) apart.\n\nHowever, Mr Hancock said, \"we've been seeing large groups and that is not acceptable\" and warned that, \"if too many people keep breaking this rule, then we are going to have to look at it\".\n\nThe rules say exercise should be \"local\" - in the village, town, or part of the city where you live - but do not currently specify how far people can travel.\n\nDerbyshire Police recently fined two women £200 each for driving five miles to meet for a walk, saying driving for exercise was \"not in the spirit\" of lockdown. They were told the hot drinks they had brought along were not allowed, either, as they were \"classed as a picnic\".\n\nThe penalties have now been withdrawn.\n\nProf Whitty, meanwhile, has urged people to \"double down\", avoid unnecessary contact and stick to the rules.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 5 Live about coffee shops remaining open for takeaways, he advised against meeting up there.\n\n\"Really, please don't,\" he said.\n\nFace coverings must be worn in almost all public indoor settings - including shops - unless people are exempt.\n\nPremises \"should take reasonable steps to promote compliance with the law\", government guidance says.\n\nLast summer, when customer face coverings became law, many supermarkets said they would not make their staff responsible for enforcing the rules.\n\nHowever, Morrisons has now updated its policy to bar shoppers who refuse to cover their faces, unless they are medically exempt. Sainsbury's says security guards at its stores will challenge customers who do not comply.\n\nTesco, Asda and Waitrose have followed suit and say they too will deny entry to shoppers who do not wear face masks unless they have an exemption.\n\nThere have been suggestions face coverings should be required in outdoor public places.\n\nHowever, Sage has previously suggested it would have a \"very low impact\" on community transmission\n\nProf Whitty told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the risk posed by joggers, for example, was \"very low\" - but there \"might be some logic\" to people wearing masks in a busy outdoor queue or crowded around a market stall.\n\nOne change the government has ruled out is to support bubbles - which allow people living alone and single, or new parents to mix with another household of any size, without having to socially distance.\n\nAt the government briefing, Mr Hancock said: \"I can rule out removing the bubbles.\"\n\nThe official guidance says it's best if a support bubble is formed with a household who live locally.\n\nBut there is currently no limit to how far people can travel to visit their bubble, meaning they could go from areas with high infection rates to those with lower ones, potentially spreading the virus.\n\nWhen \"bubbling\" was first suggested, in May, Sage rejected it as too dangerous, because the reproduction (R) number - the average number of people each infected person passes the virus on to - was close to one.\n\nCurrently, the R number in England is between 1.1 and 1.4. Sage says stopping all indoor contact between different households could lower this by as much as 0.2.\n\n\"Active contract tracing should be a precondition of introducing bubbling\", Sage added.\n\nUnlike in March, places of worship are allowed to open in England, although they are closed in Scotland.\n\nThey provide spiritual leadership for many and bring communities together - but their \"communal nature\" also makes them \"vulnerable to the spread of coronavirus\", the government guidance for England says.\n\nWhen the latest lockdown was announced, the Archbishop of Canterbury tweeted: \"The government hasn't suspended public worship - but some may feel it better not to attend in person and some parishes are expected to offer online services only for now.\"\n\nSage has previously suggested places of worship pose a high risk to vulnerable groups but closing them would have a low to moderate impact on overall coronavirus transmission.", "Isabella Curry urged others to get the jab and said it was just a little \"prick in the arm\"\n\nA woman has celebrated her 100th birthday by getting a covid vaccination at home.\n\nIsabella Curry, known as Ella, from Cramlington, was among some of the most vulnerable people in Northumberland to receive the vaccine.\n\nMs Curry, who lives alone, urged others not to be afraid to get the jab and said it was just a little \"prick in the arm\" and she now felt safe.\n\nHer birthday was also marked by the arrival of a card from the Queen.\n\nShe said: \"This vaccine means I'll be able to go out, meet my friends soon and feel safe.\"\n\nIsabella Curry's nephew Neil Curry thanked the \"army\" of helpers who cared for his aunt\n\nMs Curry's nephew, Neil Curry from Bristol, said he was delighted she had had the vaccination but sad the whole family could not get together for the milestone birthday.\n\n\"We had a family reunion for Ella's 90th - we all got together in Newcastle. We would have all got together again to mark this occasion, but we couldn't,\" he said.\n\nHe also said he wanted to thank the \"army\" of people who looked after his aunt including Noreen and Jim Hutchinson, who did her shopping and cut her grass.\n\nHe also thanked June and Peter Marshall and all the other people who collected her prescriptions and mobile library books.\n\nKate Fraser, the community nurse who administered the vaccination, said: \"It's been an emotional time being able to give Isabella her vaccination.\"\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.", "People's reaction to a sonic boom heard across the East of England has been caught on camera.\n\nIt happened after a Typhoon aircraft took off from RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire to escort a plane to Stansted Airport because it had lost communications at about 13:05 GMT.\n\nPeople in Cambridgeshire, Essex and parts of London posted videos on social media, with one person heard asking if it was thunder.\n\nHeather Eastlake, who was filming herself exercising near Cambridge, described her reaction as being like \"a deer in the highlights\".", "The three main Covid-19 vaccines are from Pfizer-BioNTech, the University of Oxford and Astra-Zeneca and Moderna.\n\nThe Pfizer, Oxford and Moderna vaccines each require two doses and you are not fully vaccinated until you have had both shots.\n\nBut there are many differences between them.\n\nThe BBC's Laura Foster looks at how much immunity they give, how they prevent infection and how they compare.", "Jessica Allen and Eliza Moore said their cars were surrounded by police when they arrived at the reservoir\n\nTwo women who were fined £200 each when they drove five miles for a walk have had the penalties withdrawn.\n\nJessica Allen and Eliza Moore were walking at Foremark Reservoir, Derbyshire, when they were \"surrounded\" by officers.\n\nAt the time Derbyshire Police insisted driving to exercise was \"not in the spirit\" of the most recent lockdown.\n\nBut new national guidance for police has led the force to quash the fines, and apologise to the women.\n\nChief Constable Rachel Swann said the fines \"have been withdrawn and we have notified the women directly, apologising for any concern caused\".\n\nThe two friends travelled the short distance to the reservoir from their homes in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire, on Wednesday afternoon.\n\nThey said their cars were \"surrounded\" by police. They were then questioned on why they were there and told the hot drinks they had brought along were not allowed as they were \"classed as a picnic\".\n\nIn a statement, the women said: \"This afternoon we both received a phone call from Derbyshire Police.\n\n\"After reviewing our case, our fines have been rescinded and we have received an apology on behalf of the constabulary for the treatment we received.\n\n\"We welcomed this apology and we are pleased to draw a line under this event.\"\n\nAfter the incident gained media attention, the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) \"clarified the policing response concerning travel and exercise\".\n\nThe guidance said: \"The Covid regulations which officers enforce and which enables them to issue FPNs [fixed penalty notices] for breaches, do not restrict the distance travelled for exercise.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid: Fined women 'could have been dealt with differently'\n\nDerbyshire Police said: \"Having received clarification of the guidance issued by the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) on Friday, these FPNs as well as a small number of others issued, were reviewed in line with that latest advice, and so it is right that we have taken this action.\"\n\nThe county's police and crime commissioner Hardyal Dhinsda said: \"While the police are doing their absolute best to protect public safety during what is a critical time of the pandemic, the public should rightly expect a proportionate and balanced approach, taking full consideration of individual circumstances.\n\n\"We recognise that errors will occur in the face of complex guidance and legislation and it is important such situations are resolved quickly and fairly, as has been the case here.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Rhondda Cynon Taf has the highest death rate from coronavirus in Wales - with another 34 hospital deaths in the latest week\n\nThere have now been more than 5,100 deaths in Wales involving Covid-19 since the pandemic began.\n\nThe latest weekly figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show 310 deaths in the week ending 1 January, which is 32 more than the week before.\n\nThis is nearly 42.6% of all deaths.\n\nCwm Taf Morgannwg saw the highest numbers of weekly deaths in Wales, the most since the end of April at the peak of the first wave of the pandemic.\n\nThere were 76 deaths in the area - including 66 in hospitals and six in care homes.\n\nLooking at council areas, Rhondda Cynon Taf had the second highest number of hospital deaths across England and Wales, with 34. The London borough of Newham had 35.\n\nThe ONS again urged caution when interpreting this week's figures, due to the Christmas and new year holidays, which will affect the number of registrations.\n\nThe total number of Covid deaths in Wales, up to and registered by 1 January, was 4,963.\n\nBut when deaths registered over the following few days are included, there was a total of 5,169.\n\nThe Aneurin Bevan health board, with 68 deaths registered involving Covid, also had its highest number in a single week since the end of April.\n\nHywel Dda health board reported 37 deaths - its highest weekly figure since the pandemic began. Of these, 18 were patients in hospital from Carmarthenshire and 10 were hospital patients from Pembrokeshire.\n\nSwansea Bay health board had 61 deaths in this week. The Swansea council area itself had the seventh highest number of hospital deaths across England and Wales.\n\nThere were 36 deaths in Cardiff and Vale, 25 deaths in Betsi Cadwaladr in north Wales - 10 of which were hospital deaths in Wrexham - and seven in Powys.\n\nAll counties recorded at least one death involving Covid-19.\n\nThis map shows three valleys areas in south Wales among the highest for crude mortality rates involving Covid in the pandemic so far\n\nRhondda Cynon Taf, with 685 deaths, has the largest number of Covid-19 deaths in Wales up to the latest week, followed by Cardiff with 578.\n\nWhen looking at crude death rates - based on the number of deaths compared to local populations - Wales has three of the five worst across England and Wales.\n\nRhondda Cynon Taf has 283 deaths per 100,000 in total so far in the pandemic.\n\nMerthyr Tydfil is second with 253.6 and Blaenau Gwent is ranked fourth.\n\nSo-called excess deaths, which compare all registered deaths with previous years, continue to be above the five-year average.\n\nLooking at the number of deaths we would normally expect to see at this point in the year is seen as a useful measure of how the pandemic is progressing.\n\nIn Wales, the number of deaths fell from 825 to 727 in the latest week, but this was still 209 deaths (40.3%) higher than the five-year average for that week. This is the second highest proportion after London.\n\nThe ONS figures report where doctors mention Covid-19 on death certificates, including confirmed and suspected cases.\n\nThey include deaths occurring in all places, not only hospitals and care homes but also people's own homes.\n\nIt has been estimated that Covid is the underlying cause in around 90% of these deaths and not just a contributory factor.", "An eye health charity is recommending people learn the \"20-20-20\" rule to protect their sight, as lockdown has increased people's time using screens.\n\nFight for Sight advises looking at something 20 feet away for 20 seconds, every 20 minutes you look at a screen.\n\nOut of 2,000 people, half used screens more since Covid struck and a third (38%) of those believed their eyesight had worsened, a survey suggested.\n\nOpticians remain open for those who need them, the charity said.\n\nThe representative survey of 2,000 adults suggested one in five were less likely to get an eye test now than before the pandemic, for fear of catching or spreading the virus.\n\nRespondents reported difficulty reading, as well as headaches and migraines and poorer night vision.\n\nThe research charity, which commissioned a survey from polling company YouGov, said it wanted to emphasise the importance of having regular eye tests and to remind people \"the majority of opticians are open for appointments throughout lockdown restrictions\".\n\nFight for Sight chief executive Sherine Krause said: \"More than half of all cases of sight loss are avoidable through early detection and prevention methods. Regular eye tests can often detect symptomless sight-threatening conditions.\"\n\nBut even simple screen breaks can help to prevent eye strain, the charity suggested.\n\nGovernment guidance states that under lockdown people can leave home for medical appointments and to \"avoid injury, illness or risk of harm\".\n\nThe College of Optometrists said its members should continue to provide eye care under lockdown for people who experience any eyesight changes or problems.\n\nOptometrists are the professionals who will carry out your eye test when you visit an optician's practice.\n\nRoutine appointments can also be provided \"if capacity permits, and if it is in the patients' best interests\", the guidance states.\n\nClinical adviser Paramdeep Bilkhu said the college's own research suggested just under a quarter of people noticed their vision deteriorate during the first lockdown.\n\n\"Our research showed us that many people believe that spending more time in front of screens worsened their vision,\" he said.\n\n\"The good news is that this is unlikely to cause any permanent harm to your vision. However, it is very important that if you feel your vision has deteriorated or if you are experiencing any problems with your eyes, such as them becoming red or painful, you contact your local optometrist by telephone or online.\"\n\nUK health and safety legislation states employers must pay for eye tests for their employees if they have to use a screen for work for more than one hour a day.\n\nIn the summer, the UK Ophthalmology Alliance and the Royal College of Ophthalmologists calculated that at least 10,000 people had missed out on essential eye care in Britain.\n\nIn the most extreme cases, the Royal National Institute of Blind People said it feared some people were at risk of losing their sight because of a fear of attending hospital during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nA Royal College of Ophthalmologists spokesperson said: \"It is important that people who have found significant changes in their vision seek the advice of an optometrist who will examine, and determine if the changes require further investigation by an ophthalmologist - a medically-trained eye doctor.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Home Secretary Priti Patel: \"Our selfless police officers... will enforce the regulations and I will back them to do so\"\n\nPeople have been urged to \"play your part\" and follow Covid rules by Home Secretary Priti Patel, who says she will back police to enforce laws.\n\nAt a No 10 briefing, Ms Patel said a minority were \"putting the health of the nation at risk\" by flouting rules.\n\nPolice are \"moving more quickly to issuing fines\", she added, with nearly 45,000 fixed penalty notices issued across the UK.\n\nAnother 1,243 people have died within 28 days of testing positive for Covid.\n\nAnd there have been a further 45,533 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK.\n\nMeanwhile, another 145,076 people have received a first dose of a coronavirus vaccine, and 20,768 a second dose, bringing the totals respectively to 2,431,648 and 412,167.\n\nAt the briefing, Ms Patel said: \"My message today to anyone refusing to do the right thing is simple: if you do not play your part, our selfless police officers - who are out there risking their own lives every day to keep us safe - they will enforce the regulations.\n\n\"And I will back them to do so, to protect our NHS and to save lives.\"\n\nIt comes after the UK's most senior police officer said lockdown rule-breakers were more likely to be fined as Covid laws would be enforced \"more quickly\".\n\nMetropolitan Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick said her officers had been forced to break up parties, despite hospitals in London struggling to cope with rising patient numbers.\n\nChairman of the National Police Chiefs' Council Martin Hewitt, who also spoke at the Downing Street briefing, said people should be asking themselves whether their reason for leaving home was \"truly essential\".\n\nHe stressed that police officers had been \"putting themselves at risk in order to keep people safe\", and said it had been \"disappointing\" to see some of the behaviour by rule-breakers.\n\nHe said examples of recent breaches included:\n\nMr Hewitt said he made \"no apology\" for police issuing fines, and warned people breaking rules - such as by organising parties or not wearing face coverings on public transport - to \"expect\" a fine.\n\nAsked if there needed to be more clarity on the guidance around exercise and staying local, Mr Hewitt said it would be wrong to put a \"particular distance\" on how far people could exercise from their home - as it would be too difficult for police to enforce.\n\nHe said it was right there was an exception to allow people to exercise, but insisted it was the public's responsibility to make sure they were doing so safely.\n\nThere is a big focus on adherence to lockdown rules. But what has almost gone unnoticed is the fact that cases may have actually started falling.\n\nThere has now been two consecutive days where newly diagnosed cases have hovered around the 46,000 mark. Up to the weekend, the average was close to 60,000.\n\nThe drop has largely been driven by falls in new cases in London, the south east and east of England.\n\nIn some regions, cases are still going up. The north west of England is causing particular concern.\n\nIt is too early for the vaccination programme to be having any significant impact, so a combination of the national lockdown on top of the tier four restrictions that were imposed in some areas before Christmas look like they may be beginning to have an impact.\n\nCare must be taken in reading too much into a couple of days' data.\n\nHospital cases are still rising - patients being admitted at the moment are the ones who were infected a week or so ago - but it does at least offer a glimmer of hope.\n\nLater in the news conference, NHS medical director for London Dr Vin Diwakar said the capital's Nightingale hospital has reopened and was admitting patients to help with the coronavirus spread.\n\nHe told reporters it was taking non-Covid patients to help free up beds in London's hospitals.\n\nDr Diwakar warned that if levels of hospitalisation in the capital continued to rise then more patients would need to be transferred out of London, adding that the NHS across the country was under pressure.\n\nIn Birmingham, 200 doctors are being redeployed to one of the country's largest intensive care units as it nears capacity.\n\nThe University Hospitals Birmingham Trust said there were 873 patients with Covid-19 in their hospitals, with 125 in intensive care.\n\nEarlier, crime and policing minister Kit Malthouse said people have a \"duty\" to make this lockdown \"the last one\".\n\n\"We are urging the small minority of people who aren't taking this seriously to do so now, and [we say] to them that, if they don't, they are much more likely to get fined by the police,\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\nDame Cressida told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the move towards greater enforcement was \"common sense\" rather than a show of \"dictatorial policing\".\n\nFines start at £200 in England and Northern Ireland, and £60 in Wales and Scotland. Large parties can be shut down by the police, with fines of up to £10,000.\n\nEngland is currently under a national lockdown, meaning people must stay at home and can go out only for limited reasons such as food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home.\n\nSimilar lockdown measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland - all of which are in charge of deciding and enforcing their own coronavirus restrictions.\n• None Could I be fined for exercising?", "New England Patriots's Bill Belichick is considered one of the most successful coaches in NFL history\n\nTop NFL coach Bill Belichick says he will not accept President Donald Trump's offer of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, citing the US Capitol riot.\n\nBelichick, of the New England Patriots, said he was flattered when he was first offered the medal - the top award given to civilians in the US.\n\nBut he said he changed his mind after a mob of Trump supporters stormed Congress last week. Five people died.\n\nThe celebrated coach had previously spoken of his friendship with Mr Trump.\n\n\"Recently, I was offered the opportunity to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which I was flattered by out of respect for what the honour represents and admiration for prior recipients,\" Belichick said in a statement.\n\n\"Subsequently, the tragic events of last week occurred and the decision has been made not to move forward with the award.\"\n\nBelichick, who has won a record six Super Bowl titles, is considered one of the most successful coaches in NFL history.\n\nThe Presidential Medal of Freedom recognises individuals who have made outstanding contributions to \"the security or national interests of America\".\n\nIn 2019 Mr Trump gave the award to golfer Tiger Woods, as well as radio personality Rush Limbaugh and posthumously Elvis Presley.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Super Bowl: How Tom Brady and Bill Belichick built a New England Patriots dynasty\n\nDonald Trump may only have recently made a career of politics, but he's always loved sport.\n\nHe owns 17 golf courses and once bought and ran the New Jersey Generals of the US Football League.\n\nJust last week, he awarded three presidential medals of freedom to professional golfers. This week he was planning to honour the most successful professional football coach in modern times, Bill Belichick of the New England Patriots.\n\nThe president seems to particularly enjoy the company of sport figures and revel in their achievements and prowess.\n\nSo for Belichick, a personal friend of the president's, to decline the award is a stinging rebuke.\n\nThe coach's decision reflects the depth of the political crisis president has created in the past week. It also highlights the troubled relationship Trump has had with the National Football League and its players, who he has disparaged for Black Lives Matter protests during the US national anthem.\n\nBelichick, a sometimes bristling, controversial figure with more than a few detractors, is used to public animosity. A coach can't win without the commitment of his players, however, and Belichick clearly believed his relationship with his team would be jeopardised by associating himself with Trump at this point.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHundreds of people have joined a march organised following claims a man died hours after being released by police in Cardiff.\n\nThe family of Mohamud Mohammed Hassan, 24, claim he was assaulted in custody.\n\nMore than 300 people took part in a march from the city centre to Cardiff Bay police station.\n\nSouth Wales Police said it found no evidence of excessive force. The police watchdog said initial tests showed Mr Hassan was not killed by any injuries.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said toxicology tests were now being carried out and it was awaiting the full post-mortem results.\n\nEarlier, First Minister Mark Drakeford said the reports of Mr Hassan's death were \"deeply concerning\".\n\nMr Hassan was arrested at his Roath home on Friday on suspicion of breach of the peace but released without charge on Saturday morning.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Hassan's aunt Zainab Hassan told BBC Wales she had seen Mr Hassan within an hour of his release.\n\n\"He was released on Saturday morning with lots of wounds on his body and lots of bruises,\" she said.\n\n\"He didn't have these wounds when he was arrested and when he came out of Cardiff Bay police station, he had them.\"\n\nIn a virtual session of the Welsh Parliament on Monday, Plaid Cymru leader Adam Price said: \"Every effort should be made to seek the truth of what happened.\"\n\nHe said he wanted to know why Mr Hassan was arrested and what happened during his arrest.\n\nMr Hassan's aunt Zainab Hassan said she saw him after his release\n\n\"Why did this young man die?,\" he added.\n\nMr Price said any inquiry should not be prejudged, but asked if the first minister would \"help the family find those answers\".\n\nIn response, Mr Drakeford said reports of the story were \"deeply concerning\".\n\n\"Our thoughts must be with the family of a young man who was... a fit and healthy individual,\" the Cardiff West MS said.\n\nMark Drakeford said he was deeply concerned by the reports\n\nMr Drakeford, who said the death must be \"properly investigated\", said the first step in any inquiry would be to allow the IOPC to carry out their work, which he said he expected \"to be done rigorously and with full and visible independence\".\n\nHe added that if there were things the Welsh Government could do \"I will make sure that we attend properly to those\".\n\nProtesters on Tuesday afternoon chanted \"no justice, no peace\" and called for the police force to release CCTV of Mr Hassan's time in custody.\n\nProtesters on Tuesday afternoon marched from the city centre to Cardiff Bay\n\nIn a statement on Monday, South Wales Police said Mr Hassan was arrested at his home in Newport Road on Friday night and taken to Cardiff Bay police station.\n\nHe was released at 08:30 GMT on Saturday and officers returned to the property at about 22:30 following his death.\n\nIt added: \"As part of the South Wales Police investigation CCTV and body-worn video has already been, and will continue to be, examined.\n\n\"This will assist in establishing and understanding the events that took place.\n\n\"Early findings by the force indicate no misconduct issues and no excessive force.\"\n\nProtesters were heard chanting \"no justice, no peace\"\n\nCatrin Evans, the IOPC's director for Wales, said its investigation would focus on Mr Hassan's arrest, the journey in a police van to custody and his time at Cardiff Bay police station, including whether relevant assessments were made before he was released.\n\nShe said they would be \"urgently examining the extensive relevant CCTV footage and body-worn video\" and would be speaking to the officers involved as well as witnesses who saw his arrest on Friday evening and his movements the next day after leaving custody.\n\nShe added: \"I send my condolences to Mr Hassan's family and friends, and to everyone affected by his sad death.\n\n\"We are aware of concerns being expressed and questions being asked about use of force by police officers. We will look carefully at the level of force used during the interaction and I would urge people show patience while our inquiries, which will take some time, are made.\"\n\nMs Evans added: \"An interim report from a post-mortem examination is awaited.\n\n\"Preliminary indications are that there is no physical trauma injury to explain a cause of death, and toxicology tests are required.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A 78-year-old French woman received the first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in France\n\nA global race is on to vaccinate people against Covid-19 - and with infections soaring in Europe many have complained that the roll-out is too slow in the EU.\n\nMember states decide individually who to vaccinate, when and where, but the EU is coordinating strategy and buying vaccines in bulk. On Friday, the EU Commission agreed to buy an extra 300 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine - that would give the EU nearly half of the firm's global output for 2021.\n\nBBC reporters in seven European capitals explain how the vaccinations are going on their patch.\n\nIn an election year, the vaccine has become a political battleground, writes Jenny Hill, in Berlin.\n\nThe fact it was German scientists who developed the first effective Covid vaccine has been the source of great national pride. And, by and large, Germans appear to be reasonably comfortable with the idea of immunisation.\n\nA recent survey found 65% were prepared to have the vaccine. Other research indicates that less than a quarter of those surveyed would not. But politically - and perhaps unsurprisingly, given this is an election year - Germany's vaccination programme has become a battleground.\n\nVaccinations began here just under two weeks ago and prioritise the over 80s and care home workers. By Thursday evening, more than 477,000 first doses had been administered.\n\nGermany's share of the EU order amounts to 56 million doses. So far, 1.3 million doses have been delivered.\n\nBut some of the hundreds of specially prepared vaccination centres are still not in use and even the government has admitted there simply isn't enough to go around. Angela Merkel and her health minister Jens Spahn have been accused of failing to secure enough doses.\n\nMuch of the criticism has come from Mrs Merkel's own coalition partners but some within the scientific community have echoed their concerns - that Germany put European interests above its own by insisting on a joint EU procurement process. The scientists who developed the vaccine have said publicly that the EU originally turned down an offer for a further order.\n\nGermany's share of the EU order amounts to 56 million doses. So far, 1.3 million doses have been delivered and it's thought that by the end of the month a further 2.68 million will have followed.\n\nMr Spahn, whose assured performance through the pandemic led some to wonder whether he might be a potential successor to Mrs Merkel, has blamed the shortage on the inability of the manufacturers of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to meet global demand.\n\nGermany has now ordered an extra 30 million doses and, following the recent European approval of the Moderna vaccine, expects to start rolling that out next week. The government is sticking to its pledge that the vaccination programme will be complete by the end of the summer.\n\nThe Czech prime minister has hit out at apparent delays in distributing the vaccine, writes Rob Cameron, in Prague.\n\nThe Czech vaccination effort began on 27 December, when the prime minister, Andrej Babis, became the first person in the country to receive the jab. Mr Babis, who is 66, had previously questioned whether he would be eligible, as he'd had his spleen removed as a teenager.\n\nBut the country's programme has got off to a sluggish start. Mr Babis - a billionaire businessman who has been dogged by both European and Czech investigations into alleged misuse of EU funds - has lost no time venting his (figurative) spleen at the European Commission over the delay. \"We believed when we contributed €12m to the European fund in November that we'd receive the vaccine,\" he told a newspaper this week.\n\nThe health minister conceded this week that immunising the higher-risk groups will take months.\n\nThe country has received 30,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine. So far, it has managed to administer it to 19,918 people. The government says it is ready to roll out the jab en masse as soon as supplies arrive from the manufacturers.\n\nIt has also published a strategy, which envisages a three-stage process. The first will see targeted vaccination of high-risk groups. This will gradually give way to mass vaccination in 31 centres, using an online reservation system that will be open to all from 1 February. And the final stage will see the country's GPs deployed, hopefully to administer the Oxford-AstraZeneca and other jabs, which unlike the previous two can be stored and transported at fridge temperature.\n\nHowever, the timing in the original strategy document now appears optimistic. The health minister conceded this week that immunising the higher-risk groups - all health and social care staff, teachers, everyone over 65, all those with serious health conditions - will take months. GPs may not begin vaccinating young, healthy members of society until late spring, or summer.\n\nA sluggish start is being blamed on bureaucracy and vaccine scepticism, writes Hugh Schofield, in Paris.\n\nFrance's boast of a big, effective state apparatus has been badly exposed by the sluggish start to the Covid vaccination programme. After the first week, when neighbouring Germany had inoculated around 250,000 people, France was on a mere 530. By Friday, the figure had gone up to 45,500 - still so small as to be statistically meaningless.\n\nSo why has it taken so long for France to put the plan into action? It is not as if the authorities did not have time to prepare. And it is certainly not a question of a lack of vaccine. In fact, more than a million Pfizer doses are already in cold storage, waiting to be used.\n\nPolls suggest as many as 58% of the public do not want to be given the jab.\n\nThe primary reason for the delay seems to be the cumbersome, over-centralised nature of France's health bureaucracy. A 45-page dossier of instructions issued by the ministry in Paris had to be read and understood by staff at old people's homes.\n\nEach recipient then had to give informed consent in a consultation with a doctor, held no less than five days before injection. The lengthy procedure is in theory to save lives - those of patients who might have an adverse reaction. But as the critics have been arguing, delay in inoculating the population is also costing lives.\n\nAnother problem in France is the high level of scepticism towards vaccination - product of a more general suspicion of government. Polls suggest as many as 58% of the public do not want to be given the jab. The effect - critics say - has been to make the government unduly cautious. When urgency was required, the authorities were reluctant to move fast for fear of galvanising the anti-vaxxers.\n\nAfter President Emmanuel Macron communicated his anger at the delays at the weekend, the pace is picking up. The procedure for consent is being simplified. By the end of January, the plan is to have 500-600 vaccination centres open across the country - either in hospitals or other big public buildings.\n\nPolitically a lot is at stake. The government has already come under fire for failings in providing masks and tests. With opposition voices calling the vaccine delay a \"state scandal\", President Macron needs a roll-out that is fast and problem-free.\n\nNational pride accelerated Russia's rollout, but one man is conspicuously absent from the list of people vaccinated, writes Sarah Rainsford, in Moscow.\n\nRussia registered its main Covid vaccine for domestic use way back in August, before mass safety and efficacy trials had even begun. In December, with those trials still underway, it began rolling out Sputnik V to the public ahead of mass vaccination launches everywhere else in Europe. The rush was driven by national pride as well as medical necessity.\n\nSputnik was initially offered to front line health and education workers but early take-up of the two-dose vaccination was slow and the list of those eligible soon expanded.\n\nA poll by the Levada Centre in late December showed only 38% of respondents were willing to get the jab: wary of domestic healthcare and medicines, Russians were sceptical of bold early claims made for the vaccine and nervous about possible adverse reactions. Even so, and despite similar delays scaling-up production as in other countries, Sputnik's backers announced this week that more than a million people had been vaccinated.\n\nRussia began rolling out its Sputnik V vaccine in December\n\nBut one man still conspicuously absent from the list of the vaccinated is Vladimir Putin, despite the Kremlin saying he will - eventually - get the jab. In the meantime, those who meet him in person are obliged to test for Covid first and even quarantine. The president may need to lead by example, though. Mr Putin has said repeatedly that protecting the economy is his priority so he's banking on mass vaccination to avoid a return to national lockdown.\n\nRussia has built giant, temporary hospitals since the start of the pandemic and the health minister said this week that 25% of Covid beds remain free. There's also been a fall in the number of new daily cases reported - around 25,000 for the past 5 days. But that's not down to the vaccine yet. The country is nearing the end of a 10-day New Year holiday period and the number of Covid tests has also dropped.\n\nAs infection rates grow in a country praised by many for its no-lockdown approach, a successful vaccine programme is crucial writes Maddy Savage, in Stockholm.\n\nAlmost two weeks since 91-year-old care home resident Gun-Britt Johnsson became the first Swede to get the initial dose of a Pfizer jab, there is still no official tally of how many others have received the vaccination.\n\nThe Public Health Agency of Sweden says it's in the process of compiling data from the country's 21 regional health authorities tasked with vaccinating the entire adult population - around eight million people - by 26 June. The date isn't arbitrary, it's the biggest public holiday weekend of the year, when Swedes traditionally hold Midsummer celebrations. Karin Tegmark, a senior manager at the agency, says the date remains \"feasible\". But she says it depends on the delivery of vaccines to the country.\n\nAfter months of high trust levels in the country's no-lockdown approach, support for the health agency has dwindled.\n\nAlongside 4.5 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, Sweden has ordered 3.6 million jabs from Moderna, the first of which are expected to arrive next week. The country also plans to roll-out the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine as soon as possible after it is approved by the EU - ideally by February.\n\nSwedes initially appeared lukewarm to the idea of taking a speedily-developed coronavirus vaccine, although a poll at the end of December found 71% would take one. A key driver of the initial scepticism is thought to be the failure of a voluntary mass vaccination programme for swine flu in 2009. Hundreds of Swedish children and young adults under 30 developed the sleeping disorder narcolepsy, which was found to be a side effect of the Pandemrix vaccine.\n\nA successful vaccination programme will be crucial, not least because it comes at a time when Swedish authorities are struggling to maintain public confidence. After months of high trust levels in the country's no-lockdown approach, support for the health agency has dwindled as Sweden has struggled with the second wave of coronavirus.\n\nMeanwhile, several high profile officials have faced heavy criticism for breaching their own recommendations - including the head of the civil contingencies agency (pictured), who resigned after spending Christmas with his daughter in the Canary Islands.\n\nA new government in Belgium seems unified on the vaccine rollout - for now at least, writes Nick Beake, in Brussels.\n\nIt seemed fitting that the first person in Belgium to receive a Covid jab lives in the place where the world's first approved Covid vaccine is being produced. Jos Hermans, a 96-year-old from the municipality of Puurs, was given the injection on 28 December, in his care home. A further 700 elderly residents were also administered a dose in what was a small, initial trial.\n\nThe mass vaccination programme in Belgium began on 5 January, but has been criticised for starting slowly. Federal Health Minister Frank Vandenbroucke had promised in November that the rollout would be \"seamless and fast\", tweeting: \"If that does not work, shoot me.\"\n\nThe first phase looks to vaccinate up to 200,000 nursing home residents by the end of this month, or early February. Healthcare professionals will be next in line and the aim was for the whole population to be inoculated by the end of September.\n\nJos Hermans, a 96-year-old from Puurs, was given the injection on 28 December\n\nYou may think the country would be at an advantage being the epicentre of the Pfizer-BioNTech production. While this clearly helps with distribution, Belgium cannot receive more doses - relative to its population - than other EU countries under strict Commission rules. That didn't stop the minister-president of the Flanders region, who admitted this week that he had contacted Pfizer directly in the hope of procuring more doses, only to be rebuffed.\n\nAfter getting a guarantee from Pfizer over supply of the jab, the federal Belgian authorities have adapted their strategy: they now propose giving as many available doses to as many people as they can - and no longer reserving vials for patients' second dose, given three weeks after the first. In general, the federal government, rather than the European Commission has faced any criticism for a delay and has defended its \"careful\" approach.\n\nAnd there appears to be an interesting regional or cultural discrepancy when it comes to whether people are willing to take the vaccine. Of the Flemish population interviewed in a poll, half have said they wanted the vaccine as soon as possible. Among French speakers - it was 20% fewer, which chimes with the deeper scepticism over the border in France.\n\nIn a country where politics are notoriously complicated and fractious - they've only recently agreed a government, after a 500-day vacuum - the Federal Coalition appears unified on its Covid vaccine strategy. For now, at least.\n\nRegional variances and political rows have marked the beginning of Spain's vaccination programme writes Guy Hedgecoe, in Madrid.\n\nSpain started administering the vaccine on 27 December. So far, 743,925 doses have been distributed to regional administrations, with 277,976 people vaccinated, according to the health ministry. The objective of the coalition government is to immunise 2.3 million people within 12 weeks. Priority is being given to elderly residents of care homes, those who look after them, and healthcare personnel.\n\nEach of the country's 17 regions has a high degree of control over healthcare and should receive the number of doses that corresponds to their populations. However, already there has been substantial geographical disparity.\n\nGovernment data showed, for example, that while the northern region of Asturias had used 55% of the doses it had received by 3 January, the Madrid region had only administered 5% by the same date. Some regions are holding back doses to administer a second follow-up jab to the same person in several weeks' time, and some have been vaccinating on national holidays while others have not.\n\nThe pandemic has been the cause of constant political conflict, with the right-wing opposition accusing the leftist government of incompetence.\n\nAlthough vaccination is voluntary, the government has said it is making a register of those who do not wish to be inoculated. That initiative has generated controversy, although the government has insisted the register will merely seek to clarify why people refuse the vaccination.\n\nHowever, the pandemic has been the cause of constant political conflict, with the right-wing opposition accusing the leftist government of Pedro Sánchez of incompetence, lack of transparency and using coronavirus to accumulate power.\n\nThe arrival of a vaccine has not stopped the rancour. Alberto Núñez Feijóo, the conservative Popular Party (PP) president of Galicia, warned the number of doses being distributed to each region was being dictated by \"political affiliations or parliamentary needs\", a claim the central government has rejected.", "The US has placed Cuba back on a list of state sponsors of terrorism, citing the communist country's backing of Venezuela.\n\nPresident Donald Trump's administration made the announcement just days before he leaves the White House.\n\nPresident-elect Joe Biden, who takes office on 20 January, has previously said he wants to improve US-Cuban relations.\n\nMr Biden has said he is seeking closer ties between the long-term adversaries but Mr Trump's decision is likely to hinder a quick repair of relations.\n\nCuba's place on the list will require a formal review that could take months, analysts say.\n\nThe Caribbean island was removed from the list by President Barack Obama in 2015, but Mr Trump has taken a harder line towards the country.\n\nIn 2016 Barack Obama became the first US president to visit Cuba since 1928\n\nWhen explaining the decision, officials cited Cuba's support of Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro who the US refuses to recognise.\n\n\"With this action, we will once again hold Cuba's government accountable and send a clear message: the Castro regime must end its support for international terrorism and subversion of US justice,\" US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a statement on Monday.\n\nIn response, Cuban Foreign Affairs Minister Bruno Rodriguez tweeted: \"We condemn the cynical and hypocritical qualification of Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism, announced by the United States.\"\n\nIn advance of the announcement, House Democrat Gregory Meeks called it \"another stunt by President Trump and Pompeo, trying to tie the hands of the incoming Biden administration on their way out the door.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPresident Obama began to normalise relations with Cuba in 2015. He called the decades-long US efforts to isolate the country \"a failure\".\n\nSince the Cold War era, the US had pursued various policies to undermine Cuba which it saw as a great threat.\n\nCuba now rejoins countries including Iran and North Korea on the list of sponsors of terrorism. The impact on the island country include severe limits on foreign investment.", "Mr Williamson says his department is doing all it can to support remote learning\n\nAn extra 300,000 laptops and tablets have been bought to help disadvantaged children in England learn at home, says Education Secretary Gavin Williamson.\n\nMr Williamson said the devices would be delivered to schools.\n\nHe also pledged to publish a remote education framework to support schools and colleges with delivering lessons during the latest national lockdown.\n\nIt comes as research says children from poorer families are likely to struggle more with remote learning.\n\nThe Department for Education said its data showed that over 700,000 devices had been delivered to schools in England so far during the pandemic - 100,000 of which were delivered last week.\n\nThe department says the additional 300,000 laptops and tablets lifts government investment by another £100m, meaning over £400m will have been invested in supporting disadvantaged children who need help with access to technology during the pandemic.\n\nBut the department has faced mounting criticism over huge percentages of pupils not having access to digital devices, nine months into the pandemic.\n\nMr Williamson said the DfE was \"doing everything in our power to support schools with high-quality remote education\".\n\nHe said: \"These additional devices, on top of the 100,000 delivered last week, add to the significant support we are making available to help schools deliver high-quality online learning, as we know they have been doing.\"\n\nOn top of this, the remote education framework would support schools and colleges with delivering education for pupils who are learning from home, he said.\n\nThe frameworks, which are voluntary and should be adapted for schools' individual circumstances, will \"help them to identify the strengths and areas for improvement in the lessons and teaching they provide remotely\".\n\nBut Geoff Barton, head of the Association of School and College Leaders, said: \"While we welcome the extra laptops and tablets announced, it is pretty poor that nearly a year after this crisis began we are only now inching up to the number of devices that are needed.\n\n\"The reality is that this extra provision is coming when we are already well into the new lockdown and after a heavily disrupted autumn term in which many children had to self-isolate in line with coronavirus protocols,\" he said.\n\n\"The government was slow off the mark to address the digital divide early in the crisis and is now trying to make up for lost time.\"\n\nMr Williamson's laptop announcement comes as research by the University of Sussex found that nearly one in five less advantaged parents said they struggled with home-learning during the first lockdown.\n\nThe research surveyed 3,409 parents in the UK between 5 May until 31 July last year and found families of lower socioeconomic status were more likely to report their home environment made it harder for pupils to complete schoolwork from home.\n\nThe study says secondary school pupils eligible for free school meals (39%) were more likely to report that a lack of technology - such as laptops and computers - made learning from home more difficult, compared to 19% of pupils who are not eligible for free school meals.\n\nThere are concerns poorer children will fall further behind\n\nPrimary school pupils from struggling households were found to be more likely to find home learning learning harder than their more comfortable off peers due to the environment - such as noise levels (59% to 50%), lack of space (45% to 22%), lack of technology (45% to 26%) and lack of internet (35% to 16%).\n\nThe researchers warned that educational inequalities were likely to increase due to further school closures this year.\n\nLead researcher Dr Matthew Easterbrook said: \"These results show that school closures disproportionately disrupt the education of those who are most economically disadvantaged, suggesting that educational inequalities are likely to rise because of the pandemic.\n\n\"The results show that parents of pupils from disadvantaged families - those who are eligible for free school meals, who have lower levels of education, or who are financially struggling - are much more likely to report that learning from home is challenging.\"\n\nReport co-author Lewis Doyle, doctoral researcher at the University of Sussex, added: \"School closures, while clearly necessary during this public health crisis, risk entrenching inequality.\"\n\nOn Tuesday the government also published figures on how many pupils were physically in schools across England before the Christmas holidays.\n\nThe data shows 79% of pupils in state schools were in class on Wednesday16 December - down from 85% on Thursday 10 December.\n\nIn secondary schools, attendance fell from 80% to 72% on 16 December, while pupil attendance in primary schools fell from 89% to 86%, the figures show.\n\nBetween 9% and 11% of pupils - up to 872,000 children - did not attend school for Covid-19 related reasons on 16 December.", "Tesco, Asda and Waitrose have become the latest supermarkets to say they will deny entry to shoppers who do not wear face masks unless they are medically exempt.\n\nIt follows a similar move by Morrisons, while Sainsbury's says it will challenge those who flout the rules.\n\nRetailers have been criticised for not doing enough to stop people breaking Covid rules as infections spread.\n\nBut enforcement of face coverings is officially a police responsibility.\n\nHowever, supermarkets can deny entry to their premises which is private property, and can call the police if someone refuses to follow the rules or becomes abusive.\n\nSenior police figures have reportedly said there is little officers can do to enforce the rules in shops because they are so busy.\n\nBut policing minister Kit Malthouse said that they would offer \"backup if things go seriously wrong\".\n\n\"What we hope is that in the vast majority of cases the enforcement, or the reminders if you like, put in place by the store owners will be enough,\" he told BBC News.\n\nA Tesco spokeswoman said the supermarket chain had decided to strengthen its policies.\n\n\"To protect our customers and colleagues, we won't let anyone into our stores who is not wearing a face covering, unless they are exempt in line with government guidance,\" she said.\n\n\"We are also asking our customers to shop alone, unless they're a carer or with children. To support our colleagues, we will have additional security in stores to help manage this.\"\n\nAn Asda spokesman said if customers had forgotten their face coverings, it would continue to offer them one free of charge.\n\nBut he added: \"Should a customer refuse to wear a covering without a valid medical reason and be in any way challenging to our colleagues about doing so, our security colleagues will refuse their entry.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How to wear your mask. Hint: it's not any of these three options\n\nAndrew Murphy, executive director of operations at Waitrose, said: \"We've listened carefully to the clear change in tone and emphasis of the views and information shared by the UK's governments in recent days.\n\n\"By insisting on the wearing of face coverings, over and above the social distancing measures we already have in place, we aim to make our shops even safer for customers.\"\n\nOn Tuesday, Sainsbury's told the BBC it did not have the power to deny entry to shoppers without masks. However, trials showed customers complied more when asked to wear masks by security guards at the door, it said.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC, Sainsbury's boss, Simon Roberts, said \"we are not going to ban customers\".\n\nBut he urged shoppers to wear a mask and shop alone.\n\n\"By doing that we will help keep everybody safe,\" he said.\n\nThe Co-op also said it would not ban shoppers without masks from entering, and instead urged customers to take responsibility for wearing a face covering when visiting its stores, as it was mandatory by law.\n\nBoss of Co-op Food Jo Whitfield said: \"We've increased our in-store messaging to remind customers and government guidance does state that the police can take measures if members of the public don't comply with this law.\"\n\nIceland said it would take a similar approach, adding the vast majority of its customers continued to shop in compliance with the law.\n\n\"In view of the rising tide of abuse and violence being directed at our store colleagues, we do not expect them to confront the small minority of customers who aggressively refuse to comply with the law,\" a spokesman added.\n\nIn England, the police can issue a £200 fine to someone breaking the face covering rules. In Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, a £60 fine can be imposed. Repeat offenders face bigger fines.", "Many hospitals are still under intense pressure with the increasing number of Covid patients arriving.\n\nDoctors say they are seeing more younger patients in their thirties and forties compared to the first wave.\n\nThe overall pattern of those at risk of becoming seriously ill or dying has not changed significantly and the older someone is, the greater their risk from Covid-19 - particularly those over the age of 65.\n\nThe BBC's Health Editor Hugh Pym was given access to film at Croydon University Hospital in South London.", "Morrisons will bar customers who refuse to wear face coverings from its shops amid rising coronavirus infections.\n\nFrom Monday, shoppers who refuse to wear face masks offered by staff will not be allowed inside, unless they are medically exempt.\n\nSainsbury's also said it would challenge those not wearing a mask or who were shopping in groups.\n\nThe announcements come amid concerns that social distancing measures are not being adhered to in supermarkets.\n\nVaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi said the government is \"concerned\" shops are not enforcing rules strictly enough.\n\n\"Ultimately, the most important thing to do now is to make sure that actually enforcement - and of course the compliance with the rules - when people are going into supermarkets are being adhered to,\" Mr Zahawi told Sky News.\n\n\"We need to make sure people actually wear masks and follow the one-way system,\" he said.\n\nMorrisons said it had \"introduced and consistently maintained thorough and robust safety measures in all our stores\" since the start of the pandemic.\n\nBut it said: \"From today we are further strengthening our policy on masks.\"\n\nSecurity guards at the UK's fourth-biggest supermarket chain will be enforcing the new rules.\n\nMorrisons' chief executive, David Potts, said: \"Those who are offered a face covering and decline to wear one won't be allowed to shop at Morrisons unless they are medically exempt.\n\n\"Our store colleagues are working hard to feed you and your family, please be kind.\"\n\nFollowing Morrisons' announcement, Sainsbury's said that it was also putting trained security guards at the front of its stores to challenge shoppers who did not comply.\n\nChief executive Simon Roberts said: \"I've spent a lot of time in our stores reviewing the latest situation over the last few days and on behalf of all my colleagues, I am asking our customers to help us keep everyone safe.\n\n\"The vast majority of customers are shopping safely, but I have also seen some customers trying to shop without a mask and shopping in larger family groups.\n\n\"Please help us to keep all our colleagues and customers safe by always wearing a mask and by shopping alone. Everyone's care and consideration matters now more than ever.\"\n\nEarlier on Monday, Mr Zahawi stopped short of saying that supermarket staff should be responsible for enforcing rules on face masks.\n\nEnforcement of face coverings is the responsibility of the police, not retailers. Wearing face masks in supermarkets and shops is compulsory across the UK.\n\nIn England, the police can issue a £200 fine to someone breaking the face covering rules. In Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, a £60 fine can be imposed. Repeat offenders face bigger fines.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How to wear your mask. Hint: it's not any of these three options\n\nHowever, retail industry body the British Retail Consortium said that, workers have faced an increase in incidents of violence and abuse when trying to encourage shoppers to put them on.\n\nAndrew Opie, director of food and sustainability at the British Retail Consortium, added: \"Supermarkets continue to follow all safety guidance and customers should be reassured that supermarkets are Covid-secure and safe to visit during lockdown and beyond.\n\n\"Customers should play their part too by following in-store signage and being considerate to staff and fellow shoppers.\"\n\nUnder current lockdown restrictions across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, people must only leave home for essential reasons, such as buying food or medicine.\n\nIn a bid to contain the spread of coronavirus, supermarkets introduced social distancing measures during the UK's first nationwide lockdown last March. They included limits on the numbers of customers in the shops at any one time, protective plastic screens at tills and \"marshals\" to ensure shoppers were maintaining a two-metre distance.\n\nBut amid rising numbers of infections, some have expressed concerns about a \"lack of visible protections\" implemented by supermarkets in recent weeks.\n\nThe First Minister of Wales, Mark Drakeford, said on Saturday that he wanted to see stores policed as they were during the first lockdown as people were worried the strict enforcement of rules did not \"appear to be there this time\".\n\n\"Given the fact the new variant is so much easier to catch... we are looking at supermarkets and other places where people leave their homes, to make sure they are organised in a way that keeps their staff and customers safe,\" he said.\n\nSupermarket Waitrose said that it was taking a \"cautious approach\" to the virus, with marshals checking that customers are wearing face coverings on the door, hand sanitiser stations at its entrances and written communications to shoppers reminding them to maintain their distance.\n\nTesco said it was limiting the number of customers in store and was also reminding customers to wear masks.\n\n\"We have clear signage explaining this, and we have packs of face coverings available for purchase near the front of our stores for any customers who have forgotten them.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Asda announced last week that it would extend its marshals' hours to 08:00 to 20:00 and increase how often baskets and trollies are cleaned.\n\nShop workers' union Usdaw has also called for firms to apply more stringent measures again.\n\nThe union's general secretary, Paddy Lillis, said that it had received reports that \"too many customers are not following necessary safety measures like social distancing, wearing a face covering and only shopping for essential items\".\n\n\"It is going to take some time to roll out the vaccine and we cannot afford to be complacent in the meantime, particularly with a new strain sweeping the nation,\" Mr Lillis said.\n\nThe trade union also suggested that \"'one-in one-out\" policies and proper queuing systems should be reintroduced in supermarkets.\n\nIt added that these systems should be managed by trained security staff where necessary.", "Parler has hit back after Amazon pulled support for its so-called \"free speech\" social network.\n\nParler is suing the tech giant, accusing it of breaking anti-trust laws by removing it.\n\nParler had been reliant on the tech giant's Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud computing service to provide its alternative to Twitter.\n\nThe platform was popular among supporters of Donald Trump, although the president is not a user.\n\nAmazon took the action after finding dozens of posts on the service that it said encouraged violence.\n\nIn response, the platform has asked a federal judge to order Amazon to reinstate it.\n\n\"AWS's decision to effectively terminate Parler's account is apparently motivated by political animus,\" the complaint reads.\n\n\"It is also apparently designed to reduce competition in the microblogging services market to the benefit of Twitter.\"\n\n\"There is no merit to these claims,\" it said.\n\n\"AWS provides technology and services to customers across the political spectrum, and we respect Parler's right to determine for itself what content it will allow. However, it is clear that there is significant content on Parler that encourages and incites violence against others, and that Parler is unable or unwilling to promptly identify and remove this content, which is a violation of our terms of service.\n\n\"We made our concerns known to Parler over a number of weeks and during that time we saw a significant increase in this type of dangerous content, not a decrease, which led to our suspension of their services Sunday evening.\"\n\nExamples Amazon had provided included posts calling for the killing of Democrats, Muslims, Black Lives Matter leaders, and mainstream media journalists.\n\nGoogle and Apple had already removed Parler from their app stores towards the end of last week saying it had failed to comply with their content-moderation requirements.\n\nHowever, it had still been accessible via the web - although visitors had complained of being unable to create new accounts over the weekend, without which it was not possible to view its content.\n\nParler has been online since 2018, and may return if it can find an alternative host.\n\nHowever, chief executive John Matze told Fox News on Sunday that \"every vendor from text message services to email providers to our lawyers all ditched us too\".\n\n\"We're going to try our best to get back online as quickly as possible, but we're having a lot of trouble because every vendor we talk to says they won't work with us because if Apple doesn't approve and Google doesn't approve, they won't,\" he added.\n\nAWS's move is the latest in a series of actions affecting social media following the rioting on Capitol Hill last week.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Capitol riots: ‘We would have been murdered’\n\nFacebook and Twitter have also banned President Trump's accounts on their platforms, citing concerns that he might incite further violence.\n\nParler's users included the Republican Senator Ted Cruz, who had led an effort in the Senate to delay certifying Joe Biden's electoral college victory.\n\nHe had about five million followers on the platform - more than his tally on Twitter.\n\nParler's app now shows an error message and its website is offline\n\n\"Why should a handful of Silicon Valley billionaires have a monopoly on political speech?\" he tweeted over the weekend.\n\nParler's downfall appears to have benefited Gab - another \"free speech\" social network that is popular with far-right commentators.\n\nIt has claimed to have \"gained more users in the past two days than we did in our first two years of existing\".\n\nParler has long been a home for what you might call untouchables, people who had been excluded from mainstream services for offences such as blatant racism or incitement to violence.\n\nDuring a brief excursion onto the site over the weekend, I observed plenty of examples of such behaviour, with users exhibiting vile anti-Semitism, displaying Nazi symbols such as the swastika and uttering incoherent threats against those they perceive to be enemies of America.\n\nBut as Amazon's deadline approached something like panic took hold, with users desperately urging their followers to join them on other platforms.\n\nMost seemed to accept that Parler was doomed, while vowing to continue their fight elsewhere.\n\n\"Well this is the end,\" wrote one user, who proclaimed his support for the American Nazi Party.", "The disease is still spreading. There are more people in hospital with Covid-19 in the UK than at any other point in the pandemic.\n\nProf Chris Whitty, England's chief medical officer, hit the airwaves on Monday morning to tell us it's \"everyone's problem\".\n\nAnd a possible further increase in the numbers from those get-togethers that did take place over Christmas is yet to filter through.\n\nIt is cheering, and crucial, to see the elderly and vulnerable attending vaccine super-centres in huge numbers for their injections.\n\nBut there is no getting away from it: at this moment, the coronavirus situation seems pretty dire. And there is real concern in government that the public, this time round, is just not paying attention to the rules as closely as they did back in the spring.\n\nWhat is the government's answer? It is not, at least not yet, despite calls from the opposition, another big clampdown.\n\nIt might not feel like it, but it is only seven days since Boris Johnson took what used to be the rare step of making a national address, live on primetime TV, telling us, across the UK, once more to \"stay at home\".\n\nThere is hardly any political appetite to go even further.\n\nAs one senior minister said today: \"We have gone as far as we possibly can in terms of shutting things down\".\n\nThe prime minister was reluctant to go this far, only moving back to a lockdown in England when the evidence put forward by the government's top medics got worse, and worse and worse.\n\nThere are in fact even more limits that ministers, not just in Westminster but in Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast too, could introduce.\n\nSchools could be forcibly closed to all pupils. Nurseries could shut.\n\nGovernment sources say the nurseries policy isn't going to change. Number 10 firmly denies they would ever take such a drastic step on schools which have always been open to key workers' children and it is hard to imagine that ever happening.\n\nIn extremis though there are measures that could be taken - in theory the government does not want to do any of this, but in practice there are other potential steps.\n\nBuilding sites could be made to lock their gates. Factories where machines are still whirring because they are operating under Covid guidelines could be made to pause.\n\nEngland, Scotland and Northern Ireland could follow Wales and ban people from seeing anyone they don't live with even outdoors.\n\nPlaygrounds, launderettes and chiropractors, could, along with many others on the list of premises allowed to stay open, have to shut up shop after all.\n\nBut while ministers have talked about squeezing the advice for takeaways to try to prevent big queues gathering at popular places, encouraged the supermarkets to make sure they are doing as much as they can to be safe, and even discussed the prospect of asking for masks to be worn outdoors, there is no expectation, at least at the start of this week, that a more extensive clampdown is coming from Westminster.\n\nAlthough, it's worth noting that the Scottish cabinet will discuss restrictions again on Tuesday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. On Monday Matt Hancock ruled out getting rid of support bubbles.\n\nOne reason for the reluctance to go much further is that every step that affects a business affects jobs and livelihoods too.\n\nThe chancellor told MPs on Monday that 800,000 people have lost their jobs since February, admitting the economy will get worse before it gets better.\n\nSo trying to preserve activity that can be done safely matters to the government too.\n\nThere's also a question in government circles about whether cranking up different rules bit by bit is really what would help.\n\nChris Whitty this morning bluntly suggested there was limited value in \"tinkering\" with the rules, and what is required instead is for all of us to realise how grave the situation really is.\n\nInstead of worrying about whether we are allowed to sit on a park bench at all, (and yes, this has been a lively conversation in Westminster today) , perhaps we should be asking ourselves whether we really need to be out at all.\n\nThe NHS has been under huge pressure dealing with a surge in Covid cases this winter.\n\nBut when what happens next will be in large part shaped by our behaviour as individuals, working out the dos and don'ts can get sticky fast.\n\nTwo women who hit the headlines for driving five miles to go for a snowy walk with a takeaway cuppa had their fines withdrawn today, just as the prime minister caused a stir when a newspaper revealed he'd gone seven miles to the other side of London for a cycle in the Olympic Park.\n\nYou might be a reader who feels, 'so what?'. In both cases they were exercising outside, within the law, so who cares?\n\nBut you might feel when the firm instruction is to stay at home, and stay local, that is pushing the rules.\n\nFor now though, with grimmer and grimmer medics' warnings ringing in our ears, and reminders about enforcement from the police coming too, ministers seem resolved to encourage the public to comply rather than crack down further.\n\nBut it is however, only a week since the lockdown the prime minister had so hoped to avoid returned. By now, it's not surprising, Boris Johnson would never quite rule anything out.\n\nP.S. In all the gloom, the cheerier news is that the vaccination programme across the UK is certainly getting going, with 2.3 million people having had their first jab.\n\nThe number of people getting vaccinated has been added to the list of statistics that the government publishes every day. The targets the government has set are tough, but the numbers so far, are growing fast.", "RAF Typhoons, similar to the aircraft pictured, took off from RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire and escorted the civilian aircraft to London Stansted Airport\n\nA sonic boom has been heard across the East of England after RAF Typhoon aircraft were launched to intercept a plane that had lost communications.\n\nThe Typhoons took off from RAF Coningsby and \"safely escorted\" the civilian aircraft to Stansted Airport in Essex, an RAF spokesman said.\n\nThe boom, at about 13:05 GMT, was reported by people across social media.\n\n\"The Typhoon aircraft were authorised to transit at supersonic speed for operational reasons,\" the RAF said.\n\nPeople in Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire and parts of London heard the boom.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. People's reaction to the sonic boom was caught on camera\n\n\"We have received numerous calls from the public with reports of a sonic boom... between Huntingdon and Cambridge,\" Cambridgeshire police said, in a Facebook post.\n\n\"Nobody has been injured. Some callers reported the incident had shaken properties but no major damage is thought to have occurred.\"\n\nAn image from a police officer's body-worn camera captured the RAF Typhoon aircraft flying over Cambridgeshire\n\nCommunications with the aircraft were re-established after the Typhoons were launched and it was intercepted before being escorted to Stansted.\n\nA spokesman for the airport said the \"private jet\" was believed to have been flying from Germany to Birmingham.\n\nHe confirmed the plane had been brought into land at about 13:40.\n\nWhen an aircraft approaches the speed of sound, the air in front of the nose of the plane builds up a pressure front because it has \"nowhere to escape\", said Dr Jim Wild of Lancaster University.\n\nA sonic boom happens when that air \"escapes\", creating a ripple effect which can be heard on the ground as a loud thunderclap.\n\nThe speed of sound varies. It is about 770mph (1,200km/h) at sea level, but slower at higher altitudes. A plane flying at 30,000ft would reach the speed of sound at about 675mph (1,085km/h), according to NASA's educational website.\n\nIt can be heard over such a large area because it moves with the plane, rather like the wake of a boat spreading out behind the vessel.\n\nRAF jets are only given permission to go supersonic over populated areas in emergencies, usually when they are required to intercept another aircraft.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nLeicester City climbed to second in the Premier League as they won a keenly contested encounter with fellow top-four hopefuls Southampton at King Power Stadium.\n\nJames Maddison fired in from a tight angle after 37 minutes, the Foxes midfielder instructing his team-mates to stand back as he performed a socially distanced celebration, before Harvey Barnes added a second deep into second-half stoppage-time.\n\nVictory takes Leicester within one point of leaders Manchester United, who travel to third-placed Liverpool on Sunday, while Southampton are eighth, three points outside the top four.\n• None How Leicester followed guidance on celebrations - and others didn't\n• None Reaction to Leicester v Southampton, plus the rest of Saturday's Premier League action\n\nThe Saints dominated in the opening stages and created the first opening when Che Adams stretched the home defence on the counter-attack, while Leicester's Barnes' powerful drive forced Alex McCarthy into action with the game's first shot after 19 minutes.\n\nThe visitors, without talisman Danny Ings after the striker tested positive for Covid-19 last week, went close to a response through Ryan Bertrand and Will Smallbone either side of half-time but neither could find a way past Kasper Schmeichel.\n\nIn an entertaining conclusion, Stuart Armstrong rattled the Leicester crossbar with an excellent strike from the edge of the penalty area, while Jan Bednarek produced a superb goalline clearance to deny Barnes and the returning McCarthy saved from Jamie Vardy as both sides pushed for a late goal.\n\nIt took Leicester until the 95th minute to seal the three points, Barnes calmly slotting past McCarthy on the break.\n\nLeicester manager Brendan Rodgers challenged his side to \"disrupt the Premier League hierarchy\" after a 2-1 win over Newcastle in their last league outing maintained their top-four hopes.\n\nVictory in this stern test ensured they continue to do just that.\n\nEnjoying their longest unbeaten run of the season, their streak now at six matches in all competitions since defeat by Everton a month ago, Rodgers' side delivered an assured performance to remain firmly in contention at the top.\n\nDespite their lofty position as the halfway stage approaches, Leicester have struggled at home this campaign - their four defeats at King Power Stadium in 2020-21 is as many as they suffered in the entirety of last season.\n\nThough largely frustrated in the early exchanges as the visitors retained possession, Leicester's superior quality in attack eventually ensured that record was improved with Maddison turning sharply to meet Youri Tielemans' through-ball before drilling home.\n\nThe in-form Barnes once again impressed and eventually got the goal his performance deserved to equal his best season tally of 10 after just 24 games.\n\nUnlike last season's post-Christmas collapse, the Foxes are yet to show signs of falling away. Maddison - involved in six of Leicester's last 12 league goals - and Barnes are easing the pressure on Vardy to deliver every week and there appears the strength in depth to better maintain this challenge.\n\nThe only concern for Rodgers at the end of a pleasing night was the sight of Vardy appearing to limp off as he was replaced by Kelechi Iheanacho in the final minutes.\n\nWhen Southampton claimed victory in the corresponding fixture last January, the 2-1 win marked a remarkable short-term recovery from a club-record defeat by the Foxes less than three months earlier.\n\nOne year on, this match served as another reminder of how quickly the Saints are progressing under Ralph Hasenhuttl.\n\nThey were, however, unable to set a club top-flight record of seven consecutive away games without defeat in the absence of frontman Ings. That was despite their relative freshness, having not played for 12 days after their FA Cup tie against Shrewsbury Town was postponed last weekend because of a Covid-19 outbreak at the League One club.\n\nFollowing their impressive 1-0 victory over Liverpool on 4 January, a triumph which left Hasenhuttl with tears in his eyes, Southampton once again applied themselves with commendable determination but ultimately failed to produce in the final third.\n\nAdams ran out of space at the byeline after breaking clear from the halfway line in the game's first opening, and neither Bertrand nor Smallbone were able to place past Schmeichel as the equaliser their hard work perhaps deserved evaded them.\n\nAt the back, Bednarek produced the heroics to keep his side in the game and full-back Kyle Walker-Peters provided a regular outlet on the right, but Southampton, who named four teenagers on their bench because of an injury crisis, have now scored only once in five league games.\n\nThat is an obvious concern for Hasenhuttl as he looks to ensure his side do not fade after their promising start.\n\n'We took social distancing to the letter' - what the managers said\n\nLeicester boss Brendan Rodgers told BBC Sport: \"It's a very good win against a good team. We were too passive at the start, we took social distancing to the letter and didn't get close to them. After that we had some sustained attacks and ended up getting a brilliant goal.\n\n\"At half-time we had to reiterate the importance of fighting, you have to fight for every result and Southampton keep going. We were outstanding second half and should have scored more goals. We did the dirty work much better and Harvey Barnes showed again that he is a finisher now.\"\n\nOn Maddison's celebration: \"I said to them there is lots of negativity around it but see it as a positive and be creative. Supporters still want to see players celebrate, the happiness, so be creative with it.\"\n\nSouthampton boss Ralph Hasenhuttl said: \"It's never nice to lose a game but we had chances. We hit the bar, we fought with everything we have. We are definitely a team that is never giving up. The quality of the opponent was better than ours today.\n\n\"The first goal, you don't shoot at goal like that every day, it was fantastic from Maddison. We had good chances but we couldn't finish and that was the difference.\n\n\"It doesn't look good at the moment, we have a lot of injuries and not many alternatives. The good news is we have 29 points and they don't take them away from us. We did our best with the options we have. We have nine injured but we are fighting for everything.\"\n• None Leicester earned their first home league victory against Southampton since April 2016, ending a run of four without a win against the Saints at King Power Stadium.\n• None Southampton's first 12 Premier League games in 2020-21 witnessed 41 goals (24 scored) at an average of 3.4 per game. Their past six games have seen just six goals (two scored).\n• None Jamie Vardy had seven shots for Leicester, his highest tally without scoring in a single Premier League match in his career.\n• None Vardy has faced Southampton seven times at home in the Premier League, more than any other side at King Power Stadium without scoring in the competition.\n• None James Maddison scored in consecutive Premier League games for Leicester for the first time since October 2019, matching his goal tally at home from each of the previous two campaigns (three).\n\nBoth sides return to action on Tuesday. Leicester host Chelsea in the Premier League at 20:15 GMT, while Southampton welcome Shrewsbury to St Mary's in their postponed FA Cup third-round tie (20:00).\n• None Goal! Leicester City 2, Southampton 0. Harvey Barnes (Leicester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Youri Tielemans following a fast break.\n• None Attempt missed. Stuart Armstrong (Southampton) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right following a corner.\n• None Offside, Leicester City. Marc Albrighton tries a through ball, but Ayoze Pérez is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Wilfred Ndidi (Leicester City) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Marc Albrighton.\n• None Attempt saved. Jamie Vardy (Leicester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by James Justin.\n• None Attempt missed. Daniel N'Lundulu (Southampton) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Kyle Walker-Peters with a cross.\n• None Offside, Leicester City. Timothy Castagne tries a through ball, but Ayoze Pérez is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Jamie Vardy (Leicester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Ayoze Pérez with a cross.\n• None Marc Albrighton (Leicester City) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. James Ward-Prowse (Southampton) right footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Stuart Armstrong. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Hear how David Bowie always managed to stay ahead of his time\n• None Joe Wicks and guests are here to bring positivity to your day", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Health workers are the first in line to get Covid jabs\n\nA sanitation worker became the first Indian to receive a Covid vaccine as the country began the world's largest inoculation drive.\n\nPrime Minister Narendra Modi launched the programme, which aims to vaccinate more than 1.3 billion people against Covid.\n\nHe paid tribute to front-line workers who will be the first to receive jabs.\n\nIndia has recorded the second-highest number of Covid-19 infections in the world after the United States.\n\nMillions of doses of two approved vaccines - Covishield and Covaxin - were shipped across the country in the days leading up to the start of the drive.\n\n\"We are launching the world's biggest vaccination drive and it shows the world our capability,\" Mr Modi, said, addressing the country on Saturday morning.\n\nA sanitation worker is the first Indian to receive a Covid vaccine\n\nHe added that India was well prepared to vaccinate its population with the help of an app, which would help the government track the drive and ensure that nobody was left out.\n\nMr Modi spoke at length about doctors, nurses and other front-line workers \"who showed us the light\" in \"dark times\".\n\n\"They stayed away from their families to serve humanity. And hundreds of them never went home. They gave their life to save others. And that is why the first jabs are being given to healthcare workers - this is our way of paying respect to them.\"\n\nDoctors and medical staff at Delhi's Max hospital tell me a lot of hope is being pinned on the vaccination drive. One official described it \"as a new dawn\" and said \"it's the beginning of Covid's end\".\n\nInside the waiting room, there are posters on the wall with information about the documents one needs to bring, how safe the vaccine is, and the precautions that need to be taken even after one's been vaccinated. Among those being vaccinated on Saturday are doctors, nurses and front-office staff from all departments.\n\nThe names have been been chosen alphabetically so those getting jabs are mostly those with names starting with the letter A.\n\n\"The pandemic has played havoc in the country. I hope the vaccine will rid us of the fears and we will be able to breathe easy,\" Dr Anil Dass said after getting the jab.\n\nAshutosh Chaturvedi, a 31-year-old male nurse described as a \"Covid warrior\" by hospital officials, became the first recipient of the vaccine at Max.\n\n\"I'm fine, I feel good,\" he told reporters as he came down the hospital ramp, which has been decorated with blue, green and white balloons.\n\nSince April, he told me, he's worked in the emergency wing of the Covid ward, tending to those afflicted with the coronavirus.\n\n\"I haven't seen my wife and nine-month-old daughter since then. A month later, once I've received the second dose, I'll visit my family,\" he said.\n\nMr Modi also appealed to people to continue adhering to Covid-19 safety protocols like wearing masks and following social distancing. He said the country cannot afford to be complacent as vaccinating the entire population will take time.\n\nHe also urged people not to believe any \"propaganda and rumours about the safety of the vaccines\".\n\n\"I want to tell people that the approval to these vaccines was given only after scientists and experts were satisfied about its safety,\" he said.\n\nAn estimated 10 million health workers will be vaccinated in the first round, followed by policemen, soldiers, municipal and other front-line workers.\n\nHealth workers have been queuing up at vaccination centres for their turn\n\nNext in line will be people aged over 50 and anyone under 50 with serious underlying health conditions. India's electoral rolls, which contain details of some 900 million voters, will be used to identify eligible recipients.\n\nThe government plans to vaccinate 300 million people by early August. This will happen in state-run health care centres, schools, colleges, community halls, municipal offices and wedding halls.\n\nSeveral hospitals across India are giving the first doses of the vaccine.\n\nThe government plans to vaccinate 300 million people by early August\n\nDr Atul Peters was among those who got the jab at Max hospital.\n\n\"It's a very big day. I'm grateful to those who worked hard to make this a reality. I was very very happy when I got a call informing me that my name was on the list.\n\n\"We worked hard during the pandemic to save lives and we are also taking the jab first to dispel fears in people's minds that the vaccine is not safe,\" he told the BBC.\n\nMillions of vaccine doses have been shipped across India\n\nIndia's drug regulator has given the green light to two vaccines - Covishield (the local name for the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine developed in the UK) and Covaxin, locally-made by pharma company Bharat Biotech.\n\nBut concerns have been raised over the efficacy of Covaxin because the regulator's emergency approval came before the completion of Phase 3 clinical trials. The regulator and the manufacturer have said the vaccine is safe, and that the efficacy data would be available by February.\n\nBoth vaccines will be given as two injections, 28 days apart, with the second dose being a booster. Immunity would begin to kick in after the first dose but reaches its full effect 14 days after the second dose.\n\nThe status of the vaccines and recipients will be electronically tracked in real time - some 8 million people who will receive the early jabs have been already registered. More than 600,000 people have been trained for the drive.\n\nThe jabs will be voluntary, and recipients will be given a certificate of vaccination after they complete both doses.\n\n\"I expect India's vaccination programme will be run much better than most countries because of the considerable government investment and early preparedness,\" Dr Gagandeep Kang, one of India's best-known vaccine experts, told the BBC.\n\nWith more than 10 million cases, India has recorded the second-highest number of Covid-19 infections in the world, after the US.\n\nThe largest vaccination drive in the country, however, begins at a time when infections have fallen sharply, and much of life has returned to normal. A limited availability of doses in the initial phase, therefore, is not likely to pose a problem.\n\nMost scientists feel India is primed for the challenge as it is a vaccine-making powerhouse and has run, for decades, a well-oiled immunisation programme for tens of millions of new-borns and mothers-to-be.\n\nBut the real challenges will begin when the general population starts receiving the jabs.\n\nIndia will use its formidable election machinery to deliver and track doses to recipients in far corners of the country. It is also likely to use digital platforms and apps to enable people to register for the doses.\n\nHowever, not every Indian owns a smart phone or knows how to operate an app, so it will be interesting to see what the government does to make sure that there are no inadvertent exclusions.\n\nVaccine hesitancy is the other concern.\n\nHealth activists Seema Pal and Rama Negi say they have been busting misinformation about the vaccine\n\nThe recent controversy over the hurried approval of Covaxin, many feel, could undermine confidence. There's a history of hesitancy about receiving the polio vaccine in parts of northern India, triggered by rumours about vaccines being impure and affecting fertility. Similar disinformation is now circulating about Covid vaccines on social networking apps, such as WhatsApp.\n\nThe government will need consistent, clear-eyed communication to bolster vaccine acceptance and community perception of the programme.\n\nVaccines come with side effects for some people. India has a 34-year-old surveillance programme for monitoring such \"adverse events\" following immunisation.\n\nBut researchers have found that benchmarks for reporting side effects still remain weak. A failure to transparently report adverse effects could easily lead to fear-mongering around vaccines.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "The number of reported incidents of children dying or being seriously harmed after suspected abuse or neglect rose by a quarter after England's first lockdown last year, figures indicate.\n\nThe Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel received 285 serious incident notifications from April to September.\n\nThis is an increase of 27% from 225 in the same period the previous year.\n\nThe data also includes children who were in care and died, regardless of whether abuse or neglect was suspected.\n\nThe Children's Society described the figures as \"shocking\".\n\nThe serious incident notification system requires councils in England to report all incidents of death or serious harm involving children in their area to the Department for Education, which publishes the data.\n\nThey are also required to inform the education secretary and Ofsted if a looked-after child dies, regardless of whether they suspect abuse or neglect.\n\nChild deaths increased from 89 to 119 and those seriously harmed rose from 132 with 153 compared with the same period in 2019, according to the data.\n\nThe number of serious incidents involving children under one increased by 30% as did the harm suffered by those aged 16 and over.\n\nThe majority (54%) of incidents related to boys, and almost two thirds related to white children.\n\nIn two-thirds of the 285 cases reported, the harm occurred while children were living at home.\n\nThe number of serious incident notifications had fallen in 2019-20 compared with 2018-19 when there were 274 such notifications.\n\nIryna Pona, policy manager at the Children's Society, said the increase in incidents last year happened at a time when Covid-19 was having a \"huge impact on the well-being of children and families and disrupted help available to those who needed it most\".\n\nEngland's first lockdown began at the end of March last year and ended on 4 July.\n\nMs Pona said: \"During the first lockdown many vulnerable children were stuck at home in difficult, sometimes dangerous situations, often isolated from friends and support networks.\n\n\"Sadly, children also continued to be targeted and groomed by people outside their families for sexual and criminal exploitation like county lines drug dealing operations, which can lead to serious violence or death.\n\n\"At the same time, they were often hidden from view of professionals like social workers and teachers who are best placed to spot the signs if they may be in danger.\"\n\nShe added that in the current lockdown it was \"vital\" that social care and schools work together closely to ensure all vulnerable children, including those in care, have regular contact with a trusted professional.\n\nA government spokeswoman said: \"Every single incident of this nature is a tragedy and we are working to understand the impact the pandemic may be having.\n\n\"Throughout the past months, we have prioritised the most vulnerable children and their families and put in place support to protect babies.\n\n\"We've maintained vital frontline services because we know it has been a challenge for many, especially for new parents, and we've invested thousands of pounds in charities working with vulnerable children and their families.\n\n\"Today we have launched a wholescale review of children's social care to reform the system and think afresh about how we support the most vulnerable. This data will provide important information to the care review to help address major challenges.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. UK weather: Will it snow where you are?\n\nSnow and ice weather warnings are in place for much of England and Scotland after widespread recent snowfall.\n\nThe Met Office has issued yellow weather warnings across England and Scotland for Saturday and warned of possible travel disruption.\n\nParts of England and Scotland could see as much as 5-10cm of snow in higher areas, the weather service said.\n\nIt comes as hundreds of schools remain closed after heavy snow hit the north of England on Thursday.\n\nA snow warning is in place for south-east England, including London, the east of England and the East Midlands. The Met Office said East Anglia and parts of Kent and Sussex are most at risk of snow.\n\nSome 1-3 cm of snow may fall fairly widely over these areas, with 5-10 cm possible in places, mostly over parts of East Anglia and any higher ground.\n\nA snow and ice warning is in place for most of Scotland, north-west and north-east England, Yorkshire and Humber, the East Midlands and parts of the West Midlands.\n\nSnow is likely to fall to low levels over east Scotland and northern England.\n\nThe Met Office said 1-3 cm is possible at low levels in these areas but is more likely at higher elevations, where 5-10 cm of snow is possible above 200m - and even 20cm at the highest places.\n\nFog is also forecast for parts of the Midlands and the North, along with mist around Glasgow which may pose hazards for motorists.\n\nPolice forces in Yorkshire have urged people to stay at home unless their travel is essential\n\nTwo girls took their sledge to a golf course near Penicuik, Midlothian\n\nThe coronavirus vaccine rollout has been affected by the weather.\n\nOver-80s who were due to receive their jab at Newcastle's Centre for Life were told they could re-book rather than risk making a trip in the icy conditions.\n\nNewcastle Hospitals tweeted: \"There's enough vaccine for everyone, so don't worry about making a trip to Newcastle.\"\n\nAnd Leeds University has delayed the opening of its asymptomatic Covid-19 test centre.\n\nHeavy snowfall has already caused travel disruption across sections of northern England and Scotland.\n\nTemperatures were as low as -6C on Friday morning in parts of Yorkshire and Cumbria, with yellow warnings set to last through most of Friday.\n\nThere was a loss of gas supply to approximately 700 homes in the Hebden Bridge area after water got into the local gas network and froze.\n\nThe Met Office has published advice from the Department for Transport advising people to clear snow and ice from footpaths outside their homes, preferably in the morning.\n\n\"You can then cover the path with salt before nightfall to stop it refreezing overnight,\" the advice says.\n\nTemperatures in the Greater London area are expected to drop to 1C on Friday and parts of the South East could fall to -2C.\n\nIt comes after \"hazardous\" conditions on Thursday caused problems for the ambulance service in Yorkshire, which struggled to keep up with the high demand, while Covid vaccinations were also affected.\n\nMark Millins, of Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust, said the bad weather was having a \"severe impact\" on its operations and urged people to \"take extra care\" when out walking or driving.\n\nIn Scotland, heavy snow in some areas resulted in road closures.\n\nThe deepest snow on Thursday was in Bingley, West Yorkshire, and Strathallan in Perth, Scotland, both of which recorded 11cm.", "CBBC star Archie Lyndhurst, the son of Only Fools and Horses actor Nicholas Lyndhurst, died in his sleep from a brain haemorrhage, his mother has said.\n\nLucy Lyndhurst said a second post-mortem exam had revealed his death was caused by a condition called Acute Lymphoblastic Lymphoma/Leukaemia.\n\nShe described Archie as \"the most magical human being we have ever met\".\n\nThe 19-year-old's death on 22 September had had a \"catastrophic effect\" on their family, she wrote on Instagram.\n\nArchie with his father Nicholas and mother Lucy Smith in 2017\n\nLucy said she and husband Nicholas were assured by the doctor who explained the post-mortem results to them that there \"wasn't anything anyone could have done as Archie showed no signs of illness\". She said it was \"not leukaemia as we know it\" and that acute in medical terms meant \"rapid\".\n\nThe couple were \"utterly floored\" to think something like this could happen, she wrote, adding: \"It's very rare and around only 800 people a year die from it.\"\n\nShe said that just days earlier he had been celebrating his birthday with \"the love of his life Nethra\".\n\n\"Life is fragile, precious and sometimes incredibly cruel,\" Lucy wrote.\n\nShe also criticised some media outlets for attempting to garner information about how her son had died from the coroner, before they knew the results of the post mortem themselves.\n\n\"To have a coroner call you a few days after your child has died to say the press have been calling for the results of Archie's post mortem, I think stoops to an all time low for us,\" she noted.\n\n\"What gives the press the right to badger a coroner's office solely to find the cause of death before the parents? The complete lack of empathy is astounding. We released no information at the time as we had no idea what he had died from.\"\n\nNicholas appeared alongside his son in an episode of So Awkward in 2019\n\nArchie began his acting career at the Sylvia Young Theatre School at the age of 10 and was best known for playing Ollie Coulton in the CBBC comedy show So Awkward.\n\nHe appeared in the sitcom, which followed the lives of a group of friends in secondary school, from its first series in 2015.\n\nNicholas appeared alongside his son in a 2019 episode of the programme.\n\nArchie's other roles included recurring appearances as a younger incarnation of comedian Jack Whitehall in various TV programmes.\n\nThese included BBC Three sitcom Bad Education, in which he was seen as a younger version of Whitehall's Alfie Wickers character.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Irish hauliers have been bypassing ports in Wales because of Brexit, say industry leaders\n\nIrish hauliers are bypassing Welsh ports to avoid Brexit bureaucracy, industry leaders say.\n\nSo-called \"teething problems\" with new export rules are causing \"enormous strain on staff\", according to one haulage company.\n\nBut others warn of a longer-term shift by truck firms from using Holyhead, Fishguard and Pembroke Dock.\n\nGwynedd Shipping said it was operating at 65% normal volumes and the pressure of extra paperwork was challenging.\n\nAndrew Kinsella, the firm's managing director, said: \"It's an enormous strain on our staff in terms of processing bookings.\n\n\"We process around 400 or 500 bookings a week, the reality is we're operating at 65-70% of previous volumes.\n\n\"Whilst we see recovery in the number of clients and we're starting to get to a better pattern in terms of shipments I still think it's going to take several weeks for things to return to normal. Whether things return to pre-Christmas, pre-Brexit volumes remains to be seen.\"\n\nMr Kinsella thinks there will be long-term consequences for the ports.\n\nStena Line is among firms that have made changes to the routes its uses\n\n\"You can already see the shift in terms of the number of sailings,\" he said.\n\n\"I think you're seeing a shift away from Holyhead particularly in terms of weekend, off-peak traffic. I think longer term, the viability of all of these services will be something those ferry services will continue to scrutinise.\"\n\nThis week Stena Line moved its new ship to the route from Rosslare, in the Republic of Ireland, to Cherbourg, France.\n\nAccording to Irish public broadcaster RTÉ, a new weekend sailing from Dublin to Cherbourg will also begin on 23 January, resulting in a temporary reduction in weekend capacity on the Dublin to Holyhead route.\n\nIt also intends to sail the Belfast-to-Liverpool route.\n\n\"Due to the current Brexit-related shift for direct routes and increasing customer demand, Stena Line has decided to temporarily deploy the Stena Embla on Rosslare-Cherbourg,\" Stena Line said.\n\nAt Rosslare Europort, business is booming, says general manager Glenn Carr.\n\n\"We've seen unprecedented demand in the first two weeks of trading compared to last year,\" Mr Carr said.\n\n\"On our European routes there's a 500% increase in freight volume going through the port compared to last year.\"\n\nHe added that 18 months ago they would have had three sailings a week directly to mainland Europe from Rosslare Europort: \"Today we have 15.\"\n\nMr Carr says his customers want to bypass the UK because of Brexit.\n\n\"I think that's testament to demand, particularly from our exporters and importers, on the island of Ireland and the need to unfortunately bypass the UK because of Brexit to trade directly with the EU,\" he added.\n\nHe believes this change in operations will not be temporary.\n\nHe said decisions by ferry companies and businesses who trade with the EU to re-direct freight, have been made based on market analysis.\n\n\"The business case for the extra services out of Rosslare were not based on the first two weeks of this year,\" Mr Carr said.\n\n\"They were based on analysis of the market and conversations with our exporters and importers who were switching.\n\n\"So there is a genuine switch and we foresee services being maintained out of Rosslare.\"\n\nUK government ministers have played down concerns about the long term viability of Welsh ports.\n\nGiving evidence to the Welsh Affairs Select Committee this week, Wales Office Minister David TC Davies MP, said former haulage industry colleagues referred to the issues as \"teething problems\".\n\nSecretary of State for Wales Simon Hart MP, said: \"There is some evidence that things aren't looking necessarily, permanently bleak.\n\n\"It's one of those areas where we have to keep a very wary eye on it, but I think and hope that it is a temporary dip in the graph.\"\n\nBut transport expert Prof Stuart Cole, of the University of South Wales, thinks Brexit delays will be the incentive Irish companies needed to switch permanently to trading directly with the European mainland.\n\nProf Cole said the EU wanted to reduce congestion and pollution in parts of Europe.\n\nOne solution was to move freight by sea rather than road.\n\nThere have been problems with paperwork for drivers travelling to the European mainland\n\nUntil now there was no reason for Irish hauliers to move from using Welsh ports and Dover, Prof Cole said.\n\n\"The route worked perfectly, there was a predictable journey time and that's important for food and component parts going to factories,\" he said.\n\n\"That kind of change required a significant shift, and that's what's there now.\"\n\nBangor University economics lecturer, Dr Edward Thomas Jones, believes it is too soon to predict longer term changes.\n\n\"Because businesses stockpiled before Christmas in anticipation of Brexit, there is of course less use of the port [at Holyhead] since Brexit,\" he said.\n\n\"On top of that, coronavirus means there are fewer tourists going on holiday to Ireland.\n\n\"We'll have a better idea of the future of the port in six months when these businesses who have stockpiled start buying again.\n\n\"Hopefully, by the second half of the year coronavirus will have been resolved and tourists will once again be able to travel back and forth.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru warned if traffic continued to be diverted away from the UK then Wales would suffer.\n\n\"I urge the UK government to work with the Welsh Government to provide substantial investment into Welsh ports to secure their viability into the future,\" said MP Hywel Williams, Plaid's Cabinet Office spokesman.\n\n\"If the trend of rerouting traffic through direct routes continues, I fear that our local economies both in the north west and south west of Wales will suffer enormously.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The four main engines were fired in unison for the first time, but had to be shut down early\n\nA critical engine test for Nasa's new \"megarocket\" has ended early, but the agency denied it amounted to a failure.\n\nShortly before 22:30 GMT (17:30 EST) on Saturday, the four engines ignited, burning for more than a minute before the event was aborted.\n\nThe core stage of the Space Launch System (SLS) was being evaluated at Stennis Space Center, in Mississippi.\n\nThe engines were supposed to fire for eight minutes to simulate the rocket's climb to orbit.\n\nThe SLS is part of Nasa's Artemis programme, which aims to put Americans back on the lunar surface in the 2020s.\n\nWhen it makes its maiden flight - possibly later this year - the SLS will become the most powerful rocket ever to have flown to space.\n\nTeams at Stennis are still poring over the data to find out what happened. John Honeycutt, SLS program manager at Nasa's Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama, said there were \"a lot of dynamics going on\" when the engine shut down.\n\nThe engines' power levels were being throttled down and up again; they were also being prepared to pivot - or gimbal. This movement allows the rocket to be steered during flight.\n\nThe RS-25 engines are the same type that powered the space shuttle orbiter\n\n\"We did see a little bit of a flash come from around the interface between the thermal protection blanket on engine four at the time when we had initiated the gimbal,\" Honeycutt told reporters at a post-test briefing at Stennis.\n\nThe as-yet unknown problem triggered what Nasa calls a failure identification (Fid), followed by a major component failure (MCF). As a result of the fault, an onboard computer known as the engine controller sent a message to another computer called the core stage controller, which took a decision to shut down the vehicle.\n\n\"Any parameter that went awry on the engine could have sent that failure ID,\" said John Honeycutt.\n\nIt was the first time all four RS-25 engines had been ignited together, in a test known as a \"hotfire\".\n\nThe core stage of the rocket was anchored to a massive steel structure called the B-2 test stand on the grounds of the Stennis facility.\n\nTo prepare the core stage, engineers filled its tanks with more than 700,000 gallons (2.6 million litres) of super-cold liquid hydrogen and oxygen propellant.\n\nThis was the eighth and final test in the Green Run, a programme of evaluation carried out by engineers from Nasa and Boeing - the rocket's prime contractor.\n\nAlthough the test was intended to run for eight minutes, engineers would have received all the data required to certify the rocket for flight after 250 seconds.\n\nThey wanted to iron out any problems before the core stage is used for the first SLS launch, in which it will send Nasa's next-generation Orion spacecraft on a loop around the Moon.\n\nNasa's outgoing administrator Jim Bridenstine declined to call Saturday's event a failure: \"This is why we test,\" he said, adding: \"Before we put American astronauts on American rockets, that's when we need it to be perfect.\"\n\nOfficials have not yet decided whether to re-run the hotfire, or proceed with shipping the core stage to Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida to prepare it for the rocket's uncrewed maiden flight, a mission called Artemis-1.\n\n\"It depends what the anomaly was and how challenging it's going to be to fix it,\" said Bridenstine.\n\nNasa administrator Jim Bridenstine said perfection wasn't a realistic expectation for the first engine test\n\nAsked whether a launch this year was still feasible, he added: \"I think it's too early to tell. As we figure out what went wrong, we're going to know what the future holds.\"\n\nHowever, if one or more of the engines needs to be replaced, there are spares waiting to be used at Stennis Space Center.\n\nThe Artemis-1 mission will evaluate how both the SLS and Orion capsule perform prior to Nasa staging a repeat of this lunar loop with astronauts in 2023.\n\nThis will be followed by the first landing on the Moon by humans since the Apollo 17 mission in 1972.\n\nThe SLS consists of the 65m (212 ft) -long core stage with two smaller solid rocket boosters (SRBs) attached to the sides. Engineers at KSC have begun stacking the individual SRB segments for Artemis-1.\n\n\"This powerful rocket is going to put us in a position to be ready to support the agency and the country in deep space missions to the Moon and beyond,\" John Honeycutt said during a media briefing on Tuesday.\n\nArtwork: The initial version of the SLS - known as Block 1 - during the climb to orbit\n\nOfficials have been planning to ship the core stage to Florida in February.\n\nIts engines are of the same type that powered the spaceplane-like shuttle orbiter - America's crewed space vehicle for 30 years from 1981-2011.\n\nNasa is re-using flown hardware: the RS-25 engines used in this test helped launch 21 shuttle missions. Two were used on the last shuttle flight - STS-135 in 2011.\n\nThe four RS-25s can generate 1.6 million lbs (7 Meganewtons) of thrust - the force that propels a rocket through the air.\n\nWhen the solid rocket boosters are added to the core stage, the combined system will produce 8.8 million pounds (39.1 Meganewtons) of thrust. This will make it 15% more powerful than the giant Saturn V rocket that sent astronauts to the Moon in the 1960s and 70s.\n\nPrior to Saturday's test, John Shannon, vice president and SLS program manager at Boeing praised teams at Stennis for keeping the Green Run on track despite the pandemic and this year's particularly active hurricane season.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHomes have been evacuated as Storm Christoph batters Wales with a three-day rainstorm.\n\nNorth Wales Police were called to help some residents in Ruthin who were being told to leave their homes.\n\nThey tweeted that \"people who do not live locally are driving to the area to 'see the floods'\".\n\nA rain warning issued by the Met Office is in place until midday on Thursday, with an ice warning for parts of north and mid Wales.\n\nSouth Wales fire crews pumped out water from homes in Pontypridd and Porth, in Rhondda, and roads were blocked in Powys and Flintshire.\n\nVehicles were pulled from floods by firefighters in Tenby, Llandovery, Llandeilo and Whitland, Mid and West Wales fire service said.\n\nUp to 20cm (8in) of rain is expected to fall, with the heaviest rain forecast for the north west of Wales.\n\nThere were flood warnings in 58 areas as forecasters warned heavy rain and melting snow could affect roads. There were also 57 flood alerts - meaning flooding is possible.\n\nA yellow warning for ice was issued for the north and parts of mid Wales, starting at 01:00 on Thursday and lasting until 10:00, as rain clears.\n\nA minor landslip was reported on the mountainside above Pentre in Rhondda Cynon Taf. Natural Resources Wales, who have responsibility for the land, said there is no immediate threat after an initial inspection, but the council urged residents to keep away from the area.\n\nThe River Taf at Llanglydwen in Carmarthenshire\n\nFlood warnings are in Carmarthenshire - the River Towy and isolated properties between Llandeilo and Abergwili, the River Gwendraeth Fawr at Pontyates and Ponthenry, the River Hydfron at Llanddowror and the River Taf at Trevaughan in Whitland.\n\nThe other flood warnings cover the River Ely at Peterston-Super-Ely in Vale of Glamorgan, the River Vyrnwy in the Meifod area in Powys, the River Rhyd Hir at Riverside Terrace in Gwynedd, two for the River Wye at Glasbury and Builth Wells, the Lower Dee Valley from Llangollen to Trevalyn Meadows, the River Dyfi at Pont ar Dyfi, the River Usk from Brecon to Glangrwyne, two at the River Severn at Abermule to Fron and Aberbechan and the River Lower Clydach at Clydach Bridge, Swansea.\n\nIn River Aeron at Aberaeron, in Ceredigion, the River Loughor at Ammanford and Llandybie and the River Wye at Builth Wells, Powys, are also covered by the warning.\n\nA person had to be saved from a car stuck in floodwater in Corwen, Denbighshire, North East Wales Search and Rescue tweeted.\n\nRest centres have been opened in St Asaph and Ruthin after some localised flooding following heavy rainfall throughout the day. Denbighshire council invited affected residents to use the facilities at the towns' main leisure centres.\n\nAnd Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service said crews were called to help a motorist whose vehicle had become stuck in 3ft of water in Machynlleth.\n\nThe waters lapped the doors of Ruthin's Ocean Pearl restaurant\n\nIn Broughton, Flintshire, Ray and Jacqui Littler said they and their daughter waited all afternoon for help at their flooded bungalow after emergency services told them they were \"flat out\".\n\nThey eventually decided to leave their home on Main Road, which was under 10 inches of water, to stay with friends.\n\nNeighbours blamed a blocked culvert on the fields opposite the road. Police closed the road at about 16:00 GMT and Flintshire council attended, after three houses were affected, with the gardens of two pensioners' bungalows also under water.\n\nOverflowing banks of the River Usk at Brecon\n\nSouth Wales Fire and Rescue Service said it had been called to two incidents overnight with reports of water entering properties in Pontycymmer in Bridgend and Tredegar, Blaenau Gwent.\n\nOn Wednesday morning, it dealt with flooding at properties in Tyfica Road, Pontypridd, and Trebanog Road in Porth, Rhondda, where a crew was helping residents divert and pump out water.\n\nFirefighters also had to rescue 46 sheep from land surrounded by water at Merthyr Road, Llanfoist, Monmouthshire.\n\nCrews from Abergavenny and Ebbw Vale were called to help the stricken animals near the River Usk.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWater in the grounds of Gwydir Castle in Llanrwst\n\nJudy Corbett, owner of 16th Century Gwydir Castle in Llanrwst, Conwy, which flooded last year, told BBC Radio Wales things were \"looking pretty dire here this morning\".\n\nShe said: \"We've been obviously monitoring the levels overnight so we've had another sleepless night worrying about the weather but the levels are rising and the water is very violent this morning and of course, we've got another a whole day ahead of us.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Sabrina Lee This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSeveral roads have been hit by flooding, including the B5106 between Llanrwst and Trefriw\n\nThe Met Office warned spray and flooding could lead to \"difficult driving conditions and some road closures\" and the downpours could cause delays.\n\nTraffic Wales said restrictions were in place on the M48 Severn Bridge where traffic is coming off eastbound at junction two or westbound at junction one before being directed back on to cross the bridge, which remains open.\n\nIn Flintshire, the A548 Coast Road has been closed at Tan Lan and Mostyn, the A5118 at Padeswood, the A541 between Llong to Pontblyddyn, Bagillt High Street and the B5101 between Treuddyn and Llanfynydd.\n\nThe A485 in Garreg is also closed from the Brondaw Arms to Pont Aberglaslyn.\n\nThe Dyfi Bridge near Machynlleth is closed\n\nIn Powys, the A487 over the Dyfi Bridge, near Machynlleth, is closed while the A458 at Llanfair Caereinion is blocked in both directions from Bridge Street to Guilsfield turn-off because of flooding.\n\nThe A483 in Builth Wells at the station is also closed along with the bridge over the River Wye.\n\nCapel Bangor in Ceredigion has temporary traffic lights on the A44 at Lovesgrove Roundabout due to flooding, which is affecting traffic between Aberystwyth and Llangurig.\n\nIn Bridgend, New Inn Road has been closed in both directions at The Dipping Bridge, affecting traffic between Ewenny village and the A48.\n\nSouth Wales Police warned people not to attempt driving through floodwater after the A4118 at Llanddewi on Gower became blocked.\n\nIn Gwynedd, the council tweeted that Ffordd Siliwen, Bangor, had been closed following a landslip.\n\nA section of the A470 Dolgellau Bypass has also been closed along with the A4085 at Garreg.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNational Rail said some lines between North Llanrwst, Conwy, and Blaenau Ffestiniog in Gwynedd were blocked due to heavy rain while services were also disrupted between Shrewsbury and Machynlleth in Powys.\n\nAlterative road transport will run in place of cancelled services, it said.\n\nThe Met Office said 56mm (2.2in) of rain had fallen at Capel Curig in Snowdonia by 18:00 GMT on Tuesday.\n\nA yellow warning for rain is in place for virtually the whole of Wales until Thursday\n\nForecasters also said fast flowing and deep floodwater \"could cause a danger to life\".\n\nThe Met Office warned flooding could lead to some communities being cut off and possible power cuts.\n\nStrong winds will also follow the torrential rain, with forecasters predicting this may cause \"travelling difficulties across areas higher and more exposed routes\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Douglas Jones was fulfilling a lifelong dream when he became a pilot\n\nThe aviation industry has been among those hardest hit by the Covid pandemic.\n\nPilot Douglas Jones was working for Aegean Airlines, flying out of Athens, when it began.\n\nIt cost him his job and also prompted him to return to the small Scottish town where he grew up.\n\nNow he is now turning his hand to a very different line of work producing PPE, in a sector which is enjoying something of a boom.\n\nMr Jones saw much of Europe in his work with Easyjet and Aegean Airlines\n\nThe 27-year-old, who was born in Haywards Heath in Sussex but raised in Moffat in Dumfries and Galloway, was enjoying his dream job at the start of 2020.\n\nHaving gained a commercial pilot's licence, he was based in Berlin with Easyjet before landing a position in Greece.\n\n\"It is definitely what I have always wanted to do,\" he said.\n\n\"With Aegean I have flown a good way across all the major airports of Europe.\"\n\nHowever, life changed \"very quickly\" as coronavirus spread across the continent.\n\n\"I flew to Copenhagen and I flew back from Copenhagen and I was on unpaid leave when I landed back in Athens,\" he explained.\n\nFearing being stranded in Greece, he booked a flight home to Scotland and within a couple of weeks he received confirmation that his job was gone.\n\nMr Jones returned to Moffat amid fears of being stranded in Greece\n\nMr Jones said it took some time for him to fully appreciate that he would not be returning to the skies any time soon.\n\n\"Half of my stuff is still in Greece because we came back to our home countries thinking this will only be three to six months and that will be that,\" he said.\n\n\"We had just no concept of how bad this was ever going to be.\"\n\nIt meant he was back home in a region where he admits there are \"not a huge amount of options career-wise in normal times\".\n\n\"When you have been used to living in Berlin and Athens and you move back to Moffat, living with your dad, it is a bit of slowdown,\" he said.\n\n\"I was just desperate to do something, to have work.\"\n\nAlpha Solway is producing millions of masks for NHS Scotland\n\nIt was a relative of a friend who spotted south of Scotland firm Alpha Solway was hiring new workers to meet demand for personal protective equipment (PPE).\n\nAfter interview, he was offered a job in June which proved to be something of a change of pace from day one.\n\n\"I came in and I sat and cut elastic for visors for most of the day - I think I cut like something like 3km worth of elastic because one of the machines had a fault,\" he said.\n\nSince then he has helped make filter units for masks, developed standard work procedures and become a \"jack of all trades\" for the business.\n\nMr Jones said of his abilities as a pilot were useful at the PPE factory\n\nHe said he had been \"surprised\" by what parts of his old job he could bring to his new post.\n\n\"A lot in commercial aviation is about awareness - situational awareness - and a lot of that can be built into manufacturing as well,\" he said.\n\n\"When you are talking health and safety around large automated machinery you have to be aware of what things are doing and when and who is doing what.\n\n\"As a pilot - as you might like to think - we have quite a logical way of looking at things. The way we are trained to look at problems is very applicable to manufacturing.\"\n\nAn \"incredible\" summer helped ease the transition from Greece to Moffat\n\nSo how has the transition back to rural Scotland gone?\n\n\"We are so lucky that the summer we had here was quite incredible,\" said Mr Jones.\n\n\"To be out in Moffat, even during lockdown, you can access the hills, you don't have to drive outside a five-mile radius.\n\n\"You can just go out and walk and you will never see a soul.\"\n\nSome things, however, take more getting used to, like his more conventional nine to five day.\n\n\"I think that has probably been the biggest shock to my system, getting into that working routine,\" he said.\n\nAlpha Solway is taking in large numbers of new staff to cope with demand\n\nAlpha Solway secured a major contract to supply the NHS in Scotland earlier this year which has helped to keep Mr Jones \"extremely busy\".\n\nHowever, flying gets \"into your blood\" and he hopes to get back into a plane at some time in the future.\n\n\"My goal is when the jobs start to come - which they will - I will return to the sky in some capacity,\" he said.\n\n\"But it will be a double-edged sword in that I have learned a huge amount here and I have met a lot of very good people.\n\n\"I'm working with a really good team of people here - there are good people here doing a good job and I am helping at least with that.\"", "Disabled workers at one of the UK's oldest charitable enterprises, Clarity, have allegedly been denied £200,000 in wages by the new owner.\n\nThe company produces toiletries and beauty products under the Clarity, Beco and Soap Co brands.\n\nActress Joanna Lumley and Sir Iain Duncan Smith MP have spoken out strongly over the claims.\n\nNicholas Marks, who bought the company last year, says all currently employed staff have been paid.\n\nCommunity, the union which represents Clarity's workers, claims that a number of disabled employees at the firm have not been paid wages and furlough payments.\n\nStephen Steppens says he has received no money since September\n\nStephen Steppens, 60, has been blind since birth, and has worked at Clarity since 1985. He is officially on furlough until his redundancy is completed at the end of January.\n\nHe says he has received no money since September and has been relying on his savings to get by.\n\n\"I loved it,\" he says of working there. Losing the job, and the fight over the organisation's future, have taken a toll on his mental health, he says.\n\n\"I want to see justice done, not just for me, but also for my friends who are visiting food banks.\"\n\nA number of employees have brought successful employment tribunal claims for unauthorised deduction of wages against Clarity, including Mr Steppens. Clarity was ordered to pay him £706. A number of other employment tribunal claims are ongoing, according to Community.\n\nJoanna Lumley, who had been a supporter of Clarity, called it \"the best of the best\" and said she was \"shocked\" to learn of the allegations over treatment of workers. \"Justice must be done as soon as possible,\" she told BBC News.\n\nClarity was founded in 1854 by a wealthy blind woman, Elizabeth Gilbert, as the Association for Promoting the General Welfare of the Blind, to provide opportunities for workers whom other employers overlooked because of their disabilities. Before the takeover, three-quarters of its staff were disabled people.\n\nA factory in London run by General Welfare of the Blind, about 1901\n\nIts supporters and patrons in the past have included Winston Churchill, Charles Dickens and Queen Victoria.\n\nClarity went into administration last year, as it was losing money and unable to fund the hole in its pension scheme, according to a spokesman for the administrators, FRP. In January, it was bought by Nicholas Marks.\n\nSir Iain Duncan Smith, whose London constituency is home to Clarity's headquarters, raised the issue in the House of Commons on 12 January.\n\n\"Staff have failed to receive national insurance contributions, with many failing to receive their wages or support while undertaking childcare,\" he told MPs.\n\n\"The total amount that these decent but very vulnerable people have failed to receive is now around £200,000. They cannot claim benefits because they are essentially employed.\"\n\nCommunity estimates that about 60 former employees of Clarity are still awaiting payment of their wages and furlough payments, most of them disabled workers.\n\nA spokesman for Nicholas Marks said that Sir Iain's remarks were \"highly inaccurate\" and the company \"does not recognise\" the £200,000 figure.\n\n\"The grievances echoed by Sir Iain Duncan Smith simply reflect disgruntled ex-employees. All employees currently working have been paid in full up-to-date and the company is dealing with redundancies and gross misconduct of former employees,\" he said.\n\nCommunity says it is not aware of any staff who have been dismissed for gross misconduct.\n\nThe spokesman for Mr Marks said that Mr Marks had \"saved this historic company from permanent failure\".\n\nHowever, other bids for Clarity were made, including one from the well-known social entrepreneur, Cemal Ezel, who runs the Change Please coffee business, which creates opportunities for homeless people.\n\nHe is still interested in buying the brands, he told BBC News.\n\nThough Mr Ezel's final bid was slightly higher, the administrators' report says they chose to sell to Mr Marks because he was in a better position to complete the deal by 31 January.\n\nMr Marks's spokesman said that he had to make \"some sensible commercial decisions to place it on to a proper business footing and regrettably some staff had to be let go\".\n\nOn Wednesday, Clarity's website was still running the Certified Social Enterprise mark, denoting an organisation devoted to \"creating positive social change\".\n\nThe spokesman said Clarity Products was not a social enterprise and was not \"purporting to clients\" that it was, though it retained the \"social enterprise ethos through the continued employment of fully paid disabled staff\".\n\nWrongly using the logo for nearly a year was \"simply an oversight\", and it is being removed. On Thursday morning, the website was unavailable - the company spokesman said he was not aware why.\n\nIn a response to Sir Iain's query, Treasury Minister Jesse Norman wrote that he had \"specifically asked HMRC to note the circumstances you describe, and to consider whether and how there may be a case for early intervention\".\n\nAnother company owned by Mr Marks, a Preston-based caravan maker called Lunar Automotive, was reported to HMRC by the local MP, Sir Mark Hendrick, for allegedly refusing to pay wages and pension contributions for its workers.\n\nThis company was also bought out of an administration run by FRP.\n\nMr Marks's spokesman was not able to comment in detail on the Lunar Automotive case, but said the company had not heard back from HMRC.", "The Daily Telegraph must publish a correction over a \"significantly misleading\" column written by Toby Young, press regulator Ipso has ruled.\n\nThe July 2020 article claimed the common cold could provide \"natural immunity\" to Covid-19 and London was \"probably approaching herd immunity\".\n\nBut on Thursday Ipso found the paper had \"failed to take care not to publish inaccurate and misleading information\".\n\nIpso said the paper \"did not accept it has breached the [Editors] Code\".\n\nIt said the newspaper said that Young's comments on immunity referred to \"cross-reactive T-cells\" that work to combat the virus.\n\nHowever, the media watchdog sided with the complainant, James Whitehead, in its decision, who said that while these cells \"may lessen the impact of Covid-19\" after infection, they \"would not confer 'natural immunity'\"\n\nThe ruling added Young's statement \"misrepresented the nature of immunity\".\n\nIpso also found Young's suggestion that \"London is probably approaching herd immunity, even though only 17% tested positive [for antibodies] in the most recent seroprevalence survey\" could be misleading.\n\nThere is an antibody response and a cellular response to the coronavirus\n\nThe Telegraph referred to surveys listed in an article on Young's own Lockdown Sceptics website in its defence, but the Ipso committee judged these did not accurately reflect \"how herd immunity is reached and whether it exists in London\".\n\nThe ruling concluded that the paper had breached accuracy standards on a topic of \"public importance\", but deemed a correction an appropriate sanction, given the level of \"significant scientific uncertainty\" at the time of publication.\n\nYoung told the BBC: \"I think Ipso has been put in a difficult position because our scientific understanding of the virus is constantly evolving and there is a great deal about it that scientists still disagree about.\n\n\"While some of the things I wrote in that article would be contested by some scientists, they would be confirmed by others... Have we achieved herd immunity in London? I think that's an open question and the 'case' data is unreliable because of the well-documented shortcomings of the PCR test.\n\n\"I may have been over-emphatic in putting the anti-lockdown case, but it's not as if the advocates of a pro-lockdown position are any less emphatic.\n\n\"Don't forget the WHO initially estimated the global IFR [infection fatality rate] of Covid-19 at 3.4%. The consensus now is that it's less than 1% and almost certainly a lot less. Lots of journalists faithfully reported that alarmist figure. Why hasn't Ipso reprimanded them?\"\n\nLast week Young told BBC Newsnight that some of his claims from an article he wrote in June had been \"wrong\", where he had said a second spike of Covid-19 had \"refused to materialise\" and that one-metre rule is \"unnecessary\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAt the start of the year, Young, an associate editor at The Spectator and general secretary of the Free Speech Union, installed an app that auto-deletes tweets more than a week old.\n\nHe said he did so to protect against \"politically-motivated offence archaeologists\" - a move unrelated to the Ipso ruling.\n\nReacting to criticism of his past comments on coronavirus from Neil O'Brien, Conservative MP for Harborough, Oadby and Wigston, after the deletion, Young then tweeted a defence of his stance against lockdowns.\n\n\"This is an important public debate to have,\" he wrote, \"both because it helps us assess the present government's management of the pandemic and because it will help us prepare better for the next one.\"\n\nThe UK entered a second national lockdown last week in a bid to control spiralling virus infection rates. On Wednesday, the UK saw its biggest daily death figure since the start of the pandemic, with 1,564 deaths.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Police said Graeme Perks had gone to investigate the sound of breaking glass when he was stabbed\n\nPlastic surgeons have expressed shock at the stabbing of \"one of the most highly regarded and respected surgeons\" in their profession.\n\nGraeme Perks, 65, was stabbed in his abdomen and chest during a break-in at his house in Halam, a village near Southwell in Nottinghamshire.\n\nPolice said the attack on Thursday morning had left him \"fighting for his life\" and left his family, who were upstairs at the time, \"extremely upset\".\n\nGraeme Perks has been described as \"one of the most highly regarded and respected surgeons in the profession\"\n\nMr Perks previously served as president of the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (BAPRAS).\n\nCurrent president Ruth Waters said BAPRAS had been contacted by colleagues all around the world as news of the attack spread.\n\n\"All have expressed their shock at what has happened and also their deep concern for his wellbeing and their hope for his speedy recovery,\" she said.\n\n\"It has been my good fortune and honour to know Graeme for many years. I have benefited from his kindness, generosity and extensive knowledge throughout my career in plastic surgery.\"\n\nBAPRAS described him as \"one of the most highly regarded and respected surgeons in the profession\".\n\nAs well as being a leading plastic surgeon, Mr Perks and his wife have raised thousands of pounds for charity by opening their garden to visitors. They were previously featured on BBC Radio Nottingham after raising more than £34,000.\n\nPolice were still outside the house in Halam more than 24 hours later\n\nPolice said Mr Perks had gone to investigate the sound of breaking glass at about 04:15 GMT, after an intruder is believed to have smashed his way into the house.\n\nThey said Mr Perks was stabbed and the suspect ran off.\n\nMr Perks was taken to the Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham for surgery, where he remains in a serious condition.\n\nDet Insp Gayle Hart, who is leading the investigation, said: \"The swift arrest of this suspect we hope will provide some reassurance to local residents.\n\n\"This is a horrific incident which has left a man fighting for his life and his family who were upstairs at the time are extremely shocked and upset by the ordeal.\"\n\nMr Perks has served as president of the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (BAPRAS)\n\nMr Perks has previously worked in London, Sheffield, Newcastle and Melbourne, Australia.\n\nHe returned to the UK in the mid-1990s and started working in Nottingham, with a special interest in microsurgical reconstruction after cancer surgery.\n\nHe later became head of the department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Burns Surgery at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust.\n\nOutgoing BAPRAS president Mark Henley said: \"Graeme is an amazing colleague who it has been my pleasure and privilege to work with over the last 26 years.\n\n\"His dedication to patients, family and friends is an inspiration to us all and with his wisdom, kindness and humanity he has enabled us to achieve many things that I would never have thought possible. We are all willing him on.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The international community has missed previous deadlines on ensuring access to school\n\nBoris Johnson says it is his \"fervent belief\" that improving girls' education in developing countries is the best way to \"lift communities out of poverty\".\n\nThe prime minister has announced MP Helen Grant as a special envoy for efforts to support girls' education.\n\nIt is expected to be a key theme of the UK's presidency this year of the G7 group of major industrial countries.\n\n\"It can change the fortunes of not just individual women and girls, but communities and nations,\" says the PM.\n\nEven before the pandemic, millions of children in developing countries did not have any access to school - and girls from disadvantaged families are particularly vulnerable to missing out on education. whether through poverty or prejudice.\n\nThe Covid pandemic has created even more barriers to education, with a peak of 1.6 billion children around the world having faced school closures.\n\nBoris Johnson wants girls' education to be a focus of the UK's G7 presidency\n\nMr Johnson, as foreign secretary and prime minister, has previously highlighted girls' education as a key to improving the health, wealth and security of the poorest countries.\n\nHe once described it as the \"Swiss army knife\" of development, as getting girls to stay in education could avoid early marriage, improve their chances of getting a job and provide more income for children to be better fed.\n\nThe prime minister said the international target of ensuring all girls can have 12 years of good quality education would be the \"simplest and most transformative thing we can do\" to tackle poverty and to \"end the scourge of gender-based violence\".\n\n\"The benefits of educating girls are enormous - a child whose mother can read is 50% more likely to live past the age of five and twice as likely to attend school themselves. With just one additional school year, a woman's earnings can increase by up to a fifth,\" said Mr Johnson.\n\nHelen Grant, now the special envoy for girls' education, said: \"High quality female education empowers women, reduces poverty and unleashes economic growth.\n\n\"I will be making it my mission to encourage a more ambitious approach to girls' education from the international community.\"\n\nThere has been a series of pledges from the international community over the past three decades to provide at least a primary school education for all children - all of which have been missed.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said hosting the G7 should be a chance for the UK to act as a \"moral force for good in the world\", but accused the Conservatives of engaging in \"a decade of global retreat\".\n\n\"We need to seize this chance to lead again, just as Blair and Brown did over global poverty and the financial crisis.\"", "Everyone has heard about doctors and nurses catching Covid-19 but some of the worst affected hospital staff have been cleaners and porters. Dr John Wright of Bradford Royal Infirmary tells the story of a cleaner who became ill, and is now stricken with guilt for taking the virus home.\n\nThe first person I see early each morning when I arrive at the hospital is our cleaner, Karen Smith. During 10 months of uncertainty, Karen has been the one constant, apart from a few weeks in spring, when she was ill with Covid-19.\n\nUsually Karen cleans the offices of the hospital's Institute for Health Research, but in the first wave of the pandemic she was called to the Covid wards. It was a frightening time for everyone, but Karen volunteered for an extra shift on Good Friday as there was a staff shortage - and on that day she thinks she was infected.\n\nWe know that working in hospitals increases your risk of infection by a factor of three, but this risk is not evenly spread. Antibody tests carried out in many NHS hospitals over the summer showed it was not the ICU consultants or infectious \"red zone\" clinical staff who had the highest rate of infection, but porters and cleaners working in those areas. Their risk of infection was double that of their clinical colleagues.\n\nThis heightened risk for hospital staff also applies to their household contacts.\n\nAs she cleaned the hospital in April, Karen was scared not for herself, but for her family. She and her husband, Mal, had moved into a caravan in Mal's parents' garden, while his mother was ill with cancer - and they stayed on after she died, to support Mal's 80-year-old father, Malcolm. Mal, a hospital porter, was shielding because he has chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and Malcolm senior was clearly vulnerable because of his age.\n\nStopping work, however, was not a luxury Karen could afford. And unlike some hospital staff who were housed in hotels to protect their families, she went back home every night.\n\nShe became ill towards the end of April, followed by Mal at the beginning of May. The weather was hot, she remembers, as they coughed and wheezed in the caravan.\n\n\"It was like being in a tin box,\" she says. \"I got Covid and couldn't get over it properly. And then Mal got it and his was on another level compared to mine - and then his dad got ill, and that was a different ball game altogether.\"\n\nProf John Wright, a doctor and epidemiologist, is head of the Bradford Institute for Health Research, and a veteran of cholera, HIV and Ebola epidemics in sub-Saharan Africa. He is writing this diary for BBC News and recording from the hospital wards for BBC Radio.\n\nThe couple had to go inside the house to cook and to use the bathroom but did their best to keep away from the elderly Malcolm, who would go into a different room whenever they entered.\n\n\"We tried so, so hard not to give it to him - but then he got ill and he just went to his bed. Honestly, he was just like a little child, under the quilt looking all bewildered. He started with the shivers and we rang 111. They said to bring him to Accident and Emergency to get him tested, and we couldn't believe it when it came back positive,\" Karen says.\n\nLater, he was brought into hospital. I have fond memories of meeting Malcolm on the ward after he was admitted, acutely struggling with symptoms of cough and shortness of breath from his Covid infection. He was a kind and gentle man, stoical and patient.\n\nHe was adamant that he had been careful to keep his distance from Karen and Mal in the house, but admitted wandering over to show them articles in the Telegraph and Argus - Bradford's daily newspaper - whenever I was mentioned in it. I felt strangely culpable that I might have been the cause of the transmission.\n\nMalcolm made a good recovery and was eager to be discharged. But Covid is an unpredictable illness, and it can happen that improvements in a patient's condition are followed by a sharp deterioration. And this is what happened with Malcolm soon after he arrived home.\n\n\"He didn't want to go back into hospital - he said to get him some Tunes because they would help him breathe,\" says Karen. \"But nothing could help him, he was so, so ill. We had to say to him, 'No, you've got Covid and you need proper medical care.' He was such a lovely man, bless him.\"\n\nMalcolm was readmitted after two nights at home and died on 28 May.\n\nMalcolm as he turned 80, visiting his brother in Canada\n\nKaren returned to work. But like many people who have had this illness, she has been suffering the after-effects, both physically and mentally. She's now on an inhaler for breathlessness, can barely taste anything seven months later, and is constantly tired. She is also receiving medication for anxiety because of the fear that she will have to return to the Covid wards, where potentially she could get ill again.\n\nAnd in her case there is the added pain of having lost a loved one, mixed with feelings of guilt.\n\n\"When I start to think about him the tears come and sometimes I'll be crying almost all day - cleaning and crying. If I'm having a bad day, I won't be able to talk,\" she says.\n\n\"The guilt is always there, as I'll never know for sure where he picked it up. Mal's dad didn't set foot out of the door, and so in my head I feel such guilt, because we had to go into the house, we didn't have any choice. I go over it all but it's hard to escape from, because I got it, Mal got it and then his Dad got it. Deep down I think that's what's happened, and it will take time to come to terms with.\"\n\nKaren has been referred for counselling, but there is a long waiting list.\n\nBoth Karen and Mal also had to wait for the vaccine, though both had it on Wednesday. This was a huge relief for Karen, as anything that reduces her chance of reinfection also helps her cope with her anxiety. If NHS trusts are serious about following the science then arguably they should be vaccinating cleaners and porters first.\n\nThe fear of transmitting the virus to our loved ones at home is the ghost that haunts all front-line staff. Many went into isolation during the first wave, but this was never a sustainable approach, and with a virus that is so contagious and an environment in which it is so prevalent, transmission to family members is unfortunately common.\n\nKaren and Mal personify this occupational risk, and its potential deadly impact.", "Doctors and nurses need protection from prosecution over Covid-19 treatment decisions made under the pressures of the pandemic, medical bodies have said.\n\nGroups including the British Medical Association have written to ministers saying medical workers fear they could be at risk of unlawful killing charges.\n\nIt comes as the UK's chief medical officers said the NHS could be overwhelmed in weeks.\n\nThe government said staff should not have to fear legal action.\n\nThe letter from the health organisations points out that the prime minister warned in November that the NHS being overwhelmed would be a \"medical and moral disaster\", where \"doctors and nurses could be forced to choose which patients to treat, who would live and who would die\".\n\nIt said: \"With the chief medical officers now determining that there is a material risk of the NHS being overwhelmed within weeks, our members are worried that not only do they face being put in this position but also that they could subsequently be vulnerable to a criminal investigation by the police.\"\n\nCo-ordinated by the Medical Protection Society (MPS), the letter was signed by the British Medical Association, the Doctors' Association UK, the Hospital Consultants and Specialists Association, the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, the British Association of Physicians of Indian Origin and Medical Defence Shield.\n\nIt calls for emergency legislation to protect doctors and nurses from \"inappropriate\" legal action when dealing with circumstances outside their control.\n\nExisting guidance for doctors and nurses on when to administer or withdraw treatment does not give legal protection, the letter says.\n\nIt also says the guidance does not consider the circumstances of the pandemic where demand for healthcare may outstrip supply.\n\n\"The first concern of a doctor is their patients and providing the highest standard of care at all times,\" the medical bodies said.\n\n\"We do not believe it is right that healthcare professionals should suffer from the moral injury and long-term psychological damage that could result from having to make decisions on how limited resources are allocated, while at the same time being left vulnerable to the risk of prosecution for unlawful killing.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What does it mean if the NHS is overwhelmed?\n\nThe medical organisations said no healthcare professional should be \"above the law\" and that the emergency legislation should only apply to decisions made \"in good faith\" and \"in circumstances beyond their control and in compliance with relevant guidance\".\n\nThey said the change in the law should be temporary and should apply retrospectively from the start of the pandemic.\n\nMedical staff in the NHS are protected financially from clinical negligence claims by indemnity schemes where the state pays the costs of claims.\n\nBut if someone dies as a result of a lack of treatment, doctors and nurses fear prosecutors could bring charges such as gross negligence manslaughter, which can carry a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.\n\nEarlier this month, a survey by the MPS of 2,420 of its members found that 61% were concerned about facing an investigation following a decision made in a high-pressure situation.\n\nAbout 36% were concerned about being investigated for a decision to withdraw or withhold life-prolonging treatment due to pressure on resources during the pandemic.\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesman said: \"Dedicated frontline NHS staff should be able to focus on treating patients and saving lives during the pandemic without fear of legal action.\"\n\nNHS staff have been told that existing indemnity arrangements will continue and will cover \"the vast majority of liabilities\", the spokesman said.", "Scottish fishermen have resorted to sailing to Denmark to land their catch as Brexit red tape continues to delay exports, an industry body has said.\n\nThe Scottish Fishermen's Federation, which campaigned to leave the EU, also said the Brexit trade deal was the worst of both worlds for the industry.\n\nMany fishermen \"now fear for their future\", it said.\n\nThe UK government said the deal would \"bring immediate gains to our fishermen and women across the whole UK\".\n\nLate last year, the Scottish Fishermen's Federation (SFF) said it was \"deeply aggrieved\" by the Brexit deal.\n\nFishing firms have also warned of impending bankruptcy as delays continue at ports following the introduction of post-Brexit regulations.\n\nOn Friday, the SFF kept up the pressure on the UK government.\n\nIn a letter to Prime Minister Boris Johnson, it said some fishermen \"are now making a 72-hour round trip to land fish in Denmark, as the only way to guarantee that their catch will make a fair price and actually find its way to market while still fresh enough to meet customer demands\".\n\nQuotas are used by many countries to manage shared fish stocks. They determine how many fish of each species each country's fleets are allowed to catch.\n\nThe SFF said that Brexit quota gains \"can hardly be claimed as a resounding success\" and that the Brexit deal \"actually leaves the Scottish industry in a worse position on more than half of the key stocks\".\n\n\"This industry now finds itself in the worst of both worlds,\" said SFF chief executive Elspeth Macdonald, accusing Prime Minister Boris Johnson of broken promises on quotas.\n\nThe \"desperately poor deal\" reached on quotas, under which the EU \"have full access to our waters\" means that the UK has \"no ability to leverage more fish from the EU\", she said.\n\n\"This, coupled with the chaos experienced since 1 January in getting fish to market, means that many in our industry now fear for their future, rather than look forward to it with optimism and ambition,\" Ms Macdonald added.\n\nThe Scottish National Party said the letter was \"an utterly devastating verdict on Brexit from Scotland's fishing industry\".\n\nAn SNP spokesperson said the Scottish fishing industry was \"right to be angry\" about the Brexit deal, which it said was costing Scotland's fishing communities millions of pounds.\n\nThe spokesman called on the prime minister to deliver \"a multi-billion pound package of Brexit compensation for Scotland\", adding: \"Communities across Scotland will never forgive the Tories for the damage they are doing to our country with their extreme Brexit obsession.\"\n\nA UK government spokesperson said the Prime Minister would respond to the SFF letter in due course.\n\nThe spokesperson said: \"We have now taken back control of our waters and the agreement we have reached with the EU secures a 25% transfer of quota from EU to UK vessels over five years, starting with 15% this year.\"\n\nThe spokesperson said the government was looking at providing additional financial support for the Scottish fishing industry, which it recognised was facing \"some temporary issues\".\n\n\"The Prime Minister has already committed to investing £100m in the UK's fishing industry and provided the Scottish government with nearly £200m to minimise disruption for businesses,\" the spokesperson added.", "Louis Godwin said receiving the vaccine was \"no trouble at all\" and encouraged others to have it as soon as they could\n\nSalisbury Cathedral has been transformed into a vaccination centre with an RAF veteran being one of the first to receive the Covid-19 jab.\n\nFormer Flight Sergeant Louis Godwin, 95, gave a thumbs-up after being vaccinated in the cathedral, which dates back more than 800 years.\n\n\"I was so pleased to get it, especially in a setting like this,\" he said.\n\nOrganisers were aiming to vaccinate 1,000 people aged over 80 with the Pfizer/BioNTech jab on Saturday.\n\nPeople queuing to receive their vaccines at Salisbury Cathedral on Saturday\n\nMr Godwin, a great-grandfather of 12, joined the RAF aged 18 in 1943 and served as an air gunner during World War Two.\n\n\"I've had many jabs in my time, especially in the RAF. After the war, I was sent to Egypt and I had a couple of jabs which knocked me over for a week,\" he said.\n\n\"This one, the doctor said to me 'well that's done' and I thought he hadn't started. So it's no trouble at all and no pain.\"\n\nA health worker prepares the vaccine to be administered at the cathedral\n\nStella Bennett, 88, said she felt \"safer\" after receiving the jab.\n\n\"It was easy. I live on my own so it has been hard but I've managed. At least I'm at home and not in hospital with it,\" she said.\n\nDerek Burnett was also among those inoculated against the virus on Saturday.\n\n\"I feel unbelievably relieved as lockdown has been a big strain. It takes a big weight off my mind,\" said the 81-year-old.\n\nOrganisers hoped to vaccinate 1,000 people aged over 80 during the day\n\nThe Very Rev Nicholas Papadopulos, Dean of Salisbury described the vaccines as \"a real sign of hope for us at the end of this very, very difficult year\".\n\n\"I doubt that anyone is having a jab in surroundings that are more beautiful than this so I hope it will ease people as they come into the building,\" he said.\n\nThe Very Rev Nicholas Papadopulos, Dean of Salisbury, described hosting the event as \"absolutely wonderful\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Parts of the UK were blanketed in snow on Saturday as forecasters warned of the potential for disruption.\n\nEast Anglia woke up to a thick layer that had settled overnight and there were warnings that rural communities could be \"cut off\", with up to 8cm (3in) of snow forecast.\n\nPeople in eastern England were warned to expect power cuts and travel delays.\n\nHowever, by midday snow had stopped falling across most parts of the UK, replaced by rain and sleet in places.\n\nSome further light snow is still expected in the hills and mountains of Scotland.\n\nParts of Wales and Northern Ireland were mostly cloudy, with some bands of rain in the northern regions.\n\nThe Met Office had predicted between 4-8cm (1.5-3in) of snow could fall in the worst-affected regions, and warned drivers to accelerate their cars \"gently\" and leave a large gap between surrounding vehicles.\n\nBut the worst of the wintry weather has passed and earlier amber and yellow weather warnings have been cancelled.\n\nA man trekking through the snow at a golf course in Gleneagles\n\nGreg Dewhurst, a Met Office forecaster, said earlier that Saturday was expected to be the colder of the two days over the weekend.\n\nHe said: \"Temperatures are unlikely to rise above 10C, with a lot of areas closer to freezing.\"\n\nThere were also 25 flood warnings across England on Saturday\n\nLuke Miall, meteorologist at the Met Office, said earlier patches of snow could reach parts of Greater London.\n\nHe said the snow had the potential to cause some \"fairly significant disruption\".\n\nThere were also 22 flood warnings across England on Saturday, stretching from the South East to the North East, meaning \"immediate action is required\", according to the Environment Agency.\n\nThis is expected to clear up in the evening, going into Sunday, when southern and eastern parts of the UK will see dry, sunny spells.\n\nNorth-western regions are expected to see showers, with a \"spell of more persistent rain\" later on in the day.\n\nThe coronavirus vaccine rollout has been affected by the weather.\n\nOn Friday, over-80s who were due to receive their jab at Newcastle's Centre for Life were told they could rebook rather than risk making a trip in the icy conditions.\n\nAnd Leeds University has delayed the opening of its asymptomatic Covid-19 test centre.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prime Minister Boris Johnson: \"We will temporarily close all travel corridors from 0400 on Monday\"\n\nThe UK is to close all travel corridors from Monday morning to \"protect against the risk of as yet unidentified new strains\" of Covid, the PM has said.\n\nAnyone flying into the country from overseas will have to show proof of a negative Covid test before setting off.\n\nIt comes as a ban on travellers from South America and Portugal came into force on Friday over concerns about a new variant identified in Brazil.\n\nBoris Johnson said the new rules would be in place until at least 15 February.\n\nA further 1,280 people with coronavirus have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive test, taking the total to 87,291.\n\nThe latest government figures on Friday also showed another 55,761 new cases had been reported - up from 48,682 the previous day.\n\nMeanwhile, more than two million people around the world have now died with the virus since the pandemic began, according to figures from Johns Hopkins University.\n\nSpeaking at a Downing Street press conference, the prime minister said it was \"vital\" to take extra measures now \"when day by day we are making such strides in protecting the population\".\n\n\"It's precisely because we have the hope of that vaccine and the risk of new strains coming from overseas that we must take additional steps now to stop those strains from entering the country.\"\n\nAll travel corridors will close from 04:00 GMT on Monday. After that, arrivals to the UK will need to quarantine for up to 10 days, unless they test negative after five days.\n\nMr Johnson, who said the rules would apply across the UK after talks with the devolved administrations, added that the government would be stepping up enforcement at the border and in the country.\n\nTravel corridors were introduced in the summer to allow people travelling from some countries with low numbers of Covid cases to come to the UK without having to quarantine on arrival.\n\nTrade body Airlines UK said it supported the latest restrictions \"on the assumption\" that the government would remove them \"when it is safe to do so\".\n\nChief executive Tim Alderslade said travel corridors were \"a lifeline for the industry\" last summer but \"things change and there's no doubting this is a serious health emergency\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was the \"right step\" but called the timing of the decision \"slow again\", adding that the public would be thinking \"why on earth didn't this happen before\".\n\nThe prime minister warned that the NHS was facing \"extraordinary pressures\", having had the highest number of hospital admissions on a single day of the pandemic earlier this week.\n\nHe said that came on Tuesday when there were 4,134 new admissions, while the UK currently has more than 37,000 Covid patients in hospitals.\n\nMr Johnson said that once the most vulnerable have been vaccinated by mid-February \"we will think about what steps we could take to lift the restrictions\".\n\nEngland is currently under a national lockdown, meaning people must stay at home and can go out only for limited reasons such as food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home.\n\nSimilar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nAlso speaking at the No 10 briefing, England's chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty said the restrictions would need to be lifted gradually by \"testing what works, and then if that works going the next step\".\n\nHe said the peak of people entering hospital would be in the next week to 10 days for most places, but \"we hope\" the peak of infections \"already has happened\" in the south-east, east and London.\n\n\"The peak of deaths I fear is in the future, the peak of hospitalisations in some parts of the country may be around about now and beginning to come off the very, very top,\" he said.\n\nA ban on travellers from South America, Portugal and Cape Verde entering the UK came into force on Friday morning as a result of a new, potentially more infectious variant of coronavirus linked to Brazil.\n\nThe government's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance told the press briefing that some of the new variants may be able to \"get round\" the Covid vaccines but it was \"really quite easy\" to adjust the vaccines to deal with mutations in the virus.\n\nNew variants causing concern have previously been identified in the UK and South Africa, with many countries imposing restrictions on arrivals from both nations.\n\nPublic Health England said a total of 35 genomically confirmed and 12 genomically probable cases of the Covid-19 variant which originated in South Africa have been identified in the UK as of 14 January.\n\nEarlier, a leading scientist said one of the two variants first detected in Brazil had been found in the UK - but not the variant that was causing concern.\n\n\"I think it is likely that the vaccine we have now is going to protect against the UK variant and is going to provide protection I suspect against the other variants as well,\" said Sir Patrick. \"The question is to what degree.\"\n\nLatest figures show that more than three million people in the UK have now received the first dose of a vaccine - 3,234,946 - an increase of 316,694 from the previous day.\n\nSir Patrick said he expected the vaccines would reduce transmission of the virus but that \"we shouldn't go mad\" as jabs are rolled out because a risk would remain.\n\n\"Just because you've been vaccinated doesn't mean you can't catch this and pass it on, it means you're protected against severe disease,\" he added.\n\nMeanwhile, the latest estimate of the UK's R number - which is the number of people that one infected person will pass on a virus to on average - is 1.2 to 1.3, compared with 1-1.4 last week.\n\nBut in London, where tight restrictions came in earlier, the R number is lower - between 0.9 and 1.2.\n\nIn Wales, new laws for shoppers and staff are to be introduced after \"significant evidence\" coronavirus is being spread in supermarkets.\n\nAre you due to travel back to the UK from overseas? Share your experiences. Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The French government has imposed a nationwide curfew from 6pm - 6am to fight the surge in cases of coronavirus.\n\nWhile some departments were already under these restrictions, the majority of France was under an 8pm - 6am curfew.\n\nFrench Prime Minister Jean Castex said the measures would be in place for at least 15 days.", "Northern Ireland's statistics agency has recorded its highest weekly Covid-19 related registered deaths since the pandemic began.\n\nNisra said 145 deaths were registered in the first week of 2021, although administrative delays over Christmas may have affected the number.\n\nThat brings the agency's death toll to 1,976 by 8 January.\n\nThe figures come as the chief medical officers from NI and the Republic issued a joint stay-at-home plea.\n\nDr Michael McBride and Dr Tony Holohan said they were \"gravely concerned\" about the \"unsustainably high level of Covid-19 infection\" across the island of Ireland.\n\nConcern was raised in the Republic of Ireland this week as figures showed it has the world's highest number of confirmed new Covid-19 cases per million people.\n\nOn Friday evening, the Irish Department of Health reported 50 further deaths with Covid-19 and 3,498 new cases of the virus. More than half (54%) of those newly diagnosed are under the age of 45.\n\nNorthern Ireland is in the third week of a six-week lockdown, with ministers scheduled to review measures next week.\n\nHowever, health officials have warned that an extension of the restrictions could be required to reduce pressure on the health service.\n\nOf the 2,019 deaths recorded by Nisra by 8 January, 1,247 (62%) occurred in hospital, 622 (31%) in care homes, 12 (0.6%) in hospices and 138 (7%) at residential addresses or other locations.\n\nPeople aged 75 and over account for just over three-quarters of all Covid-19 related registered deaths (77.6%) between 19 March 2020 and 8 January 2021.\n\nJust over a fifth (22.2%) of all Covid-19 related registered deaths have been of people with an address in the Belfast council area.\n\nMeanwhile, the Department of Health reported 26 further Covid-related deaths on Friday.\n\nFive of these deaths did not occur in the past 24 hours.\n\nThe Department of Health bases its figures on a positive test result being recorded, whereas Nisra figures are based on mentions of the virus on death certificates, so people may or may not have been confirmed to have contracted the virus prior to death.\n\nA further 1,052 individuals have tested positive for Covid-19 and 63 patients are being treated in intensive care units, 47 of whom are on ventilators.\n\nThe chief medical officers warned the high infection rate was having a \"significant impact\" on the health of the population and the \"safe functioning\" of the healthcare systems.\n\nThey said the public should avoid all unnecessary journeys, including cross-border travel.\n\nPointing out that many of the patients admitted to hospital in January have been younger than 65, they warned coronavirus could affect anyone, \"regardless of age or underlying condition\".\n\n\"It highlights the need for us all to protect one another by staying at home,\" said the medical officers.\n\nNorthern Ireland's spike in infections has been put down to an easing of restrictions over Christmas.\n\nAsked if he regretted being part of the decision to ease restrictions, Health Minister Robin Swann said the executive had tried to be balanced in its approach.\n\n\"I regret the pressures we see now in our hospitals, but let's remember it's caused by this virus, we have it in our power to bring it back under control and get us back to where we were in the summer,\" he told BBC News NI on Friday.\n\nMr Swann pleaded with people to follow the current restrictions.\n\n\"We're in the middle of a very tough six-week scenario, and how we come out of this will be a more graduated approach to make sure we get the benefits of what we've already done, and also the benefits of the vaccine.\"", "Holiday firms say they are expecting more people to take holidays in the UK this year\n\nStaycations are expected to boom in 2021 after lockdown ends, UK holiday firms have said.\n\nBosses at the Caravan and Motorhome Club said the lifting of restrictions would be like \"a cork popping from a bottle\".\n\nDirector general Nick Lomas said although coronavirus had hit the industry hard, they were optimistic about the coming season.\n\nOther firms said they also expected more people to holiday in the UK.\n\nMr Lomas said: \"2020 was a very difficult year for the tourism and hospitality sector.\"\n\nThe West Sussex-based Caravan and Motorhome Club had suffered \"significant financial losses\", he said.\n\nHowever, he added: \"When our campsites were allowed to be open last year we actually saw record levels of bookings, with new memberships up by 14%.\n\n\"Sadly, this surge does not make up for the losses we suffered during nearly six months of lockdown.\"\n\nDuring the first lockdown popular resorts like Skegness were largely deserted\n\nBut, despite the current restrictions, Mr Lomas said he had every reason to believe this year could finish as one of \"the best and busiest yet\", due to the appetite for outdoor UK holidays.\n\n\"In fact, we think that 2021 is going to be like a cork popping from a bottle,\" he said.\n\nOperators say people are keen to experience the \"great outdoors\" once restrictions are lifted\n\nExperience Freedom, which operates glamping holidays in the UK, said bookings for 2021 were already up as people looked to spend more time in the \"great outdoors\".\n\nLincoln-based Anne's Vans said they were expecting a \"bumper year\"\n\nSmaller operators such as Anne's Vans, based in Lincoln, are also expecting to benefit.\n\nOwner Anne Davies said so far they had no bookings, saying \"uncertainty over when lockdown will end\" was putting people off at the moment.\n\nHowever, she said: \"Based on last year's experience we are expecting a bumper year in 2021... once this latest lockdown is over.\"\n\nThe Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority said it was inundated with visitors after restrictions were lifted last year\n\nThe chief executive of the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority, David Butterworth, said visitor numbers after the first lockdown ended were \"unprecedented\".\n\n\"The challenge for 2021 is to capitalise on this trend, and capture the hearts and minds of the people who have experienced the Dales for the first time to make sure they keep coming back,\" he added.", "Boris Johnson has said there is still a very substantial risk of intensive care units in hospitals being overwhelmed by the spread of the coronavirus.\n\nIt comes on a day when the UK has recorded the highest number of deaths in a single day in Europe.\n\nFergal Keane last visited the Imperial Healthcare Trust’s St Mary’s and Charing Cross hospital in London last April.\n\nHe's been back to see how they're coping.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Saturday morning. We'll have another update for you on Sunday.\n\nThe UK will face short-term delays in delivery of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine, as the pharmaceutical company makes modifications to its plant in Belgium. But the government says it still plans on achieving its target of vaccinating all top four priority groups by 15 February. Six EU nations have called the situation \"unacceptable\" and warned it \"decreases the credibility of the vaccination process\". Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia urged the EU to apply pressure on Pfizer-BioNTech. Pfizer says the reduced deliveries are a temporary issue, and the changes being made to its plant will speed up production in the longer term. So will a vaccine give us our old lives back?\n\nNew tighter Covid restrictions have come into force in Scotland with changes for takeaway outlets and click and collect shopping. Among the six new rules announced by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, customers buying takeaway food and coffee are no longer allowed inside premises, and staff must serve from a hatch or doorway. Plus, only retailers selling essential items - clothing, footwear, baby equipment, homeware and books - can now provide click and collect services. Customer collections can only be made outdoors, with staggered pick-up times to avoid queues.\n\nEveryone has heard about doctors and nurses catching Covid-19, but some of the worst affected hospital staff have been cleaners and porters. Dr John Wright of Bradford Royal Infirmary tells the story of a cleaner who became ill while doing her job, and is now stricken with guilt for taking the virus home.\n\nIt is almost a month since Christmas was \"downsized\" across the country. But in most parts of the UK, people did meet in Christmas \"bubbles\" if only for just one day. So what impact did this have? The overall picture shows a sharp increase in cases around this time. However, a closer look at the numbers suggests this trend was already happening and was probably caused by the new, more infectious variant of the virus rather than increased contact between people. Take a closer look at what happened over Christmas.\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nAnd if you're wondering whether you can catch the virus outside, our science editor David Shukman considers the risks.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Louis Godwin descibed the vaccine as \"no trouble at all\" Image caption: Louis Godwin descibed the vaccine as \"no trouble at all\"\n\nAn RAF veteran has been among hundreds of people over 80 to receive the Covid-19 vaccine at Salisbury Cathedral, in Wiltshire, today.\n\nFormer Flight Sergeant Louis Godwin described receiving the Pfizer/BioNTech jab as \"absolutely marvellous\".\n\nThe landmark cathedral is hosting a vaccination hub for five GP surgeries in the area, with the aim of vaccinating more than 1,000 elderly residents and staff.\n\nMr Godwin recalled having jabs in Egypt after the war \"which knocked me over for a week\".\n\n\"This one, the doctor said to me 'well that's done' - and I thought he hadn't started!\"\n\nThe veteran pilot, who has 12 great-grandchildren, said the pandemic could not be compared to the war.\n\n\"It was entirely different because this has divided people.\n\n\"The vaccine is nothing, you don't feel a thing... so anybody that needs one and can get one, I would say go ahead and do it quickly.\n\n\"It's the only way we're going to beat the virus.\"\n\nPatients queued for a short time around the cloisters on Saturday, before going into the cathedral where they were treated to a programme of music on the famous Father Willis organ.\n\n\"It is a bonus to be in such a iconic, wonderful place,\" said Dr Dan Henderson, co-clinical director for the Sarum South Primary Care Network.\n\n\"It's great to be getting the vaccine out there and getting them in people's arms and knowing that this is hopefully the start of some sort of normality again.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nLahiru Thirimanne's unbeaten 76 frustrated England as Sri Lanka fought back on the third day of the first Test in Galle.\n\nBowled out for 135 in the first innings, Sri Lanka showed great spirit to reach 156-2 - trailing by 130 - after England had posted 421.\n\nJoe Root progressed to a magnificent fourth Test double century before he was last man out for 228 as England lost their last six wickets for 49 runs.\n\nSam Curran and Jack Leach took a wicket apiece in Sri Lanka's second innings, but off-spinner Dom Bess rarely threatened on a pitch that has offered assistance to spin since day one.\n\nKusal Perera contributed 62 to an opening stand of 101 with the patient Thirimanne, who was dropped on 51 by Dom Sibley at gully as he compiled his highest Test score since 2013.\n\nThe left-hander will resume alongside nightwatchman Lasith Embuldeniya at 04:15 GMT on Sunday.\n\nEngland all-rounder Moeen Ali, who tested positive for coronavirus upon arrival in Sri Lanka, spent time at the ground in the afternoon after finishing his quarantine period.\n\nFor the first time in two years, England failed to take a wicket in the first 30 overs - with seamers Curran, Stuart Broad and Mark Wood finding the going tough given the minimal swing or seam movement on offer.\n\nHowever, credit must be paid to the Sri Lanka openers. Thirimanne and Perera were criticised for their first-innings failures, but their century stand was the first time in six Tests that a Sri Lanka opening pair had survived longer than 10 overs.\n\nPerera showed restraint - he scored at a strike-rate of 57, compared to 74 over his Test career - but hit Leach over mid-wicket for six and swept and also drove well before slapping a Curran long hop to wide third man.\n\nThirimanne, who averaged 22 in 70 Test innings before this match, was happy to play second fiddle to Perera, although he did find the leg-side boundary with flicks and sweeps.\n\nHaving taken 5-30 in the first innings, Bess failed to maintain a consistent length and allowed Thirimanne and Perera to play off the back foot too often.\n\nLeft-arm spinner Leach, who bowled more accurately, failed with a review for lbw against Thirimanne on 61 before having Kusal Mendis caught behind off a beautiful delivery that turned and bounced in what proved to be the penultimate over of the day.\n\nResuming on 168, Root reached his fourth Test double century with the minimum of fuss.\n\nHe showed more intent than on day two - when he was happy for debutant Dan Lawrence to take more risks - hitting the third ball of the day to the cover boundary before driving down the ground for six.\n\nIt was almost fitting that Root reached 200 with a sweep for four - it was a productive shot throughout his innings, with 88 runs coming via sweeps and reverse sweeps.\n\nIn his 321-ball innings Root became the eighth Englishman to pass 8,000 Test runs - in 178 innings, two more than Kevin Pietersen, who holds the record.\n\nEngland passed 400 in the first innings for the sixth time in their past 12 Tests, having failed to do so in their previous 23.\n\nBut they lost their last six wickets in 13 overs as they chased quick runs, possibly with an eye on the rain forecast later in the game.\n\nSri Lanka were much more disciplined than on the previous two days, with pace bowler Asitha Fernando impressing, while off-spinner Dilruwan Perera mopped up the tail to finish with 4-109.\n• 372-6: Sam Curran is bowled first ball as Fernando gets one to nip back and crash into off stump.\n• 382-7: Dom Bess disagrees and is well short of his ground, a third wicket to fall in 12 balls.\n• 398-8: Jack Leach is trapped lbw for four by Dilruwan Perera.\n• 406-9: Mark Wood toe-ends a sweep straight up in the air to be caught by Niroshan Dickwella off Dilruwan Perera.\n• 421 all out: Joe Root holes out on the mid-wicket boundary.\n\n'Chasing anything will be tricky' - reaction\n\nEngland captain Joe Root on BBC Test Match Special: \"It feels good to be in the position we are.\n\n\"It would have been nice to get a couple more wickets tonight but that one late on is a real bonus for us.\n\n\"It gives us a great opportunity in morning to apply a lot of pressure and hammer home what is a strong advantage in this game.\"\n\nEngland all-rounder Sam Curran: \"It is a strange looking wicket. It played a bit better than we thought this evening.\n\n\"It didn't offer much for the seamers and there was real slow turn for the spinners. The two openers played really well.\"\n\nFormer England captain Michael Vaughan: \"Sri Lanka came back really well - they have shown fight and discipline.\n\n\"If Sri Lanka bat the whole day tomorrow things will get interesting. Chasing anything on last day becomes tricky.\n\n\"I expect England will take eight wickets tomorrow and win the game.\"\n\nFormer England batter Ebony Rainford-Brent: \"Sri Lanka really have fought back well. It is good to see.\n\n\"If weather plays a factor and there is some resistance from the lower order this could bubble into an exciting finish.\"\n• None Hear how David Bowie always managed to stay ahead of his time\n• None Joe Wicks and guests are here to bring positivity to your day", "The funeral of Gerry and the Pacemakers singer Gerry Marsden has been held at a church near his beloved River Mersey.\n\nMarsden died, aged 78, in hospital on 3 January following a blood infection.\n\nAs the frontman in the band Gerry and the Pacemakers, his hits included Ferry Cross The Mersey and a cover version of You'll Never Walk Alone.\n\nEx-Liverpool boss Sir Kenny Dalglish was among the mourners at the funeral which had to remain small because of Covid restrictions.\n\nSir Kenny managed the club at the time of the 1989 Hillsborough disaster, which led to the deaths of 96 fans who were attending an FA Cup game between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest.\n\nGerry Marsden sings You'll Never Walk Alone before an Anfield match in 2010\n\nSir Kenny said: \"You'll Never Walk Alone has huge meaning to the lives of Liverpool supporters around the world and is synonymous with the club.\n\n\"He will be sadly missed by those who knew him and the millions he never got to meet.\"\n\nYou'll Never Walk Alone became a football terrace anthem for Marsden's hometown club soon after it topped the charts in 1963.\n\nThe song was played during the funeral by a guitarist while a version of Marsden singing Don't Let The Sun Catch You Crying, a song he wrote for his wife Pauline, also featured.\n\nShe said: \"We, his family, are totally devastated and have been so moved and amazed at the extent of the respect, love and affection received from all over the world.\n\n\"When the time is right and we have come out of this terrible pandemic we hope a fitting memorial can be held for him in the city he loved so much.\"\n\nGerry and the Pacemakers was one of the biggest British bands in the 1960s\n\nReferring to the lyrics from Ferry Cross the Mersey, close friend Arthur Johnson said: \"He lived close to the banks of the Mersey for all his life and as the words of his song say: 'This land's the place I love and here I'll stay'.\"\n\nLiverpool City Region mayor Steve Rotheram said: \"I feel privileged he let me into his life, although that makes his passing even more painful.\"\n\nIn 1962, Beatles manager Brian Epstein signed up Gerry and the Pacemakers and, a year later, they became the first band to have their first three songs top the charts - How Do You Do It, I Like It and You'll Never Walk Alone.\n\nA flag on the Royal Iris Mersey ferry flew at half mast after the death of Gerry Marsden\n\nThey were one of the successes of the Merseybeat era, with former Beatles star Sir Paul McCartney saying at the time of Marsden's death that: \"Gerry was a mate from our early days in Liverpool\".\n\n\"He and his group were our biggest rivals on the local scene.\"", "Work to restore hundreds of thousands of fingerprint, DNA and arrest records accidentally wiped from police databases is ongoing, the Home Office has said.\n\nAround 400,000 records were lost, according to The Times, which first reported the story.\n\nThe Home Office did not comment on how many records were likely to be restored, or how long it would take.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said the issue was \"a result of human error\".\n\nData was wiped from the Police National Computer (PNC) - which stores and shares criminal records information across the UK - after being inadvertently flagged for deletion.\n\nThe PNC is used in police investigations and provides real-time checks on people, vehicles and crimes, as well as whether suspects are wanted for any unsolved offences.\n\nThe coding that caused the problem was introduced in November 2020, and the deletions started earlier this week.\n\nInitially, it was thought some 150,000 records were lost, but it since has emerged the number could be significantly higher.\n\nCommenting on the error, Ms Patel said: \"Engineers continue to work to restore data lost as a result of human error during a routine housekeeping process earlier this week.\n\n\"I continue to be in regular contact with the team, and working with our policing partners, we will provide an update as soon as we can.\"\n\nEarlier, Labour shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds called on Ms Patel to take responsibility for the error and be clear about the impact it had had.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Breakfast, he described the situation as \"extraordinarily serious\", adding: \"Priti Patel will be responsible for criminals walking free.\n\n\"We're not going to be able to link suspects to crime scenes without the DNA and fingerprint evidence.\"\n\nThe National Police Chiefs' Council said the lost data had resulted in a couple of \"near misses\" for serious crimes when trying to identify an offender.\n\nPolicing minister Kit Malthouse insisted the affected records \"apply to cases where individuals were arrested and then released with no further action\".\n\nHe added: \"We are working to recover the affected records as a priority. While we do so, the Police National Computer is functioning and the police are taking steps to mitigate any impact.\"", "Mr Laschet is now in a good position to stand for German chancellor\n\nCentrist Armin Laschet has been elected leader of Germany's Christian Democrats (CDU), the party of Chancellor Angela Merkel.\n\nMr Laschet, premier of North Rhine-Westphalia state, defeated two rivals in the party's virtual conference.\n\nHe is now in a good position in the race to succeed Mrs Merkel when she steps down as German chancellor in September, after 16 years in office.\n\nBut he faces a changed political landscape following the Covid pandemic.\n\nMr Laschet, 59, defeated conservative businessman Friedrich Merz in a run-off vote by 521 votes to 466. A third candidate, Norbert Röttgen, was eliminated in the previous round.\n\nHe replaces as chair of the party Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, who failed to live up to her billing as Mrs Merkel's appointed successor after taking office more than two years ago.\n\nGermany goes to the polls in September, but the CDU leader is not guaranteed to become its candidate for chancellor.\n\nHealth Minister Jens Spahn, who has been elected as one of Mr Laschet's deputies, and Markus Söder, leader of the CDU's Bavarian sister party the CSU, could also step into the ring, though neither has yet said that they want the job.\n\nA final decision will be made in the spring.\n\nMr Laschet is a loyal supporter of Mrs Merkel, and said during the campaign that a change of direction for the party would \"send exactly the wrong signal\".\n\nIn his victory speech, he said: \"I want to do everything so that we can stick together through this year... and then make sure that the next chancellor in the federal elections will be from the [CDU/CSU] union.\"\n\nArmin Laschet is a short, cheerful chap. The popular premier of Germany's most populous state, North Rhine-Westphalia, he throws himself with gusto into traditional carnival celebrations.\n\nHe touts himself as a continuity candidate and, for a time at least, was thought to have been Angela Merkel's preferred candidate. He defended her stance during the 2015 refugee crisis and is known for his liberal politics, passion for the EU and ability to connect with immigrant communities.\n\nBut his call for an early relaxation of Covid restrictions last spring surprised many and reportedly infuriated Mrs Merkel. He has since retreated from that position but he's had to work to repair the damage to his political credibility.\n\nThe big question now is whether the CDU will put him up as their chancellor candidate in September's general election.\n\nGerman Health Minister Jens Spahn - who supported Mr Laschet in his leadership bid - is thought to harbour ambitions to the chancellory. And recent opinion polls suggest that Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder would be a popular choice too.", "The US is in a race to vaccinate its population amid a winter surge\n\nA highly contagious coronavirus variant first detected in the UK could become the dominant strain in the US by March, health officials have said.\n\nThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warned of \"rapid growth\" of the variant in coming weeks.\n\nIt said such a spike could further threaten health systems already strained by a winter Covid surge.\n\nThe warning came on Friday as President-elect Joe Biden unveiled an ambitious plan to ramp up vaccinations.\n\nTo meet his target of inoculating 100 million Americans within his first 100 days in office, Mr Biden said his administration would take a more active role in accelerating the distribution of vaccines.\n\nHe outlined a plan to set up new mass vaccination centres, hire extra health workers, and ensure the shot is available to everyone, including minority communities that have been hit hardest by the epidemic.\n\nOfficial data shows that, so far, 12.2 million vaccine doses of have been administered in the US - a figure Mr Biden has criticised as insufficient. More than 30 million doses have been distributed to states.\n\nIn a speech on Friday, Mr Biden told Americans that \"we remain in a very dark winter\", admitting that \"things will get worse before they get better\".\n\n\"This is going to be one of the most challenging operational efforts ever undertaken by our country,\" Mr Biden, who takes office on 20 January, said of the vaccination drive.\n\nHis address came a day after he announced a $1.9tn (£1.4tn) stimulus package for the battered US economy that included a further $20bn for the vaccine roll-out. The plan will need to pass Congress.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Biden: \"I promise we will not forget you\"\n\nThe US has recorded the highest number of confirmed coronavirus infections - 23.5 million - of any country in the world. At about 391,000, the country's coronavirus deaths account for a fifth of the global total, which passed the two-million mark on Friday.\n\nThe crisis is particularly acute in the state of California, where deaths have surged by more than 1,000% since November.\n\nIn its report, the CDC said that the UK variant would spread quickly in the coming weeks.\n\nThe latest research by Public Health England (PHE) suggests the variant - now dominant in much of Britain - is between 30% and 50% more transmissible than previous strains. There is currently no evidence to suggest it causes any more serious illness.\n\nExperts have also played down the possibility that the current vaccines will not be as effective against it.\n\nSo far, 76 people from 10 US states have been confirmed to have been infected with the UK variant, known as B.1.1.7.\n\nBut the CDC said: \"The modelled trajectory of this variant in the US exhibits rapid growth in early 2021, becoming the predominant variant in March.\"\n\nTwo other variants - one from South Africa and one from Brazil - are also thought to be more contagious than the original one that started the pandemic. Studies are under way to assess the threat they pose.", "Exam results are likely to appear before the end of the summer term\n\nExam results for A-levels and GCSEs in England could be published in early July this year, according to proposals for replacing cancelled exams.\n\nA consultation launched by the exams watchdog and the Department for Education confirmed that grades will be decided by teacher assessment.\n\nBut results this summer are likely to be released much earlier than usual.\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson said pupils would receive \"a grade that reflects their ability\".\n\nThere are also likely to be written test papers set by exam boards, but marked by teachers, with some later checks if there are concerns about fairness.\n\nFor vocational qualifications, exams which use mostly written papers are also likely to use teachers' grades - but qualifications which need a test of practical, hands-on skills will have separate arrangements.\n\nOfqual and the Department for Education have formally launched a two-week consultation on a system for how results will be decided, after disruption from the pandemic forced the cancellation of exams.\n\nThis is the second year of exam results being disrupted by the pandemic\n\nFor A-levels and GCSEs this could see the scrapping of the traditional results days in August, with a proposal to publish the results in \"early July\", increasing the time for appeals and adding more time before the start of the university term.\n\nLast year the process of replacement results ended with U-turns and confusion, as an algorithm initially used for deciding grades was abandoned and teachers' assessments used instead.\n\nThis time there will be no algorithm, but from the outset the process will rely on the judgement of teachers, who will be asked to use evidence such as coursework, essays, homework and mock exams.\n\nThere are also proposals for test papers, or mini-exams, which would be set by examiners but which would be likely to be marked within schools by teachers.\n\nThese would inform teachers' decisions rather than be a fixed proportion of the final grade - and could be used as evidence for any scrutiny of the reliability of a school's results or if there were appeals over grades.\n\nThere is also a recognition they might have to be taken by some pupils at home.\n\nBut it has still to be decided whether it would be mandatory to take these exams, and whether there would be a single paper per subject or the option to take more.\n\nThe Department for Education has said pupils will not face tests in subject areas they have not covered.\n\nGeoff Barton, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union, said the proposals seemed \"sensible\".\n\nBut he said the written tests would have to be \"exceptionally well designed\" to make them fair between students \"whose learning has been disrupted by the pandemic to greatly varying extents\".\n\n\"There are still many questions left unanswered,\" said the National Education Union's co-leader Kevin Courtney, about how tests could be flexible enough and how appeals will be decided.\n\nThere will be a process of training teachers in how the grading system will operate and be consistent between different schools.\n\nFor vocational qualifications, the proposals say those closer to written A-level and GCSE exams will be graded in a similar way to the academic exams, using teacher assessment to replace written papers.\n\nThere will be different approaches for qualifications requiring proof of practical skills, but there will be arrangements to make this possible.\n\nSome BTec exams have already gone ahead this month and IGCSE exams are still planned to continue this summer.\n\nA-levels and GCSEs have been cancelled in Wales and Northern Ireland, and in Scotland the Nationals, Highers and Advanced Highers have also been scrapped.\n\nEngland's Education Secretary, Mr Williamson, said: \"Fairness to young people has been and will continue to be fundamental to every decision we take on these issues.\"", "Men who had already had the virus were asked to donate blood plasma for the trial\n\nA potential treatment for Covid using blood plasma does not reduce deaths among hospital patients, trials show.\n\nThe results are a blow to researchers and the NHS, which led the drive to collect plasma donations.\n\nThis arm of the Recovery trial, which is investigating a number of promising Covid treatments, has now been closed.\n\nThe Oxford researchers involved say they are \"incredibly grateful\" for the contribution of patients across the country.\n\nDonations of plasma were temporarily suspended, according to NHS Blood and Transplant.**\n\nThere had been huge international interest in the role of convalescent plasma as a possible treatment for hospital patients with Covid-19.\n\nThe treatment involves blood plasma being taken from people who have recovered from the disease - which contains antibodies to coronavirus - and transfused into seriously ill patients.\n\nIt was hoped the plasma donation would give the recipient's struggling immune system a boost to fight off Covid.\n\nThe NHS had been urging people to donate, particularly men who are thought to have higher levels of antibodies in their blood.\n\nBut early analysis of 1,873 deaths in a study of 10,400 UK patients shows the treatment made \"no significant difference\".\n\nIn the group treated with convalescent plasma, 18% of patients died within 28 days - the same figure for the group given standard treatment.\n\nPatients in the study are still being followed up and the final results will be published shortly.\n\nEarlier this week, a separate study showed no evidence that the same treatment improved outcomes for patients in intensive care.\n\nMartin Landray, chief investigator and professor of medicine and epidemiology at the Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, said the Recovery trial showed \"the value of large randomised trials to properly assess the role of potential treatments\".\n\nThe trial is still investigating other treatments, including tocilizumab, aspirin and an antibody cocktail.\n\nProf Peter Horby, who also worked on the trial, said the largest ever trial of convalescent plasma \"was only possible thanks to the generous donation of plasma by recovered patients and the willingness of current patients to contribute to advancing medical care\".\n\n\"While the overall result is negative, we need to await the full results before we can understand whether convalescent plasma has any role in particular patient sub-groups,\" he said.\n\n**NHS Blood and Transplant restarted donations of blood plasma on 20 January. They could be used to see whether particular groups of patients, such as those with low antibody levels, could benefit.\n\nInternational trials are also testing if plasma helps people when it's used much earlier in the disease, before people get to hospital.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Duke of Cambridge shared his own experiences of seeing \"death and so much bereavement\"\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have been told the pandemic will leave many emergency workers \"broken\".\n\nMany police and NHS workers are too concerned with battling the pandemic to look after their mental health, they were told.\n\nInsp Phil Spencer from Cleveland Police said staff did not engage enough with counselling \"because we don't want to take anybody else's valuable time\".\n\nPrince William said he \"really worries\" about the effect on front-line workers.\n\n\"When you're surrounded by that level of intense trauma and sadness and bereavement, it really does, it stays with you at home, it stays with you for weeks on end,\" he said.\n\nInsp Spencer said emergency workers \"run towards danger, run towards a terrorist attack, we run towards the pandemic\".\n\n\"Perhaps further down the line when all this is gone we're going to have some broken police officers and emergency services staff, because we're too busy focusing on protecting the most vulnerable,\" he said.\n\nThe couple also spoke to counsellors from Hospice UK's Harrogate-based Just B support line for NHS staff, social care workers, carers and emergency services, which their foundation helps financially.\n\nThe prince said he feared \"you're all so busy caring for everyone else that you won't take enough time to care for yourselves\".\n\nHe and Catherine said the stigma surrounding seeking help for mental health issues must end.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n• None The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police investigations have been compromised by an error that led to hundreds of thousands of records being deleted from UK-wide databases, according to a letter seen by the BBC.\n\nThe National Police Chiefs' Council said 213,000 records were deleted - more than the 150,000 first reported.\n\nThis resulted in a couple of \"near misses\" for serious crimes when trying to identify an offender, it said.\n\nThe Home Office has said it is assessing the impact of the mistake.\n\nData including fingerprint, DNA, and arrest histories was wiped from the Police National Computer (PNC) - which stores and shares criminal records information across the UK - after being inadvertently flagged for deletion.\n\nThe PNC is used in police investigations and provides real-time checks on people, vehicles and crimes, as well as whether suspects are wanted for any unsolved offences.\n\nThe Home Office said the lost entries related to people who were arrested and then released without further action.\n\nBut the letter from the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) says officers are aware of at least one instance where the DNA profile from a suspect in custody did not generate a match to a crime scene as expected, potentially impeding the investigation.\n\nIt says that some of the records had been marked for indefinite retention following earlier convictions for serious offences.\n\nAnd it reveals that a \"weeding system\", developed and deployed by a Home Office PNC team, started to delete records wrongly last November.\n\nThe process was only brought to a halt at the start of this week.\n\nThe letter was sent on Friday afternoon by Deputy Chief Constable Naveed Malik of the NPCC to chief constables and police and crime commissioners.\n\nThe deletion of the records has been blamed on a coding error.\n\nThis resulted in records that had been flagged for deletion being lost from the database before checks had been carried out to determine whether they could be lawfully held or not.\n\nPolicing minister Kit Malthouse said the problem had been identified and the process corrected so \"it cannot happen again\".\n\nHe said the Home Office, National Police Chiefs' Council and other law enforcement partners were working \"at pace\" to recover the data.\n\nThe Home Office said no records of criminal or dangerous persons had been deleted.\n\nBut Labour shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds called on Home Secretary Priti Patel to take responsibility for the error and be clear about the impact it had had.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Breakfast, he described the situation as \"extraordinarily serious\", adding: \"Priti Patel will be responsible for criminals walking free. We're not going to be able to link suspects to crime scenes without the DNA and fingerprint evidence.\"\n\nA home office source said the accusation was \"scaremongering and irresponsible\".\n\nFormer Cumbria Police Chief Constable Stuart Hyde told BBC Radio 4's Today programme on Friday the \"very large\" loss of arrest records presented a \"risk to public safety\".\n\nThe records are linked to police investigations that were terminated before charge (No Further Action or NFA cases) or to those where an individual had been acquitted at court.\n\nIt is not yet known how many records of each type were lost and full extent of deletions is still being investigated. A minister is expected to update the House of Commons on Monday.\n\nIt comes after about 40,000 alerts relating to European criminals were removed from the PNC following the UK's post-Brexit security deal with the EU.", "A 24m section of the bridge parapet collapsed one mile from where a fatal crash took place\n\nPart of a rail bridge has collapsed near the site of the fatal Stonehaven train derailment.\n\nA 24m (79ft) section of the side wall has fallen from the bridge, about a mile north of where three people died when a train left the track and crashed last August.\n\nNetwork Rail said it was a \"structural fault\" and not caused by a landslip.\n\nThe line between Aberdeen and Dundee remains closed while structural engineers assess the fault.\n\nThe structure is located three miles north of Carmont signal box. The collapse was discovered just before 10:00 on Friday.\n\nThe rail company said the damage to the parapet was \"extensive\" and that the line was expected to be closed for a \"significant\" period of time while repairs to the bridge take place.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Network Rail Scotland This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Network Rail Twitter account told followers engineers would be working around the clock to complete repairs.\n\nSpecialist staff are also checking similar bridges as a precaution.\n\nThe line between Aberdeen and Dundee had just reopened in November, nearly three months after the Stonehaven derailment.\n\nThe driver, a conductor and a passenger died when the Aberdeen to Glasgow service derailed near Stonehaven on 12 August after heavy rain.\n\nNetwork Rail Scotland carried out \"complex\" repairs at the scene of the derailment\n\nAn interim report said the train hit washed-out rocks and gravel.\n\nA Network Rail spokesman said: \"The line is currently closed while our engineers repair a damaged side wall on a bridge between Carmont and Stonehaven.\n\n\"Specialist structural engineers are currently assessing the fault and putting plans in place for its repair.\n\n\"Our engineers will be working around-the-clock to complete this work as quickly as possible.\"", "Police officers who were targeted by a pro-Trump mob have been speaking out about the \"medieval battle\" that unfolded on the steps of the Capitol and inside the halls of American democracy last week.\n\nPolice faced off against rioters equipped with clubs, shields, pitchforks, firearms, and metal poles stripped from seating set up for next week's inauguration.\n\nHere's what we've learned from their interviews with US media.\n\nMichael Fanone, a 40-year-old DC plainclothes narcotics detective who was told to wear his uniform that day, rushed to the West Terrace of the Capitol where he took turns holding back the crowd, and resting to rinse his face of the the chemical irritants that that crowd was spraying on police.\n\n\"We weren't battling 50 or 60 rioters in this tunnel,\" the MPD (Metropolitan Police Department of District of Columbia) veteran told the Washington Post. \"We were battling 15,000 people. It looked like a medieval battle scene.\"\n\nAfter he was grabbed by his helmet and dragged face-first down several steps, he said the crowd started stripping gear from his vest, including spare ammo, his radio and his badge - all while chanting \"USA!\".\n\nMichael Fanone, a DC detective, was dragged into the crowd and beaten\n\n\"We got one! We got one!\" Mr Fanone said he heard people shout, with others chanting: \"Kill him with his own gun!\"\n\nSome members of the crowd protected him after he started yelling that he has children, the father of four told CNN. He sustained only minor injuries but later found out in hospital that he had suffered a mild heart attack during the brawl.\n\nMPD Officer Daniel Hodges, 32, had already been on shift for several hours before the rioting began.\n\n\"We were battling, you know, tooth and nail for our lives,\" he told ABC News.\n\nIn one viral video, Mr Hodges is seen pinned in a glass doorway between officers and the crowd, as rioters strip his gas mask from his face and beat him with his own police-issued baton. One rioter tried to gouge his eyes.\n\n\"That was one of the three times that day where I thought: Well, this might be it,\" said Mr Hodges. \"This might be the end for me.\"\n\nAs he choked on tear gas, he is seen on video gasping for air to call out for help. Enough police were eventually able to push through the melee to extract him.\n\n\"I had conspiracy theorists and everyone you could think of yelling at me, saying, 'Why are you doing this, you're the traitor,'\" Mr Hodges told radio station WAMU.\n\n\"We're not the traitors. We're the ones who saved Congress that day, and we'll do it as many times as necessary.\"\n\nDespite fearing for his life, Mr Hodges says he decided not to use his gun on the crowd.\n\n\"I didn't want to be the guy who starts shooting, because I knew they had guns - we had been seizing guns all day,\" he told the Post.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRobert Glover, the commander on scene for MPD, declared a riot at 13:50 local time, nearly two hours after Trump's speech at the White House where he instructed his followers to go to the Capitol.\n\nHe quickly told officers to retake the inauguration bleachers, to stop the crowd from raining down heavy objects on officers from above.\n\nMr Glover told the Post that some rioters may have been caught up in the moment, but others seemed to be moving in \"military formation\" as if they had prepared for the assault. He said that some appeared to be using hand signals to co-ordinate tactics.\n\nSeveral US military veterans, as well as off-duty police officers from Virginia, Maryland and Texas, have since been suspended or arrested for participating in the riot.\n\nMPD Officer Christina Laury, 32, was among the first city police officers to arrive on the scene. When she got to the Capitol, officers were already being brutally attacked by rioters attempting to storm the building.\n\n\"They had bear mace, which is literally used for bears. I got hit with it plenty of times that day and it just seals your eyes shut. You just would see officers going down trying to douse themselves with water, trying to open their eyes up so they can see again.\"\n\n\"The bravery and the heroism that I saw in these officers - the second they were able to open their eyes, they were back up front and they were just trying to stop these individuals from coming in.\"\n\nOne officer being lauded as a hero has yet to speak about his experience - Officer Eugene Goodman, a member of Congress' 2,100 member Capitol Police force.\n\nMr Goodman, an African American Iraq War veteran, was seen singlehandedly distracting a rampaging mob, giving lawmakers enough time to clear the chamber and get to safety.\n\nOn Thursday, a cross-party group of lawmakers introduced a bill calling for him to receive the Congressional Gold Medal for his effort to defend democracy.\n\nThe Capitol Police have been criticised over their response and preparation.\n\nSeveral top Capitol security officials, including the Capitol Police chief and the sergeants-at-arms for the House and Senate, resigned in the wake of the siege amid claims from lawmakers that they had not done enough to prepare for the mob.\n\nProtesters climbed the bleachers that were erected for Biden's inauguration\n\nOn Friday, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi announced General Russel Honoré would be leading an immediate investigation of the Capitol's security infrastructure.\n\nVideo footage has also emerged showing an officer taking a selfie with a rioter inside the Capitol. Some officers reportedly gave directions to rioters telling them how to get to the offices of Democratic lawmakers.\n\nSeveral Capitol Police officers have been suspended for allegedly violating policies as the agency conducts an internal probe.", "A man accused of allegedly tricking a 92-year-old woman out of £160 for a fake coronavirus vaccination has been charged with fraud and common assault.\n\nDavid Chambers is accused of administering the fake vaccine at her Surbiton home in London last month.\n\nThe 33-year-old, also from Surbiton, is charged with five offences including fraud and going outside in a tier four area without a good reason.\n\nHe denied the charges when he appeared before magistrates on Friday.\n\nMr Chambers was remanded in custody until a hearing on 12 February.\n\nIn the UK, coronavirus vaccines are free of charge and available via the NHS.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Nóra Quoirin went missing from her room on 4 August 2019\n\nAn inquest into the death of a teenager who went missing during a holiday in Malaysia has left several questions unanswered, her family has said.\n\nNóra Quoirin, whose mother is from Belfast, disappeared from her room at the Dusun resort on 4 August 2019.\n\nHer body was found 10 days later about 1.6 miles (2.5km) away.\n\nEarlier this month a coroner ruled that she died as a result of misadventure, but her family said they were \"utterly disappointed\" with the verdict.\n\nIn an interview with Irish broadcaster RTÉ, Nóra's mother Meabh said there is \"compelling evidence\" that her daughter was abducted.\n\nSearch and rescue teams were deployed in an effort to locate Nóra\n\nNóra, who was born to Irish-French parents, lived with her family in London and was understood to be in Malaysia on an Irish passport.\n\nShe was born with holoprosencephaly, a disorder which affects brain development.\n\nSince her disappearance, her parents have believed that she was abducted. They have always maintained that wandering off was not something they could imagine their daughter doing.\n\nMeabh Quoirin told RTÉ: \"One of the most compelling things that we found out was that in a relatively small area, the plantation where Nóra was eventually found, there was vast numbers of specialist personnel deployed to find Nóra.\n\n\"Not only that, on four different occasions, trained personnel went to the plantation area and searched it and, in fact, some officers were even in the precise location Nóra's body was recovered.\n\n\"They had all reported that there were no signs of human life at any point. That for us is compelling evidence to say that she was not there by herself.\"\n\nNóra went missing the day after she and her family arrived in Malaysia in August 2019\n\nMrs Quoirin added that \"there was a lack of evidence around DNA and prints\".\n\nShe said that when the family went to the inquest, \"we had a lot of unanswered questions and while many of those questions cannot be answered, we actually found out a great deal about what went on during those 10 days when Nóra was missing\".\n\nMeabh and Sebastien Quorin, pictured during the search for Nóra\n\n\"In fact we felt it really strengthened our case, our belief, that Nóra was abducted and we found some compelling evidence to support our view on that.\"\n\nMrs Quoirin added that her daughter \"was not physically or mentally capable\" of leaving the chalet via the window.\n\n\"Not only that - we also learned that none of her fingerprints could be found on the window and yet other unidentifiable prints were found on that window.\"", "Smoke rises from Mount Semeru, the highest volcano on the Indonesian island of Java\n\nIndonesia's Mount Semeru has erupted, pouring ash an estimated 5.6km (3.4 miles) into the sky above Java, the country's most densely populated island.\n\nNo evacuation orders have so far been issued, and no casualties reported.\n\nThe National Disaster Mitigation Agency (NDMA) warned villagers living on the mountain's slopes to be alert for ongoing volcanic activity.\n\nFootage showed ash from the 3,676m (12,060ft) volcano looming over homes.\n\n\"The villages of Sumber Mujur and Curah Koboan [in Lumajang municipality] are located in the trajectory of the hot clouds,\" local official Thoriqul Haq said on Saturday.\n\nResidents of the Curah Kobokan river basin have been urged to watch for possible \"cold lava\" mudflow, which can be triggered by intense rainfall combining with volcanic material.\n\nMount Semeru erupted at about 17:24 local time (10:24 GMT), authorities said.\n\nA picture from the Indonesian National Board for Disaster Management shows ash rolling over the landscape\n\nIndonesia sits on the Pacific \"Ring of Fire\" where tectonic plates collide, causing frequent volcanic activity as well as earthquakes.\n\nSemeru - also known as \"The Great Mountain\" - is the highest volcano in Java and one of the most active. It is also one of Indonesia's most popular tourist hiking destinations.\n\nThe volcano previously erupted in December, when about 550 people were evacuated.", "A further 1,295 deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test have been reported in the UK, the third-highest daily total since the pandemic began.\n\nIt brings the total number of deaths by this measure to 88,590.\n\nThere have also been a further 41,346 lab-confirmed cases, and 4,262 more people have been admitted to hospital.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle, medical director for Public Health England, said the \"continuous rise in cases and deaths should be a bitter warning for us all\".\n\n\"We must not forget the basics,\" she added. \"The lives of our friends and family depend on it.\n\n\"Keep your distance from others, wash your hands and wear a mask.\"\n\nThe latest figures come ahead of Monday's change in travel rules for the UK, with all travel corridors closing, meaning arrivals from every country will have to quarantine.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson announced the changes at Downing Street on Friday, saying they would \"protect against the risk of as yet unidentified new strains\" of Covid.\n\nWhile daily figures can fluctuate due to delays in reporting, the seven-day average of Covid deaths in the UK has now risen slightly to 1,103.\n\nFor cases, however, there has been a drop in the seven-day average, with the figure now at 48,565.\n\nThere are currently 37,475 people in hospital with the virus, government figures show, while a further 324,233 people have received their first vaccine dose.\n\nThe government has promised all the over-70s, the extremely clinically vulnerable and front-line health and care workers - about 15 million people - will be offered a jab by mid February.\n\nCurrently, just over 3.5 million doses have been administered.\n\nThe government has also announced £120m in funds for the social care sector to be used by local authorities to increase staffing levels.\n\nStaff absence rates have risen in care homes and among home care staff, due to them testing positive or having to self-isolate.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the money would bolster staffing numbers in a \"controlled and safe way, whilst ensuring people continue to receive the highest quality of care\".\n\nA further £149m funding was announced in December to support rapid testing of care home staff.\n\nSpeaking alongside the PM on Friday, England's chief medical officer, Prof Chris Whitty, said the number of patients being admitted to hospital with coronavirus was set to peak within the next 10 days, while the peak for deaths was also yet to come.\n\nHe added, however, that he hoped the peak in infections had already happened in the South East, East and London, where there was a surge in the new, more transmissible variant.\n\n\"The peak of deaths I fear is in the future, the peak of hospitalisations in some parts of the country may be around about now and beginning to come off the very, very top,\" he said.\n\n\"Because people are sticking so well to the guidelines we do think the peaks are coming over the next week to 10 days for most places in terms of new people into hospital.\"\n\nHowever, chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance stressed it was a \"suppressed peak\" that would \"boil over for sure\" if controls were eased.\n\nHe said: \"This is not the natural peak that's going to come down on its own, it's coming down because of the measures that are in place.\n\n\"Take the lid off now and it's going to boil over for sure and we're going to end up with a big problem.\"\n\nMeanwhile, on Saturday, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer suggested he would back further coronavirus measures, as \"the tougher the restrictions now the quicker we get the virus back under control\".\n\nSir Keir said he was \"still worried\" by the number of infections, despite signs they are falling - and that the \"sense that we are through the worst\" of the third wave was wrong.\n\n\"Nobody likes restrictions but the tougher the restrictions now the quicker we get the virus back under control, the quicker we reduce the number of hospital admissions and the quicker we get that number of deaths, tragically, down,\" he added.", "A further 1,610 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test - the biggest figure reported in a single day since the pandemic began.\n\nIt means the total number of deaths by that measure is now above 90,000.\n\nA total of 4,266,577 people have now received the first dose of a vaccine, according to the latest government figures.\n\nAnother 33,355 positive Covid cases have been recorded - less than half the peak figure of 68,053 on 8 January.\n\nIt is the lowest number of daily cases seen since 27 December - before the start of England's third nationwide lockdown.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle, medical director at Public Health England, said: \"Whilst there are some early signs that show our sacrifices are working, we must continue to strictly abide by the measures in place.\"\n\nShe said reducing contact with others and staying at home will lead to \"a fall in the number of infections over time\".\n\nThe figures come as new estimates from the Office for National Statistics show about one in 10 people across the UK tested positive for Covid-19 antibodies in December - roughly double the October figure.\n\nThe rising number of deaths was to be expected, sadly, after the surge in cases during December.\n\nAnd it is likely that the coming weeks will see figures even higher than this.\n\nToday's numbers are, though, inflated by the fact that delays in registering deaths over the weekend tends to lead to higher figures being reported on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.\n\nOn average, the UK is recording more than 1,100 deaths a day.\n\nTo put that in context, at Christmas it was less than half of that.\n\nBut there are two rays of hope in the daily update.\n\nFirstly, the number of cases is below 40,000 for a third day in a row. Just two weeks ago we saw a few days above 60,000.\n\nThat means in the coming weeks we should start to see fewer people in hospital and eventually fewer deaths.\n\nThe number of vaccinations also continues to rise.\n\nIt seems unlikely the NHS will manage its target of two million doses a week just yet.\n\nBut each increase at least takes us one step closer to getting on top of the virus.\n\nMeanwhile, NHS England said 400 military personnel were now assisting in hospitals in London and the Midlands, as wards face \"unprecedented pressure\".\n\nOn Monday, Prof Stephen Powis, national medical director for NHS England, said it would be \"some time\" before the vaccination programme begins to reduce pressures on hospitals.\n\nAnd in other developments, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said he is self-isolating after being alerted by the UK's NHS Covid-19 app .that he had been in close contact with somebody who tested positive.\n\nHe said self-isolation was \"perhaps the most important part of all the social distancing\" and urged others to do the same if contacted.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Martin Freeborn's wife, Helen, died from Covid at the Royal London Hospital: 'Don't end up like us, please'\n\nThe previous highest number of daily deaths was last Wednesday, when 1,564 deaths were recorded.\n\nTuesday's figure brings the total number of deaths recorded during the pandemic in the UK to 91,470.\n\nThese government figures count people who died within 28 days of testing positive, but there are other ways of measuring the total number of deaths.\n\nAnother method is to count all deaths where coronavirus is mentioned on the death certificate. That figure has now officially reached 95,829, although that is only measured up to 8 January.\n\nThe UK has recorded the fifth-highest number of deaths globally, according to Johns Hopkins University - behind the US, Brazil, India and Mexico.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer tweeted: \"British people are paying the price for the government's serial incompetence.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Video footage showed the aftermath of the deadly explosion\n\nAt least three people have died following an explosion that caused a building to partially collapse in centre of the Spanish capital, Madrid.\n\nA fourth person was missing and several others were hurt, officials said.\n\nCity officials said the blast, which destroyed four floors of the building, had been caused by a gas leak.\n\nMayor José Luis Martínez Almeida told reporters after the blast that a fire was raging inside the building, which belongs to the Catholic Church.\n\nThe blast happened shortly before 15:00 local time (14:00 GMT) as gas workers were repairing a boiler at the back of the building in the central Puerta de Toledo area of Madrid.\n\nAn 85-year-old woman passer-by and two men were killed while a third man who had been working on the boiler was missing, Spanish media reported. One of the injured was in a serious condition and taken to hospital, according to officials.\n\nSpanish reports said the upper floors affected were being used to house local priests.\n\nRescue workers evacuated more than 50 people from a care home next-door to the building in Caille de Toledo, but a school on the other side was closed at the time of the blast.\n\nFour floors of the building were destroyed in the explosion, which could be heard in many areas of Madrid. Images shared on social media showed billowing smoke and debris strewn along the street.\n\nEmergency services said nine fire crews and 11 ambulances were at the scene and some of those caught up in the blast were treated on the street.\n\nFour floors of the building were destroyed in the explosion\n\nPolice officers cleared the area, closing it to all traffic and pedestrians, and appealed to local residents not to come near.\n\n\"The noise was very loud, very loud, really,\" Lorenzo Fomento, who was working from home at a nearby apartment, told AFP news agency. \"I never heard anything so loud before,\" he added.\n\nThe director of the nursing home, Antonio Berlanga, said all the elderly residents were fine and places were being found for them to spend the night.", "In Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, residents have prepared their homes and businesses ahead of the heavy rain\n\nEmergency services in the north of England are preparing for widespread flooding caused by Storm Christoph.\n\nThe Environment Agency has warned of a \"volatile situation\" as heavy rain combines with melting snow, while police in South Yorkshire and Greater Manchester declared major incidents.\n\nAn amber rain warning is in place for Yorkshire, the North West, East Midlands and the east of England.\n\nA yellow rain warning was issued for the rest of the country.\n\nGreater Manchester Police Assistant Chief Constable Nick Bailey said the force had declared a major incident to ensure it was \"as prepared as possible\".\n\n\"The safety of the public is our number one priority and we're continuing to work alongside partner agencies across the region,\" he said.\n\nA government spokesperson said it had provided additional advice to local agencies to help them manage any evacuations and shelter provision in a Covid-secure way.\n\n\"The government has robust plans in place to support any areas affected by extreme weather this winter,\" they added.\n\nSandbags were laid in at-risk areas, with up to 70mm (2.75in) of rain due.\n\nIn isolated spots, particularly in the northern Peak District and parts of the southern Pennines, 200mm (7.87in) could be possible.\n\nNorthern Rail said buses were being used instead of trains on services between Bolton and Blackburn due to flooding at Darwen.\n\nSome motorists attempted to drive through floodwater on Derby Road in Hathern, Leicestershire\n\nIn the amber warning area, the Met Office said there was a \"danger to life\" due to fast-flowing or deep floodwater, and told some communities they might be \"cut off\" by flooded roads.\n\nIt also predicted delays and cancellations to public transport, with the amber warning in place until 12:00 GMT on Thursday.\n\nRos Jones, mayor of Doncaster, said key risk areas had been inspected over the past 36 hours, with the delivery of sandbags continuing on Tuesday.\n\n\"I do not want people to panic, but flooding is possible so please be prepared,\" she said.\n\nResidents of Fishlake, South Yorkshire, which saw severe flooding hit 160 homes and businesses in November 2019, said they felt much better prepared this time round.\n\nFlood warden and parish councillor Peter Trimingham said the arrival of sandbags had been a welcome sight.\n\n\"It gives us confidence,\" he said.\n\nResidents in Fishlake, near Doncaster, say they are better prepared than when flooding hit in 2019\n\nMr Trimingham added: \"We're absolutely hoping it doesn't rise to the same level. But, if it does, we're reasonably comfortable we've still got a chance because the Environment Agency have done tremendous work here along with Doncaster Council.\"\n\nHe said new defences had been built and their team of flood wardens had been expanded to 22 people.\n\nOn Yarlborough Terrace in Bentley, Doncaster, many residents were out of their homes for months after the 2019 floods.\n\nAnna Booth, 37, who was forced to live in a caravan on her drive, said residents were worried about it happening again.\n\n\"Being in the pandemic doesn't help either. Morale's a bit down but I think we'll all pull together again like last time,\" she said.\n\n\"It breaks your heart, it's really sad, but we can't stop the weather.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Environment Agency issued more than 30 flood warnings, meaning flooding is expected and immediate action required, covering parts of Yorkshire, Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, Merseyside, Staffordshire and Northamptonshire as of 03:00 GMT on Wednesday.\n\nThere are also more than 150 flood alerts, meaning flooding is possible, issued across northern England, the Midlands and the east.\n\nRiver levels in the Ouse, which flows through York in North Yorkshire, are high before the arrival of Storm Christoph\n\nCatherine Wright, acting executive director for flood and coastal risk management at the Environment Agency, said: \"That rain is falling on very wet ground and so we are very concerned that it's a very volatile situation and we are expecting significant flooding to occur on the back of that weather.\"\n\nShe said the agency would be working with local authorities to help with evacuation efforts should a severe flood warning be issued, adding: \"If you do need to evacuate then that is allowed within the Covid rules.\"\n\nWork took place on Tuesday morning to increase defences near the River Ouse\n\nDiscussing the different levels of flood warnings, she said: \"If you receive a flood alert, please pack valuables like medicines and insurance documents in a bag ready to go.\n\n\"If you receive a flood warning, please move valuables and precious possessions upstairs and be ready to turn off gas, electricity and water.\n\n\"If you receive a severe flood warning, which means you will be evacuated, please listen out and take heed of the advice from the local emergency services.\"\n\nSandbags have been used to help defend homes in Fishlake, Doncaster, which suffered devastating floods in November 2019\n\nBarry Greenwood, from the Upper Calder Valley Flood Prevention Group in West Yorkshire, has been \"sick\" with worry.\n\n\"I went round after the last [flood], people were there with their heads in their hands, thinking 'what am I going to do now?',\" he said.\n\nFlood sirens were sounded in Walsden on Tuesday evening after a flood warning was issued for the area.\n\nIn a tweet, Calderdale Council asked residents to put their flood plan into action and move valuables to a safe place.\n\n\"River levels across the Upper River Calder have risen and are now approaching levels where we expect properties to flood,\" it warned.\n\nEarlier it had said staff were on standby to respond overnight.\n\nThe amber rain warning is in place until Thursday, with yellow warnings covering most of the UK coming in over the next three days\n\nA yellow rain alert is also in place for Wales, Northern Ireland, central and northern England and southern Scotland on Tuesday.\n\nThis yellow warning extends to the rest of England from Wednesday, with a yellow alert for snow and ice in north east Scotland.\n\nHighways England advised drivers to take extra care on motorways and major A roads, while the RAC breakdown service said motorists should only drive if absolutely necessary.\n\nDrivers faced wet road conditions and reduced visibility on the A1(M) near Boston Spa, West Yorkshire, on Tuesday morning\n\nHebden Bridge's volunteer flood warden Keith Crabtree has been monitoring the river levels of Hebden Beck closely\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Israel is currently in its third lockdown since the pandemic began there last year Image caption: Israel is currently in its third lockdown since the pandemic began there last year\n\nA nationwide lockdown in Israel is to be extended until the end of the month amid a spike in cases - despite an intense vaccination campaign, with more than two of the nine million population already having received their first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.\n\nIt takes time for immunity to build up, so its expected to take several weeks for vaccines to have an impact on cases\n\nThe man coordinating Israel’s pandemic response, Nachman Ash, has warned that a single dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in the country has been “less effective than we thought”.\n\nAccording to Israeli Army Radio, Prof Ash told cabinet members on Tuesday the data on the protective effect of a first dose against the virus was “lower than Pfizer presented”. Pfizer said its vaccine was roughly 52% effective two weeks after the first dose and reaches maximum efficacy of 95% after the second.\n\nIt’s not clear what data he is referring to, but a not-yet published study from Israel’s largest healthcare provider suggested a 33% fall in infections by day 14, at which point, full immunity would not have been reached.\n\nInfections continued to fall in the following days but the numbers were too small to put a percentage on it.\n\nIsrael saw its highest daily case figure on Monday with 10,000 new infections Image caption: Israel saw its highest daily case figure on Monday with 10,000 new infections\n\nThe health ministry said on Tuesday more than 12,400 Israelis had tested positive for Covid-19 ten days after being vaccinated – 69 of these had already received a second dose.\n\nThis was 6.6% of the 189,000 people who took Covid tests after being vaccinated, roughly tallying with the reported efficacy.\n\nHealth experts say they are analysing the new Israeli data closely but warn it may be too early to draw any conclusions on the single dose efficacy of the vaccine based on the initial data gathered in Israel, which began vaccinating its population on 19 December.", "Drug treatment services in England are to receive an extra £80m as part of government's efforts to cut crime.\n\nThis will mean more places for people released from prison and criminals handed community sentences.\n\nIt comes after warnings last year over government cuts to help for addicts.\n\nA further £40m is being earmarked for law enforcement to target drug gangs including so-called county lines operations in which young and vulnerable people act as couriers.\n\nThe investment will also see another £28m put into a three-year pilot project called ADDER - Addiction, Diversion, Disruption, Enforcement and Recovery - which will combine policing with treatment and recovery services.\n\nThe funding will see police target dealers, and local councils and health services help people with addictions, in five areas with high rates of drug use - Blackpool, Hastings, Middlesbrough, Norwich and Swansea Bay.\n\nAnnouncing the £148m package, Home Secretary Priti Patel said: \"The government's work to tackle county lines drugs gangs has already resulted in thousands more people being arrested and hundreds more vulnerable people being safeguarded, but we must do more to tackle the underlying drivers behind serious violence.\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock added: \"Addiction and crime are inextricably linked and to truly break the cycle we must make sure people can access the help they need to get their lives back on track for good.\"\n\nMs Patel told BBC Breakfast the government wanted to focus on rehabilitation and treatment for drug addicts as well as law enforcement, saying this was \"something we've not been doing enough of\".\n\n\"We have to do much more to support individuals whose lives have been blighted by years and years of drug abuse,\" she said.\n\nA Home Office-commissioned review into the drugs trade by Prof Dame Carol Black released last February put the total cost to society of illegal drugs at about £20bn a year in England and said treatment services have been curtailed by local government funding cuts.\n\nDame Carol welcomed the funding, saying: \"Drug treatment has a vital role to play in helping people to come off drugs and thereby reduce crime, from minor acquisitive crime right through to homicide.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Johnson: \"It's a big moment for us - we have things we want to do together.\"\n\nThe inauguration of President Joe Biden is a \"step forward\" for the United States, which has \"been through a bumpy period\", Boris Johnson has said.\n\nCongratulating Mr Biden and Vice-President Kamala Harris, the UK PM said it was a \"big moment\" for the UK and the US and their \"joint common agenda\".\n\nMr Johnson said he looked forward to working with the US on tackling climate change and the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMaking his inaugural address, Mr Biden said \"democracy has prevailed\".\n\nHe promised to be a president \"for all Americans\" and said his \"whole soul is in putting America back together again\".\n\nOutgoing President Donald Trump, who has not formally conceded to Mr Biden, did not attend the ceremony.\n\nPresident Biden began work straight away on reversing a number of his predecessor's policies, including rejoining the Paris climate change agreement - gaining the praise of Mr Johnson.\n\nThe PM tweeted it was \"hugely positive news\", adding: \"I look forward to working with our US partners to do all we can to safeguard our planet.\"\n\nEarlier this week the former head of the civil service Lord Sedwill suggested Mr Johnson would be glad Mr Trump had not been re-elected for a second term as US president.\n\nWriting in the Daily Mail, Lord Sedwill said those who believed Boris Johnson would have preferred Mr Trump to win again were \"mistaken\".\n\nThe former cabinet secretary - who stepped down in September - said a second term for Mr Trump \"would not have been to the benefit of British or European security, to transatlantic trade, let alone the environmental agenda to which the prime minister is so committed\".\n\nBoris Johnson with Donald Trump at the G7 summit in 2019\n\nMr Johnson's public stance toward the former president has varied over the years.\n\nIn 2015, when he was Mayor of London, Mr Johnson accused Mr Trump of \"stupefying ignorance\" over his comments about violence in the city.\n\nBut as foreign secretary, following Mr Trump's election as president, he said there was a \"lot to be positive about\", and in 2019, praised his \"many good qualities\".\n\nFor his part, Mr Trump has appeared largely supportive of Mr Johnson, backing his flagship Brexit policy and at one point saying of the British PM: \"They call him Britain Trump.\"\n\nAnd echoing his predecessor, in 2019 Mr Biden described the UK prime minister as a \"physical and emotional clone\" of Mr Trump.\n\nAfter winning the presidential election Mr Biden phoned Mr Johnson ahead of other European leaders and expressed his desire to strengthen the historic \"special relationship\" between the two countries.\n\nSpeaking on Wednesday, Mr Johnson said it was the job of all UK prime ministers to have a \"good, close working relationship\" with US presidents but, right now, there were many things the two countries \"wanted to do together\".\n\n\"When you look at the issues which unite me and Joe Biden, the UK and the US right now, there is a fantastic joint common agenda,\" he said. \"For us and America, it is a big moment.\"\n\nHe said he hoped the UK could help the US commit to a target of net zero carbon emissions by 2050 in the run up to the climate change conference COP 26, to be held in Glasgow this year.\n\nUK prime ministers like to consider American presidents as their best diplomatic friend.\n\nThat relationship, particularly when it comes to security and defence, is unusually close.\n\nWhen, as with Donald Trump, that friend has been unpredictable and unconventional, that has made for some very awkward political moments.\n\nSo for the government, this a really important and positive turning of the page.\n\nThe terribly over-used phrase the 'special relationship', which provokes neurotic behaviour on this side of the Atlantic, has meant the most when there has been a genuine personal chemistry between the two leaders - whether Thatcher and Reagan, or Bush and Blair.\n\nThere is nothing automatic about Mr Biden and Mr Johnson developing that kind of political friendship.\n\nBut in the words of one former senior minister, for the UK Biden means \"we will lose exclusivity but gain predictability: easier to work with, less cringeworthy and more dependable, but we may not be the only girlfriend on speed dial\".\n\nSpeaking to the Guardian, shadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy described Mr Biden as \"a woke guy\".\n\nAsked if he agreed, Mr Johnson said: \"I can't comment on that. What I know is that he's a firm believer in the transatlantic alliance and that's a great thing.\"\n\nHe added that there was \"nothing wrong with being woke - I put myself in the category of people who believe that it's important to stick up for your history, your traditions and your values, the things you believe in.\"\n\nOpposition leader Sir Keir Starmer also sent his congratulations to the new president and vice-president.\n\n\"The US begins a new chapter in its history, one of hope, decency, compassion and strength,\" the Labour leader said, adding \"together, our two nations can build a better, more optimistic future for our world.\"\n\nAnd First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon tweeted: \"Warm congratulations and best wishes to President Biden and Vice President Harris.\n\n\"Scotland and the USA share long-standing bonds of friendship and co-operation. We look forward to building on these in the years ahead.\"\n\nWriting in the Daily Mail, former UK Prime Minister Theresa May said Mr Biden's election presented the UK with a \"golden opportunity\" for Western democracies to reverse the trend towards \"absolutism\" - and a \"few strongmen facing off against each other\" - in global affairs.\n\nThe Queen sent a private message to Mr Biden before his inauguration, Buckingham Palace has said.", "Marion Dawson is the third oldest person in Scotland to be given the vaccine.\n\nA 108-year-old woman has received the Covid vaccination on her birthday.\n\nMarion Dawson, from Houston in Renfrewshire, is the third oldest person in Scotland to be given the vaccine.\n\nShe received her jab at Houston and Killellan Kirk, which is being used by the local GP surgery to deliver vaccinations to the community.\n\nBorn in 1913, Mrs Dawson has lived through two world wars and the Spanish flu pandemic.\n\nDr Diane Fisher, who gave the injection said: \"We are so excited to be starting vaccinations of our over-80s, and that our first patient to be vaccinated is doing so on her birthday.\"\n\nMrs Dawson is the most senior person in NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde to be given the vaccine.\n\nAfter receiving her injection, she said: \"I'm glad it's passed. I never felt a thing.\"\n\nKirk minister, Rev Gary Noonan said: \"Mrs Dawson is a local treasure in Houston, until the lockdown she never missed a week at church.\n\n\"It's fitting she can get her vaccine in the Kirk, a place she loves.\"\n\nDr Mark Storey, partner at Strathgryffe Medical Practice, added: \"It's been a very difficult year in general practice and society as a whole.\n\n\"In our practice we have a family of 10,000 patients, so we are delighted to start vaccinating, especially with Mrs Dawson.\"", "That's where we'll end our coverage of this week's PMQs.\n\nAs events get underway in Washington DC ahead of the Joe Biden's swearing in as the 46th President of the USA, our colleagues will bring you all the details of the inauguration here.\n\nOur coverage of this week's PMQs was brought to you by Gavin Stamp, Justin Parkinson, and Sinead Wilson. The editor was Johanna Howitt.\n\nThanks for joining us.", "The publication of a letter from the Duchess of Sussex to her father was a \"triple-barrelled invasion\" of her privacy, the High Court has been told.\n\nMeghan is suing the publisher of the Mail on Sunday and Mail Online over articles that reproduced parts of the private handwritten letter.\n\nShe claims her privacy and copyright were breached by the newspaper group.\n\nHer lawyers are asking for summary judgement - a dismissal of Associated Newspapers' defence instead of a trial.\n\nMeghan's lawyers argue Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL) has \"no prospect\" of defending the privacy and copyright claims being brought against them.\n\nThey claim the publication of extracts from the private, handwritten letter to Thomas Markle was \"self-evidently... highly intrusive\".\n\nMeghan, 39, sent the letter to her father in August 2018, following her marriage to Prince Harry in May that year, which Mr Markle did not attend. The couple are now living in the US with their son Archie.\n\nThe five articles, published in February 2019, were a \"triple-barrelled invasion\" of the duchess's privacy, correspondence and family, the lawyers claim.\n\nMr Markle said in a witness statement provided to the remote hearing, which started on Tuesday, that he wanted the letter published to \"set the record straight\" about his relationship with his daughter - but one of Meghan's lawyers described this claim as \"ridiculous\".\n\nMeghan is seeking damages from the newspaper group for alleged misuse of private information, copyright infringement and breach of the Data Protection Act over the articles.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex now live in the US with their son\n\nHer lawyers told the court the letter was written in sorrow rather than anger and was an attempt to get her father to stop talking to the press.\n\nBut the newspaper group said in its response to the court that Meghan had written the letter \"with a view to it being disclosed publicly at some future point\" in order to \"defend her against charges of being an uncaring or unloving daughter\".\n\nIn written submissions, the newspaper group's barrister Antony White said \"she must, at the very least, have appreciated that her father might choose to disclose it\" and pointed out that the Kensington Palace communications team had been shown the letter before it was sent.\n\n\"No truly private letter from daughter to father would require any input from the Kensington Palace communications team,\" said Mr White.\n\nBut Meghan's lawyers also pointed out the articles themselves had emphasised the private nature of the correspondence - and dismissed any argument that it was in the public interest for the newspaper to reproduce the letter, saying the public interest was at the \"very end of the bottom end of the scale\".\n\nJustin Rushbrooke, representing the duchess, described the handwritten letter as \"a heartfelt plea from an anguished daughter to her father\".\n\nHe said the \"contents and character of the letter were intrinsically private, personal and sensitive in nature\" and that Meghan \"had a reasonable expectation of privacy in respect of the contents of the letter\".\n\nThe effect of publishing the letter was \"self-evidently likely to be devastating for the claimant\", said Mr Rushbrooke.\n\nThe barrister argued that, even if ANL was justified in publishing parts of the letter, \"on any view the defendant published far more by way of extracts from the letter than could have been justified in the public interest\".\n\nMr White said that the newspaper group would argue that Meghan's status as a member of the royal family was relevant to the case.\n\nIn response to that point, Mr Rushbrooke said: \"Yes, she is in some senses a public figure, but that does not reduce her expectation of privacy in relation to information of this kind.\"\n\nIn Thomas Markle's evidence, he said the letter \"signalled the end\" of his relationship with his daughter, and instead of a reconciliation attempt, the letter was a \"criticism\" of him.\n\nHe said that he had to \"defend himself\" against an article in People magazine. It carried an interview with a \"long-time friend\" of his daughter, who suggested Meghan sent the letter to repair her relationship with her father - something he claimed was false.\n\nThe People article, he claimed, made him appear \"dishonest, exploitative, publicity-seeking, uncaring and cold-hearted\".\n\nHe said he had \"never intended to talk publicly about Meg's letter\" until he read the People magazine piece which, he claimed, suggested he was \"to blame for the end of the relationship\".\n\nThe full trial of the duchess's claim had been due to be heard at the High Court this month, but last year the case was adjourned until autumn 2021.\n\nThis interim remote hearing - to consider the request for summary judgement - is due to last two days. Mr Justice Warby, who is hearing the case, is expected to reserve his judgement to a later date.", "Low-deposit mortgages have made a return as the market emerges from a Covid-related slowdown.\n\nMortgage products for homeowners with a deposit of 10% of their property's value have risen more than fourfold compared with last summer's low.\n\nThe increase, based on figures from financial information service Moneyfacts, could offer some relief to first-time buyers.\n\nBut the cost of mortgages will remain an issue for many.\n\nIn early September last year, there were only 44 mortgage products available for those able to offer a 10% deposit. At the same time, first-time buyers putting money aside for a deposit were faced with pressures of poor savings rates and rising house prices.\n\nThat choice has now risen to 197 products, according to the Moneyfacts figures, with some big lenders returning in recent weeks.\n\nMortgage products for those able to offer a 15% deposit have also risen sharply, although the choice was already much greater.\n\n\"First-time buyers who may have been concerned that with record low savings rates and increasing house prices, their homeownership dreams may have had to be shelved, may have been pleased to note that we are now seeing some providers return products for those with 10% deposits,\" said Eleanor Williams, from Moneyfacts.\n\nLenders had been grappling with the practical effects that the coronavirus pandemic brought to their business.\n\nWhile some new businesses targeted first-time buyers on social media, many traditional lenders withdrew products from the market.\n\nStaff shortages, and employees working from home, meant they were unable to process applications as fast as they had before the pandemic.\n\nThere were also concerns among lenders that, despite strong activity in the housing market, riskier - and younger - first-time buyers could find it difficult to make mortgage repayments during an economic slowdown caused by the pandemic.\n\nResearch has shown that younger workers are more at risk of redundancy.\n\nAaron Strutt, from mortgage broker Trinity Financial, said lenders were now working more efficiently despite staff still being at home.\n\nHe said that some of the biggest mortgage lenders had returned to the market. Some of the mortgage rates they were offering were not as attractive as they had been, but competition would help push down costs.\n\n\"If you are planning to purchase a property and have a 10% deposit the mortgage rates are not as cheap as they used to be, but they are getting better,\" he said.\n\nMany thousands of existing mortgage-holders who had struggled to make their repayments during the pandemic had taken payment \"holidays\", which are deferrals on payments.\n\nThe latest figures from UK Finance, which represents lenders, show that 130,000 mortgage payment holidays were in place at the end of December 2020, down from a peak of 1.8 million in June last year.", "Mr Trump referred to his \"complete power to pardon\" in a tweet\n\nUS President Donald Trump has insisted he has the \"complete power\" to pardon people, amid reports he is considering presidential pardons for family members, aides and even himself.\n\nThe US authorities are probing possible collusion between the Trump team and Russia. Intelligence agencies think Russia tried to help Mr Trump to power.\n\nRussia denies this, and the president says there was no collusion.\n\nThe Washington Post reported on Thursday that Mr Trump and his team were looking at ways to pardon people close to him.\n\nPresidents can pardon people before guilt is established or even before the person is charged with a crime.\n\nDescribing the reports as disturbing, Senator Mark Warner, a Democrat who sits on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, said \"pardoning any individuals who may have been involved would be crossing a fundamental line\".\n\nOn Saturday, Mr Trump tweeted: \"While all agree the U. S. President has the complete power to pardon, why think of that when only crime so far is LEAKS against us. FAKE NEWS.\"\n\nMr Trump also attacked \"illegal leaks\" following reports his attorney general discussed campaign-related matters with a Russian envoy.\n\nThe Washington Post gave an account of meetings Attorney General Jeff Sessions held with the Russian ambassador to the US, Sergey Kislyak. The newspaper quoted current and former US officials who cited intelligence intercepts of Mr Kislyak's version of the encounter to his superiors.\n\nOne of those quoted said Mr Kislyak spoke to Mr Sessions about key campaign issues, including Mr Trump's positions on policies significant to Russia.\n\nDuring his confirmation hearing earlier this year, Mr Sessions said he had no contact with Russians during the election campaign. When it later emerged he had, he said the campaign was not discussed at the meetings.\n\nAn official confirmed to Reuters the detail of the intercepts, but there has been no independent corroboration.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Commander in tweets: What we can learn from Trump's Twitter\n\nThe officials spoken to by the Post said that Mr Kislyak could have exaggerated the account, and cited a Justice Department spokesperson who repeated that Mr Sessions did not discuss interference in the election.\n\nBut the Post's story was the focus of one of many tweets the US president fired off on Saturday morning.\n\n\"A new INTELLIGENCE LEAK from the Amazon Washington Post, this time against A.G. Jeff Sessions. These illegal leaks, like Comey's, must stop!\" Mr Trump said.\n\nThe Washington Post is owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who has been an occasional sparring partner for Mr Trump. \"Comey\" refers to James Comey, the former FBI boss Mr Trump fired.\n\nEarlier this week, Mr Trump told the New York Times he regretted hiring Mr Sessions because he had stepped away from overseeing an inquiry into alleged Russian meddling in the US election.\n\nMr Sessions recused himself in March amid pressure over his meetings with Mr Kislyak. He says he plans to continue in his role as attorney general.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sessions said he loved the job and the department\n\nSeveral other regular targets for Mr Trump featured in his series of tweets.\n\nHe accused the \"failing\" New York Times of foiling an attempt to assassinate the leader of the Islamic State group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.\n\nIt is not clear what Mr Trump was referring to, but on Saturday a US general complained on Fox News that a \"good lead\" on Baghdadi was leaked to a national newspaper in 2015.\n\nA New York Times report at the time revealed that valuable information had been extracted from a raid, but the paper stressed on Saturday that no-one had taken issue with their reporting until now.\n\nAnd Mr Trump again urged Republicans to \"step up to the plate\" and repeal and replace President Obama's healthcare reforms, a key campaign pledge of his that has collapsed in Congress.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Donald J. Trump This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDoris Hobday and her twin sister Lilian Cox, known as the Tipton Twins, were admitted to hospital after testing positive earlier this month.\n\nHer family said Mrs Hobday had died on 5 January, adding they were \"totally heartbroken to lose Doris in this way\".\n\nMrs Cox has since been discharged from hospital and is continuing to recover, the family said. The siblings were among the UK's oldest living twins.\n\nDoris Hobday died in hospital on 5 January, her family has announced\n\n\"We are so grateful for all the special memories we have created and got to share with you all,\" the family said in a statement.\n\nThe twins, from Tipton, West Midlands, became popular figures online with their positive outlook on life and sense of humour.\n\nTipton Twins Doris and Lilian both tested positive for Covid-19 earlier this month\n\nThey appeared on BBC Breakfast, ITV's Good Morning Britain and This Morning, charming presenters with jokes about wearing their drawers inside out and their love for actor Jason Statham.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Dan Walker This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Piers Morgan This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter���s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLilian and Doris said they did everything together. They lived in the same street after getting married, worked together at an ale-making factory in Birmingham and more recently lived next to one another at sheltered accommodation in Tipton.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC on their 95th birthday, Lilian revealed her sister's secret to a long life was \"no sex and plenty of Guinness\" - her own being simply \"lemonade\".\n\nDoris Hobday's family said she had passed away peacefully and they were grateful for all their memories with her\n\n\"Doris will be laid to rest with her husband who she lost 11 years ago after 65 years of happy marriage,\" her family said.\n\nA crowdfunding page has been set up in Mrs Hobday's memory, with funds raised being donated to The Beacon Centre for the Blind, which supported her late husband Raymond for 20 years.\n\nDoris will be buried next to her husband Ray, who, along with half a Guinness, was \"her favourite thing\"\n\nThe family said Mrs Cox had only been told of her sister's death on Monday, \"once she was strong enough to take the news\".\n\n\"She is now being comforted by family and staying with her daughter Vivien while she fully regains her strength.\"\n\n\"Both were determined to live until 100, they had so much to look forward to,\" their family said. \"It's just so cruel that Covid has stopped Doris like this.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mr Bannon was once considered among the most influential men in Mr Trump's administration\n\nPresident Trump's former top advisor, Steve Bannon, has been suspended from Twitter over the \"glorification of violence\" amid the election aftermath.\n\nMr Bannon said a re-elected Mr Trump should fire the top infectious disease expert and the FBI director, and called for violence against them.\n\nIt comes as the tech firms continue a clampdown on misinformation.\n\nFacebook has shut down a large group which alleges fraud, and announced new measures to amplify genuine results.\n\nMr Bannon, once widely thought of as one of the most powerful men in Washington, served as the boss of Mr Trump's 2016 campaign, and as a top presidential advisor for the first several months of his presidency.\n\nOn Thursday, he posted a video podcast to Facebook, YouTube and Twitter, in which he said both Dr Anthony Fauci - the face of the country's fight against coronavirus - and FBI Director Christopher Wray, should be fired after Mr Trump's re-election, but also said they should be subjected to violence.\n\nPresident Trump has expressed frustration with both men, clashing with Dr Fauci over the pandemic, and with Mr Wray over what he sees as a failure to investigate his opponent, Joe Biden.\n\nFacebook and YouTube both removed the video, but Twitter issued an outright suspension of Mr Bannon's \"war room pandemic\" account, for violating its policy on the glorification of violence.\n\nThe account has been permanently suspended, rather than banned for a limited amount of time, Twitter said in a statement.\n\nPresident Trump, meanwhile, had another of his tweets hidden and labelled by Twitter after falsely claiming victory and alleging the existence of \"illegal votes\".\n\nThe President responded by tweeting: \"Twitter is out of control\".\n\nThe Stop the Steal Facebook group had about 350,000 members when the social media giant removed it, something the social network admitted was an \"exceptional\" measure. It did so because it was \"creating real-world events\" and \"we saw worrying calls for violence from some members of the group\", Facebook said.\n\nThe social network is now taking further measures to restrict the flow of \"inaccurate claims\" in order \"to keep this content from reaching more people\".\n\n\"These include demotions for content on Facebook and Instagram that our systems predict may be misinformation, including debunked claims about voting. We are also limiting the distribution of live videos that may relate to the election on Facebook,\" the firm said in a statement.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Facebook Newsroom This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAs President Trump continues to allege, without evidence, that widespread voter fraud took place, Facebook also said it would alter its election banner notifications and spread news of the projected winner, once a majority of independent outlets projected the result.\n\nThe same notice will be put on posts from both candidates.\n\nSeparately, Bloomberg reports that Twitter will remove the \"special treatment\" it affords President Trump as a world leader, in the event of Joe Biden winning the presidency.\n\nTwitter has specific rules for world leaders, which means it will not ordinarily ban them for the same offences for which it would ban ordinary users. Twitter argues that such posts - even when violating its rules - are sufficiently newsworthy to stay up, with a handful of exceptions.\n\nInstead, Twitter can label the post of a world leader, hiding it from view and restricting engagement - but leaving it viewable to anyone who clicks through a warning message about the content.\n\nIt has repeatedly done this to Mr Trump's tweets, leading to high-profile arguments with the president and his supporters.\n\nBut Mr Trump would return to the status of a regular user if he loses the election, Bloomberg reported - meaning that his tweets could be deleted outright or his account suspended, for policy violations.", "Liam Gallagher, Sir Elton John and Nicola Benedetti have put their names to the letter\n\nSome of the UK's biggest music stars have written to the government demanding action to ensure visa-free touring in the European Union.\n\nSir Elton John, Liam Gallagher and Nicola Benedetti are among 110 artists who have signed the open letter.\n\nIt said they had been \"shamefully failed\" by the government over post-Brexit travel rules for UK musicians.\n\nThe government said the signatories should be asking the EU why they \"rejected the sensible UK proposal\".\n\nCulture Secretary Oliver Dowden will meet music industry representatives on Wednesday to address their concerns.\n\nEarlier this week, culture minister Caroline Dinenage said the EU's \"very broad\" offer \"would not have been compatible with the government's manifesto commitment to take back control of our borders\".\n\nHowever, she said \"the door is open\" if the EU was willing to consider the UK's proposals to reach an agreement for musicians.\n\nIn the meantime, she confirmed, musicians and artists touring the continent \"will be required to check domestic immigration and visitor rules for each member state in which they intend to tour\".\n\nThat may require them to have multiple visas or work permits, which some industry experts say will be expensive and potentially prohibitive - especially for musicians at the start of their careers.\n\nOther names on the open letter include Ed Sheeran, Sir Simon Rattle, Sting, Radiohead, Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Kim Wilde, Roger Daltrey, Glastonbury organisers Michael and Emily Eavis, and Judith Weir, Master of the Queen's Music.\n\nThe letter was organised by the Incorporated Society of Musicians and the Liberal Democrats, and published in The Times.\n\n\"The reality is that British musicians, dancers, actors and their support staff have been shamefully failed by their government,\" it said.\n\n\"The deal done with the EU has a gaping hole where the promised free movement for musicians should be. Everyone on a European music tour will now need costly work permits for many countries they visit and a mountain of paperwork for their equipment.\"\n\nThe extra costs will \"tip many performers over the edge\", it claimed.\n\n\"We call on the government to urgently do what it said it would do and negotiate paperwork-free travel in Europe for British artists and their equipment,\" it added.\n\n\"For the sake of British fans wanting to see European performers in the UK and British venues wishing to host them, the deal should be reciprocal.\"\n\nThe Who frontman Daltrey signed despite telling the BBC Radio 4's Front Row programme in 2018: \"It's nothing that can't be solved. I mean, we used to work in Europe before the EU was even thought about. We had the golden period of the 60s and the 70s.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Who frontman Roger Daltrey gave his take on Brexit in 2018\n\nOn Wednesday, the veteran rocker said the two positions were compatible. \"I have not changed my opinion on the EU,\" he said in a statement to the PA news agency. \"I'm glad to be free of Brussels, not Europe.\n\n\"I would have preferred reform, which was asked for by us before the referendum and was turned down by the then president of the EU. I do think our government should have made the easing of restrictions for musicians and actors a higher priority.\n\n\"Every tour, individual actors and musicians should be treated as any other 'goods' at the point of entry to the EU with one set of paperwork. Switzerland has borders with five EU countries, and trade is electronically frictionless. Why not us?\"\n\nDeborah Annetts, chief executive of the Incorporated Society of Musicians, said: \"World-renowned performers, emerging artists from every genre and the most respected figures from leading organisations within our sector are now sending a clear message.\n\n\"It is essential for the government to negotiate a new reciprocal agreement that allows performers to tour in Europe for up to 90 days, without the need for a work permit.\"\n\nResponding to the letter, a UK government spokesperson said that musicians' concerns were being taken seriously.\n\n\"We absolutely agree that musicians should be able to work across Europe,\" they said in a statement.\n\n\"The UK Government put forward a proposal, based on feedback from the music sector, that would have allowed musicians to tour - but the EU repeatedly rejected this.\n\n\"The EU's offer in the negotiations would not have worked for touring musicians: it did not deal with work permits at all, and would not have allowed support staff to tour with artists. The signatories of this letter should be asking the EU why they rejected the sensible UK proposal.\"\n\nCulture Secretary Oliver Dowden is due to host a roundtable discussion with representatives from the music industry, addressing their concerns, on Wednesday.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Joe Biden has spent 50 years in politics working towards this moment, but he could never have expected such huge challenges would be facing him on his first day at the helm. What are his priorities?\n\nHe'll get started with a 10-day flurry of executive orders.\n\nThese are presidential directives that don't require congressional approval.\n\nTop of the list are rescinding a controversial travel ban, imposed by his predecessor Donald Trump against countries he viewed as a security threat, and rejoining the Paris climate deal.\n\nHere's what else we know about what will demand the new president's immediate attention.\n\nThe coronavirus has killed more than 400,000 people in the US - and the pandemic and its wide-ranging impact will be the new administration's top priority.\n\nMr Biden has called it \"one of the most important battles our administration will face\" and has vowed to implement his Covid strategy straight away.\n\nOne of his first moves will be executive action requiring social distancing and the wearing of masks on federal property nationwide and by federal employees and contractors.\n\nStill, there's no guarantee the state governors who've so far opposed mask mandates will suddenly change their minds - there appears to be no legal authority that grants a president the power to bring in a nationwide mask rule.\n\nMr Biden seems to have conceded that point, and says he'll personally try to persuade governors to come around.\n\nIf they're not receptive, he's vowed to make calls to mayors and municipal officials to recruit them to the cause. There's also no word yet on how a mandate will be enforced.\n\nMr Biden wants to speed up the vaccine rollout with the ultimate goal of vaccinating 100 million people with at least a first dose against Covid in his first 100 days in office.\n\nOne part of the acceleration plan is to release all available vaccine doses instead of holding some in reserve for the necessary second jab.\n\nHe is also expected to take executive action on efforts to develop and deploy rapid testing and to put in place a national supply chain for equipment, medications and personal protective equipment, or PPE.\n\nOn his agenda is a pledge to reverse the decision to have the US leave the World Health Organization (WHO).\n\nMr Trump announced plans over the summer to pull the country out of the WHO, accusing it of mismanaging Covid after the virus emerged in China and saying it failed to make \"greatly needed reforms\".\n\nMr Biden's team has said he has immediate plans to extend a moratorium on evictions and on foreclosures on home mortgages - both of which were paused early in the pandemic - as well as the current pause on federal student loan payments and interest.\n\nMr Biden's transition team said he plans to direct Cabinet agencies this week to \"take immediate action to deliver economic relief to working families\", though they did not offer more detail.\n\n$1.9tn for the US coronavirus economy\n\nLast week, Mr Biden announced a $1.9tn (£1.4tn) stimulus plan for the coronavirus-sapped US economy, saying that \"a crisis of deep human suffering is in plain sight and there's no time to waste\".\n\nIf passed by Congress, it would include direct payments of $1,400 to all Americans. He has also included funding to help schools safely reopen, which he wants to happen in the first 100 days.\n\nIt'll be in addition to a long-awaited $900bn stimulus package Congress passed in December, which Mr Biden had called a \"down payment\" on the larger proposed package.\n\nRepublicans lawmakers are likely to object to parts of the bill, which will add more debt to what the US has already spent dealing with the pandemic - and Mr Biden will need bipartisan support for the plan.\n\nDemocrats currently control both chambers of Congress, but only by narrow margins.\n\nCovid aid isn't the only priority on the incoming president's economic agenda. He has pledged to get rid of Mr Trump's signature tax cuts as soon as he takes office.\n\nMr Trump passed the cuts in 2017, early in his presidency, and the Biden team says they unfairly reward the wealthiest Americans and favour corporations over small businesses.\n\nMr Biden has also said he would swiftly double the taxes that US firms pay on foreign profits - part of his Made in America push - which would come in addition to a rise in corporate taxes.\n\nHis tax policy legislation will need to pass Congress.\n\nAnother move Mr Biden says he will make on his first day in office is to rejoin the Paris climate agreement, a global accord that includes the goal to keep temperatures below 2.0C (3.6F) above pre-industrial times and \"endeavour to limit\" them even more, to 1.5C.\n\nHis predecessor pulled the US out of the 2015 accord - it became official on 4 November - making it the first nation in the world to do so.\n\nThe US will officially be part of the agreement again within 30 days.\n\nMr Biden has also pledged to \"up the ante\" and aim for higher standards on climate mitigation measures, and to convene a climate world summit within the first 100 days in office.\n\nMr Biden has said he wants to work with Congress to enact legislation this year that will allow the US to reach net-zero emissions by 2050.\n\nIn a move that has already sparked alarm with his northern neighbours, Mr Biden is reportedly planning to immediately rescind the cross-border permit for the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, a planned project from the oil sands of Canada's Alberta province, through Montana and South Dakota, to rejoin an existing pipeline to Texas.\n\nA further agenda item is a U-turn on much of Mr Trump's legacy of climate and energy deregulation, like the easing of vehicle emissions targets.\n\nMr Biden has said he will negotiate \"rigorous\" new emissions limits on cars and heavy-duty vehicles, to conserve 30% of US lands and waters by 2030, to ban new drilling on public lands, and to close the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling.\n\nThe new administration says it plans also to bring in \"aggressive\" methane pollution limits for oil and gas operations and to ban new oil and gas leasing on public lands and waters.\n\nThe travel ban, signed by Mr Trump just seven days after taking office in January 2017, will be among the first policies to be discarded.\n\nThe ban initially excluded people from seven majority-Muslim countries, but the list was modified following a series of court challenges.\n\nIt now restricts citizens of Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria, Yemen, Venezuela and North Korea.\n\nIn another major immigration pledge, Mr Biden has said he'll swiftly send a bill to Congress laying out a pathway to citizenship for over 11 million undocumented immigrants.\n\n\"And all of those so-called dreamers, those Daca [Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals programme] kids, they're going to be immediately certified again to be able to stay in this country and put on a path to citizenship,\" he said in late October.\n\nLate in the election, the campaign announced Mr Biden would create a task force to reunite some 545 migrant children separated from their parents at the US southern border.\n\nIn December, the Biden team conceded it would need more time to roll back one of Mr Trump's policies, the Migrant Protection Protocols that force thousands of asylum seekers to wait in Mexico for US immigration court hearings.\n\nOnce a \"Day One\" pledge, officials now say it could take about six months to address.\n\nMr Biden has vowed to halt construction of a project synonymous with Mr Trump's presidency - the border wall between the US and Mexico. His campaign had called it \"a waste of money\" that \"diverts critical resources away from the real threats\".\n\nThe administration says it will instead divert the federal funds towards efforts like new border screening measures.\n\nUS President Donald Trump tours and signs a section of the US-Mexico border wall\n\nThe national reckoning with race is the fourth crisis - alongside Covid, the economy and climate - Mr Biden says he must tackle quickly.\n\nSome of those policies - like addressing racial disparities in housing and healthcare - overlap with his other plans.\n\nMr Biden will sign an executive order on racial equality and call on all US agencies to create a plan to tackle any unequal barriers to opportunity. It will also rescind Mr Trump's executive order limiting the ability of federal government agencies to implement diversity and inclusion training.\n\nMr Biden has promised to set up a national police oversight body to assist in reforming police departments in his first 100 days in office, though details of that plan are scarce.\n\nHe has said he wants swift passage by Congress of the \"Safe Justice Act\", which includes measures on reforming mandatory minimum sentences and increasing funding for community based policing.\n\nHe has made commitments to the LGBT community as well, like directing resources towards helping prevent violence against transgender people, ending the ban on transgender people serving in the military, and restoring guidance for transgender students in schools.\n\nOne other priority is passing the Equality Act, which would add sexual orientation and gender identity to existing federal civil rights laws, though how fast he can pass that legislation remains unclear.\n\nThe incoming president says he plans to quickly reach out to US allies to smooth ruffled feathers and promise that \"America has your back\", saying the US must \"prove to the world that [it] is prepared to lead again - not just with the example of our power but also with the power of our example\".\n\nHe has said on his first day in the Oval Office he would reach out to Nato allies with the message \"we're back and you can count on us again\".\n\nThough Mr Trump was not the first president to pressure other North Atlantic Treaty Organisation members to spend more on defence, he threatened at times to withdraw from the alliance that Mr Biden has called the \"bulwark of the liberal democratic ideal\".", "More than 127,000 people in the UK who contracted coronavirus have lost their lives - with the pandemic claiming more than 3.4 million deaths worldwide. As the UK marks a year since the first coronavirus lockdown was called, it's a time for reflection.\n\nWe have gathered tributes to more than 770 of those who have died. Below are words of remembrance from friends, family and colleagues.\n\nPlease enable JavaScript or upgrade your browser to see this interactive\n\nThe tributes are displayed at random, which means that you will see different faces each time you visit this page.\n\nIf we have used your tribute to your friend or family member, it will appear in the carousel above, or you can find it by entering their name in the search box below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. Enter a name to search the tributes\n\nFor more on NHS and healthcare workers, please see this page dedicated to 100 people who died while helping to look after others.\n\nFor more on how it has affected people's lives, from family tragedy to its impact on everyday life, we have a collection of personal stories about life in lockdown.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Many were taken by surprise by the events in Washington, but to those who closely follow conspiracy and extreme right groups online, the warning signs were all there.\n\nAt 02:21 Eastern Standard Time on election night, President Trump walked onto a stage set up in the East Room of the White House and declared victory.\n\n\"We were getting ready to win this election. Frankly, we did win this election.\"\n\nHis speech came an hour after he'd tweeted: \"They are trying to steal the election\".\n\nHe hadn't won. There was no victory to steal. But to many of his most fervent supporters, these facts didn't matter, and still don't.\n\nSixty five days later, a motley coalition of rioters stormed the US Capitol building. They included believers in the QAnon conspiracy theory, members of \"Stop the Steal\" groups, far-right activists, online trolls and others.\n\nOn Friday 8 January - some 48 hours after the Washington riots - Twitter began a purge of some of the most influential pro-Trump accounts that had been pushing conspiracies and urging direct action to overturn the election result.\n\nThen came the big one - Mr Trump himself.\n\nThe president was permanently banned from tweeting to his more than 88 million followers \"due to the risk of further incitement of violence\".\n\nThe violence in Washington shocked the world and seemed to catch the authorities off guard.\n\nBut for anyone who had been carefully watching the unfolding story - online and on the streets of American cities - it came as no surprise.\n\nThe idea of a rigged election was seeded by the president in speeches and on Twitter, months before the vote.\n\nOn election day, the rumors started just as Americans were going to the polls.\n\nA video of a Republican poll watcher being denied entry to a Philadelphia polling station went viral. It was a genuine error, caused by confusion about the rules. The man was later allowed into the station to observe the count.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Will Chamberlain This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by Will Chamberlain\n\nBut it became the first of many videos, images, graphics and claims that went viral in the days that followed, giving rise to a hashtag: #StopTheSteal.\n\nThe message behind it was clear - Mr Trump had won a landslide victory, but dark forces in the establishment \"deep state\" had stolen it from him.\n\nIn the early hours of Wednesday 4 November, while votes were still being counted and three days before the US networks called the election for Joe Biden, President Trump claimed victory, alleging \"a fraud on the American public\".\n\nMr Trump did not provide any evidence to back up his claims. Studies carried out for previous US elections have shown that voter fraud is extremely rare.\n\nBy mid-afternoon a Facebook group called \"Stop the Steal\" was created and quickly became one of the fastest-growing in the platform's history. By Thursday morning, it had added more than 300,000 members.\n\nMany of the posts focused on unsubstantiated allegations of mass voter fraud, including manufactured claims that thousands of dead people had voted and that voting machines had somehow been programmed to flip votes from Mr Trump to Mr Biden.\n\nBut some of the posts were more alarming, speaking of the need for a \"civil war\" or \"revolution\".\n\nBy Thursday afternoon, Facebook had taken down Stop the Steal, but not before it had generated nearly half a million comments, shares, likes, and reactions.\n\nDozens of other groups quickly sprang up in its place.\n\nThe idea of a stolen election continued to spread online and take hold. Soon, a dedicated Stop the Steal website was launched in a bid to register \"boots on the ground to protect the integrity of the vote\".\n\nOn Saturday 7 November, major news organisations declared that Joe Biden had won the election. In Democratic strongholds, throngs of people took to the streets to celebrate. But the reaction online from Mr Trump's most ardent supporters was one of anger and defiance.\n\nThey planned a rally in Washington DC for the following Saturday, dubbed the Million MAGA (Make America Great Again) March.\n\nTrump tweeted that he might try to stop by the demonstration and \"say hello\".\n\nPrevious pro-Trump rallies in Washington had failed to attract large crowds. But thousands gathered at Freedom Plaza that sunny morning.\n\nOne extremism researcher called it the \"debut of the pro-Trump insurgency\".\n\nAs Trump's motorcade drove through the city, supporters screaming with delight rushed to catch a glimpse of the president, who beamed at them wearing a red MAGA hat.\n\nWhile mainstream conservative figures were present, the event was dominated by far-right groups.\n\nDozens of members of the far-right, anti-immigrant, all-male group Proud Boys, who have repeatedly been involved in violent street protests and were among those who would later break into the US Capitol, joined the march. Militia groups, far-right media figures and promoters of conspiracy theories were also there.\n\nAs night fell, clashes between Trump supporters and counter-protesters broke out, including a brawl about five blocks from the White House.\n\nThe violence - although largely contained by police on this occasion - was a clear sign of things to come.\n\nBy now, President Trump and his legal team had invested their hopes in dozens of legal cases.\n\nAlthough a number of courts had already dismissed fraud allegations, many in the pro-Trump online world became fascinated with two lawyers with close ties to the president - Sidney Powell and L Lin Wood.\n\nMs Powell and Mr Wood promised they were preparing cases of voter fraud so comprehensive that when released, they would destroy the case for Mr Biden having won the presidency.\n\nMs Powell, 65, a conservative activist and former federal prosecutor, told Fox News that the effort would \"release the Kraken\" - a reference to a gigantic sea monster from Scandinavian folklore that rises up from the ocean to devour its enemies.\n\nThe \"Kraken\" quickly became an internet meme, representing sprawling, unsubstantiated claims of widespread election fraud.\n\nMs Powell and Mr Wood became heroes to followers of the QAnon conspiracy theory - who believe President Trump and a secret military intelligence team are battling a deep state made up of Satan-worshipping paedophiles in the Democratic Party, media, business and Hollywood.\n\nThe lawyers became a conduit between the president and his most conspiracy-minded supporters - a number of whom ended up inside the Capitol on 6 January.\n\nMs Powell and Mr Wood were successful in whipping up sound and fury online, but their legal efforts came to nothing.\n\nWhen they released almost 200 pages of documents in late November, it became clear that their lawsuit consisted predominantly of conspiracy theories and debunked allegations that had already been rejected by dozens of courts.\n\nThe filings contained simple legal errors - and basic misspellings and typos.\n\nStill, the meme lived on. The terms \"Kraken\" and \"Release the Kraken\" were used more than a million times on Twitter before the Capitol riot.\n\nDeath threats were made against a Georgia election worker, and Republican officials in the state - including Governor Brian Kemp, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and the official in charge of the state's voting systems, Gabriel Sterling - were branded \"traitors\" online.\n\nMr Sterling issued an emotional and prescient warning to the president in a press conference on 1 December.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"This has to stop... someone's gonna get killed\": Mr Sterling calls on President Trump to condemn the threats\n\n\"Someone's going to get hurt, someone's going to get shot, someone's going to get killed, and it's not right,\" he said.\n\nIn Michigan in early December, Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, a Democrat, had just finished trimming her Christmas tree with her four-year-old son when she heard a commotion outside her Detroit home.\n\nAbout 30 protesters with banners stood outside, shouting \"Stop the steal!\" through megaphones.\n\n\"Benson, you are a villain,\" one person yelled.\n\nOne of the demonstrators live-streamed the protest on Facebook, stating that her group was \"not going away\".\n\nIt was just one of a rash of protests targeting people involved in the vote.\n\nIn Georgia, a constant stream of Trump supporters drove past Mr Raffensperger's home, honking their horns. His wife received threats of sexual violence.\n\nIn Arizona, demonstrators gathered outside of the home of Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, a Democrat, at one point warning: \"We are watching you.\"\n\nOn 11 December, the Supreme Court rejected an attempt by the state of Texas to throw out election results.\n\nAs the president's legal and political windows continued to close, the language in pro-Trump online circles became increasingly violent.\n\nOn 12 December, a second Stop the Steal rally was held in the capital. Once again, thousands attended, and once again prominent far-right activists, QAnon supporters, fringe MAGA groups and militia movements were among the demonstrators.\n\nMichael Flynn, Mr Trump's former national security advisor, likened the protesters to the biblical soldiers and priests breaching the walls of Jericho. This echoed the rally organisers' call for \"Jericho Marches\" to overturn the election result.\n\nNick Fuentes, the leader of Groypers, a far-right movement that targets Republican politicians and figures they deem too moderate, told the crowd: \"We are going to destroy the GOP!\"\n\nThe march once again turned violent.\n\nThen two days later, the Electoral College certified Mr Biden's victory, one of the final steps required for him to take office.\n\nOn online platforms, supporters were becoming resigned to the view that all legal avenues were dead ends, and only direct action could save the Trump presidency.\n\nSince election day, alongside Mr Flynn, Ms Powell and Mr Wood, a new figure had rapidly gained prominence among pro-Trump circles online.\n\nRon Watkins is the son of Jim Watkins, the man behind 8chan and 8kun - message boards filled with extreme language and views, violence and extreme sexual content. They gave rise to the QAnon movement.\n\nIn a series of viral tweets on 17 December, Ron Watkins suggested President Trump should follow the example of Roman leader Julius Caesar, and capitalise on \"fierce loyalty of the military\" in order to \"restore the Republic\".\n\nRon Watkins encouraged his more than 500,000 followers to make #CrossTheRubicon a Twitter trend, referring to the moment when Caesar launched a civil war by crossing the Rubicon river in 49BC. The hashtag was also used by more mainstream figures - including the chairwoman of Arizona Republican Party, Kelli Ward.\n\nIn a separate tweet, Ron Watkins said Mr Trump must invoke the Insurrection Act, which empowers the president to deploy the military and federal forces.\n\nMr Trump met Ms Powell, Mr Flynn and others at a strategy meeting at the White House the following day, 18 December.\n\nDuring the meeting, according to the New York Times, Mr Flynn called on Mr Trump to impose martial law and deploy the military to \"rerun\" the election.\n\nThe meeting further stoked online chatter about \"war\" and \"revolution\" in far-right circles. Many came to see the joint session of Congress on 6 January, normally a formality, as a last roll of the dice.\n\nA wishful story began to take hold among QAnon and some MAGA supporters. They hoped that Vice-President Mike Pence, who was set to preside over the 6 January ceremony, would ignore the electoral college votes.\n\nThe president, they said, would then deploy the military to quell any unrest, order the mass arrest of the \"deep state cabal\" who had rigged the election and send them to Guantanamo Bay military prison.\n\nBack in the land of reality, none of this was remotely feasible. But it launched a movement for \"patriot caravans\" to organise ride shares to help transport thousands from around the country to Washington DC on 6 January.\n\nLong processions of vehicles flying Trump flags and sometimes towing elaborately decorated trailers gathered in car parks in cities including Louisville, Kentucky, Atlanta, Georgia, and Scranton, Pennsylvania.\n\n\"We are on our way,\" one caravaner posted on Twitter with a picture of about two dozen supporters.\n\nAt an Ikea parking lot in North Carolina, another man showed off his truck. \"The flags are a little tattered - we'll call them battle flags now,\" he said.\n\nAs it became clear that Mr Pence and other key Republicans would follow the law and allow Congress to certify Mr Biden's win, the language towards them became vicious.\n\n\"Pence will be in jail awaiting trial for treason,\" Mr Wood tweeted. \"He will face execution by firing squad.\"\n\nOnline discussion reached boiling point. References to firearms, war and violence were rife on self-styled \"free speech\" social platforms such as Gab and Parler, which are popular with Trump supporters, as well as on other sites.\n\nIn Proud Boys groups, where members had once supported police, some turned against authorities, whom they deemed to no longer be on their side.\n\nHundreds of posts on a popular pro-Trump site, TheDonald, openly discussed plans to cross barricades, carry firearms and other weapons to the march in defiance of Washington's strict gun laws. There was open chatter about storming the Capitol and arresting \"treasonous\" members of Congress.\n\nOn Wednesday 6 January, Mr Trump addressed a crowd of thousands at the Ellipse, a park just south of the White House, for more than an hour.\n\nEarly on he encouraged supporters to \"peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard\", but he ended with a warning. \"We fight like hell, and if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore.\n\n\"So we're going to, we're going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue… and we're going to the Capitol.\"\n\nTo some observers, the potential for violence that day was clear from the outset.\n\nMichael Chertoff, former secretary of homeland security under President George W Bush, blamed the Capitol Police, who reportedly turned down offers of assistance from the much larger National Guard ahead of time. He characterised it as \"the worst failure of a police force I can think of\".\n\n\"I think it was a very foreseeable potential negative turn of events,\" Mr Chertoff said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"To be blunt, it was obvious. If you read the newspaper and were awake, you understood that you've got a lot of people who have been convinced there was a fraudulent election. Some of them are extremists, and violent. Some of the groups openly said, 'Bring your guns'.\"\n\nStill, many Americans were astonished by Wednesday's scenes, like James Clark, a 68-year-old Republican from Virginia.\n\n\"I find it absolutely shocking. I didn't think it would come to this,\" he told the BBC.\n\nBut the signs were there for weeks. A hodgepodge of extreme and conspiratorial groups were convinced that the election was stolen. Online, they repeatedly talked about arming themselves, and violence.\n\nPerhaps the authorities didn't think their posts were serious, or specific enough to investigate. They now face pointed questions.\n\nFor Joe Biden's inauguration on 20 January, Mr Chertoff is expecting a \"much stronger showing\" by security services than last Wednesday night.\n\nBut that hasn't stopped many on extreme platforms calling for further violence and disruption on the day.\n\nThere are questions, too, for the major social media platforms, which enabled conspiracy theories to reach millions of people.\n\nLate on Friday, Twitter deleted the accounts of Mr Flynn, the former Trump advisor, the \"Kraken\" lawyers Ms Powell and Mr Wood, and Mr Watkins. Then Mr Trump himself.\n\nArrests of those who stormed the Capitol continue. But most of the rioters still live in a parallel online universe - a subterranean world filled with alternative facts.\n\nThey have already come up with fanciful explanations to dismiss Mr Trump's video statement, posted on Twitter the day after the riots, in which he acknowledged for the first time that \"a new administration will be inaugurated on 20 January\".\n\nHe can't possibly be giving up, they contend. Among their new theories - it's not really him in the video but a computer-generated \"deep fake\". Or perhaps the president is being held hostage.\n\nMany still believe Mr Trump will prevail.\n\nThere's no evidence behind any of this, but it does prove one thing.\n\nNo matter what happens to Donald Trump, the rioters who stormed the US Capitol are not backing down anytime soon.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid in Scotland: Schools to stay closed until mid-February at least\n\nScotland's Covid-19 lockdown has been extended until at least the middle of February, with most school pupils to continue learning from home.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon told MSPs that transmission of the virus appeared to be declining but was still too high to ease restrictions.\n\nBut she hopes schools will be able to at least begin a phased return to the classroom in the middle of next month.\n\nThe level four restrictions have been in place since Boxing Day.\n\nMeanwhile the islands of Barra and Vatersay are being moved into the top level of restrictions due to a \"significant outbreak\" there.\n\nThe current restrictions, which have closed non-essential shops and seen a \"stay at home\" message put down in law, had been due to expire at the end of this month.\n\nBut Scottish government ministers agreed they should be extended after a cabinet meeting on Tuesday morning.\n\nMs Sturgeon told MSPs that lockdown was \"beginning to have an impact\" on the number of new infections, but said Scotland remained in a \"very precarious position\".\n\nShe added: \"We need to be realistic that any improvement we are seeing is down, at this stage, to the fact that we are staying at home and reducing our interactions.\n\n\"Any relaxation of lockdown while case numbers, even though they might be declining, nevertheless remain very high, could quickly send the situation into reverse.\"\n\nThe vast majority of Scottish pupils have been home learning since the Christmas holiday\n\nThe announcement came as 1,165 new cases of Covid-19 were registered in Scotland, representing 11.1% of tests carried out.\n\nA total of 1,989 people are in hospital with the virus while a further 71 deaths of people who recently tested positive have been logged.\n\nMs Sturgeon said there was \"real and severe\" pressure on health services, with around 30% more patients in hospital than at the peak of the first wave in April 2020, and that this was \"almost certain to rise for a further period yet\".\n\nSchool buildings and nurseries have been closed to most pupils since the start of term, with all but the children of some key workers and vulnerable pupils learning from home.\n\nNot only will schools remain closed to most pupils until at least mid-February, they are unlikely to return to normal at that point.\n\nThe first minister has indicated that her aim is to begin a phased return, if coronavirus allows. So what might that mean?\n\nThe groups that will get back into class first are likely to include secondary school exam year pupils, the youngest primary school children and those in P7 getting ready to move to high school.\n\nFor others, online learning is likely to last a bit longer.\n\nBoth the return to school and the continuation of the wider lockdown will be reviewed again in a fortnight on 2 Feb.\n\nBy that week, first doses of vaccine should have been offered to all over 80s in Scotland as well as frontline NHS and social care staff and care home residents.\n\nWith only 15-20% of the over 80s reached so far, opposition parties think the programme is slipping behind schedule, which the first minister denies.\n\nMs Sturgeon said she knew how \"challenging and stressful\" home schooling was for families, but said community transmission was \"too high\" to allow a safe return to classrooms.\n\nShe said: \"If it is at all possible, as I very much hope it will be, to begin even a phased return to in-school learning in mid-February, we will.\n\n\"But I also have to be straight with families and say that it is simply too early to be sure about whether and to what extent this will be possible.\"\n\nStatistics released on Monday showed that Scotland had vaccinated 6% of its adult population so far - the same percentage as Wales, but lower than the 8% that have been vaccinated in England and 8.7% in Northern Ireland.\n\nEngland has also given a second dose of the vaccine to 427,386 people, compared to only 3,698 in Scotland.\n\nMs Sturgeon said approximately 100,000 people were being vaccinated per week in Scotland, and that health teams were \"on track\" to expand this to 400,000 per week by the end of February.\n\nStatistics have suggested the vaccination programme in Scotland is currently lagging behind England\n\nMore than 90% of care home residents have now been given a first dose, along with 70% of care home staff and 70% of all frontline health and care workers.\n\nThe first minister said the focus on care homes - where it is \"time consuming and labour intensive\" to give out jabs - was \"why overall figures are at this stage lower than in England\", where more over-80s have received the vaccine.\n\nShe said the \"pace of progress in the over-80s group is also now picking up\", and that the government remained on track to hit its target of completing everyone on the priority list by early May.\n\nScottish Conservative group leader Ruth Davidson said the Scottish government were \"lagging behind their own targets\" on vaccination, saying the focus on care homes \"doesn't explain how slowly the vaccine is reaching GP surgeries and the public\".\n\nShe read out a series of letters from elderly people who had not been contacted about getting a jab, saying they were \"anxious they don't get left behind\".\n\nMs Sturgeon said she would not apologise for \"prioritising the most vulnerable first\", saying all four UK nations were \"working to the same targets\".\n\nScottish Labour's interim leader Jackie Baillie asked if Ms Sturgeon was confident the government could hit its \"critical\" targets, saying GPs were still complaining about \"patchy\" distribution of vaccines.\n\nThe first minister replied that her government would hit its goals, saying it was \"always the intention\" to increase the pace of vaccination as infrastructure and supplies became available.\n\nThis would see care home residents, healthcare staff and all over-80s get a first dose by the start of February, with over-70s and those deemed \"extremely vulnerable\" by mid-February and all over-65s by the beginning of March.", "The last vestiges of the Trump presidency will be swept away on Wednesday, as the Bidens move into the White House. Desks will have been cleared out, rooms scrubbed clean and the president's aides will be replaced by a new team of political appointees. It's part of the massive transformation that a new presidency brings to the heart of government.\n\nOne evening last week, Stephen Miller, a policy adviser and central figure in the Trump White House, was lounging in the West Wing.\n\nMiller, who has crafted speeches and policies for the president since his early days in office, is also one of the few members of the president's initial team still with him at the end.\n\nLeaning against a wall and chatting with colleagues about a meeting scheduled for later that day, he seemed in no hurry to leave.\n\nThe West Wing usually hums with activity but it seemed deserted. The phones were quiet. Desks in empty offices were cluttered with papers and unopened letters, as if people had left in a hurry and would not be coming back. Dozens of senior officials and aides quit in the wake of the Capitol riots on 6 January. A handful of loyalists, like Miller, remain.\n\nAs the conversation began to wind down, he broke away from his colleagues. When I asked him where he was headed next, he smiled. \"Back to my office,\" he said and sauntered down the hall.\n\nOn inauguration day, Miller's office will have been cleaned out, swept of signs that he and his colleagues had ever been there, ready for the Biden team to move in.\n\nThe cleaning out of West Wing offices, and the transition between presidents, is part of a tradition that dates back centuries. It's a process that has not always been imbued with warmth.\n\nAnother impeached president, Andrew Johnson, a Democrat, snubbed Republican Ulysses S Grant in 1869 and skipped the inauguration. Grant, who had backed Johnson's removal from office, was hardly surprised.\n\nStaff have started moving paperwork and pictures out of the White House\n\nThis year, however, the transition stands out for its acrimony. The process usually starts straight after the election, but it started weeks late after Trump refused to accept the result. And the president has said he will not attend the inauguration. Most likely, he will instead travel to his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida.\n\nStill, the handover is taking place, just as it has in the past. \"The system is holding,\" says Sean Wilentz, a professor of American history at Princeton University. \"It's very rocky, it's very bumpy, but nevertheless the transition is going to occur.\"\n\nEven in the best of times, the logistics of a transition are daunting, involving the transfer of knowledge and employees on a massive scale.\n\nStephen Miller is just one of 4,000 political appointees hired by the Trump administration who will lose their job and be replaced by individuals hired by Mr Biden.\n\nDuring an average transition, between 150,000-300,000 people apply for these jobs, according to the Center for Presidential Transition, a nonpartisan organisation based in Washington. About 1,100 of the positions also require Senate confirmation. Filling all of these positions takes months, even years.\n\nFour years of policy papers, briefing books and artefacts relating to the president's work will be carted off to the National Archives where they will be kept secret for 12 years, unless the president himself decides that portions may be released early.\n\nOn a weekday evening during Trump's last week in office, the door to the office of Kayleigh McEnany, the president's press secretary, was partly open.\n\nMcEnany has been one of the president's most high-profile defenders. Impeccably groomed, she is a precise speaker who maintains her composure amidst chaos.\n\nKayleigh McEnany has packed up her office in the White House\n\nHer office, too, was organised in a meticulous manner, even as she prepared to leave. A mirror stood on her desk, and several fireplace logs were wrapped in clear plastic and packed up.\n\nGenerally, the last few days are \"controlled chaos,\" says Kate Andersen Brower, who has written a book about the White House, The Residence.\n\nFurniture in the White House, such as the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office, most of the artwork, china and other objects, belong to the government and will remain on the premises.\n\nBut other items, like photos of the president that hang in the hallway, will be taken down as the White House is transformed for its new occupants.\n\nStaffers are already moving some items out of the building. One White House staffer, a woman in sturdy heels, was lugging several images of First Lady Melania Trump out of the East Wing. The pictures are known as \"jumbos\" because of their extra-large size, she says, and they will be taken to the National Archives.\n\nThe Trumps' personal belongings, such as clothes, jewellery, and other items will be moved to their new residence, most likely at Mar-a-Lago in Florida.\n\nAnd this year, the place will be deep cleaned.\n\nPresident Biden is expected to make decorative changes to the Oval Office\n\nThe president, as well as Mr Miller and dozens of others at the White House, were infected with the coronavirus over the past several months, and the six-floor building, with its 132 rooms, will be thoroughly scrubbed down. Everything from handrails to elevator buttons to restroom fixtures will be wiped and sanitised, according to a spokeswoman for the General Services Administration, the federal agency that oversees the housekeeping effort.\n\nIncoming first families usually do some redecoration. Within days of arriving at the White House, Mr Trump had chosen a portrait of populist president Andrew Jackson for the Oval Office. He also replaced the drapes, couches and a rug in the office with ones that were gold-coloured.\n\nOn inauguration day, Vice-President Pence and his wife will also make way for Kamala Harris, and her husband, Doug Emhoff. They will be settling into their official residence, a 19th Century residence on the Naval Observatory grounds, a couple of miles from the White House.\n\nPolicy adviser Stephen Miller may have lingered in the West Wing, but others were ready to go. At the White House, people were lugging thick manila envelopes, framed photos and bags from a gift shop. \"It's my last day,\" says one man, smiling as he took a photo of his sons on the north lawn. A bulging backpack was slung over his shoulder.\n\nA group of National Security officials posed in front of the West Wing, asking me to take their picture. \"Make sure you get the marine guard,\" says one of the officials, referring to a marine who stands in front of the doorway when the president is in the Oval Office. The officials were in high spirits, joking and vamping for the camera.\n\nThe political appointees at the White House were in a good mood for a reason. For weeks, they had been caught in an in-between world. Their boss was denying the validity of the election, but they knew that their days were numbered. Now they could plan openly for their future, and they seemed almost giddy.\n\nOne political appointee, a man dressed in a dark suit, was already making plans. He ran into a colleague outside the Palm room, a reception area on the ground floor. \"See you on the flip side,\" he said, brightly. He was referring to the time after the inauguration, when they will both be out of their White House jobs. He mused about where they might meet again. \"Hopefully in the Greek isles or somewhere.\"\n\n\"Oh, yes. That is for sure,\" said his colleague, laughing. They smacked a high-five and then parted ways.", "Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng has confirmed the government is looking at scrapping some EU labour laws now it is no longer bound by the bloc's rules.\n\nBut he promised there would be no dilution of workers' rights.\n\nMeasures under consideration include relaxing the working time directive which enshrines a 48-hour week.\n\nShadow business secretary Ed Miliband warned the government wanted to take a \"wrecking ball\" to hard-won rights.\n\nEarlier this week Mr Kwarteng said he wanted to \"protect and enhance\" labour law after the Financial Times reported that some rules could be weakened.\n\nThe minister later told business leaders the UK had an opportunity to reform regulation derived from EU law, but would not deliberately antagonise the EU - its biggest trading partner - immediately after the Brexit deal.\n\nConfirming the review on Tuesday, Mr Kwarteng told MPs there would be no \"bonfire of rights\".\n\n\"I think the view was that we wanted to look at the whole range of issues relating to our EU membership and examine what we wanted to keep, if you like,\" he said.\n\nBut he said \"the idea that we are trying to whittle down standards, that's not at all plausible or true\".\n\nAppearing before MPs, the business secretary said: \"I'm very struck as I look at EU economies how many EU countries - I think it's about 17 or 18 - have essentially opted out of the working time directive.\n\n\"So even by just following that we are way above the average European standard and I want to maintain that. I think we can be a high-wage, high-employment economy, a very successful economy, and that's what we should be aiming for.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Kwasi Kwarteng This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Miliband said that after denying the FT's report, Mr Kwarteng had now \"let the cat out of the bag\" in admitting the government was conducting a review.\n\nHe warned that opting out of the 48-hour week would harm workers in key sectors like the NHS, road haulage and airlines from working excessive hours.\n\n\"A government committed to maintaining existing protections would not be reviewing whether they should be unpicked. This exposes that the government's priorities for Britain are totally wrong.\"\n\nDrew Hendry, the SNP's business spokesman, echoed the criticism, accusing the government of planning an \"assault\" on workers' rights.\n\nMeanwhile the boss of the UK's biggest recruitment firm, Reed, told the BBC's Today programme that there was \"no wish\" among employers to see \"a so-called bonfire of workers' rights.\n\n\"They must be protected because fair treatment is the bedrock of good workplace relations,\" James Reed said.\n\nThe chairman of the firm said the government should instead focus on lower-paid workers and measures that could be taken to improve unemployment, which is set to rise further into mid-2021.\n\n\"I would suggest two things are looked at before any EU rules: The apprenticeship levy, which is clearly failing... and also National Insurance on jobs. It's a tax on jobs - how can that be improved? Especially to help the low-paid back into work.\"\n\nUnder the post-Brexit trade deal with the EU, the UK has agreed to conditions that maintain fair competition, or a level playing field, between the two sides.\n\nHowever, the EU's ambassador to the UK, Joao Vale de Almeida, said Brussels could retaliate if Boris Johnson's government went too far in with deregulation.\n\n\"It will be for us to judge the extent to which it violates this principle of 'level playing field' and if that is the case there are mechanisms in the treaty, in the agreement, that allow us to discuss and eventually to come to an understanding,\" he said on Tuesday.\n\n\"If no understanding there are retaliation measures that can be applied on both sides.\"", "At 12:01, in the midst of his inaugural address, Joe Biden officially became the 46th president of the United States.\n\nHe was already well into outlining exactly how daunting a task he - and the nation - have ahead in what he called its \"winter of peril\".\n\nAmerica is facing a devastating pandemic which has resulted in massive job losses and business closures, a threatened environment, urgent cries for racial justice and resurgence in \"political extremism, white supremacy and domestic terrorism\".\n\nHis speech was not a laundry list of proposals and solutions. Those were reserved for his first 17 executive actions as president - on immigration, climate change, transgender rights and public health, among others.\n\nThe Biden administration has also frozen all of Trump's last-minute regulations pending further review.\n\nInstead, Biden used his speech to offer hope - and to argue, at times forcefully, that the nation must be united in facing the challenges ahead; that it has to move past its current \"uncivil war\".\n\n\"Without unity, there is no peace, only bitterness and fury,\" he said. \"No progress, only exhausting outrage. No nation, only a state of chaos.\"\n\n\"This is our historic moment of crisis and challenge,\" he continued. \"And unity is the path forward\".\n\nAt times, Biden's speech seemed a direct rebuttal to his predecessor's administration, although he did not mention Donald Trump by name.\n\nWhere Trump frequently spoke of American greatness and glorified its founders, Biden noted that the nation's history has been a \"constant struggle\" between its ideals and sometimes harsh realities.\n\nWhere Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway spoke of \"alternative facts\" almost four years ago, Biden said: \"There is truth and there are lies - lies told for power and for profit.\"\n\nBiden wrapped up his inaugural address by warning that America must not \"turn inward\" - both as individuals retreating into \"competing factions\" and as a nation on the world stage.\n\n\"We will repair our alliances and engage with the world once again,\" he said.\n\nRhetorically, Biden turned the page from Trump's days of \"America first\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe first 100 days of any administration are always important to a new president. What are his priorities? What will he try to accomplish when his political capital is at its highest?\n\nJoe Biden and his presidential team have had nearly three months to plan out his first actions upon taking the oath of office, but executive action is the (relatively) easy part.\n\nHis speech reflected the reality that he enters office with his top priorities already determined for him.\n\nHis government will be responsible for distributing the coronavirus vaccine in an efficient and equitable way. After that, he will have to focus on the societal and economic disruptions caused by the pandemic.\n\nThe virus has exacerbated income inequality and pushed many households to the brink of economic ruin. It's devastated the travel and hospitality industries and placed incredible strain on the finances of state and local governments.\n\nHis pledge to seek unity will be tested early, as he pushes a sharply divided Congress to pass another, massive round of pandemic stimulus aid. If he wants to enact it quickly, he will need Republican support in the Senate, and already there are signs that some on the right may be lining up in opposition to more spending.\n\nThen there's Trump's Senate impeachment trial, which will present yet another challenge to national unity. It will keep Trump's name in the news for weeks, as his defenders rally to his side and his detractors call for consequences for his actions.\n\nAfter that, Biden's potential political paths diverge. He has said he wants to improve healthcare in the US, address growing college debt, make new investments in infrastructure and tackle climate change.\n\nHe's pledged to push immigration reform legislation that includes a pathway to citizenship for undocumented migrants - a political lightning rod that helped fuel Trump's first presidential run.\n\nWhat he prioritises, and how successful his first efforts are, could determine the overall success of his administration. To make lasting change - policies that can't be undone by future presidents - he will have to work with Congress.\n\nThe inauguration ceremony is over. But, as Biden noted in his speech, the American people face one of the most challenging times in their nation's history.\n\n\"We will be judged by how we resolve these cascading crises of our era,\" he said.\n\nBiden campaigned against Trump for the opportunity to face those crises. Now he has his chance.", "Anyone going on a Saga holiday or cruise in 2021 must be fully vaccinated against Covid-19, the tour operator has said.\n\nSaga, which specialises in holidays for the over-50s, said it wanted to protect customers' health and safety.\n\nThe firm said it would delay restarting its travel packages until May to give customers enough time to get jabs.\n\nPeople over 50 in the UK have been rushing to book holidays as vaccinations boost confidence.\n\n\"The health and safety of our customers has always been our number one priority at Saga, so we have taken the decision to require everyone travelling with us to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19,\" Saga said in a statement.\n\n\"Our customers want the reassurance of the vaccine and to know others travelling with them will be vaccinated too.\"\n\nThe firm's holidays were due to restart in March and its cruises in April after a long hiatus, but they will now both be delayed.\n\nSaga said that meant all trips before May would no longer go ahead as planned, acknowledging it would be \"a huge disappointment\" to customers.\n\n\"We will be contacting all guests affected to discuss their options,\" it said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Singapore's 'cruises to nowhere' set back by Covid scare\n\nThe firm said its vaccination policy added to stronger safety processes already planned for when its holidays resume.\n\nThese include requiring cruise passengers to have a Covid-19 test before their trip, as well as a full medical screening.\n\nCapacity on its ships will also be kept to a maximum of 800 people.\n\nThere were some severe covid outbreaks on cruise ships early on the pandemic, before coronavirus restrictions were imposed.\n\nBritish-registered ship the Diamond Princess, owned by the company Carnival, was quarantined for nearly a month in February in the Port of Yokohama in Japan.\n\nMore than 700 of its 3,711 passengers and crew were infected, and 14 died.\n\nThe UK has embarked on a mass vaccination programme as Covid-19 cases surge.\n\nPeople in England are being vaccinated at a rate of 140 jabs per minute, NHS England boss Sir Simon Stevens said this week.\n\nExperts believe in future that airlines, concert venues and restaurants could routinely ask customers to prove that they have been vaccinated.\n\nAnd last week, London plumbing firm Pimlico Plumbers said that all of its staff would be contractually obliged to get the jab.", "The government does not know how many cases might be affected by hundreds of thousands of police records being accidentally wiped, the PM has said.\n\nBoris Johnson told the House of Commons the police were working \"round the clock\" to rectify the error.\n\nAround 400,000 fingerprint, DNA and arrest records were deleted from the police database.\n\nEarlier, Home Secretary Priti Patel said it was not yet known whether any of the data had been permanently lost.\n\nSpeaking during Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Johnson said: \"The Home Office is actively working to assess the damage and... they believe that they will be able to rectify the results of this complex incident and they hope very much that they'll be able to restore the data in question.\"\n\nAsked by Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer how many convicted criminals had had their records wrongly deleted, Mr Johnson said: \"We don't know how many cases might be frustrated as a result of what has happened.\"\n\nHe added: \"Of course it is outrageous that any data should have been lost.\"\n\nLast week it was revealed that the information was wiped from the Police National Computer (PNC) - which stores and shares criminal records information across the UK - after being inadvertently flagged for deletion.\n\nThe PNC is used in police investigations and provides real-time checks on people, vehicles and crimes, as well as whether suspects are wanted for any unsolved offences.\n\nAn estimated 213,000 offence records, 175,000 arrest records and 15,000 records on people were potentially incorrectly deleted as a result of a defective code.\n\nMs Patel, who has launched an internal investigation, told ITV's Good Morning Britain that criminals would not get away with serious crimes as a result of the error.\n\n\"It is not about serious criminals getting away with anything. Multiple records are held on the same individuals on the same crimes on other profiling systems as well.\"\n\nShe told the BBC that officials could be instructed to re-submit the entries manually.\n\n\"I'm also clear with Home Office engineers and technicians that if we have to do manual uploads from other systems, that is effectively what we will do and that will potentially take time, but that is another option for us right now.\n\n\"We will absolutely provide updates once we know what has happened in terms of retrieving data. This will take time because it is a coding error.\"\n\nThe Home Office previously said that the faulty script was introduced in November 2020, but it did not run until earlier this month when the error within it immediately became apparent.", "After vowing to uphold and defend the Constitution of United States, Joe Biden has been officially sworn in as the 46th US president.\n\nThe new president's oath of office was administered by Chief Justice John G Roberts.\n\nRead more:Joe Biden becomes the 46th US president", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Hill We Climb: Watch 22-year-old Amanda Gorman's poem reading at Joe Biden's inauguration\n\nAmanda Gorman has become the youngest poet ever to perform at a presidential inauguration, calling for \"unity and togetherness\" in her self-penned poem.\n\nThe 22-year-old delivered her work The Hill We Climb to both the dignitaries present in Washington DC and a watching global audience.\n\n\"When day comes, we ask ourselves where can we find light in this never-ending shade?\" her five-minute poem began.\n\nShe went on to reference the storming of the Capitol earlier this month.\n\n\"We've seen a force that would shatter our nation rather than share it, would destroy our country if it meant delaying democracy,\" she declared.\n\n\"And this effort very nearly succeeded. But while democracy can be periodically delayed, it can never be permanently defeated.\"\n\nThe poet was applauded by Vice President Kamala Harris\n\nIn her poem, Gorman described herself as \"a skinny black girl descended from slaves and raised by a single mother [who] can dream of becoming president, only to find her self reciting for one\".\n\nAmerica's first-ever National Youth Poet Laureate did her job, which was to find the right words at the right time.\n\nIt was a beautifully paced, well-judged poem for a special occasion, but it will live long beyond the time and space of the moment.\n\nAmanda Gorman delivered her piece with grace, the words it contained will resonate with people the world over: today, tomorrow, and far into the future.\n\nThe writer and performer, who became the country's first National Youth Poet Laureate in 2017, followed in the footsteps of such famous names as Robert Frost and Maya Angelou.\n\n\"I really wanted to use my words to be a point of unity and collaboration and togetherness,\" Gorman told the BBC World Service's Newshour programme before the ceremony.\n\n\"I think it's about a new chapter in the United States, about the future, and doing that through the elegance and beauty of words.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUS broadcaster and actress Oprah Winfrey tweeted that she had \"never been prouder to see another young woman rise\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Oprah Winfrey This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAlso on Twitter, Joanne Liu, the former head of aid agency Médecins Sans Frontières, described the poem as \"the most inspiring 5:43 minutes for the longest time\".\n\nFormer First Lady Michelle Obama praised Gorman's \"strong and poignant words\" adding: \"Keep shining, Amanda!\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Michelle Obama This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nUS politician and rights activist Stacey Abrams said the poem was \"an inspiration to us all\".\n\nFormer presidential candidate Hillary Clinton tweeted that Gorman had promised to run for president in 2036 and added: \"I for one can't wait.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIllinois poet laureate Angela Jackson said the recitation was \"so rich and just so filled with truth\".\n\n\"I was stunned that she was so young and so wise,\" Jackson told the Chicago Sun-Times.\n\nGorman said she \"screamed and danced her head off\" when she found out she had been chosen to read at President Biden's swearing-in ceremony.\n\nShe said she felt \"excitement, joy, honour and humility\" when she was asked to take part, \"and also at the same time terror\".\n\nAnd she added that she hoped her poem, completed on the day supporters of former President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol, would \"speak to the moment\" and \"do this time justice\".\n\nGorman, pictured with actor Morgan Freeman in 2018, became LA's youth poet laureate at 16\n\nBorn in Los Angeles in 1998, Gorman had a speech impediment as a child - an affliction she shares with America's new president.\n\n\"It's made me the performer that I am and the storyteller that I strive to be,\" she said in a recent interview with the Los Angeles Times.\n\n\"When you have to teach yourself how to say sounds [and] be highly concerned about pronunciation, it gives you a certain awareness of sonics, of the auditory experience.\"\n\nGorman became LA's youth poet laureate at 16. Three years later, while studying sociology at Harvard, she became National Youth Poet Laureate.\n\nShe published her first book, The One for Whom Food Is Not Enough, in 2015 and will publish a picture book, Change Sings, later this year.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Kamala Harris was sworn into office by Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor.\n\nKamala Harris has made history as the first female, first black and first Asian-American US vice-president.\n\nShe was sworn in just before Joe Biden took the oath of office to become the 46th US president.\n\nMs Harris, who is of Indian-Jamaican heritage, initially ran for the Democratic nomination.\n\nBut Mr Biden won the race and chose Ms Harris as his running mate, describing her as \"a fearless fighter for the little guy\".\n\nPrior to taking the oath at the US Capitol, Ms Harris paid tribute to the women who she says came before her.\n\n\"I stand on their shoulders,\" she said in a video.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Kamala Harris This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEugene Goodman, the Capitol police officer who was hailed as a hero for steering a pro-Trump mob away from Senate chambers during the 6 January riot, escorted Ms Harris at the inauguration.\n\nMs Harris, 56, was born in Oakland, California, to two immigrant parents: an Indian-born mother and Jamaican-born father.\n\nKamala, left, as child with her mother and younger sister Maya\n\nShe went on to attend Howard University, one of the nation's preeminent historically black colleges and universities. She has described her time there as among the most formative experiences of her life.\n\nMs Harris says she's always been comfortable with her identity and simply describes herself as \"an American\".\n\nAfter four years at Howard, Ms Harris went on to earn her law degree at the University of California, Hastings, and began her career in the Alameda County District Attorney's Office.\n\nShe became the district attorney - the top prosecutor - for San Francisco in 2003, before being elected the first female and the first African American to serve as California's attorney general, the top lawyer and law enforcement official in America's most populous state.\n\nIn her nearly two terms in office as attorney general, Ms Harris gained a reputation as one of the Democratic party's rising stars, using this momentum to propel her to election as California's junior US senator in 2017. She was only the second black woman ever elected to the US senate.\n\nShe launched her candidacy for president to a crowd of more than 20,000 in Oakland at the beginning of 2019.\n\nBut Ms Harris failed to articulate a clear rationale for her campaign, and gave muddled answers to questions in key policy areas like healthcare.\n\nShe was also unable to capitalise on the clear high point of her candidacy: debate performances that showed off her prosecutorial skills, often placing Mr Biden in the line of attack, most notably criticising his praise for the \"civil\" working relationship he had with former senators who favoured racial segregation.\n\nShe dropped out of the presidential race in December 2019.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBut Mr Biden chose her as his number two in August, calling her \"one of the country's finest public servants\".\n\nAfter Mr Biden was announced as the next president in November, Ms Harris tweeted a video of her congratulating her running mate.\n\n\"We did it, we did it Joe. You're going to be the next president of the United States!\" she beamed.", "Sophie Davies, from Shropshire, recovering from cervical cancer, says delays to screening could be a matter of life and death\n\nSmear-test delays during lockdown have prompted calls for home-screening kits.\n\nCervical cancer screening has restarted across the UK - but some women say they will not attend their appointments for fear of catching Covid.\n\nJo's Cervical Cancer Trust is urging \"faster action\" on home tests for HPV, which causes 99% of cervical cancers.\n\nAn NHS official said GP practices should continue screening throughout lockdown, and \"anyone invited for a cervical smear test should attend\".\n\nCancer Research UK said it was not yet known how effective and accurate self-sampling could be in cervical screening.\n\nScreenings in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have restarted after being halted during the first lockdown.\n\nIn England, the NHS told GPs and clinics not to halt smear tests - but, as the prime minister heard last week, some patients were experiencing cancellations and long waiting times.\n\nAbout 600,000 tests had failed to go ahead in the UK in April and May, Jo's Cervical Cancer Trust said, in addition to a backlog of 1.5 million appointments missed annually.\n\nIn March, Sophie Davies was told she needed a hysterectomy \"within the month\" but had to wait until December for surgery\n\nA survey by gynaecological cancer charity the Eve Appeal indicates nearly one in three missed smear tests are the result of people being \"put off\" by coronavirus.\n\nAnd a Jo's Cervical Cancer Trust survey during the pandemic suggests the same proportion would prefer to take their own human-papillomavirus (HPV) test rather than go to a GP.\n\nActing chief executive Rebecca Shoosmith said coronavirus had added \"more barriers\" to going for a smear test.\n\n\"Sadly those who found it difficult before are likely to be no closer to getting tested,\" she said.\n\nBoth charities emphasise smear tests are for \"women and anyone with a cervix\" and transgender and non-binary people may have additional barriers to going.\n\nJo's Cervical Cancer Trust said DIY tests could also help people who had been sexually assaulted and those with disabilities or from backgrounds where smear tests were taboo.\n\nSamantha Renke felt anxious about catching coronavirus when she went for her smear test\n\nSamantha Renke had received an abnormal test result and needed to go for a follow-up test during the pandemic.\n\nThe broadcaster and campaigner, who has brittle bones and uses a wheelchair, said a home-testing kit would have made things easier.\n\n\"I am at very high risk of getting seriously ill from Covid-19,\" the 35-year-old, from Lancashire, said.\n\n\"So I was incredibly anxious sitting in the waiting room for my test.\n\n\"Women with a physical disability are so much more likely to find cervical screening difficult, to the point where it can sometimes be impossible just to get through the door.\n\n\"We shouldn't have to fight to get this life-saving test.\n\n\"Self-sampling would be so much easier for people like me.\n\n\"It would allow me to take my health into my own hands.\"\n\nIshita Ranjan said talk of smear tests was taboo in traditional South Asian families\n\nIshita Ranjan finally went for her smear test in August, having put it off for a \"really long time\".\n\n\"In most traditional South Asian families, women's sexual health is not something you talk about openly,\" the 31-year-old, from London, said.\n\n\"Young women are left to figure this stuff out.\n\n\"Until you get married, older female relatives find it problematic to share that kind of information.\"\n\nA fear of catching coronavirus could be also stopping people belonging to ethnic minorities attending appointments.\n\n\"We have seen high Covid infection and death rates and people are genuinely scared,\" Ms Ranjan said.\n\n\"And it's really important that you do still go and do it.\n\n\"I was in and out in five minutes, no sitting around waiting rooms.\"\n\nHelen Austin founded At your Cervix, a support network for people who find smear tests difficult\n\nAfter experiencing sexual violence, it took Helen Austin 10 years to work up the courage to go for her smear test.\n\n\"When my first invite arrived through the post, years ago, my body froze, and I then ripped it up,\" she said.\n\nSelf-sampling would have given her time and privacy, the 35-year-old, from Lincolnshire, said.\n\n\"If my appointment had been during the pandemic and I could not have brought someone I trust with me to help me, I would never have gone,\" she said.\n\n\"Other trauma survivors I speak to find wearing a mask triggering and are putting off attending their test partly for this reason too.\"\n\nSophie Davies, 32, saw in the new year alone in hospital, after having a hysterectomy\n\nAfter developing a rare form of cervical cancer, Sophie Davies had a trachelectomy to remove her cervix, in April 2018, allowing doctors to save her ovaries and two-thirds of her womb.\n\nBut in March 2020, she was told the risk of cancer coming back meant she needed a hysterectomy and the removal of both ovaries.\n\n\"I was advised the operation needed to be done 'the sooner the better' and 'within the month',\" the 32-year-old, from Shropshire, said.\n\nAnd she had an \"agonising\" wait, until 30 December, for her surgery.\n\n\"I'm still awaiting my results, more than three weeks on, and praying I have not been left for the best part of a year with cancer growing inside me,\" Ms Davies said.\n\n\"These months of delay could be the difference in saving fertility or losing fertility.\n\n\"It could be the difference in needing chemotherapy or radiotherapy or not needing it, or could be the difference of life or death.\"\n\nCancer Research UK early diagnosis head Dr Jodie Moffat said research was under way to understand how effective and accurate self-sampling could be in cervical screening.\n\nBut getting more people screened \"is not the only hurdle to overcome\".\n\n\"The NHS is under immense pressure and would need more staff and equipment to ensure patients receive their results and any follow-up treatment as quickly as possible,\" she said.\n\nAn NHS official said: \"The NHS guidance that cervical screening should continue has not changed, which has been communicated to GP practices, which have adjusted the way they work to remain open and safe, while local NHS services across the country have put extra measures in place to protect people from coronavirus and so anyone invited for a cervical smear test should attend.\"", "The government has unveiled details of a £23m fund to support fishing firms as it tries to quell industry anger over Brexit border delays.\n\nThe money will help firms whose exports to the EU have fallen sharply since rules changed on 1 January.\n\nFishing firms say extra paperwork has made it difficult to deliver fresh produce to the EU before it goes off, hammering their businesses.\n\nOne trade group called the fund \"welcome\" but a \"sticking plaster\".\n\nOn Monday, fish exporters held demonstrations outside government departments in central London, warning their livelihoods were under threat.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson admitted many had experienced \"bureaucratic delays [and] difficulties getting their goods through\" to buyers on the other side of the channel.\n\nHaving left the EU's customs union and the single market, UK exports are subject to new customs and veterinary checks which have caused problems at the border.\n\nCovid has worsened the issue, with the industry also facing lower market prices and demand from restaurants due to the pandemic.\n\nThe government said the scheme would be targeted at small and medium-sized fishing businesses who will be able to claim a maximum of £100,000 to cover losses.\n\nChief Secretary to the Treasury Steve Barclay said: \"This further £23m package of support will help our hardworking fishing sector navigate the challenges of the next few months.\n\n\"It is vital that no community nor region within our United Kingdom is left behind as we continue to support British jobs and build back better from the coronavirus pandemic.\"\n\nIn addition to funding, the government will provide further training to help fishing businesses adapt to the new export processes.\n\nSeparately, the prime minister committed to providing a further £100m to help modernise UK fishing fleets and the fish processing industry.\n\nDonna Fordyce, chief executive of Seafood Scotland, said: \"After almost three weeks of voicing their concerns and frustrations, we welcome the fact that the Scottish seafood sector has been heard and action is being taken.\n\n\"This [fund] will offer a ray of light to some small and medium-sized companies that have experienced crippling losses over the past few weeks.\"\n\nHowever, while the money was \"a much-needed sticking plaster\", she said it would not \"completely staunch the wound\".\n\n\"The sector still needs a period of grace during which the [new trade] systems must be overhauled so they are fit for purpose.\"", "Under current rules, cafes and restaurants are only allowed to provide a takeaway service.\n\nNine Met Police officers have been fined for breaching lockdown rules to meet at a cafe while on duty.\n\nPictures emerged online showing the officers, from the South East Basic Command Unit, eating at The Chef House Kitchen Cafe, Greenwich, on 9 January.\n\nAll nine officers have been issued with a £200 fixed penalty notice.\n\nCh Supt Rob Atkin, said: \"It is right that they will pay a financial penalty and that they will be asked to reflect on their choices.\n\n\"Police officers are tasked with enforcing the legislation that has been introduced to stop the spread of the virus and the public rightly expect that they will set an example through their own actions.\n\n\"It is disappointing that on this occasion, these officers have fallen short of that expectation.\"\n\nThe group were spotted by a member of the public in the Greenwich cafe while their patrol vehicles were parked outside.\n\nUnder current rules, cafes and restaurants are only allowed to provide a takeaway service.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nPaul Pogba scored a superb winner as Manchester United reclaimed top spot in the Premier League by coming from behind for a club-record equalling away win at Fulham.\n\nIn what is becoming a familiar pattern for Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's side outside Manchester this season, they fell behind early in the game, with Ademola Lookman beating the offside trap before firing in an angled drive.\n\nBut for the seventh time away from Old Trafford in 2020-21, United found a winning response - taking their run to 17 games unbeaten away in the Premier League - courtesy of a gift from their opponents and a bit of magic from their French midfielder.\n\nGoalkeeper Alphonse Areola has been a good addition for the Cottagers but in dropping Bruno Fernandes' cross at the feet of Edinson Cavani, he gifted his former Paris St-Germain team-mate the simplest of equalisers.\n\nAnd on the hour mark, Pogba stepped up to decide the contest, firing a superb angled drive across the diving Areola and into the far corner from 20 yards.\n\nThe France international has come in for criticism at times this season but received nothing but praise from his manager after his winner.\n\n\"I am very happy with his performances,\" said Solskjaer.\n\n\"I know what he can do. He does everything. Now he is putting all the elements together in his performances and it is great to see.\n\n\"It was about getting him fit. He is enjoying his football, he is happy and physically in a good shape.\"\n\nThe win takes United to 40 points, two more than both Leicester and Manchester City, who had briefly taken top spot from the Foxes with a 2-0 win over Aston Villa on Wednesday.\n\nSolskjaer, though, was reluctant to get drawn into discussing his side's title credentials with so much of the campaign to go.\n\n\"It is always going to be talked about that when you are halfway through and top of the league, but we are not thinking about this, we just have to go one game at a time,\" he added. \"It is such an unpredictable season.\"\n\nFulham remain in the bottom three, four points behind 17th-placed Burnley.\n• None Man Utd or Man City to end day top? Cassia bassist Lou Cotterill takes on Lawro\n\nSolskjaer felt his side missed a big opportunity to fully assert their title credentials in failing to make the most of their chances in Sunday's 0-0 draw at champions Liverpool.\n\nUnited were clearly in no mood to repeat such a mistake at a wet and windy Craven Cottage on Wednesday against a less daunting and defining opposition, but one that is far more robust now than they were in the season's first month.\n\nThe visitors fell behind, but this is par for the course for this side, who once again did not panic, wrestled control of the game away from their opponents and took the win.\n\nIt is a handy trick for a title-challenging side to have in their locker, although one they would rather not have to repeatedly pull.\n\nIn truth, they should have won more handsomely.\n\nThey had the far greater share of possession and territory and were well ahead of their opponents on shots taken until a frantic finale in which the Cottagers threw in all they had in pursuit of a point.\n\nFred felt he should have had a penalty in the first half courtesy of being caught in the box by a loose challenge from Ruben Loftus-Cheek, but both on-field and VAR officials disagreed.\n\nHarry Maguire twice headed wide from corners, the first from a far less forgivable, unmarked position than the second.\n\nEqually, though, it is a game that could have seen them drop points, especially in light of Fulham's late barrage, which saw David de Gea save superbly with his legs to deny Loftus-Cheek, and the ball pinballing around the United box on more than one occasion.\n\nThe Cottagers demonstrated that they are no pushover, but they are making of habit of being on the rough end of fine margins.\n\nFive straight draws followed by two defeats by a single goal suggests their battle against the drop will go right down to the wire.\n\n\"I'm really pleased but I'm disappointed at the same time, which shows how far we've come,\" said Cottagers boss Scott Parker.\n\n\"I saw a team today that looked threatening and tried their hardest to get back into the game, but we go again. The next challenge is to maintain where we are and don't let defeat sink us.\n\n\"No doubt we can win and operate in this division and we just need to push on and keep improving.\"\n\nUnited lead the way in early concessions\n• None No side has conceded more goals in the opening five minutes of Premier League games this season than Manchester United (4). Manchester United have won seven Premier League games having gone behind this season - only Newcastle in 2001-02 (10) and Man Utd themselves in 2012-13 (9) have done so more in a single campaign.\n• None Manchester United are unbeaten in their last 17 Premier League away games (W13 D4), equalling their longest ever unbeaten run on the road in top-flight history (17 between December 1998 and September 1999).\n• None This was the 41st different game in which Fulham had led in all competitions under Scott Parker, but the first time they had lost such a game (W34 D6).\n• None Edinson Cavani became the first Man Utd player whose first four Premier League goals for the club were all scored away from home.\n• None Since his return to the club in 2016, no Man Utd player has scored more league goals from outside the box than Paul Pogba (6).\n• None Ademola Lookman has been involved in more Premier League goals than any other Fulham player this season (6 - 3 goals, 3 assists).\n• None Bruno Fernandes has gone three Premier League games without a goal or assist for the first time since his Manchester United debut in February 2020.\n\nFulham's next game is in the FA Cup, against Burnley on Sunday (14:30 GMT). Their next league fixture, an away game on Wednesday, 27 January, is a big one. Opponents Brighton are two places and five points above them in the table.\n\nManchester United host Liverpool in the FA Cup on Sunday at 17:00, live on the BBC. They are also in league action the following Wednesday hosting the league's bottom club Sheffield United in a 20:15 kick-off.\n• None Attempt missed. Aleksandar Mitrovic (Fulham) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Kenny Tete with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Ademola Lookman (Fulham) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Mario Lemina.\n• None Offside, Fulham. Aboubakar Kamara tries a through ball, but Kenny Tete is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Mario Lemina (Fulham) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Aboubakar Kamara.\n• None Attempt blocked. Joe Bryan (Fulham) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt missed. Ruben Loftus-Cheek (Fulham) right footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right following a fast break.\n• None Attempt blocked. Fred (Manchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Harry Maguire with a headed pass. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None You can stream five fourth-round games live on the BBC this weekend, including Liverpool's trip to Manchester United. Find out more here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThis is America's day. This is democracy's day. A day of history and hope, of renewal and resolve. Through a crucible for the ages, America has been tested anew and America has risen to the challenge. Today we celebrate the triumph not of a candidate but of a cause, a cause of democracy. The people - the will of the people - has been heard, and the will of the people has been heeded.\n\nWe've learned again that democracy is precious, democracy is fragile and, at this hour my friends, democracy has prevailed. So now on this hallowed ground where just a few days ago violence sought to shake the Capitol's very foundations, we come together as one nation under God - indivisible - to carry out the peaceful transfer of power as we have for more than two centuries.\n\nAs we look ahead in our uniquely American way, restless, bold, optimistic, and set our sights on a nation we know we can be and must be, I thank my predecessors of both parties for their presence here. I thank them from the bottom of my heart. And I know the resilience of our Constitution and the strength, the strength of our nation, as does President Carter, who I spoke with last night who cannot be with us today, but who we salute for his lifetime of service.\n\nI've just taken a sacred oath each of those patriots have taken. The oath first sworn by George Washington. But the American story depends not on any one of us, not on some of us, but on all of us. On we the people who seek a more perfect union. This is a great nation, we are good people. And over the centuries through storm and strife in peace and in war we've come so far. But we still have far to go.\n\nWe'll press forward with speed and urgency for we have much to do in this winter of peril and significant possibility. Much to do, much to heal, much to restore, much to build and much to gain. Few people in our nation's history have been more challenged or found a time more challenging or difficult than the time we're in now. A once in a century virus that silently stalks the country has taken as many lives in one year as in all of World War Two.\n\nMillions of jobs have been lost. Hundreds of thousands of businesses closed. A cry for racial justice, some 400 years in the making, moves us. The dream of justice for all will be deferred no longer. A cry for survival comes from the planet itself, a cry that can't be any more desperate or any more clear now. The rise of political extremism, white supremacy, domestic terrorism, that we must confront and we will defeat.\n\nTo overcome these challenges, to restore the soul and secure the future of America, requires so much more than words. It requires the most elusive of all things in a democracy - unity. Unity. In another January on New Year's Day in 1863 Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. When he put pen to paper the president said, and I quote, 'if my name ever goes down in history, it'll be for this act, and my whole soul is in it'.\n\nMy whole soul is in it today, on this January day. My whole soul is in this. Bringing America together, uniting our people, uniting our nation. And I ask every American to join me in this cause. Uniting to fight the foes we face - anger, resentment and hatred. Extremism, lawlessness, violence, disease, joblessness, and hopelessness.\n\nWith unity we can do great things, important things. We can right wrongs, we can put people to work in good jobs, we can teach our children in safe schools. We can overcome the deadly virus, we can rebuild work, we can rebuild the middle class and make work secure, we can secure racial justice and we can make America once again the leading force for good in the world.\n\nI know speaking of unity can sound to some like a foolish fantasy these days. I know the forces that divide us are deep and they are real. But I also know they are not new. Our history has been a constant struggle between the American ideal, that we are all created equal, and the harsh ugly reality that racism, nativism and fear have torn us apart. The battle is perennial and victory is never secure.\n\nThrough civil war, the Great Depression, World War, 9/11, through struggle, sacrifice, and setback, our better angels have always prevailed. In each of our moments enough of us have come together to carry all of us forward and we can do that now. History, faith and reason show the way. The way of unity.\n\nWe can see each other not as adversaries but as neighbours. We can treat each other with dignity and respect. We can join forces, stop the shouting and lower the temperature. For without unity there is no peace, only bitterness and fury, no progress, only exhausting outrage. No nation, only a state of chaos. This is our historic moment of crisis and challenge. And unity is the path forward. And we must meet this moment as the United States of America.\n\nIf we do that, I guarantee we will not failed. We have never, ever, ever, ever failed in America when we've acted together. And so today at this time in this place, let's start afresh, all of us. Let's begin to listen to one another again, hear one another, see one another. Show respect to one another. Politics doesn't have to be a raging fire destroying everything in its path. Every disagreement doesn't have to be a cause for total war and we must reject the culture in which facts themselves are manipulated and even manufactured.\n\nMy fellow Americans, we have to be different than this. We have to be better than this and I believe America is so much better than this. Just look around. Here we stand in the shadow of the Capitol dome. As mentioned earlier, completed in the shadow of the Civil War. When the union itself was literally hanging in the balance. We endure, we prevail. Here we stand, looking out on the great Mall, where Dr King spoke of his dream.\n\nHere we stand, where 108 years ago at another inaugural, thousands of protesters tried to block brave women marching for the right to vote. And today we mark the swearing in of the first woman elected to national office, Vice President Kamala Harris. Don't tell me things can't change. Here we stand where heroes who gave the last full measure of devotion rest in eternal peace.\n\nAnd here we stand just days after a riotous mob thought they could use violence to silence the will of the people, to stop the work of our democracy, to drive us from this sacred ground. It did not happen, it will never happen, not today, not tomorrow, not ever. Not ever. To all those who supported our campaign, I'm humbled by the faith you placed in us. To all those who did not support us, let me say this. Hear us out as we move forward. Take a measure of me and my heart.\n\nIf you still disagree, so be it. That's democracy. That's America. The right to dissent peacefully. And the guardrail of our democracy is perhaps our nation's greatest strength. If you hear me clearly, disagreement must not lead to disunion. And I pledge this to you. I will be a President for all Americans, all Americans. And I promise you I will fight for those who did not support me as for those who did.\n\nMany centuries ago, St Augustine - the saint of my church - wrote that a people was a multitude defined by the common objects of their love. Defined by the common objects of their love. What are the common objects we as Americans love, that define us as Americans? I think we know. Opportunity, security, liberty, dignity, respect, honour, and yes, the truth.\n\nRecent weeks and months have taught us a painful lesson. There is truth and there are lies. Lies told for power and for profit. And each of us has a duty and a responsibility as citizens as Americans and especially as leaders. Leaders who are pledged to honour our Constitution to protect our nation. To defend the truth and defeat the lies.\n\nLook, I understand that many of my fellow Americans view the future with fear and trepidation. I understand they worry about their jobs. I understand like their dad they lay in bed at night staring at the ceiling thinking: 'Can I keep my healthcare? Can I pay my mortgage?' Thinking about their families, about what comes next. I promise you, I get it. But the answer's not to turn inward. To retreat into competing factions. Distrusting those who don't look like you, or worship the way you do, who don't get their news from the same source as you do.\n\nWe must end this uncivil war that pits red against blue, rural versus urban, conservative versus liberal. We can do this if we open our souls instead of hardening our hearts, if we show a little tolerance and humility, and if we're willing to stand in the other person's shoes, as my mom would say. Just for a moment, stand in their shoes.\n\nBecause here's the thing about life. There's no accounting for what fate will deal you. Some days you need a hand. There are other days when we're called to lend a hand. That's how it has to be, that's what we do for one another. And if we are that way our country will be stronger, more prosperous, more ready for the future. And we can still disagree.\n\nMy fellow Americans, in the work ahead of us we're going to need each other. We need all our strength to persevere through this dark winter. We're entering what may be the darkest and deadliest period of the virus. We must set aside politics and finally face this pandemic as one nation, one nation. And I promise this, as the Bible says, 'Weeping may endure for a night, joy cometh in the morning'. We will get through this together. Together.\n\nLook folks, all my colleagues I serve with in the House and the Senate up here, we all understand the world is watching. Watching all of us today. So here's my message to those beyond our borders. America has been tested and we've come out stronger for it. We will repair our alliances, and engage with the world once again. Not to meet yesterday's challenges but today's and tomorrow's challenges. And we'll lead not merely by the example of our power but the power of our example.\n\nFellow Americans, moms, dads, sons, daughters, friends, neighbours and co-workers. We will honour them by becoming the people and the nation we can and should be. So I ask you let's say a silent prayer for those who lost their lives, those left behind and for our country. Amen.\n\nFolks, it's a time of testing. We face an attack on our democracy, and on truth, a raging virus, a stinging inequity, systemic racism, a climate in crisis, America's role in the world. Any one of these would be enough to challenge us in profound ways. But the fact is we face them all at once, presenting this nation with one of the greatest responsibilities we've had. Now we're going to be tested. Are we going to step up?\n\nIt's time for boldness for there is so much to do. And this is certain, I promise you. We will be judged, you and I, by how we resolve these cascading crises of our era. We will rise to the occasion. Will we master this rare and difficult hour? Will we meet our obligations and pass along a new and better world to our children? I believe we must and I'm sure you do as well. I believe we will, and when we do, we'll write the next great chapter in the history of the United States of America. The American story.\n\nA story that might sound like a song that means a lot to me, it's called American Anthem. And there's one verse that stands out at least for me and it goes like this:\n\n'The work and prayers of centuries have brought us to this day, which shall be our legacy, what will our children say?\n\nLet me know in my heart when my days are through, America, America, I gave my best to you.'\n\nLet us add our own work and prayers to the unfolding story of our great nation. If we do this, then when our days are through, our children and our children's children will say of us: 'They gave their best, they did their duty, they healed a broken land.'\n\nMy fellow Americans I close the day where I began, with a sacred oath. Before God and all of you, I give you my word. I will always level with you. I will defend the Constitution, I'll defend our democracy.\n\nI'll defend America and I will give all - all of you - keep everything I do in your service. Thinking not of power but of possibilities. Not of personal interest but of public good.\n\nAnd together we will write an American story of hope, not fear. Of unity not division, of light not darkness. A story of decency and dignity, love and healing, greatness and goodness. May this be the story that guides us. The story that inspires us. And the story that tells ages yet to come that we answered the call of history, we met the moment. Democracy and hope, truth and justice, did not die on our watch but thrive.\n\nThat America secured liberty at home and stood once again as a beacon to the world. That is what we owe our forbearers, one another, and generations to follow.\n\nSo with purpose and resolve, we turn to those tasks of our time. Sustained by faith, driven by conviction and devoted to one another and the country we love with all our hearts. May God bless America and God protect our troops.", "Father Lee Taylor said people have \"really missed communal singing\"\n\nOnline \"Pimm's and Hymns\" singalong sessions at a north Wales church have attracted people from as far away as South Africa, Brazil and Canada.\n\nFather Lee Taylor, from St Collen's Church, Llangollen, set up the Facebook Live shows when his pews fell silent due to Covid restrictions.\n\nThe former bartender said: \"People started to share it and the online audience just exploded.\"\n\nIt adds \"a real light in the darkness\" of lockdown and a \"few drinks\".\n\nThe sessions, which have been running since last March, are a homage to the summer garden party known as 'Pimm's and Hymns' Mr Taylor, 43, hosts each year.\n\n\"I get phone calls, emails and letters from people all over the world, saying, 'You've lifted my spirits', and asking me to pray for their loved ones who are sick with the virus,\" he said.\n\n\"I started the sessions as I was trying to think of ways to bring comfort reassurance and cheer to people at home.\n\n\"While I can't hear people joining in, I feel them there with me in the room.\"\n\nFather Lee Taylor hosted annual 'Pimm's and Hymns' garden parties before Covid restrictions came in last March\n\nBelting out everything from Abide With Me to Pack Up Your Troubles, the vicar, who lives with his partner of 14 years, Fabiano Duarte, is known for pouring a glass of wine or a cocktail before performing for his Facebook congregation.\n\n\"I like to keep a libation on the piano,\" he said.\n\n\"When we started, people tuning in could see a glass of wine one week and a gin and tonic the next, so began to join in and have a drink with me.\n\n\"Soon, this became a discussion in the Facebook comments and people would send in photos of themselves with a tipple, singing along.\n\n\"I've got a bit carried away on the piano after a few drinks and played all the wrong notes a couple of times - which is always quite funny. It's joyful, really.\"\n\nHe said \"losing the churches and restricting the number at funerals\" was painful and people were \"missing communal singing\".\n\n\"[So] I got some elderly people set up on the internet and sent out instructions via email, so they could watch the live stream singalongs,\" he said.\n\n\"People were soon chatting through the comments and it felt like we were all connected.\n\n\"I wanted to raise spirits through music and it's been a real light in the darkness.\"", "Louise worries about her prospects for the next 12 months\n\nFreelance TV and film sound editor Louise Burton is one of those who are unable to benefit from government pandemic support schemes, despite being out of work.\n\nLouise, 28, of St Albans, in Hertfordshire, has not had a single penny of assistance since her last job ended eight months ago.\n\n\"With the last production that I was on, I was hired as a PAYE freelancer, which means that I essentially do exactly the same job as what I do as a freelancer, but I was paying tax at source,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"What often happens with film is that production companies are made for the sole purpose of the film. So they create these companies and everything goes through the company - and then once the film is completed, they then shut the company.\"\n\nThat means Louise fell foul of tax rules relating to self-employed people. And she could not go on furlough, because the company that had employed her no longer existed.\n\n\"I always feel guilty saying that I am one of the people who is suffering, because actually, I still have a roof over my head and I can just about put food on my table, but it's not easy,\" she says, adding that she fears for her prospects in the next 12 months.\n\nAccording to MPs, whole groups of people like Louise are falling through the cracks of Covid-19 support schemes because of out-of-date tax systems.\n\nSome freelancers and self-employed people have been particularly excluded, despite lockdowns and restrictions meaning they cannot work, the Public Accounts Committee said.\n\nOthers, meanwhile, are able to abuse the system, it said.\n\nThe government said its \"top priority\" was helping those who are struggling.\n\nSince March, HM Revenue and Customs has provided more than £80bn in support to companies and individuals through government coronavirus support schemes, the committee said.\n\nThey are also supporting the incomes of many of the self-employed.\n\nBut despite this, a report from the MPs says \"quirks in the tax system\" have meant that groups of workers - including freelancers and self-employed people who recently moved onto company payrolls or work on a series of short-term employment contracts with gaps in between - have been ineligible for furlough payments.\n\n\"As public spending balloons to unprecedented levels in response to the pandemic, out-of-date tax systems are one of the barriers to getting help to a significant number of struggling taxpayers who should be entitled to support,\" said MP Meg Hillier, chair of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC).\n\nBy contrast, she said some large companies that had used government support schemes had continued to pay dividends to shareholders and high salaries to executives.\n\nShe added that HMRC was in many cases failing \"to capture or deal with those wrongly claiming\" support.\n\nThe tax agency should explain to freelancers and other groups why they have been excluded from receiving support and set out steps to fix the problem within six weeks, the MPs said.\n\nThe PAC also said that a lack of certainty about government coronavirus support schemes had made it difficult for businesses to plan effectively.\n\nFor example, HMRC could not provide clarity on whether the Job Retention Bonus scheme had been delayed or scrapped, the committee said.\n\nThe scheme was meant to pay employers an incentive for every worker they brought back from furlough and kept in employment until January.\n\n\"Such lack of clarity may lead to unnecessary hardships for some businesses, who in good faith were relying on the payments from the scheme to meet some of their needs,\" the MPs said.\n\nA government spokesperson said it had done \"all it can to help as many people as possible\".\n\n\"HMRC delivered Covid-19 support schemes at unprecedented speed, protecting the livelihoods of millions of people.\n\n\"We do not underestimate the challenges faced by individuals and businesses during the pandemic, and our top priority is getting financial support to those struggling... while protecting the taxpayer against fraud.\n\n\"Those not eligible for support through these schemes can still benefit from the strengthened welfare safety net, accessing help like universal credit.\"\n• None What extra help will the self-employed get?", "19 January is a special day for Orthodox Christians across Russia, including President Vladimir Putin. It's a day reserved for commemorating the baptism of Jesus in the River Jordan, and it's called Epiphany. Though temperatures are as low as -20 Celsius, some celebrated this by submerging themselves in ice-cold water.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dame Louise Casey: \"The country has been torn to shreds by the pandemic\"\n\nThe government has been urged by its former homelessness adviser to extend benefit increases worth £20 a week beyond the end of March.\n\nDame Louise Casey said ending the universal credit top-up, introduced during the Covid pandemic, would be \"too punitive a policy right now\".\n\nShe said people would view the Tories as the \"nasty party\" if they did so.\n\nThe government said it was committed to supporting the lowest-paid families through the pandemic and beyond.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"No decisions have yet been made on a range of Covid support measures that run through until the end of March and April, and it is right to wait until we know more about where we are in the vaccination process before making any decisions.\"\n\nLabour and anti-poverty campaigners are pressing for the increase, worth £1,000 a year, to remain in place beyond its scheduled end date of 31 March.\n\nOn Monday they were joined by six Conservative MPs, who defied party orders to abstain and backed a symbolic motion calling for an extension.\n\nIn an interview with BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg, Dame Louise said the £20-a-week increase had proved a \"lifeline\" to poorer families.\n\n\"The Treasury need to step back and not feel this constant responsibility to close the books all the time, and fight and fight and fight,\" she said.\n\nOn the idea the top-up could end in March, she added: \"It's not the right thing to do.\"\n\nReferencing a phrase coined by Theresa May in 2002 about how the Conservatives were sometimes perceived, she added they would \"go back to being the nasty party\" if they did so.\n\nDame Louise added that the country had been \"torn to shreds\" by the pandemic, with an impact \"far deeper and greater than anything I've ever seen in my lifetime\".\n\n\"I think we will have to have a big plan to deal with the wounds inflicted by this pandemic once everybody's vaccinated,\" she added.\n\n\"And I think the government needs to turn its attention to that now, and not leave it until the summer.\"\n\nDame Louise, who was made a crossbench peer by the prime minister in July, also urged ministers to think about long-term reforms to the welfare system.\n\n\"Everybody is focused on the NHS and vaccinations, that I think everything else we see is incredibly reactive,\" she said.\n\nShe called on the government to take inspiration from the World War Two-era Beveridge report, which laid the foundations for the UK's welfare state, and draw up a long-term strategy for recovery after the pandemic.\n\n\"We're all in this storm, everybody's experienced it, just some people are in decent boats and some people are in rafts that are sinking.\n\n\"And that gives the prime minister the moment to say 'I am going to step into the shoes of a Beveridge moment'.\n\n\"If there's any reason for government to decide to actually rebuild Britain, so the divide between the rich and the poor isn't as big as it is... it's this pandemic\".\n\nUniversal credit can be claimed by both people who are in and out of work\n\nUniversal credit is a working-age benefit claimed by around 6m people, replacing six benefits and merging them into a single payment.\n\nPoverty campaign charity the Joseph Rowntree Foundation says 500,000 more people will be driven into poverty if the temporary £20 top-up is rolled back.\n\nHowever the Institute for Economic Affairs think tank has argued that \"across-the-board benefit increases are a wasteful use of taxpayers' money\".\n\nThe top-up, estimated to cost around £6bn a year, was brought in at the start of the pandemic as a temporary response due to lockdown.\n\nA government spokesperson said that support was being targeted by raising the living wage, spending on the furlough scheme, boosting welfare spending and introducing the £170m Covid Winter Grant Scheme.", "There is a photograph of Kamala Harris, taken in 1986, while she was a student at Howard University.\n\nShe and two other friends, all shoulder pads and plaid, are smiling and laughing, a crowd behind them. It's a picture brimming with energy and hope.\n\nIt's been used a lot in telling the extraordinary story of her rise to become the first black and Asian American woman to be vice-president and the first person who attended one of America's HBCUs (Historically Black Colleges and Universities) to get to such a position.\n\nBut this is the story of the other women in the photograph, her two best friends - Valarie Pippen and Karen Gibbs - as well as of others who might have been milling about in the background there.\n\nThis was the 1980s, when the children of America's civil rights generation came of age. Being at Howard University, an HBCU at a time when solidarity with the global anti-apartheid movement was reaching fever pitch and at the height of Reaganism, was a formative experience for many of them.\n\nNow they are about to witness one of their own become vice-president. What have their journeys been like and what does this moment feel like?\n\nHistorically Black Colleges, like Howard University, were founded in order to educate African Americans who were otherwise prohibited from attending college, after slavery.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAlthough that has now changed, a core part of the Howard message remains its focus on cultivating black leaders - it is not just about academic achievement, but social activism too.\n\nKamala Harris has made clear the influence Howard University had on her career and life goals. Last week, on the anniversary of her sorority's founding date, she posted on Instagram, paying homage to her Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, and referring to her days at Howard, attending anti-apartheid marches and being part of the debate team: \"Howard taught me that while you will often find that you're the only one in the room who looks like you, or who has had the experiences you've had, you must remember: you are never alone.\"\n\nLike Ms Harris, I also went to Howard University and became a member of that same sorority decades later.\n\nI became intrigued by the stories of the other women and graduates who ventured out into the same world during the same time as Kamala.\n\nIn that photograph, Valarie Pippen is on the right and smiling with confidence at the camera.\n\nHer parents attended historically black colleges after moving north with the great migration, which was the movement over decades of millions of African Americans to the North from the South, where economic uncertainty and segregation prevailed. They settled in the Chicago region and forged successful careers.\n\nShe was led to Howard, specifically, after her older brother attended and brought home a yearbook that intrigued her.\n\nHoward had a festive celebratory atmosphere that the friends made the most of while they were there\n\n\"The culture was festive and lively yet focused on academic and cultural advancement of oppressed people,\" says Ms Pippen. \"We knew that our generation would make a difference with our success.\"\n\nMs Pippen says that at Howard University \"we all had more of a striving to do well, a striving to live with integrity and to make your mark on the world\".\n\nComing from a high-achieving and proud black family with high expectations of their children, she was brought up knowing that her college experience was going to be important.\n\nShe is now a healthcare consultant, and after graduating from Howard she attended medical school at Yale.\n\nShe recalls the commitment to academic excellence, the need to prove your worth out there in the world and how that also translated into many nights studying with her good friend Kamala.\n\n\"There was one year at Howard, we both stayed for summer school. We worked during the day, did night classes and we studied together afterwards. We did that for the whole summer and we had fun.\n\n\"She was born for the job. Her dedication - like mine - was to academics, being an all around good person and to integrity.\"\n\nIn the 1990s, 52% of black pharmacy recipients, 30% of dentistry degree recipients, and 27% of theology degree recipients were all educated at HBCUs.\n\nToday, the two oldest HBCU medical schools - Meharry Medical College and Howard University - are responsible for more than 80% of black doctors and dentists practising in the US.\n\nHBCUs have educated three-quarters of all black people holding a doctorate; three-quarters of all black officers in the armed forces; and four-fifths of all black federal judges, according to the US Department of Education.\n\nThe culture they fostered was hugely important for many ambitious and successful middle- and upper-class class black families going out into a world to become leaders in their field, within one generation of getting the right to vote.\n\nKaren Gibbs, pictured on the left in that photo, remains best friends with the vice-president elect and Valarie Pippen.\n\nShe is now an attorney and speaks of her time at Howard in the same way Kamala Harris has in the past.\n\nThere was \"a lot of black pride and a lot of black love\" in the Howard community, says Ms Gibbs.\n\n\"We had black professors who loved us. That was the beauty of going to Howard. They nurtured us, they groomed us. They were realistic to tell us what we would confront when we left Howard - but they equipped us to realise and achieve our dreams.\"\n\nThat environment was especially important as an escape from the realities of society.\n\n\"I was raised in a rural area in Delaware, and the people there were really racist. I had been called bad names by a lot of people, despite having a black family and smaller community filled with educators and proud of their roots,\" says Ms Gibbs.\n\nThat is one of the reasons that she wanted to attend Howard University, to become a civil rights lawyer. She made the move so that she could be surrounded by \"love\" and \"support\".\n\n\"It was never a matter if I would go to an HBCU,\" it was just a matter of which she would go to.\n\nMs Gibbs and Ms Pippen's experience at Howard University strikes a chord with others who were also there in the 1980s.\n\nThey speak of the open fostering of social awareness and political activism in movements happening off campus.\n\nBeing in the nation's capital, Howard in particular had a front-row seat to some memorable episodes in politics.\n\nThe debate team in 1981 at Howard University. Kamala Harris was one of the few women to join the club.\n\nDexter Cole, a Howard alumnus and now top executive at TV One, told the BBC that \"our parents actively participated in the civil rights movements and were at the forefront, and we came to Howard with a sense of commitment to not only improve the lives of ourselves, but others as well\".\n\nAcross the nation, HBCUs were training a generation who would have a large impact on the world, and the progression of the broader African-American community.\n\n\"We understood that we were agents of change.\"\n\nMr Cole explained that \"social unrest was very prevalent, but as a student body we knew that we had a seat at the table because of those we saw who went before us\".\n\n\"I remember marching on Capitol Hill on the National Mall. There was a group of students going to protest to make Martin Luther King Jr's birthday a national holiday, and now I look there is a memorial just where I marched.\n\n\"We knew what our rights were and we were determined to invoke our right. That's why there were so many of us active in the anti-apartheid movement - we saw it play out in the US,\" says Ms Gibbs.\n\n\"It was a time when a lot of people from the era transcended into important places in different parts of society,\" says Lita Rosario-Richardson.\n\nMs Rosario-Richardson is currently an entertainment lawyer. On campus, she recruited Ms Harris on to the debate team.\n\n\"The election of Kamala Harris has really made crystal clear that Howard prepares you for anything,\" she adds.\n\nAlthough it is no surprise to those who knew Kamala Harris that she is now the vice-president of the United States, it feels like a vindication for their own personal journeys and the philosophy they took forward with them into the wider world.\n\n\"It was instilled that with your education comes a responsibility to improve the world - specifically our own people. And, we see that that has benefited everyone in America.\n\n\"Kamala is a child of desegregation, like myself. Her nomination seemed historically fit, and she's the right person for it,\" Ms Rosario-Richardson adds.\n\nDexter Cole is now a top executive at TV One\n\n\"Alumni like Thurgood Marshall - the first black Supreme Court Justice - who attended Howard laid the framework.\"\n\nEven during their time as students, these alumni felt that they were connected to greatness and expected to make big strides in the world.\n\nIt was not a feeling confined to Kamala Harris. The stories of these women show many have become movers and shakers in their own fields.\n\n\"All this has come full circle,\" says Andrea Holmes, a graduate who is now a marketing executive.\n\n\"The vice-presidency is where she belongs. She is the role model of the world and to all women and little girls.\"\n\nThe original photograph of Kamala, Valarie and Karen was taken in 1986 at Howard University's famous Homecoming.\n\nAt most schools in the US, homecoming is an annual tradition marked by an American football game and partying. At Howard University, homecoming is marked by a football game as well as a week of events where all generations come back to meet and celebrate. Notable graduates as well as celebrities and artists come to perform, join discussions, and be part of the week.\n\nAs a graduate, I know Homecoming remains a highly anticipated annual event, an experience like no other. That picture captures the energy, friendship and ambition of a group of women, at Howard in an electric era, who felt capable of anything.\n\nValarie Pippen remembers the moment: \"The weekend was truly exhilarating, and you can see from the looks and smiles on our faces we were having the time of our lives.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMore than 2,000 homes in parts of Manchester are being evacuated due to flooding caused by Storm Christoph.\n\nThe Environment Agency (EA) has issued two severe flood warnings, which means danger to life, for the Didsbury and Northenden areas.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Nick Bailey of Greater Manchester Police has warned some of those affected would \"be Covid-positive or isolating at home\".\n\nHe said the government was working to ensure it was \"totally prepared\" for floods \"in every part of the UK\".\n\nA major incident was earlier declared for the Greater Manchester area where up to 3,000 properties were feared to be at risk.\n\nMr Johnson urged people not to stay in their homes if they were told to evacuate.\n\n\"If you are told to leave your home then you should do so.\n\n\"People may think this is a minor issue at the moment, still relevantly minor by standards of previous floods, but never underestimate the suffering, the misery, that floods can cause people.\"\n\nUnder government restrictions due to the current national lockdown people are allowed to leave their homes to escape harm.\n\nIn an alert to those affected, ACC Bailey said: \"A basin at Didsbury to take water from the Mersey is full. It will over-top in the next few hours. As a result we will be issuing a flood warning to homes.\n\n\"This will be through texted flood alerts to some people, and police officers, PCSOs, firefighters, and volunteers will be knocking on doors.\"\n\nHe said police will be supported by North West Ambulance, the British Red Cross and St John Ambulance.\n\n\"I think it's important to stress that if you are contacted and advised to evacuate then we would strongly urge you to do so,\" he added.\n\nWater levels in the area were expected to peak at about 23:00 GMT on Wednesday.\n\nA major incident has also been declared in Derbyshire, where authorities believe a small number of evacuations are \"likely\" on Thursday morning, when the River Derwent is expected to peak.\n\nCounty council leader Barry Lewis said it could rival levels seen in November 2019, depending on the weather overnight.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The PM says the government is making sure it is “totally prepared in every part of the UK” for flooding after Storm Christoph.\n\nSpeaking after a Cobra emergency meeting on Wednesday, Mr Johnson said work was under way to ensure transport and energy networks, and local council services, were prepared.\n\nHe added that work was also taking place to ensure the necessary numbers of sandbags were available.\n\n\"We want to make sure that we are totally prepared in every part of the UK for flooding, because it is coming on top of the stress people are already under fighting Covid,\" he said.\n\n\"We looked at particularly Manchester, we've got a situation potentially developing there,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\n\"We are looking at a pattern of rainfall possibly not as bad at the end of this week, maybe worse next week.\"\n\nPeople in Greater Manchester have also been advised not to travel.\n\nStephen Rhodes, from Transport from Greater Manchester, said there was disruption across the network.\n\n\"Let's work together and not put our emergency services and the NHS - who are already working extremely hard due to the Covid-19 pandemic - under any more pressure,\" he said.\n\nIn Merseyside, the M57 has been closed in both directions between junction 6 and 7 due to flooding.\n\nThe Environment Agency has issued more than 100 flood warnings, meaning flooding is expected and immediate action required, while there are also more than 200 flood alerts, meaning flooding is possible.\n\nRiver levels have risen rapidly in parts of northern England\n\nThe North West, Yorkshire and the Midlands have been preparing for widespread flooding following the Met Office's amber weather warning for heavy rain until midday Thursday.\n\nThe Met Office said some isolated areas could see up to 200mm (7.8in).\n\nSandbags have been distributed as Storm Christoph batters parts of England\n\n\"Once again the government's response to inevitable flood events has been slow and uncoordinated,\" the Barnsley East MP said.\n\n\"We must ensure councils are supported to protect people, businesses, and local communities, and that all of the necessary precautions are also in place to protect those fighting the floods in light of the Covid-19 pandemic.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Gender Identity Service is based at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust\n\nThe NHS's child gender-identity service has been rated \"inadequate\" after inspectors identified \"significant concerns\".\n\nThe Care Quality Commission inspected the Gender Identity Development Service (Gids) at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust in October.\n\nMore than 4,600 young people were on the waiting list and some had waited over two years for a first appointment.\n\nThe trust said it took the CQC report \"very seriously\".\n\nEngland and Wales' only children's gender-identity service was inspected after healthcare professionals and the children's commissioner for England raised concerns around \"clinical practice, safeguarding procedures, and assessments of capacity and consent to treatment\".\n\nThe children's commissioner had been provided evidence of staff concerns by BBC Newsnight.\n\nThe CQC's previous inspection, in 2016, had resulted in an overall \"good\" rating.\n\nBut in the latest inspection at clinics run by the trust in north London and Leeds, Gids was rated:\n\nOverall, the service is now rated as \"inadequate\".\n\nAnd the CQC has begun enforcement action, demanding monthly updates of the numbers on the waiting list and actions to reduce them.\n\nThe inspectors found Gids \"difficult to access\" and raised concerns over managing the risk to those on the waiting list, saying many of those waiting for or receiving a service were \"vulnerable and at risk of self-harm\".\n\n\"The size of the waiting list meant that staff were unable to proactively manage the risks to patients waiting for a first appointment,\" they added.\n\nRecord-keeping at Gids was also criticised, with the CQC noting that \"staff had not consistently recorded the competency, capacity and consent of patients referred for medical treatment before January 2020\".\n\nThis had changed since, but the CQC noted that in an audit of 10 records of young people referred for hormone blockers in March 2020, \"only three contained a completed consent form and checklist for referral\".\n\nA rating of inadequate is the lowest a healthcare provider can receive from the Care Quality Commission. It means that a service is \"performing badly\".\n\nGids had been rated good at its last inspection in 2016, but since then a number of concerns have been raised about the service.\n\nThe number of young people referred to Gids has increased significantly in recent years - leading to some of the delays in care highlighted by the inspection.\n\nBBC Newsnight has explored the standard of healthcare received by young people questioning their gender identity for the last 18 months.\n\nIn that time, NHS England has changed its guidance on the use of puberty blockers to treat gender dysphoria, saying little is known about the long-term side effects, and an independent review of this area of health is under way.\n\nLast June we revealed how some Gids staff had raised serious concerns about safeguarding at the service, the speed of assessments, and whether patients' traumatic backgrounds and other difficulties were always adequately explored.\n\nThe comments were made as part of an official internal review into Gids, which also described how staff felt they had been \"shut down\". We also discovered that some of these concerns dated back to 2005.\n\nFurthermore, it was not possible to clearly understand why clinical decisions had been made.\n\nAfter reviewing 35 care records, the CQC found there was \"no clearly defined assessment process\" and \"many records did not demonstrate good practice\".\n\nThe records also appeared to be \"insufficient\" in considering the needs of young people with autism spectrum disorders.\n\nIn a sample of 22 records, the CQC found more than half mentioned autistic spectrum disorder or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), but \"records did not demonstrate consideration of the relationship between autistic spectrum disorder and gender dysphoria\".\n\nSignificant variation in the clinical approach of different staff members was also noted. Assessments of young people ranged from \"two or three sessions\" in some cases to over 25, or even more than 50.\n\nCQC deputy chief inspector of hospitals Kevin Cleary said his team continued to monitor the trust \"extremely closely\" and inspected the service again because \"we were extremely clear that there were improvements needed in providing person-centred care, capacity and consent, safe care and treatment, and governance\".\n\n\"In addition, vulnerable young people were not having their needs met as they were waiting too long for treatment.\"\n\nThe leadership at the trust knew \"exactly what improvements are needed\", he added.\n\nThe trust said: \"We take the CQC's report very seriously and would like to say sorry to patients for the length of time they are waiting to be seen, which was a critical factor in arriving at this rating.\"\n\nAccepting there was a \"need for improvements in our assessments, systems and processes\", the trust said it agreed with the CQC that the \"growth in referrals has exceeded the capacity of the service\".\n\nIt added improvements were being made, saying: \"We are already finalising plans to bring in senior clinical and operational expertise from outside the service to help us implement the necessary changes and consider how we can improve on current processes and practice - including how we standardise our assessment process.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson has warned there will be \"tough weeks to come\" as the UK reported another all-time high of daily coronavirus deaths.\n\nA further 1,820 people have died within 28 days of a positive Covid test, according to government figures.\n\nIt means the total number of deaths by that measure is now 93,290.\n\nMr Johnson said there was now a \"race against time\" to vaccinate the vulnerable but he hoped there would be a \"real difference\" by spring.\n\nIn an interview with broadcasters, he said the high number of deaths was \"appalling\" and a reflection of the peak infection rates seen a couple of weeks ago.\n\nHe said: \"I must warn people there will be tough weeks to come, but as the vaccine goes in and that programme accelerates, there will be, I think, a real difference by spring.\"\n\nJust under half of the newly reported deaths occurred on Tuesday, while a further quarter took place on Monday or Sunday with the remainder last week or even earlier.\n\nThe previous highest number of daily deaths was the 1,610 reported on Tuesday.\n\nSome 4,609,740 people have now received the first dose of a vaccine - a rise of 343,163 from yesterday.\n\nThere were also a further 38,905 cases, with 3,887 more patients admitted into hospital.\n\nIt is the second consecutive day deaths have hit a new high.\n\nThat, sadly, was to be expected as it is a reflection of the surge in cases seen during December.\n\nIt takes a week or two from the point of infection for someone to become seriously ill - and they can then spend some time in hospital. The high number is also a result of delays reporting deaths - a quarter happened last week or even before.\n\nBut make no mistake the death toll is going up. If you look at the average over the course of a week, the numbers being reported at the moment are twice what they were just two weeks ago.\n\nHowever, we also know they should soon start coming down. Daily infections are falling, with signs lockdown is taking effect. For four days in a row new diagnoses have been below 40,000 - after averaging 60,000 at the start of year.\n\nIt could be another week or so before we start to see the impact of that in the death figures. The hope then would be that within a few weeks we could start seeing a more rapid fall as the impact of the vaccination programme begins to bite.\n\nBut before that happens the daily totals reported could, sadly, go even higher.\n\nNew coronavirus cases are down by 21.5% over the last seven days. But the number of patients being admitted into hospital in the same period has not yet fallen (up by 0.5%).\n\nThe prime minister said it looked as though infection rates across the country overall might now be peaking or flattening, but he cautioned that \"they're not flattening very fast\".\n\nAsked if daily deaths would continue to rise, he said it was \"difficult to predict\".\n\nHe added: \"We must hope that by getting the numbers of daily infections down in the way that perhaps has been happening since the lockdown that will feed through into a reduction in deaths as well.\n\n\"But I must stress that we have tough weeks to come now as we roll out the vaccine.\n\n\"The light will only really begin to dawn as we get those vaccination numbers up.\"\n\nEarlier, the government's chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, told Sky News: \"This is very, very bad at the moment, with enormous pressure, and in some cases it looks like a war zone in terms of the things that people are having to deal with.\"\n\nHe said there was \"light at the end of the tunnel\" in the form of the vaccination programme.\n\nBut he said vaccines were \"not going to do the heavy lifting for us at the moment, anywhere near it\".\n\nMilitary personnel are going to be deployed to a number of hospitals to help staff cope with high numbers of cases, including in Northern Ireland and Exeter.\n\nAnd this week 10 hospital trusts across England consistently reported having no spare adult critical care beds.\n\nIn other developments, Home Secretary Priti Patel said ministers were working to ensure police and other frontline workers were moved up the priority list for the Covid vaccine.\n\nMr Johnson said the government must rely on advice from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, but wanted front-line workers to be immunised \"as soon as possible\".\n\nHe also said the vaccination programme remained \"on track\" despite \"constraints on supply\".", "Theresa May has accused her successor Boris Johnson of \"abandoning\" the UK's moral leadership on the world stage.\n\nThe ex-prime minister said Mr Johnson's decision to cut the overseas aid budget below 0.7% of national income had reduced the UK's global \"credibility\".\n\nShe wrote in the Daily Mail the UK had to \"live up to its values\" and would be judged by its actions not its rhetoric.\n\nMr Johnson said the UK was \"embarking on a quite phenomenal year\" of global leadership.\n\nQuestioned about Mrs May's comments by the SNP's Westminster leader Ian Blackford at Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Johnson said: \"I think it's very important the prime minister of the UK has the best possible relationship with the president of the United States.\n\n\"That's part of the job description.\"\n\nHe cited the UK's hosting of a global vaccine summit, the upcoming COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, as well as the G7 summit of leading industrial nations, in Cornwall, and his pledge to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050 as examples of the UK's global leadership.\n\nMr Blackford called on the PM to reverse \"his cruel policy of cutting international aid for the world's poorest\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The SNP Westminster leader called in the PM to reverse his \"cruel\" international aid policy\n\nLater on Wednesday, Joe Biden will be inaugurated as the 46th president of the United States, succeeding Donald Trump.\n\nIn advance of the event, Mr Johnson said he looked forward to working \"hand-in-hand\" with the new administration and that post-Covid challenges could only be tackled by \"international co-operation\".\n\nBut, in an article in the Daily Mail, Mrs May suggested Mr Johnson had squandered international goodwill by choosing not to meet the longstanding UN target of spending 0.7% of income on international development.\n\nThe government says it cannot meet the figure - enshrined in UK law - this year because of the strain placed on the public finances by the pandemic.\n\nTheresa May has made these criticisms - on overseas aid and the threat by the government to override international law - before.\n\nQuite often she gets a dig in when she stands up in the House of Commons.\n\nBut packaging it all up in this way, on this day, is, in the words of one of her close former advisers, \"quite punchy\".\n\nThe government would rather focus on the relationship it is going to forge with the new US president.\n\nMinisters feel they have quite a lot in common with Joe Biden when it comes to working together on the world stage, fighting climate change and co-operating on global security.\n\nMrs May also criticised Mr Johnson's support for legislation which could have allowed the UK to go back on parts of its Withdrawal Agreement with the EU, had it been passed.\n\nControversial clauses were ultimately removed from the Internal Market Bill in December, after the UK and EU reached an agreement.\n\nBut Mr Johnson's threat to break international law was criticised in Europe and the US - where Mr Biden warned it could imperil peace in Northern Ireland.\n\nMrs May said the UK was \"well placed to play a decisive role in shaping this more co-operative world but to lead we must live up to our values\".\n\n\"Other countries listen to what we say not simply because of who we are, but because of what we do. The world does not owe us a prominent place on its stage,\" she added.\n\n\"Whatever the rhetoric we deploy, it is our actions which count. So, we should do nothing which signals a retreat from our global commitments.\"\n\nMrs May suggested the end of the Trump presidency could be a catalyst for a change in world politics\n\nMrs May, who had a sometimes strained relationship with Mr Trump, said Mr Biden's election presented the UK with a \"golden opportunity\" for Western democracies to reverse the trend towards \"absolutism\" - and a \"few strongmen facing off against each other\" - in global affairs.\n\nThe UK holds the presidency of the G7 this year and hosts the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow.\n\nMr Johnson said he looked forward to welcoming Mr Biden to the UK at least twice in 2021.\n\n\"In our fight against Covid and across climate change, defence, security, and in promoting and defending democracy, our goals are the same and our nations will work hand-in-hand to achieve them,\" he added.", "(From left to right) Janet Yellen, Lloyd Austin, Deb Haaland\n\nPresident Joe Biden's first cabinet is being described as the most diverse ever. The latest historic first is an openly gay cabinet secretary.\n\nWhen George Washington convened the first cabinet meeting two centuries ago - though he didn't call it by that name - he enshrined the idea of promoting diverse perspectives at the heart of US government. Of course, back in 1791, all the voices in the room were white and male.\n\nYou won't find the cabinet mentioned in the lines of the Constitution, but the first president saw the value of advisers who could guide him on major issues while bringing different viewpoints to the table.\n\nIn 2021, America has seen its first openly gay cabinet secretary in Pete Buttigieg - the latest Biden confirmation - as well as its first female treasury secretary, first black Pentagon chief and more.\n\nMr Biden has been under pressure from all sides to deliver on his promises of a cabinet that truly reflects the country rather than a line-up of familiar political faces.\n\nThe graphic above shows all of Mr Biden's nominees - those with black and white photos are white men, while those with colour photographs are in one or more of these categories: women; people belonging to ethnic minorities; member of the LGBT community.\n\n\"This cabinet will be more representative of the American people than any other cabinet in history,\" Mr Biden told reporters in December.\n\nIf approved by the Senate, it will include Congresswoman Deb Haaland as the first Native American cabinet secretary in US history and Miguel Cardona, who is of Puerto Rican heritage, as his education chief.\n\nMr Biden's first cabinet is even more diverse than that put together by Barack Obama, who came close to truly reflecting the country but fell short with seven women to 16 men, and just one black secretary.\n\nBut not everyone has been pleased with his choices. When Mr Biden chose General Lloyd Austin to lead the Pentagon - the first black man to do so - other activists were upset that the position was yet again denied to a woman. And Mr Biden picked two white men to head the state and agriculture agencies - Anthony Blinken and Tom Vilsack - when progressive groups would rather have seen him nominate black women to the roles.\n\nProgressive liberals have also criticised Mr Biden's selections as too safe, too moderate, too establishment and too old. For many of the supporters who delivered Mr Biden the presidency, he's not there just yet.\n\nSince 1933, only 11 presidents have named women to cabinet-level positions. No cabinets have ever matched the gender or racial balance of the country.\n\nThe cabinet size can vary depending on administration, but they're roughly composed of around 15 executives. In the last 30 years, the trend has been towards greater representation - or at least it was, until the Trump administration.\n\nOn the day of President Bill Clinton's inauguration, the Washington Post wrote that the new Democratic leader had assembled \"the most diverse Cabinet in history: five women, four blacks and two Latinos\".\n\nMr Clinton's small business administrator Aida Alvarez was the first-ever Latina appointed to a cabinet-level position.\n\nPresident George W Bush's first cabinet was lauded by the New York Times as \"a governing team every bit as ethnically and racially diverse as President Clinton's\".\n\nMr Bush chose Colin Powell, the son of Jamaican immigrants, to become the country's first black secretary of state. He also tapped Norman Mineta - a Democrat who became the first Asian American to hold a cabinet-level spot under Mr Clinton - to head his transportation department.\n\nLater on, the Bush administration made history again with the appointment of Condoleezza Rice: the first black woman to serve as secretary of state and then as national security adviser. Mr Bush also placed the first Pacific Islander and Asian American woman, Elaine Chao, in a cabinet role as labour secretary.\n\nPresident Barack Obama's history-making first cabinet was dubbed a \"majority-minority\". Mr Obama's inner circle had seven women, nine minorities and just eight white men.\n\nUnder Mr Obama, Susan Rice became the first black woman to serve as US ambassador to the United Nations, and Eric Holder became the first black US attorney general.\n\nIn a throwback to the Reagan era, President Donald Trump's inner circle was notably white, affluent and male - though he had more women in his White House than previous Republicans.\n\nAnd Mr Trump did appoint women to other roles in the administration. He named the first Indian-American, Nikki Haley, as UN ambassador.\n\nBut why has it taken this long for women and minorities to make it into the room where decisions happen?\n\n\"When we think about how you get to these roles, one way is to come through elected office,\" says Professor Kelly Dittmar of the Rutgers University Center for American Women and Politics.\n\n\"So if you have a dearth of women and women of colour in elective office, and that's where presidents are looking, in part, to identify cabinet officials, then you already start with an uneven pool.\"\n\nWe saw the first woman in US Congress in 1916, she explains, but it took nearly two more decades before President Franklin Roosevelt appointed the first woman to a cabinet role (that was Labor Secretary Frances Perkins).\n\nThe story for black and other ethnic minority Americans has taken even longer. The first black man took a seat in Congress in 1870, but we didn't see a black man in the cabinet until President Lyndon Johnson appointed Robert Weaver in 1966. It took until 1968 for the first black woman to be elected to Congress. The first black woman in the cabinet followed in 1977 (Patricia Roberts Harris, Housing Secretary).\n\nThe US has no formal rules requiring equal representation for these groups in government, either.\n\nCountries with quotas in government or at the political party level have made strides towards equality at leadership levels. For example, Rwanda in 2018 saw 61% women in its lower chamber.\n\nIn three key posts, the Defence, Treasury, and Veteran's Affairs departments, there has never been a woman in the job - until now.\n\nOn 25 January, Janet Yellen was confirmed as Treasury Secretary, breaking that particular glass ceiling.\n\nOld time stereotypes have given way in this sector. Surveys show people nowadays are more likely to rate the genders equal when it comes to handling the economy.\n\nProf Dittmar says there are more persistent stereotypes about men versus women's expertise when it comes to defence and national security matters, and public opinion polls have shown this divide. Women weren't allowed in the military until 1948.\n\n\"Even though we have certainly seen greater diversification, these fields are among the most male dominant, especially at the highest levels,\" says Prof Dittmar. \"There's all sorts of biases going on within those structures to prevent women's advancement, I'm sure. That helps explain why those gaps have been there at least historically.\"\n\nOhio State University political science and gender studies Professor Wendy Smooth says these appointments are a way of signalling broader initiatives and values - inextricably tied to policy, but also indicators of identity.\n\n\"One of the early ways that a presidential administration expresses that willingness to be accountable is through cabinet picks,\" Prof Smooth says.\n\n\"These are the first acts that demonstrate the will of the administration, the spirit of the administration, the values of the administration. It's an identity moment. It's going to be the who we are as the Biden administration and who we are interested in connecting with in the American public.\"\n\nIt may be difficult to directly measure the importance of symbolism, but turning preconceived notions of leadership upside down can have very tangible implications.\n\n\"If you see a woman as secretary of defence for the first time, does that start to disrupt expectations that men are better and more expert in areas of defence? Yes, inevitably it does,\" Prof Dittmar says.\n\nShe says the same is true for Vice-President Kamala Harris and her history-making appointment.\n\n\"I hope that after her tenure as vice-president, the next time we have women running for president that these questions about electability or qualifications or capability will be at least fewer than they were.\"\n\nAnd research from an increasingly diverse Congress has shown that women bring priorities and issues to the table that may otherwise have been ignored. \"And that, ultimately, is better for making policy that better speaks to the experiences of the population that they serve,\" Prof Dittmar explains.\n\n\"Unless you can tell me that living your life as a woman or as a black woman or as a South Asian woman in the United States is the same as living your life as a white man, then I don't at all understand why we wouldn't expect that to make a difference in the lens through which they see policy.\"", "Joy Morgan was a second year midwifery student at the University of Hertfordshire\n\nA student murdered by a fellow church member may have been given drugs without her knowing, an inquest heard.\n\nThe body of Joy Morgan, 20, was found in Hertfordshire woodland in October 2019, two months after Shohfah-El Israel was convicted of her murder.\n\nTraces of MDMA were found in her body and the inquest was told there was no evidence that Ms Morgan would have taken the drug herself voluntarily.\n\nIsrael, of Fordwych Road, north-west London, was jailed for life and ordered to serve a minimum term of 17 years for Ms Morgan's murder in August 2019, despite the fact her body had not been found.\n\nDuring sentencing, Judge Michael Soole said Israel's \"cruel and cowardly\" refusal to reveal her whereabouts caused \"continuing distress and suffering\" to her family.\n\nShohfah-El Israel was convicted by a jury at Reading Crown Court\n\nTwo months later, the remains of Ms Morgan were found in woodland off Chadwell Road, Norton Green, near Stevenage.\n\nPart of the police evidence showed the killer had been in the area of the woods shortly after Ms Morgan's disappearance in December 2018.\n\nShe was reported missing on 7 February 2019 after failing to return to her studies.\n\nBoth Israel and Ms Morgan, who was in her second year at the University of Hertfordshire studying midwifery, were worshippers at the Israel United in Christ Church in Ilford.\n\nAn inquest at Hatfield Coroner's Court heard her body was found badly decomposed, and wrapped in black plastic bin liners and gaffer tape.\n\nThe court heard toxicology tests showed MDMA in her body, and Det Insp Justine Jenkins said there was no evidence to indicate she would have voluntarily or knowingly taken illegal drugs.\n\n\"She was a church-goer, there is nothing to suggest [she took drugs] at all.\n\n\"We did, however, find MDMA in Israel's car, and it is likely that he was responsible for giving her these drugs.\"\n\nJoy Morgan's remains were found in woodland at Norton Green\n\nForensic pathologist Dr Charlotte Randall said there were three possible minor bruises on Ms Morgan's limbs. She added there was no evidence that Ms Morgan had been stabbed or shot, or restrained or suffered injuries consistent with a sexual assault.\n\nShe found evidence of a possible fracture to her hyoid bone, but there was nothing to suggest she had suffered compression of the neck.\n\nDr Randall said there was no evidence the student had suffered a head injury, but said she could have been rendered unconscious by a blow to the head that was \"non-fatal\".\n\nShe could not rule out suffocation as a cause of death, potentially following milder blunt force trauma to the head.\n\nCoroner Geoffrey Sullivan said: \"[The MDMA] is not something that she would have taken and one can't exclude that she was given that, and it in some way rendered her incapable or unconscious.\"\n\nHe said the cause of Ms Morgan's death could not be ascertained.\n\nAfter the inquest, her mother Carol Morgan described her daughter as \"an amazing person\".\n\n\"She's been cremated, I haven't decided where to put her ashes so at the moment she's still at home with me,\" she said.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "In the end, the master provocateur ended up provoking the wrong person in the wrong way at the wrong time.\n\nUntil August 2017, Steve Bannon was arguably the second most powerful man in Washington. The president's one-time chief strategist was the puller of strings, the Trump-whisperer, revelling in his role as an agent of chaos.\n\nAfter the 2016 election, he was among \"the best talent in politics\" - in Trump's words.\n\nThen he became \"Sloppy Steve\", a derogatory nickname used by the US president after Bannon was quoted in a book saying several things that appear to have made his former boss unhappy.\n\nOne example that made headlines was that the president's son, Donald Trump Jr, had committed a \"treasonous\" act in talking to Russians.\n\nBannon's backers cut their ties with him, he left the powerful right-wing media empire Breitbart, and the future of the man behind some of Trump's most headline-grabbing policies was left up in the air.\n\nAnd then in August 2020, more bad news. Bannon was arrested and charged with fraud over an online fundraising scheme to build a wall on the US-Mexico border.\n\nProsecutors said he received more than $1m - and used some of it to pay off personal expenses. He pleaded not guilty.\n\nEven in a White House where political careers have the life expectancy of a house fly, Bannon's sudden rise and fall over four years is remarkable. Here's how it came about.\n\nAs executive chairman of Breitbart - a combative conservative site with an anti-establishment agenda - Bannon was an early cheerleader for Trump and Trumpism.\n\nBut it was not until 15 months into the property tycoon's presidential race that Bannon joined his team.\n\nBy that point he was already, according to a profile on the Bloomberg website, \"the most dangerous political operative in America\", a man with Democrats and establishment Republicans in his crosshairs, and a knack for well-timed confrontation. A disruptive Trump presented Bannon with a golden opportunity.\n\nWithout Seinfeld, there is no Steve Bannon - it will become clear, don't worry\n\nBannon was born into a family of Irish Catholics - all Kennedy Democrats - in Virginia in November 1953.\n\nHe was not political, he said, until an eight-year stint with the Navy starting in 1977, when he became a Reagan Republican in response to President Carter's handling of the Iran conflict.\n\nA master of reinvention, he went on to work as an executive with the Goldman Sachs bank, before helping finance and produce Hollywood films and later emerging as a political Svengali.\n\nHis record in Hollywood can be described as patchy at best (\"The business runs on talent relationships,\" one former colleague told the New Yorker. \"He had this real will-to-power vibe that was so off-putting.\")\n\nBut Bannon did strike gold in one big way - by negotiating a share of the profits in a new television show, Seinfeld, in 1993. The show ran for nine seasons and was widely syndicated - in November 2016, Forbes estimated that Bannon, if he owned only a 1% share in the show's profits, would have earned $32.6m (£24m) by that point.\n\nAfter returning to the US from the Chinese city of Shanghai in 2008 feeling the Bush administration was a \"disaster\", Bannon was struck by what he described to the New Yorker as \"this phenomenon called Sarah Palin\". Bannon warmed to the brand of populism employed by the Alaskan governor picked as John McCain's Republican running mate in the 2008 presidential race.\n\nThat populist wave would come crashing to shore with Trump's participation in the 2016 election, a wave Bannon proudly rode the whole way. In Trump, he recognised a willing outlet for his idea that, according to Wolff, \"the new politics was not the art of compromise, but the art of conflict\".\n\nBannon had long talked up Trump's chances on Breitbart News Network, which he took over in 2012 after the death of its founder, Andrew Breitbart. Bannon considered Trump, according to Wolff's book, \"a big warm-hearted monkey\".\n\nLike many of the businessman's cheerleaders, Bannon was eventually invited into his inner circle, becoming the CEO of the Trump campaign in August 2016.\n\nDishevelled, regularly unshaven, and prone to wearing two shirts at the same time, he was an unlikely candidate to work closely with Trump, who places a high value on appearance. But somehow it worked.\n\nBannon's economic nationalist outlook and his eagerness for a \"deconstruction of the administrative state\" - a tearing apart of the system of taxes and regulations that he believed had hindered the US over years - chimed with Trump's \"Make America Great Again\" plea.\n\nTwo days after his arrival, Bannon replaced Paul Manafort as campaign chairman.\n\nBannon's counterpart in the Democratic camp, Robby Mook, responded furiously: \"Donald Trump has decided to double down on his most small, nasty and divisive instincts by turning his campaign over to someone who is best known for running a so-called news site that peddles divisive, sometimes racist... sometimes anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.\"\n\nThe provocateur in Bannon will almost certainly have enjoyed the reaction to his appointment. Less than three months later, he'd have even more to celebrate.\n\nTrump and Bannon thought as one in the last weeks of the campaign, to the extent that the Republican candidate would often demand: \"Where's my Steve? Where's my Steve?\", according to one former Trump aide.\n\nIn interviews after the event, Bannon said he always believed Trump would win. But not everyone else did, according to Michael Wolff's book. Indeed, in the weeks after the billionaire won, \"he had come to credit Bannon with something like mystical powers\" for having predicted the victory.\n\nWhite House appointments aren't often met with wide protests - but then Steve Bannon's was no ordinary appointment\n\nDays after the election, Trump named his trusted lieutenant as \"chief strategist\" - a newly created role - in his cabinet.\n\nThere were wide protests against the decision, and 169 members of the House - all Democrats - sent a letter to the president-elect asking him to withdraw Bannon's nomination, saying \"bigotry, anti-Semitism, and xenophobia should have no place in our society, and they certainly have no place in the White House\".\n\nBannon's vision was made clear in Trump's bleak inaugural address, which he wrote. Wolff says in his book it was \"a Bannon-driven message to the other side that the country was about to undergo profound change... his take-back-the-country, America-first, carnage-everywhere vision of the country\".\n\nThe \"American carnage\" speech painted a vision of a US with \"mothers and children trapped in poverty in our inner cities, rusted-out factories scattered like tombstones across the landscape of our nation\".\n\nThe full ramifications of Bannon's America First policy were made clear a week later, with Trump signing an executive order dreamt up by his chief strategist that banned people from seven Muslim-majority countries from travelling to the US. It caught many White House staff unaware.\n\nBannon, Wolff writes, was \"satisfied\" at the move and the subsequent outrage. \"He could not have hoped to draw a more vivid line between the two Americas - Trump's and liberals',\" Wolff writes, adding that the timing of its release before a busy weekend was deliberate - so it could cause as much chaos as possible.\n\nOne word that regularly features in interviews with Bannon is \"war\". Trump HQ on election night was \"the war room\", the same name he gave to the Oval Office when Trump took over. When Bannon would go on to leave the White House, he said he was going to \"war\" on Trump's behalf.\n\nFor Bannon, disorder was the new order in the White House. He and Trump were creating conflict and confusion, and that suited Bannon just fine.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Steve Bannon's three goals for the Trump presidency\n\nA day after Trump's executive order on immigration was signed, there was another controversial announcement - the US president downgraded military chiefs of staff from his National Security Council and gave a regular seat to Bannon instead.\n\nOnly career diplomats and generals usually join the council, the main group advising the president on national security and foreign affairs. By being invited to be a member, Bannon - in his first government job, aged 63 - was allowed to join high-level discussions about national security.\n\nThe reaction was, predictably, one of shock.\n\nDemocrat former presidential candidate Bernie Sanders called the move \"dangerous and unprecedented\", and Obama's former national security adviser Susan Rice tweeted: \"This is stone-cold crazy. After a week of crazy.\"\n\nThe White House, of course, defended their man as being more than capable enough to be on the council, pointing out his Navy service.\n\nBut in retrospect, this promotion is about as good as it got for Bannon in the White House.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Some of the people who have resigned or been fired under President Trump\n\nIn the end, Bannon lasted a little over two months on the National Security Council, leaving in April.\n\nIt was not a demotion, White House officials said, but the reasons for the change were not clear. Perhaps, just by shaking up the old order, the appointment had done its job.\n\nBut this change in his responsibilities became an indication of what was to come.\n\nAfter a summer of reports that Bannon was less and less visible in a White House suffering infighting and leaks, he left his position last August.\n\nIt was sold as a strategic move - Bannon would head back to Breitbart, where he would fight for Trump's agenda. \"I've got my hands back on my weapons,\" he said. \"It's Bannon the Barbarian.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Donald J. Trump This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBreitbart welcomed back what it called its \"populist hero\", with editor-in-chief Alex Marlow saying Bannon had \"his finger on the pulse of the Trump agenda\".\n\nBut his departure from the White House came at the end of a week in which Bannon had come under fire from a number of quarters, and amid reports of tension with key aides including National Security Adviser HR McMaster.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Charlottesville was the culmination of months of protests by white supremacists\n\nClashes had taken place the previous weekend between far-right and counter-protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, after which Trump blamed \"both sides\" for the violence - Bannon had once said his Breitbart site was \"a platform for the alt-right\" who were responsible for the violence.\n\nTwo days before he left his job, an interview with Bannon in the American Prospect, a liberal magazine, reportedly infuriated the president. Bannon was quoted as dismissing the idea of a military solution in North Korea, undercutting Trump.\n\nThen, a day later, a BuzzFeed report that said that Trump was unhappy with the credit his adviser was taking for the election victory.\n\n\"He undermined Trump's ego,\" Joshua Green, the author of a book on Bannon's relationship with Trump, Devil's Bargain, told the BBC.\n\n\"Trump can't abide the thesis of my book and Michael Wolff's book, which is that Bannon is the brains of the operation and Trump is an erratic charlatan. That's what Trump won't abide.\"\n\nBannon backed Roy Moore in the Alabama senate race - it didn't end well for them\n\nNow on the outside looking in, Bannon was more than happy to tell Trump where he thought he was going wrong. He attacked him through Breitbart for reversing course and sending more troops to Afghanistan, and called Trump's firing of FBI director James Comey the biggest mistake in \"modern political history\".\n\nBut Bannon was back in his natural habitat as he gunned for the Republican establishment, putting his weight behind ultra-conservative populist candidate Roy Moore in a senate race in Alabama.\n\nMoore comfortably won the primary against Luther Strange, the incumbent backed by Trump and the Republican machine.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBut Moore went on to face allegations of sexual misconduct with teenage girls, which he denied, and in December he lost the race to Doug Jones, who became the first Democrat to win a Senate seat in Alabama in 25 years.\n\nBannon's man, one eventually backed by Trump and the Republican party, had suffered a humiliating loss in what was supposed to be Bannon's first big victory. A win would have given him momentum in his campaign to field populist candidates against Republican senators in the 2018 mid-terms. A loss made that much harder.\n\nBannon - humbled, surprised - credited Democrats for having worked hardest, but the defeat risked grounding his populist movement to a halt.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Trump harsher on Bannon than he is on his 'worst enemies'\n\nTrump may once have been Bannon's \"big warm-hearted monkey\". But even cuddly monkeys can bite.\n\nAs details of Michael Wolff's book emerged, one key line stood out - Bannon described a meeting Donald Trump Jr held in New York with a Russian lawyer during the 2016 presidential election campaign as \"treasonous\".\n\n\"They're going to crack Don Junior like an egg on national TV,\" he told Wolff.\n\nThe reaction from the White House - reeling from a special-counsel investigation into possible collusion between the Trump team and Russia - was swift. Bannon had \"lost his mind\" after losing his White House position, the president said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Donald J. Trump This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSoon after, Rebekah Mercer, a wealthy benefactor of Bannon's, said she had ended her support for his political efforts.\n\nBannon, left with fewer and fewer allies, insisted his comments were not directed at Mr Trump's son but at another former aide, Paul Manafort, who was also present at the meeting in Trump Tower.\n\nBut there was only one way left to go. The goodbye from Breitbart was polite, and Bannon was out.\n\nSomewhere, somehow, Bannon the master string-puller will re-emerge - possibly in a different guise.\n\nCould he and Trump ever reconcile?\n\n\"Trump has fired people before and then let them back in,\" Joshua Green, the author of Devil's Bargain, said.\n\n\"But I've never seen Trump bury somebody as forcefully as he did Bannon, both in his statement and the parade of White House officials who have come out to heap scorn and derision on Bannon.\n\n\"It's awfully hard to imagine how Bannon could recover from that.\"\n\nAn unexpected twist unfolded ahead of the November 2020 election when Bannon and three other people were arrested and charged with fraud over a fundraising campaign to build a wall on the US-Mexico border.\n\nYou'll remember that building this wall was a key pledge of Trump's 2016 campaign, which Bannon played a leading role in.\n\nBannon, Brian Kolfage, Andrew Badolato and Timothy Shea defrauded hundreds of thousands of donors in connection with the \"We Build the Wall\" campaign, which raised $25m (£19m), the Department of Justice (DoJ) said.\n\nBannon received more than $1m, at least some of which he used to cover personal expenses, the DoJ said.\n\nEach of the two charges - conspiracy to commit wire fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering - carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison.", "New legislation has been passed to protect Scottish shop workers from abuse from customers.\n\nThe Protection of Workers Bill will make it a new specific offence to assault, abuse or threaten staff.\n\nIncidents involving an age-restricted product, such as alcohol or cigarettes, could be treated more seriously.\n\nThe MSP behind the bill, Labour's Daniel Johnson, said attacks on retail workers had increased during the Covid pandemic.\n\nHe told Holyrood: \"Shop staff have been spat at for asking customers to socially distance, and stock has been smashed in retaliation for item limits being imposed.\n\n\"Violence, threats and abuse should not be just part of anyone's job.\"\n\nMr Johnson said that staff requesting age ID could be a \"trigger factor\" in many incidents of abuse.\n\nThe new legislation will also cover people working in bars, restaurants and hotels, and those delivering items bought online who may have to ask for proof of age.\n\nThe bill was supported by all parties at Holyrood, despite the government initially arguing that its provisions were already covered by existing criminal laws.\n\nThe Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service told MSPs that further legislation was not needed, noting that \"violence, threats and abuse against retail workers, or indeed any other person, are prosecuted every day in the courts in Scotland using offences which are commonly understood\".\n\nPolice Scotland meanwhile said there would be \"no significant change in how we go about our business\" as a result of it.\n\nCommunity safety minister Ash Denham said that while there was a \"wide range of existing criminal laws\" currently in place to protect staff, the new legislation could \"make the general public think more about their behaviour when they interact with retail workers\".\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives also backed the bill, although they argued that the presumption against short sentences in Scotland meant anyone convicted under the new law would ultimately not be jailed.\n\nPaul Gerrard, public affairs director for the Co-Op, told BBC Radio Scotland's Drivetime that the retailer had seen a 450% rise in violent incidents in the last few years.\n\n\"It is a huge problem,\" he said. \"We've seen an explosion in violence and abuse toward my colleagues.\n\n\"Now across 350 stores in Scotland we have someone attacked every day. And 10 colleagues are threatened or abused every day.\n\n\"Increasingly we have seen knives, syringes and axes all used against shopworkers.\"\n\nMr Gerrard added that previous incidents were centred on shoplifting or age-restricted sales, but staff were now facing more abuse around enforcing Covid shopping rules.\n\nThe new legislation was passed by 118 votes to 0 in the Scottish Parliament.\n\nThe Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers (Usdaw) is now urging the UK government to introduce similar legislation to protect retail staff in England - something Labour MP Alex Norris is pursuing at Westminster.\n\nUsdaw general secretary Paddy Lillis said: \"It is a great result for our members in Scotland, who will now have the protection of the law that they deserve.\n\n\"So we are looking for MPs to support key workers across the retail sector and help turn around the UK government's opposition.\"", "Donald Trump won a surprise victory in 2016 partly because he promised to shake things up. He leaves office with two impeachments and the nation on edge. But his supporters say he kept his promises.", "More than 100 medically-trained military personnel will be deployed\n\nMembers of the military are to be brought in to help medical staff in Northern Ireland in the fight against Covid-19.\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann has asked the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to help out, primarily at a number of hospitals across NI.\n\nMore than 100 medically-trained military personnel will be deployed.\n\nThose brought in will assist nursing staff and help on the wards in a move designed to ease the pressure on staff.\n\nIn the past, the use of the military in Northern Ireland has provoked controversy.\n\nWhile military help has already been used during the pandemic to transport equipment and patients, this is the first time military staff will be used in hospitals.\n\nIt is thought the first military staff will be made available as early as next week.\n\nMr Swann said it would have been an abdication of responsibility if he did not avail of help from the military.\n\nHe said while coronavirus cases were lower than two weeks ago, the challenge posed remained \"intense\" and intensive care pressures were expected to increase further in the next eight to 10 days.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Brandon Lewis This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe confirmed that a request for military assistance for NI's health service had been accepted by the MoD.\n\nThe health minister thanked the MoD for the Military Aid to the Civil Authorities agreement, which is being provided in other UK regions.\n\n\"The armed forces have provided invaluable support in this pandemic, including aeromedical evacuation, real-estate and ongoing logistical planning,\" he said.\n\n\"Our hospitals are under immense pressure and an additional staffing complement will be very welcome on the front line.\n\n\"This is a health decision and I am confident it will be supported on that basis.\"\n\nNI Secretary Brandon Lewis tweeted: \"Battling #COVID19 is a national effort. I'm pleased that 110 medically-trained personnel from our Armed Forces will support health and social care teams across Northern Ireland in their vital work on the frontline against coronavirus.\"\n\nThe move has been welcomed by the Democratic Unionist Party.\n\nWhen it was announced last April that the health minster had made requests for military help, Sinn Féin's Michelle O'Neill said Mr Swann had taken that decision unilaterally.\n\nHowever, she later said her party would not rule out any measure necessary to save lives.\n\nReacting to the latest request for help, Sinn Féin said its priority throughout the pandemic had been to save lives, keep people safe and protect the health service.\n\n\"The Minister of Health has made a request for staffing support from the British Ministry of Defence,\" the party said.\n\n\"We do not rule out any measures to do so, and any effort to make the threat posed by Covid-19 into a green and orange issue is divisive and a distraction.\"\n\nAs of Wednesday, there were 832 people in hospital in Northern Ireland with coronavirus, of whom 67 were in intensive care, with 57 ventilated.\n\nA further 22 people with coronavirus died, bringing the Department of Health's total to 1,671 while there were 905 new cases.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, 61 new Covid-19-related deaths were recorded on Wednesday, bringing the country's death toll to 2,768.\n\nA further 2,488 new cases of the virus were also confirmed by the Irish Department for Health.\n\nSpeaking at Stormont's press briefing on Wednesday, Mr Swann confirmed the executive would review the current lockdown regulations on Thursday.\n\nNorthern Ireland began a six-week lockdown on 26 December, in a bid to bring the virus under control.\n\nMinisters promised to review the regulations after four weeks.\n\nMr Swann said he would not pre-empt the outcome of Thursday's meeting but confirmed he would bring recommendations from his officials to the meeting.\n\n\"This is not the time to open floodgates or take premature decisions that would lead to another spike in cases,\" he added.\n\n\"We must stay the course.\"\n\nThe minister also provided the latest update on the number of vaccinations - 160,396 doses have now been administered in NI, with 21,690 of those second doses.\n\nHe said he understood the frustration of some people that they were still waiting to hear when their elderly or vulnerable relatives would receive their vaccine, but he urged patience.\n\n\"We cannot go faster than supplies allow,\" he said.", "The National Audit Office has had full access to the BBC's accounts since 2010\n\nThe BBC faces \"significant\" uncertainty over its financial future due to changes in viewing habits, a National Audit Office report has found.\n\n\"While the BBC remains the most used media brand in the UK, its share of younger audiences has been under pressure,\" the spending watchdog said.\n\n\"Falling audience share poses a financial risk as people are less likely to pay the licence fee.\"\n\nThe BBC said it had already set out plans for \"urgent\" reforms.\n\nAccording to the NAO report, the BBC has seen \"a notable drop\" in audience viewing while its income from the licence fee has also declined.\n\nThe BBC \"faces considerable uncertainty\" about its licence fee income and should produce \"a long-term financial plan... as soon as possible\", it states.\n\nSuch a plan, the report recommends, should \"set out the detail for the next stage of its savings, and how it will fund its new strategic priorities\".\n\nIn 2019-20, the BBC generated total income of £4.94bn, of which £3.52bn was public funding from the licence fee. That was £310m less than the corporation received from the licence fee between 2017-18.\n\nThe current cost of an annual television licence is £157.50\n\nThe report also highlighted a 30% decline in BBC TV viewing over the past decade. On average, the amount of time an adult spent watching broadcast BBC television fell from 80 minutes a day in 2010 to 56 minutes in 2019.\n\nAnd the NAO said the BBC's financial health had been \"unexpectedly weakened\" by the impact of the coronavirus response.\n\nLast November, the BBC began negotiations with the government about the future funding it will receive from the licence fee. The fee, which is currently £157.50 annually, is due to stay in place until at least 2027, when the BBC's Royal Charter ends.\n\nIn response, the BBC said it had made \"significant savings and increased efficiencies, while maintaining our spending on content, and continuing to be the UK's most-used media organisation\".\n\nIt added: \"We have set out plans for urgent reforms focused on providing great value for all audiences and we will set out further detail on this in the coming months.\n\n\"The report also stresses the importance of stable funding for the future, which we welcome as we begin negotiations with government over the licence fee.\"\n\nThe National Union of Journalists said the report's findings \"come as no surprise\" and that the BBC needs \"a financially secure long-term deal that will guarantee its future.\"\n\nThe NAO scrutinises the finances of government departments and other public sector bodies. Last week Richard Sharp, the BBC's incoming chairman, said the licence fee was the \"least worst\" way of funding the corporation, but it \"may be worth reassessing\" in future.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "At noon on Wednesday, President Donald Trump's term will end. It's been a whirlwind four years, so what might the legacy be of such a history-making president?\n\nThere's a lot to consider, so we asked the experts to break it down for us.\n\nResponses have been edited for length and clarity.\n\nMatthew Continetti is a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, focusing on the development of the Republican Party and the American conservative movement.\n\nDonald Trump will be remembered as the first president to be impeached twice. He fed the myth that the election was stolen, summoned his supporters to Washington to protest the certification of the Electoral College vote, told them that only through strength could they take back their country, and stood by as they stormed the US Capitol and interfered in the operation of constitutional government.\n\nWhen historians write about his presidency, they will do so through the lens of the riot.\n\nThey will focus on Trump's tortured relationship with the alt-right, his atrocious handling of the deadly Charlottesville protest in 2017, the rise in violent right-wing extremism during his tenure in office, and the viral spread of malevolent conspiracy theories that he encouraged.\n\nWhat else stands out to you?\n\nIf Donald Trump had followed the example of his predecessors and conceded power graciously and peacefully, he would have been remembered as a disruptive but consequential populist leader.\n\nA president who, before the pandemic, presided over an economic boom, re-oriented America's opinion of China, removed terrorist leaders from the battlefield, revamped the space program, secured an originalist (conservative) majority on the US Supreme Court, and authorised Operation Warp Speed to produce a Covid-19 vaccine in record time.\n\nLaura Belmonte is a history professor and dean of the Virginia Tech College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences. She is a foreign relations specialist and author of books on cultural diplomacy.\n\nHis attempt to surrender global leadership and replace it with a more inward-looking, fortress-like mentality. I don't think it succeeded, but the question is how profound has the damage to America's international reputation been - and that remains to be seen.\n\nThe moment I found jaw-dropping was the press conference he had with Vladimir Putin in 2018 in Helsinki, where he took Putin's side over US intelligence in regard to Russian interference in the election.\n\nI can't think of another episode of a president siding full force with a non-democratic society adversary.\n\nIt's also very emblematic of a larger assault on any number of multilateral institutions and treaties and frameworks that Trump has unleashed, like the withdrawal from the Paris climate accord, the withdrawal of the Iranian nuclear framework.\n\nWhat else stands out to you?\n\nTrump's applauding Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and meeting with North Korea's Kim Jong Un, really turning himself inside out to align the US with regimes that are the antithesis of values that the US says it wants to promote. That is something that I think was really quite distinctive.\n\nAnother aspect is extricating the US from any really assertive role in promoting human rights throughout the world, and changing the content of the annual human rights reports from the State Department and not including many topics, like LGBT equality, for instance.\n\nKathryn Brownell is a history professor at Purdue University, focusing on the relationships between media, politics, and popular culture, with an emphasis on the American presidency.\n\nBroadly speaking: Donald Trump, and his enablers in the Republican Party and conservative media, have put American democracy to the test in an unprecedented way. As a historian who studies the intersection of media and the presidency, it is truly striking the ways in which he has convinced millions of people that his fabricated version of events is true.\n\nWhat happened on 6 January at the US Capitol is a culmination of over four years during which President Trump actively advanced misinformation.\n\nJust as Watergate and the impeachment inquiry dominated historical interpretations of Richard Nixon's legacy for decades, I do think that this particular post-election moment will be at the forefront of historical assessments of his presidency.\n\nWhat else stands out to you?\n\nKellyanne Conway's first introduction of the notion of \"alternative facts\" just days into the Trump administration when disputing the size of the inaugural crowds between Trump and Barack Obama.\n\nPresidents across the 20th Century have increasingly used sophisticated measures to spin interpretation of policies and events in favourable ways and to control the media narrative of their administrations. But the assertion that the administration had a right to its own alternative facts went far beyond spin, ultimately foreshadowing the ways in which the Trump administration would govern by misinformation.\n\nTrump harnessed the power of social media and blurred the lines between entertainment and politics in ways that allowed him to bypass critics and connect directly to his supporters in an unfiltered way.\n\nFranklin Roosevelt, John F Kennedy, and Ronald Reagan also used new media and a celebrity style to connect directly to the people in this unfiltered way, ultimately transforming expectations and operations of the presidency that paved the path for Trump.\n\nMary Frances Berry is a professor of American history and social thought at the University of Pennsylvania, focusing on legal history and social policy. From 1980 to 2004, she was a member of the US Commission on Civil Rights.\n\nIn what he did with judges, Trump has made a long lasting change over the next 20 years, 30 years in how policies will stand up to legal tests and how they're able to be implemented - no matter what any particular president or administration proposes.\n\nThe courts are controlled by the Republican appointees. Sometimes judges surprise us, but for the most part, the historical evidence is that they pretty much do what their politics and their backgrounds say they will do.\n\nWhat else stands out to you?\n\nWhen he supported that package of measures that helped particular people in the black community, like First Step, pardoning people at the same time that he supported an amendment in the appropriations bill that gave a whole bunch of money to historically black colleges and universities for the first time.\n\nHe put all of these things together, as well as having the first stimulus programme making sure that black businessman and entrepreneurs get some of those loans they've had trouble getting before.\n\nThe effect of all of that, which we will see over time, was in the midterms, a lot more young black men voted for Trump than before. And if that's a trend, it may help the Republican party.\n\nTrump also made egregious comments about black people and other people of colour, tried to have protests against police abuse disrupted and in other ways appealed to his white supremacist base.\n\nHis lasting impact on race relations depends on what the Biden administration does on policy, and on healing and how long the pandemic and economic downturn lasts.\n\nMargaret O'Mara is history professor at the University of Washington, focusing on the political, economic, and metropolitan history of the modern US.\n\nContesting a very constitutionally and numerically clear election victory by Joe Biden.\n\nWe've had plenty of really unpleasant transitions. Herbert Hoover was incredibly unpleasant about his loss, but he still rode in that car down Pennsylvania Avenue at inauguration. He didn't talk to Franklin Roosevelt the whole time, but there still was a peaceful transfer of power.\n\nTrump is a manifestation of political forces that have been in motion for a half century or more. A culmination of what was not only going on in the Republican party, but also the Democratic party and more broadly in American politics - a kind of disillusionment with government and institutions and expertise.\n\nWhat else stands out to you?\n\nTrump is exceptional in many ways, but one of the things that really makes him stand out is that he is one of the rare presidents who was elected without having held any elected office before.\n\nTrump may go away, but there is this great frustration with the establishment, broadly defined. When you feel powerless, you vote for someone who's promising to do everything differently and Trump indeed did that.\n\nA presidency is also made by the people that the president appoints, and a great deal of experienced Republican hands were not invited to join the administration the first go round.\n\nOver time, his administration has diminished to a band of loyalists who are really not very experienced and are ideologically uninterested in wise governance of the bureaucracy. What has happened within the bowels of the bureaucracy is going to be a slow slog to rebuild.\n\nSaikrishna Prakash is a University of Virginia Law School professor focusing on constitutional law, foreign relations law and presidential powers.\n\nThe last gasps of his administration are the most consequential, as he exerts a control over his most devoted followers and he's talking about running again.\n\nHe forced people to consider what the presidency has become in a way that wasn't true I think either during the Bush or Obama administrations. Issues like the 25th Amendment and impeachment hasn't been thought of since Bill Clinton, really.\n\nIt's possible that people now when they think of the presidency are perhaps going to adopt a different stance going forward, knowing that someone like Trump could come along.\n\nIt's possible that Congress will delegate less to the president and take away some authority.\n\nWhat else stands out to you?\n\nThe president has demonstrated that there's a constituency who's opposed to a lot of these trade deals and that there are people willing to vote for those who will either extricate us from these trade deals or \"make them fairer\".\n\nThe president has also suggested that China has been taking advantage of the United States in ways that are deleterious to our economic and national security - and I think there's a consensus behind this view. No one wants to be accused of being soft on China, whereas no one cares if you're \"soft\" on Canada, right?\n\nI think people are going to fall all over themselves to be tougher or at least say they're tougher on China.\n\nDomestically the president had a populous tone to him. It wasn't ever fully realised in his policies, but we see more Republicans adopting populist ideas.", "Testing of close contacts of identified cases was due to start in secondary schools and colleges in England\n\nThe government has paused plans to roll out rapid daily coronavirus testing of close contacts, in all but a small number of secondary schools and colleges.\n\nTesting close contacts of a positive case as an alternative to isolation showed some benefits in trials.\n\nBut the emergence of a new variant means the risk of missing infections has risen, health officials say.\n\nRegular testing of staff will now increase to twice a week.\n\nMore research is needed on how daily contact testing would work given the new, more transmissible, coronavirus variant, Public Health England and NHS Test and Trace say.\n\nIn the meantime, routine testing to pick up asymptomatic cases in staff and pupils remains a key part of the government's plans.\n\nMass testing in schools, using pregnancy-style lateral flow tests to detect the virus, had been due to start in January.\n\nHowever, under new lockdown restrictions, schools have had to switch to providing online teaching until February - although children of key workers are still allowed to attend - and plans were postponed.\n\nHow testing of pupils will be organised once schools reopen is still not clear.\n\nThe original plan for rapid Covid testing in all secondary schools and colleges included:\n\nThe aim was to keep as many children in schools as possible by avoiding a whole bubble, class or year having to be sent home, and to reduce disruption from staff having to isolate.\n\nBut some scientists have consistently expressed concerns about the accuracy of the rapid tests, which do not need to be sent to a lab for the results.\n\nThey say the high number of false negatives means close contacts may wrongly think they are not infectious and go on to mix with more vulnerable people.\n\nAnd now PHE and NHS Test and Trace say the new variant, which \"increases the risk of transmission everywhere, including in school settings\", has made this a risk no longer worth taking.\n\n\"The balance between the risks (transmission of virus in schools and onward to households and the wider community) and benefits (education in a face-to-face and safe setting) for daily contact testing is unclear,\" their statement adds.\n\nA government spokesman said: \"NHS Test and Trace and Public Health England have reviewed their advice and concluded that, in light of the higher prevalence and rates of transmission of the new variant, further evaluation work is required to make sure it is achieving its aim of breaking chains of transmission and reducing cases of the virus in the community.\n\n\"There is no change to the main rollout of regular testing using rapid lateral flow tests in schools and colleges, which is already proving beneficial in finding teachers and students with coronavirus who do not have symptoms.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'You wouldn’t want to give this to anybody'\n\nI was last here at University Hospital Monklands on 1 May when those dealing with the first wave of an unknown disease were already tired.\n\nAt that time, the deaths of 29,059 people had been registered in the UK within 28 days of a positive test for Covid-19.\n\nI returned 259 days later with the number of deaths at 89,230 to find that the staff are exhausted.\n\n\"We're all physically, mentally and emotionally drained now,\" says Fiona Bauld, an intensive care unit (ICU) staff nurse.\n\nIn the first wave, the Lanarkshire hospital was almost empty except for patients being treated for Covid or other critical and emergency needs.\n\nThis time there are just a handful of spare beds in the entire building. Staff who had helped out with critical care last year are back in their own departments, and the ICU specialists are alone once more.\n\n\"There's not really enough extra nurses to account for the extra patients so the amount of work everyone is doing is much more,\" says intensive care consultant Daniel Silcock.\n\nThe patients are changing too.\n\nIn the first wave, most patients were old and often ill before they contracted the virus, says ICU ward manager Margaret Harkins.\n\n\"This time the patients are a much younger age group and some have no underlying health conditions,\" she adds.\n\n\"We are getting people in in their 20s, 30s and 40s,\" Ms Bauld says. \"Younger people are catching this virus and becoming really critically ill with it.\"\n\nMae Mamaril (right) and her parents Jaramias and Sonia tested positive\n\nMae Mamaril is one of them. She is 26 and has no underlying health conditions.\n\nMae and her parents Jaramias and Sonia, from Cumbernauld, North Lanarkshire, tested positive for Covid within days of being vaccinated for their jobs.\n\nAll three ended up in Monklands but Mae was the sickest and the only member of her family admitted to intensive care.\n\nShe had to wear an oxygen mask and lie face down on a bed for three days, a treatment called proning which medics say can improve lung function in many patients.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mae Mamaril, 26, was moved to intensive care at the start of the year\n\n\"I couldn't breathe,\" she says. \"It was really bad because they moved so quickly to give me oxygen and told me to lie on my stomach.\n\n\"All I could think about was wanting to come home, but then at the same time, I knew that if I didn't have enough oxygen, even if I went home, I would never survive.\"\n\nNot only is the hospital busy with younger people in this wave but senior doctors say a third of all patients here now have the virus.\n\nThere is another big difference outside the building.\n\nIn May, when I drove from Glasgow to the hospital in Airdrie the roads were empty, the streets silent.\n\nThat is no longer the case. Heading east to Monklands again, the M8 is the busiest I have seen it since the pandemic began.\n\nDoctors and nurses have noticed the increase in traffic too - and they are worried.\n\n\"Without a lockdown, I think it would just be a disaster,\" Dr Silcock says.\n\n\"We've had twice as many admissions this time as we did in the first wave.\"\n\nDr Sanjiv Chohan, who runs the intensive care department, says he too is worried.\n\nBut what about the many harmful side effects of lockdown - on other medical conditions, especially mental health, as well as the impact on education and the economy?\n\n\"I sympathise completely,\" says Dr Chohan, pointing out that the ICU staff are also affected by these issues.\n\n\"It's a really difficult balancing act. It's choosing the least harmful options,\" he says, adding: \"We have to preserve some ability to have functioning hospitals.\"\n\nAt times, Monklands has not been able to function normally.\n\nSince the autumn, around a third of all intensive care patients here have had to be transferred out of the hospital to other facilities — primarily to Wishaw and Hairmyres but sometimes out of Lanarkshire entirely.\n\nChief nurse Karen Goudie says she is worried about the coming weeks\n\nThe chief nurse at Monklands, Karen Goudie, says that was necessary to reduce pressure and create capacity for incoming patients.\n\nThere has not yet been a point when all Scotland's hospitals have been overwhelmed at the same time.\n\n\"No, not yet but we're worried about the coming weeks,\" says Ms Goudie. \"The projections look - scary, I guess, is the right word to use. \"\n\nStaff here believe a current increase in cases is attributable to families mixing at Christmas and to people not sticking to the current lockdown rules.\n\nStill, they have coped. Patients are now less likely than in the first wave to need the dangerous intervention of a ventilator as knowledge of how to treat the disease develops.\n\nFor many though, a Covid diagnosis can remain frightening and perilous.\n\nJim McShane, 56, works for a gas company in Motherwell. I leave intensive care to meet him on the Covid ward where he is being treated.\n\n\"You just don't know what's ahead,\" he tells me. \"It just destroys you sometimes. Brings you right down.\"\n\n\"I would tell people to stay out the road of one another,\" he says.\n\nAfter I leave, Jim is transferred to intensive care. He is now on a ventilator.\n\nThere may be some signs that Scotland's latest surge in hospital admissions may be easing.", "Gabriel is an ardent 'Latino for Trump' who is active in New York Republican circles. He wishes the Biden/Harris administration well but doesn't believe Democrats really want unity and thinks they'll reverse a lot of good Trump policies.\n\nHow did Joe Biden's inaugural speech on unity sit with you?\n\nI caught bits and pieces of the inauguration, but I did not watch the speech. I'll give it a watch when I'm not as busy. Hopefully, his message is not like what we saw on 6 January, when he tried to lambast people as white supremacists for showing up at the Capitol, because that will just alienate people.\n\nThis country has come a long way in terms of race relations and, if we really want unity, let's regain the sense of what an American is. An American isn't white, black or Jewish; it is a person within the United States that takes part in our republic.\n\nWhat do you think of the executive actions he is taking today?\n\nI knew Biden would come out swinging while he stills holds the majority in the legislative branch. It's certainly a statement in the same vein as President Trump's first few days of office, but I think it's horrible. As someone of Hispanic descent, the idea of potentially granting 11 million immigrants citizenship is a slap in the face to everyone who came through the legal process.\n\nJoining the Paris climate agreement again is widely regarded as a farce, even by some ecologists, because nations that are members in the agreement didn't actually hit their targets. The removal of the Keystone Pipeline is not only going to cost people jobs but it could potentially increase our carbon footprint. When it comes to the WHO, they failed us during the Covid pandemic. It's all just smoke and mirrors to undo what President Trump did and stick it in the face of Republicans.", "The former Western Daily Press journalist lived in the property from 1970 until 1994\n\nAn \"inspiring\" house previously owned by fantasy writer Sir Terry Pratchett has been put on the market.\n\nThe creator of the Discworld series lived in the 18th Century property, called Gaze Cottage, in the village of Rowberrow, Somerset, from 1970 until 1994.\n\nSir Terry died aged 66 in 2015, eight years after being diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.\n\nHe wrote more than 70 books during his career and completed his final book in 2014.\n\nAt the turn of the century, Sir Terry was Britain's second most-read author, beaten only by JK Rowling.\n\nIn August 2007, it was reported he had suffered a stroke, but the following December he announced that he had been diagnosed with a very rare form of early-onset Alzheimer's disease.\n\nThe fitted kitchen is in the older half of the house\n\nRuth Treasure-Smith, from Robin King Estate Agent, said: \"He wrote most of his most famous novels in that house in the 80s.\n\n\"The house must have been inspiring. The current owner purchased the property from Terry Pratchett and has lived at the house since.\"\n\nShe said he had received letters to the house addressed to the \"Hogfather\", a quirky and satirical character from the Death collection in the Discworld series.\n\nThe sitting room has an inglenook fireplace complete with bread oven\n\nThe house is being sold at a guide price of £800,000\n\nThe first floor houses the master bedroom which overlooks the garden\n\nThe property has four bedrooms\n\nThe cottage sits on a plot comprising almost a third of an acre\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk", "The driver sat on his overturned van until rescuers arrived\n\nA supermarket delivery driver had to be rescued from his overturned van after he careered off the road and ended up in a fast-flowing ford, police said.\n\nFirefighters and police were called to the River Wear, Westgate, in Weardale, after reports that a Morrisons van was stuck at 17:00 GMT on Tuesday.\n\nPolice said the van had \"careered\" off the road and the man sat on top of the vehicle before being rescued.\n\nCounty Durham Fire and Rescue Service said the rescue was \"challenging.\"\n\nWater specialists from the fire service braved the river in a raft attached to a nearby footbridge and gave the man a life jacket.\n\nPolice said the driver was not injured but was taken to hospital as a precaution.\n\nThe fire service tweeted a video of the scene, and said they were \"so proud\" of the water rescue team.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nScott Bisset, who lives nearby, went to see if he could help after he was called by people who heard the driver shouting for help.\n\nMr Bisset, a member of the local mountain rescue team, said he thought the driver may have ended up there after being directed by his sat-nav.\n\nHe said: \"There's not a vehicle in the world that could have got through.\n\n\"The river was in flood - the snow here has melted and there was rain, so there was a lot of water in the river.\n\n\"The van was washed off and turned over on its side, luckily the front was pointing upstream, so it acted like a boat.\n\n\"If the water had been hitting the side of the van or the back, the driver would unfortunately have drowned.\n\n\"When I got there the driver was extremely distressed.\"\n\nThe van has not yet been recovered from the water\n\nHe also said that rescuers had put their lives at risk.\n\n\"I know they practice for this but in those conditions, with that freezing water travelling at great speed, in the dark and the pouring rain, it was very dangerous and they were very brave,\" he said.\n\nThe van has not yet been recovered from the water.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "US President Joe Biden has officially announced his bid for re-election, asking Americans to help him \"finish the job\" he started more than two years ago.\n\nMr Biden, 80, faced a turbulent first two years in office marked by the Covid-19 pandemic, economic woes and geopolitical challenges including the US pull-out from Afghanistan and Russia's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nOn the campaign trail, Mr Biden - who served as Vice-President under Barack Obama - is likely to focus on his efforts to prop up the US economy after the pandemic, as well as his successes pushing through legislation focused on infrastructure, climate change and prescription drugs.\n\nBut a key argument for a second term will be what he has described as a turn towards authoritarianism from Donald Trump and his supporters in the \"Make America Great Again\" movement.\n\n\"The question we are facing is whether in the years ahead we have more freedom or less freedom, more rights or fewer,\" he said in a video launching his new campaign. \"I know what I want the answer to be. This is not a time to be complacent. That's why I'm running for re-election.\"\n\nThe President, however, is also likely to face questions about his age and ability to serve, as well as about his handling of inflation, immigration and other issues that worry Americans.\n\nThe upcoming campaign is likely the last in a career in politics that has spanned more than four decades, and may again see him square off against Donald Trump.\n\nSo who is Joe Biden and how did he get to the White House?\n\nMr Biden ran for the Democratic 2008 nomination before dropping out and joining the Obama ticket.\n\nHis eight years in the Obama White House - where he frequently appeared at the president's side - has allowed Mr Biden to lay claim to much of Mr Obama's legacy, including passage of the Affordable Care Act, as well as the stimulus package and reforms enacted in response to the financial crisis.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A look back at Joe Biden's life and political career\n\nAs a long-time Washington insider, Mr Biden had solid foreign affairs credentials, and helped balance Mr Obama's comparative lack of executive experience.\n\nThe so-called \"Middle Class Joe\" was also brought on board to help woo the blue-collar white voters who had proved a difficult group for Mr Obama to win over.\n\nHe made headlines in 2012 by saying he was \"absolutely comfortable\" with same-sex marriage, comments that were seen to undercut the president, who had yet to give full-throated support for the policy. Mr Obama ultimately did so, just days after Mr Biden.\n\nMr Biden's two terms supporting the first black president followed a long political career.\n\nThe six-term senator from Delaware was first elected in 1972. He ran for president in 1988 but withdrew after he admitted to plagiarising a speech by the then leader of the British Labour Party, Neil Kinnock.\n\nHis lengthy tenure in the nation's capital has given critics ample material for attacks.\n\nEarly in his career, he sided with southern segregationists in opposing court-ordered school bussing to racially integrate public schools.\n\nAnd, as chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1991, he oversaw Clarence Thomas's Supreme Court confirmation hearings and has been sharply criticised for his handling of Anita Hill's allegations that she was sexually harassed by the nominee.\n\nIn 1974, Biden was the youngest US senator\n\nMr Biden was also a fierce advocate of a 1994 anti-crime bill that many on the left now say encouraged lengthy sentences and mass incarceration.\n\nThe record made Mr Obama's moderate vice-president a sometimes uncomfortable fit for the modern Democratic Party.\n\nMr Biden's life has been dogged by personal tragedy.\n\nIn 1972, shortly after he won his first Senate race, he lost his first wife, Neilia, and baby daughter, Naomi, in a car accident. He famously took the oath of office for his first Senate term from the hospital room of his toddler sons Beau and Hunter, who both survived the accident.\n\nIn 2015, Beau died of brain cancer at the age of 46. The younger Biden was seen as a rising star of US politics and had intended to run for Delaware state governor in 2016.\n\nMr Biden garnered considerable goodwill following Beau's death, which served to highlight one of Mr Biden's central strengths: a reputation as a kind and relatable family man.\n\nThis perceived warmth is not without its pitfalls. After entering the 2020 race, he faced accusations of unwelcome physical contact during interactions with female voters - complete with uncomfortable accompanying footage.\n\nBut the avuncular politician responded by saying he was an empathetic person, though he accepted standards had changed. The episode, however, stoked a perception for some that he was out of touch.\n\nMr Biden's return to the White House came at a difficult time in US politics, with the country still reeling from the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nJust two weeks before his inauguration, the country had also seen supporters of former President Donald Trump storm Congress in a bid to thwart the certification of his election victory after Mr Trump falsely claimed that the election had been rigged.\n\nMr Biden's new campaign is likely to focus heavily on the fight against the ideology on display during the 6 January riot. The video announcing his re-election bid opens with images of a mob of Trump supporters storming the Capitol.\n\n\"Every generation of Americans has faced a moment when they've had to defend democracy,\" he said. \"This is ours. Let's finish the job.\"\n\nAs he campaigns, Mr Biden is likely to point to a number of accomplishments during his tenure, including job creation, efforts to prop up the economy in the wake of the pandemic and the passing of a bipartisan infrastructure law billed as a \"once-in-a-generation\" investment by the White House.\n\nBut he will face tough questions on his handling of immigration and the US-Mexico border, as well as on the chaotic US withdrawal from Afghanistan.\n\nMr Biden has also acknowledged that many Americans have raised \"legitimate\" questions about his age and ability to serve as President.\n\n\"And the only thing I can say is, watch me,\" he said earlier this year.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Health workers can book an appointment at seven vaccination centres in operation across NI\n\nDoctors have insisted there is no postcode lottery when it comes to rolling out the coronavirus vaccines.\n\nNorthern Ireland's vaccination plan means all those over 80 should receive their first dose by the end of January.\n\nMore than 154,000 doses of a vaccine have now been administered, health officials said.\n\nDr Frances O'Hagan, deputy chairwoman of NI's GP committee, said practices had their own rollout plans but she expected them to meet official targets.\n\n\"As soon as we get the vaccine, we will get it to you,\" she told BBC News NI. \"But please, please wait until we contact you.\"\n\n\"We tailor our programmes to our individual patients and to our geography and to our surroundings.\n\n\"It's not actually a postcode lottery. It's the best way of doing it because we know what suits our patients.\"\n\nDr O'Hagan said she had not heard reports of some practices holding back vaccines until they received bigger amounts to allow for a larger number of vaccinations to be done.\n\nShe said rolling out the programme was a logistical challenge which fell on top of an already heavy workload but the jab would be given out in a \"safe and timely\" fashion.\n\nSinn Féin MP Órfhlaith Begley said doctors in her West Tyrone constituency were working above and beyond to administer the vaccine to as many people as possible.\n\n\"But unfortunately I am hearing that some GPs cannot access supplies of the vaccine,\" she said.\n\n\"There does appear to be, and it is a consistent message from GPs in my own constituency, a feeling the distribution of the vaccine has been unequal to date.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Health Minister Robin Swann has welcomed a further delivery of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine into Northern Ireland on Tuesday morning.\n\nIn a tweet, Robin Swann said: \"We now have the supply to complete all our over 80s and when that group is finished, there will be enough to start into the over 75 programme.\"\n\nPatricia Donnelly, the head of NI's vaccination programme said there had been 154,436 doses of the vaccine administered here, with 132,857 of those being first doses.\n\nOn Tuesday, she said three quarters of care home residents had already received both doses.\n\n\"With the arrival of additional vaccine today, which have been issued this afternoon and tomorrow to GPs, there will be enough to complete the over 80 population and to commence in the over 70 population,\" she added.\n\nA further 24 virus-related deaths and 713 more Covid-19 cases were reported in Northern Ireland on Tuesday.\n\nIt brings the total number of deaths recorded by the Department of Health to 1,649.\n\nThere are currently 842 people in hospital with the virus, 70 people in intensive care units (ICU) and 57 being ventilated.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, a further 93 Covid-19 related deaths were reported on Tuesday, bringing the country's death toll to 2,708.\n\nA further 2,001 positive cases were also recorded in the latest figures from the Republic's Department of Health.\n\nNorthern Ireland's rate of Covid-19 infection is now below one and has been at that level for a couple of weeks, according to the chief medical officer.\n\nHowever, Dr Michael McBride warned the reproduction (R) number for hospital transmission remains above one.\n\nDr McBride said new variants of the virus had made the job of curtailing the spread even more difficult, and warned he did not foresee any relaxation of restrictions any time soon.\n\n\"We need to ensure that we have as many people who remain at risk of severe disease vaccinated and prioritised with the first dose as possible before we consider significant relaxations in the current restrictions,\" he said.\n\nMeanwhile concerns have been raised that \"social media myths\" are encouraging some care home staff to reject the Covid vaccine.\n\nPauline Shepherd, from the Independent Health and Care Providers, said young women were especially vulnerable to misinformation about the vaccine and fertility.\n\nLast week, the Department of Health said there had been an uptake level of about 80% among care home staff.\n\n\"We are very keen obviously that everyone takes the vaccine, that is really the only way that we are going to get through this,\" she told BBC Radio Foyle.\n\n\"Obviously there are myths going around on social media about the vaccine and some are opting not to take it.\n\n\"Particularly younger females seem to have the view through social media that it may impact fertility\".\n\nA consultant anaesthetist says there is a \"reluctance\" among members of the black, Asian and minority ethnic communities to take Covid-19 vaccines\n\nThere are currently 139 confirmed Covid-19 outbreaks in NI's 483 care homes.\n\nThe Public Health Agency (PHA) and Department of Health were now exploring how \"to dispel the myths\", Ms Shepherd added.\n\nDr Mukesh Chugh, a consultant anaesthetist at Altnagelvin Hospital in Londonderry, said there had been a \"reluctance\" among black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) people to take Covid-19 vaccines.\n\nDr Chugh says this is because of \"anti-vaccine messages\" posted across various social media platforms and messenger apps \"targeted at certain ethnic and religious groups\".\n\n\"I encourage them not to believe the messages they are getting on WhatsApp - these are not scientific messages,\" he said.\n\nOn Tuesday, Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots said a number of groups of key workers should be given priority access to vaccinations.\n\nPrioritisation was decided by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), which advises UK health departments on immunisation.\n\nEdwin Poots said meat plant workers should be among those given priority vaccine access\n\nAsked if he supported prioritisation for food workers in meat plants, Mr Poots told the assembly he did and had raised it with the executive.\n\n\"It's been identified as an essential service - those people working in them are there in cold, wet conditions where we have had a number of outbreaks,\" he said.\n\n\"We should seek to introduce those people somewhat earlier than is currently the case - I will continue to endeavour to press that case.\"\n\nHe said other groups of workers who should be prioritised included \"teachers and police officers\".", "Four royal aides say they do not wish to \"take sides\" over a letter from the Duchess of Sussex to her father, the High Court has been told.\n\nIn a letter lawyers for the four said they believed their clients could \"shed some light\" on the letter's drafting but the four were \"strictly neutral\".\n\nMeghan is suing the Mail on Sunday and Mail Online publisher over articles that reproduced parts of the letter.\n\nShe claims her privacy and copyright were breached by the newspaper group.\n\nHer lawyers are asking for summary judgement - a dismissal of Associated Newspapers' (ANL) defence instead of a trial.\n\nThe five articles, published in February 2019, were a \"triple-barrelled invasion\" of the duchess's privacy, correspondence and family, the lawyers claim.\n\nShe is seeking damages from the newspaper group for alleged misuse of private information, copyright infringement and breach of the Data Protection Act over the articles.\n\nANL claims Meghan wrote her letter \"with a view to it being disclosed publicly at some future point\" in order to \"defend her against charges of being an uncaring or unloving daughter\", which she denies.\n\nOn the second day of the hearing on Wednesday, ANL's barrister Antony White QC told the court that a letter from the so-called \"palace four\" showed that \"further oral evidence and documentary evidence is likely to be available at trial which would shed light on certain key factual issues in this case\".\n\nHe said it was \"likely\" there was also further evidence about whether Meghan \"directly or indirectly provided private information\" to the authors of an unauthorised biography of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Finding Freedom.\n\nThe four aides are: Jason Knauf, former communications secretary to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Christian Jones, their former deputy communications secretary, Samantha Cohen, formerly the Sussexes' private secretary, and Sara Latham, their ex-director of communications.\n\n\"None of our clients welcomes his or her potential involvement in this litigation, which has arisen purely as a result of the performance of his or her duties in their respective jobs at the material time,\" their lawyers said in a letter sent on their behalf.\n\n\"Nor does any of our clients wish to take sides in the dispute between your respective clients. Our clients are all strictly neutral.\n\n\"They have no interest in assisting either party to the proceedings. Their only interest is in ensuring a level playing field, insofar as any evidence they may be able to give is concerned.\"\n\nTheir letter said that their lawyers' \"preliminary view is that one or more of our clients would be in a position to shed some light\" on \"the creation of the letter and the electronic draft\".\n\nIt also said they may be able to shed light on \"whether or not the claimant anticipated that the letter might come into in the public domain\" and whether or not the duchess \"directly or indirectly provided private information, generally and in relation to the letter specifically, to the authors of Finding Freedom\".\n\nBut Justin Rushbrooke QC, representing the duchess, said the letter from the four \"contains no information at all that supports the defendant's case on alleged co-authorship (of Meghan's letter), and no indication that evidence will be forthcoming that will support the defendant's case should the matter proceed to trial\".\n\nMeghan, 39, sent a handwritten letter to her father in August 2018, following her marriage to Prince Harry in May that year, which Mr Markle did not attend. The couple are now living in the US with their son Archie.\n\nThe full trial of the duchess's claim had been due to be heard at the High Court this month, but last year the case was adjourned until autumn 2021.\n\nAt the conclusion of the hearing on Wednesday afternoon, Mr Justice Warby reserved his judgement, which he said he would deliver \"as soon as possible\".", "When Joe Biden becomes US president on 20 January plenty of change is expected under his new administration.\n\nFor those who want to put Donald Trump in the rear view mirror, there's a lot to look forward to.\n\nOthers are not sure if he can bring unity to a divided country and enact lasting change.\n\nHere's what members of our BBC voter panel told us.\n\nPeyton Forte is a recent college graduate who now works as a reporter. She was not the big supporter of Biden and Kamala Harris, but says getting rid of Donald Trump is an urgent and necessary first step towards change.\n\nWhat are you hopeful the Biden administration can accomplish?\n\nFor starters, easing the pandemic and ensuring more collaboration between federal and state governments on vaccine distribution. I'm looking forward to his stimulus packages to kickstart the economy and make sure people are actually alive to reap the benefits of it. We can also look forward to a president whose main mode of communication is not Twitter. The biggest thing is undoing the damage of the prior administration, from immigration laws to our relationships with foreign allies.\n\nWhat are your fears for the Biden presidency?\n\nTo be honest, I haven't really gotten to that point because I'm so ready for the Trump administration to be gone. So ask me that question again in a few weeks. I'm really encouraged by Biden's financial and economic cabinet picks because I think he is trying to stunt the racial wealth gap. There will be a time and place to nitpick his choices, but not yet. As somebody who is black, I know he rejected calls to defund the police. The phrase is inflammatory, but that money is redirected into our communities, so I'd like for him to take another look at it and maybe he'll reconsider.\n\nWith so much talk of the need for unity and healing, where does the country go from here?\n\n'Unity and healing' is the new 'thoughts and prayers'. I know it has been kind of a calling card for Biden to contrast himself with Trump, but I'm going to have to see it to believe it. Are you just faking it or are you doing the work to actually unify people? Time will tell if people actually want unity or if some are just mad that their candidate lost.\n\nJim is a property manager and conservative Republican who no longer supports President Trump since his refusal to accept the results of the election. He wants the incoming administration to find common ground rather than be too left wing.\n\nWhat are your hopes for Biden?\n\nI'm hopeful for some stability and less drama. America's standing in the world, particularly in the last couple of weeks, has really diminished and I would hope they would be able to return us to our traditional position in the world. I would like to see the bill he puts forward on Covid relief. If we're going to put money into people's hands, we need to make sure it actually makes a difference. Six hundred dollars is a slap in the face when you look at how we're giving away billions of dollars to other countries.\n\nWhat are your fears about his presidency?\n\nI am worried they're going to overreach and placate the progressive wing of the Democratic Party, and create deeper polarisation. I worry they will try to pack the Supreme Court. I am concerned about immigration policy. I would hope they have the courage to be more moderate in tone, action and policy, at least for the first few years. That way, things can level off and then we can have reasonable debate about issues on a case-by-case basis. One side is really having a hard time accepting the reality of [Trump's] loss; that's too many people to just ignore and it seems like there's a real mood for retaliation.\n\nCompromises will need to happen and both sides on the extreme right and left will not be happy with it. In the immediate moment, we need to have a good tone from the top that is conciliatory and respectful. I'm looking for Biden to reassure Americans their vote was secure and legitimate, restore a sense of public confidence and competence to the US government and spend serious time on rebuilding unity.\n\nLesley is a small business owner and an immigrant from Canada. Joe Biden was not her first choice for president by a long shot, but she now says he is \"the best person\" for this moment in the country's history and she hopes he can follow through.\n\nWhat are your hopes for Biden?\n\nI'm looking forward to real leadership and an administration that actually cares about getting things done. We need to get the virus under control. They have an actual plan; I hate that it's going to cost another $2tn, but it wouldn't have cost that if we had taken the time to do the hard work early. From climate change and fire management to infrastructure and renewable energy, they'll get us back on track. From a civil rights perspective, we have the greatest opportunity. The administration is diverse and he's trying to give everyone a seat at the table.\n\nWhat are your fears about his presidency?\n\nNothing comes to mind. I feel like this administration is going to reset, refocus and prioritise things that should be prioritised. There's so much that needs to be addressed at once, but like the rest of the world, they have to learn to multitask and do their jobs.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What do countries around the world want from Joe Biden?\n\nWe need our elected officials, when doing their jobs, to not just represent one segment of the population. They can see what has happened by turning a blind eye and not listening. For the Democrats, they need to find a way to communicate so the concerns they've raised are taken seriously but without turning off the other side. For the Republicans, they need to pay attention not just to the loudest people - just being loud doesn't mean they're right. Moving forward, everybody has to do their part to prioritise what is best for the country. We're never going to get rid of the element that attacked the Capitol, but it's like herd immunity. The only people who were surprised by what happened last week were the ones who were not paying attention.\n\nJazmin is a writer and youth voting rights activist who says the past four years have damaged the psyche of young people. She wants the new administration to rebuild trust and show people like her that government can be a force for good in their lives.\n\nWhat are your hopes for Biden?\n\nI hope that the Biden administration is bold on climate, an equitable Covid economic recovery and racial justice. Personally though, I think we fundamentally need to look at our broken system. Restoring voting rights, stronger ethics and anti-corruption measures, as well as campaign finance reform can restore balance and transparency within our government, so we can trust in our elections and elected officials.\n\nWhat are your fears about his presidency?\n\nI've been thinking a lot about the pace of change. There's so much that needs to be done but we're also looking at departments that have been gutted. The damage of the past three years has been so deep and the rolling back of it will take a lot of time, so we have to practise patience and we have to be realistic.\n\nOur government only works when people decide not to disengage and be cynical, but instead step up and figure out how to get involved. The events of the Capitol work were horrific and traumatising for so many people, but the day before it was a Georgia election with incredibly high youth voter turnout. There is a lot of vitriol and hate, but the majority of folks believe in working to ensure our country is serving the best interests of everyone.\n\nGabriel is a writer and the activism chair for the New York Young Republicans. He wishes the Biden administration good luck, but is concerned it will sow more division in a vulnerable moment for the country.\n\nWhat are your hopes for Biden?\n\nAs an American, I am hopeful that things go well under this administration. I don't wish for Joe Biden to fail because the president is like the pilot of a plane: if he goes down, so do we. I hope he can answer the renewable energy debate, create more nuclear power plants and allow the United States to remain the number one exporter of energy. Hopefully, we'll see some sort of voter ID laws enforced, for greater election integrity. I hope he doesn't fuel more divisions.\n\nWhat are your fears about his presidency?\n\nMy fear is that he will listen to people like AOC [Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez] and Bernie Sanders, who are trying to push him to accept more far left policies that will do more harm than good to the US in an economic sense. He may continue the harsh lockdowns and ignore censorship of conservatives. Under the Trump administration, we decreased our presence in the Middle East and were stopping the forever wars, so I really hope we don't return there.\n\nAfter what happened at the Capitol, Biden came out and started very well, then devolved into race-baiting rhetoric - that's not something our country needs right now. There are millions of people who feel as though they were cheated and did not get a fair election, and some of them might not even recognise Biden as president, so it's very important that he treads lightly and focuses on unity. Don't lump them together as insurgents or other labels because you're going to further alienate people. Speak to every American and say that it is time to come together.", "As Donald Trump comes towards the end of his presidency, we've put together a selection of striking moments from his four years in office.\n\nCrowds are seen gathered at Mr Trump's inauguration ceremony on 20 January 2017.\n\nJust days later, the new president accused the media of lying about the attendance. He was said to be angry that images appeared to show the crowds were lower than for Barack Obama's first inauguration in 2009.\n\nWhite House Press Secretary Sean Spicer told the media it had been \"the largest audience to ever see an inauguration, period\".\n\nFar-right supporters and white nationalists took part in a torch-lit rally through Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017.\n\nThe following day a woman was killed and 19 were injured when a car ploughed into a crowd of counter-protesters in the city.\n\nIn response, President Trump condemned violence by \"many sides\", prompting a wave of criticism. Some 48 hours later, he denounced far-right extremists calling \"KKK, neo-Nazis and white supremacists repugnant to everything we hold dear\".\n\nJoe Biden has said it was the president's response to the tragedy that prompted his own decision to run against him.\n\nMr Trump's attendance at the G7 summit in Canada in June 2018 did not get off to a good start, when prior to the event, the president announced import tariffs on steel and aluminium from the EU, Mexico and Canada.\n\nOther images from the meeting showed more friendly relations between the leaders - but this photo was considered by many to reflect the underlying tensions of the gathering.\n\nMr Trump left the summit before other leaders and claimed that America was \"like the piggy bank that everybody is robbing\".\n\nFirst Lady Melania Trump is pictured wearing a jacket in June 2018 which reads \"I really don't care, do you?\" on the back, during a trip to a migrant child detention centre.\n\nThere was speculation over what message Mrs Trump intended to send by wearing the jacket on that trip, which came as the president was under fire for his policy of separating children from their parents at the border.\n\nThe First Lady later admitted it had been a message \"for the people and for the left-wing media who are criticising me. I want to show them I don't care. You could criticise whatever you want to say. But it will not stop me to do what I feel is right\".\n\nMr Trump called for compromise in politics during his State of the Union address in February 2019 but Nancy Pelosi was pictured giving what many saw as a sarcastic clap.\n\nHe broke protocol by not waiting for the customary introduction from the House Speaker before beginning his speech.\n\nThe image, termed the \"Pelosi clap\" quickly went viral and appeared to show the political rivalry between the two.\n\nMr Trump walks into the northern side of the military demarcation line that divides North and South Korea in June 2019. In doing so, he became the first US sitting president to cross the line.\n\nHis decision to meet Kim Jong-un without pre-conditions stunned the world.\n\nDespite the apparent warming of relations, little concrete progress was made on negotiations over North Korea's nuclear programme.\n\nKim Kardashian West speaks at a White House event about prison reform in June 2019.\n\nIn 2018, the celebrity activist lobbied the Trump administration on behalf of a grandmother jailed for life. Alice Johnson was later granted clemency in a high-profile decision by Mr Trump.\n\nPresident Trump has already given pardons to 94 people and there is speculation he may pardon 100 others before he leaves office.\n\nMr Trump holds a bible in front of St John's Episcopal Church, just across the road from the White House in June 2020.\n\nPeaceful anti-racism demonstrators had been cleared from nearby Lafayette Square with pepper spray and flash-bang grenades so that the president and his entourage could walk to the church.\n\nHis actions prompted shock and anger from many religious leaders, who accused him of using religion for political purposes.\n\nThe Trump family watch as Donald Trump debates with Joe Biden at their first presidential debate in Cleveland, Ohio, on 29 September 2020.\n\nThey broke debate rules that all spectators wear masks - sparking the same criticism often aimed at their father for taking a cavalier attitude to the virus.\n\nA few days after the debate, the president tested positive himself.\n\nHe spent three nights in a hospital receiving treatment before returning to the White House and declaring he felt \"really good\" and urging others not to be afraid of the virus.\n\nCrowds of Trump supporters climb on the US Capitol in DC earlier this month following a \"Stop the Steal\" rally.\n\nIt followed a 70-minute address by the president in which he exhorted them to march on Congress where politicians were meeting to certify Democrat Joe Biden's win. The mob ransacked the Capitol building and attempted to enter the chambers where lawmakers were hiding.\n\nMr Trump has since been impeached, becoming the first president ever to be impeached twice. But he denies charges that he incited the mob to attack the Capitol.", "A tearful President-elect Joe Biden says goodbye to his home state before departing for Washington on the eve of his inauguration.", "Joe Biden has been sworn in as the 46th president of the United States, at a low key inauguration ceremony outside the US Capitol in Washington DC.\n\nIn his maiden speech as president, Mr Biden said: \"We've learned again that democracy is precious, democracy is fragile, and at this hour, my friends, democracy has prevailed.\"\n\nRead more: Joe Biden replaces Trump as US president", "More than 60 flood warnings remain in place in northern, central and eastern England\n\nResidents have been evacuated, roads closed and rail services were suspended as Storm Christoph batters England.\n\nHouseboat residents were moved from Northwich, Cheshire, for their safety as Prime Minister Boris Johnson plans to hold an emergency meeting later.\n\nNorthern, central and eastern England are braced for flooding which will be discussed at the Cobra meeting.\n\nMore than 60 flood warnings remain in place and three police forces have declared major incidents.\n\nThe North West, Yorkshire and the Midlands have been preparing for widespread flooding following the Met Office's amber weather warning for heavy rain until midday Thursday.\n\nPeople living in houseboats in Cheshire have been moved to hotels for their safety, say police\n\nCheshire Police has declared a major incident - along with forces in Greater Manchester and South Yorkshire - and moved 33 people from Hayhurst Marina for their safety as water levels rise.\n\nIn Greater Manchester up to 3,000 properties could be affected by flooding near the River Mersey where a peak is expected at 23:00 GMT.\n\nDowning Street said Covid-secure evacuation centres would be made available to those forced to leave their homes as a result of flooding.\n\n\"Preparations to create Covid-secure rest centres have been made by relevant agencies as a precautionary measure,\" the Prime Minister's official spokesman said.\n\n\"The important message for the public now is to continue to monitor the information the Environment Agency are providing and sign-up for flood alerts if they haven't already.\"\n\nThe River Eden has flooded Rickerby Park in Carlisle\n\nMore than 120mm (nearly 5in) of rain has already fallen in some parts of England, with 123.4mm at Honister Pass in Cumbria in the 24 hours up to 06:00 GMT on Wednesday.\n\nNearby Seathwaite saw the second highest total, with 107.2mm (4.2in), and some isolated spots could see up to 200mm (7.8in), the Met Office said.\n\nThe Environment Agency has issued more than 60 flood warnings, meaning flooding is expected and immediate action required, while there are also more than 180 flood alerts, meaning flooding is possible.\n\nA road in Lancashire was shut by police after six vehicles got stuck in surface water\n\nIn North Yorkshire, York is currently predicting the River Ouse could rise above 4m (13.1ft) but that is a level the defences can cope with.\n\nHowever, if people are forced out of their homes due to flooding they can stay with friends or family without the risk of a Covid fine during Storm Christoff, North Yorkshire Police has said.\n\nGreater Manchester Police Assistant Chief Constable Nick Bailey said the force declared it a major incident on Tuesday to ensure it was \"as prepared as possible\".\n\nHe believes up to 3,000 properties in the region could be affected by flooding in Didsbury, Northenden and Sale near the River Mersey.\n\nFlood sirens were sounded in Walsden, Todmorden on Tuesday\n\n\"This is a significant incident in terms of disruption to people and those people have been advised with regard to action to take,\" he said.\n\nThe Prime Minister's spokesman added: \"The Environment Agency is on the ground now working with local partners and stand ready to respond to any flooding.\n\n\"They have already ensured there are 40km (25 miles) of temporary barriers, which they are ready to deliver anywhere in the country and that is alongside high-powered pumps and trained staff who are ready to assist and provide information to local communities.\"\n\nWhen asked if local authorities would be given further financial support to deal with flooding, the Prime Minister's spokesman said: \"We have a number of flood recovery schemes that can be made available to those who are affected by flooding.\"\n\nFlood warden Keith Crabtree from Todmorden, West Yorkshire, said he was hoping improved flood defences had \"done the trick\" after checking river levels in Mytholmroyd.\n\n\"There appears to be plenty of rain about but it does not seem to be having and serious impact on the river levels,\" he said.\n\n\"We will see over the years to come how it performs in reducing the flood risk for the village. Things can change very quickly in the Calder Valley and we are not out of the woods yet.\"\n\nHow have you been affected by the floods? Email your experiences: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mr Biden took his oath on a Bible that has been in his family since 1893 and was also used each time he was sworn in as Delaware senator. The book itself is five inches (12.5cm) thick with a Celtic cross on the cover", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe fluttering flight patterns of butterflies have long inspired poets but baffled scientists.\n\nResearchers have struggled to understand how these delicate creatures can fly with their large but inefficient wings.\n\nNow, a new study shows that butterflies evolved an effective way of cupping and clapping their wings to generate thrust.\n\nThe scientists say that this ability helps them avoid dangerous predators.\n\nFlying species have evolved various methods of evading death. Some have developed powerful and efficient wings to speed them to safety.\n\nOthers survive by tasting awful when eaten.\n\nBut what about the slow-moving, meandering butterfly?\n\nThe problem for these creatures is that they have unusually large wings relative to their body size, which are aerodynamically inefficient for flight.\n\nBack in the 1970s, researchers developed a theory that their big wings allowed the butterfly to clap them together on the upstroke to power their take off.\n\nBut no one has shown how this works in natural flying conditions.\n\nNow, Swedish scientists, using a wind tunnel and high-speed cameras, have captured the butterfly's unique flying skill.\n\n\"The wings are behaving in quite an interesting way,\" co-author Dr Per Henningsson, from Lund University, in Sweden, told BBC News.\n\n\"The leading and the trailing edge are meeting before the central part, forming this pocket shape.\n\n\"We think that sort of behaviour is going to improve the clap because it forms an air pocket between the wings which, when the wings collapse, that makes the jet even stronger and more efficient.\"\n\nA butterfly in the wind tunnel for the experiment\n\nAs well as recording slow-motion video of the butterflies in flight, the researchers constructed two simple pairs of mechanical clappers to test their ideas. One was rigid, the other flexible and more akin to the butterfly wings observed in the wind tunnel tests.\n\nThe team found that the flexible wings dramatically increased the force created by the clap.\n\nIt also improved the efficiency by 28%, which the authors describe as a huge amount for a flying animal.\n\nThis leads them to conclude that the large wings and cupped, clapping action were an evolutionary advantage for butterflies when faced with predators.\n\n\"If you are a butterfly that is able to take off quicker than the others, that gives you an obvious advantage,\" said Per Henningsson.\n\n\"It's a strong selective pressure then, because it's a matter of life and death.\"\n\nA silver washed fritillary , one of the creatures used to show the mechanics of butterfly flight\n\n\"I don't really know if they use it in free flight, but I think they typically don't flap their wings together.\n\n\"But in the take-off phase, they definitely do it a lot.\"\n\nThe authors believe that their research might prove useful in other spheres.\n\nSome drone devices and underwater vehicles already use propulsion systems based on wing clapping motion, but with limitations.\n\nThe incorporation of the approach used by butterflies might bring major improvements, the scientists say.\n\n\"We're suggesting that the people that are working on these designs, they should look into this cup-shape behaviour, since there are lots of efficiency and effectiveness to be gained from it,\" said Per Henningsson.\n\n\"It's certainly something that would be worthwhile looking into.\"\n\nThe report has been published in the journal of the Royal Society Interface.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nRelegation-threatened Fulham lost some of the momentum built up by their win at Everton but showed battling qualities to claim a point at Burnley.\n\nOf the three sides currently adrift at the bottom of the Premier League, the Cottagers seem the most capable of clawing their way to safety, as illustrated by their impressive win at Goodison Park on Sunday.\n\nBut they failed to repeat that bright and incisive display at Turf Moor against a typically hard-working and competitive Clarets side, who married their industry with the game's main moments of attacking ingenuity.\n\nIt was the visitors, though, who took the lead, as much through fortune as design, with Ola Aina's chested effort from a corner finding the net despite an attempted clearance from Robbie Brady on the line.\n\nCrucially, the visitors were denied the time to draw confidence from the opener, with Burnley hitting back three minutes later through a well-taken Ashley Barnes finish, following a superb low ball from Jay Rodriguez.\n\nThe same two strikers had both narrowly failed to get a goal-bound touch on a superb low cross from James Tarkowski in the first half, while Rodriguez saw a low drive kicked away by Alphonse Areola shortly after his side had levelled the score.\n\nThe draw represents an opportunity missed for Burnley to put further ground between themselves and the London side, with the gap between the two a sizeable but not yet entirely comfortable eight points.\n\nScott Parker's side remain six points shy of safety, with Newcastle the 17th-placed side most in danger of being reeled in.\n• None Follow live text commentary of Burnley v Fulham in the Premier League\n\nA point gained, or two lost for Fulham?\n\nEarning a result at Burnley against a side built to expose the mental and physical weaknesses in an opponent, especially a newly promoted one, is not an easy task.\n\nIn doing so, Fulham have further demonstrated their growth into a top-flight side, after claiming a number of creditable draws earlier in the campaign and then dispatching an aspiring big-hitter in Everton last weekend.\n\nUnfortunately, the Cottagers' development could have come too late.\n\nOnly wins will really eat into the gap between themselves and safety and they cannot afford to let one slip from their grasp when it is there to be had.\n\nIt is why Parker and his side will be so disappointed at the speed and manner with which they conceded the equaliser at Turf Moor, throwing away the lead and momentum they had seized by allowing Barnes a free run in on goal to finish.\n\nThey had been on the back foot for large periods before that and were indebted to a bit of fortune for their goal, but aesthetics come a distant second to actual points right now.\n\nThe biggest positive for Burnley will be that their advantage over the Cottagers remains the same as it was before kick-off.\n\nWith the likes of Newcastle and Palace in far worse form than they are, and Brighton a point worse off, they will feel relatively calm about their situation.\n\nWhat will worry manager Dyche is further injuries to his already depleted squad, with Johan Berg Gudmundsson having to depart, and his replacement Robbie Brady also needing to be replaced.\n\nThere is no respite for either side, with both facing further important fixtures at the weekend.\n\nBurnley host West Brom, the side a place below Fulham in the table, while Parker's men welcome bottom club Sheffield United to Craven Cottage.\n\n'When we get ahead we need to weather something'\n\nBurnley boss Sean Dyche talking to Sky Sports: \"Another point on the board, we are stripped to the bare bones. A committed performance.\n\n\"The reaction to their goal was excellent and I thought we defended well. It's remarkably unfortunate how many injuries we have had.\"\n\nFulham boss Scott Parker talking to Sky Sports: \"It is a tough place to come, the ball is in play not a lot, it is scrappy. We got our noses in front and disappointed with the goal we have conceded.\n\n\"We take the point though. That is four points so far this week. When we get ahead we need to weather something. There were a couple of mistakes for their goal.\n\n\"I thought we were solid, dealt with the threat of balls coming in but were not able to get our identity on it.\n\n\"We regroup, it has been a busy week. Every game is big for us. Six points. This team has honest belief and confidence.\"\n• None Burnley are unbeaten in their past 31 home meetings with Fulham in all competitions (W25 D6), extending their longest ever unbeaten run against an opponent at Turf Moor in their history. Their last such defeat was back in April 1951 (2-0).\n• None Fulham's 31-game winless streak away from home against Burnley in all competitions is their longest run without a victory on the road against an opponent in their history.\n• None There have been just 24 Premier League goals scored at Turf Moor this season (Burnley scoring 10 and conceding 14) - the joint-lowest total at a top-flight ground in 2020-21 (level with Craven Cottage).\n• None Fulham have gone six consecutive away games without defeat in the Premier League (W1 D5), their joint longest such run in the competition (also in August 2004 under Chris Coleman).\n• None Burnley have conceded the first goal of the game in eight of their 12 Premier League matches at Turf Moor this season, including each of the past five - only Sheffield United (10) have done so more often on home soil in the competition this campaign.\n• None There were just 224 seconds between Ola Aina's opener for Fulham and Ashley Barnes' equaliser for Burnley.\n• None Burnley's Jay Rodriguez has assisted in back-to-back Premier League games for the first time in his career, with this his 196th appearance in the competition.\n• None Burnley's Robbie Brady is the only player to have been substituted on and off in two separate Premier League games this season.\n• None Attempt missed. Ashley Barnes (Burnley) header from very close range misses to the left following a corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Ademola Lookman (Fulham) right footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses the top right corner. Assisted by Josh Maja.\n• None James Tarkowski (Burnley) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. Josh Maja (Fulham) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Ruben Loftus-Cheek with a cross.\n• None Attempt missed. Ruben Loftus-Cheek (Fulham) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Ivan Cavaleiro with a cross. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Lifting the lid on the former president's 'America First' foreign policy\n• None Romesh returns with celebrity guests, a virtual nation and his mum...", "The editor of the British Medical Journal has asked the New York Times to correct an article that says UK guidelines allow two Covid-19 vaccines to be mixed.\n\nThe US publication reported that UK health officials would allow patients to be given a second dose that is a different vaccine to their first.\n\nFiona Godlee pointed out in her letter to the NYT that it was not a recommendation.\n\nShe said the NYT's headline claiming UK guidelines say such substitutions \"may happen\" was \"seriously misleading\".\n\nThe UK has approved the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab - but both require two doses which are now to be administered 12 weeks apart\n\nMs Godlee said the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) does not make any recommendation to mix and match - in other words, having a shot of one vaccine and then a different one 12 weeks later.\n\nDr Mary Ramsay, Public Health England's head of immunisations, said: \"We do not recommend mixing the Covid-19 vaccines - if your first dose is the Pfizer vaccine you should not be given the AstraZeneca vaccine for your second dose and vice versa.\"\n\nDr Ramsay added that on the \"extremely rare occasions\" where the same vaccine is unavailable or it is unknown which jab the patient received, it is \"better to give a second dose of another vaccine than not at all\".\n\nMs Godlee urged the New York Times to print a \"highly visible correction\" as soon as possible.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Princess Royal Hospital at Haywards Heath was among the hospitals receiving a delivery\n\nMeanwhile, health staff have criticised the paperwork needed to gain NHS approval to give the coronavirus vaccine, with some medics being asked for proof they are trained in areas such as preventing radicalisation.\n\nThe first doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine are due to be given on Monday after the jab was approved for use in the UK last week.\n\nThe Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was the first vaccine approved in the UK, and 944,539 people have had their first jab.", "Police tweeted this photo, which appears to show the vehicle severely damaged in the crash\n\nFour ponies have been killed in a collision with a vehicle in the New Forest National Park.\n\nThe animals were hit on Thursday night while licking freshly laid salt on Roger Penny Way, Hampshire Constabulary said.\n\nThree ponies died at the scene while a fourth was found dead later a short distance away.\n\nIn December, three donkeys were killed on the road, which is a black spot for animal accidents.\n\nMark Ferrett, whose daughter owned the ponies, said the deaths were \"unacceptable\"\n\nThe crash happened at about 21:00 GMT on a 40mph (64km/h) section of the road north of Brook.\n\nThe car, a Land Rover Discovery, appears to have been severely damaged in the collision, according to a police tweet, which gave no further details.\n\nMark Ferrett, whose daughter owned the ponies, said the deaths were \"unacceptable\".\n\nHe said: \"I would favour a reduction in the speed [limit]. Please, everyone needs to slow down and stop this carnage.\"\n\nThe New Forest is one of the largest remaining areas of unenclosed land where commoners' cattle, ponies and donkeys roam throughout the open heath.\n\nIn 2019, 58 animals were killed and 32 were injured, according to the New Forest National Park Authority.\n\nThe crash happened on Roger Penny Way, where donkeys, cattle and horses roam freely\n\nAndrew Napthine, a New Forest Agister who helps manage the area's free-roaming animals, attended the scene of the crash, and said the male driver was not injured.\n\nHe said three of the ponies were killed on the road while a fourth fled the scene and died behind a bush.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Officers dispersed the party at the Grade II* listed church before midnight\n\nA 500-year-old church was damaged during an illegal New Year's Eve party at the venue.\n\nAll Saints' Church in East Horndon, near Brentwood, was broken into before crowds entered, Essex Police said.\n\nOfficers were threatened and had objects thrown at them as they dispersed hundreds of people and seized equipment, the force said.\n\nTwo men from Harlow, aged 27 and 22, and a 35-year-old from Southwark were arrested.\n\nThey were held on suspicion of public order and drugs offences.\n\nAstrid Gillespie, a volunteer with the Friends of All Saints', said event organisers had smashed a window to put in an extractor fan unit and wired sound equipment into the church's fuse box.\n\nShe said: \"It was a professional set-up, they'd hired portable loos, they had a bar area where you had to exchange tokens... obviously it's a mess.\n\n\"It's such a beautiful church, to find out it's been damaged is devastating.\"\n\nThe conservation group believes it will cost at least £1,000 to repair the Tudor building.\n\nEquipment was seized and fines issued over three illegal parties broken up by officers\n\nPolice later dispersed about 100 people at an illegal party at an abandoned warehouse in Brentwood and made two arrests.\n\nA woman was also fined £10,000 for organising a house party with 100 guests at Bury Road, Sewardstonebury, in Epping Forest.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Andy Prophet said: \"Unfortunately, there were [those] who decided to blatantly flout the coronavirus rules and regulations and, ultimately, they decided that partying was more important than protecting other people.\n\n\"We've seized their equipment, arrested five people, and issued a large number of fines to those who think this behaviour is acceptable.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nFormer Tottenham and Southampton boss Mauricio Pochettino has been appointed head coach of Paris St-Germain.\n\nThe Argentine, 48, who succeeded Thomas Tuchel, has signed a deal until 30 June 2022, with the option of an extra year.\n\nPochettino, who played for PSG between 2001 and 2003, has been out of work since being sacked by Spurs in November 2019.\n\nPSG are third in Ligue 1 and will face Barcelona in the last 16 of the Champions League in February and March.\n\nGerman Tuchel was sacked on 29 December after two and a half years in charge.\n• None Pochettino is back - but why has he chosen PSG? Read Guillem Ballague's column\n\nPochettino will take his first training session on Sunday following the French league's winter break.\n\nHe said he was \"happy and honoured\" to take on the role and that the club \"has always held a special place in my heart\".\n\n\"I return to the club today with a lot of ambition and humility, and am eager to work with some of the world's most talented players,\" said Pochettino.\n\n\"This team has fantastic potential and my staff and I will do everything we can to get the best for Paris St-Germain in all competitions. We will also do our utmost to give our team the combative and attacking playing identity that Parisian fans have always loved.\"\n\nPSG chairman and chief executive Nasser Al-Khelaifi said Pochettino's return \"fits perfectly with our ambitions\", adding: \"It will be another exciting chapter for the club and one I am positive the fans will enjoy.\"\n\nPochettino began his managerial career at Espanyol and spent 18 months at Southampton before joining Tottenham in May 2014.\n\nHe guided them to the League Cup final in his first full season, while two third-placed finishes sandwiched a runners-up spot in the Premier League in 2016-17.\n\nA former Argentina defender, Pochettino led Spurs to the Champions League final in 2019, where they lost to Liverpool.\n\nHe was sacked five months later, with the club 14th in the Premier League, and replaced by Jose Mourinho.\n\nTuchel's final game in charge of PSG was a 4-0 win over Strasbourg on 23 December, which moved the reigning champions to within a point of Ligue 1 leaders Lyon and second-placed Lille before a two-week winter break.\n\nPSG have been linked with a January loan move for Tottenham's Dele Alli, who made his Premier League debut under Pochettino.\n\nWe all wanted to see him back and we all thought he was waiting for the Manchester United job. PSG is a massive job. There's a massive expectation there.\n\nWith the squad he can pick from and the players he can attract, it's a match made in heaven.\n\nPochettino has got the best out of Dele Alli in the past and it would probably be a clever move all round to get him out there with with the Euros looming.\n\nYou have to have success [at PSG]. They have moved Thomas Tuchel on because PSG are actually in a title race rather than winning at a canter. It's a great opportunity for Pochettino.\n• None A special and exclusive one-off chat with the music icon\n• None How has their rise come to define our culture?", "Arwel Morris said national park staff and police had been engaging with visitors\n\nBeauty spots have been \"disappointingly busy over the last few days\" despite restrictions meaning all but essential travel should be avoided.\n\nSnowdonia park warden Arwel Morris reiterated the message that people should not be driving to visit places.\n\nOn Saturday, police stopped people from Milton Keynes attempting to walk up Snowdon in breach of Covid rules.\n\nMr Morris blamed a \"perfect storm\" of good weather and people being off work for the number of visitors in the area.\n\n\"We try and enforce the fact that exercise should begin and end at home, meaning people should not try and drive to a location where they plan to exercise,\" he told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast.\n\n\"And this has been really difficult over the last few days.\n\n\"We have dealt with people from London, Birmingham… numerous people from north Wales travelling to beauty spots.\"\n\nMr Morris, a warden for Snowdonia National Park, said police had been doing their \"absolute best\" dealing with visitors despite other pressures, as wardens could not enforce breaches in lockdown rules.\n\nA breach of Covid rules can incur a £60 fine, which rises to £120 for a second breach.\n\nOn Saturday, North Wales Police said officers had \"turned away\" people who wanted to walk up Snowdon in breach of stay-at-home rules, including some some from Milton Keynes and London.\n\nOn New Year's Day, the force tweeted to say people had been reported for breaching travel restrictions.\n\nWales has been in a nationwide level four lockdown since 20 December.\n\nWales is in a tier four lockdown\n\nTravelling is only allowed for essential purposes, such as for work and for caring responsibilities. International travel is also not allowed.\n\nPeople are still allowed out of their homes to exercise for unlimited periods each day, but must maintain social distancing and not exercise with anyone outside their household.\n\nMore than three quarters of England is also under the strictest tier four coronavirus measures, putting restrictions on people's daily lives.", "The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine has started to arrive in hospitals, with the first doses due to be given on Monday.\n\nThe Princess Royal Hospital at Haywards Heath in West Sussex was one of the hospitals taking a delivery on Saturday.\n\nThe UK has ordered 100 million doses of the new vaccine - enough to vaccinate 50 million people.", "Last updated on .From the section Olympics\n\nThe delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics will go ahead this summer despite concern over rising coronavirus cases, says Japan's prime minister.\n\nThe Olympics are due to begin on 23 July with the Paralympics following a month later from 24 August.\n\nCases have surged in Japan in recent days with Tokyo reporting over 1,000 daily infections for the first time.\n\nBut prime minister Yoshihide Suga said the \"Games will be held this summer\" and be \"safe and secure\".\n\nJapan is responding to cases of the new variant of coronavirus first found in the UK, with Tokyo governor Yuriko Koike warning the number of infections could \"explode\".\n\nThere were a record 1,337 cases in Tokyo on 31 December with 783 new infections announced on Friday.\n\nJapan has recorded 239,041 coronavirus cases and 3,337 deaths during the pandemic, according to Johns Hopkins University.\n\nCosts for the Games have increased by $2.8bn (£2.1bn) because of measures needed to prevent the spread of coronavirus but organisers have ruled out a delay.\n\nThe Games could be the most expensive summer Olympics in history.\n\nA poll by national broadcaster NHK showed that the majority of the Japanese general public oppose holding the Games in 2021, favouring a further delay or outright cancellation of the event.\n\nSuga said the Games going ahead could serve as a \"symbol of global solidarity\".", "The next few weeks will be \"nail-bitingly difficult\" for the NHS, hospital bosses have warned.\n\nStaff absences and the new Covid variant are creating a \"challenging situation\", Saffron Cordery, of NHS Providers, which represents hospital trusts in England, said.\n\nDoctors are urging the public to \"take it seriously and follow the rules\" to protect the health service.\n\nThe year started with 53,285 more Covid cases and 613 deaths being reported.\n\nThe day's figures do not include data from Northern Ireland or Wales, or the numbers of deaths from Scotland - as these are not being published on certain days during the Christmas and New Year period.\n\nIt comes after the UK reported its highest daily cases on Thursday, with a record 55,892 infections.\n\nOn Friday evening, the government confirmed that all primary schools in London would remain closed for the start of the new term, following a review of Covid transmission rates.\n\nFrom Monday, all schools in the capital will now be required to provide remote learning.\n\nPrimaries in nine London boroughs and the City of London district had been set to reopen - while those in the remaining 23 boroughs would have stayed closed from 4 January.\n\nMeanwhile, new analysis by Imperial College London has confirmed the new variant of coronavirus has a much quicker rate of transmission than the original strain.\n\nAnd an analysis of NHS England data from 23 hospital trusts by the Health Service Journal shows that Covid-19 is putting intense pressure on adult acute care and general beds, as well as those in intensive care.\n\nIt found that more than a third of these beds were occupied by patients with Covid-19 on Tuesday, and in three trusts - North Middlesex in London, and Medway and Dartford and Gravesham in Kent - the figure was more than half.\n\nBased on the recent rise in numbers, the analysis suggests that all acute and general beds might soon be filled with Covid-19 patients.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Breakfast, Ms Cordery said the surging transmission and death rates were \"incredibly hard to deal with\".\n\n\"When we are seeing major London trusts saying they are under pressure, that's when we know we're in a very challenging space,\" she said.\n\nA leading intensive care doctor has urged people to follow restrictions until the vaccination programme is fully rolled out.\n\nProf Anthony Gordon, of Imperial College, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"There is light at the end of the tunnel so I would urge people to hold on for these few more months while the vaccination programme makes that difference and then we can truly get back to normal.\n\n\"But we can't overrun the health service because this will just lead to thousands more deaths.\"\n\nAdrian Boyle, vice-president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, urged people to follow guidance on hand washing, social distancing and face coverings to stop the \"entirely preventable\" spread of the virus.\n\nDr Boyle said staff are \"tired\" and at risk of \"burnout\", having \"worked really hard over the summer\" and \"put up with a lot of disruption\".\n\n\"This time people are frustrated, this is now an entirely preventable disease, we know what we did in spring made a lot of this go away. There's also now a vaccine,\" he added.\n\nMore than three-quarters of England is currently under the strictest tier four - \"stay at home\" - coronavirus measures, and other parts of the country have joined higher tiers.\n\nMainland Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales are under lockdown.\n\nThere are also concerns the added pressures of rising numbers of Covid patients seen at London hospitals have begun to spread across the country.\n\nSpeaking on Today, Dr Alison Pittard, of the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine, said it was \"only a matter of time before it starts to spread to other parts of country\", adding that \"we're already starting to see that\".\n\nShe stressed it was \"really important that we try and stop the transmission in the community because that translates into hospital admissions\".\n\nIt comes as almost half the major hospital trusts in England are said to be dealing with more Covid-19 patients than at the peak of the first wave in April.\n\nAnd pressure has been so great on some hospitals in London and south-east England that some patients have been moved out of the area.\n\nLondon's Nightingale emergency hospital is ready to admit patients, the NHS has said, while other sites currently not in use are being readied.\n\nHowever, Mike Adams, director of the Royal College of Nursing, questioned whether there were the staff available to run the hospital.\n\n\"Nursing is already stretched beyond capacity so there is no magic pile of nurses we can call upon,\" he told BBC Radio 4's World at One programme.\n\n\"I think the real battle is reducing the spread of the virus and getting the vaccine rolled out.\"\n\nThe new coronavirus variant has driven a big rise in cases, with the worst effects felt so far in London.\n\nResearchers at Imperial College London have confirmed it increases the R number - the number of people that one infected person will pass on a virus to - by about 0.4 to 0.7.\n\nThe UK's latest R number has been estimated at between 1.1 and 1.3. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.\n\nProf Axel Gandy, from the statistic section of Imperial College London, told the Today programme this higher rate of infection means that transmission of the disease would have tripled even during England's November lockdown conditions.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC's Laura Foster explains how to wear your mask correctly and help stop coronavirus spreading\n\nThe hunt is now on to find new ways to slow the spread of coronavirus, with the rules on mask wearing potentially coming up for review.\n\nBehavioural science group SPI-B (Scientific Pandemic Insights Group on Behaviours), which reports to the Sage group of government advisers, has said that mandatory face coverings may be necessary in a wider number of settings, such as in workplaces and possibly outdoors.\n\nHowever, Dr Simon Clarke, associate professor of cellular microbiology at the University of Reading, told BBC Radio 4's World at One he was not convinced a move towards making the wearing of face coverings mandatory outdoors would make \"much difference\" to transmission rates.\n\nHe said the \"bigger problem\" was people touching their face covering or wearing it incorrectly, adding ministers should focus on ensuring people knew how to wear them and to change and wash them regularly.\n\nThe rollout of the newly approved Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine will begin on Monday, almost a month after the Pfizer-BioNTech jab.\n\nSecond doses of either will now take place within 12 weeks rather than 21 days as had been initially planned with the Pfizer vaccine.", "The star started filming his role in secret last year\n\nComedian John Bishop is to join Jodie Whittaker for the 13th series of Doctor Who, the BBC has revealed.\n\nThe 54-year-old, who recently tested positive for coronavirus, said boarding the Tardis was a \"dream come true\".\n\nHe will play a character called Dan, who \"becomes embroiled in the Doctor's adventures\" and faces \"evil alien races beyond his wildest nightmares\".\n\nBishop fills the gap left by Bradley Walsh and Tosin Cole, who bowed out in a special New Year's Day episode.\n\nHe began filming his role last November, but the BBC kept the signing under wraps until the broadcast of Revolution Of The Daleks on Friday night.\n\nBishop, who grew up on a Merseyside council estate, had a brief career as a professional footballer before turning his hand to comedy.\n\nHe has previously acted in the Channel 4 drama Skins and the Ken Loach film Route Irish.\n\nEarlier this week, the comedian revealed that he and his wife had tested positive for Coronavirus over Christmas, saying he had been \"flattened\" by \"the worst illness I have ever had\".\n\nWriting on Instagram, he described his symptoms as including \"incredible headaches, muscle and joint point, no appetite, nausea, dizziness [and] chronic fatigue like I didn't know existed\".\n\nHe updated fans on New Year's Eve, saying he and his wife were \"getting a little stronger\" every day, and promising he would return to work in January.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by johnbish100 This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt is not thought his illness will disrupt production on Doctor Who. The show is on a scheduled break for Christmas and not due to resume filming until later this month.\n\nThe 13th series of the rebooted sci-fi stalwart will see Whittaker return as the extra terrestrial Time Lord, alongside Mandip Gill, who returns as Yaz.\n\nIn a statement, Bishop said: \"If I could tell my younger self that one day I would be asked to step on board the Tardis, I would never have believed it.\n\n\"It's an absolute dream come true to be joining Doctor Who and I couldn't wish for better company than Jodie and Mandip.\"\n\nJodie Whittaker became the first female actress to play The Doctor in 2017\n\nProgramme boss Chris Chibnall added: \"It's time for the next chapter of Doctor Who, and it starts with a man called Dan. Oh, we've had to keep this one secret for a long, long time.\n\n\"Our conversations started with John even before the pandemic hit.\n\n\"The character of Dan was built for him, and it's a joy to have him aboard the Tardis.\"\n\nDoctor Who will return to BBC One later this year.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nArsenal continued their Premier League resurgence with a ruthless victory over strugglers West Brom at The Hawthorns.\n\nDefender Kieran Tierney's excellent solo run and curling finish put the Gunners in front in the first half, before the impressive Bukayo Saka rounded off a stunning passing move to make it 2-0.\n\nAlexandre Lacazette added the third and fourth goals after the break - smashing in a rebound from Emile Smith Rowe's shot before he was set up by Tierney.\n\nIt was Arsenal's third league victory in a row after they had failed to win their previous seven.\n\nWest Brom, playing their fourth match under new manager Sam Allardyce, remain second from bottom and six points from safety.\n• None Confidence? Youth? How have Arsenal turned relegation talk into European hopes?\n\nArsenal boss Mikel Arteta said he wanted his players to \"show confidence\" at The Hawthorns, and they certainly did that in a dominant and eye-catching display.\n\nHector Bellerin forced Sam Johnstone into a save within two minutes after Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang broke down the left, and Saka tormented full-back Dara O'Shea on the opposite wing constantly during the opening half.\n\nIt was Saka's ball that fizzed past the back post, inches away from the toe of Aubameyang, after the 19-year-old had got the better of O'Shea and hit it straight at Johnstone.\n\nWest Brom were being suffocated and Tierney's burst of pace to get around Darnell Furlong, before bending it into the far corner, was the perfect way to open the scoring.\n\nSaka made it 2-0 by rounding off a slick, one-touch passing move that former Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger would have been proud of.\n\nWest Brom could offer no response after the break either and Arsenal were 3-0 up on the hour when Lacazette eventually blasted in the rebound from a catalogue of errors by defender Semi Ajayi.\n\nThat was game over but Lacazette was allowed to add a fourth when he was left unmarked to divert Tierney's cross into the roof of the net four minutes later.\n\nArteta, knowing the job was done, was able to bring off Saka and Emile Smith Rowe following impressive performances from both youngsters, while Arsenal continued to create chances to round off a very enjoyable evening in the snow.\n\nAllardyce's first match in charge of West Brom - a 3-0 drubbing by Aston Villa after captain Jake Livermore had been sent off - was a sign of just how tough this job was going to be.\n\nThen that 1-1 draw with Liverpool at Anfield provided hope. The Baggies were resilient, organised and tireless.\n\nBut heavy back-to-back defeats by Leeds United and now Arsenal at home have brought things back down to earth.\n\nWest Brom were overawed in defence, out-run in midfield and frustrated by a lack of opportunities in attack throughout this confidence-crushing defeat.\n\nTheir rare sniffs at goal came from a Granit Xhaka error in the first half - Matheus Pereira chipping it through to Matt Phillips who struck it straight at Bernd Leno - before Callum Robinson's finish was ruled out for offside in the second half.\n\nSubstitute Rekeem Harper's long-range strike deep in stoppage time was also comfortably turned behind by Leno.\n\nIt was West Brom's third home loss in three under Allardyce and they have conceded 12 goals with no reply in those games.\n\n'Everything looks much better' - what they said\n\nWest Brom manager Sam Allardyce: \"Another game gone by where we learn more about the players we have. We have learnt an awful lot about what we can and cannot do.\n\n\"We need to work out a way of not trying to be as sloppy as we have been at conceding goals. It appears when we try to open up we leave opportunities for the opposition and we cannot cope.\"\n\nArsenal manager Mikel Arteta: \"We had a big week, three games in seven days, and we managed to win them and everything looks much better. It was difficult conditions but the team looked sharp from the start. It's a big win.\n\n\"After the results we had before we had to lift things straight away. Now we have got some discipline back. We look more creative in the final third and we look solid at the back.\"\n\nThe best of the stats\n• None West Brom are the first side to lose consecutive home Premier League games by at least four goals since Wigan in August 2010.\n• None Arsenal have scored in all 25 of their Premier League meetings with West Brom, the best 100% scoring record by one side against an opponent in the competition's history.\n• None There were 20 passes in the build-up to Arsenal's first goal scored by Kieran Tierney - since Mikel Arteta's first game in charge on Boxing Day 2019, the Gunners have scored more goals following a sequence of 20+ passes than any other Premier League side (3).\n• None Tierney became the first Scottish player to score an away Premier League goal for Arsenal and the first to do so in the top flight since Charlie Nicholas against Ipswich Town in March 1986.\n• None Alexandre Lacazette has scored five away Premier League goals in 2020-21, his best such tally in a single season in the competition.\n\nWest Brom travel to Blackpool for an FA Cup third-round tie on Saturday, 9 January (15:00 GMT kick-off), before returning to Premier League action on Saturday, 16 January against Wolves (12:30 GMT).\n\nArsenal host Newcastle in their FA Cup match on the same day (17:30 GMT), before facing Crystal Palace at home in the league on Thursday, 14 January (20:00 GMT).\n• None Offside, West Bromwich Albion. Charlie Austin tries a through ball, but Kyle Bartley is caught offside.\n• None Attempt saved. Rekeem Harper (West Bromwich Albion) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Matheus Pereira.\n• None Attempt saved. Willian (Arsenal) left footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Dani Ceballos.\n• None Attempt missed. Joseph Willock (Arsenal) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Willian with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Conor Gallagher (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Callum Robinson.\n• None Attempt blocked. Charlie Austin (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Dara O'Shea.\n• None Dani Ceballos (Arsenal) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt saved. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Arsenal) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Kieran Tierney.\n• None Attempt missed. Charlie Austin (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Matt Phillips. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None A special and exclusive one-off chat with the music icon\n• None How has their rise come to define our culture?", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nManchester United moved level on points with Premier League leaders Liverpool as a Bruno Fernandes penalty saw off stubborn Aston Villa.\n\nFernandes drilled his 11th league goal this season - and his fifth from the spot - into the bottom corner to punish Douglas Luiz's clip on Paul Pogba and hand United an eighth win in 10 games.\n\nBertrand Traore's calm finish underneath David de Gea had deservedly drawn Villa level, cancelling out Anthony Martial's stooping first-half header for the hosts.\n\nBut Fernandes' penalty extended United's hold over Villa - they have now won 32 and lost just one of the past 44 league meetings between the sides - and leaves Liverpool top only by virtue of goal difference.\n\nThe spot-kick award angered Aston Villa boss Dean Smith who claimed Pogba \"tripped himself\" and that the video assistant referee should have asked on-pitch official Michael Oliver to review his decision.\n\n\"I don't see why Michael couldn't have looked at it. That's what VAR is for isn't it?\" Smith told BBC Sport.\n\n\"I thought it was a penalty at the time, but I looked at it after the game and saw he tripped himself. I don't think it's a penalty.\n\n\"I think there's enough doubt there to send the referee over to the screen.\"\n\nSmith's side were perhaps unfortunate not to have left Old Trafford with at least a point from a thoroughly entertaining game but they also needed several fine saves from Emiliano Martinez to keep them in it.\n\nAfter Fernandes' spot-kick put United back in front, Martinez superbly tipped a stinging 25-yarder from the Portuguese on to the crossbar as well as denying Martial a second.\n\nMartinez's counterpart David de Gea was just as busy, with a late save from Matty Cash's long-range strike preserving the points, not long after Tyrone Mings had headed wide a glorious chance to level.\n\nOle Gunnar Solskjaer's side have displayed their ability to grind out points at Old Trafford in recent weeks, as evidenced in 1-0 home wins over both West Bromwich Albion and Wolves.\n\nBut they have also shown a willingness to go toe-to-toe with teams who are happy to open up the game and, while this was not quite the shootout of the 6-2 win over Leeds, it was just as easy on the eye.\n\nA number of fluid first-half moves produced chances before Martial's opener as the France forward saw a curler tipped over by Martinez, while Fernandes and Wan-Bissaka were narrowly off target with similar efforts.\n\nMartial stole between Mings and Ezri Konsa to nod the Red Devils ahead from Wan-Bissaka's inviting cross for only his second league goal of the season on his return to Solskjaer's starting line-up.\n\nWhile Luiz was unfortunate to be penalised for what might have been an accidental clip on Pogba, there was enough contact for the penalty to be given and Fernandes continued his excellent record from the spot.\n\nUnited were nine points behind Liverpool after a 1-0 defeat by Arsenal at Old Trafford on 1 November but have made up that gap in just two months to set an intriguing title race into motion.\n\nA minute's silence before the game paid tribute to former boss Tommy Docherty, who famously prevented Liverpool claiming the treble by leading United to an FA Cup win over the Reds in 1977.\n\nAnd while talk of foiling a second successive Liverpool title might be premature, moving alongside them at the Premier League's summit will give Solskjaer's side even more confidence as they eye up a trip to Anfield on 17 January.\n\nWhile Villa were ultimately outgunned by their hosts, their brave display was further evidence of the progress Smith's side have made this season.\n\nThey held their own in the first half, causing United a number of problems down the flanks, with playmaker Jack Grealish prompting and probing to show why the hosts have long considered a move for the Villa captain.\n\nBut they were even more impressive in the early stages of the second period, Grealish crossing for an Ollie Watkins header that was saved by De Gea before collecting a quick free-kick and finding Traore to tuck home the equaliser.\n\nLuiz's foul on Pogba came with Villa very much in the ascendancy and while they then had to ride a storm the visitors still came close to pinching a point as Mings beat fellow England centre-half Harry Maguire to a free-kick only to nod wide.\n\nWith Ross Barkley's return from a hamstring injury imminent, this performance should keep Villa optimistic even if defeat halted a five-game unbeaten run and saw them slip a place to sixth, behind Chelsea on goal difference.\n\nAnd while their rotten record at Old Trafford continues - just one win in 34 visits since 1983, which came courtesy of a Gabriel Agbonlahor header in 2009 - they have still only conceded five times in eight away games this campaign.\n\n'We have improved a lot in a year' - what they said\n\nManchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer told BBC Sport: \"You are always delighted with three points. The performance was good and we created chances.\n\n\"It was maybe a little too open and we wasted chances. We tried to play the Hollywood pass instead of securing the first one and using the space that was there.\n\n\"We are happy with what we are doing. We have shown we have improved a lot in a year. We lost to Arsenal away last New Year's Day. We have improved immensely.\"\n\nAston Villa boss Dean Smith told BBC Sport: \"I wasn't happy with the first half. We were miles off the levels where we have been. It felt like a testimonial pace then they deservedly had the lead at half-time. I told the players we needed to be upping our levels.\n\n\"We competed a lot better [in the second half], showed more quality and created chances. I'd take the second-half performance all day long. A dubious penalty has lost us the game.\n\n\"When you look at our performances and results, it shows we are very competitive in this league now, which is what we wanted it to be.\"\n\nUnited's hold over Villa goes on - the stats\n• None Manchester United are unbeaten in their past 16 Premier League matches against Aston Villa (W12 D4).\n• None Aston Villa have lost 13 of their past 15 away Premier League games against Manchester United at Old Trafford (W1 D1).\n• None In Premier League history, the only player to be directly involved in more goals in their first 30 appearances in the competition than Bruno Fernandes (33 - 19 goals, 14 assists) is Andrew Cole (37 - 28 goals, nine assists).\n• None Anthony Martial has now scored on all seven days of the week in the Premier League for Manchester United, becoming the fifth player to do so, after Ryan Giggs, Andrew Cole, David Beckham and Wayne Rooney.\n• None Only Tottenham's Harry Kane (10) has assisted more Premier League goals this season than Jack Grealish (7), while the last Aston Villa player to assist more than seven Premier League goals in a season was Ashley Young in 2010-11 (10).\n• None Since Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's first Premier League match in charge of Manchester United in December 2018, the Red Devils have taken (27) and scored (21) the most Premier League penalties.\n\nManchester United host local rivals Manchester City in the Carabao Cup semi-finals on Wednesday (19:45 GMT) and welcome Watford in the FA Cup on Saturday 9 January (20:00 GMT). Their next Premier League game is away at Burnley on Tuesday 12 January (20:15 GMT).\n\nAston Villa host Liverpool in the FA Cup next Friday (19:45 GMT) before returning to Premier League action at home to Tottenham on Wednesday 13 January (20:15 GMT).\n• None Attempt blocked. Keinan Davis (Aston Villa) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt blocked. Keinan Davis (Aston Villa) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Ollie Watkins with a cross.\n• None Offside, Manchester United. Paul Pogba tries a through ball, but Marcus Rashford is caught offside.\n• None Attempt saved. Matthew Cash (Aston Villa) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Jack Grealish.\n• None Nemanja Matic (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Luke Shaw (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None A special and exclusive one-off chat with the music icon\n• None How has their rise come to define our culture?", "London's Nightingale Hospital is ready to admit patients as hospitals in the capital struggle, the NHS has said.\n\nThe Excel Centre site in east London has been \"reactivated\" amid a rise in the number of Covid-19 patients.\n\nOther Nightingale hospital sites across England are also being readied, with the UK recording a record daily rise in coronavirus cases.\n\nAn NHS spokesman said hospitals in London remain under \"significant pressure\".\n\nHe said: \"In anticipation of pressures rising from the spread of the new variant infection, NHS London were asked to ensure the London Nightingale was reactivated and ready to admit patients as needed, and that process is under way.\"\n\nSeveral NHS hospitals in London and the south-east are now reporting they are under extreme pressure as a result of a surge in the number of people falling seriously ill with Covid-19.\n\nAn email to staff at the Royal London Hospital says they are operating in disaster medicine mode - warning they can no longer provide high-standard critical care.\n\nNightingale hospitals in Manchester, Bristol and Harrogate are in use currently for non-Covid patients, the spokesman added.\n\nThe Exeter site received its first Covid patients in November when it began accepting those transferred from the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust, which was described as \"very busy\".\n\nHe said: \"Covid inpatient numbers are rising sharply so the remaining Nightingales are being readied to admit patients once again should they be needed, in line with best clinical practice developed over the first and second waves of coronavirus.\"\n\nSenior intensive care doctor Prof Hugh Montgomery warned those who fail to follow the rules on social distancing, hand washing and wearing a face covering \"have blood on their hands\".\n\nNHS England medical director Stephen Powis has described the Nightingale hospitals as \"our insurance policy, there as our last resort\".\n\nLondon's Nightingale hospital was built in nine days, with the help of hundreds of soldiers\n\nHe told a Downing Street press conference on Wednesday: \"We asked all the Nightingale hospitals a few weeks ago to be ready to take patients if that was required.\n\n\"Indeed, some of them are already doing that, in Manchester taking step-down patients, in Exeter managing Covid patients, and in other places managing diagnostics, for instance.\n\n\"Our first steps though, in managing the extra demands on the NHS, are to expand capacity within existing hospitals - that's the best way to use our staff.\"\n\nLondon's Nightingale Hospital was opened on 3 April and placed on standby weeks later after fewer than 20 patients were treated there.", "Owen Thomas says metal detecting has been his escape from the stresses of the pandemic.\n\nThe writer from Tongwynlais, Cardiff started metal detecting after bumping into his long-time friend Bob Wiseman - an avid detectorist - during lockdown.\n\nAside from his first outing, when he followed his metal toe cap boots thinking he had found treasure, he has discovered artefacts dating back to the 13th Century.\n\nOwen says he has fallen in love with his new-found hobby and it is \"the link with a life that's gone” that appeals to him so much.", "A UK ticket-holder has started the new year by winning the EuroMillions jackpot of nearly £40m.\n\nOne ticket matched all five regular numbers and two lucky stars in the draw on Friday night to win the £39,774,466.40 prize.\n\nCamelot's Andy Carter, senior winners' adviser at the National Lottery, said: \"What an amazing start to 2021 for UK EuroMillions players.\"\n\nA ticket-holder has now come forward to claim their prize.\n\nCamelot, which operates the lottery, said checks were being made on the claim.\n\nMr Carter said: \"It is fantastic news that the jackpot winning lucky ticket-holder has now claimed this enormous prize. We will now focus on supporting the ticket-holder through the process.\"\n\nThe winning numbers were 16, 28, 32, 44 and 48 with the lucky stars 01 and 09.\n\nTen other ticket-holders each won £1m in the UK Millionaire Maker New Year's Day event.\n\nIn 2019, a UK ticket-holder won the full £170m EuroMillions jackpot, making them Britain's richest ever lottery winner.\n\nAnd last year, a £57m EuroMillions prize claim was validated just before the deadline. The ticket had been bought in South Ayrshire.\n\nThe winning ticket holder's newfound cash means they are now wealthier than former One Direction singer Zayn Malik, who is worth £36m, according to the 2020 Sunday Times Rich List.\n\nAnd if they have a bit more money in the bank, they could buy one of the UK's most expensive homes, which went on the market last year.\n\nNobody won the EuroMillons Hotpicks jackpot on Friday, which uses the same numbers as the main draw, but one winner scooped the Thunderball top prize of £500,000.\n\nThe Thunderball numbers were 13, 17, 30, 34, 35 and the Thunderball was 01.", "Lisa Montgomery is scheduled for execution in January 2021\n\nA US appeals court has lifted a stay of execution on the only woman awaiting a federal death penalty.\n\nLisa Montgomery strangled a pregnant woman in Missouri before cutting out and kidnapping the baby in 2004.\n\nIf the execution goes ahead, she will be the first female federal inmate to be put to death in almost 70 years.\n\nMontgomery's execution date was originally set for last month but a stay was put in place after her attorneys contracted Covid-19.\n\nIt was then rescheduled for 12 January by the Justice Department. But Montgomery's lawyers argued that the date could not be set while a stay was in place.\n\nA court sided with her attorneys, stopping an order from the director of the Bureau of Prisons scheduling her death.\n\nBut on Friday, a panel of judges concluded that the director had acted under the law, allowing the execution to take place.\n\nMontgomery's legal team said they will file a petition for the judges to reconsider their ruling.\n\nThe last woman to be executed by the US government was Bonnie Heady, who died in a gas chamber in Missouri in 1953, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.\n\nFederal executions had been on pause for 17 years before President Donald Trump ordered them to resume earlier last year.\n\nIf the remaining executions go ahead, Mr Trump will have overseen the most executions by a US president in more than a century.\n\nMontgomery's execution date is just days before President-elect Joe Biden takes office.\n\nMr Biden, who for decades was a fierce supporter of the death penalty as a Delaware senator, has now said he will seek to end federal executions once he takes office.\n\nIn December 2004, Montgomery drove from Kansas to the home of Bobbie Jo Stinnett, in Missouri, purportedly to purchase a puppy, according to a Department of Justice press release.\n\n\"Once inside the residence, Montgomery attacked and strangled Stinnett - who was eight months pregnant - until the victim lost consciousness,\" it says.\n\nMontgomery cut into Stinnett's body to remove the baby, which she took with her in an attempt to pass it off as her own.\n\nIn 2007, a jury found Montgomery guilty of federal kidnapping resulting in death, and unanimously recommended a death sentence.\n\nBut Montgomery's lawyers say she experienced brain damage from beatings as a child and is mentally unwell, so should not face the death penalty.\n\nUnder the US justice system, crimes can be tried either in federal courts, at a national level, or in state courts, at a regional level.\n\nCertain crimes, such as counterfeiting currency or mail theft, are automatically tried at a federal level, as are cases in which the US is a party or those which involve constitutional violations.\n\nThe death penalty was outlawed at state and federal level by a 1972 Supreme Court decision that cancelled all existing death penalty statutes.\n\nA 1976 Supreme Court decision allowed states to reinstate the death penalty and in 1988 the government passed legislation that made it available again at federal level.\n\nAccording to data collected by the Death Penalty Information Center, 78 people were sentenced to death in federal cases between 1988 and 2018 but only three were executed.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What's in store for US President-elect Biden in 2021? Senior North America reporter Anthony Zurcher looks ahead\n\nThe latest in a series of attempts by allies of President Donald Trump to overturn the November US election result has failed.\n\nA Texas judge rejected the case, brought by Republican Louie Gohmert, seeking to stop Vice-President Mike Pence from certifying the final result.\n\nLawyers for Mr Pence had asked for the case to be thrown out on Thursday.\n\nPresident-elect Joe Biden is due to take office on 20 January. Mr Trump is yet to concede.\n\nMr Gohmert, a Republican congressman, told Newsmax TV that he planned to appeal against the verdict.\n\nMr Trump's friends and colleagues in the Republican party have presented dozens of legal challenges to the November outcome which delivered a decisive win to Mr Biden.\n\nHis victory was announced after days of vote-counting that took longer than in recent years because of the huge number of postal ballots cast due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMr Trump has made numerous unsubstantiated claims that Mr Biden's win, which saw the president-elect gain 306 electoral college votes to his rival's 232, was fraudulent.\n\nThe electoral college is a system whereby each US state has an allocated number of points that is granted to the overall winner in each state. The candidate who gains the majority wins the presidency.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Explaining the Electoral College and which voters will decide who wins\n\nCongressman Gohmert's case sought to allow Vice-President Mike Pence to reject some electoral college votes when they are ratified by Congress on 6 January.\n\nThe vice-president presides over the vote certification in Congress in a ceremonial role that involves opening and tallying the envelopes containing electoral college votes before announcing the result.\n\nMr Gohmert's case aimed to expand that role to allow Mr Pence to cast judgement on the validity of the votes and potentially replace votes for Mr Biden with ones for Mr Trump.\n\nBut Judge Jeremy Kernodle, who was appointed to the Texas court in 2018 by Mr Trump, rejected the case, saying it was based on speculative events.\n\nOn Thursday a lawyer from the US Justice Department representing Mr Pence urged Mr Gohmert to drop the case, suggesting that it was not the vice-president's office that should be scrutinising the outcome.\n\nAlthough most Republicans in Congress are expected to vote in favour of certifying the results, a small number including Senator Josh Hawley, say they plan to object. But their vote is not expected to change the outcome.\n\nMr Biden is due to be sworn in as president on 20 January at a scaled-back ceremony with just 1,000 tickets available due to Covid-19 precautions.", "All primary schools in London will remain closed for the start of the new term, the government has confirmed.\n\nLondon mayor Sadiq Khan said the government had \"finally seen sense and U-turned\" on its plan to allow pupils in some areas to return on Monday.\n\nLeaders of nine London local authorities had written to Education Secretary Gavin Williamson urging him to rethink the decision.\n\nMr Williamson said the city-wide closures were \"a last resort\".\n\nThe government said it had decided all primary schools in the capital would be required to provide remote learning after a further review of coronavirus transmission rates.\n\nVulnerable pupils and the children of key workers will continue to attend school, the government said.\n\nEarly years care, alternative provision and special schools will remain open, it added.\n\nSchools in nine London boroughs and the City of London district had been set to reopen - while those in the remaining 23 boroughs would have stayed closed from 4 January.\n\nThe decision was criticised and branded \"illogical\" by councillors and residents in the affected areas, who called for primary schools across the capital to move to online learning until 18 January.\n\nThey pointed out that Covid-19 infection rates were higher in some boroughs told to reopen schools than in others where they were not.\n\nIn a tweet, Mr Khan said a city-wide closure was \"the right decision\" and thanked education minister Nick Gibb for \"our constructive conversations over the past two days\".\n\n\"The government's original decision was ridiculous and has been causing immense confusion for parents, teachers and staff across the capital,\" Mr Khan said.\n\n\"It is right that all schools in London are treated the same, and that no primary schools in London will be forced to open on Monday\".\n\nDan Thorpe, leader of Greenwich council, said he was \"absolutely delighted\" to hear Mr Williamson had \"finally climbed down and reversed his decision\".\n\nKingston Council leader Caroline Kerr said she was \"dismayed\" at the government's handling of situation while a council statement added: \"It never made sense that neighbouring boroughs were being instructed to have different arrangements despite having similar rates of infection.\"\n\nIslington council leader Richard Watts said waiting until New Year's day to announce the further closures was \"unacceptable\".\n\nHe said the decision \"should have been made weeks ago, as the public health situation became clear\".\n\nMary Bousted, of the National Education Union, said the government was right to reverse its \"obviously nonsensical position\".\n\n\"What is right for London is right for the rest of the country,\" she said, and she called on ministers to \"do their duty\" by closing all primary and secondary schools nationwide for at least two weeks.\n\nPaul Whiteman, general secretary of school leaders' union NAHT, accused the government of damaging public confidence with a \"confusing and last-minute approach\".\n\n\"Just at the moment when we need some decisive leadership, the government is at sixes and sevens,\" he said.\n\nShadow education secretary Kate Green said the move was \"yet another government U-turn creating chaos for parents just two days before the start of term\".\n\n\"Gavin Williamson must still clarify why some schools in tier 4 are closing and what the criteria for reopening will be,\" she said.\n\nGavin Williamson said closing schools across London was a \"last resort\"\n\nIn a statement, Mr Williamson said children's education and wellbeing remained \"a national priority\" and moving the whole of London to remote education \"really is a last resort and a temporary solution\".\n\n\"We will continue keep the list of local authorities under review, and reopen classrooms as soon as we possibly can,\" he said.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the situation in London had continued to worsen in the past week and infections and hospital admissions had risen sharply.\n\n\"While our priority is to keep as many children as possible in school, we have to strike a balance between education and infection rates and pressures on the NHS,\" he said.\n\nThe Department for Education had previously said decisions on school closures and openings were based on new infections, positivity rates, and pressures on the NHS.\n\nA spokeswoman for the department said: \"In response to concerning data about the spread of coronavirus, we have implemented the contingency framework for education in a small number of areas of the country, requiring schools to provide remote learning to all but vulnerable and critical worker children and exam years.\n\n\"Decisions on which areas will be subject to the contingency framework are based on close work with PHE, the NHS, the Joint Biosecurity Centre and across government.\"\n\nAre you a parent or teacher who will be affected by the London primary school closures? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Bodycam footage shows the moments before a black man was killed by a police shooting in Minneapolis\n\nMinneapolis police have released bodycam footage of a fatal shooting by officers, the first death at the hands of police in the US city since that of George Floyd, a black man, in May.\n\nThe victim, Dolal Idd, 23, was a suspect in a felony and was stopped by police on Wednesday. He was also black.\n\nInitial witness statements and police say Mr Idd fired first and was shot dead when the officers returned fire.\n\nMinneapolis saw months of unrest after Mr Floyd's death in police custody.\n\nThe protests spread across the US amid allegations of police brutality.\n\nMr Floyd died after a police officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes.\n\nThe footage from Wednesday's fatal shooting, from the bodycam of one of the officers involved, was released late on Thursday.\n\nIt shows the officers' cars blocking a white vehicle at a petrol station on the city's south side, not far from where Mr Floyd died.\n\nThe police are heard shouting \"Stop your car, hands up, hands up!\" before shots are fired, including by the officers.\n\nA female passenger in the car with Mr Idd was not hurt, police said, nor were the officers.\n\nMinneapolis police chief Medaria Arradondo said a gun was found at the scene.\n\n\"When I viewed the video that everyone else is viewing - and certainly the real-time slow-down version - it appears the individual inside the vehicle fired his weapon at the officers first,\" he said.\n\nPeople including Mr Idd's father Bayle Gelle gathered at the scene the following day, prompting fears of renewed protests.\n\n\"He was just sitting in the car, and bullets were shot at him, and no reason,\" he said, quoted by CBS News.\n\n\"Why are we here?... Because of colour. He is a black man. We want to know why my sweet son gets shot and killed.\"\n\nGeorge Floyd's death led to violent protests in the city, including this police station set on fire in May\n\nCity mayor Jacob Frey said he was committed to getting the facts and pursuing justice.\n\n\"We know a life has been cut short tonight and that trust between communities of colour and law enforcement is fragile,\" he said in a statement.\n\n\"Rebuilding that trust will depend on complete transparency.\"\n\nMr Floyd's death in May led to calls for reform or even abolition of the city's police department, but those efforts have stalled.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. More than 2,500 people take part in an illegal rave in northern France, despite the nationwide curfew\n\nAn illegal warehouse rave that began on New Year's Eve in France in defiance of coronavirus precautions has been shut down by police after arrests and clashes.\n\nSome of the 2,500 ravers in Lieuron near Rennes in Brittany had planned to party until Tuesday.\n\nPolice issued fines to revellers found leaving and the organisers were being identified as the party ended.\n\nA number of party-goers were from the UK and Spain, police said.\n\nAttendees clashed with police, setting fire to a car and throwing objects at officers attempting to shut the event down. At least three officers were injured.\n\nPolice broke up the three-day party that defied a nationwide curfew\n\nA driver was apprehended with turntables, speakers and a generator in the boot of the vehicle, according to French TV station BFM TV.\n\nPolice trying to stop the event faced \"fierce hostility from many partygoers\", a statement from local authorities said.\n\nBut at 05:30 local time on Saturday the ravers began to accept the party was over and started to leave the two disused warehouse hangars, the local prefecture said.\n\nSome revellers said they were hoping to stay until Tuesday\n\nInterior Minister Gérald Darmanin said on Twitter that trucks, sound equipment and generators were seized at the scene and an investigation has been opened.\n\nMore than 1,200 fines were issued for non-compliance with the curfew, not wearing a mask and attending an illegal gathering, Mr Darmanin said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Gérald DARMANIN This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOn Friday authorities said they had opened a sanitary cordon around the party and anyone leaving the event was urged to self-isolate for seven days.\n\nOne of the party-goers, who gave his name as Jo, told the AFP news agency that \"very few had respected social distancing\" at the event.\n\nA number of people slept in their cars before returning to dance, Le Monde newspaper reports.\n\nOne reveller told Le Monde that the rave was \"very well organised\" with food stalls inside.\n\nAnother, who came with four friends from Finisterre in north-west France, told the newspaper that she had wanted to \"escape\" for a few hours.\n\nOn Friday an interior ministry crisis meeting was held and all vehicle exits from the rave were blocked as police sought to shut down the party.\n\nFrance introduced strict rules ahead of the New Year including a curfew from 20:00 until 06:00.\n\nMore than 100,000 police officers were deployed across the country to break up parties and enforce the curfew.\n\nOfficers were instructed to break up underground parties as soon as they were reported, fine participants and identify the organisers.\n\nFrance has recorded more than 2.6 million coronavirus cases and 64,892 deaths since the pandemic began.\n\nOfficers elsewhere in Europe have also had to break up events in recent days.\n\nPolice dispersed a mass gathering near the Spanish city of Barcelona on Saturday where 300 people had been partying for more than 40 hours.\n\nThree footballers from London-based football team Tottenham Hotspur were photographed at a Christmas party last week in breach of coronavirus regulations.\n\nAnd in Essex, an illegal New Year's Eve party damaged All Saints Church near Brentwood. Church authorities have since received hundreds of pounds to pay for repairs.\n\nOfficers in Spain broke up the rave near Barcelona, which had been going on for more than 40 hours", "Officers dispersed the party at the Grade II* listed church before midnight\n\nThousands of pounds has been raised to pay for repairs to a 500-year-old church that was \"trashed\" during an illegal New Year's Eve party.\n\nHundreds of revellers attended the party at All Saints Church in East Horndon, near Brentwood, after the building was broken into.\n\nThree people were arrested on suspicion of public order and drugs offences.\n\nVolunteer group Friends of All Saints said it was \"completely overwhelmed\" by peoples' \"support and generosity\".\n\nChurch volunteer Astrid Gillespie said the damage was \"devastating\"\n\nThe fundraising page was set up on Friday and aimed to raise £2,000, but in less than 24 hours it had raised more than £8,700.\n\nIt said a \"massive clean-up\" was needed at the \"much-loved\" church after \"hundreds of revellers trashed the place\".\n\nEquipment was seized by police at the illegal party\n\nAstrid Gillespie, a volunteer with the Friends of All Saints, said event organisers had smashed a window to put in an extractor fan unit and wired sound equipment into the church's fuse box.\n\nShe said: \"It was a professional set-up. They had a bar area where you had to exchange tokens.\n\n\"It's such a beautiful church. To find out it's been damaged is devastating.\"\n\nReferring to the money that was raised, she said: \"Faith in humanity restored\".\n\nThe church, which is owned and maintained by the Churches Conservation Trust, has not been used for religious services since 1970, but regularly houses community events.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Researchers have been tracking changes to the \"spike\" of the virus\n\nThe new variant of Covid-19 is \"hugely\" more transmissible than the virus's previous version, a study has found.\n\nIt concludes the new variant increases the Reproduction or R number by between 0.4 and 0.7.\n\nThe UK's latest R number has been estimated at between 1.1 and 1.3. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.\n\nProf Axel Gandy of London's Imperial College said the differences between the viruses types was \"quite extreme\".\n\n\"There is a huge difference in how easily the variant virus spreads,\" he told BBC News. \"This is the most serious change in the virus since the epidemic began,\" he added.\n\nThe Imperial College study suggests transmission of the new variant tripled during England's November lockdown while the previous version was reduced by a third.\n\nCases of Covid-19 have begun to increase rapidly during the second spike, and the number of cases recorded in a single day reached a new high on Thursday.\n\nEarly results indicated that the virus was spreading more quickly among under-20s, particularly among secondary school age children.\n\nBut the very latest data indicates that it was spreading quickly across all age groups, according to Prof Gandy who was a member of the research team.\n\n\"One possible explanation is that the early data was collected during the time of the November lockdown where schools were open and the activities of the adult population were more restricted. We are seeing now that the new virus has increased infectiousness across all age groups.\"\n\nProf Jim Naismith, of Oxford University, said he believed that the new findings indicated that even tougher restrictions would soon be needed.\n\n\"The data from Imperial represent the best analysis to date and imply that the measures we have employed to date, would - with the new virus - fail to reduce the R number to below 1.\n\n\"In simpler terms, unless we do something different the new virus strain is going to continue to spread, more infections, more hospitalisations and more deaths.\"\n\nThe R number is the average number of people an infected person infects. If it is above 1 the epidemic is growing.\n\nThe most chilling finding from this piece of research is that the November lockdown in England, hard though it was for many people, would not have stopped the variant form of the virus spreading. The same severe restrictions that saw cases of the previous version of the virus fall by a third, would see a tripling of the new variant. This is why there has been such a sudden tightening of restrictions across the country.\n\nIt is unclear whether the current restrictions will be enough to control the spread of the virus. Given the fact that it has taken two lockdowns to stop the earlier version of the virus overwhelming the NHS, many scientists fear that further tightening will be necessary.\n\nInfection levels will begin to drop as enough people are vaccinated. But until then it is now more important than ever for people to follow social distancing guidelines, wear masks where required and to regularly wash their hands.\n\nThe new year brings with it hope of a more normal life in the next few months but also a new form of the virus that all of us will have to combat in the coming days and weeks.\n\nProfessor Lawrence Young, of Warwick University, said early indications suggested that vaccines would be effective against the new form of the virus.\n\n\"Variants virus have been around since the beginning of the pandemic and are a product of the natural process by which viruses develop and adapt to their hosts as they replicate.\n\n\"Most of these mutations have no effect on the behaviour of the virus but very occasionally they can improve the ability of the virus to infect and/or become more resistant to the body's immune response.\"\n\nFurther research is needed to understand why the variant is spreading so quickly. But early indications are that vaccines should be effective against it.\n\nThe new virus has been designated \"Variant of Concern 202012/01\" or VOC by Public Health England.\n\nIt was detected in November and thought to have originated in the south-east England in September.\n\nThere is no evidence to suggest that it is more deadly, but it will increase the number of cases which in turn will add further pressure on the NHS.\n\nThe variant can now be found across the UK, except Northern Ireland, but it is heavily concentrated in London, as well as south-east and eastern England.", "Amanda Quinn, who has early onset dementia, is cared for by her 23-year-old daughter Bethany\n\n\"It feels like you're being punished for something you didn't do.\"\n\nAmanda Quinn describes living through lockdown with early onset dementia as \"scary\" and \"feeling lost\".\n\nTwo years ago, she was diagnosed with the condition aged 49, and said the disease was a \"ticking time bomb\" for her husband and four children.\n\nAlzheimer's Society Cymru support worker Lorraine Davies said lockdown had brought a \"great sense of loss\" to many families.\n\nSince her diagnosis, Amanda says she has lost her sense of what day it is, her concentration, and she struggles with speech occasionally and suffers more with incontinence.\n\nWhen Wales went into a UK national lockdown on 23 March, Amanda said she did not leave her home in Treorchy, Rhondda Cynon Taf, for weeks.\n\nShe said her children have noticed a \"big change\" in her.\n\n\"I used to have a wicked sense of humour - I still have one, but it's not how I used to be,\" she said.\n\nBut for Amanda one of the worst parts of her condition is \"losing so many friends\" whom she said \"would rather cross the road\" than talk to her.\n\n\"They don't know how to interact with me anymore,\" she said.\n\nAmanda says her children have noticed a \"big change\" since she was diagnosed aged 49\n\nHer 23-year-old daughter Bethany Kingsley, who cares for her, said the pandemic has caused caring work to increase ten-fold.\n\n\"I have to keep an eye on mum a lot more now, because she doesn't know what to do with herself.\n\n\"But I have also got to look after my mental health side of it as well. There are days where I'm struggling,\" she said.\n\nNow Amanda does activities at home such as adult colouring books, baking with Bethany, and watches movies.\n\n\"It is like being a child,\" Amanda explained.\n\n\"My daughter says it's like we've switched roles and she has become the adult as she holds my hand when we cross the road.\n\n\"Although I can see a car, it doesn't register to me that it is not safe to walk out, all I can think is that I need to be on the other side of the road.\"\n\nBefore the pandemic, she attended dementia support groups in person, such as Memoria, a theatrical group of people with dementia and carers, whereas now she does this virtually.\n\nBethany says Covid has had a big impact on caring for her mother\n\nLast year, before the pandemic, Bethany put off moving away to study midwifery at university in Bristol.\n\nAlthough she said it was a \"difficult\" decision as she had wanted to do it for years, she said she was glad she was home to care for her mother during the pandemic.\n\nInstead she chose to study for an Open University course in health and social care from home.\n\n\"I thought my mother is the only person I've got at the end of the day and I would rather make sure she is safe and happy, rather than go off and leave her,\" she said.\n\nBut Amanda said she was concerned about how her condition will progress and affect her family more.\n\nThe 51-year-old said it was \"not fair\" that her daughter had to stay home because of her condition.\n\n\"It worries me how it will affect my children. I'm fortunate, I suppose, that I'm not going to know.\n\n\"I say I don't want to go into a care home but that wouldn't be fair on them - they have still got their whole lives to lead\".\n\nAmanda was still in her 40s when she was diagnosed\n\nAlzheimer's Society Cymru support adviser for younger people Lorraine Davies said there was a stigma attached to younger people with the disease and a \"lack of public awareness\".\n\n\"Some have mortgages, some have young families, and often they also care for older adults - so it has a different impact on them, and their social network of people.\n\n\"A lot of people living with dementia don't always feel they will have next year, so 2020 has been a great sense of loss to them because of the lockdown and restrictions,\" she said.\n\nThe charity estimates that there are between 2,000 to 3,000 people with young onset dementia in Wales, according to 2018 figures from the first Welsh Government national dementia action plan.\n\nHowever Lorraine said the figure was likely to be higher as getting a dementia diagnosis can be harder for younger people, and can take more than a year to have it confirmed.\n\n\"It is also more common for younger people to have rarer forms of dementia, so rather than being a typical Alzheimer's disease, associated with memory loss, a patient might have behavioural changes, but you might just think they are upset, stressed, or put it down to mood swings.\n\n\"Some people have been accused of being drunk, because they have slurred speech, but actually that is a symptom.\"\n\nShe said the Alzheimer's Society has organised virtual support groups for people with the condition and their carers during lockdown.\n\n\"Often younger people want to meet people like them, because it helps them not to feel so alone in this. Knowing that brings people comfort.\"\n\nSimon Hatch, the director of Carers Trust Wales, said the pandemic had highlighted the \"crucial role unpaid carers play both in providing exceptional, expert care to family and friends\".\n\nMr Hatch said the trust found that 44% of young adult carers it spoke to felt overwhelmed by the pressures they were facing.\n\nHe said although there was support available to carers they would need \"sustainable\" forms of this in the future.\n\nThere are about 45,000 people with dementia in Wales, according to the Alzheimer's Society.\n\nThe disease is considered \"early onset\" when it affects people under 65, according to Young Dementia UK.\n\nLorraine said the age distinction was made to mark the difference in financial support, as 65 was state pension age at the time.\n\nDementia itself refers to a set of symptoms caused by many diseases of the brain. The most common symptom is memory loss and difficulty concentrating.\n\nOther symptoms can include struggling to remember recent events, changes to behaviour, mood, becoming lost in familiar places or being unable to find the right word in a conversation.\n\nSpecific symptoms will depend on the parts of the brain that are damaged and the disease that is causing the dementia.", "Police made 17 arrests at the demonstration in Hyde Park\n\nPolice have made arrests at an anti-lockdown demonstration in central London.\n\nCrowds of between 200 to 300 people began to gather in Hyde Park, which is in a tier four coronavirus area, at about 13:30 GMT on Saturday, the Metropolitan Police said.\n\nSeventeen people were arrested on suspicion of breaching public health regulations.\n\nMost demonstrators had left the park by 16:45, police said.\n\nThe Met tweeted: \"Officers continue to engage with groups of people who have gathered in the Hyde Park area.\n\n\"A number of people have been arrested under health protection regulations and taken into custody.\n\n\"We urge those in the area to leave immediately.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMore than two people are generally not allowed to meet in public under tier four rules.\n\nThe police force added: \"Officers will take enforcement action where we see clear breaches of the tier four rules.\n\n\"It's up to all of us to make the right choices and slow the spread of the virus.\"\n\nA group called The People's Lockdown, Stand For Your Human Rights, had said it was going to hold a event at Hyde Park on Saturday afternoon.\n\nIn an online post, it called on people to \"stand with your loved ones\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"I wish I could switch place with my daughter\" - Odd Steinar Sørengen's daughter is missing\n\nA body has been found shortly after rescuers and dog handlers began a risky ground search for 10 people missing in a hillside collapse in Norway.\n\nInitially it was thought too dangerous to send rescuers on to the site, after flowing mud sent homes toppling into a giant chasm in the village of Ask.\n\nHelicopters and drones spent two days searching the scene.\n\nBut on Friday police commander Roy Alkvist said one or two houses appeared safe to enter.\n\nRescuers, who included a Swedish specialist team, began moving into the danger zone on Styrofoam boards. The bright orange boards were laid down on the mud in a domino-effect as rescuers tried to reach one of the wrecked homes, which are 25km (15 miles) north-east of the capital Oslo.\n\nA missing Dalmatian dog was rescued on Thursday and police believe there is still a chance survivors could be found.\n\nHowever, on Friday afternoon an air ambulance helicopter landed near the site and police said a body had been found at 14:30 (13:30 GMT) without giving further details.\n\nRescuers are using orange Styrofoam boards to move around the landslide area\n\nPrime Minister Erna Solberg said her thoughts went out to the victim's family, and to those waiting for news of the other nine people who were missing.\n\nIn Friday's operation the rescuers also prepared a giant army vehicle called a \"paver\", which has a giant steel bridge on which rescuers can move.\n\nHowever, conditions were not yet good enough for the 50-tonne machine to be deployed.\n\nThe plan is to deploy a Norwegian army bridge-laying vehicle as soon as conditions are good enough\n\nFriday's search was a race against time, as the rescuers only had a few hours of daylight in the Norwegian winter. Medics and geologists were reportedly part of the ground rescue team.\n\nThe ground search was called off for the night at 17:30 and police said drones and heat-seeking cameras would continue overnight until rescue crews could return on Saturday morning.\n\nAbout 1,000 people have been evacuated from Gjerdrum municipality, which contains Ask village. Dozens more were moved out of their homes on New Year's Eve.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Aerial footage shows the scale of the landslide\n\nAlthough police have not given details of the missing, they are believed to include men, women and children.\n\nAmong them is a woman who was talking to her husband on the phone while walking the dog when the line went dead, according to Bergens Tidende newspaper.\n\nFurther reports say a couple and their small child are also missing, as well as a woman in her 50s and her adult son.\n\nMore than 30 homes have been destroyed, but officials say more could be lost as the edges of the crater left by the landslide are still breaking away.\n\nThe conditions have proved challenging, with temperatures dropping to -1C (30F) and the clay ground proving too unstable for emergency workers to walk on.\n\nThe scale of the landslide is shown by this aerial view of the disaster site\n\nThe landslide began early on Wednesday, with residents calling emergency services and telling them that their houses were moving, police said.\n\n\"There were two massive tremors that lasted for a long while and I assumed it was snow being cleared or something like that,\" Oeystein Gjerdrum, 68, told broadcaster NRK.\n\n\"Then the power suddenly went out, and a neighbour came to the door and said we needed to evacuate, so I woke up my three grandchildren and told them to get dressed quickly.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for the Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate (NVE) told AFP that the landslide was a so-called \"quick clay slide\" measuring about 300m by 700m (985ft by 2,300ft).\n\n\"This is the largest landslide in recent times in Norway, considering the number of houses involved and the number of evacuees,\" Laila Hoivik said.\n\nQuick clay is a kind of clay found in Norway and Sweden that can collapse and behave as a fluid when it comes under stress.\n\nBroadcaster NRK said heavy rainfall may have made the soil unstable, but questions have since emerged over why construction was permitted in the area.\n\nA 2005 geological survey labelled the area as at high risk of landslides, according to a report seen by the broadcaster TV2. Despite this, the homes were built three years later in 2008.", "Hospitals across the UK are being told to prepare to face the same Covid pressures as the NHS in London and south-east England.\n\nSenior doctor Prof Andrew Goddard said the virus's highly infectious new variant was spreading nationwide.\n\nCase numbers were \"mild\" compared with where he expected them to be next week, he said, with doctors \"really worried\".\n\nIt comes as a further 57,725 people have tested positive for Covid - a new daily high.\n\nThis is the fifth day in a row new daily cases have been over 50,000 and brings the total number of cases to 2,599,789.\n\nAnother 445 deaths, of people who had tested positive within the previous 28 days, were reported on Saturday - bringing the total number of deaths to 74,570, according to government figures.\n\nThe UK-wide total for people in hospital with Covid has already passed the spring peak.\n\nHalf of the major hospital trusts in England are said to be dealing with more Covid-19 patients than at the worst point of the first wave in April, with the NHS facing its \"busiest winter ever\".\n\nProf Goddard, of the Royal College of Physicians, told BBC Breakfast: \"There's no doubt that Christmas is going to have a big impact, the new variant is also going to have a big impact, we know that is more infectious, more transmissible, so I think the large numbers that we're seeing in the South East, in London, in south Wales, is now going to be reflected over the next month, two months even, over the rest of the country.\"\n\nHe said: \"It seems very likely that we are going to see more and more cases, wherever people work in the UK, and we need to be prepared for that.\"\n\nPressure has been so great on hospitals in London and south-east England that some patients have been moved out of the area.\n\nLondon's weekly rate of coronavirus cases is 858 per 100,000 people, double the UK figure.\n\nDominic Harrison, director of public health for Blackburn and Darwen, said a decision on a new lockdown had to be decided \"in the next week\" - instead of waiting for the North to get to the same rates as the capital \"and 'call it late' which has been our pattern of response too often\".\n\nThe most recent UK-wide statistics, from 28 December, showed there were 23,823 people in hospital with Covid. That was already significantly higher than the spring peak, which saw 21,683 in hospital on 12 April.\n\nOnly English hospitals have released figures for the final three days of December - and these show that a further 2,302 Covid patients were occupying hospital beds on 31 December.\n\nLondon's Nightingale emergency hospital is ready to admit patients, the NHS has said, while other sites currently not in use are being readied.\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\nProf Goddard said it was vital the public did not \"let their guard down\" and continued to follow government guidelines, including wearing a face mask, maintaining social distancing and washing hands.\n\n\"Until the vaccination hits and does its job - that's what our best defence is going to be,\" he said.\n\nDr Ami Jones, an intensive care consultant in Wales, told BBC Breakfast that \"hospitals are absolutely bursting\", adding that a quarter of her staff were currently off sick or self-isolating, making managing patients even more challenging.\n\n\"When we see the daily figures - we know that will sting us in about 10-12 days' time in the hospital,\" she said. \"We are not even at day 10 post-Christmas yet and it's already exceedingly busy.\n\n\"We are going to get to the point where we physically don't have the staff to look after people safely anymore.\"\n\nDr Jones also urged the public to \"please just obey the rules\", adding: \"Stop mixing with other households because it is spreading like wildfire - and we haven't got much more space in the hospitals left.\"\n\nDo you work in a hospital? 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Last updated on .From the section Tottenham\n\nTottenham manager Jose Mourinho says he is \"disappointed\" after three of his players breached coronavirus rules by attending a party over Christmas.\n\nA picture on social media showed Argentina forward Erik Lamela, Spain defender Sergio Reguilon and Argentina midfielder Giovani lo Celso at a party.\n\n\"We are not happy - it was a negative surprise for us,\" said Mourinho.\n\nIn a statement, Tottenham said they were \"extremely disappointed\" and \"the matter would be dealt with internally\".\n\nWest Ham reminded Argentina forward Manuel Lanzini, who also attended the party, of his responsibilities.\n\nLanzini apologised in a tweet on Saturday, saying he made a \"bad mistake\".\n\n\"I take full responsibility for my actions,\" he said. \"I know people have made difficult sacrifices to stay safe and I should be setting a better example.\"\n\nLamela and Lo Celso were not involved in Saturday's 3-0 Premier League win at home to Leeds, while Reguilon, who joined from Real Madrid in September, was on the bench.\n\n\"I gave an amazing gift to Reguilon - Portuguese piglet,\" Mourinho said. \"Amazing for Portuguese and Spanish. I was told he would spend Christmas on his own. He was not alone as you could see.\n\n\"We, the club, feel disappointed because we gave the players all the education and conditions. We know what we are internally. We don't need to open the door to you and let you know what is going on internally.\n\n\"What are going to be the consequences and how deeply we approach that negative surprise? I feel disappointed.\"\n\nThe Spurs statement added: \"We strongly condemned the image showing some of our players with family and friends together at Christmas, particularly as we know the sacrifices everybody around the country made to stay safe over the festive period.\n\n\"The rules are clear, there are no exceptions, and we regularly remind all our players and staff about the latest protocols and their responsibilities to adhere and set an example.\"\n\nLamela has made two league starts and Lo Celso four this season.\n\nLanzini has featured in nine of West Ham's 17 league games, coming on as a substitute in Friday's 1-0 win at Everton.\n\nA West Ham spokesperson said: \"The club has set the highest possible standards with its protocols and measures relating to Covid-19 so we are disappointed to learn of Manuel Lanzini's actions.\n\n\"The matter has been dealt with internally and Manuel has been strongly reminded of his responsibilities.\"\n\nTottenham's home league game with Fulham, scheduled to take place on 30 December, was called off three hours before kick-off after a number of Fulham players tested positive for coronavirus or showed symptoms.\n\nMeanwhile, Fulham told BBC Sport they are looking into claims Aleksandar Mitrovic broke coronavirus rules by attending a New Year's party with Crystal Palace midfielder Luka Milivojevic.\n\nImages on social media, reported in the Sun , allegedly show the Serbia team-mates celebrating in London with at least seven other adults.\n\nThe mixing of households indoors is banned in London under the UK government's tier four restrictions.\n\n'Mourinho must be so angry'\n\nMourinho has been so critical and vocal of how the Premier League handled their situation [the Fulham postponement], which I totally disagree with him.\n\nYou have to accept we're in strange and difficult times - if it has to be called off at whatever time then it has to be called off.\n\nTo then see some of his players breaking the rules and laws, particularly when millions of people are sacrificing so much not only in this country but around the world, Mourinho must be so angry.\n• None A special and exclusive one-off chat with the music icon\n• None How has their rise come to define our culture?", "Liam Reilly fronted Bagatelle for more than 40 years\n\nIrish Eurovision singer and frontman of the rock band Bagatelle, Liam Reilly, has died aged 65.\n\nA family statement confirmed that Mr Reilly \"passed away suddenly but peacefully at his home\" on 1 January.\n\nMr Reilly fronted Bagatelle for more than 40 years and they had success with songs including Summer in Dublin and Second Violin.\n\nHe also came joint second at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1990 with the song Somewhere in Europe.\n\nThe song finished on 132 points, joint with France's entry sung by Joëlle Ursull, in the contest in Zagreb.\n\nMr Reilly, from Dundalk, County Louth, also composed Ireland's Eurovision entry for the contest in Rome in 1991, when Kim Jackson performed his song Could It Be That I'm In Love, which was placed 10th.\n\n\"We know that his many friends and countless fans around the world will share in our grief as we mourn his loss, but celebrate the extraordinary talent of the man whose songs meant so much to so many.\" the family statement added.\n\nJoe Gallagher, the band's promoter from Strabane, County Tyrone, told BBC Radio Ulster \"the talent that Liam brought to the music industry in Ireland is second to none\".\n\n\"Some of the songs that he has written are up there with some of the better songs written in Ireland,\" he said.\n\n\"He is one of the best singer-songwriters Ireland has ever seen or produced.\"\n\nMr Reilly also wrote songs for others, including The Wolfe Tones. The Irish group paid tribute to him on social media, describing him as \"a master songwriter\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by The Wolfe Tones 🇮🇪 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by The Wolfe Tones 🇮🇪\n\nStephen Travers, a member of the Miami Showband, said Mr Reilly was a \"national treasure\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Bitcoin's value has soared over the past year\n\nBitcoin's value surged above $34,000 (£24,850) for the first time on Sunday as the leading cryptocurrency continued to soar.\n\nIt put the gain this year at almost $5,000, although by 17:00 GMT the price had drifted lower to about $33,000, according to the Coindesk website.\n\nThe rise was put down to interest from big investors seeking quick profits.\n\nIt comes after Bitcoin soared 300% last year, with the price of many other digital currencies also rising sharply.\n\nEthereum, the second biggest cryptocurrency, gained 465% in 2020\n\nSome analysts think Bitcoin's value could rise even further as the US dollar drops further.\n\nWhile the value of the US currency rose in March at the start of the coronavirus pandemic as investors sought safety amid the uncertainty, it has since dropped due to major stimulus from the US Federal Reserve. The currency ended last year with its biggest annual loss since 2017.\n\nBitcoin is traded in much the same way as real currencies like the US dollar and pound sterling.\n\nRecently it has won growing support as a form of payment online, with PayPal among the most recent adopters of digital currencies.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBut the cryptocurrency has also proved to be a volatile investment.\n\nThe soaring price has raised concerns that Bitcoin is due for a dramatic correction, as happened three years ago when the value collapsed after a bull run.\n\nDuring the rally in 2017 Bitcoin came close to breaking through the $20,000 level, only to hit extreme lows and fall below $3,300.\n\nIt passed $19,000 in November last year before dropping sharply again.\n\nIn October, Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey cautioned over Bitcoin's use as a payment method.\n\n\"I have to be honest, it is hard to see that Bitcoin has what we tend to call intrinsic value,\" he said. \"It may have extrinsic value in the sense that people want it.\"\n\nMr Bailey added that he was \"very nervous\" about people using Bitcoin for payments pointing out that investors should realise its price is extremely volatile.", "The aftermath of an attack in August in Niger, which has suffered a number claimed by jihadist groups\n\nSuspected Islamist militants have attacked two villages in Niger, with reports of dozens of civilians killed.\n\nAround 49 died and 17 were injured in the village of Tchombangou, while another 30 died in Zaroumdareye - both near Niger's western border with Mali, Reuters reports.\n\nThere have been several recent violent incidents in Africa's Sahel region, carried out by militant groups.\n\nFrance said on Saturday that two of its soldiers were killed in Mali.\n\nHours earlier, a group with links to al-Qaeda said it was behind the killing of three French troops in a separate attack in Mali on Monday.\n\nFrance has been leading a coalition of West African and European allies against Islamist militants in the Sahel.\n\nBut the region continues to be affected by ethnic violence, banditry, and human and drug trafficking.\n\nIn light of Saturday's attacks, Interior Minister Alkache Alhada said soldiers had been sent to the area, according to French outlet RFI. But Mr Alhada did not say how many casualties there had been across the two villages.\n\nA local official, quoted by AFP news agency, said many people were killed, and a local journalist spoke of up to 50 deaths.\n\nNiger's Tillabéri region, where the villages are situated, lies within the so-called tri-border area between Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso, which has been plagued by jihadi attacks in recent years.\n\nTravel by motorbike has been banned in the region for a year, as part of efforts to stop incursions by Islamic militants, who often launch attacks from the vehicles.\n\nAreas of Niger are also facing repeated attacks by jihadists from Nigeria, where the government is fighting an insurgency by Boko Haram.\n\nLast month, members of the group killed at least 27 people in Niger's south-eastern Diffa region.\n\nThe latest attacks in Tillabéri come amid national elections in Niger, as President Mahamadou Issoufou steps down after two five-year terms.\n\nElection officials announced 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famous names on the 2019 Birthday Honours list including Olivia Colman, Alfie Boe, Griff Rhys Jones and Joanna Trollope.", "He claimed he only \"assisted\" the baby, saying the child had been climbing into the machine herself.", "A fallen tree also led Dutch police to stumble on the largest cocaine lab in the Netherland's history.", "Former MP Fiona Onasanya was sacked by her constituents in the first successful re-call petition prompting a by-election.", "Private Terry Parker detailed his experiences of D-Day in June 1944 in an illegal diary.", "The Labour Party candidate, Lisa Forbes, narrowly wins the Peterborough by-election by 683 votes.", "Kenneth Noye was jailed for life for the murder of Stephen Cameron on a slip road of the M25 in Kent.", "From players to venues, here's everything you need to know about the Women's World Cup.", "James Daunt becomes chief at Barnes & Noble after the US chain is bought by hedge fund Elliott.", "Get to know Phil Neville's 23-strong England squad for the Women's World Cup in France.", "Oxford University widens its intake. But still recruits more from Singapore than north-east England", "Sally Challen is reunited with her family nine years after being jailed for killing her husband.", "Hosts France begin the Women's World Cup in superb fashion by thrashing South Korea in the opening game.", "The party's conference begins later, in the wake of its best European election performance since 1989.", "The row between the US president and London's mayor dates back to 2016. Why did it all start?", "Some 7,100 statements have been taken relating to the fire, which left 72 dead, police say.", "BBC Scotland asked veteran midfielder Jo Love to reveal all about the first Scotland squad to compete at a World Cup in 21 years and here's her verdict...", "Security guards are brought in to manage the lines of people waiting for shoes by rapper Kanye West.", "Saad Butt wishes he could \"change places\" with those killed in the attacks, an inquest hears.", "George Hamilton says Catholic membership of the police could fall \"if nothing changes\".", "The two largest outbreaks of the disease have been in the past five years.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 31 May and 7 June.", "Fifteen candidates will fight for the seat whose previous MP was removed following a recall petition.", "Killing Eve will sit alongside Friends and Breaking Bad as an all-time TV classic.", "Sally Challen was jailed for murder in 2011 but a new law means an appeal next month could succeed.", "The foreign secretary meets UK troops and discusses education links during his controversial trip.", "A state-of-the-art telescope is named after Annie Maunder, a Victorian pioneer of space photography.", "The motorcycle maker blames EU tariffs for a decision to move some manufacturing overseas.", "The 50-year-old is accused of killing a woman found with stab wounds in Greenwich on Saturday.", "Recep Tayyip Erdogan's victory leaves Turkey divided and the opposition wondering how he can be beaten.", "Portugal progress to the World Cup knockout stages after drawing with Iran in a game full of VAR controversy.", "As elections take place two years after a failed coup in Turkey, how many people are in prison and how many have lost their jobs?", "The soft drinks giant says the shortage has temporarily stopped some output but supplies are fine.", "Ministers say \"the time for action is now\" with MPs set to vote on expansion in the coming weeks.", "An eruption from Kilauea volcano continues to threaten homes.", "The final round of group matches at the 2018 World Cup has drawn to a close, and the last 16 has been finalised.", "Charlie and Gayle Anderson, from Manchester, had recently retired to the Caribbean island.", "The Commons votes in favour of controversial plans for a third runway by 415 votes to 119.", "See how you rated the players in Uruguay's 3-0 win against Russia.", "Consumer watchdog Which? lists the 10 best and 10 worst areas for food hygiene.", "Fourteen odd-looking canines put their best face forward in a bid to win the World's Ugliest Dog title.", "Opposition MPs mock the foreign secretary for missing the airport expansion vote for an Afghan trip.", "Iran's Ali Beiranvand saves a penalty from Cristiano Ronaldo to deny Portugal a 2-0 lead in the final Group B fixture at the 2018 World Cup.", "Shirley Church, survivor of the 2015 Tunisia attack, wants a government fund for all terror survivors", "Ex-Wales rugby star Gareth Thomas backs a bill to ban anti-gay verbal abuse at football matches.", "The House of Lords nods through at first stage a bill which would give employees leave in the event of losing a child.", "England achieve their most emphatic World Cup result as Harry Kane's hat-trick helps them thrash a poor Panama side and reach the last 16.", "The book fair in Slough included speakers well-known for promoting hate speech, BBC Newsnight found.", "Radamel Falcao scores his first goal of the World Cup as Colombia claim a dominant win to end Poland's hopes of reaching the last 16.", "More than half of UK councils have introduced charges for picking up green waste, research finds.", "Uruguay maintain their 100% record at the World Cup as they beat Russia to finish top of Group A and end the hosts' unbeaten start.", "A court hearing is underway to decide if the taxi app firm is \"fit and proper\" to operate in London.", "More than 20 children needed hospital treatment after Craig Banks and Dominic Evans sold them drugs.", "The full-body swimsuits should be allowed in schools, Germany's family minister says.", "What threats lie in wait for England in their final group game against Belgium? Who may they come up against?", "The winner of Sunday's election will take over the prime minister's power to add to their current duties.", "Eva Lewis decided the best place to celebrate her 102nd birthday was in a wind tunnel.", "Sexual satisfaction appears to increase with age, according to a reproductive health poll.", "Sports minister Tracey Crouch says her \"mind is open\" on safe standing as she commissions an official review of the issue, adding she has been \"scarred\" by threats on social media.", "The US president wants to deport those who enter the US illegally, without any judicial process.", "The fire service has been criticised for telling Grenfell residents to \"stay put\" in their flats.", "See how you rated the players as Saudi Arabia beat Egypt 2-1 in World Cup Group A.", "The RSPCA was called after police discovered the dogs while investigating a death.", "Federal forces arrest 27 officers and their boss after a mayoral candidate is murdered in Michoacán.", "Angela Rose, who has terminal cancer says the boxes will be \"part of me to give to them when I die\".", "The Turkish president addressed supporters in Ankara after his victory in a presidential vote.", "Scotland's biggest pig processor will run out of the gas which is used to stun farm animals.", "'Sparkling' and 'sheer brilliance' - BBC Sport's World Cup pundits react to Sunday's 6-1 win over Panama.", "The mother of a girl groomed by her coach tells of the impact the abuse and his suicide had on their lives.", "Dave Smith was one of hundreds of workers put on a 'blacklist' due to their trade union activities.", "Andy Murray wins his first match in almost year with an impressive display against Stan Wawrinka in Eastbourne.", "Jubilant supporters celebrate as England record their biggest win ever in the World Cup finals.", "One line of inquiry police are pursuing is whether the burglary in Bristol was linked to drugs.", "Iago Aspas' late equaliser - with the aid of VAR - sees Spain draw with Morocco to top Group B and secure a last-16 tie with hosts Russia.", "Several sources suggest the foreign secretary's much-criticised trip to Afghanistan is about more UK forces.", "He later flew to Tel Aviv for the first official royal visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories.", "Two other children who were reported to be \"in distress\" made it safely out of the lake, say police.", "Gareth Southgate's young England squad booked their place in the knockout stage of the World Cup and social media was at its best.", "Mohamed Salah scores his second goal of the World Cup but Egypt end their campaign pointless with defeat by Saudi Arabia.", "They were concerned about a lack of detail in the plans which the UK government says will boost Scottish flights.", "A health warning is issued, with temperatures across the UK expected to climb further this week.", "Two men from the Powys area were hit by a car on a road near Paphos and two people were arrested.", "The UK government says the project off Swansea Bay is too expensive prompting a backlash in Wales.", "Recep Tayyip Erdogan has decisively won Turkey's presidential vote. Here's what you need to know.", "Egypt's Essam El-Hadary marks his World Cup debut by becoming the World Cup's oldest ever player at 45 years and 161 days and saving a penalty.", "Several people have paid tribute to the 15-year-old who was murdered in New York last week, including Cardi B, who donated $8000.", "Business leaders have written a letter urging the next prime minister to commit to completing HS2.", "Jeremy Hunt says Tories must decide whether he or Boris Johnson will get the best Brexit outcome.", "Nine-year-old Sam is taking part in a trial of a new drug researchers hope can boost healthy bone growth.", "The monument to the Windrush generation of Caribbean migrants will be erected at Waterloo station.", "Deliveroo says its own systems have not been breached and passwords were obtained from another source.", "A 40-year-old man has been charged with breaching a restraining order.", "Police say they were called to reports of a medical emergency at the Gower Beer festival.", "John Letts and Sally Lane sent £223 to their son Jack despite concerns he had joined the Islamic State group.", "Officers responded to a call by a local resident \"concerned for the welfare of a female neighbour\".", "Susan Hill had to undergo an assessment before getting a benefit to help pay for carers.", "England suffer a shock 20-run defeat against Sri Lanka which damages their hopes of reaching the World Cup semi-finals.", "An ex-charity fundraiser and an organic farmer face jail for sending cash to their son in Syria. How did they end up in court?", "Passengers have been facing long queues at Manchester Airport after \"an IT issue\" affected check-in.", "Mavis Paterson was cycling in memory of her children and becomes the oldest woman to cycle from Land's End to John O'Groats.", "At least 18 people are confirmed dead and others are missing in the city of Sihanoukville.", "Writer E. Jean Carroll says Mr Trump raped her in a department store dressing room in the mid-1990s.", "Seventy-one years ago Alford Gardner was one of hundreds of Caribbeans who came to rebuild post-war UK.", "People across Essex reported feeling houses \"shaking\" after a \"loud explosion\" at about 18:40 BST.", "Ingrid Systad Engen hits the winning penalty as Norway beat Australia 4-1 in a shootout to reach the Women's World Cup quarter-finals.", "Paul Smyth was found dead in the living room of his house in Lisburn on Friday.", "The former longest-serving health secretary hopes to beat Boris Johnson to the job of prime minister.", "Police in the US state of Montana found the animal resting after it had locked itself into a room.", "People have been voting for what could be Mauritania's first peaceful transfer of power.", "Mike Dorricott was given contaminated blood during routine dental surgery in 1982.", "The British singer was described as a \"melodic genius\" by French President Emmanuel Macron.", "Police arrest a 49-year-old man after a hidden camera was discovered at Pinewood Studios.", "Mr Johnson tells a Tory hustings \"people did not want to hear\" about the reported argument.", "Court cases may face delays after forces suspend work with the UK's biggest private forensic company.", "The man was discovered injured when armed police were called to Feltham, south-west London.", "Much of the complexity and texture of Heller's creation has been flattened by the production team.", "It follows an aborted US air strike after an unmanned drone was shot down by the Iranians.", "BBC News NI assesses what effects the two candidates vying to become PM could have on Northern Ireland.", "An ex-MP tells the trial of a man accused of making up claims against him he is suing police for £1m.", "The BBC broadcasts an interview with Jack Letts, who travelled to Syria to join the Islamic State group.", "The record of the man who will be the UK's next prime minister.", "The trial on five stretches of the M4 and A-roads is to be made permanent.", "A power cut that stopped trains on Kyushu island was caused by a slug shorting the system.", "Protester says Mark Field should \"go to anger management classes\" after grabbing her at a City dinner.", "The Royal Shakespeare Company says corporate sponsorship remains \"an important part\" of its funding.", "A south London priest says churches should open their doors when schools shut for the day.", "An overdose of fluids contributed to the death of Claire Roberts, 9, from hyponatraemia, a coroner finds.", "The contenders for Number 10 lay out their vision for the country at a conference in Birmingham.", "Andy Murray reaches the doubles final at Queen's as his dream return to tennis continues five months after career-saving hip surgery.", "President Trump's son-in-law reveals the first, economics-focused section of the proposals.", "The Tory leadership candidate was pressed about reports of an argument with his partner.", "An early morning explosion woke locals and shook homes near a Philadelphia refinery when it caught fire.", "People in England with conditions such as dementia or anxiety will be able to apply for a blue badge.", "Ministers had previously said owners of private residential tower blocks in England should foot the bill.", "Ben Raemers's death has prompted a conversation about mental health in the sport.", "The new building at the Royal Victoria Hospital will not become operational until at least autumn 2020.", "Three MPs are knocked out in the race to succeed Theresa May, as Boris Johnson secures more than a third of votes.", "\"Quite why she is not more famous is difficult to fathom. Maybe her gender and style went against her?\"", "Scotland's hopes of World Cup progress suffers a blow as they fall to a second World Cup group defeat, with Japan easing to their first win in six games.", "Two years on from the Grenfell Tower fire, 328 high-rises still have the same type of cladding.", "The Tory leadership hopeful's strong first round makes him a target for the others left in the race.", "The broadcaster says it regrets any offence caused by the remark about throwing acid at Nigel Farage.", "Crews drop more than 100 tonnes of ballast in an operation to plug a bank on the River Steeping.", "Ian McDonald was taking part in a training exercise when his hand was pierced by hydraulic fluid.", "Parents across Wales are now able to get help from psychologists and mentors after a funding boost.", "The comedian had come under fire for making a remark about throwing battery acid at politicians.", "The president praises her as a \"warrior\" and she says the job \"has been the honour of a lifetime\".", "\"I will fight this with every breath I have,\" says the comedian after revealing he has the illness.", "The former Labour and Change UK MP says he was wrong to think people wanted a new party.", "As a university looks at 110 job cuts, its accounts reveal financial difficulties.", "Could the US respond militarily to what it sees as \"unprovoked attacks\" on tankers in the Gulf of Oman?", "It comes after it emerged in a BBC radio interview that she had misunderstood British legal terms.", "Chelsea agree a deal in principle for their Italian manager Maurizio Sarri to join Serie A club Juventus.", "A plan to be considered by ministers involves changing the tasks of the SAS and others, Newsnight learns.", "Pat McCormick, a 55-year-old father of four, was last seen in Comber on Thursday, 30 May.", "Wales' first black head teacher will be immortalised after she topped a \"hidden heroines\" poll.", "Forensic evidence shows how close Youssef Zaghba was to a firearms officer, a senior officer says.", "Extinction Rebellion is planning a demonstration against a Heathrow extension on Tuesday.", "Numerous outstanding schools are downgraded by Ofsted after concerns are raised.", "Jonathan Marcus answers your questions on the tanker attacks, the US position and Iran's response.", "The UK advertising watchdog brings in new rule to stop adverts \"contributing to inequality in society\".", "Edward Cairney and Avril Jones spent two decades pretending Margaret Fleming was still alive.", "Download Festival's campsite is reduced to \"impassable muddy sludge\" after torrential rain.", "In the 15 March shooting, a gunman opened fire on Muslim worshippers and killed 51 people.", "Londoners remember the devastation of the Grenfell Tower fire across the capital.", "At a White House event she promoted a new rideshare scheme that aims to help former convicts get jobs.", "Jodie Taylor's second-half strike earns England a place in the Women's World Cup last 16 as they overcome resilient Argentina in Le Havre.", "Javier Darroux Mijalchuk's parents were abducted in 1977, during Argentina's military dictatorship.", "Heavy rain causes two trains to become stuck and leads to evacuations from a flooded village.", "Margaret Fleming was last seen around the turn of the millennium but was not reported missing until 2016.", "The Tory leadership frontrunner commits to debate with his rivals on Tuesday after the second ballot.", "Australia fight back from 2-0 down to stun Brazil and claim their first win of the Women's World Cup in France.", "Hundreds of thousands of staff could soon get their salary as they earn it instead of waiting for payday.", "The US actor pleads not guilty to forcible touching after being accused of grabbing a woman's breast.", "The activists had re-occupied the rig following an earlier police operation which had seen a total of nine arrests.", "There were more than 200,000 abortions in England and Wales last year - the highest ever recorded.", "The long-running row over pay and workload seems to be moving towards a conclusion.", "More than one-in-10 people in the UK now own second homes, buy-to-let and overseas properties.", "A judge says an inquiry into immigration centre abuse must have powers to compel witnesses to attend.", "The actor talks to Radio 1 Newsbeat at E3 about his starring role in the game Cyberpunk 2077.", "Calendar maker says it will have to replace the May pages on 400,000 calendars it has already printed.", "It is not now MPs who will get to decide between Jeremy Hunt and Boris Johnson.", "The Wikileaks founder is fighting extradition to the US to face allegations of leaking government secrets.", "The children's charity says her removal from its campaign was not because she is transgender.", "The BBC's Frank Gardner looks at the evidence the US says proves Iran's involvement in Thursday's attacks in the Gulf of Oman.", "BBC reporter Suzanne Allan recalls her \"extraordinary\" meeting with Edward Cairney and Avril Jones.", "Mariam Moustafa was repeatedly punched in an attack \"fuelled by social media\", a court hears.", "The health secretary declines to back any of the remaining six candidates in the race to succeed Theresa May.", "Grace Jones died at her home in Broadway, Worcestershire, on Friday, her daughter confirms.", "Seventy-two people died at Grenfell two years ago but many buildings still have \"unsafe\" cladding.", "Li Ying's brilliant volley earns China victory over debutants South Africa, who face elimination from the Women's World Cup.", "The 43-year-old gave birth in a Glasgow maternity unit this week where staff say she is doing well.", "Laura and Dave Worsley refused to give up hope - and their fertility expert was just as determined.", "Public Health England says there are now nine confirmed cases of listeria linked to the outbreak.", "Simon Aherne and Anna Cousins invited 100 people to their wedding but fear most will not be able go.", "England beat Scotland 2-1 in their Women's World Cup opening game. Here's how you rated the players out of 10.", "Debris from the site is to be tested as part of an investigation into a mother and son's disappearance in 1976.", "Ed Sheeran tops airplay charts for another year - but a different act had the most-played song.", "They were both taken to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary where the man is being treated for serious injuries.", "The outline free trade agreement is the first post-Brexit deal the UK has secured in Asia.", "A record UK audience for women's football watch England's win over Scotland in the World Cup on Sunday, drawing a peak of 6.1 million viewers.", "England and Arsenal footballer Leah Williamson reveals her love for country music, Motown and slow songs before a big game.", "Albert Grannon is told to prepare for prison after Stanley Metcalf, six, was shot with an air rifle.", "The winner of the contest will also become the UK's next prime minister.", "Six floors of a block of flats in Barking is engulfed in flames before the fire is brought under control.", "The Labour leader is confronted over anti-Semitism and Brexit at parliamentary gathering.", "Former Boston Red Sox star David Ortiz is recovering after surgery after being shot in the back on Sunday in the Dominican Republic.", "Warnings are in place for parts of England and Wales as the Met Office warns of \"danger to life\".", "He was involved in an attack where the personal data of more than 150,000 people was stolen.", "Canada open up with a win in the Women's World Cup on Monday, but what does day five hold in store?", "BBC Sport pundits give their verdict on England's narrow 2-1 win over Scotland at the 2019 Women's World Cup.", "The shift comes amid criticism that the ban discriminated against Maori people with cultural markings.", "Police say their inquiry will be \"fearless\" but a decision on charges will not be made until 2022.", "Christel Stainfield-Bruce was stabbed after she refused to hand over her mobile phone.", "A report into free TV licences for the over-75s finds pensioners are richer now than two decades ago.", "Teams had to complete as many laps of a 200m (650ft) course as they could in two hours.", "Evidence points to a 1.2-billion-year-old impact structure lying hidden off Scotland's north-west coast.", "Contrary to what happens in the men's game, the Americans dominate the female landscape while Brazil have only once made it to the final. What explains such a disparity?", "Viewers of indecent images of children without a criminal record should not be prosecuted, a report says.", "Simple steps can shift the body clock and improve people's mental health, say researchers.", "Hosts Portugal claim their second trophy in three years by beating the Netherlands to win the inaugural Nations League.", "The proposal for a \"lower, simpler, sales tax\" comes a day after the environment secretary admitted taking cocaine as a young journalist.", "Japan begin their quest to reach a third straight World Cup final with a disappointing goalless draw against outsiders Argentina.", "An \"unprecedented\" number of calls included false reports of gunfire and hostages, an inquest hears.", "The pair were appearing in Rotterdam, which tells the story of a young gay woman.", "Viktoria Modesta, who chose to have her own leg amputated, takes to the stage at the Crazy Horse in Paris.", "Clare almost died from drinking too much alcohol and thinks labelling should be clearer.", "A new campaign hopes to make people more aware of the tricks carried out by fraudsters.", "Two campaigners halted an operation to tow the rig out to sea in the Cromarty Firth.", "Non-biodegradable wipes are causing 2,000 sewage blockages each month, Welsh Water says.", "A 55- year-old woman dies after being struck by lightning while hillwalking in the Highlands.", "A man is arrested in Washington DC for allegedly brandishing an air gun, causing a stampede.", "All the updates on the ballot, as three candidates were eliminated and seven got through to next round.", "Campaigners accuse prosecutors of secretly changing their decision-making on rape cases.", "The Tory leadership hopeful says taking the class A drug 20 years ago \"was a crime\".", "Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt are pledging big tax cuts.", "Lewis Hamilton controversially wins Canadian GP after Sebastian Vettel given penalty for forcing him off track.", "Phil Neville's England team launch their 2019 Women's World Cup campaign with a narrow win over Scotland in Nice.", "The next-generation console will have a new Halo game among its first titles.", "Lucy Letby is rearrested on suspicion of the attempted murder of three additional babies.", "Unlike previous months, there was a fall in output in all sectors of the economy, research suggests.", "A header by Kadeisha Buchanan, voted best young player at the 2015 Women's World Cup, ensures Canada open their 2019 campaign with a win over Cameroon.", "Car factory shutdowns designed to cope with disruption from Brexit meant the economy shrank in April.", "People who were wrongfully detained or lost their right to work are among those to receive an apology.", "Munroe Bergdorf's spokesperson says the charity is \"bowing down to pressure from a transphobic lobby\".", "Grenfell survivors are taking legal action in the US against three firms they blame for the fire.", "Households with one over-75 who gets pension credit will continue to receive a free TV licence.", "Luke Johnson, the bakery chain's former chairman, says he also feared becoming a \"pariah\" in business.", "What does the US president's visit mean for Jeremy Corbyn and the Tory leadership hopefuls?", "A leading think tank is suggesting plain packaging should be adopted for sugary foods.", "The party splits just four months after it was formed, announcing Anna Soubry as its new leader.", "A drop in attempted murders and serious assaults in the west of Scotland helped drive a reduction in figures across Scotland.", "Firms' failure to tackle environmental damage is Legal & General's biggest corporate governance concern.", "The bank cuts its economic outlook for 2019 as US-China trade tensions create uncertainty.", "A woman in Japan starts a campaign after saying she was made to wear heels for a funeral parlour job.", "Neil Woodward says it was in his client's interests for the firm to succeed, a court hears.", "Early years centres have a positive impact on health, a think tank says, but they face cuts and closure.", "The Pension Protection Fund says it will back a restructure after Arcadia agrees pension deal.", "The hip-hop star and Beyonce's husband has investments in Uber, property, art and music.", "What are the rules around flying a Donald Trump balloon in Central London?", "Demonstrators deploy satire, candour and expletives as Donald Trump meets the UK prime minister.", "Hong Kong is one of the few places in Chinese territory where an annual remembrance vigil can be held.", "Johanna Konta's stunning French Open continues as she beats Sloane Stephens to become the first British woman since 1983 to reach the semi-finals.", "Events take place in Normandy to mark the 75th anniversary of the D-day landings.", "Theresa May's press conference with Donald Trump came just days before she stands down as Tory leader.", "Four climbers who were part of the group ascending Nanda Devi were assessed in hospital.", "The parents of a teenager dubbed \"Jihadi Jack\" are on trial for allegedly sending him money.", "Missing in the India, the Scotland-based British mountaineer Martin Moran is one of the best-known names in UK climbing.", "The BBC was given access inside Porton Down, where some of the world's deadliest viruses are researched.", "The new M4 route has been discussed since before record-breaking boy band 1D were even born.", "Giuseppe Conte warns the country's two ruling parties he will resign if they cannot stop squabbling.", "The Queen says at a state banquet that the alliance has ensured \"safety and prosperity\" for decades.", "People living near the current motorway and a proposed relief road are divided on the plans.", "Mr and Mrs Trump laid a wreath at the grave of the unknown warrior as part of their UK state visit.", "Macauley Negus from Plymouth was released by police after spending 36 hours in custody in Madrid", "A Swedish judge rejects a request to detain Julian Assange in absentia, complicating extradition hopes.", "President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump are on the second day of their three-day UK state visit.", "The Labour leader criticises Theresa May for \"rolling out the red carpet\" for the US president.", "Victoria Buchanan swallowed a bag of the drugs in the hope of getting it home, an inquest hears.", "Investment guru Neil Woodford stops investors withdrawing funds after Kent County Council sought £250m.", "The festival is cancelled less than two months after being moved from southern Scotland to Glasgow.", "Theresa May's power is fading, and the US President will have at least half an eye on her successor.", "It has fallen in Queensland and New South Wales amid weather warnings for 1,000km of coast.", "It is packed with millions of living cells to mend damage after a heart attack, say researchers.", "The Iranian national was found guilty of helping migrants cross the English Channel in dinghies.", "Forbes magazine estimates the rapper has broken the billion dollar barrier.", "President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump are in the UK for their first state visit.", "The Last of the Mohicans actor is the first Native American actor to be honoured with an Oscar.", "Video from Khartoum shows injured people and the sound of gunfire as tensions spill over into violence.", "The supermarket is launching a trial in Oxford to find out how people might shop in the future.", "As their trade war escalates, the US and China are blaming one another for the recent impasse in talks.", "Memorial events take place at Southwark Cathedral for those who died in the 2017 terror attack.", "Parents of teen fatally injured in a disco queue say serious questions must be asked of the police.", "He had been asked to attend a committee investigating payments from Leave campaigner Arron Banks.", "The tech giant also unveiled new privacy measures at its developer conference in San Jose.", "A spokesman for Sadiq Khan said the \"childish insults should be beneath the US President\".", "French prosecutors say they were not able to stand up allegations made by a young actress.", "A relative reported Khuram Butt to an anti-terror hotline some 18 months before the attack, an inquest hears.", "Anti-Trump protesters have gathered in Trafalgar Square, as the US president meets the PM.", "US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump arrive in the UK for a three-day state visit.", "Reaction as it happened as plans for a new motorway south of Newport were abandoned", "Overcrowding is blamed for an increase in deaths on the world's highest peak, but other factors are at play.", "The chancellor accepts many are struggling, but rejects a critical UN report.", "Cases of sexually transmitted infections, such as gonorrhoea, are going up.", "The US President promises a post-Brexit trade deal with the UK \"two or three times as big as now\"", "The Queen hosts a state banquet for US President Donald Trump at Buckingham Palace.", "Scot Peterson failed to confront a gunman during the mass killings in Parkland, Florida, in 2018.", "Khalid Ali was moments from being able to attack politicians when he was stopped by armed police.", "Spending time in the NFL and studying Germany and Spain's World Cup wins has helped England improve their set-pieces, says Gareth Southgate.", "The girl's mother shot the man after he smashed his way into their house with a brick, police say.", "A state-of-the-art telescope is named after Annie Maunder, a Victorian pioneer of space photography.", "Manchester Airport bosses say eight flights were affected by the power cut.", "Marcos Rojo's brilliant late volley sends Argentina through to the last 16 of the 2018 World Cup with a dramatic victory over Nigeria.", "France qualify for the World Cup last-16 as group winners with a 0-0 draw against runners-up Denmark", "Portugal progress to the World Cup knockout stages after drawing with Iran in a game full of VAR controversy.", "As the health service celebrates its 70th birthday, just how good is it?", "A \"person of interest\" has been arrested after the deaths of Charlie and Gayle Anderson, say Jamaican police.", "The Commons votes in favour of controversial plans for a third runway by 415 votes to 119.", "Brazilian Julia Guimaraes tells the man off, saying: \"Never do this to a woman, ok? Respect.\"", "The couple tortured and killed Sophie Lionnet before dumping her body on a fire in their London garden.", "Iceland exit the World Cup as defeat by group winners Croatia in Rostov-on-Don leaves them bottom of Group D.", "The Commons Defence Committee calls for 3% of GDP to be spent on defence to maintain UK \"usefulness\".", "The firm is on probation after the regulator previously said it was not a \"fit and proper\" operator.", "Two matches, 2,000km and VAR - how the controversy of a crazy World Cup night unfolded.", "Boris Johnson refuses to deny claims of an outburst over businesses expressing Brexit concerns.", "Iran's Ali Beiranvand saves a penalty from Cristiano Ronaldo to deny Portugal a 2-0 lead in the final Group B fixture at the 2018 World Cup.", "Beverley Thahane's son Noah died after developing rickets.", "Aid agencies warn that thousands of unwanted babies could be given up for adoption.", "Two men die and 12 people are hurt in a crash involving a bus and lorry in Cambridgeshire.", "Women who suffer from reproductive issues such as endometriosis and severe period pain talk about their debilitating effects.", "A car rams the office of one of the Netherlands' leading newspapers during the night.", "The US president says the motorcycle firm's new Thailand factory marks \"the beginning of the end\".", "The book fair in Slough included speakers well-known for promoting hate speech, BBC Newsnight found.", "Diego Maradona says England are reaping the benefits of teaching players to be more comfortable in possession rather than playing long balls.", "Today is officially the hottest day of the year - and there's more warm weather on the way.", "Uruguay maintain their 100% record at the World Cup as they beat Russia to finish top of Group A and end the hosts' unbeaten start.", "A transgender woman refused her state pension after staying married was discriminated against by UK law, European judges say.", "More than 20 children needed hospital treatment after Craig Banks and Dominic Evans sold them drugs.", "A 15-year-old girl is applauded for helping a fellow passenger communicate during a flight.", "The video shows the blaze spreading and people shouting to residents to \"get out of the tower\".", "Sexual satisfaction appears to increase with age, according to a reproductive health poll.", "The foreign secretary says breaches of the chemical weapons ban in Syria cannot be ignored.", "The Springwatch host says she would not mind if her co-star, Chris Packham, was paid more than her.", "The NHS saved Nick Robinson's life. Here, he offers a personal take on the service as it reaches its 70th birthday.", "Peru record their first win at a World Cup finals since 1978 as they beat Australia in the last match of the tournament for both sides.", "A secondary school offers parents the chance to take their children out of school for a week in July 2019.", "Scientists think it might actually be a bad idea to apply the ointment immediately to wounds.", "MPs say funding of the UK's armed forces should rise from 2% to 3% of total GDP.", "All the latest content about NHS at 70 from the BBC.", "Scotland's biggest pig processor will run out of the gas which is used to stun farm animals.", "Khalid Ali, from north London, was arrested carrying knives near Downing Street last year.", "The Duke of Cambridge, on a Middle East tour, lays a wreath where the ashes of victims are buried.", "How fingerprints on bomb parts in Afghanistan led to the capture of a would-be attacker in Whitehall.", "Britain's car industry says uncertainty is \"thwarting\" the plans of some of Britain's biggest employers.", "Iago Aspas' late equaliser - with the aid of VAR - sees Spain draw with Morocco to top Group B and secure a last-16 tie with hosts Russia.", "Several sources suggest the foreign secretary's much-criticised trip to Afghanistan is about more UK forces.", "The gold medallist cyclist says she feels \"damaged\" after having to pull out of a Mount Everest climb.", "A \"frightening\" attempt to freshen up a 16th century sculpture of St George enrages officials.", "The strange weather phenomenon was spotted in Powys, as temperatures soared across Wales.", "Two other children who were reported to be \"in distress\" made it safely out of the lake, say police.", "A wife describes losing a husband to dementia and worrying about how to pay for his care.", "Advait Kolarkar has become the youngest artist to exhibit at the ArtExpo fair in New York.", "Mohamed Salah scores his second goal of the World Cup but Egypt end their campaign pointless with defeat by Saudi Arabia.", "The singer fears losing her voice because she needs surgery to remove part of her tongue.", "The artist's manager appears to deny the song is similar to a 2016 track by New York rapper Jase Harley.", "Tesco-owned wholesaler Booker restricts beer and cider sales because of the carbon dioxide shortage.", "A health warning is issued, with temperatures across the UK expected to climb further this week.", "The warning from the head of the Army comes amid speculation of potential government defence cuts.", "The UK government says the project off Swansea Bay is too expensive prompting a backlash in Wales.", "Egypt's Essam El-Hadary marks his World Cup debut by becoming the World Cup's oldest ever player at 45 years and 161 days and saving a penalty.", "Iran's policy of strategic patience under punishing US sanctions may be coming to an end.", "Former Uefa president Michel Platini is released by French anti-corruption investigators after being questioned over the awarding of the 2022 World Cup to Qatar.", "Rents have soared in the German capital - and now politicians are moving to keep flats affordable.", "Watchdog receives more than 1,000 of complaints about Maura allegedly harassing Tommy and contestants' treatment of Lucie.", "Murdered prison officer Adrian Ismay 'never had cross words' with the man accused of killing him.", "A climate scientist has captured the reality of sea ice loss in Greenland in a viral picture.", "Belfast's Court of Appeal upholds a judgement that officers are owed money over a holiday pay shortfall.", "The first question to the five men who could be the next Tory leader and PM was about a Brexit date guarantee.", "Fourteen-year-old Ana Kriégel was sexually assaulted and killed in an abandoned Dublin house in May 2018.", "The five-year-old was on holiday with family on the Greek island of Kos when the tragedy happened.", "The chief inspector of prisons says the task to improve conditions at HMP Birmingham is \"huge\".", "Commuters and Royal Ascot racegoers are hit as South Western Railway staff start a five-day walkout.", "Jonathan Marcus answers your questions on the tanker attacks, the US position and Iran's response.", "The Conservative Party faces a big decision over who will mount a challenge to the leadership frontrunner.", "It was hours before medics entered a courtyard where victims were stabbed in the London Bridge attack.", "All the latest from the second round of voting in the Tory leadership race and the live TV debate.", "To just say a new prime minister won't change the arithmetic when it comes to Parliament doesn't take into account the unknown power of leadership.", "Operator Camelot urges UK players to \"check, double-check and triple-check\" their tickets.", "England captain Eoin Morgan hits 17 sixes - a record for a one-day international innings - in the World Cup match against Afghanistan.", "Two-time Olympic champion Caster Semenya says she was used by the IAAF and fears other athletes are also at risk.", "The Dean of King's College Cambridge apologises after an autistic boy is asked to leave a service.", "Germany's 64-year-old chancellor shook uncontrollably for more than a minute during an event in Berlin.", "The US President dubbed Mr Khan a \"disaster\" following a spate of violent crimes in London.", "Labour's Stella Creasy hits out at Parliament's rules, which do not fund cover for maternity leave.", "Increasing numbers of people aged between 41 and 60 are being recruited by criminals to launder money.", "Is the \"hidden hand of George Osborne\" helping his campaign to replace Theresa May?", "All five candidates say they want to avoid a hard border but disagree on how to do so.", "The Brexit Party leader had just given a short speech in Newcastle when he was covered in milkshake.", "Jurors in the trial of a man accused of false abuse reports were shown Lord Bramall's police interview.", "The scheme, which has cut reoffending rates in pilot areas, involves unpaid work in the community.", "The move is a \"precautionary step\" to protect students, says Edexcel's parent company, Pearson.", "Latest figures show the number of households is rising, and more and more are occupied by single people.", "An ex-British soldier facing prosecution for two murders on Bloody Sunday is due in court in August.", "Stephen Schwarzman, a confidant of President Trump, makes the largest ever donation to a UK university.", "Research found a treatment programme increased reoffending but the scheme ran for another five years.", "The royal couple have sent their best wishes to the elderly woman, 83, who is in a serious condition.", "Police say two were seriously wounded at the event celebrating the basketball win.", "It is not now MPs who will get to decide between Jeremy Hunt and Boris Johnson.", "A report by MPs urges the UK government to end the era of throwaway clothes and poor working conditions in the fashion supply chain.", "The British Antarctic Survey produces an exquisite new printed sheet map of Greenland and the European Arctic.", "Reality Check assesses some of the claims made in the leadership debate.", "School budgets: a one-off increase of £3.8bn would be needed to reverse spending cuts in England, says IFS.", "A conflict is more likely today than at any time since President Donald Trump took office.", "Viewble Media Pty Ltd, accused of leaving Australian firms almost £16.9m in debt, has links to NI.", "A judge said their online propaganda for a group called the Sonnenkrieg Division was abhorrent.", "The metal band have cancelled most of their forthcoming tour as Dave Mustaine undergoes treatment.", "The broadcaster will no longer commission comedies that don't have any women in the writers' room.", "The USS Chancellorsville and the Admiral Vinogradov came close to collision in the western Pacific.", "Killing Eve will sit alongside Friends and Breaking Bad as an all-time TV classic.", "Killing Eve will sit alongside Friends and Breaking Bad as an all-time TV classic.", "The government says it will trial the devices to try to help reduce the amount of anti-social noise.", "Recep Tayyip Erdogan helped the 30-year-old footballer tie the knot in Istanbul.", "Australian Ashleigh Barty defeats Czech teenager Marketa Vondrousova in the French Open final to win her first Grand Slam singles title and complete a fairytale return to the sport.", "Gurgana Geuorgoieva will next appear at Southwark Crown Court on 5 July.", "The moves come after a tumultuous debut listing by the firm on New York's Stock Exchange.", "Sally Challen walks free as her manslaughter plea for killing her \"controlling\" husband is accepted.", "Mohamed Noor shot Justine Damond as she approached his car to report a possible rape.", "Birmingham MP Roger Godsiff is reported to the Labour whip after telling protesters \"you're right\".", "A murdered 17-year-old's dad launches a charity to fund clothes and schooling for vulnerable teens.", "Mark Reckless accuses Elin Jones of \"tilting the playing field\" against the Brexit Party.", "Three deaths in hospitals in Manchester and Liverpool are linked to pre-packed sandwiches.", "Sally Challen's son describes the abuse his mother suffered that ended in her killing his father.", "The Scottish government warns it will take enforcement action if Irish vessels keep fishing around Rockall.", "Fifa says Keramuudin Karim, the former president of the Afghanistan Football Federation, \"sexually abused\" various players of the women's national team.", "Phil Neville's England team launch their 2019 Women's World Cup campaign with a narrow win over Scotland in Nice.", "The fire at Jamie Osborne's yard reduces a house to rubble but no humans or horses are injured.", "Hosts France begin the Women's World Cup in superb fashion by thrashing South Korea in the opening game.", "The party's conference begins later, in the wake of its best European election performance since 1989.", "The Queen was joined by members of her family and thousands of spectators for the parade.", "More than 1,000 people join the Oscar winner and the adventurer on the Queen's Birthday Honours list.", "Tech giants risk of causing major disruption to the global financial system, Christine Lagarde says.", "Community spirit is recognised across England in the Queen's Birthday Honours.", "The German Shepherd's handler led a campaign for tougher legislation to protect service animals.", "The row between the US president and London's mayor dates back to 2016. Why did it all start?", "Boyd Tunnock and Scottish women's football manager Shelley Kerr are among those recognised in the Queen's Birthday Honours.", "A woman is also charged with assisting an offender in relation to Fahad Mohamed Nur's death.", "The veterans were heading to a welcome party in Portsmouth, but instead docked at Dover.", "The badly injured man was discovered at the same house as mother-of-two Regan Tierney.", "A pictured-focused round-up of some of the famous names on the 2019 Birthday Honours list including Olivia Colman, Alfie Boe, Griff Rhys Jones and Joanna Trollope.", "He claimed he only \"assisted\" the baby, saying the child had been climbing into the machine herself.", "The Scottish government threatens enforcement action after Irish boats come within 12 miles of Scottish islet Rockall.", "It follows an earlier shake-up which saw a council cut eight of its 24 top management posts.", "The early May bank holiday in 2020 will move back four days for the whole of the UK.", "A 55- year-old woman dies after being struck by lightning while hillwalking in the Highlands.", "Christopher Guest More Jr is detained after spending 16 years on the run following a brutal murder.", "The environment secretary says taking drugs 20 years ago should not affect his bid to become PM.", "Labour leader pledges to create a new social justice commission to help tackle inequality.", "Leyton Orient manager Justin Edinburgh, who won the FA Cup as a Tottenham player in 1991, dies at the age of 49.", "Fashion entrepreneur Simon Suphandagli has set up a pop-up shop for London Fashion Week Men's, to help young fashion designers.", "Sharon Jennings, 55, from Preston, was taken to hospital after the incident.", "The move by the Business Committee follows the recent liquidation of the firm, putting 5,000 jobs at risk.", "A total of five males aged between 15 and 18 have been arrested and bailed, the Met says.", "George Hamilton and Feargal Sharkey feature in the Queen's Birthday Honours", "One person is detained and released in connection with the shooting of a popular German politician.", "Two women hurt in a homophobic attack in London say they hope others will also stand up for themselves.", "Thousands of people have crossed the border, which had been shut in February, to buy basic goods.", "UK bills are inflated partly because households are subsidising nuclear submarines, MPs are told.", "The quote was made up by the \"Fake News Media\", he tweets - despite a recording of the interview.", "What does the US president's visit mean for Jeremy Corbyn and the Tory leadership hopefuls?", "The party splits just four months after it was formed, announcing Anna Soubry as its new leader.", "The bank cuts its economic outlook for 2019 as US-China trade tensions create uncertainty.", "Residents of the County Clare town of Doonbeg give their thoughts on the US president's visit.", "Witness M tells an inquest into the deaths of the eight victims there was no \"missed opportunity\".", "Planes, protests. pints and performances as Mr Trump makes his first Irish trip since taking office.", "The Pension Protection Fund says it will back a restructure after Arcadia agrees pension deal.", "The entertainer maintains he is \"100% innocent\" over the death of Stuart Lubbock at his home in 2001.", "What are the rules around flying a Donald Trump balloon in Central London?", "Demonstrators deploy satire, candour and expletives as Donald Trump meets the UK prime minister.", "Hong Kong is one of the few places in Chinese territory where an annual remembrance vigil can be held.", "Johanna Konta's stunning French Open continues as she beats Sloane Stephens to become the first British woman since 1983 to reach the semi-finals.", "Ted Cordery, now aged 95, served on board HMS Belfast as a torpedo man during the Second World War.", "Footage appears to show a fan grasping the singer by the neck before trying to kiss her.", "Events take place in Normandy to mark the 75th anniversary of the D-day landings.", "The video-sharing site faces a row over homophobic insults, while it claims to support LGBT rights.", "Theresa May's press conference with Donald Trump came just days before she stands down as Tory leader.", "Dylan Tiffin-Brown would have been \"bewildered and terrified\" as his dad rained blows on him, a judge says.", "The president faced a backlash after he said \"everything was on the table\" for a future trade deal.", "Pixie Jenkins was serving in the Women's Royal Naval Service when the D-Day landings began.", "From Marilyn Monroe to Nelson Mandela - who else has visited Shannon Airport?", "In June 1944, British, US and Canadian forces invaded Nazi-occupied France.", "Four contenders to become the next PM appealed to Tory MPs behind closed doors.", "Waterways could be plastic-free in a year if every visitor picked up one piece of litter, a charity says.", "Emily Hewertson is an aspiring politician who wants to change the perception that you need to smarten up your social media to get there.", "More than £11m has been spent on the Metropolitan Police inquiry since it began in 2011.", "Anti-Trump protesters had gathered as the US president attended the official D-Day commemoration.", "Scot Peterson failed to confront a gunman during the mass killings in Parkland, Florida, in 2018.", "President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump are on the second day of their three-day UK state visit.", "Federal police officers arrive to search the headquarters of Australia's public broadcaster.", "Victoria Buchanan swallowed a bag of the drugs in the hope of getting it home, an inquest hears.", "The festival is cancelled less than two months after being moved from southern Scotland to Glasgow.", "Gareth Roberts is dropped from an anthology over the \"offensive\" remarks, Ebury Publishing confirms.", "Case reviews into the murders of two toddlers in Northamptonshire prompt claims of \"massive failures\".", "The government has unveiled upcoming business for the week ahead.", "Labour calls the remarks, made at a Tory leadership hustings, a \"baseless political attack\".", "Ryan Coleman inflicted 31 external injuries on the one-year-old girl and tried to blame her death on her mother.", "Private Terry Parker detailed his experiences of D-Day in June 1944 in an illegal diary.", "A man and a woman will appear in court over counts relating to computer misuse.", "Sally Lane tells a court she thought her son was in great danger after he travelled to Syria.", "The search of Annika Smethurst's home will \"chill public interest reporting\", News Corp Australia says.", "The sports retailer, which is controlled by Mike Ashley, makes a £51.9m bid for Game Digital.", "He had been asked to attend a committee investigating payments from Leave campaigner Arron Banks.", "Co-creator Lee Daniels confirms the actor won't be returning for the show's sixth and final season.", "The 75th anniversary of D-Day is a very special one for a dwindling group of people - those who were there at the time.", "The company said it would begin flying packages to customers soon - though has not yet said where.", "US President Donald Trump says he referred to alleged comments made by the Duchess of Sussex as 'nasty' and did not mean she was a nasty person.", "A relative reported Khuram Butt to an anti-terror hotline some 18 months before the attack, an inquest hears.", "Reversing five benefit cuts could lift 700,000 UK children out of poverty by 2023, a charity says.", "How an RAF squadron on a Scottish island helped to get weather data that saved the D-Day landings.", "Manager Fernando Santos calls hat-trick hero Cristiano Ronaldo \"a genius\" as Portugal reach the Nations League final with victory over Switzerland in Porto.", "Stockport mayor Laura Booth said it was \"insulting and wrong\" she was abused for wearing flat shoes.", "The president's views appeared unchanged after meeting environmentalist Prince Charles.", "Mike Thalassitis, 26, was found hanged in a park in Enfield, north London, in March.", "Australian National University (ANU) says \"significant amounts\" of data have been illegally accessed.", "President Donald Trump was among the world leaders attending D-Day commemorations in Portsmouth.", "Switzerland reach the World Cup knockout stages for the third time in four tournaments - despite a bizarre late penalty drama against Costa Rica.", "The blaze, which has raged since Sunday, has scorched a path stretching 3.7 miles (6km) across the moors.", "Khalid Ali was moments from being able to attack politicians when he was stopped by armed police.", "The girl's mother shot the man after he smashed his way into their house with a brick, police say.", "His death comes two days after the anniversary of Michael Jackson's death nine years ago.", "The university's student union accused bosses of being more concerned about fees than students.", "William expresses support for \"lasting peace\" in the Middle East and visits a refugee camp.", "Marcos Rojo's brilliant late volley sends Argentina through to the last 16 of the 2018 World Cup with a dramatic victory over Nigeria.", "The Duke of Cambridge meets the winner of the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest in Tel Aviv.", "Laws allowing only same-sex couples the right are discriminatory, the Supreme Court says.", "France qualify for the World Cup last-16 as group winners with a 0-0 draw against runners-up Denmark", "The social network was planning to build drones capable of beaming down internet connectivity.", "Female offenders will be offered support in their communities rather than custodial sentences.", "Liz Truss warns ministers it is not \"macho\" to demand more cash - and takes a swipe at Michael Gove.", "Ban was first introduced more than 20 years ago after the outbreak of mad cow disease.", "Son Heung-min taps into an empty net to double South Korea's lead against Germany after goalkeeper Manuel Neuer is caught up field searching for a goal.", "The final round of group matches at the 2018 World Cup has drawn to a close, and the last 16 has been finalised.", "The company plans to shut five Waitrose branches and rebrand its department stores and supermarkets.", "The latest news, sport, weather and travel from across the North West on Friday 29 June.", "Iceland exit the World Cup as defeat by group winners Croatia in Rostov-on-Don leaves them bottom of Group D.", "Up to 40,000 UK customers may have had data stolen, the BBC understands.", "Swann Security acknowledges it sent clips from inside a family's home to the wrong person's app.", "Defensive questions, dependency on Harry Kane and a test of temperament - chief football writer Phil McNulty assesses England's moment of truth.", "The cross-party groups also say retired people with generous pensions and investments should pay too.", "The firm is on probation after the regulator previously said it was not a \"fit and proper\" operator.", "The Royal College of General Practitioners disputes the abilities of Babylon's software.", "A powerful type of MRI scan releases the toxin from silver-coloured amalgam fillings, a study finds.", "Scotland basks in the sun on the warmest day of the year so far - and the hottest June day since 1995.", "Irish TV writer Graham Linehan says he will not need chemo after being diagnosed with cancer.", "Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a Bronx native and political novice could become the youngest ever woman in Congress if elected in November.", "The firefighter who led the initial response tells an inquiry he made the best decisions he could.", "Two men die and 12 people are hurt in a crash involving a bus and lorry in Cambridgeshire.", "The House of Lords nods through at first stage a bill which would give employees leave in the event of losing a child.", "Janet Alexander said her five-year-old daughter was taken from a kids club during a holiday in Turkey.", "England face Belgium on Thursday, but would you stick with the same XI or rest players? If you were in charge, who would be in your team?", "A car rams the office of one of the Netherlands' leading newspapers during the night.", "Argentina legend Diego Maradona says he is \"fine\" after being seen by a doctor during the team's World Cup victory over Nigeria.", "Noel Conway has motor neurone disease and has been trying to change the law on assisted dying.", "Costa blames lack of shoppers on High Streets for a fall in like-for-like sales at the start of the year.", "Women who suffer from reproductive issues such as endometriosis and severe period pain talk about their debilitating effects.", "Watch all the best action and funnies from day 13 of the 2018 World Cup in Russia, as Lionel Messi finally makes his mark on the tournament just when Argentina needed him most.", "Diego Maradona says England are reaping the benefits of teaching players to be more comfortable in possession rather than playing long balls.", "All 16-year-olds will now have to spend at least a month in civic service.", "Dozens of homes have been evacuated as a fire continues to rage across Saddleworth Moor in Greater Manchester.", "The world of social media mocks Germany, who are knocked out of the World Cup in shock fashion.", "The Duke of Cambridge meets Netta to discuss mental health and diversity as part of his Middle East tour.", "The top US court's Anthony Kennedy, the second oldest justice at 81, says he will retire in July.", "The number of oversized mortuary fridge spaces being installed in London's hospitals rises by almost a third.", "Sweden secure their place in the last 16 of the World Cup with a handsome win over Mexico, who also progress as Germany lose.", "About 100 soldiers are drafted for the next 48 hours to help fight a fire near Saddleworth Moor.", "Firefighters tackle the moorland blaze after first being alerted to it on Sunday evening.", "Commiserations and celebrations after Germany fail to make it past the tournament's first stage.", "Two patients with swallowing problems reportedly died in England after being given the wrong food.", "The Treasury Select Committee is demanding maximum transparency into Lloyds' investigation of a fraud at HBOS.", "Paulinho and Thiago Silva score as Brazil beat Serbia to book a place in the knockout stage, where they will face Mexico.", "Union bosses say lawyers' questions put to Michael Dowden should have been directed at his superiors.", "Two men who died in a collision between a bus and lorry in Cambridgeshire are named by police.", "Peru record their first win at a World Cup finals since 1978 as they beat Australia in the last match of the tournament for both sides.", "Two square kilometres of moorland was alight at the height of the blaze on Monday.", "Soldiers are helping search for 12 teenage boys and their football coach who disappeared in a cave network.", "Timelapse footage shows the spread of the fire raging on Saddleworth Moor.", "Should Gareth Southgate make changes to the starting XI against Belgium? Or is momentum more important?", "Serena Williams is seeded 25th for this year's tournament, despite being outside the top 32 in the rankings.", "Defending champions Germany are eliminated from the World Cup following defeat by South Korea, in one of the biggest shocks in the competition's history.", "The biggest test for crews near Saddleworth Moor is reaching remote fires with water and manpower.", "Khalid Ali, from north London, was arrested carrying knives near Downing Street last year.", "Zimbabwe's president suspects allies of the former first lady were behind an attempt to kill him.", "Lionel Messi, Jorge Sampaoli and the BBC's pundits react to Argentina's dramatic win over Nigeria which secured their place in the last 16.", "How fingerprints on bomb parts in Afghanistan led to the capture of a would-be attacker in Whitehall.", "Flames are doused with water as firefighters tackle the extensive blaze destroying moorland.", "Ryan Evans went missing on Monday after being seen \"in distress\" with friends in the Stoke lake.", "More than 450 patients died after being prescribed painkillers at Gosport War Memorial Hospital.", "Bank of England says UK making progress on financial services risks around Brexit, but that the EU is lagging.", "A \"frightening\" attempt to freshen up a 16th century sculpture of St George enrages officials.", "A wife describes losing a husband to dementia and worrying about how to pay for his care.", "Once a week Clare Wakeham travels four miles to work in Oxford, on the Thames.", "There is no need to fear the \"nanny state\" tag, experts say, as polling shows support for tough action.", "Advait Kolarkar has become the youngest artist to exhibit at the ArtExpo fair in New York.", "Tesco-owned wholesaler Booker restricts beer and cider sales because of the carbon dioxide shortage.", "Bernard Rebelo is convicted of the manslaughter of Eloise Parry who died after taking eight diet pills.", "The blaze above Stalybridge has raged for three days, prompting the evacuation of up to 100 homes.", "Groups representing millions of UK and EU workers say leaders must show \"measureable progress\".", "From measured optimism to \"it's coming home\" - why are England fans going into the Belgium game on a high?", "A slice of fatberg could be preserved after attracting visitors to a London museum.", "Network Rail says some areas have seen two months' worth of rainfall in one day with drains overwhelmed.", "The charity failed to spot a \"culture of poor behaviour\" and did not report claims of child abuse.", "Barcelona and Argentina forward Lionel Messi is the world's highest paid athlete earning £100m in the past 12 months, according to the Forbes top 100 ranking.", "Key developments in the sexual misconduct scandal surrounding the aid charity.", "Patrick Campbell was a 52-year-old father-of-nine when he was shot and seriously wounded.", "The new cars being tried out in Porto Santo can sell solar power electricity back to the island grid.", "Journalists in France helped bring a US veteran back together with his wartime sweetheart.", "Hackers were demanding $150,000 to hand over unreleased music from the classic album OK Computer.", "Elsie Urry says she fought for the man who murdered her three children to be kept behind bars.", "The Muslim Council of Britain says it has documented \"hundreds of cases\" within the party.", "The high court hears large amounts of data belonging to \"innocent citizens\" was held unlawfully.", "Employers are using non-disclosure agreements to \"cover up unlawful and criminal behaviour\", MPs say.", "Christel Stainfield-Bruce was stabbed after she refused to hand over her mobile phone.", "The charity says it will have to reduce some of its aid programmes because of a drop in funding.", "The \"unprecedented\" move comes four years after the firm issued a fire safety warning.", "A commission set up after the Haiti scandal in 2018 also heard reports of sexism and \"colonial behaviour\".", "Mobile operators have written a letter asking the government to decide the role Huawei can play in 5G.", "David McGreavy, who killed three children in 1973, was cleared for release from prison in 2018.", "Wages rose at an annual pace of 3.4% in the three months to April, official figures show.", "MSPs overwhelmingly vote in favour of legislation setting up an \"opt-out\" system of organ donation.", "The winner of the contest will also become the UK's next prime minister.", "Robots cannot do everything, Amazon tells the BBC, but there is concern over the jobs that remain.", "Teams had to complete as many laps of a 200m (650ft) course as they could in two hours.", "Officers stopped a van on the M6 in Cheshire and found 186kg of cocaine hidden in the floor.", "Modern slavery 'reaches into every corner of our lives', Theresa May will tell a conference of world leaders.", "Munroe Bergdorf, one of the UK’s most influential transgender activists, speaks out after the NSPCC cuts ties with her.", "John Cornes, one of six brothers infected by contaminated blood, said his family had been \"ripped apart\".", "Villa Guardamangia is the only place Queen Elizabeth II has called home outside the United Kingdom.", "Some nurseries say they have cut back on learning resources and the quality of the children's food.", "Operator Total says the Culzean field will be responsible for 5% of the UK's gas needs when it reaches peak production.", "The party is trying to force a vote which would take control of Commons business away from the government.", "The United States record the biggest ever victory in the Fifa Women's World Cup as they hammer Thailand 13-0.", "The Labour leader is confronted over anti-Semitism and Brexit at parliamentary gathering.", "All the updates on the ballot, as three candidates were eliminated and seven got through to next round.", "Elsie Urry whose children were murdered by David McGreavy says he should never have been released.", "The High Court decision is a landmark case and contrasts with Kenya's recent ruling against gay sex.", "Warnings are in place for parts of England and Wales as the Met Office warns of \"danger to life\".", "Households with one over-75 who gets pension credit will continue to receive a free TV licence.", "It happened before the defendant picked up a car linked to a prison officer's murder, trial hears.", "England's children's commissioner highlights \"enormous variation\" in money spent across the regions.", "The Scottish first minister meets Jean-Claude Juncker and Michel Barnier during a visit to Brussels.", "Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt are pledging big tax cuts.", "Jeremy Corbyn has queried evidence suggesting Iran was behind attacks on two oil tankers.", "Christel Stainfield-Bruce was stabbed after she refused to hand over her mobile phone.", "Improved measures to protect vulnerable people are needed in the church in Scotland, a report says.", "Part of an Edexcel maths paper was shared on social media ahead of the exam on Friday.", "The four-month-old joey has to be fed every four hours and carried everywhere in a substitute pouch.", "People in England with conditions such as dementia or anxiety will be able to apply for a blue badge.", "Iran's policy of strategic patience under punishing US sanctions may be coming to an end.", "This video has been removed for rights reasons.", "Three patients died in the outbreak linked to pre-packed sandwiches and salads.", "The Tory leadership frontrunner commits to debate with his rivals on Tuesday after the second ballot.", "It comes as two more patients die in an outbreak linked to hospital sandwiches and salads.", "Major delays are expected after the station is closed to trains for more than two hours.", "Martin Morris amassed 36,000 Marvel and DC comics over decades, with one probably worth £10,000.", "Three deaths in hospitals in Manchester and Liverpool are linked to pre-packed sandwiches.", "Lam Ka Lo was pictured meditating in front of shield-bearing police; the struggle goes on, she says.", "Fourteen people are arrested over five separate attacks in the capital in the space of 24 hours.", "\"Quite why she is not more famous is difficult to fathom. Maybe her gender and style went against her?\"", "The new duties come days before countries' leaders are expected to meet at a G20 summit in Japan.", "Leo Varadkar was responding to calls for changes to be made the backstop by some Conservative leadership candidates.", "An oil rig occupied by Greenpeace has now left the Cromarty Firth.", "Chris Froome says he is \"fully focused\" on getting \"back to his best\" after breaking multiple bones in a high-speed crash on Wednesday.", "Jonathan Marcus answers your questions on the tanker attacks, the US position and Iran's response.", "Thousands of Venezuelan migrants entered Peru before the deadline on Saturday.", "A new express train service could cut journey times from Cardiff to London by 20 minutes.", "More than one-in-10 people in the UK now own second homes, buy-to-let and overseas properties.", "Her husband is also joining her in refusing food, as they demand her unconditional release in Iran.", "A study hopes to boost the small number of black and Asian people using end-of-life care services.", "Mariam Moustafa was repeatedly punched in an attack \"fuelled by social media\", a court hears.", "Crews drop more than 100 tonnes of ballast in an operation to plug a bank on the River Steeping.", "The BBC says salary cuts would not plug the gap needed to fund free TV licences for the over-75s.", "Children were among the 40 migrants picked up by Border Force off the Kent coast.", "Scientists destroy final UK laboratory samples of rinderpest, a highly contagious cattle disease.", "Heavy rain is affecting driving conditions and traffic.", "He directed stars including Elizabeth Taylor and opera greats such as Maria Callas.", "People are told to evacuate about 580 Lincolnshire homes amid fears a river could again burst its banks.", "Edward Cairney and Avril Jones spent two decades pretending Margaret Fleming was still alive.", "International buyers offered high prices for eels caught on the River Severn in Gloucestershire.", "More than 40 people have been fatally stabbed in the UK this year - the BBC has tracked the first 100 killings of 2019 revealing those who have tragically lost their lives.", "Angel Stevens, 17, won gold at the International Taekwon-Do Federation World Championships in 2016.", "Chief Executive Carrie Lam expressed \"deep sorrow\" over the extradition controversy.", "The comedian had come under fire for making a remark about throwing battery acid at politicians.", "\"I will fight this with every breath I have,\" says the comedian after revealing he has the illness.", "Rival candidates insist party members must be given a choice of leader, unlike in 2016.", "They died of asphyxiation after inhaling toxic fumes from the sewer in Fartikui, in western India.", "Public Health England says there are now nine confirmed cases of listeria linked to the outbreak.", "It comes after it emerged in a BBC radio interview that she had misunderstood British legal terms.", "Army helicopters twice flew close to light aircraft over an area of Essex, a report says.", "Jodie Taylor's second-half strike earns England a place in the Women's World Cup last 16 as they overcome resilient Argentina in Le Havre.", "Pat McCormick, a 55-year-old father of four, was last seen in Comber on Thursday, 30 May.", "The BBC has found almost half of the latest Army officer cadets went to private schools.", "The demonstrators have said they had not planned their movements in advance.", "Scotland has seen a 130% increase in referrals about suspected human trafficking or exploitation in the last six years", "Social media users around the world post pictures of wilted bauhinia leaves to show their solidarity.", "More than half of the board members of Scotland's public bodies are now female, meeting their target three years early.", "Money raised from the sale will benefit poor communities but only nine out of 27 properties sold.", "The activists broke through police lines during a weekend of protests against fossil fuel use.", "This video has been removed for rights reasons.", "Warnings that the Scottish Parliament has \"gone backwards\" when it comes to the diversity of its MSPs.", "The cyber-attack may be a calling card in the shadowy struggle between Israel, Gulf states and their common foe.", "The former Bishop of Lewes and Gloucester has died aged 87, the Church of England confirms.", "Police say the boys, aged between 12 and 15, attacked a couple as they walked home in Liverpool.", "Passengers have been facing long queues at Manchester Airport after \"an IT issue\" affected check-in.", "Mavis Paterson was cycling in memory of her children and becomes the oldest woman to cycle from Land's End to John O'Groats.", "The international trade secretary insisits the EU will apply trade tariffs in a no-deal Brexit.", "People across Essex reported feeling houses \"shaking\" after a \"loud explosion\" at about 18:40 BST.", "The offshore wind industry says the money will help to 'maximise opportunities' for UK companies.", "Ingrid Systad Engen hits the winning penalty as Norway beat Australia 4-1 in a shootout to reach the Women's World Cup quarter-finals.", "Chris Davies lost his seat after more than 10,000 constituents signed a petition to remove him.", "Jeremy Hunt says his leadership rival \"should answer questions on everything\" if he wants to become PM.", "The former longest-serving health secretary hopes to beat Boris Johnson to the job of prime minister.", "The group include orphans of notorious Australian militant Khaled Sharrouf.", "Tiffani Adams says she has experienced \"re-occurring night terrors\" since the incident.", "Police in the US state of Montana found the animal resting after it had locked itself into a room.", "How Recep Tayyip Erdogan rose from humble beginnings to becoming a political giant.", "People have been voting for what could be Mauritania's first peaceful transfer of power.", "Simons was best known for playing PC Alf Ventress in all 18 series of ITV's Sunday evening police drama.", "Mr Johnson tells a Tory hustings \"people did not want to hear\" about the reported argument.", "England beat Cameroon 3-0 in an extraordinary last-16 tie to set-up a Women's World Cup quarter-final with Norway.", "The man was discovered injured when armed police were called to Feltham, south-west London.", "A growing number of Arabs in the Middle East and North Africa say they are no longer religious, a major survey suggests.", "A UK minister says London has \"long-held concerns\" over Iran's activities in the Gulf of Oman.", "The chain collapsed in January and is under new management, but the probe into its finances continues.", "It follows an aborted US air strike after an unmanned drone was shot down by the Iranians.", "President Trump announces additional sanctions on Iran, but holds out the prospect of a deal.", "The eight mountaineers had been attempting to climb India's second-highest peak, Nanda Devi.", "A woodworker set up a LGBTQIA+ group to try to make a rural town \"less narrow in its outlook\".", "Tom Penn said he was \"frightened\" and worried about the safety of his neighbours when he called police.", "A south London priest says churches should open their doors when schools shut for the day.", "Boris Johnson's rival to replace Theresa May says he would defend the union with \"every drop of blood in my veins\".", "The contenders for Number 10 lay out their vision for the country at a conference in Birmingham.", "The North Korean leader will \"seriously contemplate the interesting content\", state media say.", "Andy Murray reaches the doubles final at Queen's as his dream return to tennis continues five months after career-saving hip surgery.", "President Trump's son-in-law reveals the first, economics-focused section of the proposals.", "The Tory leadership candidate was pressed about reports of an argument with his partner.", "Conor Devine, who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2007, is fighting back against his illness.", "Uefa warns \"an organised group of people impersonating genuine stewards\" is trying to steal tickets.", "Temperatures soar in parts of the UK, reaching a high of 27.6C in the south-east of England.", "Anthony Van Dyck wins the Epsom Derby, giving acclaimed trainer Aidan O'Brien a record-equalling seventh winner in the prestigious race.", "Liverpool are the champions of Europe for the sixth time after beating Tottenham in a lacklustre all-English Champions League final.", "Police dogs and a helicopter were involved in the search for Tony Hutchison after he was reported missing.", "A total of 74 migrants in eight different vessels were intercepted in one day, the Home Office says.", "British festivals aim to reach a 50/50 gender split by 2022 - but it's already been managed in Europe.", "Police say they believe dissident republicans tried to murder a PSNI officer by planting a bomb under his car.", "Uefa believes \"an organised group of people impersonating genuine stewards\" is behind Champions League final ticket scam.", "Companies that pressure people into buying funeral plans could face criminal charges in future.", "The club confirmed a lawyer has been carrying out a two-year independent investigation into historical sex offences.", "Birmingham council says it sought the injunction after the risk to pupils became \"too serious\".", "Former Arsenal winger Jose Antonio Reyes has died in a car accident aged 35, Spanish club Sevilla have announced.", "Johanna Konta becomes the first British woman to reach the French Open last 16 since 1983 after thrashing Slovakia's Viktoria Kuzmova.", "His mother had a relationship with a US serviceman, but he never knew who he was until decades later.", "Leaked national report describes possibly thousands of deaths of indigenous women as genocide.", "The BBC's Jonny Dymond on what to expect from the US president's three-day state visit to the UK.", "Witnesses to a mass shooting at a government building in Virginia Beach have described their experiences.", "Singing star Wynne Evans bought the Champions League tickets from an agency but never received them.", "Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp says winning the Champions League is the \"best night of our professional lives\".", "About 200 Tottenham fans miss the start of the Champions League final after their plane is taken out of service because of bird damage.", "The team, which includes four Britons, was being led by experienced mountaineer Martin Moran.", "Have we found some of the technologies that can finally help us survey Earth's unknown depths?", "An 11-year-old girl from South Lanarkshire is to be a guest of UEFA at Saturday's Champions League final in Madrid.", "Primary seven pupils in NI find out on Saturday to which post-primary school they will transfer.", "Nearly all visa applicants will have to submit social media names, email address and phone numbers.", "Why we should be cautious about reports that North Korea has executed its key envoy Kim Hyok-chol.", "The British retail tycoon denies four counts of misdemeanour assault against a fitness instructor.", "The event marks the 50th anniversary of the creation of the first Hells Angels branch in the UK.", "The lawyer for some of the victims says police had \"opportunities galore\" to foil the plot in advance.", "Frank Lucas, played on-screen by Denzel Washington, was known for peddling heroin in Harlem.", "Six Scottish D-Day veterans - all now in their 90s - recall the events in Normandy 75 years ago.", "The incredible aircraft, vehicles and entourage the US president brings with him.", "Two familiar foes meet in Saturday’s Champions League final in Madrid - and their previous encounters tell us a lot about what we can expect.", "This bright new exhibition lets the brilliant painter step out from the shadow of her famous husband.", "The factory in Dzerzhinsk was reportedly used to produce and store high-explosive bombs.", "The Flow Country in the far north of Scotland contains blanket bog of huge importance to the environment.", "The Irish boxer hopes to write her finest chapter by defeating Belgian Delfine Persoon in New York.", "A blogger who spent £1,000 a month going out says changing her lifestyle has given her \"clarity\".", "The animals were claimed to be \"terrorising\" residents, but their owner refuted this.", "Simon Aherne and Anna Cousins invited 100 people to their wedding but fear most will not be able go.", "The pair were appearing in Rotterdam, which tells the story of a young gay woman.", "Change UK's new leader Anna Soubry says Mr Umunna was a \"major\" part of why she left the Tories.", "Birmingham MP Roger Godsiff is reported to the Labour whip after telling protesters \"you're right\".", "Lewis Hamilton controversially wins Canadian GP after Sebastian Vettel given penalty for forcing him off track.", "Viktoria Modesta, who chose to have her own leg amputated, takes to the stage at the Crazy Horse in Paris.", "Rafael Nadal maintains his stranglehold on the French Open by beating Dominic Thiem in four sets to lift a 12th men's singles title.", "Rafael Nadal is \"almost impossible\" to beat at the French Open and it is a \"big ask\" for Dominic Thiem to stop him on Sunday, says ex-British number one Greg Rusedski.", "Phil Neville's England team launch their 2019 Women's World Cup campaign with a narrow win over Scotland in Nice.", "The next-generation console will have a new Halo game among its first titles.", "Irish skippers say they will not leave disputed waters despite the Scottish government threatening enforcement action.", "The party's co-leader, Sian Berry, says the recent surge in support has been \"a long time coming\".", "Jordan Pickford scored one penalty and saved another as England beat Switzerland in a shootout to finish third at the Uefa Nations League finals.", "The Queen was joined by members of her family and thousands of spectators for the parade.", "Six floors of a block of flats in Barking is engulfed in flames before the fire is brought under control.", "The badly injured man was discovered at the same house as mother-of-two Regan Tierney.", "A 55- year-old woman dies after being struck by lightning while hillwalking in the Highlands.", "It informed the first minister of the closure plans hours before announcing them to the workforce.", "Murder inquiry detectives arrest two men after a woman dies from serious injuries.", "The Sagrada Familia is having lengthy renovations, but has never had a permit in its 137-year history.", "Hosts Portugal claim their second trophy in three years by beating the Netherlands to win the inaugural Nations League.", "The environment secretary says taking drugs 20 years ago should not affect his bid to become PM.", "The proposal for a \"lower, simpler, sales tax\" comes a day after the environment secretary admitted taking cocaine as a young journalist.", "Munroe Bergdorf's spokesperson says the charity is \"bowing down to pressure from a transphobic lobby\".", "Leyton Orient manager Justin Edinburgh, who won the FA Cup as a Tottenham player in 1991, dies at the age of 49.", "The investment broker's boss says he shares customers' \"disappointment\" following the suspension of a fund.", "Fashion entrepreneur Simon Suphandagli has set up a pop-up shop for London Fashion Week Men's, to help young fashion designers.", "Sharon Jennings, 55, from Preston, was taken to hospital after the incident.", "One person is detained and released in connection with the shooting of a popular German politician.", "Leyton Orient captain Jobi McAnuff pays tribute to late boss Justin Edinburgh and says the club will continue to build on his legacy.", "The Tory leadership hopeful says taking the class A drug 20 years ago \"was a crime\".", "Archaeologists find that one of the skulls found in a Rothwell church crypt had been hit on the head.", "Luke Johnson, the bakery chain's former chairman, says he also feared becoming a \"pariah\" in business.", "George Hamilton and Feargal Sharkey feature in the Queen's Birthday Honours", "Josh Magennis scores a late winner to ensure Northern Ireland make it three wins from three in their Euro 2020 qualifying campaign.", "Thousands of people have crossed the border, which had been shut in February, to buy basic goods.", "The Dean of King's College Cambridge apologises after an autistic boy is asked to leave a service.", "The five remaining candidates agree after questioning during a TV debate.", "Fourteen-year-old Ana Kriégel was sexually assaulted and killed in an abandoned Dublin house in May 2018.", "The game - considered appealing to under 18s - gave players the chance to earn \"gems\" by viewing ads.", "Four men are to be charged with murder after a Malaysia Airlines jet was shot down in eastern Ukraine in 2014.", "The man's death after he was knifed in north London is the fifth killing in the capital in six days.", "An Australian detective was forced to take action after an unexpected interruption to a press conference.", "Prison officer Adrian Ismay died from injuries sustained in a bomb explosion outside his east Belfast home.", "The royal couple have sent their best wishes to the elderly woman, 83, who is in a serious condition.", "Scientists in Dundee will test thousands of drug combinations to find a way to stop sperm working.", "International study suggests England's schools have the highest levels of bullying on social media.", "Reaction as the Tory leadership contenders are whittled down to Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt.", "Tendai Muswere, 26, pleaded guilty to manufacturing a firearm which was capable of firing a deadly shot.", "Changes in a chemical called serotonin were found 15 to 20 years in advance of symptoms.", "The amount of alcohol per adult bought in Scotland last year fell to its lowest level since records began.", "How will the remaining candidates get a deal through Parliament? And what happens if it's voted down?", "Emiliano Sala died in a plane crash in January along with pilot David Ibbotson.", "More than 25 Labour MPs say another Brexit referendum would be \"toxic\" to many of their voters.", "Four men are left in the contest to be the next prime minister after outsider Mr Stewart won just 27 votes.", "Three Russians and one Ukrainian are to be charged with murder over the shooting down of a Malaysia Airlines passenger jet in eastern Ukraine in 2014.", "The fast fashion retailer is trying to be more sustainable, but some are sceptical.", "The Conservative Party faces a big decision over who will mount a challenge to the leadership frontrunner.", "Faces and details of the victims of flight MH17, which crashed in eastern Ukraine on 17 July.", "Reality Check assesses some of the claims made in the leadership debate.", "The UK's biggest gambling firms have offered to increase the voluntary levy they pay on gambling profits.", "Paul Crossley was found guilty of attempting to murder two men in central London stations.", "The Brexit Party leader had just given a short speech in Newcastle when he was covered in milkshake.", "Pacific Gas & Electric Corp are facing billions of dollars worth of lawsuits over the fires.", "Nominee Kelly Craft said there is \"no doubt\" human behaviour contributed to climate change.", "There are slightly fewer Chinese machines, and some more US ones, in the list of top supercomputers.", "The melting of Himalayan glaciers has doubled over the last 40 years, scientists say.", "The move is a \"precautionary step\" to protect students, says Edexcel's parent company, Pearson.", "With the race to be the next PM down to five candidates, what stood out in the debate?", "First-time buyers are keen to jump straight to a house, leading to cheaper apartment prices, experts say.", "The chancellor will say billions he has set aside may be \"soaked up\" if the UK leaves the EU without a deal.", "Ellen White scores twice as England beat Japan 2-0 to finish top of Group D with a 100% record at the Women's World Cup.", "The skies above Eastbourne were lit up for about an hour.", "A former police chief says the government is not doing enough to ensure public venues are secure.", "The supermarket's plan rattles upmarket rival brands, sending their shares lower.", "New information emerges about the death of Jamal Khashoggi and the downing of flight MH17.", "One more MP will be eliminated from the race, as Dominic Raab backs Boris Johnson for No 10.", "Scotland are out of the Women's World Cup after a twice-taken penalty sees Argentina come from 3-0 down to secure a dramatic draw in added time.", "A 25-year-old man has been arrested after \"making threats to other students\" at Exeter University.", "The fatal head-on crash happened as a mother drove her two children to school, an inquest hears.", "The partner of Rebecca Bryant's son was a juror in a murder trial where she was the family liaison officer.", "A climate scientist has captured the reality of sea ice loss in Greenland in a viral picture.", "Stephen Schwarzman, a confidant of President Trump, makes the largest ever donation to a UK university.", "Research found a treatment programme increased reoffending but the scheme ran for another five years.", "Epic Games says it was \"taken aback\" when the Duke of Sussex called their game \"irresponsible\".", "There is \"frustration\" that new domestic abuse laws are on hold due to the absence of Stormont.", "One parent, who has been waiting two years for a school place, says her son was \"squeezed out\".", "Andrew Morris killed his son Kane and attempted to murder an eight-year-old girl in Coupar Angus.", "The Foreign Office reassesses the threat level after coordinated bomb attacks on Easter Sunday.", "Marina Amaral a digital colourist transforms black and white pictures of D-Day into colour.", "The announcement followed a failed attempt by Renault board members to reach a decision on the offer.", "Two veterans, aged 95 and 94, were among many people parachuting into France to mark the anniversary.", "Paul Golz, one of only two German WW2 veterans to attend the D-Day anniversary, describes what he saw.", "Residents of the County Clare town of Doonbeg give their thoughts on the US president's visit.", "Witness M tells an inquest into the deaths of the eight victims there was no \"missed opportunity\".", "Planes, protests. pints and performances as Mr Trump makes his first Irish trip since taking office.", "Fans responsible for trouble in Porto before Thursday's Nations League semi-final are \"not true England supporters\" and an \"embarrassment\", the Football Association has said.", "Two errors in extra-time gave the Netherlands a dramatic victory over England in their Nations League semi-final.", "The technology is designed to cut down queues, and lose the annoyance of removing liquids from bags.", "Veteran Harry Billinge, 93, on his memories of friends who died during the Normandy invasion in 1944.", "Ted Cordery, now aged 95, served on board HMS Belfast as a torpedo man during the Second World War.", "A day of commemorations mark 75 years since Allied forces landed in Normandy in World War Two.", "Events take place in Normandy to mark the 75th anniversary of the D-day landings.", "\"You don't teach creativity by going into the creativity app,\" says one father limiting screen time.", "Former fugitive Jack Shepherd attacked the barman in Newton Abbot, Devon, in 2018.", "Ex-first minister and local AM Carwyn Jones responds to Bridgend Ford closure plans.", "One in 25 people has at least one STI, says the World Health Organization.", "The Queen and world leaders joined veterans to mark the 75th anniversary of the operation.", "The candidates vying to be the next UK prime minister will face questions from the public live on BBC One.", "From Marilyn Monroe to Nelson Mandela - who else has visited Shannon Airport?", "D-Day veterans are joined by world leaders in northern France to mark the 75th anniversary of the Normandy invasion.", "The New Orleans singer, who was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, suffered a heart attack.", "In June 1944, British, US and Canadian forces invaded Nazi-occupied France.", "Colette Marin-Catherine joined the French Resistance at 14 and helped treat the wounded on D-Day.", "Claire Kelly says the law should be updated to make it easier for people to have a surrogate birth.", "More than £11m has been spent on the Metropolitan Police inquiry since it began in 2011.", "Anti-Trump protesters had gathered as the US president attended the official D-Day commemoration.", "Supreme Court denies NI veteran Dennis Hutchings trial by jury over attempted murder in 1974.", "Niels Högel administered lethal doses of heart medication to people in his care in northern Germany.", "Dee-Day White was born on 6 June 1944 and says he is very proud of his unusual name.", "Lisa Forbes is elected in Peterborough as Nigel Farage's party fails to win a first Westminster seat.", "Case reviews into the murders of two toddlers in Northamptonshire prompt claims of \"massive failures\".", "Labour calls the remarks, made at a Tory leadership hustings, a \"baseless political attack\".", "Men reach more senior levels than women, even after parenthood is accounted for, research suggests.", "Young people in private rented accommodation are now less likely to move for work, say researchers.", "Scientists studied elite events, including a 3,000 mile run and the Tour de France.", "Private Terry Parker detailed his experiences of D-Day in June 1944 in an illegal diary.", "Sally Lane tells a court she thought her son was in great danger after he travelled to Syria.", "Kenneth Noye was jailed for life for the murder of Stephen Cameron on a slip road of the M25 in Kent.", "Oxford University widens its intake. But still recruits more from Singapore than north-east England", "The 75th anniversary of D-Day is a very special one for a dwindling group of people - those who were there at the time.", "The company said it would begin flying packages to customers soon - though has not yet said where.", "Four people were killed and a fifth seriously injured in the explosion at the Pembroke refinery in 2011.", "Two-year-old son of a park staff member dies after being taken from a fenced-off area by the leopard.", "How an RAF squadron on a Scottish island helped to get weather data that saved the D-Day landings.", "Manager Fernando Santos calls hat-trick hero Cristiano Ronaldo \"a genius\" as Portugal reach the Nations League final with victory over Switzerland in Porto.", "Workers are told the plant is set to close on 25 September 2020.", "Workers react to news that Ford's engine plant in Bridgend will close in September 2020.", "Stockport mayor Laura Booth said it was \"insulting and wrong\" she was abused for wearing flat shoes.", "President Donald Trump was among the world leaders attending D-Day commemorations in Portsmouth.", "A lone piper marks the exact moment a British soldier landed on Gold Beach in Arromanches.", "Bridgend MP Madeleine Moon says she feels very emotional about Ford's decision to close its engine plant next year.", "Jeremy Hunt responds to warnings by Airbus and BMW that UK investment could be hit.", "Actor Harrison Ford used the prop in the Star Wars film Return of the Jedi.", "Jacinda Ardern says she is \"sleep deprived, but super well\" as she shows off her new daughter.", "Three teenage boys are arrested on suspicion of murder after the fight at a community centre.", "Arlene Foster is the first unionist politician to attend Ulster GAA's biggest event.", "Opposition MPs mock the foreign secretary for missing the airport expansion vote for an Afghan trip.", "Jubilant supporters celebrate as England record their biggest win ever in the World Cup finals.", "Tens of thousands of people march in London on the second anniversary of the vote to leave the EU.", "Italy, which refused to accept two rescue ships, says migration puts the Schengen zone at risk.", "The head of the Serbian Football Association accuses governing body Fifa of showing bias against his country at the World Cup in Russia.", "Watch Jesse Lingard score a \"beautiful third\" for England to put them 3-0 up in their Group G tie with Panama.", "Toni Kroos' injury-time winner against Sweden revives defending champions Germany's hopes of progressing to the last 16.", "A man is being questioned on suspicion of murder, after the body was found at a property in Greenwich.", "Mexico take a big step towards reaching the last 16 with a dominant victory over South Korea, who are now on the brink of elimination.", "The suit that the Duchess of Sussex's father had made for the royal wedding has a new lease of life.", "Nicole Mone says a pharmacist rejected her prescription for pills to end her abnormal pregnancy.", "The 50-year-old is accused of killing a woman found with stab wounds in Greenwich on Saturday.", "Ed Sheeran was playing in front of a 60,000 sell-out crowd when nature called.", "England manager Gareth Southgate tells his players to \"create their own history\" as they seek the win over Panama that would put them into the last 16.", "Kit Harington and Rose Leslie - Jon Snow and Ygritte - exchange vows in the north east of Scotland.", "Watch highlights of England's record-breaking 6-1 win over Panama in their Group G match.", "The US president wants to deport those who enter the US illegally, without any judicial process.", "England achieve their most emphatic World Cup result as Harry Kane's hat-trick helps them thrash a poor Panama side and reach the last 16.", "As elections take place two years after a failed coup in Turkey, how many people are in prison and how many have lost their jobs?", "Former diplomat Carlo Alberto Capello, who was recalled from the US, is given five years in jail.", "The fisherman was confronted three miles off shore by two men with a knife in an inflatable vessel.", "Japan and Senegal remain well placed to reach the knockout stage of the World Cup after an entertaining draw in Ekaterinburg.", "An eruption from Kilauea volcano continues to threaten homes.", "Gareth Southgate's young England squad booked their place in the knockout stage of the World Cup and social media was at its best.", "They were concerned about a lack of detail in the plans which the UK government says will boost Scottish flights.", "The final round of group matches at the 2018 World Cup has drawn to a close, and the last 16 has been finalised.", "Charlie and Gayle Anderson, from Manchester, had recently retired to the Caribbean island.", "Jos Buttler makes a brilliant hundred to give England a dramatic victory in the fifth one-day international and a first 5-0 whitewash over Australia.", "Passengers reported being stuck on trains for more than three hours, but services have now resumed.", "Fifa opens disciplinary proceedings against Granit Xhaka and Xherdan Shaqiri for their goal celebrations during Switzerland's win over Serbia.", "Watch all the best action and funnies from day ten of the 2018 World Cup, including some samba-flavoured commentary, an awkward handshake and a hatful of cracking goals.", "Radamel Falcao scores his first goal of the World Cup as Colombia claim a dominant win to end Poland's hopes of reaching the last 16.", "More than half of UK councils have introduced charges for picking up green waste, research finds.", "Optimism is soaring in the England camp and at home - with good reason, says chief football writer Phil McNulty.", "England boss Gareth Southgate says he \"didn't particularly like\" England's performance as they beat Panama 6-1 to reach the World Cup last 16.", "How you rated the players out of 10 for England and Panama in the World Cup group match.", "After a decades-old ban is lifted, women in Saudi Arabia are allowed to get behind the wheel of a car.", "The government will run the service until a new public-private partnership is appointed in 2020.", "Germany head coach Joachim Low called it a \"thriller and a rollercoaster\". How important was the holders' comeback victory over Sweden?", "Toni Kroos scores a 95th-minute winner for 10-man Germany against Sweden to revive their hopes of progressing at the World Cup.", "President Mnangagwa says he was close to the blast at a rally in Bulawayo but was unhurt.", "George Horne scores two of Scotland's six tries as they end their summer tour with a record 44-15 win in Argentina.", "A court hearing is underway to decide if the taxi app firm is \"fit and proper\" to operate in London.", "The US president's press secretary says she was refused service because she works for Mr Trump.", "A trade body says pumps for a fire suppression system were on site the day before the Glasgow School of Art blaze.", "Duke of Cambridge embarks upon an historic visit to Israel and Palestinian territories.", "Can England handle the heat? Will Raheem Sterling take his chance? Six things to look out for ahead of England v Panama", "Premier League pair Romelu Lukaku and Eden Hazard both score twice as Belgium all but secure qualification with victory over Tunisia.", "Consumer watchdog Which? lists the 10 best and 10 worst areas for food hygiene.", "Fourteen odd-looking canines put their best face forward in a bid to win the World's Ugliest Dog title.", "'Sparkling' and 'sheer brilliance' - BBC Sport's World Cup pundits react to Sunday's 6-1 win over Panama.", "Recep Tayyip Erdogan has decisively won Turkey's presidential vote. 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No wonder they call it “serious fun”.", "Overcrowding is blamed for an increase in deaths on the world's highest peak, but other factors are at play.", "The BBC's Jonny Dymond on what to expect from the US president's three-day state visit to the UK.", "Thousands of fans lined the route as Jurgen Klopp and players paraded the Champions League trophy.", "Turner Prize winner Lubaina Himid says black artists were alien to the UK art world in her youth.", "The team, which includes four Britons, was being led by experienced mountaineer Martin Moran.", "British number one Johanna Konta continues her charge through the French Open by impressively beating Croatian 24th seed Donna Vekic to reach the quarter-finals.", "Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp says winning the Champions League is the \"best night of our professional lives\".", "Primary seven pupils in NI find out on Saturday to which post-primary school they will transfer.", "Nearly all visa applicants will have to submit social media 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"UK", null], "content": ["Retention tanks are set be fitted to high-speed trains to stop the dumping of human waste onto railway tracks.\n\nThe practice of dumping sewage on the railways was ended by ScotRail in 2017.\n\nHowever, it was reintroduced last year after delays to a new fleet of refurbished trains forced ScotRail to hire carriages without toilet waste tanks.\n\nThe rail operator said it was \"doing everything\" it could to meet a UK-wide ban on dumping the waste by 2020.\n\nScotRail was meant to have received 26 refurbished high-speed trains, with waste tanks fitted, for routes linking Scotland's seven cities from rail firm Wabtec by December last year.\n\nSo far, the firm has only delivered five of these models - which date back to the 1970s but have all been renovated - and ScotRail has hired 14 'classic trains, without waste retention tanks fitted, to make up some of the shortfall.\n\nTrack operator Network Rail has committed to end the practice of effluent discharge from passenger train toilets by the start of 2020 and now ScotRail has advertised for firms to bid for the work to fit retention tanks to its 'classic' trains.\n\nA deal to stop dumping human waste was originally agreed and implemented in December 2017\n\nMick Hogg, the RMT union's regional organiser in Scotland, said: \"Every day our members are having to deal with the consequences of this broken promise of ending this disgusting practice for good.\n\n\"If it was a bus company dropping human waste on to the streets of Edinburgh or Glasgow, there's no way it would have taken this long to act.\n\n\"Fitting the tanks is a welcome step but it has taken too long, and I am sceptical that they will get this work done by the end of the year and meet the Network Rail target.\"\n\nThe HST was the mainstay of British Rail's inter-city service and the refurbishment programme has an estimated total cost of £54m\n\nResearch by industry regulator, the Office of Road and Rail, found that the risk of infection to railway workers from the waste was low.\n\nThe ScotRail advert asks for firms to submit proposals for waste retention tanks to be fitted between August and December this year.\n\nThe rail operator said it was not possible at this stage to say how much the work would cost.\n\nThere is also no firm timetable on when the remainder of the refurbished trains from Wabtec will be delivered but ScotRail has previously indicated it will seek compensation for the delays.\n\nA ScotRail spokesman added: \"We're exploring the option of fitting toilet retention tanks to our classic high-speed trains. This is due to the late delivery of the trains from our supplier.\n\n\"We are aware of the UK-wide target and we are doing everything we can as a business to meet it.\"", "Antoinette Sandbach has been a Conservative MP for Eddisbury in Cheshire since 2015\n\nThe government's chief whip has promised to investigate messages sent to a female Conservative MP by a colleague in which she was was called a \"disgrace\" and told to quit the party.\n\nIn a now-deleted tweet, Antoinette Sandbach shared a screenshot of WhatsApp messages which she said were sent to her by a male Tory MP.\n\n\"You too are a disgrace. Time you left the party I think,\" they read.\n\nIt comes as Conservative MPs voted for their final two leadership contenders.\n\nOn Thursday, secret ballots were held which whittled down the remaining candidates to just Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt - one of whom will become the UK's next prime minister.\n\nMs Sandbach, the MP for Eddisbury in Cheshire, backed Rory Stewart in the leadership campaign, before he was eliminated from the contest on Wednesday. She has been a strong opponent of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nOn Thursday, she shared the phone messages on Twitter, and said: \"Barely is the ink dry on the results and the dark ops begin. This is from a male Conservative MP to me as I sat on the train home.\"\n\nIn a follow-up tweet, she added: \"It's bad enough when you get it from complete strangers. Is it any wonder three female MPs left.\"\n\nAnna Soubry, Sarah Wollaston and Heidi Allen left the party in February to join Change UK, citing concerns over the \"the hard-line anti-EU awkward squad\" in the Conservative Party.\n\nMs Sandbach told BBC Radio 4's Today programme she believed the message was a reference to her position on Brexit, and that it was \"unacceptable\" to tell people to leave the party because they held different views.\n\n\"Even though I may have argued for Remain in the referendum originally, I have accepted the result and supported the prime minister three times [by voting for her Brexit deal],\" she said.\n\nMeanwhile, members of the public replied with messages of support for Ms Sandbach, calling the messages \"shocking\" and \"disgusting\".\n\nThe government's chief whip, Julian Smith, called it \"totally unacceptable\" and pledged to investigate.\n\nHe also thanked Ms Sandbach for supporting the government's Brexit deal three times in Parliament.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Julian Smith MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLeadership hopeful, Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt, also tweeted support for Ms Sandbach, writing: \"This is so wrong! We have to come together as a party...\"\n\nMs Sandbach told the Press Association she had made an official complaint to the chief whip \"and will get it dealt with internally\".\n\nMr Johnson and Mr Hunt will now go head-to-head in the final stage of the leadership contest, which will end in late July following a postal ballot of Conservative Party members.", "Mr Hunt said jobs depended on having a \"wise prime minister making sensible calls\"\n\nThe next PM has to be trusted to see Brexit through \"promptly and sensibly\", Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt has said.\n\nVisiting the West Midlands, the Tory leadership contender said jobs depended on the right outcome and he was the \"right person\" to deliver it.\n\nTory members will decide over the next month whether Mr Hunt or Boris Johnson becomes party leader and PM.\n\nMr Johnson has said it is \"eminently feasible\" that Brussels could agree a new deal before 31 October.\n\nThe UK is due to leave the EU on that date, with or without Parliament backing the existing deal reached by outgoing Prime Minister Theresa May and other European leaders.\n\nThe EU granted the UK a seven-month extension in late March in the hope the parliamentary deadlock - which has seen MPs reject the terms of withdrawal three times - could be broken.\n\nMr Johnson is the favourite to succeed Mrs May after winning the support of more than 50% of his colleagues this week as MPs whittled the candidates down to the final two.\n\nThe party's 160,000 or so members will decide the next Tory leader by postal vote - with the result to be announced in the week starting 22 July.\n\nSpeaking on a visit to a factory in Worcester, Mr Hunt argued the contest was a test of character over Brexit, saying: \"Do you have the skills and can you be trusted as prime minister to get the right outcome?\n\n\"Thousands of jobs in the West Midlands depends on having a wise prime minister making sensible calls as to how we leave the EU promptly, but also in a way that does not harm business. I am that person.\"\n\nBoris Johnson is the favourite to be the next Tory leader and PM\n\nBoth Mr Johnson and Mr Hunt have said Mrs May's withdrawal agreement is effectively dead and suggested they could get an improved deal from the EU.\n\nBrexit Secretary Stephen Barclay, a supporter of Mr Johnson's, told the BBC this would prove a \"significant challenge\", given that the EU has ruled this out and leaders are not scheduled to meet again until 17 October.\n\n\"The big challenge is that you have got two hurdles,\" he told Radio 4's Political Thinking podcast with Nick Robinson.\n\n\"One is are there any concessions that will get the deal through Parliament, because Parliament has become increasingly polarised.\n\n\"And second, there is a timing issue. You have got to get the legislation through the House of Commons. And if you look at precedent, at things like Maastricht, then that will be a significant challenge just on the timescales from the 17 October EU Council.\"\n\nSpeaking in Brussels, European Council President Donald Tusk reiterated that the terms of the UK's withdrawal agreed with Theresa May last autumn were not up for renegotiation.\n\nWhile the EU did not want the UK to leave without a legal agreement, he said the bloc would only be open to further talks on its future relations if the UK's position \"evolved\".", "About 1,400 homicides have been investigated by the Met in London since 2008\n\nMurder detectives in London say the \"heartbreak\" of unsolved cases is being made worse by a \"wall of silence\".\n\nThe Met has solved nearly 90% of homicide cases in the past decade but Det Ch Insp Noel McHugh says fears about \"snitching\" are a challenge.\n\nHe said those who share information with police \"are not a grass, they are a public champion.\"\n\nThe aunt of Bjorn Brown, whose death is unsolved, said the wait for justice had prolonged her pain.\n\nSandi Bogle (right) says silence around the death of her nephew Bjorn Brown had made the pain worse\n\nCommissioner Cressida Dick has previously said detectives were operating in a \"very challenging\" environment and were met with a \"wall of silence\" in some cases.\n\nThe Met classes homicides as \"detected\" when a suspect is charged or following an inquest into the death of a suspect who would have been charged.\n\nDet Ch Insp McHugh said there were a higher number of unsolved homicides in 2018 and 2017 than other recent years because \"crimes don't necessarily get detected in the year they happen\".\n\nHe said other challenges facing the homicide teams included extracting data from multiple mobile phones.\n\n\"Every mobile phone is effectively a computer. There is a massive amount of work for investigators to work through,\" Mr McHugh said.\n\n\"It might take two or three days to totally understand what a device was doing on that particular day.\n\n\"Recently, we had an investigation where we recovered 50 phones - it is enormous.\"\n\nDet Ch Insp McHugh said he was keen to \"dismantle the snitching culture\".\n\n\"It is absolutely heartbreaking for the officers and the families, especially when there are people out there in the know, holding back information and hiding behind a wall of silence,\" he said.\n\n\"They are not a snitch, they are not a grass, they are a public champion.\"\n\nThe Met said it had a \"robust and comprehensive\" review process for all homicide investigations.\n\nIf a case was unsolved after 28 days, a homicide investigation would be independently reviewed by specialist officers from the Met's Serious Crime Review Group.\n\nThe clear-up rate for cases of murder and manslaughter has always been high - around 90% or above, with dedicated teams and substantial police resources rightly devoted to investigations.\n\nBut the figures for the Met make worrying reading. Between 2008 and 2015 detections remained stable, with only 5 to 10 % of cases unsolved. Since then, however, the proportion of un-detected killings has risen from 13% in 2016 to 26% in 2017 and 2018.\n\nAlthough some cases will be classed as \"detected\" in the months to come as investigations develop and inquests conclude, the increase does suggest that murder is becoming harder to solve.\n\nAs Noel McHugh suggests, it may be partly due to the volume of digital material now available and the reluctance of witnesses to come forward, particularly in street-based or gang-related crimes.\n\nBut a shortage of detectives and forensic science provision, highlighted in numerous reports by inspectors and parliamentary committees, together with increased demands on police more generally, are also likely to be factors.\n\nDet Ch Supt Richard Wood explained unsolved murder cases were never closed and more recent cases were likely to be currently classed as \"undetected\" because of the normal length of a homicide investigation.\n\nHe said: \"We prioritise resources to investigate homicides and work closely with the CPS to bring offenders to justice and support families at the most difficult of times.\"\n\nThe Met Police defines a \"detected\" homicide case as one that resulted in a charge\n\nCases \"put on hold\" are reviewed every two years by an independent panel - chaired by a Commander - that aims to source any new information.\n\nOne of the cases unsolved is that of Bjorn Brown, who was stabbed to death in Croydon in March 2017.\n\nDespite repeated CCTV appeals and a £20,000 reward for information - nobody has been charged with the 23-year-old's murder.\n\nHis aunt Sandi Bogle - who featured in Channel 4's Gogglebox - said the so-called \"wall of silence\" had prolonged the pain of her family's loss and search for answers.\n\n\"It is sad that it has come to the point where money has to be offered for information,\" she said. \"It really makes you think people don't care about human life.\n\n\"Someone out there knows what has happened and I can't blame the police when there are friends and family who hide behind this wall of silence.\n\n\"It is painful, every event like birthdays, Christmas or Easter which go by, it just gets harder knowing Bjorn isn't there.\n\n\"It's never going to be too late to make that phone call and share whatever information you know so our family can get justice.\"\n\nDet Ch Supt Wood expressed his sympathy to families such as Mr Brown's - but said cold cases often became \"lengthy and complicated\".\n\nHe added: \"There is a huge amount of work taking place on unsolved murders.\n\n\"There are between 15 and 20 cases subject to a full cold case review at any one time.\n\n\"Behind every unsolved murder there is a family looking for answers.\n\n\"In some cases, they do take years to come to conclusion.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Four women have complained of being sexually abused when they were children\n\nFour women complained of being abused between 1995 and 2005 when they were aged between 12 and 16.\n\nDuring the course of an investigation police said they had arrested dozens of people across Bradford, Leeds, Kirklees and other areas of the country.\n\nThose arrested within the past two weeks include 36 men and three women. Five other men were arrested earlier.\n\nWest Yorkshire Police, who are dealing with the allegations, said those arrested ranged in age from 39 to 81.\n\nAll of the 44 people questioned have been released under investigation.\n\nIn a statement police said the allegations of sexual abuse centred around the time the women were children in the Dewsbury and Batley areas of Kirklees.\n\nDet Insp Seth Robinson said: \"We hope that these recent arrests reassure our local communities that we are wholly committed to tackling child sexual exploitation in Kirklees, both current and non-recent.\n\n\"Child sexual abuse and exploitation is an abhorrent and heinous crime and one which affects some of the most vulnerable people in our society.\n\n\"We would urge anyone who has been a victim of sexual abuse, whether recent or historical, to report it to the police.\n\n\"Please be assured that you will be listened to, taken seriously and supported by professionals with experience of dealing with these kind of offences.\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police told planners no urgent security action was needed at London Bridge less than a month before deadly attacks in the area, an inquest has heard.\n\nThe City of London Corporation security director said the advice came at a meeting with a counter-terror adviser in May 2017, after the bridge was put on a list of vulnerable locations.\n\nFour weeks later, three attackers killed eight people and hurt 48 others.\n\nThe inquest into the victims' deaths is being held at the Old Bailey.\n\nRichard Woolford told the court London Bridge had not been one of five \"highly vulnerable\" sites flagged up as security priorities by counter-terrorism police.\n\nBut he arranged to meet City of London Police's Matthew Hone after the area was flagged as a risk following a review in April 2017.\n\nHe told the inquest the counter-terror adviser \"categorically\" told him \"no immediate action\" was required.\n\nRecounting what happened at the meeting, Mr Woolford said: \"I asked at that point is there any action required by me or the corporation by this and he said no.\"\n\nMr Woolford said he \"never saw\" any recommendations for \"long-term permanent solutions\" PC Hone had said he would give to him.\n\nSgt Hone told the previous day's inquest hearing he had warned colleagues London Bridge was the \"most vulnerable location [to a] marauding vehicle attack\", along with one other unnamed area.\n\nShortly after the Westminster Bridge attack in March 2017, Sgt Hone - who was at that time a PC - emailed senior colleagues to say \"something needs to change\".\n\nThe victims of the London Bridge attack clockwise from top left - Chrissy Archibald, James McMullan, Alexandre Pigeard, Sébastien Bélanger, Ignacio Echeverría, Xavier Thomas, Sara Zelenak, Kirsty Boden\n\nBut the court heard the popular tourist spot had not met the criteria for barriers to be installed because it did not fall within the Home Office's \"rigid\" definition of a crowded place.\n\nJane Gyford, who at the time was the City of London Police commander of operations and security, said there was also \"no intelligence\" to suggest the area would be targeted by attackers.\n\nAsked if temporary protective barriers might have been an option, she said: \"There is no case in this country where National Barrier Asset has been used without intelligence or to do with an event.\"\n\nGareth Patterson QC, representing some of the victims' families, said London Bridge had been \"crying out for protection\" before the attack.\n\nOn Tuesday the inquest heard an independent report had identified the area as a \"viable and attractive\" target for an attack using a vehicle as a weapon.\n\nCounsel to the coroner, Jonathan Hough QC, told the inquest the study by Cerastes, which had been commissioned by City of London Police, found \"the location and layout of the bridge lends itself to a ram attack with no physical barriers in place to prevent a vehicle mounting the pavement\".\n\nThe Metropolitan Police's lead for royalty and specialist protection security said she had not heard of the report until after the attack but that it would not have changed how police prioritised which areas to protect.\n\nDeputy Assistant Commissioner Lucy D'Orsi added: \"I don't think the report itself would cause me to start putting protective security measures in because it could be written for a multitude of places in London.\"\n\nKhuram Butt, Rachid Redouane and Youssef Zaghba were shot dead within minutes of driving a van into pedestrians on London Bridge and stabbing people in and around Borough Market.\n\nThose killed in the attack were Xavier Thomas, 45, Chrissy Archibald, 30, Sara Zelenak, 21, Kirsty Boden, 28, Ignacio Echeverría, 39, Sébastien Bélanger, 36, James McMullan, 32, and Alexandre Pigeard, 26.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. John Letts and Sally Lane's solicitor Tayab Ali reads their statement: \"We tried to do the right thing\"\n\nThe parents of a Muslim convert dubbed \"Jihadi Jack\" have been found guilty of funding terrorism.\n\nJohn Letts, 58, and Sally Lane, 57, from Oxford, sent their son £223 while he was in Syria despite concerns he had joined the Islamic State group.\n\nAn Old Bailey jury found the couple not guilty of sending him a further £1,000 and could not reach a verdict on a third charge of funding terrorism.\n\nThe pair each received 15 months imprisonment, suspended for 12 months.\n\nIn a statement read by their solicitor, they said: \"We have been convicted for doing what any parent would do if they thought that their child's life was in danger.\"\n\nMuslim convert Jack Letts left his home in Oxford at 18 for Jordan and Kuwait for study and tourism.\n\nIn March 2015, police warned the couple they risked prosecution if they sent their son money.\n\nThen in September, Lane transferred money to an account in Lebanon after her son insisted it had \"nothing to do with jihad\".\n\nShe told him: \"I would go to prison for you if I thought it gave you a better chance of actually reaching your 25th birthday.\"\n\nJudge Nicholas Hilliard QC said: \"It was one thing for parents to be optimistic about their children, and I do acknowledge he is your son who you love very much.\n\n\"But in this context you did lose sight of realities.\"\n\nHe told the couple: \"The warning signs were there for you to see.\"\n\nHe said that they were \"intelligent adults\" who set aside their suspicions to \"please your son\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Speaking to the BBC's Quentin Sommerville, Jack Letts said he had been an \"enemy of Britain\"\n\nIn the statement read outside the Old Bailey, the couple said: \"The fact the jury acquitted us of some of the allegations makes it clear that the jury accepted we believed that our son's life was in imminent danger.\"\n\nThey added that they had \"tried to do the right thing\" and co-operate with police in a bid to get Jack home.\n\n\"But instead of helping us they used the information we provided to prosecute us.\"\n\nIn the statement, Letts and Lane said that \"having escaped from Isis [Jack] is now in limbo\".\n\nJack has been detained for the past 18 months 1by the Kurdish-led YPG in northern Syria.\n\nHis parents said: \"Jack is still a British citizen and we have pleaded with the government to help us to bring him to safety, even if that meant he might be prosecuted in the UK.\n\n\"We are committed to help Jack return home.\"\n\nJohn Letts and Sally Lane were found guilty of sending their son £223 while he was in Syria, despite concerns he had joined Islamic State\n\nProsecutor Alison Morgan QC had earlier said Jack's parents \"turned a blind eye to the obvious\".\n\n\"Saying they wanted to help Jack is not a defence,\" she said.\n\n\"They had every reason to expect the worst; they just in fact did not want to hear the truth.\"\n\nShe added Letts and Lane were repeatedly told by \"numerous police officers\" not to send any money.\n\nLetts and Lane were found not guilty of sending a further £1,000 in December 2015 and the jury could not reach a verdict on the couple sending £500 in January 2016.\n\nJurors heard that in July 2015 Jack Letts spoke about wanting to decapitate a former school friend on social media.\n\nLinus Doubtfire posted a picture on Facebook as he completed his Commando Artillery Course in the British army.\n\nJack then posted: \"I would love to perform a martyrdom operation in this scene.\"\n\nDuring the trial the court heard the parents consulted an academic expert, who said it was \"highly improbable\" Jack had not engaged in military activity.\n\nJack Letts was dubbed \"Jihadi Jack\" after he travelled to Syria in 2014\n\nJurors also heard Lane sent a message to her son which said it was \"naive of us to believe\" Jack was not a fighter in Syria.\n\nDet Ch Supt Kath Barnes said investigators had \"huge empathy\" for Letts and Lane, and said the parents were \"not bad people\".\n\nShe added: \"It's hard to imagine the kind of agony they must be going through because of the choices their son made.\"\n\nLetts and Lane criticised the government for their lack of action in helping Jack, and others, return to the UK from Syria.\n\nIn their statement they said: \"After more than two years in jail, Jack still faces indefinite detention without being charged or tried for any crime.\n\n\"Effectively there is no government policy for British citizens, including children, trapped in Syria.\"\n\nA Foreign and Commonwealth Office spokesperson said: \"As long-standing FCO travel advice states, HMG [Her Majesty's Government] does not have a consular presence in Syria from which to provide consular support.\"\n\nThe spokesperson added that anyone who chose to travel to Syria was \"putting themselves in considerable danger\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police were called to the London home of Boris Johnson and his partner in the early hours of Friday after neighbours reportedly heard a loud argument.\n\nThe Guardian said Carrie Symonds was heard telling the Conservative MP to \"get off me\" and \"get out of my flat\".\n\nThe Metropolitan Police told the BBC it \"spoke to all occupants of the address, who were all safe and well\".\n\nIn a statement, it said \"there was no cause for police action\". A spokesman for Mr Johnson said: \"No comment\".\n\nMr Johnson refused to answer questions as he arrived at Birmingham ahead of the first of the Conservative Party's leadership membership hustings.\n\nEarlier, a neighbour of Ms Symonds in Camberwell, south London, told the Guardian they had heard a woman screaming followed by \"slamming and banging\".\n\nThe paper said the neighbour was inside their own flat when they recorded the alleged altercation.\n\nIt said that in the recording - heard by the newspaper, but not by the BBC - Mr Johnson was refusing to leave the flat and told the woman to \"get off\" his laptop, before there was a loud crashing noise.\n\nMs Symonds is allegedly heard saying the MP had ruined a sofa with red wine: \"You just don't care for anything because you're spoilt. You have no care for money or anything.\"\n\nAnother neighbour, who would only give her name as Fatima, told the BBC: \"I heard a female voice, shouting and screaming, and then I heard things smashing, it sounded like plates or glasses.\n\n\"I couldn't hear what she was saying but she sounded really angry.\"\n\nConservative MP Dominic Grieve told BBC Radio 4's Today programme he could not comment on the Guardian's report specifically but said character was relevant in the contest to be leader of the party.\n\n\"They are going to be in a position of responsibility where they have to make very important decisions,\" he said.\n\nThe former attorney general added: \"Clearly, things like reliability and honesty are very important things.\n\n\"And I think they matter in one's private and personal life, and also they matter in one's public life.\"\n\nCarrie Symonds has been in a relationship with Mr Johnson since 2018\n\nBoris Johnson would have preferred his politics - not his private life - to be making headlines.\n\nAs we enter the final stage of this leadership campaign the scrutiny of the two men who want the top job will no doubt increase.\n\nThere will be intense focus on their every move; their past, their present and their future.\n\nIt's not surprising given the importance of the job they want - running the country.\n\nBut does what allegedly happened in the London flat Mr Johnson shares with his partner really matter? His critics will say yes.\n\nThey argue that we need someone of good character who can make difficult decisions and work under pressure.\n\nSupporters of Boris Johnson disagree. Whatever happened, they say, was an entirely private matter between two people in a relationship which should never have been recorded by a neighbour.\n\nJournalist Sonia Purnell, who has written a biography of Mr Johnson, told the Today programme she believed it was important to know a future leader's character.\n\nShe said: \"It is the most unbelievably pressured job, crises will be coming at you day and night. You have to have equilibrium, a clear head, a stability in your life to be able to cope with that.\"\n\nBut, political commentator Tim Montgomerie told the BBC that until a complaint was made by Ms Symonds, the row \"should be a non-issue\".\n\nHe added: \"If there was any domestic violence, Boris Johnson's candidacy would be toast and would deserve to be.\n\n\"But all we have at the moment is a partially overheard conversation between two people late at night.\n\n\"Unless there is a complaint I think we should draw a line under this.\"\n\nSome of Mr Johnson's supporters have also taken to social media to defend him.\n\nBrexit minister James Cleverly questioned the motives of the \"person who recorded Boris and then gave the story to the Guardian\".\n\nTory MP Michael Fabricant appeared to confuse Camberwell with Islington but wrote he was glad he did not have \"nosey neighbours\" recording private conversations, sending them to newspapers and \"wasting police time for political advantage\".\n\nMr Johnson's relationship with Ms Symonds - a former director of communications for the Conservative party - became public after Mr Johnson and his wife announced they were divorcing in 2018.\n\nMs Symonds was seen in the audience during Mr Johnson's leadership campaign launch on 12 June.\n\nIn a statement, the Metropolitan Police said: \"At 00:24 on Friday 21 June, police responded to a call from a local resident in the SE5 area of Camberwell.\n\n\"The caller was concerned for the welfare of a female neighbour.\n\n\"Police attended and spoke to all occupants of the address, who were all safe and well. There were no offences or concerns apparent to the officers and there was no cause for police action.\"\n\nA poster opposite Boris Johnson's London home shows not everyone supports his leadership bid\n\nMr Johnson is the bookmakers' favourite to succeed Theresa May as Conservative leader and the UK's next prime minister.\n\nThe former foreign secretary and Mayor of London is in a run-off with Jeremy Hunt, with Tory party members due to vote over the next month.\n\nMr Johnson came top in a ballot of Tory MPs on Thursday. The first hustings of the second phase of the leadership campaign takes place on Saturday.", "The Greenpeace activist who was grabbed by Mark Field at a black-tie City dinner says the Foreign Office minister's actions were \"really over the top\".\n\nMr Field has said he regrets confronting Janet Barker and marching her away as protesters interrupted a speech by Chancellor Philip Hammond.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nEngland were strangled into a shock 20-run defeat by Sri Lanka that dented their hopes of reaching the World Cup semi-finals and breathed life into the tournament.\n\nChasing 233 on an increasingly difficult pitch, the hosts were smothered by a brilliant Sri Lanka bowling performance in a compelling contest at Headingley.\n\nWhen Ben Stokes was joined by last man Mark Wood, England still needed 47, but Stokes clubbed 23 from eight deliveries to make a deafening crowd believe.\n\nWood, though, edged Nuwan Pradeep behind to leave Stokes stranded on 82 not out and England 212 all out.\n\nThey had earlier restricted Sri Lanka to 232-9, with Angelo Mathews' painstaking 85 proving to be a match-winning innings.\n\nEngland stay third in the 10-team table, but their three most difficult group games - against Australia, India and New Zealand - are still to come.\n\nSri Lanka climb to fifth, only two points behind England, their unlikely hopes of reaching the semi-finals still alive.\n\nTop four go through to semi-finals\n• None How does England's defeat affect their World Cup chances?\n\nBefore this match, there was the danger England, Australia, India and New Zealand would pull away to leave the elongated group stage nothing more than a procession towards the semi-finals.\n\nOn a sun-kissed day at Headingley, amid unbearable tension in front of a crowd fully invested in the action, Sri Lanka produced a display full of fight and spirit.\n\nIn doing so, they delighted their noisy pockets of fans that included a brass band that played non-stop, as well as injecting much-needed intrigue into the tournament.\n\nAt the same time, they have raised questions about an England side that hit a world record 25 sixes in demolishing Afghanistan at Old Trafford on Tuesday, but that failed to adapt to the difficult batting conditions in Leeds.\n\nSome, like James Vince and Moeen Ali, fell in infuriating fashion, while Jonny Bairstow and Jos Buttler were fooled into playing across the slingy Lasith Malinga, who claimed 4-43.\n\nJust like when their fielding cost them against Pakistan, England helped engineer their own downfall and, as it stands, will have to find at least one win from their remaining games if they are to make the last four.\n\nAlthough England were finding run-scoring tough against the probing Sri Lankan bowling, there was no panic while Joe Root was moving towards 57 in the company of Stokes.\n\nWhen Sri Lanka called for a review that revealed Root was caught down the leg side off Malinga, England unravelled.\n\nAfter Buttler was pinned, Moeen, playing his 100th ODI, brainlessly looked for his second successive six off Dhananjaya de Silva and was caught at long-off.\n\nIn his next over, the spinner had both Chris Woakes and Adil Rashid caught behind, while Jofra Archer holed out to long-off in a collapse of 4-16.\n\nThrough it all, Stokes remained, unflappable, but now having to farm the strike with only Wood for company.\n\nHe was dropped in the deep on 57, then launched back-to-back sixes to draw noise that rocked Headingley to its foundations.\n\nHowever, he left Wood to face the final ball of Pradeep's 10-over spell. The number 11's poke nestled in the gloves of the wicketkeeper, and England were beaten.\n\nWhile England were putting in an excellent display with the ball and in the field, Mathews crawled along, looking entirely like a batsman whose previous highest score in this tournament was just nine.\n\nOnly late on did he show any intent, but by that time he was rapidly running out of partners.\n\nWhen Sri Lanka were 3-2 after winning the toss, the day could have been short, only for Avishka Fernando to sparkle for 49, including two sixes pulled off Archer.\n\nAfter he uppercut Wood to third man, England spinners Moeen and Rashid bowled in tandem to suffocate Sri Lanka.\n\nIt was Rashid, looking back to near his best, who had Kusal Mendis well held by Eoin Morgan at mid-wicket and then, next ball, Jeevan Mendis caught and bowled.\n\nWood and Archer worked through the lower order, with Wood particularly impressive - his yorker to bowl Malinga was clocked at 93mph.\n\nAll the while, Mathews plodded on. At no point was he interested in playing the modern, ultra-aggressive one-day game, but he had the application to battle with both himself and the England bowlers.\n\n'If we had won, we would have been robbing Sri Lanka' - what they said\n\nEngland captain Eoin Morgan: \"In the chase we didn't do the basics of getting substantial partnerships going.\n\n\"We had a couple of good individual performances but Sri Lanka thoroughly deserved to win.\n\n\"We didn't do enough to win the game and even if we had nicked it then it would have been us robbing the game with an outstanding individual performance.\"\n\nFormer England assistant coach Paul Farbrace on Test Match Special: \"England will know their performance today hasn't been good enough to win the game and it is a game they should be winning.\n\n\"(Head coach) Trevor Bayliss talks lot about smart cricket and at times they did not play smart cricket.\n\n\"They don't make excuses. Eoin Morgan will call it as he sees it. There won't be any shouting or finger pointing but there will be some quiet conversations with some players about their modes of dismissals.\"\n\nSri Lanka captain Dimuth Karunaratne: \"It was a close one, we were under pressure but it was teamwork in the end - all the batters and bowlers did great work.\n\n\"We thought this wicket looked like a 300 pitch but it was slower than we thought. We knew we couldn't get 300, so wanted 250-275 until we lost some wickets but Angelo Mathews batted really well.\n\n\"With a score on the board the bowlers knew what to do on this wicket.\n\n\"The Root wicket was the turning point. We were not confident but thought we would go for the review and thankfully for us that was the turning point.\"", "A former charity fundraiser and an organic farmer have been convicted of funding terrorism by sending cash to their son in Syria. So how did Sally Lane and John Letts end up before a jury in the Old Bailey?\n\nIn the words of one judge, they were \"two perfectly decent people... in custody because of the love of their child\".\n\nAnd over four years, Lane and Letts battled to avoid trial for sending cash to their son, who had joined the war in Syria and the Islamic State group.\n\nBut now they have both been found guilty of a serious terrorism-related offence after a trial that came down to evidence of foreseeable consequences.\n\nJack Letts converted to Islam as a 16-year-old. His parents had supported his decision.\n\nBut two years later in May 2014 evidence began to emerge that he was associating with extremists. He married Asmaa, whose family were influential in IS in Iraq, and they had a child together.\n\nA fellow Muslim who knew Jack Letts in Oxford warned his parents their son wanted to go to Syria.\n\nJack Letts, who is now 23, told his parents he only wanted to study in the Middle East and they decided to fund his travel.\n\nBut they were not sure what he was up to. Evidence from their trial reveals that Lane confided in a friend that she believed her son might be seeking to join the war - but both she and his father appeared to hoping for the best.\n\nIn late August the truth dawned. Lane emailed a friend to say her son was in the \"worst\" possible country, a message sent two days before the beheading of James Foley, the first western hostage to be murdered by IS.\n\nAnd Jack Letts finally confirmed to his parents on 2 September 2014 that he was in Syria and later exchanges made clear he was alongside other IS group recruits from the UK in the group's capital Raqqa.\n\nBy March 2015 counter-terrorism detectives were investigating Jack Letts and they advised his parents not to send him any cash. Quite simply, it would probably end up in the hands of the terror group and wiring money in such circumstances was a crime.\n\nDuring the trial the jury heard that Jack Letts has obsessive compulsive disorder and his parents believed his decision to go to Syria was influenced by his condition.\n\nBut to others, he had appeared to have become a fully signed-up member of an extremist sect. In one Facebook post he declared he'd like to \"do a martyrdom operation\" against a school friend who was in the Army.\n\nLane sent one payment - and tried to transfer two more\n\nWeeks later he was bragging to his mother about the \"Islamic State Health Service\", a key piece of propaganda that the group's UK recruits were encouraged to promote.\n\nAnd so when he began to ask for cash, he was playing on his parents' turmoil.\n\nHe repeatedly asked Lane to send money to an intermediary in Turkey or Lebanon whom she did not know. He claimed it would not go on \"jihad\" but advised her to come up with a cover story.\n\nDespite her reservations, the trial heard Lane and John Letts agreed to the proposal and in September 2015 she wired £223 to her son's contact in Lebanon.\n\nShe hoped any cash she sent her son could help him survive or escape. But the transfer led to a second warning from the police not to send any more.\n\nIn relation to this transaction, the couple were convicted by a jury at the Old Bailey of entering into a funding arrangement for the purposes of terrorism.\n\nThey were each sentenced to 15 months imprisonment, suspended for two years.\n\nAs the winter wore on, Jack Letts was sending conflicting messages. On the one hand he said the West should \"die in their rage\". He also began to suggest he was doubting IS beliefs and wanted to return home.\n\nHis parents pressed further, and Jack Letts again asked for cash, suggesting smugglers could help him to get out.\n\nBy now it was not just the police warning the couple not to send anything. Two independent experts, an academic and a professional deradicaliser, also advised the couple not to send money.\n\nThen, on 27 December 2015, a junior police officer, acting as a liaison with the family, made a mistake. That officer said money could be sent if it were to aid their son's escape.\n\nTwo days later, case officers corrected the error in a meeting with Lane and John Letts, backed up with a written notice that sending cash would be a crime.\n\nDespite that formal advice, effectively a third warning, on New Year's Eve Lane tried to send £1,000 to her son's nominated intermediary in Lebanon.\n\nThe payment was blocked. Four days later, the trial heard, that Sally Lane used a false identity to try again to send £500. Again, the payment was blocked.\n\nThe jury cleared the couple of funding terrorism by attempting to send the £1,000 payment and were unable to reach a verdict in relation to the third attempted transfer.\n\nThe case has been one of the most drawn-out terrorism prosecutions in recent history - including the almost 20 hours the jury took to reach verdicts.\n\nNo jury could be asked to find Sally Lane and John Letts guilty of supporting terrorism - because there was no evidence they supported banned violent groups. It was clear from their own emotional arguments with their son how deeply disgusted and shocked they had been by his decision.\n\nBut at the same time, they wanted to help him come to his senses and find a way out.\n\nSupporters of Lane and John Letts came to the Old Bailey\n\nThe question for the jury would be whether sending cash for that purpose broke the law which bans the funding of terrorism in any circumstances.\n\nThat law, Section 17 of the Terrorism Act 2000, states that it is a crime to enter into a funding arrangement if someone either knows or has \"reasonable cause to suspect\" that money could end up in the hands of terrorists.\n\nWhen the offence was originally created in 1976, prosecutors had to prove the defendant either definitely knew for sure or suspected the cash was going to fund terrorism.\n\nBut Parliament later changed the wording to include situations where people would merely have had reasonable cause to suspect where their cash was heading. This, in effect, lowered the evidential test to find someone guilty.\n\nAs the case approached trial, the couple asked the Court of Appeal to rule that the law was being misinterpreted - a challenge that could have stopped the prosecution. During the hearing in 2017 they argued they could not be accused of funding terrorism if they honestly did not believe their son would ever hand money to a banned terror group.\n\nTheir aim had been to try to rescue him, to save his life, and therefore they could not be prosecuted for funding a terror group.\n\nThose senior judges rejected that appeal and that decision was backed a year later by the Supreme Court.\n\nIf Jack Letts had successfully covered his tracks, his parents would never have committed a crime because they would have had absolutely no idea what he was up to.\n\nHowever, there was ample evidence of where he was, who he appeared to be with and what he had been doing.\n\nThe jury had to decide whether the couple knew enough about their son's situation to reasonably suspect cash might end up in the pockets of IS fighters, even if they genuinely hoped that it would not.\n\nIn opening the trial, prosecutor Alison Morgan QC said jurors would inevitably have sympathy for the parents but the law was focused on \"the greater good, stopping money flowing into terrorist groups\".\n\nBoth of them knew where Jack was, who he was associating with and believed he was being manipulated by others, she added.\n\n\"Sending money in such circumstances, where you may conclude that it was highly likely to fall into the wrong hands, is against the law.\"\n\nWhile the facts of their trial appear unusual, there have been other very similar cases involving Muslim-heritage families, albeit with less media hullabaloo.\n\nSalim Wakil, a 25-year-old from Hampshire, was jailed for 30 months in February this year for the same crime.\n\nIn 2014, his 16-year-old sister, Summaiyyah, headed to the warzone along with other Britons. She ended up a teenage mum and widow after her fighter husband from Portsmouth was killed.\n\nHer siblings repeatedly tried to persuade her to return home. Instead she kept nagging them for money. They all resisted, other than Salim, who the Old Bailey heard had mental health problems.\n\nHe was too meek and suggestible to resist his sister's manipulation and ultimately agreed to send her more than £2,500.\n\nThere's a long-standing principle that someone should not be found guilty of a very serious crime unless they intended it to happen.\n\nThis is an important safeguard in English law because it requires a jury to be sure of the defendant's state of mind. This is known as the concept of \"Mens Rea\", the guilty mind.\n\nBut the law of funding terrorism works differently because the test is what the defendant reasonably suspects might happen, rather than what they intended.\n\nHenry Blaxland QC, for John Letts, told the trial the prosecution was \"inhumane to the point of being cruel\".\n\n\"This prosecution does absolutely nothing to further the prevention of terrorism,\" he said.\n\n\"In fact it runs the risk of undermining the fight against terrorism because it runs the risk of bringing the law into disrepute. Law without compassion is not justice.\"\n\nBut the law, in this case, is the law. Jack Letts did something terrible. The dual UK-Canadian national has appeared to live to regret it.\n\nHis parents, right to the eve of their trial, petitioned the British and Canadian governments for help to get him home, including a hunger strike outside St Paul's Cathedral.\n\nTheir suffering is the same as that of many other parents who discovered their sons and daughters had headed to a war 3,000 miles away.\n\nBut the jury at the Old Bailey concluded Lane and John Letts were not entitled to take the law into their own hands.\n\nThe crime they were accused of makes no allowances for crossed fingers, a refusal to accept the available facts, or naivety.", "Israel Folau says his legal fight is about religious freedom\n\nRugby player Israel Folau, who was sacked by Rugby Australia (RA) for criticising gay people, has appealed for public donations to help him legally contest his dismissal.\n\nFolau, a 30-year-old star full-back, had his contract terminated in May after posting on social media saying \"hell awaits\" gay people.\n\nThe devout Christian argues his firing was unlawful and an act of religious discrimination.\n\nRA says he breached a code of conduct.\n\nThe former Wallabies player has drawn widespread condemnation for his social media comments, but he also has vocal supporters.\n\nOn Friday, Folau released a video to launch a crowd-funding campaign aiming to raise A$3m (£1.6m; $2.1m) for his legal case.\n\nHe filed a case against RA and Rugby New South Wales at the Fair Work Commission - Australia's national workplace relations tribunal - earlier this month.\n\n\"Every Australian should be able to practise their religion without fear of discrimination in the workplace,\" he says in the fundraising video.\n\n\"Even people who don't share my beliefs have defended my right to uphold and express them.\n\n\"If you want to join this journey with me, to fight for the right to freedom of religion, please donate.\"\n\nFolau has played 73 Tests for Australia and was estimated to be on a contract worth A$5m. He owns a multi-million dollar property portfolio in Sydney and Brisbane, Australia's Daily Telegraph newspaper reported.\n\nFolau said he and his wife had already spent more than A$100,000 on legal fees, after engaging a top legal team.\n\nRA has consistently defended their firing of the star full-back, saying he breached player behaviour standards \"including respectful use of social media\".\n\nIt had previously warned Folau over anti-gay messages he had posted on social media in the past.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How do you get rid of homophobia in football and rugby?\n\nIn May, chief executive Raelene Castle said RA had terminated his contract to \"stand by our values and the qualities of inclusion, passion, integrity, discipline, respect and teamwork\".\n\nFolau also lost sponsorship deals with companies including car manufacturer Land Rover and sportswear brand Asics.\n\nHe could be seeking up to A$10m in damages through the Fair Work Commission, media reports say.", "A UK ticketholder has come forward to claim a £123m EuroMillions prize, the third biggest amount ever to be won.\n\nCamelot said it had received a claim for the £123,458,008 jackpot, which was won by a single ticket in the draw on 11 June.\n\nThe operator had previously appealed for the winner to come forward and urged players to \"check, double-check and triple-check\" their tickets.\n\nIt is unknown if the ticketholder is a single person, a family or a syndicate.\n\nPlayers have 180 days from the day of the draw to claim a prize.\n\nIf the winner is an individual, the fortune will catapult them into the Sunday Times' Rich List of the 1,000 wealthiest people living in the UK or with British business links.\n\nAlthough EuroMillions is played in nine European countries, four of the biggest jackpots in 2019 have been claimed in the UK.\n\nPrior to this month's winning draw, the biggest prize in 2019 was in a special draw on New Year's Day.\n\nPatrick and Frances Connolly from Northern Ireland won the £114.9m prize.\n\nAde Goodchild, from Hereford, banked £71m in March and an anonymous ticket-holder bagged £35.2m in April.", "Sacked BBC radio broadcaster Danny Baker has announced he's to return with a new twice-weekly podcast in 2020.\n\nBaker was fired from his 5 Live show over a tweet about the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's baby in May.\n\nThe 61-year-old deleted the tweet and apologised for his \"serious error of judgement\", adding it was \"one of the worst days of my life\".\n\nOn Thursday, he took to social media to announce he'll be back to \"rule the world\" in the New Year.\n\n\"My own stand alone podcast,\" wrote Baker, \"featuring all the old firm and even the Sausage Sandwich Game, will begin in the new year.\n\nThe tweet ended with the hashtag \"#CandyManReturns\" referencing his radio nickname.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBaker's Saturday show ran on 5 Live from 2008 until his dismissal last month.\n\nHis controversial tweet showed an image of a couple holding hands with a chimpanzee dressed in clothes with the caption: \"Royal Baby leaves hospital\", which led to accusations of racism, which he denied.\n\nThe comic performed a live show soon after his sacking by the corporation, at Nottingham's Theatre Royal, which ended with a standing ovation and Baker describing it as \"one of the greatest nights of my career\".\n\nRich B on Twitter is one of many fans delighted at the news of Baker's comeback.\n\n\"So pleased to hear this Danny!\" he responded on Twitter, \"Was only listening to a saved podcast of your show from earlier this year this afternoon thinking 'I wish he could bring this simply brilliant show back as a podcast' - YES!!!!\"\n\nGordon MacDonald‏ was less enthused. \"Can't think of anything worse,\" he tweeted.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nBritain's Andy Murray came through his first match since a career-saving hip operation with an impressive victory in the Queen's doubles.\n\nMurray, 32, was seemingly set for retirement before having his hip resurfaced in January.\n\nFive months later the Scot was back on court alongside Spain's Feliciano Lopez at the Fever-Tree Championships.\n\nThe pair won 7-6 (7-5) 6-3 against Colombian top seeds Robert Farah and Juan Sebastian Cabal.\n\n\"It was brilliant. I enjoyed it a lot,\" Murray told BBC Sport. \"I was a bit slow at the beginning and got better as the match went on.\n\n\"I'm fortunate to be back playing again.\n\n\"Leading up to the match I was quite relaxed but I was a bit nervous when we started walking to the court.\n\n\"You want the nerves and the butterflies in the stomach and I had that.\"\n• None Relive Murray's return to tennis as it happened\n\nFor three-time Grand Slam champion Murray this was not about the result. This was simply about whether his new metal hip could stand up to the rigours of competitive tennis.\n\nBut he could not hide his delight - or indomitable competitive spirit - in clinching victory over one of the world's best doubles pairs at the west London club.\n\nMurray's face cracked into a broad grin as a return into the net secured the match, Lopez then standing back on the sideline to allow the former world number one to take the acclaim of an adoring crowd.\n\n\"I learnt quite a bit tonight,\" added Murray. \"I expected to be the worst player and to not feel particularly good on the court, which was probably the case in the first set.\n\n\"But then I think I started to play better in the second and started to serve a bit better, see the returns a little bit better and things.\n\n\"I have zero discomfort in my hip after the match. Nothing. And if I had done this last year, I'd be here aching, throbbing, and feel bad the next day.\n\n\"So I'll just keep pushing and see how it goes. But I feel optimistic about the future. I don't know how long it will take to get to that level, but, hopefully not too long.\"\n\nThose who had not already secured tickets in advance queued up outside the gates for resales, meaning Centre Court was largely full when play started about 18:45 BST.\n\nEvery winner was met with encouraging cheers and hearty applause, with Murray's wife Kim cheering him on from the front row along with coach Jamie Delgado and other key members of his team.\n\nMost importantly, the two-time Wimbledon singles champion moved freely and was limp free, showing a sharpness perhaps many did not expect to see from a player at his stage of recovery.\n\nMurray broke down in tears in a pre-tournament news conference at the Australian Open in January, saying he planned to retire after Wimbledon because of the acute pain which left him struggling to play with his two daughters and even putting on his socks.\n\nWhen the Scot waved farewell at the end of his first-round defeat by Spain's Roberto Bautista-Agut in Melbourne, few thought they would see Murray back in a competitive scenario on a court.\n\nYet he returned 157 days later after renowned hip surgeon Sarah Muirhead-Allwood, whose previous patients have included the Queen Mother, operated on him.\n\nMurray says the resurfacing of his hip, where the femur head is smoothed down and covered with a metal cap, has been \"life-changing\" and finally taken away the pain which has dogged him for a number of years.\n\nWhether he will be able to become the first player to return to the singles court after this operation remains to be seen, but this was certainly an encouraging first step for the former world number one.\n\nWhat next for Murray?\n\nMurray and Lopez will face either British duo Dan Evans and Ken Skupski or the Canadian-Australian pairing of Felix Auger-Aliassime and Alex de Minaur in Friday's quarter-finals.\n\nThe match will be fifth on a packed centre court schedule and you can watch it live on BBC TV and the BBC Sport website.\n\nAndy could face older brother Jamie in the last four if they both come through their last-eight matches.\n\nJamie and Neal Skupski - who beat Nicolas Mahut and Edouard Roger-Vasselin 7-6 (7-5) 1-6 10-7 in their opener - face Henri Kontinen and John Peers before Andy's match on Friday.\n\nPunching the air at regular intervals and seemingly loving every minute after five months on the sidelines, Murray returned as a winner.\n\nHe was at his sharpest in the second set - executing a high backhand volley with a high degree of difficulty, and then hitting two thumping forehand returns to get the decisive break of serve.\n\nMurray also took a tumble, to no ill-effect, and there was no sign of the on-court limp we had become so accustomed to before his surgeon worked her magic.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone", "Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt will face Boris Johnson in the run-off to become Conservative leader and prime minister.\n\nMr Hunt oversaw the London Olympics as culture secretary and was the UK's longest-serving health secretary.\n\nBefore entering Parliament, Jeremy Hunt had a career as an English teacher in Japan and as an entrepreneur.\n\nHe became the MP for South West Surrey at the 2005 general election, taking over from Virginia Bottomley.\n\nFrom 2005 to 2007, Mr Hunt was shadow minister for disabled people. It was a reward for supporting David Cameron, who attended Oxford University at the same time as him, in the Conservative leadership election.\n\nA reshuffle in 2007 saw Mr Hunt promoted to shadow culture secretary.\n\nIn 2009, he was found to have breached expenses rules and ordered to repay more than £9,500. He had allowed his agent to stay rent-free in his constituency property, which was designated as his second home.\n\nMr Hunt had claimed £19,117 in public money towards the property, but it was decided he hadn't benefited financially from the situation.\n\nWhen the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government was formed in 2010, Jeremy Hunt joined the cabinet as secretary of state for culture, Olympics, media and sport.\n\nIt was a key role in the run-up to London's 2012 Olympics and he worked closely with then London Mayor, Boris Johnson.\n\nMr Hunt campaigned on the importance of tourism during the Olympics. And he took the decision to double the budget for the Olympic and Paralympic ceremonies from £40m to £81m.\n\nThe Olympic opening ceremony was widely seen as a big success.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Hunt also put emphasis on creating a lasting legacy for the games.\n\nThe government gave Sport England £1bn to invest in grassroots sports, and Mr Hunt said there was an \"extraordinary chance\" to \"reinvigorate this country's sporting habits for both the young and the old\".\n\nBut in the years that followed there was only a small increase in the number of young people taking up sport.\n\nIn 2005-06 the proportion of over-16s in England who played sport for at least 30 minutes each week was 34.6%. By 2015-16, it was 36.1%.\n\nEarlier in 2012, his career was hanging in the balance. During the Leveson Inquiry into the culture and practices of the press, his contact with the Murdoch family came under scrutiny.\n\nMr Hunt was responsible for overseeing the proposed takeover of BSkyB by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.\n\nHe was criticised for failing to supervise his adviser's contact with News Corp, and for messages he exchanged with James Murdoch on the bid. His special adviser, Adam Smith, was forced to quit.\n\nThe inquiry released texts sent from Mr Hunt to News Corp lobbyist Fred Michel when it was bidding for BSkyB. The culture secretary addressed him as \"Daddy\" and \"mon ami\" - their wives had given birth in the same hospital in May 2010. Separately, in December 2010, he told Mr Michel there was \"nothing u won't like\" in a forthcoming speech.\n\nMr Hunt insisted he acted with \"total integrity\" during the bid process.\n\nAs culture secretary, Mr Hunt also led a government plan to launch local television stations across the UK. More than 30 had been set up before Ofcom later scrapped the roll-out of any further channels, because of limited interest from viewers and financial difficulties.\n\nCity TV, the holder of the local TV licence for Birmingham, was forced to appoint administrators to find a buyer before it was even launched, for example.\n\nMr Hunt also announced a deal with the BBC to freeze the licence fee for six years at £145.50 from 2010. He said high executive salaries and an advantage over commercial broadcasters were a cause for concern.\n\nThat was equivalent to a 16% budget cut in real terms and led to the BBC having to make savings, including 2,000 job losses.\n\nUnder the agreement, the BBC also took on responsibility for funding the World Service, the Welsh language channel S4C, and the roll-out of broadband to rural areas.\n\nJeremy Hunt was appointed health secretary in September 2012, with Maria Miller taking on his previous role.\n\nHe would eventually become the longest-serving health secretary in NHS history, surpassing its founder, Labour's Aneurin Bevan.\n\nBut Mr Hunt held office during the slowest period of investment in the NHS since its foundation - which created big problems.\n\nSince the NHS was established, health spending has risen by about 4% above inflation each year on average. Post-2010, as the coalition budget tried to reduce the deficit, this fell to about 1% a year.\n\nThis came as demands on the health service were growing.\n\nBetween 2005 and 2015, A&E visits went up by almost 30%. And during Mr Hunt's tenure as health secretary, the number of people in the population aged 85 and over went up by about a third.\n\nThe independent Office for Budget Responsibility said funding for the NHS needed to rise by 4.3% a year just to keep up with rising demand, without actively improving standards.\n\nFinancial difficulties led to more hospitals going into the red, as well as targets being missed in three main areas: cancer care, hospital appointments and A&E waiting times.\n\nNHS England has not met any of these targets since 2015.\n\nJust 85.3% of patients were seen at A&E departments within the waiting time target of four hours in January 2018. At least 95% of patients attending A&E are supposed to be either admitted, transferred or discharged within four hours.\n\nUnions, like the GMB, demanded his resignation.\n\nAs well as a series of austerity measures - which included extending a cap on pay increases for NHS staff - he was also criticised for his handling of the junior doctor contract row.\n\nMr Hunt said that changes to contracts were essential to deliver a seven-day NHS in England by 2020 - a pledge in the Conservatives' 2010 election manifesto.\n\nTo achieve this, the proposed contracts would mean evenings and Saturdays would be considered \"normal\" rather than \"unsocial\" hours and would no longer attract overtime pay.\n\nThe NHS's pay review body had said the cost of paying a premium on these \"unsocial hours\" put delivering a seven-day NHS out of reach.\n\nJunior doctors responded by tweeting pictures of themselves working weekend and late shifts, with the hashtag #ImInWorkJeremy.\n\nContract negotiations with junior doctors stopped and started and the British Medical Association eventually decided on industrial action.\n\nJunior doctors took part in a series of walkouts in 2016. On two strike days, between 08:00 and 17:00 even emergency care wasn't covered - the first time that had ever happened in the history of the NHS.\n\nPublic support for the strike was high, and even after doctors withdrew emergency care, the majority of the public (57%) still supported the strike and believed the government was more at fault (54%).\n\nA new contract for junior doctors was later imposed, after BMA members rejected a deal agreed by the government and union negotiators.\n\nDespite heavy criticism, Mr Hunt did go on to secure a funding increase for the NHS, totalling £20.5bn in real terms by 2023.\n\nHe also oversaw the introduction of an Ofsted-style system for rating hospitals and GP surgeries in England, ranking them on things like cancer, mental health and diabetes services.\n\nMr Hunt repeatedly referred in speeches to cases where individuals had received bad treatment in the NHS. He said he was horrified at the report into the Stafford Hospital scandal.\n\nHe went on to overhaul the inspection regime, introduce a new duty of candour on staff and fresh rules about whistle-blowers.\n\nSocial care was added to his brief in 2018. He spoke of the need to integrate social care, funded by local councils, with services delivered by the NHS.\n\nHe had already overseen a transfer of money from the NHS to council budgets from 2014. This shared budget was designed to tackle the problem of elderly people having to stay in hospital beds unnecessarily, because of a lack of care for them at home.\n\nAfter this, the number of these cases fell.\n\nHe also oversaw the introduction of the first national waiting-time target for mental health treatment. From April 2016, the NHS said at least 50% of people experiencing a first episode of psychosis should begin treatment within two weeks of referral.\n\nMr Hunt became foreign secretary in July 2018, after his predecessor and now leadership rival, Boris Johnson, quit over Theresa May's Brexit strategy.\n\nIn March, he became the first Western foreign minister to visit Yemen since conflict there began.\n\nHe has faced criticism for allowing the UK to sell arms to the Saudi regime, which is involved in a controversial military campaign in Yemen. But he has previously defended UK-Saudi ties, saying Saudi Arabia is a \"very, very important military ally to the UK\".\n\nHis time as foreign secretary has not been gaffe-free. During a meeting on an official visit to China, he called his wife Lucia Guo \"Japanese\" - although she was born in Xian in central China.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The foreign secretary tells Today he would include the DUP and ERG in Brexit talks\n\nA Remain campaigner in the 2016 EU referendum, Mr Hunt has since said he would vote Leave in a second vote. He said this was because of the \"arrogance of the European Commission\" in Brexit negotiations.\n\nHe also likened the Brexit negotiating tactics of the EU to the Soviet Union. The comparison provoked criticism from EU ambassadors and politicians and there were calls for an apology.\n\nMr Hunt says he want to negotiate a \"credible\" Brexit plan by securing changes to the controversial Irish backstop.\n\nHowever, he does not rule out leaving the EU without a deal if such an outcome becomes \"the only way to deliver Brexit\".\n\nBut unlike his leadership rival, Boris Johnson, he says the current departure date of 31 October is not a hard deadline.", "Medicine has always been personal to some extent - a doctor looks for the best way to help the patient sitting in front of them.\n\nBut with advances in technology, it is becoming possible to use the most unique of characteristics - our genomes - to tailor treatments for individuals.\n\nGenomes are made up of a complete set of our DNA, including all of our genes, and are the instruction manual on how to build and maintain the 37 trillion cells in our bodies.\n\nAny two people share more than 99% of their DNA. It's the remaining less than 1% that makes us unique, and can affect the severity of a disease and effectiveness of treatments.\n\nLooking at these small differences can also help us understand the best way to treat a patient for a range of diseases - from cancer and heart disease to depression.\n\nCancer is the most advanced area of medicine in terms of developing personalised treatments.\n\nIn the UK, differences in the DNA sequence are being used by the NHS to help doctors prevent and predict cancer.\n\nFor example, women with an increased risk of developing breast or ovarian cancer have been identified by screening for changes to the BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes.\n\nMutations in these genes increase a woman's risk of breast cancer by four-to-eightfold and can explain why some families see many relatives with the disease. A BRCA1 mutation gives women a lifetime risk of ovarian cancer of 40-50%.\n\nScreening has helped women make informed choices about treatment and prevention - for example, whether to have a mastectomy.\n\nIt is steps like these - splitting patients into ever smaller groups to identify the best treatments - that is taking us towards personalisation.\n\nFor certain cancers, measuring gene activity is becoming commonplace.\n\nGene activity is a little like the dimmer switch on a light - it can be set to low, high or anywhere in between. Measuring this allows us to see how active a particular gene is in a tissue or cell.\n\nIn breast cancer, a test measuring the activity of 50 genes in tumours can be used to guide decisions about whether the patient will benefit from chemotherapy.\n\nTo extend this approach to other cancers, researchers are switching off all of the genes in hundreds of tumours grown in the laboratory. In doing so, scientists are looking for cancer's weaknesses - to try to produce a detailed rule book for precision treatment.\n\nThe development of such techniques raises the question: how far can personalisation go?\n\nFor illnesses like heart disease, diabetes and infectious diseases, a combination of genetic, lifestyle and life events also play a part.\n\nThis means that information about small differences in the DNA sequence alone will not be enough to predict susceptibility and outcome.\n\nMeasuring the activity of our genes also captures information about current stresses to the body. For example, certain genes will have a higher or lower activity depending on the type of infection.\n\nYuvan Thakkar, 11, is the first to receive a drug called CAR-T. His mother, Sapna, said: 'This new therapy is our last hope'\n\nLooking at gene activity could also provide important clues as to how to best treat a patient.\n\nOne life-threatening illness where these techniques could help is sepsis.\n\nIt is a condition in which the immune system damages its own organs when trying to fight an infection.\n\nAnyone can develop sepsis and it kills 52,000 people each year in the UK - more than breast, bowel and prostate cancer combined. Worldwide, a third of patients who develop sepsis die.\n\nTo save lives, general antibiotics are given first to reduce the infection. A blood test is done to find out which particular bacteria have caused the sepsis, so a more targeted antibiotic can be given.\n\nBut these blood tests take precious time and cannot always identify the bacterium causing the infection.\n\nIn our research, we are looking at gene activity in sepsis patients' immune systems, to give us clues as to why different people respond in different ways.\n\nWe hope to pinpoint which part of their immune systems are not working properly - helping doctors decide how other drugs could be used.\n\nThis demonstrates how personalised medicine could be used for short-term treatment in intensive care, as well as for longer-term illnesses like cancer.\n\nOne challenge personalisation faces is speed - measuring what is happening in our genes is currently a slow, laboratory-based process.\n\nIn order to be most effective in a medical setting, we need to be able to measure gene activity in a patient's blood instantly.\n\nNew technology like the microelectrode biosensor device - which flags real-time critical changes in the blood - is being developed to make rapid analysis a reality.\n\nThrough such advances it is hoped that genomic information, including gene activity, could become part of a GP's toolkit.\n\nGiven recent advances in research and technology, the information in our genomes is likely to be used more and more often and in settings beyond cancer.\n\nResearchers are looking at the genetic links to depression and anxiety, to help them understand the causes and develop new personalised treatments.\n\nThey are also accessing large datasets like the UK Biobank to use the small differences in DNA sequence to identify people at high risk of a heart attack later in life.\n\nIt is unlikely that information from your genome will result in a \"personalised pill\" being manufactured just for you. Rather it could help doctors to tailor the right combination of medicines to treat the right person at the right time.\n\nThis analysis piece was commissioned by the BBC from an expert working for an outside organisation.\n\nDr Emma Davenport is group leader in human genetics at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, which works to promote research in genomic discovery and collaboration between scientists.", "The review follows criticism of a televised debate between contenders in the Tory leadership contest\n\nThe BBC is to review whether \"additional steps\" should be taken when vetting guests for political debates.\n\nThe broadcaster was criticised over those given a chance to ask questions during its televised debate between candidates in the Tory leadership race.\n\nIt emerged that one guest had shared allegedly anti-Semitic tweets - he was later suspended from his job.\n\nA BBC spokeswoman said \"vetting and transparency\" of guests for political programmes would be reviewed.\n\n\"We have a long history of producing successful debate programmes and this was no different,\" she said.\n\nShe said it would be \"odd\" to have members of the public as contributors who all agreed \"with the politics of those they are questioning\".\n\n\"We did however, adopt a different format for this programme and we will look at whether there are additional steps we might take on vetting and transparency should we repeat it in the future,\" she added.\n\nOn Wednesday the broadcaster defended its vetting process after tweets by Imam Abdullah Patel came to light.\n\nThe BBC said Mr Patel re-activated a previously inactive Twitter profile in the aftermath of Tuesday's programme, Our Next Prime Minister.\n\nThe tweets had not been visible to its researchers before then, the BBC said.\n\nA screenshot of Mr Patel's Twitter feed from 2014 posted on the Guido Fawkes website showed he shared a graphic of Israel's outline superimposed on a map of the US under the headline \"Solution for Israel-Palestine conflict - relocate Israel into United States\".\n\nLabour MP Naz Shah was temporarily suspended from her party three years ago after it emerged she had shared the same image on Facebook.\n\nMr Patel would not have been selected for the programme if it had been \"aware of the views he expressed\", the broadcaster said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Abdullah Patel asked the Tory leadership candidates if they agreed that \"words had consequences\"\n\nMr Patel, who asked the leadership candidates about the Islamophobic rhetoric faced by members of the Muslim community, was later suspended as deputy head of a girls' school.\n\nAl-Ashraf primary school in Gloucester said it was investigating the allegations against Mr Patel.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Gloucestershire on Wednesday, he said had not criticised the Jewish community, but stood by criticism of Israeli policy.\n\nSeparately, the BBC faced criticism on Wednesday for choosing as a guest on the programme a solicitor who has previously worked for Labour and once stood as a councillor for the party.\n\nIn response the BBC said the questioners \"held a range of political views and we did not specify these views nor their backgrounds although some chose to do so themselves.\n\n\"The last questioner on the debate is a solicitor who was seconded by his law firm to the Labour Party in the past, rather than being a Labour 'staffer'. He is a Labour supporter and once stood as a councillor.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThey were removed from the City of London event after several minutes and Mr Hammond was able to continue soon afterwards.\n\n\"The irony is that this is government that has just led the world by committing to a zero carbon economy by 2050,\" said the chancellor.\n\nGreenpeace said: \"Business as usual is no longer an option.\"\n\nThe organisation said 40 activists had \"gatecrashed\" the chancellor's speech.\n\nClimate campaigner Areeba Hamid, said: \"The real bottom line, the priority that needs to come before all others, is not profit, revenue or growth, but survival.\n\n\"That needs to be recognised in every boardroom and on every balance sheet, starting with the chancellor's.\"\n\nCity of London Police said they were called by Mansion House security and escorted the protesters from the premises. No arrests were made.\n\nForeign Office minister Mark Field was filmed by a TV camera at the event physically ejecting one of the protesters from the dinner. The BBC has approached Mr Field for a response.\n\nMr Hammond was met with applause as he restarted his address, where he suggested the next prime minister would need a \"plan B\" to the Brexit deal that was rejected by Parliament, or face another referendum.\n\nHe warned about the economic impact of a no-deal Brexit, and said £150bn of spending commitments would \"all be at risk if we don't get Brexit right\".\n\nThese commitments include an extra £20.5bn for the NHS by 2023, as well as £44bn for new housing and tax cuts, a fall in the national debt and unemployment, and a rise in employment.\n\nAt the event, Bank of England governor Mark Carney made his final Mansion House speech, which was about the future of finance.\n\nMr Carney, who ends his tenure as governor in January 2020, spoke about a new economy driven by changes in technology, demographics and the environment.", "Sir Brian Leveson is retiring as head of criminal justice for England and Wales\n\nThe most senior criminal judge in England and Wales has expressed \"enormous concern\" that many crimes are not being prosecuted.\n\nSir Brian Leveson, who retires on Friday as Head of Criminal Justice, has warned the system could collapse without investment.\n\nHe also told the BBC the government would be wrong to abolish prison sentences of less than six months.\n\nThe government said it was investing £1bn in modernising the justice system.\n\nIn the wake of the phone hacking scandal Sir Brian became a national figure, chairing the public inquiry into the culture, practices and ethics of the press.\n\nIn his role as head of criminal justice he led on the delivery of criminal justice for England and Wales.\n\nSpeaking exclusively to the BBC, he revealed he leaves with grave concerns.\n\n\"It is very, very concerning that citizens suffer wrongs and are not obtaining redress through the criminal courts,\" he said.\n\n\"The criminal courts are a critical part of our society and they are the way that society reflects the minimum standards of behaviour which it requires of all its citizens and therefore it is an enormous concern that crimes are not being detected and crimes are not being prosecuted,\" he added.\n\nLast year a report from the Bar Council found the Ministry of Justice had sustained 27% cuts in real terms over a decade and the Crown Prosecution Service 34%.\n\nBetween September 2010 and September 2017, the number of police officers in England and Wales fell by almost 20,000, according to the Home Office.\n\nHome Office figures also suggested 9% of reported crimes result in a charge or summons - the lowest detection rate since 2015.\n\nIn perhaps the starkest assessment yet by a senior judicial figure, Sir Brian said: \"The criminal justice system has to be considered by the government and recognised for its enormous value to our community.\n\n\"I don't think there is sufficient resource to cope with its requirements. Ultimately, if the system doesn't get appropriate investment the system can collapse.\"\n\nA Ministry of Justice spokesperson said: \"Our legal system is rightly revered and renowned across the world and we continue to invest billions of pounds into it each year, including £1bn on modernisation.\"\n\nEarlier this year, Justice Secretary David Gauke said there was a \"very strong case\" for abolishing prison sentences of less than six months in England and Wales, aside from a few \"closely defined exceptions\" such as people convicted of violent or sexual crimes.\n\nThe MoJ said short sentences \"are too often ineffective... we are exploring options for robust community alternatives that would make the public safer\".\n\nIt added it was reforming the probation system \"to ensure offenders are monitored and conditions enforced, while directing them towards services that will help them to turn their backs on crime for good\".\n\nBut Sir Brian, who is also retiring from his role as president of the Queen's Bench Division, said an attempt made in 1991 to restrict the rights of judges to pass sentences of less than six months \"did not work\".\n\nInsisting judges must be able to jail people for less than six months, he said: \"The multiple shoplifter who shoplifts again and again and again, who is given every single non-custodial option going but continues, often to feed a drug habit... there must be a time when the courts say enough is enough.\"\n\nThe judge also addressed the concerns of campaigners that complainants in rape cases will be deterred from coming forward if they have to hand their mobile devices to the police and undergo what has been described as a \"digital strip search\".\n\n\"We do have to have a mechanism of being able to validate or not invalidate complaints by checking and, although I readily recognise the need to protect the privacy of those who complain of sexual offences, we can't do so at the entire expense of protecting the rights of a defendant to a fair trial,\" he said.\n• None No-one charged 'in 9 out of 10 crimes'\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The former chief executive of Barclays, John Varley, has been acquitted of charges of conspiracy to commit fraud.\n\nThe Court of Appeal declined an application by the Serious Fraud Office to overturn a decision by Mr Justice Robert Jay that there was insufficient evidence against Mr Varley.\n\nHowever, the other three defendants, Roger Jenkins, Tom Kalaris and Richard Boath, will now face a retrial.\n\nThe three defendants deny any wrongdoing.\n\nThe SFO accuses them of secretly paying £322m to secure investments from Qatar during the financial crisis.\n\nThe funding allowed Barclays to avoid a UK government bailout in 2008.\n\nThe case against Mr Varley was the only attempt to prosecute a chief executive of a major bank following the financial crisis.\n\nIt was seen as an important case for the SFO which had been criticised for the failure of previous prosecutions, including the collapse last year of a case against three Tesco executives.", "Young people are growing up with a \"warped view of what is normal because so much of what they see on social media is false\", says Damian Hinds.\n\nThe education secretary wants \"fewer selfies\" and more \"authenticity\".\n\nHe warned of the risk of online bullying and the pressure of \"negative body images\" on social media.\n\nAn international report this week showed England's schools had the worst problem with cyber-bullying out of 48 countries.\n\nMr Hinds says he wants social media companies, celebrities and online influencers to \"take their responsibility more seriously\" in protecting young people from bullying or harmful content on the internet.\n\nHe pointed to a report from the OECD think tank on Wednesday which showed head teachers in England were more likely to face problems with online bullying than in any other developed country.\n\nIn England, 27% of school heads had to deal every week with the consequences of cyber-bullying among pupils, compared with an international average of 3%.\n\nThe OECD's education director, Andreas Schleicher, said it was not right to expect head teachers to cope with pressures from the misuse of social media. There needed to be clearer regulations to support schools.\n\nDamian Hinds is warning about the impact of an online culture of selfies and fake images\n\n\"I don't think it's something we can ignore and let individual schools sort out,\" said Mr Schleicher.\n\nMr Hinds called for social media celebrities to think more about \"what they are putting on their platform. Is it honest? Is it authentic? Is it too image focused?\"\n\nHe said the round-the-clock presence of mobile phones added to the pressure and that no one was \"immune from online cruelty\".\n\n\"All bullying is shameful but cyber-bullying is particularly cowardly and pernicious,\" said the education secretary.\n\nBut he said lessons about relationships, which will become part of the curriculum next year, will teach young people about the \"importance of safe and acceptable behaviour online\".", "Mike Dorricott, pictured with his daughter Sarah, died in 2015\n\nConservative leadership contender Jeremy Hunt failed to keep his promise to a man with terminal cancer during his time as health secretary, an inquiry was told.\n\nMike Dorricott died in 2015 from liver cancer linked to the hepatitis C he contracted through infected blood.\n\nHis widow Ann told the inquiry into the scandal Mr Hunt had promised to \"sort out\" a settlement for victims.\n\nA spokesman for Mr Hunt said he had \"pushed for this landmark inquiry\".\n\nMr Dorricott, who died aged 47, campaigned for fair compensation for those affected by contaminated blood products before his death and met Mr Hunt, his South West Surrey MP, on numerous occasions.\n\nThe inquiry is looking at why 4,800 people with haemophilia were infected with hepatitis C or HIV in the 1970s and 1980s.\n\nMore than 2,000 are thought to have died.\n\nIt was the first strong criticism of a politician at the infected blood inquiry and it won't be the last.\n\nAnn Dorricott recalled a meeting with Jeremy Hunt and his officials in 2014 when he seemed to indicate support for the idea of a \"fair and final settlement\". Campaigners have long called for full compensation for victims and their families covering loss of earnings and recompense for their mistreatment by the NHS.\n\nCurrently they get financial support intended to cover living costs. Compensation has not been delivered in the UK as it has in Ireland, hence Ann Dorricott's view that a promise had been broken. A spokesperson for Mr Hunt said he had increased financial support since the meeting and pushed for the inquiry.\n\nAs the hearings continue this year and next, former health secretaries will be called to give evidence and the former Prime Minister Sir John Major. The inquiry will probe the Government's handling of what's been called the worst treatment disaster in the history of the NHS.\n\nMrs Dorricott told the inquiry, sitting in Leeds, that a meeting had been held shortly after her husband's terminal diagnosis to discuss a \"fair and final settlement\" for the victims.\n\n\"When Mike told the room that it was terminal, Mike got very upset, very emotional,\" she said.\n\n\"Towards the end of the meeting, Jeremy Hunt came to myself and Mike, shook our hands and said to us, 'don't worry about this, we'll sort it'.\n\nThis sign was placed outside Jeremy Hunt's constituency office in Surrey after Mr Dorricott's death\n\nCounsel to the inquiry, Jenni Richards, asked Mrs Dorricott about her witness statement.\n\n\"You say in your statement this 'since that meeting he has not fulfilled his promise'. That is your view and that was Mike's view?\"\n\nA spokesman for Mr Hunt, currently foreign secretary, said: \"The Dorricott family are among thousands who have faced tragedy as a result of this appalling injustice.\n\n\"As well as increasing the financial support for victims, Jeremy pushed for this landmark inquiry because those affected have a right to know what went wrong and why.\"\n\nThe family said Mr Dorricott, who had mild haemophilia, had been given a contaminated blood product in 1982 during routine dental surgery in Huddersfield near his home in West Yorkshire.\n\nHe would only discover he had hepatitis C almost 25 years later, and numerous treatments and two liver transplants followed before he was told his condition was terminal in 2014.\n\n\"We tried to lead a normal life for the girls, but it was just out of our control,\" Mrs Dorricott told the inquiry.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "President Vladimir Putin has said Russia \"completely disagrees\" with the evidence put forward by the MH17 plane crash inquiry.\n\nIt comes a day after four men - three Russian - were charged over the murder of 298 people on board a Malaysian Airlines flight in 2014.\n\nThe BBC's Steve Rosenberg asked Mr Putin if Russia would accept responsibility at a news conference after his annual Direct Line phone-in event.", "Police have suspended work with the UK's biggest private forensic company following a cyber-attack on the firm.\n\nThe suspension has led to delays in forensic testing, which could impact on court cases.\n\nEurofins Forensic Services carries out DNA testing, toxicology analysis, firearms testing and computer forensics for police forces across the UK.\n\nIts parent company, Eurofins, suffered a ransomware attack on 1 or 2 June, which is under criminal investigation.\n\nRansomware is a computer virus that prevents users from accessing their system or personal files and demands ransom payment in order to unlock access.\n\nIt is the latest in a series of major forensic science problems to hit police forces since the closure of the government-owned service in England and Wales in 2012.\n\nAn emergency police response has been put in place, led by the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC), which took the decision to \"temporarily suspend\" all submissions to Eurofins.\n\nEurofins, which caters for over 50% of the UK market, deals with over 70,000 criminal cases in the UK each year.\n\nA group of senior officers will ensure the most serious crimes are given priority, as well as ensuring other forensic providers aren't overloaded with submissions.\n\n\"Our priority is to minimise the impact on the criminal justice system,\" said the NPCC lead for forensics, Chief Constable James Vaughan.\n\n\"It is too early to fully quantify the impact but we are working at pace with partners to understand and mitigate the risks.\"\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service said a police investigation was ongoing, but at this stage there was \"no evidence to suggest that previous convictions were unsafe\".\n\nA spokesperson added: \"The CPS is assessing current cases to identify any impact on criminal trials as a result of this attack, and will ensure all necessary action is taken to allow them to proceed fairly.\"\n\nEurofins said the attack \"caused disruption to many of its IT systems in several countries\" in a statement on it website.\n\nIt said it believed the attack was carried out by \"highly sophisticated well-resourced perpetrators\" and the ransomware involved appears to have been a \"new malware variant\".\n\nThe National Crime Agency is conducting an investigation into the cyber attack, supported by the National Cyber Security Centre.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"We are working closely with law enforcement and justice partners to investigate the sources of the attack and minimise any impact on our criminal justice system.\"\n\nForensic science work has been carried out by private firms and police laboratories in England and Wales since the closure of the government's Forensic Science Service in 2012.\n\nLast year 40 drug-driving offences were quashed and thousands of cases were reviewed after data was allegedly manipulated at Randox Testing Services.\n\nAnother company - Key Forensic Services - collapsed in January 2018, while the Met Police also had to carry out a review after a forensic scientist apparently botched examinations.\n\nEurofins has seven laboratories in the UK - Teddington, south-west London; Leeds Dock, in Leeds; Risley, Cheshire; Wakefield, west Yorkshire; Culham, Oxfordshire; Fordham, Cambridgeshire; Tamworth, Staffordshire.\n\nIt also provides a range of other screening services to industry, agriculture and the pharmaceutical sector. The impact on these services is unclear.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nGreenpeace has accused Foreign Office minister Mark Field of assault, after he pushed a female activist out of a black-tie City event.\n\nMr Field claimed he reacted \"instinctively\" and has referred himself to the Cabinet Office for an investigation.\n\nHe also apologised to the woman for \"grabbing her\" but said he was worried she may have been armed.\n\nThe Tory MP has been widely criticised but some people defended his actions.\n\nThursday night's incident - filmed by TV news cameras - happened after climate change protesters disrupted the beginning of Chancellor Philip Hammond's annual Mansion House speech about the state of the UK economy.\n\nDozens of activists - dressed in suits, red dresses and sashes - \"gatecrashed\" the dinner, according to Greenpeace, and refused to leave.\n\nFootage shows Mr Field getting out of his seat and stopping one female protester by pushing her against a column and marching her out of the room.\n\nCity of London Police said it was looking into \"a number of third-party reports of a possible assault\".\n\nAnd Conservative chairman Brandon Lewis told ITV's Good Morning Britain the party would investigate the \"full details of what happened\".\n\nGreenpeace campaigner Areeba Hamid told the BBC the activist had been \"in shock\" on Thursday night, but was recovering and had been reassured by the \"outpouring of support\" online.\n\n\"I think Mark Field should have a long hard stare at himself and think whether that behaviour is in keeping with someone in public office,\" she said.\n\nIt was \"quite ludicrous\" to suggest that the protester might have been armed, Ms Hamid added.\n\nGreenpeace said 40 people had protested at the event\n\nLabour's shadow women and equalities minister Dawn Butler tweeted: \"This is horrific... [Mark Field] must immediately be suspended or sacked.\"\n\nFellow Labour MP Tonia Antoniazzi added: \"No one who reacts like this to a peaceful protest should be sitting in our Parliament.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Liberal Democrat MP Chuka Umunna described Mr Field's actions as \"totally unacceptable\" while former Tory MP Sarah Wollaston said it was \"absolutely shameful, a male MP marching a woman out of a room by her neck\".\n\nBut Conservative MP Johnny Mercer defended Mr Field, tweeting: \"Honestly? Try being in our shoes in the current environment.\n\n\"He panicked, he's not trained in restraint and arrest, and if you think this is 'serious violence' you may need to recalibrate your sensitivities. Calm down, move on, and be thankful this wasn't worse.\"\n\nFellow Tory MP Sir Peter Bottomley said attacks on MPs and their staff meant that such protests could not be ignored. \"Not intervening often has a cost, and if this becomes a fashion, there will be casualties.\"\n\nIn a statement to ITV News, Mr Field - who is the Foreign Office minister for Asia and the Pacific - said: \"In the confusion many guests understandably felt threatened and when one protester rushed past me towards the top table I instinctively reacted.\n\n\"There was no security present and I was for a split second genuinely worried she might have been armed.\n\n\"As a result I grasped the intruder firmly in order to remove her from the room as swiftly as possible.\"\n\nHe added: \"I deeply regret this episode and unreservedly apologise to the lady concerned for grabbing her but in the current climate I felt the need to act decisively to close down the threat to the safety of those present.\"\n\nMr Field added he would refer himself to the Cabinet Office and fully co-operate with its investigation into whether he had broken the ministerial code.", "Asdrit Kapaj, dubbed the \"Wimbledon Prowler\", pleaded guilty to 26 offences after his crime spree was finally brought to a halt by detectives in February\n\nA serial burglar dubbed the \"Wimbledon prowler\" who tried to raid the home of tennis star Boris Becker has been jailed.\n\nAsdrit Kapaj made 400-mile round trips from Greater Manchester to south-west London to commit his crimes.\n\nThe 43-year-old pleaded guilty to 26 offences after his crime spree was finally brought to a halt in February.\n\nKapaj, who also admitted the attempted burglary of Mr Becker's home, was jailed for 14 years on Friday.\n\nBut officers believe the married father of two may have been behind more thefts, with up to £5m in stolen jewellery and cash lifted from homes in Wimbledon Village dating back to 2008.\n\nVictims included the German tennis ace, while on another occasion Kapaj was reportedly chased across a garden by French footballer Nicolas Anelka.\n\nSentencing, Judge Peter Lodder QC said: \"You are a prolific, persistent and professional burglar.\n\n\"Such was your stealth and expertise in many cases it remains a mystery how you gained entry to their homes. Not surprisingly, you terrified the whole community.\"\n\nHis victims included German tennis star Boris Becker, while he was reportedly chased across a garden by French footballer Nicolas Anelka\n\nResidents targeted by Kapaj between 2008 and 2019 said they installed locks, bolts and extra security, while others sacked their personal staff due to suspicions they were behind the stealing.\n\nClare Calnan, whose home was targeted in 2014, told Kingston Crown Court that peace of mind \"was the most valuable thing\" Kapaj took.\n\nShe said: \"For years after the burglar's last visit, every time I walked down my path to my door at night, I wondered if he was lying in wait, watching and waiting.\"\n\nRona Cruishank, who had a £2,000 diamond ring and a £1,000 necklace stolen in 2015, said now she \"feels like a prisoner\" in her own Somerset Road home.\n\n\"The theft left me heartbroken due to the loss from our family,\" she added.\n\nProsecutor Alexandra Boshell said CCTV showed an attempted burglary took place at Mr Becker's home in October 2013.\n\nMr Becker's estranged wife, Sharlely, told the court: \"CCTV shows it is the defendant, wearing the same fisherman-style hat, creeping around the back of the house, his hand covering his mouth.\"\n\nAsdrit Kapaj travelled from his home in Greater Manchester to carry out the burglaries\n\nAt its height, Scotland Yard had a team of 50 officers working full time to find the suspect, and had drawn up a suspects' list of about 60 criminals with a record of burglaries in the south-west London area.\n\nBut Kapaj was not among them.\n\nA breakthrough only came when advances in DNA technology showed that two burglaries committed two years apart were carried out by the same suspect.\n\nKapaj, who was arrested in February, has never told police what happened to the money or jewellery he stole, which police have been unable to trace.\n\nHe admitted 22 burglaries, three attempted burglaries and one count of going equipped for burglary, with thefts totalling £497,300.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Cheryl Gillan announces Michael Gove is voted out of the Conservative leadership race,\n\nJeremy Hunt has promised Boris Johnson \"the fight of his life\" as the two compete to become the next Conservative leader and PM.\n\nMr Johnson said he was \"honoured\" to get the backing of 160 MPs in the final ballot of the party's MPs - more than half of the total.\n\nMr Hunt got 77 votes - two more votes than the next candidate Michael Gove.\n\nMr Johnson and Mr Hunt now face a vote involving up to 160,000 Tory members, with a result due by late July.\n\nAll 313 Conservative MPs took part in the final ballot in the House of Commons, with one paper spoilt.\n\nMr Johnson's victory in the latest round of the contest had been widely expected, but Environment Secretary Mr Gove and Foreign Secretary Mr Hunt had been engaged for several days in a fight for second place.\n\nIn the penultimate MPs' ballot, earlier on Thursday, Mr Gove overtook his rival, only to see his lead reversed in the final vote.\n\nBefore the final vote, a source close to Mr Hunt warned against reigniting the \"personal psychodrama\" between Mr Gove and Mr Johnson - who spearheaded the Vote Leave campaign together in 2016, but fell out after Mr Gove abandoned Mr Johnson's previous leadership bid to launch his own.\n\nFollowing the result of the final ballot, Mr Johnson tweeted that he was \"deeply honoured\" by his level of support.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Hunt, acknowledged Mr Johnson as frontrunner to become party leader and prime minister, tweeting that he was the \"underdog\" but in politics \"surprises happen\".\n\nHe went on to praise Mr Gove as one of the \"brightest stars in the Conservative team\" and pledged to \"give Boris the fight of his life.\"\n\nMr Gove congratulated his rivals and said he was \"naturally disappointed but so proud of the campaign we ran\".\n\nHis campaign manager, Mel Stride, said he believed that Mr Gove's admission that he had taken cocaine during the 1990s had damaged his bid, adding: \"It stalled us and meant momentum was lost at that time.\"\n\nThere's no doubt that Mr Johnson is, at this stage (and there's a long way to go), widely expected to end up in Number 10.\n\nBut this result is an enormous relief to his camp, for the simple reason that they think Mr Hunt is easier to beat.\n\nForget any differences in style between the two challengers and their comparative talents - Jeremy Hunt voted Remain in the EU referendum.\n\nAnd for many Tory members it is a priority for the next leader to have been committed to that cause, rather than a recent convert, however zealous.\n\nMr Johnson and Mr Hunt will now take part in hustings in front of Conservative Party members around the country, before the votes are counted, with the final result to be announced during the week of 22 July.\n\nThey will also take part in a head-to-head debate on ITV on 9 July, following previous leadership debates hosted by Channel 4 and the BBC.\n\nMr Hunt has been in the cabinet since 2010. Before he became Foreign Secretary, he was the UK's longest-serving Health Secretary. Former Foreign Secretary Mr Johnson, who quit the cabinet last year over Theresa May's Brexit strategy is one of the UK's most recognisable politicians and was Mayor of London from 2008 to 2016.\n\nThe Conservatives said there had been 20,000 applications for places at the 16 leadership hustings around the UK. Party chairman Brandon Lewis congratulated the final two contenders.\n\nHe said: \"We are conscious that the Conservatives are not just selecting a new leader but also the next prime minister, and we take that responsibility extremely seriously at such an important time for our nation.\"\n\nLabour's national campaigns co-ordinator Andrew Gwynne said: \"What a choice: the man who broke the NHS or the man who wants to sell it to Donald Trump.\n\n\"A handful of unrepresentative Conservative members should not be choosing our next prime minister. People should decide through a general election.\"\n\nThe ballot of MPs earlier on Thursday saw Home Secretary Sajid Javid eliminated from the contest.", "German battleships sinking off the island of Fara\n\nIn waters off Orkney a century ago, 52 German warships were sunk in one day - but this huge naval loss was not inflicted by enemy forces.\n\nInstead the scuttling of the German High Seas Fleet in Scapa Flow was a deliberate act of sabotage ordered by a commander who refused to let his ships become the spoils of war.\n\nIt was the single greatest loss of warships in history and the nine German sailors killed that day were the last to die during World War One. The final peace treaty was signed just a week later.\n\nAfter the fighting in WW1 ended in November 1918, the entire German fleet was ordered to gather together in the Firth of Forth, near Edinburgh, to be \"interned\" by Allied forces.\n\nThe battlecruiser Derflinger just four minutes before it disappeared beneath the surface\n\nNine German battleships, five battlecruisers, seven light cruisers and 49 destroyers - the most modern ships of the German High Seas Fleet - were handed over to the victorious forces off the east of Scotland.\n\nWithin a week, the 70 German ships were escorted to the sheltered waters of Scapa Flow, off Orkney, where they and four other vessels were held while the details of the peace talks were worked out.\n\nThe final decision on their fate was to be taken at Versailles, but until then German sailors were kept on board their ships in the vast natural harbour. At Versailles, the victorious powers wrangled over what to do with the ships. Britain and the US wanted them destroyed. The French and Italians thought it better to share them out between the Allies.\n\nThe fleet was in Scapa Flow for seven months before it was scuttled\n\n\"The ships were not actually surrendered and that's why there were no British troops on board them to prevent them being scuttled,\" Tom Muir from Orkney Museum told BBC Radio Scotland's When the Fleet Went Down. \"They were German government property and remained that throughout their time here.\"\n\nThe German commander, Admiral Ludwig von Reuter, was not kept informed of what was happening outside of his ships. He had to rely on briefings from British commanders and old copies of the Times newspaper, according to Tom Muir.\n\nThe peace talks had been intended to conclude on 21 June but the deadline was extended. As far as von Reuter knew the talks had failed and he was fully expecting his ships to be boarded and seized by the Royal Navy. The German admiral felt duty-bound not to let that happen.\n\nMr Muir says: \"Von Reuter had already sent letters around the commanders of the ships telling them that he was planning to have the fleet scuttled at his signal. Ironically it was the British drifters who were carting those letters around to the officers on the other ships.\"\n\nOn the morning of 21 June 1919, the British fleet took advantage of good weather to steam out of the harbour on exercise. At 10:30, von Reuter's flagship, Emden, sent out the seemingly innocuous message - \"Paragraph Eleven; confirm\". It was a code ordering his men to scuttle their own ships.\n• None 7months after the end of World War One\n\nThe \"paragraph eleven\" signal, using semaphore and searchlights, took a while to reach all the ships because they were positioned right across the vast flow. \"They would have waited and like a wave it went through the ships from north to south,\" says Mr Muir.\n\nBeneath decks, German sailors began to open seacocks - valves that allow water in - and smash pipes. Mr Muir says: \"They had all been deliberately flooded from one side first so that they would turn over and sink because they believed it would make it more difficult for them to salvage them.\"\n\nAt first it was not clear what was happening and it took a couple of hours before it became apparent that the Germans had deliberately sunk their ships.\n\nThe German sailors took to small boats to escape their sinking ships as the few remaining British sailors onboard Royal Navy drifters, small vessels about the size of fishing trawlers which often escorted destroyers, tried to work out what to do.\n\nThe only civilian witnesses were schoolchildren from Stromness who were on a trip to view the German fleet onboard a water tender.\n\nOne of the schoolchildren, 12-year-old Leslie Thorpe, wrote that one German boat full of fleeing soldiers did not have a white flag and the British fired on it with a machine gun.\n\n\"The one thing that should not be forgotten is men died that day,\" says Mr Muir. \"We see all these images and it is just a huge piece of metal rolling over in the sea and sinking and you forget about the cost in human terms.\n\n\"The men in the drifters were ordered to open fire on the defenceless German sailors. They had no weapons, they were not allowed them and they didn't have any.\"\n\nIt is believed nine Germans died as a result of the actions that day.\n\nBy 17:00, most of the German High Seas Fleet had disappeared beneath the surface of Scapa Flow. The Hindenburg, the biggest German battlecruiser, was the last to sink.\n\nDuring the 1920s and '30s many of the 52 ships were lifted from the sea bed by commercial contractors and broken up.\n\nThe seven wrecks that remain are now classed as scheduled monuments, nationally important archaeological sites given protection against unauthorised change. Earlier this week it emerged that four of the vessels, which are now owned by a retired diving contractor, are being sold on eBay.\n\n\"The scuttling of the German fleet removed them from being a bargaining chip in peace negotiations but it was seen as a hostile act by the British,\" says Mr Muir. \"In Germany it was seen as a way of restoring some honour. The navy had not let the ships fall into enemy hands.\"\n\nA senior German officer declared at the time that this act had wiped away the \"stain of surrender\" from the German fleet.\n\nWhen the Fleet Went Down: Scapa Flow @100 is on BBC Radio Scotland at 11:30 on Friday 21 June", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Businesses 'not fully ready' for no-deal, says Carney\n\nAbout 150,000 businesses still do not have the paperwork they need to keep exporting to the EU in the event of a no-deal Brexit, Mark Carney has said.\n\nThe Bank of England governor added that many had built up contingency stocks, but these would only last \"weeks\".\n\n\"Business will be reliant on what the governments are able to do in order to keep the ports open, the trade flowing,\" he told the Today programme.\n\nBut he said the financial system was prepared for a no-deal scenario.\n\nThe UK is due to leave the EU by 31 October after seeking an extension to leave the bloc back in March.\n\nBoris Johnson, considered the favourite in the race to become the next prime minister, has said the UK must leave in October, even if it has not struck a deal.\n\nHis rival, Jeremy Hunt, has said the UK may need more time, although he would accept no-deal as a last resort.\n\nAhead of his Mansion House speech to the City on Thursday, Mr Carney said about three quarters of UK businesses have done as much as they could do to prepare for a no-deal.\n\n\"But it doesn't mean they are fully ready, in fact far from it,\" he told the BBC.\n\nHe also stressed that in the event of a no-deal exit, the return of trade tariffs on goods shipped to the EU would be \"automatic\".\n\nThis contradicts a claim from Mr Johnson that the UK could secure a 10-year standstill in current arrangements using an article of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade known as \"Gatt 24\".\n\n\"The Gatt rules are clear... Gatt 24 applies if you have a [withdrawal] agreement, not if you've decided not to have an agreement, or you have been unable to come to an agreement,\" Mr Carney said.\n\n\"So... we should be clear that not having an agreement with the European Union would mean that there are tariffs, automatically, because the Europeans have to apply the same rules to us as they apply to everyone else.\"\n\nMr Carney also said he was cautiously open to Facebook's new digital currency, Libra, which is due to launch in the first half of next year.\n\nBut he said the Bank would be setting \"ground rules upfront\" to protect consumers and their data, and that Libra \"had to be safe or it is not going to happen\".\n\n\"Welcome to the world of finance: there is oversight, there is consumer protection, there is market integrity, people have certain rights to privacy that have to be respected.\n\n\"And we're not going to allow a network that comes into place that is a network for criminals and terrorists.\"\n\nFacebook unveiled details about Libra this week, claiming the virtual currency would be as easy to use as texting.\n\nIt said Libra would be independently managed, backed by real assets and pegged to a basket of well-known currencies.\n\nBut there have been concerns about how people's data and cash will be protected, as well as the currency's potential volatility.\n\nMr Carney said: \"All the major global central banks and supervisors would have direct regulatory control of this if it is going to work, which is an open question, and we have an open mind about it.\"", "Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt will go head-to-head to become Conservative leader amid claims tactical voting led to Michael Gove's exit from the race.\n\nMr Johnson's team has denied such tactics - but at least one backer suggested some MPs may have switched votes to end Mr Gove's campaign.\n\nMr Hunt promised Mr Johnson \"the fight of his life\" in the coming weeks.\n\nThey have to convince the 160,000 party members to vote for them, with the contest ending in late July.\n\nMr Johnson had been widely expected to be one of the final two candidates, having topped all four previous ballots of Conservative MPs, with Environment Secretary Michael Gove and Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt vying for second spot.\n\nTwo ballots were held on Thursday, resulting in the elimination of Home Secretary Sajid Javid and Mr Gove.\n\nAs soon as the final parliamentary ballot result was announced on Thursday, MPs began speculating there may have been foul play after analysing the number of votes cast for each candidate.\n\nFive MPs who had supported Mr Javid - Chris Philp, Chris Skidmore, Mims Davies, Kevin Foster and Mike Wood - promised to switch to Mr Johnson in the final secret ballot.\n\nBut Mr Johnson's vote increased by just three.\n\nSimon Clarke, who is backing Mr Johnson, suggested some MPs may have \"freelanced\" outside the official campaign.\n\n\"I think some people might have taken it upon themselves to try and steer the outcome,\" he said.\n\nMr Johnson and Mr Gove fell out during the 2016 leadership contest - which saw Theresa May become prime minister - when Mr Gove abandoned Mr Johnson's bid to be leader to launch his own.\n\nAfter Thursday's results, some of Mr Gove's supporters claimed Mr Johnson's backers may have voted for Mr Hunt to eliminate their candidate.\n\nHowever, Mr Gove's campaign manager, Mel Stride, dismissed suggestions there had been a vote-switching operation, saying: \"It doesn't seem to me on first observation of this that there has been.\n\n\"Because we didn't see a situation where, as some had speculated, a very large number of votes might have transferred from, say, Boris Johnson to Jeremy Hunt.\n\n\"It would appear to me everybody has behaved pretty much as one would hope they would.\"\n\nMr Gove and Mr Johnson campaigned side by side for Leave during the EU referendum campaign\n\nConservative MP Johnny Mercer, who supports Mr Johnson, also denied there had been an \"underhand operation\".\n\n\"I am pretty close to Mr Johnson and to the operation and the campaign and I just haven't seen it,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nSir Alan Duncan, who is supporting Mr Hunt, told Channel 4 News: \"There's talk of one team using proxies designed for their candidate being used for another to boost them.\n\n\"Well, you know, this happens in all leadership contests.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Cheryl Gillan announces Michael Gove is voted out of the Conservative leadership race,\n\nMr Johnson and Mr Hunt will now take part in hustings in front of Conservative Party members around the country, before members' postal votes are counted, with the final result to be announced during the week of 22 July.\n\nThere will be a head-to-head debate on ITV on 9 July.\n\nThere's no doubt that Mr Johnson is, at this stage (and there's a long way to go), widely expected to end up in Number 10.\n\nBut this result is an enormous relief to his camp, for the simple reason that they think Mr Hunt is easier to beat.\n\nForget any differences in style between the two challengers and their comparative talents - Jeremy Hunt voted Remain in the EU referendum.\n\nAnd for many Tory members it is a priority for the next leader to have been committed to that cause, rather than a recent convert, however zealous.\n\nFollowing the result on Thursday, Mr Johnson tweeted he was \"deeply honoured\" to get the backing of 160 MPs - more than half of the total.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Hunt acknowledged Mr Johnson was the frontrunner to become party leader and prime minister, tweeting that he was the \"underdog\" but saying that, in politics, \"surprises happen\".", "Scientists have taken cancer apart piece-by-piece to reveal its weaknesses, and come up with new ideas for treatment.\n\nA team at the Wellcome Sanger Institute disabled every genetic instruction, one at a time, inside 30 types of cancer.\n\nIt has thrown up 600 new cancer vulnerabilities and each could be the target of a drug.\n\nCancer Research UK praised the sheer scale of the study.\n\nThe study heralds the future of personalised cancer medicine. At the moment drugs like chemotherapy cause damage throughout the body.\n\nOne of the researchers is Dr Fiona Behan, whose mother died after getting cancer for the second time.\n\nThe first course of chemotherapy damaged her mother's heart, so she was not physically strong enough for many treatments the second time around.\n\nDr Behan told the BBC: \"This is so important because currently we treat cancer by treating the entire patient's body. We don't target the cancer cells specifically.\n\n\"The information we have uncovered in this study has identified key weak-spots of the cancer cells, and will allow us to develop drugs that target the cancer and leave the healthy tissue undamaged.\"\n\nThe researchers believe their work could lead to new treatments\n\nCancer is caused by mutations inside our body's own cells that change the instructions written into our DNA.\n\nMutations corrupt cells leading to them growing uncontrollably, spreading around the body and eventually killing people.\n\nThe researchers embarked on a gargantuan feat of disabling each genetic instruction - called a gene - inside cancers, to see which were crucial for survival.\n\nThey disrupted nearly 20,000 genes in more than 300 lab-grown tumours made from 30 different types of cancer.\n\nThey used a tool called Crispr - the same genetic technology that was used to re-engineer two babies in China last year.\n\nIt is a relatively new, easy and cheap tool for manipulating DNA, and this study would have been an impossible feat just a decade ago.\n\nThe results, published in the journal Nature, revealed 6,000 crucial genes which at least one type of cancer needs to survive.\n\nSome were unsuitable for developing cancer drugs, as they are also essential in healthy cells.\n\nOthers are already the target of precision drugs like Herceptin in breast cancer - the team called this a \"sanity check\" that proves their method works.\n\nAnd yet more are beyond current science to develop suitable drugs, so the researchers narrowed down a shortlist of 600 potential new targets for drugs to attack.\n\nOne potential target is \"Werner syndrome RecQ helicase\" also known more simply as WRN.\n\nThe research team found it was essential for keeping some of the most genetically unstable cancers alive.\n\nWRN plays a vital role in around 15% of colon cancers and 28% of stomach cancers, but there are no drugs that target it.\n\nThe work was a collaboration between Sanger, the European Molecular Biology Laboratory and pharmaceutical giant GSK. All the findings are publicly available.\n\nThe eventual aim of the research is to develop a \"Cancer Dependency Map\" of every vulnerability in every type of cancer.\n\nThen doctors would be able to test a patient's tumour and give them a cocktail of precision drugs to kill the cancerous cells.\n\nDr Behan told the BBC: \"We're understanding what's going on in the cancer cells so we can shoot our machine gun at the cancer cells, not at the whole body as chemotherapy does.\n\n\"This is the first step in putting a laser sight on our machine gun.\"\n\nProf Karen Vousden, Cancer Research UK's chief scientist, said: \"What makes this research so powerful, is the scale.\n\n\"This work provides some excellent starting points and the next step will be a thorough analysis of the genes that have been identified as weaknesses in this study, to determine if they will one day lead to the development of new treatments for patients.\"", "Lucas Needham failed to stop for police while driving on the A55\n\nA banned driver who drove at 130mph while a seven-year-old boy was in the car has been jailed for two-and-a-half-years.\n\nLucas Needham, 26, of Linden Avenue, Connah's Quay, Flintshire, failed to stop for police on 20 May while driving on the A55 in north Wales.\n\nThe court heard Needham was serving a suspended sentence at the time.\n\nJudge Niclas Parry said: \"The time really has come for the public to be given a rest from you.\"\n\nHe told Mold Crown Court: \"It's difficult to imagine behaviour far more irresponsible than shown by you.\"\n\nNeedham previously pleaded guilty to driving dangerously, driving while disqualified and uninsured and resisting arrest.\n\nHe also admitted another count of dangerous driving, in relation to an incident four months earlier when he drove at about 100mph (160 km/h) and rammed into another car.\n\nJudge Parry said Needham \"realised police had clocked him\" before embarking on a \"shocking\" piece of driving.\n\nNeedham reached speeds of 130mph (209km/h) in a 70mph area and at one stage switched off his lights while it was dark.\n\n\"As if that was not serious enough, upon stopping, you violently resisted police who tried to arrest you,\" Judge Parry said.\n\nDefending barrister Andrew Green said his client was under no illusion that his sentence had to be custody and the only question was how long it should be.\n\nHe told the court he was sorry for what he had done and said he had been dealing with issues including anxiety, depression and ADHD.\n\n\"He made the wrong choices,\" Mr Green said.\n\nMr Parry said it was \"shameful you had such disregard for his [the boy's] well-being\".\n\nNeedham crashed into a BMW, leaving its driver injured, before fleeing police until he was eventually stopped near Holywell.\n\nThe court heard he had a string of previous convictions covering 62 offences, many of them driving-related.\n\nHe will also be banned from driving for three years from his release date.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Boris Johnson brought the spotlight to Ballymena when he opened a plant to build parts for his \"Boris buses\"\n\nAs the race to be the next Tory leader is whittled down to the final two candidates, here is what a Boris Johnson or a Jeremy Hunt premiership could mean for Northern Ireland.\n\nMr Johnson's main link to Northern Ireland used to be his red buses.\n\nIn 2013, the then London mayor opened a Wrightbus plant in Ballymena, County Antrim, where parts for them are made.\n\nFew would have bet that within six years he would be a frontrunner to become prime minister.\n\nBattling him for the keys to Number 10 is Mr Hunt, the foreign secretary who insists he's best placed to strengthen the union of the United Kingdom.\n\nBut what are their positions on central issues such as the political crisis in Stormont, the Tories' confidence-and-supply partners the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) and the Irish border question?\n\nThis will be key for whoever takes over in Number 10 but both candidates face an uphill battle to get their preferred Brexit deal through Parliament.\n\nThe backstop is the insurance policy to maintain a seamless border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland: opposition to it brought Theresa May's time in office to an abrupt end.\n\nMr Johnson has referred to it as a \"monstrosity\" that wipes out the UK's sovereignty and he has called for the backstop to be removed from the withdrawal deal.\n\nHe believes the EU can be persuaded to reopen the agreement, but says the UK should still prepare for a no-deal Brexit.\n\nBoris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt both believe they can succeed where Theresa May failed\n\nMr Hunt has said the EU accepts that the backstop will never be approved by Parliament.\n\nHe maintains he has had conversations with European leaders who \"understand that the backstop will not get through Parliament - they may not have understood that before\".\n\nHe proposes sending a new negotiating team team to Brussels, which would include representatives of the European Research Group - the group of Conservative MPs who support harder forms of Brexit - and members of the DUP.\n\nMany in the Conservative Party believe a new personality at the top can change hearts and minds in Europe but the EU has insisted that the backstop is not up for renegotiation.\n\nThe DUP is keeping quiet about who it would like to see move into Downing Street.\n\nThe party is no stranger to the \"Boris effect\": the Conservative MP was the keynote speaker at the DUP conference last year.\n\nBoris Johnson sat in between the DUP leadership at the party conference last November\n\nBut it will be wary of broken promises.\n\nAt the conference, he called for the backstop to be \"junked\" but then voted for the agreement - including the backstop - during the third meaningful vote in March.\n\nThere's also the matter of renewing the confidence-and-supply pact.\n\nThe Conservatives needed the votes of the DUP's 10 MPs in order to have a working Commons majority after the 2017 Westminster election but had to agree to an extra £1bn in spending for Northern Ireland.\n\nSome Johnson-backing Tory MPs, like Daniel Kawczynski, want the next PM to call a fresh election rather than continue to be at the DUP's \"beck and call\".\n\nWhile the DUP voted against Theresa May's Brexit deal and threatened the government several times over the backstop, it is worth saying that the influence the DUP wields at Westminster is very valuable.\n\nIt will want to work with whoever becomes prime minister.\n\nJeremy Hunt would not be as closely aligned to the DUP as other members of his party.\n\nBut he has sought to paint himself as the candidate best placed to strengthen the union and win the backing of the DUP with a new Brexit deal.\n\nThe latest talks to try and restore power-sharing in Northern Ireland began in May.\n\nAlthough talks haven't broken down, there are no signs of a political breakthrough any time soon.\n\nSinn Féin and the DUP have pointed the finger at each other during the course of the talks processes\n\nIf Boris Johnson becomes PM he is likely to replace the Northern Ireland Secretary Karen Bradley - a Theresa May loyalist - with someone new.\n\nHow could that affect the ongoing talks process, which Mrs Bradley has been overseeing?\n\nUnlike unsuccessful candidate Michael Gove, who said he would personally lead talks to restore the Stormont administration, Jeremy Hunt has not made much mention of the process.\n\nIt is not clear if he would replace his cabinet colleague Mrs Bradley in the Northern Ireland brief.\n\nEarlier this year, Mr Hunt said the UK was wholly \"committed\" to the 1998 Good Friday peace agreement and many of the parties in Northern Ireland would be keen to see him live up to that.\n\nA fresh pair of eyes could possibly help move the Stormont negotiations along - but it's likely to prove as difficult to resolve as Brexit.", "Former MP Harvey Proctor has been giving evidence as a witness in the trial of Carl Beech\n\nA former MP broke down in court as he recalled being named a child murderer and paedophile by a man later charged with lying over the claims.\n\nHarvey Proctor was giving evidence as a witness in the trial of Carl Beech, 51, who has been accused of lying to police about an alleged VIP paedophile ring.\n\nMr Beech denies 12 counts of perverting the course of justice and one of fraud.\n\nHe had claimed Mr Proctor was directly involved in two murders and multiple counts of abuse in the 1970s and 1980s.\n\nGiving evidence at Newcastle Crown Court, Mr Proctor was asked by prosecutor Tony Badenoch QC how he felt about being accused of \"the murder of children and of sadistic sexual offending\".\n\nThe former Conservative MP replied: \"The allegations are wrong, malicious, false, horrendous.\"\n\nMr Beech, from Gloucester, was known by the name \"Nick\" when his claims were first reported in the media.\n\nHe is on trial accused of lying about being sexually abused by a group of well-known figures from politics, the media and intelligence. He also told police he had witnessed three boys being murdered.\n\nHis claims led to the Metropolitan Police's Operation Midland, which cost £2m and ended without any charges.\n\nCarl Beech, pictured in a 2014 police interview, denies fraud and perverting the course of justice\n\nAs well as Mr Proctor, among the people he accused of being in a paedophile ring were former prime minister Sir Edward Heath and former Home Secretary Lord Brittan.\n\nMr Proctor told the court he had a hostile relationship with Sir Edward - describing them as \"the antithesis of friends\" and neither was welcome at the other's home.\n\nJurors had previously heard how Mr Beech claimed he was let into a Conservative gentlemen's club - the Carlton Club - by Mr Proctor, and was then abused.\n\nMr Proctor said he had \"never met Nick\" and the allegations were \"an absurd fantasy\".\n\nHe told jurors: \"He is wrong. He is bearing false witness. There was no Westminster VIP paedophile ring.\"\n\nHarvey Proctor giving evidence as Carl Beech looks on\n\nJurors heard that Mr Proctor's home in Leicestershire was raided by police on 4 March 2015. He was living and working at the Belvoir Castle estate at the time, having left Parliament in 1987.\n\nDetectives did not disclose the details of the allegations against him during the 15-hour search, Mr Proctor said.\n\nHe became tearful when he described waking the next morning to discover the BBC reporting news about his home being searched in relation to claims of abuse and murder.\n\n\"I looked up at the television to see my face looking back at me\", he said, adding he then called the Radio 4 Today programme and said publicly - during a radio interview - that he had been plunged into a \"horrendous irrational nightmare\" and \"was not guilty of any of the allegations\".\n\nMr Proctor said intense media interest following the police raid led to him losing his job. He then decided he \"wasn't safe\" in the UK and moved to Spain, the court heard.\n\nHe told jurors that \"the Metropolitan Police believed the allegations against me were credible and true\".\n\nThe witness said a senior Met officer - Det Supt Kenny MacDonald - had given a press conference early in the inquiry and described the claims in such terms.\n\n\"I thought it was an extraordinary statement to be made by any police officer at the start of a police investigation\", he said, adding that he had not realised the detective was talking about him when he first saw it.\n\nHe returned to the UK to be interviewed by police on 18 June 2015. In the days beforehand, his solicitors showed him a document setting out the claims that detectives wanted to ask about: three allegations of murder and several allegations of sexual abuse of children.\n\nJurors have previously been shown a video in which the defendant told detectives he saw Mr Proctor strangle and stab a boy to death during a sadistic sexual abuse session.\n\nMr Beech also said Mr Proctor had been involved in the murder of another unknown child.\n\n\"These were horrendous, horrible, heinous allegations,\" Mr Proctor said. \"These are the worst things that one person can say against another. It was all untrue.\"\n\nHe said he was \"relieved\" to finally know what he was accused of so that he could \"fight back against these false allegations\".\n\nThe trial will continue on Friday.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson, Jeremy Hunt and Michael Gove are voted through to the final round of the Tory leadership race\n\nSajid Javid has been knocked out of the Tory leadership race, leaving three contenders vying for the job and to be the next prime minister.\n\nThe home secretary received 34 votes, coming behind Jeremy Hunt with 59.\n\nMichael Gove received 61 votes, leapfrogging Mr Hunt to gain second place; while frontrunner Boris Johnson got 157 votes from MPs.\n\nMPs have voted in a fifth ballot to select the final two candidates.\n\nThe remaining two MPs will compete in a run-off of the party's 160,000 or so members, and the winner will be announced in the week of 22 July.\n\nThe BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg said: \"The question is now, where do Mr Javid's votes go? His supporters have been an interesting mixed bag so it is not easy to read where they go.\"\n\nMr Javid is not expected to endorse anyone publicly this afternoon.\n\nLeader of the Scottish Conservatives Ruth Davidson - a key supporter of Sajid Javid - said she now wanted Mr Gove in the final two, describing him as \"smart, articulate and always on top of detail\". Ms Davidson is not an MP and therefore does not get a vote in the fifth ballot.\n\nMr Javid said he was \"truly humbled by the support I have received\".\n\n\"If my ambition and conduct in this contest has set an example for anyone, then it has been more than worth it,\" he said. \"These are very challenging times ahead for our party and our government... the Conservatives must continue to be a broad church.\"\n\nAddressing his comments to \"kids who look and feel a bit different to their classmates\" he said: \"Don't let anyone try and cut you down to size or say you aren't a big enough figure to aim high.\n\n\"You have as much right as anyone to a seat at the top table.\"\n\nMr Johnson, a former Foreign Secretary, said he was \"incredibly grateful\" for the support of more than half of all Conservative MP, adding that \"we have much more work to do\".\n\nEnvironment Secretary Mr Gove jumped into second place, overtaking Foreign Secretary Mr Hunt, who had been second in each of the three previous rounds of voting.\n\nMr Gove said he was \"absolutely delighted\" adding: \"If I make the final two I look forward to having a civilised debate of ideas about the future of our country.\"\n\nMr Hunt said: \"The critical decision now for all colleagues is what choice do we present to the country.\n\n\"Choose me for unity over division, and I will put Boris through his paces and then bring our party and country back together.\"\n\nA source close to Mr Hunt told the BBC: \"Boris and Michael are great candidates but we have seen their personal psychodrama before. Jeremy Hunt is the candidate who can best unify the party.\"\n\nOf the 313 Conservative MPs who voted, there were two spoilt ballots.", "The parents of a Muslim convert dubbed \"Jihadi Jack\" have been found guilty of funding terrorism.\n\nJohn Letts, 58, and Sally Lane, 57, from Oxford, sent their son £223 while he was in Syria despite concerns he had joined the Islamic State group.\n\nJack Letts, who converted to Islam aged 16, first travelled to Syria in 2014.\n\nHe married and had a child with an Iraqi woman before being captured and imprisoned by Kurdish forces fighting IS in 2017.\n\nHe agreed to speak to the BBC in October last year. Only now that his parents’ trial is over can we broadcast the interview.\n\nHe spoke to the BBC's Middle East correspondent, Quentin Sommerville.", "Former MP Harvey Proctor was cross-examined as a witness in the trial of Carl Beech\n\nA former MP who was named a paedophile and murderer by a man later charged with making the claims up says police investigators acted in \"bad faith\".\n\nHarvey Proctor was being cross-examined as a witness in the trial of Carl Beech who is accused of lying to police about an alleged VIP paedophile ring.\n\nHe denounced a defence suggestion at Newcastle Crown Court that the claims against him \"are in fact true\".\n\nMr Beech denies 12 counts of perverting the course of justice and one of fraud.\n\nThe 51-year-old from Gloucester had claimed Mr Proctor was directly involved in two murders and multiple counts of abuse in the 1970s and 1980s.\n\nDefence lawyer Collingwood Thompson QC asked Mr Proctor in his cross-examination: \"You were a member of a paedophile ring weren't you?\"\n\nWhen it was suggested he had been part of a group of powerful people who abused children at Dolphin Square in London and other locations, Mr Proctor said: \"No sir, there was no Westminster VIP paedophile ring.\"\n\nMr Proctor, 72, told the court he was suing the Metropolitan Police and his accuser for £1m in damages.\n\nThe trial heard previously he had lost his home and job as a result of the claims.\n\nThe court heard Mr Proctor was not interviewed by police until June 2015, despite his home in the grounds of Belvoir Castle being raided by officers three months earlier.\n\n\"If they genuinely thought that I had murdered anyone, why would they have waited three-and-a-half months to interview me and then interview me on a voluntary interview but not charge?,\" Mr Proctor said.\n\n\"They're allowing a murderer to roam the streets of Leicestershire for three-and-a-half months? An absurdity, but just another absurdity in the Metropolitan Police's Operation Midland,\" he told the court.\n\nHarvey Proctor giving evidence as Carl Beech looks on\n\nOperation Midland - the investigation into Mr Beech's claims - cost £2m and ended without any charges.\n\nMr Proctor said he was reassured by officers carrying out the search of his home that the media would not be told about it.\n\nThe former Conservative MP for Billericay said it was \"quite outrageous\" that Mr Beech's police liaison officer, Det Con Danny Chatfield, was a member of the search team and told Mr Beech what was happening.\n\nMr Proctor said Mr Beech then told a reporter about the police raid.\n\nMr Proctor previously told the court the consequent intense media interest led to him losing his job at the Belvoir Castle estate. He then decided he \"wasn't safe\" in the UK and moved to Spain, the court heard.", "Boris Johnson, the UK's new prime minister, was already one of the UK's most recognisable politicians.\n\nHis high profile - built up as an MP, London mayor and foreign secretary - has often seen his achievements accompanied by controversy.\n\nAs editor of the Spectator magazine and a Have I Got News For You contestant, Boris Johnson was already well known for his shambolic persona.\n\nIn 2001, he became an MP, replacing Michael Heseltine in the safe Conservative seat of Henley-on-Thames.\n\nHe was considered more liberal than many Tories. As a journalist, he had questioned the repeal of laws banning the promotion of homosexuality by local authorities. But as an MP, he changed tack and said the state should not interfere in people's lives. He also voted in favour of civil partnerships.\n\nBoris Johnson during one of his Have I Got News For You appearances, in 2004\n\nIn October 2004, then Conservative leader Michael Howard ordered him to visit Liverpool to apologise for a Spectator article accusing its residents of wallowing in \"disproportionate\" grief after Ken Bigley - an engineer from the city - was kidnapped and killed in Iraq.\n\nAnd the following month, he was sacked as shadow arts minister, amid claims he had misled Mr Howard about reports of an affair with Spectator columnist Petronella Wyatt.\n\nNevertheless, a year later, he was on the rise again - resigning from his Spectator post when new Tory leader David Cameron made him shadow higher education minister.\n\nHowever, he continued to write for the Telegraph and had to make another apology - to a whole country - after he linked Papua New Guinea to \"cannibalism and chief-killing\" in a column.\n\nBy 2007, the Henley MP had his sights set on one of the biggest jobs in UK politics.\n\nTaking over from Labour's Ken Livingstone in 2008, Boris Johnson remained London mayor until 2016. It is the longest continuous period of public office that he has held.\n\nHe's often spoken of what he considers to be his biggest achievements during that period: on crime, housing and transport.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Back Boris This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe homicide rate in London - which includes murder and manslaughter - fell from 22 per million to 12 per million people during his time as mayor. However, it was also falling during his predecessor's second term.\n\nAnd in the first few years after Mr Johnson took over, knife crime rose by over 15% - although from 2012-13 onwards it started to fall.\n\nMr Johnson had backed the police use of stop-and-search powers to tackle violent crime. And he said he would ensure police numbers would go up despite central government cuts.\n\nHome Office figures show police numbers in London rose slightly, from 31,460 to 32,125, between March 2008 and March 2016. Across England and Wales in that period the number of officers fell by 17,603.\n\nThere was an increase in the number of affordable homes built - 101,525 by the end of March 2016, of which the Greater London Authority contributed to 94,001. This was a rise compared with the two terms of Mr Livingstone, although the definition of affordable housing had changed in 2011 so the figures are not directly comparable.\n\nHe scrapped the so-called bendy buses - which he said were too big for narrow streets and encouraged fare-dodgers.\n\nIn their place, he introduced a new version of the popular Routemaster London bus - a move that was criticised as a vanity project. There were complaints about non-opening windows and problems with the hybrid engines. They also cost considerably more than a normal bus.\n\nOne of his most famous transport initiatives was the so-called \"Boris Bike\" cycle scheme, introduced in July 2010.\n\nMr Johnson regularly promoted the hire bikes by riding them himself and the number of rentals reached more than 10.3 million during his last year as mayor.\n\nHowever, critics pointed to the £11m-a-year cost of keeping the bikes on the road. Others pointed out that plans for a bike hire scheme had been announced while Mr Livingstone had been mayor.\n\nAs mayor, Mr Johnson became involved in overseeing arrangements for the 2012 Olympics, planning for which started after they were awarded to London in 2005.\n\nOne of the most memorable moments was when he got stuck on a zip wire, while celebrating the UK's first gold medal win. The Olympics were widely seen as a success and there were claims that they had provided a major economic boost.\n\nBut there were also questions raised about the Olympics' legacy, including criticism of the conversion of the Olympic Stadium into a football ground. In 2017, an independent review said the conversion had cost £323m - far more than the original estimate of £190m.\n\nThe latter part of his time as mayor saw a plan to build a garden bridge over the River Thames as a memorial to Princess Diana.\n\nThe pedestrian-only bridge, with trees and plants, which was first suggested by the actress Joanna Lumley in 1998, was to be funded by private and public money.\n\nBut it was cancelled in 2017, after a review recommended the project be scrapped - £53m had already been spent on the project; £43m of which came from the public purse.\n\nMr Johnson decided he wanted to return to Parliament before his term as mayor ended, in 2016. He won the seat of Uxbridge and South Ruislip in 2015.\n\nAfter resuming life as an MP, he declared his opposition to expanding nearby Heathrow airport, saying he would lie in front of the bulldozers.\n\nAs London mayor, he had promoted an alternative scheme, for an island airport in the Thames estuary, an idea rejected on cost and environmental grounds.\n\nBut Mr Johnson was noticeably absent when MPs subsequently voted on Heathrow expansion in June 2018, as he was on an official trip to Afghanistan.\n\nMr Johnson had been appointed foreign secretary by the new prime minister, Theresa May, in 2016.\n\nHe had also run in the Tory leadership campaign that year but dramatically pulled out after Michael Gove's surprise decision to enter the race.\n\nThe job as foreign secretary was seen as an acknowledgement of his role as a leading figure in the campaign to leave the EU.\n\nHowever, there was also some surprise at the choice, with Lib Dem leader Tim Farron saying he would \"spend more time apologising to nations he's offended\" than working as foreign secretary.\n\nAnd there were the disparaging comments about other countries and their leaders - some of which were made before he got the job.\n\nThey included a Limerick - which won a £1,000 award in 2016 - about Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and a goat. And he said the Libyan city of Sirte could be the new Dubai if \"they... clear the dead bodies away\".\n\nAs foreign secretary, Mr Johnson supported a tough line against Russia, with the expulsion of its diplomats after the poisoning of former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia Skripal.\n\nTwenty-nine countries, including the US, Canada, Australia and EU states, joined the UK, expelling more than 140 Russian diplomats in a co-ordinated move.\n\nNazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been detained in Iran since 2016\n\nBut in the case of British Iranian national Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, jailed in Iran, Mr Johnson had to apologise in Parliament.\n\nHe had said she had been teaching journalists in Iran when she had been detained, contradicting her statement that she had been on holiday at the time.\n\nHe later clarified that she had in fact been on holiday but has also said he does not believe his remarks made a difference to her plight - a claim rejected by her family.\n\nA few days after Mr Johnson made his remarks, Zaghari-Ratcliffe was summoned before an Iranian judge, to face charges of engaging in propaganda against the regime.\n\nAs foreign secretary, he also earned a rebuke from Downing Street, after comments emerged in which he had criticised close ally Saudi Arabia for engaging in proxy wars in the Middle East.\n\nNevertheless, he continued to allow sales of UK arms to Saudi Arabia, which is involved in a controversial military campaign in Yemen.\n\nIn 2018, Mr Johnson also faced criticism after writing in the Daily Telegraph that Muslim women wearing the burka \"looked like letterboxes\".\n\nBy this stage, though, he had left the government, resigning in protest at Theresa May's Brexit plan.\n\nBoris Johnson was a leading figure in the Vote Leave campaign during the 2016 EU referendum.\n\nHe became well known for his attacks on the EU and for advocating the benefits of Brexit. He declared that he was \"pro-having cake and pro-eating it\".\n\nBut it hadn't always been clear which side he would support.\n\nIn fact, while mayor of London, he'd spoken of the benefits of being in the single market.\n\nAnd in an article for the Daily Telegraph in 2013, weighing up the pros and cons of being in the EU, he had said that leaving would not solve the UK's problems.\n\nHowever, he also made clear he supported plans to ask the British people to decide about EU membership.\n\nDuring the Brexit campaign, he came under sustained criticism from those in favour of Remain, for his claims about the benefits of leaving and what he called \"taking back control\".\n\nMost controversial was a claim about how much money the UK sent to the EU. The £350m-a-week figure, which appeared on the side of a bus during the campaign, recently led to an unsuccessful attempt to prosecute him. Critics pointed out at the time that the figure was wrong as it did not take into account the UK's rebate, or indeed money subsequently spent in the UK.\n\nFor his part, Mr Johnson dismissed warnings that leaving the EU could spark a recession, describing one such study as propaganda.\n\nAnd he has continued to advocate a harder form of Brexit, sharply criticising both the deal that Mrs May agreed and her whole approach to the negotiations with the EU.\n\nHe described it as leading the UK into the \"status of a colony\", in his resignation letter, in July 2018.\n\nMr Johnson has continued to insist that the UK can and should leave the EU by 31 October, with or without a deal.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Greenpeace activist says Mark Field actions 'over the top'\n\nMark Field has been suspended as a Foreign Office minister after grabbing a female Greenpeace activist at a black-tie City dinner.\n\nThe MP has apologised for confronting Janet Barker and marching her away as protesters interrupted a speech by Chancellor Philip Hammond.\n\nMs Barker suggested Mr Field \"go to anger management classes\" but said she did not intend to complain to police.\n\nMr Field said he had been \"genuinely worried\" she may have been armed.\n\nBBC home affairs correspondent Daniel Sandford said there were also \"very serious questions to be asked\" about security, as a \"large number\" of protesters had apparently managed to \"walk through\" to the event at London's Mansion House.\n\nFootage of the incident involving Mr Field has been widely shared on social media, with several Labour politicians calling for him to be sacked.\n\nA Downing Street spokeswoman said Prime Minister Theresa May had \"seen the footage\" and \"found it very concerning\".\n\nShe added that Mr Field had \"referred himself to both the Cabinet Office and the Conservative Party. He will be suspended as a minister while investigations take place.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nClimate change protesters - wearing suits, red dresses and sashes with \"climate emergency\" written on them - entered Mansion House on Thursday night, as Mr Hammond was beginning his speech on the state of the economy.\n\nOne of them began reading an alternative speech.\n\nAs Ms Barker walked past his table, Mr Field stood up, stopped her and pushed her against a column.\n\nThe Conservative MP for the Cities of London and Westminster then put a hand on the back of her neck and led her out of the room.\n\nMs Barker told the BBC the purpose of the protest had been to speak to \"men who are in power, the bankers, the investors that are continuing to invest into fossil fuels\".\n\n\"We were polite with people and said: 'We're here to deliver a message',\" she said.\n\nCity of London Police said they were looking into \"a number of third-party reports of a possible assault\".\n\n\"He certainly manhandled me in a way in which was very disagreeable,\" she said.\n\nAsked if she felt Mr Field's actions amounted to criminal assault, Ms Barker said: \"No, I don't think so. I don't want this to turn into a mud-slinging match.\"\n\nThe activist, who travelled from her home in Wales to take part in Thursday's protest, said: \"350 people were there and only one person reacted that way.\n\n\"It's more the behaviour of that individual. I want him to reflect on what he did and not do it again. Maybe he should go to anger management classes.\"\n\nProtesters dressed in black tie and red dresses crowded into the building\n\nThe City of London Corporation is to review security after protesters walked into Mansion House\n\nBefore his suspension, Mr Field told ITV News that guests had \"understandably felt threatened\" and he had \"instinctively reacted\" when Ms Barker rushed past.\n\n\"There was no security present and I was, for a split second, genuinely worried she might have been armed,\" Mr Field said.\n\nHe added: \"I deeply regret this episode and unreservedly apologise to the lady concerned for grabbing her, but in the current climate I felt the need to act decisively to close down the threat to the safety of those present.\"\n\nLabour's shadow women and equalities minister Dawn Butler tweeted: \"This is horrific... [Mark Field] must immediately be suspended or sacked.\"\n\nBut Mr Field was defended by some of his colleagues, with Conservative MP Johnny Mercer tweeting: \"He panicked, he's not trained in restraint and arrest, and if you think this is 'serious violence' you may need to recalibrate your sensitivities.\"\n\nAnother Conservative MP, Bob Stewart, told BBC Radio 4's World at One that Mr Field had \"probably\" placed his hand on Ms Barker's neck because if he had \"touched her anywhere else he'd probably have been deemed highly inappropriate\".\n\nConservative leadership contender Jeremy Hunt, who, as Foreign Secretary, is Mr Field's boss, said: \"Mark has issued a full and unreserved apology. He recognised that what happened was an over-reaction.\n\n\"In his interest and in the interest of the lady involved we need a proper [Cabinet Office] inquiry and that's what going to happen.\"\n\nThe City of London Corporation said it was investigating how security had been breached at Mansion House, adding it would be \"reviewing arrangements for future events\".", "Climate change protesters have disrupted the beginning of the Chancellor Philip Hammond's Mansion House Speech.\n\nThe protesters were removed from the City of London event for the financial services industry, and Mr Hammond was able to continue a few minutes later.\n\n\"The irony of course, is that this is the government that has just led the world by committing to a zero carbon economy by 2050,\" said the chancellor.", "Rylance said he was quitting to \"lend strength\" to progressive voices in the RSC\n\nActor Mark Rylance has resigned from the Royal Shakespeare Company over its sponsorship deal with oil company BP.\n\nRylance, in a resignation letter, said he was quitting to \"lend strength\" to progressive voices in the RSC.\n\nThe RSC said it is \"saddened\" by Rylance's departure but that corporate sponsorship is \"an important part\" of its funding.\n\nIn 2016, he said he was likely to quit unless the RSC dropped its ties to BP.\n\nThe oil company declined to comment on Rylance's personal choice, but said it remains committed to sustainable energy solutions and is \"proud\" of its partnership with the RSC, held since 2011.\n\nThis includes funding a £5 ticket scheme for 16-25 year olds, with around 10,000 tickets being sold through the initiative each year.\n\nRylance, an Oscar-winner and associate artist with the RSC for 30 years, has been a longstanding critic of the sponsorship agreement.\n\nIn 2012, he signed a petition stating BP's sponsorship deal allowed the company to \"obscure the destructive reality of its activities\" which he said threatened the future of the planet.\n\n\"Half the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere currently warming our planet have been emitted in the last 30 years,\" he wrote in today's resignation letter.\n\n\"BP has made the third-biggest contribution to climate change of any private company in history.\n\n\"I do not wish to be associated with BP any more than I would with an arms dealer, a tobacco salesman or anyone who wilfully destroys the lives of others alive and unborn. Nor, I believe, would William Shakespeare,\" he added.\n\nRylance last appeared on stage for the RSC in 1989, when he had the lead roles in both Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Nicola Sturgeon discussed the Tory leadership race during a trip to the Royal Highland Show in Edinburgh\n\nThe Conservative party leadership race proves that Scotland is on a \"different political path\" to the rest of the UK, according to Scotland's first minister.\n\nJeremy Hunt and Boris Johnson are going head-to-head to become the next Tory leader and prime minister.\n\nBoth men say they are prepared to leave the European Union without a deal.\n\nAt the Royal Highland Show, Nicola Sturgeon told BBC Scotland both candidates were \"out of touch\" with mainstream opinion in Scotland.\n\nSupporters of both Mr Hunt, the foreign secretary, and former London mayor Mr Johnson say they will unite the country.\n\nThe pair won the most support in the final round of voting among Tory MPs on Thursday, which saw Environment Secretary Michael Gove eliminated.\n\nThey will now both go to a ballot of the wider membership of the Conservative party.\n\nMr Johnson and Mr Hunt took part in the BBC leaders debate\n\nMs Sturgeon said the leadership contest - which has been dominated by discussions on Brexit - highlighted stark differences between Scotland and the UK on the issue.\n\nA total of 51.9% of UK voters opted to leave in the EU referendum in 2016, but the figure was much lower in Scotland where only 38% voted in favour of Brexit.\n\nMs Sturgeon described both leadership rivals as \"hard line Brexiteers\" and warned that the risk of a \"catastrophic no deal\" was increasing.\n\nBut she said the Scottish government would do \"everything in our power\" to avoid it.\n\n\"I think most people in Scotland will be looking at the Tory leadership election and wondering how it's possible for a political establishment at Westminster to be so out of touch with mainstream opinion in Scotland,\" she told BBC Scotland.\n\nShe added: \"There's a growing sense in having a hard line Brexiteer, whether its Boris Johnson or Jeremy Hunt as prime minister, further illustrates that Scotland and the rest of the UK are on different political paths with different political priorities,\n\n\"Of course, there will be differences of opinion in what we should do about that.\n\n\"But surely it should be for Scotland to choose and decide which path we want to take - continue to be taken down the Westminster path, removed from the European Union, with someone like Boris Johnson as prime minister and all that entails, or the ability to become an independent European nation, co-operating with the rest of the UK but also being able to contribute in Europe and beyond.\n\n\"That's a choice that shouldn't be imposed on Scotland but one for us to make.\"\n\nThe first minister said she was reassuring the agricultural sector that the Scottish government would \"redouble its efforts\" to avoid a no deal Brexit\n\nLast month, Ms Sturgeon said she wanted to hold another referendum on Scottish independence in the second half of next year.\n\nHowever, Conservative MP Colin Clark, who is backing Mr Johnson in the leadership race, said the former foreign secretary could bring the UK together after a turbulent period in politics.\n\nHe said Mr Johnson would \"deliver on Brexit\" by 31 October, \"for the sake of business, farming and the rest of the economy\".\n\nThe MP for Gordon added: \"Boris is a proven entity when he was mayor of London, a city of nine or 10 million people.\n\n\"He brings people together. He's brought 160 Conservative MPs together.\n\n\"What we want to see him do is bring the country together and I truly believe that Boris Johnson, as prime minister, is the right man to create a cabinet to bring the country back together.\"\n\nMP for Gordon, Colin Clark, was vocal in his support for Boris Johnson during a visit to the Royal Highland Show\n\nMeanwhile, John Lamont, the MP for Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk, who was one of eight MPs to nominate Jeremy Hunt at the start of the campaign, reiterated his support for the minister.\n\n\"His pragmatic approach and his background in business means he is the only candidate who can negotiate with the EU and our own parliament to get Brexit delivered,\" he said.\n\n\"He is clear that he is prepared to walk away from the EU if no deal can be found, but that he would work hard to get a better deal for this country.\"\n\nMr Hunt has spent a lot of time in Scotland and understands the issues facing people in the Borders, he added.\n\n\"His plans to kick-start our economy by lowering taxes would bring jobs and investment to the Borders,\" he added. \"He also has some really radical plans about how we need to get better at championing and strengthening our United Kingdom.\"", "In Sudan, the ruling Military Council has switched off the internet in response to protests which took place on 3 June 2019.\n\nTomi Oladipo visits Khartoum and looks at how the switch off is affecting both the protesters' ability to organise and also the economics of a country that was already struggling financially.\n\nRead more at BBC Reality Check: How do governments shut down the internet?", "Nine-year-old Claire Roberts died in the city's Royal Hospital for Sick Children in 1996\n\nThe death of a nine-year-old girl in Belfast's Royal Hospital for Sick Children in 1996 was caused by treatment she received in hospital, an inquest has found.\n\nClaire Roberts' death was examined by the Hyponatraemia Inquiry.\n\nBut a new inquest was ordered after the chair of the inquiry said there had been a cover-up to \"avoid scrutiny\".\n\nThe Belfast Trust said it would \"carefully consider the coroner's conclusions and recommendations\".\n\nIt said it would \"ensure that the trust learns from Claire's death\".\n\nThe inquest heard from 10 expert medical witnesses over four days of hearings.\n\nThe coroner, Joe McCrisken, said he considered, on balance, that an \"overdose\" of fluids contributed to her death.\n\nHyponatraemia is a disorder that occurs during a sodium shortage in the blood.\n\nThe family of Claire Roberts - her brother Gareth and parents Alan and Jennifer - speaking outside court on Friday\n\nSpeaking outside court, Claire's family thanked the coroner for reaching his verdict.\n\nHer father Alan said that it was \"reaffirming what we have known for 15 years\".\n\n\"The travesty of all of that is we had to go through a 15-year process culminating in a Coroner's Court and him being definitive about the cause of death.\"\n\nHe added: \"We as Claire's parents have a clear message for the Belfast Trust, the implicated doctors and the chief medical officer Dr Michael McBride - hang your heads in shame.\"\n\nHer mother, Jennifer, said she knew Claire \"would be proud of her mummy and daddy\".\n\n\"But it's a word that I want to hear today, her say to me, 'mummy, thank you, I love you'.\"\n\nThe 14-year Hyponatraemia Inquiry, chaired by Sir John O'Hara QC, examined the treatment of five children who died in Northern Ireland hospitals between 1995 and 2003.\n\nSir John concluded that four of the deaths were avoidable and said some medical witnesses who were called to give evidence \"had to have the truth dragged out of them\".\n\nClaire, from east Belfast, was admitted to hospital two days before her death, with symptoms that included vomiting and drowsiness.\n\nThe parents explained how there were \"no alarm bells\" when they brought Claire to the Royal hospital for what they thought was \"just a tummy bug\".\n\nHer death was not referred to the coroner immediately and her parents, Alan and Jennifer Roberts, had never really understood why she had died.\n\nThe inquest heard from 10 expert medical witnesses over four days of hearings this week.\n\nOn Thursday, her mother told the inquest the Belfast Health Trust had shown her family \"no empathy\" since then.\n\nHer husband Alan said the trust had refused every opportunity to be \"open and honest\" with their family.\n• None Five deaths led to 14-year quest for truth", "Chris Davies apologised to his constituents for \"making such an error\"\n\nA Welsh Tory MP convicted over a false expenses claim will find out later if he has been unseated by a petition.\n\nIn March, Brecon and Radnorshire MP Chris Davies admitted a false expenses claim at Southwark Crown Court.\n\nA by-election will be triggered if 10% of the electorate in the constituency, 5,303 voters, have signed the petition.\n\nThe recall petition, which closed on Thursday, will be verified and counted at 10:00 BST, at Powys County Hall in Llandrindod Wells.\n\nThe result is expected soon afterwards. A petition officer will notify House of Commons Speaker John Bercow of the outcome before the outcome is made public.\n\nRecall petitions are launched when MPs receive a custodial sentence - including suspended sentences, are barred from the Commons for 10 sitting days or are convicted of providing false information about their expenses.\n\nPeterborough's former Labour MP Fiona Onasanya became the first MP to be unseated from the Commons in a recall petition in May after she was jailed for perverting the course of justice.", "If you are looking for drama, the Conservative Party rarely disappoints.\n\nIf you are looking for stability these days, that's a different matter.\n\nTo absolutely no one's surprise, Boris Johnson's march to Number 10 has taken a giant stride.\n\nLove him or loathe him, he is the biggest political star in this contest, and he persuaded his colleagues by a handsome margin that he's meant for the highest office in the land.\n\nThe number of votes he received increased again, up to 160 this time, more than half of the parliamentary party.\n\nThe gasps in central lobby when the result emerged though were not because of his stellar lead, but down to the wafer-thin margin in the race to be his challenger.\n\nEnvironment Secretary Michael Gove, Mr Johnson's companion on the referendum campaign trail before he sabotaged his leadership bid, received 75 votes.\n\nThat's quite something when you consider just 10 days ago he was under the cosh over revelations of taking cocaine when he was working as a journalist.\n\nBut Jeremy Hunt, the former Remainer and current Foreign Secretary, won 77 votes - so close you can almost hear the squeak.\n\nNow, there's no doubt that Mr Johnson is, at this stage (and there's a long way to go), widely expected to end up in Number 10.\n\nBut this result is an enormous relief to his camp, for the simple reason that they think Mr Hunt is easier to beat.\n\nForget any differences in style between the two challengers and their comparative talents - Jeremy Hunt voted Remain in the EU referendum.\n\nAnd for many Tory members it is a priority for the next leader to have been committed to that cause, rather than a recent convert, however zealous.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson, Jeremy Hunt and Michael Gove are voted through to the final round of the Tory leadership race\n\nOf course, pay attention to recent political history. Upsets are the norm. Outsiders become insiders. Strange things happen, and that's before you price in Mr Johnson's ability to cause havoc for himself.\n\nBut this result has left Mr Johnson's camp hugely relieved.\n\nOne of his most committed backers was laughing with joy and savouring not a little bit of revenge when I talked to them.\n\nMemories and suspicion linger long around here. And the narrow margin between Mr Gove and Mr Hunt has created doubts of its own.\n\nRumours are swirling that Mr Johnson's camp were engaged in skulduggery all day, that they would have pushed some of their own supporters to back Mr Hunt, to try to stop Mr Gove from coming second.\n\nThe message from on high in Mr Johnson's campaign is that the candidate himself was clear that absolutely must not happen, that he'd frown on any attempt to engineer the result.\n\nEyebrows have been raised, though. At least four of Sajid Javid's supporters declared online they would switch their support to Mr Johnson. But his actual tally only went up by three in the final ballot.\n\nWere their arms twisted to \"lend\" their actual votes to Mr Hunt to keep Mr Gove off the ballot?\n\nOne member of the cabinet said there had been \"more churn than a washing machine\". It was a secret ballot, so we will never know exactly what happened. But corralling votes is the fundamental art of getting politics done.\n\nBut now this episode is over, we know which pair of politicians will vie to run the country.\n\nThe favourite, a public school and Oxford-educated former cabinet minister, who has survived more serious scrapes than Theresa May's had hot dinners.\n\nThe other, a millionaire public school-educated Oxford graduate, who's been in the cabinet for nearly a decade who tonight, has branded himself \"the underdog\".\n\nAnd remember it's Tory members, not the rest of us, who'll make the final call.", "Cheryl Hooper was described by her parents as \"full of kindness\"\n\nA farmer who shot his estranged wife as she sat in her car outside her home has been jailed for life for her murder.\n\nCheryl Hooper, 51, was killed in front of her daughter outside her home in Newport, Shropshire, in January 2018.\n\nAndrew Hooper, 46, who turned the shotgun on himself after the attack, now has severe facial injuries that mean he has lost the ability to speak.\n\nAfter being found guilty by a jury at Birmingham Crown Court, Hooper was ordered to serve a minimum of 31 years.\n\nJudge Mark Wall QC told Hooper: \"The sentence that I must pass on you is one that you richly deserve - life imprisonment.\n\nTelling Hooper he had not expressed any remorse or regret after leaving a \"horrific aftermath\" when he fled the scene, the judge added: \"This was not a last-minute decision to kill, arrived at outside Cheryl's, but rather a planned execution.\"\n\nFollowing the verdict, Det Insp Mark Bellamy from West Mercia Police said Mrs Hooper had been murdered by her \"controlling and jealous husband in a premeditated act of the most savage violence\".\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service said, following their separation, Hooper had a tracker fitted to Mrs Hooper's car without her knowledge.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service said Hooper smashed the car's window with the shotgun before shooting his wife twice\n\nThe jury had heard Hooper suspected his wife was having an affair, and, on the night she was killed, tracked her to a pub in Wolverhampton and found her with friends and her suspected lover.\n\nLater, he arrived at her home, he said, intending to frighten her into leaving the other man and resuming their marriage.\n\nMrs Hooper's daughter said the defendant \"had murder in his eyes\" when he shot her mother in her Range Rover.\n\nFollowing the verdict, it emerged that Hooper was also given a suspended sentence in 2004 after breaking into his first wife's home and threatening to kill her.\n\nMrs Hooper's daughter Georgia, who was 14 at the time and witnessed the shooting, read a victim impact statement to the court.\n\n\"Mum was funny, beautiful and my best friend; the thought of her not being with me to share my life makes me very sad,\" she said.\n\nCheryl Hooper's daughter Georgia said her mum was her \"best friend\"\n\nJudge Mark Wall QC told the teenager: \"The way in which you have conducted yourself throughout this trial, which must have been extremely difficult for you, has been admirable and awe-inspiring.\n\n\"Your mother would, I have no doubt, been immensely proud of the way you have dealt with a tragic and difficult process.\"\n\nMrs Hooper's parents Tony and Rita said: \"Cheryl was a wonderful daughter, mother, sister and friend; she was beautiful both inside and out - full of kindness to everyone she came into contact with.\"\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Complaints (IOPC) said it had investigated contact Mrs Hooper had with police before her death, and published the results following the sentencing.\n\nIt said Mrs Hooper had made reports to Staffordshire Police about her estranged husband's behaviour, which had been referred to West Mercia Police, which covered Mrs Hooper's home area, to make appropriate safeguarding measures.\n\nIOPC regional director Derrick Campbell said: \"Police could not have reasonably foreseen the horrific event that transpired.\n\n\"While some inquiries could have been carried out more quickly or thoroughly, we found no indication that any officers or staff acted in a manner that would justify any disciplinary proceedings.\n\n\"Police decision-making and actions were carried out in compliance with relevant force and national policies.\"\n\nHowever, the IOPC said it had recommended Staffordshire Police explore opportunities to improve communications with neighbouring forces.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Shot girls say they are regularly propositioned while working\n\n\"Shot girls\" have described how they had been routinely sexually assaulted and often paid below the minimum wage.\n\nThree women from Newcastle said they were \"groped\" by men, propositioned for sex and told by bosses it was \"just part of the job\".\n\nThey were employed to carry shots of alcohol on a tray around nightclubs and try to sell them.\n\nThey made 30p a shot in commission and often took home only £5 a shift. The company in question denies the claims.\n\nAfter failing to pay her the minimum wage, one woman claimed the firm, which the BBC is not naming, said it was her fault for not working hard enough.\n\nKatie Readshaw, 25, from Durham, originally worked behind a bar but said she wanted to become a so-called shot girl because it looked \"glamorous\".\n\nShe said: \"I was behind the bar in a dingy horrible uniform, covered in vodka and they were wandering around in lovely little dresses and they seemed like they were always busy and making money.\"\n\nKatie said staff were actively encouraged to flirt with men for sales\n\nDuring an interview with her employers, she felt they were \"sizing up girls to see if they were pretty enough to work for them\".\n\nThe company said all staff were \"expertly trained\".\n\nMs Readshaw said training included a three-slide PowerPoint presentation telling them to \"never give up and to keep flirting\".\n\nAfter they signed a contract, the firm sent the women into bars around Newcastle where they had agreements to provide shot girls.\n\nThe company was not responsible for breaches of the law by bar customers, staff or bouncers.\n\nMs Readshaw said: \"I've had a few gropings and things. A married man giving me his keycard for his hotel, with the hand with his wedding ring on.\"\n\nShe said other men wanted to do \"violent acts\" to her.\n\nOne woman said it was \"non-stop bombardment\"\n\n\"You laugh it off and pretend it's all right, but it really makes your skin crawl. And you think well, if I leave and I go to walk home, what if they follow me?\"\n\nShe also said there were some nights when she would make £5 but her taxi home would be £6, meaning she had worked a full shift but ended the night with less money than she started it.\n\nAnother woman who worked as a shot girl, who did not want to be named, said: \"I had one friend who tripped and her bottle went flying everywhere.\n\n\"She had to replace that, but you have to do it at the price they get all the individual shots for.\n\n\"So that particular bottle of sambuca retailed at £30, but she had to pay £90 for it.\"\n\nShe said her worst experience was in a pub, when \"from start to finish it was a non-stop bombardment\" of men inappropriately touching her and commenting on her body.\n\n\"The thing I remember mainly at the end of the shift was being quite shaken up by how horrible it was, and then one of the managers coming in, their reaction was 'Well, that's kind of what happens isn't it, it comes with the territory of the job',\" she said.\n\nAnother woman told how she failed to sell a single shot and only had 20 minutes until her last train home.\n\nOne woman told the BBC she made nothing for an entire shift\n\nShe asked her manager if she could leave but they refused. She left anyway and that night she made nothing.\n\nEmployment lawyer Ruby Dinsmore said the company was ultimately \"breaking the law\" by not paying staff the national minimum wage.\n\nShe said: \"I note that one of the girls said that she was told that harassment, sexual harassment, was just part and parcel of the job.\n\n\"Well, that's certainly not the case. The manager and certainly the employer is fully responsible for ensuring that the girls are adequately protected from sexual harassment.\"\n\nThe company said it was shocked and categorically denied the claims.\n\nA Department for Business spokesperson said they were unable to comment on individual cases, but said anyone who thought they had been paid less than the minimum wage should contact Acas (Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service) - which provides free and impartial information and advice on workplace relations and employment law.\n\nThe spokesperson added: \"HMRC (HM Revenue and Customs) follows up every complaint made and investigates employers where necessary.\"\n\nIn Newcastle in 2018, 9,400 out of 140,000 employed people were working in the leisure and hospitality industry, according to the Office for National Statistics. There are no equivalent official figures for how many women work as shot girls.", "Four explosions woke south Philadelphia residents in the early hours on Friday after the Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery complex, the largest of its kind on the East Coast, caught fire. Workers were on site at the time, but no one was seriously injured. Officials have yet to explain the cause.", "There was no Glastonbury Festival in 2018\n\nA band criticised for calling on members of the Conservative Party to be killed have had their Glastonbury Festival booking cancelled.\n\nKilldren were invited to appear at Glastonbury's Shangri-Hell International TV stage on 28 June.\n\nOne of their songs is called Kill Tory Scum - which the Jo Cox Foundation said has \"completely abhorrent\" language.\n\nIn a statement, Shangri-La said it was \"incredibly saddened\" at the attention the Killdren booking received.\n\nIt added: \"We in no way condone violence and will not allow this matter to overshadow the incredibly inclusive spirit of Glastonbury.\n\n\"As a result we have taken the decision to withdraw the booking\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nKilldren's lyrics include: \"Even if it's your dad or your mum, kill Tory scum, kill Tory scum...murder them all to the beat of a drum, kill Tory scum, kill Tory scum.\"\n\nThe band also played a graphic set at Boomtown Fair 2018, in which they kicked, punched, and spat at a man dressed in a suit, while wearing Kill Tory Scum clothing.\n\nNews of the booking was first reported by the Sunday Times.\n\nWhen asked about the song, the band told the paper: \"The piece would not exist if the destructive and violent policies of the Tory party hadn't taken such a devastating toll on the UK.\"\n\nAnother band due to play at Glastonbury - Fat White Family - have also previously called for violence against Conservatives on social media.\n\nIn a 2015 tweet, the punk rock band, from south-east London, said anyone who voted Tory had \"blood\" on their hands, and called for them to be executed.\n\nA year earlier, they said Tories should be hanged.\n\nThe Fat White Family is still due to play at Glastonbury on 30 June on the Park Stage.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. M4: What could you spend £1.4bn on?\n\nSpeculation is building that First Minister Mark Drakeford will scrap plans for a £1.4bn M4 relief road south of Newport.\n\nTransport expert Prof Stuart Cole has questioned how it could go ahead after the Welsh Government declared a climate emergency.\n\nOne Labour AM, Alun Davies, said he was assuming the first minister will not back the scheme.\n\nThe decision is expected to be announced on Tuesday.\n\nSince the UK government announced borrowing powers for the Welsh Government, ministers have pursued building a new six-lane motorway south of Newport, re-opening proposals that date as far back as 1991.\n\nWelsh Labour's manifesto for the 2016 election said the party would deliver \"an M4 relief road\".\n\nThe Welsh Government, under the previous first minister Carwyn Jones, commissioned a public inquiry. BBC Wales reported in February that £44m had been spent on development costs and the inquiry.\n\nAfter Mr Jones stepped down as first minister in December the decision has rested with his successor Mr Drakeford, who is widely assumed to be a sceptic about the project's benefits.\n\nThe proposed relief road would run south of Newport and the existing motorway\n\nMr Drakeford has been considering the inquiry's findings, which are also set to be published on Tuesday.\n\nThe project is hugely divisive, attracting opposition from environmentalists because of the impact on wildlife on the Gwent Levels, and support from business lobby group CBI and the UK government.\n\nObservers will be waiting to see if Mr Drakeford backs alternative upgrades to the road infrastructure around Newport, if he chooses not to go ahead with the six-lane scheme.\n\nAlun Davies, Blaenau Gwent AM, said on Twitter at the weekend that he was assuming Mark Drakeford \"will choose not to go ahead with the M4\".\n\nStuart Cole speculated that Mark Drakeford would drop the scheme\n\n\"There must therefore be some immediate road improvements around Newport and an unprecedented investment in public transport,\" he said.\n\nAnother Labour source said they could not see Mr Drakeford going ahead with the project.\n\n\"The climate change emergency declaration makes it very difficult now for Mark to approve it,\" the source said.\n\nProf Cole, an opponent of the M4 relief road and a backer of the blue route alternative of upgrading existing routes, told BBC Wales a decision to build the road \"doesn't fit\" with the Welsh Government's recent decision to declare a climate emergency.\n\n\"I would see no other alternative for Mark Drakeford than to put the scheme off, or indeed cancel it completely as had happened in the past,\" the University of South Wales academic said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What is it like living next to the M4?\n\nFormer Welsh Labour minister Sue Essex dropped the plans in 2002 and Plaid Cymru transport minister Ieuan Wyn Jones did the same in 2009.\n\n\"I think he's going to make the same decision on very similar grounds of cost, spread of money around Wales and environmental factors, such as building on the Gwent Levels,\" Prof Cole added.\n\nThe Labour source said they would have liked to have seen the inquiry papers published by now.\n\n\"There's no point having an inquiry if politicians are going to make up their minds without taking it into account,\" the source said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This video reveals the possible route of the M4 relief road\n\nAt his monthly press conference on Monday, Mr Drakeford defended his decision not to publish the report until Tuesday, saying it would not have been the \"sensible course of action\" if he had published it sooner.\n\n\"It's a decision over which people have strong views and differing views,\" he told reporters.\n\n\"It's true to an extent in the Labour party, and it's true more widely.\"\n\nMark Drakeford is expected to take the M4 decision on Tuesday\n\nThe mood music on the Welsh Government's preferred black route changed from a major to a minor key when Mark Drakeford was elected as Welsh Labour leader in December.\n\nAs finance secretary he talked about a cheaper option to the black route being \"attractive\". But on taking the top job, he promised to look with fresh eyes at the report from the public inquiry before announcing a decision.\n\nThere were also questions over whether his appointment of Lee Waters, a vocal opponent of the relief road, as a minister in the transport department (albeit one who would have no involvement with the decision) was a signal the Welsh Government was planning a U-turn on its backing for the plan.\n\nMr Drakeford insisted that was not the case and he had not yet reached a decision.\n\nSince then, the Welsh Government has declared a \"climate emergency\". How do you do that and then announce you're building a new road through environmentally sensitive wetlands?\n\nBusiness sources, who say the new route is vital to the future of the Welsh economy, have told me they're expecting a \"no\" to the black route, but with other measures announced.\n\nIf they're right, what might those measures be - a different route, mitigation around the existing road, more investment in public transport?\n\nWe'll find out on Tuesday.", "Donald Trump visited the Queen at Buckingham Palace on Monday morning\n\nDonald Trump and the Queen may come from different worlds, but few would deny they at least share an appreciation of pageantry - and that was not in short supply when the US president arrived at Buckingham Palace.\n\nFollowing the Changing the Guard, Mr Trump's helicopter - Marine One - whipped up dust from nearby Green Park as it flew overhead, eagerly followed by a Mexican wave of smartphones from the crowd below.\n\nAmerica's leader is a man who inspires strong views on all sides - and that was evident in central London on the first day of his UK trip.\n\n\"It's our first time in London,\" said Laura Curri, visiting the UK with her family from Florida. \"We heard Trump was going to be at the palace and we're huge fans so we came down.\"\n\nHer husband, John Curri, hopes the visit will lead to \"more unity\" between the US and UK.\n\n\"You're leaders over here and we're leaders in our part of the world - this visit should make us both stronger,\" he said.\n\nThe Curri family were visiting the UK from Florida\n\nAsked if he thinks the president is misunderstood in the UK, Mr Curri told the BBC: \"People want honesty and strong leadership. I think now it has arrived people are scared - but it's here to stay.\"\n\nAnd it is not just visitors to the UK who saw benefits in Mr Trump's visit.\n\nHusband and wife Tony and Jennifer Holdcroft, describing themselves as \"proud Brexiteers\", said they made the trip down from Stoke-on-Trent \"to welcome the president and combat the protesters\".\n\n\"We think he's a brilliant man,\" said Mrs Holdcroft. \"He's straight talking, he's firm and he looks after his own people.\n\n\"This visit is about friendship, which we've had for years and years, and keeping up the alliance.\"\n\nTony and Jennifer Holdcroft, from Stoke, were unimpressed with Mayor of London Sadiq Khan's criticism of Mr Trump\n\nMr Holdcroft added: \"At the end of the day, why shouldn't he come? All these people dissing him are dissing our Queen because she's the one who invited him.\n\n\"He has been invited as the president of America, not as Donald Trump.\"\n\nWhile Mr Trump was being received by the Queen inside the palace, 100m away - in Green Park - the King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery began putting on a show of their own.\n\nWith the first deafening blast of the ceremonial guns, those waiting outside Buckingham Palace rushed over, phones outstretched ahead of them, attempting to capture the scenes.\n\nNot everyone, however, shared in the excitement.\n\nThe King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery perform a gun salute in Green Park, next to Buckingham Palace\n\nDr Abdulkadar Alzuabi, who came from Manchester to protest against Mr Trump's visit, said: \"I don't think the UK should listen to him, we're different to him in this country.\n\n\"In this country, if you are British, if you are a refugee, if you are black or white, if you are European or an Arab, you are equal.\n\n\"He's trying to use his influence to change how things are in the UK. We shouldn't listen to him.\"\n\nAuriel Granville - dressed as the Statue of Liberty - had made the slightly shorter trip from Wimbledon in south London, but felt just as strongly about the US president.\n\n\"I don't think he should be received in this way,\" she said. \"Climate change should be top of our agenda and Donald Trump is a climate change denier.\n\n\"He's not listening to scientists, who are all saying it is a result of human activity.\"\n\nShe added: \"He is doing so much damage.\"\n\nAuriel Granville called Donald Trump a \"climate change denier\" and said he was doing \"so much damage\" to the world\n\nIf anyone had thought Mr Trump might tone down some of his more unusual styles of diplomacy for the three-day visit, they were set straight early on Monday morning.\n\nMoments before Air Force One landed at Stansted, Mr Trump posted two tweets criticising Mayor of London Sadiq Khan, calling him a \"stone cold loser\".\n\nWhile some around the palace supported Mr Trump, one Londoner was so angry she had decided to come out in protest.\n\nJill Gillard, who emigrated to the UK from South Africa in 1979, said: \"I had no intention of coming down today but then I saw his tweet about Sadiq Khan and thought: 'No, that's too much.'\n\n\"It's people like Sadiq Khan that have made me feel very welcome in this country and I feel very strongly about the discourtesy of a man who has no insight into our way of life here, which I have been very proud to embrace.\"\n• None Trump praises 'eternal friendship' of US and UK", "Donald Trump is making a much-delayed state visit to Britain this week.\n\nOver three days the US president will be hosted by royalty and politicians. He will also take part in commemorations to mark the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings.\n\nBut behind the pageantry lie policy differences that divide Britain and the United States.\n\nState visits are primarily royal affairs, with the emphasis as much on ceremony as politics. But even so, the potential for slip-ups is huge.\n\nDonald Trump made a mistake last year when he turned his back on the Queen and walked in front of her while inspecting the guard at Windsor Castle.\n\nThis time there will be the tricky moment when he gives a speech at the state banquet at Buckingham Palace. Will he address the Queen correctly? Recently the White House mistakenly referred to her as \"Her Royal Majesty\". (Those who deal regularly with royalty would know that it should just be \"Her Majesty\").\n\nWill Mr Trump continue speaking during the National Anthem, as President Obama did in 2011?\n\nWhen Mr Trump has tea with the Prince of Wales at Clarence House, will they manage to avoid airing their rather different views on climate change?\n\nMr Trump met the Queen when he visited the UK last year\n\nThe president has no incentive to mess things up - he clearly likes the pomp and pageantry of royalty and will want the pictures to look good back home ahead of his re-election campaign. But there remains the question of how much advice he will take from his protocol team.\n\nThe biggest potential flashpoint - in theory - could be the Duchess of Sussex who, in her past, pre-regal life, expressed opposition to Mr Trump's views. The US president told The Sun newspaper he was surprised Meghan had been so \"nasty\" about him.\n\nPerhaps fortuitously, the Duchess is still on maternity leave and will play no part in the visit.\n\nBut it will not have gone unnoticed that an American citizen who only recently married into the British royal family - and thus epitomizes the close relationship between both countries - will not be part of the team welcoming her president to these shores.\n\nMr Trump's visit comes at a tricky time politically for Britain. He will be visiting the lamest of lame duck prime ministers in the form of Theresa May who is standing down as Conservative leader at the end of the week.\n\nBritain is still gripped by the dread hand of the Brexit debate. In his Sun interview, the president criticised Mrs May for allowing the EU \"to have all the cards\" in the negotiations.\n\nAnd, in an interview published a day later, he told the Sunday Times the government should bring in Nigel Farage - an arch critic of Mrs May - to help the Brexit negotiations.\n\nThis week's visit is scheduled to include a joint news conference with Theresa May, something the pair did when he came to the UK last July\n\nMr Trump had already expressed his support for Nigel Farage, saying the leader of the newly-formed Brexit Party was his friend, a \"big power\" in the UK and someone for whom he had a lot of respect. Will Mr Trump find time to meet Mr Farage?\n\nDowning Street has rejected the idea of there being an official meeting between the two, but might there be time for a quick cup of tea at Winfield House, the London residence of the US ambassador? Neither side are ruling it out.\n\nOne minister told me this would be seen as both disappointing and rude. But Mr Trump rarely misses a chance to associate with like-minded politicians, if nothing else to emphasise what he sees as the growing success of his kind of politics.\n\nHe will not mind that the two main opposition party leaders - Jeremy Corbyn and Sir Vince Cable - have refused their invitations to dine with him at the state banquet.\n\nMr Trump also arrives in the middle of the Conservative leadership contest that will determine the next prime minister of the United Kingdom.\n\nHe has already backed one candidate, the front-runner, Boris Johnson. The president told The Sun the former foreign secretary would be an excellent prime minister who would do \"a very good job\".\n\nOn one hand, there will be some Conservative MPs and party members who will be impressed by this, welcoming the idea that a potential future prime minister already has a good relationship with a close ally.\n\nOn the other, there may be some MPs who believe the unofficial endorsement from an unpopular US president might not endear Mr Johnson to the wider British electorate, which has more mixed feelings about Mr Trump.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRemember that Mr Trump has already backed Mr Johnson, saying when he was in the UK last year that Mr Johnson - a former US citizen - would make \"a great prime minister\".\n\nEqually interesting would be any remarks Mr Trump chooses to make about the Labour leader, Mr Corbyn, who could one day be the person he meets for lunch in Downing Street, a leader who has made no secret of his hostility towards many US policies.\n\nMr Trump told The Sun he was \"not offended\" by Mr Corbyn's refusal to attend the state banquet, saying: \"He is probably making a mistake because I think he would want to get along with the United States.\"\n\nIn a visit focused on ceremony and talks with an outgoing prime minister, the opportunity to discuss substantive policy will be, by necessity, constrained.\n\nBut there will be much to disagree about in a trip that is supposed to emphasise unity.\n\nTake, for example, the Middle East. The British and US disagree about how best to change Iran's behaviour - the UK still supports the agreement designed to curb Tehran's nuclear programme, the US does not and is ready to sanction any British firm or bank that trades with Iran.\n\nThe US has deployed a carrier strike force and B52 bombers to the region, something some British diplomats fear could provoke escalation, even war.\n\nAre these differences something Mr Trump will wish to raise in public?\n\nThe president will also bring with him his adviser and son-in-law, Jared Kushner, who is expected soon to announce the US so-called \"deal of the century\" to try to resolve the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians.\n\nThe British government is concerned about any attempt to impose a unilateral plan that disposes of the two-state solution and seeks to buy off the Palestinians with hard cash.\n\nThe Americans have already made it clear they are willing to press ahead without European support, just so long as they have the backing of one or two Arab states.\n\nWill any tough talking in Downing Street spill over into the news conference that follows?\n\nLet us not forget China. The growing confrontation between the US and China is worrying British policymakers, not just because of the potential impact on global economic growth.\n\nBut there is also the not so minor matter of Huawei. The US is already angry at the decision - yet to be finalised - by British ministers to consider allowing the Chinese telecoms giant to build part of the UK's 5G mobile network.\n\nThey fear this would potentially give the Chinese state access - via Huawei - to British and thus American secrets.\n\nUS officials are warning that Mr Trump will not only raise this during the state visit but may even threaten to limit sharing intelligence with the UK as a result.\n\nJust consider what that might mean: the so-called \"special relationship\" has always had as a central core the sharing of intelligence - a relationship between security professionals that is supposed to be eternal, outside the squalls of political disagreement.\n\nSo it would be hard for the president to praise UK-US relations while at the same time threatening to withhold intelligence.\n\nUS officials say they are reassured that the UK decision on Huawei is not final and on hold until a new prime minister is elected. But they cannot rule out strong words on the subject from their president.\n\nMr Trump, of course, once suggested that UK intelligence agencies were involved in a plot against his election - something they dismissed publicly as ridiculous nonsense.", "BP agreed to pay around $10bn (£8bn) to a businessman involved in a suspicious energy deal.\n\nThe energy giant bought Frank Timis' stake in a gas field off the coast of Senegal for $250 million in 2017.\n\nBut documents obtained by BBC Panorama and Africa Eye reveal that BP was also projected to pay his company between $9bn and $12bn in royalties.\n\nBoth BP and Mr Timis deny any wrongdoing.\n\nRead the full statement from Mr Timis here.\n\nFor more on this story, UK audiences can watch Panorama: The $10 Billion Energy Scandal on Monday 3rd June at 2030 BST.\n\nUpdate 9 July 2019: BP did not dispute the $10 billion figure prior to publication, but has subsequently said it is wholly inaccurate and exaggerated.\n\nUpdate 23 December 2020: This article is subject to a legal claim by Frank Timis and Timis Corporation.", "Yumi Ishikawa says she was made to wear high heels while working at a funeral parlour\n\nAround 19,000 people have signed a petition calling for Japan to end dress codes that require women to wear high heels in the workplace.\n\nThe petition was started by Yumi Ishikawa who says she was made to wear high heels while working at a funeral parlour.\n\nHer tweets on the issue went viral with more than 30,000 shares.\n\nIn 2015, a London receptionist was sent home from work without pay after she refused to wear high heels.\n\nThe campaign is referred to in Japan as #KuToo. It plays on the Japanese words for shoes \"kutsu\" and pain \"kutsuu\" and also references the #MeToo movement, according to Kyodo News.\n\nCampaigners say that wearing high heels is seen as obligatory when applying for jobs.\n\nMs Ishikawa, also an actress, said: \"I hope this campaign will change the social norm so that it won't be considered to be bad manners when women wear flat shoes like men.\"\n\nShe added that she had met a ministry official who was \"sympathetic\" towards the petition.\n\nIt's not the first time that a campaign has been launched to change dress codes at work for women.\n\nNicola Thorp set up a petition calling for UK dress code laws to be changed after she was asked to wear high heels at finance company PwC.\n\nShe was hired as a temporary member of staff and refused to comply with the dress code. Following coverage in the media, outsourcing firm Portico announced that female colleagues could \"wear plain flat shoes\" with immediate effect.\n\nIn 2017, a Canadian province scrapped the dress code which requires female employees to wear high heels.\n\nThe government of British Columbia said that high heel wearers face a risk of physical injury from slipping or falling as well as possible damage to the feet, legs and back.", "Jay-Z is officially hip hop's first billionaire, Forbes has declared, after building an empire based on music, property, fashion and investments.\n\nThe US magazine has estimated that the rapper's wealth now \"conservatively totals\" $1bn (£800m).\n\nForbes says the husband of singer Beyonce has succeeded because he built brands rather than just endorsed them.\n\nIn its rankings, Forbes rejected claims that rapper and producer Dr Dre had reached billionaire status.\n\nJay-Z, born Shawn Carter, grew in one of New York City's most notorious areas.\n\nHe hit fame in 1996 with his debut album Reasonable Doubt. His 2001 album The Blueprint was in March added to the Library of Congress' National Recording Registry because it was deemed \"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant\".\n\nForbes said it had estimated Jay-Z's wealth by adding various assets and then \"subtracting a healthy amount to account for a superstar lifestyle\".\n\nAmong the 49-year-old's assets are:\n\nHis superstar wife is reportedly worth about $335m, made mostly from music and endorsements, and the couple have had a joint net worth over $1bn for several years.\n\nJay-Z, who once rapped \"I'm not a businessman, I'm a business, man\", is one of only a handful of entertainers to become billionaires, according to Forbes.\n\nIt was often assumed that Dr Dre reached billionaire status in 2014 after selling his Beats headphone business to Apple. But last year Forbes put his personal wealth at about $770m.\n\nDr Dre is not a billionaire - at least according to Forbes\n\nKasseem \"Swizz Beatz\" Dean, the producer behind some of Jay-Z's biggest hits, told Forbes that the rapper's success is \"bigger than hip-hop\".\n\nHe said: \"It's the blueprint for our culture. A guy that looks like us, sounds like us, loves us, made it to something that we always felt that was above us.\"\n\nJay-Z appears on the the front cover of the latest Forbes magazine alongside another - wealthier - billionaire, Warren Buffet.\n\nIt appears that the legendary investor, 40 years his senior, spotted something special in the rapper a few years ago, telling Forbes in 2010: \"Jay is teaching in a lot bigger classroom than I'll ever teach in. For a young person growing up, he's the guy to learn from.\"\n• None How rock and rap combined to create Beats", "Police have begun a cross-border investigation after a bomb was left under the car of an off-duty officer at a Belfast golf club.\n\nOne of the vehicles police believe was used in the murder bid was registered in the Republic of Ireland.\n\nThe device was hidden under the car at Shandon Park Golf Club in east Belfast.\n\nPolice said that the main line of inquiry was \"violent dissident republicans\".\n\nOn Saturday night, police examined CCTV footage and searched the car park of the club, which is located close to the PSNI headquarters on the Knock Road.\n\nSpeaking on Sunday, Det Supt Sean Wright said the investigation centres on two cars which were found burnt out in Etna Drive in north Belfast.\n\nOne was a Green Skoda Octavia with a Dublin registration, 01 D 78089.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"The other car is a Silver Saab with the registration NFZ 3216,\" he said.\n\nDet Supt Wright appealed to the public for footage of the area around the golf club between 19:00 BST on Friday and 07:00 BST on Saturday.\n\n\"If you were a pedestrian, a driver of a car, do you have dashcam footage? If you live in that area, do you have CCTV? We want to see it,\" he said.\n\nHe said that the device was \"designed to kill\" and that it was \"sufficiently sophisticated that had it exploded the likely outcome would have been murder\".\n\n\"The device was capable of functioning,\" he added. \"We are extremely fortunate it did not go off.\"\n\nHe added that it was not just the off-duty officer who was put in danger on Saturday, but the many others attending the club and living in the surrounding area.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable George Clarke said the officer whose car was targeted was \"obviously shaken\" by the experience.\n\n\"We will do our very best to support him, to ensure that he is helped through what will be a very difficult and traumatic time in the days to come,\" he added.\n\n\"Officers know the need to be vigilant. They know the risks they face and despite that, they come to work and face us all every day.\"\n\nHe blamed dissident republicans for the attack, saying they had acted \"recklessly, cruelly and viciously\".\n\nPolice officers throughout Northern Ireland have been told to step up their personal security.\n\nThe Police Federation, which represents rank and file officers, said there was a need for extra vigilance.\n\nOn Saturday, the bomb was examined by Army bomb disposal experts, who declared it to be a \"viable improvised explosive device\".", "George Galloway has been sacked by talkRADIO after sending an allegedly anti-Semitic tweet.\n\nThe former MP posted on the social media site after the Champions League final between Liverpool and Tottenham on Saturday night.\n\nHe praised Liverpool's win, before adding: \"No #Israël flags on the Cup!\" - appearing to reference Tottenham's strong links with the Jewish community.\n\nOn Monday, the radio station said it had terminated his weekly show.\n\nMr Galloway hit back at his former employer, tweeting: \"See you in Court guys.\"\n\nThe original tweet from Mr Galloway on Saturday night saw the former Labour and Respect MP face a backlash on Twitter.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by George Galloway This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe defended the comment, claiming a number of Tottenham fans were flying the flag of Israel in the crowd and it showed an affiliation to a \"racist state\".\n\nBut he was accused of being racist himself, including by Tottenham itself.\n\nIn a statement, the club said: \"It's astounding in this day and age to read such blatant anti-Semitism published on a social platform by someone who is still afforded air time on a radio station on which he has previously broken broadcast impartiality rules.\"\n\nOn Monday morning, talkRADIO said it had cancelled Mr Galloway's show, adding: \"As a fair and balanced news provider, talkRADIO does not tolerate anti-Semitic views.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBoard of Deputies of British Jews President Marie van der Zyl thanked Tottenham for \"calling out\" Mr Galloway and talkRADIO for \"taking this poisonous and divisive figure off air\".\n\nShe added: \"His attempt to bring hatred into a wonderful occasion for English football has attracted the derision it deserves.\"\n\nTaking to Twitter again, Mr Galloway said he'd been given a \"red card\" by the station for \"over-celebrating\" Liverpool's success.\n\nMr Galloway has hosted The Mother of All Talk Shows show since 2016 and has breached Ofcom rules twice - once after discussing anti-Semitism accusations in the Labour Party and once after a show on the Salisbury poisonings.\n\nThe 64-year-old came to prominence in the 1980s as a member of the Labour Party, representing Glasgow as an MP.\n\nBut in 2003 he was expelled from the party after he was found guilty of four of the five charges of bringing the party into disrepute - including inciting Arabs to fight British troops, inciting British troops to defy orders and backing an anti-war candidate in an election.\n\nIn 2004, he became a member of the Respect Party and continued to protest against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. In 2005 took the Bethnal Green and Bow seat from Labour.\n\nHowever, many members of the public remember him for his appearance in Celebrity Big Brother in 2006 and his impression of a cat while on the show.\n\nIn 2012, he returned to Parliament as an MP for Bradford West and has run several campaigns since, including an unsuccessful campaign to become London Mayor.\n\nBut his controversial comments about the Israel/Palestinian conflict, Syria and the poisonings of the Skripals in Salisbury have been the main reason for attracting headlines in recent years.", "Four rescued climbers have helped to work out where eight other mountaineers might be\n\nFour British climbers who were rescued from an expedition in the Himalayas have joined an aerial search to find eight fellow mountaineers.\n\nTwo Indian air force helicopters are searching the mountains for the missing group, made up of four Britons, two Americans, an Australian and an Indian.\n\nThe mountaineers began ascending Nanda Devi on 13 May with the four other climbers, who were rescued on Sunday.\n\nThe group of four has helped to narrow down the search area, officials said.\n\nThey boarded a helicopter on Monday morning to help search efforts, the BBC's Shalu Yadav said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Shalu Yadav This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIndian rescuers resumed their search on Monday after poor weather hampered progress. Rescuers have said the chances of finding the larger group are \"bleak\".\n\nThe four rescued climbers were named as Mark Thomas, 44, Ian Wade, 45, Kate Armstrong, 39, and Zachary Quain, 32.\n\nThey were airlifted to safety after being spotted early on Sunday at Munsiyari base camp near Nanda Devi. They had returned there to due to harsh weather.\n\nR C Rajguru, police chief of the Pithoragarh district, said on Monday the rescued climbers have helped to give a \"rough idea\" of where the missing group had been trekking.\n\nFour Britons, two Americans, an Australian and an Indian are missing near Nanda Devi in the Indian Himalayas\n\nThe larger group headed for the summit of another unnamed peak, government official Vijay Kumar Jogdanda said.\n\nBoth groups remained in touch until 26 May - a day before an avalanche hit the 7,816-metre mountain, according to authorities.\n\nThe missing group was led by experienced British mountain guide Martin Moran, originally from Tyneside. His Scotland-based company Moran Mountain has run numerous expeditions in the Indian Himalayas.\n\nIn a statement, his family said they were \"deeply saddened\" and were pressing for the search area to be widened.\n\nThe 12 climbers pictured before they began their ascent\n\nMoran Mountain confirmed on Saturday that it was working with authorities and the British Association of Mountain Guides (BMG) to gather information.\n\nBMG said in a statement that the group had decided to attempt the unnamed summit - referred to as Peak 6447m - as part of their acclimatisation training before the planned ascent of Nanda Devi East.\n\nMr Moran had sent a message on 25 May indicating all was well, the weather was good and the group intended to attempt Peak 6447m in the early hours of 26 May, BMG said.\n\nBut base camp support staff alerted another BMG guide, Mark Thomas, when Mr Moran's group failed to return on the expected date. The rescue effort began on Saturday.\n\nThe rest of the group have been named locally as John McLaren, Rupert Whewell and University of York lecturer Dr Richard Payne from the UK; US nationals Anthony Sudekum and Ronald Beimel; Australian Ruth McCance and Indian guide Chetan Pandey.\n\nMr Jogdanda said on Sunday tents had been spotted by an aerial search, but that no human presence had been seen.\n\n\"Chances of survival are bleak,\" he added.\n\nZachary Quain, Ian Wade, Kate Armstrong and Mark Thomas were rescued from base camp\n\nA team of 10 to 15 rescuers, comprising police, disaster response personnel and administrators, was also involved, said Tripti Bhatt, an official of the Uttarakhand State Disaster Response Force (SDRF).\n\nAuthorities warned it could take days to trek to the area where the missing climbers were last known to have been.\n\nThe British Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) confirmed it was in contact with Indian authorities and would do all it could to help.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mountaineer Alan Hinkes: 'There is still hope for missing climbers'\n\nNanda Devi is the world's 23rd highest mountain and was first scaled in 1936.\n\nConsidered one of the toughest Himalayan peaks to climb, it attracts fewer climbers than other mountains in the region.", "Macauley Negus, 23, went missing in Madrid on Saturday night\n\nA Liverpool fan reported missing in Madrid following the Champions League final was arrested, his family has confirmed.\n\nMacauley Negus, 23, from Plymouth, went missing in the Goya area of the Spanish capital after the game on Saturday.\n\nMadrid police said a man was arrested for \"trying to assault\" an officer.\n\nMr Negus's family told Plymouth Live they were still waiting to \"find out the facts of why he was detained by police\".\n\nSpanish broadcaster TeleMadrid reported he had been detained by police.\n\nA spokesman for Spanish police would not confirm the name of the man involved, but said he had been in front of a judge on Monday morning.\n\nMr Negus went missing after driving to the Spanish capital for the game with his father Darren.\n\nDarren Negus said: \"I'm still at the court house in Madrid waiting to see my son Macauley, and find out the facts of why he was detained by the local police.\"\n\nHe said the family had \"not been officially told anything at the moment\" and would make a full statement later on Monday.\n\nThe family thanked \"the thousands of Liverpool fans and people across the globe\" who had messaged them over the last 24 hours.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Ashley Negus This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAshley Negus said his brother had \"lost his phone\" after celebrating Liverpool's win.\n\nAn appeal to find him was widely shared on social media and he was officially reported as missing on Sunday night.\n\nA spokesperson for the British Embassy in Madrid confirmed it was \"supporting the family of a British man who has been arrested\" and that consular staff were in contact with Spanish police.\n\nTens of thousands of fans travelled from the UK to the city to watch Liverpool beat Tottenham 2-0 at Atletico Madrid's Wanda Metropolitano stadium.\n\nAn estimated 750,000 people lined the streets of Liverpool on Sunday as the team paraded the trophy round the city.", "Robert Williams was an 18-year-old Royal Marine on D-Day who landed on Sword Beach, and served throughout France and into Germany.\n\n\"I didn't get a scratch,\" the 94-year-old said.\n\nWhen Mrs May came over to thank him at the Bayeux cemetery event, \"I took her by the arms and gave her a kiss on the cheek. She said 'Oh, thank you'.\"\n\n\"I kissed her - why not? It is not everyone that can do that.\"\n\nAnother veteran, Robert Yaxley, also gave the UK prime minister a kiss on the cheek.\n\nRobert Yaxley also gave Theresa May a kiss on the cheek Image caption: Robert Yaxley also gave Theresa May a kiss on the cheek", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The MSC Opera, its horns blaring, crashes into a boat moored at a wharf in San Basilio-Zattere.\n\nA cruise ship crash in Venice has reignited calls for large vessels to be banned from the city's Giudecca canal.\n\nFour people were injured on Sunday when the MSC Opera - a 275m long (900ft) ship - collided with a dock and a small tourist boat after losing control.\n\nCritics say such ships pose a conservation risk to the lagoon city, pollute its waters and mar its beauty.\n\nMinisters said the crash proved the need for a ban on liners, and that they were working to resolve the problem.\n\n\"What happened in the port of Venice is confirmation of what we have been saying for some time,\" Environment Minister Sergio Costa wrote on Twitter (in Italian).\n\n\"Cruise ships must not sail down the Giudecca. We have been working on moving them for months now... and are nearing a solution.\"\n\nInfrastructure Minister Danilo Toninelli agreed, writing on Twitter (in Italian) that the incident was proof that big ships should not travel on the Giudecca.\n\n\"After many years of inertia, we are finally close to a definitive solution to protect both the lagoon and tourism,\" he said.\n\nThe Giudecca, which leads to the popular St Mark's Square, is one of Venice's major waterways.\n\nCritics say waves created by cruise ships on the canal erode the foundations of the city, which regularly suffers from flooding.\n\nSome have also complained that they detract from the beauty of Venice's historic sites and bring too many tourists.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Venetians are trying to find solutions to stop the exodus from their city\n\nVenice's port authority called for action to resolve the issue of high cruise ship traffic.\n\n\"Now is the time to handle the situation... to work to understand what happened and to find solution, once and for all,\" Pino Musolino, president of the North Adriatic Sea Port Authority wrote on Twitter (in Italian).\n\nThe government has previously tried to resolve the cruise ship debate. In 2013, it banned ships weighing more than 96,000 tonnes from the Giudecca canal but the legislation was later overturned.\n\nIn 2017, the government announced that it would divert larger ships away from the historic centre.\n\nHowever, the plans were expected to take four years to come into force.\n\nVenice Mayor Luigi Brugnaro on Sunday urged immediate action to open the alternative channel, known as the Vittorio Emanuele.", "A wealthy businessman who lived a life of luxury paid just £35.20 income tax, a BBC investigation has discovered.\n\nBut his personal tax return for 2017 shows he paid just £35.20 in tax, after claiming that he had hardly any income from his worldwide business empire.\n\nMr Timis's lawyers say he has fully complied with all of his tax obligations.\n\nDocuments leaked to BBC Panorama and Africa Eye also reveal how Mr Timis managed to do this.\n\nThey show that in 2017, Mr Timis received payments totalling £670,000 from his offshore trust.\n\nThese were mainly payments called distributions, which should have been taxable. But shortly before he submitted his tax return, Mr Timis allegedly asked the trust to turn the distributions into untaxable loans.\n\nA backdated loan agreement was created making the loans look legitimate.\n\nJohn Christiansen, from the Tax Justice Network, said it looked like Mr Timis was dodging tax: \"It all points to this being a manoeuvre to cheat the tax man. And, if that is the case, because it's been done retrospectively, there seems to be prima facie evidence that this is tax fraud and it should be investigated.\"\n\nThe BBC investigation has also spoken to the man who ran the trust that helped Mr Timis with the apparent tax dodge.\n\nPhilip Caldwell is named as chairman at the meeting in Switzerland that agreed to backdate the suspicious loans.\n\nHis signature is on the minutes, but he says the meeting never happened and that the minutes of the meeting are fake: \"It has my signature on it but what I can say is that no such meeting ever took place. I wasn't there. I wasn't in Switzerland at the time.\"\n\nThe leaked documents also suggest that Mr Timis didn't pay a single penny in UK income tax in 2016.\n\nMr Timis's lawyers say the allegations are denied in the strongest possible terms: \"Mr Timis has fully complied with all of his tax obligations and at all stages has taken professional advice to ensure that he has done so.\"\n\nThe Romanian businessman is no stranger to controversy. He has two convictions for supplying heroin in the 1990s and has been involved in a series of failed mining ventures in Africa.\n\nFrank Timis has floated two mining companies on the junior stock exchange in London.\n\nOne of them - Regal Petroleum - was hit with the exchange's biggest ever fine in 2009 after misleading investors about an oil discovery.\n\nRegal Petroleum told investors it expected to find oil in Greece, even though it knew the well in question was dry.\n\nMr Timis's lawyers said he only held a minority stake in Regal and was not on the board at the time the company received the fine.\n\nThey said: \"Mr Timis was personally investigated and cleared by the FCA in relation to his role in Regal Petroleum.\"\n\nFor more on this story watch Panorama: The $10 Billion Energy Scandal on Monday 3rd June at 2030 BST\n\nUpdate 23 December 2020: This article is subject to a legal claim by Frank Timis and Timis Corporation.", "The four climbers who turned back and raised the alarm about their missing colleagues on India's second highest mountain have since been assisting rescue efforts.\n\nThey had turned around early because of the harsh weather, and were the last ones in contact with the larger group of eight climbers who disappeared after an avalanche.\n\nRescue teams have spotted five bodies on the mountain. The Indian government says it is assuming all eight have been killed.", "Martin Moran is a well-known name in the UK climbing community\n\nThe Scotland-based mountaineer who is among the eight missing in India had led more than 40 treks up peaks in the Himalayas.\n\nTyneside-born Martin Moran was leading the group on an attempt to ascend an unclimbed and unnamed 21,250ft (6,477m) summit.\n\nThe latest update from the rescuers is that five bodies have been spotted in the Nanda Devi region.\n\nThe last contact made with the group was on 26 May, and its members reported that \"all was well\" and they were to make an attempt on the summit.\n\nThe following day a large avalanche is believed to have swept down 7,816m (25,643ft) Nanda Devi and debris from the slide was later found near the route Mr Moran's group was taking.\n\nThe alarm was raised on 31 May after the eight failed to return to their base camp. The search effort since has involved fellow mountaineers, the Indian Mountaineering Foundation and air force pilots.\n\nMr Moran's name is legendary in UK climbing circles.\n\nHe graduated in geography at Cambridge University before studying and qualifying as a chartered accountant.\n\nBut the outdoors, and in particular mountains, are his passion.\n\nIn the winter of 1984-85, Mr Moran and his wife Joy made the first completion of all Munros - more than 280 Scottish mountains with a height of 914m (3,000ft) or more - in a single winter season.\n\nHe wrote about their adventure in the book The Munros in Winter.\n\nMr Moran's friend, former RAF Kinloss Mountain Rescue Team leader David Whalley, first encountered the mountaineer in Scotland's mountains in the 1980s.\n\n\"Martin had already made his name as a great mountaineer down south and from the early 80s I came across him a few times on walks in the hills,\" Mr Whalley said.\n\nThe friendship grew after the Morans moved to Lochcarron, a small community in Wester Ross in the north west Highlands, and established their adventure holiday business, Moran Mountain.\n\nMr Moran and his group are missing in the Nanda Devi region\n\nMr Moran also joined Torridon Mountain Rescue Team, whose patch includes some of Scotland's highest and most striking mountains.\n\n\"Torridon has some big cliffs and Martin has helped to rescue people from some very difficult places up there,\" Mr Whalley said.\n\n\"He has risked his life on rescues.\n\n\"Martin has a heart of gold and all he wants to do is make sure people get off a mountain safely.\"\n\nMr Moran's reputation as a mountaineer has also grown over the years.\n\nIn 1993, he and fellow climber Simon Jenkins climbed 75 4,000m (13,123ft) Alpine peaks in 52 days. The men cycled between the different ranges involved, rather than using motorised transport. making it the first self-propelled traverse of Alpine peaks of 4,000m.\n\nThe previous year, the Morans' business started offering guided Himalayan expeditions. Since then, the company has run more than 40 treks and climbs in the Indian Himalayas.\n\nThe business then offered climbing courses in Norway and Arctic mountaineering in 2005.\n\nMartin Moran's friend Andy Nisbet, right, pictured with Steve Perry, died in a climbing accident in February\n\nMr Whalley said Mr Moran was a climber of the same stature as Hamish MacInnes, the renowned Dumfries and Galloway-born mountaineer and climbing equipment inventor who first ascended the Matterhorn in the Alps when he was just 16.\n\n\"Mr Moran is the same sort of person,\" he said. \"Very professional, an incredible climber and famous among mountaineers.\n\n\"He is also a great writer. His book Scotland's Winter Mountains has everything you need to know about Scotland's mountains in winter. But it is not a book just about facts, it is filled with stories.\"\n\nMr Whalley said Mr Moran's online blogs tackled criticism of climbing that has followed fatalities in the mountains, and he wrote a \"powerful\" obituary to his friend Andy Nisbet, a well-known Scottish climber who died along with his climbing partner Steve Perry in a fall on Ben Hope in Sutherland in February.\n\nDespite his high profile in the UK climbing community, Mr Whalley described Mr Moran as \"very private\".\n\n\"Martin is very humble, selfless and cares about those around him,\" he added.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nEngland suffered a stunning upset at the hands of inspired Pakistan in their second World Cup match at Trent Bridge.\n\nThe hosts and favourites were surprisingly lacklustre in the field as Pakistan, roared on by their noisy and vibrant fans, posted 348-8.\n\nEven though England have made a habit of overhauling such targets, they were still faced with having to pull off the most successful chase in World Cup history.\n\nAnd they were denied by the rejuvenated Pakistanis, who had lost their previous 11 one-day internationals including a 4-0 series defeat by England prior to the tournament and then a humiliation against West Indies on this ground on Friday.\n\nDespite Joe Root's 107, the first century of the tournament, and a 75-ball ton from Jos Buttler, England were restricted to 334-9 to lose by 14 runs.\n\nIn a tournament where the 10 teams play each other once to determine the semi-finalists, there are plenty of opportunities for England to get their campaign back on track, starting with Bangladesh in Cardiff on Saturday.\n\nPakistan, renowned for veering from shambolic to sublime in global tournaments, will look to continue their resurgence in Sri Lanka in Bristol on Friday.\n• None England batsmen unhappy with state of ball in Pakistan defeat\n\nThe day the World Cup came to life\n\nAfter England opened their tournament by beating South Africa at The Oval on Thursday, captain Eoin Morgan asserted that they will not go through the competition unbeaten.\n\nSimilarly, on Sunday, Pakistan bowling coach Azhar Mahmood defiantly claimed his side could reverse their fortunes and beat Morgan's men.\n\nBoth were right.\n\nIndeed, both sides were almost entirely transformed from their first matches. Whereas Pakistan improved immeasurably, England were inexplicably shoddy.\n\nNot only that, but England often let their frustrations boil over in the field and there were a number of noticeable moments of tension between the two sides when they came to bat.\n\nAll of this was played out in an electric atmosphere, created mainly by Pakistan fans, whose near constant din was only dimmed when Root and Buttler were together.\n\nThe tension of the contest and energy of the crowd amounted to a wonderful occasion. This was the day that the World Cup came to life.\n\nRoot and Buttler tons not enough\n\nOn a slow pitch, England's top order struggled for impetus against the tricky spin and hostile pace of Pakistan.\n\nLike South Africa on Thursday, Pakistan opened with spin and saw Shadab Khan trap Jason Roy lbw. When Ben Stokes edged Shoaib Malik behind, it meant Buttler arrived at 118-4 with 231 required from just under 28 overs.\n\nHe was immediately into his destructive stride, heaving sixes over the leg side and driving through the covers. At the other end, Root, who was dropped by Babar Azam on nine, accumulated runs with dabs and nudges.\n\nWhile they were at the crease, England were on course for victory, but both fell just after reaching three figures.\n\nRoot sliced Shadab to short third man, Buttler (103) fell in almost identical fashion to the pace of Mohammad Amir.\n\nChris Woakes and Moeen Ali turned an equation of 61 from 39 balls to 29 from 14, but when both fell in successive Wahab Riaz deliveries, the game was up.\n• None Quiz: Name the century-makers from the 2015 World Cup\n\nBy the metric of their own team analyst, England put in their best fielding performance for four years in defeating South Africa. This must rank as one of their worst.\n\nNot only was the ground fielding littered with errors, but Roy put down the most straightforward chance off Mohammad Hafeez on 14. Hafeez went on to make 84.\n\nWoakes at least equalled a World Cup record with four catches, three superbly taken on the boundary, but he was one of a number of disappointing bowlers - his 3-71 made more respectable by some improved death bowling.\n\nAdil Rashid and Jofra Archer were expensive as only Moeen, who claimed 3-50, and Mark Wood, in the side for Liam Plunkett, provided any sort of control.\n\nPakistan, who were blown away by a barrage of West Indies bouncers on Friday, cashed in.\n\nOpeners Fakhar Zaman and Imam-ul-Haq added 82 in 14 overs, with Babar then particularly harsh on Rashid in his 63. Hafeez was the most aggressive, while captain Sarfaraz Ahmed favoured the leg side for 55.\n\n'A great advertisement for the tournament' - what they said\n\nEngland captain Eoin Morgan: \"It was a very good game of cricket and a great advertisement for the tournament. We're bitterly disappointed to be on the wrong end of the result though.\n\n\"Trent Bridge is a high scoring ground, we felt the wicket was good, the outfield was rapid and we thought if we got partnerships going, 350 was in our grasp.\n\n\"Joe and Jos kept us in the game. If we could have got a substantial partnership earlier, we might have got over the line.\"\n\nPakistan captain Sarfaraz Ahmed: \"It was a great team effort. The bowlers bowled really well today.\n\n\"We tried a couple of different things - we started with Shadab because we know their openers are not good against spin.\n\n\"Fielding is a very important part. In the last ODI series it was different. Today we fielded better and we bowled better.\"\n\nFormer England captain Michael Vaughan on TMS: \"England's fielding certainly cost them 30 or 40 runs.\n\n\"Full credit to Pakistan - the support they've had, the atmosphere they created. I think we're in for a fantastic tournament because of all the support.\n\n\"I think we're going right to the wire.\"", "Two F-15SG fighter jets were sent to escort the Scoot flight from Cebu to Singapore\n\nSingapore's air force sent two fighter jets to escort an incoming passenger plane over a bomb threat which turned out to be a hoax, say officials.\n\nThere were 144 passengers on board Scoot flight TR385 from Cebu in the Philippines on Sunday when police were alerted to a security threat.\n\nA 13-year-old unidentified male passenger was allegedly behind the hoax, according to local media outlets.\n\nHe is currently assisting police with their investigations, said the reports.\n\nA spokesman from Singapore carrier Scoot told news outlet The Straits Times that all 144 passengers and six crew members onboard the plane landed safely at 16:49 (08:49 GMT) on Sunday at Changi Airport.\n\nSingapore's Defence Minister Ng Eng Hen later said Singapore would \"take every threat as real until proven otherwise\".\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Facebook The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts. Skip facebook post by Ng Eng Hen This article contains content provided by Facebook. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Facebook cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\n\"Two [fighter jets] scrambled to escort an inbound Scoot plane but it turned out to be a false alarm,\" Mr Ng said in a post on Facebook.\n\n\"[However], the Republic of Singapore Air Force will stay ever vigilant.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The 8.8cm sculpture is made of walrus ivory\n\nA medieval chess piece that was missing for almost 200 years had been unknowingly kept in a drawer by an Edinburgh family.\n\nThey had no idea that the object was one of the long-lost Lewis Chessmen - which could now fetch £1m at auction.\n\nThe chessmen were found on the Isle of Lewis in 1831 but the whereabouts of five pieces have remained a mystery.\n\nThe Edinburgh family's grandfather, an antiques dealer, had bought the chess piece for £5 in 1964.\n\nHe had no idea of the significance of the 8.8cm piece (3.5in), made from walrus ivory, which he passed down to his family.\n\nThey have looked after it for 55 years without realising its importance, before taking it to Sotheby's auction house in London.\n\nThe Lewis Chessmen are among the biggest draws at the British Museum and the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh.\n\nThey are seen as an \"important symbol of European civilisation\" and have also seeped into popular culture, inspiring everything from children's show Noggin The Nog to part of the plot in Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone.\n\nSotheby's expert Alexander Kader, who examined the piece for the family, said his \"jaw dropped\" when he realised what they had in their possession.\n\n\"They brought it in for assessment,\" he said. \"That happens every day. Our doors are open for free valuations.\n\n\"We get called down to the counter and have no idea what we are going to see. More often than not, it's not worth very much.\n\n\"I said, 'Oh my goodness, it's one of the Lewis Chessmen'.\"\n\nMr Kader, Sotheby's co-worldwide head of European sculpture and works of art, said the family, who want to remain anonymous, were \"quite amazed\".\n\n\"It's a little bit bashed up. It has lost its left eye. But that kind of weather-beaten, weary warrior added to its charm,\" he said.\n\nDespite not knowing its significance, the late 12th/early 13th Century chess piece had been \"treasured\" by the family.\n\nThe current owner's late mother believed it \"almost had magical qualities\".\n\nA family spokesman said in a statement: \"My grandfather was an antiques dealer based in Edinburgh, and in 1964 he purchased an ivory chessman from another Edinburgh dealer.\n\n\"It was catalogued in his purchase ledger that he had bought an 'Antique Walrus Tusk Warrior Chessman'.\n\nThe chessmen are thought to have been made in Scandinavia, possibly Norway\n\n\"From this description it can be assumed that he was unaware he had purchased an important historic artefact.\n\n\"It was stored away in his home and then when my grandfather died my mother inherited the chess piece.\n\n\"My mother was very fond of the Chessman as she admired its intricacy and quirkiness. She believed that it was special and thought perhaps it could even have had some magical significance.\n\n\"For many years it resided in a drawer in her home where it had been carefully wrapped in a small bag. From time to time, she would remove the chess piece from the drawer in order to appreciate its uniqueness.\"\n\nThe Lewis Chessmen set includes seated kings and queens, bishops, knights and standing warders and pawns. Some 82 pieces are now in the British Museum and 11 pieces held by the National Museum of Scotland. As well as the chess pieces, the hoard includes 14 \"tablemen\" gaming pieces and a buckle.\n\nSince the hoard was uncovered in 1831, one knight and four warders have been missing from the four combined chess sets.\n\nThe newly-discovered piece is a warder, a man with helmet, shield and sword and the equivalent of a rook on a modern chess board, which \"has immense character and power\".\n\nThe Lewis Chessmen were found on the Isle of Lewis in 1831 but the whereabouts of five pieces have remained a mystery\n\nThe discovery of the hoard remains shrouded in mystery, with stories of it being dug up by a cow grazing on sandy banks.\n\nIt is thought it was buried shortly after the objects were made, possibly by a merchant to avoid taxes after being shipwrecked, and so remained underground for 500 years.\n\nMr Kader, who has kept the discovery under wraps for six months while authenticating the find, said: \"We can safely say that a million pounds will transform the seller's life.\"\n\nHe added: \"There are still four out there somewhere. It might take another 150 years for another one to pop up.\"\n\nThe object will go on display in Edinburgh on Tuesday and in London just before the auction on 2 July, with Mr Kader saying it could be bought by, or be loaned to, a museum.", "Simonne Kerr joined the B Positive Choir following the death of her son Kavele\n\nA nurse who performed on Britain's Got Talent was killed by her partner who stabbed her more than 70 times and slashed her throat, a court has heard.\n\nSimonne Kerr, 31, was last seen heading to Desmond Sylva's flat in Clapham, south London, on 15 August last year.\n\nThe Old Bailey heard Mr Sylva called his brother at lunchtime that day to say he had killed his girlfriend before he alerted the emergency services.\n\nThe 41-year-old denies murder but has pleaded guilty to manslaughter.\n\nProsecutor Oliver Glasgow QC told the jury Ms Kerr \"did not stand a chance\" during the \"utterly terrifying attack\".\n\n\"Desmond Sylva had used a kitchen knife... and despite her efforts to fight him off, she was clearly powerless to do so,\" he said.\n\nMs Kerr was pronounced dead at the scene on 15 August last year\n\nIn a 999 call played in court, Mr Sylva said: \"Can I have police please? I've just committed a murder.\n\n\"I'm ex-Army and I've got lots of mental health issues.\"\n\nAsked why he had done it, he said: \"She's just [got] on my nerves, man, trying to fight me and take my money so I had to defend myself.\"\n\nMr Glasgow said Mr Sylva's depression \"neither explains nor justifies his actions\" and suggested he had simply \"lost his temper\".\n\nThe body of the Guy's and St Thomas's nurse was found lying beside a bed, wrapped in a blood-soaked duvet.\n\n\"The last few minutes of [Ms Kerr's] life must have been utterly terrifying: repeatedly stabbed by the man who was supposed to care for her but who in the end simply butchered her and then tried to blame her for what he had done,\" Mr Glasgow said.\n\n\"He chose to pick up a knife and he chose to use it again and again to stab Simonne Kerr at a time when he was not acting in lawful self-defence.\"\n\nMs Kerr was killed in an \"utterly terrifying attack\", the court heard\n\nJurors heard Mr Sylva had served in the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers between 2002 and 2012 before he was discharged on medical grounds.\n\nSince then he has been given treatment on a number of occasions and diagnosed with bipolar disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder and depression.\n\nThe court heard Mr Sylva had been briefly admitted to hospital after telling his mother he was feeling suicidal on 9 August last year, while the day before Ms Kerr's death he allegedly told his brother he was going to kill himself or someone else.\n\nMs Kerr joined the B Positive Choir after the death of her six-year-old son Kavele from complications of sickle cell disease.\n\nShe performed with the choir in last year's final of the ITV talent show, which was won by Lost Voice Guy.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "US President Donald Trump arrived in the UK for a three-day state visit on Monday.\n\nIt follows a four-day working visit in July 2018.\n\nThe BBC's Jonny Dymond takes a light-hearted look at what to expect, this time around.\n\nDonald Trump state visit: All you need to know\n\nPresident Trump's UK state visit- Remember his last trip there- - BBC News?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Queen: \"I am confident our common values and shared interests will continue to unite us\".\n\nPresident Donald Trump has praised the \"eternal friendship\" between the UK and US as he joined a state banquet at Buckingham Palace.\n\nThe Queen said the countries were celebrating an alliance which had ensured the \"safety and prosperity of both our peoples for decades\".\n\nThe president is in the UK for a three-day state visit, which includes the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings.\n\nEarlier in the day, Mr Trump criticised the mayor of London.\n\nHe tweeted that Sadiq Khan - who had said the UK should \"not roll out the red carpet\" for Mr Trump - was a \"stone cold loser\".\n\nBut in his speech at the banquet, Mr Trump praised the courage of the British people during World War Two and called the Queen a \"great, great woman\".\n\n\"In that dark hour, the people of this nation showed the world what it means to be British,\" he said, adding that their bravery ensured that the destiny of the country \"remained in your own hands\".\n\nMr Trump ended his speech with a toast to \"the eternal friendship of our people, the vitality of our nations and to the long-cherished and truly remarkable reign of Her Majesty the Queen\".\n\nThe Queen praised the two countries' role in creating an assembly of international institutions that would ensure \"the horrors of conflict would never be repeated\".\n\nOn Twitter before the banquet, Mr Trump praised the welcome from the Royal Family as \"fantastic\" and said the relationship with the UK is \"very strong\".\n\nHe also said a post-Brexit trade deal could happen once the UK removed the \"shackles\", adding: \"Already starting to talk!\"\n\nLarge-scale protests are planned in several UK cities during the three-day visit, including in London, where a \"national demonstration\" will start at Trafalgar Square at 11:00 on Tuesday.\n\nThe Duchess of Cambridge was escorted into the banquet by US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin\n\nThe banquet was held in the ballroom at Buckingham Palace\n\nThe American national anthem was played and Mr Trump was invited to inspect the guard of honour\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn - who boycotted the state dinner - is due to attend and speak at the London demonstration, a party spokesman has confirmed.\n\nEarlier, Mr Corbyn tweeted: \"Tomorrow's protest against Donald Trump's state visit is an opportunity to stand in solidarity with those he's attacked in America, around the world and in our own country - including, just this morning, Sadiq Khan.\"\n\nMr Trump's tweet about Mr Khan accused him of doing a \"terrible job\" as mayor, adding: \"[He] has been foolishly \"nasty\" to the visiting president of the United States, by far the most important ally of the United Kingdom. He is a stone cold loser who should focus on crime in London, not me.\"\n\nThe contrast could not have been starker. The President of the United States received a warm welcome from the Queen and the Prince of Wales at Buckingham Palace.\n\nThere were two 41-gun salutes - one for Mr Trump and another marking the 66th anniversary of the Queen's coronation on Sunday - as well as an honour guard of young Grenadiers resplendent in scarlet.\n\nAt the same time, Mr Trump launched a verbal attack on the mayor of the city in which he is now a guest, calling Sadiq Khan \"a stone cold loser\" for questioning why the president had been granted a state visit.\n\nIn truth, this is all of a piece for Mr Trump: he gets the pictures and the pageantry that he wants and will look good in his re-election campaign next year, and he gets to pick a fight with a liberal, Muslim politician that will play well with his base.\n\nAlready this row is forcing those campaigning to be Britain's prime minister to define themselves against Mr Trump.\n\nForeign Secretary Jeremy Hunt criticised Mr Khan for his \"great discourtesy\". But Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the office of the mayor of London should be respected in the same way one respects the office of the president.\n\nThis visit has only just begun and already the Great Disruptor is tweeting angry thoughts and breaching diplomatic niceties. Business as usual, you might think - only today he also happens to be a guest of the Queen, who rarely tweets and is always diplomatic.\n\nA spokesman for Mr Khan said \"childish insults\" should be beneath the US president, adding: \"Sadiq is representing the progressive values of London and our country, warning that Donald Trump is the most egregious example of a growing far-right threat around the globe.\"\n\nHouse of Commons Speaker John Bercow and Liberal Democrat leader Sir Vince Cable also boycotted the state banquet.\n\nThe Duchess of Sussex did not attend following the birth of her son Archie, who is less than a month old. On Sunday, Mr Trump denied calling the duchess \"nasty\", despite him using the word on tape.\n\nBut the guests included the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge as well as prominent Americans living in Britain.\n\nThe Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall posed with their visitors in the morning room at Clarence House\n\nThe president and first lady were given a tour of Westminster Abbey by the Dean of Westminster\n\nThe US president made his mark in the distinguished visitors' book at Westminster Abbey\n\nAs he stepped onto UK soil at Stansted Airport, Mr Trump was greeted by US Ambassador to the UK Woody Johnson and Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt.\n\nTory leadership candidate Mr Hunt, who has spoken about the importance of the UK's relationship with the US, said Mr Trump mentioned to him \"some of his very strong views about the mayor of London\".\n\nCrowds were gathered outside Buckingham Palace as the president and first lady landed by helicopter shortly after midday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Queen presented Mr Trump with a first edition of Sir Winston Churchill's book The Second World War, from 1959, with gilt decorations and hand-sewn bindings in the colours of the US flag. He was also given a three-piece Duofold pen set decorated with an EIIR emblem, in a design made exclusively for the monarch.\n\nMrs Trump received a specially commissioned silver box with a handcrafted enamel lid, decorated in royal blue with roses, thistles and shamrocks to represent the ceiling of Buckingham Palace's music room.\n\nAfter the private lunch, the Queen showed the couple American artefacts and other items from the Royal Collection. In a nod to the US leader's Scottish heritage, he was shown a bolt of Harris tweed.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mr and Mrs Trump laid a wreath at the grave of the unknown warrior as part of their UK state visit\n\nMr and Mrs Trump met the Duke of York at Westminster Abbey, where they laid a wreath at the grave of the unknown warrior.\n\nThe president signed the distinguished visitor's book in his customary black marker pen, describing the 13th Century church as a \"special place\".\n\nTheir next stop was Clarence House, where they joined Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall for tea.\n\nA quick walk around the crowd outside Buckingham Palace revealed the presence of supporters and detractors of Mr Trump - both equally strong in their views.\n\nPhillip Butah, from Essex, wearing a MAGA hat and describing himself and his companion as \"Trump activists\", says: \"We are so happy that he's here - this visit is long overdue.\"\n\nAsked what they expect the UK to get from this visit, they reply: \"Trade deals.\"\n\nCorey Wright, a 25-year-old American from Ohio, in London as a tourist, sees the visit in a similar light.\n\n\"I think the visit is good for the political environment,\" he says. \"I think that needs to be worked on and that's what he's here to do.\"\n\nAuriel Granville - a climate activist from Wimbledon, south-west London - came dressed as the Statue of Liberty to protest against the president's visit.\n\n\"I don't think he should be received in this way - climate change should be top of our agenda and Donald Trump is a climate change denier,\" she said.\n\nTalks between Mr Trump and outgoing Prime Minister Theresa May will begin on Tuesday. Although Mr Trump has spoken of his admiration for Mrs May, there are expected to be differences of opinion during their talks.\n\nThe prime minister will raise the issue of climate change, with a government spokesman again saying on Monday the UK was \"disappointed by the US decision to withdraw from the Paris Agreement in 2017\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe two leaders are also expected to discuss Huawei. The US has blacklisted the Chinese firm for security reasons, while the UK may allow it to supply \"non-core\" components for its 5G network.\n\nThe president's visit coincides with the commemorations for the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings, which the Queen, Mr Trump and other heads of state will attend at Portsmouth on Wednesday.\n\nAirmen from the RAF Regiment formed a guard of honour for the couple\n\nBefore the visit, President Trump told the Sun newspaper he was backing Conservative Party leadership contender Boris Johnson to be the next UK prime minister.\n\nHe also told the Sunday Times that Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage - an arch critic of Mrs May - should be involved in the government's negotiations to leave the EU.\n\nAlthough the Queen has met 12 of the 13 US presidents who have been in office during her reign, Mr Trump's state visit to the UK is only the third by a US leader.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Jonny Dymond on what to expect from President Trump's visit to the UK\n\nGeorge W Bush and Barack Obama are the only other US presidents to have been given a state visit.\n\nState visits differ from official visits and are normally at the invitation of the Queen, who acts on advice from the government. The Queen usually receives one or two heads of state per year and has hosted 112 of these visits since becoming monarch in 1952.", "US president Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump laid a wreath at the grave of the unknown warrior in Westminster Abbey during the first day of their UK state visit.", "Killdren were due to play in Shangri-La, one of Glastonbury's anarchic fringe areas\n\nBritish punk band Killdren have accused Glastonbury of \"buckling under pressure from the right-wing media\" after their set at the festival was cancelled.\n\nThe two-piece band were originally booked to play the Shangri-Hell International TV stage on 28 June.\n\nBut their invitation was rescinded after criticism of their song Kill Tory Scum, which includes the lyric: \"Tory genocide is the perfect outcome.\"\n\nIn a statement, the two-piece defended the song as a \"crude\" satire.\n\n\"The piece would not exist at all if the destructive and violent policies of the Tory party hadn't taken such a long and devastating toll on the UK,\" they said.\n\n\"The band does not condone the killing of Tories or children, or anyone for that matter - regardless of political beliefs.\"\n\nKilldren were hardly expected to be a major draw at Glastonbury.\n\nThe self-described \"two-bit rave punk band\", who have just 138 Twitter followers, were due to play a late-night slot on one of the festival's fringe stages.\n\nAttention was drawn to their lyrics by an article in The Sunday Times, which added that Killdren's stage show depicted \"live killings\" of Tory voters.\n\nThe Jo Cox Foundation, which was set up in the name of the murdered Labour MP, condemned the band's appearance at Glastonbury.\n\n\"The direct incitement of violence and abuse, on any platform and in any sector, is wrong,\" said chief executive Catherine Anderson.\n\n\"All of us need to call out this kind of language, until we return to a more civil way of being able to debate difference of opinions - without having to resort to threats and intimidation.\"\n\nOrganisers of the Shangri-La area, which is booked separately to the Glastonbury's main stages, later dropped the band from their line-up.\n\n\"We are incredibly saddened that the attention this booking has received has caused such upset and negativity towards such a peaceful festival,\" they wrote in a statement.\n\n\"We in no way condone violence and will not allow this matter to overshadow the incredibly inclusive spirit of Glastonbury.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Shangri-La Glasto This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nKilldren told the BBC they were \"disappointed\" by the decision.\n\n\"One glance at our website and the artwork that represents our music would surely indicate the cartoonish and over-the-top nature of everything we do,\" they said in a written statement.\n\n\"We are disappointed that Glastonbury and the Jo Cox Foundation were upset enough by our music and video that they cancelled our set, buckling under pressure from the right-wing media.\n\n\"We know that there are other acts on the line-up who are spreading a radical political message and hope the spirit of rebellion lives on at the festival.\"\n\nThe Sunday Times also highlighted that another band due to play at Glastonbury - Fat White Family - had previously called for violence against Conservatives on social media.\n\nIn a 2015 tweet, the punk rock band, from south-east London, said anyone who voted Tory had \"blood\" on their hands, and called for them to be executed. An earlier tweet said Tories should be hanged.\n\nThe band are still due to play at Glastonbury on 30 June on the Park Stage.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "US President Donald Trump will touch down in the UK on Tuesday for a Nato summit - the second visit he has made to Britain this year. What will the security operation involve and what hardware and staff will the president bring with him?\n\nWhenever the US president arrives in the UK, a multi-million-pound security operation is brought into action.\n\nMr Trump's three-day state visit in June, which involved more than 6,300 officers, cost the Metropolitan Police £3.4m, according to figures released under the Freedom of Information Act. A previous four-day working visit in 2018 cost more than £14.2m.\n\nHere are some of the incredible vehicles and entourage the president could be bringing with him this time around.\n\nThe president is likely to arrive in the UK on his customised, high-spec aircraft Air Force One.\n\nAir Force One isn't actually a specific plane but instead refers to one of two specially adapted Boeing 747-200B series aircraft, which carry the tail codes 28000 and 29000.\n\nWith its advanced avionics and defences, Air Force One is classed as a military aircraft, designed to withstand an air attack.\n\nIt can jam enemy radar and eject flares to throw heat-seeking missiles off course.\n\nIt is also capable of refuelling midair, allowing it to fly for an unlimited time - crucial in an emergency.\n\nAir Force One is also equipped with secure communications equipment, allowing the aircraft to function as a mobile command centre.\n\nThere are 85 onboard telephones, a collection of two-way radios and computer connections.\n\nInside, the president and his travel companions enjoy 4,000 sq ft of floor space on three levels, including an extensive suite for the president, a medical facility with an operating table, a conference and dining room, two food preparation galleys that can feed 100 people at a time, and designated areas for the press, VIPs, security and secretarial staff.\n\nSeveral cargo planes, including C-17 Globemaster transport aircraft, carry the president's fleet of armoured vehicles and helicopters, usually landing in advance of his arrival.\n\nAccording to the Washington Post, the president is always accompanied by a military aide carrying an emergency satchel known as the \"football\", which contains the \"gold codes\" for launching the country's nuclear weapons and options for their use.\n\nThe military aide must be nearby the president at all times, as the commander-in-chief is in possession of personal identification codes required to order a strike.\n\nThey are carried on a plastic card known as the \"biscuit\", which can be read only when its opaque plastic covering is snapped in two and removed.\n\nThe presidential motorcade, which includes two identical limousines and other security and communications vehicles, are transported ahead of the president by United States Air Force transport aircraft.\n\nOn the ground, the president travels in Cadillac One - a bullish, enhanced limousine dubbed the \"Beast\" for obvious reasons.\n\nThe spare, decoy vehicle that accompanies it has the same Washington DC licence plates - 800-002.\n\nPresident Trump's generation of presidential car debuted in 2018 - with the US Secret Service tweeting ahead of the UN General Assembly that it was \"ready to roll\".\n\nBut the service and vehicle's designers at General Motors have remained tight-lipped about the vehicle's special security features.\n\nWeighing in at about nine tonnes (20,000lb) - with an armour-plated body and bulletproof windows (which don't all open) - the car is reported to have tear gas grenade launchers, night vision cameras and a built-in satellite phone.\n\nReinforced tyres surround steel-rimmed wheels, which mean the car can still be driven if the tyres are flat.\n\nThe passenger cabin is said to be sealed, to fend off a chemical attack, while special foam would surround the fuel tank in case of impact.\n\nThe vehicle also has extensive electronic equipment, Reuters reports.\n\nThe car can hold at least seven people and has a wide range of medical supplies on board, including - NBC News suggests - a fridge full of blood matching the president's blood type, in case of emergency.\n\nWhen the president's on the move - you know about it.\n\nOther vehicles in the cavalcade include a parade of police outriders, secret service backup vehicles, counter-assault and hazardous attack teams, an armoured SUV communications vehicle, known as Roadrunner, medics and the press corps.\n\nThe president could also bring a fleet of helicopters with him to the UK.\n\nAmong them Marine One, which, like Air Force One, isn't a specific aircraft but instead refers to any US Marine Corps aircraft carrying the president.\n\nHowever, Marine One usually refers to one of the president's large Sikorsky VH-3D Sea Kings or the newer, smaller VH-60N White Hawks.\n\nThe specially adapted helicopters are known as \"white tops\" because of their livery and are fitted with communications equipment, anti-missile defences and hardened hulls.\n\nIt was Sea King versions that met the president at Stansted Airport and carried him to London, accompanied by tandem rotor chinook aircraft.\n\nAs a security measure, Marine One often flies in a group of identical helicopters acting as decoys.\n\nIt is also usually accompanied by two or three Osprey MV-22 escort aircraft, referred to as \"green tops\".\n\nThese tilt-rotor aircraft carry support staff, special forces and secret service agents, who are tasked with dealing with any mid-flight emergency.\n\nThe Ospreys, capable of vertical landings and high-speed flight, were heard circling around London during President Trump's last visit to the UK in 2018.\n\nStaff are also transported around in CH-46s Sea Knight helicopters.\n\nBritish forces' aircraft are also likely to be part of the security operation during his visit.\n\nSome estimates put the number of people in Mr Trump's entourage for his UK visit in 2018 at 1,000, including more than 150 US secret service agents.\n\nStaff included military communications specialists, White House aides, a doctor, a chef and members of the media.\n\nSome 750 rooms were booked out to accommodate his entourage, according to Matt Chorley, of the Times newspaper.\n\nFor his 2019 state visit, the president was reported to have booked a floor of the Corinthia Hotel in Westminster for his family and entourage.\n\nThis time around Mr Trump will be in London and Hertfordshire between 2 and 4 December for the Nato summit.\n\nHe will also attend a reception at Buckingham Palace on 3 December, which will be hosted by the Queen.\n• None Donald Trump state visit: All you need to know", "Former Tory MP Ann Widdecombe was recently elected as an MEP for the Brexit Party\n\nAnn Widdecombe has come under fire after she suggested science could \"produce an answer\" to being gay.\n\nIn an interview on Sky News, the newly elected Brexit Party MEP was asked about previous comments she made concerning gay conversion therapy.\n\nShe said she had \"pointed out that there was a time when it was thought impossible for men to become women\".\n\nLabour MP Luke Pollard said Ms Widdecombe was \"continuing her sick anti-LGBT campaign\".\n\nDuring the interview on the Ridge on Sunday programme, Ms Widdecombe, 71, was asked whether people would want to share a platform with her due to her views on homosexuality.\n\nAfter referencing the scientific progress in gender reassignment, she added: \"The fact that we now think it is quite impossible for people to switch sexuality doesn't mean that science may not yet produce an answer at some stage.\"\n\nPushed by the presenter on whether she thought it was a real possibility, Ms Widdecombe replied: \"I don't know any more than people once knew whether it was possible for men to become women.\"\n\nThe MEP said she had \"never claimed that such science already exists\" to change someone's sexuality.\n\nBut she added: \"If you simply rule out the possibility of it, you are denying people who are confused about their sexuality or discontented with it, the chances that you do give to people who want to change gender.\"\n\nHer comments drew criticism on Twitter, including from Tory MP Justine Greening.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Justine Greening This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Pollard wrote that he was \"utterly ashamed to be represented by this vile woman.\n\n\"Being gay isn't a disease to be cured. Ann Widdecombe is continuing her sick anti-LGBT campaign.\"\n\nFormer Tory MP Nick Boles - who now sits as an independent - accused Ms Widdecombe of \"poisonous bigotry\", while comedian Adi Ray said the comments were \"deplorable\".\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan said she was \"peddling homophobic nonsense\", adding: \"She may have changed her party, but she hasn't changed her stripes.\"\n\nLast summer, the government launched an LGBT Action Plan which pledged to bring forward proposals to ban so-called conversion therapy.\n\nThe report stated, in efforts to become heterosexual, therapies \"can range from pseudo-psychological treatments to, in extreme cases, surgical interventions and 'corrective' rape\".\n\nAnd Ms Widdecombe's stance on gay conversion therapy comes at a time of great celebration for LGBT people globally.\n\nThe start of June saw the beginning of LGBT Pride Month - a celebration recognised internationally since 1970.\n\nPride events are under way across the UK, with many cities getting on board to recognise how far we have come in terms of visibility and representation of those of different sexualities and genders.\n\nIt will be deeply disappointing to the UK's LGBT community that elected representatives, and people with large public platforms not only hold these views but actively promote them.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA Swedish judge has rejected a request to detain Julian Assange in absentia, complicating hopes to extradite him from the UK.\n\nProsecutors said Assange had not co-operated with their investigation into a 2010 allegation of rape against the Wikileaks founder, and so should be remotely held for questioning.\n\nThis would have allowed them to move forward with steps to extradite him.\n\nBut the judge rejected the motion, as Assange is already detained in the UK.\n\nDetention in absentia is an ordinary procedure in Swedish law if a person is abroad or in hiding, and would allow the prosecution to issue a European Arrest Warrant and bring him to Sweden.\n\nSpeaking after the ruling, Eva-Marie Persson - Sweden's deputy director of public prosecutions - said the rape investigation would continue, and she would instead issue a European Investigation Order to question Assange.\n\nThe Australian claimed political asylum in London's Ecuadorean embassy seven years ago to avoid extradition to Sweden over the rape allegation, which he has repeatedly denied.\n\nSwedish prosecutors reopened their investigation in May a month after Assange was arrested and removed from the embassy.\n\nSwedish deputy director of public prosecutions Eva-Marie Persson said she would issue an order to question Assange\n\nThe Wikileaks founder, who is in jail for breaching UK bail conditions, is also facing extradition to the US on federal conspiracy charges related to leaks of government secrets.\n\nIf convicted on all counts, Assange could be sentenced to 175 years in prison.\n\nShould Sweden allow an extradition request, it would be up to the UK where he would eventually be sent.\n\nLast week UN Special Rapporteur Nils Melzer said the 47-year-old had suffered \"prolonged exposure to psychological torture\" and urged the UK not to extradite him.\n\nUK Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt however said Assange \"chose to hide\" from justice and asked Mr Melzer to \"allow British courts to make their judgements without his interference\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA graduate who sued her university over her \"Mickey Mouse\" degree has received a £60,000 out-of-court settlement.\n\nPok Wong graduated with a first in international business strategy from Anglia Ruskin University in 2013.\n\nBut she claimed the university \"exaggerated the prospects of a career\" and sued them for false advertising.\n\nA spokesperson for Anglia Ruskin University said the settlement was agreed with their insurer's solicitors, and they did not support it.\n\nPok Wong, also known as Fiona, said claims made in the university's prospectus were untrue.\n\nShe told the BBC in 2018: \"They think we're international students [and] we come here to pay our money for a piece of paper, for the degree.\n\n\"But actually we care about the quality, we care about how much we could learn.\n\n\"They exaggerated the prospects of a career studying with them, and also they exaggerate how connected they are.\"\n\nLast year, the County Court of Central London ruled in the university's favour and ordered Ms Wong to pay £13,700 of Anglia Ruskin's legal costs.\n\nBut the university's insurers wrote to the former student, offering to settle her £15,000 claim, plus the payment of her legal costs.\n\nAn Anglia Ruskin University spokesman said Ms Wong's litigation \"has been rejected numerous times and has never been upheld\".\n\nThey said they did not support their insurer's solicitors decision, adding: \"We consider that they acted negligently and against the university's interests.\"\n\nBut Ms Wong wrote on Facebook that, despite the university denying any wrongdoing, \"the payout is a proven victory\".\n\nAnglia Ruskin University said it believed its insurers acted \"negligently and against the university's interests\"\n\nA spokesperson for the National Union of Students (NUS) said: \"Students do have clear rights under law, and the report of the settlement does indicate a way students can seek recourse.\"\n\nBut the spokesperson added that the NUS would prefer students \"to be partners in education\", instead of seeking a financial settlement.\n• None Tuition fees 'should be cut to £7,500'", "The world's best cliff divers have paid a visit to Italy, where they plunged - with spectacular backdrops - into the Adriatic Sea.\n\nPolignano a Mare was the third stop in the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series 2019, which began in April in the Philippines and will end in September in Bilbao, Spain.\n\nThis video has been removed for rights reasons.", "They are often notable for what goes wrong - did a visiting president break protocol by addressing one of the royals incorrectly? Did a soldier with a bearskin hat faint in the heat while on parade? God forbid anyone used the wrong golden fork at the state dinner.\n\nWhether or not in the next few days it is revealed that one of the Trump offspring took a selfie with the corgis, or the Duchess of Cambridge let Melania Trump try on her tiara in the Ladies, strip away all the excess and it's really about an expression of power.\n\nIn the next couple of days, we'll see an important marking of the passage of time since decisive days in World War Two.\n\nThere will be tributes to the bravery and sacrifice of the Allied forces, and restatements of the US and the UK's commitment to a relationship that is vital for both, and will endure.\n\nBut the political cast, as ever, has a great bearing on how well the relationship between the UK and the US can work.\n\nJoint appearances by Theresa May and Donald Trump have been outwardly at least, extremely awkward. That's in part because he has the habit of giving his unvarnished view of her government before he touches down, splashing controversy around in the way he so clearly enjoys.\n\nIt's also been because the contrast between them is just so profound. He, the tycoon who seems to adore breaking the political rules, who vaulted his way to the Oval Office taking the US establishment by surprise.\n\nShe, the careful politician who gradually inched her way upwards through the machine of the political party she loves and hoped to protect. Mr Trump, who relishes baiting those who disagree with him, and taunting the media. Mrs May, who gives the impression she would rather be left alone with her red boxes.\n\nThis time that difference is all the greater because the prime minister is on her way out of the door, while the president seeks another term in office.\n\nThey will have some discussions on Tuesday certainly. No 10 is expected to urge the White House to take climate change more seriously, and to think carefully about its approach to Iran.\n\nIn the other direction, expect the US to raise concerns over involving the Chinese telecoms firm Huawei in developing British infrastructure, and of course, the tentative conversations there have already been about trading after Brexit are likely to continue.\n\nBut don't expect dramatic joint announcements on Tuesday. If the political outcomes are a barometer of power, the truth is that Theresa May's is fading - with the US and Donald Trump having at least half an eye on who is coming next.", "The group went missing while climbing Nanda Devi in the Indian Himalayas\n\nIndian rescuers say the chances of finding eight climbers missing in the Himalayas are \"bleak\".\n\nTwo Indian air force helicopters were searching the mountains, but officials said the operation had to be suspended due to unfavourable conditions.\n\nThe missing group, including four Britons, two Americans, an Australian and an Indian, began climbing Nanda Devi on 13 May.\n\nThe British group leader's family said they were \"deeply saddened\".\n\nEarlier, officials said four other British climbers had been rescued. They have been named by India TV as Mark Thomas, Ian Wade, Kate Armstrong and Zachary Quain.\n\nThey were airlifted to safety after being spotted early on Sunday at a base camp near Nanda Devi.\n\nZachary Quain, Ian Wade, Kate Armstrong and Mark Thomas were rescued from base camp\n\nThe four rescued mountaineers began their ascent with the eight-member group on 13 May but returned to Munsiyari base camp due to harsh weather conditions.\n\nThe larger group headed for the summit of another unnamed peak, government official Vijay Kumar Jogdanda said.\n\nThe 12 climbers pictured before they began their ascent\n\nBoth groups remained in touch until 26 May - a day before an avalanche hit the 7,816-metre mountain, according to authorities.\n\nThe missing group was being led by experienced British mountain guide Martin Moran, whose Scotland-based company Moran Mountain has run numerous expeditions in the Indian Himalayas.\n\nIn a statement, his family said they were pressing for the search area to be widened, and wanted it to continue until they had firm evidence of the \"wellbeing or otherwise of all those in the climbing group\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mountaineer Alan Hinkes: 'There is still hope for missing climbers'\n\nMountaineer Alan Hinkes told the BBC his friend, Mr Moran, is a \"massively experienced mountaineer\", adding: \"There's still hope.\"\n\nBut he warned the monsoon season was now moving into the area, bringing with it heavy rain and fresh amounts of snow in the mountains.\n\n\"We are worried there's an avalanche involved and no matter how experienced you are, the mountain doesn't know that,\" he added.\n\nMr Moran is also a member of the Torridon Mountain Rescue Team in Scotland, which said: \"The Team are deeply concerned by the news that our member, Martin Moran, is missing on Nandi Devi.\n\n\"Our thoughts and prayers are with his family and the families of the others missing.\"\n\nThe rest of the group have been named locally as John McLaren, Rupert Whewell and Richard Payne from the UK; US nationals Anthony Sudekum and Ronald Beimel; Australian Ruth McCance and Indian guide Chetan Pandey.\n\nRuth McCance, from Australia, is among the missing climbers\n\nThe University of York confirmed one of its lecturers, Dr Richard Payne, had been reported missing after travelling to the Himalayas on a climbing trip.\n\n\"We are extremely concerned for his safety,\" it said in a statement.\n\nThe rescue effort began on Saturday when the climbers did not return to their base camp.\n\n\"The first aerial recce has concluded,\" said Mr Jogdanda earlier on Sunday, confirming an avalanche was feared to have caught the group in the area around India's second-highest peak.\n\nHe added: \"There were only tents spotted, but no human presence. The second helicopter has left for the recce. Chances of survival are bleak.\"\n\nA team of 10 to 15 rescuers, comprising police, disaster response personnel and administrators, has also fanned out to find survivors, said Tripti Bhatt, an official of the Uttarakhand State Disaster Response Force (SDRF).\n\nAuthorities warned it could take days to trek to the area where the missing climbers were last known to have been.\n\nMoran Mountain confirmed on Saturday that it was working with authorities and the British Association of Mountain Guides to \"gather information regarding the Nanda Devi East expedition team\".\n\n\"Out of respect for those involved and their families, we will be making no further comments at this time,\" it added.\n\nPhotos posted to Moran Mountain's Facebook page the day before the start of the climb showed the group \"starting their journey into the hills at Neem Kharoli Baba temple, Bhowali\".\n\nAn update on 22 May, posted from their second base camp at 4,870 metres, suggested that the group would attempt to summit a previously unclimbed peak on the mountain.\n\nThe British Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) confirmed it was in contact with Indian authorities about the missing climbers.\n\n\"We will do all we can to assist any British people who need our help,\" a spokesman said.\n\nNanda Devi is the world's 23rd highest mountain and was first scaled in 1936.\n\nConsidered one of the toughest Himalayan peaks to summit, it attracts fewer climbers than other mountains in the region.\n• None Four reasons why this Everest season went wrong", "There has been a recent rise in the number of migrants attempting to reach Britain from across the English Channel\n\nA French court has sentenced an imam to two years in prison for helping migrants try to cross the English Channel in inflatable boats.\n\nThe 39-year-old Iranian national was accused of arranging several crossings from northern France to England.\n\nA 29-year-old Senegalese man who attended the mosque where the imam preaches also stood trial.\n\nHe was given nine months in jail and was banned from visiting Nord and Pas-de-Calais for three years.\n\nThe imam, who has not been named in French media, fainted upon hearing his sentence.\n\nThe men admitted providing six or seven dinghies after they were arrested in April, French newspaper Le Figaro reported.\n\nThe investigation started in late March when life jackets, wet pullovers and a rubber dinghy were discovered on a beach in northern France.\n\nAccording to the prosecution, the imam was in contact with organised gangs of traffickers and took a commission on the sale of each boat.\n\nPolice found two boats, three outboard engines and life jackets in the imam's house. The two men confessed to buying seven boats between December 2018 and April 2019.\n\nThe imam claimed he visited a shop in Deulemont, on the border with Belgium, to purchase dinghies for a person he identified only as Kamal.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Thousands of migrants are still losing their lives trying to reach Europe by boat\n\nBoth defendants claimed they only realised later that the boats were being used for illegal Channel crossings.\n\n\"When I learnt that, I thought of the children on board and I told myself there could have been deaths,\" the Senegalese man told the court. The imam said he was \"ashamed\".\n\nProsecutors said their explanations \"did not reflect reality\" and that the Iranian national was often in the areas where the boats were discovered.\n\nThere has been a recent spike in the number of migrants trying to cross the Channel in boats, despite the risk of dangerous currents, cold waters and collisions.", "The tweets followed recent criticism of Mr Trump from Mr Khan, who said the UK should not be \"rolling out the red carpet\" for the US president during the trip", "The incident is understood to have happened near Pegasus Bridge\n\nA British soldier has died in France, the Army has confirmed.\n\nL/Cpl Darren Jones, of the Royal Engineers, was in Normandy as part of a team assisting in the D-Day 75th anniversary commemorations.\n\nHe is thought to have got into difficulties while swimming in a canal near Pegasus Bridge.\n\nThe incident is understood to have happened either late on Saturday night or early on Sunday morning while L/Cpl Jones was on down-time.\n\nAn Army spokeswoman said: \"It is with sadness that we must confirm the death of a service person in France.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with their family at this difficult time.\"\n\nFrench police are understood to be investigating but are not looking for anyone else in connection with the incident.\n\nA post-mortem examination is yet to be carried out.\n\nThe anniversary of the Normandy landings is being marked by a series of events this week, with Prince Charles, US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Theresa May travelling to France for the occasion.\n\nPegasus Bridge was the first site liberated by British forces during the Allied invasion on D-Day.\n\nIt was named after the emblem worn by British airborne troops, who flew in by glider and parachute at just after midnight on 6 June 1944 to capture the bridge in Bénouville.", "Katie Price has admitted shouting a \"tirade of abuse\" at her ex-husband's new partner in a school playground.\n\nThe former model was due to stand trial over the incident which happened in Shipley, West Sussex, on 6 September.\n\nShe had originally denied using threatening and abusive words or behaviour to cause harassment, alarm or distress to Kieran Hayler's girlfriend.\n\nBut Price, 41, of near Horsham, changed her plea at the town's magistrates' court and was fined £415.\n\nShe was also banned from contacting Michelle Penticost, who is dating Mr Hayler.\n\nAfter the hearing, Price told reporters outside the court: \"I did swear but the rest is just exaggerated nonsense.\"\n\nWhen asked if she was sorry, she replied: \"No I'm not, because I didn't do anything that bad.\"\n\nThe row with Ms Penticost and her friend Andrea Quigley happened in the playground of a primary school near Price's home.\n\nPaul Edwards, prosecuting, told the court that during the row, Price was witnessed hurling a \"tirade of abuse\" and swore multiple times at both women.\n\nPaul Macauley, defending, claimed the outburst was prompted by Price's recent discovery of Ms Penticost's relationship with Mr Hayler.\n\nOrdering her to pay £606 - including the fine and court costs - chairman of the bench Michael Harris said a five-year restraining order forbidding her from contacting Ms Penticost directly or indirectly was \"appropriate for this unpleasant event\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Katie Price: \"I'm trying to get on with my life\"\n\nIn a victim impact statement read on her behalf, Ms Penticost - who did not attend the hearing - said she tried to avoid Price at school because she felt intimidated.\n\nShe said: \"I'm anxious I may still see her and I just want to get outside the school as soon as possible.\"\n\nOutside court, Price said it was a \"one-off incident\" and there had been no further problems since.\n\nHowever, she claimed to feel \"totally intimidated and isolated\" at the school and said she had \"no option than to move the children\".\n\nThis is the third criminal court case Price has faced this year.\n\nIn January, she was banned from driving for a second time after getting behind the wheel while disqualified and uninsured.\n\nThen, in February she was banned for another three months and fined £1,100 after being convicted of being nearly twice the legal alcohol limit while in charge of her Range Rover.\n\nThat month, Price also revealed she had been \"self-medicating\" with cocaine for about six months, after what she said had been an \"awful year\" in 2018.\n\nIn an interview with the Victoria Derbyshire programme, she spoke about her mother's terminal illness, splitting from her husband and being held at gunpoint in South Africa.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sudanese security forces have attacked a pro-democracy protest camp outside military headquarters in the nation's capital, Khartoum.\n\nSources in Sudan say that at least 30 people have been killed, with many more injuries reported.\n\nThere have been protests in Sudan since last December. In April they caused former President Omar al-Bashir to stand down after 30 years in power.", "The boy was taken to Leeds General Infirmary where he was treated for head injuries\n\nThe condition of a seven-year-old boy who fell from a rollercoaster is improving, police say.\n\nThe boy was airlifted to Leeds General Infirmary with head injuries after the incident at Lightwater Valley, near Ripon, North Yorkshire, on Thursday and was in a critical condition.\n\nNorth Yorkshire Police said he was now \"breathing independently and his condition continues to improve\".\n\nWitnesses said the child fell about 15ft (4.6m) from the Twister ride.\n\nOther people at the theme park reported hearing screams and seeing the boy \"hanging backwards\" from the carriage.\n\nThe child was airlifted from Lightwater Valley on Thursday\n\nNorth Yorkshire Police and the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) are investigating.\n\nLightwater Valley said the Twister ride would be closed \"indefinitely\", but the park is next due to open as normal on Thursday.\n\nThe theme park tweeted after the incident that it was \"devastated\".\n\nIn June 2001, 20-year-old Gemma Savage from South Yorkshire died when two of the rollercoaster's cars collided.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sadiq Khan and members of the emergency services were among those who attended evensong\n\nMemorial services have been held at Southwark Cathedral to mark the second anniversary of the London Bridge terror attack.\n\nEight people were killed and 48 seriously injured when three men drove into pedestrians before stabbing people in Borough Market on 3 June 2017.\n\nAn evensong began at 17:30 BST while a special prayer service finished at 22:16 - the time the attack ended.\n\nAn inquest into the eight deaths has been adjourned until Tuesday.\n\nXavier Thomas, 45, Christine Archibald, 30, Sara Zelenak, 21, Sebastien Belanger, 36, James McMullan, 32, Kirsty Boden, 28, Alexandre Pigeard, 26, and Ignacio Echeverria, 39, were all killed in the attack.\n\nThe Old Bailey inquest into their deaths is on its 19th day of live evidence.\n\nIt has heard the attackers stalked people like \"predators\" and 12-inch pink kitchen knives which had been bought from a Lidl supermarket weeks earlier were used during the attack.\n\nLawyers representing several victims' families also told the inquest there were \"opportunities galore\" to identify that the London Bridge extremists were plotting an attack.\n\nKhuram Shazad Butt, Rachid Redouane and Youssef Zaghba were shot by armed police at Borough Market during their rampage.\n\nEight people died in the attack on 3 June 2017\n\nPC Wayne Marques, who confronted the three attackers with only his baton to protect him, gave a reading at evensong.\n\nHe was temporarily blinded in one eye as the three attackers slashed at him with their knives.\n\nPC Wayne Marques, who confronted the three attackers, gave a reading at evensong\n\nA tree has been planted in the churchyard using compost created from floral tributes laid on London Bridge in the aftermath of the attack.\n\nThe later prayer service got under way at 21:58, the time the attack began, and concluded with a moment of silence at 22:16.\n\nBorough Market traders marked the anniversary with flags flying at half-mast.\n\nThe mayor of London said the anniversary would be \"no less difficult\" for those affected.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with the victims' families and all those who were injured,\" Sadiq Khan said.\n\nEmergency services including the Met Police have also paid tribute to those who died, as well as recalling \"the bravery of the officers and the public who confronted danger\".\n\nFlowers left following the attack have been composted and used to plant the \"tree of healing\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'He wasn't alone' - Morgan's parents talk about their son's last moments\n\nThe parents of one of three teenagers who died in a crush outside a hotel have said serious questions must be asked about the actions of the police.\n\nJimmy Bradley and Maria Barnard's 17-year-old son, Morgan Barnard, was fatally injured in a queue for a disco at the Greenvale Hotel in Cookstown, County Tyrone.\n\nLauren Bullock, 17, and 16-year-old Connor Currie also lost their lives.\n\nThe PSNI has already referred the case to the Police Ombudsman.\n\nPolice previously acknowledged there are questions about why the first officers on the scene withdrew to await support.\n\nThe PSNI previously said an investigation was required to fully establish the facts and it was awaiting the outcome of an independent Police Ombudsman's investigation.\n\nLast week, PSNI Chief Constable George Hamilton apologised for comments he made about the PSNI's initial response.\n\nThe Greenvale Hotel was hosting a St Patrick's Day disco on the night of 17 March and hundreds of young people were queuing to get in.\n\nThe victims were Lauren Bullock, 17, Morgan Barnard, 17, and 16-year-old Connor Currie\n\nIn their first sit-down interview since their son's death, Morgan's parents said they wanted to know if his life could have been saved.\n\n\"We want to get to the absolute truth, from start to finish, the absolute truth and accountability from whoever that may be,\" his father told BBC News NI.\n\n\"And of course prevention in the future, so this doesn't happen another young person.\n\n\"There are questions to be answered after the police arrived, those questions are with the ombudsman who are going to come to a conclusion and not an opinion.\n\n\"If those questions don't get to the truth for myself, Maria and Morgan, well then it may well be the case that we need an independent inquiry to get to the truth of why our son died at the Greenvale Hotel that night.\"\n\nMaria Barnard and Jimmy Bradley received an apology from the chief constable\n\nMorgan's parents also revealed they were contacted after their son's death by a young man who comforted Morgan as he lay fatally injured.\n\n\"We spoke to a young guy who wasn't a friend of Morgan's but who stayed with him until paramedics reached him while he was lying in the ground,\" Mr Bradley said.\n\n\"He called to our house to let us know, he didn't even know Morgan, he just called to let us know he wasn't alone.\"\n\nMaria Barnard described her distress when she received a telephone call informing her that something had gone wrong at the hotel and her son might have been hurt.\n\n\"I hung up the phone and I was panicking and I rang Craigavon Hospital,\" she said.\n\n\"The nurse asked if he had any distinguishing marks and I said no he's just a normal teenage lad, tall, fair hair.\n\n\"She asked if he wore braces and once she said that, I just knew.\"\n\nThe couple said their son \"lit up the room\" and was adored by his siblings.\n\nLast week, the couple received a public apology from PSNI Chief Constable George Hamilton for comments he made about the PSNI's initial response.\n\nIn April, Mr Hamilton had described the actions of the officers who were first on the scene as \"brave\" but he added there were \"questions to answer\" as they held back to await support.\n\nMorgan Barnard's family said they had found the chief constable's comments extremely hurtful, and asked him for the private meeting.\n\nAfter the meeting last Thursday, Mr Hamilton apologised for describing officers' actions as \"brave\".\n\n\"No public commentary by me or any police officer will detract from the independent investigation,\" he added.\n\nOn 26 March, nine days after the teenagers' deaths, the PSNI confirmed Mr Hamilton had referred the case to the Police Ombudsman for \"independent scrutiny\" of the actions of the first officers on the scene.\n\nThey arrived at the hotel grounds shortly after receiving a 999 call on the night of 17 March.\n\nDeputy Chief Constable Stephen Martin said in a previous statement: \"Following their initial assessment they made attempts to establish more detail and information about what was happening and subsequently withdrew to await further police support.\n\n\"When the first ambulance arrived police moved forward in support of them.\"\n\nTwo men arrested as part of a criminal investigation into the crush remain on bail.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nApple has announced that iTunes is to be replaced by Apple Music, Apple Podcasts and Apple TV.\n\nThere had been speculation that the tech giant was planning to shutter the music service it launched in 2001.\n\nThe firm also revealed a number of new privacy measures at its annual developer conference in San Jose.\n\nA new sign-in will be an alternative to logging into apps using social media accounts, hiding the user's email address and data.\n\niTunes will remain unchanged on Windows platforms, and downloads will still be available in a sidebar on the Apple Music app for Macs.\n\nThe announcements were made at the WWDC conference, where the tech giant outlines its software plans for the months ahead.\n\nApple's new sign in includes an email address-hiding function\n\nApple announced several new privacy measures, building on last year's event where it pledged to jam Facebook's tracking tools.\n\n\"Privacy is a fundamental human right,\" said Apple's software chief Craig Federighi.\n\nHe said that there will be an option for apps which request location information to have to ask every time they require it, and they will be blocked from using other markers, such as identifying Wi-Fi or Bluetooth signals.\n\nApple is also launching a sign-in-with-Apple login, as an alternative to logging in to a service using a social media account.\n\nUsing this login, users can choose to hide their email address, with Apple creating a random alternative address which will forward to the real mailbox.\n\n\"The unveiling of 'Sign-in With Apple' will concern rivals, particularly the web giants,\" commented Ben Wood from CCS Insight.\n\n\"Existing sign-in services provide a simple means for single sign-in across the web. Privacy is the differentiator that will be heavily emphasised versus Facebook and Google, and represents a great marketing tool for Apple's broader privacy stance.\"\n\niOS 13 introduces Dark Mode, where apps are displayed on a black background\n\nThe next iteration of the iPhone's operating system - iOS 13 - includes a range of changes to its interface, as well as new functions.\n\nThe new Dark Mode enables iPhone apps to be viewed with a black background, while the Apple Maps app will come with a virtual tour experience similar to Google's Street View.\n\nOther key features include the option to silence unknown callers and block senders within the Mail app, improved search in messages, and optimised battery charging.\n\nApple has also made improvements to its language keyboards, including the introduction of new bilingual keyboards and typing predictions for Arabic, Hindi, Thai, Cantonese, Vietnamese and the 22 official Indian languages.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by desiperkins This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOther news from the conference included:\n\nThe Apple Watch now comes with multiple new watch faces\n\nThe Apple Watch is to become more independent from the iPhone with its own app store.\n\nNew apps for the Watch include a menstrual cycle tracker, with an optional fertility window predictor, and a noise level tool to alert Watch wearers when they are around noise levels that can damage hearing.\n\nApple said it would not record or store the noise data.\n\nThe tech giant also unveiled a redesigned Mac Pro complete with a 28-core Intel processor and 6k retina display screen, which is 40% larger than the current iMac display screen.\n\nIt will launch in the autumn with prices starting at $5,999 (£4,700) - this does not include the screen or stand.\n\nAnd instead of buying additional monitors, existing Mac users will now be able to use the iPad as a second screen.\n\nTuong Nguyen, senior principal analyst at Gartner, said this year's event had a different feel to its predecessors, following on from Apple's last announcements which saw it reposition itself as a provider of services, rather than hardware.\n\n\"Typically at WWDC you might see it begin with something interesting, in terms of how devices are used or how apps interact, but this time it kicked off with a video that looked more like a movie trailer,\" he said.\n\n\"Is this the new way we should see Apple events, more rooted in the media content side of things, rather than the strong emphasis on technology and hardware innovation?\n\n\"Remember, the last event was all about services and content - this may be the new way that Apple differentiates itself.\"", "The 89-year-old will donate some of his £250,000 to the Royal Hospital Chelsea\n\nChelsea Pensioner Colin Thackery has become the oldest winner of Britain's Got Talent.\n\nAs well as winning a slot performing in front of the Queen at the Royal Variety Performance, he will also bank a cheque for £250,000.\n\nThe 89-year-old singer said he would make a donation to the south London retirement and nursing home for former members of the British Army.\n\nHe admitted he had taken part in the programme \"for a dare\".\n\n\"One of the guys, as I was coming off the stage in our club dared me having sung after the curry lunch,\" explained Thackery, who is from Thorpe St Andrew in Norwich, on Britain's Got More Talent.\n\n\"He said, 'When are going to do it?' I said, 'What?' and he said 'Go on Britain's Got Talent'. I said ''Don't be silly'.\"\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Britain's Got Talent This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. End of youtube video by Britain's Got Talent\n\nAfter performing Love Changes Everything for the finale on Sunday night, Thackeray said he would \"die happy\" if he had the chance to sing for the Queen.\n\n\"I served my Queen for 25 years and to think I could sing for her would be the end,\" he told hosts Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly.\n\nAccording to overnight figures, an average 8.2 million people tuned in live to Sunday night's final, a 40% share of the audience.\n\nThat figure rises to 8.5 million when those watching on ITV+1 are included.\n\nIn 2018, an average of 8.7 million viewers tuned in live to watch Lost Voice Guy win the competition, the highest figures since 2015 when dancing dog act Jules O'Dwyer & Matisse were crowned.\n\nWhen the show launched in 2007, more than 11 million watched opera singer Paul Potts crowned its first winner while an audience of 16.4 million saw Diversity dance their way to success in 2009, with 18.29 million tuning in for the results show.\n\nThe viewing environment has altered dramatically over the past decade. So BGT's overnight audience of 8.5 million is a strong performance at a time when watching patterns are constantly changing. While the talent show is no longer enjoying the huge dominance it had ten years ago, Sunday night's figures still represent the show's biggest overnight audience for a final since 2015.\n\nThis weekend has also seen some notable viewing figures with Saturday night's Champions League Final giving BT Sport its biggest ever overnight rating, peaking at more than 6 million viewers. Along with Game of Thrones on Sky Atlantic, it's an additional example of how a particularly popular piece of programming can draw large audiences away from the traditional big broadcasters.\n\nThe BBC's Line of Duty series five finale is, so far 2019's most watched piece of television\n\nThere's still lots of good news around for the likes of BBC One and ITV. The final 28 day viewing figures for the May finale of BBC One's Line of Duty (above) have now been published. It's been watched by 13.67 million, including catch-up platforms, making it 2019's most watched piece of television.\n\nIt joins a small select group of shows, major sporting events aside, that can still achieve figures in excess of 13 million. Over the past year, these have included writer Jed Mercurio's other big BBC drama Bodyguard, Strictly Come Dancing and ITV's I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here.\n\nMasked Magician X was the runner-up and shocked the judges and audience by revealing he was actually former contestant Marc Spelmann, who appeared in the 2018 series but failed to make it to the final.\n\nSpelman's big reveal was preceded by a video montage of his previous performances during which Ant is seen saying: \"Imagine at the end he takes it off and it's someone we know?\"\n\nClose to tears, he told the audience: \"It was always about hope. I'm never giving up. It's been an honour sharing X with you. I'm X,\" he said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of youtube video 2 by Britain's Got Talent\n\nBoyle also confirmed she is set to take part in a new special Britain's Got Talent: The Champions later in the year.\n\nShe appeared in a US version of the show earlier this year, alongside former contestants like opera singer Paul Potts.", "Donald Trump and Sadiq Khan have been in a \"political grudge match\" for years\n\nUS President Donald Trump has reignited his political feud with Sadiq Khan, calling him a \"stone cold loser who should focus on crime in London\".\n\nMoments before Air Force One landed at Stansted, Donald Trump posted two tweets criticising the mayor of London.\n\nIt follows Mr Khan's attack on Mr Trump ahead of his three-day state visit to the UK.\n\nA spokesman for Mr Khan said the \"childish insults should be beneath the president of the United States\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAs he came in to land, Mr Trump wrote: \"Sadiq Khan, who by all accounts has done a terrible job as Mayor of London, has been foolishly 'nasty' to the visiting President of the United States, by far the most important ally of the United Kingdom.\n\n\"He is a stone cold loser who should focus on crime in London, not me.\n\n\"Kahn [sic] reminds me very much of our very dumb and incompetent Mayor of NYC, de Blasio, who has also done a terrible job - only half his height.\n\n\"In any event, I look forward to being a great friend to the United Kingdom, and am looking very much forward to my visit. Landing now.\"\n\nIn response to Mr Trump's tweets, a spokesman for Mr Khan said: \"This is much more serious than childish insults which should be beneath the president of the United States\n\n\"Sadiq is representing the progressive values of London and our country warning that Donald Trump is the most egregious example of growing far right threat around the globe.\"\n\nNew York City's Mayor Bill de Blasio later tweeted that he considered any comparison with London's mayor \"a compliment\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Bill de Blasio This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nProtesters flew an inflatable caricaturing Mr Trump as a baby during his 2018 visit to the UK\n\nMr Trump's tweets follow a long-running feud between the two men.\n\nIn May 2016 Mr Trump challenged the newly-elected London mayor to an IQ test after Mr Khan said his views on Islam were \"ignorant\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Sadiq Khan This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFollowing the attack on London Bridge and Borough Market in 2017, the US president accused Mr Khan of \"pathetic\" behaviour.\n\nMr Khan responded that he would not allow Mr Trump to \"divide our communities\".\n\nIn July last year Mr Trump said Mr Khan had \"done a very bad job on terrorism\".\n\nThe mayor said he would not rise to Donald Trump's \"beastly\" accusation that he had done \"a terrible job\" following the London terror attacks.\n\nMr Trump's criticism came after Mr Khan permitted a plan to fly a giant inflatable \"Trump baby\" blimp to coincide with the president's UK visit.\n\nTwo months later Mr Khan also gave protesters permission to fly a bikini-clad blimp of himself over Westminster.\n\nMr Trump is taking part in his first official state visit to the UK as president.\n\nIt includes a private lunch with the Queen and a state banquet at Buckingham Palace.\n\nMr Trump will then meet Prime Minister Theresa May at St James's Palace on Tuesday morning for a business breakfast.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nI would like to say I am surprised, but I am not because we know Trump has no regard for normal diplomatic niceties.\n\nHe seems to have got stuck in to Sadiq Khan. I am also not surprised because these two figures loathe each other.\n\nThis is a political grudge match which has been simmering now for three years, back from when the president introduced that travel ban on some Muslim countries.\n\nProtests at Mr Trump's visit, including a \"national demonstration\" in Trafalgar Square, are planned for central London.\n\nBoth the Stop Trump Coalition and Stand Up to Trump protest groups said they would be present.\n\nThe Met Police said it had \"a very experienced command team\" leading the operation to deal with the visit.\n\nThe Museum of London wants both the Sadiq Khan and Donald Trump blimps as exhibits", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nBangladesh stunned South Africa to start their World Cup campaign with a fine 21-run victory at The Oval.\n\nBangladesh made 330-6 - their highest one-day total - with Mushfiqur Rahim scoring 78 and Shakib Al Hasan 75 in front of a passionate crowd strongly in their favour.\n\nThe pair put on 142 for the third wicket and, although both fell in the final 15 overs, Mahmudullah helped power his side to the highest total of the tournament with an unbeaten 46 off 33 balls.\n\nSouth Africa, who were sloppy in the field, lost crucial wickets as they rarely threatened to complete the highest World Cup chase in history.\n\nOpener Quinton de Kock fell to a shambolic run-out early on, captain Faf du Plessis was bowled for 62 and Rassie van der Dussen was dismissed for 41 in the 40th over.\n\nThe Proteas still had slim hope with three overs left, JP Duminy at the crease and 44 needed - but he played on off Mustafizur Rahman to depart for 45.\n\nThe defeat means South Africa have lost their opening two matches in the competition, having been beaten by England in the opener on Thursday.\n• None TMS podcast: Time for South Africa to press the panic button?\n\nBangladesh are a much-improved team in recent years - they won a tri-series against West Indies and Ireland before this tournament and have series wins over India and Pakistan since the last World Cup - but this result still saw the side ranked seventh in the world beat the one ranked third.\n\nBangladesh were given a solid start by Tamim Iqbal and Soumya Sarkar, who shared a stand of 60, but the experienced pair of Shakib and Mushfiqur rebuilt excellently after both openers fell.\n\nThey rotated the strike and scored freely through extra cover and square leg, scoring at close to a run a ball.\n\nIt looked like Bangladesh would let a good position slip when Mushfiqur departed soon after Shakib, but Mahmudullah's late hitting, which included three fours and a big six over mid-wicket, and support from Mosaddek Hossain, who made 26, regained momentum as 54 runs came from the last four overs.\n\nWith the ball, Bangladesh were more disciplined than the Proteas, with their spinners economical on the same pitch used for England's win over South Africa.\n\nShakib bowled opener Aiden Markram through the gate for 45 and Mehedi Hasan turned one between Du Plessis' bat and pad as he advanced down the pitch.\n\nSeamers Mohammad Saifuddin and Mustafizur Rahman returned later in the innings to seal victory, with the former bowling a wicket maiden that included the scalp of the well-set Van der Dussen.\n\nBangladesh play New Zealand in a day-night game on Wednesday, again at The Oval.\n\nFor all Bangladesh's good play, they were helped by South Africa's flat and untidy showing.\n\nThe Proteas showed little evidence of learning from the defeat by England, even though the match was played on the same pitch.\n\nIn the fifth over they missed an opportunity with an edge from Soumya going between Markram at first slip and Du Plessis at second, with neither making a real effort to go for the catch.\n\nIn the overs that followed there were a number of misfields and, in the 47th over Kagiso Rabada put down Mahmudullah when he was on 12, which proved costly.\n\nSouth Africa lost fast bowler Lungi Ngidi to a hamstring injury after he bowled only four overs, but they also disappointed with the bat.\n\nEvery member of the top six faced at least 30 balls but no-one showed sustained aggression to reduce the increasing required run-rate.\n\nDe Kock was out in comical fashion, being called for a run by Markram before both stopped midway down the pitch and the left-hander was stranded when wicketkeeper Mushfiqur threw down the stumps.\n\nSouth Africa face India, one of the main contenders for the tournament, at Southampton on Wednesday.\n\n'I can promise there will be fight on Wednesday' - reaction\n\nSouth Africa captain Faf du Plessis: \"Today didn't go according to plan - 330 was a little over par. Everyone chipped in with the bat but it was not enough.\n\n\"Looking back on it, I wouldn't have bowled first. But the thinking was speaking to all the local guys who said there would be more pace and bounce in it.\n\n\"There are a few areas where we weren't great today. To go for so many runs at the end, those last five overs were very bad.\n\n\"We're a proud sporting nation. The skills weren't here today but I can promise there will be fight against India on Wednesday.\"\n\nBangladesh captain Mashrafe Mortaza: \"Mushy always plays that kind of innings, and Shakib batted so well.\n\n\"That was a good wicket to bat on, and we knew we had to bowl in the right areas. We were able to get wickets in patches.\n\n\"The crowd was behind us - thanks to all the Bangladeshi crowd.\"\n\nFormer England captain Alec Stewart on TMS: \"An outstanding performance. South Africa were favourites but haven't been allowed to show how good they are.\n\n\"Bangladesh have dominated proceedings and will upset at least a couple of other sides, especially if they play on used pitches more.\"\n\nTest Match Special's Dan Norcross: \"The way Bangladesh played today, I can see them beating other sides in this tournament and not in a giant-killing.\n\nThey have a clear plan, good batsmen, terrific spin bowlers and The Fizz [Mustafizur Rahman].\"", "US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump have arrived in the UK for a three-day state visit.\n\nThe Presidential plane Air Force One landed at Stansted Airport in Essex shortly before 09:00 BST.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe chancellor has rejected claims there are millions of people living in dire poverty in Britain.\n\n\"Look around you; that's not what we see in this country,\" Philip Hammond told Newsnight.\n\nMr Hammond accepted that some people were struggling.\n\nBut he said the government had worked to tackle the causes of poverty and rejected a United Nations report that claimed austerity had increased poverty.\n\nPublished last month, the rapporteur accused the government of plunging millions into poverty, in some instances with \"tragic consequences\".\n\nMr Hammond said: \"I reject the idea that there are vast numbers of people facing dire poverty in this country.\n\n\"I don't accept the UN rapporteur's report at all. I think that's a nonsense. Look around you, that's not what we see in this country.\n\n\"Of course there are people struggling with the cost of living. I understand that. But the point being is that we are addressing these things through getting to the root causes.\"\n\nThe chancellor said that for many people, the market economy was not working as it was \"supposed to\", and the idea the economy is \"generating and distributing wealth is at odds with the practice that they are experiencing\".\n\nHe said the government should be ensuring the market was \"delivering in the way that the textbooks tell us it will work.\n\n\"To deliver through competition, the best deal for consumers and to distribute wealth in a way that is fair.\n\n\"To the extent that it's not working, we have got to evolve the system.\"\n\nThe UN report cites independent experts saying that 14m people in the UK - a fifth of the population - live in poverty, according to a new measure that takes into account costs such as housing and childcare.\n\nAccording to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 1.5m people experienced destitution in 2017 - meaning they had less than £10 a day after housing costs, or had to go without at least two essentials such as shelter, food, heat, light, clothing or toiletries during a one-month period.\n\nMr Hammond's comments came during an interview on Monday with Newsnight's Emily Maitlis, in which he warned MPs vying to be leader of the Conservative Party that they risked becoming \"Theresa May mark two\" unless they accepted the realities of Brexit.\n\nThe chancellor, who has yet to reveal who he will support in his party's leadership race, laid down a challenge for the candidates.\n\n\"Explain to me how you will avoid becoming Theresa May mark two, stuck in a holding pattern,\" he said.\n\nHe criticised some of the candidates' Brexit plans.\n\n\"An extension of time to try to renegotiate, when the EU have already said they have finished the negotiation and, indeed, have disbanded their negotiating team, strikes me as a not very auspicious policy.\"\n\nHe added: \"The debate we're having now is here, in the UK, about whether we are going to sign the Withdrawal Agreement or not, and about what kind of future relationship we then want to have - because the European Union is willing to talk to us about the shape of the future relationship.\"\n\nMr Hammond also said he believed that MPs from all sides should \"stop pontificating and get off their high horses\" in an effort to resolve the Brexit impasse.\n\nAsked whether he would prefer a no-deal outcome or no Brexit, he replied: \"Neither is an acceptable outcome, because no deal would be catastrophic for the country and its economy - and no Brexit would be seen as a gross breach of faith with the public.\"\n\nHe added: \"So we as democrats and we as parliamentarians should be absolutely clear that we cannot tolerate either of those outcomes,\" and said \"we have a solemn obligation to find a solution which avoids\" either.\n\nHe said that meant a deal was required.\n\n\"We will all be grumpy about it, we will all be dissatisfied. But in many ways that is the only way forward for the country,\" he said.\n\n\"If we end up with a deal that means half the people in this country think they achieved total victory and the other half think they have been totally defeated, that is not the recipe for unity in the future. And countries that are not unified are not successful.\"\n\nThe full interview with Chancellor Philip Hammond will be broadcast on Newsnight at 10.30pm Monday on BBC2.", "Climbers pay a premium in order to climb the mountain\n\nOver the past two decades, the average annual death rate of climbers on Mount Everest has remained at about six.\n\nBut this spring, at least 10 people have already been reported dead or missing on the world's highest peak.\n\nThis is also the season that saw a record 381 climbing permits issued by the Nepalese government.\n\nIn reality, this means about 600 people were preparing to embark on the climb, with permit holders accompanied by support staff up the mountain.\n\nWhile overcrowding has been blamed for the increase in the number of deaths, there are also other factors at play.\n\nMany of the climbers began gathering at Everest base camp at the start of May. At the same time, the authorities were concerned about the knock-on effects of Cyclone Fani which had already struck India and Bangladesh.\n\nThe weather deteriorated in the Nepalese Himalayas days after the cyclone, forcing the government to suspend all mountaineering activities for at least two days.\n\nNearly 20 tents at the camp were blown away by strong winds and after the warning, several climbers, who were already en route to some of the higher camps, returned to base camp.\n\nProlonged bad weather meant that the practice of fixing bolted rope to assist climbers trying to reach the summit was delayed.\n\nBritish climber Robin Haynes Fisher (pictured) is among those who have died this year\n\nMeanwhile the crowd at base camp continued to build.\n\nEverest - which lies on the border between Nepal and China - can be reached from the Chinese side as well. However, the Chinese government issues fewer permits, and many mountaineering experts find the climb less interesting.\n\nAfter the ropes were fixed by mid-May, the first feasible clear-weather window was 19 and 20 May.\n\nBut only a few teams chose to climb then while the majority waited for the second window - from 22 to 24 May.\n\nMountaineering experts say this was when the crowd management went wrong.\n\n23 May saw the maximum number of climbers on one day - more than 250.\n\nClimbers had to wait for hours below the summit - both on the way up and on the way down.\n\nMany of them were exhausted and their oxygen cylinders were running low.\n\nNepal's mountaineering regulation requires expedition teams to have liaison officers on the mountains.\n\nThis time 59 of them were appointed to accompany the teams but only five of them stayed until the final part of the climb.\n\nSome did not even turn up, while most of those who did went home after a few days at the base camp.\n\nA photograph showing a long tailback went viral on the internet\n\nThese are often regular government officials who have no mountaineering experience, so they find it difficult to cope with the high altitude.\n\nThey get paid by expedition teams and most of them are happy to stay at home.\n\nIf all the liaison officials had stayed on the mountain, managing the crowd would have been much easier, a top government source at Everest base camp told the BBC.\n\n\"We could have spread the teams so that the first feasible window (19-20 May) would have seen more climbers and the pressure would have been less during the second window,\" they said.\n\n\"Since almost none of these liaison officials stayed, it became very difficult for the limited officials to handle this huge number of climbers.\"\n\nLiaison officials not turning up has been an issue ailing Nepal's mountaineering industry for years now.\n\nMeera Acharya, head of the mountaineering section at Nepal's tourism ministry, said 80% of the appointed officials did go to the base camp this time.\n\n\"But I admit that not all of our liaison officials stayed there for long. We are aware of this issue and we are working to address it.\"\n\n\"We do hear of deaths of climbers on Mount Kilimanjaro as well, why is Everest being singled out here?\"\n\nMountaineering experts say there is also an increase in the number of inexperienced climbers joining the growing crowd on Everest.\n\nThis time round, many of them had just one Sherpa guide with their team, officials at the base camp said.\n\n\"When you have a dangerous situation like this, one Sherpa will not be able to help you much because he will have to take care of himself.\"\n\nNepal has denied overcrowding is the sole reason for the rise in deaths\n\nSome of the mountaineers who successfully returned after summiting said they had seen climbers struggling because they were running out of oxygen - they had to wait much longer.\n\n\"This new generation of climbers, eager to bag the top and brag back home, didn't know enough to understand the difference between climbing Everest and Makalu (Mount Makalu, the 5th highest peak southeast of Everest),\" says Alan Arnette, an experienced mountaineer and writer on mountaineering issues.\n\n\"They joined a random team of individuals with shared logistics for an independent climb. They didn't understand the word 'independent' and had no experience to evaluate the risks.\"\n\nVeteran climbers have long suggested Nepal's government should introduce certain criteria, including mandatory experience of having climbed peaks above 6,000m, for issuing Everest climbing permits.\n\nThe quest to get anyone willing to pay has been mainly down to intense competition between operators, particularly old and new ones.\n\nWith the entry of new expedition operators offering cheaper prices, mountaineers say even some of the established ones have been forced to cut their fees.\n\n\"As a result, you see agencies hiring inexperienced people as guides who cannot offer the right guidance to their clients when they have a situation like this,\" said Tshering Pande Bhote, vice president of Nepal National Mountain Guides Association.\n\n\"Unfortunately the competition is for volume and not for quality.\"\n\nExpedition operators admit there are problems but they argue they also need to increase the number of visitors for the growth of the industry.\n\n\"Next year, for example, is Visit Nepal Year (a mega-tourism campaign that aims to bring in two million tourists),\" says Dambar Parajuli, president of the Expedition Operators Association of Nepal.\n\n\"So we will need to have more visitors, including mountaineers, but clearly how we manage traffic jams like this remains our major challenge.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHundreds of thousands of Liverpool fans have celebrated the club's historic Champions League win at a parade through the city.\n\nJurgen Klopp's team became champions of Europe for a sixth time when they beat Tottenham Hotspur 2-0 in Madrid.\n\nThe team arrived at Liverpool Airport ahead of the open-top bus parade.\n\nIt began at Allerton Maze and ended near the waterfront after moving slowly through a sea of red. Police estimated more than 750,000 fans turned out.\n\nLiverpool players and staff took the Champions League trophy on the bus through the city\n\nThe Reds won the all-Premier League final at Madrid's Wanda Metropolitano stadium 2-0, thanks to an early Mohamed Salah penalty and a late Divock Origi strike.\n\nLiverpool lined the streets of the city to welcome the team back to Merseyside\n\nFlares spark out from the top of the Liver Building\n\nLiverpool fan Dave Williams, who was among those on the route, said: \"They've fought so hard all the way and deserve a heroes' welcome.\n\n\"The hairs on the back of my neck are standing on end at the thought of seeing the cup back in the city where it belongs.\"\n\nFlares trailing red smoke and sporadic outbreaks of the club's European anthem \"Allez, Allez, Allez\" added to an electric atmosphere on the route.\n\nManager Jurgen Klopp and captain Jordan Henderson brought the Champions League trophy back to Liverpool earlier in the day\n\nLiverpool last won the Champions League in 2005 after beating AC Milan in Istanbul\n\nFans celebrated after their team became European champions for the sixth time\n\nThe Sewells family travelled from their Nottingham home to make the trip to Liverpool.\n\nDad Richard, 42, said: \"We just had to be here and I'm pleased we made the trip because the atmosphere is electric.\"\n\nSome fans climbed traffic lights and signs to get a good vantage point\n\nJames Milner, Jordan Henderson, Divock Origi, Joe Gomez and Daniel Sturridge celebrate with the trophy\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. From Merseyside to New York, fans celebrate", "Hospitals in England are now seeing very high rates of patients with flu, according to Public Health England figures.\n\nA sharp rise in cases seen by GPs in the past week - up 78% on the week before - suggests it could be the worst flu season for seven years.\n\nBut PHE said the current levels of flu were \"not unprecedented\".\n\nDeaths from flu remained static with 27 in the past seven days.\n\nAround 5,000 people were admitted to hospital with flu in the first week of January, based on PHE figures for 22 out of 137 trusts.\n\nProf Paul Cosford, medical director from Public Health England, said: \"The levels of flu being seen are high and of course that is contributing to the pressures in the NHS, but they are not unprecedented levels.\"\n\nHe also suggested the coverage of the so-called Aussie flu outbreak was a little misleading, saying that while it was circulating at \"significant\" levels there were two other strains that were also causing problems.\n\nThese strains are an unknown type of influenza A and influenza B - which is normally a milder strain - but appears to be affecting older people in care homes.\n\nThe H3N2 strain - an influenza A virus - has been dubbed 'Aussie flu' because it is the same strain that recently caused big problems for Australia during their winter.\n\n18-year-old Bethany Walker died after contracting the flu and developing pneumonia\n\nThis year's flu vaccine is designed to protect against this strain and some other ones.\n\nFigures in Scotland show a doubling of flu cases in the past week but mortality rates related to the virus were still said to be low.\n\nHowever, an 18-year-old student from Wester Ross died after her flu developed into pneumonia.\n\nIn Wales, a large rise in flu cases has prompted advice to stay away from some hospitals.\n\nThe rate of hospital admissions in England rose by over 50% in the first week of January to 7.38 per 100,000.\n\nIn the same week, the GP consultation rate was 37.3 per 100,000 compared to 21 per 100,000 the week before.\n\nNearly 22,000 patients went to see their GP with flu in the first week of 2018, the Royal College of GPs said, and there was also a rise in people seen with the common cold, acute bronchitis, respiratory system diseases and asthma.\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\nFlu symptoms can come on very quickly and can last for a week or more.\n\nSymptoms include a fever (temperature above 38C), aches, headache, tiredness, a chesty cough, tummy pain and loss of appetite.\n\nChildren can also get pain in their ears and appear lacking in energy.\n\nFlu can be particularly unpleasant for certain people, such as the over-65s, pregnant women and those with other serious health conditions.\n\nHealth officials say getting the vaccine every year is the best way to protect against flu.", "Sir Philip Green's Arcadia retail group is facing a crucial week, with creditors set to vote on his proposed restructuring plans on Wednesday.\n\nIf landlords and the Pensions Regulator do not back his proposals to shut stores and cut rents, the High Street giant could go into administration.\n\nNearly 50 UK shops are due to close and MPs want him to use his own wealth to fund the firm's pension scheme.\n\nThe measures are seen as a final effort by the company, which is losing out to online rivals, to stave off administration or breakup.\n\nArcadia currently has more than 560 shops across the UK and Ireland, and employs 22,000 staff.\n\nThe firm initially announced 23 stores would close as part of the rescue deal, known as a company voluntary arrangement (CVA). Then it emerged that a further 25 stores would shut, under separate insolvency proceedings.\n\nThat second round of closures will mainly affect plus size clothing chain Evans, as well as six Miss Selfridge stores.\n\nThe latest closures add to the 200 UK stores shut over the past three years.\n\nUnder the CVA, the retail giant is also seeking to halve contributions to its pension funds - which have a deficit of £750m - to £25m each year.\n\nBut Sir Philip's wife, Lady Tina Green, who is Arcadia's main shareholder, has offered to inject an extra £100m into the schemes over the next three years.\n\nHowever, the Pensions Regulator - which has the power to block the CVA - has said it has doubts the plans will \"adequately protect\" the pensions of employees.\n\nAnd MP Frank Field, chair of the Commons' Work and Pensions Committee, has urged Sir Philip to use his own money to support the pension fund of his troubled group.\n\nThe retail tycoon is also seeking rent reductions on nearly 200 shops, and to sweeten the pill he has offered landlords a 20% stake of any proceeds if the group is eventually sold.\n\nBut a number are pushing for changes to the proposals.\n\nFor the agreement to go ahead, Arcadia must win approval from three quarters of its creditors, which include landlords, creditors and the company's pension trustees.\n\nRetail analyst Richard Hyman told the BBC it was \"hard to tell\" if the CVA would pass.\n\n\"There are big questions over whether Green can make Arcadia a viable business after years of underinvestment.\n\n\"He's also had run-ins with his landlords and the Pension Regulator in the past. Now he's asking them to believe in him, and it's a big ask.\"\n\nBut Richard Lim, head of Retail Economics, said landlords had little choice but to back the deal.\n\n\"Arcadia has a huge presence on the High Street, and in many places landlords will think, 'who is going to fill this space if they aren't here?'\"\n\nThe retail group also plans to shut all of its 11 Topshop and Topman stores in the US.\n\nSeparately, last week Sir Philip was charged in the US with four counts of misdemeanour assault.\n\nThe charges come after a fitness instructor in Arizona alleged that he repeatedly touched her inappropriately.", "Sir Jim Ratcliffe is the UK's third richest man\n\nUK energy firm Ineos is to invest $2bn (£1.6bn) in building its first ever manufacturing plants in Saudi Arabia.\n\nIt follows an agreement with the Kingdom's state oil company Saudi Aramco and French energy firm Total.\n\nIneos said the facilities would produce chemicals for sectors such as automotive, aerospace and electronics.\n\nChairman Sir Jim Ratcliffe, who is Britain's third richest man, called it \"a major milestone that marks our first investment in the Middle East\".\n\n\"We are bringing advanced downstream technology which will add value and create further jobs in The Kingdom.\"\n\nUnder the deal, Ineos will develop three chemical plants at Jubail 2, a $5bn petrochemicals complex run by Saudi Aramco and Total.\n\nIt said the plants, which will begin production in 2025, would give it better access to markets in the Middle East and Asia.\n\nIt follows its recent investments by the company in Belgium, China and the US.\n\nIneos has also been holding exploratory fracking tests in Britain, but recently complained that tough regulations were making it unviable for firms.\n\nSir Jim argued ministers had given in to a \"vocal\" minority of environmental campaigners, despite fracking being \"extremely safe and well proven\".\n\nIn May, the pro-Brexit businessman also rejected reports about him allegedly leaving the UK to live in Monaco for tax purposes.\n\nThe billionaire said Ineos had invested £2.5bn in the UK over the last 20 years, and that he had \"never made a penny of profit in the UK\".\n\n\"I have made lots of money in the US, Germany and Belgium, but am I supposed to go and live there? It's my private affair,\" he told the BBC.\n\nCorrection 3 June 2019: A previous version of this article was headlined Ineos director: TV chef attack on plastic 'pretty pathetic' and reported comments made by Tom Crotty, a director of Ineos, in an interview on the Today programme.\n\nHugh Fearnley-Whittingstall has since tweeted that Ineos \"have been misled by some inaccurate reporting\".\n\nGiven concerns over the accuracy of the reporting to which Mr Crotty was responding, we have amended our article to remove these references to his interview.", "It has become the defining image of China's Tiananmen Square protests in 1989 - one man standing in the way of a column of tanks, a day after hundreds, possibly thousands, had been shot dead.\n\nBut 30 years on, the Chinese authorities continue to try to erase all memory of the time when they almost lost their grip on power.\n\nTo test the effectiveness of the censorship, the BBC's John Sudworth took to the streets of Beijing to find out how many people recognise Tank Man today.", "The boy was knocked down while riding a skateboard\n\nA three-year-old boy has died after being hit by a Tesco van while riding a skateboard.\n\nThe youngster was knocked down by the white Mercedes Sprinter box van in Oxted, Surrey, at about 10:45 BST on Sunday.\n\nEmergency services, including an air ambulance, were called to the scene at The Hollies, in Hurst Green.\n\nHe was taken to the East Surrey Hospital in Redhill but pronounced dead just after midday.\n\nA Tesco spokesman said: \"We are deeply shocked and devastated by this tragic incident and are currently doing everything we can to support the police with their investigation.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Dr Fielden admitted his guilt at a hearing in March\n\nAn NHS doctor who spied on a teenage girl in a shower has been given a suspended prison sentence.\n\nAnaesthetist Dr Jonathan Fielden pleaded guilty to a count of voyeurism which took place between 2014 and 2016 at a private address in Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire.\n\nLuton Crown Court heard Fielden, 55, of Regents Mews, Biddenham, had his medical registration suspended.\n\nHe was arrested in December 2016 and was then suspended by the NHS.\n\nHe later resigned as deputy medical director and director of specialised commissioning at NHS England.\n\nFielden had been one of four medical directors at University College Hospital London.\n\nThe court was told Fielden spied on the 15-year-old girl through a hole in the ceiling.\n\nHe admitted doing it for his own sexual gratification.\n\nJudge Richard Foster told Fielden: \"It's tragic to see you, a man of such brilliance in your career - a hardworking man at the pinnacle of your career, responsible for a substantial part of the NHS budget - to fall from grace in the way you have because of what you stupidly did.\"\n\nHe sentenced Fielden to five months imprisonment suspended for 12 months and ordered he carry out 150 hours of unpaid work.\n\nProsecutor Kate Fortescue said the teenager had been left \"deeply shocked\" after the incident and had struggled to shower for some time.\n\nAlexandra Felix, for Fielden, said he had been under pressure at work which had led to a lapse in judgement.\n\nShe said: \"He accepts it shouldn't have happened, but it did, not because of any concerted effort to do it. Circumstances arose for it to happen.\"\n\nFielden has also been made subject of a sexual harm prevention order and his name will go on the sex offenders register.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played\n\nTo play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "An artist's impression of the spaceport\n\nDoubts have been cast on the suitability of the site vying to be the location for the UK's first major spaceport.\n\nLand on the A'Mhoine Peninsula in Sutherland has been identified as a location for the launching of rockets carrying micro satellites.\n\nThe move has the backing of a £2.5m grant from the UK Space Agency.\n\nBut new research questions why a \"wild land\" site covered by environmental protections was chosen for the project.\n\nHighland and Islands Enterprise and the UK Space Agency both said the support for the Sutherland site was based on rigorous assessments.\n\nHowever, the research by Prof Mike Danson, of Heriot-Watt University, and Geoff Whittam, of Glasgow Caledonian University, casts doubts on claims that 40 \"high-quality jobs\" would be created by the scheme, suggesting \"the jobs which will be available to local people have been stated as housekeeping and security\".\n\nLockheed Martin is another company involved in the Sutherland spaceport project\n\nThe academics also express concern that far from bringing jobs and prosperity to the area, the spaceport would obstruct the development of more appropriately-scaled businesses.\n\nThe paper questions the focus by Highlands and Islands Enterprise on the A'Mhoine site over others and suggests a previous report overstated the level of community support while not paying enough attention to infrastructural issues and environmental designations.\n\nHighlands and Islands Green MSP John Finnie said: \"I hope Highlands and Islands Enterprise reflect on this important study.\n\n\"It casts doubt on the purported economic benefits that constructing the spaceport at A'Mhoine will bring and highlights that it could cause considerable environmental damage.\n\nA spokesman for Highland and Islands Enterprise said: \"The HIE board approved support for the Sutherland Spaceport following the UK Space Agency decision to support development at this site and to award research and development grant funding to two international launch companies as partners in the Sutherland project.\n\n\"One of these companies has already opened a factory in Forres where it is creating jobs. This is an early sign of the economic opportunity a launch site will present for different parts of our region.\n\n\"We commissioned an independent economic impact assessment as part of our due diligence. This concluded that Space Hub Sutherland has the potential to support 40 high quality jobs locally, and 400 across our region.\"\n\nEarlier this year UK-based spaceflight firm Orbex unveiled its Prime rocket, designed to take satellites to altitudes of up to 776 miles, at its new base in Moray.\n\nIt has predicted that its decision to open a mission control and design facility at the Forres Enterprise Park could create more than 130 new jobs.\n\nA spokesman for the UK Space Agency said: \"The UK government's £50m spaceflight programme is supporting a number of industry-led initiatives to build the capabilities that will launch the UK into the new space age.\n\n\"We awarded grant funding to Sutherland after conducting a rigorous assessment of 26 proposals.\"", "The RMT will resume strike action after suspending it in February\n\nRail commuters on some of the country's busiest routes are facing disruption due to a planned five-day strike over the future of train guards.\n\nMembers of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) plan to walk out on Tuesday over South Western Railway's \"failure\" to rule out it would move to a driver-controlled operation.\n\nLondon commuters and racegoers at Royal Ascot have been advised to check details of trains online.\n\nIt said while services may be disrupted by the strike, there will still be trains running, and advised commuters to plan in advance and check departure times on its website.\n\nPlanned industrial action was suspended in February as a resolution seemed in sight, with the RMT claiming SWR had pledged \"each passenger train shall operate with a guard with safety critical competencies\".\n\nBut RMT said SWR had now \"rowed back\" on its public pledges as it refused to rule out future driver controlled operations - which would see the role of the guard \"carved up completely\".\n\nRMT general secretary Mick Cash said members were \"angry and frustrated\" as they had suspended action in \"good faith\" only for SWR to \"fail to bolt down an agreement that matches up to our expectations on the guard guarantee\".\n\nHe also criticised SWR's \"insistence\" that future schemes would be \"governed\" by the protection of company profits rather than that of \"the travelling public\".\n\nA SWR spokesman said it was \"very disappointing\" the union had decided to call the strike despite dates being set for more talks.\n\n\"Clearly, they have decided to target popular events such as Royal Ascot with this cynical action which is driven by internal RMT politics,\" the spokesman said.\n\nThe company said it met with union representatives last week to fix new dates for talks but the unions were \"insistent on going ahead with their unnecessary strike\".\n\nIt said it had matched RMT's request to keep a guard on each train and wanted to move on to discuss how to make the most of new technology on board.\n\nThe spokesman said the company \"remains committed to finding a solution\".\n\nPassengers heading to Twickenham, Hampton Court and Royal Ascot, have been advised to allow extra time for their travel.\n\nThe Royal Ascot event runs for five days from Tuesday.\n\nHow will you be impacted by the strikes? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn the hours after two apparent attacks on tankers in the Gulf of Oman on Thursday, the US military released video footage which it said proved Iran was behind them.\n\nThe footage was said to show Iranian special forces removing a mine which had failed to explode.\n\nThe footage, though far from conclusive, was used by the US to make a more compelling case than earlier assertions of Iranian complicity in attacks in the region, which had not been accompanied by any evidence.\n\nBut a key question remains - what would be Iran's motive in attacking a Japanese and a Norwegian tanker carrying petrochemicals from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to Singapore and Taiwan?\n\nIran has come under massive economic pressure over the past year, since US President Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew from the 2015 nuclear deal and re-imposed some of the most aggressive sanctions in US foreign policy history - targeting Iran's oil sales, wider energy industry, shipping, banking, insurance and more.\n\nSome of the sanctions, because of their secondary nature, are designed to dissuade other nations from purchasing Iranian oil, the exports of which bring in about 30% of Iran's revenue.\n\nAnd they have managed to bring down Iran's oil exports by more than a third.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Security correspondent Frank Gardner looks at the evidence the US says proves Iran's involvement in attacks on two tankers\n\nSo far, Iran has in response pursued a policy of strategic patience. But if it was behind Thursday's attacks, what we may be seeing is the end of that policy.\n\nThe strategic patience may have run out.\n\nIran clearly changed tack last month after the US suspended sanctions waivers which had allowed certain countries to buy oil from Iran - significantly accelerating the Trump administration's goal of driving down Iran's exports to zero.\n\nIran's response was to scale back its commitments under the nuclear deal and to announce that, if Iran could not export its oil, no other country would be allowed to export theirs.\n\nAbout 30% of the world's seaborne oil transports travel through the Strait of Hormuz, a strategic sea passage in the Gulf, on Iran's south coast.\n\nIran has made threats in relation to the strait before - but never acted on them.\n\nEven back in 2012, when the EU imposed an oil embargo against Tehran as part of a broader sanction regime adopted against the country because of the nuclear impasse, Tehran refrained from closing the passage.\n\nBut the re-imposition of sanctions recently by the US has significantly ratcheted up the pressure on Iran, pressure that would go some way to explaining why it might seek to threaten the international oil trade, while its own oil sits bounded by its borders.\n\nThe risk of such a strategic move is significant - the fallout is potential military escalation with the US and its allies in the region.\n\nIt is not a gamble that would have been made quickly or lightly.\n\nIt would have been taken by consensus by all the main heads of the different Iranian political institutions, with Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards (IRGC) playing a significant part given their influence over all regional dossiers, and the supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, having the final say over all matters of security and international affairs.\n\nIf Iran is indeed behind these attacks, it would demonstrate that the country's key decision makers feel the risk of military escalation is one worth taking because of the lack of alternative options.\n\nIran may suspect that the risk is lower than it first seems, because Mr Trump does not want a war.\n\nRecent statements by the US president suggested that despite his bellicosity, he is open for talks with Iran without pre-conditions.\n\nThe Iranians will also be mindful however that Mr Trump's National Security Adviser John Bolton, a long-time critic of Iran, has openly called for the US to confront Iran.\n\nIf strategic patience is in fact at an end, Iran may feel that only by displaying the range and scale of its potential destabilising activities - including disruption of the international oil trade it has been barred from - can it increase its leverage with the US, and pull itself out from under the punishing sanctions its old foe has imposed.\n\nDr Aniseh Bassiri Tabrizi is a Research Fellow, Middle East Security, at the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies", "Egypt is the largest Arab country, and has played a central role in Middle Eastern politics.\n\nIn the 1950s President Gamal Abdul Nasser pioneered Arab nationalism and the non-aligned movement, while his successor Anwar Sadat made peace with Israel and turned back to the West.\n\nEgypt's great cities - and almost all agricultural activity - are concentrated along the banks of the Nile and its delta.\n\nThe economy depends heavily on agriculture, tourism, and cash remittances from Egyptians working abroad - mainly in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf countries.\n\nHowever, rapid population growth and the limited amount of arable land are straining the country's resources and economy, and political unrest has often paralysed government efforts to address the problems.\n\nRetired Field Marshal Abdel Fattah al-Sisi was elected president in May 2014, almost a year after he removed his elected predecessor, the Muslim Brotherhood's Mohammed Morsi, from office in a coup.\n\nIn addition to Egypt's struggling economy, President Sisi has to deal with an Islamist insurgency on its borders with Israel and Gaza.\n\nCairo has been Egypt's most important city since the 12th Century\n\nEgypt is a major regional media player. Its TV and film industries supply much of the Arab-speaking world with content and its press is influential.\n\nTV is the favourite medium and there are several big hitters in the sector, including the state broadcaster.\n\nThe authorities have been increasing controls over traditional and social media to an unprecedented degree.\n\nReporters Without Borders says Egypt is \"one of the world's biggest prisons\" for journalists.\n\n3150BC - Egypt is unified under Menes, leading to a series of dynasties that rule the country for the next three millennia.\n\nc. 2700-2200BC - Old Kingdom. Sees building of numerous pyramids, most notably the Third Dynasty pyramid of Djoser and the Fourth Dynasty Giza pyramids.\n\nc. 2181-2055 BC - First Intermediate Period. End of Old Kingdom and period of political instability.\n\nc. 1700-1550BC - Second Intermediate Period. Renewed politcal instability. Hyksos, from the Levant, rule Egypt from the Delta.\n\nc. 1550-1070BC - New Kingdom. Marks rise of Egypt as an international power expanding pharaonic rule to Nubia and the Levant. Noted for some of the most well known Pharaohs, including Hatshepsut, Thutmose III, Akhenaten and his wife Nefertiti, Tutankhamun and Ramesses II.\n\n525BC - Achaemenid Persians, led by Cambyses II, began their conquest of Egypt.\n\n332BC - Egypt falls to Alexander the Great as part of his conquest of Achaemenid Persia.\n\n305-30BC - Greek general Ptolemy and his descendants rule as pharaohs.\n\n30BC - Egypt falls to Octavian - the future Roman emperor Augustus - after his forces defeat those of rival Mark Anthony and Egyptian Queen Cleopatra at the naval battle of Actium in 27BC.\n\nEgypt is a key province of the Roman, and later the Byzantine empires.\n\n639-642AD - Byzantine Egypt conquered by Muslim Arab armies. Muslim rulers remain in control of Egypt for the next six centuries.\n\n1250-1517 - Mamluk Egypt. The country is ruled by a caste of freed slave soldiers.\n\n1260 - The Mamluks under Sultan Qutuz and Baybars rout the Mongols halting their southward expansion.\n\n1517 - Ottoman Turks conquer Egypt, which becomes part of the Ottoman empire, but a semi-autonomous province under the Mamluks.\n\n1801 - Defeat of French forces by Ottomans and British.\n\n1805 - Ottoman Albanian commander Muhammad Ali establishes dynasty that rules until 1952, although nominally part of the Ottoman Empire.\n\n1867 - Egypt becomes a Khedivate with the Ottoman Empire\n\n1869 - Suez Canal is completed in partnership with France, but it and other infrastructure projects nearly bankrupt the country and lead to gradual British takeover.\n\n1882 - British troops defeat Egyptian army and take control of country.\n\n1914 - World War One. Egypt formally becomes a British protectorate. Period is marked by growing nationalism and discontent with British rule .\n\n1919 - Egyptian Revolution - a countrywide revolution against the British occupation of Egypt and Sudan triggered by the exiling of nationalist leaders.\n\n1949 - Committee of the Free Officers' Movement formed to overthrow the monarchy.\n\n1952 - Coup sees Gamal Abdel Nasser become prime minister in 1954 and president in 1956. He sets up Egypt in opposition to the conservative Arab monarchies of the Gulf and Western interests in the Middle East.\n\n1956 - President Nasser nationalises the Suez Canal to fund the Aswan High Dam, after Britain and US withdraw financing. Britain, France and Israel invade over nationalisation of Suez Canal, but withdraw at US insistence.\n\n1967 - Israeli pre-emptive attack defeats Egypt, Jordan and Syria, leaving it in control of Sinai up to the Suez Canal and Egyptian-occupied Gaza.\n\n1973 - Egypt and Syria go to war with Israel to reclaim land lost in 1967.\n\n1975 - Suez Canal is re-opened for first time since 1967 war.\n\n1978 - President Anwar Sadat makes peace with Israel in return for Israeli withdrawal from Sinai.\n\n1997 - 62 people, mostly tourists, are massacred near Luxor.\n\n2012 - Mohammed Morsi, an Islamist affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood, is elected president.\n\n2013 - Country sees widespread turmoil between liberals and Islamists over Egypt's future direction After public discontent with autocratic moves Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood government, the army carries out a coup to oust Morsi. Army chief Abdul Fattah al-Sisi takes over.\n\nAncient sites like Luxor draw millions of tourists to Egypt\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Children whose parents are divorced are more likely to get fat than those whose parents stay together, say researchers.\n\nThe weight gain is particularly marked in children whose parents divorce before they are six, the study found.\n\nResearchers from the London School of Economics and Political Science analysed data on 7,574 children born between 2000 and 2002.\n\nThe authors say their findings back calls for better health support for families going through a break-up.\n\nThe paper suggests a range of reasons why children might put on weight after a divorce, both economic and non-economic.\n\nThe information on the children was collected by the UK Millennium Cohort Study, which followed the lives of a representative UK-wide sample of children born at the start of the new millennium.\n\nThe children were surveyed at the ages of nine months, three years, five, seven, 11 and 14, although this particular study excluded the data collected at 14, as the researchers wanted to focus on the period before adolescence.\n\nOf the children studied, 1,573 - or about one in five of the total - had seen their parents separate by the time they were 11.\n\nThe study also looked at the children's heights and weights, ages and genders to calculate their body mass index (BMI) - a widely used measure of whether individuals are a healthy weight, overweight or obese.\n\nThe results showed that children of separated parents gained more weight during the 24 months after their parents separated, than children whose parents stayed together over the same period.\n\nAnd children of separated parents were more likely to become overweight or obese within 36 months of the separation, the study found.\n\nThe paper says the results underscore the idea that parental separation is \"a process with potentially long-lasting consequences\".\n\nThe authors suggest that, as the study stopped when the children were 11, the data might underestimate the full extent of the children's weight gain over time \"because the magnitude of this association becomes stronger as the time since separation increases\".\n\nThe authors argue that efforts to prevent children at risk from gaining weight should start soon after separation.\n\n\"Intervening early could help to prevent, or at least attenuate, the process that leads some children to develop unhealthy obesity,\" they write.\n\nThe study focused on the consequences of the first separation of children's biological parents, so children whose parents were later reconciled were not included in the analysis.\n\nThe authors also controlled for socio-economic disadvantage.\n\nThe article is published in the journal Demography.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLabour's deputy leader Tom Watson has described another Brexit referendum as \"the least worst option\" and urged his party to throw its weight behind one.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, he said Labour should then fight for Remain, even though \"we might lose some votes\".\n\nJeremy Corbyn has resisted calls to fully endorse another public vote, only calling for it in some circumstances.\n\nBut Mr Watson said Labour would pay \"a very high electoral price\" if it did not have \"a clear position\" on Brexit.\n\nThe nuanced position was blamed for Labour's performance at the European elections - it came third behind The Brexit Party and the Liberal Democrats, with its share of the vote falling to 14%.\n\nAfterwards, several senior figures criticised a lack of clarity on Brexit, and last week, MPs expressed their frustration at a heated meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party.\n\nThe PLP is still split, though, with some MPs in Leave-supporting areas warning against backing a further public vote.\n\nThe shadow cabinet was due to meet on Monday to discuss Brexit, but the meeting has been postponed.\n\nMr Watson - who has repeatedly put pressure on Mr Corbyn to back a further referendum - told the BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg he believed it was now the only choice available.\n\nTheresa May's Brexit deal with the EU has been rejected by Parliament three times and the UK currently has until 31 October to come up with another way to leave.\n\n\"Sometimes in politics your choices are the least worst option,\" Mr Watson said. \"It is my honestly held view that Parliament will not be able to get a deal on Brexit and therefore the only choice, reluctantly, is to ask the people to take another look at it.\"\n\nWhen asked if he would leave the Labour Party if things did not change, he replied, \"I'm never going to leave the Labour Party,\" but added \"sometimes I wonder whether the Labour Party is leaving me.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn spells out his party's \"very clear policy\"\n\nEarlier, in a speech to the Centre for European Reform, the deputy leader said Labour must be honest about the EU's strengths.\n\n\"Pro-European is who we are and who we have always been. Our members are Remain. Our values are Remain. Our hearts are Remain.\"\n\nHe told the BBC Labour \"might lost some votes if we change position\", but added: \"I think it's incumbent on us to give an honest account of ourselves and make the case for why we've changed our position.\"\n\nMr Watson is calling for a one-off meeting or ballot of members to be held to vote on a shift in policy - warning Labour could not afford to wait until its party conference in late September.\n\nBut as he gave his speech, Labour chairman Ian Lavery - who is against another referendum - tweeted that \"ignoring Leave voters\" was not a sensible move.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Ian Lavery MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLabour MP John Mann warned adopting an overtly Remain position would lead to Labour losing the next general election \"by a significant amount\".\n\nHe said if Labour \"turned its back\" on voters in the North who voted Leave, \"then Tom Watson won't be deputy, Jeremy Corbyn won't be prime minister.\"\n\nLabour MP Kerry McCarthy said she would commend Mr Watson for \"speaking out\", but shadow ministers needed to \"meet urgently for a proper discussion on Brexit\".\n\n\"We need to be clear where Labour stands, and if [the] shadow cabinet can't agree, put it to the members,\" Ms McCarthy posted on Twitter.\n\nMr Watson has received support from a number of colleagues, including Jess Phillips and Anna Turley.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Jess Phillips This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnother MP, Siobhain McDonagh, tweeted: \"I have had my differences with Tom Watson over the years but this video is brilliant and his argument is bang on! So many Labour members will be cheering him on!\"\n\nLaura Kuenssberg says plenty of Labour MPs are worried because they represent constituencies with Leave voters, but there is no question the balance in the party is on the other side.\n\n\"There are plenty of senior people - including those absolutely loyal to Jeremy Corbyn - who think it is time for the leadership to make a clearer statement arguing for another referendum and for Britain to stay in EU,\" she says.\n\n\"Some of those think it is vital to do before the summer and they predict we may end up with an election in the autumn with the Tories arguing for Leave and Labour arguing for Remain.\"\n\nHowever, Mr Watson said all strands of opinion within the party are entitled to be heard.\n\nHe also argued that the \"core\" EU values of internationalism, solidarity and freedom are also the values of Labour.\n\n\"Some people have begun to equate support for Europe with class identity - I don't think that's right or helpful,\" he said.\n\n\"The majority of Labour people are supportive of Europe and that support is not dictated by social class.\"", "In 2015, Iran agreed a long-term deal on its nuclear programme with a group of world powers known as the P5+1 - the US, UK, France, China, Russia and Germany.\n\nIt came after years of tension over Iran's alleged efforts to develop a nuclear weapon. Iran insisted that its nuclear programme was entirely peaceful, but the international community did not believe that.\n\nUnder the accord, Iran agreed to limit its sensitive nuclear activities and allow in international inspectors in return for the lifting of crippling economic sanctions.\n\nHere is what was meant to happen according to the plan, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).\n\nIran's uranium stockpile will be reduced by 98% to 300kg for 15 years\n\nUranium can have nuclear-related uses once it has been refined, or enriched. This is achieved by increasing the content of its most fissile isotopes, U-235, through the use of centrifuges - machines which spin at supersonic speeds.\n\nLow-enriched uranium, which typically has a 3-5% concentration of U-235, can be used to produce fuel for commercial nuclear power plants. Highly enriched uranium has a purity of 20% or more and is used in research reactors. Weapons-grade uranium is 90% enriched or more.\n\nIn July 2015, Iran had two uranium enrichment plants - Natanz and Fordo - and was operating almost 20,000 centrifuges.\n\nUnder the JCPOA, the country was limited to installing no more than 5,060 of the oldest and least efficient centrifuges at Natanz until 2026 - 10 years after the deal's \"implementation day\" in January 2016.\n\nIran's stockpile of enriched uranium was also reduced by 98% to 300kg (660lbs), a figure that must not be exceeded until 2031. It must also keep the stockpile's level of enrichment at 3.67%.\n\nIn addition, research and development must take place only at Natanz and be limited until 2024.\n\nNo enrichment is permitted at Fordo until 2031, and the underground facility must be converted into a nuclear, physics and technology centre. The 1,044 centrifuges left at the site are allowed to produce radioisotopes for use in medicine, agriculture, industry and science.\n\nIran is redesigning the Arak reactor so it cannot produce any weapons-grade plutonium\n\nIran had been building a heavy-water nuclear facility near the town of Arak. Spent fuel from a heavy-water reactor contains plutonium suitable for a nuclear bomb.\n\nWorld powers had originally wanted Arak dismantled because of the potential military use. Under an interim nuclear deal in 2013, Iran agreed not to commission or fuel the reactor.\n\nUnder the JCPOA, Iran said it would redesign the reactor so it could not produce any weapons-grade plutonium, and that all spent fuel would be sent out of the country as long as the modified reactor existed.\n\nIran must also not build additional heavy-water reactors or accumulate any excess heavy water until 2031.\n\nIran is required to allow IAEA inspectors to access any site they deem suspicious\n\nAt the time of the agreement, then-US President Barack Obama's administration expressed confidence that the JCPOA would prevent Iran from building a nuclear programme in secret. Iran, it said, had committed to \"extraordinary and robust monitoring, verification, and inspection\".\n\nInspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the global nuclear watchdog, were tasked with continuously monitoring Iran's declared nuclear sites and verifying that no fissile material is moved covertly to a secret location to build a bomb.\n\nIran also agreed to implement the Additional Protocol to their IAEA Safeguards Agreement, which allows inspectors to access any site anywhere in the country they deem suspicious.\n\nUntil 2031, Iran will have 24 days to comply with any IAEA access request. If it refuses, an eight-member Joint Commission - including Iran - will rule on the issue. It can decide on punitive steps, including the reimposition of sanctions. A majority vote by the commission suffices.\n\nA UN ban on the import of ballistic missile technology will remain in place for up to eight years\n\nBefore July 2015, Iran had enough enriched uranium and centrifuges to create eight to 10 bombs, according to the then Obama administration.\n\nUS experts estimated at the time that if Iran had decided to rush to make a bomb, it would take two to three months until it had enough 90%-enriched uranium to build a nuclear weapon - the so-called \"break-out time\".\n\nThe Obama administration said the JCPOA would remove the key elements Iran would need to create a bomb and increase its break-out time to one year or more.\n\nIran also agreed not to engage in activities, including research and development, which could contribute to the development of a nuclear bomb.\n\nIn December 2015, the IAEA's board of governors voted to end its decade-long investigation into the possible military dimensions of Iran's nuclear programme.\n\nThe agency's then-director-general, Yukiya Amano, said the report concluded that until 2003 Iran had conducted \"a co-ordinated effort\" on \"a range of activities relevant to the development of a nuclear explosive device\". Iran continued with some activities until 2009, but after that there were \"no credible indications\" of weapons development, he added.\n\nIran also agreed to the continuation of a UN ban on its imports and exports of conventional arms until 2020. Restrictions on its import of ballistic missile technology will remain in place until 2023.\n\nThe nuclear deal allowed Iran to sell crude oil again on the international market\n\nSanctions previously imposed by the UN, US and EU in an attempt to force Iran to halt uranium enrichment crippled its economy, costing the country more than $160bn (£119bn) in oil revenue from 2012 to 2016 alone.\n\nUnder the deal, all nuclear-related sanctions on Iran were lifted and the country was able to resume selling oil on international markets and using the global financial system for trade. It also gained access to more than $100bn in assets frozen overseas.\n\nHowever, in May 2018, then-US President Donald Trump abandoned the JCPOA, calling it \"defective at its core\". He reinstated all US sanctions on Iran that November as part of a \"maximum pressure\" campaign to compel the country to negotiate a replacement that would also curb its ballistic missile programme and its involvement in regional conflicts.\n\nBut Iran refused and saw its economy plunge into recession and the value of its currency fall to record lows, which in turn caused inflation to soar to the highest level in decades.\n\nWhen the sanctions were tightened in 2019, Iran began breaching the deal's restrictions, arguing that the JCPOA allowed one party to \"cease performing its commitments... in whole or in part\" in the event of \"significant non-performance\" by others.\n\nBy November 2021, Iran had amassed a stockpile of enriched uranium that was many times larger than permitted, including at least 17.7kg (39lb) of material enriched to 60% purity - just below the level needed for a bomb. It had also resumed enrichment activity at Fordo; installed more centrifuges, and of a more advanced type, than allowed; and taken steps in the production of enriched uranium metal, which is a key material in nuclear weapons.\n\nIran had also significantly curtailed access for international inspectors by ceasing implementation of the Additional Protocol of its IAEA Safeguards Agreement.\n\nTalks to save the JCPOA and bring Iran back into compliance began in May 2021, after Joe Biden succeeded Mr Trump as US president. He says the US will rejoin and lift the sanctions if Iran reverses its breaches. His Iranian counterpart, Ebrahim Raisi, says the US must make the first move.\n\nIf the negotiations were to fail and Iran was confirmed to have violated the deal, all UN sanctions would automatically \"snap back\" in place for 10 years, with the possibility of a five-year extension.", "Mexican restaurant chain Wahaca has 25 branches across the UK\n\nWahaca has tightened up its policy on walk-outs, after a waiter was told to pay part of the bill when his customers left without paying.\n\nThe company said waiters would no longer have to pay any element of the bill when this happens.\n\nHowever, if a manager suspected the waiter was \"complicit\" in a walk-out, this would be investigated, it said.\n\nThe restaurant chain previously only made servers cover part of the bill in rare cases of \"real negligence\".\n\nWahaca said this was not the case when a waiter in a London branch was asked by the manager to pay £3 towards a £40 unpaid bill.\n\nThe waiter has now been assured he will not have to pay, after a customer raised the issue on Twitter.\n\nSarah Hayward, a former Labour leader of Camden council, tweeted that she was eating at Wahaca in Kentish Town when she witnessed the eat-and-run incident.\n\nShe told the BBC that the waiter then informed her he would have to cover the cost of the bill, prompting her to express her concerns on social media.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWahaca said the incident was caused by an \"internal communications issue\" which has now been resolved.\n\nCo-founder Mark Selby told the BBC that in light of the incident, the company had decided its policy needed a \"clearer direction\".\n\nPreviously, the procedure was that an individual should only be held accountable for an unpaid bill in cases of \"real negligence\" - where they allowed a customer to leave, knowing they had not paid.\n\nThat decision was down to the discretion of the manager, but the amount was generally 10% of the net bill minus VAT - or 30% of the food bill - Mr Selby said.\n\nThe new policy will mean waiters will not have to pay any element of the bill if a table they are responsible for leaves without paying.\n\nHowever, if the manager suspects the waiter was \"complicit\" in the walk out - for example if they were friends with the customer and the server knew they intended not to pay - there would be a full investigation and the operations manager would decide the appropriate action, Mr Selby said.\n\nWahaca said its policy is in line with industry standards.\n\nA spokesman for the union Unite, Alex Flynn, said the incident which prompted the policy change was \"outrageous\".\n\n\"Hospitality staff are already paid a low wage, but to then be expected to pay for the dishonesty of customers is quite shocking,\" he said.\n\nMr Flynn said the union had also received reports of similar cases in other chains.\n\nWhere service charge is paid by card, rather than in cash, he said restaurants often used this money to cover the bills of customers who had left without paying, leaving the staff member with less money in tips.\n\nThe Wahaca chain was founded by Mr Selby and 2005 Masterchef winner Thomasina Miers in 2007 and now has 25 branches across the UK.\n• None 'A lot of the team started to get ill'", "Samsung issued the safety advice to owners of its QLED-branded TVs\n\nSamsung has advised owners of its latest TVs to run regular virus scans.\n\nA how-to video on the Samsung Support USA Twitter account demonstrates the more than a dozen remote-control button presses required to access the sub-menu needed to activate the check.\n\nIt suggested users should carry out the process \"every few weeks\" to \"prevent malicious software attacks\".\n\nThe suggestion surprised cyber-security specialists, who said the public would be unlikely to go to the trouble.\n\nBBC News asked Samsung whether any specific threat had prompted the warning.\n\nThe company responded that it had been \"posted for customers' education\".\n\nHowever, it also deleted the post at about the same time. The 19-second video guide had been watched more than 200,000 times.\n\nIn a separate statement given to the BBC on 18 June, Samsung added: \"Samsung takes security very seriously and our products and services are designed with security in mind.\n\n\"Yesterday we shared information about one of the preventative security features on our Smart TVs, in order to show consumers proactive steps they can take on their device.\n\n\"We understand that this may have caused some confusion and we want to clarify that this was simply a way to inform and educate consumers about one of the features included in our products.\"\n\nSamsung's recent smart TVs run off a version of its proprietary operating system, Tizen, and often come pre-loaded with McAfee's Security for TV anti-virus software.\n\nOne security adviser had described the tweet as being \"pointless advice\" that would be a \"waste of time\" to follow.\n\n\"There is a tiny number of known malware that might attack a TV,\" said Ken Munro, of Pen Test Partners.\n\n\"I've seen one case of a ransomware infection but the prospect of it happening to most users is very small.\n\n\"A better solution would be for Samsung to automatically update its operating system for you.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSamsung previously raised eyebrows about the security of its smart TVs, in 2015, when it warned customers not to discuss personal information in front of the displays as they could transmit it to third parties.", "High volume pumps are being used to try and reduce water levels\n\nHigh volume pumps are being used to lower water levels in a flooded Lincolnshire town.\n\nMore than 580 homes in and around Wainfleet were evacuated amid concerns about flood defences.\n\nDozens of people spent the night away from their homes in emergency centres.\n\nThe town flooded on Wednesday after two months' worth of rain fell in two days and the banks of the River Steeping broke its banks.\n\nSteve Hardy and his wife, who stayed at the Coronation Hall in Wainfleet overnight, said he initially refused to leave his house when officials knocked on his door.\n\n\"I said 'well we don't really want to'.\n\n\"Then when he said 'well look it's going to be hard work for us if we have to come and get you' and I don't want to put anybody's life at risk. So that was it.\"\n\nLincolnshire Police has issued a request for people in the town not to use washing machines, toilets or showers.\n\nIt said public toilets were being set up in Market Place and Brewster Lane and residents could use the showers at nearby Skegness Leisure Centre.\n\nRAF helicopters dropped almost 400 tonnes of ballast to plug a gap in the River Steeping\n\nRAF Chinook helicopters, aided by troops on the ground, have placed an additional 76 tonnes of sand and ballast on top of the 270 tonnes dropped on Friday in an attempt to reinforce and plug a breach in the River Steeping's banks.\n\nCh Insp Phil Vickers, from Lincolnshire Police, said that it was important to reduce the river's levels.\n\n\"The Environment Agency have got some high volume pumps that are in place,\" he said.\n\n\"We're hoping they will assist us in clearing the water from the channel and from the area surrounding.\n\n\"Until we're satisfied that there isn't a risk to life, that there isn't a further risk to property, our advice will remain to stay out of that area.\"\n\nSome residents spent the night in evacuation centres\n\nLincolnshire Police tweeted a map of the areas at risk of flooding.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Environment Agency described the situation as \"unprecedented\" after 132mm (5.2in) of rain fell between Monday and Wednesday, with the Met Office predicting a further 20mm (0.79in) of rain during Saturday night and Sunday.\n\nThe agency said about 100 properties in Wainfleet had flooded, and further properties could be affected.\n\nRiver levels were expected to remain very high for the next few days, it added.\n\nThe town of Wainfleet in Lincolnshire was flooded on Wednesday\n\nEarlier, local Conservative MP Matt Warman praised the \"incredible\" multi-agency response to the flooding and offered \"a huge thank you\" to those involved.\n\nBut he said the town was \"by no means out of the woods yet\".\n\nThe RAF dropped 270 tonnes of ballast to fill a breach in the river bank\n\nHave you been evacuated from your home? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The woman made 22 payments to the man who claimed he had been robbed\n\nA woman who suspected her mother was being scammed online later sent the fraudster £40,000, ending up heavily in debt.\n\nThe mother-of-one from south east Wales was a victim of romance fraud, a crime which police say grew by nearly a third last year.\n\nNow the woman has spoken out about falling for the charms of the man she had initially been suspicious of.\n\n\"I just felt like I was emotionally blackmailed,\" she added.\n\nShe said her \"lonely\" mother had started an online relationship with the man, who said he was French and called Jean Marc.\n\nBut when he told her he needed help after being robbed on a business trip to Ivory Coast, the daughter became suspicious.\n\n\"I said to my mum 'don't you dare send him any money'. I said 'he's a scammer',\" the woman told the BBC Wales X-Ray programme.\n\nBut her opinion changed after she spoke to the man herself.\n\n\"His voice was so lovely, so soft. He started with his stories and my heart just melted,\" she said.\n\nShe asked questions about his circumstances but Jean Marc had answers for all of them. He even sent her a photo, that looks edited, showing him in a hospital bed.\n\n\"I sent him the first money. I didn't even tell my mum, I did it because I wanted her to be happy,\" she said.\n\nShe sent 800 Euros (about £712) last summer and went on to make 21 further payments, totalling £40,000 until she realised she had been scammed.\n\nShe is now heavily in debt after maxing out credit cards and selling her mother's jewellery and has little hope of seeing her money again.\n\nBut she said the hardest part was telling her husband what had happened.\n\n\"I just couldn't cope - it was killing that he didn't know. I thought that's going to be the end of our marriage,\" she said.\n\n\"When I told him he didn't even look at me. He only said I can't believe you were so stupid.\n\n\"I just felt like I was emotionally blackmailed, I hope [people] will think twice before they believe in all the lies of the scammers.\"\n\nGwent Police said it was seeing more and more victims of romance fraud\n\nIt emerged that the man calling himself Jean Marc had stolen the identity of a Frenchman, Stephane Girynowicz.\n\nHis face has been used to create hundreds of fake profiles on social media and there's even a Facebook page dedicated to outing him.\n\nHe has posted a picture of himself online pleading with scammers to stop using his face for profiles.\n\nIn 2018, 4,555 reports of romance fraud were made to Action Fraud, the police reporting centre, with total losses up by 27% compared with the previous year. The total is likely to be higher as many victims are thought to have suffered in secret.\n\nGwent Police said it was seeing more and more victims of romance fraud.\n\n\"It's easier nowadays to steal money sitting behind a computer screen than it was in the bad old days to go out and burgle somebody's house - it's far easier,\" said PC Neil Cooper.\n\n\"It's so anonymous. The effect it has on the victims is devastating - it affects their lives, it makes them depressed, it makes them feel totally foolish. It's a really despicable act to do.\"\n\nX-Ray is on Monday at 19:30 BST on BBC One Wales and on BBC iPlayer.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The BBC has uncovered evidence that life-saving drugs meant for the sick have been stolen and sold on illegally.\n\nAfrica Eye has been undercover in Uganda to expose how some health workers there are at the heart of criminal networks.", "Japan's Kokuka Courageous and Norway's Front Altair were attacked on 13 June\n\nThe US government has accused Iran of being behind explosions which have damaged two tankers in the Gulf of Oman on Thursday.\n\nThe Iranian administration has denied any involvement despite the US military releasing a video it claims shows Iranian special forces removing an unexploded mine from the side of one of the tankers.\n\nBut what can be said for certain and what could happen next? The BBC's defence and diplomatic correspondent Jonathan Marcus answers questions about the incident sent in by BBC News readers.\n\nMr G Riordan: Is there a salvage plan? Are the tankers guarded or escorted? Do the tankers have CCTV? How do we make the Strait of Hormuz safe? Is it an act of terror?\n\nA lot of good questions there. I suppose if it turns out to be a state actor, e.g. Iran, behind these attacks then one would not call them \"terrorist\" as such. Striking at another country's merchant ships might in some circumstances be considered an act of war.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why does the Strait of Hormuz matter?\n\nA concerted effort to hamper normal shipping in the Gulf would also clearly have significant strategic implications. Currently tankers are not guarded, though in the past, e.g. during the Iran-Iraq war, a convoy system was introduced to shepherd tankers through these confined waters accompanied by warships.\n\nClearly, experts will now be assessing the extent of the damage to the two vessels. Modern merchant ships may well have CCTV on board to monitor key areas. How much help this might give to any investigation is unclear.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAnonymous: The Iranian government's past behaviour is a good indicator of their future intentions to create havoc if they are not stopped: but how?\n\nThis is certainly how the US and its allies see it. Iran has made threats against merchant shipping in the Gulf and, in the US view, is a highly destabilising actor in the region.\n\nIran clearly takes a very different view, insisting it has a right to pursue its own regional interests and specifically that it did not target any of these tankers.\n\nWhat people say and what people do may be different. Iran resents the US intrusion into the Gulf. It is opposed to US policy in the region in Syria and elsewhere.\n\nThe danger is that far from being frightened by the reinforced US military presence in the Gulf it may feel that it has some latitude to push back. This is one of the dangerous elements in this equation.\n\nRay: In this day and age with so much satellite observation why isn't there more proof of who the attackers are?\n\nWell, you are right, satellites can be helpful but many of the most capable intelligence-gathering variety tend to belong to a very small group of countries and even then their coverage is not total. They need to be tasked to look at specific areas.\n\nI have no doubt the US is monitoring Iranian activity in the Gulf from a variety of platforms: satellites; aircraft; communications and signals intercepts; radar tracking and so on. Governments tend to be cautious - especially the Americans - about showing their satellite data. Often they do not want to reveal the full extent of their capabilities.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Security correspondent Frank Gardner looks at the evidence the US says proves Iran's involvement in attacks on two tankers\n\nAs an aside, one of the most interesting developments over recent years is the use of civilian satellite data by security researchers and think tanks to significantly amplify our knowledge and to provide a separate source of satellite intelligence. This has, however, generally been used to study fixed locations, e.g. North Korean or Iranian rocket or nuclear facilities. It is very hard for such groups to monitor an area like the Gulf in real-time.\n\nHarry: I want to know how many vessels were hit by mines prior to the US escalating their presence in the region.\n\nThe \"escalation\" of the US military presence is to some extent a propaganda ploy by the US. The presence of a US aircraft carrier battle group for example - currently the USS Abraham Lincoln - is far from unusual. There has indeed been some reinforcement, notably a small number of warplanes; the return of a Patriot anti-missile battery; and a small amphibious unit.\n\nAgain, it is all about sending signals rather than necessarily preparing for conflict. But there is no doubt that the US retains a formidable military capability in the region.\n\nAs to chronology, the earlier limpet mine attack on the four vessels was on 12 May. Prior to this (around 10 May) the US had announced it was stepping up its deployments to the region following what it said were concerns that Iranian elements or proxy forces were planning a number of attacks against US interests. Specifically, they claim to have seen missiles being loaded onto boats. Subsequently that threat seems to have passed, but in the meantime the four tankers were mined.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC was invited on board the USS Abraham Lincoln in the Arabian Sea\n\nAndrew: You say Trump is string up tensions: but why? I heard he believes the existing deal is bad and wants a better one? Similar tactics to North Korea?\n\nAnd James: Do you think it was Iran behind these latest attacks, or is it USA trying to stir things up whilst Iran host Shinzo Abe, Japanese PM?\n\nLet's cut to the chase here. Is Iran the most likely country to be responsible for the attacks - probably yes.\n\nHas the United States made a 100 per cent case against Tehran? Not yet.\n\nWill Iran ever admit to these attacks even if its forces did carry them out? Clearly no.\n\nIs anyone else going own up to carrying them out? No.\n\nIt is not the BBC's job to ascribe blame but it is our job to bring the evidence to you, to describe the circumstances; and to report and to weigh-up what different people have to say. You then must come to your own conclusion.\n\nAs you can imagine many of the messages we get refer to wild conspiracy theories which betray more about their author's thinking than they do an assessment of real day-to-day events.\n\nThe US, having walked away from the nuclear deal, is clearly waging a campaign to pressure Iran. But to what end is not clear.\n\nThe demands made by key US officials of Tehran are simply unrealistic. The Trump Administration seems to be unclear as to its strategic goals.\n\nThinking the nuclear deal was a bad one and walking away from it is all very well. But to get a better deal in Mr Trump's terms appears to require Iran to radically change its behaviour and outlook; to almost cease being Iran. That is why critics of Mr Trump say that he really wants regime change in Tehran.\n\nThere certainly are people in his administration who support this. But equally Mr Trump, despite all his tweets and bluster, does not want to embark upon new overseas military commitments.\n\nIt also has to be said that all the other countries or organisations that were party to the nuclear deal (the JCPOA as it is known) think that whatever its flaws, that deal was better than no deal.\n\nThanks for all the questions.", "The BBC has been given rare access to the vast system of highly secure facilities thought to be holding more than a million Muslims in China’s western region of Xinjiang.\n\nAuthorities there insist they are just training schools. But the BBC’s visit uncovers important evidence about the nature of the system and the conditions for the people inside it.\n\nOur World: Inside China's Camps can be seen on BBC World News at varying times during the week from Saturday 13 July 2019.", "CDU candidate Octavian Ursu won a run-off vote in Görlitz, a city that has attracted top Hollywood directors\n\nGermany's far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has failed to win its first mayoral seat, after it lost a key election in the country's east.\n\nOctavian Ursu of the centre-right Christian Democrats (CDU), Germany's main governing party, won more than 55% of the vote in the city of Görlitz.\n\nAfD candidate Sebastian Wippel, 36, was deemed the frontrunner after he won the first round of voting.\n\nThe vote had been viewed as a litmus test for his anti-immigration party.\n\nThe AfD registered high levels of support in Görlitz, which has seen a huge exodus of younger people due to a lack of employment opportunities.\n\nThe area around the town has served as the backdrop to major Hollywood films, such as Inglourious Basterds and The Grand Budapest Hotel. Ahead of the vote, a number of actors and filmmakers linked with the city wrote an open letter urging residents not to support the AfD.\n\nThe party's initial success led to speculation that it could make an electoral breakthrough ahead of regional elections in September.\n\nBut the result ultimately provided a boost to Chancellor Angela Merkel, whose governing coalition with the Social Democratic Party (SPD) has been shaken by heavy losses in the European elections in May.\n\n\"I am happy that a majority has chosen to vote for me,\" Mr Ursu, who moved to Germany from Romania in the 1990s, said following his victory. \"But in the end it is not about two candidates but the orientation of this town to the outside world.\"\n\n\"We remain an open society and do not isolate ourselves,\" the 51-year-old added.\n\nMr Wippel - a former police officer - said the AfD remained in a \"good position\" despite the loss.\n\n\"It was not a vote for Mr Ursu but more a vote against me,\" he said. \"The CDU had to rely on support from many groups... without whom they would not have made it.\"\n\nThe AfD entered the federal parliament for the first time in 2017, after it won 94 seats in the 709-seat lower house (Bundestag).\n\nSome statements by its leaders have been condemned as encouraging neo-Nazi extremism. AfD activists also took part in far-right rallies in the eastern city of Chemnitz last year, which were marred by clashes with police.", "Sadiq Khan said it was \"remarkable\" that a president would retweet \"a far-right activist\"\n\nLondon Mayor Sadiq Khan has called Donald Trump a \"poster boy for racists\" after the US President hit out at him over London's knife crime.\n\nMr Trump retweeted a post from right-wing commentator Katie Hopkins blaming the violence on \"Khan's Londonistan\".\n\nHer comments came after four people were killed in a spate of shootings and stabbings in London over three days.\n\nForeign Secretary and Tory leadership candidate Jeremy Hunt said he \"150% agreed\" with Mr Trump.\n\nSpeaking in central London on Monday, Mr Khan said: \"It's remarkable that you've got the president of the USA amplifying the tweets of a far-right activist, amplifying a racist tweet.\n\n\"That's one of my concerns about Donald Trump - he's now seen as a poster boy for racists around the world, whether you're a racist in this country, whether you're a racist in Hungary, a racist in Italy, or a racist in France.\"\n\nThe original post by Ms Hopkins called the capital \"Stab-City\", alongside screenshots of BBC News articles detailing the violence.\n\nBut a number of people pointed out the much higher homicide rates in US cities.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Hunt said Mr Trump had his \"own style\", but he backed the president's stance on Mr Khan.\n\n\"We have a Mayor of London who has completely failed to tackle knife crime and has spent more time on politics than the actual business of making Londoners safer and in that I 150% agree with the president,\" he said while attending a Conservative leadership hustings event.\n\nBut Mr Khan said: \"We've had four days and four homicides in London, we've seen over the last five years an increase in violent crime across our country and it's not acceptable.\n\n\"That's one of the reasons why City Hall, even though there's been massive cuts from central government, have continued to invest in our police.\"\n\nHe added: \"There are many good leaders in America facing massive increases in violent crime.\n\n\"They have my support to make sure we learn lessons from each other and that we work together to grapple the issue of violent crime taking place in many cities across the Western world.\"\n\nPresident Trump has had a long-running feud with London's mayor\n\nAnother Tory leadership hopeful, Home Secretary Sajid Javid, said President Trump should be more worried about violent crime in the United States.\n\nMr Javid said: \"I think President Trump should stick to domestic policies and I think it is unbecoming of a leader of such a great state to keep trying to interfere in other countries' domestic policies.\n\n\"The president is right to be concerned about serious violence, but he should be concerned about the serious violence in his own country where it is more than 10 times higher than it is in the UK.\"\n\nShadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott said she had never heard any previous US President make reference to a London mayor at all.\n\nIn the Commons, Ms Abbott said: \"It's hard to escape the conclusion that President Trump may be singling out Sadiq Khan because he is of the Muslim faith.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Nyall Brown, 19, took his own life in May 2018\n\nA coroner has criticised a troubled mental health trust for failing a teenager who took his own life.\n\nNyall Brown, 19, from Cromer, died in May 2018.\n\nNorfolk coroner Jacqueline Lake said she had concerns over staff not reviewing his care records before appointments, which would have enabled more accurate assessments.\n\nThe Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust said it was \"introducing learning sessions\" focusing on preparation.\n\nMs Lake has written a Prevention of Future Deaths report to the trust, asking it to take action to protect others.\n\n\"This is a matter which has been raised with the trust previously,\" she said.\n\n\"Staff are expected to read previous records relating to a service user, but this is not always happening.\"\n\nShe added: \"Evidence was heard that Mr Brown's care records were not reviewed prior to his being seen, which would enable Mr Brown's full history and risks to be taken into account when assessing him.\"\n\nNSFT is the only mental health trust to have been put in special measures, and in November was rated 'inadequate' for a third time.\n\nTracey and Mearl Brown have raised money for the charity Mind since their son Nyall's death\n\nMr Brown's parents Tracey and Mearl have been critical of the service, describing their dealings with the trust as \"inadequate, poor and shocking\".\n\nThey first sought help after their son attempted to take his own life in January, but at one point were advised to seek private medical help.\n\nDiane Hull, chief nurse at NSFT, said a detailed review had been conducted into the events leading to Mr Brown's death, and was being acted upon.\n\n\"This includes looking at the interface between wellbeing and secondary mental health services and our crisis teams, and strengthening clinical leadership,\" she said.\n\n\"In addition, we are introducing learning sessions which focus on documentation, communication and the importance of preparation ahead of appointments.\"", "A report by MPs has urged the UK government to end the era of throwaway clothes and poor working conditions in the fashion supply chain.\n\nThe MPs' proposals are designed to force the fashion industry to clean up its act.\n\nThey made 18 recommendations covering environmental and labour practices and want the government to act.\n\nNot only is the fashion industry a source of emissions, but old clothes pile up in landfill.\n\nFibres also flow into the sea when clothes are washed, polluting the marine environment.\n\nA government spokesperson said it was dealing with the impacts of fast fashion - and many measures were already in place.\n\nAmong the proposals from the Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) were:\n\nThe EAC's chair, Labour MP Mary Creagh, said: \"Fashion producers should be forced to clear up the mountains of waste they create.\n\n\"The government is content to tolerate practices that trash the environment and exploit workers despite having just committed to net zero emission targets.\n\n\"It is out of step with the public who are shocked by the fact that we are sending 300,000 tonnes of clothes a year to incineration or landfill.\"\n\nBut ministers cite the Sustainable Clothing Action Plan (SCAP), a voluntary agreement co-ordinated by the waste watchdog WRAP.\n\nThis sets targets for the industry to reduce carbon emissions, water and waste.\n\nThe government also maintains it's better to find outlets for waste textiles rather than simply imposing a landfill ban.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"It simply isn't true to say we are not accepting the committee's recommendations.\n\n\"In our landmark Resources and Waste Strategy we will take forward measures including developing proposals and consulting on extended producer responsibility (EPR) and higher product standards for textiles.\n\n\"This would make producers responsible for the full cost of managing and disposing of their products after they're no longer useful.\"\n\nTolmeia Gregory blogs about ethical fashion under the name TollyDollyPosh.\n\nGo vintage: \"Do things like shopping second-hand and vintage, going to your local charity shop. You can also buy on sites like eBay and Depop.\"\n\nBuy less: \"If you can, just not shopping at all is a really great way to do it. Embracing what you already own and what's already in your wardrobe. There's a great phrase you hear a lot: 'Loved clothes last'\".\n\nLook for eco-friendly materials: \"Look out for more natural fibres - go for cotton over polyester. Not only do they feel a lot nicer when you wear them, but don't contain things like microfibres that go into our water and into marine life when we wash our clothes.\"\n\nLearn to DIY: \"It doesn't take much to learn how to hand-sew and stitch up a hole. Or if you have a pair of ripped jeans that are becoming a bit too ripped, you could always cut them and keep them as shorts.\"\n\nMinisters say they're focusing on a tax on single-use plastic in packaging, rather than a tax on cheap fashion items.\n\nThey point to Sweden's VAT reduction for repair services, which they say has made little impact.\n\nThey say they will consider a levy on clothes alongside their plans for making firms in different sectors more responsible for their waste - but no decisions will be made on this until 2025.", "Det Con Rebecca Bryant kept secret about her relationship with a juror\n\nA police officer lied about her link with a juror in a murder trial, leading to three convictions being quashed and a retrial, a disciplinary panel has heard.\n\nDet Con Rebecca Bryant was a liaison officer to the family of Lynford Brewster, who was murdered in Cardiff in 2016.\n\nThree men were found guilty of killing him at a re-trial in March.\n\nMs Bryant's son's girlfriend was a juror in the original trial in 2016.\n\nThe South Wales Police misconduct hearing was told Ms Bryant committed gross misconduct by lying about the fact she knew Lauren Jones, who was called for jury service for the trial.\n\nShe also sent her texts telling her not to reveal their relationship just before the trial started.\n\nPresenting officer Jeremy Johnson told the hearing Ms Bryant had said in a text to Ms Jones: \"Don't tell any of them who you are to me in case they think I told you about it (the case) even though I haven't.\"\n\nMr Johnson said: \"DC Bryant knew the juror. She was the family liaison officer and failed to reveal that to the court or the CPS (Crown Prosecution Service).\"\n\nThe evening before the trial, Ms Bryant sent a message to Ms Jones saying: \"Are you looking forward to tomorrow?\"\n\nLynford Brewster was stabbed to death after a \"violent disagreement\" over drugs\n\nMs Jones replied: \"Yeah, I'm quite excited, a bit nervous because I don't know what I'm getting into xx.\"\n\nMs Bryant responded: \"The murder trial is put back to the 1st not that that matters cos they'll hold you til then if they need to. Remember what I said though, as long as you don't know any of the witnesses that's fine.\n\n\"I won't be there hardly and I'm not a witness. Don't tell any of them what you are to me in case they think I've told you about it (the case), even though I haven't.\"\n\nMs Jones replied: \"Oh, is it? I don't know them personally but I do see one family member, so not sure what will happen.\n\n\"It will be a good experience. I'll just be honest.\"\n\nOn another message, Ms Bryant offered to give Ms Jones a lift home from court.\n\n\"If you're on the murder you'll be finished the same time as me most days. You can have a lift to mine afterwards if you wanted x.\"\n\nMs Jones replied: \"Fab thanks! The bus is a nightmare x.\"\n\n(Left to right) Robert Lainsbury, Jake Whelan, Dwayne Edgar, who were jailed after a re-trial\n\nMs Bryant also told the juror she could miss a day of jury service to attend the hairdressers by saying she had an unspecified appointment which could not be changed.\n\n\"It is instructing a juror to give incomplete information, and misleading that the juror has an appointment when they might be sitting, but withholding the fact it is a hair appointment as opposed to something more important,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\nAt the end of the trial, Dwayne Edgar, 31, Jake Whelan, 26, and Robert Lainsbury, 25, were sentenced to life in prison for fatally stabbing 29-year-old Mr Brewster to death in Cardiff in June 2016.\n\nBut within weeks a complaint was made that Ms Bryant knew Ms Jones, and Ms Bryant was questioned by a South Wales Police officer.\n\nMr Johnson said: \"She told DCI O'Shea she didn't know the juror. That was untrue.\n\n\"She corrected the position the following day, but by that stage the CPS had been given untruthful information in denying that underlying concern.\"\n\nThe morning after she had been questioned, Ms Bryant told the same officer: \"I'm really, really, sorry, I do know that girl.\"\n\nWhen Det Ch Insp O'Shea asked her why she did not disclose the information the day before, she replied: \"I panicked.\"\n\nThe family of Lynford Brewster attended the initial jury selections and Mr Brewster's mother June Whittaker recalled a conversation with Ms Bryant after discovering one of the original jurors was known to the family.\n\nMr Brewster's stepfather said it might be good to have someone they knew on the jury, but Ms Bryant warned them: \"You can't do that, that's perjury, you could get into trouble for that and could mess the case up.\"\n\n\"I was glad she did this because the last thing I wanted was a retrial,\" he said.\n\nThat juror declared their connection voluntarily and was replaced.\n\nMs Bryant has already admitted three breaches of professional behaviour in failing to disclose her relationship to Ms Jones.\n\nShe denies dishonest behaviour in relation to Ms Jones' hair appointment, and gross misconduct.\n\nMs Bryant joined South Wales Police in 1988, becoming a detective constable in 2001. She joined the major investigation unit in 2013 before becoming the Brewster family liaison officer in June 2016.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAn Indian magician who was lowered into a river while shackled in a bid to recreate Harry Houdini's world-famous trick has drowned, police confirmed.\n\nChanchal Lahiri was meant to escape and swim to safety but did not emerge from the Hooghly river in West Bengal state.\n\nCrowds who watched him take the plunge on Sunday alerted the police, who then launched a search operation.\n\nHis body, which washed up some 1km (0.6 miles) from the site of the incident, was identified late on Monday.\n\nMr Lahiri, also known as Mandrake, was lowered into the river from a boat for his trick.\n\nHe was shackled with six locks and a chain as spectators on two boats watched him.\n\nSeveral people had also gathered by the shore and some stood on the landmark Howrah Bridge in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta).\n\nAccording to the Press Trust of India, the crowd started to panic after Mr Lahiri did not appear after more than 10 minutes.\n\nChanchal Lahiri went by the stage name Mandrake\n\nJayanta Shaw, a photographer with a local newspaper, witnessed Mr Lahiri attempting the trick. He told the BBC that he spoke to him before the magician started his act.\n\n\"I asked him why he risked his life for magic,\" Mr Shaw said. \"He [Mr Lahiri] smiled and said, 'If I do it right, it's magic. If I make a mistake, it becomes tragic.'\"\n\nThe magician told him that he wanted to do this trick in order \"to revive interest in magic\".\n\nThis is not the first time that Mr Lahiri had attempted a risky underwater trick.\n\nHe was lowered into the same river inside a glass box more than 20 years ago but had managed to escape to safety.\n\n\"I never thought he would not come out of the water this time,\" he said.\n\nAccording to Press Trust of India, Mr Lahiri had sought permission from the Kolkata Police and Kolkata Port Trust before performing his trick.\n\nHowever, he did not mention that the trick would have a \"connection with water\", said police.\n\n\"He had mentioned the act was to happen in a boat or vessel... hence we allowed him permission. He vaguely mentioned an 'extra act' which we did not clarify,\" said a police officer who was not identified. \"We are investigating.\"\n• None The 'maharajah of magic' who terrified the UK\n• None The maharajah and the well", "Communications services can be told to collect metadata\n\nPowers used by the security services to \"Hoover up\" communications data from most people in the UK, even those not suspected of an offence, are \"too wide\" and invade privacy, a court has heard.\n\nCivil rights group Liberty is challenging the government at the High Court over how the Investigatory Powers Act (IPA) - dubbed the \"snoopers' charter\" by critics - is being used.\n\nIt says it is incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights.\n\nLiberty's lawyers say that \"bulk\" data gathered by the security services and other agencies, under warrants granted by a judge or the home secretary, can include:\n\nEven if a warrant has been granted for the data to be gathered, they argue, the searching of bulk data - sometimes known as secondary data - is not governed by any warrant.\n\nThey also say the data can still be searched even if the warrant, that allowed for it to be seized in the first place, has expired.\n\nLiberty's barrister Martin Chamberlain QC told the court: \"These powers permit the interception or obtaining, processing, retention and examination of the private information of very large numbers of people - in some cases, the whole population.\n\n\"They also permit serious invasions of journalistic and watchdog organisations' materials and lawyer-client communication.\"\n\nLast week, in a preliminary hearing, it emerged that the storage and handling of large amounts of data gathered by the security service MI5 is \"undoubtedly unlawful\" according to the government watchdog - the investigatory powers commissioner.\n\nSafeguards over the storage, retention and deletion of data were not being adhered to by the domestic security service the watchdog said in a ruling.\n\nIn court, the lawyers for Liberty maintained that the government's oversight of the operation of the IPA was inadequate in the way it failed to properly supervise the interception of communications data - who sent what to who and when - and the way in which that data can be subsequently searched.\n\nThe court action has been joined by the National Union of Journalists which says the current regime for data interception does not adequately safeguard journalists from interference from the state.\n\nGovernment lawyers are expected to argue the gathering of massive amounts of private data - in what has been compared to a \"soup\" of information - does not pose any meaningful risk of an invasion of privacy because the vast majority of it will never be examined by investigators.\n\nSir James Eadie QC, representing Home Secretary Sajid Javid and Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt, submitted that the powers provided by the act \"strike an appropriate balance between security and individual privacy\".\n\nHe added that there was \"a variety of strong safeguards\" built into the act to protect journalistic material.\n\nThe trial is expected to last all week.\n• None MI5's data use was 'unlawful', watchdog says", "Heads say inadequate funding for schools is adding to the pressure on teachers\n\nA one-off increase of £3.8bn would be needed to reverse 8% cuts in per pupil school spending, new analysis shows.\n\nThe Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) says a further £1.1bn would be needed each year up until 2023 to maintain spending in real terms, once rising costs were taken into account.\n\nCandidates for the Conservative leadership have been making competing promises on education spending.\n\nThe government says funding for schools has been at its highest level ever.\n\nSchool budgets have moved up the political agenda, partly as a result of campaigning by parents and head teachers across England.\n\nIFS analysis says since 2009, spending has fallen by 8% per pupil once rising costs such as pay and pension contributions are taken into account.\n\n\"It's the largest reduction in education spending for at least 30 or 40 years or longer, so it's not surprising it has generated political pressure,\" says their economist Luke Sibieta.\n\nIn a new analysis published on Tuesday, the IFS says to reverse that real terms fall for 5 to 16-year-olds would take a one-off increase of £3.8bn.\n\nThat includes all spending in schools, including that by local authorities, and is more than any candidate has promised so far.\n\nJules White, the Sussex head teacher who has led the WorthLess campaign said: \"There is immense frustration that this bidding war has begun, when the government has been in absolute denial about the financial constraints.\"\n\nTo keep up with rising pupil numbers, the IFS says £1.1bn a year would be needed to avoid future real terms cuts.\n\nA similar 8% increase for 16 to 19-year-olds would cost around £480m as a one-off uplift.\n\nSixth form and further education colleges have faced the sharpest squeeze in budgets in recent years.\n\nBut with some Conservative leadership contenders also suggesting tax cuts, it's not clear where the money would be found.\n\nMr Sibieta says making education a priority would deepen the squeeze elsewhere, unless the government increased borrowing.\n\n\"The NHS has received a very generous settlement in advance of the spending review, but over four years other government departments are being asked to reduce spending by £2.5bn in total\".\n\nThere is also a subtle rebuke for Boris Johnson from the IFS, after he described variation in funding per pupil in different parts of England as a \"postcode lottery\".\n\nA new funding formula for schools is being gradually introduced, based a combination of measures of need in different local authorities.\n\nThe IFS said: \"With the introduction of this formula, the government - which Mr Johnson was part of - effectively ended a long-standing postcode lottery in school funding in England.\"\n\nHowever, many in the lowest funded areas, which include many conservative heartlands in the counties and shires, remain disappointed that the formula will not lead to substantial increases for all.\n\nThe government has argued that school spending in England is at its highest level ever in cash terms.\n\nA statement from the Department for Education added: \"We know schools face budgeting challenges, which is why we have introduced a wide range of support to help schools reduce costs and get the best value from their resources.\"\n\n\"The Secretary of State has made clear that as we approach the next spending review, he will back head teachers to have the resources they need to deliver a world class education in the years ahead.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Watkinson family live self sufficiently in Wales\n\nThe government proposes reducing UK greenhouse gas emissions to almost zero by 2050, under a new plan to tackle climate change. The Victoria Derbyshire programme met a family who live self sufficiently and provide a glimpse of the kind of changes we may all need to make.\n\n\"The leap - handing your notice in, going off and not having a job - that's scary.\"\n\nCharis Watkinson, 34, is reflecting on her and husband Matthew's decision two years ago to give up their jobs as vets and their lives in Essex to go completely \"off-grid\".\n\nThe couple now live in rural Pembrokeshire with their two children - Elsa, five, and 18-month-old Billy. Their home, Beeview Farm - named after the bees they keep for honey - is so remote and hilly that they direct visitors to a field so they can be picked up in a 4x4.\n\nThe family generate their own electricity from solar panels and gas from their food waste.\n\nTheir home - swapping gas on the grid for renewables - is an example of how the UK population may have to live if the government is to meet its net zero emissions target.\n\nBritain is the first major nation to propose this target - widely praised by green groups.\n\nThe Watkinsons' house is bigger than it first looks, built from old horse boxes, caravans and trailers.\n\nBeeview Farm is made from a truck and camper van - among other things\n\n\"It's basically junk, scrap vehicles and junk - we've put most of it together,\" 42-year-old Matthew says, before showing off his many inventions.\n\nFor example, the spare bedroom is an old 4x4 with a full double mattress and an enviable ocean view. They have an outdoor and indoor shower, both equipped with hot water, made from old IBC tanks, commonly found on British farms. Metres away is a Swedish-style hot tub. Round the corner is Biff, the affectionate name given to the family's biodigester.\n\n''What we've essentially got is an artificial cow stomach, full of the normal bugs from a cow's stomach, and we are just feeding those bugs,\" Matthew explains. \"And those bugs are turning what we feed it into methane.\"\n\nThe family use this to power their oven and hob.\n\nThe family make money by selling eggs from their chickens\n\nWales has one of the most progressive policies in the UK regarding living off grid due to the decades-old One Planet Development Scheme. It allows agricultural land to be lived on when planning permission would otherwise not be granted, if certain conditions are met.\n\nThese include making a basic income off the land, which the Watkinsons do by selling honey and eggs, and providing all their own energy and water. They sell about 350 eggs a week, earning up to £800 a month.\n\nParticipants must increase biodiversity on the land and the family have done this. They have rented horses to re-sow meadows in a bid to \"re-wild\" the land. They must also grow a proportion of their own food - with a minimum of 30% and target of 65%. They were making nettle pakoras when I visited.\n\nThe only bill the family pay is their council tax.\n\n\"One of the most liberating things, from moving up here, is no electricity bills, no gas bills, no water bills,\" says Matthew.\n\nThe couple have two children, Elsa and Billy\n\nBut they have not reduced the amount of electricity they consume, explaining they still use it for charging mobile phones and laptops, as well as their TV and fridge.\n\n\"Everybody's used to a situation where things are available all the time, and we started to feel less and less secure,\" Matthew says. \"We'd like to be responsible for our own energy, our own food.\"\n\nTim Brewer, an expert in off-grid living, says almost every household could adopt self-sufficiency measures to some extent.\n\n\"Two major technologies that are appropriate for households generally - solar electric, or solar water heating panels - both of those technologies are really, really mature and they're really, really applicable for 99% of households in the UK,\" he explains.\n\nBut Matthew thinks it is not that simple.\n\n\"There's loads of people who'd love to do this already, but the planning process is such a barrier I don't know how many people will end up doing it in time to make a big difference,\" he says.\n\nFollow the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme on Facebook and Twitter - and see more of our stories here.", "A former head of the Army thumped the desk as he told police questioning him that allegations he was part of a VIP paedophile ring were \"ridiculous\".\n\nFootage of Lord Bramall's reaction during the 2015 interview was shown to the jury in the trial of Carl Beech, 51, who denies 12 counts of perverting the course of justice and one of fraud.\n\nThe peer, a D-Day veteran aged 95, was too ill to attend the trial in person.\n\nHis wife died in 2015 before detectives announced they were not charging him.\n\nBut Newcastle Crown Court was played the video of Lord Bramall's police interview in April 2015, weeks after his home had been raided by the Metropolitan Police, as part of the case against Mr Beech.\n\nMr Beech, who was given the name \"Nick\" when his claims were first reported in the media, is accused of lying about rapes, kidnapping, false imprisonment and sexual abuse by prominent people the 1970s and 1980s.\n\nAs well as Lord Bramall, he named former Home Secretary Leon Brittan, the former heads of MI5 and MI6 and ex-Tory MP Harvey Proctor among his alleged abusers.\n\n\"I am absolutely astonished, amazed and bemused,\" Lord Bramall said in the interview.\n\n\"I find it incredible that anybody should believe that someone of my career standing, integrity, should be capable of any of these things, including things like torture - unbelievable.\"\n\nMr Beech, from Gloucester, told police his stepfather, Major Ray Beech, had sexually abused him before taking him to Lord Bramall's offices in Wiltshire, where he was commander-in-chief of the UK land forces in about 1976.\n\nHe said the peer had undressed and sexually abused him, which Lord Bramall told detectives was \"absolute rubbish\" and \"complete nonsense\".\n\nTold that General Sir Roland Gibbs and General Sir Hugh Beach were also allegedly involved, he scoffed: \"They have taken in the whole damned Army.\"\n\nLord Bramall was interviewed by police in April 2015 when he was 91\n\nLord Bramall, who went on to become chief of defence staff between 1982 and 1985, suggested police should have been more sceptical of Mr Beech's claims, saying: \"You are an experienced officer, you must have got a feel if someone is not telling the truth.\"\n\nAsked about Sir Jimmy Savile, said to be another member of the gang, the former Army chief said he only knew him from television and he was \"one of the most odious people I have ever seen in my life\".\n\nAt one point, he said about his accuser: \"People make allegations about others later in life to see what they can gain from it.\"\n\nDetectives asked Lord Bramall if he could swim, as some of the abuse had allegedly happened at pool parties. \"I landed at Normandy and I jolly nearly had to swim,\" he replied.\n\nIn another interview conducted in July 2015, the jury heard Lord Bramall tell police about the impact of the investigation and media coverage, having just lost his wife at the age of 91.\n\n\"Because it is really awful someone in my position has had the damage done - mainly by what has gone to press and on the webnet - I hope you can report to your superiors and say there's clearly no case to answer and make it absolutely clear I am no longer a suspect and I have been taken out of the investigation,\" he said.\n\n\"Otherwise my reputation is still being damaged on Google, and that's not fair, after my record, at my time of life.\"\n\nThe jury heard that Lord Bramall, who is \"in very poor health\", was unwilling to give further evidence in court.\n\nDefence barrister Collingwood Thompson told the court he would have asked the peer a series of specific questions on Mr Beech's behalf, including suggesting to Lord Bramall he was a \"leading member of a paedophile ring\".", "More than 22,000 knife and weapon offences were recorded nationally in the past year\n\nTeenagers are being offered up to £1,000 by gang leaders in Liverpool to stab other youngsters, the BBC has learned.\n\nBounties are being paid by \"elders\" who want to avoid carrying out the attacks themselves, young people have told the BBC Beyond Today podcast.\n\nThe claims have been linked to at least one recent stabbing.\n\nMerseyside Police said it was aware organised crime groups used violence to settle disputes.\n\nIn a statement the force did not directly address the teenagers' claims.\n\nBut it said gangs were known to exploit \"young and vulnerable people to sell... drugs and even to use violence\".\n\nThe teenagers, who wish to remain anonymous because they fear reprisals, said: \"Young kids are getting money put on their heads.\"\n\nOne boy told the BBC that his best friend was the target of a £1,000 bounty.\n\nHe said a group attacked the victim, who then needed treatment in hospital. Two teenagers then split the bounty.\n\nHe said people would go to watch \"straighteners\" - a fight arranged to resolve a dispute - where people were \"getting stabbed\".\n\nHe added that senior gang members have said: \"Here's five ton [£500] each - go and do it.\"\n\n\"And they'll go and do it because they'll think, if I do this, then I'll get more money and I'll get more respect from the elders.\"\n\nJames Riley (L) makes a link with gun crime, while Alan Walsh compared the problem to the era of Roman gladiators\n\nLast year, Merseyside Police had one of the biggest increases in recorded knife offences with a 35% rise, according to official statistics.\n\nAlan Walsh, a youth worker who runs the city-wide campaign Real Men Don't Carry Knives, said he was \"still shocked\" at the bounty claims.\n\nOther gang members in Liverpool have recently confirmed to him there have been other similar cases.\n\n\"Has it got to that stage where it's like going back to gladiators,\" he said. \"The arena is the streets and we're putting a bounty up?\"\n\nFormer probation officer James Riley, who has worked in Liverpool for 18 years and teaches children about the risks of getting involved in gangs, said the bounty issue had traditionally only ever been linked to gun crime in the city.\n\nBut there had been a recent shift towards rewards for a person who uses and attacks with a knife, he added.\n\nOne of the main reasons for the bounties is so senior gang members can avoid punishments, Mr Riley said.\n\n\"The 'elders' want to distance themselves - they want to avoid arrest.\n\n\"They don't want to get their hands dirty - they know there's this continuous stream of young people out there who they can exploit.\"\n\nLast week, figures showed that 22,041 knife or weapon offences were recorded in England and Wales in the past year - the highest number since 2010.\n\nOne in five of those convicted or cautioned were aged between 10 and 17, according to the Ministry of Justice.\n\nMr Walsh, who works in Anfield, said: \"I'm still gobsmacked that they have this thing where, at that tender age, they'll put a bounty on other kids' heads.\n\n\"I hope to God it's not a trend that takes off.\"\n\nThis episode of the Beyond Today podcast will be available from 17:00 BST on Monday", "The inquest had heard no paramedics were sent to help Sebastien Belanger where he lay dying\n\nEmergency services bosses took \"too long\" to decide to send specialist teams to help victims of the London Bridge attack, an inquest has heard.\n\nParamedics were kept away from the scene of the attack on 3 June 2017 after it was made a \"hot zone\" - unsafe for staff - the Old Bailey heard.\n\nIt was not until three hours after the three attackers had been shot dead that medics entered a courtyard where five of the victims died.\n\nEight people were killed in the attack.\n\nAt the inquests into their deaths. Paul Woodrow, director of operations at London Ambulance Service (LAS), admitted the \"chaotic\" aftermath of the attack contributed to communication \"issues\".\n\nPolice told medics to stay away from the courtyard area around the Boro Bistro restaurant due to reports of shots being fired nearby, the Old Bailey heard.\n\nKhuram Butt, Rachid Redouane and Youssef Zaghba drove a van into pedestrians on London Bridge and stabbed people in and around Borough Market.\n\nJonathan Hough QC, counsel to the coroner, said two groups of people had known there were victims in need of urgent treatment in the courtyard outside Boro Bistro.\n\nBut neither group told people in the courtyard that ambulance staff had been instructed not to go there.\n\nMr Woodrow said the \"confusion\" after the attack \"hindered our ability, jointly, to get full situational awareness\".\n\nHe said LAS was \"overflowing with information\" and had received 134 related 999 calls on top of 4,400 already received from other incidents on a \"busy Saturday\".\n\nParamedics were being given information about various locations within a wide area, which some staff \"would not have an intimate knowledge of\", he said.\n\n\"In the very early stages of these incidents, they really are chaotic, and it's just a fact that we do not have an army of people there to filter the information,\" he added.\n\nHe said co-ordinating conflicting information in a large incident was \"not a problem that is easily resolved... it's just not realistic to expect that we can get 100 to 150 people into an area in the first 10 minutes of an incident\".\n\nThe court heard it was about three hours before medics entered the Boro Bistro courtyard, despite the knifemen being killed within 10 minutes of launching their attack.\n\nGareth Patterson QC, representing the families of some of the victims, said the delay was inconsistent with the need to provide urgent medical care in the \"golden hour\" following injury.\n\nThe inquest had previously heard medics were not told that Sébastien Bélanger, James McMullan and Alexandre Pigeard lay mortally wounded in the courtyard, while a police officer on the scene who had called for help was not told about ambulance resources awaiting casualties on Borough High Street.\n\nMr Woodrow said: \"There was clearly a breakdown in communications at that stage.\"\n\nMr Bélanger, 36, Mr McMullan, 32, and Mr Pigeard, 26, were eventually brought to ambulances at a safe meeting point away from the market, but they were already dead.\n\nThe victims of the London Bridge attack clockwise from top left - Chrissy Archibald, James McMullan, Alexandre Pigeard, Sébastien Bélanger, Ignacio Echeverría, Xavier Thomas, Sara Zelenak, Kirsty Boden\n\nThe others killed in the attack were Xavier Thomas, 45, Chrissy Archibald, 30, Sara Zelenak, 21, Kirsty Boden, 28, and Ignacio Echeverría, 39.\n\nMr Woodrow said LAS could not send specialist ambulance intervention teams - made up of medics, firefighers and armed officers - into a \"hot zone\" without input from police and fire services.\n\nBut he accepted it \"took too long to make a decision to commit\" to that strategy.\n\nMr Patterson said there was no evidence of whether or not the courtyard was specifically designated as a \"hot zone\".\n\nSome volunteer medics were allowed to break the rules to enter the high-risk zone to treat patients, the inquest heard.\n\n\"I'm proud of my staff who put themselves in harm's way,\" Mr Woodrow said. He praised all paramedics for doing \"really good work\" in \"really difficult circumstances\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "About 130 properties in Wainfleet have been flooded after an average two months' rain fell in two days last week\n\nPeople evacuated from their homes in a flooded Lincolnshire town may not be able to return until Friday.\n\nMore than 580 homes in and around Wainfleet were evacuated after heavy rains led to the River Steeping bursting its banks on Wednesday.\n\nResidents still in their homes have been told to avoid using toilets, showers and washing machines due to a strain on the sewerage system.\n\nPumps are being used to try to reduce the water level.\n\nUp to 1,000 people have been evacuated from their homes\n\nThe Environment Agency said it had \"shifted 225 Olympic-sized swimming pools' worth of water\" overnight\n\nThe equivalent of about two months' rain fell in two days, forcing 1,000 people out of their homes - about half the population - and flooding nearly 130 properties in the town.\n\nTherese Coffey MP claimed the events of last week were unprecedented\n\nEnvironment Minister Therese Coffey, answering criticism that more should have been done to prevent the flooding, claimed the rainfall last week was unprecedented.\n\nShe said it was important to \"look at what went wrong and what can be done to remedy it in the future\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Environment Agency said it was \"on the ground pumping water away\" and had \"shifted 225 Olympic-sized swimming pools' worth of water\" overnight.\n\nIt said river levels in the area were \"slowly dropping\", but two flood warnings remain in place for the River Steeping.\n\nThe RAF dropped 270 tonnes of ballast to fill a breach in the River Steeping bank\n\nThe agency has also responded to speculation that badgers were to blame for the river bursting its banks.\n\n\"The breach in this flood bank was not caused by badgers,\" a spokesperson said.\n\n\"The banks were put under extraordinary pressure because of the extreme amount of rainfall - more than twice the monthly average in only a couple of days.\"\n\nBadgers are routinely moved and action is taken to prevent them burrowing back into the banks, the spokesperson added.\n\nRiver levels in the area are \"slowly dropping\", according to the Environment Agency\n\nFurther rain is expected on Tuesday and Wednesday, which could lead to delays with residents returning to their homes, meteorologist Dean Hall said.\n\n\"We are keeping an eye on it as there could be some issues with surface water and flooding,\" he said.\n\nTamara Lowndes, who lives in Wainfleet, described the situation as \"really frightening\".\n\n\"I've lived here 44 years and I've never ever seen anything like this,\" she said.\n\n\"It really has been like a freak accident. It's not something I want to see again.\n\n\"My 16-year-old son was wading through [water] taking sandbags and it was coming up to his waist on Thursday.\"\n\nTamara Lowndes said the community in Wainfleet was \"incredible\" with people bringing food and donations as part of the relief effort\n\nMs Lowndes said she and her family had been helping fellow residents and flood victims with relief efforts.\n\n\"The community have been incredible.\n\n\"We've had people from the surrounding areas bringing in food, donating money. It really has been incredible.\n\n\"Hopefully we'll get Wainfleet back.\"\n\nNot everyone in Wainfleet left their homes\n\nDerek Driver, 76, said he and his wife had \"lost everything on the ground floor\" of their house when it was flooded.\n\n\"The water started trickling in, and then it came in much faster. We started moving things on top of higher surfaces,\" he said.\n\n\"We couldn't manage to take anything heavy upstairs.\"\n\nHe said the couple have been staying in a hotel with their dog, where they could remain \"until maybe next week\".\n\n\"We're worried because we're not insured,\" he added. \"We couldn't get it because we are on a flood plain.\"\n\nFlooding has also hit an animal park, where a parrot has died\n\nLincolnshire Wildlife Park has set up an online fundraising page to help fund the clean up and repair damage caused by flooding\n\nSteve Nichols, who runs Lincolnshire Wildlife Park in nearby Friskney, said a parrot died when the site became flooded.\n\n\"We had a surge that came through the park,\" he said.\n\n\"For whatever reason she decided to go in to one of the low boxes and sadly - I think it was a mixture of the cold and the shock and everything that - she just passed away.\"\n\nHigh volume pumps have been used to reduce water levels\n\nLincolnshire Police issued an advisory notice limiting the use of toilets, showers, dishwashers and washing machines.\n\nThey said people may have to stay away from their homes until the end of the week.\n\nIn total, six flood warnings are in place for England, mostly in the west and north-east Midlands.\n\nHave you been evacuated from your home? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe mayor of the US city of Phoenix has apologised after a video allegedly showing police threatening to shoot a black family went viral.\n\nOfficers were responding to an alleged shoplifting incident last month when the video was recorded.\n\nPolice officers can be seen shouting at the family to get out of their vehicle before threatening them.\n\nThe parents say they did not realise their four-year-old had taken a $1 (£0.79) Barbie doll from a store.\n\nA number of high-profile shootings of unarmed black men in US cities in recent years have sparked protests about the police use of force.\n\nMayor Kate Gallego said the officers' actions were \"completely inappropriate and clearly unprofessional\".\n\nMs Gallego said in a statement: \"There is no situation in which this behaviour is ever close to acceptable. As a mother myself, seeing these children placed in such a terrifying situation is beyond upsetting.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Mayor Kate Gallego This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"I am deeply sorry for what this family went through and I apologise to our community.\"\n\nShe said that the city was speeding up the implementation of body-worn cameras. A community meeting about the incident will also be held on Tuesday.\n\nIn the video, Iesha Harper can be seen emerging from the car with her two young children. The children are handed to a bystander and Ms Harper is arrested.\n\nThe footage also shows another man, Dravon Ames, being kicked in the legs as he is handcuffed by an officer.\n\nThe couple are preparing to sue the city for $10 million over the incident.\n\nRoc Nation Managing Director of Philanthropy Dania Diaz said in a statement: \"We are calling for the immediate termination of the police officers in question. We are committed to supporting the family to ensure justice is served.\"\n\nMs Harper, who is pregnant, told CNN: \"I really thought he was going to shoot me in front of the kids.\"\n\nShe said that she gave her two children to a bystander as she \"didn't trust the police\".\n\nPhoenix police chief Jeri Williams said on local news that she was \"sorry this incident happened\" and that it was being investigated.\n\nThe officers involved have been assigned desk duty while the investigation takes place.", "Channel 4 set up an empty podium for Boris Johnson, who declined to take part in the debate\n\nContenders to replace Theresa May as Conservative leader have clashed over delivering Brexit during a TV debate.\n\nThe MPs argued over whether a new deal could be renegotiated with the EU, and the prospect of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nBoris Johnson came under fire for not taking part in the Channel 4 debate but defended his stance, suggesting it would \"be slightly cacophonous\".\n\nHis leadership bid has been backed by Health Secretary Matt Hancock, who dropped out of the race on Friday.\n\nSome of the sharpest exchanges came over whether Parliament should be shut down - prorogued - in order to push through a no-deal Brexit by 31 October - something four of the five candidates argued against.\n\nThe UK had been due to leave the EU on 29 March, but EU leaders agreed to delay the date to October after MPs repeatedly rejected Theresa May's Brexit deal.\n\nInternational Development Secretary Rory Stewart said proroguing Parliament was a \"deeply disturbing\" option and Home Secretary Sajid Javid warned \"you don't deliver democracy by trashing our democracy\".\n\nHowever ex-Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab refused to rule it out, saying \"every time one of these candidates take an option away… we weaken our chances of getting the best deal.\"\n\nChannel 4's debate attracted an audience of 1.3 million and 7.8% of the audience share. The programme was up against Soccer Aid on ITV, Countryfile on BBC One and Top Gear on BBC Two.\n\nNo stand-out winner and a debate that won't trouble the absent front-runner Boris Johnson.\n\nHis team thought there was nothing to be gained from pitching up for this blue-on-blue skirmish which was mostly good natured but repeatedly raised questions the candidates struggled to answer.\n\nHow can the next prime minister renegotiate a deal with the EU? How can it be done by October? How could the UK leave without a deal if MPs refuse?\n\nAt one end of the debate, Dominic Raab was rounded on for saying he would be prepared to try and suspend parliament if it was the only way to get the UK out without a deal at the end of October.\n\nIn the opposite corner, Rory Stewart was the only one who said a renegotiation with the EU in the next four months was a fantasy promise.\n\nAt some point this week one of the five will break out and become the challenger to Boris Johnson for the ballot of Tory members.\n\nThe candidates at the debate before a studio audience in east London also argued over whether a no-deal Brexit should be considered.\n\nMr Javid said no deal was the \"last thing\" he wanted, but added: \"You do plan for no deal precisely because you want a deal.\"\n\nMr Raab said Britain would be able to \"manage those risks\" associated with leaving the EU without a deal.\n\nHowever, Mr Stewart said \"I think a no-deal Brexit is a complete nonsense,\" adding \"it would be deeply damaging for our economy.\"\n\nThe candidates were united in condemnation of the Labour leader with Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt accusing Jeremy Corbyn of being \"against aspiration\".\n\nEnvironment Secretary Michael Gove argued that he was the candidate Mr Corbyn would be most scared of facing at Prime Minister's Questions.\n\nMr Johnson, the front-runner in the leadership race, was represented at the debate by an empty lectern.\n\nAnd Mr Hunt attacked his failure to appear.\n\n\"Where's Boris?\" he asked, adding \"if his team won't allow him out with five fairly friendly colleagues, how is he going to deal with 27 European countries?\"\n\nMr Stewart also made a pointed dig at his absent colleague, saying he hoped \"one of us\" - referring to the MPs who had attended the debate - becomes prime minister.\n\nSpeaking to Radio 4's World at One on Friday, Mr Johnson said he was \"pretty bewildered\" by claims he was dodging scrutiny and said the public had had \"quite a lot of blue-on-blue action, frankly, over the last three years\".\n\nHe said the best time to take part was on Tuesday after the second ballot and would be at the BBC debate on Tuesday, hosted by Emily Maitlis.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock - who withdrew from the leadership race after the first ballot - has backed Mr Johnson \"as the best candidate to unite the Conservative Party\" as has Esther McVey, who was eliminated in the first round.\n\nWriting in the Times, Mr Hancock said Mr Johnson had a \"unique personality\", adding: \"I have confidence Boris will be a One Nation prime minister because that's how he ran London - consistently - for eight years.\"\n\nMr Gove told BBC Radio 4's Today he was \"naturally disappointed\" that Mr Hancock had chosen to endorse his rival rather than himself.\n\nWhile Mr Johnson remained the frontrunner, Mr Gove said \"we need to make sure he is tested\" and he believed he could make it to the final two as a \"strong alternative\" who was equipped to \"be prime minister from day one\".\n\nThe TV debate also saw politicians being asked about their priorities apart from Brexit.\n\nMr Javid chose funding education and further education colleges, saying: \"We have cut back too much in that space.\"\n\nMr Raab said he wanted to improve state schools and offer more choices for young apprenticeships, while Mr Gove said children would be his top priority and emphasised the importance of protecting the environment for the future.\n\nMr Hunt told the audience \"every Conservative has two desires: cut taxes and spend more on public services.\" He also said he would focus on literacy and the social care system.\n\nMr Stewart said his central priority would be fixing adult social care, describing the issue as \"the great unfinished revolution\".\n\nAsked about their weaknesses, Mr Gove said he was impatient, while Mr Raab said he was \"a restless soul\" who \"always wanted to make things better\".\n\nMr Javid admitted to being stubborn while Mr Stewart said there were \"many things he didn't know about the world\". However, he added that \"we need leaders who listen\" and criticised \"macho posturing\".\n\nMr Hunt joked that his biggest weakness was \"getting my wife's nationality wrong\" - but on a more serious note, said in his battle with junior doctors as health secretary, he could have been \"better at communicating\" what he was trying to do.\n\nThe candidates will now go on to take part in further ballots until only two remain.\n\nThe final pair will be put to a vote of the 160,000 members of the Conservative Party from 22 June. The winner is expected to be announced about four weeks later.", "Troubled construction and services firm Kier has said it will cut 1,200 jobs as it seeks to make cost savings of £55m a year by 2021.\n\nThe cuts came as the firm's boss announced a plan to simplify Kier's business and reduce its debt.\n\nThe company will sell its homebuilding business, Kier Living, and will shut or sell other interests, including its recycling and rubbish processing units.\n\nKier will now focus on activities such as construction and road maintenance.\n\nShares in the company have fallen by more than 85% in the past year, and they fell a further 11% on Monday to about 116p.\n\n\"These actions are focused on resetting the operational structure of Kier, simplifying the portfolio, and emphasising cash generation in order to structurally reduce debt,\" said chief executive Andrew Davies, who took over the role in April this year.\n\n\"By making these changes, we will reinforce the foundations from which our core activities can flourish in the future, to the benefit of all of our stakeholders.\"\n\nThe company's woes are having ramifications beyond the construction world. The share price fall has affected its largest investor, Woodford Investment Management, which had to suspend its flagship fund after some of its investments lost value and investors withdrew their cash.\n\nIt has been a tough few years for outsourcing companies competing for government contracts.\n\nEarly last year Carillion, which cooked school meals and maintained prisons, collapsed into administration.\n\nMany firms were found to be making low bids in order to gain contracts and booking revenues when the contracts were won, not when the money was actually paid.\n\nThis meant that when firms missed targets as part of these contracts, and were paid less as a consequence, the companies reported heavy losses.\n\nOf the 1,200 jobs being lost at Kier, 650 of the posts are scheduled to be cut by the end of this month, while the remaining 550 jobs are expected to go next year.\n\nThe company added that several potential suitors had already expressed an interest in its Kier Living business.\n\nTwo weeks ago, shares in Kier tumbled more than 22% after the company issued a profit warning.\n\nAt the time it said underlying profit would be about £25m below previous expectations. It blamed higher costs and problems at units in its road, utilities and housing maintenance businesses.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA fire that broke out close to a petrol station near Ballymena in County Antrim has been confirmed as accidental, the fire service has said.\n\nSix fire trucks, an aerial appliance, a water tanker and 36 firefighters had attended the blaze at the JP Corry store on Crankill Road.\n\nThe fire started just after 18:30 BST on Sunday and was \"well developed\" by the time crews arrived.\n\nThe A26 southbound carriage, which had been closed, has now reopened.\n\nA spokesman for JP Corry said seven staff have been redeployed to other branches.\n\nHe said the firm was now working to make the site safe.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe said it had plans to reopen, but there is no indication at this stage when that will be.\n\nThe mayor of Mid and East Antrim Borough Council Maureen Morrow said she was \"deeply saddened by the scale of devastation caused by the fire\".\n\nThe fire service was assisted at the scene by Northern Ireland Water, Northern Ireland Electricity and the Environment Agency.\n\nOn Sunday night, a fire service spokesperson said they had the blaze under control but were now assessing the structural integrity of the building.", "Gloria Vanderbilt was born into wealth in New York City in 1924\n\nUS artist and fashion icon Gloria Vanderbilt has died aged 95.\n\nShe passed away at home with family members by her side, said her son Anderson Cooper, a CNN anchor, after suffering from stomach cancer.\n\nVanderbilt, known as the \"poor little rich girl\", was the great-great-granddaughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt, a 19th Century tycoon.\n\nThe socialite, who was married several times, made her name in the 1970s and '80s as a designer jeans pioneer.\n\nVanderbilt was also an actress and the author of several books\n\n\"Gloria Vanderbilt was an extraordinary woman, who loved life, and lived it on her own terms,\" Mr Cooper said in a statement.\n\n\"She was a painter, a writer, and designer but also a remarkable mother, wife, and friend.\n\n\"She was 95 years old, but ask anyone close to her, and they'd tell you, she was the youngest person they knew, the coolest, and most modern,\" the statement added.\n\nVanderbilt was not even two years old when her father died.\n\nAs the beneficiary of a multimillion-dollar trust fund, Vanderbilt became widely known as the \"poor little rich girl\" in 1934 because of a high-profile custody fight between her mother and her aunt in New York.\n\nThe aunt eventually won the legal battle, described by the media at the time as the \"trial of the century\".\n\nVanderbilt was a talented painter and actress. She was also the author of several books.", "A cat filter on a live stream of Shaukat Yousafzai on Facebook gave him ears and whiskers\n\nA Pakistani politician's live-streamed press conference descended into farce when a cat filter was switched on by mistake.\n\nShaukat Yousafzai was briefing journalists last Friday when the setting was accidentally turned on.\n\nFacebook users watching the video live commented on the gaffe, but Mr Yousafzai carried on unaware of his feline features.\n\nHe later said it was a \"mistake\" that should not be taken \"so seriously\".\n\nAs Mr Yousafzai spoke, the comical filter superimposed pink ears and whiskers on his face, and that of other officials sitting beside him.\n\n\"I wasn't the only one - two officials sitting along me were also hit by the cat filter,\" Mr Yousafzai told AFP news agency.\n\nPakistani children point at a computer screen showing a screen grab of the press conference\n\nThe video, posted to the official Facebook page of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party, was deleted minutes after the press conference.\n\nThe blunder was blamed on \"human error\" by the party, which runs the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in north-west Pakistan.\n\n\"All necessary actions have been taken to avoid such incidents in future,\" it said.\n\nUnfortunately for Mr Yousafzai, the cat was already out of the bag.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nScreen grabs of the live stream have been shared widely on social media, much to the humiliation of Mr Yousafzai and his colleagues.\n\n\"You can't beat this! Khyber Pakhtunkhwa govt's live presser on Facebook with cat filters,\" one amused user posted.\n\nAnother asked: \"Who let the cats out?\"\n\n\"I propose all parliamentary proceedings around the world to be recorded with Cat Filters. Please start with the British Parliament!,\" a third joked.", "Katie reads a letter she sent aged 11 to her mother in prison\n\nAbout 17,000 children are separated from their mothers every year by the prison system in England and Wales, which has one of the highest rates of female incarceration in western Europe. Now some MPs say the courts may be denying the human rights of these children.\n\nKatie was 11 when her mother was sent to prison, and she never even got the chance to say goodbye.\n\n\"I felt like I had been punished when my mum was sent to prison. I wasn't able to talk to her and I hadn't done anything wrong.\"\n\nHer mother, Anna, had no time to make childcare arrangements before spending four months in prison for fraud offences.\n\nIn 95% of cases where women are imprisoned, children have to move out of the family home. Research suggests the separation and upheaval has a lasting impact.\n\n\"I remember feeling very lost. I was angry at the fact that I couldn't see her a lot,\" Katie says. \"So I used to cry at school all the time. But no one knew what happened.\"\n\nEven after they were reunited, Katie says she had nightmares about losing her mother again. Anna says Katie clung anxiously to her. \"Even now, all these years on I struggle to move anywhere without her checking I'm there,\" says Anna.\n\nWith women more likely to be the sole carers of children, they face a \"double punishment\" in the court system, says Dr Shona Minson from the Centre for Criminology at the University of Oxford.\n\nMany women are afraid to reveal in court that they are mothers because they think they will be judged more severely, she says.\n\nIn many cases, grandparents care for the child during the mother's sentence, Dr Minson says. But unlike foster care placements, they usually receive no support from the state.\n\n\"What is really important is that the state recognizes a responsibility for those children, whoever's fault it is,\" she says.\n\nUnlike the family court system, the criminal courts are not expected to prioritise the welfare of children, although there are some protections under human rights law.\n\nThat is the focus of an inquiry by Parliament's Joint Committee on Human Rights, chaired by the Labour MP Harriet Harman.\n\nShe says when a mother is imprisoned, their children's education suffers, they develop a fear of the authorities and some family relationships never recover.\n\n\"When you've got the terrible damage inflicted by something the state is doing to an innocent child, you really should have to justify that,\" she says.\n\nThe committee is conducting an investigation of the right to family life for children of imprisoned mothers, examining whether planned government reforms go far enough.\n\nCurrent guidelines to take into account the impact on dependent children are inconsistently applied and inadequate, Ms Harman says.\n\nInstead, the government should legislate so \"the interests of the child are paramount\" in criminal sentencing, she says.\n\nWomen are more likely to be imprisoned for non-violent offences and more likely to receive short sentences of 6 months or less. Ministers have acknowledged that these sentences are less effective than community service.\n\nBut Lord Woolf, the former Lord Chief Justice, says judges may be forced to make sentencing decisions without all the information they need. \"The probation service is stressed. So many services are stressed,\" he says.\n\nPre-sentence reports by probation officers, which can include details of dependent children, have declined in use in the last ten years, with a recent report finding they were completed in less than a quarter of cases.\n\nJustice Secretary David Gauke says he wants to reduce the number of women being given short sentences for non-violent offences because \"lives are set back and in particular the lives of their children are set back\".\n\nBut he says the biggest challenge is in finding effective alternatives to prison, when many men and women receiving short jail sentences are \"prolific minor offenders\" for whom \"community sentences aren't working\".\n\nOne mother, Rose, experienced first hand how inconsistent the courts can be in sentencing. At her initial trial for drug offences, she was given a suspended sentence after a detailed consideration of the impact on her children.\n\n\"He reduced the sentence by around 30% for my children, because I was the sole carer and they would struggle,\" she says.\n\nBut in the court of appeal, where her sentence was overturned, she believed her motherhood counted against her. She spent 12 months in prison.\n\n\"When the prosecution was talking about the case, the first thing mentioned was that I was a mother of two. That was the killer for me - that was the most shameful moment,\" she says.\n\n\"I'm a mother and how dare I do such a thing and not think about my children?\"\n\nShe was sent to prison with this message from the judge: \"While impact on children is important, parenthood cannot be used as a trump card to avoid jail.\"\n\nNames have been changed to protect the identities of families.", "Patisserie Valerie was in such dire straits that managers had ordered puff pastry be made from margarine rather than butter as a cost-cutting measure, its new owners have revealed.\n\nCauseway Capital bought the chain after it fell into administration following the discovery of a multi million-pound hole in its accounts.\n\nThey plan to invest in the remaining 96 shops and boost online sales.\n\nCauseway also plans to revamp the menu and provide new uniforms for staff.\n\n\"We will take every single recipe apart and put it back together,\" said Matt Scaife from Causeway.\n\nWhen his firm took over, there was \"underinvestment in the business,\" he said.\n\n\"A lot of things had been pulled out, investment in training and people, and most importantly the recipes.\"\n\nBut he was heartened by the approach of the staff.\n\nWhen his team took over he found \"quite a lot of optimism\".\n\n\"There's a huge amount of passion in the business.\"\n\nThe firm has a tool to customise cakes for special occasions which he hopes will help increase sales.\n\nUnder its previous owners the business struggled to cope with competition in an industry which typically has thin profit margins.\n\nFrom 3 July, the firm will start to roll out new menus, a new logo and a new, blue uniform for staff.\n\nMr Scaife hopes high-end confectionery will appeal to customers planning for special occasions.\n\n\"If you are meeting your mum you might take her somewhere more special and you might go to Patisserie Valerie,\" he said.\n\nHis firm wants to avoid the mistakes of previous owners by investing to keep the chain exciting. That will mean continuously reinvesting so it can fulfil its potential, he suggests.\n\n\"Imagine you brought a patisserie business to Soho in 1926. It's the flapper jazz scene. Imagine how exciting that was,\" he says.\n\n\"Now imagine reinvesting 5% a year since 1926 rather than pulling money out of it.\"", "New signs featuring a picture of a hedgehog are to appear on UK roads to warn motorists of potential hazards caused by the spiny creatures and other small wildlife.\n\nThey will be placed in areas with large numbers of animals such as hedgehogs, otters, squirrels and badgers.\n\nCurrent signs focus on smaller species such as toads, or deer and livestock.\n\nThe Department for Transport says it hopes to help prevent accidents and reverse a decline in wildlife numbers.\n\nTransport Secretary Chris Grayling called on local authorities and animal welfare groups to identify accident and wildlife hotspots where the new signs should be located.\n\nRecent estimates put the hedgehog population in England, Wales and Scotland at about one million, compared with 30 million in the 1950s.\n\nThe DfT says its new sign is \"filling a gap\" between the existing signs carrying warnings about smaller animals such as migratory toads and wildfowl, and those highlighting larger animals.\n\nJill Nelson, from the People's Trust for Endangered Species (PTES), says the signs were created after the charity and the British Hedgehog Preservation Society (BHPS) discussed their concerns with Mr Grayling.\n\n\"We welcome this focus on road safety and protection for all small mammals,\" she said.\n\nResearch by PTES and the BHPS in 2018 suggested hedgehogs are disappearing more rapidly in the countryside, as hedgerows and field margins are lost to intensive farming, and the DfT says the sign is designed to reverse their decline \"in particular\".\n\nThe DfT says that between 2005 and 2017,100 people were killed, and a further 14,173 injured in accidents in Britain where an animal, excluding horses, were in the road.", "Avril Forsythe signed up to the deal as she thought it sounded like a good idea\n\nA company that Australian media has described as operating an \"alleged scam\" has close links to a business in Northern Ireland, the BBC has learned.\n\nViewble Media Pty Ltd has been accused of leaving Australian businesses almost $31m AUS (£16.9m) in debt.\n\nA BBC investigation has discovered it has close links to a company in County Down.\n\nViewble Media UK Ltd was operating across the UK from Groomsport.\n\nBBC News NI has been contacted by businesses from across Northern Ireland, Yorkshire and London that claim to have lost money through an advertising deal.\n\nAs part of the deal, a shop owner buys a screen from Viewble at a cost of £299 a month for three years, paying a total sum of almost £11,000.\n\nA second associated company, the Shoppers Network UK Ltd, then rents the screen for advertising, paying the shop owner £299 a month for three years.\n\nAs part of the deal, the shop would get its own advert shown on the screen, and get its ad shown in neighbouring businesses.\n\nIt is referred to as a cost neutral deal.\n\nThe shop owners, though, found that the payments from the second company stopped coming.\n\nAnd they did not realise that if anything went wrong, they would be stuck in the contract and would have to make repayments.\n\nThe business owners had signed finance deals, which meant they would owe the £11,000, and the repayments from the advertising were not guaranteed.\n\nAvril Forsythe, who runs the Goldmine Jewellers in Omagh, thought it sounded like a good deal at first.\n\n\"It was like there is no risk in this,\" she said.\n\n\"Now we've found out that when there is a default in the payments, that we are still liable and that we can't get out of the contract.\"\n\nAndrew Bustard, of Castlederg-based Top Gear Motors, had a screen installed in his car show room and is now also out of pocket.\n\n\"I think everyone knows when your heart sinks and you realise that you've signed up to something that is not what it's supposed to be or what you were promised,\" he said.\n\nAdam and Andrew Bustard from Top Gear Motors in Castlederg also had a screen installed\n\nBoth business owners stopped getting repayments in December, but are contractually committed to paying what they owe for the next three years.\n\nBBC News NI found that Viewble Media UK Ltd has close links to the Australian business, which, according to The Sydney Morning Herald, has been involved in this \"alleged scam\".\n\nThe Shoppers Network UK Ltd has some of the same company directors as Viewble and was supposed to make the repayments.\n\nBut it went under, meaning the payments to rent the screens stopped.\n\nAustralia's business ombudsman has launched an investigation after receiving more than 1,000 complaints about Viewble Media Pty Ltd and The Shoppers Network.\n\nIt said it is the biggest investigation it has ever dealt with.\n\nAustralian authorities say both businesses are now in liquidation and this has had a direct impact on the UK business.\n\nViewble Media Pty Ltd has been making headlines across Australia\n\nOnce problems started in Australia, businesses in the UK also stopped getting their payments.\n\nDavid Reid, whom Australian media describes as a director of the business in Australia, is also listed as a director of Viewble Media UK and The Shoppers Network in the UK.\n\nRicci Aiken from Northern Ireland is also listed as one of the directors of the UK business.\n\nThe BBC understands that Viewble Media UK is jointly owned by Mr Aiken, who has 25% of the shares, and an Australian firm, which owns the remaining 75% of shares.\n\nThe BBC has also seen an advert for a job as the general manager of Viewble Media UK.\n\nViewble Media offered businesses the opportunity to place a screen in their shop which would show adverts from other businesses\n\nThe role was based in Bangor, with a salary of £50,000.\n\nThe job advertisement indicated that the staff member would be expected to report directly to Viewble Media's chief executive in Australia.\n\nThe company also employed freelance sales agents across the UK.\n\nAccording to Companies House, both firms are still active in the UK, but clients stopped receiving payments from The Shoppers Network at the end of last year.\n\nMr Aiken told the BBC that the UK company has ceased trading, and that a new firm is taking on the clients. He said any issue with payments should be taken up with it.\n\nThe Small Business Commissioner Paul Uppal has been speaking to authorities in Australia about Viewble Media\n\nMr Aiken did not address concerns that the operation could be a scam or claims that the deals were mis-sold to businesses.\n\nDavid Reid said that a new media partner had been appointed in the UK and it has not had any complaints.\n\nHe also added that the Australian business is in liquidation, and said any questions should be directed to the liquidator.\n\nPaul Uppal, the Small Business Commissioner, said his office has been working with authorities in Australia and has also been dealing directly with businesses.\n\n\"They've told us just how draconian the contracts are and that they've ended up being signed into and how they now feel that they are trapped because of the situation,\" he said.\n\n\"So we're seeing first-hand the real stress that this can cause for a small business. It's just not the financial impact but it's also the mental impact that can cause on a family business.\"\n\nBusiness owners who believe they have been mis-sold finance deals should contact the Financial Ombudsman or the Small Business Commissioner.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "More than 70 survivors of abuse in care who are elderly or terminally ill have been awarded £10,000 compensation by the Scottish government.\n\nThe redress scheme began in April and is open to people with a terminal illness or are over the age of 70.\n\nIt has been introduced ahead of a wider compensation payment plan for abuse survivors that is due to open in 2021.\n\nThere had been concerns that some survivors would not survive until then because of their age or health.\n\nA total of 71 payments have been approved over the last seven weeks and a further 52 are being considered.\n\nThe scheme was announced by John Swinney in the Scottish Parliament in April\n\nDeputy First Minister John Swinney said the payments were to \"recognise the harm done to children who were abused while in care\".\n\nHe added: \"We continue to do everything possible to help survivors and their families though our simple application process and, where appropriate, we point them to sources of care records.\n\n\"As a result, no-one has been refused an application due to lack of documentary evidence of being in care.\"\n\nThose who suffered abuse in care before December 2004, and who are aged 70 or over or are terminally ill, are eligible for the £10,000 flat rate.\n\nApplicants do not need to provide proof they were abused, but are required to submit documentary evidence which shows that they were in care.\n\nA dedicated phone line has been set up to help abuse survivors apply.\n\nPlaces of care which are covered by the scheme include children's homes, foster care, secure care units including List D schools, young offenders' institutions and borstals, among others.", "Ahead of his return to tennis at Queen's, Andy Murray speaks to BBC Breakfast about being pain-free\n\nThe three-time Grand Slam champion had planned to retire because of hip pain, before having an operation in January.\n\nMurray says the \"life-changing\" surgery allows him to play with his children and take part in escape rooms with friends.", "ITV will no longer commission comedy shows with all-male writers' rooms, the broadcaster's head of comedy has said.\n\nSaskia Schuster said she realised last year that \"an awful lot of my comedy entertainment shows are made up of all-male writing teams\".\n\nShe said: \"Too often the writing room is not sensitively run. It can be aggressive and slightly bullying.\"\n\nShe has now changed ITV's contracts, and female writers have been hired to join shows like ITV2's Celebability.\n\nThere has been \"a significant lack of shows written by women or with women on the writing teams\", she said.\n\nLast year, when reviewing the gender balance of sitcom scripts she was sent, she realised that for every script she received from a female writer, she got five from men.\n\nAfter consulting writers, producers, agents and performers, \"the first thing I did was I changed my terms of commissioning,\" she told Channel 4's Diverse Festival in Bradford on Monday. \"I won't commission anything with an all-male writing team.\"\n\nMs Schuster has launched a scheme called Comedy 50:50 to encourage more female comedy writers. She said female writers struggle because:\n\n\"There can all too often be a sense of tokenism towards the lone female,\" she wrote on the Comedy 50:50 website. \"Or the dominant perception is that the female is there purely so the production can hit quotas.\"\n\nShe has now changed ITV's contracts so any shows that are commissioned or recommissioned \"must aim towards 50:50 gender representation\".\n\nBrona C Titley has been hired to join the Celebability writers' room\n\nComedy 50:50 has set up a database which currently has details of 460 female writers. Many producers had complained that \"there aren't any female writers [or] we don't know where to find them\", she said.\n\nMs Schuster also runs events where she says she \"forces\" her producers to have 10-minute conversations with three female writers. She has set up confidence workshops and is launching a mentoring network next month.\n\nShe has assigned young female writers to shadow shows like Roman sitcom Plebs, which is written by two men, and also hopes to extend the equality target to cover directors and crew members.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by The World at One This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by The World at One\n\nWriter Brona C Titley has been brought onto the team for ITV's panel show Celebability, which didn't have any female writers for its first two series. She told the Diverse Festival that she had been in 15 writers' rooms in recent years, and had been the only woman in eight of them.\n\n\"If you have the same type of writers in terms of race or sexual orientation or gender, then you're only getting one kind of joke, and if you've got different voices in the room, you're getting different kinds of jokes,\" she said.\n\n\"You want to represent the wide audience that's watching. You want diversity in voice, or else it won't be as funny because it won't be appealing to as many people.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Police Service of Northern Ireland is facing a £40m bill after losing a court challenge over holiday pay.\n\nClass action was brought by a group representing more than 3,700 police officers and civilian staff.\n\nThe Court of Appeal in Belfast upheld a 2018 tribunal finding that they are owed money for a shortfall in holiday pay dating back 20 years.\n\nMiscalculations arose after holiday pay was based on basic pay and did not include overtime.\n\nThe original tribunal made its decision in November 2018. At that stage, the bill was up to £30m.\n\nHowever, the figure could now be £40m after appeal court judges held that holiday pay should be calculated on the basis of actual annual working days.\n\nIt is understood payments could be in the region of £10,000 on average per individual.\n\nBBC News NI's Home Affairs Correspondent Julian O'Neill said the PSNI had previously accepted \"3,700 personnel had been short changed\" after holiday pay was miscalculated in breach of European law.\n\nHe said the appeal, brought by the PSNI Chief Constable George Hamilton and the Police Authority, (now the Policing Board) had challenged the period of time settlements should cover.\n\nOur correspondent said the dismissal of the appeal meant \"what is owed must now be recalculated from as far back as 1998\".\n\nChief Constable George Hamilton's appeal against a tribunal decision on holiday pay has been dismissed\n\nThe appeal court judge said that the \"lead cases should now continue before the tribunal to a final determination\".\n\nPSNI Assistant Chief Constable George Clarke said the PSNI was now seeking further legal advice on the matter.\n\n\"This will include considering implications of the judgement and how the costs will be met,\" he said.\n\nThe chairman of the Police Federation for Northern Ireland, Mark Lindsay, hailed the judgement as a \"major victory\".\n\n\"This more than justifies our decision to go to the Employment Tribunal as we believed there was something inherently unfair in the way officers were being denied what was rightfully their entitlement,\" he said.\n\nHe added that the federation was now seeking \"a timely and final resolution\" but warned that it could take a long time due to the number of claims involved.\n\nSolicitor John McShane, who represents the officers and civilian workers, described the result as \"significant\".\n\nHe said the claim was not for compensation but was \"a claim to actually get paid what they are properly entitled to be paid\".\n\nHe said they would now begin negotiations with the chief constable to \"bring a financial conclusion to the matter\".", "Every new teacher in England will be trained in how to spot early warning signs of mental illness, under a plan being unveiled by Theresa May later.\n\nMrs May, using some of her remaining political authority before leaving office, has called for improvements in preventing problems.\n\n\"Too many of us have seen first-hand the devastating consequences of mental illness,\" says Mrs May.\n\nLabour's Barbara Keeley said the prime minister only offered \"warm words\".\n\nThe shadow minister for mental health said the \"reality\" was support services being \"stretched to breaking point\".\n\nMrs May, having stepped away from debates about Brexit, is using her last days in office to focus on what she sees as key domestic issues.\n\n\"We should never accept a rise in mental health problems as inevitable,\" says Mrs May, calling for early intervention.\n\n\"Tackling this burning injustice has always been a personal priority for me,\" said the prime minister, saying that preventing mental illness should get the \"urgent attention it deserves\".\n\nShe wants teacher training to include lessons in identifying children who might have mental health problems and to address issues such as self-harm.\n\nAt university level, there will be £1m for a competition to come up with innovative ideas to tackle mental health problems among students.\n\nNHS staff will be encouraged to take suicide prevention training.\n\nThe prime minister also promised the publication of a White Paper setting out the government's response to Sir Simon Wessely's review of the Mental Health Act.\n\nSir Simon will be among those attending a roundtable discussion of his review on Monday, along with Health Secretary Matt Hancock and Simon Stevens, chief executive of NHS England.\n\nThe prime minister's efforts were praised by Paul Farmer, chief executive of Mind, the mental health charity.\n\nTheresa May has announced plans for tuition fees - and could still make announcements on school funding\n\n\"It's particularly positive to see such priority given to young people's mental health - our recent work in schools has shown us the true scale of the need,\" said Mr Farmer.\n\nBut Labour's shadow minister for mental health, Barbara Keeley, accused the prime minister of ignoring the \"reality\" of over-stretched budgets and delays in treatment.\n\n\"We know thousands of children and young people are either turned away from mental health services or have to wait too long for treatment,\" she said.\n\nMrs May, although having stepped down as Conservative party leader, remains as prime minister - and is said to still want to push ahead with ideas and policies that had been held back by Brexit.\n\nLast month she launched the findings of a review into university and further education college funding.\n\nShe backed the report's call for a cut in fees to £7,500 in England and an increase in support for further education colleges.\n\nThere are believed to be plans for further announcements on education, with suggestions that funding plans to address school and college budget shortages could be brought forward.\n\nImplementation will depend on her successor and the agreement of the Treasury, but Mrs May could still set out her plans for spending more on schools and colleges.\n\nA Number 10 source said suggestions over the prime minister's education spending plans were \"speculation\".", "Morsi became Egyptian president following the ousting of Hosni Mubarak two years earlier\n\nMohammed Morsi was Egypt's first democratically elected president, but lasted only one year in power before being ousted by the military on 3 July 2013.\n\nThe military's move followed days of mass anti-government protests and Morsi's rejection of an ultimatum from the generals to resolve Egypt's worst political crisis since Hosni Mubarak was deposed in 2011.\n\nFour months after he was toppled, Morsi went on trial alongside 14 senior figures from the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood movement, accused of inciting his supporters to murder a journalist and two opposition protesters, and ordering the torture and unlawful detention of others.\n\nThe charges related to clashes between opposition protesters and Muslim Brotherhood supporters outside the Ittihadiya presidential palace in Cairo in December 2012.\n\nAt the first hearing, he shouted from the dock that he was the victim of a \"military coup\" and rejected the authority of the courts to try him.\n\nHe was acquitted of murder but jailed for 20 years for ordering the torture and detention of protesters. Morsi subsequently faced a raft of other charges, and was sentenced to death, although the conviction was overturned.\n\nHe was on trial for espionage when he died in court on 17 June 2019.\n\nMohammed Morsi was born in the village of El-Adwah in the Nile Delta province of Sharqiya in 1951.\n\nHe studied Engineering at Cairo University in the 1970s before moving to the United States to complete a PhD.\n\nAfter returning to Egypt he became head of the engineering department at Zagazig University.\n\nHe rose through the ranks of the Muslim Brotherhood and served as an independent in the movement's parliamentary bloc from 2000 to 2005.\n\nAs an MP, he was occasionally praised for his oratorical performances, for example after a rail disaster in 2002 when he denounced official incompetence.\n\nMorsi was chosen as the Muslim Brotherhood's presidential candidate in April 2012 after the movement's deputy general guide, millionaire businessman Khairat al-Shater, was forced to pull out.\n\nIn his election campaign, Morsi presented himself as a bulwark against any revival of the old guard of Hosni Mubarak.\n\nWhen he came to power in June 2012 after a narrow election victory, Morsi promised to head a government \"for all Egyptians\".\n\nBut critics complained he had failed to deliver during his turbulent year in office. They accused him of allowing Islamists to monopolise the political scene, concentrating power in the hands of the Muslim Brotherhood.\n\nMoreover, they said he had mishandled the economy and failed to deal with the very issues that led to the uprising that brought him to power: calls for rights and social justice.\n\nPublic opposition to Morsi began building in November 2012 when, wishing to ensure that the Islamist-dominated constituent assembly could finish drafting a new constitution, the president issued a decree granting himself far-reaching powers.\n\nAmid increasing unrest, Morsi issued a further decree authorising the armed forces to protect national institutions and polling places until a referendum on a draft constitution was held on 15 December 2012.\n\nCritics said that decree amounted to a form of martial law and clashes between Morsi's opponents and supporters left more than 50 people dead.\n\nMass protests were held to mark the first anniversary of the day Morsi took office, and millions took to the streets across Egypt.\n\nThe military warned Morsi that it would intervene if he did not satisfy the public's demands within 48 hours.\n\nOn the evening of 3 July, the army suspended the constitution and announced the formation of a technocratic interim government ahead of new presidential elections.\n\nMorsi denounced the action as a \"coup\". His arrest was ordered by then armed forces chief - and now president - Abdul Fattah al-Sisi - and he was taken by the army to an undisclosed location, and was not heard from for weeks.\n\nMorsi received the death penalty, which was later overturned\n\nHis supporters took to the streets of Cairo, demanding his release and immediate return to power.\n\nThe army responded by breaking up two protest camps in the capital by force on 14 August and arresting key Brotherhood figures.\n\nAlmost 1,000 people were killed in a crackdown the interim authorities portrayed as a struggle against \"terrorism\".\n\nIn the years that followed Morsi's removal, Egypt witnessed an upsurge of violence by Islamist insurgents, and a brutal crackdown on the Brotherhood movement which was declared a terrorist group.\n\nMorsi disappeared from public view, apart from periodic court appearances. In the meantime, his predecessor Hosni Mubarak was freed from jail - a signal to many that Egypt had not particularly moved on since before the elections which brought Morsi, briefly, to power.\n• None What became of Egypt's Morsi?", "Police are investigating five allegations of malpractice relating to a by-election won by Labour in Peterborough earlier this month.\n\nLisa Forbes was elected as the city's MP after the former Labour incumbent Fiona Onasanya was forced out after being jailed for lying about speeding.\n\nCambridgeshire Police said it was looking into allegations including bribery and postal vote issues.\n\nPeterborough City Council said it was standard practice to report concerns.\n\nEarlier this month the council said it had received two reports of concerns relating to the 6 June by-election, and both had been referred to police.\n\nNo further action was taken regarding one, and the other could not be substantiated.\n\nHowever, police are investigating three reports relating to postal votes, one allegation of bribery and corruption and one of a breach of the privacy of the vote.\n\nPostal votes accounted for 9,898 of the 33,998 ballot papers received.\n\nFour hundred of the postal votes returned were rejected due to either the signature or date of birth - or both - not matching council records.\n\nLabour's Lisa Forbes won the by-election by 683 votes, beating Nigel Farage's Brexit Party in second place.\n\nA spokeswoman for Peterborough City Council said: \"Peterborough has a national reputation for its work to deter electoral fraud at elections which has been recognised by the Electoral Commission and other national bodies.\n\n\"We always refer all allegations of electoral malpractice to the police for investigation.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The rig was due to be towed from the Cromarty Firth on Sunday night\n\nTwo Greenpeace campaigners have appeared in court charged with disorderly conduct by scaling an oil rig in the Cromarty Firth.\n\nChristopher Till and Paula Radley pleaded not guilty at Tain Sheriff Court.\n\nThey were released on bail with special conditions including an order that they leave Scotland and not attempt to enter the waters of the Cromarty Firth.\n\nGreenpeace began an occupation of the rig on Sunday.\n\nIt is protesting against the drilling of new oil wells.\n\nMr Till and Ms Radley's bail conditions also include an order that they only re-enter Scotland for pre-arranged appointments with their legal representative and court hearings.\n\nHowever, they will be allowed in Scotland for pre-arranged holidays as long as they do not go near the Cromarty Firth.\n\nThey have been accused of conducting themselves, while acting with others, in a disorderly manner and boarding an oil platform without permission or other lawful authority on 9, 10 and 11 June.\n\nThe charge also accuses them of refusing to leave, attaching themselves to the platform by tethers, placing themselves and others in danger and preventing other persons going about their business and committing a breach of the peace.\n\nThe Transocean rig, under contract to BP, was due to leave the Cromarty Firth near Invergordon on Sunday, heading for the Vorlich oil field east of Aberdeen.\n\nBut the operation was halted after two Greenpeace campaigners boarded the structure on Sunday evening.\n\nGreenpeace said two protesters were still on the rig and that they had sufficient provisions to remain there for days.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The home secretary says he doesn't know why he was not invited to the state dinner\n\nHome Secretary Sajid Javid has said his exclusion from the state banquet held for the US President was \"odd\".\n\nSeveral other ministers, including Environment Secretary Michael Gove and Defence Secretary Penny Mordaunt, attended the event earlier this month.\n\nMr Javid criticised Donald Trump when he shared tweets from far-right group Britain First in 2017.\n\nThe PM's spokesman said places were limited and it was not appropriate to comment about who asked to attend.\n\n\"A large number of ministers who requested to attend were not able to do so,\" he said.\n\nThe spokesman added: \"The prime minister is proud to have appointed Sajid Javid as the country's first Muslim home secretary.\"\n\nForeign Secretary Jeremy Hunt and his wife Lucia attended the state banquet\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Mr Javid said: \"I don't like it. It is odd.\"\n\n\"My office did ask Number 10 [for a reason] and they said 'No'.\"\n\nAsked if he thought his exclusion was due to his Muslim background, Mr Javid said: \"I am not saying that at all. I really don't know.\"\n\nHe said he was told by Number 10 that \"normally\" invitations \"don't always\" go to home secretaries.\n\nBut former Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, who became the first woman to hold the post in 2007, said she attended state banquets in her role.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jacqui Smith This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBBC political correspondent Ross Hawkins said Amber Rudd attended a state banquet for the King of Spain in 2017 in her capacity as home secretary.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Ross Hawkins This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHowever, Mrs May, in her previous role of home secretary, did not attend the state banquet for then-US president Barack Obama in 2011.\n\nThere is a fixed list for government places at state banquets, which includes but is not limited to the prime minister, the foreign secretary and the chancellor. The position of home secretary is not on that list.\n\nIn a Twitter clash with Mr Trump in 2017, Mr Javid criticised the president for re-tweeting a tweet from the far-right organisation Britain First.\n\nHe said the president had endorsed a \"vile hate-filled organisation that hates me and people like me\".\n\nThe Secretary General of the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) wrote to Theresa May last week asking for an explanation for Mr Javid's exclusion.\n\nIn his letter, Harun Rashid Khan wrote: \"There are fears that our nation is willing to give up on our principles of fairness and equality for all, in order to placate President Trump.\"\n\nThe MCB is an umbrella organisation of various UK Muslim bodies, including mosques, schools, and charitable associations.\n\nOther politicians including Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, Commons Speaker John Bercow, Lib Dems Leader Sir Vince Cable and SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford refused an invitation to attend the banquet at Buckingham Palace.\n\nMr Corbyn, who later joined the protest against Mr Trump, argued it would be wrong to \"roll out the red carpet\" for the US president, whom he accused of using \"racist and misogynist rhetoric\".", "Ben Raemers has been described as one of the greatest British skateboarders ever. Last month he killed himself. His death has caused the soon-to-be Olympic sport to ask some difficult questions about mental health.\n\nBen Raemers was 10 when he first jumped on a skateboard, while living in his mum's flat in Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex.\n\nLike a lot of boys his age, he fell in love with the sport straightaway.\n\nHe bought his first skateboard at Argos, and within a few years, was regarded as one of the best skateboarders in the world.\n\n\"He saw these people skateboarding and he was like, 'Oh wow, that looks really fun,'\" his sister Lucy says.\n\n\"Then he came home and asked mum for a skateboard.\"\n\nIt quickly became obvious that Ben had a special talent.\n\nHe impressed friends and family with the ease with which he was able to do complicated tricks.\n\nHis interest in supporting his local skateboarding community soon got him noticed too.\n\n\"He got a petition started to get a skate park built at home. From then on, he was obsessed,\" Lucy says.\n\nLee Blackwell was friends with Ben for 18 years.\n\nHe was one of the first people to help Ben develop his skateboarding, taking him to some of the UK's biggest competitions when he was just 14.\n\n\"People really noticed Ben, you could not ignore him. He was just that good,\" says Lee.\n\nBen was 18 when he started to garner attention in America, competing and getting support from big brands, including shoe company Converse and skateboarding firm Enjoi.\n\n\"It is not common for British names to gain commercial success with huge American brands,\" says James Threlfall, a professional skateboarder.\n\n\"He is one of the most successful British skaters to ever cross over to America.\"\n\nBen was one of the few British skaters to be featured on the front cover of the most influential skateboarder magazine, Thrasher.\n\n\"One of his biggest achievements was winning the King of the Road competition,\" Lucy says.\n\n\"That was insane. He was doing tricks barefoot. No-one else was doing that.\"\n\nOr catch up with The Next Episode podcast online.\n\nLast week, skateboarders from around the world came together for his funeral.\n\nLeo Sharp, a skateboarder and photographer, said the loss of Ben has hit the skateboarding community hard.\n\n\"He was like a brother to so many skateboarders worldwide,\" he says. \"He will be sorely missed.\"\n\nHis death has also left some questions to be answered.\n\nBefore his death, Lucy says Ben had been struggling with mental health problems.\n\n\"He would ring me and say, 'I'm suicidal'. He was drinking loads. He was up and down the whole time. He tried to get help but he didn't want it and he just plummeted.\"\n\nLucy says there is a problem specific to the sport.\n\n\"Skateboarding involves a rock and roll lifestyle. You're skating and you're boozing. It's all fun.\n\n\"But with skateboarding you have a lot of spare time on your hands so it's easy to fall into a hole of addiction.\"\n\nBen enjoyed success in the US, appearing on the cover of skateboarding magazines\n\nHis death comes as skateboarding prepares to enter the Olympics for the first time.\n\nIt is one of five new sports that will be added to the Tokyo 2020 Games.\n\nSkateboard England, the sport's governing body, looks after both grassroots and elite skateboarders.\n\nIt has received investment from the Aspiration Fund - an initiative by the Department of Culture, Media and Sport to support skateboarders' ambitions to succeed in the 2020 Games in Tokyo.\n\nHowever, James Hope-Gill, chief executive of Skateboard England, says the body does not currently provide any mental health support for skateboarders.\n\nHe says this needs to change.\n\n\"This is certainly something we need to address and need to look at.\"\n\nLast week, BBC podcast The Next Episode featured Ben's death.\n\nSince then James says he has had a number of individuals approach him with offers of support.\n\nHe is looking to develop a mental health support system for skateboarders and is shortly sending one of his team on a \"Promoting Positive Mental Health in Sport\" workshop with Sport England.\n\nSkateboard England needs to \"explore and learn more about the mental health agenda\", he says.\n\nIf you are struggling with suicidal thoughts, contact the Samaritans on the free helpline 116 123, or click on this link to access support services.", "Hospital beds lie unwrapped while problems with vital systems such as the ventilation are rectified\n\nThe new critical care building at Belfast's Royal Victoria Hospital will open eight years late, the BBC understands.\n\nThe intensive care unit (ICU) will not become fully operational until at least autumn 2020.\n\nA consultant has described the development as \"extremely disappointing\".\n\nDr Brian McCluskey, who was involved in the original design, said patient safety must come first.\n\n\"We are all disappointed, not so much for ourselves but for our patients, because... whilst our patients are being very well cared for in the existing ICU... it would be nice if they were getting that additional privacy and dignity,\" he said\n\n\"But we know that the ICU will be open and it will be open for a very long time.\"\n\nThe 12-storey building in the grounds of the Royal Victoria Hospital has been dogged by problems.\n\nDue to open in 2012, the state-of-the art £150m building houses the Emergency Department, which opened its doors in 2015 due to winter pressures.\n\nDr Brian McCluskey said patients would be afforded greater dignity and privacy in the new building\n\nBBC News NI understands that millions of additional pounds have had to be spent correcting flaws including ripping out equipment that has become out-of-date due to the ongoing delay.\n\nAmong the questions being asked is how much, if any, the delay is costing the public purse.\n\nA spokesperson for the Department for Health said the Belfast Trust continues to update it on the delays.\n\nA spokesperson said the Belfast Trust was concerned about the continuing delay\n\n\"Whilst remedial and additional works to the facility have been necessary, costs to date remain within the approved investment for the project,\" the spokesperson added.\n\n\"As with all capital projects, the trust will be required to conduct a post-project evaluation which, in this case, will include a review of the events that took place and any lessons learned.\"\n\nDespite both the size and demand for this hospital and its services, many people seem to have forgotten about it.\n\nNumerous politicians had to be reminded about it when contacted by the BBC - and it is fair to say that both MLAs and medical unions had totally forgotten that the hospital even existed when contacted by the BBC for comment.\n\nWhile the additional costs could reach up to £10m, the BBC understands that an agreed out-of-court settlement with contractors may help provide some additional funding.\n\nThe current delay is over ventilation work being carried out on theatres in the ICU at an additional cost of over £3m.\n\nThe Royal College of Nursing's Garrett Martin expressed disappointment at the delays\n\nThe deputy director of the Royal College of Nursing, Garrett Martin, said the ongoing delay was \"incomprehensible and totally unacceptable\".\n\nMr Martin said the intensive care unit was designed to treat the sickest of patients and the fact it would not be operational for over another year was difficult to understand.\n\nThe original contractors for the building were McLaughlin and Harvey.\n\nIn 2017, when the BBC contacted them with a series of questions, they said they had no comment.\n\nAt the time, it was also reported that an internal report by the new contractors, Killowen Contracts Ltd and Michael Nugent Ltd, highlighted that new problems were being discovered on a \"regular basis\".\n\nThe BBC has contacted McLaughlin and Harvey for comment.", "The Commonwealth Secretariat, run by Lady Scotland, is the organisation's main intergovernmental agency, facilitating cooperation among member governments\n\nThe Commonwealth Secretariat, the body that manages the international organisation in London, is in \"urgent need\" of reform, according to a leaked internal report obtained by the BBC.\n\nIt says there are \"deep concerns\" about the governance structures of the secretariat which \"lacks clarity\" in its priorities and needs to be \"more transparent and accountable\". It adds there is a \"serious and urgent need\" to stabilise the body's funding.\n\nThe secretariat is the central administrative hub for the Commonwealth which is made up of 53 countries - most of them former British colonies - which encompass almost a third of the world's population.\n\nIt is currently led by the Commonwealth secretary-general, the former Labour minister Baroness Scotland.\n\nA separate survey of employees at the secretariat - also seen by the BBC - suggested there were \"strong indicators of low morale\" with \"high levels of dissatisfaction with opportunities for career progression\".\n\nThe BBC has also learned that a bitter dispute has broken out between the secretariat and other Commonwealth bodies over office space in London which could leave the organisation responsible for the Commonwealth Games having to find a new headquarters.\n\nIn the wake of the concerns, the Commonwealth's 52 high commissioners in London plus one senior British diplomat have drawn up new rules to try to improve the accountability of the secretariat.\n\nThese rules also make clear that Lady Scotland could be challenged if she tries to stay on in post after her first term of office runs out next year. The new rules state explicitly: \"Re-appointment of a secretary-general for a second term is not automatic.\"\n\nIt is rare for Commonwealth secretaries-general to be challenged after their first term. Only six people have held the post since it was created in 1965 and most were reappointed unopposed. The only significant exception was Don McKinnon who was unsuccessfully challenged in 2003 by a Sri Lankan candidate representing southern African nations angered over the suspension of Zimbabwe from the Commonwealth.\n\nThe high commissioners - who make up the Commonwealth's Board of Governors - have also ordered an internal audit of procurement spending decisions by the secretariat since 2016 when Lady Scotland took up her post amid concerns that procedures may not have been followed correctly.\n\nSome diplomats have also argued for an independent inquiry into the financial and reputational implications of two recent employment tribunals - one involving Lady Scotland's deputy - that the secretariat lost and could result in legal bills of more than £1m.\n\nA spokesman for the secretariat said Lady Scotland was making the organisation more \"dynamic and integrated\" and the new rules had not yet been agreed by Commonwealth heads of government.\n\nWhen those heads of government elected Lady Scotland in 2015, they instructed her to review the way the secretariat was being run. Three years later, she established a so-called 'high level group' of mostly former Commonwealth foreign ministers whose report last autumn was never published.\n\nIt concluded there was \"an urgent need\" for the governance structure of the secretariat to be reformed.\n\nIt said: \"There is also an immediate need for redressing the lack of clarity in policy and priorities; for the secretariat to be more transparent and accountable to stakeholders.\"\n\nThere were \"deep concerns about the adequacy of the current governance structures\" and \"there is a serious and urgent need to place the funding of the secretariat on a more stable and predictable footing\".\n\nIn recent years, some member states have been less willing to give the organisation money. Its core budget has now sunk to just £32m, down from £52m in 2012/13.\n\nSuch are the financial pressures that the secretariat has decided to break the lease on a building it rents in Pall Mall called \"Commonwealth House\" that was opened by the Queen only in 2016.\n\nStaff working for the secretariat in the building are being moved across the road to its Marlborough House headquarters but other affiliated organisations have been told - much to their anger - they will have to look for premises elsewhere.\n\nThey include the Commonwealth Games Federation, the Royal Commonwealth Society, the Commonwealth Local Government Forum and the Commonwealth Enterprise and Investment Council.\n\nCommonwealth diplomats are so concerned they have ordered the secretariat to provide them with floor maps of Marlborough House so they can establish whether or not there is enough space for the accredited bodies. One source said: \"She is splitting the Commonwealth.\"\n\nLady Scotland's supporters insist she is making progress reforming a dysfunctional secretariat and has ruffled feathers by making job cuts. Since 2016, the secretariat has cut staff from 295 to 223.\n\nShe told The Economist in April she had been \"vilified\" for shaking things up.\n\nThis was illustrated by the Commonwealth Secretariat Staff Association which conducted a survey of its members last November and found there were \"strong indicators of low morale\".\n\nIt suggested that a large proportion of employees had looked for work elsewhere and \"66% of respondents would not recommend a friend to work at the secretariat\".\n\nDiplomats say Lady Scotland, who was attorney general under Gordon Brown, has already begun campaigning unofficially to secure a second four-year term in 2020 and has argued privately there was a reasonable expectation she should be reappointed unopposed.\n\nBut the 53 high commissioners in London agreed new rules in March confirming the unwritten convention that secretaries-general can be challenged when their first term of office ends.\n\nThey also tighten up the accountability and oversight of the secretariat, including regular assessments of the secretary general's performance.\n\nThe new rules have yet to be signed off by Commonwealth foreign ministers and eight have already rallied to Lady Scotland's cause, formally questioning the new provisions and whether they should apply to the current secretary-general.\n\nThe countries that objected to the new rules are thought to include the Seychelles, Nigeria, St Lucia, Barbados, Dominica, St Kitts and Nevis and Belize.\n\nForeign Secretary Jeremy Hunt has now written to those eight countries to try to address their concerns. The issue is expected to come to a head at a meeting of Commonwealth foreign ministers in London on July 10.\n\nForeign Secretary Jeremy Hunt is among those hoping to replace Theresa May as British prime minister\n\nBritain is currently the so-called \"chair in office\" for the Commonwealth, having hosted the last heads of government meeting in London in 2018. Mr Hunt will at some stage have to decide whether or not the UK is going to support Lady Scotland's second term. It is understood no final decision has been made.\n\nDespite concerns about the leadership of the secretariat in some Commonwealth capitals, no strong alternative candidate has yet emerged. But some sources suggest informal discussions have begun to draw up a list of potential names.\n\nA Foreign Office spokesman said: \"We are working with the secretary-general and fellow Commonwealth members to enhance the effectiveness of the secretariat. This is essential to fulfil the commission of heads of government at their meeting in Malta in 2015, and reiterated at their meeting in London last year.\"\n\nA spokesman for the Commonwealth Secretariat said: \"The High-Level Group reports to Commonwealth heads of government and the latter have not yet considered this report, so it is not appropriate for the secretary-general or secretariat to make comments about its content or its conclusions.\n\n\"Since her assumption of duty, the secretary-general has made changes to the Commonwealth's organisational structure to make it more dynamic and integrated. She is confident that the great majority of staff are hard-working and committed to the Commonwealth. They are producing exemplary results.\"\n\nThe spokesman added: \"The secretary-general is focused on delivering the mandate given to her by the 53 Commonwealth heads of government. During her tenure, the secretariat has received numerous commendations from member governments for its work.\n\n\"For example, here is a recent quote from the President of Seychelles, Danny Faure: 'I believe that the Commonwealth Secretariat is a believer of the Small Island Developing States and if today within the international forum, there is recognition of one's small states, it is because the Commonwealth Secretariat has played an important role.\n\n\"It is the responsibility of the 53 heads of government to appoint (and re-appoint) the Secretary-General. To date, no new rules for appointment of the Secretary-General have been agreed by the 53 heads of government.\"\n\nThe spokesman said it would not be appropriate for the secretariat to comment on the proceedings of confidential Board of Governors' meetings: \"But please note that the secretariat operates a multi-layered system of checks, balances and audits that work independently from the secretary-general, including an audit committee that reports directly to the Board of Governors.\n\n\"The secretariat is working to mitigate a declining budget from member countries by entering into partnerships with international organisations and foundations.\n\n\"During recent years under the secretary-general's stewardship there has been a significant increase in extra budgetary funding, from £700,000 in 2012 to £3.5m in 2017.\n\n\"As part of the Commonwealth's effort to operate more efficiently, its Board of Governors approved a plan to move all Secretariat staff in Commonwealth House to Marlborough House by the end of 2019.\n\n\"Prior to the establishment of Commonwealth House, the Royal Commonwealth Society and the Commonwealth Games Federation had their own headquarter buildings.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Cheryl Gillan announces the result with seven of the 10 candidates making it to round two\n\nBoris Johnson has secured the highest number of votes in the first MPs' ballot to select the Conservative Party leader and next prime minister.\n\nThree contenders - Mark Harper, Andrea Leadsom and Esther McVey - were knocked out in the secret ballot of Tory MPs.\n\nMr Johnson received 114 votes, significantly more than his nearest rival Jeremy Hunt, who came second with 43. Michael Gove was third with 37.\n\nSeven candidates progress to the next round of voting next week.\n\nThe two who prove most popular after the last MPs' ballot will go to Conservative Party members in a final vote later this month.\n\nThe winner of the contest to succeed Theresa May is expected to be announced in the week of 22 July.\n\nSources close to Health Secretary Matt Hancock told the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg he was \"mulling over\" whether to withdraw from the contest after coming sixth with 20 votes.\n\nHome Secretary Sajid Javid, who came fifth with 23 votes, is understood to be staying in the race for now. Some have suggested his candidacy - with support from Mr Hancock - could take on Mr Hunt to become second in the ballot.\n\nMr Johnson, a former foreign secretary who served for eight years as London mayor, said he was \"delighted\" to win but warned that his campaign still had \"a long way to go\".\n\nForeign Secretary Mr Hunt said: \"Boris did well today but what the result shows is, when it comes to the members' stage, I'm the man to take him on.\"\n\nEnvironment Secretary Mr Gove said it was \"all to play for\" and he was \"very much looking forward\" to candidates' TV debates on Channel 4 on Sunday and on BBC One next Tuesday.\n\nAll 313 Conservative MPs voted in the first ballot, including Mrs May, who refused to say whom she had backed.\n\nThe fourth-placed candidate, former Brexit secretary Dominic Raab, said he was \"proud and honoured\" and he had a \"good base to build on\".\n\nMr Javid said: \"I look forward to continuing to share my positive vision and my plan for uniting the country.\"\n\nMr Hancock thanked his supporters, saying it was \"terrific to have more votes from colleagues than I could have hoped for\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rory Stewart said: \"I don't look anything like the previous PM\", and he negotiates \"in a completely different way\"\n\nAnd International Development Secretary Rory Stewart, the seventh-placed candidate, told the BBC's Politics Live he was \"completely over the Moon\" to have got through the first vote.\n\nHe said he had had only six declared votes ahead of the poll, but \"more than three times that\" had voted for him in the secret ballot.\n\nThe margin of success took his fellow candidates by surprise - but not the core of Boris Johnson's team.\n\nAfter many, many weeks of private campaigning, introducing Boris Johnson to the world of the spreadsheet, this morning one of his organisers wrote the number 114 and sealed it in an envelope.\n\nAt lunchtime, the announcement revealed the controversial former foreign secretary had indeed received exactly that number.\n\nThat is not just a marker of the level of Mr Johnson's support but for the sometimes clownish politician, whose reputation has risen and fallen and then risen again, it's a sign that it is different this time.\n\nJustice Secretary David Gauke said Mr Stewart was now the main challenger to Mr Johnson, saying: \"He's really in with a chance and the momentum is with Rory.\"\n\nBut Defence Secretary Penny Mordaunt, who is supporting Mr Hunt's campaign, said the foreign secretary was \"attractive to many sides of the party because he's a serious individual\".\n\nAnd schools minister Nick Gibb told BBC Radio 4's World at One that Mr Gove was now \"best placed as a Brexiteer to challenge the front runner\" Mr Johnson in the final.\n\nFurther ballots are scheduled to take place on 18, 19 and 20 June to whittle down the contenders until only two are left.\n\nThe final pair will then be put to a vote of members of the wider Conservative Party from 22 June, with the winner expected to be announced about four weeks later.\n\nAfter being knocked out of the contest, Mr Harper, a former government chief whip, said he continued \"to believe we need a credible plan that delivers Brexit\" in order to \"restore trust\".\n\nMrs Leadsom's campaign team said they were \"disappointed\" but \"wish all the other candidates well\".\n\nAnd Ms McVey, who gained nine votes, coming last in the first round of MPs' ballots, said she was \"extremely grateful\" to those who had supported her.\n\nTelevised candidates' debates are scheduled to take place, but not all the remaining seven have confirmed they are taking part.\n\nWork and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd, who is backing Mr Hunt, urged them to appear, saying the Conservative Party \"needs to remember that we're not just choosing a leader, we're choosing a prime minister and the public need to see them\".\n\nAnd former Brexit secretary David Davis, who is backing Mr Raab, said it was \"very important\" for the public to hear from the contenders.\n\nMr Johnson has previously been criticised by some of his rivals for not taking part in media interviews during the campaign.\n\nThe leadership race has so far been dominated by Brexit and arguments over whether a deal can be renegotiated with the EU by 31 October, and whether talking up a no-deal Brexit is a plausible promise.\n\nOn Tuesday 18 June BBC One will host a live election debate between the Conservative MPs still in the race.\n\nIf you would like to ask the candidates a question live on air, use the form below. It should be open to all of them, not a specific politician.\n\nIf you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic.", "Ruth Davidson said the SNP could negotiate for a new referendum agreement if they won an outright majority at Holyrood\n\nThe UK government should only agree to a new Scottish independence referendum if the SNP wins a majority in the next election, Ruth Davidson has claimed.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon insists she has a mandate for a new vote on independence, and says it would be wrong for UK ministers to block one.\n\nBut the Scottish Conservative leader said only an \"outright majority\" for the SNP at Holyrood would be a mandate.\n\nAll 10 Tory leadership candidates have voiced opposition to a new referendum.\n\nMs Sturgeon has called this position \"unsustainable\", and wants a new vote to be held in the second half of 2020.\n\nThe SNP leader wants a deal with the UK government, similar to that agreed for the 2014 referendum, before she calls a fresh vote.\n\nMs Davidson agreed that this approach was the \"gold standard\", but argued that Ms Sturgeon does not currently have a mandate to negotiate such an agreement.\n\nThe SNP's manifesto for the 2016 Holyrood election stipulated that a new referendum could be held if there was either \"clear and sustained evidence\" that a majority of Scots wanted independence, or a \"significant and material change in circumstances\", like Scotland being taken out of the EU against its will.\n\nIn light of this, Ms Sturgeon stepped up planning for a vote after the EU referendum, which saw 62% of Scottish voters back Remain while the UK as a whole voted to Leave.\n\nHowever, Ms Davidson argued that the SNP had lost its majority in the 2016 election, and also had lost votes and seats in the 2017 general election.\n\nThe SNP's 2016 manifesto called for a new referendum in the event of a \"significant and material\" change in circumstances\n\nShe told BBC Scotland: \"The last time the SNP went to form the Scottish government, they had their majority taken away from them. They then asked for a second referendum, and lost half a million votes at a snap general election and lost 21 seats across the country.\n\n\"They're currently polling about 37%, that's what they got at the European election. Don't get me wrong, that's a good result for any party, but it's not a majority. And Nicola Sturgeon herself has said she only has the right to hold another referendum if a majority of Scots want it.\"\n\nPressed on what would give Ms Sturgeon a mandate for a new vote - dubbed indyref2 - Ms Davidson said that only \"another majority in a Holyrood election\" would be enough.\n\nShe said: \"If she puts it in a manifesto that she's going to hold another referendum and she wins a majority outright, then she can negotiate with the UK government in the same way as happened last time.\n\n\"But she doesn't get to just, in the middle of a parliament where she's lost her majority, get to stick her hand up and say I'm going to re-run this referendum again and again until I get the result I want.\"\n\nThe UK and Scottish governments - led by David Cameron and Alex Salmond - signed an agreement for the 2014 referendum\n\nMs Sturgeon has put forward framework legislation which could pave the way to indyref2 at Holyrood, but has held off from formally requesting a transfer of powers from Westminster to hold it.\n\nShe has indicated that she is waiting for the Conservative leadership contest to run its course, as well as more clarity about the outcome of Brexit.\n\nSpeaking during a visit to Brussels on Tuesday, Ms Sturgeon said: \"We don't even know who the prime minister is going to be. There is no UK government worthy of the name right now.\n\n\"So I've made the decision that in the Scottish government and the Scottish parliament we will do the bits of the process that we are able to do, get on with that, and we'll come to the issue of the transfer of power at an appropriate point.\n\n\"But the question really should be put to the UK government. It's one thing to oppose independence, it's a completely different thing to stand in the way of Scotland having the right to choose. That is not, in my view, a position that is sustainable.\"\n\nAsked if she would have to win another election in order to break the current impasse , Ms Sturgeon told BBC Scotland: \"I don't accept that\".\n\nShe added: \"I have a mandate won at the 2016 election to offer the people of Scotland a choice in the very circumstances we're in now.\n\n\"I don't think anyone should accept that a UK government has the right to ignore and undermine and negate a democratic mandate of the Scottish government. I think any democrat should challenge that position.\"\n• None Leadsom would 'never say never' to indyref2\n• None Will indyref2 happen before May 2021?", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nThe 2019-20 Premier League season will start with Champions League winners Liverpool hosting promoted Norwich City on Friday, 9 August.\n\nChampions Manchester City will open the defence of their title the following day with a trip to West Ham.\n\nAston Villa and Sheffield United, the other promoted teams, play Tottenham and Bournemouth respectively.\n\nFor the first time in Premier League history, the clubs will get a short mid-season break in February.\n\nThe break will be staggered over a two-week period. There will be only five matches on one weekend, with the other five games from that round taking place the following weekend, ensuring that each team gets one week off.\n\nThe opening weekend will also see Manchester United hosting Chelsea on Sunday, 11 August.\n\nThe season's curtain raiser will take place with the Community Shield between Liverpool and Manchester City at Wembley on Sunday, 4 August.\n\nLiverpool and Europa League winners Chelsea will also meet in the Uefa Super Cup in Istanbul, Turkey, on Wednesday, 14 August.\n\nFollowing that match, Liverpool play their second Premier League match, away to Southampton, while Chelsea host Leicester City.\n\nWolves could have played three Europa League qualifying matches before the beginning of the Premier League season.\n\nThe mid-season break in more detail\n\nThere will be a total of 380 Premier League games during the 2019-20 season.\n\nThe split of matches in February will see five matches take place over the weekend of 8 February, with the other five played on the weekend of 15 February.\n\nAll five matches on each weekend will be broadcast live in the United Kingdom.\n\nAt present, all the games are scheduled for 8 February but these will be broken up when the broadcast picks for that period are announced in mid-December.\n\nThe Premier League contingent taking part in the Champions League are Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City and Tottenham and they will go straight into the group stage, which starts on 17 and 18 September.\n\nHolders Liverpool face top-flight away matches immediately before five of their six Champions League group fixtures, one of which is at Manchester United, while there are four away trips for Chelsea, one of which is at Manchester City.\n\nCity will be away three times before playing in Europe, while Tottenham will be on the road for two.\n\nArsenal and Manchester United go straight into the Europa League group stages, which start on Thursday, 19 September.\n\nThe Gunners have away games before four of their six group matches, including ones against Manchester United and West Ham.\n\nManchester United have three, including a trip to City, while, if they qualify for the group phase, Wolves will also have three.\n\nThe first Merseyside derby, which will see Liverpool host Everton during a round of midweek fixtures in early December, will be shown on Amazon TV, a new entrant to the list of broadcasters of top-flight games.\n\nIt will also show the Boxing Day list of fixtures and broadcast live in the UK every game over the two rounds to which they have rights.\n\nVideo assistant referees (VAR) will debut in the Premier League in the 2019-20 season.\n\nThe system was used at the 2018 World Cup, and last season appeared in the Champions League knockout stages and in selected FA Cup and Carabao Cup ties.\n• None VAR replays to be shown on screens at Premier League matches", "The report criticised the scheme which was then the main sex offender treatment programme for England and Wales\n\nThe Ministry of Justice (MoJ) knew a sex offender treatment programme increased the likelihood of reoffending, five years before it was scrapped, a tribunal has heard.\n\nResearch was given to officials in 2012 but the scheme was only ended in 2017.\n\nThe details were revealed in an employment tribunal case brought by analyst Kathryn Hopkins, who claims the MoJ \"bullied\" her following her study.\n\nThe MoJ denies the claims and says the initial research had to be reviewed.\n\nThe case centres on the Sex Offender Treatment Programme (SOTP), a flagship rehabilitation scheme which had been used in various formats in England and Wales since 1991.\n\nThe programme involved group sessions with prisoners and those serving community sentences, as well as cognitive behavioural therapy to increase the offenders' motivation to steer clear of crime.\n\nThe MoJ commissioned Ms Hopkins, a senior researcher in its analytics unit, to study the effects of the programme, which had been used since 2000.\n\nHer results, presented to officials in February 2012, suggested men who took part in the scheme were more likely to reoffend than those who didn't.\n\nIn legal documents submitted to the Central London Employment Tribunal, Ms Hopkins says she was \"met with anger and disbelief and told that she must have made a mistake\".\n\nOver the following months, her research was reviewed, reworked and checked.\n\nLawyers for the Justice Secretary David Gauke said there was a \"breakdown in relations\" between Ms Hopkins and her managers\n\nMs Hopkins, who is representing herself at the tribunal, claims officials \"planned to minimise or reverse\" the results and repeatedly refused requests to publish them under the Freedom of Information Act, because there were \"vested interests\" in the scheme's success.\n\n\"The negative research results had alarming legal ramifications for the MoJ,\" her legal papers say.\n\n\"If the SOTP was harmful, there was scope for victims of sexual abuse, whose perpetrators had taken the course, to sue for damages,\" adding that sex offenders could also have taken legal action.\n\nMs Hopkins raised concerns internally about the department's refusal to publish the results and eventually left the MoJ in September 2016.\n\nShe says the department's behaviour towards her resulted in the \"destruction of her reputation\" and caused her \"severe and lasting psychological distress\".\n\nShe is seeking compensation, damages for loss of income and costs.\n\nIn June 2017, the MoJ eventually published findings showing that 2,500 men who had taken part in the SOTP were slightly more likely to commit further offences than those who had not and revealed that the programme had been stopped three months earlier.\n\nIn its written submissions, lawyers for Justice Secretary David Gauke said there were \"serious concerns\" about Ms Hopkins' initial study and further work was needed to ensure the methods used were \"robust\".\n\n\"During this period, [Ms Hopkins], in the view of her colleagues, lost perspective on her role and on her research,\" the document says.\n\nIt adds that it led to a \"breakdown in relations\" between Ms Hopkins and her managers.\n\nThe department denies that she was unfairly treated and is contesting her claims.\n\nThe tribunal hearing is expected to continue next week.", "The margin of success took his fellow candidates by surprise - but not the core of Boris Johnson's team.\n\nAfter many, many weeks of private campaigning, introducing Boris Johnson to the world of the spreadsheet, this morning one of his organisers wrote the number 114 and sealed it in an envelope.\n\nAt lunchtime, the announcement revealed the controversial former foreign secretary had indeed received exactly that number.\n\nThat is not just a marker of the level of Mr Johnson's support, but for the sometimes clownish politician, whose reputation has risen and fallen and then risen again, it's a sign that it is different this time.\n\nHis campaign has extended way beyond his old friends. The discipline his lieutenants are trying to instil is holding at this stage.\n\nBut his success today leaves him vulnerable.\n\nFrontrunner status is a precious commodity. It makes him the target for all of the others left in the race, for all of them to pitch themselves to those many MPs who feel strongly that he is wrong for the job.\n\nSo members of his campaign team tell me their motto is simple - do not die. His place in the final two of the race to become our prime minister is secure, unless he errs explosively. With Boris Johnson, that is not a secure bet. And once in that final duet, weeks of scrutiny and challenge await.\n\nThere is a choice for those who want to stop him now. Discussions are live tonight between the other camps in the race over what to do next.\n\nShould there be an effort to come together behind one candidate who could beat Mr Johnson?\n\nForeign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said tonight - arriving back at the Pall Mall mansion that used to be Mr Johnson's formal residence, of course - that he is the person to take him on. Although he had fewer votes than expected today, he's clearly not going to pull out.\n\nSajid Javid and Matt Hancock though, the home and health secretaries, met this afternoon after the results.\n\nSources close to Mr Hancock say he's \"mulling over\" what to do next. There's no final decision, but don't be hugely surprised if by Friday lunchtime he has withdrawn from the contest.\n\nOne of the only things we can be sure of: The next prime minister will be a man\n\nRory Stewart though is not going anywhere. He is instead ramping up his rhetoric against his fellow Old Etonian (yes, he and Boris Johnson did not just go to the same school, but also to the same Oxford college), and talking boldly about how only he can be the person to take him on.\n\nGiven his place on the political spectrum frankly that seems extremely unlikely, however many views his videos get on Twitter.\n\nAnd while his team are extremely gung-ho, and he has built up some impressive momentum, some MPs from the so-called One Nation, (centre-ish) part of the Tory party are pretty cross, telling me that either Javid or Hancock had a decent crack if he would get out of the way.\n\nThere is plenty more of this political intrigue to come in the next week or so, whether it bores you to tears or is the insider manoeuvring that excites you. It's fluid, and there is, as I tediously probably always say, a long way to go.\n\nThere are two things we can be absolutely sure of, tonight Boris Johnson is looking hard to beat. And with Esther McVey and Andrea Leadsom both out of the race, the next prime minister will be a man.", "The BBC said it regretted \"any offence we have caused\"\n\nThe BBC has removed a Jo Brand joke about throwing acid from its catch-up service after it was suggested that it condoned violence.\n\nThe comedian made the joke during a broadcast of Radio 4 satirical show Heresy on Tuesday night.\n\nShe was accused by Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage, who has had milkshakes thrown at him by protesters, of \"inciting violence\".\n\nIn a statement, the BBC said it regretted \"any offence we have caused\".\n\nIn the episode, Brand told presenter Victoria Coren Mitchell that people who attacked Mr Farage and far-right political figures with milkshakes were \"pathetic\".\n\nAppearing later at Henley Literary Festival, Brand said: \"Looking back on it I think it was a somewhat crass and an ill-judged joke,\" according to the Henley Herald.\n\nShe added: \"Nigel Farage tweeted the first bit that I said without the second bit when I apologised and said it was a joke and not something I would encourage.\n\n\"The current situation is I'm being chased around England and being asked if I feel I should apologise. I felt I apologised for it as I did it on the night. I'm a human being and people make mistakes. I apologise to all the people who I have offended.\"\n\nThe Sun added that she said: \"I don't think it's a mistake. If you think it is I'm happy to accept that.\n\n\"Female politicians and public figures are threatened day in, day out, with far worse things than battery acid... rape, murder and what have you.\n\n\"At least I'm here and trying to explain what I did. I don't think I have anyone to answer to. Nigel Farage wasn't even mentioned by me on the night so why he has taken it upon himself I don't know.\"\n\nMr Farage has been targeted by protesters\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May's spokesman had said the BBC should explain why the joke was \"appropriate content\" for broadcast.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police has also confirmed it has \"received an allegation of incitement to violence that was reported to the MPS on 13 June\".\n\nA BBC statement released on Wednesday said panellists on Heresy - a long-running comedy programme - often said things which were \"deliberately provocative and go against societal norms but are not intended to be taken seriously.\"\n\nBut on Thursday, the broadcaster said: \"We carefully considered the programme before broadcast. It was never intended to encourage or condone violence, and it does not do so, but we have noted the strong reaction to it. Comedy will always push boundaries and will continue to do so, but on this occasion we have decided to edit the programme. We regret any offence we have caused.\"\n\nThe prime minister's spokesman said Mrs May has been clear that politicians should be able to go about their work and campaign without harassment, intimidation or abuse.\n\nSpeaking about the comments on his LBC show on Thursday, Mr Farage said: \"This sort of behaviour is completely and utterly disgusting.\n\n\"Could you imagine if I was to tell a story like that about somebody on the other side,\" he added.\n\n\"The police would be knocking on my door within 10 minutes.\"\n\nThe Sun newspaper said Brand had refused to apologise for the comment after confronting her at her London home earlier.\n\nShe is reported to have added: \"I think if they [critics] want an answer there have been plenty of explanations by the BBC and Victoria Coren.\"\n\nWhen asked if she would continue working with the BBC, she is reported to have replied: \"I'm not employed by the BBC, so how can they sack me?\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Stacey Dooley has written a new response to the Comic Relief \"white saviours\" row, saying her intentions were never \"sinister\".\n\nShe's been criticised for making a film in Uganda, and posting a picture on Instagram of her with a black child.\n\nComic Relief announced yesterday that TV appeals \"will be heading in the direction of not using\" celebrities.\n\nStacey says she understands the conversation, but the people she filmed with were happy with her behaviour.\n\nIn February Stacey posted a picture of her with a black child and the caption \"OB.SESSSSSSSSSSED\".\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by sjdooley This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMP David Lammy criticised Stacey for her film and social media posts at the time, saying \"the world does not need any more white saviours\".\n\nShe tweeted him in response, saying: \"David, is the issue with me being white? (Genuine question)... because if that's the case, you could always go over there and try raise awareness?\"\n\nComic Relief co-founder, the writer and director Richard Curtis, announced yesterday that the charity would use fewer celebrities in their films and be \"very careful to give voices to people\" who live in the areas being highlighted.\n\nStacey posted a new picture this morning, of her with a black woman.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post 2 by sjdooley This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOne of the comments on that picture said: \"At least this black person is old enough to consent to being in a photo with you.\"\n\nIn response to that, Stacey wrote: \"I understand the wider conversation that people want to have, and I understand that some are saying they feel it's a tired narrative... I get that.\n\n\"What is not OK is people making out like we were somehow sinister in our approach.\"\n\nShe then appeared to refer to her original picture with the boy: \"It's completely untrue to suggest we didn't ask for consent. We spent the day with his grandad. He has a working relationship with Comic Relief.\n\n\"I'm willing to listen and learn, however I'm not willing to feel I have to justify myself to those who have already made up their mind, based on info they've been fed, by people who weren't there,\" she continued.\n\n\"Ultimately, the main priority is that the people on the ground felt happy with my behaviour.\n\n\"I'm still in contact with the families and the health workers and the fixers.\n\n\"I've taken on board what people are saying. Clearly Comic Relief have too.\n\n\"Essentially, what I'm saying is, of course everyone is entitled to their opinion and to voice concerns. But please make sure you have the information and you're not making comments based on assumption x x.\"\n\nStacey Dooley was asked questions about her Comic Relief trip to Africa during a Q&A session at Sheffield Doc/Fest earlier this week.\n\nShe's heard saying, \"If David Lammy had picked up the phone and said 'I would like to have a calm conversation' I would have said no problem at all.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Annalisa Toccara This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnnalisa Toccara was at the event and tweeted about Stacey Dooley's response saying she showed \"a lack of understanding.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sanders resigns: 'This has been the honour of a lifetime'\n\nWhite House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders is leaving her post, President Donald Trump has announced.\n\nHe said his spokeswoman would return to her home state of Arkansas at the end of June, praising her as a \"warrior\".\n\nMrs Sanders, who is the latest senior White House aide to exit, said her role had been \"the honour of a lifetime\".\n\nHer credibility was questioned during a combative tenure that saw press briefings all but relegated to a thing of the past.\n\nShe started out as deputy press secretary before replacing Sean Spicer in the top post in July 2017.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Donald J. Trump This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMrs Sanders, 36, has been a loyal mouthpiece, famously saying that God \"wanted Donald Trump to become president\".\n\nAt an unrelated White House event on Thursday, Mr Trump described her as \"a special person, a very, very fine woman\".\n\n\"She's a warrior, we're all warriors, we have to be warriors,\" Mr Trump added.\n\nThe president did not name a replacement press secretary.\n\nShe said in a quavering voice: \"This is something I will treasure forever. I'm going to continue to be one of the most outspoken and loyal supporters of the president.\"\n\nThe mother-of-three said she was looking forward to spending more time with her family. She sometimes scolded the White House press corps for behaving like her children.\n\nMrs Sanders had a difficult relationship with the media, often repeating her boss's allegation of fake news.\n\nSarah Sanders with Donald Trump as they announce her resignation\n\nMrs Sanders hosted fewer news conferences than any of the preceding 13 press secretaries, according to the American Presidency Project.\n\nHer last media briefing was on 11 March - 94 days ago.\n\nMr Trump has opted to be his own communicator-in-chief, frequently making impromptu remarks to journalists above the buzz of presidential helicopter Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House.\n\nSarah Huckabee Sanders has been a stalwart defender of Donald Trump's for nearly two years. It's just she hasn't been doing much of that defending in the White House press briefing room - the traditional venue for her position.\n\nThe Trump presidency has been unconventional in many regards. The steady erosion of the role of press secretary is only a small but notable part.\n\nMrs Sanders in recent months spent most of her time appearing on Fox News, answering shouted questions from reporters in the White House driveway, and chatting about mundane off-the-record details.\n\nTrying to explain the president's snap decisions, surprise policy announcements, and unexpected reversals and apparent contradictions in a formal setting was never an easy task, and Mrs Sanders - with the president's apparent blessing - eventually stopped trying.\n\nThe president, in effect, is his own press secretary, his own communications director and his own messaging guru. As the last 24 hours of tweets and interviews amply demonstrate, it makes for a wild ride.\n\nMrs Sanders will eventually be replaced, but her stable presence will surely be missed by the administration staff. The reality, however, is that as long as the man at the top calls the shots, nothing will change.\n\nMrs Sanders' time in the post was not without controversy, and she was accused of lying to journalists.\n\nAfter Mr Trump fired FBI Director James Comey in May 2017, she said she had \"heard from countless members of the FBI that are grateful and thankful for the president's decision\".\n\nBut she told special counsel Robert Mueller, during his investigation into whether the Trump election campaign had colluded with Russia, that this claim was \"a slip of the tongue\" that was \"not founded on anything\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Comedian Michelle Wolf tore into Sarah Sanders as she sat about a metre away\n\nIn April last year, Mrs Sanders was ridiculed when she attended the White House Correspondents' Dinner.\n\nComedian Michelle Wolf likened the press secretary to the matronly but terrifying disciplinarian in the TV adaptation of dystopian novel The Handmaid's Tale.\n\nThe host was criticised even by some liberals for making a joke about the press secretary's make-up.\n\nWolf said: \"She burns facts and then she uses that ash to create a perfect smokey eye.\n\n\"Maybe she's born with it, maybe it's lies. It's probably lies.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLast June, the manager of a restaurant in Lexington, Virginia, asked Mrs Sanders to leave because of her role in the Trump administration.\n\nThat same month, the press secretary dismissed rumours that she would be stepping down.\n\nShe is the daughter of Mike Huckabee, who was governor of Arkansas from 1996 to 2007.\n\nIn his tweet announcing Mrs Sanders' resignation, Mr Trump wrote that he hoped she would run for the same position.\n\n\"She would be fantastic,\" he said.\n\nMrs Sanders is one of the few remaining aides from Mr Trump's presidential campaign.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chuka Umunna tells Today there's only room for one centre ground party in British politics\n\nFormer Labour and Change UK MP Chuka Umunna has joined the Liberal Democrats, saying he was \"wrong\" to think \"millions of politically homeless people... wanted a new party\".\n\nThe Streatham MP said he had \"massively underestimated just how difficult it is to set up a fully fledged new party without an existing infrastructure\".\n\nHe was one of six MPS to quit Change UK - founded in February - last week.\n\nIt gained only 3.4% of the vote in the European elections.\n\nIn contrast, the Liberal Democrats - who, like Change UK, campaigned on a strongly pro-EU message - saw a surge in support, coming second after Nigel Farage's Brexit Party.\n\nMr Umunna's move to the the Liberal Democrats brings the party's number of MPs to 12.\n\nAsked if he would hold a by-election and re-stand as a Lib Dem, Mr Umunna declined to answer directly but said that he had listened to his constituents and their biggest issue was Brexit.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe former shadow business secretary, who had previously criticised the Lib Dems for \"enabling Tory austerity\" during the 2010 to 2015 coalition government, acknowledged that not everyone in the party would welcome his arrival.\n\nHowever, he told the BBC \"things have changed\", as the Lib Dems had voted against every single Conservative Budget since 2015 and had stood on an anti-austerity manifesto in the 2017 general election.\n\n\"If you want to end austerity you cannot do that if you are going to sponsor Brexit in the way that the two main parties are doing,\" he added.\n\nMr Umunna said he had realised \"there isn't room for more than one centre-ground option\" in British politics, adding that he believed there were \"a good handful\" of Conservative and Labour MPs who knew their parties were \"broken\" and could also be prepared to join the Lib Dems.\n\nThe MP, who withdrew from the 2015 Labour leadership contest days after announcing his candidacy, told the Times he did not want to take sides between the two contenders to replace Sir Vince Cable as Lib Dem leader, Jo Swinson and Ed Davey, adding: \"I'm a newbie.\"\n\nWelcoming him, Sir Vince said: \"Chuka and I have worked together effectively for many months, campaigning for a People's Vote and to stop Brexit.\n\n\"I know that he will be a great asset to our party not just on Brexit, but in fighting for the liberal and social democratic values that we share.\"\n\nWhen asked if he expected other MPs to defect to his party, the Lib Dem leader confirmed he was \"in conversations\" with other independent MPs.\n\nLib Dem leader Sir Vince Cable said he was \"delighted\" to have Chuka Umunna in his party\n\nMr Umunna's move was also welcomed by the two candidates for the Lib Dem leadership.\n\nJo Swinson said the Lib Dems were \"the rallying point for people who want to stop Brexit and fight the climate crisis\", while Ed Davey praised the Streatham MP's \"huge courage\".\n\nChange UK - formerly known as The Independent Group - was formed by MPs who quit Labour and then joined by some former Conservatives.\n\nIt pledged to push for any Brexit deal negotiated by the government to be voted on at a referendum - or \"People's Vote\" - in which it would campaign for the UK to remain in the EU.\n\nAfter last month's European Parliament elections, six of its 11 MPs quit. On Thursday it applied to change its name to The Independent Group for Change, to avoid a protracted legal dispute with petitions website Change.org.\n\nLabour Party chairman Ian Lavery called for a by-election in Mr Umunna's constituency, tweeting: \"Three parties in as many months... who's next? Put your immense popularity to the good people of Streatham... let's have a PV [People's Vote] on you and your principles.\"", "Bob Higgins has been jailed for 24 years and three months for abusing young players\n\nPolice have apologised to six victims of football coach Bob Higgins for the way the case was handled in the 1990s.\n\nTheir lawyer is now calling for \"double jeopardy\" laws to be changed so child sex abusers can be retried if new evidence emerges.\n\nHiggins has been handed 24 years in jail for indecently assaulting 24 boys.\n\nBut six other victims were told their allegations could not be tried in court because the claims were part of a 1991 court case against the coach.\n\nOne told the BBC he was completely unaware of that first case, and his complaint as part of the latest trial was only dropped after police found his name on paperwork in Higgins' loft in 2017.\n\nHampshire Police said it was \"genuinely sorry\" victims \"did not get the justice they deserved\".\n\nOne ex-Premier League footballer told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme he was \"devastated\" to be told his case against the coach could not go ahead.\n\nHe said he was abused by Higgins as a young trainee at Southampton FC in the mid-1980s.\n\nIn 1989, as a teenager, he went to the police and gave a statement. Five other young players made similar claims around that time.\n\nHe said he was not contacted again.\n\nThen, in 2016, he watched an interview on the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme with another of Bob Higgins' victims, and went to the police for a second time.\n\nHe was interviewed for seven hours by specialist officers and told he would be treated as a complainant in a new case against Higgins.\n\nBut months later a police search of Higgins' attic turned up paperwork with the player's personal details on it.\n\nThe ex-footballer learned that, in 1991, his name had been used as part of a court case he had never been made aware of.\n\nHiggins had been acquitted of a single offence against one of five other footballers.\n\nProsecutors offered no more evidence on the other charges, and the judge ordered a formal not guilty verdict to be entered.\n\nHiggins was youth development officer at Southampton until 1989\n\nAs a result of the principle of double jeopardy, which stops people being tried twice for the same crime, the ex-footballer was told by police he had been dropped as a complainant in the new case.\n\n\"For me, I'd never been so low in my life,\" he said. \"To be let down again by the system was devastating and all I felt was anger.\n\n\"I have not and will never get a feeling of closure because [Higgins] has never been found guilty for the crimes he committed against us six players,\" he said.\n\nThe player could give evidence in the latest trial but only as a bad character witness, rather than as a complainant.\n\n\"The abuse after 1991 could have been stopped if the police, the Crown Prosecution Service, Southampton Football Club and the FA had all done their jobs properly,\" he said.\n\nHiggins was sentenced on Wednesday to 24 years and three months in jail for abusing young players.\n\nHe sexually touched and groped 24 victims, most of them trainees, at Southampton and Peterborough United.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ex-footballer Dean Radford said, like the ex-Premier League player quoted above, there had been \"no justice\" for him\n\nIn 2003, the Labour government relaxed the double jeopardy rule in England and Wales, allowing a retrial in cases where \"strong and viable\" new evidence emerges.\n\nBut the change only applies to 30 serious crimes - including murder, rape, Class A drug offences and war crimes.\n\nBecause Higgins was charged with indecent assault of a child, seen as a less serious offence, the rule of double jeopardy still applies in his case.\n\nHampshire Police said: \"This case shows just how important it is that complaints are taken seriously and allegations are thoroughly investigated when they are made.\n\n\"Unfortunately, complaints made by some victims in the 1990s weren't treated in the same way as they would be today,\" added Assistant Chief Constable Ben Snuggs.\n\nDino Nocivelli, a lawyer for three of the six victims, has now written to Justice Secretary David Gauke calling for double jeopardy laws to be changed.\n\n\"Any child abuse must be considered serious,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"Especially in a case like this where years later so many more survivors are coming forward.\"\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service said: \"The law and practice have changed significantly in dealing with allegations of child sexual abuse since 1992, and we have made significant strides in our approach to these types of cases.\n\n\"The law prevents us from trying certain matters again, but we were able to use the evidence of two of the complainants from the original trials to demonstrate Bob Higgins' propensity to commit these offences - this without doubt helped to secure his recent conviction.\"\n\nA spokesman for the Ministry of Justice said: \"The double jeopardy rule exists to ensure that once justice is served, an acquitted defendant cannot be unnecessarily subjected to additional prosecutions.\"\n\nFollow the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme on Facebook and Twitter - and see more of our stories here.", "China's ambassador to the UK has warned that excluding Huawei from Britain's 5G network \"sends a very bad signal\".\n\nSpeaking to BBC's Newsnight, Liu Xiaoming said Chinese businesses planning to invest in Britain may be put off dealing with the UK if Huawei's equipment is not used for the network.\n\nIt comes after Britain's mobile operators urged the government for clarity on the issue.\n\nThe US is already boycotting the company, due to concerns over security.\n\nIt put the company on an Entity List, which is a list of foreign parties that the US Department of Commerce has judged to pose a potential national security or foreign policy threat.\n\nMr Liu defended Huawei when speaking to Newsnight's Mark Urban, calling it a \"good company\".\n\nHe said it contributes \"tremendously\" to the British economy - employing 7,000 people.\n\n\"If [the] UK collaborates with Huawei there would be a promising future on both sides.\" said Mr Liu.\n\nBut he believes that not giving the tech company the role it seeks would \"send a bad signal, not only on trade but on investment\".\n\nHe added: \"Chinese investment is booming in this country. Even last year it increased by 14%, but if you shut the door for Huawei - it sends very bad and negative message to other Chinese businesses.\"\n\nThe warning comes after Britain's mobile operators wrote a draft letter to Cabinet Secretary Mark Sedwill, urging the government to clarify its position.\n\nIt said they can't invest in infrastructure while uncertainty over the use of Chinese technology persists.\n\nOn Wednesday it was reported that Huawei ditched a product launch for the first time since the US placed it on a trade blacklist.\n\nIt had intended to unveil a new laptop as early as this week, but its consumer device chief Richard Yu told CNBC that it had become \"unable to supply the PC\".", "The UK is one of the worst places in Europe for paid parental leave and affordable quality childcare, the UN's children's charity has said.\n\nResearchers for Unicef ranked 31 countries on their length of maternity and paternity leave and the proportions of pre-school children above and below the age of three in childcare.\n\nThe only European countries below the UK were Cyprus, Greece and Switzerland.\n\nUK parents were among the most likely to blame cost for not using childcare.\n\nUnicef policy and advocacy head Liam Sollis said the research highlighted how working parents in the UK faced major challenges balancing work and their care-giving responsibilities.\n\nSweden, Norway and Iceland were the highest ranked countries.\n\nUnicef said family-friendly policies strengthened the bond between parents and their children, which was key to the development of families and society.\n\nAnd it said new parents should be offered six months' paid leave and affordable quality childcare.\n\nIt also offers two weeks' statutory paternity leave at £149 a week.\n\nSweden and Norway, at the top of the league for family friendliness overall, pay new mothers the equivalent of 35 and 45 weeks fully paid, while Estonia offers 85 weeks.\n\nComparisons on childcare reveal the majority of pre-school children aged three and older attend education and care centres across the 31 European countries for which comparable statistics are available.\n\nThis ranges from 51% in Croatia to 99% in Belgium and Iceland. In the UK, the take-up rate is 73%.\n\nIn every country, children under the age of three are much less likely to attend such centres than their older peers.\n\nFewer than one in 10 children under the age of three do so in the Czech Republic, Greece, Poland and Slovakia.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Chelsea have agreed a deal in principle for their manager Maurizio Sarri to join Serie A champions Juventus.\n\nAn agreement was reached late on Thursday evening after talks between senior officials. A deal could be completed as early as Friday.\n\nIt is understood a compensation fee in excess of £5m has been agreed.\n\nSarri arrived from Napoli in July 2018 and led the Blues to third place in the Premier League and won the Europa League in his one season in charge.\n• None Why Sarri is leaving Stamford Bridge with stock higher than when he arrived\n\nDespite signing a three-year deal last July, he will become the ninth full-time manager to leave the club under Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich.\n\nThroughout the 60-year-old Italian's time at Stamford Bridge there was repeated speculation about his position, with Chelsea fans expressing their discontent at tactics and team selections.\n\nOne of the low points came in February when goalkeeper Kepa Arrizabalaga challenged his authority by refusing to be substituted in the Carabao Cup final at Wembley, shortly before Chelsea were beaten in a penalty shootout by Manchester City.\n\nBut Sarri did manage to win his first ever trophy as manager with a 4-1 victory over Arsenal in May in the Europa League final, and after the match said \"he deserved\" to stay with the club.\n\nChelsea are currently unable to sign any players after they were banned for two transfer windows by Fifa - a decision they are appealing at the Court of Arbitration for Sport.\n\nTheir star player Eden Hazard has joined Real Madrid for a fee that could exceed £150m.\n\nSignificantly, Chelsea have not asked for the suspension to be put on hold until a final decision is reached. It means their only new arrival might be USA forward Christian Pulisic, a £58m signing from Borussia Dortmund in January, who spent the remainder of the campaign on loan in Germany.\n\nJuventus are managerless after Massimiliano Allegri left at the end of last season, having won the league title in each of his five seasons since taking charge in 2014.\n\nAfter earning glowing references for his tactics at Napoli, he looked to have effectively introduced 'Sarri-ball' to his new players as Chelsea started their Premier League campaign with a 12-game unbeaten streak.\n\nBut the Blues were out of title contention after losing three out of four Premier League games from January to February, including a 6-0 defeat at eventual champions Manchester City, which saw them slip to sixth in the table.\n\nChelsea then lost 2-0 at home to Manchester United in the FA Cup, when fans booed the Italian's substitutions and joined in when the visiting supporters sang \"You're getting sacked in the morning\".\n\nHowever, Sarri remained in charge, and of the 19 matches played after they were beaten on penalties in the League Cup final, his side lost just two, as they won their first European trophy since securing the Europa League in 2012-13.\n\nThey also held off the challenge of Tottenham, Arsenal and Manchester United to finish third in the league and clinch Champions League qualification.\n\nAnalysis - who could Chelsea turn to?\n\nFor all the difficulties Chelsea managers tend to encounter, there has been no shortage of potential candidates being linked to the job.\n\nThe most obvious is Blues' record scorer Frank Lampard.\n\nLampard ended his first season as a manager with defeat at Wembley in the Championship play-off. Lampard is steeped in Chelsea history, won 11 major trophies during his 13 years at the club, and is adored by supporters, even though he eventually moved away to join Manchester City before ending his career in Major League Soccer with New York City.\n\nAt Derby, Lampard also linked up with former team-mate Jody Morris, who developed an impressive reputation during five years working with Chelsea's youth teams - that might improve the pair's chances even more, given the transfer embargo Chelsea are facing.\n\nChelsea loanees Fikayo Tomori, Mason Mount and Tammy Abraham were all involved at Wembley and others, such as Reece James, have also impressed in season-long moves away from the club.\n\nMorris' inside knowledge would be a major asset in deciding which of these youngsters have the capability to step into the first-team picture.\n\nIt is also probable, although by no means certain, that Lampard would be given time if results did not go well.\n\nRafael Benitez, whose Newcastle future is uncertain, is also tipped, despite the fact Chelsea's fans have no love of the 59-year-old, something they made clear during his six months in temporary charge following the dismissal of Roberto di Matteo in 2012, when fans made banners demanding his exit even though he won the Europa League.\n\nWolves manager Nuno Espirito Santo is also of interest. Santo has taken Wolves from the Championship to seventh in the Premier League - and European qualification - in the space of two seasons. He is known to be hugely ambitious and for all the promise Wolves have shown during his time at Molineux, Chelsea still represents a significant step up.\n\nAnd, given Chelsea have already had six Italian managers and he has won five Serie A titles in a row, Massimiliano Allegri cannot be discounted, even if the 51-year-old has said he intends to take a year out of football.", "The SAS and other UK Special Forces (UKSF) are poised to receive a new mission countering Russian and other forces around the world.\n\nThe plan is called 'Special Operations Concept' and has been drawn up by the senior officer in charge of the special forces, the Director Special Forces (DSF).\n\nAccording to people familiar with what's in it, part of the concept involves changing both the structure of the military's secretive units and what they do.\n\nThe plan is currently being considered by military chiefs, Whitehall insiders tell me, and will soon be sent to ministers and is likely to be approved.\n\nThe Ministry of Defence has said it does not comment on the UK Special Forces.\n\nUK Special Forces are meant to provide more options for low-profile actions in places where overtly committing conventional troops would be difficult.\n\nFor example, under the new plan, an operation might be mounted in a Baltic republic or African country in order to uncover and pinpoint Russian covert activities.\n\nThen a decision would be made as to whether to make public what had been learned, or to cooperate secretly with local security forces in order to disrupt it.\n\nThe new missions would take UKSF units in a less \"kinetic\" or violent direction - after almost 20 years of man-hunting strike missions in the Middle East and Afghanistan - and into closer cooperation with allied intelligence agencies and MI6.\n\nThere are three main elements of the UK's Special Forces\n\n\"The counter-terrorist task is drawing down, while the need to confront dangerous international behaviour by peer adversaries is increasing,\" says one source.\n\nFollowing the defeat of the last pocket of Islamic State group, missions in Syria and Iraq are declining.\n\nAnd so in staking out new territory, the DSF seems to be trying to give new priorities to the units under their command at a time of financial stringency.\n\nThere are three main elements of the UK's Special Forces: the regular Special Air Service regiment (22 SAS), the Special Boat Service (SBS), and Special Reconnaissance Regiment (SRR).\n\nThe role of the SRR, which carries out covert surveillance, would grow under the Special Operations Concept.\n\nMilitary chiefs believe Russia has been using its military intelligence arm, the GRU, effectively in Ukraine, Syria and Africa.\n\n\"Right now, you do nothing or you escalate,\" one senior officer says. \"We want to expand that competitive space.\"\n\nThe UK government has said the GRU was behind the 2018 Salisbury attack, in which Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, were poisoned with a nerve agent.\n\nAt a London conference earlier this month, Chief of General Staff General Sir Mark Carleton-Smith referred to \"authoritarian regimes\" rather than mentioning Russia by name, noting they had managed to \"exploit that hybrid space between those two increasingly redundant states of 'peace' and 'war'\".\n\nThis type of unstated conflict between states is often referred to as \"the grey zone\".\n\nRecent attacks on tankers in the Gulf are an example of this, with states - believed to be Iran, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates - acting covertly, either directly or through proxies.\n\nExperts across the West are seeking out the right responses to hostile acts that fall short of the threshold of all-out war. Such responses could include an increased emphasis on information and cyber operations.\n\nThe SRR is trained in a variety of techniques including physical and technical surveillance, such as planting cameras in insurgent-held territory, eavesdropping and close-proximity hacking.\n\nIt remains up for debate whether this new concept would see the stepping up of a shadow war against proxy forces - serving the interests of countries such as China, Iran and Russia - that could occasionally turn violent.\n\nBritish politicians' appetite for risk is limited and the capture of a party of Special Forces operators and MI6 officers in Libya eight years ago showed the potential for embarrassment that comes with such missions.\n\nYou can watch Newsnight on BBC Two weekdays at 22:30 or on iPlayer, subscribe to the programme on YouTube and follow it on Twitter.", "The government is consulting on plans to add folic acid to flour in the UK to help prevent birth defects such as spina bifida.\n\nPregnant women are already advised to take folic acid, but many do not.\n\nIt is estimated fortifying flour with folic acid could prevent up to 200 birth defects a year.\n\nThe charity Shine, which has campaigned for the move for 25 years, said it hoped it would not be another 25 before it happened.\n\nWomen are advised to take 400 micrograms of folic acid a day for at least a month before conception and up to the 12th week of pregnancy.\n\nBut about half of pregnancies are unplanned, and women are not always aware they should take the supplement - or forget to.\n\nNeural tube defects, such as spina bifida (abnormal development of the spine) and anencephaly, which affects the brain, affect about 1,000 pregnancies per year in the UK.\n\nOver 40% of cases are fatal. Most babies who survive will need continuing care.\n\nMandatory fortification would mean everybody who ate foods such as bread would get more folic acid, but scientists have advised the government the recommended level is safe.\n\n\"Women from the poorest areas are less likely to take folic acid supplements and it is right that we do all we can to protect the most vulnerable in society,\" Public Health Minister Seema Kennedy said.\n\n\"We all want to give our children the best start in life and a birth defect diagnosis is devastating for parents.\n\n\"The simple measure of adding folic acid to flour would help spare hundreds of families from such a life-changing event.\"\n\nShine chief executive Kate Steele said: \"Had it been introduced all those [25] years ago, when the government's own scientific advisory committee on nutrition made the recommendation, it is estimated that it could have saved several thousands of UK pregnancies from being affected by spina bifida or anencephaly.\n\n\"However, we are not looking a gift horse in the mouth and are delighted that the government has launched this consultation and all we hope is that it will not take another 25 years to make mandatory fortification with folic acid a reality.\"\n\nMore than 60 countries already add folic acid to flour. When Canada introduced mandatory fortification, in the late 1990s, neural tube defects halved. And when the same change was made in Australia, neural tube defects fell by 14%.\n\nThe UK-wide consultation will last for 12 weeks. UK milled wheat flour already has the vitamins thiamine and niacin as well as iron and calcium added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The prime minister has asked the BBC to explain the broadcast\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May has said the BBC should explain why a Jo Brand joke about throwing battery acid was \"appropriate content\" for broadcast.\n\nThe comedian made the remark during a broadcast of Radio 4 satirical show Heresy on Tuesday night.\n\nShe was accused by Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage, who has had milkshakes thrown at him by protesters, as \"inciting violence\".\n\nIn a statement, the BBC said it was \"not intended to be taken seriously\".\n\n\"Heresy is a long-running comedy programme where, as the title implies and as our listeners know, panellists often say things which are deliberately provocative,\" the statement - which was first released on Wednesday - continued.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police has also confirmed it has \"received an allegation of incitement to violence that was reported to the MPS on 13 June\".\n\nIt added: \"The allegation relates to comments made on a radio programme. The allegation is currently being assessed.\n\n\"There have been no arrests and inquiries are ongoing.\"\n\nMr Farage has been targeted by protesters\n\nIn the episode, Brand told presenter Victoria Coren Mitchell that people who attacked Mr Farage and far-right political figures with milkshakes were \"pathetic\".\n\nShe said: \"Why bother with a milkshake when you could get some battery acid?,\" adding, \"I'm not going to do it, it's purely a fantasy.\"\n\nThe prime minister's spokesman said Mrs May has been clear politicians should be able to go about their work and campaign without harassment, intimidation or abuse.\n\nSpeaking about the comments on his LBC show on Thursday, Mr Farage said: \"This sort of behaviour is completely and utterly disgusting.\n\n\"Could you imagine if I was to tell a story like that about somebody on the other side,\" he added.\n\n\"The police would be knocking on my door within 10 minutes.\"\n\nThe Sun newspaper said Brand had refused to apologise for the comment after confronting her at her London home earlier.\n\nShe is reported to have added: \"I think if they [critics] want an answer there have been plenty of explanations by the BBC and Victoria Coren.\"\n\nWhen asked if she would continue working with the BBC, she is reported to have replied: \"I'm not employed by the BBC, so how can they sack me?\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Tanya O'Connell said the lack of water delayed her taking medication while she recovered at home from an operation\n\nSchools have been closed and hospital appointments cancelled due to a burst pipe that has left 100,000 properties in London with little or no water.\n\nThames Water said the fault at its works in Hampton had caused problems in the west and south-west areas.\n\nIt said repairs to the pipe would continue throughout the night but that a bypass and water from elsewhere has meant supplies are returning to normal.\n\nThe TW, KT and W postcodes have been affected.\n\nPeople were spotted stocking up on large amounts of bottled water in Twickenham\n\nThirty schools and two children's centres in Richmond and Hounslow have been closed, including Trafalgar Junior School in Twickenham, which has been left without flushing toilets and washing facilities in the kitchen.\n\nSurrey County Council also confirmed six schools had closed in Sunbury-on-Thames because of the issue.\n\nHounslow and Richmond Community Healthcare NHS Trust said all planned clinics and sessions at Teddington Memorial Hospital and Teddington Health and Social Care Centre were cancelled.\n\nThe evening fixture at Kempton Park Racecourse in Surrey has also been abandoned and, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service, Chiswick Library and King Street in Hounslow are shut.\n\nEaling, Hounslow, Shepherds Bush and Hammersmith and Fulham have all been affected.\n\nThames Water has set up bottled water stations at a public car park near the Hampton Pub in The Avenue and opposite the Millennium Boat House in Lower Sunbury Road.\n\nThe company said that it expected \"all [water] supplies to come back on over the course of the evening\" following the repair work carried out.\n\nShelves have been emptied of bottled water in some supermarkets\n\nA statement added: \"We've delivered hundreds of bottles of water to customers on our priority services list, including those with medical and mobility issues.\n\n\"We're really sorry for the inconvenience we've caused today and the time taken to resolve the problem.\n\n\"We'll be carrying out a full investigation into what caused the burst so we can take steps to stop it happening again.\"\n\nChelsea Willis was unable to bathe her daughter, who has eczema\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan said it was \"unacceptable\" that so many people had been left without water \"for several hours with little or no information on when supplies will be restored\".\n\nHe said he expected Thames Water to compensate all those affected.\n\nChelsea Willis, from Teddington in south-west London, said the lack of water had prevented her from feeding and bathing her six-month-old daughter Rhivér.\n\n\"My daughter has eczema so I have to bath her once a day,\" the 29-year-old said.\n\n\"I called my housing association, who said they couldn't help for 12 hours, but somebody there said they couldn't let me go without and personally ordered three bottles of water and got it delivered to me.\"\n\nTanya O'Connell, who lives in Twickenham, said the problem delayed her taking medication while she recovered at home following an operation last week.\n\nThe 37-year-old bank manager said her surgeon told her to take soluble pain relief, which she was meant to take at 08:00.\n\nShe said Thames Water \"promised they would send someone with emergency stuff\" but she had to eventually send her mother to the shop to buy water.\n\n\"It was difficult for her, she's in her 60s with a bad leg... taking litres of water up the stairs,\" Ms O'Connell said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Freddie McLennan (left) and Joe Atkins, both 19, were due to start at university next term\n\nTwo British teenagers on a gap year have died in a car crash in Bolivia.\n\nFreddie McLennan and Joe Atkins, both 19, were driving across salt flats in the South American country when their vehicle crashed on Sunday.\n\nFamilies of the teenagers, both former pupils at Cranbrook School, Kent, paid tribute to the \"exceptional\" young men.\n\nThe 22-year-old Bolivian driver - named locally as Alberto Barco - also died in the crash, while a third British man was taken to hospital.\n\nThe car is understood to have flipped over while being driven on Bolivia's famous Salar de Uyuni - the world's largest salt flat.\n\nThe family of Mr Atkins, who was due to return home from a \"trip of a lifetime\" this week, said he had been \"elated with the adventure\".\n\nRecalling a recent phone call, they said: \"He said just how much he was looking forward to being back to enjoy home comforts, and to move on to the next stage at the University of Bristol.\"\n\nMr McLennan's family said they were \"eternally grateful that Freddie came into our lives\".\n\n\"He was thoroughly enjoying his opportunity to travel and experience new parts of the world, before preparing for the next stage in his life at Leeds University.\"\n\nIn a statement published on its website, the Cranbrook School said: \"We share the grief of the families at their tragic loss and offer them our sincerest condolences.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Cycling\n\nBritain's four-time champion Chris Froome suffered a fractured right femur, a fractured elbow and fractured ribs in a high-speed crash that has ruled him out of the Tour de France.\n\nThe Team Ineos rider, 34, hit a wall at 54km/h when he took a hand off his handlebars to blow his nose, according to team principal David Brailsford.\n\nThe crash occurred before stage four of the Criterium du Dauphine.\n\nFroome has been airlifted to St Etienne University Hospital for surgery.\n\n\"Even though we all recognise the risks involved in our sport, it's always traumatic when a rider crashes and sustains serious injuries,\" said Brailsford.\n\n\"Chris had worked incredibly hard to get in fantastic shape and was on track for the Tour, which unfortunately he will now miss.\n\n\"One of the things which sets Chris apart is his mental strength and resilience - and we will support him totally in his recovery, help him to recalibrate and assist him in pursuing his future goals and ambitions.\"\n\nFroome was eighth overall in the Criterium after three stages of the eight-day race.\n\nIneos said Froome has \"multiple serious injuries\" after the incident, which occurred during a practice ride on Wednesday's 26.1km time-trial course in Roanne, France.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Sport's BeSpoke podcast: Brailsford said: \"He came down a technical descent and onto a straighter piece of road with houses either side. He signalled to [team-mate] Wout [Poels] that he was going to clear his nose, he took his hand of the bar to do that and a gust of wind took his front wheel, he lost control and went straight into the wall of a house.\n\n\"We have had a look at his data, he went from 54km/h to a dead stop.\"\n\nFroome would have been chasing a record-equalling fifth victory in the Tour, which starts in Brussels on 6 July.\n\nHe went into last year's race as favourite, holding all three Grand Tour titles, having won the Vuelta a Espana and the Giro d'Italia.\n\nHe finished third as team-mate Geraint Thomas became the third Briton to win the race.\n\nFroome has been the dominant stage racer of his generation, his accident coming at a time when he was bookmakers' favourite to win back the Tour de France yellow jersey that he ceded to team-mate Geraint Thomas a year ago.\n\nHis entire year had been focused on three weeks in France in July, his determination to win a record-equalling fifth title obvious when BBC Sport's BeSpoke podcast went out to visit his training camp in Tenerife two months ago.\n\nOrdinarily riders get up and race almost as soon as they crash. When their injuries are severe they immediately focus on a comeback race; cycling is a sport that waits for no champion.\n\nBut if Froome's injury is as bad as early reports indicate, not only the Tour but also the Vuelta a Espana in August and September's World Championships in Yorkshire must also be in significant doubt.", "Volunteers will \"routinely come across distressing imagery,\" says the advert\n\nA police force's appeal for volunteer digital forensic analysts has been branded a \"disaster waiting to happen\".\n\nWest Midlands Police has advertised the unpaid roles, which involve sifting through \"distressing [and] indecent images\".\n\nForensics professionals have expressed concerns that volunteers working at least 16 hours a month will not receive adequate emotional support.\n\nThe force said welfare was important and check-ups would be offered.\n\nIts job advert warns applicants they will \"routinely come across distressing imagery\" while investigating data from computers, mobiles devices and other sources.\n\nThis could include indecent images, as well as footage of fatal road traffic accidents and CCTV evidence of police incidents.\n\nSome industry experts said they were surprised the position was being offered unpaid.\n\nForensic specialist Sam Raincock, from Northumberland, described it on Twitter as a \"disaster waiting to happen\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Sam Raincock This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"They definitely need counselling pre-role,\" said Stuart Richards, who carried out scientific investigation work for Gwent Police for 10 years and now teaches Cyber Forensics at the University of Gloucestershire.\n\n\"Ideally a psychological evaluation every three months. You've got to be a very strong individual to be able to deal with it... I don't think you can give someone the support they need in that sort of environment in that sort of time frame,\" added Mr Richards.\n\nOther specialists said the role could be a good opportunity for those wishing to gain work experience.\n\n\"I would have thought West Midlands Police would have thought this through very carefully,\" said Richard Hale, digital forensics lecturer at Birmingham City University.\n\nHe said one of his students had already asked for advice about whether to apply.\n\nWest Midlands Police says it has 1,000 volunteer staff\n\nApplicants are required for a minimum of 16 hours a month for at least six months for tasks including the dismantling of computers and the downloading of data, according to the job description.\n\nThe candidates, who could be subject to an Enhanced Disclosure Barring Service check, must be 18 and qualified to GCSE level in maths and physics.\n\nAbout 1,000 volunteers were doing work for West Midlands Police at the end of 2018, the force estimates.\n\nMichelle Painter, the force's assistant director of forensic services, said \"highly skilled\" volunteers had not replaced staff.\n\nAs digital evidence becomes \"more vital\", she said, \"we need volunteers with digital expertise outside of policing to support our investigations\".\n\n\"Their welfare is an important consideration and is reflected in the age restriction and the recruitment process.\n\n\"Occasionally, some investigations do have an element of investigating indecent images but that is not the only aspect of the digital forensics service.\"\n\nShe added volunteers received the same wellbeing care as employees, including regular clinical supervision appointments.\n\nSo far this year, 277 police officers in the force have been absent from work due to mental health reasons, equating to almost 9,000 working days.\n\nLeaked documents in November 2017 revealed the force was the smallest it had been in its history, and a Freedom of Information request from February 2018 showed more than 4,200 police officers have been cut since 2010.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "George Alagiah returned to the screens in January\n\nBBC newsreader George Alagiah is to begin another round of treatment for bowel cancer, his agent has confirmed.\n\nHis agent Mary Greenham added in a statement he would \"aim to be on-air as much as possible but may need to reduce his workload\".\n\n\"He is always grateful to the public for the tremendous support he has received.\"\n\nThe BBC One News at Six presenter was first treated in 2014 but revealed in 2017 the cancer had returned.\n\nAlagiah, 63, who has presented BBC News At Six for more than 10 years, returned to the BBC newsroom in January.\n\nIt was the first time he'd been seen on screen since December 2017.\n\nHe said then he was \"overwhelmed\" by supportive comments from viewers welcoming him back.\n\nHe explained on Twitter the cancer was \"in a holding pattern\", which meant he could work again.\n\nAfter Alagiah's initial diagnosis in 2014, the disease spread to his liver and lymph nodes, which needed treatment with several rounds of chemotherapy and three large operations, including one to remove most of his liver.\n\nHe returned to work in 2015, but had to take more time out in 2017 when he was told that his stage four bowel cancer had returned.\n\nEarlier this year, the Sri Lanka-born newsreader hosted a Bowel Cancer UK podcast called In Conversation With George Alagiah, in which he spoke about his treatment and living with the disease.\n\nBowel cancer is the UK's fourth most common cancer and second biggest killer cancer, with more than 16,000 people dying from the disease every year, the charity said.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Julian Assange is fighting extradition to the US\n\nA request by the US to extradite Julian Assange has been signed by the Home Secretary Sajid Javid ahead of a court hearing on Friday.\n\nBy certifying the request, Mr Javid has effectively rubber-stamped it so it can now be considered by the court.\n\nAssange will appear via video before Westminster magistrates on Friday.\n\nThe US wants the Wikileaks founder to face charges there related to the leaking of government secrets. Assange opposes the extradition request.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAt his last hearing a fortnight ago, Assange, 47, was too ill to appear in court, according to his lawyer.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Mr Javid said he wanted to \"see justice done at all times\" and added: \"We've got a legitimate extension request so I've signed it but the final decision is now with the courts.\"\n\nExtradition orders by the US and certain other countries need to be rubber-stamped by the home secretary - so long as they meet the necessary criteria - before they can be considered by a court.\n\nAssange is currently serving a 50-week sentence in Belmarsh Prison in south-east London for bail violations after taking refuge in the Ecuadorian Embassy in a bid to avoid extradition to Sweden to answer allegations of rape and molestation in 2012.\n\nHe spent seven years inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London before being handed over to British authorities by Ecuador in April.\n\nLast month, Swedish prosecutors reopened their investigation into an allegation of rape against Assange, which he denies.\n\nThe allegations he faces in the US include computer misuse and the unauthorized disclosure of national defence information.\n\nThe US Justice Department indicted Assange on 18 counts that relate to his \"alleged role in one of the largest compromises of classified information in the history of the United States\", it said.\n\nChelsea Manning is currently refusing to give evidence to a grand jury investigating Wikileaks\n\nHe is accused of working with former US army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning in \"unlawfully obtaining and disclosing classified documents related to the national defence\", a statement said.\n\nManning was convicted and jailed in the US for 35 years in 2013 but her jail term was reduced to seven years in 2017 and she was released from custody.\n\nHowever, she has now been jailed for refusing to testify before an inquiry into Wikileaks. She faces daily fines and will remain in custody until she agrees to testify or until the term of the grand jury expires in 18 months, according to the Washington Post.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tellers read out the result with a win for the government by 309 votes to 298\n\nMPs have rejected a Labour-led effort to take control of Parliament's timetable, blocking the latest attempt to stop a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe Commons opposed the move by 309 votes to 298.\n\nIf passed, it would have given opponents of a no-deal Brexit the chance to table legislation to thwart the UK leaving without any agreement on the 31 October deadline.\n\nThe result of the vote was greeted with cheers from the Tory benches.\n\nBut Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn responded by shouting \"you won't be cheering in September\".\n\nTen Tory MPs, mostly pro-Europeans, rebelled against the government by backing Labour's motion. Conversely, eight Labour MPs - mostly Eurosceptics or MPs in constituencies which voted Leave at the referendum - defied party instructions and voted against it.\n\nA key factor for the government was the support of Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionists, who have voted against Theresa May during previous Brexit votes.\n\nNo deal would mean the UK leaving the EU without any agreement about the \"divorce\" process.\n\nOvernight, the country would be out of the single market, customs union and institutions such as the European Court of Justice and Europol.\n\nThere are fears about widespread disruption in such an event - to trade, travel and the functioning of the Irish border, in particular.\n\nThe opposition said the Commons defeat was disappointing, but it still believed there was a majority in the Commons against a no deal and it remained \"determined to win this fight\".\n\n\"There will be other procedural mechanisms we can use,\" shadow Brexit Secretary Sir Keir Starmer said. \"We are already looking at what those other opportunities will be.\"\n\nNo 10 said giving MPs a \"blank cheque\" to dictate Brexit policy would have set a troubling precedent.\n\nThe UK was originally supposed to leave the EU on 29 March.\n\nBut the EU decided on a seven-month extension after MPs rejected the terms of withdrawal on three occasions.\n\nOpponents of a no-deal exit are concerned that Theresa May's successor as prime minister could seek to take the UK out of the EU without parliamentary approval for such an outcome.\n\nTory leadership frontrunner Boris Johnson and several of his rivals have said the UK must leave the EU by the revised date, whether a deal is passed or not.\n\nWednesday's motion - supported by the Lib Dems, the SNP and Plaid Cymru, as well as some Conservatives, would not, by itself, have ruled out a no deal.\n\nHowever, its supporters hoped to start a process on 25 June which could culminate with Parliament blocking the UK leaving without an agreement - in effect, tying the next prime minister's hands.\n\nBacking the motion, Conservative ex-minister Sir Oliver Letwin said the case for ensuring Parliament had a \"decisive vote\" on the next PM's Brexit plan ahead of the 31 October deadline transcended party politics.\n\nGiven that leaving without a deal remains the default legal position, he said it was \"perfectly possible\" for the next PM to usher in a no-deal exit by \"simply doing nothing\" at all.\n\nTory Remain supporter and former Attorney General Dominic Grieve said the motion was the \"last sensible opportunity\" to stop no deal.\n\nHe added that in the future, if necessary, he would support efforts to bring down a Conservative government in a vote of no confidence if it was the only way to block such an outcome.\n\nBut veteran Eurosceptic Conservative Sir Bill Cash said it was a \"phantom motion\" which paved the way for \"government by Parliament\".\n\n\"It just simply opens the door for any bill of any kind to take precedence over government business,\" he told by MPs. \"It is inconceivable as a matter of constitutional convention.\"\n\nAfter the defeat, the deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats, Jo Swinson, accused the Conservatives of \"putting party loyalty ahead of national interest\".\n\nThis is not the first time that MPs have attempted to seize control of the Commons order paper in order to shift government policy on Brexit.\n\nMPs voted in March to oblige Mrs May to seek a Brexit delay from the EU.\n\nBut efforts by Sir Oliver and others to come up with an alternative Brexit plan failed in April after MPs rejected all the options in a series of indicative votes.", "Residents say Frinstead House does not have sprinklers\n\nCampaigners have projected messages on to high-rises across England saying they are unsafe, ahead of the two-year anniversary of the Grenfell Tower fire.\n\nSurvivors group Grenfell United put the messages on buildings in Salford, Newcastle and London.\n\nOne projection says: \"2 years after Grenfell and this building is still covered in dangerous cladding.\"\n\nThe government said it had made £600m of funding available to replace combustible cladding on high-rises.\n\nIt expected the work - on both private and social housing homes - to be completed \"as soon as possible\", it said.\n\nThe message on this Salford block says it has dangerous cladding\n\nIn Newcastle, the projection on to Cruddas Park House, which is a 25 storey block for people over 50, says: \"2 years after Grenfell and the fire doors in this building still don't work\".\n\nNewcastle City Council said it had invested over £9m in fire safety measures across the borough and that \"the safety of customers is our number one priority\".\n\nThe projection on to the NV building in Salford, which has 246 flats, says it is \"still covered in dangerous cladding\" which is not covered by the government's cladding removal fund.\n\nThe developer of the building told the BBC \"an urgent investigation is ongoing\".\n\nAnd the projection in London appears on Frinstead House, a 20-storey block a stone's throw away from Grenfell Tower. It says the block has no sprinklers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. There are still buildings \"all around the country\" with flammable cladding, campaigner says.\n\nThe Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Council, which took over management of the high-rise in March last year, said its staff had met residents to talk about sprinklers and other fire safety measures.\n\nIt said there was a fire safety programme under way across its borough and it was \"seeking clear guidance and recommendations from central government on fire safety systems\".\n\nGrenfell United said it is calling for tower blocks across the UK to be \"made safe, and for residents to be listened to and treated with respect\".\n\nIt says they want to see safe fire doors, sprinklers in blocks to keep fire escapes clear, and for all dangerous cladding to be removed.\n\nIn Newcastle, the projection on to Cruddas Park House says the fire doors don’t work\n\nNatasha Elcock, chairman of Grenfell United and a survivor from the tower, said: \"It's been two years since Grenfell and people are still going to bed at night worried that a fire like Grenfell could happen to them.\"\n\nThe campaigners are calling for the government to introduce a new separate housing regulator to put \"residents concerns over profits of housing associations\".\n\nKarim Mussilhy, vice-chairman of Grenfell United, and who lost his uncle in the fire, said although their message is simple they \"needed the biggest possible platform to make them [the government] listen\".\n\nOne woman says a prayer after attaching a tribute to a railing near the site of Grenfell Tower\n\nMr Mussilhy said residents were raising concerns, but being ignored.\n\n\"That's what happened to residents in Grenfell before the fire. We have to change the culture in social housing so people are treated with respect.\" he continued.\n\nHe has also urged the next prime minister to be \"on the right side of history\" and to prioritise dealing with the tragedy when they take office.\n\nThe Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government said in a statement: \"The Government has banned combustible materials in the external walls of new high-rise homes and guidance requires that sprinklers must be installed in new buildings above 30 metres.\n\n\"Building owners are ultimately responsible for the safety of the building and it is for them to decide whether to retro-fit sprinklers.\"", "Some campers lasted less than a few hours before they decided to leave the site\n\nMusic fans have been leaving a festival before a note has even been played - after torrential rain reduced the site to a \"mud-bath\".\n\nThousands descended on Download festival's campsite at Donington Park on Wednesday.\n\nOne man, who left after injuring himself, described scenes of \"impassable muddy sludge everywhere\".\n\nFans braving the mud have rechristened the event \"Drownload\", posting pictures of drenched ground online.\n\nJohn Hawkins, from Grimsby, left the Donington Park site Thursday morning after suffering a slipped disc.\n\n\"I spent the next 24 hours crying in my tent,\" he said.\n\n\"It's not [been] communicated there would be such a distance between the car park and the campsite.\"\n\nThe 34-year-old said he made the choice to leave after searching for a toilet \"that wasn't flooded or looking like something out of a horror movie\" for an hour.\n\n\"I was looking forward to my first festival experience, but all I got was mud, cold and pain,\" he said.\n\nFestival staff have been trying to drain the site\n\nSamantha Gibben, from Stockon-on-Tees, dislocated her hip and left after six hours.\n\n\"I was just sliding everywhere,\" she said.\n\n\"The village was more or less inaccessible for anyone who couldn't walk and the campsites were very slippery already.\"\n\nMiss Gibben said wheelchairs were getting stuck and friends who stayed overnight had hypothermia.\n\n\"The stick-it-out attitude is no excuse for not looking after yourself and putting your health first,\" she said.\n\nSullivan-Wren Sheriff, 28, from Nottingham, opened up a three-bedroom house to those leaving the campsite.\n\nA young man who took up the offer \"wasn't in a good way so I said I'd pick him up to make sure he gets a wash and some clean clothes\".\n\n\"There's a lot of people in their late teens/early 20s who have travelled miles and it would be a shame for them to not fully enjoy the experience.\"\n\nCampers began arriving at the site on Wednesday\n\nRoads on Wednesday were gridlocked as campers arrived at the site in heavy rain.\n\nOrganisers tweeted: \"A big thank you to all of you for keeping up the amazing Download spirit. No-one is tougher than you guys.\"\n\nThe three-day music event will be headlined by Slipknot, Tool and Def Leppard, and many festival-goers are defiant to deal with the mud.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Alex Holland This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The knives are being offered \"as part of a much wider range of measures\"\n\nA police force has defended a \"ludicrous\" decision to give domestic abuse victims blunt knives to replace sharp implements in their kitchens.\n\nNottinghamshire Police hopes the scheme will reduce the number of people being seriously injured by their partners.\n\nThe force stressed it was a \"tiny trial\" in one part of the county and part of wider protective measures.\n\nThe idea has attracted criticism and one psychologist said it could put victims in greater danger.\n\nDr Jessica Eaton is a psychologist specialising in interpersonal abuse and violence\n\nDr Jessica Eaton, a specialist in interpersonal abuse, said she initially thought the trial was a joke.\n\n\"If you are going to take knives, why not forks? Because I work with women who have been stabbed with forks,\" she said.\n\n\"You could be attacked with anything. You could be attacked with a book. What about scissors? Everybody has got scissors.\n\n\"What do they think will happen when the perpetrator finds the knives and asks what happened to the normal ones? It undermines the perpetrator from a psychological point of view.\n\n\"It's a huge red flag to them: 'Who did you tell?' It's going to cause an argument. [The police have] not thought that through.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by dee dee This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSamantha Billingham, from the Survivors of Domestic Abuse support group, said perpetrators will still be able to seriously hurt victims using the knife.\n\nShe said abusers could use other household objects and she had been attacked with a kettle cord.\n\n\"I think it's quite ludicrous. The blade of the knife is still there so that can cause significant harm to the victim. Abusers will use anything at all to inflict pain on their victim.\n\n\"I don't think they've actually spoken to people who have been in that situation, because survivors can see dangers that maybe others don't.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSupt Matt McFarlane, the force's new knife crime strategy manager, said some of the critics had \"got the whole idea wrong\".\n\n\"It's a very small trial, and it will always be part of a much wider range of measures that we are doing to safeguard and protect that victim,\" he said.\n\n\"We will simply have these as an offer to somebody in appropriate circumstances and they can have them if they think they want them.\n\n\"We can debate something theoretically or from a psychological perspective all day long. Sometimes you need to try something and see if it works or not.\"\n\nThe force has bought 100 knives and these have already been offered to victims, but the force has not yet \"assessed how many have taken them up\".\n\n\"We will assess the number that have been given at the end of the year and assess if we continue,\" said Supt McFarlane.\n\nNottinghamshire Police has bought 100 of the knives\n\nRetired judge Nic Madge said the trial \"could save lives\".\n\n\"Most violent offences are committed on the spur of the moment,\" he said. \"People pick up the closest thing they can find, and in the kitchen, the closest thing they find is often a pointed kitchen knife.\"\n\nOne domestic abuse survivor told the Nottingham Post the idea was \"100% positive\".\n\nFiona McCulloch told the newspaper: \"To have a blunt knife in my situation, it would have taken that risk away. It is like you are taking away their options and the more you can take away, the better.\"\n\nNottinghamshire Police works with Women's Aid to help domestic abuse victims but the charity did not wish to comment when contacted by the BBC.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "Police appealed for people to take care on the roads due to heavy rain\n\nA warning of heavy rain has been lifted, but showers are expected to continue into Thursday evening.\n\nThe weather warning for north east Wales was lifted at 12:00 BST on Thursday.\n\nOn Wednesday, two children were among four people rescued through the roof of a car after it was swept into a river following heavy rain.\n\nPolice appealed for people to take care with the difficult conditions on the roads after crashes on the A55 and M4.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEmergency services and council officials set up a central command centre at North Wales Police headquarters, Colwyn Bay, to co-ordinate efforts due to flooding affecting some properties and roads.\n\nRail services were also affected with Transport for Wales advising passengers to check the status of services before travelling.\n\nDenbighshire council said bus services to Llanarmon yn Ial would not operate until further notice.\n\nIn south Wales, police asked motorists to \"slow down and allow more time for your journey\" after a car crashed near junction 37 on the M4.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by matt hellen 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOn Wednesday, the River Alyn burst its banks at Rossett, Wrexham, where it was recorded at its highest level - 2.11m (6ft 10in) - since a new gauge was installed in 2010.\n\nMore than 60mm (2.3in) of rain fell in parts of north Wales on Tuesday night - June typically has about 85mm (3.3in) in total. Powys had 24-25mm (up to 1in) in the last 24 hours.\n\nNatural Resources Wales has several flood alerts in place across north Wales and Powys.\n\nThe weather warning was in place until 12:00 on Thursday and covers much of north east Wales\n\nJonathan Edwards returned to his house on Thursday morning to start the clean-up work after it was flooded on Wednesday, along with six other homes in Pentre, Deeside.\n\n\"All the floors are ruined completely and have to come out throughout the house,\" he said.\n\n\"I'm going to start stripping it all out today and see what damage has been done.\"\n\nHe said he phoned his insurers to start the claims process but had to hang up to continue pumping out water yesterday.\n\n\"I was more concerned with keeping the water out,\" he told Claire Summers on BBC Radio Wales.\n\nAlmost 5cm (2in) of water entered Jonathan Edwards' home on Deeside\n\nThe garden of The Alyn pub in Wrexham was flooded on Wednesday\n• None Four rescued as car swept into river", "Nick Knowles said he now puts his phone in the boot to avoid the \"temptation\" of using it\n\nDIY SOS host Nick Knowles has been banned from driving for six months and fined nearly £1,500 for speeding and using a mobile phone at the wheel.\n\nKnowles, 56, previously admitted the two driving offences and was sentenced at Cheltenham Magistrates' Court.\n\nHe was caught driving at 85mph in a 70mph zone in a Range Rover and using his phone on 28 January.\n\nKnowles told the court he had a hands-free kit in his car but was holding his mobile due to a \"dodgy power lead\".\n\nPresiding justice Andrew Hill told the former I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! contestant the ban would be enforced as it would not cause him \"exceptional hardship\".\n\nMr Hill said: \"From this moment in time, you are not able to drive any motor vehicle in any public place.\"\n\nKnowles, of Cirencester, Gloucestershire, asked: \"I can drive home, right?\" to which Mr Hill replied: \"No.\"\n\nThe DIY SOS host will not be able to drive for six months\n\nThe court heard he was caught speeding on the A417 Brockworth Bypass by a mobile camera at 10:55 GMT.\n\nAs Knowles' vehicle approached the camera, its operator could see he had \"his left hand held up to his face\" and \"continued to do so until he was 20 metres from the enforcement van\".\n\nKnowles, representing himself, said he had chosen to \"dismiss\" legal advice to attempt to \"get by on a technicality\".\n\nHe added: \"I was travelling faster than I should have done...I had fallen into the habit of looking at texts. I now put my phone in the boot of my car.\"\n\nAfter the magistrates retired to consider sentencing, Gloucestershire's police and crime commissioner Martin Surl entered the courtroom.\n\nHe told Knowles: \"I just called by to say thank you for doing the responsible thing.\"\n\nKnowles replied that driving while using a phone could be \"highly dangerous\", and he often worked with the police.\n\n\"Given all that background, it would be pompous and irresponsible of me to try and get off,\" he said.\n\nThe presenter received six points on his licence for the offence, which resulted in a driving ban as he already had six points on it.\n\nHe was fined £666 for speeding and £666 for using his phone, with a victim surcharge of £66 and prosecution costs of £85.\n\nSpeaking outside court, Knowles said: \"For me, this was a wake-up call and me putting my phone in the boot of my car now stops the temptation.\n\n\"The six-month ban was appropriate because to give anything else would be giving me special privilege.\"\n\nKnowles said he hoped his case would make other people alter their behaviour.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Brenton Tarrant in his first court appearance in March\n\nThe main suspect in the Christchurch attacks in March, has pleaded not guilty to all charges.\n\nBrenton Tarrant is charged with the murder of 51 people, 40 counts of attempted murder and one terrorism charge in New Zealand's deadliest peace time mass shooting.\n\nAppearing via video link from prison, the 28-year-old Australian sat silently as his lawyer read out his plea.\n\nThe 15 March attack saw a gunman open fire on Muslims during Friday prayers.\n\nThis is the first time a terrorism charge has been brought in New Zealand.\n\nA number of the survivors of the attack and relatives of the victims were in court for the hearing, the BBC's Sydney correspondent Hywel Griffith reported.\n\nAs lawyer Shane Tait read out his client's not guilty pleas, a number of those present gasped and became tearful.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Maryam Gul says she has forgiven the man who killed her brother and parents\n\nHigh Court Justice Cameron Mander said the trial had been set for 4 May next year, and that Mr Tarrant would be remanded in custody until a case review hearing on 16 August.\n\nAt his last court appearance in April, he was ordered to undergo mental health assessments to determine whether he was fit to stand trial.\n\nJudge Mander said in a statement on Friday: \"No issue arises regarding the defendant's fitness to plead, to instruct counsel, and to stand his trial. A fitness hearing is not required.\"\n\nLast week, a restriction on publishing photos of the suspect's face was lifted.\n\nThe suspect was arrested on 15 March for his alleged involvement in the shootings at the Al Noor mosque and the Linwood Islamic Centre, both located in Christchurch.\n\nHe allegedly drove first to the Al Noor mosque, parked nearby and began firing into the mosque as he walked in through the front entrance.\n\nHe allegedly fired on men, women and children inside for about five minutes. The attack was live-streamed from a head-mounted camera.\n\nFifty-one people lost their lives in the shootings at two mosques in the city. Here are some of their stories.\n\nThe suspect then allegedly drove about 5km (three miles) to the Linwood mosque and killed more people.\n\nAddressing the nation in the wake of the attack, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern called it one of the country's \"darkest days\".\n\nThe gunman, armed with semi-automatic rifles including an AR-15, is believed to have modified his weapons with high-capacity magazines - the part of the gun which stores ammunition - so they could hold more bullets.\n\nHe is currently being kept in isolation at the Auckland Prison in Paremoremo, considered New Zealand's toughest prison.\n• None The people killed as they prayed", "Researchers have uncovered the earliest known evidence of cannabis use, from tombs in western China.\n\nThe study suggests cannabis was being smoked at least 2,500 years ago, and that it may have been associated with ritual or religious activities.\n\nTraces of the drug were identified in wooden burners from the burials.\n\nThe cannabis had high levels of the psychoactive compound THC, suggesting people at the time were well aware of its effects.\n\nCannabis plants have been cultivated in East Asia for their oily seeds and fibre from at least 4,000 BC.\n\nBut the early cultivated varieties of cannabis, as well as most wild populations, had low levels of THC and other psychoactive compounds.\n\nThe burners, or braziers, were found at Jirzankal Cemetery, high up in the Pamir Mountains.\n\nThe scientists think ancient people put cannabis leaves and hot stones in the braziers and inhaled the resulting smoke.\n\nTomb M12, where the wooden burner was found\n\nIt's possible the high altitude environment caused the cannabis plants in this region to naturally produce higher levels of THC. There's evidence this can happen in response to low temperatures, low nutrient levels and other conditions associated with high elevations.\n\nBut people could have deliberately bred plants with higher levels of THC than wild varieties.\n\nIt's the earliest clear evidence of cannabis being used for its psychoactive properties. The plants appear to have been burnt as part of funerary rituals.\n\nThe scientists used a method called gas chromatography-mass spectrometry to isolate and identify compounds preserved in the burners.\n\nTo their surprise, the chemical signature of the isolated compounds was an exact match to the chemical signature of cannabis.\n\nThe findings tally with other early evidence for the presence of cannabis from burials further north, in the Xinjiang region of China and in the Altai Mountains of Russia.\n\nIn addition, tests on human bones from the cemetery show that some of the people here did not grow up locally.\n\nNicole Boivin, director at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany, said: \"The findings support the idea that cannabis plants were first used for their psychoactive compounds in the mountainous regions of eastern Central Asia, thereafter spreading to other regions of the world.\"\n\nThe study is published in the journal Science Advances.", "Scottish Green Party co-convener Patrick Harvie tries to raise another point of order saying a member is allowed to give way to another member for an intervention and cannot be instructed by the chair to take one.\n\nPresiding Officer Ken Macintosh says Linda Fabiani did not instruct Mr Ruskell to take an intervention.\n\nThe incident was handled absolutely rightly, he says.", "Two-thirds of students support universities being able to warn parents if students have a mental health crisis, an annual survey suggests.\n\nThere have been concerns about student suicides and the survey indicated worsening levels of anxiety on campus.\n\nOnly 14% reported \"life satisfaction\", in this study of 14,000 UK students.\n\nAnd most thought even though students were independent adults, universities should in an emergency be allowed to disclose information to parents.\n\nPublished by the Higher Education Policy Institute (Hepi) and Advance HE, this is one of the biggest annual reports into the views of those currently studying in the UK's universities.\n\nThe 2019 survey showed continuing concerns about students' well-being - with just 18% saying they were happy, 17% saying their life was \"worthwhile\" and only 16% having low levels of anxiety, with all these student figures being considerably worse than for the rest of their age group.\n\nIt showed 66% supported universities being able to share concerns with parents or a trusted adult if there were \"extreme\" problems - and a further 15% thought universities should be able to contact parents in \"any circumstances\" where there were mental health worries.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. James Murray speaking in 2019 about involving parents when students are in serious need of support\n\nThere were 18% who thought universities should never be allowed to get in touch with parents.\n\nThe University of Bristol, which has faced a number of student suicides, has a scheme in which students can opt-in to allowing parents or trusted adults to be contacted - with a take-up of 95%.\n\nBen Murray, after the death of his son James who was a student at Bristol, has worked with the university on improving support.\n\n\"Mental health has been ignored for too long and we need to encourage disclosure at exactly the time when young adults need it most - transitioning from school to university,\" said Mr Murray.\n\nNick Hillman, director of Hepi, said the survey showed the pressure that some students could feel from being \"away from friends and family\" and how some struggled with the \"big break\" from home.\n\nReport author Jonathan Neves said it showed how students felt \"under a lot of pressure\".\n\nSir Anthony Seldon, vice-chancellor of the University of Buckingham, said: \"The survey dispels the fiction that students don't want their parents and guardians involved.\n\n\"It's incredibly difficult for many students to transition to university. And having parents and guardians more involved when appropriate is good sense, and can only help, including helping save lives,\" said Sir Anthony.\n\nLast month, Prime Minister Theresa May welcomed a report from Philip Augar calling for a cut in tuition fees in England - saying the maximum should be reduced from £9,250 to £7,500 per year.\n\nThe survey showed that for the 29% of students who thought they were getting \"poor\" or \"very poor\" value for money, the biggest factor was the level of fees.\n\nThe proportion saying they were getting \"good\" or \"very good\" value had risen - but only to 41%.\n\nChris Skidmore, the universities minister, said that if fees were reduced as the Augar review recommended, then there would need to be \"top-up\" funding for universities to replace the lost income.\n\nSpeaking at the Hepi conference, he said that improving funding for further education should not be at the expense of higher education, saying \"you can't rob Peter to pay Paul\".\n\nHe argued that there should be more students going to university rather than less - and he reiterated his opposition to setting a minimum grade threshold, such as requiring students to get a least three D grades at A-level.\n\nMr Skidmore said this would be an unfair block on those who did not have the opportunity to get good A-levels at school, but who \"flourished later on in life\".\n\nThe student satisfaction survey showed that within the UK, students in Scotland, where there are no fees for Scottish students, were much more likely to think they had good value, compared with those in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nThe most common driving factor for those with positive views was the quality of teaching - and the report suggested improving teaching was the way to increase perceptions of good value.\n\nBut the survey showed the average number of \"contact hours\", where students are directly taught in class, had not increased significantly - from 13.4 hours per week in 2015 to 13.9 hours this year.\n\nMr Hillman said the survey showed \"students want to be stretched, they want clearer feedback and they want more support for mental health challenges\".", "Passengers were stranded on a Nottingham to London service after a landslide near Corby tunnel\n\nPassengers rescued from a flood-hit train became stuck near the scene on a second train that came to rescue them.\n\nThe 14:34 London to Nottingham service on Thursday was stopped due to a landslip near Corby, Northamptonshire.\n\nAbout 500 passengers spent up to eight hours stuck on the trains before they were finally rescued.\n\nElsewhere, the RAF was called in to help block a break in a river bank causing severe flooding at Wainfleet All Saints, Lincolnshire.\n\nOne hundred people had to be evacuated from their homes. The county council said the river breach presented a \"risk to residents\".\n\nThe River Steeping breached its banks near Wainfleet All Saints in Lincolnshire after persistent heavy rainfall\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Shaun West of Lincolnshire Police said the RAF helicopter crews would be working during the night.\n\nPassengers on the London to Nottingham train were transferred to a second train which stopped alongside, but that could not leave the area because of flooding.\n\nEast Midlands Trains said the second train had been diverted on to the flooded line because of trespassing on its usual route.\n\nFood and water ran out and paramedics had to board to treat a woman who had collapsed.\n\nA train company spokeswoman apologised for the delay, and thanked passengers for their \"patience and understanding\", and Network Rail and the emergency services for their help during a \"very challenging situation\".\n\n\"All customers have now been safely evacuated from the site of the flooding and are now being transferred by road and rail to their destinations,\" she said.\n\n\"Our staff are assisting in every way possible, including arranging hotel rooms for any customers who cannot reach their final destination tonight.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by East Midlands Trains This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWainfleet resident Jean Hart posted a picture of the flood waters in her bathroom\n\nLincolnshire County Council issued guidance to residents in Wainfleet which included advice on not using domestic toilets as this would add \"pressure to the system\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Paul Murphy This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Environment Agency has issued dozens of flood warning and alerts across the country.\n\nThe majority were across the Midlands and North West, although they extended as far as Northumberland and Christchurch in Dorset.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. RAF helicopter assessing whether it can drop ballast to block a breach in the river bank.\n\nThe River Steeping also burst its banks at Thorpe St Peter near Skegness, Lincolnshire, on Wednesday night.\n\nLincolnshire County Council said the equivalent of two months' rain had fallen in the area in two days.\n\nJean Hart, who has lived in the town for 40 years, said it was the worst flooding she had ever seen.\n\nJean Hart has been reunited with her cat Aurora after being evacuated from her home\n\n\"To see our house under water is absolutely horrendous,\" she said.\n\n\"The whole of my house is completely devastated.\n\n\"Last night when we got back here I didn't realise I was just sobbing, but I didn't even know I was crying to be honest.\"\n\nEmergency services have rescued her tortoise Mr T from her home, and she had earlier been reunited with her cat Aurora.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRail services between Skegness and Boston are suspended until Saturday due to flooding, while Merseyrail has cancelled some trains on the Chester and Ellesmere Port lines because of water on the tracks at Hooton.\n\nMusic fans have been leaving the \"Drownload\" Festival at Donington Park early because of the soggy ground and mud.\n\nMotorists including a minibus of Indian tourists became trapped at Lambley, near Nottingham, overnight and were taken in by local residents.\n\nResident Malcolm Bamford said: \"We had two in our house and the neighbours had three, and then there was a group of about eight Indian tourists in a little tiny bus and they all wanted to use the toilet.\"\n\nRail tracks were flooded at Hooton in Cheshire\n\nIn Derby, Oakwood Infant and Nursery school will now be closed until Monday because of flood damage.\n\nNational Rail Enquiries said heavy rain had flooded the tracks between Whitlocks End, near Solihull, and Stratford-upon-Avon.\n\nChillingham in Northumberland had 73mm of rainfall over a 28-hour period - more than the 66.4mm average for the whole of June.\n\nElsewhere, Waddington in Lincolnshire saw nearly 40mm fall over a period of 14 hours, while over the same period Coleshill in Warwickshire had 30mm fall and 31mm was seen at Astwood Bank, Worcestershire.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Strikes will be held on 26 June, 22 July and 6 August\n\nWorkers at the Scottish Qualifications Authority are to stage three one-day strikes, including on exam results day.\n\nThe Unite union had agreed to suspend action amid a restructuring dispute.\n\nBut it has now confirmed walkouts on 26 June and 22 July, plus an overtime ban in the week leading up to results day on 6 August.\n\nThe union says staff were left in unsuitable roles and a redundancies agreement was breached. The SQA said it was \"committed\" to addressing issues.\n\nThe authority also said it would ensure pupils would receive their results on time.\n\nAn SQA spokesman said: \"The SQA is fully committed to ensuring that candidates receive their results on time. We have an established governance framework in place, where progress and risks are managed, supported by robust contingency plans.\"\n\nThe SQA is adamant that pupils will get their results on time\n\nPlanned strike action at the SQA may be worrying for candidates but as things currently stand it is unlikely to stop results being available on time.\n\nThe SQA is adamant this will simply not happen. But ensuring the results are not delayed may well cause the organisation a very real headache and things may not go to plan.\n\nThe union knows full well that this risk in itself is a powerful weapon.\n\nThe action should not affect the marking of the exam papers. Markers are not involved in this dispute.\n\nThe potential impact of the industrial action is on the administrative processes which ensure that the correct results are collated and sent out on time. This is a real risk.\n\nA strike on results day itself would be largely symbolic in that respect.\n\nThe question is whether the strikes beforehand and the work to rule in the week leading up to the results cause some delays or backlogs.\n\nThe results are collated and ready a few days before candidates receive them. This can provide some slack, but the deadlines are still tight.\n\nUnite alleges the restructuring issues \"contributed to a lack of trust and confidence in management\".\n\nThe union claims that staff were left without specific job roles and that others \"had no option\" but to accept unsuitable roles.\n\nIt stated that if significant progress was not made, then it would trigger the 14-day legal notification for industrial action.\n\nUnite held a ballot and 90% of members who turned out voted to strike.\n\nAn overtime ban will also be in place in the week leading up to the day pupils are expected to get their results.\n\nAs part of the restructuring process, the SQA launched a voluntary redundancy process which recently ended.\n\nAs a result, 62 workers were approved for redundancy, which Unite said was equivalent to 8% of the workforce.\n\nUnite claimed the exercise was concluded \"without proper or timely consultation\" and breached an existing agreement with the union .\n\nAlison MacLean, Unite regional industrial officer, said: \"The situation beggars belief, the workforce are already stressed, demoralised and dismayed. Now to add insult to injury, staff may be expected to pick up additional work.\n\n\"Let's be crystal clear here - this dispute has been created, directed and exacerbated at every turn by SQA mismanagement and incompetence of the highest order.\n\n\"Unless immediate action is taken to address our members' legitimate concerns, then more days of action will be inevitable.\"\n\nAn SQA spokesman said: \"We are committed to working in partnership with the Unite union and have made significant progress on the process that is undertaken in a restructure.\n\n\"We are also committed to listen to, and address, the important issues that have been raised by its members. We are focussed on relationship building and moving forward, together, into the future.\n\n\"SQA has also concluded its Voluntary Early Release scheme. As an organisation, we continue to evolve our products and services to meet the changing needs of our stakeholders and customers, such as the need to make cost efficiencies.\n\n\"The scheme has created opportunities for employees to be considered for voluntary early release from the organisation with financial compensation, where this is of mutual benefit to the employee and to SQA.\"", "Nearly three-quarters of people caught with knives and offensive weapons in England and Wales in the last year were first-time offenders, figures show.\n\nMinistry of Justice data for the year to March show 72% of those stopped had not been previously dealt with by the courts or police for such an offence.\n\nOverall 22,041 knife or weapon offences were recorded, the highest number since 2010 - and a 34% increase on 2015.\n\nThe total number of first-time offences rose between 2014 and 2019.\n\nBut the proportion of first-time offenders is actually at its lowest level since 2009 as the number of arrests of people with previous convictions has gone up by a greater degree.\n\nThe MoJ figures come amid a national debate on the issue of knife crime, following a spate of assaults and killings involving young people.\n\nThey show the offences were committed by 14,183 first-time offenders and 5,653 people with at least one previous knife or weapon crime to their name.\n\nOne in five of those convicted or cautioned was aged between 10 and 17, a slight fall on the previous year.\n\nAbout 37% of offenders were jailed - the same as last year.\n\nThe average jail sentence rose from 7.2 to 7.9 months for adults - and from 5.9 to 7.7 months for 16 and 17-year-olds.\n\nThe latest available figures for Scotland, released by the Scottish Government, show that convictions for handling offensive weapons - such as knives - dropped for the 10th consecutive year in 2017-18, falling by 1% to 1,451.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Knife crime: What's it like to be stabbed?\n\nCharlotte Pickles, from the Reform think tank, said the figures suggested tougher sentences were not an answer to knife crime, adding: \"Politicians focusing on law enforcement are mistaken - you cannot arrest your way out of this.\"\n\nShe said the root causes of poverty, school exclusion, poor mental health and drugs must be addressed.\n\nJaved Khan, chief executive of the charity Barnardo's, said: \"Knife crime is a symptom of a much bigger problem. When young people feel there is little or no possibility of a positive future... they are vulnerable to exploitation and criminality.\"\n\nDiana Fawcett from Victim Support, said: \"It's so important to remember that behind these statistics are victims, bereaved families and friends, witnesses and communities who have all been left devastated.\"\n\nA close look at the data suggests that, in terms of knives and objects with blades, a record was set in the first three months of 2019 for the number of possession cases dealt with by police and the courts.\n\nThere were 3,682 offences - the highest quarterly total since the statistics were first compiled in 2007.\n\nThe figure, which is an estimate because of the time for some cases to be processed in the system, has been above or near the 3,000 mark for three years.\n\nIt clearly reflects the surge in knife crime, particularly in large cities, as well as increased police action to tackle the problem.\n\nFor example, in the Metropolitan Police, the number of stop-and-searches has rocketed, from 10,940 in March 2018 to 26,913 a year later.\n\nSearches that month led to 514 weapons offences, which may go some way to explaining the record possession figures nationally.\n\nJustice minister Robert Buckland said the government was committed to doing everything in its power to stop knife crime and its devastating consequences.\n\nHe added the Offensive Weapons Act, which came into effect last month, would make it harder for young people to buy knives and help the police target those most at risk of being drawn into violence.\n\nMore than 100 people have been fatally stabbed in the UK so far this year. The motives and circumstances behind killings have varied - as have the age and gender of the victims.", "Youssef Zaghba told airport authorities he was going to Turkey in 2016 to be a terrorist, the court heard\n\nMI5 may have missed the chance to connect two of the London Bridge attackers before they struck because of admin errors, a senior officer said.\n\nYoussef Zaghba was stopped at Bologna airport in 2016 after telling staff he was going to Turkey to be a terrorist.\n\nItalian authorities asked Britain for more information on him but MI6 sent the request to the wrong person in MI5 and it was never acted on.\n\nZaghba and two accomplices killed eight people in the attacks on 3 June 2017.\n\nThey were shot dead by police after driving a van into pedestrians on London Bridge and stabbing people in and around Borough Market.\n\nThe senior MI5 officer - identified as Witness L - was giving evidence at the Old Bailey at the inquests into the victims' deaths.\n\nThe court heard how Zaghba was stopped at the airport in March 2016, , on his way to Istanbul.\n\nAsked why he was going to Turkey, he said to be \"a terrorist\" before quickly changing his answer to \"tourist\", the court heard.\n\nThe Italian authorities put him on a Europe-wide serious crime watch list. However, MI5 were not aware of this because he had not been flagged as a cross-border national security risk.\n\nThe month after Zaghba was stopped at the airport, Italian officials asked the UK's overseas spy agency, MI6, a series of questions relating to him.\n\nWitness L, who is head of policy, strategy and capability for MI5's international counter-terrorism branch, told the court MI6 did not translate the Italian request for two months - and then sent it to the wrong person in MI5.\n\nGiving evidence shielded from public view, Witness L told the court that individual did not file or act on the memo.\n\n\"I suspect this was probably a misunderstanding,\" he said.\n\n\"I suspect the individual to whom it was sent did not understand they needed to take any action at all. No response was given to the Italian authorities as far as I am aware,\" he added.\n\nThe inquest heard previously that MI5 had been investigating another attacker, Khuram Butt, since 2015, but did not learn of his association with Zaghba until after the attack.\n\nWitness L accepted it was \"possible\" the administrative errors in Zaghba's case had denied MI5 an opportunity to link him with Butt.\n\nHe said had it received the Italian request, it would most likely have replied asking for more details about Zaghba - but that it was \"unlikely\" to have launched an active investigation into him.\n\nHe said: \"Flagging as a person of interest, particularly as they came in and out of the UK border, feels more likely.\"\n\nThe victims of the London Bridge attack (clockwise from top left): Christine Archibald, Sebastien Belanger, Kirsty Boden, Ignacio Echeverria, Sara Zelenak, Xavier Thomas, Alexandre Pigeard, James McMullan\n\nThe lawyer representing six of the victims' families had previously told the court there had been missed opportunities to prevent the attack.\n\nXavier Thomas, 45, Chrissy Archibald, 30, Sara Zelenak, 21, Sebastien Belanger, 36, James McMullan, 32, Kirsty Boden, 28, Alexandre Pigeard, 26, and Ignacio Echeverria, 39, were all killed by the trio.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Barry Sheerman asks Theresa May if she will give her successors \"a bit of the medicine that they've given her\".\n\nTheresa May has said she will remain in Parliament as MP for Maidenhead after stepping down as prime minister.\n\nMrs May told the Commons she would sit on the backbenches after she leaves office at the end of July.\n\nHer predecessor, David Cameron, stood down as an MP within months of leaving No 10, while Tony Blair triggered a by-election on the same day as quitting.\n\nBut other prime ministers, most notably Ted Heath, have remained in Parliament for decades after giving up power.\n\nMr Heath hung around in the Commons for 26 years after quitting as Tory leader in 1975, enjoying a famously tense and terse relationship with his successor, Margaret Thatcher.\n\nBoth Sir John Major and Gordon Brown served full parliamentary terms as backbench MPs after their election defeats in 1997 and 2010 respectively.\n\nAnd another former prime minister, Alec Douglas-Home, returned to high office as foreign secretary six years after leaving Downing Street.\n\nMrs May was asked about her future intentions by veteran Labour MP Barry Sheerman during Prime Minister's Questions.\n\nPraising her sense of duty, Mr Sheerman urged her not to \"cut and run\" but instead to stick around in Parliament in order to \"give some of the people who will take over after her a bit of the medicine they have given her\".\n\nTo cheers from the Conservative benches, Mrs May replied: \"I will indeed be staying in the chamber of the House of Commons because I will continue as the member of Parliament for my constituency.\"\n\nShe has represented the Berkshire seat of Maidenhead since 1997.\n\nWhen he gave up his Witney seat in 2016, Mr Cameron said he did not want to get in the way of his successor or be a focal point for arguments over Brexit.\n\nOnce upon a time, prime ministers historically accepted peerages after their retirement and saw out the remainder of their political lives in relative obscurity in the House of Lords.\n\nHowever, this has become far less common in recent decades, with ex-prime ministers remaining more active in public life, combining charitable activities with earning money on the lecture circuit and making increasingly frequent political interventions.", "Four of the five teaching unions have been in a dispute over pay and workload\n\nTeaching unions and employers have reached an agreement in principle to end long-running industrial action.\n\nHowever it has to be approved by individual union members and the Departments of Education and Finance.\n\nBBC News NI previously revealed that teachers were to be offered a 4.25% rise, backdated over two years as part of the settlement.\n\nExtra funding for any pay rise, though, has yet to be secured.\n\nSchool principals received a joint statement from the unions and employers in an email from Sara Long of the Education Authority (EA) and Gerry Campbell of the Council for Catholic Maintained Schools (CCMS).\n\nThe long-running dispute over teachers' pay and workload seems to be moving towards a conclusion.\n\nHowever, there are still hurdles to be overcome.\n\nTeachers will have to agree to the package they are being offered, when they are finally consulted on it.\n\nAnd the Department of Education will have to be provided with extra money to fund the proposed pay rise.\n\nMs Long and Mr Campbell have been among the employer representatives negotiating with the teaching unions.\n\nFour of the five teaching unions have been in a dispute with the department over pay and workload.\n\nMany of their members have also been refusing to co-operate with school inspections since 2017.\n\nPrincipals were asked to share the joint statement with all teachers in their school.\n\nUnions say salaries for teachers in NI are falling behind their counterparts in England and Wales\n\nBBC News NI understands there are a number of elements to the in-principle settlement including pay, reforms to the school inspection process and reviews into areas like teachers' workload.\n\nThe statement said that exact details of the proposed agreement could not yet be revealed.\n\n\"Upon receipt of a formal offer, the individual teachers' unions represented on the Northern Ireland Teaching Council will make their own arrangements for consultation with their members,\" it said.\n\n\"The formal offer, if accepted, will bring an end to the current industrial action in relation to teachers' pay and workload.\n\n\"In the eventuality of a formal offer being agreed, there will be a carefully managed and supported transition towards revised working practices in schools.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The greater Bermuda land snail is back from the brink\n\nThousands of critically endangered snails have been released into the wild after being rescued from the edge of extinction, with a little help from a British zoo.\n\nThe greater Bermuda land snail was thought to have disappeared for many years until an empty shell turned up in the territory's capital city, Hamilton.\n\nLive snails were then found among litter in a nearby alleyway.\n\nSome were flown to Chester Zoo for a unique breeding programme.\n\nMore than 4,000 snails raised at the zoo have now been taken back to the island and released.\n\nMany more captive snails will soon be returned to their homeland to help give the species a new lease of life.\n\nMark Outerbridge, a wildlife ecologist for the Bermuda government, said the snail was a \"Lazarus species\", which was considered extinct not so long ago.\n\nThen, in 2014, a man walked into his office in the capital, Hamilton, holding a fresh snail shell.\n\n\"It turned out that, yes, this was in fact the greater Bermuda land snail, a species that we thought had gone extinct 40 years earlier,\" he said.\n\n\"He came back the next day with a fresh one, a live one in his hand, and that's how I was thrust into this conservation project.\"\n\nA small but thriving population of land snails was discovered behind a restaurant. The gastropods were living among litter - specifically inside thrown-away plastic bags - in a \"dank wet alley\", surrounded by four-storey buildings.\n\nThe alleyway where the snails were rediscovered\n\nWater dripping from air conditioning units had created an environment where the animals could survive unnoticed.\n\n\"It turned out that the plastic bags were one of the favourite places for these snails to hang out, because of course it retained the moisture the best - and the snails are very vulnerable to drying out,\" said Dr Outerbridge.\n\n\"And when we started picking up these plastic bags and unfolding them - literally they contained hundreds of juveniles and hatchling-sized snails.\"\n\nSome of the hatchlings were taken into captivity for breeding. Their offspring were later sent to Chester Zoo and the Zoological Society of London, where scientists were able to establish colonies.\n\nIt turns out that the snails are prolific breeders in captivity, with thousands of snails bred in a matter of years.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Zookeeper Amber Flewitt with one of her charges\n\n\"At the last count we've got somewhere around 13,000 snails - we've probably got more than that, they've had a lot of babies since then,\" said Amber Flewitt, of Chester Zoo, who cares for the snails.\n\nThe secret of breeding success, she said, was nice soil and their favourite foods, which include sweet potato and lettuce.\n\nThousands of the Chester Zoo snails have now been sent back to Bermuda for release in nature reserves.\n\nThe snails are thought to be doing well in their new home.\n\nDr Gerardo Garcia of Chester Zoo said that, following three years of intensive work, the zoo was proud to see the snails heading home.\n\n\"This is an animal that has been on this planet for a very long time and we simply weren't prepared to sit back and watch them become lost forever when we knew we might be able to provide a lifeline,\" he said.\n\nThe greater Bermuda land snail is unique to Bermuda and is part of an ancient lineage of land snail that dates back in time over one million years.\n\nOnce abundant on the islands that make up the territory of Bermuda, the population went through a dramatic decline during the 20th Century after being preyed on by invading killer snails.\n\nThe snails have been released on a nature reserve on the northern Nonsuch Island, which has snail-friendly habitats and no evidence of the main predators that nearly caused the animal's demise.\n\nThey will join a small wild population, estimated at a few hundred individuals. This makes the species more rare in the wild than the likes of the giant panda or mountain gorilla, according to Chester Zoo.\n\nA snail tagged so the population can be monitored for signs of recovery\n\nSome captive individuals have been fitted with fluorescent tags to monitor their recovery in the wild.\n\n\"Not only did they escape the axe of extinction but they have rebounded so well in captivity through breeding that now what we're doing is we're identifying islands in Bermuda that don't have the predators and reintroducing them to those islands, and our expectations are very high that they'll do well,\" said Dr Outerbridge.\n\nIn the case of this species, it was a matter of having to look literally under every rock and every log before writing the animal off, he added.", "Timothy Jones Jr seen in a Lexington court on 4 June\n\nA South Carolina father who killed his five children should be executed, a jury has agreed, ignoring a court plea for mercy from the victims' mother.\n\nAmber Kyzer said on Tuesday convicted murderer Tim Jones Jr, 37, \"did not show my children mercy by any means, but my kids loved him\".\n\nThe sentence came after prosecutors argued that life in prison would be like sending \"Timmy to his room\".\n\nSouth Carolina has not executed an inmate since 2011.\n\nThursday's unanimous decision was reached by the same jury that convicted Jones of the August 2014 slaying of the five children, aged one to eight.\n\n\"If I could personally rip his face off, I would,\" says mother Amber Kyzer\n\nHad the Lexington County panel of seven men and five women been unable to reach a unanimous decision, Jones would have been sentenced to life in prison.\n\nThe jurors agreed his fate after about two hours of deliberation on the 21st day of the trial.\n\nDuring sentencing arguments, prosecutors asked jurors to recall the shocking manner of the murders.\n\nJones admitting exercising his oldest child as a punishment until he collapsed and died.\n\nHe strangled the other four, before driving aimlessly around for nine days with the bodies in his car, dumping the remains in black bin bags in rural Alabama.\n\nJones drove around aimlessly for nine days with the children's bodies in his car\n\nDuring the trial, Jones' father, stepmother, sister and two brothers all took the stand to ask that he be given life without parole.\n\nJones' father removed his shirt to show the courtroom tattoos of his slain grandchildren.\n\nMs Kyzer also requested mercy for her ex-husband.\n\n\"He did not show my children any mercy by any means,\" she said. \"But my kids loved him and if I'm speaking on behalf of my kids and not myself, that's what I have to say.\"\n• None Mum seeks mercy for dad who killed five children", "Comic Relief is to send fewer celebrities abroad after criticism that stars like Stacey Dooley were going to Africa as \"white saviours\".\n\nThe charity's co-founder, screenwriter Richard Curtis, told MPs TV appeals \"will be heading in the direction of not using\" celebrities abroad.\n\nHe said they would be \"very careful to give voices to people\" who live there.\n\nMP David Lammy, who had criticised the Dooley film, praised the plan to move away from \"tired, harmful stereotypes\".\n\nEarlier this year, Comic Relief and Dooley - a documentary-maker and Strictly Come Dancing winner - were criticised after she travelled to Uganda to make an appeal film about the charity's work in the country.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCurtis, who wrote hit films including Four Weddings and a Funeral and Notting Hill, said: \"We heard the criticism, we were doing stuff to address it, we're accelerating the way that we address it.\"\n\nIn 2017, Ed Sheeran's video from Liberia for Comic Relief was handed a \"Rusty Radiator\" award, given to the \"most offensive and stereotypical fundraising video of the year\".\n\nCurtis told the House of Commons International Development Committee that this year's Comic Relief had included two films featuring UK celebrities in Africa - Dooley and the group of stars who climbed Mount Kilimanjaro.\n\n\"We are trying to do everything we can to raise the maximum amount of money for our projects internationally,\" he explained.\n\n\"But if it is felt that Comic Relief is so influential in terms of image that you start to send out the wrong image, and that people who live in this country with African backgrounds feel as though they're in some way demeaned or negatively affected by Comic Relief, then we really have to listen to that.\n\n\"What I'm searching for year by year is new ways of telling the stories. Traditionally, the sadder the film, the more money it makes, but I'm sure there must be a solution where you show such radiant joy and success that that would encourage you to give more money.\"\n\nAsked by MPs how Comic Relief would operate in the future, he replied that the charity was \"at a very interesting moment\" in learning lessons from successful online fundraising campaigns.\n\n\"We're not strong on that yet,\" he said. \"I imagine as we go into this new future, that will not be based on celebrities going abroad. I suspect we will start that new initiative not going that way.\n\n\"And then on the TV, I think we have to do what we think is best, and I think it will be heading in the direction of not using [celebrities abroad], and particularly being very careful to give voices to people abroad.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe said Comic Relief had not acted \"robustly\" to the criticism over the Dooley film because it was focused on raising money at the time.\n\nIn response, Labour MP Mr Lammy wrote on Twitter: \"Looks like Comic Relief are finally ready to listen to hundreds of thousands of my constituents and others who support aid but want to move on from the tired, harmful stereotypes and tropes that surround it and prevent genuine equity and partnership.\"\n\nKelsey Nielsen of pressure group No White Saviours, who works in Uganda, said Comic Relief had pledged to make such changes in the past, and now needs to put them into practice.\n\nIt needs to stop \"continuing this narrative that Africa is in need of the great white saviour and the great white influencers to come in,\" she told BBC News.\n\nCharities shouldn't stop sending people to Africa, but should do it in a way that's not \"manipulative or coercive\", she added. \"It's not about not helping and not caring, it's about the way it should be done.\n\n\"It's almost that idea that Africans should just be thankful for whatever help they get. That has a lot to do with the root of how we view each other. We would never tolerate that in our own countries, but because it's Africa we have a lower standard.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Dominic Raab says leadership candidates should be able to \"hold their nerve\" in a TV debate.\n\nThe former Brexit secretary made it through the first round of the Tory leadership contest in fourth place with 27 votes and said he had a \"strong base to build on\".\n\nBut he said the candidates needed to have a \"proper debate on the vision for the country\".\n\nHe told the BBC: \"There are a lot of candidates with a lot to offer but we are right at the beginning of this race.\n\n\"We haven’t really tested the visions, the ideas, the policies of all of the candidates, and I think the debates coming up… are a great opportunity to test the views.\n\n\"There is many a slip between a cup and the lip.\"\n\nMr Raab said the last leadership contest, that saw Theresa May take power, was a \"very quick coronation\", but \"once the adrenaline of the first froth and frenzy of this contest ebbs a little bit [you can] have a proper contest on the substance and the vision\".\n\nAnd what would he say to anyone considering not taking part in the TV debates?\n\n\"If you can't hold your nerve and take the heat of a leadership contest, what chance [do you have] under the glare of the light in Brussels?\"", "Ben Raemers has been described as one of the greatest British skateboarders ever. Last month he killed himself. His death has caused the soon-to-be Olympic sport to ask some difficult questions about mental health.\n\nBen Raemers was 10 when he first jumped on a skateboard, while living in his mum's flat in Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex.\n\nLike a lot of boys his age, he fell in love with the sport straightaway.\n\nHe bought his first skateboard at Argos, and within a few years, was regarded as one of the best skateboarders in the world.\n\n\"He saw these people skateboarding and he was like, 'Oh wow, that looks really fun,'\" his sister Lucy says.\n\n\"Then he came home and asked mum for a skateboard.\"\n\nIt quickly became obvious that Ben had a special talent.\n\nHe impressed friends and family with the ease with which he was able to do complicated tricks.\n\nHis interest in supporting his local skateboarding community soon got him noticed too.\n\n\"He got a petition started to get a skate park built at home. From then on, he was obsessed,\" Lucy says.\n\nLee Blackwell was friends with Ben for 18 years.\n\nHe was one of the first people to help Ben develop his skateboarding, taking him to some of the UK's biggest competitions when he was just 14.\n\n\"People really noticed Ben, you could not ignore him. He was just that good,\" says Lee.\n\nBen was 18 when he started to garner attention in America, competing and getting support from big brands, including shoe company Converse and skateboarding firm Enjoi.\n\n\"It is not common for British names to gain commercial success with huge American brands,\" says James Threlfall, a professional skateboarder.\n\n\"He is one of the most successful British skaters to ever cross over to America.\"\n\nBen was one of the few British skaters to be featured on the front cover of the most influential skateboarder magazine, Thrasher.\n\n\"One of his biggest achievements was winning the King of the Road competition,\" Lucy says.\n\n\"That was insane. He was doing tricks barefoot. No-one else was doing that.\"\n\nOr catch up with The Next Episode podcast online.\n\nLast week, skateboarders from around the world came together for his funeral.\n\nLeo Sharp, a skateboarder and photographer, said the loss of Ben has hit the skateboarding community hard.\n\n\"He was like a brother to so many skateboarders worldwide,\" he says. \"He will be sorely missed.\"\n\nHis death has also left some questions to be answered.\n\nBefore his death, Lucy says Ben had been struggling with mental health problems.\n\n\"He would ring me and say, 'I'm suicidal'. He was drinking loads. He was up and down the whole time. He tried to get help but he didn't want it and he just plummeted.\"\n\nLucy says there is a problem specific to the sport.\n\n\"Skateboarding involves a rock and roll lifestyle. You're skating and you're boozing. It's all fun.\n\n\"But with skateboarding you have a lot of spare time on your hands so it's easy to fall into a hole of addiction.\"\n\nBen enjoyed success in the US, appearing on the cover of skateboarding magazines\n\nHis death comes as skateboarding prepares to enter the Olympics for the first time.\n\nIt is one of five new sports that will be added to the Tokyo 2020 Games.\n\nSkateboard England, the sport's governing body, looks after both grassroots and elite skateboarders.\n\nIt has received investment from the Aspiration Fund - an initiative by the Department of Culture, Media and Sport to support skateboarders' ambitions to succeed in the 2020 Games in Tokyo.\n\nHowever, James Hope-Gill, chief executive of Skateboard England, says the body does not currently provide any mental health support for skateboarders.\n\nHe says this needs to change.\n\n\"This is certainly something we need to address and need to look at.\"\n\nLast week, BBC podcast The Next Episode featured Ben's death.\n\nSince then James says he has had a number of individuals approach him with offers of support.\n\nHe is looking to develop a mental health support system for skateboarders and is shortly sending one of his team on a \"Promoting Positive Mental Health in Sport\" workshop with Sport England.\n\nSkateboard England needs to \"explore and learn more about the mental health agenda\", he says.\n\nIf you are struggling with suicidal thoughts, contact the Samaritans on the free helpline 116 123, or click on this link to access support services.", "Almost two-thirds of homebuyers who used the government's Help to Buy scheme could have bought a home without it, an official report has said.\n\nHowever, they may not have been able to buy the house they wanted without the help, the report from the National Audit Office (NAO) found.\n\nIt also found that one in 25 of participants had household incomes of over £100,000.\n\nThe scheme did help boost the profits of building firms, the NAO said.\n\nIt was too early to determine if the scheme had delivered value for money for the taxpayer, the report said.\n\n\"Help To Buy has increased home ownership and housing supply, particularly for first-time buyers,\" Gareth Davies, head of the NAO, said.\n\n\"However, a proportion of participants could have afforded to buy a home without the government's help.\n\n\"The scheme has also exposed the government to significant market risk if property values fall, as well as tying up a significant public financial capacity.\n\n\"The government's greatest challenge now is to wean the property market off the scheme with as little impact as possible on its ambition of creating 300,000 homes a year by 2021,\" he said.\n\nThe scheme comes in two forms, Help to Buy loans and Help to Buy Individual Savings Accounts (Isas).\n\nIn the first version, the government lends up to 20% of the cost of a newly built property, or 40% within Greater London, so buyers need only a 5% deposit and a 75% mortgage to buy it.\n\nThose purchasing a new-build home are not charged interest for the first five years.\n\nThe Help to Buy ISA was launched later, in December 2015, and is open to first-time buyers in the UK.\n\nSavers receive a 25% bonus from the government when they withdraw the money they have saved to buy their first property. The maximum purchase price is £250,000, or £450,000 in London.\n\nThe maximum government bonus that someone can receive is £3,000, if they have saved £12,000.\n\n\"By 2023, the government will have invested up to £29bn in the scheme, tying up cash which cannot be used elsewhere,\" the NAO said.\n\nBigger firms made the most of the scheme.\n\nBetween 2013 and 2018 more than half the sales in England made by Redrow, Bellway, Taylor Wimpey, Barratt and Persimmon involved Help to Buy.\n\nPersimmon is the biggest beneficiary, with almost 15% of the sales made under the Help to Buy Scheme.\n\nPersimmon saw its annual profits top £1bn last year.\n\nLast year Persimmon's previous chief executive refused to answer questions about his £75m bonus, walking off-camera.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Last year Persimmon's previous chief executive refused to answer questions about his pay\n\nJeff Fairburn said it was \"unfortunate\" he had been asked about the payout, which was reduced from £100m after a public backlash.\n\nMike Amey, managing director of global investment management firm Pimco, has told the BBC that profit on a house sold by Persimmon had trebled since Help to Buy was introduced, \"roughly from £20,000 to £60,000\".\n\nFran Boait, executive director of campaigning body Positive Money, said: \"It's now beyond clear that rather than helping those who can't afford to buy a home, Help To Buy has mainly been a subsidy for a housing bubble, benefiting property developers and existing home owners.\"\n\nThe government's investment is expected to be returned from the scheme by 2032 after it closes in 2023. However, the size of the loans mean it is very much exposed to the performance of the housing market.\n\nFrom April 2021, the scheme will be restricted just to first-time buyers.", "Tory MPs have voted in the first round of the contest to select a new party leader and the next prime minister.\n\nA secret ballot was held in the House of Commons, with a result expected some time after 13:00 BST.\n\nOutgoing leader Theresa May refused to say which of the 10 contenders she had voted for, telling reporters: \"That's none of your business.\"\n\nAny candidate who fails to secure at least 17 MPs' votes will be eliminated from the contest.\n\nFurther ballots will be held next week, with the two most popular MPs moving to a run-off of Tory party members.\n\nThe winner of the contest to succeed Mrs May is expected to be announced in the week of 22 July.\n\nEsther McVey was the first candidate to cast her vote and Boris Johnson the last.\n\nMr Johnson - who launched his leadership campaign on Wednesday - is regarded as the frontrunner in the contest, with many more public endorsements from MPs than any of his rivals.\n\nIn his pitch to MPs, the former foreign secretary pledged to take the UK out of the EU by the end of October. He gave little detail of his plan but stressed it was not his aim to leave without a deal.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Jessica Parker explains how the new leader - and new PM - will be selected\n\nHe also defended what he called his straight-talking style, saying the public wanted to hear what politicians genuinely thought. But he dodged questions on whether he had ever taken cocaine.\n\nOne rival, Home Secretary Sajid Javid, described Mr Johnson as \"yesterday's news\".\n\n\"We need tomorrow's leader, today,\" he said. \"Not the same old insiders with the same old school ties - but a new generation, with a new agenda.\"\n\nMr Javid told BBC Radio 4's Today programme he wanted to leave the EU with a deal, but would choose no deal over no Brexit.\n\nHe said there needed to be changes to the controversial Irish backstop - designed to avoid a hard border on the island of Ireland - of either a time limit \"or some proper exit clause\", and UK government should offer to pay for any \"alternative arrangements\" for the border.\n\nMr Javid, Environment Secretary Michael Gove, former Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab and Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt have all received enough public endorsements to suggest they will make it through to the next round.\n\nThe remaining five candidates - Matt Hancock, Rory Stewart, Andrea Leadsom, Mark Harper and Ms McVey - are hoping to make it through and to build momentum.\n\nWhat we can say, in terms of the public declarations, is that Boris Johnson is way ahead with well over 80 nominations.\n\nThen at the bottom there are three or four candidates perhaps, who have been struggling to get to the mark they need to stay in the race, which is 16 votes (from other MPs).\n\nThere is Rory Stewart, who has been pitching himself at the left of the Tory party and has completely ruled out leaving the EU without a deal; Mark Harper, the former chief whip, and then two Brexiteers Esther McVey and Andrea Leadsom, on the other side of the party.\n\nAll four of those are in the danger zone. I think it's likely that at least two of those will go out.\n\nBut it is really hard to read: it is unpredictable and it's a secret ballot.\n\nMore than a quarter of the 313 Conservative MPs eligible to vote have yet to state openly whom they are supporting - and, with it being a secret ballot, MPs could vote differently to their declared intention.\n\nThe leadership race has so far been dominated by Brexit and arguments over whether a deal can be renegotiated with the EU by 31 October, and whether talking up a no-deal Brexit is a plausible promise.\n\nOn Wednesday afternoon, MPs rejected a Labour-led effort to take control of Parliament's timetable, thereby blocking the latest attempt to stop a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe Commons opposed the move by 309 votes to 298, prompting cheers from the Tory benches.\n\nIf passed, it would have given opponents of a no-deal Brexit the chance to table legislation to thwart the UK leaving without any agreement on the 31 October deadline.\n\nConservative former minister Sir Oliver Letwin, who has been behind a series of cross-party attempts to block a no-deal, said Parliament may have run out of options.\n\n\"On October 31, the UK leaves the EU regardless of whether we do or don't have a deal in place unless somebody does something to alter that,\" he told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme.\n\n\"We have run out of all the possibilities any of us can - at the moment anyway - think of for Parliament to be able to insist on having a view,\" he added.\n\nThursday's ballot is taking place under new rules agreed by the Conservative Party earlier this month designed to speed up the contest.\n\nAny candidate who fails to gain 5% of the vote in the first round will be out.\n\nIf all 10 candidates receive 17 votes, then the one with the fewest votes will drop out of the contest.\n\nIf the two weakest candidates receive the same number of votes, then a decision will be taken between them on how to proceed. The candidates are allowed to vote for themselves.\n\nSubsequent ballots are scheduled to take place on 18, 19 and 20 June to whittle down the contenders one by one until only two are left.\n\nThe final pair will then be put to a vote of members of the wider Conservative Party from 22 June, with the winner expected to be announced about four weeks later.\n\nThe winner of the contest to lead the Conservative Party will become the next prime minister. The contenders are:\n\nOn Tuesday 18 June BBC One will host a live election debate between the Conservative MPs still in the race.\n\nIf you would like to ask the candidates a question live on air, use the form below. It should be open to all of them, not a specific politician.\n\nIf you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic.", "Detectives searching for missing Emma Faulds have found a body in Dumfries and Galloway.\n\nMs Faulds, 39, from Kilmarnock, was last seen in Monkton, South Ayrshire, on Sunday 28 April.\n\nLast month Ross Willox, 39, was charged with Ms Faulds' murder. He made no plea and was remanded in custody.\n\nA Police Scotland spokeswoman said: \"On Wednesday, June 12, human remains were discovered in the Galloway Forest, Dumfries and Galloway.\"\n\nShe added: \"The family of Emma Faulds has been made aware of this discovery and police inquiries are ongoing.\"\n\nPolice officers were at the scene where the body was found\n\nPolice were concerned that she may have come to harm after she failed to contact her family and made no arrangements for the care of her pet dog.\n\nEarlier in the investigation specialist officers searched woodland near the village of Barrhill in South Ayrshire.\n\nThey also appealed for information about two cars known to have been on the A714 Girvan to Newton Stewart road around the time of her disappearance.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The retail tycoon said the media was to blame for the public's lack of trust in him\n\nSir Philip Green has thanked landlords and suppliers who backed the deal that saved his retail empire.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC, he batted away the suggestion the Topshop group had been on the point of going bust in typically combative style.\n\n\"It didn't come close to collapse - we won the vote.\"\n\nHe also defended pouring several hundred million pounds of his own money into Arcadia to keep it afloat, saying it had stopped \"an ugly car crash\".\n\n\"You don't want to see... all the people out of work when you could have assisted to rescue the business.\"\n\nHe did however acknowledge that the retail landscape had changed and that he had been slow to react.\n\n\"The market place has changed forever - people want a different kind of service. Should we have seen that three or four years ago - maybe. But now we need to get on with the job\"\n\nArcadia, whose brands also include Topman, Dorothy Perkins and Wallis, is hardly the first high street operator to suffer in recent years, but Sir Philip Green's one time status as \"King of the High Street\", a flamboyant lifestyle along with a series of allegations of racial and sexual harassment have singled him out for special attention.\n\nBut Sir Philip said that it was testament to the amount his suppliers trusted him that they continued to deliver stock to the stores when the company looked on the brink of administration.\n\nWhy then, does the British public not feel the same trust?\n\nHe said the media were to blame.\n\n\"Because you lot make them all... jealous, that's why - it's pretty basic. They don't like people who can write cheques.\" Sir Philip personally paid £363m into the pension scheme of BHS after the company he sold for £1 collapsed.\n\nGiven the bruising both his business and he personally have suffered in recent years, I asked him whether there was a moment when he considered throwing in the towel?\n\n\"People who know me know that's not my style - why would I want to do that.\"\n\nSir Philip's empire is diminished. Fifty out of 566 stores are to close and there may be more - but it is still intact. A huge relief for his thousands of workers.\n\nBut some wonder whether Sir Philip, who still calls the shots but rarely visits the UK and comes from a very different retailing era, is the right person to take this business into the future.\n\nHe, of course, disagrees.\n\n\"You can't get it all right. For a long time the company made a lot of money, and only in the last couple of years it fell off.\"\n\nHe added: \"We had votes on seven CVAs, and we won 7-0. This is a positive news story. Here is a business trading in 30 countries.\"", "Change UK has applied to the Electoral Commission to change its name following a dispute with the petitions website Change.org.\n\nThe party has written to the elections watchdog asking to be renamed The Independent Group for Change.\n\nIt says Change.org is threatening to sue its MPs unless the party alters its name by 15 June.\n\nChange UK - originally called the Independent Group - was formed in March by former Labour and Tory MPs.\n\nIn a statement, the party said it had agreed not to use the name permanently before May's European elections after the threat of personal legal action against its MPs, as it had \"no time left to register a new party name\".\n\nIt said it had since asked Change.org for more time to find a solution, but the website insisted the party must choose a new name \"without delay\".\n\nThe party registered as Change UK in April, when its application was approved by the Electoral Commission, although its favoured logo was rejected.\n\nIt lost lost six of its 11 MPs earlier this month following a disappointing performance in the EU elections, when it failed to get a single MEP elected.\n\nThe party announced that Anna Soubry had been elected new party leader after its interim leader, Heidi Allen, was among those who quit.\n\nAlong with Ms Soubry - a former Tory minister - the remaining Change UK MPs are Chris Leslie, Joan Ryan, Mike Gapes and Ann Coffey.\n• None Change UK loses six of its 11 MPs", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Who are the Conservative Party members?\n\nConservative MPs may have whittled the contenders in the leadership race down to the final two - but it will not be politicians who will decide who gets to be the next prime minister.\n\nInstead it will be the party's grassroots members who will decide which of Jeremy Hunt and Boris Johnson gets to succeed Theresa May.\n\nThey will do so in a postal ballot, with the winner announced in the week beginning 22 July.\n\nIn other words, it is members of the public - those who pay £25 a year to join the Conservative Party - who get the final say on who leads the country.\n\nThere will not be a general election because the party is already in power.\n\nSo, who are the Conservative Party's members and what do they think on key issues, not least, of course, Brexit?\n\nThe Conservative Party membership is currently thought to be around 160,000 - a rise of more than 30,000 in the past 12 months.\n\nThe last time official figures were released was in March 2018, when they put the figure at 124,000.\n\nThat is way down on the peak of nearly 3 million that the party boasted in the early 1950s.\n\nThe Tories have far fewer members than the Labour Party.\n\nEven if we assume that Labour's membership has fallen from the late 2017 peak of more than 550,000, it still has a huge advantage over the Conservatives when it comes to campaigning on the ground.\n\nRight now, however, none of that matters as much as the fact that those 160,000 or so rank-and-file members of the Conservative Party have a crucial role.\n\nThey are going to be choosing the next prime minister of a country of over 65 million people - something which has never happened before.\n\nFrom studies of the 124,000 members that the party had in 2018, we know quite a lot about who they are and their beliefs.\n\nMost members of most parties in the UK are pretty middle-class.\n\nBut Conservative Party members are the most middle-class of all: some 86% of them fall into the ABC1 category used by market researchers to describe the top social grade.\n\nAround a quarter of them are, or were, self-employed and nearly half of them work, or used to, in the private sector.\n\nNearly four out of 10 put their annual income at over £30,000, and one in 20 put it at over £100,000. As such, Tory members are considerably better-off than most voters and, indeed, the members of other parties.\n\nOn the other hand, the fact that 97% of Conservative Party members are white doesn't do much to distinguish them from their counterparts in other parties.\n\nIt does inevitably mean, however, that ethnic minorities, who make up well over 10% of British people, are heavily under-represented in the Tory rank and file.\n\nSo, too, are women. Other parties - notably Labour and the Greens, but also the SNP - now come close to gender balance, but seven out of 10 Conservative members are male.\n\nTory members are also older than the members of most other parties. True, their average age may \"only\" be 57, but this disguises the fact that four out of 10 are over 65.\n\nThey are concentrated in the southern half of England. Nearly 60% of Tory members live in London, the east, south-east and south-west.\n\nSo much for demography and geography. What about ideology?\n\nWell, not surprisingly, Tory Party members are more right-wing than the population as a whole.\n\nOn a scale where zero represents very left-wing and 10 very right-wing, the average voter places themselves at the centre point. The average Conservative Party member places themselves at 7.6.\n\nThree-quarters of them believe, for instance, that young people today don't have enough respect for traditional values. Nearly six out of 10 support the death penalty.\n\nThey are also conventionally right-wing on some aspects of economic policy.\n\nFor example, only 15% of them believe that government should redistribute income from the better-off to those who are less well-off.\n\nBut on other issues they hold views that may be more unexpected.\n\nA third of Tory rank-and-file members believe that ordinary working people do not get their fair share of the nation's wealth and that there is one law for the rich and one for the poor.\n\nAbout half believe that big business takes advantage of ordinary people.\n\nInterestingly, they have also cooled on austerity. In the summer of 2015, some 55% said government spending cuts hadn't gone far enough, but two years later that had fallen to 28%.\n\nWhat Tory members haven't cooled on, however, is Brexit.\n\nIndeed, since we started tracking them in 2015, they've hardened their position.\n\nIt is clear that they are not supporters of the deal negotiated by Theresa May.\n\nIn fact, it is now the case that fully two-thirds of them back a no-deal Brexit - an outcome supported by only a quarter of voters as a whole.\n\nNor are they in the least bit keen on the idea of letting the public have another say on the UK's EU membership.\n\nSome 84% of them oppose the idea of a new referendum on the issue.\n\nIn short, the grassroots aren't simply sceptical on Europe; they can't wait to leave, whatever that might take.\n\nFurthermore, a breakdown of YouGov polling data suggests that the 30,000 or so members who have joined in the past year are even more likely to be pro-Brexit.\n\nThis, then, is the Conservative Party electorate.\n\nAnd those MPs hoping to succeed Mrs May will need to pitch their promises accordingly.\n\nThis analysis piece was commissioned by the BBC from experts working for an outside organisation.\n\nTim Bale is Professor of Politics at Queen Mary University of London.", "Khuram Butt was being investigated by MI5 from 2015\n\nAn investigation into one of the London Bridge attackers was suspended because of an \"unprecedented\" threat level which put pressure on MI5 resources.\n\nA senior MI5 officer told an inquest that the inquiry into Khuram Butt was suspended between March and May 2017.\n\nButt then killed eight people during the attack on 3 June 2017, which he carried out with two other men.\n\nThe court also heard that MI5 got an anonymous tip-off that Butt was \"an extremist\" more than two years before.\n\nButt, 27, Rachid Redouane, 30, and Youssef Zaghba, 22, mowed down pedestrians on London Bridge before launching a knife attack in nearby Borough Market, injuring 48 others.\n\nPolice shot and killed the attackers less than 10 minutes after the violence began.\n\nGiving evidence shielded from public view, the officer - identified as Witness L - said the decision to suspend a number of investigations in 2017 was made amid \"the unprecedented level of threat which we were facing and therefore the pressure on our resources\".\n\nIn March 2017 five people were killed during an attack on Westminster Bridge, and two months later 22 people died during an attack at Manchester Arena.\n\nThe head of policy, strategy and capability in MI5's international counter-terrorism branch went on: \"In my 28 years (in MI5), I cannot recall a time as alarming as this time.\"\n\nThe investigation into Butt had also been suspended for around a month in February 2016 after a series of attacks in mainland Europe.\n\nWitness L said: \"I think it reflects the level of resourcing available. This and other similarly concerning investigations had to be suspended because there were even more concerning investigations above these.\"\n\nHe added: \"Money is not the key determinant here.\n\n\"Even if we'd asked for more money in November 2015, its ability to transfer into actual experienced investigators by 2016 would simply not be plausible.\"\n\nThe victims of the London Bridge attack clockwise from top left - Chrissy Archibald, James McMullan, Alexandre Pigeard, Sébastien Bélanger, Ignacio Echeverría, Xavier Thomas, Sara Zelenak, Kirsty Boden\n\nThe Old Bailey heard that the security service received an anonymous call about Butt, more than two years before he carried out the attack, from an informant who specifically asked not to be contacted again.\n\nWitness L said the call \"identified an individual called Khuram Butt who was in the right sort of age range and said that he was an extremist\".\n\nMI5 already had Butt on its radar - he was identified as a supporter of banned extremist group Al-Muhajiroun in 2014 - but did not realise the call related to the same person until after the attack.\n\nThis information was handed over before MI5 launched an official investigation into Butt in mid-2015 because of unconnected intelligence.\n\nThe inquest has previously heard that Butt's brother-in-law had reported him to a police anti-terror hotline in September 2015 - although this information was never passed on to the joint MI5 and police investigation of Butt.\n\nWitness L told the court that a post-attack review, carried out by a manager in MI5 with a panel of experts, found \"the investigation into Khuram Butt was well and effectively run\".\n\nIt also said the decisions to temporarily suspend investigations into Butt were \"logical and proportionate in the circumstances\".\n\nPolice were not consulted about the suspensions \"in any systematic way\" but may have been spoken to informally, he added.\n\nXavier Thomas, 45, Christine Archibald, 30, Sara Zelenak, 21, Sebastien Belanger, 36, James McMullan, 32, Kirsty Boden, 28, Alexandre Pigeard, 26, and Ignacio Echeverria, 39, were all killed in the attack.", "A former British commando has made a very special donation to a remote Canadian hotel - his severed toe.\n\nNick Griffiths had his big toe posted to the Downtown Hotel in Dawson City after he lost it to frostbite competing in an extreme winter marathon in 2018.\n\nThe ex-Royal Marine promised to donate it in the hope of returning to the Yukon to do the Sourtoe Cocktail with his very own keepsake.\n\nThe cocktail's famed ingredient is another mummified human toe.\n\nFor over four decades, tourists and residents have been able to order an alcoholic cocktail of their choice served with a desiccated human toe floating inside.\n\nA local saying goes: \"You can drink it fast, you can drink it slow, but your lips must touch the toe.\"\n\nMr Griffiths suffered severe frostbite on his left foot during a 2018 marathon in the Yukon\n\nIt's traditionally served with Yukon Gold whiskey, and must touch the drinkers' lips in order to earn a certificate from the bar.\n\nOver 86,000 Sourtoe Cocktails have been served since 1973, when Yukon riverboat captain Dick Stevenson discovered a preserved toe in an abandoned cabin.\n\n\"We couldn't be happier to receive a new toe,\" said Downtown Hotel general manager Adam Gerle in a statement.\n\n\"They are very hard to come by these days and this generous 'toe-nation' will help ensure the tradition continues.\"\n\nThe toe arrived via Royal Mail with a handwritten note from Nick Griffiths\n\nMr Griffiths, 47, was competing in the 2018 Yukon Arctic Ultra - a multiday wintertime marathon where participants can compete in 100, 300 and 430 mile races - but dropped out after developing severe frostbite on his left foot during the gruelling event.\n\nHe later returned to the UK to recover in hospital.\n\nMr Griffiths' big toe was stored in medical grade alcohol following its amputation and \"Toe Master\" Terry Lee will take some six weeks to mummify the toe on rock salt before it can be added to the drink.\n\nMr Gerle told the BBC that the saloon has about four or five toes on hand to serve in the cocktail, but that \"nothing is more gross\" than the big toe.\n\nThe hotel has made public appeals before asking for people to donate amputated toes, but Mr Griffiths' gift is \"the first one that is useable\".\n\nToes have been swallowed or stolen in the past.\n\nThe hotel says it will pay for Mr Griffiths to come to the Yukon and try a Sourtoe cocktail with his own toe later this summer.", "Seventy-two people died when the blaze broke out in the 24-storey block of flats in North Kensington just before 01:00 BST on 14 June 2017\n\nGrenfell Tower campaigners have urged the next prime minister to be \"on the right side of history\" ahead of the second anniversary of the fire.\n\nTheresa May's successor must prioritise the tragedy, Grenfell United said.\n\nFriday will mark two years since 72 people died when a blaze broke out in the 24-storey block of flats in North Kensington, west London.\n\nKarim Mussilhy, vice chair of the group, warned the next prime minister \"not to forget about Grenfell\".\n\n\"It is important to keep up the momentum because there are many other Grenfell Towers out there\", he said.\n\nGrenfell United is campaigning for a social housing regulator that will ensure tenants are listened to when they raise concerns\n\nThe 33-year-old father of two said: \"We don't know who it's going to be and, quite frankly, it doesn't matter, because the pressure will continuously be applied by us, and hopefully we can have a similar if not better relationship with the next person.\"\n\nAfter 1,059 days in charge, Theresa May stepped down as Conservative Party leader on Friday after she failed to deliver a successful Brexit strategy.\n\nShe will remain prime minister until a replacement is appointed - 10 candidates have launched their leadership bids this week.\n\nMr Mussilhy, who lost his uncle in the fire, said the next leader would \"have an opportunity to make changes that will echo throughout generations\".\n\nGrenfell United is campaigning for a social housing regulator that will ensure tenants are listened to when they raise concerns, and for all dangerous materials including cladding to be banned and removed from homes.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"It's quite insulting at times to see any time Grenfell is spoken about in Parliament there's no more than six or seven MPs in the room\", Mr Mussilhy said.\n\n\"And it goes to show the mentality that people have towards this, it just feels like people are waiting for this just to die down and eventually go away, but it's not.\"\n\nThe Conservative-run Kensington and Chelsea Council also called on the future PM to honour promises or \"risk losing what little trust there is\".\n\nCouncil leader Elizabeth Campbell said: \"The government has made many commitments to the families from the tower, the community around the tower, and to people right across London - so no matter who the next PM is, they need to honour those commitments or risk losing what very little trust there is.\"", "The entertainer was saved from having a pauper's funeral in Spain\n\nFans, family and friends have said a final farewell to comedian Freddie Starr, whose coffin was engraved with the words \"Return To Sender\".\n\nDozens of mourners turned out for Starr's funeral in Prescot, Merseyside.\n\nAs well as his comedy, he was known for his Elvis Presley impressions.\n\nFittingly, the coffin was carried into the church to the strains of Starr's rendition of Elvis's song Don't, and was applauded as it was carried back out to another Elvis cover, Trouble.\n\n\"Liverpool legend\" was etched on one side of the casket, with \"Return To Sender\" - also the title of an Elvis track - on the other.\n\nBraving the rain outside Prescot Parish Church, many fans wore red jackets, ties, scarves, socks or shoes after a request for mourners to honour Starr's famous red Teddy Boy jacket. Others carried or wore red roses.\n\nThe comedian died in Spain at the age of 76 and might have had a pauper's funeral there, until a UK undertaker stepped in and offered to cover the costs of repatriating his body and organising the service.\n\n\"Rest in peace to my hero, my father,\" her message read. \"You have inspired me to be the best I can possibly be, and to be a good role model just like you. I will never forget you in a million years.\"\n\nReading a tribute from Starr's sister Brenda, Canon Taylor said she had \"many memories of his personal kindness and generosity\".\n\nIn his own remarks, Canon Taylor said: \"Freddie's life wasn't without its complications and controversies.\n\n\"But his comic genius brought side-splitting laughter and fun to thousands.\"\n\nHe also acknowledged \"the number of fans here today and outside who have kept faith with Freddie\".\n\nFans braved the rain to pay their last respects to Starr\n\nOne of the many messages of sympathy left outside Prescot Parish Church\n\nThe comedian, singer and impressionist died penniless, according to his family, after losing a 2015 defamation case against a woman who said he had groped her when she was 15.\n\nIn 2012, Starr had been arrested by police investigating allegations of historical sexual offences. But he was never charged.\n\nSheffield-based undertaker Michael Fogg offered to help Starr's family after seeing reports about the entertainer's possible resting place, saying a pauper's funeral would have been \"wrong\".\n\nStarr's family accepted his offer to cover the £20,000 cost of repatriating Starr's body and organising the service in Prescot.\n\nStarr's niece Jean Fowell told BBC News: \"Freddie had no money left, and the family accepted that offer,\" adding that he was a \"lovely, pleasant, generous, down-to-earth\" man.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A look back at Freddie Starr's life in the spotlight\n\nStarr was married four times and had six children.\n\nMr Fogg added: \"I just wanted him to have a proper funeral. I enjoyed watching him on TV. Anybody who can make an undertaker laugh must be a bloody good comedian.\"\n\nStarr's friend Melvin Storer, from Colville, Leicestershire, said: \"He lived above a karaoke bar in Spain and basically he died a pauper... But he was one in a million.\"\n\nFan Delia Cainey, 56, from Gloucestershire, went to the funeral in a T-shirt bearing a photo of Starr below the letters \"RIP\".\n\n\"We just wanted to show that he gave us hours and hours of endless fun in the 70s and 80s,\" she said.\n\n\"A lot of people after the [Operation] Yewtree case had forsaken him. When he was cleared he still couldn't get back into the limelight.\n\n\"He had thousands of fans who still loved him, kept in touch with him and today we're going to try to give him a really good send off. We've come from all around the country.\"\n\nMichael McGuinness, 22, from Prescot, had been introduced to Starr's routines by his parents.\n\n\"Me and my mum, every time we're in the house we always get a couple of beers and we always put his videos on YouTube,\" he said. \"He was hilarious. Absolutely hilarious. His Elvis impersonation, his Adam Faith impersonation - hilarious.\"\n\nThe ceremony lasted less than half an hour, and the hearse was applauded as it arrived at the church and when it departed for a private burial.\n\nStarr grew up in nearby Huyton and is being buried next to his mother.\n\nThe entertainer rose to prominence in the early 1970s, becoming a fixture on TV in the 70s and 80s, and famously featured in The Sun newspaper's \"Freddie Starr ate my hamster\" headline in 1986.\n\nHe later took part in ITV's I'm a Celebrity but left the show after being taken to hospital following a suspected allergic reaction.\n\nHe suffered from ill health and in 2010 had bypass surgery after a heart attack.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Last updated on .From the section Cycling\n\nChris Froome's six-hour operation following a high-speed crash on Wednesday has been described as a \"success\" by his team.\n\nBritain's four-time Tour de France champion, 34, suffered a fractured right femur, a broken hip, a fractured elbow and fractured ribs and lost consciousness following the crash.\n\nFroome is awake and doctors are \"very happy with his progress\".\n\nTeam Ineos said he will remain in hospital for the next few days.\n\nThe crash occurred during a practice ride before stage four of the Criterium du Dauphine in Roanne, France.\n\nFroome took his hand off his handlebars to blow his nose and was travelling at 54km/h when a gust of wind caught his front wheel, causing him to hit a wall.\n\nHe was airlifted to St Etienne Hospital for surgery.\n\n\"First things first, the surgery was a success,\" said team doctor Richard Usher. \"The operation, which lasted for six hours, went very well.\n\n\"Chris woke up this morning and was reviewed by the intensive care consultants and the orthopaedic specialist who operated on him and they're both very happy with his progress to date.\n\n\"Chris will remain in hospital for the next few days for observation, but he is already actively engaging in discussing his rehabilitation options, which is very encouraging.\"\n\n\"The surgery was carried out as a semi-emergency to try to avoid any early complications that can develop from that sort of trauma,\" he said.\n\n\"Now recovery is going to be long. Roughly speaking, you are looking at a minimum of six months out of competition.\n\n\"The objective is not just about getting back on the bike, but on rehabilitating himself for the future.\n\n\"On a sporting level, he will need to make an exceptional recovery with the mental capacity required to recover and then get fit again.\"\n\nMeanwhile, cycling's governing body the UCI has announced that 2011 Vuelta a Espana champion Juan Jose Cobo had been found guilty of an anti-doping violation.\n\nThat could see Froome, who finished second in the race, retrospectively awarded the victory.\n\nThis is a distressing blow for Team Ineos and of course their immediate concern is Froome's recovery.\n\nBut the seriousness of his injuries raises questions over his future and how the team will look to move on from the Froome era.\n\nEven if Froome can return to the top level, the 2020 Tour de France may come too soon and he is out of contract at the end of 2020. He will be 36 by the 2021 edition and only one rider - Firmin Lambot in 1922 - has won the Tour aged over 35.\n\nIn the short term it's simple for Team Ineos. Defending champion Geraint Thomas will be outright leader at this year's Tour and will have a high-class deputy in Egan Bernal, who was due to lead the team at the Giro d'Italia but broke his collarbone in a training crash.\n\nAfter that, the team have already sought to secure their future by signing the best young stage racing prospects in Colombian Bernal, compatriot Ivan Sosa, Russia's Pavel Sivakov and Britain's Tao Geoghegan Hart. They are also reportedly keen on this year's Giro winner Richard Carapaz.\n\nEven if Froome never challenges for one again, Team Ineos look well placed to continue their success in Grand Tours.", "We finally heard at length from the front runner. The politician who, as things stand, is the most likely to enter No 10 in six weeks time and take over not just as Conservative leader, but as prime minister of the whole country.\n\nWhat did we learn from Boris Johnson's appearance today?\n\nNot much about the kind of policies that he might pursue. Nor much really about the kind of leader he might be. But what about the reason that his formal launch was packed with Conservatives of all stripes?\n\nWell, there is something about him that the other candidates don't have. It might repel you. It might delight you. But he is a rare kind of politician, one who almost never receives an apathetic shrug.\n\nHis flair for causing offence is more famous than his reputation for managing policy. His judgement is questioned profoundly by many of those who have worked alongside him.\n\nHis supporters acknowledge tonight that allowing the crowd to jeer journalists who were asking legitimate questions was a misstep.\n\nBut mistakes that might have ended other political careers by now have not disqualified him from holding the highest office. And he inspires fierce loyalty in others, particularly those who were part of his team when he was in charge in London's City Hall.\n\nMaybe it's the sheer force of personality, ego and his desire for power that are bigger than the scale of the political errors he has made.\n\nMaybe too it's the ability to win - unlikely victories in London and the referendum - that means his Tory colleagues and rivals find it hard to resist a politician who can overturn the usual political obstacles.\n\nBut perhaps more than anything else, the tactic that has protected him? Unlike other politicians he has never pretended, or perhaps aspired, to be perfect. That's no excuse of course for offence he has caused, or a cavalier approach to vital details that matter.\n\nIn particular, his handling of the case of the Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe during his time at the Foreign Office appalled many in Westminster, let alone the country.\n\nBut the reason why he is, at the moment, clearly out front in this race is because although you might love to hate him, or hate to love him, Boris Johnson is, for the Tory party, almost impossible to ignore.\n\nAnd whether that pull is a dangerous alchemy or an irresistible charisma, today at least it has resulted in one big achievement.\n\nThe room was full of Conservative politicians from a party that has spent the last three years knocking lumps out of each other and strikingly, they were from both wings.\n\nThere were hard-core Eurosceptics and properly convinced Remainers all there supporting Mr Johnson.\n\nIt was notable too that he was plain that leaving with no deal was not his desired outcome, even though he has suggested to some of the Brexiteer parts of his party that he would pursue that course of action gladly, leaving at Halloween whatever happens.\n\nTrying to square off former Remainers who are desperate to avoid the turmoil of no deal, and Eurosceptics who are resolute that it must be a genuine option?\n\nTheresa May and Boris Johnson are night and day as political characters. But if he is successful in following her into Number 10, he too in a sense would be trying to stitch together a coalition in the Tory Party that can last through inevitable compromise and likely political disappointment.\n\nFor all his Brexit rhetoric, he is not pursuing a purist stance like some of the candidates - whether that's Esther McVey on the Eurosceptic wing or Rory Stewart on the soft Brexit wing - but trying overtly to juggle both sides of the party.\n\nHe may face the same profound truth that Mrs May did that as far as Europe goes, it is impossible to please all the Conservative people all of the time.\n\nTheresa May 2.0, he would not be. But whether he has the political skill to keep his party, and a majority in Parliament together, will be the question demanded of him too.\n\nIt should go without saying by now that politics these days is deeply unpredictable.\n\nThere is plenty of time for the maths in this contest to change fundamentally, for the frontrunner to fail, and those lurking in the middle of the pack suddenly to emerge.\n\nTomorrow in the first round of proper voting, we'll have a better idea of where the numbers are going.\n\nOn Tuesday 18 June BBC One will be hosting a live election debate between the Conservative MPs who are still in the race.\n\nIf you would like to ask the candidates a question live on air, use the form below. It should be open to all of them, not a specific politician.\n\nIf you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic.", "The occupation of an oil rig by Greenpeace protesters has been brought to an end.\n\nThe environmental campaigners had first boarded the Transocean rig in the Cromarty Firth on Sunday evening.\n\nThe rig, under contract to BP, had been due to leave from near Invergordon, heading for the Vorlich oil field east of Aberdeen.\n\nPolice said nine people in total had been arrested in connection with the demonstration.\n\nThe last two men to be removed from the rig were aged 40 and 50. They were taken ashore by boat.\n\nEarlier, a helicopter landed on the rig in an attempt to bring the demonstrations to an end.\n\nTransocean had served an interdict on Greenpeace in an attempt to have protesters still occupying the rig removed.\n\nGreenpeace earlier said it understood there were plans to lower the rig down into the sea to give police easier access from a boat to where the protesters were camped.\n\nGreenpeace campaigners first climbed on to the rig on Sunday evening\n\nCh Supt George Macdonald, Highlands and Islands divisional commander, said: \"The particular nature of this protest on an oil platform within a marine environment made this an extremely complex and challenging operation.\n\n\"The safety of all involved was of paramount importance and we have utilised highly-trained specialist officers from across the entirety of Police Scotland to deal with this incident.\n\n\"Police Scotland fully understand the rights and privileges of peaceful protests, however, there is a balance when such actions are potentially reckless and compromise safety. We also have a duty to act where criminality is suspected or identified.\"\n\nHe added that inquiries were ongoing.\n\nA BP spokesman said: \"BP is grateful for the support of Police Scotland, Transocean and all authorities who helped bring this incident to a safe conclusion.\n\n\"It was a complex operation that required specialist skills and resources to be mobilised from across the country and was carried out in a professional and respectful manner.\n\n\"Police Scotland, the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) and the Port of Cromarty Firth worked together, dedicating time and resources in response to the protestors' actions. This response diverted significant time and resources away from public services, including Police Scotland.\"\n\nHe added: \"BP supports discussion, debate and peaceful demonstration, but the irresponsible actions of Greenpeace put themselves and others unnecessarily at risk.\n\n\"We share the protestors' concerns about climate change, we support the Paris agreement and are committed to playing our part to advance the energy transition.\n\n\"However, progress to a lower carbon future will depend on coming together, understanding each other's perspectives and working to find solutions, not dangerous PR stunts that exacerbate divisions and create risks to both life and property.\"", "Grace Jones was \"fit and active\" until her death at home in Broadway, Worcestershire\n\nBritain's oldest person has died at the age of 112, at her home in Worcestershire.\n\nLast August Grace Jones, from Broadway, took the title following Olive Boar's death.\n\nHer daughter, Deirdre McCarthy, said her mother - nicknamed Amazing Grace - was fit and active until she died.\n\nShe was recently interviewed on BBC Points West about World War One. Her death, at her home on Friday, was confirmed by her daughter.\n\n\"I never dreamt when I was a little girl that my mother would be the talking point of the whole country,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Grace Jones, 112, shared her memories of World War One\n\n\"I used to say to my friends 'she is a piece of history gift-wrapped'.\n\n\"She was wonderful and had a lovely sense of humour... and that's something somebody should have.\n\n\"Never let that fade away because if it does it starts a downward trend and you become rather dull.\"\n\nMs McCarthy said last year her mother was invited on to TV shows, including Good Morning and Strictly Come Dancing.\n\n\"I kept thinking to myself 'she'll get that Equity card yet'.\n\n\"She took it [the attention] in her stride. She sat there to do interviews at her party and everyone was lined up in the hall at Buckland Manor to do their piece ready for the evening [news] programmes.\n\n\"Mother sat there looking so serene and gorgeous, really dressed up beautifully and each person came in, all the boys with their cameras and lighting and she thought that was great.\n\n\"She conducted herself so nicely and answered everything, and then on the last one for Channel 5 she suddenly said 'I'm hungry; when is teatime?'.\"", "Morrisons and Amazon say they will expand their same-day delivery service for groceries to Glasgow, Newcastle, Liverpool, Sheffield and Portsmouth.\n\nMorrisons agreed to supply Amazon with groceries in 2016 and the service now includes delivery within the hour for some customers.\n\nSo far shoppers in Leeds, Manchester, Birmingham and some parts of London can use the same-day service.\n\nMore cities will be added in \"future years,\" the two companies said.\n\nYesterday, Waitrose & Partners said it would extend its own two-hour delivery service beyond London, to Bath and Hove.\n\nIn a tweet, Natalie Berg, an analyst at NBK Retail said: \"Deliverywars are on! As a customer, I think Prime Now is still pretty clunky but getting groceries delivered in a couple of hours is definitely game changer.\"\n\nMorrisons and online supermarket Ocado agreed a distribution deal in 2013, which gave Morrisons an online option, years after its main rivals had already done so.\n\nThe supermarket supplies products for the Amazon Prime Now and Amazon Pantry services.\n\nAmazon Pantry was launched in the UK in 2015, escalating competition with the big four supermarkets, but it did not initially offer fresh food.\n\nOcado has a 25-year agreement with Morrisons to run the supermarket's online delivery service.\n\nThe four largest supermarkets are gradually losing their dominance in the UK.\n\nSainsbury's, Morrisons, Tesco and Asda are all seeing their share of the market drop, although between them they still account for more than two thirds of spending on grocery shopping.\n\nDiscounters Aldi and Lidl's approach, with fewer product lines and lower prices, has forced big supermarket chains to cut their own prices and costs.\n\nYesterday, Lidl said it would open 40 new stores in the south east of England, adding to the pressure the big four's stores are feeling.\n\nSainsbury's and Asda attempted a merger earlier this year, in a bid to cut costs. However, their deal was blocked by the Competition and Markets Authority.", "Thomas Docherty said residents of rural areas face a \"double whammy\" of poor internet access and no banks\n\nThe true scale at which banks are disappearing from Wales' high streets has been revealed as new figures show 216 were closed in the past four years.\n\nPresenting the findings to AMs on Thursday, Thomas Docherty, of consumer group Which?, said the situation was of \"deep concern\" to \"society as a whole\".\n\nHe added many banking customers were faced with the \"double whammy\" of slow internet speeds and no branches.\n\nThe committee will make recommendations to the Welsh Government.\n\nMr Docherty was invited to give evidence to the assembly's Economy, Infrastructure and Skills Committee, which is conducting an inquiry into access to banking.\n\n\"The current situation on bank services is of deep concern, not just to our members and supporters but to society as a whole,\" he told AMs.\n\n\"Consumers in Wales spend approximately £4.5bn a month, and without that spending the Welsh economy would come to a halt.\"\n\nWhile the number of branches which closed last year - 50 - was fewer than the 64 the previous year, Wales' high streets have still lost an average of 54 banks every year over the previous four years, according to Which?\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Businesses and shoppers are struggling to find cash\n\nAbertillery saw its last permanent bank close after Barclays decided to close its branch in the Blaenau Gwent town in January.\n\n\"It is devastating, especially for old people,\" said former businessman Stuart Gould, 72.\n\n\"I'm lucky - I can go online and all the things that go with it, but a lot of people, especially old people and the businesses, can't. Where are they going to bank?\n\n\"It's another nail in the coffin. It gets harder and harder for businesses to open, and without a bank where do they go?\"\n\nAnd businesses are finding it difficult to get change, which in turn can affect trade.\n\nStuart Gould said it was \"devastating\" for older people\n\n\"Most people are finding it very frustrating because they can't get change anywhere,\" said Christine Coombes, owner of Scooby's Pet Supplies, which operates out of a former bank.\n\n\"They have to walk a long way out of the town to go and get money from a cash machine.\n\n\"And half the time they are not working, so what do you do? You just try your best and that's it.\"\n\nMr Docherty said he was also concerned about the loss of almost 200 free cash machines across Wales.\n\nThe biggest losers from bank and cash machine closures, he said, would be those living in rural areas.\n\nMr Docherty said Which? research found Brecon and Radnorshire has been the hardest hit constituency for bank branch closures, with 14 since 2015.\n\nIn this area of Powys, Mr Docherty said 40% of households could not access the minimum speed for broadband.\n\n\"So clearly there is a double whammy of less bank branches and not being able to use alternative forms of banking services,\" he added.\n\nIts research showed NatWest has shut the most branches (70) in Wales between 2015 and 2018, followed by HSBC (46), Barclays (41) and Lloyds (27).\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Providers of social care in the UK have told Newsnight they have seen a \"frightening\" decline in the numbers of EU nationals applying for jobs in the sector.\n\nJane Stewart from Peach Nursing said she currently employed just one British carer out of 44.\n\nShe said a drop in EU nationals applying for jobs meant that for the first time in 14 years she was forced to tell people: \"I can't help you.\"\n\nBut the Department for Health and Social Care said the numbers of EU nationals working in the sector had risen since the 2016 Brexit referendum.\n\nThe department also said they “recognise the invaluable contribution of care workers” and they “remain focused on reaching a deal with the EU which benefits the health and care workforce”.\n\nYou can watch Newsnight on BBC Two weekdays at 22:30 or on iPlayer, subscribe to the programme on YouTube and follow it on Twitter.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lisa admits \"it's a risk\" but says that for Bradleigh and their family, it could transform their lives\n\n\"I'm really nervous about it. I'm not going to lie, I'm petrified.\"\n\nLisa Valentine's son, Bradleigh, has a potentially fatal nut allergy, so the first time she watches him being fed some peanut will be a leap of faith.\n\nThe six-year-old's family, from Wrexham, are hoping he can take part in a ground-breaking trial to reduce his sensitivity with tiny doses of peanut.\n\nLisa admits \"it's a risk\" but says that for Bradleigh and their family, it could transform their lives.\n\nBirthday parties, holidays and eating out are normal and exciting events in the lives of most children while growing up. But none of it is simple for Bradleigh.\n\nFearing any contact with products containing nuts could trigger a reaction or even cause him to have an anaphylactic shock, Lisa takes precautions.\n\n\"We can't just go and just eat here or there - we can't do that and we will never do that,\" she says.\n\n\"We won't go on holiday... we won't go on an aeroplane because we don't want to put him at risk.\"\n\nBradleigh's family hope that an immunotherapy trial could change everything\n\nBut the family hope the immunotherapy trial could change everything.\n\n\"Our lives would be completely different,\" says Lisa.\n\n\"If it worked, I don't think I would buy him a bag of peanuts, but I don't think we'd scrutinise the 'may contain', which would mean that we could go to the supermarket and just put things in.\"\n\nAround 2-4% of children in the UK have a peanut allergy, according to recent figures.\n\nCurrently, most peanut allergy therapies involve using tiny amounts of carefully prepared peanut flour. But as it can be expensive, it may never be available on the NHS.\n\nResearchers at Imperial College London are hoping that using boiled peanuts could be a more cost-effective and safer option.\n\nPaediatric allergist and immunologist Dr Paul Turner, responsible for the trial at St Mary's Hospital, London, says: \"We're trying to look at different ways - cheaper ways - of doing this sort of treatment safely, that would also be affordable in the context of the NHS.\"\n\nFollowing the first trial, all patients who completed a year of the boiled nut therapy were able to tolerate eating six to eight peanuts without experiencing significant symptoms.\n\nDr Turner, who developed the idea while working abroad in Australia, said it had been very successful.\n\n\"Colleagues of mine had noticed that some children from south east Asia were allergic to peanut butter, which is made out of roasted peanuts, but not boiled peanut soup,\" he said.\n\n\"That got us thinking, what happens when you boil peanuts that makes it less allergic in some people?\"\n\nDr Paul Turner, Paediatric Allergist and Immunologist at St Mary's Hospital, London is responsible for the trial\n\nBoiling peanuts reduces the amount of the peanut protein that triggers the immune system to react in an allergic reaction.\n\nAs part of this novel immunotherapy trial, patients are given small doses of boiled peanuts over an extended period of time.\n\nDespite the trial being conducted in a strictly controlled environment by trained researches, Lisa is still concerned about the potential impact of feeding Bradleigh peanuts.\n\n\"It's risky, isn't it? Every time, every other week, that he has that little bit more - or it might be the first time - he could have an anaphylactic shock,\" she said.\n\n\"As much as you think he's going to be in a controlled environment where the hospital can save him, what if they can't?\n\n\"You do worry as a mum - you are going to worry about those kinds of things, so it is risky. But it could change his life.\"\n\nTo participate in the trial, Lisa will have to travel with Bradleigh from Wrexham to London every other week and stay in the city overnight.\n\nAlthough it may be expensive, the family have decided to \"find a way of doing it, whatever it would take\". They have also been helped by friends and family who've been raising money.\n\nLynne Regent, the chief executive of the Anaphylaxis Campaign, welcomes the potential of this type of treatment.\n\n\"I think it's fantastic. If people are affected by severe food allergies, at the moment, really the only path they can take is avoidance and also carrying their rescue medication,\" she said.\n\nParents are being warned by the researchers not attempt to self-medicate their children or attempt this type of therapy themselves.\n\nThey're hoping that their own trial may lead to a cost-effective and safe treatment being available on the NHS, which could transform the lives of thousands of children and young people.", "Fiona Onasanya was expelled by the Labour Party after her conviction\n\nDisgraced Fiona Onasanya has become the first MP to be removed by a recall petition.\n\nMs Onasanya, 35, was jailed in January for lying about a speeding offence.\n\nShe was expelled by Labour after her conviction and had been representing Peterborough as an independent.\n\nPeterborough City Council said 19,261 constituents had signed the petition. Ms Onasanya will be allowed to stand for re-election.\n\nThe council said the signatures represented 27.6% of eligible residents. The threshold required to remove Ms Onasanya was 10%.\n\nCommons Speaker John Bercow confirmed the recall petition had been successful.\n\nHe told MPs: \"Fiona Onasanya is no longer the member for Peterborough and the seat is accordingly vacant.\n\n\"She can therefore no longer participate in any parliamentary proceedings as a member of parliament.\"\n\nMs Onasanya, who was jailed for perverting the course of justice, has become the first MP to be removed by the recall process, introduced by David Cameron in 2015.\n\nShe was first elected to Parliament as a Labour MP with a slender majority of 607 in 2017.\n\nThe process by which the electorate can remove an MP before the end of their term was introduced in the UK in 2015 in response to the 2010 MPs' expenses scandal.\n\nThe recall procedure can only be triggered under certain circumstances, including if an MP is convicted in the UK of an offence and sentenced or ordered to be imprisoned or detained - and all appeals have been exhausted.\n\nFor a recall petition to be successful, 10% of eligible registered voters need to sign the petition. It remains open for six weeks.\n\nIf successful, a by-election is called and the recalled MP is allowed to stand as a candidate.\n\nThe first recall petition against an MP was triggered in July 2018 against North Antrim MP Ian Paisley after he failed to declare two holidays paid for by the Sri Lankan government.\n\nThe petition was unsuccessful, as it was short of 444 signatures, and Mr Paisley remained an MP.\n\nThe petition against Ms Onasanya is the first time a recall petition has been held in England.\n\nA third MP, Chris Davies, Conservative member for Brecon and Radnorshire, is facing a recall petition in Wales after he was convicted for a false expenses claim.\n\nLabour Party chairman Ian Lavery said: \"Labour campaigned hard for a victory in this recall petition.\n\n\"Labour will vigorously fight the by-election here in Peterborough.\"\n\nNigel Farage said his new Brexit Party would contest the by-election, but a spokesman said no decision had yet been taken on whether Mr Farage would be the candidate.\n\nThe by-election in a city which voted 61% Leave in the 2016 EU referendum potentially offers the former UKIP leader a route to a seat in Parliament after seven unsuccessful attempts.\n\nMeanwhile, the former MP George Galloway - a Brexiteer - also declared on Twitter his intention to stand in the by-election.\n\nConservative parliamentary candidate for Peterborough Paul Bristow said: \"The people of Peterborough deserve a better MP who will vote in Parliament to deliver Brexit.\"\n\nFiona Onasanya made her first and last speech in the Commons last week following her release from prison\n\nThe by-election in Peterborough will come in the middle of one of the most tumultuous times in modern political history.\n\nBrexit has shaken up political alliances like never before, but we don't know what impact that will have, and who it will favour.\n\nThe by-election could be an opportunity for the new parties to test the popularity of what they're offering, but the question is what party will they be taking voters from?\n\nAnother possibility is that Brexit has made everyone so fed up with politics that people in Peterborough will just decide not to vote at all, and we will see a very low turnout.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. President Erdogan congratulated the couple after the ceremony\n\nTurkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was the best man at German footballer Mesut Ozil's wedding on Friday.\n\nOzil, who has Turkish roots, sparked a furore when he posed in photos with Mr Erdogan before the World Cup last year.\n\nHe then quit international football, citing the \"racism and disrespect\" he'd experienced over the photos in Germany.\n\nThe 30-year-old Arsenal midfielder married his fiancee, former Miss Turkey Amine Gulse, at a luxury hotel on the banks of the Bosphorus.\n\nThe couple first started dating in 2017, and announced their engagement in June 2018.\n\nOzil had announced in March this year that he'd asked Mr Erdogan to be his best man - which, again, sparked criticism in his home country.\n\nHelge Braun, German Chancellor Angela Merkel's chief of staff, told Bild newspaper at the time that it \"makes one sad\" that Ozil would make such a choice, given the reaction to his meeting with the Turkish president last year.\n\nPresident Erdogan and his wife Emine (right) posed for photos with the newlyweds\n\nMr Erdogan meanwhile reportedly often attends celebrity marriages in Turkey, especially during election campaigns.\n\nHis attendance at Ozil's wedding comes ahead of a re-run of mayoral elections in Istanbul. The previous result - which saw his AKP candidate narrowly defeated - was annulled, prompting international criticism.\n\nThe third-generation Turkish-German was born in Gelsenkirchen and was a key member of his country's 2014 World Cup-winning side.\n\nHe has 92 caps and fans have voted him the national team's player of the year five times since 2011.\n\nBut in May last year Ozil sparked a nationwide controversy when he posed alongside the Turkish leader ahead of the 2018 World Cup in Russia, prompting some in Germany to ask questions about where his loyalty lay.\n\nThe criticism worsened after the German team - the defending champions - crashed out in the first round.\n\nThe couple got married on the banks of the Bosphorus\n\nAfter the humiliating defeat, Ozil posted a lengthy statement announcing his resignation from the national team.\n\nHe said he had received hate mail and threats and was being blamed for Germany's disappointing World Cup in Russia this summer.\n\n\"I am German when we win, but I am an immigrant when we lose,\" Ozil said, adding that despite his successful history with the team, the way he was treated made him \"no longer want to wear the German national team shirt\".", "A row has broken out between Scotland and Ireland over fishing rights around the uninhabited islet of Rockall.\n\nThe Scottish government has said it will take \"enforcement action\" against Irish vessels found fishing within 12 miles of Rockall from Saturday.\n\nThe UK claims sovereignty over the North Atlantic outcrop but the Irish government does not recognise the claim.\n\nIrish ministers have described Scottish government comments as \"unwarranted\".\n\nHowever, the Scottish government said a recent increase in activity from Irish vessels around Rockall had prompted the move.\n\nA spokeswoman added: \"Irish vessels, or any non-UK vessels for that matter, have never been allowed to fish in this way in the UK's territorial sea around Rockall and, despite undertaking extensive discussions with the Irish authorities on the matter, it is disappointing that this activity continues.\n\n\"It is our duty and obligation to defend the interests of Scottish fisheries and ensure compliance with well-established international law.\n\n\"We have provided an opportunity for the Irish government to warn their fishers not to fish illegally and hope that this opportunity is taken up as this will of course obviate the need to take enforcement action - which would otherwise be implemented to protect our fisheries' interests.\"\n\nRockall is an eroded volcano that lies 260 miles (418km) west of the Western Isles and is only 30m (100ft) wide and 21m (70ft) high above the sea.\n\nThe UK claimed Rockall in 1955, but Ireland, Iceland and Denmark have previously challenged that claim.\n\nThe Irish government's minister for agriculture, food and the marine, Michael Creed said he was trying to, \"avoid a situation whereby Irish fishing vessels who continue to fish for haddock, squid and other species in the 12-mile area around Rockall are under the unwarranted threat of 'enforcement action' by the Scottish government\".\n\nHe added: \"However, following this sustained unilateral action by them, I have no option but to put our fishing industry on notice of the stated intention of the Scottish government.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Live text and radio commentary on selected matches on the BBC Sport website and app.\n\nJohanna Konta missed out on becoming the first British woman to reach a Grand Slam final since 1977 by losing to Czech teenager Marketa Vondrousova in the French Open semi-finals.\n\nThe 26th seed's extraordinary run here ended with a 7-5 7-6 (7-2) defeat by the unseeded 19-year-old in windy conditions in front of a sparse crowd.\n\nKonta, 28, was unable to convert three first-set points - and paid the price.\n\nThe Czech, who has not dropped a set, is the first teenage finalist at Roland Garros since Serbia's Ana Ivanovic in 2007.\n\nKonta was bidding to become the first British woman to win a Grand Slam singles title since Virginia Wade triumphed at Wimbledon 42 years ago and the first singles player from the nation - man or woman - to win at Roland Garros since Sue Barker in 1976.\n\n\"It is always tough to lose a match, any match, and always tough to lose matches where you have opportunities and chances,\" said Konta, who had never won a main-draw match at the Paris venue before this tournament.\n\n\"But I feel very comfortable and assured that I did the best I could out there.\n\n\"It's hard to lose any match like this but my opponent played well and I'm proud of how I played.\"\n\nHowever, Konta said she was \"surprised\" at the match being moved out to Court Simonne-Mathieu - Roland Garros' third show court - with organisers reshuffling the schedule because of bad weather.\n\nThe new 5,000-seater stadium was barely a third full for the semi-final.\n• None How Konta's defeat unfolded and follow Roger Federer v Rafael Nadal in men's semi-finals\n\nTension gets better of Konta\n\nKonta was playing in her third Grand Slam semi-final on a third different surface - having reached the last four at the 2016 Australian Open and Wimbledon in 2017.\n\nThe women's draw has been blown wide open over the past fortnight, and the Briton was the only semi-finalist in Paris to have reached this stage of a Slam previously.\n\nVondrousova is competing in the main draw of a Grand Slam for the ninth time, while her furthest previous run at a major was reaching the fourth round at last year's US Open.\n\nHowever, Konta's greater experience did not tell as tension got the better of the former world number four at crucial moments.\n\nShe led 5-3 in both sets before allowing Vondrousova to break back and seize the initiative.\n\nKonta's shot selection on her first two chances to seal the opening set proved significant, spooning a wild drive-volley long and planting a sliced backhand into the net.\n\n\"The way the point was going I'd take that as a drive volley nine out of 10 times and nine out of 10 times I'd make that,\" she said.\n\n\"And the point after I clipped the net so there wasn't too much wrong there.\"\n\nAlthough she did manage to put those shots behind her and earn a third chance, that opportunity disappeared as well when Vondrousova put away a forehand winner on her way to a crucial hold.\n\nKonta's confidence sapped as she failed to serve out the opener from 5-4 - and then there was a sense of deja vu when she also failed to serve out from the same position in the second.\n\nA double fault handed over the break - and the momentum - as Vondrousova ran away with the tie-break to seal victory in one hour and 45 minutes.\n\n\"I didn't regret anything I did there,\" Konta said. \"I feel comfortable with how I played and what I tried to do. I don't have any regrets.\n\n\"Overall I played a very tough opponent, who was better than me on the day.\"\n\nRows of empty seats are not what you would expect to see at a Grand Slam semi-final, yet that was the scene as Konta and Vondrousova battled for a place in Saturday's final.\n\nBoth women's semi-finals were due to be played on the 15,000-seater Philippe Chatrier on Thursday, but rain leading to play being cancelled on Wednesday had a knock-on effect and organisers moved them to smaller show courts.\n\nWhile Barty and Anisimova played on Suzanne Lenglen, which can house 10,000 fans, Konta and Vondrousova were moved to Roland Garros' picturesque third show court, which opened this year.\n\nDespite being open to those with outside court tickets, the stadium was barely half full.\n\nThe entire top tier was virtually empty, with large patches of light-coloured wooden seats visible on the bottom deck.\n\nIt was not a good look for Roland Garros' organisers, who had faced plenty of criticism for moving the women's semi-finals out to the smaller show courts.\n\nWTA boss Steve Simon called the decision \"inappropriate and unfair\", while former world number one Amelie Mauresmo said it was a \"disgrace\".\n\nKonta appeared to agree with their criticism without explicitly supporting it, adding the decision to move the women's semi-finals \"speaks for itself\".\n\n\"What is tiring and what is really unfortunate in this, more than anything, is that female athletes have to sit in different positions and have to justify their scheduling or their involvement in an event or their salary or their opportunities,\" she said.\n\n\"I think to give time to that is even more of a sad situation than what we found ourselves in today in terms of the scheduling.\"\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n\nThis was, without doubt, a missed opportunity for Johanna Konta.\n\nLeading both sets 5-3, and playing with purpose, Konta lost her way. Her thought process became clouded, and her shot selection went awry.\n\nKonta has not yet been been able to reproduce her best form in a Grand Slam semi-final. Defeats by Angelique Kerber in Melbourne, and Venus Williams at Wimbledon, were less of a surprise. But this time Konta had the experience, and the lead.\n\nLet's hope there will be further opportunities to come, and let's not forget how far Konta has come in six weeks.\n\nAt the start of the clay-court season she was in danger of slipping out of the world's top 50. She is now a top-20 player once again, and has put together a remarkable clay-court season of 15 wins - a statistic which back in April seemed utterly implausible.", "Melania Geymonat (right) and her date Chris needed hospital treatment\n\nTwo women say they were subjected to a homophobic attack and left covered in blood after refusing to kiss on a bus.\n\nMelania Geymonat, 28, said the attack on her and partner Chris happened on the top deck of a London night bus as they were travelling to Camden Town.\n\nA group of young men began harassing them when they discovered the women were a couple, asking them to kiss while making sexual gestures.\n\nFour male teenagers aged between 15 and 18 have been arrested.\n\nThey are being questioned on suspicion of robbery and aggravated grievous bodily harm.\n\nSpeaking about the attack, which happened in the early hours of 30 May, Ms Geymonat told BBC Radio 4's World at One she had previously experienced \"a lot of verbal violence\".\n\nBut she said she had never before been physically attacked because of her sexuality.\n\nMs Geymonat says she has not been able to go back to work since the attack\n\nMs Geymonat said: \"They surrounded us and started saying really aggressive stuff, things about sexual positions, lesbians and claiming we could kiss so they could watch us.\n\n\"To ease the situation I tried to make some jokes, like Chris, wasn't understanding because she didn't speak English.\n\n\"She even acted as if she was sick... but they started throwing coins. The next thing I know Chris is in the middle of the bus and they are punching her.\n\n\"So I immediately went there by impulse and tried to pull her out of there and they started punching me. I was really bleeding.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by The World at One This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by The World at One\n\nAsked whether the attack left her less willing to hold hands in public, Chris, said: \"I am not scared about being visibly queer. If anything, you should do it more.\"\n\nBut she added: \"I was and still am angry. It was scary, but this is not a novel situation.\"\n\nDet Supt Andy Cox described the attack as \"disgusting\".\n\nEarlier, police said they were \"following up\" on CCTV footage of the assault.\n\nChris said she still feels angry about the attack\n\nMs Geymonat added that the gang of at least four men might have broken her nose during the ordeal, and stole a phone and bag from them before fleeing.\n\nBoth women were taken to hospital for treatment to facial injuries, but have now been discharged.\n\nMs Geymonat said one of the men spoke Spanish and the others had British accents.\n\nBus operator Metroline said there was CCTV footage of the attack and it was co-operating with police.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Jeremy Corbyn This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May said: \"This was a sickening attack and my thoughts are with the couple affected.\n\n\"Nobody should ever have to hide who they are or who they love and we must work together to eradicate unacceptable violence towards the LGBT community.\"\n\nLaura Russell, director of campaigns, policy and research at equal rights charity Stonewall, said the attack also showed \"how much we still have to do for LGBT equality\".\n\nShe said: \"Government research found that more than two thirds of LGBT people said they had avoided holding hands with a same-sex partner for fear of a negative reaction from others.\n\n\"This attack is a reminder of why.\"\n\nLondon mayor Sadiq Khan described the attack as disgusting and misogynistic, while Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said the assault was \"absolutely shocking\".\n\nThis attack is a shocking reminder that even in one of the world's most accepting and celebrated cities, there is still work to be done to protect LGBT people from harm.\n\nFigures from 2018 from the Met Police showed that attacks on London's LGBT community have almost doubled since 2014.\n\nLast summer the government launched an LGBT action plan to improve the lives of LGBT people in the UK. Their research found more than two thirds of LGBT people said they had avoided holding hands with a same-sex partner for fear of a negative reaction from others.\n\nAs Ms Geymonat mentioned in her Facebook post, the start of June has seen the beginning of LGBT Pride month - a celebration recognised internationally since 1970.\n\nWith one of the biggest celebrations due to take place in the capital in just under a month, this is a sobering reality check of why Pride is still needed in 2019.\n\nSiwan Hayward, director of compliance, policing and on-street services at Transport for London, described the assault as \"sickening\" and \"utterly unacceptable\", adding that \"homophobic behaviour and abuse is a hate crime and won't be tolerated on our network\".\n\nPolice are appealing for witnesses for the attack which happened at about 02:30 BST on a N31 bus in West Hampstead.\n\nThere were 2,308 homophobic hate crimes across London in 2018, compared with 2014 when 1,488 were recorded, according to the Met Police's crime dashboard.\n\nDet Sgt Anthony Forsyth said there had been a \"steady increase in the reporting of all hate crime\", which was partly due to the \"growing willingness of victims to report crime and the improved awareness by police\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section England\n\nEngland boss Gareth Southgate says he will not abandon his playing principles despite the errors that cost his side a place in the Nations League final.\n\nMistakes by John Stones and Ross Barkley led to two extra-time goals for the Netherlands after the sides drew 1-1 in normal time in Guimaraes.\n\nBut Southgate was adamant his side are capable of playing possession football.\n\n\"I'm asking them to play a tough game at the back - if we didn't play that way we wouldn't be here,\" he said.\n\n\"We didn't lose because of how we wanted to play; we lost because of poor execution and fatigue.\n\n\"It wasn't just the two goals, we made errors and gave opportunities which should have been punished before that.\"\n\nStones and Barkley both gifted the Netherlands possession deep inside their own half and Southgate said his players can usually make those passes \"no problem\".\n\n\"Ross had gone down with cramp moments before [the third goal] and the Dutch pressed very well with a real intensity,\" he added.\n\n\"[We must] play out better. The last one there's an element of fatigue, and when you are fatigued errors happen.\n\n\"We were not quite as sharp on some of the decision-making but I think it's a really important game for us to reflect on, and the next few days will be painful having got to this stage.\"\n\nEngland appeared to have taken the lead with five minutes remaining as Jesse Lingard beat Jasper Cillessen with a calm finish, but the goal was ruled out because the Manchester United forward was ruled offside following a video assistant referee (VAR) review, a decision Southgate described as \"deflating\".\n• None Two mistakes, 2.96 out of 10 - Stones comes bottom of player rater\n\n'We were inches away'\n\nEngland captain Harry Kane was introduced off the bench in the second half, after his involvement in Saturday's Champions League final, and the Tottenham striker says his side will take the defeat \"on the chin\".\n\n\"We scored what we thought was going to be the winner but that's the fine margins in games like this,\" Kane told Sky Sports. \"It's part of learning as a team, we take that on the chin and that's the way we want to play.\n\n\"That's what VAR is there for. It's hard because you think you've won but we've got to get used to it. I'm sure they got it right.\n\n\"I don't think the Champions League final affected it tonight. As a squad we are good enough whoever plays and we were a few inches away from winning it.\"\n\nRaheem Sterling, who won his 50th cap as captain in Kane's absence from the start, said the Three Lions were \"punished\" for their \"silly mistakes\".\n\n\"We made a few mistakes and I thought we tried to play at times but it didn't work,\" he told Sky Sports. \"We have still made progress to get to this stage but it is about kicking on and making that last step now.\"\n\nIn a game of mistakes, 19-year-old Ajax defender Matthijs de Ligt conceded a first-half penalty after bringing down Marcus Rashford once the Manchester United had dispossessed him.\n\nHowever, De Ligt recovered to bring his side level with a powerful header after losing his marker Stones at a corner.\n\n\"We all make mistakes but he [De Ligt] responded superbly - straight away he beat a player,\" said Netherlands coach Ronald Koeman.\n\n\"I said nothing to him at half-time and was delighted that he scored.\"", "The lorry toppled over during the evening rush-hour at the A12/A14 junction near Ipswich\n\nA lorry was left hanging over a dual carriageway after tipping over on a bridge.\n\nTraffic has been stopped on the eastbound carriageway of the A14 at Copdock near Ipswich.\n\nSuffolk Police said removal of the vehicle could take until Saturday morning, but disruption was likely throughout the weekend as repairs were carried out.\n\nThe driver of the lorry was taken to hospital with minor injuries.\n\nRecovery teams worked to right the lorry cab\n\nDamage to safety barriers will be repaired over the weekend\n\nThe crash happened at about 17:00 BST, affecting rush-hour traffic and thousands of people heading to a Rod Stewart concert at Portman Road on Friday night.\n\nPolice said by 21:30 the cab had been righted but the body of the lorry was still on its side.\n\nWitness Roxy Louise Sier, who was held up in traffic shortly after the crash, said the lorry had been hanging \"precariously\" over the edge.\n\nShe added that she saw firefighters rescue the driver through a window.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by Norfolk & Suffolk Roads and Armed Policing Team\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Paul Golz was 18 when he was drafted into the German Army in 1943.\n\nHe was on watch during the morning of the D-Day landings and saw the first flares hit the beach.\n\nHe was captured by the Allies and kept as a prisoner until the end of World War Two.\n\nHe tells BBC Scotland’s The Nine that he was happy the invasion was a success.", "A 95-year-old D-Day veteran joined many paratroopers as they re-enacted the first airborne drop on to northern France 75 years ago.\n\nThousands of troops dropped in to Nazi-occupied Normandy in June 1944, ahead of the assault on the beaches.\n\nAbout 20 Dakota aircraft flew from Duxford, Cambridgeshire, to France, with veterans Harry Read, 95, from Bournemouth, and John Hutton, 94, from Stirling, Scotland, among the troops.\n\nThe pair jumped in tandem with members of the Army's Parachute Regiment display team, the Red Devils, and were greeted with applause as they landed in the fields.", "Judge John Hayman is the oldest recipient of an honour in the latest list\n\nA 100-year-old judge and a street cleaner are among those recognised in the Queen's Birthday Honours.\n\nAlso among the 1,073 names are a police officer who worked in the aftermath of the Manchester Arena attack and a doctor working to stop another Harold Shipman-type scandal.\n\nFifteen foster carers who have looked after more than 1,000 children are being appointed MBEs.\n\nThe chief executive of the Stephen Lawrence Trust is being appointed OBE.\n\nDr Rajesh Patel, 58, who is appointed MBE, has been a GP in Hyde, Greater Manchester, for 25 years.\n\nHe identified flaws in the system which, had they been solved previously, may have uncovered Shipman's wrong-doing much earlier.\n\nNow they have been resolved they should prevent future such scandals, his citation said.\n\nShipman, who died in 2004, killed at least 215 patients.\n\nDr Raj Patel has been appointed MBE for services to health care\n\nAt 100 years old, Judge John Hayman is the oldest recipient of an award and is getting the British Empire Medal (BME) for his work in Binsted and Alton, Hampshire, where he \"continues to work with dedication and imagination to enhance village sports facilities\".\n\nSonia Watson, the chief executive of the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust, is appointed OBE for her work helping disadvantaged people from black and minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds to pursue a career in architecture - the chosen career of the murdered teenager.\n\nSimon Rowe, an officer at Wiltshire Council, is to become MBE for his \"tireless working\" to return Salisbury to normality after the Novichok poisoning of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter in March 2018.\n\nStephen Lawrence, an 18-year-old aspiring architect, was murdered in a racist attack in London in 1993\n\nSimon Rowe has been recognised for working to return Salisbury to normality\n\nKathryn and Peter Shippey, from Sunderland, are also to become MBEs after they launched a campaign for the inclusion of autism-friendly rooms at sports stadiums which has been supported by Sunderland, Celtic and Chelsea as well as other clubs around the world.\n\nCornwall couple David and Elizabeth Carney-Haworth are appointed OBEs for their work with children affected by domestic abuse through their organisation Operation Encompass.\n\nGolfer Georgia Hall, from Bournemouth has been appointed MBE following her win in the 2018 Women's British Open.\n\nGeorgia Hall won the British Open in August last year\n\nBEMs are also being awarded to Thomas McArdle, a 61-year-old street cleaner from Liverpool, and PC Alison Suffield of Lancashire Police for her response to the Manchester Arena bombing in May 2017.\n\nMr McArdle, who has been cleaning the streets since 2006, is getting his honour for services to Liverpool, where he is known for his \"great sense of humour and positive outlook which brightens other people's day\".\n\nHis citation said he was known in the Kensington and Old Swan areas for being \"polite, courteous and hard-working\" and regularly going above his duties, often picking up litter and cleaning graffiti in his spare time.\n\nPC Suffield, 45, is a chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear tactical advisor and police search advisor with a \"deep knowledge\" of identifying victims of a disaster.\n\nShe went to the Manchester arena on 22 May after Salman Abedi detonated a bomb targeting those attending an Ariana Grande concert.\n\nThe officer became the first manager at the scene responsible for gathering evidence, identifying victims and ensuring \"the dignity of the deceased was protected\" at a \"distressing\" and \"structurally unsafe\" scene.\n\nShe stayed for almost 24 hours to recover victims, so their bodies could be returned to families \"in the shortest time possible\".\n\nNaseem Akthar has organised numerous exercise events for women in Birmingham\n\nAlso being awarded a BEM is Naseem Akthar, 51, from Birmingham, for her work in running culturally sensitive exercise groups for women in the city since 1998.\n\nEvents have included \"Ramadan special\" bike rides and classes aimed at women for whom mixed lessons are frowned upon.\n\nMrs Akthar said being awarded a BEM was \"honourable and wonderful all at once\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The bomb was discovered at Shandon Park Golf Club in east Belfast\n\nThe New IRA has said it left a bomb under a police officer's car at Shandon Park Golf Club in east Belfast last weekend.\n\nThe Irish News said it had issued a statement to the newspaper using a recognised codeword.\n\nPolice had said they believed \"violent dissident republicans\" were behind the attack.\n\nThe New IRA, a dissident republican group, was responsible for the murder of journalist Lyra McKee in April.\n\nThe Irish News said it is understood the bomb in east Belfast \"contained high-powered plastic explosives\".\n\nDet Ch Insp Stuart Griffin of the PSNI said police \"are aware of the claim received by a media outlet\" and it \"will form part of our investigation\".\n\nOn Saturday night, police examined CCTV footage and searched the car park of the club, which is located close to the PSNI headquarters on the Knock Road.\n\nDet Supt Sean Wright said the investigation centred on two cars, which were found burnt out in Etna Drive in north Belfast.\n\nOne was a green Skoda Octavia with a Dublin registration - 01 D 78089 - the other, a silver Saab with the registration NFZ 3216.\n\nA cross-border investigation has been launched into the incident.\n\nPolice also appealed for anyone in the Ballyhackamore or Upper Newtownards Road area between midnight and 02:00 BST on Saturday 1 June to come forward.\n\nThe police investigation centres on two cars, which were found burnt out in Etna Drive in north Belfast\n\nThe New IRA, which has been linked with three other murders, is believed to have been formed between 2011 and 2012.\n\nIt followed the merger of a number of smaller groups, including the Real IRA, which itself was born out of a split in the mainstream Provisional IRA (PIRA) in October 1997 over Sinn Féin's embrace of the peace process.", "The government says its priorities include ensuring uninterrupted food supplies\n\nPreparing for Brexit has cost the UK government £97m in consultancy fees, the National Audit Office has revealed.\n\nThe money has been spent on hiring external experts because government departments lack the staff and skills needed, the NAO said.\n\nIt criticised the government for a lack of transparency, saying details of contracts had not been published in a timely fashion.\n\nIt also said the bill was higher than disclosed by the Cabinet Office.\n\nAccording to the Cabinet Office, £65m had been earmarked for consultancy services between April 2018 and April 2019.\n\nBut NAO investigations uncovered another £32m worth of spending in the same period.\n\nMany contracts had been extended, particularly in April this year, when the date for the UK's departure from the EU was changed to 31 October.\n\n\"Departments continue to prepare for EU exit and total spend on consultancy support will rise,\" the NAO said.\n\nUnder government guidelines, departments are supposed to publish details of such contracts within 90 days.\n\nBut the NAO found it had taken an average of 119 days for basic information about Brexit consultancy contracts to be published.\n\nIt added that six consultancy firms had received 96% of Brexit-related work, led by Deloitte, with 22% of the contracts by value.\n\nThe others were PA Consulting (19%), PwC (18%), EY (15%), Bain & Company (11%) and Boston Consulting Group (10%).\n\nA government spokesman defended the spending, saying it was \"often more cost-efficient to draw upon the advice of external specialists for short-term projects requiring specialist skills\".\n\nHe added: \"These include EU exit priorities such as ensuring the uninterrupted supply of medical products and food to the UK.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for the Management Consultancies Association said consultants had been \"proud to provide expert support to the government with its Brexit preparations during this critical time\".\n\nShe added: \"Departments have faced an unprecedented volume of workload planning for all Brexit scenarios and using external resources has enabled the government to work quickly and with intensity on major programmes across the UK.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nEngland suffered more semi-final disappointment as they produced a defensive horror show to crash out of the Nations League to the impressive Netherlands in Guimaraes.\n\nMarcus Rashford's penalty, awarded after he was fouled by Matthijs de Ligt, gave Gareth Southgate's side an interval advantage.\n\nDe Ligt made amends when he took advantage of poor marking at a corner to power home a header with 17 minutes left.\n\nEngland thought substitute Jesse Lingard's late strike had put them on course for the inaugural Nations League final against hosts Portugal in Porto on Sunday, only for VAR to intervene and rule it out for offside.\n\nThe Dutch were the far superior side but they were gifted their route to the showdown against Portugal on Sunday by suicidal defending in extra time by England, who were hoping to go one better than their World Cup semi-final exit against Croatia last summer.\n\nJohn Stones was caught in possession by Memphis Depay who forced a brilliant save from Jordan Pickford, but Kyle Walker could only bundle the loose ball into his own net under challenge from Quincy Promes.\n\nAnd England produced more pantomime defending for the Netherlands' third, this time Ross Barkley getting caught in possession from another poor pass from Stones, leaving Memphis to offer up a simple finish to Promes.\n\nEngland's dejected players must now lift themselves for the third-place play-off against Switzerland in Guimaraes on Sunday.\n• None Southgate will not abandon style despite mistakes\n• None 2.96 out of 10 - which England player received this rating from you?\n\nEngland's defending, or lack of, was the primary reason for this defeat, but this was a mediocre performance from a side hoping to lift their first trophy since the 1966 World Cup.\n\nSouthgate left out the likes of captain Harry Kane and Jordan Henderson after their Champions League final exertions when Liverpool beat Spurs in Madrid on Saturday and, of course, this tournament comes at the conclusion of a gruelling season.\n\nThere can be no excuse, however, for the errors that led England down the path to defeat and they were symptomatic of a defensive performance that bordered on the shambolic.\n\nStones had a game he will want to forget, a process that may take some time because this was a harrowing 120 minutes for the Manchester City defender, but he was not the only culprit because he can be joined on the roll of dishonour by Harry Maguire and Walker.\n\nMaguire's performance was littered with mistakes against the nimble Dutch and he was fortunate Depay's finishing was wayward after he was robbed in a dangerous area in the second half, while Walker was rescued by Pickford when he also conceded possession to the same forward.\n\nEngland looked leggy and uninspired, perhaps an inevitable consequence this late in the season, but there were real areas of concern at the back and there can be no complaints.\n\nRonald Koeman's first game as coach of the Netherlands was a 1-0 loss to England in Amsterdam in March 2018 - this was compelling evidence of just how far they have travelled in that time.\n\nThey were more composed and constructive than England and it was only their lack of a clinical striker that kept England in the game for so long. If Koeman can uncover one, they will be a very formidable side.\n\nThe Netherlands are on the way back as Koeman presides over a mix of talented youngsters and experience.\n\nLiverpool's Virgil van Dijk, mercilessly and totally inexplicably jeered by England's fans all night, is the leader and has the developing De Ligt, who had a mixed evening but who will be a truly outstanding defender, alongside him.\n\nAnd in the brilliant Frenkie de Jong, the midfielder who is the first piece of Barcelona's rebuild, they had the best player on the pitch as he played with a class and composure that made a nonsense of his 22 years.\n\nThe Netherlands deserve their place in the final and, barring accidents and aided by the addition of the striker they so badly need, Koeman's team could be a serious force at Euro 2020.\n\nThe Dutch curse - the best of the stats\n• None England have lost three of their past four international matches against the Netherlands (W1, D0, L3).\n• None Two of England's past three defeats when leading at half-time have been against the Netherlands (also March 2016) - the other was against Croatia in the World Cup semi-final.\n• None Rashford has scored four goals in his past seven international appearances for England - having scored three in his first 25.\n• None Sterling became the third youngest player to reach 50 caps for England (24y 180d), behind only Wayne Rooney in 2009 (23y 159d) and Michael Owen in 2003 (23y 179d).\n• None De Ligt has scored in each of his past two international appearances for the Netherlands, having scored none in his first 14 beforehand.\n• None Walker became the first England player to score an own goal in an international match since Eric Dier in May 2016 against Australia.\n• None Tonight was Southgate's 34th game in charge of England and his 10th starting XI with an average age of under 25 - the previous 17 managers to take charge of England did this just 10 times in 595 matches combined.\n• None Depay has been involved in 23 goals in his past 21 international matches for the Netherlands (13 goals, 10 assists).\n• None Attempt blocked. Donny van de Beek (Netherlands) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt blocked. Harry Kane (England) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Ross Barkley.\n• None Attempt missed. Memphis Depay (Netherlands) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Georginio Wijnaldum following a fast break.\n• None Goal! Netherlands 3, England 1. Quincy Promes (Netherlands) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the high centre of the goal. Assisted by Memphis Depay.\n• None Donny van de Beek (Netherlands) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "In May 2017, jihadists loyal to the so-called Islamic State took Marawi by force.\n\nAfter five months of heavy bombing and more than 1,000 deaths, government forces liberated the city.\n\nBut large parts of it remain in ruins with thousands displaced in makeshift camps.\n\nListen to more stories from Newsday.", "Private astronauts will be permitted up to 30 days' travel to the ISS\n\nNasa is to allow tourists to visit the International Space Station from 2020, priced at $35,000 (£27,500) per night.\n\nThe US space agency said it would open the orbiting station to tourism and other business ventures.\n\nThere will be up to two short private astronaut missions per year, said Robyn Gatens, the deputy director of the ISS.\n\nNasa said that private astronauts would be permitted to travel to the ISS for up to 30 days, travelling on US spacecraft.\n\n\"Nasa is opening the International Space Station to commercial opportunities and marketing these opportunities as we've never done before,\" chief financial officer Jeff DeWit said in New York.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNasa said that private commercial entities would be responsible for determining crew composition and ensuring that the private astronauts meet the medical and training requirements for spaceflight.\n\nThe two companies hired by Nasa are Elon Musk's SpaceX, which will use its Dragon capsule, and Boeing, which is building a spacecraft called the Starliner.\n\nThese companies are likely to charge any private astronaut a similar \"taxi fare\" to what they intend to charge Nasa for its astronauts - close to $60m per flight.\n\nNasa had previously banned any commercial use of the space station and prohibited astronauts from taking part in for-profit research.\n\nNasa does not own the station however - it was built, beginning in 1998, with Russia, which has taken a more relaxed approach in recent decades to commerce.\n\nIn 2001, US businessman Dennis Tito became the first tourist to visit when he paid Russia around $20 million for a round trip.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNasa's announcement on Friday is part of a move towards full privatisation of the ISS. US President Donald Trump published a budget last year which called for the station to be defunded by the government by 2025.\n\nThe space agency recently announced that it planned to return to the moon by 2024, taking the first woman there and the first person in decades.\n• None Can anyone 'own' the Moon?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Hundreds of veterans gathered in Normandy for the anniversary\n\nHundreds of veterans gathered in France to honour the sacrifice of those who died in the D-Day landings, drawing to a close two days of commemorations.\n\nWorld leaders attended ceremonies honouring Allied forces who fought in the largest combined land, air and naval operation in history.\n\nWreaths were laid, a minute's silence was held and veterans linked arms and sang, before watching an RAF flypast.\n\nTheresa May and Emmanuel Macron thanked veterans who took part in June 1944.\n\nPresident Donald Trump called former US soldiers \"the pride of the nation\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThroughout the day, key events were marked from the wartime operation at the start of the campaign to liberate Nazi-occupied north-west Europe.\n\nBy nightfall on 6 June 1944, some 156,000 Allied troops - including British, US and Canadian forces - had landed on Normandy's beaches, despite challenging weather and fierce German defences.\n\nThe Allies established a foothold in France and within 11 months Nazi Germany was defeated and the war in Europe was over.\n\nAt 06:26 BST - the exact minute the first British troops landed on the beaches in 1944 - a lone piper played on a section of the Mulberry Harbour in the French town of Arromanches.\n\nMr Macron and Mrs May - in one of her final engagements as Conservative leader - were in Ver-sur-Mer to see the first stone laid for a memorial to commemorate the 22,442 British troops who died there in the summer of 1944.\n\nThe memorial, which overlooks Gold Beach, depicts three soldiers advancing across the sand.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mrs May and Mr Macron say 'thank you' to D-Day veterans\n\nMrs May said she was humbled to be able to mark the moment with veterans, who belonged to a \"very special generation\".\n\n\"A generation whose unconquerable spirit shaped the post-war world. They didn't boast. They didn't fuss. They served,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"I don't think I should tell you what I saw because it was so horrible\"\n\n\"And they laid down their lives so that we might have a better life and build a better world.\n\n\"If one day can be said to have determined the fate of generations to come in France, in Britain, in Europe and the world, that day was 6 June, 1944,\" she added.\n\nD-Day veterans made the journey to Normandy to attend commemorations\n\nD-Day Royal Navy veteran Ted Emmings, 94, passes a house in Arromanches decorated with a photo of himself and other veterans\n\nAlso paying tribute, Mr Macron said: \"This is where young men, many of whom had never set foot on French soil, landed at dawn under German fire, risking their lives while fighting their way up the beach, which was littered with obstacles and mines.\"\n\nThe French president also went on to say he was proud to have worked with Mrs May.\n\n\"Leaders may come and go but their achievements remain. The force of our friendship will outlast current events,\" he said.\n\nPrince Charles joined the prime minister to mark the anniversary at a ceremony in Bayeux\n\nMrs May, the Prince of Wales, the Duchess of Cornwall, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon later attended a service at the cathedral in Bayeux, the first city to be liberated by the invasion.\n\nA message was read out on behalf of Pope Francis, in which he said D-Day was \"decisive in the fight against Nazi barbarism\". He also paid tribute to those who \"joined the Army and gave their lives for freedom and peace\".\n\nThe service was followed by a ceremony at Bayeux War Cemetery, where many of the fallen are buried.\n\nA British soldier played the bagpipes for the inauguration of a garden in Arromanches\n\nAmong the veterans who attended the commemorations was Len Fox, who took part in a rendition of We'll Meet Again.\n\nThe 94-year-old, who lives in Norwich, landed in the town on D-Day with the 53rd Welsh Division as a dispatch rider.\n\nHe said: \"Being here for the anniversary is my way of paying back a little to my comrades who didn't make it.\n\n\"I wasn't a hero, I was a frightened 19-year-old. They were the brave heroes.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Veteran Harry Billinge, 93, on his memories of friends who died during the Normandy invasion in 1944\n\nHarry Billinge, 93, from St Austell in Cornwall, was on a final pilgrimage to Normandy to see how thousands of pounds he raised had helped the construction of a national memorial honouring his fallen comrades.\n\nHe handed over more than £10,000 to the Normandy Memorial Trust after collecting donations in his local high street and Arromanches.\n\nAs an 18-year-old Royal Engineer, he landed on Gold Beach at 06:30 on 6 June 1944 as part of the first wave of troops.\n\nMr Billinge said this was his \"swansong\" and he did not think he would return again, but he was eager to see the first foundation stones of the monument laid on Thursday morning.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Donald Trump praised troops at a service in the US war cemetery at Omaha Beach\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Trump accompanied Mr Macron at a ceremony at the US war cemetery at Omaha Beach, Colleville-sur-Mer.\n\nHe told veterans gathered there: \"You are among the greatest Americans who will ever live. You are the pride of the nation. You are the glory of our republic and we thank you from the bottom of our hearts.\"\n\nDonald Trump and the First Lady, Melania, joined Emmanuel Macron and his wife, Brigitte, for D-Day commemorations in Normandy\n\nOther events in the UK and France included:\n\nPrince William was among those at a service at the National Memorial Arboretum\n\nAt the National Memorial Arboretum, the Duke of Cambridge gave an address which was originally made by his great-grandfather, George VI in 1944.\n\nHe read: \"Four years ago our nation and empire stood alone against an overwhelming enemy, with our backs to the wall.\n\n\"Now, once more, a supreme test has to be faced.\"\n\nHe added: \"This time, the challenge is not to fight to survive but to fight to win the final victory for the good cause.\n\n\"At this historic moment, surely not one of us is too busy, too young, or too old to play a part in a nationwide, perchance a world-wide, vigil of prayer as the great crusade sets forth.\"\n\nDuring Prince Harry's visit to Royal Hospital Chelsea, he joked with Chelsea Pensioners and asked them \"Who's your favourite?\" while gesturing to hospital staff.\n\nOn Wednesday, leaders from every country that fought alongside the UK on D-Day joined the Queen in Portsmouth for the first day of the 75th anniversary events.\n\nThe Queen paid tribute to the \"heroism, courage and sacrifice\" of those who died.\n\nAround 300 veterans were then waved off on the cruise ship MV Boudicca as it headed to the Normandy commemorations.\n\nTwo veterans - Harry Read, 95, and John Hutton, 94 - parachuted back into Normandy, 75 years after their first landing, accompanied by members of the Army's Parachute Regiment display team.\n• None 4,400from the combined allied forces died on the day", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"I was and still am angry\"\n\nTwo women who were left covered in blood following a homophobic attack on a bus have said they will not be cowed into hiding their sexuality.\n\nMelania Geymonat, 28, and Chris, 29, say they were attacked by several males on the top deck of a London night bus in the early hours of 30 May after they refused to kiss one other.\n\nBoth women were treated in hospital for facial injuries.\n\nFour male teenagers aged between 15 and 18 have been arrested.\n\nAsked whether the attack left her less willing to show affection in public, Chris, who lives in north London but is originally from the US, said: \"I am not scared about being visibly queer.\n\n\"If anything, you should do it more.\"\n\nMs Geymonat, who is a doctor but currently works for Ryanair as a stewardess, said she agreed.\n\nChris said: \"I was and still am angry. It was scary, but this is not a novel situation.\"\n\nMelania Geymonat (right) and her date Chris were assaulted and robbed on a route N31 bus in Camden\n\nOver the five years to 2018, reported homophobic hate crimes across London have increased from 1,488 in 2014 to 2,308 in 2018, according to the Met Police's crime dashboard.\n\nChris added: \"A lot of people's rights and basic safety are at risk. I want people to feel emboldened to stand up to the same people who feel emboldened by the right-wing populism that is, I feel, responsible for the escalation in hate crimes.\n\n\"I want people to take away from this that they should stand up for themselves and each other.\"\n\nMs Geymonat, who lives in Bishop's Stortford in Hertfordshire but is originally from Uruguay, said she felt the violence had not been directed at them only because they are \"women who are dating each other, but also because we are women\".\n\nThe Met Police said the four teenagers were arrested on suspicion of committing aggravated grievous bodily harm and robbery.\n\nThey have been taken to separate London police stations for questioning.\n\nOfficers are continuing to appeal for witnesses and information after the women were assaulted and robbed on a route N31 bus in Camden.\n\nDet Supt Andy Cox described the attack as \"disgusting\".\n\nBus operator Metroline said there was CCTV footage of the attack and it was co-operating with police, who have said they are \"following up\" on footage of the assault.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The crew of the USS Chancellorsville had a close-up view of the Admiral Vinogradov (video from 2019)\n\nA Russian warship and a US warship have come close to collision in the western Pacific Ocean, with each side blaming the other for the incident.\n\nRussia's Pacific Fleet said the cruiser USS Chancellorsville crossed just 50m (160ft) in front of the destroyer Admiral Vinogradov at 06:35 Moscow time (03:35 GMT).\n\nIt was forced to perform \"emergency manoeuvring\" to avoid the US ship.\n\nBut US forces blamed the Russians, claiming their ship was responsible.\n\nUS Seventh Fleet Commander Clayton Doss called the Russians \"unsafe and unprofessional\", saying their destroyer \"made an unsafe manoeuvre against USS Chancellorsville\". He dismissed the Russian allegation as \"propaganda\".\n\nAnother US Navy image showed the Russian destroyer Admiral Vinogradov (l) close to the USS Chancellorsville\n\nAdmiral Vinogradov came within 50 to 100 feet (15m-30m) of the USS Chancellorsville in the Philippine Sea, the US said.\n\nThe Russian Pacific Fleet meanwhile said the incident took place in the southeast of the East China Sea, and added they had sent a message of protest to the US ship's commanders.\n\nIn a statement it said the US warship had \"suddenly changed direction and crossed the path of Admiral Vinogradov just 50m away,\" forcing the Russian crew to make a quick manoeuvre.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The US Navy posted this video of its plane being intercepted by a Russian jet\n\nThe US said later that it would lodge a formal diplomatic complaint, or demarche, with Russia over its warship's movements.\n\n\"We'll have military-to-military conversations with the Russians, and of course we'll demarche them,\" acting Defence Secretary Patrick Shanahan told reporters.\n\nBoth countries regularly accuse the other of dangerous military manoeuvres - at sea and in the air.\n\nIn November, the US posted footage of a Russian jet intercepting one of its planes over the Black Sea - a move they called \"irresponsible\", but which the Russians said was to stop \"a violation of Russian airspace\".\n\nTwo warships; two narratives - but one very real chance of accident or potential injury. There is simply no reason for vessels of this size to be in such close proximity.\n\nOne of them - or maybe even both - was at fault. Both sides blame the other. But this kind of incident is becoming ever more frequent and it does generally seem to be the result of a concerted policy by Russia to challenge US and its allies naval operations whenever possible.\n\nOften these incidents occur in the Black Sea which Moscow sometimes regards as its own lake; a view with which other states on its shores - some of them Nato members, or aspiring Nato members - disagree.\n\nSuch incidents between the US and Russia are less frequent in Asian-Pacific waters, where the tensions tend to be between US and Chinese ships or aircraft. But wherever it occurs naval brinkmanship of this kind is dangerous and unnecessary.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Speaking to reporters during a press conference, Sally Challen said: \"I still love Richard and miss him dreadfully\"\n\nAn abused woman who killed her husband with a hammer will not face a retrial after prosecutors accepted her manslaughter plea.\n\nSally Challen, 65, was found guilty of murdering 61-year-old Richard in Surrey and jailed for life in 2011.\n\nHer conviction was quashed in February and she had been due to face a second murder trial next month.\n\nInstead, she has been sentenced to nine years and four months for manslaughter - but walked free due to time served.\n\nSpeaking after the sentencing hearing, Mrs Challen thanked her family, who she said had \"served my sentence with me\", adding: \"Their support and visits have kept me going in what has been a long and terrible nine years.\"\n\nShe said: \"I still love Richard and miss him dreadfully and I wish that none of this had happened.\"\n\nMrs Challen walked free from court, with her sons James and David\n\nThe lesser charge was accepted by prosecutors on the grounds of diminished responsibility after a psychiatric report concluded Mrs Challen was suffering from an \"adjustment disorder\".\n\nMr Justice Edis said the killing came after \"years of controlling, isolating and humiliating conduct\" with the added provocation of her husband's \"serial multiple infidelity\".\n\n\"You felt trapped and manipulated because you were trapped and manipulated,\" he told Mrs Challen.\n\nShe thanked her family who supported her through a \"terrible nine years\"\n\nHer son David said the family were \"overjoyed\", adding it had \"brought an end to the suffering we have endured together for the past nine years\".\n\nMrs Challen, from Claygate, who never denied killing her husband, said she had suffered decades of emotional abuse from her former car dealer husband.\n\nHer conviction for his murder was overturned by the Court of Appeal following a campaign led by her sons, who walked into court with her this morning.\n\nSally and Richard Challen had two sons and had been married for 31 years\n\nSon James, in a statement read to court, said the brothers had \"lost a father\" and did not \"seek to justify our mother's actions,\" but added she \"does not deserve to be punished further\".\n\nDuring February's two-day appeal hearing, the court heard evidence relating to Mrs Challen's state of mind at the time of the killing and the issue of \"coercive control\".\n\nCoercive control describes a pattern of behaviour by an abuser to harm, punish or frighten their victim and became a criminal offence in England and Wales in December 2015.\n\nFollowing the appeal, a consultant psychiatrist assessed Mrs Challen and concluded that, at the time of the killing, she was suffering from \"an abnormality of the mind that substantially impaired her mental responsibility for her acts,\" the Crown Prosecution Service said.\n\nCoupled with medical reports from a prison psychiatrist, this was a \"significant change from expert evidence previously available and has led us to conclude there is no longer sufficient evidence to proceed on a charge of murder,\" the CPS said.\n\nSally Challen had been released on bail in April into the care of her sons James, left, and David\n\nThe couple, who separated in 2009, were attempting to reconcile in August 2010 when Mrs Challen attacked her husband as he ate lunch at the kitchen table in their former marital home in Claygate, her original trial heard.\n\nAfter attacking him, she drove 70 miles to Beachy Head in East Sussex, where she admitted to chaplains trying to coax her away from the cliff edge that she had killed her husband of 31 years.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Three hospital patients have died in an outbreak of listeria linked to pre-packed sandwiches.\n\nPublic Health England (PHE) said the victims were among six patients affected in England and the deaths occurred in Manchester and Liverpool.\n\nTwo of the victims were at Manchester Royal Infirmary, with the other a patient at Aintree Hospital.\n\nSandwiches and salads from The Good Food Chain linked to the outbreak have been withdrawn and production stopped.\n\nPHE said the products were withdrawn from hospitals when the links to the infections were first identified.\n\nA spokesperson for the Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust said it offered its \"deepest condolences to the bereaved families\" and \"sincerely regret\" that two of their seriously ill patients contracted listeria.\n\nThe trust, which would not say when the deaths happened, said the sandwiches were from the patient menu.\n\nThe first patient showed symptoms on 25 April while the most recent case was reported on 15 May, a PHE spokeswoman said.\n\nAintree Hospital said: \"Public health experts advised us of this supply chain issue on Friday 24 May and we immediately removed all products from this supplier.\"\n\nDr Nick Phin, deputy director at the National Infection Service at PHE said: \"To date, there have been no associated cases identified outside healthcare organisations, and any risk to the public is low.\"\n\nPHE said The Good Food Chain - which supplied 43 NHS trusts across the UK - had been supplied with meat produced by North Country Cooked Meats which subsequently produced a positive test result for the outbreak strain of listeria.\n\nThis business and North Country Quality Foods, which it distributes through, have also voluntarily ceased production.\n\nA spokesman for The Good Food Chain Ltd said the company's production facility in Stone, Staffordshire, was \"cross contaminated by an ingredient from one of its approved meat suppliers\".\n\nA spokesman for North Country Cooked Meats said it was \"currently co-operating fully with the environmental health and the Food Standards Agency in their investigations\".\n\nListeria is a bacterium which can cause a type of food poisoning called listeriosis.\n\nNormally, the symptoms are mild - a high temperature, chills, feeling sick - and go away on their own after a few days.\n\nBut these cases occurred in people who were seriously ill.\n\nAlong with pregnant women, newborn babies and the elderly, they are most at risk of a more serious infection that can spread to the brain or bloodstream.\n\nIn 2017 there were 33 deaths linked to listeriosis in England and Wales.\n\nListeria can be found in many types of food such as soft cheeses, chilled ready-to-eat foods like pre-packed salads, sandwiches and sliced meats, and unpasteurised milk products.\n\nTo reduce the risk, the NHS advises people keep chilled food in the fridge, heat food until it is piping hot and not eat food after its use-by date.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How the attack unfolded in March 2018\n\nSpeedboat killer Jack Shepherd has been jailed for a further four years for assaulting a barman with a bottle.\n\nThe 31-year-old pleaded guilty at Exeter Crown Court to attacking the former soldier in Moretonhampstead, Newton Abbot, Devon, in March 2018.\n\nShepherd admitted wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm over the attack, which involved a vodka bottle.\n\nHe is currently serving six years in prison for the killing of a woman in a speedboat crash on the River Thames.\n\nHe returned to the UK in April after going on the run to Georgia to avoid justice over the manslaughter of Charlotte Brown, 24.\n\nCharlotte Brown died in December 2015 when Shepherd took her on a date on his speedboat\n\nShepherd, whose address was given as Charles Street, Bristol, appeared before the court via video link.\n\nThe attack on David Beech at the White Hart Hotel happened shortly before Shepherd fled the country in March 2018.\n\nThe court was shown CCTV footage of Shepherd slamming a vodka bottle into Mr Beech's head after he told Shepherd and a drunken friend to leave.\n\nThe barman had served in Afghanistan where he was shot in the head in 2014 and he had been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, the court heard.\n\n\"Your assault undid in a matter of seconds the good progress he had made over the years,\" said Judge David Evans, sentencing Shepherd.\n\nShepherd slammed a vodka bottle into the barman's head after he told Shepherd and a drunken friend to leave\n\nMr Beech said being hit by the bottle was \"like a blow from a baseball bat\".\n\nHe had to be taken to hospital and his wound stitched and glued.\n\nShepherd was restrained at the scene by Mr Beech's colleague James Stapley.\n\nShepherd told Mr Stapley: \"I know I hit your mate and I am going to pay for it.\"\n\nDuring the sentencing hearing, Shepherd, wearing a pink shirt, appeared to sob and wipe tears from his face.\n\nStephen Vullo QC, defending, said: \"Up until the end of 2015 his life was going as planned. He was a successful IT consultant earning £150,000 with his own houseboat on the Thames.\n\n\"No one, not least himself, can have predicted the nature and degree of his self-destruction that has brought him to this point.\"\n\nShepherd and Charlotte Brown were thrown from the boat\n\nMs Brown died in December 2015 when Shepherd took her on a date on his speedboat, a trial in July last year heard.\n\nThe pair were both thrown from the boat when it hit branches in the water near Wandsworth Bridge.\n\nMs Brown, from Clacton-on-Sea in Essex, was found in the water unconscious and unresponsive, while Shepherd was discovered clinging to the upturned boat.\n\nHis trial was told that he was responsible for the speedboat, which had a series of serious defects, including to its steering.\n\nHe was jailed for an extra six months in April for fleeing the country.\n\nThe four-year jail sentence for attacking Mr Beech will run consecutively to his current jail terms.\n\nShepherd has been granted the right to appeal against his conviction for manslaughter.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The WHO estimates one in 25 people has at least one STI\n\nOne million new sexually transmitted infections (STIs) occur every single day, the World Health Organization has estimated.\n\nThat means more than 376 million new cases annually of four infections - chlamydia, gonorrhoea, trichomoniasis, and syphilis.\n\nThe WHO highlights a lack of progress in stopping the spread of STIs, and says its figures are a \"wake-up call\".\n\nExperts are particularly concerned about the rise in drug-resistant STIs.\n\nThe WHO regularly evaluates the global impact of the four common sexually transmitted infections.\n\nIt looks at published research and collects reports from its workers in countries around the world.\n\nCompared with its last analysis in 2012, the WHO reports \"no substantive decline\" in the rates of new or existing infections.\n\nIt suggests around one in 25 people globally has at least one of these four STIs, with some experiencing multiple infections at the same time.\n\nThe figures suggest that among people aged 15-49 in 2016 there were:\n\nTrichomoniasis is caused by infection by a parasite during sex. Chlamydia, syphilis and gonorrhoea are bacterial infections.\n\nSTI symptoms can include discharge, pain urinating and bleeding between periods. However, many cases have no symptoms.\n\nSerious complications can include pelvic inflammatory disease and infertility in women from chlamydia and gonorrhoea, and cardiovascular and neurological disease from syphilis.\n\nIf a woman contracts an STI when she's pregnant, it can lead to stillbirth, premature birth, low birth-weight and health problems for the baby including pneumonia, blindness and congenital deformities.\n\nDr Peter Salama, of the WHO, said: \"We're seeing a concerning lack of progress in stopping the spread of sexually transmitted infections worldwide.\n\n\"This is a wake-up call for a concerted effort to ensure everyone, everywhere can access the services they need to prevent and treat these debilitating diseases.\"\n\nPractising safe sex, particularly through condom use, and better access to testing are both crucial, the WHO says.\n\nIn terms of treatment, bacterial STIs can be treated and cured with widely available medications.\n\nBut syphilis treatment has been made more difficult because of a shortage in the specific kind of penicillin needed, and there has been an increase in cases of so-called \"super-gonorrhoea\" which is almost impossible to treat.\n\nDr Tim Jinks, head of Wellcome's Drug Resistant Infection programme, said: \"Untreatable cases of gonorrhoea are harbingers of a wider crisis, where common infections are harder and harder to treat.\n\n\"We urgently need to reduce the spread of these infections and invest in new antibiotics and treatments to replace those that no longer work.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nProtests against LGBT teaching at a Birmingham primary school are \"homophobic\" and must \"stop now\", the West Midlands mayor has said.\n\nAndy Street said he was in \"disbelief\" at material distributed by protesters outside Anderton Park Primary.\n\nThe mayor, who is gay, told the BBC he had thought homophobia was a \"non-issue in our city\".\n\nA High Court injunction is in place banning protests, which have been going on for months, outside the school.\n\nParents started to gather at the gates over concerns children were \"too young\" to learn about LGBT relationships. They also said the lessons contradicted Islam.\n\nIn an exclusive interview, Mr Street said the protests do not reflect the \"modern, tolerant, inclusive place that Birmingham is\".\n\nHe has also said the Department for Education (DfE) needs to strengthen its guidance around equalities teaching.\n\nHundreds of protesters gathered at Anderton Park Primary School last month\n\nMr Street said he was \"determined to support the school's right and responsibility\" to teach about equality and condemned some of the leaflets and banners being used by demonstrators.\n\n\"If you look at the literature and the banners, the first reaction is disbelief actually... [that] it could be said in this day and age.\n\n\"You look at what's being said and it's really upsetting but it is actually ultimately homophobic and it is illegal and it has to stop now.\"\n\nBut he added it was \"too simplistic just to see this as an LGBT issue\".\n\nHe said suggestions schools were teaching sex education in primary schools had been \"misunderstood entirely\".\n\nMr Street explained the lessons were \"teaching [that] society contains different types of people and mustn't be too obsessed by the LGBT element of this debate because the principle at stake is much broader than that\".\n\nParents began protesting over concerns their children were \"too young\" to learn about LGBT relationships\n\nEarlier, protesters held their first demonstration since the injunction was granted barring action immediately outside the school.\n\nAbout 40 people gathered outside the exclusion zone on an area of grass about 100m from the school\n\nThe injunction remains in place until Monday when those against the diversity teachings will be given the chance to make their case in front of a judge.\n\nThe protest's main organiser, Shakeel Afsar, said a silent protest would be held at the court hearing.\n\nProtesters gathered for their first demonstration since the injunction was granted on Friday\n\nAnderton Park head teacher Sarah Hewitt-Clarkson previously spoke of receiving threatening emails and phone calls and Mr Street said the government was letting head teachers down by not taking a clearer stand in favour of the teaching.\n\nThe Conservative mayor has now called on the DfE to \"stand actively behind the guidance it has given\" around teaching about equalities.\n\n\"I think it would be a much better situation if there was less about her judgement and much more about guidance that is general and is clearly followed by primary schools,\" Mr Street said.\n\n\"It's a very tough situation for this head teacher to have been put into, that's why I say I would like the DfE to be clearer still about what its requirements are.\"\n\nThe mayor is now seeking a meeting with DfE and also hopes a resolution can be found between the school and parents.\n\n\"I hope that there will be discussion between the school and the parents of children in that school,\" he said.\n\n\"One of the issues here has of course been that a lot of the demonstrators are not parents in that school.\n\n\"Of course I respect the right of parents to be deeply, deeply concerned about what happens in their children's school, but this protest has been somewhat moved away from that.\n\n\"I honestly believe if the school and the parents could sit down and look at what genuinely is happening - as has been the case for many years before now remember, this is not new material, this is not a new situation - I genuinely believe accommodation can be found.\"\n\nSarah Hewitt-Clarkson received threats and has branded the protests as \"aggressive\"\n\nIn an interview with The Times on Thursday, schools minister Nick Gibb said the DfE had been \"engaging with the city council almost daily to help navigate a way to a resolution\".\n\nHe said the protests were \"wrong\" in his view, and said he supported the council's decision to secure an injunction.\n\n\"We have worked hard over the last few weeks, patiently, quietly and behind the scenes, to defuse local tensions in Birmingham.\n\n\"We will always support head teachers and schools who are doing the right thing and ensuring that children leave school well educated and properly equipped to live and prosper in a modern society and a modern economy.\n\n\"And that includes having a full and proper understanding of British values and the way we live our lives today.\"", "Oscar-winner Olivia Colman has been made a CBE and adventurer Bear Grylls an OBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours - alongside hundreds of campaigners and volunteers.\n\nSculptor Rachel Whiteread, Confederation of British Industry chief Carolyn Fairbairn, and Maggie's cancer centres chief executive Laura Lee are among the new dames.\n\nThe knighthoods include acclaimed theatre actor Simon Russell Beale and Andrew Parker and Alex Younger, the heads of MI5 and MI6 respectively.\n\nJack Reacher author Lee Child and novelist Joanna Trollope become CBEs, and musician Elvis Costello, singer Alfie Boe and comedian Griff Rhys Jones OBEs.\n\nRapper Mathangi Arulpragasam - aka M.I.A. - is now an MBE.\n\nColman, who won an Academy Award and Bafta this year for portraying Queen Anne in The Favourite and is soon to play Queen Elizabeth II in The Crown, is recognised on the list for services to drama under her real name Sarah Sinclair.\n\nColman said she was \"thrilled, delighted and humbled to be in the company of these incredible people, most of whom have been nowhere near as visible as I have, but should be\".\n\nThe honour for Grylls, the Chief Scout, is for services to young people, the media and charity and he said: \"I really do feel it's a team effort, this award is for every one of those incredible Scout volunteers.\"\n• None 75%Given for work in the community\n\nIn the sport honours, there are MBEs for golfer Georgia Hall, the British Open champion, ex-England netball captain Ama Agbeze, and Kyle Coetzer, skipper of Scotland's cricket squad.\n\nSonia Watson, chief of the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust, who is trying to increase diversity in architecture in memory of the murdered teenager who aspired to join the profession, becomes an OBE.\n\nFifteen foster carers who have looked after more than 1,000 children between them become MBEs.\n\nOverall, 1,073 people are on the main honours list. About 75% are recognised for work in their community and 47% of the total are women.\n\nThe Foreign Office has announced an additional 80 honours, and separate lists cover gallantry awards for police, ambulance and fire staff and military service personnel.\n\nCBI chief Carolyn Fairbairn and Turner Prize winner Rachel Whiteread are new dames\n\nThe man who invented the Tunnock's Teacake in 1956 is knighted for services to business and charity. Boyd Tunnock, 86, who heads the South Lanarkshire sweet firm, said: \"When you get to my age, very few things surprise you but this certainly did.\"\n\nThe international success of the British TV industry is acknowledged, with Blue Planet producer Alistair Fothergill; Andrew Harries, the producer behind The Crown, and Richard Williams, boss of Northern Ireland Screen - known for its involvement in Game Of Thrones - made OBEs.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAuthor and broadcaster Bettany Hughes becomes an OBE for services to history.\n\nAnd in the week of the 75th anniversary of D-Day, Dan Snow, presenter of the BBC documentary about the operation, The Last Heroes, becomes an MBE.\n\nThere is a CBE for Terence Whittles, national chairman of the Royal British Legion, and an MBE for Sidney Roffey of the British Evacuees Association.\n\nSeven Holocaust survivors who recount their experiences to school pupils across the UK receive British Empire Medals.\n\nFrom the world of science and technology, Shane Legg, co-founder of AI firm DeepMind; former UK Space Agency chair David Southwood, and Sophie Wilson, who helped create the first Acorn Micro computer in 1979, all become CBEs.\n\nKnighthoods go to the head of the NHS's 100,000 Genomes Project, Prof Mark Caulfield, and Oxford University professor Peter Donnelly for his research on human genetics in disease.\n\nProf Marie Le Quere of the University of East Anglia is made a CBE for her work on climate change.\n\nPhysicist Dr Paul Collier, who as head of the beams department at Cern in Switzerland worked on the Large Hadron Collider breakthrough, becomes an OBE on the Foreign Office list.\n\nHistory programme presenters Bettany Hughes and Dan Snow both make the list\n\nThe OBEs for London-based Nimco Ali and Leyla Hussein recognise their campaign against female genital mutilation and gender inequality.\n\nThere is a damehood for Prof Charlotte Watts, a leading expert on domestic violence, and Prof Michele Burman, of the University of Glasgow, becomes a CBE for her work on gender-based violence.\n\nSara Thornton, the anti-slavery commissioner and ex-chair of the National Police Chiefs' Council, becomes a dame, and Police Service of Northern Ireland Chief Constable George Hamilton is knighted.\n\nMet Police inspector Gary Byfield becomes an MBE for his support to the families of officers killed in the line of duty.\n\nSonia Watson's work as chief of the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust has been recognised\n\nKnighthoods for parliamentary and political service go to George Howarth, Labour MP for Knowsley; Lib Dem MP for North Norfolk Norman Lamb, and former Labour MP Brian Donohoe, who represented Central Ayrshire and Cunninghame South.\n\nThe outgoing Conservative MEP for the North West, Jacqueline Foster, is made a dame, and Labour MEP for Wales Derek Vaughan, who is also stepping down, a CBE. Catherine Stihler, former Labour MEP for Scotland, becomes an OBE.\n\nThe founder of the Operation Black Vote campaign, Simon Woolley, is knighted for services to race equality.\n\nThe arts honours include CBEs for veteran photographer Terence O'Neil and producer Mitch Murray, who wrote hits for Gerry and the Pacemakers.\n\nMeanwhile, ex-Undertones singer turned industry executive Feargal Sharkey becomes an OBE, and singer-songwriter Andrew Roachford an MBE.\n\nThere are OBEs too for Tipping the Velvet author Sarah Waters and Bafta-wining TV producer Nicola Shindler.\n\nThe long careers of Elvis Costello and Griff Rhys Jones have been recognised with OBEs\n\nBBC Radio Scotland presenter Shereen Nanjiani and former BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra composer-in-residence Anna Meredith become MBEs, and BBC London arts correspondent Brenda Emmanus an OBE for her work in broadcasting and on diversity.\n\nPianist Joanna MacGregor (CBE), singer Jacqueline Dankworth (MBE) and Good Wife actress Cush Jumbo (OBE) also make the list.\n\nScotland Women's football coach Shelley Kerr said she was \"immensely proud\" of her MBE. The same honour goes to her Wales counterpart Jayne Ludlow.\n\nEx-Manchester United chief executive David Gill and Philip Brook, who oversaw the expansion of the Wimbledon site as chairman of the All England Club, become CBEs.\n\nFormer QPR manager Chris Ramsay is made an MBE. The one-time Brighton and Swindon player has championed black and minority ethnic coaches and is recognised for services to football and diversity in sport.\n\nFootball coaches Chris Ramsey and Shelley Kerr both become MBEs\n\nAfter a career spanning 50 years, there is a CBE for Tony Laithwaite for services to the wine industry, while Catherine Mead from Lynher Dairies in Truro has been made an OBE for services to cheese making and the community in south-west England.\n\nChristie Spurling, founder of Manchester charity N-Gage which helps students from deprived communities, and Sarah Burns, whose charity Smart Works provides unemployed single mothers in Berkshire with job coaching, become MBEs - among a number of people honoured for promoting social mobility.\n\nThere are OBEs for retired police officer David Carney-Haworth and his wife Elizabeth, a headteacher, from Cornwall, who co-founded the Operation Encompass charity to help pupils affected by domestic abuse.\n\nKathryn and Peter Shipey, from Sunderland, become MBEs. Their campaign encouraged football teams to build sensory viewing rooms in their stadiums to allow fans with autism to follow matches.\n\nColin Dorrance, who was an 18-year-old police officer on the night of the Lockerbie bombing in 1988 and has since assisted relatives of the victims, is made an MBE.\n\nThe British Empire Medal recipients include Wayne Gruba, who co-founded the Docklands Victims Association in London after a 1996 IRA bombing, 19-year-old Lauren Shea for promoting science and technology to young people in Hampshire, and Thomas McArdle, a street cleaner from Liverpool.\n\nThe OBEs for Elizabeth and David Carney-Haworth are for their work helping children affected by domestic abuse", "The BBC has confirmed details of its first TV debate between Tory hopefuls vying to be the next party leader - and the country's new PM.\n\nOur Next Prime Minister will take place on Tuesday 18 June at 20:00 BST, broadcast on BBC One.\n\nThe live debate will be hosted by BBC Newsnight presenter Emily Maitlis.\n\nAll candidates who are in the race by that date will be invited to take part and face questions from viewers across the country via local TV studios.\n\nBBC executive producer Jonathan Munro said: \"This is a programme which allows the BBC's audiences to set the agenda, and ask the questions which are at the forefront of their minds.\n\n\"It'll be broadcast at a key moment in the process of narrowing down the field of candidates in the race for Downing Street.\"\n\nThe Conservative leadership contest is already under way, despite MPs still having until the end of the week to put their names forward.\n\nAfter the full list of candidates has been confirmed on Monday, MPs will begin a series of votes, and the contender with the lowest number will be eliminated in each round.\n\nThe process will take place until only two MPs remain, and the wider party membership will then vote to decide on the winner.\n\nThe first ballot will take place on Thursday 13 June, but the second will take place on the same day of the debate, with the results expected around 18:00.\n\nThe new leader - who also becomes the new prime minister - is expected to be announced by the end of July.", "The High Court has thrown out an attempt to prosecute Boris Johnson over claims he lied during the 2016 referendum campaign by saying the UK gave the EU £350m a week.\n\nThe Tory leadership hopeful challenged a summons to attend court on three claims of misconduct in public office.\n\nHis lawyers said he denied acting improperly or dishonestly.\n\nMarcus Ball, the campaigner who brought the private prosecution, said the matter was \"not over\".\n\nHe crowdfunded more than £300,000 to bring the case.\n\nMr Johnson, a former Foreign Secretary, was handed a summons to attend Westminster Magistrates' Court on 29 May.\n\nBut at a High Court hearing in London, Lady Justice Rafferty and Mr Justice Supperstone overturned this decision.\n\nAddressing Mr Johnson's barrister, Adrian Darbishire QC, Lady Justice Rafferty said: \"We are persuaded, Mr Darbishire, so you succeed, and the relief that we grant is the quashing of the summonses.\"\n\nReasons for the High Court's ruling will be given at a later date.\n\nMr Ball's lawyers first lodged an application in February to summons Mr Johnson, claiming that, while an MP and mayor of London, he had deliberately misled the public during the 2016 EU referendum campaign, and had repeated the statement during the 2017 general election.\n\nThe £350m figure was used by the pro-Brexit Vote Leave group throughout the referendum. It also appeared on the side of the campaign bus, which urged the UK to \"fund our NHS instead\".\n\nMr Darbishire said the attempt to prosecute Mr Johnson was \"politically motivated and vexatious\".\n\nBBC legal affairs correspondent Clive Coleman said Mr Johnson's lawyers had sought to say the district judge who issued the summons got the law wrong.\n\nThe Uxbridge and South Ruislip MP's legal team argued that the offence of misconduct in public office was about the secret abuse of power and there was nothing secret about Mr Johnson's claim, which they said had been challenged during the campaign.\n\nMr Johnson did not appear at the High Court hearing and a spokesman said he would not be commenting on the case.\n\nIn a statement, his lawyers said they were \"disappointed\" by the district judge's decision and now \"pleased\" that the High Court had \"rectified that decision so quickly\".\n\nSpeaking outside court, Mr Ball said he had spent more than the £300,000 he raised on the case, leaving him in \"massive debt\".\n\nIn a statement, he later added that he would \"keep fighting\".", "The annual parade marks the founding of the Royal Hospital by King Charles II in 1682. The Duke of Sussex said: \"To all who are on parade today, I can only say that you are a constant reminder of the great debt we owe those who have served this nation\"", "Coverage: Live across BBC TV, radio and the BBC Sport website and App.\n\nThe eighth Women's World Cup kicks off in France on Friday with the hosts trying to bring back memories of 1998 when their male counterparts won their first tournament on home soil.\n\nReigning champions United States are chasing a record fourth World Cup success, while England will be led by Phil Neville as they attempt to improve on their third place four years ago.\n\nScotland are one of four debutants among the 24 teams, but with some world-class talent in their squad could they upset a few teams along the way?\n\nWe asked a selection of BBC pundits, among others, who they thought would shine and what they were most looking forward to before the final on 7 July.\n\nWho will win? The US will always be favourites, because culturally we know how to find a way to win. But they are not my favourites. They are winning games by outscoring opponents after uncharacteristically letting goals in and I don't think that's going to work in a major tournament. For me, France are the team to beat. Overall they have the best team and have a beautiful fluidity to their play. I just hope they don't let the pressure of a home World Cup get to them.\n\nOutsiders to do well? I always believe you need a good defence and goalkeeper to win a major championship and although they aren't outsiders, Germany will be very difficult to beat.\n\nPlayer to shine? I love to watch French left-back Sakina Karchaoui play and England's Nikita Parris is fun to watch, but one of my favourite players of all time is Scotland's Kim Little. I loved playing with her at Seattle and the world was cheated not seeing her at the last World Cup. She's a complete player.\n\nMost looking forward to? This tournament was meant to be held in France because it will have beautiful football-specific stadiums, grass fields, it has a soccer-intellectual crowd and country, and it will be everything that a Women's World Cup should be compared to four years ago in Canada. That was everything a World Cup should not have been.\n\nWho will win? England of course! I'm going stick with my team. Winning the SheBelieves Cup was huge for confidence and belief but now it's doing the same again when the pressure is on and in the 'no tomorrow' games. As for France, every tournament in the past you have to fancy them. They have so many talented individuals but for me have never been able to bring those talents together. As a home nation, this could be different. Could this be the first time where we have men's and women's world champions from the same country at the same time?\n\nOutsiders to do well? Not sure if you can call them dark horses because they have been on the rise the last couple of years but Australia are a team that can definitely cause an upset. They have pace and with a talent like striker Sam Kerr in the team, all defenders will have to be on their best game up against her.\n\nPlayer to shine? Nikita Parris. She had a great season this year at Manchester City and has come into her own with the national team. Every tournament England have played in I love the fact that a new star emerges. When I look back Steph Houghton had a great 2012 Olympics with Team GB, Lucy Bronze did the same at the 2015 World Cup and I think this one could be the one when everyone is talking about Nikita Parris.\n\nMost looking forward to? I love travelling to the games and doing them pitchside with Gabby Logan. Hopefully we will do our best to showcase how amazing the atmosphere is as well as giving great insight to the viewers at home. Making supporters feel part of it is so important to help grow the game.\n\nWho will win? England. They've been churning out results when they've not necessarily been at their best, which is always a sign of a good team. Secondly, there is no-one left to fear. England have always had someone to fear, a team we haven't beaten, but they are not at that point any more. Thirdly, the vibe. It's very relaxed and confident and controlled. I've not felt that before and a lot of it is down to manager Phil Neville and the winning mentality he has instilled in the players.\n\nOutsiders to do well? France have never got past the quarter-finals so they are dark horses, with regards to previous achievements. The product they have with Lyon and Paris St-Germain means women's football is bigger than it's ever been. They have some of the world's best players at Lyon. The challenge is to unite as a group and do it on home soil as the Netherlands did two years ago [to win Euro 2017].\n\nPlayer to shine? Nikita Parris. I played with her at Everton, she's the Women's Super League's all-time top scorer, and she has moved to Lyon, one of the world's best teams. She's feisty, and will do anything to win the game. I'd hate to play against her, but she's the first name on your teamsheet. She can make her mark at World Cup, she's done it at the SheBelieves Cup, and she's still young at 25.\n\nMost looking forward to? The new additions. Scotland are a quality team, Jamaica offer colour and flare and they didn't have a national team four years ago. I'm also looking forward to seeing fellow newcomers Chile and South Africa.\n\nWho will win? It's daft not to consider holders the United States. Scotland lost 1-0 to them late last year and they did really well, but you could see the quality the US had in the team. They have tournament experience and pedigree, so looking past them would be difficult.\n\nEngland have a big expectation to go deep in the tournament, and are one of the favourites, but it's whether they can live up to the hype.\n\nOutsiders to do well? Scotland. They are in a difficult group with England, Japan and Argentina, but they have been winning games and are confident. Boss Shelley Kerr has instilled self-belief in them and they have some top-class players in Kim Little, Erin Cuthbert and Caroline Weir. A large percentage of the team play in the FA Women's Super League, which means they are playing at a high level, full-time and have access to great training facilities.\n\nPlayer to shine? Little is well-known as a world-class player on both sides of the Atlantic, while Cuthbert has been given massive plaudits for her performances this season and scoring the best goal in the Women's Champions League. But I'm going to name fellow Scotland midfielder Weir as a player to look out for. She plays deeper and is an outstanding ball-player. She's technically gifted.\n\nThere won't be many better midfield trios in the whole tournament.\n\nMost looking forward to? It's got to be the game between England and Scotland, because it's both team's opener and for what it means. It's going to generate a big crowd and there will be masses of media attention. The Scotland team is better prepared now and it will not be a repeat of Euro 2017 where they lost 6-0. They will believe they can win, and I think it will be close. I just hope we can do ourselves justice.\n\nWho will win? Normally at a World Cup my prediction would be a real struggle between head and heart, but I genuinely believe England have the best chance they'll ever have this year. Obviously teams like the USA and host nation France will also fancy their chances, but I think this tournament is the Lionesses' for the taking.\n\nOutsiders to do well? Scotland have bags of quality and a real chance to spring a few surprises, even against their old rivals England. I wouldn't be at all shocked to see them make it through to the knockout rounds. Australia and Japan shouldn't be underestimated too, and I wouldn't bet against either reaching the latter stages.\n\nPlayer to shine? The exciting thing about this year's tournament is how much attacking talent will be on show, and I'm hoping for some really open games that give forwards the chance to shine. The Netherlands boast some of the best in the business, and I expect Shanice van de Sanden, Vivianne Miedema and Lieke Martens to all perform. As for defenders, I can't look beyond England's Lucy Bronze, the most complete full-back in the world right now.\n\nMost looking forward to? First and foremost, England winning it! I know I've jinxed it twice now already, but you've got to have faith, haven't you? More objectively, this is set to be the most exciting, competitive and watched Women's World Cup ever too, and that's got to be worth getting excited about.\n\nWho will win? I think that England can do well having won the SheBelieves Cup. With all the World Cup fever from last summer, I think there is a good energy to be tapped into and I'll be totally rooting for them. I know the US are going through a legal battle, so I wonder if that might be a distraction for them. France will have good chance too.\n\nOutsiders to do well? I've been hearing good things about Scotland and know they have a strong team. It would be great if they went far in the tournament.\n\nPlayer to shine? My favourite England player is Jill Scott, I like how she plays but the player who shines for me most is one who is not even there: Norway's Ada Hegerberg. For one of the top players in the world to boycott the World Cup is a big deal, she emits a Billie Jean-King vibe about her and she's always pushing for change. It's a big sacrifice but it's really noble what she's doing.\n\nMost looking forward to? I'm going with 15 of my Legends FC team-mates to Le Havre to see England's second group game against Argentina, which will be awesome. It will be my first time at a World Cup and we're all excited about going. I've already made my World Cup chart.", "Grammy-winning American singer Dr John has died at the age of 77 after suffering a heart attack.\n\nThe New Orleans-born musician died on Thursday, according to a message posted on his official Twitter account.\n\nThe Rock and Roll Hall of Fame singer combined the genres of blues, pop, jazz, boogie woogie and rock and roll.\n\nA statement said: \"Towards the break of day June 6, iconic music legend Malcolm John Rebennack, Jr, known as Dr John, passed away of a heart attack.\"\n\nThe musician \"created a unique blend of music which carried his hometown, New Orleans, at its heart, as it was always in his heart,\" it continued.\n\n\"The family thanks all whom shared his unique musical journey & requests privacy at this time. Memorial arrangements will be announced in due course.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Dr. John This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBlondie lead singer Debbie Harry was among those to pay tribute, sharing a picture of herself alongside the six-time Grammy winner.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Debbie Harry/BLONDIE This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFormer Beatles drummer Ringo Starr also tweeted a picture, along with the message: \"God bless Dr John, peace and love to all his family. I love the doctor, peace and love.\"\n\nHis career started in the late 1950s, when he became prominent as a pianist and singer on the New Orleans music scene.\n\nBorn Malcolm John Rebennack in New Orleans, his love of music was fostered by his father, who ran an appliance store that also sold records.\n\nHis mother, meanwhile, had worked as a model, and thanks to her connections, Malcolm's face appeared on boxes of Ivory Soap.\n\nDespite being kicked out of the church choir, he pursued his love of music, attending local clubs and working at a studio in town during his teens.\n\nHis first love was the guitar, but he had to switch to piano after being shot while trying to defend a bandmate who was being pistol-whipped in 1960.\n\n\"Ronnie was just a kid and his mother had told me 'You better look out for my son,'\" he told Smithsonian.com in 2009.\n\n\"Oh God, that was all I was thinking about. I tried to stop the guy, I had my hand over the barrel and he shot.\"\n\nHe later became part of the famed \"Wrecking Crew\" - a group of LA backing musicians who played on hits by Aretha Franklin, Van Morrison, Cher Frank Zappa and countless others.\n\nThe Dr John character, modelled on a voodoo priest, was created in the late 1960s.\n\nRebennack initially wanted another singer to play the role, but when they pulled out at the last minute, \"I just did it myself out of spite,\" he said.\n\n\"I never thought I would be doing another record. I never wanted to be a frontman. All of a sudden, I got into it, and it wasn't as bad as I thought.\"\n\nBlending New Orleans jazz, blues and psychedelia, he gained recognition with the release of his album Gris-Gris in 1968; and scored a US top 10 hit in 1973 with Right Time, Wrong Place.\n\nDr John performing at the Grammy Awards in 2013\n\nHis live shows were known for their carnival atmosphere and he would wear costumes of bright colours, feathers and plumes, and scatter glitter on the audience.\n\nThe musician, who successfully battled heroin addiction, was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame by singer John Legend in 2011; and won his most recent Grammy in 2012 when Locked Down was named best blues album.\n\nThat album touched on drugs, his time in prison - he got a two-year sentence for drug charges in the mid-60s - and efforts to repair his relationship with his children.\n\nHe was married twice and told the New York Times he had \"a lot\" of children.", "Bank overdraft fees are to undergo a major shake-up, which the UK financial regulator is calling the biggest overhaul for a generation.\n\nBanks and building societies will no longer be allowed to charge fixed daily or monthly fees for overdrafts.\n\nIn addition, there will no longer be higher fees for unplanned overdrafts than for arranged ones.\n\nThe Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said the new rules would start by April 2020.\n\nUnder the new measures, which were first proposed in December, banks will also be required to charge a simple annual interest rate on all overdrafts, and overdraft advertisements will need to come with that rate clearly displayed, to help consumers compare various products.\n\nIn 2017, banks made more than £2.4bn from overdrafts - with 30% alone coming from unarranged overdrafts.\n\nPrevious research showed those aged between 35 and 44 were most likely to have some form of overdraft, and about 10% of all 18 to 24-year-olds had exceeded their overdraft limit in the previous 12 months.\n\nMegzer Dorj says that he paid about £900 in overdraft fees last year.\n\n\"I'm not able to get a planned overdraft limit,\" the 32-year-old chef says.\n\n\"When I go into it, they charge me on a monthly basis. In the last year, 2018, I paid £900. That is just the charge, nothing else.\"\n\nHe says he kept getting charged after going into an unarranged overdraft for day-to-day living costs. He's delighted that the FCA has taken action.\n\nThe regulator said the changes would make overdrafts \"simpler, fairer, and easier to manage\".\n\nWhen the new rules come into force, the typical cost of borrowing £100 through an unarranged overdraft would drop from £5 a day, to less than 20p, the regulator said. However, some fear that the costs to those who previously used arranged overdraft charges might rise, or charges for accounts may rise.\n\nBanks and building societies will be required to charge a simple annual interest rate on all overdrafts, and overdraft advertisements will need to come with that rate clearly displayed, to help consumers to compare various products.\n\nThe FCA's chief executive, Andrew Bailey, said the overdraft market was currently \"dysfunctional\" and \"causing significant consumer harm\" because vulnerable customers are often hit by excessive charges for unarranged overdrafts, which can be 10 times as high as fees for payday loans.\n\n\"Consumers cannot meaningfully compare or work out the cost of borrowing as a result of complex and opaque charges, that are both a result of and driver of poor competition,\" said Mr Bailey.\n\n\"The decisive action we are taking today will give greater protections to millions of people who use an overdraft, particularly the most vulnerable.\"\n\nEric Leenders, from bank trade body UK Finance, said: \"Overdrafts can provide a convenient way for customers to smooth their short-term cash-flow, and there is a highly competitive market in the UK. The banking industry is committed to helping customers manage their money and we will be working closely with the FCA to implement these rules.\"\n\nGillian Guy, chief executive of Citizens Advice, said overdrafts were one of the most common areas of concern when worried consumers contacted the charity.\n\n\"Overdraft charges can have serious knock-on effects for people's debt and mental health. These new rules should help thousands of people from getting trapped in a debt spiral,\" she said.\n\n\"If, after these measures are introduced, people still pay over the odds, the FCA should review the need for an interest rate cap to ensure no one is paying back more than twice what they borrowed.\"\n\nPeter Tutton, of debt charity StepChange, said: \"We would like the regulator to be more pro-active and fleet of foot in identifying and refining the specific, practical steps banks should be taking to help customers escape the overdraft trap more quickly, and to break the cycle of repeat use of overdrafts.\"\n• None 'We were one bill away from disaster'", "The PSNI is in discussions about possibly relaxing enforcement over the MOT backlog.\n\nA number of MOT centres in Northern Ireland are set to open on a Sunday in a bid to tackle a tests backlog.\n\nSome motorists have found themselves unable to secure an appointment until after the expiration of their MOTs.\n\nSo far, the Driver and Vehicle Agency (DVA) has opened 2,000 Sunday MOT appointment slots for 16 and 23 June.\n\nAdditional vehicle examiners have also been recruited and earlier reminder letters sent to deal with the waits.\n\nThe Sunday appointments will be available in Belfast, Coleraine, Craigavon, Newbuildings and Newtownards.\n\nThe DVA said appointments for subsequent Sundays will be released \"on a rolling basis\" over the next two months and can be booked online.\n\nMother-of-four Dana Jamison said her reminder letter had been dated 21 May, but she only received it on 28 May.\n\n\"And then the earliest test I was able to get was for 22 July and my MOT is up on 7 July,\" she told BBC News NI.\n\n\"It's a van I have. And I just need it for normal things, everyday running back and forth.\n\n\"I have a daughter who is moving house at the moment. You can't really take a wardrobe on the Glider.\"\n\nDana Jamison said she received her MOT reminder letter on 28 May but the earliest test she could get was 22 July\n\nThe east Belfast chef said she was eventually able to secure an appointment before her certificate expired, but said doing so required monitoring the DVA website.\n\nShe said it was like \"playing a game of bingo\".\n\nA DVA spokeswoman said customers were advised to book their tests online as soon as they receive a reminder notice, which is now being sent out nine weeks before the current certificate expires.\n\n\"As waiting times vary between test centres, booking an MOT as early as possible means that customers have a wider range of locations, dates and times to choose from,\" she said.\n\nWith a number of drivers reportedly being unable to secure a vehicle test, the PSNI said it has discussed a possible relaxing of the rules with the DVA and had asked for its assessment on doing so.\n\nPSNI Insp Rosie Leech said it was \"aware of a backlog in the MOT system\".\n\nShe said \"discussions are ongoing\".\n\nWhile motorists can face a lengthy wait booking a test, appointments can be secured at the last minute through cancellations.\n\nThe DVA spokeswoman also noted in the 2018/19 period, 32,000 customers failed to attend their MOT appointments. She said this \"puts additional strain on the system\".\n• None No MOT diesel test run in NI for 12 years", "India confirmed eight of its citizens were among the dead in Dubai\n\nAt least 17 people of different nationalities have been killed and several more injured after a bus hit an overhead road sign in Dubai.\n\nThe Oman-registered vehicle was carrying 31 passengers when the crash occurred on Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Road, police said.\n\nIndian officials said that eight Indian citizens were among the dead.\n\nThe driver, who is in his 50s, is receiving treatment for minor injuries and an investigation is underway.\n\nOn their official Twitter account, Dubai police offered their \"sincere condolences and sympathies\" to the families of the victims.\n\n\"Sometimes a slight error or negligence during the driving of the vehicle leads to dire consequences,\" police chief Maj Gen Abdullah Khalifa Al-Marri said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Dubai Policeشرطة دبي This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNo official cause or details have yet emerged about the crash. Local media said the vehicle swerved to avoid a height restriction sign, which then sliced through the roof.\n\nThe Indian embassy in Dubai released the names of all eight Indians killed in the crash, and said it was in touch with some of the families. Several other Indians were treated for injuries.\n\nThere are as yet no further details about the remaining victims.\n\nOmani bus company Mwasalat tweeted its \"deepest condolences\" and announced its services between Muscat and Dubai were suspended until further notice.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by مواصلات MWASALAT-عُمان This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A government official has admitted to 46 people being killed by paramilitaries during pro-democracy protests in the capital Khartoum.\n\nHowever, doctors and hospital workers have told the BBC they believe the figure is over 100, including a child thought to be as young as six.\n\nThe violence intensified on Monday when security forces stormed a weeks-long sit-in outside military headquarters in Khartoum.\n\nResidents said pro-government militia were all over the city. Dozens of bodies have been found in the nearby Nile River.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Noor said he \"knew in an instant\" that he had made a mistake\n\nA former policeman in the US state of Minnesota has been sentenced to 12 years and six months in prison for fatally shooting an unarmed woman who was trying to report a possible crime.\n\nMohamed Noor shot Justine Ruszczyk Damond as she approached his patrol car to report a possible rape behind her Minneapolis home in July 2017.\n\nHe said the shooting was a mistake.\n\nIn court, Ms Damond's father, John Ruszczyk, called the killing \"an obscene act by an agent of the state\".\n\n\"Justine's death has left me incomplete - it is as if I have lost a limb or a leg,\" he said in an impact statement.\n\nMs Damond was due to marry a month after the shooting\n\nMs Damond's fiancee, Don Damond, read an emotional statement addressed directly to her.\n\n\"Dear Justine, I miss you so much every day, every moment,\" he said. \"I don't understand how such a thing could happen to you and to us.\"\n\nNoor is the first Minnesota police officer to be found guilty of murder for an on-duty shooting. At his sentencing on Friday, the 33-year-old apologised for taking Ms Damond's life.\n\n\"I caused this tragedy and it is my burden,\" he told the court. \"I wish though that I could relieve that burden others feel from the loss that I caused. I cannot, and that is a troubling reality for me.\"\n\nSome in the Somali-American community - Noor is Somali - have argued that the case was treated differently than police shootings involving white officers and black victims.\n\nActivists outside the courthouse Friday carried signs reading \"No double standard\" and \"NOOR: Victim of Identity Politics.\"\n\nSome Somali-Americans protested at the court\n\nNoor said he opened fire on the 40-year-old yoga instructor because he feared that he and his partner were being ambushed.\n\nHe said he made the \"split-second decision\" after hearing a loud bang and seeing Ms Damond with her right arm raised.\n\nThe police officers had been called to the area to respond to a 911 call made by Ms Damond about the suspected sexual assault.\n\nNoor was convicted in April of second-degree manslaughter and third-degree murder, but acquitted of the most serious charge of second-degree murder with intent to kill.\n\nMs Damond, a US-Australian dual citizen originally from Sydney, was engaged and due to marry a month after the shooting.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Justine Damond's family hold a silent vigil at a beach in Sydney in 2017\n\nShe had adopted the surname of her fiancé, Don Damond, ahead of their wedding.\n\nHer death drew international criticism, with Australia's then-Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull describing it as \"inexplicable\".\n\nHer family was promised $20m (£15.5m) in compensation by the US city of Minneapolis last month. They said they would donate $2m towards fighting gun crime.", "Women who experience domestic abuse are three times more likely to develop a serious mental illness, Birmingham University research suggests.\n\nThey are also twice as likely to have had some form of mental illness already, the study in the British Journal of Psychiatry found.\n\nExperts said opportunities were being missed to detect abuse and support vulnerable women.\n\nGPs said they were highly trained to spot it, but it was often well-hidden.\n\nThe study was based on 18,547 women who had told their GP of domestic abuse they had experienced.\n\nThey were followed up over a number of years and compared with a group of more than 74,000 women of a similar age who had no experience of domestic abuse.\n\nDr Joht Singh Chandan, lead author and academic clinical fellow in public health at the University of Birmingham, said the burden of mental illness caused by domestic abuse in the UK could be much higher than previously thought.\n\n\"Considering how common domestic abuse is, it is important to understand how strongly the two are connected and consider whether there are possible opportunities to improve the lives of women affected by domestic abuse.\"\n\nOne woman who was abused by her partner is receiving help from Agenda, an organisation which supports women and girls at risk.\n\nShe told the BBC: \"The domestic abuse I experienced changed me profoundly as a person.\n\n\"I am generally sleep-deprived as a result of insomnia now. I seem to veer wildly between compulsive over- or under-eating.\n\n\"I'm much less trusting of others and try to keep people at a long arm's length which has sadly damaged countless friendships, many beyond repair.\"\n\nThe first time she went to mental health services with these issues, she said she wasn't believed.\n\nEventually, she was sectioned after being taken to A&E against her will.\n\nThe researchers' analysis, from 1995-2017, showed that nearly half of women who had gone to their family doctor with domestic abuse had a mental illness already diagnosed.\n\nAmong the rest, the authors found that domestic abuse survivors were twice as likely to develop anxiety and three times as likely to develop depression, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.\n\nThey were also twice as likely to need prescription medication, the study found.\n\nThis was the case even when other factors, such as how much alcohol they drank, whether they smoked and their BMI (body mass index) - which are also linked to mental illness - were taken into account.\n\nAccording to official crime figures, around one in four women experiences domestic abuse during her lifetime.\n\nBut this study, based on GP records, found that fewer than one in 100 women are affected, suggesting some degree of under-reporting.\n\nThe researchers say more could be done by the police to flag up domestic abuse to healthcare professionals.\n\nAnd they call for better support for women with a background of domestic abuse to prevent mental illnesses developing.\n\nDr Beena Rajkumar, from the Royal College of Psychiatrists, said domestic abuse had a \"devastating impact\" on mental health.\n\n\"Screening and recording of domestic abuse needs to be a clear priority for public services so that more effective interventions for this group of vulnerable women can urgently be put in place.\"\n\nProf Louise Howard, from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King's College London, said the study was observational and could not provide conclusive evidence on causes - but she said it still contained an important message.\n\n\"Domestic violence and abuse is a serious public health and public mental health problem.\n\n\"Health practitioners who see women with mental health problems in primary or secondary care therefore need to be trained how to ask routinely about domestic violence and abuse, and how to safely respond.\"\n\nProf Helen Stokes-Lampard, chair of the Royal College of GPs, said training for all GPs on adult and child safeguarding was mandatory.\n\nAnd she added: \"We understand how difficult it can be to seek help for domestic abuse, but it's vital that patients don't suffer in silence - and that they see the GP, and other members of the GP team, as people they can trust and talk to.\"\n• None Agenda - alliance for women and girls at risk The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA former nurse has been convicted of murdering 85 patients at two hospitals in northern Germany and handed a life sentence.\n\nHögel, who is already serving life for two murders, administered lethal doses of heart medication to people in his care between 1999 and 2005.\n\nHe is believed to be the most prolific killer in Germany's modern history.\n\nProsecutors said he attacked patients in order to impress colleagues by subsequently trying to revive them.\n\nA former colleague told the German newspaper Bild that Högel was nicknamed \"Resuscitation Rambo\" because of the way he \"pushed everyone else aside\" when patients needed to be resuscitated.\n\nOn the last day of his trial, Högel, 42, asked the families of his victims for forgiveness for his \"horrible acts\".\n\n\"I would like to sincerely apologise for everything I did to you over the course of years,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Christian Marbach tells the BBC it is hard to accept his grandfather's murder\n\nHögel had been accused of murdering 100 patients in the northern cities of Delmenhorst and Oldenburg. Police believe he may have killed far more but the cremation of bodies had destroyed any possible evidence.\n\nHögel had confessed to 55 murders and the court in Oldenburg convicted him of 85, German media reported.\n\nDelivering sentence, Judge Buehrmann expressed regret that the court had not been able to \"lift the fog\" for many grieving relatives.\n\nThe BBC's Jenny Hill in Berlin says the case has shocked Germany - not least because senior staff at the two hospitals are accused of having turned a blind eye to unusually high mortality rates.\n\nHögel's killing spree was stopped when he was caught in the act of administering unprescribed medication to a patient in 2005 in Delmenhorst. He was sentenced to seven years for attempted murder in 2008, but the families of his other suspected victims pressed for a further investigation.\n\nAt a second trial that ended in 2015 he was jailed for life for two murders and two attempted murders.\n\nHowever, during that trial he confessed to a psychiatrist that he had killed up to 30 people.\n\nInvestigators then widened the investigation, exhuming 130 former patients and looking for evidence of medication that could have triggered cardiac arrest. They also pored over records in the hospitals he worked at.\n\nRecords at the Oldenburg hospital showed rates of deaths and resuscitations had more than doubled when Högel was on shift, German media said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Workers react to news that Ford's engine plant will close in 2020\n\nWorkers at the Ford Bridgend engine plant feel angry and betrayed, First Minister Mark Drakeford has said.\n\nThe company plans to shut its site in the town in autumn 2020, blaming costs and changing customer demand.\n\nMr Drakeford said workers felt they had done \"everything that the company has asked of them\".\n\nIn a phone call with the prime minister, he called for Bridgend staff to be given the same support as those losing their jobs at Honda in Swindon.\n\nA spokesman for the first minister described the conversation with Theresa May as \"constructive\" and said Mr Drakeford had explained the importance of Ford to the Bridgend economy.\n\nThe UK government announced a £16m programme to help suppliers, and a taskforce to promote Swindon for building electric cars, after Honda announced it would shut its plant in the town.\n\nThe Welsh Government is planning to establish its own taskforce to aimed at \"maximising the strengths that are here in Bridgend\", Mr Drakeford said earlier on Friday.\n\nMeanwhile a trade union official accused the company of trying to \"bribe\" employees with redundancy packages - and said shop stewards were willing to \"take the fight to Ford\".\n\nAbout 1,700 people work at the factory, which opened in 1980.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The story of Ford in Bridgend\n\n\"There is a palpable sense of anger, and a betrayal really, amongst the workforce who feel they have done absolutely everything that the company has asked of them over recent years to put this plant in the best possible place,\" Mr Drakeford said.\n\nHe said discussions would continue with the workforce to see \"how the period of consultation that now follows can be used to put pressure on the company to remain here in south Wales\".\n\nWelsh Secretary Alun Cairns said on Tuesday the UK government and Welsh Government \"have already been working on potential investors\" but \"clearly there is a lot more work\".\n\nMr Cairns also said he has been in touch with Mr Skates about exploring the production of electric vehicles as a means of protecting jobs in the Bridgend area.\n\nMr Drakeford could not say who would be on the Welsh Government taskforce.\n\n\"It's important to calibrate the taskforce according to local circumstances, to do it in consultation with local players and local interests,\" he said.\n\nHe said the government will be looking \"at who we need to bring around the table to make sure that those skills are known and advertised, whether there is a need to re-skilling to make sure the training packages are in place, and that they are tailored to the needs of individuals\".\n\nThe first minister said the company told him that Brexit \"was a background factor\".\n\n\"It may not be a major precipitating factor. But the uncertainty that Brexit brings, the way in which the UK is regarded by global companies looking to serve a whole European market. It is inevitable that Brexit plays its part,\" he said.\n\nMark Drakeford said Brexit was a factor in the background of the decision to close the site\n\nFord of Europe president Stuart Rowley on Thursday said the decision was nothing to do with Brexit.\n\n\"We are committed to the UK. However, changing customer demand and cost disadvantages, plus an absence of additional engine models for Bridgend going forward make the plant economically unsustainable in the years ahead,\" he added.\n\nPeter Hughes, Unite Wales regional secretary, said \"a lot of shop stewards feel like they're being bribed, and they feel like the membership is being bribed to make sure that they take the redundancy package and don't take any action.\"\n\n\"What came out loud and clear is that the shop stewards are really willing to take the fight to Ford,\" he said.\n\nAsked what exactly that meant, Mr Hughes said: \"I think it could mean anything from industrial action to whatever is in the gift of members to do.\"\n\nBen Cottam: \"We want to see some leadership exhibited\"\n\nMeanwhile, the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) said business leaders and politicians must work together to understand \"what a post-Ford Bridgend looks like\".\n\nFSB Wales' head of external affairs Ben Cottam said Ford had been \"in the economic landscape for 40 years\".\n\n\"Around that has grown up a small business supply chain so we know that this is going to cause some real concern among smaller businesses.\n\n\"What we need to do now is identify those businesses, understand how they're affected and I think we want to see support from government, both in Cardiff Bay and in Westminster to support them to diversify, to re-skill and to look for new opportunities.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremie Manning says workers were \"let down big time\"\n\nJeremie Manning, of Abercynon, has worked at Ford in Bridgend for 15 years.\n\n\"It hasn't sunk in yet. Many of us suspected something because of the way the plant has been running in recent years but the speed of the announcement swept everyone off their feet.\n\n\"We thought we would have longer but it took everyone by surprise. Even the plant manager struggled to give the news. Everyone was in a state of shock.\n\n\"It's not just us, it's the community around south Wales. We know the supply chain and the jobs that were created. This is massive.\n\n\"It's not nice to go home and tell your wife this news. Hopefully I've got 15 months work if it's not cut short but that's not long to re-skill.\n\n\"Morale has been rock bottom for a few years because this has been hanging over us for a while.\n\n\"We have dealt with everything that was thrown at us - but it hasn't worked.\n\n\"I think Ford were just kicking the can down the road with false promises. They need to rethink. They owe it to us and the community.\"\n\n'It's a dreadful blow for the whole region - not just the town' - Freya Bletsoe\n\nShop owner Freya Bletsoe said the knock-on affect from the closure would be a \"dreadful blow\" to the region.\n\nShe added: \"Bridgend puts millions into the Cardiff City Deal. Now is the time for that deal to do what it's supposed to by investing and helping make this region economically viable.\"\n\nLocal traders have called for help in minimising the impact on the wider community.\n\nMichelle Smith says businesses in Bridgend rely on each other\n\nMichelle Smith, president of the Porthcawl Chamber of Trade, fears any new jobs will not make up for the loss of 1,700 well-paid posts at Ford.\n\nShe said: \"Any corporation who employs from the [area] will result in less wages and less disposable income to spend the in local community.\n\n\"Bridgend is a small county and every town relies on each other but we're falling apart.\"\n\n2008: Ford announces it will operate as a single global company - meaning its Bridgend engine plant had to compete with the firm's other factories across the world, not just in Europe\n\n2015: Bridgend secures investment for Dragon petrol engine project - with 250,000 engines a year, although it has capacity for 750,000 a year\n\n2016: The planned Dragon investment is reduced to £121m and the number of engines is cut in half to 125,000\n\n2017: Ford projects a reduction of 1,160 workers by 2021 and confirms production of Jaguar Land Rover engines - which involves half the workforce - will end in 2020\n\n2018: Workers making Jaguar engines face a five-day shutdown as a knock-on effect from JLR's temporary production halt. Ford's European boss warns a no-deal Brexit would be \"pretty disastrous\"\n\nJan 2019: Ford plans to cut 370 jobs the first phase of redundancies which will total 990 by 2021. The Dragon project was scheduled to employ about 500\n\nJune 2019: Ford announces it plans to close the plant in September 2020 citing three reasons - the phasing out of one engine model, the end of Jaguar Landrover contract and a decline in the demand for a new engine\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLabour has narrowly seen off a Brexit Party challenge to hold on to its Peterborough seat in a by-election.\n\nUnion activist Lisa Forbes retained the constituency for Labour, taking 31% of the vote and beating the Brexit Party's Mike Greene (29%) by 683 votes.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn called it an \"incredible\" win for the \"politics of hope over the politics of fear\".\n\nBut Nigel Farage, who founded the Brexit Party less than two months ago, called its showing \"very significant\".\n\nThe Conservatives came third with 21%, while the Liberal Democrats were fourth with 12%, followed by the Green Party on 3%.\n\nThe Peterborough by-election was called after Fiona Onasanya - who won for Labour in 2017 but was convicted of lying over a speeding offence and thrown out of the party - became the first MP to be ousted under recall rules.\n\nIn her victory speech, Ms Forbes said, to cheers from her supporters, that \"the politics of hope can win regardless of the odds\".\n\n\"Despite the differing opinions across our city, the fact that the Brexit Party have been rejected here in Peterborough shows that the politics of division will not win,\" she said.\n\nThe Brexit Party had been the bookmakers' favourite to take the Cambridgeshire seat - which would have been its first at Westminster - following its success in the recent European elections.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Labour leader challenged the next Tory leader to call an immediate general election\n\nJoining Labour's victory celebrations on a visit to the city, Mr Corbyn said: \"All the experts wrote Lisa Forbes off. All the experts wrote Labour off. Write Labour off at your peril.\"\n\nThe Labour leader said the party had triumphed due to its anti-austerity message and its opposition to a \"cliff-edge\" no-deal Brexit that would threaten jobs and investment.\n\nHe challenged whoever succeeds Theresa May as Conservative leader to call an immediate general election.\n\nDespite the Brexit Party's failure to take the seat, leader Mr Farage said he was \"pretty buoyed\", as it had \"come from nowhere and produced a massive result\".\n\nHe rejected claims that its focus on a single issue limited its appeal, telling BBC Radio 4's Today programme we have a \"very strong, simple message that people believe in\".\n\nMr Farage later handed in a letter to Downing Street calling for his party's MEPs to be included in the UK's Brexit negotiating team.\n\nHe told reporters he believed the NHS should be included in future US trade negotiations despite the political outcry when Donald Trump raised the possibility earlier this week - comments which the US president subsequently appeared to row back on.\n\nThe Brexit Party has made a huge impression - but history is written by the winners.\n\nHad Nigel Farage's party actually won this narrowly, he would have had much more momentum to argue not just to get Brexit done by the end of October, but to have huge influence potentially over how the Conservatives choose their leader.\n\nHad Labour lost narrowly, there would have been a big demand from the rank and file for Jeremy Corbyn to sharpen his Brexit act and to call for a referendum under all circumstances. That has not happened either.\n\nThe conclusion that the Labour leadership is drawing from this is that people actually wanted to talk about things other than Brexit.\n\nBy talking about council cuts, crime, and education, they managed not to fight on the same territory as their opponents and were able to carve out their own distinctive message, get out their core vote and sneak over the line.\n\nConservative leadership candidate Boris Johnson tweeted his \"commiserations\" to Tory candidate Paul Bristow, who, he said, \"did not deserve to come third\", while fellow contenders Dominic Raab, Matt Hancock and Jeremy Hunt said the result showed the threat from Labour.\n\nConservative Party chairman Brandon Lewis said the \"clear message\" from its poor performance in Peterborough as well as in recent council and European elections was the public wanted the government to deliver on the Brexit referendum result.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPolling expert Professor Sir John Curtice said the Peterborough by-election had not been as \"dramatic\" as the UK-wide European elections last month, in which the Brexit Party and Liberal Democrats came first and second.\n\nBut he added that the combined results had been \"enough to disturb the regular rhythms of two-party politics\".\n\nMs Forbes caused controversy during the campaign when she liked a social media post which said Theresa May had a \"Zionist slave masters agenda\".\n\nLabour said she had liked a video expressing solidarity with the victims of March's terror attacks on mosques in the New Zealand city of Christchurch \"without reading the accompanying text, which Facebook users know is an easy thing to do\".\n\n\"She has fully accounted for this genuine mistake and apologised,\" a party source said.\n\nBut the Jewish Labour Movement called for Ms Forbes to have the Labour whip suspended, meaning she would have to sit in the Commons as an independent MP.\n\nMeanwhile, Labour Against Antisemitism asked for her to be suspended from the party, calling her election a \"dark day\" for Labour.\n• None By-election 'not just about Brexit'", "Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage has responded to Labour's narrow victory in the Peterborough by-election.\n\nLabour candidate Lisa Forbes won 31% of votes to beat the Brexit Party's Mike Greene, who took 29%.\n\nMr Farage said it was a \"big, big showing\" from his party and that the political landscape had changed.", "More than 1,000 people have been recognised in the Queen's Birthday Honours list.\n\nThe majority of recipients are people who have undertaken outstanding work in their communities. But here are some of the better-known names.\n\nOccupation: Actress - Oscar and Bafta winning star of The Favourite\n\nQuote: \"I'm totally thrilled, delighted and humbled to be in the company of these incredible people, most of whom have been nowhere near as visible as I have, but should be - and hopefully now will be. It's such an honour\"\n\nHonour: OBE for services to young people, the media and charity\n\nQuote: \"This really is a huge honour and it's something, if I'm honest, that I never expected to happen.\n\n\"But I really do feel it's a team effort, this award is for every one of those incredible Scout volunteers... so if you're a Scout volunteer, congratulations, we share this one together\"\n\nOccupation: Musician, songwriter - Released more than 25 albums from My Aim Is True in 1977 to Look Now in 2018\n\nQuote: \"I am happy to accept this very surprising honour...\n\n\"As a good lad, who likes to do what will make his Mam most proud, I knew that I must put old doubts and enmities aside and muster what little grace I possess...\n\n\"Even so, it is hard to receive anything named for the 'British Empire', and all that term embodies, without a pause for reflection\"\n\nQuote: \"Someone read my books and enjoyed them enough to put my name forward for this great honour, which in itself is all a writer could ask for\"\n\nOccupation: Netball player. Captain of the England women's team when they won gold at the 2018 Commonwealth Games\n\nQuote: \"I didn't get here by myself; so for all the team mates, opposition, coaches, volunteers, parents and family, pseudo parents and family, chauffeurs, piggy banks, packed lunch makers, umpires, managers, friends, doubters, officials, supporters, fans, teachers, and anyone that I have missed who has helped me personally, or played, promoted or supported netball or someone else in netball in any way congratulations\"\n\nOccupation: Actor known for his Shakespearean roles at the Royal Shakespeare Company and National Theatre. Winner of two Bafta TV awards and two Laurence Olivier awards\n\nQuote: \"It is a very great honour and I think my mother, were she alive, would be very proud\"\n\nOccupation: Sculptor, the first woman to win the Turner Prize in 1993\n\nOccupation: Author of The Rector's Wife and A Village Affair\n\nOccupation: Comedian, writer, actor and presenter, who became a household name in the 1980s with Not The Nine O'Clock News and Alas Smith and Jones\n\nHonour: OBE for services to the National Civic Society Movement, charity and entertainment\n\nQuote: \"Thank you for all the lovely tweets re my OBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours. I'm absolutely thrilled to receive it\"\n\nOccupation: Singer and actor known for his role in the musical Les Miserables\n\nHonour: OBE for services to music and charity\n\nQuote: \"The news is out! I am truly honoured... Thank you\"\n\nQuote: \"I am unbelievably honoured to be receiving an MBE.\n\n\"It's a huge boost for my confidence ahead of a busy summer of tournaments and I think it's so awesome for women's golf to be recognised in this way\"\n• None 75%Given for work in the community\n\nNeed a reminder of what the acronyms mean? Read our guide to the honours", "Thomas Dunn was convicted following a five-day trial at Dundee Sheriff Court\n\nA man has been found guilty of putting a 13-month-old girl in a tumble dryer.\n\nThomas Dunn claimed he had only \"assisted\" the toddler, saying the child had been climbing into the machine herself.\n\nThe 25-year-old, from Hamilton, said he did not fully close the machine door on the child, but the dryer had activated and started rotating.\n\nDunn was also found guilty at Dundee Sheriff Court of causing fractures to the child's skull during an assault.\n\nHe was convicted of culpable and reckless conduct by placing the child in the dryer and closing the door, causing the machine to activate.\n\nDuring evidence the court was told that the incident happened sometime between the end of 2017 and the start of last year in Arbroath.\n\nOn the separate charge of assault, Dunn was convicted of striking the child on another occasion on the head and body, causing severe injury.\n\nSheriff Alastair Brown told Dunn he \"must have hit that little girl extremely hard at least twice\" in order to inflict what were potentially life-threatening injuries.\n\nHe said it was \"only by her good fortune and perhaps yours\" that Dunn was not tried at the High Court on a charge of murder.\n\nGiving evidence in his own defence, Dunn claimed he had not \"pushed\" or \"squashed\" the baby into the machine but had \"tucked her leg into it\" after she had climbed in herself.\n\nHe said: \"I didn't know the switch was on, it would've been the pin that activated the safety switch when it touched it.\n\n\"She was already climbing into it and I tucked her leg in. I closed the door but not fully, it wasn't like properly shut.\n\n\"It wasn't long, it wasn't like minutes she was in it.\"\n\nProsecutor Nicola Gillespie asked Dunn: \"Why on earth did you do that, assist, tuck, whatever you want to call it, that child into a tumble dryer?\"\n\nHe replied: \"I don't know, it was a bad judgement call.\"\n\nEarlier in the trial, the child's mother told the jury the toddler was not strong enough to be able to climb into the machine herself.\n\nAsked about Mr Dunn's demeanour, the woman replied: \"There was just no emotion. I felt like he felt like it was a joke.\"\n\nDunn was remanded in custody ahead of sentencing at the High Court at a later date.", "A sea rescue boat moments before it capsized, killing three crew\n\nA rescue boat has overturned in the Atlantic off the west coast of France leaving three crew dead, amid winds of up to 129 km/h (80 mph).\n\nThey were part of a crew of seven who had gone to the aid of another boat which had got into difficulty as Storm Miguel struck the area.\n\nWinds of up to 147km/h hit northern Spain earlier, swirling around the Bay of Biscay and moving on to France.\n\nThe storm is unusual, coming at the start of the summer tourist season.\n\nPhotographs of the National Society of Sea Rescue rescue boat captured it rolling in large swells in the moments before it capsized, after which the vessel ran ashore upside down.\n\nFour of the seven crew aboard the rescue boat managed to swim to shore. Three helicopters and around 60 firefighters were attempting to find the bodies of the three dead.\n\nThe National Society of Sea Rescue boat after it capsized\n\nThe strongest winds were recorded in the north-western Spanish region of Asturias late on Thursday while earlier there was damage to some buildings in Galicia.\n\nAs the storm hit land on the Ile d'Yeu in western France on Friday, forecasters recorded wind speeds of 129km/h.\n\nDown the coast of the Vendée area, off the beach resort of Les Sables-d'Olonne, a crew from the SNSM sea rescue service went to the aid of a fishing boat in trouble and capsized some 800m off shore.\n\n\"The sea was quite atrocious,\" mayor Yannick Moreau told news channel BFMTV. \"The boat had a crew of seven and three rescuers have died. It's a big shock for us and a big shock for the whole town.\"\n\nTen French departments were placed on orange alert and warned of potential damage, particularly to trees. Rail travel in the west was disrupted by the storm and forecasters said such images were rare in June.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ten French departments were on alert for the storm\n\nAlerts were also in place further north, with warnings of heavy rain and wind speeds of up to 100 km/h in the western half of the Netherlands.\n\nHigh winds had already ravaged the Dutch coast in the early hours of Thursday, leading police in the coastal province of Zeeland to stumble on a cocaine laboratory.\n\nWhen they were alerted to a tree that had fallen during the night, they saw some suspicious men loitering around a barn and noticed a strange smell.\n\nPolice said the cocaine lab was one of the biggest ever discovered in the Netherlands.", "Peterborough's former MP Fiona Onasanya was sacked by her constituents in the first successful re-call petition prompting a by-election.\n\nThe East Anglian city voted to leave the EU by 61% in 2016, but Ms Onasanya's successor will also have to address local issues in education, crime and homelessness.\n\nFor BBC1's This Week. political correspondent Ben Schofield takes a look at issues as the constituency elects a new MP and meets some of the candidates.\n\nUK viewers can watch the full programme for 12 months from transmission", "On June 6 1944, Gold Beach proved to be the most difficult landing ground for British troops on D-Day with up to 1,100 allied casualties.\n\nSoldiers from the Hampshire, Dorsetshire and Devonshire regiments were given the job of taking the defences near the beach.\n\nA new book has pieced together what happened to some of the individual soldiers in the first 24-hours after the D-Day landings.\n\nIt includes the story of a young private, Terry Parker, who kept an illegal diary detailing his involvement in the fighting.", "Labour has narrowly won the Peterborough by-election, with Nigel Farage's Brexit Party coming second.\n\nUnite activist Lisa Forbes won the seat with 10,484 seats ahead of the Brexit Party's Mike Greene who had 9,801 votes.\n\nThe by-election was sparked by the first ever successful recall petition against a sitting MP.", "Kenneth Noye fled to Spain after he murdered Stephen Cameron in 1996\n\nM25 road-rage killer Kenneth Noye has been released from prison.\n\nNoye, 71, stabbed 21-year-old Stephen Cameron to death in an attack at the Swanley interchange of the M25 in Kent in 1996.\n\nHe later claimed he killed Mr Cameron in self-defence during a road-rage fight. He was sentenced to life with a minimum term of 16 years in 2000.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice said it understands Noye's release will be \"distressing\" for Mr Cameron's family.\n\nIt follows a decision by the Parole Board last month, which said Noye no longer poses a risk to the public.\n\nThe BBC's Danny Shaw said Noye was \"freed on licence this morning\" and it is thought he may go to his home address rather than an approved premises, known as a bail hostel or probation hostel.\n\nStephen Cameron was 21 when he was stabbed to death by Noye\n\nMr Cameron's father Ken told the BBC last month that he was \"gutted\" about the decision to release Noye.\n\nThe electrician was stabbed in front of his fiancee Danielle Cable, who was given a new identity and has been living under a witness protection scheme ever since.\n\nNoye went on the run after the killing, and was tracked down in Spain in 1998 and extradited back to the UK.\n\nThe MoJ said: \"Like all life sentence prisoners released by the independent Parole Board, Kenneth Noye will be on licence for the remainder of his life, subject to strict conditions and faces a return to prison should he fail to comply.\"\n\nNoye had been eligible to be considered for release since 21 April 2015 and his case was considered three times by the Parole Board.\n\nThe Parole Board said Noye \"had demonstrated an ability to deal appropriately with potentially violent situations in prison and was clearly well motivated to avoid further offending in the community\".\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nCoverage : Live across BBC TV, radio and the BBC Sport website and App.\n\nFrance will host the Fifa Women's World Cup for the first time when the tournament kicks off on 7 June.\n\nEngland and Scotland are among the 24 teams taking part with the final in Lyon on 7 July.\n\nThe tournament will be hosted in nine cities and played in nine different venues.\n\nBBC Sport will have extensive coverage of every game across television, radio and online.\n\nHere's everything you need to know about this summer's tournament.\n\nWhat are the key dates?\n\nThe competition runs for a month, from 7 June until 7 July.\n\nHosts France get the competition under way with their opening group match against South Korea in Paris.\n\nScotland, who are making their first appearance at the World Cup, will meet England in Nice on 9 June in what is the opening game for both countries.\n\nHolders the United States will begin the defence of their title against Thailand, who are ranked 29th in the world, on 11 June in Reims.\n\nThe semi-finals and final are being held in Lyon and will take place from 2 July.\n\nHow can you watch the games?\n\nBBC Sport will have live coverage of every World Cup match across TV, radio, the Red Button and online from the group stages all the way through to the final.\n\nThe opening match between hosts France and South Korea on Friday, 7 June will be shown live on BBC One from Paris.\n\nHome nations England and Scotland go head-to-head in their opening group match on Sunday, 9 June and you can watch that live on BBC One from Nice.\n\nThe final is also being shown on BBC One from 16:00 BST on Sunday, 7 July.\n\nLast month, Fifa revealed that more than 720,000 tickets have already been sold for the tournament - exceeding the number sold at this stage for the World Cup in Canada in 2015.\n\nThe opening match, along with the semi-finals and final, were sold out within 48 hours of going on sale.\n\nWhere will the games be played?\n\nThere are nine venues in total, including the Parc des Princes - home of Paris St-Germain.\n\nThe opening match will take place there, while seven of the venues will host at least three group games.\n\nThe semi-finals and final will be held at the Parc Olympique Lyonnais, also know as Groupama Stadium. It has the largest capacity of the venues being used and will hold up to 59,186 fans.\n\nThe stadium, which hosted last year's Europa League final, will also be one of the venues for the 2024 Summer Olympics.\n\nWho are the favourites?\n\nDefending champions the United States are seeking a fourth title and are ranked number one in the world.\n\nHosts France have never gone beyond the semi-finals of the World Cup and have only reached the last eight at the European Championship. However, they are ranked fourth in the world and are hoping to replicate the success of the men's team, who won in Russia last year.\n\nOlympic champions Germany are also a threat. The side were knocked out in the semi-finals in 2015 - and in the quarter-finals of the European Championship in 2017 - but remain number two in the world.\n\nWorld number seven Japan were World Cup winners in 2011 and runners-up in 2015, while European champions the Netherlands could also challenge for the title.\n\nWhat are the home nations' chances?\n\nEngland, who won the SheBelieves Cup for the first time in March, are among the favourites having finished third at the World Cup in 2015.\n\nThey are ranked third in the world and beat Japan and Brazil in America earlier this year. They also drew with the United States but suffered a disappointing defeat to Canada in a friendly last month.\n\nManager Phil Neville said in March he believed this generation of players could go on to \"dominate world football\".\n\nScotland, who are ranked 20th in the world, are competing in their first World Cup but have gone four games unbeaten this year, including a memorable victory over Brazil in a friendly last month.\n\nIt was only the second time any Scottish team has beaten Brazil at any level, following a success for the men's under-20s at the 2017 Toulon Tournament.\n\nOn their chances in France, manager Shelley Kerr said: \"I don't think we're dark horses\".\n\nWhich players should you look out for?\n\nBallon d'Or winner Ada Hegerberg has not been included in Norway's squad for the World Cup but a few of her Lyon team-mates could be on show, including England's Lucy Bronze and the newly-signed Nikita Parris, plus Japan defender Saki Kumagai.\n\nManchester City's Steph Houghton could play a big role for England in defence, with Barcelona's Toni Duggan and Chelsea's Fran Kirby hoping to shine in attack.\n\nArsenal's Kim Little and Chelsea's Erin Cuthbert will be key attacking players for Scotland, while Manchester City's Caroline Weir is also one to watch.\n\nThe United States have a squad bursting with talent and experience with the likes of Alex Morgan and Megan Rapinoe. It is also expected to be 36-year-old Carli Lloyd's last tournament - the former Manchester City midfielder was Fifa World Player of the Year and the Golden Ball winner at the World Cup in 2015.\n\nAustralia captain and forward Sam Kerr guided her country to their first Cup of Nations in March, while PFA Player of the Year Vivianne Miedema is a leading figure for the Netherlands.\n\nAnd Orlando Pride forward Marta, who won the Best Female Player Award in September, is the driving force behind an ageing Brazilian team.\n\nBBC Sport has launched #ChangeTheGame this summer to showcase female athletes in a way they never have been before. Through more live women's sport available to watch across the BBC this summer, complemented by our journalism, we are aiming to turn up the volume on women's sport and alter perceptions. Find out more here.", "The boss of UK book retailer Waterstones is being parachuted in to help the turnaround of giant US chain Barnes & Noble.\n\nJames Daunt's appointment was announced as part of a takeover of Barnes & Noble by hedge fund Elliott Management, which already owns Waterstones.\n\nThe deal values the largest US book chain, hit by the rise of online sites such as Amazon, at close to $700m.\n\nElliott hopes Mr Daunt can repeat his turnaround of Waterstones.\n\nMr Daunt said: \"Physical bookstores the world over face fearsome challenges from online and digital. We meet these with investment and with all the more confidence for being able to draw on the unrivalled bookselling skills of these two great companies.\"\n\nHe will be based in New York, but remain at the helm of Waterstones. Elliott bought a majority stake in Waterstones last year from Russian billionaire Alexander Mamut, who rescued the chain from near-collapse in 2011.\n\nMichelle Obama signs copies of her bestselling book at Barnes & Noble in New York City.\n\nBarnes & Noble has been listed on the New York Stock Exchange since 1993. Its rapid growth and big-store format helped to sideline many independent booksellers.\n\nBut the chain suffered after Amazon turned the market upside down, and Barnes & Noble's efforts to pull in a more tech-savvy audience with its Nook e-book reader failed to compete with the Kindle and other tablets.\n\nIn 2014, Barnes & Noble closed its New York Fifth Avenue store - once the world's largest bookstore - and has faced declining sales for at least the past three years. It has about 627 outlets.\n\nLast year it made a loss of $137.7m before tax on sales of $3.6bn.\n\nLeonardo Riggio, founder and chairman of Barnes & Noble, said: \"We are pleased to have reached this agreement with Elliott, the owner of Waterstones, a bookseller I have admired over the years.\n\n\"In view of the success they have had in the bookselling marketplace, I believe they are uniquely suited to improve and grow our company for many years ahead.\"\n\nWaterstones has faced its own challenge from Amazon, but it returned to profit in 2016 after six years of losses. Mr Daunt oversaw a big investment in the stores, concentrating on turning them into places to browse and organising more in-store events.\n\nHe said Elliott's financial backing would allow him to invest in Barnes & Noble's store estate and \"make them look a bit nicer\".", "One has played in more major tournaments than Steven Gerrard, while another used to be Manchester City's kitwoman.\n\nThese are the 23 women who have been selected by manager Phil Neville to represent England at the World Cup, which starts on 7 June.\n\nCalifornia-born Bardsley was first-choice keeper at the 2011 and 2015 World Cups and has won all three domestic titles with Manchester City. She is England women's most capped goalkeeper and only Peter Shilton has made more appearances in goal for the nation.\n\nTelford made her England debut in 2007 but has never played in a major tournament. She played in four World Cup qualifiers, keeping clean sheets in three of them, and was first choice for the SheBelieves Cup earlier in the year. At club level, Telford has played in three FA Cup finals for Chelsea.\n\nA Loughborough University graduate, Earps made her international debut as a substitute in a friendly against Switzerland in June 2017. She is currently understudy at German champions Wolfsburg, having previously played for Bristol Academy and Reading.\n\nBronze, whose middle name is Tough, has been described as the best player in the world by boss Phil Neville. At domestic level, she won the Champions League, domestic title and French Cup with Olympique Lyonnais this season. The two-time PFA Player of the Year scored twice in six games at the last World Cup, including a goal in the quarter-final win over Canada.\n\nGreenwood was the youngest member of England's 2015 World Cup squad. She left her native Liverpool for Manchester United last year and went on to secure promotion up to the WSL. Her boyfriend is Jack O'Connell, a fellow defender who won promotion to the Premier League with Sheffield United in May.\n\nAfter her debut in 2016, Bright started all five games at Euro 2017 - the only player in the squad to do so. She is a two-time WSL winner and two-time FA Cup winner with Chelsea. Bright has discussed money, horse riding and social media in her regular BBC Sport column, which she will continue to write during the World Cup.\n\nEngland's captain made her debut in 2007 and started every game at the last World Cup, as the Lionesses finished third. She also shone at the London 2012 Olympics, scoring three goals in four games. Houghton was made an MBE in 2016.\n\nMcManus was given her debut in Phil Neville's first match in charge at the SheBelieves Cup last year. After winning the FA Cup with Manchester City, where she went from kitwoman to the club's longest-serving player, she agreed a move to rivals Manchester United for next season.\n\nDaly is one of five players in the Lionesses squad who plays outside the UK. She joined Houston Dash in 2016, but has been in the US since 2013. She has never played in a major tournament before. She had been left out of the squad for a year before Neville recalled her in March 2018, and has played 15 from 19 games since.\n\nWilliamson has been with Arsenal since the age of eight, and won the WSL title with the club this season. She hit the headlines in 2015 during her time with England Under-19s, when she had to retake a penalty in a European Championship qualifier against Norway five days after the original fixture. She slotted it home to book England a place in the European Championship. Williamson is now also training to be an accountant.\n\nStokes was omitted from the squad in 2015, so this will be her first World Cup. She has won every domestic honour at club level with Manchester City, having previously played for Vancouver Whitecaps. Stokes is a graduate from the University of South Florida.\n\nEngland's fourth-most capped player, Scott has played in 14 World Cup games at three tournaments. If she plays in France, she will be second on the all-time list of England World Cup appearances, with more matches at the tournament than any of the country's outfield players. She has won the WSL, FA Cup and WSL Cup with Manchester City and at 5ft 11ins tall she is nicknamed \"Crouchy\" after Peter Crouch.\n\nCarney is England's longest-serving player and, alongside Scott, is set to play in her eighth major tournament. She won the quadruple with Arsenal, before a spell with Birmingham City and then Chelsea, and has an MBE. In a recent interview, Carney was named as Neville's 'teacher's pet' by her team-mates.\n\nThe midfielder featured for her country at the 2015 World Cup and 2017 Euros. At club level, she reached the FA Cup semi-finals this year but missed a penalty in the shootout that sent West Ham through. Moore, a qualified sports therapist, discovered at 17 during a routine scan that she had two holes in her heart and now has a correctional device fitted.\n\nAt just 22, Walsh has won all three domestic trophies with Manchester City, having made her debut as a teenager. She has played in 14 of Neville's 19 games in charge and is going into her first major tournament.\n\nThe youngest Lioness in the 23-strong squad, Stanway queued to have her picture taken with Steph Houghton as a teenager. She has now lifted the FA Cup with her idol and captain, and scored in the final at Wembley as Manchester City beat West Ham 3-0 in May. Stanway plans to go into the police after finishing her football career.\n\nStaniforth is going to her first major tournament with England having endured a tricky start to her playing career. She suffered two cruciate ligament injuries during her time with Bristol Academy. She went on to win the WSL title with Liverpool and made her international debut last year.\n\nKirby scored on her debut in 2014 and has found the net in both major championships that she's played in. Her brilliant goal against Mexico at the World Cup in 2015 earned her the tag 'mini Messi', courtesy of former boss Mark Sampson. Kirby has since admitted that she hates it.\n\nArsenal's Mead has been part of the international set-up for a year and is a firm favourite among the fans. She scored twice in the SheBelieves Cup, including a cross-shot which has now become her calling card after a similar goal for her club.\n\nLiverpool-born Parris won the Footballer Writers' Player of the Year and lifted the FA Cup with Manchester City before confirming her move to European champions Lyon. She is the all-time top scorer in the WSL. Her sister is Olympic boxer Natasha Jonas.\n\nTaylor was top scorer at the 2017 European Championships and became the first woman to grab a hat-trick for England in a major tournament. The Lionesses have never lost a game in which she has scored.\n\nA two-time WSL and two-time FA Cup winner with Arsenal, White has agreed to move to Manchester City from Birmingham for next season. This will be her third World Cup. Look out for her binocular celebration.\n\nDuggan has featured in 18 times under Neville, and scored four goals in World Cup qualifying. The Liverpudlian, heading for her third major championship, now plays for Barcelona and reached the Champions League final this year. She was a Morris dancer as a child.", "Oxford University's latest admissions figures show the highest ever proportion of places for ethnic minority students - at 18%.\n\nThere were also rising numbers of state school pupils, up to about 61%.\n\nBut the figures, for undergraduate entry in autumn 2018, showed more places taken by students from Singapore than from the north-east of England.\n\nVice-chancellor Louise Richardson said a \"sea change\" in admissions would \"accelerate the pace of change\".\n\nLast month, Oxford University announced a target for a quarter of its UK students to come from disadvantaged backgrounds by 2023.\n\nThe university's push for a more diverse intake followed accusations that it was socially exclusive.\n\nThis detailed breakdown on admissions also highlights different trends below the headline figures - such as Asian students being much more likely to get places than other minorities.\n\nThe admissions statistics show a widening of access, but also an intensification of competition.\n\nApplications have increased significantly, up by almost a quarter in four years, with 21,000 applications for about 3,300 places.\n\nThere is rising competition at home and abroad and the proportion of places going to UK students has continued to slip downwards - about 78% this year, compared with 82% four years previously.\n\nThe BBC showed earlier this year that UK student numbers at Oxford and Cambridge had fallen by more than a thousand compared with a decade ago.\n\nAmong students from overseas, China and Singapore have the biggest number of places.\n\nThe 320 students from China and 206 from Singapore compare with the 159 places for students from the north-east of England and 217 from Wales, in three-year figures for 2016 to 2018.\n\nThere were more than 3,800 places for students from London and the south-east of England, across these years - which were also the places with the highest concentrations of students with top grades.\n\nA university spokesman said: \"Every student at Oxford is chosen based on academic ability and potential alone\" and that higher fees for overseas students were not a factor.\n\nThe proportion of state school pupils getting places is at its highest in records going back about 40 years.\n\nAmong UK entrants, it has gone up from 56.3% to 60.5% over the past four years - and this translates to about 80 more places for state-educated pupils and about 120 fewer places for privately educated ones.\n\nAbout 18% of students taking A-levels are in private schools, so they remain significantly over-represented.\n\nThere are big differences by subject. Among those studying maths, 73% are from state schools, but for classics it is only 29%.\n\nThis year's intake saw 18.3% of places taken by ethnic minority students - the highest proportion on record.\n\nApplications from ethnic minority students have been increasing rapidly - up by almost half in four years.\n\nThe university highlights the rise in applications and admissions for Asian students. Among the UK intake, 8.3% are from an Asian background, compared with 2.6% for black African and Caribbean students.\n\nLouise Richardson says the number of students from deprived backgrounds is increasing\n\nDespite the numbers of black students rising, it means that over three years there was only one UK black student admitted for geography, two for physics and none for biological sciences.\n\nIn 12 of Oxford's colleges, fewer than five black students had been recruited over three years. No college had recruited fewer than 12 Asian students or 120 white students across this time.\n\nThe proportion of deprived pupils has moved upwards, with 11.3% of places going to students classified as facing socio-economic disadvantage.\n\nProf Richardson, the university's vice-chancellor, said the intake still \"reflects the deep inequalities in our society along socio-economic, regional and ethnic lines\".\n\nBut she said \"even the most cynical observer\" would have to recognise that progress was being made.\n\n\"The numbers are low, the pace is slow, but the trajectory is clear - the number of students admitted to Oxford from deprived backgrounds is steadily increasing,\" said Prof Richardson.", "Sally Challen has been released from prison after serving nine years in jail for her husband's murder - a conviction that was quashed on Friday\n\nA woman who served nine years in jail for her husband's murder before her conviction was quashed has been reunited with her sons.\n\nSally Challen's son David released a picture on Twitter of them and brother James after their mother's release.\n\nMrs Challen, 65, was found guilty of murdering 61-year-old Richard in a hammer attack at their home in Claygate, Surrey and jailed in 2011.\n\nMrs Challen will now face a fresh trial after being bailed on Friday.\n\nHer conviction was quashed by the Court of Appeal in February, following a campaign by her two sons. She admitted killing her husband in August 2010, but denied murder.\n\nOn Friday, Mr Justice Edis set a further hearing for 7 June and a trial date for 1 July \"if necessary\".\n\nMr Challen, 31, posted a photograph of himself with his mother and brother James, 35, on Twitter on Saturday.\n\nHe wrote: \"First day home with our mother after 9 years in prison.\"\n\nSpeaking outside the Old Bailey on Friday, he said he was \"overjoyed\" about her release, adding: \"Our mother now rejoins our family.\"\n\nWriting on Twitter after his mother walked out of the prison in Ashford, Surrey, later that day, he said: \"Everyone at HMP Bronzefield have been so lovely to us.\"\n\nSally and Richard Challen were married for 31 years - she has never denied she killed him\n\nDuring the two-day appeal hearing in February, the court heard evidence relating to Mrs Challen's state of mind at the time of the killing and the issue of \"coercive control\".\n\nCoercive control describes a pattern of behaviour by an abuser to harm, punish or frighten their victim and became a criminal offence in England and Wales in December 2015.\n\nThe murder conviction was overturned by three judges who said the evidence of a psychiatrist, that Mrs Challen was suffering from two mental disorders at the time of the killing, was not available at the time of her trial and undermined the safety of her conviction.\n\nAt Friday's hearing, lawyers for Mrs Challen, who has never denied killing her husband, asked for the murder conviction to be reduced to manslaughter but the panel of judges refused and ordered a retrial.\n\nSpeaking outside the Royal Courts of Justice after the conviction was quashed, David said: \"The abuse our mother suffered, we felt, was never recognised properly and her mental conditions were not taken into account.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nHosts France opened the 2019 Women's World Cup with a brilliant victory over South Korea in front of an overjoyed, sold-out crowd in Paris.\n\nCorinne Diacre's side, among the favourites to win the eighth edition of this competition, produced a breathless performance to take a deserved 3-0 lead at half-time thanks to forward Eugenie Le Sommer's early opener and two headers from towering defender Wendie Renard.\n\nMidfielder Amandine Henry curled in an excellent fourth goal late on, much to the delight of the 45,261 fans inside the Parc des Princes.\n\nEngland and Scotland will meet on Sunday in Nice as they get their campaigns under way, with a total of 24 teams taking part hoping to reach the final in Lyon on 7 July.\n\nDefending champions the United States will get their campaign under way against Thailand on Tuesday, with England and two-time winners Germany among the other teams being strongly tipped for success.\n\nSix groups of four teams will compete for the 16 places in the knockout phase, with the top two teams in each group qualifying automatically, as well as the four best third-placed sides.\n• None France want to 'strike fear' into sides\n\nFrance, fourth in the world rankings and aiming to become only the second host nation to lift the trophy, could well take home the biggest prize if they continue to play as they did against South Korea.\n\nBacked by deafening support the home side began the match with pace, intensity and remarkable desire.\n\nHenry curled narrowly wide inside the first two minutes, before squaring the ball in to Le Summer's path for the Lyon star to open to scoring soon afterwards, and talismanic centre-back Renard added two headers from corners before the break.\n\nSouth Korea, ranked 14th in the world, were largely outplayed but midfielder Lee Min-a placed wide from their best chance in the second half, after a rare error from Renard.\n\nThe French starting team included seven of the Lyon squad that beat Barcelona to win European football's biggest women's club competition, the Champions League, in May, including goalscorers Le Sommer and Renard.\n\nChelsea star Ji So-yun and West Ham's Cho So-hyun were both in South Korea's midfield, which was overrun in the early stages by France's energy, movement and pressing.\n\nGriedge Mbock Bathy thought she had volleyed in France's second goal but it was ruled out for a fractional offside decision by the video assistant referee system.\n\nVAR is being used in the Women's World Cup for the first time and the French fans booed and whistled in frustration at both the length of time it took to review the footage and the decision itself.\n\nBut replays showed that the officials had been correct with Mbock Barthy's foot in an offside position, albeit by the smallest of margins.\n\nQuick off the mark - the stats\n• None This was the biggest win by a host nation at a Women's World Cup since 2003 when USA beat Nigeria 5-0.\n• None The eventual winners have started their campaign with a victory in all previous seven tournaments to date.\n• None France have won their opening match at their last three World Cup tournaments. South Korea have lost their opening match at all three finals.\n• None South Korea did not register an attempt until the 70th minute.\n• None France have kept a clean sheet in all seven of their World Cup wins.\n• None Eugenie Le Sommer's goal after nine minutes was the fastest in an opening game.\n• None Only Marie-Laure Delie (5) has scored more tournament goals for France then Le Sommer (4).\n• None Wendie Renard became the fourth player to score a World Cup double for France, no-one has ever gone on to score a hat-trick.\n• None Ten of Renard's last 11 goals for France have been headers.\n• None Le Sommer and Amandine Henry have both now scored at consecutive World Cup tournaments. They are the third and fourth players to score in two different editions for France.", "Greens will \"beat the rising tide of far-right hate\" across Europe, the party's co-leader Jonathan Bartley will say as he opens the party's conference.\n\nThe four-day event in Scarborough comes after the Green Party had its best European elections since 1989.\n\nIt was part of a broader rise in support for Greens across EU states.\n\nJoint leader Sian Berry will tell the conference the major parties have \"given ground to the right\" and take aim at the Lib Dems over austerity.\n\n\"The Green Party are at the forefront of standing up to the far right - right across Europe,\" Mr Bartley will say.\n\n\"They have their own violent vision for the future. But we hold the tools to stop them.\"\n\nHe will say those considering joining the Green Party must do so now, adding: \"We will beat the climate crisis and we will beat the rising tide of far-right hate.\"\n\nAlthough the Brexit Party won the most seats in the UK in May's European elections, staunchly anti-Brexit parties the Lib Dems and the Greens also made gains.\n\nOverall the Green Party came in fourth place, winning 12.1% of the vote and securing seven seats.\n\nMany EU member states - from the Nordic countries to Portugal - also saw a rise in their Green vote.\n\nMs Berry will tell the Green Party conference: \"The old politics is not working, and all the old parties are responsible.\n\n\"They have all given ground to the right, on freedom of movement, on Europe, on public spending.\n\n\"Labour and Conservatives yes, but let's not forget that while the Lib Dems paint themselves as the defenders of liberal, internationalist values, they were all too happy to sign up to the austerity programme that has cost an estimated 130,000 lives.\"\n\nIn Europe, there was a mixed result for the nationalist right, which had been expected to make significant gains.\n\nMatteo Salvini's right-wing nationalist League party won in Italy and Marine Le Pen's National Rally party won in France.\n\nBut the nationalist parties did not do as well as anticipated in Germany or the Netherlands.", "During President Donald Trump's state visit to the UK, the US leader had strong words for the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan.\n\nBut, the political grudge match between the two started before Air Force One landed in the UK.\n\nBBC London's Karl Mercer explains the long-running feud between the two men.", "Police investigating the Grenfell Tower fire say they have carried out 13 interviews under caution.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police would not confirm the number of people who had been interviewed but said more interviews were scheduled.\n\nIt added more than 7,100 statements had been taken from witnesses, community and family members, emergency services personnel and other sources.\n\nThe fire, which destroyed the London block on 14 June 2017, left 72 dead.\n\nKarim Mussilhy, whose uncle was killed in the fire, said the interviews showed \"some positive steps\" were being taken.\n\nMr Mussilhy, who is vice-chairman of the campaign group Grenfell United, added that \"it would be interesting to find out\" who had been interviewed.\n\nLabour MP for Kensington, Emma Dent Coad, said it was \"just what our community wanted to hear\".\n\nThree interviews had been conducted under caution when police announced a \"new phase\" of their investigation in July last year.\n\nBut they say it could be the end of 2021 before criminal charges are considered.\n\nThe Met has said it wants to see the conclusions of the public inquiry's second phase, which starts next year, before compiling a file of evidence for the Crown Prosecution Service to look at.\n\nPhase two will examine causes of the fire, including the use of cladding on the building, which has blamed for helping it to spread.\n\nIn 2017, police said they had \"reasonable grounds\" to suspect that corporate manslaughter offences had been committed.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Andreia Gomes was seven months pregnant at the time of the Grenfell Tower - she lost her baby\n\nOn Thursday, shadow housing minister Sarah Jones warned that almost 60,000 people were still living in buildings wrapped in aluminium composite material (ACM) cladding - the same type used on Grenfell Tower.\n\nShe urged the government to set a deadline for the buildings to be \"made safe\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Sarah Jones MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLatest government figures show 166 private residential buildings out of the 176 identified with ACM cladding have yet to have work started to remove and replace it.\n\nThe government has promised a £200m fund to help remove the material from private tower blocks.\n\nMinisters have already committed to funding replacement cladding in the social sector, which has 23 blocks still covered with it.\n\nLast month, a government-commissioned independent report into building regulations called for a \"radical rethink\" of the safety system, but stopped short of recommending an outright ban on inflammable cladding.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dame Judith Hackitt tells Today that the building regulation system is broken\n\nThe report's author, Dame Judith Hackitt, said indifference and ignorance had led to cost being prioritised over safety and called for regulators to \"come together\" to ensure building safety.\n\nShe also recommended incentives for the right behaviour and tougher penalties for those who breach the rules.\n\nThe government has opened a public consultation into improving building safety following the report's publication", "Coverage: Watch on BBC One Scotland & BBC Alba, listen on BBC Radio Scotland, live text commentary on the BBC Sport website & app.\n\nBBC Scotland asked veteran midfielder Jo Love to reveal all about the first Scotland squad to compete at a World Cup in 21 years and here's her verdict...\n• None Shelley Kerr as her family, friends & colleagues see her\n\nShe's a bit of a faffer. She's so intelligent but takes forever to do anything. She's always last out of the changing room, she'll be painting her nails or something despite the fact she's got gloves on all the time and is getting her fingers bashed up. We're quite close and I get to see the best and worst of her but she's always quite placid.\n\nShe's very quiet. She keeps in the background and she's still young but she's grown so much since she first came into the squad.\n\nShe's a bit of an angel. So caring. I don't think she believes in herself enough and she's always looking out for everyone else rather than focusing on herself. She's been in this squad for a long time and been patient but never even said one bad word despite being effectively second choice for so long. Patience of a saint.\n\nHer and Jen [Beattie] are vegans, so we like to rip them a bit for that. She's funny. Her, Caroline [Weir] and Claire [Emslie] have got their own wee group and are constantly giggling at everything.\n\nIt would be a shame if all I could say is that she is a vegan, so I'll say she's a gentle giant. She goes about her business and goes home and you don't really see or hear much from her apart from that.\n\nOh my, her American accent... We like to watch videos as a squad of her doing interviews over there and trying to make out what she's saying. It's unreal sometimes, but she's a great leader and has taken on so much more responsibility than she had to.\n\nDozy Nicola. So clumsy, but just dozy. She comes out with things and you're like, 'what?!' She is in a wee world of her own sometimes. At City, if she's away with the fairies, you can tell if it's one of the days the second you see her; just the way she's acting. She'll deny it but we can all see it.\n\nI was standing with head coach Shelley Kerr at training the other day and Sophie clattered someone and Shelley said, 'you know she's German' - she would tackle her granny. She split her head once and it was wide open, she needed like 20 stitches, but she's hard as nails. Off the pitch, though, she's so quiet and lovely. On it, she'd tackle you by the neck.\n\nFancies herself as a bit of a joker. Actually really quite intelligent and tells jokes that are probably a bit advanced for some of us. She's just daft.\n\nYou get into trouble if you're her room-mate and don't stick to the rules. She's in with Hayley [Lauder] but she's one of my best friends. We go on holiday together with Hayley usually. We don't go back to work at the end of July so we're hoping to go away somewhere. She goes under the radar but is keeping an eye on everything that happens. Definitely in charge.\n\nReally shy but a genuinely lovely girl. Wouldn't say a bad word about anyone. Likes to look all stunning on Instagram. She's probably our poster girl.\n\nLizzie's cakes - they're so good, she's got an Instagram for them. Very talented. Mind you, our apartment when we were in Spain beat hers in a cake-making competition. We made a marble cake and it was magnificent.\n\nI love her. It's black or white with Crichto - she says things as they are. When we're in the room, we have a good laugh and she knows how to be a bit crazy but she's very down to earth and brings us all back down with a bump. You don't really notice her in the room. She goes to sleep with the TV on, doesn't snore, quite tidy, no complaints. We've been room-mates for the past year or so now.\n\nI don't know if anyone knows about Kim. Even us. She's so reserved. She had a barbecue in London for us once and that was the most I'd ever spoken to her because when she's with the squad, her and Jen [Beattie] are in the room with the candles on. Kim likes to bring a candle with her and a book to read.\n\nDo I have to do me? I think people will say I'm a pest because sometimes I'm quite outspoken and say things that I think are funny but probably aren't. They'll probably say I've been here too long and should retire. But I'm not ready to chuck it yet. I'll just keep turning up anyway...\n\nAnother one who is completely different off the pitch. She's so laid back. She's the smallest in the squad, although Kim [Little] and Erin [Cuthbert] were fighting in the group chat about who was the second smallest...\n\nShe is pure sassy, which is a good thing by the way. She likes her nails, makeup, eyebrows, teeth, the whole lot to be done right. I always say to her, 'look good, feel good, Cacks' and she agrees with that.\n\nShe's forever falling over. She's always on her bum. She's crazy but in a great way. I've played with her for a long time and she's always just so full of energy, bouncing about and can't keep still. She has this habit of saying little Australian phrases - 'Skippy, get out of the water' and 'You're a fish, not a kangaroo' but those are the only two she can say in an Australian accent. It just ends up sounding like Corsie's American...\n\nFluent in Italian, which impresses me. I'd always like her to talk it around the place but she doesn't. She's really shy, I think, but I don't really know why she is because she's got loads to shout about.\n\nWee Ez, my fave. I'm her Auntie Jo. She's not a diva. She's confident without being cocky. The girl knows what she wants and goes out and smashes it. I've known her since she used to kick the ball around at half-time during Scotland games as a wee mascot. She's kind of a wee old woman because her chat sometimes is unbelievable and she likes cups of tea and sleeping. She'll tell you she's sophisticated but you don't get sophisticated people from Irvine.\n\nTrying to pin her down is impossible. She's constantly buzzing, constantly speaking, she's like one of those wind-up toys that you just let go. Maybe over the top at times, but she just loves life and being here.\n\nShe gave a wee rendition of happy birthday to Hayley [Lauder] today on the bus over the microphone. She said she was trying to do sexy singing but basically she was just whispering into the microphone. She likes to be centre of attention and will literally do anything for a laugh. She's in charge of the speaker - the DJ - although Lee [Alexander] has taken that on a bit recently. Someone said to her the other day, 'you're so annoying, but I love you so much', and that sums it up.\n\nShe's in charge of the fines. We started quite strict with the fines and bought a speaker with them, then it fell away after that. She is a top, top professional, though. I don't think she's got any body fat; she's a machine. But she can be so moody at times if things don't go her way. I went out to Sweden to visit her and they got beat that day and she refused to eat or talk or come out. I had to sit watching her moping. In the main, though, she's pretty laid back.", "People pitched up on plastic chairs outside Size on Carnaby Street\n\nThousands of people queued for hours to get their hands on trainers designed by rapper Kanye West.\n\nShoppers were waiting outside stores from midnight to grab a pair of Adidas Yeezy Boost 350s.\n\nWithin minutes of their release at 09:30 BST, the £180 shoes were being resold online for double the price.\n\nSecurity guards were brought in to manage the queues in Birmingham and websites including Foot Locker and JD Sports crashed due to demand.\n\nMarketing professor Heiner Evanschitzky said the mix of celebrity, exclusivity and \"a certain clientele really liking the experience of queuing with like-minded people\" was behind the frenzy.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn Birmingham, long lines snaked outside of the Size shoe shop, on Lower Temple Street.\n\nOne man in the queue told the BBC he had already been offered £300 by a friend who could not get to the store.\n\nSimilarly long queues were seen outside Foot Locker in the Bullring, with a security guard urging people who were desperate to sneak a peek at the trainers not to rush when the doors opened.\n\nLong lines were also reported outside Foot Locker in Oxford Street and Size in Carnaby Street, London, and in Leeds, Manchester, Edinburgh and Dublin.\n\nShoppers waited outside Union Street in Glasgow in a bid to get their hands on the trainers\n\nQueues were seen at Foot Locker on Oxford Street\n\nProfessor Evanschitzky, from Aston Business School, said that while the limited nature of the stock and celebrity branding had an impact on sales, people sometimes queued for the experience.\n\n\"We have found in studies, people who go out shopping to have an experience, the product is conduit for the experience,\" he said.\n\n\"A certain clientele really like the experience of queuing with like-minded people, talking about fashion.\n\n\"In a broader sense, retailers are able to choreograph product launches in such a way to get people out there.\"\n\nGemma Butler, director of marketing at the Chartered Institute of Marketing, added: \"The mark of professional execution of marketing campaigns like this is the ability to tread the careful line between hype and mayhem.\n\n\"Long queues and websites crashing add to the sense of demand for the product and don't come as a surprise to consumers. As long as they are managed responsibly, they will ensure Yeezy maintains its hype.\"\n\nThe Yeezy Boost 350 in 'Black Static' that people were so desperate for\n\nThe trainers are designed by rapper Kanye West in collaboration with Adidas and launched in 2015.\n\nA rare pair can cost thousands of pounds and they are one of the most sought-after trainers in the world.\n\nThey are usually only released on certain dates at specifically chosen locations.\n\nJD Sports said, since their inception, the Boost line had continually sold out instantly.\n\nShopper Chris Shaw said: \"The demand in Glasgow was crazy. Arrived at 04:00 to queue and never got any.\n\n\"Only people that got them this morning were the ones that slept overnight. Then they walked down the queue trying to sell for three times the amount.\"\n\nSellers on eBay had pairs of the trainers listed for up to £480 within an hour of their official launch.\n\nTom Rayment spent hours online trying to get the latest Yeezys\n\nTom Rayment said he was on the Adidas website for about two hours trying to get hold of a pair but was unsuccessful.\n\nThe self-confessed trainer fan, 24, from Peterborough said he already has four pair of Yeezys.\n\n\"When they were first released there wasn't the demand like today,\" he said.\n\n\"I feel people just buy them to resell so they can make profit, then it is the genuine trainer lovers who pay the extortionate prices to the re-sellers.\"\n\nThe trainers are the latest design by Kanye West", "Khuram Butt booked a trip to Turkey, but his wife, Zahrah Rehman, told an inquest she feared he would go on to Syria\n\nThe older brother of the leader of the London Bridge attack has apologised on behalf of his family, saying he is sorry \"from the depths of his heart\".\n\nAddressing the families of the eight people who were killed, Saad Butt said if he could turn back time he would change places with every one of them.\n\nAt the inquest into their deaths, he said his brother, Khuram, had been \"the life and soul of the party\".\n\nBut he developed extreme views after becoming angry over events in Syria.\n\nOver the last four years he had become increasingly angry, Saad Butt told the inquest, over \"foreign policy, the wars, the injustices overseas\".\n\nThese \"created the disgust in my brother's heart to the place which gave my brother safety,\" Mr Butt, a youth worker, said, adding: \"Only God knows what he was thinking… We were from the same womb but we are different people.\"\n\nButt, 27, and two accomplices mowed down pedestrians on London Bridge with a rented van before stabbing people in nearby Borough Market on 3 June 2017.\n\nAll three men were shot dead by police less than 10 minutes after the violence began.\n\nMr Butt told the inquest: \"Sorry. Sorry from the depths of my heart, and on behalf of my family.\n\n\"If I could turn back time I would change places with every one of you, even if it meant losing my life to my own brother.\"\n\nThe victims of the London Bridge attack clockwise from top left - Chrissy Archibald, James McMullan, Alexandre Pigeard, Sébastien Bélanger, Ignacio Echeverría, Xavier Thomas, Sara Zelenak, Kirsty Boden\n\nThe Old Bailey heard that the family had intervened in February 2015 to take away Khuram Butt's passport and that of his wife and baby boy because they were worried he would take them to join the Islamic State group in Syria.\n\nThe attacker's wife, Zahrah Rehman, told the inquest previously he had booked tickets to Turkey - but she had alerted her family because she was afraid he would try to take them on to Syria from there.\n\n\"He wanted to fight the armed forces on behalf of Isis,\" said Saad Butt, but he said they persuaded him to drop his plans.\n\nAfter that, Mr Butt said he continued monitoring his brother's activities but never contacted counter-terror officers.\n\nMr Butt, who had carried out anti-extremism work with the government, said he felt \"competent\" supervising his brother.\n\nThere was nothing his brother was doing that indicated he should contact the authorities, he said.\n\n\"He was on their radar,\" he told the inquest.\n\n\"He was reported by two family members on two different occasions in 2015.\n\n\"I'm not a Prevent [a strand of the government's counter-terror strategy] officer. What did MI5 do about him?\"\n\nThe court fell silent as Butt's brother, Saad, sobbed as he read out a statement he had written, addressed to the families of the victims.\n\nAt several points he had to pause to audibly collect himself before continuing with the speech.\n\nHe also described a dream he had had in the April before the attack in which Butt appeared at his place of work, a youth centre, wearing a suicide belt.\n\nCrying, he said: \"He was clean shaven and his lips were blue.\n\n\"Just as he was about to detonate I hugged him. I hugged him to stop him from hurting people.\n\n\"But we cannot turn back time.\"\n\nMr Butt also told the court he did not know his brother had appeared in a Channel 4 documentary called the Jihadis Next Door in 2016 - a time when he was grieving over the death of his daughter who was killed in an accident.\n\nWhen asked whether it was surprising that he had not been made aware of the programme, which showed his brother associating with extremists, he replied: \"My daughter died because of third degree burns and I think, as far as the family was concerned, that was the least of my worries.\n\n\"Me and my wife totally collapsed.\"\n\nThe inquest was shown an image of 14 men at a barbecue held outside Khuram Butt's flat\n\nHe also described a barbecue before the attack at which a friend of his brother stuck a skewer into some meat and said: \"That is how you gut a Kuffar\" - an unbeliever.\n\nThe event was organised by Khuram Butt to celebrate the birth of his second child, a daughter.\n\nThe inquest was shown a photo of 14 men praying outside his flat on the day.\n\nTwo of the 14 men - Butt and one of his accomplices, Rachid Redouane - would carry out the London Bridge attack three weeks later.\n\nBreaking down into tears, Mr Butt described the early hours of the Sunday morning after the attack, when he realised what his brother had done.\n\n\"His daughter was only one month at the time,\" he said. \"Only God knows what he was thinking.\"\n\nThose who died were: Xavier Thomas, 45, Christine Archibald, 30, Sara Zelenak, 21, Sébastien Bélanger, 36, James McMullan, 32, Kirsty Boden, 28, Alexandre Pigeard, 26, and, Ignacio Echeverría, 39.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The number of Catholics in the PSNI could start to drop, says George Hamilton\n\nCatholics must be encouraged to seek a career in policing by community leaders, PSNI Chief Constable George Hamilton has said.\n\nMr Hamilton said while 32% of PSNI officers are now from the Catholic community, that figure is likely to fall \"if nothing changes\".\n\nHe said both the application rate and success rate of Catholics \"falls well below\" what it should be.\n\nMr Hamilton is retiring as chief constable later in June.\n\nAppearing on BBC News NI's The View, he was asked if the level of recruitment from the Catholic community is significantly below the level where he would like it to be.\n\nHe replied: \"Yes it is, but the organisation is more representative than it's ever been.\n\n\"But when we look at recruitment rates into the organisation, then both the application rate and the success rate of people from the Catholic community falls well below that which it is in broader society, i.e. in and around 50%.\n\n\"We're sitting today currently at just over 32% (PSNI officers from the Catholic community), but actually the intake rate from people from the Catholic community is such that that figure is going to start to dip if nothing changes.\"\n\nThe PSNI replaced the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) in November 2001, and a 50-50 recruitment policy ran for its first 10 years until 2011.\n\nThis meant that 50% of all recruits had to be from a Catholic background, and 50% from a Protestant or other background.\n\nWhen the policy began about 8% of police officers were Catholics.\n\nMr Hamilton said it had been the right strategy during a time of change.\n\n\"There's a variety of measures that can be taken,\" he said.\n\n\"We have looked critically at our own processes, we've brought external consultants in to help us with that. The changes that we have made have had some impact, but not enough.\n\n\"We need civic leadership, especially within the Catholic/nationalist community - political leadership in particular - to get in behind advocating for a career in policing.\n\n\"That is where the big gap is, that's where the big void is - we need people to be encouraged to take on the honourable profession of policing and needs to come from the leadership of the Catholic/nationalist community.\"\n\nSpeaking on BBC NI's Good Morning Ulster, SDLP MLA Dolores Kelly criticised Mr Hamilton for making a \"very sweeping statement\" about nationalist politicians.\n\nShe insisted her party has been \"at the forefront\" of encouraging Catholic recruits since the formation of the PSNI and has offered practical support to applicants.\n\nThe Upper Bann MLA described the latest recruitment statistics as \"very worrying\".\n\n\"The SDLP cautioned against the removal of 50-50 for very good reasons and that remains our case,\" she said.\n\n\"We've argued that with the secretary of state and with others, particularly when figures are showing a downward trend.\"\n\nBut Ulster Unionist MLA Alan Chambers said his party has always been opposed to 50-50 recruitment and does not want to see it return.\n\n\"It was seen as some form of reverse discrimination and we always believed that the best candidates should be appointed and that should be based purely on their merit, rather than where they worshipped.\n\n\"I think that the average person, when they phone 999 and seek police assistance, they're not really concerned about what the religion of the officer is who responds to that call.\"\n\nMr Chambers acknowledged that the religious background of the majority of senior PSNI officer was not representative of the wider community.\n\nOf the 68 officers about the rank of superintendent, 57 are Protestant.\n\nBut the UUP MLA pointed out that there is \"considerable cultural resistance within some areas\" to joining the PSNI as well as the \"ever present\" threat from dissident republicans.\n\n\"So recruits from Catholic areas may have to leave their home when they join the police, but that doesn't take the threat away because their parents and their siblings then become vulnerable.\"\n• None Police ask for more resources for Brexit", "Family members place leaves on the grave of a deceased relative who died from Ebola in Butembo\n\nThe world is entering \"a new phase\" where big outbreaks of deadly diseases like Ebola are a \"new normal\", the World Health Organization has warned.\n\nBut the Democratic Republic of Congo is dealing with the second largest outbreak ever, just three years after the world's largest one ended.\n\nThe WHO said countries and other bodies needed to focus on preparing for new deadly epidemics.\n\nThere have been 2,025 cases of Ebola and 1,357 deaths from the virus during the outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo.\n\nThe largest outbreak, in West Africa in 2014-16 affected 28,616 people mostly in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. There were 11,310 deaths.\n\nYet the 12 outbreaks between 2000 and 2010 averaged fewer than 100 cases.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSo why are modern outbreaks so much bigger?\n\n\"We are entering a very new phase of high impact epidemics and this isn't just Ebola,\" Dr Michael Ryan, the executive director of the WHO's health emergencies programme told me.\n\nHe said the world is \"seeing a very worrying convergence of risks\" that are increasing the dangers of diseases including Ebola, cholera and yellow fever.\n\nHe said climate change, emerging diseases, exploitation of the rainforest, large and highly mobile populations, weak governments and conflict were making outbreaks more likely to occur and more likely to swell in size once they did.\n\nDr Ryan said the World Health Organization was tracking 160 disease events around the world and nine were grade three emergencies (the WHO's highest emergency level).\n\n\"I don't think we've ever had a situation where we're responding to so many emergencies at one time. This is a new normal, I don't expect the frequency of these events to reduce.\"\n\nAs a result, he argued that countries and other bodies needed to \"get to grips with readiness [and] be ready for these epidemics\".\n\nSoldiers of the armed forces of the DR Congo prepare to escort health workers\n\nThe outbreak in DR Congo continues to worry health officials.\n\nIt took 224 days for the number of cases to reach 1,000, but just a further 71 days to reach 2,000.\n\nTackling the disease has been complicated by conflict in the region - between January and May there were more than 40 attacks on health facilities.\n\nAnother problem is distrust of healthcare workers with about a third of deaths being in the community. It means people are not seeking treatment and risk spreading the disease to neighbours and relatives.\n\nDr Josie Golding, the epidemics lead at the Wellcome Trust, said the world needed to get better at preparing for such outbreaks.\n\n\"With Ebola in West Africa, that was the mobility of people and porous borders - that is now the world we live in, that won't stop,\" she said.\n\nClimate change could lead to more outbreaks like cholera in Mozambique after Cyclone Idai, she said. But she hoped diseases resulting from humanitarian crises would not be a new normal.\n\n\"Preparedness needs to be better, we can see movement of populations and climate change, a lot of this we can see coming, and we need more resources to plan and prepare.\"", "This cloud formation was \"very impressive and ominous\", says Jane Sayliss who saw it on the ferry from Orkney to the mainland. \"However it soon passed and broke up and was gone,\" she adds.", "Peterborough has been represented by Labour and Conservative MPs over the years\n\nFifteen candidates for the Peterborough seat vacated by Fiona Onasanya have been confirmed.\n\nThe by-election on 6 June was triggered when Ms Onasanya was removed following a recall petition, after being jailed for lying about a speeding offence.\n\nShe won the seat for Labour in 2017, narrowly beating the Conservatives who had held it since 2005.\n\nBut UKIP and the Brexit Party will be hoping to capitalise on the city's 61% Leave vote in the 2016 EU referendum.\n\nDespite moves by pro-Remain parties to back a joint candidate, the Lib Dems, Greens and Renew have announced separate ones and Change UK - The Independent Group is not standing one at all.\n\nThe by-election was triggered when Fiona Onasanya was removed following a recall petition\n\nChange UK MP Gavin Shuker said the four parties had agreed to stand aside \"in favour of a genuinely independent, pro-People's Vote and pro-Remain candidate\" but blamed \"senior Labour figures\" for having \"made it clear that they would strenuously disrupt the campaign and obstruct an independent candidate\".\n\nBut Labour's Jonathan Reynolds said on BBC One's Question Time said Change UK's argument was \"strange\".\n\n\"Elections are contests between different candidates... so trying to somehow complain that political parties are going to fight against each other - that's exactly what elections are.\"\n\nA Lib Dem spokesman said the parties understood \"the need for a collective effort in securing a People's Vote and stopping Brexit\" but moves to back an independent candidate had not been successful.\n\nThe candidate they had planned to back, Femi Oluwole, told the BBC he had pulled out over concerns his candidacy would hand victory to the Brexit Party and ultimately harm the campaign for another referendum.\n• None MP first to be ousted under recall rules", "Killing Eve season two picks up where season one ended, which is to say… badly. After seven faultless episodes, the grand finale of the best TV series of 2018 was almost as underwhelming as Eve Polastri's marriage.\n\nAll the delicious ingredients of the previous shows were still there (excellent acting, writing, soundtrack, and directing), but someone tweaked the recipe and served up a bit of dog's dinner with a distinctly hammy whiff.\n\nThe smell lingers well into the opening episode of the new series, which is a little too knowing and, on occasion, close to becoming a pastiche of itself.\n\nVillanelle (Jodie Comer) is too predictable, Eve (Sandra Oh) is too wrung out, and Niko her husband, too needy. Thankfully, Fiona Shaw shows the way with understated class and intelligence, as Eve's boss Carolyn.\n\nFiona Shaw as the ruthless spy chief, Carolyn Martens, who has a tricky relationship with Eve\n\nThe action begins 30 seconds after the last season finished.\n\nM16 agent Eve is standing on the staircase of assassin Villanelle's Parisian apartment. She is holding the bloody knife with which she stabbed the ruthless Russian psycho-killer, who has played her party trick and disappeared into thin air.\n\nSandra Oh says agent Eve Polastri goes to \"a psychologically dark place\" in the second series\n\nFilming the scene where assassin Villanelle (Jodie Comer) tries to hail a taxi, moments after being stabbed\n\nThere's a lot of hyperventilating and many a furrowed brow. That's on screen, and maybe off it as well in the writers' room.\n\nThe daunting task facing Emerald Fennell and her scriptwriting collaborators was how to pick up where Phoebe Waller-Bridge left off and somehow re-juice a dried up drama.\n\nThe mutual obsession between Eve and Villanelle, which is the key dramatic device driving the story, had climaxed at the end of season one in a disappointingly limp stand-off followed by a dull heart-to-heart and a half-baked fight.\n\nIt put the show into intensive care, which is where Villanelle soon fetches up while Eve heads back to London to try to fix her marriage and find a new job.\n\nVillanelle, still in her pyjamas, leaves hospital sooner than she should after being treated for her injuries\n\nThe quality of the acting, our investment in the characters, and some quickly laid new plotlines are enough to entice you to watch the second 40-minute episode.\n\nAt which point Killing Eve returns gloriously to form, with a funny, clever script that starts to rebuild the sexual tension between agent and assassin. The two remain infatuated with each other but now there is some added spice.\n\nVillanelle has competition for Eve's attentions and it ain't coming from Niko. That's the hook, not the mysterious baddies The Twelve, who any one of the protagonists could belong to for all we know - or care. Needless to say, Villanelle still murders people with the regularity and sensitivity of an automated phone call asking if you've been in a car crash, but the killings are a side show.\n\nSean Delaney plays Kenny Stowton, who is a loyal part of Eve's team, and Carolyn's son\n\nThe real drama is in the relationships between the players: Carolyn and her son Kenny (Sean Delaney). Eve and Niko. Villanelle and her handlers. And, of course, between Eve and Villanelle.\n\nWill they get it together? Will one kill the other? Can a cold-blooded murderer become a vulnerable, compassionate human being?\n\nIn other words, the same issues that kept us on tenterhooks in season one.\n\nWill season two be better and succeed in delivering its punchline? You can find out later on Saturday when the entire series drops on the BBC iPlayer.\n\nI've seen the first four and my hopes are high. Killing Eve is top quality television. And not just from a British standpoint, it ranks with the very best shows coming out of Hollywood. It's no surprise the head of Netflix has cited it as the one title he truly covets.\n\nThat it is superbly made is a given in these golden days of box office box sets.\n\nBut that's not what makes it stand out; it is not the reason that Killing Eve will sit alongside Friends and Breaking Bad as an all-time TV classic. It is the balance it strikes between bone-dry humour reminiscent of the best of early James Bond, and an exploration of identity, sexuality, and isolation in the second decade of the 21st Century.\n\nFiona Shaw, Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Jodie Comer all won Baftas for Killing Eve\n\nFor this, much of the credit must go to Luke Jennings, the Observer's dance critic. For Villanelle is his creation. He originally self-published the story as a series of online novellas before it was picked up by a canny TV producer. Once it had been commissioned for telly Jennings had his work cut out to do his day job while collaborating with Waller-Bridge on the television scripts, \"I felt like Stalin, planning murder all day and watching Swan Lake in the evening,\" he wrote in the Observer last year.\n\nHis background in ballet provides an interesting insight into his creation.\n\nThe juxtaposition between beauty and the beast is what makes Killing Eve so compelling. As does the not-always merry dance he takes us on. You could argue that Jennings has written the most brilliant, exquisitely choreographed, blood-soaked pas de deux.", "Sally Challen and Richard Challen during their 31-year marriage\n\nSally Challen was jailed for the murder of her husband in 2011 but her solicitors believe a new law, recognising psychological manipulation as a form of domestic abuse, could be a defence in an appeal hearing next month. Her son David explains why he's backing the appeal and hopes to see his mother freed.\n\nSally's last words to David were supposed to be heartfelt but undramatic. \"You know I love you, don't you?\" she said, fixing his gaze through an open car door, as she dropped him off at work.\n\nA day earlier, she had killed her long-time husband, and father of David, in a frenzied hammer attack. But as he headed to his job, David knew nothing of Richard Challen's gruesome death.\n\nAfter that drop-off, she had planned to swiftly end her own life - jumping from the top floor of a nearby car park. When she realised the car park was closed, she pressed on regardless, driving to Beachy Head in East Sussex. There she planned to jump to her death off the chalky precipice.\n\nFrom the clifftop, Sally called her cousin to admit the killing. She repeated the admission to a suicide team and a chaplain, who had been called to help her.\n\nIt took them two hours to talk her down from the edge.\n\nShe was charged with her husband's murder, convicted and jailed for life.\n\nHowever, eight years on, lawyers acting for Sally Challen are hoping to make legal history, and David is working to help them. They hope to use a law passed in 2015, which recognises psychological manipulation, or coercive control, as a form of domestic abuse, to secure her release.\n\nDavid Challen says his mother suffered years of abuse at the hands of his father\n\nJust as physical violence in a relationship has been recognised as a mitigating factor in a killing, her lawyers say her history of psychological abuse by Richard provides a defence of provocation.\n\nThe circumstances around the killing itself give a taste of the sort of coercive control Richard exerted over his wife.\n\nIn the wealthy suburban village of Claygate, Surrey, one wet Saturday morning in August 2010, Sally visited the house she had, until recently, shared with Richard, her husband of 31 years.\n\nHe lived there alone since she had walked out on the relationship the previous November, after discovering he had been visiting prostitutes.\n\nDavid and his elder brother James, who prefers to avoid media attention, say their father inflicted years of psychological abuse on their mother. Having left Richard, the sons were adamant their mother should stay away from him.\n\nHowever, unknown to them, she had secretly begun seeing Richard again, hoping to patch up their marriage.\n\nWhat actually happened in the family home that morning was far removed from reconciliation.\n\nOn this particular morning, she drove the short distance from her new home. In the car with her was a handbag and, stashed inside it, a hammer.\n\nRichard had wanted her to approve a post-nuptial agreement that would cut her rights to the £1m family home and impose stringent conditions, such as not interrupting him and not talking to other people when they were together in restaurants.\n\nThere was no food in the house and Richard was hungry, so he asked her to go out and buy something for his lunch.\n\nAs she headed back from the shops, Sally suspected Richard had had an ulterior motive for getting her out of the house. So, on her return she picked up his phone, rang the last number he had dialled and found it answered by a woman.\n\nIn the family kitchen, Sally fried bacon and eggs on the hob. Richard sat with his back to her at the table.\n\nShe served him, and, as he ate, she pulled the hammer from her bag and hit Richard 20 times over the head.\n\nShe then wrapped his body in curtains and blankets, left a note saying: \"I love you, Sally,\" and left.\n\nShe bought herself some cigarettes, drank some wine and composed a suicide note. But she decided to delay killing herself until she had seen David who, at 23, still lived with her.\n\nThe next day, David remembers, his mother dropped him at work and, as he stepped out of the car, she made her heartfelt pledge of love.\n\nLater that day, David was summoned by his manager.\n\n\"Then came round the corner, my cousin, followed by a police officer, uniformed, and rushed to me, grabbed me on both shoulders and said, 'your father's dead'.\"\n\nCharged with her husband's murder, 10 months later Sally stood in the dock of Guildford Crown Court. Her hair was a mess and her fingers stained yellow from smoking. David remembers the proceedings being hard to watch.\n\n\"Anyone standing up who had anything worth saying was not saying enough, or not feeling as if they had enough time, or not being asked the right questions. She was being painted as vengeful and jealous.\"\n\nHere was a woman who counted her husband's Viagra and monitored his phone calls, the prosecution said.\n\nIn court, Sally hardly spoke. But there was video evidence in which she admitted to the killing and testimony from the Beachy Head suicide prevention team. They recounted her confessing: \"I killed him with a hammer. I hit him lots of times... If I can't have him, no-one can.\"\n\nConvicted of murder and jailed for life, all hope appeared to have expired for Sally. Then, in 2015, a law came into force that recognised psychological manipulation, or coercive control, as a form of domestic abuse.\n\nIn March 2018, Sally Challen won leave to appeal against her conviction.\n\nHer solicitor, Harriet Wistrich, of the feminist campaigning organisation Justice for Women, says the new law should be accepted as \"new evidence\" in the case.\n\n\"We're arguing, for the first time, that the framework for understanding domestic abuse that's set out in coercive and controlling behaviour which became law in 2015, provides a way of understanding Sally's actions which would support a defence of provocation.\"\n\nShe believes this is the first time coercive control has been used as a defence in a murder appeal: \"Our argument is that if this evidence is allowed as fresh evidence it renders the murder conviction unsafe therefore that murder conviction should be quashed.\"\n\nShe says that the appeal court could reduce the conviction to manslaughter or order a retrial.\n\nThe fact that the family want to see her freed - and none of Richard's friends or relatives has come forward to say otherwise - is significant, she believes. But she fears the fact Sally brought the hammer with her \"with a conditional intent to use it\", suggests some premeditation. This could mean the murder conviction will stand, says Ms Wistrich.\n\nBoth grown-up sons back the legal challenge, with David clear that his father's treatment of his mother is a textbook example of coercive control.\n\n\"It was tick, tick, tick - everything: financial abuse, psychological manipulation, controlling her freedom of movement, just controlling every facet of her mind... It was almost like she was a robot and he punched in the commands of what she had to do.\"\n\nSally and Richard on their wedding day in 1979\n\nSally Jenney was 15 when she met Richard, five years her senior, in 1971. They were married in 1979. Sally had nothing but wide-eyed love for Richard, David says, but his father felt otherwise.\n\n\"Seeing women, cheating on her, brothels.\"\n\nAnd when she challenged him, David remembers his father questioned her sanity: \"'Sally, you are mad'. It was a mantra.\"\n\nThere were petty rules. In restaurants she was not allowed to speak to other people.\n\n\"He didn't like her having any independence in terms of friends, it was only friends together. It was total control.\"\n\nIf she displeased him, Richard would restrict her car use to work travel only, and all household spending came out of her earnings. Neighbours have said he treated her as if she belonged to him.\n\nAnd Sally was subjected to constant criticism.\n\n\"My father would refer to my mother as 'saddlebags', 'thunder thighs', really critiques of her weight... and that was something me and my brother witnessed and heard all the time. Not just in our own company but with other friends as well... It was just not right.\"\n\nAt the original trial, it was suggested Sally attacked Richard in a rage, after realising he had called a girlfriend that morning. But David says he believes his mother's claim that she was unaware of her actions when she killed Richard.\n\n\"She took that hammer and she killed my father. I recognise what happened but we have to recognise what psychological control does. I don't know why she took that hammer. She doesn't understand why,\" he says.\n\nDavid says his mother still loves Richard, something he and his brother \"can't understand\".\n\n\"We don't know what to do with that... my father's not alive any more and he still has power over her.\"\n\nDavid says he hopes the appeal \"will acknowledge my mother's mental abuse, will acknowledge what she suffered throughout her life\".\n\n\"The cause is not that she's a jealous wife,\" he adds. \"She has been manipulated psychologically all her life, tied down by this man, my father. She deserves her right to freedom. She deserves for her abuse to be recognised.\"\n\nDavid says the only way to help his mother is to let her be free", "Boris Johnson has discussed security, counter-extremism and education during a controversial trip to Afghanistan.\n\nThe foreign secretary held talks with senior ministers in Kabul during and met some of the 650 UK military personnel based there.\n\nHe said a decision would be made \"very soon\" on whether to increase UK personnel training the Afghan army.\n\nHe has come under fire for being abroad on the day the UK Parliament votes on whether to back expanding Heathrow.\n\nIt means he misses the Commons vote on building a new runway, which he has opposed for more than a decade.\n\nDowning Street said last week Mr Johnson would be out of the country for Monday's vote on expanding the UK's largest airport.\n\nBut his exact whereabouts became clear only a few hours ago, when the Afghan Ministry of Foreign Affairs tweeted pictures of him meeting Deputy Foreign Minister Hekmat Karzai.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Johnson also met the country's President, Ashraf Ghani, as well as Gen John Nicholson, the US officer who leads Nato's training and assistance mission in Afghanistan.\n\nSince withdrawing its last combat troops in 2014, the UK has maintained a significant presence in the country, helping to train the Afghan army and police as well as providing development assistance.\n\nThe UK has said continued support for the Afghan military and government, as well as growing economic co-operation, is vital to Afghanistan's long-term stability and to stop it becoming a launch pad for terror attacks.\n\nMr Johnson said it was a \"crucial moment\" for the country and urged all sides to build on the \"considerable impetus\" behind a lasting political settlement.\n\n\"My visit comes comes just as the UK is considering the request from the US and Nato to give additional assistance,\" he said.\n\n\"I was hugely impressed by the work done by British troops as a part of this Nato mission.\n\n\"I believe there is still a lot the UK could contribute to this vital operation.\n\n\"The government will be taking a decision very soon.\"\n\nThe United States has about 15,000 servicemen and women in the country supporting the Afghan military.\n\nThe Ministry of Defence has said it would keep its troop presence under constant review following a request from US President Donald Trump for other Nato members to make more of a contribution.\n\nMr Johnson met a group of Afghan girls getting access to sports education through UK funding, part of the £750m in development expenditure earmarked between 2016 and 2020.\n\nHe said the UK had helped pay for 300,000 Afghan girls to go to school and to train 10,000 teachers over the past six years.\n\nThe Afghan foreign ministry said the talks had focused on peace and reconciliation efforts in Afghanistan and neighbouring Pakistan and the struggle against the Taliban and other insurgent groups.\n\n\"After the usual formalities, Deputy Foreign Minister Karzai appreciated the role and sacrifices of British forces for peace and stability in Afghanistan and thanked for the British co-operation in various political and economic spheres with Afghanistan,\" it said.", "As a female scientist in Victorian times, Annie Maunder struggled to gain recognition for her pioneering astronomical work.\n\nBut 71 years after her death, a new telescope has been named after her.", "Harley-Davidson plans to shift some motorcycle production away from the US to avoid the \"substantial\" burden of European Union tariffs.\n\nLast week, the EU imposed retaliatory tariffs on US goods, including bourbon, orange juice and motorcycles.\n\nThe measures are a response to new US duties on steel and aluminium imports.\n\nWisconsin-based Harley-Davidson said the increased cost from the tariffs threaten its international sales, which it has been trying to expand.\n\nThe company has assembly plants in Australia, Brazil, India and Thailand as well as in the US.\n\nIt said it would raise investment in its international plants, though it did not say which ones.\n\n\"To address the substantial cost of this tariff burden long-term, Harley-Davidson will be implementing a plan to shift production of motorcycles for EU destinations from the US to its international facilities to avoid the tariff burden,\" the company said.\n\nHarley-Davidson said it expected the ramp-up in production to take nine to 18 months.\n\nUS President Donald Trump tweeted his disappointment at Harvey-Davidson's decision which he characterised as the company waving the white flag of defeat.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe company's move is one of the most visible consequences of the trade disputes triggered by Mr Trump's decision to levy tariffs on steel and aluminium imports.\n\nMr Trump says the duties are necessary to protect the US steel and aluminium industries, which are vital to national security.\n\nThey have drawn retaliation from the EU, Canada, Mexico, India and others while driving up the cost of metals for manufacturers in the US.\n\nUS companies that range from boat-builders to nail manufacturers have warned about the consequences of escalating trade tensions.\n\nHowever, the tariffs have also helped to spur investment in US steel plants.\n\nFor example, British-owned GFG Alliance, has said it plans to invest $5bn over several years to reopen a shuttered steel plant in South Carolina. The firm says the move will put about 125 people back to work \"immediately\".\n\nHarley-Davidson said the EU's tariffs would add, on average, $2,200 (£1,660) to each bike exported to Europe from the US as the import tax increases from 6% to 31%.\n\nHarley, which sold nearly 40,000 motorcycles in Europe last year, said it planned to absorb those costs rather than pass them onto customers and risk hurting sales.\n\nShares in the company sank almost 6% after the firm announced its decision, which is expected to add between $30m and $45m to its expenses this year.\n\nHarley-Davidson said the tariffs make shifting production \"the only sustainable option to make its motorcycles accessible to customers in the EU and maintain a viable business in Europe\".\n\nHarley-Davidson, which has been focused on expanding its overseas sales, said it remained committed to US manufacturing.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How hogs and Harleys became weapons in a looming trade war.\n\nThe company employed about 2,100 people at manufacturing plants in the US at the end of last year.\n\nIt had already announced plans to close a plant in Kansas City, Missouri - a decision which workers claimed was due to the opening of a new facility in Thailand.\n\nHarley-Davidson has disputed those allegations, arguing the move was about boosting overseas sales.\n\nIn early 2017, President Donald Trump met with executives from Harley-Davidson who he thanked for \"building things in America\".\n\nBut just over a year later, Harley serves as a sobering example of what happens when Trump's America First trade policy collides with the rest of the world.\n\nWhile Harley-Davidson had been struggling financially well before the EU's retaliatory tariffs went into effect, the import duties of 25% certainly didn't help matters.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by President Trump This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt is worth mentioning that Harley could make the decision to shift production because it had chosen, in 2017, to open a new manufacturing plant in Thailand.\n\nAt the time, the company said it was moving manufacturing there to avoid a different tariff: this one being the 60% duty levied on Thai imports. That decision, of course, was made after Trump decided to pull out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trade treaty that Harley had said it supported.\n\nAll of which goes to show that when it comes to \"winning\" a trade war, the only certainty is the unintended consequences that inevitably result when decades of trade policy are reversed in a matter of months.\n\nUnited Steelworkers, which represents some Harley employees and has supported some of the president's tariff announcements, said it does not know yet how the company's decision will affect US employment.\n\nMichael Bolton, a director at United Steelworkers, said: \"Harley's desire to improve sales both domestically and abroad predates the Trump administration's tariffs, as does the company's willingness to build assembly facilities overseas to avoid tariffs.\n\n\"The company built its reputation and image by making motorcycles here, and if the company wants to continue to market itself as an iconic American brand both at home and abroad, it needs to focus on US production,\" he added.\n\nMr Trump had made raising manufacturing employment a goal, but economists warn that the escalating trade tensions are likely to be counter-productive.\n\nIn addition to the metals tariffs, the Trump administration has also said it will impose tariffs on $34bn of Chinese goods starting on 6 July as punishment for violations of intellectual property protections.\n\nChina is due to retaliate in kind.\n\nMr Trump has also threatened tariffs on foreign cars and auto parts, arguing that firms should make such products in the US.", "A man has been charged with the murder of a woman who was found dead in a back garden in south-east London.\n\nGary Davies, 50, of Tunnel Avenue, Greenwich, is due to appear at Bromley Magistrates' Court on Monday.\n\nA 56-year-old woman was found dead behind a house in Tunnel Avenue at about 11:30 BST on Saturday.\n\nA Metropolitan Police spokesman said it appeared she had been stabbed. Her next of kin have been informed but formal identification has not yet taken place.\n\nThe spokesman added: \"Although the incident is not thought to be domestic, detectives believe the deceased and the man charged were known to each other.\"", "For conservative, pious Turks, Mr Erdogan is their voice\n\nEcstatic/distraught, relieved/incredulous: after yet another crushing Erdogan victory, Turkey's heart is again split in two.\n\nHis critics had hoped for so much. A fractured opposition had united for the parliamentary vote and looked set to deprive the president of his majority.\n\nAnd in the presidential election, the centre-left CHP believed they had fielded a winner: Muharrem Ince was charismatic, he had the common touch, he drew vast crowds.\n\nPolls suggested he would force Recep Tayyip Erdogan into a second-round run-off.\n\nTurkey's economic boom has stalled, with inflation at 12% and the Turkish lira losing almost a fifth of its value this year, prompting anger among Mr Erdogan's support base.\n\nMeral Aksener had looked set to eat into the president's votes\n\nA fiery nationalist, Meral Aksener, looked set to eat into the president's votes. Mr Erdogan had stumbled in rallies. For the first time in 15 years, the opposition had dared to dream.\n\nBut Turkey's serial election winner proved his doubters wrong on both counts. At Mr Erdogan's party headquarters, there was an eruption of joy: the burst of fireworks mixed with the boom of his campaign songs; flags bearing his face were held aloft.\n\n\"He means everything to us - this country would cease to exist without him,\" one supporter told the BBC.\n\n\"Terrorist organisations lost, the Turkish nation won,\" said another, his two-year-old wearing an Erdogan head banner. \"Real Muslims have won.\"\n\nThere were two surprises, which gave the president the victory he craved.\n\nThe first was that the combined score of Muharrem Ince and Meral Aksener was not higher.\n\nMr Ince's 30.7% was a significant increase since he burst on to the campaign in April, although it was thought he could go even higher - his final rallies drew millions.\n\nBut Ms Aksener - nicknamed the \"she-wolf\" and once seen as the biggest threat to the president - polled lower than expected and than what was needed for a strong united front against Mr Erdogan.\n\nThe second surprise was that in the parliamentary election, the president's far-right coalition partner, the MHP, far exceeded expectations.\n\nIts leader, who is 70 years old, lacking any popular touch and who held virtually no rallies of his own, somehow managed to win his party enough seats to keep Mr Erdogan's parliamentary majority intact.\n\nThe claims of manipulation are loud.\n\nDuring the count, the opposition alleged that the state news agency, Anadolu, was calling results long before ballot boxes were opened.\n\nMillions of votes had not been counted, the CHP said, and yet the only source of figures was a news agency under the president's thumb.\n\nOther media which used to tally elections were closed down or sold off during the crackdown of the past two years.\n\nThe government, and Anadolu, deny any falsehood. Mr Erdogan warned his opponents not to discredit the figures \"to cover up its failures\".\n\nThe fact is that the Erdogan side of this country will simply not countenance defeat. For conservative, pious Turks, he is their voice - their very survival - in a country where many felt marginalised under past secular governments.\n\nFor them, a shutdown of Twitter here, a jailing of journalists there is of no concern. It is the gleaming bridges, airports, schools and hospitals built under Mr Erdogan which have transformed their lives and which earn their unwavering loyalty.\n\nTo his critics, his shouting matches with Western leaders are repugnant and take Turkey further than ever from its long-held dream of EU membership. To his supporters, the defender of their nation is standing up to imperialists who failed to destroy Turkey after World War One, but are still trying.\n\nThe consolation for the president's opponents is that the pro-Kurdish HDP party - hit by mass arrests and persecution, its leader having run for the presidency from prison - managed to cross the 10% threshold to enter parliament and win more than 60 seats. It will keep its strong voice of equality and democracy.\n\nAnd the other consolation was that despite 90% of the media being pro-government and largely shunning the opposition, the president's posters and flags dwarfing any others on the streets, the election being held under a state of emergency, the curtailment of protests, and critical journalists and academics being jailed or forced into exile, Mr Erdogan only got half of the country behind him.\n\n\"We are living through a fascist regime,\" the opposition MP Selin Sayek Boke told the BBC.\n\n\"But fascist regimes don't usually win elections with 53%, they win with 90%. So this shows that progressive values are still here and can rise up.\"\n\nFor now, though, this is Mr Erdogan's time.\n\nWith his sweeping new powers, the scrapping of the post of prime minister and the fact that he will be able to choose ministers and the most senior judges, he becomes Turkey's most powerful leader since its founding father Ataturk.\n\nHe will now hope to lead the country at least until 2023, 100 years after Ataturk's creation. And a dejected opposition will have to pick itself up and wonder again if, and how, he can be beaten.", "Last updated on .From the section World Cup\n\nPortugal progressed to the World Cup knockout stage after drawing with Iran in a game full of VAR controversy.\n\nCristiano Ronaldo missed a penalty for Portugal and was shown a yellow card after a lengthy VAR review for a possible red card.\n\nIran scored a late penalty, given after another video review, and almost snatched a winner in stoppage time which would have seen them not only go through at Portugal's expense but also top the group, with Spain held to a 2-2 draw by Morocco.\n\nRicardo Quaresma had put Portugal in front with a sensational goal at the end of the first half.\n\nThe late Iran penalty denied the European champions top spot in the group and means they play Uruguay in Sochi in the last 16 on Saturday, rather than Group A runners-up Russia.\n• None VAR - how the World Cup 'all got a little weird'\n• None Ronaldo's lowest rating in Russia - how you rated the players\n\nVAR has been a major talking point in the 2018 World Cup but the final matches in Group B provided its most controversial night so far.\n\nThe controversy began with the award of Portugal's penalty, which was saved by Iran goalkeeper Ali Beiranvand, diving to his left to deny Ronaldo.\n\nThe Real Madrid striker had gone down under the challenge of Iran's Saeid Ezatolahi and, after originally waving away appeals, Enrique Caceres rightly reversed his decision and awarded the spot-kick after checking VAR.\n\nThe game became heated after that decision, with both sides asking for further reviews, but its next use again involved Ronaldo.\n\nAttempting to get in front of Morteza Pouraliganji, Ronaldo caught the Iranian in the face with a flailing arm.\n\nAfter a lengthy stoppage while he watched replays on the VAR pitchside TV monitor, the referee deemed it worthy only of a yellow card.\n\nBut perhaps the most controversial decision came in second-half stoppage time and resulted in Iran's penalty.\n\nIran played a deep cross towards Sardar Azmoun and from close range his knockdown hit the outstretched arm of Portugal defender Cedric Soares, who was jumping to head the ball.\n\nAgain the referee took his time in making a decision and once again changed his original call, ultimately choosing to award a penalty.\n\n'Shambolic' - what they said about VAR\n\nBBC pundit Alan Shearer described the decision to award Iran's late penalty as \"shambolic\".\n\n\"How on earth can he think that is a penalty?\" the former England captain added. \"If he thinks it is deliberate handball, he is crazy.\n\n\"There is no way on earth that is deliberate handball. It turns the game into an absolute farce.\"\n\nIran's Portuguese manager Carlos Queiroz, who managed his country at the 2010 World Cup, suggested the referee chose not to send off Ronaldo because of the forward's high profile.\n\n\"In the rules, an elbow is a red card, it doesn't matter if it's Lionel Messi or Ronaldo,\" he said.\n\nBut Portugal manager coach Fernando Santos played down the incident.\n\n\"I wasn't concerned,\" he said. \"It seemed like a normal thing in the match and the referee did what he had to do.\n\n\"I think the VAR did its job and that's what we have to accept.\"\n\nWhat of the rest of the game?\n\nPortugal had been frustrated for 44 minutes in the first half by a well-organised Iran who also looked dangerous on the break.\n\nBut the game's first goal came with a piece of magic from the boot of former Chelsea loanee Quaresma in the 45th minute.\n\nThe winger cut in from the right flank, played a one-two with a team-mate, then curled a right-footed shot from the edge of the penalty area into the far top corner with the outside of his boot.\n\nPlay in the second half was repeatedly broken up by fouls, VAR incidents and strong protests in response to tackles from both sides.\n\nQueiroz had to be spoken to by the referee both for encroaching on the pitch and for his complaints at the referee's decisions.\n\nEven after Karim Ansarifard had scored Iran's controversial penalty, winger Mehdi Taremi could have won the game with a chance in the fourth minute of stoppage time, but he hit the side-netting with his effort from inside the penalty box.\n\nAside from his penalty miss, Ronaldo had few chances on goal, with his best effort a shot straight at the goalkeeper in the third minute.\n\nThe blank means he remains on four goals for the tournament, one behind England striker Harry Kane, who leads the race for the Golden Boot.\n• None Portugal have progressed from the group stage of the World Cup for the fourth time in their history (also 1966, 2006 and 2010).\n• None Iran have been eliminated from the group stage at the World Cup in all five tournaments they've competed in (1978, 1998, 2006, 2014 and 2018).\n• None Both of Iran's goals at the 2018 World Cup were scored in injury time (94:06 against Morocco, 92:48 against Portugal).\n• None Quaresma (34y 272d) is the oldest player to score on his first World Cup start since Yahya Golmohammadi (35y 84d), who did so for Iran in 2006 against Mexico.\n• None Iran are the second Asian nation in World Cup history to have won their first match at a World Cup but be eliminated at the group stage, after South Korea in 2006.\n• None Two of the three penalties Ronaldo has taken at World Cups for Portugal have been against Iran - he scored in 2006 but saw his effort saved in this game.\n• None Ronaldo has a 50% penalty success rate in major tournaments for Portugal, scoring two (against Iran and Spain at the World Cups in 2006 and 2018 respectively) but also failing with two (against Austria at Euro 2016 and Iran).\n• None Iran remain winless in eight World Cup matches against European opposition (D2 L6).\n• None Iran's goal - scored after 92 minutes and 48 seconds - was the latest goal Portugal have ever conceded at the World Cup.\n• None Portugal have never lost a World Cup match when they've scored first (W13 D3).\n• None Attempt missed. Mehdi Taremi (Iran) left footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left.\n• None Attempt blocked. Saman Ghoddos (Iran) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Sardar Azmoun with a headed pass.\n• None Goal! Iran 1, Portugal 1. Karim Ansarifard (Iran) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the top right corner.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Penalty conceded by Cédric Soares (Portugal) with a hand ball in the penalty area.\n• None Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Who's been affected by Turkey's state of emergency?\n\nAlmost two years after a failed military coup in Turkey, the country remains under a state of emergency. What has happened during the crackdown?\n\nTurkey is holding presidential and parliamentary elections on 24 June. There will be a second-round run-off for the presidency on 8 July if no candidate wins more than half the vote in the first round.\n\nThe state of emergency does not prevent registered political parties from taking part in the elections, and all parties are holding rallies and running campaigns.\n\nBut the government has used emergency powers to close down many independent media in the last two years, and most television coverage of the election focuses on President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP).\n\nSo why is the state of emergency in place and how many people has it affected?\n\nIt was imposed in response to an attempted military coup in July 2016. The coup was a massive shock to Turkey. Parliament in Ankara was bombed by military aircraft, and more than 250 people were killed and 2,200 injured, many on the streets of Istanbul.\n\nOnce it was clear that the coup had failed, a state of emergency was declared and the government began one of the largest recent purges of public employees anywhere in the world.\n\nThe aim was to remove from office anyone suspected of having links with those who had tried to overthrow an elected government.\n\nThe BBC asked a series of questions to the Turkish Ministry of Justice about the state of emergency and the number of people affected by it, but had received no response by the time this article was published.\n\nThe figures used here come from a variety of sources: publicly available government information and data from non-governmental organisations.\n\nSince July 2016 more than 107,000 people have been removed from public sector jobs by emergency decree. Tens of thousands of others have been suspended, but most of them have subsequently been reinstated after investigation.\n\nThere have also been a large number of dismissals in the private sector, but precise numbers are hard to come by.\n\nMany - but by no means all - of those dismissed are alleged to be supporters of the exiled Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen, who lives in the United States and is a former ally of Mr Erdogan. Turkey accuses Mr Gulen and his followers of organising the coup, but he denies it.\n\nThere is no question, though, that tens of thousands of his followers have found jobs in all parts of the state bureaucracy over a period of many years.\n\nAmong those dismissed by decree since the coup attempt are soldiers and police officers, judges and prosecutors, doctors and teachers.\n\nApproximately a quarter of all judges and prosecutors have been removed from their posts. And a report on the state of emergency issued by the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) says at least 5,000 academics and more than 33,000 teachers have also lost their jobs.\n\nAynur Barkin, a primary school teacher, is one of those who has lost her job. She insists that she has nothing to do with the Gulen movement. She's been taking part in small protests, organised by the Union of Education Workers, of people demanding their jobs back.\n\n\"I've been a teacher for 15 years,\" she says. \"My place is in my classroom. I should be able to go back to my school. I should be able to get my job back.\"\n\nMore than 250 people died in the 2016 coup\n\nInitially there was no way of appealing against dismissal by emergency decree. But under pressure from the Council of Europe, which monitors human rights, the government set up a commission to look at individual cases.\n\nMore than 100,000 people have appealed to the commission, but it is an administrative process rather than a legal one. The government says it has reviewed 19,600 cases so far, and 1,010 people have been given permission to return to work.\n\nPeople who have been sacked by decree are given no information initially about what they are alleged to have done wrong. But some reasons are given subsequently, if an appeal to the commission is rejected.\n\nCritics say the evidence is often circumstantial: where you held a bank account, which app you used on your smartphone, or where your children went to school. (Among other things, Gulenist organisations operated banks and a well-established network of schools across the country.)\n\nBut the only people who have precise details of the cases against them are those who have been arrested and charged with offences.\n\nMore than 50,000 people have been imprisoned pending trial since July 2016.\n\nImprisoned presidential candidate Selahattin Demirtas appears on photographs at rallies held by his supporters\n\nAgain, many of them are alleged supporters of Mr Gulen. Others are leftists or Kurdish activists, also accused of supporting terrorism and imprisoned as part of a broader crackdown on dissent.\n\nAmong them is the Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtas, who is running for president from his prison cell. On Sunday night he made his only TV appearance of the campaign so far, filmed inside Edirne prison. But he often appears at election rallies as a cardboard cut-out.\n\nA large number of human rights activists, lawyers and journalists are also behind bars.\n\nThe Turkey-based Platform for Independent Journalism runs a website which lists more than 150 journalists and media workers who have been detained or imprisoned since July 2016 and are currently still in jail.\n\nOn a visit to London, Mr Erdogan was keen to draw a distinction between \"journalists\" and \"terrorists\"\n\nMr Erdogan was questioned about the jailing of journalists during a joint press conference in London last month with the UK Prime Minister Theresa May. His response was typically robust.\n\n\"You have to make a distinction between terrorists and journalists,\" he said. \"Are we supposed to call them journalists just because they carry credentials and ID cards?\"\n\nLifting the state of emergency would not automatically free anyone from prison, nor would it invalidate emergency decrees that have the force of law.\n\nBut it would remove a major cause of uncertainty in Turkey, where badly-needed foreign investment fell since the coup took place. In an election in which the state of the economy is the biggest issue, that matters.\n\nOpposition presidential candidates have always said that their first job after the election, if they win, will be to end the state of emergency.\n\nThe president has previously insisted that the state of emergency will remain in place while there is a significant threat of \"terrorism\" from supporters of Mr Gulen or anyone else.\n\nBut, in the last few days, Mr Erdogan has changed his tune, suggesting that he too will lift the state of emergency if re-elected - although he has also warned that it could be reimposed if necessary.\n\nPromises made during an election campaign are not always kept once the voting is over.\n\nBut it seems that the president may be feeling the pressure.", "Coca-Cola says it has \"temporarily paused\" some production because of the shortage of CO2 gas.\n\nHowever, the soft drinks manufacturer says that so far the shortage has not affected supplies.\n\nLast week, the makers of Heineken's John Smith's Extra Smooth and Amstel said supplies had been hit.\n\nThere are reports that the shortage is affecting deliveries of frozen foods, which are kept cool by dry ice, which is made by compressing CO2.\n\nThe BBC understands Ocado is rationing the frozen food it delivers to avoid running out of dry ice.\n\nAt least five CO2 producers in northern Europe are offline for maintenance, according to the publication Gasworld, which was the first to report on the shortage.\n\nSeasonal maintenance shutdowns have left the UK with only one big CO2 producer in action.\n\nIn a statement, Coca-Cola said: \"We are currently responding to an industry-wide issue that is impacting the supply of CO2 in the UK.\n\n\"Our focus is on limiting the effect this may have on the availability of our products. During this time we temporarily paused some of our production lines for short periods, however there has been no disruption to supply to date and we are continuing to fulfil orders to our customers.\n\n\"We are working closely with our suppliers, partners and customers on a number of solutions as the situation develops.\n\nCarbon dioxide is used in guns for killing farm animals and providing the fizz in carbonated drinks. CO2 is also used in certain medical procedures.\n\nLast week, leaders of the UK's food and drinks industry warned the crisis was so serious it could harm production and asked the government to prepare to prioritise supplies.\n\nCarbon dioxide has a range of uses including packaging fresh food\n\nThe Food and Drink Federation said it would affect much of the \"farm-to-fork supply chain\".\n\nThe British Poultry Council (BPC) has warned that up to 60% of poultry processing plants could be knocked out \"within days\" as a result of the CO2 shortage.\n\nGovernment officials have held talks with food industry representatives over how to manage the CO2 shortage.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Grayling on Heathrow: It is time for action\n\nMinisters have described their backing for a new runway at Heathrow Airport as a \"historic moment\" for the UK.\n\nThe cabinet signed off the plans after they were approved by the government's economic sub-committee, which is chaired by Prime Minister Theresa May.\n\nTransport Secretary Chris Grayling announced £2.6bn in compensation for residents and noise abatement measures.\n\nEnvironmental groups oppose the plan, which Mr Grayling says will only happen if air quality commitments are met.\n\n\"The time for action is now,\" Mr Grayling told MPs, who will be asked to vote on the expansion plan by 11 July.\n\nHe insisted the decision was being taken in the national interest and would benefit the whole of the UK - with 15% of new landing slots at the airport \"facilitating\" regional connectivity.\n\nHe said the £14bn runway, which could be completed by 2026, would be funded entirely privately - but MPs warned that taxpayers would end up footing the bill for billions in road improvements and other upgrades and warned that the UK's carbon emission targets would be threatened by the increase in traffic around the enlarged airport.\n\nThe debate on expanding Heathrow has been going on for nearly 20 years.\n\nThe last Labour government backed the idea, and won a vote on it in 2009, but that plan was scrapped - and the idea of expansion put on hold for five years - by the Conservative-Lib Dem coalition formed after the 2010 election.\n\nBut the idea of expansion was resurrected and has been subsequently backed by the Conservatives.\n\nMinisters approved a draft national airports policy statement in October but Parliament has yet to give its approval for detailed planning to begin.\n\nOpponents have threatened a legal challenge while Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, who is MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip in west London, has vowed to \"lie down in front of bulldozers\" to prevent it.\n\nThe BBC's assistant political editor Norman Smith said ministers whose constituencies would be directly affected might be given a \"get out of a jail card\" - by being allowed to miss the vote or even vote against.\n\nNo 10 said Mrs May has written to ministers to say those with long-standing objections to a third runway will be permitted to restate their views at a local level, but not to campaign actively against the decision.\n\n'So expensive': Why are critics opposed?\n\nCampaigners argue that a new runway will breach the UK's legal limits on air pollution and increase noise pollution with an extra 700 planes a day.\n\nIt will result in huge disruption to residents of nearby villages, such as Longford, Harmondsworth and Sipson, with hundreds of homes likely to be knocked down.\n\nRobert Barnstone, from the No 3rd Runway Coalition, told the BBC it was a \"disappointing\" day and the government was \"failing people and failing the environment as well\".\n\nFormer Transport Secretary Justine Greening, who backs expanding Gatwick instead, suggested the idea of Heathrow as a national hub airport was outdated and the focus should be on improving regional capacity.\n\n\"We are now moving to point-to-point travel,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today. \"Why should people who are living in Newcastle spend hours travelling down to London, then fly out somewhere else?\n\n\"There is nothing national about this national policy statement. It is just a runway in Heathrow.\"\n\nAnd Tory MP Zac Goldsmith, who resigned his Richmond Park seat in 2016 over the issue and subsequently lost a by-election, said for many people \"this doesn't just look like a blank cheque being given by this government to a foreign-owned multinational, it looks like a whole book of cheques signed by our constituents\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chair of Airports Commission, Sir Howard Davies told Today that Heathrow Airport’s expansion will succeed\n\nHeathrow's owners, which include Spanish infrastructure firm Ferrovial, say the airport is virtually full and a new runway would increase its capacity from 85.5 million to 130 million passengers.\n\nThe expansion is estimated to create about 60,000 new jobs and generate about £70bn in total economic benefits by the 2050s.\n\nMr Grayling said it would provide a \"vital legacy\" for the British economy and said he had accepted 24 out of the 25 recommendations made by the Transport Select Committee to improve the plans.\n\nResidents whose houses are knocked down will get compensation worth 125% of their value - as well as legal fees and stamp duty costs paid for - while £700m would be available to fund noise insulation measures for those who decide to stay.\n\nHe said a ban on night flights was an \"absolute requirement\" and non-negotiable while he said landing charges paid by airlines must stay at current levels.\n\n\"This runway cannot be built if it does not meet air quality rules,\" he added.\n\nSir Howard Davies, whose 2015 review recommended a new runway as long as environmental and community impacts were addressed, said \"significant\" concessions had been made on reducing early morning flights and minimising the impact on residents on the proposed flight path.\n\nYes, the decades-long debate about airports in Britain is returning (it's never gone for long) just at a time when the government is embroiled in rows it will struggle to win. As one cabinet minister joked, \"it's the gift that keeps on giving\".\n\nHowever, with only Boris Johnson having big doubts around the cabinet table, the real rumpus will be in the Parliamentary Tory Party.\n\nPlenty of Tory MPs have long held objections to Heathrow and they will be made loudly on the backbenches in the weeks to come. The government doesn't have a majority and remember, it wants to get this plan through the Commons by the end of the month.\n\nIf they can, it will be a demonstration of \"look, we are getting on with things, it's not just Brexit!\"\n\nThere will be howls, and the process even after this likely vote is a very long one. But the government can expect to get the vote through. Even if Labour opposes it, which it may well do on environmental grounds, the party is also split on the merits of the project so might not all vote together.\n\nLabour and the SNP save the day?\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLabour has said expanded capacity is vital to the UK economy but its support is conditional on tests being met on capacity, climate change, noise and air quality, as well as the wider economic benefits.\n\nBut there is also a split in opinion when it comes to individual MPs, with shadow chancellor John McDonnell - whose Hayes and Harlington constituency could see homes demolished - says he is \"implacably opposed\".\n\nShadow Transport Secretary Andy McDonald said his party would \"follow the evidence\" and not simply rely on assurances from Mr Grayling: \"If the correct balance is not found then the courts will rightly intervene,\" he said.\n\nLeader Jeremy Corbyn said: \"Yes, there is a demand for increased airport capacity across the south east, two of the south east airports are working somewhat under capacity, Stansted and Luton. Gatwick and Heathrow are working at pretty well max capacity, let's look at it in that context.\"\n\nThe SNP's Alan Brown said the new runway had the support of the Scottish government, most Scottish airports and Scottish firms who recognised the \"business benefits\".\n\nBut Lib Dem leader Sir Vince Cable said the plans were an \"expensive folly\" and his party's 12 MPs would work with others to \"put an end to this project once and for all\".\n\nAnd The Green Party's MP Caroline Lucas said it was a \"disastrous decision\" which \"flew in the face of common sense and climate science\".\n\nAs one would expect, there have been contrasting reactions from business and environmental groups.\n\nThe Institute of Directors said the end of arguments over Heathrow's future was within \"touching distance\".\n\n\"While the new runway is being built, we also need to make better use of capacity at existing airports in the South East, and indeed the rest of the country,\" said its director general Stephen Martin.\n\nBut Friends of The Earth said a new runway was not compatible with building a low-carbon economy.\n\n\"Heathrow expansion would be bad news for our climate and will bring more noise, air pollution and misery to local residents,\" said the organisation's Jenny Bates.", "Kīlauea volcano is the most active volcano on Hawaii's Big Island.\n\nMore homes have been threatened by the flowing lava.", "Last updated on .From the section World Cup\n\nThe final round of group matches at the 2018 World Cup has drawn to a close, and the last 16 has been finalised.\n\nBut how did the teams progress - and who faces whom in the first round of the knockout stage?\n• None Uruguay progress as group winners with hosts Russia through in second place.\n• None Uruguay play Portugal (the runners-up in Group B) in the last 16 while Russia play Spain (Group B winners).\n• None Spain progress as group winners - on goals scored above Portugal, who are through in second place. Portugal were set to win the group until late goals in both games.\n• None Spain face hosts Russia (Group A runners-up) in the last 16, with Portugal up against Uruguay (Group A winners).\n• None France are through as group winners - with Denmark through in second place following a goalless draw between the two sides in their final group game.\n• None France will play Group D runners-up Argentina, while Denmark face Croatia, the winners of Group D.\n• None Croatia are through as group winners after scoring a late goal to beat Iceland and maintain their 100% record - they will face Group C runners-up Denmark.\n• None Argentina are through as runners-up after defeating Nigeria 2-1 and will play Group C winners France.\n• None Brazil qualify as winners with two wins from three and will play Group F runners-up Mexico in the next round.\n• None Switzerland take the runners-up spot and will face Group F winners Sweden.\n• None Sweden qualify as group winners following a dramatic victory over runners-up Mexico in their final game.\n• None The Swedes will face Group E runners-up Switzerland in the next round, while Mexico face five-time champions Brazil.\n• None Belgium qualify as group winners following victory over runners-up England in their final game.\n• None Belgium will face Group H runners-up Japan in the next round, while England meet Colombia.\n• None Colombia take top spot and will play Group G runners-up England in the last 16.\n• None Japan qualify in second in dramatic style - finishing ahead of Senegal through fair play - and will next face Group G winners Belgium.", "Gayle and Charlie Anderson were described as \"pillars of the community\"\n\nTwo British grandparents found dead at their home in Jamaica are thought to have been murdered, police have said.\n\nCharlie Anderson, 75, and his wife Gayle, 71, from Manchester, had recently retired to the Caribbean island.\n\nThey were found dead by neighbours in their home in Mount Pleasant on Friday afternoon.\n\nTheir sons said in a statement they were \"completely devastated\" by the deaths of the \"hugely popular\" couple.\n\nThe couple, who were also known as Halford and Florence, lived in a rural community in Hope Bay, Portland, on the north-east of the island.\n\nIt has been reported locally they had recently called in police to investigate money they said had been fraudulently taken from a bank card.\n\nJamaican police confirmed they were involved in another ongoing investigation but said they had not yet established a motive for the killing.\n\nThe couple's deaths come as Jamaican authorities seek to tackle a crime wave which has resulted in more than 1,600 murders in 2017.\n\nSo far this year more than 600 people have been killed, including seven people who had returned to the island after living abroad.\n\nA limited state of emergency has been put in place in two high crime areas in an effort to cut the murder rate.\n\nIn a statement, the couple's sons said: \"Our parents Charlie and Gayle enjoyed a long and happy marriage of 55 years and leave behind their four grandchildren and one great-grandchild.\n\n\"They were hardworking people, building a business with integrity and making sure we were always provided for.\n\n\"Charlie and Gayle were pillars of the community in Manchester and Jamaica, and were hugely popular and loved by many.\n\n\"They were just beginning the next chapter of their lives, retiring to Jamaica before this terrible tragedy.\n\n\"We would like to thank our friends, family and community for their prayers and support.\n\n\"We are completely devastated and ask for privacy at this extremely difficult time.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "MPs have backed controversial plans to build a third runway at London's Heathrow airport.\n\nThe government won a key vote in the Commons by 415 votes to 119 - a majority of 296.\n\nTory MPs were under orders to support the government - but Boris Johnson, a leading opponent of expansion, missed the vote because he was in Afghanistan.\n\nLabour's official position was to oppose expansion, but its MPs were given a free vote. The SNP abstained.\n\nHow did the MPs vote on the Heathrow Expansion Bill? Did my MP vote For or Against the third runway at Heathrow? Enter your postcode, or the name or constituency of your MP Enter your postcode, or the name or constituency of your MP\n\nThe vote was welcomed by business group the CBI as \"a truly historic decision that will open the doors to a new era in the UK's global trading relationships\".\n\nBut Greenpeace UK said it was ready to join a cross-party group of London councils and the city's mayor, Sadiq Khan, in a legal challenge against the third runway.\n\nAnd Friends of the Earth said in a statement: \"MPs who backed this climate-wrecking new runway will be harshly judged by history.\n\n\"The evidence on the accelerating climate crisis, which is already hitting the world's most vulnerable people, is overwhelming - and expanding Heathrow will only intensify the misery.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nEnvironmental activists earlier staged a \"lie-in\" over Heathrow in Parliament's central lobby, just metres away from MPs preparing to vote on the proposals.\n\nPolice locked-down the area after 12 protesters, who described themselves as from a \"pop-up\" Vote No Heathrow campaign, sprawled across the floor chanting.\n\nThe government has pledged the airport will be built at no cost to the taxpayer, will create 100,000 jobs and will benefit the entire country, through guaranteed internal flights to the rest of the UK.\n\nBoris Johnson, who has returned from a trip to Afghanistan, was criticised for missing the vote\n\nMinisters also insist the project will have built-in environmental protections, with the ability to fine Heathrow or ground aircraft if promises on night flights and other contentious issues are broken.\n\nEight Conservative MPs voted against the government, including former cabinet ministers Justine Greening and Theresa Villiers, Greg Hands - who resigned last week as international trade minister - and Adam Afriyie, Sir David Amess, Bob Blackman, Zak Goldsmith and Matthew Offord.\n\nMore Labour MPs supported the government than backed their leader Jeremy Corbyn, who had opposed the expansion.\n\nThe development was supported by 119 Labour MPs, while 96 voted against the move.\n\nMPs from across the political spectrum, some with constituencies on the Heathrow flight path, spoke out against the plan.\n\nAt the start of a four-hour debate, Transport Secretary Chris Grayling said Heathrow was \"full\" and a new runway was needed to secure \"a clear path to our future as a global nation in the post-Brexit world.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBut in an impassioned speech, Labour's shadow chancellor John McDonnell warned that villages that had existed for 1,000 years would be \"wiped off the face of the earth\" to enable a company to maximise its profits.\n\n\"There are human costs to this decision that this House needs to recognise and contemplate before they vote tonight to worry and blight my community once again on a programme that will never - pardon the pun - take off,\" he told MPs.\n\nOpposition MPs shouted \"Where's Boris?\" as a Conservative MP who resigned from government over Heathrow expansion urged colleagues to join him in opposing a third runway.\n\nFormer International trade minister Greg Hands, who represents Chelsea and Fulham, raised concerns about air quality and night flights but said it was a \"debate about being true to your word and to your election pledges\".\n\nMr Johnson said following Mr Hands' example and quitting the government to vote against Heathrow would \"achieve absolutely nothing,\" before departing on a trip to Afghanistan.", "World Cup 2018: Uruguay 3-0 Russia - how you rated the players Last updated on .From the section World Cup\n\nUruguay beat Russia 3-0 to progress to the World Cup last 16 as Group A winners, See how you rated the players.", "Birmingham and Hyndburn in Lancashire are the UK's worst areas for food hygiene for the second year, consumer watchdog Which? has said.\n\nIt looked at areas including the number of high and medium-risk food businesses which kept to hygiene standards and the number of interventions carried out.\n\nBut Birmingham City Council said Which? had failed to engage with local authorities and Hyndburn Council said the data was out of date.\n\nData from 390 local authorities for 2016-17 was used, including information from the Local Authority Monitoring System collected by the Food Standards Agency.\n\nWhich? said Birmingham City Council had a poor record for carrying out inspections within 28 days of a food business opening.\n\nIt found that 16% of the city's more than 8,000 food businesses were yet to be rated and 43% of the city's high and medium-risk food businesses did not meet food compliance standards.\n\nHyndburn Borough Council in Lancashire was the second worst area in the UK for food hygiene.\n\nWhich? said that 98% of the area's businesses had been rated for risk, but just two in five of its medium and high-risk food businesses met hygiene standards.\n\nMark Croxford, of Birmingham City Council, said: \"I am surprised and disappointed to see Which? have made the same mistake as they have done in previous years, in failing to engage with local authorities to produce a meaningful report.\"\n\nHe said that the same data showed council officers had inspected the second highest number of premises, undertaken more prosecutions, closed more food premises and suspended more approved manufacturers than any other English local authority in 2016/17.\n\nMr Croxford said more than 1,000 new food businesses were registered in Birmingham in 2016-17, presenting a \"significant challenge\".\n\nHe added that the council's officers had 8,341 premises to inspect across Birmingham - second only to Cornwall with 8,652.\n\nHyndburn Council's deputy leader Paul Cox said the findings were \"not a true reflection of the current picture in Hyndburn\", saying the statistics used were 13 months out of date.\n\nHe said \"significant strides\" had been taken to improve food hygiene performance and there had been a \"big improvement\".\n\n\"We've completed 100% of inspections for the past two years and our most recently submitted figures to the FSA for 17-18 shows the true picture that 92.5% of food businesses in Hyndburn are compliant,\" he said.\n\nErewash Borough Council was rated top for the second year in a row, ahead of Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council in Hampshire.\n\nAlex Neill, of Which?, said the UK's enforcement regime was \"under huge strain, just as Brexit threatens to add to the responsibilities of struggling local authorities\".\n\n\"Effective food enforcement must be a government priority, including robust checks on imports as well as co-operation with the EU and other countries on food risks, \" she said.\n\nCouncillor Simon Blackburn, chairman of the Local Government Association's safer and stronger communities board, said councils worked \"extremely hard\" to maintain and improve food hygiene standards.\n\n\"Ultimately it is the responsibility of food businesses to ensure the products they produce and premises they serve from comply fully with food safety law and pose no risk, but councils continue to do everything possible to maintain checks in this area despite severe budgetary pressures,\" he said.\n• None 'Scores on the doors' call on food hygiene", "Zsa Zsa has an underbite and a tongue that almost touches the floor - but these are qualities that won over judges at The World's Ugliest Dog Competition in Petaluma, California on 23 June. The nine-year-old English bulldog walked away with the 2018 title.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOpposition MPs shouted \"Where's Boris?\" as a Tory MP who resigned from government over Heathrow expansion urged colleagues to join him in opposing a third runway.\n\nEx-trade minister Greg Hands said it was a \"debate about being true to your word and to your election pledges\".\n\nBoris Johnson - who also opposes a third runway - has come under fire for travelling to Afghanistan and missing a vote to approve a new £14bn runway.\n\nProtesters against a third runway staged a protest in central lobby at the Houses of Parliament, a few metres from where MPs are debating the decision.\n\nAbout a dozen demonstrators from Vote No Heathrow lay down on the floor with their arms outstretched before being ejected from Parliament by police.\n\nConservative MPs have been ordered to back a third runway, the SNP will abstain and Labour have been given a free vote, with up to 40 of them expected to back the government, meaning it will almost certainly become law.\n\nMr Johnson has said following Mr Hands' example and quitting the government to vote against Heathrow would \"achieve absolutely nothing\".\n\nMr Hands raised concerns over issues including flight paths and night flights and the impact on air quality, before telling the Commons: \"I think this proposal is fundamentally flawed.\"\n\nTo shouts of \"where's Boris?\" from some on the Labour benches, Mr Hands said: \"It's also a debate about being true to your word and to your election pledges.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn an impassioned speech, Labour's shadow chancellor John McDonnell warned that villages that had existed for 1,000 years will be \"wiped off the face of the earth\" to enable a company to maximise its profits.\n\nHe told MPs to remember the name of Harmondsworth resident Armelle Thomas, whose late husband Tommy arrived in the UK during World War Two to \"fight for this country against fascism\" by flying planes for the RAF.\n\nMr McDonnell said: \"His home that he built up with Armelle is in the centre of what will be the runway itself.\n\n\"There are human costs to this decision that this House needs to recognise and contemplate before they vote tonight to worry and blight my community once again on a programme that will never - pardon the pun - take off.\"\n\nHis speech was backed by Richmond Park Conservative MP Zac Goldsmith and Lib Dem leader Sir Vince Cable, who represents Twickenham, both of whom raised concerns about the environment, the cost and alleged financial benefits of the scheme.\n\nConservative former transport secretary Justine Greening said the story of Heathrow was one of \"broken promises, broken politics and broken economics\".\n\nLabour's shadow transport secretary Andy McDonald earlier outlined his party's official opposition to Heathrow expansion, criticising Transport Secretary Chris Grayling for making \"a complete shambles of a vital national project\".\n\nHe said the government's case for expansion was \"riddled with gaps and fundamentally flawed\".\n\nSNP MP Alan Brown said the government had failed to give sufficient assurances that its Heathrow expansion plan would benefit Scotland's economy and \"connectivity\".\n\nA new runway, which was approved by ministers earlier this month, would increase Heathrow's annual capacity from 85.5 million passengers to 130 million.\n\nOpening debate in the House of Commons, Mr Grayling said Heathrow was \"full\" and a new runway was needed to secure \"a clear path to our future as a global nation in the post-Brexit world.\"\n\nAs MPs prepare to debate Heathrow's future, Mr Johnson was holding talks with Afghan minister Hekmat Karzai\n\nThe mystery of his whereabouts was solved, but not yet the mystery of the purpose. Afghanistan is not exactly an easy place to head for a quick hello.\n\nSeveral sources in Westminster tonight suggest there was a serious reason.\n\nMy colleague Jonathan Beale reported last month that the government was considering sending about 400 more troops to Afghanistan to join the 600 or so already there helping train Afghan forces.\n\nSources suggest tonight that the National Security Council will discuss the proposal tomorrow afternoon, with the government potentially approving the move, and a possible announcement in the coming days.\n\nThe soldiers would not be involved in combat, but helping the Afghans provide more security in Kabul.\n\nLast week, Downing Street said Mr Johnson, the ex-mayor of London, would be missing Monday's vote.\n\nHis exact whereabouts, previously a matter of confusion, were revealed on Monday when the Afghan ministry of foreign affairs posted a picture on Twitter of its deputy foreign minister Hekmat Karzai meeting Mr Johnson in Kabul.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHis absence has been mocked by other anti-runway campaigners in his party, including Justine Greening.\n\nWhen he was elected MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip in west London in 2015, Mr Johnson pledged to lie in front of bulldozers to stop expansion.\n\nBefore leaving for Afghanistan earlier on Monday, he wrote to constituents saying the \"very considerable difficulties\" facing the third runway meant it would be \"a very long time before we have to make good on that pledge\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Justine Greening This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut Mr Johnson, who has long promoted a scheme for a new airport in the Thames estuary, suggested it would be a futile gesture for him to resign over the issue.\n\n\"I have long been an opponent of a third runway at Heathrow and that is why I am not voting for it tonight,\" he wrote.\n\n\"It is clear from what is likely to be a large majority of MPs who are in favour of a third runway that my resignation would have achieved absolutely nothing.\"\n\nThe government has pledged the airport will be built at no cost to the taxpayer, will create 100,000 jobs and will benefit the entire country, through guaranteed internal flights to the rest of the UK.\n\nMinisters also insist the project will have built-in environmental protections, with the ability to fine Heathrow or ground aircraft if promises on night flights and other contentious issues are broken.\n\nAn independent review in 2015 recommended a new runway at Heathrow as the best option to address the need for extra capacity in the south of England. The Department for Transport has previously said no expansion would mean London's five airports would be full by 2034.", "Iran's Ali Beiranvand saves a penalty from Cristiano Ronaldo to deny Portugal a 2-0 lead in the final Group B fixture at the 2018 World Cup.\n\nAvailable to UK users only.", "One of the British survivors of the 2015 Tunisia beach attack has called on the government to create a fund to support all terror survivors.\n\nShirley Church, whose right leg had to be amputated following the attack, says her husband has had to pay for all her medical expenses.\n\nThe government says it is committed to providing comprehensive, swift support to victims of terrorist attacks and has set up a Victims of Terrorism Unit.\n\nIt says people are able to access a range of financial assistance.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gareth Thomas: \"Like leaving a permanent footprint long after my rugby days are forgotten\"\n\nEx-Wales rugby captain Gareth Thomas has said he is amazed that football fans are still getting away with homophobic chanting at matches.\n\nHe described it as \"alarming\" and said some clubs were not stopping the abuse.\n\nThomas made 100 appearances for Wales and came out as gay in December 2009.\n\nIt comes as he attempts to change the law to put homophobic and transphobic abuse on par with racial abuse at sporting events.\n\nOn Monday Thomas, who played for Cardiff Blues, Bridgend and Toulouse in rugby union as well as Crusaders in the Super League, launched a draft bill with MP Damian Collins, chairman of the Commons culture and sport committee, to amend the 1991 Football Offences Act.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Wales ahead of the event, Thomas said: \"At the moment we're in a very grey area of what is allowed and what isn't allowed, and when you change the law you make it black or you make it white.\"\n\nHe added it was \"amazing\" football fans were allowed to chant homophobic and transphobic abuse without punishment.\n\nHe has previously spoken of his battle with his sexuality and how he came close to suicide after his wife left him three months after he came out.\n\nThomas revealed that he hid his sexuality from everyone - until admitting his secret to his wife.\n\nThomas scored 41 tries and made three Test appearances for the British and Irish Lions before revealing he was gay in 2009\n\nHe told BBC Wales in 2014: \"My career life was very public, but behind what happened on television and wearing my Wales rugby jersey with pride I was slowly dying.\n\n\"I'm not sure if it was because I was gay that I felt such depression, it was just that I was lying to everyone.\"\n\nMonday's launch event will take place at the Houses of Parliament before the Conservative Folkestone and Hythe MP tables the bill.\n\nSection three of the existing act states that \"it is an offence to engage or take part in chanting of an indecent or racialist nature at a designated football match\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThere is a definition of \"racialist\" - described as \"threatening, abusive or insulting to a person by reason of his colour, race, nationality (including citizenship) or ethnic or national origins\".\n\nBut there is no definition of what is \"indecent\", so determining whether something is indecent is considered on a case-by-case basis.\n\nIn 2017 Thomas presented a BBC documentary called Gareth Thomas v Homophobia, Hate in the Beautiful Game, focusing on institutionalised homophobia in football.\n\nThe culture and sport committee in the same year published its report into tackling homophobia in sport.", "Proposals to include mothers' names on marriage certificates in England and Wales have moved a step closer to becoming law.\n\nThe Registration of Marriage Bill cleared committee stage in the House of Lords in little more than 30 minutes after peers approved a series of technical amendments, including curbing the powers of ministers over how to implement the changes.\n\nThe Bishop of St Albans's bill introduces reforms to move from a paper-based system to an electronic register.\n\nThis would make it possible to included mothers' details, with the system since 1837 only providing space for the name of the father of each of the couple to be recorded.\n\nHome Office Minister Baroness Williams of Trafford said all the different family circumstances of society would be provided for under the new registration system, including same-sex parents.\n\nThe bill still has report and third reading stages to complete in the Lords before then moving to the House of Commons, where it will need to secure time on a Friday sitting to be considered by MPs.\n\nConservative former minister Dame Caroline Spelman, the Church of England's official representative in the Commons, has moved an identical bill as the campaign for change seeks to achieve its aim as quickly as possible.\n\nThe government supports the changes, so it's more likely to be considered and become law.", "Last updated on .From the section World Cup\n\nEngland recorded their biggest win at a World Cup to overwhelm Panama and secure a place in the last 16 before their final Group G game with Belgium.\n\nHarry Kane played a captain's role once more with a hat-trick to become the tournament's leading scorer, as England built on their opening victory against Tunisia with an impressive show of ruthlessness and quality.\n\nJohn Stones opened the scoring with an early header before Kane added the second with a thunderous penalty after Jesse Lingard had been fouled.\n\nLingard added the third in the 36th minute with a brilliant curling effort from 25 yards and, as Panama crumbled, Stones crowned a slick set-piece routine by heading his second and Kane made it 5-0 before half-time with another penalty after he was wrestled to the ground.\n\nKane completed his treble with a fortunate deflection from Ruben Loftus-Cheek's shot after the break, before Panama's noisy supporters were able to celebrate their first goal at a World Cup through Felipe Baloy.\n\nThe margin of victory for England topped 3-0 wins over Poland and Paraguay in Mexico in 1986, and against Denmark in 2002.\n\nEngland top Group G as they have fewer yellow cards than Belgium. If they draw the final game it will go down to disciplinary records to decide who finishes first - and if that is level lots will be drawn\n• None New England, new confidence - why there is joy & optimism\n• None Player rater: Who was the best England player against Panama?\n\nEngland's opening win over Tunisia contained one serious flaw that needed correcting - namely a lack of ruthlessness and clinical edge in front of goal.\n\nAs Panama were totally dismantled, the failing was addressed and then some as a place in the last-16 stage was secured in quick-fire fashion.\n\nStrangely, England had actually made a subdued and sloppy start before Stones powered in Kieran Trippier's corner to put them ahead. It was plain sailing from then on.\n\nSouthgate's side sparkled in Nizhny Novgorod, pace and movement mixed with flashes of individual brilliance such as Lingard's goal to reduce Panama to an ill-disciplined shambles.\n\nWhen they get it right, England have the firepower to trouble any team, with captain Kane a spearhead approaching world class.\n\nThey also showed commendable first-half discipline to avoid getting involved in Panama's ham-fisted physical approach, simply letting the inevitable take its course in the hands of Egyptian referee Ghead Grisha, who was determined to punish penalty-area transgressions.\n\nEngland inevitably eased off with the game and that place in the last 16 no longer in doubt, and of course greater tests lie ahead. But this was the sort of commanding performance that will do wonders for confidence as the World Cup reaches the knockout stage.\n• None Which records did England break in 6-1 win?\n• None World Cup Daily: Lampard says England can 'go all the way'\n\nThe piece of paper in assistant manager Steve Holland's hand that ended up not revealing England's starting XI was the main talking point from their Zelenogorsk training base this week.\n\nThere can be more talk from the training ground now - about England's hard work behind closed doors on set-pieces that has reaped a rich reward in Volgograd and now here in Nizhny Novgorod.\n\nEngland's players have clearly been made aware of the potential of set-piece strength at this World Cup, particularly in the context of the video assistant referee (VAR) and the potential for physical defending to be punished.\n\nIt brought two goals from corners for Kane against Tunisia and another superb Tripper delivery led to Stones' first goal, Panama's defenders too interested in dragging Harry Maguire around than keeping an eye on the Manchester City defender.\n\nThe crowning glory, however, was Stones' second - another header that capped a perfectly worked routine that had almost brought a goal for Raheem Sterling first and was implemented after lengthy discussions between several England players.\n\nSouthgate's men are playing to their strengths and defences will find it hard to cope with the physical presence and threat the manager can employ.\n\nWorld Cup debutants Panama stubbornly resisted Belgium until the early stages of the second half before slumping to a 3-0 defeat in their first game.\n\nThis Group G game was over as a contest once Stones gave England that early lead as Panama's ill-discipline and lack of organisation was brutally exposed.\n\nHowever, they did score their first World Cup goal through Baloy to spark great celebrations from their supporters, who can at least return home with that treasured memory.\n\nFor England's part, they can only make the best of the opposition in front of them - and they delivered an outstanding result.\n\nHow far can England go?\n\nThis is the question that will now be asked - and one that can only be answered by performances against teams boasting more quality than Panama.\n\nWhat can be said with confidence is that this has been an impressive, vibrant opening to their World Cup campaign by England, and while it is early days and the serious business will start in the knockout phase, Southgate and his squad will not have seen anything they should fear.\n\nEngland possess real threat up front but may need to shore up an attack-minded midfield against better opposition, and the defence - which has looked vulnerable on occasions - has yet to be seriously tested.\n\nSo far, so good though - and England can get back to work at their training base on the Gulf of Finland with last-16 qualification assured before their most hazardous group game and with confidence and national expectations soaring.\n• None England have won their opening two group-stage games at a World Cup for the third time, also doing so in 1982 and 2006.\n• None This was England's biggest win at a major tournament.\n• None This was only the fifth occasion a side had scored five goals before half-time in a World Cup match, and the first since Germany did so against Brazil in the 2014 semi-final.\n• None England scored as many goals in this game as in their previous seven World Cup matches combined.\n• None Only in 1966 (11) have England scored more goals in a World Cup than they have so far in Russia (eight, same as 1954 and 1990).\n• None Panama have conceded nine goals in their first two World Cup matches. But El Salvador conceded 10, to Hungary, in their first game of the 1982 World Cup while in 1974 Zaire shipped 11 and Haiti 10 from their first two matches.\n• None Only two players have been older than Panama's Baloy (37 years and 120 days) when scoring their first World Cup goal - Cameroon's Roger Milla (38 years and 25 days) in 1990 and Sweden's Gunnar Gren (37 years 236 days) in 1958.\n• None Stones became the first England defender to score two goals in a World Cup match.\n• None Kane is the third England player to score a hat-trick in a World Cup match, after Geoff Hurst against Germany in the 1966 final and Gary Lineker against Poland in 1986.\n• None Kane is the first player to score at least twice in both of his first two World Cup appearances since Grzegorz Lato of Poland in 1974. Lato went on to win the Golden Boot at that tournament.\n• None Kane is now the leading scorer at the 2018 World Cup with five goals, and he has netted with all of his shots on target.\n\nEngland play Belgium at Kaliningrad Stadium on Thursday to see who tops the group (19:00 BST kick-off).\n• None Attempt missed. Jose Luis Rodriguez (Panama) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Armando Cooper.\n• None Attempt blocked. Blas Pérez (Panama) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Abdiel Arroyo.\n• None Attempt missed. Raheem Sterling (England) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.\n• None Goal! England 6, Panama 1. Felipe Baloy (Panama) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Ricardo Avila with a cross following a set piece situation. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The Slough book fair in 2017 featured prominent far-right Polish speakers like Marcin Rola (pictured second from the right)\n\nThe Polish Embassy in London part-funded an event that gave a platform to right-wing extremists in the UK, a BBC Newsnight investigation has found.\n\nThe embassy helped to finance a book fair in Slough in 2017, which included speakers from Poland well-known for promoting hate speech in their country.\n\nExperts have questioned whether such speakers should be allowed into the UK.\n\nThe embassy says it funded the event after \"appropriate assessment\" by Poland's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.\n\nThe embassy confirmed to Newsnight that funding it provided to the Slough Book Fair paid for speakers' accommodation in Britain.\n\nOne of the speakers at the Slough event was Marcin Rola, who moderated the discussion and runs a far-right online TV station in Poland, Wrealu24, which has more than 140,000 subscribers on YouTube.\n\nIn a recent broadcast, Rola told his viewers that Sweden is \"top of the league table in terms of rapes by Muslim immigrant-invaders on women. On everyone. On animals, on holes in the fence. Because, well, we all know how they behave\".\n\nIn the UK, many of Mr Rola's statements would qualify as hate speech. He has told viewers that \"in Islam, paedophilia is their daily bread\" and refers to Muslims as \"savages\".\n\nWhen Newsnight questioned Mr Rola about his rhetoric, he said his comments were \"taken out of context\".\n\nAlthough he admitted that calling Muslims \"savages\" was \"quite harsh,\" he \"stood by\" his comments, as he said they were in the context of discussing grooming gangs.\n\nThe Slough Book Fair was organised by a UK-based chapter of far-right group Polska Niepodlegla.\n\nIt was also behind a fun run in February 2017, at which it had hoped to host Jacek Miedlar, a former priest well-known for his anti-Semitic and anti-Muslim rhetoric.\n\nMiedlar was unable to attend the fun run when he was prevented from entering Britain. He was again stopped from coming into the country in June, when he was hoping to attend a Britain First rally in Birmingham.\n\nAsked about the Slough Book Fair, the Polish Embassy told Newsnight that it had funded the event after \"an appropriate assessment and receiving acceptance according to the regulations specifying the use of MFA budget funds\".\n\nHowever, Michal Garapich, who has been studying Polish migration in the UK for more than a decade, says that although the membership of far-right groups in the UK is quite small, the ones that exist are feeling stronger.\n\n\"There are definitely more Polish Jehovah's Witnesses or Polish members of AA (Alcohol Anonymous) groups than there are far-right nationalists who organise themselves. But they have momentum now.\n\n\"They are emboldened, they are more assertive.\"\n\nMr Garapich links the new assertiveness of the Polish far right to the change of government in Poland.\n\nHe says the ruling party, Law and Justice, gives \"nationalist, far right, sometimes fascist groups quite a lot of political oxygen, a lot of exposure, and even access to public funds\".\n\nFiyaz Mughal, from the anti-extremism organisation Faith Matters, says events like the Slough Book Fair form part of an attempt by the far right to gain a foothold among Poles in Britain.\n\nBy holding events like book fairs and fun runs, extremist groups \"inject their intolerance, their bigotry, and their prejudice into these communities\", he added.\n\n\"Let's call it what it is. It's a form of radicalisation.\"\n\nMr Rola, the moderator of the Slough discussion, came back to the UK in June to attend another edition of the book fair - this time in Leeds.\n\nThis one was not funded by the Polish Embassy but was organised by the same group, Polska Niepodlegla.\n\nAs soon as he reached arrivals at Luton Airport, he tweeted a photograph captioned: \"They didn't even frisk us.\"\n\nAsked about Mr Rola's case, the Home Office refused to comment.\n\nA spokesman said the government is \"taking a comprehensive approach to defeat the scourge of extremism by supporting communities to promote our common values and confront extremism wherever it exists\".", "Last updated on .From the section World Cup\n\nRadamel Falcao scored his first World Cup goal as Colombia got their tournament in Russia up and running with an impressive victory that ended a lacklustre Poland side's hopes of reaching the last 16.\n\nYerry Mina nodded in James Rodriguez's cross shortly before half-time to put the South Americans ahead.\n\nFalcao, who missed the finals four years ago with injury, then broke through in the second half before driving a low strike into the far corner and Juan Cuadrado capped off a fine team performance with an accomplished finish after racing on to Rodriguez's sublime ball behind the Poland defence.\n\nIt was a much improved performance by Colombia following the disappointing 2-1 defeat by Japan in their Group H opener and will give their fans hope they can at least match their run to the quarter-finals in 2014.\n\nIn contrast, this was another disappointing display by Poland, who lost to Senegal in their group opener.\n• None How did you rate the players in Colombia's win?\n\nRobert Lewandowski, making his World Cup debut in Russia, struggled with a lack of service throughout, the Bayern Munich striker going closest in the final few minutes when a long-range effort was tipped over by David Ospina.\n\nPoland cannot now catch either Japan or Senegal, who have four points from two games. Colombia have three points and play Senegal on Thursday knowing victory could secure top spot.\n\nIt was four years ago to the day that Colombia thrashed Japan 4-1 to finish top of their group at the 2014 World Cup - a result that made many observers stand up and take notice of the South Americans as contenders.\n\nThey went on to reach the last eight in Brazil, with Rodriguez scoring six goals to claim the Golden Boot, and in this victory both the team and the player were back to their best after some underwhelming performances over the course of the past four years.\n\nInjury denied the Bayern Munich star a place in the first XI as Colombia lost their opening group game in Russia 2-1 to Japan but he returned to the starting line-up against Poland and provided the creativity his side so badly lacked in their previous outing.\n\nHe had the vision and technique to unlock a stubborn Poland defence just as a first half light on chances looked set to end goalless, clipping a pinpoint cross to Mina, who headed in from close range.\n\nBut his pass for Colombia's third was even better, taking out three defenders to find Cuadrado with a whipped pass from the left wing, allowing the former Chelsea forward to charge unchallenged into the Poland box before finishing neatly.\n\nWith six goals and four assists in his previous seven appearances for Colombia, James has been involved in more goals than any other player across the past two World Cups. If Colombia are to go far at a finals again then the 26-year-old maintaining this kind of form will be key.\n\nRussia 2018 is Poland's first World Cup finals appearance in 12 years, but rather than grasping the opportunity and making their mark, they went out with a whimper.\n\nLewandowski scored an incredible 16 goals during qualifying - one more than Portugal's Cristiano Ronaldo - but he was unable to carry that form into the tournament.\n\nA change in formation may have contributed to that. Having frequently played 4-4-2 in qualifying Poland lined up 3-4-3 against Colombia and it was clearly a formation in which Lewandowski did not feel comfortable. He often found himself isolated and having to drop back into midfield to help build attacks.\n\nAt 29, this may have been the Bayern Munich striker's last chance to make his mark at a World Cup.\n\nColombia boss Jose Pekerman said: \"I think [Falcao's goal] is one of the greatest joys that we received tonight. He is a symbol of the national team, a symbol of Colombian football.\n\n\"We always hope that he can score and he can be fit as he was in the match today. We want to help him as a team so that he can show all his skill and shine. And I think the fact that today he scored was extremely important not only for today's match but for future matches.\n\n\"We were playing with the pressure of having to win. Both teams had just lost so there was no room for mistakes. We shouldered that responsibility fully but with a beautiful game and creative football. Now we have a good position in this World Cup.\"\n\nPoland coach Adam Nawalka said: \"I think that our players really played their best until the very end of the game but we lost against a very strong team and this is what we have to accept.\n\n\"My opinion tonight: the match was pretty level until we conceded the first goal. Then we changed our system to a more offensive one and I'm very sorry and sad that we lost.\n\nA first since 1990 - the stats\n• None Poland are the first European nation to be eliminated from the 2018 World Cup.\n• None Colombia have won three of their past five World Cup meetings with European sides (W3 D0 L2), having won none of their first five against Uefa nations (W0 D2 L3).\n• None Colombia's victory means there has still been no goalless draw after 32 matches so far at the 2018 World Cup, the longest wait from the start of a tournament without one (no 0-0s in 26 games in the entire 1954 tournament).\n• None Three of Yerry Mina's four goals for Colombia have been headers.\n• None James Rodriguez has had a hand in 10 goals in seven World Cup appearances (6 goals, 4 assists).\n• None Juan Cuadrado has been involved in six goals in seven World Cup appearances for Colombia (2 goals, 4 assists). He scored his second World Cup goal on Sunday, exactly four years after netting his first (24 June 2014 vs Japan).\n• None Radamel Falcao scored his 30th goal for Colombia and first at a World Cup. He is Colombia's all-time highest goalscorer.\n• None Including Colombia's victory against Poland, there were 14 World Cup goals scored today - the most on a single day of action in the competition (maximum 3 games) since 10 June 1990 (also 14).\n\nColombia play Senegal in Samara in their final Group H game on Thursday (15:00 BST) while Poland end their World Cup campaign against Japan at the same time.\n• None Attempt blocked. Jefferson Lerma (Colombia) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt saved. Robert Lewandowski (Poland) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Lukasz Teodorczyk.\n• None Attempt missed. James Rodríguez (Colombia) left footed shot from long range on the left misses to the left from a direct free kick.\n• None Jacek Goralski (Poland) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt blocked. Mateus Uribe (Colombia) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is blocked.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match David Ospina (Colombia) because of an injury.\n• None Attempt blocked. Grzegorz Krychowiak (Poland) right footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is blocked.\n• None Attempt blocked. Lukasz Teodorczyk (Poland) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Kamil Grosicki with a cross. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "More than half of councils now charge for green waste collection\n\nUK councils are charging almost £74m a year between them for garden waste collection, BBC research has suggested.\n\nData collected by BBC One's Rip Off Britain revealed that more than half of councils had introduced charges.\n\nResidents' green waste was previously paid for through the council tax by most local authorities.\n\nThe Local Government Association said councils were forced to charge because they face a £5bn shortfall in funding from central government.\n\nRip Off Britain gathered responses under the Freedom of Information Act from 322 of the 326 UK local authorities responsible for waste collection. It found that 172 charged to pick up garden waste.\n\nThe total charges for green waste collection have risen from £42.3m in 2014-15 to £56.9m in 2015-16, the data showed.\n\nAnd in 2016-17, the charges hit a total of £73.9m.\n\nPresenter Gloria Hunniford said: \"While clearly some of our viewers are unhappy their garden waste is no longer taken away for free, the results of our survey show it's unlikely that's going to change any time soon.\n\n\"And with further councils set to introduce such charges, even more of us will need to get used to paying to have our grass clippings taken away.\"\n\nA spokesman for the Local Government Association said that local councils had been forced to introduce charges because of cuts to funding by central government.\n\n\"Councils in England face an overall funding gap that will exceed £5bn by 2020,\" he said.\n\n\"Some councils were able to provide free garden waste services when they were first introduced but are now having to charge to reflect the growing cost of providing a collection service.\"\n\nThe charges for green waste collection represent an average cost to residents of £42.40 a year.\n\nBut the programme found that prices vary hugely. Harlow in Essex had the highest average cost at £96 a year, followed by Arun in West Sussex at £86 a year.\n\nThe lowest average costs were £18 a year in Monmouthshire and £22 a year in Richmond, North Yorkshire.\n\nThe programme features residents of one particular street in Trafford, Greater Manchester, which is divided between two councils. One charges for garden waste, while the other does not.\n\nResident Ian Billington said: \"When we first got a letter saying they were introducing it, I was shocked - because it was something that you have always had included in your council tax.\"\n\nRip Off Britain is broadcast at 09.15 BST on Monday on BBC One.\n\nThe best way to get news on the go", "Russia's impressive start to the World Cup ended as they had a man sent off and were easily defeated by Uruguay, whose victory means they top Group A.\n\nUruguay will go on to face Portugal in the last 16, while hosts Russia play Spain.\n\nThere was a party atmosphere around the scorching Samara Arena before kick-off, with fans having travelled from all over the country keen to share in the good feeling surrounding their national team.\n\nRussia had scored eight goals in sweeping victories over Saudi Arabia and Egypt and were already guaranteed to progress, but they went behind in their final group match after only 10 minutes when Luis Suarez drilled in a clever low free-kick.\n\nIt got worse for Stanislav Cherchesov's side when a Diego Laxalt effort from 25 yards was deflected in by Denis Cheryshev, leaving his keeper Igor Akifneev stranded and in the position of having conceded three goals at the tournament without making a save.\n\nAkinfeev did then come out to block a Rodrigo Bentancur chance, with Roman Zobnin just scrambling the rebound clear of Edinson Cavani, before Igor Smolnikov picked up a second yellow card and was sent off 35 minutes into his World Cup debut.\n\nAfter the break, Russia's 10 men composed themselves and at least managed to wrest back some control of the match, with Uruguay always looking dangerous but perhaps happy to concede possession and protect their lead.\n\nThe hosts were rewarded with their best chances of the match, the first to Artem Dzuba, who fired wildly over the bar from inside the box, the second by Fedor Smelov, who dazzled to find space in behind the Uruguay defence but failed to pick out a team-mate with what looked to be an easy cut-back.\n\nBut the final word was left to Cavani, who put several earlier misses behind him to get his first goal of the tournament by stabbing in from close range after an Akinfeev parry, ensuring Russia finished as runners-up.\n\nYou could say this was the first time Russia had faced quality opposition at this tournament, and for many the manner of this defeat will mark them out as vulnerable in the next round.\n\nRight from the outset, and even at the end when there was very little hope of a comeback emerging, there was much of the same remarkable vocal support from the stands. But on the pitch there was very little of the dynamism we saw from Russia's players in their opening two victories.\n\nAlmost every set-piece was delivered too long, and there were so many key sloppy passes - like Yuri Gazinskiy's to begin the passage of play that led to Suarez scoring from a free-kick - or Mario Fernandes' when for once early in the second half Uruguay looked like they might be opened up.\n\nPerhaps the fact that Russia, the lowest ranked team here at 70 in the world, started this game having already qualified affected their approach. Perhaps it was the oppressive heat. Midfielder Aleksandr Golovin, one of their best performers here so far, was also rested.\n\nWhat is certain is that now, having finished second, Russia will play their next match at Moscow's Luzhniki Stadium, where they beat Saudia Arabia 5-0 in the tournament's opening match. It will be another sell-out partisan crowd.\n\nTheir opponents there will be Spain - with the 2010 World Cup winners secure their place as Group B winners with a draw against Morocco.\n\nThere was very little doubt about who would win this game after an early period in which Russia were blown away.\n\nSuarez looked determined to impress after his poor opening match against Egypt, and it was his clever low free-kick that set the tone for what was a very comfortable victory.\n\nThere was plenty of noise from the stands - so Uruguay goalkeeper Fernando Muslera will have had many quieter games in terms of volume - but he had little work to do as he became his country's all-time leading appearance maker at the World Cup.\n\nAt his 14th match at the tournament, and on the occasion of his 100th cap, Uruguay simply out-performed Russia, and of course were for much of the game a player better off.\n\nThere was even finally a goal for Cavani right at the end. For a long time it looked like it would not come as the Paris St-Germain striker endured a mostly frustrating evening.\n\nHe missed three good chances before finally things fell into place as the rebound from an Akinfeev parry landed kindly at his feet.\n\nThe Uruguay fans stayed long after the final whistle to cheer their team. For them it is three wins from three, but their next match will be a much more serious test.\n\nRussia need to score first - the stats\n• None Uruguay have finished as first round group winners for the fifth time, having done so previously in 1930, 1950, 1954 and 2010.\n• None Russia are the first European side to fail to top their group as the host nation since Spain in 1982.\n• None Russia are now winless in each of their six World Cup matches in which they have conceded the first goal (D1 L5).\n• None Uruguay are the first side to win all three of their group games without conceding a single goal since Argentina in 1998 (seven goals scored, none conceded).\n• None Uruguay have won three consecutive World Cup matches against European opposition for the first time since a run of four straight victories between 1950 and 1954.\n• None Russia's Denis Cheryshev scored the sixth own goal at this year's tournament, the joint-most number of own goals at a single World Cup (also six in 1998).\n• None Russian defender Igor Smolnikov is the first outfield player to be sent off for the host nation of a World Cup since Marcel Desailly for France against Brazil in the 1998 final.\n• None Edinson Cavani became just the second player to score a goal in three separate World Cup tournaments for Uruguay (2010, 2014 and 2018) after his strike partner Luis Suarez.\n• None Fernando Muslera, celebrating his 100th cap in this game, became Uruguay's all-time leading appearance maker at the World Cup (14) overtaking Ladislao Mazurkiewicz.\n\n'We could have won by more' - what they said\n\nUruguay coach Oscar Tabarez: \"Russia did not push us around, they tried to put us into a corner. Not only did we prevent them from doing that, but we put them in their half of the pitch in the first half. We could have won by even more goals.\n\n\"We did not manage to score on certain counter-attacks that we should have. Sometimes the timing wasn't perfect. We need to improve very quickly, because any match in the round of 16 will be extremely difficult.\n\n\"The result and to be top of our group pleased me most. We won by a wide margin but I like the fact that we didn't concede. We need to work towards that end. And I liked the dedication and concentration that my team had. They were focused from end to end, the entire squad. They executed the plan.\"\n\nRussia coach Stanislav Cherchesov: \"Even when we had 10 people on the pitch, they were running hard and they wanted to attack more. That's why I brought on a substitute.\n\n\"Psychologically, we are well prepared for the next games.\n\n\"This is one thing and when you come to the pitch to play the game it's another. This is an art to be prepared at any second.\"\n• None Attempt blocked. Lucas Torreira (Uruguay) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Diego Laxalt.\n• None Attempt missed. Giorgian de Arrascaeta (Uruguay) left footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Maxi Gómez following a fast break.\n• None Goal! Uruguay 3, Russia 0. Edinson Cavani (Uruguay) left footed shot from very close range to the bottom left corner following a corner.\n• None Attempt saved. Diego Godín (Uruguay) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Giorgian de Arrascaeta with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Cristian Rodríguez (Uruguay) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner. Assisted by Giorgian de Arrascaeta.\n• None Artem Dzyuba (Russia) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt blocked. Edinson Cavani (Uruguay) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Matías Vecino.\n• None Attempt missed. Martín Cáceres (Uruguay) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Giorgian de Arrascaeta with a cross following a corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Taxi app firm Uber has told a court it accepted its London operating licence should not have been renewed last year over safety concerns, but says there has been \"wholesale change\" since then.\n\nWestminster Magistrates' Court is considering if Uber is \"fit and proper\" to hold a licence in the capital.\n\nLast September, Transport for London refused to renew Uber's licence on grounds of public safety and security.\n\nUber has been able to operate normally during the appeal process.\n\nThe court hearing began on Monday and is expected to last several days.\n\nTom de la Mare QC, representing Uber, told the court the firm had taken the \"unusual\" stance of not opposing TfL's reasons for not renewing the licence.\n\nHe said: \"We accept TfL's decision in September was the right decision on the evidence at the time.\"\n\nHowever, Mr de la Mare argued TfL's last three inspections showed a \"perfect record of compliance\" and said three non-executive board members were now in place to ensure \"total compliance to the letter and spirit\" of regulatory obligations.\n\nAccording to the firm, 3.6 million passengers regularly use its app in London and it has 45,000 drivers in the city.\n\nThe original reasons for the refusal were outlined in a 21-page document.\n\nVarious media outlets have quoted a memo reportedly sent by Uber to Transport for London, in which it said that as many as 1,148 London-licensed Uber drivers had been accused of \"category A\" offences such as sexual incidents, stalking and dangerous driving.\n\nSince being denied a licence to operate in London, Uber has implemented a number of changes.\n\nUber now reports crimes directly to the police - previously it had logged criminal complaints with Transport for London, which caused delays.\n\nDrivers are now only allowed to use the app in the region they hold a private hire licence.\n\nThe working hours of its drivers are also more tightly regulated. A licensed driver on its app must take an uninterrupted six-hour break after 10 hours of driving with a passenger or travelling to a pick up.\n\nThe company has also revamped its leadership. Three independent non-executives have been appointed to its UK board.\n\nA kinder, gentler and humbler Uber - that is the image the taxi app company hopes to project in court this week as it battles for its future in what is one of its most important markets.\n\nIt will stress that a lot has changed at a business that once prided itself on confronting local regulators in a whirlwind of creative disruption.\n\nA new boss, Dara Khosrowshahi, came to London and actually said sorry, and in February new measures were announced to co-operate with the police over allegations of driver misconduct - Transport for London's main concern when it refused a new licence.\n\nThe fact that Uber is seeking a new licence for just 18 months, rather than the full five years it expected last autumn - and that it appears to have been agreeing with TfL a list of conditions it will have to meet - shows that it accepts it is still on probation.\n\nUber has also had difficulties getting licences in Brighton, York and Sheffield.\n\nIn a separate case in 2016, Uber lost a legal battle over the status of its drivers.\n\nA London employment tribunal ruled that its drivers were workers, rather than self-employed.\n\nIt meant drivers would be entitled to holiday pay, paid rest breaks and the national minimum wage.", "Two \"despicable\" drug dealers who supplied ecstasy to children as young as 12 have been jailed.\n\nMore than 20 young people were admitted to hospital after taking the drugs, Liverpool Crown Court heard.\n\nBanks, of Wheatland Lane, Seacombe, was jailed for six years and nine months while Evans, of Norman Street, Birkenhead, was sentenced to four years and eight months.\n\nBanks - described as \"the senior partner\" - and Evans targeted their victims using mobile phones and social media and recruited some of them to act as go-betweens to sell to their friends.\n\nAs he sentenced them, judge Norman Wright said: \"People who deal in drugs bring misery, degradation and, not infrequently, death.\n\n\"It is an evil trade but in this case, the most serious aspect was the very large number of drugs supplied to children as young as 12, 13 or 14. Selling to children is despicable.\n\n\"Not only that, you were prepared to sell and make use of children as conduits to sell to other children\".\n\nThe youngsters were admitted to Arrowe Park Hospital between March and May last year, the court was told.\n\nPolice recovered ecstasy tablets, cocaine, amphetamine, cannabis and a drug sold under the name \"Legal X\"\n\nJudge Wright said Banks had an \"appalling\" record dating back to 1999, having been jailed previously for drugs offences.\n\nThe court heard Evans had enjoyed a good upbringing but his life had gone in a \"downward spiral\" after he started taking and dealing drugs.\n\nDet Insp Paul Lamb said: \"A number of children were taken to hospital after taking these drugs and it is only by good fortune that we did not have a fatality as a result.\n\n\"We know that the children were also sharing the tablets, largely because they are afraid of taking them on their own, but they need to understand that passing a class A drug on to another child amounts to supplying.\"\n\nA number of children were either cautioned or charged as a result of the investigation.\n\nBanks also admitted supplying ecstasy and Evans pleaded guilty to three other charges involving the possession and supply of ecstasy, cannabis and cocaine.", "The German minister said the burkini could encourage the integration of Muslim girls in society\n\nGermany's family minister has defended the use of the burkini in schools, saying that the swimsuits could help Muslim girls integrate.\n\nEarlier this month, a school in western Germany sparked debate after offering burkinis to students who would otherwise not attend swim classes.\n\nThe burkini has been a controversial topic across Europe.\n\nThe French city of Cannes was last week ordered to repay a fine given to a woman wearing the garment.\n\nThe issue began when a school in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) bought 20 burkinis - paid for by private donations - for use by its female students, according to the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung.\n\nFifteen girls who would normally have refused to attend mixed swimming lessons have since been able to take part thanks to the swimwear, which covers the whole body except the face, hands and feet.\n\nThe school's decision caused outrage among conservative lawmakers in Germany, where over a million refugees, mostly from the Middle East and Afghanistan, have arrived in recent years.\n\nYou may also be interested in:\n\nJulia Klöckner, the deputy leader of Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU), said that the decision \"cemented a discriminatory understanding of women's role in the very place where children and young people learn the opposite and should develop freely\", while NRW's deputy integration minister said it sent out \"the wrong signal\".\n\nBut Family Minister Franziska Giffey, from the centre-left Social Democrats, responded on Sunday by saying: \"The most important thing is the well-being of the children and that means that everyone learns to swim.\"\n\nShe argued it was justified for schools to allow the burkini to be worn in class and warned against portraying the issue \"as the downfall of the West\".\n\nSeparately, a court in the French city of Nice ruled that an €11 (£10) fine imposed on a woman wearing a burkini in Cannes two years ago was illegal.\n\nThe move had come in the wake of a series of incidents including the Bastille Day truck attack in Nice.\n\nAt the time, France introduced a controversial ban on burkinis, which was later lifted in seaside resorts after the top administrative court overturned the decision.", "Last updated on .From the section World Cup\n\nCoverage : Live on BBC Radio 5 live, live text commentary online, mobile, the BBC Sport app and Connected TV. Highlights online on full-time.\n\nAnd so it comes to this.\n\nEngland play Belgium in their final game in World Cup Group G on Thursday, with both teams able to top the group.\n\nWith qualification already secured - and it remains unclear if finishing second in the group creates an 'easier' route through the knockout phase - Belgium coach Roberto Martinez has already stated he will make \"major changes\" for the game.\n\nBut what lies in wait for Gareth Southgate's side? And who may they now come up against?\n\nWith a hat-trick against Panama, England striker Harry Kane jumped to the top of the goalscoring charts with his country's first World Cup treble since 1986.\n\nAnd he may come up against his biggest rival for the Golden Boot on Thursday. Belgium's record goalscorer Romelu Lukaku took his tally to 40 goals in 71 caps with a double against Tunisia on Saturday, becoming the first player since Diego Maradona in 1986 to score twice in back-to-back World Cup matches.\n\nNo player in Belgium's history had scored four goals at a World Cup before, and Lukaku has now netted 17 times in his past 11 appearances for the national side.\n\nDespite that record, Belgian journalist Kristof Terreur told BBC 5 live before Saturday's match that the Manchester United striker still divides opinion in Belgium.\n\n\"Some like him and some don't,\" he said. \"When he's not performing they say he's someone who is of Congolese descent.\n\n\"We still have that fear for strangers - black guys aren't really accepted. He's the first black star of our team.\"\n\nIn an emotional and open interview last week with the Players' Tribune, Lukaku accepted \"some people in my own country want to see me fail\".\n\nBut former Chelsea team-mate Frank Lampard believes the 25-year-old is showing he is at the top of his game.\n\nSpeaking after Saturday's win over Tunisia, he told BBC One: \"Lukaku is so confident right now. For his second goal, he dinks it over the goalkeeper with his weaker foot and he's celebrating before it even crosses the line - supremely confident.\"\n\nFormer England captain Alan Shearer - who scored twice at the 1998 World Cup and was top scorer at Euro '96 - says winning the Golden Boot would be life-changing for Lukaku or Kane.\n\n\"Scoring goals in a tournament can be life-changing, career-changing,\" he told BBC Radio 5 live.\n\n\"After Euro '96 I was no longer Alan Shearer. I was Alan Shearer, Golden Boot winner. You go up against some big hitters and you come out on top and it gives you huge confidence for the rest of your career. It puts your name on the global stage.\n\n\"You can say that Lukaku has only scored against Panama and Tunisia but it gives you great confidence and he has an unbelievable opportunity now. He will have been thinking every day for weeks, 'if I get off to a good start I can win the Golden Boot'.\"\n\nWhile Lukaku is leading the line superbly, stand-in captain Eden Hazard has been equally impressive from his number 10 role.\n\nThe Chelsea forward also scored twice against Tunisia and has been involved in 23 goals in his past 21 appearances for Belgium (11 goals, 12 assists).\n\nWith Manchester City defender Vincent Kompany missing the opening two games because of injury, Hazard has also shown leadership, telling Lukaku off at half-time of the Panama game for \"hiding\" and \"going missing\".\n\nLukaku responded by scoring twice after the break.\n\nHazard was taken off against the Tunisians with a slight knock and may be one of the regular starters to miss out against England.\n\n\"Belgium have put a marker down here - without a doubt,\" said Shearer.\n\n\"We've been speaking about Hazard, Lukaku and Co going forward - and they've done it. Belgium look red hot going forward. They could cause any team problems with their attacking players.\"\n\nBelgium were unbeaten in qualifying and wins in their opening two games in Russia mean the Red Devils have won 11 of their 12 competitive matches under Martinez.\n\nThey have scored 51 goals and conceded just eight in those games.\n\nMartinez took over in August 2016, after Belgium reached the quarter-finals at both the World Cup of 2014 and Euro 2016. When he was presented to the media he said his team had \"the world at their feet\" and promised he would turn Lukaku \"into a world-class striker\".\n\n\"People in Belgium know this is a golden generation,\" said West Ham defender Pablo Zabaleta on BBC One.\n\n\"All the players play for big teams and there will be a lot of expectation back home. I think they're one of the favourites to go far in this World Cup.\n\n\"With the players Belgium have going forward, they can hurt anyone - Kevin de Bruyne can find the pass, Hazard can run at defenders and Lukaku can provide the finish.\n\nStrength in depth? We shall see\n\nIt's not just Belgium's starting XI who have impressed. While commentating on the 5-2 win over Tunisia, Chris Sutton said that - if he was English - Tottenham midfielder Moussa Dembele would start for England despite only appearing for 16 minutes in the tournament so far.\n\nExperienced performers Thomas Vermaelen, Kompany and Marouane Fellaini have all been left out of the starting XIs so far, while Chelsea striker Michy Batshuayi came off the bench to score - as well as miss a host of chances - against Tunisia.\n\nThe 24-year-old had six shots - more than any other player, and the most by a substitute in a World Cup match since Germany's Andre Schurrle fired in seven against Algeria in 2014.\n\nSo if Martinez does make a host of changes on Thursday night, it may not matter too much.\n\n\"It shows the strength of the Belgium national team that they can take off their leading all-time goalscorer and bring on someone who can get six good chances,\" said former Chelsea forward Didier Drogba on BBC One.\n\n\"Batshuayi would have put more of them away if it was a closer game. The one he does score, it's very difficult.\"\n\nWho would you pick for England?\n\nChoose who you would pick in the England starting XI to face Colombia in Russia - and then share it with your friends using our team selector.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How does the new system compare to the US and France?\n\nThere's no question that the biggest issue for most voters in the Turkish elections was the state of the country's economy.\n\nBut the most immediate impact of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's victory is that he will now preside over a brand new presidential system of government.\n\nIt was approved in a controversial referendum last year, and it's a system Mr Erdogan seems to have designed with one man in mind.\n\nThe office of prime minister has been abolished and executive power transferred to the president, who will become both head of state and head of government.\n\nHe will directly appoint ministers, many judges and bureaucrats, and one or more vice-presidents. There will be no elected vice-president.\n\nThe national budget, previously set by parliament, will now be drafted by the president. If parliament refuses to adopt it, the previous year's budget will remain in force.\n\nParliament could impeach Mr Erdogan, if there is a two-thirds majority in favour. But the final judgement would be made by the constitutional court, most of whose members are appointed by the president himself.\n\nThe Venice Commission, which provides legal advice to the Council of Europe (of which Turkey is a member), has set out its concerns about many of these reforms in detail.\n\nIn a report on Turkey's constitutional changes, written before the referendum, it concluded that \"they lead to an excessive concentration of executive power in the hands of the president and the weakening of parliamentary control of that power\".\n\nMr Erdogan's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), on the other hand, insists that many of the new measures are progressive.\n\nMilitary courts are abolished, and in principle laws will prevail over presidential decrees. It argues that the new system will be a better one, providing stability in a time of turmoil.\n\n\"The president is elected by the people and he's directly responsible to the ballot box,\" said Zeynep Jane Kandur, a board member of the AKP's Istanbul branch.\n\n\"This is not a weakening of democracy; it is an increase in democracy because the president is directly elected by the people.\"\n\nThe government says it compares with other presidential systems in the West. But does that stand up to scrutiny?\n\nIn the US, the separation of powers is clearly established - executive, legislative and judicial.\n\nIf Congress rejects a budget, the federal government shuts down until compromise is found.\n\nThe president nominates judges and cabinet members, but Congress has to approve them.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Kurdish voters could hold the key to Turkey's elections\n\nIn France, a prime minister is still head of government, and is sometimes from a different party than the president.\n\nThe French president appoints three out of nine judges to the country's top court, while in Turkey it will be 12 out of 15.\n\nThere is also a broader point that is worth emphasising: you can't assess a constitution without taking account of the politics that surround it.\n\nAnd in Turkey, the opposition is worried about Mr Erdogan holding all the reins of power. A better comparison, they argue, is Vladimir Putin's Russia.\n\n\"The new regime that takes effect from today is a major danger for Turkey\", said the defeated presidential candidate Muharrem Ince of the opposition Republican People's Party (CHP).\n\n\"We have now fully adopted a regime of one-man rule.\"\n\nThe new constitution mandates that presidential and parliamentary elections should be held on the same day every five years, and that a president can serve a maximum of two terms. (There is no provision for midterm elections such as those in the United States.)\n\nThere would be also be a possibility of a president running for a third term, if the second one was truncated by the calling of early elections.\n\nAnd it is worth remembering that Mr Erdogan has already been in power for 15 years, first as prime minister and then as president.\n\nNow this election has set him well on the way towards achieving a long-held ambition: to be president in 2023, on the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Turkish republic.\n\nHe still has millions of fervent supporters across the country, and he argues that the new presidential system will give Turkey a strong leader able to deal more effectively with the many challenges it faces.\n\n\"It's what people want,\" said Ms Kandur, \"because it will give the country better government.\"\n\nOpposition leaders disagree and they had campaigned during the election on a promise to overturn most of the constitutional changes. The Venice Commission - while it can't force Turkey to change anything - shares many of their concerns.\n\nIt warns of \"a presidential regime which lacks the necessary checks and balances required to safeguard against becoming an authoritarian one\".", "A 102-year-old woman has celebrated her birthday with an indoor skydive.\n\nEva Lewis, from Hertfordshire, was lifted off the floor in 110mph (177km/h) winds at a wind tunnel in Milton Keynes.", "Almost half of women aged 25-34 do not have an enjoyable sex life, a survey by Public Health England suggests.\n\nAbout 7,000 women over the age of 16 responded to the first poll of its kind launched by the health body to guide future policy on reproductive health.\n\nSexual satisfaction appeared to increase with age - less than a third of women aged 55-64 reported a lack of enjoyable sex in the past 12 months.\n\nAvoiding an unwanted pregnancy was the women's biggest concern overall.\n\nManaging painful, heavy periods was the third most common reproductive worry, while having an enjoyable sex life was second.\n\nGoing for reproductive health screening, including smear tests, was fourth, \"Other\" reproductive health symptoms was fifth. And difficulty getting pregnant was sixth.\n\nCatching a sexually transmitted disease was seventh on the list.\n\nDifferent issues took on relatively greater or lesser importance at different stages of a woman's life.\n\nThe women who responded were aged 16 and older and living in England. Around 65% of the women reported having sex in the last month. A further 12% had had sex in the previous three months.\n\nAbout a third of the women had experienced severe reproductive health symptoms in the past 12 months, ranging from heavy menstrual bleeding to menopause, and incontinence to infertility.\n\nIn-depth interviews revealed that these symptoms often affected women's ability to carry out daily activities, yet many concealed their symptoms from work colleagues.\n\nEmbarrassment commonly acted as a barrier to accessing knowledge or support.\n\nAngela says reproductive health is still a taboo topic\n\nAngela Kilcoyne, who took part in a PHE focus group, said: \"Since I was 13, I have felt embarrassed about having heavy menstrual bleeding - a health issue which has caused me debilitating pain and nausea. I worked for years in banking, which was a very male dominated environment, and I never told my managers that I was off due to horrendous period pain.\n\n\"I would have to invent reasons month after month and soldier on. Or I would dose myself up and try and get through the day best I could, then collapse when I got home. Reproductive health should be spoken about in the workplace in the same way as sickness or flu.\"\n\nDr Sue Mann, public health consultant in reproductive health, from Public Health England, said: \"Enjoying a fulfilling sex life is important for women's mental and emotional wellbeing. Our data show that sexual enjoyment is a key part of good reproductive health and that while many women are reporting sexual dysfunction, many are not seeking help.\n\n\"Our research shows that there is still stigma associated with talking about reproductive health issues which is a barrier to women seeking help. This is particularly true in the workplace where many women do not feel comfortable speaking to their managers about the real reasons for needing to take time off work. We want to empower women to educate themselves about good reproductive health and to feel confident speaking about it.\"\n\nPublic Health England is drawing up a five-year action plan to promote women's reproductive health.\n• None 'I kept my pregnancy at 15 hidden'\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nSports minister Tracey Crouch says her \"mind is open\" on safe standing as she commissioned an official review of the issue, adding she has been \"scarred\" by threats on social media.\n\nThe MP was speaking at a Parliamentary debate on safe standing, which came after a petition was signed by 112,000 people calling for its introduction.\n\nCrouch apologised for saying only a \"vocal minority\" wanted standing areas.\n\nBut said she had been threatened with \"physical and sexual violence\".\n\nBefore the petition that led to the Parliamentary debate, the government said in May there were no plans to change the all-seater policy after West Brom had a safe-standing proposal rejected.\n\nAfter that decision, Crouch was accused of \"declaring war on fans\" by the Football Supporters' Federation.\n\nStanding in English football's top two divisions was outlawed by the Football Spectators' Act in 1989.\n\nIt came following recommendations made in the Taylor Report into the Hillsborough disaster, which claimed the lives of 96 Liverpool fans.\n\n\"Contrary to reports on social media, my mind is open on future of the all-seater policy,\" said Crouch on Monday.\n\n\"I felt so disappointed with my own loose language on safe standing, that rightly led to outrage, but then sadly turned into abuse and threats.\n\n\"I feel really scarred by the response received on social media.\"\n\nThe review, which will be completed by the end of the year, will analyse existing evidence and look to identify any missing data - working with footballing authorities, leagues and supporters' groups.\n\n\"At the moment, we don't have data or evidence to make a decision either way on this issue,\" added Crouch.\n\n\"Change cannot and should not happen overnight on something as serious as football ground safety.\"\n\nWest Brom, who have been relegated to the Championship, proposed a pilot scheme to convert 3,600 seats into 'rail seats', which can be locked in an upright position.\n\nCrouch said that would have required a law change, adding: \"The legislative framework as it is currently set out means I cannot allow for any pilots. There is no wiggle room - it is either the status quo or change the legislation.\"\n\nThe Football Supporters' Federation said: \"The fans will look forward to seeing the detail of the review and it is encouraging that there's a commitment to working with supporters groups alongside the football authorities.\n\n\"This isn't an issue that is going to go away. Supporters back the choice to sit or stand as standing is so central to generating the best possible atmosphere at football.\"", "Mr Trump has called for \"strength and security at the border\" in a series of tweets\n\nUS President Donald Trump has called for speedy deportations that bypass any judicial process in a tweet on Sunday.\n\n\"When somebody comes in, we must immediately, with no Judges or Court Cases, bring them back from where they came,\" Mr Trump wrote.\n\nHis comments come days after Mr Trump reversed a policy to separate migrant children from their parents following fierce backlash at home and abroad.\n\nMore than 2,300 children were separated from their parents in May and June.\n\nAs of May, all migrants who cross the US border illegally face criminal prosecution under the \"zero tolerance\" policy.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Donald J. Trump This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Donald J. Trump This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe president did not make the distinction between economic migrants and those seeking asylum.\n\nMr Trump has faced criticism, including from his own Republican Party, for his choice of language on Twitter.\n\nWhen he earlier said illegal immigrants threatened \"to pour into and infest our Country\", Republican congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen tweeted back at him saying his \"baseless rhetoric\" was \"repugnant\" and dehumanised those looking for a better life.\n\nUS immigration officials say 2,342 children were separated from 2,206 parents from 5 May to 9 June.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Zero-tolerance: The US policy dividing families and opinion\n\nOn 20 June, Mr Trump backed down from his support for the policy and signed an executive order ending the practice of separating families.\n\nHe said at the time: \"I did not like the sight or feeling of families being separated.\"\n\nMr Trump's directive allows for long-term detention of immigrant children (albeit with their parents), which violates federal law that limits child detention to 20 days.\n\nA public outcry over migrant children being separated from their parents, forced Donald Trump to soften his immigration policy.\n\nBut since then, in a series of speeches, he has called for tougher laws - and claimed America's current legislation is laughed at by the rest of the world.\n\nHis latest comments on Twitter go even further.\n\nHe says that everyone found illegally trying to cross the border should be returned to their own country immediately - without involving judges or holding court cases.\n\nPolitical opponents will be furious that that's even been suggested but President Trump clearly believes his supporters back his hardline stance.\n\nFollowing Mr Trump's election in 2016, the numbers of migrants held or detained entry while crossing the border had dropped significantly.\n\nHowever, since February 2018, the number of migrants crossing the border illegally is up, with arrests last month more than double those in May 2017.\n\nWhile illegal crossings cannot be accurately counted, border arrests are used as a measure of illegal border crossings.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe firefighter who led the initial response to the Grenfell fire said he was not trained to decide when to abandon the policy of \"stay put\" and evacuate a burning tower instead.\n\nMichael Dowden told the inquiry he was \"out of his comfort zone\" when faced with the spreading blaze.\n\nHe also admitted failing to follow national guidance when carrying out safety checks on the tower in 2016.\n\nCladding, sprinklers, radio blackspots and escape routes were not checked.\n\nAt times during his appearance before the inquiry, Mr Dowden left long pauses - up to 25 seconds - before giving his answers.\n\nMonday's hearing ended early as he felt unable to continue after more than six hours of questioning.\n\nMr Dowden, watch manager at North Kensington fire station, visited Grenfell Tower in February 2016 - 16 months before the fire that killed 72 people.\n\nHe was asked at the inquiry:\n\nMr Dowden said he did familiarise himself with the dry riser system - the means by which fire crews get water up a tall building. However, they should not be used in buildings above 50m - Grenfell is 67m.\n\nAsked whether he had thought during his visit, \"this building exceeds 50 metres, what's it doing with a dry riser?\" Mr Dowden replied, \"No, I didn't.\"\n\nThe first firefighters arrived at Grenfell Tower just before 01:00 on 14 June 2017\n\nThis is not a court. Watch manager Michael Dowden is not accused of anything and stood today in his dress uniform to provide facts, not to defend himself.\n\nBut what he said raises deep questions about the degree to which the London Fire Brigade was prepared for the inferno on 14 June 2017.\n\nIt is expected (in government guidance) to specifically assess the risk of fires in tall buildings, fuelled by cladding, and to train its commanders to make the decisions needed to switch from a \"stay-put\" policy to \"everyone out\".\n\nMr Dowden's evidence is that not a lot of that has happened. Other firefighters will give evidence shortly, but he was in charge for the critical golden hour when perhaps the fire could have been stopped and the building evacuated. If anyone needed that training and prior planning, it was him.\n\nHis evidence is vital for an inquiry determined to learn the lessons of this tragedy. But lurking in the background is a police inquiry looking for evidence of corporate criminality, potentially breaches of health and safety by the fire service. His evidence will be vital to that process too.\n\nMr Dowden was also questioned at length about his training, particularly around high-rise flats and the brigade's adherence to a stay-put policy for the residents.\n\nMost towers are designed so fires can be contained in the flats where they start, but this did not happen at Grenfell Tower, with the external cladding cited as the \"primary cause\" of the fire spreading.\n\nOne expert has said the fire service should have abandoned its advice to residents to stay in their flats much earlier than it did.\n\nVictims' families have also been critical of the advice.\n\nCounsel for the inquiry Richard Millett said according to policy, incident commanders \"should understand\" when an evacuation would be necessary and asked Mr Dowden what training he had for that situation.\n\nAfter a 17-second pause, Mr Dowden said: \"I can't remember any time when I'd actually been on a training course that would facilitate that.\"\n\nHe said it was \"very difficult\" to rehearse high-rise fire responses as \"we don't have a high-rise facility to train on\".\n\nMr Dowden added the advice to residents was \"borne out of the way a building should behave in a fire\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Grenfell Tower inquiry: What questions will be answered?\n\nMr Dowden, who has been a firefighter for 14 years, said he had not realised the tower's exterior cladding could spread a fire.\n\nHe was also asked if he had looked at the cladding on his visit in February 2016.\n\n\"That's something I didn't look at,\" he said, but he added: \"Knowing what I know now, that is certainly something I would look at.\"\n\nTurning to the night of the fire, Mr Dowden was asked about what information he got from the fire brigade's mobile database en route to the tower block.\n\nHe said he could \"only presume\" the building information he was working off that night was a floor plan written in 2009 that did not include an extra three floors installed in the 23-floor building in a re-fit.\n\nThe information also said Grenfell had a \"stay-put\" policy.\n\nThe fire officer said in his written statement that the inferno quickly moved outside his \"comfort zone\" as an incident commander.\n\nA short while later, the hearing took a break.\n\nBut when it resumed, Mr Millett said he had been told Mr Dowden was unable to continue answering questions on the day.\n\nInquiry chairman Sir Martin Moore-Bick said he had been \"becoming increasingly concerned\" that Mr Dowden, who insisted on standing throughout the hearing, was finding it a \"difficult exercise\" and said arrangements for his evidence should be considered before the night of the fire is discussed further.", "World Cup 2018: Saudi Arabia 2-1 Egypt - how you rated the players Last updated on .From the section World Cup\n\nSaudi Arabia scored a late winner to beat Egypt 2-1 in a match which saw 45-year-old Pharaohs keeper Essam El Hadary save a penalty on his World Cup debut. Here's how you rated the players:", "The dogs were in cramped conditions, the RSPCA said\n\nEighty-two chihuahuas were discovered at a house \"which looked like an earthquake had hit\" after police were called to investigate a death.\n\nThe RSPCA were called to the property in Birmingham after police raised concerns about conditions.\n\nSome had matted coats and fleas, others had burns, an RSPCA inspector said.\n\nThe dogs were found in April 2017 but the discovery is to be shown in an episode of Channel 5's The Dog Rescuers.\n\nThe couple who lived at the house had started out with two pets but did not get the dogs neutered and, after four years, they had 82 dogs, the RSPCA said. They said it was a classic case of hoarding, but the dogs had been loved.\n\nThe dogs were taken to the charity's Newbrook Farm Hospital.\n\n\"They [the dogs] literally started appearing from everywhere,\" Insp Herchy Boal said.\n\n\"We would move the washing machine and suddenly there'd be six faces looking at you. It was incredible where they were able to hide.\n\n\"The house looked like an earthquake had hit it, everything was higgledy piggledy, it was really chaotic and dirty.\"\n\n\"We called out a vet who said the house was too hazardous and the dogs couldn't stay there, it was filthy and cramped. They were all hiding; barking and snapping at us.\"\n\nPolice launched an investigation after the woman living at the property in the Washwood Heath area of the city died, but found there were no suspicious circumstances and that she had died from complications after an accident.\n\nSome dogs were hiding behind furniture and were in \"cramped\" conditions\n\nThe RSPCA helped the woman's husband to renovate and clean the home while the charity cared for the dogs.\n\nFour dogs were given back to the husband and the rest were rehomed.\n\nThe story features in The Dog Rescuers on Channel 5 at 19.00 BST on Wednesday.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mr Ángeles was murdered outside his home on Thursday morning\n\nThe entire police force of the Mexican town of Ocampo has been detained on suspicion of involvement in the murder of a mayoral candidate.\n\nFernando Ángeles Juárez, 64, was shot dead by unknown gunmen on Thursday outside one of his properties.\n\nMore than 100 politicians have been killed across Mexico ahead of general elections on 1 July.\n\nMr Ángeles was the third politician to be killed in the western state of Michoacán in just over a week.\n\nThe town's 27 police officers and the local public security secretary were detained by federal forces in the early hours of Sunday.\n\nMr Ángeles was a successful businessman with little previous political experience.\n\nHe had considered standing as an independent but eventually joined one of Mexico's main parties, the centre-left Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD).\n\n\"He couldn't stand seeing so much poverty, inequality and corruption and so he decided to run,\" one of his closest friends, Miguel Malagón, told El Universal newspaper.\n\nAfter his murder, prosecutors accused Ocampo's public security secretary, Oscar González García, of involvement.\n\nWhen Mexican federal agents arrived in the town on Saturday to detain him, they were stopped by local police officers.\n\nThey returned with reinforcements on Sunday morning and arrested the entire force and their boss.\n\nThey were handcuffed and taken for questioning in the state capital, Morelia.\n\nProsecutors accuse the officers and Mr González of links with organised crime groups in the state.\n\nMexicans will go to the polls next Sunday to choose a new president, senators and members of the Chamber of Deputies.\n\nMore than 3,000 posts at regional and local levels will also be at stake.", "Angela Rose is terminally ill with breast, bone and brain cancer.\n\nShe is creating a memory box for each of her three children to have to remember her when she dies.\n\nAngela, from Milton Keynes, was given the idea by her MacMillan nurse.", "Turkey's long-standing leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been re-elected as president, the election authority says.\n\nHe will assume sweeping executive powers under a new constitution.", "Scotland's biggest pig processor is set to run out of carbon dioxide on Tuesday, leaving it in danger of welfare issues such as overcrowding.\n\nThe gas, which is used to stun farm animals and put the fizz in carbonated drinks, is in short supply in Europe.\n\nQuality Pork Limited, which puts about 6,000 pigs a week through its abattoir in Brechin, may have to send some animals to England.\n\nHowever, its sister plant in England is also facing CO2 shortages.\n\nFood and drinks firms are scaling back operations because of a shortage of CO2.\n\nAt least five gas producers in northern Europe have been offline for maintenance, according to the publication Gasworld.\n\nAnd seasonal maintenance shutdowns have left the UK with only one big CO2 producer in action.\n\nQuality Pork Limited, which operates in collaboration with UK-wide meat processor Tulip and the Scottish Pork Producers (SPP) co-operative, uses CO2 as part of a pre-slaughter stunning process.\n\nIt will run out of the gas on Tuesday.\n\nSPP chief executive Andy McGowan told the BBC that the abattoir would start to see animal welfare issues develop within a few days because of overcrowding.\n\n\"We can send some pigs to England, to our sister factories at Tulip. But that is not a long-term solution. They, too, are seeing CO2 shortages,\" he said.\n\nMr McGowan said he had little idea when CO2 shipments would resume. \"One of the challenges is that we are not getting any sort of commitment from the gas companies. It makes planning difficult\".\n\nTulip said it had sought approval from regulators so that Scottish pigs processed in its English abattoirs could still carry a Quality Meat Scotland kitemark.\n\n\"We remain extremely concerned about the lack of CO2,\" said a spokesman for Tulip. \"We are in regular communication with our supply partners… although there is currently very limited information.\"\n\nDrink-makers have also been hit by the shortage.\n\nOn Monday, Coca-Cola said it had \"temporarily paused\" some production while the Holden's beer bottling company in the West Midlands said its facility in Dudley stopped work on Friday.\n\nMark Hammond, operations director at the Holden's bottling plant, said \"We are going to do maintenance and a deep clean. But as of [Monday] morning, we have 25 people sitting around doing nothing.\"\n\nHe said \"CO2 is an absolutely vital component. It's the equivalent of diesel in the haulage industry.\"\n\nThe plant does not just bottle Holden's beer but has about 80 customers.\n\nMr Hammond has no idea when his supplies might resume. Although the gas industry says things will start returning to normal in early July, he fears firms like his will be at the back of the queue for fresh supplies.\n\n\"We are a small firm, and there's obviously great demand across the sector,\" he said. \"We are not getting good communication from CO2 suppliers.\"\n\nThe meat industry hopes that it will be given delivery priority as more CO2 supplies come onto the market.\n\n\"Our processors deal with live animals,\" said the UK's Meat Processors' Association. \"The CO2 shortage has the potential to become an animal welfare issue. We have been asking to be treated as a priority.\"\n\nThe British Poultry Association (BPA) said: \"We are involved with live animals. They are a priority.\"\n\nA BPA spokesman said many of his members had only enough CO2 \"to keep ticking over\". He added: \"We are maintaining production by stretching our gas. But people are living day-to-day.\"\n\nHowever, small firms fear they will be a low priority when suppliers ramp up distribution for their big customers.\n\nMike Cherry, national chairman of the Federation of Small Businesses, said the CO2 shortage could disrupt hundreds of small suppliers.\n\n\"This unexpected disruption will cause a shockwave throughout many supply chains with smaller firms lower down being the first hit and the last to recover.\"\n\nHowever, bigger firms are also feeling the squeeze. On Monday, Coca-Cola said its soft drinks production line was disrupted by carbon dioxide shortages, although supplies to customers have not been affected.\n\nThe company said: \"We are working closely with our suppliers, partners and customers on a number of solutions as the situation develops.\"\n\nLast week, drinks giant Heineken said its John Smith's Extra Smooth and Amstel had already been hit.\n\nThe company said on Monday that it had no fresh information on when things might return to normal. \"We are still working through the issue with customers and trying to minimise disruption,\" said a spokeswoman.", "Live: Coverage across BBC TV, BBC Radio and BBC Sport website with further coverage on Red Button, Connected TVs and mobile app.\n\nEngland's performance in their 6-1 win over Panama has \"excited a nation\", according to former Three Lions defender Rio Ferdinand.\n\nSunday's thumping victory in Group G not only sent England through to the last 16, it was the biggest in their history at major tournament finals, with five of their goals coming in a thrilling first half.\n\n\"It was a sparkling 45 minutes of sheer brilliance from start to finish,\" said fellow BBC pundit Alan Shearer.\n\n\"We were brilliant,\" added Frank Lampard. \"Panama are not at the same level, we know that, but the only thing you can do as an England team is dispatch what is in front of you, and they did it with an absolutely ruthless streak.\"\n\nThis is how the goal-fest unfolded in Nizhny Novgorod.\n• None Which records did England break in 6-1 win? World Cup Daily: Lampard says England can 'go all the way'\n\nAlan Shearer: It was very, very good movement by John Stones, it took an age to take the corner because of the pulling and the grappling and the referee was warning several players.\n\nBut, when the ball came in, Ashley Young just blocks the defender off for a split second and the aggression from Stones to get away from the defender and put that header away is magnificent. It was so well worked - he finds the space, and finds the corner of the net. He just has to guide the header in there, and he does.\n\nThat's what you need as well. It is one thing to get the movement right, but that ball has got to come in. It is almost an identical area to where England hit the ball against Tunisia. We have obviously been working on that on the training ground, and it has worked perfectly.\n\nFrank Lampard: The grappling was going on there too. It was just ridiculous - Kane could not move and Harry Maguire was getting it as well.\n\nWe are all aware VAR is being used at this tournament, and that people were talking about what happened when England played Tunisia. Surely Panama had a conversation saying that you get tight to your man, but you don't give him a bear hug?\n\nAlan Shearer: It was definitely a foul on Jesse Lingard, I don't think anybody can have any arguments at all about that.\n\nFrank Lampard: There were two brilliant things about this, firstly from Kieran Trippier with his quality of delivery, and then from Jesse Lingard too.\n\nLingard has had an incredible half of football linking play and he was always looking to make runs behind the back line. That was a striker's run and Alan would have been proud of that in his day - he bends his run and it was perfectly timed.\n\nThen his first touch was perfect and he held his ground for a second, and took the contact - he went down and it is a penalty.\n\nAlan Shearer: Beat the offside trap and bend your run - that is what you are taught as a kid, and Lingard did that very, very well.\n\nFrank Lampard: Then when Kane comes to take the penalty, there is absolutely no doubt what he is going to do with it. That is the sort of form he is in, that is the player he is - he is a superstar, and you can have complete confidence that he is going to score.\n\nRio Ferdinand: The whole of England's play here is what you want to see from us, patience and confidence and everyone showing for the ball.\n\nWith the finish, this is where Jess is unbelievable - this finish was exquisite. I have seen this from this boy since he was 11 years old at Manchester United.\n\nPeople always questioned 'is he going to be big enough, is he going to be strong enough', but when you have the intelligence and game management that this kid's got, you can be two foot tall and get through.\n\nJesse is that intelligent, he is that good, he understands the game, and when he gets in like this, although we didn't see it the other day when he wasn't clinical, we all said that when he gets the chances again he will put them away, and he certainly did.\n\nThat finish there - a generation of kids will remember that goal.\n\nAlan Shearer: Again we talk about the work they have been doing on the training ground. At every set-piece all of us are sat here thinking 'what is going to happen now?' Well just watch and admire it because it is exactly what should happen.\n\nEveryone is on the same page, they know what is happening, they are alert and alive and they know what to do. Yes Raheem misses an absolute sitter but John Stones is there again.\n\nFrank Lampard: It is bad defending from Panama again - England almost have a conference before Trippier took the free-kick, there were about six of them talking about what they were going to do and, as a Panama defender, you would know something is up.\n\nEngland came up with something quite elaborate and clever but I am a bit disappointed Sterling did not get the goal here, for his own confidence.\n\nGary Lineker: What the Panama defenders were doing was mad and absurd - it was like WWE.\n\nRio Ferdinand: Exactly, they would do well at the Royal Rumble with what they do here. It is crazy - it is such immature, naive and unprofessional defending from Panama here.\n\nThey had been warned countless times, but they were not even looking at the ball. The referee got it right.\n\nGary Lineker: Five goals in his opening two games - is there any stopping this man?\n\nFrank Lampard: He just keeps producing. Nothing is a problem for him - even when they hit him on the heel, they go in - that's when you know everything is going your way, but sometimes you make your own luck.\n\nAlan Shearer: If Harry Kane goes away from this tournament as World Cup Golden Boot winner, that is life-changing for him and, when goals are going in like that one, you know you have got a chance.\n\nAlan Shearer: This is what happens when you start to make one or two changes and you are leading by so many - it was lazy defending.\n\nThe second half was very different, naturally, for England. We knew it was going to slow down and they could not keep that pace up.\n\nThey looked after themselves and protected themselves, and overall it was a job very, very well done. It was a magnificent performance.\n\nFrank Lampard: The line was too high and that kind of space invites a ball into it, but I don't think it is a bad thing for England because it doesn't really matter and it might just switch them on for when it does matter in future games.\n\nRio Ferdinand: It is definitely too high but there were players who had just come on the pitch and we were a bit disjointed. It is something that will just tune them in again for next time.", "Julie's daughter was 14 years old when she was targeted by her martial arts coach Matthew Kendall, who went on to shoot himself when his abuse was uncovered. Julie* tells the BBC about the ordeal faced by Sarah*, who's now been awarded damages by the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority.\n\nSarah had a seminar with the Telford Thai Boxing Club group, which wasn't out of the ordinary for her to attend anything like that, and she was staying over in Bolton.\n\nI had a mobile number ring my phone about 12.30 on the Saturday night and it was Bolton police.\n\nI thought there must have been a fight, that's what I initially thought.\n\nThe officer asked me where I thought Sarah was and did I know who she was with - I couldn't understand why she was asking me.\n\nMatthew Kendall was found dead just days after his arrest over grooming allegations\n\nI said I know where she is and who she's with. She said 'would you be surprised if I told you she was staying in the same room as Matthew Kendall?'.\n\nI told her she couldn't be, I'd paid for her to have her own room. The officer said we needed to drive to Bolton, because Matthew Kendall has been arrested for child grooming.\n\nInitially I thought it had got to be some sort of mistake. Me and my husband got in the car and drove to Bolton. On the way my husband said to me 'Matthew isn't a paedophile'. I just looked at him and said 'what does a paedophile look like?'.\n\nWe were so trusting, because this is a man that's working with social services and the police, so you've got no reason to doubt them.\n\nBut after the arrest, it's almost like someone had flipped a switch in my head and it was like everything fell into place after that.\n\nThere had been a change in Sarah's behaviour before we found out.\n\nShe wouldn't sit in the living room with us, she wouldn't talk to us. She would literally walk in the house and go straight upstairs to the bedroom.\n\nThe Long Mynd near Church Stretton, in Shropshire, where Matthew Kendall was found dead\n\nAs it went on I kept asking her and she kept saying she was fine, but we could tell in herself she wasn't happy, but we just put it down to being a typical teenager.\n\nShe's really funny - she's dry with it, and it had gone. She always had that fire in her belly and determination, but it had gone. There was nothing.\n\nI used to take her down to the gym and she would sit outside in the car. I would say 'are you going in?', she would say 'Mum, I hate him, he's disgusting'. I'd say 'don't go'.\n\nWe never forced her to go, it was always something she wanted to do and then she would say she's got to.\n\nI never understood at the time, but once that came out all of it made perfect sense.\n\nIt was only after he was arrested that I started to think back and how she'd be later and later being dropped off back home.\n\nI'd ask why they were so late and my daughter would just say they had to stay behind and pack things away, but it was later and later by the time she got home and I'd have to sit up waiting.\n\nSarah's situation was discovered that night in Bolton when the woman from reception rang the NSPCC. She'd been asking Sarah questions at reception. The receptionist must have thought she's clearly a child.\n\nThe night we went to Bolton to pick her up, when she came out she had refused to speak to the police. I told her there were monumental consequences to this if you've got anything to tell them.\n\nShe went back in and spoke to them. She said that he had told her if she ever told anybody what he was doing she would end up with a criminal record.\n\nMy daughter was caught naked in his room by the police. You can't get away from that. He was caught red-handed.\n\nShe was scared. It wasn't that he had been arrested, it was the repercussions of what she had told them that she was scared of, and then in the space of 72 hours our lives just changed forever.\n\nNot only are we being told this man has been doing x, y, z to our daughter, he then shot himself so she had the death of a 39-year-old man on her conscience.\n\nSince his death Sarah is trying to move on with her life, but still suffers anxiety and flashbacks.\n\nShe has been awarded a payout, which she has said she wants to donate to charity. But it's not about the money, it's about acknowledgement [of her being a victim of crime].\n\nIt goes a long way; as a family he nearly broke us with what he had done.\n\nWe would never have believed that this could happen to our daughter and we would never have imagined it of Matthew as we trusted him completely. I trusted him with my life.\n\nMatthew Kendall was never charged with any offences.\n\nHowever, in police interviews Sarah said Mr Kendall, from Wolverhampton, would hug her during training sessions, and when they were in his minibus together he would pull into lay-bys and get her to sit on his lap.\n\nSarah told police he suggested she attend one-to-one training sessions and he would lock the door and put the shutters halfway down. She said he would kiss her and sometimes she would kiss him back.\n\nShe also said he touched her intimately over clothing and guided her hand over his clothing.\n\nThe Thai boxing club, which Mr Kendall owned, closed after his death.\n\nFollowing representation through legal specialists Hudgell Solicitors, Sarah was awarded damages by the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority (CICA), a Ministry of Justice-funded scheme to support victims of crime.\n\nMichelle Nurse, a specialist in handling claims to the CICA at the firm, said: \"The CICA scheme delivers justice in cases such as this where somebody has been the victim of a crime even where there is no criminal conviction. By taking his own life, he of course prevented there being the natural course of justice in criminal courts over his alleged crimes.\n\n\"We feel it is significant that the CICA has reflected upon the evidence presented to the police and have awarded damages to our client.\"\n\nIf you're worried a child is at risk, you can contact the children's social care team at his or her local council. You can choose not to give your details.\n\nYou can also report any suspicions online to the Child Exploitation and Online Protection command (CEOP), or call the NSPCC 24-hour helpline on 0808 800 5000 for expert advice and support.\n\nIf a child is at immediate risk call 999, or call the police on 101 if you think a crime has been committed.\n\nChildren and young people can call Childline free on 0800 1111 where trained counsellors are available 24 hours a day, every day.", "Dave Smith was one of hundreds of workers in the construction industry put on a 'blacklist' due to their trade union activities.\n\nHe says it destroyed his career by preventing him from getting and maintaining work.\n\nThe police has admitted it supplied information to the blacklist, from officers spying on workers.\n\nThe Victoria Derbyshire programme has found police have known for two years which workers were targeted but have not told them.\n\nWatch the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme on weekdays between 09:00 and 11:00 on BBC Two and the BBC News Channel.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Watch the women's tournament live on BBC Two, BBC iPlayer, BBC Red Button, Connected TVs, the BBC Sport website and app.\n\nBritain's former world number one Andy Murray won his first match in almost a year with an impressive display against fellow three-time Grand Slam champion Stan Wawrinka in Eastbourne.\n\nMurray, 31, looked sharp and confident in winning 6-1 6-3 in the first round of the Nature Valley International.\n\nThe Scot was playing only his second competitive match since Wimbledon last year following hip surgery.\n\nHe will now face Kyle Edmund, who replaced him as British number one.\n\nMurray is battling to prove his fitness for Wimbledon, which starts next Monday, and has spoken about needing to see how his body reacts to playing several matches in the space of a few days.\n\nNow the two-time Wimbledon champion will find out on Wednesday when he meets Edmund whether he feels up to the prospect of playing five-set matches at his home Grand Slam.\n\nThere could potentially be another all-British tie after Jay Clarke beat American Ryan Harrison 6-4 6-1 to earn his first ATP main draw win.\n\nClarke faces either wildcard Cameron Norrie or German qualifier Daniel Brands in the last 16 of the tournament.\n\nMurray and Wawrinka, who is making his own recovery from long-term injury, last faced each other as the world number one and number three in last year's French Open semi-final at Roland Garros.\n\nAt Eastbourne they met in the first round of the ATP 250 event ranked 156th and 225th respectively.\n\nWhile the stage was not quite as grand, the match was still equally important for two players who find themselves in a very different stage of their successful careers.\n\nFind out how to get into tennis in our special guide.\n\nMurray was out of competitive action for almost a year with a hip injury, while Wawrinka twice needed surgery to fix a knee problem.\n\nWawrinka, 33, was missing for six months before returning at the Australian Open in January, then needed another three months out before coming back in Rome last month.\n\nHe is further along the recovery cycle than the Briton - who lost to mercurial Australian Nick Kyrgios at Queen's last week - but you could not tell on a scorching day on the south coast.\n\nMurray was patient and precise throughout, forcing Wawrinka into a number of wild errors, as he again defied expectations.\n\nThe Briton won the opening set in less than half an hour after two breaks of serve, taking Wawrinka's serve again early in the second and saving four break points to lead 5-3.\n\nThat edgy service game showed even someone of Murray's class and stature still has nerves when it comes to closing out what is an important milestone in his recovery.\n\nAlthough he missed his first match point in the next game, Wawrinka coughed up a double fault to leave Murray beaming as he celebrated his first win since beating France's Benoit Paire in the Wimbledon last 16.\n\n\"Obviously I am very happy to get the win,\" said Murray. \"I thought the first set I played well, but the second set was patchy and I was a bit nervous.\n\n\"When you haven't played for the best part of a year and you face someone like Stan it is tough.\"\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n\nThe grass-court cunning which has taken Murray to two Wimbledon titles and an Olympic gold on Centre Court was very much in evidence, and he was comfortably too clever and consistent for Wawrinka on this occasion.\n\nThere is still evidence of a slight residual limp, but the way Murray sprinted to bend one forehand down-the-line winner onto the outside of the sideline reminded you of the 2016 vintage.\n\nThe match took less than half the time of his first-round clash with Nick Kyrgios at Queen's Club, and it gives Murray the chance to see how his body will react to two matches in the space of 48 hours.\n\nKyle Edmund on Wednesday will be a formidable challenge - and only after that will a final decision on Wimbledon be taken.", "Smile when you're winning... fans react at Croydon Box Park in London\n\nEngland fans have been reacting with glee and surprise as the national team thrashed Panama 6-1 in the World Cup.\n\nJubilant supporters celebrated up and down the country as England recorded their biggest win ever in the competition to secure a place in the last 16.\n\nHarry Kane played a captain's role once more with a hat-trick to become the tournament's leading scorer.\n\nJohn Stones also scored two and Jesse Lingard scored England's third goal.\n\nYes really, England scored six goals\n\nHundreds also gathered at Brighton Beach to watch Harry Kane and the rest of the team triumph\n\nDogs dressed for the part in Norfolk... maybe their dribbling skills could be used\n\nSpectators were well and truly awake at Dreamland theme park in Margate, Kent\n\nIn Cornwall, some fans on Fistral beach looked like they were doing their best shirtless Poldark impressions", "The attack happened in Prewett Street, Redcliffe, in the early hours\n\nA man has died and two other men have suffered life-changing injuries during a burglary in Bristol.\n\nThe attack happened in Prewett Street, Redcliffe, just after 01:00 BST and the two injured men are currently being treated in hospital.\n\nTwo men, aged 25 and 37, have been arrested on suspicion of murder and are currently in police custody.\n\nOne line of inquiry police are pursuing is whether the incident was linked to drugs.\n\nReverend Kat Campion-Spall of nearby St Mary's Redcliffe Church admits drug-dealing in the area is \"an issue\".\n\nAvon and Somerset Police said all the men involved in the incident are from the London area.\n\nA very large area around a set of council flats has been cordoned off and a huge amount of police cordon tape been has been put up.\n\nAt a bus stop you can see a number of forensic officers inspecting something that looks like a sleeping bag along with clothing.\n\nOn Prewett Street itself, there is a black Mercedes hatchback car parked in the middle of the street with its position chalked in, so that also appears to be of interest.\n\nSenior Investigating Officer Andrew Mott said: \"We deployed a significant number of resources to this incident and as a result we've apprehended two men who ran away from the scene when we arrived.\n\n\"Early indications are that this appears to be an isolated incident but I'd urge anyone with concerns to speak to one of the neighbourhood officers.\"\n\nDetectives say a cordon is likely to remain in place for \"some time\" to allow crime scene investigators to examine the area.\n\nPolice said all the men involved in the incident in Prewett Street are from the London area\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section World Cup\n\nIago Aspas scored a stoppage-time equaliser - with the aid of VAR - as Spain scraped an unconvincing draw with Morocco to top Group B and secure a World Cup last-16 tie against hosts Russia.\n\nYoussef En-Nesyri - who plays in Spain for Malaga - looked to have won it for Herve Renard's side when he powered in a superb header from fellow substitute Faycal Fajr's corner.\n\nBut Aspas flicked in Dani Carvajal's low cross to make it 2-2, with referee Ravshan Irmatov initially disallowing the goal before overturning the decision.\n\nSpain won the group on goals scored as Portugal were held to a 1-1 draw by Iran - but had a tough night as they extended their unbeaten run to 23 games.\n\nA dreadful mix-up between Andres Iniesta and Sergio Ramos had allowed Khalid Boutaib to stride through and give Morocco a surprise 14th-minute lead.\n\nIniesta made amends five minutes later by helping create a sublime equaliser, exchanging passes with Diego Costa and getting to the byeline before cutting back for Isco to steer high into the net.\n\nBut Spain looked wobbly in defence when pressed by a committed, aggressive Morocco side, with Boutaib denied by the legs of David de Gea after Hakim Ziyech's quick throw sent him clear.\n\nNordin Amrabat was desperately unlucky not to score in the second half as his searing shot came back off the angle of post and bar with De Gea motionless.\n\nIsco was denied a second goal when his header was diverted wide by Romain Saiss - playing instead of dropped captain Medhi Benatia - before the late drama.\n• None VAR - how the World Cup 'all got a little weird'\n\nSpain have been hit and miss at this World Cup - perhaps unsurprisingly, given the turbulence surrounding the pre-tournament sacking of coach Julen Lopetegui.\n\nThey were excellent in their opening game against Portugal - but had to settle for a 3-3 draw - and poor in their second match against Iran - but won 1-0.\n\nIn Kaliningrad, they dominated possession - having more than 75% of the ball - and had 18 shots to Morocco's six. However, they produced a performance that must still have concerned new coach Fernando Hierro.\n\nThe game's first two goals were the clearest demonstration of Spain's strange display. Iniesta's loose return pass to Ramos was down to a lapse in concentration, allowing Morocco to take the lead, but his setting up of Isco's equaliser was beautifully done.\n\nSpain were defensively off-key whenever under pressure, with Gerard Pique lucky to escape punishment early on for a two-footed lunge towards Boutaib - saved by the fact he did make contact with the ball - before he avoided sanction for a clear second-half handball on the edge of his own penalty area.\n\nIn Pique's defence, he nearly made amends with a header that veered just wide, from an Isco corner, but they were grateful to Aspas for securing them first place in the group - and ensuring they avoided the dangerous Uruguay in the next round.\n\nThere is a strong case for arguing that Morocco are the unluckiest team to be eliminated at the group stage - with poor finishing costing them a point against Portugal, and possibly all three against Iran.\n\nAs it was, they lost both of those games 1-0, meaning they were already out before they kicked off against Spain.\n\nThere has clearly been a lot of frustration building up in the Morocco camp in recent days - with captain Benatia criticising assistant coach Mustapha Hadji, the former Coventry midfielder, after Wednesday's defeat by Portugal.\n\nThat may have contributed to Benatia being left out of the team to face Spain - but those who did play went into the match with a point to prove.\n\nAt times, they were too aggressive - as a tally of six yellow cards showed, even if one or two of them were harsh.\n\nHowever, their commitment made for an enthralling game in which they defended with great discipline and looked dangerous on the counter-attack.\n\nRenard had complained before the game about refereeing decisions going against his team in their opening two games, and his players thought they had been on the wrong end of a decision when Aspas' goal was allowed to stand.\n\nFrustrations threatened to boil over in a chaotic end to the game, with a cluster of players being involved in a confrontation - although television evidence suggested that referee Irmatov did get it right by allowing the goal after consulting with the video assistant refereeing team.\n\n'Now we are facing the moment of truth' - what they said\n\nMorocco coach Herve Renard: \"We suffered, as every team that plays against Spain suffers, because their line-up is a mix of Real Madrid and Barcelona players - all exceptional.\n\n\"But I think our players, the whole team, should be commended for this game and the entire World Cup.\n\n\"We've lacked a bit of experience and there were games we should have had better results in. But we've shown that we can take on two of the best teams in the world, Portugal and Spain, and represent Morocco well.\"\n\nSpain midfielder Isco: \"Now we are facing the moment of truth but I have complete faith in this team.\n\n\"Morocco was a really tough match. Maybe we were lacking greater control of the game and normally that is what we do a lot better.\"\n\nOn facing Russia in the last 16: \"It's going to be a tough game. They have the whole country behind them and play excellent football. We played a friendly against them ahead of the World Cup so we know about them.\"\n• None Boutaib's goal for Morocco came from their 29th shot at this year's World Cup, and was their first goal at the finals since 1998, when Salaheddine Bassir scored in a 3-0 win over Scotland.\n• None Ramos made his 16th appearance for Spain at the World Cup, overtaking Xavi as their most capped outfield player in the competition.\n• None Spain have not lost a fixture - competitive or friendly - since defeat by Italy at Euro 2016.\n• None Morocco have won just one of their past 10 World Cup matches (two draws, seven defeats).\n• None Spain have failed to win their final group game at a World Cup for the first time since 1982, having won the previous eight such games.\n• None Isco has been directly involved in 12 goals in his past 15 international matches for Spain (10 goals, two assists).\n• None Aspas has been directly involved in 10 goals in his 10 appearances as a substitute for Spain (six goals, four assists).\n• None Spain have finished the group stages unbeaten for the first time since 2006, when they won all three matches.\n• None Marco Asensio (Spain) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Goal! Spain 2, Morocco 2. Iago Aspas (Spain) right footed shot from very close range to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Daniel Carvajal with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Marco Asensio (Spain) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Iago Aspas.\n• None Attempt missed. Rodrigo Moreno (Spain) with an attempt from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Iago Aspas following a set piece situation.\n• None Attempt missed. Iago Aspas (Spain) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Isco with a cross following a set piece situation.\n• None Daniel Carvajal (Spain) wins a free kick on the right wing. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Afghanistan is a long way to go to avoid an embarrassing vote in Parliament.\n\nThe absence of Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson isn't the only telling thing about the Heathrow debate tonight, which stacks up to be a pretty good snapshot of the odd and confusing place our politics finds itself in at the moment.\n\nThe Conservatives officially back the policy but are corralling their MPs very strenuously to make sure they don't lose the vote after a minister resigned.\n\nOne former cabinet minister told me today the \"whipping operation is ridiculous, they were even making sure I was going to be there\".\n\nBut collective responsibility as it has traditionally functioned is out of the window. Cabinet ministers seem rather to have given up on trying to agree with each other (Heathrow isn't the only matter where there is very public discord).\n\nThe Labour Party is opposing a policy tonight when it comes to Heathrow that their main backer and dozens of their MPs actually support.\n\nThe Lib Dems are sticking to their principles of opposing Heathrow but with their size these days are finding it hard to make much noise about it.\n\nAnd the SNP who have been officially supportive of expanding the airport won't vote because they say they haven't had credible guarantees from the government.\n\nAll this on a problem that Westminster has been arguing about for decades. It will pass tonight, but this is only, remember, only, the equivalent of the outline planning permission - gasp.\n\nHuge attention in the frothy end of the Westminster bubble has centred on the foreign secretary as - to his colleagues' frustration - it often does.\n\nDuring the first half of the day, much of SW1 engaged in a game of political Where's Wally? Speculation on top of speculation on top of speculation about where Boris Johnson could be.\n\nWas he still in his Foreign Office lair? In the air? Hiding in the tearoom of the House of Commons? The one place he was categorically not was chaining himself to bulldozers at Heathrow.\n\nThen, in the end, the Afghan foreign ministry gave it away by posting a picture of the foreign secretary and his counterpart together at a meeting in Kabul.\n\nMr Johnson held talks with Afghan minister Hekmat Karzai in Kabul as the debate began\n\nThe mystery of his whereabouts was solved, but not yet the mystery of the purpose. Afghanistan is not exactly an easy place to head for a quick hello.\n\nSeveral sources in Westminster tonight suggest there was a serious reason.\n\nMy colleague Jonathan Beale reported last month that the government was considering sending about 400 more troops to Afghanistan to join the 600 or so already there helping train Afghan forces.\n\nSources suggest tonight that the National Security Council will discuss the proposal tomorrow afternoon, with the government potentially approving the move, and a possible announcement in the coming days.\n\nThe soldiers would not be involved in combat, but helping the Afghans provide more security in Kabul.\n\nIt is suggested an uplift of 440 would make the UK the third biggest contributor in Afghanistan.\n\nIt is a very long way from the troop numbers during the days of intense conflict.\n\nBut a move that could give the UK more authority in the run up to a Nato summit at a time when the debate around our future defence is being intensely fought.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Duke of Cambridge met Syrian refugee children during a visit to Jerash\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge has spent the day in Jordan - the first stop on his five-day visit to the Middle East.\n\nPrince William visited the ancient city of Jerash where he met young people helped by a charity refugee programme.\n\nHis wife, Catherine, visited the ancient ruins during the 1980s when she lived in Jordan as a child.\n\nLater, the prince, 36, landed in Tel Aviv for the first official royal visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories.\n\nThe duke and the Crown Prince Al-Hussein bin Abdullah II - who on Sunday watched the England football match together - arrived at Jerash, the ruins of a Roman city dating from the first century.\n\nThe Duchess of Cambridge was photographed there as a girl with her father, Michael Middleton, and sister, Pippa, during a visit in the 1980s.\n\nShe moved to Jordan in 1984 when she was two years old, after her father, a British Airways manager, relocated to the capital of Amman. She spent nearly three years there and attended an English language nursery.\n\nThe Duchess of Cambridge aged four with her father Michael and sister Pippa\n\nThe father-of-three posed in the same spot\n\nThe duke said on Sunday that his wife \"loved\" living in the country, adding: \"She is very upset that I am coming here without her.\"\n\nPrince William was photographed in the same spot, adding: \"Need to come back with the family for this shot.\"\n\nHe laughed when he was shown an enlarged copy of the photograph and said: \"Michael's looking very smart in his flip-flops.\"\n\nThis was the \"safe\" part of this trip before the duke moves to more politically sensitive lands. 24 hours on the ground in Jordan, an evening with the Crown Prince, a speech at the ambassador's residence, and not much in the way of public engagement.\n\nWherever he could Prince William went out of his way to meet not just the country's leaders but the country's people - children, refugees from Syria, women who have worked together to make life better.\n\nBritain has strong ties with Jordan and their respective royal families have been friends for decades. Part of the plan was to strengthen those links.\n\nBut this was also a opportunity for Prince William to learn, and to throw a spotlight on causes he cares about.\n\nAnd, judging by the enthusiasm with which he was greeted and the smiles he left behind, he may have made a few fans in the process.\n\nSamia Khouri, director of museums at Jordan's Department of Antiquities, guided the two princes on a half-hour tour of the ancient site.\n\nShe said: \"He was very surprised when he saw the photo, he did not expect that. But that's why he was here, because he wanted to take a photo at the same spot where Kate was photographed.\"\n\nDuring the visit to Jerash, the prince met Syrian refugee children benefitting from Unicef's Makani programme, which offers psychological support for parents and children from deprived backgrounds, especially refugee communities.\n\nPrince William met a group of Syrian and Jordanian children at the archaeological site\n\nThe duke had previously said he \"greatly admired\" Jordanians' resilience in the face of humanitarian challenges\n\nAt a garden party in honour of the Queen's official birthday on Sunday, he told an audience of Jordanians: \"The way in which you opened your doors to hundreds of thousands of refugees from Syria, not to mention your longstanding commitments to Palestinian refugees, is remarkable.\"\n\nHe also visited a military base of the Quick Reaction Force - formed with British military support - to meet members of Jordan's armed forces.\n\nLater, the duke visited the Dar Na'mah Centre, part of a charitable project set up by Jordan's Princess Taghrid to help orphaned girls establish their own livelihoods after they turn 18.\n\nAfter being shown the textiles, herbal oils and breads they make, Prince William was introduced to Lana Muslam, 29, who was abandoned as a baby and grew up in an orphanage.\n\nHe told her: \"The story is very hard to hear, everything that you have been through. You are doing wonderful things here.\"\n\nDuring Prince William's five-day tour of the region, he will meet both Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.\n\nKensington Palace said the \"historic nature\" of the tour was \"important\".\n\nThe trip comes as Israel celebrates the 70th anniversary of its foundation, and amid a rise in tensions between Palestinians and Israelis.\n\nThere has been an upsurge of violence across the Israel-Gaza border in recent weeks, with more than 100 Palestinians killed during protests and dozens of rockets fired into Israel from Gaza.", "A police cordon is in place at the lake\n\nA search is under way at a lake for a child who is missing after reports three youngsters had been spotted \"in distress\".\n\nPolice were called to Westport Lake in Stoke-on-Trent at about 16:50 BST.\n\n\"Two of the children have made it safely out of the lake, but one child is currently still missing,\" a Staffordshire Police spokesman said.\n\nThe force said it knew the identities of the children and was in contact with their parents.\n\nWest Midlands Ambulance Service, Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service and the National Police Air Service are all involved in the search.\n\nFirefighters are among emergency crews at the scene\n\nThe fire service said earlier it had five crews at the scene.\n\n\"If anyone has any information please call 101 urgently quoting incident 629 of 25 June,\" a police spokesman added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section World Cup\n\nRidiculous. Absolutely ridiculous. It's safe to say most England fans have not experienced elation like this in a long time.\n\nHaving put on frankly pitiful performances in the past few major tournaments (scoring just five goals in the past two World Cups), Sunday's match was something to behold.\n\nExpectations were low, but Gareth Southgate's young team made it two wins out of two in Group G in spectacular fashion. The final score in Nizhny Novgorod: England 6-1 Panama.\n\nHere are some pretty stunning stats to put the historic result into some context...\n• None It is the first time England have scored five goals in the first half of a World Cup match.\n• None It is also the first time they have scored four or more goals in a World Cup game since the 1966 final against Germany (that finished 4-2 in case you need reminding).\n• None Harry Kane is the third player to score a hat-trick for England at the World Cup, after Geoff Hurst in that 1966 final and Gary Lineker in 1986.\n\nThe first goal came from Manchester City defender John Stones on eight minutes, who scored his first ever international goal.\n\nEven at this early stage, there was a feeling this wasn't going to be the last goal England scored today...\n\nTwenty minutes in and Jesse Lingard, already having a cracker of a game, was bowled over in the box.\n\nCaptain Harry Kane stepped up to the plate and took the penalty with unbelievable confidence. \"Top bins\" as they say.\n\nThat was his third goal this tournament - and he had more where that came from.\n\nAt 2-0, many people on social media let their imaginations run wild.\n\n\"It's coming home\" was trending on Twitter, and The Lightning Seeds' song was being sung in the stands and fan parks from Moscow to Macclesfield.\n\nGoal three was a cracker from Manchester United wonder-kid Jesse Lingard.\n\nAnd thank goodness - he has been itching to crack out the Fortnite dance for days.\n\nGoal four (yes, F.O.U.R.) was another from in-form John Stones - the BBC Sport statisticians began to lose their minds...\n\nAll right Gary, let's not get too carried away...\n\nPointless presenter Richard Osman brought us all back down to earth with some typical English pessimism.\n\nAnd then there were England fans like Jordan:\n\nAfter some slightly, shall we say, \"dubious\" tactics from the Panama defence, the referee once again pointed to the spot for an England penalty.\n\nKane stepped up to take his second of the day, having been the man hauled over in the box.\n\nHe absolutely lashed it home... again.\n\n5-0 at half time. No, really.\n\nWith the nation able sit back in their armchairs or sun loungers for the first time in - well, decades - social media came alive.\n\nThe memes began to roll in. One or two challenging for \"The Most British Tweet of the Year 2018\".\n\nAfter half-time, England then endured a whole 17 minutes without a goal.\n\nAs the clock ticked into the 63rd minute, arise Sir Harry...\n\nCould he become the third England player ever to score a hat-trick in the World Cup finals?\n\nYou bet he could. 6-0.\n\nIn doing so, he knocked a five-time Ballon d'Or winner off the top of the race for the Golden Boot.\n\nAny more for any more lads?\n\nWell, no more for England but Panama's Felipe Baloy, 37, fancied a bit of history for himself, scoring the nation's first ever goal at a World Cup finals.\n\nOverall, it was a pretty impressive display from Gareth Southgate's young England squad, who book their place in the knockout stage of the World Cup.", "Last updated on .From the section World Cup\n\nMohamed Salah scored his second goal of the World Cup but Egypt ended their campaign pointless with defeat by Saudi Arabia at Volgograd Arena.\n\nThe Liverpool forward gave Egypt the lead with a brilliant lob over keeper Yasser Al-Mosailem in the 22nd minute.\n\nEgypt's Essam El Hadary, 45, became the oldest player to feature at a World Cup and saved Fahad Al Muwallad's penalty.\n\nHowever, he could not stop Salman Al Faraj's spot-kick and was beaten again by Salem Al Dawsari with seconds left.\n\nEl Hadary makes history, saves pen... but ends up on losing side\n\nIt was an opening half of record achievements and firsts.\n\nEgypt keeper El Hadary became the oldest player to feature in a World Cup match and the team scored their first World Cup goal from open play since 1934, while the Saudis scored their first of the tournament.\n\nHowever, the focus was on El Hadary, who at 45 years and 161 days beat the record of Colombia keeper Faryd Mondragon (43 and three days at Brazil 2014) to become the oldest player to take to the field. He began his international career in 1996.\n\nHe had little to do in the first half until the 41st minute when Saudi Arabia, who were 1-0 down, were awarded a penalty for Ahmed Fathy's handball.\n\nAl Muwallad took the spot-kick, but his firm strike was brilliantly pushed onto the bar by the veteran.\n\nHowever, the euphoria was extinguished in first-half stoppage time when Saudi Arabia were awarded a second penalty after a VAR review confirmed Ali Gabr pulled down Al Muwallad in the area.\n\nAl Faraj took over the spot-kick duties and fired his effort to the right of El Hadary in the sixth minute of first-half stoppage time.\n\nThe 45-year-old remained vigilant throughout and made exceptional stops from Hussain Al-Mogahwi and Mohannad Aseri headers.\n\nHowever, just when it seemed like his heroics had earned his side their first point of the tournament, Al Dawsari fired in an angled shot for Saudi Arabia's first World Cup win since 1994.\n\nIt was a tale of two halves for the Liverpool player.\n\nIn the first period, he looked dangerous and worked well in tandem with right-sided midfielder Trezeguet.\n\nHis goal was 'classic Salah' - collecting a long, raking pass with one touch before lifting the ball over the advancing Saudi Arabia goalkeeper.\n\nThe 26-year-old should have doubled his tally when he found himself one-on-one with Al-Mosailem, but instead inexplicably dinked his finish wide of the left-hand post.\n\nSalah was less effective in attack after the break, and was forced to defend as Egypt came under pressure from their opponents.\n\nA pre-tournament injury and controversy over his meeting with the Chechnya leader meant it was not the ideal build-up to his first World Cup, nor the finish he would have wanted. But having scored two goals, Salah leaves his mark on football's biggest stage.\n\nSaudi Arabia coach Juan Antonio Pizzi: \"Up until the Salah goal we didn't leave any gaps or make mistakes.\n\n\"After those efforts we kept possession during the first and second half. They only had two chances. We kept them in check.\n\n\"Today we kept control of the pace and possession. This was a deserved win.\n\n\"Regarding my future, the association will have to decide what to do.\"\n• None Saudi Arabia ended a run of 12 World Cup matches without winning (D2 L10), recording their first victory since June 1994 when they won 1-0 against Belgium.\n• None This was Egypt's seventh match at the World Cup without winning (D2 L5) - only Honduras have played more times at the World Cup without recording a win (9).\n• None El Hadary became the second goalkeeper at the 2018 World Cup to save a penalty on his tournament debut after Iceland's Hannes Thor Halldorsson, who did so against Argentina.\n• None This match was the first time Egypt have ever led in a World Cup match, in what was their seventh match in the competition.\n• None Al Faraj's penalty goal for Saudi Arabia, scored after 50 minutes and 36 seconds, was the latest goal scored in the first half of a World Cup game since 1966.\n• None Goal! Saudi Arabia 2, Egypt 1. Salem Al Dawsari (Saudi Arabia) right footed shot from the right side of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Abdullah Otayf.\n• None Attempt blocked. Abdullah Otayf (Saudi Arabia) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Hussain Al-Mogahwi.\n• None Hussain Al-Mogahwi (Saudi Arabia) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. Hussain Al-Mogahwi (Saudi Arabia) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Yasir Al Shahrani following a set piece situation.\n• None Ahmed Fathy (Egypt) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Offside, Egypt. Kahraba tries a through ball, but Mohamed Salah is caught offside.\n• None Offside, Egypt. Ramadan Sobhi tries a through ball, but Mohamed Salah is caught offside.\n• None Attempt saved. Salem Al Dawsari (Saudi Arabia) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Salman Al Faraj.\n• None Attempt blocked. Mohammed Al-Burayk (Saudi Arabia) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The SNP has withdrawn its support for a third runway at Heathrow airport, hours before a key Commons vote on the move.\n\nBut the UK government persuaded MPs to give the go-ahead for a third runway, which they say would boost the number of flights to and from Scotland.\n\nThe Commons supported the government's plan by 415 votes to 119, a majority of 296.\n\nThe Scottish government has been a longtime backer of the plans, and was still behind them on Sunday.\n\nHow did the MPs vote on the Heathrow Expansion Bill? Did my MP vote For or Against the third runway at Heathrow? Enter your postcode, or the name or constituency of your MP Enter your postcode, or the name or constituency of your MP\n\nBut SNP MPs abstained from voting because there were \"no guarantees of the benefits\".\n\nIt has been projected that the expansion of Heathrow would create at least 100 extra landing slots from Heathrow to Scottish airports each week.\n\nThe Scottish government had previously backed Heathrow's bid for a third runway, saying it would bring economic benefits for Scotland.\n\nOn Sunday, a Transport Scotland spokesman said the government \"supports expansion at Heathrow airport\" and \"looks forward to Scotland seeing the benefits\".\n\nHowever, on the day of the vote, SNP MPs announced they would be abstaining because the UK government had \"failed to make the case\" for the move.\n\nTransport spokesman Alan Brown said SNP members \"could not vote for a third runway at Heathrow with no guarantees of the benefits\".\n\nProtestors campaigned against the third runway outside the SNP conference in Aberdeen\n\nThe UK government faced opposition in its own ranks, with a number of Conservatives who represent seats in Heathrow's flight path rebelling.\n\nLast week junior trade minister Greg Hands resigned from the government to oppose expansion of Heathrow Airport.\n\nMr Hands, who represents the Chelsea and Fulham constituency in London, said he had pledged to oppose the new runway at the 2017 election.\n\nThe highest profile opponent of Heathrow expansion in the cabinet is Boris Johnson, the foreign secretary, who once pledged to lie down in front of bulldozers to stop it happening.\n\nBut he was visiting Afghanistan and unable to attend the vote in the House of Commons.\n\nLabour is also divided on the controversial issue, with members of the party's leadership, such as shadow chancellor John McDonnell, opposed to it, but high-profile trade union backers in favour.\n\nThe party's MPs were allowed to vote however they wanted on the issue.\n\nCampaigners argue that a new runway will breach the UK's legal limits on air pollution and increase noise pollution with an extra 700 planes a day.", "The UK has enjoyed - or endured - the hottest weather of the year so far, with temperatures of 30C in London.\n\nThe country is officially experiencing a heatwave, with more 30C days expected later in the week.\n\nFears that railway tracks could buckle in the heat prompted Network Rail to introduce speed restrictions.\n\nAnd the Met Office has issued a yellow health warning for heatwave conditions between Tuesday morning and Thursday evening.\n\nThe warning, in the west and north-east of England, means there is an 80% chance of temperatures which could be a risk to health, and is intended to help social and healthcare teams prepare.\n\nMet Office forecaster Mark Foster said: \"High pressure is going to dominate this week so we can expect very high levels of pollen and UV.\"\n\nOn Monday the highest temperature of 30.1C was recorded at Hampton waterworks in west London.\n\nThe year's previous record temperature had been 29.1C in April at St James's Park in central London.\n\nIn Scotland, the highest temperature of 26.7C was recorded in Balmoral, while the same temperature was also reached in Castlederg, Northern Ireland.\n\nYou must enable JavaScript to view this content. Compare the temperature where you are with more than 50 cities around the world, including some of the hottest and coldest inhabited places. Enter your location or postcode in the search box to see your result.\n\nBBC Weather presenter Matt Taylor said: \"We're likely to get 30C on a couple of days this week, and it could still get hotter.\n\n\"If Scotland and Northern Ireland get above 29C, which they are likely to do by the end of Wednesday, it will be the hottest June day in both countries since 1995.\"\n\nIt's definitely beach weather in Hastings, East Sussex\n\nElephants were sprayed with water to cool down at Chester Zoo\n\nNetwork Rail said track temperatures could reach as much as 20C above the air temperature, meaning the steel rails can expand markedly. The reduced speeds are intended to lower the force exerted on the track, reducing the risk of buckling.\n\nOne route affected by the speed limits is the line between London Waterloo and New Malden, in south-west London, where trains will be slowed after 11am each day until Friday.\n\nAndy Thomas, managing director of England and Wales at Network Rail, said: \"Our engineers and specialist extreme weather teams are monitoring track-side temperatures at vulnerable locations.\"\n\nGreen - minimum state of vigilance during the summer.\n\nYellow - Alert and readiness - Social and healthcare services are on standby to reduce harm.\n\nAmber - Heatwave action - Care services target high-risk groups, like the elderly, with specific help. General advice is given to keep homes cool, drink plenty of fluids, and so on.\n\nRed - National emergency - Reached when a heatwave is so severe that illness and death may occur among the fit and healthy, not just among high-risk groups.", "The seaside resort of Paphos is popular among British tourists\n\nA 39-year-old tourist has been killed and his 32-year-old friend injured in a suspected hit-and-run in Cyprus.\n\nThe two men, from the Powys area, were on a road near Paphos at about 02:30 local time (00:30 BST) on Sunday when they were hit by a car.\n\nCyprus Police said one man, named locally as Charlie Birch, died at the scene while the other is in hospital with non life-threatening injuries.\n\nTwo people face charges of premeditated murder and attempted murder.\n\nThe man, 35, and 23-year-old woman were brought before Paphos district court and remanded for eight days.\n\nA spokesman for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office said: \"We are offering advice and support to the family of a British man following his death in Cyprus, and are in contact with the Cypriot authorities.\"", "The Hendry review said the lagoon would make a \"strong contribution\" to energy supplies\n\nPlans to build the world's first tidal power lagoon have been thrown out by the UK government.\n\nBusiness and Energy Secretary Greg Clark said the £1.3bn project was not value for money, despite claims by developers Tidal Lagoon Power (TLP) a revised offer made it cheaper.\n\nThe decision has been slammed by local politicians across the parties, including the Conservatives.\n\nThe scheme off Swansea Bay had £200m backing from the Welsh Government.\n\nBut the UK government said it would not pay TLP the fee it wants for energy.\n\nTLP claimed no talks have taken place for more than a year and said supporters of the project have vowed to do what they can to make it a reality.\n\nMr Clark told the Commons: \"Securing our energy needs into the future has to be done seriously and, when much cheaper alternatives exist, no individual project, and no particular technology, can proceed at any price.\"\n\nGovernment analysis estimated that the lagoon would cost the average British household consumer an additional £700 between 2031 and 2050.\n\nBut TLP chief executive Mark Shorrock said the figures were wrong, adding that offshore wind projects had received £8bn in subsidies and the \"path finder\" tidal lagoon project needed £25m a year \"in order to kick start an industry\".\n\n\"It's a very, very sad day for Wales, for Swansea,\" he told BBC Radio Wales' Good Evening Wales programme.\n\nFirst Minister Carwyn Jones tweeted that it was a \"crushing blow to Wales\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Carolyn Harris: \"You will never understand the frustration and anger in my city\"\n\nWelsh Secretary Alun Cairns said: \"I realise the disappointment this decision may cause, but ultimately this project did not meet the threshold for taxpayer value.\"\n\nThere have been a number of calls among Labour MPs for Mr Cairns to go but he told the BBC Wales Today programme he was proud of his record.\n\nFinance Secretary Mark Drakeford, speaking in an interview on Good Evening Wales, said: \"Wales has not had an effective voice at the cabinet table.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru's energy spokesperson, Liz Saville Roberts MP, said the UK government's \"decision demonstrates the need for Wales to gain greater control over its own future\".\n\nWelsh Liberal Democrat leader Jane Dodds called the decision a \"disgrace\", as did Gower Labour MP Tonia Antoniazzi.\n\nThe announcement brings an end to 18 months of waiting since an independent review, commissioned by the ministers, recommended building the lagoon.\n\nTLP chairman Keith Clarke said: \"In light of today's statement and having heard next to nothing from government for two years, the board will be meeting in two days' time to consider its next steps.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Greg Clark said the lagoon did not meet \"value for money\" requirements\n\nThe review by former energy minister Charles Hendry said Swansea should be used as a test of the technology, before allowing other developers to bid to construct further schemes as part of a competitive tendering process.\n\nThe UK government has been accused of dragging its heels since then, during which time they repeatedly stated the scheme must prove \"value for money\".\n\nTLP claims the Swansea project would provide power to 155,000 properties in Wales and is cheaper than nuclear power.\n\nThe developers had previously asked for a 90-year contract with the UK government with an average strike price - a guaranteed price for the electricity generated - of £89.90 per megawatt hour.\n\nThe new nuclear power station at Hinkley Point C in Somerset was given a strike price of £92.50/MWh for 35 years.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch Tidal Lagoon Power's video of how the turbines would work\n\nThis was a project that seemed at one point to have widespread and almost universal support in Wales.\n\nIt required the UK government to agree a significant strike price - a subsidy paid by consumers through energy bills - although the exact amount varied depending on the length of time that price was set for and whether other taxpayer funding was invested in the project.\n\nThe independent report by Charles Hendry was very supportive of the tidal lagoon. However, it also said that doing a full, value for money, assessment was beyond its scope.\n\nIn recent months, some in the business community have been privately raising concerns about the cost of the project and its impact on energy bills.\n\nWhile Tidal Lagoon Power and the Welsh Government now say it is the same price as nuclear power, the UK government insist it is double.\n\nHowever, the goalposts have moved. There was huge criticism of the UK government over the price for energy struck for the new nuclear plant across the water at Hinkley Point. With a pledge not to commit bill payers to such costs again, even getting the cost of the lagoon to a similar figure was unlikely to be good enough.\n\nIt seems, ultimately, that UK ministers do not have confidence that the lagoon developers are able to deliver the project at the price they now think is reasonable for consumers to pay. Especially as other options such as wind energy come in at a much lower cost.\n\n2003: Plans first emerge for a £30m tidal power project in Swansea Bay from a green energy charity\n\n2006: Tidal Electric Ltd prepares a scoping report for a lagoon to take the project on but it is put on hold\n\n2012: Tidal Lagoon Power (TLP) unveils its ambition to develop a breakwater and power generation\n\n2014: Plans submitted to Planning Inspectorate with a cost of £850m\n\n2015: Proposals get backing of UK government, subject to subsidy agreement - hope it could be operational by 2018\n\n2016: Report warns of impact on fish. Charles Hendry is appointed to lead independent review into £1.3bn lagoon's viability\n\n2017: Hendry review backs the lagoon as a \"no regrets\" option but the UK government is still to decide\n\n2018: Delays, mostly believed to be over arguments over value for money. Welsh Government also offers substantial investment, as does Wales Pension Partnership\n\nIan Price, director of business group CBI Wales, said: \"We appreciate the effort and energy made by politicians from both governments who have worked tirelessly to try and make this project a reality. At the end of the day, any project has to be affordable for consumers.\"\n\nDavid Clubb, a director at RenewableUK Cymru, the trade body for all renewable energy, said: \"This means that the region will not benefit from many thousands of jobs from the project and the associated supply chain.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "President Erdogan will now enjoy greater powers as president and have a majority in parliament\n\nRecep Tayyip Erdogan has won Turkey's presidential vote, cementing his authority with beefed-up powers.\n\nAfter 15 years at the top of Turkish politics, he fought off a spirited opposition campaign to secure the presidency in the first round and his party will also control parliament.\n\nHere is a rundown of what you need to know - in brief and at greater length.\n\nRead either or both to understand what his victory means.\n\nTurkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan, 64, has not only retained the presidency until at least 2023, he has strengthened it.\n\nNew powers approved in a 2017 referendum will now come into force, transforming what had been a ceremonial role into the key executive role in this Nato member country.\n\nHe won 52.5% of the vote and avoided the risk of a run-off vote, shrugging off a faltering economy.\n\nFor the first time, Turks voted for a new parliament on the same day - and handed the president's Islamist-rooted AK party a majority through its alliance with a nationalist ally. His main opponent has warned of Turkey becoming a \"one-man regime\".\n\nRecep Tayyip Erdogan has reshaped Turkey more than any other person since the founding of the modern state, first with two terms as prime minister and, since 2014, as president. He has presided over consecutive years of economic growth and improved public services.\n\nBut he leads a polarised nation. The results of the 24 June elections show continued support for a leader who has cracked down on opponents and has the support of most Turkish media.\n\nOne of his challengers for the presidency, Selahattin Demirtas of the pro-Kurdish HDP, fought his campaign from a jail cell and his closest rival, Muharrem Ince, says Turkey has become a \"one-man regime in its fullest sense\".\n\nMr Erdogan has moved to consolidate his power since an attempted coup against his rule was suppressed in 2016. Turkey has been under a state of emergency ever since, with 107,000 public servants and soldiers dismissed from their jobs. More than 50,000 people have been imprisoned pending trial since July 2016.\n\nIn April 2017, 51% of Turkish voters endorsed a new constitution that scraps the role of prime minister and grants the president new powers:\n\nMr Erdogan called snap elections as Turkey's currency, the lira, has slumped 17% this year against the dollar and the main interest rate has been increased to 17.75%.\n\nWhile Turkey's economy continues to grow strongly - by 7.4% in the first quarter of 2018 - there are fears of a sharp slowdown ahead, and the fall of the lira has hit people's pockets.\n\nBy winning 52.5% of the vote, he saw off his closest rival, Muharrem Ince, who won just over 30% of the vote.\n\nHis AK party won 42.5% of the separate parliamentary vote but, together with the nationalist MHP, that gives him a comfortable majority with 343 seats in the 600-seat assembly. The nationalists' success came as a surprise to commentators and a bonus to Mr Erdogan, because the party's vote was widely expected to suffer after a rising star, Meral Aksener, left the party to form her own.\n\nA vast crowd attended a rally for opposition candidate Ince in Izmir on Thursday\n\nMr Erdogan continues to win support in his conservative heartland outside the big cities and among expatriate voters in Germany, the Netherlands and France.\n\nUnder the AKP, Turkey has embraced a moderate Islamism, accepting Islamic symbols in public life to some extent - for example, in allowing female state employees to wear headscarves.\n\nBy contrast Muharrem Ince's Republican People's Party (CHP) is a staunchly secular party. He attracted mass rallies ahead of the elections in Izmir, Ankara and Istanbul, but while he polled well in the presidential vote, his party was unable to spread its appeal beyond Turkey's secular heartland. The CHP polled about 22%.\n\nDespite its leader being in jail and restrictions placed on voters in Kurdish areas of the south-east, the pro-Kurdish party, which is firmly against Mr Erdogan, won 11.6% of the national vote and will continue to play a significant role in parliament.", "Egypt's Essam El-Hadary marks his World Cup debut by becoming the World Cup's oldest ever player at 45 years and 161 days and saving a penalty.\n\nAvailable to UK users only.", "Rihanna and Cardi B are among many who have paid tribute to a 15-year-old teen who was murdered in the Bronx, New York, last week.\n\nLesandro \"Junior\" Guzman-Feliz was fatally attacked with a machete by gang members in an apparent case of mistaken identity.\n\nSeveral people have offered their condolences online using the hashtag #JusticeForJunior, including Rihanna.\n\nCardi B, who's from the Bronx, donated $8000 (£6,000) to the victim's family.\n\n\"These Bronx streets are ruthless,\" the rapper wrote on Instagram after uploading a picture of Lesandro and his mother, Leandra Feliz, in hospital.\n\n\"People be like 'call the police! call the police' - but for what? The operators be asking you questions for like four minutes on the phone with an attitude and the cops come mad late,\" she added.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by iamcardib This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCardi later uploaded a video of Leandra thanking her for the donation, and called for others to visit Lesandro's GoFundMe page.\n\nLesandro's GoFundMe account was set up by his brother-in-law with a goal to raise $15,000 (£11,000).\n\nIn just three days, over 6,000 people have donated to the account and raised almost $150,000 (£110,000).\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post 2 by badgalriri This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nRihanna also brought attention to the murder when she shared a picture of the teen on her Instagram on Sunday.\n\n\"Can't stop thinking about this poor baby boy and how his family must feel right now,\" she wrote.\n\n\"I'm sincerely praying for your healing and #justiceforjunior.\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post 3 by nypdchiefofdept This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFive gang members have reportedly been arrested in connection with Lesandro's murder.\n\nCCTV footage of the incident showed Lesandro being dragged from a shop and stabbed before bleeding to death.\n\nThe attackers apparently mistook him for a man in a sex tape that was posted online. The video also featured a relative of one of the gang members.\n\n\"The stabbing murder of this young man is among the most brutal crimes I've seen in my 36-year career,\" tweeted Chief Terence Monahan of the New York Police Department.\n\nIn a separate tweet yesterday, he confirmed that this is \"still an active investigation\".\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 every weekday on BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra - if you miss us you can listen back here.", "Business leaders are calling on the next prime minister to commit to delivering HS2 in full.\n\nIn an open letter, more than 20 business leaders say continued backing for the next phase of the £56bn high-speed rail network project is vital.\n\nConstruction of the first HS2 link between London and the West Midlands is currently under way.\n\nBusiness leaders want to see the line linking Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds completed as well.\n\nThe open letter, targeted at whoever wins the Conservative leadership vote out of Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt, has been signed by business groups including the CBI, the Institute of Directors, the Federation of Small Businesses, the British Chambers of Commerce, London First and Business Improvement Districts across the UK.\n\nIt comes almost five years after the \"Northern Powerhouse\" concept, first mentioned by the then Chancellor, George Osborne, in a speech on 23 June 2014.\n\nMr Osborne had planned to improve transport connections between the cities, towns and rural communities of the north of England and Wales, in order to increase jobs and fuel economic growth in the region.\n\nThe groups assert that the HS2 has already led to record foreign investment in the West Midlands, including the creation of 7,000 new jobs in Birmingham, with a further 100,000 more expected around the new Curzon Street and Interchange stations.\n\nBusiness leaders are concerned that the forthcoming change of prime minister could lead to the rail network not being completed.\n\nIn May, a group of peers warned that HS2 would not offer value for money and risked \"short-changing\" the North of England.\n\nThe House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee said the project should not go ahead without a new assessment of its costs and benefits.\n\n\"We assert that committing to HS2 in full, once and for all, will spread the flow of investment across the Midlands, the North of England and into Scotland,\" the leaders wrote in the letter.\n\n\"The current poor connectivity in the North is a major obstacle to encouraging companies from growing in the region and is a barrier to inward investment.\"\n\nAccording to Transport for the North, fewer than 10,000 people in northern England are able to access four or more of the region's largest economic centres within an hour.\n\nThe leaders wrote: \"We urge the next prime minister and government to restate its commitment to Northern Powerhouse Rail, and its links to HS2, as a matter of urgent priority.\n\n\"We are passionate believers that this is not just a Northern issue. It is a UK issue.\n\n\"We should move away from arguments that pit Crossrail 2 in London versus Northern Powerhouse Rail; both schemes are vital for Britain's future. It's not an either/or choice. Britain needs both.\"\n\nThe Department for Transport told the BBC: \"HS2 is well under way, with over 9,000 people and 2,000 businesses working on delivering the project right now. It will significantly improve connections between our largest cities, create extra capacity across our rail network and release capacity on some of our busiest rail lines.\n\n\"We are also clear that it is not either/or with HS2 and Northern Powerhouse Rail, as both are needed - the full benefits of NPR can only be delivered on the back of HS2.\"", "Mr Hunt said jobs depended on having a \"wise prime minister making sensible calls\"\n\nThe next PM has to be trusted to see Brexit through \"promptly and sensibly\", Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt has said.\n\nVisiting the West Midlands, the Tory leadership contender said jobs depended on the right outcome and he was the \"right person\" to deliver it.\n\nTory members will decide over the next month whether Mr Hunt or Boris Johnson becomes party leader and PM.\n\nMr Johnson has said it is \"eminently feasible\" that Brussels could agree a new deal before 31 October.\n\nThe UK is due to leave the EU on that date, with or without Parliament backing the existing deal reached by outgoing Prime Minister Theresa May and other European leaders.\n\nThe EU granted the UK a seven-month extension in late March in the hope the parliamentary deadlock - which has seen MPs reject the terms of withdrawal three times - could be broken.\n\nMr Johnson is the favourite to succeed Mrs May after winning the support of more than 50% of his colleagues this week as MPs whittled the candidates down to the final two.\n\nThe party's 160,000 or so members will decide the next Tory leader by postal vote - with the result to be announced in the week starting 22 July.\n\nSpeaking on a visit to a factory in Worcester, Mr Hunt argued the contest was a test of character over Brexit, saying: \"Do you have the skills and can you be trusted as prime minister to get the right outcome?\n\n\"Thousands of jobs in the West Midlands depends on having a wise prime minister making sensible calls as to how we leave the EU promptly, but also in a way that does not harm business. I am that person.\"\n\nBoris Johnson is the favourite to be the next Tory leader and PM\n\nBoth Mr Johnson and Mr Hunt have said Mrs May's withdrawal agreement is effectively dead and suggested they could get an improved deal from the EU.\n\nBrexit Secretary Stephen Barclay, a supporter of Mr Johnson's, told the BBC this would prove a \"significant challenge\", given that the EU has ruled this out and leaders are not scheduled to meet again until 17 October.\n\n\"The big challenge is that you have got two hurdles,\" he told Radio 4's Political Thinking podcast with Nick Robinson.\n\n\"One is are there any concessions that will get the deal through Parliament, because Parliament has become increasingly polarised.\n\n\"And second, there is a timing issue. You have got to get the legislation through the House of Commons. And if you look at precedent, at things like Maastricht, then that will be a significant challenge just on the timescales from the 17 October EU Council.\"\n\nSpeaking in Brussels, European Council President Donald Tusk reiterated that the terms of the UK's withdrawal agreed with Theresa May last autumn were not up for renegotiation.\n\nWhile the EU did not want the UK to leave without a legal agreement, he said the bloc would only be open to further talks on its future relations if the UK's position \"evolved\".", "Scientists hope a new type of medication could boost healthy growth in children born with dwarfism.\n\nSam Short, nine, from south-west London has been on the treatment for three years as part of a global trial.\n\nIt is experimental but experts hope the drug can stop some of the medical complications linked to stunted growth.\n\nThe researchers behind the work, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, say the goal is to improve health, not just increase height.\n\nSam's mother, Jennifer, had a normal pregnancy, so when Sam was born with his condition, it came as a complete surprise.\n\nAchondroplasia - the most common form of dwarfism - affects about one in every 25,000 babies.\n\nIt is a genetic disorder caused by a mutation in a gene that impairs the growth of bones in the limbs, the spine, and base of the skull.\n\nOften, it affects babies at random but the gene change can also be inherited.\n\nLike other children with achondroplasia, Sam has short legs and arms. The main health concern is how his spine and legs will grow as he ages.\n\nChildren with achondroplasia can develop a curve in their lower spine and some get bow legs. Both can cause problems with walking and, sometimes, repeated surgery to break and reshape the bones is needed.\n\nJennifer hopes the new drug treatment could help Sam avoid some of these complications.\n\n\"He is a happy, healthy, very confident extroverted boy,\" she says.\n\n\"He just happens to be a lot smaller than his brother and sister and peers and friends.\n\n\"We have been seeing great results in terms of his growth, in terms of his limbs becoming a bit more in proportion and it just means he's starting to get able to run faster and keep up with his friends, reach things on the counter-top and it hopefully will mean he will face less health problems as an adult than some people with dwarfism face.\"\n\nSam grew about 3cm (1in) in the year before he joined the study.\n\nAfter the first year on the treatment, he had grown another 6cm.\n\n\"Friends and family and people at school have noticed that he is looking taller, looking straighter and he is able to keep up on the football pitch or the cricket pitch a bit more than he used to,\" Jennifer says.\n\nTory English, 12, who lives in Australia, is also on the treatment.\n\nHer mother, Anthea, a nurse, says the family agreed to let Tory take part in the trial to improve her quality of life.\n\n\"Height is just an incidental,\" Anthea says. \"If it was about height alone, we would not be doing it.\n\n\"We're not fussed about height but we do want to help her avoid health issues.\n\n\"Tory was very much part of the decision to do this. If ever she does not want to be part of it, that's her choice.\"\n\nThe medicine is a daily injection, called vosoritide, which blocks a signal controlled by the faulty gene FGFR3 that impairs normal bone growth in children with achondroplasia.\n\nResearchers say the trial results so far are promising.\n\nThe main objective of the trial involving 35 children, sponsored by BioMarin, the pharmaceutical company that makes the drug, was to show safety and look for any adverse events or serious side-effects.\n\nAnd the latest findings suggest it is safe enough for patients to take.\n\nA secondary objective was to see how much the children would grow.\n\nOn average, they grew at a faster rate compared with the 12 months before they started on the drug.\n\nThere was no adverse effect on body proportion or overall bone age, suggesting the effect, if sustained long-term, might increase final adult height, according to the researchers.\n\nBut there is no data yet on whether the drug can prevent complications linked to restricted growth.\n\nSome critics worry that if it is approved, the treatment would be used to cosmetically change dwarfism - something many people with the condition would oppose.\n\nJoseph Stramondo, assistant professor of philosophy at San Diego State University, who himself has dwarfism, is concerned researchers are \"misleading vulnerable, frightened parents about the purpose of these studies\".\n\n\"These trials are only measuring gains in height in children, not the effects of the drug on adverse symptoms,\" he says.\n\nBut lead investigator Prof Ravi Savarirayan, from Melbourne's Murdoch Children's Research Institute, says: \"It's not just cosmetic. What we are trying to do is to see if we can improve these children's health and function.\"\n\nHe and colleagues at the Evelina London Children's Hospital, along with other research institutes in France and the US, have now moved into the next phase of testing.\n\nThey hope the treatment could become available within a few years if it is effective enough.\n\nThe US Food and Drug Administration, which regulates medicines, held a meeting last year to discuss the vosoritide trials.\n\nIt concluded that measuring how much a child had grown on the drug in a year was a \"reasonable primary endpoint for clinical trials\".\n\nOther experimental drugs that target different bone growth pathways are also being tested in children with achondroplasia.\n• None My fear of dating as someone with dwarfism\n• None Things Not To Say to people with dwarfism - BBC Three\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Empire Windrush ship brought West Indies immigrants to Britain from 1948\n\nA monument honouring the \"tremendous contribution\" of the Windrush generation is to be erected in London.\n\nTheresa May said the memorial, at Waterloo station, would be seen by \"millions\" of people every year.\n\nThe Windrush generation were workers who came to the UK from the Caribbean between 1948 and 1971. Many arrived on the HMT Empire Windrush ship.\n\nEvents are taking place across the country on Saturday to mark the first National Windrush Day.\n\nThe Windrush Commemoration Committee, set up by the government last year, will work with designers of the monument on the \"next steps over the coming months\".\n\nMrs May said: \"This monument will be a lasting legacy to the tremendous contribution the Windrush generation and their children have made to our great country.\"\n\nBaroness Floella Benjamin, chair of the Windrush Commemoration Committee, said: \"Having a Windrush monument located at Waterloo Station where thousands of Windrush pioneers - including children like myself - first arrived in London, will be a symbolic link to our past as we celebrate our future.\"\n\nJanice Irwin, from community group Ageless Teenagers, described the plans as \"fantastic\", but also \"long overdue\", and said it was \"a little strange\" that it would be built at Waterloo Station, and not Brixton where many people from the Windrush generation settled.\n\nThose from Jamaica were leaving a country that had been devastated by a hurricane and had a struggling economy.\n\nSome of the Windrush generation were wrongly told after they had lived in the UK for decades they were in the country illegally.\n\nMany lost their right to work or get NHS treatment, while others were detained or deported.\n\nThe then Home Secretary Amber Rudd apologised last year for the deportation threats, calling the scandal \"wrong\" and \"appalling\".\n\nAn estimated 500,000 people now living in the UK have been called the Windrush generation.\n\nThe HMT Empire Windrush first arrived at Tilbury Docks, Essex, on 22 June 1948, bringing workers from Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago and other islands, as a response to post-war labour shortages in the UK.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Takeaway apps Deliveroo and Just Eat have said they are working to combat fraud, after customers reported their accounts had been used to buy food they did not order.\n\nOne customer told the BBC Deliveroo took five days to shut his account after he reported fraudulent activity.\n\nBoth companies said their own systems had not been breached and passwords had been obtained from another source.\n\nDeliveroo said it had introduced new measures this year to protect users.\n\nJust Eat said it took the safeguarding of customer data \"extremely seriously\" and was liaising with customers who had reported fraudulent activity.\n\nSeveral Deliveroo customers told the BBC they realised their accounts had been accessed when they received an email from the company saying the email address linked to their account had been changed.\n\nFraudsters then ordered food through their account using credit obtained by claiming refunds for previous orders.\n\nDeliveroo said cyber criminals relied on people reusing passwords for multiple online services and used data breaches on other sites to try to access Deliveroo accounts.\n\nAndrew Shaw, 33, from London, said he had to wait five days after he reported fraudulent activity on his account before Deliveroo shut it down.\n\nBy this point Mr Shaw had already cancelled his card and three orders had been placed, using £11 credit he already had on his account and £27 credit obtained from a refund.\n\nDeliveroo said it takes security \"extremely seriously\" and is continually rolling out measures to combat fraud, including introducing extra security checks when it detects changes to account details.\n\nReferring to the delay in responding to Mr Shaw, a spokesman said: \"There are rare occasions we don't meet the high standards our customers expect and we are working hard to correct and address the issues raised.\"\n\nJust Eat said it had received reports of \"isolated\" fraudulent activity\n\nAnother customer, Ian Cutress, 33, from London, said an order was placed on his account to an estate less than three miles away, with instructions to \"ring when close for detailed delivery instructions\".\n\nAfter contacting Deliveroo, the company deactivated the account.\n\nMr Cutress said he was relieved his card details were not attached to his account, so the fraudster was only able to place an order using refund credit and he was not left out of pocket.\n\nJust Eat also confirmed it had received reports of \"isolated\" fraudulent activity, which it said appeared to be the result of \"malicious third parties using usernames and passwords from an unknown source\", which was not Just Eat.\n\nOn Thursday, one customer wrote on Twitter that they had cancelled their bank card after it was fraudulently used to purchase food through Just Eat.\n\nThe customer claimed they had been told by the company's customer services they had received \"numerous calls\" about similar issues that day.\n\nJust Eat said it had multiple security measures in place, which are continually reviewed to ensure they are robust.\n\nIt is not the first time takeaway apps have been targeted by fraudsters. In 2016 the BBC found Deliveroo customers had been charged hundreds of pounds after their accounts were used fraudulently.\n\nTo avoid being hacked, Action Fraud advises using strong, unique passwords for online accounts.\n\nAction Fraud also recommends using two-factor authentication, if offered, which means the account can only be accessed by inputting a randomly generated code which is sent by text to a mobile phone.", "Police were called to Rhydybont in Aberystwyth\n\nPolice are investigating the death of a 48-year-old woman in Aberystwyth.\n\nOfficers were called to the property in Rhydybont by the ambulance service at about 21:00 BST on Thursday.\n\nThe cause of the woman's death is unknown, following a post-mortem examination. Dyfed-Powys Police has not released her name.\n\nA 40-year-old man was arrested at the property on Thursday, and charged with breaching a restraining order.\n\nHe was sentenced to 16 weeks in prison on Saturday.\n\nOfficers had been called to the property on Thursday\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Gower Beer Festival is being held at Weobley Castle Farm\n\nA man has died at a beer festival on the Gower peninsula.\n\nSouth Wales Police said it was called to Weobley Castle Farm, Llanrhidian at about 18:35 BST on Friday where the Gower Beer Festival was taking place.\n\nThe force said it was called to reports of a \"medical emergency\" but despite efforts to save the 23-year-old, he died at the scene.\n\nHis death is not being treated as suspicious and the coroner and his next of kin have been informed.\n\n\"We were really fortunate to have first responders from [first aiders] Cariad on the scene who tried to help but unfortunately a young man died.\n\n\"There's a real sombre atmosphere here now.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. John Letts and Sally Lane's solicitor Tayab Ali reads their statement: \"We tried to do the right thing\"\n\nThe parents of a Muslim convert dubbed \"Jihadi Jack\" have been found guilty of funding terrorism.\n\nJohn Letts, 58, and Sally Lane, 57, from Oxford, sent their son £223 while he was in Syria despite concerns he had joined the Islamic State group.\n\nAn Old Bailey jury found the couple not guilty of sending him a further £1,000 and could not reach a verdict on a third charge of funding terrorism.\n\nThe pair each received 15 months imprisonment, suspended for 12 months.\n\nIn a statement read by their solicitor, they said: \"We have been convicted for doing what any parent would do if they thought that their child's life was in danger.\"\n\nMuslim convert Jack Letts left his home in Oxford at 18 for Jordan and Kuwait for study and tourism.\n\nIn March 2015, police warned the couple they risked prosecution if they sent their son money.\n\nThen in September, Lane transferred money to an account in Lebanon after her son insisted it had \"nothing to do with jihad\".\n\nShe told him: \"I would go to prison for you if I thought it gave you a better chance of actually reaching your 25th birthday.\"\n\nJudge Nicholas Hilliard QC said: \"It was one thing for parents to be optimistic about their children, and I do acknowledge he is your son who you love very much.\n\n\"But in this context you did lose sight of realities.\"\n\nHe told the couple: \"The warning signs were there for you to see.\"\n\nHe said that they were \"intelligent adults\" who set aside their suspicions to \"please your son\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Speaking to the BBC's Quentin Sommerville, Jack Letts said he had been an \"enemy of Britain\"\n\nIn the statement read outside the Old Bailey, the couple said: \"The fact the jury acquitted us of some of the allegations makes it clear that the jury accepted we believed that our son's life was in imminent danger.\"\n\nThey added that they had \"tried to do the right thing\" and co-operate with police in a bid to get Jack home.\n\n\"But instead of helping us they used the information we provided to prosecute us.\"\n\nIn the statement, Letts and Lane said that \"having escaped from Isis [Jack] is now in limbo\".\n\nJack has been detained for the past 18 months 1by the Kurdish-led YPG in northern Syria.\n\nHis parents said: \"Jack is still a British citizen and we have pleaded with the government to help us to bring him to safety, even if that meant he might be prosecuted in the UK.\n\n\"We are committed to help Jack return home.\"\n\nJohn Letts and Sally Lane were found guilty of sending their son £223 while he was in Syria, despite concerns he had joined Islamic State\n\nProsecutor Alison Morgan QC had earlier said Jack's parents \"turned a blind eye to the obvious\".\n\n\"Saying they wanted to help Jack is not a defence,\" she said.\n\n\"They had every reason to expect the worst; they just in fact did not want to hear the truth.\"\n\nShe added Letts and Lane were repeatedly told by \"numerous police officers\" not to send any money.\n\nLetts and Lane were found not guilty of sending a further £1,000 in December 2015 and the jury could not reach a verdict on the couple sending £500 in January 2016.\n\nJurors heard that in July 2015 Jack Letts spoke about wanting to decapitate a former school friend on social media.\n\nLinus Doubtfire posted a picture on Facebook as he completed his Commando Artillery Course in the British army.\n\nJack then posted: \"I would love to perform a martyrdom operation in this scene.\"\n\nDuring the trial the court heard the parents consulted an academic expert, who said it was \"highly improbable\" Jack had not engaged in military activity.\n\nJack Letts was dubbed \"Jihadi Jack\" after he travelled to Syria in 2014\n\nJurors also heard Lane sent a message to her son which said it was \"naive of us to believe\" Jack was not a fighter in Syria.\n\nDet Ch Supt Kath Barnes said investigators had \"huge empathy\" for Letts and Lane, and said the parents were \"not bad people\".\n\nShe added: \"It's hard to imagine the kind of agony they must be going through because of the choices their son made.\"\n\nLetts and Lane criticised the government for their lack of action in helping Jack, and others, return to the UK from Syria.\n\nIn their statement they said: \"After more than two years in jail, Jack still faces indefinite detention without being charged or tried for any crime.\n\n\"Effectively there is no government policy for British citizens, including children, trapped in Syria.\"\n\nA Foreign and Commonwealth Office spokesperson said: \"As long-standing FCO travel advice states, HMG [Her Majesty's Government] does not have a consular presence in Syria from which to provide consular support.\"\n\nThe spokesperson added that anyone who chose to travel to Syria was \"putting themselves in considerable danger\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police were called to the London home of Boris Johnson and his partner in the early hours of Friday after neighbours reportedly heard a loud argument.\n\nThe Guardian said Carrie Symonds was heard telling the Conservative MP to \"get off me\" and \"get out of my flat\".\n\nThe Metropolitan Police told the BBC it \"spoke to all occupants of the address, who were all safe and well\".\n\nIn a statement, it said \"there was no cause for police action\". A spokesman for Mr Johnson said: \"No comment\".\n\nMr Johnson refused to answer questions as he arrived at Birmingham ahead of the first of the Conservative Party's leadership membership hustings.\n\nEarlier, a neighbour of Ms Symonds in Camberwell, south London, told the Guardian they had heard a woman screaming followed by \"slamming and banging\".\n\nThe paper said the neighbour was inside their own flat when they recorded the alleged altercation.\n\nIt said that in the recording - heard by the newspaper, but not by the BBC - Mr Johnson was refusing to leave the flat and told the woman to \"get off\" his laptop, before there was a loud crashing noise.\n\nMs Symonds is allegedly heard saying the MP had ruined a sofa with red wine: \"You just don't care for anything because you're spoilt. You have no care for money or anything.\"\n\nAnother neighbour, who would only give her name as Fatima, told the BBC: \"I heard a female voice, shouting and screaming, and then I heard things smashing, it sounded like plates or glasses.\n\n\"I couldn't hear what she was saying but she sounded really angry.\"\n\nConservative MP Dominic Grieve told BBC Radio 4's Today programme he could not comment on the Guardian's report specifically but said character was relevant in the contest to be leader of the party.\n\n\"They are going to be in a position of responsibility where they have to make very important decisions,\" he said.\n\nThe former attorney general added: \"Clearly, things like reliability and honesty are very important things.\n\n\"And I think they matter in one's private and personal life, and also they matter in one's public life.\"\n\nCarrie Symonds has been in a relationship with Mr Johnson since 2018\n\nBoris Johnson would have preferred his politics - not his private life - to be making headlines.\n\nAs we enter the final stage of this leadership campaign the scrutiny of the two men who want the top job will no doubt increase.\n\nThere will be intense focus on their every move; their past, their present and their future.\n\nIt's not surprising given the importance of the job they want - running the country.\n\nBut does what allegedly happened in the London flat Mr Johnson shares with his partner really matter? His critics will say yes.\n\nThey argue that we need someone of good character who can make difficult decisions and work under pressure.\n\nSupporters of Boris Johnson disagree. Whatever happened, they say, was an entirely private matter between two people in a relationship which should never have been recorded by a neighbour.\n\nJournalist Sonia Purnell, who has written a biography of Mr Johnson, told the Today programme she believed it was important to know a future leader's character.\n\nShe said: \"It is the most unbelievably pressured job, crises will be coming at you day and night. You have to have equilibrium, a clear head, a stability in your life to be able to cope with that.\"\n\nBut, political commentator Tim Montgomerie told the BBC that until a complaint was made by Ms Symonds, the row \"should be a non-issue\".\n\nHe added: \"If there was any domestic violence, Boris Johnson's candidacy would be toast and would deserve to be.\n\n\"But all we have at the moment is a partially overheard conversation between two people late at night.\n\n\"Unless there is a complaint I think we should draw a line under this.\"\n\nSome of Mr Johnson's supporters have also taken to social media to defend him.\n\nBrexit minister James Cleverly questioned the motives of the \"person who recorded Boris and then gave the story to the Guardian\".\n\nTory MP Michael Fabricant appeared to confuse Camberwell with Islington but wrote he was glad he did not have \"nosey neighbours\" recording private conversations, sending them to newspapers and \"wasting police time for political advantage\".\n\nMr Johnson's relationship with Ms Symonds - a former director of communications for the Conservative party - became public after Mr Johnson and his wife announced they were divorcing in 2018.\n\nMs Symonds was seen in the audience during Mr Johnson's leadership campaign launch on 12 June.\n\nIn a statement, the Metropolitan Police said: \"At 00:24 on Friday 21 June, police responded to a call from a local resident in the SE5 area of Camberwell.\n\n\"The caller was concerned for the welfare of a female neighbour.\n\n\"Police attended and spoke to all occupants of the address, who were all safe and well. There were no offences or concerns apparent to the officers and there was no cause for police action.\"\n\nA poster opposite Boris Johnson's London home shows not everyone supports his leadership bid\n\nMr Johnson is the bookmakers' favourite to succeed Theresa May as Conservative leader and the UK's next prime minister.\n\nThe former foreign secretary and Mayor of London is in a run-off with Jeremy Hunt, with Tory party members due to vote over the next month.\n\nMr Johnson came top in a ballot of Tory MPs on Thursday. The first hustings of the second phase of the leadership campaign takes place on Saturday.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'You have to prove you're terminally ill - even when there's medical evidence'\n\nThe family of a woman who died from motor neurone disease is calling for an end to a disability benefit assessments for the terminally ill.\n\nSusan Hill was 63 when she died, 18 months after she was diagnosed.\n\nShe had applied for personal independence payment (PIP) to pay for carers and underwent what her husband called a \"quite degrading\" assessment.\n\nThe Department for Work and Pensions said it is looking into how it can improve its processes.\n\nMotor neurone disease (MND) is a degenerative condition which can leave patients without the ability to speak, move or eat.\n\nMrs Hill, who lived in Bargoed with her husband John, had worked with patients with MND and other terminal illnesses in her work as a dietician for the NHS.\n\nShe started suffering falls and slurred speech, and suspected she had the condition before diagnosis.\n\nMr Hill bought and adapted a bungalow for her needs, but she never had the chance to move there before she died in 2018.\n\nHe described his wife of over 30 years as \"special\" and said \"she loved her work, she cared for people\".\n\nHer daughter, Laura, 26, said she \"didn't expect it to be so fast\".\n\n\"First she lost the ability to talk, and then it was eat and then move and then to the point where she was bed-bound really, with hoists.\"\n\nShe added: \"She was really independent. I think that's the worst thing about motor neurone disease, your independence is taken away.\"\n\nLaura Hill is calling for a change in the assessments for PIP\n\nMiss Hill has undergone an assessment herself as she is blind, but said it was different to her mother's situation.\n\n\"Mine is life-changing, but I've got the time to go through and wait for the money, whereas terminally ill people haven't,\" she explained.\n\nDuring his wife's face-to-face assessment for PIP, Mr Hill said she was asked to do things like balance on one leg.\n\n\"It was a bit degrading, certainly in Sue's position,\" he said.\n\nMiss Hill has started a petition to end these assessments for the terminally ill.\n\n\"For any terminally ill person... I think there should be no assessment,\" she said.\n\n\"A medical assessment should be enough.\"\n\nSusan Hill was 63 when she died\n\nPIP is available to help with some of the extra costs of long term ill-health or disability.\n\nThere is an option for people to be \"fast-tracked\" and not have a face-to-face assessment if a medical professional says they are not expected to live for more than six months.\n\nMr Hill said this \"didn't seem to be an option\" for his wife.\n\nThe Motor Neurone Disease Association has said this criterion is difficult to fill by MND patients, as the speed of the condition varies from person to person.\n\nThe charity is campaigning for a change in the law, so that terminally ill claimants are not excluded from the fast-track process.\n\nIt said: \"A person living with a terminal and progressive condition such as MND should be able to access the fast-track claim process under the special rules for terminal illness, which is far more appropriate for their needs than the slow and burdensome standard claim process.\"\n\nA spokesperson for the Department for Work and Pensions said: \"Terminally ill people can get their claims fast-tracked and access benefits without a face-to-face assessment.\n\n\"We're looking at how we can improve our processes and in the meantime we continue to work with charities - including MND Association - to help terminally ill people access the support they need.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nEngland were strangled into a shock 20-run defeat by Sri Lanka that dented their hopes of reaching the World Cup semi-finals and breathed life into the tournament.\n\nChasing 233 on an increasingly difficult pitch, the hosts were smothered by a brilliant Sri Lanka bowling performance in a compelling contest at Headingley.\n\nWhen Ben Stokes was joined by last man Mark Wood, England still needed 47, but Stokes clubbed 23 from eight deliveries to make a deafening crowd believe.\n\nWood, though, edged Nuwan Pradeep behind to leave Stokes stranded on 82 not out and England 212 all out.\n\nThey had earlier restricted Sri Lanka to 232-9, with Angelo Mathews' painstaking 85 proving to be a match-winning innings.\n\nEngland stay third in the 10-team table, but their three most difficult group games - against Australia, India and New Zealand - are still to come.\n\nSri Lanka climb to fifth, only two points behind England, their unlikely hopes of reaching the semi-finals still alive.\n\nTop four go through to semi-finals\n• None How does England's defeat affect their World Cup chances?\n\nBefore this match, there was the danger England, Australia, India and New Zealand would pull away to leave the elongated group stage nothing more than a procession towards the semi-finals.\n\nOn a sun-kissed day at Headingley, amid unbearable tension in front of a crowd fully invested in the action, Sri Lanka produced a display full of fight and spirit.\n\nIn doing so, they delighted their noisy pockets of fans that included a brass band that played non-stop, as well as injecting much-needed intrigue into the tournament.\n\nAt the same time, they have raised questions about an England side that hit a world record 25 sixes in demolishing Afghanistan at Old Trafford on Tuesday, but that failed to adapt to the difficult batting conditions in Leeds.\n\nSome, like James Vince and Moeen Ali, fell in infuriating fashion, while Jonny Bairstow and Jos Buttler were fooled into playing across the slingy Lasith Malinga, who claimed 4-43.\n\nJust like when their fielding cost them against Pakistan, England helped engineer their own downfall and, as it stands, will have to find at least one win from their remaining games if they are to make the last four.\n\nAlthough England were finding run-scoring tough against the probing Sri Lankan bowling, there was no panic while Joe Root was moving towards 57 in the company of Stokes.\n\nWhen Sri Lanka called for a review that revealed Root was caught down the leg side off Malinga, England unravelled.\n\nAfter Buttler was pinned, Moeen, playing his 100th ODI, brainlessly looked for his second successive six off Dhananjaya de Silva and was caught at long-off.\n\nIn his next over, the spinner had both Chris Woakes and Adil Rashid caught behind, while Jofra Archer holed out to long-off in a collapse of 4-16.\n\nThrough it all, Stokes remained, unflappable, but now having to farm the strike with only Wood for company.\n\nHe was dropped in the deep on 57, then launched back-to-back sixes to draw noise that rocked Headingley to its foundations.\n\nHowever, he left Wood to face the final ball of Pradeep's 10-over spell. The number 11's poke nestled in the gloves of the wicketkeeper, and England were beaten.\n\nWhile England were putting in an excellent display with the ball and in the field, Mathews crawled along, looking entirely like a batsman whose previous highest score in this tournament was just nine.\n\nOnly late on did he show any intent, but by that time he was rapidly running out of partners.\n\nWhen Sri Lanka were 3-2 after winning the toss, the day could have been short, only for Avishka Fernando to sparkle for 49, including two sixes pulled off Archer.\n\nAfter he uppercut Wood to third man, England spinners Moeen and Rashid bowled in tandem to suffocate Sri Lanka.\n\nIt was Rashid, looking back to near his best, who had Kusal Mendis well held by Eoin Morgan at mid-wicket and then, next ball, Jeevan Mendis caught and bowled.\n\nWood and Archer worked through the lower order, with Wood particularly impressive - his yorker to bowl Malinga was clocked at 93mph.\n\nAll the while, Mathews plodded on. At no point was he interested in playing the modern, ultra-aggressive one-day game, but he had the application to battle with both himself and the England bowlers.\n\n'If we had won, we would have been robbing Sri Lanka' - what they said\n\nEngland captain Eoin Morgan: \"In the chase we didn't do the basics of getting substantial partnerships going.\n\n\"We had a couple of good individual performances but Sri Lanka thoroughly deserved to win.\n\n\"We didn't do enough to win the game and even if we had nicked it then it would have been us robbing the game with an outstanding individual performance.\"\n\nFormer England assistant coach Paul Farbrace on Test Match Special: \"England will know their performance today hasn't been good enough to win the game and it is a game they should be winning.\n\n\"(Head coach) Trevor Bayliss talks lot about smart cricket and at times they did not play smart cricket.\n\n\"They don't make excuses. Eoin Morgan will call it as he sees it. There won't be any shouting or finger pointing but there will be some quiet conversations with some players about their modes of dismissals.\"\n\nSri Lanka captain Dimuth Karunaratne: \"It was a close one, we were under pressure but it was teamwork in the end - all the batters and bowlers did great work.\n\n\"We thought this wicket looked like a 300 pitch but it was slower than we thought. We knew we couldn't get 300, so wanted 250-275 until we lost some wickets but Angelo Mathews batted really well.\n\n\"With a score on the board the bowlers knew what to do on this wicket.\n\n\"The Root wicket was the turning point. We were not confident but thought we would go for the review and thankfully for us that was the turning point.\"", "A former charity fundraiser and an organic farmer have been convicted of funding terrorism by sending cash to their son in Syria. So how did Sally Lane and John Letts end up before a jury in the Old Bailey?\n\nIn the words of one judge, they were \"two perfectly decent people... in custody because of the love of their child\".\n\nAnd over four years, Lane and Letts battled to avoid trial for sending cash to their son, who had joined the war in Syria and the Islamic State group.\n\nBut now they have both been found guilty of a serious terrorism-related offence after a trial that came down to evidence of foreseeable consequences.\n\nJack Letts converted to Islam as a 16-year-old. His parents had supported his decision.\n\nBut two years later in May 2014 evidence began to emerge that he was associating with extremists. He married Asmaa, whose family were influential in IS in Iraq, and they had a child together.\n\nA fellow Muslim who knew Jack Letts in Oxford warned his parents their son wanted to go to Syria.\n\nJack Letts, who is now 23, told his parents he only wanted to study in the Middle East and they decided to fund his travel.\n\nBut they were not sure what he was up to. Evidence from their trial reveals that Lane confided in a friend that she believed her son might be seeking to join the war - but both she and his father appeared to hoping for the best.\n\nIn late August the truth dawned. Lane emailed a friend to say her son was in the \"worst\" possible country, a message sent two days before the beheading of James Foley, the first western hostage to be murdered by IS.\n\nAnd Jack Letts finally confirmed to his parents on 2 September 2014 that he was in Syria and later exchanges made clear he was alongside other IS group recruits from the UK in the group's capital Raqqa.\n\nBy March 2015 counter-terrorism detectives were investigating Jack Letts and they advised his parents not to send him any cash. Quite simply, it would probably end up in the hands of the terror group and wiring money in such circumstances was a crime.\n\nDuring the trial the jury heard that Jack Letts has obsessive compulsive disorder and his parents believed his decision to go to Syria was influenced by his condition.\n\nBut to others, he had appeared to have become a fully signed-up member of an extremist sect. In one Facebook post he declared he'd like to \"do a martyrdom operation\" against a school friend who was in the Army.\n\nLane sent one payment - and tried to transfer two more\n\nWeeks later he was bragging to his mother about the \"Islamic State Health Service\", a key piece of propaganda that the group's UK recruits were encouraged to promote.\n\nAnd so when he began to ask for cash, he was playing on his parents' turmoil.\n\nHe repeatedly asked Lane to send money to an intermediary in Turkey or Lebanon whom she did not know. He claimed it would not go on \"jihad\" but advised her to come up with a cover story.\n\nDespite her reservations, the trial heard Lane and John Letts agreed to the proposal and in September 2015 she wired £223 to her son's contact in Lebanon.\n\nShe hoped any cash she sent her son could help him survive or escape. But the transfer led to a second warning from the police not to send any more.\n\nIn relation to this transaction, the couple were convicted by a jury at the Old Bailey of entering into a funding arrangement for the purposes of terrorism.\n\nThey were each sentenced to 15 months imprisonment, suspended for two years.\n\nAs the winter wore on, Jack Letts was sending conflicting messages. On the one hand he said the West should \"die in their rage\". He also began to suggest he was doubting IS beliefs and wanted to return home.\n\nHis parents pressed further, and Jack Letts again asked for cash, suggesting smugglers could help him to get out.\n\nBy now it was not just the police warning the couple not to send anything. Two independent experts, an academic and a professional deradicaliser, also advised the couple not to send money.\n\nThen, on 27 December 2015, a junior police officer, acting as a liaison with the family, made a mistake. That officer said money could be sent if it were to aid their son's escape.\n\nTwo days later, case officers corrected the error in a meeting with Lane and John Letts, backed up with a written notice that sending cash would be a crime.\n\nDespite that formal advice, effectively a third warning, on New Year's Eve Lane tried to send £1,000 to her son's nominated intermediary in Lebanon.\n\nThe payment was blocked. Four days later, the trial heard, that Sally Lane used a false identity to try again to send £500. Again, the payment was blocked.\n\nThe jury cleared the couple of funding terrorism by attempting to send the £1,000 payment and were unable to reach a verdict in relation to the third attempted transfer.\n\nThe case has been one of the most drawn-out terrorism prosecutions in recent history - including the almost 20 hours the jury took to reach verdicts.\n\nNo jury could be asked to find Sally Lane and John Letts guilty of supporting terrorism - because there was no evidence they supported banned violent groups. It was clear from their own emotional arguments with their son how deeply disgusted and shocked they had been by his decision.\n\nBut at the same time, they wanted to help him come to his senses and find a way out.\n\nSupporters of Lane and John Letts came to the Old Bailey\n\nThe question for the jury would be whether sending cash for that purpose broke the law which bans the funding of terrorism in any circumstances.\n\nThat law, Section 17 of the Terrorism Act 2000, states that it is a crime to enter into a funding arrangement if someone either knows or has \"reasonable cause to suspect\" that money could end up in the hands of terrorists.\n\nWhen the offence was originally created in 1976, prosecutors had to prove the defendant either definitely knew for sure or suspected the cash was going to fund terrorism.\n\nBut Parliament later changed the wording to include situations where people would merely have had reasonable cause to suspect where their cash was heading. This, in effect, lowered the evidential test to find someone guilty.\n\nAs the case approached trial, the couple asked the Court of Appeal to rule that the law was being misinterpreted - a challenge that could have stopped the prosecution. During the hearing in 2017 they argued they could not be accused of funding terrorism if they honestly did not believe their son would ever hand money to a banned terror group.\n\nTheir aim had been to try to rescue him, to save his life, and therefore they could not be prosecuted for funding a terror group.\n\nThose senior judges rejected that appeal and that decision was backed a year later by the Supreme Court.\n\nIf Jack Letts had successfully covered his tracks, his parents would never have committed a crime because they would have had absolutely no idea what he was up to.\n\nHowever, there was ample evidence of where he was, who he appeared to be with and what he had been doing.\n\nThe jury had to decide whether the couple knew enough about their son's situation to reasonably suspect cash might end up in the pockets of IS fighters, even if they genuinely hoped that it would not.\n\nIn opening the trial, prosecutor Alison Morgan QC said jurors would inevitably have sympathy for the parents but the law was focused on \"the greater good, stopping money flowing into terrorist groups\".\n\nBoth of them knew where Jack was, who he was associating with and believed he was being manipulated by others, she added.\n\n\"Sending money in such circumstances, where you may conclude that it was highly likely to fall into the wrong hands, is against the law.\"\n\nWhile the facts of their trial appear unusual, there have been other very similar cases involving Muslim-heritage families, albeit with less media hullabaloo.\n\nSalim Wakil, a 25-year-old from Hampshire, was jailed for 30 months in February this year for the same crime.\n\nIn 2014, his 16-year-old sister, Summaiyyah, headed to the warzone along with other Britons. She ended up a teenage mum and widow after her fighter husband from Portsmouth was killed.\n\nHer siblings repeatedly tried to persuade her to return home. Instead she kept nagging them for money. They all resisted, other than Salim, who the Old Bailey heard had mental health problems.\n\nHe was too meek and suggestible to resist his sister's manipulation and ultimately agreed to send her more than £2,500.\n\nThere's a long-standing principle that someone should not be found guilty of a very serious crime unless they intended it to happen.\n\nThis is an important safeguard in English law because it requires a jury to be sure of the defendant's state of mind. This is known as the concept of \"Mens Rea\", the guilty mind.\n\nBut the law of funding terrorism works differently because the test is what the defendant reasonably suspects might happen, rather than what they intended.\n\nHenry Blaxland QC, for John Letts, told the trial the prosecution was \"inhumane to the point of being cruel\".\n\n\"This prosecution does absolutely nothing to further the prevention of terrorism,\" he said.\n\n\"In fact it runs the risk of undermining the fight against terrorism because it runs the risk of bringing the law into disrepute. Law without compassion is not justice.\"\n\nBut the law, in this case, is the law. Jack Letts did something terrible. The dual UK-Canadian national has appeared to live to regret it.\n\nHis parents, right to the eve of their trial, petitioned the British and Canadian governments for help to get him home, including a hunger strike outside St Paul's Cathedral.\n\nTheir suffering is the same as that of many other parents who discovered their sons and daughters had headed to a war 3,000 miles away.\n\nBut the jury at the Old Bailey concluded Lane and John Letts were not entitled to take the law into their own hands.\n\nThe crime they were accused of makes no allowances for crossed fingers, a refusal to accept the available facts, or naivety.", "Long queues built up at Manchester Airport when an IT failure hit check-in desks\n\nPassengers have been facing delays at Manchester Airport after an IT failure prevented many from checking-in at all three terminals.\n\nSome travellers said they had been waiting to check-in for more than three hours, with long queues building up.\n\nAn airport spokesman said the IT issue had been resolved in the afternoon, adding: \"We apologise to our passengers for the inconvenience.\"\n\nThe issue first arose at 11:30 BST on Saturday.\n\nThe airport said there were no longer any queues at check-in but there were knock-on delays to some flights.\n\nSome airlines tried to check people in manually during the IT failure and have been working through a backlog of passengers after the issue was resolved.\n\nJordan Elliott was one of many to complain to the airport on social media.\n\nHe tweeted a picture of the queues and said: \"@manairport in total lockdown. No-one checking in due to computer failure!\"\n\nMichael Ripley was on his way to Fuerteventura with his family for his wedding anniversary when they got caught up in the delays.\n\n\"It's utter carnage... All the IT systems were down at check in. No-one could help us,\" he said.\n\n\"A process to check-in that would normally take five or 10 minutes took two hours.\"\n\nAimée de Hamel and friend Megan waiting to take off after delays at Manchester Airport\n\nAimée de Hamel, 19, from East Yorkshire, was waiting on a stationary plane where as many as 40 passengers had not yet been able to board due to the system failure.\n\nShe said many people had to find out what was happening by looking on Twitter and described the experience as \"atrocious\".\n\n\"Everyone was so angry, confused and tired of waiting around with no answers,\" she added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mavis Paterson and her cycling partner Heather Curley completed their cycle on Saturday\n\nAn 81-year-old from Dumfries and Galloway has become the oldest woman to cycle the 960 miles (1,540km) from Land's End to John O'Groats.\n\nMavis Paterson, of Glenluce, took up the challenge in memory of her three children who all died within four years of one another.\n\nShe set off on 30 May and finished her epic journey on Saturday afternoon.\n\nThe Guinness Book of Records previously confirmed that on completion she would be the oldest woman to cycle the route.\n\nShe has raised more than £60,000 for Macmillan Cancer Support, a charity she has been supporting since her mother and sister died from the disease.\n\nMrs Paterson said she took up the challenge as the \"unbearable grief\" she felt when sitting at home with nothing to focus on was too much.\n\nHer son Sandy died of a heart attack in 2012, daughter Katie after suffering viral pneumonia in 2013, and son Bob in an accident in 2016. All were in their 40s.\n\n\"I always set myself a goal and a challenge and it takes my mind off the grief that I suffer with losing my children,\" she said.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC Scotland news website after finishing her cycle, she said she was \"very tired\".\n\n\"Quite a crowd\" arrived to cheer her over the finish line, with one well-wisher even presenting her with a bottle of whisky.\n\n\"I feel now it's all over I'm like 'what now?'\n\n\"The whole journey was very difficult for me. It was hard, but I've got his fire in my belly, and I keep pressing on.\"\n\nShe thanked her supporters in a post on Facebook, writing that it was \"hard to find the words\" to describe her \"utterly unforgettable journey\".\n\nShe added that she was \"so very, very grateful for all the support, the fun, friendships, cyclists who joined for a few miles\".\n\nMs Paterson, who took up cycling in 1991, said her training regime involved a trip to Australia.\n\nEarlier this year she went there to visit her niece and trained on the hills from 05:00 every morning, until it got too hot - by 09:00, she said, it was between 30-40C.\n\nMavis Paterson was given support by Macmillan staff and volunteers and her cycling companion Heather Curley\n\nBut there will be no more big cycles for a while.\n\nWhen Ms Paterson get home to Galloway, she said she would be going into hospital for hip and knee replacements.\n\nWhile her osteoarthritis causes her pain when she walks, she said she feels none while cycling.\n\nMacmillan staff and volunteers joined her and cycling companion Heather Curley for parts of the ride.\n\nMs Paterson is no stranger to such challenges - when she was 70, she cycled across Canada. For her 80th birthday last year, she cycled for 24 hours.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Survivors are rescued from the rubble\n\nA seven-storey building has collapsed in Cambodia, killing at least 18 people with others reported missing, officials say.\n\nAt least 24 people have been injured - several critically - as the search for survivors continues.\n\nThe building under construction in the coastal city of Sihanoukville was owned by a Chinese company.\n\nIn recent years, Sihanoukville has been transformed by the construction of Chinese hotels and casinos.\n\nFour people have been arrested over the collapse, including the Chinese building owner, the head of the construction firm and the contractor. A Cambodian landowner has also been taken in for questioning.\n\nReports vary on the number of people missing as rescue efforts continue.\n\nA rescue team carries a wounded worker from the collapsed building in Sihanoukville.\n\nThree of the victims have been confirmed as Cambodian - two workers and a translator.\n\nAbout 1,000 people contributed to a rescue effort which involved using saws to cut steel beams in order to move piles of rubble from the site.\n\nConstruction workers told the Associated Press that they were also living in the building.\n\n\"A moment before the building collapsed it was vibrating and then it was falling down,\" Nhor Chandeun told the news agency. \"But it was too quick to escape.\"\n\n\"My wife and I kept calling for help,\" he said. \"We were shouting and shouting but there was no sound replying to us and we presumed that we would die under the rubble.\"\n\nBoth he and his wife were rescued after 12 hours of being trapped.\n\nThe provincial governor said about 50 workers would usually be on site at the time the building collapsed.\n\nThe building collapse - the worst of its kind in Cambodia in recent years - will raise further questions over the rate and sustainability of construction in Sihanoukville.\n\nIt is also likely to add to rising anti-Chinese sentiment in the country, correspondents say.\n\nThe once-small fishing village saw a boom in tourism in the 2000s, but the last three years has seen the area change beyond recognition with the construction of dozens of casinos catering almost solely to Chinese tourists.\n\nThe International Labour Organization has highlighted the \"exposure of workers to constant safety and health hazards\" on building sites.\n\nAn overhead view of the collapsed under-construction building", "E. Jean Carroll - seen here at an event in 2015 - has made the allegation in an article\n\nUS President Donald Trump has dismissed allegations that he raped a woman in a department store dressing room in the mid-1990s as \"fiction\".\n\nThe US president says he never met E. Jean Carroll and accuses her of making up the allegation to sell a new book.\n\nMs Carroll says she did not report the alleged attack at the time after being advised by a friend she had no chance of winning in court.\n\nHer story was published in New York magazine on Friday.\n\nMore than a dozen women have previously made sexual misconduct allegations against Mr Trump, which he has denied.\n\nIn the article, she describes meeting Mr Trump in late 1995 or early 1996, in Bergdorf Goodman. She says she recognised him as the \"real estate tycoon\" and that he told her he was buying a present for \"a girl\".\n\nShe says Mr Trump knew she was a TV agony aunt and the two joked around, encouraging each other to try on some lingerie.\n\nShe alleges that they then went to a dressing room, where she accuses him of raping her.\n\nBoth Mr Trump and Ms Carroll were aged around 50 at the time, and he was married to Marla Maples.\n\nMs Carroll says she told two friends about the alleged incident, one of whom advised her to go to the police.\n\nBut she says the other advised her against telling anyone saying: \"Forget it! He has 200 lawyers. He'll bury you.\"\n\nThe accusation is one of six alleged attacks by \"hideous men\" that Ms Carroll details in her article.\n\nAnother alleged incident involves Les Moonves, the former CEO of CBS. He resigned in 2018 after allegations of sexual misconduct.\n\nMr Moonves' representative told New York magazine he \"emphatically denies\" the incident.\n\nMs Carroll ends the article by saying Mr Trump was her \"last hideous man\" and she has not had sex since then.\n\n\"I've never met this person in my life,\" the US president said in a statement. \"She is trying to sell a new book - that should indicate her motivation. It should be sold in the fiction section.\"\n\nHowever, the New York magazine article included an image of Mr Trump and Ms Carroll together at an NBC party around 1987.\n\nWhen he was asked about the photo on Saturday, Mr Trump said: \"Standing with my coat on in a line, give me a break, with my back to the camera. I have no idea who she is.\"\n\nHe added: \"There is some picture where we're shaking hands it looks like at some kind of event. I have my coat on, I have my wife standing next to me, and I didn't know her husband but he was a newscaster. But I have no idea who she is.\"\n\nMr Trump encouraged anyone with information that the Democratic Party is working with Ms Carroll or New York magazine to notify the White House.\n\nMr Trump has described the allegations as \"a disgrace\"\n\nHe accused the publication of \"peddling fake news\" and called the magazine a \"failing business.\"\n\n\"Shame on those who make up false stories of assault to try to get publicity for themselves, or sell a book, or carry out a political agenda,\" he said.\n\n\"It's just as bad for people to believe it, particularly when there is zero evidence,\" he added.\n\nIn his statement, Mr Trump thanked Bergdorf Goodman, the upmarket New York department store where the incident allegedly took place, for \"confirming they have no video footage of any such incident\".", "Former RAF serviceman Alford Gardner came to the UK on the Empire Windrush from Jamaica.\n\nThe 93-year-old grandfather was one of hundreds of Caribbean migrants who arrived in Tilbury Docks on 22 June 1948.\n\nDuring a family get-together in West Yorkshire, some of his relatives quizzed him about his journey.", "A loud bang heard across Essex was a sonic boom caused by military aircraft, police have said.\n\nResidents reported feeling their houses \"shaking\" after a \"loud explosion\" that was heard in Harlow, Epping, Chelmsford and Stansted at about 18:40 BST.\n\nThe sound sparked a large number of 999 calls, according to police.\n\nStansted Airport said two RAF Typhoon jets had escorted a Jet2 flight in to land because of a disruptive passenger on board.\n\nA 25-year-old woman has been arrested on suspicion of assault and endangering an aircraft.\n\nThe plane was en route to Dalaman in Turkey when it was redirected back to Stansted, an airline spokeswoman said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn a statement, Essex Police said: \"We were made aware of a disruptive passenger on an inbound flight to Stansted this evening.\n\n\"There is a possibility that residents nearby may have heard a loud noise, often associated with a sonic boom, as the aircraft descended into Stansted airspace.\"\n\nThe Jet2 spokeswoman said: \"We are aware of an incident regarding an extremely disruptive passenger on a flight from Stansted to Dalaman earlier this evening.\n\n\"The aircraft has returned safely and we are liaising with the relevant authorities to support their investigation.\n\n\"We are working hard to ensure the remaining customers reach their destination as soon possible.\"\n\nThe incident led to minor delays for other flights.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nIngrid Systad Engen hit the winning penalty as Norway beat Australia 4-1 in a shootout in Nice to reach the Women's World Cup quarter-finals.\n\nIsabell Herlovsen put Norway ahead before Australia were awarded a penalty which was overturned after a lengthy video assistant referee review.\n\nElise Kellond-Knight equalised from a corner before Australia's Alanna Kennedy was sent off in extra-time.\n\nAustralia captain Sam Kerr missed her penalty as Norway won through.\n\n\"Only big players can miss penalties, because small players don't take them,\" said Australia boss Ante Milicic when asked about Kerr's miss.\n• None Superstar, goal machine and equality activist - who is Australia icon Kerr?\n\nIt is the first time since 2007 that Norway, who will meet either England or Cameroon in Le Havre on Thursday, have reached the last eight.\n• None 1-0: Caroline Graham Hansen sends keeper Lydia Williams the wrong way to get Norway up and running.\n• None 1-0: Sam Kerr skies her attempt and Norway have the advantage.\n• None 2-0: Guro Reiten makes no mistake as she drills past Williams.\n• None 2-0: A brilliant save by Norway keeper Ingrid Hjelmseth keeps out substitute Emily Gielnik's attempt.\n• None 3-0: Norway captain Maren Mjelde hits it low and hard - and finds the net.\n• None 4-1: It's all over - Engen wheels away in celebration after her spot kick sends Norway through.\n\nIn an incident-packed game at Allianz Riviera, Norway took the lead through Herlovsen's clinical finish after Karina Saevik's defence-splitting pass before a moment of controversy.\n\nGerman referee Riem Hussein pointed to the spot after the ball struck Chelsea defender Maria Thorisdottir as she attempted to clear.\n\nKerr placed the ball on the spot but there was a long delay before the decision was overturned, sparking celebrations among Norway's players.\n\nAustralia, aiming to reach the quarter-finals for a fourth successive World Cup, suffered further frustration when Kerr had the ball in the back of Norway's net in 60th minute - only for it to be ruled out for offside.\n\nThey were minutes from going out when Kellond-Knight's low, curling corner went through a sea of legs and straight into the net.\n\nAustralia appealed for a penalty deep into stoppage time at the end of normal time when Tameka Yallop went down inside the penalty area, while Hansen hit the post before extra time.\n\nThere was more drama to follow as Kennedy received the first straight red card of this tournament for hauling down Lisa-Marie Utland as the Norway substitute threatened to burst clean through on goal.\n\nAustralia keeper Williams produced outstanding saves to deny the impressive Hansen and Vilde Boe Risa, while Norway hit the woodwork a second time through Risa's attempt from 35 yards before the shootout.\n\n\"I don't know if there are any words to describe how I'm feeling but, more importantly, how the girls are feeling,\" added Milicic.\n\n\"I'm disappointed that I couldn't help them realise a dream that they've been waiting for for a long time. In the end I take full responsibility for that.\"\n• None Alanna Kennedy is the first Australian to be sent off at the Women's World Cup since Alicia Ferguson against China in the 1999 edition.\n• None Caroline Graham Hansen had 11 of Norway's 27 shots against Australia, the most by a player in a single match at this year's tournament.\n• None Australia have only progressed from one of their five knockout stage games at the Women's World Cup. This was their first-ever penalty shootout in the competition.\n• None The opening goal was the 50th Australia have conceded in Women's World Cup history, making them just the fourth team to concede that many at the competition (Nigeria 63, Japan 57, Canada 51).\n• None Isabell Herlovsen has scored in consecutive Women's World Cup matches for Norway, having netted in just one of her previous 10 in the competition.\n• None Goal! Norway 1(4), Australia 1(1). Ingrid Engen (Norway) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.\n• None Goal! Norway 1(3), Australia 1(1). Stephanie Catley (Australia) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the top right corner.\n• None Goal! Norway 1(3), Australia 1. Maren Mjelde (Norway) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Penalty saved! Emily Gielnik (Australia) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, right footed shot saved in the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! Norway 1(2), Australia 1. Guro Reiten (Norway) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the bottom right corner.\n• None Penalty missed! Bad penalty by Sam Kerr (Australia) right footed shot is high and wide to the right. Sam Kerr should be disappointed.\n• None Goal! Norway 1(1), Australia 1. Graham Hansen (Norway) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Guro Reiten (Norway) left footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right.\n• None Attempt saved. Tameka Yallop (Australia) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Emily Gielnik.\n• None Attempt saved. Graham Hansen (Norway) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Guro Reiten.\n• None Attempt missed. Lisa-Marie Utland (Norway) header from very close range misses to the right. Assisted by Guro Reiten with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Lisa-Marie Utland (Norway) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is blocked. Assisted by Graham Hansen. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Paul Smyth was found dead in the living room of his house in Coulson Avenue on Friday\n\nDetectives investigating the murder of Paul Smyth in Lisburn have confirmed that he was shot.\n\nMr Smyth, 50, was found dead in the living room of his house in Coulson Avenue at about 20:45 BST on Friday.\n\nA 49-year-old man, arrested on suspicion of murder on Saturday, has been released unconditionally.\n\nTwo men, aged 28 and 32, and a 28-year-old woman have been released on bail pending further enquiries.\n\nPolice carried out two searches and items were taken away for examination. They have appealed for information.", "Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt will face Boris Johnson in the run-off to become Conservative leader and prime minister.\n\nMr Hunt oversaw the London Olympics as culture secretary and was the UK's longest-serving health secretary.\n\nBefore entering Parliament, Jeremy Hunt had a career as an English teacher in Japan and as an entrepreneur.\n\nHe became the MP for South West Surrey at the 2005 general election, taking over from Virginia Bottomley.\n\nFrom 2005 to 2007, Mr Hunt was shadow minister for disabled people. It was a reward for supporting David Cameron, who attended Oxford University at the same time as him, in the Conservative leadership election.\n\nA reshuffle in 2007 saw Mr Hunt promoted to shadow culture secretary.\n\nIn 2009, he was found to have breached expenses rules and ordered to repay more than £9,500. He had allowed his agent to stay rent-free in his constituency property, which was designated as his second home.\n\nMr Hunt had claimed £19,117 in public money towards the property, but it was decided he hadn't benefited financially from the situation.\n\nWhen the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government was formed in 2010, Jeremy Hunt joined the cabinet as secretary of state for culture, Olympics, media and sport.\n\nIt was a key role in the run-up to London's 2012 Olympics and he worked closely with then London Mayor, Boris Johnson.\n\nMr Hunt campaigned on the importance of tourism during the Olympics. And he took the decision to double the budget for the Olympic and Paralympic ceremonies from £40m to £81m.\n\nThe Olympic opening ceremony was widely seen as a big success.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Hunt also put emphasis on creating a lasting legacy for the games.\n\nThe government gave Sport England £1bn to invest in grassroots sports, and Mr Hunt said there was an \"extraordinary chance\" to \"reinvigorate this country's sporting habits for both the young and the old\".\n\nBut in the years that followed there was only a small increase in the number of young people taking up sport.\n\nIn 2005-06 the proportion of over-16s in England who played sport for at least 30 minutes each week was 34.6%. By 2015-16, it was 36.1%.\n\nEarlier in 2012, his career was hanging in the balance. During the Leveson Inquiry into the culture and practices of the press, his contact with the Murdoch family came under scrutiny.\n\nMr Hunt was responsible for overseeing the proposed takeover of BSkyB by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.\n\nHe was criticised for failing to supervise his adviser's contact with News Corp, and for messages he exchanged with James Murdoch on the bid. His special adviser, Adam Smith, was forced to quit.\n\nThe inquiry released texts sent from Mr Hunt to News Corp lobbyist Fred Michel when it was bidding for BSkyB. The culture secretary addressed him as \"Daddy\" and \"mon ami\" - their wives had given birth in the same hospital in May 2010. Separately, in December 2010, he told Mr Michel there was \"nothing u won't like\" in a forthcoming speech.\n\nMr Hunt insisted he acted with \"total integrity\" during the bid process.\n\nAs culture secretary, Mr Hunt also led a government plan to launch local television stations across the UK. More than 30 had been set up before Ofcom later scrapped the roll-out of any further channels, because of limited interest from viewers and financial difficulties.\n\nCity TV, the holder of the local TV licence for Birmingham, was forced to appoint administrators to find a buyer before it was even launched, for example.\n\nMr Hunt also announced a deal with the BBC to freeze the licence fee for six years at £145.50 from 2010. He said high executive salaries and an advantage over commercial broadcasters were a cause for concern.\n\nThat was equivalent to a 16% budget cut in real terms and led to the BBC having to make savings, including 2,000 job losses.\n\nUnder the agreement, the BBC also took on responsibility for funding the World Service, the Welsh language channel S4C, and the roll-out of broadband to rural areas.\n\nJeremy Hunt was appointed health secretary in September 2012, with Maria Miller taking on his previous role.\n\nHe would eventually become the longest-serving health secretary in NHS history, surpassing its founder, Labour's Aneurin Bevan.\n\nBut Mr Hunt held office during the slowest period of investment in the NHS since its foundation - which created big problems.\n\nSince the NHS was established, health spending has risen by about 4% above inflation each year on average. Post-2010, as the coalition budget tried to reduce the deficit, this fell to about 1% a year.\n\nThis came as demands on the health service were growing.\n\nBetween 2005 and 2015, A&E visits went up by almost 30%. And during Mr Hunt's tenure as health secretary, the number of people in the population aged 85 and over went up by about a third.\n\nThe independent Office for Budget Responsibility said funding for the NHS needed to rise by 4.3% a year just to keep up with rising demand, without actively improving standards.\n\nFinancial difficulties led to more hospitals going into the red, as well as targets being missed in three main areas: cancer care, hospital appointments and A&E waiting times.\n\nNHS England has not met any of these targets since 2015.\n\nJust 85.3% of patients were seen at A&E departments within the waiting time target of four hours in January 2018. At least 95% of patients attending A&E are supposed to be either admitted, transferred or discharged within four hours.\n\nUnions, like the GMB, demanded his resignation.\n\nAs well as a series of austerity measures - which included extending a cap on pay increases for NHS staff - he was also criticised for his handling of the junior doctor contract row.\n\nMr Hunt said that changes to contracts were essential to deliver a seven-day NHS in England by 2020 - a pledge in the Conservatives' 2010 election manifesto.\n\nTo achieve this, the proposed contracts would mean evenings and Saturdays would be considered \"normal\" rather than \"unsocial\" hours and would no longer attract overtime pay.\n\nThe NHS's pay review body had said the cost of paying a premium on these \"unsocial hours\" put delivering a seven-day NHS out of reach.\n\nJunior doctors responded by tweeting pictures of themselves working weekend and late shifts, with the hashtag #ImInWorkJeremy.\n\nContract negotiations with junior doctors stopped and started and the British Medical Association eventually decided on industrial action.\n\nJunior doctors took part in a series of walkouts in 2016. On two strike days, between 08:00 and 17:00 even emergency care wasn't covered - the first time that had ever happened in the history of the NHS.\n\nPublic support for the strike was high, and even after doctors withdrew emergency care, the majority of the public (57%) still supported the strike and believed the government was more at fault (54%).\n\nA new contract for junior doctors was later imposed, after BMA members rejected a deal agreed by the government and union negotiators.\n\nDespite heavy criticism, Mr Hunt did go on to secure a funding increase for the NHS, totalling £20.5bn in real terms by 2023.\n\nHe also oversaw the introduction of an Ofsted-style system for rating hospitals and GP surgeries in England, ranking them on things like cancer, mental health and diabetes services.\n\nMr Hunt repeatedly referred in speeches to cases where individuals had received bad treatment in the NHS. He said he was horrified at the report into the Stafford Hospital scandal.\n\nHe went on to overhaul the inspection regime, introduce a new duty of candour on staff and fresh rules about whistle-blowers.\n\nSocial care was added to his brief in 2018. He spoke of the need to integrate social care, funded by local councils, with services delivered by the NHS.\n\nHe had already overseen a transfer of money from the NHS to council budgets from 2014. This shared budget was designed to tackle the problem of elderly people having to stay in hospital beds unnecessarily, because of a lack of care for them at home.\n\nAfter this, the number of these cases fell.\n\nHe also oversaw the introduction of the first national waiting-time target for mental health treatment. From April 2016, the NHS said at least 50% of people experiencing a first episode of psychosis should begin treatment within two weeks of referral.\n\nMr Hunt became foreign secretary in July 2018, after his predecessor and now leadership rival, Boris Johnson, quit over Theresa May's Brexit strategy.\n\nIn March, he became the first Western foreign minister to visit Yemen since conflict there began.\n\nHe has faced criticism for allowing the UK to sell arms to the Saudi regime, which is involved in a controversial military campaign in Yemen. But he has previously defended UK-Saudi ties, saying Saudi Arabia is a \"very, very important military ally to the UK\".\n\nHis time as foreign secretary has not been gaffe-free. During a meeting on an official visit to China, he called his wife Lucia Guo \"Japanese\" - although she was born in Xian in central China.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The foreign secretary tells Today he would include the DUP and ERG in Brexit talks\n\nA Remain campaigner in the 2016 EU referendum, Mr Hunt has since said he would vote Leave in a second vote. He said this was because of the \"arrogance of the European Commission\" in Brexit negotiations.\n\nHe also likened the Brexit negotiating tactics of the EU to the Soviet Union. The comparison provoked criticism from EU ambassadors and politicians and there were calls for an apology.\n\nMr Hunt says he want to negotiate a \"credible\" Brexit plan by securing changes to the controversial Irish backstop.\n\nHowever, he does not rule out leaving the EU without a deal if such an outcome becomes \"the only way to deliver Brexit\".\n\nBut unlike his leadership rival, Boris Johnson, he says the current departure date of 31 October is not a hard deadline.", "Police released pictures of the bear in the wardrobe\n\nA black bear has been found sleeping in a wardrobe after apparently locking itself into a room in a home in the US state of Montana.\n\nAlerted to the intrusion in Butler Creek, police said the large mammal just yawned when officers knocked on the window to wake it up.\n\nIt eventually had to be tranquilised and removed.\n\nPolice warned people to lock up their homes as the bear reportedly tried at least two other doors in the area.\n\nThey said the bear had somehow entered a laundry room in the house and managed to bolt the door from the inside.\n\nIt began ripping the room apart before apparently feeling tired and climbing into the wardrobe for a nap.", "Supporters at a rally for Mohamed Ould Ghazouani, widely seen as the frontrunner\n\nMauritania has been voting in what may result in the first democratic transition of power since the West African country achieved independence in 1960.\n\nPresident Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz seized power in a coup in 2008, but has agreed to step down and abide by a two-term limit of office.\n\nVotes are now being counted and the result should be known next week.\n\nSix candidates are competing for the presidency.\n\nThe frontrunner is Mohamed Ahmed Ould Ghazouani, the country's defence minister and a close ally of the current president, BBC West Africa correspondent Louise Dewast reports.\n\nOpposition candidates also took part in a move seen as a positive step forward, after boycotting several previous polls.\n\nThe five other candidates include former Prime Minister Sidi Mohamed Ould Boubacar, and a well-known activist and anti-slavery campaigner, Biram Dah Abeid.\n\nThe country's electoral commission promised a free and fair election, despite claims by the opposition that it was biased in favour of the governing party.\n\nMauritania's press authority said on Friday that it had received no complaints about the coverage of the campaign.\n\nThe most critical issue on the campaign trail has been the standard of living, which every candidate has promised to improve.\n\nSlavery also remains an issue. Mauritania became the final country in the world to formally abolish slavery in 1981, but it continues to this day. Criminal laws allowing slaveholders to be prosecuted were passed in 2007, but have yet to be fully and effectively enforced.\n\nAfter Mauritania achieved independence from France in 1960, the country's first president held power for 18 years before being ousted in a military coup. More coups followed in 1984, 2005 and 2008.\n\nIf Saturday's election ends with no clear winner, a run-off election is due to be held on 6 July.", "Mike Dorricott, pictured with his daughter Sarah, died in 2015\n\nConservative leadership contender Jeremy Hunt failed to keep his promise to a man with terminal cancer during his time as health secretary, an inquiry was told.\n\nMike Dorricott died in 2015 from liver cancer linked to the hepatitis C he contracted through infected blood.\n\nHis widow Ann told the inquiry into the scandal Mr Hunt had promised to \"sort out\" a settlement for victims.\n\nA spokesman for Mr Hunt said he had \"pushed for this landmark inquiry\".\n\nMr Dorricott, who died aged 47, campaigned for fair compensation for those affected by contaminated blood products before his death and met Mr Hunt, his South West Surrey MP, on numerous occasions.\n\nThe inquiry is looking at why 4,800 people with haemophilia were infected with hepatitis C or HIV in the 1970s and 1980s.\n\nMore than 2,000 are thought to have died.\n\nIt was the first strong criticism of a politician at the infected blood inquiry and it won't be the last.\n\nAnn Dorricott recalled a meeting with Jeremy Hunt and his officials in 2014 when he seemed to indicate support for the idea of a \"fair and final settlement\". Campaigners have long called for full compensation for victims and their families covering loss of earnings and recompense for their mistreatment by the NHS.\n\nCurrently they get financial support intended to cover living costs. Compensation has not been delivered in the UK as it has in Ireland, hence Ann Dorricott's view that a promise had been broken. A spokesperson for Mr Hunt said he had increased financial support since the meeting and pushed for the inquiry.\n\nAs the hearings continue this year and next, former health secretaries will be called to give evidence and the former Prime Minister Sir John Major. The inquiry will probe the Government's handling of what's been called the worst treatment disaster in the history of the NHS.\n\nMrs Dorricott told the inquiry, sitting in Leeds, that a meeting had been held shortly after her husband's terminal diagnosis to discuss a \"fair and final settlement\" for the victims.\n\n\"When Mike told the room that it was terminal, Mike got very upset, very emotional,\" she said.\n\n\"Towards the end of the meeting, Jeremy Hunt came to myself and Mike, shook our hands and said to us, 'don't worry about this, we'll sort it'.\n\nThis sign was placed outside Jeremy Hunt's constituency office in Surrey after Mr Dorricott's death\n\nCounsel to the inquiry, Jenni Richards, asked Mrs Dorricott about her witness statement.\n\n\"You say in your statement this 'since that meeting he has not fulfilled his promise'. That is your view and that was Mike's view?\"\n\nA spokesman for Mr Hunt, currently foreign secretary, said: \"The Dorricott family are among thousands who have faced tragedy as a result of this appalling injustice.\n\n\"As well as increasing the financial support for victims, Jeremy pushed for this landmark inquiry because those affected have a right to know what went wrong and why.\"\n\nThe family said Mr Dorricott, who had mild haemophilia, had been given a contaminated blood product in 1982 during routine dental surgery in Huddersfield near his home in West Yorkshire.\n\nHe would only discover he had hepatitis C almost 25 years later, and numerous treatments and two liver transplants followed before he was told his condition was terminal in 2014.\n\n\"We tried to lead a normal life for the girls, but it was just out of our control,\" Mrs Dorricott told the inquiry.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The singer was presented with the award at France's presidential palace\n\nSir Elton John has been awarded France's highest civilian award, the Legion d'Honneur.\n\nThe British musician was presented with the award by President Emmanuel Macron during a ceremony at the Élysée Palace.\n\nPresident Macron's office praised Sir Elton, 72, as a \"melodic genius\" and as one of the first gay artists to give a voice to the LGBT community.\n\nHe used his acceptance speech to promote his charity work.\n\nThe performer's charity, The Elton John Aids Foundation, has generated more than £310m for HIV prevention, education and support.\n\nDuring his speech he said how important the battle against AIDS was to him: \"Like music, the fight against AIDS has been my passion for many many years.\n\n\"And like music this fight reminds me every day of the extraordinary power of the human spirit.\n\n\"And that things that bind us are stronger than those that divide us. It is this magical human spirit I will carry with me as a proud member of the Legion d'Honneur.\"\n\nSir Elton and President Macron hugged during the ceremony\n\nHe added: \"I have a huge love affair with France: I have a house here, I've always loved coming here, I love the French culture, the way of life and the French people.\"\n\nThe honour comes a month after the release of the Rocketman biopic.\n\nSir Elton was in France as part of his farewell tour.\n\nLast year the pop legend announced he would be giving up touring to spend more time with his family.\n\nHe said he would say goodbye to fans with a final world tour, Farewell Yellow Brick Road, which includes more than 300 concerts over five continents.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The latest Bond film is being filmed at Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire\n\nA man has been arrested after a concealed camera was discovered in the women's toilets at the studios where the next James Bond film is being shot.\n\nPolice said they were investigating a report of voyeurism after the device was found at Pinewood Studios.\n\nFilming is under way for the 25th edition of the British spy franchise, starring Daniel Craig.\n\nThames Valley Police said a 49-year-old had been arrested over the incident and remains in police custody.\n\nA spokeswoman for Pinewood Studios said: \"We take this issue very seriously. We have reported the incident to the police and are supporting them with their investigation.\"\n\nThe device was discovered earlier this week, said police.\n\nOn Thursday the Prince of Wales visited the site at Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, and met Bond stars Craig and Ralph Fiennes, as well as director Cary Fukunaga.\n\nPrince Charles visited the James Bond set on Thursday, meeting actors Daniel Craig and Ralph Fiennes, and director Cary Fukunaga\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson refuses to answer questions about the reported row with his partner\n\nBoris Johnson has refused to answer questions about reports of a row between him and his partner in which police were called.\n\nSpeaking at a Tory Party hustings in Birmingham, Mr Johnson said people did not \"want to hear\" about the reported row between him and Carrie Symonds.\n\nThe Guardian had said Ms Symonds was heard telling the Tory MP to \"get off me\" and \"get out of my flat\".\n\nPolice said they spoke to all occupants of the address, who were safe and well.\n\nIn the first of 16 hustings events, Mr Johnson and Jeremy Hunt made their pitches to an audience of party members to succeed Theresa May as prime minister.\n\nMr Johnson was asked about the incident a number of times by hustings moderator Iain Dale, an LBC radio presenter, but each time avoided answering the question.\n\nAfter being accused by Mr Dale of ducking the question, Mr Johnson did not respond directly, instead saying: \"People are entitled to ask me what I want to do for the country.\"\n\nBoris Johnson told members of the audience not to boo Iain Dale\n\nMr Dale pressed again, telling Mr Johnson: \"If the police are called to your home it makes it everyone's business.\n\n\"You are running for the office of not just Conservative Party leader, but prime minister, so a lot of people who admire your politics do call into question your character, and it is incumbent on you to answer that question.\"\n\nIn response, Mr Johnson accepted this was \"a fair point\" and said he \"was a man who keeps to political promises\".\n\nPressed another two times on the issue, Mr Johnson said it was \"pretty obvious from the foregoing\" he would not be making further comments on the incident.\n\nMr Dale was jeered by members of the audience at one point during the exchange, but Mr Johnson responded by telling the crowd \"not to boo the great man\".\n\nCarrie Symonds pictured with Mr Johnson's father, Stanley, at a demonstration earlier this year\n\nThe report of the row between Mr Johnson and Ms Symonds in the Guardian said a neighbour had told the newspaper they heard a woman screaming followed by \"slamming and banging\" in the early hours of Friday.\n\nIt said that in the recording - heard by the Guardian, but not by the BBC - Mr Johnson was refusing to leave the flat and telling the woman to \"get off\" his laptop before there was a loud crashing noise.\n\nMs Symonds is reported to be heard saying that the MP had ruined a sofa with red wine, adding: \"You just don't care for anything because you're spoilt. You have no care for money or anything.\"\n\nThe neighbour who made the recording has since come forward to explain his reasons for contacting the Guardian about the row.\n\nTom Penn, 29, said he and his wife had concerns for their neighbour's safety.\n\nHe told the paper: \"Once clear that no one was harmed, I contacted the Guardian, as I felt it was of important public interest.\n\n\"I believe it is reasonable for someone who is likely to become our next prime minister to be held accountable for all of their words, actions and behaviours.\n\n\"I, along with a lot of my neighbours all across London, voted to remain within the EU. That is the extent of my involvement in politics.\"\n\nA poster opposite Boris Johnson's London home shows not everyone supports his leadership bid\n\nMr Johnson's relationship with Ms Symonds - a former director of communications for the Conservative party - became public after Mr Johnson and his wife, Marina Wheeler, announced they were divorcing in 2018.\n\nMs Symonds was seen in the audience during Mr Johnson's leadership campaign launch on 12 June.\n\nNobody can say that Conservative Party members don't have a choice.\n\nThe contrast between the two candidates to be their new leader and the UK's next prime minister was clear to see on stage in Birmingham.\n\nBoth men gave performances which reaffirmed their strengths and weaknesses as politicians.\n\nBoris Johnson delivered soaring rhetoric, swerved the specifics and worked the room with cheeky asides and shameless flattery.\n\nJeremy Hunt stressed his serious side, played it straight and gave carefully considered answers.\n\nMr Johnson looked a little uncomfortable at times, asking at one point \"how much longer have we got?\"\n\nMr Hunt seemed keen to convey a softer side - his best friend coming out on the last day of school was one of many anecdotes.\n\nSupporters of each will have likely left the event further convinced that their favourite is the man for the job - and those yet to decide have some food for thought.", "Police have suspended work with the UK's biggest private forensic company following a cyber-attack on the firm.\n\nThe suspension has led to delays in forensic testing, which could impact on court cases.\n\nEurofins Forensic Services carries out DNA testing, toxicology analysis, firearms testing and computer forensics for police forces across the UK.\n\nIts parent company, Eurofins, suffered a ransomware attack on 1 or 2 June, which is under criminal investigation.\n\nRansomware is a computer virus that prevents users from accessing their system or personal files and demands ransom payment in order to unlock access.\n\nIt is the latest in a series of major forensic science problems to hit police forces since the closure of the government-owned service in England and Wales in 2012.\n\nAn emergency police response has been put in place, led by the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC), which took the decision to \"temporarily suspend\" all submissions to Eurofins.\n\nEurofins, which caters for over 50% of the UK market, deals with over 70,000 criminal cases in the UK each year.\n\nA group of senior officers will ensure the most serious crimes are given priority, as well as ensuring other forensic providers aren't overloaded with submissions.\n\n\"Our priority is to minimise the impact on the criminal justice system,\" said the NPCC lead for forensics, Chief Constable James Vaughan.\n\n\"It is too early to fully quantify the impact but we are working at pace with partners to understand and mitigate the risks.\"\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service said a police investigation was ongoing, but at this stage there was \"no evidence to suggest that previous convictions were unsafe\".\n\nA spokesperson added: \"The CPS is assessing current cases to identify any impact on criminal trials as a result of this attack, and will ensure all necessary action is taken to allow them to proceed fairly.\"\n\nEurofins said the attack \"caused disruption to many of its IT systems in several countries\" in a statement on it website.\n\nIt said it believed the attack was carried out by \"highly sophisticated well-resourced perpetrators\" and the ransomware involved appears to have been a \"new malware variant\".\n\nThe National Crime Agency is conducting an investigation into the cyber attack, supported by the National Cyber Security Centre.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"We are working closely with law enforcement and justice partners to investigate the sources of the attack and minimise any impact on our criminal justice system.\"\n\nForensic science work has been carried out by private firms and police laboratories in England and Wales since the closure of the government's Forensic Science Service in 2012.\n\nLast year 40 drug-driving offences were quashed and thousands of cases were reviewed after data was allegedly manipulated at Randox Testing Services.\n\nAnother company - Key Forensic Services - collapsed in January 2018, while the Met Police also had to carry out a review after a forensic scientist apparently botched examinations.\n\nEurofins has seven laboratories in the UK - Teddington, south-west London; Leeds Dock, in Leeds; Risley, Cheshire; Wakefield, west Yorkshire; Culham, Oxfordshire; Fordham, Cambridgeshire; Tamworth, Staffordshire.\n\nIt also provides a range of other screening services to industry, agriculture and the pharmaceutical sector. The impact on these services is unclear.", "The man was discovered injured when police were called to Exeter House in Feltham\n\nA man aged in his 20s has been shot dead at a block of flats in south-west London.\n\nThe victim was discovered seriously injured when armed police were called to Exeter House, Watermill Way, Feltham, at 23:05 BST on Friday.\n\nHe was treated by paramedics but died at the scene shortly after. His next of kin have been told.\n\nScotland Yard said nobody else was injured in the shooting and no arrests have been made.\n\nA post-mortem examination will take place \"in due course\", the force said.\n\nA crime scene remains in place around the block of flats\n\nIn a separate attack, a 17-year-old boy was left in a critical condition after being stabbed on a north London street.\n\nThe teenager was taken to an east London hospital following the attack on Goswell Road at 23:10.\n\nNo arrests have been made. Police said the victim's family have been informed.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Some things in life are difficult. Like attempting to learn the drums in your '50s, or, consequently, having to readjust to new neighbours. And there are some things in life that are really difficult, like ordering food in an unfamiliar language and then trying to persuade your 10-year-old child to eat boiled goat's testicles in a restaurant without making a fuss.\n\nBut there are some things in life considered so difficult that conventional wisdom deems them nigh on impossible. Such as walking on air, or transferring Joseph Heller's 1961 classic novel Catch-22 from page to screen.\n\nMike Nichol proved the sages right with his unconvincing 1970 film adaptation, but that was before today's golden age of slow-burn television where there is both the time and the money available to tell the fragmented, intricate story of an American Air squadron based on an island off the west coast of Italy during World War Two.\n\nCatch-22 by Joseph Heller was published in 1961, and hailed by one critic as \"the greatest satirical work in the English language\"\n\nHeller's novel was made into a film in 1970, starring Jon Voight and Anthony Perkins, and directed by Mike Nichols\n\nThe good news for the production's backers was the multi-talented George Clooney was willing to help take the strain as a performer, a producer and a director of this Channel 4/Hulu six-part television adaptation by scriptwriters Luke Davies and David Michôd.\n\nClooney plays General Scheisskopf, a cartoon character of a part, which sees the Oscar-winning actor hamming it up as the cliched all-shouting, all-sneering parade ground bully who yells at those under his command for being a \"bunch of pansies\" etc.\n\nIt is little more than a cameo, but enough I suppose to enable the publicity department to place his face all over the marketing materials.\n\nClooney, who also directed two episodes, says the themes still resonate -- with people fighting \"against the system, and the system almost always winning\"\n\nHugh Laurie has a similar sized role as the sniffily detached Major de Coverley, a minor part that also offers slim pickings for another very able actor. But he succeeds, you'll be delighted to see, in wringing every last drop of surreal humour from the pompous patrician whose denouement is to die for, so to speak.\n\nThe heavy lifting falls to Christopher Abbott, who puts in an admirably restrained performance as main protagonist and anti-hero: the reluctant B25 bombardier John 'Yo-Yo' Yossarian.\n\nThe unwilling serviceman is just about to reach the number of flying missions required to be discharged when the quota is suddenly raised and his homecoming hopes dashed.\n\nUnderstandably, he is annoyed. And then it happens again. And again.\n\nChristopher Abbott plays Yossarian, who is desperate to escape his bomber squadron\n\nIn fact, every time he is about to fulfil his perilous airborne obligations the bar is raised and he's back up in the clouds and in harm's way; an actor in the Mediterranean theatre of war, not a player in his local bar.\n\nBut then he hears you can be discharged from duties if you are certified insane. So, off he goes to see Doc Daneeka (Grant Heslov) to plead to be signed off.\n\nNo can do, the doc says, before explaining that if Yossarian tells him he is so crazy that he must be withdrawn from duty he can't really be mad because requesting to be removed from imminent and obvious life-threatening danger is a wholly sane thing to do.\n\nYossarian (Christopher Abbott) tries to persuade Doc Daneeka (Grant Heslov) to declare him insane so he doesn't have to fly more missions\n\nAnd so the pressure mounts as does the body count and number of missions our gloomy bombardier must fly as decreed by the increasingly maniacal Colonel Cathcart (played by a slightly too absurdist Kyle Chandler).\n\nYossarian's existential anxiety turns into a tormented inner frustration at the way in which he is convinced the Kafkaesque system is designed to thwart him, deny his freedom of choice, and ultimately lead to his death. Walking back to base one day, he shares his personal philosophy with a colleague:\n\n\"The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he is on, and that includes Cathcart.\"\n\nIt is a great line taken straight from Heller's novel, to which the TV series is largely faithful.\n\nKyle Chandler says his character Colonel Cathcart, the base commander who keeps increasing the number of flying missions -- has no \"grasp on reality\"\n\nBut fans of the book might be disappointed by how much of the complexity and texture of Heller's time-shifting, fractured creation has been flattened out by a production team opting for a traditional chronological narrative told from a single perspective.\n\nIt is a structural decision that undermines one of Heller's main themes, which is the nature of memory and the notion of deja vu. The linear approach also creates an artistic problem. Heller used repetition both for purposes of symbolism, and also as a central storytelling device. With each shift back or forth in time, he added some new information, which would eventually pay off jokes and plot lines set up long before.\n\nIt is that intricacy, humour and authorial dexterity that make the book so rewarding to read. Without those temporal changes the repetition device as deployed in the TV version is less effective, and at worse - as with the majority of flying scenes - boring.\n\nMaybe simplification was the only way Catch-22 was going to work on television. If so, it reflects mess officer Milo Minderbinder's (Daniel David Stewart) M&M enterprise, which, thankfully, brings the book's biting satire to life on the screen.\n\nJoseph Heller said \"I think the whole society is nuts - and the question is: What does a sane man do in an insane society?\"\n\nMajor de Coverley (Hugh Laurie) is being tempted with a lamb chop by Milo Minderbinder (Daniel David Stewart), so he can be made Mess Officer\n\nHis commercial imperatives influence decision-making among the airbase's military leaders, and not - as is their stated aim - military strategy.\n\nAnd therein lies the crux of the story, it is not simply a question of what matters, but of what matters to whom. Minderbinder knows how to play the system, Yossarian does not.\n\nDoomed to exist in a never-ending cycle of fear and loneliness.\n\nYou can see that in this TV series, but you never actually feel it.", "The crisis began when oil tankers were attacked in the Strait of Hormuz\n\nForeign Office minister Andrew Murrison will call for \"urgent de-escalation\" of regional tensions during talks with the Iranian government in Tehran on Sunday.\n\nThe US has accused Iran of attacking oil tankers, and President Trump warned Iran faces \"obliteration\" in a war.\n\nOn Thursday he called off airstrikes with 10 minutes to spare, after Iran shot down a US drone.\n\nThe Foreign Office said that Dr Murrison will criticise Iran's \"regional conduct\" on the short visit.\n\nIt added the UK still supported the Iranian nuclear deal - that Mr Trump ditched in 2018.\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"The UK has an ongoing diplomatic dialogue with Iran.\n\n\"At this time of increased regional tensions and at a crucial period for the future of the nuclear deal, this visit is an opportunity for further open, frank and constructive engagement with the government of Iran.\n\n\"Dr Murrison will call for urgent de-escalation in the region and raise UK and international concerns about Iran's regional conduct and its threat to cease complying with the nuclear deal, to which the UK remains fully committed.\"\n\nIt comes as reports said the US launched a cyber-attack on Iranian weapons systems on Thursday.\n\nAccording to the Washington Post, the attack disabled computer systems controlling rocket and missile launchers.\n\nThe New York Times said it was in retaliation for Iran's shooting down of the US drone and attacks on oil tankers that the US has blamed Iran for.\n\nFormer Labour Foreign Secretary David Miliband said the UK should be \"very worried\" about the \"real prospect of a war\".\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, he said such a conflict would become a \"contagion across the region\".\n\n\"There are people in the senior reaches in the US administration who want a war with Iran, and there are people on the Iranian side who are itching to get at the Americans too.\n\n\"A war between US and Iran would not be restricted to the US and Iran,\" he concluded.\n\nTensions have been escalating between the Iran and the US after Mr Trump unilaterally pulled out of a 2015 nuclear deal aimed at curbing Iran's nuclear activities.\n\nIran shot down the unmanned aircraft on Thursday morning. Washington and Tehran dispute whether it was in international airspace at the time.\n\nThe shooting down of the drone followed accusations by the US that Iran had attacked two oil tankers with mines last Thursday just outside the Strait of Hormuz, in the Gulf of Oman.\n\nThe president said he called off the air strikes after being told 150 Iranians would be killed.\n\nSpeaking to NBC on Friday, President Trump said the US was open to talks with Iran but would not allow it to develop nuclear weapons.\n\nIran recently announced it will soon exceed international agreed limits on its nuclear programme.\n\nAlso on Dr Murrison's agenda is likely to be the plight of British citizen Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who was jailed by an Iranian court for five years in 2016 over a disputed spying conviction.\n\nHer husband, Richard Ratcliffe, who is on day eight of a hunger strike outside the Iranian Embassy, said the foreign minister's visit was \"really helpful\".\n\n\"I'm not sure if I'm hopeful, but certainly will be watching very closely to see how things develop and what comes back,\" he added.\n\n\"The sooner the British government's able to work with the Iranian government and find a resolution, [the] better for our family.\"", "Boris Johnson brought the spotlight to Ballymena when he opened a plant to build parts for his \"Boris buses\"\n\nAs the race to be the next Tory leader is whittled down to the final two candidates, here is what a Boris Johnson or a Jeremy Hunt premiership could mean for Northern Ireland.\n\nMr Johnson's main link to Northern Ireland used to be his red buses.\n\nIn 2013, the then London mayor opened a Wrightbus plant in Ballymena, County Antrim, where parts for them are made.\n\nFew would have bet that within six years he would be a frontrunner to become prime minister.\n\nBattling him for the keys to Number 10 is Mr Hunt, the foreign secretary who insists he's best placed to strengthen the union of the United Kingdom.\n\nBut what are their positions on central issues such as the political crisis in Stormont, the Tories' confidence-and-supply partners the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) and the Irish border question?\n\nThis will be key for whoever takes over in Number 10 but both candidates face an uphill battle to get their preferred Brexit deal through Parliament.\n\nThe backstop is the insurance policy to maintain a seamless border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland: opposition to it brought Theresa May's time in office to an abrupt end.\n\nMr Johnson has referred to it as a \"monstrosity\" that wipes out the UK's sovereignty and he has called for the backstop to be removed from the withdrawal deal.\n\nHe believes the EU can be persuaded to reopen the agreement, but says the UK should still prepare for a no-deal Brexit.\n\nBoris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt both believe they can succeed where Theresa May failed\n\nMr Hunt has said the EU accepts that the backstop will never be approved by Parliament.\n\nHe maintains he has had conversations with European leaders who \"understand that the backstop will not get through Parliament - they may not have understood that before\".\n\nHe proposes sending a new negotiating team team to Brussels, which would include representatives of the European Research Group - the group of Conservative MPs who support harder forms of Brexit - and members of the DUP.\n\nMany in the Conservative Party believe a new personality at the top can change hearts and minds in Europe but the EU has insisted that the backstop is not up for renegotiation.\n\nThe DUP is keeping quiet about who it would like to see move into Downing Street.\n\nThe party is no stranger to the \"Boris effect\": the Conservative MP was the keynote speaker at the DUP conference last year.\n\nBoris Johnson sat in between the DUP leadership at the party conference last November\n\nBut it will be wary of broken promises.\n\nAt the conference, he called for the backstop to be \"junked\" but then voted for the agreement - including the backstop - during the third meaningful vote in March.\n\nThere's also the matter of renewing the confidence-and-supply pact.\n\nThe Conservatives needed the votes of the DUP's 10 MPs in order to have a working Commons majority after the 2017 Westminster election but had to agree to an extra £1bn in spending for Northern Ireland.\n\nSome Johnson-backing Tory MPs, like Daniel Kawczynski, want the next PM to call a fresh election rather than continue to be at the DUP's \"beck and call\".\n\nWhile the DUP voted against Theresa May's Brexit deal and threatened the government several times over the backstop, it is worth saying that the influence the DUP wields at Westminster is very valuable.\n\nIt will want to work with whoever becomes prime minister.\n\nJeremy Hunt would not be as closely aligned to the DUP as other members of his party.\n\nBut he has sought to paint himself as the candidate best placed to strengthen the union and win the backing of the DUP with a new Brexit deal.\n\nThe latest talks to try and restore power-sharing in Northern Ireland began in May.\n\nAlthough talks haven't broken down, there are no signs of a political breakthrough any time soon.\n\nSinn Féin and the DUP have pointed the finger at each other during the course of the talks processes\n\nIf Boris Johnson becomes PM he is likely to replace the Northern Ireland Secretary Karen Bradley - a Theresa May loyalist - with someone new.\n\nHow could that affect the ongoing talks process, which Mrs Bradley has been overseeing?\n\nUnlike unsuccessful candidate Michael Gove, who said he would personally lead talks to restore the Stormont administration, Jeremy Hunt has not made much mention of the process.\n\nIt is not clear if he would replace his cabinet colleague Mrs Bradley in the Northern Ireland brief.\n\nEarlier this year, Mr Hunt said the UK was wholly \"committed\" to the 1998 Good Friday peace agreement and many of the parties in Northern Ireland would be keen to see him live up to that.\n\nA fresh pair of eyes could possibly help move the Stormont negotiations along - but it's likely to prove as difficult to resolve as Brexit.", "Former MP Harvey Proctor was cross-examined as a witness in the trial of Carl Beech\n\nA former MP who was named a paedophile and murderer by a man later charged with making the claims up says police investigators acted in \"bad faith\".\n\nHarvey Proctor was being cross-examined as a witness in the trial of Carl Beech who is accused of lying to police about an alleged VIP paedophile ring.\n\nHe denounced a defence suggestion at Newcastle Crown Court that the claims against him \"are in fact true\".\n\nMr Beech denies 12 counts of perverting the course of justice and one of fraud.\n\nThe 51-year-old from Gloucester had claimed Mr Proctor was directly involved in two murders and multiple counts of abuse in the 1970s and 1980s.\n\nDefence lawyer Collingwood Thompson QC asked Mr Proctor in his cross-examination: \"You were a member of a paedophile ring weren't you?\"\n\nWhen it was suggested he had been part of a group of powerful people who abused children at Dolphin Square in London and other locations, Mr Proctor said: \"No sir, there was no Westminster VIP paedophile ring.\"\n\nMr Proctor, 72, told the court he was suing the Metropolitan Police and his accuser for £1m in damages.\n\nThe trial heard previously he had lost his home and job as a result of the claims.\n\nThe court heard Mr Proctor was not interviewed by police until June 2015, despite his home in the grounds of Belvoir Castle being raided by officers three months earlier.\n\n\"If they genuinely thought that I had murdered anyone, why would they have waited three-and-a-half months to interview me and then interview me on a voluntary interview but not charge?,\" Mr Proctor said.\n\n\"They're allowing a murderer to roam the streets of Leicestershire for three-and-a-half months? An absurdity, but just another absurdity in the Metropolitan Police's Operation Midland,\" he told the court.\n\nHarvey Proctor giving evidence as Carl Beech looks on\n\nOperation Midland - the investigation into Mr Beech's claims - cost £2m and ended without any charges.\n\nMr Proctor said he was reassured by officers carrying out the search of his home that the media would not be told about it.\n\nThe former Conservative MP for Billericay said it was \"quite outrageous\" that Mr Beech's police liaison officer, Det Con Danny Chatfield, was a member of the search team and told Mr Beech what was happening.\n\nMr Proctor said Mr Beech then told a reporter about the police raid.\n\nMr Proctor previously told the court the consequent intense media interest led to him losing his job at the Belvoir Castle estate. He then decided he \"wasn't safe\" in the UK and moved to Spain, the court heard.", "The parents of a Muslim convert dubbed \"Jihadi Jack\" have been found guilty of funding terrorism.\n\nJohn Letts, 58, and Sally Lane, 57, from Oxford, sent their son £223 while he was in Syria despite concerns he had joined the Islamic State group.\n\nJack Letts, who converted to Islam aged 16, first travelled to Syria in 2014.\n\nHe married and had a child with an Iraqi woman before being captured and imprisoned by Kurdish forces fighting IS in 2017.\n\nHe agreed to speak to the BBC in October last year. Only now that his parents’ trial is over can we broadcast the interview.\n\nHe spoke to the BBC's Middle East correspondent, Quentin Sommerville.", "Boris Johnson, the UK's new prime minister, was already one of the UK's most recognisable politicians.\n\nHis high profile - built up as an MP, London mayor and foreign secretary - has often seen his achievements accompanied by controversy.\n\nAs editor of the Spectator magazine and a Have I Got News For You contestant, Boris Johnson was already well known for his shambolic persona.\n\nIn 2001, he became an MP, replacing Michael Heseltine in the safe Conservative seat of Henley-on-Thames.\n\nHe was considered more liberal than many Tories. As a journalist, he had questioned the repeal of laws banning the promotion of homosexuality by local authorities. But as an MP, he changed tack and said the state should not interfere in people's lives. He also voted in favour of civil partnerships.\n\nBoris Johnson during one of his Have I Got News For You appearances, in 2004\n\nIn October 2004, then Conservative leader Michael Howard ordered him to visit Liverpool to apologise for a Spectator article accusing its residents of wallowing in \"disproportionate\" grief after Ken Bigley - an engineer from the city - was kidnapped and killed in Iraq.\n\nAnd the following month, he was sacked as shadow arts minister, amid claims he had misled Mr Howard about reports of an affair with Spectator columnist Petronella Wyatt.\n\nNevertheless, a year later, he was on the rise again - resigning from his Spectator post when new Tory leader David Cameron made him shadow higher education minister.\n\nHowever, he continued to write for the Telegraph and had to make another apology - to a whole country - after he linked Papua New Guinea to \"cannibalism and chief-killing\" in a column.\n\nBy 2007, the Henley MP had his sights set on one of the biggest jobs in UK politics.\n\nTaking over from Labour's Ken Livingstone in 2008, Boris Johnson remained London mayor until 2016. It is the longest continuous period of public office that he has held.\n\nHe's often spoken of what he considers to be his biggest achievements during that period: on crime, housing and transport.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Back Boris This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe homicide rate in London - which includes murder and manslaughter - fell from 22 per million to 12 per million people during his time as mayor. However, it was also falling during his predecessor's second term.\n\nAnd in the first few years after Mr Johnson took over, knife crime rose by over 15% - although from 2012-13 onwards it started to fall.\n\nMr Johnson had backed the police use of stop-and-search powers to tackle violent crime. And he said he would ensure police numbers would go up despite central government cuts.\n\nHome Office figures show police numbers in London rose slightly, from 31,460 to 32,125, between March 2008 and March 2016. Across England and Wales in that period the number of officers fell by 17,603.\n\nThere was an increase in the number of affordable homes built - 101,525 by the end of March 2016, of which the Greater London Authority contributed to 94,001. This was a rise compared with the two terms of Mr Livingstone, although the definition of affordable housing had changed in 2011 so the figures are not directly comparable.\n\nHe scrapped the so-called bendy buses - which he said were too big for narrow streets and encouraged fare-dodgers.\n\nIn their place, he introduced a new version of the popular Routemaster London bus - a move that was criticised as a vanity project. There were complaints about non-opening windows and problems with the hybrid engines. They also cost considerably more than a normal bus.\n\nOne of his most famous transport initiatives was the so-called \"Boris Bike\" cycle scheme, introduced in July 2010.\n\nMr Johnson regularly promoted the hire bikes by riding them himself and the number of rentals reached more than 10.3 million during his last year as mayor.\n\nHowever, critics pointed to the £11m-a-year cost of keeping the bikes on the road. Others pointed out that plans for a bike hire scheme had been announced while Mr Livingstone had been mayor.\n\nAs mayor, Mr Johnson became involved in overseeing arrangements for the 2012 Olympics, planning for which started after they were awarded to London in 2005.\n\nOne of the most memorable moments was when he got stuck on a zip wire, while celebrating the UK's first gold medal win. The Olympics were widely seen as a success and there were claims that they had provided a major economic boost.\n\nBut there were also questions raised about the Olympics' legacy, including criticism of the conversion of the Olympic Stadium into a football ground. In 2017, an independent review said the conversion had cost £323m - far more than the original estimate of £190m.\n\nThe latter part of his time as mayor saw a plan to build a garden bridge over the River Thames as a memorial to Princess Diana.\n\nThe pedestrian-only bridge, with trees and plants, which was first suggested by the actress Joanna Lumley in 1998, was to be funded by private and public money.\n\nBut it was cancelled in 2017, after a review recommended the project be scrapped - £53m had already been spent on the project; £43m of which came from the public purse.\n\nMr Johnson decided he wanted to return to Parliament before his term as mayor ended, in 2016. He won the seat of Uxbridge and South Ruislip in 2015.\n\nAfter resuming life as an MP, he declared his opposition to expanding nearby Heathrow airport, saying he would lie in front of the bulldozers.\n\nAs London mayor, he had promoted an alternative scheme, for an island airport in the Thames estuary, an idea rejected on cost and environmental grounds.\n\nBut Mr Johnson was noticeably absent when MPs subsequently voted on Heathrow expansion in June 2018, as he was on an official trip to Afghanistan.\n\nMr Johnson had been appointed foreign secretary by the new prime minister, Theresa May, in 2016.\n\nHe had also run in the Tory leadership campaign that year but dramatically pulled out after Michael Gove's surprise decision to enter the race.\n\nThe job as foreign secretary was seen as an acknowledgement of his role as a leading figure in the campaign to leave the EU.\n\nHowever, there was also some surprise at the choice, with Lib Dem leader Tim Farron saying he would \"spend more time apologising to nations he's offended\" than working as foreign secretary.\n\nAnd there were the disparaging comments about other countries and their leaders - some of which were made before he got the job.\n\nThey included a Limerick - which won a £1,000 award in 2016 - about Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and a goat. And he said the Libyan city of Sirte could be the new Dubai if \"they... clear the dead bodies away\".\n\nAs foreign secretary, Mr Johnson supported a tough line against Russia, with the expulsion of its diplomats after the poisoning of former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia Skripal.\n\nTwenty-nine countries, including the US, Canada, Australia and EU states, joined the UK, expelling more than 140 Russian diplomats in a co-ordinated move.\n\nNazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been detained in Iran since 2016\n\nBut in the case of British Iranian national Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, jailed in Iran, Mr Johnson had to apologise in Parliament.\n\nHe had said she had been teaching journalists in Iran when she had been detained, contradicting her statement that she had been on holiday at the time.\n\nHe later clarified that she had in fact been on holiday but has also said he does not believe his remarks made a difference to her plight - a claim rejected by her family.\n\nA few days after Mr Johnson made his remarks, Zaghari-Ratcliffe was summoned before an Iranian judge, to face charges of engaging in propaganda against the regime.\n\nAs foreign secretary, he also earned a rebuke from Downing Street, after comments emerged in which he had criticised close ally Saudi Arabia for engaging in proxy wars in the Middle East.\n\nNevertheless, he continued to allow sales of UK arms to Saudi Arabia, which is involved in a controversial military campaign in Yemen.\n\nIn 2018, Mr Johnson also faced criticism after writing in the Daily Telegraph that Muslim women wearing the burka \"looked like letterboxes\".\n\nBy this stage, though, he had left the government, resigning in protest at Theresa May's Brexit plan.\n\nBoris Johnson was a leading figure in the Vote Leave campaign during the 2016 EU referendum.\n\nHe became well known for his attacks on the EU and for advocating the benefits of Brexit. He declared that he was \"pro-having cake and pro-eating it\".\n\nBut it hadn't always been clear which side he would support.\n\nIn fact, while mayor of London, he'd spoken of the benefits of being in the single market.\n\nAnd in an article for the Daily Telegraph in 2013, weighing up the pros and cons of being in the EU, he had said that leaving would not solve the UK's problems.\n\nHowever, he also made clear he supported plans to ask the British people to decide about EU membership.\n\nDuring the Brexit campaign, he came under sustained criticism from those in favour of Remain, for his claims about the benefits of leaving and what he called \"taking back control\".\n\nMost controversial was a claim about how much money the UK sent to the EU. The £350m-a-week figure, which appeared on the side of a bus during the campaign, recently led to an unsuccessful attempt to prosecute him. Critics pointed out at the time that the figure was wrong as it did not take into account the UK's rebate, or indeed money subsequently spent in the UK.\n\nFor his part, Mr Johnson dismissed warnings that leaving the EU could spark a recession, describing one such study as propaganda.\n\nAnd he has continued to advocate a harder form of Brexit, sharply criticising both the deal that Mrs May agreed and her whole approach to the negotiations with the EU.\n\nHe described it as leading the UK into the \"status of a colony\", in his resignation letter, in July 2018.\n\nMr Johnson has continued to insist that the UK can and should leave the EU by 31 October, with or without a deal.", "The 50mph limits were introduced as a trial in December 2018 on the M4 past Newport and Port Talbot\n\nTemporary 50mph speed limits on two stretches of the M4 - introduced to cut air pollution through built-up areas - are to be made permanent.\n\nThe limit was reduced on the motorway and on stretches of A-road in December 2018 in an attempt to cut nitrogen dioxide emissions.\n\nThe High Court had ordered ministers to act after they failed to meet EU targets on air pollution.\n\nThe Welsh Government has now confirmed the restrictions will stay permanently.\n\nThe 50mph limits are at the M4 Port Talbot, M4 Newport, A470 Pontypridd, A483 Wrexham and A494 Deeside.\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said nitrogen dioxide levels were above legal limits and \"must be reduced\".\n\n\"It was established that a 50mph speed threshold alone was the measure that would achieve compliance in the shortest time possible,\" he said.\n\n\"The current speed limit in place will be retained through permanent traffic regulation orders and remain in force to maintain air quality standards.\"\n\nIn January 2018, the Welsh Government conceded a case brought by environmental campaign group Client Earth which said ministers had failed to meet EU targets to cut pollution.\n\nTheir campaigns and policy manager Andrea Lee urged the Welsh Government to do everything possible to meet air pollution legal limits quickly.\n\n\"Ministers could also send a clear signal with new legislation that would set legally binding targets to meet World Health Organization guideline levels by 2030,\" she said.\n\nHead of the British Lung Foundation in Wales Joseph Carter said he was \"thrilled\" the limit had been made permanent.\n\nBut he warned reduced speed limits \"will only take us so far\".\n\n\"We need to see much bolder action if we're to create the sort of change that will free us from the grip air pollution has on our health and wellbeing,\" Mr Carter said.\n\nAn AA spokesman said it was \"always the motorist that seemed to foot the bill\".\n\nHe said: \"There is all this talk of banning fossil fuel vehicles by 2040 and that sort of thing, but the move to introducing electric vehicles which are viable for people in Wales is moving at a snail's pace.\"", "A power cut that disrupted rail traffic on a Japanese island last month was caused by a slug, officials say.\n\nMore than 12,000 people's journeys were affected when nearly 30 trains on Kyushu shuddered to a halt because of the slimy intruder's actions.\n\nIts electrocuted remains were found lodged inside equipment next to the tracks, Japan Railways says.\n\nThe incident in Japan has echoes of a shutdown caused by a weasel at Europe's Large Hadron Collider in 2016.\n\nWhen the weasel took a fatal chew on wiring inside a high-voltage transformer, it caused a short circuit which temporarily stopped the work of the particle accelerator.\n\nIn Japan, local media on the trail of the slug report that it managed to squeeze through a tiny gap to get into a load disconnector.\n\nA British cousin of the ill-fated mollusc achieved notoriety in 2011, The Guardian reports, when it crawled inside a traffic light control box in the northern town of Darlington and caused a short circuit, resulting in \"traffic chaos\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Greenpeace activist says Mark Field actions 'over the top'\n\nMark Field has been suspended as a Foreign Office minister after grabbing a female Greenpeace activist at a black-tie City dinner.\n\nThe MP has apologised for confronting Janet Barker and marching her away as protesters interrupted a speech by Chancellor Philip Hammond.\n\nMs Barker suggested Mr Field \"go to anger management classes\" but said she did not intend to complain to police.\n\nMr Field said he had been \"genuinely worried\" she may have been armed.\n\nBBC home affairs correspondent Daniel Sandford said there were also \"very serious questions to be asked\" about security, as a \"large number\" of protesters had apparently managed to \"walk through\" to the event at London's Mansion House.\n\nFootage of the incident involving Mr Field has been widely shared on social media, with several Labour politicians calling for him to be sacked.\n\nA Downing Street spokeswoman said Prime Minister Theresa May had \"seen the footage\" and \"found it very concerning\".\n\nShe added that Mr Field had \"referred himself to both the Cabinet Office and the Conservative Party. He will be suspended as a minister while investigations take place.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nClimate change protesters - wearing suits, red dresses and sashes with \"climate emergency\" written on them - entered Mansion House on Thursday night, as Mr Hammond was beginning his speech on the state of the economy.\n\nOne of them began reading an alternative speech.\n\nAs Ms Barker walked past his table, Mr Field stood up, stopped her and pushed her against a column.\n\nThe Conservative MP for the Cities of London and Westminster then put a hand on the back of her neck and led her out of the room.\n\nMs Barker told the BBC the purpose of the protest had been to speak to \"men who are in power, the bankers, the investors that are continuing to invest into fossil fuels\".\n\n\"We were polite with people and said: 'We're here to deliver a message',\" she said.\n\nCity of London Police said they were looking into \"a number of third-party reports of a possible assault\".\n\n\"He certainly manhandled me in a way in which was very disagreeable,\" she said.\n\nAsked if she felt Mr Field's actions amounted to criminal assault, Ms Barker said: \"No, I don't think so. I don't want this to turn into a mud-slinging match.\"\n\nThe activist, who travelled from her home in Wales to take part in Thursday's protest, said: \"350 people were there and only one person reacted that way.\n\n\"It's more the behaviour of that individual. I want him to reflect on what he did and not do it again. Maybe he should go to anger management classes.\"\n\nProtesters dressed in black tie and red dresses crowded into the building\n\nThe City of London Corporation is to review security after protesters walked into Mansion House\n\nBefore his suspension, Mr Field told ITV News that guests had \"understandably felt threatened\" and he had \"instinctively reacted\" when Ms Barker rushed past.\n\n\"There was no security present and I was, for a split second, genuinely worried she might have been armed,\" Mr Field said.\n\nHe added: \"I deeply regret this episode and unreservedly apologise to the lady concerned for grabbing her, but in the current climate I felt the need to act decisively to close down the threat to the safety of those present.\"\n\nLabour's shadow women and equalities minister Dawn Butler tweeted: \"This is horrific... [Mark Field] must immediately be suspended or sacked.\"\n\nBut Mr Field was defended by some of his colleagues, with Conservative MP Johnny Mercer tweeting: \"He panicked, he's not trained in restraint and arrest, and if you think this is 'serious violence' you may need to recalibrate your sensitivities.\"\n\nAnother Conservative MP, Bob Stewart, told BBC Radio 4's World at One that Mr Field had \"probably\" placed his hand on Ms Barker's neck because if he had \"touched her anywhere else he'd probably have been deemed highly inappropriate\".\n\nConservative leadership contender Jeremy Hunt, who, as Foreign Secretary, is Mr Field's boss, said: \"Mark has issued a full and unreserved apology. He recognised that what happened was an over-reaction.\n\n\"In his interest and in the interest of the lady involved we need a proper [Cabinet Office] inquiry and that's what going to happen.\"\n\nThe City of London Corporation said it was investigating how security had been breached at Mansion House, adding it would be \"reviewing arrangements for future events\".", "Rylance said he was quitting to \"lend strength\" to progressive voices in the RSC\n\nActor Mark Rylance has resigned from the Royal Shakespeare Company over its sponsorship deal with oil company BP.\n\nRylance, in a resignation letter, said he was quitting to \"lend strength\" to progressive voices in the RSC.\n\nThe RSC said it is \"saddened\" by Rylance's departure but that corporate sponsorship is \"an important part\" of its funding.\n\nIn 2016, he said he was likely to quit unless the RSC dropped its ties to BP.\n\nThe oil company declined to comment on Rylance's personal choice, but said it remains committed to sustainable energy solutions and is \"proud\" of its partnership with the RSC, held since 2011.\n\nThis includes funding a £5 ticket scheme for 16-25 year olds, with around 10,000 tickets being sold through the initiative each year.\n\nRylance, an Oscar-winner and associate artist with the RSC for 30 years, has been a longstanding critic of the sponsorship agreement.\n\nIn 2012, he signed a petition stating BP's sponsorship deal allowed the company to \"obscure the destructive reality of its activities\" which he said threatened the future of the planet.\n\n\"Half the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere currently warming our planet have been emitted in the last 30 years,\" he wrote in today's resignation letter.\n\n\"BP has made the third-biggest contribution to climate change of any private company in history.\n\n\"I do not wish to be associated with BP any more than I would with an arms dealer, a tobacco salesman or anyone who wilfully destroys the lives of others alive and unborn. Nor, I believe, would William Shakespeare,\" he added.\n\nRylance last appeared on stage for the RSC in 1989, when he had the lead roles in both Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Reverend Canon Dr Rosemarie Mallett has called for churches to act\n\nChurches should provide safe havens for young people to avoid violence on the street, a south London priest has said.\n\nReverend Canon Dr Rosemarie Mallett called for churches to open their doors between 15:00 and 18:00 BST \"to have a space where young people can come\".\n\nThe Brixton-based priest said there was \"more and more need for spaces in the community\" at a time when there is \"less and less wrap-around care\".\n\nThe plan is to be debated at the Church of England's General Synod next month.\n\nMore than 100 people have been fatally stabbed in the UK so far this year, with the youngest aged 14 years old.\n\nDr Mallett, who is a prominent anti-knife crime campaigner, told the BBC churches should be \"part of the solution to what is a multi-faceted problem which needs a multi-agency response\".\n\n\"For secondary school pupils there is a need to provide a safe haven and we're calling on churches to provide that,\" she said.\n\nDr Mallett has also called for knife amnesty bins to be placed in churches.\n\nThe idea will be discussed at the church's Synod - the national assembly of the Church of England - which will meet at the University of York between 5 and 9 July.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Nine-year-old Claire Roberts died in the city's Royal Hospital for Sick Children in 1996\n\nThe death of a nine-year-old girl in Belfast's Royal Hospital for Sick Children in 1996 was caused by treatment she received in hospital, an inquest has found.\n\nClaire Roberts' death was examined by the Hyponatraemia Inquiry.\n\nBut a new inquest was ordered after the chair of the inquiry said there had been a cover-up to \"avoid scrutiny\".\n\nThe Belfast Trust said it would \"carefully consider the coroner's conclusions and recommendations\".\n\nIt said it would \"ensure that the trust learns from Claire's death\".\n\nThe inquest heard from 10 expert medical witnesses over four days of hearings.\n\nThe coroner, Joe McCrisken, said he considered, on balance, that an \"overdose\" of fluids contributed to her death.\n\nHyponatraemia is a disorder that occurs during a sodium shortage in the blood.\n\nThe family of Claire Roberts - her brother Gareth and parents Alan and Jennifer - speaking outside court on Friday\n\nSpeaking outside court, Claire's family thanked the coroner for reaching his verdict.\n\nHer father Alan said that it was \"reaffirming what we have known for 15 years\".\n\n\"The travesty of all of that is we had to go through a 15-year process culminating in a Coroner's Court and him being definitive about the cause of death.\"\n\nHe added: \"We as Claire's parents have a clear message for the Belfast Trust, the implicated doctors and the chief medical officer Dr Michael McBride - hang your heads in shame.\"\n\nHer mother, Jennifer, said she knew Claire \"would be proud of her mummy and daddy\".\n\n\"But it's a word that I want to hear today, her say to me, 'mummy, thank you, I love you'.\"\n\nThe 14-year Hyponatraemia Inquiry, chaired by Sir John O'Hara QC, examined the treatment of five children who died in Northern Ireland hospitals between 1995 and 2003.\n\nSir John concluded that four of the deaths were avoidable and said some medical witnesses who were called to give evidence \"had to have the truth dragged out of them\".\n\nClaire, from east Belfast, was admitted to hospital two days before her death, with symptoms that included vomiting and drowsiness.\n\nThe parents explained how there were \"no alarm bells\" when they brought Claire to the Royal hospital for what they thought was \"just a tummy bug\".\n\nHer death was not referred to the coroner immediately and her parents, Alan and Jennifer Roberts, had never really understood why she had died.\n\nThe inquest heard from 10 expert medical witnesses over four days of hearings this week.\n\nOn Thursday, her mother told the inquest the Belfast Health Trust had shown her family \"no empathy\" since then.\n\nHer husband Alan said the trust had refused every opportunity to be \"open and honest\" with their family.\n• None Five deaths led to 14-year quest for truth", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Hunt: \"We are democrats who want to deliver Brexit\".\n\nBoris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt have made their pitch to be the next prime minister at the first of 16 Conservative Party hustings.\n\nThe two contenders for Number 10 laid out their vision for the country at a conference in Birmingham.\n\nMr Johnson said these were \"dark days\" for his party, but insisted he could turn things around.\n\nBut his rival warned members not to elect the \"wrong person\" and risk \"catastrophe\".\n\nMr Johnson said the most important thing was to \"get Brexit done\".\n\nHe said: \"My ambition is to unite this country and our society... let's take Britain forward.\n\n\"We need to discover a new confidence in our country.\"\n\nThe former mayor of London featured on most of Saturday's newspaper front pages following reports by the Guardian that police were called to his London home after neighbours reported \"slamming and banging\" in the early hours of Friday morning.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police Service have said they will not be taking any further action following the episode.\n\nAsked by the hustings moderator, LBC presenter Iain Dale, whether character mattered when choosing a prime minister, Mr Johnson said: \"I don't think people want to hear about that.\"\n\nAccused of ducking questions, Mr Johnson said: \"People are entitled to ask me what I want to do for the country.\"\n\nHis rival, Mr Hunt, said the UK was in a \"very serious situation\".\n\nHe continued: \"Get things wrong and and there will be no Conservative government, and maybe even no Conservative Party.\n\n\"Get things right and we can deliver Brexit, unite the party and send [Labour leader Jeremy] Corbyn packing.\"\n\nBut he warned that if Tory party members elected the \"wrong person\" as leader then \"catastrophe awaits\".\n\nMr Johnson, meanwhile, said he would prepare for a no-deal Brexit if he became PM.\n\nHe said: \"We must be able to come out on WTO terms, so that for the first time in these negotiations we carry conviction.\n\n\"And it is precisely because we will be preparing between now and 31 October for a no-deal Brexit that we will get the deal we need.\"\n\nHe repeated his previous claim that it was \"eminently feasible\" for the UK to leave the EU by 31 October, saying he intended to make it happen.\n\nThat is the date that the EU's membership extension runs out, and if nothing has changed, the UK leaves without a deal.\n\nTheresa May officially stood down as Tory leader on 7 June and will cease to be prime minister in the week commencing 22 July.\n\nAn initial list of 10 candidates to replace her was whittled down to Mr Hunt and Mr Johnson in a vote by Tory MPs.\n\nIn the fifth and final round on Thursday, Boris Johnson came out on top with 160 out of the 313 votes cast. Mr Hunt received 77 votes and Michael Gove was knocked out with 75.\n\nOne questioner at the hustings wanted to know whether Mr Johnson's approach to British business in the context of Brexit was as \"cavalier and careless\" as previously, when he used an expletive.\n\nHe replied: \"I believe passionately in UK businesses, and as foreign secretary I spent a lot of my time promoting UK businesses at home abroad.\"\n\nJeremy Hunt insisted he would leave the EU with no deal if necessary\n\nJeremy Hunt insisted he would leave the EU with no deal if necessary.\n\nHe said: \"I would do so with a heavy heart. But if we have to in the end I would do that.\"\n\nOf a mooted renegotiation with Brussels, he said: \"If we send the wrong person there's going to be no negotiation, no trust, no deal, and if Parliament stops that, maybe no Brexit.\n\n\"Send the right person and there's a deal to be done.\"\n\nAnd challenged over the fact he campaigned for Remain in 2016, the would-be premier said: \"Look at my record since that referendum.\n\n\"I have been very clear on every occasion... I have voted for Brexit.\"\n\nIn another jibe at his rival, Mr Hunt warned members not to elect a Conservative \"populist\" to oppose \"hard-left populist\" Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nReferring to himself, he said: \"Or we could do better and choose our own Jeremy.\"\n\nHe continued: \"If Corbyn gets into Downing Street there will never be Brexit.\n\n\"That's why it's so important that we hold together our Conservative and DUP family and deliver Brexit.\"\n\nMr Hunt said he would increase defence spending and called for Conservatives to have a \"social mission\", focusing on social care for older people.\n\nHe also vowed to get more young people voting Tory.\n\nAnd he promised: \"I will never provoke a general election before we have left the EU.\"\n\nMembers will receive their ballots between 6 and 8 July, with the new leader expected to be announced in the week beginning 22 July.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nAndy Murray reached the doubles final at Queen's as the Briton's dream return to tennis continued five months after career-saving hip surgery.\n\nHe and Feliciano Lopez beat third seeds John Peers and Henri Kontinen 7-5 6-7 (5-7) 10-7.\n\nIt was a third match of the day for Lopez, who reached the singles final before heading straight out to resume their suspended doubles quarter-final.\n\nThey play Britain's Joe Salisbury and American Rajeev Ram in Sunday's final.\n\nAfter completing a 6-4 7-6 (7-3) win over Britons Dan Evans and Ken Skupski in a quarter-final that had been suspended on Friday for bad light, they stayed on court to play the semi-final.\n\n\"I'm very happy to be in the final,\" Murray said.\n\n\"It was a good match. It was an unbelievable effort from Feliciano. He's played a lot of tennis in the last couple of games. He's not young any more!\"\n\nLopez, 37, takes on 34-year-old Gilles Simon in Sunday's singles final (13:30 BST) before returning to the court for the doubles final with Murray.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n\nIn his three matches at his first tournament since having his hip resurfaced in January, Murray has looked sharp.\n\nGone is the limp and the grimace that accompanied his obvious discomfort at times pre-surgery.\n\nInstead a relaxed and smiling Murray has returned - and while it is clear he is enjoying simply being back on court, it is also clear that his competitive desire is as great as ever.\n\nA fist pump and roar greeted the ace that sealed the opening set, while in the sixth game of the second set, where he and Lopez were 15-40 down at 1-4, he unleashed a fantastic forehand return that was key to them eventually holding serve.\n\nThey broke in the following game and took it into a tie-break, where they were just edged out.\n\nWith questions over when fatigue might creep in for Lopez - and when a lack of match fitness might begin to show for Murray against two doubles specialists - they drew enough strength to push themselves over the finishing line, sealing victory when the Spaniard's serve was not returned.\n\nMurray, who has won the singles title at Queen's five times, will now have the chance to add the doubles crown - five months after a tearful news conference in Australia where he was revealing his retirement plans.\n\nMurray, whose last doubles title was eight years ago in Tokyo alongside brother Jamie, is playing at Eastbourne next week, where he is swapping Lopez for Brazilian partner Marcelo Melo.\n\nThe former world number one and three-time Grand Slam singles champion is then scheduled to partner France's Pierre-Hugues Herbert in the doubles at Wimbledon next month.\n\nBut the Scot's mixed doubles partner is yet to be decided for his return to Grand Slam tennis at the All England Club.\n\nWhile all the attention has been on Murray's return, compatriot Joe Salisbury has flown under the radar and into the final.\n\nThe 27-year-old and American Ram claimed a shock 7-6 (7-4) 7-6 (10-8) victory against fourth-seeded American brothers Bob and Mike Bryan in their semi-final.\n\nBob Bryan, who has won 16 men's doubles Grand Slams, returned to tennis at the beginning of this year after having the same hip surgery as Murray in 2018.\n\nSalisbury has three doubles titles to his name, winning the most recent one with Ram in Dubai in March.\n\nThe pair also reached the Brisbane International final in January.\n\nThey are doubles specialists but since Murray and Lopez knocked out top seeds Robert Farah and Juan Sebastien Cabal in the opening round here, that is unlikely to bother the Scot and the Spaniard.\n\nThere were understandable signs of fatigue in Lopez after his three-set singles semi-final win, but with Murray alongside - bursting with energy and intent - he was able to rouse himself to win a third match of the day.\n\nIt was a chilly evening and Lopez had eaten very little for several hours. The pair lost their way at times in the second set, but were not to be denied in the match tie-break.\n\nWhat a week this has been for Murray, who on Sunday has the chance to win his first doubles title for eight years.\n\nAnd what a week for Lopez: a 37-year-old wildcard, with a chance on Sunday to do the double.", "US President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner has unveiled the first section of the US Middle East peace plan.\n\nFocusing on economics, it envisages more than half of a $50bn (£39bn) fund being spent in the Palestinian territories over 10 years.\n\nThe plan will be presented at a conference in Bahrain next week, but the Palestinian Authority has said it will boycott the event, having refused to engage with Mr Trump since the US recognised Jerusalem in 2017.", "Boris Johnson has refused to answer questions about his private life, after police were called to a reported row with his girlfriend.\n\nPolice were called to the Conservative leadership candidate's London home in the early hours of Friday after neighbours reportedly heard a loud argument.\n\nOn Saturday afternoon in Birmingham, at the first of 16 Conservative Party hustings, LBC's Iain Dale pressed Mr Johnson on the incident.", "Four explosions woke south Philadelphia residents in the early hours on Friday after the Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery complex, the largest of its kind on the East Coast, caught fire. Workers were on site at the time, but no one was seriously injured. Officials have yet to explain the cause.", "People with hidden disabilities, such as dementia, may soon by able to access blue badge parking permits in England.\n\nThe scheme is being extended to include drivers and passengers with conditions such as autism or anxiety disorders - although eligibility will be decided by the local council.\n\nBlue badge permits help disabled people to access goods and services, by allowing them to park close to their destination.\n\nThe change will come into force on 30 August, the government said.\n\nScotland and Wales have already implemented similar rules to include some mental impairments, but the criteria are yet to be altered in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe government said it would provide an extra £1.7m to help councils cope with the expected increase in applications.\n\nAbout 2.35 million people in the UK have blue badge permits because they have physical mobility difficulties or are registered blind.\n\nThe scheme means people with physical disabilities can park closer to their destination, making everyday tasks easier and reducing loneliness and isolation.\n\nUnder the new guidance, permits will be extended to those with hidden disabilities, including:\n\nTransport Secretary Chris Grayling said he hoped the change would make \"a real difference to people's lives\".\n\n\"As a society we don't do enough for people with hidden disabilities,\" he said.\n\nThe government wants to improve public understanding so people whose disabilities are not visible will be able to use the badges without fear of being challenged unfairly.\n\nThe changes follow an 8-week consultation in 2018 and forms part of the government's drive for greater parity between physical and mental health.\n\nMinister for Disabled People Justin Tomlinson said the extension of a scheme was a \"watershed moment\" with would allow people to travel \"with greater ease and live more independent lives\".\n\nA review will also be launched to look at how councils can tackle fraudulent use of blue badge permits and improve the consistency of council enforcement.\n\nMore than 4,000 badges were stolen last year and councils prosecuted over 1,200 cases of misuse.\n\nBut 60% of councils did not pursue anyone for fraud, research found.\n\nThe review will also look at improving public awareness about the eligibility rules for badges - when it can and cannot be used - and how to return a badge when it is no longer needed, such as when the holder dies.\n\nThe Local Government Association (LGA), which represents councils in England and Wales, said the review would help it \"crack down on dishonest motorists\".", "ACM cladding has been widely used on high rises, including Grenfell Tower\n\nThe £200m bill to replace Grenfell Tower-type cladding on about 150 private high-rise blocks in England is to be met by the government.\n\nHousing Secretary James Brokenshire had previously said the bill should be footed by the owners, not the taxpayer.\n\nBut he said owners had been trying to offload the costs on to leaseholders and that the long wait for remedial work had caused anxiety for residents.\n\nLeaseholder groups said the news would be a \"relief\" but more was needed.\n\nSeventy-two people died when a fire destroyed Grenfell Tower, in west London, in June 2017, in one of the UK's worst modern disasters.\n\nIt took minutes for the fire to race up the exterior of the building, and spread to all four sides.\n\nA public inquiry into the fire heard evidence to support the theory that the highly combustible material in the cladding was the primary cause of the fire's spread.\n\nLatest government figures show that 166 private residential buildings out of the 176 identified with aluminium composite material (ACM) cladding - the same type used on Grenfell Tower - are yet to start work on removing and replacing it.\n\nMr Brokenshire admitted he had changed his mind on demanding that freeholders pay up for safety work.\n\nHe said some building owners had tried to pass on the costs to residents by threatening them with bills running to thousands of pounds.\n\n\"What has been striking to me over recent weeks is just the time it is taking and my concern over the leaseholders themselves - that anxiety, that stress, that strain, and seeing that we are getting on and making these buildings safe.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mr Di Giuseppe: \"We're living in an unsafe building\"\n\nAlex Di Giuseppe, a leaseholder in a block with unsafe cladding in Manchester, said he has been dealing with the developer, freeholder and management agent but had got nowhere.\n\n\"It's taken its toll. We've been living in an unsafe building and we've had these huge costs placed upon our heads. The stress is insurmountable.\n\n\"If this was a car with an airbag issue, it would be recalled.\"\n\nMr Brokenshire said some building owners and developers were doing \"the right thing\".\n\nPemberstone, Aberdeen Asset Management, Barratt Developments, Fraser Properties, Legal & General and Mace and Peabody were named as having fully borne the costs for their buildings.\n\n72 people died in the Grenfell Tower fire in 2017\n\nGrenfell United, a group of survivors and the bereaved, said the news offered hope to people feeling at risk at home.\n\n\"This result is a testament to residents themselves. The truth is we should never have had to fight for it,\" the group said.\n\nIt asked the government to consider financial support for residents as they continue night watches and wait for the remediation work to begin.\n\nRachel Loudain, from the UK Cladding Action Group, said leaseholders had exhausted all other options before the government stepped in to pay for the work.\n\n\"No developer was taking responsibility, no freeholder, we didn't have any option legally or any option with insurance,\" she said.\n\nThe group welcomed the news but pointed out that \"many, many\" leaseholders and social housing tenants living in blocks with other forms of unsafe cladding would be excluded from this help.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rachel Loudain from the UK Cladding Action Group: \"Nothing we could do to ensure building owners would pay\"\n\n\"Fire does not distinguish between the different types of failed cladding out there. This inadequate response will be looked back on in shame when the next Grenfell tragedy occurs,\" the group said.\n\nLabour accused the government of being \"frozen like a rabbit in the headlights\" in its response to the Grenfell disaster.\n\n\"Too weak and too slow to act at every stage and on every front,\" the shadow housing secretary John Healey said.\n\nThe government has already committed to funding replacement cladding in the social sector. There are currently 23 blocks still covered in it.\n\nOwners of private buildings will have three months to claim the funds, with one condition being that they take \"reasonable steps\" to recover the costs from those responsible for the cladding.", "Ben Raemers has been described as one of the greatest British skateboarders ever. Last month he killed himself. His death has caused the soon-to-be Olympic sport to ask some difficult questions about mental health.\n\nBen Raemers was 10 when he first jumped on a skateboard, while living in his mum's flat in Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex.\n\nLike a lot of boys his age, he fell in love with the sport straightaway.\n\nHe bought his first skateboard at Argos, and within a few years, was regarded as one of the best skateboarders in the world.\n\n\"He saw these people skateboarding and he was like, 'Oh wow, that looks really fun,'\" his sister Lucy says.\n\n\"Then he came home and asked mum for a skateboard.\"\n\nIt quickly became obvious that Ben had a special talent.\n\nHe impressed friends and family with the ease with which he was able to do complicated tricks.\n\nHis interest in supporting his local skateboarding community soon got him noticed too.\n\n\"He got a petition started to get a skate park built at home. From then on, he was obsessed,\" Lucy says.\n\nLee Blackwell was friends with Ben for 18 years.\n\nHe was one of the first people to help Ben develop his skateboarding, taking him to some of the UK's biggest competitions when he was just 14.\n\n\"People really noticed Ben, you could not ignore him. He was just that good,\" says Lee.\n\nBen was 18 when he started to garner attention in America, competing and getting support from big brands, including shoe company Converse and skateboarding firm Enjoi.\n\n\"It is not common for British names to gain commercial success with huge American brands,\" says James Threlfall, a professional skateboarder.\n\n\"He is one of the most successful British skaters to ever cross over to America.\"\n\nBen was one of the few British skaters to be featured on the front cover of the most influential skateboarder magazine, Thrasher.\n\n\"One of his biggest achievements was winning the King of the Road competition,\" Lucy says.\n\n\"That was insane. He was doing tricks barefoot. No-one else was doing that.\"\n\nOr catch up with The Next Episode podcast online.\n\nLast week, skateboarders from around the world came together for his funeral.\n\nLeo Sharp, a skateboarder and photographer, said the loss of Ben has hit the skateboarding community hard.\n\n\"He was like a brother to so many skateboarders worldwide,\" he says. \"He will be sorely missed.\"\n\nHis death has also left some questions to be answered.\n\nBefore his death, Lucy says Ben had been struggling with mental health problems.\n\n\"He would ring me and say, 'I'm suicidal'. He was drinking loads. He was up and down the whole time. He tried to get help but he didn't want it and he just plummeted.\"\n\nLucy says there is a problem specific to the sport.\n\n\"Skateboarding involves a rock and roll lifestyle. You're skating and you're boozing. It's all fun.\n\n\"But with skateboarding you have a lot of spare time on your hands so it's easy to fall into a hole of addiction.\"\n\nBen enjoyed success in the US, appearing on the cover of skateboarding magazines\n\nHis death comes as skateboarding prepares to enter the Olympics for the first time.\n\nIt is one of five new sports that will be added to the Tokyo 2020 Games.\n\nSkateboard England, the sport's governing body, looks after both grassroots and elite skateboarders.\n\nIt has received investment from the Aspiration Fund - an initiative by the Department of Culture, Media and Sport to support skateboarders' ambitions to succeed in the 2020 Games in Tokyo.\n\nHowever, James Hope-Gill, chief executive of Skateboard England, says the body does not currently provide any mental health support for skateboarders.\n\nHe says this needs to change.\n\n\"This is certainly something we need to address and need to look at.\"\n\nLast week, BBC podcast The Next Episode featured Ben's death.\n\nSince then James says he has had a number of individuals approach him with offers of support.\n\nHe is looking to develop a mental health support system for skateboarders and is shortly sending one of his team on a \"Promoting Positive Mental Health in Sport\" workshop with Sport England.\n\nSkateboard England needs to \"explore and learn more about the mental health agenda\", he says.\n\nIf you are struggling with suicidal thoughts, contact the Samaritans on the free helpline 116 123, or click on this link to access support services.", "Hospital beds lie unwrapped while problems with vital systems such as the ventilation are rectified\n\nThe new critical care building at Belfast's Royal Victoria Hospital will open eight years late, the BBC understands.\n\nThe intensive care unit (ICU) will not become fully operational until at least autumn 2020.\n\nA consultant has described the development as \"extremely disappointing\".\n\nDr Brian McCluskey, who was involved in the original design, said patient safety must come first.\n\n\"We are all disappointed, not so much for ourselves but for our patients, because... whilst our patients are being very well cared for in the existing ICU... it would be nice if they were getting that additional privacy and dignity,\" he said\n\n\"But we know that the ICU will be open and it will be open for a very long time.\"\n\nThe 12-storey building in the grounds of the Royal Victoria Hospital has been dogged by problems.\n\nDue to open in 2012, the state-of-the art £150m building houses the Emergency Department, which opened its doors in 2015 due to winter pressures.\n\nDr Brian McCluskey said patients would be afforded greater dignity and privacy in the new building\n\nBBC News NI understands that millions of additional pounds have had to be spent correcting flaws including ripping out equipment that has become out-of-date due to the ongoing delay.\n\nAmong the questions being asked is how much, if any, the delay is costing the public purse.\n\nA spokesperson for the Department for Health said the Belfast Trust continues to update it on the delays.\n\nA spokesperson said the Belfast Trust was concerned about the continuing delay\n\n\"Whilst remedial and additional works to the facility have been necessary, costs to date remain within the approved investment for the project,\" the spokesperson added.\n\n\"As with all capital projects, the trust will be required to conduct a post-project evaluation which, in this case, will include a review of the events that took place and any lessons learned.\"\n\nDespite both the size and demand for this hospital and its services, many people seem to have forgotten about it.\n\nNumerous politicians had to be reminded about it when contacted by the BBC - and it is fair to say that both MLAs and medical unions had totally forgotten that the hospital even existed when contacted by the BBC for comment.\n\nWhile the additional costs could reach up to £10m, the BBC understands that an agreed out-of-court settlement with contractors may help provide some additional funding.\n\nThe current delay is over ventilation work being carried out on theatres in the ICU at an additional cost of over £3m.\n\nThe Royal College of Nursing's Garrett Martin expressed disappointment at the delays\n\nThe deputy director of the Royal College of Nursing, Garrett Martin, said the ongoing delay was \"incomprehensible and totally unacceptable\".\n\nMr Martin said the intensive care unit was designed to treat the sickest of patients and the fact it would not be operational for over another year was difficult to understand.\n\nThe original contractors for the building were McLaughlin and Harvey.\n\nIn 2017, when the BBC contacted them with a series of questions, they said they had no comment.\n\nAt the time, it was also reported that an internal report by the new contractors, Killowen Contracts Ltd and Michael Nugent Ltd, highlighted that new problems were being discovered on a \"regular basis\".\n\nThe BBC has contacted McLaughlin and Harvey for comment.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Cheryl Gillan announces the result with seven of the 10 candidates making it to round two\n\nBoris Johnson has secured the highest number of votes in the first MPs' ballot to select the Conservative Party leader and next prime minister.\n\nThree contenders - Mark Harper, Andrea Leadsom and Esther McVey - were knocked out in the secret ballot of Tory MPs.\n\nMr Johnson received 114 votes, significantly more than his nearest rival Jeremy Hunt, who came second with 43. Michael Gove was third with 37.\n\nSeven candidates progress to the next round of voting next week.\n\nThe two who prove most popular after the last MPs' ballot will go to Conservative Party members in a final vote later this month.\n\nThe winner of the contest to succeed Theresa May is expected to be announced in the week of 22 July.\n\nSources close to Health Secretary Matt Hancock told the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg he was \"mulling over\" whether to withdraw from the contest after coming sixth with 20 votes.\n\nHome Secretary Sajid Javid, who came fifth with 23 votes, is understood to be staying in the race for now. Some have suggested his candidacy - with support from Mr Hancock - could take on Mr Hunt to become second in the ballot.\n\nMr Johnson, a former foreign secretary who served for eight years as London mayor, said he was \"delighted\" to win but warned that his campaign still had \"a long way to go\".\n\nForeign Secretary Mr Hunt said: \"Boris did well today but what the result shows is, when it comes to the members' stage, I'm the man to take him on.\"\n\nEnvironment Secretary Mr Gove said it was \"all to play for\" and he was \"very much looking forward\" to candidates' TV debates on Channel 4 on Sunday and on BBC One next Tuesday.\n\nAll 313 Conservative MPs voted in the first ballot, including Mrs May, who refused to say whom she had backed.\n\nThe fourth-placed candidate, former Brexit secretary Dominic Raab, said he was \"proud and honoured\" and he had a \"good base to build on\".\n\nMr Javid said: \"I look forward to continuing to share my positive vision and my plan for uniting the country.\"\n\nMr Hancock thanked his supporters, saying it was \"terrific to have more votes from colleagues than I could have hoped for\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rory Stewart said: \"I don't look anything like the previous PM\", and he negotiates \"in a completely different way\"\n\nAnd International Development Secretary Rory Stewart, the seventh-placed candidate, told the BBC's Politics Live he was \"completely over the Moon\" to have got through the first vote.\n\nHe said he had had only six declared votes ahead of the poll, but \"more than three times that\" had voted for him in the secret ballot.\n\nThe margin of success took his fellow candidates by surprise - but not the core of Boris Johnson's team.\n\nAfter many, many weeks of private campaigning, introducing Boris Johnson to the world of the spreadsheet, this morning one of his organisers wrote the number 114 and sealed it in an envelope.\n\nAt lunchtime, the announcement revealed the controversial former foreign secretary had indeed received exactly that number.\n\nThat is not just a marker of the level of Mr Johnson's support but for the sometimes clownish politician, whose reputation has risen and fallen and then risen again, it's a sign that it is different this time.\n\nJustice Secretary David Gauke said Mr Stewart was now the main challenger to Mr Johnson, saying: \"He's really in with a chance and the momentum is with Rory.\"\n\nBut Defence Secretary Penny Mordaunt, who is supporting Mr Hunt's campaign, said the foreign secretary was \"attractive to many sides of the party because he's a serious individual\".\n\nAnd schools minister Nick Gibb told BBC Radio 4's World at One that Mr Gove was now \"best placed as a Brexiteer to challenge the front runner\" Mr Johnson in the final.\n\nFurther ballots are scheduled to take place on 18, 19 and 20 June to whittle down the contenders until only two are left.\n\nThe final pair will then be put to a vote of members of the wider Conservative Party from 22 June, with the winner expected to be announced about four weeks later.\n\nAfter being knocked out of the contest, Mr Harper, a former government chief whip, said he continued \"to believe we need a credible plan that delivers Brexit\" in order to \"restore trust\".\n\nMrs Leadsom's campaign team said they were \"disappointed\" but \"wish all the other candidates well\".\n\nAnd Ms McVey, who gained nine votes, coming last in the first round of MPs' ballots, said she was \"extremely grateful\" to those who had supported her.\n\nTelevised candidates' debates are scheduled to take place, but not all the remaining seven have confirmed they are taking part.\n\nWork and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd, who is backing Mr Hunt, urged them to appear, saying the Conservative Party \"needs to remember that we're not just choosing a leader, we're choosing a prime minister and the public need to see them\".\n\nAnd former Brexit secretary David Davis, who is backing Mr Raab, said it was \"very important\" for the public to hear from the contenders.\n\nMr Johnson has previously been criticised by some of his rivals for not taking part in media interviews during the campaign.\n\nThe leadership race has so far been dominated by Brexit and arguments over whether a deal can be renegotiated with the EU by 31 October, and whether talking up a no-deal Brexit is a plausible promise.\n\nOn Tuesday 18 June BBC One will host a live election debate between the Conservative MPs still in the race.\n\nIf you would like to ask the candidates a question live on air, use the form below. It should be open to all of them, not a specific politician.\n\nIf you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic.", "It is June 1998 and Paula Rego is furious. Her people, the Portuguese people, had not turned up in sufficient numbers to vote in the recently held national referendum to change the country's conservative abortion law.\n\nAs someone who had endured the life-threatening brutality of back-street abortions she was dismayed the Portuguese - particularly the women - had passed up the chance to legalise the termination of pregnancies on request up to 10 weeks from conception.\n\nThe wholly avoidable deaths and distress suffered by thousands of women resorting to illegal abortions every year would continue. No wonder her father had said Portugal was no place for a woman, before packing off his talented teenage daughter to England to hone her painterly skills at The Slade School of Fine Art in London.\n\nShe sat in her Camden Town studio and fumed, determined to do something about the situation; to change public opinion back home; to make a difference. Which she did (the law was changed in 2007). By doing what she always did when overwhelmed with anger. She created a group of troubling, ominous images.\n\nPaula Rego's abortion series began with this dark and searingly honest Triptych, 1998\n\nRego's abortion pictures are as confrontational and direct as a John Humphrys interview.\n\nThere's no flim-flam, no tip-toeing around the topic: she gets straight to the point… which is darkly ambiguous.\n\nShe is both explicit and vague.\n\nThere is an equivocation that makes for uncomfortable viewing. Her truth resides in psychological complexity however awkward it may be. To Rego, the grim reality of a back-street abortion is not intellectually straightforward. It is not simply a case of a bad thing happening.\n\nLook at any of the imposingly large pictures she made in this series and you will be disturbed.\n\nThere is an uneasy eroticism bound up in the pain and the squalor. The schoolgirls and young women depicted challenge the unseen figure with a physicality and preparedness. Have they girded up their loins in anticipation of an impending termination or something else?\n\nWelcome to Paula Rego World, where there is always something nasty in the woodshed.\n\nWith Untitled No. 5, 1998 and others in her abortion series, Paula Rego says \"they are not pictures of victims\"\n\nTo see a Rego picture is to be thrust into the midst of a sinister gothic drama. A fat-ankled lady wearing a walnut-like skirt bends down to lift a prone dog by its front legs in Snare (1987). She leans forward as if to give the animal a sensual kiss, a red rose in the foreground suggests love. Near it, a crab lies powerless on its back mirroring the dog's vulnerability. It is rich with symbolism and menace.\n\nIt is also technically very good.\n\nThe red-to-brown palette has the tonal harmony of Picasso's impeccable portrait of Gertrude Stein (1905-6). The suggested volume of the figures is as convincing as a mirage in the desert. And the weight the lady's legs bear, and pressure of the grip with which she holds the dog, are palpable.\n\nIt is a very good figurative painting.\n\nSnare, 1987 is a key work full of symbolism - with the skirt concealing \"secrets\"\n\nIt marks the moment Rego found her signature style.\n\nThere had always been a strong narrative element to her work, whether back in the 1960s when she was making cut-up collages like The Imposter (1964) critiquing the Estado novo authoritarian regime in Portugal. Or, in the early '80s with abstracted, cartoon-like paintings such as Red Monkey Offers Bear A Poisoned Dove (1981), lampooning the love triangle she constructed between her husband and her paramour.\n\nPaula Rego criticised the Portuguese dictatorship in works like The Imposter, 1964\n\nBut these were works in progress towards the stylised tableaus and heavy-featured figures that are now instantly recognisable as a Paula Rego. Hers is an idiosyncratic aesthetic heightened later by the use of oil pastel crayons instead of acrylic paint, a mid-career decision made - I am told - in part to help her stop smoking.\n\nTurn 180 degrees from the Abortion Series hanging in the central space of the MK Gallery, and there, on the opposite wall, are her Dog Women pictures from the early 1990s.\n\nThey were inspired by the French Impressionist painter, Edgar Degas. He was an artist famous for his use of pastels and elevated perspective, from which he portrayed dainty dancers in ballet rehearsals. His representations of a woman's physique and inner life were voyeuristic, with a hint of the dirty-old-man about them. Rego's couldn't be more different.\n\nDegas' viewpoint of looking down on the model can be seen in Rego's Sleeper, 1994\n\nDancers, 1884-1885 by Degas, who influenced Rego with what she says were \"his marvellous use of pastels\"\n\nHer Dog Women are more like werewolves; snarling creatures that are both loyal and fiercely independent. The pictures are a response to the death of her husband, the artist Victor (Vic) Willing whom she met while a student at The Slade.\n\nShe considered Vic her intellectual and artistic superior, a point of view he was in no rush to counter. His critical eye helped her work develop but petrified his own. Life got complicated. He was already married. She went back to Portugal.\n\nVic left his wife and went to live with Paula. He was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. They both had affairs. Her father died. Vic took over the family business and ran it into the ground. They returned to London, penniless. Paula found a lover to help pay the way. Vic began to paint again shortly before he died.\n\nTheirs was a passionate, painful, profound relationship, which Rego renders in pastel with disarming sincerity. Woman becomes dog-like, part domesticated and part wild animal. She lies on her owner's jacket in Sleeper (1994), is kicked out of bed in Bad Dog (1994), and roars in rage in Dog Woman (1994).\n\nPaula Rego with her husband Victor Willing, with whom she had a passionate but complicated relationship\n\nPaula Rego's belief that \"every woman's a dog woman, not downtrodden, but powerful\" is reflected in Dog Woman, 1994\n\nBut it is in Sit (1994) that Rego captures the specific and the universal of her marriage to Vic with an emotional intensity you won't quickly forget.\n\nThe female figure is doing as she has been told, sitting obediently in her chair. Her hands are behind her back, possibly bound. Her feet are crossed in the manner of the crucified Christ. She is pregnant.\n\nShe looks up and away at her tormentor, her owner, her lover. She is trapped, subjugated, but in no way tamed. Her eyes blaze with defiance, her body emits power. There is an air of sexuality and violence, love and hate; beauty and the grotesque.\n\nObedience and defiance are apparent in Sit, 1994, which seems to be a stark metaphor about Rego's marriage\n\nIt's not the best image ever created. It is not even the best image Paula Rego has ever created - The Dance (not in this exhibition) - is better.\n\nWe've seen plenty of male artists picturing woman in myriad different ways, but who else has painted the world from a female point of view in the manner described by Paula Rego?\n\nLouise Bourgeois and Frida Kahlo had similar concerns, and expressed them just as unflinchingly, But Rego's voice is more literary, painterly and poetic in the way of Edgar Allan Poe. She references the Brontë sisters, Edvard Munch, William Hogarth and Francisco Goya.\n\nShe is a romantic surrealist with a satirist's cutting edge.\n\nThe Duchess of Alba, 1797 was painted by the Spanish artist Goya who influenced the Portuguese-born Rego\n\nThe figure in Angel, 1998 is a symbol of female power and strength\n\nQuite why she is not more famous is difficult to fathom. Maybe her gender and style went against her? A bit too much for all those buttoned-up male museum directors whose stripped back modernist tastes ruled the roost for far too long.\n\nTheir time has come and gone.\n\nI can't recall another exhibition season quite like this summer's, when there are so many monographic shows dedicated to female artists being staged across the country.\n\nIt brings to mind the female figure in Sit. She knew her time would come. And so it has. It is now.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nScotland's chances of qualifying from their Women's World Cup group hang by a thread after defeat by Japan.\n\nShelley Kerr's side had rarely been out of their own half by the time Mana Iwabuchi blasted a shot past goalkeeper Lee Alexander after 22 minutes.\n\nWith Japan dominating, Rachel Corsie was ruled to have hauled down Yuika Sugasawa and the striker sent the spot-kick low into the corner.\n\nBut consecutive 2-1 defeats leave Kerr's side bottom of the table without a point and needing to beat Argentina in their final game if they are to have a chance of making the knockout stage as one of the four best third-placed sides.\n\nFor former world champions Japan, who opened with a disappointing draw, it ends a run of five games without a victory and puts them second in the group.\n• None Football Daily podcast: England through to the knockout stages - can Scotland join them?\n• None We got our tactics right - Kerr\n\nTale of three penalty claims and insipid starts\n\nThere is no doubt that Japan, ranked 13 places above Scotland at seven in the world, deserved their victory at Stade de la Route de Lorient in Rennes, but Kerr's side were left to rue another insipid first half and three penalty decisions that went against them.\n\nThe Scotland head coach obviously had a gameplan in mind to beat the Japanese, with her starting XI showing four changes from the one that lost to England, including the dropping of winger Claire Emslie to the bench despite her goal in the opener.\n\nScotland were looking to be more of a threat up front, having restored top goalscorer Jane Ross, but Japan coach Asako Takakura had different ideas.\n\nHaving been criticised for Japan's own lack of attacking intent in their opening goalless draw with Argentina, Takakura made three changes, including fielding an extra forward.\n\nIt was Scotland's turn to look passive. There was a lack of tempo, imagination, movement, belief and, strangely, determination, with the likes of Kim Little and Erin Cuthbert looking far short of their world-class reputations.\n\nJapan had already been knocking on the door by the time Alexander looked slow to react as Iwabuchi - the forward handed a start after impressing as a substitute against Argentina - fired straight through the goalkeeper high into the net following a poor headed clearance from Corsie.\n\nTheir high press was forcing Scotland into aimless long balls forward, while their tiki-taka football was leaving their opponents looking disheartened and bewildered.\n\nRather than being Scotland's creative force, Little's biggest contribution was to head a Saki Kumagai header off the line after Alexander made a mess of coming for a cross.\n\nWhen Sugasawa crumpled dramatically to the ground, it looked like a soft penalty award, but the video assistant referees agreed with referee Lidya Tafesse's view that Corsie's ill-advised hand on the striker's shoulder was enough to award the spot kick.\n\nIt took 41 minutes for Scotland to threaten through Cuthbert's 20-yard drive on to the roof of the net, while Japan went close to going into the break three ahead when Hina Sugita found the face of the crossbar.\n• None How did you rate the players?\n\nAs against England, it was only in the last 15 minutes, having thrown caution to the wind and having introduced Emslie then Clelland, that Scotland began to look like a side deserving of a place at the World Cup finals.\n\nCuthbert found the outside of a post from close range and looked to be clipped from behind by Sugita only for the officials to ignore Scottish pleas.\n\nLisa Evans had a shot pushed wide by goalkeeper Ayaka Yamashita before another cry for a penalty failed to even win a VAR review after Risa Shimizu looked to halt Cuthbert's progress with a hand ball.\n\nScottish pressure eventually told when Clelland gathered Nana Ichise's poor pass across the face of her own goal and produced a sublime finish from 18 yards, but the two minutes remaining quickly passed without an equaliser.\n\nClaire Emslie topped our Player Rater as voted by the public. However, while the Scotland winger did make a big difference after coming on as a substitute with 30 minutes remaining, it would be churlish to suggest she outshone anyone in the blue jerseys that dominated the majority of the match.\n\nWith her 21st international goal, Japan forward Mana Iwabuchi not only set the tone with her fine finish but was the lynchpin of intricate passing that constantly had the Scots defence chasing shadows.\n• None Japan have now won all three of their meetings with Scotland\n• None Japan have now won six World Cup matches against European sides in a row\n• None Japan's only defeat in 12 games at the tournament came in the 2015 final against the United States\n• None They have won their second group stage game in each of their last four World Cups\n• None After six games without defeat, Scotland have now lost two in a row\n\nWith Argentina losing 1-0 later in the evening as England secured their place in the last 16, they will fight it out with Scotland for third place on Wednesday.\n\nA win is a must for Kerr's side when both matches kick-off at 20:00 BST if they are to have the chance of prolonging their World Cup debut.\n• None Attempt saved. Hina Sugita (Japan) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Rikako Kobayashi.\n• None Goal! Japan 2, Scotland 1. Lana Clelland (Scotland) left footed shot from outside the box to the top right corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Caroline Weir (Scotland) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.\n• None Attempt blocked. Fiona Brown (Scotland) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Erin Cuthbert (Scotland) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt saved. Lisa Evans (Scotland) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Erin Cuthbert.\n• None Attempt missed. Risa Shimizu (Japan) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Narumi Miura. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Seventy two people died in the Grenfell Tower fire in 2017\n\nMore than 200 high-rise buildings in England with cladding similar to that used on Grenfell Tower are yet to have work to remove it.\n\nOut of 328 buildings that still have aluminium composite material (ACM) cladding, 221 are awaiting work to start.\n\nEvents on Friday will mark the second anniversary of the Grenfell Tower fire in which 72 people died.\n\nThe government will pay £200m to remove ACM from privately owned blocks.\n\nThere have been calls for the funding to be extended to other forms of cladding and fire safety measures.\n\nThe government ordered a review into cladding on high-rise blocks following the tragedy, when a blaze broke out in the 24-storey block of flats in North Kensington, west London.\n\nIt took minutes for the fire to race up the exterior of the building, and spread to all four sides.\n\nA public inquiry into the disaster heard evidence to support the theory that the highly combustible material in the cladding was the primary cause of the fire's spread.\n\nAs of the end of May, 105 other high-rise buildings that had previously failed safety tests have had work to remove the cladding completed.\n\nThe data only covers ACM cladding and does not include buildings with other fire safety issues.\n\nAhead of the second anniversary of the fire, campaigners projected messages on to tower blocks in Salford, Newcastle and London which they said were unsafe.\n\nThe message on this Salford block says it has dangerous cladding\n\nThe projection on to the NV building in Salford, which has 246 flats, said it was \"still covered in dangerous cladding\" that was not covered by the government's cladding removal fund.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The friendships brought together through Grenfell\n\nMemorial services and vigils will be held throughout Friday to mark the second anniversary of the fire.\n\nSurvivors and families will be joined by communities secretary James Brokenshire and fire minister Nick Hurd for a remembrance service in St Helen's Church, close to Grenfell Tower.\n\nBritain's Got Talent semi-finalist and Grenfell survivor Leanne Mya will sing during the service and white doves will be released afterwards.\n\nOther multi-faith services will also take place around the area, along with a private wreath-laying, a remembrance event in which 72 bells will be rung - one for each victim - and a silent walk organised by survivors' group Grenfell United.\n\nKarim Mussilhy, whose uncle died in the fire, said: \"Our plan is to come together with the rest of the community and be with each other, share some tears with each other, smiles with each other, and put our arms around each other and remember our loved ones and pay our respects.\n\n\"We also want to be a presence to everyone else, show them that we are still here and we are still standing strong together, dignified, respectful, we aren't going to go away, we're not going to fade away and we're not going to let others forget our loved ones and for us to be swept under the carpet.\"\n\nThere are high-rise buildings with ACM cladding in 62 local authority areas across England.\n\nGreenwich, Tower Hamlets and Salford were all found to have at least 20 buildings each with the cladding.\n\nBrent, Newham, Wandsworth, Westminster and Manchester have between 11 and 20 each, while Camden, Haringey, Islington, Lambeth, Leeds and Liverpool have between six and 10 each.\n\nMinisters have promised a £200m fund to help remove the material from private residential tower blocks.\n\nHowever, leaseholders said the fund did not go far enough and they would still be left facing bills of thousands of pounds for other fire safety measures.\n\nAlex Di Giuseppe is living in a building with ACM cladding\n\nAlex Di Giuseppe, who lives at City Gate, a block with ACM cladding in Manchester, said leaseholders were being expected to pay between £4,000 and £7,000, depending on the size of the flat.\n\nThey were now waiting to find out how much the government funding might reduce the bill by.\n\n\"The government fund covers the ACM cladding, which helps, but doesn't cover any other type of cladding or fire safety work,\" said the 29-year-old, who works in marketing.\n\n\"There's a lot of stress involved living in a building that's technically unsafe.\n\n\"There are costs we can't afford and we can't sell our flats. We are mortgage prisoners.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for the building's management agent Rendall and Rittner said mandatory internal work relating to fire safety was complete. She added the company was applying for government funding \"to reduce costs to leaseholders as far as is possible\".\n\nManchester Central MP Lucy Powell told the House of Commons: \"Residents are trapped in dangerous properties.\n\n\"The fund does not cover many buildings in my constituency that have other cladding - not ACM cladding - or that have no firebreaks or other safety concerns.\"\n\nGrenfell United wants a social housing regulator created to ensure tenants are listened to when they raise concerns and for dangerous materials including cladding to be banned and removed from homes.\n\nNatasha Elcock, who chairs the organisation and is a survivor from the tower, said: \"It's been two years since Grenfell and people are still going to bed at night worried that a fire like Grenfell could happen to them.\"\n\nThe Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government said: \"The government has banned combustible materials in the external walls of new high-rise homes and guidance requires that sprinklers must be installed in new buildings above 30 metres.\n\n\"Building owners are ultimately responsible for the safety of the building and it is for them to decide whether to retro-fit sprinklers.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. See what happens when you expose cladding core to extreme heat\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The margin of success took his fellow candidates by surprise - but not the core of Boris Johnson's team.\n\nAfter many, many weeks of private campaigning, introducing Boris Johnson to the world of the spreadsheet, this morning one of his organisers wrote the number 114 and sealed it in an envelope.\n\nAt lunchtime, the announcement revealed the controversial former foreign secretary had indeed received exactly that number.\n\nThat is not just a marker of the level of Mr Johnson's support, but for the sometimes clownish politician, whose reputation has risen and fallen and then risen again, it's a sign that it is different this time.\n\nHis campaign has extended way beyond his old friends. The discipline his lieutenants are trying to instil is holding at this stage.\n\nBut his success today leaves him vulnerable.\n\nFrontrunner status is a precious commodity. It makes him the target for all of the others left in the race, for all of them to pitch themselves to those many MPs who feel strongly that he is wrong for the job.\n\nSo members of his campaign team tell me their motto is simple - do not die. His place in the final two of the race to become our prime minister is secure, unless he errs explosively. With Boris Johnson, that is not a secure bet. And once in that final duet, weeks of scrutiny and challenge await.\n\nThere is a choice for those who want to stop him now. Discussions are live tonight between the other camps in the race over what to do next.\n\nShould there be an effort to come together behind one candidate who could beat Mr Johnson?\n\nForeign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said tonight - arriving back at the Pall Mall mansion that used to be Mr Johnson's formal residence, of course - that he is the person to take him on. Although he had fewer votes than expected today, he's clearly not going to pull out.\n\nSajid Javid and Matt Hancock though, the home and health secretaries, met this afternoon after the results.\n\nSources close to Mr Hancock say he's \"mulling over\" what to do next. There's no final decision, but don't be hugely surprised if by Friday lunchtime he has withdrawn from the contest.\n\nOne of the only things we can be sure of: The next prime minister will be a man\n\nRory Stewart though is not going anywhere. He is instead ramping up his rhetoric against his fellow Old Etonian (yes, he and Boris Johnson did not just go to the same school, but also to the same Oxford college), and talking boldly about how only he can be the person to take him on.\n\nGiven his place on the political spectrum frankly that seems extremely unlikely, however many views his videos get on Twitter.\n\nAnd while his team are extremely gung-ho, and he has built up some impressive momentum, some MPs from the so-called One Nation, (centre-ish) part of the Tory party are pretty cross, telling me that either Javid or Hancock had a decent crack if he would get out of the way.\n\nThere is plenty more of this political intrigue to come in the next week or so, whether it bores you to tears or is the insider manoeuvring that excites you. It's fluid, and there is, as I tediously probably always say, a long way to go.\n\nThere are two things we can be absolutely sure of, tonight Boris Johnson is looking hard to beat. And with Esther McVey and Andrea Leadsom both out of the race, the next prime minister will be a man.", "The BBC said it regretted \"any offence we have caused\"\n\nThe BBC has removed a Jo Brand joke about throwing acid from its catch-up service after it was suggested that it condoned violence.\n\nThe comedian made the joke during a broadcast of Radio 4 satirical show Heresy on Tuesday night.\n\nShe was accused by Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage, who has had milkshakes thrown at him by protesters, of \"inciting violence\".\n\nIn a statement, the BBC said it regretted \"any offence we have caused\".\n\nIn the episode, Brand told presenter Victoria Coren Mitchell that people who attacked Mr Farage and far-right political figures with milkshakes were \"pathetic\".\n\nAppearing later at Henley Literary Festival, Brand said: \"Looking back on it I think it was a somewhat crass and an ill-judged joke,\" according to the Henley Herald.\n\nShe added: \"Nigel Farage tweeted the first bit that I said without the second bit when I apologised and said it was a joke and not something I would encourage.\n\n\"The current situation is I'm being chased around England and being asked if I feel I should apologise. I felt I apologised for it as I did it on the night. I'm a human being and people make mistakes. I apologise to all the people who I have offended.\"\n\nThe Sun added that she said: \"I don't think it's a mistake. If you think it is I'm happy to accept that.\n\n\"Female politicians and public figures are threatened day in, day out, with far worse things than battery acid... rape, murder and what have you.\n\n\"At least I'm here and trying to explain what I did. I don't think I have anyone to answer to. Nigel Farage wasn't even mentioned by me on the night so why he has taken it upon himself I don't know.\"\n\nMr Farage has been targeted by protesters\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May's spokesman had said the BBC should explain why the joke was \"appropriate content\" for broadcast.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police has also confirmed it has \"received an allegation of incitement to violence that was reported to the MPS on 13 June\".\n\nA BBC statement released on Wednesday said panellists on Heresy - a long-running comedy programme - often said things which were \"deliberately provocative and go against societal norms but are not intended to be taken seriously.\"\n\nBut on Thursday, the broadcaster said: \"We carefully considered the programme before broadcast. It was never intended to encourage or condone violence, and it does not do so, but we have noted the strong reaction to it. Comedy will always push boundaries and will continue to do so, but on this occasion we have decided to edit the programme. We regret any offence we have caused.\"\n\nThe prime minister's spokesman said Mrs May has been clear that politicians should be able to go about their work and campaign without harassment, intimidation or abuse.\n\nSpeaking about the comments on his LBC show on Thursday, Mr Farage said: \"This sort of behaviour is completely and utterly disgusting.\n\n\"Could you imagine if I was to tell a story like that about somebody on the other side,\" he added.\n\n\"The police would be knocking on my door within 10 minutes.\"\n\nThe Sun newspaper said Brand had refused to apologise for the comment after confronting her at her London home earlier.\n\nShe is reported to have added: \"I think if they [critics] want an answer there have been plenty of explanations by the BBC and Victoria Coren.\"\n\nWhen asked if she would continue working with the BBC, she is reported to have replied: \"I'm not employed by the BBC, so how can they sack me?\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "A Chinook helicopter lifts large bags to plug the breach in the River Steeping\n\nRAF crews have dropped more than 100 tonnes of ballast to block a breach in a river bank which caused severe flooding in a town.\n\nThe River Steeping burst its banks at Wainfleet All Saints, Lincolnshire, on Wednesday after the equivalent of two months' rain fell in two days.\n\nA state of emergency was declared on Thursday with more than 70 properties flooded and residents evacuated.\n\nThree Chinook helicopters were at the scene on Friday evening.\n\nIan Reed, the head of emergency planning in Lincolnshire, said: \"We're confident that we are definitely seeing a change and, whilst water levels are not going to go down really quickly, it is helping and it's doing exactly what we wanted it to do.\n\n\"So, that operation has been a success.\n\n\"It's a temporary measure, but it's doing what it set out to achieve.\"\n\nA firefighter was taken to hospital with minor injuries after he was injured moving equipment overnight on Thursday in Wainfleet.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Shaun West of Lincolnshire Police said the rescue effort was showing some early signs of success.\n\n\"Where there were thousands of gallons of water gushing through that breach when I started, that is starting to stem.\"\n\nCrews are dropping ballast and sand in a bid to block a breach in the River Steeping\n\nOfficials said the operation is expected to continue until late in the evening\n\nThe river breached its banks near Wainfleet All Saints after persistent heavy rainfall\n\nResidents in Wainfleet were still being removed by fire crews on Friday\n\nThe town had more than two months' rain in just two days\n\nA rest centre for Wainfleet residents was set up in nearby Skegness.\n\nParts of Wainfleet were badly hit by the flooding\n\nPolice praised the community spirit shown by people in Wainfleet who helped with the recue effort\n\nJean Hart, who has lived in Wainfleet for 40 years, said it was the worst flooding she had ever seen.\n\n\"To see our house under water is absolutely horrendous,\" she said. \"The whole of my house is completely devastated.\"\n\nWainfleet resident Jean Hart posted a picture of the flood waters in her bathroom\n\nShe was reunited with her tortoise, Mr T\n\nShe said she and her husband Kevin were now at a loss as to what to do.\n\n\"[You realise the] things you take for granted,\" she said.\n\n\"It's not just us - so many people are in the same situation and my heart goes out to them.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'One tiny wound cost me my whole hand'\n\nA firefighter whose hand was amputated after he was injured by faulty cutting gear has received £1.5m in damages.\n\nIan McDonald, 37, was taking part in a training exercise in March 2014 when his hand was pierced by a high-pressure jet of hydraulic fluid.\n\nHe had 40 operations after the toxic liquid destroyed the tissue in his right hand but after a four-year battle doctors were forced to amputate.\n\nThe fire service said it had taken steps to prevent similar incidents.\n\nIan with his daughter Ava before the accident\n\nMr McDonald was injured during an exercise at Bishopbriggs fire station, in East Dunbartonshire, which was simulating rescuing a casualty from a car accident using hydraulic cutting equipment.\n\nIt was only later that day he noticed his hand starting to swell and he began to feel a burning sensation.\n\nThere was a small puncture wound through the side of his hand.\n\nThe fluid got into Ian's hand through a small puncture wound\n\n\"One of my colleagues looked at the glove I had been wearing at the time and there was a hole straight through it,\" Mr McDonald, who is from Bishopbriggs, said.\n\n\"This started alarm bells ringing that this was a serious consideration.\"\n\nHe was taken to hospital and an X-ray showed oil inside his hand.\n\nIt later emerged the hose pipe connecting the generator to the cutting gear, which pumps an internal fluid up to 850 Bars of pressure, was riddled with tiny punctures which can appear over time after being dragged over broken glass or metal shards at the scene of an incident.\n\nIan McDonald said the past five years had been very difficult emotionally and physically\n\nOne of these punctures caused a fine jet of hydraulic fluid to escape and pierce Mr McDonald's leather safety gloves.\n\nOver the next four years, he was in chronic pain and suffering repeated infections as doctors battled to keep his hand working.\n\n\"The doctors were doing everything they could to save my hand but at one point I lost one of my fingers, then another finger.\n\n\"They were using grafts from my leg to save what they had but it became apparent during last year that it was just beyond repair.\"\n\nHis hand was finally amputated in June 2018.\n\n\"It was a big thing but I didn't really see there was any other route to go down,\" he said.\n\n\"I'd already lost my hand by that point in a sense.\n\n\"When it was actually physically removed it was no great loss compared to what I'd already been going through.\"\n\nIan with his four children and his wife Claire\n\nIn January, the father-of-four was fitted with a prosthetic hand which he says has given him a lot more independence.\n\n\"It allows me to do things for myself and not ask for help and gives me a bit more confidence,\" he said.\n\nHe now has the dexterity to tie his own shoelaces and can help in the kitchen to a \"limited\" degree.\n\nLooking back on the past five years, Mr McDonald said it had been \"very difficult\" emotionally and physically but he thanked his wife Claire for helping him get through.\n\n\"At times it was frustrating, knowing it was going on for so long and not making any progress,\" he said.\n\n\"Physically, it has really taken its toll. I think I had 40 operations in total, each one under general anaesthetic. I also had skin grafts taken from other parts of my body, from my leg three times, and transplanted on to my hand and my arm.\n\n\"The medication I was on was really energy-sapping. It's been a tough time.\"\n\nHe said the amputation had been \"an overnight cure\" for his pain and suffering.\n\n\"The pain has gone away and the function is improving with the prosthetic device and it is just allowing me to get back to normal as much as I can,\" he said.\n\nIan says his prosthetic hand has helped his independence and confidence\n\nAn investigation into the incident by Digby Brown Solicitors revealed there was an inadequate system of inspection and maintenance for equipment despite the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service knowing about the risks.\n\nThere were also protective coverings for the hose which would have prevented Ian's injury but they were not used.\n\nSolicitor David Nellaney said: \"The SFRS is undoubtedly a safety-conscious organisation that provides an invaluable service but on this occasion it failed in its duty of care to an employee.\n\n\"No settlement can alter the past, but it can improve the future and in Ian's case, it will provide access to ongoing medical treatment and ease the financial implications of this workplace injury.\"\n\nScottish Fire and Rescue's David McGown said he was heartened to see Mr McDonald make a strong recovery.\n\nHe said: \"Following a robust investigation into Mr McDonald's injury, we undertook a review of equipment and related safety checks and have taken appropriate steps to minimise the risk of similar incidents happening in the future.\"", "Mike and Tony adopted a boy who spent two years in care\n\nWhen Tony and Mike adopted a young boy, they were unsure what to do when he started screaming at night.\n\nBut after help from a psychologist and a mentor they were able to cope.\n\nNow, families across Wales will have access to similar support after ministers gave £2.3m to strengthen adoption support services.\n\nSuzanne Griffiths of the National Adoption Service said the money would boost support available to adoptive families.\n\nTony and Mike, who live in Cardiff, adopted their son six months ago after he spent two years in care.\n\n\"They [the adoption agency] put in place support, anything that comes up that we're not sure of, we can go to a psychologist,\" said Tony.\n\n\"He started having night terrors, screaming and crying, we were not sure what to do, so it's nice to have that reassurance that we're doing the best we can and give us advice.\n\n\"He's gone through more than anyone in a lifetime and he's still asking 'am I going to leave you', that's a big burden for a young child, so it's nice to have the support.\n\n\"When he has tantrums, we think 'are they typical tantrums, or is this something else?' He's got a lot of baggage hidden away.\n\n\"We know now if something crops up, we've got support. I wouldn't change it for the world.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. One adoptive couple said they were left \"at the end of our tether\" and blamed lack of help from the start.\n\nSupport Tony and Mike had access to has not been available to everyone - but the investment will help to make it \"available consistently\", Ms Griffiths said.\n\nThe National Adoption Service in Wales dealt with 167 new requests for post-adoption support in 2017-18 - up by about a third on the year before.\n\nDeputy Minister for Health and Social Services, Julie Morgan, announced the funding at an event where she also officially launched the new Adoption Register Wales, which aims to match families and children and speed up the adoption process.\n\nPart of the investment has also been used to match-fund £250,000 from the National Lottery Community Fund, granted to Adoption UK Cymru, for its Therapeutic Education Support Services in Adoption (TESSA) programme.\n\nAnn Bell, development manager of AUK Cymru, said: \"TESSA gives an adoptive family access to a clinical psychologist and an experienced adopter, giving them coping strategies and an insight into how other parents have worked through challenges to help their family flourish.\n\n\"Early intervention is crucial to successful adoptions. The additional funding from Welsh Government will significantly increase the scale and reach of TESSA in Wales, making it more widely-available to new adoptive families.\"\n\nMrs Morgan said the Welsh Government funding would provide support to adopters and children being adopted.\n\n\"As well as ensuring that adoptive families can be found more quickly, this funding will enable the adoption regions to improve further the provision of adoption support services in their area,\" she added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jo Brand said the joke was \"crass and ill-judged\"\n\nThe Metropolitan Police has said it will take no further action over Jo Brand's comments on a radio show about throwing battery acid at politicians.\n\nThe comedian was accused of inciting violence after joking on BBC Radio 4's Heresy about throwing acid instead of milkshakes at \"unpleasant characters\".\n\nShe later apologised for what she called a \"crass and ill-judged\" joke.\n\nThe show's creator, David Baddiel, said the BBC was \"cowardly\" for removing the joke from a repeat of the episode.\n\nBrexit Party leader Nigel Farage, who had milkshake thrown over him during the European election campaign in May, has accused Brand of inciting violence, although he did not say who against.\n\nWriting on Twitter, he added: \"I am sick to death of overpaid, left-wing, so-called comedians on the BBC who think their view is morally superior. Can you imagine the reaction if I had said the same thing as Jo Brand?\"\n\nIn the episode of the Heresy broadcast on Tuesday, Brand told presenter Victoria Coren Mitchell that people who attacked \"unpleasant figures\" with milkshakes were \"pathetic\", adding: \"Why bother with a milkshake when you could get some battery acid?\"\n\nThe comic then went on to immediately make clear she was joking and criticised the milkshake stunts.\n\n\"I'm not going to do it,\" she said. \"It's purely a fantasy, but I think milkshakes are pathetic, I honestly do, sorry.\"\n\nHer follow-up comments were edited out of widely-shared clips on social media.\n\nOfcom said it received 65 complaints about the episode.\n\nMr Farage has been targeted by protesters\n\nAppearing later at Henley Literary Festival, Brand said: \"Looking back on it I think it was a somewhat crass and an ill-judged joke.\"\n\nShe added: \"Nigel Farage tweeted the first bit that I said without the second bit when I apologised and said it was a joke and not something I would encourage.\n\n\"The current situation is I'm being chased around England and being asked if I feel I should apologise. I felt I apologised for it as I did it on the night. I'm a human being and people make mistakes. I apologise to all the people who I have offended.\"\n\nThe Sun said she added: \"I don't think it's a mistake. If you think it is I'm happy to accept that.\n\n\"Female politicians and public figures are threatened day in, day out, with far worse things than battery acid... rape, murder and what have you.\n\n\"At least I'm here and trying to explain what I did. I don't think I have anyone to answer to. Nigel Farage wasn't even mentioned by me on the night so why he has taken it upon himself I don't know.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Baddiel told BBC's Newsnight he did not think the BBC should have edited the joke out of a repeat of the programme.\n\nHe said: \"I don't think I would have nipped it out. Morally wrong? I'm not sure. I think they're just trying not to cause trouble.\n\n\"If it was up to me, I would have kept that line in for the repeat. Apart from anything, it's a bit silly when it's had massive coverage to cut it out - that looks a bit cowardly.\"\n\nThe broadcaster said on Thursday it regretted any offence caused and that, although comedy \"will always push boundaries\", the programme was \"never intended to encourage or condone violence\".\n\nIn a statement released on Friday, the Met said: \"Police received an allegation of incitement to violence on 13 June, relating to comments made on a radio programme.\n\n\"The referral has been considered by the MPS and no further police action will be taken in relation to this allegation.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sanders resigns: 'This has been the honour of a lifetime'\n\nWhite House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders is leaving her post, President Donald Trump has announced.\n\nHe said his spokeswoman would return to her home state of Arkansas at the end of June, praising her as a \"warrior\".\n\nMrs Sanders, who is the latest senior White House aide to exit, said her role had been \"the honour of a lifetime\".\n\nHer credibility was questioned during a combative tenure that saw press briefings all but relegated to a thing of the past.\n\nShe started out as deputy press secretary before replacing Sean Spicer in the top post in July 2017.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Donald J. Trump This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMrs Sanders, 36, has been a loyal mouthpiece, famously saying that God \"wanted Donald Trump to become president\".\n\nAt an unrelated White House event on Thursday, Mr Trump described her as \"a special person, a very, very fine woman\".\n\n\"She's a warrior, we're all warriors, we have to be warriors,\" Mr Trump added.\n\nThe president did not name a replacement press secretary.\n\nShe said in a quavering voice: \"This is something I will treasure forever. I'm going to continue to be one of the most outspoken and loyal supporters of the president.\"\n\nThe mother-of-three said she was looking forward to spending more time with her family. She sometimes scolded the White House press corps for behaving like her children.\n\nMrs Sanders had a difficult relationship with the media, often repeating her boss's allegation of fake news.\n\nSarah Sanders with Donald Trump as they announce her resignation\n\nMrs Sanders hosted fewer news conferences than any of the preceding 13 press secretaries, according to the American Presidency Project.\n\nHer last media briefing was on 11 March - 94 days ago.\n\nMr Trump has opted to be his own communicator-in-chief, frequently making impromptu remarks to journalists above the buzz of presidential helicopter Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House.\n\nSarah Huckabee Sanders has been a stalwart defender of Donald Trump's for nearly two years. It's just she hasn't been doing much of that defending in the White House press briefing room - the traditional venue for her position.\n\nThe Trump presidency has been unconventional in many regards. The steady erosion of the role of press secretary is only a small but notable part.\n\nMrs Sanders in recent months spent most of her time appearing on Fox News, answering shouted questions from reporters in the White House driveway, and chatting about mundane off-the-record details.\n\nTrying to explain the president's snap decisions, surprise policy announcements, and unexpected reversals and apparent contradictions in a formal setting was never an easy task, and Mrs Sanders - with the president's apparent blessing - eventually stopped trying.\n\nThe president, in effect, is his own press secretary, his own communications director and his own messaging guru. As the last 24 hours of tweets and interviews amply demonstrate, it makes for a wild ride.\n\nMrs Sanders will eventually be replaced, but her stable presence will surely be missed by the administration staff. The reality, however, is that as long as the man at the top calls the shots, nothing will change.\n\nMrs Sanders' time in the post was not without controversy, and she was accused of lying to journalists.\n\nAfter Mr Trump fired FBI Director James Comey in May 2017, she said she had \"heard from countless members of the FBI that are grateful and thankful for the president's decision\".\n\nBut she told special counsel Robert Mueller, during his investigation into whether the Trump election campaign had colluded with Russia, that this claim was \"a slip of the tongue\" that was \"not founded on anything\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Comedian Michelle Wolf tore into Sarah Sanders as she sat about a metre away\n\nIn April last year, Mrs Sanders was ridiculed when she attended the White House Correspondents' Dinner.\n\nComedian Michelle Wolf likened the press secretary to the matronly but terrifying disciplinarian in the TV adaptation of dystopian novel The Handmaid's Tale.\n\nThe host was criticised even by some liberals for making a joke about the press secretary's make-up.\n\nWolf said: \"She burns facts and then she uses that ash to create a perfect smokey eye.\n\n\"Maybe she's born with it, maybe it's lies. It's probably lies.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLast June, the manager of a restaurant in Lexington, Virginia, asked Mrs Sanders to leave because of her role in the Trump administration.\n\nThat same month, the press secretary dismissed rumours that she would be stepping down.\n\nShe is the daughter of Mike Huckabee, who was governor of Arkansas from 1996 to 2007.\n\nIn his tweet announcing Mrs Sanders' resignation, Mr Trump wrote that he hoped she would run for the same position.\n\n\"She would be fantastic,\" he said.\n\nMrs Sanders is one of the few remaining aides from Mr Trump's presidential campaign.", "Sinha (far right) has been a \"chaser\" on The Chase since 2011\n\nPaul Sinha, one of the professional quizzers on ITV's The Chase, has revealed he has Parkinson's disease.\n\n\"I will fight this with every breath I have,\" tweeted the 49-year-old comic, going on to share further details of his diagnosis in a blog post.\n\nSinha, a former GP, said he was told he had Parkinson's - a degenerative brain condition - last month.\n\nHe said it had been \"a really, really tough two weeks\" but said he did not \"consider himself unlucky\".\n\n\"Whatever the next stage of my life holds for me, many others have it far worse,\" he continued.\n\nSinha said he intended to \"keep Chasing, keep writing and performing comedy [and] keep quizzing\" while joking that appearing on Dancing on Ice was probably \"out of the question\".\n\n\"A lot of people have asked 'What can I do to help?'\" he concluded. \"The answer is to treat me exactly the same as before.\"\n\nBradley Walsh hosts The Chase, which Sinha joined in 2011. His fellow \"chasers\" are Anne Hegerty, Mark Labbett, Jenny Ryan and Shaun Wallace.\n\nLast month the BBC's technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones revealed he has Parkinson's, whose symptoms include involuntary tremors.\n\nSir Billy Connolly and actor Alan Alda have also spoken about how they deal with the illness since being diagnosed in 2013 and 2015 respectively.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chuka Umunna tells Today there's only room for one centre ground party in British politics\n\nFormer Labour and Change UK MP Chuka Umunna has joined the Liberal Democrats, saying he was \"wrong\" to think \"millions of politically homeless people... wanted a new party\".\n\nThe Streatham MP said he had \"massively underestimated just how difficult it is to set up a fully fledged new party without an existing infrastructure\".\n\nHe was one of six MPS to quit Change UK - founded in February - last week.\n\nIt gained only 3.4% of the vote in the European elections.\n\nIn contrast, the Liberal Democrats - who, like Change UK, campaigned on a strongly pro-EU message - saw a surge in support, coming second after Nigel Farage's Brexit Party.\n\nMr Umunna's move to the the Liberal Democrats brings the party's number of MPs to 12.\n\nAsked if he would hold a by-election and re-stand as a Lib Dem, Mr Umunna declined to answer directly but said that he had listened to his constituents and their biggest issue was Brexit.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Chuka Umunna This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe former shadow business secretary, who had previously criticised the Lib Dems for \"enabling Tory austerity\" during the 2010 to 2015 coalition government, acknowledged that not everyone in the party would welcome his arrival.\n\nHowever, he told the BBC \"things have changed\", as the Lib Dems had voted against every single Conservative Budget since 2015 and had stood on an anti-austerity manifesto in the 2017 general election.\n\n\"If you want to end austerity you cannot do that if you are going to sponsor Brexit in the way that the two main parties are doing,\" he added.\n\nMr Umunna said he had realised \"there isn't room for more than one centre-ground option\" in British politics, adding that he believed there were \"a good handful\" of Conservative and Labour MPs who knew their parties were \"broken\" and could also be prepared to join the Lib Dems.\n\nThe MP, who withdrew from the 2015 Labour leadership contest days after announcing his candidacy, told the Times he did not want to take sides between the two contenders to replace Sir Vince Cable as Lib Dem leader, Jo Swinson and Ed Davey, adding: \"I'm a newbie.\"\n\nWelcoming him, Sir Vince said: \"Chuka and I have worked together effectively for many months, campaigning for a People's Vote and to stop Brexit.\n\n\"I know that he will be a great asset to our party not just on Brexit, but in fighting for the liberal and social democratic values that we share.\"\n\nWhen asked if he expected other MPs to defect to his party, the Lib Dem leader confirmed he was \"in conversations\" with other independent MPs.\n\nLib Dem leader Sir Vince Cable said he was \"delighted\" to have Chuka Umunna in his party\n\nMr Umunna's move was also welcomed by the two candidates for the Lib Dem leadership.\n\nJo Swinson said the Lib Dems were \"the rallying point for people who want to stop Brexit and fight the climate crisis\", while Ed Davey praised the Streatham MP's \"huge courage\".\n\nChange UK - formerly known as The Independent Group - was formed by MPs who quit Labour and then joined by some former Conservatives.\n\nIt pledged to push for any Brexit deal negotiated by the government to be voted on at a referendum - or \"People's Vote\" - in which it would campaign for the UK to remain in the EU.\n\nAfter last month's European Parliament elections, six of its 11 MPs quit. On Thursday it applied to change its name to The Independent Group for Change, to avoid a protracted legal dispute with petitions website Change.org.\n\nLabour Party chairman Ian Lavery called for a by-election in Mr Umunna's constituency, tweeting: \"Three parties in as many months... who's next? Put your immense popularity to the good people of Streatham... let's have a PV [People's Vote] on you and your principles.\"", "Developments have included a new home for the Faculty of Architecture, Computing and Engineering (Face) on Swansea waterfront\n\nUniversity of Wales Trinity Saint David is facing financial uncertainty that could cast \"significant doubt\" over future operations.\n\nIts latest accounts said it might not have enough cash to continue as a going concern if some key sources of income did not materialise.\n\nUWTSD said the risk was remote and it had acted to secure its \"resilience\".\n\nIt confirmed it was looking at 110 possible job cuts and had nearly completed a process to save £6.5m.\n\nThe university has received 94 applications for voluntary redundancy and made 16 compulsory redundancies, but said it was working with staff and unions to reduce the need for the latter.\n\nUWTSD is based across three locations in west Wales - Lampeter, Carmarthen and Swansea - and employs 1,500 people. It had more than 10,000 students in 2017-18.\n\nA new library is part of the waterfront developments\n\nIts latest accounts showed a £30m HSBC bank loan, for its development on Swansea's waterfront, had to be rearranged because it breached one of the conditions.\n\nThey warned there was uncertainty over four expected sources of income - if a combination of them do not materialise, it could give rise to a \"material uncertainty\" over whether the university will have enough cash.\n\nThe accounts - for the year to July 2018 - were not finalised until April 2019, said these were:\n\nNo other Welsh universities have included a similar statement in the audit report in their accounts in recent years, according to higher education finance officials.\n\nA UWTSD spokeswoman said there was no \"significant doubt\" and the university was \"responding to a risk\".\n\nShe said: \"The current uncertainty the university is facing is linked to the timing of it receiving grants. This is a holding issue that the university is dealing with.\n\n\"In line with good governance the university has identified the risk, as it is required to do in its financial accounts, and is managing it. The university's future is not uncertain.\"\n\nProf Medwin Hughes is vice-chancellor of the University of Wales Trinity Saint David\n\nThe university is behind the Yr Egin complex in Carmarthen, the first phase of which houses S4C's headquarters.\n\nIt also has a campus in London and a learning centre in Birmingham which opened in March 2018.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Security correspondent Frank Gardner looks at the evidence the US says proves Iran's involvement in attacks on two tankers\n\nThe crisis in the Gulf has moved up a gear, with the US providing the first element of the intelligence it insists demonstrates that Iran was responsible for Thursday's attacks on two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman.\n\nAlthough much remains to be revealed about the incidents, as far as the Trump administration is concerned, the evidence is clear.\n\nThis inevitably raises questions about what happens next: how might the US respond? The stakes are high.\n\nWhat is the danger of a full-scale air and maritime conflict between Washington and Tehran?\n\nThe grainy video released by the Pentagon showing what is claimed to be a small Iranian vessel - its crew detaching an unexploded limpet mine from the hull of one of the two tankers attacked on Thursday - is a powerful first salvo in the battle to establish what actually happened.\n\nHowever, in the highly charged environment of the social media age, this is inevitably a struggle as much about perceptions as reality.\n\nTo their respective camps of critics, both the Iranian and Trump administrations are toxic.\n\nIran has denied from the outset any involvement, as it did with the four limpet-mine attacks on ships off the United Arab Emirates in May. The US has now blamed both episodes on Tehran. And there is a clear danger that this war of words could spill over into outright conflict.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLast night, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo swiftly and categorically pointed the finger of blame at Iran.\n\n\"This assessment,\" he said, was \"based on intelligence, the weapons used, the level of expertise needed to execute the operation, recent similar Iranian attacks on shipping, and the fact that no proxy group operating in the area has the resources and proficiency to act with such a high degree of sophistication.\"\n\nIran for its part was quick to deny any involvement in the incidents. Indeed it sought to deflect blame by arguing in effect that it was being framed.\n\n\"Somebody,\" an Iranian official asserted, \"is trying to destabilise relations between Iran and the international community.\"\n\nOn the face of things, the US Navy's video is persuasive. But it still leaves many questions unanswered. It was after all recorded some time after the initial explosions - when the Iranians, it seems, according to the implication of the US narrative - were seeking to remove some of the incriminating evidence.\n\nBut more needs to be revealed about the chronology of these attacks. When, for example, were the mines actually attached to the vessels?\n\nThe US has remarkable intelligence gathering capabilities in the region, where there is already a powerful US naval presence. More information will undoubtedly be available and a forensic examination of the damage to the two vessels should also yield further evidence.\n\nHowever, the burden of the US case goes way beyond this most recent attacks. Iran, the Trump administration insists, has form.\n\nMr Pompeo made an expansive case, insisting that \"taken as a whole, these unprovoked attacks present a clear threat to international peace and security, a blatant assault on the freedom of navigation, and an unacceptable campaign of escalating tension\".\n\nThese are hefty charges and the question inevitably follows: what is the US prepared to do about it?\n\nConcerted diplomatic action might be one approach; an effort to marshal international condemnation together with an effort to further isolate Iran through additional economic sanctions.\n\nIran's Islamic Revolution Guards is estimated to have more than 150,000 active personnel\n\nBut there is little doubt that stepped up sanctions, rightly or wrongly, have contributed to the current situation, increasing the pressure on Tehran, perhaps to the extent that some elements in the country - maybe the Revolutionary Guard Corps which maintains autonomous naval forces of its own - has decided to strike back.\n\nSo now what happens? Could the US seek to take some kind of punitive military response?\n\nWhat will be the view of its allies among the Gulf States and farther afield? And what could be the consequences of military action ?\n\nThere is a very real danger that Iran, if attacked, could launch a kind of hybrid war - both directly and through its proxies - carrying out sporadic and widely dispersed attacks on shipping and other targets, sending oil prices and insurance premiums up and perhaps encouraging further punitive responses.\n\nIt is an unpalatable prospect for all concerned, risking dangerous escalation. Nobody really thinks that either Iran or the US wants a full-scale conflict.\n\nFor the Americans, despite their considerable military power, an air and maritime war against Iran would raise all sorts of dangers.\n\nAnd President Trump, for all his sometimes bellicose rhetoric, has so far proved reluctant to take significant military action abroad. US strikes in Syria during his watch were largely symbolic.\n\nThe fear now is that Iran, through its own misreading of the situation, may have given the hawkish voices in the US administration the grounds they need to launch some kind of punitive response.\n\nThe danger, as ever, is for war by accident rather than by design.\n\nTehran and Washington are signalling their resolve to each other, but they may not be receiving quite the messages that each intends.\n\nIran, for example, may see the US build-up in the region partly as bluster and partly as an effort at intimidation in what it sees as its own backyard - intimidation that it is not disposed to accept.\n\nJust suppose elements in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, for example, misunderstand the signals.\n\nSuppose they believe that they have much more freedom to assert themselves in Gulf waters than the Americans are prepared to accept.\n\nIn other words, rather than as they may see it, \"pushing at the envelope\", they are straying into actions that Washington and its allies will simply not allow to go unpunished, This is a recipe for conflict, intentional or otherwise. These are dangerous times.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why does the Strait of Hormuz matter?\n\nMany of Washington's allies, like France and Germany, are already urging caution.\n\nThe British foreign minister said that while the UK trusted the US, it would draw its own conclusion.\n\n\"We are going to make our own independent assessment, we have our processes to do that,\" Jeremy Hunt told the BBC's Today programme. \"We have no reason not to believe the American assessment and our instinct is to believe it, because they are our closest ally.\"\n\nMr Trump must weigh up any response carefully.\n\nWhen he first came to office, there were many - even Republican foreign policy experts - who refused to have anything to do with his administration, insisting that his mercurial and erratic approach to foreign affairs would provoke a crisis.\n\nFor a time, that looked as though it might involve North Korea or maybe even Syria. But each time, the moment of drama passed.\n\nNow a fully fledged crisis is facing the White House. How it responds will have crucial implications, not just for the Middle East, but also for the wider pattern of relationships between the US and its traditional partners in the Gulf and elsewhere, many of whom are unsure of how to deal with this president and his unique diplomatic style.", "Dr Wolf says she had admitted her \"misinterpretations\" and was correcting them\n\nThe release of a new book by prominent feminist author Naomi Wolf has been delayed by her US publisher over accuracy concerns.\n\nOutrages: Sex, Censorship and the Criminalisation of Love details the persecution of homosexuality in Victorian Britain.\n\nLast month, it was revealed during a BBC radio interview that the author had misunderstood key 19th century English legal terms within the book.\n\nDr Wolf is best known for her acclaimed third-wave feminist book The Beauty Myth and other works like Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries.\n\nHer new book argues that the British Obscene Publications Act of 1857 led to homosexual persecution in Britain getting worse.\n\nBut during an interview on BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking programme broadcaster Matthew Sweet questioned key claims within it.\n\nDr Wolf alleged she had discovered that \"several dozen\" men were executed for having homosexual sex during the 19th century.\n\n\"I don't think you're right about this,\" the presenter said in the clip, before detailing the term \"death recorded\" in Old Bailey court records in fact meant that judges had abstained from handing down a death sentence.\n\n\"I don't think any of the executions you've identified here actually happened,\" he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matthew Sweet questions some of Naomi Wolf's evidence in her new book Outrages\n\nIn one particular case, he pointed out a 14-year-old boy had been discharged and not executed as she had detailed.\n\nSweet also raised questions over her interpretation of the surrounding \"sodomy\" - revealing the teenager had in fact committed an indecent assault against a six-year-old boy, and not a consensual homosexual act.\n\n\"I can't find any evidence that any of the relationships you describe were consensual,\" he added.\n\nDespite the revelations, UK publisher Virago and US publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt initially both stood by the author and pledged to make corrections.\n\nBut on Thursday, the US publisher told the New York Times they would not publish on 18 June as planned.\n\n\"As we have been working with Naomi Wolf to make corrections to Outrages, new questions have arisen that require more time to explore,\" a spokeswoman told the newspaper.\n\n\"We are postponing publication and requesting that all copies be returned from retail accounts while we work to resolve those questions.\"\n\nIn a series of tweets Dr Wolf said she \"strongly objected\" to the decision.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Dr Naomi Wolf This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nShe also issued a statement to the newspaper about the delay.\n\n\"The misinterpretations I made, I directly acknowledged and took immediate action to correct; but many of the other critiques are either subject to interpretation or are themselves in error,\" the statement.\n\n\"A rebuttal article was underway. More responsiveness and more transparency are the right answers to criticism, and not the complete withdrawal of a text.\"", "Chelsea have agreed a deal in principle for their manager Maurizio Sarri to join Serie A champions Juventus.\n\nAn agreement was reached late on Thursday evening after talks between senior officials. A deal could be completed as early as Friday.\n\nIt is understood a compensation fee in excess of £5m has been agreed.\n\nSarri arrived from Napoli in July 2018 and led the Blues to third place in the Premier League and won the Europa League in his one season in charge.\n• None Why Sarri is leaving Stamford Bridge with stock higher than when he arrived\n\nDespite signing a three-year deal last July, he will become the ninth full-time manager to leave the club under Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich.\n\nThroughout the 60-year-old Italian's time at Stamford Bridge there was repeated speculation about his position, with Chelsea fans expressing their discontent at tactics and team selections.\n\nOne of the low points came in February when goalkeeper Kepa Arrizabalaga challenged his authority by refusing to be substituted in the Carabao Cup final at Wembley, shortly before Chelsea were beaten in a penalty shootout by Manchester City.\n\nBut Sarri did manage to win his first ever trophy as manager with a 4-1 victory over Arsenal in May in the Europa League final, and after the match said \"he deserved\" to stay with the club.\n\nChelsea are currently unable to sign any players after they were banned for two transfer windows by Fifa - a decision they are appealing at the Court of Arbitration for Sport.\n\nTheir star player Eden Hazard has joined Real Madrid for a fee that could exceed £150m.\n\nSignificantly, Chelsea have not asked for the suspension to be put on hold until a final decision is reached. It means their only new arrival might be USA forward Christian Pulisic, a £58m signing from Borussia Dortmund in January, who spent the remainder of the campaign on loan in Germany.\n\nJuventus are managerless after Massimiliano Allegri left at the end of last season, having won the league title in each of his five seasons since taking charge in 2014.\n\nAfter earning glowing references for his tactics at Napoli, he looked to have effectively introduced 'Sarri-ball' to his new players as Chelsea started their Premier League campaign with a 12-game unbeaten streak.\n\nBut the Blues were out of title contention after losing three out of four Premier League games from January to February, including a 6-0 defeat at eventual champions Manchester City, which saw them slip to sixth in the table.\n\nChelsea then lost 2-0 at home to Manchester United in the FA Cup, when fans booed the Italian's substitutions and joined in when the visiting supporters sang \"You're getting sacked in the morning\".\n\nHowever, Sarri remained in charge, and of the 19 matches played after they were beaten on penalties in the League Cup final, his side lost just two, as they won their first European trophy since securing the Europa League in 2012-13.\n\nThey also held off the challenge of Tottenham, Arsenal and Manchester United to finish third in the league and clinch Champions League qualification.\n\nAnalysis - who could Chelsea turn to?\n\nFor all the difficulties Chelsea managers tend to encounter, there has been no shortage of potential candidates being linked to the job.\n\nThe most obvious is Blues' record scorer Frank Lampard.\n\nLampard ended his first season as a manager with defeat at Wembley in the Championship play-off. Lampard is steeped in Chelsea history, won 11 major trophies during his 13 years at the club, and is adored by supporters, even though he eventually moved away to join Manchester City before ending his career in Major League Soccer with New York City.\n\nAt Derby, Lampard also linked up with former team-mate Jody Morris, who developed an impressive reputation during five years working with Chelsea's youth teams - that might improve the pair's chances even more, given the transfer embargo Chelsea are facing.\n\nChelsea loanees Fikayo Tomori, Mason Mount and Tammy Abraham were all involved at Wembley and others, such as Reece James, have also impressed in season-long moves away from the club.\n\nMorris' inside knowledge would be a major asset in deciding which of these youngsters have the capability to step into the first-team picture.\n\nIt is also probable, although by no means certain, that Lampard would be given time if results did not go well.\n\nRafael Benitez, whose Newcastle future is uncertain, is also tipped, despite the fact Chelsea's fans have no love of the 59-year-old, something they made clear during his six months in temporary charge following the dismissal of Roberto di Matteo in 2012, when fans made banners demanding his exit even though he won the Europa League.\n\nWolves manager Nuno Espirito Santo is also of interest. Santo has taken Wolves from the Championship to seventh in the Premier League - and European qualification - in the space of two seasons. He is known to be hugely ambitious and for all the promise Wolves have shown during his time at Molineux, Chelsea still represents a significant step up.\n\nAnd, given Chelsea have already had six Italian managers and he has won five Serie A titles in a row, Massimiliano Allegri cannot be discounted, even if the 51-year-old has said he intends to take a year out of football.", "The SAS and other UK Special Forces (UKSF) are poised to receive a new mission countering Russian and other forces around the world.\n\nThe plan is called 'Special Operations Concept' and has been drawn up by the senior officer in charge of the special forces, the Director Special Forces (DSF).\n\nAccording to people familiar with what's in it, part of the concept involves changing both the structure of the military's secretive units and what they do.\n\nThe plan is currently being considered by military chiefs, Whitehall insiders tell me, and will soon be sent to ministers and is likely to be approved.\n\nThe Ministry of Defence has said it does not comment on the UK Special Forces.\n\nUK Special Forces are meant to provide more options for low-profile actions in places where overtly committing conventional troops would be difficult.\n\nFor example, under the new plan, an operation might be mounted in a Baltic republic or African country in order to uncover and pinpoint Russian covert activities.\n\nThen a decision would be made as to whether to make public what had been learned, or to cooperate secretly with local security forces in order to disrupt it.\n\nThe new missions would take UKSF units in a less \"kinetic\" or violent direction - after almost 20 years of man-hunting strike missions in the Middle East and Afghanistan - and into closer cooperation with allied intelligence agencies and MI6.\n\nThere are three main elements of the UK's Special Forces\n\n\"The counter-terrorist task is drawing down, while the need to confront dangerous international behaviour by peer adversaries is increasing,\" says one source.\n\nFollowing the defeat of the last pocket of Islamic State group, missions in Syria and Iraq are declining.\n\nAnd so in staking out new territory, the DSF seems to be trying to give new priorities to the units under their command at a time of financial stringency.\n\nThere are three main elements of the UK's Special Forces: the regular Special Air Service regiment (22 SAS), the Special Boat Service (SBS), and Special Reconnaissance Regiment (SRR).\n\nThe role of the SRR, which carries out covert surveillance, would grow under the Special Operations Concept.\n\nMilitary chiefs believe Russia has been using its military intelligence arm, the GRU, effectively in Ukraine, Syria and Africa.\n\n\"Right now, you do nothing or you escalate,\" one senior officer says. \"We want to expand that competitive space.\"\n\nThe UK government has said the GRU was behind the 2018 Salisbury attack, in which Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, were poisoned with a nerve agent.\n\nAt a London conference earlier this month, Chief of General Staff General Sir Mark Carleton-Smith referred to \"authoritarian regimes\" rather than mentioning Russia by name, noting they had managed to \"exploit that hybrid space between those two increasingly redundant states of 'peace' and 'war'\".\n\nThis type of unstated conflict between states is often referred to as \"the grey zone\".\n\nRecent attacks on tankers in the Gulf are an example of this, with states - believed to be Iran, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates - acting covertly, either directly or through proxies.\n\nExperts across the West are seeking out the right responses to hostile acts that fall short of the threshold of all-out war. Such responses could include an increased emphasis on information and cyber operations.\n\nThe SRR is trained in a variety of techniques including physical and technical surveillance, such as planting cameras in insurgent-held territory, eavesdropping and close-proximity hacking.\n\nIt remains up for debate whether this new concept would see the stepping up of a shadow war against proxy forces - serving the interests of countries such as China, Iran and Russia - that could occasionally turn violent.\n\nBritish politicians' appetite for risk is limited and the capture of a party of Special Forces operators and MI6 officers in Libya eight years ago showed the potential for embarrassment that comes with such missions.\n\nYou can watch Newsnight on BBC Two weekdays at 22:30 or on iPlayer, subscribe to the programme on YouTube and follow it on Twitter.", "A police diver enters the lake as part of the search\n\nPolice have begun a search of a lake and wetland for a missing County Down man who is believed to have been murdered.\n\nPat McCormick, a 55-year-old father of four, was last seen in Comber on Thursday, 30 May.\n\nPolice divers are searching a lake in the wetlands beside Strangford Lough.\n\nParts of the lake being searched are nine metres deep and police have said the search is likely to continue for much of Friday.\n\nA man and woman in their 20s were arrested last week on suspicion of Mr McCormick's murder, but were later released on bail pending further enquiries.\n\nPat McCormick, who is originally from Saintfield, has been missing since 30 May\n\nTwo other men arrested as part of the investigation were also released on bail.\n\nMr McCormick, originally from Saintfield, was last seen on Castle Street in Comber at about 22:30 BST on Thursday 30 May, driving his black car.\n\nCCTV footage released by the PSNI shows Mr McCormick crossing Castle Street and walking through an archway.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Maria McCann This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Betty Campbell taught at Mount Stuart Primary School in Butetown for 28 years\n\nSculptor Eve Shepherd has been chosen to create a statue of the first black head teacher in Wales.\n\nBetty Campbell - who died in 2017 - was a champion of multi-cultural education in Cardiff's Butetown community.\n\nHer family, who were involved in the selection, said the design \"really captures the essence of our mother\".\n\nMs Shepherd, chosen from a shortlist of three, has recently been commissioned for statues of physicist Prof Stephen Hawking.\n\nThe statue is due to be unveiled in a new public square opposite the new BBC Wales headquarters in Central Square in 2020.\n\nMs Shepherd, born in Sheffield and living in Brighton, has been called \"unique in the world of modern sculptors\".\n\nShe and two other contemporary female sculptors were asked to submit design ideas and initial model to a panel set up by Monumental Welsh Women (MWW).\n\nMrs Campbell was chosen from a public poll of five \"hidden heroines\" from Welsh history.\n\nOrganisers said it would be the first statue of a named, real woman in Wales.\n\nBetty Campbell was born to a Jamaican father and Welsh Barbadian mother in 1934\n\nBetty Campbell during a royal visit to her school in 1994. She was awarded the MBE in 2003\n\nMrs Campbell, who died in October 2017 aged 82, was the long-serving former head of Mount Stuart Primary School and a former councillor in the docklands community where she was born.\n\nShe was described as a \"true pioneer\" and an \"inspiration\".\n\nHelen Molyneux, from MWW, said Ms Shepherd had \"clearly done a lot of work to understand Betty as a person and as a symbol\".\n\nShe added: \"The brief that the artists were given was to produce a work of art which would become a Cardiff icon - the place that every visitor to Cardiff would go to take a selfie.\n\n\"Eve's design will be a real talking point and a great asset to Cardiff as well as being a true commemoration of Betty Campbell.\"\n\nEve Shepherd will not be revealing her design for the Betty Campbell statue until a later date\n\nMs Shepherd said: \"I am so honoured and humbled to be selected to make such a momentous monument to Betty, to women, to Welsh women, to black women and the community as a whole.\n\n\"I was drawn to Betty both as a person of tremendous and formidable spirit and for the incredible work she did\".\n\nThe early design is not being revealed yet, but Elaine Clarke, Mrs Campbell's daughter, said it encapsulated her mother \"in a way that ensures her legacy of determination, aspiration and inspiration lives on for generations to come\".\n\nSimon Campbell, her son, said: \"When I showed a picture of it to my dad his face lit up - I knew then that this was the right choice.\"\n\nThe statue is being paid for by a mix of private, corporate and Welsh Government funding, with some more fundraising over the next year.\n\nThe statue will feature in a public space in front of a new development, which will replace shops and offices in St David's House in Cardiff\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Youssef Zaghba, armed with a knife, charged at a firearms officer before being shot dead\n\nOne of the London Bridge attackers was less than 60cm (23in) away from an armed police officer when he was shot dead, an inquest has heard.\n\nDet Supt Rebecca Riggs said forensic evidence suggested how close knifeman Youssef Zaghba had been to an officer.\n\nZaghba and two others left eight people dead and 48 injured when they drove a van into pedestrians and stabbed people in Borough Market on 3 June 2017.\n\nDet Supt Riggs was giving evidence at inquests into the victims' deaths.\n\nThe Old Bailey had heard previously that Zaghba, armed with a knife, had charged at the firearms officer and was within touching distance when the officer opened fire.\n\nDet Supt Riggs, who was in charge of the Metropolitan Police investigation into the attacks, said eight armed officers fired a total of 46 shots at the three attackers.\n\nThe armed officers who killed the knifemen have not been named at the inquest\n\nZaghba's accomplices Khuram Butt, 27, and Rachid Redouane, 30, were struck by at least six bullets each, the court heard.\n\nDet Supt Riggs said Zaghba, 22, was hit at least twice.\n\nSummarising evidence that had already been heard in court, Det Supt Riggs confirmed that at 22:23 BST - seven minutes after the initial volley of shots - officers opened fire again on Butt and Redouane.\n\nThey were thought to be still moving and wearing explosive vests, which were later revealed to be fake.\n\nThe victims of the London Bridge attack (clockwise from top left): Christine Archibald, Sebastien Belanger, Kirsty Boden, Ignacio Echeverria, Sara Zelenak, Xavier Thomas, Alexandre Pigeard, James McMullan\n\nDet Supt Riggs said officers fired twice more at Butt at 22:29 and 22:31.\n\nAnother senior officer told the court back-up firearms officers then had to be drafted in.\n\nCity of London Police temporary commander David Evans - the force's most senior officer on duty on the night of the attacks - described the police control room as \"exceptionally busy\" even after the trio were shot, and said he experienced \"information overload\".\n\n\"It continued to be a very confusing period, with reports of potentially linked incidents, so part of my responsibility now that firearms officers were engaged in a post-incident process was to have firearms cover,\" he said.\n\nXavier Thomas, 45, Chrissy Archibald, 30, Sara Zelenak, 21, Sebastien Belanger, 36, James McMullan, 32, Kirsty Boden, 28, Alexandre Pigeard, 26, and Ignacio Echeverria, 39, were killed by the attackers.\n\nDet Supt Riggs said 124 crime scenes were processed, almost 6,100 exhibits seized and 22 addresses searched in the subsequent investigation.\n\nThe court heard 22 people were arrested but released without charge.\n\nWhen Jonathan Hough QC, counsel to the inquests, asked Det Supt Riggs if there was anything to suggest the attack had been directed from overseas, or by a wider network, she said: \"No, there was no evidence of that.\"\n\nShe admitted the phones used by the three knifemen in the build-up to the attack were never recovered.\n\nMr Hough said the weapon taken from Butt had DNA on it thought to relate to Mr Pigeard and DNA traces thought to relate to Ms Zelenak and Mr Belanger - as well as traces thought to be Zaghba's.\n\nA knife found next to Zaghba had DNA thought to relate to Ms Boden and Mr Belanger, Mr Hough said.\n\nThe knife attached to Redouane's wrist also had DNA linked to Mr Belanger and Mr Echeverria and DNA thought to relate to Ms Zelenak, the court heard.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The police have warned climate protesters they will face possible life sentences if they fly drones around Heathrow Airport.\n\nExtinction Rebellion last month threatened to shut down the airport with drones on 18 June, in protest against a planned expansion.\n\nIn a strongly-worded statement issued on Friday afternoon, Scotland Yard urged campaigners to reconsider.\n\nDeputy Assistant Metropolitan Police Commissioner Laurence Taylor warned the environmental protesters against doing anything to disrupt or endanger the UK's most important airport.\n\nHe said: \"If flown into the path of an aircraft, a drone has the potential to cause great harm to those on board.\n\n\"Endangering the safety of an aircraft can result in a life sentence.\n\n\"We would urge anybody intending to join this event with a view to committing criminal activity, whether considered peaceful or not, to strongly reconsider.\n\n\"The airport is part of our national infrastructure, and we will not allow the illegal activity of protesters to cause disruption and misery to thousands.\"\n\nCommanders say they have devised a policing plan to guard the airport and surrounding area and in order to make it work they have diverted officers from frontline roles elsewhere in London.\n\nExtinction Rebellion said it would release a statement on Sunday.\n\nA spokesperson for Heathrow Airport said: \"We are working with the authorities to address any threat of protests which could disrupt the airport.\n\n\"This is reckless action that if carried out could endanger the lives of the travelling public and our colleagues.\n\n\"We agree with the need to act on climate change, but that requires us to work together constructively - not commit serious criminal offences.\"\n\nDepartures at Heathrow were temporarily stopped in January after a drone was reported to have been sighted.\n\nThe sighting of drones brought Gatwick Airport to a halt just before Christmas last year\n\nIn December 2018, a \"sustained\" drone attack caused disruption for tens of thousands of passengers at Gatwick Airport, after more than 100 drone sightings over three days.\n\nFollowing the chaos, the government extended the no-fly zone for drones around airports.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ofsted has called for the resumption of routine checks on outstanding schools, after 80% of those it re-inspected due to specific issues were downgraded.\n\nEngland's schools standards watchdog re-inspected 305 schools rated outstanding, after concerns were raised about falling standards.\n\nIt said 256 lost their top-level rating as a result.\n\nIn 2011, inspectors were stopped from carrying out routine inspections of these top-rated schools.\n\nThe move, during Michael Gove's time as England's Education Secretary, aimed to focus resources on the worst-performing schools but was criticised at the time, as it meant hundreds of schools would not be checked at all.\n\nLast year, Ofsted highlighted the issue, saying that as some schools had not been inspected for a decade or more, there was a chance their ratings no longer truly reflected standards at the school.\n\nIt has been lobbying ministers to reinstate routine inspections every six years for primary and every five or seven years for secondary schools.\n\nAmong the 305 \"outstanding\" schools inspected this year:\n\nOfsted chief inspector Amanda Spielman said: \"The fact that outstanding schools are largely exempt from inspection leaves us with real gaps in our knowledge about the quality of education and safeguarding in these schools.\n\n\"Some of them have not been inspected for over a decade, and when our inspectors go back in, they sometimes find standards have significantly declined.\n\n\"We believe most schools judged outstanding are still doing outstanding work.\n\n\"But for the outstanding grade to be properly meaningful and a genuine beacon of excellence, the exemption should be lifted and Ofsted resourced to routinely inspect these schools.\"\n• None Some 'outstanding schools not that good'\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Japan's Kokuka Courageous and Norway's Front Altair were attacked on 13 June\n\nThe US government has accused Iran of being behind explosions which have damaged two tankers in the Gulf of Oman on Thursday.\n\nThe Iranian administration has denied any involvement despite the US military releasing a video it claims shows Iranian special forces removing an unexploded mine from the side of one of the tankers.\n\nBut what can be said for certain and what could happen next? The BBC's defence and diplomatic correspondent Jonathan Marcus answers questions about the incident sent in by BBC News readers.\n\nMr G Riordan: Is there a salvage plan? Are the tankers guarded or escorted? Do the tankers have CCTV? How do we make the Strait of Hormuz safe? Is it an act of terror?\n\nA lot of good questions there. I suppose if it turns out to be a state actor, e.g. Iran, behind these attacks then one would not call them \"terrorist\" as such. Striking at another country's merchant ships might in some circumstances be considered an act of war.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why does the Strait of Hormuz matter?\n\nA concerted effort to hamper normal shipping in the Gulf would also clearly have significant strategic implications. Currently tankers are not guarded, though in the past, e.g. during the Iran-Iraq war, a convoy system was introduced to shepherd tankers through these confined waters accompanied by warships.\n\nClearly, experts will now be assessing the extent of the damage to the two vessels. Modern merchant ships may well have CCTV on board to monitor key areas. How much help this might give to any investigation is unclear.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAnonymous: The Iranian government's past behaviour is a good indicator of their future intentions to create havoc if they are not stopped: but how?\n\nThis is certainly how the US and its allies see it. Iran has made threats against merchant shipping in the Gulf and, in the US view, is a highly destabilising actor in the region.\n\nIran clearly takes a very different view, insisting it has a right to pursue its own regional interests and specifically that it did not target any of these tankers.\n\nWhat people say and what people do may be different. Iran resents the US intrusion into the Gulf. It is opposed to US policy in the region in Syria and elsewhere.\n\nThe danger is that far from being frightened by the reinforced US military presence in the Gulf it may feel that it has some latitude to push back. This is one of the dangerous elements in this equation.\n\nRay: In this day and age with so much satellite observation why isn't there more proof of who the attackers are?\n\nWell, you are right, satellites can be helpful but many of the most capable intelligence-gathering variety tend to belong to a very small group of countries and even then their coverage is not total. They need to be tasked to look at specific areas.\n\nI have no doubt the US is monitoring Iranian activity in the Gulf from a variety of platforms: satellites; aircraft; communications and signals intercepts; radar tracking and so on. Governments tend to be cautious - especially the Americans - about showing their satellite data. Often they do not want to reveal the full extent of their capabilities.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Security correspondent Frank Gardner looks at the evidence the US says proves Iran's involvement in attacks on two tankers\n\nAs an aside, one of the most interesting developments over recent years is the use of civilian satellite data by security researchers and think tanks to significantly amplify our knowledge and to provide a separate source of satellite intelligence. This has, however, generally been used to study fixed locations, e.g. North Korean or Iranian rocket or nuclear facilities. It is very hard for such groups to monitor an area like the Gulf in real-time.\n\nHarry: I want to know how many vessels were hit by mines prior to the US escalating their presence in the region.\n\nThe \"escalation\" of the US military presence is to some extent a propaganda ploy by the US. The presence of a US aircraft carrier battle group for example - currently the USS Abraham Lincoln - is far from unusual. There has indeed been some reinforcement, notably a small number of warplanes; the return of a Patriot anti-missile battery; and a small amphibious unit.\n\nAgain, it is all about sending signals rather than necessarily preparing for conflict. But there is no doubt that the US retains a formidable military capability in the region.\n\nAs to chronology, the earlier limpet mine attack on the four vessels was on 12 May. Prior to this (around 10 May) the US had announced it was stepping up its deployments to the region following what it said were concerns that Iranian elements or proxy forces were planning a number of attacks against US interests. Specifically, they claim to have seen missiles being loaded onto boats. Subsequently that threat seems to have passed, but in the meantime the four tankers were mined.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC was invited on board the USS Abraham Lincoln in the Arabian Sea\n\nAndrew: You say Trump is string up tensions: but why? I heard he believes the existing deal is bad and wants a better one? Similar tactics to North Korea?\n\nAnd James: Do you think it was Iran behind these latest attacks, or is it USA trying to stir things up whilst Iran host Shinzo Abe, Japanese PM?\n\nLet's cut to the chase here. Is Iran the most likely country to be responsible for the attacks - probably yes.\n\nHas the United States made a 100 per cent case against Tehran? Not yet.\n\nWill Iran ever admit to these attacks even if its forces did carry them out? Clearly no.\n\nIs anyone else going own up to carrying them out? No.\n\nIt is not the BBC's job to ascribe blame but it is our job to bring the evidence to you, to describe the circumstances; and to report and to weigh-up what different people have to say. You then must come to your own conclusion.\n\nAs you can imagine many of the messages we get refer to wild conspiracy theories which betray more about their author's thinking than they do an assessment of real day-to-day events.\n\nThe US, having walked away from the nuclear deal, is clearly waging a campaign to pressure Iran. But to what end is not clear.\n\nThe demands made by key US officials of Tehran are simply unrealistic. The Trump Administration seems to be unclear as to its strategic goals.\n\nThinking the nuclear deal was a bad one and walking away from it is all very well. But to get a better deal in Mr Trump's terms appears to require Iran to radically change its behaviour and outlook; to almost cease being Iran. That is why critics of Mr Trump say that he really wants regime change in Tehran.\n\nThere certainly are people in his administration who support this. But equally Mr Trump, despite all his tweets and bluster, does not want to embark upon new overseas military commitments.\n\nIt also has to be said that all the other countries or organisations that were party to the nuclear deal (the JCPOA as it is known) think that whatever its flaws, that deal was better than no deal.\n\nThanks for all the questions.", "A ban on adverts featuring \"harmful gender stereotypes\" or those which are likely to cause \"serious or widespread offence\" has come into force.\n\nThe ban covers scenarios such as a man with his feet up while a woman cleans, or a woman failing to park a car.\n\nThe UK's advertising watchdog introduced the ban because it found some portrayals could play a part in \"limiting people's potential\".\n\nIt said it was pleased with how advertisers had responded.\n\nThe new rule follows a review of gender stereotyping in adverts by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) - the organisation that administers the UK Advertising Codes, which cover both broadcast and non-broadcast adverts, including online and social media.\n\nThe ASA said the review had found evidence suggesting that harmful stereotypes could \"restrict the choices, aspirations and opportunities of children, young people and adults and these stereotypes can be reinforced by some advertising, which plays a part in unequal gender outcomes\".\n\n\"Our evidence shows how harmful gender stereotypes in ads can contribute to inequality in society, with costs for all of us. Put simply, we found that some portrayals in ads can, over time, play a part in limiting people's potential,\" said ASA chief executive Guy Parker.\n\nAn advert for baby formula Aptamil was accused of reinforcing gender stereotypes\n\nBlogger and father of two Jim Coulson thinks the ban is a good idea. He dislikes adverts that perpetuate stereotypes about dads being \"useless\".\n\n\"It's the small things though that build up, and the small things are what inform the subconscious,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"That's the problem... that adverts rely on stereotypes. We know why they do it, because it's easy. \"\n\nBut columnist Angela Epstein disagrees, and thinks that society has become \"over-sensitive\".\n\n\"There's a lot of big things we need to fight over - equality over pay, bullying in the workplace, domestic violence, sexual harassment - these are really big issues that we need to fight over equally,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"But when you chuck in the fact that women are doing the dishes [in advertisements], it's not in the same sphere. When we lump it all together and become desensitised, we devalue those important arguments we need to have.\"\n\nAs part of its review, the ASA brought together members of the public and showed them various adverts to gauge how they felt about how men and women were depicted.\n\nOne of them was a 2017 television advert for Aptamil baby milk formula, which showed a baby girl growing up to be a ballerina and baby boys engineers and mountain climbers.\n\nThe ASA found some parents \"felt strongly about the gender based aspirations shown in this advert specifically noting the stereotypical future professions of the boys and girls shown.\n\n\"These parents queried why these stereotypes were needed, feeling that they lacked diversity of gender roles and did not represent real life.\"\n\nAt the time it was released, the campaign prompted complaints but the ASA did not find grounds for a formal investigation as it did not break the rules.\n\nHowever, Fernando Desouches, managing director of marketing agency New Macho, which specialises in targeting men, said this was an example of a past advert that would not pass the new ASA legislation.\n\nHe said it showed how easy it can be for \"deeply entrenched views on gender to come through in an ad that purports to be caring and nurturing of future generations.\" He was \"unsurprised it generated a backlash\".\n\nOther situations likely to fall foul of the new rule include:\n\nHowever, the new rules do not preclude the use of all gender stereotypes. The ASA said the aim was to identify \"specific harms\" that should be prevented.\n\nSo, for example, adverts would still be able to show women doing the shopping or men doing DIY, or use gender stereotypes as a way of challenging their negative effects.\n\nThe ASA outlined the new rules at the end of last year, giving advertisers six months to prepare for their introduction.\n\nMr Parker said the watchdog was pleased with how the industry had already responded.\n\nThe ASA said it would deal with any complaints on a case-by-case basis and would assess each advert by looking at the \"content and context\" to determine if the new rule had been broken.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTwo carers have been convicted of murdering a 19-year-old woman whose death they covered up for 20 years and whose body has never been found.\n\nEdward Cairney, 77, and Avril Jones, 59, killed Margaret Fleming in December 1999 or January of the following year.\n\nThe authorities only became suspicious in October 2016 when concerns were raised about a benefits claim made by Jones on Ms Fleming's behalf.\n\nA huge police search operation has failed to find any trace of Ms Fleming.\n\nCairney insisted during the trial at the High Court in Glasgow that Ms Fleming is still alive and had gone to London.\n\nMargaret Fleming's body has never been found\n\nHe claimed that she regularly returned to their home in Inverkip, Inverclyde, when she needed money.\n\nHe also claimed Ms Fleming, who had learning difficulties and went to live with the couple after her father's death in 1995, fled out of the back door when police first arrived at the house, which is known as Seacroft, to search for her.\n\nBut a jury found Cairney and Jones guilty of murder after a seven-week trial.\n\nJones was also found guilty of fraudulently claiming £182,000 in benefits by pretending that Ms Fleming was alive.\n\nLord Matthews, the trial judge, said he would pass sentence next month after social work and medical reports are compiled on the pair.\n\nSpeaking outside court, Det Supt Paul Livingstone - who led the investigation - said Ms Fleming had been a \"very vulnerable young woman who was manipulated, abused, neglected and ultimately murdered by the two people who should have been looking after her\".\n\nPolice described conditions in the house as \"uninhabitable\"\n\nHe said it was clear that Cairney and Jones had been motivated by money and kept the teenager in conditions that were \"utterly disgusting and uninhabitable\" before killing her.\n\nHe added: \"We will never know just how Margaret was killed. What we do know is that she lived her last days in what can only be described as a living hell.\n\n\"She must have felt that she was alone in the world with no-one coming to help her, which is just heartbreaking to think of.\"\n\nInverclyde Council said it was asked by the procurator fiscal not to carry out an investigation before the trial concluded.\n\nA spokesman said: \"Inverclyde's multi-agency public protection committees will now work with all the organisations involved in Margaret's case on a full, detailed examination of the events leading up to her tragic death.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe last independent sighting of Ms Fleming, who briefly attended James Watt College before effectively being held prisoner by the couple, was when Jones' brother Richard saw her on 17 December 1999.\n\nShe did not join the rest of the family for Christmas dinner the following week. On 5 January of the following year, Jones told her mother that Margaret had run off with travellers.\n\nThere have been no sightings of her since, and detectives were unable to establish how she died or what happened to her body - although a former firefighter told the trial he once smelled what he believed was burning human flesh coming from a bonfire at Cairney and Jones' home.\n\nThe pair tried to cover their tracks by travelling to London, and letters purporting to be from Ms Fleming were posted to their home in a bid to cover up their crime.\n\nBogus diary and calendar entries were also written to suggest Ms Fleming had left the house voluntarily.\n\nDespite this her benefits continued to be paid into Jones' account, without challenge, for more than a decade.\n\nThe trial heard that a benefits investigator attempted to visit Ms Fleming in June 2012 but was told by Jones that she would not see her.\n\nThe investigator said a duty social worker should have visited the \"totally chaotic\" property to follow up on the young woman's welfare, but no-one did.\n\nWhen police were finally alerted four years later it was as a result of an application for Personal Independence Payments (PIP) - which had been filled out by Jones.\n\nIn it she wrote that Ms Fleming \"needs constant care\", had self-harmed and was \"caught eating out of a dog bowl\".\n\nA social worker phoned Jones to offer help and was told Ms Fleming had not been to the doctor, despite picking a hole in her head.\n\nPolice Scotland subsequently launched a missing persons' investigation in October 2016 but an extensive search of the house - which included two downstairs bedrooms full of rubbish - and its grounds failed to uncover any trace of Ms Fleming.\n\nDespite their suspicions, detectives did not have enough evidence to charge the couple - but that changed after Cairney made a series of outlandish claims in interviews with journalists including BBC Scotland's Suzanne Allan in October 2017.\n\nHe said Ms Fleming had become a \"gangmaster\" and was also \"buying and selling\" drugs.\n\nCairney later told the trial that he had met Margaret in London two years ago.\n\nCairney and Jones were detained on 25 October of that year at Glasgow Central Station as they attempted to board a train to London while carrying £3,500 in cash.", "Some campers lasted less than a few hours before they decided to leave the site\n\nMusic fans have been leaving a festival before a note has even been played - after torrential rain reduced the site to a \"mud-bath\".\n\nThousands descended on Download festival's campsite at Donington Park on Wednesday.\n\nOne man, who left after injuring himself, described scenes of \"impassable muddy sludge everywhere\".\n\nFans braving the mud have rechristened the event \"Drownload\", posting pictures of drenched ground online.\n\nJohn Hawkins, from Grimsby, left the Donington Park site Thursday morning after suffering a slipped disc.\n\n\"I spent the next 24 hours crying in my tent,\" he said.\n\n\"It's not [been] communicated there would be such a distance between the car park and the campsite.\"\n\nThe 34-year-old said he made the choice to leave after searching for a toilet \"that wasn't flooded or looking like something out of a horror movie\" for an hour.\n\n\"I was looking forward to my first festival experience, but all I got was mud, cold and pain,\" he said.\n\nFestival staff have been trying to drain the site\n\nSamantha Gibben, from Stockon-on-Tees, dislocated her hip and left after six hours.\n\n\"I was just sliding everywhere,\" she said.\n\n\"The village was more or less inaccessible for anyone who couldn't walk and the campsites were very slippery already.\"\n\nMiss Gibben said wheelchairs were getting stuck and friends who stayed overnight had hypothermia.\n\n\"The stick-it-out attitude is no excuse for not looking after yourself and putting your health first,\" she said.\n\nSullivan-Wren Sheriff, 28, from Nottingham, opened up a three-bedroom house to those leaving the campsite.\n\nA young man who took up the offer \"wasn't in a good way so I said I'd pick him up to make sure he gets a wash and some clean clothes\".\n\n\"There's a lot of people in their late teens/early 20s who have travelled miles and it would be a shame for them to not fully enjoy the experience.\"\n\nCampers began arriving at the site on Wednesday\n\nRoads on Wednesday were gridlocked as campers arrived at the site in heavy rain.\n\nOrganisers tweeted: \"A big thank you to all of you for keeping up the amazing Download spirit. No-one is tougher than you guys.\"\n\nThe three-day music event will be headlined by Slipknot, Tool and Def Leppard, and many festival-goers are defiant to deal with the mud.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Alex Holland This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Brenton Tarrant in his first court appearance in March\n\nThe main suspect in the Christchurch attacks in March, has pleaded not guilty to all charges.\n\nBrenton Tarrant is charged with the murder of 51 people, 40 counts of attempted murder and one terrorism charge in New Zealand's deadliest peace time mass shooting.\n\nAppearing via video link from prison, the 28-year-old Australian sat silently as his lawyer read out his plea.\n\nThe 15 March attack saw a gunman open fire on Muslims during Friday prayers.\n\nThis is the first time a terrorism charge has been brought in New Zealand.\n\nA number of the survivors of the attack and relatives of the victims were in court for the hearing, the BBC's Sydney correspondent Hywel Griffith reported.\n\nAs lawyer Shane Tait read out his client's not guilty pleas, a number of those present gasped and became tearful.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Maryam Gul says she has forgiven the man who killed her brother and parents\n\nHigh Court Justice Cameron Mander said the trial had been set for 4 May next year, and that Mr Tarrant would be remanded in custody until a case review hearing on 16 August.\n\nAt his last court appearance in April, he was ordered to undergo mental health assessments to determine whether he was fit to stand trial.\n\nJudge Mander said in a statement on Friday: \"No issue arises regarding the defendant's fitness to plead, to instruct counsel, and to stand his trial. A fitness hearing is not required.\"\n\nLast week, a restriction on publishing photos of the suspect's face was lifted.\n\nThe suspect was arrested on 15 March for his alleged involvement in the shootings at the Al Noor mosque and the Linwood Islamic Centre, both located in Christchurch.\n\nHe allegedly drove first to the Al Noor mosque, parked nearby and began firing into the mosque as he walked in through the front entrance.\n\nHe allegedly fired on men, women and children inside for about five minutes. The attack was live-streamed from a head-mounted camera.\n\nFifty-one people lost their lives in the shootings at two mosques in the city. Here are some of their stories.\n\nThe suspect then allegedly drove about 5km (three miles) to the Linwood mosque and killed more people.\n\nAddressing the nation in the wake of the attack, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern called it one of the country's \"darkest days\".\n\nThe gunman, armed with semi-automatic rifles including an AR-15, is believed to have modified his weapons with high-capacity magazines - the part of the gun which stores ammunition - so they could hold more bullets.\n\nHe is currently being kept in isolation at the Auckland Prison in Paremoremo, considered New Zealand's toughest prison.\n• None The people killed as they prayed", "Survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire have joined the friends and family of those who died at events to mark the two-year anniversary of the tragedy.\n\nThe blaze in North Kensington, west London, caused 72 deaths, including those of two people who died later in hospital.\n\nThe fire started when a fridge-freezer on the fourth floor malfunctioned on 14 June 2017, then it spread rapidly upwards and burned for 60 hours.", "Kim Kardashian West joined President Trump at the White House for an event on criminal justice reform.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nEngland booked their place in the World Cup knockout stages after beating a resolute Argentina thanks to Jodie Taylor's first goal in 14 months.\n\nPhil Neville's side looked as though they would pay for Nikita Parris' missed first-half penalty, which was saved by the brilliant Vanina Correa after Alex Greenwood was tripped.\n\nThe Argentine goalkeeper also denied Beth Mead, Parris and Taylor, but had no chance in stopping Euro 2017's golden boot winner, as she tapped in Mead's low cross after 61 minutes.\n\nThe victory for England, who are ranked third in the world - 34 places above Argentina - means they qualify for the second round and can seal top spot in Group D with a point against Japan in their final game on Wednesday.\n\nIn front of a crowd of 20,294 in the industrial city of Le Havre, it was also the first time England have won their first two World Cup matches.\n\nBut they were made to battle for it against a determined Argentina, who won their first ever World Cup point in their opening draw with 2011 champions Japan and have had to overcome hardships in the last few years.\n• None Football Daily podcast: England through to the knockout stages - can Scotland join them?\n• None How you rated the players: England v Argentina\n• None England camp 'having time of our lives' - Neville\n\nTaylor comes to England's rescue again\n\nNeville said that he was prepared for a game which would evoke the footballing \"history and rivalry\" between the two countries, and expected Argentina to defend with vigour and passion.\n\nSo it was no surprise that England started as if they were eager to score early on, but were often let down by a poor final ball.\n\nMead was guilty of that on several occasions, yet she and Greenwood were the source of many England attacks down the left. That was in contrast to the Lionessess' opening game, when Parris and Lucy Bronze thrived down the right.\n\nDespite those early lapses, it was Mead who twice broke Argentina's resistance. The Arsenal winger played in Greenwood before she was tripped by Ruth Bravo, leading to Parris's spot-kick.\n\nThe England winger, who had buried a penalty against Scotland in England's opening game, this time went the other way and struck it with less venom, allowing Correa to tip it on to the post.\n\nThe Argentine goalkeeper also stuck out a leg to deny Mead before the break, and denied Parris again after the newly-signed Lyon forward struck a booming shot after a free-kick was cleared.\n\nAs the game reached the hour mark, it seemed as if Correa's goal was impenetrable, but the latter of two flowing moves led to Taylor's goal and the 33-year-old, who had not scored since a World Cup qualifier in April 2018 - or in 363 minutes of football - celebrated her 18th England goal with enthusiasm.\n\nHaving scored five times at Euro 2017 where England reached the semi-finals and once at the 2015 World Cup, where England finished third, she once again showed she has an appetite for the big occasion, which may prove crucial as England seek to win their first major tournament.\n\nArgentina, who did not have a team for two years between 2015 and 2017 after a lack of backing from their federation, are appearing in their first World Cup for 12 years.\n\nBack in 2007 they lost 6-1 to England, but they are a far more competitive outfit now, despite not enjoying the salaries or support of their opponents, who Neville described as being \"blessed\".\n\nThat gulf in resources was not matched on the pitch, however, as Carlos Borrello's well-drilled side got players behind the ball and defended stoutly with the kind of \"rebel spirit\" that their manager had spoken of prior to the game.\n\nThat was summed up by Correa, who palmed Parris' penalty onto the post after 28 minutes, and then superbly stopped Mead's effort before making her best save to deny Parris again.\n\nArgentina's first effort on goal was after 21 minutes, an overhit free-kick which Carly Telford, making her debut World Cup appearance at the age of 31, easily gathered.\n\nThey also only had 24% possession, yet forward Sole Jaimes and number 10 Estefania Banini caused occasional problems for the England defence, and the team's robust style certainly ruffled some of the England players.\n\nNeville's England, however, will be pleased to come through a tough test again, and give themselves a chance to rotate their squad for the final group game against Japan, who earlier beat Scotland 2-1 to sit second in the group on four points.\n\nEngland manager Phil Neville on BBC One: \"Jodie Taylor was phenomenal tonight.\n\n\"It should have been more, but I stood in the warm-up and saw their goalkeeper - she was unbelievable even in the warm-up. If you're like that before the game you're not always like that in the game, but she was outstanding. What you've seen tonight is an unbelievable goalkeeping performance.\n\n\"We want to beat Japan, they were outstanding against Scotland today.\n\n\"We'll go to Nice now and get some sun on our backs. Our players and enjoying it, we're having the time of our lives.\"\n\nEngland goalscorer Jodie Taylor: \"It is a good performance today by the team and good win. I remember Beth Mead playing a perfect ball which landed right on my foot. I was in the right place at the right time.\n\n\"Patience was the key, we said it all week. We have had experience facing a block of defence through qualifying and got frustrated, but today we had the quality and it paid off.\n\n\"I went to the corner and saw Jordan Nobbs on punditry and I gave her a wave as well as some family. It was a special goal for them.\"\n\nTeams in the last 16 of the Women's World Cup\n\nIf England win the group, they take on the best third-placed side from either Group B, E or F (currently China, Cameroon or Chile).\n\nA quarter-final in Le Havre would be next in store against the winner of a match between the runners-up of Group A and Group C (currently Norway and Australia).\n\nIf the Lionesses finish runners-up in the group, they take on the winner of Group E which is likely to be Canada or the Netherlands in Rennes.\n\nA quarter-final in Valenciennes would follow against either the winner of Group C (Brazil, Italy or Australia) or the best third-placed team from Groups A (Norway/Nigeria), B (Spain/China) or F (likely Chile).\n• None England have won seven of their last eight Women's World Cup games (W7 D0 L1), with all those of wins coming by a one-goal margin.\n• None England have now qualified for the knockout stages of the Women's World Cup in each of their five appearances (1995, 2007, 2011, 2015 and 2019).\n• None Argentina remain winless in all eight of their Women's World Cup matches (W0 D1 L7), failing to score in six of those.\n• None Taylor scored her second Women's World Cup goal and her first goal in any competition for England since April 2018, when she scored against Bosnia and Herzegovina in a World Cup qualifier.\n• None Argentina had just two shots, a joint-low in a 2019 Women's World Cup match (also two for Thailand v USA); they also managed just one touch in the opposition box, the fewest of any team in a match at this tournament.\n• None England started a Women's World Cup game without goalkeeper Karen Bardsley for the first time in the last three tournaments - Carly Telford made her World Cup debut.\n• None This was Jill Scott's 14th start at the Women's World Cup, the most by an England player in the competition - this game took her one clear of Fara Williams' tally of 13 between 2007 and 2015.\n• None Offside, England. Rachel Daly tries a through ball, but Jodie Taylor is caught offside.\n• None Attempt saved. Nikita Parris (England) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Lucy Bronze with a cross.\n• None Nikita Parris (England) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt saved. Mariana Larroquette (Argentina) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.\n• None Attempt missed. Jill Scott (England) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Alex Greenwood.\n• None Agustina Barroso (Argentina) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA man whose parents were abducted by Argentinean secret service agents in 1977 has been reunited with his biological family.\n\nJavier Darroux Mijalchuk was just four months old when his father and pregnant mother disappeared in Buenos Aires.\n\nHe was later adopted by a family who did not know his background.\n\nBut a few years ago, he started to doubt his true identity, and sought help from the human rights organisation Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo.\n\nThe group tracks down the children of dissidents killed or forcibly disappeared during Argentina's military dictatorship, which lasted from 1976 to 1983, and introduces them to their biological families.\n\nMr Darroux is the 130th child who the organisation has identified, after carrying out DNA tests.\n\nSpeaking to reporters, he thanked his uncle Roberto Mijalchuk, who he said had been searching for him for the past four decades.\n\n\"The restitution of my identity is, for me, a tribute to my parents, a caress to the soul, a symbol of memory, truth and justice,\" Mr Darroux said.\n\n\"It's a symbol that, if I have to define it with a moment, there isn't a more significant one than the embrace with uncle, when after 40 years of searching he could say: 'Are you Javi?' and embrace like nobody has ever done before, and no one will be able to do again.\"\n\nHe added that he would now try and find out more information about his parents, Juan Manuel Darroux and Elena Mijalchuk.\n\nIt is not known what happened to them after they were abducted. Some 30,000 people were murdered by the military junta in Argentina.\n\nMr Darroux, his uncle Roberto and Estela de Carlotto, president of Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo, hold up photos of Mr Darroux's parents\n\nGrandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo's leader, Estela de Carlotto, was reunited with her own missing grandson in 2014.\n\nA year later, one of the group's co-founders Delia Giovanola was also reunited with her grandson.", "Passengers were stranded on a Nottingham to London service after a landslide near Corby tunnel\n\nPassengers rescued from a flood-hit train became stuck near the scene on a second train that came to rescue them.\n\nThe 14:34 London to Nottingham service on Thursday was stopped due to a landslip near Corby, Northamptonshire.\n\nAbout 500 passengers spent up to eight hours stuck on the trains before they were finally rescued.\n\nElsewhere, the RAF was called in to help block a break in a river bank causing severe flooding at Wainfleet All Saints, Lincolnshire.\n\nOne hundred people had to be evacuated from their homes. The county council said the river breach presented a \"risk to residents\".\n\nThe River Steeping breached its banks near Wainfleet All Saints in Lincolnshire after persistent heavy rainfall\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Shaun West of Lincolnshire Police said the RAF helicopter crews would be working during the night.\n\nPassengers on the London to Nottingham train were transferred to a second train which stopped alongside, but that could not leave the area because of flooding.\n\nEast Midlands Trains said the second train had been diverted on to the flooded line because of trespassing on its usual route.\n\nFood and water ran out and paramedics had to board to treat a woman who had collapsed.\n\nA train company spokeswoman apologised for the delay, and thanked passengers for their \"patience and understanding\", and Network Rail and the emergency services for their help during a \"very challenging situation\".\n\n\"All customers have now been safely evacuated from the site of the flooding and are now being transferred by road and rail to their destinations,\" she said.\n\n\"Our staff are assisting in every way possible, including arranging hotel rooms for any customers who cannot reach their final destination tonight.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by East Midlands Trains This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWainfleet resident Jean Hart posted a picture of the flood waters in her bathroom\n\nLincolnshire County Council issued guidance to residents in Wainfleet which included advice on not using domestic toilets as this would add \"pressure to the system\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Paul Murphy This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Environment Agency has issued dozens of flood warning and alerts across the country.\n\nThe majority were across the Midlands and North West, although they extended as far as Northumberland and Christchurch in Dorset.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. RAF helicopter assessing whether it can drop ballast to block a breach in the river bank.\n\nThe River Steeping also burst its banks at Thorpe St Peter near Skegness, Lincolnshire, on Wednesday night.\n\nLincolnshire County Council said the equivalent of two months' rain had fallen in the area in two days.\n\nJean Hart, who has lived in the town for 40 years, said it was the worst flooding she had ever seen.\n\nJean Hart has been reunited with her cat Aurora after being evacuated from her home\n\n\"To see our house under water is absolutely horrendous,\" she said.\n\n\"The whole of my house is completely devastated.\n\n\"Last night when we got back here I didn't realise I was just sobbing, but I didn't even know I was crying to be honest.\"\n\nEmergency services have rescued her tortoise Mr T from her home, and she had earlier been reunited with her cat Aurora.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRail services between Skegness and Boston are suspended until Saturday due to flooding, while Merseyrail has cancelled some trains on the Chester and Ellesmere Port lines because of water on the tracks at Hooton.\n\nMusic fans have been leaving the \"Drownload\" Festival at Donington Park early because of the soggy ground and mud.\n\nMotorists including a minibus of Indian tourists became trapped at Lambley, near Nottingham, overnight and were taken in by local residents.\n\nResident Malcolm Bamford said: \"We had two in our house and the neighbours had three, and then there was a group of about eight Indian tourists in a little tiny bus and they all wanted to use the toilet.\"\n\nRail tracks were flooded at Hooton in Cheshire\n\nIn Derby, Oakwood Infant and Nursery school will now be closed until Monday because of flood damage.\n\nNational Rail Enquiries said heavy rain had flooded the tracks between Whitlocks End, near Solihull, and Stratford-upon-Avon.\n\nChillingham in Northumberland had 73mm of rainfall over a 28-hour period - more than the 66.4mm average for the whole of June.\n\nElsewhere, Waddington in Lincolnshire saw nearly 40mm fall over a period of 14 hours, while over the same period Coleshill in Warwickshire had 30mm fall and 31mm was seen at Astwood Bank, Worcestershire.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Margaret Fleming was a vulnerable young woman who vanished without trace - and no-one raised the alarm for almost 17 years.\n\nShe was 19 years old when she was last seen by anyone other than Edward Cairney and Avril Jones.\n\nHer disappearance was so mysterious that at one point police asked the couple, who were meant to be Margaret's carers, if she even existed.\n\nTheir version of her life was stranger than fiction.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThey claimed that Margaret, who had learning difficulties, ran off with a traveller, then went on to become a gangmaster who travelled Europe, and a drug dealer with several aliases.\n\nPrecisely what happened may never be known, but a jury has found the pair guilty of murdering Margaret within three weeks of that final sighting on 17 December 1999. Her body has never been found.\n\nDuring the seven-week trial, the prosecution painted a bleak picture of Margaret's life before she disappeared.\n\nAn only child, she was brought up in the town of Port Glasgow, Inverclyde, and faced challenges from an early age.\n\nAt Slaemuir Primary School, Margaret struggled with reading and writing, and she continued to require additional support as a pupil at Port Glasgow High.\n\nBut two defining events ultimately led her into the care of her killers.\n\nMargaret was described as a quiet figure at school\n\nIn January 1993, her parents Derek and Margaret divorced after 20 years of marriage.\n\nThe schoolgirl was 12 when she left the family home to move in with her father and grandparents.\n\nThe jury heard Margaret had a bad temper and was described by her mother as difficult to handle.\n\nIn contrast, she was a quiet figure in the classroom and required constant encouragement.\n\nIn a 1995 report, teacher Elizabeth Brown wrote: \"Margaret Fleming has moderate learning difficulties. She works fairly well to her ability but needs written instructions set out simply and gone over verbally.\"\n\nIn evidence she said: \"If you left Margaret on her own she would do very little. You had to prod her to do the work. Her marks were all at the very bottom end of the school.\"\n\nOn one rare occasion another teacher put on record her gratitude to the teenager for helping her with registration.\n\nThis provided one of the most poignant moments of the trial at the High Court in Glasgow.\n\nMs Brown recalled: \"She clearly thought Margaret deserved a letter of praise, which Margaret wouldn't have got many of during her schooling.\"\n\nAnother retired teacher, Elaine Moore, said: \"She was quite isolated. Her and her dad were a wee unit. She was concerned about him and he was concerned about her.\"\n\nMr Fleming, a tradesman who retrained as a lawyer, was so protective of his daughter he didn't tell her why he had been taken in to hospital. He had been diagnosed with terminal cancer.\n\nHis condition had deteriorated by 20 October 1995, when his ex-wife took Margaret to Inverclyde Council's social work office.\n\nThe meeting was arranged to discuss her behavioural problems, which included arguing with her grandparents.\n\nThe referral said: \"Margaret does not know why her father is in hospital and is afraid it is something serious.\"\n\nIt also noted the child was always with her father and felt \"rejected\" by her mother.\n\nThe report continued: \"I feel like Margaret is a rather lonely, isolated girl who is living with elderly grandparents.\n\n\"Margaret appears to be surrounded by a great deal of uncertainty and ill health.\"\n\nFive days after the meeting, Mr Fleming lost his battle with cancer.\n\nHis death not only devastated Margaret but proved to be the catalyst for her eventual move from Port Glasgow to Inverkip, 10 miles along the Clyde coast.\n\nThe couple's Seacroft home sits on the banks of the Firth of Clyde\n\nMr Fleming thought that his parents were too old to take care of his daughter.\n\nHe had earlier told his fiancée Jean McSherry that if anything happened to him, Eddie and Avril would look after Margaret.\n\nDuring the trial Margaret's mother, 71-year-old Margaret Cruickshanks, recalled how she first met Cairney.\n\nShe said: \"After Derek died they were at the funeral. Eddie Cairney came and approached me and said if I needed any help with Margaret he would give me respite care.\"\n\nEddie Cairney had offered to help with respite for Margaret\n\nThe court heard Margaret initially lived with her mother but later spent up to a fortnight at a time staying with Cairney and Jones at their dilapidated home, which was named Seacroft.\n\nMs Cruickshanks said her daughter was even more difficult to cope with after the loss of her father.\n\nShe added: \"She would come back from school and I'd say: 'What were you doing?'\n\n\"Her temper would be up and she would batter me.\"\n\nA month after Mr Fleming's death, Margaret and her mother met Inverclyde Council social worker Denise Munro in a bid to secure support from the additional needs team.\n\nMs Munro recalled: \"She was quite a naïve girl, quite vulnerable, quiet, lonely, sad and did not have many friends.\"\n\nShe said there had been a strained relationship between mother and daughter.\n\nGiving evidence, she added: \"When I went to their house to pick up Margaret I would have a conversation with her mum, who found it difficult.\n\n\"She had lived on her own and had an adolescent girl who was missing her dad.\"\n\nThe back garden of Seacroft, where Margaret lived with Cairney and Jones\n\nMs Munro continued to support the teenager until she went on maternity leave in July 1996.\n\nBy this time, Margaret had enrolled on a skills for life course at James Watt College in Greenock and appeared to have settled down.\n\nBut that August, Ms Cruickshanks told the social work department that her daughter's behaviour had deteriorated.\n\nBut she received no further support and no-one stepped into Ms Munro's role.\n\nThe living room of the house in Inverkip\n\nAll ties between mother and daughter were finally severed after a chilling confrontation on 26 November, 1997.\n\nMs Cruickshanks told the jury she was attacked by Cairney after travelling to Inverkip to tell him she wanted her daughter to come home.\n\nShe said Margaret, who struggled with her weight, was then brought downstairs from her attic bedroom and asked where she wanted to live.\n\nMs Cruickshanks said: \"I think she was a bit nervous and she turned round and said she wanted to stay there. There was nothing I could do about it.\"\n\nShe later called the police who went to check on Margaret.\n\nMemories of that night reduced her to tears in the witness box as she recalled: \"The police came back to say she was alright. As far as I knew that was where she was living.\n\n\"I didn't visit any more. I got a letter. It said she didn't want to see me any more.\"\n\nIn the months that followed, Margaret became more reclusive and Cairney told the jury he tried to stop the teenager self-harming by putting cardboard tubes on her arms.\n\nIn October 1999, Margaret saw her GP, Dr James Farrell, for the last time.\n\nHe told the court she had \"quite significant learning difficulties\" and said she might have had Sotos syndrome from birth - although a definitive diagnosis of the rare disorder was never made.\n\nThe GP also said she was \"socially and educationally\" isolated and referred her to a psychologist.\n\nDr Alan Smith visited Seacroft before Christmas but all attempts to contact Margaret to arrange another appointment came to nothing.\n\nThe three-week timeframe during which detectives believe Margaret was murdered was narrowed down by the testimony of Avril Jones' brother, Richard, and mother, Florence.\n\nThe last confirmed sighting of Margaret was at Richard Jones' new home in Inverkip on 17 December 1999.\n\nFlorence Jones remembered Margaret as a \"very, very quiet girl\" who was unable to look after herself due to her learning difficulties.\n\nThe 79-year-old played a key role in the chronology of the case.\n\nThe last known photograph of Margaret was taken in March 1999\n\nHer most recent memory of Margaret was at her ruby wedding celebrations in March 1999, and a photograph from that night is the last known image of the teenager.\n\nCrucially, Mrs Jones had no recollection of Margaret joining the family at Mr Jones' house for Christmas dinner in 1999.\n\nThere was also no sign of her in the photos taken that day.\n\nOn 5 January, 2000 Mrs Jones spoke to her daughter on the phone.\n\nThe pensioner told the court: \"She said Margaret had left with a traveller. I wasn't sure what had happened. It was up to them.\"\n\nAs the months turned to years, memories faded and not one person saw fit to report that a teenage girl had simply disappeared off the face of the earth.\n\nIndeed it was not until October 2016 that a missed appointment for a benefits review finally led police to Seacroft.\n\nThe couple produced letters which they claimed had been written by Margaret\n\nThe couple's attempts to cover their tracks, while Avril Jones fraudulently claimed £182,000 in benefits, included producing letters which were said to be from Margaret.\n\nOne was said to be from Carlisle on 9 January 2000 and the other two were from the Regent Palace Hotel in Piccadilly Circus, London, on 13 January, 2000.\n\nAs part of the complex investigation that followed detectives showed the typed letters to Jacqueline Cahill, who taught Margaret standard grade English at Port Glasgow High between 1994 and 1996.\n\nShe told the court the teenager would not have been capable of writing them.\n\nMs Cahill said: \"She had literacy difficulties.\n\n\"She struggled to put pen to paper. She struggled to read, and read at about the level of an eight-year-old.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBut despite her struggles in the classroom, the teacher told BBC Scotland Margaret, who would now be 38, had the potential to hold down a job that did not require some numeracy and literacy skills.\n\nShe added: \"If she had stayed in Port Glasgow, she would have stayed in touch with her friends, but moving to Inverkip probably made it easier for Margaret to slip off the radar.\n\n\"I don't even want to imagine what her life was like when she was living in Inverkip.\"\n\nThe teenager's life and death has had a profound impact on Ms Cahill.\n\nShe said: \"There isn't anyone who remembers Margaret.\n\n\"I taught her for two years and I am here speaking about her as a person and I am one of the only people who remembers her.\n\n\"That is one of the saddest things that this wee girl was forgotten - abandoned with supposed carers, and forgotten about for 20 years.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBoris Johnson has said he will take part in Tuesday's televised Tory leadership debate on the BBC.\n\nThe frontrunner in the contest to replace Theresa May said the programme, which will be shown after the second round of MPs' voting, was the right forum to debate the big issues.\n\nHe said he was \"very keen\" on TV debates but viewers might not like too much \"blue-on-blue action\".\n\nMr Johnson, however, will not be taking part in Sunday's debate on Channel 4, with his team reportedly having reservations about its proposed format.\n\nThe other five candidates still in the race become Tory leader and prime minister - Jeremy Hunt, Michael Gove, Sajid Javid, Rory Stewart and Dominic Raab - have urged Mr Johnson to take part in every TV debate.\n\nThey say the next prime minister should be subjected to the fullest possible scrutiny.\n\nMr Johnson, a former Foreign Secretary, won the first Tory MPs' ballot for the contest on Thursday with 114 votes, with his nearest rival - Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt - getting 43.\n\nHe told the BBC Radio 4's World at One he had done many TV debates during his two successful London mayoral campaigns and he was \"pretty bewildered\" by claims he was dodging scrutiny.\n\n\"I think it is important that we have a sensible, grown-up debate,\" he said, ahead of next week's BBC event.\n\n\"My own observation is that in the past when you've had loads of candidates, it can be slightly cacophonous and I think the public have had quite a lot of blue-on-blue action, frankly, over the last three years.\"\n\nHe added: \"We don't necessarily need a lot more of that, and so what I think the best solution would be would be to have a debate on what we all have to offer the country.\n\n\"The best time to do that, I think, would be after the second ballot on Tuesday and the best forum is the proposed BBC debate. I think that's a good idea.\"\n\nIn a wide-ranging interview, Mr Johnson defended his record as foreign secretary and said the UK must step up preparations for a no-deal Brexit as a way of getting an improved deal.\n\nHe said it was \"perfectly realistic\" to renegotiate the withdrawal deal and leave the EU by the end of October, adding that the \"fundamental flaw\" in Theresa May's Withdrawal Agreement was the Irish border \"backstop\" and a solution was possible.\n\n\"In the meantime, it's absolutely crucial to prepare for no deal and I don't share the deep pessimism of some people about the consequences of no deal,\" he said.\n\n\"That's not to say that I don't think there will be some difficulties that need to be addressed and we must make sure that we can address them.\"\n\nAsked when he last took cocaine, he replied that there had been \"a single inconclusive event that took place when I was a teenager\" and never since then.\n\nHe said those who criticised his handling, as foreign secretary, of the case of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a British-Iranian woman who is imprisoned in Iran was \"unintentionally exculpating the people who are really responsible and that is the Iranian Revolutionary Guard\".\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock, who came sixth in the first MPs' ballot, has withdrawn from the leadership contest.\n\nOur Next Prime Minister, hosted by Emily Maitlis, will be broadcast on BBC One at 20:00 BST on Tuesday.\n\nA maximum of five candidates will take part, as the person who gets the lowest number of votes in that day's second ballot of Tory MPs will drop out of the contest beforehand.\n\nThe participants will face questions from viewers across the country via local TV studios.\n\nFurther MPs' ballots are scheduled to take place next Wednesday and Thursday to whittle down the contenders until only two are left.\n\nThe final pair will be put to a vote of the 160,000 members of the Conservative Party from 22 June. The winner is expected to be announced about four weeks later.\n\nOn Tuesday 18 June BBC One will host a live election debate between the Conservative MPs still in the race.\n\nIf you would like to ask the candidates a question live on air, use the form below. It should be open to all of them, not a specific politician.\n\nIf you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nAustralia battled back from 2-0 down to beat Brazil in an extraordinary five-goal thriller and inflict a first group-stage defeat on the South Americans in 24 years.\n\nThe Matildas suffered a surprise loss to Italy in their opening game and their campaign looked in serious trouble when they trailed to a Marta penalty and Cristiane's fourth strike in two matches.\n\nBut the Matildas levelled through Caitlin Foord's poked finish and Chloe Logarzo's cross-shot either side of half-time, with Marta needing to be withdrawn with a knock at the interval, having earlier extended her record tally to 16 World Cup goals.\n\nDefender Monica's unfortunate own goal - which was eventually awarded by VAR, with an offside Sam Kerr controversially judged not to have been interfering - completed Australia's remarkable comeback.\n\nThe Australians, who are ranked sixth in the world, are now level with Brazil and the Italians on three points in Group C, before Jamaica and Italy meet in their second match in Reims on Friday, in the most evenly poised group at the tournament.\n\nBrazil, who beat Jamaica last time out through a memorable Cristiane hat-trick, had not lost a group stage match at the finals since 1995.\n\nAnd the 2007 runners-up appeared to be in full control of Thursday's thriller in Montpellier upon entering first-half stoppage time, before Foord's close-range finish gave Australia hope.\n\nMarta, who missed Brazil's first game through injury, arrived in France with a one-goal lead in the Women's World Cup goal standings over former Germany star Birgit Prinz and ex-USA forward Abby Wambach, who both retired with 14 goals at the finals.\n\nAnd the Orlando Pride star's 16th saw her become Brazil's record scorer at senior World Cups as she surpassed iconic former Real Madrid forward Ronaldo's 15, while moving level with Germany's Miroslav Klose at the top of the standings.\n\nShe coolly converted from the spot after Australia's Elise Kellond-Knight had dragged back Leticia Santos in the box, before Cristiane's fine leap and header into the corner made it 2-0.\n\nAt that stage, the Brazilians were almost unrecognisable from the disappointing team that finished bottom of this year's invitational SheBelieves Cup in the United States in March.\n\nFacing a second defeat from two matches, Australia were seemingly on the brink of elimination from a tournament they had entered with high hopes of challenging to win.\n\nSome of their players appeared to display anger and frustration towards each other after conceding the second goal, but they defiantly rallied together - spurred on by a lively crowd - and showed their determination to stay in the competition.\n\nKerr's darting runs in to the box caused Brazil's defence significant problems, and she had a role to play in both of their second-half goals.\n\nShe attacked the six-yard box as Logarzo's cross bounced towards goal and, although she did not get a touch on it, her intent was enough to distract the goalkeeper.\n\nVAR has a say once again\n\nMoments before initially falling behind, Australia wanted a penalty of their own, after Tameka Yallop was brought down by Thaisa, but after studying VAR, it became clear that Yallop's hand had made contact with the ball seconds earlier.\n\nAnd the VAR drama continued with the game's decisive goal, as a long, dangerous ball forward - aimed towards the offside Matildas captain Kerr - flicked off Monica's head and dropped in to the far corner of the net, but the officials felt Kerr's role was not sufficient to disallow the goal, even though Monica had been trying to track Kerr's run.\n\nNevertheless, the Australians - who have serious ambitions to go beyond the quarter-finals of this competition for the first time this summer - deserved praise for their fighting spirit as they pulled off a controversial but terrifically entertaining comeback.\n\n'Hopefully this brings Australia together' - what they said\n\nAustralia coach Ante Milicic: \"Tonight is one of the finest Australian performances that I've seen. The players deserve all the rewards they were given. They never stopped believing. Hopefully this brings our country together.\n\n\"As the game went on we looked very strong. Physically, we're in great condition. Recovery is going to be important for us and then we move forward to the Jamaica game.\"\n\nAustralia midfielder Chloe Logarzo: \"The Australian mentality is to be able to come out swinging when our back is against the wall. We finally found our composure, kept the ball on the ground and were able to connect our passes.\"\n\nBrazil goalscorer Marta: \"It was supposed to be a very competitive match, and that's what we had. We came here to win and advance to the next stage. Now, it's worthless to lament the result. We are still fighting for our spot and should focus on that.\"\n\nBrazil's other goalscorer Cristiane: \"The plan was to wait for them, looking for counters. But we had a blackout and suffered some silly goals that, honestly, can't happen.\"\n• None Australia are just the second side in Women's World Cup history to win a match having been at least two goals behind, after Sweden beat Germany 3-2 in 1995.\n• None Brazil conceded more goals in this game than they did in their previous 13 group stage games at the Women's World Cup combined (two).\n• None Monica's own goal was only the second Brazil have conceded in a Women's World Cup game, after Daiane versus USA in 2011.\n• None Chloe Logarzo became the first Australia player to both score and assist in a Women's World Cup game since Leena Khamis against Equatorial Guinea in 2011.\n• None Marta became the first player to score in five different editions of the Women's World Cup, netting in 2019, 2015, 2011, 2007 and 2003.\n\nWhat next in Group C?\n\nJamaica and Italy play their second match in Reims on Friday (17:00 BST). Italy then play Brazil in Valenciennes on Tuesday, 18 June, the same time as Jamaica take on Australia in Grenoble (20:00 BST).\n• None Attempt missed. Bia Zaneratto (Brazil) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Luana with a cross.\n• None Offside, Australia. Elise Kellond-Knight tries a through ball, but Caitlin Foord is caught offside.\n• None Luana (Brazil) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match because of an injury Elise Kellond-Knight (Australia).\n• None Andressa Alves (Brazil) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match because of an injury Andressa Alves (Brazil).\n• None Attempt blocked. Andressa Alves (Brazil) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Tamires. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Jacob Cushley works in a Stonegate pub in Plymouth. He is one of 125,000 UK workers whose employer lets them access part of their salary as they earn it rather than waiting for payday.\n\n\"It's helped me out with being able to do things socially and also with some unexpected bills,\" he says.\n\n\"It's reassuring to know you can get your money when you need it.\"\n\nWagestream, the firm behind the Stonegate scheme, is in talks with NHS trusts, local authorities and the Army.\n\nIt says hundreds of thousands of public sector workers could be given early access to their earned income in the next 12 months.\n\nWorkers whose employers sign up to the scheme are given an app that shows them how much they have earned throughout the current pay cycle and how much they can withdraw early.\n\nTheir employer decides what limit to place on withdrawals, to ensure staff still have money coming into their accounts on payday.\n\nIt's a scheme designed to help workers avoid high cost credit like payday loans and overdrafts. For Jacob, it stopped an unexpected bill becoming a damaging debt.\n\nHalf way through the month his phone stopped working, meaning he could no longer use his digital bus ticket. \"I had to get a new bus ticket to get to work, which is about £78,\" he told BBC 5 Live's Wake Up To Money.\n\n\"That's quite a lot of money to come up with out of nowhere when you budget your wages throughout the month and you're getting to that halfway point where you've overspent on luxuries already.\n\n\"Wagestream helped me afford to get into work when I was stuck instead of taking out a payday loan or something, which is what I would have done.\"\n\nThe fintech firm, which launched last year, charges employers around £1 per employee per month for access to the scheme and then charges staff a fixed fee of £1.75 each time they make a withdrawal.\n\nIt covers the payment to the worker and then recovers the money directly from that worker's next pay cheque.\n\n\"We get a higher amount of withdrawals in the final 8-10 days of the month,\" says Peter Briffett, CEO of the start-up. \"That's when the payday loan companies start advertising too.\n\n\"When we roll out Wagestream to a new company, we will typically see 40% or 50% of the workforce adopt it in the first few weeks. That shows there's a need.\"\n\nGetting access to your salary early could create bad habits, warns Kara Gammell\n\nNot everyone thinks this is necessarily a good idea for struggling staff. Kara Gammell, the journalist behind the blog Your Best Friend's Guide to Cash, has concerns.\n\nShe says: \"Technically this isn't a loan; there's no credit and no interest but rather it's early access to your own money in return for a small fee, so it may seem affordable. But it could be a bad habit to get into as you'd always be playing catch up with your money\n\n\"As most of our household bills are paid monthly, consumers run the risk of finding themselves short come payday, and missed payments can jeopardise the security of your family and the roof over your head.\"Others agree. Wagestream is supported by a number of social enterprises and charities, including Fair By Design, an organisation working to end the poverty premium, and by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF).\n\nBut Helen Barnard, deputy director of policy & partnership at the JRF, believes the system is helpful for workers: \"What we've seen in the last few years is a rising tide of in-work poverty. More than 4 million workers are in poverty.\n\n\"A lot of those people don't have savings so if they have an unexpected bill in the middle of the month then they can get really stuck and get pulled into the spiral of high cost credit, they have to take out credit which then has charges which they have to pay back the next month.\n\n\"The idea of Wagestream is that it gives people access to their earnings once they have earned it rather than waiting until the end of the month, which helps them avoid that high cost credit trap.\"\n\nJacob Cushley also believes his employer has enough protections in place: \"I feel like for some people it might be tempting to just get your money early and spend it on socialising but there's a safety net.\n\n\"If you're weak and your friends are egging you on to come out and you do decide to dip then you're only allowed 30% of your earnings to date and you're only allowed to take out three transactions a month.\n\n\"It's a reassurance that you have money to get you through the month - and not just a small amount - and there's no charges on top or interest either.\"\n\nWith more public and private sector employers signing up, thousands more workers will soon find out if this helps them budget or encourages them to spend.\n\nYou can hear these interviews and more analysis by downloading BBC 5 Live's Wake Up To Money podcast", "Gooding Jr flew from Los Angeles to New York to turn himself in\n\nActor Cuba Gooding Jr has been charged with forcible touching after allegedly groping a woman in a Manhattan bar.\n\nThe 51-year-old star of Boyz N The Hood and Jerry Maguire turned himself in to New York police on Thursday and was later taken to court in handcuffs.\n\nHe is accused of grabbing a woman's breast during a night out last weekend.\n\nHis lawyer told reporters he had \"not acted inappropriately in any shape or form\" and that a video existed that would see him \"totally exonerated\".\n\n\"He did absolutely nothing wrong,\" said Mark J Heller. \"I frankly am shocked and horrified that this case is being prosecuted.\"\n\nThe Oscar-winning actor was taken to court in handcuffs\n\nFootage obtained by celebrity website TMZ of the night in question shows Gooding Jr with girlfriend Claudine De Niro and a woman identified as his accuser.\n\nThe actor seems to touch the woman's leg and hold her hand in scenes the website says are \"open to interpretation\".\n\nGooding Jr pleaded not guilty to forcible touching and sexual abuse in the third degree on Thursday and was released without bail.\n\nThe Oscar-winning actor, who recently appeared in TV series The People vs OJ Simpson and in a West End production of Chicago, is due back in court on 26 June.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "A helicopter on the platform on Friday\n\nGreenpeace activists who re-occupied an oil rig in the Cromarty Firth just hours after police moved in to end the protest have been arrested.\n\nA police operation on Thursday saw two men arrested on the Transocean rig, which is on contract to BP.\n\nBut two more activists later boarded the rig which was due to be towed to an oil field east of Aberdeen.\n\nPolice Scotland confirmed they had also now been arrested.\n\nThere were three other arrests among a group of protesters on the shore..\n\nThis means 14 people have been arrested since the protest began.\n\nA police spokesman said: \"Officers returned to the platform around 2pm and, after deploying specialist tactics to access the area, subsequently arrested a man and woman who had been carrying out a continued protest on the rig.\n\n\"They have since been safely returned to shore by boat.\"\n\nGreenpeace first occupied the platform on Sunday evening.\n\nA Greenpeace campaigner on the platform on Friday\n\nBP, which has contracted the Transocean-operated rig, had served Greenpeace with a court order to prevent one of its ships, Arctic Sunrise, from joining the protest.\n\nA BP spokesman said: \"Given Greenpeace's repeated interference and reckless actions directed at our lawful business and their continued illegal defiance for court orders and police action, we have issued the injunction as a precautionary measure to protect the safety of people and operations.\"\n\nOn Friday afternoon a helicopter landed on the platform, while a Police Scotland helicopter circled the rig.\n\nGreenpeace UK's executive director John Sauven said earlier: \"Our climbers are back on the oil rig and determined to stay for as long as possible.\"\n\nHe added: \"BP are heading out to drill a new well giving them access to 30 million barrels of oil - something we can't afford in the middle of a climate emergency.\n\n\"We can't give up and let oil giants carry on with business as usual because that means giving up on a habitable planet and our kids' future. The UK government has announced a target of net zero greenhouse emissions by 2050 - we have started to enforce it.\"\n\nA helicopter and boats were used by police to try to end the occupation in the firth off Invergordon on Thursday after the rig's owner Transocean obtained an interdict to remove the activists.\n\nGreenpeace said the interdict was served to prevent its ship the Arctic Sunrise from joining the protest\n\nPolice Scotland said it assembled a specialist team of officers from across the country to carry out the \"extremely complex and challenging operation\".\n\nGreenpeace said officers in climbing gear removed a protest banner, while the rig itself was lowered into the water to allow two police boats to access the gantry where the activists were camped out.\n\nTwo men, aged 40 and 50, were arrested.\n\nThe platform was bound for an oil field east of Aberdeen\n\nResponding to the developments earlier on Friday, BP said the occupation was \"reckless\" and that it was working with Transocean and Police Scotland to bring it to a safe conclusion.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"BP supports debate, discussion and peaceful demonstration, but the irresponsible actions of this group are putting themselves and others unnecessarily at risk, while ignoring court orders and police action.\"", "There were more than 200,000 abortions in England and Wales last year - the highest number ever recorded.\n\nOver the past 10 years, rates have been increasing among older women over 35 and decreasing in under 18s, figures from the Department of Health and Social Care show.\n\nDoctors said the figures showed there was an urgent need to improve access to contraception for women of all ages.\n\nCuts to local public health budgets had also affected services, they said.\n\nIn total, there were 200,608 abortions in women living in England and Wales in 2018 - a rate of 17.4 per 1,000 women aged 15-44.\n\nThis is just below the peak of 17.9 abortions per 1,000 resident women in 2007.\n\nThe actual number is higher now because there are more women in the population.\n\nThe latest figures show younger women are continuing to have fewer terminations.\n\nAmong 16-17 year olds, the abortion rate has halved from a decade ago, to 10 per 1,000 women, and just 1,267 under 16s had a termination last year.\n\nBut rates have gone up in women aged 30-34 and the over 35s - from 6.7 to 9.2 per 1,000 women between 2008 and 2018.\n\nProf Lesley Regan, president of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, said: \"Women must have access to effective contraception and sexual health services to enable them to take control of their health and fertility by preventing unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections.\n\n\"This is why we are calling for an end to fractured commissioning and greater accountability to stop the under-funding and fragmentation of these services which disproportionately affects women.\"\n\nAdditionally, more than 4,600 abortions were carried out on non-residents in 2018, most from Ireland and Northern Ireland - a slight increase on the year before.\n\nProf Regan said this demonstrated the \"pressing need\" to legislate for safe abortion services in Northern Ireland.\n\nShe added: \"We continue to call on the government and work with other organisations to ensure that women and girls - regardless of where they live - have access to safe, legal and compassionate abortion care services.\"\n\nHowever, since 1970, the number of abortions to non-residents has generally been falling.", "Four of the five teaching unions have been in a dispute over pay and workload\n\nTeaching unions and employers have reached an agreement in principle to end long-running industrial action.\n\nHowever it has to be approved by individual union members and the Departments of Education and Finance.\n\nBBC News NI previously revealed that teachers were to be offered a 4.25% rise, backdated over two years as part of the settlement.\n\nExtra funding for any pay rise, though, has yet to be secured.\n\nSchool principals received a joint statement from the unions and employers in an email from Sara Long of the Education Authority (EA) and Gerry Campbell of the Council for Catholic Maintained Schools (CCMS).\n\nThe long-running dispute over teachers' pay and workload seems to be moving towards a conclusion.\n\nHowever, there are still hurdles to be overcome.\n\nTeachers will have to agree to the package they are being offered, when they are finally consulted on it.\n\nAnd the Department of Education will have to be provided with extra money to fund the proposed pay rise.\n\nMs Long and Mr Campbell have been among the employer representatives negotiating with the teaching unions.\n\nFour of the five teaching unions have been in a dispute with the department over pay and workload.\n\nMany of their members have also been refusing to co-operate with school inspections since 2017.\n\nPrincipals were asked to share the joint statement with all teachers in their school.\n\nUnions say salaries for teachers in NI are falling behind their counterparts in England and Wales\n\nBBC News NI understands there are a number of elements to the in-principle settlement including pay, reforms to the school inspection process and reviews into areas like teachers' workload.\n\nThe statement said that exact details of the proposed agreement could not yet be revealed.\n\n\"Upon receipt of a formal offer, the individual teachers' unions represented on the Northern Ireland Teaching Council will make their own arrangements for consultation with their members,\" it said.\n\n\"The formal offer, if accepted, will bring an end to the current industrial action in relation to teachers' pay and workload.\n\n\"In the eventuality of a formal offer being agreed, there will be a carefully managed and supported transition towards revised working practices in schools.\"", "The number of British people who own a second home, buy-to-let or overseas property has doubled since 2001, says think tank the Resolution Foundation.\n\nWhile the number of millennials who own a home continues to fall, one in 10 people now own an additional property.\n\nJust 37% of people born in the 1980s managed to buy a home at the age of 29, compared with half of those born in the 1960s.\n\nWealth from owning a second home has risen since 2001 to almost £1 trillion.\n\nBuy-to-let property is now the most common form of property wealth, having grown by 58% since 2006-08, the report found.\n\nHowever, when looking at the number of people who can afford an additional property, millennials match the property ownership rates of other generations.\n\nThis suggests that only younger people who are rich can afford a second home - a sign, according to the foundation, that property wealth is not distributed fairly across the country.\n\nThe Resolution Foundation wants to see policymakers step in to reform the housing market, in particular buy-to-let, in order to rebalance the housing market back towards first-time buyers.\n\n\"The sheer scale of additional property wealth is an important driver of rising wealth gaps across Britain,\" says George Bangham, policy analyst at the Resolution Foundation.\n\n\"While young people in particular are less likely to own their own home than previous generations, those that do own are more likely to have more than one property.\n\n\"And as the huge stock of second homes, buy-to-let and overseas properties starts to be passed on to younger generations, Britain risks becoming a country where getting ahead in life depends as much on what you inherit, as what you earn.\"\n\nChris Norris, director of policy and practice at the National Landlords Association, defended second home owners.\n\n\"There is a distinct difference between those who have a second home for personal use, leaving it empty for long periods of time, and those who have invested in a rental property which provides a valued home for someone else,\" he said.\n\n\"Far from the stereotype of the wealthy property baron, most private landlords invest in residential property to provide for their future and their family's in the form of supplementing a pension or establishing a business.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the government said it was helping first-time buyers get on the housing ladder.\n\n\"The Government is determined to ensure that a new generation can realise the dream of homeownership,\" a spokesman said.\n\n\"Last year saw the highest number of first-time buyers in more than a decade. Since 2015, we have helped more than 300,000 people to purchase a home through schemes such as Help to Buy.\"", "Former detainees at an immigration removal centre must be given a chance to confront their alleged abusers at an inquiry, a High Court judge has ruled.\n\nThe probe is due to investigate claims of \"systemic and institutional failures\" at Brook House in Surrey.\n\nTwo ex-detainees had argued that staff at the G4S-run site would not voluntarily appear at public hearings.\n\nMrs Justice May agreed, and said the inquiry must \"have a power to compel witness attendance\".\n\nThe probe into alleged institutional failures was set up after BBC Panorama found evidence of abuse at the centre.\n\nAt least six members of staff have since been dismissed by G4S.\n\nOne ex-detainee said the case has forced him to \"relive some of the most painful times\"\n\nThe judge said that \"the egregious nature of the breaches\" required the inquiry to be granted additional powers.\n\nShe described the accusations as \"repeated events, in front of others, where the perpetrators were managers and trainers, as well as ordinary officers\".\n\nMrs Justice May also ruled that the former detainees - named as MA and BB - were entitled to publicly-funded lawyers, saying: \"When dignity and humanity has been stripped, one purpose of an effective investigation must be to restore what has been taken away through identifying and confronting those responsible, so far as it is possible.\n\n\"How is that to be done in any meaningful way here unless MA and BB, non-lawyers where English is not their first language, are enabled through representation to meet their [alleged] abusers on equal terms?\"\n\nIn a statement after the hearing, BB said the case had forced him to \"relive some of the most painful times in my life,\" adding that the outcome was a \"huge relief\".\n\n\"I was worried that the voices of the victims would never be heard. I was worried the truth would never come out,\" he said.\n\nHis solicitor Joanna Thomson said the judgement \"should now lead to an investigation that will uncover the truth so that there are no further abuse scandals in the UK's immigration removal centres\".\n\nMA's solicitor, Lewis Kett, said: \"We strongly welcome the judge's findings that further powers are needed. If the Home Office are truly interested in learning lessons from this inquiry, they should welcome it too.\"\n\nA Home Office spokesman said: \"We will consider this ruling carefully. It would be inappropriate to comment further while legal proceedings are ongoing.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Keanu Reeves - one of the latest Hollywood superstars to lend his voice, face and performance to a video game character - says gaming doesn’t need legitimising.\n\nThe star plays Johnny Silverhand in Cyberpunk 2077, a futuristic action-adventure game which comes out in 2020.\n\nHe’s already delighted fans by making a surprise appearance on stage at the E3 gaming conference in LA.\n\nKeanu sat down with Radio 1 Newsbeat’s gaming reporter Steffan Powell at the event - speaking about the relationship between gaming and movies, keeping secrets, and he almost, ALMOST - did a Marlon Brando impression.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "\"Bad May\" written across one of the May 2020 pages to be replaced\n\nChanging the date of next year's early May bank holiday will cost one calendar maker about £200,000, it has said.\n\nLast week, the government announced the bank holiday, set for Monday 4 May, would be switched to Friday 8 May, to mark the 75th anniversary of VE Day.\n\nAllan & Bertram said as a result about 400,000 of its calendars which had already been printed would have to have the May 2020 pages replaced.\n\nThe government said it had considered the practical implications of its move.\n\nBut the manager of one calendar maker said it had \"probably been the single most stressful week that I have ever faced in business\".\n\n\"We're totally in agreement with changing the date. Just not changing it with 11 months notice, when you've had 74 years to prepare for this event,\" said Andrew Bennett, managing director of Hertfordshire-based Allan & Bertram.\n\nIt is only the second time the early May bank holiday has been moved - the first was in 1995 to mark the 50th anniversary of VE Day.\n\nOn that occasion people were given more notice, said Mr Bennett. \"They announced that in December 1993. That was absolutely fine.\n\n\"There was no reason why this decision couldn't have been made 18 months ago.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAs well as employing extra temporary staff, the team would be working double shifts to make the necessary changes, Mr Bennett said. While the calendars were originally assembled by a machine, the process of swapping the individual pages for updated ones will have to be done manually.\n\nDespite the cost, he said sending them out with the wrong date would have been too damaging for the company's brand.\n\n\"Our clients expect the product to be right. The easy thing to do would have been to do nothing, or put a sticker on it, but if you want to focus on quality, you have to correct the problem.\"\n\nThe British Printing Industry Federation, which represents about 1,300 printing businesses, said while it welcomed the commemoration of VE day, it too believed the government should have consulted with groups that would be affected by the change.\n\n\"A number of members will lose money due to calendars and diaries for 2020 being printed already,\" said managing director Dale Wallis.\n\n\"It is my understanding that there is no opportunity for compensation. This could cause serious cash flow issues, and therefore other issues for those businesses affected.\"\n\n400,000 calendars which have already been printed are waiting to be changed\n\nA spokesperson for the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy said it had \"considered the practical implications of moving this bank holiday\".\n\nAllan & Bertram's Andrew Bennett said the government should acknowledge the impact of the timing of the decision on businesses like his - and offer compensation for costs they will incur.\n\n\"As a business, we will survive. But it's not just the money - it's the pressure on production that will now make this year incredibly hard.\"\n\nYou can hear these interviews and more analysis by downloading BBC 5 Live's Wake Up To Money podcast", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Who are the Conservative Party members?\n\nConservative MPs may have whittled the contenders in the leadership race down to the final two - but it will not be politicians who will decide who gets to be the next prime minister.\n\nInstead it will be the party's grassroots members who will decide which of Jeremy Hunt and Boris Johnson gets to succeed Theresa May.\n\nThey will do so in a postal ballot, with the winner announced in the week beginning 22 July.\n\nIn other words, it is members of the public - those who pay £25 a year to join the Conservative Party - who get the final say on who leads the country.\n\nThere will not be a general election because the party is already in power.\n\nSo, who are the Conservative Party's members and what do they think on key issues, not least, of course, Brexit?\n\nThe Conservative Party membership is currently thought to be around 160,000 - a rise of more than 30,000 in the past 12 months.\n\nThe last time official figures were released was in March 2018, when they put the figure at 124,000.\n\nThat is way down on the peak of nearly 3 million that the party boasted in the early 1950s.\n\nThe Tories have far fewer members than the Labour Party.\n\nEven if we assume that Labour's membership has fallen from the late 2017 peak of more than 550,000, it still has a huge advantage over the Conservatives when it comes to campaigning on the ground.\n\nRight now, however, none of that matters as much as the fact that those 160,000 or so rank-and-file members of the Conservative Party have a crucial role.\n\nThey are going to be choosing the next prime minister of a country of over 65 million people - something which has never happened before.\n\nFrom studies of the 124,000 members that the party had in 2018, we know quite a lot about who they are and their beliefs.\n\nMost members of most parties in the UK are pretty middle-class.\n\nBut Conservative Party members are the most middle-class of all: some 86% of them fall into the ABC1 category used by market researchers to describe the top social grade.\n\nAround a quarter of them are, or were, self-employed and nearly half of them work, or used to, in the private sector.\n\nNearly four out of 10 put their annual income at over £30,000, and one in 20 put it at over £100,000. As such, Tory members are considerably better-off than most voters and, indeed, the members of other parties.\n\nOn the other hand, the fact that 97% of Conservative Party members are white doesn't do much to distinguish them from their counterparts in other parties.\n\nIt does inevitably mean, however, that ethnic minorities, who make up well over 10% of British people, are heavily under-represented in the Tory rank and file.\n\nSo, too, are women. Other parties - notably Labour and the Greens, but also the SNP - now come close to gender balance, but seven out of 10 Conservative members are male.\n\nTory members are also older than the members of most other parties. True, their average age may \"only\" be 57, but this disguises the fact that four out of 10 are over 65.\n\nThey are concentrated in the southern half of England. Nearly 60% of Tory members live in London, the east, south-east and south-west.\n\nSo much for demography and geography. What about ideology?\n\nWell, not surprisingly, Tory Party members are more right-wing than the population as a whole.\n\nOn a scale where zero represents very left-wing and 10 very right-wing, the average voter places themselves at the centre point. The average Conservative Party member places themselves at 7.6.\n\nThree-quarters of them believe, for instance, that young people today don't have enough respect for traditional values. Nearly six out of 10 support the death penalty.\n\nThey are also conventionally right-wing on some aspects of economic policy.\n\nFor example, only 15% of them believe that government should redistribute income from the better-off to those who are less well-off.\n\nBut on other issues they hold views that may be more unexpected.\n\nA third of Tory rank-and-file members believe that ordinary working people do not get their fair share of the nation's wealth and that there is one law for the rich and one for the poor.\n\nAbout half believe that big business takes advantage of ordinary people.\n\nInterestingly, they have also cooled on austerity. In the summer of 2015, some 55% said government spending cuts hadn't gone far enough, but two years later that had fallen to 28%.\n\nWhat Tory members haven't cooled on, however, is Brexit.\n\nIndeed, since we started tracking them in 2015, they've hardened their position.\n\nIt is clear that they are not supporters of the deal negotiated by Theresa May.\n\nIn fact, it is now the case that fully two-thirds of them back a no-deal Brexit - an outcome supported by only a quarter of voters as a whole.\n\nNor are they in the least bit keen on the idea of letting the public have another say on the UK's EU membership.\n\nSome 84% of them oppose the idea of a new referendum on the issue.\n\nIn short, the grassroots aren't simply sceptical on Europe; they can't wait to leave, whatever that might take.\n\nFurthermore, a breakdown of YouGov polling data suggests that the 30,000 or so members who have joined in the past year are even more likely to be pro-Brexit.\n\nThis, then, is the Conservative Party electorate.\n\nAnd those MPs hoping to succeed Mrs May will need to pitch their promises accordingly.\n\nThis analysis piece was commissioned by the BBC from experts working for an outside organisation.\n\nTim Bale is Professor of Politics at Queen Mary University of London.", "Julian Assange is fighting extradition to the US\n\nJulian Assange's legal team have branded the US extradition case against him \"an outrageous and full-frontal assault on journalistic rights\", as a court ordered him to face a full extradition hearing next year.\n\nThe WikiLeaks founder is fighting being sent to the US to face charges related to the leaking of government secrets.\n\nThe case was opened at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Friday.\n\nIt came after an extradition request was signed by the home secretary.\n\nBy certifying the request on Thursday, Sajid Javid allowed it to be considered by the court.\n\nChief Magistrate Emma Arbuthnot ordered for a full extradition hearing, expected to last five days, to begin on 25 February 2020.\n\nAssange, 47, told Westminster magistrates via video link that \"175 years of my life is effectively at stake\" and defended his website against hacking claims, saying: \"WikiLeaks is nothing but a publisher\".\n\nMark Summers QC, representing Assange, told the court there were a \"multiplicity of profound issues\" with the extradition case.\n\nBut Ben Brandon, representing the US, said the case relates to \"one of the largest compromises of confidential information in the history of the United States\".\n\nEvidence will show that Assange \"first encouraged\" former US army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning to illegally obtain documents, then agreed with her to \"crack\" a password on a Pentagon computer, Mr Brandon alleged.\n\nThe documents relate to the Iraq and Afghanistan wars and information on secret intelligence sources, he said.\n\n\"By publishing that unredacted material on the internet, Mr Assange created a grave and imminent risk that human intelligence sources, including journalists, human rights defenders and political activists, would suffer serious physical harm or arbitrary detention,\" Mr Brandon said.\n\nA group of protesters gathered outside the court in support of Assange\n\nSpeaking outside the court after the hearing, Jennifer Robinson, a lawyer representing Assange, warned the US indictment would \"place a chilling impact\" on journalism and publishers \"all over the world\".\n\nShe said the US was seeking Assange's extradition for publishing \"truthful information about the United States\", including \"evidence of war crimes, human rights abuse and corruption the world over\".\n\nThe Wikileaks founder faces 18 charges in the US, including computer misuse and the unauthorised disclosure of national defence information.\n\nAt his last hearing a fortnight ago Assange was too ill to appear in court, according to his lawyer.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAssange is currently serving a 50-week sentence in Belmarsh Prison in south-east London for bail violations after taking refuge in the Ecuadorian Embassy in a bid to avoid extradition to Sweden to face rape allegations in 2012.\n\nFollowing Friday's hearing, officials at Southwark Crown Court, where Assange was jailed for a bail breach, confirmed an appeal had been lodged against the sentence.\n\nHe spent seven years inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London before being handed over to British authorities by Ecuador in April.\n\nLast month, Swedish prosecutors reopened their investigation into an allegation of rape against Assange, which he denies.", "The NSPCC has said it cut ties with transgender activist Munroe Bergdorf because of Twitter statements she made which breached its safeguarding rules.\n\nThe children's charity had appointed Ms Bergdorf as Childline's \"first LGBT+ campaigner\" - but days after the announcement she was dropped.\n\nMs Bergdorf accused the NSPCC of giving in to pressure from transphobes.\n\nBut the charity said its decision was unrelated to her being transgender and it was an ally of the trans community.\n\nHowever the NSPCC apologised for the way it ended the relationship with Ms Bergdorf, saying it \"shouldn't have cut ties in the way we did\".\n\n\"We should have been more thoughtful and caring about how we managed our relationship with her at the outset,\" it added.\n\nThe charity said in a statement, released earlier this week, that it had tried to make direct contact with Ms Bergdorf before announcing it was removing her from the campaign, but was unable to do so and the announcement \"should have been delayed\".\n\nThe statement came after more than 150 NSPCC staff wrote a letter in support for Ms Bergdorf to the charity's bosses and trustees, saying they were \"deeply disappointed\" at how she had been treated.\n\nIn the statement, charity chief executive Peter Wanless said: \"We have let Munroe down in not supporting her through a process with us and in ending the relationship abruptly.\n\n\"It was our decision not hers and she deserved better from us.\"\n\nOn the reason why Ms Bergdorf was dropped, Mr Wanless said: \"The board decided an ongoing relationship with Munroe was inappropriate because of her statements on the public record, which we felt would mean that she was in breach of our own risk assessments and undermine what we are here to do.\"\n\nThe statements - which it said were specific to safeguarding and equality - are understood to have been made on Twitter, when Ms Bergdorf had previously messaged young people directly offering them to contact to her for support.\n\nMr Wanless said it was a \"lack of process that our organisation used when deciding to work with Munroe\" which led to the decision to drop her.\n\nMs Bergdorf is seen as a leading figure within the LGBT+ community and transgender activism, but outside of these communities she has continually divided opinion, at times being forced to step down from opportunities following a social media backlash.\n\nIn 2017 she was sacked from her role as a model for cosmetics company L'Oreal, following claims she wrote that \"all white people\" are racist in a Facebook post.\n\nMs Bergdorf later said her comments had been taken out of context but said that she stood by her view that \"all white people benefit from racism, with white privilege\".\n\nThe NSPCC said it decided to run the LGBTQ+ Childline campaign after figures show it handled more than 6,000 contacts from children with concerns about their sexuality or gender in the last year.\n\n\"We wanted to show our commitment and relevance as a trusted source of support for children and young people with these concerns by running a three-month campaign,\" the charity said.\n\nWhen she was announced as a campaigner, Ms Bergdorf had said she was \"excited to have the opportunity to let more kids know that they are not alone in how they feel\".\n\nBut after Ms Bergdorf's appointment was announced, a number of negative tweets followed.\n\nAfter being dropped, Ms Bergdorf said she was \"unbelievably sad\", and her spokesperson accused the charity of \"bowing down to pressure from a transphobic lobby running a hate campaign\".", "The US has released footage showing what it says are Iranian forces removing an unexploded limpet mine from the side of a ship in the Gulf of Oman.\n\nThe US also released images of the Japanese tanker apparently showing the unexploded mine before it was removed.\n\nThe BBC's security correspondent Frank Gardner looks at the evidence the US says proves Iran's involvement in Thursday's attacks.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIt was a grey day in November 2016 when I answered a call from my newsdesk. As a duty reporter I could be assigned anything, and on this particular day I was asked to look into a missing person's case.\n\nThat wasn't unusual, but as the story unfolded it became the most incredible I'd worked on.\n\nAlong with a cameraman, I headed to the coastal village of Inverkip where police were appealing for information about Margaret Fleming.\n\nShe was a young woman who hadn't been seen for 17 years by anyone other than her carers, Eddie Cairney and Avril Jones.\n\nMargaret Fleming was last seen when she was 19\n\nFrom December 1999 there had been no record of Margaret having seen a doctor, she had never used a bank account and there was no evidence she was on social media.\n\nIn my career as a reporter, I've done several missing persons cases - but none that sounded like this. How could someone be alive but live undetected for all that time?\n\nI followed the story in the months that passed and despite several appeals by Police Scotland there remained no sight nor sound of Margaret.\n\nThen in October 2017 - almost a year on from the reported disappearance - I was handed an opportunity to interview Cairney and Jones at Seacroft, the home they had shared with Margaret.\n\nIt is understood Margaret Fleming had lived in the Inverkip house since 1999\n\nThe day was as extraordinary as the case itself.\n\nThe house was in a stunning location, looking out to the Firth of Clyde. The property appeared derelict from the outside, but inside it was worse.\n\nFor me and cameraman Stan Leech, the first thing to hit us was the terrible smell.\n\nThe floorboards creaked, plaster was coming off the ceiling and in the back room there was a huge hole in the house with only tarpaulin between the garden and the interior. I can't imagine how cold winter must have been.\n\nThere was a tarpaulin over a hole in the back of the house\n\nJones was quiet and said she wasn't feeling well. Cairney was very talkative, bullish even. He appeared outraged that police seemed to be treating them as suspects.\n\nThe interview began with that standard question - how do you feel?\n\nAnd what came back was an unsurprising answer: \"We're upset at the way we've been treated, we feel like suspects, the last year has been hell.\"\n\nBut then the conversation took an incredible turn.\n\nMy next question, asking whether the pair had heard from Margaret, prompted the reply: \"Oh yes, she's alive and working as a gangmaster in Poland.\"\n\nDo you mean she's working under a gangmaster? I asked.\n\n\"No, no - she is the gangmaster,\" came the reply.\n\nNow, this was a woman whose learning difficulties were so complex she couldn't manage her financial affairs.\n\nSome of the things Cairney said about Margaret were unrepeatable, unkind and distasteful.\n\nBut the most telling moment was when I asked Jones what she would like to say to Margaret if she was watching now?\n\nThis is a question I ask in a lot of missing persons cases, as interviewees are nervous and getting them to describe a loved one is straightforward and puts them at ease.\n\nJones was silent - not a word passed her lips.\n\nEventually, the interview was over and we packed up our kit and left the house.\n\nAs we drove onto the A78 back to the office, I asked Stan what he thought. \"Well, that was strange,\" he replied.\n\nWe both agreed it was one of the most bizarre days we'd had at work.\n\nDid we believe them? Some of it yes - some of it no.\n\nCairney said he'd been a deep sea diver, and that seems undisputed.\n\nBut when he said he'd spoken to Margaret recently and I asked if he'd told the police, he insisted that they weren't interested.\n\nTo me, that just wasn't credible.\n\nThe interview was broadcast the following day and not long after that, Cairney and Jones were arrested.\n\nThe next time I saw them in the flesh they were in the dock at the High Court in Glasgow and I was in the witness box.\n\nI was called by the prosecution to give evidence during their trial and I looked on as my interview was played for the jury.\n\nIt was an uncomfortable experience for a reporter who is used to sitting in the press gallery.\n\nIt was hard to look at them, but I did steal a peek at one point. Cairney looked very frail and Jones looked far away, as if she was disconnected from events.\n\nNow they stand convicted of Margaret's murder. The jury clearly did not believe their version of events.\n\nThe police and prosecutors have done their job. Justice has been served for her family.\n\nBut one question remains - where is Margaret Fleming's body?", "Mariam Moustafa had a stroke and died in hospital a month after the attack\n\nTwo members of a girl gang who attacked a student at a bus stop in a row over a boy have been sentenced.\n\nMariam Moustafa, 18, fell into a coma after she was punched several times by a \"pack\" of assailants last February.\n\nShe died of a stroke a month later, but pathologists could not legally link the attack with her death, Nottingham Crown Court heard.\n\nMariah Fraser, 20, was given an eight-month sentence and Britania Hunter, 18, given a 12-month community order.\n\nA third accused, a 16-year-old girl who cannot be named and also pleaded guilty, was remanded back to the youth court for sentencing.\n\nSix female defendants were charged after Miss Moustafa, an engineering student, was attacked in Nottingham city centre while one of her friends tried to protect her.\n\nThey included three other teenage girls aged 18, 17 and 16, who will be sentenced later this month.\n\nDuring sentencing, Nottingham Crown Court heard the attack was \"fuelled by social media\".\n\nFraser (left), Hunter (right) and four teenagers admitted carrying out the attack\n\nOpening the facts of the case on Thursday, prosecutor Luke Blackburn said the six were not charged with manslaughter because pathologists could not legally link the attack to Miss Moustafa's death.\n\nThe hearing was told Fraser and Hunter were part of a group who filmed the attack on Miss Moustafa and watched as two others, aged 16 and 18, hit her.\n\nMr Blackburn said footage showed Miss Moustafa, an Egyptian national, looking \"frightened, passive and, towards the end, obviously unwell\".\n\nJudge Gregory Dickinson QC called the defendants aggressive and cowardly and said: \"This was not an attack motivated by hostility to race or religion. It was to do with a boy.\"\n\nMohamed Moustafa said he was not informed of a court hearing in April where the three admitted affray\n\nCh Supt Rob Griffin said: \"These girls showed persistent aggression towards Mariam and what was even more disgusting was that there was filming of what happened and this footage was shared on social media.\"\n\nMiss Moustafa's father, Mohamed Moustafa, said the family had not been informed about a hearing in April where Fraser, Hunter and the 16-year-old admitted affray a week before their trial. The Crown Prosecution Service subsequently apologised.\n\nAfter the sentencing, he said his family \"are not safe in this country\".\n\n\"I have been doing my best for all of my family - telling them to keep safe, don't do anything wrong in this country, don't attack anyone, but after court today... nobody can protect my family,\" he said.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMatt Hancock has quit the contest to become Conservative leader - and prime minister - a day after coming sixth in the first ballot of the party's MPs.\n\nThe health secretary did not endorse any of his former rivals, but told the BBC he was \"talking\" to them all.\n\nMr Hancock, who had been the youngest contender, said he was \"focused on the future\" but the party needed a leader to succeed in \"the here and now\".\n\nBoris Johnson won the first Tory MPs' ballot by a big margin, with 114 votes.\n\nThe final two contenders remaining after further MPs' ballots next week will go to a party-wide vote.\n\nBut cabinet minister David Lidington - who had backed Mr Hancock - told the BBC's Political Thinking with Nick Robinson podcast: \"The Conservative Party started having elections for its leaders in 1965. Only once in that time has the favourite won and that was when Michael Howard was unopposed.\n\n\"I think it's still very open and no candidate can take things for granted - and shouldn't.\"\n\nThree candidates - Mark Harper, Andrea Leadsom and Esther McVey - were knocked out in the first round, in which Mr Hancock, aged 40, received 20 votes.\n\nHis decision to withdraw from the race means six candidates remain.\n\nMr Hancock told BBC deputy political editor John Pienaar: \"I've been incredibly encouraged and humbled by the amount of support that I've had in this campaign.\n\n\"I've tried to make the argument about the values that the Conservative Party needs to hold dear, of free enterprise and support for a free society and being open and optimistic and enthusiastic about the future.\"\n\nHe added: \"But the party clearly is looking for a candidate to deal with the here and now. I very much put myself forward as the candidate focused on the future.\n\n\"And so I've decided to withdraw from the race and instead see how best I can advance those values within the party and the big and difficult tasks we've got ahead.\"\n\nMr Hancock said the remaining candidates all had \"admirable qualities\" and that all should take part in televised debates: \"The nature of this contest isn't just to be the leader of the Conservative Party. It's to be the next prime minister, and so that scrutiny is important.\"\n\nHe added: \"We stand at a defining moment in our country's history and we need to deliver Brexit, and then we need to cast forward and bring the country together. That's the goal.\"\n\nFurther ballots are scheduled to take place next Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday to whittle down the contenders until only two are left. The process could be speeded up if anyone else drops out.\n\nThe final pair will be put to a vote of the 160,000 members of the Conservative Party from 22 June. The winner is expected to be announced about four weeks later.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Johnson, the former Foreign Secretary and London Mayor, has confirmed that he will take part in a televised debate with other candidates on the BBC on Tuesday - although it is not known whether he will join Sunday's debate on Channel 4.\n\nHe picked up support from businessman Lord Sugar - who quit as a Labour peer in 2015 and sits as a crossbencher:\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Lord Sugar This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFellow leadership contender Dominic Raab, a former Brexit Secretary, called for a \"proper debate\", saying: \"I'm looking forward to the first televised debates on Sunday and I hope that everyone gets involved - we should have a proper debate on the vision for the country.\"\n\nOn Tuesday 18 June, BBC One will host a live election debate between the Conservative MPs still in the race.\n\nIf you would like to ask the candidates a question live on air, use the form below. It should be open to all of them, not a specific politician.\n\nIf you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic.", "Grace Jones was \"fit and active\" until her death at home in Broadway, Worcestershire\n\nBritain's oldest person has died at the age of 112, at her home in Worcestershire.\n\nLast August Grace Jones, from Broadway, took the title following Olive Boar's death.\n\nHer daughter, Deirdre McCarthy, said her mother - nicknamed Amazing Grace - was fit and active until she died.\n\nShe was recently interviewed on BBC Points West about World War One. Her death, at her home on Friday, was confirmed by her daughter.\n\n\"I never dreamt when I was a little girl that my mother would be the talking point of the whole country,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Grace Jones, 112, shared her memories of World War One\n\n\"I used to say to my friends 'she is a piece of history gift-wrapped'.\n\n\"She was wonderful and had a lovely sense of humour... and that's something somebody should have.\n\n\"Never let that fade away because if it does it starts a downward trend and you become rather dull.\"\n\nMs McCarthy said last year her mother was invited on to TV shows, including Good Morning and Strictly Come Dancing.\n\n\"I kept thinking to myself 'she'll get that Equity card yet'.\n\n\"She took it [the attention] in her stride. She sat there to do interviews at her party and everyone was lined up in the hall at Buckland Manor to do their piece ready for the evening [news] programmes.\n\n\"Mother sat there looking so serene and gorgeous, really dressed up beautifully and each person came in, all the boys with their cameras and lighting and she thought that was great.\n\n\"She conducted herself so nicely and answered everything, and then on the last one for Channel 5 she suddenly said 'I'm hungry; when is teatime?'.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The second anniversary of the tragedy was marked last June\n\nSurvivors of the Grenfell Tower fire have joined friends and family of those who died at events to mark the two-year anniversary of the tragedy.\n\nSeventy-two people were killed in the blaze in North Kensington, west London, on 14 June 2017.\n\nThe Archbishop of York acknowledged the \"agonising memories\" of the fire in a message read out at a memorial service.\n\nMore than 200 high-rise buildings in England are still covered with cladding similar to that used on Grenfell.\n\nLondon mayor Sadiq Khan joined Grenfell survivors at the wreath-laying event on Friday\n\nRelatives comforted each other during a wreath-laying ceremony on Friday evening.\n\nA 72-second silence was held - one second for each victim - before a recitation from the Koran.\n\nThe names of the dead were then read aloud in sections, with those gathered responding \"forever in our hearts\" after each name.\n\nApplause broke out as a large mosaic, which has been under construction since just before the first anniversary, was unveiled.\n\nThe final petal had earlier been added to the flower-shaped artwork, which has had contributions from a number of different community groups over the past year.\n\nMany of those in attendance at the private event near the base of the tower, including London Mayor Sadiq Khan and Communities Secretary James Brokenshire, were wearing green scarves and other green items of clothing.\n\nWhite doves were released at the end of the memorial service\n\nIn his message, Archbishop of York Dr John Sentamu said anger over the fire had \"turned into action for good\", but he warned there were \"uncomfortable truths still to be acknowledged\".\n\nBishop of Kensington Dr Graham Tomlin told the congregation at St Helen's Church, across the Westway from the 24-storey block, the fire was a \"national shame\".\n\n\"Grenfell happened because we failed to love our neighbours,\" he said.\n\nEarlier he told the Today programme there was \"ongoing frustration\" in the local area over the way Grenfell residents had been treated.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMarcia Robinson, who lost her friend Khadija Saye in the fire, described the service as \"heartbreaking\" and called for more support to be given to local residents.\n\nKarim Mussilhy, whose uncle died in the fire, said it was important for all those affected to stand together and \"make sure the general public understand that the issues of Grenfell are still happening today\".\n\nSeventeen families who were affected by the fire have yet to be found permanent accommodation, with one of those still living in a hotel and two others in serviced apartments.\n\nNearly 8,000 people have also been screened for signs of trauma by the Grenfell Health and Wellbeing Service, with 398 children among those who have entered treatment.\n\nPeople have been writing notes of remembrance and leaving tributes near to the tower\n\nBobby Power, who lost his father Steve and his home in the fire, said he had been \"constantly in a spiral of depression\" in the two years since.\n\n\"Every time I've tried to take two steps forward, I'm taking 10 back,\" he said.\n\nLandmarks across the capital including 10 Downing Street and Kensington Palace were lit green overnight to mark the anniversary.\n\nA march was held on the streets around North Kensington following the memorial service\n\nThe walls and pews of St Helen's Church were decorated with green ribbons for the memorial service, while attendees were given green sashes to wear around their necks.\n\nCommunities Secretary James Brokenshire and Mayor of London Sadiq Khan attended the service which also featured the singing of Britain's Got Talent semi-finalist and Grenfell survivor Leanne Mya.\n\nThe names of the 72 victims were also read out.\n\nAhead of the service, Grenfell resident Shahin Sadafi described the fire's anniversary as \"more devastating than any other day\".\n\n\"It takes us back to that horrific morning when our lives were changed forever,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nYvette Williams, a co-ordinator of campaign group Justice 4 Grenfell, said survivors were \"increasingly feeling a sense of injustice\".\n\nTheresa May called the disaster \"a local and a national tragedy with far-reaching consequences\" which \"we must not forget\".\n\nLater in the evening, rapper Stormzy joined thousands of people at a silent walk around the local area, in memory of the victims.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn, wearing a green scarf, also joined the march which came after a vigil at which another rapper, Lowkey, delivered a speech.\n\nHe said: \"This is a message to the government and I hope this message breaks through, regulate them before we regulate you.\"\n\nMr Corbyn tweeted his commitment \"to creating a housing system and a society where such a tragedy can never happen again\".\n\nGreen balloons were released above the tower overnight\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nLi Ying scored with a brilliant first-half volley to earn China victory over debutants South Africa, who face elimination from the Women's World Cup.\n\nThe result means Group B rivals Germany qualify for the last 16, with China and Spain hoping to join them.\n\nAfter an uneventful first 40 minutes, Li brought the Parc des Princes crowd to their feet when she converted Zhang Rui's pinpoint delivery.\n\nWang Shanshan went close with a header that hit the bar and came off the line.\n• None Relive the action from the Parc des Princes\n\nSouth Africa looked like they could cause the Asian side problems on the counter-attack but they lacked accurate final balls.\n\nAfrica's player of the year Thembi Kgatlana, who scored against Spain in the 3-1 defeat, produced Banyana Banyana's best chance when she burst into the area and fired into the side-netting.\n\nHer team-mate Kholosa Biyana launched an effort from 25 yards but it was easily dealt with by Jiangsu Suning goalkeeper Peng Shimeng.\n\nSouth Africa will need to defeat two-time champions Germany in their final match by a handsome margin to qualify for the last 16.\n\n'We're getting close to the top teams'\n\nChina coach Jia Xiuquan: \"The victory belongs to all players - they deserve it. The battle has just begun and there will be tough games ahead. I hope to laugh at the very last moment.\n\n\"I hope the players can exhibit their true ability - their desire to win has impressed me the most over the past year. This has given me courage to lead them, and they have done a great job today.\n\n\"Today we executed our plan. The game unfolded as we planned.\"\n\nSouth Africa coach Desiree Ellis: \"They were once again magnificent. We conceded from a set-piece and lost concentration there. We had ample opportunities.\n\n\"We said it would be a battle and like a final. Tonight we showed we are getting close to the top teams. We gave as good as they gave.\n\n\"My players put their bodies on the line.\"\n• None China are unbeaten at the Women's World Cup when they've opened the scoring, winning 15 of the 16 games that they've netted first in (D1).\n• None South Africa are the fourth different African team to lose their first two games in the Women's World Cup, along with Nigeria (1991), Equatorial Guinea (2011) and the Ivory Coast (2015).\n• None Li Ying was China's 23rd different goalscorer at the Women's World Cup (excluding own goals); only four nations have had more scorers in the competition (Germany 34, USA 32, Norway 29, Sweden 25).\n• None China's Wang Shuang created five chances for her team-mates in this game; the most by a Chinese player in a Women's World Cup game across the last two tournaments (2015 and 2019).\n• None There were just four shots on target in this game (one for South Africa and three for China) - only one game has had fewer in the 2019 Women's World Cup so far (three between Argentina and Japan).\n• None Attempt blocked. Yang Li (China PR) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Lou Jiahui.\n• None Attempt saved. Yang Li (China PR) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Lou Jiahui.\n• None Attempt blocked. Yang Li (China PR) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Yao Wei.\n• None Attempt saved. Han Peng (China PR) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Wang Shuang with a cross.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match because of an injury Lou Jiahui (China PR).\n• None Noko Matlou (South Africa) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Lou Jiahui (China PR) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Pauline Cafferkey gave birth to two baby boys in Glasgow on Tuesday\n\nPauline Cafferkey, the Scottish nurse who survived the deadly Ebola virus, has given birth to twin sons.\n\nThe 43-year-old worked as a volunteer in Sierra Leone, where an epidemic killed almost 4,000 people, in 2014.\n\nThe father Robert Softley Gale, a theatre director and disability campaigner, announced the news by posting an image of the newborns on Instagram.\n\nTheir sons were born on Tuesday in Glasgow and have yet to be named.\n\nIn a statement Ms Cafferkey said she was overjoyed to welcome her sons into the world, saying there is \"a future for those who have encountered the disease\".\n\nShe said: \"I would like to thank all the wonderful NHS staff who have helped me since I became ill in 2014 right through to having my babies this week.\n\n\"This shows that there is life after Ebola.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for Greater Glasgow and Clyde health board said: \"We are pleased to confirm, on behalf of Pauline Cafferkey and her partner, that she gave birth on Tuesday to healthy twin boys at a maternity unit within Greater Glasgow.\n\n\"Both mother and babies are doing well.\"\n\nMs Cafferkey first went to Sierra Leone as part of a team of British volunteers at the Kerry Town Ebola treatment centre.\n\nBut she fell ill with the disease after arriving back in the UK in December 2014. She recovered, but had a relapse and also developed meningitis, seriously affecting her joints and ability to walk, among other issues.\n\nShe also had to face a hearing over misconduct charges, of which she was cleared.\n\nShe returned to the West African country in May 2017 to raise funds for children orphaned by Ebola and people who survived it.\n\nAt the time she said it was \"psychologically important\" for her to go back.", "Ivy Worsley is now a healthy nine-month old girl\n\nA woman who suffered 13 miscarriages gave birth to a girl after pioneering work by a fertility expert.\n\nEleven of Laura Worsley's pregnancies ended in the first trimester but she also lost two boys at 17 and 20 weeks.\n\nProfessor Siobhan Quenby discovered she had two conditions affecting her ability to have children.\n\nMrs Worsley and her husband Dave, from Kenilworth, got pregnant a 14th time and, with the help of Prof Quenby and her team, had a daughter named Ivy.\n\n\"Even now, nine months on, I can't believe she's actually mine,\" said Laura, 35.\n\nIt was in 2008 the couple suffered the heartbreak of their first miscarriage. They said when it happened a third time, they knew something was wrong.\n\nDoctors advised them to keep trying but, after their fourth pregnancy ended, they were referred to Prof Quenby at University Hospital of Coventry and Warwickshire's Biomedical Research Unit.\n\nThe birth of Ivy is a story that is being shared in medical circles all over the world\n\nIt was discovered Laura had Antiphospholipid syndrome, also known as \"sticky blood syndrome\", which can cause recurring pregnancy loss.\n\n\"We were told a high dose of folic acid might sort it, but it didn't,\" said Laura, whose continued pregnancies never progressed beyond a few weeks.\n\n\"We took part in trials, did all the tests and tried different medications, hoping something would work.\"\n\nTwo pregnancies did get beyond the 12-week stage but the couple lost their boys, Graceson and Leo, in 2015 and 2017.\n\n\"I don't know how I coped, to be honest,\" said Laura. \"Dave stayed strong for me but when we lost the boys, he really struggled with that.\n\n\"It was all I lived for - I lost years of my life. I just thought, if I can't have a baby I don't see a point in my life,\" she said.\n\nLeo's placenta was tested and results showed Laura also had Chronic Histiocytic Intervillositis (CHI), which causes the body to fight pregnancy.\n\n\"It was causing my placenta to die in places,\" said Laura.\n\n\"I wasn't sure I wanted to try again. But Professor Quenby said she had helped women with this successfully.\n\n\"I thought if there's that one bit of hope, I had to try again. I spoke to Dave about it and he felt the same.\n\n\"I told myself, this is the last time I'm doing this.\"\n\nAfter medication to improve the lining of Laura's womb, the couple conceived naturally for the 14th time.\n\nLaura and Dave kept the pregnancy a secret for fear of experiencing another loss\n\nProf Quenby said they used steroids to suppress Laura's immune system to allow the pregnancy to progress beyond 24 weeks, when babies have a chance of surviving. Drugs helped stop her blood clotting.\n\n\"The steroids do have side effects,\" said Prof Quenby. \"But we both decided it was worth one more go.\"\n\nAfter so many tragedies, Laura and Dave said they did not dare to dream this pregnancy would work.\n\n\"We didn't really tell anyone. It was the hardest thing to keep in but the hardest thing to share. I just kept thinking if we tell people, we're going to jinx it,\" said Laura.\n\nAnd then, at 30 weeks, Laura was in bed at home when her waters broke. Ivy was delivered by caesarean section while Laura was under a general anaesthetic. She weighed just 1.7 lbs, about the same as a Christmas pudding.\n\nIvy was a fighter right from the start, Laura said\n\n\"My husband saw her first. He showed me a photo of her when I woke up,\" said Laura, whose daughter had been taken straight to a neonatal incubator in intensive care.\n\nIt was three days before they could hold her. The new parents were warned Ivy might develop sepsis but she continued to thrive.\n\n\"I just thought, she's a fighter. She just kept going forward all the time, she never went back,\" said Laura.\n\nFor Prof Quenby, it was two months before she dared to visit Ivy on the ward.\n\n\"I was delighted she was here but I just couldn't bear to see her until I knew she was ok. I'd ask the nurses to go and see her for me but I was too scared.\"\n\nIvy was so small, her father's ring fitted on her wrist\n\nAfter 11 weeks in hospital, which included recovering from bronchiolitis, Ivy was able to go home.\n\nShe is now nine months old, and Laura's case is being highlighted globally as an example of how women with her conditions could still have successful pregnancies.\n\n\"I look at her and think 'miracles do happen', said Laura. \"I'd read about other people's miracles, and now I've got mine.\"\n\n\"Laura's case is benefitting people across the world,\" said Prof Quenby. \"Many in her situation would have given up, but she just kept going.\"\n\nProf Quenby eventually plucked up the courage to meet Ivy in hospital\n\nLaura and Dave held a baby shower for Ivy - after she was born - and raised more than £1,000, which they have donated to the hospital's charity.\n\n\"It's so important to be able to make a difference for anyone else going through what I went through,\" said Laura, who is continuing to raise money through a JustGiving page.\n\n\"Through my story I want to give others the hope and strength to carry on even when things seem impossible.\"\n\nThe couple have now had Ivy christened\n• None 'I lost my baby, then heard others crying'\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Two more hospital patient deaths have been linked to an outbreak of listeria in pre-packed sandwiches and salads.\n\nFriday's announcement from Public Health England (PHE) takes the number of confirmed cases from six to nine and the deaths from three to five.\n\nLast week PHE confirmed two patients from Manchester Royal Infirmary and one at Aintree Hospital had died.\n\nSandwiches and salads from the Good Food Chain linked to the outbreak have been withdrawn and production stopped.\n\nEvidence suggested all individuals ate the affected foods before the product withdrawal took place in hospitals on 25 May, PHE said.\n\nThe chain - which supplied 43 NHS trusts across the UK - had been supplied with meat produced by North Country Cooked Meats, which subsequently produced a positive test result for the outbreak strain of listeria.\n\nPHE said it had been analysing previously known cases of listeria from the past two months to see if they were linked.\n\n\"To date, there have been no patients linked to this incident outside healthcare organisations, but we continue to investigate,\" Dr Nick Phin, of Public Health England, said.\n\n\"Swift action was taken to protect patients and any risk to the public is low.\"\n\nHe added: \"PHE is continuing to analyse all recent and ongoing samples of listeria from hospital patients to understand whether their illness is linked to this outbreak.\"\n\nA listeria infection can cause a small amount of discomfort but is more likely to seriously affect pregnant women, the elderly and those with a weakened immune system.\n\nIn a statement, the Good Food Chain said it was co-operating \"fully and transparently with the Food Standards Agency and other authorities\" and said it hoped the inquiry would be pursued with \"urgency so the wider industry can learn any lessons as soon as possible\".\n\n\"Our thoughts and deepest sympathies are with the families of those who have died and anyone else who has been affected by this outbreak.\n\n\"The underlying cause of it remains unclear,\" the statement adds.\n\nIt is not yet known where the latest two victims were receiving treatment.\n\nManchester University NHS Foundation and Aintree University NHS Foundation Trust said the new cases did not relate to them.\n\nListeria is a bacterium that can cause a type of food poisoning called listeriosis.\n\nNormally, the symptoms are mild - a high temperature, chills, feeling sick - and go away on their own after a few days.\n\nBut in this outbreak, the cases occurred in people who were already seriously ill in hospital and they are most at risk of severe infection.\n\nListeria can then cause damage to organs, spread to the brain or bloodstream and be fatal.\n\nIn 2017, figures show there were 33 deaths linked to listeriosis in England and Wales.\n\nMany types of food can become contaminated with listeria such as soft cheeses, chilled ready-to-eat foods like pre-packed salads, sandwiches and sliced meats, and unpasteurised milk products.\n\nPregnant women are advised to steer clear of soft cheese for this reason.\n\nTo reduce the risk, the NHS advises people keep chilled food in the fridge, heat food until it is piping hot and not eat food after its use-by date.\n\nThe Good Food Chain, based in Stone, Staffordshire, had been supplied with meat produced by North Country Cooked Meats, which subsequently produced a positive test result for the outbreak strain of listeria.\n\nThis business - along with North Country Quality Foods which it distributes through - has also voluntarily ceased production.\n\nLast week North Country Cooked Meats said it was \"co-operating fully\" the investigations.", "Simon Aherne and Anna Cousins, from Cardiff, are due to get married on Sunday, 3 May - one day before the traditional May Day Bank Holiday\n\nAn engaged couple say their wedding plans have been scuppered by changes to next year's early May bank holiday.\n\nMay Day is traditionally held on a Monday, but will be put back to Friday, 8 May in 2020 to accommodate the 75th anniversary of VE Day.\n\nBut Simon Aherne and Anna Cousins, from Cardiff, say the lack of notice has left their plans in tatters as most guests will be unable to attend.\n\nThe UK government said it made the decision \"as soon as practicable\".\n\nMr Aherne, a teacher and part-time DJ, and PR professional Ms Cousins were due to get married at Kingscote Barn in Gloucestershire on Sunday, 3 May - the day before the traditional bank holiday Monday.\n\nThe pair have booked everything from the venue to caterers, and sent out invitations to friends and family.\n\nBut when they were alerted to the announcement by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy on Saturday, their plans went \"out of the window\".\n\n\"Most of our family are teachers or in the entertainment business - so the bank holiday worked out perfectly for us,\" Mr Aherne said.\n\n\"Now we are just sitting here wondering what we are going to do.\"\n\nHe explained that while they respected the wish to mark the VE Day anniversary, as both their families have a history of military service, they questioned the lack of warning.\n\nThe couple say they could lose thousands in deposits if they have to rearrange their wedding\n\n\"How can the government just chuck this on people with 11 months to go? They have had time to prepare and could have given people a lot more notice.\"\n\nMr Aherne added: \"We have invited more than 100 people, but it looks like we might barely get 20 now.\n\n\"If we have to cancel, we are going to lose our deposits - we are talking thousands of pounds.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nScotland's Claire Emslie was your player of the match. Here's how you rated the players out of 10.", "An estimated 13 million litres of water has been pumped from Leanach quarry\n\nA flooded quarry has been drained as part of an investigation into the disappearance of a woman and her young son more than 40 years ago.\n\nRenee MacRae, 36, from Inverness, and her three-year-old son Andrew disappeared on 12 November 1976.\n\nAn estimated 13 million litres of water has been pumped from Leanach quarry at Culloden, near Inverness.\n\nSilt and debris at the bottom will now be removed and taken to another location for forensic tests.\n\nDetectives announced last month that they intended to drain the quarry in an effort to solve the mystery. It was searched in the months following the disappearance of Mrs MacRae and Andrew.\n\nPolice have been treating the case as a murder inquiry.\n\nOn the evening of her disappearance, Mrs MacRae, who was estranged from her husband Gordon, had set off for Perth with the youngest of her two sons, Andrew, to meet her lover Bill McDowell, Mr MacRae's married accountant.\n\nHe told police they never met.\n\nMrs MacRae's burnt-out BMW car was discovered on the night she disappeared in a lay-by on the A9 south of Inverness.\n\nLeanach quarry, pictured before it was drained, is at Culloden near Inverness\n\nSilt and debris will be removed from the bottom of the quarry for forensic tests\n\nDet Insp Brian Geddes, of Police Scotland, said an \"incredible\" and \"tireless\" operation to drain the quarry meant detectives could start the \"detailed searching phase\" of the operation.\n\nHe said: \"Pumping the water clear was a huge challenge, but we have made fantastic progress in a very short time.\n\n\"Silt and debris from the bottom of the quarry are now being removed by lorry to undergo forensic tests at another location.\n\n\"The whole team remains extremely confident that vital evidence we believe was hidden in Leanach will be recovered in the coming weeks.\n\n\"I want to reassure the family and friends of Renee and Andrew that we will not be leaving here until every last inch is searched.\"\n\nRenee MacRae's BMW car was found on fire in a lay-by south of Inverness\n\n17:00, 12 November 1976: After dropping off her eldest son, Gordon, at Mr MacRae's home, Mrs MacRae and Andrew leave Inverness for Perth.\n\n22:00, 12 November 1976: Mrs MacRae's BMW car is found on fire by a passing bus driver about 12 miles (19km) south of Inverness. The car is parked on a loop road that was being used as a lay-by during the construction of then new A9 trunk road. Blood is found in the boot of the car. But there is no sign of the mother and son and police begin what would become one of the UK's longest missing persons investigations.\n\n1976: In the fortnight following 12 November, more than 100 police officers and large numbers of volunteers search moorland around the site of where the car was discovered. RAF Canberra aircraft make wider sweeps of the area.\n\nA newspaper appeal from the 1970s for Renee and Andrew MacRae\n\nAugust 2004: Police return to Dalmagarry Quarry, which was searched at the time of the mother and son's disappearance. Northern Constabulary drafts in forensic archaeologists and anthropologists to sift 35,000 tonnes of soil from the disused quarry, near the lay-by where Mrs MacRae's car was discovered, but no sign of the mother and son is found. New tests are also carried out in a laboratory in Aberdeen on traces of blood found in the boot of the BMW.\n\n2016: A report naming a suspect who may have killed the pair is sent by Northern Constabulary to prosecutors but they decide there is insufficient evidence to take action.\n\nOctober 2018: For about a week, Police Scotland divers examine Leanach Quarry using a remotely operated vehicle.\n\n9 October: To mark Andrew's 45th birthday, police release a photograph of him and an image of the Silver Cross pram owned by his mother. Officers appeal for sightings of the pram on and around 12 November 1976.\n\n28 May 2019: Work to pump water from Leanach quarry begins.\n\n10 June: Leanach quarry is drained clearing the way for silt and debris to be removed for forensic tests.", "The star is due to release an album of collaborations later this year\n\nEd Sheeran was the most-played artist in the UK last year, while Feel It Still by Portugal The Man was 2018's most-played song.\n\nSheeran topped the chart despite not releasing new music; and without an entry in the Top 10 most-played tracks, suggesting his entire catalogue of hits remains on rotation on the radio.\n\nIt's the third time in four years that he's been the UK's most-played artist.\n\nCalvin Harris came second and Little Mix were third.\n\nThe data was compiled by music royalty body PPL, which monitors the music played on TV and radio; and in pubs and clubs.\n\nIt illustrates how some songs achieve a long after-life on radio, months after they stop jostling for position in the official Top 40.\n\nPortugal The Man's feel-good hit Feel It Still was originally released in 2017; but still garnered enough plays to become the biggest radio hit of the year.\n\nMeanwhile Pink's What About Us made the top 10 for a second year in a row - a feat that has only ever been achieved once before, by Maroon 5's Moves Like Jagger in 2011 and 2012.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nGeorge Ezra made his first appearance in the chart, with the singles Paradise and Shotgun both making an appearance; while Rita Ora, the year's most-played female artist, also had two songs in the top 10 - For You and Anywhere.\n\nJess Glynne maintained her run of airplay hits, with These Days named the year's second-biggest song.\n\nThe star, who's currently supporting the Spice Girls on tour, has appeared in the top 10 most-played tracks in four of the last five years.\n\nHer success has also contributed to a new milestone for the charts: 2018 was the first time that the majority of most-played acts were, or featured, women.\n\nThe PPL said nine of the top 10 most-played artists were British, with Pink being the exception.\n\nThe charts were revealed ahead of at its AGM, where the society is due to announce that it collected £246.8 million on behalf of 105,192 performers and rights holders over the last year.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A man has fallen from a window in Edinburgh, landing on a woman in the street below.\n\nThe incident happened at about 17:00 on Sunday in Duke Street.\n\nThey are both in Edinburgh Royal Infirmary where the 55-year-old man is seriously injured. The condition of the woman, in her 60s, is unknown.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The UK and South Korea have signed an outline free trade agreement (FTA) that seeks to maintain existing trade arrangements post-Brexit.\n\nInternational Trade Secretary Liam Fox signed the deal with his South Korean counterpart Yoo Myung-hee in Seoul.\n\nThe preliminary agreement marks the first post-Brexit trade deal the UK has secured in Asia.\n\nThe agreement is roughly in line with the terms of the existing Korea-EU FTA.\n\n\"In so far as a (UK-S Korea) deal has been struck that's a landmark moment,\" Mouhammed Choukeir, chief investment officer at private bank Kleinwort Hambros told BBC 5 live's Wake Up to Money.\n\n\"Where it's not a big deal is that actually the biggest trading bloc still needs to be negotiated - the EU and US.\"\n\nThe deal would cover South Korean exports including cars and auto parts. South Korea exports mostly cars and ships to Britain, while it imports crude oil, cars and whisky.\n\nThe agreement is designed to provide stability under a no-deal Brexit, with the UK due to leave the EU on 31 October, with or without a deal.\n\nTariff-free trade with South Korea is certainly worth preserving. British goods exports to Seoul climbed sharply after the EU's deal with South Korea was implemented in 2011. Last year the UK sold about £6bn worth of goods there.\n\nUK goods imports from South Korea were more than £4bn. Among those countries with which the UK has improved access by virtue of an EU trade deal, South Korea is one of the bigger ones.\n\nThere is an agreement with Switzerland, which is the biggest of this group in terms of UK exports. But there is not with Japan or Canada which are similar scale to South Korea. And of course all these countries are far smaller markets for the UK than the EU 27.\n\nMr Fox said: \"The value of trade between the UK and Korea has more than doubled since the EU-Korea agreement was applied in 2011.\n\n\"Providing continuity in our trading relationship will allow businesses in the UK and Korea to keep trading without any additional barriers, which will help us further increase trade in the years ahead,\"\n\n\"As we face growing global economic headwinds, our strong trading relationship will be crucial in driving economic growth and supporting jobs throughout the UK and Korea.\"\n\nBoth countries aim to ratify the deal by the end of October, and implement it in November.\n\n\"The deal is significant as it eased uncertainties sparked by Brexit, amid the already challenging environment for exports on the escalating trade row between Washington and Beijing,\" Ms Yoo said.\n\nSouth Korea - Asia's fourth largest economy - is a global leader in electronics, steel and auto industry.\n\nThe country's exports to the UK hit $6.36bn (£5.0bn) last year.\n\nThe UK is South Korea's second largest trading partner among EU members, and the Asian nation's 18th largest trading partner.\n\nThe UK is pushing to strike agreements with its trading partners as the Brexit deadline looms.\n\nAs a member of the EU, the UK is part of 40 trade deals which the EU has with other countries.\n\nIf the UK leaves the EU without a deal, it would fall out of these deals immediately, disrupting about 11% of UK total trade.\n\nA priority for the government has been to get these countries to roll over their trade deals with the UK.\n\nSo far the UK has agreed \"continuity\" deals with 12 countries and regions, including Israel, Norway and Iceland, Switzerland and Chile.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nEngland's win over Scotland in the Women's World Cup on Sunday was the UK's most watched women's football match of all time, drawing a peak of 6.1 million viewers on BBC television.\n\nThe figure - 37.8% of the available audience - breaks the previous record of four million viewers for England's Euro 2017 semi-final against the Netherlands.\n\nEllen White and Nikita Parris scored as England claimed a 2-1 victory in Nice, with Claire Emslie replying for Scotland.\n\nJust before the women kicked off in Nice, England men were playing Switzerland in the Nations League third place play-off. That was shown on Sky Sports and had a peak audience of 1.236 million (15% share) as England won on penalties.\n\nWorld Cup coverage on the BBC continues across TV, radio and online.\n\nThe Scots next play against Japan on Friday 14 June at 14:00 BST, while England face Argentina in their second group game later the same day, at 20:00.\n\nScotland are playing in their first World Cup while England reached the semi-finals at the 2015 tournament in Canada.\n\nEngland v Scotland, which kicked off at 17:00 BST on Sunday, was broadcast on BBC One and BBC One Scotland, which had a 46% share of the available audience north of the border.\n\nThe average audience for the match itself was 4.6 million, and four million for the programme overall.\n\nThe previous highest UK peak was at 21:00 on a Thursday evening for the Euro 2017 match shown on Channel Four.", "England and Arsenal footballer Leah Williamson reveals her love for country music, Motown and slow songs before a big game.", "Stanley Metcalf, six, died after being hit by a pellet from a gun\n\nA man has admitted killing his six-year-old great-grandson who was shot with an air rifle.\n\nStanley Metcalf died in hospital after being hit in the abdomen by a pellet from the gun in Sproatley, near Hull, on 26 July.\n\nAlbert Grannon, of Church Lane, Sproatley, pleaded guilty to manslaughter at Hull Crown Court.\n\nThe 78-year-old had shown \"no real remorse for what happened\" until the guilty plea, Humberside Police said.\n\nHe also admitted possessing an air rifle without holding a firearms certificate along with the charge of manslaughter by gross negligence.\n\nGrannon listened to the proceedings through a headset with sentencing adjourned until 2 July at Sheffield Crown Court.\n\nIn August, an inquest heard Stanley was visiting family at the time he was shot.\n\nStanley was found injured at the house at about 16:00 BST and pronounced dead later that day at Hull Royal Infirmary.\n\nThe boy was shot in the abdomen with the air rifle, an inquest heard\n\nHull Coroner's Court was told a post-mortem examination had revealed the cause of death as \"an airgun projectile wound to the abdomen\".\n\nNo details of the offence were given during Monday's court hearing, with Grannon granted conditional bail.\n\nJudge Peter Kelson QC told him: \"This case, while tragic, is very serious and it's entirely possible that a prison sentence will follow and you must prepare for that.\"\n\nDet Insp Rebecca Dickinson, who led the investigation, said: \"I am pleased that Albert Grannon has finally admitted his guilt and faced up to the enormity of his actions.\n\n\"Up to now he has shown no real remorse for what happened.\"\n\nIn a statement following Stanley's death, his family described him as a \"loving, caring and beautiful boy\" who was \"vibrant and full of energy\".\n\nDet Insp Dickinson added: \"Stanley has a twin, Elsie. They were inseparable.\n\n\"I can only imagine what she will feel like now and when she reaches any milestones in her life, knowing that she should be sharing them with Stanley.\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The names of candidates to officially enter the Conservative leadership race are announced by Dame Cheryl Gillan\n\nThe final candidates for the Tory leadership race have been confirmed, with 10 running to become the next PM.\n\nJeremy Hunt, Dominic Raab, Matt Hancock and Michael Gove - who launched their campaigns ahead of the nomination deadline - are all on the final list.\n\nConservative MPs will now take part in a series of votes to whittle the candidates down to the final two.\n\nThe two MPs will then face the wider Tory membership to decide on the next leader of their party, and the country.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Who decides who will be the next prime minister?\n\nVice chairman of the party's backbench 1922 committee Dame Cheryl Gillan announced the list.\n\nTo be allowed to run, the MPs needed to have a proposer, a seconder and the support of six other members.\n\nSam Gyimah, the only contender backing another referendum on Brexit, withdrew from the race shortly after nominations closed, saying there was not enough time to build support.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lidington on Hancock: He's got no Brexit baggage\n\nMrs May officially stepped down as the leader of the Conservative Party last week, but will remain as prime minister until her successor is chosen.\n\nWhat are Tory MPs looking for in their next leader?\n\nSomeone who can win a general election and protect their seats, certainly. Someone who has a plausible plan for Brexit. Someone to breathe life into a glum and dejected party.\n\nIf parliamentary sparkle was the main qualification Michael Gove would probably romp this race - but after destroying the candidacy of Boris Johnson last time and recent revelations about his use of cocaine, his reputation has been harmed.\n\nMr Johnson is divisive among colleagues and his personal life has long been messy, but he remains one of the most recognisable and charismatic politicians in the country.\n\nJeremy Hunt has a focused, managerial manner, Dominic Raab has the intensity of a karate-chopping former lawyer and Sajid Javid has climbed to the top of the Tory party.\n\nEsther McVey built a career in television that led to politics, Andrea Leadsom is making a second tilt at No 10, and Rory Stewart's social media campaign has brought him attention and plaudits from outside Conservative circles.\n\nBut in this contest, it's the judgement of Conservative MPs and party members that matters.\n\nEnvironment Secretary Mr Gove, who has faced calls to drop out of the race after he admitted using cocaine several times more than 20 years ago, repeated at his campaign launch that he regrets \"his past mistakes\".\n\nHis speech focused on the policies he would introduce as leader, including the creation of a \"national cyber crime task force\" and more protection for the armed forces from legal challenges.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A Michael Gove-led government would take \"back control of our money, our borders, and our laws\".\n\nHe said he wants to \"ensure that our NHS is fully-funded, properly funded\" and that funding is protected under law.\n\nIn a swipe at Boris Johnson's earlier tax policy pledge to cut income tax bills for people earning more than £50,000 a year, he said: \"One thing I will never do as PM is use our tax and benefits system to give the already wealthy another tax cut.\"\n\nHe also said the party leader needs to be someone who has been \"tested in the heat of battle\" and not one who has been \"hiding in their bunker\".\n\nMr Johnson has so far not conducted any broadcast interviews about his campaign.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Leadership candidate Jeremy Hunt: \"We need tough negotiation, not empty rhetoric.\"\n\nOn Brexit, Mr Gove said it was \"not enough to believe in Brexit you've also got to be able to deliver it\", insisting he has \"a proper plan\".\n\nEarlier, Health Secretary Matt Hancock told his launch the Conservatives and the country \"need a fresh start\", announcing one of his key pledges - to increase the national living wage to more than £10 an hour.\n\nHe has also won a high-profile backer, with the de facto deputy prime minister, David Lidington, pledging his support.\n\nMr Lidington told the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg that his colleague had \"no baggage\" from the 2016 Brexit referendum and had a clear vision for the future of the country.\n\nEx-Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab said he was \"a committed Brexiteer\" who could be trusted to secure the UK's departure. He also unveiled plans to redirect £500m a year from the aid budget to create an international wildlife fund.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dominic Raab: “I am the candidate who can be trusted to deliver on Brexit.\"\n\nForeign Secretary Mr Hunt, meanwhile, said a \"very smart\" approach was needed to break the Brexit impasse, saying an \"experienced, serious leader\" was needed, not \"empty rhetoric\".\n\nHe also attempted to end criticism of his stance on abortion by insisting he would not try to change the law if chosen as PM.\n\nIt was announced earlier that two cabinet ministers - Brexiteer Penny Mordaunt and Remainer Amber Rudd - back Mr Hunt.\n\nFormer Work and Pensions Secretary Esther McVey outlined her campaign at a think tank event, saying \"we have nothing to fear\" from a no-deal Brexit, and pledging to give a pay rise to public sector workers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock rejects the idea that Brexit must be delivered by a \"Brexiteer\".\n\nInternational Development Secretary Rory Stewart faced callers' questions during a live phone-in on BBC Radio 4's World at One.\n\nHe called for compromise over Brexit, and said he would give Parliament \"a final chance\" to vote through the existing deal that Mrs May negotiated with the EU.\n\nBut he ruled out supporting a further referendum, arguing \"it wouldn't resolve anything\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Esther McVey says \"non-engagement\" with the cabinet made Theresa May's deal worse\n\nWhereas candidates in the past would have only needed two MPs supporting them, senior Tories decided to change the rules earlier this month in an effort to speed up the contest.\n\nAll 313 Conservative MPs will vote for their preferred candidate in a series of ballots held on 13, 18, 19 and 20 June to whittle down the contenders one by one until only two are left.\n\nDue to another rule change, candidates will need to win the votes of at least 16 other MPs in the first ballot and 32 colleagues in the second to proceed.\n\nThe final two will be put to the 160,000 or so members of the wider Conservative Party in a vote from 22 June, with the winner expected to be announced about four weeks later.\n\nOn Tuesday 18 June BBC One will be hosting a live election debate between the Conservative MPs who are still in the race.\n\nIf you would like to ask the candidates a question live on air, use the form below. It should be open to all of them, not a specific politician.\n\nIf you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Local resident: \"The whole thing was an inferno\".\n\nTwenty flats were destroyed and another 10 have been damaged after a fire engulfed a building in east London.\n\nThe blaze spread over six floors of the block of flats in De Pass Gardens, Barking, at about 15:30 BST, London Fire Brigade said.\n\nAbout 100 firefighters worked for more than two hours to subdue the fire, which was extinguished at 18:00. The cause is being investigated.\n\nA man and a woman were treated for the effects of inhaling smoke.\n\nThe pair were cared for at the scene and there are no other reports of injuries.\n\nResident Mihaela Gheorghe said she had \"raised several issues\" about the safety of wooden balconies on the blocks of flats.\n\nShe added: \"I was in my fourth-floor flat when the fire started. We ran out. The fire brigade came but they found it hard to find a water supply at first.\"\n\n\"We said that one day a fire is going to happen.\n\n\"We raised several issues to the builder, the maintenance companies and the council about the safety of having all these wooden balconies.\"\n\nResidents claim they had raised concerns about the safety of the building\n\nMukhtar Raja, who lives nearby, said he saw flames when he looked out of his window.\n\n\"The heat was unbearable and it was spreading so fast. I went outside and filmed the footage with my phone.\n\n\"The fact it was a tall building and the speed at which the fire was spreading was scary.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by MARAJA This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPeople affected by the fire were told to \"take rest\" at the Thames View Community Centre - about a mile away from the scene.\n\nFirefighters were alerted at about 15:30 BST\n\nCrews from Barking, Dagenham, East Ham and other surrounding fire stations attended.\n\nLondon Fire Brigade's Andy Maloney said: \"Crews worked really hard at the scene to bring the fire under control.\"\n\nA London Ambulance Service spokesperson said: \"We sent two ambulance crews, two solo responders, our hazardous area response team and London's Air Ambulance.\"\n\nThe Met Police said officers were faced with \"a major incident\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jeremy Corbyn has welcomed the new Labour MP Lisa Forbes to Westminster\n\nJeremy Corbyn has been criticised by several of his MPs for his leadership on anti-Semitism and Brexit during a \"heated\" meeting in Parliament.\n\nMarie Rimmer told him people \"who have worked with you for ages\" were turning away while Jess Phillips said those \"in the cult of Corbyn\" were protected.\n\nVeteran MP Margaret Hodge criticised the choice of Lisa Forbes as Labour's Peterborough by-election candidate.\n\nMs Forbes apologised to MPs for liking an anti-Semitic post on social media.\n\nThe new MP, who won Thursday's by-election by 683 votes, caused controversy during the campaign when she appeared to endorse a post on Facebook which said Theresa May had a \"Zionist slave masters agenda\".\n\nJewish Labour groups have called for Ms Forbes, who will take her seat in Parliament on Monday, to have the whip suspended.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAddressing the parliamentary party for the first time since Labour's disappointing performance in last month's European elections, Mr Corbyn thanked all those MPs who contributed to Labour's successful campaign in Peterborough.\n\nBut he faced criticism over the message that Ms Forbes' victory sent about the party's commitment to eradicate anti-Semitism from its ranks.\n\nMrs Hodge said she could \"not tolerate\" anti-Semitism of any kind within the parliamentary Labour Party while Ruth Smeeth accused Mr Corbyn of \"allowing institutional anti-Jewish racism on your watch\".\n\nThe party is currently being investigated by the Equalities and Human Rights Commission over claims it discriminated against Jewish members.\n\nMr Corbyn told the meeting that Labour \"must be, is, and always will be anti-racist in any form, including anti-Semitism\" - and Ms Forbes must be treated \"properly\".\n\nLabour has suggested Ms Forbes made a \"genuine mistake\" by liking a video expressing solidarity with the victims of March's terror attacks on mosques in Christchurch \"without reading the accompanying text, which Facebook users know is an easy thing to do\".\n\nMr Corbyn also came under fire over Brexit with Peter Kyle, a strong supporter of another referendum, questioning whether the Labour leader had any plan to get the country and party out of the Brexit \"mire\".\n\nAnd Meg Hillier said the leadership was wrong to demote Emily Thornberry from her traditional role deputising for Mr Corbyn at last week's Prime Minister's Questions.\n\nMs Thornberry was replaced by Rebecca Long-Bailey after she said Labour's third place in the Euro elections boosted the case for another referendum - an outcome that Mr Corbyn continues to distance himself from and has said is \"some way off\".\n\nA number of MPs expressed concerns that it had now become \"normalised\" for Labour voters to back other parties over Brexit.\n\nMrs Rimmer, previously regarded as being loyal to Mr Corbyn, suggested she had struggled herself to vote for Labour in the elections.\n\nAfter the meeting, a spokesman for Mr Corbyn said there were strong feelings about Brexit and the shadow cabinet would discuss Labour's \"evolving\" position on Tuesday.\n\n\"The PLP [the parliamentary Labour Party] is generally quite a robust meeting,\" he said. \"The PLP is very passionate about lots of issues not just about Brexit. That's what we would expect.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Baseball\n\nBoston Red Sox legend David Ortiz was shot in the back in the Dominican Republic on Sunday, police say.\n\nThe three-time World Series champion, 43, is recovering after surgery, the Red Sox said in a statement.\n\n\"David's family has confirmed that he sustained a gunshot wound to the lower back/abdominal region,\" it added.\n\n\"We have offered David's family all available resources to aid in his recovery and will continue to keep them in our hearts.\"\n\nDominican National Police spokesman Felix Duran Mejia told CNN the incident occurred at the Dial Discotheque in Santo Domingo, where he was born.\n\nOrtiz, a designated hitter and first baseman, ended his 20-year Major League Baseball career in 2016, when he earned the last of his 10 All-Star appearances.\n\nHe helped Boston win a first World Series title in 86 years 2004, as well as championships in 2007 and 2013.\n\n\"Anxiously waiting for more news. In the meantime, only prayers for David, Tiffany and their family,\" said former New York Yankees star Alex Rodriguez on Twitter.", "South Africa had reached 29 for 2 when rain stopped play at the Rose Bowl shortly after 11:00 BST\n\nHeavy rain has caused travel disruption amid weather warnings issued for large swathes of England.\n\nThe Met Office issued an amber warning for rain in south-east England on Monday, with a month's rainfall forecast in some areas.\n\nA wider yellow warning is in place until 23:59 for east England.\n\nWarnings are in place on Tuesday for parts of north Devon and north Somerset, north east England and parts of the Midlands.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Met Office This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFlooding also closed Kingston Bridge, in west London, for around two hours from 16:00 BST, forcing bus services to be redirected.\n\nA stretch of the North Circular was also flooded shortly before the evening commute, although Transport for London said the carriageway between Charlie Browns Roundabout and Waterworks was cleared within an hour.\n\nMeanwhile, the Cricket World Cup fixture between South Africa and West Indies was abandoned after rain stopped play at the Rose Bowl in Southampton.\n\nIn the east of England, the Met Office predicts further travel disruption with \"a small chance that some communities become cut off by flooded roads\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMotorists across the region have also been warned about hazardous conditions on the road, particularly during the early evening period.\n\nThe Met Office has issued further yellow weather warnings throughout the week:\n\nThese maps show the areas affected by the Met Office's weather warnings on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday\n\nThe Met Office's chief meteorologist Steve Ramsdale warned the weather conditions needed for heavy downpours and thunderstorms can happen \"extremely quickly\".\n\n\"We have been able to indicate the likelihood of further spells of heavy rainfall for the rest of the week, but the exact details will remain uncertain until nearer the events,\" he said.", "Daniel Kelley will serve four years in a young offenders' institution\n\nA man who was involved in a major hack attack of telecoms firm TalkTalk has been sentenced to four years' detention.\n\nDaniel Kelley, 22, from Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, pleaded guilty in 2016 to 11 charges including involvement in the attack where the personal data of more than 150,000 customers was stolen.\n\nKelley will serve his sentence in a young offenders institution.\n\nHe was sentenced at the Old Bailey on Monday.\n\nEmail addresses and bank details were taken after TalkTalk's website was breached in 2015, with the total cost to the company from multiple hackers estimated at £77m.\n\nKelley's hacking offences also involved half a dozen other organisations, including a Welsh further education college, Coleg Sir Gar, where he was a student.\n\nKelley turned to hacking when he failed to get the GCSE grades to get on to a computer course, the court heard.\n\nHe hacked the college \"out of spite\" before targeting companies in Canada, Australia and the UK - including TalkTalk which has four million customers.\n\nThe 22-year-old has Asperger's syndrome and has suffered from depression and extreme weight loss since he pleaded guilty to the 11 hacking-related offences in 2016, the court heard.\n\nJudge Mark Dennis told the Old Bailey that Kelley hacked computers \"for his own personal gratification\" regardless of the damage caused.\n\nHe went on to blackmail company bosses, revealing a \"cruel and calculating side to his character\", he said, though a blackmail charge was previously dropped by the Crown Prosecution Service.\n\nProsecutor Peter Ratliff previously described Kelley as a \"prolific, skilled and cynical cyber-criminal\" who was willing to \"bully, intimidate, and then ruin his chosen victims from a perceived position of anonymity and safety - behind the screen of a computer\".\n\nBetween September 2013 and November 2015, he engaged in a wide range of hacking activities, using stolen information to blackmail individuals and companies.\n\nDespite attempts at anonymity, his crimes were revealed in his online activities.\n\nKelley's attacks on his college cost hundreds of hours of teaching time\n\nThe court heard how Kelley was just 16 when he hacked into Coleg Sir Gar out of \"spite or revenge\", causing widespread disruption to students and teachers and affecting the Welsh Government Public Sector network - including schools, councils, hospitals and emergency services.\n\nRadiologists at Hywel Dda health board in west Wales lost access to diagnostic image services, with communication affected between hospital sites.\n\nA spokesman for the board said Kelley's actions posed a \"serious clinical risk\".\n\nAfter he was arrested and bailed, Kelley continued his cyber crime spree for a more \"mercenary purpose\".\n\nMr Ratliff said Kelley had been \"utterly ruthless\" as he threatened to ruin companies by releasing clients' personal and credit card details.\n\nHe hacked into TalkTalk and blackmailed Baroness Harding of Winscombe and five other executives for Bitcoin, the court heard.\n\nBut he only received £4,400 worth of Bitcoins through all his blackmail attempts, having made demands for more than £115,000.\n\nMr Ratliff said Kelley got \"enjoyment and excitement from the power he wielded\" over his victims.\n\nKelley sometimes worked with a hacking collective named Team Hans, the court heard.\n\nIf people refused to pay up, he would offer their details for sale on the dark web.\n\nHe was also found to be in possession of computer files containing thousands of credit card details.\n\nMitigating, Dean George QC appealed to the judge not impose a jail sentence on a young man who suffered with \"severe depression\".", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nCoverage: Live across BBC TV, radio and the BBC Sport website and app\n\nCanada started their 2019 Women's World Cup campaign with a narrow win over Cameroon, while Argentina claimed a shock draw against Japan on day four of France 2019.\n\nThe South Americans had lost all six of their previous matches at World Cups, shipping 33 goals, but they were resolute in the first stalemate of the tournament.\n\nSo what can we expect from day five ?\n• None Argentina frustrate Japan to claim first ever World Cup point\n• None Why do the US rule women's football while Brazil underachieve?\n\nNew Zealand begin their Group E campaign against the Netherlands at Stade Oceane in Le Havre (14:00 BST).\n\nChile then face Sweden in the Group F opener at Roazhon Park in Rennes (17:00 BST).\n\nDefending champions the USA get under way against Thailand in Stade Auguste-Delaune in Reims (20:00 BST).\n\nWhere can I follow the games?\n\nBBC Sport will have live coverage of every World Cup match across TV, radio, the Red Button and online from the group stages all the way through to the final.\n\nBBC Four will show USA v Thailand live from 19:45 BST, while coverage of Chile v Sweden and New Zealand v Netherlands will be available on the Red Button.\n\nThere will also be live text coverage of all three matches on the BBC Sport website.\n\nVivianne Miedema underlined her reputation as one of the best players in the world during a stellar 2018-19 season for Arsenal that contained personal and team accolades.\n\nThe Women's Super League's top scorer was pivotal to Arsenal collecting their first WSL title since 2012, with a contribution of 22 goals and 10 assists from her 20 appearances.\n\nThat also brought the former Bayern Munich player recognition from her peers when she was named the Professional Footballers' Association Player of the Year in April.\n\nMiedema who has scored 58 goals in 75 games for the Netherlands, will be hoping to propel the Dutch to success in France, as they look to build on their triumph at Euro 2017.\n\nRock solid in defence or midfield Nilla Fischer makes up for a lack of pace with her expert reading of the game.\n\nThe heartbeat of the Wolfsburg side that has won four league titles, five German Cups and a Champions League trophy during her six seasons at the club, the 34-year-old is poised to return to her homeland after the World Cup to play for Linkopings.\n\nThe \"boss\", as Alex Morgan is introduced at Orlando Pride home games, registered her 100th international goal in April and at the age of 29 arrives in France at the peak of her powers.\n\nHer status as one of the most recognised American players of her generation was underlined by her inclusion in Time magazine's 100 most influential people for 2019.\n\nAfter playing a limited role in the USA's success in 2015, she is set to form a deadly triumvirate of attacking talent alongside Carli Lloyd and Megan Rapinoe, as the USA seek to retain the trophy for the first time.\n• None New Zealand have failed to win any of their 12 previous World Cup games (D3 L9) - the most games any nation has played without a win.\n• None The Netherlands' only victory in the finals came at the 2015 tournament against New Zealand in their opening game.\n• None Chile have lost six of their last eight matches (D2), since a 3-2 win over Australia in Sydney in November 2018.\n• None Sweden failed to win a game at the 2015 tournament, the first time they'd gone through the finals without a win. The Swedes drew their three group games before a 4-1 defeat by Germany in the last 16.\n• None The USA and Thailand's only previous meeting ended in a 9-0 friendly win for the world champions in Colombus in September 2016.\n• None Thailand qualified after reaching the semi-finals of the 2018 Asia Cup. They lost on penalties to Australia in the semi-final.\n• None Despite being champions, the USA qualified through winning the 2019 Concacaf Women's Championship. They won all five games in qualification, scoring 26 goals without conceding.\n• None Thailand's Orathai Srimanee celebrates her 31st birthday the day after the game. She scored Thailand's first two goals in their 3-2 group stage win over Ivory Coast in 2015.\n• None USA head coach Jill Ellis could become the first person to win the World Cup twice as a coach, having been also in charge in 2015.\n\nWhat are the big stories of the day?\n\nThe reigning champions may start the World Cup as Fifa's number one ranked side but the USA's preparations for the tournament have not been entirely serene.\n\nFormer goalkeeper Hope Solo has been vocal in her criticism of Jill Ellis, saying the US coach struggled under pressure in 2016 - and was reluctant to analyse goals that had been conceded.\n\nIn response Ellis said: \"Comments are comments.\n\n\"For me personally, I feel, over the past five years, I've made a lot of important decisions. I have processes to make those decisions and own those processes.\n\n\"At this point, everything and every focus is about this group of players that are here and now.\"\n\nAside from that, there is also the matter of the current US squad taking legal action against the US Soccer Federation in the build-up to the tournament.\n\nThe discrimination lawsuit relates to equal pay and working conditions, with players like Lloyd, Rapinoe and Morgan urging the governing body to \"promote gender equality\".\n\nDid you see?\n\nBBC Sport has launched #ChangeTheGame this summer to showcase female athletes in a way they never have been before. Through more live women's sport available to watch across the BBC this summer, complemented by our journalism, we are aiming to turn up the volume on women's sport and alter perceptions. Find out more here.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nEngland beat Scotland 2-1 in their opening Women's World Cup group match - but questions remain about how far Phil Neville's side can go in France.\n\nA Nikita Parris penalty and a goal by Ellen White put the Lionesses in control in the Group D game in Nice.\n\nBut Scotland, who were making their World Cup debut, almost took advantage as their opponents eased off.\n\nClaire Emslie slotted in from close range after Steph Houghton's poor pass as England endured a nervy ending.\n\n\"It taught us that every game is going to be hard,\" said Neville afterwards.\n\nBBC Sport's pundits were less than impressed with aspects of England's performance - while thinking Scotland's display gives them hope of reaching the knockout stages.\n• None England should have done better - Neville\n• None Football Daily podcast: England win but is anyone happy?\n\n'Am I buzzing about England's performance? No'\n\nEngland arrived at the tournament ranked third in the world and with high hopes of bettering their achievements at the previous World Cup in 2015, when they finished third in Canada.\n\nHowever, former England international Alex Scott and ex-Scotland goalkeeper Gemma Fay were in agreement after an unspectacular performance.\n\n\"Teams will be looking at this and will they be worried about this England performance? I don't think so,\" said Scott, who represented the Lionesses at three World Cups, on BBC One.\n\n\"Yes, England have done well but I don't think they've shown any dangerous signs to make other teams worry and that's what Phil Neville will be saying - 'if we want to win a World Cup, we need to be better'.\"\n\nFay, who retired from international football after Scotland's exit from Euro 2017, having won a record 203 caps, echoed Scott's thoughts.\n\n\"I watched France on the opening night and now I've watched England here. If I'm from France or the USA, I'm not particularly worried at this point,\" she said.\n\nIn 2017-18, the Women's Super League was played through the winter for the first time having previously taken place in the English summer.\n\n\"This is the first time we've gone into a tournament on the back of a winter league,\" said Scott.\n\n\"I have question marks over how tired England looked.\n\n\"It was a sloppy pass by Steph Houghton [for Scotland's goal] but it was a running theme. I think Fran Kirby gave the ball away a number of times, we were sloppy in attack.\n\n\"It's all about being fresh going into World Cups and European Championships, but this team looked tired.\n\n\"Am I buzzing that England got the win? Yes. But am I buzzing by the performance? No.\"\n\nFormer England keeper Rachel Brown-Finnis told BBC Radio 5 Live the Lionesses \"still have a lot of work to do\".\n\nShe added: \"Phil Neville will want a more polished performance in the next game,\n\n\"They got the job done but their aspiration is still to reach the final.\"\n\nScotland are 17 places below England in the world rankings.\n\nShelley Kerr's side won seven of their eight qualifying games to reach a first World Cup but their inexperience on the global stage told as they fell 2-0 behind in the opening 40 minutes.\n\nHowever, a much-improved second-half performance left former Chelsea and Scotland winger Pat Nevin optimistic about their chances of progressing.\n\n\"England almost looked women against girls in the first half. But in the second half Scotland grew into the game and looked better and stronger,\" Nevin told BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\n\"After today's showing, I'd say Scotland have a fantastic chance of getting out of their group. Scotland know they can compete now and they'll have learned so much from this match.\"\n\nScotland's next match is against Japan - ranked seventh in the world - on Friday in Rennes (14:00 BST) before rounding off their group campaign against Argentina, the group's lowest-ranked country down in 37th, on 19 June in Paris (20:00 BST).\n\n\"At half-time Scotland will have been thinking 'that first half's done, we're no longer debutants at the World Cup, now we can go on and play the football',\" added Fay.\n\n\"They came out in the second half and were a lot braver. I don't know what substitute Kirsty Smith drank at half-time but when she came on she ran down that left wing and ignited some energy in the team.\n\n\"Claire Emslie did the same on the other side. They weren't afraid anymore, they believed in their ability and it made a difference.\"\n\nFormer Scotland striker Julie Fleeting, speaking to BBC Radio Scotland, added: \"The performance in the first 45 minutes was nowhere near good enough.\n\n\"We do need to remember England are third in the world and a big force here - 2-1 is not an embarrassing result.\n\n\"The players will be pleased with their second-half performance and there's a lot they can take into their next game.\"", "Air New Zealand will end a ban on staff having visible tattoos, in a move it says will allow staff to express cultural and individual diversity.\n\nSome New Zealanders with Maori heritage wear tattoos to mark their genealogy and heritage.\n\nThe airline said from 1 September, all employees will be able to display \"non-offensive\" tattoos at work.\n\nIt said there was growing acceptance of tattoos, particularly as a means of personal expression.\n\nThe airline's tattoo restrictions attracted criticism and some accused it of hypocrisy for using other aspects of Maori culture - such as language and symbols - in its marketing efforts.\n\nLocal media also reported the policy shift comes after high-profile cases of individuals who had been refused roles at Air New Zealand because of visible tattoos.\n\nAir New Zealand Chief Executive Officer Christopher Luxon said the firm wanted to embrace diversity and allow employees \"to express individuality or cultural heritage\".\n\n\"We want to liberate all our staff including uniform wearers such as cabin crew, pilots and airport customer service teams who will, for the first time, be able to have non-offensive tattoos visible when wearing their uniforms.\"\n\nThe airline said research found one in five adult New Zealanders has at least one tattoo, with more than 35% of people under 30 tattooed.\n\nFor people of Maori descent, markings known as moko are carved into the skin using chisels. They are a sacred tradition, denoting a person's links with their family and cultural identity.\n\nFacial tattoos - moko kauae - are of particular importance. Men's moko tend to cover their entire face, while the women's cover the chin.\n\nAir New Zealand said the move to drop the ban followed five months of research with customers and staff.\n\nA spokesperson for the national carrier said it would \"treat tattoos like speech\" to determine what would be considered offensive.\n\n\"In the same way you shouldn't swear, make hateful comments, lewd jokes, or use violent language in the workplace for example, the same goes for tattoos,\" the spokesperson said.\n\nShe said where the situation is unclear, the airline will have a Tattoo Review Panel \"to assist employees and managers to determine whether a tattoo is aligned with our policy\".", "There is \"no guarantee\" that criminal charges will be brought over the Grenfell Tower fire, a senior police officer has said.\n\nCdr Stuart Cundy of the Metropolitan Police gave the bereaved and survivors \"an absolute personal commitment\" the investigation would be \"fearless\".\n\nBut no decision on charges will be made until the public inquiry is complete, which could be in 2022.\n\nWith 45 million documents for police to sift through, the investigation is one of the largest and most complex in the history of the Metropolitan Police, Cdr Cundy said.\n\nHe said: \"Even now coming up to the two-year anniversary there is no guarantee that we can give that there will be criminal charges.\"\n\nInstead, he offered the bereaved and survivors \"our absolute personal commitment to do what we can to make sure this investigation is fearless, secures all the evidence that it can and puts that evidence before the Crown Prosecution Service\".\n\nPolice have been told to wait until a public inquiry into the fire has published its final report before they pass evidence to the Crown Prosecution Service to consider any criminal charges.\n\nCdr Cundy said the delay was \"really, really tough for the families and the survivors\".\n\nBut he assured them that no one would be able to flee liability for the disaster by leaving the companies under investigation.\n\n\"The fact that someone leaves an organisation does not mean that their liability finishes because they leave,\" he said.\n\nThe investigation, called Operation Northleigh, is examining the construction, refurbishment and management of the tower, which caught fire on 14 June 2017, as well as the emergency response.\n\nA team of 180 police officers and other staff are working on the operation, which is looking at potential offences of gross negligence manslaughter, corporate manslaughter and health and safety offences.\n\nKeyword searches are being used to sift through the millions of documents and 13 \"potential suspects\" have been interviewed under caution so far.\n\nDet Supt Matt Bonner, who is leading the inquiry, said his team will never read all the documents but said they will consider all relevant material.\n\nAbout 200 companies that were involved with the tower are considered relevant to the investigation and the investigation has logged 14,000 exhibits - including construction materials, photos, CCTV footage and personal items from flats in the tower.\n\nBut no search warrants have been applied for and no one has been formally arrested because police said they have received the assistance they need so far, and people have chosen to co-operate by being interviewed.\n\n\"The night that unfolded on the 14th will forever be in so many of our minds and so many of our hearts,\" said Cdr Cundy.\n\n\"Two years on our criminal investigation remains an absolute priority for the Met Police.\"", "Christel Stainfield-Bruce was walking with her three-year-old son when she was stabbed\n\nA mother walking with her three-year-old son asleep in a pushchair was stabbed after she refused to hand over her mobile phone.\n\nChristel Stainfield-Bruce, 36, was approached by a teenager in Islington, north London, on Friday afternoon who initially asked her for directions.\n\nHe then said \"give me your phone\" and after she said \"no\" he stabbed her in the thigh before fleeing empty-handed.\n\nShe was told at hospital she was lucky the knife missed a major artery.\n\nThe nursery worker said: \"It feels so unnecessary.\n\n\"There was no gain, he didn't even get my phone or bag or anything, but it must be a symptom of a wider problem.\n\n\"What is the state of the country when young children are causing a big wound to people they don't know, with people you've got no history with? What's going through the these people's heads?\"\n\nThe mother-of-three said she was surprised by how young her attacker - thought to be between 14 and 16 - was.\n\nChristel Stainfield-Bruce is now recovering at home\n\nShe said he had stopped her in Caedmon Road at about 16:45 BST on Friday and asked her for directions to the nearby Emirates Stadium, which she gave.\n\nHe then demanded her phone and when she refused, he stabbed her in the left thigh and fled in the direction of the Tollington and Holloway Road area.\n\nMs Stainfield-Bruce's husband Quinn said his wife \"didn't scream out because she didn't want to wake our son who was asleep in the pushchair\" and tied her jumper around the wound before phoning 999.\n\nMr Stainfield-Bruce said his wife was \"insanely lucky\", adding \"she could have been paralysed or died\".\n\nShe was taken to hospital where she was discharged early on Saturday and is now recovering at home.\n\nThe Met said no arrests had been made.\n\nOfficers said the suspect was 5ft 3in tall black male of large build, wearing dark-coloured clothing, including a jacket and trucker-style cap.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The exterior of the BBC's New Broadcasting House building\n\nA report looking at free TV licences for the over-75s suggests older households have seen \"a marked improvement\" in their living standards since the policy was introduced.\n\nThe BBC-commissioned report said pensioners are now less likely than any other age group to live in poverty.\n\nThe government began funding free TV licences for the over-75s in 2000.\n\nIn 2015 it was decided the concession would be paid for in future by the BBC.\n\nAccording to the report by Frontier Economics, which was commissioned to carry out the research, almost half (46%) of households with someone aged 75 or more were among the poorest in terms of incomes in 2000.\n\nBy 2017, that proportion had fallen to fewer than one in three (32%).\n\nThe paper says this has come about \"because incomes of over-75 households have grown much more rapidly than average\".\n\nIt goes on: \"Incomes, wealth and life expectancy of older people have improved significantly, pensioner poverty rates have fallen, and older households report higher well-being on a range of metrics.\"\n\nThe government's contribution to the free TV licence is being phased out by 2020. Parliament has given the corporation the duty to consult on what the policy should be for the older population thereafter.\n\nFree TV licences were brought in when Gordon Brown was chancellor\n\nIn 2001, free licence fees for the over-75s cost the government £365m. The report forecasts that by 2021 the current arrangements will cost the BBC £745m a year - constituting a fifth of the licence fee income.\n\nA full report from Frontier Economics on longer-term funding options relating to the over-75s concession will be published in the next few weeks.\n\nThe BBC will then produce its own public consultation paper exploring various options.\n\nReforms to the policy may include raising the age of eligibility, introducing means-testing or removing the benefit from older people who live with younger relatives.\n\nWriting in The Times, former cabinet secretary and chairman of Frontier Economics Lord O'Donnell said it was \"a complex issue\".\n\n\"Different approaches need to be considered in economic, financial, distributional and feasibility terms,\" he went on.\n\n\"Any final decision will ultimately be one for the BBC based on a wider consultation process.\"\n\nAs Gus O'Donnell, Lord O'Donnell was cabinet secretary from 2005 to 2011\n\n\"This is an important discussion paper which we are studying carefully,\" said a BBC spokesperson. \"The full report - which looks at a range of approaches the BBC could take - will be published shortly.\n\n\"As we have said, the government concession ends in June 2020. We are going to be consulting on what then happens. It might be a concession on the same terms, it might be different concession.\n\n\"There are important issues to consider. We will do nothing without consulting with the public. Everyone who wants to contribute will be able to do so.\"\n\nCaroline Abrahams, charity director at Age UK, said there were \"compelling arguments in favour of the over 75s TV licence concession\".\n\n\"Despite some creditable improvement over the last decade, significant numbers of older people are still poor and progress in reducing pensioner poverty has stalled.\n\n\"The question for the BBC is therefore how they intend to fulfil the responsibility they have taken on as regards the TV licence concession for the over 75s... the majority of whom live on only modest incomes.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None Where can I find information on the licence fee?", "Competitors have taken part in a race on office chairs in Japan.\n\nThree-person teams in the Isu-1 Grand Prix, which took place in the city of Hanyu, had to complete as many laps of the 200m (650ft) course as they could in two hours.\n\nThe event was founded 10 years ago, with a series of races scheduled across the country this year.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dr Ken Amor: \"This part of Scotland has undergone a complex geological history\"\n\nScientists think the time has come for a full geophysical survey of The Minch, to see if the Scottish strait is hiding an ancient meteorite crater.\n\nThe idea that such a structure lies between the Western Isles and mainland Scotland was first raised back in 2008.\n\nThey found evidence on the Highlands coast for the rocky debris that would have been produced by a giant impact.\n\nNow, the team from Oxford and Exeter universities believes it can pinpoint where the space object fell to Earth.\n\nWriting in the Journal of the Geological Society, Dr Ken Amor and colleagues say this location is centred about 15-20km west-northwest of Enard Bay - part way across The Minch towards Stornoway in the Outer Hebrides.\n\nThe feature would be buried deep under the seafloor, they add.\n\nIt's an intriguing prospect. The evidence gathered so far suggests the event occurred about 1.2 billion years ago when the continents were arranged very differently from how they are now, and life on our planet would have existed almost exclusively in the oceans.\n\nThe way the rocks are laid out allows the team to trace back to an origin\n\nThe key supporting evidence is a group of reddish-coloured rocks on the eastern side of The Minch known as the Stac Fada deposit.\n\nThese are determined to be ejecta from the impact - the material hurled outwards when a 1-2km-wide object slammed into what was probably then some kind of rift valley.\n\nThe rocks are fragmented and contain melt particles, and also what geologists term shocked quartz - a type of mineral that has at some point been subjected to enormous pressures.\n\nShocked quartz is very often associated with meteorite events.\n\nThe latest examinations of the Stac Fada deposit have now given the researchers - from Oxford and the Camborne School of Mines - some directional information that allows them to be more precise about where the ejecta came from.\n\n\"If you imagine debris flowing out in a big cloud across the landscape, hugging the ground, eventually that material slows down and comes to rest. But it's the stuff out in front that stops first while the stuff behind is still pushing forward and it overlaps what's in front,\" explained Dr Amor.\n\n\"That's what we see and it gives us a strong directional indicator that we can trace backwards.\n\n\"Also, we've examined the orientation of magnetic particles within the fabric of the rock at several locations, and this too allows us to triangulate back to an origin,\" the Oxford researcher told BBC News.\n\nThe lines converge out in The Minch.\n\nArtwork: If confirmed it would be the biggest impact recorded on what is now the British Isles\n\nThe team is examining some seismic surveys that were done in the 1970s as part of an oil prospecting programme, but they are of poor quality.\n\nLikewise, they are investigating gravity data. This indicates something anomalous in the strait, but again it is all somewhat uncertain.\n\n\"What we really need is a new high-resolution geophysical survey - a 3D seismic survey,\" said Dr Amor.\n\n\"Unfortunately, being offshore that would cost a lot of money. I shall be putting in a grant proposal to do some seismic work. That would be a first step and would greatly assist the definition of any impact structure.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nThink of football and quite often Brazil will come to mind as an example of success.\n\nBut not for the followers of the women's game.\n\nWhile in the men's version the South American country has an enviable collection of five Fifa World Cup titles and a legion of legendary players, it is the United States who are the powerhouse in the female landscape.\n\nOut of seven World Cups, the Americans have won three and finished as runner-ups once. They have also won four Olympic gold medals in six attempts.\n\nBut Brazil's best result in the tournament is a solitary second place in 2007, though they do also have two Olympic silver medals.\n\nIn fact, the only country with success on both fronts is Germany, with four men's and two women's titles.\n\nBut what explains the reversal of scenarios in the US and Brazil?\n\nThe US men's team's best result in a World Cup was third in 1930, but since then they have only reached the last eight once, in 2002, where they reached the quarter-finals - losing to eventual runners-up Germany. This was just one of the unusual results registered in a tournament where Turkey finished third and co-hosts South Korea fourth.\n\nBut the women's game had a much different trajectory thanks to Title IX - a federal law that in 1972 established gender equality in the distribution of funding in high school and university sports, and which still forms the basis of professional sports in the US.\n\nBy the time the first Women's World Cup took place in 1991, the US had a larger talent pool than anyone else. It took advantage of the fact that in many other countries women's football remained for years underfunded and with low participation rates.\n\nHowever, it was the 1999 world title that raised the game's profile. In that year, the US hosted and won the 1999 World Cup - the shirtless celebration of defender Brandi Chastain after scoring the winning penalty in the final against China is often referenced as one of the most iconic sporting moments by American media.\n\nMia Hamm - who topped the all-time international scoring list in 1999, a month prior to the World Cup - even became a punchline in the sitcom Friends.\n\nThat game in Los Angeles attracted a crowd of more than 90,000 people, the biggest ever for a women's match.\n\nThe story of women's football in Brazil is marred by sexism. The game was actually outlawed in 1941 by then dictator Getulio Vargas - and the prohibition was only lifted in 1979.\n\nWithout a proper grassroots system and a strong league, the women's team has actually punched above its weight by reaching the 2007 final and the semi-finals in 1999.\n\nAnd Brazil have also produced the woman voted the best player of all-time: Marta.\n\nWorld governing body Fifa's latest census of the woman's game, in 2014, established that there were more 30 million female players worldwide.\n\nAbout half of them were based in the US and Canada.\n\nIn the whole of South America, Fifa counted a little over 255,000 players.\n\nThe US numbers are also impressive at grassroots level: national governing body US Soccer says that women amount to 47% of all players at high-school level, and 53% at university competitions.\n\n\"Many other countries in Europe are still lagging in the women's movement, and even in Brazil, where soccer is a cultural phenomenon, women have struggled to gain recognition and access to basic resources,\" economist and author Stefan Szymanski told American radio PBS earlier this year.\n\nThe 23-women squad sent by the US to the 2019 Women's World Cup in France is formed from players taking part in the National Women's Soccer League, one of the strongest and most-watched competitions in the world of women's football.\n\nPlayers have a minimum annual wage of $16,500 and a maximum of $46,200.\n\nAs for Brazil, 16 players are based abroad, plying their trade in places as diverse as South Korea and Denmark, as the domestic league struggles to attract the interest of public, sponsors and media.\n\nThe seven games of the opening round of the 2019 Campeonato Brasileiro had less than 10,000 people in attendance, despite many clubs giving tickets away for free.\n\nWages are hardly enticing: a survey by news portal UOL in 2017 showed that three out of four players earned less than $6,000 a year.\n\nIn sporting tournaments like the World Cup, experience is an asset. A point proven by a quick look at the number of matches played by the American stars.\n\nOn average, each of the 23 American players in France has played for her country 75 times. For Brazil, the average is 40.\n\n\"When we go to a competition like the World Cup we face teams that train together and play together more than us. We lack both in the physical and psychological departments,\" says former Brazil captain Juliana Cabral.\n\nBrazil kicked off their 2019 World Cup with a comfortable 3-0 win over Jamaica - striker Cristiane scoring a hat-trick in the victory.\n\nThe US begin their tournament on Tuesday against Thailand in Reims, while Brazil are next in action against Australia on Thursday in Montpellier.", "People arrested for viewing indecent images of children who do not have a criminal record should undertake \"life skills\" courses rather than face prosecution, according to a report.\n\nThe recommendation comes from campaign group Justice, and is designed to help cope with a surge in sex offences.\n\nJustice said it was important to \"identify ways to stop sexual offending occurring in the first place\".\n\nThat approach, she said, should include \"education, prevention and effective rehabilitation\".\n\nJustice's proposed life skills scheme for first time offenders, or those without a criminal record, would include five sessions over four months, and one follow-up session eight months later.\n\nThe sessions - designed to \"educate and assist\" rather than \"shame and punish\" - would include advice on \"strategies to manage impulses\" and \"safe internet behaviour\".\n\nBut a government spokeswoman said it was already the case that some viewers of indecent material avoided prosecution.\n\n\"Those who view, but don't create or share, such images and so pose a low risk to children can already be given cautions with tough conditions attached by the police, if prosecutors agree,\" she said.\n\n\"These [conditions] require them to complete a programme to tackle the root causes of their behaviour, which helps reduce reoffending and keep the public safe.\"\n\nThe report, entitled Prosecuting Sexual Offences, also says internet companies should have to report to Companies House what they are doing to stop sexual offences taking place on their platforms.\n\nSome 57 recommendations are made to tackle the rise in sexual offence allegations and the disclosure scandal, which saw rape trials collapse after vital evidence came to light at the last minute.\n\nThe working party that prepared the report was chaired by Peter Rook QC, a former Old Bailey judge who presided over some of the UK's most notorious sex cases, including those of prolific paedophile Richard Huckle and the Oxford child sex grooming ring.\n\nHe said: \"We have sought to identify areas where greater efficiency can be achieved without in any way eroding fair trial.\n\n\"We found that there is substantial scope for alleviating the pressures upon the criminal justice system by improving our response to sexual offending and treatment of those it has harmed.\"\n\nThe recommendations also include measures to improve the treatment of complainants and vulnerable witnesses, such as dedicated hearings to assess their needs and pre-recorded evidence for all sex cases.\n\n* If you are concerned about what you are looking at online, or the online behaviour of someone you know, you can call the confidential and anonymous 'Stop It Now' helpline on 0808 1000 900 for advice, support and help to stop. Or visit https://get-help.stopitnow.org.uk/", "Tweaking sleeping habits can shift people's body clocks and improve their wellbeing, say scientists in the UK and Australia.\n\nThey focused on \"night owls\", whose bodies drive them to stay up late into the night.\n\nTechniques used included consistent bedtimes, avoiding caffeine and getting plenty of morning sunshine.\n\nThe researchers say their approach may seem obvious, but could make an important difference to people's lives.\n\nEveryone has a body clock whose rhythms follow the rising and the setting of the sun. It is why we sleep at night.\n\nBut some people's clocks run later than others.\n\nMorning-led \"larks\" tend to wake early, but struggle to stay up in the evening; night owls are the opposite, preferring a lie-in and remaining active late into the night.\n\nThe problem for many night owls is fitting into a nine-to-five world, with the morning alarm waking you up hours before your body is ready.\n\nBeing a night owl has been linked to worse health.\n\nAre you a lark or an owl?\n\nScientists studied 21 \"extreme night owls\" who were going to bed, on average, at 02:30 and not waking until after 10:00.\n\nTheir instructions were to:\n\nAfter three weeks, people had successfully shifted their body clocks two hours earlier in the day, the analysis by the University of Birmingham, University of Surrey and Monash University showed.\n\nThe results, in the journal Sleep Medicine, showed people still got the same hours of shut-eye.\n\nBut they reported lower levels of sleepiness, stress and depression, while tests showed their reaction times also improved.\n\n\"Establishing simple routines could help night owls adjust their body clocks and improve their overall physical and mental health,\" said Prof Debra Skene from the University of Surrey.\n\n\"Insufficient levels of sleep and circadian [body clock] misalignment can disrupt many bodily processes, putting us at increased risk of cardiovascular disease, cancer and diabetes.\"\n\nOne of the main cues the body uses for syncing with the passage of the sun is light - hence advice to expose the body to more during the day and less at night.\n\nHaving inconsistent sleeping and waking times can also disrupt the body's internal clock (known as a circadian rhythm).\n\nThe techniques deployed may seem like obvious sleep hygiene advice, but each is used to help train the body clock.\n\nWhat the researchers did not know was whether those hard-wired to sleep late would respond to the change of habits.\n\n\"What isn't obvious is, when you have these extreme night owls, can you do anything about that?\" Dr Andrew Bagshaw, from the University of Birmingham, told the BBC.\n\n\"These are relatively simple things anyone can do that makes an impact, and that to me is surprising.\n\n\"Being able to take a decent chunk of the population and help them feel better without a particularly onerous intervention is quite important.\"", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nHosts Portugal claimed their second trophy in three years by beating the Netherlands to win the inaugural Nations League.\n\nFernando Santos' side triumphed at the 2016 European Championship and Goncalo Guedes' second half strike gave them a narrow victory in Porto which Santos said was evidence of their unity as a team.\n\n\"For the last five years, we have been an almost indestructible family who know what we are capable of doing,\" he said. \"We knew we could win this match.\"\n\nThe victory was achieved through Guedes, the Valencia winger smashing in from the edge of the area following Bernardo Silva's clever cutback, though Dutch goalkeeper Jasper Cillessen will be disappointed he did not keep the effort out.\n\nThe Dutch looked to get back into the game but Memphis Depay's powerful header was well saved by Wolves number one Rui Patricio and ex-Middlesbrough midfielder Marten de Roon lashed over.\n\nEngland finished third in the tournament after a victory on penalties over Switzerland in Guimaraes.\n\nThe game was billed on the clash of the two influential captains - Portugal forward Cristiano Ronaldo and Netherlands centre-back Virgil van Dijk.\n\nBoth players claimed silverware at club level last season, Ronaldo winning the Serie A title with Juventus, while Van Dijk contributed to ending Liverpool's seven year wait for a trophy by triumphing in the Champions League.\n\nRonaldo, 34, scored a sublime hat-trick in the semi-final victory over Switzerland but was unable to add to his 88 international goals, seeing a thumping, goalbound drive blocked by the towering Van Dijk.\n\nThe closest he came to netting was when he skipped past two defenders from the left, but stuck a shot straight at Barcelona's Cillessen. He also smashed a free-kick wide late on.\n\nFormer Southampton and Celtic player Van Dijk was his solid, assured self at the back but could do nothing about the winning goal, though Cillessen was unable to keep out Guedes' strike having got a hand on the effort.\n\nManchester City's Silva, who set up the goal, said: \"I am very happy and very proud. It is my first title with Portugal. After the amazing season with my club, to finish this way is amazing. It is time to rest now and prepare for next season and try to do even better.\n\n\"The most important thing is that Portugal won. If you can add to that individual awards, then even better.\"\n\nPortugal are now unbeaten in their last 10 games and despite defeat, Netherlands - who have failed to reach the last two major tournaments - will take heart from their progress since the appointment of Ronald Koeman as boss.\n\n\"They were masters at defending when they were ahead,\" said Koeman. \"We should have been a bit more clever in looking for free kicks. We were not good enough tonight.\"\n\nHow did two potential summer movers do?\n\nWith the international transfer window about to open on Tuesday, clubs will be gearing up to complete signings in time for the new season.\n\nTwo players who have been heavily linked with moves were in action in the final and highlighted why their signatures will be so sought after.\n\nPortugal midfielder Bruno Fernandes, linked with a reported £68m move to either Manchester United or Tottenham, scored 32 goals and provided 17 assists for Sporting Lisbon last season.\n\nThe 24-year-old was one of the best players on the field with his lively movement and eye for goal. His six shots in the match were more than any other player, forcing Cillessen into making saves, albeit to efforts from long range.\n\nNetherlands defender Matthijs de Ligt is another who has been heavily linked with a move to United as well as Barcelona and the teenager captained Ajax to a Dutch league and cup double.\n\nPlaying alongside Van Dijk, the 19-year-old impressed at the back once more, contributing six clearances and three tackles for his side and also winning the ball back three times.\n• None Portugal are the first European nation to host and win a final of a major competition since France beat Brazil 3-0 in the final of the 1998 World Cup.\n• None The Netherlands have lost four of their last five finals in major international tournaments (three in the World Cup, once in the Nations League).\n• None They remain winless against Portugal when playing them in Portugal, drawing two and losing four of their six such meetings.\n• None Goncalo Guedes has been directly involved in five goals in his last eight appearances for Portugal (three goals and two assists).\n• None No Portugal player has been directly involved in more goals than Bernardo Silva in the Nations League this season (3 - joint-most with Cristiano Ronaldo and Andre Silva), while he also made the most assists of any Portuguese player (2).\n• None The Netherlands' first shot in this game came in the 65th minute; by which time Portugal had already had 14 shots and opened the scoring.\n• None Jasper Cillessen became the fifth goalkeeper to reach 50 international appearances for the Netherlands, after Edwin Van Der Sar (130), Hans Van Breukelen (73), Maarten Stekelenburg (58) and Gejus Van Der Meulen (54).\n• None The Netherlands fielded the same starting XI in consecutive games for the first time since October 2014 (under Guus Hiddink).\n• None Attempt missed. João Moutinho (Portugal) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right.\n• None Attempt missed. Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right from a direct free kick.\n• None Denzel Dumfries (Netherlands) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt saved. Nélson Semedo (Portugal) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Bernardo Silva.\n• None Attempt missed. Luuk de Jong (Netherlands) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Daley Blind with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Virgil van Dijk (Netherlands) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Daley Blind with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Bruno Fernandes (Portugal) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner. Assisted by Rafa. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Michael Gove says he wants to replace VAT after Brexit if he becomes PM, as he continues to face questions about taking cocaine as a young journalist.\n\nA Times article Mr Gove wrote in 1999 - around the time he admits having taken the drug - has been republished.\n\nIn it he criticised \"middle class professionals\" who took drugs - leading to headlines calling him a \"hypocrite\".\n\nMeanwhile, Tory leadership rival Boris Johnson has insisted only he can beat both Nigel Farage and Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nAnd Home Secretary Sajid Javid, another of the 11 Tory MPs who have said they want to replace Theresa May, received a boost to his leadership campaign on Saturday after he was backed by Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson.\n\nRuth Davidson said Sajid Javid has a vision to unite a \"divided Britain\"\n\nMr Gove announced his plan to replace VAT in the Sunday Telegraph, writing that his \"business know-how\" had allowed him to bring in positive changes to education, the environment and the justice system while in his various ministerial roles.\n\n\"My economic plan is driven by the need to increase investment, productivity and wages across the country, with a special focus on helping those areas and regions where productivity is lower,\" he wrote.\n\n\"It would mean reducing the regulations which hold business back, cutting and reforming taxes - such as business rates - which put pressure on small businesses and undermine our high streets, using the opportunity of life outside the EU to look to replace VAT with a lower, simpler, sales tax,\" he added.\n\nMr Gove, who is due to appear on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show later, admitted on Friday to taking cocaine at several \"social events\" more than 20 years ago.\n\nSpeaking on Sunday, Mr Javid said it was not for him to \"pass judgment\" on fellow leadership contenders, but stressed that people who take class A drugs should think about the entire supply chain.\n\n\"Anyone who takes drugs should be thinking about how they are not just hurting themselves, but about how they are destroying so many countless lives along the way\", he told Sky's Sophy Ridge on Sunday programme.\n\nFellow leadership hopeful Dominic Raab, who has previously admitted smoking cannabis, told the BBC's Today programme the admission should not result in Mr Gove being barred from the race.\n\nSome of the other candidates have also admitted taking drugs - including Rory Stewart, who has apologised for smoking opium at a wedding in Iran 15 years ago, and Jeremy Hunt, who told the Times he had drunk a cannabis lassi while backpacking through India.\n\nAnd in an appearance on Have I Got News For You in 2005, Mr Johnson admitted being given cocaine but suggested he had not actually taken it, saying: \"I think I was once given cocaine but I sneezed and so it did not go up my nose. In fact, I may have been doing icing sugar.\"\n\nHowever, the emergence of Mr Gove's 1999 article has led to criticism in the Mail on Sunday and the Observer who quote criticism from drug charities and former police officers.\n\nIt comes as Mr Johnson, in his first major interview of the campaign, compared the Labour and Brexit Party leaders to sea monsters from Greek mythology.\n\n\"I truly believe only I can steer the country between the Scylla and Charybdis of Corbyn and Farage and on to calmer water,\" he told the Sunday Times.\n\n\"This can only be achieved by delivering Brexit as promised on 31 October and delivering a One Nation Tory agenda,\" he added.\n\nMr Johnson said as prime minister, he would refuse to pay the EU a £39bn settlement until there was \"greater clarity\" about a future relationship.\n\nHe also said he would scrap the Irish backstop and would only settle the border issue when Brussels was ready to agree to a deal.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Javid said he would pay for a \"multi-billion pound\" spending increase in education by slowing down government debt repayment.\n\nHe said that could free between £15 billion and £25 billion a year, some of which would go to the education system.\n\n\"I want to see a multi-year, multi-billion pound boost in investment and spending in schools, and really change the life chances of so many young people,\" he told Sky News.\n\nOn Friday, Theresa May officially stepped down as the leader of the Conservative Party. She will remain as prime minister until her successor is chosen.\n\nLeadership nominations will close at 17:00 BST on Monday, the party has said. Candidates need eight MPs to back them.\n\nMPs will then vote for their preferred candidates in a series of secret ballots held on 13, 18, 19 and 20 June.\n\nThe final two will be put to a vote of members of the wider Conservative Party from 22 June, with the winner expected to be announced about four weeks later.\n\nOn Tuesday 18 June BBC One will be hosting a live election debate between the Conservative MPs who are still in the race.\n\nIf you would like to ask the candidates a question live on air, use the form below. It should be open to all of them, not a specific politician.\n\nIf you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nJapan began their quest to reach a third straight final with a poor goalless draw as Argentina earned their first ever point at a World Cup.\n\nThe Japanese won the tournament in 2011 by beating the United States, who gained revenge four years later.\n\nAn uninspiring contest saw Japan's Yui Hasegawa screw a shot wide from a promising position in the second half - the closest either side came to a goal.\n\nThe draw leaves England top of Group D after they beat Scotland on Sunday.\n\nAnd Phil Neville's side will be confident of collecting another three points when they face the Argentines on Friday (kick-off 20:00 BST), while Japan face Scotland (14:00).\n\nComing into the tournament, Carlos Borello's team were 500-1 outsiders to lift the trophy and had a wretched World Cup record, having lost all six of their previous games.\n\nThey finished bottom of their group on both previous occasions they had reached the finals, and their delight at the draw was clear to see, with players embracing each other and substitutes running onto the pitch to join in.\n\nAlthough Japan dominated the match in Paris and had 72% possession, they were kept at bay by the dogged Argentine defence, with Yuika Sugasawa shooting wide from an angle after Kumi Yokoyama's long range shot was parried.\n\nNeither side had a shot on target in the first half, with Argentina striker Flor Bonsegundo's tame strike straight at goalkeeper Ayaka Yamashita their best effort on goal.\n• None This was only the seventh 0-0 draw in Women's World Cup history and the first for either of these sides.\n• None There had been a goal in 40 consecutive games prior to today, with the last 0-0 draw between the United States and Sweden in the 2015 group stage.\n• None Argentina kept their first-ever clean sheet at the tournament. They had previously conceded an average of 5.5 goals per game.\n• None This was a vast improvement for Argentina on their last opening game in 2007 when they lost 11-0 to Germany.\n• None Argentina had only one shot on target, in the 73rd minute - the latest a side has had to wait for a shot on target at the tournament.\n• None Argentina did not have a touch in Japan's box until the 65th minute.\n• None Mana Iwabuchi came on to make her 11th appearance at the World Cup for Japan - all off the bench - a record for substitute appearances.\n• None Attempt saved. Yui Hasegawa (Japan) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right is saved in the centre of the goal.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match because of an injury Sole Jaimes (Argentina).\n• None Attempt missed. Hina Sugita (Japan) left footed shot from outside the box is too high.\n• None Attempt missed. Mariela Coronel (Argentina) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Eliana Stabile with a cross following a set piece situation.\n• None Mana Iwabuchi (Japan) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Mariana Larroquette (Argentina) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Sole Jaimes.\n• None Attempt blocked. Sole Jaimes (Argentina) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt saved. Flor Bonsegundo (Argentina) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "An \"unprecedented\" number of calls from the public during the London Bridge killings left police thinking they may be facing a \"Mumbai-style\" attack.\n\nThe inquest into the attack heard there were more than 500 unverified reports, including claims of sustained gunfire and hostage-taking.\n\nOfficers feared co-ordinated shootings and bombings, as in the 2008 killings in India.\n\nEight people were killed with a van and knives in the 2017 London attack.\n\nIn the space of three minutes the attackers struck Xavier Thomas, 45, and Christine Archibald, 30, with a van on the bridge, before fatally stabbing Alexandre Pigeard, 26, Sara Zelenak, 21, Kirsty Boden, 28, Sebastien Belanger, 36, James McMullan, 32, and Ignacio Echeverria, 39, around Borough Market.\n\nAnother 48 people were injured in the killings on 3 June 2017.\n\nTen minutes after Khuram Butt, 27, Rachid Redouane, 30, and Youssef Zaghba, 22, had begun their assault, they were shot dead by firearms officers.\n\nSupt Ross McKibbin, who led the first few hours of the police investigation, told the inquest at the Old Bailey officers initially believed there was \"a potential\" that more than three suspects might have been involved.\n\nAs the \"chaotic\" information came in, they also feared that there could have been suicide bombs in use, he said.\n\n\"We have got members of the public calling us about things they can hear rather than see, so they think they are under sustained gunfire,\" said the officer, who is part of the Specialist Firearms Command.\n\nThe victims of the London Bridge attack (clockwise from top left): Christine Archibald, Sebastien Belanger, Kirsty Boden, Ignacio Echeverria, Sara Zelenak, Xavier Thomas, Alexandre Pigeard, James McMullan\n\nAmong the calls on the night of the attacks were reports of a shooting in the Elephant and Castle area, the inquest heard.\n\nSupt McKibbin said these reports were false but \"these are not people who were trying to divert resources, these are people who felt they were genuinely under attack\".\n\nThe November 2008 attacks in Mumbai involved a series of co-ordinated shootings and bombings at luxury hotels and the city's largest train station, killing 166 people.\n\nAsked if police feared a similar incident might be unfolding on the night of the London Bridge attacks, Supt McKibben said: \"Absolutely.\"\n\nLeading the initial police response to the attack, Supt Ross McKibbin had seen the \"carnage\" unfolding on London Bridge via CCTV footage from the roof of St Thomas' Hospital.\n\nIn court, he said the Met Police and City of London forces were overwhelmed by the amount of information that came in on that night.\n\nHe repeatedly described what he and his force witnessed as \"chaos\", saying that it was \"effectively a war zone on the streets of London\".\n\nPolice, he said, received more than 500 pieces of unverified information over the phone - an unprecedented number of calls about a single incident.\n\nHe emphasised the fact that this was an \"extremely complex policing operation\" when pressed by lawyer Gareth Patterson on why ambulances did not locate victims faster.\n\n\"It was without a doubt the single most challenging shift I have experienced in 24 years of operational policing,\" said Supt McKibbin.\n\nSupt McKibbin also offered \"sincere condolences\" to the parents and fiancee of Xavier Thomas for not being able to save his life.\n\nPolice treating casualties of the attacks did not have the technology to see the locations of ambulances and were unaware they were waiting in a safe place nearby, he said.\n\nSome victims waited 25 minutes to be treated by paramedics.\n\nHe told the inquest there was \"absolutely\" a case for giving police equipment that would allow them to see the location of ambulance personnel or vehicles.", "Lucy Jane Parkinson (left) and Rebecca Banatvala were starring in Rotterdam\n\nTwo actors were attacked on their way to a theatre performance in what was described as a \"cowardly homophobic hate crime\".\n\nLucy Jane Parkinson and Rebecca Banatvala were appearing in Rotterdam, which tells the story of a young gay woman, at Southampton's NST Campus.\n\nThe theatre company said they were left \"hugely shaken\" after an object was thrown at them on Saturday afternoon.\n\nHampshire police said it had received a report of homophobic abuse.\n\nTwo performances of the Olivier Award-winning play by Jon Brittain were cancelled as a result.\n\nLucy Jane Parkinson was slightly hurt in the incident\n\nThe London-based couple said they were walking to the theatre for the matinee performance on Saturday when Ms Parkinson was hit by an object - possibly \"stones\", according to police - apparently thrown from a passing car.\n\nThe play was taking place at Southampton's NST Campus theatre\n\nMs Parkinson said as she kissed her partner, fellow actor Ms Banatvala, she was struck and knocked to the ground, leaving her with slight injuries.\n\nShe said they heard \"young boys laughing\" as the car drove off.\n\nMs Parkinson said: \"We're just two people looking for happiness like everybody else.\n\n\"I don't really understand why we're met with aggression from strangers.\"\n\nMs Banatvala said she was left \"really shocked, upset and angry\".\n\n\"It's made realise the importance of this play and stories like it,\" she said. \"It needs to be seen as something that is normal and regular and isn't something to be feared or attacked.\"\n\nA statement from the show's production company, Hartshorn-Hook, said the pair were left \"hugely shaken from this cowardly, homophobic hate crime\".\n\nRotterdam is on a UK tour following a successful West End run\n\nAnnouncing the cancellation of Saturday's two performances, it added: \"We are devastated that this kind of behaviour is still so prevalent, a fact which reinforces the importance of this play's message.\n\n\"We are doing all we can to support the team and thank our audiences and colleagues for their support.\"\n\nNST director Sam Hodges tweeted: \"I am extremely sad that this sort of appalling behaviour is still happening anywhere, let alone in a city where we have worked so hard to promote a culture of tolerance, inclusivity and civic pride.\"\n\nAfter initially requesting that the police did not take any further action, the couple have since made a report.\n\nA Hampshire police spokeswoman said the matter is under investigation and appealed for witnesses.\n\n\"We have received a report from a third party relating to an incident which happened on Hill Lane, Southampton.\n\n\"It has been reported that homophobic abuse was shouted at two women, and stones thrown at them, by a the occupants of a passing car,\" she said.\n\nThe incident comes a few days after it was revealed that two women were left covered in blood following a homophobic attack on a night bus in London.\n\nMelania Geymonat (right) and her date Chris were assaulted and robbed on a route N31 bus in Camden on 30 May\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Viktoria Modesta, who chose to have her own leg amputated aged 20, takes to the stage this weekend at the Crazy Horse in Paris.\n\nThe artist, who spent most of her childhood in Latvia, had felt hampered by the leg after 15 surgeries and decided to make the drastic decision.\n\nSince then she has performed in the closing ceremony of the London Paralympics and one of her videos has clocked up 12 million views on YouTube.\n\nShe's created a futuristic image for her latest show, at one of the world's most famous cabaret venues.", "In 2016, the UK's chief medical officers recommended men and women drink no more than 14 units of alcohol a week, but a BBC Panorama investigation found just 14 of 100 alcoholic products carried that information.\n\nClare Hutton almost died from drinking too much alcohol, and her husband was told she would have had 10 days left to live.\n\nShe now wants guidance and labelling on alcoholic products to be clearer to help save lives.\n\nBritain's Drink Problem - Panorama is on BBC One at 8.30pm on Monday 10 June and available afterwards on the BBC iPlayer.", "Christine says victims of scams need to speak up about their experiences\n\nWhen two men knocked on Christine's door saying her gutters needed cleaning and roof tiles needed replacing she agreed, and handed them £520.\n\nThat was a mistake. \"When they were finished one said he'd give me a certificate for a 10-year guarantee.\n\n\"But when he went to the van to get it, he just drove off. I looked at the gutters and I could still see the weeds.\"\n\nThe 70-year-old from Sussex never saw the cash again - she had been scammed.\n\n\"The worst part was that it didn't seem, or feel, like a scam. They looked professional and said they'd completed work on my neighbours' houses,\" Christine said.\n\nShe's one of almost 20,000 victims of similar scams who complained to Citizens Advice last year, an increase of 8% from the previous year.\n\nMany victims ended up much more out of pocket than Christine: fraudsters on average cheated people out of almost £3,000 through these types of scams.\n\nScams sent through the post hit people even more, with the average loss at £5,435.\n\n\"Tried-and-tested scams still pose a huge threat,\" warned Gillian Guy, chief executive of Citizens Advice, which along with Trading Standards has launched a Scams Awareness campaign.\n\n\"Even in this digital age where online scams are on the rise, scammers are continuing to use traditional routes to prey on people.\n\n\"Tactics like doorstep selling, sending unsolicited letters and cold calling give scammers the opportunity to build a relationship with their victim.\"\n\nThe campaign - which has the slogan \"Stop, report, talk: Be #scamaware\" - hopes to encourage people to talk about their experiences and look out for others.\n\n\"People need to speak up about this sort of thing,\" says Christine. \"Had I known the warning signs of scams - like being asked to pay up front in cash - alarm bells would've rung and I'd have thought twice about handing over my money.\"\n\nIf you're worried that someone you know has become victim to a scam, look out for the following. Are they:\n\nIf you think someone you know is being scammed, take the following steps:\n\n\"We believe that the number of complaints about these scams is the tip of the iceberg - only 5% of scams are reported,\" warned Lord Toby Harris, chair of National Trading Standards.\n\nHe added that scams which do not take place online can cause significant harm emotionally as well as financially, particularly when people - often in vulnerable situations - are deceived and put under pressure in their own homes.\n\nResearch by Citizens Advice showed three out of five people reported being targeted by a scam in the past two years. Of those targeted, less than half said they told anyone about it.\n\n\"We must work together to combat fraudsters by being more open about scams and helping each other understand what to look for,\" said Gillian Guy.", "The rig was being towed out to sea in the Cromarty Firth when it was boarded\n\nTwo environmental campaigners have boarded an oil rig as it was being towed out to sea in the Cromarty Firth.\n\nGreenpeace activists said they scaled the Transocean rig Paul B Loyd Junior, contracted to BP, on Sunday evening.\n\nThey are calling for BP to end drilling for new oil wells.\n\nBP said it shared the protesters' concerns about climate change and was \"working every day to advance to a low carbon future\".\n\nBut it warned: \"While we recognise the right for peaceful protest, the actions of this group are irresponsible and may put themselves and others unnecessarily at risk.\"\n\nGreenpeace said the 27,000-tonne rig owned by Transocean was on its way to the Vorlich field to drill new oil wells operated by BP.\n\nOne of those on board the rig, an activist named Jo, told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme what she hoped to achieve.\n\nShe said: \"We are in a climate emergency. This rig is going out to the Vorlich oil field to drill a new hole which will extract 30 million barrels of oil, they hope, when we already cannot afford to burn the oil we've already got in production - it seems a bit foolish so we've come up here to try to stop the rig going out.\"\n\nShe said they intended to stay on board as long as they can but conceded they would only be able to delay the rig's journey for a few days.\n\n\"But it's sending a message to these companies and it's also raising awareness with other people. We have to send a message to these companies that it's just not acceptable,\" she said.\n\nBP said it was working with the rig owner Transocean and the authorities to try to resolve the situation.\n\nPolice Scotland said it was working with the operators, Cromarty Firth Port Authority and others in an effort to resolve the situation as \"safely as possible\".\n\nThe Cromarty Firth is a sheltered area of sea, north of Inverness, used for parking oil and gas rigs and platforms when not in use, or when they are undergoing refurbishment.\n\nLast month, Greenpeace activists blocked BP's London headquarters, demanding the company end its oil exploration.", "There are many brands of wet wipes available, but only some of them are marketed as \"flushable\"\n\nThere are calls for Wales to consider banning non-biodegradable wet wipes and urgently fund more research into microplastics in rivers.\n\nA new report by AMs has accused ministers of \"not getting to grips with the scale of the problem\".\n\nIt says new targets are needed for tackling plastic waste, similar to those in place to cut carbon emissions.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it was already acting on many of the report's recommendations.\n\nWelsh Water said non-biodegradable wet wipes were causing 2,000 sewage blockages in Wales each month.\n\nAfter carrying out an inquiry into plastic, the assembly's climate change committee said it had been \"disappointed\" by the actions ministers had taken so far.\n\nIt called for a \"comprehensive, ambitious 10-year strategy\" to be put together and implemented.\n\n\"We shouldn't wait for others and must take the lead where we can,\" the committee's chair, Labour AM Mike Hedges, said.\n\n\"The public are supportive - we must harness their energy and enthusiasm and bring forward ambitious and transformative policies.\"\n\nPlastics do not biodegrade - but break down over time into smaller and smaller fragments known as micro or nano plastics.\n\nThey have been found in the soil, rivers and sea - and are known to be ingested by organisms throughout the food chain.\n\nThe committee said it had been shocked to be presented with research by Cardiff University which found half of all insects in the Taff river system contained plastic.\n\nSteve Ormerod, who led the work, told the inquiry \"densities of plastic particles on the river bed sometimes can be as much as 0.5 million particles per square metre.\n\nMicro-plastics \"appear to be everywhere\" in the Taff river catchment, Prof Ormerod said\n\n\"That's much, much more plastic than, in fact, the living organisms present on the bed of the river.\"\n\nOther recommendations include a deposit return scheme for \"the broadest variety\" of drinks containers as well as extended producer responsibility rules so that manufacturers shoulder more of the cost of dealing with their products after they have been used.\n\nIt also suggests bringing in a plastic packaging tax as a financial incentive to use recycled plastics instead of new ones.\n\nWhile the AMs said the Welsh Government should be praised for its very high recycling rates and for being the first UK nation to put a levy on single-use shopping bags, they claimed overall progress on tackling plastic waste had been \"lacking\".\n\nA focus on reducing and reusing goods should be urged, they said - with recycling being a last resort.\n\nA deposit return scheme has yet to be implemented in Wales, despite funding being allocated, and although research had been commissioned on extended producer responsibility rules there has been no announcement yet about whether they would be brought in.\n\n\"Stakeholders are, understandably, concerned about this apparent inertia,\" the report concluded.\n\nA Welsh Government spokesperson said it was already acting on many of the recommendations, including work on a deposit return scheme and banning a range of single-use items.\n\n\"We are ambitious about tackling waste and increasing recycling and we share the public's enthusiasm to do more,\" the spokesperson said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Isobel Bytautas had been walking with a group when she was struck by lightning\n\nA woman killed by a lightning strike while hillwalking died as a result of a \"freak accident\".\n\nIsobel Bytautas, 55, from Selkirk, was among a group of seven walkers who were on Na Gruagaichean, near Ben Nevis, on Saturday when the lightning struck.\n\nThe Linlithgow Ramblers party, including another woman who was also hit, were airlifted to Fort William.\n\nAndy Nelson, from Glencoe Mountain Rescue team, said it was very rare for someone to be hit on a hill.\n\n\"I know there have been incidents around Lochaber at sea level but it's very, very rare and the first time I've experienced one being involved with a direct hit with lightning on a hill,\" he said.\n\n\"We're quite used to seeing nasty accidents but this was very unusual. I would say it was a freak accident.\"\n\nMr Nelson said he had been on the hill climbing with his family earlier the same day.\n\n\"The forecast mentioned that there was rain in the afternoon but no hint of thunder and lightning so it was a completely reasonable expedition for the group to undertake,\" he said.\n\n\"But if people do see or hear electrical activity coming towards them then descending immediately from any high ground as soon as is practicable and safe is definitely the best option.\"\n\nHe said the mountain rescue team of 14 was called out to the incident just before 18:00.\n\nThe walkers were airlifted off the mountain\n\nTompion Platt, from the Ramblers organisation, paid tribute to Ms Bytautas.\n\n\"We are all deeply shocked to hear this tragic news,\" he said.\n\n\"Our thoughts and sincerest condolences are with Isobel's family and friends - and with those of the other injured walker and Linlithgow group - today.\n\n\"Our focus now is on supporting those involved in any way we can.\"\n\nThe injured woman is in a stable condition in Belford Hospital, Fort William.\n\nA Coastguard helicopter, Glencoe Mountain Rescue Team and Scotland's Air Ambulance service all joined the rescue effort.\n\nPolice inspector Isla Campbell said: \"We are grateful for the prompt and professional response from partner agencies to this tragic incident and offer our condolences to the lady's family.\"\n\nNa Gruagaichean is in the Mamores mountain range", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. People flee after believing gunshots had been fired\n\nA man is due to appear in court after allegedly causing a stampede at a gay pride parade in the US which left seven people needing hospital treatment.\n\nThe man, named in US media as 38-year-old Aftabjit Singh, allegedly waved a BB gun, which fires small metal ball projectiles, in the capital Washington on Saturday.\n\nA number of people reported hearing gunshots before the crowd fled.\n\nHowever, officials maintain there is no evidence that shots were fired.\n\nA police report - cited by the Associated Press news agency - said the man took the weapon out after noticing someone \"hitting his significant other\".\n\nHe has been charged with illegal possession of a BB gun, carrying a dangerous weapon and disorderly conduct. He is due in court on Monday.\n\nElizabeth Hernandez, 19, told AP that she heard a \"pop, pop\" during the parade. She said she ran, was pushed into a restaurant and hid in the bathroom.\n\nSome eyewitnesses said the sound might have been that of metal barriers being knocked over.\n\nImages have circulated on social media, showing crowds running around the city's Dupont Circle neighbourhood.\n\nThe seven people taken to hospital had non-life-threatening injuries which they suffered during the panic, police said.\n\nIn a statement on Twitter, parade organisers Capital Pride said all of their events would continue \"with safety precautions in place\".\n\nGay pride is celebrated around the world in June, with some parades organised on or around 28 June, the anniversary of a police raid on the Stonewall Inn gay bar in New York City.\n\nDuring the raid, in 1969, the bar's patrons fought back and inspired the modern LGBT rights movement.", "Dominic Raab says leadership candidates should be able to \"hold their nerve\" in a TV debate.\n\nThe former Brexit secretary made it through the first round of the Tory leadership contest in fourth place with 27 votes and said he had a \"strong base to build on\".\n\nBut he said the candidates needed to have a \"proper debate on the vision for the country\".\n\nHe told the BBC: \"There are a lot of candidates with a lot to offer but we are right at the beginning of this race.\n\n\"We haven’t really tested the visions, the ideas, the policies of all of the candidates, and I think the debates coming up… are a great opportunity to test the views.\n\n\"There is many a slip between a cup and the lip.\"\n\nMr Raab said the last leadership contest, that saw Theresa May take power, was a \"very quick coronation\", but \"once the adrenaline of the first froth and frenzy of this contest ebbs a little bit [you can] have a proper contest on the substance and the vision\".\n\nAnd what would he say to anyone considering not taking part in the TV debates?\n\n\"If you can't hold your nerve and take the heat of a leadership contest, what chance [do you have] under the glare of the light in Brussels?\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Bonny Turner says the CPS dropped her case even though her alleged rapist apologised to her on Facebook Messenger\n\nA woman who says she was raped by a former partner as she slept says she still does not understand why the case was never brought to trial.\n\nBonny Turner has messages on her phone from the man apologising for his actions.\n\nBut the case never made it to court after the Crown Prosecution Service decided to drop the case.\n\nThe CPS said decisions to prosecute are based on legal tests being met.\n\nBut campaigners say they want to take the CPS to court as they believe sexual offence cases across the country are being dropped without good reason.\n\nWomen's groups have accused the CPS of secretly changing its policy and practice in relation to decision-making on rape cases in England and Wales.\n\nThey say this was responsible for a major drop in the number of cases resulting in a criminal charge, a coalition said.\n\nBonny, who has waived her right to anonymity to speak out about the decision, spoke to the Victoria Derbyshire show.\n\nShe said: \"It happened when I was fast asleep. He raped me and he verbally acknowledged what he had done the next day.\"\n\nBecause she had been so deeply asleep it took her several days for what had happened to sink in.\n\n\"I was questioning whether it happened or not myself,\" she said. \"It took several days for the shock to wear off.\n\n\"Then I started getting panic attacks a couple of nights after the rape happened.\"\n\nShe believes it is because of this time, where for a few days she remained in a sexual relationship with the man, that the CPS decided to drop her case - despite the fact she later received Facebook messages from him admitting to and apologising for his actions that night.\n\nOne Facebook message which he sent her said: \"Bonny, I am so sorry, really, I made a huge mistake. I was very stupid. Is there is anything I could do to make you feel better.\"\n\nShe replied: \"I was still fast asleep when you forced yourself inside me. I was frozen with fear and so deeply [sleeping] that I thought I was dreaming.\"\n\nHe said: \"I know, I completely read wrong.\"\n\nDespite this evidence the CPS decided to drop the case in January 2018.\n\nBonny said: \"I don't really know why. The decision came one month after [a similar case] collapsed in court. It was possibly partly because of that.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Harriet Wistrich from the End Violence Against Women Coalition on BBC Breakfast\n\nThe UK-wide End Violence Against Women Coalition (EVAW), represented by the Centre for Women's Justice, said it had a dossier of more than 20 recent cases that were dropped by prosecutors for reasons they felt were spurious or unjustified.\n\nThey include one victim who was raped at knifepoint and held prisoner for two days by her boyfriend - a man who was known by police to be violent, campaigners said.\n\nThe group said the prosecutor dropped the case, saying WhatsApp messages she had sent to placate her attacker could be misinterpreted by the jury.\n\nAnother woman, known as Beth, was sexually abused and raped as a child.\n\nShe alleges that despite a two-year investigation which saw police interview more than 50 witnesses and collate 44 charges against the man, the case was dropped.\n\nSpeaking to the Victoria Derbyshire show this morning, she said: \"I was absolutely devastated.\n\n\"This person has a gun, he moved at one point to follow where I was, he constantly hounds me with threats.\n\n\"To have built the courage to finally go forward after other sexual offences and a rape had happened, and then for the case to be dropped like that, it made me think well if you're a kid growing up with abuse then you really have nowhere to turn to.\"\n\nOver the past four years the number of rapes reported to police in England and Wales has gone up by 173%, figures show.\n\nBut, at the same time, there has been a 44% fall in cases actually getting to court, with only 4% of rape complaints resulting in a prosecution.\n\nCrown Prosecution Service data shows only 2,800 suspects investigated for rape in 2017/18 were charged - a 23.1% decline compared with 2016/17.\n\nA record number of cases - more than 1,300 - were \"administratively finalised\", meaning police stopped their inquiries after advice from prosecutors or after a suspect went missing.\n\nRape case referrals from the police to the CPS also dropped by 9.1%.\n\nEVAW said the lack of cases going to court reflected a change in approach from the CPS and was discriminatory against women and girls, representing a major failure in protecting their human rights.\n\nCoalition co-director Sarah Green said: \"We have strong evidence to show that CPS leaders have quietly changed their approach to decision-making in rape cases, switching from building cases based on their 'merits' back to second-guessing jury prejudices.\n\n\"This is extremely serious and is having a detrimental impact on women's access to justice.\"\n\nThe coalition is due to submit a \"letter before action\" to the CPS on Monday, urging it to review and change the way it handles serious sexual offence cases.\n\nOnce CPS lawyers receive the letter, they will then be given time to respond to the allegations or bid for an extension to the deadline.\n\nIf the CPS does not agree to change its policy, the matter could end up being decided by a judicial review in the courts.\n\nThe CPS said there had been no change in approach.\n\nA spokesman said: \"Victims have the right to ask for a review of their case by another prosecutor, independent of the original decision-maker, and this is another way we can make sure we are fair and transparent in what we do.\"\n\n2 July 2019: The first paragraph of this article has been changed to make it clear that it concerns an allegation that has not been proven in court.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Michael Gove: Cocaine use \"was a crime and a mistake\"\n\nMichael Gove has admitted he was \"fortunate\" to avoid prison after using cocaine several times 20 years ago.\n\nThe Tory leadership hopeful previously said he took the class A drug while working as a journalist.\n\nAsked if he should have gone to prison, Mr Gove told the Andrew Marr Show: \"I was fortunate in that I didn't, but I do think it was a profound mistake.\"\n\nTory leadership rival Sajid Javid said people who took Class A drugs needed to understand the damage they were doing.\n\nSpeaking to Sky's Sophy Ridge on Sunday, home secretary Mr Javid said: \"It doesn't matter if you are middle class or not - anyone who takes class A drugs, they need to think about that supply chain that comes from Colombia, let's say, to Chelsea and the number of lives that are destroyed along the way.\"\n\nApologising for taking cocaine, Mr Gove said: \"I deeply regret the mistake that I made.\n\n\"It was a crime, it was a mistake.\"\n\nHowever, the environment secretary denied he had ever had a drug \"habit\".\n\nA Times article Mr Gove wrote in 1999 - around the time he admits having taken the drug - has been republished.\n\nIn it he criticised \"middle class professionals\" who took drugs - leading to headlines calling him a \"hypocrite\".\n\nBut speaking on Marr on Sunday morning, Mr Gove denied that amounted to hypocrisy.\n\n\"I think anyone can read the article and make their own minds up,\" he said. \"The point that I made in the article is that if any of us lapse sometimes from standards that we uphold, that is human.\n\n\"The thing to do is not necessarily then to say that the standards should be lowered. It should be to reflect on the lapse and to seek to do better in the future.\"\n\nWhen asked if he had declared his drug use on his Esta form for entry into the US, under the visa waiver scheme, he replied: \"I don't believe that I have ever, on any occasion, failed to tell the truth about this when asked directly.\"\n\nHe added: \"I think it is the case that if I were elected as the prime minister of this country then of course it would be the case that I would be able to go to the United States.\"\n\nAnd asked if he had declared his drug use before becoming a minister, Mr Gove replied: \"No one asked. The question was never raised.\"\n\nHome Secretary Sajid Javid said he did not want to pass judgement on his colleagues\n\nMr Gove, who served as justice secretary from 2015-16, is one of 11 Tory MPs who have said they intend to stand in the contest to replace Theresa May, with the winner expected to be announced in late July.\n\nInternational Development Secretary Rory Stewart, who is one of those standing against him, has already apologised for smoking opium - a class A drug in the UK - at a wedding in Iran 15 years ago.\n\nBoris Johnson, the favourite to succeed Mrs May as Conservative leader, was asked about claims he had taken cocaine at university by Marie Claire magazine in 2008.\n\nHe replied: \"That was when I was 19.\"\n\nIn an appearance on Have I Got News For You in 2005, he admitted being given the drug but suggested he had not actually taken it, saying: \"I think I was once given cocaine but I sneezed and so it did not go up my nose. In fact, I may have been doing icing sugar.\"\n\nAndrea Leadsom said she \"smoked weed at university\"\n\nAndrea Leadsom told the Independent that she \"smoked weed at university\" but had \"never smoked it again since\".\n\nOn Saturday, Dominic Raab, who has previously admitted smoking cannabis, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"I think Michael has set out that he made a mistake.\n\n\"It was a long time ago, people will judge it as it is but I do believe in a second chance society.\"\n\nAnd Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt - another candidate - told the Times he had drunk a cannabis lassi while backpacking through India.\n\nEsther McVey, who is also hoping to become the new Conservative Party leader, told the Marr show she had never taken class A drugs.\n\nShe later told ITV News that she had tried cannabis when she was \"much younger\".\n\nMs McVey also accused MPs trying to prevent Brexit of \"tearing up 400 years of history\", as she defended her right to prorogue Parliament - essentially shutting it down - to leave the EU without a deal if she became prime minister.\n\nThe former work and pensions secretary said it would not be her \"priority\" to suspend sittings in the House of Commons in the run-up to the 31 October deadline - but said she would be willing to \"use all the tools at our disposal\" if she won the race to replace Mrs May.\n\nMr Gove said such a move would be \"wrong\" and contradict \"the best traditions of British democracy\".\n\nMr Hunt, meanwhile, said Angela Merkel told him the European Union \"would be willing to negotiate\" on the Brexit deal with a new prime minister.\n\nThe foreign secretary claimed the German chancellor said Brussels \"would look at any solutions\" the UK puts forward to solve the Northern Irish border issue as he tried to emphasise his credentials as a deal-maker in the race to replace Mrs May.\n\nOn Tuesday 18 June BBC One will be hosting a live election debate between the Conservative MPs who are still in the race.\n\nIf you would like to ask the candidates a question live on air, use the form below. It should be open to all of them, not a specific politician.\n\nIf you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic.", "In the race to succeed Theresa May as leader of the Conservative party and prime minister, Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt are setting out how they want to run the UK.\n\nThey have both announced taxation and spending plans. So, what are the details and do their sums add up?\n\nPeople would only start to pay the higher rate of income tax when they earn at least £80,000, under Boris Johnson's plans\n\nThe plan: Raise the higher income tax rate from £50,000 to £80,000.\n\nWhat it means: At the moment, individuals have to pay 40% income tax on any earnings above £50,000. So, a person earning £55,000 a year, pays 40% on £5,000.\n\nUnder Mr Johnson's plan, the point at which the 40% higher rate kicks in would be raised to £80,000. This would not affect Scottish workers because the Scottish government sets its own income tax rates and bands.\n\nMr Johnson also wants to raise the point at which people start paying National Insurance, absorbing some of the cost by also raising the ceiling for NI.\n\nNational Insurance is a separate tax. It's paid for by workers and companies and it is meant to fund state benefits, such as the NHS.\n\nUnder this new tax regime, someone earning £60,000 a year could benefit by £1,000 a year, while someone on £80,000 or more would gain a maximum of £3,000 (because some of the benefits would be lost due to national insurance increases).\n\nBut it's wealthy pensioners who stand to benefit the most - up to £6,000 each, according to analysis from the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS). That's because pensioners don't pay national insurance to begin with.\n\nSo if someone already receives a generous work pension, not only will they be subject to less income tax (up to the new threshold), they also won't be affected by the national insurance rise.\n\nThe cost: Changing the tax system in this way would cost around £10bn a year, according to Mr Johnson. He says the bill could be funded from the £26.6bn of \"fiscal headroom\".\n\nThis \"headroom\" refers to government borrowing, which came in lower than originally expected and had been ear-marked by the chancellor for no-deal Brexit planning.\n\nHowever, if Mr Johnson chooses to fund his tax changes with this £26.6bn, it would not amount to a permanent solution. That's because the money can only be spent once.\n\nSo, to pay for the policy in the long term, Mr Johnson will need to raise taxes elsewhere, announce spending cuts or continue to fund it from government borrowing.\n\nWhat it means: A leading supporter of Mr Johnson, Health Secretary Matt Hancock, told the Times that the days of public sector pay freezes under Theresa May and David Cameron would be over if Mr Johnson was elected.\n\nPublic sector pay was frozen for two years in 2010, except for those earning less than £21,000 a year, and rises were capped at 1% in 2013. The government announced an end to the pay cap in 2017, and some public sector workers have negotiated increases above 1% since then.\n\nThe candidate himself has declined to specify by how much he would increase pay, saying only that remuneration should be \"decent\".\n\nHe has also pledged to fund increased investment in special needs education, as part of a £4.6bn boost to overall school funding.\n\nThe cost: We don't know by how much Mr Johnson wants to increase public sector pay, but the IFS says that each 1% increase in pay for the public sector workforce costs the government about £1.8bn a year.\n\nThe plan: Hire an extra 20,000 police officers by 2022\n\nWhat it means: There are 122,000 police officers in England and Wales, down from 143,000 in 2010 when Theresa May became home secretary.\n\nMr Johnson plans to reverse almost all of those cuts on the basis that \"more people on our streets means more people are kept safe\".\n\nThere has been some dispute about the link between police numbers and levels of violent crime, with Theresa May saying there was not a direct link.\n\nBut Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick has said there is \"some link\" between the two.\n\nFor police officers outside London, the lowest pay was around £25,400 in 2016 (although this differs from force to force).\n\nThat comes to £500m a year, but these costs will increase once they complete training, which takes around two years.\n\nTypically, after four years, the pay would increase to £33,700 (again outside London) - so almost £700m, but this doesn't account for training costs.\n\nThe Nottinghamshire police force estimated recruitment and training to be around £13,000 per officer in 2012 (not including salary received during training).\n\nThis would come in at about £258m for 20,000 new officers, but again, this will differ from force to force.\n\nKit Malthouse, who supports Mr Johnson, says that they would recruit special constables, who are trained as police officers but work part time, to help alleviate training costs.\n\nWhat it means: From April 2020, instead of paying 17% tax on their profits, companies would pay 12.5%.\n\nThe foreign secretary is in favour of cutting the rate of corporation tax - the tax that companies pay on their profits - to 12.5%, which is the same rate as in the Republic of Ireland.\n\nThe government is already planning a series of cuts to corporation tax, which was cut from 20% to 19% on 1 April 2017, and is scheduled to fall to 17% next year.\n\nThe idea of cutting it by another 4.5 percentage points came in a report by another Conservative MP at the end of May.\n\nThe cost: The government estimates the policy would cost about £14bn a year. That cost would be reduced if future tax takes were to be boosted by companies being attracted to move to the UK to take advantage of the lower tax rate, or if companies use the money saved to pay higher wages or invest it in improving their productivity.\n\nHow much that would reduce the cost is very hard to predict.\n\nThe plan: Take 90% of businesses out of business rates\n\nWhat it means: Business rates are a local tax paid on the use of buildings for non-domestic purposes.\n\nThe cost: We haven't seen any formal costings of this policy, but in the 2018 Budget, Philip Hammond decided to give a one-third discount on business rates to high street retail businesses with a rateable value below £51,000 in 2019-20 and 2020-21. The Treasury said that would benefit 90% of high street retail businesses.\n\nThe Office for Budget Responsibility said the discount would cost £490m this year and £450m next year.\n\nIt means we can estimate that a 100% cut for those businesses would cost an extra £900m next year and about £1.35bn a year after that.\n\nBusiness rates are currently collected by local authorities, which retain half of the money. Central government is reimbursing them for the one-third cut and would presumably also reimburse them for the 100% cut.\n\nWhat it means: If you are running a business and you buy equipment such as computers or machinery, you can deduct the amount you spend on it from your profits to reduce the amount of tax you have to pay.\n\nThere is a limit to the amount you can deduct, which is called the annual investment allowance. At the start of this year it was raised from £200,000 to £1m for two years.\n\nThe cost: We do not have a costing for this measure either, but to get an idea of the amounts of money involved, the OBR said the temporary increase to £1m would cost £600m this year.\n\nThe plan: Money for fishing, farming and defence\n\nWhat it means: Jeremy Hunt would increase spending on defence from its current level of 2% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP - the sum of everything the UK produces each year) to 2.5% of GDP by 2023-4.\n\nHe has also said he would have a \"relief programme\" for the fishing and farming sectors to help them deal with the effects of a possible no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe cost: The boost to defence spending would cost £15bn a year by 2023-4. The relief for fishing and farming would cost £6bn. Mr Hunt says his overall plans would \"kick-start the economy and create extra growth\", which would mean the government had extra money to spend.\n\nBut the disruption involved in leaving the EU with no deal is widely expected to reduce growth - at least initially - which would mean that increased taxes or borrowing or reduced spending in other areas would be required to fund the extra spending.", "Sebastian Vettel lost victory in the Canadian Grand Prix to Lewis Hamilton after being penalised for dangerous driving against his rival.\n\nThe Ferrari driver made a mistake under pressure from the world champion, running wide at Turn Three, and pushed Hamilton wide as he rejoined the track.\n\nRace stewards decided Vettel had rejoined the track unsafely and penalised him five seconds for forcing Hamilton off the track.\n\nThe Mercedes driver would likely have passed Vettel had he not been blocked with 22 laps still remaining.\n\nThe move will doubtless lead to a major controversy but Hamilton was clear that he felt Vettel had been unfair.\n\nHe said over the radio immediately after the incident: \"He's just come back on the track so dangerously.\"\n\nVettel complained vigorously, saying: \"Where the hell else was I supposed to go? I had grass on my wheels.\"\n\nTold to stay focused, he said: \"I am focused but they are stealing the race from us.\"\n\nVettel complained that Hamilton could have gone to the inside but that was inaccurate reading of the situation as it unfolded.\n\nNevertheless, doubtless many will feel that Vettel should have been excused and the drivers allowed to race.\n\nHowever, others will see it as yet another error under pressure from Vettel, whose 2018 season unravelled as a result of a series of them and who made another in Bahrain earlier this year, spinning after being passed by Hamilton.\n\nAnd the stewards may well have used precedent to inform the decision, such as when Red Bull's Max Verstappen was penalised in the same fashion for forcing then-Ferrari driver Kimi Raikkonen off the track in last year's Japanese Grand Prix.\n\nHow did it unfold?\n\nVettel had been in front of the race from the start, after converting his pole position, and led through the pit stops.\n\nBut once on to the hard tyres after the stops, Hamilton began to pile the pressure on Vettel.\n\nHe rejoined after his stop on lap 29 five seconds behind Vettel and was on his tail 10 laps later.\n\nHamilton stayed within a second of Vettel for the next nine laps until the key moment.\n\nVettel made a mistake entering the challenging Turn Three/Four chicane and ran over the grass on the second, left-handed part.\n\nAs he rejoined the track, Hamilton went to overtake him around the outside, but Vettel did not leave him a car's width on the outside of the track and the Mercedes driver had to back off.\n\nIt cost Ferrari another victory in 2019, a year in which Mercedes have won every race, but in which the Italian team could have had two and possibly three wins out of seven.\n\nAnd it also ended what had been a tense, exciting race, in which two of the finest drivers in the world were battling closely.\n\nVettel's team-mate Charles Leclerc lost victory in Bahrain when his engine hit problems late in the race, the Monegasque was looking the form man in Azerbaijan before a crash in qualifying. And now Vettel has cost Ferrari another win.\n\nHe was furious with the decision, saying over the radio at the end of the race: \"No, no, no. Not like that. You have to be an absolute blind man, you go on the grass how are you supposed to control your car. This is the wrong world.\"\n\nHe then pulled over in the pits long before the parc ferme area where he is meant to stop and pushed his car backwards into the garage of governing body the FIA.\n\nThen he stormed off into the Ferrari area, and appeared to decide he was not going to go to the podium, but was collected by an F1 official, and then went through the Mercedes garage before finally heading to the podium.\n\nOn the way, Vettel moved the number one board from in front of Hamilton's Mercedes and moved it in front of the empty space where his car should have been.\n\nHe entered the green room and said to Hamilton: \"Where am I supposed to go?\"\n\nHamilton responded with a shrug: \"Ach.\" Then added: \"Hard race, though, man.\"\n\nHamilton, meanwhile, received some boos from the crowd as he insisted: \"Naturally that's absolutely not the way I wanted to win.\n\n\"I took the corner normally, but when you come back on the track you are not meant to come back straight on the racing line. You're meant to rejoin safely.\n\n\"I forced the error and he went wide... we nearly collided, but that's motor racing.\"\n\nHamilton had dropped back to 2.5secs behind Vettel when the drivers were informed of the penalty but he soon closed right back up to Vettel's tail, as Leclerc in third place began to close on both of them.\n\nLeclerc did not quite manage to get close enough to Vettel to overtake him once the German's penalty was applied.\n\nHamilton's team-mate Valtteri Bottas had a quiet race on his way to fourth place, while Red Bull's Max Verstappen fought back from ninth on the grid to take fifth ahead of the Renaults of Daniel Ricciardo and Nico Hulkenberg.\n\nWhat happens next?\n\nFrance in two weeks' time. Unfortunately for Ferrari, the track layout is likely to favour Mercedes and that first win for the red cars will probably have to wait a while longer.\n\nWhat they said\n\nSebastian Vettel: \"Well I think first of all, I really enjoyed the race and the crowd on every lap. Seeing them cheer me on it was very intense. I think you should ask the pitwall what they think we had a great show and Lewis showed some good respect.\"\n\nCharles Leclerc: \"I'm pretty happy with my performance. We were very quick. The race pace was strong. I'm disappointed for the team - I don't know what happened [with Seb] but the team deserved a victory today\"", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nEngland opened their World Cup campaign with a narrow victory over rivals Scotland in a game where they showed glimpses of their potential.\n\nAfter an open start, Nikita Parris scored from the spot on her World Cup debut after the penalty was awarded following a video assistant referee review.\n\nEllen White doubled the advantage before the break as Phil Neville's team dominated the first half.\n\nBut Scotland, making their World Cup debut and ranked 17 places below England at 20th in the world, took advantage as their opponents eased off in the second half when Claire Emslie slotted in from close range after Steph Houghton's poor pass.\n• None We should have done better - Neville\n• None 'Am I buzzing about England's performance? No' - pundits' analysis\n• None Football Daily podcast: England win but is anyone happy?\n\nAlthough they could not muster an equaliser, Shelley Kerr's side vastly improved on their performance in the 6-0 defeat against England at Euro 2017, before the Scotland head coach was appointed.\n\nAnd their tenacity should hold them in good stead in their remaining Group D games when they face Japan, ranked seventh in the world, and then Argentina, who are 37th, as they seek to reach the knockout stages.\n\nFor England, it was a mixed performance, which summed up their warm-up results coming into the tournament.\n\nThey looked confident all over the pitch in the first half after head coach Neville named what looked like his strongest starting team.\n\nBut after the break they fell short of producing the quality which Neville believes can take them to their first World Cup title, having finished third at the 2015 edition.\n\nThe result will be a relief for the former Manchester United and England defender, who is taking part in his first World Cup as a player or manager, and he will have been impressed by the performances from White, Parris and Lucy Bronze.\n\nHowever, he will also know that similar hesitancy against more fancied nations could prove costly later in the tournament.\n\nEngland impressive but with work to do\n\nEngland's superb first-half showing centred around the decision to award them a penalty via VAR after Fran Kirby's cross hit Nicola Docherty's arm.\n\nIt was a call that was booed by Scottish fans, but former Scotland winger Pat Nevin said on BBC Radio 5 Live that it was a \"definite\" spot-kick, and it was hard to argue.\n\nEngland had lost two of their four warm-up games but suddenly the Lionesses were oozing confidence and could have doubled their lead within 10 minutes as they piled pressure on the Scottish defence.\n\nTheir mood was summed up by a flowing move in which Parris nutmegged Docherty, a piece of skill which had the England fans in the 13,188 crowd purring.\n\nKirby fired wide from 18 yards, while White drew a superb save from Lee Alexander, before her header was ruled out for offside.\n\nWhite, who recently moved to Manchester City, was not to be denied before the break though and when Kirby caught Scotland skipper Rachel Corsie in possession, the forward finished precisely for her 29th England goal.\n\nIt proved a telling lead and showed the danger that England possess, particularly down the right where Parris and Bronze menaced Docherty, who was eventually withdrawn.\n\nTheir failure to add more goals made this a more edgy game than Neville would have wanted, but he will be pleased to get what he called the \"toughest group game\" out of the way, and focus on the next game against Argentina, who are unlikely to provide as stern a test.\n\nKerr's side came into this game after an unbeaten run of five games.\n\nWith some of their best players back after missing the same fixture at Euro 2017, they gave England a real test.\n\nChelsea's Erin Cuthbert, who played up front on her own, was key to a thrilling start and proved Scotland's best outlet on the counter attack. The 20-year-old could have pulled a goal back but fired wide shortly after White had made it 2-0.\n\nBut the youngster was not downhearted and combined with right-winger Emslie, and midfielder Kim Little, as they kept the England defence on their toes.\n\nLisa Evans also had a chance to score before Emslie's reply, but lost control of the ball in the box.\n\nThere was certainly a swagger about Kerr's side, who have nine players in their squad who play in the FA Women's Super League in England, the only fully professional league in Europe.\n\nTheir fitness did not seem to drop, and while they could not find an equaliser, Kerr and her team will be hugely encouraged they can reach their target of the knockout stages, particularly as in some cases three teams from a group will progress.\n\n'We've got to be relentless' - what they said\n\nEngland boss Phil Neville: \"I was pleased with the result. The first game is always the most difficult game but we set certain standards and the players know we need to keep meeting those standards.\n\n\"If we don't, we get second half performances like we just got. We've got to be relentless now.\n\n\"I think at 2-0 in this heat, we thought it was going to be easy in the second half. It's a lesson that every game in this World Cup is going to be difficult.\"\n\nScotland boss Shelley Kerr: \"We know we need to win one game, it doesn't have to be the first game, even if it would have been nice.\n\n\"At a top competition like the World Cup you need to scrutinise yourself to the max, there were a lot of positives for us in the second half though.\"\n\nA first since 1995 - the stats\n• None England won their opening match of a Women's World Cup tournament for the second time ever and the first time since 1995.\n• None Nikita Parris' opening goal in this match was her 13th for England, but the first from the penalty spot.\n• None Ellen White has scored a goal in each of her past three international appearances for England against Scotland.\n• None Karen Carney won her 141st cap for England in this match, overtaking Alex Scott's total of 140 caps for England women. Only Fara Williams (170) has more caps for England women.\n• None Both Jill Scott and Karen Carney appeared in their fourth Women's World Cup for England - more than any other players in the history of the competition for the Lionesses.\n\nEngland are in Le Havre on Friday (20:00 BST) where they face Argentina - the lowest-ranked country in Group D - while Scotland are in Rennes on the same day to play Japan (14:00).\n• None Attempt missed. Georgia Stanway (England) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Nikita Parris.\n• None Attempt blocked. Karen Carney (England) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Keira Walsh.\n• None Attempt blocked. Alex Greenwood (England) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Georgia Stanway.\n• None Goal! England 2, Scotland 1. Claire Emslie (Scotland) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the top right corner. Assisted by Lisa Evans with a through ball.\n• None Offside, England. Karen Carney tries a through ball, but Ellen White is caught offside.\n• None Attempt saved. Ellen White (England) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Keanu Reeves and other highlights at the Xbox event\n\nMicrosoft has announced that its next-generation console is set to go on sale before the end of 2020.\n\nCodenamed Project Scarlett, the firm said that the machine would be the \"biggest leap\" over a previous generation there had ever been.\n\nAt the E3 games expo, Microsoft said the custom-designed processor, made by AMD, would be four times more powerful than that of the Xbox One X.\n\nIt added that Halo Infinite would be among its launch titles.\n\nHowever, the company did not show off what the device would look like, or reveal its intended price.\n\nHalo's Master Chief guarantees the forthcoming console at least one high-profile launch title\n\nThe announcement follows similar promises made by Sony about the forthcoming PlayStation 5, which is also still in development.\n\n\"As expected, with a next-generation Xbox release being at least 17 months away, a full reveal didn't happen,\" commented Piers Harding-Rolls from the consultancy IHS Markit.\n\n\"Sony had done a similar reveal of next-generation power at a previous investor event, but Microsoft's exposure at E3 and the announcement that Halo Infinite will be a launch title will have positioned it strongly, especially with the US audience.\"\n\nThis was one of the few images that showed what a next-generation game might look like\n\nOther details shared about the Xbox One successor included that it will:\n\nMicrosoft teased images of Project Scarlett's circuitry being tested but did not disclose what the machine's case might look like\n\nXbox chief Phil Spencer also strongly hinted that the machine was being designed to take advantage of new internet capabilities, but did not provide specifics.\n\n\"When we talk about Xbox in the cloud, when we talk about streaming your games, Project Scarlett and all of its power and all of its performance is the foundation of our future in console and the formation of our future in cloud,\" he said.\n\nAnother highlight of the Xbox's press conference was a surprise appearance by Keanu Reeves.\n\nKeanu Reeves' involvement in Cyberpunk 2077 had not been previously revealed\n\nThe actor strode on stage to reveal that Cyberpunk 2077 is set to go on sale in April 2020.\n\nThe future-set role-playing game is being developed by CD Projekt Red, the studio behind the Witcher series.\n\nReeves - who has starred in the Matrix trilogy amongst other sci-fi movies - will also appear in the title.\n\nHis brief appearance drew huge applause with one attendee shouting: \"You're breathtaking.\"\n\n\"No, you're breathtaking,\" the actor ad-libbed in reply to laughs from the crowd.\n\nThe role of Keanu Reeves' character in the game remains a mystery\n\nReeves' involvement guarantees positive publicity for Poland's CD Projekt, which had faced criticism for reportedly putting its team under pressure to do \"extensive overtime\" to have Cyberpunk 2077 ready to demo at E3.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnother unexpected announcement was Microsoft's takeover of the indie studio Double Fine Productions.\n\nThe San Francisco-based developer is famous for titles including Psychonauts, Brutal Legend, and Broken Age.\n\nIts chief Tim Schafer was also responsible for classics including The Secret of Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle and Grim Fandango.\n\nMr Schafer told the audience that he would be a team player and was even willing to work on \"Excel stuff\" - referring to Microsoft's spreadsheet software - before adding \"I was totally lying\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Bobby Schroeder This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMicrosoft showed off about 60 titles in total at its show.\n\nThe trailer for Elden Ring feature a severed arm and several characters suffering from crumbling bodies\n\nMicrosoft also announced that it has launched Xbox Game Pass PC - a subscription service that will allow console titles to be download and played on Windows 10 computers.\n\nIt said 100 games will be included, including Forza Horizon 4, Metro Exodus and the Halo Master Chief Collection. It will charge $9.99 (£7.85) a month to be a member, and users can combine it with an Xbox Live Game Pass Console - which lets games be played on the Xbox One - for $14.99.\n\nThe firm is also planning to launch a \"beta\" test version of a separate service - xCloud - in October. It will stream Xbox One games from either the firm's data centres or users' own consoles to other devices, including smartphones, allowing gamers to continuing playing when away from home.\n\nMicrosoft said attendees at E3 would be offered the first public hands-on demonstrations of the technology.\n\nMicrosoft's Forza 4 video game will get a Lego-themed expansion later this week\n\nIt should offer a similar experience to Sony's Remote Play, but some attendees were expecting more information to have been disclosed.\n\n\"Less details about the service were forthcoming than perhaps expected, calling the idea that it will launch in 2019 into question,\" said Mr Harding-Rolls.\n\nMicrosoft's move comes ahead of the launch of a rival games-streaming service from Google called Stadia. The search giant plans to begin streaming titles in ultra-high definition 4K from November.\n\nAmazon is also rumoured to be working on a cloud-based platform of its own.\n\nMicrosoft hopes existing Xbox Live members will upgrade to stream Xbox games on PCs\n\n\"The fact everyone is moving into the streaming space is an indication that everyone is on the right track to where the gaming space is moving to,\" Russ Frushtick, co-founder of games news site Polygon told the BBC.\n\n\"The benefit for Microsoft is a subscription model. You can pay [a monthly fee] and then you can stream it to a [low-spec] laptop.\"\n\nMicrosoft is the only one of the big three console-makers holding a press conference at the Los Angeles expo this year.\n\nBlair Witch's trailer contained video cam footage in a similar manner to the low-budget film The Blair Witch Project on which it is based\n\nSony has opted to skip the event outright.\n\nNintendo will rely on a pre-recorded video presentation - as it has done since 2013 - but will host a showroom booth where it will demo new games.\n\nThe Nintendo Direct event is scheduled for 0900 local time (1700 BST) on Tuesday, the same day E3 formally opens its doors.\n\nWho knows what Microsoft's business strategy with gaming is?\n\nI certainly don't after watching that - but then maybe that was the point. This is a company keeping its options open.\n\nI see it shaping up something like this: the new console will be for serious gamers, the types who demand the high-fidelity, premium experience. The type of people who are at E3, which is why the news of the new console was met with such excitement in the room.\n\nThis crowd was less excited about xCloud, the streaming service, but that's likely because this will be about attracting more casual fans, who are satisfied with the quality Microsoft will be able to deliver down an internet connection.\n\nBut Google's Stadia might get to those gamers, that enormous market, first. It launches in November, while it looks like xCloud won't go fully online until early next year.\n\nPhil Spencer, head of Xbox, told me his company's experience - its been in gaming for almost two decades - will give it an edge.", "Lucy Letby was first arrested in July last year\n\nA nurse has been rearrested by police investigating the deaths of babies at the Countess of Chester Hospital's neo-natal unit.\n\nLucy Letby was first arrested in July last year on suspicion of the murder of eight babies and the attempted murder of another six.\n\nShe has now been rearrested in connection with the attempted murder of three additional babies, police said.\n\nCheshire Police are probing the deaths of 17 infants between 2015 and 2016.\n\nThe force launched an investigation two years ago and officers are also investigating 16 non-fatal collapses at the neonatal unit during the same period of March 2015 to July 2016.\n\nMs Letby, originally from Hereford, had been on bail since July after her home in Chester was searched by police.\n\nA spokesman for the Countess of Chester Hospital said it was \"co-operating fully\" with the investigation.\n\nIn July, the hospital said the neonatal unit was \"safe to continue in its current form\"\n\nDet Insp Paul Hughes said the investigation was \"extremely challenging\" and that parents of all the babies were being kept fully updated.\n\n\"We fully appreciate that it continues to have a big impact on all those involved - including the families of the babies, staff and patients at the hospital as well as members of the public,\" he said.\n\n\"This is an extremely difficult time for all the families and it is important to remember that, at the heart of this, there are a number of bereaved families seeking answers as to what happened to their children.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Northern Ireland's private sector output has dropped for the third month in a row, research from Ulster Bank suggests.\n\nThe bank conducts a monthly survey of private sector activity in what is considered a reliable indicator of the economy.\n\nMay saw a fall in new business orders, staffing levels and overall output.\n\nUnlike in previous months, there was a fall in output of all four sectors of the economy.\n\nThis is the first time that this has happened in six years.\n\nRichard Ramsey, the bank's chief economist, said: \"It's not just manufacturing that is weakening; all four sectors saw falling output for the first time in six years.\"\n\n\"Construction firms have now reported falling orders for nine successive months and retailers have been reporting falling sales every month in 2019 to date.\"\n\nMr Ramsey said the global slowdown which had been impacting other economies was now clearly evident in Northern Ireland.\n\n\"Brexit stockpiling by manufacturing companies had been inflating the performance of local firms in recent months,\" he said.\n\n\"Now that the rapid phase of stockpiling activity has passed, the latest PMI (purchasing managers' index) data reflects the reality of current demand.\"\n\nBut the survey suggests expectations about the year ahead have improved, firms expect output to have risen in a year's time.\n\nMr Ramsey said: \"Whilst firms expect challenges in the short-term - citing Brexit as one of the key factors - their expectations for the longer-term are marginally better.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nA header by Kadeisha Buchanan, voted best young player at the 2015 Women's World Cup, ensured Canada opened their 2019 campaign with a win over Cameroon.\n\nThe defender, who plays club football in France for Lyon, struck from a corner at the end of the first half to give Canada a 1-0 win in Montpellier.\n\nCameroon, one of the lowest ranked teams at the tournament, went close through Claudine Meffometou's header.\n\nCanada's Nichelle Prince hit the post with a deflected shot at 0-0.\n\nAlthough the opening game in Group E lacked clear-cut chances, Canada did enough to go top before rivals New Zealand and the Netherlands meet on Tuesday in Le Havre (14:00 BST).\n\n\"You could sense some nervousness but that's because this means so much for the players,\" said Canada's boss Kenneth Heiner-Moller.\n\n\"We knew it was going to be a battle and Cameroon were a hard team to play, especially when they were sitting that deep.\"\n\nAll eyes were on Canada's captain Christine Sinclair, who is four goals away from becoming the outright all-time leading scorer in men's and women's international football.\n\nSinclair, who turns 36 on Wednesday, went close with an early deflected header while Meffometou cleared off the line after the ball bounced off the veteran Canada player's knee and rolled towards the net in the closing stages.\n\nHowever, Sinclair remains on 181 goals for her country - three short of record holder Abby Wambach, the retired United States World Cup-winning striker.\n\nThe winning goal came after a perfectly timed run into the six-yard area by 23-year-old defender Buchanan, who now has four goals in 89 appearances for Canada.\n\n\"We got the nerves out in this game,\" said Buchanan.\n\n\"For sure we are going to come back stronger for the next game and keep the momentum going. We will be better.\"\n\nCameroon, who appointed Alain Djeumfa as manager in January after sacking Joseph Ndoko, worked hard but with the exception of Meffometou's header, rarely looked like equalising and managed just 207 passes compared to Canada's 580.\n\n\"We were up against a good team and found ourselves in sticky situations,\" said Cameroon boss Djeumfa.\n\n\"I'm very happy with the way we played but Canada are a more mature team.\"\n\nOne worry for Canada coach Heiner-Moller, however, is his side's lack of goals. Despite victory, Canada have not scored more than once in their last nine World Cup matches.\n\nA first for Buchanan - the stats\n• None Kadeisha Buchanan's winner for Canada was her first goal at the Women's World Cup in what was her sixth appearance in the competition.\n• None Three of the five goals Cameroon have conceded in the Women's World Cup have come from corners.\n• None At 35 years and 363 days, Christine Sinclair became the oldest player to represent Canada at the Women's World Cup.\n• None Cameroon registered just 26.3% possession. Since the start of the 2011 tournament, only Ecuador against Switzerland (25.4%) have had less possession in a Women's World Cup game.\n• None Attempt saved. Janine Beckie (Canada) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Ashley Lawrence.\n• None Attempt missed. Christine Sinclair (Canada) right footed shot from very close range misses to the left. Assisted by Sophie Schmidt with a headed pass following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Christine Sinclair (Canada) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Deanne Rose with a cross.\n• None Attempt missed. Janine Beckie (Canada) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Jessie Fleming.\n• None Offside, Cameroon. Christine Manie tries a through ball, but Gaelle Enganamouit is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Christine Sinclair (Canada) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Deanne Rose with a cross. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "A \"dramatic\" fall in car production and an easing of stockpiling by manufacturers meant the economy shrank in April, official figures show.\n\nThe economy contracted 0.4% from the month before, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).\n\nThe contraction meant growth for the three months to April slowed to 0.3%.\n\nFactory shutdowns designed to cope with disruption from a March Brexit slashed UK car production in April by nearly half, the industry said last month.\n\nBMW's Mini factory in Oxford brought forward its summer maintenance shutdown to April to minimise any disruption surrounding Brexit. Other manufacturers' annual stoppages were also brought forward.\n\nThe economy had seen a spurt of growth in the run-up to the proposed March date for the UK leaving the European Union, as manufacturers stockpiled parts, raw materials and goods in the anticipation of holdups at the border.\n\nAfter the Brexit deadline was extended to October, it suffered the reverse effects as these supply reserves were used up and fewer purchases were made.\n\n\"The hangover that's followed the UK's original exit date is proving stronger than anticipated, said Yael Selfin, chief economist at accountants KPMG UK.\n\n\"Today's figures signal the UK economy is likely to experience more subdued growth for the rest of the year, marred by Brexit uncertainty.\"\n\nONS statistician Rob Kent-Smith said: \"Growth showed some weakening across the latest three months, with the economy shrinking in the month of April mainly due to a dramatic fall in car production, with uncertainty ahead of the UK's original EU departure date leading to planned shutdowns.\n\n\"There was also widespread weakness across manufacturing in April, as the boost from the early completion of orders ahead of the UK's original EU departure date has faded.\"\n\nIf you are going to cancel a party it is always polite to give your guests as much notice as possible. After all, that could well save them the expense of buying a present, booking a baby sitter, splashing out on new clothes etc.\n\nUnfortunately Theresa May gave British industry only a few days' notice that Brexit was being postponed and it was just too late to stop carefully-honed plans swinging into operation.\n\nMany businesses feared Brexit would cause at least temporary disruption, so they had been stockpiling components and finished goods to tide them over, and they have been using those stores up rather than producing more.\n\nThe car industry brought forward its annual shutdown - usually used to put in new equipment, prepare for new models and so on. As a result, car production fell off a cliff and manufacturing as a whole fell by nearly 4% in just one month.\n\nGrowth may bounce back, but then Brexit is now scheduled for 31 October. How do companies plan for that? Repeat the whole operation again or not bother? Certainly the car industry won't want another shutdown, it has already had one this year and Brexit could still be delayed again.\n\nThe contraction in April was far sharper than economists had expected.\n\nRuth Gregory, senior UK economist at Capital Economics, said the figures suggest \"underlying growth is pretty sluggish\".\n\n\"With the Brexit paralysis and a slowing global economy taking its toll, we doubt GDP will grow by much more than 1.5% or so in 2019 as a whole and expect interest rates to remain on hold until the middle of next year.\"\n\nThe Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) has estimated car production for the whole of 2019 will be about 10% down on last year. It says the market might pick up by the end of the year if there is a favourable deal between the UK and the EU, and a substantial transition period to adapt to trading outside the single market.\n\nBut it has said a no-deal Brexit will make the declines worse, with the threat of border delays, production stoppages and additional costs.\n\nThe Prime Minister's official spokesman said: \"While monthly figures are always changeable, the fundamentals of our economy are strong and it has grown every year since 2010. Employment levels are at a record high and wages growing in real terms.\"", "Those who arrived in the UK between 1948 and 1971 from Commonwealth countries have been labelled the Windrush generation\n\nThe Home Secretary Sajid Javid has apologised to another 49 victims of the Windrush scandal.\n\nThe Windrush generation arrived from Commonwealth countries between 1948 and 1971 and had lived in the UK for decades when some were wrongly told they were in the country illegally.\n\nSome lost their right to work or get NHS treatment, while others were detained or deported.\n\nA total of 67 people have now received personal apology letters from Mr Javid.\n\nHe said the experiences of some of the Windrush generation had been \"completely unacceptable\" and he was \"committed to right the wrongs of successive governments\".\n\nThe government's Commonwealth Citizen's Taskforce would be reaching out to individuals they were not already in contact with to provide any assistance required to document their status and to explain the compensation scheme, the Home Office said.\n\nAn estimated 500,000 people now living in the UK have been called the Windrush generation, in reference to the name of a ship which brought workers to the UK from Caribbean countries in 1948.\n\nIn 1971, Commonwealth citizens already living in the UK were granted indefinite leave to remain but thousands had arrived as children travelling on their parents' passports, without their own documents.\n\nChanges to immigration law in 2012 meant those without documents were asked for evidence to continue working, access services or even to remain in the UK.\n\nSome were held in detention or removed, despite living in the country for decades.\n\nA review by a Home Office taskforce of 11,800 Caribbean cases in 2018 identified 164 who were deported or detained who might have been resident in the UK before 1973.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Commonwealth Citizen Taskforce, which is open to all nationalities, was established by the Home Office to \"right the wrongs experienced by the Windrush generation\".\n\nA compensation scheme for those affected opened in April and the government said there was \"no cap\" on the amount victims could receive.\n\nMore than 6,400 individuals have been given documentation confirming their status so far, including over 4,200 individuals who have successfully applied to become British nationals, the Home Office said.", "Transgender activist Munroe Bergdorf says she is \"unbelievably sad\" that the NSPCC has cut ties with her, days after she revealed she was Childline's \"first LGBT+ campaigner\".\n\nShe said the charity was \"bowing down to pressure from a transphobic lobby\".\n\nHer appointment had been criticised by some on Twitter, with Ms Bergdorf described as a \"porn model\" and her appointment called \"inappropriate\".\n\nThe NSPCC has not explained exactly why it made the decision.\n\nBut the BBC has been told that NSPCC trustees received \"transphobic letters\" after the appointment was announced on Wednesday.\n\nIn a statement, the NSPCC said Ms Bergdorf \"has supported the most recent phase of Childline's campaign which aims to support children with LGBTQ+ concerns\" but she would have \"no ongoing relationship with Childline or the NSPCC\".\n\nMs Bergdorf said she was \"unbelievably sad\" and referring to the timing, during Pride month, added: \"Pride is about resisting this kind of hate, not giving in to it.\"\n\nWhen she announced the partnership, Ms Bergdorf had said: \"I'm excited to have the opportunity to let more kids know that they are not alone in how they feel.\n\n\"There are people who care, people who can help and people who have been through the same things as you, so PLEASE don't suffer in silence.\"\n\nOn the same day, the NSPCC revealed that within the last year it had carried out more than 6,000 counselling sessions through its Childline service over issues relating to gender and sexuality.\n\nThe charity's research also showed that children between the ages of 12 and 15 were most likely to contact them about these topics.\n\nHowever, a number of negative tweets followed the announcement, with several taking offence at Ms Bergdorf having posed for Playboy in 2018.\n\nSome claimed her appointment was \"inappropriate\" and Times journalist Janice Turner said there would be \"cancelled direct debits\" in response.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nResponding on Twitter, Ms Bergdorf posted: \"I have never shot porn in my life, secondly demonising those who do isn't okay either.\"\n\nA spokesperson for Ms Bergdorf said the charity was \"bowing down to pressure from a transphobic lobby running a hate campaign\".\n\nMs Bergdorf is seen as a leading figure within the LGBT community and transgender activism, but outside of these communities she has continually divided opinion, at times being forced to step down from opportunities following a social media backlash.\n\nIn 2017 she was sacked from her role as a model for cosmetics company L'Oreal, following claims she wrote that \"all white people\" are racist in a Facebook post.\n\nMs Bergdorf later said her comments had been taken out of context but said that she stood by her view that \"all white people benefit from racism, with white privilege\".\n\nFollowing her removal from the Childline campaign, several social media users have called for the NSPCC to remove the Pride flag from its profile photo, arguing that the charity's move is exactly what Pride month does not represent.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "US lawyers representing Grenfell survivors and victims' relatives are expected to file a lawsuit\n\nMore than 100 Grenfell survivors and relatives are taking legal action in the US against three firms they blame for the fire, the BBC has been told.\n\nThe lawsuit will target the cladding maker Arconic, insulation maker Celotex and fridge supplier Whirlpool.\n\nA successful action in the US could cost the firms involved tens of millions of dollars in damages.\n\nWhirlpool and Arconic said they would not comment on the case while official investigations into the fire continued.\n\nCelotex told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme it was \"considering its position\" in relation to the legal action.\n\nThe Grenfell fire in June 2017 claimed the lives of 72 people and another 70 were injured.\n\nThe first phase of the public inquiry into the disaster heard expert evidence that a small kitchen fire broke out through a uPVC window fitting and ignited material attached to the building.\n\nThe new exterior cladding and insulation was installed in 2016 as part of a £10m refit of the tower.\n\nUS lawyers representing Grenfell survivors and victims' relatives are expected to file the lawsuit this week in Philadelphia under product liability law, which is meant to hold firms responsible for injuries caused by the goods they sell.\n\nThe state of Pennsylvania was reportedly chosen as the legal jurisdiction for the suit because both Arconic, which supplied the combustible ACM panels, and Celotex, which manufactured the insulation, have their US headquarters there.\n\nThe Victoria Derbyshire programme has been told a number of Grenfell residents have refused to sign up to the action, saying they believe it could become a \"distraction\" from the ongoing public inquiry and criminal investigation.\n\nA Grenfell Tower survivor and community leader said: \"We respect those that wish to take action in the US, and we respect those that don't wish to.\"\n\nA claim is also being brought against another US corporation, Whirlpool, which made the fridge-freezer in flat 16, which the public inquiry was told was the likely cause of the fire.\n\nHowever, other experts have said there is insufficient evidence to say definitively it was to blame.\n\nA civil case for damages has to be started within two years of the fire itself because of the statute of limitations in the US.\n\nAt least two large US law firms are involved in the action.\n\nLawyers believe the disaster could not have taken place in the US because of tighter fire safety rules and a ban on the use of similar cladding on high-rise residential buildings.\n\nCondolence messages written on a wall outside Latymer Community Church in west London\n\nUnlike in the UK, any case would be heard by a jury and could lead to much larger financial awards for both compensation and punitive damages.\n\nThe BBC understands lawyers believe it is impossible to estimate the size of any future award but have indicated that, in 2013, a similar lawsuit related to a building collapse that killed seven people, settled for $227m (£178m).\n\nBefore any case can reach trial, it is believed to be extremely likely all three companies named in the suit will argue it should not be heard in the US because the fire happened in the UK.\n\nMore than 100 survivors or relatives have signed up to the US legal action. But not every Grenfell family has decided to join, with some survivors thought to be uneasy about pursuing a damages claim outside the UK.\n\nOne resident told the Victoria Derbyshire programme he did not feel it was \"morally right\" to take action in the US; another described it as \"ugly\" and a \"distraction\" from pursuing Kensington and Chelsea Borough Council and the Tenant Management Organisation, responsible for the tower.\n\nThe cladding system installed in the tower in 2016 was made up of multiple elements. The thin, outer aluminium panel was made by US metals giant Arconic.\n\nA spokesman said the company had no comment on any potential litigation.\n\n\"We continue to support the public inquiry and the investigations by the authorities,\" he said.\n\nEarlier this year, the $15bn (£12bn) sale of Arconic to a US private equity firm broke down. A key issue was said to be the size of any possible financial liabilities linked to the disaster.\n\nIn May 2018, a BBC investigation claimed the insulation used, manufactured by Celotex, had not passed required safety tests.\n\nThe BBC's Panorama programme was told that the way Celotex tested and sold the product could amount to corporate manslaughter.\n\nThe company, owned by French material giant Saint-Gobain, said at the time it could not identify any evidence to support Panorama's allegations.\n\nIt told the Victoria Derbyshire programme on Monday it was \"considering its position\" in relation to the legal action, which it said it learned about on Friday 7 June.\n\nIn a statement, it added that it was \"continuing to cooperate fully with the public inquiry\" and remained \"committed to providing all relevant information... to assist it in its work\".\n\n\"Celotex reaffirms our deepest sympathies to everyone affected by the fire,\" it continued.\n\nThe legal process in the US is expected to take several years\n\nWhirlpool said two separate investigations found no evidence of any fault with the fridge-freezer model that was in flat 16, and confirmed it complied with safety requirements.\n\n\"We are committed to assisting the Grenfell Tower inquiry in any way we can as it continues to investigate all the potential origins and causes of the fire and how it spread, a spokesman said.\n\n\"While the inquiry is ongoing, it would be inappropriate to comment further at this time,\" he added.\n\n\"Two separate investigations have been carried out - one by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), and another by Whirlpool,\" he explained.\n\n\"Both investigations independently found no evidence of any fault with this model and confirmed that it fully complied with all safety requirements. These conclusions have also been verified by the government's chief scientific adviser.\"\n\nHe added: \"We would like to reassure owners of these products that they are safe and they can continue to use them as normal.\"\n\nUnder US state law, the legal process is expected to take several years. Lawyers say an initial judgement on whether the case can proceed is likely within six months, with a full trial possible approximately 18 months later in a US courtroom.\n\nFollow the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme on Facebook and Twitter - and see more of our stories here.", "Free TV licences for up to 3.7m pensioners are being scrapped, the BBC has announced.\n\nUnder the new rules, only low-income households where one person receives the pension credit benefit will still be eligible for a free licence.\n\nIn 2015, the government announced the BBC would take over the cost of providing free licences for over-75s by 2020 as part of the fee settlement.\n\nBut that would have cost £745m, a fifth of the BBC's budget, by 2021/22.\n\nThe new scheme will cost the BBC around £250 million by 2021/22 depending on the take-up.\n\nFunding free TV licences for all over-75s would have resulted in \"unprecedented closures\", the BBC said.\n\nThe broadcaster said that BBC Two, BBC Four, the BBC News Channel, the BBC Scotland channel, Radio 5live, and a number of local radio stations would all have been at risk.\n\nThe BBC said \"fairness\" was at the heart of the ruling, which comes into force in June 2020.\n\nIt follows a consultation with 190,000 people, of whom 52% were in favour of reforming or abolishing free licences.\n\nAccording to the BBC, around 900,000 households are claiming pension credit, which is a government benefit paid weekly to pensioners on low incomes.\n\nThe number of households which could be eligible to apply for pension credit could number 1.5 million by 2020.\n\nBBC chairman Sir David Clementi said it had been a \"very difficult decision\" but this was the \"the fairest and best outcome\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. David Clementi on the BBC's decision to scrap blanket free licences for over 75s\n\nBut Prime Minister Theresa May said she was \"very disappointed\" with the BBC's decision.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"We've been clear that we want and expect the BBC to continue this concession.\n\n\"People across the country value television as a way to stay connected, and we want the BBC to look at further ways to support older people.\"\n\nThe spokesman said taxpayers want to see the BBC using licence fee income better, including \"showing restraint on salaries for senior staff\".\n\nBut Labour's deputy leader Tom Watson said the government bore responsibility for the \"outrage\" of charging over-75s the licence fee, having promised to maintain free licences in the Conservative Party's 2017 manifesto.\n\n\"Millions of elderly and isolated people will lose because of this announcement,\" he said.\n\nFree licences were given to the over-75s as part of a Labour government programme to reduce pensioner poverty. Fifteen years later that government funding was cut by the Conservatives.\n\nEver since then, the BBC has been pondering if it can afford to take on the bill. It's a cost that's rising every year as the number of pensioners continues to grow. In 2020 it's estimated there will be around 4.6 million households with at least one pensioner.\n\nThis then is a compromise; around a third of the cost will be borne by the BBC and two thirds passed on to 'wealthier' pensioners. The elderly are by far the biggest consumers of the BBC's output, the average age of BBC TV's audience is now over 62, the question is how far younger licence fee payers should subsidise these older viewers.\n\nAs consumption of traditional TV by younger viewers continues to drop there could well be questions about why they are being expected to pay for a service that the heaviest users get for free.\n\nOne in four over-65s say the TV is their main form of companionship, according to Caroline Abrahams, charity director of Age UK.\n\nShe said: \"Make no mistake, if this scheme goes ahead we are going to see sick and disabled people in their eighties and nineties who are completely dependent on their cherished TV for companionship and news forced to give it up.\"\n\nElderly people are likely to feel \"enormous anxiety and distress, and some anger too\", she said, adding: \"But in the end this is the government's fault, not the BBC's.\"\n\nThe National Pensioners Convention said the BBC \"has done the government's dirty work for it\".\n\nBut the Intergenerational Foundation, a charity which supports the interests of younger members of society, said it was fairer to make wealthier pensioners pay.\n\n\"There is simply no reason why retired judges, lawyers, bankers and doctors should receive a free TV licence when younger generations are struggling financially,\" the charity said.\n• None £745mEstimated cost to the BBC of current scheme by 2021/22\n• None £250mEstimated cost of new scheme depending on take-up\n\nFree licences were first introduced by the Labour government in 2000 at the same time as half-price licences for the visually impaired.\n\nIn 2015, the Conservative government announced the BBC would take over the cost of providing free licences for over-75s by 2020 as part of the fee settlement.\n\nFollowing the announcement, TV Licensing is advising customers receiving a free licence that they need not take any immediate action.\n\nOver the course of the next month, TV Licensing will be writing to everyone who currently has a free over-75 licence to let them know about the new scheme and make clear that they will remain fully covered until 31 May 2020.\n\nA free telephone information line will also be launched this month where older customers and their relatives can access information on the new policy and a new \"pay as you go\" payment scheme will be launched from June 2020 which will let people spread the cost of the licence in fortnightly or monthly payments.\n\nThe BBC's consultation was announced in November last year. Nearly half of respondents (48%) said they were in favour of continuing concessions to over-75s.\n\nReforming the current rules was backed by 37% of respondents, with 15% in favour of scrapping concessions of over-75s.", "Luke Johnson, the former chairman of bakery chain Patisserie Valerie, has said he considered emigrating.\n\nHe also feared becoming a \"pariah\" in business, he said in his column for the Sunday Times.\n\nThe former boss said that in contrast to corporate struggles such as those of Debenhams, the fall of his firm was \"horribly rapid\".\n\nMr Johnson was the largest shareholder in the chain, which went into administration in January.\n\nHe blamed part of the company's failure on the industry becoming tougher to operate in, including having to pay higher wages and the increasing cost of ingredients.\n\nThe accounting black hole at Patisserie Valerie was found to be £94m in March, more than double a previous estimate, according to a report by its administrators.\n\nAfter it fell into administration, the cafe chain was found to have overstated its cash position by £30m and failed to disclose overdrafts of nearly £10m.\n\nKPMG's latest report says the company falsely claimed to have £54m in cash.\n\nThe majority of Patisserie Valerie has been sold to a private equity firm.\n\nThe former finance director of the chain, Chris Marsh, is under investigation by the Serious Fraud Office.\n\n\"If I was arrogant at times before, my ego has taken quite a battering since,\" Mr Johnson said in his column. \"In business, we rely on honesty from those around us and systems designed to prevent misbehaviour.\"", "For any prime minister, handling a president like Donald Trump is like trying to hold on to a Ming vase walking across a recently polished, slippery parquet floor.\n\nHe's a leader who glories in the unpredictable, who seems to wake up every morning wondering what controversy he can provoke, what headlines he can create.\n\nHis reason for being is therefore from the start in contrast with the stiff choreography of a state visit.\n\nBut No 10 will be relieved that the formalities with the PM today were free of mishap. And, as Theresa May readies herself for the exit, Donald Trump, who has definitely embarrassed her in the past, didn't repeat that habit today.\n\nInstead, he spoke warmly of her, suggesting that history may judge her much more kindly than the manner of her departure suggests.\n\nBut some of the most notable remarks were not related to the prime minister in any case, but to what's next.\n\nWhether you are overjoyed about Theresa May leaving or not, it is telling that the three names Donald Trump mentioned immediately when asked about the next leader were Boris Johnson, Jeremy Hunt, and Michael Gove, categorising them deliberately or not as the three most likely candidates to win the keys to No 10.\n\nAll three have been invited to meet Donald Trump. You wouldn't expect the US president to invite the football team of candidates for the job to spend time with him on this visit. But it's notable that neither Sajid Javid nor Matt Hancock - both cabinet contenders - received invites to talk or to meet. Nor did one of the other Brexiteer frontrunners, Dominic Raab.\n\nOf course, smart candidates could even turn the lack of invitation to their advantage. Donald Trump won't of course have a say in this race and he is such a Marmite politician that chumming up to him is not necessarily an advantage for any of the wannabes.\n\nBut the invite list does tell us something about the state of the race right now. And in the next 24 hours we'll see whom, beyond Nigel Farage, the president actually meets one-on-one.\n\nThe other striking note was not about Theresa May either, even though, as her last big appearance alongside a foreign leader it was, in a way, a very grand leaving do. Instead, it was the Labour leader who featured.\n\nIt's not exactly surprising that the two men would not be bosom buddies. Politically they have a greater distance between them than the width of the Atlantic.\n\nMr Trump revealed not just (no real surprise) that he doesn't think much of Jeremy Corbyn, apt when Jeremy Corbyn doesn't think much of him either. He also revealed that Mr Corbyn had asked him to meet and that he, after considering his request, had decided not to do so.\n\nThe Labour leader has always said that he is interested in dialogue. But his position does appear rather curious.\n\nMr Corbyn chose very publicly not to attend the dinner for Mr Trump last night at the Queen's invitiation. He then led - very publicly - the protests against the president today. Yet we now know that he had actually asked for a meeting of his own, but was then rebuffed.\n\nDiplomacy, or the lack of it, can be a complicated business. We've learnt that from observing Donald Trump and Theresa May over the last few years.\n\nBut those pitfalls won't disappear when the prime minister does. Now Jeremy Corbyn and the contenders for the Tory crown are all too aware of that.", "Over the past decade, smoking has become marginalised and stigmatised.\n\nFrom the smoking ban in 2007 to the introduction of plain packaging a decade later, everything has been done to discourage people from taking up the habit.\n\nAnd there are signs sugar is heading the same way.\n\nSugary drinks are already taxed - and now a leading think tank has even suggested sweets, snacks and sugary drinks should be wrapped in plain packaging to make them less appealing, given the excess consumption of the sweet stuff.\n\nThe call has been made by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) in a new report.\n\n\"Plain packaging would help us all to make better choices and reduce the hassle of pester power for busy parents,\" he said.\n\nHe wants to see it adopted alongside a range of other measures, including a ban on junk food advertising.\n\nThat is something that has already been looked at by ministers.\n\nBut would plain packaging be a step too far?\n\nIndustry has been quick to object, with trade body the Food and Drink Federation arguing that branding is a \"fundamental commercial freedom\" and \"critical to competition\".\n\nThe same sort of arguments were put forward by the tobacco industry, but successive governments have still increasingly shown an appetite to get tough.\n\nInterestingly, the government has not ruled the idea of plain packaging for sugar products entirely.\n\nInstead, the Department of Health and Social Care is saying it is waiting to hear what England's chief medical officer, Prof Dame Sally Davies, has to say.\n\nWhy? There is a recognition that bold moves are needed if the ambition to halve the child obesity rate by 2030 is to be achieved.\n\nDame Sally has been asked to review the steps that are being taken to ensure no stone is left unturned.\n\nIn fact, she has already suggested that another measure floated by the IPPR - extending the tax on sugary drinks to other unhealthy foods - is a real option.\n\nAnd she is said to be open to the idea of plain packaging, which of course would be an even more radical step.\n\nAll cigarettes must be sold in plain green packaging with health warnings\n\nBut what is clear from the last decade is that the unlikely can soon become likely.\n\nDuring the early noughties, health campaigners and academic bodies were pushing and pushing for a ban on smoking in public places to be introduced.\n\nTime after time, the government poured cold water on the move.\n\nBut then things slowly began to change once Patricia Hewitt became health secretary, paving the way for even more radical measures.\n\nThe approach seems to be working - smoking rates have fallen by a third in just over 10 years.\n\nSome of the credit is clearly because of the growth of vaping as an alternative.\n\nBut tough public health tactics have no doubt played some part.\n\nEvidence from Australia - the first nation to introduce plain packaging for tobacco products - suggests a quarter of the subsequent reduction in smoking rates could be attributed to the move.\n\nAs the debate rages about obesity, expect to hear much more about the merits of radical action on sugar.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nChange UK has lost six of its 11 MPs following a disappointing performance in last month's EU elections, when it failed to get a single MEP elected.\n\nThe party announced that a new party leader, Anna Soubry, had been elected.\n\nShe said she was \"deeply disappointed\" that Heidi Allen, Chuka Umunna, Sarah Wollaston, Angela Smith, Luciana Berger and Gavin Shuker had left.\n\nThe departing MPs said they would be \"returning to supporting each other as an independent grouping of MPs\".\n\nChange UK - formerly known as the Independent Group - was formed earlier this year by MPs who quit Labour and the Conservatives.\n\nIt pledged to push for any Brexit deal negotiated by the government to be voted on at a referendum - or \"People's Vote\" - in which it would campaign for the UK to remain in the EU.\n\nBut in last month's European Parliament elections, it gained only 3.4% of the vote.\n\nA joint statement from the six outgoing members said their priority was now \"to provide collegiate leadership to bring people together in the national interest\".\n\n\"We know the landscape will continue to shift within the political environment and have concluded that by returning to sit as independents, we will be best placed to work cross-party and respond flexibly.\n\n\"We wish our colleagues well as they continue to build Change UK.\"\n\nIn a personal statement, former Labour MP Mr Umunna called for the \"Remain forces\" in Parliament to \"work even more closely together\", especially at the next general election, and urged them to \"regroup and consolidate activity to maximise our impact\".\n\n\"The movement built around Change UK has an important role to play in this,\" said Mr Umunna. \"However, whilst I believe it should carry on as an organisation, I do not believe Change UK should carry on in its current form.\n\n\"This has put me in a fundamentally different place not only to other Change UK parliamentary colleagues, but also its activists and candidates who should be free to take the party in the direction they wish.\"\n\nFormer Conservative Ms Soubry, who has taken over from Ms Allen as leader, said she was disappointed the split had come \"at such a crucial time in British politics\".\n\n\"Now is not the time to walk away, but instead to roll up our sleeves and stand up for the sensible mainstream centre ground which is unrepresented in British politics today.\"\n\nShe said the party was \"as determined to fix Britain's broken politics as we were when we left our former parties\".\n\nBBC political correspondent Ben Wright said there had \"clearly been turmoil in the party's ranks for number of weeks\".\n\n\"It has been obvious that there was an internal disagreement over where the party should be positioning itself, what its long term tactics should be, whether it should be cosying up to the Lib Dems or maintaining itself as an independent party,\" he said.\n\n\"Change UK was being squeezed by the other parties campaigning for Remain and didn't keep the momentum going that it had earlier in the year when it launched.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAfter the split was announced, Change UK sent an email to members, appealing for their \"help and support going forward\".\n\nIt added: \"While British politics slips into chaos around us, now is the time to stand firm in our beliefs and champion the mainstream centre ground values we articulated when we left our former parties in the first place.\"\n\nThe outgoing leader of the Liberal Democrats, Sir Vince Cable, said it was \"not at all surprising\" that the party had split, but his \"door was always open\" if they wanted to join his instead.\n\nHe told the BBC he had heard \"rumours\" and it would be \"ideal\" if the departing MPs became Lib Dems, but said: \"I don't want to comment on that before there is any official announcement.\"\n\nSir Vince added: \"I don't want to gloat over their failure. It was a failure, but we have got to move on and I want to be positive about it.\n\n\"I am simply acknowledging the fact they have tried this project, they are brave people, they broke away from their parties and they deserve credit for that, but setting up a new centre party in the British centre doesn't work.\"", "Glasgow has seen a huge drop in recorded violent crime in the last decade\n\nFalling levels of serious violent crime in the west of Scotland have driven a reduction across the country over the past decade, a study has concluded.\n\nThe analysis said serious assault and attempted murder cases fell by 35% in Scotland between 2008-09 and 2017-18.\n\nThe study said 89% of that drop was due to fewer cases in the west, particularly in and around Glasgow.\n\nThere were 1,872 attempted murders and serious assaults in Glasgow in 2008-09 compared to 914 in 2017-18.\n\nIt follows analysis of more than 1,000 police case files over a 10-year period.\n\nThe study also found that serious assaults were now far less likely to involve a weapon than those recorded in 2008-09.\n\nThe Scottish government study said the overall reduction was also being helped by a large drop in the number of young people involved in serious violent crime.\n\nThe government said this was partly due to public health campaigns including \"No knives, better lives\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Will Linden says much has been done to cut violence, but the \"really difficult to tackle bit of violence\" is the next big issue\n\nBut the study showed alcohol continued to be a factor in violence, with almost two-thirds of serious assaults in 2017-18 having involved drink.\n\nThe analysis was based on recorded crimes figures published last year that revealed serious assault and attempted murder cases fell by 35% between 2008-09 and 2017-18.\n\nThe report noted that non-sexual crimes of violence recorded by police fell by 43% over the same period.\n\nA separate study over the same period highlighted the reduction in the proportion of younger offenders convicted of certain violent crimes, as well as the overall fall in convictions.\n\nThe deputy director of Scotland's Violence Reduction Unit, Will Linden, believed that reducing violence further would require tackling problems in society.\n\nHe told BBC Scotland: \"When we first started out [with the unit], we said that if we wanted to reduce violence in Scotland we had to tackle it in the west and tackle it in Glasgow because that was responsible for a disproportionate high level.\"\n\nMr Linden went on to says that the success at cutting violence in and around Glasgow needed to be built upon by tackling problems in society such as alcohol, poverty, social isolation and exclusion.\n\nHe said: \"Those are the big issues that we need to actually tackle if we want to reach those next levels of reduction in Scotland.\"\n\nJustice Secretary Humza Yousaf welcomed the findings and said the research highlighted the positive impact of early intervention.\n\nHe added: \"Our public health approach to reducing violence has garnered interest from London and elsewhere in the UK, as well as from the World Economic Forum.\n\n\"Despite this progress, we are working closely with police and others to tackle violence wherever it persists, and that includes keeping women and girls equally safe.\"\n\nMr Yousaf said the government had strengthened the law to give police and prosecutors greater powers to tackle domestic abuse, while also promoting positive relationships among young people.\n• None Tackle society's problems if you want to stop violence. Video, 00:01:01Tackle society's problems if you want to stop violence", "The world is facing a climate catastrophe and businesses around the world must address it urgently or face the ultimate sanction for a public company, shareholders who refuse to back them any more.\n\nThat is not a message from an environmental action group but from the largest money manager in the UK, Legal & General Investment Management, which manages £1 trillion worth of UK pension fund investments.\n\nIts climate warning was the top of a list of concerns about the way companies are run.\n\nOther red lights included the level of executive pay, lack of diversity in senior corporate roles, the role (and cost) of political lobbying and the poor quality of the financial information provided by auditors.\n\nLegal & General insist that it is not just virtue signalling.\n\nThe company voted against the re-election of nearly 4,000 directors in 2018 - an increase of 37%. That included votes against over 100 board chairs on the basis of gender diversity alone.\n\nLegal & General's director of corporate governance, Sacha Sadan, said it was getting tougher with company boards and managements.\n\n\"2018 was a record year for us as we continued to engage with companies on a broad range of issues, using our voting power to influence change on behalf of our clients. The increased figures reflect the higher standards we expect companies to adhere to\"\n\nThe collapse last year of construction and services company Carillion which continued to pay out high salaries, shareholder dividends and get a clean bill of health from its auditors until just months before its sudden liquidation caused widespread outrage and shone a light on the standard of company stewardship in the UK.\n\nA recent report from a committee of MPs was sceptical about asset managers' appetite and ability to raise the quality of company management.\n\nThe business select committee chair said last month: \"We do not have confidence in institutional investors in exercising their stewardship functions. We cannot rely on shareholders to exert pressure.\"\n\nLegal & General admit they too have made mistakes.\n\nIn 2012, the company voted in favour of a pay formula for the chief executive of housebuilder Persimmon that saw Jeff Fairburn awarded a pay packet of £100m. Mr Sadan told the BBC it had learnt its lesson. \"Since then we insist that maximum payouts are capped.\"\n\nThe VERY best way for investors to exert pressure is to sell their shares - or not become shareholders of misbehaving companies in the first place.\n\nPlenty of fund managers argue they are trying to \"reform from within\" while happily accepting bumper dividend pay outs from companies in some of the most controversial sectors - such as oil and tobacco.\n\nLegal & General insist they are prepared to do that and last year issued a list of companies whose shares they decided to dump. The list of eight included Russian oil company Rosneft, the China Construction Bank and Subaru.\n\nLegal & General say that all eight of those on the \"black list\" have been in touch to try and get themselves off it. Proof positive, say L&G, that their brand of shareholder engagement - or disengagement - really works.\n\nMany in the UK might find that argument more convincing if the list of no-go investments included companies closer to home that would REALLY feel the cold shoulder of the UK's biggest money manager.\n\nShell boss Ben van Beurden's pay more than doubled last year\n\nFor example, Royal Dutch Shell is the UK's biggest dividend payer by miles - offering investors a tempting 5.8% return on their money. Legal & General say they were successful in moving the chief executive's performance targets to be based on safety and environmental improvements rather than raw profit. They were less successful in tackling the sheer amount he pocketed last year - a colossal £17m.\n\nFor decades, many firms have paid lip service to climate change without substantially altering the way they do business.\n\nThen investors joined the climate campaign and began applying pressure from within.\n\nTheir message is that acting on climate change isn't just a feel-good - it's a necessity to protect long-term assets.\n\nThe Bank of England, for instance, recently warned that $20tn (£15.3tn) of assets could be wiped out by climate change.\n\nThis alarming note is being amplified by fund managers who are pulling their investments out of fossil fuels.\n\nThey include the World Council of Churches, the Rockefeller family and insurance giants AXA and Allianz.\n\nCollectively their portfolios are said to total about £7tn and they'll increasingly influence firms with discretion over their use of fossil fuels.\n\nBut what about the massively-powerful fossil fuel giants whose very existence depends on mining those carbon compounds the world can't afford to burn?\n\nThe slave trade was abolished only after traders were compensated for their \"loss of human property\".\n\nWill society need to compensate the oil majors for the assets they must leave underground?\n\nAsset managers are effectively the \"masters of the universe\" when it comes to telling companies how to behave as they have to vote on their investors behalf. But they have powerful customers of their own to answer to.\n\nIncreasing numbers of pension fund trustees are seeking assurances that their employees' retirement contributions are not finding their way into embarrassing or inappropriate investments. The Church of England was not thrilled to find out its pension scheme was invested in the now defunct high cost credit company Wonga.\n\nMore recently - and more importantly - was the decision by Norway's sovereign wealth fund to divest itself of some of its fossil fuel investments (paradoxically perhaps - the source of all the money in the first place).\n\nBut what these examples show is that the savers and citizens, on whose behalf this money is managed, are becoming more aware - and more willing to object - about how that is done.", "Trade tensions between the US and China are weighing on global economic growth\n\nThe global economy is weakening, according to a new assessment from the World Bank.\n\nThe bank said it now expects growth of 2.6% for 2019 edging up to 2.7% the following year.\n\nThe slowdown is widespread, according to the Bank's economists, affecting many countries.\n\nAnd there are risks to even this subdued outlook, including the uncertainty for business created by international trade tensions.\n\nOne of the lead authors of the report, Franziska Ohnsorge, said the World Bank had warned in its previous forecasts six months ago of darkening skies.\n\n\"Then it was a forecast\" she told the BBC. \"But now we see it in the data.\"\n\nIn January, the World Bank changed its outlook for 2019 from 3% growth to 2.9%.\n\nThere has been a \"broad based disappointment\" affecting trade, investment and manufacturing and developed as well as emerging economies, Ms Ohnsorge said.\n\nTrade conflict has been an important factor behind the weaker growth, in particular the tension between the US and China.\n\nBetween them, the two countries account for a third of global economic activity. Ms Ohnsorge said the uncertainty has an impact on investment by business\n\nIt has been recurrent theme in the World Bank's analysis.\n\nChina's growth is expected to continue to slow.\n\nIn the three decades up to 2010 the annual average was 10%. The forecast for this year is 6.2%\n\nThat partly reflects a deliberately encouraged slowdown which the Chinese government has sought to achieve, believing as most economists also do, that the earlier growth rate could not be sustained much longer.\n\nSo far, it has been reasonably orderly and the \"hard landing\" that many feared has not materialised.\n\nBut there is also an element of trade tension in the slower growth that China is expected to record this year.\n\nGlobal economic weakness has a key impact on the Bank's principal role: to promote economic development and the reduction of poverty.\n\nAfrica's economy is growing but not enough to reduce poverty on the continent, said the World Bank\n\nDavid Malpass, who was recently named as president of the World Bank by Donald Trump, said \"Stronger economic growth is essential to reducing poverty and improving living standards.\"\n\nFigures for Africa are particularly troublesome in his respect.\n\nAlthough the bank is forecasting somewhat stronger growth there this year than last - at 2.9% - it is still not enough to significantly reduce poverty on the continent.", "Yumi Ishikawa says she was made to wear high heels while working at a funeral parlour\n\nAround 19,000 people have signed a petition calling for Japan to end dress codes that require women to wear high heels in the workplace.\n\nThe petition was started by Yumi Ishikawa who says she was made to wear high heels while working at a funeral parlour.\n\nHer tweets on the issue went viral with more than 30,000 shares.\n\nIn 2015, a London receptionist was sent home from work without pay after she refused to wear high heels.\n\nThe campaign is referred to in Japan as #KuToo. It plays on the Japanese words for shoes \"kutsu\" and pain \"kutsuu\" and also references the #MeToo movement, according to Kyodo News.\n\nCampaigners say that wearing high heels is seen as obligatory when applying for jobs.\n\nMs Ishikawa, also an actress, said: \"I hope this campaign will change the social norm so that it won't be considered to be bad manners when women wear flat shoes like men.\"\n\nShe added that she had met a ministry official who was \"sympathetic\" towards the petition.\n\nIt's not the first time that a campaign has been launched to change dress codes at work for women.\n\nNicola Thorp set up a petition calling for UK dress code laws to be changed after she was asked to wear high heels at finance company PwC.\n\nShe was hired as a temporary member of staff and refused to comply with the dress code. Following coverage in the media, outsourcing firm Portico announced that female colleagues could \"wear plain flat shoes\" with immediate effect.\n\nIn 2017, a Canadian province scrapped the dress code which requires female employees to wear high heels.\n\nThe government of British Columbia said that high heel wearers face a risk of physical injury from slipping or falling as well as possible damage to the feet, legs and back.", "An investment fund boss has dismissed as \"unfounded\" claims he tried to \"injure\" the Stobart Group.\n\nNeil Woodford said allegations that he conspired with the firm's ex-chief executive Andrew Tinkler were untrue as his clients invested in the company.\n\nMr Tinkler was sacked by the firm which owns Carlisle airport for alleged breach of contract in June.\n\nStobart Group is suing him in the High Court for conspiring to harm the business. He denies the claims.\n\nMr Tinkler, who was chief executive for 10 years, is accused of conspiring with other businessmen to harm the company's interests.\n\nBosses at the Stobart Group, which began life when founder Eddie Stobart went into business as an agricultural contractor in Hesket Newmarket, Cumbria, during the 1960s, have sued Mr Tinkler.\n\nThe hearing was told the group claims Mr Tinkler was lawfully dismissed, but he claims he was removed for no good reason, and has counter-claimed.\n\nIn a written witness statement Mr Woodford, founder of Woodford Investment Management, said: \"I am shocked that Stobart has chosen to make allegations that I was a party to a 'conspiracy' to use 'unlawful means' to 'injure the company'.\n\n\"Why I would want to 'injure' Stobart, in which I have chosen to invest my investors' funds, is never explained.\n\n\"I owe duties to the funds I manage, and it is in the best interests of these funds for Stobart to be as successful as possible.\"\n\nHe added that, in his view, Mr Tinkler was the \"entrepreneurial brains\" behind Stobart.\n\nStobart Group, which is worth more than £800m, is separate from the road transport firm Eddie Stobart Logistics.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sure Start centres, aimed at improving early years health and education in England, brought \"big benefits for children's health\", researchers say.\n\nThe Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) found a positive impact from the scheme, launched 20 years ago as a flagship of Tony Blair's Labour Party.\n\nBut the think tank warns that funding has been cut and 500 sites have closed.\n\nThe Local Government Association says councils have \"done all they can within ever tightening budgets\".\n\nThe report examines the effect of Sure Start, an early intervention policy designed to support the wellbeing of children before they started school.\n\nThe centres provide parents with information and advice about health, education, childcare and employment, particularly in disadvantaged areas.\n\nSure Start centres are credited with lowering the rates of children needing hospital treatment\n\nResearchers describe it as a story of a \"fast rollout followed by deep spending cuts\" - but they say the centres have brought measurable improvements.\n\nThe provision of Sure Start centres \"significantly reduced\" the incidence of children going to hospital up to the age of 11, says the study, which looked at the impact on health.\n\nThe study found that for every one Sure Start centre per thousand children there were 5,000 fewer hospital admissions for 11-year-olds each year.\n\nChristine Farquharson, a research economist at the IFS, said the drop in hospitalisation rates was the result of parenting advice, health education, lessons about keeping children safe and improving children's behaviour.\n\nFor younger children, the reductions in hospitalisation were more likely to be for \"infection-related\" problems, says the study, while for older children it was more likely to be for accidents and injuries.\n\nThese \"benefits are strongest for children living in disadvantaged areas\", says the study, while there was relatively little difference in wealthier areas.\n\nHowever, levels of childhood obesity were not significantly affected by Sure Start, says the study.\n\nSure Start was a flagship policy after Tony Blair's election win in 1997\n\nThe IFS researchers, funded by the Nuffield Foundation charity, are confident the reductions in hospital admissions can be attributed to access to Sure Start centres, when other social and geographical factors are taken into account.\n\nBut the think tank warns Sure Start centres have had declining support.\n\nSpending peaked in 2010 at £1.8bn (in current value) but was cut by two-thirds to £600m by 2017-18 - and about 500 centres closed between 2011 and 2017.\n\nMost of these closures were in better-off areas but 170 were in the poorest 30% of neighbourhoods, says the think tank study.\n\nThere are also big differences in levels of local provision, says the study, with decisions about children's centres having been devolved to local authorities - which in turn have faced funding pressures.\n\nResearcher Ms Farquharson said there needed to be more attention paid to what worked - particularly in the run-up to the government's spending review.\n\n\"It's crucial that both central government and local authorities use the best evidence,\" she said, adding that \"limited resources are best focused on the poorest areas\".\n\nAntoinette Bramble, of the Local Government Association, said such centres were an \"incredibly important service\" for parents of young children.\n\nBut she said many councils could not afford them - and more would be lost.\n\n\"It is inevitable that without new investment from government in children's services, councils will face the difficult but unavoidable decision of having to cut or close early help services such as children's centres,\" she said.\n\nTracy Brabin, Labour's shadow early years minister, said it was \"heart breaking that such a vital service, which helps disadvantaged children the most, has had two-thirds of its funding cut\".\n\nA government spokesman said: \"Children's centres can play an important role in supporting families.\n\n\"Local councils decide how to organise and provide services for families in their areas to meet local needs - whether this is through children's centre buildings or delivering services in different ways, and we continuously reflect on what works best.\"", "Sir Philip Green has won the backing of the Pension Protection Fund (PPF) for his plan to rescue Arcadia ahead of a crucial vote on Wednesday.\n\nThe owner of Topshop has struck a £385m deal to secure its pension schemes, including a £100m contribution from Lady Cristina Green, Sir Philip's wife and Arcadia's largest shareholder.\n\nThe PPF said it would now \"vote in support\" of Arcadia's restructure.\n\nBut the plan, which includes closing 50 stores, needs the backing of landlords.\n\nThey would have to agree to a rent cut on Arcadia's stores, which also include Burton, Miss Selfridge, Dorothy Perkins and Wallis.\n\nThe restructuring would be done through a company voluntary arrangement (CVA), an insolvency process that allows a business to reach an agreement with its creditors to pay off all or part of its debts.\n\nIn a deal with The Pensions Regulator, trustees of Arcadia's pension schemes will be granted security over £210m worth of assets by the company, up from a previous offer of £185m.\n\nLady Green will inject £100m into the schemes over three years.\n\nAnd Arcadia will make £75m worth of contributions to the company's pension schemes.\n\nOliver Morley, chief executive of the PPF, said: \"We are pleased that the company and shareholder have agreed a funding and security package for the scheme. Based on this commitment, we will now vote in support of the Arcadia Group Limited CVA tomorrow.\"\n\nBut he added: \"While we are the largest creditor in this CVA, other creditors will also need to agree the terms for it to be successful.\"\n\nArcadia's chief executive Ian Grabiner, said: \"We hope that the landlords and other creditors will follow suit and we can get the company back on a strong footing in all the markets where we trade.\"\n\nConsumer expert Kate Hardcastle said the pension deficit has been \"one of the biggest pressures\" on Arcadia.\n\n\"It might change a few minds absolutely,\" she said. \"But I'd still say the result of the CVA vote is not certain. This will alleviate a lot of concerns, however.\"\n\nArcadia currently has more than 560 shops across the UK and Ireland, and employs 22,000 staff.\n\nIt has already shut 200 of its UK stores over the past three years amid intensifying competition from a crop of more contemporary \"fast fashion\" retailers ranging from High Street chains such as Zara and H&M to pure online players like Asos.\n\nArcadia has also faced the same problems as other bricks and mortar retailers, including rising business rates and labour costs, too many unprofitable stores and inflexible leases that make it hard to close failing shops.\n\nIn my teenage years almost every Saturday was spent moving from one Arcadia store to another - from crowding into Miss Selfridge photo booths for pictures with friends to fawning over the Kate Moss collection in Topshop.\n\nThe good old days? Kate Moss unveils her fashion collection for Topshop in 2007\n\nToday's teenagers have grown up expecting to order clothes to their home and buy them on their phone.\n\nBoohoo, Misguided, and PrettyLittleThing have so many cheaper items available that they've hooked a younger generation who expect to wear an item once, post a picture on Instagram and then buy something else for the next Friday night.\n\nBut Arcadia hasn't held onto those in their 30s who were loyal for years.\n\nThe fact that Topshop haven't stocked above size 18 in their stores is alienating for women with changing body shapes.\n\nThe campaign to boycott TopShop after the removal of a pop-up stand promoting a book on feminism did the company no favours. Negative publicity about Sir Philip Green has done nothing to help a business so closely associated with him personally.\n\nFor many in an age group increasingly conscious about the impact of their spending, the teenage crush on Topshop is over.\n\nMs Hardcastle said even if the rescue deal is passed, Arcadia will still have a lot more work to do.\n\n\"There is a lot of fat within the Arcadia group and it faces a lot of challenges. It is hard to look at the business and say that anything will be the saviour of the organisation.\n\n\"It is a pretty wobbly table and people will look at how many legs it needs to prop it up.\"\n• None Sir Philip Green charged with assault in US", "Jay-Z is officially hip hop's first billionaire, Forbes has declared, after building an empire based on music, property, fashion and investments.\n\nThe US magazine has estimated that the rapper's wealth now \"conservatively totals\" $1bn (£800m).\n\nForbes says the husband of singer Beyonce has succeeded because he built brands rather than just endorsed them.\n\nIn its rankings, Forbes rejected claims that rapper and producer Dr Dre had reached billionaire status.\n\nJay-Z, born Shawn Carter, grew in one of New York City's most notorious areas.\n\nHe hit fame in 1996 with his debut album Reasonable Doubt. His 2001 album The Blueprint was in March added to the Library of Congress' National Recording Registry because it was deemed \"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant\".\n\nForbes said it had estimated Jay-Z's wealth by adding various assets and then \"subtracting a healthy amount to account for a superstar lifestyle\".\n\nAmong the 49-year-old's assets are:\n\nHis superstar wife is reportedly worth about $335m, made mostly from music and endorsements, and the couple have had a joint net worth over $1bn for several years.\n\nJay-Z, who once rapped \"I'm not a businessman, I'm a business, man\", is one of only a handful of entertainers to become billionaires, according to Forbes.\n\nIt was often assumed that Dr Dre reached billionaire status in 2014 after selling his Beats headphone business to Apple. But last year Forbes put his personal wealth at about $770m.\n\nDr Dre is not a billionaire - at least according to Forbes\n\nKasseem \"Swizz Beatz\" Dean, the producer behind some of Jay-Z's biggest hits, told Forbes that the rapper's success is \"bigger than hip-hop\".\n\nHe said: \"It's the blueprint for our culture. A guy that looks like us, sounds like us, loves us, made it to something that we always felt that was above us.\"\n\nJay-Z appears on the the front cover of the latest Forbes magazine alongside another - wealthier - billionaire, Warren Buffet.\n\nIt appears that the legendary investor, 40 years his senior, spotted something special in the rapper a few years ago, telling Forbes in 2010: \"Jay is teaching in a lot bigger classroom than I'll ever teach in. For a young person growing up, he's the guy to learn from.\"\n• None How rock and rap combined to create Beats", "The inflatable depicting Donald Trump as a baby has been flown over Parliament Square again as part of demonstrations against the US president.\n\nSome people say it is a legitimate protest against a US president with controversial policies, while others argue it is disrespectful to a democratically elected ally of the UK with whom the government hopes to agree a free-trade deal.\n\nThe protesters got permission for the helium-filled 6m (19.7ft) high balloon to fly again over Parliament Square Gardens. It was cleared by the City Operations Unit at City Hall, where the Mayor of London is based.\n\nThe group needed permission from the unit because Parliament Square Gardens is controlled by the Greater London Authority (GLA). You need permission to do a whole range of things there, including holding a public gathering or standing on your own with a placard.\n\nApplicants have to show that they have sufficient insurance and there has to be a full risk assessment.\n\nThe GLA told Reality Check that it's not its role to act as a censor, or decide what is or isn't a good protest.\n\nBut it says it does work with the Metropolitan Police to reject anything containing illegal content, such as anything racist or homophobic.\n\nThe Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) does not need to give its permission because the inflatable has been flying below 60m.\n\nBut a CAA spokesperson said: \"Anyone flying a tethered balloon below 60m may, however, still require permission from air traffic control if operated within 'controlled airspace', such as over Central London.\"\n\nThe air traffic control provider Nats confirmed that the balloon would count as a non-standard flight in controlled airspace.\n\nVarious parts of the country, such as the areas around airports and the centre of London, count as controlled airspace and permission is required if you want to do things like release balloons or lanterns, tether balloons or fly drones.\n\nNats ruled last summer that the blimp would have no impact on normal air traffic operations. It told Reality Check that it receives many applications to tether balloons or tow banners behind light aircraft over London every year, most of which attract almost no attention from the public.\n\nIt stressed that the shape of the balloon or content of the banner was not its responsibility.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "If Donald Trump had been inclined to wind down a bullet-proof window in The Beast as he passed through central London, he may well have wound it straight back up.\n\nThe public were kept a long way from his motorcade but the boos were loud, the placards stark and the general message expletive-laden.\n\nAnd beyond that, in Parliament Square, under the gaze of a statue of a hunched Winston Churchill, British satire was on display.\n\nA Donald Trump baby blimp rocked back and forth in a light wind.\n\nA man was dressed as a caged gorilla with a Donald Trump face mask while his companion pulled off an impression of Boris Johnson - the MP who wants to be the next UK prime minister - dressed in a striped prison uniform.\n\nThere were toilet rolls for sale bearing the president's face, sold for two for £5 from a couple of supermarket trolleys.\n\nA police officer went above and beyond to hand out Haribo sweets to his colleagues standing in a neat line along Whitehall.\n\nAbove them, builders in hard hats watched events unfold from the scaffolding encasing Big Ben.\n\nBut it wasn't just the British who were there to protest.\n\nUS holidaymakers gave up a day's sightseeing in the capital to let their president know what they thought of him.\n\nJess Renner, and her mother, Lisa, from Nevada, say their president promotes division\n\nNineteen-year-old student Jess Renner, who was too young to vote in the last US presidential election, headed down to the protest from her nearby hotel with her mum.\n\n\"It was fun to come and flip him off,\" she said. \"He's a bully and he's trying to bully you guys into buying all our stuff.\"\n\nFellow American Robert Kihm, from Denver, Colorado, said having Mr Trump for a president was no longer funny.\n\nWhat's your message to him? \"Where do I start,\" he replied, in exasperation.\n\n\"Stop being authoritarian, respect the rule of law and stick to the norms for a US president,\" he urged.\n\nA group from Belgium on a three-day trip to London also couldn't resist having their say.\n\n\"He said Brussels was a hell-hole so we are also very against him,\" said Annelie Comeyne, from Ghent.\n\nNot everyone felt the same.\n\nA minority, including Lorraine Chapel, from Chiswick, in west London, was there to welcome the president.\n\n\"Love him or hate him, Mr Trump runs America and he is here by invite from the Queen,\" she said, waving her handmade sign.\n\nLorraine Chapel says the president should be shown respect\n\nThe blimp of a baby Donald was offensive, she said. \"Suppose they did that for the Queen in America\".\n\nIn a flash, things turned rather ugly when a woman appeared next to Ms Chapel, accusing her in strongly-worded terms of supporting misogyny.\n\nMeanwhile, a heated exchange played out in the background as Trump supporters took on anti-Trump protesters before the debate veered back to domestic arguments around Brexit.\n\nA little later, the atmosphere lifted as speakers took to a temporary stage outside Downing Street where Mr Trump was holding talks with the outgoing Prime Minister Theresa May.\n\n\"Say it loud, say it clear,\" the speaker shouted over the microphone, as the rain kept falling.\n\n\"Donald Trump's not welcome here,\" the crowd hollered back, from under hoods and umbrellas.\n\nSome had their faces covered with #trumpstinks masks, others wore badges saying \"another nasty woman against Trump\".\n\nThere was whooping and whistling as police officers cautiously managed the growing numbers, opening and closing routes.\n\nMelissa Branzburg gives her children a lesson in political activism\n\nMothers with small children in buggies rubbed shoulders with seasoned protesters and American ex-pats.\n\nMelissa Branzburg, originally from Miami but now living in Greenwich, said President Trump has been talked about in her house for a long time.\n\nHer children - Isaac, five, and Ruth, three - would usually be doing crafts or playing in the park but today they were getting a lesson in political activism.\n\nThey were keen to let Mr Trump know they didn't want him here in London, said Ms Branzburg.\n\nThey asked a lot about children behind bars in the US, something she tried to explain in age-appropriate language.\n\n\"I want them to know they can make their voices heard and can see that other people agree with them,\" she added.\n\nProtesters delivered their messages on placards - some chose humour, others candour\n\nFlorence Iwegbue, a dual US-British citizen, wore bright pink feathers in her hair and red, white and blue glitter on her cheek.\n\nShe said she feared Britain might be following too closely in US footsteps.\n\n\"The message is not getting through that the way of life in America does not work,\" she said.\n\n\"In the US, you can't afford to be poor, sick, black or brown. This is becoming an issue in Britain - and it needs to be dialled back.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Hong Kong is one of the few places in Chinese territory where an annual remembrance vigil can be held.\n\nTens of thousands of people have gathered in Hong Kong to mark the 30th anniversary of the crackdown on protests in Beijing's Tiananmen Square.\n\nHong Kong and Macau are the only places in Chinese territory where people can commemorate the activists killed in 1989.\n\nChina has never given an official figure for how many people died, but estimates begin in the hundreds.\n\nOrganisers say 180,000 people joined a vigil in the city's Victoria Park.\n\nBut police put the number of attendees at under 40,000.\n\nIn mainland China, the authorities have banned even oblique references to the crackdown, which took place after weeks of mass protests that were tolerated by the government. The numbers gathered in and around Tiananmen Square are estimated to have reached a peak of one million people.\n\nHundreds of security personnel and police were monitoring the square in Beijing on Tuesday.\n\nHong Kong's Victoria Park is once again a sea of candlelight as far as the eye can see.\n\nThe crowd, many dressed in black, is mostly silent whilst holding up their candles in mourning. Some are crying. In between protest songs, they chant \"the people will not forget\".\n\nThe crowd claps and cheers when Liane Lee - who took part in the 1989 protests - shouts: \"We refuse to forget. We refuse to believe the lies\".\n\nStanding watching is Teresa Chan. She has attended the commemoration every year since 1990, except once when she was ill.\n\n\"I wanted to go Beijing to be with the movement but I couldn't,\" she says. \"I never imagined it would end the way it did, it's very hard to forget.\"\n\nBut there are also new faces in the crowd this year.\n\nProtestor Teresa Chan has come to the protest in Hong Kong nearly every year\n\nMs Leung, who is in her 30s, says she decided to come for the first time because she is worried about Hong Kong's future.\n\n\"I am very angry with what the Chinese government is doing here,\" she says.\n\nAmongst the remembrance flowers and candles, there are posters protesting against proposed amendments to laws concerning extraditions to mainland China. Many fear the changes will lead to the further erosion of civil liberties here in Hong Kong.\n\nHere in Victoria Park are also some mainland Chinese residents like Mr Zeng who travelled to Hong Kong with his wife and 11-year-old daughter just to attend tonight's event.\n\nHis daughter says it's an eye-opening experience. \"I am here to learn the real history about China. Now I feel like China is no better than other countries,\" she says.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Returning to Tiananmen Square for the first time\n\nThe vigils in Hong Kong come at a sensitive time for its leadership, with public backlash over a proposed bill that would allow fugitives captured in the city to be extradited to mainland China.\n\nSmaller vigils are also expected 64km (40 miles) away in Macau's city centre, and on the self-governing island of Taiwan.\n\nThe gatherings come at a sensitive time for Hong Kong's leadership\n\nThe Tiananmen anniversary earlier prompted a war of words between Washington and Beijing. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo criticised China's human rights record and called on it to finally reveal how many people died in the crackdown.\n\nIn response, a Chinese embassy spokesman in Washington DC said his comments were \"an affront to the Chinese people\".\n\nOn Tuesday, China issued separate travel warnings to its citizens travelling to the US, citing police harassment and crime.\n\nIts foreign ministry accused American law enforcement agencies of \"harassing\" Chinese citizens in the US through immigration checks and other methods.\n\nPro-democracy protesters occupied Tiananmen Square in April 1989 and began the largest political demonstrations in communist China's history. They lasted six weeks.\n\nOn the night of 3 June tanks moved in and troops opened fire, killing and injuring many unarmed people in and around Tiananmen Square.\n\nAfterwards the authorities claimed no-one had been shot dead in the square itself. Estimates of those killed in the crackdown range from a few hundred to several thousand.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Wang Dan one of the leaders of the Tiananmen Square protests\n\nAt the weekend, Chinese Defence Minister Wei Fenghe made a rare mention of the protests during a regional forum in Singapore.\n\n\"That incident was a political turbulence and the central government took measures to stop the turbulence, which is a correct policy,\" he said in response to a question.\n\nHe added that because of the action the government took, \"China has enjoyed stability and development\".", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Live text and radio commentary on the BBC Sport website and app.\n\nJohanna Konta's extraordinary French Open continued as she beat Sloane Stephens to become the first British woman since 1983 to reach the semi-finals at Roland Garros.\n\nThe British number one, seeded 26th, played near-perfect tennis in a 6-1 6-4 win over the American seventh seed.\n\nKonta, 28, broke serve three times and dropped just 13 points on her serve.\n\nShe will play unseeded Czech teenager Marketa Vondrousova in the last four on Thursday in Paris.\n\nKonta will be playing in her third Grand Slam semi-final - on a third different surface - after runs to the same stage at the 2016 Australian Open and Wimbledon in 2017.\n\nAnd she will look to go one better than Jo Durie - the last Briton to reach the women's semi-finals 36 years ago - by reaching Saturday's final.\n\n\"To play on the new Chatrier court against a top player and at the level I did, I'm really proud of myself,\" said Konta.\n\n\"It's hard to say if it was one of the best matches of my career, but dealing with conditions out here and against an opponent like Sloane who can run away with it, I was pleased to get her on the back foot and control the points a little bit.\"\n• None 'Definitely one of my best performances', says Konta\n\nNineteen-year-old Vondrousova overcame her second-set nerves to close out a 7-6 (7-1) 7-5 victory over Croatian 31st seed Petra Martic.\n\nThe left-hander is a fast-rising star of the game. She won her first WTA title at 17, in just her second Tour-level event.\n\nShe has won more matches than any other female player since this year's Australian Open, including victories over big names such as Simona Halep and Jelena Ostapenko, and is yet to drop a set on her way to the last four.\n\nHowever, Konta had a three-set victory in the Rome quarter-finals last month.\n\n\"It is going to be very tough, I just can't wait to play again,\" Vondrousova said after her win.\n\nKonta's resurgence on the clay has been one which few people would have predicted at the start of the clay season, when she was ranked 47th in the world.\n\nThe former world number four has shown her pedigree on grass and hard surfaces, but had never won a main-draw match on the Paris clay until this year.\n\nSigns of her improved fortunes were evident as she reached two WTA finals at the Morocco Open and Italian Open - and that form has continued at Roland Garros.\n\nNow she has won 15 matches on the surface in 2019, meaning only Martic stands alongside her in terms of clay-court victories on the tour this year.\n\nLinking up with new coach Dimitri Zavialoff at the end of last year has paid dividends, Konta once again showing increased trust in her ability to cause opponents problems with her hard-hitting game.\n\nYet, although Konta's confidence has been evident throughout the tournament, the manner of this 71-minute victory against someone of Stephens' pedigree left those on half-full Chatrier murmuring with surprise.\n\nStephens, who won the 2017 US Open as well as reaching the final here last year, was rated as the favourite coming into Tuesday's quarter-final, with former Grand Slam champions Martina Navratilova and Lindsay Davenport backing the American.\n\nKonta came under immediate pressure in the opening game of the match, needing to see off a break point and come through a lengthy deuce to hold serve after eight minutes.\n\nThat proved pivotal as Konta swatted her lacklustre opponent aside from then on.\n\nThe Briton's aggressive approach did the damage as she ended up hitting 25 winners and six aces on her way to taking 87% of first-serve points.\n\nStephens, usually nimble around the court, had no answers to Konta's power and precision.\n\nKonta broke Stephens' serve for a 3-1 lead, claiming the next three games to win the opening set in just 33 minutes.\n\nShe continued to dominate in the second set, not dropping a point on serve until she produced a double fault in the final game.\n\nBy that time it mattered little, the Briton resetting to take victory when Stephens pushed a return inches wide of the line.\n\nPerhaps a sign of Konta's renewed belief was evident in her relatively understated celebration: a simple turn to her coach Zavialoff and boyfriend Jackson Wade wearing a wide grin, before raising both arms aloft as she took the acclaim of the crowd.\n\nKonta's path to the latter stages - and a potential chance to become the first Briton to win Roland Garros since Sue Barker in 1976 - has opened up following an unpredictable women's tournament.\n\nAfter beating Stephens, Konta will face an opponent in Vondrousova who, like the Briton, reached the Roland Garros quarter-finals for the first time.\n\nStephens was one of only three top-10 seeded players to make the women's quarter-finals, along with Romania's defending champion Halep and Australian eighth seed Ashleigh Barty.\n\nFormer world number one Halep and Barty will meet in the other semi-final - if they beat 17-year-old American Amanda Anisimova and 14th seed Madison Keys respectively in their quarter-finals on Wednesday.\n\n'The best I've seen Konta play' - what they said\n\nBBC tennis correspondent Russell Fuller: \"The entire performance was breathtaking. Everything about Konta's performance was majestic. Sloane Stephens could do nothing on Konta's serve. She had the stuffing knocked out of her. That's the best I have ever seen Konta play.\"\n\nFormer world number five Daniela Hantuchova for BBC Radio 5 Live: \"Konta couldn't ask for a better match and if she keeps playing like this I don't see anyone that can stop her. Simona Halep was my pick to win the trophy before the tournament but the way Johanna played it will be really interesting.\"\n\nRadio 5 Live tennis commentator Naomi Cavaday: \"I felt for sure every set would be tight and ultra-competitive but Johanna was too good for Stephens. I think Konta can take out Halep if she plays like that. That was phenomenal.\"\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone", "Robert Williams was an 18-year-old Royal Marine on D-Day who landed on Sword Beach, and served throughout France and into Germany.\n\n\"I didn't get a scratch,\" the 94-year-old said.\n\nWhen Mrs May came over to thank him at the Bayeux cemetery event, \"I took her by the arms and gave her a kiss on the cheek. She said 'Oh, thank you'.\"\n\n\"I kissed her - why not? It is not everyone that can do that.\"\n\nAnother veteran, Robert Yaxley, also gave the UK prime minister a kiss on the cheek.\n\nRobert Yaxley also gave Theresa May a kiss on the cheek Image caption: Robert Yaxley also gave Theresa May a kiss on the cheek", "Theresa May's news conference with Donald Trump had an \"end of era\" feel to it.\n\nOnly days before she stands down as the Conservatives' leader, the prime minister set out clear positions she hoped may survive her premiership.\n\nOn Iran, the UK and US agree on the threat but disagree on the solution, and the US must \"do everything to avoid escalation which is in no-one's interest\".\n\nOn China, she said both sides cannot ignore the threat to their interests, but they must also recognise the country's \"economic significance\" - a clear warning against a lasting US trade war with Beijing.\n\nOn the transatlantic relationship, she emphasised she and the president were only \"the latest guardians of this precious and profound friendship\". In other words, she is going and so one day will he, and the relationship will endure.\n\nIn a sentence Mr Trump could never repeat, she said: \"I have always believed that co-operation and compromise are the basis of strong alliances.\"\n\nAs for the president, he kept the bombast to a minimum.\n\nOn Britain's future relationship with the Chinese telecoms giant Huawei, he seemed reassured, saying \"we are going to be able to work out any differences\" and \"we will have no problem with that\".\n\nOn Brexit, he was more supportive of Mrs May than in his weekend newspaper interviews, saying the prime minister \"has brought it to a very good point\" and \"she has done a very good job\".\n\nAnd on a future trade deal, the president generated headlines by confirming the NHS would be part of the negotiations.\n\nAs for Jeremy Corbyn, the president said he had refused a request to meet the Labour leader, dismissing him as \"a negative force\", clearly believing this is not a man he is likely to have to work with any time soon.\n\nYes, there were gags. The president teased Mrs May about not suing the EU during the Brexit talks.\n\nHe also joked about who might be a suitable successor in Downing Street.\n\nBut the mood was more low key than high drama.", "The four climbers who turned back and raised the alarm about their missing colleagues on India's second highest mountain have since been assisting rescue efforts.\n\nThey had turned around early because of the harsh weather, and were the last ones in contact with the larger group of eight climbers who disappeared after an avalanche.\n\nRescue teams have spotted five bodies on the mountain. The Indian government says it is assuming all eight have been killed.", "Jack Letts, from Oxford, was dubbed \"Jihadi Jack\" after he travelled to Syria in 2014\n\nThe mother of a Muslim convert dubbed \"Jihadi Jack\" told a court she was \"horrified\" when he called to say he was in Syria.\n\nSally Lane, 56, and her husband are accused of sending or trying to send her son £1,723, despite having reason to believe he had joined Islamic State.\n\nJack Letts left his Oxford home at 18, married an Iraqi tribesman's daughter and moved to Syria, jurors have heard.\n\nMrs Lane and John Letts, 58, deny three charges of funding terrorism.\n\nThey are alleged to have ignored repeated warnings that they faced prosecution if they tried to help their son while he was in IS territory.\n\nGiving evidence at the Old Bailey, Mrs Lane told jurors her son had initially gone to Jordan and Kuwait for study and tourism.\n\nShe said: \"He seemed like he was enjoying himself, relaxing and enjoying the country.\"\n\nBut on 2 September 2014, phone records showed a flurry of calls.\n\nLane said: \"That was the day I found out. Jack phoned me. I was alone in the house. It was just a very quick phone call. He said 'Mum, I'm in Syria'.\n\n\"I was horrified. I screamed at him, 'How could you be so stupid? You will get killed. You will get beheaded'.\"\n\nJack Letts, who is said to suffer from obsessive compulsive disorder, did not phone again until 24 September 2014.\n\nMrs Lane said: \"He did not say exactly where he was. He tried to be reassuring, saying everything is fine. It's a civilian area, it's not a war zone.\"\n\nDefence lawyer Tim Moloney QC asked: \"How did all that contact make you feel?\"\n\nShe replied: \"We did not know whether he was alive or dead. At least we were reassured he was alive.\"\n\nA month later, Mrs Lane attempted to use a £5,000 inheritance from her son's grandfather \"as a bribe\" to encourage him and his new wife Asmaa to get \"somewhere safe\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Martin Moran is a well-known name in the UK climbing community\n\nThe Scotland-based mountaineer who is among the eight missing in India had led more than 40 treks up peaks in the Himalayas.\n\nTyneside-born Martin Moran was leading the group on an attempt to ascend an unclimbed and unnamed 21,250ft (6,477m) summit.\n\nThe latest update from the rescuers is that five bodies have been spotted in the Nanda Devi region.\n\nThe last contact made with the group was on 26 May, and its members reported that \"all was well\" and they were to make an attempt on the summit.\n\nThe following day a large avalanche is believed to have swept down 7,816m (25,643ft) Nanda Devi and debris from the slide was later found near the route Mr Moran's group was taking.\n\nThe alarm was raised on 31 May after the eight failed to return to their base camp. The search effort since has involved fellow mountaineers, the Indian Mountaineering Foundation and air force pilots.\n\nMr Moran's name is legendary in UK climbing circles.\n\nHe graduated in geography at Cambridge University before studying and qualifying as a chartered accountant.\n\nBut the outdoors, and in particular mountains, are his passion.\n\nIn the winter of 1984-85, Mr Moran and his wife Joy made the first completion of all Munros - more than 280 Scottish mountains with a height of 914m (3,000ft) or more - in a single winter season.\n\nHe wrote about their adventure in the book The Munros in Winter.\n\nMr Moran's friend, former RAF Kinloss Mountain Rescue Team leader David Whalley, first encountered the mountaineer in Scotland's mountains in the 1980s.\n\n\"Martin had already made his name as a great mountaineer down south and from the early 80s I came across him a few times on walks in the hills,\" Mr Whalley said.\n\nThe friendship grew after the Morans moved to Lochcarron, a small community in Wester Ross in the north west Highlands, and established their adventure holiday business, Moran Mountain.\n\nMr Moran and his group are missing in the Nanda Devi region\n\nMr Moran also joined Torridon Mountain Rescue Team, whose patch includes some of Scotland's highest and most striking mountains.\n\n\"Torridon has some big cliffs and Martin has helped to rescue people from some very difficult places up there,\" Mr Whalley said.\n\n\"He has risked his life on rescues.\n\n\"Martin has a heart of gold and all he wants to do is make sure people get off a mountain safely.\"\n\nMr Moran's reputation as a mountaineer has also grown over the years.\n\nIn 1993, he and fellow climber Simon Jenkins climbed 75 4,000m (13,123ft) Alpine peaks in 52 days. The men cycled between the different ranges involved, rather than using motorised transport. making it the first self-propelled traverse of Alpine peaks of 4,000m.\n\nThe previous year, the Morans' business started offering guided Himalayan expeditions. Since then, the company has run more than 40 treks and climbs in the Indian Himalayas.\n\nThe business then offered climbing courses in Norway and Arctic mountaineering in 2005.\n\nMartin Moran's friend Andy Nisbet, right, pictured with Steve Perry, died in a climbing accident in February\n\nMr Whalley said Mr Moran was a climber of the same stature as Hamish MacInnes, the renowned Dumfries and Galloway-born mountaineer and climbing equipment inventor who first ascended the Matterhorn in the Alps when he was just 16.\n\n\"Mr Moran is the same sort of person,\" he said. \"Very professional, an incredible climber and famous among mountaineers.\n\n\"He is also a great writer. His book Scotland's Winter Mountains has everything you need to know about Scotland's mountains in winter. But it is not a book just about facts, it is filled with stories.\"\n\nMr Whalley said Mr Moran's online blogs tackled criticism of climbing that has followed fatalities in the mountains, and he wrote a \"powerful\" obituary to his friend Andy Nisbet, a well-known Scottish climber who died along with his climbing partner Steve Perry in a fall on Ben Hope in Sutherland in February.\n\nDespite his high profile in the UK climbing community, Mr Whalley described Mr Moran as \"very private\".\n\n\"Martin is very humble, selfless and cares about those around him,\" he added.", "Welcome to Britain’s top secret laboratory where defences against chemical weapons, ballistics, explosives and cyber-security are researched.\n\nThe BBC was given access inside Porton Down to see what the highly secretive facility was like and, for the first time ever, entered a cleansed version of a level four laboratory. This level is where the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory team analyse some of the world’s deadliest viruses - Ebola and Marburg.\n\nFrank Gardner, the BBC��s security correspondent, went to meet one of the scientists working there.\n\nFilmed and produced by Samantha Everett and Imogen Anderson", "One Direction played to 10 million fans in the time the M4 relief road has been discussed\n\nThe members of One Direction have been born, topped the charts and taken a career break in the time Wales has spent considering whether it should go ahead and build its biggest infrastructure project.\n\nWhile 1D are thought to have sold more than 50 million records worldwide, it has been 28 years since an M4 relief road was first considered and the plans are still on the drawing board.\n\nThe Welsh Government's £1.4bn solution to congestion on Wales' busiest stretch of motorway is one of its biggest decisions since devolution in 1999.\n\nEnvironmentalists have called the proposal \"government-sponsored ecocide\", and it has divided politicians, but dozens of businesses and council leaders want the project to go ahead.\n\nThe proposal is to build a new 14 mile (23km) six-lane stretch of motorway south of Newport to bypass a perennial bottleneck.\n\nThe new road would pass through an area of the Gwent Levels environmentalists say is \"Wales' own Amazon rainforest\".\n\nA 13-month public inquiry into the plans led to a 580-page report which has been pored over by ministers since November. The decision is expected on Tuesday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This video reveals the possible route of the M4 relief road\n\nFormer Prime Minister David Cameron once described the Brynglas Tunnels as \"the foot on the windpipe of the Welsh economy\".\n\nThe snarl-ups at Newport's most infamous \"landmark\" are a twice-daily rush hour routine on south Wales' main road link with England.\n\nSome businesses complain traffic can regularly \"crawl at 20 mph\" and economists claim the benefits outweigh construction costs \"two to one\".\n\nThe proposed relief road would run south of Newport and the existing motorway\n\nThe first suggestion that a relief road was needed followed a traffic study commissioned in 1990.\n\nThat was followed in 1991 by the first proposal to build a new motorway south of Newport.\n\nThe existing road was built to cope with 54,000 vehicles a day, but traffic is now regularly double that, and the M4 at Newport is now the UK's busiest inner-city stretch of motorway apart from the M25 - with forecasts predicting further growth.\n\nPolice say the 300 annual accidents on the stretch between Magor and Castleton are above average compared to other motorways and a relief road is \"necessary\".\n\nConservationists say the new M4 would be a \"direct attack on nature\" as the route would \"rupture\" through several Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSIs) on the wildlife haven of the Gwent Levels.\n\nThe Welsh Government argued the new road south of Newport would take up just 2% of the SSSIs - and that millions would be spent on work to minimise the environmental impact.\n\nHowever, Gwent Wildlife Trust has called these mitigation proposals \"grossly inadequate\" and said that \"building a motorway to bypass a motorway is like loosening your belt to fight obesity.\"\n\nThe then Welsh Secretary William Hague talks to protestors after revealing his preferred M4 relief road route in July 1995\n\nNature expert Iolo Williams accused the government of potentially \"destroying\" one of the \"jewels in the crown of Wales\" and the \"green lung of Newport\".\n\nHe wrote in a statement to the public inquiry the plans were \"nothing short of a joke\".\n\nThe RSPB say the route would cut through the first nesting site for common cranes in Wales in more than 400 years.\n\nThe M4 at Newport is Wales' busiest stretch of motorway with 100,000 vehicle movements daily\n\nFuture Generations Commissioner Sophie Howe is against the plan and has said ministers could be setting a \"dangerous precedent\" in the way they have interpreted the Wellbeing of Future Generations Act.\n\nThe politics of the M4 relief road are tricky - and it has proved divisive in the Senedd chamber.\n\nThat matters because if the Welsh Government presses ahead and it needs votes, it might be difficult to get enough AMs to back it.\n\nLabour AMs are divided about it - former first minister Carwyn Jones was a big fan, but backbenchers like Jenny Rathbone not so much.\n\nMr Jones was due to make the decision, but that responsibility has fallen to his successor, Mark Drakeford.\n\nHe will not be drawn on his views on the road, but is thought to be a sceptic.\n\nHe also appointed long-standing opponent Lee Waters to be deputy transport minister - although he has said he will not be involved in the decision.\n\nBeyond Labour, the Welsh Tories are believed to be split - but Welsh Secretary Alun Cairns is keen.\n\nPlaid Cymru is a firm opponent and has called for a cheaper route. The Liberal Democrats - who have a minister in the government, Kirsty Williams - are dead against, too.\n\nThe newly formed Brexit Party group of four AMs is in favour though.\n\nAs One Direction might say, decisions like this aren't Little Things.\n\nIf you have any questions about the M4 relief road, use the form below to send them in:\n\nIf you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic.", "Mr Conte advised governing ministers to avoid \"playing to the gallery\" on social media\n\nItaly's Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has warned the country's two ruling populist parties that he will resign if they do not stop fighting.\n\nMr Conte said the parties must \"honour the government's obligations\" or he would \"simply end my mandate\".\n\nThe fractious year-old coalition of the League and the Five Star Movement are at loggerheads on a range of issues.\n\nItaly faces tough decisions on spending and Mr Conte is seeking a clear mandate to continue debt talks with the EU.\n\nSpeaking at a news conference on Monday, the prime minister urged a \"loyal collaboration\" from governing ministers and said he wanted \"a clear, unequivocal and speedy response\".\n\nOn Tuesday, Matteo Salvini, the leader of the right-wing League party, said he had no intention of bringing down the government.\n\nHe said it was time to push through much-needed reforms - such as greater autonomy for the regions - and that he was ready to discuss such measures with his coalition partners.\n\nThe Five Star Movement's Luigi Di Maio also said he wanted the coalition to survive and that he was ready to \"sit down around a table and start working\".\n\n\"We're ready to discuss the League's proposals for a flat-tax measure and more powers to local governments, we've always said yes to these measures - provided they are done in a certain way,\" Mr Di Maio told Italian daily Corriere della Sera (in Italian).\n\nItaly's Ansa news agency later reported that the two leaders had reopened dialogue and had already reached a deal to end a dispute over restrictions to public building projects, which are aimed at boosting the economy.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. After Mr Salvini's League came top in European elections in Italy, he announced \"Europe is changing\"\n\nLast week, Mr Salvini said he expected Brussels to impose a hefty fine on the country over its rising debt levels and made a number of controversial comments about the issue in interviews and on social media.\n\n\"At a time when youth unemployment is reaching 50% in some regions, someone in Brussels is asking us, under past rules, for a fine of €3bn (£2.7bn),\" he told radio station RTL.\n\n\"All my energy will go into changing these rules from the past,\" he said, adding: \"We will see if this little letter from Brussels in which they sanction us for debt accumulated in the past arrives.\"\n\nBut Mr Conte later warned against posting \"witticisms\" on social media or using the press to send \"ambiguous signals\" in the pursuit of resolving political issues.\n\n\"We have been tasked with designing the future of the country, which is different from playing to the gallery and collecting 'likes' on social media,\" he said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Queen: \"I am confident our common values and shared interests will continue to unite us\".\n\nPresident Donald Trump has praised the \"eternal friendship\" between the UK and US as he joined a state banquet at Buckingham Palace.\n\nThe Queen said the countries were celebrating an alliance which had ensured the \"safety and prosperity of both our peoples for decades\".\n\nThe president is in the UK for a three-day state visit, which includes the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings.\n\nEarlier in the day, Mr Trump criticised the mayor of London.\n\nHe tweeted that Sadiq Khan - who had said the UK should \"not roll out the red carpet\" for Mr Trump - was a \"stone cold loser\".\n\nBut in his speech at the banquet, Mr Trump praised the courage of the British people during World War Two and called the Queen a \"great, great woman\".\n\n\"In that dark hour, the people of this nation showed the world what it means to be British,\" he said, adding that their bravery ensured that the destiny of the country \"remained in your own hands\".\n\nMr Trump ended his speech with a toast to \"the eternal friendship of our people, the vitality of our nations and to the long-cherished and truly remarkable reign of Her Majesty the Queen\".\n\nThe Queen praised the two countries' role in creating an assembly of international institutions that would ensure \"the horrors of conflict would never be repeated\".\n\nOn Twitter before the banquet, Mr Trump praised the welcome from the Royal Family as \"fantastic\" and said the relationship with the UK is \"very strong\".\n\nHe also said a post-Brexit trade deal could happen once the UK removed the \"shackles\", adding: \"Already starting to talk!\"\n\nLarge-scale protests are planned in several UK cities during the three-day visit, including in London, where a \"national demonstration\" will start at Trafalgar Square at 11:00 on Tuesday.\n\nThe Duchess of Cambridge was escorted into the banquet by US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin\n\nThe banquet was held in the ballroom at Buckingham Palace\n\nThe American national anthem was played and Mr Trump was invited to inspect the guard of honour\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn - who boycotted the state dinner - is due to attend and speak at the London demonstration, a party spokesman has confirmed.\n\nEarlier, Mr Corbyn tweeted: \"Tomorrow's protest against Donald Trump's state visit is an opportunity to stand in solidarity with those he's attacked in America, around the world and in our own country - including, just this morning, Sadiq Khan.\"\n\nMr Trump's tweet about Mr Khan accused him of doing a \"terrible job\" as mayor, adding: \"[He] has been foolishly \"nasty\" to the visiting president of the United States, by far the most important ally of the United Kingdom. He is a stone cold loser who should focus on crime in London, not me.\"\n\nThe contrast could not have been starker. The President of the United States received a warm welcome from the Queen and the Prince of Wales at Buckingham Palace.\n\nThere were two 41-gun salutes - one for Mr Trump and another marking the 66th anniversary of the Queen's coronation on Sunday - as well as an honour guard of young Grenadiers resplendent in scarlet.\n\nAt the same time, Mr Trump launched a verbal attack on the mayor of the city in which he is now a guest, calling Sadiq Khan \"a stone cold loser\" for questioning why the president had been granted a state visit.\n\nIn truth, this is all of a piece for Mr Trump: he gets the pictures and the pageantry that he wants and will look good in his re-election campaign next year, and he gets to pick a fight with a liberal, Muslim politician that will play well with his base.\n\nAlready this row is forcing those campaigning to be Britain's prime minister to define themselves against Mr Trump.\n\nForeign Secretary Jeremy Hunt criticised Mr Khan for his \"great discourtesy\". But Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the office of the mayor of London should be respected in the same way one respects the office of the president.\n\nThis visit has only just begun and already the Great Disruptor is tweeting angry thoughts and breaching diplomatic niceties. Business as usual, you might think - only today he also happens to be a guest of the Queen, who rarely tweets and is always diplomatic.\n\nA spokesman for Mr Khan said \"childish insults\" should be beneath the US president, adding: \"Sadiq is representing the progressive values of London and our country, warning that Donald Trump is the most egregious example of a growing far-right threat around the globe.\"\n\nHouse of Commons Speaker John Bercow and Liberal Democrat leader Sir Vince Cable also boycotted the state banquet.\n\nThe Duchess of Sussex did not attend following the birth of her son Archie, who is less than a month old. On Sunday, Mr Trump denied calling the duchess \"nasty\", despite him using the word on tape.\n\nBut the guests included the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge as well as prominent Americans living in Britain.\n\nThe Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall posed with their visitors in the morning room at Clarence House\n\nThe president and first lady were given a tour of Westminster Abbey by the Dean of Westminster\n\nThe US president made his mark in the distinguished visitors' book at Westminster Abbey\n\nAs he stepped onto UK soil at Stansted Airport, Mr Trump was greeted by US Ambassador to the UK Woody Johnson and Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt.\n\nTory leadership candidate Mr Hunt, who has spoken about the importance of the UK's relationship with the US, said Mr Trump mentioned to him \"some of his very strong views about the mayor of London\".\n\nCrowds were gathered outside Buckingham Palace as the president and first lady landed by helicopter shortly after midday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Queen presented Mr Trump with a first edition of Sir Winston Churchill's book The Second World War, from 1959, with gilt decorations and hand-sewn bindings in the colours of the US flag. He was also given a three-piece Duofold pen set decorated with an EIIR emblem, in a design made exclusively for the monarch.\n\nMrs Trump received a specially commissioned silver box with a handcrafted enamel lid, decorated in royal blue with roses, thistles and shamrocks to represent the ceiling of Buckingham Palace's music room.\n\nAfter the private lunch, the Queen showed the couple American artefacts and other items from the Royal Collection. In a nod to the US leader's Scottish heritage, he was shown a bolt of Harris tweed.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mr and Mrs Trump laid a wreath at the grave of the unknown warrior as part of their UK state visit\n\nMr and Mrs Trump met the Duke of York at Westminster Abbey, where they laid a wreath at the grave of the unknown warrior.\n\nThe president signed the distinguished visitor's book in his customary black marker pen, describing the 13th Century church as a \"special place\".\n\nTheir next stop was Clarence House, where they joined Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall for tea.\n\nA quick walk around the crowd outside Buckingham Palace revealed the presence of supporters and detractors of Mr Trump - both equally strong in their views.\n\nPhillip Butah, from Essex, wearing a MAGA hat and describing himself and his companion as \"Trump activists\", says: \"We are so happy that he's here - this visit is long overdue.\"\n\nAsked what they expect the UK to get from this visit, they reply: \"Trade deals.\"\n\nCorey Wright, a 25-year-old American from Ohio, in London as a tourist, sees the visit in a similar light.\n\n\"I think the visit is good for the political environment,\" he says. \"I think that needs to be worked on and that's what he's here to do.\"\n\nAuriel Granville - a climate activist from Wimbledon, south-west London - came dressed as the Statue of Liberty to protest against the president's visit.\n\n\"I don't think he should be received in this way - climate change should be top of our agenda and Donald Trump is a climate change denier,\" she said.\n\nTalks between Mr Trump and outgoing Prime Minister Theresa May will begin on Tuesday. Although Mr Trump has spoken of his admiration for Mrs May, there are expected to be differences of opinion during their talks.\n\nThe prime minister will raise the issue of climate change, with a government spokesman again saying on Monday the UK was \"disappointed by the US decision to withdraw from the Paris Agreement in 2017\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe two leaders are also expected to discuss Huawei. The US has blacklisted the Chinese firm for security reasons, while the UK may allow it to supply \"non-core\" components for its 5G network.\n\nThe president's visit coincides with the commemorations for the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings, which the Queen, Mr Trump and other heads of state will attend at Portsmouth on Wednesday.\n\nAirmen from the RAF Regiment formed a guard of honour for the couple\n\nBefore the visit, President Trump told the Sun newspaper he was backing Conservative Party leadership contender Boris Johnson to be the next UK prime minister.\n\nHe also told the Sunday Times that Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage - an arch critic of Mrs May - should be involved in the government's negotiations to leave the EU.\n\nAlthough the Queen has met 12 of the 13 US presidents who have been in office during her reign, Mr Trump's state visit to the UK is only the third by a US leader.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Jonny Dymond on what to expect from President Trump's visit to the UK\n\nGeorge W Bush and Barack Obama are the only other US presidents to have been given a state visit.\n\nState visits differ from official visits and are normally at the invitation of the Queen, who acts on advice from the government. The Queen usually receives one or two heads of state per year and has hosted 112 of these visits since becoming monarch in 1952.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Everything outside gets dirty and it affects our chests - it's dreadful.\"\n\nIt has been branded an \"attack on nature\" by some and a \"godsend\" by others - but nearly 30 years of uncertainty is set to finally end with a decision on the M4 relief road.\n\nA statement on the £1.4bn project is expected on Tuesday.\n\nThe controversial 14-mile (23km) six-lane motorway would be built south of Newport to relieve congestion at the Brynglas tunnels.\n\nBut whether the road would bring relief depends where you live.\n\nVillagers in Magor, Monmouthshire, where the new road would split from the existing M4, have lived with the proposal for years. A relief road was first suggested in 1991.\n\nCarole Poultney says residents will lose their views\n\nVillagers say they will be \"surrounded\" by motorways if the plan goes ahead\n\nSome fear the new road would leave \"two-thirds of the village surrounded\" by motorway.\n\n\"I know people say 'not in my back yard' but for us, it really is going to feel that it's in our garden,\" said Carole Poultney, 63.\n\n\"We're keeping our fingers crossed. We've lived with this idea for a long time.\n\n\"We can already see and hear the motorway from our house but now it could be 50 yards from our back door.\"\n\nTheir homes are already close enough to the carriageway not to need the radio for traffic updates - they simply look out of the kitchen window.\n\nAnd as the England rugby team discovered when travelling to a Six Nations clash with Wales in Cardiff in February, it can sometimes take more than an hour to travel a few miles.\n\nBoth sides of the argument agree that \"something\" needs to be done to ease congestion. The question is... what?\n\nThe proposed M4 relief road would run to the south of Newport\n\nFor some Magor residents, the uncertainty is an issue.\n\n\"I'm really concerned because I don't know how this is going to affect us but it would have to be dreadful for me to actually pack up and leave,\" said Sandra Teale, 64.\n\n\"You can't have everything. People didn't want the services [a motorway service station at junction 23A] but when they came they brought work. We'll just have to get on with it.\"\n\nTonew Kennels in Redwick - home to up to 100 dogs, including strays and abandoned pets - lies almost directly in the path of the proposed route.\n\nKennel owner Mandy Jones said closing the business and family home would be \"heartbreaking\"\n\nCo-owner Mandy Jones said they are still unsure whether they might be the subject of a compulsory purchase order.\n\n\"I don't even want to think about leaving, it's just too upsetting,\" she said.\n\n\"It would be horrendous to leave. We've been here since 1967 when my father built this house. It's not just our business but the family home as well.\"\n\nThe kennels are located on the Gwent levels, described as \"Wales' own Amazon rainforest\" by conservationists who say the new motorway would be a \"direct attack on nature\".\n\nHowever, nine miles along the motorway to the infamous Brynglas tunnels and you arrive at the other side of the argument.\n\nThe decision on M4 relief road is due on Tuesday\n\nTerry and Janet Clark were the first to own their house on Bryn Bevan, Malpas, overlooking the tunnels, 45 years ago.\n\nThey say the volume of traffic has increased significantly since then, and they would welcome the construction of a relief road.\n\n\"It's dreadful living so close to the tunnels. It's noisy and dirty all the time because of the traffic. It's 24-7... It doesn't stop even for five minutes,\" said Mrs Clarke.\n\n\"It's terrible trying to get to sleep, especially in the summer on hot evenings, you can't have the windows open. Guests who come to stay don't get a wink of sleep.\n\n\"And the dust is a nightmare. Everything outside gets dirty and it affects our chests - we get quite a lot of coughs. So a relief road to divert some of the traffic away would be lovely.\"\n\n\"People think we're mad for living here,\" say Terry and Janet Clarke\n\nAfter tolls on the Severn bridges ended in December there was a rise in traffic of more than 10%.\n\nMr Clarke says the number of heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) has increased since too.\n\n\"There are a lot more lorries now - especially at night,\" he said.\n\n\"I know that's good for Wales and business, but not everyone has to live with it. Something has to be done - I just don't know why it's taken so long.\"\n\nNeighbours have become so accustomed to the \"constant drone\" of noise that they find moments when the motorway is closed - due to roadworks or an accident - as \"eerie\".\n\nSome are sceptical as to whether a relief road will solve the problem of ever-increasing traffic.\n\nHowever David Bird, who has raised a family in the shadow of the tunnels, believes it would be a \"godsend\".\n\nCommuter Steven Bird has to get up earlier because of rush hour traffic\n\nHis 30-year-old son Steven uses the M4 to commute most days to Bristol - an experience he describes as \"painful\".\n\n\"It's very easy for a 10-hour day to turn into a 12-hour day because you're stuck in traffic from the bridge.\n\n\"A relief road would make our lives easier - I could get to work on time, spend less time on the road and have more time to go about your day.\n\n\"It would also be quieter at home and perhaps house prices would go up a bit.\"\n\nIf you have any questions about the M4 relief road, use the form below to send them in:\n\nIf you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic.", "US president Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump laid a wreath at the grave of the unknown warrior in Westminster Abbey during the first day of their UK state visit.", "Macauley Negus was reunited with his father, Darren, after being released from custody\n\nThe Liverpool fan reported missing following the Champions League final has been released by Spanish police.\n\nThe family of Macauley Negus, 23, raised concerns after he disappeared while celebrating Liverpool's win in Madrid.\n\nIt later emerged he had been arrested on Saturday. He was released from custody on Monday night.\n\nIn a statement to the Plymouth Herald, his family said they were \"glad to be going home\" to Plymouth.\n\nThe family added it had been \"a roller coaster of 48 hours of worry, relief and a frenzy of international media attention\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA Swedish judge has rejected a request to detain Julian Assange in absentia, complicating hopes to extradite him from the UK.\n\nProsecutors said Assange had not co-operated with their investigation into a 2010 allegation of rape against the Wikileaks founder, and so should be remotely held for questioning.\n\nThis would have allowed them to move forward with steps to extradite him.\n\nBut the judge rejected the motion, as Assange is already detained in the UK.\n\nDetention in absentia is an ordinary procedure in Swedish law if a person is abroad or in hiding, and would allow the prosecution to issue a European Arrest Warrant and bring him to Sweden.\n\nSpeaking after the ruling, Eva-Marie Persson - Sweden's deputy director of public prosecutions - said the rape investigation would continue, and she would instead issue a European Investigation Order to question Assange.\n\nThe Australian claimed political asylum in London's Ecuadorean embassy seven years ago to avoid extradition to Sweden over the rape allegation, which he has repeatedly denied.\n\nSwedish prosecutors reopened their investigation in May a month after Assange was arrested and removed from the embassy.\n\nSwedish deputy director of public prosecutions Eva-Marie Persson said she would issue an order to question Assange\n\nThe Wikileaks founder, who is in jail for breaching UK bail conditions, is also facing extradition to the US on federal conspiracy charges related to leaks of government secrets.\n\nIf convicted on all counts, Assange could be sentenced to 175 years in prison.\n\nShould Sweden allow an extradition request, it would be up to the UK where he would eventually be sent.\n\nLast week UN Special Rapporteur Nils Melzer said the 47-year-old had suffered \"prolonged exposure to psychological torture\" and urged the UK not to extradite him.\n\nUK Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt however said Assange \"chose to hide\" from justice and asked Mr Melzer to \"allow British courts to make their judgements without his interference\".", "Mr Trump said he had turned down a request from Mr Corbyn to meet during the visit. A Labour spokesman said Mr Corbyn remained \"ready to engage with the president on a range of issues, including the climate emergency, threats to peace and the refugee crisis\"", "Jeremy Corbyn has said he will not attend the state banquet at Buckingham Palace in honour of Donald Trump.\n\nThe Labour leader argued it would be wrong to \"roll out the red carpet\" for the US president, whom he accused of using \"racist and misogynist rhetoric\".\n\nThe US-UK relationship did not need \"the pomp and ceremony\" of June's state visit, he added.\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May promised Mr Trump the honour after he was elected in 2016.\n\nCommons Speaker John Bercow and Liberal Democrat leader Sir Vince Cable have already declined to attend the dinner.\n\nIn a statement, Mr Corbyn said: \"Theresa May should not be rolling out the red carpet for a state visit to honour a president who rips up vital international treaties, backs climate change denial and uses racist and misogynist rhetoric.\n\n\"Maintaining an important relationship with the United States does not require the pomp and ceremony of a state visit. It is disappointing that the prime minister has again opted to kowtow to this US administration.\n\n\"I would welcome a meeting with President Trump to discuss all matters of interest.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA spokeswoman for Mr Bercow, who has been critical of Mr Trump's record in office, said he had been \"invited to the banquet, but he will not be attending\".\n\nThe SNP's Westminster leader Ian Blackford is also boycotting the meal, saying Mrs May \"should instead be holding meetings to challenge the US administration and raise key issues\".\n\nBut Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt has said the UK should offer \"the best possible welcome\" to the president.\n\nAnd Mrs May's spokesman said the prime minister was \"looking forward to welcoming the president here to build on our special relationship\".\n\nThe banquet is scheduled to take place on the first evening of the state visit, which will last from 3 to 5 June.\n\nAbout 150 guests are expected to be invited, including political leaders and other public figures with cultural, diplomatic and economic links to the US.\n\nDuring their visit, the president and First Lady Melania Trump will be guests of the Queen and attend a ceremony in Portsmouth to mark 75 years since the D-Day landings.\n\nMr Trump will also have official talks with the prime minister at Downing Street, although it is not yet clear whether he will address Parliament - as predecessors Barack Obama and Bill Clinton did - amid opposition from many MPs to the idea.\n\nLast July, Mr Trump's first visit to the UK since he became president in 2017 led to huge protests. He met the Queen and Mrs May hosted a banquet for him at Blenheim Palace.", "Victoria Buchanan ingested the bag of cocaine in an airport lounge\n\nA mother-of-three who swallowed a bag of cocaine after she checked in at Manchester Airport accidentally killed herself, an inquest concluded.\n\nVictoria Buchanan is thought to have ingested the drug after realising it was in her possession while waiting to fly home to Dubai in March last year.\n\nMoments later she collapsed and was taken to hospital where she died.\n\nAssistant coroner Andrew Bridge concluded her death was by misadventure.\n\nMrs Buchanan, 42, originally from Kilmarnock, Scotland, had moved to Dubai in 2010 and worked as a teacher in the United Arab Emirates, Manchester Coroner's Court heard.\n\nShe had earlier acquired £200 worth of the Class A drug during a family visit to the UK with her husband Mark.\n\nThe hearing was told she had been sitting drinking champagne in the first class airport lounge when she decided to swallow what was left in the hope of getting it back home.\n\nShe collapsed when the bag burst in her stomach.\n\nVictoria was a recreational user of cocaine when she was in the UK, her husband said\n\nOnlookers initially believed Mrs Buchanan was in anaphylactic shock and administered an EpiPen she had in her handbag for a palm oil allergy.\n\nThe re-sealable plastic bag of cocaine was discovered during a post-mortem examination.\n\nHer husband told the hearing taking small amounts of cocaine \"was something we did together\" and she would not have smuggled the drug for another person.\n\nMrs Buchanan's mother Irene Dignon said: \"We couldn't understand why she would risk something for such a small amount.\"\n\nMr Bridge said the cause of death was brain damage caused by cardiac arrest, which was brought on by cocaine intoxication.\n\n\"Why she took such a risk will never be known but I'm satisfied it was done of her own volition and there was no coercion or threat, there was no criminal activity and no charges have been brought,\" he said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "One of the UK's most high-profile stockpickers has suspended trading in his largest fund as rising numbers of investors ask for their money back.\n\nNeil Woodford said after \"an increased level of redemptions\", investors would not be allowed to \"redeem, purchase or transfer shares\" in the fund.\n\nInvestors have withdrawn about £560m from the fund over the past four weeks.\n\nKent County Council also wanted to withdraw its £263m investment, but was unable to do so before trading halted.\n\nIn a statement, the council said: \"The announcement on Monday that trading in the investment fund was suspended was not anticipated. KCC is disappointed that, as a major investor in the fund, we did not receive this prior notification.\n\n\"We do not know whether the decision to suspend trading was linked to the council's decision to redeem.\"\n\nA stockpicker - or fund manager - analyses the potential of different stocks to try to decide whether or not they will make a good investment.\n\nAt its peak, the Woodford Equity Income fund managed £10.2bn worth of assets, such as local authority pension funds.\n\nHowever, it now manages £3.7bn, according to the financial services and research firm Morningstar.\n\nMr Woodford's firm, Woodford Investment Management, is also the biggest investor in Kier Group, the construction and services group which on Monday warned on profits, sending its shares crashing 41%.\n\nIt is understood that the fall in Kier's share price is not connected to the decision to suspend trading in the Woodford Equity Income fund.\n\nThe firm said the suspension would give it \"time to reposition the element of the fund's portfolio invested in unquoted and less liquid stocks, in to more liquid investments\".\n\nThe Financial Conduct Authority, the city watchdog, said: \"The FCA is aware of this situation and in contact with the firms involved to ensure that actions undertaken are in the best interests of all the fund's investors.\"\n\nDaniel Godfrey, an adviser to fund management groups, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that Neil Woodford was \"one of the finest fund managers that Britain's ever produced, although clearly he is having a dark and terrible moment.\"\n\nHe believes Mr Woodford could bounce back from this blow.\n\n\"There could be a new dawn and it's not necessarily the end,\" he said.\n\n\"It's clearly a very dark and difficult moment for Neil Woodford and his business and there may well have to be a hit to valuations to get rid of some of the unlisted holdings. But from there it'll still be probably a reasonably big fund.\n\n\"It could well be the case that in five years' time, we're looking at it and anyone who bought when it reopens will have had a great performance.\"\n\nThe suspension of Mr Woodford's Equity Income fund has hit shares in fund platform Hargreaves Lansdown, which included the fund in its flagship list of share recommendations, Wealth 50.\n\nHargreaves removed the fund from its recommendation list on Monday, but investors have not responded positively.\n\nShares in the company have slumped more than 4%, leaving it the biggest loser in the FTSE 100.\n\nMr Woodford launched his own fund five years ago this month, with its corporate headquarters in Oxford.\n\nIn its first year, it gave investors a return of 18% on their money, compared with an average rise of only 2% on the London Stock Exchange at the time.\n\nHowever, after the figures were released he warned: \"It's far too early to conclude that the fund's strategy has worked.\"\n\nBefore that, the 59-year-old had worked as part of the UK equities team at investment managers Invesco Perpetual for more than 26 years.\n\nHe was appointed a CBE for his services to the economy in 2013.\n\nThanks to the banking crisis a decade ago, we know what a \"liquidity\" crisis looks like. When a bank's customers all want their money back at the same time, it fails; no modern lender holds enough reserves to cope with the outflow.\n\nNeil Woodford's problems are a fund-management version of that old-fashioned bank run. Investors in the Woodford Equity Income fund have been asking for their money back at a rapid rate - about £10m a week. Unlike a bank, the fund has all the money - but it is invested in a series of companies.\n\nTo come up with the cash at once, the fund would be forced into a fire sale, with the result that investors would almost certainly get back less - much less - than they put in.\n\nThe situation has been exacerbated by Woodford's choice of investments - many of the public companies, like Kier, Circassia and Purplebricks, have turned out to be dogs, while about 10% of the fund is in non-quoted companies, whose shares are not listed on a public stock exchange.\n\nSelling those shares can be difficult and time-consuming, so the fund has decided to stop the rot and end withdrawals. We do not know when they will resume; while the gates are up, the fund's management will be scrabbling to raise cash.\n\nThe big question now is what next for Woodford?\n\nPeople invested with him for one reason - his reputation as a canny stockpicker who was happy to defy market convention and produced better-than-average results.\n\nIf that reputation is shot - and on top of that he has stopped people from accessing their money - then the reason to choose him over his rivals has been lost.", "Thousands of people attended the 2018 event at Drumlanrig Castle in 2018\n\nThe Electric Fields music festival has been cancelled less than two months after it was moved from southern Scotland to a new venue in Glasgow.\n\nMetronomy, The Vaccines and Frank Turner were among the acts due to perform at the event between 4-6 July.\n\nOrganisers announced in April that they were moving the festival from Drumlanrig Castle in Dumfries and Galloway to SWG3 in Finnieston.\n\nHowever, on Tuesday they confirmed the event would not now go ahead.\n\nThe announcement followed fans' complaints on social media, after attempts to buy tickets via the Electric Fields website were greeted with the message: \"This show has been cancelled\".\n\nFans trying to buy tickets via the Electric Fields website were told the show was cancelled\n\nIt included a Manchester-based number for the festival's ticketing company, Ticketline, for fans wishing to claim a refund.\n\nOn Tuesday afternoon, Electric Fields posted a statement on their Facebook page saying it was \"with a heavy heart\" the festival had now been cancelled.\n\nIt said: \"This decision has not come lightly and we have put in our all to try avoid this outcome, however we have been faced with challenges that we simply cannot overcome.\n\n\"As of today, Electric Fields ceases trading. For information on ticket refunds, please contact your location of purchase.\n\n\"We cannot thank you enough for your support over the years and we are truly sorry that we have not been able to make this work.\"\n\nIt continued: \"Never did we think the party we threw in a field in Thornhill for 100 of our friends would turn into a party for 7,000 in the grounds of a castle. Especially not in five short years.\n\n\"But it did, and that is thanks to all of you who came along and made it what it was.\"\n\nOne fan who had previously attended the festival but was given a refund last month after the switch to Glasgow explained why he had asked for his money back.\n\nIain Kyle said: \"It was a great family weekend and it introduced the kids to some fantastic music they may otherwise not have experienced.\n\n\"The move to SWG3 just killed the whole vibe for me as it was no longer going to be time away and highly unlikely to be a similar atmosphere.\n\n\"It is a fairly congested market in Glasgow with TRNSMT and Summer Sessions already and they lost that family-friendly feature which made it so different.\"\n\nIn April, Electric Fields blamed \"ongoing logistical and transport challenges\" for the decision to leave Drumlanrig.\n\nSWG3 said that fans who had bought tickets for the event once it had been moved to Glasgow via the venue's ticket provider, Ticketweb, would receive refunds within 14-28 days.\n\nA spokeswoman for SWG3 added that this would apply to about 80 customers.\n\nMore than 8,000 fans saw Noel Gallagher in action last year\n\nLast year's festival is estimated to have generated £1.5m for the local economy in southern Scotland.\n\nMore than 8,000 watched the Friday night headliner - Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - in an attendance record for the festival.", "They are often notable for what goes wrong - did a visiting president break protocol by addressing one of the royals incorrectly? Did a soldier with a bearskin hat faint in the heat while on parade? God forbid anyone used the wrong golden fork at the state dinner.\n\nWhether or not in the next few days it is revealed that one of the Trump offspring took a selfie with the corgis, or the Duchess of Cambridge let Melania Trump try on her tiara in the Ladies, strip away all the excess and it's really about an expression of power.\n\nIn the next couple of days, we'll see an important marking of the passage of time since decisive days in World War Two.\n\nThere will be tributes to the bravery and sacrifice of the Allied forces, and restatements of the US and the UK's commitment to a relationship that is vital for both, and will endure.\n\nBut the political cast, as ever, has a great bearing on how well the relationship between the UK and the US can work.\n\nJoint appearances by Theresa May and Donald Trump have been outwardly at least, extremely awkward. That's in part because he has the habit of giving his unvarnished view of her government before he touches down, splashing controversy around in the way he so clearly enjoys.\n\nIt's also been because the contrast between them is just so profound. He, the tycoon who seems to adore breaking the political rules, who vaulted his way to the Oval Office taking the US establishment by surprise.\n\nShe, the careful politician who gradually inched her way upwards through the machine of the political party she loves and hoped to protect. Mr Trump, who relishes baiting those who disagree with him, and taunting the media. Mrs May, who gives the impression she would rather be left alone with her red boxes.\n\nThis time that difference is all the greater because the prime minister is on her way out of the door, while the president seeks another term in office.\n\nThey will have some discussions on Tuesday certainly. No 10 is expected to urge the White House to take climate change more seriously, and to think carefully about its approach to Iran.\n\nIn the other direction, expect the US to raise concerns over involving the Chinese telecoms firm Huawei in developing British infrastructure, and of course, the tentative conversations there have already been about trading after Brexit are likely to continue.\n\nBut don't expect dramatic joint announcements on Tuesday. If the political outcomes are a barometer of power, the truth is that Theresa May's is fading - with the US and Donald Trump having at least half an eye on who is coming next.", "Icy conditions have swept across eastern Australia, bringing snow to areas as far north as subtropical Queensland.\n\nAustralia's Bureau of Meteorology described it as a \"rare\" sight, noting the state had not experienced significant snowfall since 2015.\n\nSevere weather warnings have also been issued for a 1,000km (620 miles) stretch of coast which includes Sydney.\n\nPeople have been urged to stay indoors amid heavy rain and gale-force winds.\n\nMeteorologist Lachlan Stone said the snowfall in Queensland, driven by colder air from the south, was an unusual occurrence in a state with a sub-tropical to tropical climate.\n\n\"But in the south of the state, particularly near the New South Wales border, it's quite mountainous and in the elevated areas it can get quite cold,\" he told the BBC.\n\nOnline, many were quick to comment on the scenes in Australia's \"sunshine state\" - as it is more typically known.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAuthorities said that snow had fallen near the town of Stanthorpe, 220km south-west of Brisbane.\n\nThe town recorded near-freezing temperatures on Tuesday, said Mr Stone.\n\nUp to 5cm of snow also blanketed the Blue Mountains region, west of Sydney, prompting road closures and travel warnings.\n\nThe weather bureau said strong winds along the New South Wales coastline had been blowing in excess of 90km/h (55mph).\n\nAuthorities warned that the severe weather would cause travel delays\n\n\"These winds will whip up heavy surf conditions, making coastal activities dangerous,\" it said in a statement.\n\nFerry services in Sydney Harbour were also suspended due to the rough conditions.\n\nJune marks the beginning of winter in Australia.\n\nThe nation has just experienced its hottest summer on record and recent extreme weather events including drought, floods and bushfires.\n\nAustralians are more concerned about climate change than at any point in the past decade, a recent poll by the Lowy Institute found.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA \"pumping\" patch containing millions of living, beating stem cells could help repair the damage caused by a heart attack, according to researchers.\n\nSewn on to the heart, the 3cm (1in) by 2cm patch, grown in a lab from a sample of the patient's own cells, then turns itself into healthy working muscle.\n\nIt also releases chemicals that repair and regenerate existing heart cells.\n\nTests in rabbits show it appears safe, Imperial College London experts told a leading heart conference in Manchester.\n\nPatient trials should start in the next two years, the British Cardiovascular Society meeting heard.\n\nA heart attack happens when a clogged artery blocks blood flow to the heart muscle, starving it of oxygen and nutrients.\n\nThis can damage the heart's pumping power and lead to incurable heart failure.\n\nHeart failure affects about 920,000 people in the UK.\n\nResearcher Dr Richard Jabbour said: \"One day, we hope to add heart patches to the treatments that doctors can routinely offer people after a heart attack.\n\n\"We could prescribe one of these patches alongside medicines for someone with heart failure, which you could take from a shelf and implant straight in to a person.\"\n\nProf Metin Avkiran, from the British Heart Foundation, which funded the research, said: \"Heart failure is a debilitating and life-changing condition with no cure, making everyday tasks incredibly difficult.\n\n\"If we can patch the heart up and help it heal, we could transform the outlook for these people.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "There has been a recent rise in the number of migrants attempting to reach Britain from across the English Channel\n\nA French court has sentenced an imam to two years in prison for helping migrants try to cross the English Channel in inflatable boats.\n\nThe 39-year-old Iranian national was accused of arranging several crossings from northern France to England.\n\nA 29-year-old Senegalese man who attended the mosque where the imam preaches also stood trial.\n\nHe was given nine months in jail and was banned from visiting Nord and Pas-de-Calais for three years.\n\nThe imam, who has not been named in French media, fainted upon hearing his sentence.\n\nThe men admitted providing six or seven dinghies after they were arrested in April, French newspaper Le Figaro reported.\n\nThe investigation started in late March when life jackets, wet pullovers and a rubber dinghy were discovered on a beach in northern France.\n\nAccording to the prosecution, the imam was in contact with organised gangs of traffickers and took a commission on the sale of each boat.\n\nPolice found two boats, three outboard engines and life jackets in the imam's house. The two men confessed to buying seven boats between December 2018 and April 2019.\n\nThe imam claimed he visited a shop in Deulemont, on the border with Belgium, to purchase dinghies for a person he identified only as Kamal.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Thousands of migrants are still losing their lives trying to reach Europe by boat\n\nBoth defendants claimed they only realised later that the boats were being used for illegal Channel crossings.\n\n\"When I learnt that, I thought of the children on board and I told myself there could have been deaths,\" the Senegalese man told the court. The imam said he was \"ashamed\".\n\nProsecutors said their explanations \"did not reflect reality\" and that the Iranian national was often in the areas where the boats were discovered.\n\nThere has been a recent spike in the number of migrants trying to cross the Channel in boats, despite the risk of dangerous currents, cold waters and collisions.", "Jay-Z has become the world's first hip-hop billionaire, according to US business magazine Forbes.\n\nIt says even a \"conservative estimate\" of his earnings has him breaking the billion dollar barrier.\n\nAlongside music, his fortune includes more than $410m (£300m) invested in alcohol companies and a roughly $70m stake in Uber.\n\nJay-Z, real name Shawn Carter, grew up in one of New York's roughest neighbourhoods.\n\nWidely considered one of the best rappers of all time, he once declared: \"I'm not a businessman - I'm a business, man\".\n\nAnd it looks like he was right.\n\nHis music rights alone, Forbes says, are now collectively worth around $75m - with another $75m for his entertainment company, Roc Nation. As well as putting out music by the likes of Rihanna and J. Cole, it also works with athletes and makes films and TV shows.\n\nThen there's $100m for the streaming service Tidal - a rival to Apple Music and Spotify that he launched back in 2015.\n\nThat necklace alone has got to be worth a few quid...\n\nJay-Z and wife Beyonce have got several mansions in places like New York and Los Angeles - and, as a couple, Forbes gave them billionaire status two years ago.\n\nHistorically, though, not everyone has been on board with Forbes' evaluations.\n\nBack in 2014, Dr. Dre declared himself a billionaire, but the magazine disputes this.\n\nJay-Z has stakes in alcohol companies Armand de Brignac champagne and D'Usse cognac\n\nLast year, it estimated Dr. Dre was actually worth a meagre $770m (£607m) - that's despite selling his headphone brand, Beats by Dre, to Apple for more than $3.2bn.\n\nDiddy is the other big name rapper in the race, worth about $825m (£650m).\n\nThere's no comment from Jay-Z.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 every weekday on BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra - if you miss us you can listen back here.", "The tweets followed recent criticism of Mr Trump from Mr Khan, who said the UK should not be \"rolling out the red carpet\" for the US president during the trip", "Wes Studi first caught the public's attention for his role in Dances with Wolves\n\nNearly 50 years ago, Marlon Brando famously declined his Oscar for The Godfather over Hollywood's treatment of Native Americans.\n\nHe sent Native American actor and activist Sacheen Littlefeather on stage to refuse the award on his behalf on stage at the 1973 ceremony.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Oscars This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nAnd it's taken a mere 46 years for a Native American actor to finally be honoured with an Oscar.\n\nWes Studi has been given the honorary award for career achievement.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Wes Studi This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCanadian native musician Buffy Sainte-Marie shared a best original song Oscar in 1982 but Studi's acting honour will be seen by many as a further step in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' continuing attempts to embrace diversity.\n\nIn June last year, AMPAS invited 928 artists and executives to join - almost half of whom are women and over a third from minorities.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What's happened since the the #OscarsSoWhite controversy of 2015\n\nHollywood's complicated relationship with Native Americans goes back to the earliest movies set in the Wild West.\n\nAside from largely ignoring the presence of black cowboys - they largely stuck to negative racist stereotypes of Native people, often portraying them as savage.\n\nWes Studi's honour is 'long overdue' - Joy Porter, professor of Indigenous History at the University of Hull\n\nThis is yet another sign of Native Americans on the up. It comes after unprecedented numbers of Native Americans ran for public office in 2018, a record number of them female. The Native population in the States is significantly younger than the average American and numbers are rising fast - more than five million identify as American Indian or Alaskan Native and about 78% are living off reservation.\n\nOf course, this award is long overdue, since Wes Studi has been working extremely hard at an exceptional level for a very long time - he's 71. He went to Chilocco Indian School, fought in Vietnam and overcame great odds to succeed.\n\nStudi played Magua in The Last of the Mohicans\n\nIt's regrettable that to work in the mainstream he's had to be in some heavily stereotyped movies, such as Kevin Costner's Dances With Wolves (1990) and Last of the Mohicans (1992). Colonialism is full of ironies, and it's especially ironic in this case that the first Native Oscar goes to a man who has achieved success often playing an 'Indian chief', when in truth, in a great many Native communities, women often led and historically played key roles in diplomacy and war.\n\nThe bottom line though is that Wes Studi is superbly talented and a credit to his Cherokee people. He spoke Tsalagi, his people's language, when he introduced a montage at the 2018 Oscars. He's a veteran who fought for his country, as so many other Natives have in all America's great conflicts - it's refreshing to see America recognise one of the very best.\n\nIt's also suggested Hollywood often plundered real stories of minority cowboys as material for some of its films.\n\nDaniel Day Lewis (right) also starred in The Last of the Mohicans\n\nThe Lone Ranger TV series is believed to have been inspired by Bass Reeves, a black lawman who used disguises, had a Native American sidekick and went through his whole career without being shot.\n\nMore recently of course, the #OscarsSoWhite campaign, which began in 2015, highlighted the fact that there was not a single ethnic minority acting nominee for two years in a row.\n\nStudi (third-left) starred alongside Ben Stiller and Hank Azaria in the superhero spoof Mystery Men\n\nSince then, we've seen the likes of Black Panther, with a predominantly black cast, get a best picture nomination at the Oscars.\n\nLion, Get Out, Hidden Figures and Moonlight have also figured, although it's impossible to know for sure if this is down to the Academy's changes in 2016.\n\nStudi's other film credits include Geronimo: An American Legend and Avatar. More recently, he starred in TV hit Penny Dreadful.\n\nMeanwhile, filmmakers David Lynch and Lina Wertmuller will also receive honorary prizes at a Governors Awards ceremony in the US on 27 October.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Sudanese security forces have attacked a pro-democracy protest camp outside military headquarters in the nation's capital, Khartoum.\n\nSources in Sudan say that at least 30 people have been killed, with many more injuries reported.\n\nThere have been protests in Sudan since last December. In April they caused former President Omar al-Bashir to stand down after 30 years in power.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What do shoppers think about Waitrose's trial?\n\nWaitrose is starting a trial aimed at reducing packaging by removing plastic from flowers and plants and offering more loose fruit and vegetables.\n\nCustomers will be able to use their own containers to buy and refill produce such as pasta, rice and cereals.\n\nThe supermarket chain, part of John Lewis & Partners, also says it will be the first to offer \"pick and mix\" frozen fruit.\n\nIt says it wants to find out how people might shop in the future.\n\nThe trial is taking place at a store in Oxford where Waitrose says hundreds of products have been taken out of their packaging and there will be about double the usual amount of fruit and vegetables package-free.\n\nIn what it describes as a first in the UK, customers will be able to \"borrow a box' to take their produce home for a £5 deposit which is refundable when the box is returned.\n\nWine and beer refills will also be offered as will Ecover detergent and washing up liquid.\n\nThe trial is the latest among the major supermarkets to try to cut down on packaging.\n\nAccording to a report by Greenpeace last year, Morrisons, Sainsbury's, Waitrose and Tesco allow customers to use their own reusable containers for certain products bought over the counter, such as meat and fish.\n\nSince then, at the World Economic Forum in Davos in January, Tesco and French supermarket Carrefour have said they would trial an online shopping service based on refillable rather than recyclable containers.\n\nAt the time, they said a limited number of items such as toiletries, ice cream and breakfast cereals will be available to testers who sign up to the trial.\n\nProduce in Waitrose's unpacked refill stations will be up to 15% cheaper and consumers will be encouraged to use their own containers apart from for beer and wine and Ecover products.\n\nWaitrose said the frozen pick and mix fruit - such as mango, strawberries and cherries - at 50p per 100g would be cheaper per 100g than the packaged equivalent.\n\nTor Harris, head of corporate social responsibility for Waitrose, said the chain wanted to \"help the growing number of customers who want to shop in a more sustainable way\".\n\n\"This test has huge potential to shape how people might shop with us in the future so it will be fascinating to see which concepts our customers have an appetite for,\" she said.\n\nAriana Densham, ocean plastics campaigner for Greenpeace UK, said: \"The top 10 UK supermarkets produce 810,000 tonnes of throwaway packaging each year, so we need to see other major retailers taking plastic reduction seriously and following Waitrose's lead.\"\n\nSupermarkets have been cutting down on the use of plastic bags.\n\nLast month, Morrisons started selling paper bags in all its stores while Co-op has been using compostable bags to replace single-use plastic bags in some stores.\n\nWaitrose no longer offers 5p single-use carrier bags although sells other bags for 10p each.", "The US has said China is playing a \"blame game,\" misrepresenting trade talks between the two countries.\n\nIn a statement, the Trump administration also accused China of \"backpedalling\" on trade agreements.\n\nThe comments come in response to Beijing's release of a paper blaming Washington for the setback in talks.\n\nThe US reignited the trade war last month by raising tariffs on billions of dollars worth of Chinese goods, prompting Beijing to retaliate.\n\nThe two countries have been in an escalating conflict over trade for the past year. The scope of the battle has expanded in recent months as Washington has tightened trade restrictions on Chinese telecoms giant Huawei.\n\nHopes for an imminent trade deal were shattered in May after the Trump administration more than doubled tariffs on $200bn (£157.9bn) of Chinese imports and threatened additional duties.\n\n\"Our negotiating positions have been consistent throughout these talks, and China backpedalled on important elements of what the parties had agreed to,\" a statement from the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) said.\n\nThe statement said the US was \"disappointed\" the Chinese had chosen in recent public statements \"to pursue a blame game misrepresenting the nature and history of trade negotiations between the two countries\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBeijing released a \"White Paper\" on Sunday, which set out China's position in trade talks including some of its prerequisites for a deal.\n\nIn the paper, China said in order to reach a deal \"the US should remove all additional tariffs imposed on Chinese exports\".\n\nWhile China was willing to work together with the US to reach a \"mutually beneficial and win-win agreement\", the paper said \"mutual respect\" was key.\n\n\"One side should not cross the other's 'red lines'. The right to development cannot be sacrificed, still the less can sovereignty be undermined,\" it said.\n\nSticking points throughout US-China trade talks have included whether and how fast to roll back tariffs, as well as how to enforce any trade deal.\n\nThe US has wanted to keep tariffs in place as part of the enforcement mechanism and to be the sole arbiter of whether China had broken the terms of the deal, analysts say.\n\n\"Our insistence on detailed and enforceable commitments from the Chinese in no way constitutes a threat to Chinese sovereignty,\" the USTR said.\n\nThe trade war is already weighing on the global economy and China's \"White Paper\" laid out some of its impact so far.\n\nChina's export volumes to the US fell by 9.7% year-on-year in the first four months of 2019 due to the US tariff measures.\n\nAccording to Chinese statistics, direct investment by Chinese companies into the US dropped 10% year-on-year in 2018, the paper said.\n\nNo official trade talks have been scheduled since the last round ended in May.\n\nChinese President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump are expected to meet at the G20 meeting of leaders in Japan later this month.", "Sadiq Khan and members of the emergency services were among those who attended evensong\n\nMemorial services have been held at Southwark Cathedral to mark the second anniversary of the London Bridge terror attack.\n\nEight people were killed and 48 seriously injured when three men drove into pedestrians before stabbing people in Borough Market on 3 June 2017.\n\nAn evensong began at 17:30 BST while a special prayer service finished at 22:16 - the time the attack ended.\n\nAn inquest into the eight deaths has been adjourned until Tuesday.\n\nXavier Thomas, 45, Christine Archibald, 30, Sara Zelenak, 21, Sebastien Belanger, 36, James McMullan, 32, Kirsty Boden, 28, Alexandre Pigeard, 26, and Ignacio Echeverria, 39, were all killed in the attack.\n\nThe Old Bailey inquest into their deaths is on its 19th day of live evidence.\n\nIt has heard the attackers stalked people like \"predators\" and 12-inch pink kitchen knives which had been bought from a Lidl supermarket weeks earlier were used during the attack.\n\nLawyers representing several victims' families also told the inquest there were \"opportunities galore\" to identify that the London Bridge extremists were plotting an attack.\n\nKhuram Shazad Butt, Rachid Redouane and Youssef Zaghba were shot by armed police at Borough Market during their rampage.\n\nEight people died in the attack on 3 June 2017\n\nPC Wayne Marques, who confronted the three attackers with only his baton to protect him, gave a reading at evensong.\n\nHe was temporarily blinded in one eye as the three attackers slashed at him with their knives.\n\nPC Wayne Marques, who confronted the three attackers, gave a reading at evensong\n\nA tree has been planted in the churchyard using compost created from floral tributes laid on London Bridge in the aftermath of the attack.\n\nThe later prayer service got under way at 21:58, the time the attack began, and concluded with a moment of silence at 22:16.\n\nBorough Market traders marked the anniversary with flags flying at half-mast.\n\nThe mayor of London said the anniversary would be \"no less difficult\" for those affected.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with the victims' families and all those who were injured,\" Sadiq Khan said.\n\nEmergency services including the Met Police have also paid tribute to those who died, as well as recalling \"the bravery of the officers and the public who confronted danger\".\n\nFlowers left following the attack have been composted and used to plant the \"tree of healing\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'He wasn't alone' - Morgan's parents talk about their son's last moments\n\nThe parents of one of three teenagers who died in a crush outside a hotel have said serious questions must be asked about the actions of the police.\n\nJimmy Bradley and Maria Barnard's 17-year-old son, Morgan Barnard, was fatally injured in a queue for a disco at the Greenvale Hotel in Cookstown, County Tyrone.\n\nLauren Bullock, 17, and 16-year-old Connor Currie also lost their lives.\n\nThe PSNI has already referred the case to the Police Ombudsman.\n\nPolice previously acknowledged there are questions about why the first officers on the scene withdrew to await support.\n\nThe PSNI previously said an investigation was required to fully establish the facts and it was awaiting the outcome of an independent Police Ombudsman's investigation.\n\nLast week, PSNI Chief Constable George Hamilton apologised for comments he made about the PSNI's initial response.\n\nThe Greenvale Hotel was hosting a St Patrick's Day disco on the night of 17 March and hundreds of young people were queuing to get in.\n\nThe victims were Lauren Bullock, 17, Morgan Barnard, 17, and 16-year-old Connor Currie\n\nIn their first sit-down interview since their son's death, Morgan's parents said they wanted to know if his life could have been saved.\n\n\"We want to get to the absolute truth, from start to finish, the absolute truth and accountability from whoever that may be,\" his father told BBC News NI.\n\n\"And of course prevention in the future, so this doesn't happen another young person.\n\n\"There are questions to be answered after the police arrived, those questions are with the ombudsman who are going to come to a conclusion and not an opinion.\n\n\"If those questions don't get to the truth for myself, Maria and Morgan, well then it may well be the case that we need an independent inquiry to get to the truth of why our son died at the Greenvale Hotel that night.\"\n\nMaria Barnard and Jimmy Bradley received an apology from the chief constable\n\nMorgan's parents also revealed they were contacted after their son's death by a young man who comforted Morgan as he lay fatally injured.\n\n\"We spoke to a young guy who wasn't a friend of Morgan's but who stayed with him until paramedics reached him while he was lying in the ground,\" Mr Bradley said.\n\n\"He called to our house to let us know, he didn't even know Morgan, he just called to let us know he wasn't alone.\"\n\nMaria Barnard described her distress when she received a telephone call informing her that something had gone wrong at the hotel and her son might have been hurt.\n\n\"I hung up the phone and I was panicking and I rang Craigavon Hospital,\" she said.\n\n\"The nurse asked if he had any distinguishing marks and I said no he's just a normal teenage lad, tall, fair hair.\n\n\"She asked if he wore braces and once she said that, I just knew.\"\n\nThe couple said their son \"lit up the room\" and was adored by his siblings.\n\nLast week, the couple received a public apology from PSNI Chief Constable George Hamilton for comments he made about the PSNI's initial response.\n\nIn April, Mr Hamilton had described the actions of the officers who were first on the scene as \"brave\" but he added there were \"questions to answer\" as they held back to await support.\n\nMorgan Barnard's family said they had found the chief constable's comments extremely hurtful, and asked him for the private meeting.\n\nAfter the meeting last Thursday, Mr Hamilton apologised for describing officers' actions as \"brave\".\n\n\"No public commentary by me or any police officer will detract from the independent investigation,\" he added.\n\nOn 26 March, nine days after the teenagers' deaths, the PSNI confirmed Mr Hamilton had referred the case to the Police Ombudsman for \"independent scrutiny\" of the actions of the first officers on the scene.\n\nThey arrived at the hotel grounds shortly after receiving a 999 call on the night of 17 March.\n\nDeputy Chief Constable Stephen Martin said in a previous statement: \"Following their initial assessment they made attempts to establish more detail and information about what was happening and subsequently withdrew to await further police support.\n\n\"When the first ambulance arrived police moved forward in support of them.\"\n\nTwo men arrested as part of a criminal investigation into the crush remain on bail.", "Nigel Farage says he will not attend a committee investigating whether he broke European Parliament rules by accepting funding from Leave campaigner Arron Banks.\n\nThe Brexit Party leader has said he did not declare the £450,000 sum to the assembly because at the time, he was about to leave politics and had been seeking a new life in the US.\n\nHe said he had only been given 24 hours' notice to attend a meeting of the committee on Wednesday, which he branded a \"kangaroo court\".\n\nThe payments from Mr Banks were revealed by a Channel 4 News investigation last month.\n\nItems paid for by him included Mr Farage's London home, his car and trips to the US to meet Donald Trump.\n\nThe committee had invited Mr Farage to appear in person to discuss his finances, but said it would have to be on Wednesday to fit it in before the end of the parliamentary session.\n\nHe was not under any obligation to appear before the committee, which will examine the case before advising European Parliament President Antonio Tajani.\n\nMEPs found to have acted improperly can be reprimanded, their parliamentary allowance can be withheld or they can be banned from some activities.\n\nArron Banks has said he had \"willingly helped Farage and was honoured to do so\", adding: \"This was all designed to help Nigel get out of politics.\"\n\nMr Farage insisted he did not receive \"any private money for political purposes\".\n\n\"This committee would better spend its time investigating the waste of public money by well-known MEPs,\" he added.\n\nMr Farage has been a member of the European Parliament since 1999.\n\nHe led UKIP in the run-up to the 2016 EU referendum, campaigning alongside Leave.EU, of which Mr Banks was a major financier.\n\nMr Farage stepped down as leader later the same year, but remained as an MEP before launching The Brexit Party in March this year.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nApple has announced that iTunes is to be replaced by Apple Music, Apple Podcasts and Apple TV.\n\nThere had been speculation that the tech giant was planning to shutter the music service it launched in 2001.\n\nThe firm also revealed a number of new privacy measures at its annual developer conference in San Jose.\n\nA new sign-in will be an alternative to logging into apps using social media accounts, hiding the user's email address and data.\n\niTunes will remain unchanged on Windows platforms, and downloads will still be available in a sidebar on the Apple Music app for Macs.\n\nThe announcements were made at the WWDC conference, where the tech giant outlines its software plans for the months ahead.\n\nApple's new sign in includes an email address-hiding function\n\nApple announced several new privacy measures, building on last year's event where it pledged to jam Facebook's tracking tools.\n\n\"Privacy is a fundamental human right,\" said Apple's software chief Craig Federighi.\n\nHe said that there will be an option for apps which request location information to have to ask every time they require it, and they will be blocked from using other markers, such as identifying Wi-Fi or Bluetooth signals.\n\nApple is also launching a sign-in-with-Apple login, as an alternative to logging in to a service using a social media account.\n\nUsing this login, users can choose to hide their email address, with Apple creating a random alternative address which will forward to the real mailbox.\n\n\"The unveiling of 'Sign-in With Apple' will concern rivals, particularly the web giants,\" commented Ben Wood from CCS Insight.\n\n\"Existing sign-in services provide a simple means for single sign-in across the web. Privacy is the differentiator that will be heavily emphasised versus Facebook and Google, and represents a great marketing tool for Apple's broader privacy stance.\"\n\niOS 13 introduces Dark Mode, where apps are displayed on a black background\n\nThe next iteration of the iPhone's operating system - iOS 13 - includes a range of changes to its interface, as well as new functions.\n\nThe new Dark Mode enables iPhone apps to be viewed with a black background, while the Apple Maps app will come with a virtual tour experience similar to Google's Street View.\n\nOther key features include the option to silence unknown callers and block senders within the Mail app, improved search in messages, and optimised battery charging.\n\nApple has also made improvements to its language keyboards, including the introduction of new bilingual keyboards and typing predictions for Arabic, Hindi, Thai, Cantonese, Vietnamese and the 22 official Indian languages.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by desiperkins This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOther news from the conference included:\n\nThe Apple Watch now comes with multiple new watch faces\n\nThe Apple Watch is to become more independent from the iPhone with its own app store.\n\nNew apps for the Watch include a menstrual cycle tracker, with an optional fertility window predictor, and a noise level tool to alert Watch wearers when they are around noise levels that can damage hearing.\n\nApple said it would not record or store the noise data.\n\nThe tech giant also unveiled a redesigned Mac Pro complete with a 28-core Intel processor and 6k retina display screen, which is 40% larger than the current iMac display screen.\n\nIt will launch in the autumn with prices starting at $5,999 (£4,700) - this does not include the screen or stand.\n\nAnd instead of buying additional monitors, existing Mac users will now be able to use the iPad as a second screen.\n\nTuong Nguyen, senior principal analyst at Gartner, said this year's event had a different feel to its predecessors, following on from Apple's last announcements which saw it reposition itself as a provider of services, rather than hardware.\n\n\"Typically at WWDC you might see it begin with something interesting, in terms of how devices are used or how apps interact, but this time it kicked off with a video that looked more like a movie trailer,\" he said.\n\n\"Is this the new way we should see Apple events, more rooted in the media content side of things, rather than the strong emphasis on technology and hardware innovation?\n\n\"Remember, the last event was all about services and content - this may be the new way that Apple differentiates itself.\"", "Donald Trump and Sadiq Khan have been in a \"political grudge match\" for years\n\nUS President Donald Trump has reignited his political feud with Sadiq Khan, calling him a \"stone cold loser who should focus on crime in London\".\n\nMoments before Air Force One landed at Stansted, Donald Trump posted two tweets criticising the mayor of London.\n\nIt follows Mr Khan's attack on Mr Trump ahead of his three-day state visit to the UK.\n\nA spokesman for Mr Khan said the \"childish insults should be beneath the president of the United States\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAs he came in to land, Mr Trump wrote: \"Sadiq Khan, who by all accounts has done a terrible job as Mayor of London, has been foolishly 'nasty' to the visiting President of the United States, by far the most important ally of the United Kingdom.\n\n\"He is a stone cold loser who should focus on crime in London, not me.\n\n\"Kahn [sic] reminds me very much of our very dumb and incompetent Mayor of NYC, de Blasio, who has also done a terrible job - only half his height.\n\n\"In any event, I look forward to being a great friend to the United Kingdom, and am looking very much forward to my visit. Landing now.\"\n\nIn response to Mr Trump's tweets, a spokesman for Mr Khan said: \"This is much more serious than childish insults which should be beneath the president of the United States\n\n\"Sadiq is representing the progressive values of London and our country warning that Donald Trump is the most egregious example of growing far right threat around the globe.\"\n\nNew York City's Mayor Bill de Blasio later tweeted that he considered any comparison with London's mayor \"a compliment\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Bill de Blasio This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nProtesters flew an inflatable caricaturing Mr Trump as a baby during his 2018 visit to the UK\n\nMr Trump's tweets follow a long-running feud between the two men.\n\nIn May 2016 Mr Trump challenged the newly-elected London mayor to an IQ test after Mr Khan said his views on Islam were \"ignorant\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Sadiq Khan This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFollowing the attack on London Bridge and Borough Market in 2017, the US president accused Mr Khan of \"pathetic\" behaviour.\n\nMr Khan responded that he would not allow Mr Trump to \"divide our communities\".\n\nIn July last year Mr Trump said Mr Khan had \"done a very bad job on terrorism\".\n\nThe mayor said he would not rise to Donald Trump's \"beastly\" accusation that he had done \"a terrible job\" following the London terror attacks.\n\nMr Trump's criticism came after Mr Khan permitted a plan to fly a giant inflatable \"Trump baby\" blimp to coincide with the president's UK visit.\n\nTwo months later Mr Khan also gave protesters permission to fly a bikini-clad blimp of himself over Westminster.\n\nMr Trump is taking part in his first official state visit to the UK as president.\n\nIt includes a private lunch with the Queen and a state banquet at Buckingham Palace.\n\nMr Trump will then meet Prime Minister Theresa May at St James's Palace on Tuesday morning for a business breakfast.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nI would like to say I am surprised, but I am not because we know Trump has no regard for normal diplomatic niceties.\n\nHe seems to have got stuck in to Sadiq Khan. I am also not surprised because these two figures loathe each other.\n\nThis is a political grudge match which has been simmering now for three years, back from when the president introduced that travel ban on some Muslim countries.\n\nProtests at Mr Trump's visit, including a \"national demonstration\" in Trafalgar Square, are planned for central London.\n\nBoth the Stop Trump Coalition and Stand Up to Trump protest groups said they would be present.\n\nThe Met Police said it had \"a very experienced command team\" leading the operation to deal with the visit.\n\nThe Museum of London wants both the Sadiq Khan and Donald Trump blimps as exhibits", "French prosecutors have dropped an investigation into rape allegations made against actor Gérard Depardieu.\n\nThe 70-year-old had always denied the accusations, made by a young French actress last year.\n\nThe prosecutor's office said the investigators were not able to stand up the allegations.\n\nMr Depardieu is one of France's most recognisable actors, and has starred in films such as Cyrano de Bergerac and Jean de Florette.\n\nThe accuser claimed the alleged crimes had occurred last August in one of Mr Depardieu's Paris residences when she was 22 years old, French media reported at the time.\n\nWhen the allegations emerged, Mr Depardieu's lawyer, Hervé Temime, said the actor was \"shaken\" and that the claims went against \"everything [the actor] is and respects\".\n\nIn a statement, the prosecutor's office said: \"A number of investigations undertaken as part of this procedure have not enabled us to characterise the crimes alleged in all of their individual parts.\"\n\nMr Depardieu is one of France's most recognisable actors\n\nAble to combine bearish physicality with emotional delicacy on screen, Mr Depardieu has acted in some 170 films, getting his big break in 1973 with Les Valseuses (Going Places).\n\nHe won the best actor award for Cyrano at Cannes in 1990, and was nominated for an Oscar for the same role.\n\nGreen Card, an English-language comedy made the same year, brought him further acclaim outside the French-speaking world.\n\nOff-screen, he has made headlines in recent years for attacking French tax laws, moving to Belgium in protest and later developing close ties to Vladimir Putin's Russia.", "Khuram Butt was being investigated by MI5 from 2015\n\nThe team investigating one of the 2017 London Bridge attackers was not told he had been reported to an anti-terror hotline, an inquest has heard.\n\nKhuram Butt's brother-in-law had reported his increasing radicalisation in September 2015.\n\nIn the same month MI5 assessed Butt as wanting to stage a terror attack but lacking the ability to do so.\n\nEight people were killed in the attack he carried out with two other men.\n\nThey mowed down pedestrians on London Bridge before launching a knife attack in nearby Borough Market, injuring 48 others.\n\nPolice shot and killed the attackers less than 10 minutes after the violence began.\n\nA senior counter-terrorism officer - identified only as Witness M - told an inquest at the Old Bailey in London that it was \"very unsatisfactory\" his team was not informed about the call.\n\nUsman Darr had contacted the hotline because he was concerned that his brother-in-law had been distributing anti-Western texts and links to jihadi sites and had become increasingly extreme in his views.\n\nThe information was processed but never passed on to the joint MI5 and police investigation of Butt that had been under way since mid-2015.\n\nIn the same month that he was reported by his brother-in-law, Butt was assessed by the security service as having a \"strong risk\" of staging a terror attack on his own, but there was no evidence he was planning one.\n\nIn May 2017 MI5 lowered the assessed risk of Butt carrying out a lone terror attack to moderate, but increased his ability to do so to moderate.\n\nPolice decided not to charge him with possession of extremist material because there was not a strong enough chance of disrupting any potential terror plot, Witness M said.\n\nThe inquest also heard Butt had associated with members of the banned terrorist group Al-Muhajiroun, including Siddhartha Dhar - who went on to fight for so-called Islamic State - and the group's leader Anjem Choudary.\n\nThe victims of the London Bridge attack clockwise from top left - Chrissy Archibald, James McMullan, Alexandre Pigeard, Sébastien Bélanger, Ignacio Echeverría, Xavier Thomas, Sara Zelenak, Kirsty Boden\n\nWitness M also told the inquest he had not personally been made aware that Butt had appeared in a Channel 4 programme called The Jihadi Next Door in January 2016, saying the programme was reviewed by another team.\n\nThe court previously heard how Butt appeared in the programme - where he condemned the UK government, particularly over its actions in Iraq and Syria - for roughly two minutes but was not identified by name.\n\nLater that year, Butt was employed by London Underground, including working at Westminster station, but Witness M said he did not have grounds to intervene.\n\nIn October 2016, Butt was arrested with three others on suspicion of falsely reporting fraudulent activity on three bank accounts, and bailed until January 2017.\n\nHowever, prosecutors advised there was not enough evidence to charge him.\n\nWitness M said police were also unaware of a number of pieces of information that indicated Butt was associated with the two other attackers.\n\nThese included the fact they all met at Ummah Fitness Centre in Ilford, east London, that was itself run by a suspected senior member of Al-Muhajiroun, and that they went on regular trips together to take their children swimming.\n\nLast week, the lawyer representing several of the victims' families told the court there were \"opportunities galore\" to identify that the three men were plotting an attack.\n\nXavier Thomas, 45, Christine Archibald, 30, Sara Zelenak, 21, Sebastien Belanger, 36, James McMullan, 32, Kirsty Boden, 28, Alexandre Pigeard, 26, and Ignacio Echeverria, 39, were all killed in the attack.", "Anti-Trump protesters have gathered in Trafalgar Square, as the US president meets the PM.", "US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump have arrived in the UK for a three-day state visit.\n\nThe Presidential plane Air Force One landed at Stansted Airport in Essex shortly before 09:00 BST.", "It had become clear over the past few days that the plans for an M4 relief road were heading for the scrapyard.\n\nU-turns aren’t normally allowed on motorways. This case is the exception, it appears.\n\nMark Drakeford insisted that today’s decision was the result of a changed financial and political context. Part of that change of context though is a change of first minister.\n\nWe don’t know whether Carwyn Jones would have given the plan the go-ahead had he taken the decision himself, as he’d intended.\n\nMany suspect that the former first minister regarded the relief road as part of his legacy. If so, today will have been a disappointment for him.\n\nAll of which, of course, leaves the people of Newport dealing with the worst congestion problems in Wales with all the inconvenience and pollution that go with that.\n\nThat congestion isn’t confined to the M4 though. Newportonians will be hoping that any future measures take in not just the motorway but the A467, the A4042 and the frequently gridlocked city centre.", "Climbers pay a premium in order to climb the mountain\n\nOver the past two decades, the average annual death rate of climbers on Mount Everest has remained at about six.\n\nBut this spring, at least 10 people have already been reported dead or missing on the world's highest peak.\n\nThis is also the season that saw a record 381 climbing permits issued by the Nepalese government.\n\nIn reality, this means about 600 people were preparing to embark on the climb, with permit holders accompanied by support staff up the mountain.\n\nWhile overcrowding has been blamed for the increase in the number of deaths, there are also other factors at play.\n\nMany of the climbers began gathering at Everest base camp at the start of May. At the same time, the authorities were concerned about the knock-on effects of Cyclone Fani which had already struck India and Bangladesh.\n\nThe weather deteriorated in the Nepalese Himalayas days after the cyclone, forcing the government to suspend all mountaineering activities for at least two days.\n\nNearly 20 tents at the camp were blown away by strong winds and after the warning, several climbers, who were already en route to some of the higher camps, returned to base camp.\n\nProlonged bad weather meant that the practice of fixing bolted rope to assist climbers trying to reach the summit was delayed.\n\nBritish climber Robin Haynes Fisher (pictured) is among those who have died this year\n\nMeanwhile the crowd at base camp continued to build.\n\nEverest - which lies on the border between Nepal and China - can be reached from the Chinese side as well. However, the Chinese government issues fewer permits, and many mountaineering experts find the climb less interesting.\n\nAfter the ropes were fixed by mid-May, the first feasible clear-weather window was 19 and 20 May.\n\nBut only a few teams chose to climb then while the majority waited for the second window - from 22 to 24 May.\n\nMountaineering experts say this was when the crowd management went wrong.\n\n23 May saw the maximum number of climbers on one day - more than 250.\n\nClimbers had to wait for hours below the summit - both on the way up and on the way down.\n\nMany of them were exhausted and their oxygen cylinders were running low.\n\nNepal's mountaineering regulation requires expedition teams to have liaison officers on the mountains.\n\nThis time 59 of them were appointed to accompany the teams but only five of them stayed until the final part of the climb.\n\nSome did not even turn up, while most of those who did went home after a few days at the base camp.\n\nA photograph showing a long tailback went viral on the internet\n\nThese are often regular government officials who have no mountaineering experience, so they find it difficult to cope with the high altitude.\n\nThey get paid by expedition teams and most of them are happy to stay at home.\n\nIf all the liaison officials had stayed on the mountain, managing the crowd would have been much easier, a top government source at Everest base camp told the BBC.\n\n\"We could have spread the teams so that the first feasible window (19-20 May) would have seen more climbers and the pressure would have been less during the second window,\" they said.\n\n\"Since almost none of these liaison officials stayed, it became very difficult for the limited officials to handle this huge number of climbers.\"\n\nLiaison officials not turning up has been an issue ailing Nepal's mountaineering industry for years now.\n\nMeera Acharya, head of the mountaineering section at Nepal's tourism ministry, said 80% of the appointed officials did go to the base camp this time.\n\n\"But I admit that not all of our liaison officials stayed there for long. We are aware of this issue and we are working to address it.\"\n\n\"We do hear of deaths of climbers on Mount Kilimanjaro as well, why is Everest being singled out here?\"\n\nMountaineering experts say there is also an increase in the number of inexperienced climbers joining the growing crowd on Everest.\n\nThis time round, many of them had just one Sherpa guide with their team, officials at the base camp said.\n\n\"When you have a dangerous situation like this, one Sherpa will not be able to help you much because he will have to take care of himself.\"\n\nNepal has denied overcrowding is the sole reason for the rise in deaths\n\nSome of the mountaineers who successfully returned after summiting said they had seen climbers struggling because they were running out of oxygen - they had to wait much longer.\n\n\"This new generation of climbers, eager to bag the top and brag back home, didn't know enough to understand the difference between climbing Everest and Makalu (Mount Makalu, the 5th highest peak southeast of Everest),\" says Alan Arnette, an experienced mountaineer and writer on mountaineering issues.\n\n\"They joined a random team of individuals with shared logistics for an independent climb. They didn't understand the word 'independent' and had no experience to evaluate the risks.\"\n\nVeteran climbers have long suggested Nepal's government should introduce certain criteria, including mandatory experience of having climbed peaks above 6,000m, for issuing Everest climbing permits.\n\nThe quest to get anyone willing to pay has been mainly down to intense competition between operators, particularly old and new ones.\n\nWith the entry of new expedition operators offering cheaper prices, mountaineers say even some of the established ones have been forced to cut their fees.\n\n\"As a result, you see agencies hiring inexperienced people as guides who cannot offer the right guidance to their clients when they have a situation like this,\" said Tshering Pande Bhote, vice president of Nepal National Mountain Guides Association.\n\n\"Unfortunately the competition is for volume and not for quality.\"\n\nExpedition operators admit there are problems but they argue they also need to increase the number of visitors for the growth of the industry.\n\n\"Next year, for example, is Visit Nepal Year (a mega-tourism campaign that aims to bring in two million tourists),\" says Dambar Parajuli, president of the Expedition Operators Association of Nepal.\n\n\"So we will need to have more visitors, including mountaineers, but clearly how we manage traffic jams like this remains our major challenge.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe chancellor has rejected claims there are millions of people living in dire poverty in Britain.\n\n\"Look around you; that's not what we see in this country,\" Philip Hammond told Newsnight.\n\nMr Hammond accepted that some people were struggling.\n\nBut he said the government had worked to tackle the causes of poverty and rejected a United Nations report that claimed austerity had increased poverty.\n\nPublished last month, the rapporteur accused the government of plunging millions into poverty, in some instances with \"tragic consequences\".\n\nMr Hammond said: \"I reject the idea that there are vast numbers of people facing dire poverty in this country.\n\n\"I don't accept the UN rapporteur's report at all. I think that's a nonsense. Look around you, that's not what we see in this country.\n\n\"Of course there are people struggling with the cost of living. I understand that. But the point being is that we are addressing these things through getting to the root causes.\"\n\nThe chancellor said that for many people, the market economy was not working as it was \"supposed to\", and the idea the economy is \"generating and distributing wealth is at odds with the practice that they are experiencing\".\n\nHe said the government should be ensuring the market was \"delivering in the way that the textbooks tell us it will work.\n\n\"To deliver through competition, the best deal for consumers and to distribute wealth in a way that is fair.\n\n\"To the extent that it's not working, we have got to evolve the system.\"\n\nThe UN report cites independent experts saying that 14m people in the UK - a fifth of the population - live in poverty, according to a new measure that takes into account costs such as housing and childcare.\n\nAccording to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 1.5m people experienced destitution in 2017 - meaning they had less than £10 a day after housing costs, or had to go without at least two essentials such as shelter, food, heat, light, clothing or toiletries during a one-month period.\n\nMr Hammond's comments came during an interview on Monday with Newsnight's Emily Maitlis, in which he warned MPs vying to be leader of the Conservative Party that they risked becoming \"Theresa May mark two\" unless they accepted the realities of Brexit.\n\nThe chancellor, who has yet to reveal who he will support in his party's leadership race, laid down a challenge for the candidates.\n\n\"Explain to me how you will avoid becoming Theresa May mark two, stuck in a holding pattern,\" he said.\n\nHe criticised some of the candidates' Brexit plans.\n\n\"An extension of time to try to renegotiate, when the EU have already said they have finished the negotiation and, indeed, have disbanded their negotiating team, strikes me as a not very auspicious policy.\"\n\nHe added: \"The debate we're having now is here, in the UK, about whether we are going to sign the Withdrawal Agreement or not, and about what kind of future relationship we then want to have - because the European Union is willing to talk to us about the shape of the future relationship.\"\n\nMr Hammond also said he believed that MPs from all sides should \"stop pontificating and get off their high horses\" in an effort to resolve the Brexit impasse.\n\nAsked whether he would prefer a no-deal outcome or no Brexit, he replied: \"Neither is an acceptable outcome, because no deal would be catastrophic for the country and its economy - and no Brexit would be seen as a gross breach of faith with the public.\"\n\nHe added: \"So we as democrats and we as parliamentarians should be absolutely clear that we cannot tolerate either of those outcomes,\" and said \"we have a solemn obligation to find a solution which avoids\" either.\n\nHe said that meant a deal was required.\n\n\"We will all be grumpy about it, we will all be dissatisfied. But in many ways that is the only way forward for the country,\" he said.\n\n\"If we end up with a deal that means half the people in this country think they achieved total victory and the other half think they have been totally defeated, that is not the recipe for unity in the future. And countries that are not unified are not successful.\"\n\nThe full interview with Chancellor Philip Hammond will be broadcast on Newsnight at 10.30pm Monday on BBC2.", "Cases of sexually transmitted infections are increasing in England.\n\nIn 2018, there were 447,694 new diagnoses of STIs, a 5% increase on the 422,147 in 2017.\n\nGonorrhoea increased the most - by 26% to 56,259 cases, the largest number since 1978.\n\nThere were 7,541 cases of syphilis - a 5% increase on 2017.\n\nHigh-risk groups include young people and men who have sex with men.\n\nThe most commonly diagnosed STIs were:\n\nThe number of gonorrhoea cases has been increasing for years among both men and women, despite repeated warnings from public health doctors about the risks of unprotected sex.\n\nSometimes referred to as \"the clap\", it is a bacterial infection passed between people through unprotected sex.\n\nIt is not spread by toilet seats or sharing baths or towels.\n\nSome people have no symptoms but can pass it on to their sexual partner.\n\nIt can be treated with antibiotics, although there have been recent reports of some cases of hard-to-treat \"super-gonorrhoea\" that are resistant to the usual choice of drugs.\n\nPeople with any of the symptoms of gonorrhoea - a yellow or green discharge from the vagina or penis, or pain urinating - should visit their GP or a sexual health clinic for a test.\n\nGonorrhoea can cause serious long-term health problems, including infertility in women.\n\nExperts are worried that many people are not getting tested for STIs when they should be.\n\nSome may be too embarrassed to seek help - but cuts to services are also a concern.\n\nDr Gwenda Hughes, from Public Health England, said: \"The rise in sexually transmitted infections is concerning.\n\n\"No matter what age you are, or what type of relationship you are in, it's important to look after your sexual health. If you have sex with a new or casual partner, make sure you use condoms and get regularly tested.\"\n\nDr Olwen Williams, president of British Association for Sexual Health and HIV, said sexual health services were at breaking point.\n\n\"Recent years have unfortunately seen severe and damaging cuts to sexual health service funding, jeopardising our ability to meet these challenges at a critical time,\" she said.\n\n\"The continuing escalation in gonorrhoea and syphilis diagnoses must be addressed as an urgent health priority, otherwise there is the potential for devastating consequences to the wellbeing of the wider population and the health system as a whole.\"\n\nScreening for chlamydia continued to decline in 2018, with just over 1.3 million young people tested.\n\nMeanwhile, new cases of genital warts continued to decline.\n\nExperts say this is due to the HPV vaccine - a jab offered to teenage girls (and soon boys too) and some adults in high-risk groups to protect against some strains of human papilomavirus, which are also linked to cervical cancer.\n• None Have we fallen out of love with safe sex? BBC Three\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Speaking at a joint press conference, US President Donald Trump has said the US is committed to making a \"phenomenal\" trade deal with the UK, as it leaves the EU.\n\nMr Trump claimed there was potential for an agreement to double or even triple trade between the two nations after Brexit.", "This video can not be played\n\nTo play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "An armed officer who stood outside a Florida school as a gunman killed 17 people has been arrested and faces multiple charges, including child neglect and perjury.\n\nScot Peterson, a security guard at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, did not enter as shots rang out last year and later resigned.\n\nUS President Donald Trump called him a \"coward\" for not acting.\n\nMr Peterson said he did not know where the gunfire was coming from.\n\nSeventeen students were killed in the massacre in Parkland on Valentine's Day in 2018.\n\nNikolas Cruz, 19, a former student at the school, has been charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder. Police have said he admitted the shooting.\n\nSoon afterwards, authorities released footage showing Mr Peterson waiting outside the school as the shooting was taking place.\n\nFollowing an investigation by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE), Mr Peterson was arrested on Tuesday on seven counts of neglect of a child, three counts of culpable negligence and one count of perjury.\n\nThe investigation showed Mr Peterson \"did absolutely nothing\" to prevent the shooting, FDLE Commissioner Rick Swearingen said in a statement.\n\n\"There can be no excuse for his complete inaction and no question that his inaction cost lives,\" he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Trump: \"I would have run in even if I didn't have weapon\"\n\nBroward County Sheriff Scott Israel voiced his anger after viewing the footage of Mr Peterson remaining outside the building for four minutes while the killings were taking place. The shooting lasted just six minutes.\n\n\"I am devastated. Sick to my stomach. He never went in,\" Sheriff Israel said, adding that he should have entered and \"killed the killer\".\n\nPresident Trump said the officer \"certainly did a poor job\" and branded him a coward.\n\nMr Peterson maintained he believed the shots were coming from outside the school.\n\nHe told NBC that he \"didn't get it right\", but added: \"Those are my kids in there. I never would have sat there and let my kids get slaughtered.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Khalid Ali was arrested in Whitehall on 27 April 2017\n\nKhalid Ali was carrying three knives when he was tackled by armed officers near Downing Street in April 2017 - and was just moments from being able to attack police, politicians or military personnel.\n\nBut clues picked up from bomb parts recovered in Afghanistan five years earlier meant he was under surveillance by the police and MI5.\n\nAli, who is one of the seven children, was born to an Ethiopian mother and Somali father in Saudi Arabia, to which the family moved to escape civil war in Ethiopia and from where - in 1992 - they came to the UK.\n\nHe grew up in Edmonton and trained as a gas engineer and plumber after leaving school, but in his late teens became increasingly absorbed by religion and politics.\n\nIn 2010, Ali travelled on an aid convoy to Gaza, appearing in news reports after a shipping dispute resulted in some of the travellers being forcibly taken to Greece.\n\nKieran Turner, who helped organise the convoy, told the BBC: \"At that point I thought 'nice young man - this is going to be one of the people that's fun to travel with'.\"\n\nAli \"had a sense of humour\" and \"always smiled\", Mr Turner recalled.\n\nAli travelled on an aid convoy to Gaza\n\nBut Ali was a more complex figure than he appeared.\n\nIn June 2011 he told family members he was moving to Birmingham for work. They would not hear from him for more than five years.\n\nHe was reported missing and, during subsequent inquiries, a laptop from his bedroom was found to contain speeches by the al-Qaeda ideologue Anwar al-Awlaki encouraging people to engage in military jihad.\n\nIn truth, Ali had gone to Afghanistan to join the Taliban.\n\nThere, according to Deputy Assistant Commissioner Dean Haydon, senior national co-ordinator for counter-terrorism policing, he went to a \"Taliban training camp affiliated to al-Qaeda where, for several years he helped terrorists make hundreds of bombs capable of mass murder\".\n\nIn late October 2016, Ali suddenly appeared at the British consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, claiming to have lost his passport and seeking a temporary travel document in order to get home.\n\nTwo days later, without luggage or possessions, he landed at Heathrow and was immediately questioned under terrorism laws.\n\nAli claimed to have spent the preceding years travelling in northern Pakistan rediscovering himself and learning about different sects of Islam.\n\nWithout lawful reason for further detention he was released but - crucially - only after his fingerprints were taken.\n\nThese were shared with the FBI, which manages a vast database containing fingerprints found on bomb parts in various global conflict zones.\n\nAli's prints were matched to some found on improvised explosive device (IED) components from two large caches recovered by Afghan national security forces - the main targets and victims of such weapons - in South Kandahar Province more than four years earlier.\n\nAli's prints were found on IED components from two caches recovered by Afghan national security forces\n\nEventually, 42 prints from the Afghan IED components were positively matched to Ali.\n\nDetectives applied to the US for the evidence to be declassified so he could be prosecuted in the UK but permission was not instant.\n\nIn the meantime, Ali, unaware of these developments, appeared to resume normal life in London. He moved back to the family home in Edmonton, found work in a west London pizza takeaway and started retraining as a gas fitter.\n\nHowever, he was also quietly planning an attack and began researching targets.\n\nIn March 2017 he was spotted at a march in central London, behaving suspiciously towards police officers outside Downing Street.\n\nAli captured on CCTV talking to police officers outside Downing Street in March 2017\n\nThen in April he conducted reconnaissance of sites including the MI6 building and New Scotland Yard.\n\nFrom then on events moved quickly.\n\nOn 25 April, near his workplace in Ealing, he bought a set of knives and a sharpener.\n\nThe following day, officers observed him buying a mobile phone.\n\nThat night, he was watched emerging from the family home and putting a plastic bag into a wheelie bin outside another house.\n\nWhen retrieved, it contained packaging for kitchen knives and a sharpener.\n\nWhile her son had been outside, Ali's mother - concerned by his behaviour - went to his room and found four knives, which she took to a different part of the house.\n\n\"I was shocked and upset\" and \"scared at what he'd do with them\", she said in a statement read at Ali's trial.\n\nOn his return an argument broke out when Ali realised the knives were missing.\n\nLocal officers attended and Ali left the property after midnight when his mother made it clear she wanted him to go.\n\nHe then set about rearming himself.\n\nAt daybreak he travelled across London, to Ealing, where he lingered for several hours before purchasing three kitchen knives and heading for Westminster - the location where, just weeks before, another attacker, Khalid Masood, had murdered five people, including a police officer.\n\nHe walked around Parliament Square, dumping items in different locations, including a mobile phone in the River Thames that was later found to contain images of police officers in stab vests.\n\nTwo of the three knives found on Ali when he was arrested\n\nWhen he walked towards Whitehall in the direction of Downing Street, armed police moved in.\n\nKnives were found in both jacket pockets and one tucked down the front of his trousers.\n\nAsked whether the public were in danger, Ali said he was not interested in them. Asked if anyone else was at risk, he told the officers: \"You lot are carrying weapons, so you must know you are in danger.\"\n\nAli had three blades tucked into his clothes when he was arrested by armed police\n\nDeputy Assistant Commissioner Haydon said: \"Police and security services were managing any potential risk that he posed and he was arrested at the most appropriate time.\"\n\nIt was only in the hours after Ali's arrest that permission was granted to use the evidence from the explosives in a British prosecution.\n\nDuring lengthy police interviews in the following days, Ali said he was armed only for his own protection and had not been planning an attack.\n\nHe claimed to have been in Westminster to give a \"message\" to those in authority about his beliefs, which he had returned to the UK to deliver.\n\nDetectives were told the message was the same as one previously delivered by al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.\n\nAli said he was a soldier of the Taliban and that al-Qaeda was its military wing.\n\nHe admitted constructing explosives in Afghanistan - and when asked whether he had also detonated them, Ali said: \"I have pressed the button.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Khalid Ali said he \"pressed the button\" on more than 300 bombs in Afghanistan\n\nA detective asked: \"How many times have you pressed the button to cause an explosion?\"\n\n\"Probably more than 300 times,\" he replied.\n\n\"I've been training and fighting against Western troops, be it American or British,\" he told officers.\n\nHe later added: \"I'm sitting here in front of you as a mujahid, as classified under your country, the law, as a terrorist.\"\n\nAli was asked: \"Did you kill any British troops while you were in Afghanistan?\"\n\n\"I will remain silent for now,\" he replied.\n\nIn court, Ali changed his account, telling the jury he had been held captive in Pakistan, near the Afghan border, and forced to bundle up components of explosive devices to prove he was not a British spy.\n\nHe denied planning an attack in London to coincide with the start of the Taliban \"spring offensive\" the following day.\n\nUnder cross-examination, he denied that the mobile phone purchased the night before his arrest - which has never been recovered - was used to contact the Taliban to get instructions to launch his attack.\n\nBut he was found guilty of preparing terrorist acts and two counts of possession of an explosive substance with intent.", "Last updated on .From the section World Cup\n\nLive: Coverage across BBC TV, BBC Radio and BBC Sport website with further coverage on Red Button, Connected TVs and mobile app.\n\nSpending time in the NFL and studying Germany and Spain's World Cup wins has helped England improve their set-pieces, says manager Gareth Southgate.\n\nEngland have scored more goals from free-kicks or corners than anyone else during the World Cup group stages.\n\n\"When we analysed Spain and Germany in particular, they were probably better at set-plays than the perception might have been,\" Southgate said.\n\n\"They were a bigger factor in them winning than maybe people realised.\"\n\nEngland play Belgium on Thursday in their final Group G match, with both sides having already qualified for the last 16.\n\nThe Three Lions have had 16 attempts at goal from set-pieces in their opening two matches, more than anyone else.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 5 live's World Cup Daily Podcast, Southgate said: \"Set-plays are a high percentage of goals scored and goals conceded. In tournaments that seems to become even more important.\n\n\"Both Spain and Germany play fabulous football but when you looked at how many set-play goals they'd scored - or in Spain's case, how few they'd conceded - that was definitely a key part of them being successful.\"\n• None How England rely on set pieces & why I don't care - Shearer analysis\n• None Samara, football and the story of the space race\n• None Who needs what? World Cup group permutations\n\nSouthgate visited NFL side Seattle Seahawks and attended two Super Bowls prior to the World Cup.\n\n\"You're always learning and we had the chance to interact with lots of different coaches,\" Southgate said.\n\n\"Some that travelled out went into think tanks on various different issues on managing people and leadership and detail within games.\n\n\"You're always trying to bring new ideas to your team and new ways of thinking, and anything that can possibly add to what you're delivering.\"\n\nAllan Russell, a former striker who played in the Scottish lower leagues, has been credited for improving England's set-piece play.\n\nStriker Harry Kane said Russell had been working with the side on their attacking set-plays, describing his work as \"little stuff to maybe give us an edge\".\n\n\"Allan has an attention to detail that I liked and thought it was something we hadn't necessarily put some additional focus on in the past,\" Southgate added.\n\n\"He's become an important part of our coaching team and our whole support staff. We won't have success in this tournament without every department in our staff doing their job to the highest possible level.\"\n\nGoalkeeper Jordan Pickford, speaking on Tuesday, described set-pieces as \"crucial in tournament football\".\n\n\"We've scored six out of eight set-pieces but we will carry on working on it,\" the 24-year-old said.\n\n\"We do all our training and at the end of the session we have 10 minutes of set-plays with the attackers at one end and defenders at the other.\"\n\nTottenham full-back Danny Rose says Southgate can be \"too nice at times\" but the players \"know not to cross the line\" with him.\n\nRose says England assistant manager Steve Holland is the one who \"gives you a grilling\".\n\n\"I think the coaches have a great set-up,\" Rose told Radio 5 live. \"The gaffer is really relaxed and approachable and Holland is the one, who if you step out of line, do a bad pass or are late, gives you a grilling. They have got the balance down to a tee.\n\n\"Everyone is on Steve's back in training because he is normally the referee, the gaffer just sits in the background and has no part of it.\"", "US police say they know nothing of Mr Skinner's background\n\nA New Zealand man flew to the US state of Virginia and was shot after trying to break into the home of a teenage girl whom he met online, police say.\n\nTroy George Skinner, 25, was shot in the neck by the girl's mother after smashing his way through a glass door.\n\nGoochland County Sheriff James Agnew said the man was also armed with a knife, duct tape and pepper spray.\n\nHe travelled over 8,500 miles (13,500km) after the girl stopped speaking to him online, police say.\n\n\"This was not random, not spontaneous, this was something very planned,\" Sheriff Agnew said on Monday, describing Mr Skinner's two days of travel.\n\n\"It's a new world,\" he added.\n\nA landscaping brick was hurled through the family's glass door, police say\n\nPolice say the man had taken three flights and a bus, and had from Auckland, New Zealand, to the suburbs of Richmond, Virginia.\n\n\"He was not invited here, he was not expected here, he had been told in the past that the daughter no longer wished to communicate with him,\" Sheriff Agnew said, adding that the two had met through Discord, an app that allows video-gamers to speak to each other online.\n\nThe incident occurred on Friday in the Holland Hills neighbourhood while the mother and her two teenage girls - aged 14 and 18 - were painting inside the house.\n\nHe knocked on the door, but the mother - whom police did not identify - chose not to answer, telling investigators she was not in the habit of answering the door during the day.\n\nAfter breaking the glass, Mr Skinner allegedly stuck his hand inside to unlatch the door\n\nAfter seeing the mother inside, he yelled that he had hitchhiked 30 miles to the house and needed help.\n\nHe then attempted to enter the home, and eventually \"he got a brick and attempted to break that door down,\" the sheriff said, adding that he \"attempted to violently get inside her house\".\n\nThe mother warned Mr Skinner that she had a gun, and waited until he had reached his arm past the broken glass to attempt to unlatch the door before she fired two shots.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Melissa J. Hipolit This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"All I can say is the manner in which he attempted to enter that home in the face of a firearm pointed at him and the implements we recovered from him - the only inference is that he had very bad intent,\" Sheriff Agnew said.\n\nMr Skinner was shot once in the neck and fled to a nearby yard where he collapsed.\n\nPolice found him with a knife, pepper spray, tape and his plane ticket from New Zealand in his pocket.\n\nThey say he had planned to return to New Zealand on 30 June.\n\nPolice say the parents knew nothing of the teen's communications with Mr Skinner\n\nPolice believe the weapons and tape had been purchased hours earlier at a nearby Walmart.\n\nMr Skinner is now in hospital and is expected to survive.\n\nHe is facing charges of breaking and entering with a deadly weapon and with the intent to commit a serious offence.\n\nGoochland County officials say they have contacted the FBI for assistance.\n\nThe sheriff said that the girl's parents were unaware of her contact with Mr Skinner, and that the girl had tried to cut off communication with him since first meeting online four months earlier.\n\nHe told reporters that he found it hard to fathom how far the suspect is believed to have travelled.\n\n\"When I sit back and think about it, I said: 'You've got to be kidding me.'\"", "As a female scientist in Victorian times, Annie Maunder struggled to gain recognition for her pioneering astronomical work.\n\nBut 71 years after her death, a new telescope has been named after her.", "Passengers at Manchester Airport faced delays due to a power cut that lasted more than two hours at one of the terminals.\n\nFlights into and out of terminal 2 were affected by the outage, the airport confirmed.\n\nOne woman said the terminal was in darkness and people could not get off flights or check in.\n\nManchester Airport said at about 21:45 BST the power had been restored and apologised for the inconvenience.\n\nOne woman, who did not want to give her full name, said: \"The terminal is in darkness and all screens are blank.\n\n\"They can't off load the planes and can't check people in and air bridges aren't working.\"\n\nPower to the departures and arrivals boards was cut off\n\nThe airport said it resolved the issue with Electricity North West\n\n\"People don't know what's happening and have been sat in boiling hot queues for over an hour with kids,\" she added.\n\n\"I can't see water or anything being handed out.\"\n\nShe said airport staff had apologised but passengers had not been given any other information.\n\nShe said she felt forced to leave the terminal as it was \"way too warm\" and added \"people are gathering outside, people are laying on the floor\".\n\nKevin O'Neill tweeted that he was stranded at departures with three children.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn a statement, the airport said the power failure was a result of an HV power cable interruption.\n\nIt said eight flights in Terminal 2 were impacted, four of which were inbound and processed through Terminal 1 instead.\n\nThe airport said: \"Power has now been restored to Terminal 2 and check-in and security have reopened enabling customers to continue with their journeys.\n\n\"We thank customers for their patience and apologise once again for the inconvenience.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section World Cup\n\nMarcos Rojo scored a fine late volley to send Argentina through to the last 16 of the 2018 World Cup with a dramatic victory over Nigeria in St Petersburg.\n\nA lacklustre Argentina were on the verge of an embarrassing exit, before Manchester United defender Rojo surged into the area to place Gabriel Mercado's cross into the bottom corner.\n\nLionel Messi, who had scored a brilliant opener, jumped on Rojo's back as he sprinted away in delirious celebration, joined by the entire Argentina bench in the corner.\n\nIt was a result they scarcely deserved after a poor second-half showing, epitomised by the Javier Mascherano error that allowed Victor Moses to equalise with a penalty.\n\nBut once their ragged defence had held on until the final whistle, the Argentina players embraced each other in the centre of the pitch, waving to their vociferous fans, a disjointed side united for now.\n\nThey will face Group C winners France in the last 16 in Kazan on Saturday, while Group D winners Croatia, who secured top spot by beating Iceland 2-1, play Denmark.\n• None How the players rated in Nigeria v Argentina\n• None Who needs what? Remaining group permutations\n\nGiven Messi will be 35 during the next World Cup in Qatar in 2022, victory here has at least staved off a miserable end to what could well be his last chance to win the tournament.\n\nThe Barcelona striker, whose hint of a smile during the pre-match anthems was a stark contrast to his pained expression prior to the 3-0 defeat by Croatia, produced a superb first-half performance.\n\nHis opening goal displayed all his talent and composure. With Ever Banega looking to go over the top from deep, Messi cut sharply right and surged in behind the defence, with the Sevilla midfielder picking him out with a terrific pass.\n\nMessi's first touch to cushion the ball on his left thigh was sublime, the second off his left boot to draw it away from Kenneth Omeruo exquisite, the finish into the far corner with his right emphatic.\n\nElsewhere he was efficient, threatening to create openings with every quick touch, and could have had a second but for Nigeria keeper Francis Uzoho's tremendous save to tip a free-kick onto the post.\n\nWith Argentina's players reportedly at odds with boss Jorge Sampaoli, it was perhaps telling that Messi delivered a second team talk to his side in the tunnel just before coming out for the second half.\n\nHis words failed to inspire them, with Messi increasingly isolated, but he had at least given his team-mates the foundation to salvage their World Cup.\n\nIt is still hard to see Argentina progressing into the latter stages of this tournament without significant improvement, even if Messi goes on to put in performances for the ages.\n\nThis was the oldest starting side in the country's hugely successful World Cup history - with an average age of 30 years and 189 days - but it is a far from settled one.\n\nSampaoli made five changes from the Croatia defeat, including an international debut for 31-year-old keeper Franco Armani after Willy Caballero's blunder.\n\nSome of those changes, like starting Banega, were overdue, but the decision to drop Sergio Aguero and then wait until two other substitutions had been made and 80 minutes had passed before introducing him was bizarre.\n\nIf Sampaoli has lost control of the dressing room, Mascherano is supposedly his side's real leader. But the former Barcelona and Liverpool defensive midfielder, who now plays for Chinese club Hebei China Fortune, looks shorn of his former talents, failing to offer protection to a shaky defence.\n\nWhile not the most blatant example of holding, his grabbing of Leon Balogun in the box from a corner was naive and rightly penalised. Is there any way he can rally his team-mates for the challenge of France?\n\n\"It is very hard to see how Argentina can stand up to the French - if they are going to mount any challenge, it will have to be like it was four years ago when they played on individual talent,\" said BBC Sport's South American football expert Tim Vickery.\n\n\"France will not be too concerned about playing Argentina.\"\n\nJust as in their victory over Iceland, Nigeria started cautiously, defending deep, before blitzing the opposition defence at the start of the second half.\n\nAhmed Musa finally started to test out the Argentina defenders with his pace, leaving them diving into tackles, and he was joined by Odion Ighalo, who replaced the ineffective Kelechi Iheanacho at the interval.\n\nNigeria induced panic, leading to Moses' penalty, which the Chelsea wing-back converted easily, sending Armani the wrong way as he slotted down the right-hand side.\n\nBut the Super Eagles could not keep their composure when close to a second goal, with Ighalo sending a weak shot straight at Armani and also slicing wide when a deflected Musa cross dropped into his path.\n\nAfter that miss, the former Watford striker made a desperate appeal for a penalty, with referee Cuneyt Cakir consulting VAR but needing only one replay to dismiss the claim, Rojo having headed the ball into his arm.\n\nWilfred Ndidi also hit a powerful drive just over the bar but Nigeria ultimately could not take advantage of their rattled opponents.\n\nArgentina captain Lionel Messi: \"We were confident we would win this game. It's wonderful to have won it this way - it is a well-deserved joy.\n\n\"I thank all the people who are here, for all their sacrifice, and all those who are in Argentina who were always with us. The shirt of the national team is above all.\"\n\nArgentina centre-back Marcos Rojo: \"We needed it, now the World Cup begins for us.\n\n\"Lionel Messi had told the guys he was going to score a goal more than ever. The goal is for my family and for this group that deserves it. Let's go Argentina!\"\n\nNigeria captain John Obi Mikel: \"We did everything we could. In the second half we pushed and pushed. It just wasn't to be. It's a young team and in four years most of them will be ready for this tournament.\n\n\"I'm very proud of the boys and what we have achieved. I think we have done really well. We have to keep going.\"\n• None Lionel Messi's first-half strike for Argentina ended a run of 662 minutes without a goal in the World Cup - his last was in June 2014, also against Nigeria.\n• None Messi (2006, 2014 and 2018) is the third Argentina player to have scored in three different World Cup tournaments, alongside Diego Maradona (1982, 1986 and 1994) and Gabriel Batistuta (1994, 1998 and 2002).\n• None He has scored 50% of his World Cup goals against Nigeria (three of six).\n• None Argentina's opener in the 14th minute was the 100th goal scored at the 2018 World Cup.\n• None Argentina are unbeaten in their last 40 World Cup games when opening the scoring (W35 D5), since a 3-1 defeat against Germany in 1958.\n• None Marcos Rojo's goal was his second for Argentina at the World Cup, and his previous one also came against Nigeria - 1,462 days ago at the 2014 tournament.\n• None Nigeria have lost all six of their games against South American sides at the World Cup, with five of those coming at the hands of Argentina (in 1994, 2002, 2010, 2014 and 2018).\n• None Javier Mascherano (Argentina) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Lionel Messi (Argentina) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None John Obi Mikel (Nigeria) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Goal! Nigeria 1, Argentina 2. Marcos Rojo (Argentina) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Gabriel Mercado with a cross.\n• None Attempt missed. Oghenekaro Etebo (Nigeria) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses the top right corner from a direct free kick.\n• None Attempt saved. Odion Ighalo (Nigeria) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is saved in the bottom left corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Last updated on .From the section World Cup\n\nDenmark joined France in the last 16 of the World Cup after playing out the first goalless draw of the tournament, which was greeted by boos at the final whistle.\n\nA draw was good enough to see a much-changed French side top Group C, while Denmark knew a point would be enough for them too, even if Australia beat Peru.\n\nThat scenario resulted in a game that lacked ambition, chances and any element of danger, not helped by news midway through the first half that Peru were winning in Sochi.\n\nThe fans in Moscow's Luzhniki Stadium were initially enthusiastic enough, especially the red-shirted Danes who packed one end.\n\nBut they saw little in the way of goal-mouth excitement, with the first shot on target arriving in the 39th minute, when France's Antoine Griezmann turned to fire a tame effort at Kasper Schmeichel from the edge of the area.\n• None How you rated the players in France v Denmark\n• None Who needs what? Remaining group permutations\n• None Peru beat Australia for first World Cup win in 40 years\n\nDenmark did fashion the best chance of the first half, when France keeper Steve Mandanda just beat Christian Eriksen to Andreas Cornelius's excellent low cross.\n\nBut their only shot on target came after 54 minutes when Mandanda spilled Eriksen's free-kick. The Marseille keeper recovered before Cornelius could capitalise on the rebound.\n\nBoth sides stepped up their safety-first approach as the second half progressed - bringing jeers and whistles from many neutrals in the stadium - to ensure they got the result they desired.\n\nFrance, who rested midfield trio Paul Pogba, Blaise Matuidi and Corentin Tolisso - all of whom were a booking away from a ban - will play the runners-up in Group D in Kazan on Saturday.\n\nThat could be any one of the four teams, while Denmark's fate is a little clearer after Peru's 2-0 win over Australia confirmed their qualification in second place. Age Hareide's side will play the Group D winners, either Croatia or Nigeria, in Nizhny Novgorod on Sunday.\n\nFrance must wait to find their rhythm\n\nFrance had won their first two games without really finding their rhythm and Didier Deschamps' decision to make six changes meant that was always unlikely to happen here either.\n\nThere were some brief glimpses of the quality that Deschamps has at his disposal, thanks to Griezmann's intelligent movement behind the Denmark defence, and right-back Djibril Sidibe's runs up the right flank.\n\nLiverpool target Nabil Fekir also showed some nice touches when he replaced Griezmann for the last 20 minutes, and did come close to breaking the deadlock when he fired into the side-netting.\n\nBut otherwise there was little urgency on display, and no sense the France players had any desire to clinch their third successive win.\n\nDenmark through - but not in style\n\nDenmark are into the knockout stages of a World Cup for the first time since 2002 and are unbeaten in their past 18 games, but this display will not have allayed the critics of their head coach Hareide.\n\nNorwegian Hareide's pragmatic approach has already annoyed Danish fans and media alike, and a performance like this one is unlikely to make him many new friends.\n\nA bright start, that saw Middlesbrough's Martin Braithwaite make some incisive runs down the right wing, soon petered out as Denmark defended in numbers.\n\nEven with Australia 2-0 down and Denmark's progress virtually assured, Hareide's side dropped deeper as the second half progressed and made their intentions clear.\n\nThe longest wait for a 0-0 at a World Cup - the key stats\n• None France have gone unbeaten in the group stage in consecutive World Cup tournaments for the first time (P3 W2 D1 in 2014 and 2018).\n• None Since their defeat to Portugal in the Euro 2016 final, France have only lost one of their 13 games in competitive action (W9 D3).\n• None This was the first 0-0 of the 2018 World Cup, making it the longest wait from the start of a single tournament for one - there had been 36 games played prior to today.\n• None Denmark and France have drawn an international for the first time since September 1976 (1-1), with this being just the second draw in 16 total meetings.\n• None This was Didier Deschamps' 79th game in charge of France, equalling Raymond Domenech's record with the national team.\n• None Deschamps' 79 games in charge of France have now produced nine 0-0 results, with this the first since a stalemate with Luxembourg in September 2017.\n• None Kasper Schmeichel (two in three games) has now kept more clean sheets for Denmark at the World Cup than his father Peter (one in five games).\n• None Prior to his substitution in the 68th minute, Antoine Griezmann didn't complete a single pass to strike partner Olivier Giroud.\n• None There were just four shots (including blocks) from inside the box in this game (four for France, none for Denmark) - the fewest in any game so far at the 2018 World Cup.\n\n'Denmark wanted a draw' - what they said\n\nDenmark manager Age Hareide: \"We were up against one of the best counter-attack teams in the world, so we would have been stupid to give them space.\n\n\"OK, it was a 0-0 but we are very pleased with that.\"\n\nFrance manager Didier Deschamps: \"It wasn't the most exciting game because Denmark wanted a draw.\n\n\"We had a number of opportunities but one point was good enough for them and we didn't have to take any risks. One point was good for everyone.\n\n\"It was a difficult and challenging group but we've reached our objective. Now we have a second phase and we must climb to get to the next level.\n\n\"It's not that easy - look at big teams like Argentina, Spain or Germany, they've all had difficulties here,\"\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match Thomas Delaney (Denmark) because of an injury.\n• None Attempt saved. Nabil Fekir (France) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Kylian Mbappé.\n• None Attempt missed. Olivier Giroud (France) left footed shot from the right side of the box is too high. Assisted by Djibril Sidibe with a headed pass.\n• None Attempt missed. Olivier Giroud (France) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Benjamin Mendy with a cross.\n• None Attempt missed. Nabil Fekir (France) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Thomas Lemar.\n• None Offside, Denmark. Jens Stryger Larsen tries a through ball, but Viktor Fischer is caught offside. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Last updated on .From the section World Cup\n\nPortugal progressed to the World Cup knockout stage after drawing with Iran in a game full of VAR controversy.\n\nCristiano Ronaldo missed a penalty for Portugal and was shown a yellow card after a lengthy VAR review for a possible red card.\n\nIran scored a late penalty, given after another video review, and almost snatched a winner in stoppage time which would have seen them not only go through at Portugal's expense but also top the group, with Spain held to a 2-2 draw by Morocco.\n\nRicardo Quaresma had put Portugal in front with a sensational goal at the end of the first half.\n\nThe late Iran penalty denied the European champions top spot in the group and means they play Uruguay in Sochi in the last 16 on Saturday, rather than Group A runners-up Russia.\n• None VAR - how the World Cup 'all got a little weird'\n• None Ronaldo's lowest rating in Russia - how you rated the players\n\nVAR has been a major talking point in the 2018 World Cup but the final matches in Group B provided its most controversial night so far.\n\nThe controversy began with the award of Portugal's penalty, which was saved by Iran goalkeeper Ali Beiranvand, diving to his left to deny Ronaldo.\n\nThe Real Madrid striker had gone down under the challenge of Iran's Saeid Ezatolahi and, after originally waving away appeals, Enrique Caceres rightly reversed his decision and awarded the spot-kick after checking VAR.\n\nThe game became heated after that decision, with both sides asking for further reviews, but its next use again involved Ronaldo.\n\nAttempting to get in front of Morteza Pouraliganji, Ronaldo caught the Iranian in the face with a flailing arm.\n\nAfter a lengthy stoppage while he watched replays on the VAR pitchside TV monitor, the referee deemed it worthy only of a yellow card.\n\nBut perhaps the most controversial decision came in second-half stoppage time and resulted in Iran's penalty.\n\nIran played a deep cross towards Sardar Azmoun and from close range his knockdown hit the outstretched arm of Portugal defender Cedric Soares, who was jumping to head the ball.\n\nAgain the referee took his time in making a decision and once again changed his original call, ultimately choosing to award a penalty.\n\n'Shambolic' - what they said about VAR\n\nBBC pundit Alan Shearer described the decision to award Iran's late penalty as \"shambolic\".\n\n\"How on earth can he think that is a penalty?\" the former England captain added. \"If he thinks it is deliberate handball, he is crazy.\n\n\"There is no way on earth that is deliberate handball. It turns the game into an absolute farce.\"\n\nIran's Portuguese manager Carlos Queiroz, who managed his country at the 2010 World Cup, suggested the referee chose not to send off Ronaldo because of the forward's high profile.\n\n\"In the rules, an elbow is a red card, it doesn't matter if it's Lionel Messi or Ronaldo,\" he said.\n\nBut Portugal manager coach Fernando Santos played down the incident.\n\n\"I wasn't concerned,\" he said. \"It seemed like a normal thing in the match and the referee did what he had to do.\n\n\"I think the VAR did its job and that's what we have to accept.\"\n\nWhat of the rest of the game?\n\nPortugal had been frustrated for 44 minutes in the first half by a well-organised Iran who also looked dangerous on the break.\n\nBut the game's first goal came with a piece of magic from the boot of former Chelsea loanee Quaresma in the 45th minute.\n\nThe winger cut in from the right flank, played a one-two with a team-mate, then curled a right-footed shot from the edge of the penalty area into the far top corner with the outside of his boot.\n\nPlay in the second half was repeatedly broken up by fouls, VAR incidents and strong protests in response to tackles from both sides.\n\nQueiroz had to be spoken to by the referee both for encroaching on the pitch and for his complaints at the referee's decisions.\n\nEven after Karim Ansarifard had scored Iran's controversial penalty, winger Mehdi Taremi could have won the game with a chance in the fourth minute of stoppage time, but he hit the side-netting with his effort from inside the penalty box.\n\nAside from his penalty miss, Ronaldo had few chances on goal, with his best effort a shot straight at the goalkeeper in the third minute.\n\nThe blank means he remains on four goals for the tournament, one behind England striker Harry Kane, who leads the race for the Golden Boot.\n• None Portugal have progressed from the group stage of the World Cup for the fourth time in their history (also 1966, 2006 and 2010).\n• None Iran have been eliminated from the group stage at the World Cup in all five tournaments they've competed in (1978, 1998, 2006, 2014 and 2018).\n• None Both of Iran's goals at the 2018 World Cup were scored in injury time (94:06 against Morocco, 92:48 against Portugal).\n• None Quaresma (34y 272d) is the oldest player to score on his first World Cup start since Yahya Golmohammadi (35y 84d), who did so for Iran in 2006 against Mexico.\n• None Iran are the second Asian nation in World Cup history to have won their first match at a World Cup but be eliminated at the group stage, after South Korea in 2006.\n• None Two of the three penalties Ronaldo has taken at World Cups for Portugal have been against Iran - he scored in 2006 but saw his effort saved in this game.\n• None Ronaldo has a 50% penalty success rate in major tournaments for Portugal, scoring two (against Iran and Spain at the World Cups in 2006 and 2018 respectively) but also failing with two (against Austria at Euro 2016 and Iran).\n• None Iran remain winless in eight World Cup matches against European opposition (D2 L6).\n• None Iran's goal - scored after 92 minutes and 48 seconds - was the latest goal Portugal have ever conceded at the World Cup.\n• None Portugal have never lost a World Cup match when they've scored first (W13 D3).\n• None Attempt missed. Mehdi Taremi (Iran) left footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left.\n• None Attempt blocked. Saman Ghoddos (Iran) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Sardar Azmoun with a headed pass.\n• None Goal! Iran 1, Portugal 1. Karim Ansarifard (Iran) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the top right corner.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Penalty conceded by Cédric Soares (Portugal) with a hand ball in the penalty area.\n• None Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "How good is the NHS? It's a question much debated over the years, even more so with the 70th birthday celebrations under way.\n\nIf there was an Olympics for healthcare, where would the NHS be in the medal table?\n\nThere is, of course, no simple answer - but one verdict might be: \"We get what we pay for.\"\n\nAn end-of-term report would probably say: \"Good in parts but could do better.\"\n\nMany are the stories of patients who have brilliant care through the NHS and are forever grateful for a life-saving treatment.\n\nThere is frequent praise for the compassionate care provided by staff. There is no shortage, though, of tales of long waits in crowded accident and emergency units and for routine operations.\n\nTravelling around the country reveals a service under great pressure with staff working flat out.\n\nPatients' frustration often turns towards \"the system\" and what they perceive to be lack of money invested by the government.\n\nThere is a suspicion the NHS wastes money and is an inefficient bureaucracy.\n\nThis will be heightened by the recent revelation the service spends £100m a year on postage for letters informing people about appointments.\n\nSome parts of the service are not good at co-ordinating appointments, resulting in multiple journeys for patients.\n\nSome are better than others at monitoring the condition of patients at home.\n\nA safety-first culture might be encouraging doctors to refer patients for scans and checks that are not necessary.\n\nSo, cutting through the claims and assertions, how can the NHS be rigorously benchmarked against other health systems?\n\nA comparison with other countries is not straightforward, as data is often gathered in different ways.\n\nBut the report for the BBC by health experts at leading think tanks is one of the most comprehensive and authoritative of its kind.\n\nThe blunt message is that the NHS is relatively poor on outcomes for patients diagnosed with some common cancers and after heart attacks.\n\nBut, perhaps surprisingly given the intense pressure on the front line over the recent winter, the NHS is in the middle of the pack on waiting times for A&E and routine surgery.\n\nOn health outcomes, the scorecard is not overly impressive. Performance is middling to poor.\n\nBut when you look at the resources the NHS has at its disposal, things begin to appear in a different light.\n\nPhysiotherapists are in relatively short supply\n\nThe NHS has fewer than average doctors, nurses, dentists and physiotherapists per 1,000 patients.\n\nAs a share of national income, health spending is below average. And when it comes to spending per head of population (adjusted for currencies and inflation), the UK is further behind much of the pack.\n\nThe NHS is relatively efficient. Administration costs are not as high as in some other systems, on a par with Ireland and Portugal and well below France and the USA.\n\nSo, given the staff and kit available to treat patients, the NHS is doing tolerably well with the money it has. Higher investment might, arguably, improve outcomes.\n\nThe government has recently committed an extra £20bn a year for the NHS in England by 2023, which will trigger £4bn more for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nBut there is a growing sense that that will be enough only to cope with rising demand linked to a growing and ageing population.\n\nA financial boost needed to cut waiting lists and allow a big shift in the quality of care has yet to materialise.\n\nAccess to healthcare is an important test of a developed economy.\n\nAccording to the report, the NHS is especially good at looking after people in financial hardship.\n\nIt has remained true to its founding principle of being free at the point of delivery.\n\nIn conclusion, you could say British people pay for a three-star service and get one.\n\nGetting a five-star service will need more money.\n\nBut to have healthcare available to everyone regardless of means is a big asset for the UK and one to be celebrated on the 70th anniversary.\n\nIt's not a gold medal winner - but it certainly should be on the podium.", "Gayle and Charlie Anderson were found dead by neighbours at their home in Jamaica\n\nPolice investigating the deaths of two British grandparents in Jamaica have arrested a man.\n\nCharlie Anderson, 74, and his wife Gayle, 71, from Gorton, Manchester, had recently retired to the Caribbean island and were found dead on Friday.\n\nThe Jamaica Constabulary Force said in a statement on Twitter that a man was \"picked up on Saturday\" in Kingston and \"is considered a person of interest\".\n\nThe force has been contacted for further information.\n\nThe couple, who were also known as Halford and Florence and were married for 55 years, had moved to a rural community in Hope Bay, Portland, on the north-east of the island.\n\nThey were found dead in their home in Mount Pleasant by neighbours.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Jamaica Constabulary Force tweeted \"one man has been taken into custody as the detectives from the Criminal Investigation Branch Headquarters (CIB HQ) and the Maj Invest Division intensify the investigation into the death of the retired couple at their home in Portland on the weekend\".\n\n\"The man, who is considered a person of interest in the matter, was picked up on Saturday afternoon at a business establishment in Kingston.\"\n\nThe couple had moved to a rural community in Hope Bay, Portland, on the north-east of the island\n\nCharlie and Gayle Anderson were found dead by neighbours in their home in Jamaica\n\nThe couple's granddaughter, Stacey Anderson, 30, appealed on Monday for help with the investigation.\n\nShe said: \"Please please speak to the authorities. I know that you might be scared but reach out to them and tell them everything that you know.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "MPs have backed controversial plans to build a third runway at London's Heathrow airport.\n\nThe government won a key vote in the Commons by 415 votes to 119 - a majority of 296.\n\nTory MPs were under orders to support the government - but Boris Johnson, a leading opponent of expansion, missed the vote because he was in Afghanistan.\n\nLabour's official position was to oppose expansion, but its MPs were given a free vote. The SNP abstained.\n\nHow did the MPs vote on the Heathrow Expansion Bill? Did my MP vote For or Against the third runway at Heathrow? Enter your postcode, or the name or constituency of your MP Enter your postcode, or the name or constituency of your MP\n\nThe vote was welcomed by business group the CBI as \"a truly historic decision that will open the doors to a new era in the UK's global trading relationships\".\n\nBut Greenpeace UK said it was ready to join a cross-party group of London councils and the city's mayor, Sadiq Khan, in a legal challenge against the third runway.\n\nAnd Friends of the Earth said in a statement: \"MPs who backed this climate-wrecking new runway will be harshly judged by history.\n\n\"The evidence on the accelerating climate crisis, which is already hitting the world's most vulnerable people, is overwhelming - and expanding Heathrow will only intensify the misery.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nEnvironmental activists earlier staged a \"lie-in\" over Heathrow in Parliament's central lobby, just metres away from MPs preparing to vote on the proposals.\n\nPolice locked-down the area after 12 protesters, who described themselves as from a \"pop-up\" Vote No Heathrow campaign, sprawled across the floor chanting.\n\nThe government has pledged the airport will be built at no cost to the taxpayer, will create 100,000 jobs and will benefit the entire country, through guaranteed internal flights to the rest of the UK.\n\nBoris Johnson, who has returned from a trip to Afghanistan, was criticised for missing the vote\n\nMinisters also insist the project will have built-in environmental protections, with the ability to fine Heathrow or ground aircraft if promises on night flights and other contentious issues are broken.\n\nEight Conservative MPs voted against the government, including former cabinet ministers Justine Greening and Theresa Villiers, Greg Hands - who resigned last week as international trade minister - and Adam Afriyie, Sir David Amess, Bob Blackman, Zak Goldsmith and Matthew Offord.\n\nMore Labour MPs supported the government than backed their leader Jeremy Corbyn, who had opposed the expansion.\n\nThe development was supported by 119 Labour MPs, while 96 voted against the move.\n\nMPs from across the political spectrum, some with constituencies on the Heathrow flight path, spoke out against the plan.\n\nAt the start of a four-hour debate, Transport Secretary Chris Grayling said Heathrow was \"full\" and a new runway was needed to secure \"a clear path to our future as a global nation in the post-Brexit world.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBut in an impassioned speech, Labour's shadow chancellor John McDonnell warned that villages that had existed for 1,000 years would be \"wiped off the face of the earth\" to enable a company to maximise its profits.\n\n\"There are human costs to this decision that this House needs to recognise and contemplate before they vote tonight to worry and blight my community once again on a programme that will never - pardon the pun - take off,\" he told MPs.\n\nOpposition MPs shouted \"Where's Boris?\" as a Conservative MP who resigned from government over Heathrow expansion urged colleagues to join him in opposing a third runway.\n\nFormer International trade minister Greg Hands, who represents Chelsea and Fulham, raised concerns about air quality and night flights but said it was a \"debate about being true to your word and to your election pledges\".\n\nMr Johnson said following Mr Hands' example and quitting the government to vote against Heathrow would \"achieve absolutely nothing,\" before departing on a trip to Afghanistan.", "A man tried to kiss reporter Julia Guimaraes while she was working in Yekaterinburg\n\nA Brazilian sports reporter fought back after a man tried to kiss her while she was doing a live report from the World Cup in Russia.\n\nJulia Guimaraes was in Yekaterinburg on Sunday at the Japan v Senegal match when a man approached her and tried to kiss her while she was on air.\n\nShe dodged the kiss, and told him never to behave like that towards a woman.\n\nLast week, a Colombian reporter in Moscow was groped live on air at the tournament.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Fantástico This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"Don't do this! Never do this again,\" Ms Guimaraes shouted at the man, who can be heard apologising in the video.\n\n\"Don't do this, I don't allow you to do this, never, OK? This is not polite, this is not right.\n\n\"Never do this to a woman, OK? Respect.\"\n\nThe TV Globo and SportTV journalist tweeted that she had never experienced this in Brazil, but that it had happened twice to her in Russia during the tournament.\n\nShe told Globo Esporte the incident was \"awful\" and made her feel \"helpless, vulnerable\".\n\n\"This time, I responded but it's sad people don't understand why people feel they have the right to do that.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sports journalist Bibiana Bolson: 'They try to kiss us and to hug and to touch us'\n\nShe said she had been harassed during the opening game of the World Cup between Russia and Saudi Arabia in Moscow.\n\nIn March, female Brazilian sports reporters spoke out about the sexual harassment they suffer in the course of their work.\n\nThey launched a campaign showcasing incidents of being kissed and groped by fans and athletes during on-air broadcasts, which they called #DeixaElaTrabalhar (\"Let her work\").\n\nMs Guimaraes told Globo Esporte that harassment did happen a lot in Brazil, though it had not happened to her in her native country.", "Sophie Lionnet from Troyes, France, was killed by \"monsters\", her mother said\n\nA couple who tortured and killed their nanny before dumping her body on a fire in their garden have both been jailed for a minimum of 30 years.\n\nDeluded Sabrina Kouider, 35, and Ouissem Medouni, 40, became obsessed that Sophie Lionnet, 21, was helping ex-Boyzone singer Mark Walton abuse people at their home in London.\n\nFrench national Ms Lionnet's body was found on 20 September last year.\n\nKouider and Medouni were jailed by Old Bailey judge Nicholas Hilliard QC.\n\nThe couple were found guilty of murder following a trial in which they blamed one another for Ms Lionnet's killing in their bath, each saying they were asleep at the time.\n\n\"Vindictive and overbearing\" Kouider had also attempted to frame her ex-boyfriend Mr Walton for Ms Lionnet's disappearance as \"revenge\", the court heard.\n\nSabrina Kouider and Ouissem Medouni had been in an on-off relationship since meeting in 2001\n\nMedouni, a former banker, had been \"indoctrinated\" by his lover to believe in the \"complete fiction\" of her claims about Ms Lionnet and Mr Walton's supposed abusive alliance, the court was told.\n\nThe couple then subjected Ms Lionnet to \"relentless intimidation\" to make her admit she was in league with the pop star.\n\nAs he sentenced them, Judge Hilliard said: \"I'm sure on all the evidence you were both involved in torturing Sophie in the bath in the lead up to her death in making her think she would drown unless you gave her information you wanted which was not in her power to give because it did not exist.\n\n\"The suffering and the torture you put her through before her death was prolonged and without pity.\"\n\nIn an unusual move, Koudier penned a letter that was read to the court, in which she apologised to her victim saying she was \"shocked and sad that you are not part of this world any more\".\n\nSophie's parents Catherine Devallonne and Patrick Lionnet listened intently, with the help of interpreters, as the judge passed sentence.\n\nNine of the jurors had also returned to court to see the couple they'd convicted sent to prison.\n\nMedouni and Kouider were silent and expressionless for most of the proceedings, flanked by security guards, a translator and a paramedic.\n\nAs he left the dock, Medouni turned and looked directly at Sophie's parents before being led away.\n\nSophie's parents left court without comment. Their daughter's body has already been returned to France.\n\nKouider and Medouni starved Sophie Lionnet, shown here two days before she died\n\nJurors heard more than eight hours of recordings in which Ms Lionnet was slapped and called \"worse than a murderer\" by her tormentors at their home in Southfields.\n\nKouider and Medouni dunked her head into water, starved her, hit her with an electrical cable and beat her so badly she had five broken ribs and a cracked breast bone, the jury was told.\n\nHours before her death, a film showed an emaciated Ms Lionnet apparently confess that she had drugged Medouni so Mr Walton could sexually assault him.\n\nThe couple then killed her before throwing her body on the bonfire in their garden as they barbecued chicken nearby.\n\nWhen neighbours alerted firefighters to the pungent smoke, Medouni told them the charred remains were a sheep, the court heard.\n\nThe defendants later admitted disposing of Ms Lionnet's body but always denied her murder.\n\nSophie's parents Catherine Devallonne and Patrick Lionnet both attended the Old Bailey hearing\n\nSpeaking when the couple were convicted last month, Ms Lionnet's mother said her daughter was killed by \"self-obsessed monsters\".\n\nCatherine Devallonne added: \"They starved, tortured and broke her until she could no longer fight. They took away her dignity and finally her life.\"\n\nIn her apology letter, Kouider went on to say she and Miss Lionnet had \"shared many good times together as well as pains until things went terribly wrong\".\n\n\"I am suffering every day thinking of you and what happened to you that dreadful night. I only wish I could turn the clock back,\" she wrote.\n\nIn mitigation, the 35-year-old's defence lawyer attempted to persuade the judge her actions were \"entirely driven\" by mental disorders.\n\nIcah Peart QC said the fashion designer's delusional and personality disorders left her with \"irrational and completely overwhelming fear\" Ms Lionnet had been recruited by Mr Walton.\n\nHowever, Judge Hilliard told Kouider: \"I do not think you thought for one moment you were acting lawfully.\n\n\"I'm sure you knew the way you interrogated her was unacceptable in the extreme, that it was unlawful to assault her and she was in a dreadful state by the time of her death and torturing her in the bath was totally and utterly wrong.\"", "Last updated on .From the section World Cup\n\nIceland failed in their attempt to reach the World Cup knockout stage for the first time as Croatia secured a late win to top Group D on maximum points.\n\nThe Nordic nation knew they had to win to stand any chance of reaching the last 16, and their colourful support looked dejected as their side missed key chances late in the first half.\n\nAlfred Finnbogason and Birkir Bjarnason both went close before the interval in Rostov-on-Don but Milan Badelj stylishly slammed home for Croatia after the break.\n\nThat forced Iceland to chase the game and, after Sverrir Ingason hit the bar, Gylfi Sigurdsson converted a penalty to level following Dejan Lovren's handball.\n\nIn the dying minutes, with Argentina leading Nigeria 2-1, Iceland knew a win would see them jump ahead of the South American side in second place.\n\nBut their attacks became less frequent as Croatia took more control and Ivan Perisic - one of only two players to retain his place from the win over Argentina - fired home in injury time.\n\nHis side now face Denmark in the last 16 on Sunday, a day after Argentina play France.\n• None How the players rated in Iceland v Croatia\n• None Who needs what? Remaining group permutations\n\nWith a population of about 300,000, Iceland's achievement in becoming the smallest nation to reach the World Cup means their fans will travel home with a sense of pride, albeit tinged with disappointment.\n\nThey arrived in southern Russia knowing even a win may not be enough had Nigeria beaten Argentina, but the manner in which they missed chances at key moments - against a side that made nine changes - will perhaps feel like an opportunity wasted.\n\nHeimir Hallgrimsson's side were the lowest scorers of the European sides who qualified automatically for the tournament, and a lack of end product undoubtedly proved key in their exit.\n\nThey had grown into the opening 45 minutes as a Croatia side showing little intent ended the period on the back foot despite having 65% possession.\n\nFinnbogason side-footed into the side-netting from 18 yards, Bjarnason could only drive against the legs of keeper Lovre Kalinic and Aron Gunnarsson was denied by a one-handed save on the stroke of half-time.\n\nBadelj made them pay as, moments after rattling the bar from 30 yards, he powered a shot into the ground which flew into the net.\n\nThe instant fight shown epitomised the qualities which have endeared Iceland to so many, with Ingason forcing a save then planting another header onto the bar from the resulting corner.\n\nSigurdsson lifted home a penalty which Lovren had conceded with his first touch but Iceland - perhaps finally feeling the effects of long spells out of possession - succumbed to Perisic's powerful left-foot strike.\n\nCroatia appear a side rejuvenated under Zlatko Dalic, who only took charge with one World Cup qualification match remaining.\n\nHis side were beaten to top spot in qualifying by Iceland but have not yet lost a competitive game under him, and this win - with a much-changed line-up - perhaps points to a confidence running through the squad.\n\nOnly Perisic and Luka Modric remained from the 3-0 win over Argentina, but players such as Fiorentina midfielder Badelj showcased the depth of talent.\n\nReal Madrid's Mateo Kovacic came into the side, and in 82 minutes completed 78 of his 79 passes in a composed display, while former Tottenham defender Vedran Corluka was robust and completed a game-high nine clearances.\n\nThis was far from an intense or overly impressive display by the group winners, but they spent long spells keeping possession without ever looking like over-exerting themselves. Ultimately, the result only adds to their momentum.\n\nThey have now won three World Cup matches in a row for the first time and, in doing so, win a group at the tournament for the first time too.\n\nDalic says he is convinced the last 16 will not be the end for his side. They look set to arrive in Nizhny Novgorod for Sunday's meeting with Denmark fresh and dangerous.\n\nAnalysis - Could Croatia and their 'animal' win it?\n\nFormer England and Man Utd defender Phil Neville: The teams underneath the top sides have relaxed and enjoyed the tournament. I can't see Argentina improving that much, Germany have problems in their camp, France have not impressed me.\n\nIt might be a World Cup when we have a Leicester City-type winner.\n\nCroatia have probably been the best team in the competition. In terms of consistent performances they have been the best team in the competition. If Denmark play like they did today, I can't see them beating Croatia.\n\nI like the style of play. They are solid at the back, the three in midfield control the game and Mario Mandzukic is an animal up front.\n\nBBC Sport South American football expert Tim Vickery: What a midfield Croatia have. They are the team who could do serious damage. I saw them at Anfield when they played Brazil and in the first half Brazil couldn't get out of their own half.\n\nCroatia coach Zlatko Dalic: \"We have three wins, nine points, with a goal difference of 7-1. That only goal we got was from the penalty, so we have to be happy.\n\n\"The first place was our goal, we did it. I am convinced that this game in the Round of 16 will not be our end, we are waiting for Sunday to show the true power, this is the day of truth for us.\"\n\nIceland coach Heimir Hallgrimsson: \"We have not played many games like this one, against a strong team like Croatia, and created so many chances so we are disappointed with that but I am proud of the performance and the character.\n\n\"We were unlucky today but we can carry our heads high and say we did everything we could.\"\n\nCroatia like the second-half - the key stats\n• None Ivan Perisic has scored three World Cup goals for Croatia - only Davor Suker (6) has scored more.\n• None Gylfi Sigurdsson's penalty for Iceland was the 17th scored at the 2018 World Cup, equalling the most penalties scored in a single World Cup tournament (also 17 in 1998).\n• None Croatia scored with both of their shots on target in this match.\n• None Sigurdsson became the second player to have scored a goal and missed a penalty at the 2018 World Cup, after Portugal's Cristiano Ronaldo.\n• None Milan Badelj scored only his second goal for Croatia, with this his first since netting against Malta in September 2011 during qualifying for Euro 2012.\n• None Of Croatia's last 11 goals at the World Cup, 10 have been scored in the second half.\n• None Attempt missed. Aron Gunnarsson (Iceland) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Gylfi Sigurdsson with a cross following a corner.\n• None Albert Gudmundsson (Iceland) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. Ivan Rakitic (Croatia) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Ivan Perisic.\n• None Goal! Iceland 1, Croatia 2. Ivan Perisic (Croatia) left footed shot from the left side of the box to the top right corner. Assisted by Milan Badelj.\n• None Attempt missed. Andrej Kramaric (Croatia) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Milan Badelj.\n• None Attempt missed. Ivan Rakitic (Croatia) right footed shot from a difficult angle and long range on the left is just a bit too high from a direct free kick.\n• None Attempt missed. Ivan Perisic (Croatia) left footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high from a direct free kick. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The UK will have to significantly increase defence spending if it is to maintain influence with Washington and Nato allies, MPs have warned.\n\nA Commons Defence Committee report says the defence budget should rise from 2% of GDP (£40bn) to 3% (£60bn).\n\nDefence Secretary Gavin Williamson has reportedly demanded an extra £20bn for his department - but another minister warned against \"unsustainable\" rises.\n\nThe government said it would \"continue to exceed\" Nato's 2% spending target.\n\nThe committee said the extra money for the Ministry of Defence (MoD) could be spent on increasing the readiness of the armed forces and to bolster Britain's anti-submarine warfare to counter possible threats from Russia.\n\nThe report recommends increasing the defence budget to 3% of GDP, but says a rise to 2.5% would \"comfortably fill the 'black hole' in the existing MoD budget\".\n\nIt argued that without such investment the UK armed forces' usefulness to the US would be diminished.\n\n\"The government must not let this happen,\" the report says.\n\nBBC defence correspondent Jonathan Beale says the committee's report will \"add fuel to what seems to be an increasingly acrimonious row between the defence secretary, Gavin Williamson, and the Treasury and the prime minister\".\n\nHe says there have been warnings of a Conservative backbench rebellion if more funding is not forthcoming.\n\nDefence Secretary Gavin Williamson reportedly wants more money for the military but Chief Secretary to the Treasury Liz Truss has warned against a tax and spend policy\n\nOver the weekend the Mail on Sunday reported that Mr Williamson threatened to end Theresa May's leadership if she did not provide more money.\n\nBut Chief Secretary to the Treasury Liz Truss warned cabinet colleagues that it is \"not macho\" to demand more funding.\n\nSpeaking at an event in London, she said the £20bn a year budget boost for the NHS announced by Theresa May last week was a \"one-off\" and would not be replicated elsewhere.\n\n\"My point to my colleagues is that any additional spending will necessarily - most likely - lead to additional taxation and we should be honest when we have that discussion,\" she said.\n\n\"We need to keep tax as low as possible.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"If we don't have a distinctive Conservative approach .. I fear we'll lose and we'll deserve to\" says former business Minister\n\nAmid calls for extra resources for the military, Lord Houghton - chief of defence staff between 2013 and 2016 - said \"it would be a great shame\" if the armed forces budget was used as part of a \"political game\".\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today the current defence plans were \"unaffordable\" and the UK needed to \"make a decision\" about \"what sort of country we aspire to be\".\n\nLord Houghton said: \"The first duty of government is the protection of the nation.\n\n\"We have slightly deluded the public of late that we have a defence programme that frankly we know is unaffordable.\n\n\"We are to an extent living a lie.\"\n\nThe MPs' report also notes comments by US Defence Secretary James Mattis that the UK benefits from its defence relationship with the US by £3bn a year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"This implies that both the UK armed forces and HM Treasury benefit from our close relationship with the US,\" the report says.\n\n\"However, that will continue to be true only while the UK military retains both the capacity and capability to maintain interoperability with the US military and to relieve US burdens.\"\n\nAt next month's Nato summit in Brussels, US President Donald Trump is expected to repeat his demands for European allies to spend more on defence.\n\nDefence committee member Madeleine Moon, Labour MP for Bridgend, said the UK's armed forces have been \"hollowed out\" with the navy \"very weak\" and air capability \"diminished\".\n\nShe told Today: \"Influence is really important because unless you can back it up with capability, you have no credibility.\"\n\nA spokesman for the Ministry of Defence said: \"The UK maintains the biggest defence budget in Europe we have been clear we will continue to exceed Nato's 2% spending target.\n\n\"The defence secretary launched the Modernising Defence Programme to strengthen our armed forces in the face of intensifying threats.\"", "Uber has been granted a short-term licence to operate in London following a court hearing.\n\nTransport for London (TfL) refused to renew the licence when it expired last September, saying the US taxi app was not a \"fit and proper\" operator.\n\nUber has now been awarded a licence but it has been put on probation for 15 months.\n\nThe company had been seeking a five-year licence when it was refused last year.\n\nFollowing a two-day hearing at Westminster Magistrates' Court, Chief Magistrate Emma Arbuthnot said Uber was now considered \"fit and proper\".\n\nShe ordered the company to pay TfL's legal costs of £425,000.\n\nLondon mayor Sadiq Khan said: \"After years of operating poorly in London, Uber has now accepted that TfL's action in refusing to renew their licence was totally justified. Today our stance has been vindicated by the court.\n\n\"Uber has been put on probation - their 15 month licence has a clear set of conditions that TfL will thoroughly monitor and enforce.\"\n\nTom Elvidge, Uber's UK general manager, said he was pleased with today's decision: \"We will continue to work with TfL to address their concerns and earn their trust, while providing the best possible service for our customers.\"\n\nOne of the areas of concern that TfL highlighted last year was about how Uber reported crime.\n\nThe company said that it had made \"wholesale\" changes to the business since last September.\n\nThis includes reporting crimes directly to the police instead of logging criminal complaints with TfL, which caused delays.\n\nDuring this week's hearing, Helen Chapman, the licensing, regulation and charging director at TfL, said that Uber's behaviour over reporting allegations to police was \"very disturbing\".\n\nSo in the end the humility strategy worked.\n\nWhen Transport for London denied Uber a new licence last September, the company responded aggressively promising to see the regulator in court over its anti-competitive ruling.\n\nBut by the time this week's hearing started it was in full retreat.\n\nFor much of the hearing, Chief Magistrate Emma Arbuthnot seemed unconvinced - Uber had shown a gung-ho attitude, determined to grow its business come what may.\n\nShe wanted reassurance that the people who'd been responsible for statements of questionable honesty in the past had gone and that the culture really had changed. But for the arrival of the \"impressive\" Laurel Powers-Freeling as non-executive chairman she might have been disinclined to grant a new licence.\n\nSo Uber is now free to continue operating in a very important market - but on probation with Transport for London watching its every move.\n\nA taxi-driver who sat through the hearing was unimpressed - \"three strikes and you're in\" he told me.\n\nBut something has changed. Uber once thought it could go round the world ignoring local rules - now other cities may follow London in attempting to clip its wings.\n\nShe said: \"I think we have had five years of a very difficult relationship where Uber has felt they haven't required regulation and being operated in the same way as everybody else we regulate.\"\n\nMs Chapman said that the changes implemented by Uber \"could, if applied correctly, enhance public safety\".\n\nTfL said the way the firm was run had potential public safety and security implications when it decided not to renew its licence to operate in London last year - a decision backed by Mr Khan.\n\nIn particular, it highlighted Uber's approach to reporting serious criminal offences, how medical certificates are obtained and background checks on drivers.\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan backed TfL's decision not to renew Uber licence to operate in the capital last year\n\nAmong the changes implemented by Uber, drivers can now only use the app in the region in which they hold a private hire licence and their working hours are more tightly regulated.\n\nA licensed driver on the app has to now take an uninterrupted six-hour break after 10 hours of taking passengers or travelling to pick them up.\n\nThe firm also made changes to its app in London to \"make it clearer\" to passengers that its drivers are licensed by TfL and that it accepts ride requests before allocating drivers.\n\nIt also dropped an appeal against a move that would make all its drivers in the city take English language tests.", "Live: Coverage across BBC TV, BBC Radio and BBC Sport website with further coverage on Red Button, Connected TVs and mobile app.\n\nVAR had its most controversial night at the World Cup on Monday. And as Portugal boss Fernando Santos said - \"it all got a little weird\".\n\nOn four occasions across two games of football the referee stared at a pitchside camera to decide whether he made the right decision or not. The results were mixed.\n\nIt all climaxed with two referees, 2,000km apart from each other, making simultaneous decisions in the 92nd minute of two breathless games.\n\nIn the end, Portugal drew 1-1 with Iran and Spain were held 2-2 by Morocco. Spain went through to the last 16 as Group B winners and Portugal joined them as runners-up.\n\nThree of the decisions were made in Saransk, where Portugal just about held off Iran to make it through to the knockout stage:\n• Portugal penalty - with Portugal leading 1-0, Cristiano Ronaldo was barged in the box by Saeid Ezatolahi. Play continued, but on-field referee Enrique Caceres reversed his decision at the next break in play. Ronaldo's spot-kick was saved.\n• Ronaldo reprieved - midway through the second half, Ronaldo, chasing the ball, tried to get around Morteze Pouraliganji. In doing so, he swung a right arm at the defender, who was struck in the mouth. Caceres reviewed the footage and decided that Ronaldo's indiscretion only merited a yellow card.\n• Portugal denied - in injury time, Iran, chasing the game, lofted a ball into the Portugal box. Sardar Azmoun jumped and headed the ball into Cedric's arm. Iran appealed for a spot-kick and, after watching a replay, Caceres concurred.\n• Spain spared - As Iran were being awarded a penalty, Spain, trailing 2-1, thought they had equalised against Morocco through Iago Aspas' flicked finish. The offside flag was raised immediately. When the footage of the incident was replayed, referee Ravshan Irmatov decided Aspas was onside, and Spain went top of the group.\n\nAnd those were only the decisions that were reviewed.\n\nSpain defender Gerard Pique was lucky to escape punishment for a two-footed challenge, when replays may have led to him receiving a red card.\n\nNot only that, but Iran thought they could have had a penalty much earlier in their match against Portugal, when Sardar Azmoun was knocked over in the area.\n\n'In the rules it doesn't say if it is Messi or Ronaldo' - what they said\n\nEven though Portugal were questionably punished by VAR, manager Santos still believes the system \"did its job\".\n\n\"I wasn't concerned by the three decisions,\" he said. \"It seemed like a normal thing in the match. The referee did what he had to do. That's what we have to accept.\"\n\nHowever, Iran manager Carlos Queiroz said that \"VAR is not going well\", despite his side benefiting from the late spot-kick.\n\nQueiroz was critical of the decision not to dismiss Ronaldo, saying: \"You stop the game to VAR. There is an elbow. An elbow is a red card in the rules. In the rules, it doesn't say if it is [Barcelona and Argentina forward Lionel] Messi or Ronaldo.\n\n\"The decisions must be clear for everybody. Everybody agrees that VAR is not going well. There are a lot of complaints.\n\n\"We asked Fifa for a clarification and they refused. We just want to know who is refereeing the game, who is taking decisions in the game. We have the right to know.\"\n\nMorocco could not have qualified for the last 16 after losing 1-0 to Iran and Portugal before playing Spain but were nevertheless felt hard done by after being denied a win against Spain following the intervention of VAR.\n\n\"We needed this [VAR] in the last game,\" keeper Munir Mohamedi told Moroccan website Hespress. \"There was an error in the goal when Portugal scored against us.\n\n\"They did not treat us in the same way. They did not look at the VAR and they did not look at the screen to confirm that there was an error. Because of this we complained.\"\n\nMorocco midfielder Faycal Fajr added: \"The video technology was not used in our interest in the game against Portugal, and it was used against us ahead of the Spain equaliser. Despite this, we don't want to look for excuses.\"\n\nFormer England striker Alan Shearer discussing Iran 1-1 Portugal: \"That was farcical, shambolic. The referee is a very lucky guy. If Iran score at the end it would have been absolute chaos. He was hopeless today.\n\n\"How on earth can he think that is a penalty?\n\n\"It is ridiculous. How can the defender do anything about that? He is half a yard away and his eyes are closed. There is no way on earth that is deliberate handball.\n\n\"You are playing in the biggest competition in the world and it seems like VAR is on trial and it is not right.\"\n\nFormer Chelsea striker Didier Drogba added: \"I am a big fan of VAR because it is going to clear up a lot of situations, but at the same time it is bringing a lot of controversy. You need to find the balance and we are still looking for that.\n\n\"You see the time it took him to have a look and make the decision. We all thought it was not a penalty because he had to review it a few times before awarding it.\n\n\"There is controversy because it is the referee who decides, so we will still criticise whatever decision he makes.\"\n\nFormer Manchester City full-back Pablo Zabaleta: \"I like VAR and if you get it right, that is great. What I did not like is the players' behaviour - they are acting too much. After little contact, they were rolling around the floor, complaining to the referee.\"\n\nWhat you said\n\nRhys: Personally I'd give the captain three VAR requests per game each. If they waste them, tough luck... the \"clear and obvious\" error rule doesn't work cause you have to check so many to see if it is clear and that's questionable so 50/50s get over turned. Cap it I say.\n\nAlex Haworth: I still love VAR and think the pros of it far outweigh the cons.\n\nColin Macdougall: I think VAR was brought in too soon at this tournament. Should have been left till 2022. See if it's a success by then.\n\nNeil Holloway: VAR is bad, the way it's used at the minute, but the most pathetic thing at this World Cup is the players falling down holding their faces and just about every other part of their body play-acting. Do they not understand how pathetic they look? Ruining football.\n\nAmosgyan: After watching the Portugal v Iran game, if VAR is the future of football then I give up. It is no more the game I love. Not exciting to watch. Boring. It's a disaster. Football at its worst stage.\n\nBen: VAR, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing.\n\n@mr_navit on Twitter: \"It seems that two things will lead to a decline in football and the World Cup. One is VAR and the other is 48 teams.\"\n\n@Persian_George on Twitter: \"After the referees watched the VAR they realised that Ronaldo should receive a red card. They understood at that moment that if Ronaldo is not playing the next game FIFA will lose all its commercial and sponsoring revenues.\"\n\nWhat the papers said:", "Boris Johnson has refused to deny claims he used an expletive when asked about business concerns about Brexit.\n\nThe foreign secretary is reported to have used the swear word at a diplomatic gathering last week.\n\nAsked about this in the Commons, he said he may have \"expressed scepticism about some of the views of those who profess to speak up for business\".\n\nTheresa May said it was right the government listened to business voices about the terms of the UK's exit.\n\nThis story contains language some may find offensive.\n\nAirbus, BMW and Siemens have warned about the impact on their UK-based operations if the UK leaves the EU next March without any agreement.\n\nTheir warnings have prompted different responses from ministers.\n\nBusiness Secretary Greg Clark has said the UK must \"take and act on the advice of business\" but Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said a warning from Airbus that it could cease operations entirely in the UK, threatening thousands of jobs, was \"completely inappropriate\".\n\nAsked about corporate concerns over a so-called hard Brexit, at an event for EU diplomats in London last week, Mr Johnson is reported to have replied: \"Fuck business.\"\n\nMr Johnson, who was reportedly speaking at the time to Rudolf Huygelen, Belgium's ambassador to the EU, was also overheard saying he and others would fight Theresa May's soft Brexit \"and win\".\n\nThe foreign secretary, who was a key figure in the Leave campaign, was pressed on the issue in Parliament by Labour MP Owen Smith, who asked him if the comments were correct and, if so, whether they could be \"remotely justified\".\n\n\"I don't think anybody could doubt the passionate support of this government for business,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\n\"It may be that I have, from time to time, expressed scepticism about some of the views of those who profess to speak up for business.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"If we don't have a distinctive Conservative approach .. I fear we'll lose and we'll deserve to\" says former business Minister\n\nMr Johnson's comments about Brexit have frequently proved controversial. He was recorded telling Tory donors last month that the UK's strategy lacked \"guts\" and suggested US President Donald Trump could do a better job.\n\nThe latest remark has angered some Tory MPs, with former Science Minister George Freeman telling BBC Radio 4's World at One programme that the reported comments were not \"helpful, responsible or statesmanlike\".\n\nThe prime minister, who will travel to Brussels on Thursday for a summit of EU leaders, told a chief executives summit hosted by the Times she wanted business to be able to speak to the government.\n\n\"It's right that we listen to the voice of business,\" she said.\n\n\"Business is at the heart of how we are going to develop this country,\" she said. \"We want to ensure we are listening to the business voice because business provides the backbone of our economy.\"\n\nMPs who favour a clean break with the EU after Brexit, in March 29 2019, have called on Mrs May to walk away from negotiations if the EU does not show willingness to begin trade talks immediately.", "Iran's Ali Beiranvand saves a penalty from Cristiano Ronaldo to deny Portugal a 2-0 lead in the final Group B fixture at the 2018 World Cup.\n\nAvailable to UK users only.", "A mother whose baby son died after developing rickets is urging people to take vitamin D supplements.\n\nBeverley Thahane, from Telford, Shropshire, had taken her child Noah to the GP and hospital on numerous occasions because he was ill, but he was not diagnosed until just before his death in January 2017.\n\nExperts at the University of Birmingham say Noah's death was entirely preventable and are calling for all babies to be supplemented with vitamin D from birth.", "Since 700,000 Rohingya refugees fled Myanmar last year there have been widespread reports of sexual assaults by the Burmese military.\n\nAid agencies warned that unwanted pregnancies would result in hundreds, perhaps thousands of babies being given up for adoption. Here's one woman's story.", "Recovery vehicles removed the bus and lorry from the scene on Tuesday afternoon\n\nTwo men died when a double-decker bus and a lorry were involved in a crash on the A47 in Cambridgeshire.\n\nTwelve other people were injured in the crash at about 07:30 BST on Thorney Road, Guyhirn.\n\nThe driver of a First Eastern Counties bus, in his 50s, died, along with a passenger in his 70s.\n\nThe collision, on a stretch of road with a 60mph speed limit, involved a Bretts Transport lorry near the entrance to its depot.\n\nPolice said the bus \"collided into the lorry\". The lorry driver was not hurt.\n\nA Bretts spokesman said: \"At this stage we are giving the emergency services our full support and co-operation.\"\n\nFirst Eastern Counties managing director Steve Wickers said: \"Two people have lost their lives in this incident, one being a driver based in our King's Lynn depot.\n\n\"I am shocked and saddened by what has happened. Our thoughts are with the families of the deceased and we will be providing as much support to them as we can through this difficult time.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Cambs police This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCambridgeshire Police said five people were seriously injured and seven had minor injuries.\n\nPolice said those who were seriously hurt had a combination of broken bones and head injuries, including brain injuries.\n\nThe East of England Ambulance Service said the casualties had been transferred to Peterborough City Hospital and Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King's Lynn.\n\nInsp Jamie Langwith, of the county's roads policing unit, said: \"What we do know is that they have a coming together where the HGV has pulled out of the yard and the bus has collided into the side of it.\"\n\nThe East of England Ambulance Service sent seven ambulance crews, three ambulance officers, two rapid response vehicles, and a Hazardous Area Response Team to the scene on Tuesday morning.\n\nHighways England confirmed the road had reopened shortly after 17:30 BST.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Women who suffer from reproductive issues such as endometriosis and severe period pain have been discussing their debilitating effects.\n\nIt comes as a survey by Public Health England suggests 42% of women experience severe reproductive health problems, but under half seek help.\n\nWatch the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme on weekdays between 09:00 and 11:00 on BBC Two and the BBC News Channel.", "The office of one the Netherlands' leading newspapers was attacked at night, in what the prime minister called \"a slap in the face\" of the free press.\n\nDe Telegraaf's office in Amsterdam was rammed twice by a white van before the driver set it on fire, causing significant damage to the entrance.\n\nThe suspect then escaped in another car.", "Harley-Davidson has described the EU tariffs as a \"substantial\" burden\n\nDonald Trump has said Harley-Davidsons should \"never\" be built abroad, as he attacked the firm's plans to move some production overseas to avoid European tariffs.\n\nMr Trump said the iconic bike brand's new Thailand plant marked a \"surrender\" and \"the beginning of the end\".\n\nLast week, the EU imposed retaliatory tariffs on US goods, including bourbon, orange juice and motorcycles.\n\nHarley-Davidson says the increased costs are a \"substantial\" burden.\n\nThe EU tariffs are a response to new US duties on steel and aluminium imports.\n\nMr Trump also accused Harley-Davidson of making the decision to move some production to Thailand before the current trade dispute erupted, and of using the tariffs as an \"excuse\".\n\nBut the firm - which also has plants in Australia, Brazil and India - said it planned the new plant after Mr Trump withdrew from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal, which would have lowered tariffs in Asia.\n\nTaking aim at the iconic motorcycle brand on Twitter, the president said the company's employees and customers were \"already very angry at them\" because \"they surrendered, they quit!\"\n\nMr Trump also said if they continued with their plan to move production to Thailand, \"the Aura will be gone and they will be taxed like never before!\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Donald J. Trump This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn a series of posts, the president suggested Harley Davidson would not be able to sell bikes back into the US from Thailand \"without paying a big tax\".\n\nHowever Harley-Davidson says it operates four factories in the US.\n\nMr Trump's row with the bike brand began on Monday after Harley-Davidson said manufacturing for the European market would be transferred from the US to other countries.\n\nHe expressed surprise that the company had become \"the first to wave the white flag\", adding: \"I fought hard for them.\"\n\nHe also said the US was \"opening up closed markets\" with its new tariff system, and said the country would soon finish its study into tariffs on car imports from the European Union.\n\nMr Trump previously threatened to impose a 20% tariffs on EU cars after the bloc imposed its retaliatory tariffs.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Donald J. Trump This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWhite House press secretary Sarah Sanders also told reporters at a briefing on Monday that the EU was \"attempting to punish US workers with unfair and discriminatory trade policies\".\n\n\"President Trump will continue to push for free, fair and reciprocal trade, in hopes that the EU will join us,\" Ms Sanders said.\n\nHarley-Davidson says it will raise investment in its international plants, though it did not say which ones, adding that it expected the increase in production to take nine to 18 months.\n\nIt said the tariffs would add, on average, $2,200 (£1,660) to each bike exported to Europe from the US as the import tax increases from 6% to 31%.\n\nThe company, which sold nearly 40,000 motorcycles in Europe last year, said it planned to absorb those costs rather than pass them on to customers and risk damaging sales.\n\nSome US unions however are not supportive of the motorbike maker's decision to move production abroad.\n\nThe International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, which represents some Harley employees and has supported some of the president's tariff announcements, said the decision was \"in keeping with Harley's past decisions to open plants outside of North America.\"\n\n\"Will Harley use any excuse to ship jobs overseas?\" said Robert Martinez Jr, the union's international president. \"Does Harley even understand what 'Made in America' means?\"\n\nUnited Steelworkers, which also represents Harley workers and has backed tariffs, said it does not know yet how the company's decision will affect employment.\n\n\"Domestic sales are what drive production and employment at Harley's US facilities,\" said Michael Bolton, a district director for United Steelworkers, who added that the company should focus on US production if it wants \"to continue to market itself as an iconic American brand\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How hogs and Harleys became weapons in a looming trade war.\n\nHarley-Davidson's move is one of the most visible consequences of the trade disputes triggered by President Trump's decision to levy tariffs on steel and aluminium imports.\n\nMr Trump says the duties are necessary to protect the US steel and aluminium industries, which he says are vital to national security.\n\nThey have drawn retaliation from the EU, Canada, Mexico, India and others while driving up the cost of metals for US manufacturers.\n\nUS companies ranging from boat-builders to nail manufacturers have warned about the consequences of escalating trade tensions.\n\nIn Wisconsin people are caught in the middle of a battle between two of the biggest American brands - Harley Davidson and Trump.\n\nNot that everyone wants to choose.\n\nLeaving work at the state's best-known business one woman said very simply: \"I love my company and I love my President.\"\n\nWisconsin turned Republican red in the last presidential election having been wooed by Donald Trump and his message of putting America First.\n\nIf jobs end up being a casualty in a trade war their loyalty will be tested. But for the moment most of those who voted for Trump seem to be keeping their faith in him.\n\nMany believe the furious words that led to these tit-for-tat tariffs are just part of negotiation tactics.\n\nThe problem for Harley Davidson is that at the moment nobody is backing down and to export to the European Union they are already having to pay the price of this trade skirmish.\n\nAt Harley Davidson's sprawling Menomonee Falls factory there were employees prepared to admit that inside people were talking about tariffs and the danger of job losses.\n\nBut for the moment they have no greater insight into the company's plans than that raw statement which said it would have to move some more of its production overseas\n\nThe best way to get news on the go", "The Slough book fair in 2017 featured prominent far-right Polish speakers like Marcin Rola (pictured second from the right)\n\nThe Polish Embassy in London part-funded an event that gave a platform to right-wing extremists in the UK, a BBC Newsnight investigation has found.\n\nThe embassy helped to finance a book fair in Slough in 2017, which included speakers from Poland well-known for promoting hate speech in their country.\n\nExperts have questioned whether such speakers should be allowed into the UK.\n\nThe embassy says it funded the event after \"appropriate assessment\" by Poland's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.\n\nThe embassy confirmed to Newsnight that funding it provided to the Slough Book Fair paid for speakers' accommodation in Britain.\n\nOne of the speakers at the Slough event was Marcin Rola, who moderated the discussion and runs a far-right online TV station in Poland, Wrealu24, which has more than 140,000 subscribers on YouTube.\n\nIn a recent broadcast, Rola told his viewers that Sweden is \"top of the league table in terms of rapes by Muslim immigrant-invaders on women. On everyone. On animals, on holes in the fence. Because, well, we all know how they behave\".\n\nIn the UK, many of Mr Rola's statements would qualify as hate speech. He has told viewers that \"in Islam, paedophilia is their daily bread\" and refers to Muslims as \"savages\".\n\nWhen Newsnight questioned Mr Rola about his rhetoric, he said his comments were \"taken out of context\".\n\nAlthough he admitted that calling Muslims \"savages\" was \"quite harsh,\" he \"stood by\" his comments, as he said they were in the context of discussing grooming gangs.\n\nThe Slough Book Fair was organised by a UK-based chapter of far-right group Polska Niepodlegla.\n\nIt was also behind a fun run in February 2017, at which it had hoped to host Jacek Miedlar, a former priest well-known for his anti-Semitic and anti-Muslim rhetoric.\n\nMiedlar was unable to attend the fun run when he was prevented from entering Britain. He was again stopped from coming into the country in June, when he was hoping to attend a Britain First rally in Birmingham.\n\nAsked about the Slough Book Fair, the Polish Embassy told Newsnight that it had funded the event after \"an appropriate assessment and receiving acceptance according to the regulations specifying the use of MFA budget funds\".\n\nHowever, Michal Garapich, who has been studying Polish migration in the UK for more than a decade, says that although the membership of far-right groups in the UK is quite small, the ones that exist are feeling stronger.\n\n\"There are definitely more Polish Jehovah's Witnesses or Polish members of AA (Alcohol Anonymous) groups than there are far-right nationalists who organise themselves. But they have momentum now.\n\n\"They are emboldened, they are more assertive.\"\n\nMr Garapich links the new assertiveness of the Polish far right to the change of government in Poland.\n\nHe says the ruling party, Law and Justice, gives \"nationalist, far right, sometimes fascist groups quite a lot of political oxygen, a lot of exposure, and even access to public funds\".\n\nFiyaz Mughal, from the anti-extremism organisation Faith Matters, says events like the Slough Book Fair form part of an attempt by the far right to gain a foothold among Poles in Britain.\n\nBy holding events like book fairs and fun runs, extremist groups \"inject their intolerance, their bigotry, and their prejudice into these communities\", he added.\n\n\"Let's call it what it is. It's a form of radicalisation.\"\n\nMr Rola, the moderator of the Slough discussion, came back to the UK in June to attend another edition of the book fair - this time in Leeds.\n\nThis one was not funded by the Polish Embassy but was organised by the same group, Polska Niepodlegla.\n\nAs soon as he reached arrivals at Luton Airport, he tweeted a photograph captioned: \"They didn't even frisk us.\"\n\nAsked about Mr Rola's case, the Home Office refused to comment.\n\nA spokesman said the government is \"taking a comprehensive approach to defeat the scourge of extremism by supporting communities to promote our common values and confront extremism wherever it exists\".", "Last updated on .From the section World Cup\n\nDiego Maradona says England are reaping the benefits of teaching players to be more comfortable on the ball.\n\nThe Argentina legend has seen his nation struggle at the World Cup while England have made a 100% start.\n\nThe Three Lions overcame a physical Panama team 6-1 on Sunday to claim their biggest ever World Cup win.\n\n\"They want to go out and play. I don't think it's the coach. It comes from below - they are under-17 and under-20 world champions,\" said Maradona.\n\nWith those tournament wins coming last year, none of the players have yet stepped into the senior England team.\n\nHowever, manager Gareth Southgate did coach Jesse Lingard and Ruben Loftus-Cheek at under-21 level.\n• None Southgate proud of performance even if Tunisia game had been draw\n\nSouthgate has encouraged his players to play out from the back and was \"proud\" they \"didn't just throw the ball in the box\" when they were pushing for a winner against Tunisia in their opening World Cup group game.\n\n\"It seems to me that the likes of Sterling, Kane, Vardy and Stones give the ball another touch,\" Maradona told Venezuelan TV channel Telesur.\n\n\"This speaks clearly that the boys are being forged in a way England did not have before.\n\n\"They don't hit the ball across half the pitch. No, they want to go out playing and they found some other attributes with respect to the opponent they had [Panama].\"", "Sunseekers enjoyed the weather on Weymouth beach on Tuesday\n\nThe UK has been enjoying - or enduring - another hottest day of the year, with a health warning for heatwave conditions in place for some.\n\nTuesday saw a top temperature of 30.6C in Porthmadog, Gwynedd - beating Monday's peak of 30.1C in west London.\n\nThe warning, issued by the Met Office, says there is an 80% chance of temperatures being a risk to health.\n\nThe hot weather is expected to last until the weekend, when temperatures are forecast to slowly drop off.\n\nThe health warning, for the south-west, north-west and north-east of England, and the West Midlands, lasts until Thursday evening.\n\nIt is intended to help social and healthcare teams prepare for the potential dangers a heatwave can present, especially to the very young, the elderly or those with chronic disease.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How to keep your baby safe in hot weather\n\nThere's also bad news for hay-fever sufferers as very high levels of pollen are forecast across England, Wales and Northern Ireland throughout the week.\n\nSome schools have said they are cancelling sports days because of the \"extreme heat\".\n\nIn England, the hottest spot on Tuesday was Rostherne, Cheshire, with a temperature of 30.3C.\n\nAviemore recorded Scotland's peak, with 26C, while Castlederg in County Tyrone was Northern Ireland's high point, with 27C.\n\nThe Met Office says the UK could reach 33C on Thursday.\n\nBut the temperature is expected to fall short of the British record for June of 35.6C, reached in London in 1957 and again in Southampton in 1976.\n\nThe highest June temperature for Wales is 33.7C, in 2000, and for Northern Ireland it is 30.8C, last recorded in 1983.\n\nScotland's record temperature for June has stood for 125 years. Ochtertyre in Perth and Kinross recorded 32.2C in 1893.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBBC Weather presenter Ben Rich said Wednesday could start out \"cloudy and murky\" on the east coast of Scotland and eastern England but that the skies would clear over the course of the morning.\n\nHe said: \"Then it is another plain sailing day, with long spells of hot sunshine, and by this stage even Northern Ireland and Scotland will be close to 30C.\"\n\nThe heat will continue until the weekend, with cooler weather in eastern areas and the chance of a shower on Sunday, he said.\n\nThe heatwave has been attributed to the jet stream looping to the north of the UK, and then back down to eastern Europe, creating an area of high pressure over the country which is not shifting.\n\nHowever, for Greece, the direction of the jet stream has produced very stormy conditions.\n\nFears that railway tracks could buckle in the heat prompted Network Rail to introduce speed restrictions.\n\nThe railway infrastructure operator said track temperatures could reach as much as 20C above the air temperature, meaning the steel rails can expand markedly. The reduced speeds are intended to lower the force exerted on the track, reducing the risk of buckling.\n\nNetwork Rail said the heat can cause tracks to buckle\n\nMeanwhile, police have urged people to be careful of the temptation to swim in open water in the hot weather.\n\nThe warning came after the body of a man was recovered from a lake in Nutfield, Surrey, on Monday.\n\nA search is continuing for a missing 13-year-old, named as Ryan Evans, at Westport Lake in Stoke-on-Trent.\n\nThe RNLI has urged those heading to the seaside to seek out beaches with a lifeguard.\n\nYou must enable JavaScript to view this content. Compare the temperature where you are with more than 50 cities around the world, including some of the hottest and coldest inhabited places. Enter your location or postcode in the search box to see your result.\n\nAnd St John Ambulance is urging people to avoid heatstroke by remembering to wear suncream, keep covered up and stay hydrated.\n\nThe heat also started a wildfire across two square kilometres of moorland in Greater Manchester.\n\nAnd in York, police officers smashed the windows of two cars to rescue dogs \"struggling to breathe\" inside. Police said they had referred the car owners to the RSPCA for prosecution.\n\nHomeless people can also be vulnerable if exposed to strong sunshine and heat while sleeping rough, the housing and support charity Evolve said.\n\nIt called on the public to donate things like suncream, water, and sun hats to homeless people either directly, or through a shelter or charity.\n\nGreen - minimum state of vigilance during the summer.\n\nYellow - Alert and readiness - Social and healthcare services are on standby to reduce harm.\n\nAmber - Heatwave action - Care services target high-risk groups, like the elderly, with specific help. General advice is given to keep homes cool, drink plenty of fluids, and so on.\n\nRed - National emergency - Reached when a heatwave is so severe that illness and death may occur among the fit and healthy, not just among high-risk groups.\n\nThreshold temperatures for triggering these warnings range from 28C in north-east England to 32C in London.\n\nThe best way to get news on the go", "Russia's impressive start to the World Cup ended as they had a man sent off and were easily defeated by Uruguay, whose victory means they top Group A.\n\nUruguay will go on to face Portugal in the last 16, while hosts Russia play Spain.\n\nThere was a party atmosphere around the scorching Samara Arena before kick-off, with fans having travelled from all over the country keen to share in the good feeling surrounding their national team.\n\nRussia had scored eight goals in sweeping victories over Saudi Arabia and Egypt and were already guaranteed to progress, but they went behind in their final group match after only 10 minutes when Luis Suarez drilled in a clever low free-kick.\n\nIt got worse for Stanislav Cherchesov's side when a Diego Laxalt effort from 25 yards was deflected in by Denis Cheryshev, leaving his keeper Igor Akifneev stranded and in the position of having conceded three goals at the tournament without making a save.\n\nAkinfeev did then come out to block a Rodrigo Bentancur chance, with Roman Zobnin just scrambling the rebound clear of Edinson Cavani, before Igor Smolnikov picked up a second yellow card and was sent off 35 minutes into his World Cup debut.\n\nAfter the break, Russia's 10 men composed themselves and at least managed to wrest back some control of the match, with Uruguay always looking dangerous but perhaps happy to concede possession and protect their lead.\n\nThe hosts were rewarded with their best chances of the match, the first to Artem Dzuba, who fired wildly over the bar from inside the box, the second by Fedor Smelov, who dazzled to find space in behind the Uruguay defence but failed to pick out a team-mate with what looked to be an easy cut-back.\n\nBut the final word was left to Cavani, who put several earlier misses behind him to get his first goal of the tournament by stabbing in from close range after an Akinfeev parry, ensuring Russia finished as runners-up.\n\nYou could say this was the first time Russia had faced quality opposition at this tournament, and for many the manner of this defeat will mark them out as vulnerable in the next round.\n\nRight from the outset, and even at the end when there was very little hope of a comeback emerging, there was much of the same remarkable vocal support from the stands. But on the pitch there was very little of the dynamism we saw from Russia's players in their opening two victories.\n\nAlmost every set-piece was delivered too long, and there were so many key sloppy passes - like Yuri Gazinskiy's to begin the passage of play that led to Suarez scoring from a free-kick - or Mario Fernandes' when for once early in the second half Uruguay looked like they might be opened up.\n\nPerhaps the fact that Russia, the lowest ranked team here at 70 in the world, started this game having already qualified affected their approach. Perhaps it was the oppressive heat. Midfielder Aleksandr Golovin, one of their best performers here so far, was also rested.\n\nWhat is certain is that now, having finished second, Russia will play their next match at Moscow's Luzhniki Stadium, where they beat Saudia Arabia 5-0 in the tournament's opening match. It will be another sell-out partisan crowd.\n\nTheir opponents there will be Spain - with the 2010 World Cup winners secure their place as Group B winners with a draw against Morocco.\n\nThere was very little doubt about who would win this game after an early period in which Russia were blown away.\n\nSuarez looked determined to impress after his poor opening match against Egypt, and it was his clever low free-kick that set the tone for what was a very comfortable victory.\n\nThere was plenty of noise from the stands - so Uruguay goalkeeper Fernando Muslera will have had many quieter games in terms of volume - but he had little work to do as he became his country's all-time leading appearance maker at the World Cup.\n\nAt his 14th match at the tournament, and on the occasion of his 100th cap, Uruguay simply out-performed Russia, and of course were for much of the game a player better off.\n\nThere was even finally a goal for Cavani right at the end. For a long time it looked like it would not come as the Paris St-Germain striker endured a mostly frustrating evening.\n\nHe missed three good chances before finally things fell into place as the rebound from an Akinfeev parry landed kindly at his feet.\n\nThe Uruguay fans stayed long after the final whistle to cheer their team. For them it is three wins from three, but their next match will be a much more serious test.\n\nRussia need to score first - the stats\n• None Uruguay have finished as first round group winners for the fifth time, having done so previously in 1930, 1950, 1954 and 2010.\n• None Russia are the first European side to fail to top their group as the host nation since Spain in 1982.\n• None Russia are now winless in each of their six World Cup matches in which they have conceded the first goal (D1 L5).\n• None Uruguay are the first side to win all three of their group games without conceding a single goal since Argentina in 1998 (seven goals scored, none conceded).\n• None Uruguay have won three consecutive World Cup matches against European opposition for the first time since a run of four straight victories between 1950 and 1954.\n• None Russia's Denis Cheryshev scored the sixth own goal at this year's tournament, the joint-most number of own goals at a single World Cup (also six in 1998).\n• None Russian defender Igor Smolnikov is the first outfield player to be sent off for the host nation of a World Cup since Marcel Desailly for France against Brazil in the 1998 final.\n• None Edinson Cavani became just the second player to score a goal in three separate World Cup tournaments for Uruguay (2010, 2014 and 2018) after his strike partner Luis Suarez.\n• None Fernando Muslera, celebrating his 100th cap in this game, became Uruguay's all-time leading appearance maker at the World Cup (14) overtaking Ladislao Mazurkiewicz.\n\n'We could have won by more' - what they said\n\nUruguay coach Oscar Tabarez: \"Russia did not push us around, they tried to put us into a corner. Not only did we prevent them from doing that, but we put them in their half of the pitch in the first half. We could have won by even more goals.\n\n\"We did not manage to score on certain counter-attacks that we should have. Sometimes the timing wasn't perfect. We need to improve very quickly, because any match in the round of 16 will be extremely difficult.\n\n\"The result and to be top of our group pleased me most. We won by a wide margin but I like the fact that we didn't concede. We need to work towards that end. And I liked the dedication and concentration that my team had. They were focused from end to end, the entire squad. They executed the plan.\"\n\nRussia coach Stanislav Cherchesov: \"Even when we had 10 people on the pitch, they were running hard and they wanted to attack more. That's why I brought on a substitute.\n\n\"Psychologically, we are well prepared for the next games.\n\n\"This is one thing and when you come to the pitch to play the game it's another. This is an art to be prepared at any second.\"\n• None Attempt blocked. Lucas Torreira (Uruguay) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Diego Laxalt.\n• None Attempt missed. Giorgian de Arrascaeta (Uruguay) left footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Maxi Gómez following a fast break.\n• None Goal! Uruguay 3, Russia 0. Edinson Cavani (Uruguay) left footed shot from very close range to the bottom left corner following a corner.\n• None Attempt saved. Diego Godín (Uruguay) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Giorgian de Arrascaeta with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Cristian Rodríguez (Uruguay) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner. Assisted by Giorgian de Arrascaeta.\n• None Artem Dzyuba (Russia) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt blocked. Edinson Cavani (Uruguay) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Matías Vecino.\n• None Attempt missed. Martín Cáceres (Uruguay) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Giorgian de Arrascaeta with a cross following a corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "A transgender woman who was unable to access her pension was discriminated against by UK law, the European Court of Justice has found.\n\nThe woman - known as MB - was refused the female state pension at 60 because she chose not to annul her marriage.\n\nMB said she preferred to stay married to her wife \"in the sight of God\".\n\nBut a court has ruled a person who has changed gender does not have to annul the marriage they entered into before that change, to receive a pension.\n\nUnder the UK's 2004 Gender Recognition Act, trans people acquired the right to formally change their gender by obtaining a full \"gender recognition certificate\".\n\nBut the law states a certificate cannot be issued to a married person who does not have their marriage annulled on the basis of their gender change.\n\nIn the UK, women born before 6 April 1950 can apply for a state pension at age 60, while men born before 6 December 1953 must wait until 65.\n\nMB, who was born male in 1948, married in 1974 and had two children. In 1991, MB began to live as a woman and underwent gender reassignment surgery in 1995, but did not apply for a gender recognition certificate.\n\nWhen she reached her 60th birthday in May 2008, MB applied for a state pension, but was refused on the basis that legally she was still a man, and should therefore wait for the male pension at 65.\n\nMB challenged the decision and her case went to the UK Supreme Court, where the judges were \"divided\" on the issue.\n\nSupreme Court judges referred it to the EU Court of Justice for guidance.\n\nThe ECJ found that the UK's marriage annulment condition (designed to avoid marriage between persons of the same sex) is \"unrelated\" to the retirement pension scheme.\n\nAnd so it concluded that UK legislation \"constitutes direct discrimination based on sex\" and is therefore in breach of European law.\n\nMB's lawyers - Jacqueline Mulryne of Arnold & Porter and Chris Stothers of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer - said they were \"delighted\" at the decision.\n\n\"After almost a decade, MB will finally be paid her pension and recognised as a woman by the government,\" they said in a statement.\n\n\"This is a small decision but it has great importance in the move towards increased equality and respect.\"\n\nThe case will now return to the Supreme Court to apply the ruling, but MB's lawyers said they are \"hopeful\" the Department for Work and Pensions will apply the ruling \"without delay\".", "Two \"despicable\" drug dealers who supplied ecstasy to children as young as 12 have been jailed.\n\nMore than 20 young people were admitted to hospital after taking the drugs, Liverpool Crown Court heard.\n\nBanks, of Wheatland Lane, Seacombe, was jailed for six years and nine months while Evans, of Norman Street, Birkenhead, was sentenced to four years and eight months.\n\nBanks - described as \"the senior partner\" - and Evans targeted their victims using mobile phones and social media and recruited some of them to act as go-betweens to sell to their friends.\n\nAs he sentenced them, judge Norman Wright said: \"People who deal in drugs bring misery, degradation and, not infrequently, death.\n\n\"It is an evil trade but in this case, the most serious aspect was the very large number of drugs supplied to children as young as 12, 13 or 14. Selling to children is despicable.\n\n\"Not only that, you were prepared to sell and make use of children as conduits to sell to other children\".\n\nThe youngsters were admitted to Arrowe Park Hospital between March and May last year, the court was told.\n\nPolice recovered ecstasy tablets, cocaine, amphetamine, cannabis and a drug sold under the name \"Legal X\"\n\nJudge Wright said Banks had an \"appalling\" record dating back to 1999, having been jailed previously for drugs offences.\n\nThe court heard Evans had enjoyed a good upbringing but his life had gone in a \"downward spiral\" after he started taking and dealing drugs.\n\nDet Insp Paul Lamb said: \"A number of children were taken to hospital after taking these drugs and it is only by good fortune that we did not have a fatality as a result.\n\n\"We know that the children were also sharing the tablets, largely because they are afraid of taking them on their own, but they need to understand that passing a class A drug on to another child amounts to supplying.\"\n\nA number of children were either cautioned or charged as a result of the investigation.\n\nBanks also admitted supplying ecstasy and Evans pleaded guilty to three other charges involving the possession and supply of ecstasy, cannabis and cocaine.", "It was chance that brought Clara Daly and Tim Cook together. It was an act of kindness that brought their story to the attention of millions.\n\nThey found themselves on the same flight to Portland, Oregon - Clara, 15, with her mother, Tim, 64, alone.\n\nTim is deaf and blind, so airline staff - unable to communicate with him - made an announcement asking if any passengers knew sign language.\n\nThat's when Clara, who has been learning American Sign Language (ASL) for a year, came forward.\n\nThe teenager spelled out words using ASL onto the palms of Tim's hands, allowing him to feel the letters.\n\nClara decided to learn ASL as her dyslexia makes learning other languages difficult\n\nIn a Facebook post, fellow passenger Lynette Scriber explained: \"It was fascinating to watch as she signed one letter at a time into his hand.\n\n\"He was able to 'read' her signing and they carried on an animated conversation.\"\n\nMs Scriber's post has received more than a million positive reactions and has been shared more than 700,000 times.\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Facebook The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts. Skip facebook post by Lynette This article contains content provided by Facebook. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Facebook cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\nClara's willingness to help has moved many online. About 90,000 people have commented on the post to applaud the \"beautiful\" story.\n\nMs Scriber wrote that the incident was a reminder \"that there are still good, good people who are willing to look out for each other\".\n\nJane Daly, Clara's mother, told the BBC: \"Clara has always been intrigued by sign language.\n\n\"We have a family friend, Jon, who is a sign language interpreter and he was a big inspiration.\n\n\"Clara was so happy to be able to help Tim. I could see the joy in her face every time she came back to her seat after helping him.\"\n\nJane continued: \"The reaction to the story has been overwhelmingly positive.\n\n\"Clara says it's strange that something she wouldn't think twice about doing has got so much attention.\n\n\"Often when stories are posted, comments can turn negative quickly and we are not seeing that here.\n\n\"It has been amazing to see all the comments about our daughter and they have often brought us to tears.\n\n\"What Clara did on that plane is just what she would have always done.\n\n\"She has an amazingly big heart and Bill and I feel blessed to be her parents.\"\n\nJane wrote on Facebook: \"Clara told me that she thought it was meant to be that our original flight was cancelled and we were placed on this flight so that she could be there to help this man.\"\n\nOne cabin crew member who witnessed the interaction commented that \"Clara was amazing\".\n\nThey continued: \"You could tell Tim was very excited to have someone he could speak to and she was such an angel.\"", "Michael Dowden left the room after the video was played\n\nThe firefighter who led the initial response to the Grenfell fire broke down in tears after being shown footage of the disaster at the public inquiry.\n\nThe video shows people shouting to residents to \"get out of the tower\" as the blaze spreads.\n\nRecalling that night, Michael Dowden said he had \"never seen anything\" like it before and had \"no previous knowledge\" to help his decision-making.\n\nThe hearing was suspended for half an hour after he became emotional.\n\nMr Dowden, watch manager from North Kensington fire station, was the incident commander for about an hour at the fire, which killed 72 people last June.\n\nGiving evidence for a second day, he said he initially believed the fire was contained in flat 16 on the tower's fourth floor.\n\nBut he began to feel \"uncomfortable\" because \"the fire was behaving in a way I'd not seen it behave before\".\n\nHe said it was like a magnesium fire, \"sparking and spitting\", adding: \"That's not something I've seen before.\"\n\nMr Dowden, who has been with fire brigade for 14 years, was asked what he thought the material falling from the outside of the building was.\n\n\"I didn't know at that point what I know now, in terms of flammable cladding...\n\n\"If we were aware of that risk and that hazard at that point as we are now as an organisation we would have put things in place, but I wasn't aware of this cladding material put on to the external envelope of the building.\"\n\nMr Millett asked whether, when realising the fire was spreading across the exterior, the fire chief considered an \"evacuation\".\n\nMr Dowden said that would have been \"impossible\".\n\n\"I didn't have the resources at that time - we're looking at 20 floors above the fire floor with just six fire engines in attendance, one central staircase.\"\n\nHe added: \"At that moment in time, things are rapidly developing and it is a very, very dynamic situation. I wasn't aware what was happening internally in the building.\n\n\"I have never seen anything like that but it was almost like I was consumed by that because of the sensory overload.\"\n\nThe inquiry has heard the blaze was spread by the building's exterior cladding which Mr Dowden said he did not see when he arrived at the scene.\n\nOn Monday he told the inquiry he was not trained to decide when to abandon the policy of \"stay put\" and evacuate a burning tower instead.", "Almost half of women aged 25-34 do not have an enjoyable sex life, a survey by Public Health England suggests.\n\nAbout 7,000 women over the age of 16 responded to the first poll of its kind launched by the health body to guide future policy on reproductive health.\n\nSexual satisfaction appeared to increase with age - less than a third of women aged 55-64 reported a lack of enjoyable sex in the past 12 months.\n\nAvoiding an unwanted pregnancy was the women's biggest concern overall.\n\nManaging painful, heavy periods was the third most common reproductive worry, while having an enjoyable sex life was second.\n\nGoing for reproductive health screening, including smear tests, was fourth, \"Other\" reproductive health symptoms was fifth. And difficulty getting pregnant was sixth.\n\nCatching a sexually transmitted disease was seventh on the list.\n\nDifferent issues took on relatively greater or lesser importance at different stages of a woman's life.\n\nThe women who responded were aged 16 and older and living in England. Around 65% of the women reported having sex in the last month. A further 12% had had sex in the previous three months.\n\nAbout a third of the women had experienced severe reproductive health symptoms in the past 12 months, ranging from heavy menstrual bleeding to menopause, and incontinence to infertility.\n\nIn-depth interviews revealed that these symptoms often affected women's ability to carry out daily activities, yet many concealed their symptoms from work colleagues.\n\nEmbarrassment commonly acted as a barrier to accessing knowledge or support.\n\nAngela says reproductive health is still a taboo topic\n\nAngela Kilcoyne, who took part in a PHE focus group, said: \"Since I was 13, I have felt embarrassed about having heavy menstrual bleeding - a health issue which has caused me debilitating pain and nausea. I worked for years in banking, which was a very male dominated environment, and I never told my managers that I was off due to horrendous period pain.\n\n\"I would have to invent reasons month after month and soldier on. Or I would dose myself up and try and get through the day best I could, then collapse when I got home. Reproductive health should be spoken about in the workplace in the same way as sickness or flu.\"\n\nDr Sue Mann, public health consultant in reproductive health, from Public Health England, said: \"Enjoying a fulfilling sex life is important for women's mental and emotional wellbeing. Our data show that sexual enjoyment is a key part of good reproductive health and that while many women are reporting sexual dysfunction, many are not seeking help.\n\n\"Our research shows that there is still stigma associated with talking about reproductive health issues which is a barrier to women seeking help. This is particularly true in the workplace where many women do not feel comfortable speaking to their managers about the real reasons for needing to take time off work. We want to empower women to educate themselves about good reproductive health and to feel confident speaking about it.\"\n\nPublic Health England is drawing up a five-year action plan to promote women's reproductive health.\n• None 'I kept my pregnancy at 15 hidden'\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Inspectors can currently establish only whether chemical weapons have been used, not who is responsible\n\nThe UK has called for a vote on increasing the international chemical weapons watchdog's powers.\n\nAt a special session of the OPCW at The Hague, Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said breaches of its chemical weapons ban could not be ignored, referencing attacks in Syria and Salisbury, Wilts.\n\nThe UK wants new powers for inspectors to assign blame for attacks, a proposal that is opposed by Moscow.\n\nInspectors can currently establish only whether such weapons have been used.\n\nBBC diplomatic correspondent James Landale said British diplomats had launched a huge effort to gain enough support to win the vote on Wednesday.\n\nBut Russia opposed the plan, which might see its Syrian allies face further international condemnation, he added.\n\nMr Johnson told the OPCW meeting: \"The tragic reality is that chemical weapons have been used and are being used all over again. And, as we've heard, attacks have taken place in Syria and in Iraq.\n\n\"Over three months after that appalling incident [in Salisbury], areas of Salisbury are still being decontaminated and three people are still being treated for effects of exposure but are out of hospital.\n\n\"We cannot ignore these breaches.\"\n\nUnder the 1997 Chemical Weapons Convention, 192 countries have agreed never to use or produce chemical weapons.\n\nMr Johnson said members \"cannot allow the global ban on chemical weapons… to be eroded away\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Boris Johnson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"At present the OPCW's experts will say where and when an attack happened but not who was responsible,\" he said.\n\n\"If we are serious about upholding the ban on chemical weapons, that gap must be filled. Attributing responsibility for an attack is clearly part of the OPCW's technical remit.\"\n\nSyrian opposition activists, rescue workers and medics say more than 40 people were killed in a suspected chemical attack on the Syrian city of Douma in April.\n\nFrance said it had \"proof\" that \"chemical weapons were used - at least chlorine - and that they were used by Bashar al-Assad's regime\".\n\nThe Syrian government denied the allegation. And its key ally Russia said it had \"irrefutable evidence\" that the incident had been \"staged\" with the help of the UK.\n\nThe attempted murder of Sergei and Yulia Skripal on British soil led to accusations of Russian state involvement\n\nMeanwhile, the UK says Russian ex-spy Sergei Skripal, 67, and his 33-year-old daughter, who were found slumped on a park bench in Salisbury in Wiltshire on 4 March, were exposed to a nerve agent belonging to the Novichok group.\n\nThis analysis was backed by the international chemical weapons watchdog.\n\nThe attempted murder of the pair on British soil led to accusations of Russian state involvement. Russia has denied involvement in the attack.\n\nYulia Skripal left hospital a month after the attack, and her father was discharged a month later.\n\nAlastair Hay, an expert on chemical weapons at Leeds University, said the UK was \"absolutely right\" to press for new powers.\n\n\"Whether it happens and whether there are sufficient votes that the UK can garner to support the move is still an open question really,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"Of course you have the UK, the Unites States, France and many others who want the OPCW to have those powers.\n\n\"But there are others who are very concerned about it. And that includes Russia and some of its allies. So, it's divided and it's a question of how many allies the UK can muster.\"", "Springwatch presenter Michaela Strachan says she \"wouldn't be upset\" if co-host Chris Packham earned more than her.\n\nShe told the Daily Mirror \"you cannot pay\" for Packham's knowledge and expertise on the live BBC nature show.\n\n\"What Chris brings to Springwatch in terms of knowledge is way more than what I can bring,\" the presenter added.\n\nWhile they have a similar amount of air time on the show, Strachan said: \"I'm not interested in what he earns from it - it's none of my business.\"\n\nThe BBC press office said they wouldn't be commenting on Strachan's remarks.\n\nStrachan, who has been working with Packham for decades, said of the show: \"I love doing it, I'm happy with what I get paid.\n\n\"If Chris was paid more, and I don't know if he is, I wouldn't be upset because you cannot pay for his knowledge, it's an extraordinary knowledge.\n\n\"Chris is extraordinary and the campaigning that he does is extraordinary and I think he's everybody's hero on the team at Springwatch.\n\n\"So I'm not interested in what he earns from it.\"\n\nThe pair presented The Really Wild Show together from 1993 to 1995 and have been hosting Springwatch since 2011. They also front its spin-off Autumnwatch, which returns to screens later this year.\n\nStrachan added: \"It's a fact that the programme would not be as good if there were two Chris Packhams or two Michaela Strachans and that's why Springwatch works so well as we both have different strengths.\"\n\nEqual pay for co-stars has been a topic of contention over recent months.\n\nThe makers of Netflix show The Crown had to apologise to Claire Foy and Matt Smith when it emerged that she was paid less than him for playing The Queen, opposite his Duke of Edinburgh.\n\nAnd Eleanor Tomlinson, who plays Demelza in Poldark, said she would be \"pretty upset\" if she and Aidan Turner were not paid the same on BBC drama Poldark.\n\nBut it was then confirmed by the production company of the show that there was a pay disparity, with Mammoth Screen explaining that Turner - who plays Poldark - had \"significantly more screen time than any other character\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Three years ago, Nick Robinson was diagnosed with cancer. The operation that successfully removed the tumour in his lung damaged his vocal cords. On Tuesday, he will present a debate about the future of the NHS at it approaches its 70th anniversary.\n\nWe can all delight in the fact NHS care is generally safer than in other systems - although the events at Gosport hospital are a reminder of the need not to be complacent - that it generally treats people with care and courtesy, is relatively cheap to run and gives the same level of care to rich and poor alike.\n\nWhat, though, about those \"healthcare outcomes\" that put us \"near the bottom\" of the league table?\n\nWhat, for example, about the illness I had - cancer?\n\nCancer survival rates here are significantly lower than in other countries. This is true not just of lung cancer but of other big cancer killers - in the bowel, in the colon, the pancreas and the prostate.\n\nIndeed, in nine out of 10 cancers, the survival rates here are well below the European average.\n\nIn bowel cancer, we are 17th in the league table.\n\nPut simply, put starkly, what that means is that tens of thousands of people with cancer survive for fewer years than they would if they lived in say Germany, France or the Netherlands.\n\nThere have been great efforts to improve NHS cancer care. And some improvements are visible.\n\nThe detection and treatment of breast cancer has become significantly better in recent years - but there is a long way to go.\n\nWhat's true of cancer is also true of the other big causes of death - heart attacks and strokes.\n\nWhen it comes to tackling the most serious illnesses, the NHS is very far from being the best in the world.\n\n\"Aha,\" you might say, \"surely the problem is obvious - money. We simply don't spend enough.\"\n\nIt is certainly true that the NHS has been through the longest, tightest financial squeeze in its history.\n\nWe spend less as a share of our national income on healthcare than they do in Germany or France.\n\nWe employ fewer people to care for us than they do in many other countries.\n\nThat is, no doubt, why the prime minister felt unable to resist the calls for a big boost to spending over the next five years.\n\nYet it is also true that we spend more than, say, the Irish or the Spanish and that our poor \"healthcare outcomes\" existed and were known about long before the age of austerity.\n\nYet in the decades I've been covering debates about the NHS, I have reported on endless rows about waiting times and waiting lists; on \"reforms\" and reorganisation; on allegedly secret plans to privatise the NHS but almost never on why it fails to keep people alive as well as other systems do.\n\nThere are, of course, no easy answers to that question.\n\nResources and organisation are surely a factor. Lifestyle, diet and public attitudes to health must all count too.\n\nWhen it comes to cancer, it is even possible that one of the jewels in the NHS crown - the GP system - may slow down the process of getting people to see the specialists they need to see to get the tests and the treatment they need.\n\nI was very lucky. My cancer could have been diagnosed much later.\n\nInternational surveys suggest people in the UK are more likely to say their doctor knows about them and their health - but they also indicate the time we get to spend with our doctor is much shorter than elsewhere.\n\nI worry that as more and more GPs retire early and as the pressure on the system increases, that standard of care is bound to fall.\n\nOn average, people now see their GP six times a year, which is twice as often 10 years ago.\n\nIt is just one of the new pressures on the health service we will be examining in NHS at 70 - Live.\n\nWe will look at the impact of an ageing population. In the past five years, the number of people aged over 85 has risen by almost a third.\n\nTheir care costs on average five times more than that of someone under 30.\n\nWe'll explore the increase in obesity. A staggering 63% of us are now officially classified as obese or overweight - including half of all NHS staff.\n\nThen there is the increased demand for mental health care - one in four adults now experiences a mental heath problem in their lifetime.\n\nI have much to be thankful for. The tumour in my lung was removed successfully.\n\nThe damage to my vocal cords - which was a side-effect of the operation - almost robbed me of my voice. But another op and many many hours of therapy restored it so I could fulfil my career ambitions and become a presenter on the Today programme on BBC Radio 4.\n\nIncidentally, my experience raises one more question we all too rarely discuss - should there be limits to what the NHS provides?\n\nWhen it came to getting my voice back, I had no choice but to pay for that therapy since there was no way the health service could - or, probably, should - have paid for the daily therapy sessions needed to get me back to work in weeks and not months.\n\nThere will always be limits on what the system can afford.\n\nI have known for a very long time how superb the NHS can be but also that it has limitations.\n\nAs an 18-year-old, I was the sole survivor in a fatal car crash in France.\n\nI spent a week heavily sedated in a respiratory intensive care unit in Lille, unable to breathe for myself.\n\nWhen I pulled through and was sent home, I was treated and cared for by superb NHS doctors, nurses, physio- and occupational therapists, who got me back on my feet.\n\nI was also informed that I would have died if I'd had the same accident in Britain, as the facilities in France were simply better than the ones we had.\n\nSo, I'll be joining with all those wishing the NHS a happy 70th birthday next week.\n\nI'm aware there'll be parties and even religious services to celebrate the birth of one of Britain's best-loved institutions.\n\nI know that no politician with any hope of high office will dare to declare anything other than love for it and will insist that it's the best of British.\n\nHowever, the birthday gift the health service deserves as it turns three score years and 10 is not just warm words or even the promise of more cash.\n\nIt is an open, honest, clear-headed diagnosis of its strengths and, yes, its weaknesses too.\n\nThat and a national conversation about how those who care for us can help more people live longer healthier lives.\n\nNick Robinson will be presenting NHS at 70 - Live, on BBC Two, on Tuesday at 20:00 BST.", "Last updated on .From the section World Cup\n\nPeru recorded their first win at a World Cup finals since 1978 as they beat Australia in the last match of the tournament for both sides.\n\nAustralia needed to defeat already-eliminated Peru and hope France beat Denmark in order to reach the last 16, but the South Americans went ahead with a fine, low 15-yard volley from Andre Carrillo.\n\nExcellent defending from Anderson Santamaria denied Mathew Leckie a close-range equaliser as Australia struggled to create clear-cut chances.\n\nPeru captain Paolo Guerrero, only able to play in the tournament after a tribunal overturned a 14-month drug ban, sealed the victory when he spun and shot into the far corner.\n\nChristian Cueva also hit a post for Peru late on as they finished third in Group C above Australia, while France qualified as group winners after their goalless draw with Denmark.\n\nPeru had played eight World Cup finals matches without a win since they beat Iran 4-1 on 11 June, 1978, and this victory was only the fifth in their history.\n• None Who needs what? Remaining group permutations\n• None France top Group C after draw with Denmark\n\nPeru were playing in their first world Cup tournament since 1982, although their qualification had been fortunate as they had lost 2-0 against Bolivia in qualifying, but that result was given as a 3-0 Peru win as the Bolivians fielded Paraguay-born Nelson Cabrera as a late substitute.\n\nNevertheless, more than 40,000 Peruvians travelled to Russia and they have been determined to enjoy every moment.\n\nOnce again their fans made for a terrific atmosphere in Sochi, even though 1-0 defeats to both Denmark and France in their opening two games meant they had no chance of progressing.\n\nIt only took 18 minutes for the South Americans to take the lead when Carrillo, who spent the 2017-18 season on loan at Watford from Benfica, connected perfectly with Guerrero's cross for their first goal of the competition.\n\nTheir second came just five minutes after the break when Peru's record goalscorer Guerrero doubled his side's lead.\n\nThe 34-year-old had been set to miss the World Cup having been given a 14-month ban after testing positive for cocaine, although Guerrero has always maintained his positive test in October 2017 came after drinking contaminated herbal tea.\n\nHis ban was overturned just before the start of the tournament after the captains of group rivals Australia, Denmark and France wrote to Fifa asking them to lift the ban.\n\nIt was a fully deserved result for Guerrero and his team to give his country's supporters the win they desired.\n\nNo goal at a fourth World Cup for Cahill\n\nFor Australia it was a disappointing way to bow out of the competition and they have now only won twice in 16 matches at World Cup finals.\n\nMile Jedinak, who had scored both of their goals from the penalty spot in Russia, shot well over the top early on before Peru scored their first.\n\nPeru defender Santamaria did excellently to produce a goal-saving challenge at the near post to deny Leckie after Robbie Kruse's low cross had beaten goalkeeper Pedro Gallese.\n\nNot even the second-half introduction of ex-Everton forward Tim Cahill could give Australia a way back into the game.\n\nThe 38-year-old, who had not featured in Australia's opening two games, was aiming to become only the fifth man in World Cup history to score in four World Cups after Brazil's Pele, German duo Uwe Seeler and Miroslav Klose, and Portugal's Cristiano Ronaldo.\n\nHowever, Cahill did not have a chance, although he could have been picked out by Aziz Behich, who decided to shoot instead and pulled his effort well off target.\n• None Find out how the players rated from the Australia v Peru match\n\nAustralia go home without a win, again - the stats\n• None Australia failed to win a match at a World Cup tournament for the third time in their five participations (1974, 2014 and 2018).\n• None Peru won their first match at the World Cup since a 4-1 win over Iran in 1978 - 14,625 days ago.\n• None Peru forward Pablo Guerrero - aged 34 years and 176 days - became the third oldest South American scorer at the World Cup, behind only Argentina's Martin Palermo (36 years, 227 days) and Obdulio Varela of Uruguay (36 years 279 days).\n• None Peru's opening goal in this match was their first at the 2018 World Cup from their 28th shot of the competition.\n• None Australia's first two used substitutes in this match - Tim Cahill (38 years) and Daniel Arzani (19) - are separated in age by 19 years and 29 days.\n• None Peru opened the scoring in this match, only the third time they have done so in 18 World Cup matches and the first time since 1978 against Iran.\n• None Tim Cahill became the first Australian to appear at four different World Cup finals (2006, 2010, 2014 and 2018).\n• None Peru scored as many goals in this match as they managed in their previous eight World Cup games combined.\n• None Australia have not kept a clean sheet in any of their 13 matches at their last four World Cups between 2006 and 2018.\n• None Australia's failure to win any of their three matches at the 2018 World Cup mean that Oceania countries (Australia and New Zealand) have now won just two of their 22 matches at the World Cup finals (drawn seven, lost 13).\n\n'Proud of the fans' - what they said\n\nAustralia coach Bert van Marwijk: \"It's a little bit of a different feeling after this game.\n\n\"I heard Denmark played a draw, so even if we won by three or four goals it wouldn't have mattered, other than the feelings for the players.\n\n\"I liked the period of time I worked with these guys. I learned from them and I learned from their mentality.\n\n\"The way they improved, you don't see that that often on this level. I hope they learned something in the past few months. They can learn from good things but also from bad moments.\"\n\nPeru coach Ricardo Garceca: \"It is a joyful feeling. This was a very difficult match in terms of psychology, we had to be strong after we had lost unexpectedly twice.\n\n\"We played against a team who is a tough, very strong and physical team and they could qualify so their players made a huge effort.\n\n\"In the stadium we had all of these people supporting us. We can leave the World Cup with our heads high.\"\n\nAndre Carrillo, who scored Peru's first goal: \"I am very grateful to all the Peruvian fans. Many people made the impossible trip to be here.\n\n\"I am happy to give them the victory. We are proud of them.\"\n• None Mark Milligan (Australia) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Mile Jedinak (Australia) right footed shot from outside the box is too high from a direct free kick.\n• None Offside, Peru. Paolo Hurtado tries a through ball, but Paolo Guerrero is caught offside.\n• None Paolo Hurtado (Peru) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Simon Cox: \"We're trying to work with our families\"\n\nA secondary school is offering parents the chance to take their children out of school for one week in July next year for an \"enrichment week\".\n\nWoodlands School in Basildon says this will allow parents of pupils in Years 7, 8 and 9 to give them \"opportunities that are more affordable\".\n\nPupils will have to complete a booklet outlining what they have learned.\n\nThe move comes as data shows rising numbers of pupils in England are being taken out of school to go on holiday.\n\nIn his letter to parents, head teacher Simon Cox says 15 to 19 July 2019 will be set aside for an \"enrichment week\".\n\n\"It is hoped that this will allow you to provide opportunities that are more affordable as they are out of the school holidays,\" the letter says.\n\n\"A full list of enrichment activities will be provided in school during this week and full attendance is expected unless the enrichment week documents have been completed.\"\n\nThe letter ends: \"Holidays at any other time of the year will not be granted and this enrichment week is not transferable to any other week in the school year.\"\n\nFamilies who take up the offer will need to fill in a leave of absence form and pupils will have to complete an educational booklet while out of school that week.\n\nMr Cox told the BBC News website that the booklet would cover modern languages, history, geography, maths and English.\n\n\"If, for example, a family went to Greece, we'd need to see that they have mastered some basic communication, for geography we'd need to see key information around GDP and population, for history, the type of place and how the past has impacted, English would be about literature and maths will centre around currency.\"\n\nPupils whose parents do not take up this offer will be expected to attend school as normal.\n\nHe added: \"We get an awful lot of holiday requests - well over 150 a year.\n\n\"Our authorised holiday is already 1% and we've got 2.9% unauthorised absence.\n\n\"We're the second highest finer in Essex for unauthorised absence.\"\n\nMr Cox says the school, which is the fifth most deprived in Essex and has 44% of pupils eligible for the pupil premium, wants to give its pupils opportunities to be successful.\n\n\"We need to give our pupils an opportunity to do enrichment activities and encourage families to do something worthwhile.\n\n\"We're trying to work with our families, it's about relationships and we have to pursue that.\"\n• None Term-time holiday: What are the rules?\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The label says petroleum jelly can help protect minor cuts, scrapes and burns.\n\nBut new research suggests immediately slathering an open wound with this ointment might be a bad idea.\n\nScientists have studied how the skin creates its own \"natural plaster\" to help heal these injuries.\n\nOil-based substances, such as petroleum jelly, appear to disrupt this important process, and might increase the risk of wound infection, they say in the Journal of Clinical Investigation.\n\nThe American Academy of Dermatology recommends petroleum jelly for keeping a wound moist and to help prevent it from drying out and forming a scab, because they take longer to heal. This will also help prevent a scar from getting too large, deep or itchy.\n\nAs long as the wound is cleaned daily, it is not necessary to use anti-bacterial ointments, says the AAD.\n\nSome NHS hospitals recommend it to patients with surgical wounds that have already started to heal, and it forms part of the first aid kit in some contact sports, including rugby union where it is used by the England team.\n\nHowever, Prof Robert Ariens and colleagues at the University of Leeds say their observations with human and animal tissue suggest this may not be the best immediate approach to wound management.\n\nThey found that a microscopic protein film forms rapidly over a wound as part of the natural clotting process.\n\nMedical imaging reveals the film - made up of a substance called fibrin - has tiny pores that let air reach the wound but are too small to allow bacteria and some viruses to pass through.\n\nProf Ariens said: \"We did laboratory and animal studies which showed this film could be a barrier against microbial infection for at least 12 hours, and this gives the immune system time to get white blood cells to the wound to counteract any infection.\"\n\nProf Ariens said: \"If you get a scrape or a cut it is best to let it clot for half an hour to let the film form. Do clean it of course if it needs it, but the clot will make its own perfect plaster. After that, it might not be so bad to add petroleum jelly, but before then, from our findings, it appears to damage this film.\"\n\nIndependent wound care advisor Jacqui Fletcher, who is also the clinical editor of the journal Wound UK, said: \"You do see it used in sports. Boxing is a good example. If the fighter gets a cut they can use it to stop the blood running down the their face so that they can continue the fight.\n\n\"But that's about a quick fix rather than a suitable dressing.\"\n\nShe said, in terms of infection risk, a concern was using petroleum jelly that had been kept in the cupboard for a long time.\n\n\"People tend to have pots that have been open for a long time and dip a finger in, which might not be clean.\"\n\nThe manufacturer of a leading brand of petroleum jelly was contacted by the BBC for a comment.\n\nDr Nick Levell, president of the British Association of Dermatologists, said: \"Skin healing is important in both the healthy and those with skin disorders.\n\n\"For example, leg ulceration is an increasing problem for elderly people. This research may lead to further real-life clinical studies to see how oil-based substances affect infection rates.\"\n\nThe best way to get news on the go", "The UK's armed forces need increased funding in order to meet threats from states including Russia, MPs have said.\n\nThe Commons Defence Committee report said the level of defence spending should rise from 2% to 3% of total GDP.\n\nChairman Julian Lewis said this would also help the UK fill existing financial \"black holes\".\n\nThe Ministry of Defence said the UK has the biggest defence budget in Europe and continues to exceed Nato's 2% spending target.\n\nEarlier this year, ex-commander of the UK's Maritime Forces Rear Admiral Alex Burton said Britain was in danger of losing its status as a \"credible military power\" and called for a rise in defence spending.\n\nIn the committee's report, called Beyond 2 Per Cent, MPs said that failure to finance the military on a sustainable basis made it \"very difficult\" to have a long-term defence strategy.\n\nIncreased spending was the \"only solution\" at a time when the UK faced a renewed threat from Russia and increasing challenges from terrorism, extremism and cyber-warfare, the MPs said.\n\nThe report said defence spending was \"far too low\" and the government \"needs to apply the resources that are necessary to keep this country safe\".\n\nIt must move the level of defence expenditure back towards 3% of GDP, as it was in the mid-1990s, it said.\n\nThe committee warned of \"serious deficiencies in the quantities of armour, armoured vehicles and artillery available to the British Army\".\n\nThe lack of vehicle-mounted anti-tank weapons and self-propelled artillery and the need for modernisation of rocket artillery left the Army \"at serious risk of being outgunned by its Russian counterpart\", it said.\n\nIn January, Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson announced a new review, the Defence Modernisation Programme, focusing solely on military defence.\n\nMr Williamson has indicated he will demand more money if the review deems it necessary.\n\nThe review's findings are expected to be revealed in the coming weeks.\n\nIn December, analysis by the House of Commons Library found that between 2010 and 2015 the Ministry of Defence's (MoD) budget had fallen by £8bn in real terms.\n\nSince then, spending has stabilised and in the last financial year (April 2016 - March 2017), £35.3bn was spent on defence.\n\nIn 2016, the UK had the fifth biggest defence budget - the highest of all EU countries - according to an international military study.\n\nCommittee chairman Mr Lewis said: \"The government now needs to look beyond the 2% minimum on defence spending, and begin moving towards a figure of 3%, to place our defence policy on a sustainable basis to meet new threats and fill existing financial 'black holes'.\n\n\"Defence is constantly described as the first duty of government.\n\n\"The MDP is the government's opportunity to show that it means what it says.\"\n\nA Ministry of Defence spokesman said: \"The defence secretary launched the Modernising Defence Programme to strengthen our armed forces in the face of intensifying threats and, while we welcome the Defence Committee's preliminary report, we will not speculate on the outcome of the programme before we share our headline conclusions.\"", "Available for over a year", "Scotland's biggest pig processor is set to run out of carbon dioxide on Tuesday, leaving it in danger of welfare issues such as overcrowding.\n\nThe gas, which is used to stun farm animals and put the fizz in carbonated drinks, is in short supply in Europe.\n\nQuality Pork Limited, which puts about 6,000 pigs a week through its abattoir in Brechin, may have to send some animals to England.\n\nHowever, its sister plant in England is also facing CO2 shortages.\n\nFood and drinks firms are scaling back operations because of a shortage of CO2.\n\nAt least five gas producers in northern Europe have been offline for maintenance, according to the publication Gasworld.\n\nAnd seasonal maintenance shutdowns have left the UK with only one big CO2 producer in action.\n\nQuality Pork Limited, which operates in collaboration with UK-wide meat processor Tulip and the Scottish Pork Producers (SPP) co-operative, uses CO2 as part of a pre-slaughter stunning process.\n\nIt will run out of the gas on Tuesday.\n\nSPP chief executive Andy McGowan told the BBC that the abattoir would start to see animal welfare issues develop within a few days because of overcrowding.\n\n\"We can send some pigs to England, to our sister factories at Tulip. But that is not a long-term solution. They, too, are seeing CO2 shortages,\" he said.\n\nMr McGowan said he had little idea when CO2 shipments would resume. \"One of the challenges is that we are not getting any sort of commitment from the gas companies. It makes planning difficult\".\n\nTulip said it had sought approval from regulators so that Scottish pigs processed in its English abattoirs could still carry a Quality Meat Scotland kitemark.\n\n\"We remain extremely concerned about the lack of CO2,\" said a spokesman for Tulip. \"We are in regular communication with our supply partners… although there is currently very limited information.\"\n\nDrink-makers have also been hit by the shortage.\n\nOn Monday, Coca-Cola said it had \"temporarily paused\" some production while the Holden's beer bottling company in the West Midlands said its facility in Dudley stopped work on Friday.\n\nMark Hammond, operations director at the Holden's bottling plant, said \"We are going to do maintenance and a deep clean. But as of [Monday] morning, we have 25 people sitting around doing nothing.\"\n\nHe said \"CO2 is an absolutely vital component. It's the equivalent of diesel in the haulage industry.\"\n\nThe plant does not just bottle Holden's beer but has about 80 customers.\n\nMr Hammond has no idea when his supplies might resume. Although the gas industry says things will start returning to normal in early July, he fears firms like his will be at the back of the queue for fresh supplies.\n\n\"We are a small firm, and there's obviously great demand across the sector,\" he said. \"We are not getting good communication from CO2 suppliers.\"\n\nThe meat industry hopes that it will be given delivery priority as more CO2 supplies come onto the market.\n\n\"Our processors deal with live animals,\" said the UK's Meat Processors' Association. \"The CO2 shortage has the potential to become an animal welfare issue. We have been asking to be treated as a priority.\"\n\nThe British Poultry Association (BPA) said: \"We are involved with live animals. They are a priority.\"\n\nA BPA spokesman said many of his members had only enough CO2 \"to keep ticking over\". He added: \"We are maintaining production by stretching our gas. But people are living day-to-day.\"\n\nHowever, small firms fear they will be a low priority when suppliers ramp up distribution for their big customers.\n\nMike Cherry, national chairman of the Federation of Small Businesses, said the CO2 shortage could disrupt hundreds of small suppliers.\n\n\"This unexpected disruption will cause a shockwave throughout many supply chains with smaller firms lower down being the first hit and the last to recover.\"\n\nHowever, bigger firms are also feeling the squeeze. On Monday, Coca-Cola said its soft drinks production line was disrupted by carbon dioxide shortages, although supplies to customers have not been affected.\n\nThe company said: \"We are working closely with our suppliers, partners and customers on a number of solutions as the situation develops.\"\n\nLast week, drinks giant Heineken said its John Smith's Extra Smooth and Amstel had already been hit.\n\nThe company said on Monday that it had no fresh information on when things might return to normal. \"We are still working through the issue with customers and trying to minimise disruption,\" said a spokeswoman.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA British plumber has been convicted of planning a terror attack in Westminster and making bombs for the Taliban.\n\nKhalid Ali, 28, was arrested on 27 April 2017 in Parliament Street, where he was caught carrying three knives.\n\nProsecutors said Ali, from Edmonton in north London, had planned a \"murderous attack\" on politicians and police.\n\nIn a police interview, Ali said he wanted to deliver a \"message\" to British authorities, but claimed the knives were for protection.\n\nAn Old Bailey jury convicted him of preparing an act of terrorism in the UK and two counts of possessing an explosive substance with intent. He did not react as the verdicts were read out.\n\nAli will be sentenced on 20 July.\n\nOn 22 April last year - one month after the Westminster terror attack - Ali was caught on CCTV walking past the MI6 building at Vauxhall Cross, as well as Westminster Bridge, the Houses of Parliament and Whitehall.\n\nFive days later, his mother called police and said she had found four knives in his bedroom.\n\nPolice swooped in to arrest him just metres from Downing Street later that day.\n\nAli had spent several years in Afghanistan, and when asked by British police whether he had returned to the UK for jihad, he replied: \"Jihad is what we do. We are Mujahideen.\"\n\nDeputy Assistant Commissioner Dean Haydon described Ali as an \"incredibly dangerous individual\".\n\nProsecutor Brian Altman QC had told the jury that Ali planned a \"deadly terror attack at the very heart of this country's democracy by killing a police officer, a member of the military or even a parliamentarian\".\n\nAli travelled to Afghanistan in 2011 and spent five years making bombs to maim and kill coalition troops.\n\nIn late October 2016, he appeared at the British consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, claiming to have lost his passport and asking for a temporary travel document in order to get home.\n\nHe returned to the UK in early November 2016, when he was stopped at Heathrow airport, interviewed by police and had his fingerprints and DNA samples taken.\n\nThe DNA samples and fingerprints were then shared with the FBI, which controls a database containing fingerprints found on bomb parts in global conflict zones.\n\nDefending the decision not to arrest Ali until April 2017 - when he was armed and within metres of Parliament - Mr Haydon said police and security services were \"managing any potential risk he posed and he was arrested at the most appropriate time\".\n\nAli's prints were found on bomb components from two caches recovered by Afghan national security forces\n\nDuring questioning after his arrest, Ali admitted fighting British soldiers in Afghanistan, but refused to say whether he had killed any.\n\nIn a police interview shown during the trial, Ali also said he had detonated more than 300 bombs.\n\nThe court heard how his fingerprints were found on component parts of explosive devices that were handed in to US forces in Afghanistan in 2012.\n\nPolice said Ali had been in a \"Taliban training camp affiliated to al-Qaeda where, for several years, he helped terrorists make hundreds of bombs capable of mass murder\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge has described the sight of shoes left behind by Jews killed in a Nazi extermination camp as \"terrifying\".\n\nOn a visit to Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Centre in Jerusalem, he said he was \"trying to comprehend the scale\" of the atrocity.\n\nLater in a speech, he said: \"Never has hope and reconciliation been more needed.\"\n\nTo finish the day he played football at a youth event and watched volleyball.\n\nDuring his visit, part of the first official trip to Israel and the Palestinian territories by a UK royal, the prince laid a wreath where ashes of victims of the Holocaust were buried.\n\nHe also met two survivors of the Holocaust, in which six million Jews were murdered during World War Two.\n\nIn a speech at a reception hosted by the British ambassador, Prince William said the visit to Yad Vashem was \"profoundly moving\" and said ties between Britain and Israel had \"never been stronger\".\n\nHe said: \"In the past century, the people of the Middle East have suffered great sadness and loss. Never has hope and reconciliation been more needed.\n\n\"I know I share a desire with all of you - and with your neighbours - for a just and lasting peace.\"\n\nLater, the duke was greeted by Israel's prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, at his residence.\n\nThere he met relatives of the late Rachel Cohen, who was hidden from the Gestapo by Princess Alice - mother of the Duke of Edinburgh - in her palace in Greece.\n\n\"You must be very proud of your great-grandmother, who saved defenceless Jews,\" Mr Netanyahu told the prince.\n\nBenjamin Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, meet the prince\n\nFollowing the meeting, the Foreign Press Association condemned as \"disgraceful\" an alleged incident of a journalist being barred.\n\nThe Associated Press's chief television producer, Nebi Qena, who is originally from Albania, said security guards repeatedly asked about his \"extraction\" and only let him in once other reporters were leaving.\n\nAfterwards, the security department of the Israeli Prime Minister's Office blamed the incident on \"human error\". \"We regret any distress or discomfort,\" it said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Kensington Palace This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe duke also met the country's president, Reuven Rivlin, who called on him to take \"a message of peace\" to Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas, whom he will meet later in his trip.\n\n\"It is about time that we have to find together the way to build confidence,\" said Mr Rivlin.\n\n\"Build confidence as a first step to bring to understanding that we have to bring to an end the tragedy between us that goes along for more than 120 years.\"\n\nThe duke responded, saying: \"I, like you, am hoping that peace in the area can be achieved.\"\n\nThere were two Prince Williams on display in Israel today.\n\nThe first, sombre-suited, awed by the enormity of the Holocaust, laid a wreath over the ashes of Jews murdered in the Holocaust.\n\nThe second, in trainers, sunglasses and rolled-up shirtsleeves, high-fived and grinned his way through football practice with young Israeli and Palestinian kids.\n\nThe duke shows off his ball skills\n\nBoth princes wanted to learn about and understand this complicated country. Both clearly impressed their hosts. And each complemented the work of the other.\n\nYou can overdo the sensitivities of this trip. The prince does not do press conferences, nor question and answer sessions with the public. Much is down to the planning of the visit.\n\nBut Prince William has showed himself as serious, enthusiastic, versatile and fun. It's hard to imagine anything but good reviews so far.\n\nThe duke's afternoon was spent visiting the city of Jaffa, where he met young Arab and Jewish Israelis playing football together.\n\nThey are involved in two charities - the Equaliser and the Peres Centre for Peace - which focus on bringing together youngsters of different religious and ethnic communities through football.\n\nAsked to take part in a penalty shoot-out, Prince William joked: \"I'm a defender - it's going to go up there in that tree somewhere.\"\n\nHis first strike was saved but the other two hit the back of the net, prompting celebrations by the duke, who is president of the FA and a keen Aston Villa fan.\n\nLater he went to a beach in Tel Aviv where he watched young athletes play volleyball and chatted with beachgoers.\n\nCrowds greet the duke as he arrives to watch the volleyball match\n\nKensington Palace has stressed that the five-day trip is non-political, as with all royal visits.\n\nBut the BBC's Yolande Knell, who is in Jerusalem, said it would be extremely difficult for the prince to keep it that way, despite the careful choreography of the trip.\n\nShe said Israeli and Palestinian officials had pointed out to her it was a highly politicised place, so people would be scrutinising his every step and every comment.", "A British plumber has been convicted of planning a terror attack in Westminster and making bombs for the Taliban.\n\nKhalid Ali, 28, was arrested on 27 April 2017 in Parliament Street, where he was caught carrying three knives.", "Investment in Britain's car industry has fallen by half, according to figures from the motoring sector.\n\nThe Society of Motor Manufacturers & Traders (SMMT) said that Brexit uncertainty was \"thwarting\" decisions by major car companies to put more money into UK factories.\n\nIn the first six months of 2017, investment in new models and factory improvements stood at £647.4m.\n\nThis year, the figure had fallen to £347.3m for the same period.\n\nThe SMMT said this was lowest figure since the financial crisis.\n\nThe trade body said that the government's \"red lines\" on Brexit and \"conflicting messages\" were working \"directly against the interests of the UK automotive sector\".\n\nIts chief executive, Mike Hawes, told the BBC that the industry needed \"clarity\" and demanded that Britain stay within the customs union and that a \"no deal\" scenario - where the UK leaves the customs union and the single market with no preferential trading deal - would be \"the worse option imaginable\".\n\nSupply chains which rely on millions of car and truck parts moving freely between the UK and the EU would face disruption.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. SMMT boss Michael Hawes says companies are 'sitting on their hands'\n\nThe government said the UK's car industry was a success story and that it was working for a deal that was mutually beneficial to both sides and as \"friction free\" as possible.\n\nSince the referendum a number of car makers, such as Nissan, have announced additional investment in Britain.\n\nI asked Mr Hawes what the effect would be if there was no \"deal\" with the EU agreed before the end of the year.\n\n\"It won't be an overnight closure but it could be a death by a thousand cuts,\" he told me.\n\n\"Gradually the competitiveness of the UK is eroded, making it that much harder to attract the investment, and it's the investment that makes it [the UK car sector] so competitive.\n\n\"We still need to see significant additional progress [on Brexit].\n\nNissan has committed to building two new models at its Sunderland plant\n\nHe said: \"We still don't know what our future trading relationship is going to be, not just with Europe, but with some of the other countries with which the EU has free trade agreements which are important to this industry as well.\n\n\"There's undoubtedly frustration in boardrooms at the slow pace of negotiations.\n\nMr Hawes said: \"The way the industry works - with investments over four or five years - you will see over the next couple of years, particular plants will reach that decision point. What we have seen over the last six months is that investment has been declining.\n\n\"Investment in the automotive industry is always a bit lumpy, but if you match what is happening in terms of total investment with what we hear, we are seeing companies sitting on their hands for as long as possible.\n\n\"But it reaches the point you have to make that decision, that's when you need the clarity,\" he added.\n\nThe SMMT's annual Sustainability Report says that the automotive sector had a strong 2017 as investments made a number of years ago came to fruition.\n\nEmployment levels rose by over 5% to 186,000 and the sector's total revenues hit a record £82bn.\n\n\"There is no credible 'plan B' for frictionless customs arrangements, nor is it realistic to expect that new trade deals can be agreed with the rest of the world that will replicate the immense value of trade with the EU.\" Mr Hawes said.\n\n\"The government must rethink its position on the customs union.\n\nHe said: \"There is no Brexit dividend for our industry, particularly in what is an increasingly hostile and protectionist global trading environment.\n\n\"Our message to government is that until it can demonstrate exactly how a new model for customs and trade with the EU can replicate the benefits we currently enjoy, don't change it.\"\n\nHe said both of the government's options for cross-border arrangements post-Brexit - the so-called \"maximum facilitation\" or \"customs partnership\" models - were complex, expensive and not deliverable over a short period of time.\n\nThe government said that, out of the EU, Britain could look to strike new trade deals with markets such as America and China.\n\n\"We're confident of securing a good deal with the EU that's mutually beneficial, and allows for the most free and frictionless trade with our European neighbours,\" a spokesperson said.\n\n\"The UK automotive industry remains one of our great success stories and a whole host of companies have recently committed to investing billions of pounds in the sector, including Nissan, Toyota, BMW and Vauxhall.\n\n\"Through our modern Industrial Strategy and landmark Automotive Sector Deal, we are working with the sector to put the UK at the forefront of new automotive technologies to ensure we remain the destination of choice for future investment.\"", "Last updated on .From the section World Cup\n\nIago Aspas scored a stoppage-time equaliser - with the aid of VAR - as Spain scraped an unconvincing draw with Morocco to top Group B and secure a World Cup last-16 tie against hosts Russia.\n\nYoussef En-Nesyri - who plays in Spain for Malaga - looked to have won it for Herve Renard's side when he powered in a superb header from fellow substitute Faycal Fajr's corner.\n\nBut Aspas flicked in Dani Carvajal's low cross to make it 2-2, with referee Ravshan Irmatov initially disallowing the goal before overturning the decision.\n\nSpain won the group on goals scored as Portugal were held to a 1-1 draw by Iran - but had a tough night as they extended their unbeaten run to 23 games.\n\nA dreadful mix-up between Andres Iniesta and Sergio Ramos had allowed Khalid Boutaib to stride through and give Morocco a surprise 14th-minute lead.\n\nIniesta made amends five minutes later by helping create a sublime equaliser, exchanging passes with Diego Costa and getting to the byeline before cutting back for Isco to steer high into the net.\n\nBut Spain looked wobbly in defence when pressed by a committed, aggressive Morocco side, with Boutaib denied by the legs of David de Gea after Hakim Ziyech's quick throw sent him clear.\n\nNordin Amrabat was desperately unlucky not to score in the second half as his searing shot came back off the angle of post and bar with De Gea motionless.\n\nIsco was denied a second goal when his header was diverted wide by Romain Saiss - playing instead of dropped captain Medhi Benatia - before the late drama.\n• None VAR - how the World Cup 'all got a little weird'\n\nSpain have been hit and miss at this World Cup - perhaps unsurprisingly, given the turbulence surrounding the pre-tournament sacking of coach Julen Lopetegui.\n\nThey were excellent in their opening game against Portugal - but had to settle for a 3-3 draw - and poor in their second match against Iran - but won 1-0.\n\nIn Kaliningrad, they dominated possession - having more than 75% of the ball - and had 18 shots to Morocco's six. However, they produced a performance that must still have concerned new coach Fernando Hierro.\n\nThe game's first two goals were the clearest demonstration of Spain's strange display. Iniesta's loose return pass to Ramos was down to a lapse in concentration, allowing Morocco to take the lead, but his setting up of Isco's equaliser was beautifully done.\n\nSpain were defensively off-key whenever under pressure, with Gerard Pique lucky to escape punishment early on for a two-footed lunge towards Boutaib - saved by the fact he did make contact with the ball - before he avoided sanction for a clear second-half handball on the edge of his own penalty area.\n\nIn Pique's defence, he nearly made amends with a header that veered just wide, from an Isco corner, but they were grateful to Aspas for securing them first place in the group - and ensuring they avoided the dangerous Uruguay in the next round.\n\nThere is a strong case for arguing that Morocco are the unluckiest team to be eliminated at the group stage - with poor finishing costing them a point against Portugal, and possibly all three against Iran.\n\nAs it was, they lost both of those games 1-0, meaning they were already out before they kicked off against Spain.\n\nThere has clearly been a lot of frustration building up in the Morocco camp in recent days - with captain Benatia criticising assistant coach Mustapha Hadji, the former Coventry midfielder, after Wednesday's defeat by Portugal.\n\nThat may have contributed to Benatia being left out of the team to face Spain - but those who did play went into the match with a point to prove.\n\nAt times, they were too aggressive - as a tally of six yellow cards showed, even if one or two of them were harsh.\n\nHowever, their commitment made for an enthralling game in which they defended with great discipline and looked dangerous on the counter-attack.\n\nRenard had complained before the game about refereeing decisions going against his team in their opening two games, and his players thought they had been on the wrong end of a decision when Aspas' goal was allowed to stand.\n\nFrustrations threatened to boil over in a chaotic end to the game, with a cluster of players being involved in a confrontation - although television evidence suggested that referee Irmatov did get it right by allowing the goal after consulting with the video assistant refereeing team.\n\n'Now we are facing the moment of truth' - what they said\n\nMorocco coach Herve Renard: \"We suffered, as every team that plays against Spain suffers, because their line-up is a mix of Real Madrid and Barcelona players - all exceptional.\n\n\"But I think our players, the whole team, should be commended for this game and the entire World Cup.\n\n\"We've lacked a bit of experience and there were games we should have had better results in. But we've shown that we can take on two of the best teams in the world, Portugal and Spain, and represent Morocco well.\"\n\nSpain midfielder Isco: \"Now we are facing the moment of truth but I have complete faith in this team.\n\n\"Morocco was a really tough match. Maybe we were lacking greater control of the game and normally that is what we do a lot better.\"\n\nOn facing Russia in the last 16: \"It's going to be a tough game. They have the whole country behind them and play excellent football. We played a friendly against them ahead of the World Cup so we know about them.\"\n• None Boutaib's goal for Morocco came from their 29th shot at this year's World Cup, and was their first goal at the finals since 1998, when Salaheddine Bassir scored in a 3-0 win over Scotland.\n• None Ramos made his 16th appearance for Spain at the World Cup, overtaking Xavi as their most capped outfield player in the competition.\n• None Spain have not lost a fixture - competitive or friendly - since defeat by Italy at Euro 2016.\n• None Morocco have won just one of their past 10 World Cup matches (two draws, seven defeats).\n• None Spain have failed to win their final group game at a World Cup for the first time since 1982, having won the previous eight such games.\n• None Isco has been directly involved in 12 goals in his past 15 international matches for Spain (10 goals, two assists).\n• None Aspas has been directly involved in 10 goals in his 10 appearances as a substitute for Spain (six goals, four assists).\n• None Spain have finished the group stages unbeaten for the first time since 2006, when they won all three matches.\n• None Marco Asensio (Spain) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Goal! Spain 2, Morocco 2. Iago Aspas (Spain) right footed shot from very close range to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Daniel Carvajal with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Marco Asensio (Spain) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Iago Aspas.\n• None Attempt missed. Rodrigo Moreno (Spain) with an attempt from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Iago Aspas following a set piece situation.\n• None Attempt missed. Iago Aspas (Spain) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Isco with a cross following a set piece situation.\n• None Daniel Carvajal (Spain) wins a free kick on the right wing. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Afghanistan is a long way to go to avoid an embarrassing vote in Parliament.\n\nThe absence of Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson isn't the only telling thing about the Heathrow debate tonight, which stacks up to be a pretty good snapshot of the odd and confusing place our politics finds itself in at the moment.\n\nThe Conservatives officially back the policy but are corralling their MPs very strenuously to make sure they don't lose the vote after a minister resigned.\n\nOne former cabinet minister told me today the \"whipping operation is ridiculous, they were even making sure I was going to be there\".\n\nBut collective responsibility as it has traditionally functioned is out of the window. Cabinet ministers seem rather to have given up on trying to agree with each other (Heathrow isn't the only matter where there is very public discord).\n\nThe Labour Party is opposing a policy tonight when it comes to Heathrow that their main backer and dozens of their MPs actually support.\n\nThe Lib Dems are sticking to their principles of opposing Heathrow but with their size these days are finding it hard to make much noise about it.\n\nAnd the SNP who have been officially supportive of expanding the airport won't vote because they say they haven't had credible guarantees from the government.\n\nAll this on a problem that Westminster has been arguing about for decades. It will pass tonight, but this is only, remember, only, the equivalent of the outline planning permission - gasp.\n\nHuge attention in the frothy end of the Westminster bubble has centred on the foreign secretary as - to his colleagues' frustration - it often does.\n\nDuring the first half of the day, much of SW1 engaged in a game of political Where's Wally? Speculation on top of speculation on top of speculation about where Boris Johnson could be.\n\nWas he still in his Foreign Office lair? In the air? Hiding in the tearoom of the House of Commons? The one place he was categorically not was chaining himself to bulldozers at Heathrow.\n\nThen, in the end, the Afghan foreign ministry gave it away by posting a picture of the foreign secretary and his counterpart together at a meeting in Kabul.\n\nMr Johnson held talks with Afghan minister Hekmat Karzai in Kabul as the debate began\n\nThe mystery of his whereabouts was solved, but not yet the mystery of the purpose. Afghanistan is not exactly an easy place to head for a quick hello.\n\nSeveral sources in Westminster tonight suggest there was a serious reason.\n\nMy colleague Jonathan Beale reported last month that the government was considering sending about 400 more troops to Afghanistan to join the 600 or so already there helping train Afghan forces.\n\nSources suggest tonight that the National Security Council will discuss the proposal tomorrow afternoon, with the government potentially approving the move, and a possible announcement in the coming days.\n\nThe soldiers would not be involved in combat, but helping the Afghans provide more security in Kabul.\n\nIt is suggested an uplift of 440 would make the UK the third biggest contributor in Afghanistan.\n\nIt is a very long way from the troop numbers during the days of intense conflict.\n\nBut a move that could give the UK more authority in the run up to a Nato summit at a time when the debate around our future defence is being intensely fought.", "Pendleton retired from track cycling following a successful 2012 Olympics in London\n\nOlympic gold medallist Victoria Pendleton feels \"psychologically and physiologically damaged\" after she had to pull out of a Mount Everest climb.\n\nLast month, doctors advised the former cyclist to cut the charity trip short due to oxygen deficiency.\n\nPendleton told Radio Times: \"It's really put me through the wringer... I've taken a real battering. I've never felt so overwhelmed with illness.\n\n\"I'm having good days and bad days. You just have to grin and bear it.\"\n\nDoctors put her on medication when she got back to the UK, explaining that oxygen deprivation can trigger depression.\n\n\"But I felt even further away from myself then,\" she told the magazine. \"They've assured me that it's quite a normal thing and in time it will pass.\"\n\nPendleton was accompanied on her Everest adventure by her friend, the TV presenter Ben Fogle. Their expedition, which had started in April, was filmed for a three-part documentary for CNN.\n\nAt the expedition's second camp, Pendleton stumbled into the tent she shared with Fogle and struggled to undo her jacket. Her lack of co-ordination and what she described as \"a horrific headache, like knitting needles sticking in the back of my skull\" were signs of hypoxia - a lack of oxygen.\n\nHaving proved herself as a professional jockey following her retirement from cycling, the double Olympic champion says she liked the idea of trying equestrianism or clay pigeon shooting next.\n\n\"Nick Skelton won showjumping gold at 58, didn't he, so there's still time!\" she added.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The St George sculpture before and after the restoration attempt\n\nA lick of paint can do a lot to lift a drab interior, but when it comes to historic sculptures it turns out the job is best left to experts.\n\nThat is what a church in Spain discovered after hiring an arts and crafts teacher to freshen up a 16th-Century wooden sculpture of St George.\n\nImages shared on social media showed the warrior with a transformed pink face and bright coloured armour.\n\nCultural officials have blasted the botched attempt as \"frightening\".\n\n\"We cannot tolerate more attacks on our cultural heritage,\" Spain's art conservation association (ACRE) said in a statement. \"It shows a frightening lack of training of the kind required for this sort of job.\"\n\nThe parish priest in the northern town of Estella simply wanted the sculpture to be cleaned and did not intend for it to be restored, the Efe news agency reports.\n\nBut the move has enraged local officials who are demanding to know why they were not informed of the church's plans.\n\n\"The council wasn't told and neither was the regional government of Navarre,\" the town's Mayor Koldo Leoz told The Guardian newspaper.\n\n\"They've used plaster and the wrong kind of paint and it's possible that the original layers of paint have been lost. This is an expert job it should have been done by experts,\" he said.\n\nThe group in charge of the project - Karmacolor - reportedly uploaded a video to Facebook showing every stage of the project but later deleted it.\n\n\"What a great loss,\" one Facebook user commented underneath a photograph of the sculpture. \"Prison sentences would prevent these attacks on our heritage,\" another said.\n\nThree images showing the original, deteriorated, and \"restored\" version of the Ecce Homo fresco\n\nOthers compared it to the now infamous attempt to restore the Ecce Homo (Behold the Man) fresco of Jesus Christ in 2012.\n\nElderly parishioner Cecilia Gimenez took her brush to the 19th-Century artwork following years of deterioration due to moisture, but after much ridicule the result was labelled \"Monkey Christ\".\n\nSome positives did come from her efforts however, as the town drew thousands more visitors eager to see her \"restoration\" and she even had her own art exhibited.\n\nGimenez even starred in a music video for a song she inspired which told the story of her attempt from a more sympathetic angle.", "It looks like a mirage in the heat.\n\nBut this strange weather phenomenon was spotted in Llandrindod Wells, in Powys on Tuesday.\n\nThe 'dust devil' was caused by air getting heated by warm ground, meaning it becomes more buoyant, causing it to rise, swirling into the air.\n\nIt was spotted as temperatures soared across Wales.", "A police cordon is in place at the lake\n\nA search is under way at a lake for a child who is missing after reports three youngsters had been spotted \"in distress\".\n\nPolice were called to Westport Lake in Stoke-on-Trent at about 16:50 BST.\n\n\"Two of the children have made it safely out of the lake, but one child is currently still missing,\" a Staffordshire Police spokesman said.\n\nThe force said it knew the identities of the children and was in contact with their parents.\n\nWest Midlands Ambulance Service, Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service and the National Police Air Service are all involved in the search.\n\nFirefighters are among emergency crews at the scene\n\nThe fire service said earlier it had five crews at the scene.\n\n\"If anyone has any information please call 101 urgently quoting incident 629 of 25 June,\" a police spokesman added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Lynda Basford cared for her husband Michael at home for 13 years until last year\n\n\"It is like Michael walking into a fog,\" says Lynda Basford, describing the 13 years during which her husband Michael has descended into dementia.\n\nShe has been at his side throughout.\n\n\"You can't quite hold on to him,\" she says, \"and as the years go by, he gets deeper and deeper into that fog and you can't do anything about it.\"\n\nMichael needs a lot of support. He doesn't really know where he is and he no longer recognises his wife. Even remembering to eat requires encouragement.\n\nShe looked after him for years in their own home with little support but, last year, it all became too much.\n\nShe felt she could no longer keep him safe and reluctantly agreed he should move into a residential home.\n\nHowever, the financial support they get from their local authority does not cover the cost and their savings are rapidly disappearing.\n\nNow Lynda's strain over her husband's condition is compounded by money worries.\n\n\"I didn't realise\", she says, \"that if you have a terminal illness, your level and quality of care would be dependent on your bank balance.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lynda Basford: \"Because he drew the short straw... he's having to pay for his treatment.\"\n\nA new report produced for the BBC from the Health Foundation and three other leading research organisations says the failure by successive governments to reform social care has left many people without the support they need in care homes or in their own homes.\n\nIt describes the current council-run means-tested system as a fundamental source of unfairness.\n\nAn ageing population, more younger people with disabilities needing support, and budget cuts combine to leave local authorities struggling to meet the demand for help.\n\nThe report highlights how budget pressure means the social care system is nearing crisis:\n\nThe report says this means that three-quarters of relatives of people who need care at home get no support and have not been able to take a respite break of even an hour from caring in the last 12 months.\n\nLynda Basford questions why the support Michael needs is not provided by the NHS.\n\n\"Michael has drawn the short straw and has dementia and not some other terminal illness, so he is having to pay for his treatment - because his treatment is social care,\" she says.\n\nMichael gets some help from his local authority because he has less than £23,250 in savings, but the rate the council pays does not cover the £800-a-week fees of the care home.\n\nIt means that each week, Lynda pays £550 from their savings to make up the difference. She says it is only a matter of time before they run out of money and then she does not know what will happen.\n\nNext week, like the NHS, the care system will mark its seventieth anniversary.\n\nWhile the health service was set up as a separate institution delivering support that is free to those who need it, from the start services provided by councils for people struggling with daily tasks such as washing, dressing and taking medication, were means-tested.\n\nBut in 1948, people did not survive with the sort of complex conditions that meant long-term social care was needed in the way it is now.\n\nThen, charities like the Alzheimer's Society did not exist - it was established 40 years ago because of the increasing number of people with dementia.\n\nThe society's chief executive Jeremy Hughes says: \"When the funding system was set up in 1948, no-one intended to set up a separate system for one disease rather than another, we've got that by accident rather than design. It needs to change now if we are going to be fair and equitable for people over the next 10, 20, even the next 70 years.\"\n\nThe couple have been together for 40 years\n\nLast week, after announcing more money for the health service, the government said it was delaying the publication of long-awaited plans for the funding of the social care system until the autumn.\n\nJennifer Dixon, chief executive of the Health Foundation, welcomed the extra cash for the NHS, but pointed to the urgent need for more money for social care.\n\n\"The NHS was founded 70 years ago to replace fear with security, so that people did not face bills they couldn't pay in time of illness.\n\n\"But that security is just not there for many of those who need social care today,\" said Ms Dixon.\n\n\"Many people assume social care is free of charge like the NHS, and it is a huge shock when they find out it isn't and the bills mount up.\n\n\"As local authority budgets are squeezed, more people are having to go without, pay themselves or rely on unpaid care from friends and families. The situation is unfair, stressful and inefficient and is long overdue for reform.\"\n\nIn a statement, the Department of Health and Social Care said it recognised the social care system was under pressure and reforms would \"ensure it is sustainable for the future\".\n\n\"Health and social care are two sides of the same coin and any reforms must be aligned. That's why our forthcoming Green Paper will be published in the autumn, with the NHS plan.\n\n\"We have provided local authorities with £9.4bn in dedicated funding for social care over three years and will agree a sustainable funding settlement at the forthcoming spending review.\"", "Advait Kolarkar has become the youngest artist to exhibit at the ArtExpo fair in New York. The four-year-old from New Brunswick, Canada, has a queue of buyers.", "Last updated on .From the section World Cup\n\nMohamed Salah scored his second goal of the World Cup but Egypt ended their campaign pointless with defeat by Saudi Arabia at Volgograd Arena.\n\nThe Liverpool forward gave Egypt the lead with a brilliant lob over keeper Yasser Al-Mosailem in the 22nd minute.\n\nEgypt's Essam El Hadary, 45, became the oldest player to feature at a World Cup and saved Fahad Al Muwallad's penalty.\n\nHowever, he could not stop Salman Al Faraj's spot-kick and was beaten again by Salem Al Dawsari with seconds left.\n\nEl Hadary makes history, saves pen... but ends up on losing side\n\nIt was an opening half of record achievements and firsts.\n\nEgypt keeper El Hadary became the oldest player to feature in a World Cup match and the team scored their first World Cup goal from open play since 1934, while the Saudis scored their first of the tournament.\n\nHowever, the focus was on El Hadary, who at 45 years and 161 days beat the record of Colombia keeper Faryd Mondragon (43 and three days at Brazil 2014) to become the oldest player to take to the field. He began his international career in 1996.\n\nHe had little to do in the first half until the 41st minute when Saudi Arabia, who were 1-0 down, were awarded a penalty for Ahmed Fathy's handball.\n\nAl Muwallad took the spot-kick, but his firm strike was brilliantly pushed onto the bar by the veteran.\n\nHowever, the euphoria was extinguished in first-half stoppage time when Saudi Arabia were awarded a second penalty after a VAR review confirmed Ali Gabr pulled down Al Muwallad in the area.\n\nAl Faraj took over the spot-kick duties and fired his effort to the right of El Hadary in the sixth minute of first-half stoppage time.\n\nThe 45-year-old remained vigilant throughout and made exceptional stops from Hussain Al-Mogahwi and Mohannad Aseri headers.\n\nHowever, just when it seemed like his heroics had earned his side their first point of the tournament, Al Dawsari fired in an angled shot for Saudi Arabia's first World Cup win since 1994.\n\nIt was a tale of two halves for the Liverpool player.\n\nIn the first period, he looked dangerous and worked well in tandem with right-sided midfielder Trezeguet.\n\nHis goal was 'classic Salah' - collecting a long, raking pass with one touch before lifting the ball over the advancing Saudi Arabia goalkeeper.\n\nThe 26-year-old should have doubled his tally when he found himself one-on-one with Al-Mosailem, but instead inexplicably dinked his finish wide of the left-hand post.\n\nSalah was less effective in attack after the break, and was forced to defend as Egypt came under pressure from their opponents.\n\nA pre-tournament injury and controversy over his meeting with the Chechnya leader meant it was not the ideal build-up to his first World Cup, nor the finish he would have wanted. But having scored two goals, Salah leaves his mark on football's biggest stage.\n\nSaudi Arabia coach Juan Antonio Pizzi: \"Up until the Salah goal we didn't leave any gaps or make mistakes.\n\n\"After those efforts we kept possession during the first and second half. They only had two chances. We kept them in check.\n\n\"Today we kept control of the pace and possession. This was a deserved win.\n\n\"Regarding my future, the association will have to decide what to do.\"\n• None Saudi Arabia ended a run of 12 World Cup matches without winning (D2 L10), recording their first victory since June 1994 when they won 1-0 against Belgium.\n• None This was Egypt's seventh match at the World Cup without winning (D2 L5) - only Honduras have played more times at the World Cup without recording a win (9).\n• None El Hadary became the second goalkeeper at the 2018 World Cup to save a penalty on his tournament debut after Iceland's Hannes Thor Halldorsson, who did so against Argentina.\n• None This match was the first time Egypt have ever led in a World Cup match, in what was their seventh match in the competition.\n• None Al Faraj's penalty goal for Saudi Arabia, scored after 50 minutes and 36 seconds, was the latest goal scored in the first half of a World Cup game since 1966.\n• None Goal! Saudi Arabia 2, Egypt 1. Salem Al Dawsari (Saudi Arabia) right footed shot from the right side of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Abdullah Otayf.\n• None Attempt blocked. Abdullah Otayf (Saudi Arabia) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Hussain Al-Mogahwi.\n• None Hussain Al-Mogahwi (Saudi Arabia) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. Hussain Al-Mogahwi (Saudi Arabia) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Yasir Al Shahrani following a set piece situation.\n• None Ahmed Fathy (Egypt) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Offside, Egypt. Kahraba tries a through ball, but Mohamed Salah is caught offside.\n• None Offside, Egypt. Ramadan Sobhi tries a through ball, but Mohamed Salah is caught offside.\n• None Attempt saved. Salem Al Dawsari (Saudi Arabia) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Salman Al Faraj.\n• None Attempt blocked. Mohammed Al-Burayk (Saudi Arabia) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Bucks Fizz star Jay Aston has revealed she has mouth cancer and fears it could stop her talking and singing.\n\nThe singer is due to have part of her tongue removed but is concerned she may need more extensive surgery if more cancer is found.\n\n\"I think if they take more of my tongue away the chances of me singing, even talking, will be very slim,\" she told the Daily Mirror.\n\nThe 57-year-old found out she had cancer just under two weeks ago.\n\nHer agent confirmed the news to the BBC.\n\n\"After they told me, I got on the train and bawled my eyes out. Everyone was looking at me. I called my husband, and then Cheryl [Baker, her bandmate],\" she told The Daily Mirror.\n\n\"The thought of rejoining the band is now keeping me going. Being on stage with them is my happy place. Whatever you go through, it doesn't matter when you are on stage.\"\n\nJay has been doing gigs across the UK with original bandmates Cheryl and Mike Nolan.\n\nShe said she had mimed on stage at a show last week after a meeting with her surgeon.\n\n\"I went home, got changed and went to the gig,\" she said. \"That's showbusiness. The thing that's stood me in good stead is that in the 1980s you mimed for TV. Cheryl has been singing with me where I do solo stuff to give it some welly.\"\n\nCheryl is helping Jay out with some of the vocals during live shows\n\nOn the possibility of no longer being able to perform, Jay adds: \"Cheryl and Mike aren't getting a replacement, they say they will carry on as two. I would want them to carry on without me.\"\n\nJay will have skin removed from her thigh to reconstruct her tongue and she's hopeful she won't need more surgery.\n\nShe joked that she had had an interesting conversation with her consultant regarding her famous skirt-tearing routine: \"We talked about where to put the scar because I rip my skirt off, and they said they would try and make it higher so it doesn't show so badly.\"\n\nBucks Fizz became one of the UK's biggest pop acts after winning the Eurovision Song Contest in 1981.\n\nTheir song, Making Your Mind Up, went to number one in nine countries, and was followed by hit singles including My Camera Never Lies and Land of Make Believe.\n\nJay, Cheryl and Mike are now called The Fizz.\n\nThe other original band member, Bobby G, now uses the Bucks Fizz name - his wife registered it as a trademark back in 2001.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Fans are debating whether Childish Gambino's This is America was copied from another song.\n\nOver the weekend someone on Reddit compared the hit with a 2016 track by Jase Harley - sparking a big debate.\n\nThe rapper in question has since posted on Instagram saying he too thinks his track was Childish Gambino's inspiration.\n\nBut a screen grab of a now-deleted tweet by Gambino's manager seems to show him denying plagiarism.\n\nThe video for This is America deals with police brutality and gun violence\n\nThis is America was released earlier this year and has since made the top 10 in the UK and number one in the US, while the video has been watched 300m times on YouTube alone.\n\nIt talks about black oppression, police brutality and gun violence in America.\n\nBut fans have been arguing online about whether it's too similar to another track, which was released in 2016.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe rapper in question - Jase Harley - says he, too, thinks there are similarities.\n\n\"I feel extremely humbled to be recognised and labelled as one of, or the original inspiration, for one of the most important pieces of music and visual art of our time,\" he posted on Instagram.\n\n\"I appreciate all the love and support! But please don't let this controversy dilute the message me and Childish Gambino are trying to convey.\"\n\nHe also implies that he has no interest in taking legal action - and that he'd be happy with a \"shout out\".\n\nYou can read his full statement below.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by jaseharley This article contains content provided by Instagram. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nChildish Gambino's manager, Fam Rothstein, also looks like he's got involved.\n\nIn a tweet that's since been deleted, but that was screen-grabbed by websites including ABC, he appears to claim that This is America is older than American Pharaoh.\n\n\"The internet is a place of no consequences,\" the tweet says. \"This song is three years old and we have Pro Tools [music editing software] files to prove it.\"\n\nAnother deleted tweet posted from his account a few minutes later appears to say his words should be taken as an official \"comment from the label\".\n\nNewsbeat has contacted representatives for Childish Gambino for comment.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 every weekday on BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra - if you miss us you can listen back here.", "Food wholesaler Booker is rationing beer and cider because of a shortage of CO2 used in carbonated drinks.\n\nThe Tesco-owned retailer, which is used by bars, restaurants and traders, is capping customers to 10 cases of beer, and five of cider or soft drinks.\n\nIt is more evidence that a scarcity of CO2 is hurting the food and drink sectors, and comes after Heineken and Coca-Cola faced disruption.\n\nScotland's biggest abattoir has halted operations because of the gas shortage.\n\nQuality Pork Limited (QPL), at Brechin, which puts 6,000 pigs a week through its production line, stopped operations on Tuesday afternoon because it ran out of CO2 used to stun the animals before slaughter.\n\nQPL plans to send about 1,000 pigs to another plant near Manchester this week, but operators say other abattoirs also face a carbon dioxide shortage.\n\nBooker said in a statement: \"Due to the international shortage of CO2, we are experiencing some supply issues on soft drinks and beer.\n\n\"We are currently working hard with our suppliers to minimise the impact for our customers and cannot comment further at this stage.\"\n\nCO2 producers in the UK and mainland Europe have scaled back operations for maintenance, causing a shortage of the gas, whose many uses include improving the shelf life of packaged food and creating dry ice to keep products cool during transport.\n\nHeineken said its John Smith's Extra Smooth and Amstel brands had been hit, while Coca-Cola Great Britain said production had been interrupted until fresh CO2 supplies arrived.\n\n\"We are currently responding to an industry-wide issue that is impacting the supply of CO2 in the UK. Our focus is on limiting the effect this may have on the availability of our products,\" Coca-Cola said.\n\nSmall UK bottling firms have also been hit. In the West Midlands, Holden's, which has 80 customers, shut down last Friday until further notice. \"I'm left with people sitting around doing nothing,\" said operations director Mark Hammond.\n\nSupermarket Morrisons said some frozen products had been affected by the shortage, and it aimed to resume selling its full online range \"as soon as possible\".\n\nThe food and drink industry hopes that supplies will begin returning to normal in early July, although trade bodies have complained about a lack of communication from CO2 suppliers.\n\nAndy McGowan, chief executive of Scottish Pig Producers, a co-operative that runs the Brechin abattoir in collaboration with QPL, said he did not know when they would get a fresh CO2 delivery from their supplier.\n\n\"That's the frustrating thing - they're not telling us anything. We're pretty dismayed. The top priority is animal welfare - we will not have ourselves in a situation where the welfare is suffering,\" he said.\n\nPoultry slaughterhouses have already called for priority supplies of dwindling CO2 stocks, saying the current shortage could have a \"potentially huge effect\" on British food production.\n\nBut that call for the food industry to be given priority has raised fears among drinks firms and smaller businesses that they will be at the back of the queue when gas supplies start to return to normal.", "The UK has enjoyed - or endured - the hottest weather of the year so far, with temperatures of 30C in London.\n\nThe country is officially experiencing a heatwave, with more 30C days expected later in the week.\n\nFears that railway tracks could buckle in the heat prompted Network Rail to introduce speed restrictions.\n\nAnd the Met Office has issued a yellow health warning for heatwave conditions between Tuesday morning and Thursday evening.\n\nThe warning, in the west and north-east of England, means there is an 80% chance of temperatures which could be a risk to health, and is intended to help social and healthcare teams prepare.\n\nMet Office forecaster Mark Foster said: \"High pressure is going to dominate this week so we can expect very high levels of pollen and UV.\"\n\nOn Monday the highest temperature of 30.1C was recorded at Hampton waterworks in west London.\n\nThe year's previous record temperature had been 29.1C in April at St James's Park in central London.\n\nIn Scotland, the highest temperature of 26.7C was recorded in Balmoral, while the same temperature was also reached in Castlederg, Northern Ireland.\n\nYou must enable JavaScript to view this content. Compare the temperature where you are with more than 50 cities around the world, including some of the hottest and coldest inhabited places. Enter your location or postcode in the search box to see your result.\n\nBBC Weather presenter Matt Taylor said: \"We're likely to get 30C on a couple of days this week, and it could still get hotter.\n\n\"If Scotland and Northern Ireland get above 29C, which they are likely to do by the end of Wednesday, it will be the hottest June day in both countries since 1995.\"\n\nIt's definitely beach weather in Hastings, East Sussex\n\nElephants were sprayed with water to cool down at Chester Zoo\n\nNetwork Rail said track temperatures could reach as much as 20C above the air temperature, meaning the steel rails can expand markedly. The reduced speeds are intended to lower the force exerted on the track, reducing the risk of buckling.\n\nOne route affected by the speed limits is the line between London Waterloo and New Malden, in south-west London, where trains will be slowed after 11am each day until Friday.\n\nAndy Thomas, managing director of England and Wales at Network Rail, said: \"Our engineers and specialist extreme weather teams are monitoring track-side temperatures at vulnerable locations.\"\n\nGreen - minimum state of vigilance during the summer.\n\nYellow - Alert and readiness - Social and healthcare services are on standby to reduce harm.\n\nAmber - Heatwave action - Care services target high-risk groups, like the elderly, with specific help. General advice is given to keep homes cool, drink plenty of fluids, and so on.\n\nRed - National emergency - Reached when a heatwave is so severe that illness and death may occur among the fit and healthy, not just among high-risk groups.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBritain's ability to respond to military threats from Russia will be \"eroded\" without further investment, the head of the Army has said.\n\nRussian hostility could come sooner than expected and Britain must prepare to \"fight the war we might have to fight\", General Sir Nick Carter added.\n\nThe speech - approved by Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson - comes amid speculation of potential defence cuts.\n\nThe warning comes after Russia has practised simulated attacks in Europe.\n\nIn the speech, at the Royal United Services Institute, Gen Carter highlighted Russia's new cyber warfare capabilities.\n\nHe also spoke about Russian long-range missile strike capability, which he said was demonstrated in Syria when 26 missiles were deployed from a 1,500km (930 mile) range.\n\nGen Carter said Russia was building an increasingly aggressive expeditionary force and the potential military threats to the UK \"are now on Europe's doorstep\".\n\nHe said the Kremlin already boasted an \"eye-watering quantity of capability\" - a level the UK would struggle to match.\n\nGen Carter stressed that Britain \"must take notice of what is going on around us\" or that the ability by the UK to take action will be \"massively constrained\".\n\n\"Rather like a chronic contagious disease, it will creep up on us, and our ability to act will be markedly constrained - and we'll be the losers of this competition,\" he said.\n\nHe said he did \"not in any way\" want to suggest that Russia would go to war in the traditional sense, but that Moscow \"could initiate hostilities sooner than we expect\".\n\n\"I don't think it will start with little green men, it will start with something we don't expect. We should not take what we have seen so far as a template for the future.\".\n\nIt comes as the Russian army conducted large scale military exercises last year on home soil, in Belarus and in the Russian territory of Kaliningrad - which is sandwiched between Nato members Poland and Lithuania.\n\nIt was one of Russia's biggest military exercises since its 2014 annexation of Ukraine's Crimea peninsula.\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May's spokesman said the UK's £36bn annual defence budget meant the government was addressing the range of threats from \"a position of strength\".\n\nHowever, Labour shadow defence secretary Nia Griffith said she was sure Gen Carter would have tried to make his case behind closed doors but had gone public as a \"last resort\".\n\nShe added that if voicing concerns over funding made the prime minister and the chancellor \"wake up\", it would have been worth \"making the fuss\".\n\nAdmiral Lord West, former head of the Royal Navy, said such warnings from a serving chief were unprecedented.\n\n\"For them to talk about the need for more resources, I haven't known that in my 52 years in the navy - I mean this is extraordinary,\" he said.\n\nThe reality is that Britain would never confront a threat like Russia on its own. That's why it is part of Nato.\n\nBut even as a key member of the alliance, the truth is that some of the UK's weapons are increasingly outdated.\n\nWhile Russia's been developing new Armata tanks, the Army's Challenger 2 hasn't been modernised for 20 years.\n\nMany have been mothballed as the UK focused on the counter-insurgency campaign in Iraq and Afghanistan. Britain's ground-based air defence systems are also becoming increasingly obsolete and no match for Russia.\n\nStill, the likelihood of any direct military confrontation with Russia seems extremely remote.\n\nTrue, the US National Defence Strategy recently highlighted the risks of a more assertive Russia and China.\n\nBut for now, the concern is more about those countries using cyber and misinformation to disrupt life in the West.\n\nGeneral Carter's intervention is more driven by fears of further deep cuts to the UK's armed forces. The Ministry of Defence has a black hole in its budget.\n\nIt is rare for a military chief to make such an obvious and public appeal for more cash.\n\nBut he's doing it under the orders of the Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson. He has sent his generals over the top to put pressure on the chancellor.\n\nRobert Hannigan, who stood down as director of the intelligence monitoring service GCHQ last year, said Russia was the single country that had \"kept me awake\" in recent years.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 5 live: \"They have always been very capable, but in the last two, three, four years they've become quite aggressive.\"\n\nGen Carter's speech comes as national security adviser Mark Sedwill conducts a review of the UK's security capabilities.\n\nAll three armed forces have been asked to put forward options for cuts as the Ministry of Defence looks at how it will control spending.\n\nThere are concerns within the forces that the review will prioritise counter-cyber attacks and terrorism, rather than major defence.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Russia's war game in 2017 under way\n\nCol Rupert Wieloch, a former senior British commander of forces in Libya, said the structure of funding needed to be addressed so that money for the armed forces was not \"confused\" with money for cyber security.\n\nHowever, Britain's armed forces are now at their smallest since the Napoleonic wars. The size of the Army has been cut from more than 100,000 to 82,000 since 2010.\n\nLast week Conservative MP Julian Lewis, chairman of the Commons defence select committee, posed an urgent question in the Commons after speculation that there were plans to cut the UK military by 14,000 service personnel, nine warships and 100 helicopters.\n\nMr Williamson said \"hard work\" is taking place to give the armed forces the \"right resources\".\n\nSome MPs have called to increase defence spending to 3% of GDP. It is currently at 2% - in line with guidelines for Nato members.", "The Hendry review said the lagoon would make a \"strong contribution\" to energy supplies\n\nPlans to build the world's first tidal power lagoon have been thrown out by the UK government.\n\nBusiness and Energy Secretary Greg Clark said the £1.3bn project was not value for money, despite claims by developers Tidal Lagoon Power (TLP) a revised offer made it cheaper.\n\nThe decision has been slammed by local politicians across the parties, including the Conservatives.\n\nThe scheme off Swansea Bay had £200m backing from the Welsh Government.\n\nBut the UK government said it would not pay TLP the fee it wants for energy.\n\nTLP claimed no talks have taken place for more than a year and said supporters of the project have vowed to do what they can to make it a reality.\n\nMr Clark told the Commons: \"Securing our energy needs into the future has to be done seriously and, when much cheaper alternatives exist, no individual project, and no particular technology, can proceed at any price.\"\n\nGovernment analysis estimated that the lagoon would cost the average British household consumer an additional £700 between 2031 and 2050.\n\nBut TLP chief executive Mark Shorrock said the figures were wrong, adding that offshore wind projects had received £8bn in subsidies and the \"path finder\" tidal lagoon project needed £25m a year \"in order to kick start an industry\".\n\n\"It's a very, very sad day for Wales, for Swansea,\" he told BBC Radio Wales' Good Evening Wales programme.\n\nFirst Minister Carwyn Jones tweeted that it was a \"crushing blow to Wales\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Carolyn Harris: \"You will never understand the frustration and anger in my city\"\n\nWelsh Secretary Alun Cairns said: \"I realise the disappointment this decision may cause, but ultimately this project did not meet the threshold for taxpayer value.\"\n\nThere have been a number of calls among Labour MPs for Mr Cairns to go but he told the BBC Wales Today programme he was proud of his record.\n\nFinance Secretary Mark Drakeford, speaking in an interview on Good Evening Wales, said: \"Wales has not had an effective voice at the cabinet table.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru's energy spokesperson, Liz Saville Roberts MP, said the UK government's \"decision demonstrates the need for Wales to gain greater control over its own future\".\n\nWelsh Liberal Democrat leader Jane Dodds called the decision a \"disgrace\", as did Gower Labour MP Tonia Antoniazzi.\n\nThe announcement brings an end to 18 months of waiting since an independent review, commissioned by the ministers, recommended building the lagoon.\n\nTLP chairman Keith Clarke said: \"In light of today's statement and having heard next to nothing from government for two years, the board will be meeting in two days' time to consider its next steps.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Greg Clark said the lagoon did not meet \"value for money\" requirements\n\nThe review by former energy minister Charles Hendry said Swansea should be used as a test of the technology, before allowing other developers to bid to construct further schemes as part of a competitive tendering process.\n\nThe UK government has been accused of dragging its heels since then, during which time they repeatedly stated the scheme must prove \"value for money\".\n\nTLP claims the Swansea project would provide power to 155,000 properties in Wales and is cheaper than nuclear power.\n\nThe developers had previously asked for a 90-year contract with the UK government with an average strike price - a guaranteed price for the electricity generated - of £89.90 per megawatt hour.\n\nThe new nuclear power station at Hinkley Point C in Somerset was given a strike price of £92.50/MWh for 35 years.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch Tidal Lagoon Power's video of how the turbines would work\n\nThis was a project that seemed at one point to have widespread and almost universal support in Wales.\n\nIt required the UK government to agree a significant strike price - a subsidy paid by consumers through energy bills - although the exact amount varied depending on the length of time that price was set for and whether other taxpayer funding was invested in the project.\n\nThe independent report by Charles Hendry was very supportive of the tidal lagoon. However, it also said that doing a full, value for money, assessment was beyond its scope.\n\nIn recent months, some in the business community have been privately raising concerns about the cost of the project and its impact on energy bills.\n\nWhile Tidal Lagoon Power and the Welsh Government now say it is the same price as nuclear power, the UK government insist it is double.\n\nHowever, the goalposts have moved. There was huge criticism of the UK government over the price for energy struck for the new nuclear plant across the water at Hinkley Point. With a pledge not to commit bill payers to such costs again, even getting the cost of the lagoon to a similar figure was unlikely to be good enough.\n\nIt seems, ultimately, that UK ministers do not have confidence that the lagoon developers are able to deliver the project at the price they now think is reasonable for consumers to pay. Especially as other options such as wind energy come in at a much lower cost.\n\n2003: Plans first emerge for a £30m tidal power project in Swansea Bay from a green energy charity\n\n2006: Tidal Electric Ltd prepares a scoping report for a lagoon to take the project on but it is put on hold\n\n2012: Tidal Lagoon Power (TLP) unveils its ambition to develop a breakwater and power generation\n\n2014: Plans submitted to Planning Inspectorate with a cost of £850m\n\n2015: Proposals get backing of UK government, subject to subsidy agreement - hope it could be operational by 2018\n\n2016: Report warns of impact on fish. Charles Hendry is appointed to lead independent review into £1.3bn lagoon's viability\n\n2017: Hendry review backs the lagoon as a \"no regrets\" option but the UK government is still to decide\n\n2018: Delays, mostly believed to be over arguments over value for money. Welsh Government also offers substantial investment, as does Wales Pension Partnership\n\nIan Price, director of business group CBI Wales, said: \"We appreciate the effort and energy made by politicians from both governments who have worked tirelessly to try and make this project a reality. At the end of the day, any project has to be affordable for consumers.\"\n\nDavid Clubb, a director at RenewableUK Cymru, the trade body for all renewable energy, said: \"This means that the region will not benefit from many thousands of jobs from the project and the associated supply chain.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Egypt's Essam El-Hadary marks his World Cup debut by becoming the World Cup's oldest ever player at 45 years and 161 days and saving a penalty.\n\nAvailable to UK users only.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn the hours after two apparent attacks on tankers in the Gulf of Oman on Thursday, the US military released video footage which it said proved Iran was behind them.\n\nThe footage was said to show Iranian special forces removing a mine which had failed to explode.\n\nThe footage, though far from conclusive, was used by the US to make a more compelling case than earlier assertions of Iranian complicity in attacks in the region, which had not been accompanied by any evidence.\n\nBut a key question remains - what would be Iran's motive in attacking a Japanese and a Norwegian tanker carrying petrochemicals from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to Singapore and Taiwan?\n\nIran has come under massive economic pressure over the past year, since US President Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew from the 2015 nuclear deal and re-imposed some of the most aggressive sanctions in US foreign policy history - targeting Iran's oil sales, wider energy industry, shipping, banking, insurance and more.\n\nSome of the sanctions, because of their secondary nature, are designed to dissuade other nations from purchasing Iranian oil, the exports of which bring in about 30% of Iran's revenue.\n\nAnd they have managed to bring down Iran's oil exports by more than a third.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Security correspondent Frank Gardner looks at the evidence the US says proves Iran's involvement in attacks on two tankers\n\nSo far, Iran has in response pursued a policy of strategic patience. But if it was behind Thursday's attacks, what we may be seeing is the end of that policy.\n\nThe strategic patience may have run out.\n\nIran clearly changed tack last month after the US suspended sanctions waivers which had allowed certain countries to buy oil from Iran - significantly accelerating the Trump administration's goal of driving down Iran's exports to zero.\n\nIran's response was to scale back its commitments under the nuclear deal and to announce that, if Iran could not export its oil, no other country would be allowed to export theirs.\n\nAbout 30% of the world's seaborne oil transports travel through the Strait of Hormuz, a strategic sea passage in the Gulf, on Iran's south coast.\n\nIran has made threats in relation to the strait before - but never acted on them.\n\nEven back in 2012, when the EU imposed an oil embargo against Tehran as part of a broader sanction regime adopted against the country because of the nuclear impasse, Tehran refrained from closing the passage.\n\nBut the re-imposition of sanctions recently by the US has significantly ratcheted up the pressure on Iran, pressure that would go some way to explaining why it might seek to threaten the international oil trade, while its own oil sits bounded by its borders.\n\nThe risk of such a strategic move is significant - the fallout is potential military escalation with the US and its allies in the region.\n\nIt is not a gamble that would have been made quickly or lightly.\n\nIt would have been taken by consensus by all the main heads of the different Iranian political institutions, with Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards (IRGC) playing a significant part given their influence over all regional dossiers, and the supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, having the final say over all matters of security and international affairs.\n\nIf Iran is indeed behind these attacks, it would demonstrate that the country's key decision makers feel the risk of military escalation is one worth taking because of the lack of alternative options.\n\nIran may suspect that the risk is lower than it first seems, because Mr Trump does not want a war.\n\nRecent statements by the US president suggested that despite his bellicosity, he is open for talks with Iran without pre-conditions.\n\nThe Iranians will also be mindful however that Mr Trump's National Security Adviser John Bolton, a long-time critic of Iran, has openly called for the US to confront Iran.\n\nIf strategic patience is in fact at an end, Iran may feel that only by displaying the range and scale of its potential destabilising activities - including disruption of the international oil trade it has been barred from - can it increase its leverage with the US, and pull itself out from under the punishing sanctions its old foe has imposed.\n\nDr Aniseh Bassiri Tabrizi is a Research Fellow, Middle East Security, at the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies", "Former Uefa president Michel Platini has been released by French anti-corruption investigators after being questioned over the awarding of the 2022 World Cup to Qatar.\n\nPlatini, 63, was head of European football's governing body until being banned in 2015 for ethics breaches.\n\nThe former France midfielder and three-time Ballon d'Or winner has always denied any wrongdoing.\n\nQatar beat bids from USA, Australia, South Korea and Japan in 2010.\n\nPlatini was taken into custody and questioned in Nanterre, a suburb in western Paris, on Tuesday.\n\nHe was released from custody later that night.\n\n\"It was long but considering the number of questions, it could only be long, since I was asked about Euro 2016, the World Cup in Russia, the World Cup in Qatar, Fifa,\" said Platini.\n\nOfficials have been investigating alleged corruption connected to the 2018 and 2022 World Cups for the past two years and were reported to have interviewed Sepp Blatter, the former president of world governing body Fifa, in 2017.\n\nIn a statement, Platini's lawyers reiterated he had not been arrested and had \"expressed himself serenely and precisely, answering all the questions, including those on the conditions for the awarding of Euro 2016, and has provided useful explanations\".\n\nThey added: \"He has nothing to do with this event which doesn't concern him at all. He is absolutely confident about what's next.\"\n\nFifa said it was aware of Platini's questioning, but added it was \"not in a position to comment further\".\n\nPlatini was banned over a 2m Swiss francs (£1.3m) \"disloyal payment\" from Blatter, who was also banned from football for his part in the matter. Blatter has also always denied any wrongdoing.\n\nPlatini's eight-year ban was later reduced to four on appeal and will expire in October 2019.\n\nQatar's bid team has been previously accused of corruption, but was cleared following a two-year Fifa inquiry.\n\nHowever, former Football Association chairman Greg Dyke told BBC Radio 4's PM programme that the decision to award Qatar the 2022 World Cup was a \"bizarre\" one.\n\n\"I think anyone who was involved in that decision has to be questioned because it was such a bizarre decision,\" he said.\n\n\"It was against the advice of their own technical committee, who said they didn't think it would be safe - and as we now know they have had to move it to the winter to make it safe. And Qatar didn't meet all sorts of criteria, so it was always a very odd decision.\n\n\"I like Michel Platini. I thought he was a good leader for Uefa and he was a very likeable, charismatic man.\n\n\"In some ways it's sad that this is being dragged up again but if you look at the wider picture of why was that World Cup awarded to Qatar, there are still so many questions to be answered.\"\n\nThis is the result of two years of work by French investigators from the country's serious financial crime unit, who - just like their counterparts in the US and Switzerland - have been looking into allegations of corruption connected to Fifa's shock decision to award Qatar the World Cup in 2022.\n\nGiven that Blatter has been interviewed as part of the same case, it is no surprise that Platini is also now facing questions.\n\nIt is understood these will focus on a lunch Platini attended in Paris just days before that hugely controversial vote in 2010, with the then French president Nicolas Sarkozy at his official residence and the Qatari head of state.\n\nIt has long been suspected that the prospect of important bilateral trade deals between the two nations, and the subsequent Qatari takeover of Paris St-Germain may have been used as leverage to get Sarkozy's support.\n\nPlatini has always denied that was why he changed his mind to vote for Qatar (rather than the US).\n\nGiven how much time has now passed since the 2010 vote, and how much has changed at Fifa, there seems no real prospect that this latest development could affect Qatar's status as hosts, even if Platini is charged.\n\nFifa's own 2014 internal investigation effectively cleared Qatar of corruption, and stripping it of the event at this stage could leave it open to legal action.\n\nBut yet again it does serve as a reminder of the scandal and suspicion that surrounds the saga of how Qatar won the right to stage the event.\n\nBack in 2015, when still one of the sport's most powerful figures, Platini told me he had \"no regrets\" about voting for Qatar, despite the allegations of corruption and human rights abuses directed against the country, and the havoc a winter tournament would play with the European game he represented at the time.\n\nHe may feel differently now.", "A fair rent march in Berlin: The top banner reads \"My home is not your profit\"\n\nBerlin's left-wing government has approved a plan to freeze rents in the German capital for the next five years.\n\nRents have risen sharply in the city and there have been rallies urging the authorities to keep housing affordable.\n\nThe plan is expected to become law in January. It could apply to 1.4 million properties, but not to social housing - regulated separately - or new builds.\n\nThe average monthly rent for a furnished Berlin flat is about €1,100 (£983; $1,232).\n\nAn international comparison website, housinganywhere.com, reports that several major European cities are more expensive than Berlin for apartment rents, including Barcelona, Rotterdam and Milan.\n\nBerlin rents however rose by 7% in the first quarter of this year, and in the past decade rents have doubled as the booming city has become a magnet for jobseekers.\n\nThe most expensive for rents in Europe is London: the Evening Standard reports that a typical two-bedroom flat in Southwark, near central London, costs £1,573 (€1,760; $1,970) a month.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Berlin vs London: Which city is better for renters?\n\nThe Berlin draft law, approved by the city's Senate, is being keenly watched across Germany, as there have been many complaints about housing costs elsewhere too, for example in Hamburg. The Berlin regional parliament still has to vote on it.\n\nThe left-wing Social Democrats (SPD), in power in Berlin, favour a national rent cap, but critics point out that the housing market varies considerably from one region to the next.\n\nThe flyers appeared overnight on lampposts in my neighbourhood. A picture of a young couple who explained that they were flat-hunting and, as professional photographers, would offer a free photoshoot to any landlord who'd take them on.\n\nIt's not an unusual phenomenon. One woman recently offered to bake regularly for anyone who'd rent her their flat.\n\nBerlin can't build affordable accommodation fast enough for the city's rising population. An open showing of a newly available flat is likely to attract well over 100 hopeful, would-be tenants. Demand is pushing up rents as corporate investors buy up and renovate old or dilapidated buildings, and it's pricing Berliners out of their old neighbourhoods.\n\nDemand and rents are rising in many other German cities too. Berlin is, by comparison with somewhere like Munich, still relatively cheap but, even as the Berlin authorities ponder their response, Chancellor Angela Merkel has promised to take action over what is an increasingly sensitive subject for the electorate.\n\nChancellor Merkel, of the Christian Democrats (CDU), agrees with the SPD - her coalition partner - that the squeeze on affordable housing is a problem. But she argues that the best solution is to build new homes.\n\nUnder the Berlin plan, the rent cap - likely to become law in January - would be backdated to 18 June, to prevent landlords from pushing up rents sharply over the next six months.\n\nGerman public broadcaster ARD says property companies have strongly criticised the proposed rent freeze. Some argue that such a freeze would reduce housing improvements by landlords, including investments in better insulation and other green economy measures.\n\nSome critics argue that there would be many exemptions, undermining the law's effectiveness. For example, rents for new builds could go up sharply as they would not be covered by the cap.\n\nGerman property firms justify the cost of new apartments by arguing that construction costs have risen 33% in Germany since 2005, compared with just 6% in the Netherlands, ARD reports.\n\nAre you a renter living in Berlin who is potentially affected by the changes? Share your stories haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Maura had set her sights on pairing up with Tommy\n\nOfcom has received 1,215 complaints about Love Island since Friday, largely based on two issues.\n\nMaura Higgins' advances towards Tommy Fury during Friday night's episode have received more than 450 complaints.\n\nHiggins tried to kiss the boxer several times despite Tommy moving his face away from her as he lay on the sofa.\n\nThere were also more than 300 complaints about the treatment of Lucie Donlan by some fellow contestants including her partner Joe Garratt.\n\nSome viewers on social media accused Joe of being controlling, after he asked her to spend more time being friendly with the female contestants.\n\nLucie has been seen crying at various points during the series so far, after struggling over her friendships with some of the female islanders following a couple of spats with Amy Hart.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Henry Ellison This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSeveral contestants have commented on how Lucie had been spending more time socially with the male contestants than the females.\n\nSocial media users were also quick to point out Maura's apparent predatory behaviour, including former X Factor stars Jake Quickenden and Matt Terry.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAn Ofcom spokeswoman said: \"We will assess these complaints against our broadcasting rules, but are yet to decide whether or not to investigate.\"\n\nLast year there were more than 2,600 complaints about the treatment of Love Island contestant Dani Dyer.\n\nThe complaints related to a scene where Dyer was shown a misleading video of her fellow contestant and then boyfriend Jack Fincham, after his ex-girlfriend was brought into the show.\n\nAn Ofcom spokesperson said they \"understood\" Dyer's distress was upsetting for viewers.\n\nBut it considered \"viewers are likely to expect emotionally charged scenes\".\n\nThe previous year, the show was criticised in some quarters for featuring some of the contestants smoking.\n\nLast year, the rules were changed so that islanders were still permitted to smoke, but not inside the villa or in the garden.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Adrian Ismay died 11 days after he was injured when a bomb exploded under his van\n\nPrison officer Adrian Ismay, who survived a bomb explosion but later died from his injuries, told police he had volunteered alongside the man accused of his murder, a court has heard.\n\nSpeaking to police from his hospital bed, Mr Ismay said he \"never had cross words\" with Christopher Robinson.\n\nThe two men volunteered with St John Ambulance at the same time.\n\nThree days after the bomb exploded under his van in 2016, police interviewed Mr Ismay as he lay injured in the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast.\n\nHe described his former fellow St John Ambulance volunteer physically and said he spoke with a west Belfast accent.\n\n\"The last time I saw him was more than two years ago when I worked for St John Ambulance based at Saintfield Road in Belfast,\" Mr Ismay told police.\n\n\"We both worked here as volunteers. I solely knew him on a work basis and never socialised with him.\n\n\"He had never been to my home and I had never been to his.\n\n\"During the three-to-four years that I worked along with him we never had cross words, we never had any run ins, we actually got on well. We never discussed any topics to do with religion or politics.\n\n\"I have been in the prison service for approximately 29 years, so I am pretty certain he would have been aware of my career.\"\n\nThe non-jury Diplock trial heard Mr Ismay applied to become a volunteer with St John Ambulance in March 1998, with Robinson applying in February 2010.\n\nA bomb detonated under Mr Ismay's blue Volkswagen van as he was driving from his home in the Cregagh area of Belfast\n\nThe court heard Mr Ismay was \"involved\" in Robinson's application process \"on behalf of\" the organisation.\n\nThe court also heard a statement from Mark Patterson, the Governor of the Northern Ireland Prison Service.\n\nMr Patterson confirmed Mr Ismay joined the prison service in September 1987 and worked in the Maze Prison before being transferred to Hydebank Young Offender's Centre in August 1994.\n\nMr Ismay was promoted in July 2014 and was transferred to the Prison Service Training College in Millisle, where he acted as a tutor for others.\n\nIn his statement, Mr Patterson said Mr Ismay had never been posted to Maghaberry Prison or been involved in training in Roe House - the dissident republican wing at the prison.", "Climate scientist Steffen Olsen took this picture while travelling across melted sea ice in north-west Greenland\n\nWith their sled in tow, a pack of dogs trudge towards a distant mountain range in north-west Greenland.\n\nThe stunning picture may seem typical enough of the Danish territory. What's beneath their feet - a shallow pool of crystal-blue water - is anything but.\n\nLast week, however, temperatures soared well above normal levels in Greenland, causing about half of its ice sheet surface to experience melting.\n\nAnd the sea ice around the territory is, of course, also feeling this heat.\n\nSteffen Olsen, a climate scientist at the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI), took the photo on 13 June as these warming conditions reached their peak.\n\nMr Olsen and his team were retrieving equipment from a weather station in the Inglefield Fjord area. As they walked across the 1.2m (4ft) thick sea ice, water pooled on the surface.\n\nOn Twitter, his colleague at DMI Rasmus Tonboe later shared the image, telling followers \"rapid melt\" had occurred.\n\nBecause the sea ice is compact with almost no cracks, the image gives the impression the dogs are walking on water, Martin Stendel, senior researcher at the institute, told the BBC.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Steffen M. Olsen This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOn that day, Greenland is estimated to have lost the equivalent of 2bn tonnes of ice. Temperatures, according to the European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasting, were around 22C above normal the day before. In the village of Qaanaaq, a high of 17.3C was recorded.\n\nSince then, Mr Olsen's photo has been shared widely on social media, provoking concern at the extent of the melting event and its causes.\n\nGreenland's ice sheet melts annually, with the season usually lasting from June to August. The summer months - typically in July - are when it reaches its height. This year, however, climate experts say it is early.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Capital Weather Gang This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"It's very unusual to have this much melt so early in the season,\" William Colgan, senior researcher at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, told the BBC.\n\n\"It takes very rare conditions but they're becoming increasingly common.\"\n\nMr Colgan compared the melt to 2012, when record-breaking ice sheet loss was recorded in Greenland. He said the same two factors were thought to have caused last week's ice melt and the historic event of 2012.\n\nOne is high pressure lodged over Greenland, creating warm and sunny conditions. The other is low cloud cover and snowfall, meaning solar radiation can strike the ice sheet surface.\n\nGlobal warming, Mr Colgan said, was \"tremendously important\" to these sorts of events.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Huge iceberg breaks apart near a village in western Greenland\n\nA small fishing boat heads out into the sea ice near the town of Uummannaq in western Greenland\n\n\"What climate change is doing is increasingly loading the dice to set up weather conditions that can tip the ice sheets into these mass loss events,\" he said.\n\nIf these trends continued, said Professor Edward Hanna, a climate scientist at the University of Lincoln, Greenland could experience a record melt this year.\n\n\"The thing is, with climate trends, as we've seen over the past 20 years, as it gets warmer and warmer over Greenland, you don't need that much of an exceptional event to melt the whole surface of the ice,\" he told the BBC.\n\nThe consequences, he said, would not only be felt locally but globally, too.\n\nTemperatures were around 22C above normal in Greenland last week, data shows\n\nAs sea ice disappears, local communities who rely on it for transport, hunting and fishing are expected to suffer. On a global level, Prof Hanna said \"sea level rise is the big one\".\n\n\"You're losing something like 250 billion tonnes of ice a year on average. A huge mass is being transferred from the land into the oceans,\" he said.\n\nMr Colgan said we should be mindful that the melt on 13 June was just \"a one-day event that is surprising in its magnitude and its early onset\".\n\nAs studies showed, he said, global warming could mean more extreme melting events were yet to come.\n\n\"We can expect to see more of these in the future,\" he said.", "The Police Service of Northern Ireland is facing a £40m bill after losing a court challenge over holiday pay.\n\nClass action was brought by a group representing more than 3,700 police officers and civilian staff.\n\nThe Court of Appeal in Belfast upheld a 2018 tribunal finding that they are owed money for a shortfall in holiday pay dating back 20 years.\n\nMiscalculations arose after holiday pay was based on basic pay and did not include overtime.\n\nThe original tribunal made its decision in November 2018. At that stage, the bill was up to £30m.\n\nHowever, the figure could now be £40m after appeal court judges held that holiday pay should be calculated on the basis of actual annual working days.\n\nIt is understood payments could be in the region of £10,000 on average per individual.\n\nBBC News NI's Home Affairs Correspondent Julian O'Neill said the PSNI had previously accepted \"3,700 personnel had been short changed\" after holiday pay was miscalculated in breach of European law.\n\nHe said the appeal, brought by the PSNI Chief Constable George Hamilton and the Police Authority, (now the Policing Board) had challenged the period of time settlements should cover.\n\nOur correspondent said the dismissal of the appeal meant \"what is owed must now be recalculated from as far back as 1998\".\n\nChief Constable George Hamilton's appeal against a tribunal decision on holiday pay has been dismissed\n\nThe appeal court judge said that the \"lead cases should now continue before the tribunal to a final determination\".\n\nPSNI Assistant Chief Constable George Clarke said the PSNI was now seeking further legal advice on the matter.\n\n\"This will include considering implications of the judgement and how the costs will be met,\" he said.\n\nThe chairman of the Police Federation for Northern Ireland, Mark Lindsay, hailed the judgement as a \"major victory\".\n\n\"This more than justifies our decision to go to the Employment Tribunal as we believed there was something inherently unfair in the way officers were being denied what was rightfully their entitlement,\" he said.\n\nHe added that the federation was now seeking \"a timely and final resolution\" but warned that it could take a long time due to the number of claims involved.\n\nSolicitor John McShane, who represents the officers and civilian workers, described the result as \"significant\".\n\nHe said the claim was not for compensation but was \"a claim to actually get paid what they are properly entitled to be paid\".\n\nHe said they would now begin negotiations with the chief constable to \"bring a financial conclusion to the matter\".", "The first question to the five men who could be the next Tory leader and PM was about a Brexit date guarantee.\n\nFormer Tory voter Lee Ward in Norwich asked Boris Johnson, Jeremy Hunt, Michael Gove, Sajid Javid and Rory Stewart whether they can get a Brexit plan through Parliament by the end of October.\n\nBBC One's Our Next Prime Minister", "Ana Kriégel's innocence and longing for friendship made her a vulnerable target\n\nTwo boys have been found guilty of the murder of a 14-year-old girl in the Republic of Ireland.\n\nAna Kriégel was found dead in May 2018 in an abandoned house in Dublin, where she had been taken by one of the boys.\n\nThe boys, both 13 at the time, denied the charges and were granted anonymity during the trial due to their age, being referred to as Boy A and Boy B.\n\nAfter a six-week trial, both were found guilty of murder. Boy A was also found guilty of aggravated sexual assault.\n\nBoth have been remanded in detention until 15 July while the judge considers their sentences.\n\nMr Justice Paul McDermott has asked to review both boys' school reports as well as a number of social work reports.\n\nAna's naked body was found with a ligature around the neck in a derelict house three days after she went missing in May 2018.\n\nA former state pathologist identified 50 areas of injury on the schoolgirl's head and body, concluding the cause of her death was blunt force trauma to the head and neck.\n\nOn 14 May, Ana had left her house with Boy B in the early evening, thinking she was being taken to meet a boy she liked.\n\nShe was taken to the abandoned Glenwood House in Lucan in Dublin, about 3km (1.9 miles) away from her home, where Boy A was waiting.\n\nBoy A attacked and murdered Ana while Boy B watched, the court heard.\n\nAna was adopted from Russia when she was two by Irish woman Geraldine Kriégel and her French-born husband Patric\n\nAna's mother told the court she had been immediately concerned when her husband said their daughter had left the house with Boy B because she said Ana had no friends, and no one called for her.\n\nBy the time Mrs Kriégel went looking for her about 45 minutes later, she had already been killed.\n\nAna's innocence and longing for friendship made her a vulnerable target to those who wanted to take advantage of her, the court heard.\n\nDuring the trial at Dublin's Central Criminal Court, the boys gave different accounts of what had happened.\n\nBoy A denied ever being in the derelict house but forensic examinations established Ana's blood was on the boots he had been wearing, indicating that he either assaulted her or was very close by when she was attacked.\n\nHer blood was also found on a backpack in his house and on some of its contents - described by police as his \"murder kit\" - which included a homemade zombie mask, black gloves and a knee pad.\n\nSemen stains on a top found near Ana's body contained Boy A's DNA.\n\nThe jury was also shown a long wooden stick and concrete block found at the scene, which were stained with Ana's blood.\n\nThe Ana Kriégel murder trial shocked and gripped people in the Republic of Ireland.\n\nThat was partly because it was every parent's worst nightmare and partly because it revived memories of the Jamie Bulger case, when two 10-year-olds were found guilty of the toddler's 1993 murder in Merseyside in England.\n\nThe crime of children murdering children is rare anywhere but no-one can remember a case like this in Ireland.\n\nThere will inevitably be a public debate about underage crime and punishment, with calls for parents to take a closer interest in their children's social media and internet use.\n\nAdults found guilty of murder are given automatic life sentences but there are no set guidelines for children.\n\nFor the families of all involved, there is unlikely to be an early end to their nightmares.\n\nBoy B's defence counsel told the jury that the boy had been \"set up\" by his co-accused.\n\nAfter a number of interviews, Boy B admitted he had been in the house with Ana and Boy A but ran away when Boy A began raping Ana.\n\nDuring questioning, Boy A said he had been with Ana on 14 May but when police told him Ana's parents reported her missing at 20:00 local time he denied being with her in the run-up to that time.\n\nAna's parents described her as a \"dream come true\"\n\nBoy A returned home that evening with a number of injuries and claimed he was attacked by two men in the local park where he had last seen Ana.\n\nAna's parents Patric and Geraldine Kriégel, who had been in court each day of the trial, hugged and wept with friends as the verdicts were delivered.\n\nOutside court, Mr Kriégel described their daughter as \"our strength\".\n\n\"Ana was a dream come true for us and she always will be,\" said her mother.\n\n\"She'll stay in our hearts forever loved and be forever cherished.\n\nBoy B's father left the room immediately after the verdict, slamming the door before returning shortly afterwards, clapping and loudly stating: \"An innocent child is going to prison.\"\n\nBoth Boy A and Boy B's mothers wept and held their sons before they were taken away by police.", "Theo Treharne-Jones had been on holiday on Kos with his family from Merthyr Tydfil\n\nA community is in \"absolute shock\" after a five-year-old boy died during a family holiday on a Greek island.\n\nTheo Treharne-Jones, from Merthyr Tydfil, was found on Saturday. He is thought to have been found in a swimming pool at a resort on Kos, family in the UK said.\n\nNeighbour Keith Payne said they felt \"total disbelief\" at the news.\n\nMerthyr Tydfil council said it was supporting staff and pupils at Theo's school.\n\nGreek authorities confirmed they were investigating the death.\n\nMr Payne said: \"Theo used to play in the street and I'd see him drive around in a toy battery car on this street with his mother, Nina.\n\n\"Nina is a lovely lady, we're just in absolute shock. I heard the news last night and it was just total disbelief.\n\n\"It's so, so sad. They were just meant to be going on a nice family holiday and this has happened. It's just disbelief.\n\n\"Everyone on the street is so upset by it. He was such a nice quiet young lad.\"\n\nNeighbour Keith Payne said neighbours were in \"absolute shock\"\n\nIt is understood Theo had been on holiday with siblings and extended family as part of a group of 10 on the island since Wednesday.\n\nNeighbour Beverley Herbert said they were \"a nice family\" and Theo was \"very pleasant.\"\n\n\"To go away on holiday and lose a young one like that is horrendous, it's absolutely horrendous,\" she added.\n\n\"I just can't imagine any mother going through something like that.\"\n\nA Merthyr Tydfil council spokesman said: \"It is with great sadness that the local authority has heard of the death of one of its young pupils - Theo Treharne-Jones - whilst on holiday with his family on Kos.\n\n\"Our thoughts and prayers are with his family at this tragic time.\n\nStaff and pupils at Theo's school have been receiving support\n\n\"The local authority will be supporting the staff at Theo's school and his fellow pupils, as well as supporting the schools which his siblings attend in the county borough.\"\n\nGreek police said they arrested the boy's parents and the hotel manager - adding this is normal procedure following any death.\n\nThe parents were arrested on suspicion of exposing minors to danger and the hotel manager was arrested on suspicion of manslaughter by negligence.\n\nAll three have been released until the next court hearing, with the date to be confirmed.\n\nPolice added a post-mortem examination had been completed with the results of a toxicology report due.\n\nA spokeswoman for holiday operator TUI said: \"We are aware of the tragic incident at the Holiday Village Kos, Greece and our thoughts are with the family.\n\n\"Our team in resort is currently supporting the family and we will continue to assist in whatever way we can.\n\n\"The safety and wellbeing of our customers and staff is our primary concern and our dedicated resort team is working with the authorities and hoteliers.\n\n\"As the matter is currently still under investigation it would be inappropriate to comment further at this time\".\n\nA Foreign and Commonwealth Office official said: \"We are supporting the family of a British child who died in Kos, Greece, and our staff are in touch with the local authorities.\"", "The Prison Service permanently took back control of HMP Birmingham earlier this year\n\nA troubled jail's failure to secure funding for a body scanner to help stop drugs being smuggled in is \"inexplicable\", the chief inspector of prisons has said.\n\nA progress review inspection has found a \"mixed overall picture\" at crisis-hit HMP Birmingham.\n\nThe prison was taken back into public ownership after private company G4S had its contract terminated.\n\nThe latest inspection said the prison faces a \"long journey of recovery\".\n\nIn August 2018 Peter Clarke, chief inspector of prisons, said the Winson Green jail was the worst he had come across.\n\nMr Clarke said the scale of the task to improve the treatment and conditions for prisoners was \"huge\".\n\nThe independent review of progress carried out by HM Inspectorate of Prisons in May followed up nine of 59 recommendations.\n\nThe report said that while inspectors no longer observed overt drug use on the wings, one in four prisoners were still testing positive for drugs.\n\nIt added a good range of actions had been implemented, including a new team to carry out \"suspicion-based searching\".\n\nHowever, it added: \"The need for electronic body scanners to identify contraband concealed by prisoners on entry to the prison and additional mail scanning equipment to detect letters impregnated with illegal substances had been identified.\n\n\"However, to date the prison's bids for funding for this equipment had been unsuccessful.\"\n\nMr Clarke said: \"I found it inexplicable that the prison had been unable to secure funding for equipment such as a body scanner to help them stop drugs entering the prison.\"\n\nLast year's inspection found the prison was \"fundamentally unsafe\", with many prisoners and staff living and working in fear.\n\nBut following the latest visit, Mr Clarke said relationships between staff and prisoners had improved and the prison felt \"more ordered and controlled\".\n\nOf the nine recommendations looked at, inspectors found reasonable progress had been made in five and insufficient progress in three.\n\nAn inspection in 2018 found flooded and damaged cells\n\nIt also found no meaningful progress had been made over a recommendation to implement a strategy to help sex offenders address their behaviour.\n\nMr Clarke warned its sex offenders strategy was \"unrealistic and likely to fail\" as it had no support from the wider HM Prison and Probation Service.\n\nHe said: \"There is no doubt that the prison faces a long journey of recovery. It is very clear that the governor, through his vision and very visible leadership, has energised the staff and undoubted pride and optimism are emerging around the prison.\"\n\nRoger Swindells, chair of the prison's independent monitoring board, said plans put in place to support sex offenders, needed to be \"monitored and challenged\".\n\nHe said there had been \"significant improvement in the way in which acts of violence are now investigated\" and added the board could see \"visible and tangible efforts to both disrupt the supply of drugs into the prison\".", "Commuters at Putney station have been affected by the strike action\n\nThousands of commuters faced disruption on the first of a five-day strike by South Western Railway (SWR) staff over the role of train guards.\n\nMembers of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) said the walkout which began at 00:01 BST had \"solid support\".\n\nStations and platforms across the network were packed with commuters struggling to get to and from work.\n\nSWR said a reduced service is running across the network.\n\nThe operator which runs services in London and Berkshire, Surrey, Hampshire, Dorset, Devon, the Isle of Wight and Somerset, said the action was \"unnecessary\" and it was \"cynical\" of the union to target events such as Royal Ascot.\n\nIt said extra early-evening trains were running between London Waterloo and Reading to help people leaving the racing festival.\n\nEarlier, hundreds of people queued down the street in Surbiton, south west London, as they waited for trains.\n\nPassengers took to social media to vent their frustration, including Ajay Arora who tweeted: \"Amazing start of the day with epic chaos at #SurbitonStation.\"\n\nMark Kanes said on Twitter that \"tempers [were] fraying\" on his train at Woking, with \"people being left behind\".\n\nBBC reporter Tarah Welsh filmed a queue of passengers snaking down the street outside Surbiton station.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Tarah Welsh This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAdam Neal-Jones described the scenes at Surbiton as \"utter madness\". At 08:45 he said he had been told the earliest he could expect to board a train was 11:00.\n\nFrancesca Gillett said the situation at the station was a \"total mess\", with a \"mile-long\" queue that was not moving.\n\nAnother commuter, Abigail Barletta, said she had managed to get to work, but was nearly an hour late after a \"journey from hell\" on a \"hot and crowded\" train.\n\nSWR said it would look to increase services stopping at Surbiton over the period of the strike.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"While we are doing all we can to keep passengers moving during this unnecessary industrial action, Surbiton station is one of our busiest stations and we need to keep passengers safe by controlling access to the platforms.\n\n\"Passengers are strongly advised to avoid busy peak periods and travel on earlier or later trains because of the reduction in services at key stations like Surbiton.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nRMT said staff had been left with no choice but to strike, and accused SWR of failing to guarantee guard roles.\n\nThe long-running dispute has resulted in 29 days of industrial action by RMT members over the past two years.\n\nA planned walkout in February was suspended after the RMT said there had been \"substantial progress\" in talks with the company.\n\nThis followed the suspension of strikes on Northern Rail after the company agreed to guarantee a conductor on all trains.\n\nHowever, RMT said SWR had now \"rowed back\" and was refusing to rule out future driver-controlled operations.\n\nThe union said this would see the role of guards \"carved up completely\".\n\nQueues at Surbiton stretched around the station and along Victoria Road\n\nThe queues at Surbiton continued inside the station\n\nRMT general secretary Mick Cash said the company had \"dragged their heels and failed to bolt down an agreement that matches up to our expectations on the guard guarantee\".\n\n\"The company has refused to give assurances on the future operational role of the guard, fuelling fears amongst our members of a stitch-up,\" he said.\n\nSWR said the company met union representatives last week to arrange fresh talks but the union was \"insistent on going ahead\" with the action.\n\nIt said it had matched RMT's request to keep a guard on each train and wanted to move on to discuss how to make the most of new technology on board.\n\nCommuters closest to central London struggled to get on overcrowded trains\n\nPassengers who did manage to travel said trains into the capital were hot and overcrowded\n\nAn SWR spokesman said the company \"remains committed to finding a solution\".\n\nPassengers heading to events at Twickenham, Hampton Court and Royal Ascot have been advised to allow extra time for their travel.\n\nThe action is scheduled to end at 23:59 on Saturday.\n\nThe dispute over guards has been running for two years\n\nWhen the union halted strikes in February, it seemed a deal was possible. It didn't happen. After a four-month respite for passengers, the strikes are back on.\n\nBy striking during Royal Ascot, one of the region's biggest sporting events, the RMT wants the disruption to be substantial.\n\nThe union thinks this will force management towards a deal. The company does not see it that way. And it says one in three RMT guards on rota today actually turned up for work.\n\nThe company says it will roster a guard on every train. But it will not promise what the union wants - that it will never, under any circumstances, run a train without a guard.\n\nMany people would characterise that as old working practices versus new technology. The union says it is about safety.\n\nSo far as I can tell, absolutely nothing has moved on since the first strike back in November 2017.\n\nHas your journey been affected? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Japan's Kokuka Courageous and Norway's Front Altair were attacked on 13 June\n\nThe US government has accused Iran of being behind explosions which have damaged two tankers in the Gulf of Oman on Thursday.\n\nThe Iranian administration has denied any involvement despite the US military releasing a video it claims shows Iranian special forces removing an unexploded mine from the side of one of the tankers.\n\nBut what can be said for certain and what could happen next? The BBC's defence and diplomatic correspondent Jonathan Marcus answers questions about the incident sent in by BBC News readers.\n\nMr G Riordan: Is there a salvage plan? Are the tankers guarded or escorted? Do the tankers have CCTV? How do we make the Strait of Hormuz safe? Is it an act of terror?\n\nA lot of good questions there. I suppose if it turns out to be a state actor, e.g. Iran, behind these attacks then one would not call them \"terrorist\" as such. Striking at another country's merchant ships might in some circumstances be considered an act of war.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why does the Strait of Hormuz matter?\n\nA concerted effort to hamper normal shipping in the Gulf would also clearly have significant strategic implications. Currently tankers are not guarded, though in the past, e.g. during the Iran-Iraq war, a convoy system was introduced to shepherd tankers through these confined waters accompanied by warships.\n\nClearly, experts will now be assessing the extent of the damage to the two vessels. Modern merchant ships may well have CCTV on board to monitor key areas. How much help this might give to any investigation is unclear.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAnonymous: The Iranian government's past behaviour is a good indicator of their future intentions to create havoc if they are not stopped: but how?\n\nThis is certainly how the US and its allies see it. Iran has made threats against merchant shipping in the Gulf and, in the US view, is a highly destabilising actor in the region.\n\nIran clearly takes a very different view, insisting it has a right to pursue its own regional interests and specifically that it did not target any of these tankers.\n\nWhat people say and what people do may be different. Iran resents the US intrusion into the Gulf. It is opposed to US policy in the region in Syria and elsewhere.\n\nThe danger is that far from being frightened by the reinforced US military presence in the Gulf it may feel that it has some latitude to push back. This is one of the dangerous elements in this equation.\n\nRay: In this day and age with so much satellite observation why isn't there more proof of who the attackers are?\n\nWell, you are right, satellites can be helpful but many of the most capable intelligence-gathering variety tend to belong to a very small group of countries and even then their coverage is not total. They need to be tasked to look at specific areas.\n\nI have no doubt the US is monitoring Iranian activity in the Gulf from a variety of platforms: satellites; aircraft; communications and signals intercepts; radar tracking and so on. Governments tend to be cautious - especially the Americans - about showing their satellite data. Often they do not want to reveal the full extent of their capabilities.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Security correspondent Frank Gardner looks at the evidence the US says proves Iran's involvement in attacks on two tankers\n\nAs an aside, one of the most interesting developments over recent years is the use of civilian satellite data by security researchers and think tanks to significantly amplify our knowledge and to provide a separate source of satellite intelligence. This has, however, generally been used to study fixed locations, e.g. North Korean or Iranian rocket or nuclear facilities. It is very hard for such groups to monitor an area like the Gulf in real-time.\n\nHarry: I want to know how many vessels were hit by mines prior to the US escalating their presence in the region.\n\nThe \"escalation\" of the US military presence is to some extent a propaganda ploy by the US. The presence of a US aircraft carrier battle group for example - currently the USS Abraham Lincoln - is far from unusual. There has indeed been some reinforcement, notably a small number of warplanes; the return of a Patriot anti-missile battery; and a small amphibious unit.\n\nAgain, it is all about sending signals rather than necessarily preparing for conflict. But there is no doubt that the US retains a formidable military capability in the region.\n\nAs to chronology, the earlier limpet mine attack on the four vessels was on 12 May. Prior to this (around 10 May) the US had announced it was stepping up its deployments to the region following what it said were concerns that Iranian elements or proxy forces were planning a number of attacks against US interests. Specifically, they claim to have seen missiles being loaded onto boats. Subsequently that threat seems to have passed, but in the meantime the four tankers were mined.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC was invited on board the USS Abraham Lincoln in the Arabian Sea\n\nAndrew: You say Trump is string up tensions: but why? I heard he believes the existing deal is bad and wants a better one? Similar tactics to North Korea?\n\nAnd James: Do you think it was Iran behind these latest attacks, or is it USA trying to stir things up whilst Iran host Shinzo Abe, Japanese PM?\n\nLet's cut to the chase here. Is Iran the most likely country to be responsible for the attacks - probably yes.\n\nHas the United States made a 100 per cent case against Tehran? Not yet.\n\nWill Iran ever admit to these attacks even if its forces did carry them out? Clearly no.\n\nIs anyone else going own up to carrying them out? No.\n\nIt is not the BBC's job to ascribe blame but it is our job to bring the evidence to you, to describe the circumstances; and to report and to weigh-up what different people have to say. You then must come to your own conclusion.\n\nAs you can imagine many of the messages we get refer to wild conspiracy theories which betray more about their author's thinking than they do an assessment of real day-to-day events.\n\nThe US, having walked away from the nuclear deal, is clearly waging a campaign to pressure Iran. But to what end is not clear.\n\nThe demands made by key US officials of Tehran are simply unrealistic. The Trump Administration seems to be unclear as to its strategic goals.\n\nThinking the nuclear deal was a bad one and walking away from it is all very well. But to get a better deal in Mr Trump's terms appears to require Iran to radically change its behaviour and outlook; to almost cease being Iran. That is why critics of Mr Trump say that he really wants regime change in Tehran.\n\nThere certainly are people in his administration who support this. But equally Mr Trump, despite all his tweets and bluster, does not want to embark upon new overseas military commitments.\n\nIt also has to be said that all the other countries or organisations that were party to the nuclear deal (the JCPOA as it is known) think that whatever its flaws, that deal was better than no deal.\n\nThanks for all the questions.", "If your first and only brush with the men who want to move into No 10 had been those sixty minutes of debate, would you really conclude that Boris Johnson is the soaraway favourite and Rory Stewart is the exciting one to watch?\n\nIn fact, a source in the camp of one of the candidates tonight suggests if a newbie to the spectacle were told that afterwards, they would \"stare in utter disbelief\".\n\nThat's not just a reminder that it's always worth skimming off some of Westminster's daily froth to see what's underneath - but that political contests are full of ups and downs, and are rarely a smooth glide to the top or a straight slide down and out.\n\nThe former foreign secretary was less sure-footed than the strength in his numbers suggests. But he avoided blundering into fresh disaster, and voting rounds have put him out of reach of the rest.\n\nAfter a metaphorical lock down lasting weeks, Boris Johnson now has only two days left to step carefully around any banana skins in order to book his place in the final two. But the joust to join him there is real.\n\nRory Stewart's apparent rising star shone a lot less brightly than his converted fans might have hoped. The senior cabinet trio, Messrs. Hunt, Gove and Javid, were all content with their time in the studio.\n\nAnd when it comes to votes, all four are within easy potential reach of each other - at this stage, all are reluctant to withdraw.\n\nBut by Thursday, they and the Tory party have a bigger decision to make: who, if any among them, will give up their own dream, in the hope of mounting a serious and collective effort to stop Boris Johnson?\n\nStrangely, at this moment, the tension in this race is not about the identity of the likely winner, but which politician will wrangle their way to second place.", "The inquest had heard no paramedics were sent to help Sebastien Belanger where he lay dying\n\nEmergency services bosses took \"too long\" to decide to send specialist teams to help victims of the London Bridge attack, an inquest has heard.\n\nParamedics were kept away from the scene of the attack on 3 June 2017 after it was made a \"hot zone\" - unsafe for staff - the Old Bailey heard.\n\nIt was not until three hours after the three attackers had been shot dead that medics entered a courtyard where five of the victims died.\n\nEight people were killed in the attack.\n\nAt the inquests into their deaths. Paul Woodrow, director of operations at London Ambulance Service (LAS), admitted the \"chaotic\" aftermath of the attack contributed to communication \"issues\".\n\nPolice told medics to stay away from the courtyard area around the Boro Bistro restaurant due to reports of shots being fired nearby, the Old Bailey heard.\n\nKhuram Butt, Rachid Redouane and Youssef Zaghba drove a van into pedestrians on London Bridge and stabbed people in and around Borough Market.\n\nJonathan Hough QC, counsel to the coroner, said two groups of people had known there were victims in need of urgent treatment in the courtyard outside Boro Bistro.\n\nBut neither group told people in the courtyard that ambulance staff had been instructed not to go there.\n\nMr Woodrow said the \"confusion\" after the attack \"hindered our ability, jointly, to get full situational awareness\".\n\nHe said LAS was \"overflowing with information\" and had received 134 related 999 calls on top of 4,400 already received from other incidents on a \"busy Saturday\".\n\nParamedics were being given information about various locations within a wide area, which some staff \"would not have an intimate knowledge of\", he said.\n\n\"In the very early stages of these incidents, they really are chaotic, and it's just a fact that we do not have an army of people there to filter the information,\" he added.\n\nHe said co-ordinating conflicting information in a large incident was \"not a problem that is easily resolved... it's just not realistic to expect that we can get 100 to 150 people into an area in the first 10 minutes of an incident\".\n\nThe court heard it was about three hours before medics entered the Boro Bistro courtyard, despite the knifemen being killed within 10 minutes of launching their attack.\n\nGareth Patterson QC, representing the families of some of the victims, said the delay was inconsistent with the need to provide urgent medical care in the \"golden hour\" following injury.\n\nThe inquest had previously heard medics were not told that Sébastien Bélanger, James McMullan and Alexandre Pigeard lay mortally wounded in the courtyard, while a police officer on the scene who had called for help was not told about ambulance resources awaiting casualties on Borough High Street.\n\nMr Woodrow said: \"There was clearly a breakdown in communications at that stage.\"\n\nMr Bélanger, 36, Mr McMullan, 32, and Mr Pigeard, 26, were eventually brought to ambulances at a safe meeting point away from the market, but they were already dead.\n\nThe victims of the London Bridge attack clockwise from top left - Chrissy Archibald, James McMullan, Alexandre Pigeard, Sébastien Bélanger, Ignacio Echeverría, Xavier Thomas, Sara Zelenak, Kirsty Boden\n\nThe others killed in the attack were Xavier Thomas, 45, Chrissy Archibald, 30, Sara Zelenak, 21, Kirsty Boden, 28, and Ignacio Echeverría, 39.\n\nMr Woodrow said LAS could not send specialist ambulance intervention teams - made up of medics, firefighers and armed officers - into a \"hot zone\" without input from police and fire services.\n\nBut he accepted it \"took too long to make a decision to commit\" to that strategy.\n\nMr Patterson said there was no evidence of whether or not the courtyard was specifically designated as a \"hot zone\".\n\nSome volunteer medics were allowed to break the rules to enter the high-risk zone to treat patients, the inquest heard.\n\n\"I'm proud of my staff who put themselves in harm's way,\" Mr Woodrow said. He praised all paramedics for doing \"really good work\" in \"really difficult circumstances\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "How does the deadline talk stack up?\n\nFour of the five candidates committed to leave the EU by - or not longer after - 31 October. Time is short, though. The new prime minister will not be in place until the end of July and then all of the relevant institutions in the UK and EU go on holiday until September. In September, you then have several weeks of recess for party conference season in Britain, so no real work is likely to get done until October. There is then only the rest of that month to do any negotiation, ratification and legislating, so the chances of getting anything through by Halloween look slim.", "As the second ballot approaches, there has been talk of deals and counter-deals among MPs\n\nUntil 18.00 BST, much of Westminster will be preoccupied with counting the number of hypothetical votes that are going to each one of the aspiring prime ministers.\n\nScurrilous whispers are whizzing round about deals and counter deals.\n\nThere are suggestions that some of Michael Gove and Boris Johnson's declared backers are secretly reaching out to Rory Stewart and gently wondering about potential jobs.\n\nConspiracists suggest that Boris Johnson's team are ordering some of their supporters to vote today for Jeremy Hunt to ensure he faces what they see as a vanilla politician in the final two.\n\nLots of politicians love nothing more than campaigning and hustling for votes, and what could be more fun for them when they don't even have to bang on doors in the rain to do so, but can plot happily in the tea rooms of Westminster?\n\nWhoever ultimately wins through, however, will soon have to count a different set of numbers - those in Parliament.\n\nThey would inherit a government with no majority, and the same contradictions and conundrums of Brexit.\n\nThe common cry is therefore, unsurprisingly, the numbers won't change. The next sensible assertion follows - it's impossible therefore to see how anything like Theresa May's deal gets through Parliament.\n\nAnd impossible, therefore, to see how any of the contenders could keep their promise to take us out of the EU without a cataclysmic event - leaving without a deal, calling an election, or embarking on another referendum.\n\nIn the BBC debate later, and over the next few weeks, we will ask and ask the candidates again if they refuse to answer, how they plan to stick to their promises to take us out of the EU, and what they would do instead if their plan backfires.\n\nBut although the first rule in politics is learn to count, there is a second adage that applies too - politics is meant to be the art of the possible.\n\nIn other words, if they possess real skills and talents, what can they actually get done?\n\nSure, the numbers won't change but a lot will with a new prime minister, even if not for very long. And in times when what seemed sensible assertions have been proven wrong so many times, it would be foolish to underestimate how different the atmosphere might be.\n\nFirst off, if Boris Johnson wins, a Brexiteer will be in charge for the first time - whether you think that's to own the mess, or push for the ultimate win.\n\nThat will matter to Tory MPs who always suspected that Theresa May, hiding behind her red lines, always saw Brexit as a damage limitation exercise. Their hackles were up from the start. They are likely to respond differently to one of their own in charge.\n\nDifferent MPs will also be part of the government too. Many of the collection of grey suits currently in the administration will take their seats up on the back of the green benches - swapping places, it's likely, with more of the Eurosceptics, who will move to the front.\n\nThere is less incentive for Brexiteers to kill a Brexiteers' deal.\n\nTheresa May was not a regular in Westminster's tearooms\n\nIn a rebellious Parliament, under new leadership, the goodies become the baddies, and the baddies become the goodies.\n\nRemainer ministers talk now of swathes of Tories who'd rebel to prevent no deal. But would they really behave as aggressively as the inner core of Brexiteers have done in the last few years? The numbers don't technically change, but different groups become the disgruntled and that will matter, probably a lot.\n\nAnd there is still, just about it seems, a majority in Parliament for leaving the EU, but with a deal. To Downing Street's intense frustration, they always believed that was the case, but couldn't translate that into a win. That was, in part, down to the problem with the policy, and the long-running divisions inside the Tory party.\n\nBut it was also because Theresa May was just not able to win her colleagues round. She used to boast that she was not a creature of Westminster's bars and tearooms, not someone who enjoyed the political game.\n\nBut in this crazy village, that's how arguments are won. Some of her colleagues who did get brief facetime with her even said they left the room feeling less likely to support her. It may not be fair, but persuasion is a real power, and Theresa May didn't have much of it.\n\nDiligence is not a substitute for being able to talk someone round.\n\nA new leader might, I stress, be well able to do that. Not just with MPs in Westminster, but also maybe with the EU.\n\nPolitics is about numbers - yes, but it's about persuasion, alchemy and force of personality. To simply say the numbers won't change excludes the - as yet - unknown power of leadership.\n\nIt is perfectly possible, of course, that the new leader will implode, or within months be overwhelmed by the same obstacles that broke Theresa May.\n\nBut maybe, just maybe not. Has it really been so long since we've had truly convincing politicians that we have forgotten what they can really do?", "EuroMillions players have been urged to check their tickets after the UK winner of a £123m jackpot failed to come forward and claim their prize.\n\nA single ticket scooped last Tuesday's £123,458,008 prize - the third biggest in the draw's history.\n\nOperator Camelot said the ticketholder might be unaware they had won and urged players to \"check, double-check and triple-check\" their tickets.\n\nThe winning numbers were 25, 27, 39, 42 and 46, with Lucky Stars 11 and 12.\n\nThe owner of the winning ticket matched all of the seven numbers.\n\nIt is not yet known whether they are an individual or a syndicate.\n\nCamelot could only reveal at this stage that the ticket was bought at a retailer, rather than online.\n\nHowever, the area where the ticket was bought will be revealed in about a week's time if no valid claim has been lodged by then.\n\nAndy Carter, senior winners' adviser at the National Lottery, said: \"A week has slipped by and winners may have been going about their everyday routine completely unaware of this amazing change of fortune.\n\n\"The ticket was bought in-store so players should check the places they usually keep their tickets and make sure they've checked them all.\n\n\"We have the champagne on ice and our fingers crossed that the lucky winner comes forward to claim their win soon.\"\n\nThis is the fourth EuroMillions jackpot win in the UK this year.\n\nEvery player has 180 days from the day of the draw to claim their prize.\n\nIf no one comes forward in that time the prize money, plus all the interest it has generated, goes to National Lottery-funded projects across the UK.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nEoin Morgan broke the record for the number of sixes in a one-day international with an astonishing display of hitting in England's 150-run World Cup win over Afghanistan.\n\nThe captain hammered 17 sixes in making 148 from 71 balls, his outrageous and audacious ball-striking providing stunning entertainment to an Old Trafford crowd that lapped it up.\n\nMorgan went past the previous best of 16, jointly held by Chris Gayle, AB de Villiers and Rohit Sharma, and England's total of 25 sixes also set a new record for any team in an ODI innings.\n\nJonny Bairstow made 90 and Joe Root 88 as the hosts racked up 397-6, their highest total in a World Cup match, bettering the 386-6 they piled on against Bangladesh only 10 days ago.\n\nThere was never any danger of Afghanistan even getting close to succeeding in the run-chase and they ended a processional second half of the game on 247-8.\n• None Morgan was phenomenal, now England must reach last four in style - Agnew\n\nThe win lifts England to the top of the 10-team table, ahead of Australia on net run-rate.\n\nVictory against Sri Lanka at Headingley on Friday's will leave Morgan's men on the verge of the semi-finals.\n\nAfghanistan remain rooted to the bottom, having lost all five of their games.\n\nTaken in isolation, Morgan's performance was awesome, yet it was made all the more impressive by two things.\n\nFirstly, this was the same player that was debilitated by a back spasm in Friday's win over West Indies. He could barely walk up the pavilion steps, was unable to sit in his post-match news conference and was a doubt to play in this game.\n\nIn addition, it was a complete contrast to the first part of England's innings. For as comfortable as Bairstow and Root were on a used wicket against some respectable bowling, their progress was little more than sedate.\n\nMorgan changed all that. When he arrived at the end of the 30th over, England were 164-2. With the left-hander as the catalyst, the final 15 overs brought 198 runs in a blur of six-hitting that turned fielders into spectators and spectators into fielders.\n\nWhen Afghanistan dropped short, he heaved the ball over the leg side, often into the massive temporary stand. When the ball was pitched up, he smashed it straight.\n\nHe had one life, on 28, when Dawlat Zadran barely got one hand to a chance at deep mid-wicket. After that, Morgan pummelled 120 from his next 46 balls to the delight of the crowd who at one point were singing his name.\n\nHis first fifty came from 36 balls and his second from 21. In the 14 balls he faced after reaching three figures, one of which got him out, he plundered 47 runs.\n\nWhen he was dismissed, caught at long-off, he received a handshake from bowler and opposite number Gulbadin Naib, then departed to a rapturous standing ovation.\n• None Police called to incident with Afghanistan players at restaurant\n\nEngland are slowly growing into this tournament and, in doing so, have put their sole defeat by Pakistan - a game in which their fielding was awful - well behind them.\n\nSterner tests await. They still have group games against Australia, New Zealand and India to come, but it may be that victory on Friday is enough to secure a place in the last four.\n\nThis was the type of contest which England teams of the past would have approached with nervous trepidation, yet, bar two Bairstow dropped catches, Morgan's men ruthlessly dealt with the weakest team in the tournament.\n\nFour of their batsmen have made hundreds - no other team has more than two centurions - and, in a competition where extreme pace has yielded the greatest success, Jofra Archer and Mark Wood have 21 wickets between them.\n\nEngland will dearly wish for Jason Roy to be fit for at least the knockout stages. With the opener absent because of a hamstring injury, James Vince made a characteristically handsome 26, then holed out in characteristically frustrating fashion.\n\nEven before this game, Afghanistan were not having an enjoyable time in Manchester. On Monday night, police had to be called to a restaurant after an altercation between some of their squad and a member of the public.\n\nThey lost an important toss on Tuesday - this game might have been different had their spinners been giving a total to defend.\n\nBut that did not excuse a fielding performance littered with errors or bowling that crumbled in the face of Morgan's assault.\n\nRashid Khan, their star leg-spinner, conceded 110 runs from nine overs, the joint second-worst return in ODI history and the most expensive in a World Cup match.\n\nWhen Archer bowled Noor Ali Zadran in the second over of the reply, there was the feeling that a batting line-up which had already struggled in this tournament could disintegrate.\n\nTo their credit, they showed some great spirit, none more so than Hashmatullah Shahidi, who made 76 despite a sickening blow to the helmet from Wood.\n\n'I never thought I could do that' - what they said\n\nMan of the match Eoin Morgan: \"I didn't think at any stage it was going to be my day. Getting quite old, running around with a bad back, I never thought in my wildest dreams I'd produce an innings like that.\n\n\"It was a special day. It's the World Cup. We're loving playing in it. On the big stage, it is nice to do.\n\n\"I haven't yet put my back out! Tomorrow's going to be a rough day, I think.\"\n\nAfghanistan captain Gulbadin Naib: \"How they played was something special. Credit goes to Morgan - it was one of the best innings I've seen from him.\"\n\nFormer England captain Michael Vaughan on BBC Test Match Special: \"What a performance by England, particularly with the bat. It was tremendous ball-striking.\n\n\"The last three performances could have been banana skins, and they've hammered their opponents.\n\n\"Can England play to this fashion, with this aggression, when it matters in a semi-final? The semi-final is the big game.\"\n• None Eoin Morgan's 17 sixes is a record for an ODI innings\n• None Morgan's 57-ball century was England's fastest in a World Cup, and their fifth fastest in ODIs\n• None England hit more sixes in one innings than they have managed in an entire World Cup campaign before Tuesday\n• None The 33 sixes in the match is a record for a World Cup match - and more than in the entire inaugural edition in 1975\n• None England have made five centuries in this tournament, their record at a World Cup\n• None Morgan and Root added 189 off 101 balls, of which Morgan made 142 and Root 43\n• None England scored 142 off the final 10 overs of their innings\n• None Rashid Khan's figures of 0-110 are the joint second worst in an ODI", "Caster Semenya says athletics' world governing body \"used\" her like \"a human guinea pig\" by insisting she takes medication to control her testosterone.\n\nSouth Africa's Semenya, 28, is in legal dispute with the IAAF, who have said the 800m runner must take medication or compete over a different distance.\n\nThe two-time Olympic champion says the drugs made her feel \"constantly sick\" and have \"unknown health consequences\".\n\n\"I will not allow the IAAF to use me and my body again,\" said Semenya.\n\nSemenya spoke out as the Court of Arbitration for Sport released a 163-page document explaining in detail why it had rejected her appeal against the IAAF's rules.\n\nSince the Court of Arbitration for Sport's decision she has gone to Switzerland's Federal Supreme Court (SFT), which has temporarily suspended the IAAF ruling.\n\n\"The IAAF used me in the past as a human guinea pig to experiment with how the medication they required me to take would affect my testosterone levels,\" added Semenya.\n\n\"Even though the hormonal drugs made me feel constantly sick, the IAAF now wants to enforce even stricter thresholds with unknown health consequences.\n\n\"I am concerned that other female athletes will feel compelled to let the IAAF drug them and test the effectiveness and negative health effects of different hormonal drugs. This cannot be allowed to happen.\"\n\nIAAF rules state Semenya - and other athletes with differences of sexual development (DSD) - must either take medication in order to compete in track events from 400m to the mile, or change to another distance.\n\nPeople with a DSD do not develop along typical gender lines. Their hormones, genes and reproductive organs may be a mix of male and female characteristics, which can lead to higher levels of testosterone - a hormone that increases muscle mass, strength and haemoglobin, which affects endurance and which - the IAAF argued - gives Semenya and DSD athletes an unfair advantage over other women.\n\nSince the ruling, Semenya has raced over 2,000m and took victory at the Meeting de Montreuil in Paris.\n\nShe has been named in South Africa's preliminary squad for the World Championships in Qatar later this year but has only been entered in the 800m, meaning her participation depends on the outcome of her appeal.\n\nThe Court of Arbitration for Sport has said the new rules for athletes with differences of sexual development were discriminatory, but concluded that the discrimination was \"necessary, reasonable and proportionate\" to protect \"the integrity of female athletics\".\n\nThe IAAF has welcomed the full release of the Cas findings, saying: \"Having the arguments of all parties and the detailed findings of the Cas panel in the public domain will help to foster greater understanding of this complex issue.\n\n\"The IAAF considers that the DSD regulations are a necessary, reasonable and proportionate means of protecting fair and meaningful competition in elite female athletics, and the Cas agreed.\"", "Paul Rimmer and his son Tristan, nine, who is autistic, attended Evensong on Sunday\n\nA university dean has apologised after an autistic boy was asked to leave a service at King's College Chapel in Cambridge.\n\nPaul Rimmer and his son Tristan, nine, who is autistic, attended Evensong on Sunday. Tristan made loud noises and a member of staff asked them to leave.\n\nMr Rimmer wrote a letter of complaint that appeared on Facebook.\n\nNow Dean of King's College Dr Stephen Cherry has apologised and asked to meet Mr Rimmer.\n\nMr Rimmer said in the letter that Tristan's expressions \"are often loud and uncontainable. It is part of who he is\".\n\n\"As a Christian, I believed worship is primarily intended to glorify God.. as an actual worship service, at which my son's expressions must surely be pleasing to God,\" he said.\n\nMr Rimmer said his son \"isn't even 10 years old and he knows that he is unwelcome\".\n\nIn a letter to Mr Rimmer, Revd Dr Cherry wrote he was \"devastated\" to hear about the incident.\n\n\"Every week we welcome thousands of people to services in King's Chapel and we do our best to meet all their various needs and expectations,\" he said.\n\n\"Sometimes we fail and I realise that we especially failed you and Tristan on Sunday afternoon. I apologise for that most sincerely.\n\nHe added that \"that there is more that we can do to support and help... staff\" welcoming worshippers.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Angela Merkel first was seen trembling in June and later said she had been dehydrated\n\nGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel has said she is fine, after she was seen trembling as she greeted Ukraine's president on a boiling day in Berlin.\n\nMrs Merkel, 64, was visibly struggling as she stood next to Volodymyr Zelensky while a military band played the two countries' anthems in the midday sun.\n\nThe temperatures in the German capital were approaching 30C (86F) at the time.\n\nMrs Merkel said she was dehydrated. \"I've drunk at least three glasses of water and so I'm doing very well now.\"\n\nThe chancellor was answering a question about her wellbeing at a joint news conference with President Zelensky.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Zelensky, a comedian-turned-president, said that he would have come to the rescue if needed.\n\n\"She was standing next to me and completely safe,\" he said.\n\nMs Merkel is one of the European Union's most influential politicians.\n\nShe has announced that she will step down when her current - fourth - term runs out in 2021.", "Sadiq Khan said it was \"remarkable\" that a president would retweet \"a far-right activist\"\n\nLondon Mayor Sadiq Khan has called Donald Trump a \"poster boy for racists\" after the US President hit out at him over London's knife crime.\n\nMr Trump retweeted a post from right-wing commentator Katie Hopkins blaming the violence on \"Khan's Londonistan\".\n\nHer comments came after four people were killed in a spate of shootings and stabbings in London over three days.\n\nForeign Secretary and Tory leadership candidate Jeremy Hunt said he \"150% agreed\" with Mr Trump.\n\nSpeaking in central London on Monday, Mr Khan said: \"It's remarkable that you've got the president of the USA amplifying the tweets of a far-right activist, amplifying a racist tweet.\n\n\"That's one of my concerns about Donald Trump - he's now seen as a poster boy for racists around the world, whether you're a racist in this country, whether you're a racist in Hungary, a racist in Italy, or a racist in France.\"\n\nThe original post by Ms Hopkins called the capital \"Stab-City\", alongside screenshots of BBC News articles detailing the violence.\n\nBut a number of people pointed out the much higher homicide rates in US cities.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Hunt said Mr Trump had his \"own style\", but he backed the president's stance on Mr Khan.\n\n\"We have a Mayor of London who has completely failed to tackle knife crime and has spent more time on politics than the actual business of making Londoners safer and in that I 150% agree with the president,\" he said while attending a Conservative leadership hustings event.\n\nBut Mr Khan said: \"We've had four days and four homicides in London, we've seen over the last five years an increase in violent crime across our country and it's not acceptable.\n\n\"That's one of the reasons why City Hall, even though there's been massive cuts from central government, have continued to invest in our police.\"\n\nHe added: \"There are many good leaders in America facing massive increases in violent crime.\n\n\"They have my support to make sure we learn lessons from each other and that we work together to grapple the issue of violent crime taking place in many cities across the Western world.\"\n\nPresident Trump has had a long-running feud with London's mayor\n\nAnother Tory leadership hopeful, Home Secretary Sajid Javid, said President Trump should be more worried about violent crime in the United States.\n\nMr Javid said: \"I think President Trump should stick to domestic policies and I think it is unbecoming of a leader of such a great state to keep trying to interfere in other countries' domestic policies.\n\n\"The president is right to be concerned about serious violence, but he should be concerned about the serious violence in his own country where it is more than 10 times higher than it is in the UK.\"\n\nShadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott said she had never heard any previous US President make reference to a London mayor at all.\n\nIn the Commons, Ms Abbott said: \"It's hard to escape the conclusion that President Trump may be singling out Sadiq Khan because he is of the Muslim faith.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Stella Creasy says she led a knife crime meeting following a miscarriage\n\nWomen are forced to choose between being an MP and being a mum because of Parliament's rules, a pregnant MP says.\n\nLabour MP for Walthamstow Stella Creasy says Ipsa - the body which regulates MPs' pay - have made it \"impossible\" to fulfil her responsibilities to her constituents once her baby is born.\n\nThat's because Ipsa does not automatically provide paid cover for MPs on parental leave.\n\nMPs themselves are paid in full for the whole period.\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May has urged Ipsa to \"look very closely\" at what more support can be provided, adding there was \"much more to do\" to make Westminster more family friendly.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme, Ms Creasy said she had tried to \"get out of\" Ipsa what cover could be provided.\n\n\"They told me they don't recognise that MPs go on maternity leave. They then graciously said if I wanted to write an application to prove my worth they would have a think about it and whether they could provide the money,\" she said.\n\n\"MPs either have to hide from their constituents to spend time with their newborn baby or beg their colleagues to fill the gaps.\n\n\"This is 2019, not 1919,\" she said.\n\nMs Creasy said she had previously suffered miscarriages and was \"terrified things might go wrong again\".\n\nShe said she had continued to attend events in her constituency as she suffered her miscarriages.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tulip Siddiq: \"I asked for a proxy vote, which has never been done in Parliament before.\"\n\nShe told the BBC her colleague, Labour MP Tulip Siddiq, was turned down when she requested extra funding to cover her own maternity leave.\n\n\"Tulip is having to take her baby to meetings,\" she said.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, she said: \"It doesn't seem right that communities should be penalised for having a woman as its MP.\n\n\"We're giving people another reason not to appoint women to the House of Commons,\" she added.\n\nResponding to the general issue rather than Ms Creasy's specific case, Ipsa's chair Ruth Evans said: \"Ipsa provides additional funding for all MPs' offices to cover absences. To provide MPs with extra money, Ipsa asks for an explanation to be provided of how the additional money would be spent.\n\n\"We support proposals to allow maternity cover for MPs, and this would be for the House of Commons to take forward.\n\n\"We will work closely with Parliament on any changes they wish to introduce and on providing the funding to support this. The Ipsa Board will be discussing these issues next week, and meeting the Speaker's Committee in July, to support any move by Parliament to assist MPs.\n\n\"In the last few years, we have more than doubled the funding available for MPs' dependants to support family life and will continue to strive to modernise our rules.\"\n\nIn January, MPs backed a year-long trial to allow MPs who were about to give birth or had recently become a parent to nominate another MP to vote on their behalf in the Commons.\n\nThe debate over Parliament's rules was reignited when Ms Siddiq delayed a Caesarean section to attend a vote on Theresa May's Brexit deal.\n\nLater that month, the Hampstead and Kilburn MP became the first to vote in the Commons by proxy.\n\nIn 2017, former Labour deputy leader Harriet Harman called for MPs to be given six months' maternity leave.", "Middle-aged people are increasingly being lured into becoming \"money mules\" and their bank accounts used to launder proceeds of crime, a report suggests.\n\nMore than 40,000 cases which \"bore the hallmarks\" of money mule activity were reported to UK fraud prevention service Cifas last year, up 26% on 2017.\n\nThe largest rise - 35% - was among those aged between 41 and 60.\n\nIt is believed fraudsters target people without a criminal background, in the hope payments go unnoticed.\n\n\"Typically, money mules are recruited on social media sites and via messaging apps: they're offered payments if they allow their bank accounts to be used to transfer cash,\" said BBC home affairs correspondent Danny Shaw.\n\nMany may not initially realise they are committing a crime.\n\nMost money mules are young men and those who try to quit may be threatened with violence by the criminals who roped them in.\n\nIf they are caught they could face prison, as well as consequences for their ability to manage their finances, such as having their bank account closed and finding it difficult to apply for credit in the future.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHolly would receive money into her bank account and then transfer it to another account or take it out in cash and give it to someone. In exchange she would get a cut of the money.\n\nBut by becoming a money mule, what Holly was really doing was laundering the proceeds of crime. It's a serious offence, and if caught money mules could get a maximum sentence of 14 years in prison.\n\nIdentity fraud - including where personal information on credit and debit cards is stolen or illegally accessed - also reached record highs.\n\nSome 189,108 cases were recorded - an 8% increase on 2017's figures - with 82,608 involving plastic cards, according to Cifas' analysis of data from companies and organisations.\n\nThere was an \"alarming\" rise in the number of people aged 60 and over who fell victim to such fraud, the report says.\n\n\"Fraudsters are constantly finding new methods of committing fraud,\" said Cifas chief executive Mike Haley.\n\n\"From identity theft through to using the young and naive as money mules to launder money, the economic and social harm to the nation is growing.\"\n\nHave you been targeted by fraudsters in the ways described in this article? You can share your experience by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Politics isn't always complicated. The reason why Matt Hancock, the health secretary, has backed Boris Johnson is plain.\n\nHe thinks he is going to be the prime minister and he wants to stay in the cabinet, with a big job. In the words of one source: \"It was back him now, or in five weeks' time, so best to get on board.\"\n\nThere is another reason, though, that explains why he, other MPs and ministers have climbed on board the Johnson jalopy even if they have fundamental disagreements with him.\n\nPlenty of MPs who worry about what he might do in office are joining his camp in order to stop him from veering off to the right - in the words of one, \"to anchor\" him in the middle ground. To be the Boris Johnson of City Hall in the late 2000s, not the Boris Johnson who has politically flirted with Donald Trump adviser Steve Bannon.\n\nOne minister joked that they were \"wrestling with Boris Johnson's soul\".\n\nTory members will ultimately, of course, be the ones who judge what that tells us about Boris Johnson himself. But other insiders suggest, scurrilously perhaps, an extra influence in play here too.\n\nIt's notable how much friendlier the tone of the London newspaper, the Evening Standard, has become of late towards Mr Johnson, quite a move in its stance.\n\nWho is the editor of that paper? Well of course, it's George Osborne, the former chancellor. A source said it had been made clear to Mr Johnson for several months by some of his colleagues that to make his leadership work he has to convince the middle of the Tory Party, not just the Brexit fringe, that he is up to the task. That \"includes a former chancellor giving his blessing\".\n\nOne well-placed insider detects the \"hidden hand of George Osborne working with the Wizard of Oz\" - Sir Lynton Crosby, the election strategist involved with Boris Johnson, who also ran campaigns for David Cameron and Mr Osborne over the years.\n\nFormer Chancellor George Osborne became editor of the Evening Standard in May 2017\n\nCould that even mean a return for Mr Osborne one day?\n\nHe is not an MP any more of course, and is ensconced in being an editor of a paper. I'm told there have not been any conversations about any kind of return.\n\nAnd this is, in a way, the ultimate kind of froth from the Westminster bubble. But if Mr Johnson wins, to survive he will need as much support as possible from every kind of Tory.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The five Conservative leadership contenders were asked about resolving the Irish border issue\n\nThe five remaining candidates to become the next prime minister have clashed over how to avoid a hard border in Ireland after Brexit.\n\nThe MPs running to become Conservative leader answered questions from the public in a live debate on BBC One.\n\nAll five agreed the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland should remain \"free and open\".\n\nBut they offered different visions of how they would ensure this.\n\nFour of the five have rejected the backstop, which was part of the withdrawal agreement negotiated by Prime Minister Theresa May.\n\nThe backstop is a position of last resort to maintain a seamless border on the island of Ireland in the event that the UK leaves the EU without securing an all-encompassing deal.\n\nOnly International Development Secretary Rory Stewart spoke in favour of it.\n\nBBC viewer Mark Nolan, from Ballyclare in County Antrim, asked the candidates how they would \"solve the issue of the Irish border\".\n\nThe debate was the first to feature Boris Johnson\n\nFrontrunner Boris Johnson said he remembered the Troubles and \"nobody wants to see the return of any kind of infrastructural or hard border\" on the island of Ireland, insisting the UK government would \"never\" do that.\n\nHe insisted the problems posed by trade across the border could be resolved during an implementation period as the UK leaves the EU.\n\nThe former foreign secretary argued the EU could be persuaded to amend its Brexit deal as it did not want the UK to leave in a disorderly manner and wanted the £39bn so-called divorce bill negotiated as part of the withdrawal agreement.\n\nBoris Johnson said \"nobody wants to see a hard border\"\n\nForeign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said technology could be used to create a \"soft border\", but it was important the UK was not \"trapped\" indefinitely in the customs union.\n\n\"It is for us to come up with the solutions that would work,\" he said.\n\n\"What we can't have is a return to border infrastructure on the island of Ireland, because that was one of the fundamental achievements of the Good Friday Agreement.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What do the British public want to ask the Conservative hopefuls?\n\nHome Secretary Sajid Javid said the backstop needed to be time-limited, arguing Parliament would not vote for it as it stood.\n\nMr Javid previously pledged to pay Ireland for the cost of border technology.\n\n\"Border force has looked at this. It is perfectly possible to have an open border with two different customs arrangements on either side of the border using existing technology,\" he said.\n\nThe Irish government and EU have both rejected this argument.\n\nEnvironment Secretary Michael Gove said the \"peace process is about much more than just trade across the border\".\n\nHe said there was a need to \"supercharge\" work on alternative arrangements that could replace the backstop.\n\nRory Stewart said the only way to ensure an open border was through a withdrawal agreement that must include the backstop as it is currently configured.\n\nThis would see Northern Ireland staying aligned to some rules of the EU single market.\n\nMr Stewart said the EU had made it \"entirely clear\" the withdrawal agreement must include the currently configured backstop.\n\nDominic Raab was knocked out of the Tory leadership race in the second ballot of MPs earlier on Tuesday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dame Cheryl Gillan announces the result of Tuesday's Tory leadership vote - with five going through the next round\n\nThe next ballot will take place on Wednesday, with the candidate with the lowest number of votes eliminated.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA man who hurled milkshake over Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage has been ordered to pay him compensation.\n\nMr Farage had given a speech on 20 May in Newcastle before the European elections when he was attacked.\n\nPaul Crowther, 32, of Holeyn Road, Throckley, pleaded guilty to common assault and criminal damage at North Tyneside Magistrates' Court.\n\nHe was given 150 hours of unpaid work assessment and ordered to pay Mr Farage £350 compensation.\n\nThe attack, which involved a £5.25 banana and salted caramel milkshake, was described in court as being \"politically motivated\".\n\nDistrict Judge Bernard Begley said: \"This was an act of crass stupidity.\"\n\nDefence solicitor, Brian Hegarty, described Crowther's actions as a \"moment of madness\" and said his client now regretted what he had done.\n\nMr Hegarty said: \"Ordinarily a man of his position would receive a caution.\n\n\"The fact is, it is said to be a politically motivated incident which has caused him to appear before this court and caused him to lose his good name.\"\n\nProsecutor James Long said Mr Farage was shocked and embarrassed by the attack and said that, for a split second, he would not have known whether it was milkshake, or \"something more sinister\".\n\nCrowther was arrested at the scene after being filmed dousing Mr Farage.\n\nHe told journalists the act was \"a right of protest against people like him\" and said of Mr Farage: \"The bile and the racism he spouts out in this country is far more damaging than a bit of milkshake to his front.\"\n\nThe hearing heard that Crowther had been sacked from his job as a Sky technical advisor.\n\nCrowther has been sacked from his job as a Sky technical advisor\n\nA number of crowdfunding pages have been set up to cover Crowther's costs.\n\nA Gofundme page entitled \"Get Paul Crowther his milkshake money back\" raised £1,705 while a separate campaign on the same site has donations of more than £1,300 to pay off Crowther's fine.\n\nMore than £400 has been raised for the fine on JustGiving.\n\nA second page on the same platform has raised £12 for a \"new milkshake\", double its target, because Mr Farage's suit \"absorbed much of the last one\".\n\nIn the immediate aftermath of the incident, Mr Farage was heard telling a member of security staff that he \"could have spotted that a mile off\".\n\nLater that day, he said: \"I won't even acknowledge the low-grade behaviour that I was subjected to this morning. I won't dignify it. I will ignore it.\n\n\"Perhaps keep buying new clothes and carry on.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A former head of the Army thumped the desk as he told police questioning him that allegations he was part of a VIP paedophile ring were \"ridiculous\".\n\nFootage of Lord Bramall's reaction during the 2015 interview was shown to the jury in the trial of Carl Beech, 51, who denies 12 counts of perverting the course of justice and one of fraud.\n\nThe peer, a D-Day veteran aged 95, was too ill to attend the trial in person.\n\nHis wife died in 2015 before detectives announced they were not charging him.\n\nBut Newcastle Crown Court was played the video of Lord Bramall's police interview in April 2015, weeks after his home had been raided by the Metropolitan Police, as part of the case against Mr Beech.\n\nMr Beech, who was given the name \"Nick\" when his claims were first reported in the media, is accused of lying about rapes, kidnapping, false imprisonment and sexual abuse by prominent people the 1970s and 1980s.\n\nAs well as Lord Bramall, he named former Home Secretary Leon Brittan, the former heads of MI5 and MI6 and ex-Tory MP Harvey Proctor among his alleged abusers.\n\n\"I am absolutely astonished, amazed and bemused,\" Lord Bramall said in the interview.\n\n\"I find it incredible that anybody should believe that someone of my career standing, integrity, should be capable of any of these things, including things like torture - unbelievable.\"\n\nMr Beech, from Gloucester, told police his stepfather, Major Ray Beech, had sexually abused him before taking him to Lord Bramall's offices in Wiltshire, where he was commander-in-chief of the UK land forces in about 1976.\n\nHe said the peer had undressed and sexually abused him, which Lord Bramall told detectives was \"absolute rubbish\" and \"complete nonsense\".\n\nTold that General Sir Roland Gibbs and General Sir Hugh Beach were also allegedly involved, he scoffed: \"They have taken in the whole damned Army.\"\n\nLord Bramall was interviewed by police in April 2015 when he was 91\n\nLord Bramall, who went on to become chief of defence staff between 1982 and 1985, suggested police should have been more sceptical of Mr Beech's claims, saying: \"You are an experienced officer, you must have got a feel if someone is not telling the truth.\"\n\nAsked about Sir Jimmy Savile, said to be another member of the gang, the former Army chief said he only knew him from television and he was \"one of the most odious people I have ever seen in my life\".\n\nAt one point, he said about his accuser: \"People make allegations about others later in life to see what they can gain from it.\"\n\nDetectives asked Lord Bramall if he could swim, as some of the abuse had allegedly happened at pool parties. \"I landed at Normandy and I jolly nearly had to swim,\" he replied.\n\nIn another interview conducted in July 2015, the jury heard Lord Bramall tell police about the impact of the investigation and media coverage, having just lost his wife at the age of 91.\n\n\"Because it is really awful someone in my position has had the damage done - mainly by what has gone to press and on the webnet - I hope you can report to your superiors and say there's clearly no case to answer and make it absolutely clear I am no longer a suspect and I have been taken out of the investigation,\" he said.\n\n\"Otherwise my reputation is still being damaged on Google, and that's not fair, after my record, at my time of life.\"\n\nThe jury heard that Lord Bramall, who is \"in very poor health\", was unwilling to give further evidence in court.\n\nDefence barrister Collingwood Thompson told the court he would have asked the peer a series of specific questions on Mr Beech's behalf, including suggesting to Lord Bramall he was a \"leading member of a paedophile ring\".", "The scheme involves unpaid work as well as psychological assessment and treatment\n\nMore than 400 people whose crimes would normally attract a jail term of up to a year have instead served their sentences outside prison.\n\nThe scheme, known as an enhanced combination order, has been running in three court districts since 2015.\n\nThe rehabilitation order has led to a 20% reduction in the number of short-term jail sentences in those areas.\n\nThe order, which lasts between 12 months to three years, involves unpaid work in the community.\n\nIt also involves intensive probation, restorative intervention, psychological assessment and treatment.\n\nJames was given the option of avoiding prison by participating in the programme after he admitted to a public order offence while drunk and high on drugs.\n\nThe scheme allows people who would previously have spent time behind bars seek rehabilitation\n\nJames, which is not his real name due to concerns for his safety if he is identified, said the programme forced him to address his offending behaviour.\n\n\"I got to write a letter of apology to the police, and I got to hand it in and apologise, person to person, and we got to shake hands and just say: 'I'm sorry for that act of stupidness.'\n\n\"I think if I got sent to prison I would have had an aspect of what prison life was like. You see people going in and out of prison all the time so I think it would have been, 'oh right, I know what prison is like now' and probably go on to reoffend.\n\n\"But this order really helped me understand that drink ain't the answer, drugs ain't the answer and I'm so glad I never got sent to prison.\"\n\nThe order has been successfully completed by 404 offenders in three courts areas since 2015 - Armagh and south Down, Ards and the north west.\n\nJudge Eamonn King would like to see the scheme extended\n\nDistrict Judge Eamonn King, along with other members of the judiciary, would like to see it extended across Northern Ireland but that could depend on an executive being in place at Stormont.\n\n\"If it's an economic argument, the cost of keeping someone in jail is a number of times the cost of trying to keep someone in the community and rehabilitated within the community,\" he said.\n\n\"They are part of the community and if we give them the support to overcome their problems, then we're giving them back their dignity.\"\n\nStephen Hamilton of the Probation Board said the scheme has the potential to save millions of pounds\n\nThe Probation Board for NI said one evaluation of the scheme found there would be a saving of up to £8.3m per year to the public purse if the orders were rolled out throughout Northern Ireland.\n\n\"That is not an insignificant amount of money, it requires resourcing but, nevertheless, we believe there will be fewer victims and communities will be safer,\" said Stephen Hamilton, assistant director of the Probation Board.\n\nPaul Millar from Barnardo's said the charity has worked with 76 people who have been sentenced to an enhanced combination order providing support and training to the offenders and their families.\n\n\"It can be around actually increasing parents' knowledge of parenting,\" he said.\n\n\"So increasing their parenting skills, looking at the impact of offending, their behaviour on family and family life because we know from research that for children who have a parent who offends there is a higher risk of them actually being involved in the criminal justice system,\" he said.\n\nThe Department of Justice said it was working to enable access to the orders as a sentencing option across Northern Ireland following full evaluation of the initial pilot.", "A further maths A-level paper due to be sat by about 7,000 candidates on Thursday has been replaced following the leak of an earlier exam last week.\n\nTwo questions from the Edexcel maths A-level paper were shared on social ahead of it being sat on Friday.\n\nPearson, the exam board's parent company, says it is replacing the latest paper and an unnamed centre is being investigated for the leak.\n\nIt described the move as \"precautionary steps\" to protect students.\n\nPearson said their investigation had revealed a package containing the further maths paper had been opened by an individual at the centre concerned.\n\nAccording to the company, there is no evidence to suggest the withdrawn test or any of its questions have been leaked but it is taking \"precautionary steps\" to safeguard the exam for the students.\n\nSharon Hague, senior vice-president, schools for Pearson, said: \"We have reached out to all of our centres directly to inform them of this decision.\n\n\"We will continue to support and communicate with them through this unusual yet necessary step that is vital for the safeguarding of confidence in the examination system and to ensure fairness for all learners.\n\n\"Our message to students is not to worry about this and focus on your revision as you normally would.\"\n\nArrangements are being made to deliver the new further maths paper to all centres shortly before Thursday's exam - with the exception of the one being investigated.\n\nFor this centre, separate arrangements are being made to ensure its students can complete their exams.\n\nIn a video message to students, teachers and parents, Ms Hague said it was necessary for everyone involved in the exam system to work together.\n\n\"We are reliant on the collaboration and trust of everyone involved in the exam system - and when someone commits malpractice, they let everyone down,\" she said.\n\nShe said the \"serious security breach\" last Thursday had been referred to the police, who had been asked to investigate it as a criminal matter.\n\nMs Hague added there were various ways to ensure fair outcomes from last week's A-level maths exam, including the option to exclude the two leaked questions from the final calculation.\n\nEarlier this year, Pearson said it would be trialling a scheme where microchips were placed in exam packs to track the date, time and location of the bundles.", "More than a third of Scotland's households are occupied by a single person\n\nMore people than ever are living on their own in Scotland.\n\nThe latest government statistics show the number of households is rising - and increasing numbers of those are occupied by single people.\n\nMore than a third of households in Scotland are filled by single occupants, about 885,000 people.\n\nAn ageing population and an increase in younger people living alone are among the reasons for the change.\n\nThe number of households in Scotland rose to 2.48 million in 2018, according to new figures published by National Records of Scotland (NRS).\n\nThe report \"Estimates of Households and Dwellings in Scotland, 2018\" shows that over the last 10 years the number of households in Scotland has grown by about 139,000 (6%).\n\nHouseholds consisting of only one person have been the most common type in Scotland since 2010 and now make up more than a third of households.\n\nThe main reason for single occupancy is the ageing population.\n\nMany elderly people are left alone when their partner dies and a growing proportion of older people are living in their own homes rather than care homes.\n\nBrian Sloan, chief executive of Age Scotland, said: \"Older people are more likely to live alone, with the number of households consisting of someone aged 70 or older projected to increase by 58% in the next 25 years.\n\n\"While it's good news that we're living longer, we urgently need to prepare for the challenges of our ageing population. It's vital that the Scottish government embeds the housing needs of older people in the planning process, especially those living alone.\n\n\"We need to build more accessible, age-friendly homes, that are the right type and tenure and enable people to live independently as long as possible. Most older people want to stay part of their own communities and prefer not to have to move as their health needs change.\n\n\"We also need more action to tackle the soaring levels of pensioner poverty and loneliness and isolation. Single older people are more likely to experience financial hardship, with six in 10 struggling to pay their fuel bills. They are also more at risk of loneliness, which can have a devastating impact on their physical and mental health.\"\n\nSettling down into marriage or civil partnership at an older age and divorce also contributes to more solo households.\n\nAnd many younger people are choosing to live alone.\n\nThe figures are put together each year to help planners, especially local authorities, to make decisions on housing provision and to organise things like waste collection, community care and risk analysis by Fire and Rescue Services.\n\nThe rise in one-person households is partly down to the ageing population\n\nWith the number of people living alone on the up, housing charity Shelter Scotland said this information should encourage housebuilders to change the kind of properties they offered.\n\nIt said policymakers and housebuilders needed to catch up with this demand for different types of housing which would only get more intense as these demographic changes continued.\n\nGordon MacRae from Shelter said: \"The failure to keep up with this long-term trend for more and smaller households is why Scotland is in the grip of a housing emergency. This emergency has a real human cost with almost 35,000 applications for homelessness in the last full year and 130,000 households on council waiting lists.\n\n\"Fundamentally, we need to see many more homes built with priority given to new homes for rent from councils and housing associations to ensure no-one is left behind. We also need people's housing rights strengthened and enforced so homelessness is prevented wherever possible.\"\n\nThe number of households has increased in every council area over the last 10 years, with the greatest relative increases occurring in Midlothian (16%) and the Orkney Islands (13%).", "James Wray and William McKinney were among 13 people shot dead at a civil rights march\n\nAn ex-British soldier facing prosecution for two murders on Bloody Sunday is expected to appear in court in Londonderry in August.\n\nThe Public Prosecution Service (PPS) said back in March there was enough evidence to charge him with the murders of James Wray and William McKinney.\n\nHe is also charged with the attempted murder of four other people.\n\nA PPS spokesperson said it expects to issue a summons to the ex-paratrooper - known as Soldier F - next month.\n\nSoldier F faces charges for the attempted murders of Joseph Friel, Michael Quinn, Joe Mahon and Patrick O'Donnell.\n\n\"Significant progress has been made on the process of preparing the large volume of court papers required before a summons can issue to Soldier F,\" a PPS spokeswoman said.\n\nThirteen people were killed and 15 wounded on Bloody Sunday\n\n\"While this complex process is at an advanced stage, the Public Prosecution Service has had to request some further material from police before the necessary papers can be finalised.\n\n\"Based on the estimated time required for this material to be provided, the prosecution team expects to be in a position to issue a summons to the defendant next month.\"\n\nIt said the PPS wrote to families in May to inform them of the decision.\n\nA solicitor for some of the Bloody Sunday families said: \"We have requested a timetable in relation to the prosecutions and we had previously made submissions that Soldier F should face criminal proceedings in Derry as it was in this city where the crimes, we say, he committed took place.\"\n\nThirteen people were killed and 15 wounded when members of the Army's Parachute Regiment opened fire on civil rights demonstrators in Derry on Sunday, 30 January 1972.\n\nThe day became known as Bloody Sunday.", "The largest single donation to a UK university has been given to Oxford for a new institute that will study the ethics of artificial intelligence.\n\nStephen Schwarzman, a US private equity billionaire who has advised Republican presidents including Donald Trump, has given the university £150m.\n\nThe donation will fund a new faculty for the humanities.\n\nThe UK government said it was a \"globally significant\" investment in Britain.\n\nAt a time when universities face uncertainty over research funding because of Brexit, this is a major financial coup for the University of Oxford.\n\nMr Schwarzman, the chief executive of the private equity firm Blackstone, is one of America's best known billionaires.\n\nIn the past, his lavish lifestyle as a Wall Street financier has attracted criticism, but more recently he has also become a major donor to education.\n\nMr Schwarzman told the BBC he was giving the money to Oxford because artificial intelligence was the major issue of our age.\n\n\"At the moment, most governments are utterly unprepared to deal with this, and why would they be, it's a different type of technology,\" he said.\n\n\"They're going to have to rely on great universities like Oxford, and others around the world who specialise in helping them think this through.\"\n\nStephen Schwarzman with the University of Oxford's vice-chancellor, Prof Louise Richardson\n\nMr Schwarzman said universities needed to help construct an ethical framework for changes that were happening rapidly.\n\nSome economists have warned the expansion of artificial intelligence could have a significant impact on society - including the loss of jobs due to automation - in what is sometimes called the \"fourth industrial revolution\".\n\nAcademics have also raised concerns about the potential for malicious use in cyber warfare and the subverting of democracy.\n\nThe donation by Mr Schwarzman to Oxford follows a $350m (£279m) gift he made to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to establish a centre for computing and artificial intelligence.\n\nThe study of the ethics of AI at Oxford will be in a new humanities centre, bringing together subjects from languages to philosophy.\n\nMr Schwarzman said it was \"important for people to remember what being human is\".\n\n\"Why are we here? What are your values? How does technology deal and interact with that.\n\n\"We should want it to be positive and productive for society, and technology can't be allowed to just do whatever it wants because it can. \"\n\nThe University of Oxford has long been a subject of patronage by the wealthy and powerful\n\nAccepting large donations is not without risk for institutions if controversy emerges later.\n\nProf Louise Richardson, the vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford, said all philanthropic gifts were reviewed to make sure they fitted with its values.\n\n\"The margin of excellence requires more than we can expect from public funding, so philanthropy is going to become more important for Oxford and other universities,\" she said.\n\nThe new building will also create a concert hall and other public spaces.\n\nUniversities Minister Chris Skidmore said: \"Pushing the boundaries of knowledge and conquering new innovations are what our universities are known for across the world. And attracting this globally significant investment reinforces our reputation as a leader in higher education.\n\n\"More importantly, disciplines within humanities enrich our culture and society and have an immeasurable impact on our health and wellbeing.\n\n\"Not only do I look forward to the benefits this can bring to students but the prospect of transforming the world we live in.\"\n\nThe gift to Oxford comes a few months after hedge-fund billionaire David Harding donated £100m to Cambridge University.", "Kathryn Hopkins told an employment tribunal she was \"bullied\" by the Ministry of Justice after producing her report\n\nThe government has denied covering up research that found a treatment programme for sex offenders in England and Wales increased reoffending.\n\nKathryn Hopkins's study was given to officials in 2012, but the flagship scheme was only scrapped in 2017.\n\nShe has told an employment tribunal that she was \"bullied\" by the Ministry of Justice after producing the report.\n\nBut the MoJ denied trying to cover up the findings, saying it would not \"waste\" money on ineffective treatment.\n\nThe MoJ commissioned Ms Hopkins, a senior researcher in its analytics unit, to study the effects of the Sex Offender Treatment Programme, which had been used since 2000.\n\nThe programme involved group sessions with prisoners and those serving community sentences, as well as cognitive behavioural therapy, to increase the offenders' motivation to steer clear of crime.\n\nThe initial results, in February 2012, suggested prisoners who took part were more likely to reoffend than those who had not.\n\nHowever, the programme was allowed to continue until March 2017 while Ms Hopkins's study was reviewed, checked and reworked before it was published three months later.\n\nThe Central London Employment Tribunal has been considering Ms Hopkins's claims that she was \"sidelined\" after presenting her findings - and unfairly left off the list of research authors - for suggesting that \"vested interests\" did not want the study to be made public.\n\nPaul Skinner, representing the MoJ, said there had been no attempt to prevent or slow down the release of the results.\n\n\"The Ministry of Justice and the secretary of state wouldn't want to be giving people treatment that they thought didn't work,\" he said at the end of the seven-day hearing.\n\nEarlier, the tribunal heard that prison and probation officials at the MoJ had expressed concerns about the methods used in Ms Hopkins's study and wanted the research to stop.\n\nRebecca Endean, the department's then director of analytical services, said she had refused to do that but had agreed to work with officials to address the problems.\n\nMs Hopkins, who is representing herself at the hearing, believed that amounted to an attempt to \"fix\" the results so the treatment scheme would not be seen as a failure.\n\nShe also claimed Ms Endean \"bullied\" her.\n\nMs Endean denied the allegations, saying that, as it was her responsibility to present the findings to ministers, the methods had to be \"robust\", even if that involved \"asking stupid questions and making everyone's lives miserable\".\n\n\"I wanted to be absolutely sure we hadn't made a mistake,\" she said.\n\nHowever, the tribunal was told that it led to a breakdown in relations with Ms Hopkins who complained that in one meeting Ms Endean had shouted at her: \"Wipe the smile off your face.\"\n\nMs Endean denied using the phrase or shouting but accepted that Ms Hopkins had felt \"intimidated\".\n\nAn internal grievance investigation was conducted into the way managers had handled the analyst's claims of \"bullying\" and the stress-related mental health problems that she said it had caused.\n\nThe inquiry found against her but in a witness statement submitted to the tribunal, a former senior MoJ official acknowledged the department's shortcomings.\n\nOsama Rahman, who headed the analytics unit between 2014 and 2018, said it was clear Ms Hopkins's mental health had suffered.\n\n\"Given how [she] had felt, including claiming that she had felt suicidal, I believed that we had failed her,\" Mr Rahman said.\n\nA ruling on the case is expected in the next few weeks.", "The royal couple have sent their best wishes to the woman, called Irene\n\nAn elderly woman is in a serious condition in hospital after a road accident involving the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's police escort.\n\nPrince William and Kate were travelling from London to Windsor when the woman, 83, was hurt on Monday.\n\nThe accident involved a marked police motorbike in the convoy, and the police watchdog is now investigating.\n\nKensington Palace said the royal couple were \"deeply concerned and saddened\" and had been in touch with the woman.\n\nThe woman - who is called Irene, according to the palace - was taken to hospital in a critical condition following the collision on Upper Richmond Road in Richmond, south-west London at about 12:50 BST on 17 June.\n\nShe is now in a serious but stable condition in hospital.\n\nA Kensington Palace spokesperson said: \"Their Royal Highnesses have sent their very best wishes to Irene and her family and will stay in touch throughout every stage of her recovery.\"\n\nThe duke and duchess are understood to have sent flowers to the woman.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said it was investigating the circumstances of the collision after it was referred to them by the Metropolitan Police \"in line with procedure\".\n\nAn IOPC spokesman said: \"Our staff attended the scene of the incident and after careful consideration, we have launched an independent investigation.\n\n\"The investigation is in its very early stages and the officer involved is assisting our inquiries as a witness.\n\n\"Our immediate thoughts are with the injured woman and her family and those affected by the incident.\"\n\nPrince William and Kate were on their way to Windsor for the St George's Chapel service commemorating the Order of the Garter.\n\nIn January, the Duke of Edinburgh, 98, was involved in a car crash while driving near the Queen's Sandringham estate.\n\nPrince Philip flipped his Land Rover Freelander after colliding with a Kia car as he pulled out on to the A149 in Norfolk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. People could be seen fleeing the scene of the shooting\n\nFour people were injured in a daytime shooting in Toronto during a crowded victory rally for the Toronto Raptors basketball team, police say.\n\nThousands of sports fans were packed into the city centre in Nathan Phillips Square when shots rang out, sending many scurrying for cover.\n\nThe event was only briefly interrupted as officials calmed the crowd.\n\nThree people were arrested. Authorities have asked the public to send in footage to help their investigation.\n\nPolice tweeted that none of the victims had life-threatening injuries, though two were seriously wounded.\n\nThey also said they recovered two firearms from the scene.\n\nUp to two million fans were estimated to have gathered in downtown Toronto on Monday for a parade in tribute to the basketball team.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Raptors, who are the only National Basketball Association franchise in Canada, won the championship finals against the Golden State Warriors last Thursday - the first Canadian team to win the title.\n\nAround mid-afternoon, thousands of revellers gathered to watch the event's closing ceremony with players and dignitaries, including Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.\n\nCanadian musician Drake was among those seen celebrating alongside the team's players\n\nMr Trudeau later tweeted that he hoped for a \"speedy recovery\" for those injured.\n\n\"We won't let this act of violence take away from the spirit of today's parade,\" he said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Justin Trudeau This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nToronto Mayor John Tory said he was \"disappointed\" the event was marred by gun violence.\n\nCanadian sports fans were revelling in the win by the Toronto Raptors, the team's first championship victory in its 24-year history.\n\nThe team's players were carried along the parade route in five double-decker buses where their supporters greeted them in Raptors shirts and jerseys. The crowd dispersed without further incident in the late afternoon.\n\nMr Tory had proclaimed this 17 June as \"We the North Day\" - playing on the team's slogan \"We the North\" - to commemorate the historic season.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Who are the Conservative Party members?\n\nConservative MPs may have whittled the contenders in the leadership race down to the final two - but it will not be politicians who will decide who gets to be the next prime minister.\n\nInstead it will be the party's grassroots members who will decide which of Jeremy Hunt and Boris Johnson gets to succeed Theresa May.\n\nThey will do so in a postal ballot, with the winner announced in the week beginning 22 July.\n\nIn other words, it is members of the public - those who pay £25 a year to join the Conservative Party - who get the final say on who leads the country.\n\nThere will not be a general election because the party is already in power.\n\nSo, who are the Conservative Party's members and what do they think on key issues, not least, of course, Brexit?\n\nThe Conservative Party membership is currently thought to be around 160,000 - a rise of more than 30,000 in the past 12 months.\n\nThe last time official figures were released was in March 2018, when they put the figure at 124,000.\n\nThat is way down on the peak of nearly 3 million that the party boasted in the early 1950s.\n\nThe Tories have far fewer members than the Labour Party.\n\nEven if we assume that Labour's membership has fallen from the late 2017 peak of more than 550,000, it still has a huge advantage over the Conservatives when it comes to campaigning on the ground.\n\nRight now, however, none of that matters as much as the fact that those 160,000 or so rank-and-file members of the Conservative Party have a crucial role.\n\nThey are going to be choosing the next prime minister of a country of over 65 million people - something which has never happened before.\n\nFrom studies of the 124,000 members that the party had in 2018, we know quite a lot about who they are and their beliefs.\n\nMost members of most parties in the UK are pretty middle-class.\n\nBut Conservative Party members are the most middle-class of all: some 86% of them fall into the ABC1 category used by market researchers to describe the top social grade.\n\nAround a quarter of them are, or were, self-employed and nearly half of them work, or used to, in the private sector.\n\nNearly four out of 10 put their annual income at over £30,000, and one in 20 put it at over £100,000. As such, Tory members are considerably better-off than most voters and, indeed, the members of other parties.\n\nOn the other hand, the fact that 97% of Conservative Party members are white doesn't do much to distinguish them from their counterparts in other parties.\n\nIt does inevitably mean, however, that ethnic minorities, who make up well over 10% of British people, are heavily under-represented in the Tory rank and file.\n\nSo, too, are women. Other parties - notably Labour and the Greens, but also the SNP - now come close to gender balance, but seven out of 10 Conservative members are male.\n\nTory members are also older than the members of most other parties. True, their average age may \"only\" be 57, but this disguises the fact that four out of 10 are over 65.\n\nThey are concentrated in the southern half of England. Nearly 60% of Tory members live in London, the east, south-east and south-west.\n\nSo much for demography and geography. What about ideology?\n\nWell, not surprisingly, Tory Party members are more right-wing than the population as a whole.\n\nOn a scale where zero represents very left-wing and 10 very right-wing, the average voter places themselves at the centre point. The average Conservative Party member places themselves at 7.6.\n\nThree-quarters of them believe, for instance, that young people today don't have enough respect for traditional values. Nearly six out of 10 support the death penalty.\n\nThey are also conventionally right-wing on some aspects of economic policy.\n\nFor example, only 15% of them believe that government should redistribute income from the better-off to those who are less well-off.\n\nBut on other issues they hold views that may be more unexpected.\n\nA third of Tory rank-and-file members believe that ordinary working people do not get their fair share of the nation's wealth and that there is one law for the rich and one for the poor.\n\nAbout half believe that big business takes advantage of ordinary people.\n\nInterestingly, they have also cooled on austerity. In the summer of 2015, some 55% said government spending cuts hadn't gone far enough, but two years later that had fallen to 28%.\n\nWhat Tory members haven't cooled on, however, is Brexit.\n\nIndeed, since we started tracking them in 2015, they've hardened their position.\n\nIt is clear that they are not supporters of the deal negotiated by Theresa May.\n\nIn fact, it is now the case that fully two-thirds of them back a no-deal Brexit - an outcome supported by only a quarter of voters as a whole.\n\nNor are they in the least bit keen on the idea of letting the public have another say on the UK's EU membership.\n\nSome 84% of them oppose the idea of a new referendum on the issue.\n\nIn short, the grassroots aren't simply sceptical on Europe; they can't wait to leave, whatever that might take.\n\nFurthermore, a breakdown of YouGov polling data suggests that the 30,000 or so members who have joined in the past year are even more likely to be pro-Brexit.\n\nThis, then, is the Conservative Party electorate.\n\nAnd those MPs hoping to succeed Mrs May will need to pitch their promises accordingly.\n\nThis analysis piece was commissioned by the BBC from experts working for an outside organisation.\n\nTim Bale is Professor of Politics at Queen Mary University of London.", "A report by MPs has urged the UK government to end the era of throwaway clothes and poor working conditions in the fashion supply chain.\n\nThe MPs' proposals are designed to force the fashion industry to clean up its act.\n\nThey made 18 recommendations covering environmental and labour practices and want the government to act.\n\nNot only is the fashion industry a source of emissions, but old clothes pile up in landfill.\n\nFibres also flow into the sea when clothes are washed, polluting the marine environment.\n\nA government spokesperson said it was dealing with the impacts of fast fashion - and many measures were already in place.\n\nAmong the proposals from the Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) were:\n\nThe EAC's chair, Labour MP Mary Creagh, said: \"Fashion producers should be forced to clear up the mountains of waste they create.\n\n\"The government is content to tolerate practices that trash the environment and exploit workers despite having just committed to net zero emission targets.\n\n\"It is out of step with the public who are shocked by the fact that we are sending 300,000 tonnes of clothes a year to incineration or landfill.\"\n\nBut ministers cite the Sustainable Clothing Action Plan (SCAP), a voluntary agreement co-ordinated by the waste watchdog WRAP.\n\nThis sets targets for the industry to reduce carbon emissions, water and waste.\n\nThe government also maintains it's better to find outlets for waste textiles rather than simply imposing a landfill ban.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"It simply isn't true to say we are not accepting the committee's recommendations.\n\n\"In our landmark Resources and Waste Strategy we will take forward measures including developing proposals and consulting on extended producer responsibility (EPR) and higher product standards for textiles.\n\n\"This would make producers responsible for the full cost of managing and disposing of their products after they're no longer useful.\"\n\nTolmeia Gregory blogs about ethical fashion under the name TollyDollyPosh.\n\nGo vintage: \"Do things like shopping second-hand and vintage, going to your local charity shop. You can also buy on sites like eBay and Depop.\"\n\nBuy less: \"If you can, just not shopping at all is a really great way to do it. Embracing what you already own and what's already in your wardrobe. There's a great phrase you hear a lot: 'Loved clothes last'\".\n\nLook for eco-friendly materials: \"Look out for more natural fibres - go for cotton over polyester. Not only do they feel a lot nicer when you wear them, but don't contain things like microfibres that go into our water and into marine life when we wash our clothes.\"\n\nLearn to DIY: \"It doesn't take much to learn how to hand-sew and stitch up a hole. Or if you have a pair of ripped jeans that are becoming a bit too ripped, you could always cut them and keep them as shorts.\"\n\nMinisters say they're focusing on a tax on single-use plastic in packaging, rather than a tax on cheap fashion items.\n\nThey point to Sweden's VAT reduction for repair services, which they say has made little impact.\n\nThey say they will consider a levy on clothes alongside their plans for making firms in different sectors more responsible for their waste - but no decisions will be made on this until 2025.", "The Arctic is changing rapidly. It's warming twice as fast as the rest of the planet.\n\nThe seasonal sea-ice is in long-term decline and the ice sheet that sits atop Greenland is losing mass at a rate of about 280 billion tonnes a year.\n\nSo, if you choose to make a map of the region, you start from the recognition that what you're producing can only be a snapshot that will need to be updated in the relatively near future.\n\nLaura Gerrish, a geographical information systems and mapping specialist at the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), knows this. Polar science and polar cartography are all about tracing change.\n\nLaura has just finished making a exquisite new printed sheet map (1:4,000,000) of Greenland.\n\nThe detail is a delight - from the winding path of all the fjords and inlets, to the precise positioning of current ice margins, and the use of all those tongue-twisting Greenlandic names.\n\nThe Arctic is one of the fastest warming places on Earth\n\n\"The map is a little unusual because the area has not been shown on one sheet like this before,\" explains Laura.\n\n\"We have good maps, obviously, of Europe, of Iceland, of Svalbard - but there is nothing that puts them all together on one sheet and shows their relationship like this.\n\n\"The map is aimed at scientists, clearly; BAS is a scientific organisation. But we hope tourists on cruise ships and any visitors to Greenland will find it useful, as well as schools or anyone with an interest in the Arctic.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Laura Gerrish and Henry Burgess: \"It's aimed at scientists, tourists, visitors and schools\"\n\nGreenland And The European Arctic, to give the map its full title, has taken nearly two years to put together.\n\nLaura has had to call on more than a dozen data-sets to get the shape of Greenland exactly right. These have been checked against the latest satellite imagery to ensure physical features are where they're supposed to be.\n\nOne or two features, such as islands in the Qimusseriarsuaq (Melville Bay) region, are new because they've only recently been revealed by contracting ice fronts.\n\nThe map renders Greenland in relation to northern Europe\n\nCare has been taken in particular to plot the present extents of all the glaciers, including the big ice streams that sometimes hit the science headlines, such as Jakobshavn, Petermann, Zachariae Isstrom, and Helheim.\n\nThese glaciers have demonstrated some remarkable retreat behaviour. Although just to prove what a thankless task this business can be, they've also shown recently that they can slow and lengthen as well (the net area of 47 regularly surveyed glaciers essentially stood still last year).\n\nYou might wonder what the British Antarctic Survey is doing making maps of the polar north. Henry Burgess, the head of the NERC Arctic Office which is hosted at the survey's HQ in Cambridge, has a simple answer.\n\n\"BAS is the national capability and logistics provider for the polar regions,\" he told me. \"It provides the ships and the planes and the expertise, and the BAS mapping department therefore has a responsibility in both the north and the south.\"\n\nHenry is especially pleased with the flip side of the sheet map. This has a series of panels that attempt to put the cartography in a wider context.\n\nDifferent organisations from the UK Met Office to WWF have provided small summaries on various issues that range from the effects that a warming arctic are having on frozen ground and on weather at mid latitudes, to the challenges climate change presents to indigenous peoples and endemic wildlife.\n\nHopefully, the new fold-out sheet map of Greenland And The European Arctic should be good for at least a few years, but says Henry: \"We're seeing dramatic changes in Svalbard for example where we have our Arctic station; the glaciers are pulling back by 10s of metres per year. So, yes, mapping is a constant process.\"\n\nJakobshavn Glacier spits out icebergs in Disko Bay on the west coast\n\nThe reverse of the sheet map puts changes in the Arctic in context\n\nThe Greenland and the European Arctic map is available for sale as either a flat wall map or a folded map at several outlets, including the Scott Polar Research Institute and Stanfords map store in London.\n\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "The BBC Reality Check team has been checking claims made by the five remaining candidates to replace Theresa May in their live BBC debate.\n\nHere are the verdicts on one claim from each of them in the event chaired by Emily Maitlis.\n\nAll the candidates were asked about their plan for the Irish border after Brexit (most want to change the Irish backstop plan negotiated by Theresa May to avoid a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic).\n\nBoris Johnson was challenged by Rory Stewart to detail what tariffs (taxes on imports) would be charged on agricultural goods crossing the border.\n\nHe said there would be \"no tariffs or quotas\" because \"what we want to do is get a standstill in our current arrangements under GATT 24\" until a free trade deal had been negotiated.\n\nGATT 24 is an article of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. Supporters of a no-deal Brexit say it would allow the UK to continue to trade with the EU without tariffs for up to 10 years, while the two sides were negotiating a permanent future trade agreement.\n\nBut you can't use it in this way - a trade agreement has to be agreed in principle before Article 24 can be used.\n\nIt also needs the two sides to agree - the UK can't just impose it on the EU. You can read more about it here.\n\nHome Secretary Sajid Javid outlined his plan to keep the Irish border open after Brexit - he said he would use existing technology.\n\nOther borders between EU and non-EU countries do use technology - for example at the Sweden-Norway border cars go through unmanned border posts equipped with cameras that use an automatic number plate recognition system and goods are declared to customs before they leave warehouses.\n\nBut there is still some physical infrastructure. The EU still requires physical checks of goods at the Swedish border, so this system alone wouldn't eliminate the need for checks at the border in Ireland - a key sticking point in negotiations.\n\nYou can read more about the question of technology on the Irish border here.\n\nMichael Gove used a figure on good and outstanding schools that has been criticised by the UK Statistics Authority.\n\nYou can read the letter to the secretary of state for education here.\n\n\"You have nearly 25% of primary school leavers unable to read - I want us to be the Conservative government that abolishes illiteracy,\" he said.\n\nWhile 25% of year 6 pupils in 2018 failed to meet the expected standard for reading, that does not mean they were unable to read.\n\nLast week, the government said it would pass a law committing the UK to cutting net emissions of greenhouse gases to zero by 2050 (that means any remaining emissions will be offset by investing in carbon reduction projects in other countries).\n\nRory Stewart said that it was the most ambitious target so far set by any advanced industrial economy.\n\nThe UK would indeed be the first major industrial economy to legislate in this way, and the first G7 country to set a net-zero emissions target by 2050.\n\nBut, the Green Party has pointed out that Norway has a 2030 target for net-zero emissions, while Finland has committed to be carbon neutral by 2035.", "Heads say inadequate funding for schools is adding to the pressure on teachers\n\nA one-off increase of £3.8bn would be needed to reverse 8% cuts in per pupil school spending, new analysis shows.\n\nThe Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) says a further £1.1bn would be needed each year up until 2023 to maintain spending in real terms, once rising costs were taken into account.\n\nCandidates for the Conservative leadership have been making competing promises on education spending.\n\nThe government says funding for schools has been at its highest level ever.\n\nSchool budgets have moved up the political agenda, partly as a result of campaigning by parents and head teachers across England.\n\nIFS analysis says since 2009, spending has fallen by 8% per pupil once rising costs such as pay and pension contributions are taken into account.\n\n\"It's the largest reduction in education spending for at least 30 or 40 years or longer, so it's not surprising it has generated political pressure,\" says their economist Luke Sibieta.\n\nIn a new analysis published on Tuesday, the IFS says to reverse that real terms fall for 5 to 16-year-olds would take a one-off increase of £3.8bn.\n\nThat includes all spending in schools, including that by local authorities, and is more than any candidate has promised so far.\n\nJules White, the Sussex head teacher who has led the WorthLess campaign said: \"There is immense frustration that this bidding war has begun, when the government has been in absolute denial about the financial constraints.\"\n\nTo keep up with rising pupil numbers, the IFS says £1.1bn a year would be needed to avoid future real terms cuts.\n\nA similar 8% increase for 16 to 19-year-olds would cost around £480m as a one-off uplift.\n\nSixth form and further education colleges have faced the sharpest squeeze in budgets in recent years.\n\nBut with some Conservative leadership contenders also suggesting tax cuts, it's not clear where the money would be found.\n\nMr Sibieta says making education a priority would deepen the squeeze elsewhere, unless the government increased borrowing.\n\n\"The NHS has received a very generous settlement in advance of the spending review, but over four years other government departments are being asked to reduce spending by £2.5bn in total\".\n\nThere is also a subtle rebuke for Boris Johnson from the IFS, after he described variation in funding per pupil in different parts of England as a \"postcode lottery\".\n\nA new funding formula for schools is being gradually introduced, based a combination of measures of need in different local authorities.\n\nThe IFS said: \"With the introduction of this formula, the government - which Mr Johnson was part of - effectively ended a long-standing postcode lottery in school funding in England.\"\n\nHowever, many in the lowest funded areas, which include many conservative heartlands in the counties and shires, remain disappointed that the formula will not lead to substantial increases for all.\n\nThe government has argued that school spending in England is at its highest level ever in cash terms.\n\nA statement from the Department for Education added: \"We know schools face budgeting challenges, which is why we have introduced a wide range of support to help schools reduce costs and get the best value from their resources.\"\n\n\"The Secretary of State has made clear that as we approach the next spending review, he will back head teachers to have the resources they need to deliver a world class education in the years ahead.\"", "The US has deployed the aircraft carrier strike group to the Gulf\n\nThere are two competing narratives.\n\nThe first, which is favoured by US President Donald Trump's administration, is that Iran is up to no good. Preparations are said to have been seen for a potential attack on US targets, though few details have been revealed publicly.\n\nThe US has moved reinforcements to the region; it is reducing its non-essential diplomatic personnel in Iraq; and it is reportedly dusting off war plans.\n\nThe message to Tehran is clear: any attack on a US target from whatever source, be it Iran or one of its many proxies or allies in the region, will be met by a significant military response.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What's behind the rising tensions between the US and Iran?\n\nThe second narrative lays the blame for this crisis squarely at Washington's door.\n\nIran - not surprisingly - holds to this view, but so too do many domestic critics of the Trump administration's approach.\n\nIndeed, to varying degrees many of Mr Trump's key European allies share some of these concerns.\n\nAccording to this narrative, the \"Iran hawks\" in the Trump administration - people like National Security Adviser John Bolton, or Secretary of State Mike Pompeo - sense an opportunity.\n\nTheir goal, this narrative argues, is regime change in Tehran. And if maximum economic pressure does not work then they believe, military action is not ruled out in the appropriate circumstances.\n\nReinstated US sanctions have pushed Iran's economy towards a deep recession\n\nThese two narratives reflect different interpretations of the reality and, as so often, they play up certain facts and ignore others to make their case.\n\nBut perceptions here matter just as much as reality. Indeed, in many ways they produce the reality.\n\nAnd that reality is that a conflict between the US and Iran - albeit by accident rather than design - is more likely today than at any time since Mr Trump took office.\n\nTensions in the Middle East are certainly mounting.\n\nIran, its economy suffering from the re-imposition of US sanctions that were lifted under a 2015 nuclear accord with world powers, is pushing back.\n\nIt has warned that it may no longer abide by the restrictions on its nuclear activities.\n\nIran's President, Hassan Rouhani, has said it does not want to pull out of the nuclear deal\n\nThe arrival of Mr Trump was a turning point.\n\nThe president pulled the US out of the nuclear deal a year ago and embarked upon a policy of maximum pressure against Tehran.\n\nIran has had enough. It is pushing the Europeans to do more to help its ailing economy and threatening if they do not - and it is hard to see what they can do - it will go ahead and breach the nuclear deal.\n\nThat would only give the Trump administration additional ammunition.\n\nJohn Bolton, the US national security adviser, has long pushed for regime change in Iran\n\nMuch now depends upon the dynamics inside the Trump administration and also on Tehran's assessment of what is going on there.\n\nThe president himself has sought to play down the idea that his officials are divided regarding Iran, and reports indicate that he has little enthusiasm for war.\n\nHis opposition to military entanglements abroad is well-known. However Mr Trump is unlikely to back down if US forces or facilities are attacked.\n\nHowever this is not necessarily the way things may be seen in Tehran.\n\nMight Iran think that it can play off Mr Bolton against his boss; raising tensions enough for the national security adviser's perceived designs to be revealed perhaps precipitating his downfall?\n\nIf that is Tehran's assessment, then it is a high-risk strategy.\n\nSpain withdrew a frigate from the US carrier strike group amid differences over Iran\n\nWhile Washington's key Middle Eastern allies - Israel and Saudi Arabia - may be applauding from the sidelines, Mr Trump's European partners are uneasy at the way things are heading.\n\nSpain, Germany and the Netherlands have all taken steps to suspend military activities in the region alongside the Americans, citing the rising tensions.\n\nThis is not the moment to rehearse what a conflict between Iran and the US would look like. But comparisons between such a conflict and the 2003 Iraq war are unhelpful.\n\nIran is a very different proposition to Saddam Hussein's Iraq.\n\nA full-scale invasion of Iran is not going to be on the cards.\n\nRather, this would be an air and maritime conflict with a huge dose of asymmetry in Iran's responses. It could set the whole region ablaze.\n\nThere were those who predicted a major foreign policy catastrophe when Mr Trump took office.\n\nInstead, there is an unfolding and multi-dimensional crisis that has many elements and the Iran situation illustrates them all: an antipathy to international agreements; an over-reliance on regional allies with their own agendas to pursue; rising tensions with long-standing Nato partners; and, above all, an inability to determine and to prioritise Washington's real strategic interests.\n\nWith the revival of great power competition, when the US is seeking to re-orientate its deployments and to bolster its armed forces to face a rising China and an emboldened Russia, where should Iran rate in Washington's strategic priorities?\n\nThe US sees the thousands of Iran-backed Shia Muslim paramilitary fighters in Iraq as a threat\n\nDoes the Iran threat really merit a major conflict? Many US strategic pundits would say no.\n\nMany accept that containing Tehran and, yes, threatening severe reprisals if US interests are attacked, may be necessary. But the steady drumbeat towards war is not.\n\nAnd one thing should be clear. There is no \"drift\" towards war. That suggests an involuntary process that people can do little about.\n\nIf there is a conflict then it will be down to conscious decision-making, to the calculations and miscalculations of the Iranians and the Americans themselves.", "Avril Forsythe signed up to the deal as she thought it sounded like a good idea\n\nA company that Australian media has described as operating an \"alleged scam\" has close links to a business in Northern Ireland, the BBC has learned.\n\nViewble Media Pty Ltd has been accused of leaving Australian businesses almost $31m AUS (£16.9m) in debt.\n\nA BBC investigation has discovered it has close links to a company in County Down.\n\nViewble Media UK Ltd was operating across the UK from Groomsport.\n\nBBC News NI has been contacted by businesses from across Northern Ireland, Yorkshire and London that claim to have lost money through an advertising deal.\n\nAs part of the deal, a shop owner buys a screen from Viewble at a cost of £299 a month for three years, paying a total sum of almost £11,000.\n\nA second associated company, the Shoppers Network UK Ltd, then rents the screen for advertising, paying the shop owner £299 a month for three years.\n\nAs part of the deal, the shop would get its own advert shown on the screen, and get its ad shown in neighbouring businesses.\n\nIt is referred to as a cost neutral deal.\n\nThe shop owners, though, found that the payments from the second company stopped coming.\n\nAnd they did not realise that if anything went wrong, they would be stuck in the contract and would have to make repayments.\n\nThe business owners had signed finance deals, which meant they would owe the £11,000, and the repayments from the advertising were not guaranteed.\n\nAvril Forsythe, who runs the Goldmine Jewellers in Omagh, thought it sounded like a good deal at first.\n\n\"It was like there is no risk in this,\" she said.\n\n\"Now we've found out that when there is a default in the payments, that we are still liable and that we can't get out of the contract.\"\n\nAndrew Bustard, of Castlederg-based Top Gear Motors, had a screen installed in his car show room and is now also out of pocket.\n\n\"I think everyone knows when your heart sinks and you realise that you've signed up to something that is not what it's supposed to be or what you were promised,\" he said.\n\nAdam and Andrew Bustard from Top Gear Motors in Castlederg also had a screen installed\n\nBoth business owners stopped getting repayments in December, but are contractually committed to paying what they owe for the next three years.\n\nBBC News NI found that Viewble Media UK Ltd has close links to the Australian business, which, according to The Sydney Morning Herald, has been involved in this \"alleged scam\".\n\nThe Shoppers Network UK Ltd has some of the same company directors as Viewble and was supposed to make the repayments.\n\nBut it went under, meaning the payments to rent the screens stopped.\n\nAustralia's business ombudsman has launched an investigation after receiving more than 1,000 complaints about Viewble Media Pty Ltd and The Shoppers Network.\n\nIt said it is the biggest investigation it has ever dealt with.\n\nAustralian authorities say both businesses are now in liquidation and this has had a direct impact on the UK business.\n\nViewble Media Pty Ltd has been making headlines across Australia\n\nOnce problems started in Australia, businesses in the UK also stopped getting their payments.\n\nDavid Reid, whom Australian media describes as a director of the business in Australia, is also listed as a director of Viewble Media UK and The Shoppers Network in the UK.\n\nRicci Aiken from Northern Ireland is also listed as one of the directors of the UK business.\n\nThe BBC understands that Viewble Media UK is jointly owned by Mr Aiken, who has 25% of the shares, and an Australian firm, which owns the remaining 75% of shares.\n\nThe BBC has also seen an advert for a job as the general manager of Viewble Media UK.\n\nViewble Media offered businesses the opportunity to place a screen in their shop which would show adverts from other businesses\n\nThe role was based in Bangor, with a salary of £50,000.\n\nThe job advertisement indicated that the staff member would be expected to report directly to Viewble Media's chief executive in Australia.\n\nThe company also employed freelance sales agents across the UK.\n\nAccording to Companies House, both firms are still active in the UK, but clients stopped receiving payments from The Shoppers Network at the end of last year.\n\nMr Aiken told the BBC that the UK company has ceased trading, and that a new firm is taking on the clients. He said any issue with payments should be taken up with it.\n\nThe Small Business Commissioner Paul Uppal has been speaking to authorities in Australia about Viewble Media\n\nMr Aiken did not address concerns that the operation could be a scam or claims that the deals were mis-sold to businesses.\n\nDavid Reid said that a new media partner had been appointed in the UK and it has not had any complaints.\n\nHe also added that the Australian business is in liquidation, and said any questions should be directed to the liquidator.\n\nPaul Uppal, the Small Business Commissioner, said his office has been working with authorities in Australia and has also been dealing directly with businesses.\n\n\"They've told us just how draconian the contracts are and that they've ended up being signed into and how they now feel that they are trapped because of the situation,\" he said.\n\n\"So we're seeing first-hand the real stress that this can cause for a small business. It's just not the financial impact but it's also the mental impact that can cause on a family business.\"\n\nBusiness owners who believe they have been mis-sold finance deals should contact the Financial Ombudsman or the Small Business Commissioner.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Oskar Dunn-Koczorowski, left, and Michal Szewczuk were members of British neo-Nazi group Sonnenkrieg Division which was exposed by the BBC\n\nTwo teenage neo-Nazis, who encouraged an attack on Prince Harry for marrying a woman of mixed race, have been jailed for terrorism offences.\n\nMichal Szewczuk, 19, from Leeds, and Oskar Dunn-Koczorowski, 18, from west London, were part of a group called the Sonnenkrieg Division.\n\nAn Old Bailey judge said their online propaganda was abhorrent and criminal.\n\nDunn-Koczorowski was given an 18-month detention and training order. Szewczuk was jailed for just over four years.\n\nThe defendants, who appeared by video link from HMP Belmarsh, in south-east London, did not react.\n\nThe court heard the teenagers used pseudonyms to run personal accounts on the Gab social media site, as well as sharing control of the Sonnenkrieg Division's own page, on which they posted self-designed propaganda that encouraged terrorist attacks.\n\nAmong other things, the imagery suggested the Duke of Sussex was a \"race traitor\" who should be shot, glorified the Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik, and said white women who date non-white men should be hanged.\n\nThe material was \"uniformly violent and threatening\" and \"the nature of the violence includes rape and execution\", Judge Rebecca Poulet QC said.\n\nSuggested targets included non-white and Jewish people, and the effect was to overtly encourage lone acts of violence against members of the public, the judge added.\n\nShe said the men had promoted both Sonnenkrieg and the American Atomwaffen Division, which were extreme right-wing groups inspired by a book called Siege written by the veteran American neo-Nazi James Mason in the 1980s.\n\nTheir ideology is violently racist and anti-Semitic neo-Nazism and its tactics involve political violence through acting alone or small-cell terrorism, she added.\n\nShe condemned an \"additional feature\" of the ideology by referencing a blog run by Szewczuk that encouraged the rape of female adults and babies.\n\nSonnenkrieg's activities were exposed last year by a BBC investigation.\n\nProsecutor Naomi Parsons, opening the case earlier in the hearing, told the court: \"This isn't a keyboard organisation. It is intent on action.\"\n\nShe read from the group's mission statement, which declared: \"Will you rise up and take the chance or will you sit back and do nothing… Hail victory, and Heil Hitler!\"\n\nIn April, Szewczuk admitted two counts of encouraging terrorism and five of possessing documents useful to a terrorist.\n\nDunn-Koczorowski pleaded guilty while still a youth in December to two counts of encouraging terrorism.\n\nThe court heard Sonnenkrieg was influenced by the US-based group Atomwaffen Division, which is linked to five murders, and Mason, whose writings \"may well represent the most violent, revolutionary and potentially terroristic expression of right-wing extremism current today\".\n\nSonnenkrieg promoted the idea that people should completely \"drop out\" of society and engage in a \"total attack\" on the system, Ms Parsons told the court.\n\nShe said Szewczuk also maintained an \"extremely violent and aggressively misogynistic\" blog that encouraged the rape, torture and murder of women and babies.\n\n\"You must become a machine of terror,\" Szewczuk had advised his readers.\n\nDunn-Koczorowski joined the now banned terrorist group National Action as a schoolboy\n\nIn online comments, Dunn-Koczorowski suggested that decapitating babies would be acceptable to stop them becoming \"leftist politicians\" and proclaimed \"terror is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death\".\n\nThe pair were arrested the morning after the BBC investigation was broadcast in December.\n\nDetectives found Szewczuk - then a computer science student at the University of Portsmouth - in possession of bomb-making instructions, documents describing how to conduct Islamist terror attacks and a \"white resistance\" manual.\n\nA man from Bath arrested on the same day has been released under investigation and a file of evidence sent to the Crown Prosecution Service for a charging decision.\n\nIt is understood that Dunn-Koczorowski joined the now banned terrorist group National Action as a schoolboy and later played a role in two successor organisations before taking up with Sonnenkrieg.\n\nThe court heard he had breached his bail conditions in May by using social media to post about his extremist ideology.\n\nThe judge said he was in no sense showing \"remorse\", which was \"very concerning\".\n\n\"You still hold deeply entrenched views in support of this extreme right wing ideology,\" she told the teenager.\n\nDet Chief Supt Martin Snowden, head of counter terrorism policing in the north-east of England, said Dunn-Koczorowski and Szewczuk clearly saw themselves as superior to the majority of society and they felt it was their duty to express their beliefs, in turn teaching others.\n\nHe told the BBC it \"only takes one individual to be encouraged or be inspired by that propaganda to take that further step\" and this \"represents a significant risk\".\n\nSonnenkrieg Division, which police say has the most radical ideology on the UK extreme right, is the latest neo-Nazi group to emerge following the proscription of National Action under anti-terror laws three years ago.\n\nCreated by a small number of people, Sonnenkrieg used the internet to exaggerate its size and capabilities, with members seeking direct action from those accessing its propaganda.\n\nTerrorism and criminality were encouraged, as was the transgression of what it caricatured as slavish morality, with sexual violence and paedophilia both advocated.\n\nTheir bizarre supernatural belief system imagined Hitler to be an avatar of a god, lionised the Moors Murderer Ian Brady and cult leader Charles Manson, and blended violent Satanism, a berserk misogyny, and admiration for radical Islamism.\n\nThe aim? To undermine and collapse civilization, which the group deemed a necessary forerunner to the creation of a Nazi warrior society.", "The singer and guitarist formed Megadeth in 1983\n\nMegadeth have cancelled most of their upcoming tour as frontman Dave Mustaine undergoes treatment for throat cancer.\n\nMustaine announced his diagnosis on the metal band's website, but said he was optimistic about his treatment plan.\n\n\"It's clearly something to be respected and faced head on - but I've faced obstacles before,\" he said.\n\n\"I'm working closely with my doctors, and we've mapped out a treatment plan which they feel has a 90% success rate. Treatment has already begun.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Dave Mustaine This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAlthough the majority of Megadeth's tour dates have been cancelled, the recently-announced \"Megacruise\" will take place as scheduled in October \"and the band will be a part of it in some form\", Mustaine wrote.\n\nBilled as \"five days and nights of heavy metal decadence and debauchery,\" the cruise is due to feature concerts, masterclasses and meet-and-greets with the band.\n\nMustaine added that the group would continue to work on the follow-up to their Grammy-winning 2016 album Dystopia while he receives treatment.\n\n\"I'm so thankful for my whole team - family, doctors, band members, trainers, and more,\" he said. \"I'll keep everyone posted.\"\n\nFans and fellow artists were quick to send messages wishing Mustaine the best.\n\nAnthrax's Scott Ian said: \"Please join me in sending all of our most powerful positive mind bullets to my brother Dave. You got this my friend, you can beat it - like you beat me in arm-wrestling! Kick its ass and get healthy!\"\n\n\"Prayers and positive vibes out to my friend. Cancer doesn't stand a chance fighting this guy!\" added Mike Portnoy of Dream Theater and Sons of Apollo.\n\n\"Tout le monde is with you, Dave,\" said Lacuna Coil frontwoman Cristina Scabbia. \"We all love you and are with you.\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by cristinascabbia This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMustaine's Megadeth bandmate David Ellefson wrote: \"Praying for my friend Dave Mustaine for a full and speedy recovery!\"\n\nThe star's daughter, Electra, added: \"I would do and give anything for this man. Dad, I love you so so much. You've taught me what love should look like, taught me reliability, perseverance, commitment... and mostly, strength.\n\n\"On days when you can't, I will give you mine.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by ELECTRA This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMustaine formed Megadeth in 1983 after an acrimonious split with Metallica, where he was the original lead guitarist.\n\nThe band were pioneers of what came to be known as \"thrash metal\", playing faster and louder than their contemporaries, with an emphasis on Mustaine's lightning-fast guitar skills.\n\nTheir independently-released debut Killing Is My Business... And Business Is Good! won them a major recording contract with Capitol Records, who released the platinum-selling Peace Sells... But Who's Buying? in 1986.\n\nThe band's early success was marred by Mustaine's drug addiction, culminating in an arrest for driving under the influence in 1990.\n\nAfter entering a rehabilitation programme and getting clean, Mustaine refocused his attention on the band, culminating in the release of 1992's Countdown to Extinction - the band's most commercially-successful album, and a sign that metal still had an audience in the midst of grunge.\n\nThe album's title track also won an award from the Humane Society in 1993 for raising awareness for animal rights issues.\n\nHowever, the band nearly came to an end in 2002, when Mustaine fell asleep with his arm over the back of a chair - causing severe radial nerve damage.\n\nDoctors told him he might regain 80% of his movement back - but he'd never play guitar again. Undeterred, the star went through 18 months of painful therapy and got himself back on stage by 2004.\n\nTheir last album, Dystopia, was released in 2016, and the title track earned the band their first-ever Grammy, for best metal performance.\n\nEarlier this year, Megadeth released the career retrospective Warheads on Foreheads, and were set to celebrate the 35th anniversary of Killing Is My Business... and Business Is Good! before Mustaine's cancer diagnosis.\n\nIn his statement, the frontman vowed he would be \"back on the road asap\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "ITV will no longer commission comedy shows with all-male writers' rooms, the broadcaster's head of comedy has said.\n\nSaskia Schuster said she realised last year that \"an awful lot of my comedy entertainment shows are made up of all-male writing teams\".\n\nShe said: \"Too often the writing room is not sensitively run. It can be aggressive and slightly bullying.\"\n\nShe has now changed ITV's contracts, and female writers have been hired to join shows like ITV2's Celebability.\n\nThere has been \"a significant lack of shows written by women or with women on the writing teams\", she said.\n\nLast year, when reviewing the gender balance of sitcom scripts she was sent, she realised that for every script she received from a female writer, she got five from men.\n\nAfter consulting writers, producers, agents and performers, \"the first thing I did was I changed my terms of commissioning,\" she told Channel 4's Diverse Festival in Bradford on Monday. \"I won't commission anything with an all-male writing team.\"\n\nMs Schuster has launched a scheme called Comedy 50:50 to encourage more female comedy writers. She said female writers struggle because:\n\n\"There can all too often be a sense of tokenism towards the lone female,\" she wrote on the Comedy 50:50 website. \"Or the dominant perception is that the female is there purely so the production can hit quotas.\"\n\nShe has now changed ITV's contracts so any shows that are commissioned or recommissioned \"must aim towards 50:50 gender representation\".\n\nBrona C Titley has been hired to join the Celebability writers' room\n\nComedy 50:50 has set up a database which currently has details of 460 female writers. Many producers had complained that \"there aren't any female writers [or] we don't know where to find them\", she said.\n\nMs Schuster also runs events where she says she \"forces\" her producers to have 10-minute conversations with three female writers. She has set up confidence workshops and is launching a mentoring network next month.\n\nShe has assigned young female writers to shadow shows like Roman sitcom Plebs, which is written by two men, and also hopes to extend the equality target to cover directors and crew members.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by The World at One This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by The World at One\n\nWriter Brona C Titley has been brought onto the team for ITV's panel show Celebability, which didn't have any female writers for its first two series. She told the Diverse Festival that she had been in 15 writers' rooms in recent years, and had been the only woman in eight of them.\n\n\"If you have the same type of writers in terms of race or sexual orientation or gender, then you're only getting one kind of joke, and if you've got different voices in the room, you're getting different kinds of jokes,\" she said.\n\n\"You want to represent the wide audience that's watching. You want diversity in voice, or else it won't be as funny because it won't be appealing to as many people.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The crew of the USS Chancellorsville had a close-up view of the Admiral Vinogradov (video from 2019)\n\nA Russian warship and a US warship have come close to collision in the western Pacific Ocean, with each side blaming the other for the incident.\n\nRussia's Pacific Fleet said the cruiser USS Chancellorsville crossed just 50m (160ft) in front of the destroyer Admiral Vinogradov at 06:35 Moscow time (03:35 GMT).\n\nIt was forced to perform \"emergency manoeuvring\" to avoid the US ship.\n\nBut US forces blamed the Russians, claiming their ship was responsible.\n\nUS Seventh Fleet Commander Clayton Doss called the Russians \"unsafe and unprofessional\", saying their destroyer \"made an unsafe manoeuvre against USS Chancellorsville\". He dismissed the Russian allegation as \"propaganda\".\n\nAnother US Navy image showed the Russian destroyer Admiral Vinogradov (l) close to the USS Chancellorsville\n\nAdmiral Vinogradov came within 50 to 100 feet (15m-30m) of the USS Chancellorsville in the Philippine Sea, the US said.\n\nThe Russian Pacific Fleet meanwhile said the incident took place in the southeast of the East China Sea, and added they had sent a message of protest to the US ship's commanders.\n\nIn a statement it said the US warship had \"suddenly changed direction and crossed the path of Admiral Vinogradov just 50m away,\" forcing the Russian crew to make a quick manoeuvre.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The US Navy posted this video of its plane being intercepted by a Russian jet\n\nThe US said later that it would lodge a formal diplomatic complaint, or demarche, with Russia over its warship's movements.\n\n\"We'll have military-to-military conversations with the Russians, and of course we'll demarche them,\" acting Defence Secretary Patrick Shanahan told reporters.\n\nBoth countries regularly accuse the other of dangerous military manoeuvres - at sea and in the air.\n\nIn November, the US posted footage of a Russian jet intercepting one of its planes over the Black Sea - a move they called \"irresponsible\", but which the Russians said was to stop \"a violation of Russian airspace\".\n\nTwo warships; two narratives - but one very real chance of accident or potential injury. There is simply no reason for vessels of this size to be in such close proximity.\n\nOne of them - or maybe even both - was at fault. Both sides blame the other. But this kind of incident is becoming ever more frequent and it does generally seem to be the result of a concerted policy by Russia to challenge US and its allies naval operations whenever possible.\n\nOften these incidents occur in the Black Sea which Moscow sometimes regards as its own lake; a view with which other states on its shores - some of them Nato members, or aspiring Nato members - disagree.\n\nSuch incidents between the US and Russia are less frequent in Asian-Pacific waters, where the tensions tend to be between US and Chinese ships or aircraft. But wherever it occurs naval brinkmanship of this kind is dangerous and unnecessary.", "Killing Eve season two picks up where season one ended, which is to say… badly. After seven faultless episodes, the grand finale of the best TV series of 2018 was almost as underwhelming as Eve Polastri's marriage.\n\nAll the delicious ingredients of the previous shows were still there (excellent acting, writing, soundtrack, and directing), but someone tweaked the recipe and served up a bit of dog's dinner with a distinctly hammy whiff.\n\nThe smell lingers well into the opening episode of the new series, which is a little too knowing and, on occasion, close to becoming a pastiche of itself.\n\nVillanelle (Jodie Comer) is too predictable, Eve (Sandra Oh) is too wrung out, and Niko her husband, too needy. Thankfully, Fiona Shaw shows the way with understated class and intelligence, as Eve's boss Carolyn.\n\nFiona Shaw as the ruthless spy chief, Carolyn Martens, who has a tricky relationship with Eve\n\nThe action begins 30 seconds after the last season finished.\n\nM16 agent Eve is standing on the staircase of assassin Villanelle's Parisian apartment. She is holding the bloody knife with which she stabbed the ruthless Russian psycho-killer, who has played her party trick and disappeared into thin air.\n\nSandra Oh says agent Eve Polastri goes to \"a psychologically dark place\" in the second series\n\nFilming the scene where assassin Villanelle (Jodie Comer) tries to hail a taxi, moments after being stabbed\n\nThere's a lot of hyperventilating and many a furrowed brow. That's on screen, and maybe off it as well in the writers' room.\n\nThe daunting task facing Emerald Fennell and her scriptwriting collaborators was how to pick up where Phoebe Waller-Bridge left off and somehow re-juice a dried up drama.\n\nThe mutual obsession between Eve and Villanelle, which is the key dramatic device driving the story, had climaxed at the end of season one in a disappointingly limp stand-off followed by a dull heart-to-heart and a half-baked fight.\n\nIt put the show into intensive care, which is where Villanelle soon fetches up while Eve heads back to London to try to fix her marriage and find a new job.\n\nVillanelle, still in her pyjamas, leaves hospital sooner than she should after being treated for her injuries\n\nThe quality of the acting, our investment in the characters, and some quickly laid new plotlines are enough to entice you to watch the second 40-minute episode.\n\nAt which point Killing Eve returns gloriously to form, with a funny, clever script that starts to rebuild the sexual tension between agent and assassin. The two remain infatuated with each other but now there is some added spice.\n\nVillanelle has competition for Eve's attentions and it ain't coming from Niko. That's the hook, not the mysterious baddies The Twelve, who any one of the protagonists could belong to for all we know - or care. Needless to say, Villanelle still murders people with the regularity and sensitivity of an automated phone call asking if you've been in a car crash, but the killings are a side show.\n\nSean Delaney plays Kenny Stowton, who is a loyal part of Eve's team, and Carolyn's son\n\nThe real drama is in the relationships between the players: Carolyn and her son Kenny (Sean Delaney). Eve and Niko. Villanelle and her handlers. And, of course, between Eve and Villanelle.\n\nWill they get it together? Will one kill the other? Can a cold-blooded murderer become a vulnerable, compassionate human being?\n\nIn other words, the same issues that kept us on tenterhooks in season one.\n\nWill season two be better and succeed in delivering its punchline? You can find out later on Saturday when the entire series drops on the BBC iPlayer.\n\nI've seen the first four and my hopes are high. Killing Eve is top quality television. And not just from a British standpoint, it ranks with the very best shows coming out of Hollywood. It's no surprise the head of Netflix has cited it as the one title he truly covets.\n\nThat it is superbly made is a given in these golden days of box office box sets.\n\nBut that's not what makes it stand out; it is not the reason that Killing Eve will sit alongside Friends and Breaking Bad as an all-time TV classic. It is the balance it strikes between bone-dry humour reminiscent of the best of early James Bond, and an exploration of identity, sexuality, and isolation in the second decade of the 21st Century.\n\nFiona Shaw, Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Jodie Comer all won Baftas for Killing Eve\n\nFor this, much of the credit must go to Luke Jennings, the Observer's dance critic. For Villanelle is his creation. He originally self-published the story as a series of online novellas before it was picked up by a canny TV producer. Once it had been commissioned for telly Jennings had his work cut out to do his day job while collaborating with Waller-Bridge on the television scripts, \"I felt like Stalin, planning murder all day and watching Swan Lake in the evening,\" he wrote in the Observer last year.\n\nHis background in ballet provides an interesting insight into his creation.\n\nThe juxtaposition between beauty and the beast is what makes Killing Eve so compelling. As does the not-always merry dance he takes us on. You could argue that Jennings has written the most brilliant, exquisitely choreographed, blood-soaked pas de deux.", "Killing Eve season two picks up where season one ended, which is to say… badly. After seven faultless episodes, the grand finale of the best TV series of 2018 was almost as underwhelming as Eve Polastri's marriage.\n\nAll the delicious ingredients of the previous shows were still there (excellent acting, writing, soundtrack, and directing), but someone tweaked the recipe and served up a bit of dog's dinner with a distinctly hammy whiff.\n\nThe smell lingers well into the opening episode of the new series, which is a little too knowing and, on occasion, close to becoming a pastiche of itself.\n\nVillanelle (Jodie Comer) is too predictable, Eve (Sandra Oh) is too wrung out, and Niko her husband, too needy. Thankfully, Fiona Shaw shows the way with understated class and intelligence, as Eve's boss Carolyn.\n\nFiona Shaw as the ruthless spy chief, Carolyn Martens, who has a tricky relationship with Eve\n\nThe action begins 30 seconds after the last season finished.\n\nM16 agent Eve is standing on the staircase of assassin Villanelle's Parisian apartment. She is holding the bloody knife with which she stabbed the ruthless Russian psycho-killer, who has played her party trick and disappeared into thin air.\n\nSandra Oh says agent Eve Polastri goes to \"a psychologically dark place\" in the second series\n\nFilming the scene where assassin Villanelle (Jodie Comer) tries to hail a taxi, moments after being stabbed\n\nThere's a lot of hyperventilating and many a furrowed brow. That's on screen, and maybe off it as well in the writers' room.\n\nThe daunting task facing Emerald Fennell and her scriptwriting collaborators was how to pick up where Phoebe Waller-Bridge left off and somehow re-juice a dried up drama.\n\nThe mutual obsession between Eve and Villanelle, which is the key dramatic device driving the story, had climaxed at the end of season one in a disappointingly limp stand-off followed by a dull heart-to-heart and a half-baked fight.\n\nIt put the show into intensive care, which is where Villanelle soon fetches up while Eve heads back to London to try to fix her marriage and find a new job.\n\nVillanelle, still in her pyjamas, leaves hospital sooner than she should after being treated for her injuries\n\nThe quality of the acting, our investment in the characters, and some quickly laid new plotlines are enough to entice you to watch the second 40-minute episode.\n\nAt which point Killing Eve returns gloriously to form, with a funny, clever script that starts to rebuild the sexual tension between agent and assassin. The two remain infatuated with each other but now there is some added spice.\n\nVillanelle has competition for Eve's attentions and it ain't coming from Niko. That's the hook, not the mysterious baddies The Twelve, who any one of the protagonists could belong to for all we know - or care. Needless to say, Villanelle still murders people with the regularity and sensitivity of an automated phone call asking if you've been in a car crash, but the killings are a side show.\n\nSean Delaney plays Kenny Stowton, who is a loyal part of Eve's team, and Carolyn's son\n\nThe real drama is in the relationships between the players: Carolyn and her son Kenny (Sean Delaney). Eve and Niko. Villanelle and her handlers. And, of course, between Eve and Villanelle.\n\nWill they get it together? Will one kill the other? Can a cold-blooded murderer become a vulnerable, compassionate human being?\n\nIn other words, the same issues that kept us on tenterhooks in season one.\n\nWill season two be better and succeed in delivering its punchline? You can find out later on Saturday when the entire series drops on the BBC iPlayer.\n\nI've seen the first four and my hopes are high. Killing Eve is top quality television. And not just from a British standpoint, it ranks with the very best shows coming out of Hollywood. It's no surprise the head of Netflix has cited it as the one title he truly covets.\n\nThat it is superbly made is a given in these golden days of box office box sets.\n\nBut that's not what makes it stand out; it is not the reason that Killing Eve will sit alongside Friends and Breaking Bad as an all-time TV classic. It is the balance it strikes between bone-dry humour reminiscent of the best of early James Bond, and an exploration of identity, sexuality, and isolation in the second decade of the 21st Century.\n\nFiona Shaw, Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Jodie Comer all won Baftas for Killing Eve\n\nFor this, much of the credit must go to Luke Jennings, the Observer's dance critic. For Villanelle is his creation. He originally self-published the story as a series of online novellas before it was picked up by a canny TV producer. Once it had been commissioned for telly Jennings had his work cut out to do his day job while collaborating with Waller-Bridge on the television scripts, \"I felt like Stalin, planning murder all day and watching Swan Lake in the evening,\" he wrote in the Observer last year.\n\nHis background in ballet provides an interesting insight into his creation.\n\nThe juxtaposition between beauty and the beast is what makes Killing Eve so compelling. As does the not-always merry dance he takes us on. You could argue that Jennings has written the most brilliant, exquisitely choreographed, blood-soaked pas de deux.", "The government said it was concerned by the potential health impacts of noise pollution\n\nMotorists with vehicles breaching legal noise limits could face fines if new \"acoustic camera\" technology is developed, the government has said.\n\nThe Department for Transport will test noise-detecting cameras in various locations over the next seven months.\n\nThe move comes after pressure from campaigners in rural communities who say some motorists illegally modify vehicles to amplify the sound.\n\nA motorcyclist group said bikers must \"embrace\" the change.\n\nMuch like the way a speed camera works, if a microphone in an acoustic camera detects a vehicle breaching legal noise limits, it triggers a camera to take pictures of the vehicle registration number and any other relevant images to allow a fine to be sent out to the vehicle owner, the government said.\n\nThe noise level deemed to be inappropriate is yet to be decided.\n\nDr Jonathan Moore said he was not entirely convinced the devices could be effective in rural communities\n\nAll vehicles must comply with noise regulations to legally use the roads. But Transport Secretary Chris Grayling said the cameras could help to combat the fact that police resources are too stretched for officers to easily enforce noise regulations on \"boy racers in souped-up vehicles\".\n\n\"This technology could provide an alternative to make sure those communities are protected against excessive noise, that the people who are acting illegally are prosecuted... it's a simpler, easier way of doing it,\" he said.\n\nDr Jonathan Moore, who chairs a campaign group lobbying to reduce noise along the A32 in the South Downs National Park, said people are \"thoroughly fed up\" with motorcyclists who drive through villages \"hundreds of times a year\" at anti-social hours.\n\nWhile he welcomed the trial, he said he does not believe technology is advanced enough for acoustic cameras to prevent noise problems in rural areas.\n\n\"Where there are wide open spaces, I am not entirely sure that this will be effective,\" he said.\n\nMeanwhile, the Motorcycle Industry Association said cameras could reduce nuisance noise if they were used in the right way.\n\nChief executive Tony Campbell said: \"Motorcycle manufacturers accept that they have a role to play and I think you'll see it more difficult to start tampering with vehicles in the future.\"\n\n\"As an industry we're playing our part,\" he added.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. President Erdogan congratulated the couple after the ceremony\n\nTurkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was the best man at German footballer Mesut Ozil's wedding on Friday.\n\nOzil, who has Turkish roots, sparked a furore when he posed in photos with Mr Erdogan before the World Cup last year.\n\nHe then quit international football, citing the \"racism and disrespect\" he'd experienced over the photos in Germany.\n\nThe 30-year-old Arsenal midfielder married his fiancee, former Miss Turkey Amine Gulse, at a luxury hotel on the banks of the Bosphorus.\n\nThe couple first started dating in 2017, and announced their engagement in June 2018.\n\nOzil had announced in March this year that he'd asked Mr Erdogan to be his best man - which, again, sparked criticism in his home country.\n\nHelge Braun, German Chancellor Angela Merkel's chief of staff, told Bild newspaper at the time that it \"makes one sad\" that Ozil would make such a choice, given the reaction to his meeting with the Turkish president last year.\n\nPresident Erdogan and his wife Emine (right) posed for photos with the newlyweds\n\nMr Erdogan meanwhile reportedly often attends celebrity marriages in Turkey, especially during election campaigns.\n\nHis attendance at Ozil's wedding comes ahead of a re-run of mayoral elections in Istanbul. The previous result - which saw his AKP candidate narrowly defeated - was annulled, prompting international criticism.\n\nThe third-generation Turkish-German was born in Gelsenkirchen and was a key member of his country's 2014 World Cup-winning side.\n\nHe has 92 caps and fans have voted him the national team's player of the year five times since 2011.\n\nBut in May last year Ozil sparked a nationwide controversy when he posed alongside the Turkish leader ahead of the 2018 World Cup in Russia, prompting some in Germany to ask questions about where his loyalty lay.\n\nThe criticism worsened after the German team - the defending champions - crashed out in the first round.\n\nThe couple got married on the banks of the Bosphorus\n\nAfter the humiliating defeat, Ozil posted a lengthy statement announcing his resignation from the national team.\n\nHe said he had received hate mail and threats and was being blamed for Germany's disappointing World Cup in Russia this summer.\n\n\"I am German when we win, but I am an immigrant when we lose,\" Ozil said, adding that despite his successful history with the team, the way he was treated made him \"no longer want to wear the German national team shirt\".", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Live text and radio commentary on selected matches on the BBC Sport website and app.\n\nAustralian Ashleigh Barty has beaten Czech teenager Marketa Vondrousova in the French Open final to win her first Grand Slam singles title and complete a fairytale return to the sport.\n\nThe eighth seed won 6-1 6-3 against 19-year-old Vondrousova on the Paris clay.\n\nBarty, 23, quit tennis to play professional cricket in 2014, but returned to the sport 17 months later.\n\nNow she is the first Australian to win a singles titles at Roland Garros since Margaret Court in 1973.\n\nAfter thumping away an overhead on her first match point, Barty turned to her team and raised her hands in the air, placing them on her head in disbelief before dropping to her haunches on the red dirt.\n\n\"It is unbelievable, I'm a little speechless, I played almost the perfect match,\" Barty said.\n\n\"It has been a crazy two weeks.\n\n\"It is a special place here for Australian players and I'm incredibly proud of what I've been able to achieve.\"\n\nBarty will climb to second in the world when the latest standings are released next week, making her the highest-ranked Australian woman since Evonne Goolagong Cawley in December 1976.\n\nDespite defeat, 38th-ranked Vondrousova will rise into the top 20 for the first time following a clay-court swing where no other female player has won more matches.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n\nFrom 623rd in world to Grand Slam champion three years later\n\nBarty's first Grand Slam singles title comes almost three years to the day since she reappeared in the WTA rankings - at 623rd - after taking more than a year out to switch sports.\n\nThe Queenslander retired in 2014 and played for the Brisbane Heat in the women's Big Bash after saying tennis was a \"lonely sport\".\n\nShe decided to return in early 2016 and has since won four tour titles - including the Miami Open in March - as well as the US Open women's doubles title last year.\n\nThose achievements were important steps on a sharp climb leading to this stunning success in Paris.\n\nBarty had the greater experience of the two finalists and it showed in a confident performance which did not allow Vondrousova to play with the variety she had previously shown.\n\nVondrousova, like she did against British number one Johanna Konta in the semi-finals, started nervously - but this time there was no chance of a recovery.\n\nBarty's aggressive approach paid off as she took three of nine break points to clinch the opening set in just 29 minutes, the first which Vondrousova had dropped in the tournament.\n\nBarty broke again in the first game of the second set, then staved off a break point to hold a lengthy service game and maintain her advantage.\n\nShe continued to read her teenage opponent's game throughout the second set, her neat footwork - on what used to be considered her weakest surface - enabling her to answer any question offered by Vondrousova.\n\nThat was illustrated in what proved to be the final game, Barty's relentless returning allowing her to hit four winners as she turned a 15-40 deficit into a match-winning break.\n\nAnother new name on a women's Grand Slam trophy\n\nWhile a French Open final contested by Barty and Vondrousova might have seemed unlikely at the outset of the tournament, it was further proof there is no shortage of talented young women ready to win the biggest titles.\n\nBarty is the ninth different female champion in the last 10 Grand Slams.\n\nWith a combined age of 42, they were the youngest pair of female Grand Slam finalists since the 2008 French Open when 20-year-old Ana Ivanovic beat 22-year-old Dinara Safina.\n\nAnd whoever triumphed in Paris meant five of the WTA Tour's seven biggest tournaments so far in 2019 have been won by players aged 23 or under.\n\nGoing into the final, the average age of all tournament champions this year was 23.6 years - the youngest since the 2008 season.\n\nThe triumph for Barty, who turned 23 in April, means that figure will stay about the same.", "Geraldine Winner, a former dancer, married Michael in 2011 but was widowed in January 2013\n\nA woman who claims to have had a relationship with film director Michael Winner has appeared in court accused of robbing his widow of jewellery, art and cash worth £150,000.\n\nGeraldine Winner suffered serious head injuries and a broken finger when she was beaten with a metal pole, hit with a kettle and tied up in her flat.\n\nShe will next appear at Southwark Crown Court on 5 July.\n\nPersonal trainer Ms Geuorgoieva, of Russell Road, Holland Park, claims to have been in a relationship with Mr Winner between 1999 and 2002.\n\nThe court heard she is alleged to have worn a disguise including a wig to carry out the attack in Knightsbridge, central London, in October 2015.\n\nPolice offered a £10,000 reward for information at the time, saying items stolen included a heart-shaped diamond pendant, cash and a painting of St Mark's Basilica in Venice by the artist Franz Richard Unterberger.\n\nWestminster Magistrates' Court heard on Saturday that all but one of the items stolen have now been recovered.\n\nMs Geuorgoieva was not asked to enter a plea.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The re-organisation comes after a tumultuous debut listing for Uber on on New York's Stock Exchange\n\nUber's chief operating officer and chief marketing officer have stepped down following a leadership reshuffle at the ride-hailing app.\n\nIn an internal memo, chief executive Dara Khosrowshahi explained the moves were intended to give him more control over day-to-day operations.\n\nThe decision comes nearly a month after a shaky start to Uber's listing on the New York Stock Exchange.\n\nShares slid 7.6% on their first day of trading, but have since recovered.\n\nUber then posted a $1bn (£790m) loss last month, despite strong revenue growth.\n\nThe losses were, however, in line with several forecasts and may provide reassurance about the company's future profitability.\n\nDara Khosrowshahi took over as chief executive of Uber in August 2017 after leading internet travel company Expedia\n\nAs part of the reorganisation, which was detailed in the memo seen by several news outlets, Mr Khosrowshahi said he had eliminated the position of COO, which Barney Harford had held since January 2018.\n\nMr Khosrowshahi said the role \"no longer makes sense\", and Uber's Rides and Eats teams would now directly report to him in order to help \"problem-solve in real time\".\n\nRebecca Messina - who joined as head of marketing nine months ago - has also stepped aside, with marketing operations set to be combined with Uber's policy and communications and policy team, led by Jill Hazelbaker.\n\n\"This is Dara... taking over the wheels at a time the company really needs to execute in the eyes of the public investors,\" Dan Ives, managing director of equity research at Wedbush Securities, told AP news agency.\n\n\"It's a double-edged sword for him, because it's going to put that much more pressure on the success of Uber riding on his shoulders.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Speaking to reporters during a press conference, Sally Challen said: \"I still love Richard and miss him dreadfully\"\n\nAn abused woman who killed her husband with a hammer will not face a retrial after prosecutors accepted her manslaughter plea.\n\nSally Challen, 65, was found guilty of murdering 61-year-old Richard in Surrey and jailed for life in 2011.\n\nHer conviction was quashed in February and she had been due to face a second murder trial next month.\n\nInstead, she has been sentenced to nine years and four months for manslaughter - but walked free due to time served.\n\nSpeaking after the sentencing hearing, Mrs Challen thanked her family, who she said had \"served my sentence with me\", adding: \"Their support and visits have kept me going in what has been a long and terrible nine years.\"\n\nShe said: \"I still love Richard and miss him dreadfully and I wish that none of this had happened.\"\n\nMrs Challen walked free from court, with her sons James and David\n\nThe lesser charge was accepted by prosecutors on the grounds of diminished responsibility after a psychiatric report concluded Mrs Challen was suffering from an \"adjustment disorder\".\n\nMr Justice Edis said the killing came after \"years of controlling, isolating and humiliating conduct\" with the added provocation of her husband's \"serial multiple infidelity\".\n\n\"You felt trapped and manipulated because you were trapped and manipulated,\" he told Mrs Challen.\n\nShe thanked her family who supported her through a \"terrible nine years\"\n\nHer son David said the family were \"overjoyed\", adding it had \"brought an end to the suffering we have endured together for the past nine years\".\n\nMrs Challen, from Claygate, who never denied killing her husband, said she had suffered decades of emotional abuse from her former car dealer husband.\n\nHer conviction for his murder was overturned by the Court of Appeal following a campaign led by her sons, who walked into court with her this morning.\n\nSally and Richard Challen had two sons and had been married for 31 years\n\nSon James, in a statement read to court, said the brothers had \"lost a father\" and did not \"seek to justify our mother's actions,\" but added she \"does not deserve to be punished further\".\n\nDuring February's two-day appeal hearing, the court heard evidence relating to Mrs Challen's state of mind at the time of the killing and the issue of \"coercive control\".\n\nCoercive control describes a pattern of behaviour by an abuser to harm, punish or frighten their victim and became a criminal offence in England and Wales in December 2015.\n\nFollowing the appeal, a consultant psychiatrist assessed Mrs Challen and concluded that, at the time of the killing, she was suffering from \"an abnormality of the mind that substantially impaired her mental responsibility for her acts,\" the Crown Prosecution Service said.\n\nCoupled with medical reports from a prison psychiatrist, this was a \"significant change from expert evidence previously available and has led us to conclude there is no longer sufficient evidence to proceed on a charge of murder,\" the CPS said.\n\nSally Challen had been released on bail in April into the care of her sons James, left, and David\n\nThe couple, who separated in 2009, were attempting to reconcile in August 2010 when Mrs Challen attacked her husband as he ate lunch at the kitchen table in their former marital home in Claygate, her original trial heard.\n\nAfter attacking him, she drove 70 miles to Beachy Head in East Sussex, where she admitted to chaplains trying to coax her away from the cliff edge that she had killed her husband of 31 years.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Noor said he \"knew in an instant\" that he had made a mistake\n\nA former policeman in the US state of Minnesota has been sentenced to 12 years and six months in prison for fatally shooting an unarmed woman who was trying to report a possible crime.\n\nMohamed Noor shot Justine Ruszczyk Damond as she approached his patrol car to report a possible rape behind her Minneapolis home in July 2017.\n\nHe said the shooting was a mistake.\n\nIn court, Ms Damond's father, John Ruszczyk, called the killing \"an obscene act by an agent of the state\".\n\n\"Justine's death has left me incomplete - it is as if I have lost a limb or a leg,\" he said in an impact statement.\n\nMs Damond was due to marry a month after the shooting\n\nMs Damond's fiancee, Don Damond, read an emotional statement addressed directly to her.\n\n\"Dear Justine, I miss you so much every day, every moment,\" he said. \"I don't understand how such a thing could happen to you and to us.\"\n\nNoor is the first Minnesota police officer to be found guilty of murder for an on-duty shooting. At his sentencing on Friday, the 33-year-old apologised for taking Ms Damond's life.\n\n\"I caused this tragedy and it is my burden,\" he told the court. \"I wish though that I could relieve that burden others feel from the loss that I caused. I cannot, and that is a troubling reality for me.\"\n\nSome in the Somali-American community - Noor is Somali - have argued that the case was treated differently than police shootings involving white officers and black victims.\n\nActivists outside the courthouse Friday carried signs reading \"No double standard\" and \"NOOR: Victim of Identity Politics.\"\n\nSome Somali-Americans protested at the court\n\nNoor said he opened fire on the 40-year-old yoga instructor because he feared that he and his partner were being ambushed.\n\nHe said he made the \"split-second decision\" after hearing a loud bang and seeing Ms Damond with her right arm raised.\n\nThe police officers had been called to the area to respond to a 911 call made by Ms Damond about the suspected sexual assault.\n\nNoor was convicted in April of second-degree manslaughter and third-degree murder, but acquitted of the most serious charge of second-degree murder with intent to kill.\n\nMs Damond, a US-Australian dual citizen originally from Sydney, was engaged and due to marry a month after the shooting.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Justine Damond's family hold a silent vigil at a beach in Sydney in 2017\n\nShe had adopted the surname of her fiancé, Don Damond, ahead of their wedding.\n\nHer death drew international criticism, with Australia's then-Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull describing it as \"inexplicable\".\n\nHer family was promised $20m (£15.5m) in compensation by the US city of Minneapolis last month. They said they would donate $2m towards fighting gun crime.", "Roger Godsiff previously admitted he had not read the books he said were not \"age-appropriate\"\n\nThe MP for a primary school facing protests over LGBT teaching has been reported to the chief whip after telling campaigners \"you're right\".\n\nIn a video circulated on social media, Birmingham Hall Green MP Roger Godsiff told the Anderton Park Primary School protesters they had a \"just cause\".\n\nShadow education secretary Angela Rayner said she had reported the comments to the chief whip.\n\nMr Godsiff previously said the equality lessons were not \"age appropriate\".\n\nA High Court injunction is in place banning protests, which have been going on for months, outside the school.\n\nParents started to gather at the gates over concerns children were \"too young\" to learn about LGBT relationships. They also said the lessons contradicted Islam.\n\nIn the video, Mr Godsiff, who is seen with Shakeel Afsar, the lead organiser of the protests, said: \"If I had the opportunity of rolling the clock back I would do exactly the same thing again.\n\n\"Because I think you have a just cause and I regret the fact that it hasn't been reciprocated by the head teacher.\"\n\nHundreds of protesters gathered at Anderton Park Primary School last month\n\nHe asked demonstrators to \"consider calling the protest off\" as he said they had made their point, but added it would be their choice to do so.\n\nHe then said: \"I will continue to try and fight your corner because you're right.\n\n\"Nothing more, nothing less. You're right.\"\n\nMs Rayner said she has reported the comments to chief whip Nick Brown.\n\n\"This might be the personal views of Mr Roger Godsiff but they do not represent the Labour Party and are discriminatory and irresponsible,\" she added.\n\nShadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth also said he disagreed with Mr Godsiff's comments.\n\n\"I'm not sure if he should lose the whip but I think he has to understand that it's Labour party policy to support this education in schools,\" he told Sky News' Sophy Ridge on Sunday.\n\nEarlier, Wes Streeting, Labour MP for Ilford North, said he would be tabling a formal complaint to the party about Mr Godsiff.\n\nIn a series of tweets, he said: \"This made me feel sick to my stomach.\n\n\"One of my own Labour colleagues stood with people who have peddled hatred and bigotry on school gates, intimidating pupils, teachers and parents.\"\n\nAt its annual general meeting, the LGBT Labour group voted to condemn \"unreservedly and unequivocally\" the remarks and called for the Labour whip to be removed.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe city council's deputy leader Brigid Jones also tweeted: \"How dare you tell men whose homophobic protests were so threatening and disruptive that they had a court injunction issued against them that they are 'right'.\n\n\"You do not speak for me.\"\n\nA petition calling on the constituency Labour Party to deselect Mr Godsiff following his latest comments has 1,000 signatures.\n\nIn an interview with the Times on Thursday, schools minister Nick Gibb said the DfE had been \"engaging with the city council almost daily to help navigate a way to a resolution\".\n\nHe said the protests were \"wrong\" in his view, and said he supported the council's decision to secure an injunction.\n\nOn Friday, Andy Street, the mayor of the West Midlands, said the protests were \"homophobic\" and must \"stop now\".", "Malcolm Mide-Madariola died shortly after being taken to hospital\n\nThe father of a murdered 17-year-old has said he feels \"more pity than hate\" for his son's killer.\n\nMalcolm Mide-Madariola was standing up for a friend when he was stabbed to death near Clapham South Tube station in south-west London on 2 November.\n\nOlumide Wole-Madariola said he would be willing to meet the boy convicted of murdering his son if given the chance.\n\nSince Malcolm's death, his family has launched a charity for vulnerable youngsters.\n\nSpeaking about those involved in Malcolm's death, Mr Wole-Madariola said: \"Their future is practically gone with what they've done.\n\n\"When a youth's life is destroyed there's a future leader's life destroyed, a future leader in the family, in society.\"\n\n\"If I have the opportunity I'd be willing to meet [Malcolm's killer] because they've still got years ahead of them,\" Mr Wole-Madariola said.\n\nMr Wole-Madariola said his son was \"kindness personified and that was what eventually took his life\"\n\nLast month, a 17-year-old boy was found guilty of Malcolm's murder and a 19-year-old admitted having a knife in connection with his death.\n\nBoth will be sentenced at the Old Bailey on 5 July.\n\n\"When they come out they're going to be in their adulthood so I would be wiling to speak with them and hope they use the best part of their years to be a better part of society,\" Mr Wole-Madariola said.\n\nHe said the Malcolm Mide-Madariola World Foundation - being launched on Saturday - aimed to have an \"educational approach to re-chart youths' lives\".\n\n\"When you have kids that are not engrossed in anything they tend to wander away,\" he said.\n\n\"Regardless of where they're coming from, if their parents are divorced, criminal, or been to jail, they should know that their own personal future matters.\"\n\nMalcolm's father said his son \"shared with people that didn't have as much\", and his outlook has inspired the charity's mission.\n\nThe foundation plans to rent space to put on lectures and vocational courses, before eventually finding a permanent home in Clapham.\n\nThe charity will also help those who cannot afford school meals and school clothing.\n\nMr Wole-Madariola said he had received messages of support from Prime Minister Theresa May and the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan.\n\nOlumide Wole-Madariola visited Theresa May and told her about the foundation", "Mark Reckless became leader of the Brexit Party group in May\n\nThe leader of the recently-formed Brexit Party assembly group has accused the Senedd's presiding officer of being biased against his AMs.\n\nMark Reckless said Elin Jones had \"tilted the playing field\", and said it was \"wrong\" that she was a member of a political party, Plaid Cymru.\n\nHe says his group is given fewer opportunities to question ministers.\n\nBut his AMs have been criticised for not submitting questions. The assembly said Ms Jones was always impartial.\n\nLabour assembly members defended the presiding officer on Saturday. Caerphlly's Hefin David said Ms Jones was \"scrupulously fair\".\n\nRebecca Evans, Welsh Government minister responsible for assembly business, was one of several Labour AMs who defended Elin Jones on Twitter.\n\n\"This is typical of the snivelling 'poor us' narrative that Reckless tries to develop week after week,\" she said.\n\n\"The reality is that the Llywydd is more than generous to him, and Reckless can't blame her for the fact that his AMs are some of the least engaged.\"\n\n\"Dangerous times when we start questioning [the Llywydd],\" said Hefin David, Labour AM for Caerphilly.\n\n\"My view is that [Elin Jones] is a scrupulously fair and impartial presiding officer, and a very kind and supportive Senedd colleague.\"\n\nNigel Farage announced the formation of the group of four AMs during the European Parliament election campaign last month.\n\nAMs in Plaid Cymru, and some in Labour, complained that the group had no democratic mandate having not fought an election under a Brexit Party banner.\n\nThe presiding officer - or Llywydd - gave permission for it to go ahead, and an attempt to stop the group from forming went nowhere.\n\nThe assembly's presiding officer is equivalent to the speaker of the House of Commons - overseeing the conduct of debates and the business of the Senedd chamber.\n\nBut unlike the Commons, presiding officers in the assembly have remained members of their political parties.\n\nOpposition party groups are able to nominate AMs to be spokespeople, who have rights to ask ministers questions during assembly proceedings.\n\nLast Wednesday, in a tense exchange in the Senedd, Mr Reckless attacked presiding officer Elin Jones for cutting the number of questions party spokespeople could ask.\n\nMr Reckless said his group was able to ask ministers a \"quarter\" of what other parties could.\n\nElin Jones acts with impartiality at all times, the assembly said\n\n\"Presiding Officer, won't people conclude that you are biased as part of the Remain establishment,\" Mr Reckless told Ms Jones.\n\nThe presiding officer replied saying the Brexit Party had been given the same allocation as UKIP - a party group until May - had recently.\n\nBut she added: \"I need to point out to you that I can only call your members if they make requests to ask questions, and, for the record, for members, I received no such requests from the Brexit Party today.\"\n\n\"You told us we couldn't,\" he responded.\n\nHe told the BBC's Sunday Politics Wales programme that his group was \"not being treated fairly\".\n\nHe said the Welsh Liberal Democrats were treated \"completely the same\" as others when it was a group of five.\n\n\"UKIP were only cut down in their spokespeople questions when they went down to a group of three. We're larger than that.\"\n\n\"I think that it's wrong that the presiding officer is a member of Plaid Cymru - stays part of the Plaid Cymru group, has been able to employ people who are Plaid Cymru to come in and advise her,\" he said.\n\n\"A lot of things in the assembly are better than in Westminster, but one thing I thought was better in Westminster is the idea that the speaker is neutral and leaves their party.\"\n\n\"I don't think it's right that she's tilted the playing field against the Brexit group,\" he added.\n\nA Welsh assembly spokesperson said: \"The allocation of leaders and spokespeople's questions is at the discretion of the Llywydd who acts with impartiality at all times, in line with standing orders.\n\n\"The Llywydd can only call members to ask questions in the Siambr (chamber) if a request is received.\"\n\nSunday Politics Wales, BBC One Wales, 9 July, 1200 BST. Watch later on iPlayer.", "Three hospital patients have died in an outbreak of listeria linked to pre-packed sandwiches.\n\nPublic Health England (PHE) said the victims were among six patients affected in England and the deaths occurred in Manchester and Liverpool.\n\nTwo of the victims were at Manchester Royal Infirmary, with the other a patient at Aintree Hospital.\n\nSandwiches and salads from The Good Food Chain linked to the outbreak have been withdrawn and production stopped.\n\nPHE said the products were withdrawn from hospitals when the links to the infections were first identified.\n\nA spokesperson for the Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust said it offered its \"deepest condolences to the bereaved families\" and \"sincerely regret\" that two of their seriously ill patients contracted listeria.\n\nThe trust, which would not say when the deaths happened, said the sandwiches were from the patient menu.\n\nThe first patient showed symptoms on 25 April while the most recent case was reported on 15 May, a PHE spokeswoman said.\n\nAintree Hospital said: \"Public health experts advised us of this supply chain issue on Friday 24 May and we immediately removed all products from this supplier.\"\n\nDr Nick Phin, deputy director at the National Infection Service at PHE said: \"To date, there have been no associated cases identified outside healthcare organisations, and any risk to the public is low.\"\n\nPHE said The Good Food Chain - which supplied 43 NHS trusts across the UK - had been supplied with meat produced by North Country Cooked Meats which subsequently produced a positive test result for the outbreak strain of listeria.\n\nThis business and North Country Quality Foods, which it distributes through, have also voluntarily ceased production.\n\nA spokesman for The Good Food Chain Ltd said the company's production facility in Stone, Staffordshire, was \"cross contaminated by an ingredient from one of its approved meat suppliers\".\n\nA spokesman for North Country Cooked Meats said it was \"currently co-operating fully with the environmental health and the Food Standards Agency in their investigations\".\n\nListeria is a bacterium which can cause a type of food poisoning called listeriosis.\n\nNormally, the symptoms are mild - a high temperature, chills, feeling sick - and go away on their own after a few days.\n\nBut these cases occurred in people who were seriously ill.\n\nAlong with pregnant women, newborn babies and the elderly, they are most at risk of a more serious infection that can spread to the brain or bloodstream.\n\nIn 2017 there were 33 deaths linked to listeriosis in England and Wales.\n\nListeria can be found in many types of food such as soft cheeses, chilled ready-to-eat foods like pre-packed salads, sandwiches and sliced meats, and unpasteurised milk products.\n\nTo reduce the risk, the NHS advises people keep chilled food in the fridge, heat food until it is piping hot and not eat food after its use-by date.", "David Challen led the campaign to have his mother freed from jail\n\nWitnessing the ordeal of a woman who killed her abusive husband with a hammer was \"like seeing a curtain fall\", her son has said.\n\nSally Challen is a free woman after her murder retrial was dropped on Friday.\n\nHer son, David, said his father, Richard, dominated her life in \"one of the worst cases of coercive control\".\n\nHis 65-year-old mother, from Surrey, who met her husband at the age of 15, was still taking her first steps in a world without him, he said.\n\nOn Friday, prosecutors accepted Mrs Challen's manslaughter plea after her murder conviction was quashed in February.\n\nShe had been due to face a retrial at the Old Bailey but was instead sentenced for manslaughter and walked free, due to the amount of time she has already served in prison.\n\nMrs Challen believed she loved her husband but was dependent on his control, her son said\n\nMr Challen said the law \"shouldn't have painted her as a cold, calculating murderer, as it does with every woman that kills\".\n\nHe said there had been overwhelming evidence of his father's controlling behaviour, but coercive control only became a criminal offence in 2015.\n\n\"It's gradual,\" he said. \"It's seeing your mother in a loving relationship as a child, and then growing up and seeing that curtain fall.\"\n\nHe said he watched his father become more cavalier and more open with his controlling actions over the years, restricting where his mother went, depriving her of freedom of thought and taking people out of her life.\n\n\"He controlled the parameters of her life - every bit of it - for 40 years,\" he said.\n\nAfter Friday's hearing ended, Mrs Challen told reporters she still loved and missed her husband, but her son described her words as evidence of her dependency.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sally Challen told a press conference that she would always love her husband Richard\n\nHe said his father was \"just playing games\" - including telling his mother she was going mad when she confronted him with evidence of his serial infidelity.\n\nHis father also promised to resume their relationship if she signed a post-nuptial agreement, but then backtracked from it, he added.\n\nThe couple had been trying to reconcile in 2010 when she killed him at their marital home in Claygate.\n\nDavid Challen remembers witnessing a gradual change as his father's abuse worsened through the years\n\nMr Challen said he took his father to task many times but it was \"like nailing jelly to a wall\".\n\nHe said health workers should had intervened on his mother's behalf as soon as signs of control were spotted - and had coercive control been an offence at the first trial in 2011, the situation would have been different.\n\n\"We would have heard all the evidence, not through a skewed vision of 'this isn't abuse, this is just a toxic relationship',\" he said. \"We would have understood it.\"\n\nMrs Challen met her husband at the age of 15\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A row has broken out between Scotland and Ireland over fishing rights around the uninhabited islet of Rockall.\n\nThe Scottish government has said it will take \"enforcement action\" against Irish vessels found fishing within 12 miles of Rockall from Saturday.\n\nThe UK claims sovereignty over the North Atlantic outcrop but the Irish government does not recognise the claim.\n\nIrish ministers have described Scottish government comments as \"unwarranted\".\n\nHowever, the Scottish government said a recent increase in activity from Irish vessels around Rockall had prompted the move.\n\nA spokeswoman added: \"Irish vessels, or any non-UK vessels for that matter, have never been allowed to fish in this way in the UK's territorial sea around Rockall and, despite undertaking extensive discussions with the Irish authorities on the matter, it is disappointing that this activity continues.\n\n\"It is our duty and obligation to defend the interests of Scottish fisheries and ensure compliance with well-established international law.\n\n\"We have provided an opportunity for the Irish government to warn their fishers not to fish illegally and hope that this opportunity is taken up as this will of course obviate the need to take enforcement action - which would otherwise be implemented to protect our fisheries' interests.\"\n\nRockall is an eroded volcano that lies 260 miles (418km) west of the Western Isles and is only 30m (100ft) wide and 21m (70ft) high above the sea.\n\nThe UK claimed Rockall in 1955, but Ireland, Iceland and Denmark have previously challenged that claim.\n\nThe Irish government's minister for agriculture, food and the marine, Michael Creed said he was trying to, \"avoid a situation whereby Irish fishing vessels who continue to fish for haddock, squid and other species in the 12-mile area around Rockall are under the unwarranted threat of 'enforcement action' by the Scottish government\".\n\nHe added: \"However, following this sustained unilateral action by them, I have no option but to put our fishing industry on notice of the stated intention of the Scottish government.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nThe former president of the Afghanistan Football Federation has been given a lifetime ban after \"sexually abusing\" players in the women's national team.\n\nKeramuudin Karim was also fined 1m Swiss Francs (£794,849) after the investigation carried out by world football's governing body Fifa.\n\nAn independent ethics committee said he was guilty of \"abusing his position\" as AFF president.\n\nComplaints lodged had accused him of \"repeated\" sexual abuse from 2013-18.\n\nFifa said the allegations had been made by \"at least\" five Afghani players.\n\nIn December, Karim was suspended from his post by Afghanistan's attorney general's office following allegations made by former players and Kelly Lindsey, the American former head coach of the team.\n\nAt the time, the AFF called the allegations \"groundless\".\n\nHowever in a Facebook post on Saturday, they confirmed Karim's ban.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nEngland opened their World Cup campaign with a narrow victory over rivals Scotland in a game where they showed glimpses of their potential.\n\nAfter an open start, Nikita Parris scored from the spot on her World Cup debut after the penalty was awarded following a video assistant referee review.\n\nEllen White doubled the advantage before the break as Phil Neville's team dominated the first half.\n\nBut Scotland, making their World Cup debut and ranked 17 places below England at 20th in the world, took advantage as their opponents eased off in the second half when Claire Emslie slotted in from close range after Steph Houghton's poor pass.\n• None We should have done better - Neville\n• None 'Am I buzzing about England's performance? No' - pundits' analysis\n• None Football Daily podcast: England win but is anyone happy?\n\nAlthough they could not muster an equaliser, Shelley Kerr's side vastly improved on their performance in the 6-0 defeat against England at Euro 2017, before the Scotland head coach was appointed.\n\nAnd their tenacity should hold them in good stead in their remaining Group D games when they face Japan, ranked seventh in the world, and then Argentina, who are 37th, as they seek to reach the knockout stages.\n\nFor England, it was a mixed performance, which summed up their warm-up results coming into the tournament.\n\nThey looked confident all over the pitch in the first half after head coach Neville named what looked like his strongest starting team.\n\nBut after the break they fell short of producing the quality which Neville believes can take them to their first World Cup title, having finished third at the 2015 edition.\n\nThe result will be a relief for the former Manchester United and England defender, who is taking part in his first World Cup as a player or manager, and he will have been impressed by the performances from White, Parris and Lucy Bronze.\n\nHowever, he will also know that similar hesitancy against more fancied nations could prove costly later in the tournament.\n\nEngland impressive but with work to do\n\nEngland's superb first-half showing centred around the decision to award them a penalty via VAR after Fran Kirby's cross hit Nicola Docherty's arm.\n\nIt was a call that was booed by Scottish fans, but former Scotland winger Pat Nevin said on BBC Radio 5 Live that it was a \"definite\" spot-kick, and it was hard to argue.\n\nEngland had lost two of their four warm-up games but suddenly the Lionesses were oozing confidence and could have doubled their lead within 10 minutes as they piled pressure on the Scottish defence.\n\nTheir mood was summed up by a flowing move in which Parris nutmegged Docherty, a piece of skill which had the England fans in the 13,188 crowd purring.\n\nKirby fired wide from 18 yards, while White drew a superb save from Lee Alexander, before her header was ruled out for offside.\n\nWhite, who recently moved to Manchester City, was not to be denied before the break though and when Kirby caught Scotland skipper Rachel Corsie in possession, the forward finished precisely for her 29th England goal.\n\nIt proved a telling lead and showed the danger that England possess, particularly down the right where Parris and Bronze menaced Docherty, who was eventually withdrawn.\n\nTheir failure to add more goals made this a more edgy game than Neville would have wanted, but he will be pleased to get what he called the \"toughest group game\" out of the way, and focus on the next game against Argentina, who are unlikely to provide as stern a test.\n\nKerr's side came into this game after an unbeaten run of five games.\n\nWith some of their best players back after missing the same fixture at Euro 2017, they gave England a real test.\n\nChelsea's Erin Cuthbert, who played up front on her own, was key to a thrilling start and proved Scotland's best outlet on the counter attack. The 20-year-old could have pulled a goal back but fired wide shortly after White had made it 2-0.\n\nBut the youngster was not downhearted and combined with right-winger Emslie, and midfielder Kim Little, as they kept the England defence on their toes.\n\nLisa Evans also had a chance to score before Emslie's reply, but lost control of the ball in the box.\n\nThere was certainly a swagger about Kerr's side, who have nine players in their squad who play in the FA Women's Super League in England, the only fully professional league in Europe.\n\nTheir fitness did not seem to drop, and while they could not find an equaliser, Kerr and her team will be hugely encouraged they can reach their target of the knockout stages, particularly as in some cases three teams from a group will progress.\n\n'We've got to be relentless' - what they said\n\nEngland boss Phil Neville: \"I was pleased with the result. The first game is always the most difficult game but we set certain standards and the players know we need to keep meeting those standards.\n\n\"If we don't, we get second half performances like we just got. We've got to be relentless now.\n\n\"I think at 2-0 in this heat, we thought it was going to be easy in the second half. It's a lesson that every game in this World Cup is going to be difficult.\"\n\nScotland boss Shelley Kerr: \"We know we need to win one game, it doesn't have to be the first game, even if it would have been nice.\n\n\"At a top competition like the World Cup you need to scrutinise yourself to the max, there were a lot of positives for us in the second half though.\"\n\nA first since 1995 - the stats\n• None England won their opening match of a Women's World Cup tournament for the second time ever and the first time since 1995.\n• None Nikita Parris' opening goal in this match was her 13th for England, but the first from the penalty spot.\n• None Ellen White has scored a goal in each of her past three international appearances for England against Scotland.\n• None Karen Carney won her 141st cap for England in this match, overtaking Alex Scott's total of 140 caps for England women. Only Fara Williams (170) has more caps for England women.\n• None Both Jill Scott and Karen Carney appeared in their fourth Women's World Cup for England - more than any other players in the history of the competition for the Lionesses.\n\nEngland are in Le Havre on Friday (20:00 BST) where they face Argentina - the lowest-ranked country in Group D - while Scotland are in Rennes on the same day to play Japan (14:00).\n• None Attempt missed. Georgia Stanway (England) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Nikita Parris.\n• None Attempt blocked. Karen Carney (England) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Keira Walsh.\n• None Attempt blocked. Alex Greenwood (England) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Georgia Stanway.\n• None Goal! England 2, Scotland 1. Claire Emslie (Scotland) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the top right corner. Assisted by Lisa Evans with a through ball.\n• None Offside, England. Karen Carney tries a through ball, but Ellen White is caught offside.\n• None Attempt saved. Ellen White (England) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The fire broke out just two weeks before Royal Ascot\n\nA house has been destroyed in a fire at the yard of Royal Ascot-winning trainer Jamie Osborne.\n\nThe 51-year-old tweeted a video of the staff house in Upper Lambourn, Berkshire, razed to the ground by the fire, which began at about 04:00 BST.\n\nWith a number of his horses are due to compete at Ascot later this month, he said he is \"relieved nobody and no animals were hurt\".\n\nThe cause of the fire has not yet been identified.\n\nMr Osborne said two people were sleeping in the bed before it was reduced to charcoal\n\nAn earlier video posted by Mr Osborne - who was once the Queen Mother's favourite jockey - shows a horse stuck in a stable with the glow of the flames in the background.\n\nThe video is accompanied by a caption reading: \"I am afraid we have not had a great night.\"\n\nMr Osborne told the BBC he has \"no clue\" what may have caused the fire but praised the \"great team effort\" to bring everyone to safety.\n\nHe said: \"I'm just really relieved that nobody was hurt and no animals were hurt and we managed to get them all out of the danger zone in time.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe trainer went on to thank all those who helped, including fellow trainer Stan Moore who offered to house some of the horses in his stables.\n\nThe Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service said a crew had been sent to the scene but could not provide further details.\n\nMr Osborne rode as a National Hunt jockey for 16 seasons with a series of national and international wins making him one of the leading riders of the 1990s.\n\nHe has trained six horses to victory at Royal Ascot.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nHosts France opened the 2019 Women's World Cup with a brilliant victory over South Korea in front of an overjoyed, sold-out crowd in Paris.\n\nCorinne Diacre's side, among the favourites to win the eighth edition of this competition, produced a breathless performance to take a deserved 3-0 lead at half-time thanks to forward Eugenie Le Sommer's early opener and two headers from towering defender Wendie Renard.\n\nMidfielder Amandine Henry curled in an excellent fourth goal late on, much to the delight of the 45,261 fans inside the Parc des Princes.\n\nEngland and Scotland will meet on Sunday in Nice as they get their campaigns under way, with a total of 24 teams taking part hoping to reach the final in Lyon on 7 July.\n\nDefending champions the United States will get their campaign under way against Thailand on Tuesday, with England and two-time winners Germany among the other teams being strongly tipped for success.\n\nSix groups of four teams will compete for the 16 places in the knockout phase, with the top two teams in each group qualifying automatically, as well as the four best third-placed sides.\n• None France want to 'strike fear' into sides\n\nFrance, fourth in the world rankings and aiming to become only the second host nation to lift the trophy, could well take home the biggest prize if they continue to play as they did against South Korea.\n\nBacked by deafening support the home side began the match with pace, intensity and remarkable desire.\n\nHenry curled narrowly wide inside the first two minutes, before squaring the ball in to Le Summer's path for the Lyon star to open to scoring soon afterwards, and talismanic centre-back Renard added two headers from corners before the break.\n\nSouth Korea, ranked 14th in the world, were largely outplayed but midfielder Lee Min-a placed wide from their best chance in the second half, after a rare error from Renard.\n\nThe French starting team included seven of the Lyon squad that beat Barcelona to win European football's biggest women's club competition, the Champions League, in May, including goalscorers Le Sommer and Renard.\n\nChelsea star Ji So-yun and West Ham's Cho So-hyun were both in South Korea's midfield, which was overrun in the early stages by France's energy, movement and pressing.\n\nGriedge Mbock Bathy thought she had volleyed in France's second goal but it was ruled out for a fractional offside decision by the video assistant referee system.\n\nVAR is being used in the Women's World Cup for the first time and the French fans booed and whistled in frustration at both the length of time it took to review the footage and the decision itself.\n\nBut replays showed that the officials had been correct with Mbock Barthy's foot in an offside position, albeit by the smallest of margins.\n\nQuick off the mark - the stats\n• None This was the biggest win by a host nation at a Women's World Cup since 2003 when USA beat Nigeria 5-0.\n• None The eventual winners have started their campaign with a victory in all previous seven tournaments to date.\n• None France have won their opening match at their last three World Cup tournaments. South Korea have lost their opening match at all three finals.\n• None South Korea did not register an attempt until the 70th minute.\n• None France have kept a clean sheet in all seven of their World Cup wins.\n• None Eugenie Le Sommer's goal after nine minutes was the fastest in an opening game.\n• None Only Marie-Laure Delie (5) has scored more tournament goals for France then Le Sommer (4).\n• None Wendie Renard became the fourth player to score a World Cup double for France, no-one has ever gone on to score a hat-trick.\n• None Ten of Renard's last 11 goals for France have been headers.\n• None Le Sommer and Amandine Henry have both now scored at consecutive World Cup tournaments. They are the third and fourth players to score in two different editions for France.", "Greens will \"beat the rising tide of far-right hate\" across Europe, the party's co-leader Jonathan Bartley will say as he opens the party's conference.\n\nThe four-day event in Scarborough comes after the Green Party had its best European elections since 1989.\n\nIt was part of a broader rise in support for Greens across EU states.\n\nJoint leader Sian Berry will tell the conference the major parties have \"given ground to the right\" and take aim at the Lib Dems over austerity.\n\n\"The Green Party are at the forefront of standing up to the far right - right across Europe,\" Mr Bartley will say.\n\n\"They have their own violent vision for the future. But we hold the tools to stop them.\"\n\nHe will say those considering joining the Green Party must do so now, adding: \"We will beat the climate crisis and we will beat the rising tide of far-right hate.\"\n\nAlthough the Brexit Party won the most seats in the UK in May's European elections, staunchly anti-Brexit parties the Lib Dems and the Greens also made gains.\n\nOverall the Green Party came in fourth place, winning 12.1% of the vote and securing seven seats.\n\nMany EU member states - from the Nordic countries to Portugal - also saw a rise in their Green vote.\n\nMs Berry will tell the Green Party conference: \"The old politics is not working, and all the old parties are responsible.\n\n\"They have all given ground to the right, on freedom of movement, on Europe, on public spending.\n\n\"Labour and Conservatives yes, but let's not forget that while the Lib Dems paint themselves as the defenders of liberal, internationalist values, they were all too happy to sign up to the austerity programme that has cost an estimated 130,000 lives.\"\n\nIn Europe, there was a mixed result for the nationalist right, which had been expected to make significant gains.\n\nMatteo Salvini's right-wing nationalist League party won in Italy and Marine Le Pen's National Rally party won in France.\n\nBut the nationalist parties did not do as well as anticipated in Germany or the Netherlands.", "Prince Louis and his siblings joined other members of the Royal Family on the Buckingham Palace balcony\n\nThe Queen's official birthday has been marked with the annual Trooping the Colour parade.\n\nShe was joined by members of her family and thousands of spectators to watch the display in Horse Guards Parade in Whitehall.\n\nThe Prince of Wales, the Duchess of Cornwall, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and the Duke and Duchess of Sussex all attended.\n\nThe Queen celebrated her 93rd birthday in April.\n\nThe Queen and other royals gathered to witness the Red Arrows perform a flypast for the Trooping the Colour parade\n\nThe royal colonels - the Prince of Wales, colonel of the Welsh Guards, the Princess Royal, colonel of the Blues and Royals, the Duke of Cambridge, colonel of the Irish Guards and the Duke of York, colonel of the Grenadier Guards - all rode on horseback as part of the parade.\n\nThe Duchess of Sussex made her first appearance in public since giving birth to her son Archie four weeks ago.\n\nPrince Louis, carried by his mother Catherine alongside his father and siblings, waved at the planes as they flew by\n\nMeghan made her first appearance in public since the birth of her son, alongside Prince Harry\n\nThe Duchess of Cambridge was sitting opposite Meghan in the carriage\n\nPrince William rode on horseback as part of the parade\n\nPrince Louis and Princess Charlotte watched proceedings from inside Buckingham Palace before joining their parents on the balcony\n\nThe Duke of Edinburgh, who celebrates his 98th birthday on Monday, has retired from official public duties and did not attend.\n\nThe Queen watched the ceremony - which this year parades the flag from the 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards - from a dais in Horse Guards Parade and she also inspected the lines of guardsmen.\n\nAmong the guests was Theresa May, who formally stepped down as Conservative party leader on Friday, but will remain in office until a successor has been appointed.\n\nOne soldier, Major Niall Hall, of the Regimental Adjutant of the Irish Guards, was thrown from his horse during the parade.\n\nA spokesperson for the Ministry of Defence said Maj Hall was immediately treated by a medical team and taken to hospital. His injuries are not life-threatening.\n\nThe Queen inspected the lines of guardsmen as part of the parade\n\nEach guardsman trod more than 270 miles in rehearsals and took more than half a million steps\n\nAfter the parade, the Royal Family returned to Buckingham Palace, where they gathered on the balcony to watch the RAF flypast.\n\nMore than 20 aircraft took part including modern jets and historic aircraft, with the Red Arrows as the finale.\n\nMembers of the Kings Troop Royal Artillery led the parade down the Mall back to Buckingham Palace\n\nCrowds of spectators also walked along the Mall to Buckingham Palace ahead of the flypast\n\nThe Red Arrows performed a flypast as part of the ceremony\n\nFollowing the parade, which involved about 1,400 soldiers, the King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery fired a 41-gun salute in Green Park.\n\nTrooping the Colour originated from traditional preparations for battle and has commemorated the birthday of the sovereign for more than 250 years.\n\nColours, or flags, were carried, or \"trooped\", down the rank so that they could be seen and recognised by the soldiers.", "Oscar-winner Olivia Colman has been made a CBE and adventurer Bear Grylls an OBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours - alongside hundreds of campaigners and volunteers.\n\nSculptor Rachel Whiteread, Confederation of British Industry chief Carolyn Fairbairn, and Maggie's cancer centres chief executive Laura Lee are among the new dames.\n\nThe knighthoods include acclaimed theatre actor Simon Russell Beale and Andrew Parker and Alex Younger, the heads of MI5 and MI6 respectively.\n\nJack Reacher author Lee Child and novelist Joanna Trollope become CBEs, and musician Elvis Costello, singer Alfie Boe and comedian Griff Rhys Jones OBEs.\n\nRapper Mathangi Arulpragasam - aka M.I.A. - is now an MBE.\n\nColman, who won an Academy Award and Bafta this year for portraying Queen Anne in The Favourite and is soon to play Queen Elizabeth II in The Crown, is recognised on the list for services to drama under her real name Sarah Sinclair.\n\nColman said she was \"thrilled, delighted and humbled to be in the company of these incredible people, most of whom have been nowhere near as visible as I have, but should be\".\n\nThe honour for Grylls, the Chief Scout, is for services to young people, the media and charity and he said: \"I really do feel it's a team effort, this award is for every one of those incredible Scout volunteers.\"\n• None 75%Given for work in the community\n\nIn the sport honours, there are MBEs for golfer Georgia Hall, the British Open champion, ex-England netball captain Ama Agbeze, and Kyle Coetzer, skipper of Scotland's cricket squad.\n\nSonia Watson, chief of the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust, who is trying to increase diversity in architecture in memory of the murdered teenager who aspired to join the profession, becomes an OBE.\n\nFifteen foster carers who have looked after more than 1,000 children between them become MBEs.\n\nOverall, 1,073 people are on the main honours list. About 75% are recognised for work in their community and 47% of the total are women.\n\nThe Foreign Office has announced an additional 80 honours, and separate lists cover gallantry awards for police, ambulance and fire staff and military service personnel.\n\nCBI chief Carolyn Fairbairn and Turner Prize winner Rachel Whiteread are new dames\n\nThe man who invented the Tunnock's Teacake in 1956 is knighted for services to business and charity. Boyd Tunnock, 86, who heads the South Lanarkshire sweet firm, said: \"When you get to my age, very few things surprise you but this certainly did.\"\n\nThe international success of the British TV industry is acknowledged, with Blue Planet producer Alistair Fothergill; Andrew Harries, the producer behind The Crown, and Richard Williams, boss of Northern Ireland Screen - known for its involvement in Game Of Thrones - made OBEs.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAuthor and broadcaster Bettany Hughes becomes an OBE for services to history.\n\nAnd in the week of the 75th anniversary of D-Day, Dan Snow, presenter of the BBC documentary about the operation, The Last Heroes, becomes an MBE.\n\nThere is a CBE for Terence Whittles, national chairman of the Royal British Legion, and an MBE for Sidney Roffey of the British Evacuees Association.\n\nSeven Holocaust survivors who recount their experiences to school pupils across the UK receive British Empire Medals.\n\nFrom the world of science and technology, Shane Legg, co-founder of AI firm DeepMind; former UK Space Agency chair David Southwood, and Sophie Wilson, who helped create the first Acorn Micro computer in 1979, all become CBEs.\n\nKnighthoods go to the head of the NHS's 100,000 Genomes Project, Prof Mark Caulfield, and Oxford University professor Peter Donnelly for his research on human genetics in disease.\n\nProf Marie Le Quere of the University of East Anglia is made a CBE for her work on climate change.\n\nPhysicist Dr Paul Collier, who as head of the beams department at Cern in Switzerland worked on the Large Hadron Collider breakthrough, becomes an OBE on the Foreign Office list.\n\nHistory programme presenters Bettany Hughes and Dan Snow both make the list\n\nThe OBEs for London-based Nimco Ali and Leyla Hussein recognise their campaign against female genital mutilation and gender inequality.\n\nThere is a damehood for Prof Charlotte Watts, a leading expert on domestic violence, and Prof Michele Burman, of the University of Glasgow, becomes a CBE for her work on gender-based violence.\n\nSara Thornton, the anti-slavery commissioner and ex-chair of the National Police Chiefs' Council, becomes a dame, and Police Service of Northern Ireland Chief Constable George Hamilton is knighted.\n\nMet Police inspector Gary Byfield becomes an MBE for his support to the families of officers killed in the line of duty.\n\nSonia Watson's work as chief of the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust has been recognised\n\nKnighthoods for parliamentary and political service go to George Howarth, Labour MP for Knowsley; Lib Dem MP for North Norfolk Norman Lamb, and former Labour MP Brian Donohoe, who represented Central Ayrshire and Cunninghame South.\n\nThe outgoing Conservative MEP for the North West, Jacqueline Foster, is made a dame, and Labour MEP for Wales Derek Vaughan, who is also stepping down, a CBE. Catherine Stihler, former Labour MEP for Scotland, becomes an OBE.\n\nThe founder of the Operation Black Vote campaign, Simon Woolley, is knighted for services to race equality.\n\nThe arts honours include CBEs for veteran photographer Terence O'Neil and producer Mitch Murray, who wrote hits for Gerry and the Pacemakers.\n\nMeanwhile, ex-Undertones singer turned industry executive Feargal Sharkey becomes an OBE, and singer-songwriter Andrew Roachford an MBE.\n\nThere are OBEs too for Tipping the Velvet author Sarah Waters and Bafta-wining TV producer Nicola Shindler.\n\nThe long careers of Elvis Costello and Griff Rhys Jones have been recognised with OBEs\n\nBBC Radio Scotland presenter Shereen Nanjiani and former BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra composer-in-residence Anna Meredith become MBEs, and BBC London arts correspondent Brenda Emmanus an OBE for her work in broadcasting and on diversity.\n\nPianist Joanna MacGregor (CBE), singer Jacqueline Dankworth (MBE) and Good Wife actress Cush Jumbo (OBE) also make the list.\n\nScotland Women's football coach Shelley Kerr said she was \"immensely proud\" of her MBE. The same honour goes to her Wales counterpart Jayne Ludlow.\n\nEx-Manchester United chief executive David Gill and Philip Brook, who oversaw the expansion of the Wimbledon site as chairman of the All England Club, become CBEs.\n\nFormer QPR manager Chris Ramsay is made an MBE. The one-time Brighton and Swindon player has championed black and minority ethnic coaches and is recognised for services to football and diversity in sport.\n\nFootball coaches Chris Ramsey and Shelley Kerr both become MBEs\n\nAfter a career spanning 50 years, there is a CBE for Tony Laithwaite for services to the wine industry, while Catherine Mead from Lynher Dairies in Truro has been made an OBE for services to cheese making and the community in south-west England.\n\nChristie Spurling, founder of Manchester charity N-Gage which helps students from deprived communities, and Sarah Burns, whose charity Smart Works provides unemployed single mothers in Berkshire with job coaching, become MBEs - among a number of people honoured for promoting social mobility.\n\nThere are OBEs for retired police officer David Carney-Haworth and his wife Elizabeth, a headteacher, from Cornwall, who co-founded the Operation Encompass charity to help pupils affected by domestic abuse.\n\nKathryn and Peter Shipey, from Sunderland, become MBEs. Their campaign encouraged football teams to build sensory viewing rooms in their stadiums to allow fans with autism to follow matches.\n\nColin Dorrance, who was an 18-year-old police officer on the night of the Lockerbie bombing in 1988 and has since assisted relatives of the victims, is made an MBE.\n\nThe British Empire Medal recipients include Wayne Gruba, who co-founded the Docklands Victims Association in London after a 1996 IRA bombing, 19-year-old Lauren Shea for promoting science and technology to young people in Hampshire, and Thomas McArdle, a street cleaner from Liverpool.\n\nThe OBEs for Elizabeth and David Carney-Haworth are for their work helping children affected by domestic abuse", "Giant technology companies might cause significant disruption to the world's financial system, the head of the International Monetary Fund has warned.\n\nChristine Lagarde said just a few firms with big data access and artificial intelligence could run the global payment and settlement arrangements.\n\nHer warning came as the G20 finance ministers met in Japan.\n\nThe summit is also discussing the need to close tax loopholes for internet giants like Facebook and Google.\n\nOne of the options being considered is to tax such companies where they make their profits - rather than where they base their headquarters.\n\n\"A significant disruption to the financial landscape is likely to come from the big tech firms,\" Ms Lagarde said in Japan's south-western city of Fukuoka.\n\nShe said such firms \"will use their enormous customer bases and deep pockets to offer financial products based on big data and artificial intelligence\".\n\nChristine Lagarde has been the IMF managing director since 2011\n\n\"This presents a unique systemic challenge to financial stability and efficiency,\" she added.\n\nShe cited China as a most recent example.\n\n\"Over the last five years, technology growth in China has been extremely successful and allowed millions of new entrants to benefit from access to financial products and the creation of high-quality jobs,\" Ms Lagarde said.\n\n\"But it has also led to two firms controlling more than 90% of the mobile payments market.\"", "Judge John Hayman is the oldest recipient of an honour in the latest list\n\nA 100-year-old judge and a street cleaner are among those recognised in the Queen's Birthday Honours.\n\nAlso among the 1,073 names are a police officer who worked in the aftermath of the Manchester Arena attack and a doctor working to stop another Harold Shipman-type scandal.\n\nFifteen foster carers who have looked after more than 1,000 children are being appointed MBEs.\n\nThe chief executive of the Stephen Lawrence Trust is being appointed OBE.\n\nDr Rajesh Patel, 58, who is appointed MBE, has been a GP in Hyde, Greater Manchester, for 25 years.\n\nHe identified flaws in the system which, had they been solved previously, may have uncovered Shipman's wrong-doing much earlier.\n\nNow they have been resolved they should prevent future such scandals, his citation said.\n\nShipman, who died in 2004, killed at least 215 patients.\n\nDr Raj Patel has been appointed MBE for services to health care\n\nAt 100 years old, Judge John Hayman is the oldest recipient of an award and is getting the British Empire Medal (BME) for his work in Binsted and Alton, Hampshire, where he \"continues to work with dedication and imagination to enhance village sports facilities\".\n\nSonia Watson, the chief executive of the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust, is appointed OBE for her work helping disadvantaged people from black and minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds to pursue a career in architecture - the chosen career of the murdered teenager.\n\nSimon Rowe, an officer at Wiltshire Council, is to become MBE for his \"tireless working\" to return Salisbury to normality after the Novichok poisoning of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter in March 2018.\n\nStephen Lawrence, an 18-year-old aspiring architect, was murdered in a racist attack in London in 1993\n\nSimon Rowe has been recognised for working to return Salisbury to normality\n\nKathryn and Peter Shippey, from Sunderland, are also to become MBEs after they launched a campaign for the inclusion of autism-friendly rooms at sports stadiums which has been supported by Sunderland, Celtic and Chelsea as well as other clubs around the world.\n\nCornwall couple David and Elizabeth Carney-Haworth are appointed OBEs for their work with children affected by domestic abuse through their organisation Operation Encompass.\n\nGolfer Georgia Hall, from Bournemouth has been appointed MBE following her win in the 2018 Women's British Open.\n\nGeorgia Hall won the British Open in August last year\n\nBEMs are also being awarded to Thomas McArdle, a 61-year-old street cleaner from Liverpool, and PC Alison Suffield of Lancashire Police for her response to the Manchester Arena bombing in May 2017.\n\nMr McArdle, who has been cleaning the streets since 2006, is getting his honour for services to Liverpool, where he is known for his \"great sense of humour and positive outlook which brightens other people's day\".\n\nHis citation said he was known in the Kensington and Old Swan areas for being \"polite, courteous and hard-working\" and regularly going above his duties, often picking up litter and cleaning graffiti in his spare time.\n\nPC Suffield, 45, is a chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear tactical advisor and police search advisor with a \"deep knowledge\" of identifying victims of a disaster.\n\nShe went to the Manchester arena on 22 May after Salman Abedi detonated a bomb targeting those attending an Ariana Grande concert.\n\nThe officer became the first manager at the scene responsible for gathering evidence, identifying victims and ensuring \"the dignity of the deceased was protected\" at a \"distressing\" and \"structurally unsafe\" scene.\n\nShe stayed for almost 24 hours to recover victims, so their bodies could be returned to families \"in the shortest time possible\".\n\nNaseem Akthar has organised numerous exercise events for women in Birmingham\n\nAlso being awarded a BEM is Naseem Akthar, 51, from Birmingham, for her work in running culturally sensitive exercise groups for women in the city since 1998.\n\nEvents have included \"Ramadan special\" bike rides and classes aimed at women for whom mixed lessons are frowned upon.\n\nMrs Akthar said being awarded a BEM was \"honourable and wonderful all at once\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. PC Dave Wardell: \"I wouldn't be here today if it wasn't for Finn\"\n\nA new law named after a police dog which recently appeared on Britain's Got Talent has come into effect.\n\nGerman shepherd Finn was stabbed and seriously hurt as he protected PC Dave Wardell from an attacker in 2016.\n\nNicknamed \"Finn's Law\", the new legislation makes it harder for those who harm service animals to claim they were acting in self-defence.\n\nPC Wardell, who has led calls for the change in the law, said the pair's journey had been \"incredible\".\n\nAppearing on ITV's Britain's Got Talent, PC Wardell described Finn as a \"lovely, lovely lad\"\n\nThe father-of-three and Finn reached the final of ITV's primetime variety show with a magic act that moved the judges to tears.\n\n\"This law is the only reason I put myself on stage in front of nine million people,\" said PC Wardell, who is still a serving officer.\n\nHe began campaigning for the new Animal Welfare (Service Animals) Act after Finn - now retired - saved his life when a knife-wielding robbery suspect attacked them in Stevenage in 2016.\n\nFinn was stabbed in the chest and head and was not expected to survive. PC Wardell was stabbed in the hand.\n\nPolice dog Finn received the PDSA Gold Medal in March for police service\n\nA 16-year-old boy from London was found guilty of causing PC Wardell actual bodily harm.\n\nUnder the previous law, the attack on Finn could only be treated as criminal damage.\n\nPC Wardell said this has made it difficult for the judge to \"put a value on property\" when deciding on a sentence.\n\n\"Service animals until now have fallen through legal loopholes,\" he said.\n\nThe new law was an attempt to \"take the model of Australia and Canada\" and \"right that wrong\", he said.\n\nPC Wardell said he would now push for increased sentences on all animal welfare cases, and a consultation is currently under way to amend the Animal Welfare Act in Scotland.\n\nGerman shepherd Finn was stabbed in the head and chest after pursuing a suspect in 2016\n\n\"Finn is an incredible dog and an amazing character,\" he said.\n\n\"He could be in a primary school for book readings one minute - and breaking up a pub fight the next.", "During President Donald Trump's state visit to the UK, the US leader had strong words for the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan.\n\nBut, the political grudge match between the two started before Air Force One landed in the UK.\n\nBBC London's Karl Mercer explains the long-running feud between the two men.", "The inventor of the Tunnock's Teacake and the boss of the Scottish women's football team have been recognised in the Queen's Birthday Honours.\n\nConfectioner Boyd Tunnock, 86, receives a knighthood for services to business and charity, while Shelley Kerr's MBE is for services to football.\n\nSir Boyd said very few things surprised him, but the honour \"certainly did\".\n\nUpon news of receiving the honour Sir Boyd said: \"When you get to my age, very few things surprise you but this certainly did and I am deeply honoured and grateful to Her Majesty the Queen.\"\n\nShelley Kerr, who has been head coach of the Scottish women's football team since 2017, is appointed an MBE for services to football, after guiding Scotland to their first ever Women's World Cup.\n\nTheir campaign begins when they face England on Sunday.\n\nShelley Kerr said she was \"immensely proud\"\n\nMs Kerr said she was \"speechless\" upon hearing news of the honour. The 49-year-old, from West Lothian, added: \"It's a tremendous honour and one I'm immensely proud of.\"\n\nFormer Labour MEP Catherine Stihler becomes an OBE for political service. Having served Scotland at the European Parliament for 20 years, she stood down in January 2019.\n\nShe said the recognition was \"unexpected\", adding: \"I hope I have been a relatable role model for young women, and I will work to inspire more young women from across Europe to choose public service.\"\n\nLabour politicians Brian Donohoe and Catherine Stihler received a knighthood and an OBE respectively\n\nFormer Labour MP Brian Donohoe, who represented Central Ayrshire until 2015, receives a knighthood for services to parliamentary and political service.\n\nShereen Nanjiani, who presents the BBC Radio Scotland weekend show Shereen, becomes an MBE for services to broadcasting.\n\nShe previously presented Scotland Today on STV for 22 years.\n\nThe honour came as a \"complete surprise\", she said.\n\nMs Nanjiani added: \"I like to think this is also for the many people from ethnic minority backgrounds who've told me that seeing an Asian face presenting the Scottish TV news opened the door for them to pursue a career in the media.\"\n\nShereen Nanjiani said she shared the honour with others who were inspired by seeing an Asian person on screen\n\nA man who was an 18-year-old off-duty police officer on the night of the Lockerbie bombing is also honoured with an MBE.\n\nColin Dorrance saw Pan Am Flight 103 crash on the evening of 21 December 1988, killing 270 people.\n\nLast year he took part in a cycle ride from Lockerbie to Syracuse in the US to mark the 30th anniversary of the tragedy.\n\nColin Dorrance pictured now and during his earlier days in the force\n\nAlso recognised is Laura Lee, chief executive of the charity Maggie's. She has been made a dame for services to cancer patients.\n\nAuthor Theresa Breslin, from Lenzie, who has written more than 50 books, receives an OBE for services to literature, while Robin Ticciati, principal conductor of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, is appointed an OBE for services to music.\n\nDavid Strang from Edinburgh, formerly Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Prisons for Scotland, receives a CBE for services to law and order.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said those who had been recognised had made \"exceptional contributions\" to communities the length and breadth of the country.\n\nShe added: \"Their service and dedication in fields ranging from the arts, education and sport to business, charity, community cohesion and science has helped to promote Scotland all over the world, and benefited people throughout society.\"\n\nScottish Secretary David Mundell also paid tribute to those who were honoured.\n\nHe said: \"Sir Boyd has made a huge contribution to Scotland's economy over many years. His iconic Scottish products are not just much-loved by people across Scotland, but are an international success story.\"\n\nOn Shelley Kerr's MBE, he added that it recognised; \"her services to women's football, boosting the success and popularity of the sport across the UK. I look forward to seeing her lead the Scottish team to victory on Sunday in France in their World Cup campaign.\"", "Fahad Mohamed Nur died in hospital after being attacked near a railway station\n\nTwo men have appeared in court charged with murdering a teenager in Cardiff last weekend.\n\nFahad Mohamed Nur, 18, was stabbed 21 times near Cathays railway station at about 00:30 BST on Sunday and died in hospital.\n\nAbdulghalil Aldobhani, 22, and Shafique Shaddad, 24, both from Cardiff, appeared before city magistrates on Saturday.\n\nThey were remanded in custody to appear at Cardiff Crown Court on Monday.\n\nAseel Arar, 34, from Selly Oak, Birmingham, also appeared before magistrates charged with assisting an offender.\n\nShe has also been remanded in custody to appear at the crown court on Monday.\n\nPolice are continuing to question a 21-year-old man from Cardiff arrested in London on Friday on suspicion of murder.", "The MV Boudicca had been diverted to Dover\n\nA ship carrying 255 D-Day veterans back from the commemorations in France was diverted because of the weather.\n\nThe MV Boudicca had been due to dock in Portsmouth for an official welcome home party and fireworks.\n\nThe Royal British Legion said adverse weather caused by Storm Miguel meant the ship had been diverted to Dover.\n\nThe charity urged people in the Kent town to \"step up and give our Normandy heroes the welcome back they deserve\".\n\nThe ship arrived at the Port of Dover at about 21:00 BST.\n\nStorm Miguel has already hit Spain and the coast of western France, leaving three dead after a rescue boat overturned.\n\nA group of veterans had sailed from Dover\n\nBob Gamble, the charity's assistant director of commemorative events said: \"Unfortunately the weather conditions mean that our veterans will miss out on the activity the people of Portsmouth had planned for them as they arrived back.\n\n\"We're encouraging people to do whatever they can this evening from heading to the coast to wave the ship in to holding lit phone screens towards the ship so the veterans can see them.\"\n\nHundreds of veterans gathered in northern France on Thursday to honour the sacrifice of those who died in the D-Day landings 75 years ago.\n\nWreaths were laid, a minute's silence was held and veterans linked arms and sang as they remembered the largest combined land, air and naval operation in history.\n\nSome 156,000 Allied troops landed on Normandy beaches at the start of the campaign to liberate Nazi-occupied, north-west Europe.\n\nEx-servicemen sailed from Portsmouth and Dover for the events on the Brittany Ferries' MV Mont St Michel and the Royal British Legion-chartered MV Boudicca.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Regan Tierney's body was found by police at a house in Walkden\n\nA man who was found in a critical condition at the same house where a mother-of-two was murdered has died in hospital.\n\nThe 31-year-old man was taken to hospital after the body of 27-year-old Regan Tierney was discovered by police in Walkden, Salford, on Wednesday.\n\nOfficers were called to the address on Manchester Road after reports of concern for the welfare of a woman.\n\nThe man died on Friday evening, Greater Manchester Police said.\n\nOfficers are not searching for anyone else in connection with the deaths.\n\n\"I urge anyone with any information that could assist our investigation to get in touch as soon as possible.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "More than 1,000 people have been recognised in the Queen's Birthday Honours list.\n\nThe majority of recipients are people who have undertaken outstanding work in their communities. But here are some of the better-known names.\n\nOccupation: Actress - Oscar and Bafta winning star of The Favourite\n\nQuote: \"I'm totally thrilled, delighted and humbled to be in the company of these incredible people, most of whom have been nowhere near as visible as I have, but should be - and hopefully now will be. It's such an honour\"\n\nHonour: OBE for services to young people, the media and charity\n\nQuote: \"This really is a huge honour and it's something, if I'm honest, that I never expected to happen.\n\n\"But I really do feel it's a team effort, this award is for every one of those incredible Scout volunteers... so if you're a Scout volunteer, congratulations, we share this one together\"\n\nOccupation: Musician, songwriter - Released more than 25 albums from My Aim Is True in 1977 to Look Now in 2018\n\nQuote: \"I am happy to accept this very surprising honour...\n\n\"As a good lad, who likes to do what will make his Mam most proud, I knew that I must put old doubts and enmities aside and muster what little grace I possess...\n\n\"Even so, it is hard to receive anything named for the 'British Empire', and all that term embodies, without a pause for reflection\"\n\nQuote: \"Someone read my books and enjoyed them enough to put my name forward for this great honour, which in itself is all a writer could ask for\"\n\nOccupation: Netball player. Captain of the England women's team when they won gold at the 2018 Commonwealth Games\n\nQuote: \"I didn't get here by myself; so for all the team mates, opposition, coaches, volunteers, parents and family, pseudo parents and family, chauffeurs, piggy banks, packed lunch makers, umpires, managers, friends, doubters, officials, supporters, fans, teachers, and anyone that I have missed who has helped me personally, or played, promoted or supported netball or someone else in netball in any way congratulations\"\n\nOccupation: Actor known for his Shakespearean roles at the Royal Shakespeare Company and National Theatre. Winner of two Bafta TV awards and two Laurence Olivier awards\n\nQuote: \"It is a very great honour and I think my mother, were she alive, would be very proud\"\n\nOccupation: Sculptor, the first woman to win the Turner Prize in 1993\n\nOccupation: Author of The Rector's Wife and A Village Affair\n\nOccupation: Comedian, writer, actor and presenter, who became a household name in the 1980s with Not The Nine O'Clock News and Alas Smith and Jones\n\nHonour: OBE for services to the National Civic Society Movement, charity and entertainment\n\nQuote: \"Thank you for all the lovely tweets re my OBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours. I'm absolutely thrilled to receive it\"\n\nOccupation: Singer and actor known for his role in the musical Les Miserables\n\nHonour: OBE for services to music and charity\n\nQuote: \"The news is out! I am truly honoured... Thank you\"\n\nQuote: \"I am unbelievably honoured to be receiving an MBE.\n\n\"It's a huge boost for my confidence ahead of a busy summer of tournaments and I think it's so awesome for women's golf to be recognised in this way\"\n• None 75%Given for work in the community\n\nNeed a reminder of what the acronyms mean? Read our guide to the honours", "Thomas Dunn was convicted following a five-day trial at Dundee Sheriff Court\n\nA man has been found guilty of putting a 13-month-old girl in a tumble dryer.\n\nThomas Dunn claimed he had only \"assisted\" the toddler, saying the child had been climbing into the machine herself.\n\nThe 25-year-old, from Hamilton, said he did not fully close the machine door on the child, but the dryer had activated and started rotating.\n\nDunn was also found guilty at Dundee Sheriff Court of causing fractures to the child's skull during an assault.\n\nHe was convicted of culpable and reckless conduct by placing the child in the dryer and closing the door, causing the machine to activate.\n\nDuring evidence the court was told that the incident happened sometime between the end of 2017 and the start of last year in Arbroath.\n\nOn the separate charge of assault, Dunn was convicted of striking the child on another occasion on the head and body, causing severe injury.\n\nSheriff Alastair Brown told Dunn he \"must have hit that little girl extremely hard at least twice\" in order to inflict what were potentially life-threatening injuries.\n\nHe said it was \"only by her good fortune and perhaps yours\" that Dunn was not tried at the High Court on a charge of murder.\n\nGiving evidence in his own defence, Dunn claimed he had not \"pushed\" or \"squashed\" the baby into the machine but had \"tucked her leg into it\" after she had climbed in herself.\n\nHe said: \"I didn't know the switch was on, it would've been the pin that activated the safety switch when it touched it.\n\n\"She was already climbing into it and I tucked her leg in. I closed the door but not fully, it wasn't like properly shut.\n\n\"It wasn't long, it wasn't like minutes she was in it.\"\n\nProsecutor Nicola Gillespie asked Dunn: \"Why on earth did you do that, assist, tuck, whatever you want to call it, that child into a tumble dryer?\"\n\nHe replied: \"I don't know, it was a bad judgement call.\"\n\nEarlier in the trial, the child's mother told the jury the toddler was not strong enough to be able to climb into the machine herself.\n\nAsked about Mr Dunn's demeanour, the woman replied: \"There was just no emotion. I felt like he felt like it was a joke.\"\n\nDunn was remanded in custody ahead of sentencing at the High Court at a later date.", "The Scottish government has threatened action against Irish vessels found fishing within 12 miles of Rockall\n\nThe head of Scotland's largest fishing industry organisation has said Ireland would be \"unwise\" to pick a fight over fishing rights in Scottish waters.\n\nBertie Armstrong from the Scottish Fishermen's Federation (SFF), said increased Irish activity around the islet of Rockall was clearly illegal.\n\nAnd he said it was time for Scotland to \"put its money where its mouth is\" and enforce control of its waters.\n\nHowever, Seán O'Donoghoe from the Killybegs Fishermen's Organisation, defended the Irish fishermen.\n\n\"They're extremely worried and we expect that of there is any detentions here we will have the full backing of the Irish government to defend ourselves against what we consider is an illegal act by the Scottish authorities,\" he said.\n\nSeán O'Donoghoe said the Scottish authorities would be acting illegally if any of the fishermen were detained\n\nThe row involves the uninhabited islet of Rockall in the North Atlantic.\n\nIt is an eroded volcano that lies 260 miles (418km) west of the Western Isles and is only 100ft (30m) wide and 70ft (21m) high above the sea.\n\nThe UK claimed Rockall in 1955, but Ireland, Iceland and Denmark have previously challenged that claim.\n\nThe row between Scotland and Ireland broke out after increased activity from Irish vessels around Rockall and the Scottish government has said it will take \"enforcement action\" against Irish vessels found fishing within 12 miles of Rockall from Saturday.\n\nMr Armstrong told the BBC the SFF was behind the move.\n\nHe said: \"We are absolutely alongside the Scottish government in this matter.\n\n\"They are doing exactly the right thing. There is illegal activity going on and the Scottish government is absolutely right in taking whatever action is appropriate to stop it.\n\n\"It is perfectly visible to both governments because all the ships are fitted with a monitoring system by law. So everybody will know exactly who is there and if it is likely that they are fishing or not.\"\n\nHe believes the Scottish government has to take a hard line on the dispute ahead of Brexit, when the UK will be responsible for its own waters.\n\nHe said: \"This territory is established in international law. What they are doing is illegal.\n\n\"In the whole context of approaching a time when we will be an independent sovereign coastal state, with complete control over all our own waters, then it's time to demonstrate that we are prepared to put our money where our mouth is.\n\n\"Under Brexit we will have sovereignty over UK territorial waters which will include this area. Any access to those waters will be at the behest of the governments of the land.\n\n\"In my view it would be very unwise of Ireland to pick a fight when just over the horizon there is a much broader swathe of arrangements to be made.\"\n\nBertie Armstrong from the SFF believes it is a black-and-white case of illegality\n\nA spokeswoman from the Scottish government said: \"Irish vessels or any non-UK vessels for that matter have never been allowed to fish in this way in the UK's territorial sea around Rockall and, despite undertaking extensive discussions with the Irish authorities on the matter, it is disappointing that this activity continues.\n\n\"There has actually been an increase in that illegal activity and, with the Rockall fishery season nearly upon us, it is our duty and obligation to defend the interests of Scottish fisheries and ensure compliance with well-established international law.\n\n\"We have provided an opportunity for the Irish government to warn their fishers not to fish illegally and hope that this opportunity is taken up as this will of course obviate the need to take enforcement action - which would otherwise be implemented to protect our fisheries interests.\"\n\nEnforcement action might involve patrol boats from the Scottish government going alongside any vessel believed to be breaking the law and, if necessary, making arrests.\n\nIrish ministers have described Scottish government comments as \"unwarranted\".\n\nThe Irish government's minister for agriculture, food and the marine, Michael Creed said he was trying to, \"avoid a situation whereby Irish fishing vessels who continue to fish for haddock, squid and other species in the 12-mile area around Rockall are under the unwarranted threat of 'enforcement action' by the Scottish government\".\n\nHe added: \"However, following this sustained unilateral action by them, I have no option but to put our fishing industry on notice of the stated intention of the Scottish government.\"\n\nThe Rockall fishery is a multi-million pound annual fishery, with several species of fish including haddock, monkfish and squid.", "Alec Clark became head of education in Powys after the more senior post of director was scrapped\n\nPowys's head of education has resigned from his post just nine months after being appointed following a cut in senior management roles at the council.\n\nAlec Clark took over running education after the post of director of education was scrapped, in favour of a new role of director overseeing both education and social services.\n\nThe council cut eight of 24 leadership posts last year to save £1.3m.\n\nThe previous director left the council after failing to get the top job.\n\nIan Budd had been Dr Clark's boss when the two of them went for the new head of education role after the post of director was deleted.\n\nDr Clark is to take a new job as director of an education trust in southern England.\n\nThe leader of the Liberal Democrat and Green group, James Gibson-Watt, called for a crisis meeting of all group leaders with chief executive Caroline Turner to discuss the future of the schools' service.\n\nHe said there were a number of schools falling into serious budget deficit positions, especially at secondary level, and a \"general deterioration\" in the financial position of schools across the county.\n\n\"The council needs to establish a cross-party approach to create a coherent strategic vision for the Powys education system that can command support across the council,\" he said.\n\nDr Turner confirmed Dr Clark would be leaving at the end of August, adding: \"I will want to discuss future arrangements with the appointments panel as soon as possible.\n\n\"Alec has only been with us for a short time, but has made an important contribution to the work of the council and to supporting our schools over the past nine months.\"", "VE Day marked the end of fighting in Europe in World War Two\n\nNext year's early May bank holiday will be moved back by four days for the whole of the UK to coincide with the 75th anniversary of VE Day.\n\nMay Day is traditionally held on a Monday but will be put back to Friday 8 May 2020.\n\nVE Day, or Victory in Europe Day, marks the day towards the end of World War Two when fighting against Nazi Germany came to an end in Europe.\n\nThe holiday will form part of a three-day weekend of commemorative events.\n\nThey will include more than 20,000 pubs encouraging people to toast the heroes of the war, while churches will take part in a Ringing Out For Peace.\n\nAnnouncing the change, Business Secretary Greg Clark said: \"It will ensure as many people as possible have the opportunity to remember and honour our heroes of the Second World War and reflect on the sacrifices of a generation.\"\n\nSir Andrew Gregory, chief executive of SSAFA, the Armed Forces charity, said the government's decision was \"fitting\".\n\n\"It is our duty to keep the events of the past alive in collective memory, including future generations - this is how we ensure that such a conflict never happens again,\" he said.\n\n\"It is our hope that the nation takes a moment to reflect on the significance of this date, as a milestone that changed the course of history for the whole world,\" he added.\n\nThe May Day bank holiday has been moved only once before. It was changed from 1 May to 8 May in 1995 to mark the 50th anniversary of VE Day.", "Isobel Bytautas had been walking with a group when she was struck by lightning\n\nA woman killed by a lightning strike while hillwalking died as a result of a \"freak accident\".\n\nIsobel Bytautas, 55, from Selkirk, was among a group of seven walkers who were on Na Gruagaichean, near Ben Nevis, on Saturday when the lightning struck.\n\nThe Linlithgow Ramblers party, including another woman who was also hit, were airlifted to Fort William.\n\nAndy Nelson, from Glencoe Mountain Rescue team, said it was very rare for someone to be hit on a hill.\n\n\"I know there have been incidents around Lochaber at sea level but it's very, very rare and the first time I've experienced one being involved with a direct hit with lightning on a hill,\" he said.\n\n\"We're quite used to seeing nasty accidents but this was very unusual. I would say it was a freak accident.\"\n\nMr Nelson said he had been on the hill climbing with his family earlier the same day.\n\n\"The forecast mentioned that there was rain in the afternoon but no hint of thunder and lightning so it was a completely reasonable expedition for the group to undertake,\" he said.\n\n\"But if people do see or hear electrical activity coming towards them then descending immediately from any high ground as soon as is practicable and safe is definitely the best option.\"\n\nHe said the mountain rescue team of 14 was called out to the incident just before 18:00.\n\nThe walkers were airlifted off the mountain\n\nTompion Platt, from the Ramblers organisation, paid tribute to Ms Bytautas.\n\n\"We are all deeply shocked to hear this tragic news,\" he said.\n\n\"Our thoughts and sincerest condolences are with Isobel's family and friends - and with those of the other injured walker and Linlithgow group - today.\n\n\"Our focus now is on supporting those involved in any way we can.\"\n\nThe injured woman is in a stable condition in Belford Hospital, Fort William.\n\nA Coastguard helicopter, Glencoe Mountain Rescue Team and Scotland's Air Ambulance service all joined the rescue effort.\n\nPolice inspector Isla Campbell said: \"We are grateful for the prompt and professional response from partner agencies to this tragic incident and offer our condolences to the lady's family.\"\n\nNa Gruagaichean is in the Mamores mountain range", "Christopher Guest More Jr was added to Europe's most wanted list in April\n\nOne of Europe's most wanted fugitives, who has been on the run for 16 years, has been arrested in Malta over the brutal murder of a man.\n\nChristopher Guest More Jr, 41, left the UK after Brian Waters was tortured and beaten to death in front of his two adult children in 2003.\n\nHe is alleged to have gone to Mr Waters' farm in Knutsford, Cheshire, to settle a drugs debt.\n\nHe was arrested on Thursday night, the National Crime Agency (NCA) said.\n\nThree other men, John Wilson, 69, James Raven, 60, and Otis Matthews, 41, are serving life sentences for the murder of Mr Waters at Burnt House Farm in Tabley on 19 June 2003.\n\nMr Waters, 44, was running a cannabis farm when the men stormed the property to demand money.\n\nHe was tied to a chair before being whipped, burned, attacked with a staple gun, hung upside down and beaten and sexually assaulted with an iron bar during a three-hour ordeal in which he sustained 123 injuries.\n\nHis son, Gavin, was also attacked and his daughter, Natalie, who had just turned 21, was held at gunpoint, a trial heard.\n\nMr More Jr was wanted in connection with the murder, the attempted murder of a second man and the false imprisonment and assault of other victims at the scene.\n\nThe NCA said he was arrested in the Swieqi area of northern Malta in a joint operation with the Maltese authorities.\n\nNCA regional manager Graham Roberts said: \"We have waited a long, long time for this moment. We were never going to give up in the hunt.\n\n\"More Jr featured on the very successful Operation Captura fugitives hunt and, out of 96 fugitives, there are now just 12 evading justice.\"\n\nExtradition proceedings were started against Mr More Jr when he appeared in court in the Maltese capital, Valetta, earlier.\n\nHe has been remanded in custody until his next hearing on Monday.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Tory leadership candidate Michael Gove has said he \"deeply regrets\" taking cocaine more than 20 years ago.\n\nHe told the Daily Mail that he had taken the drug at several \"social events\" while working as a journalist.\n\nThe environment secretary said he believed the \"mistake\" should not be held against him in his bid to become prime minister.\n\nMembers of the party are due to vote for a new party leader after Theresa May stepped down from the role.\n\nMr Gove, who served as justice secretary from 2015-16, is one of 11 Tory MPs who have said they intend to stand in the contest to replace her, with the winner expected to be announced in late July.\n\nInternational Development Secretary Rory Stewart, who is one of those standing against him, has already apologised for smoking opium - a class A drug in the UK - at a wedding in Iran 15 years ago.\n\nBoris Johnson - who is the favourite to succeed Mrs May as Conservative leader - was asked about claims he had taken cocaine at university by Marie Claire magazine in 2008.\n\nHe replied: \"That was when I was 19.\"\n\nIn an appearance on Have I Got News For You in 2005, he admitted being given the drug but suggested he had not actually taken it, saying: \"I think I was once given cocaine but I sneezed and so it did not go up my nose. In fact, I may have been doing icing sugar.\"\n\nAnd Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt - another candidate - told the Times he had drunk a cannabis lassi while backpacking through India.\n\nMr Gove told the Mail: \"I took drugs on several occasions at social events more than 20 years ago. At the time I was a young journalist. It was a mistake. I look back and I think I wish I hadn't done that.\n\n\"I think all politicians have lives before politics. Certainly when I was working as a journalist I didn't imagine I would go into politics or public service.\n\n\"I didn't act with an eye to that. The question now is that people should look at my record as a politician and ask themselves, 'Is this person we see ready to lead now?'\n\n\"I have seen the damage drugs can do to others and that is why I deeply regret the decisions I took,\" he added.\n\nTheresa May will stay on as prime minister until her successor is chosen\n\nAs a Brexiteer, and with a wealth of cabinet experience, he ticks many boxes for his colleagues.\n\nThe environment secretary is expected to sail through the first few rounds of voting in Parliament.\n\nBut if he makes it to the final two, rank and file Tories might not quite be ready to forgive his past misdemeanours.\n\nThe 120,000 or so members are largely older people - and while it might not be the central issue in this leadership contest, they may take a dimmer view of drug-taking than younger generations.\n\nIt is notable that other candidates also seem to be taking the \"honesty is the best policy\" approach.\n\nThey have to tread carefully. The Tory membership is Conservative by name and conservative by nature.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Daily Mail assistant editor Simon Walters - who interviewed Mr Gove - said the confession was unlikely to affect support from MPs or party members in London - but that could change further away from the capital.\n\nHe said: \"In London, in metro-land, Tories in leafy Putney won't think much about it... but out in places like Petersfield in Hampshire when the membership decides, they take a more traditional view about these things and they may well feel it's a serious matter.\"\n\nHe added: \"I think he should be praised for his candour.\"\n\nMr Gove's fellow Tory leadership hopeful Dominic Raab, who has previously admitted smoking cannabis, told Today: \"I think Michael has set out that he made a mistake.\n\n\"It was a long time ago, people will judge it as it is but I do believe in a second chance society.\"\n\nHe added: \"I certainly don't feel it's barred him from this race in any way.\"\n\nTory leadership hopeful Dominic Raab said he believed in second chances\n\nOn Friday, Mrs May officially stepped down as the leader of the Conservative Party, but will remain as prime minister until her successor is chosen.\n\nLeadership nominations will close at 17:00 BST on Monday, the party has said.\n\nLeadership candidates need eight MPs to back them. MPs will then vote for their preferred candidates in a series of secret ballots held on 13, 18, 19 and 20 June.\n\nThe final two will be put to a vote of members of the wider Conservative Party from 22 June, with the winner expected to be announced about four weeks later.\n\nOn Tuesday 18 June BBC One will be hosting a live election debate between the Conservative MPs who are still in the race.\n\nIf you would like to ask the candidates a question live on air, use the form below. It should be open to all of them, not a specific politician.\n\nIf you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic.", "Children's talents are \"squandered\" by a failing and underfunded education system and unequal society, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has said.\n\nSpeaking at a party event in Brighton, he pledged to create a social justice commission to help tackle inequality.\n\nMr Corbyn added it was \"not right\" that some primary schools in England were having to stage events to raise money.\n\nThe education secretary rejected the claim that social mobility was currently focused on the \"lucky few\".\n\nThe Social Mobility Commission is an independent body that promotes social mobility in England, as well as highlighting the situation across Britain.\n\nUnder Labour's proposals, it would be replaced by a new body with extensive statutory powers and independence.\n\nA minister for social justice would be based in the Treasury and work across all government departments to address inequality.\n\nAsked how the work of a justice commission would differ from the social mobility commission, Mr Corbyn said: \"The approach is social justice for all rather than the ability of a very small number to achieve a higher position in society.\"\n\nHe added: \"The idea of social mobility where you pluck somebody out of poverty and promote them into a private school education or promote them somewhere else doesn't actually help the majority.\"\n\nMr Corbyn was speaking at a Labour event in Brighton\n\nMr Corbyn said \"some of the wisest people you meet are actually those that are driving buses, sweeping our streets or working in factories or shops\", adding: \"So much talent in our society is absolutely squandered and wasted because of obscene levels of poverty and inequality in Britain.\"\n\nLabour has said it wants to create a national education service and increase funding.\n\nMr Corbyn said: \"It's simply not right that our children should be sent on sponsored walks and sponsored runs and all the rest of it to raise money for basic equipment in schools that should be provided by the public purse in the first place.\"\n\nEducation Secretary Damian Hinds said Labour's proposals would \"downgrade the importance of social mobility\".\n\nHe said: \"There is not a conflict between fairness and social mobility - one requires the other... it is about breaking the cycle of disadvantage and making sure that everyone has the opportunity to fulfil their potential.\n\n\"Our education system is doing exactly that with the gap between disadvantaged children and those from a privileged background having narrowed at every stage: pre-school, primary, at GCSE and with more disadvantaged young people going to university than ever before.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Leyton Orient\n\nLeyton Orient manager Justin Edinburgh has died at the age of 49 - five days after suffering a cardiac arrest.\n\nEdinburgh, who guided Orient back into the English Football League in 2018-19, had been taken to hospital on Monday.\n\n\"We are completely heartbroken by this tragedy,\" Orient chairman Nigel Travis told the club's website.\n\nEdinburgh, who won the FA Cup as a Spurs player, managed Northampton Town, Gillingham and Newport County before moving to Orient in November 2017.\n\n\"All our thoughts and love are with the Edinburgh family and we know from the messages that have flooded into the club over the last week that the wider football world will share our sentiments,\" added Travis.\n\n\"The success that Justin brought to Leyton Orient was incredible, but more importantly the impact he had on us all as a winner and a wonderful, inspirational human being will be his legacy and will stay with us forever.\n\n\"All our thoughts are with Justin's wife Kerri and their children Charlie and Cydnie.\"\n\nAfter turning professional at Southend, Edinburgh - a left-back - spent a decade playing for Tottenham, making 258 appearances and winning the FA Cup in 1991 and League Cup in 1999 before moving to Portsmouth.\n\nHe became player-manager of non-league Billericay Town in 2003 before spells at Fisher Athletic and Rushden and Diamonds.\n\nHis managerial breakthrough came at Newport County, whom he led to promotion to League Two in 2013 having guided them to the FA Trophy final a year earlier.\n\nA 23-month spell at Gillingham from January 2015 followed, before nine months at Northampton in 2016-2017.\n\nHe was appointed Orient boss in November of 2017, and led the club to 45 wins in his 82 games in charge.\n\nOrient captain Jobi McAnuff tweeted a picture of himself and Edinburgh celebrating this season's National League title, saying: \"Totally and utterly devastated. You were so much more than a manager to me.\n\n\"Just doesn't feel real coming so soon after sharing some of my happiest moments with you. My thoughts, love and prayers go to the family at this truly terrible time. R.I.P Justin.\"\n\nOrient striker Macauley Bonne tweeted: \"There are no words to describe the loss of our gaffer, our leader & inspiration. He brought us all together - we're eternally grateful for everything you've done.\"\n\nFellow forward James Alabi said he was \"absolutely broken\" while defender Jamie Turley said he was: \"Devastated and lost for words at the loss of this great man. It was an honour to play for him. Truly an amazing and inspirational person in all aspects.\"\n\nDefender Marvin Ekpiteta tweeted he was \"lost for words\" while winger James Brophy posted: \"A wonderful man, who had a positive impact on everyone he met no matter how much time you'd spent with him! Never be forgotten! Thank you for everything.\"\n\nLeyton Orient Fans' Trust said in a statement that in his 18 months at the club, \"Justin became an Orient legend\".\n\nThey added: \"When Justin arrived, the team was still struggling but his shrewd and tenacious management helped turn our performances around and give us a team we could be proud of - one of the most likeable Orient teams we have known.\n\n\"He was clearly deeply liked and admired by his players, who owe him a great deal.\"\n\nFormer Orient chairman Barry Hearn tweeted: \"Words fall short of the sadness this news brings. A lovely man who achieved so much for Leyton Orient. He shall not be forgotten.\"\n\nBBC London's Orient reporter Dave Victor, who has reported on the club for several years, tweeted: \"It was an enormous pleasure and a privilege to have known and worked with him.\n\n\"Justin achieved so much with The O's and we knew it was just the beginning.\"\n\n'Players adored him and journalists loved him'\n\nBBC Sport Wales reporter Michael Pearlman, who covered Newport County for the local newspaper when Justin was manager:\n\nIt is no surprise to see such a rush from people within football paying tribute to Justin Edinburgh.\n\nWhile he spent virtually his entire playing career at the top level, Edinburgh had to do it the tough way in management, starting at the bottom.\n\nBecause of his character and ability, Edinburgh thrived at Billericay, Fisher and Rushden before I encountered him when he arrived at Newport County.\n\nJust as he did with Orient - either side of spells at Gillingham and Northampton - he took a club on its knees and made it proud again, going from relegation worries to promotion in unthinkably quick time.\n\nPlayers adored him because he knew how they wanted to be treated, and we as journalists loved him because whatever the result, he was always happy to be available and accountable, happy to talk morning, noon or night. He even texted me on my wedding day.\n\nI saw him go above and beyond in giving his time to supporters and the community time and time again and will remember him very fondly for his sense of humour, passion for football and, mainly, his dedication to his family.\n\nHis loss will be felt enormously.\n\nEdinburgh was in the Spurs side that beat Nottingham Forest in the 1991 FA Cup final.\n\nGary Lineker, a team-mate that day and now BBC Match of the Day presenter, tweeted: \"Deeply saddened to hear that Justin Edinburgh has passed away.\n\n\"He was an excellent coach and a terrific full-back who was a delight to share a dressing room with and have as a team-mate.\"\n\nFormer Spurs captain Ledley King posted: \"I can't believe this. Saw Justin last week and he was in great shape and full of life. He was genuinely one of the nicest guys you could meet. Thoughts and prayers to his family. RIP mate.\"\n\nPaul Stewart, who scored Spurs' equaliser in the 1991 final said he was \"gutted\" while Steve Sedgley tweeted: \"Devastated, A sad, sad, day, a truly great person.\"\n\nAnother former Tottenham teammate, David Ginola, tweeted: \"Justin Edinburgh....deeply shocked, deeply saddened... RIP my friend, I shall miss you.\"\n\nMeanwhile, former Spurs player and manager Glenn Hoddle tweeted he was \"devastated\" by \"the very sad and tragic news\".\n\nEdinburgh's former clubs were also among those to express their grief.\n\nSouthend, his first team as a player, sent their \"thoughts and heartfelt condolences\" to Edinburgh's family and friends and \"everyone at Leyton Orient\".\n\nNewport County said they were \"stunned and devastated\" by the news, while Northampton Town said: \"Everyone at Northampton Town Football Club is shocked and deeply saddened.\"\n\nPortsmouth said they were \"shocked and saddened\", adding: \"Everyone at Pompey would like to send their deepest condolences to Justin's wife Kerri, their children, and his family and friends at this difficult time.\"\n\nGillingham tweeted: \"The thoughts of everybody at Gillingham Football Club are with Justin Edinburgh's friends, family and colleagues at Leyton Orient at this very difficult time. Such sad news. RIP Justin Edinburgh.\"\n\nLeague Managers' Association chairman Howard Wilkinson said: \"Justin will be remembered by all in the game as a true professional. A hard-working man who became successful as a player at the highest level of the game and turned his love of football into a lifelong career as a coach and as a manager.\"\n\nGary Neville, who co-owns Salford City - who were beaten to the National League title by Orient - described Edinburgh as \"a champion that managed a team that played with your spirit\".\n\nCarlisle United director of football David Holdsworth said: \"Justin was a close personal friend and everyone is devastated at this news.\n\n\"He was a football man through and through and an extremely professional and well-respected player and manager. Words can't explain how sad we are and our thoughts are with his family and friends.\"", "Fashion entrepreneur Simon Suphandagli was granted a pop-up shop for London Fashion Week Men's, which he is using to help young fashion designers.\n\nDesigner Emay is fulfilling a childhood dream of his and being environmentally friendly at the same time.", "A woman has died in hospital a week after being bitten by a dog, Lancashire police have said.\n\nSharon Jennings, 55, had been walking on the old railway lines in Brookfield, Preston, on 31 May when her own dog began to fight with another dog.\n\nPolice say she was bitten on the hand and neck after intervening.\n\nThey want to trace the dog - described as being speckled ginger and black and of medium height - and its owner, a man with thinning grey-black hair.\n\nThey appealed to the man, said to have been wearing a blue fleece-type jacket, to come forward.\n\nDet Insp Chris Wellard added: \"Our thoughts are with Sharon's family and friends at this incredibly distressing time.\n\n\"We're working hard to establish what happened but need anyone with information to come forward as soon as possible.\"\n\nPolice said Ms Jennings had been out walking her dog between 18:00 and 19:30 BST.\n\nThey say she was found unwell at her home on 3 June and taken to Royal Preston Hospital, where she died four days later.", "MPs are to launch an inquiry into the UK's steel industry after the collapse of one of the sector's biggest firms.\n\nThe move by the Business Committee follows the liquidation of British Steel last month and concerns about the impact of Brexit on the steel industry.\n\nThe committee will look at the role of former owner Greybull Capital, and the government, in the company's collapse.\n\nMPs said they wanted to hold public evidence sessions with Greybull and the business secretary, among others.\n\nBritish Steel was placed into compulsory liquidation on 22 May, putting 5,000 jobs at risk and endangering 20,000 in the supply chain.\n\nIt followed a breakdown in rescue talks between the government and private equity firm Greybull.\n\nThe government is covering the firm's wage bill for now, but if a new buyer cannot be found it could be wound up and redundancies would follow.\n\nThe Official Receiver has said it has made contact with more than 80 potential buyers.\n\nRachel Reeves, who chairs the Business Committee, said: \"It is vital that the government and Official Receiver do all they can to secure a viable future for British Steel.\n\n\"However, as a select committee we want to examine questions around the collapse of British Steel and the government's approach, as well as about Greybull Capital's stewardship and its commitments to investing in its future.\n\n\"More broadly, we want to examine the serious challenges facing the future of the steel sector in the UK.\"\n\nMs Reeves said the inquiry would examine the serious challenges being faced by the steel sector in the UK.\n\nShe said long-term industry concerns on issues like energy costs and business rates had been \"largely unaddressed\" by the government.\n\nThe inquiry will also explore whether additional responsibilities should be required of the owners of national strategic assets.\n\nUnite's assistant general secretary Steve Turner welcomed the inquiry, adding: \"We need to look seriously at how a strategically important national industry has ended up in such a perilous, uncertain place, and then we need government to take the steps necessary to bring security to the sector.\"\n\nHe added that it was right that Greybull's role in the collapse was thoroughly examined.\n\nGreybull bought the business for £1 from Tata during depths of the 2016 steel crisis in the hopes of turning the business around, going on to rebrand it as British Steel.\n\nIt had sought financial support from the government before it was placed in liquidation.\n\nThe firm was hit by a slump in orders from European customers ‎due to uncertainty over Brexit, as well as a weakening in the pound since the 2016 EU referendum.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'I was and still am angry at bus attack'\n\nA boy aged 16 has been arrested over a homophobic attack which left two women covered in blood after refusing to kiss on a bus.\n\nMelania Geymonat, 28, said the attack on her and partner Chris happened on the top deck of a London night bus.\n\nA group of young men began harassing them when they discovered the women were a couple, asking them to kiss while making sexual gestures.\n\nFour other males aged between 15 and 18 were also arrested, the Met said.\n\nThe five suspects were questioned on suspicion of robbery and aggravated grievous bodily harm.\n\nThey have been bailed to a date in July and detectives are not looking for anyone else, Scotland Yard said.\n\nSpeaking about the attack, which happened in the early hours of 30 May, Ms Geymonat told BBC Radio 4's World at One she had previously experienced \"a lot of verbal violence\".\n\nBut she said she had never before been physically attacked because of her sexuality.\n\nMs Geymonat says she has not been able to go back to work since the attack\n\nAsked whether the attack left her less willing to show affection in public, Chris, who lives in north London but is originally from the US, said: \"I am not scared about being visibly queer.\n\n\"If anything, you should do it more.\"\n\nMs Geymonat, who is a doctor but currently works for Ryanair as a stewardess, said she agreed.\n\nChris said: \"I was and still am angry. It was scary, but this is not a novel situation.\"\n\nMelania Geymonat (right) and her date Chris were assaulted and robbed on a route N31 bus in Camden\n\nOver the five years to 2018, reported homophobic hate crimes across London have increased from 1,488 in 2014 to 2,308 in 2018, according to the Met Police's crime dashboard.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "George Hamilton was appointed chief constable of the PSNI five years ago\n\nNorthern Ireland's top police officer has been awarded a knighthood in the Queen's Birthday Honours list.\n\nGeorge Hamilton is among more than 70 people from Northern Ireland to receive honours.\n\nMr Hamilton joined the RUC in 1985 and has been chief constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) since June 2014.\n\nOn twitter on Saturday, he said he was \"delighted\" to receive the honour.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by George Hamilton This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFeargal Sharkey receives an OBE for services to music. Once the lead singer with The Undertones, he went on to have a successful solo career.\n\nFeargal Sharkey in 1978, when The Undertones appeared on Top of the Pops\n\nHe subsequently took on a number of public roles as a member of the Radio Authority and as head of UK Music, representing the interests of the UK commercial music industry.\n\nMeanwhile, one of Ireland's most famous priests is to receive an OBE.\n\nFr Brian D'Arcy became familiar to Radio 2 listeners through his presence on the station's breakfast show with Terry Wogan and Chris Evans\n\nFr Brian D'Arcy describes himself as a Passionist priest, author, newspaper columnist and broadcaster, and his voice is familiar to listeners of BBC Radio Ulster and BBC Radio 2.\n\nIn the past, Fr D'Arcy has spoken out against mandatory celibacy for priests, church teaching on contraception and has been a vocal critic of the handling of clerical sexual abuse.\n\nWhen offered the honour, he said he checked with fellow Fermanagh man Viscount Brookeborough who told him it would be for services to cross-community relations.\n\n\"You had to say 'yes' if that's what it was for,\" Fr D'Arcy said, adding that as a Christian he should be doing it anyway.\n\nRichard Williams has taken a lead role in developing the film industry in Northern Ireland\n\nThe growing importance of the film industry in Northern Ireland is acknowledged with an OBE for Richard Williams, the chief executive of Northern Ireland Screen.\n\nThe body has taken a lead role in developing the industry in the past decade.\n\nUnder his leadership, Northern Ireland Screen developed the Paint Hall in Belfast's Titanic Quarter as a film studio which became home for HBO's blockbuster drama series, Game of Thrones.\n\nPolice Ombudsman Dr Michael Maguire is due to leave the post next month\n\nThe outgoing Police Ombudsman, Dr Michael Maguire, has been awarded a CBE for services to justice.\n\nBefore becoming ombudsman in July 2012, Dr Maguire was chief inspector of the Criminal Justice Inspectorate.\n\nDuring his time in office, he has had to deal with numerous controversial issues, including the police inquiries into the killing of Robert McCartney by the IRA in 2005, and the murder of five people at a Sean Grahams' Bookmakers' shop in 1992.\n\nIt was the alleged theft of files connected to the Loughinisland killings from the ombudsman's office that led to the arrest of journalists Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey last year, and the seizure of documents from their homes and office.\n\nAnother of Northern Ireland's most prominent public servants becomes a companion of the Order of the Bath (CB).\n\nKieran Donnelly has been Comptroller and Auditor General since 2009.\n\nHe heads the Northern Ireland Audit Office, which ensures value-for-money in the spending of public finances.\n\nUnder his leadership, the Audit Office has issued reports on matters such as the health service, prisons, schools and the controversial Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) Scheme.\n\nThe majority of recipients of the 2019 Birthday Honours are people who have undertaken outstanding work in their communities across Northern Ireland and in spheres as diverse as textile art, cancer care, scouting and mental health services.", "The council chief was shot in the head, police confirmed earlier\n\nOne person has been detained and released in connection with the shooting of a German politician, which shocked the country a week ago.\n\nWalter Lübcke, 65, head of the regional council in Kassel, was found dead in his garden last Saturday night.\n\nA person was taken into custody \"provisionally\" and released overnight, the police said.\n\nOne German paper says the detainee was a \"younger man\" who said he was in a \"private relationship\" with the victim.\n\nThe shooting happened in the quiet village of Istha\n\nLübcke was a leading member of the ruling centre-right CDU in the central German state of Hesse, running the authority in one of its three areas for the past decade.\n\nPolice ruled out suicide, raising fears his shooting was politically motivated because of death threats made after he stood up to the far right in the past.\n\nHis body was found at 00:30 on Sunday morning (22:30 GMT Saturday) on the terrace of his home in the village of Istha, police said. He was declared dead two hours later. He left a wife and two grown-up children.\n\nIstha, which is home to only 900 people, had been hosting a beer festival, which ended that Saturday and one local report speculated that he might have met someone at the time of the event.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"I was and still am angry\"\n\nTwo women who were left covered in blood following a homophobic attack on a bus have said they will not be cowed into hiding their sexuality.\n\nMelania Geymonat, 28, and Chris, 29, say they were attacked by several males on the top deck of a London night bus in the early hours of 30 May after they refused to kiss one other.\n\nBoth women were treated in hospital for facial injuries.\n\nFour male teenagers aged between 15 and 18 have been arrested.\n\nAsked whether the attack left her less willing to show affection in public, Chris, who lives in north London but is originally from the US, said: \"I am not scared about being visibly queer.\n\n\"If anything, you should do it more.\"\n\nMs Geymonat, who is a doctor but currently works for Ryanair as a stewardess, said she agreed.\n\nChris said: \"I was and still am angry. It was scary, but this is not a novel situation.\"\n\nMelania Geymonat (right) and her date Chris were assaulted and robbed on a route N31 bus in Camden\n\nOver the five years to 2018, reported homophobic hate crimes across London have increased from 1,488 in 2014 to 2,308 in 2018, according to the Met Police's crime dashboard.\n\nChris added: \"A lot of people's rights and basic safety are at risk. I want people to feel emboldened to stand up to the same people who feel emboldened by the right-wing populism that is, I feel, responsible for the escalation in hate crimes.\n\n\"I want people to take away from this that they should stand up for themselves and each other.\"\n\nMs Geymonat, who lives in Bishop's Stortford in Hertfordshire but is originally from Uruguay, said she felt the violence had not been directed at them only because they are \"women who are dating each other, but also because we are women\".\n\nThe Met Police said the four teenagers were arrested on suspicion of committing aggravated grievous bodily harm and robbery.\n\nThey have been taken to separate London police stations for questioning.\n\nOfficers are continuing to appeal for witnesses and information after the women were assaulted and robbed on a route N31 bus in Camden.\n\nDet Supt Andy Cox described the attack as \"disgusting\".\n\nBus operator Metroline said there was CCTV footage of the attack and it was co-operating with police, who have said they are \"following up\" on footage of the assault.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Many Venezuelans crossed the border to buy basic goods\n\nTens of thousands of people crossed the border with Venezuela and Colombia after it reopened for the first time in four months on Saturday, officials say.\n\nThe crossing was closed in February at President Nicolás Maduro's request as opposition leader Juan Guaidó prepared to bring in US-backed humanitarian aid.\n\nThe country has faced shortages of basic supplies as a result of a severe years-long economic crisis.\n\nMore than four million people have fled Venezuela since 2015, UN agencies say.\n\nAccording to Colombia's foreign ministry, more than 30,000 Venezuelans arrived on Saturday, with almost 37,000 leaving by the end of the day.\n\nThe borders with Colombia, Brazil and Dutch Antilles islands were all closed earlier this year after the opposition organised the delivery of foreign aid, which was denounced by Mr Maduro as part of an effort to remove him.\n\nLast month, Mr Maduro announced the reopening of the border with Brazil and the island of Aruba, but Aruban authorities said the border would remain closed.\n\nAnnouncing the reopening of the border with Colombia on Twitter, Mr Maduro - who has blamed the country's crisis on a Washington-led economic war - said (in Spanish): \"We're a people of peace that strongly defends our independence and self-determination.\"\n\nThousands of people queued to cross the border\n\nThe closures had caused problems for towns along the border that have come to rely on Colombian cities for essential products and services, and many people have crossed illegally, at times having to pay tolls to criminals controlling passage.\n\nBefore it closed, some 30,000 people a day would cross the Simon Bolivar International Bridge every day, AFP news agency said.\n\nThe crisis in Venezuela deepened in January after Mr Guaidó, head of the National Assembly, declared himself interim president, arguing that Mr Maduro's re-election last year had been \"illegitimate\".\n\nHe has since been recognised by more than 50 countries, including the US and most of Latin America. But Mr Maduro retains the loyalty of most of the military and important allies such as China and Russia.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What are the real reasons behind Venezuela’s blackouts?\n\nIn April, Mr Guaidó led a failed attempt to spark a military rebellion against Mr Maduro, who described the effort as part of a US-orchestrated coup.\n\nSince then, close allies of Mr Guaidó have been arrested. While his parliamentary immunity has been lifted, he has so far not been jailed.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Venezuela crisis: The four countries interested in the presidential battle\n\nMeanwhile, Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie, special envoy for the UN refugee agency (UNHCR), said there was an urgent need for the international community to give greater support to Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, some of the countries with the most Venezuelan refugees.\n\nAfter meeting with Colombia's President Iván Duque in Cartagena, she warned that more than 20,000 Venezuelan children, born abroad to displaced families, were at risk of statelessness as their parents were struggling to obtain the necessary documents.\n\nOn Friday, the UNHCR and International Organization for Migration (IOM) said the exodus from the country meant that Venezuelans were now \"one of the single largest population groups displaced from their country\".", "Experts say the government should be frank about the inter-dependence of civilian and military nuclear\n\nEnergy bills in the UK are inflated partly because households are subsidising nuclear submarines, MPs have been told.\n\nExperts think one government motive for backing civilian nuclear power is to cross-subsidise the defence industry.\n\nThey say nuclear power is so expensive that it should be scrapped in favour of much cheaper renewable energy.\n\nOthers argue that nuclear still plays a key role in keeping on the lights, so the military aspect is not significant.\n\nBut in evidence to MPs on the Business Select Committee, researchers from the University of Sussex said the government should be frank about the inter-dependence of the civilian nuclear programme and the nuclear defence industry.\n\nProf Andy Stirling from Sussex argues that one reason the government is willing to burden householders with the expense of nuclear energy is because it underpins the supply chain and skills base for firms such as Rolls Royce and Babcock that work on nuclear submarines.\n\nHe said: “It is clear that the costs of maintaining nuclear submarine capabilities are insupportable without parallel consumer-funded civil nuclear infrastructures.\n\nThe government gave its approval for the Hinkley Point C nuclear power station in 2016\n\n“The accelerating competitiveness of renewable energy and declining viability of nuclear power are making this continuing dependency increasingly difficult to conceal.”\n\nRolls Royce, which makes reactors for nuclear submarines, has been pressing the government to agree a fleet of small modular reactors for power generation in the UK. This civilian technology would be transferable to submarines.\n\nA spokesperson for the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) said: \"We believe having a diverse energy mix is the best way of ensuing energy security while allowing us to meet our climate commitments.\n\n\"Nuclear has an important role to play as we transition to a low-carbon economy, but as with any technology, it must represent good value for money for the taxpayer and consumer.\"\n\nThe committee is expected to release the evidence in coming days as it prepares to discuss whether the UK really needs nuclear power for energy security.\n\nThe debate has taken on greater significance as the true costs of nuclear power have been revealed.\n\nIt was once forecast that nuclear energy would be too cheap to meter. But it's clear now that bill-payers will give price support to the Hinkley Point C nuclear station at a cost of £92.50 per megawatt hour, compared with the cheapest agreed future subsidy of £57.50 for offshore wind.\n\nMinisters expect that, before long, wind energy will operate without support.\n\nProf Stirling says the issue of nuclear inter-dependence is addressed openly in the US.\n\nIn 2017, the former US Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz (a nuclear scientist) said: “A strong domestic (nuclear) supply chain is needed to provide for Navy requirements. This has a very strong overlap with commercial nuclear energy.”\n\nProf Stirling told BBC News: \"We need this sort of transparency in the UK.\"\n\nBut the government faces a Catch-22 situation on this issue.\n\nIf it continues to decline to admit the inter-dependence of civil and military nuclear, it will stand accused of hiding a self-evident truth.\n\nBut if it accepts that decisions on nuclear power are influenced with half an eye on manufacturing jobs and nuclear deterrent, it will face resistance from consumer groups unwilling to cross-subsidise submarines.\n\nThe MPs’ hearing is timely, as the government will shortly publish an energy white paper outlining how the UK will supply electricity in a zero carbon economy.", "US President Donald Trump has denied calling the Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle, \"nasty\" despite the comments being recorded.\n\n\"I never called Meghan Markle 'nasty',\" he tweeted on Sunday, adding: \"Made up by the Fake News Media, and they got caught cold!\"\n\nMr Trump made his remarks about the duchess in a Sun newspaper interview ahead of his state visit to the UK.\n\nThe US former actress has been a vocal critic of Mr Trump.\n\nShe supported his Democratic challenger, Hillary Clinton, in the 2016 election and has referred to him as \"divisive\" and a \"misogynist\".\n\nTold of her comments during his interview with the Sun, President Trump said it was the first time he had heard them.\n\n\"I didn't know that. What can I say? I didn't know that she was nasty,\" he said.\n\nHe went on to say that he was glad she had joined the royal family and he believed she would make a \"very good\" princess.\n\n\"It is nice, and I am sure she will do excellently,\" he said.\n\nOn Saturday the Sun posted an audio recording of the interview on its website.\n\nFollowing Mr Trump's denial on Twitter the day after the interview was published, several commentators pointed out that the remarks were on tape.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Nick Bryant This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe duchess, married to Britain's Prince Harry, gave birth to the couple's first child in May. She is on maternity leave and not expected to meet President Trump during his visit from 3 to 5 June.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "For any prime minister, handling a president like Donald Trump is like trying to hold on to a Ming vase walking across a recently polished, slippery parquet floor.\n\nHe's a leader who glories in the unpredictable, who seems to wake up every morning wondering what controversy he can provoke, what headlines he can create.\n\nHis reason for being is therefore from the start in contrast with the stiff choreography of a state visit.\n\nBut No 10 will be relieved that the formalities with the PM today were free of mishap. And, as Theresa May readies herself for the exit, Donald Trump, who has definitely embarrassed her in the past, didn't repeat that habit today.\n\nInstead, he spoke warmly of her, suggesting that history may judge her much more kindly than the manner of her departure suggests.\n\nBut some of the most notable remarks were not related to the prime minister in any case, but to what's next.\n\nWhether you are overjoyed about Theresa May leaving or not, it is telling that the three names Donald Trump mentioned immediately when asked about the next leader were Boris Johnson, Jeremy Hunt, and Michael Gove, categorising them deliberately or not as the three most likely candidates to win the keys to No 10.\n\nAll three have been invited to meet Donald Trump. You wouldn't expect the US president to invite the football team of candidates for the job to spend time with him on this visit. But it's notable that neither Sajid Javid nor Matt Hancock - both cabinet contenders - received invites to talk or to meet. Nor did one of the other Brexiteer frontrunners, Dominic Raab.\n\nOf course, smart candidates could even turn the lack of invitation to their advantage. Donald Trump won't of course have a say in this race and he is such a Marmite politician that chumming up to him is not necessarily an advantage for any of the wannabes.\n\nBut the invite list does tell us something about the state of the race right now. And in the next 24 hours we'll see whom, beyond Nigel Farage, the president actually meets one-on-one.\n\nThe other striking note was not about Theresa May either, even though, as her last big appearance alongside a foreign leader it was, in a way, a very grand leaving do. Instead, it was the Labour leader who featured.\n\nIt's not exactly surprising that the two men would not be bosom buddies. Politically they have a greater distance between them than the width of the Atlantic.\n\nMr Trump revealed not just (no real surprise) that he doesn't think much of Jeremy Corbyn, apt when Jeremy Corbyn doesn't think much of him either. He also revealed that Mr Corbyn had asked him to meet and that he, after considering his request, had decided not to do so.\n\nThe Labour leader has always said that he is interested in dialogue. But his position does appear rather curious.\n\nMr Corbyn chose very publicly not to attend the dinner for Mr Trump last night at the Queen's invitiation. He then led - very publicly - the protests against the president today. Yet we now know that he had actually asked for a meeting of his own, but was then rebuffed.\n\nDiplomacy, or the lack of it, can be a complicated business. We've learnt that from observing Donald Trump and Theresa May over the last few years.\n\nBut those pitfalls won't disappear when the prime minister does. Now Jeremy Corbyn and the contenders for the Tory crown are all too aware of that.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nChange UK has lost six of its 11 MPs following a disappointing performance in last month's EU elections, when it failed to get a single MEP elected.\n\nThe party announced that a new party leader, Anna Soubry, had been elected.\n\nShe said she was \"deeply disappointed\" that Heidi Allen, Chuka Umunna, Sarah Wollaston, Angela Smith, Luciana Berger and Gavin Shuker had left.\n\nThe departing MPs said they would be \"returning to supporting each other as an independent grouping of MPs\".\n\nChange UK - formerly known as the Independent Group - was formed earlier this year by MPs who quit Labour and the Conservatives.\n\nIt pledged to push for any Brexit deal negotiated by the government to be voted on at a referendum - or \"People's Vote\" - in which it would campaign for the UK to remain in the EU.\n\nBut in last month's European Parliament elections, it gained only 3.4% of the vote.\n\nA joint statement from the six outgoing members said their priority was now \"to provide collegiate leadership to bring people together in the national interest\".\n\n\"We know the landscape will continue to shift within the political environment and have concluded that by returning to sit as independents, we will be best placed to work cross-party and respond flexibly.\n\n\"We wish our colleagues well as they continue to build Change UK.\"\n\nIn a personal statement, former Labour MP Mr Umunna called for the \"Remain forces\" in Parliament to \"work even more closely together\", especially at the next general election, and urged them to \"regroup and consolidate activity to maximise our impact\".\n\n\"The movement built around Change UK has an important role to play in this,\" said Mr Umunna. \"However, whilst I believe it should carry on as an organisation, I do not believe Change UK should carry on in its current form.\n\n\"This has put me in a fundamentally different place not only to other Change UK parliamentary colleagues, but also its activists and candidates who should be free to take the party in the direction they wish.\"\n\nFormer Conservative Ms Soubry, who has taken over from Ms Allen as leader, said she was disappointed the split had come \"at such a crucial time in British politics\".\n\n\"Now is not the time to walk away, but instead to roll up our sleeves and stand up for the sensible mainstream centre ground which is unrepresented in British politics today.\"\n\nShe said the party was \"as determined to fix Britain's broken politics as we were when we left our former parties\".\n\nBBC political correspondent Ben Wright said there had \"clearly been turmoil in the party's ranks for number of weeks\".\n\n\"It has been obvious that there was an internal disagreement over where the party should be positioning itself, what its long term tactics should be, whether it should be cosying up to the Lib Dems or maintaining itself as an independent party,\" he said.\n\n\"Change UK was being squeezed by the other parties campaigning for Remain and didn't keep the momentum going that it had earlier in the year when it launched.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAfter the split was announced, Change UK sent an email to members, appealing for their \"help and support going forward\".\n\nIt added: \"While British politics slips into chaos around us, now is the time to stand firm in our beliefs and champion the mainstream centre ground values we articulated when we left our former parties in the first place.\"\n\nThe outgoing leader of the Liberal Democrats, Sir Vince Cable, said it was \"not at all surprising\" that the party had split, but his \"door was always open\" if they wanted to join his instead.\n\nHe told the BBC he had heard \"rumours\" and it would be \"ideal\" if the departing MPs became Lib Dems, but said: \"I don't want to comment on that before there is any official announcement.\"\n\nSir Vince added: \"I don't want to gloat over their failure. It was a failure, but we have got to move on and I want to be positive about it.\n\n\"I am simply acknowledging the fact they have tried this project, they are brave people, they broke away from their parties and they deserve credit for that, but setting up a new centre party in the British centre doesn't work.\"", "Trade tensions between the US and China are weighing on global economic growth\n\nThe global economy is weakening, according to a new assessment from the World Bank.\n\nThe bank said it now expects growth of 2.6% for 2019 edging up to 2.7% the following year.\n\nThe slowdown is widespread, according to the Bank's economists, affecting many countries.\n\nAnd there are risks to even this subdued outlook, including the uncertainty for business created by international trade tensions.\n\nOne of the lead authors of the report, Franziska Ohnsorge, said the World Bank had warned in its previous forecasts six months ago of darkening skies.\n\n\"Then it was a forecast\" she told the BBC. \"But now we see it in the data.\"\n\nIn January, the World Bank changed its outlook for 2019 from 3% growth to 2.9%.\n\nThere has been a \"broad based disappointment\" affecting trade, investment and manufacturing and developed as well as emerging economies, Ms Ohnsorge said.\n\nTrade conflict has been an important factor behind the weaker growth, in particular the tension between the US and China.\n\nBetween them, the two countries account for a third of global economic activity. Ms Ohnsorge said the uncertainty has an impact on investment by business\n\nIt has been recurrent theme in the World Bank's analysis.\n\nChina's growth is expected to continue to slow.\n\nIn the three decades up to 2010 the annual average was 10%. The forecast for this year is 6.2%\n\nThat partly reflects a deliberately encouraged slowdown which the Chinese government has sought to achieve, believing as most economists also do, that the earlier growth rate could not be sustained much longer.\n\nSo far, it has been reasonably orderly and the \"hard landing\" that many feared has not materialised.\n\nBut there is also an element of trade tension in the slower growth that China is expected to record this year.\n\nGlobal economic weakness has a key impact on the Bank's principal role: to promote economic development and the reduction of poverty.\n\nAfrica's economy is growing but not enough to reduce poverty on the continent, said the World Bank\n\nDavid Malpass, who was recently named as president of the World Bank by Donald Trump, said \"Stronger economic growth is essential to reducing poverty and improving living standards.\"\n\nFigures for Africa are particularly troublesome in his respect.\n\nAlthough the bank is forecasting somewhat stronger growth there this year than last - at 2.9% - it is still not enough to significantly reduce poverty on the continent.", "Donald Trump's first visit to Ireland as US president has created quite a stir.\n\nAlthough he met Taoiseach Leo Varadkar at Shannon Airport, the bulk of his time has been spent at his golf resort in Doonbeg.\n\nBBC News NI asked residents of the County Clare town what they made of their famous guest.", "Khuram Butt, Rachid Redouane and Youssef Zaghba carried out the London Bridge attacks\n\nThe police officer in charge of the investigation into one of the London Bridge attackers has denied chances were missed to thwart the attack before it happened, an inquest has heard.\n\nThe inquest previously heard there were \"opportunities galore\" to identify those plotting the attack.\n\nBut on Wednesday, the officer, known as Witness M, said that was not the case.\n\nEight people were killed and a further 48 injured in the knife and van attack, which was carried out on 3 June 2017.\n\nKhuram Butt, 27, Rachid Redouane, 30, and Youssef Zaghba, 22, were shot and killed by police less than 10 minutes after the violence began.\n\nThe inquest into the victims' deaths is being held at London's Old Bailey court.\n\nSuggestions of missed opportunities relate to a gym where the three attackers had been meeting and also a primary school where two of them worked.\n\nWitness M acknowledged that his team knew that Butt was attending the Ummah Fitness Centre in east London, but did not investigate it further to discover that Butt was meeting regularly with his two accomplices there.\n\nWitness M also acknowledged that his team had not discovered that the gym was connected to a figure who, the court heard, had alleged links to a terrorist training camp in Pakistan.\n\nGareth Patterson QC, representing six of the victims' families, suggested the police failure to look at the gym and the school was \"a very real missed opportunity in the months leading up to the attack\" - and that the enquiry team had been \"operationally blinkered\".\n\nBut Witness M insisted that theirs was an \"intelligence led\" operation and MI5 had not offered evidence that would support further enquiries into the gym.\n\n\"There was no intelligence that suggested the gym was significant prior to the attack, and we followed the intelligence around a number of schools and it was uncorroborated,\" he said.\n\nAsked if he believed opportunities to stop the terror plot were missed, he said: \"There is nothing I could look back on and say 'this was a missed opportunity around a significant disruption', nor was there anything that we had in our possession at the time that indicated any attack was being planned.\"\n\nMr Patterson suggested extremist material found on Butt's phone and laptop when he was arrested for fraud in 2016 showed he had an \"obsession\" with Isis and a willingness to die.\n\nThe material included images of Isis executions and suicide bombers, a terrorist propaganda magazine Dabiq, pictures of Isis captives with guns held to their head, and an image of a man with a spade embedded in his face.\n\nThe victims of the attack, clockwise from top left - Chrissy Archibald, James McMullan, Alexandre Pigeard, Sebastien Belanger, Ignacio Echeverria, Xavier Thomas, Sara Zelenak, Kirsty Boden\n\nThere was also a home video of Butt cutting the throat of a cow and comparing it to the massacre of 600 Jewish men.\n\nWhatsApp messages had been exchanged with the extremist preacher Ahmed Musa Jibril asking if people have visions of the future before death, and Jibril suggesting he would see Butt in paradise.\n\nWitness M said: \"This rhetoric, this conversation, this mindset we see right the way across the spectrum of all the subjects of interest we deal with.\n\n\"None of this material shows that he was planning for an attack or that any offence had been committed.\"\n\nOn Tuesday, the inquest heard the team investigating one of the attackers was not told he had been reported to an anti-terror hotline.\n\nButt's brother-in-law had reported his increasing radicalisation in September 2015.\n\nIn the same month MI5 assessed Butt as wanting to stage a terror attack but lacking the ability to do so.\n\nOne of the attackers' widows described his last words to her on the day of the attack.\n\nCharisse O'Leary had separated from Redouane but they had a young daughter together.\n\nAs he dropped their daughter off she checked if he was planning to see her again the next day\n\n\"I asked him if he was seeing her tomorrow,\" Ms O'Leary told the inquest. \"He didn't reply. He just made a quick exit and said he'd forgotten his phone.\"\n\nCounsel to the inquests Jonathan Hough QC asked her: \"Did you have any inkling at all that he was capable of such violence?\"\n\nMr Hough asked: \"Did you have any inkling at all that he harboured such extreme views to carry out such an attack?\"\n\nBreaking down in tears, she recalled her reaction when she found out what he had done, telling the court she was \"shocked that he was capable of doing something like that\".\n\nXavier Thomas, 45, Christine Archibald, 30, Sara Zelenak, 21, Sebastien Belanger, 36, James McMullan, 32, Kirsty Boden, 28, Alexandre Pigeard, 26, and Ignacio Echeverria, 39, were all killed in the attack.", "Donald Trump has visited the Republic of Ireland for the first time since he became president of the United States.\n\nHe arrived at Shannon Airport in County Clare at about 16:45 local time and held a short meeting with Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Leo Varadkar.\n\nThe pair discussed Brexit and the Irish border, corporation tax and Irish-American trade links.\n\nMr Trump then travelled by helicopter to nearby Doonbeg to stay at his golf resort which he purchased in 2014.\n\nSecurity was tight as Air Force One touched down at Shannon Airport\n\nThe Trumps arrived on Air Force One in Ireland at about 16:45 local time\n\nLeo Varadkar welcomed Donald and Melania Trump to Ireland on the tarmac at Shannon Airport\n\nDonald and Melania Trump signed the visitors book at Shannon Airport\n\nThe president and taoiseach spoke to reporters before holding a private meeting\n\nCrowds gathered to try and get a glimpse of the American president\n\nSupporters of the American president came to see his arrival\n\nAnti-Trump protesters demonstrated against his visit with placards and banners\n\nSome protesters criticised the US president's stance on climate change and human rights\n\nThe Trumps travelled from Shannon to Doonbeg in the president's helicopter, Marine One\n\nGardaí (Irish police) stood guard in Doonbeg as the village awaited the famous guest\n\nIrish soldiers search fields as part of a security operation near the entrance to Mr Trump's golf resort\n\nSome Doonbeg residents waved US flags to show their support for the president\n\nThe County Clare village put on a show for their American guests\n\nDonald Trump's sons, Donald Jr (left), and Eric Trump (right), got behind the bar in Doonbeg\n\nUS First Lady, Melania Trump, meets Irish dancers at a welcome function\n\nMelania Trump spoke to performers and musicians during her visit to County Clare", "Sir Philip Green has won the backing of the Pension Protection Fund (PPF) for his plan to rescue Arcadia ahead of a crucial vote on Wednesday.\n\nThe owner of Topshop has struck a £385m deal to secure its pension schemes, including a £100m contribution from Lady Cristina Green, Sir Philip's wife and Arcadia's largest shareholder.\n\nThe PPF said it would now \"vote in support\" of Arcadia's restructure.\n\nBut the plan, which includes closing 50 stores, needs the backing of landlords.\n\nThey would have to agree to a rent cut on Arcadia's stores, which also include Burton, Miss Selfridge, Dorothy Perkins and Wallis.\n\nThe restructuring would be done through a company voluntary arrangement (CVA), an insolvency process that allows a business to reach an agreement with its creditors to pay off all or part of its debts.\n\nIn a deal with The Pensions Regulator, trustees of Arcadia's pension schemes will be granted security over £210m worth of assets by the company, up from a previous offer of £185m.\n\nLady Green will inject £100m into the schemes over three years.\n\nAnd Arcadia will make £75m worth of contributions to the company's pension schemes.\n\nOliver Morley, chief executive of the PPF, said: \"We are pleased that the company and shareholder have agreed a funding and security package for the scheme. Based on this commitment, we will now vote in support of the Arcadia Group Limited CVA tomorrow.\"\n\nBut he added: \"While we are the largest creditor in this CVA, other creditors will also need to agree the terms for it to be successful.\"\n\nArcadia's chief executive Ian Grabiner, said: \"We hope that the landlords and other creditors will follow suit and we can get the company back on a strong footing in all the markets where we trade.\"\n\nConsumer expert Kate Hardcastle said the pension deficit has been \"one of the biggest pressures\" on Arcadia.\n\n\"It might change a few minds absolutely,\" she said. \"But I'd still say the result of the CVA vote is not certain. This will alleviate a lot of concerns, however.\"\n\nArcadia currently has more than 560 shops across the UK and Ireland, and employs 22,000 staff.\n\nIt has already shut 200 of its UK stores over the past three years amid intensifying competition from a crop of more contemporary \"fast fashion\" retailers ranging from High Street chains such as Zara and H&M to pure online players like Asos.\n\nArcadia has also faced the same problems as other bricks and mortar retailers, including rising business rates and labour costs, too many unprofitable stores and inflexible leases that make it hard to close failing shops.\n\nIn my teenage years almost every Saturday was spent moving from one Arcadia store to another - from crowding into Miss Selfridge photo booths for pictures with friends to fawning over the Kate Moss collection in Topshop.\n\nThe good old days? Kate Moss unveils her fashion collection for Topshop in 2007\n\nToday's teenagers have grown up expecting to order clothes to their home and buy them on their phone.\n\nBoohoo, Misguided, and PrettyLittleThing have so many cheaper items available that they've hooked a younger generation who expect to wear an item once, post a picture on Instagram and then buy something else for the next Friday night.\n\nBut Arcadia hasn't held onto those in their 30s who were loyal for years.\n\nThe fact that Topshop haven't stocked above size 18 in their stores is alienating for women with changing body shapes.\n\nThe campaign to boycott TopShop after the removal of a pop-up stand promoting a book on feminism did the company no favours. Negative publicity about Sir Philip Green has done nothing to help a business so closely associated with him personally.\n\nFor many in an age group increasingly conscious about the impact of their spending, the teenage crush on Topshop is over.\n\nMs Hardcastle said even if the rescue deal is passed, Arcadia will still have a lot more work to do.\n\n\"There is a lot of fat within the Arcadia group and it faces a lot of challenges. It is hard to look at the business and say that anything will be the saviour of the organisation.\n\n\"It is a pretty wobbly table and people will look at how many legs it needs to prop it up.\"\n• None Sir Philip Green charged with assault in US", "Michael Barrymore says he still \"hopes for answers\" over the death of Stuart Lubbock\n\nEntertainer Michael Barrymore has made an emotional apology over the death of a man found in his swimming pool.\n\nThe comedian said he \"couldn't be more sorry\" for the death of Stuart Lubbock in 2001, but was \"100% innocent\".\n\nHe told Piers Morgan's Life Stories he hoped for \"an answer... within what is left of my life\".\n\nIn 2007 Barrymore was arrested in connection with the death of the 31-year-old but later released and withdrew from public life.\n\nMr Lubbock's body was found in the pool at Barrymore's home in Roydon, Essex, after a party where drugs and alcohol were taken.\n\nMr Lubbock was found dead in the entertainer's swimming pool in 2001\n\nBarrymore, 67, fled and then stayed silent during an inquest into Mr Lubbock's death.\n\nHe told Morgan he had left his home in fear that it would be \"surrounded\" by press.\n\nRecalling the events of 2001, he said: \"That family deserves proper answers. No parent should have to bury their young.\n\n\"I had nothing to do with Stuart. I am innocent. I am not 99.9% innocent. I am 100% innocent and I am entitled to walk around with my head held high for the rest of my life.\"\n\nBarrymore added: \"I didn't facilitate him taking drugs. I was advised (to stay silent) by lawyers at the time. You don't have to answer in a coroners court.\n\n\"I can see lots of things in hindsight. I'm not making excuses.\n\n\"What more do you want? I'm sorry. I couldn't be more sorry.\n\n\"I have to live in hope that somehow, somewhere, there will be an answer. I just hope it will be within what is left of my life.\"\n\nBarrymore's Essex home became the centre of inquiries into how Stuart Lubbock died\n\nOf the Life Stories interview, Mr Lubbock's father Terry said: \"I shall be watching, as I have been for the last 18 years of my life story.\n\n\"My fight for justice for my son Stuart continues.\"\n\nIn 2002, an open verdict was recorded at the inquest into Mr Lubbock' death.\n\nBarrymore won compensation in 2017 from Essex Police for wrongful arrest.\n\nBut Essex Police won an appeal in December 2018 to ensure the entertainer would only receive nominal damages.\n\nThe force said a Court of Appeal hearing had affirmed that there were reasonable grounds to arrest Barrymore.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Tim Smith said: \"Attacking hardworking front line policemen and women on national TV is unfair, particularly when some of what is being reported is simply wrong.\n\n\"The investigation into Stuart's death, and how he sustained such serious injuries is still open.\n\n\"We owe it to him and to his family to piece together exactly what happened in the swimming pool at Mr Barrymore's home in March 2001.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The inflatable depicting Donald Trump as a baby has been flown over Parliament Square again as part of demonstrations against the US president.\n\nSome people say it is a legitimate protest against a US president with controversial policies, while others argue it is disrespectful to a democratically elected ally of the UK with whom the government hopes to agree a free-trade deal.\n\nThe protesters got permission for the helium-filled 6m (19.7ft) high balloon to fly again over Parliament Square Gardens. It was cleared by the City Operations Unit at City Hall, where the Mayor of London is based.\n\nThe group needed permission from the unit because Parliament Square Gardens is controlled by the Greater London Authority (GLA). You need permission to do a whole range of things there, including holding a public gathering or standing on your own with a placard.\n\nApplicants have to show that they have sufficient insurance and there has to be a full risk assessment.\n\nThe GLA told Reality Check that it's not its role to act as a censor, or decide what is or isn't a good protest.\n\nBut it says it does work with the Metropolitan Police to reject anything containing illegal content, such as anything racist or homophobic.\n\nThe Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) does not need to give its permission because the inflatable has been flying below 60m.\n\nBut a CAA spokesperson said: \"Anyone flying a tethered balloon below 60m may, however, still require permission from air traffic control if operated within 'controlled airspace', such as over Central London.\"\n\nThe air traffic control provider Nats confirmed that the balloon would count as a non-standard flight in controlled airspace.\n\nVarious parts of the country, such as the areas around airports and the centre of London, count as controlled airspace and permission is required if you want to do things like release balloons or lanterns, tether balloons or fly drones.\n\nNats ruled last summer that the blimp would have no impact on normal air traffic operations. It told Reality Check that it receives many applications to tether balloons or tow banners behind light aircraft over London every year, most of which attract almost no attention from the public.\n\nIt stressed that the shape of the balloon or content of the banner was not its responsibility.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "If Donald Trump had been inclined to wind down a bullet-proof window in The Beast as he passed through central London, he may well have wound it straight back up.\n\nThe public were kept a long way from his motorcade but the boos were loud, the placards stark and the general message expletive-laden.\n\nAnd beyond that, in Parliament Square, under the gaze of a statue of a hunched Winston Churchill, British satire was on display.\n\nA Donald Trump baby blimp rocked back and forth in a light wind.\n\nA man was dressed as a caged gorilla with a Donald Trump face mask while his companion pulled off an impression of Boris Johnson - the MP who wants to be the next UK prime minister - dressed in a striped prison uniform.\n\nThere were toilet rolls for sale bearing the president's face, sold for two for £5 from a couple of supermarket trolleys.\n\nA police officer went above and beyond to hand out Haribo sweets to his colleagues standing in a neat line along Whitehall.\n\nAbove them, builders in hard hats watched events unfold from the scaffolding encasing Big Ben.\n\nBut it wasn't just the British who were there to protest.\n\nUS holidaymakers gave up a day's sightseeing in the capital to let their president know what they thought of him.\n\nJess Renner, and her mother, Lisa, from Nevada, say their president promotes division\n\nNineteen-year-old student Jess Renner, who was too young to vote in the last US presidential election, headed down to the protest from her nearby hotel with her mum.\n\n\"It was fun to come and flip him off,\" she said. \"He's a bully and he's trying to bully you guys into buying all our stuff.\"\n\nFellow American Robert Kihm, from Denver, Colorado, said having Mr Trump for a president was no longer funny.\n\nWhat's your message to him? \"Where do I start,\" he replied, in exasperation.\n\n\"Stop being authoritarian, respect the rule of law and stick to the norms for a US president,\" he urged.\n\nA group from Belgium on a three-day trip to London also couldn't resist having their say.\n\n\"He said Brussels was a hell-hole so we are also very against him,\" said Annelie Comeyne, from Ghent.\n\nNot everyone felt the same.\n\nA minority, including Lorraine Chapel, from Chiswick, in west London, was there to welcome the president.\n\n\"Love him or hate him, Mr Trump runs America and he is here by invite from the Queen,\" she said, waving her handmade sign.\n\nLorraine Chapel says the president should be shown respect\n\nThe blimp of a baby Donald was offensive, she said. \"Suppose they did that for the Queen in America\".\n\nIn a flash, things turned rather ugly when a woman appeared next to Ms Chapel, accusing her in strongly-worded terms of supporting misogyny.\n\nMeanwhile, a heated exchange played out in the background as Trump supporters took on anti-Trump protesters before the debate veered back to domestic arguments around Brexit.\n\nA little later, the atmosphere lifted as speakers took to a temporary stage outside Downing Street where Mr Trump was holding talks with the outgoing Prime Minister Theresa May.\n\n\"Say it loud, say it clear,\" the speaker shouted over the microphone, as the rain kept falling.\n\n\"Donald Trump's not welcome here,\" the crowd hollered back, from under hoods and umbrellas.\n\nSome had their faces covered with #trumpstinks masks, others wore badges saying \"another nasty woman against Trump\".\n\nThere was whooping and whistling as police officers cautiously managed the growing numbers, opening and closing routes.\n\nMelissa Branzburg gives her children a lesson in political activism\n\nMothers with small children in buggies rubbed shoulders with seasoned protesters and American ex-pats.\n\nMelissa Branzburg, originally from Miami but now living in Greenwich, said President Trump has been talked about in her house for a long time.\n\nHer children - Isaac, five, and Ruth, three - would usually be doing crafts or playing in the park but today they were getting a lesson in political activism.\n\nThey were keen to let Mr Trump know they didn't want him here in London, said Ms Branzburg.\n\nThey asked a lot about children behind bars in the US, something she tried to explain in age-appropriate language.\n\n\"I want them to know they can make their voices heard and can see that other people agree with them,\" she added.\n\nProtesters delivered their messages on placards - some chose humour, others candour\n\nFlorence Iwegbue, a dual US-British citizen, wore bright pink feathers in her hair and red, white and blue glitter on her cheek.\n\nShe said she feared Britain might be following too closely in US footsteps.\n\n\"The message is not getting through that the way of life in America does not work,\" she said.\n\n\"In the US, you can't afford to be poor, sick, black or brown. This is becoming an issue in Britain - and it needs to be dialled back.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Hong Kong is one of the few places in Chinese territory where an annual remembrance vigil can be held.\n\nTens of thousands of people have gathered in Hong Kong to mark the 30th anniversary of the crackdown on protests in Beijing's Tiananmen Square.\n\nHong Kong and Macau are the only places in Chinese territory where people can commemorate the activists killed in 1989.\n\nChina has never given an official figure for how many people died, but estimates begin in the hundreds.\n\nOrganisers say 180,000 people joined a vigil in the city's Victoria Park.\n\nBut police put the number of attendees at under 40,000.\n\nIn mainland China, the authorities have banned even oblique references to the crackdown, which took place after weeks of mass protests that were tolerated by the government. The numbers gathered in and around Tiananmen Square are estimated to have reached a peak of one million people.\n\nHundreds of security personnel and police were monitoring the square in Beijing on Tuesday.\n\nHong Kong's Victoria Park is once again a sea of candlelight as far as the eye can see.\n\nThe crowd, many dressed in black, is mostly silent whilst holding up their candles in mourning. Some are crying. In between protest songs, they chant \"the people will not forget\".\n\nThe crowd claps and cheers when Liane Lee - who took part in the 1989 protests - shouts: \"We refuse to forget. We refuse to believe the lies\".\n\nStanding watching is Teresa Chan. She has attended the commemoration every year since 1990, except once when she was ill.\n\n\"I wanted to go Beijing to be with the movement but I couldn't,\" she says. \"I never imagined it would end the way it did, it's very hard to forget.\"\n\nBut there are also new faces in the crowd this year.\n\nProtestor Teresa Chan has come to the protest in Hong Kong nearly every year\n\nMs Leung, who is in her 30s, says she decided to come for the first time because she is worried about Hong Kong's future.\n\n\"I am very angry with what the Chinese government is doing here,\" she says.\n\nAmongst the remembrance flowers and candles, there are posters protesting against proposed amendments to laws concerning extraditions to mainland China. Many fear the changes will lead to the further erosion of civil liberties here in Hong Kong.\n\nHere in Victoria Park are also some mainland Chinese residents like Mr Zeng who travelled to Hong Kong with his wife and 11-year-old daughter just to attend tonight's event.\n\nHis daughter says it's an eye-opening experience. \"I am here to learn the real history about China. Now I feel like China is no better than other countries,\" she says.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Returning to Tiananmen Square for the first time\n\nThe vigils in Hong Kong come at a sensitive time for its leadership, with public backlash over a proposed bill that would allow fugitives captured in the city to be extradited to mainland China.\n\nSmaller vigils are also expected 64km (40 miles) away in Macau's city centre, and on the self-governing island of Taiwan.\n\nThe gatherings come at a sensitive time for Hong Kong's leadership\n\nThe Tiananmen anniversary earlier prompted a war of words between Washington and Beijing. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo criticised China's human rights record and called on it to finally reveal how many people died in the crackdown.\n\nIn response, a Chinese embassy spokesman in Washington DC said his comments were \"an affront to the Chinese people\".\n\nOn Tuesday, China issued separate travel warnings to its citizens travelling to the US, citing police harassment and crime.\n\nIts foreign ministry accused American law enforcement agencies of \"harassing\" Chinese citizens in the US through immigration checks and other methods.\n\nPro-democracy protesters occupied Tiananmen Square in April 1989 and began the largest political demonstrations in communist China's history. They lasted six weeks.\n\nOn the night of 3 June tanks moved in and troops opened fire, killing and injuring many unarmed people in and around Tiananmen Square.\n\nAfterwards the authorities claimed no-one had been shot dead in the square itself. Estimates of those killed in the crackdown range from a few hundred to several thousand.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Wang Dan one of the leaders of the Tiananmen Square protests\n\nAt the weekend, Chinese Defence Minister Wei Fenghe made a rare mention of the protests during a regional forum in Singapore.\n\n\"That incident was a political turbulence and the central government took measures to stop the turbulence, which is a correct policy,\" he said in response to a question.\n\nHe added that because of the action the government took, \"China has enjoyed stability and development\".", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Live text and radio commentary on the BBC Sport website and app.\n\nJohanna Konta's extraordinary French Open continued as she beat Sloane Stephens to become the first British woman since 1983 to reach the semi-finals at Roland Garros.\n\nThe British number one, seeded 26th, played near-perfect tennis in a 6-1 6-4 win over the American seventh seed.\n\nKonta, 28, broke serve three times and dropped just 13 points on her serve.\n\nShe will play unseeded Czech teenager Marketa Vondrousova in the last four on Thursday in Paris.\n\nKonta will be playing in her third Grand Slam semi-final - on a third different surface - after runs to the same stage at the 2016 Australian Open and Wimbledon in 2017.\n\nAnd she will look to go one better than Jo Durie - the last Briton to reach the women's semi-finals 36 years ago - by reaching Saturday's final.\n\n\"To play on the new Chatrier court against a top player and at the level I did, I'm really proud of myself,\" said Konta.\n\n\"It's hard to say if it was one of the best matches of my career, but dealing with conditions out here and against an opponent like Sloane who can run away with it, I was pleased to get her on the back foot and control the points a little bit.\"\n• None 'Definitely one of my best performances', says Konta\n\nNineteen-year-old Vondrousova overcame her second-set nerves to close out a 7-6 (7-1) 7-5 victory over Croatian 31st seed Petra Martic.\n\nThe left-hander is a fast-rising star of the game. She won her first WTA title at 17, in just her second Tour-level event.\n\nShe has won more matches than any other female player since this year's Australian Open, including victories over big names such as Simona Halep and Jelena Ostapenko, and is yet to drop a set on her way to the last four.\n\nHowever, Konta had a three-set victory in the Rome quarter-finals last month.\n\n\"It is going to be very tough, I just can't wait to play again,\" Vondrousova said after her win.\n\nKonta's resurgence on the clay has been one which few people would have predicted at the start of the clay season, when she was ranked 47th in the world.\n\nThe former world number four has shown her pedigree on grass and hard surfaces, but had never won a main-draw match on the Paris clay until this year.\n\nSigns of her improved fortunes were evident as she reached two WTA finals at the Morocco Open and Italian Open - and that form has continued at Roland Garros.\n\nNow she has won 15 matches on the surface in 2019, meaning only Martic stands alongside her in terms of clay-court victories on the tour this year.\n\nLinking up with new coach Dimitri Zavialoff at the end of last year has paid dividends, Konta once again showing increased trust in her ability to cause opponents problems with her hard-hitting game.\n\nYet, although Konta's confidence has been evident throughout the tournament, the manner of this 71-minute victory against someone of Stephens' pedigree left those on half-full Chatrier murmuring with surprise.\n\nStephens, who won the 2017 US Open as well as reaching the final here last year, was rated as the favourite coming into Tuesday's quarter-final, with former Grand Slam champions Martina Navratilova and Lindsay Davenport backing the American.\n\nKonta came under immediate pressure in the opening game of the match, needing to see off a break point and come through a lengthy deuce to hold serve after eight minutes.\n\nThat proved pivotal as Konta swatted her lacklustre opponent aside from then on.\n\nThe Briton's aggressive approach did the damage as she ended up hitting 25 winners and six aces on her way to taking 87% of first-serve points.\n\nStephens, usually nimble around the court, had no answers to Konta's power and precision.\n\nKonta broke Stephens' serve for a 3-1 lead, claiming the next three games to win the opening set in just 33 minutes.\n\nShe continued to dominate in the second set, not dropping a point on serve until she produced a double fault in the final game.\n\nBy that time it mattered little, the Briton resetting to take victory when Stephens pushed a return inches wide of the line.\n\nPerhaps a sign of Konta's renewed belief was evident in her relatively understated celebration: a simple turn to her coach Zavialoff and boyfriend Jackson Wade wearing a wide grin, before raising both arms aloft as she took the acclaim of the crowd.\n\nKonta's path to the latter stages - and a potential chance to become the first Briton to win Roland Garros since Sue Barker in 1976 - has opened up following an unpredictable women's tournament.\n\nAfter beating Stephens, Konta will face an opponent in Vondrousova who, like the Briton, reached the Roland Garros quarter-finals for the first time.\n\nStephens was one of only three top-10 seeded players to make the women's quarter-finals, along with Romania's defending champion Halep and Australian eighth seed Ashleigh Barty.\n\nFormer world number one Halep and Barty will meet in the other semi-final - if they beat 17-year-old American Amanda Anisimova and 14th seed Madison Keys respectively in their quarter-finals on Wednesday.\n\n'The best I've seen Konta play' - what they said\n\nBBC tennis correspondent Russell Fuller: \"The entire performance was breathtaking. Everything about Konta's performance was majestic. Sloane Stephens could do nothing on Konta's serve. She had the stuffing knocked out of her. That's the best I have ever seen Konta play.\"\n\nFormer world number five Daniela Hantuchova for BBC Radio 5 Live: \"Konta couldn't ask for a better match and if she keeps playing like this I don't see anyone that can stop her. Simona Halep was my pick to win the trophy before the tournament but the way Johanna played it will be really interesting.\"\n\nRadio 5 Live tennis commentator Naomi Cavaday: \"I felt for sure every set would be tight and ultra-competitive but Johanna was too good for Stephens. I think Konta can take out Halep if she plays like that. That was phenomenal.\"\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone", "Ted Cordery was a 20-year-old torpedo man for the navy when he stood on the upper deck of HMS Belfast and looked helplessly on as dozens of men drowned around him.\n\nD-Day, on June 6 1944, was the world's largest seaborne assault and the beginning of the Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe.\n\nBut many of the first troops to arrive at Normandy, in northern France, were accidentally dropped off by their landing boats in too-deep water, where they sank under the weight of their guns and equipment.\n\nOthers suffered from seasickness caused by the flat bottoms on the smaller boats \"bouncing\" across the waves.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC from his home in Oxford, Ted, now 95, vividly remembers the events of that day 75 years ago and says the horrific things he witnessed will stay with him forever.\n\nHe says: \"I felt so sorry for the men. They were coming from a fair way out to get to the beach, and they were all in their uniforms and carrying guns and their own food, so they all had these cans weighing them down.\n\n\"I looked at them as we were passing them and I thought to myself, if you're seasick and you're then expected to get off the boat and start fighting… come on.\n\n\"The water was a bit choppy, which made no difference to us, but if you're in a flat bottom boat and its a bit choppy you can really feel it.\n\n\"What those men went through. It's asking a lot isn't it? I think so. Those men are bloody marvellous.\n\n\"So many of them didn't make it because they were dropped too far from the land. They went straight in the deep water and drowned.\"\n\nTed Cordery, as a young child, sitting on his mother's lap\n\nD-Day began with a damp, grey dawn over the English Channel. More than 6,330 boats carrying thousands of men readied themselves to launch the invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe.\n\nThe night before, Ted and his fellow crew were told they were joining a large operation, but they had no idea of the scale until they saw the other ships.\n\nBut they were not nervous. Ted says: \"Well, you see, once you've gone to sea you've always got to be ready for action, U-boats, anything.\n\n\"It's like everything, you go into something strange and of course you're apprehensive, even if you're not frightened, because you just get on with it - and please God you'll be alright.\"\n\nHMS Belfast was the flagship of Bombardment Force E, supporting troops landing at Gold and Juno beaches by attacking German defences.\n\nThe ship came under occasional fire from German artillery and dive-bombers but managed to battle on unscathed as it continued to hit German positions.\n\nWorking predominantly on the upper deck, Ted had a bird's eye view of the action unfolding around him.\n\nHMS Belfast, pictured during the Second World War, was built in 1936\n\nHe says: \"When we got near the coast we could see all the activity and we just went in and anchored up and as soon as we got there, more or less, we opened fire.\"\n\nAs one of the larger warships present on D-Day, HMS Belfast also had a fully equipped sick bay staffed by surgeons and took hundreds of casualties on board during the first day of fighting.\n\nAfter destroying the German defence batteries, the crew was tasked with clearing the beach and bringing wounded soldiers back to the ship to receive medical treatment.\n\nTed was trained to operate one of Belfast's two cranes, which allowed him to lift stretchers up on to the deck.\n• None 4,400from the combined allied forces died on the day\n\nIt was a difficult job, made harder when he realised how badly injured the troops were.\n\nTed says: \"I'll die with this memory. These men were wounded. We put them on the stretcher. You'd then put them on a cart and get them down the beach and then put them on a pontoon on the beach.\n\n\"And then they would be taken out to the boat. And I'd lift those men out... and the injuries I saw, I couldn't tell you.\"\n\nFighting back tears, he adds: \"There was nothing I could do about it. I looked down at them, and I cried.\n\n\"I'm a soft sod. You would never believe what they went through. Those poor men.\n\n\"They took them to the sick bay, and if 2% or 3% of them survived I'd be surprised.\n\n\"They did what they could for them, but they were too far gone - they were mostly dead before they got them in the sick bay.\n\n\"But the injuries - faces, stomachs, legs off - oh God. I know nurses would say to me 'silly sod', they see it every day, in a more clinical fashion.\n\n\"But the way I saw it - God, I think to myself, I'm lucky to be alive. Those poor people.\n\n\"I think there were about 10,000 men lost that day. And what for? We don't learn do we?\"\n\nApart from periods replenishing ammunition, HMS Belfast was almost continuously in action over the five weeks after D-Day and fired thousands of rounds from her guns in support of Allied troops fighting their way inland.\n\nBut D-Day was not the only battle Ted fought in during his time onboard HMS Belfast.\n\nBetween 1943 and 1944, he took part in some of the navy's most intense and dangerous operations including the Arctic Convoys and the Battle of North Cape.\n\nA framed photo of Ted in his navy uniform is in pride of place on his mantelpiece\n\nImmediately after the war ended Ted continued his military service as a minesweeper, working off the coast of Scotland.\n\nHe left the navy in 1946 and returned to his job as an apprentice printer where he went on to \"work at practically every paper on Fleet Street\".\n\nJust one month after D-Day Ted met a woman named Lila while he was on leave and married her three weeks later in August 1944.\n\nThey had one son, two grandchildren and two great-grandchildren and were together until her death in 1991.\n\nTen years later Ted met and married his second wife, Glynis, with whom he lives in Oxford's suburbs.\n\nThey will attend the 75th anniversary events in Normandy this week.\n\nMany assumed that technological advances would ensure the World War Two was less horrific than the Great War.\n\nBut the fighting during the Battle of Normandy, which followed D-Day, was as bloody as it had been in the trenches of the World War One..\n\nCasualty rates were slightly higher than they were during a typical day during the Battle of the Somme in 1916.\n\nTed says: \"I well up every time I talk about it. Sometimes I think about it when I'm lying in bed awake.\n\n\"I don't like to dwell upon it too much because there's nothing you can do about it. But like millions of others I did my bit.\"", "Miley Cyrus has responded angrily online after apparently being grabbed by a stranger in Barcelona.\n\nThe singer, writing on Twitter, said: \"She CAN'T be grabbed without her consent.\"\n\nA video posted online appears to show a fan grabbing the singer by the neck before trying to kiss her.\n\nMiley's reaction seems to have been a direct response to some social media users who suggested her lyrics or what she wears made her a deserving target.\n\nThe Wrecking Ball singer and her husband Liam Hemsworth were being escorted to a waiting car by a security team when it happened.\n\nA video of the incident appears to have been captured by Spanish Twitter user @AlvaroSaucedo13.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Alvaro This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOn Twitter Miley wrote: \"She can be wearing what she wants. She can be a virgin. She can be sleeping with five different people.\n\n\"She can be with her husband. She can be with her girlfriend. She can be naked. She CAN'T be grabbed without her consent.\"\n\nMiley reiterated the message on her Instagram stories, writing \"#StillNotAskingForIt\" over screenshots of comments from fans, including one which said: \"You wanted to be 'sexy,' what did you expect?\"\n\nThe former Disney star, who last month appeared at Radio 1's Big Weekend, is due to perform at Glastonbury Festival later this month.\n\nShe will also make a return to acting in an upcoming episode of Black Mirror which she's described as \"outrageously out there and dark\".\n\n\"This is the story of females in the music industry,\" she told Radio 1 Newsbeat.\n\n\"I understand everyone's gone through this but I do think for females in the industry… it's hard to be taken seriously.\n\n\"People assume that if you're not wearing a body suit and singing pop music, why would anyone want to see you?\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Robert Williams was an 18-year-old Royal Marine on D-Day who landed on Sword Beach, and served throughout France and into Germany.\n\n\"I didn't get a scratch,\" the 94-year-old said.\n\nWhen Mrs May came over to thank him at the Bayeux cemetery event, \"I took her by the arms and gave her a kiss on the cheek. She said 'Oh, thank you'.\"\n\n\"I kissed her - why not? It is not everyone that can do that.\"\n\nAnother veteran, Robert Yaxley, also gave the UK prime minister a kiss on the cheek.\n\nRobert Yaxley also gave Theresa May a kiss on the cheek Image caption: Robert Yaxley also gave Theresa May a kiss on the cheek", "YouTube is one of many companies that has given its logo a rainbow-themed makeover to show support for LGBT rights - but, underneath the colourful veneer, a row has erupted over how the video-sharing site enforces its own hate-speech policies.\n\nAt the centre of the dispute is journalist Carlos Maza, who presents a popular series called Strikethrough for the news site Vox.\n\nHe says he has faced persistent abuse from rival video-maker Steven Crowder, who has more than 3.8 million subscribers on YouTube.\n\nWhenever Maza publishes a video for Vox, Crowder will post his own \"debunking\" video, peppered with insulting language attacking Maza's sexual orientation and ethnicity.\n\nSo, last week, Maza posted a video compilation of the abuse.\n\nIn the clips, Crowder imitates Maza's accent and calls him, among other things, a \"lispy queer\", a \"gay Vox sprite\" and a \"gay Mexican\".\n\n\"These videos get millions of views on YouTube. Every time one gets posted, I wake up to a wall of homophobic/racist abuse on Instagram and Twitter,\" he said in a tweet.\n\n\"These videos make me a target of ridiculous harassment.\"\n\nYouTube said it would investigate.\n\nIt conducted an \"in-depth review\" and on Tuesday it came back with an answer.\n\n\"While we found language that was clearly hurtful, the videos as posted don't violate our policies,\" it said in a statement.\n\nHowever, after receiving further criticism, YouTube announced on Wednesday that it would demonetise Crowder's channel due to \"continued egregious actions.\" This means he will no longer make money from advertising revenues on his videos.\n\nBut Maza said this was still not enough, pointing out that most political content is already demonetised and that Crowder would still be able to sell merchandise via his channel.\n\nYouTube attempted to clarify its decision stating that Crowder would need to remove links to his t-shirts in order to reinstate monetisation of his channel.\n\nIt then reaffirmed that Crowder \"would need to address all the issues with his channel\" for monetisation to be reinstated, adding it was \"sorry for the confusion.\"\n\nYouTube's response has been met with a mixed reaction.\n\nMany people want to frame the dispute as a battle over free speech.\n\nCrowder himself claimed the row was not about abuse but \"an example of a giant corporate media entity [Vox] trying to silence voices they do not like\".\n\nHe said the language he used to mock Maza was \"friendly ribbing\".\n\n\"It's funny and this is a comedy show. 'Lispy queer' is harmless and I enjoy saying it,\" he said in a video.\n\nBut others have said if YouTube itself accepted the videos were \"hurtful\", it was failing to enforce its own policies.\n\nBut YouTube said Crowder's comments did not violate the policies because they were sandwiched between \"debate\".\n\nIn notes provided by Google and published by news site Gizmodo, the company said: \"We take into consideration whether criticism is focused primarily on debating the opinions expressed or is solely malicious.\"\n\nYouTube's social media pages are currently decorated with rainbow-themed graphics, in support of LGBT rights.\n\nBut Maza said the video-sharing site was \"exploiting\" LGBT people.\n\n\"It's going to get so much worse now. YouTube has publicly stated that racist and homophobic abuse doesn't violate their anti-bullying policies,\" he said.\n\nMany professional LGBT video-makers will be familiar with uploading material online and instantly being tormented by certain audiences, solely because of their sexuality.\n\nYouTube's take on this will disappoint the LGBT community.\n\nIt will surprise them that hurtful things considered hate speech and punishable by law in real life can simply be labelled \"debate\" online, and not require any repercussions.\n\nWith LGBT Pride Month just kicking off, it will be interesting to see how many other organisations will adopt rainbows across their brands, without necessarily backing the queer communities they are desperately marketing themselves to.\n\nUnrelated to Mr Maza's dispute with Mr Crowder, YouTube published a blog on Wednesday saying it had updated its hate speech policy.", "Theresa May's news conference with Donald Trump had an \"end of era\" feel to it.\n\nOnly days before she stands down as the Conservatives' leader, the prime minister set out clear positions she hoped may survive her premiership.\n\nOn Iran, the UK and US agree on the threat but disagree on the solution, and the US must \"do everything to avoid escalation which is in no-one's interest\".\n\nOn China, she said both sides cannot ignore the threat to their interests, but they must also recognise the country's \"economic significance\" - a clear warning against a lasting US trade war with Beijing.\n\nOn the transatlantic relationship, she emphasised she and the president were only \"the latest guardians of this precious and profound friendship\". In other words, she is going and so one day will he, and the relationship will endure.\n\nIn a sentence Mr Trump could never repeat, she said: \"I have always believed that co-operation and compromise are the basis of strong alliances.\"\n\nAs for the president, he kept the bombast to a minimum.\n\nOn Britain's future relationship with the Chinese telecoms giant Huawei, he seemed reassured, saying \"we are going to be able to work out any differences\" and \"we will have no problem with that\".\n\nOn Brexit, he was more supportive of Mrs May than in his weekend newspaper interviews, saying the prime minister \"has brought it to a very good point\" and \"she has done a very good job\".\n\nAnd on a future trade deal, the president generated headlines by confirming the NHS would be part of the negotiations.\n\nAs for Jeremy Corbyn, the president said he had refused a request to meet the Labour leader, dismissing him as \"a negative force\", clearly believing this is not a man he is likely to have to work with any time soon.\n\nYes, there were gags. The president teased Mrs May about not suing the EU during the Brexit talks.\n\nHe also joked about who might be a suitable successor in Downing Street.\n\nBut the mood was more low key than high drama.", "A drug dealer who murdered his two-year-old son in a \"savage and sustained attack\" has been jailed for at least 24 years.\n\nRaphael Kennedy, 31, waited more than an hour to dial 999 after inflicting 39 injuries on Dylan Tiffin-Brown.\n\nHe beat the toddler, who had five different drugs in his system when he died, in a fit of temper, Northampton Crown Court heard.\n\nKennedy was given a life term after being found guilty of murder.\n\nDuring a three-week trial, he had told the court he was \"not the perfect parent\" and admitted he made his living dealing crack cocaine and heroin.\n\nHe said he had been selling drugs in the lead-up to the fatal attack at his flat in Arthur Street on 15 December.\n\nWhen Dylan was taken to hospital, Kennedy initially told paramedics that he had \"tripped and fell over\".\n\nSentencing, Mrs Justice Sue Carr said: \"Whatever triggered the assault, you lost your temper with him and inflicted a savage and sustained attack on him.\n\n\"You undoubtedly beat Dylan in a fit of anger or stress so hard as to fracture his ribs and tear his liver. You used some sort of object to beat his arms.\n\n\"Dylan would have been in agony, bewildered and terrified. Slowly his condition would have deteriorated before your eyes, going from screaming and crying to curling up and trying to avoid movement.\"\n\nMrs Justice Carr said Kennedy's failure to call an ambulance for his son, whom he had only met for the first time 10 weeks earlier, deprived him of any hope of survival.\n\nKennedy, who described Dylan as his \"little bestie\" in court, told an \"elaborate web of lies\" and his story \"chopped and changed with the wind\", she said.\n\n\"The truth has now caught up with you,\" she added.\n\nDylan had five different types of drug in his body when he died, including cocaine and heroin\n\nAs well as having heroin and cocaine in his system, Dylan also had multiple fractures, lacerations to his liver and substantial abdominal injuries that would have left him in significant pain.\n\nBut Det Ch Insp Ally White, from the East Midlands Special Operations Unit, said three nationally-recognised experts all agreed Dylan's \"catastrophic\" injuries could not be explained by \"a simple fall\".\n\nIn a statement, Dylan's mother said he was \"the most perfect little boy you could ever meet\".\n\nShe said: \"He had a smile as bright as the sun, his eyes were crystals like the stars above and his love was the best feeling in the world.\n\n\"Knowing I won't get to hold my baby again leaves a pain like no other.\"\n\nPolice had raided Kennedy's flat on 18 October - two month's before Dylan's murder - and found heroin, cocaine and cannabis as well as a phone, scales and packaging used for drug dealing.\n\nA serious case review by the Northamptonshire Safeguarding Children's board about Dylan's death is expected to be published next month.\n\nThe boy had only known his father for 10 weeks before his death\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Donald Trump has rowed back on his remarks that the NHS should form part of a future trade deal between the UK and US.\n\nThe comment, made during his state visit to the UK, prompted a backlash from Conservative leadership candidates, Labour and trade unions.\n\nBut on Wednesday, the US president told ITV's Good Morning Britain: \"I don't see it being on the table.\"\n\nHe added that the NHS was something he would \"not consider part of trade\".\n\nCurrent rules allow foreign firms to bid for NHS contracts and a subsidiary of the US company United Health is among private groups which have already successfully done so.\n\nSome, though, fear the health service is vulnerable to creeping privatisation or a weakening of the tight control the NHS currently keeps on drug prices if US firms get greater access.\n\nAt a press conference in London on Tuesday, Mr Trump was asked whether he believed the NHS should be part of a trade deal between the UK and US after Brexit.\n\nHe told reporters: \"When you're dealing with trade everything is on the table, so the NHS or anything else, or a lot more than that.\n\n\"But everything will be on the table, absolutely.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Everything is on the table\" in future UK-US trade negotiations, President Trump says\n\nThe comments led to fierce criticism from a number of MPs, including from Health Secretary and leadership hopeful Matt Hancock.\n\nHe had already condemned similar comments from the US Ambassador to the UK Woody Johnson, and tweeted: \"Dear Mr President. The NHS isn't on the table in trade talks - and never will be. Not on my watch.\"\n\nFormer Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab said: \"The NHS is not for sale to any country and never would be if I was prime minister.\"\n\nAnd International Development Secretary Rory Stewart said he would not be \"offering up\" the NHS in any trade deal.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who spoke at a protest rally against President Trump moments before the president's press conference, also tweeted: \"Our NHS is not up for sale\".\n\nIn his GMB interview, the president appeared to backtrack\n\nBut standing in for Theresa May at Prime Minister's Questions, Cabinet Office Minister David Lidington said the NHS \"is not and will not be up for sale\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rebecca Long Bailey and David Lidington on any NHS role in a future US trade deal\n\nDavid Henig, former trade negotiator for the UK government - and now UK director of the European Centre For International Political Economy - said Mr Trump was \"right the first time\" and \"everything is potentially up for grabs in a trade agreement\".\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme it would be up to the government to decide which NHS services could be provided by private suppliers and which would be served by the public sector.\n\nBut, if an element was opened up to private tenders, \"the US and other countries would want access\".\n\nMr Henig said the biggest issue between the countries over healthcare was the price of drugs, as the NHS pays significantly less to pharmaceutical companies than the US.\n\nHe said: \"We should be specific on what we are prepared to give and what we want to seek in trade agreements. So far, we have been pretty vague.\n\n\"We should be publishing, as soon as possible, a consultation document saying, 'this is what we are prepared to talk about in regards to the NHS, this is what we are not prepared to talk about in terms of trade', so everybody is entirely clear.\"\n\nAbout 7% of the English health budget goes to private providers. There are different contracting arrangements in other parts of the UK.\n\nBBC Health editor Hugh Pym says the head of NHS England, Simon Stevens, has called for new legislation to drop the requirement for health commissioners to put contracts out to tender.\n\nBut, he adds, if the government decides to do this it's not clear whether that might be overridden by the demands of a trade deal in the future.", "Pixie Jenkins was serving in the Women's Royal Naval Service when the D-Day landings began.\n\nThe centenarian from Aldridge, Walsall, was stationed on the south coast during World War Two, and her job was to transport people and ammunition.\n\nRecalling the beginning of the invasion, she said: \"I remember quite plainly the men that went over. They were the brave ones.\"\n\nShe added: \"I didn't realise we were living through history.\"", "From Marilyn Monroe to Nelson Mandela, some big names have graced the tarmac of Shannon Airport over the years.\n\nAs Donald Trump makes his first visit as US president, we look back at some of the other famous faces who have visited the airport in County Clare.", "On 6 June 1944, British, US and Canadian forces invaded the coast of Normandy in northern France.\n\nThe landings were the first stage of Operation Overlord - the invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe - and aimed to bring an end to World War Two.\n\nBy night-time, around 156,000 Allied troops had arrived in Normandy, despite challenging weather and fierce German defences.\n\nAt the end of D-Day, the Allies had established a foothold in France and within 11 months Nazi Germany was defeated.\n\nHere are 10 things you may not have known about the operation:\n\nAs early as 1942, the BBC launched a bogus appeal for photographs and postcards from the coast of Europe, from Norway to the Pyrenees.\n\nIt was actually a way of gathering intelligence on suitable landing beaches and Normandy was settled on.\n\nMillions of photos ended up being sent to the War Office and, with the help of the French Resistance and air reconnaissance, military bosses were able to target the best landing spots for D-Day.\n\nThe remains of the D-Day \"Mulberry\" artificial harbour at Arromanches, Normandy\n\nThe Allies put a lot of effort into trying to convince the Germans that the invasion was going to be near Calais, not Normandy.\n\nThey invented phantom field armies based in Kent as part of their D-Day deception plan, named Operation Fortitude.\n\nThey built dummy equipment - including inflatable tanks - parachuted dummies, used double agents and released controlled leaks of misinformation which led the Germans to believe the Allies were going to invade via the Pas-de-Calais and Norway.\n\nThe Germans took the bait so much that even after D-Day they held many of their best troops in the Calais area expecting a second invasion.\n\nBy 1944 more than two million troops from more than 12 countries were in Britain preparing for the invasion.\n\nOn D-Day, Allied forces consisted primarily of US, British and Canadian troops but also included Australian, Belgian, Czech, Dutch, French, Greek, New Zealand, Norwegian, Rhodesian [present-day Zimbabwe] and Polish naval, air and ground support.\n\nA French poster from WW2, the translation for which reads: All Together, for a Single Victory\n\nThe officers organising the operation were very particular about the timing of D-Day.\n\nThey wanted a full moon with a spring tide so they could land at dawn when the tide was about half way in - but those kind of conditions meant there were only a few days that could work.\n\nThey chose to invade on 5 June, but ended up delaying by 24 hours because of bad weather.\n\nIt was Group Captain James Martin Stagg who made the vital forecast and persuaded General Eisenhower to change the date.\n\nIn fact, the forecast was so bad that the German commander in Normandy, Erwin Rommel, felt so sure there wouldn't be an invasion he went home to give his wife a pair of shoes for her 50th birthday.\n\nHe was in Germany when the news came of the invasion.\n• None 4,400from the combined allied forces died on the day\n\nWhen the D-Day forces landed, Nazi leader Adolf Hitler was asleep.\n\nNone of his generals dared order reinforcements without his permission, and no-one dared wake him.\n\nCrucial hours were lost in the battle to hold Normandy.\n\nWhen Hitler did finally wake up, at around 10am, he was excited at news of the invasion - he thought Germany would easily defeat the Allies.\n\nWhile America formed the biggest national contingent, the combined force of Commonwealth service personnel - mostly British and Canadian - was greater.\n\nOf the 156,000 men who landed in France on 6 June, 73,000 were American, and 83,000 British or Canadian. The Commonwealth naval contingent was twice that of the Americans.\n\nThere were five beaches that were chosen for the operation, codenamed, from east to west, Sword, Juno, Gold, Omaha, Utah.\n\nCasualties varied widely - on \"Bloody Omaha\", where around 4,000 men were killed or wounded, one US unit landing in the first wave lost 90% of its men.\n\nOn Gold Beach, by contrast, casualty rates were around 80% lower.\n\nTroops of the US 7th Corps wading ashore on Utah Beach\n\nThe fighting during the Battle of Normandy, which followed D-Day, was as bloody as it had been in the trenches of World War One.\n\nCasualty rates were slightly higher than they were during a typical day during the Battle of the Somme in 1916.\n\nThe vibration of HMS Belfast's guns firing during D-Day was so powerful it actually cracked the crew's toilets.\n\nHaving been given his top-secret mission to attack the Merville battery on D-Day, Terence Otway had to be certain his men wouldn't spill the beans ahead of 6 June 1944.\n\nHe sent 30 of the prettiest members of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force, dressed in civilian clothes, into village pubs near where his soldiers were training.\n\nThey were asked to do all they could to discover the men's mission. None of the men gave anything away.", "It is one of those gigs that is the hearing equivalent of an optician asking you read that pesky last line of tiny letters when you are having your eyes tested.\n\nThe Tory leadership hustings hosted by the One Nation Caucus of Conservative MPs began with reporters, me included, starting to loiter outside.\n\nBetween us and the action inside, there were two heavy wooden doors and a pretty thick wall - and some parliamentary security staff not particularly keen on us leaning too obviously against either the doors or the wall.\n\nA rather forthright conversation then began between us lot in the press pack and Conservative Party officials about why we weren't allowed in - given those in the room were discussing who should be our prime minister by the end of next month.\n\nThe argument from the journalists was our audiences should be fully informed about what is going on, even if the vast majority, those who are not Conservative Party members, will have no direct say in who becomes our country's next leader.\n\nThe argument from the Conservative MP Nicky Morgan, one of the organisers, was \"this was a job interview, and most job interviews are not conducted in public\".\n\nShe also made the point that we would see plenty of the candidates in public in the coming weeks.\n\nFirst up was Home Secretary Sajid Javid. He had an organised briefing operation, with one of his team talking us through the key points their man was making in the room.\n\n\"You don't beat the Brexit Party by becoming the Brexit Party,\" was one of the quotes. There were about 80 people in the room to listen.\n\nThe leadership contest has attracted a wide range of candidates\n\nNext up it was Rory Stewart, new to the cabinet, but commanding a lot of attention, if not vast amounts of support from his colleagues in the early stages of this race.\n\nNo member of his team was there to talk to us, and he didn't want to talk to us afterwards either.\n\nBut, we were told, he emphasised again the importance to him of ruling out a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe One Nation Caucus is, very broadly, those on the left of the parliamentary party and those who are pro-European.\n\nSo the arrival down the corridor of Brexiteers John Redwood and Jacob Rees Mogg suggested only one thing: it was time for former cabinet ministers Boris Johnson and Andrea Leadsom.\n\nAll Conservative MPs were allowed to attend these hustings.\n\nMr Johnson was welcomed with banging of the walls - a bizarre Westminster ritual which translates as enthusiasm, rather than an attempt to escape.\n\nIt just so happened that while the former Foreign Secretary was speaking, someone inside the room kept their foot in the door and so we reporters had a far better chance of hearing what he was saying than we did with the others.\n\nHis team were also very efficient in filling us in too.\n\n\"We must get ready, eventually but not immediately, to beat Jeremy Corbyn and put Farage back in his box. We are facing an existential crisis and will not be forgiven if we do not deliver Brexit on 31 October,\" he told his colleagues.\n\nNot everyone was onside, mind.\n\nThe Tory MP James Duddridge left, telling us that while listening to Boris Johnson, the veteran Conservative Sir Nicholas Soames \"has his head in his hands like all his family has died.\" And Ken Clarke, Mr Duddridge reported, sat \"with his arms folded.\"\n\nBut as soon as Mr Johnson had finished, the former Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson was puppyish in his enthusiasm for Mr Johnson.\n\n\"The only one who can put the Brexit Party back in its box...he is the one who can save the party...the audience recognised you had an election winner,\" he claimed.\n\nPlenty left when Boris Johnson was finished. MPs were red-faced and sweating, and complaining about how hot the packed room was.\n\nBut there was still one more wannabe: Andrea Leadsom, the former Leader of the Commons, turned up for her slot at half past eight.\n\nThere were still about 40 MPs there to listen.\n\nNo briefing from her or her team for us, but we were told afterwards she had talked again about a \"managed exit\" at the end of October and a series of \"mini deals\" with the European Union.\n\nAsked afterwards which candidate offered the most unicorns - ideas that were seen to be undeliverable - Nicky Morgan said that was our word, not hers, but Mrs Leadsom probably had the hardest task winning people over in the room.\n\nAt the end, one MP wandered up to me and said: \"if only we had someone who combined the brains of Rory, the feelgood factor of Boris and the attention to detail of some of the others. The thing is, we don't.\"\n\nThere are more hustings, plenty more hustings to come. We will have a new prime minister in seven weeks' time.", "The Canal and River Trust wants people to take action to \"help tackle the global plastics crisis\"\n\nThe canals and rivers of England and Wales could be plastic-free in a year if every visitor picked up one piece of litter, a charity says.\n\nThe Canal and River Trust said 14 million items of plastic ended up in waterways each year.\n\nThe charity said it was \"on a mission to eradicate plastic\" and urged people to pick up any rubbish they find.\n\nIt added that canals and rivers acted as \"plastic highways\", which was a \"huge problem for wildlife\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe trust worked with Coventry University to carry out research for a new report.\n\nIt took a \"snapshot\" of the amount of plastics and litter observed at representative locations along 2,000 miles of waterways and found plastics such as bags, bottles, disposable cups and food wrappers accounted for 59% of the waste.\n\nPeter Birch, national environmental policy advisor at the trust, said: \"By taking a little care of their local waterway, everyone can have beauty on their doorstep.\n\n\"The Canal and River Trust is on a mission to eradicate plastics from our vast network of canals and rivers - helping us all to live in better, more beautiful neighbourhoods, whilst tackling a global issue, and making life better by water.\"\n\nThe latest study found litter was being dropped over boundary walls from nearby buildings, off bridges and being blown or washed in from areas near the waterways.\n\nThe charity said the volume of plastics in its waterways was \"a huge problem for wildlife\"\n\nThe trust said it made a great effort to minimise litter along waterways and emptied 900 public litter bins more than 46,000 times annually.\n\nVolunteers for the charity spend more than 100,000 hours clearing litter from towpaths and canals each year.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The young politicians of tomorrow are growing up with social media today - so should they be filtering what they post to suit their political futures?\n\nEmily Hewertson doesn't think so. She's 19, and like many girls her age she likes clubbing and Instagram - but she's also a member of the Conservative party, an influencer for right-wing group Turning Point UK and an aspiring politician.\n\nShe went viral after appearing in the audience of a BBC Question Time election special where many viewers were quick to point out that she doesn't look like your \"typical politician\".\n\nThis page has been amended to include that Emily is an influencer for Turning Point UK", "Madeleine McCann was three years old when she went missing in 2007\n\nThe government has said it will continue to fund the police investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann until March next year.\n\nThe three-year-old disappeared from a holiday apartment in Portugal in 2007.\n\nMore than £11m has been spent on the Met Police inquiry, known as Operation Grange, since it began in 2011.\n\nThe Home Office said a \"similar\" level of funding would be granted this year as in 2018/19, when the inquiry was given £300,000.\n\nHowever, the department said the final decision on the amount would not be made until October.\n\nDetectives have been applying to the Home Office every six months for a grant to continue their work.\n\nOperation Grange was set up after former Prime Minister David Cameron asked the force to \"bring their expertise\" to the inquiry, after the Portuguese investigation failed to make headway.\n\nFour people were identified as suspects in 2013, but no further action was taken after they were interviewed by Portuguese officers and the Met Police, who visited the holiday resort in 2014.\n\nMadeleine's parents, Gerry and Kate McCann, of Rothley, Leicestershire, have pledged never to give up the search for their daughter, who vanished from the family's holiday apartment while they were dining at a restaurant nearby.\n\nOn the 10th anniversary of Madeleine's disappearance in 2017, detectives said that a \"critical line of inquiry\" was still being pursued.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Protesters confront each other outside the Guildhall in Portsmouth\n\nProtesters opposed to US President Donald Trump's visit to the D-Day commemorations have been confronted by counter-demonstrators.\n\nAnti-Trump protesters had gathered at Guildhall Square, Portsmouth, during the official commemoration in Southsea.\n\nAbout 30 counter-protesters arrived shortly after 11:00 BST and chanted and shouted. The groups were kept apart by police.\n\nA member of the second group said it was \"the wrong day\" to protest.\n\nJane Warburton said she was appalled by an apparent Nazi salute seen during the stand-off\n\nAbout 170 people gathered at Guildhall Square for a demonstration coinciding with the official commemoration of the 75th anniversary D-Day on Southsea Common attended by the Queen, Prime Minister Theresa May, as well as President Trump and other world leaders\n\nCounter-protesters later arrived chanting \"shame on you\" and \"scum\", and one appeared to give a Nazi salute.\n\nAnti-trump protester Jane Warburton, from Portsmouth, said: \"It's abhorrent, have they not read what the whole day is about - it's about celebrating the defeat of the Nazis, and they are doing Nazi salutes, it just shows their level of intelligence.\"\n\nProtesters gathered at Portsmouth's Guildhall Square to oppose the US president's visit to the city\n\nIn a moment the peaceful protest was transformed by a group of men storming the event shouting \"shame on you\" and \"scum\".\n\nIn return, protesters could be heard chanting: \"Nazi scum, off our streets.\"\n\nIt's not clear whether the group of men, some wearing American flags, were Trump supporters or angry at the protest being held at the same time as the D-Day commemorations.\n\nSome men looked ready to start a confrontation, but police were quick to intervene.\n\nSimon Magorian, from Portsmouth Stand Up To Racism, described the initial demonstration as the \"people's D-Day, where people are fighting racism\".\n\nOne of the counter-protesters, Steve Cross from Portsmouth, said: \"These guys protesting today, it's just the wrong day. Today is about remembering and paying respects.\n\n\"Donald Trump is a head of state and he has been invited for that reason . We're not pro-Trump.\n\n\"If you want to protest him then fine, but not today. They are being totally disrespectful to the D-Day anniversary. They chose the wrong day and the wrong city.\"\n\nCampaigners targeted bus stops in Portsmouth ahead of the US president's visit\n\nA police spokesman said: \"Hampshire Constabulary will always seek to facilitate the right to peaceful protest, balancing the rights of all and disruption to local communities.\"\n\nNo arrests have been made.\n\nThe anti-Trump protesters later gathered at the city's war memorial, where a wreath was laid and a minute's silence was held.\n\nEarlier a campaign group which \"hacks\" advertising boards plastered images of the Trump baby balloon, which flew over Parliament Square on Tuesday, to bus shelters in the city.\n\nSix of the posters were removed by Clear Channel UK, which runs the signs.", "An armed officer who stood outside a Florida school as a gunman killed 17 people has been arrested and faces multiple charges, including child neglect and perjury.\n\nScot Peterson, a security guard at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, did not enter as shots rang out last year and later resigned.\n\nUS President Donald Trump called him a \"coward\" for not acting.\n\nMr Peterson said he did not know where the gunfire was coming from.\n\nSeventeen students were killed in the massacre in Parkland on Valentine's Day in 2018.\n\nNikolas Cruz, 19, a former student at the school, has been charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder. Police have said he admitted the shooting.\n\nSoon afterwards, authorities released footage showing Mr Peterson waiting outside the school as the shooting was taking place.\n\nFollowing an investigation by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE), Mr Peterson was arrested on Tuesday on seven counts of neglect of a child, three counts of culpable negligence and one count of perjury.\n\nThe investigation showed Mr Peterson \"did absolutely nothing\" to prevent the shooting, FDLE Commissioner Rick Swearingen said in a statement.\n\n\"There can be no excuse for his complete inaction and no question that his inaction cost lives,\" he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Trump: \"I would have run in even if I didn't have weapon\"\n\nBroward County Sheriff Scott Israel voiced his anger after viewing the footage of Mr Peterson remaining outside the building for four minutes while the killings were taking place. The shooting lasted just six minutes.\n\n\"I am devastated. Sick to my stomach. He never went in,\" Sheriff Israel said, adding that he should have entered and \"killed the killer\".\n\nPresident Trump said the officer \"certainly did a poor job\" and branded him a coward.\n\nMr Peterson maintained he believed the shots were coming from outside the school.\n\nHe told NBC that he \"didn't get it right\", but added: \"Those are my kids in there. I never would have sat there and let my kids get slaughtered.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Mr Trump said he had turned down a request from Mr Corbyn to meet during the visit. A Labour spokesman said Mr Corbyn remained \"ready to engage with the president on a range of issues, including the climate emergency, threats to peace and the refugee crisis\"", "Police officers arrived at the Sydney headquarters of Australia's public broadcaster on Wednesday morning with a warrant to search for documents.\n\nThe police action is related to articles about alleged misconduct by Australian forces in Afghanistan.\n\nThe ABC and organisations representing journalists have protested over the raid.", "Victoria Buchanan ingested the bag of cocaine in an airport lounge\n\nA mother-of-three who swallowed a bag of cocaine after she checked in at Manchester Airport accidentally killed herself, an inquest concluded.\n\nVictoria Buchanan is thought to have ingested the drug after realising it was in her possession while waiting to fly home to Dubai in March last year.\n\nMoments later she collapsed and was taken to hospital where she died.\n\nAssistant coroner Andrew Bridge concluded her death was by misadventure.\n\nMrs Buchanan, 42, originally from Kilmarnock, Scotland, had moved to Dubai in 2010 and worked as a teacher in the United Arab Emirates, Manchester Coroner's Court heard.\n\nShe had earlier acquired £200 worth of the Class A drug during a family visit to the UK with her husband Mark.\n\nThe hearing was told she had been sitting drinking champagne in the first class airport lounge when she decided to swallow what was left in the hope of getting it back home.\n\nShe collapsed when the bag burst in her stomach.\n\nVictoria was a recreational user of cocaine when she was in the UK, her husband said\n\nOnlookers initially believed Mrs Buchanan was in anaphylactic shock and administered an EpiPen she had in her handbag for a palm oil allergy.\n\nThe re-sealable plastic bag of cocaine was discovered during a post-mortem examination.\n\nHer husband told the hearing taking small amounts of cocaine \"was something we did together\" and she would not have smuggled the drug for another person.\n\nMrs Buchanan's mother Irene Dignon said: \"We couldn't understand why she would risk something for such a small amount.\"\n\nMr Bridge said the cause of death was brain damage caused by cardiac arrest, which was brought on by cocaine intoxication.\n\n\"Why she took such a risk will never be known but I'm satisfied it was done of her own volition and there was no coercion or threat, there was no criminal activity and no charges have been brought,\" he said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Thousands of people attended the 2018 event at Drumlanrig Castle in 2018\n\nThe Electric Fields music festival has been cancelled less than two months after it was moved from southern Scotland to a new venue in Glasgow.\n\nMetronomy, The Vaccines and Frank Turner were among the acts due to perform at the event between 4-6 July.\n\nOrganisers announced in April that they were moving the festival from Drumlanrig Castle in Dumfries and Galloway to SWG3 in Finnieston.\n\nHowever, on Tuesday they confirmed the event would not now go ahead.\n\nThe announcement followed fans' complaints on social media, after attempts to buy tickets via the Electric Fields website were greeted with the message: \"This show has been cancelled\".\n\nFans trying to buy tickets via the Electric Fields website were told the show was cancelled\n\nIt included a Manchester-based number for the festival's ticketing company, Ticketline, for fans wishing to claim a refund.\n\nOn Tuesday afternoon, Electric Fields posted a statement on their Facebook page saying it was \"with a heavy heart\" the festival had now been cancelled.\n\nIt said: \"This decision has not come lightly and we have put in our all to try avoid this outcome, however we have been faced with challenges that we simply cannot overcome.\n\n\"As of today, Electric Fields ceases trading. For information on ticket refunds, please contact your location of purchase.\n\n\"We cannot thank you enough for your support over the years and we are truly sorry that we have not been able to make this work.\"\n\nIt continued: \"Never did we think the party we threw in a field in Thornhill for 100 of our friends would turn into a party for 7,000 in the grounds of a castle. Especially not in five short years.\n\n\"But it did, and that is thanks to all of you who came along and made it what it was.\"\n\nOne fan who had previously attended the festival but was given a refund last month after the switch to Glasgow explained why he had asked for his money back.\n\nIain Kyle said: \"It was a great family weekend and it introduced the kids to some fantastic music they may otherwise not have experienced.\n\n\"The move to SWG3 just killed the whole vibe for me as it was no longer going to be time away and highly unlikely to be a similar atmosphere.\n\n\"It is a fairly congested market in Glasgow with TRNSMT and Summer Sessions already and they lost that family-friendly feature which made it so different.\"\n\nIn April, Electric Fields blamed \"ongoing logistical and transport challenges\" for the decision to leave Drumlanrig.\n\nSWG3 said that fans who had bought tickets for the event once it had been moved to Glasgow via the venue's ticket provider, Ticketweb, would receive refunds within 14-28 days.\n\nA spokeswoman for SWG3 added that this would apply to about 80 customers.\n\nMore than 8,000 fans saw Noel Gallagher in action last year\n\nLast year's festival is estimated to have generated £1.5m for the local economy in southern Scotland.\n\nMore than 8,000 watched the Friday night headliner - Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - in an attendance record for the festival.", "Roberts' contribution to Doctor Who: The Target Storybook, has been removed\n\nWriter Gareth Roberts has been dropped from an upcoming Doctor Who anthology over \"offensive\" transphobic tweets, BBC Books has confirmed.\n\nRoberts, announcing his dismissal via Medium, said the publisher had \"immediately folded\" to pressure from the show's fandom and co-authors.\n\nParent company Ebury confirmed that Roberts' contribution to Doctor Who: The Target Storybook, will not feature.\n\nThe author said the tweets, from 2017, were made in \"cheerful vulgarity\".\n\nThe writer said that, as a gay man, he has \"rejected restrictive cultural gender stereotypes for \"as long as I can remember\", but does not believe in gender identity.\n\n\"It is impossible for a person to change their biological sex. I don't believe anybody is born in the wrong body,\" he said.\n\nRoberts has previously written for the TV series, including episodes for David Tennant, Matt Smith and Peter Capaldi.\n\nGareth Roberts' tweets have stunned the transgender community and their allies.\n\nOne of his more concerning posts refers to Paris Lees, Munroe Bergdorf, and Chelsea Manning, three of the world's most celebrated names in transgender rights, as \"trannies\". The word is now considered extremely derogatory.\n\nAn LGBT activist told me that on initially reading about Gareth's dismissal they felt sorry for him, until they then dug through his previous tweets.\n\nEbury's decision to drop Roberts over his tweets, which it says conflicts with its \"values as a publisher\", has sparked debate on social media.\n\nToby Young, author and associate editor of The Spectator, criticised the \"shocking\" decision, calling it an \"affront to free speech\" by a \"publicly-owned company\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Toby Young This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBBC Books is, however, not publicly owned. It is a subsidiary of Penguin Random House, which is a majority shareholder.\n\nSusie Day, one of the co-authors of the anthology, protested about Roberts' inclusion, saying that \"being involved felt like a tacit endorsement of his views\".\n\n\"I raised my concerns, and said if he was in, I was out,\" she wrote. \"BBC Books made their decision. I'm grateful they took the opportunity to demonstrate that transphobic views have no place in the Whoniverse, both in and outside the stories.\"\n\nBethany Black, the first trans actor in Doctor Who, also praised the decision.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Bethany “Stable Vagenius” Black This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDoctor Who, the long-running BBC series about an inter-galactic Timelord, will return with Jodie Whittaker continuing as its female lead in 2020.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Dylan Tiffin-Brown had five different types of drugs in his body when he died\n\nA toddler murdered by his father was deemed by carers as \"unlikely to suffer harm\", while concerns about the welfare of another child who was later killed were dismissed, reviews have found.\n\nDylan Tiffin-Brown, two, and Evelyn-Rose Muggleton, one, were victims of separate murders in Northamptonshire.\n\nRaphael Kennedy, Dylan's father, and Ryan Coleman, partner of Evelyn-Rose's mother, were both jailed for life.\n\nEx-MP Sally Keeble said there were \"massive failings\" in child services.\n\nMs Keeble, former Labour MP for Northampton North, has called on the Conservative leader of the county council Matt Golby, who was responsible for children's services at the time, to resign.\n\nThis has been backed by Andrew Gwynne MP, Labour's Shadow Communities and Local Government Secretary.\n\nKeith Makin, chairman of Northamptonshire Safeguarding Children Board (NSCB), said the reviews raised \"genuine concerns\" about safeguarding children in the county.\n\nDirector of children's services Sally Hodges said disciplinary action had been taken against social workers as a result of their actions in these cases.\n\nShe also said some have left the authority but refused to say whether they had been sacked.\n\nKennedy, 31, was jailed for at least 24 years for killing Dylan in a \"savage and sustained attack\" at his flat in Northampton in October 2018.\n\nHe waited more than an hour to dial 999 after inflicting 39 injuries on Dylan.\n\nThe NSCB report found agencies \"failed to fully appreciate the significance of [Kennedy's] chronic history of domestic abuse and extensive history with the police for drug-related offences\".\n\nA \"multi-agency\" meeting did not deem Dylan as \"suffering or likely to suffer significant harm\".\n\nA social worker was allocated to the family two months before Dylan was murdered, but no observations on Dylan's welfare had been recorded until two days before his death.\n\nThe NSCB said this and the \"well-documented issues\" within Northamptonshire's children's services, including high turnover of staff and significant levels of sick leave, contributed to \"lost opportunities\" to protect the toddler.\n\nEvelyn-Rose Muggleton was described as a happy baby who was always smiling\n\nEvelyn-Rose Muggleton was found with multiple bruising, bleeding injuries on her brain and spine, and 31 external injuries including damage to both eyes, at a house in Kettering in April 2018.\n\nShe died days later and Coleman, 23, was jailed for a minimum of 17 years.\n\nThe NSCB report said Coleman had a known, \"significant\" criminal history, including violence and drug-dealing, when he moved into the family home.\n\nThe school attended by Evelyn-Rose's siblings had concerns for the children's welfare, but these were not passed on to social workers.\n\nThe NSCB report revealed there were health concerns about the family, but social workers believed the mother was \"parenting well\".\n\nThe case had begun to \"drift, with little if any attention being paid to the children's welfare\", and when a new social worker was brought in they immediately closed the case down.\n\nIn both murder cases, the reviews recommended an improvement in information sharing between agencies.\n\nThe NSCB also said police warnings about risks posed by an adult's behaviour towards a child \"should be taken more seriously\".\n\nMr Makin said: \"This was a very challenging review, but it has identified several areas of weakness among the agencies involved.\n\n\"Ultimately, it seems unlikely that anything could have been done to prevent the single, catastrophic incidents which led to these [murders], but every effort is now going in to preventing a repeat of these tragic cases.\n\n\"Individual social workers now have a manageable caseloads [and] there is a change in the way social workers are managed; they are much more closely supervised and helped more.\n\n\"Children's services are still in a fragile position but we are recruiting more staff.\"\n\nHowever, Ms Keeble said there needed to be \"a complete culture change\" in the county council, to \"end to the lack of internal scrutiny\".\n\nLast year the government took over the children's services department of cash-strapped Northamptonshire County Council - labelled England's \"worst-run\" council - after a report found people in its care were at \"potential risk\".\n\nMr Golby, who has resisted calls to step down, said he stood by the department and had \"acted in the most diligent way\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The day started at 9:30am with questions on International Trade and International Development. Conservative leadership contender Rory Stewart caused a stir when he said he would be seeking a customs union with the European Union, against current government policy.\n\nThe government also outlined future business in the Commons for the week ahead.\n\nThere'll be some legislation on Monday on National Insurance Contributions, and there's two motions to be approved on Child Support and Consumer Rights on Tuesday.\n\nThe Commons has now moved on to the adjournment debate, tabled by Conservative David Morris, on the Eden Project and its impact on Morecambe and the North West.\n\nThat's where we're going to leave our live page for this week.\n\nWe'll return on Monday when the Commons starts the week with Home Office questions from 2:30pm.\n\nDo join us then.", "Tory leadership contender Matt Hancock has described Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn as an anti-Semite during an election hustings in Parliament.\n\nIf Mr Corbyn became PM, the UK \"could end up with the first anti-Semitic leader of a Western nation since the Second World War\", Mr Hancock said.\n\nA number of Labour MPs have left the party in protest at what they say is its tolerance of anti-Semitism.\n\nThe Labour party has been plagued by accusations of anti-Semitism since mid-2016, with its leadership accused of tolerating a culture of anti-Jewish prejudice.\n\nMr Corbyn has insisted he is getting to grips with the issue and has beefed-up the party's internal disciplinary procedures.\n\nMr Hancock made the remarks at an event held by the One Nation group of Conservative MPs.\n\nResponding to his comments, a Labour source said they \"ring hollow from a minister in a party that has supported governments that actively promote anti-Semitic policies in Hungary and Poland and has spent the week wooing Trump, the man who refused to condemn neo-fascists in Charlottesville who chanted 'Jews will not replace us'\".\n\n\"Numerous candidates in the Conservative leadership contest have been accused of racism, Islamophobia, homophobia and misogyny, one of whom may be the next prime minister\", the source added.\n\nShadow chancellor John McDonnell said the comments were a \"disgrace\".\n\nMr Hancock is not the first Tory leadership contender to highlight the issue, Dominic Raab recently saying that anti-Semitism in Labour was a \"stain on our country\".", "Evelyn was described by her mother as a happy baby, always smiling even when she was in hospital with pneumonia\n\nA man who murdered his partner's baby, inflicting 31 injuries, has been given a life sentence.\n\nEvelyn-Rose Muggleton died days after being found at a house in Kettering, Northamptonshire, in April last year.\n\nRyan Coleman, 23, of no fixed address, tried to blame the one-year-old girl's death on her mother.\n\nMrs Justice Sara Cockerill described the attack as \"a violent assault on a defenceless baby\" and said Coleman would serve a minimum of 17 years.\n\nEvelyn was found to have multiple bruising and bleeding injuries on her brain and spine, and 31 external injuries, including damage to both eyes.\n\nDuring his trial, Coleman claimed Evelyn had become unresponsive due to falling off a 15-inch (36cm) high toddler bed.\n\nThe court heard he had failed to call 999 to get her help after inflicting her fatal injuries.\n\nHe called the child's mother home from work and she contacted emergency services but Evelyn died on 29 April 2018.\n\nRyan Coleman inflicted 31 injuries on the child, the court was told\n\nHe then tried to blame her mother by claiming that she had caused the injuries trying to rouse the little girl through resuscitation.\n\nMrs Justice Cockerill described it as \"terrible act\" and said his story was \"utterly lacking in credibility\"\n\nHe \"showed no remorse for anyone but himself\", she added.\n\nAfter the trial, the girl's mother said: \"The death of Evelyn - my beautiful, smiley angel, has left such heartache that no one person can heal.\n\n\"But my love for her leaves me with memories that no one can steal.\"\n\nColeman refused to attend Birmingham Crown Court for sentencing and had stormed out on a number of occasions during the trial, including in the middle of cross-examination.\n\nDet Insp Stuart Hitchon, said: \"Losing a child is the worst pain imaginable and Ryan Coleman made Evelyn's mother relive it again and again at court.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "On June 6 1944, Gold Beach proved to be the most difficult landing ground for British troops on D-Day with up to 1,100 allied casualties.\n\nSoldiers from the Hampshire, Dorsetshire and Devonshire regiments were given the job of taking the defences near the beach.\n\nA new book has pieced together what happened to some of the individual soldiers in the first 24-hours after the D-Day landings.\n\nIt includes the story of a young private, Terry Parker, who kept an illegal diary detailing his involvement in the fighting.", "Sala had been flying to join his new team, Cardiff City, when the plane carrying him crashed\n\nTwo people are to appear in court after a photograph apparently showing a post-mortem examination of footballer Emiliano Sala appeared online.\n\nSherry Bray, 48, of Corsham, and Christopher Ashford, 62, of Calne, both in Wiltshire, have been summonsed in relation to computer misuse charges.\n\nBoth will appear in Swindon Magistrates' Court on 10 July.\n\nThe Argentine striker, who had just signed to Cardiff City, died in a plane crash in January.\n\nA post-mortem examination on Sala was conducted on 7 February at Holly Tree Lodge Mortuary in Bournemouth, Dorset.\n\nMs Bray faces three counts of computer misuse, perverting the course of justice and sending an indecent or offensive message.\n\nAnthony Johns, senior lawyer for the Crown Prosecution Service, warned that criminal proceedings against the defendants were now active.\n\n\"It is extremely important that there should be no reporting, commentary or sharing of information online which could in any way prejudice these proceedings,\" he said.", "Jack Letts was dubbed \"Jihadi Jack\" after he travelled to Syria in 2014\n\nThe mother of a Muslim convert dubbed \"Jihadi Jack\" told a court she tried to send her son £1,000 because she feared he was in great danger.\n\nSally Lane, 56, and her husband are accused of sending or trying to send their son money despite having reason to believe he had joined Islamic State.\n\nJack Letts left home in Oxford and travelled to Syria in 2014.\n\nMrs Lane and John Letts, 58, deny three charges of funding terrorism.\n\nThe Old Bailey heard Mrs Lane received several messages from her son, who converted to Islam aged 16, saying he wanted to leave Syria and asking for money.\n\nSally Lane and John Letts are accused of helping their son despite having reason to believe he had joined IS\n\nOn New Year's Eve 2015 she attempted to transfer £1,000 to him via Lebanon. She told the court she thought the money was going to help get him out of danger.\n\nFive days later, she was arrested.\n\nShe told jurors people put \"two and two together\" and made assumptions about her son's ideology.\n\nShe said: \"A white boy of Jack's age going to Syria, they assume that.\n\n\"They would not have thought he may have been a young person who is naive and wants to see what is going on for himself, wants to seek the truth in his religion.\"\n\nShe said while she had a duty to report her son if he posed a \"danger\" to society, she did not think that he did.\n\nProsecutor Alison Morgan QC brought up a Facebook post purportedly posted by Jack where he talked about wanting to decapitate an old school friend.\n\nMrs Lane said she could not be sure the message was from her son.\n\nShe added: \"I think there was probably a lot of people using each other's accounts and there was probably an exchange of information between them.\n\n\"I think they are things that Jack would not say. Jack has never said anything violent before.\"\n\nMs Morgan pointed out another message in which Jack said police would \"die in your rage soon\" for raiding the family home, and said the author even knew the name of the family cat.\n\n\"This is ridiculous, you knew perfectly well this was Jack,\" the prosecutor said.\n\nMrs Lane replied: \"I had to consider the possibility it could be him but I had to consider the possibility it was not him.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Australian police have raided the home of a journalist who reported that the government was considering a secret plan to spy on its citizens.\n\nThe Australian Federal Police said it had executed a search warrant as part of an investigation into the alleged leaking of classified information.\n\nNews Corp Australia condemned the search of Annika Smethurst's home as \"outrageous and heavy-handed\".\n\nJournalists have expressed alarm over the raid.\n\nA spokesperson for the press gallery in parliament called it \"an outrageous move that should concern all Australians who value their freedom in an open society\".\n\nThe Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance, a leading union, accused the police of seeking to \"punish a journalist for reporting a legitimate news story that was clearly in the public interest\".\n\nMs Smethurst, the national politics editor of the Sunday Telegraph and other News Corp Australia titles, reported last April that Australia's Home and Defence ministries were discussing a proposal that would grant new powers to the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD), a cyber intelligence agency.\n\nShe wrote that under the plan, emails, bank records and text messages of Australians could be accessed by the ASD if the two ministries gave their approval. Currently, the ASD is not allowed to spy on Australians, though the domestic spy agency, ASIO, can investigate citizens with a warrant.\n\nAt the time, the two ministries and the ASD released a joint statement saying: \"There is no proposal to increase the ASD's powers to collect intelligence on Australians or to covertly access their private data.\"\n\nTuesday's raid in a suburb of the capital, Canberra, came weeks after a new centre-right government was elected. In a surprise result, Prime Minister Scott Morrison was returned to office.\n\nThe police were at Ms Smethurst's home on Tuesday for more than seven hours, according to the Sydney Morning Herald. The warrant allowed police to search her computer and mobile phone.\n\n\"This warrant relates to the alleged publishing of information classified as an official secret, which is an extremely serious matter that has the potential to undermine Australia's national security,\" the federal police said in a statement.\n\nNews Corp Australia, which is owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, said that the raid was \"a dangerous act of intimidation\".\n\n\"What's gone on this morning sends clear and dangerous signals to journalists and newsrooms across Australia. This will chill public interest reporting,\" it said.\n\nSeparately on Tuesday, Ben Fordham, a prominent radio journalist, said that the government was investigating how he obtained information that up to six boats carrying asylum seekers had recently tried to reach Australia.\n\nFordham, a broadcaster for radio station 2GB, said that his team had been contacted by an official from the home affairs ministry requesting assistance with the investigation.\n\n\"The chances of me revealing my sources is zero. Not today, not tomorrow, next week or next month. There is not a hope in hell of that happening,\" Fordham said.\n\nThe BBC contacted the home affairs ministry for comment. A spokesperson would not confirm or deny the existence of the investigation.\n\nThe spokesperson said that two groups of people headed for Australia from Sri Lanka by boat had been returned home in recent months. On 23 May, a vessel carrying 41 people broke down and those onboard were rescued by the Sri Lankan navy, the spokesperson said.\n\nAnother vessel was detained by the Sri Lankan navy in early March and 30 people were sent back.\n\nThe Australian government prohibits any asylum seekers from reaching the mainland by boat. It intercepts vessels at sea as part of a tough policy that it says has successfully deterred dangerous boat journeys.", "Mike Ashley's retail empire Sports Direct is making its latest High Street expansion move with a £51.9m bid for Game Digital.\n\nSports Direct said it will offer 30p a share for Game Digital under the cash bid, which was triggered after it upped its stake in the chain to 38.5%.\n\nBut Sports Direct warned there may be job losses if the bid succeeds.\n\nIt would potentially close some sites, or merge them with other Sports Direct-owned stores, after a review.\n\nThis is the latest expansion attempt by Sports Direct, after it failed to take over Debenhams.\n\nSports Direct has already snapped up a number of struggling companies, including House of Fraser and Evans Cycles. He also recently bought online furniture firm Sofa.\n\nMr Ashley's empire was already Game's largest investor and has been a shareholder in the specialist games retailer since July 2017.\n\nSports Direct said it did not believe that, as a standalone business, Game was \"able to weather the pressures that it is facing\".\n\n\"Sports Direct believes that the offer, in providing Game with the wider benefit of Sports Direct's operating and other experience and increased support, will secure Game's future and allow it to navigate these pressures,\" it said.\n\nIt added the 30p-a-share bid was final and represents a 27% premium to Game's closing price on Tuesday of 23.55p.\n\nSports Direct was required to make a mandatory offer for Game under UK takeover rules after taking its stake above 30%.\n\nGame has been battling tough High Street conditions, while sales of hardware and consoles have been hit by competition.\n\nIt saw sales drop 4.7% to £492.9m in its first half, despite a boost to some categories from popular games like Fortnite.\n\nBut cost-cutting and higher margin sales helped interim pre-tax profits jump 20.3% to £14.8m.", "Nigel Farage says he will not attend a committee investigating whether he broke European Parliament rules by accepting funding from Leave campaigner Arron Banks.\n\nThe Brexit Party leader has said he did not declare the £450,000 sum to the assembly because at the time, he was about to leave politics and had been seeking a new life in the US.\n\nHe said he had only been given 24 hours' notice to attend a meeting of the committee on Wednesday, which he branded a \"kangaroo court\".\n\nThe payments from Mr Banks were revealed by a Channel 4 News investigation last month.\n\nItems paid for by him included Mr Farage's London home, his car and trips to the US to meet Donald Trump.\n\nThe committee had invited Mr Farage to appear in person to discuss his finances, but said it would have to be on Wednesday to fit it in before the end of the parliamentary session.\n\nHe was not under any obligation to appear before the committee, which will examine the case before advising European Parliament President Antonio Tajani.\n\nMEPs found to have acted improperly can be reprimanded, their parliamentary allowance can be withheld or they can be banned from some activities.\n\nArron Banks has said he had \"willingly helped Farage and was honoured to do so\", adding: \"This was all designed to help Nigel get out of politics.\"\n\nMr Farage insisted he did not receive \"any private money for political purposes\".\n\n\"This committee would better spend its time investigating the waste of public money by well-known MEPs,\" he added.\n\nMr Farage has been a member of the European Parliament since 1999.\n\nHe led UKIP in the run-up to the 2016 EU referendum, campaigning alongside Leave.EU, of which Mr Banks was a major financier.\n\nMr Farage stepped down as leader later the same year, but remained as an MEP before launching The Brexit Party in March this year.", "Jussie Smollett will not be returning to Empire, the show's co-creator Lee Daniels has now confirmed.\n\nResponding to claims that writers were preparing for Smollett's comeback, Daniels tweeted: \"Jussie will NOT be returning to Empire.\"\n\nThe actor was accused of staging a racist and homophobic attack on himself in January - which he's always denied.\n\nBut since the incident there's been speculation over his future on the show.\n\nDaniels's tweet is the first public confirmation that Smollett will definitely not be coming back for the sixth and final season.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn April, TV Network Fox confirmed Empire had been renewed for a sixth season and the studio had \"negotiated an extension to Jussie Smollett's option for season six,\" adding, there were no immediate \"plans for the character of Jamal to return\".\n\nSmollett has been on the show since the first season in 2015.\n\nHis character was written out for the final two episodes of season five following the allegations and fans have been waiting to hear confirmation about his return ever since.\n\nBut now it's official - Jussie is out.\n\nDaniels has previously spoken of the \"pain and anger and sadness and frustration\" that Smollett's case has caused him and the Empire cast.\n\nIn a letter to Fox executives and series producers on 19 April, Empire cast members expressed support for Smollett, writing: \"Together, as a united front, we stand with Jussie Smollett and ask that our co-star, brother and friend be brought back for our sixth season of Empire.\"\n\nIt's been a complicated case to keep up with:\n\nDespite the charges being dropped, Chicago police repeated accusations that Smollett \"orchestrated\" the attack and ordered him to pay $130,000 (£99,000) to compensate for the manpower used investigating his alleged assault.\n\nThe City of Chicago have sued Smollett, after he refused to pay the amount and he has continued to deny the allegations.\n\nAddressing the final season earlier this week, Charlie Collier, CEO of Fox Entertainment, told reporters: \"One of the great benefits of announcing a final season is to allow the fans to lean in and to have the ending they deserve, and that's everything we're trying to do with this iconic series.\n\n\"Six years is a pretty remarkable run for a drama series and we feel good about it.\"\n\nRepresentatives for Fox have been approached for comment.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "The 75th anniversary of D-Day, when British, American and Canadian forces landed in France to drive out the occupying German army, will be a special one for a dwindling group of people - those who were there at the time. The BBC's Emma Jane Kirby met a US veteran and two French civilians.\n\nWhat 96-year-old Jake Larson remembers most about D-Day is the feeling of exhaustion. Well, the exhaustion and his first taste of champagne.\n\n\"Let me tell you the story!\" he says from his home in California as we chat on the phone. \"You'll love this story!\"\n\nSeventy-five years on and Jake's vintage tales of war are still as effervescent and sparkling as the bubbly he used to knock back in Normandy. For 65, perhaps for 70 years, he refused to speak about his experiences on the French coast - when he left the US Army in 1945, he was demobbed with \"the shakes\", he says. But when he did allow the cork to pop, suppressed memories frothed and spilled over in Technicolor.\n\nJake had joined the National Guard in Minnesota aged 15. He'd lied about his age in the hope he'd get paid there and then - he'd only signed up because he'd wanted 10 cents for a cinema ticket to watch the latest Gene Autry film with his cousin. But national guardsmen were among the first to be conscripted into the US Army, and by 1944 Jake was a sergeant. When someone found out he could type, he was quickly shipped to the US Army's HQ in England to become a clerk, typing up the loading orders for the Normandy invasion plans of the US V Corps.\n\n\"Man, I was so tired!\" he remembers. \"No-one had slept on the 4th or 5th [of June] and the seas were so rough we were turning and turning and everyone was sick. But on 6 June, maybe around 06:30, it was time to go in and here we were landing at Omaha beach with the water up to our necks and machine-gun fire on all sides. It was a shooting gallery.\"\n\nThe sea, he says, was red with the blood of soldiers who had stepped on mines and he recalls having to push floating bodies out of his path to shore. After scrambling up the beach, he hid trembling behind a small sandbank and trying to calm his nerves with a cigarette, he asked the soldier crouched behind him for a match. When the man didn't reply, Jake nudged him and saw there was no head under the helmet.\n\nTime just evaporated that day, Jake reflects. He remembers setting up a command post by the cliffs, digging himself a foxhole to sleep in and by seven o'clock that night he was dropping with fatigue. That's when he was told by his commanding officer that he was to be in charge of the night shift.\n\nThe next morning - Jake's longed-for bedtime - the guns roared again and more tanks rolled up the beach.\n\n\"I couldn't sleep with that noise!\" he protests. \"I just couldn't sleep and man, I really needed to rest!\"\n\nIt was the locals who helped Jake out. As he stumbled away from the beach towards the village, French civilians rushed out to greet the liberators, hugging the soldiers and plying them with Normandy cheeses and other local fare.\n\n\"There was Camembert!\" delights Jake. \"Am I even pronouncing that right? It was delicious, that Camembert cheese, but I didn't know how you ate that thing - I was just a farm boy from Minnesota! Then they gave us champagne! Wow! Man! Did you ever drink champagne?\"\n\n\"I used to drink a whole bottle of that champagne every morning! We were out in the open and they (the Germans) were shooting at us and we were shooting back - and the noise! And I needed to sleep! Well that champagne was quite a thing - you drink a bottle of that and you could fall asleep! It was amazing stuff!\"\n\nAt her home in Angers, 90-year-old Thérèse le Chevalier claps her hands together in delight when I tell her about Jake and his champagne cure for insomnia.\n\nBack in June 1944, Therese was a 15-year-old boarding school pupil, but when a cousin working for the Resistance hinted to her mother that something significant was about to happen on the Normandy coast, Thérèse's mother ordered her home to Bernières-sur-Mer, the stretch of coastline known to the Allies as Juno Beach.\n\nAs Jake Larson would have been clutching his stomach and vomiting in the rolling transport ship as he waited to land at Omaha Beach, Therese was hunkered down with her parents and little sister in a trench at the back of her yard, waiting for the ground to stop trembling with the bombing and gunfire. And as soon as it did, they went into the street.\n\n\"The joy! The amazing feeling when we saw all those soldiers!\" she exclaims. \"The first were Canadians and some had their faces blacked up to avoid being spotted. And there were all kinds of weapons coming by, tanks and jeeps!\"\n\nLater, while her parents were busy, she and her little sister sneaked away to look at the sea and were startled to find it packed with boats sporting silver anti-aircraft kite balloons.\n\n\"It's strange,\" she reflects. \"But I don't remember seeing corpses or anyone injured on the beach. My 15-year-old self did not understand death, did not believe in death, so maybe I just blocked it out.\"\n\nShe does remember being chased away by soldiers who warned her that the beach was dangerous and there were things going on there which were not fit for a child to see.\n\nBut for the most part, Thérèse sparkles as she speaks of her memories of D-Day and her joy is absolutely infectious.\n\n\"Everyone was in the street,\" she tells me. \"They were so happy because first of all we were liberated, we felt free, but really because we were alive! That whole day was a wonderful feeling of life.\"\n\nTherese's mother opened up her house to the soldiers to welcome them and to try to warm them up.\n\n\"Of course, we pitied those poor things,\" Thérèse says, her hands cupping her face. \"Because they were all wet from walking in the sea - oh, we felt so sorry for them! My mother boiled water all day for their tea and we made them coffee.\" She shakes her finger, correcting herself. \"Well we didn't have coffee by then, of course, I think it was barley we gave them.\"\n\nThérèse shows me a photograph of herself taken around the time of the D-Day landings and I look at an image of a beautiful, confident young woman with masses of thick, dark hair piled high on top of her head.\n\n\"Oh yes!\" she laughs coquettishly. \"My hair was my pride, my crowning glory!\"\n\nThe soldiers were clearly enchanted by this pretty 15-year-old and gave her sweets and biscuits from their rations. But the gift she remembers most clearly is the little tin of chocolate they gave her, which could be heated up as a drink.\n\nTherese closes her eyes in ecstasy as she recalls tasting it, watching the battalions of Canadian and British soldiers.\n\n\"Honestly,\" she sighs, \"I never drank such a chocolate in all my life!\"\n\nThat evening, she says, the soldiers pulled a piano from a bomb-damaged house into the street and one of them played for the village. Thérèse doesn't remember the exact tunes he played but she knows it was something joyful.\n\n\"Because we danced!\" she laughs. \"We danced until the evening came.\"\n\nWhile we chat, Thérèse's husband Pierre watches us quietly, occasionally sighing and shaking his head. His experience of the liberation was very different from his wife's because he lived 20km south of Bernières-sur-Mer, at Caen, which would endure a further two months of heavy bombing before the Germans were defeated.\n\nLeon Gautier and the patched-up photo of Dorothea, whom he later married\n\nOn 6 June 1944, 21-year-old Leon Gautier was one of 177 elite French commandos who took part in the Normandy landings with the British 4 Commando unit.\n\nHe was one of the first men to step on to Sword beach - the British soldiers were \"gentlemanly\", he says, and allowed the French to land first. He was distraught when the photo of his English girlfriend, Dorothea, got wet in the sea. Later, in a trench, he repaired it with the sticking plaster from his first aid kit.\n\nHe remembers meeting a few French civilians near Sword beach and laughing when they presumed he was British and tried to speak to his unit in English. They told him they were scared of repercussions when the Allied forces left. \"We will not go back,\" he told them. \"This time it's for good.\"\n\nThe historian Anthony Beevor once described the Battle of Caen as being \"close to a war crime\", but Pierre does not want to criticise the Allied forces, he just says that life was \"very, very hard\" for Caen's civilians, who were almost starving by the summer of 1944. For two-and-a-half years, Pierre and his parents slept in their cellar to survive. Many of their friends and neighbours were not so lucky.\n\n\"There were many, many dead at Caen,\" he reminds me. \"And we knew nothing about D-Day. That night (6 June) the bombs fell non-stop. We imagined something might be happening but we didn't know it was accompanied by soldiers landing on the Normandy coast. All we saw were German reinforcements passing by - and, later, trucks returning from the front full of dead soldiers.\"\n\nEventually, Pierre's parents decided to evacuate to the countryside.\n\n\"The first D-Day soldiers I saw would have been in August,\" he says. \"American soldiers - a battalion of black American soldiers - gave us chewing gum but passed by quickly. We didn't have physical contact or conversation with the Americans. We were liberated without really knowing it.\" He shrugs.\n\n\"And Caen didn't get better from one day to the next. We had no electricity, no water - everything had been bombed to bits.\"\n\nThérèse has been busy shelling peas for lunch while her husband talks but she comes over to join us now and interjects that while she had the pleasure of seeing the liberation, her husband saw only the war.\n\n\"There was no joy,\" he admits. \"Even after the ceasefire in 1945, the people weren't spilling over with joy. I don't remember any laughter in the streets. I think mentally, we were all rather crushed.\"\n\nPierre and Thérèse will return to Normandy for the 75th anniversary of D-Day just as they have done many times before. And for the first time since the war ended, 96-year-old Jake Larson will be back in France too, to pay his respects at the cemeteries where his fallen comrades are buried.\n\n\"I'm the luckiest man alive,\" he tells me emphatically. \"We lost 2,400 men on Omaha beach that day, men I walked over, men who died to spare me.\" His voice trails off. \"There's a feeling of guilt in that,\" he admits. \"So now it's time to pay my respects and to thank them for their sacrifice.\"\n\nJake Larson is now the only survivor from his regiment - the \"last man standing\", as he jokes. Pierre and Thérèse too are painfully aware that in another 10 years there may be only a handful of civilian witnesses like them.\n\n\"Young people don't know about D-Day, they don't care about the war,\" says Thérèse with a wry smile. \"To them it's just history. But when you live that history, it's very, very different.\"\n\nThérèse Le Chevalier's story is featured in In Their Footsteps, an exhibition at the Juno Beach museum running until 11 November 2019\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Twitter.", "Amazon executive Jeff Wilke said the drone had been engineered to minimise noise\n\nAmazon has said it will use drones to deliver packages to customers “within months”.\n\nIt unveiled its latest iteration at a conference in Las Vegas, touting the machine's ability to spot obstacles such as people, dogs, and clotheslines.\n\nAmazon executive Jeff Wilke said the drone would be able to travel 15 miles to carry packages weighing 5lbs (2.3kg) or less.\n\nMr Wilke did not say where in the world the drone deliveries would initially take place, or precisely when.\n\nHowever, the US Federal Aviation Administration told the BBC it had granted Amazon a permit to operate the drone in the US.\n\n\"The FAA issued a Special Airworthiness Certificate to Amazon Prime Air allowing the company to operate its MK27 unmanned aircraft for research and development and crew training in authorized flight areas,\" the regulator said.\n\n\"Amazon Prime Air plans to use the aircraft to establish a package delivery operation in the United States. This certificate is valid for one year and is eligible for renewal.\"\n\nThe prototype drone has \"shrouds\" to act as protection from its propellers, which double up as wings\n\nIn the past, Amazon has been accused of using the promise of drone delivery as a headline-grabber to push its publicity around its Prime membership service.\n\nBut in December 2016, the company ran an apparently successful trial in Cambridge, UK. A package was delivered, by drone, in 13 minutes.\n\nOn stage during the firm’s “Re:Mars” conference - an event highlighting the firm's work in machine learning, robotics, automation and space - Amazon displayed the drone that will be used.\n\nIt uses six rotors, and “sees” what’s around it using a combination of data from visual, thermal and ultrasonic sensors.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nThe firm insisted that it had built a drone with multiple redundancies for avoiding objects, even if it lost its connectivity.\n\n\"Some drones are autonomous but not able to react to the unexpected, relying simply on communications systems for situational awareness,” Mr Wilke said.\n\n\"If our drone’s flight environment changes, or the drone‘s mission commands it to come into contact with an object that wasn’t there previously - it will refuse to do so - it is independently safe.”\n\nThe firm shared a video of a test flight, but its sound was covered by music. One aspect that might affect societal acceptance could be noise, said Carolina Milanesi, from Creative Strategies.\n\n“I'm sure that it will be a concern, although it might not be that different from the noise from a delivery truck arriving at your home.\n\n“The only difference is that the drone might be closer to a person's home if it's landing in the garden.\"\n\nMr Wilke said the drone’s design had \"been optimized to minimize intrusive, high-frequency sounds”.\n\nDo you have more information about this or any other technology story? You can reach Dave directly and securely through encrypted messaging app Signal on: +1 (628) 400-7370", "US President Donald Trump has clarified his comments where he is recorded calling the Duchess of Sussex 'nasty'.\n\nHe says he referred to her alleged comments as 'nasty' and did not mean Meghan was a nasty person In interview broadcast on the final day of his state visit to the UK.\n\nHe's also said that her husband, Prince Harry, 'couldn't have been nicer' when they met earlier in the week.", "Khuram Butt was being investigated by MI5 from 2015\n\nThe team investigating one of the 2017 London Bridge attackers was not told he had been reported to an anti-terror hotline, an inquest has heard.\n\nKhuram Butt's brother-in-law had reported his increasing radicalisation in September 2015.\n\nIn the same month MI5 assessed Butt as wanting to stage a terror attack but lacking the ability to do so.\n\nEight people were killed in the attack he carried out with two other men.\n\nThey mowed down pedestrians on London Bridge before launching a knife attack in nearby Borough Market, injuring 48 others.\n\nPolice shot and killed the attackers less than 10 minutes after the violence began.\n\nA senior counter-terrorism officer - identified only as Witness M - told an inquest at the Old Bailey in London that it was \"very unsatisfactory\" his team was not informed about the call.\n\nUsman Darr had contacted the hotline because he was concerned that his brother-in-law had been distributing anti-Western texts and links to jihadi sites and had become increasingly extreme in his views.\n\nThe information was processed but never passed on to the joint MI5 and police investigation of Butt that had been under way since mid-2015.\n\nIn the same month that he was reported by his brother-in-law, Butt was assessed by the security service as having a \"strong risk\" of staging a terror attack on his own, but there was no evidence he was planning one.\n\nIn May 2017 MI5 lowered the assessed risk of Butt carrying out a lone terror attack to moderate, but increased his ability to do so to moderate.\n\nPolice decided not to charge him with possession of extremist material because there was not a strong enough chance of disrupting any potential terror plot, Witness M said.\n\nThe inquest also heard Butt had associated with members of the banned terrorist group Al-Muhajiroun, including Siddhartha Dhar - who went on to fight for so-called Islamic State - and the group's leader Anjem Choudary.\n\nThe victims of the London Bridge attack clockwise from top left - Chrissy Archibald, James McMullan, Alexandre Pigeard, Sébastien Bélanger, Ignacio Echeverría, Xavier Thomas, Sara Zelenak, Kirsty Boden\n\nWitness M also told the inquest he had not personally been made aware that Butt had appeared in a Channel 4 programme called The Jihadi Next Door in January 2016, saying the programme was reviewed by another team.\n\nThe court previously heard how Butt appeared in the programme - where he condemned the UK government, particularly over its actions in Iraq and Syria - for roughly two minutes but was not identified by name.\n\nLater that year, Butt was employed by London Underground, including working at Westminster station, but Witness M said he did not have grounds to intervene.\n\nIn October 2016, Butt was arrested with three others on suspicion of falsely reporting fraudulent activity on three bank accounts, and bailed until January 2017.\n\nHowever, prosecutors advised there was not enough evidence to charge him.\n\nWitness M said police were also unaware of a number of pieces of information that indicated Butt was associated with the two other attackers.\n\nThese included the fact they all met at Ummah Fitness Centre in Ilford, east London, that was itself run by a suspected senior member of Al-Muhajiroun, and that they went on regular trips together to take their children swimming.\n\nLast week, the lawyer representing several of the victims' families told the court there were \"opportunities galore\" to identify that the three men were plotting an attack.\n\nXavier Thomas, 45, Christine Archibald, 30, Sara Zelenak, 21, Sebastien Belanger, 36, James McMullan, 32, Kirsty Boden, 28, Alexandre Pigeard, 26, and Ignacio Echeverria, 39, were all killed in the attack.", "Some 700,000 children in the UK could be lifted out of poverty in five easy steps costing £8.3bn, a charity says.\n\nThe Child Poverty Action Group analysed the impact of continuing benefit cuts to children in the UK, projecting the impact of these forward to 2023.\n\nIts report proposes a series of re-investments in universal credit and details their impact on child poverty and what it would cost to put in place.\n\nBut in recent months, official figures have shown that nearly three million children are living in poverty.\n\nAccording to the CPAG analysis, the biggest impact on numbers of children freed from poverty - 300,000 - would be to:\n\nThe other three measures involve reversing the impact of the benefit freeze by:\n\nAnd a combination of these three would lift 400,000 further youngsters out of poverty, the charity's analysis says.\n\nThe charity says the five changes would leave families with children better off by about £1,000 a year and cost the Treasury £8.3bn.\n\nChief executive Alison Garnham said it was time for \"compassionate politicians\" to recommit to taking action to reduce the poverty of society's youngest.\n\n\"Children have borne the greatest burden of cuts to government spending with the four-year benefits freeze and punitive policies such as the two-child limit and benefit cuts - this is just not right,\" she said.\n\n\"If the government is serious that austerity is now over, it needs to demonstrate this is in a way that is felt immediately in families' pockets,\" she added.\n\n\"There are 667,000 fewer children living in workless households than in 2010 and we're spending £95bn a year to support those families who need it most,\" he said.\n\n\"Low earning parents have benefited from the introduction of the National Living Wage, which gave the lowest earners their fastest pay rise in 20 years.\n\n\"We've also cut taxes for 32 million people - to help families meet the everyday cost of living.\"\n• None Working for families in the UK Child Poverty Action Group The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The 518 squadron flew missions from Tiree almost every day no matter what the weather\n\nD-Day could have been one of the biggest disasters in military history were it not for the decisions of a Scottish weatherman and data from an RAF squadron based on a small island off Scotland's west coast.\n\nGroup Captain James Martin Stagg, from Dalkeith near Edinburgh, was the chief meteorological adviser who persuaded US General Eisenhower to change the date of the Allied invasion.\n\nStagg not only predicted a storm on 5 June 1944, but made the vital forecast that the weather would break for long enough the following day to allow Operation Overlord to go ahead.\n\nSome of the data that helped inform Stagg's decision came from a little-known RAF squadron operating on Tiree.\n\nThe 518 Squadron flew dangerous missions from Scotland's west coast hundreds of miles out into the Atlantic in all weathers to send back meteorological readings.\n\nGroup Captain Stagg was the chief meteorological adviser to Operation Overlord\n\nThe Normandy landings were the largest seaborne invasion in history and laid the foundations for the Allied victory in World War Two.\n\nThey had been planned for 5 June but low tides and good weather were vital to be able to get hundreds of thousands of troops on to the beaches of France.\n\nThe low tides were easy to predict but getting the weather right as well was another matter.\n\nLow cloud would mean no air cover and rough seas could sink landing craft.\n\nU.S Troops rushing to the Normandy Beaches in France during the D-Day landing\n\nIn those days, many years before satellite imaging and computer modelling, weather forecasting was far from an exact science.\n\nProf Liz Bentley, from the Royal Meteorological Society, said: \"In 1944, the forecaster was reliant on pure weather observations.\"\n\nHowever, observations from land stations could not tell forecasters what the weather was like far out in the Atlantic.\n\nThis was where the 518 squadron came in.\n\nSome of the crew from 518 squadron on the beach at Tiree\n\nIt was their job to fly from the inner Hebrides out over the Atlantic in specially-equipped bombers and record the weather conditions.\n\nDr John Holliday, a local historian on Tiree, said the story of the 518 squadron's contribution has never properly been told.\n\nThe Normandy landings were the largest seaborne invasion in history\n\nThe RAF unit moved to the island in September 1943 from Stornoway on Lewis.\n\nAccording to Dr Holliday, their mission was to fly on two \"tracks\" for hundreds of miles over the Atlantic and radio back temperature and air pressure measurements, which were fed to the headquarters near London.\n\nThe squadron used Halifax bombers, which had all their bombing equipment stripped out to help them fly the long-range sorties.\n\nDr Holliday says the missions could take eight to 10 hours and were often conducted at night and in severe weather conditions, requiring \"amazing\" navigation skills.\n\nThe graves of some of the men that died are in this Tiree cemetery\n\n\"Consequently they lost a lot of men,\" he says.\n\n\"This was one of the most dangerous stations to be in.\"\n\nIn January 1944, eight men died when a meteorological flight got lost in bad weather and hit cliffs at Bundoran in Donegal.\n\nDr Holliday says: \"I'm struck with admiration when you look at what they had to do and read their descriptions of the battering they got out in the Atlantic. It is just extraordinary.\"\n\nAn aerial view of Allied Naval forces engaged in Operation Overlord on 6 June 1944\n\nThe island of Tiree was transformed by the presence of about 3,000 military personnel, with many from Canada, New Zealand, Australia and Poland as well as the UK.\n\nOne of the squadron crew, Warrant Officer Gordon Wilkes, later wrote: \"We were never glamorised on the front page of the daily newspapers, or talked about in pubs and bars, but we were always there, whatever the weather.\"\n\nHe calculated that 10 aircraft and 54 crew were lost while operating from Tiree in 1944.\n\nMeanwhile, in the south of England, at the heart of the Allied Supreme command, was Group Captain Stagg.\n\nUsing the data from Tiree and other squadrons, he fought to convince General Eisenhower to delay the landings by one day.\n\nGeneral Dwight Eisenhower was the commander of Allied forces in Europe\n\nEventually Eisenhower listened and the largest maritime operation in history was put on hold.\n\nProf Bentley, from the Royal Meteorological Society, said there was much disagreement between the US and UK forecasters.\n\nShe says: \"They had ruled out 5 June as too stormy but Stagg had seen one observation about 600 miles to the west of Ireland that showed the surface pressure was beginning to rise, so there was potential for things to settle down.\"\n\nThey came back on the morning of 5 June to check if this was still the case.\n\nA break in the weather allowed the invasion to go ahead\n\nStagg felt there was an opportunity for a small ridge of high pressure to be settling in the English Channel the next morning but he was still met with disagreement.\n\nProf Bentley said it was likely that the German forecasters were also expecting the bad weather to continue and had not expected an invasion under those conditions.\n\nIf the D-Day landing had not taken place on 6 June they would have been delayed for two weeks and on that day the Channel was again hit by a large storm, which meteorologists would have struggled to forecast.\n\nInstead, Stagg was proved right and the D-Day invasion went ahead on 6 June, beginning the liberation of German-occupied France, and later Europe, from Nazi control.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nPortugal manager Fernando Santos described Cristiano Ronaldo as \"a genius\" after his superb hat-trick ensured Portugal reached the Nations League final with victory over Switzerland at the Estadio do Dragao.\n\nRonaldo, 34, had given the hosts the lead with a stunning first-half free-kick that flew into the bottom-right corner, wrong-footing Swiss keeper Yann Sommer.\n\nSwitzerland levelled in the second period when Ricardo Rodriguez tucked away a video assistant referee-awarded penalty - after Felix Brych had initially signalled for a penalty at the other end.\n\nBut after consulting his pitch-side monitor, referee Brych instead gave a spot-kick for Nelson Semedo's foul on Switzerland's Steven Zuber.\n\nIncensed by the decision, the hosts struggled to build any rhythm as the game appeared to drift towards extra-time.\n\nHowever, Ronaldo made the crucial difference late on, sweeping Bernardo Silva's cross into the corner of the net, before firing into the same spot 102 seconds later.\n\n\"In terms of adjectives to describe Ronaldo's game - I have used many,\" said Santos, Ronaldo's former manager at Sporting Lisbon.\n\n\"I was his coach in 2003 and I could see where he would go. There are genius paintings and sculptures and he is a football genius.\n\n\"When someone scores three goals, they are the difference maker.\"\n\nPortugal play the winners of Thursday's semi-final between England and the Netherlands (19:45 BST), with the final in Porto on Sunday.\n• None He scored three… nothing new for him' - Ronaldo shines again on international stage\n• None Why Portugal are so much more than just Ronaldo\n• None Joao Felix - is this the most exciting player since Ronaldo?\n\nPrior to this match, Ronaldo had featured just twice in Portugal's past eight international games, playing no part at all in their qualification for the semi-finals of this tournament.\n\nAfter drawing blanks in the Euro 2020 qualifiers against Serbia and Ukraine in March, and in Portugal's final two games of the World Cup last summer, he once again demonstrated his enduring quality in the international arena.\n\nHe may no longer be at the peak of his powers, but 350 days after scoring his last international goal, he added to his tally by winning and scoring from a free-kick.\n\nIn trademark fashion he dipped the ball over the Switzerland wall and it was past Sommer in a flash with the goalkeeper unable to readjust.\n\nAnd his importance as the scorer of great goals came to the fore with Santos' team struggling to find answers against a resourceful and purposeful Swiss side.\n\nA darting run moved him onto Silva's cross and a step-over and shimmy gave him the space to dispatch another clinical strike to make the game safe for the European champions.\n\nIt brought up his 53rd hat-trick for club and country, and he now sits second on the all-time international top scorers chart with 88 goals in 157 matches, with only Iran's Ali Daei (109) ahead of him.\n\n\"Both the Netherlands and England are excellent teams and either will present great opposition,\" said Ronaldo when asked about Sunday's Nations League final.\n\n\"I hope that Portugal can win, that the stadium will be full and that the fans can support us like they did today. We are stronger together.\"\n\nWhile Portugal had been labelled favourites in this tie by Swiss boss Vladimir Petkovic, his team enjoyed more shots and greater possession than the hosts.\n\nInspired by Liverpool midfielder Xherdan Shaqiri, the Swiss carved out several goalscoring chances before falling behind to Ronaldo's free-kick.\n\nShaqiri and Haris Seferovic both went close, with the Benfica forward smashing a sweetly struck shot against the crossbar.\n\nBut when their deserved equaliser arrived it came in bizarre fashion, with Silva going down and appearing to win a penalty for Portugal before VAR intervened.\n\nInstead of Ronaldo shaping up to take a spot-kick from 12 yards, play was brought back to deal with an earlier incident between Semedo and Zuber in the Portugal penalty area.\n\nAnd the faintest of touches from the Barcelona full-back, on Zuber, who initially appeared to trip over his own legs, convinced the referee to award the unlikeliest of penalties against the hosts.\n\n\"Portugal had street smarts, they had the cherry on top of the cake and that made the difference. Four shots, three goals,\" said manager Petkovic.\n\n\"On the one hand we were up against a very strong opponent, but over 90 minutes we showed we are a strong team and that we can make life for a top side difficult too.\"\n• None Portugal have won five of their past eight games against Switzerland (D1 L2), despite conceding in six of those matches.\n• None This is the first encounter between Portugal and Switzerland to see both sides score since March 1993 (1-1 in a World Cup qualifier).\n• None Switzerland are winless in their past nine games played in Portugal (including Euro 2004), losing seven and drawing twice since a 2-0 victory against Portugal in a World Cup qualifier in April 1969.\n• None Portugal have lost just one of their past 16 games across all competitions (W6 D9) and are unbeaten since a 2-1 defeat against Uruguay in the 2018 World Cup (P9 W4 D5 L0 since).\n• None Two of Cristiano Ronaldo's past five goals for Portugal have come from direct free-kicks; only two of his previous 52 goals prior to this were scored in the same manner.\n• None Ricardo Rodriguez's past three goals for Switzerland - and five of his past six - have been penalties.\n• None Only Strahil Popov for Bulgaria (four) and Benjamin Kololli for Kosovo (five) have been directly involved in more goals among defenders in this Nations League campaign than Switzerland's Ricardo Rodríguez (three - two goals, one assist).\n\nPortugal play the winners of Thursday's semi-final between England and the Netherlands (19:45 BST) in the Nations League final in Porto on Sunday (also 19:45). Switzerland will take part in Sunday's third-place play-off at 14:00.\n• None Goal! Portugal 3, Switzerland 1. Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Gonçalo Guedes following a fast break.\n• None Goal! Portugal 2, Switzerland 1. Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Bernardo Silva.\n• None Gonçalo Guedes (Portugal) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. Fabian Schär (Switzerland) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Xherdan Shaqiri.\n• None Xherdan Shaqiri (Switzerland) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Councillor Laura Booth said she received abuse on Facebook about the flat lace-up shoes\n\nA mayor who has a prosthetic leg has reacted to social media \"hate speak\" about her choice of footwear which she believes could discourage disabled people from entering public life.\n\nStockport mayor Laura Booth, whose left leg was amputated below the knee as a child, said she was mocked on Facebook for wearing flat shoes to an event.\n\nShe said one comment read: \"Look at the state of her\".\n\nMs Booth said her footwear did not diminish her ability to do her job.\n\nThe councillor, who also has chronic pain and back problems, wore pink leather lace-up shoes to a ceremony at a bakery in Reddish on Monday.\n\nShe said she wanted to walk to the event and stand up, rather than use her wheelchair.\n\nMs Booth explained: \"People commented on the bakery's photo; 'A mayor in trainers, disapproving face', 'Look at the state of her'. 'Get back to your caravan'.\n\n\"They make these judgements and can get really nasty.\"\n\nMs Booth, who lost her leg after a car crash, said: \"I am prone to falling, I have a different gait so I need shoes with support. There is limited choice.\n\n\"It's these attitudes which will put people off entering public life if they have a health condition or disability,\" she said.\n\n\"Also a woman should be able to wear whatever shoes she wants irrespective of disability or not.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Cllr Laura Booth This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Labour member for Offerton said she wanted to highlight the \"hostile narrative\" which exists around disability and invited people to confront her in person.\n\n\"Bring it on. Come and say it to my face. My job is to show you disability is not inability. Sometimes you have to facilitate.\n\n\"In this event it was flat, lace-up shoes, so I can stand up and talk to people.\n\n\"It is insulting and wrong that people think my shoes determine my ability.\"\n\nOther people on Twitter showed their support by telling the councillor to \"wear what is comfortable\" and \"ignore\" any abuse.\n\nOne commented \"only a woman would have her shoes scrutinised\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mr Trump said he was moved by Prince Charles' passion, but the conversation did not change his views\n\nPresident Donald Trump has said he believes climate change \"goes both ways\" following a 90-minute discussion with environmentalist Prince Charles.\n\n\"I believe that there's a change in weather and I think it changes both ways,\" Mr Trump told Piers Morgan in an interview that aired on Wednesday.\n\nMr Trump said he shared the prince's desire for a \"good climate\" but blamed other nations for increasing pollution.\n\nHe has rolled back many US climate laws despite warnings from his own agencies.\n\nMr Trump said his meeting with Prince Charles was meant to last only 15 minutes.\n\n\"He did most of the talking, and he was really into climate change and I think that's great,\" Mr Trump said of Prince Charles on the ITV programme Good Morning Britain.\n\n\"He wants to make sure future generations have climate that is good climate as opposed to a disaster and I agree.\"\n\nBut Mr Trump once again placed the blame on other countries, namely China, India and Russia, for worsening air and water quality while claiming the US has one of \"the cleanest climates there are\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Climate change: How 1.5C could change the world\n\n\"Don't forget, it used to be called global warming, that wasn't working, then it was called climate change, now it's actually called extreme weather because with extreme weather you can't miss,\" the president said.\n\nMr Trump pointed to past examples of weather disasters to refute the idea that \"extreme weather\" is becoming more common due to climate change.\n\n\"I don't remember tornados in the United States to this extent but then when you look back 40 years ago we had the worst tornado binge we ever had. In the 1890s we had our worst hurricanes.\"\n\nThe president said he was moved by Prince Charles' \"passion for future generations\" but stopped short of changing any of his views on climate science.\n\nThe Prince of Wales has advocated for environmental issues for decades.\n\nMr Trump has accused climate scientists of having a \"political agenda\" and called climate change a \"hoax\", though he later retracted that statement.\n\nIn 2017, he pulled the US out of the landmark 2015 Paris climate agreement, saying the international deal to keep global temperatures rises below 2C was disadvantageous to US workers.\n\nMr Trump has continued to ignore warnings from his own government agencies, dismissing a 2018 report warning of devastating economic consequences from climate change, saying he did not believe it.\n\nHis administration has rolled back dozens of environmental and climate protections and proposed ending rules on oil drilling and coal plants.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe world is now about 1C warmer than it was during \"pre-industrial times\", according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).\n\nTop scientists and agencies across the world have warned that this rapid, human emissions-induced warming could have serious implications for the stability of the planet's climate.\n\nFor decades, researchers argued the global temperature rise must be kept below 2C by the end of this century to avoid the worst impacts - but that number has changed to below 1.5C in recent years.\n\nMeanwhile, former vice-president and 2020 presidential hopeful Joe Biden revealed his own climate plan on Tuesday.\n\nMr Biden's $1.7tn (£1.3tn) \"clean energy revolution\" aims to create green jobs nationwide while addressing climate and energy concerns.\n\nUnder the plan, the US would have a goal of net-zero emissions by 2050 - the same goal as the Obama administration - and would strive for a \"100% clean energy economy\" where polluters would \"bear the full cost of the carbon pollution they are emitting\".\n\nThere would be \"aggressive\" limits on pollution from oil and gas, protections for federal lands and biodiversity, and investments of $400bn over 10 years in climate science.\n\nAllegations of plagiarism immediately followed the release of Mr Biden's plan, after conservative news site The Daily Caller found several instances where the campaign directly copied language from other groups.\n\nHis campaign corrected the passages, and said in a statement that several citations \"were inadvertently left out\" and had been added back in.\n\nMr Biden's 2020 Democratic rival Elizabeth Warren also unveiled her climate plans on Tuesday.\n\nThe Massachusetts senator's plan would invest $2tn in environmental technology, research, jobs and see the creation of a National Institute of Clean Energy.", "Love Island star Mike Thalassitis left a notebook with messages to his family at the scene of his death, an inquest has heard.\n\nThe 26-year-old reality star and former footballer was found dead in a park in Edmonton, north London, on 16 March.\n\nHis death sparked calls for improved aftercare for people who take part in reality TV shows.\n\nNorth London Coroner's Court concluded on Wednesday his cause of death was suicide by hanging.\n\nSenior coroner Andrew Walker said Mr Thalassitis left messages \"which clearly set out his intention that his life should come to an end\".\n\nFormer Love Island contestant Montana Brown said Mr Thalassitis had been in a \"dark place\" in the months before his death.\n\nMontana Brown, a contestant on the 2017 series of Love Island, attended the inquest\n\nMr Thalassitis was found by a jogger in Church Street Recreation ground next to Haselbury Road in the north London borough where he lived.\n\nPC Emma Clauson, who attended the scene, said she looked through the notebook \"which was a sort of combination of a diary and letters and positive thoughts\".\n\n\"At the back of the diary was a number of notes that had been addressed to his family,\" she said.\n\nToxicology results showed there was cocaine, ethanol, antidepressants and paracetamol in his system at the time of his death.\n\nMr Thalassitis' family paid tribute to their \"wonderful son and brother\" outside the court following the hearing.\n\nReading a statement on their behalf, Dave Read, his manager and agent, said \"Mike was a wonderful son and brother and will be dearly missed\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mike Thalassitis's agent Dave Read read out a statement on behalf of the reality star's family\n\nProducers of the ITV2 show paid tribute to him at the end of the opening episode of the new series, which aired on Monday night.\n\nBeneath a photo, a message on screen read: \"In loving memory of Mike Thalassitis 1993-2019.\"\n\nLove Island said it would be offering further support and \"bespoke training\" to contestants in future.\n\nWith a career in lower league football, Mr Thalassitis joined the cast for Love Island in 2017. He was also filmed for the E4 show Celebs Go Dating.\n\nEarlier this year a coroner in Tyneside issued a warning about mixing alcohol and cocaine after another Love Island star, Sophie Gradon, took her own life having consumed both substances.\n\nThe coroner said research in the US said the combination was known to make someone 16 times more likely to kill themselves.\n\nIf you are struggling to cope, contact the Samaritans on the free helpline 116 123, or please click on this link to access support services.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A top university in Australia has said it has been hacked, with unauthorised access to staff and student data extending back for 19 years.\n\nThe Australian National University (ANU) said it detected the breach two weeks ago and is working with security agencies to investigate further.\n\nANU - which suffered a similar incident last year - said the hack was carried out by \"a sophisticated operator\".\n\nThe university said \"significant amounts\" of data had been affected.\n\n\"We believe there was unauthorised access to significant amounts of personal staff, student and visitor data extending back 19 years,\" Vice Chancellor Brian Schmidt said in a statement.\n\n\"We're working closely with Australian government security agencies and industry security partners to investigate further.\"\n\nThe university said the systems that stored information such as credit card details and medical records had not been affected.\n\n\"As you know, this is not the first time we have been targeted. Following the incident reported last year, we undertook a range of upgrades to our systems to better protect our data. Had it not been for those upgrades, we would not have detected this incident,\" Mr Schmidt said.\n\nAt the time, some local media said hackers based in China had been behind the data breach. China has consistently denied being involved in any hacking attacks.\n\nThe Australian government has also faced a number of cyber-attacks in recent years, some of which have been also attributed in local media to nations such as China. China has denied those accusations.", "An actor read out an extract from the journal of Royal Navy electrician R G Watts as he left Southampton for Normandy in June 1944: \"The troop landing craft was packed to full capacity. There was no cover for the Army, just standing or sitting, exposed to the elements\"", "Last updated on .From the section World Cup\n\nSwitzerland set up a World Cup last-16 tie with Sweden after a draw with Costa Rica that featured a bizarre late penalty drama.\n\nVladimir Petkovic's side kicked off needing just a point from their final Group E game to reach the knockout stages for the third time in four tournaments - but Serbia's 2-0 defeat by Brazil meant they would have gone through even with a defeat.\n\nThe Swiss, though, had to settle for second place in their group and just a point - despite substitute Josip Drmic putting them 2-1 ahead in the 88th minute.\n\nCosta Rica, already eliminated, equalised in injury time, as Bryan Ruiz's penalty hit the bar and then bounced in off Swiss goalkeeper Yann Sommer's head for an own goal.\n• None How you rated the players\n• None Who still needs what? Group stage permutations\n\nSwitzerland had taken a first-half lead through Blerim Dzemaili, despite a bright start from Costa Rica, but Kendall Waston headed Los Ticos level 10 minutes into the second half from Joel Campbell's corner.\n\nShortly after Drmic scored, Costa Rica were awarded a penalty - only for the decision to be overturned by the video assistant referee system for an offside.\n\nCampbell was then brought down in the box, with the penalty decision standing this time, allowing Costa Rica to equalise.\n\nGroup E winners Brazil will now face Mexico, after 2014 champions Germany failed to progress from the group stage for the first time since 1938.\n\nDespite the controversy surrounding the 'double-headed eagle' gestures made in their victory over Serbia last time out, key figures Granit Xhaka, Xherdan Shaqiri and captain Stephan Lichtsteiner were all available for Switzerland.\n\nThe trio avoided bans from Fifa this week, instead receiving fines for unsporting behaviour after making the gesture, which symbolises the Albanian flag.\n\nIt was Lichtsteiner's cross into the box after 31 minutes that allowed Dzemaili to provide the Swiss with the breakthrough they needed - striking powerfully beyond Keylor Navas in the Costa Rican goal.\n\nShaqiri too looked lively from the start as he tested the Costa Rican defence but the Swiss largely rode their luck early on as Daniel Colindres struck the underside of the crossbar.\n\nCosta Rica offered warning signs that, despite having nothing to play for, they would not roll over, and their leveller made Petkovic's side nervy.\n\nBecause of Brazil's superior goal difference, Drmic's calm, side-footed finish beyond Navas would still not have been enough for Switzerland to top the group.\n\nWith Petkovic's side seemingly happy enough just to progress, the late leveller will likely not affect their outlook heading into the knockout stages.\n\nIndeed, Switzerland, who reached the last 16 in Brazil four years ago, have now lost just once in their past 25 matches and finished a World Cup group unbeaten for the first time since the 2006.\n\nHaving achieved their best-ever World Cup result four years ago by reaching the quarter-finals, Costa Rica had failed to register a point or goal going into their final game of the tournament.\n\nHaving lost 1-0 to Serbia in their opening match, then conceded two injury-time goals to Brazil, Los Ticos threatened to come up short again in Nizhny Novgorod as they were punished for failing to convert a host of early chances.\n\nDespite falling behind, Oscar Ramirez's side returned after the break with the same energy they began the game and were rewarded with their first goal in 424 minutes of play at the World Cup, as Waston scored.\n\nAware of the opposition's situation in the group, Costa Rica continued to harry Switzerland and set up a dramatic end fitting of their valiant though largely unrewarded efforts in Russia.\n\nDespite conceding late on, Ramirez's men - determined not to finish empty-handed - took their final opportunity from the spot though it was not enough to lift them from the foot of the table.\n\n'We know we can do better' - what they said\n\nSwitzerland midfielder Blerim Dzemaili: \"Costa Rica didn't surprise us. In the first two games, they had so many chances to score. We didn't think it was an easy game.\n\n\"We made it through the group stage again. We had a tough group. Every game was so tough and I think we can be proud.\n\n\"We are continuing to play well but we know we can do better. We can analyse everything then, in the next game, we can do better.\"\n\nCosta Rica manager Oscar Ramírez: \"Every single match is different and you need to think about the way you want to play. Unfortunately we didn't have the chance to go through.\n\n\"Our group is very tough. It is the fifth time we have been at the World Cup and I think this team has been one of the strongest.\n\n\"We could have had different results but that's the way football is. We will try to improve our results but we have played against tough teams - number two and number six in Fifa's rankings but still, we played well.\"\n• None Switzerland have progressed from the group stage in four of the past five World Cups in which they have appeared (also 1994, 2006 and 2014), only failing to do so at the 2010 tournament.\n• None Costa Rica have failed to win any of their matches at a World Cup finals for only the second time, having last done so when they lost all three games in 2006.\n• None Switzerland have avoided defeat in each of their three group stage matches at the World Cup for the first time since 2006.\n• None The Swiss have scored at least once in six of their past seven World Cup games, scoring 12 goals in those seven matches, as many as in their previous 16 combined.\n• None Kendall Waston's goal for Costa Rica was their first in 424 minutes of play in World Cup matches (not including penalty shootouts), with their previous goal scored by Bryan Ruiz in the last 16 of the 2014 tournament against Greece.\n• None Costa Rica became the last side to score a goal at this year's World Cup, doing so with their 24th shot of the tournament.\n• None Yann Sommer is just the third goalkeeper to score an own goal at the World Cup, after Honduras' Noel Valladares against France in 2014 and Spain's Andoni Zubizarreta against Nigeria in 1998.\n• None Penalty missed! Still Switzerland 2, Costa Rica 1. Bryan Ruiz (Costa Rica) hits the bar with a left footed shot.\n• None Penalty conceded by Denis Zakaria (Switzerland) after a foul in the penalty area.\n• None Offside, Costa Rica. Kendall Waston tries a through ball, but Bryan Ruiz is caught offside.\n• None Goal! Switzerland 2, Costa Rica 1. Josip Drmic (Switzerland) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Denis Zakaria with a cross.\n• None Fabian Schär (Switzerland) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The blaze at Saddleworth Moor has been raging since Sunday\n\nA blaze scorching a path near Saddleworth Moor is continuing to spread as England bakes in hot weather.\n\nMore than 50 homes have been evacuated and fire crews are dumping water on the tinder-dry hills on foot and from above.\n\nThe fire has been spreading for days and billowing smoke can be seen rising above Greater Manchester for miles.\n\nThe Army is on standby to provide assistance as firefighters struggle to contain the flames.\n\nThe flames have been fanned by evening winds\n\nVillagers in Greenfield can see plumes of white smoke\n\nPockets of fire remain along the affected 3.7-mile (6km) stretch\n\nGreater Manchester Fire and Rescue crews are battling through the smoke\n\nFirefighters say the sheer scale of the fire makes battling it a challenge\n\nThe fire was accompanied by a dramatic full moon on Tuesday night\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Khalid Ali was arrested in Whitehall on 27 April 2017\n\nKhalid Ali was carrying three knives when he was tackled by armed officers near Downing Street in April 2017 - and was just moments from being able to attack police, politicians or military personnel.\n\nBut clues picked up from bomb parts recovered in Afghanistan five years earlier meant he was under surveillance by the police and MI5.\n\nAli, who is one of the seven children, was born to an Ethiopian mother and Somali father in Saudi Arabia, to which the family moved to escape civil war in Ethiopia and from where - in 1992 - they came to the UK.\n\nHe grew up in Edmonton and trained as a gas engineer and plumber after leaving school, but in his late teens became increasingly absorbed by religion and politics.\n\nIn 2010, Ali travelled on an aid convoy to Gaza, appearing in news reports after a shipping dispute resulted in some of the travellers being forcibly taken to Greece.\n\nKieran Turner, who helped organise the convoy, told the BBC: \"At that point I thought 'nice young man - this is going to be one of the people that's fun to travel with'.\"\n\nAli \"had a sense of humour\" and \"always smiled\", Mr Turner recalled.\n\nAli travelled on an aid convoy to Gaza\n\nBut Ali was a more complex figure than he appeared.\n\nIn June 2011 he told family members he was moving to Birmingham for work. They would not hear from him for more than five years.\n\nHe was reported missing and, during subsequent inquiries, a laptop from his bedroom was found to contain speeches by the al-Qaeda ideologue Anwar al-Awlaki encouraging people to engage in military jihad.\n\nIn truth, Ali had gone to Afghanistan to join the Taliban.\n\nThere, according to Deputy Assistant Commissioner Dean Haydon, senior national co-ordinator for counter-terrorism policing, he went to a \"Taliban training camp affiliated to al-Qaeda where, for several years he helped terrorists make hundreds of bombs capable of mass murder\".\n\nIn late October 2016, Ali suddenly appeared at the British consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, claiming to have lost his passport and seeking a temporary travel document in order to get home.\n\nTwo days later, without luggage or possessions, he landed at Heathrow and was immediately questioned under terrorism laws.\n\nAli claimed to have spent the preceding years travelling in northern Pakistan rediscovering himself and learning about different sects of Islam.\n\nWithout lawful reason for further detention he was released but - crucially - only after his fingerprints were taken.\n\nThese were shared with the FBI, which manages a vast database containing fingerprints found on bomb parts in various global conflict zones.\n\nAli's prints were matched to some found on improvised explosive device (IED) components from two large caches recovered by Afghan national security forces - the main targets and victims of such weapons - in South Kandahar Province more than four years earlier.\n\nAli's prints were found on IED components from two caches recovered by Afghan national security forces\n\nEventually, 42 prints from the Afghan IED components were positively matched to Ali.\n\nDetectives applied to the US for the evidence to be declassified so he could be prosecuted in the UK but permission was not instant.\n\nIn the meantime, Ali, unaware of these developments, appeared to resume normal life in London. He moved back to the family home in Edmonton, found work in a west London pizza takeaway and started retraining as a gas fitter.\n\nHowever, he was also quietly planning an attack and began researching targets.\n\nIn March 2017 he was spotted at a march in central London, behaving suspiciously towards police officers outside Downing Street.\n\nAli captured on CCTV talking to police officers outside Downing Street in March 2017\n\nThen in April he conducted reconnaissance of sites including the MI6 building and New Scotland Yard.\n\nFrom then on events moved quickly.\n\nOn 25 April, near his workplace in Ealing, he bought a set of knives and a sharpener.\n\nThe following day, officers observed him buying a mobile phone.\n\nThat night, he was watched emerging from the family home and putting a plastic bag into a wheelie bin outside another house.\n\nWhen retrieved, it contained packaging for kitchen knives and a sharpener.\n\nWhile her son had been outside, Ali's mother - concerned by his behaviour - went to his room and found four knives, which she took to a different part of the house.\n\n\"I was shocked and upset\" and \"scared at what he'd do with them\", she said in a statement read at Ali's trial.\n\nOn his return an argument broke out when Ali realised the knives were missing.\n\nLocal officers attended and Ali left the property after midnight when his mother made it clear she wanted him to go.\n\nHe then set about rearming himself.\n\nAt daybreak he travelled across London, to Ealing, where he lingered for several hours before purchasing three kitchen knives and heading for Westminster - the location where, just weeks before, another attacker, Khalid Masood, had murdered five people, including a police officer.\n\nHe walked around Parliament Square, dumping items in different locations, including a mobile phone in the River Thames that was later found to contain images of police officers in stab vests.\n\nTwo of the three knives found on Ali when he was arrested\n\nWhen he walked towards Whitehall in the direction of Downing Street, armed police moved in.\n\nKnives were found in both jacket pockets and one tucked down the front of his trousers.\n\nAsked whether the public were in danger, Ali said he was not interested in them. Asked if anyone else was at risk, he told the officers: \"You lot are carrying weapons, so you must know you are in danger.\"\n\nAli had three blades tucked into his clothes when he was arrested by armed police\n\nDeputy Assistant Commissioner Haydon said: \"Police and security services were managing any potential risk that he posed and he was arrested at the most appropriate time.\"\n\nIt was only in the hours after Ali's arrest that permission was granted to use the evidence from the explosives in a British prosecution.\n\nDuring lengthy police interviews in the following days, Ali said he was armed only for his own protection and had not been planning an attack.\n\nHe claimed to have been in Westminster to give a \"message\" to those in authority about his beliefs, which he had returned to the UK to deliver.\n\nDetectives were told the message was the same as one previously delivered by al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.\n\nAli said he was a soldier of the Taliban and that al-Qaeda was its military wing.\n\nHe admitted constructing explosives in Afghanistan - and when asked whether he had also detonated them, Ali said: \"I have pressed the button.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Khalid Ali said he \"pressed the button\" on more than 300 bombs in Afghanistan\n\nA detective asked: \"How many times have you pressed the button to cause an explosion?\"\n\n\"Probably more than 300 times,\" he replied.\n\n\"I've been training and fighting against Western troops, be it American or British,\" he told officers.\n\nHe later added: \"I'm sitting here in front of you as a mujahid, as classified under your country, the law, as a terrorist.\"\n\nAli was asked: \"Did you kill any British troops while you were in Afghanistan?\"\n\n\"I will remain silent for now,\" he replied.\n\nIn court, Ali changed his account, telling the jury he had been held captive in Pakistan, near the Afghan border, and forced to bundle up components of explosive devices to prove he was not a British spy.\n\nHe denied planning an attack in London to coincide with the start of the Taliban \"spring offensive\" the following day.\n\nUnder cross-examination, he denied that the mobile phone purchased the night before his arrest - which has never been recovered - was used to contact the Taliban to get instructions to launch his attack.\n\nBut he was found guilty of preparing terrorist acts and two counts of possession of an explosive substance with intent.", "US police say they know nothing of Mr Skinner's background\n\nA New Zealand man flew to the US state of Virginia and was shot after trying to break into the home of a teenage girl whom he met online, police say.\n\nTroy George Skinner, 25, was shot in the neck by the girl's mother after smashing his way through a glass door.\n\nGoochland County Sheriff James Agnew said the man was also armed with a knife, duct tape and pepper spray.\n\nHe travelled over 8,500 miles (13,500km) after the girl stopped speaking to him online, police say.\n\n\"This was not random, not spontaneous, this was something very planned,\" Sheriff Agnew said on Monday, describing Mr Skinner's two days of travel.\n\n\"It's a new world,\" he added.\n\nA landscaping brick was hurled through the family's glass door, police say\n\nPolice say the man had taken three flights and a bus, and had from Auckland, New Zealand, to the suburbs of Richmond, Virginia.\n\n\"He was not invited here, he was not expected here, he had been told in the past that the daughter no longer wished to communicate with him,\" Sheriff Agnew said, adding that the two had met through Discord, an app that allows video-gamers to speak to each other online.\n\nThe incident occurred on Friday in the Holland Hills neighbourhood while the mother and her two teenage girls - aged 14 and 18 - were painting inside the house.\n\nHe knocked on the door, but the mother - whom police did not identify - chose not to answer, telling investigators she was not in the habit of answering the door during the day.\n\nAfter breaking the glass, Mr Skinner allegedly stuck his hand inside to unlatch the door\n\nAfter seeing the mother inside, he yelled that he had hitchhiked 30 miles to the house and needed help.\n\nHe then attempted to enter the home, and eventually \"he got a brick and attempted to break that door down,\" the sheriff said, adding that he \"attempted to violently get inside her house\".\n\nThe mother warned Mr Skinner that she had a gun, and waited until he had reached his arm past the broken glass to attempt to unlatch the door before she fired two shots.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Melissa J. Hipolit This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"All I can say is the manner in which he attempted to enter that home in the face of a firearm pointed at him and the implements we recovered from him - the only inference is that he had very bad intent,\" Sheriff Agnew said.\n\nMr Skinner was shot once in the neck and fled to a nearby yard where he collapsed.\n\nPolice found him with a knife, pepper spray, tape and his plane ticket from New Zealand in his pocket.\n\nThey say he had planned to return to New Zealand on 30 June.\n\nPolice say the parents knew nothing of the teen's communications with Mr Skinner\n\nPolice believe the weapons and tape had been purchased hours earlier at a nearby Walmart.\n\nMr Skinner is now in hospital and is expected to survive.\n\nHe is facing charges of breaking and entering with a deadly weapon and with the intent to commit a serious offence.\n\nGoochland County officials say they have contacted the FBI for assistance.\n\nThe sheriff said that the girl's parents were unaware of her contact with Mr Skinner, and that the girl had tried to cut off communication with him since first meeting online four months earlier.\n\nHe told reporters that he found it hard to fathom how far the suspect is believed to have travelled.\n\n\"When I sit back and think about it, I said: 'You've got to be kidding me.'\"", "Joe Jackson, seen here with his son Michael, had been in hospital for terminal cancer\n\nJoe Jackson, the father of music legends Michael and Janet Jackson, has died at age 89, his family said.\n\nJackson passed away early on Wednesday morning. He had been in hospital for terminal pancreatic cancer, according to media reports.\n\nHis death comes just two days after the anniversary of his son Michael Jackson's death nine years ago.\n\nThe family patriarch played a large role in the careers of The Jackson 5, as well as Michael and Janet Jackson.\n\nHis death was confirmed on social media by some of his family, including his daughter La Toya Jackson and grandsons Taj and Randy Jackson.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by La Toya Jackson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFive of Joe Jackson's sons - Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, Marlon and Michael - became the Jackson 5, joined at times by younger brother Randy, who also pursued a solo career.\n\nThree daughters - LaToya, Rebbie, and, most famously, Janet - all fashioned their own pop careers under Jackson's management, with varying levels of recognition.\n\nJackson was the architect of his children's early successes, but some of them would later say he drove them with a zeal that bordered on abuse, with Michael and others alleging bullying, physical abuse and punishing work schedules.\n\nThe Jackson 5 played BBC's Top of the Pops at Christmas in 1972\n\nJackson later admitted that he had whipped Michael, but denied it could be categorised as a beating. \"I whipped him with a switch and a belt. I never beat him. You beat someone with a stick,\" he told the BBC's Louis Theroux in 2003.\n\nThe interview made headlines after Jackson said in response to a question about Michael, \"We don't believe in gays. I can't stand them.\"\n\nThe Jackson family was famously riven over the years by internal strife, which often played out in the full glare of the public eye, with various estrangements and arguments over money making their way through the courts.\n\nSpeaking to the Daily Mail before his father died on Wednesday, Jermaine Jackson said some members of the family were unable to gain access to Jackson in his final days.\n\n\"No one knew what was going on - we shouldn't have to beg, plead, and argue to see our own father, especially at a time like this,\" he said.\n\n\"We have been hurting. We were not being told where he was and couldn't get the full picture.\"\n\nJackson was born in 1928 in Fountain Hill, Arkansas and was the eldest of five children.\n\nHe described his own father, a university professor, as a domineering and strict presence.\n\nJackson nurtured ambitions of being a boxer and later played guitar with a blues band, The Falcons, but failed to win a recording deal.\n\nIn 1949 he married Katherine Scruse, a former classmate from Washington High School in East Chicago, Indiana. She raised their children while Jackson worked at a local steel mill.\n\nIn 1957, they lost a child, Brandon, to stillbirth. He would have been Marlon's twin brother.\n\nDuring the 1960s, Jackson took control of his sons' burgeoning musical efforts and the Jackson 5 was born, later signing to Motown records in 1967.\n\nThe Jackson 5 splintered as Michael's solo career took off and he distanced himself from his father's management.\n\nJackson focused instead on his daughter Janet, who went on to become a massive star.\n\nJackson reportedly carried on a decades long extra-marital affair with Cheryl Terrell, a secretary 20 years his junior. The pair had a daughter, his 11th child, Joh'Vonnie, who is now 43, but Jackson remained married to Katherine all along.\n\nHe is survived by Katherine, who is 88, and nine of his 11 children.", "An estimated 1,000 students at the university are affected\n\nStudents at Durham University are angry at plans which could see them have to get up an hour earlier for lectures.\n\nA big increase in student numbers at the elite university means business and law undergraduates may have to attend lectures from 08:00 from September.\n\nThe university said the move would be a temporary measure while additional lecture space was being built.\n\nHowever, the university's student union accused bosses of being more concerned about student fees than students.\n\nThe university, part of the prestigious Russell Group, has embarked on a massive expansion programme, which includes relocating students from campuses on Teesside and plans to increase student numbers by 4,000 over the next 10 years to 21,500.\n\nThe planned early starts would affect an estimated 1,000 students.\n\nPro-Vice-Chancellor, Prof Alan Houston, said: \"If agreed, this arrangement will be for one year only, until our new Teaching and Learning Centre opens, which will increase our teaching capacity.\n\n\"Out of nearly 2,000 lectures scheduled each week, it is currently proposed that only four start at 8am. Of the four affected modules, each has only one lecture scheduled at 8am - the remainder of teaching activities take place within the university's core teaching hours.\n\n\"We are still working closely with departments to further reduce the number of these 8am slots.\"\n\nUniversity students union president Megan Croll said: \"It seems the university is more concerned about tuition fees than the student experience at Durham.\n\n\"The student body has not been consulted at all about this and it appears the university has enrolled too many new students.\n\n\"We've been told this is temporary, but we'll have to see what happens.\n\n\"Students are suffering because of over ambitious aims to expand the university. This will put extra hours on working days, not just of students but of staff too.\n\n\"It's also not just a question of losing out on sleep and other activities, there also has to be some thought about students who will be walking to lectures in the dark. There's a question of safety as well.\"\n\nA spokesman for the University and College Union (UCU) said: \"We have received a number of complaints from members about the change to start some lectures at 8am.\n\n\"Those with caring responsibilities are particularly concerned about the implications for them.\n\n\"As a trade union, we haven't been consulted about this. We will be taking up issues that arise from this change with the university.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The prince met residents of the Jalazone Refugee Camp near Ramallah\n\nPrince William has expressed hope for \"lasting peace\" between Israelis and Palestinians during a visit to the occupied West Bank.\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge spoke before holding talks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah.\n\nThe prince is the first royal family member to make an official visit to the Palestinian Territories.\n\nIn Israel on Tuesday, President Reuven Rivlin urged him to take a \"message of peace\" to Mr Abbas.\n\nMr Abbas told the prince that \"the Palestinian side is committed to the peace process with the Israelis\".\n\nPrince William said: \"I'm very glad that our two countries work so closely together and have had success stories with education and relief work in the past. So, long may that continue. My sentiment's the same as yours in hoping there's a lasting peace for the region.\"\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge, who started his Middle East tour in Jordan on Sunday, also visited a refugee camp and toured a market in Ramallah.\n\nAt the UN-run Jalazone refugee camp, Prince William spoke with a group of mothers having their young babies vaccinated and staff involved in the health programme.\n\nHe later attended a cultural event in Ramallah featuring Palestinian dancers and met young footballers - and had a kick around the training ground himself, like he did at a youth event in Jaffa on Tuesday.\n\nIn his comments to Prince William, Mr Abbas also reiterated his commitment to a two-state solution and said his visit would \"deepen and strengthen\" the ties between the UK and the Palestinian people.\n\nMr Rivlin had asked Prince William to tell Mr Abbas: \"It is about time that we have to find together the way to... build confidence as a first step to bring to understanding that we have to bring to an end the tragedy between us.\"\n\nResponding to the request, Britain's ambassador to Israel David Quarrey said Prince William is \"very interested in hearing from each side what they think they can do, what they think can be done more generally to move us out of the current situation and move us towards peace.\n\n\"We've obviously got a very strong interest in seeing progress from where we are now but I don't think the duke will be taking a particular political message.\"\n\nOn Wednesday morning, Prince William met Israeli Eurovision winner Netta Barzilai in Tel Aviv. He joined her on a walkabout around the city where they discussed mental health and diversity.\n\nIsraeli Eurovision winner Netta Barzilai showed William around Tel Aviv before his visit to the West Bank\n\nThe duke also met students at the Jalazone refugee camp", "Last updated on .From the section World Cup\n\nMarcos Rojo scored a fine late volley to send Argentina through to the last 16 of the 2018 World Cup with a dramatic victory over Nigeria in St Petersburg.\n\nA lacklustre Argentina were on the verge of an embarrassing exit, before Manchester United defender Rojo surged into the area to place Gabriel Mercado's cross into the bottom corner.\n\nLionel Messi, who had scored a brilliant opener, jumped on Rojo's back as he sprinted away in delirious celebration, joined by the entire Argentina bench in the corner.\n\nIt was a result they scarcely deserved after a poor second-half showing, epitomised by the Javier Mascherano error that allowed Victor Moses to equalise with a penalty.\n\nBut once their ragged defence had held on until the final whistle, the Argentina players embraced each other in the centre of the pitch, waving to their vociferous fans, a disjointed side united for now.\n\nThey will face Group C winners France in the last 16 in Kazan on Saturday, while Group D winners Croatia, who secured top spot by beating Iceland 2-1, play Denmark.\n• None How the players rated in Nigeria v Argentina\n• None Who needs what? Remaining group permutations\n\nGiven Messi will be 35 during the next World Cup in Qatar in 2022, victory here has at least staved off a miserable end to what could well be his last chance to win the tournament.\n\nThe Barcelona striker, whose hint of a smile during the pre-match anthems was a stark contrast to his pained expression prior to the 3-0 defeat by Croatia, produced a superb first-half performance.\n\nHis opening goal displayed all his talent and composure. With Ever Banega looking to go over the top from deep, Messi cut sharply right and surged in behind the defence, with the Sevilla midfielder picking him out with a terrific pass.\n\nMessi's first touch to cushion the ball on his left thigh was sublime, the second off his left boot to draw it away from Kenneth Omeruo exquisite, the finish into the far corner with his right emphatic.\n\nElsewhere he was efficient, threatening to create openings with every quick touch, and could have had a second but for Nigeria keeper Francis Uzoho's tremendous save to tip a free-kick onto the post.\n\nWith Argentina's players reportedly at odds with boss Jorge Sampaoli, it was perhaps telling that Messi delivered a second team talk to his side in the tunnel just before coming out for the second half.\n\nHis words failed to inspire them, with Messi increasingly isolated, but he had at least given his team-mates the foundation to salvage their World Cup.\n\nIt is still hard to see Argentina progressing into the latter stages of this tournament without significant improvement, even if Messi goes on to put in performances for the ages.\n\nThis was the oldest starting side in the country's hugely successful World Cup history - with an average age of 30 years and 189 days - but it is a far from settled one.\n\nSampaoli made five changes from the Croatia defeat, including an international debut for 31-year-old keeper Franco Armani after Willy Caballero's blunder.\n\nSome of those changes, like starting Banega, were overdue, but the decision to drop Sergio Aguero and then wait until two other substitutions had been made and 80 minutes had passed before introducing him was bizarre.\n\nIf Sampaoli has lost control of the dressing room, Mascherano is supposedly his side's real leader. But the former Barcelona and Liverpool defensive midfielder, who now plays for Chinese club Hebei China Fortune, looks shorn of his former talents, failing to offer protection to a shaky defence.\n\nWhile not the most blatant example of holding, his grabbing of Leon Balogun in the box from a corner was naive and rightly penalised. Is there any way he can rally his team-mates for the challenge of France?\n\n\"It is very hard to see how Argentina can stand up to the French - if they are going to mount any challenge, it will have to be like it was four years ago when they played on individual talent,\" said BBC Sport's South American football expert Tim Vickery.\n\n\"France will not be too concerned about playing Argentina.\"\n\nJust as in their victory over Iceland, Nigeria started cautiously, defending deep, before blitzing the opposition defence at the start of the second half.\n\nAhmed Musa finally started to test out the Argentina defenders with his pace, leaving them diving into tackles, and he was joined by Odion Ighalo, who replaced the ineffective Kelechi Iheanacho at the interval.\n\nNigeria induced panic, leading to Moses' penalty, which the Chelsea wing-back converted easily, sending Armani the wrong way as he slotted down the right-hand side.\n\nBut the Super Eagles could not keep their composure when close to a second goal, with Ighalo sending a weak shot straight at Armani and also slicing wide when a deflected Musa cross dropped into his path.\n\nAfter that miss, the former Watford striker made a desperate appeal for a penalty, with referee Cuneyt Cakir consulting VAR but needing only one replay to dismiss the claim, Rojo having headed the ball into his arm.\n\nWilfred Ndidi also hit a powerful drive just over the bar but Nigeria ultimately could not take advantage of their rattled opponents.\n\nArgentina captain Lionel Messi: \"We were confident we would win this game. It's wonderful to have won it this way - it is a well-deserved joy.\n\n\"I thank all the people who are here, for all their sacrifice, and all those who are in Argentina who were always with us. The shirt of the national team is above all.\"\n\nArgentina centre-back Marcos Rojo: \"We needed it, now the World Cup begins for us.\n\n\"Lionel Messi had told the guys he was going to score a goal more than ever. The goal is for my family and for this group that deserves it. Let's go Argentina!\"\n\nNigeria captain John Obi Mikel: \"We did everything we could. In the second half we pushed and pushed. It just wasn't to be. It's a young team and in four years most of them will be ready for this tournament.\n\n\"I'm very proud of the boys and what we have achieved. I think we have done really well. We have to keep going.\"\n• None Lionel Messi's first-half strike for Argentina ended a run of 662 minutes without a goal in the World Cup - his last was in June 2014, also against Nigeria.\n• None Messi (2006, 2014 and 2018) is the third Argentina player to have scored in three different World Cup tournaments, alongside Diego Maradona (1982, 1986 and 1994) and Gabriel Batistuta (1994, 1998 and 2002).\n• None He has scored 50% of his World Cup goals against Nigeria (three of six).\n• None Argentina's opener in the 14th minute was the 100th goal scored at the 2018 World Cup.\n• None Argentina are unbeaten in their last 40 World Cup games when opening the scoring (W35 D5), since a 3-1 defeat against Germany in 1958.\n• None Marcos Rojo's goal was his second for Argentina at the World Cup, and his previous one also came against Nigeria - 1,462 days ago at the 2014 tournament.\n• None Nigeria have lost all six of their games against South American sides at the World Cup, with five of those coming at the hands of Argentina (in 1994, 2002, 2010, 2014 and 2018).\n• None Javier Mascherano (Argentina) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Lionel Messi (Argentina) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None John Obi Mikel (Nigeria) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Goal! Nigeria 1, Argentina 2. Marcos Rojo (Argentina) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Gabriel Mercado with a cross.\n• None Attempt missed. Oghenekaro Etebo (Nigeria) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses the top right corner from a direct free kick.\n• None Attempt saved. Odion Ighalo (Nigeria) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is saved in the bottom left corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The Duke of Cambridge meets the winner of the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest in Tel Aviv.\n\nRead more: \"We talked about self-esteem. He's a really, really chill guy.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rebecca Steinfeld and Charles Keidan said they were elated at the court's ruling\n\nA heterosexual couple have won their legal bid for the right to have a civil partnership instead of a marriage.\n\nThe Supreme Court unanimously ruled in favour of Rebecca Steinfeld, 37, and Charles Keidan, 41, from London.\n\nThe court said the Civil Partnership Act 2004 - which only applies to same-sex couples - is incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights.\n\nMs Steinfeld said she hoped the government does the \"right thing\" and extends civil partnerships to all.\n\n\"We are feeling elated,\" she told the BBC outside court. \"But at the same time we are feeling frustrated the government has wasted taxpayers' money in fighting what the judges' have called a blatant inequality.\"\n\nThe judgement does not oblige government to change the law, although it does make it more likely that the government will now act, the BBC's legal correspondent Clive Coleman explained.\n\nIn a civil partnership, a couple is entitled to the same legal treatment in terms of inheritance, tax, pensions and next-of-kin arrangements as marriage.\n\nThe couple, who met in 2010 and have two children, said the \"legacy of marriage\" which \"treated women as property for centuries\" was not an option for them.\n\n\"We want to raise our children as equal partners and feel that a civil partnership - a modern, symmetrical institution - sets the best example for them,\" they explained.\n\nSince March 2014, same sex-couples can choose whether to enter a civil partnership or to marry. This has not been possible for mixed-sex couples, which led Ms Steinfeld and Mr Keidan to argue that the law was discriminatory.\n\nThis ruling overturns a previous judgement made by the Court of Appeal, which rejected the couple's claim, in February of last year.\n\nThe judges ruled that current UK law was \"incompatible\" with human rights laws on discrimination and the right to a private and family life.\n\nAnnouncing the court's decision, Lord Kerr said the government did not seek to justify the difference in treatment between same-sex and different sex couples.\n\n\"To the contrary, it accepts that the difference cannot be justified,\" he said.\n\nLGBT and human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell called the ruling a \"victory for love and equality\".\n\n\"It was never fair that same-sex couples had two options, civil partnerships and civil marriages, whereas opposite-sex partners had only one option, marriage,\" he said.\n\nRebecca Steinfeld and Charles Keidan appealed to the Supreme Court after the Court of Appeal rejected their claim in February 2017\n\nIt is an irony that the way in which relationship equality for same sex couples came about in the 21st century had the effect of creating inequality between them and different sex couples.\n\nThe Civil Partnership Act 2004 created civil partnerships but defined them as a 'relationship between two people of the same sex'.\n\nWhen the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 legalised same sex marriage, gay couples had two options as to how to formalise their relationship in law - marriage or civil partnership - whereas heterosexual couples could only marry.\n\nThe Supreme Court has found that inequality to amount to discrimination and a breach of the right to a family life.\n\nThe government accepted the inequality between same sex and different sex couples, but argued that it needed to have time to assemble sufficient information to allow a confident decision to be made about the future of civil partnerships.\n\nLord Kerr gave that argument short shrift, saying: \"What it (the government) seeks is tolerance of the discrimination while it sorts out how to deal with it. That cannot be characterised as a legitimate aim.\"\n\nThe couple will later go to Whitehall to deliver a letter to Equalities Minister Penny Mordaunt.\n\nMartin Loat, chairman of the Equal Civil Partnerships campaign, said: \"There is only one possible way forward - giving everyone the right to a civil partnership - and we urge the government to seize this opportunity to announce it will end this injustice now.\"\n\nMore than 130,000 people have signed an online petition in support of civil partnerships for everyone.\n\nThe couple's barrister Karon Monaghan QC told the court her clients had \"deep-rooted and genuine ideological objections to marriage\" and are \"not alone\" in their views.\n\nThere are around 63,000 couples in civil partnerships in the UK and some 3.3 million co-habiting couples.\n• None 'Why we want a civil partnership'", "Last updated on .From the section World Cup\n\nDenmark joined France in the last 16 of the World Cup after playing out the first goalless draw of the tournament, which was greeted by boos at the final whistle.\n\nA draw was good enough to see a much-changed French side top Group C, while Denmark knew a point would be enough for them too, even if Australia beat Peru.\n\nThat scenario resulted in a game that lacked ambition, chances and any element of danger, not helped by news midway through the first half that Peru were winning in Sochi.\n\nThe fans in Moscow's Luzhniki Stadium were initially enthusiastic enough, especially the red-shirted Danes who packed one end.\n\nBut they saw little in the way of goal-mouth excitement, with the first shot on target arriving in the 39th minute, when France's Antoine Griezmann turned to fire a tame effort at Kasper Schmeichel from the edge of the area.\n• None How you rated the players in France v Denmark\n• None Who needs what? Remaining group permutations\n• None Peru beat Australia for first World Cup win in 40 years\n\nDenmark did fashion the best chance of the first half, when France keeper Steve Mandanda just beat Christian Eriksen to Andreas Cornelius's excellent low cross.\n\nBut their only shot on target came after 54 minutes when Mandanda spilled Eriksen's free-kick. The Marseille keeper recovered before Cornelius could capitalise on the rebound.\n\nBoth sides stepped up their safety-first approach as the second half progressed - bringing jeers and whistles from many neutrals in the stadium - to ensure they got the result they desired.\n\nFrance, who rested midfield trio Paul Pogba, Blaise Matuidi and Corentin Tolisso - all of whom were a booking away from a ban - will play the runners-up in Group D in Kazan on Saturday.\n\nThat could be any one of the four teams, while Denmark's fate is a little clearer after Peru's 2-0 win over Australia confirmed their qualification in second place. Age Hareide's side will play the Group D winners, either Croatia or Nigeria, in Nizhny Novgorod on Sunday.\n\nFrance must wait to find their rhythm\n\nFrance had won their first two games without really finding their rhythm and Didier Deschamps' decision to make six changes meant that was always unlikely to happen here either.\n\nThere were some brief glimpses of the quality that Deschamps has at his disposal, thanks to Griezmann's intelligent movement behind the Denmark defence, and right-back Djibril Sidibe's runs up the right flank.\n\nLiverpool target Nabil Fekir also showed some nice touches when he replaced Griezmann for the last 20 minutes, and did come close to breaking the deadlock when he fired into the side-netting.\n\nBut otherwise there was little urgency on display, and no sense the France players had any desire to clinch their third successive win.\n\nDenmark through - but not in style\n\nDenmark are into the knockout stages of a World Cup for the first time since 2002 and are unbeaten in their past 18 games, but this display will not have allayed the critics of their head coach Hareide.\n\nNorwegian Hareide's pragmatic approach has already annoyed Danish fans and media alike, and a performance like this one is unlikely to make him many new friends.\n\nA bright start, that saw Middlesbrough's Martin Braithwaite make some incisive runs down the right wing, soon petered out as Denmark defended in numbers.\n\nEven with Australia 2-0 down and Denmark's progress virtually assured, Hareide's side dropped deeper as the second half progressed and made their intentions clear.\n\nThe longest wait for a 0-0 at a World Cup - the key stats\n• None France have gone unbeaten in the group stage in consecutive World Cup tournaments for the first time (P3 W2 D1 in 2014 and 2018).\n• None Since their defeat to Portugal in the Euro 2016 final, France have only lost one of their 13 games in competitive action (W9 D3).\n• None This was the first 0-0 of the 2018 World Cup, making it the longest wait from the start of a single tournament for one - there had been 36 games played prior to today.\n• None Denmark and France have drawn an international for the first time since September 1976 (1-1), with this being just the second draw in 16 total meetings.\n• None This was Didier Deschamps' 79th game in charge of France, equalling Raymond Domenech's record with the national team.\n• None Deschamps' 79 games in charge of France have now produced nine 0-0 results, with this the first since a stalemate with Luxembourg in September 2017.\n• None Kasper Schmeichel (two in three games) has now kept more clean sheets for Denmark at the World Cup than his father Peter (one in five games).\n• None Prior to his substitution in the 68th minute, Antoine Griezmann didn't complete a single pass to strike partner Olivier Giroud.\n• None There were just four shots (including blocks) from inside the box in this game (four for France, none for Denmark) - the fewest in any game so far at the 2018 World Cup.\n\n'Denmark wanted a draw' - what they said\n\nDenmark manager Age Hareide: \"We were up against one of the best counter-attack teams in the world, so we would have been stupid to give them space.\n\n\"OK, it was a 0-0 but we are very pleased with that.\"\n\nFrance manager Didier Deschamps: \"It wasn't the most exciting game because Denmark wanted a draw.\n\n\"We had a number of opportunities but one point was good enough for them and we didn't have to take any risks. One point was good for everyone.\n\n\"It was a difficult and challenging group but we've reached our objective. Now we have a second phase and we must climb to get to the next level.\n\n\"It's not that easy - look at big teams like Argentina, Spain or Germany, they've all had difficulties here,\"\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match Thomas Delaney (Denmark) because of an injury.\n• None Attempt saved. Nabil Fekir (France) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Kylian Mbappé.\n• None Attempt missed. Olivier Giroud (France) left footed shot from the right side of the box is too high. Assisted by Djibril Sidibe with a headed pass.\n• None Attempt missed. Olivier Giroud (France) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Benjamin Mendy with a cross.\n• None Attempt missed. Nabil Fekir (France) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Thomas Lemar.\n• None Offside, Denmark. Jens Stryger Larsen tries a through ball, but Viktor Fischer is caught offside. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Facebook had been hoping to offering connectivity by sending data between a fleet of drones\n\nFacebook is giving up on its plan to create drones that beam down internet connectivity, the company has confirmed.\n\nProject Aquila, first announced in 2014, failed to achieve the long flight times managed by airborne connectivity efforts from rivals including Google.\n\nIn one test, Facebook’s craft suffered a broken wing as it came in to land.\n\nOn Tuesday the company said it would instead partner with firms such as Airbus to continue its efforts to connect more people to the internet.\n\nThe decision means the closure of a facility in Bridgwater, UK, that had been used to build the technology.\n\n“It's been exciting to see leading companies in the aerospace industry start investing in this technology too - including the design and construction of new high-altitude aircraft,” wrote Yael Maguire, Facebook’s Director of Engineering, in a blog post.\n\n\"Given these developments, we've decided not to design or build our own aircraft any longer.”\n\nThe Project Aquila craft had the wingspan of a Boeing 737 and weighed the same as a typical family car. It was solar-powered during the day and battery-powered at night, and in testing managed 90 minutes in the air.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHowever, Facebook's efforts paled in comparison to Project Loon, a similar idea using high-altitude balloons rather than drones. It is being worked on by X, the experimental arm of Google parent company Alphabet.\n\nProject Loon balloons have flown more than 15 million miles of tests, the company has said, with the longest continuous flight lasting almost 190 days. In 2017, the balloons were used by residents of hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico.\n\nDo you have more information about this or any other technology story? You can reach Dave directly and securely through encrypted messaging app Signal on: +1 (628) 400-7370", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe government has abandoned plans for five community prisons for women in England and Wales.\n\nInstead, the Ministry of Justice will trial five residential centres to help offenders with issues such as finding work and drug rehabilitation.\n\nJustice Secretary David Gauke said short custodial sentences had failed to halt the \"cycle of offending\".\n\nCampaigners and police bodies have warned the provision for women must be \"properly funded\".\n\nMeanwhile, a justice minister has said sentences under a year should be axed for all but the most serious crimes.\n\nRory Stewart told the Commons Justice Select Committee that community penalties were more effective and he wanted to \"significantly reduce, if not eliminate\" terms of under 12 months.\n\nMr Gauke cited figures that 70.7% of women and 62.9% of men released from custody between April and June 2016 after a sentence of less than a year went on to re-offend within 12 months.\n\nHe said there was \"persuasive evidence\" that the new approach would help reduce re-offending rates.\n\nMothers at the trial residential centres might be able to have their children with them, he added.\n\nThe female offender strategy represents a U-turn from the approach proposed by Liz Truss, when she was justice secretary, that there should be five new community prisons.\n\nPartly this is down to money; it costs millions more to build new jails than it does community centres, and at a time when the Ministry of Justice is having to find savings that will have been a key consideration.\n\nBut the policy also reflects a determination at the department to promote alternatives to locking people up in order to relieve pressure on prisons and reduce reoffending.\n\nMinisters say research shows that offenders on community sentences are less likely to commit further crimes than those who've served short jail terms.\n\nBut the research needs further, careful analysis - because it does not compare like with like: the reoffending figures cover the period an offender spends on a community sentence but do not include the time a prisoner spends in jail.\n\nThe government has pledged to spend £5m over two years on \"community provision\" for women.\n\nThe Association of Police and Crime Commissioners welcomed the change in strategy.\n\nBut Dame Vera Baird QC, representing the the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners, warned the scheme would only work if properly funded and questioned the MoJ's decision to hand £50m - originally earmarked for the prisons - back to the Treasury.\n\nFrances Crook, chief executive of the Howard League for Penal Reform, said ministers deserved \"real praise\" for the change in approach but - like the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners - warned it was \"essential\" that programme was \"properly funded\".\n\nPeter Dawson, director of the Prison Reform Trust, said \"thousands\" of women would benefit from the change.\n\nHe described the strategy as a \"welcome recognition of the futility of short prison sentences\" for women whose offending is often driven by \"unmet mental health needs\".\n\nWomen serving sentences of less than a year are more likely to re-offend than men with comparable sentences - although they are slightly less likely to re-offend overall.\n\nBut it's not a straightforward comparison. Women represent just 4.6% of the total prison population of 82,989.\n\nAnd due to the nature of the crimes they commit, which are often less violent, they are much more likely than men to serve short sentences.\n\nLast year, 80% of sentences handed to women were a year or less and 25% a month or less, compared with men for whom 66% were sentenced to less than a year and 14% to less than a month.\n\nA Ministry of Justice report last year found that these short-term sentences were \"consistently associated with higher rates of proven re-offending\" than other forms of sentencing - that applies to all prisoners, male and female.\n\nPart of this is because these very small sentences often do nothing to rehabilitate the problems which might have led to imprisonment in the first place.\n\nStudies have found that, in general, women prisoners are more vulnerable which can add to the cycle of re-offending. They are twice as likely to have mental health needs, more likely to have drug problems and to have experienced domestic abuse. And they are less likely to have a job or home to go back to on release.\n\nDuring Tuesday's appearance at the Commons Justice Select Committee, Mr Stewart said although he wanted to scrap short prison terms, there would be cases - such as violent or sexual crimes - where prison terms were justified.\n\nThe Penrith and The Border MP said: \"My number one priority is to protect the public and I believe that the best way of protecting the public is to significantly reduce, if not eliminate, the under 12-month prison population because people on community sentences are less likely to reoffend than people who are put in prison.\n\n\"I am not going to be reducing the prison population just to save money.\n\n\"If somebody ought to be in prison, they ought to be in prison, and then my job is to go to the Treasury and get the money to pay for that prison place.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA Treasury minister has attacked cabinet colleagues who have demanded extra money for their departments in an outspoken speech.\n\nLiz Truss said it was \"not macho\" to push for bigger budgets, singling out the boost for the NHS as a \"one-off\".\n\nDefence Secretary Gavin Williamson and Home Secretary Sajid Javid have reportedly been pushing for extra cash.\n\nMs Truss also took a swipe at Michael Gove over the environment secretary's planned crackdown on wood burners.\n\n\"Too often we're hearing about not drinking too much, eating too many doughnuts, drinking from disposable cups through plastic straws, or enjoying the warm glow of our wood-burning Goves... I mean stoves,\" she said in a speech at the London School of Economics.\n\n\"I can see their point: there's enough hot air and smoke at the environment department already.\"\n\nFormer minister Ed Vaizey told BBC Radio 4's Today programme Ms Truss had achieved her goal of getting noticed with her \"full frontal assault\" on Mr Gove.\n\nMr Vaizey also criticised Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson for undermining Prime Minister Theresa May, warning that \"having climbed up the ladder\" on Brexit, the government kept getting pushed \"back down the snake\".\n\nHe said Mr Johnson's decision to pursue an \"entirely separate\" Brexit policy to the prime minister and to fly to Afghanistan to miss a vote on Heathrow expansion had encouraged other ministers to think \"if it's alright for Boris it's alright for me\".\n\nQuizzed about Ms Truss's comments in a Q&A with members of the Scottish Parliament, Mr Gove said: \"You should judge us as a government by our actions.\"\n\nOver the past year the cabinet had \"worked together and we've sought to work collaboratively\", he added.\n\nBrexit has been driving rival Tory factions crazy for many, many months. It's extremely difficult to corral them in a minority government. Different ministers sounding off about the misperceptions of their opposing gangs don't even always lead hacks to raise a pencil.\n\nBut that instability has fuelled an atmosphere where party discipline seems on the point of breaking down, even though with the whips in overdrive, government is achieving its most important objective of getting its business through Parliament.\n\nYet the Cabinet seems sometimes to be creating the appearance of chaos where there need not be any.\n\nThe latest bout of infighting at the top of government started at the weekend, when Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson reportedly said that he could \"break\" the prime minister if his demands for extra cash for his department were not met.\n\nHome Secretary Sajid Javid has also been demanding more money for police budgets, after Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt unveiled a £20bn boost in funding for the NHS.\n\nMs Truss, who his second in command to Chancellor Philip Hammond, hit back in article for The Daily Telegraph, telling her cabinet colleagues \"it's not macho to demand more money\".\n\n\"It's much tougher - and fairer to people - to demand better value for money.\"\n\nThe Chief Secretary to the Treasury went on to accuse them of \"not been clear with the public about the tax implications of their proposed higher spending\".\n\nDefence Secretary Gavin Williamson reportedly wants more money for the military but Chief Secretary to the Treasury Liz Truss has warned against a tax and spend policy\n\nSpeaking at the London School of Economics, she said the £20bn a year budget boost for the NHS in England up to 2023 announced by the prime minister last week would not be replicated elsewhere.\n\n\"My point to my colleagues is that any additional spending will necessarily - most likely - lead to additional taxation and we should be honest when we have that discussion,\" she said.\n\n\"We need to keep tax as low as possible.\"\n\nMs Truss's comments echo those of former minister George Freeman, who said that the Conservatives risked losing the next election if they made a series of unfunded spending commitments.\n\n\"We cannot have this process done by cabinet ministers going to the press and briefing against the prime minister, and putting their bids in early,\" he said.\n\nThe government has yet to spell out where the extra money for the NHS will come from although Mrs May has indicated that the public will have to make a contribution and the overall \"tax burden\" will rise.\n\nMr Hammond will set out the total public spending framework for the years beyond 2020 in this autumn's budget, before deciding department-by-department allocations next year.\n\nMany Tory MPs want defence spending as a share of GDP to increase from its current level of just over 2% to at least 3% in the face of growing threats, including from Russia.", "China has ended a two-decades-long ban on imports of beef from the UK, first introduced after the outbreak of BSE - or \"mad cow disease\" - in the 1990s.\n\nThe government said the development will be worth £250m to British producers over the next five years.\n\nIt comes after years of site inspections and negotiations between UK and Chinese government officials.\n\nIt now allows official market access negotiations to begin, a process which usually takes around three years.\n\nThe announcement comes after Prime Minister Theresa May's trade mission to China earlier this year, during which President Xi Jinping signalled that a lifting of the beef ban would be happening soon.\n\nChancellor Philip Hammond, who is visiting China this week, tweeted: \"This is great news for British farmers.\"\n\nThe UK currently sells more than £560m of food and drink from the farming sector a year to China, making it the eighth-biggest export market for such products.\n\n\"Today's milestone will help to unlock UK agriculture's full potential and is a major step to forging new trading relationships around the globe,\" said a Department for Environment statement.\n\nThe announcement comes two days after China signed a deal to lift a ban on French beef imposed more than a decade ago.", "Son Heung-min taps into an empty net to double South Korea's lead against Germany after goalkeeper Manuel Neuer is caught up field searching for a goal.\n\nAvailable to UK users only.", "Last updated on .From the section World Cup\n\nThe final round of group matches at the 2018 World Cup has drawn to a close, and the last 16 has been finalised.\n\nBut how did the teams progress - and who faces whom in the first round of the knockout stage?\n• None Uruguay progress as group winners with hosts Russia through in second place.\n• None Uruguay play Portugal (the runners-up in Group B) in the last 16 while Russia play Spain (Group B winners).\n• None Spain progress as group winners - on goals scored above Portugal, who are through in second place. Portugal were set to win the group until late goals in both games.\n• None Spain face hosts Russia (Group A runners-up) in the last 16, with Portugal up against Uruguay (Group A winners).\n• None France are through as group winners - with Denmark through in second place following a goalless draw between the two sides in their final group game.\n• None France will play Group D runners-up Argentina, while Denmark face Croatia, the winners of Group D.\n• None Croatia are through as group winners after scoring a late goal to beat Iceland and maintain their 100% record - they will face Group C runners-up Denmark.\n• None Argentina are through as runners-up after defeating Nigeria 2-1 and will play Group C winners France.\n• None Brazil qualify as winners with two wins from three and will play Group F runners-up Mexico in the next round.\n• None Switzerland take the runners-up spot and will face Group F winners Sweden.\n• None Sweden qualify as group winners following a dramatic victory over runners-up Mexico in their final game.\n• None The Swedes will face Group E runners-up Switzerland in the next round, while Mexico face five-time champions Brazil.\n• None Belgium qualify as group winners following victory over runners-up England in their final game.\n• None Belgium will face Group H runners-up Japan in the next round, while England meet Colombia.\n• None Colombia take top spot and will play Group G runners-up England in the last 16.\n• None Japan qualify in second in dramatic style - finishing ahead of Senegal through fair play - and will next face Group G winners Belgium.", "John Lewis Partnership, which owns John Lewis department stores and the Waitrose supermarket chain, has warned that profits in the first half of the year will be \"close to zero\".\n\nLast year the group made £26.6m in the first half, and blamed heavy investment for this year's expected fall.\n\nIt also announced it would change the names of its stores to John Lewis & Partners and Waitrose & Partners.\n\nThe retailer said its Waitrose chain would close five of its 353 shops.\n\nIt also has 50 John Lewis department stores.\n\nThe name change to Waitrose & Partners and John Lewis & Partners was intended to emphasis the importance of the chain's 85,000 members of staff, known as \"partners\" who are given an annual bonus based on the chain's profits. The aim of the rebranding was to differentiate the group from other retailers, the company said.\n\nThe rebranding will begin in September with London's Oxford Street store.\n\nTwo Little Waitrose stores will close in Manchester, one in Birmingham and one in central London. It will also shut its supermarket in Camden in London.\n\nIn a statement John Lewis said it was widely acknowledged that the retail sector was going through a period of \"generational change\".\n\nIts response would be to focus on \"greater differentiation - not scale\" and invest more in developing \"unique\" products and services, as well as placing more emphasis on its own brand.\n\nIt said it would continue to invest between £400m and £500m per year in the business.\n\nAs well as warning it did not expect to make any profit in the first half of the year, it said there were a \"wide range of possible outcomes, for the full year, given the market uncertainty\".\n\nIt said it was assuming that profits before exceptional items would be \"substantially lower\" than last year's £290m.\n\nWhile profits are expected to grow at Waitrose, the John Lewis department stores are expected to see profits decline this year.\n\nIn March, John Lewis Partnership announced that bonuses had been cut for the fifth year in a row. Employees got a 5% bonus, down from 6% last year and the lowest since the 4% paid out in 1954.\n\nRichard Lim, chief executive of Retail Economics, said the group was facing a \"cocktail of pressures\" on its profitability.\n\nMany retailers have come under pressure in recent months thanks to the growth of online shopping and lower footfall on High Streets, combined with rising costs and a fall in consumer confidence.\n\nRetail experts have said one solution is to offer \"experiences\" that shoppers cannot get online.\n\nFor John Lewis, one example of that is personal shopping.\n\nThe new John Lewis store in Shepherd's Bush in west London has a team of six personal shoppers to help customers select fashion items and outfits.\n\nAccording to a spokeswoman, customers who used the service spent on average 30% more a year following their appointments, than people who had not used it.\n\nThe six personal shoppers generated one fifth of the total womenswear sales in the store, she added.\n\nJohn Lewis also plans to build a presence in the home services market, offering plumbing and electrical work, as well as financial services.\n\nSir Charlie Mayfield, chairman of the John Lewis Partnership, said: \"For us, the relentless pursuit of greater scale is not the right course. Our plans put differentiation, innovation and partner-led service at the heart of our offer.\"\n\nHowever, the group added, the changes it was making relied on \"sustained investment\".\n\nIt said it would raise £500m by over three years to invest in \"product and service innovation\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Charlie Mayfield says in today's retail climate 'just being good isn't really good enough'\n\nIt said it would raise the funds by \"rebuilding profitability at Waitrose\", getting more out of its property, by putting space it does not need to other uses, and \"conducting a review of the partnership's pension scheme\" which has an accounting deficit of £731m.\n\nSir Charlie told the BBC the pension fund would \"only change if partners want it to change, but... it's a £6bn pension fund so there may be opportunities for us to make small changes there that could add up to significant amounts of money over long periods of time\".\n\nMr Lim of Retail Economics said John Lewis \"used to be the retailer that everyone looked at as being a success story on the High Street\".\n\nBut this latest announcement suggests in the current climate it is becoming \"increasingly difficult for businesses to ride out structural change in the industry\", he added.\n\n\"If John Lewis is finding it difficult I'm sure a number of other retailers are in a similar situation.\"", "Video caption: David Olusoga learns the stories of the first inhabitants of the house in the 1840s-50s.\n\nDavid Olusoga learns the stories of the first inhabitants of the house in the 1840s-50s.", "Last updated on .From the section World Cup\n\nIceland failed in their attempt to reach the World Cup knockout stage for the first time as Croatia secured a late win to top Group D on maximum points.\n\nThe Nordic nation knew they had to win to stand any chance of reaching the last 16, and their colourful support looked dejected as their side missed key chances late in the first half.\n\nAlfred Finnbogason and Birkir Bjarnason both went close before the interval in Rostov-on-Don but Milan Badelj stylishly slammed home for Croatia after the break.\n\nThat forced Iceland to chase the game and, after Sverrir Ingason hit the bar, Gylfi Sigurdsson converted a penalty to level following Dejan Lovren's handball.\n\nIn the dying minutes, with Argentina leading Nigeria 2-1, Iceland knew a win would see them jump ahead of the South American side in second place.\n\nBut their attacks became less frequent as Croatia took more control and Ivan Perisic - one of only two players to retain his place from the win over Argentina - fired home in injury time.\n\nHis side now face Denmark in the last 16 on Sunday, a day after Argentina play France.\n• None How the players rated in Iceland v Croatia\n• None Who needs what? Remaining group permutations\n\nWith a population of about 300,000, Iceland's achievement in becoming the smallest nation to reach the World Cup means their fans will travel home with a sense of pride, albeit tinged with disappointment.\n\nThey arrived in southern Russia knowing even a win may not be enough had Nigeria beaten Argentina, but the manner in which they missed chances at key moments - against a side that made nine changes - will perhaps feel like an opportunity wasted.\n\nHeimir Hallgrimsson's side were the lowest scorers of the European sides who qualified automatically for the tournament, and a lack of end product undoubtedly proved key in their exit.\n\nThey had grown into the opening 45 minutes as a Croatia side showing little intent ended the period on the back foot despite having 65% possession.\n\nFinnbogason side-footed into the side-netting from 18 yards, Bjarnason could only drive against the legs of keeper Lovre Kalinic and Aron Gunnarsson was denied by a one-handed save on the stroke of half-time.\n\nBadelj made them pay as, moments after rattling the bar from 30 yards, he powered a shot into the ground which flew into the net.\n\nThe instant fight shown epitomised the qualities which have endeared Iceland to so many, with Ingason forcing a save then planting another header onto the bar from the resulting corner.\n\nSigurdsson lifted home a penalty which Lovren had conceded with his first touch but Iceland - perhaps finally feeling the effects of long spells out of possession - succumbed to Perisic's powerful left-foot strike.\n\nCroatia appear a side rejuvenated under Zlatko Dalic, who only took charge with one World Cup qualification match remaining.\n\nHis side were beaten to top spot in qualifying by Iceland but have not yet lost a competitive game under him, and this win - with a much-changed line-up - perhaps points to a confidence running through the squad.\n\nOnly Perisic and Luka Modric remained from the 3-0 win over Argentina, but players such as Fiorentina midfielder Badelj showcased the depth of talent.\n\nReal Madrid's Mateo Kovacic came into the side, and in 82 minutes completed 78 of his 79 passes in a composed display, while former Tottenham defender Vedran Corluka was robust and completed a game-high nine clearances.\n\nThis was far from an intense or overly impressive display by the group winners, but they spent long spells keeping possession without ever looking like over-exerting themselves. Ultimately, the result only adds to their momentum.\n\nThey have now won three World Cup matches in a row for the first time and, in doing so, win a group at the tournament for the first time too.\n\nDalic says he is convinced the last 16 will not be the end for his side. They look set to arrive in Nizhny Novgorod for Sunday's meeting with Denmark fresh and dangerous.\n\nAnalysis - Could Croatia and their 'animal' win it?\n\nFormer England and Man Utd defender Phil Neville: The teams underneath the top sides have relaxed and enjoyed the tournament. I can't see Argentina improving that much, Germany have problems in their camp, France have not impressed me.\n\nIt might be a World Cup when we have a Leicester City-type winner.\n\nCroatia have probably been the best team in the competition. In terms of consistent performances they have been the best team in the competition. If Denmark play like they did today, I can't see them beating Croatia.\n\nI like the style of play. They are solid at the back, the three in midfield control the game and Mario Mandzukic is an animal up front.\n\nBBC Sport South American football expert Tim Vickery: What a midfield Croatia have. They are the team who could do serious damage. I saw them at Anfield when they played Brazil and in the first half Brazil couldn't get out of their own half.\n\nCroatia coach Zlatko Dalic: \"We have three wins, nine points, with a goal difference of 7-1. That only goal we got was from the penalty, so we have to be happy.\n\n\"The first place was our goal, we did it. I am convinced that this game in the Round of 16 will not be our end, we are waiting for Sunday to show the true power, this is the day of truth for us.\"\n\nIceland coach Heimir Hallgrimsson: \"We have not played many games like this one, against a strong team like Croatia, and created so many chances so we are disappointed with that but I am proud of the performance and the character.\n\n\"We were unlucky today but we can carry our heads high and say we did everything we could.\"\n\nCroatia like the second-half - the key stats\n• None Ivan Perisic has scored three World Cup goals for Croatia - only Davor Suker (6) has scored more.\n• None Gylfi Sigurdsson's penalty for Iceland was the 17th scored at the 2018 World Cup, equalling the most penalties scored in a single World Cup tournament (also 17 in 1998).\n• None Croatia scored with both of their shots on target in this match.\n• None Sigurdsson became the second player to have scored a goal and missed a penalty at the 2018 World Cup, after Portugal's Cristiano Ronaldo.\n• None Milan Badelj scored only his second goal for Croatia, with this his first since netting against Malta in September 2011 during qualifying for Euro 2012.\n• None Of Croatia's last 11 goals at the World Cup, 10 have been scored in the second half.\n• None Attempt missed. Aron Gunnarsson (Iceland) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Gylfi Sigurdsson with a cross following a corner.\n• None Albert Gudmundsson (Iceland) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. Ivan Rakitic (Croatia) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Ivan Perisic.\n• None Goal! Iceland 1, Croatia 2. Ivan Perisic (Croatia) left footed shot from the left side of the box to the top right corner. Assisted by Milan Badelj.\n• None Attempt missed. Andrej Kramaric (Croatia) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Milan Badelj.\n• None Attempt missed. Ivan Rakitic (Croatia) right footed shot from a difficult angle and long range on the left is just a bit too high from a direct free kick.\n• None Attempt missed. Ivan Perisic (Croatia) left footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high from a direct free kick. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Ticketmaster has admitted that it has suffered a security breach, which the BBC understands has affected up to 40,000 UK customers.\n\nMalicious software on third-party customer support product Inbenta Technologies caused the hack, the firm said on Twitter.\n\n\"Some personal or payment information may have been accessed by an unknown third party\", it added.\n\nAll affected customers have been contacted.\n\nIn the email to those customers, Ticketmaster said it had set up a website to answer any questions and advised them to reset their passwords. It also offered them a free 12-month identity monitoring service.\n\nIt said the breach was likely to have only affected UK customers who purchased or attempted to purchase tickets between February and 23 June 2018.\n\nBut, as a precaution, it said it had also informed international customers who had purchased or attempted to purchase tickets between September 2017 and 23 June 2018.\n\nThe company added that North American customers were not affected.\n\nInformation that may have been compromised includes names, addresses, email addresses, telephone numbers, payment details and Ticketmaster log-in details.\n\nIt said that \"forensic teams and security experts are working around the clock\" to understand how data was compromised.\n\nTicketmaster is confident it has complied with General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) rules - acting very quickly and informing all relevant authorities, including the Information Commissioner's office.\n\nThe UK's National Cyber Security Centre - a division of GCHQ - said it was monitoring the situation.\n\n\"The NCSC is working with our partners to better understand the incident,\" added a spokesman.\n\nTicketmaster's parent, Live Nation, declared it had 86 million customers in its most recent annual report.\n\nHowever, a spokeswoman was unable to break out a figure for Ticketmaster's total number of UK clients.\n\nOne expert said members of the public should now be on the lookout for follow-up phishing scams.\n\n\"After an incident like this, criminals from around the world will jump at the chance to try and catch a few unsuspecting people out,\" said Brooks Wallace from the cyber-security specialist Trusted Knight.\n\n\"If you receive any emails purporting to be from Ticketmaster asking for any personal information, discard them. If you need to contact Ticketmaster, type the website address into your browser and log-in that way.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Video footage from a family's kitchen was leaked via Swann's app\n\nA leading security camera-maker has sent footage from inside a family's home to the wrong person's app.\n\nSwann Security has blamed a factory error for the data breach - which was brought to its attention by the BBC - and said it was a \"one-off\" incident.\n\nHowever, last month another customer reported a similar problem saying his version of the same app had received footage from a pub's CCTV system.\n\nSwann said it was attempting to recover the kit involved in this second case.\n\nIn the meantime, it said it had notified the UK's data privacy watchdog of both cases.\n\n\"Swann Communications (Europe) have made us aware of this incident and we will be making inquiries,\" the Information Commissioner's Office said in a statement of its own.\n\n\"If anyone has concerns about how their data has been handled, they can report these concerns to us.\"\n\nSwann is owned by the Infinova Group, a US-based security camera specialist with offices across the globe.\n\nThe BBC first learned of the problem on Saturday, when a member of its staff began receiving motion-triggered video clips from an unknown family's kitchen.\n\nUntil that point, Louisa Lewis had only received footage from her own Swann security camera, which she had been using since December.\n\nMs Lewis installed the Swann camera after one of her neighbours was burgled\n\nThe development coincided with Ms Lewis's camera running out of battery power and requiring a recharge.\n\n\"I was out and I had a couple of alerts,\" she recalled.\n\n\"Naturally, I looked at my phone only to see the video was not of my home.\n\n\"At first I ignored it - I thought it must be an error - then I had several other alerts, at which point I thought I had better get in touch with Swann.\"\n\nThe clips, which had automatically downloaded to her handset, featured a man and woman passing close to the camera. A child's voice could also be heard in the background.\n\nA Swann customer representative told Ms Lewis that nothing could be done until after the weekend.\n\nMs Lewis received multiple video clips before Swann intervened to stop the alerts\n\nAnd it was only after the matter was flagged to the firm's PR agency on Monday that she stopped receiving video clips.\n\nFollowing an internal investigation, a Swann spokeswoman later provided an explanation.\n\nShe said that \"human error\" had caused two cameras to be manufactured that shared the same \"bank-grade security key - which secures all communications with its owner\".\n\n\"This occurred after the [family] connected the duplicate camera to their network and ignored the warning prompt that notified: 'Camera is already paired to an account' and left the camera running,\" she added.\n\n\"We are regretful that this was not addressed immediately and adequately by our support team, when discovered. We have addressed this and made some internal changes.\"\n\nThe spokeswoman said that Swann had been unable to identify or contact the family involved.\n\n\"We can confirm that no further data was breached or accessed by additional third parties,\" she added.\n\nThe BBC discovered there had been a report of a similar incident in May.\n\nAnother Swann security kit owner had posted images to Twitter in an attempt to identify a pub sending video clips to an app used by him and his wife.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by The Obscure Brewer This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by The Obscure Brewer\n\n\"One day we were watching our own cameras, the next - when we opened the app up - it was someone else's,\" recalled Tim Lane, who lives in Leicestershire.\n\n\"One of the cameras looked over the desk of the maitre d' and we thought we recognised a stag logo on the pile of menus.\n\n\"Searching the internet for restaurants with a stag theme became a bit of an obsession for us for a week or more.\"\n\nHe added that he initially thought the pub might be overseas, but was surprised to eventually discover it was a short drive away.\n\nMr Lane subsequently visited the pub - The Bradgate - to warn its staff.\n\n\"The manager initially appeared suspicious and perhaps a little hostile,\" Mr Lane said.\n\n\"I really can't blame him, we could have been hackers. In reality we were both victims of a breach of personal privacy somewhere in Swann's systems.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by The Obscure Brewer This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post 2 by The Obscure Brewer\n\nSwann's spokeswoman said that this matter was still under investigation, but that it suspected both parties had registered their products with the same username and password.\n\n\"[We] are putting stricter measures in place for this not to occur in the future,\" she added.\n\nBut when The Bradgate and Mr Lane agreed to divulge their usernames to the BBC, the logins did not match.\n\n\"I can kind of see how the duplicate security key happened, but the second scenario seemed very unlikely,\" Prof Alan Woodward from the University of Surrey explained.\n\n\"I'm dubious that two users unrelated other than by geographic area would choose the same username and password combination enabling one to see the live video feed of the other.\n\n\"When both incidents are combined it does make you wonder if there are others who have had similar issues, and whether there is more at work here than has been so far explained.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section World Cup\n\nLive: Coverage across BBC TV, BBC Radio and BBC Sport website with further coverage on Red Button, Connected TVs and mobile app.\n\nEngland's recent World Cup record is the tale of teams that have not been good enough to live up to any level of expectations - high or low.\n\nSince reaching the semi-final at Italia 90, England have won only two knockout matches, the 3-0 win against Denmark in Japan in 2002 and the 1-0 win over Ecuador in Germany four years later.\n\nEngland lost in the last 16 in South Africa in 2010 and were out after two group games in Brazil four years ago.\n\nAnd to add to the litany of mediocrity, England have never beaten a team higher than them in the Fifa rankings since David Beckham's penalty beat Argentina in Sapporo 16 years ago.\n\nEngland were then ranked 12th and Argentina third - ironically the same as the current rankings of themselves and Belgium.\n\nSo, for all the expectations around them, England now face the moment of truth at this World Cup.\n\nCan England's defence cope with the best?\n\nEngland's defence and goalkeeper Jordan Pickford have had it easy at the World Cup so far against Tunisia and Panama.\n\nPickford has had little to do apart from pick the ball out of the net once in each game, with Everton's goalkeeper blameless on each occasion.\n\nEngland have had moments of carelessness in both games but the opposition was not good enough to punish them - that changes now.\n\nBelgium manager Roberto Martinez may play a changed team but they will present a greater threat and test than anything England's defenders have faced so far.\n\nSouthgate's three-man defensive system will be under severe examination from now on and it has been a vulnerability against the best in World Cups that has constantly been England's undoing.\n• None 'We'll play to win against Belgium', says Southgate\n\nKyle Walker is relatively new to this position but his raw pace will be crucial while John Stones and Harry Maguire will need to exercise caution with their determination to play their way out of defence.\n\nKieran Trippier has been outstanding as England's right wing-back while Ashley Young has performed well on the left - but Manchester United's 32-year-old will also be facing arguably his most severe test in a position that is a relatively new conversion for him.\n\nEngland's defence has yet to face up to the world's elite strikeforces so remains an unknown quantity. It is the moment of truth for them as well as England on Thursday - no matter what side Martinez chooses to field - and going forward.\n\nEngland must offer more support to Kane\n\nThis may seem strange given England have scored eight goals in their first two games and captain Kane is currently the World Cup's leading goalscorer with five.\n\nIn the matches ahead, if England are to get to where they want to be, Kane's class and quality will need to be aided and abetted by even greater support and service.\n\nKane has scored two goals resulting from corners, two penalties and with a deflection from Ruben Loftus-Cheek's shot to complete his hat-trick against Panama.\n\nEngland have been a potent attacking force but that suggest there may be even more to come. In reality, Kane has not yet had outstanding service from open play, unlike his Belgian opposite number Romelu Lukaku, who has scored four goals.\n\nRaheem Sterling - whose effort, ability and attitude cannot be questioned - must also change the statistic that currently reads 22 England games without a goal. Quickly.\n\nKane is the complete package. And there remains room for England to make even more of his talents.\n\nEngland's serene and positive approach has been a feature of their time in Russia since they landed at their Repino base.\n\nThis decisive group game - and it matters as a measure of form, momentum and confidence as well as plotting a route forward - will test England's big-game mentality.\n\nEverything about this England squad suggests they are comfortable in their own skin and with each other on and off the pitch - but the full extent of those reserves may only be revealed when the heat is on and they go through a period of suffering.\n\nThe talk and body language has oozed confidence, boosted by those two wins, including their first in an opening game at a major tournament since Paraguay were beaten in Germany in 2006.\n\nNow the pressure is on and a squad that is youthful and inexperienced at this level must prove its mettle. Southgate will be confident his emerging side can cope - we will soon find out.\n• None Diego Maradona praises England's desire to 'go out and play'\n\nWhy England's timing may be right\n\nEngland's performances have captured the imagination in Russia and raised hopes of World Cup glory, if not winning the actual tournament itself, at home.\n\nSouthgate and his players have barely put a foot wrong since they got here. A slick PR charm offensive off the pitch has been matched by results on it.\n\nEngland have handled differing challenges. They ground out a victory against stubborn Tunisia before overwhelming Panama. This ability to cope and adjust will have delighted Southgate and his backroom team.\n\nIn Kane they have a striker of genuine class and a talisman captain who is a threat to any defence at this World Cup.\n\nThere is, so far, a fearlessness about England that suggests they can back up all the optimistic talk and raised aspirations.\n\nNow England and manager Gareth Southgate face the acid test.", "A new tax for the over-40s in England should be introduced to help pay for elderly care for all, MPs say.\n\nRetired people should also be made to pay it if they have lucrative pensions or investments, two influential House of Commons' committees said.\n\nThe contribution - dubbed a social care premium by MPs - could then be used to ensure everyone who needs support in their old age gets it.\n\nIt comes as ministers are considering how to reform social care.\n\nCurrently only the poorest get help towards the cost of care, whether it is provided in people's homes or in a care home.\n\nOther people have to pay for it themselves, with one in 10 facing lifetime costs of more than £100,000.\n\nHowever, increasingly people are relying on family and friends or go without care, which includes everything from help with washing and dressing to support in taking medications.\n\nPolling carried out by Ipsos Mori as part of the work done by the four leading health think-tanks for the BBC to mark the 70th birthday of the NHS showed only 15% of people thought the current system was fair.\n\nAlthough appetite for a new tax was mixed and only one in four people were in favour of using wealth tied up in people's houses.\n\nThe MPs on the Housing, Communities and Local Government and Health and Social Care committees said changes were long overdue.\n\nA combination of the ageing population and a squeeze on council budgets has left the system at breaking point.\n\nThe cross-party groups believe only a radical solution can tackle the problem.\n\nTheir report said employers should also contribute to the social care premium and argues it could be topped up by an extra levy on inheritance tax on the wealthiest estates.\n\nThe MPs believe it could lead to everyone getting care paid for - although those in care homes would still have to contribute towards their accommodation costs.\n\nThe committees do not say how much should be levied, acknowledging there would need to be a full review on how much money the system needs.\n\nBut they said a degree of \"intergenerational fairness\" was needed, given the under-40s as a whole were more likely to be struggling with housing, employment and the cost of living than older generations.\n\nThey also suggested the money raised could be used to support the care system for younger adults with disabilities, which forms part of the wider social care system.\n\nCurrently the care provided by councils costs £20bn a year - less than a fifth of the NHS budget.\n\nSarah Wollaston, chair of the Health and Social Care Committee, said: \"We can no longer delay finding a fair and sustainable settlement for social care.\n\n\"Too many people are being left without the care and support they need and it is time for a decision to be made about how the costs are shared.\"\n\nThe government has said it will be publishing a green paper on social care soon - this is expected in the autumn.\n\nA funding rise has recently been agreed for the NHS, which will see its budget increase by £20bn a year by 2023.\n\nMinisters have said tax rises will be required to fund this, but the MPs said the levy they are proposing could also contribute towards that.\n\nCaroline Abrahams, of Age UK, gave the proposals her backing, saying a \"bold new vision\" was needed.\n\nShe said while the idea of paying more was a \"bitter pill, it just might be one worth swallowing - but only for a system that we can all rely on.\"\n\nThe best way to get news on the go", "Uber has been granted a short-term licence to operate in London following a court hearing.\n\nTransport for London (TfL) refused to renew the licence when it expired last September, saying the US taxi app was not a \"fit and proper\" operator.\n\nUber has now been awarded a licence but it has been put on probation for 15 months.\n\nThe company had been seeking a five-year licence when it was refused last year.\n\nFollowing a two-day hearing at Westminster Magistrates' Court, Chief Magistrate Emma Arbuthnot said Uber was now considered \"fit and proper\".\n\nShe ordered the company to pay TfL's legal costs of £425,000.\n\nLondon mayor Sadiq Khan said: \"After years of operating poorly in London, Uber has now accepted that TfL's action in refusing to renew their licence was totally justified. Today our stance has been vindicated by the court.\n\n\"Uber has been put on probation - their 15 month licence has a clear set of conditions that TfL will thoroughly monitor and enforce.\"\n\nTom Elvidge, Uber's UK general manager, said he was pleased with today's decision: \"We will continue to work with TfL to address their concerns and earn their trust, while providing the best possible service for our customers.\"\n\nOne of the areas of concern that TfL highlighted last year was about how Uber reported crime.\n\nThe company said that it had made \"wholesale\" changes to the business since last September.\n\nThis includes reporting crimes directly to the police instead of logging criminal complaints with TfL, which caused delays.\n\nDuring this week's hearing, Helen Chapman, the licensing, regulation and charging director at TfL, said that Uber's behaviour over reporting allegations to police was \"very disturbing\".\n\nSo in the end the humility strategy worked.\n\nWhen Transport for London denied Uber a new licence last September, the company responded aggressively promising to see the regulator in court over its anti-competitive ruling.\n\nBut by the time this week's hearing started it was in full retreat.\n\nFor much of the hearing, Chief Magistrate Emma Arbuthnot seemed unconvinced - Uber had shown a gung-ho attitude, determined to grow its business come what may.\n\nShe wanted reassurance that the people who'd been responsible for statements of questionable honesty in the past had gone and that the culture really had changed. But for the arrival of the \"impressive\" Laurel Powers-Freeling as non-executive chairman she might have been disinclined to grant a new licence.\n\nSo Uber is now free to continue operating in a very important market - but on probation with Transport for London watching its every move.\n\nA taxi-driver who sat through the hearing was unimpressed - \"three strikes and you're in\" he told me.\n\nBut something has changed. Uber once thought it could go round the world ignoring local rules - now other cities may follow London in attempting to clip its wings.\n\nShe said: \"I think we have had five years of a very difficult relationship where Uber has felt they haven't required regulation and being operated in the same way as everybody else we regulate.\"\n\nMs Chapman said that the changes implemented by Uber \"could, if applied correctly, enhance public safety\".\n\nTfL said the way the firm was run had potential public safety and security implications when it decided not to renew its licence to operate in London last year - a decision backed by Mr Khan.\n\nIn particular, it highlighted Uber's approach to reporting serious criminal offences, how medical certificates are obtained and background checks on drivers.\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan backed TfL's decision not to renew Uber licence to operate in the capital last year\n\nAmong the changes implemented by Uber, drivers can now only use the app in the region in which they hold a private hire licence and their working hours are more tightly regulated.\n\nA licensed driver on the app has to now take an uninterrupted six-hour break after 10 hours of taking passengers or travelling to pick them up.\n\nThe firm also made changes to its app in London to \"make it clearer\" to passengers that its drivers are licensed by TfL and that it accepts ride requests before allocating drivers.\n\nIt also dropped an appeal against a move that would make all its drivers in the city take English language tests.", "The artificial intelligence software provides what it determines to be the most likely diagnoses\n\nClaims that a chatbot can diagnose medical conditions as accurately as a GP have sparked a row between the software's creators and UK doctors.\n\nBabylon, the company behind the NHS GP at Hand app, says its follow-up software achieves medical exam scores that are on-par with human doctors.\n\nIt revealed the artificial intelligence bot at an event held at the Royal College of Physicians.\n\nBut another medical professional body said it doubted the AI's abilities.\n\n\"No app or algorithm will be able to do what a GP does,\" said the Royal College of General Practitioners.\n\n\"An app might be able to pass an automated clinical knowledge test - but the answer to a clinical scenario isn't always cut and dried.\n\n\"There are many factors to take into account, a great deal of risk to manage, and the emotional impact a diagnosis might have on a patient to consider.\"\n\nThe chatbot was unveiled at an event in London\n\nBut NHS England chairman Sir Malcolm Grant - who attended the unveil - appeared to be more receptive.\n\n\"It is difficult to imagine the historical model of a general practitioner, which is after all the foundation stone of the NHS and medicine, not evolving,\" he said.\n\n\"We are at a tipping point of how we provide care.\n\n\"This is why we are paying very close attention to what you've been doing and what other companies are doing.\"\n\nThe chatbot AI has been tested on what Babylon said was a representative set of questions from the Membership of the Royal College of General Practitioners exam.\n\nThe MRCGP is the final test set for trainee GPs to be accredited by the organisation.\n\nBabylon said that the first time its AI sat the exam, it achieved a score of 81%.\n\nIt added that the average mark for human doctors was 72%, based on results logged between 2012 and 2017.\n\nBut the RCGP said it had not provided Babylon with the test's questions and had no way to verify the claim.\n\n\"The college examination questions that we actually use aren't available in the public domain,\" added Prof Martin Marshall, one of the RCGP's vice-chairs.\n\nBabylon said it had used example questions published directly by the college and that some had indeed been made publicly available.\n\n\"We would be delighted if they could formally share with us their examination papers so I could replicate the exam exactly. That would be great,\" Babylon chief executive Ali Parsa told the BBC.\n\nTo further test the AI, Babylon partnered with doctors at two US organisations - Stanford Primary Care and Yale New Haven Health - as well as doctors from the Royal College of Physicians.\n\nIt said they had developed 100 real-life scenarios to test the AI.\n\nThe company added that it expected its chatbot's diagnostic skills would further improve as a consequence.\n\nBabylon has demonstrated its chatbot being used as a voice-controlled \"skill\" on Amazon's Alexa platform.\n\nWhile Babylon's existing GP at Hand service refers users to a human doctor if the app suspects a medical problem, the new chatbot makes a diagnosis itself - offering several possible scenarios along with a percentage-based estimate of each one being correct.\n\nThe GP at Hand app launched in late-2017\n\n\"The suggestion that this can replace doctors is the key issue for us,' said Prof Marshall.\n\nBut Mr Parsa disputed the idea that doctors would be left out in the cold, explaining that the intention was still for a medic to follow up the AI's diagnoses.\n\n\"We are fully aware that an artificial intelligence on its own cannot look after a patient. And that is why we complement it with physicians,\" he said.\n\n\"It is never going to replace a doctor, but just to help.\"\n\nBabylon envisages that a human doctor would make use of its chatbot's diagnosis within a follow-up video chat\n\nBabylon's stated ambition is to deliver affordable health care to people all over the world.\n\nSince 2016, it has been working in partnership with the government of Rwanda.\n\nThe country's health care service was decimated after the genocide in 1994, in which more than 800,000 people were killed.\n\nBabylon has two million registered users in Rwanda and has conducted tens of thousands of consultations.\n\nNurses in Rwanda have helped train Babylon's software by using it to diagnose people in the country\n\nSince smartphone use is not widespread in the country, people currently call nurses who follow symptom-checking prompts that appear to them via computer screens.\n\nInformation gathered as a result has been used to improve the chatbot.\n\nBBC Click will have more on Babylon's work in Rwanda on this weekend's television show. Find out more at BBC.com/Click and @BBCClick.", "Metal dental fillings leak mercury if they are exposed to a new powerful type of medical scan, scientists have found.\n\nThey studied the effect of ultra-high-strength MRI - the latest in scanning technology being introduced to several research hospitals in the UK.\n\nThe study, in the journal Radiology, shows 20 minutes' exposure is enough to release the toxin from extracted teeth filled with silver-coloured amalgam.\n\nThe team say more studies are needed to tell what real-life risk it might pose.\n\nThese cutting-edge scans are not yet widely used but are helping with medical research.\n\nAlthough metal fillings are now being superseded by white, ceramic, composite fillings, they are still the most common type offered by NHS dentists.\n\nThey are often used on the back teeth because they are hard-wearing, while visible front teeth are usually given white fillings.\n\nThe British Dental Association says dental amalgam is safe. It's been in use and extensively studied for 150 years as a restorative material. Its safety and durability are well established. And it remains the most appropriate material for a range of clinical situations.\n\nIt says there is no justification for removing these fillings as a precaution, except in those patients properly diagnosed as having allergic reactions to amalgam. This is a rare situation.\n\nBut the BDA agrees that more studies are needed to better assess this new potential risk linked with powerful medical scans.\n\nDr Selmi Yilmaz and colleagues at Akdeniz University, Turkey, measured the amount of mercury released by 60 amalgam-filled extracted teeth placed into 60 separate pots of artificial saliva.\n\nForty of the potted teeth were scanned using either conventional MRI, which is relatively low strength, or the newer high-powered 7 Tesla MRI. A control group of 20 teeth were placed in artificial saliva only.\n\nThe mercury content was four times higher in the pots that had been scanned with the high-powered MRI compared with the controls and the pots scanned with conventional MRI.\n\nWhether this high level of released mercury - 0.67 parts per million - might harm patients is not known.\n\n\"It is not clear how much of this released mercury is absorbed by the body,\" Dr Yilmaz said.\n\nMercury is poisonous to humans and can cause toxic effects in high enough doses.\n\nThe European Parliament has voted in favour of a gradual reduction in the use of dental amalgam to protect the environment, rather than for direct health reasons.\n\nWhen dental amalgam gets into the environment, the mercury it contains can be converted into methylmercury by aquatic microbes. This can then accumulate in the food chain, meaning people who eat contaminated fish and seafood will ingest it.\n\nBritish Dental Association's scientific adviser Prof Damien Walmsley said: \"The study indicates that people who have amalgam fillings should not be concerned if they need to have a conventional MRI scan.\n\n\"This will be a decreasing problem in time [as amalgam fillings are phased out] but the development of new ultra-high-strength MRI scanners, which were only approved by the US Food and Drug Administration last year, needs to be reviewed closely.\n\n\"The researchers acknowledge that further studies are needed on any potential risk presented by the new generation of MRI scanners.\"\n\nThe NHS advises that routine MRI scans are painless and safe procedures, although there are some patients who they won't be suitable for because the strong magnets used during the scan can affect metal implants or fragments in the body.\n\nNewer powerful MRI scans use stronger magnetic fields to get even more detailed images. They have been approved for use by medical regulators, who take safety into consideration.\n• None How often should you see a dentist?\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Warmest day in Scotland for five years\n\nScotland is basking in its warmest June day in more than two decades - and its hottest single day for five years.\n\nTemperatures reached 31C in Aviemore at 14:00 on Wednesday afternoon.\n\nForecasters said they could climb higher before the end of the day - far exceeding the previous record of 29C hit in June 1995.\n\nBBC Scotland weather presenter Gillian Smart said it could be a similar story on Thursday, with the mercury set to hit 31C in Glasgow.\n\nThese groups show there is more than one way to enjoy a sunny day at the seaside\n\nThe highest June temperature ever recorded was 32.2C at Ochertyre, Perth and Kinross, on 18 June 1893.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC Scotland Weather This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd in June 1986, temperatures hit 31.6C at Inverailort in the Highlands.\n\nLast year's highest June temperature was 27.3C which was recorded at Floors Castle in the Borders.\n\nAshley Arthur and Norman the puggle saw some of the best sunshine at Portobello\n\nEarlier this week, The Met Office issued a heatwave warning for England, where temperatures peaked at 30.3C in Rostherne, Cheshire on Tuesday.\n\nBBC weather watcher Killiecloudspotter sent this pictures of cows soaking up some rays in Kilmarnock.\n\nThe swans in Taynuilt look like they are also enjoying the heatwave in this picture sent by BBC Weather Watcher Birdman of Dalfern.\n\nWeather watcher KJ-Narnia has a glorious backdrop to their al fresco breakfast in Glenmoriston.\n\nNot everyone is enjoying clear blue skies and glorious sunshine, however.\n\nEarly-morning patches of mist, fog and low cloud were expected to linger along the coasts of Aberdeenshire, Angus and Fife throughout the day.\n\nTogether with an easterly breeze, it was expected to peg back temperatures to between 16C and 20C.\n\nThe hot, dry weather may be good news for sun worshippers but it's bad news for midges.\n\nJames Logan, from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said the dry weather causes the insects to dehydrate.\n\n\"So when the weather is very hot and the sun is out, they tend to disappear,\" he told BBC Radio Scotland.\n\n\"You might still get bitten in forested areas but they will stay out of the direct sunlight.\n\n\"When they lay their eggs, they lay them in damp, peaty, boggy soil and if that starts to dry up a bit there will be fewer midges around.\"\n\nThe prolonged period of dry weather has prompted Scottish Water to ask some customers to use their water \"wisely\".\n\nOn Lewis, the conditions have caused lower than normal water levels in Loch Mor an Stairr, which supplies Stornoway Water Treatment Works.\n\nThis great view of the north-east countryside was snapped near Huntly by BBC weather watcher Calios.\n\nWeather watcher Wildswimmer sent us this picture of Stornoway harbour on Wednesday morning.\n\nA similar appeal has been made to households and businesses served by the Badentinan Water Treatment Works in Moray.\n\nThis includes people in the Elgin, Kinloss, Forres, Burghead, Lossiemouth, Rothes, Fochabers, Dufftown and Craigellachie areas.\n\nA Scottish Water spokesman said: \"There are no areas where normal water supplies to customers have been affected by the generally dry weather across Scotland in the past few weeks.\n\n\"Scottish Water has issued advice to customers to use water wisely in two localised areas, parts of Moray and the Stornoway area of Lewis.\n\n\"The advice was issued because of prolonged dry weather in these areas, despite some recent rainfall, and (in the case of Moray) increased demand.\n\n\"Scottish Water is managing water supplies across Scotland through this extended dry period and will continue to monitor the situation closely.\"", "Linehan said his cancer was \"one of the best ones to have\"\n\nFather Ted co-creator Graham Linehan has been given the all-clear following his testicular cancer diagnosis.\n\nHe told Twitter followers he had seen his oncologist on Thursday and was told \"everything's clear\".\n\nThe previous day, he had revealed his diagnosis to his Twitter followers.\n\nLinehan added they \"got rid of it all pretty quickly, along with a ball\" and he would undergo a course of chemo. However, he has now been told that is not necessary.\n\n\"No chemo! Can't believe it! NO CHEMO!\" he wrote. \"Have been organising my life around the idea that next three months were just gone!\"\n\nThe Irishman has thanked his fans for their messages of support.\n\n\"Thanks to everyone who sent kind words,\" he wrote. \"I'm annoyed now that I worried you all unnecessarily. AND I cancelled my Australian events. Dohhhhh. Still though. CANCER FREE I BE!\"\n\nFather Ted ran on Channel 4 from 1995 to 1998\n\nHe had previously apologised to Australian fans who had bought tickets to an event he was due to host later this year, saying he was \"hoping to make it back next year\".\n\n\"I'm hoping to make it back next year,\" he said, telling his fans not to worry if there were \"moments of quiet\" from him in the months ahead.\n\nLinehan, who created Father Ted with Arthur Mathews, confirmed earlier this month that they were writing a musical version of the show with The Divine Comedy's Neil Hannon.\n\nWriting on Wednesday, Linehan said the show was \"coming along nicely\".\n\nIrish comedian Dara O Briain was among those to offer support, joking that Linehan would be \"sleeker through water\" as a result of his surgery.\n\n\"You seem to be taking this all in your stride, which is all the more impressive, given how tricky striding must be,\" joked the actor Rufus Hound.\n\nAccording to the NHS, about 2,200 men are diagnosed with testicular cancer each year in the UK.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is 28, a Bronx native and political novice who defeated her party opponent and 10-term congressman Joe Crowley.\n\nShe could become the youngest ever woman in Congress if elected in November.", "The firefighter who led the initial response to the Grenfell fire did not consider evacuating the tower even as residents came out coughing and sooty, a public inquiry has heard.\n\nWatch manager Michael Dowden said his mind was on the crews inside the burning building and he was \"consumed\" with what was happening externally.\n\nBy the time he had called out 15 fire engines, he said he felt \"helpless\".\n\nA deputy assistant commander would usually oversee a fire of that scale.\n\nGiving evidence for a third day, Mr Dowden, who appeared under considerable strain, said: \"I've never operated at that level before.\n\n\"I was making decisions to the best of my ability with all good intentions to try to successfully resolve that incident.\"\n\nResidents were told to \"stay put\" inside the building when the fire was first reported at 00:54 BST.\n\nIt was just under two hours before that guidance was changed and everyone was told to try to leave.\n\nExpert Dr Barbara Lane earlier told the hearing that the \"stay put\" advice had \"effectively failed\" within around half an hour of the fire starting.\n\nMr Dowden, who served as incident commander until 02:00 BST, sent a \"persons reported\" message to the control room after seeing a man and his son with signs of smoke inhalation coming out of the building, the inquiry heard.\n\nHis handwritten note made after the fire was then shown to the hearing. It said: \"All my experience now gone out of the window, very daunting moment. I felt helpless.\"\n\nHe was then asked whether on seeing sooty-faced people exiting the building, he considered evacuating the high-rise.\n\n\"As an incident commander, the challenge we faced, an almost impossible situation trying to evacuate that building at that time with the resources in attendance,\" Mr Dowden told the hearing.\n\n\"It is something I still search for today.\"\n\nRichard Millett QC, counsel to the inquiry, apologised before asking his next question as to whether Mr Dowden considered informing the control room about the people coming out of the building so they could change their survival advice to 999 callers inside the tower.\n\n\"I have no thought at that moment in time, being witness to what was happening and unfolding in front of me,\" Mr Dowden said.\n\n\"That was a decision I didn't take at this time.\"\n\nHe went on to say that by 01:29 BST, it was apparent the flames had almost reached roof level and he had requested 20 fire engines on the advice of a fellow watch manager.\n\nAsked if he thought it was still safe for 999 operators to tell residents to stay inside, he said: \"Everything that I had previously experienced and everything I had understood as an incident command, yes - if a building doesn't fail.\"\n\nHe told the hearing he did not think the internal building had failed, but said \"something was happening to the external of that building\".\n\nHe said at that time he still believed the fire could be beaten, and sent a specialist rescue crew up to roof level to extinguish the blaze from above.\n\nHe later found they had not managed to do so.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Grenfell Tower inquiry: What questions will be answered?\n\nMr Dowden was questioned on why he did not declare a major incident when the fire reached the top of the building.\n\n\"I was just totally consumed by everything that was going on around me,\" he said.\n\nThe inquiry also heard that Mr Dowden did not receive crucial information from firefighters radioing down from the \"bridgehead\" - a safe air space two floors below the flat on fire.\n\nThat night, officers using breathing apparatus were communicating on channel six, while Mr Dowden received messages on channel one, the inquiry heard.\n\nRadios built into breathing apparatus were known to be unreliable, the hearing was told.\n\nTheir messages would have told Mr Dowden which floors the fire had spread to, the state of mind of the firefighters and their locations.\n\nThe inquiry was also told that the fire chiefs who took over from Mr Dowden at 1:50 BST were led to believe \"only the exterior\" of the cladding was burning.\n\nPressed on the details of his handover to deputy assistant commander Andrew O'Loughlin, Mr Dowden said: \"Trying to put it into some perspective - I had just been in charge of this incident for an hour.\n\n\"I had seen something that most junior officers probably in the UK fire service had never been involved with.\n\n\"To try and pinpoint every single bit of information that was handed over at that point is very, very difficult.\"\n\nOn Tuesday, the hearing was briefly suspended after Mr Dowden broke down in tears after footage of the disaster was shown.\n\nThe inquiry into last June's fire in west London, which caused 72 deaths, is currently examining what happened on that night.", "Recovery vehicles removed the bus and lorry from the scene on Tuesday afternoon\n\nTwo men died when a double-decker bus and a lorry were involved in a crash on the A47 in Cambridgeshire.\n\nTwelve other people were injured in the crash at about 07:30 BST on Thorney Road, Guyhirn.\n\nThe driver of a First Eastern Counties bus, in his 50s, died, along with a passenger in his 70s.\n\nThe collision, on a stretch of road with a 60mph speed limit, involved a Bretts Transport lorry near the entrance to its depot.\n\nPolice said the bus \"collided into the lorry\". The lorry driver was not hurt.\n\nA Bretts spokesman said: \"At this stage we are giving the emergency services our full support and co-operation.\"\n\nFirst Eastern Counties managing director Steve Wickers said: \"Two people have lost their lives in this incident, one being a driver based in our King's Lynn depot.\n\n\"I am shocked and saddened by what has happened. Our thoughts are with the families of the deceased and we will be providing as much support to them as we can through this difficult time.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Cambs police This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCambridgeshire Police said five people were seriously injured and seven had minor injuries.\n\nPolice said those who were seriously hurt had a combination of broken bones and head injuries, including brain injuries.\n\nThe East of England Ambulance Service said the casualties had been transferred to Peterborough City Hospital and Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King's Lynn.\n\nInsp Jamie Langwith, of the county's roads policing unit, said: \"What we do know is that they have a coming together where the HGV has pulled out of the yard and the bus has collided into the side of it.\"\n\nThe East of England Ambulance Service sent seven ambulance crews, three ambulance officers, two rapid response vehicles, and a Hazardous Area Response Team to the scene on Tuesday morning.\n\nHighways England confirmed the road had reopened shortly after 17:30 BST.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Proposals to include mothers' names on marriage certificates in England and Wales have moved a step closer to becoming law.\n\nThe Registration of Marriage Bill cleared committee stage in the House of Lords in little more than 30 minutes after peers approved a series of technical amendments, including curbing the powers of ministers over how to implement the changes.\n\nThe Bishop of St Albans's bill introduces reforms to move from a paper-based system to an electronic register.\n\nThis would make it possible to included mothers' details, with the system since 1837 only providing space for the name of the father of each of the couple to be recorded.\n\nHome Office Minister Baroness Williams of Trafford said all the different family circumstances of society would be provided for under the new registration system, including same-sex parents.\n\nThe bill still has report and third reading stages to complete in the Lords before then moving to the House of Commons, where it will need to secure time on a Friday sitting to be considered by MPs.\n\nConservative former minister Dame Caroline Spelman, the Church of England's official representative in the Commons, has moved an identical bill as the campaign for change seeks to achieve its aim as quickly as possible.\n\nThe government supports the changes, so it's more likely to be considered and become law.", "Lois and Rose were staying at the Royal Wings Hotel in Antalya\n\nA mother, who says her five-year-old child was abducted from a holiday kids club in Turkey, is suing travel firm Thomas Cook over the incident.\n\nJanet Alexander, 46, from Inverness, said her daughter Rose was taken by a stranger from the club at the Royal Wings Hotel in Antalya.\n\nMs Alexander said Rose was later found with a woman, walking near a main road within the hotel's grounds.\n\nThomas Cook said it was investigating the incident.\n\nMs Alexander said she was on a family break at Easter with Rose and her sister Lois when the incident happened.\n\nShe said that she left Rose at the resort's supervised play area so that she could take Lois, aged nine, to a scuba diving lesson.\n\nHowever, when they returned an hour later, they discovered that Rose was gone.\n\nShe said: \"I was completely distraught, completely. In fact, there was chaos as everybody realised she was missing and started running around and people from around the pool started looking for her.\n\n\"I was really quite frozen with fear.\"\n\nLois was among those who joined the search. She said: \"We couldn't find her and eventually we found her though. She was so happy she started crying.\"\n\nJanet said she was \"frozen\" when she discovered Rose was missing\n\nThe girls were travelling to Turkey for a family holiday at Easter time\n\nRose was found unharmed 20 minutes later in the company of the mystery woman.\n\nThe pair were led back to the hotel by a guest, but the woman was never arrested and later left the scene.\n\nJanet Alexander said: \"Had Rose even followed her or whatever, you would take a child back, and in my heart I know that there was some sort of unpleasant motive behind this.\n\n\"It was hundreds and hundreds of metres away that she had taken her.\"\n\nMs Alexander accused Thomas Cook of failing to respond to repeated calls for help during and after the incident.\n\nShe added: \"I think it's terrible that they would leave a family abandoned in a foreign country and not make sure, not only that we were ok, but that the current users of the facilities are ok as well, because obviously I felt the other children that were using the club were then at risk.\"\n\nThomas Cook said: \"We were very concerned to hear of this incident and we understand how distressing it must have been.\n\n\"We are investigating thoroughly with the hotel to understand what happened and we will work with the hotel to make any required changes so that this can't happen again.\"\n\nThe company said its customer welfare team had contacted Ms Alexander to offer support.\n\nThe Royal Wings Hotel has denied that an abduction took place and maintained that the hotel's children's club was safe and secure.", "Last updated on .From the section World Cup\n\nCoverage: Live on BBC Radio 5 live, live text commentary online, mobile, the BBC Sport app and Connected TV. Highlights online on full-time.\n\nEngland are through to the knockout stage of the World Cup with one game to spare after beating Panama 6-1.\n\nBut what does Gareth Southgate do when it comes to picking his side for the final Group G match against Belgium, who have also qualified, in Kaliningrad on Thursday?\n\nDoes he stick with the players who have earned six points from two games in Russia?\n\nOr does he rest them for the last 16 and give players such as Danny Welbeck, Gary Cahill and Trent Alexander-Arnold a first run-out at the tournament?\n• None New England, new confidence - why there is joy and optimism\n• None 'This team have excited the nation' - pundits react\n\nEngland are top of Group G, level on points with Belgium, with Southgate's side ahead by virtue of having fewer yellow cards.\n\n\"There's an opportunity for players that need a match because they have not played a while, but we also want to keep winning matches,\" said Southgate when asked if he would be making changes.\n\nBelgium boss Roberto Martinez said the England game was an opportunity to \"refresh\" his starting line-up.\n\nFormer England striker Alan Shearer said on BBC One: \"They're all in the groove and very confident. They have a system they have belief in.\n\n\"Two or three changes maybe, not four or five. Keep it the same and keep that momentum. I think back to Euro '96 and we got on a roll and there was a feeling of, 'we're invincible here'.\n\nFormer England defender Rio Ferdinand said on BBC One: \"I don't agree. I think from past experience fatigue plays a big part if you're going to go deep into this tournament.\n\n\"I think a few changes without disrupting what we're doing. You don't change the basics of the team.\n\nWhat do you say?\n\nChoose who you would pick in the England starting XI to face Colombia in Russia - and then share it with your friends using our team selector.", "The office of one the Netherlands' leading newspapers was attacked at night, in what the prime minister called \"a slap in the face\" of the free press.\n\nDe Telegraaf's office in Amsterdam was rammed twice by a white van before the driver set it on fire, causing significant damage to the entrance.\n\nThe suspect then escaped in another car.", "Last updated on .From the section World Cup\n\nArgentina legend Diego Maradona said he was \"fine\" after being seen by a doctor during the team's World Cup victory over Nigeria on Tuesday.\n\nThe 57-year-old, who captained Argentina to World Cup victory in 1986, said his \"neck hurt a lot\".\n\nMaradona posted a picture on social media showing medical staff with him at half-time of the 2-1 victory, but denied he had been taken to hospital.\n\n\"I want to tell everyone that I am fine,\" his Instagram post read.\n\n\"I was checked by a doctor and he recommended me to go home before the second half, but I wanted to stay because we were risking it all. How could I leave?\"\n\nArgentina's victory meant they reached the last 16, where they will face France on Saturday.\n\nVideo posted online appeared to show Maradona struggling to get up from his seat at full-time but BBC Sport has learned he later boarded a flight back to Moscow.\n\nEarlier, he was in tears when the score was 1-1, which would have resulted in Argentina's elimination.\n\nThen, after Marcos Rojo scored the team's late winner, he was seen giving one-fingered gestures.\n\nMaradona played 91 times for Argentina, scoring 34 goals, and later managed the national side.\n\n'He enjoys being a parody of himself'\n\nDiego is a really high-energy guy and has always been that way. When I was with him in the '80s and '90s, he was high on life but his problem at the moment is he doesn't sleep so he takes these sleeping pills and if he interacts with other substances during the day, such as alcohol, it has an effect on him.\n\nHe quite enjoys being a parody of himself at times. I understand why people criticise him but in his heart he's a warm, caring guy.\n\nI just hope he one day doesn't do something stupidly excessive and something silly happens. He's an embodiment of living life.", "Noel Conway was diagnosed with motor neurone disease in 2014\n\nA terminally-ill man who wants to be helped to die has lost his legal challenge at the Court of Appeal.\n\nNoel Conway, 68, who has motor neurone disease, has fought a legal battle for the right to a \"peaceful and dignified\" death.\n\nThe retired lecturer challenged an earlier High Court rejection of his case at a hearing in May.\n\nMr Conway, from Shrewsbury, said he now intends to take his fight to the Supreme Court.\n\nHis case was rejected on Wednesday by three senior judges - Master of the Rolls Sir Terence Etherton, Sir Brian Leveson and Lady Justice King.\n\nMr Conway, who said he feels \"entombed\" by his illness, is dependent on a ventilator for up to 23 hours a day and only has movement in his right hand, head and neck.\n\nHe wanted help to die when he has less than six months left to live, still has the mental capacity to decide, and has made a \"voluntary, clear, settled and informed\" decision.\n\nMr Conway proposed he could only receive assistance to die if a High Court judge determined he met all three of those criteria.\n\nSpeaking after the ruling he said: \"I will keep fighting for myself and all terminally-ill people who want the right to die peacefully, with dignity and on our own terms.\"\n\nHe said his current options are to \"effectively suffocate\" by removing his ventilator, or spend thousands travelling to Switzerland to end his life and have his family risk prosecution.\n\nMr Conway said it was \"barbaric\" for him to be forced to choose between the \"unacceptable options\" left open to him for his death.\n\nSir Terence said the court concluded it was not as well-placed as Parliament to determine the \"necessity and proportionality of a blanket ban\".\n\nHe also said the High Court had seen evidence Mr Conway's proposed scheme was \"inadequate to protect the weak and vulnerable\".\n\nIt also failed to give enough weight to the \"sanctity of life and to the scheme's potential to undermine trust and confidence as between doctors and patients\", he added.\n\nThe appeal was opposed by the Secretary of State for Justice, David Gauke, with Care Not Killing and Not Dead Yet UK also making submissions.\n\nDr Peter Saunders, campaign director of Care Not Killing, said the Court of Appeal's decision was \"sensible\".\n\nHe added: \"The safest law is the one we already have - a complete ban on assisted suicide and euthanasia.\"\n\nMr Conway, who is supported by the campaign group Dignity in Dying, was too unwell to travel to London for the hearing.\n\nGroup chief executive Sarah Wootton said other countries had found it was \"perfectly possible, and indeed necessary\" to introduce assisted dying legislation.\n\nHumanists UK chief executive Andrew Copson said he \"very much\" hoped there would be a further appeal to the Supreme Court.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Costa has blamed a lack of shoppers on the High Street for a fall in like-for-like sales at the start of the year.\n\nThe nation's biggest coffee chain reported a 2% fall in like-for-like sales in the first three months of the year.\n\nHowever, total UK sales growth were up by 5.2% thanks to new store openings, said Costa parent Whitbread.\n\nWhitbread said early steps had been taken to demerge Costa from the group, a move announced in April.\n\nIn early morning trading in London, shares in Whitbread were up by 1.8% at £39.63.\n\n\"Our stores remain highly profitable and deliver an excellent return on capital,\" said Whitbread boss Alison Brittain.\n\nThe firm added: \"The UK like-for-like sales decline resulted principally from footfall weakness in traditional shopping locations, whereas travel locations continued to show good growth.\"\n\nUK High Streets have been struggling in recent months with big names closing stores and restaurants and some retailers shutting down altogether.\n\nMarks & Spencer, House of Fraser, Mothercare, New Look, Byron, Jamie's Italian, and Prezzo are all closing outlets.\n\nMeanwhile, Maplin, Poundworld and Toys R Us have gone into administration.\n\nCosta said it was now actively refocusing its network towards \"high-footfall and convenient locations\".\n\nThe coffee chain has more than 2,400 UK coffee shops, as well as some 1,400 outlets in 31 overseas markets. Costa Express has 8,237 vending machines worldwide.\n\nWhitbread acquired Costa in 1995 from founders Sergio and Bruno Costa.\n\nAs well as being the largest UK coffee chain, Costa is also the world's second largest chain and it wants to expand even further - it is looking to triple its presence in China, where it is second to Starbucks.\n\nThe spun-off Costa firm will be floated and listed as a separate business by 2020. A further update on the demerger will be provided in October.\n\nAlison Brittain says Costa will thrive on its own\n\nMeanwhile, Whitbread - whose other brands include hotel chain Premier Inn and restaurants Beefeater and Brewers Fayre - saw overall like-for-like sales fall by 1.3% over the first quarter period.\n\nBoss Alison Brittain said the budget hotel market and the coffee market both presented long-term structural growth opportunities,\n\n\"Whilst we are cautious of shorter-term trading conditions in the UK, due to well publicised consumer trends, we are confident that we have the right strategies in place to enhance our UK and international market positions and ensure each business is well-positioned to thrive as a separate entity,\" added Ms Brittain.\n\nCommentating on the Costa sales fall, analyst Neil Wilson from Markets.com said: \"We have been seeing and warning about declining like-for-like at Costa for some time and this 2% drop is a concern about how the brand is performing on the High Street.\n\n\"Lower footfall is one thing, but we continue to see Costa facing tougher competition from artisan coffee retailers who are taking market share.\"", "Women who suffer from reproductive issues such as endometriosis and severe period pain have been discussing their debilitating effects.\n\nIt comes as a survey by Public Health England suggests 42% of women experience severe reproductive health problems, but under half seek help.\n\nWatch the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme on weekdays between 09:00 and 11:00 on BBC Two and the BBC News Channel.", "Watch all the best action and funnies from day 13 of the 2018 World Cup in Russia, as Lionel Messi finally makes his mark on the tournament just when Argentina needed him most.\n\nAvailable to UK users only.", "Last updated on .From the section World Cup\n\nDiego Maradona says England are reaping the benefits of teaching players to be more comfortable on the ball.\n\nThe Argentina legend has seen his nation struggle at the World Cup while England have made a 100% start.\n\nThe Three Lions overcame a physical Panama team 6-1 on Sunday to claim their biggest ever World Cup win.\n\n\"They want to go out and play. I don't think it's the coach. It comes from below - they are under-17 and under-20 world champions,\" said Maradona.\n\nWith those tournament wins coming last year, none of the players have yet stepped into the senior England team.\n\nHowever, manager Gareth Southgate did coach Jesse Lingard and Ruben Loftus-Cheek at under-21 level.\n• None Southgate proud of performance even if Tunisia game had been draw\n\nSouthgate has encouraged his players to play out from the back and was \"proud\" they \"didn't just throw the ball in the box\" when they were pushing for a winner against Tunisia in their opening World Cup group game.\n\n\"It seems to me that the likes of Sterling, Kane, Vardy and Stones give the ball another touch,\" Maradona told Venezuelan TV channel Telesur.\n\n\"This speaks clearly that the boys are being forged in a way England did not have before.\n\n\"They don't hit the ball across half the pitch. No, they want to go out playing and they found some other attributes with respect to the opponent they had [Panama].\"", "The mandatory part of national service will last a month, while the second, longer phase will be more closely focused on defence and security\n\nThe French government has introduced a plan to bring back national service for all 16-year-olds.\n\nIt was an idea put forward by Emmanuel Macron in his presidential campaign, to promote a sense of civic duty and national unity among French youth.\n\nBut some remain unconvinced of the benefits.\n\nThe new national service will cover all 16-year-olds, girls as well as boys, and will be divided into two distinct phases.\n\nThe first phase is a mandatory one-month placement with a focus on civic culture, which the government says will \"enable young people to create new relationships and develop their role in society\".\n\nVoluntary teaching and working with charities are among the options being looked at, alongside traditional military preparation with the police, fire service or army.\n\nThe second phase is a voluntary placement of at least three months and up to a year, in which young people will be encouraged to serve \"in an area linked to defence and security\" - but again, they could opt to carry out volunteer work linked to heritage, the environment or social care.\n\nIt's not quite the programme Mr Macron initially had in mind.\n\nWhen he first floated the idea, during the 2017 race for the presidency, it was a sort of military service in miniature, with all French citizens forced to have a \"direct experience of military life\" for a minimum of one month between the ages of 18 and 21.\n\nStudents' groups, already unimpressed with education reforms, have so far been lukewarm about national service\n\nThat's now been softened and broadened into what's being called a Universal National Service - partly because of concerns that it would cost too much and overburden the country's armed forces.\n\nEven now, the programme is estimated to cost €1.6bn (£1.4bn; $1.8bn) a year to run, with €1.75bn of investment up front.\n\nThe goal of this new-style national service, the government says, is to encourage young French citizens to take part in the life of the nation, and promote social cohesion.\n\nConsultations will now begin, with a view to rolling out the programme from early next year.\n\nBut there is still a lot of detail to be hammered out, not least the legal basis.\n\nA working group, set up to look into the scheme, has warned that the French constitution bans the state from forcing an entire section of the population to spend time away from home, except in the case of national defence.\n\nEven before it was announced, 14 youth organisations objected to the \"inconsistencies\" in the plan, unhappy with the idea of being forced to take part in a project. \"Choosing a commitment is just as important as the commitment itself, if not more so,\" they argued, calling for young people to be able to exercise freedom of choice.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. When Emmanuel Macron told a French teen to call him \"Mr President\"\n\nMore broadly, about 60% of the population are in favour, according to a YouGov poll carried out in March, although the number dips to just below half when younger people are asked for their views.\n\nMr Macron is the first French president not to have done military service; it was scrapped for the new intake in 1996, when Mr Macron was 18.\n\nBefore that, all young French men were expected to serve for the best part of a year in the armed forces. When the old post-war draft ended, in 1997, there was a collective sigh of relief. Amid the nostalgia, many people here recognised that it had become a social exercise rather than a military one.\n\nTwenty years later, it's that social cohesion President Macron now wants to recapture.\n• None How tech took the bite out of France's rail strikes", "Dozens of homes have been evacuated as a fire continues to rage across Greater Manchester.\n\nThe blaze on Saddleworth Moor has been declared a \"major incident\" and the Army is on standby to step in.", "Last updated on .From the section World Cup\n\nWell, we didn't expect that did we?\n\nGermany - currently top of the Fifa rankings and reigning world champions, were knocked out of the World Cup in the group stage for the first time since 1938.\n\nEven they couldn't believe it...\n\nJoachim Low's side finished bottom of Group F and, perhaps a little cruelly, the rest of the world can't seem to hide their joy at the shock result.\n\nMany Germany fans will want answers from their team and the manager, but one Twitter user suggested Low had questions himself...\n\nAh yes, the big question before the first ball was kicked at the tournament was, \"why is Leroy Sane not on the plane to Russia?\"\n\nThe German squad featured eight World Cup winners from the 2014 squad, which prompted comparisons...\n\nBut the South Koreans played the game of their lives to beat the reigning champions 2-0 and send them packing.\n\nAmong the masterful performances was that of goalkeeper Cho Hyun-woo, who made a fine one-handed save from Leon Goretzka's header.\n\nAt the final whistle, South Korea's players and fans celebrated as if they'd won the entire thing, even though Sweden winning 3-0 against Mexico sent them home.\n\nThey have, however, found fans for life in North America, as the knock-on effect sent the Mexicans through to the last 16.\n\nBut after 52 years of the Germans holding bragging rights, it's safe to say the English are feeling the most smug tonight.\n\nNot for the first time during Russia 2018, \"It's coming home\" was trending on Twitter.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The pair discussed mental health issues during a walkabout in Tel Aviv\n\nIsraeli Eurovision winner Netta Barzilai says she is \"overwhelmed\" after the Duke Of Cambridge asked to meet her on his Middle East tour.\n\nPrince William joined Netta on a walkabout around Tel Aviv, where they discussed mental health and diversity.\n\nNetta won Eurovision in May with a song, called Toy, that encouraged people to celebrate their differences.\n\n\"We talked about the way I changed how people feel here in Israel, and about self-esteem,\" the singer told the BBC.\n\n\"And how positivity and setting a good example for people is really making a difference.\n\n\"It was amazing,\" the 25-year-old continued. \"He's a really, really chill guy.\"\n\nNetta added that she had presented the Prince with one of the \"looping machines\" she uses to create her songs.\n\n\"I wanted to give him a taste of my world,\" she said. \"So I gave him this machine which allows him to loop his voice and to create music with no instruments.\"\n\nThe singer said she hoped it would be put to good use, and maybe even lead to a royal entry at next year's Eurovision...\n\n\"I hope so!\" she laughed. \"Wouldn't it be amazing? What an amazing headline.\"\n\nStill, Prince William seemed unconvinced: \"You want me to be a singer?\" he was overheard telling Netta during their stroll.\n\n\"You haven't heard me sing - you wouldn't want that!\"\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Eurovision Song Contest This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nNetta shot to fame after being selected to represent Israel at this year's Eurovision Song Contest.\n\nShe hadn't expected to make it to the competition, telling one reporter: \"I was a struggling musician, hoping for a couple of gigs.\"\n\nAfter being chosen, the singer resolved to make a difference.\n\n\"When I won my election, I realised I can do something really nice,\" she said.\n\n\"If I'd seen someone like me on primetime when I was a kid, I'd have had an easier childhood.\n\n\"So I said, 'OK, I'll do something different. I'm going to wear a short skirt and I'll do a really fun pop song with a really strong message.'\"\n\nHer positive message - paired with some quirky, chicken-based dance moves - charmed fans across the world.\n\nShe ended up winning Eurovision with 529 points, beating Cyprus into second place.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Toy has racked up millions of views on YouTube\n\nSince then she has been inundated with messages of thanks and support.\n\n\"I get a lot of mail and a lot of messages about young girls and boys sticking their chins up and accepting their differences,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"There is even a lesson in the curriculum about me!\"\n\nThe star is currently touring Europe to celebrate her song contest victory while working on a follow-up single.\n\n\"I'm working really, really hard on my new music,\" she said. \"I think I'm going to release something in the next couple of months.\"\n\nAsked whether the new single would reinforce her message of empowerment, she said: \"I don't know. I don't like to limit myself.\n\n\"I don't need a strong message in a song in order to have a strong message in my performance.\n\n\"So my next song can be about apples and bananas and it would still be powerful and strong.\"\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge's five-day visit to Israel, the Palestinian territories and Jordan began on Sunday.\n\nAfter meeting Netta on Wednesday morning, he held talks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah.\n\nThe prince is the first royal family member to make an official visit to the Palestinian Occupied Territories.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Justice Kennedy's retirement hands Mr Trump a second pick on the US Supreme Court\n\nUS Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy is to retire, giving President Donald Trump the chance to cement a conservative majority on the top court.\n\nThe conservative has sided with liberals on many decisions, including the 5-4 rulings that decided same-sex marriage and upheld abortion rights.\n\nIn his letter to Mr Trump, Justice Kennedy expressed \"profound gratitude\" for having served in the highest court.\n\nThe 81-year-old judge will retire on 31 July, he said in his letter.\n\nHe is the second-oldest justice on the nine-member US Supreme Court.\n\nThe court plays a key role in American life and is often the final word on highly contentious laws, disputes between states and the federal government, and final appeals to stay executions.\n\nIn recent years, it has expanded gay marriage to all 50 states, halted President Barack Obama's immigration orders and delayed a US plan to cut carbon emissions while appeals went forward.\n\nEarlier this week it upheld Mr Trump's travel ban which covers people from several Muslim-majority countries, in a 5-4 conservative majority ruling.\n\nSenate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Republican, said on Wednesday that a vote on Mr Trump's nominee to replace Justice Kennedy - who earned a reputation as the court's \"swing\" vote - would take place by the autumn.\n\nJustice Kennedy has frequently sided with abortion rights advocates in the court and news of his retirement has raised fears among pro-choice groups that access to legal abortions in several states could be under threat.\n\nJustice Kennedy said he was retiring because he wanted to spend more time with his family.\n\nJustice Kennedy, who was raised in California, was nominated by President Ronald Reagan and began his term in 1988.\n\nHe voted conservative on issues of campaign finance, voting rights and gun rights but was considered a swing vote on key rulings.\n\nJustice Kennedy penned the Supreme Court's first major gay-rights decision in 1996, protecting LGBT Americans from discrimination.\n\nIn 2015, he authored the landmark opinion which gave LGBT citizens the right to marry, writing: \"They ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law and the Constitution grants them that right.\"\n\nAs a justice, he routinely favoured personal liberty and the limiting of federal power.\n\nMr Trump said Justice Kennedy had \"displayed great vision\" and \"tremendous heart\".\n\nWithout Anthony Kennedy, the political centre on the Supreme Court will be firmly on the right. Whoever Donald Trump nominates - and he's promised to draw from the same list of candidates from which he picked Neil Gorsuch - will be a person with solid conservative bona fides.\n\nDemocrats and liberal activists will howl, rage and do all they can to slow the process, but the timing of Mr Kennedy's retirement makes what happens next all but inevitable. The president will surely offer his choice quickly, and if Republican senators stick together they have the votes to confirm before November's mid-terms congressional elections, let alone when new senators are sworn in next January.\n\nAnd even if the court vacancy becomes a campaign issue, the open seat in 2016 proved that court vacancies are a much stronger motivating consideration for Republicans - particularly evangelical voters - than they are for Democrats.\n\nFile this as yet another entry in the \"elections have consequences\" scrapbook.\n\nIf Hillary Clinton had prevailed in 2016, Democrats would be contemplating a 6-3 liberal Supreme Court majority and an opportunity to reshape the legal landscape for a generation. Instead, on subjects like abortion law and gay rights, the pendulum is swinging the other direction.\n\nDuring a meeting with Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa at the White House, President Trump said he would select a nominee to replace Justice Kennedy from a list of 25 potential court candidates that his campaign had compiled during the election.\n\nMr Trump said the process to replace him would begin immediately.\n\n\"Hopefully we will pick someone who is just as outstanding\", he said.\n\nMr Trump added that he had learned of the judge's retirement about a half hour before, when Justice Kennedy came to the White House to meet him.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We have a very excellent list... of tremendous people\"\n\nThe White House also released a statement thanking Justice Kennedy for his 30 years of service as a \"tireless voice for individual rights\".\n\n\"His words have left an indelible mark not only on this generation, but on the fabric of American history.\"\n\nTop Democrat Chuck Schumer said in a televised speech on the floor of the Senate that Justice Kennedy's replacement would be a decision affecting \"generations\".\n\n\"Our Republican colleagues in the senate should follow the rule they set in 2016, not to consider a Supreme Court Justice in an election year,\" Senator Schumer said.\n\n\"Anything but that would be the absolute height of hypocrisy.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Judge Gorsuch spoke of his \"most solemn assignment\"\n\nFellow Democrat Tammy Duckworth cited that same rule, pushed in 2016 by Republican leader Mitch McConnell, in a tweet.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Tammy Duckworth This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTop Republican and House Speaker Paul Ryan called Justice Kennedy \"a man of integrity and decency\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Paul Ryan This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"He has earned the respect of the House and the American people,\" he wrote, adding that he was looking forward to Mr Trump's nomination of a successor who would be \"dedicated to upholding the Constitution\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe number of oversized mortuary fridge spaces being installed in London's hospitals to accommodate obese bodies has risen by nearly a third.\n\nSince 2013, the figure has jumped from 126 to 165. Of the 23 hospital trusts asked, 22 responded to the BBC's Freedom of Information request.\n\nPublic Health England estimates that treating obesity in the capital costs the NHS up to £1.1bn a year.\n\nNHS London said measures like sugar taxes were needed to handle the crisis.\n\nStephen Brooks fears it could take him a year to get down to a normal weight\n\nRetired carpenter Stephen Brooks has obesity and said he feared ending up in an oversized fridge like his mother and cousin.\n\nThe 71-year-old said he often eats to compensate for loneliness and felt it could take a year for him to get down to a normal weight, even with help.\n\n\"It's partially because I live alone. There are some days where I speak to no-one.\n\n\"A cousin of mine was 44st (279kg). When he died, they had to take out the window frame, and there was a crane.\n\n\"My aunt had to buy a special coffin from the United States. And when it was being lowered, at his funeral it collapsed.\"\n\nPaul Evans of the British Obesity Society said the UK was \"already the fat man of Europe\"\n\nSt George's Trust in Wandsworth added the most extra-large spaces, increasing the number from five to 15.\n\nKing's College Hospital Trust refused to comment on whether the additional nine spaces it had installed in its mortuary were added to prevent cases of overweight bodies getting stuck. In 2014, the body of a patient got stuck in one of its freezers.\n\nBarts Health Trust, which has added three new spaces, said bodies were getting bigger and more large fridges were set to be installed.\n\nFuneral director Ashley McDonald recently had to install an extra-wide fridge to make sure his firm could keep up with a heavier population.\n\n\"We've bought fridges with a larger than standard door to help us to be sustainable for the future as people are getting larger.\"\n\nHe said the unit cost £3,500.\n\nFuneral director Ashley McDonald said the obese fridge would let him look after the deceased with respect\n\nPaul Evans, vice chairman of the British Obesity Society, said: \"We are already the fat man of Europe. As a nation we are spending £6bn a year on obesity, and one in 11 deaths are linked to the disease.\"\n\nHe said the government needed to do more to persuade people to make healthier choices.\n\nNHS London said: \"Being overweight or obese is associated with greater risks of a number of serious illnesses. Wherever possible, prevention is preferable to cure.\n\n\"Our own sugar restrictions, the new sugar tax and the NHS Type 2 diabetes prevention programme are all part of what needs to be a concerted effort to address obesity.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section World Cup\n\nSweden propelled themselves into the World Cup knockout stage with a handsome victory over Mexico that qualified them as Group F winners and condemned Germany to early elimination.\n\nMexico, undone on the counter attack and from the penalty spot before conceding an own goal, joined Sweden in reaching the next round as runners-up despite the defeat as a result of the defending champions also losing.\n\nGermany, the four-time World Cup winners, were beaten 2-0 by South Korea and failed to reach the knockout stage for the first time in 16 consecutive appearances since 1954.\n• None See how the players rated\n\nSweden also had a first-half penalty claim for a handball by Javier Hernandez denied despite going to a VAR review, but in the end it mattered little after their three second-half goals.\n\nLudwig Augustinsson fired Sweden ahead five minutes after the break when a Viktor Claesson mis-hit inadvertently found him free at the far post, before Andreas Granqvist smashed home a penalty 12 minutes later following Hector Moreno's trip on Marcus Berg.\n\nMexico - who went close through a curling Carlos Vela effort in the first half - pressed hard for a reply but were punished again when Edson Alvarez clumsily turned an attempted clearance past his own keeper.\n\nJuan Carlos Osorio's side, so brilliant in their previous two wins over Germany and South Korea, should have had a goal to show from their underwhelming performance but Vela's late header was dismal.\n\nThe teams will find out who they play in the next round later this evening, after the final round of matches in Group E.\n\nAs it stands Sweden would face Switzerland, while Mexico, who have been knocked out in the last 16 of every World Cup since 1994, will most likely play Brazil.\n\nWith the game fading into injury time and Sweden certain of victory, Mexican fans began to think what was before the game unthinkable - possible elimination.\n\nAt that stage, Germany were still drawing 0-0 with South Korea, and a late goal for Joachim Low's side would have moved them into second place on goal difference.\n\nSo the two late goals for South Korea - the second came after the final whistle had been blown in Ekaterinburg - were greeted with celebration and relief at the end of a Mexico performance that had little to cheer about.\n\nThis was the first time in Colombian Osario's 51 matches in charge of the team that he made no changes from their previous match.\n\nBut his team were completely unrecognisable from the 2-1 victory over South Korea that followed that impressive opening 1-0 win against Germany.\n\nThey found it far more difficult against Sweden, who were well organised and aggressive all over the pitch.\n\nIt now seems that Osario - criticised in the past for too much tinkering - will face questions of a different sort, just when he thought he had found his best XI.\n\nSweden's cruel last-minute defeat by Germany in the second round of matches looked to have severely diminished their chances of reaching the knockout stage.\n\nBut they emphatically put that result behind them.\n\nBefore Toni Kroos' 95th-minute goal for Germany, they had performed much in the same way as they did here; difficult to break down, dangerous on the counter and combative at every opportunity.\n\nThe only difference was that they were far more clinical against Mexico when chances presented themselves and their three second-half goals left their opponents reeling.\n\nCompeting at the tournament for the first time since 2006, it will be intriguing to see how far they can go.\n\nAnalysis - The best World Cup in recent memory\n\nFormer England and Arsenal defender Matt Upson: It was a very difficult match-up for Mexico in terms of style. From the first minute, Sweden's intent was so clear, the set-pieces, how physical and organised they were. They thoroughly deserved to win the game 3-0.\n\nFormer Everton midfielder Leon Osman: I don't think anyone saw Sweden winning by three goals. I can't tell you how much I am enjoying this World Cup, the drama of it, the unpredictability. The change in momentum and scorelines is fantastic. It's probably the best World Cup I can remember.\n• None Sweden have now reached the last 16 of the World Cup on each of the last four occasions in which they have qualified for the tournament.\n• None This was Sweden's biggest win in a World Cup match since they defeated Bulgaria 4-0 in 1994 in the third-place play-off match.\n• None Mexico have reached the last 16 in each of the last eight World Cup tournaments they have taken part in.\n• None Andreas Granqvist is the first Swede to score two or more goals in a single World Cup tournament since Henrik Larsson in 2002 (three goals).\n• None This was Mexico's worst defeat at the World Cup since they were beaten 6-0 by Germany in 1978.\n• None Ludwig Augustinsson's opener was the first goal he has scored for Sweden's senior team... with what was his first shot at this tournament.\n• None Mexico's Jesus Gallardo was shown a yellow card after just 15 seconds in this game - the quickest anyone has ever been booked in the World Cup.\n• None Attempt saved. Hirving Lozano (Mexico) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Héctor Moreno.\n• None Attempt saved. Héctor Herrera (Mexico) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Jesús Manuel Corona.\n• None Attempt missed. Hirving Lozano (Mexico) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Héctor Herrera following a corner.\n• None Mikael Lustig (Sweden) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Miguel Layún (Mexico) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Ola Toivonen (Sweden) wins a free kick on the right wing. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Firefighters working on the moorland face \"really difficult\" conditions, an officer says\n\nSoldiers helping fight a moorland fire in Greater Manchester that could rage \"for weeks\" will remain in the area for a further 48 hours to aid fire crews.\n\nAbout 100 troops from the 4th Battalion, Royal Regiment of Scotland, were sent from their barracks in Catterick, North Yorkshire, overnight.\n\nThe blaze is currently under control but could flare up at any time, the fire service said.\n\nMilitary assistance was requested to help battle the blaze near Saddleworth Moor which has spread across seven square miles, in six different areas.\n\nThe soldiers arrived to help tackle the wildfire near Saddleworth Moor\n\nSoldiers joined more than 100 firefighters to support the effort by managing water lines and assisting in fire beating on moorland above Stalybridge.\n\nWhile shops and local residents have teamed up to help keep emergency service staff fed and watered.\n\nA fish and chip shop owner has been offering free meals to firefighters and the military and donations of drinks and food parcels are being collected at Stalybridge Fire Station.\n\nGreater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service (GMFRS) has faced many hurdles in trying to quell the blaze that has raged for days including frequent changes in wind direction, the heavy concentration of flammable peat in the ground and the tinder-dry foliage which has baked in searing temperatures.\n\nIt said the soldiers' help would allow the service to deal with other emergency calls, including supporting Lancashire colleagues at another moorland blaze at Winter Hill near Rivington.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Lancashire Fire This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLancashire Fire and Rescue Service tweeted: \"15 fire engines are now at this incident. Firefighters are tackling the fire from three locations using specialist wildfire fighting equipment plus hose reels & beaters.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Timelapse footage shows the spread of the fire near Saddleworth Moor\n\nMajor Phil Morgan, commanding officer, said: \"We're beating the fire with paddles and moving equipment, putting water on the fire.\n\n\"It looks like we'll be here for another 48 hours then we'll wait for another request.\"\n\nA Chinook helicopter was due to fly out of RAF Odiham, Hampshire, to move water-pumping equipment but Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service (GMFRS) notified the Ministry of Defence it was \"no longer required\".\n\nThe helicopter is on standby and is still \"available as a resource if we need it\", GMFRS said.\n\nOwen Jones has been co-ordinating the relief effort from Stalybridge Fire Station\n\nDozens of people, shops, supermarkets and local businesses have been contributing supplies to help feed the firefighters and military tackling the fire near Saddleworth Moor.\n\nGMFRS station manger Owen Jones has been tasked with co-ordinating the relief effort from Stalybridge Fire Station, where a huge pile of drinks, cakes and other snacks and supplies have been left - ready to be ferried up the hills.\n\nMr Jones said about 50 people had called at the station today alone, including supermarkets Tesco and Morrisons, local schoolchildren and residents.\n\nTameside Council has also contributed several 4x4 drivers to help take the supplies to the firefighters battling the flames, alongside volunteers from the fire service and the Prince's Trust.\n\nMr Jones said: \"Working in these conditions is tough. The heat is encouraging the fire to burn, but it's also making the task of our firefighters more arduous.\n\n\"There's very little cover or shade or respite. We've got gazebos and shaded areas but it's still been an essential task to get supplies up there to them.\n\n\"The response from people wanting to help has been incredibly heart warming. From 7:30 this morning it hasn't stopped. It got to the point where I've had to ask people to go round the back to make room.\n\n\"The response from the schoolchildren has been especially nice to see as the schools are closed. They've made handmade cards for the firefighters, cakes, gifts, all sorts.\n\n\"I've been running round like a madman. It's been extremely disruptive and scary for the local residents but the community cohesion has been great to see.\"\n\nTony Hunter, assistant chief fire officer for the service, said there have been \"significant improvements\" but added an \"air of caution as we thought we had a similar situation yesterday\".\n\nHe said if it does change direction it could add fuel to the fire.\n\n\"The fire is contained at the moment, but we only need a change of wind direction to see the fire increase. We are working hard to keep on top of the blaze.\"\n\nHe added: \"Our main action is to protect to the left-hand side to stop it spreading towards the residents, and to the right-hand side to make sure it doesn't go... into unburnt material.\"\n\nAssistant chief fire officer for GMFRS says the fire was \"contained at the moment\"\n\nResident Peter Fenton said he had been impressed with the way the community of Carrbrook, which had been evacuated on Tuesday, had come together in the wake of the fire.\n\n\"Schools are closed but the schoolchildren have been keeping busy handing out supplies to the police and firefighters,\" he said.\n\n\"Shops have been handing out water too, and I heard a supermarket sent up a whole stack of stuff.\"\n\nJanine East, owner of Mill Brook fish and chip shop in Stalybridge, said she \"wanted to do her bit\" as she knows what a \"huge task\" they have.\n\n\"I know what it's like up on the moors and what the terrain's like. It's incredibly steep.\"\n\nA panoramic view showed the extent of the smoke on Wednesday evening\n\nEvidence the fire was still burning could be seen as dawn broke on Thursday in Carrbrook\n\nFire engines park up on the moor as firefighters continue tackling the blaze\n\nAn investigation is set to be launched into the fire but Mr Hunter said: \"We can see this being prolonged for days if not weeks, particularly with the fact that the wind has drawn the fires towards the residential but actually away from the centre of the moor.\"\n\nHe said what was needed most was \"a significant downpour of rain\" - but none has been forecast.\n\nMr Hunter said: \"Over the course of the fire it goes further and further down into the peat and once its down there, it gets very difficult without liquid to put the fire out unless you have a digger.\n\n\"We can't dig a square mile of moorland up.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Helicopters are being used in the effort to fight a moorland fire in Greater Manchester\n\nThe blaze was initially brought under control but reignited on Monday\n\nFirefighters continued to battle the fire at daybreak\n\nOn Wednesday, firefighters had faced the arduous task of hauling pumps and hoses for up to two miles in blistering heat to reach parts of the fire.\n\nGreater Manchester Police deployed a helicopter to assess the scene and United Utilities provided a helicopter to drop water on to remote areas.\n\nHaving started on Sunday the blaze was initially brought under control but reignited on Monday and has continued throughout the hot and dry weather this week.\n\nAbout 150 people were forced to leave their homes in the village of Carrbrook on Tuesday evening as the fire encroached.\n\nThe majority had returned by Wednesday afternoon.\n\nDr Richard Bircher said fellow GPs had opened late to meet the extra demand\n\nAn investigation is set to be launched into the cause of the fire.\n\nDr Richard Bircher, of Lockside Medical Centre in Stalybridge, said he had treated nine \"normally fit and healthy\" people for chest complaints and breathing difficulties.\n\n\"Chest complaints can develop for a number of reasons but I think it's safe to assume the smoke is the main factor behind the increase,\" he said.\n\nDr Bircher said he expected the number of people seeking treatment would continue to rise as smoke lingered, particularly among older people, but added there had been no increase in hospital admissions.\n\nHe praised the response of Tameside's social care services and fellow GPs who had opened late to meet the extra demand for appointments and advised anybody exposed to smoke to continue to wear dust masks and seek advice if they developed breathing problems.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A huge moorland wildfire in Greater Manchester that fire crews first extinguished on Sunday has reignited.\n\nThe blaze, on land near to Buckton Vale, was initially brought under control in a couple of hours.\n\nNow, however, the fire is spreading once again – leading to some people being evacuated from their homes.", "There have been scenes of commiseration and celebration after Germany failed to make it past the first stage of the World Cup for the first time since 1938.\n\nTheir Group F rivals Sweden and Mexico go through to the next round instead after Germany lost 2-0 to South Korea.", "Patients with swallowing difficulties were reportedly given hash browns to eat\n\nTwo patients are reported to have died and five more came to \"significant harm\" after people with swallowing difficulties were given inappropriate food, according to NHS Improvement.\n\nThe regulator received reports of hash browns, mince and sponge cake being fed to patients in England who were supposed to be on liquidised food.\n\nHundreds of choking or coughing incidents also occurred from 2015-17.\n\nExperts are now calling for an end to the term \"soft diet\".\n\nNHS Improvement, the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists and the British Dietetic Association say the term can cause confusion among staff, patients and carers.\n\nDr Kathy McLean, executive medical director at NHS Improvement, said: \"Vulnerable patients have died or been harmed because there is confusion in the way people describe what type of food is suitable for those with swallowing or chewing difficulties.\n\n\"We are calling on everyone providing NHS-funded care to start using precise terminology to help avoid further harm.\n\n\"This will help save lives and make the NHS safer,\" she said.\n\nPatients who have swallowing difficulties, known as dysphagia, or difficulty chewing need food which is soft, minced, pureed or liquidised.\n\nSome people with the condition can't swallow at all and some have problems swallowing certain foods or liquids.\n\nIt can affect people of all ages and is often caused by another health condition such as stroke, head injury, multiple sclerosis or dementia.\n\nNHS Improvement now wants all NHS staff to use clearly categorised food textures - as published by the International Dysphagia Diet Standardisation Initiative - to make sure patients are fed safely and correctly according to their individual needs.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Investigators looking into allegations of a cover-up of a £1bn pound fraud at HBOS have been told by MPs they must hand over their findings to parliament.\n\nTreasury Select Committee chair Nicky Morgan says she found the details disclosed in a leaked report into the alleged cover-up \"deeply troubling\".\n\nThe report claims HBOS failed to disclose the fraud before being rescued by Lloyds during the financial crisis.\n\nMs Morgan said the committee will seek \"maximum transparency\".\n\nThe Lloyds Banking Group internal report - known as Project Lord Turnbull - claimed that since 2007, HBOS had a strategy to conceal a fraud at its Reading office where corrupt bankers forced business customers to take on a firm of so-called turnaround consultants.\n\nBut instead of being helped, customers ended up ruined. Many lost their livelihoods, their marriages and their health.\n\nThe report surfaced on the internet last week and was later published by Kevin Hollinrake MP, chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Fair Business Banking.\n\nHowever, the bank hasn't committed to making Dame Linda's findings public. MPs are insisting they must be turned over to parliament.\n\nMs Morgan said: \"The fraud at HBOS Reading was a shocking crime that destroyed lives and livelihoods. There are numerous investigations into the events, including the Dame Linda Dobbs Review and an investigation by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).\"\n\nShe said: \"There are deeply troubling allegations raised in the \"Project Lord Turnbull\" report, which are at the heart of Dame Linda's and the FCA's investigations. The committee will consider the findings of this work when it's completed.\n\n\"In the meantime, we will continue to press for maximum transparency. It is overwhelmingly in the public interest to understand how such a huge criminal fraud was allowed to happen, and why it took so long for it to come to light.\"\n\nLloyds said it \"remains determined to get to the bottom of what happened in HBOS Reading and we share the Treasury Committee's desire for transparency\".\n\n\"We welcome the statement by Nicky Morgan MP, chair of the Treasury Select Committee. We continue to support the FCA investigation and the separate, independent Dame Linda Dobbs review.\n\n\"We will, of course, assist the Treasury Select Committee in its consideration of these matters and will fulfil any requests made to us, including provision of Dame Linda's review findings.\"\n\nThe Project Lord Turnbull report was written in 2013 by a senior manager at Lloyds called Sally Masterton who was helping Thames Valley Police with inquiries into the fraud at HBOS's office in Reading.\n\nMrs Masterton came across new information raising concerns about a cover-up of the fraud.\n\nAfter relaying her concerns to a senior executive, who asked her to write-up her findings, Mrs Masterton produced the report.\n\nIts executive summary said: \"Concealment set in motion a course of events that has had and continues to have far-reaching and very serious consequences, extending to the Lloyds TSB takeover. LBG is significantly exposed.\"\n\nAfter writing a draft report and submitting its front section on 5 September 2013, Mrs Masterton was put on enforced leave on 23 September 2013.\n\nIn May 2008, the government knew HBOS was running low on cash but wanted to avoid another nationalisation. HBOS executives proposed to raise money from the bank's shareholders to beef up its finances.\n\nHowever, in the prospectus for that fund-raising, which is meant to disclose all material financial information, there was no mention of a fraud.\n\nMrs Masterton found emails showing HBOS executives didn't want to disclose their exposure to \"the Reading incident\" and discussed keeping it comfortably below a limit of 5% of net income from group continuing operations - or £285m.\n\nLater that year Lloyds shareholders were asked to approve the purchase of HBOS.\n\nAgain, the prospectus mentioned nothing about the fraud - nor about £40bn pounds in \"stressed assets\" - loans where the bank might not get its money back.", "Last updated on .From the section World Cup\n\nBrazil avoided a shock result that had earlier seen Germany knocked out of the World Cup by defeating Serbia to finish top of Group E and book a last-16 tie against Mexico.\n\nThey did so with the sort of occasionally dazzling performance that suggests they are growing into a tournament that they are one of the favourites to win, as they put behind them their slow start in Russia.\n\nPaulinho had deservedly put Brazil in front with a deft finish after a brilliant run from deep saw him convert Philippe Coutinho's through ball in the first half.\n\nTite's team had to protect a slender lead for a shaky 15-minute period at the start of the second half as Serbia went all out for the win they then needed.\n\nBut Aleksandar Mitrovic found an opposition defender when he should have scored and saw another header saved by the unconvincing Alisson.\n\nAnd once Thiago Silva extended Brazil's advantage with an unmarked header from a corner, Tite's side regained a measure of composure and went close to a third on numerous occasions.\n\nSerbia may feel aggrieved the second was not ruled out by VAR for a push on Mitrovic by Miranda as the corner came in but they were outplayed overall.\n\nThe result ended their hopes of qualifying from the group stage for the first time, while Brazil now head to Samara, where their last-16 tie will take place on Monday, as group winners having topped Group E over Switzerland on goal difference.\n• None World Cup Daily podcast: Low's 'shocking tactics' and what was Neuer playing at?\n\nTite's side were heavily criticised after their laboured display against Switzerland and their unconvincing performance against Costa Rica, which required two injury-time goals to claim a much-needed win for the five-times champions.\n\nIn Moscow on Wednesday they were sluggish in parts and had lost control of midfield after the restart to such an extent that Tite brought on Manchester City's Fernandinho for goalscorer Paulinho.\n\nBut Brazil have been solid defensively under Tite, conceding just five goals in 21 games going into the tournament, and despite riding their luck a little at 1-0 they undoubtedly deserved their three points.\n\nNeymar and Coutinho both sent team-mates clean through with sumptuous throughballs and the Brazilians created numerous good chances.\n\nGabriel Jesus and Neymar were both denied by Stojkovic after being played clean through - the Serb keeper making a series of fine saves against the Paris St-Germain forward, with a one-handed stop late on the pick of the bunch.\n\nJesus, Neymar and Coutinho were a constant menace as Brazil broke with dizzying speed and there were undoubted signs Brazil are starting to move through the gears as the tournament now moves into the knockout phase.\n\nIt was a far from a perfect evening for one of the pre-tournament favourites as influential left-back Marcelo limped off early in the opening half.\n\nBut Neymar's demeanour after the final whistle - smiling happily and waving to all sections of the crowd - reflected the change of mood within the Brazil camp.\n\nSerbia were in bullish mood before the game with coach Mladen Krstajic saying \"nothing is impossible\" and striker Mitrovic asking \"why wouldn't we beat Brazil?\"\n\nAnd after a first half when they never really laid a glove on their illustrious opponents, they went all out after the restart.\n\nMitrovic scored the goals that helped Fulham win promotion to the Premier League last season, but he was found wanting when Serbia - roared on by their passionate support - crafted a series of openings.\n\nHeading the ball straight at Brazil defender Miranda after Alisson had flapped horribly at a cross was probably the moment of the match for Serbia, with the chance coming during a period of sustained second-half pressure.\n\nMitrovic also saw a header saved by Alisson, but after Brazil scored their second, and with Switzerland leading against Costa Rica in the other Group E tie, it was game over.\n\nSerbia exit the competition as they did in 2010 - at the group stage. But their failure to qualify is probably less about their result against Brazil than what happened in their previous game against Switzerland when they let a 1-0 lead slip to a damaging 2-1 defeat.\n\n'You have to be alive' - what they said\n\nSerbia coach Mladen Krstajic: \"You have to be alive for 90 minutes or else you'll be punished. It's difficult to play such an open game against a powerhouse of football like Brazil.\n\n\"We need to up our game, elevate the quality to a higher level, improve what is good and eliminate the weaknesses.\n\n\"Not just now, but before the World Cup, Brazil were among the favourites to win. Football is like that, Germany are out and Brazil are certainly one of the favourites to win the tournament.\"\n• None Brazil have qualified from the group stage of the World Cup for the 13th consecutive tournament, a run stretching back to 1970.\n• None Serbia have been eliminated at the group stage of the World Cup in all three of their tournaments as an independent nation (2006, 2010 and 2018).\n• None Brazil have now won back-to-back World Cup matches for the first time since 2010, when they won their opening two group matches.\n• None Philippe Coutinho has been involved in six goals in seven matches for Brazil in 2018 (four goals, two assists).\n• None Neymar has now scored five times and assisted twice in eight World Cup appearances for Brazil.\n• None Only Neymar and Gabriel Jesus (10 goals) have scored more goals for Brazil under current manager Tite than Paulinho (eight goals).\n• None Aleksandar Mitrovic scored just one goal from 14 shots at the 2018 World Cup for Serbia.\n• None Brazil have won 19 of their 24 matches under Tite (D4 L1), giving the Brazilian manager a win percentage of 79%.\n• None Attempt saved. Neymar (Brazil) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Gabriel Jesus.\n• None Attempt missed. Andrija Zivkovic (Serbia) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Nemanja Radonjic.\n• None Attempt blocked. Neymar (Brazil) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Fernandinho.\n• None Attempt blocked. Aleksandar Mitrovic (Serbia) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Dusan Tadic.\n• None Attempt missed. Neymar (Brazil) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high.\n• None Attempt missed. Nemanja Matic (Serbia) left footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Andrija Zivkovic with a cross.\n• None Attempt missed. Casemiro (Brazil) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Fernandinho.\n• None Attempt blocked. Neymar (Brazil) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Coutinho.\n• None Attempt saved. Filipe Luís (Brazil) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Grenfell inquiry has come under criticism for asking \"absurd\" questions of the firefighter who led the initial response to last year's fire.\n\nThe Fire Brigades Union (FBU) said the questions that Michael Dowden, a watch manager, faced over three days should have been directed at his superiors.\n\nIt said Mr Dowden had done what all firefighters did that night - \"tried his utmost to save lives\".\n\nThe inquiry chairman praised Mr Dowden's courage in the witness box.\n\nHowever, Matt Wrack, general secretary of the FBU, said there were \"important and difficult\" questions to ask but they should not be directed at \"those who do not have the power or authority to have altered policies, operational procedures or training\".\n\n\"The line of questioning toward Mike Dowden has been, at times, absurd,\" he said.\n\nHe stressed Mr Dowden was not a fire chief, nor a middle manager, but a junior officer.\n\n\"On the night of the fire, he was originally in charge of two fire engines at one fire station.\n\n\"Mike Dowden did not apply flammable cladding to Grenfell Tower. Nor did he make the other alterations which destroyed the fire safety within the building. Nor did he start the fire.\n\n\"He was simply on duty when the worst fire since World War Two broke out.\n\n\"Like all firefighters that night, he was placed in an impossible situation. He did what they all did; he tried his utmost to save lives.\"\n\nThe FBU also accused the inquiry of approaching the issues \"back to front\", saying it should have called those who made the decisions around the refurbishment to give evidence first.\n\n\"The alterations to Grenfell Tower happened before the fire and before any fire fighting took place,\" said Mr Wrack.\n\n\"The order of the inquiry is chronologically and causally wrong.\"\n\nAt the end of his evidence, senior counsel Richard Millett said to Mr Dowden: \"We, as a team, salute you.\"\n\nSir Martin Moore-Bick, the chairman, said Mr Dowden's evidence was \"really valuable\" and set a good example to those who would follow.\n\nHowever, after a short break, Sir Martin said there had been concern about his comments praising Mr Dowden.\n\n\"My remarks were entirely borne out of courtesy for the witness and a degree of compassion for someone who clearly found giving evidence over three days a difficult matter and sometimes, as we all saw, more than he could really cope with.\n\n\"I hope that it went without saying that my remarks did not in any sense prejudice my view of the issues. There's a long way to go in this inquiry.\"\n\nThe inquiry has the power to compel witnesses to give evidence but said it did not intend to use those powers in the case of firefighter witnesses.\n\nThe chairman also has the power to change the method used to obtain evidence in the case of vulnerable witnesses.\n\nAs in the case of Mr Dowden, he can order more frequent breaks.\n\nHe can also restrict the duration of questioning or take evidence through an intermediary, a recorded statement or a video link.\n\nAt one stage during his evidence, the hearing was briefly suspended after Mr Dowden broke down in tears when footage of the disaster was shown.\n\nOn Wednesday, he appeared under considerable strain again as he was repeatedly asked why he did not alter the guidance from \"stay put\" to a mass evacuation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Grenfell Tower inquiry: What questions will be answered?\n\nBBC home affairs correspondent Tom Symonds said there was no cross-examination of witnesses but the questions asked by Mr Millett were being influenced by pressure behind the scenes from other barristers.\n\nThey are not allowed to directly question witnesses and so he asks questions on their behalf.\n\nA source told our correspondent that Mr Millett has been asked to put a series of questions to establish Mr Dowden's relatively junior position within the fire service.\n\nEarlier, the inquiry heard it was rare for a watch manager to be in command of a fire involving more than four fire engines.", "The bus and lorry crashed on the A47\n\nTwo men who died when a double-decker bus and a lorry crashed on the A47 in Cambridgeshire have been named by police.\n\nMichael Elcombe, 45, of Cley Road, Swaffham, Norfolk, died when the bus he was driving crashed with the lorry at 07:30 BST on Tuesday in Guyhirn.\n\nPassenger Brian Chapman, 76, of Cherry Road in Kettering, also died at the scene. Police said 17 other people on the bus were injured.\n\nNo arrests have been made.\n\nThe collision, on a stretch of Thorney Road with a 60mph speed limit, involved a Bretts Transport lorry near the entrance to its depot.\n\nThe front of the First Eastern Counties bus was crushed in the collision.\n\nMr Chapman was a verger at St Peter and St Paul Church in Kettering.\n\nPaying tribute to him on Facebook, the church rector, David Walsh said it was \"sad and shocking news for our church community\".\n\n\"It's hard to imagine St Peter & St Paul's Church without him.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, Cambridgeshire Police amended the number of injured casualties on the bus to 17.\n\nSix of those people were seriously injured, a spokesman added.\n\nMost of the passengers were from Peterborough and one was from Hunstanton in Norfolk, the force said.\n\nInvestigations into the cause of the crash were ongoing and no arrests have been made, the spokesman added.\n\nThe force is continuing to appeal for anyone with dashcam footage of the incident to get in touch.\n\nThe road was closed for about 10 hours as a result of the crash.\n• None Two dead as bus and lorry crash\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section World Cup\n\nPeru recorded their first win at a World Cup finals since 1978 as they beat Australia in the last match of the tournament for both sides.\n\nAustralia needed to defeat already-eliminated Peru and hope France beat Denmark in order to reach the last 16, but the South Americans went ahead with a fine, low 15-yard volley from Andre Carrillo.\n\nExcellent defending from Anderson Santamaria denied Mathew Leckie a close-range equaliser as Australia struggled to create clear-cut chances.\n\nPeru captain Paolo Guerrero, only able to play in the tournament after a tribunal overturned a 14-month drug ban, sealed the victory when he spun and shot into the far corner.\n\nChristian Cueva also hit a post for Peru late on as they finished third in Group C above Australia, while France qualified as group winners after their goalless draw with Denmark.\n\nPeru had played eight World Cup finals matches without a win since they beat Iran 4-1 on 11 June, 1978, and this victory was only the fifth in their history.\n• None Who needs what? Remaining group permutations\n• None France top Group C after draw with Denmark\n\nPeru were playing in their first world Cup tournament since 1982, although their qualification had been fortunate as they had lost 2-0 against Bolivia in qualifying, but that result was given as a 3-0 Peru win as the Bolivians fielded Paraguay-born Nelson Cabrera as a late substitute.\n\nNevertheless, more than 40,000 Peruvians travelled to Russia and they have been determined to enjoy every moment.\n\nOnce again their fans made for a terrific atmosphere in Sochi, even though 1-0 defeats to both Denmark and France in their opening two games meant they had no chance of progressing.\n\nIt only took 18 minutes for the South Americans to take the lead when Carrillo, who spent the 2017-18 season on loan at Watford from Benfica, connected perfectly with Guerrero's cross for their first goal of the competition.\n\nTheir second came just five minutes after the break when Peru's record goalscorer Guerrero doubled his side's lead.\n\nThe 34-year-old had been set to miss the World Cup having been given a 14-month ban after testing positive for cocaine, although Guerrero has always maintained his positive test in October 2017 came after drinking contaminated herbal tea.\n\nHis ban was overturned just before the start of the tournament after the captains of group rivals Australia, Denmark and France wrote to Fifa asking them to lift the ban.\n\nIt was a fully deserved result for Guerrero and his team to give his country's supporters the win they desired.\n\nNo goal at a fourth World Cup for Cahill\n\nFor Australia it was a disappointing way to bow out of the competition and they have now only won twice in 16 matches at World Cup finals.\n\nMile Jedinak, who had scored both of their goals from the penalty spot in Russia, shot well over the top early on before Peru scored their first.\n\nPeru defender Santamaria did excellently to produce a goal-saving challenge at the near post to deny Leckie after Robbie Kruse's low cross had beaten goalkeeper Pedro Gallese.\n\nNot even the second-half introduction of ex-Everton forward Tim Cahill could give Australia a way back into the game.\n\nThe 38-year-old, who had not featured in Australia's opening two games, was aiming to become only the fifth man in World Cup history to score in four World Cups after Brazil's Pele, German duo Uwe Seeler and Miroslav Klose, and Portugal's Cristiano Ronaldo.\n\nHowever, Cahill did not have a chance, although he could have been picked out by Aziz Behich, who decided to shoot instead and pulled his effort well off target.\n• None Find out how the players rated from the Australia v Peru match\n\nAustralia go home without a win, again - the stats\n• None Australia failed to win a match at a World Cup tournament for the third time in their five participations (1974, 2014 and 2018).\n• None Peru won their first match at the World Cup since a 4-1 win over Iran in 1978 - 14,625 days ago.\n• None Peru forward Pablo Guerrero - aged 34 years and 176 days - became the third oldest South American scorer at the World Cup, behind only Argentina's Martin Palermo (36 years, 227 days) and Obdulio Varela of Uruguay (36 years 279 days).\n• None Peru's opening goal in this match was their first at the 2018 World Cup from their 28th shot of the competition.\n• None Australia's first two used substitutes in this match - Tim Cahill (38 years) and Daniel Arzani (19) - are separated in age by 19 years and 29 days.\n• None Peru opened the scoring in this match, only the third time they have done so in 18 World Cup matches and the first time since 1978 against Iran.\n• None Tim Cahill became the first Australian to appear at four different World Cup finals (2006, 2010, 2014 and 2018).\n• None Peru scored as many goals in this match as they managed in their previous eight World Cup games combined.\n• None Australia have not kept a clean sheet in any of their 13 matches at their last four World Cups between 2006 and 2018.\n• None Australia's failure to win any of their three matches at the 2018 World Cup mean that Oceania countries (Australia and New Zealand) have now won just two of their 22 matches at the World Cup finals (drawn seven, lost 13).\n\n'Proud of the fans' - what they said\n\nAustralia coach Bert van Marwijk: \"It's a little bit of a different feeling after this game.\n\n\"I heard Denmark played a draw, so even if we won by three or four goals it wouldn't have mattered, other than the feelings for the players.\n\n\"I liked the period of time I worked with these guys. I learned from them and I learned from their mentality.\n\n\"The way they improved, you don't see that that often on this level. I hope they learned something in the past few months. They can learn from good things but also from bad moments.\"\n\nPeru coach Ricardo Garceca: \"It is a joyful feeling. This was a very difficult match in terms of psychology, we had to be strong after we had lost unexpectedly twice.\n\n\"We played against a team who is a tough, very strong and physical team and they could qualify so their players made a huge effort.\n\n\"In the stadium we had all of these people supporting us. We can leave the World Cup with our heads high.\"\n\nAndre Carrillo, who scored Peru's first goal: \"I am very grateful to all the Peruvian fans. Many people made the impossible trip to be here.\n\n\"I am happy to give them the victory. We are proud of them.\"\n• None Mark Milligan (Australia) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Mile Jedinak (Australia) right footed shot from outside the box is too high from a direct free kick.\n• None Offside, Peru. Paolo Hurtado tries a through ball, but Paolo Guerrero is caught offside.\n• None Paolo Hurtado (Peru) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA huge moorland wildfire in Greater Manchester which crews first extinguished on Sunday has reignited.\n\nThe blaze on land near to Buckton Vale initially broke out at 20:19 BST on Sunday but was brought under control in a couple of hours.\n\nHowever, due to the heat, the fire reignited on Monday morning with about two square kilometres alight between Stalybridge and Dove Stone.\n\nStation manager Lee Bourne said crews are now making \"good progress\".\n\nFirefighters were initially called to the fire on land near to Buckton Vale on Sunday evening\n\nAbout two square kilometres of moorland was alight at one point\n\nHe said: \"There is a concern about the amount of low lying smoke which is affecting local areas, namely Carrbrook, Greenfield and parts of Saddleworth, along with Stalybridge.\n\n\"Due to the weather conditions and there being a lack of wind, the smoke has settled so it is important for residents to keep doors and windows closed where there is any visible smoke.\"\n\nThe hot weather has contributed to the spread of the fire\n\nCrews from across Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Derbyshire spent much of Monday tackling the blaze and the smoke and flames could be seen for miles.\n\nCrews from three forces have been tackling the blaze\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Soldiers are helping in the search for 12 teenage boys and their football coach who disappeared into a cave network in Thailand.\n\nProfessional divers are trying to find the group but high water and mud in the narrow passages have driven them back. Jonathan Head has been with the search teams.", "Timelapse footage showing the spread of the fire on Saddleworth Moor has been shared online.\n\nThe clip shows the blaze illuminating the night sky.", "Last updated on .From the section World Cup\n\nLiverpool youngster Trent Alexander-Arnold made his debut for England in the final warm-up match against Costa Rica and could be handed a start against Belgium Coverage: Live on BBC Radio 5 live, live text commentary online, mobile, BBC Sport app and Connected TV; highlights online at full time England confirmed their place in the World Cup last 16 with the emphatic 6-1 win over Panama in Nizhny Novgorod - and will be joined by Belgium from Group G. The two sides meet in the final group game in Kaliningrad on Thursday to decide who will top the table, with the result mapping out their subsequent routes through Russia. It is not a dead rubber - but will England manager Gareth Southgate be tempted to make wholesale changes after opening the World Cup campaign with wins against Tunisia and Panama?\n• None Who needs what to qualify for knockout stage? Striker Marcus Rashford (left) is one option for Southgate against Belgium There is an unquestionable temptation to rotate an England team that has played two games in searing heat in Volgograd and Nizhny Novogorod and has also picked up knocks along the way. England, however, are picking up momentum and confidence from those two opening victories so Southgate might risk disturbing those key elements should he shuffle his pack. And momentum is a key factor in tournament football. History is littered with teams who have picked up momentum continuously throughout World Cups and Euros and charted a path to glory. England also have a rhythm about their play that should only increase with selection consistency. These players are at home with each other and important details like England's set-pieces, such a rich source so far here in Russia, are superbly grooved. The biggest decision Southgate may have to make is over Harry Kane, who has emerged as England's most significant figure, an inspirational captain who is currently the tournament's leading goalscorer with five goals. Kane is England's talisman and he is highly unlikely to want to sit out the game with Belgium given its importance and also his desire, stated openly with great confidence before the game with Tunisia, to claim the Golden Boot as the World Cup's top marksman. He also only played 63 minutes against Panama in the taxing temperatures, removed and replaced by Jamie Vardy after completing his hat-trick, so it is highly unlikely Kane will be jaded or feeling the pace. Harry Kane became only the third England player to score a hat-trick in a World Cup match after Geoff Hurst (1966) and Gary Lineker (1986) when he netted three against Panama The other factor in the equation is the next step on the road to Moscow in this World Cup - with some discussing whether England might be better off finishing second in some sort of bizarre race to the bottom against an under-strength Belgium. If England draw in Kaliningrad, the table-toppers will be decided by the countries' respective disciplinary record, with Belgium on three yellow cards compared to the Three Lions' two. If this is level lots will be drawn. If Brazil win their group, and Germany finish second in Group F, they will meet in the last 16 - the winners would then face England if Southgate's team win both their group and their last 16 tie. Finish second and the likes of Switzerland and Mexico come into the equation. England's catastrophe under then manager Roy Hodgson at Euro 2016 will still be fresh in the memory. One of the big turning points in France was his inexplicable decision to make six changes for the final group game against Slovakia - England's failure to win meant Wales topped the group and went on to the semi-finals. If Southgate sticks, he is putting down a marker that England mean business and there will be no slackening of the pace. It will send out the strongest message that he believes this is an England team for all occasions. And there is room for Southgate to make sensible changes rather than wholesale alterations and still field a strong England side. And this is why \"stick\" is surely Southgate's best option. Southgate's side will take top spot in Group G with victory over Belgium England's squad has plenty of talent that has yet to be used and game time might be vital for each member of the squad as the World Cup progresses. Southgate has stressed how keen he is to keep all squad members involved and spirits will certainly be lifted by giving players on the margins an even bigger feel of the World Cup environment by rewarding them a starting place. For all the talk of England's great unity within the squad, and this is definitely the case, there is no doubt playing actual matches is what they are here for. Every player wants more than the role of cheerleader and will be desperate to grab any chance they can, perhaps even staking a claim for the later stages. Liverpool's Trent Alexander-Arnold has shown superb temperament and it makes sense for him to replace the outstanding Kieran Tripper, who had his thigh strapped after he was substituted against Panama. Trippier has been a real success story out here and he will be vital in the knockout stages. No risks there. Eric Dier may also be needed as a second midfield pivot alongside Jordan Henderson against better opposition so Southgate might welcome the chance to play him in. Gary Cahill would represent little risk of weakening the side in central defence while Danny Welbeck has proved he can score goals at England level - even if he does not pose the same threat as Kane. And while Kane will want to be in from the start with his form so good and his ambition so high, there is a real temptation for Southgate to want to keep some gas in the tank. Ashley Young, at 32, has a strength-sapping role as wing-back on the left side so it might be prudent to rest tired legs there and give Danny Rose, who had a truncated season at Tottenham, valuable game time. Southgate will also have the long game in the back of his mind so will be considering the dangers of over-exertion, even if every player will be desperate to play every game they can. It is a very delicate balance and one Southgate will have weighed up with his trusted England backroom team before deciding which way to go. If you are viewing this page on the BBC News app please click here to vote. Which XI would you pick? Choose who you would pick in the England starting XI to face Colombia in Russia - and then share it with your friends using our team selector.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Live across BBC TV, BBC Radio and the BBC Sport website with further coverage on BBC iPlayer, Red Button, Connected TVs and mobile app.\n\nSeven-time Wimbledon champion Serena Williams is the 25th seed for this year's tournament, despite being outside the top 32 in the rankings.\n\nThe 36-year-old American is continuing her return to action after giving birth to her first child in September.\n\nWilliams, a 23-time Grand Slam singles winner, has played only three tournaments in the past 12 months and is ranked 183rd in the world.\n\nSlovakia's world number 32 Dominika Cibulkova has not been seeded.\n\nOn Tuesday, Cibulkova said it would not be fair for Williams to be seeded ahead of her.\n\n\"I don't think it's the right thing to do,\" said the 29-year-old. \"I think it's just not fair. I have tried and I should be seeded. If they put her in front of me then I will lose my spot that I am supposed to have.\"\n• None Williams seeding 'would not be fair'\n\nSimona Halep is the top seed, with Roger Federer her counterpart in the men's draw.\n\nFederer is seeded a place higher than his world ranking, with world number one Rafael Nadal the second seed.\n\nWith the exception of Williams, all of the women are seeded in line with their WTA ranking.\n\nWilliams is seeded one place lower than Maria Sharapova, who she was due to meet in the fourth round of the French Open before pulling out because of injury. Her sister Venus is the ninth seed.\n\nBritish number ones Johanna Konta and Kyle Edmund - the latter of whom is the world number 18 - are seeded 22nd in their respective draws.\n\nBecause of different rules in the two draws, Andy Murray cannot be seeded as he sits outside the top 32 in the rankings.\n\nHow do the seedings work?\n\nThe Wimbledon seedings for the men are determined by the ATP ranking list of the top 32 players, but can be rearranged based on an individual's grass-court record.\n\nRanking points are counted from competition in the two years running up to the tournament.\n\nFor the women's game, the seeding order follows the WTA ranking list, but the All England Club reserves the right to make a change if it \"is necessary to produce a balanced draw\". In 2017, no changes were made.\n\n'Decision will not be universally popular' - analysis\n\nWilliams will not have to face another seeded player before the third round, but at that stage should expect to run into one of the top eight in the world. So the protection a seeding offers her will be limited.\n\nCibulkova's view that the decision is unfair is shared - both privately and publicly - by very many WTA players, so the All England Club's decision will not be universally popular.\n\nBut the committee clearly feel Williams is a unique case: an extraordinary champion who has only been able to play three events in the past year after giving birth to her first child in September.\n\nAs well as Nadal and Federer switching places at the top of the rankings, Marin Cilic moves up to number three and Novak Djokovic is up five to 12.\n\nMilos Raonic is this week's highest climber - up from 32 to 13.", "Last updated on .From the section World Cup\n\nDefending champions Germany have been eliminated from the World Cup at the group stage following defeat by South Korea, in one of the biggest shocks in the competition's history.\n\nThe four-time winners crashed out in ignominious fashion - conceding twice in injury time as they pressed for the goal which would have sent them through.\n\nIn an astonishing and enthralling end to the match, Kim Young-gwon's 92nd-minute goal - which was initially ruled out for offside before being awarded after a video assistant referee decision - left Germany on the brink of elimination.\n\nWorse was to come for the world's number one ranked side, however, when deep into stoppage time and appearing increasingly desperate, goalkeeper Manuel Neuer lost possession in the opponents' half.\n\nJu Se-jong launched it forward where Son Heung-min tapped into an empty net to score the second.\n\nThat prompted jubilant celebrations from the South Koreans, while some Germany fans inside the shocked stadium were left in tears four years after watching their national team lift the trophy in Rio; a competition in which they beat the hosts Brazil 7-1 in the semi-finals.\n\nIt is the first time since 1938 that West Germany or the unified Germany team has not advanced beyond the first stage of the tournament - Joachim Low's side finishing bottom of Group F in this edition.\n\nWednesday's defeat followed their opening loss against Mexico, while it took a dramatic late winner from Toni Kroos to earn them their only points of the group stage against eventual group winners Sweden.\n• None 'It is historic. It will create uproar' - Germany boss reacts to exit\n• None World Cup Daily podcast: Low's 'shocking tactics' and what was Neuer playing at?\n\nWhere did it go wrong for Germany?\n\nManager Low, who led Germany to World Cup glory four years ago, will face strong questions over his selections both before and during this tournament.\n\nHe left Manchester City forward Leroy Sane out of his squad, despite the 22-year-old playing a major role in helping City win the Premier League title, while Mario Gotze, who scored the winner in the 2014 final against Argentina, also missed out.\n\nAgainst South Korea, Low made five changes, including recalling Arsenal's Mesut Ozil and dropping Thomas Muller, although the Gunners' midfielder could not inspire his side to victory.\n\nLow has been in charge of Germany since 2006, taking them to the final of the 2008 European Championships where they lost to Spain and then that subsequent World Cup glory.\n\nThe future of some of Low's key players is also in doubt after this shock loss.\n\nNeuer is 32, Sami Khedira is 31 and both Ozil and Marco Reus are 29, meaning this may have been their final match at a World Cup finals.\n\nLow insisted that German football still had a bright future despite this failure.\n\nHe said: \"Do I think this will bring about a dark time in German football? No, I don't think so.\n\n\"I think we have young players who are very talented, and some have the potential to go forward. This has happened to other nations before, we just have to draw the right conclusions and make it better going forward.\"\n• None Brazil cruise into last 16 by beating Serbia\n\nWith Sweden winning 3-0 against Mexico in the other Group F game, and it being goalless in Kazan, Germany knew they had to score in a frantic finish.\n\nA win for Germany would have edged Mexico out on goal difference - but the drama came at the other end as Kim put the ball into the net, although it was initially ruled out for offside.\n\nHowever, the VAR review showed the ball had deflected into Kim's path off of a German player - Kroos - and the goal was given.\n\nWith Germany desperately looking for a goal to get back in the match, Neuer joined the attack.\n\nBut he was caught out as a long ball left Tottenham forward Son with the simple task of walking the ball into the net to spark jubilant celebrations among the Asian side, even though their elimination had already been confirmed.\n\nThe Germans will regret their wastefulness in front of goal when the game was goalless.\n\nSouth Korea's goalkeeper Cho Hyun-woo made a fine one-handed save from Leon Goretzka's header and Timo Werner volleyed wide from near the penalty spot.\n\nMats Hummels headed over the top when unmarked six yards out in the closing stages, before South Korea's two late goals.\n\nIt means Germany's hopes of becoming the first team to retain the World Cup since Brazil's victories in 1958 and 1962 ended in embarrassing fashion.\n\nSouth Korea out, but still celebrate a memorable win\n\nSouth Korea went into the match with no points from their opening two games after losing 1-0 to Sweden and 2-1 to Mexico.\n\nHowever, they had a mathematical chance of qualifying for the last 16 for only the third time in 10 competition appearances, although they needed Mexico to beat Sweden.\n\nSouth Korea had the first chance when Jung Woo-young's free-kick was fumbled by Neuer, who punched clear bravely as Son tried to convert the rebound.\n\nThe Tottenham forward also lashed a volley wide when it was goalless, before being booked in the second half as referee Mark Geiger thought he had dived in an attempt to win a penalty.\n\nEven though the score in Ekaterinburg ended South Korea's hopes of going through, they still sensed a memorable win over Germany.\n\nThe team ranked 57th in the world achieved that victory thanks to the two late goals, both of which were celebrated as if they had qualified themselves.\n\n'This will fall on Joachim Low' - analysis\n\nThis will fall on Joachim Low for the way he organised the team. There was no real balance to the side. The players will take a hammering but most of it will be for Low.\n\nI think they underestimated South Korea and it didn't make sense to put Sami Khedira and Mesut Ozil back in. A terrible day for Germany.\n\nI did not see it coming. I thought Germany would've brought the momentum from the Sweden game into today, but they started so slowly without any intensity.\n\nWhy was Manuel Neuer ahead of two forwards for the second goal? He is a loose cannon. What was he doing playing on the left wing? He is a goalkeeper - why is he in that position? It was an open goal for Son and the Germans have got what they deserve.\n\nReigning champions go home early yet again\n• None Germany are the fourth defending champions to be eliminated from the Group Stage at the World Cup in the last five tournaments (also France 2002, Italy 2010, Spain 2014).\n• None This is only the second time that Germany have been eliminated from the first round at the World Cup having last done so in 1938 - however, this is the first time it has happened when the first round has been in a group stage format.\n• None South Korea have been eliminated from the group stage at consecutive World Cup tournaments for the first time since they failed to progress from this stage in each of their first five appearances at the World Cup (1954, 1986, 1990, 1994 & 1998).\n• None Germany's tally of two goals scored at this World Cup is the second fewest managed by a defending champion in the competition, only ahead of France's zero in 2002.\n• None This was Germany's first ever defeat against an Asian nation in a World Cup match in what was their sixth such match.\n• None Germany have failed to score in two of their three World Cup games in 2018, as many as their previous 15 World Cup matches combined.\n• None This was South Korea's first clean sheet at the World Cup since a 2-0 win over Greece in 2010; they had gone eight without a shutout before this match.\n• None South Korea have beaten Germany in a World Cup match for the first time, having lost each of the previous two meetings in the competition.\n• None Son Heung-min's goal for South Korea (95:52) was the latest goal Germany have ever conceded in a World Cup match (excluding extra-time).\n• None Since the 2010 edition, Germany have lost both of their World Cup matches in which Thomas Muller has not started (also lost 0-1 to Spain in the 2010 semi-final), compared to 80% when he has started (12 wins in 15 games).\n\n'A lot of us cried' - what they said\n\nSouth Korea coach Shin Tae-yong said: \"I feel great but at the same time I feel a little bit empty, so I feel a little bit ambivalent.\n\n\"Yesterday we said there was only a 1% chance and so I told my players it really was a last-ditch effort for them and I told them they had to fight until the end.\n\n\"Germany are the defending champions and number one in the Fifa rankings so I thought about what mistakes Germany might make, because they probably felt they would be able to beat us - that's what everybody thought.\n\n\"I thought we could use that as a reverse strategy and that has really hit the nail on the head.\"\n\nSouth Korea goalkeeper Cho Hyun-woo said: \"I've never had a perfect game like this before, all my career.\n\n\"All of the Korea players, and also the head coach, were playing for the Korean people, we all become one for the Korean people.\n\n\"It was only after the match that we realised the score and of course we were disappointed, so that's why a lot of us cried.\"\n\nGermany manager Joachim Low said: \"The disappointment of us being eliminated is just huge. We didn't deserve to be winning the World Cup again, we didn't deserve to move into the round of 16.\n\n\"I'm shocked. Shocked because we didn't manage to pull it off and beat Korea Republic and we lost this game. It wasn't my impression when I spoke to the team before that they were under pressure before the match because the Sweden game was on at the same time.\n\n\"We really had the feeling that our team wanted to move ahead and qualify for the knockout stages.\n\n\"How do we go from here? We'll have to talk about it calmly and I think it's premature for me to say something. It will take me some hours to come to terms with it and I'm incredibly disappointed by this elimination.\n\n\"Our team in this match was missing the ease of play and the classiness we normally display. Also the dynamism that led to the goalscoring opportunities was not there, so we deserve to be eliminated.\"\n• None Mats Hummels (Germany) hits the bar with a header from the centre of the box. Assisted by Thomas Müller following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Mats Hummels (Germany) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt saved. Julian Brandt (Germany) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Toni Kroos.\n• None Attempt blocked. Thomas Müller (Germany) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Mario Gomez.\n• None Goal! Korea Republic 2, Germany 0. Son Heung-Min (Korea Republic) left footed shot from the left side of the six yard box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Ju Se-Jong following a fast break.\n• None Attempt missed. Mats Hummels (Germany) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Thomas Müller with a headed pass.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Goal! Korea Republic 1, Germany 0. Kim Young-Gwon (Korea Republic) left footed shot from very close range to the top right corner following a corner.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match Lee Yong (Korea Republic) because of an injury.\n• None Attempt blocked. Lee Jae-Sung (Korea Republic) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Lee Yong.\n• None Attempt saved. Jung Woo-Young (Korea Republic) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Ko Yo-Han. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue crews are battling through the smoke\n\nTackling moorland fires poses a unique set of challenges far removed from an urban blaze.\n\nImages of firefighters caked in soot and sweat reflect the arduous conditions on the scorched hills above Greater Manchester.\n\nThe biggest test for crews near Saddleworth Moor is reaching remote fires with water and manpower.\n\nOnce there, they face intense heat and the danger of being caught out by flames whipped up by strong winds.\n\nAn arsenal of equipment and expertise is on hand, but dousing and beating the flames to starve them of oxygen remains a low-tech and back-breaking endeavour made tougher by the ongoing heatwave.\n\nRob Taylor, from Derbyshire Fire and Rescue Service, said reaching the often remote location of the seat of the fire is one of the biggest hurdles.\n\nCrews and water may need to travel several miles from nearby roads to bring fires under control.\n\nWhile beating flames to starve them of oxygen is partly effective, a deep-seated blaze requires soaking with water to stop it spreading, said Tony Wellock, from Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service.\n\nFire engines each carry about 1,800 litres of water but struggle to move across bumpy moorland terrain.\n\nBy linking seven hoses together, a so-called \"water relay\" can allow crews to stretch supplies up to 200m (656ft).\n\n\"Access to water is our biggest challenge,\" says firefighter Rob Taylor\n\nMr Taylor said the most effective way to fight moorland fires is by helicopter but it comes at a significant cost, requiring funding from the landowner.\n\n\"Access to water is our biggest challenge - the pumps will be exhausted in five to eight minutes of continuous use.\"\n\nAn eight-wheeled Argocat vehicle, which can move swiftly across the landscape, can be used for remote blazes.\n\n\"It carries what looks like a giant pressure washer and allows us to reach some remote terrain, but there's a limit to the amount of water it can carry,\" he explained.\n\nThe moors are at the mercy of strong winds which can whip smouldering embers into a well-developed blaze in seconds.\n\nMr Taylor said flames which rapidly change direction could place crews at risk. The danger is mitigated by using teams of spotters to monitor speed and direction.\n\n\"The Peak District National Park rangers are invaluable to us - they understand the wind and how it will blow the fire around,\" said Mr Taylor.\n\nBeneath the scrub and heather burning above the surface, roots and peat are prone to burning underground - and can spread undetected.\n\nMr Wellock said: \"When you put the fire out, it springs up again behind you.\"\n\nThe moors are at the mercy of strong winds which can whip up smouldering embers\n\nHowever, there are some features of the landscape which can be used to firefighters' advantage.\n\n\"Where there's a break, like a road, we can damp it with water to keep it cool and it will stop the fire from spreading,\" said Mr Taylor.\n\nFirefighters adopt more lightweight kit for tackling a blaze in the open countryside and eschew breathing apparatus for dust masks, except during the smokiest parts of the work.\n\nThey can expect to work in 60-minute stints at the frontline of the fire before being relieved by another crew, rotating in shifts of four to five hours.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC Breakfast This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEach engine carries water and snack bars to keep crews fed and hydrated. Those fortunate enough to get a longer break might have chance to eat a ready meal prepared using hot water before resuming work.\n\nCrews on the moors are often exposed to heat and smoke for longer periods compared to the intense challenge of a house fire.\n\n\"This is the most arduous work our crews carry out,\" Mr Taylor added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA British plumber has been convicted of planning a terror attack in Westminster and making bombs for the Taliban.\n\nKhalid Ali, 28, was arrested on 27 April 2017 in Parliament Street, where he was caught carrying three knives.\n\nProsecutors said Ali, from Edmonton in north London, had planned a \"murderous attack\" on politicians and police.\n\nIn a police interview, Ali said he wanted to deliver a \"message\" to British authorities, but claimed the knives were for protection.\n\nAn Old Bailey jury convicted him of preparing an act of terrorism in the UK and two counts of possessing an explosive substance with intent. He did not react as the verdicts were read out.\n\nAli will be sentenced on 20 July.\n\nOn 22 April last year - one month after the Westminster terror attack - Ali was caught on CCTV walking past the MI6 building at Vauxhall Cross, as well as Westminster Bridge, the Houses of Parliament and Whitehall.\n\nFive days later, his mother called police and said she had found four knives in his bedroom.\n\nPolice swooped in to arrest him just metres from Downing Street later that day.\n\nAli had spent several years in Afghanistan, and when asked by British police whether he had returned to the UK for jihad, he replied: \"Jihad is what we do. We are Mujahideen.\"\n\nDeputy Assistant Commissioner Dean Haydon described Ali as an \"incredibly dangerous individual\".\n\nProsecutor Brian Altman QC had told the jury that Ali planned a \"deadly terror attack at the very heart of this country's democracy by killing a police officer, a member of the military or even a parliamentarian\".\n\nAli travelled to Afghanistan in 2011 and spent five years making bombs to maim and kill coalition troops.\n\nIn late October 2016, he appeared at the British consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, claiming to have lost his passport and asking for a temporary travel document in order to get home.\n\nHe returned to the UK in early November 2016, when he was stopped at Heathrow airport, interviewed by police and had his fingerprints and DNA samples taken.\n\nThe DNA samples and fingerprints were then shared with the FBI, which controls a database containing fingerprints found on bomb parts in global conflict zones.\n\nDefending the decision not to arrest Ali until April 2017 - when he was armed and within metres of Parliament - Mr Haydon said police and security services were \"managing any potential risk he posed and he was arrested at the most appropriate time\".\n\nAli's prints were found on bomb components from two caches recovered by Afghan national security forces\n\nDuring questioning after his arrest, Ali admitted fighting British soldiers in Afghanistan, but refused to say whether he had killed any.\n\nIn a police interview shown during the trial, Ali also said he had detonated more than 300 bombs.\n\nThe court heard how his fingerprints were found on component parts of explosive devices that were handed in to US forces in Afghanistan in 2012.\n\nPolice said Ali had been in a \"Taliban training camp affiliated to al-Qaeda where, for several years, he helped terrorists make hundreds of bombs capable of mass murder\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mnangagwa: Criminal will be hounded down, but Zimbabwe is safe\n\nZimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa has said he suspects a group linked to the former first lady was behind an attempt on his life.\n\nTwo people died and more than 40 were hurt in an explosion near Mr Mnangagwa at a rally in Bulawayo on Saturday.\n\nMr Mnangagwa told the BBC's Fergal Keane that he suspected the G40 group, which supported Grace Mugabe for the presidency, had carried out the attack.\n\nMrs Mugabe's husband, Robert Mugabe, was forced from power last year.\n\nThe army intervened to oppose Mrs Mugabe's attempt to succeed her husband as the country's leader, and the ruling Zanu-PF party then sacked Mr Mugabe, replacing him with Mr Mnangagwa.\n\nAn exiled member of the G40 group, former government minister Jonathan Moyo, earlier tweeted that the blast \"smacks of an inside job\".\n\nMr Mnangagwa did not accuse Mrs Mugabe of being involved in the attempt on his life.\n\nHe told the BBC he expects arrests to be made shortly.\n\n\"I don't know whether it was one individual - I would think it is broader than one person. I would think this is a political action by some aggrieved persons,\" he said.\n\nPresident Mnangagwa was emphatic. Whoever tried to kill him was part of a conspiracy rooted in the G40 faction.\n\nHe did not blame Grace Mugabe for the attack but in accusing her supporters he has further isolated the former first lady.\n\nShe is currently visiting Singapore, where her husband is receiving medical treatment.\n\nMy impression is of a president who expects to win the 30 July election.\n\nHe also struck me as being confident in the support of the international community and - critically - the Zimbabwean army as he faces his remaining internal enemies.\n\nZimbabwe, in the wake of the apparent assassination attempt, is not an unstable country. But it is unsettled.\n\nMr Mnangagwa described Mrs Mugabe as someone who had frequently insulted him in the past.\n\n\"On what basis would I trust someone who was used by a cabal to say things that had no basis?\" he asked.\n\nNicknamed \"the crocodile\", Mr Mnangagwa has a reputation for being ruthless, but he told our correspondent: \"I am as soft as wool. I am a very soft person in life, my brother. I'm a family person. I am a Christian.\"\n\nDespite the apparent attempt on his life, Mr Mnangagwa said there would be no countrywide security clampdown and elections scheduled for 30 July would go ahead in a free and fair manner.\n\nZimbabwe was stable and that foreign investors should not worry, he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Emmerson Mnangagwa: Who is the man known as the ‘crocodile’?\n\nRepresentatives of Zanu-PF, the main opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) and other parties signed a peace pledge on Tuesday, promising to refrain from violence and hate speech during campaigning.\n\nThe MDC's Nelson Chamisa is expected to be Mr Mnangagwa's main challenger in the election. He has also condemned the attack in Bulawayo.", "Last updated on .From the section World Cup\n\nLionel Messi said he \"could not remember such suffering before\", while for manager Jorge Sampaoli there was huge relief as Argentina beat Nigeria in dramatic fashion to avoid the ignominy of elimination in the World Cup group stage. The South Americans, two-time world champions, seemed destined for an early flight home until they found an unlikely hero in the guise of Manchester United defender Marcos Rojo. His superb volley in the 86th minute earned Argentina a 2-1 win in St Petersburg and sent them through to a last-16 tie against France, ending a tumultuous group stage which saw fallouts, huge criticism, constant changes of formation and even questions over who was picking the team. But what now for Argentina? Can they put their problems to one side and be a force for the rest of the tournament? A huge relief for all of us - Messi The Argentine camp had been the subject of numerous stories and rumours ever since the disastrous 3-0 defeat by Croatia, with the team called \"the worst ever\" and Sampaoli begging fans for forgiveness. A change to a back four brought about a much-improved first-half display, and they led at the break through Messi's expertly taken goal. Victor Moses' second-half penalty threatened to derail that improvement, but Rojo's late strike earned Argentina passage into the last 16. \"It was a difficult situation,\" said Messi, who was pictured giving a team talk in the tunnel before the players came back out for the second half. Lionel Messi won the Golden Ball award for the best player at the 2014 World Cup \"It was a huge release and relief for all of us. It is a huge joy for everyone for the difficult days we lived after the last defeat. Luckily we achieved our objective.\" Sampaoli was embraced by Messi at full-time and said suggestions the Barcelona forward - who briefly retired from international football in 2016 - is not committed to the national side are not true. \"Every time Lionel Messi plays he shows that he is a fantastic player, above everybody else, but he needs support from his team-mates,\" said Sampaoli. \"His human side is amazing. He cries and suffers, he is happy when Argentina win. It's important he shares those feelings. Many people say Leo does not enjoy playing for Argentina, but I don't agree. \"My players play with their heart - they are true rebels.\" 'Messi turned up for his country' World Cup 2018: Lionel Messi's goal for Argentina against Nigeria, from every angle Messi came to Russia as one of the world's finest players, but had a difficult opening two games - missing a penalty against Iceland and then putting in an anonymous display against Croatia. But the Barcelona number 10 found his magic on Tuesday with a brilliant opening goal. \"Messi has turned up for his country,\" former Nigeria international Peter Odemwingie said on BBC Radio 5 live. \"[He has gone] from covering his face ahead of the Croatia game to looking like he meant business before kick-off today. He rolled up his sleeves and contributed for his team.\" Former England winger Chris Waddle told BBC Radio 5 live: \"Who else? We have talked about him not performing all tournament, but what a finish. Lionel Messi at his very best.\" Ex-England defender Rio Ferdinand added that Messi \"had a spark and an energy\" in the first half and a different \"body language\" to what we had seen in the first two games. \"Messi is thinking 'this is my stage and my moment,\" said Match of the Day pundit Ferdinand. \"His goal was what we came to see. The run and two touches before the exquisite finish was what the World Cup needs to be blessed with.\" \"The greatest players appear in the moments you need them. That's why Messi's the best,\" said former Argentina international Pablo Zabaleta. Argentina now face Group C winners France in Kazan on Saturday afternoon, with match-winner Rojo saying: \"Now the World Cup begins for us.\" Didier Deschamps' side wrapped up the group with a 0-0 draw against Denmark on Tuesday and while they have not been at their best so far, BBC South American football expert Tim Vickery expects them to be too strong for Argentina. \"It is very hard to see how Argentina can stand up to the French on Saturday,\" he said. \"If they are going to mount any challenge, it will have to be like it was four years ago when they played on individual talent to reach the final. \"Messi showed glimpses of brilliance and Javier Mascherano was solid at the back. But Mascherano hasn't got the legs any more and France will not be too concerned about playing Argentina.\" Croatia topped Group D with their late victory over Iceland, while Argentina secured the runners-up spot with their late win over Nigeria A goal for each decade - the best of Messi's stats\n• None Messi becomes the first player to have scored a World Cup goal as a teenager, in his twenties and in his thirties\n• None Messi's strike was his sixth goal at the World Cup, with 50% of those coming against Nigeria (two in 2014, one today)\n• None He (2006, 2014 and 2018) is the third Argentina player to have scored in three different World Cup tournaments, alongside Diego Maradona (1982, 1986 and 1994) and Gabriel Batistuta (1994, 1998 and 2002).\n• None Messi's opener in the 14th minute was the 100th goal scored at the 2018 World Cup.\n• None He completed seven dribbles in this match - those seven dribbles took him to 107 completed at the World Cup, the most of any player since 1966, overtaking Maradona, who previously had the most with 105.", "A British plumber has been convicted of planning a terror attack in Westminster and making bombs for the Taliban.\n\nKhalid Ali, 28, was arrested on 27 April 2017 in Parliament Street, where he was caught carrying three knives.", "Firefighters are battling a huge moorland fire which is continuing to spread in Greater Manchester.\n\nThe blaze on Saddleworth Moor, which measures 3.7miles (6km), has been raging since Sunday night.\n\nAbout 150 people have been affected by evacuations in Carrbrook, near Stalybridge, and some schools have been shut.", "Ryan Evans's school said earlier it was \"deeply shocked\" he was missing\n\nThe body of a 13-year-old boy who went missing while swimming in a lake with friends has been found.\n\nRescue crews had been searching for Ryan Evans since he and two other boys were spotted \"in distress\" at Westport Lake in Stoke-on-Trent, on Monday.\n\nThe other boys, aged 12 and 13, made it safely out of the lake, Staffordshire Police said.\n\nIn a tweet, the force confirmed they had found Ryan's body following an extensive search for him.\n\n\"Ryan's family have been informed and our thoughts and condolences are with them at this very difficult time,\" a spokesman said.\n\n\"His family and friends, who were at the lake with him on Monday, are being supported by police family liaison officers.\n\nFirefighters were among emergency crews at the scene\n\nHe thanked family, friends and the community for help in assisting the emergency services in the search for Ryan.\n\nEarlier, Ch Insp John Owen described the rescue operation as challenging, explaining the lake was \"extremely thick with weeds\".\n\nNottinghamshire Police also deployed a specialist dive team to search the water and specially trained dogs were used in the search operation.\n\nAt its deepest, the lake is 2.9m (9.5ft) and on average between 1.5m and 2m (4.9-6.5ft), Stoke-on-Trent City Council said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Former Gosport hospital doctor Jane Barton did her \"best for her patients\", her husband says.\n\nThe doctor who oversaw the practice of prescribing powerful painkillers at Gosport War Memorial Hospital was working in a \"very inadequately resourced part of the health service\".\n\nMore than 450 patients died after being given the drugs inappropriately, a report concluded last week.\n\nA statement read out on behalf of Dr Jane Barton said she was a \"doctor doing the best for her patients\".\n\nRelatives described the statement as \"worthless\" and a \"waste of time\".\n\nDr Barton appeared outside her Gosport home where the statement was read by her husband, Tim Barton.\n\nHe said: \"Jane would like to thank her family, friends, colleagues, former patients and the many others for their continued support and loyalty through this protracted inquiry.\n\n\"She has always maintained she was a hardworking, dedicated doctor - doing the best for her patients in a very inadequately resourced part of the health service.\n\n\"We ask that our privacy is respected at this difficult time and she will be making no further comments.\"\n\nMr Barton told reporters to direct further inquiries to the Medical Defence Union, which is representing Dr Barton.\n\nInquests into the deaths of 10 patients, six of whom are pictured, were held in 2009\n\nBridget Devine-Reeves, whose grandmother Elsie Reeves died at the hospital, told the BBC: \"The panel found there was a disregard for human life and it is extraordinary that she should have the audacity to say she was doing the best for patients - the statement given is worthless.\"\n\nAnne Farthing's stepfather-in-law, Arthur 'Brian' Cunningham, also died at the hospital. He had been admitted with bed sores but died after being given powerful opiates and sedatives.\n\nShe said: \"They have to make some statement so obviously they're going to come up with something that's just a front, quite frankly.\n\n\"It's just a waste of space and a waste of time.\"\n\nThe independent panel's report found there was an \"institutionalised regime\" of prescribing and administering \"dangerous\" amounts of a medication not clinically justified at the hospital from 1989 to 2000.\n\nIt said taking into account missing records, a further 200 patients may have also had their lives shortened.\n\nThe findings have led to calls for an inquiry from families.\n\nHampshire Constabulary, which was criticised in the report for the way it handled three previous investigations into the deaths of 92 patients which failed to lead to any prosecutions, is to hand over any new inquiry to another force.\n\nChief Constable Olivia Pinkney apologised for the force's \"part in the distress caused to families for so many years\".\n\nSo far, the only person to face disciplinary action has been Dr Barton, who was found guilty of failings in her care of 12 patients at Gosport between 1996 and 1999.\n\nBut no prosecutions were brought and she was not struck off the medical register, choosing to retire after the findings.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gosport hospital: Families 'grossly let down' by authorities\n\nThe Gosport Independent Panel's report found whistleblowers and families were ignored as they attempted to raise concerns about the administration of medication on the wards, which was overseen by Dr Barton.\n\nThe report said an \"awareness\" that the deaths \"might be due to 'another Shipman'\" had \"cast a shadow over how concerns at the hospital were viewed\".\n\nGP Harold Shipman was jailed for life in 2000 for murdering 15 patients between 1995 and 1998.\n\nPlease upgrade your browser to view this content. Was this timeline useful? Thank you for your feedback.\n\nFollowing the release of the report, Prime Minister Theresa May described events at Gosport as \"deeply troubling\" and apologised to families over the time it took to get answers from the NHS.\n\nHealth Secretary Jeremy Hunt told MPs that police and the Crown Prosecution Service would examine material in the report to consider their next steps and \"whether criminal charges should now be brought\".\n\nFormer Bishop of Liverpool James Jones led the Gosport Independent Panel\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Brexit findings come in the Bank's financial stability report\n\nThe Bank of England says the UK has made positive \"progress\" on handling financial services risks around the UK's departure from the European Union.\n\nBut it also says there has been a lack of similar action from the EU.\n\nIt says that means \"material risks remain\" to trillions of pounds worth of financial contracts - which support the business activities that flow between the UK and rest of Europe.\n\nThe findings come in the bank's bi-annual Financial Stability Report.\n\nThe report said the passing of the EU Withdrawal Bill and Treasury plans for a \"temporary permissions\" system - for continuing cross-border financial trade - had eased the \"risk of disruption\".\n\n\"Progress has been made in the UK towards mitigating risks of disruption to the availability of financial services to UK-end users,\" the report said.\n\n\"The EU (Withdrawal) Bill has been passed by Parliament.\n\n\"The UK government has committed to legislate, if necessary, to put in place temporary permissions and recognition regimes - this will allow banks [and] insurers to continue their activities in the UK for a time-limited period after the UK has left the EU, even if there is no implementation period, thus mitigating a number of risks of disruption to UK customers.\"\n\nBut it added: \"As yet the EU has not indicated a solution analogous to a temporary permissions regime. European Economic Area customers remain reliant on UK-based financial companies being able to overcome any future barriers to cross service provision.\n\n\"The Financial Policy Committee judges that material risks remain.\"\n\nThe Bank said that the UK's banks were sufficiently robust to weather a \"disorderly Brexit\".\n\nBut despite the progress, its Brexit risk register still has amber warnings on progress towards ensuring there is a legal and regulatory plan in place once Britain leaves the EU.\n\nFor the UK, there is a single red warning on the continuing validity of contracts used to insure businesses making currency trades, for example, involving institutions in Britain and the EU.\n\nThere are believed to be £29 trillion worth of such contracts which could become \"unserviceable\" after March next year if action is not taken.\n\nThe Bank says the EU is facing three \"red light\" issues.\n\nTwo are on contracts and one on is on clearing - the ability to finalise deals and trades across borders between banks, businesses and fund managers.\n\nBoth sides also face amber warnings on the ability of banks and asset managers to continue providing other services across borders, as well as on the lack of agreement on the cross-border flow of personal data between Britain and the EU.", "The St George sculpture before and after the restoration attempt\n\nA lick of paint can do a lot to lift a drab interior, but when it comes to historic sculptures it turns out the job is best left to experts.\n\nThat is what a church in Spain discovered after hiring an arts and crafts teacher to freshen up a 16th-Century wooden sculpture of St George.\n\nImages shared on social media showed the warrior with a transformed pink face and bright coloured armour.\n\nCultural officials have blasted the botched attempt as \"frightening\".\n\n\"We cannot tolerate more attacks on our cultural heritage,\" Spain's art conservation association (ACRE) said in a statement. \"It shows a frightening lack of training of the kind required for this sort of job.\"\n\nThe parish priest in the northern town of Estella simply wanted the sculpture to be cleaned and did not intend for it to be restored, the Efe news agency reports.\n\nBut the move has enraged local officials who are demanding to know why they were not informed of the church's plans.\n\n\"The council wasn't told and neither was the regional government of Navarre,\" the town's Mayor Koldo Leoz told The Guardian newspaper.\n\n\"They've used plaster and the wrong kind of paint and it's possible that the original layers of paint have been lost. This is an expert job it should have been done by experts,\" he said.\n\nThe group in charge of the project - Karmacolor - reportedly uploaded a video to Facebook showing every stage of the project but later deleted it.\n\n\"What a great loss,\" one Facebook user commented underneath a photograph of the sculpture. \"Prison sentences would prevent these attacks on our heritage,\" another said.\n\nThree images showing the original, deteriorated, and \"restored\" version of the Ecce Homo fresco\n\nOthers compared it to the now infamous attempt to restore the Ecce Homo (Behold the Man) fresco of Jesus Christ in 2012.\n\nElderly parishioner Cecilia Gimenez took her brush to the 19th-Century artwork following years of deterioration due to moisture, but after much ridicule the result was labelled \"Monkey Christ\".\n\nSome positives did come from her efforts however, as the town drew thousands more visitors eager to see her \"restoration\" and she even had her own art exhibited.\n\nGimenez even starred in a music video for a song she inspired which told the story of her attempt from a more sympathetic angle.", "Lynda Basford cared for her husband Michael at home for 13 years until last year\n\n\"It is like Michael walking into a fog,\" says Lynda Basford, describing the 13 years during which her husband Michael has descended into dementia.\n\nShe has been at his side throughout.\n\n\"You can't quite hold on to him,\" she says, \"and as the years go by, he gets deeper and deeper into that fog and you can't do anything about it.\"\n\nMichael needs a lot of support. He doesn't really know where he is and he no longer recognises his wife. Even remembering to eat requires encouragement.\n\nShe looked after him for years in their own home with little support but, last year, it all became too much.\n\nShe felt she could no longer keep him safe and reluctantly agreed he should move into a residential home.\n\nHowever, the financial support they get from their local authority does not cover the cost and their savings are rapidly disappearing.\n\nNow Lynda's strain over her husband's condition is compounded by money worries.\n\n\"I didn't realise\", she says, \"that if you have a terminal illness, your level and quality of care would be dependent on your bank balance.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lynda Basford: \"Because he drew the short straw... he's having to pay for his treatment.\"\n\nA new report produced for the BBC from the Health Foundation and three other leading research organisations says the failure by successive governments to reform social care has left many people without the support they need in care homes or in their own homes.\n\nIt describes the current council-run means-tested system as a fundamental source of unfairness.\n\nAn ageing population, more younger people with disabilities needing support, and budget cuts combine to leave local authorities struggling to meet the demand for help.\n\nThe report highlights how budget pressure means the social care system is nearing crisis:\n\nThe report says this means that three-quarters of relatives of people who need care at home get no support and have not been able to take a respite break of even an hour from caring in the last 12 months.\n\nLynda Basford questions why the support Michael needs is not provided by the NHS.\n\n\"Michael has drawn the short straw and has dementia and not some other terminal illness, so he is having to pay for his treatment - because his treatment is social care,\" she says.\n\nMichael gets some help from his local authority because he has less than £23,250 in savings, but the rate the council pays does not cover the £800-a-week fees of the care home.\n\nIt means that each week, Lynda pays £550 from their savings to make up the difference. She says it is only a matter of time before they run out of money and then she does not know what will happen.\n\nNext week, like the NHS, the care system will mark its seventieth anniversary.\n\nWhile the health service was set up as a separate institution delivering support that is free to those who need it, from the start services provided by councils for people struggling with daily tasks such as washing, dressing and taking medication, were means-tested.\n\nBut in 1948, people did not survive with the sort of complex conditions that meant long-term social care was needed in the way it is now.\n\nThen, charities like the Alzheimer's Society did not exist - it was established 40 years ago because of the increasing number of people with dementia.\n\nThe society's chief executive Jeremy Hughes says: \"When the funding system was set up in 1948, no-one intended to set up a separate system for one disease rather than another, we've got that by accident rather than design. It needs to change now if we are going to be fair and equitable for people over the next 10, 20, even the next 70 years.\"\n\nThe couple have been together for 40 years\n\nLast week, after announcing more money for the health service, the government said it was delaying the publication of long-awaited plans for the funding of the social care system until the autumn.\n\nJennifer Dixon, chief executive of the Health Foundation, welcomed the extra cash for the NHS, but pointed to the urgent need for more money for social care.\n\n\"The NHS was founded 70 years ago to replace fear with security, so that people did not face bills they couldn't pay in time of illness.\n\n\"But that security is just not there for many of those who need social care today,\" said Ms Dixon.\n\n\"Many people assume social care is free of charge like the NHS, and it is a huge shock when they find out it isn't and the bills mount up.\n\n\"As local authority budgets are squeezed, more people are having to go without, pay themselves or rely on unpaid care from friends and families. The situation is unfair, stressful and inefficient and is long overdue for reform.\"\n\nIn a statement, the Department of Health and Social Care said it recognised the social care system was under pressure and reforms would \"ensure it is sustainable for the future\".\n\n\"Health and social care are two sides of the same coin and any reforms must be aligned. That's why our forthcoming Green Paper will be published in the autumn, with the NHS plan.\n\n\"We have provided local authorities with £9.4bn in dedicated funding for social care over three years and will agree a sustainable funding settlement at the forthcoming spending review.\"", "Once a week Clare Wakeham travels four miles to work on the River Thames.\n\nShe kayaks for an hour to her office in Oxford.\n\n\"It's such a lovely way to travel,\" she says.", "The government should tax and regulate more to encourage people to be healthier, a group of experts says.\n\nThe independent analysis, produced for the BBC, said the success of the smoking ban and sugary drinks tax should embolden ministers.\n\nThe experts also said the fear of the \"nanny state\" tag was unfounded as polling suggested the public have an appetite for tough action.\n\nIt comes after ministers in England unveiled new plans for child obesity.\n\nThe proposals announced at the weekend included a crackdown on sweets and fatty snacks sold at checkouts and tighter restrictions on junk food ads on TV and online.\n\nThe experts behind the analysis - one of five produced to mark the 70th birthday of the NHS on 5 July - urged ministers to do more to tackle unhealthy lifestyles to help relieve the pressure on the NHS.\n\nThey pointed out that seven in 10 adults do not meet the recommended guidelines in relation to diet, physical activity, drinking and smoking.\n\nBut despite this, polling carried out for the report by Ipsos MORI found that 85% of people believe they have a \"great deal of responsibility\" for keeping healthy.\n\nThe survey of more than 2,000 people in the UK also showed a significant degree of support for taxes and regulation.\n\nThis included 54% who backed a minimum price for alcohol - something which has already been implemented in Scotland and is soon to be introduced in Wales.\n\nAnd 70% supported limits on fast food outlets in areas near schools - a policy which some councils have introduced.\n\nThe report has been produced by four leading think tanks - the King's Fund, Nuffield Trust, Health Foundation and Institute for Fiscal Studies.\n\nReport author Helen McKenna said the government should be \"bolder\".\n\n\"Although politicians may balk at the idea of the 'nanny state', our research suggests these types of intervention may enjoy stronger public support than they often assume.\"\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesman said preventing ill-health was a \"priority\" for the government as shown by the record low smoking rates and the efforts on child obesity.\n\n\"There is a clear role for both the state and the individual to tackle lifestyle conditions,\" he added.\n\nWhat do you want to know about how the NHS currently operates?\n\nWe'll be answering some of your questions today at 11:30 and 17:30 on the News Channel.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Advait Kolarkar has become the youngest artist to exhibit at the ArtExpo fair in New York. The four-year-old from New Brunswick, Canada, has a queue of buyers.", "Food wholesaler Booker is rationing beer and cider because of a shortage of CO2 used in carbonated drinks.\n\nThe Tesco-owned retailer, which is used by bars, restaurants and traders, is capping customers to 10 cases of beer, and five of cider or soft drinks.\n\nIt is more evidence that a scarcity of CO2 is hurting the food and drink sectors, and comes after Heineken and Coca-Cola faced disruption.\n\nScotland's biggest abattoir has halted operations because of the gas shortage.\n\nQuality Pork Limited (QPL), at Brechin, which puts 6,000 pigs a week through its production line, stopped operations on Tuesday afternoon because it ran out of CO2 used to stun the animals before slaughter.\n\nQPL plans to send about 1,000 pigs to another plant near Manchester this week, but operators say other abattoirs also face a carbon dioxide shortage.\n\nBooker said in a statement: \"Due to the international shortage of CO2, we are experiencing some supply issues on soft drinks and beer.\n\n\"We are currently working hard with our suppliers to minimise the impact for our customers and cannot comment further at this stage.\"\n\nCO2 producers in the UK and mainland Europe have scaled back operations for maintenance, causing a shortage of the gas, whose many uses include improving the shelf life of packaged food and creating dry ice to keep products cool during transport.\n\nHeineken said its John Smith's Extra Smooth and Amstel brands had been hit, while Coca-Cola Great Britain said production had been interrupted until fresh CO2 supplies arrived.\n\n\"We are currently responding to an industry-wide issue that is impacting the supply of CO2 in the UK. Our focus is on limiting the effect this may have on the availability of our products,\" Coca-Cola said.\n\nSmall UK bottling firms have also been hit. In the West Midlands, Holden's, which has 80 customers, shut down last Friday until further notice. \"I'm left with people sitting around doing nothing,\" said operations director Mark Hammond.\n\nSupermarket Morrisons said some frozen products had been affected by the shortage, and it aimed to resume selling its full online range \"as soon as possible\".\n\nThe food and drink industry hopes that supplies will begin returning to normal in early July, although trade bodies have complained about a lack of communication from CO2 suppliers.\n\nAndy McGowan, chief executive of Scottish Pig Producers, a co-operative that runs the Brechin abattoir in collaboration with QPL, said he did not know when they would get a fresh CO2 delivery from their supplier.\n\n\"That's the frustrating thing - they're not telling us anything. We're pretty dismayed. The top priority is animal welfare - we will not have ourselves in a situation where the welfare is suffering,\" he said.\n\nPoultry slaughterhouses have already called for priority supplies of dwindling CO2 stocks, saying the current shortage could have a \"potentially huge effect\" on British food production.\n\nBut that call for the food industry to be given priority has raised fears among drinks firms and smaller businesses that they will be at the back of the queue when gas supplies start to return to normal.", "Eloise Parry was \"enchanted by her weight loss\" despite becoming unhealthy, the court heard\n\nA man has been found guilty of the manslaughter of a bulimic student who bought a toxic slimming aid online.\n\nEloise Parry, 21, from Shrewsbury, died after taking eight diet pills containing dinitrophenol (DNP).\n\nBernard Rebelo, 30, of Gosport, was convicted of two counts of manslaughter at Inner London Crown Court.\n\nBefore she died in April 2015, Miss Parry needed hospital treatment several times for side effects of the tablets.\n\nRebelo, who denied manslaughter, admitted during the trial he sold the pills to her, but said there was a warning about the drug on his website.\n\nManslaughter charges were dropped against Albert Huynh, 33, from Northolt, north-west London, and Mary Roberts, 32, from Gosport, after the judge rule there was insufficient evidence the pair were involved.\n\nMiss Parry, a student at Glyndwr University, Wrexham, had had mental health problems as a teenager and as well as the bulimia had borderline personality disorder.\n\nDNP is a highly toxic substance when ingested, inhaled or absorbed through the skin.\n\nDeclared unfit for human consumption in the US as far back as 1938, it causes weight loss by burning fat and carbohydrates, with energy being converted into heat.\n\nBernard Rebelo has been told to expect a lengthy sentence\n\nMiss Parry had become \"focused\" on losing weight before her death, her sister Rebecca, 19, told the trial.\n\nShe seemed \"too enchanted by her weight loss to acknowledge how unhealthy she was getting\".\n\nMiss Parry started taking the pills in February 2015, and quickly became addicted to them.\n\nIn a statement read to the court, Rebecca said she was with her sister on 11 April, the evening before she died in hospital.\n\nShe left her at about 21:00 BST after a conversation about her ordering a takeaway before noticing the next day Miss Parry had binged on food before taking the diet pills.\n\nHarrow Council searched the flat where Rebelo was based\n\nAnd in texts to her university lecturer hours before she died, Miss Parry said: \"I screwed up big time. Binged/purged all night and took four pills at 4am.\n\n\"I took another four when I woke and I started vomiting soon after. I think I am going to die.\n\n\"No one is known to survive if they vomit after taking DNP. I am so scared.\"\n\nRebelo was operating from a flat in Harrow, north west London, and made the capsules to be sold online for considerable profits, his trial was told.\n\nThe chemicals were bought in drums from China, bypassing authorities such as the Food Standards Agency and Interpol which had tried to close the operation down.\n\nGraham Henson, leader of Harrow Council, which was involved in bringing the prosecution, said: \"This sets a precedent that we can now prosecute people for selling pesticides, like DNP, online as a slimming agent.\"\n\nRebelo is due to be sentenced on Friday.\n\nIn the weeks before she died, Miss Parry told her sister she could not regulate her body temperature\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Timelapse footage shows the spread of the fire near Saddleworth Moor\n\nThe military has been called in to help battle a huge moorlands fire which has been raging for three days.\n\nThe blaze covers 3.7miles (6km) of moorland above Stalybridge and prompted the evacuation of up to 100 homes.\n\nGreater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service (GMFRS) confirmed it had asked for military assistance.\n\nOne resident described seeing \"ash falling like rain\" and another said it \"looked like the apocalypse\".\n\nFour schools have closed and a GP said he had seen patients with nosebleeds, coughs and eye problems caused by the smoke.\n\nFirefighters are having to haul pumps and hoses for up to two miles in blistering heat to reach parts of the fire which has devastated swathes of land near Saddleworth Moor.\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May said the government is keeping the situation \"under constant review\".\n\nSmoke from the fire could be seen from space, as captured by the University of Dundee from a NASA satellite\n\nGreater Manchester's assistant chief fire officer Dave Keelan said a \"request\" had gone in for military assistance.\n\n\"That's for help to move high-volume pumps and to transport personnel to remote locations,\" he said.\n\nPressed on the arrangements, he said the military was likely to use Chinook helicopters to move two water pumps.\n\nA Ministry of Defence spokeswoman confirmed the fire service had approached them \"as a priority\" and the MoD was \"looking into what might be done.\"\n\nGreater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham started a question time event in Stretford saying that if the Home Office agreed, military resources should be available by Thursday morning.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nExperts warned high levels of pollutants generated from the blaze could have a significant effect on people's health.\n\nEmergency services have been giving out face masks to their own staff, residents and members of the media.\n\nGP Richard Bircher said patients had been attending his surgery with smoke-related problems\n\nStalybridge GP Richard Bircher said he had seen patients with nosebleeds, coughs and sore eyes caused by the smoke.\n\nHugh Coe, professor of atmospheric composition at the University of Manchester, said plume peak concentrations were \"very high\" and air quality close to the fire was \"very poor\".\n\nHe said pollution plumes had been detected in the centre of Manchester.\n\nMr Keelan said 100 firefighters from Greater Manchester were tackling seven ongoing blazes on the moorland, with support from Cheshire and Derbyshire.\n\nThe fire began on Sunday night, reignited on Monday during the hot weather and then spread throughout Tuesday, fanned by evening winds.\n\nAbout 150 people were forced to leave their homes on Tuesday, with many staying with family and friends. The majority had returned by Wednesday afternoon.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nJonathan Reynolds, MP for Stalybridge and Hyde, said specialist equipment was being brought by Public Health England to monitor the air quality.\n\n\"Residents feel reassured by the actions of the fire service but there is a concern around the air quality and that's something we will monitor,\" he said.\n\nMr Reynolds said firefighters were being particularly challenged by \"the distance they have to walk and the equipment they are wearing\".\n\n\"The country needs to give them every bit of support we can,\" he added.\n\nThe fire on Tuesday night was accompanied by a dramatic full moon\n\nMr Keelan said firefighters had carried pumps and hoses up to two miles to tackle remote pockets of fire.\n\n\"Firefighters have to physically carry all of that equipment in this heat, and the heat of the fire gear... and that's before they've even started tackling any sort of fire,\" he said.\n\n\"So it's been extremely difficult and they've just got on with it and done a fantastic job, I'm very proud of them.\"\n\nGMFRS said it was receiving a high volume of calls about smoke across the region and asked for people to only phone in an emergency.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Manchester Fire This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Keelan added: \"There's still a lot of smoke from the fire but air quality levels are being monitored regularly. Air quality is currently at a safe level and therefore residents have been let back into their homes.\n\n\"We don't know the cause at this stage and it would be very difficult to ascertain due to the extent of the damage, but we will be looking into that once we have tackled the fire.\"\n\nFirefighters continued to battle the fire at daybreak on Wednesday\n\nIan Saxon, director of operations and neighbourhoods at Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council, said a maximum of 100 homes had been evacuated at the height of the fire.\n\n\"As we're standing here there are people returning and there are people who are deciding they want to go elsewhere,\" he said.\n\n\"We will support them wherever they choose to go.\"\n\nKelly McFie said it was a \"massive relief\" to come home\n\nPersonal trainer Kelly McFie, 35, was told to evacuate at 20:00 BST on Tuesday with her seven-year-old son Oscar.\n\n\"It looked like a towering inferno when I looked out of the back garden,\" she said.\n\n\"There were huge flames which would occasionally shoot up and you could hear the tree bark crackle.\"\n\nShe said she was \"glad to get out\" of her home.\n\n\"I grabbed our passports and Oscar's birthday certificate and just went,\" she said. \"We've got two cats, Buzz and Sally, and a dog called Bobby.\n\n\"Thankfully I managed to grab them although they weren't too happy to be moved.\"\n\nGrandmother Pauline Lomas, 66, who was evacuated but came home on Wednesday morning to Carrbrook, welcomed the military intervention.\n\nShe said: \"I'm shocked that they've been deployed as the smoke had subsided now.\n\n\"But we can't see how bad it is up on the moors now.\n\n\"It's fantastic how much everyone is rallying round to look after us and it shows how seriously they are taking if the Army is getting involved.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The joint statement asks for \"jobs, rights and livelihoods\" to be put first\n\nBusiness and union leaders from across the UK and Europe have joined together to plead for \"pace and urgency\" in Brexit negotiations.\n\nThe CBI and the TUC along with their European counterparts are calling on the UK government and the European Union to make \"measureable progress\".\n\nUK and EU leaders will attend a European Council meeting this week.\n\nThe groups say the UK and the EU must \"put economic interests and people's jobs, rights and livelihoods first\".\n\nThe CBI, BusinessEurope, the TUC and the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) collectively represent 45 million workers and 20 million employers across the EU.\n\nIn a joint statement, they said: \"We are calling on the UK government and the EU to inject pace and urgency in the negotiations, bringing about measurable progress, in particular a backstop arrangement to avoid a hard border in Ireland.\n\n\"Decisions will be needed in June and October to finalise the withdrawal agreement and the transitional arrangement, and put economic interests and people's jobs, rights and livelihoods first.\"\n\nUK Prime Minister Theresa May will attend the European Council meeting on 28-29 June. However, she will be excluded from a gathering of the other 27 EU nations where chief negotiator Michel Barnier will provide on update on Brexit talks.\n\nCarolyn Fairbairn and Markus Beyrer, the director-generals of the CBI and BusinessEurope respectively, as well as Luca Visentini and Frances O'Grady, the general secretaries of the ETUC and the TUC, met earlier this month in London to discuss Brexit.\n\nAhead of the European Council meeting they said: \"The UK government and the EU will need to agree on all aspects of regulatory alignment, which is of the utmost importance, without jeopardising the integrity of the single market.\"\n\nA spokesman for the UK government said: \"We absolutely agree. That's why we have put forward workable proposals to the EU on a range of areas from the backstop to security, and the White Paper - which will be published after June Council - will continue to drive this process forward.\n\n\"We are confident that we can make progress if both the EU and UK engage constructively.\"", "Residents of Kirby Estate in Bermondsey have gone all out in a show of support for England at the FIFA World Cup\n\nThere is a definite buzz around England as the country gets ready to roar on the Three Lions when they face Belgium later. But after a measured build-up to the tournament, and a widespread sense of realism over the team's chances, why have England fans' hopes suddenly raised as high as a John Stones headed goal?\n\nAll across the country, St George's flags are raised against a bright blue sky.\n\nDespite it being more than half a century since we took the trophy - and many \"years of hurt\" when hopes were at fever pitch only to be dashed again - the English are brimming with sunny optimism.\n\nThe Three Lions-inspired \"It's coming home\" has been trending on twitter and even non-football fans are getting into the spirit with office sweepstakes and match-watching parties.\n\nThe World Cup has captured the nation because - for the first time in a while - we like the players, said Michael Caulfield, who was England manager Gareth Southgate's club psychologist when Southgate was Middlesbrough boss.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"A hallmark of his leadership is that instead of hiding them away from the media, he has encouraged the players to be very open about who they are and what they do,\" said Mr Caulfield.\n\n\"For the first time we have a real understanding of who they are as people and we want them to do well.\n\n\"They are not pretending to be perfect, they are normal people on a fantastic adventure and we are joining them on that journey.\"\n\nNormal people on a fantastic adventure, celebrating goals like a bunch of mates down the park\n\nThat journey kicked off to a storming start with a last-minute win over Tunisia followed by a 6-1 thumping of Panama.\n\n\"A win like that changes the whole mood,\" said Mr Caulfield. \"When you win it's a bit easier to get people to take notice and support you.\"\n\nThe nation is taking notice - England v Tunisia was the most-watched television programme of 2018 so far, attracting a peak audience of 18.3 million on BBC One.\n\nAnd even on a scorching Sunday, 14.1 million watched England thrash Panama. That's over a million more people than watched Prince Harry marry Meghan Markle.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Gary Lineker This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nChris Weston, 33, from Wellington in Shropshire, watched the England v Panama game in the Prince of Wales pub in Shrewsbury.\n\n\"It was absolutely buzzing,\" he said. \"It takes a good result to get everybody excited.\n\n\"In the last couple of days I've seen more people wearing England shirts, with flags on their cars or on their houses than I've ever seen.\n\n\"Everybody is really looking forward to the knockouts and people are really starting to think this could be our time.\n\n\"It's great for everyone, there's a buzz around the workplace, in the street, everyone is talking about it.\n\n\"You wear the shirt and feel proud, it's not very often you get to do that.\"\n\nEngland fan Chris Weston has bought baby Alexander his first kit in time for the World Cup\n\nSince England's drubbing of Panama, Poundland has reported a 20% increase in sales of England flags, a spokesman for the shop said.\n\n\"We're flogging them faster than Harry Kane can hit the net,\" he said. \"We've shifted 56,000 balcony flags, 43,000 bunting flags and 35,000 car flags this week alone.\"\n\nAfter the 6-1 win, searches for \"England flags\" peaked at one per minute on eBay. More than 9,000 St George's flags have been sold in the past 30 days - that's 12 per hour, the auction site said.\n\nMeanwhile over in Russia, the English are equally as excited, according to Paul Dubberley, who has travelled the globe to watch the national team trying and failing to win World Cups for more than 30 years.\n\n\"After winning 6-1, everyone has got a good feeling that maybe we can go a little bit further than we have in the last few years,\" said Mr Dubberley, 58, from Aldridge, in the West Midlands.\n\n\"Before we left I don't think anyone was that optimistic but after the last two games I know there's a lot more people coming out to jump on the bandwagon.\"\n\nHe could be right - since Sunday's win, travel comparison site Skyscanner.net has reported a 168% increase in flight searches from the UK to Russia for the game against Belgium.\n\nPaul Dubberley and Alex Waters celebrate the stunning victory over Panama at the Nizhny Novgorod Stadium in Russia\n\nPsychologist Mr Caulfield thinks the nation's warm response tells the players we are enjoying the ride and it is about entertainment as much as trying to win.\n\n\"The players are not wrapped up in fear carrying the weight of the nation of their shoulders.\n\n\"In the past there's been booing and hissing but now we know this team better we want them to do well.\n\n\"If they are eliminated, this isn't a group of players that will be seen as stark failures.\"\n\nFootball fans from England watch on screens the World Cup game between Tunisia and England at the official FIFA Fan Fest at Moscow State University\n\nBut even if we won't see scenes of backlash to rival the times effigies of David Beckham were burned or Graham Taylor's head was superimposed on to a turnip, are England fans still setting themselves up to repeat some mistakes of the past? Are we falling into the trap of yet again convincing ourselves England are the best team in the world?\n\nThe BBC's chief football writer Phil McNulty thinks not - and that the current positive mood is a natural reaction.\n\n\"England's expectations were actually measured before the World Cup but it is in the nature of football supporters for them to increase after a couple of good victories,\" he said from Russia, where he will watch the clash with Belgium in Kaliningrad.\n\n\"I am still not too sure many England fans believe they will win the World Cup but perhaps they also have raised expectations after seeing the likes of Brazil, Germany and Argentina struggle on occasions in the earlier stages of the competition.\n\n\"I think most England supporters are actually reserving judgement until they play one of the bigger countries, so I still think most people have realistic expectations.\"\n\nThe crowd at Croydon Box Park in London roared with joy during the England v Panama match\n\nMr Weston, one of those supporters, agrees - but only to a certain extent.\n\n\"The sensible thought is we've made a good start but the next games are going to be more difficult,\" he said.\n\n\"But we are playing so well that we've got a real chance this time.\"\n\nAnd his wife Kerry Weston, 33, revealed: \"After Sunday's game Chris kept jumping around saying we are going to be world champions. I kept telling him to calm down.\n\n\"We haven't had a great track record in the past but it's been great so far. I wouldn't normally have taken much interest but we've had beautiful weather so it's been lovely to watch the games outside.\"\n\nA huge crowd of revellers at the Isle of Wight Festival watched Sunday's win over Panama on a big screen\n\nGareth Southgate glowed with pride as he watched back fans' celebrations following Panama's thrashing in an interview with the FA.\n\n\"This is the honour of being England manager - to have the opportunity to send people to work happy and bring happiness to our country,\" said Southgate, who also went to two World Cups as an England player.\n\nMr Caulfield believes the English are revelling in the chance to come together in a show of patriotism.\n\n\"The country is quite divided at the moment and the England football team is transcending it all and giving a bit of unity, hope and pride in being English,\" he said.\n\n\"We are sharing the joy and if it happens we will share the pain.\"", "The fatberg, which has begun to \"sweat\" and grow mould, could be preserved in the museum's collection\n\nA slice of fatberg put on show at the Museum of London could be preserved for future generations.\n\nThe lump of congealed fat, oil and wet wipes has begun to \"sweat\" and change colour - and flies have hatched in it.\n\nBut curator Vyki Sparkes says the fatberg caused a \"marked increase\" in visitors to the museum and they are now thinking of preserving it, when it finishes its public display this week.\n\nThere has been an \"incredible reaction\" from visitors, she says.\n\nIt has become one the museum's most popular exhibits, says the curator.\n\nThe piece of fatberg was taken from a \"monster fatberg\", over 250m (820ft) long and weighing 130 tonnes, which had become something of a sewer celebrity, when it was found under the streets of Whitechapel.\n\nFatbergs are an accumulation of materials flushed into the sewers that form huge solid blocks - with the Whitechapel fatberg taking nine weeks to break up with drills.\n\nIn the first such exhibition of its kind, the Museum of London put this slice of urban history on public view in February, as an example of the challenges of getting rid of waste in the capital.\n\nThe fatberg when it went on show in February\n\nThe display ends at the weekend, but Ms Sparkes says they have been taken aback by its appeal, with people making special trips to see the fatberg and boosting visitor numbers.\n\nThere has been a mixture of fascination and revulsion, she says, not least to see how the item has changed, under its glass case.\n\n\"We've never worked on anything like it,\" she says. There is an element of \"mystery\" about it, says the curator.\n\n\"It's under our feet, it grows. We're all responsible for creating it.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Part of the fatberg was filmed by Thames Water engineers trying to remove the blockage\n\nThe museum is now considering whether to keep it in its archive, rather than throwing it away.\n\nThe rest of the monster fatberg has already been chopped up and converted into bio-diesel.\n\nIn the short term, the fatberg will go into \"quarantine\", where it will be treated with the type of health and safety regulations surrounding sewage.\n\nNext month the collections committee at the museum will decide whether the fatberg will be kept forever as an artefact, either in storage or on display, rather than being returned to the rubbish.\n\nMs Sparkes says she now has a \"big soft spot\" for the fatberg and says there is a \"strong case for keeping it\".\n\nEven if people have thought it was revolting, she says they have engaged with the ideas behind it - such as the consumer behaviour and type of consumption that creates fatbergs.\n\nThe museum's curator says there have even been artistic responses to the fatberg - with children's stories having been written.\n\nThere is even a fatberg musical - currently in the pipeline.\n• None 'Monster' fatberg to go in London museum", "Southern Rail tweeted pictures of flooded tracks and advised people against travelling\n\nHeavy downpours across England are causing major disruption for road and rail users.\n\nNetwork Rail said some areas had seen two months' worth of rainfall in one day with drains overwhelmed.\n\nRail operator Southern has advised people to avoid travelling, delay journeys or use alternative routes.\n\nA total of 31 flood alerts are in place across the country, with some areas set to see up to 60mm of rain, particularly over the first half of the day.\n\nSouthern tweeted that \"train services running across the whole network will be cancelled or delayed\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA Network Rail spokesman said engineers were \"out in force\" pumping water away from areas.\n\n\"Across the south east, we suffered over a month's worth of rainfall in just one day and in some areas the downpours equated to two months' rain,\" he said.\n\n\"We'll continue working to keep passengers moving and then we'll review the drainage systems which have suffered problems to see if we can do any more to avoid similar incidents in the future.\"\n\nIn Horncastle, Lincolnshire, the River Waring was transformed into a raging torrent after hours of heavy rainfall.\n\nPolice in the town warned motorists and pedestrians \"great care\" was needed \"due to the large amounts of surface flood water and rising drains and rivers\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLeicestershire Police said it had received a \"high level\" of calls about blocked roads, while a driver narrowly escaped injury when a tree fell on his car in Thurnby.\n\nA woman in her 80s and her dog were rescued from a flooded property in West Kingsdown, near Sevenoaks in the early hours.\n\nKent Fire and Rescue Service said she had been trapped in her home up to waist height.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Environment Agency said some areas of Kent recorded about 100mm of rain in the 24 hours up to 07:00 BST.\n\nThe average rainfall for the entire month of June in the UK is 73.4mm, it added.\n\nA driver narrowly escaped injury when a tree fell on his car in Thurnby, Leicestershire\n\nImages from Snodland in Kent show flooded streets and heavy rain\n\nThe M25 was closed in both directions for almost eight hours earlier after two sinkholes were discovered following a crash at about 23:30 BST.\n\nIn Devon, a thatched house caught fire when it was struck by lightning overnight. No-one was injured in the blaze.\n\nExmoor is likely to see up to 40mm of rain on Tuesday but could have up to 60mm.\n\nRain has also hit the Cricket World Cup for the second day in a row as Bangladesh's game against Sri Lanka in Bristol has been called off.\n\nThe match - due to start at 10:30 - was called off shortly before 14:00.\n\nPlay in the Cricket World Cup in Bristol has been delayed\n\nPilgrim Hospital in Boston, Lincolnshire, has also been hit by flooding but health bosses said patient services were \"unaffected\".\n\nFire crews have been in attendance since 03:00 pumping water out of the hospital's boiler room.\n\nThe car park and boiler room at Pilgrim Hospital in Boston have been flooded\n\nMet Office meteorologist Alex Burkill said the UK was in for \"some treacherous weather\".\n\nWeather warnings are expected to remain in place for much of the day, with forecasters predicting parts of the UK could be inundated during the rest of the week.\n\nNorth-eastern parts of England and the Midlands are expected to bear the brunt of the downpours on Tuesday, with a yellow warning in place until midnight.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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Oxfam whistleblower says change will take years\n\nOxfam has been severely criticised by the Charity Commission for the way it dealt with claims of serious sexual misconduct by its staff in Haiti.\n\nThe commission said there was a \"culture of poor behaviour\" at the charity, and issued it with an official warning over its \"mismanagement\".\n\nLast year Oxfam was accused of covering up claims staff sexually exploited victims of the 2010 earthquake.\n\nOxfam accepted the findings, saying what happened in Haiti was \"shameful\".\n\nClaims first emerged in The Times last year that Oxfam employees, including former country director Roland van Hauwermeiren, used young prostitutes while based in Haiti after the earthquake.\n\nAn internal Oxfam investigation in 2011 led to four people being sacked and three others resigning, including Mr Van Hauwermeiren.\n\nBut a report published by Oxfam after the investigation failed to mention sexual exploitation.\n\nThe charity commission said the incidents in Haiti identified in 2011 were not \"one-offs\", with evidence of behavioural issues as early as June 2010.\n\nThere were also issues at some of the charity's UK shops - the report highlighted 16 serious incidents involving volunteers under the age of 18.\n\nMr Van Hauwermeiren worked in Chad from 2006-09 before going to Haiti in 2010\n\nTuesday's report, which followed an 18-month investigation, found the charity failed to listen to warnings - including from its own staff, that it repeatedly fell below standards expected on safeguarding, and did not meet promises it made.\n\n\"What went wrong in Haiti did not happen in isolation,\" Charity Commission chief executive Helen Stephenson said.\n\n\"Over a period of years, Oxfam's internal culture tolerated poor behaviour, and at times lost sight of the values it stands for.\"\n\nOxfam's internal investigation into Haiti, following allegations by a whistleblower in 2011, could not conclude whether minors were involved in some of the incidents.\n\nTwo allegations of physical abuse, made by email from a 12-year-old and a 13-year-old girl, were \"suspected\" not to be genuine by Oxfam at the time.\n\nThe Charity Commission said Oxfam should have tried harder to substantiate the claims at the time, despite the lack of evidence.\n\nOxfam's chair of trustees, Caroline Thomson, said the charity accepted the findings, describing them as \"uncomfortable\".\n\n\"What happened in Haiti was shameful and we are deeply sorry,\" she said.\n\n\"It was a terrible abuse of power and an affront to the values that Oxfam holds dear.\"\n\nShe added: \"We now know that the 2011 investigation and reporting of what happened in Haiti was flawed; more should have been done to establish whether minors were involved.\"\n\nThe decision to allow Mr Hauwermeiren to resign without a fuller investigation into his conduct would not be permitted under current policies and practices, she said.\n\nThe Times had reported that Oxfam was aware of concerns about the conduct of Mr Van Hauwermeiren and another man when they worked in Chad before they were given senior roles in Haiti.\n\nMs Thomson added that every member of staff was being put through basic safeguarding training and 95% of them had already completed it.\n\nIt's rare to see such strong criticism of a charity.\n\nThe most stinging criticism was reserved for the way Oxfam was seen to be placing its own reputation - and its relationships with donors - above the need to protect victims.\n\nThe charity has been bleeding financial support since the story broke, losing 7,000 regular donors worth £14m.\n\nIt has also lost almost £20m in government funding over the last 18 months, and today's findings won't have done much to rebuild trust.\n\nThe report is incredibly strong and has done much to redress the Charity Commission's own laxity over safeguarding in the past.\n\nHowever, it was supposed to be published six months ago.\n\nFaced with an avalanche of safeguarding complaints from across the charity sector, there are still questions about whether the commission has the resources to sufficiently investigate and hold charities to account in the future.\n\nAfter the claims emerged, Haiti banned Oxfam GB from operating inside its borders and thousands of people stopped making regular donations to the charity.\n\nOxfam has also not been able to bid for government funding pending the outcome of the 18-month Charity Commission investigation.\n\nThe Department for International Development said decisions over its funding relationship with the charity would be made \"in due course\".\n\nInternational Development Secretary Rory Stewart said the revelations about Oxfam had \"shone a light on fundamental problems\", adding that there were \"no easy answers or room for complacency\".\n\nThe Charity Commission has instructed Oxfam, which has been under new chief executive Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah since January, to submit a plan on how it will address concerns about its previous conduct, in an effort to \"repair public trust and confidence\".", "Last updated on .From the section Sport\n\nBarcelona and Argentina forward Lionel Messi is the world's highest paid athlete, earning $127m (£99.8m) in the past 12 months, according to the Forbes top 100 ranking.\n\nJuventus's Portugal forward Cristiano Ronaldo is second on $109m (£85.6m) with Paris St-Germain's Brazil forward Neymar in third on $105m (£82.5m).\n\nLast year's highest earner, boxer Floyd Mayweather, has dropped off the list.\n\nSerena Williams is the only woman in the top 100, earning $29.2m (£22.9m).\n\nFive-time Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton and former heavyweight world champion Anthony Joshua are the highest earning British athletes, sitting at 13th on $55m (£43.2m).\n\nThe American business magazine calculated the athletes' earnings by adding up their prize money, salaries and endorsements between June 2018 and June 2019.\n\nThe top 100 includes athletes from 25 countries and their $4bn (£3,1bn) combined earnings are up 5% from the previous year, when Mayweather was first with $285m (£224m).\n\nThe American boxer's only fight since August 2017 was an exhibition boxing bout against Japanese kickboxer Tenshin Nasukawa in December.\n\nAthletes had to earn a minimum of $25m (£19.6m) to make this year's list.\n\nMessi is only the second footballer to top the rankings after Ronaldo, and only the eighth different athlete to take the number one spot since the rankings began in 1990.\n\nIt is also the first time that footballers have ranked as the top three earners in sports.\n\nMessi is one of 38 non-American athletes on the list, with 62 US stars in the top 100.\n\nThe NBA accounted for the most athletes with 35, with LA Lakers' LeBron James the sport's highest paid athlete in eighth on $89m ahead of Golden State Warriors pair Stephen Curry (9th on $79.8m) and Kevin Durant (10th on $65.4m).\n\nManchester United's Paul Pogba is the highest earning Premier League player in 44th place with $33m (£25.9m).\n\nSee the full list here.", "The scandal has rocked the charity, which has apologised and promised to 'atone for the past'\n\nOxfam, one of the UK's biggest charities, has dominated the headlines in recent weeks following allegations its staff hired prostitutes while working overseas.\n\nSince then, the story has continued to develop, with the Charity Commission launching a statutory inquiry - the most serious action it can take.\n\nOxfam - which has nearly 10,000 staff working in more than 90 countries - denies any cover-up.\n\nHere is a summary of the events so far:\n\nThe Times broke the story on its front page\n\nOxfam GB's chief executive Mark Goldring and chair of trustees Caroline Thomson leave the Department for International Development\n\nPenny Lawrence, who resigned as deputy chief executive of the charity, said concerns were raised about staff behaviour in Chad and Haiti\n\nPresident Jovenel Moise condemned \"sexual predator\" staff exploiting \"needy people in their moment of greatest vulnerability\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Minnie Driver This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe ad was paid for by supporters rather than the charity\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mark Goldring: 'We are sorry for the damage done to Haiti and the wider aid efforts'", "Thirteen people were killed on Bloody Sunday in January 1972.\n\nThe family of a man shot in the back on Bloody Sunday has been awarded more than £160,000 in compensation.\n\nPatrick Campbell, 52, a father-of-nine, was shot at close range while trying to run to safety.\n\nThirteen people died after members of the Army's Parachute Regiment opened fire on civil rights demonstrators.\n\nThe judge said Mr Campbell's gunshot wounds \"were inflicted in the most distressing and persistently disputed circumstances.\"\n\nThe court heard Mr Campbell was hit by a bullet from a high velocity rifle fired by Lance Corporal F on Bloody Sunday.\n\nHe was seriously injured and subsequently quit working as a docker, the court was told.\n\nHe died from cancer in 1985.\n\nMr Justice McAlinden told Belfast High Court on Tuesday that Mr Campbell would not have given up a job that was \"his life\" unless compelled to do so for reasons directly attributable to being shot on Bloody Sunday.\n\nMinistry of Defence lawyers argued that less than a year after the shooting, his physical symptoms had gone.\n\nSoldiers on the ground in Derry in January 1972\n\nBut the judge held that the sudden death of Mr Campbell's wife and the realisation that he would never return to work as a docker led to the development of chronic depression.\n\n\"It is entirely understandable that a man of reasonable fortitude would crumble under the weight of these stresses and engage in the harmful use of alcohol, with bouts of drinking being followed by periods of intense embarrassment and regret,\" Mr Justice McAlinden said.\n\nMr Campbell's son Billy said his father had to give up his job as a tonnage docker and began binge drinking because of what happened on Bloody Sunday.\n\nHe said his father tried to keep his suffering hidden from the family.\n\nMr Campbell underwent surgery, but had to return to hospital for a second time due to complications and attempted in vain to return to work.\n\nSpeaking after the court's decision, Billy Campbell told BBC Radio Foyle said: \"The money doesn't mean a lot. It won't bring him back. It's just money.\"\n\nHe also said his father went to the grave before being vindicated.\n\nIn 2010, the Saville Inquiry found that those killed or injured on Bloody Sunday were innocent.\n\nThe then prime minister, David Cameron, issued a public apology for the actions of the soldiers, describing the killings as \"unjustified and unjustifiable\".\n\nClaims were later brought against the Ministry of Defence by those bereaved or wounded.\n\nDemonstrators took part in a civil rights march through the streets of Londonderry before the shootings on 30 January 1972\n\nMore than £2m has already been paid out in settlements and awards made in other actions against the MoD on behalf of those bereaved or injured.\n\nIn September a man shot in the face by a soldier on Bloody Sunday was awarded £193,000 in a civil compensation case.\n\nIn October 2018, the family of Gerard McKinney, a 35-year-old father-of-eight, who was shot dead at Abbey Park, were awarded £625,000.\n\nMichael McDaid, 20, was killed near a barricade in Rossville Street. His family received £75,000.\n\nLater that same month damages worth more than £900,000 were awarded to the families of nine of those killed.", "Electric cars are being used to help power a small Portuguese island in the Atlantic.\n\nPorto Santo Island has begun testing a scheme in which the batteries in electric vehicles are charged by solar power during the day but at night return spare energy to the grid to power people's homes.\n\nSome experts say this form of energy storage could become a global trend.", "In 1944, KT Robbins was stationed with his regiment in Briey, eastern France, where he fell in love with an 18-year-old French girl, Jeannine Pierson née Ganaye.\n\nTwo months later, he had to leave the village in a hurry for the eastern front, leaving them both wondering whether they would ever meet again.\n\nHe kept a picture of her and showed it to journalists from the French broadcaster, France 2, while they were filming a report on veterans in the United States. A few weeks later, he went to France for the commemorative ceremonies marking the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings.\n\nTo his surprise, journalists had managed to track her down.", "OK Computer, released in 1997, is regularly rated amongst the best rock albums of all time\n\nRadiohead have scuppered a blackmail attempt by releasing 18 hours of music recorded during the making of their classic album OK Computer.\n\nTapes from the sessions were allegedly stolen last week, with hackers demanding $150,000 for their return.\n\nInstead, the band released the tapes in full, with profits going to climate crisis activists Extinction Rebellion.\n\n\"For £18 you can find out if we should have paid that ransom,\" said guitarist Jonny Greenwood in a statement.\n\nReleased in 1997, OK Computer is often called Radiohead's masterpiece - marking a huge sonic leap forward from its equally-beloved predecessor The Bends.\n\nThe sessions reveal the painstaking work that went into the record, as the Oxfordshire band took up residency in St Catherine's Court - actress Jane Seymour's romantic manor house in Somerset.\n\nAmong the treasures in the collection are a 12-minute version of Paranoid Android, Thom Yorke's demo recording of Karma Police and dozens of unreleased or unfinished songs.\n\nThe first disc opens with an embryonic version of Exit Music, then called Poison, with alternative lyrics.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Radiohead This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nThere are also multiple takes of the \"lost single\" Lift - which the band omitted from OK Computer because it was \"too anthemic\".\n\n\"If that song had been on that album, it would have taken us to a different place,\" Greenwood told BBC 6 Music in 2017.\n\n\"We'd probably have sold a lot more records... [But] I think we subconsciously killed it because if OK Computer had been like a Jagged Little Pill, like Alanis Morisette, it would have killed us.\"\n\nAlthough the song eventually made it onto a deluxe edition of OK Computer, fans have claimed an alternate take from the leaked sessions is \"probably the definitive version\".\n\n\"When the band said they didn't release it because they thought they had another Creep-success level song, I wouldn't believe them off the [previously-released] version,\" wrote one Reddit user. \"But this version I could definitely see being a big radio tune. Reminds me a lot of Bitter Sweet Symphony.\"\n\n\"Lift could have easily been the definitive Radiohead song in an alternate reality,\" added another poster. \"It is wonderful as hell.\"\n\nThe source of the leak is unknown, but Greenwood said the music originated from singer Thom Yorke's \"minidisc archive\" of the recording sessions, a digital copy of which is thought to have been stolen last week.\n\nThe existence of the recording sessions was first noted on fan sites last week, and leaked in full on Friday.\n\nBefore that, the person in possession of the music was allegedly selling individual tracks for sums between $50 (for a live recording) and $800 (for a full-band studio recording), or the entire archive for $150,000.\n\n\"Instead of complaining - much - or ignoring it, we're releasing all 18 hours on Bandcamp in aid of Extinction Rebellion,\" said Greenwood in a statement.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jonny Greenwood This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe noted that the music was \"never intended for public consumption\" and was \"only tangentially interesting\".\n\nThe tapes are also \"very, very long,\" he added. \"Not a phone download. Rainy out, isn't it though?\"\n\nFans have already annotated the music in an extensive Google document, detailing all the alternative lyrics and instrumental variations from the sessions.\n\nRadiohead said the archive would only be available for the next 18 days.\n\nProfits will go to Extinction Rebellion, which staged 10 days of marches and protests against climate change in London earlier this year.\n\nThe group describes itself as an \"international movement\" that uses \"non-violent civil disobedience\" to force ecological issues to the top of the political agenda.\n\nThe movement started in the UK in 2018 after the release of a report on global warming by The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - part of the United Nations.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A woman has spoken of her anger after the man who murdered her three children and impaled their bodies on railings was released from prison by the parole board.\n\nDavid McGreavy was dubbed the \"Monster of Worcester\" after he killed Elsie Urry's children, Paul Ralph, four, Dawn, two, and nine-month-old Samantha, at their home in the city in 1973.\n\nMcGreavy was the family lodger at the time he carried out the killings.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice said McGreavy \"will be on licence for the rest of his life and subject to strict conditions\".", "The Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) has accused the Tory Party of \"fundamental failures\" in tackling Islamophobia.\n\nIts head of public affairs, Miqdaad Versi, said he had seen \"hundreds of cases\" within the party, \"demonstrating the scale of the problem\".\n\nWhen action was taken, he claimed the offending members were \"quietly let back into the party\".\n\nConservative chairman Brandon Lewis has previously said \"swift action\" is taken when complaints are made.\n\nThe MCB is an umbrella organisation of various UK Muslim bodies, including mosques, schools, and charitable associations.\n\nIt has formally asked the Equality and Human Rights Commission to investigate accusations of Islamophobia in the Tory Party, claiming it \"runs deep\".\n\nThe watchdog said it was considering complaints in line with its \"usual processes\".\n\nSpeaking at the Home Affairs Select Committee, Mr Versi said: \"We have seen, unequivocally, failures within specifically the Conservative Party when it comes to Islamophobia - not just small failures [but] fundamental failures in every single way.\n\n\"I'm talking about leadership within the party... I'm talking about issues when members of Parliament have done certain things and no action has been taken against them.\n\n\"I'm talking about when councillors and representatives of the Conservative Party have said or done things which are inappropriate and unacceptable.\"\n\nHe said that action was sometimes taken, but sometimes not \"until the media have been called\", adding: \"And then what happens? A few weeks later they're quietly let back into the party....These types of things are unacceptable.\"\n\nMr Versi said he was not claiming Islamophobia was not happening in other parties, but he was \"focussing on where the specific and large-scale issue is\".\n\nTory leadership contender Boris Johnson also faced criticism during the committee over his previous comments about women who wear burkas.\n\nIn August 2018, Mr Johnson wrote a column in the Daily Telegraph arguing against a ban on full-face veils - but said women wearing the garments looked liked \"letter boxes\" or \"bank robbers\".\n\nIt prompted dozens of complaints, but he was cleared of breaking the Tories' code of conduct.\n\nSpeaking at the committee, Iman Atta, director of anti-Islamophobia charity Tell MAMA, said there had been a rise in reports of abuse from women wearing veils or headscarves after the article.\n\nAddressing those running to become the UK's next prime minister, she added: \"Political leadership comes with responsibility... because people will look at the words that a political leader is using and re-use those words on the ground and in the streets.\n\n\"We do ask every single candidate... to be responsible with the language that they use.\"", "The security service MI5 has handled large amounts of personal data in an \"undoubtedly unlawful\" way, a watchdog has said.\n\nThe Investigatory Powers Commissioner said information gathered under warrants was kept too long and not stored safely.\n\nCivil rights group Liberty said the breaches involved the \"mass collection of data of innocent citizens\".\n\nThe high court heard MI5 knew about the issues in 2016 but kept them secret.\n\n\"MI5 have been holding on to people's data - ordinary people's data, your data, my data - illegally for many years,\" said Megan Goulding, a lawyer for Liberty, which brought the case.\n\n\"Not only that, they've been trying to keep their really serious errors secret - secret from the security services watchdog, who's supposed to know about them, secret from the Home Office, secret from the prime minister and secret from the public.\"\n\nThe criticism of MI5 emerged in the High Court on Tuesday as Liberty challenged parts of the Investigatory Powers Act.\n\nUnder the act, MI5 can apply to judges for warrants to obtain information such as people's location data, calls, messages and web browsing history.\n\nAs well as \"bulk data\" collection, which can include information about ordinary members of the public, MI5 can use targeted interceptions of communications and computer hacking for investigations such as counter-terrorism.\n\nBut the act includes safeguards about how all this information is stored and handled. It is against the law to keep data when it is no longer needed, or to store it in an unsafe way.\n\nMI5 had a \"historical lack of compliance\" with the law, said Lord Justice Sir Adrian Fulford, who oversees the security service's use of data as Investigatory Powers Commissioner.\n\nIn a ruling revealed during the court case, he said the security service would be placed under greater scrutiny by judges when seeking warrants in future - which the commissioner compared to a failing school being placed in \"special measures\".\n\nLiberty said the revelations meant that some of the warrants issued to MI5 may not have been lawful, because the security service knew over several years that it was not handling data correctly but did not tell the judges.\n\nThe court heard that senior members of MI5 were aware three years ago that there were serious issues with the management of data.\n\nMI5 informed the Home Office and Number 10 of the concerns in April this year, but the commissioner said they should have revealed them earlier.\n\nDiscussions between lawyers and clients were among the information wrongly held by the security service, Liberty said.\n\nThe pressure group said such material should be protected by legal privileges, but instead it was being seen by people at MI5.\n\nLawyers for MI5 said they could not explain the exact nature of the breaches in open court, not because they were \"embarrassing\" but because there were \"serious national security concerns\".\n\nThe security service has now taken \"immediate and substantial steps\" to comply with the law, Home Secretary Sajid Javid has said.\n\nJulian Milford, representing Mr Javid and Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt, acknowledged in court \"the existence of serious compliance risks\".\n\nBut he said these specific issues were a \"complete irrelevance\" to Liberty's court case, which was challenging the legality of the whole system of information gathering created by the Investigatory Powers Act.", "Hannah Martin said she had been forced out of her job and made to sign a gagging clause after having a baby\n\nMPs have called for a ban on \"gagging clauses\" used by employers to silence allegations of unlawful discrimination and harassment.\n\nMaria Miller, chairwoman of the Women and Equalities committee, said non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) were having a \"destructive effect on people's lives\".\n\nNDAs were designed to stop staff sharing secrets if they changed jobs.\n\nBut MPs say they are now used to \"cover up unlawful and criminal behaviour\".\n\nThe Women and Equalities Committee says the government needs to clarify the rules on whistleblowing and tackle the financial barriers employees face when trying to take cases to employment tribunals.\n\nIt comes as dozens of academics told the BBC they were \"harassed\" out of their jobs and made to sign NDAs after raising complaints about discrimination, bullying and sexual misconduct.\n\nMore than 90 people wrote to the committee sharing their experiences.\n\nHannah Martin, a mother-of-two from West Sussex, told MPs she was forced to leave her job at an advertising agency after having a baby.\n\n\"They said if I did not sign an NDA within 24 hours I would not get a payout,\" she told the BBC in a separate interview.\n\n\"NDAs are a bullying tactic that forces you into silence. I felt like I had no other choice but to sign. I felt like I was being abused.\"\n\nShe said that by signing an NDA, she not only lost her job and income, but also her self-confidence. \"All the power is with the person with the money,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Miller: \"A long-term mission to get rid of NDAs altogether\"\n\nMrs Miller said it was \"worrying\" that gagging clauses were being traded by employers for job references.\n\n\"After signing an NDA, many individuals find it difficult to work in the same sector again,\" she said.\n\n\"Some suffer emotional and psychological damage as a result of their experiences, which can affect their ability to work and move on.\"\n\nThe committee said any use of confidentiality clauses needed to be clear and specific in scope and that employers should be made to investigate all allegations properly.\n\nA senior manager should be appointed to oversee discrimination cases so that someone was held accountable, the committee said.\n\nIt also renewed calls for the three-month time limit for tribunal cases about sexual harassment and discrimination to be doubled, and added new laws should be introduced so that NDAs could not prevent people from sharing information which might support the claims of other victims.\n\nAstrophysicist Dr Emma Chapman won a payout after being sexually harassed by a man at University College London but refused to sign an NDA in favour of a confidentiality waiver.\n\nShe said this was a positive first step towards \"breaking the cycle of abuse and silencing in sexual misconduct\" at universities in particular.\n\nShe told MPs she knew of two cases in London in the last five years where settlements totalling more than £100,000 in each institution were given to multiple victims of individual harassers.\n\nBut she said she was \"concerned that even with the clearest terms alongside an NDA, the power imbalance between employer and employee will still serve to silence without explicit confidentiality waivers\".\n\nUCL said it welcomed the committee's findings, adding that it \"no longer uses NDAs in settlement agreements with individuals who have complained of sexual misconduct, harassment or bullying as a matter of course\".", "Christel Stainfield-Bruce was walking with her three-year-old son when she was stabbed\n\nA mother walking with her three-year-old son asleep in a pushchair was stabbed after she refused to hand over her mobile phone.\n\nChristel Stainfield-Bruce, 36, was approached by a teenager in Islington, north London, on Friday afternoon who initially asked her for directions.\n\nHe then said \"give me your phone\" and after she said \"no\" he stabbed her in the thigh before fleeing empty-handed.\n\nShe was told at hospital she was lucky the knife missed a major artery.\n\nThe nursery worker said: \"It feels so unnecessary.\n\n\"There was no gain, he didn't even get my phone or bag or anything, but it must be a symptom of a wider problem.\n\n\"What is the state of the country when young children are causing a big wound to people they don't know, with people you've got no history with? What's going through the these people's heads?\"\n\nThe mother-of-three said she was surprised by how young her attacker - thought to be between 14 and 16 - was.\n\nChristel Stainfield-Bruce is now recovering at home\n\nShe said he had stopped her in Caedmon Road at about 16:45 BST on Friday and asked her for directions to the nearby Emirates Stadium, which she gave.\n\nHe then demanded her phone and when she refused, he stabbed her in the left thigh and fled in the direction of the Tollington and Holloway Road area.\n\nMs Stainfield-Bruce's husband Quinn said his wife \"didn't scream out because she didn't want to wake our son who was asleep in the pushchair\" and tied her jumper around the wound before phoning 999.\n\nMr Stainfield-Bruce said his wife was \"insanely lucky\", adding \"she could have been paralysed or died\".\n\nShe was taken to hospital where she was discharged early on Saturday and is now recovering at home.\n\nThe Met said no arrests had been made.\n\nOfficers said the suspect was 5ft 3in tall black male of large build, wearing dark-coloured clothing, including a jacket and trucker-style cap.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Oxfam is to make £16m of cuts because of reduced funding in the wake of the Haiti sex scandal.\n\nThe charity was accused of covering up claims that staff sexually exploited female victims of the 2010 earthquake.\n\nAfter the scandal emerged thousands of people stopped making regular donations and the government suspended its funding to the charity.\n\nAn Oxfam statement said it was \"devastated\" that it would have to reduce some of its aid programmes.\n\nHowever, it said it would target its head offices and support functions to ensure that the majority of its work on the ground could continue.\n\nClaims first emerged in the Times in February that staff, including former country director Roland van Hauwermeiren, used prostitutes while based in Haiti after the earthquake.\n\nAccording to the paper, Oxfam knew about concerns over the conduct of Mr van Hauwermeiren and another man when they worked in Chad before they were given senior roles in Haiti.\n\nThe charity's own investigation in 2011 led to four people being sacked and three others resigning, including Mr van Hauwermeiren.\n\nIt produced a public report, which said \"serious misconduct\" had taken place in Haiti - but did not give details of the allegations.\n\nIn February, Oxfam offered its \"humblest apologies\" to Haiti.\n\nOxfam GB chief executive Mark Goldring announced his resignation last month, saying that someone else should help \"rebuild\" the group following the scandal.\n\nEarlier this week it was confirmed that Oxfam GB had been banned from operating in Haiti.\n\nOxfam GB's annual income last year was £408.6m and it says it spent £303.5m on \"charitable activities\". - including development and humanitarian projects and campaigning.\n\nFollowing the announcement of the cuts, an Oxfam spokesperson said: \"We are devastated that the appalling behaviour of some former staff in Haiti and shortcomings in how we dealt with that eight years ago means we now have less money to provide clean water, food and other support to people who need it.\n\n\"We are immensely grateful to all those - including more than nine in 10 of our regular givers - who have continued to support us during these difficult times.\n\n\"We are cutting head office and support functions to ensure that we can continue with the majority of our lifesaving and life changing work on the ground.\"", "The government is to issue an \"unprecedented\" recall notice of up to 500,000 Whirlpool tumble dryers which pose a fire safety risk.\n\nIt comes four years after Whirlpool issued a warning after it found its Hotpoint, Creda and Indesit dryers had a fault which needed fixing.\n\nThe fault was blamed for at least 750 fires over an 11-year period, according to the government.\n\nWhirlpool said safety was its \"number one priority\".\n\nIt urged anyone still owning an affected dryer to contact the company immediately on 0800 151 0905.\n\nA spokeswoman added: \"In the meantime, anyone with an affected dryer that has not been modified should unplug it and not use it until the modification has been completed.\"\n\nAn estimated 5.3 million dryers were sold in the UK, but it is thought up to 500,000 could still be in use.\n\nLast year, the BBC's Watchdog Live consumer programme uncovered cases in which machines had caught fire even after being fixed.\n\nAnd in April, the Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS) published a report, urging Whirlpool to improve its risk management, and \"reach affected consumers in more creative ways\" to minimise the risk of faulty machines still being in people's homes.\n\nBusiness minister Kelly Tolhurst told the Commons that the recall notice was \"unprecedented action\".\n\nShe was responding to Conservative minister Andrew Griffiths, who told MPs that he was still concerned about whether people still had \"unsafe products\" in their homes.\n\nMark Studley said the dryer caught fire in a room in which his children, then aged two and four, regularly used to play\n\nMark Studley, 40, said his family came home one day in July last year to find their house \"full of smoke\" after their Whirlpool tumble dryer caught fire.\n\nHe said the dryer - which was stored near his children's play room - \"could have killed\" them if it had caught ablaze overnight.\n\nMr Studley, from Bridgwater in Somerset, told the BBC: \"The fire report states that it's an internal wiring fault in the machine, and all of this was caused - approximately £8,000 worth of damage - when the machine was turned off.\n\n\"If this had happened 12 hours earlier or later than it did, myself and my family risked death as it would've been in the early hours and we would've been asleep.\"\n\nRachel Reeves, Labour chairwoman of the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee, said the move was \"long overdue\".\n\n\"Finally, over a year since we called for a recall of defective machines and 18 months since the Beis Committee reported on Whirlpool's inadequate response to safety flaws, the government is at last showing some teeth,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDavid Chaplin, a spokesman for consumer group Which? said there were still \"serious questions\" about the 500,000 unmodified machines that \"Whirlpool has already struggled to locate\".\n\nHe said: \"People's lives have been put at risk for far too long, so it's a hugely significant step that these machines are set to be recalled.\n\n\"The government must urgently explain what it is going to do about the millions of modified machines still in people's homes, following serious concerns that have been raised by people who have experienced fires, smoke and burning despite the so-called fix.\"\n\nA Whirlpool Corporation spokeswoman said: \"We remain committed to resolving any affected tumble dryers that have not yet been modified.\n\n\"To this end, we are in ongoing discussions with the Office for Product Safety and Standards to agree additional measures we have proposed to reach consumers who have not yet engaged with this safety programme.\n\n\"We have co-operated with OPSS throughout its recent review of the programme and welcome its findings that consumers whose tumble dryers have been modified can continue to use them safely.\"", "Oxfam was accused of covering up sexual abuse by staff\n\nThe work environment at Oxfam is marked by \"racism, colonial behaviour and bullying\", staff have reported.\n\nThe allegations were made to an independent commission set up in the wake of the Haiti scandal in 2018 to assess the charity's culture.\n\nA 30-page report, which details initial findings, reported the charity has a \"toxic work environment\".\n\nOxfam said the report was an \"important step\" to help \"tackle the root causes of abuse\".\n\nIn February the charity was accused of covering up claims staff sexually exploited female victims of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti.\n\nThe report found a lack of \"robust policies and procedures\" led to a culture in which sexual misconduct could be misunderstood or unaddressed.\n\nThe Independent Commission on Sexual Misconduct, Accountability and Culture Change (ICSMACC) said staff were also critical of management.\n\n\"The commission has heard multiple staff raise concerns of elitism... racism and colonial behaviour... sexism, rigid hierarchies and patriarchy,\" it said.\n\n\"Oxfam's values are printed on wall posters but not always understood or upheld in action, and sometimes are even contradicted.\"\n\nStaff said the charity's procedures for dealing with bullying, harassment and sexual misconduct were \"deficient\".\n\nThose who raised issues in the past \"felt deeply frustrated and saddened at the lack of accountability they experienced\", the report added.\n\nWinnie Byanyima, Oxfam International executive director, apologised to those who had experienced abuse.\n\n\"This is an important piece of work at a crucial time for us,\" she said.\n\n\"We will use its emerging recommendations to bolster our ongoing improvements so that we truly have 'zero tolerance' to anyone who would abuse their power over others.\"\n\nThe commission's full report will be published in May.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The UK risks losing its position as a world leader in mobile connectivity, Britain's mobile operators are warning.\n\nIn a draft letter to Cabinet Secretary Mark Sedwill, seen by the BBC, operators will urge the government to clarify its position over Huawei.\n\nThe letter asks for an urgent meeting between industry leaders and the government to discuss their concerns.\n\nOperators say they can't invest in infrastructure while uncertainty over the use of Chinese technology persists.\n\nThe companies are planning to send the letter to government as soon as this week.\n\nThey are concerned at the government's inability to decide whether Huawei technology will be approved for use in new 5G networks.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"The security and resilience of the UK's telecoms networks is of paramount importance. We have robust procedures in place to manage risks to national security and are committed to the highest possible security standards.\n\n\"The Telecoms Supply Chain Review will be announced in due course. We have been clear throughout the process that all network operators will need to comply with the government's decision.\"\n\nHuawei is the world's leading supplier of next generation connectivity equipment, but it has faced a backlash from the US.\n\nThe US government has already banned the use of Huawei technology after citing concerns that the company may present a security threat by allowing the Chinese government a way to snoop on critical infrastructure.\n\nThe US has also threatened to limit intelligence co-operation with any country that allows Huawei equipment to be used in its own networks.\n\nEarlier this year there were unconfirmed reports that the government was considering allowing Huawei equipment into the periphery of new mobile networks, but not into the \"core\" of systems that could end up managing crucial services such as hospitals, police forces and the energy network.\n\nEE recently launched its 5G services in six UK cities\n\nBT-owned mobile operator EE said it had delayed the launch of Huawei's 5G phones \"until we get the information and confidence and the long-term security that our customers … are going to be supported\".\n\nVodafone has also announced it is suspending orders of Huawei 5G handsets.\n\nIn perhaps the biggest blow to Huawei, British firm ARM, which designs processors used in most mobile devices worldwide, has also said it may suspend ties with Huawei.\n\nHuawei has found itself on the front line of the trade war between the US and China.\n\nThe company insists that it poses no security threat to any of its customers.\n\nHuawei says suggestions to the contrary are a smokescreen for frustrating China's attempts to emerge as a leading designer and provider of high tech equipment, rather than assembling the nuts and bolts of technology designed in the US and Europe.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA woman whose three children were murdered by the same man has been informed their killer has been released from prison.\n\nDavid McGreavy killed Elsie Urry's children, Paul Ralph, four, Dawn, two, and nine-month-old Samantha, at their Worcester home in 1973.\n\nMs Urry said she was informed of his release by Victim Support on Tuesday.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice said McGreavy \"will be on licence for the rest of his life and subject to strict conditions\".\n\nNow living in Hampshire, Ms Urry was told McGreavy would be subject to exclusion zones following his release.\n\nShe said: \"They said he was going in for life and then they changed it for [a minimum of] 20 years, but he hasn't done 60 years. He took three lives, not just one or two; three.\"\n\nDavid McGreavy was jailed for the killings in 1973\n\nMcGreavy, who was dubbed the \"Monster of Worcester\", was 21 and lodging with the family at the time of the murders. He had been staying with them because he had fallen out with his parents.\n\nHe strangled Paul at the home in Gillam Street, Rainbow Hill, while Dawn was found with her throat cut. Samantha died from a compound fracture to the skull and the bodies of all three children were left on railings.\n\nThe possibility of McGreavy's release has been discussed for at least 10 years and a previous appeal was denied in 2016.\n\nBut in December it was revealed a Parole Board report said McGreavy had \"changed considerably\" over 45 years in jail.\n\nMs Urry had been able to have input on the conditions that McGreavy would be subject to upon release, and said the exclusion zones imposed on him had been extended slightly after discussions with her.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Hereford and Worcester, she said: \"It gives me a bit of peace of mind but it is still not fair he has been released after what he has done.\n\n\"There's other prisoners that haven't done half as bad as what he did to my children and they haven't been put up for parole, so what has made him be able to get parole?\"\n\nElsie Ralph sits with her three children (l-r) Paul, Samantha and Dawn\n\nConservative MP for Worcester Robin Walker, who has repeatedly written to successive justice ministers and home secretaries objecting to McGreavy's release, said: \"Frankly, I don't think someone who carried out such crimes should ever be let out.\n\n\"I understand there are strict curfew and tag conditions and he is banned from Worcester, and the area where Ms Urry lives.\"\n\nA Ministry of Justice spokesman said: \"We understand that this will be extremely distressing for the family of David McGreavy's victims and our thoughts remain with them.\n\n\"Like all life sentence prisoners released by the independent Parole Board, David McGreavy will be on licence for the rest of his life and subject to strict conditions - and faces a return to prison if he fails to comply.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Wage growth beat market and economist expectations in the three months from February to April.\n\nPay rose by 3.4% compared with a year ago. After taking inflation into account, wage growth was 1.4%, official figures show.\n\nThe unemployment rate remained at 3.8%, and has not been lower since the October to December 1974 period, the Office for National Statistics said.\n\nThe employment rate for women was 72%, the highest on record.\n\nThis is after changes to the state pension age leading to fewer women retiring between the ages of 60 and 65.\n\nMatt Hughes, deputy head of labour market statistics at the ONS, said: \"With employment growth among women coming from full-timers, the overall gap between men and women in hours worked is now the lowest ever - women now average about three-quarters of men's weekly hours, compared with around two-thirds 25 years ago.\"\n\nSterling rose from five-month lows against the euro after wages rose faster than expected, beating some economists predictions of a 3% rise.\n\nWhile employment growth slowed, the jobless rate held at 3.8%.\n\nJohn Hawksworth, PwC chief economist, said it was \"interesting\" that female employment rose by 60,000 compared with the previous quarter, while male employment fell by 27,000.\n\n\"This is consistent with a longer-term trend towards a narrowing gender employment gap.\n\n\"Male employment is still higher at around 80%, but this is well below its historical highs of over 90% back in the 1970s.\"\n\nTej Parikh, chief economist at the Institute of Directors, said: \"The buoyant labour market is still going strong for the UK economy, even as it weathers widespread political uncertainty.\"\n\n\"However, the employment boom cannot last forever, and is certainly showing signs of softening.\"\n\nHow is it that employment has reached record levels yet people aren't feeling that in their pockets? It's a question that has confounded labour market experts.\n\nBut with 357,000 jobs having been created over the last year, overwhelmingly full-time, companies are now having to pay a higher price to attract staff.\n\nWages across the economy grew by 3.4% in the three months to April, compared with a year ago, according to the Office for National Statistics, with the biggest increases in the construction and financial services industries.\n\nStrip out inflation, however, and real wages remain on average a touch below pre-financial crisis levels.\n\nWhat happens next? The rate of job creation is slowing, and economists are divided over whether this represents more caution on the part of employers or a lack of suitable candidates.\n\nIf it's the former, then the rate of pay growth could moderate. But if it's the latter, then salaries may rise faster as firms compete for the best talent.\n\nBut bumper pay rises could come at a cost. The Bank of England is known to be concerned that faster pay growth could equal higher inflation, which could mean it's more inclined to raise interest rates.\n\nMeanwhile, data for a separate time period out on Tuesday showed the scale of job losses in the retail sector after tough conditions on the High Street.\n\nFrom the first quarter of 2018 to the first quarter of 2019, retail lost 79,000 jobs. In total, 54,000 employee jobs went, and 25,000 self-employed retail jobs.\n\nKyle Monk, head of retail insight and analytics at the British Retail Consortium, said: \"It has been a turbulent year, with many well-known brands disappearing from our High Streets, as has been evidenced by the substantial loss in retail jobs this quarter.\n\n\"Political and economic uncertainty has compounded many of the challenges created by the pace of technological change.\"", "MSPs have voted to approve an \"opt-out\" system for organ donation in Scotland.\n\nAt present, people must \"opt in\" by registering to donate their organs for transplants after they die.\n\nUnder the new system it will be assumed people were in favour of donation unless they have stated otherwise.\n\nOnly a handful of MSPs voted against the plans, which Public Health Minister Joe Fitzpatrick said would help contribute to \"significant increases in donation and transplantation\".\n\nApproximately 550 people in Scotland are waiting for an organ transplant, which could save or transform their lives.\n\nDespite record numbers of people registered to donate, it is hoped the move to an opt-out system - similar to the one adopted by Wales in 2015 - will lead to an increase in available organs.\n\nFamilies will still be consulted and have the final say under the plans in the Human Tissue (Authorisation) (Scotland) Bill.\n\nAs of July last year, there were 2,724,358 people in Scotland on the UK Organ Donor Register\n\nDavid McColgan, of the British Heart Foundation Scotland, said: \"We already have the highest population registered to be donors [in the UK] but we also have the highest family refusal rate so this legislation will change that conversation, change the understanding of the situation.\n\n\"For example, in Wales over two years they have seen a 50% increase in family consent so that is really important and that is what we hope the legislation will achieve here.\n\n\"But the legislation cannot be seen as a silver bullet and a solution on its own, so two of the big challenges which exist are training enough staff and having the suitable infrastructure for transplants.\"\n\nA Scottish government consultation on the organ donation changes found 82% of respondents in favour of the move\n\nMore than half of Scotland's population have registered to donate their organs or tissue after their death - the highest rate in Britain.\n\nMr Fitzpatrick said the bill was part of a range of measures aimed at boosting donations, saying it was \"important that we do all we can to improve the lives of those on the waiting list\".\n\nHe said: \"Organ and tissue donation can be a life-changing gift. Evidence shows that opt-out systems can make a difference as part of a wider package of measures and this bill provides further opportunities to both save and improve lives.\"\n\nHolyrood considered an opt-out system in the previous parliamentary term, but narrowly rejected a member's bill from Labour's Anne McTaggart due to \"serious concerns\" about the \"practical impact of the specific details\".\n\nThree MSPs voted against the current bill, with one - SNP backbencher Christine Grahame - voicing concerns about the wording of the bill.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nStudying for his Highers in 2011, 16-year-old Harry Prentice could not shake a breathlessness and lethargy which left him falling asleep at all times of the day.\n\nWithin minutes of a visit to his GP, he was on his way to hospital and the eventual diagnosis was that his heart was twice the size it should be, and failing.\n\n\"It was a shock, I was a 16-year-old guy - fit as a fiddle - and thought I was fine, invincible like you do at that age,\" explained Harry.\n\nThe new norm for Harry, who lives near Lanark, was then endless journeys to and from hospital as he waited for a heart transplant.\n\nHe continued: \"Once you're on the waiting list it really makes you think about the situation you're in - you think, am I going to be here in five years time? And so you start thinking about your life and what is planned.\"\n\nHarry received treatment at the Golden Jubilee hospital in Clydebank\n\nHarry was fitted with an an artificial heart pump which allowed him to continue with life for two years until further complications developed. He was eventually found a transplant in June 2013 with the team operating from the Golden Jubilee hospital in Clydebank.\n\nComplications during surgery meant Harry suffered a severe stroke and has had years of rehabilitation since, but the 24-year-old says he is delighted the transplant has given him another shot at life.\n\nHe said: \"There was relief when the news came through and a little bit of sadness knowing someone had died, but grateful they had decided to donate and that they were going to pass on the organs to let me live.\n\n\"This law change has been a long time in the waiting and will be good for the country.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The names of candidates to officially enter the Conservative leadership race are announced by Dame Cheryl Gillan\n\nThe final candidates for the Tory leadership race have been confirmed, with 10 running to become the next PM.\n\nJeremy Hunt, Dominic Raab, Matt Hancock and Michael Gove - who launched their campaigns ahead of the nomination deadline - are all on the final list.\n\nConservative MPs will now take part in a series of votes to whittle the candidates down to the final two.\n\nThe two MPs will then face the wider Tory membership to decide on the next leader of their party, and the country.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Who decides who will be the next prime minister?\n\nVice chairman of the party's backbench 1922 committee Dame Cheryl Gillan announced the list.\n\nTo be allowed to run, the MPs needed to have a proposer, a seconder and the support of six other members.\n\nSam Gyimah, the only contender backing another referendum on Brexit, withdrew from the race shortly after nominations closed, saying there was not enough time to build support.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lidington on Hancock: He's got no Brexit baggage\n\nMrs May officially stepped down as the leader of the Conservative Party last week, but will remain as prime minister until her successor is chosen.\n\nWhat are Tory MPs looking for in their next leader?\n\nSomeone who can win a general election and protect their seats, certainly. Someone who has a plausible plan for Brexit. Someone to breathe life into a glum and dejected party.\n\nIf parliamentary sparkle was the main qualification Michael Gove would probably romp this race - but after destroying the candidacy of Boris Johnson last time and recent revelations about his use of cocaine, his reputation has been harmed.\n\nMr Johnson is divisive among colleagues and his personal life has long been messy, but he remains one of the most recognisable and charismatic politicians in the country.\n\nJeremy Hunt has a focused, managerial manner, Dominic Raab has the intensity of a karate-chopping former lawyer and Sajid Javid has climbed to the top of the Tory party.\n\nEsther McVey built a career in television that led to politics, Andrea Leadsom is making a second tilt at No 10, and Rory Stewart's social media campaign has brought him attention and plaudits from outside Conservative circles.\n\nBut in this contest, it's the judgement of Conservative MPs and party members that matters.\n\nEnvironment Secretary Mr Gove, who has faced calls to drop out of the race after he admitted using cocaine several times more than 20 years ago, repeated at his campaign launch that he regrets \"his past mistakes\".\n\nHis speech focused on the policies he would introduce as leader, including the creation of a \"national cyber crime task force\" and more protection for the armed forces from legal challenges.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A Michael Gove-led government would take \"back control of our money, our borders, and our laws\".\n\nHe said he wants to \"ensure that our NHS is fully-funded, properly funded\" and that funding is protected under law.\n\nIn a swipe at Boris Johnson's earlier tax policy pledge to cut income tax bills for people earning more than £50,000 a year, he said: \"One thing I will never do as PM is use our tax and benefits system to give the already wealthy another tax cut.\"\n\nHe also said the party leader needs to be someone who has been \"tested in the heat of battle\" and not one who has been \"hiding in their bunker\".\n\nMr Johnson has so far not conducted any broadcast interviews about his campaign.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Leadership candidate Jeremy Hunt: \"We need tough negotiation, not empty rhetoric.\"\n\nOn Brexit, Mr Gove said it was \"not enough to believe in Brexit you've also got to be able to deliver it\", insisting he has \"a proper plan\".\n\nEarlier, Health Secretary Matt Hancock told his launch the Conservatives and the country \"need a fresh start\", announcing one of his key pledges - to increase the national living wage to more than £10 an hour.\n\nHe has also won a high-profile backer, with the de facto deputy prime minister, David Lidington, pledging his support.\n\nMr Lidington told the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg that his colleague had \"no baggage\" from the 2016 Brexit referendum and had a clear vision for the future of the country.\n\nEx-Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab said he was \"a committed Brexiteer\" who could be trusted to secure the UK's departure. He also unveiled plans to redirect £500m a year from the aid budget to create an international wildlife fund.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dominic Raab: “I am the candidate who can be trusted to deliver on Brexit.\"\n\nForeign Secretary Mr Hunt, meanwhile, said a \"very smart\" approach was needed to break the Brexit impasse, saying an \"experienced, serious leader\" was needed, not \"empty rhetoric\".\n\nHe also attempted to end criticism of his stance on abortion by insisting he would not try to change the law if chosen as PM.\n\nIt was announced earlier that two cabinet ministers - Brexiteer Penny Mordaunt and Remainer Amber Rudd - back Mr Hunt.\n\nFormer Work and Pensions Secretary Esther McVey outlined her campaign at a think tank event, saying \"we have nothing to fear\" from a no-deal Brexit, and pledging to give a pay rise to public sector workers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock rejects the idea that Brexit must be delivered by a \"Brexiteer\".\n\nInternational Development Secretary Rory Stewart faced callers' questions during a live phone-in on BBC Radio 4's World at One.\n\nHe called for compromise over Brexit, and said he would give Parliament \"a final chance\" to vote through the existing deal that Mrs May negotiated with the EU.\n\nBut he ruled out supporting a further referendum, arguing \"it wouldn't resolve anything\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Esther McVey says \"non-engagement\" with the cabinet made Theresa May's deal worse\n\nWhereas candidates in the past would have only needed two MPs supporting them, senior Tories decided to change the rules earlier this month in an effort to speed up the contest.\n\nAll 313 Conservative MPs will vote for their preferred candidate in a series of ballots held on 13, 18, 19 and 20 June to whittle down the contenders one by one until only two are left.\n\nDue to another rule change, candidates will need to win the votes of at least 16 other MPs in the first ballot and 32 colleagues in the second to proceed.\n\nThe final two will be put to the 160,000 or so members of the wider Conservative Party in a vote from 22 June, with the winner expected to be announced about four weeks later.\n\nOn Tuesday 18 June BBC One will be hosting a live election debate between the Conservative MPs who are still in the race.\n\nIf you would like to ask the candidates a question live on air, use the form below. It should be open to all of them, not a specific politician.\n\nIf you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"You need both\" - Amazon's Tye Brady on robotics replacing humans\n\nAmazon’s warehouses will always need human staff, the firm’s chief robotics technologist has told the BBC.\n\nThe company said it had deployed more than 200,000 warehouse robots working in around 50 of its locations.\n\nBut despite Amazon investing heavily in advanced robotics, Tye Brady said the firm’s centres would never reach the point where they could be fully automated.\n\n“Not at all. One ounce of my body just doesn’t see that,” he said.\n\n“The way that I think about this is a symphony of humans and machines working together, you need both.\n\n“The challenge that we have in front of us is how do we smartly design our machines to extend human capability.”\n\nMr Brady was speaking to the BBC at Re:Mars, an Amazon event intended to showcase the firm’s latest work in machine learning, automation, robotics and space.\n\nHe told the BBC the suggestion that robotics and AI would replace humans was a “myth”.\n\n“It's a reframing of your relationship with machines, right?\n\n“You extend human capability. And when you gain productivity, then you have the ability to create new jobs that were unimaginable five years ago.”\n\nBut the nature of those jobs has been harshly criticised.\n\nThe UK-based GMB trade union organised a worker strike last November, describing conditions for employees at Amazon’s warehouses as “inhuman”.\n\n“They are breaking bones, being knocked unconscious and being taken away in ambulances,” said GMB General Secretary Tim Roache in a statement.\n\n“We’re standing up and saying enough is enough, these are people making Amazon its money. People with kids, homes, bills to pay - they’re not robots.”\n\nIn response, Amazon at the time said: “All of our sites are safe places to work and reports to the contrary are simply wrong.”\n\nBut the firm is making changes in response to pressure. Earlier this year, Amazon increased its minimum wage for warehouse workers to $15 (£12) after considerable pressure from, among others, potential Democratic presidential nominee, Bernie Sanders.\n\nHe, along with Californian Congressman Ro Khanna, introduced legislation that would add an additional tax on corporations if their lowest paid employees relied on government programmes, such as food stamps, to make ends meet.\n\nThe measure was titled Stop Bad Employers by Zeroing Out Subsidies, or Stop BEZOS, for short - a reference to Amazon’s founder and chief executive, Jeff Bezos.\n\nOne of the company’s announcements was Pegasus, a new robot that is being used in the firm’s “sortation centres” - the last step before a package is handed off to a delivery company.\n\n“Resembling an orange nightstand on wheels, the two-feet-high, 3-feet-wide Pegasus drive is Amazon's newest robot designed to create greater efficiency in its sortation process so customers can receive their orders even faster,” the firm said in a blog post.\n\nAn accompanying video showed humans placing packages on to the robot, which then carried it, autonomously, to another location ready to be taken out for delivery.\n\nThe system is able to work out the quickest route for the robots to take, taking into account the hundreds of other robots moving around at the same time. A “flow control specialist” monitors the movements of up to 800 Pegasus robots at once.\n\nThe company also announced it had made Xanthus, an updated version of its pallet-moving robot used in fulfilment centres.\n\nThe firm said its robots had to date stacked more than 2 billion plastic storage boxes, known as totes.\n\nBut one task robots still struggle greatly with is picking up individual objects of varying shapes and standards - which is still a key job of the human worker, particularly in the areas of Amazon’s business that deal with food handling.\n\n“It's not humans versus machines at all,” Mr Brady told the BBC.\n\n“It's humans and machines working together to achieve a task.”\n\nDo you have more information about this or any other technology story? You can reach Dave directly and securely through encrypted messaging app Signal on: +1 (628) 400-7370", "Competitors have taken part in a race on office chairs in Japan.\n\nThree-person teams in the Isu-1 Grand Prix, which took place in the city of Hanyu, had to complete as many laps of the 200m (650ft) course as they could in two hours.\n\nThe event was founded 10 years ago, with a series of races scheduled across the country this year.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Video from a police helicopter shows the moment gang members were arrested on the M6 near Knutsford, Cheshire\n\nTwo drugs gang bosses have been jailed after cocaine with a street value of £20m was seized from a van on the M6 in Cheshire.\n\nThe drugs haul on 2 August was the biggest seizure of cocaine on land in the UK, Cheshire Constabulary has said.\n\nA total of 21 people were convicted following an investigation into organised crime groups led by Jamie Simpson, 31, and Jamie Oldroyd, 29.\n\nBoth were sentenced at Liverpool Crown Court for conspiracy to supply cocaine.\n\nSimpson and Oldroyd, both of no fixed abode, were jailed for 11 years and six months and 14 years and three months respectively.\n\nThe court heard how Simpson and Andrew Daniels, 41, Clare Smith, 36, and Dean Brettle, 37, had travelled to Kent to pick up a drugs consignment, believed to have come from Europe.\n\nPolice stopped the gang driving to Warrington along the M6 near Knutsford, Cheshire.\n\nVideo footage from a police helicopter shows the moment Simpson was arrested after police vehicles surrounded his Ford Transit.\n\nJamie Oldroyd and Jamie Simpson were arrested following a 14-month covert investigation\n\nOfficers searched the vehicle and found 186kg of high purity cocaine concealed under the floor of the van and in the passenger seat.\n\nThe van had been adapted to conceal the drugs, which were hidden in large metal drawers and beneath a false floor, Cheshire Police said.\n\nDaniels was sentenced to eight years and six months, Smith to eight years and nine months and Brettle to six years for conspiracy to supply cocaine.\n\nAndrew Daniels, 41, Clare Smith, 36, and Dean Brettle, 37, travelled to Kent to pick up the drugs\n\nDet Ch Insp Mike Evans, from Cheshire Constabulary, said the gang led \"cash-rich\" lives but their lavish lifestyles led to their arrests.\n\nA video filmed on a phone shows Oldroyd and Taluant Paja, 22, who was jailed for six years and six months for his part in the conspiracy, counting out an estimated £150,000 in cash on a coffee table where Rolex watches can also be seen.\n\n\"They were carefree. There was an arrogance to them and they led a bit of a gangster lifestyle,\" added Det Ch Insp Evans.\n\nOldroyd's gang \"would go to great lengths to conceal their criminality\" by disposing of mobile phones and regularly changing vehicles, the court heard.\n\nThe gang was involved in supplying cocaine across the country including in Warrington, Carlisle, Scunthorpe, Darlington, Manchester and London.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Theresa May will tell world leaders at a conference they have \"a moral duty\" to speak for victims of modern slavery.\n\n\"No leader worthy of the name can look the other way while men, women and children are held against their will,\" the prime minister is expected to say.\n\nMrs May will announce £10m to reduce exploitation of children in Africa's agricultural industries.\n\nShe will also say big businesses should produce transparency statements on modern slavery.\n\nThe prime minister - who is due to step down in July - will be addressing the United Nations' International Labour Organisation in Geneva.\n\nShe is expected to say: \"Modern slavery reaches into every corner of our lives - in the clothes we wear, the food we eat, the services we pay for.\n\n\"Yet for many years it seldom captured the world's attention or outrage - allowing those who trade in human misery to quietly continue their work, and allowing all of us to look the other way as we benefitted from the forced labour of this growing underclass.\"\n\nModern slaves in the UK, often said to be hiding in plain sight, are working in our nail bars, on construction sites, in brothels, on cannabis farms and in agriculture.\n\nTraffickers are using the internet to lure their victims with hollow promises of jobs, education and even love.\n\nAlbania, Nigeria, Vietnam, Romania and Poland are the most likely countries of origin, but some victims are from the UK itself.\n\nThere is no typical victim. They can be men, women or children of all ages but it is normally more prevalent among the most vulnerable, minorities or socially-excluded groups.\n\nMany believe they are escaping poverty, limited opportunities at home, a lack of education, unstable social and political conditions or war.\n\nBut their slave masters are usually out to make financial gain.\n\nSexual exploitation is the most common form of modern slavery reported in the UK, followed by labour exploitation, forced criminal exploitation and domestic servitude.\n\nIn 2014, the Home Office estimated there were between 10,000 and 13,000 potential victims in the UK - just 2,340 of those were officially reported and recorded.\n\nMrs May will announce plans to create a new international modern slavery and migration envoy to help co-ordinate the UK's efforts with other nations.\n\nAs Home Secretary, Theresa May introduced the Modern Slavery bill which became law in 2015.\n\nThe legislation included tougher sentences and more help for people forced into labouring, domestic servitude, sex work and other coercive tasks.\n\nMP Frank Field, who led a recent review into the impact of the Modern Slavery Act, said there had been \"too few convictions\" and called for the laws to be strengthened.\n\nMrs May is making a series of policy announcements in her final weeks as she seeks to return to the \"burning injustices\" agenda she set out when she first entered Downing Street in 2016.", "Leading children’s charity NSPCC has cut ties with Munroe Bergdorf, one of the UK’s most influential transgender activists.\n\nThree days later, she says she is still in the dark about why it happened.\n\nIn a statement, the NSPCC said Ms Bergdorf \"has supported the most recent phase of Childline's campaign which aims to support children with LGBTQ+ concerns\" but she would have \"no ongoing relationship with Childline or the NSPCC\".\n\nThe BBC’s LGBT Correspondent, Ben Hunte, went to meet her.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Contaminated blood inquiry: \"We watched them all die\"\n\nA man who is one of six brothers all infected by contaminated blood has told how four of his siblings died.\n\nGiving evidence to the inquiry into the contaminated blood scandal, John Cornes said he was infected with Hepatitis C during treatment for haemophilia.\n\nHe said his family had been \"ripped apart mentally\" and two of his children had changed their surname due to the stigma.\n\nThe inquiry is being held in Leeds until 21 June.\n\nIt is looking at how thousands of patients were given infected blood products during the 1970s and 1980s in what has repeatedly been called \"the worst treatment scandal in the history of the NHS\".\n\nSome 4,800 people with haemophilia were infected with Hepatitis C over two decades. More than 2,000 are thought to have died.\n\nThe inquiry is looking into why 4,800 people with haemophilia were infected with hepatitis C or HIV\n\nMr Cornes, 58, from Kings Heath, Birmingham, told the hearing three of his brothers were infected with HIV and died in the 1990s.\n\nGary, 26, died in 1992, Roy, also 26, died in 1994 and Gordon, 40, in 1995.\n\nAnother brother, who was also infected with Hepatitis C, died two years ago.\n\nMr Cornes said Roy unwittingly \"infected a girl with HIV and she died before he died\".\n\n\"The press got hold of it and came down on the family, they ripped the family apart mentally,\" he said.\n\nMr Cornes said they were known as \"the scumbags\" or \"the Aids family\" in Birmingham, with 50 reporters hiding in hedges at Gary's funeral to take photographs.\n\nGary's wife also contracted HIV and died in 2000, he added.\n\nHe said: \"I have got a load of nephews and nieces from the brothers who have died and I have nephews that haven't got a mother or a father.\n\n\"So it's affected at least 30 of my family, so I am here to represent not just the infected, but also the affected.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Widow of Yorkshire victim wants justice for all.\n\nHe compared the treatment of his family to what the Irish community went through in Birmingham in the aftermath of the 1974 pub bombings.\n\nHe said: \"If you were Irish you would be beaten up, there was a real bad atmosphere.\n\n\"What happened to our family was exactly the same thing, the 'Aids family'. It wasn't their fault and it wasn't our fault, what happened to us.\"\n\nMr Cornes, who started to receive treatment for haemophilia in the late 1970s, said that as children \"the only treatment was transfusions with ice cold packs to stop the bleeding\".\n\nWhen asked if he was given any warnings about potential problems with the treatment, he replied: \"We weren't given none.. we didn't know anything about viruses or anything like that.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Queen Elizabeth said she spent \"happy days\" at Villa Guardamangia\n\nThe Queen's former Malta home, Villa Guardamangia, has been put up for sale for nearly €6m (£5.3m).\n\nThe villa, located on the outskirts of the capital Valletta, is the only place outside the UK that Queen Elizabeth II has ever called home.\n\nShe lived there between 1949 and 1951, in the early years of her marriage to Prince Philip, who had been stationed in Malta as a naval officer.\n\nThe Grade Two listed property has since fallen into disrepair.\n\nIt is currently being listed by a luxury real estate agency, which describes it as \"an amazing grand Palazzo style property... with documented great historical value.\"\n\nThe listing says the 1,560 sq m (16,791 sq ft) property, which was built around 1900, boasts \"many authentic architectural features\", high ceilings, stables and \"various guest/servant quarters\".\n\n\"The property is just crying out for a great conversion and will make a superb residence or possibly a commercial venue,\" it adds.\n\nThe Queen and her husband lived in the villa before her coronation. It was at the time the rented home of Prince Philip's uncle.\n\nShe has fond memories of her time on the Mediterranean island, living as a naval officer's wife.\n\n\"Visiting Malta is always very special for me. I remember happy days here with Prince Phillip when we were first married,\" she said during a visit to the country in 2015.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Happy memories for the Queen in Malta\n\nMaltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat gave the royal couple a framed watercolour of the property during the visit.\n\nBut rows have broken out in Malta over the property in recent years, amid calls to restore the dilapidated building to its former glory.\n\nSome believe the government should acquire and renovate the villa, while others say private owners should decide what to do.", "The manager of a Bradford nursery said it could be forced to close if government funding did not increase\n\nNurseries in England's poorest areas are facing closure because of a shortfall in government funding, a charity has said.\n\nA report by the Early Years Alliance (EYA) found 17% of childcare providers surveyed in the most deprived areas of the country \"anticipate closure in the next twelve months\".\n\nSome nurseries said they had lowered the quality of food given to children.\n\nThe Department for Education said it spent £3.5bn a year on early education.\n\nSince September 2017, most working parents in England have been entitled to a scheme offering 30 hours of free care for children aged three to four during term time.\n\nThe government pays a national average of £4.98 per hour for places to local authorities but childcare providers have said this does not cover their costs.\n\nNeil Leitch, chief executive of the EYA, said the nursery sector was \"in crisis\".\n\n\"How much bigger does the early years funding shortfall have to grow before the government acts?\" he asked.\n\n\"Thousands of providers have closed, many more are charging for things that were previously free and now we see the impact this is likely to have on the poorest children in the country.\"\n\nPaula Williams said 80% of her Bradford nursery's budget went on staff costs\n\nThe survey of more than 350 nurseries and childminders found 43% of providers had been forced to cut back on learning resources and 19% said they had lowered the quality of food they gave to children.\n\nPaula Williams, who runs a nursery in Bradford, said it could be forced to close if government funding did not increase.\n\nAll of the 48 children at the centre are supported by the government's scheme, with no fee-paying students. Ms Williams said 80% of the budget went on staff costs.\n\n\"Our funding went down yet our costs have all increased because national living and minimum wage is going up year on year and also we had to start paying pensions for all staff.\n\n\"Further forward it's getting tighter because next year the minimum wage will go up again and our funding is stagnant, it's not increasing,\" she said.\n\nAlia Kauser, whose son attends the nursery, described early years learning as \"really important\".\n\n\"I've realised the change in my son Ismail,\" she said.\n\n\"Before he was not as talkative and didn't want to get involved but now when I see him, when I pick him up from nursery he's totally engaged.\"\n\nThe Department for Education said it provided \"a significant package of childcare to parents and carers\".\n\n\"Our Early Years National Funding Formula allocates our funding to local authorities fairly and transparently,\" it said.\n\n\"We recognise the need to keep our evidence base on costs up-to-date and we continue to monitor the provider market closely through a range of research projects.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The gas field is 140 miles (225km) off Aberdeen\n\nProduction has started on the massive Culzean gas field in the North Sea.\n\nOperator Total said the field, 140 miles (225km) off Aberdeen, will be responsible for 5% of the UK's gas needs when it reaches peak production.\n\nCulzean was discovered in 2008 when it was described as the largest gas find in a decade. It contains gas reserves equal to about 250-300 million barrels of oil.\n\nThe find was made by the Danish firm Maersk Oil.\n\nThe French firm owns a 49.99% stake, with the remainder shared between BP and JX Nippon.\n\nTotal's president of exploration and production, Arnaud Breuillac, said: \"Culzean is a good example of our efforts to upgrade our portfolio in the North Sea over the last years, notably by bringing Total and Maersk Oil together.\n\n\"The Culzean field is located in the Central Graben area, close to the Elgin-Franklin fields, also operated by Total.\n\n\"The Culzean project is delivered ahead of schedule and more than 10% below the initial budget, which represents capex (capital expenditure) savings of more than 500 million dollars.\"\n\nAbout 100,000 barrels of oil-equivalent gas per day will come from Culzean via a pipeline to Teesside.\n\nIt consists of three bridge-linked installations and a floating storage facility.\n\nBP North Sea regional president Ariel Flores said: \"The ground-breaking Culzean development is the latest addition to BP's resilient North Sea portfolio, representing an important new source of domestic gas production for the UK.\n\n\"I would like to congratulate the project team and our partners for safely achieving first gas ahead of the initial plan.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer describes his motion as a \"safety valve” in the Brexit process\n\nLabour has tabled a cross-party motion to try to stop a future prime minister pushing through a no-deal Brexit against the wishes of MPs.\n\nThe party is trying to force a vote to give MPs control of the timetable on 25 June and thereby the power to introduce legislation to avoid no deal.\n\nLabour's Keir Starmer said it was a \"safety valve\", but Brexit Secretary Stephen Barclay criticised the plan.\n\nSome Tory leadership hopefuls have said they would leave the EU without a deal.\n\nMichael Gove said Labour's plans \"must be resisted\", as while he would prefer to agree a plan with the EU, \"we must not rule out no deal.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Michael Gove This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFor other candidates, including Rory Stewart and Mark Harper, the prospect of leaving without a deal is unacceptable.\n\nHowever, neither man appears prepared to back the opposition motion. Mr Harper said his \"instinct\" was to oppose it while Mr Stewart - despite saying he was \"wholly supportive\" of the idea at his campaign launch in London - later tweeted that he would not be voting for it.\n\nBut Dominic Raab and Esther McVey have both said they would consider shutting down Parliament early - proroguing - in order to drive through no deal.\n\nLeaving on a no-deal basis - without any agreement on the shape of the future relationship between the UK and EU - could lead to significant disruption.\n\nThe EU has previously said border checks would have to be brought in, affecting things like exports and travel and creating uncertainty around the rights of UK citizens living in the EU and vice-versa.\n\nThe government normally controls business in the Commons - but MPs have previously seized control to legislate in favour of extending the Brexit process.\n\nLabour's shadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir said the motion was a \"safety valve\" designed to ensure Parliament \"cannot be locked out of the Brexit process\" in the coming months.\n\nIt would allow Parliament to push back against a new prime minister \"foolish enough\" to pursue a no-deal Brexit without MPs' consent.\n\nThat was especially important, Sir Keir argued, because the Tory leadership contest had \"become an arms race to promise the most damaging form of Brexit\".\n\nMr Barclay, though, said the motion was a \"blind motion\" because it did not specify the legislation that would be introduced under its terms.\n\nLabour had previously accused ministers of backing a \"blind Brexit\" because the future relationship was not spelled out in the withdrawal agreement - but this motion was guilty of the same approach, he said.\n\nHe argued it would be a \"fundamental change\" to the way the House operated and therefore should be opposed.\n\nThe motion has cross-party backing, including from one Tory MP - Sir Oliver Letwin - who is supporting Michael Gove in the leadership contest.\n\nIt has been signed by Jeremy Corbyn, SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford, Lib Dem leader Sir Vince Cable, Change UK leader Anna Soubry, Plaid Cymru Westminster leader Liz Saville-Roberts and former Green Party leader Caroline Lucas.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Labour Whips This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDue to the confidence and supply agreement with the Democratic Unionist Party, the Tories have a majority in Parliament of five.\n\nThat means it would take only three Conservatives to vote with the Labour motion for it to pass - if all opposition party MPs back it.\n\nAnother attempt to re-write the rules, another heave in the procedural tug of war, another day of drama in Parliament. But will it work?\n\nIt's not a straight vote for or against a no-deal Brexit - that would not change the fact that it is written in law and agreed with the EU that Brexit will happen on 31 October.\n\nThink of this plan not as a knockout blow in a boxing match, but the first of a complicated sequence of moves in a chess game.\n\nLabour want to pull off something similar to what happened in March, when MPs took control of parliamentary time to force the government to request an extension to the Brexit process from the EU.\n\nStep one is seizing control of business in the House of Commons, and that's clearly the plan this time around.\n\nBeyond that, the details aren't clear.\n\nCompelling the new prime minister to ask the EU to delay Brexit further is the most likely option. But the answer of course, might be \"no\".\n\nThe default position in law is that the UK will leave the EU on 31 October - and if nothing changes, Brexit will happen regardless of whether there is a deal or not.\n\nMPs wanting to stop a new PM leaving without a deal do however have a number of options at their disposal.\n\nOne would be to pass legislation requiring the government to seek an extension to the UK's membership. The EU would have to agree to an extension for it to be granted.\n\nHowever, this would first require MPs to seize control of the parliamentary agenda, as Labour is attempting.\n\nAnother would be to use a vote of no confidence to bring down a government committed to pursuing a no-deal exit.\n\nMPs could also use motions or political pressure to try and force the government into changing course.\n\nWhat questions do you have about Brexit?\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nThe United States recorded the biggest ever victory in the Fifa Women's World Cup as they crushed Thailand 13-0.\n\nThe 2015 winners were 3-0 up at half-time, scored four times in 10 minutes in the second half and then added six more goals in the last 16 minutes.\n\nAlex Morgan scored five times for the United States with two goals apiece for Rose Lavelle and Samantha Mewis.\n\nLindsey Horan, Megan Rapinoe, Mallory Pugh and Carli Lloyd also scored to beat Germany's 11-0 win over Argentina.\n\nThe United States' previous biggest win in the tournament was a 7-0 success over Chinese Taipei in 1991, while Germany's thrashing of Argentina came in 2007.\n• None US head coach Ellis 'in tears' after record win\n• None Relive how the United States thrashed Thailand as it happened\n\nHow the goals went in\n• None 2-0, 20 minutes: Rose Lavelle's powerful strike was helped into the net by the keeper.\n• None 3-0, 31 minutes: Lindsey Horan scores from six yards out after Wilaiporn Boothduang fails to clear Tobin Heath's free-kick.\n• None 4-0, 50 minutes: Samantha Mewis' deflected effort gave her the 800th goal in Women's World Cup history.\n• None 5-0, 52 minutes: Morgan tucked in after Thailand failed to clear a free-kick.\n• None 6-0, 54 minutes: The ball bounced kindly to Mewis in the box and she struck another.\n• None 7-0, 56 minutes: Mewis turned provider this time for Lavelle, who placed in the seventh.\n• None 8-0, 74 minutes: A neat turn and finish from Morgan completed her hat-trick.\n• None 9-0, 79 minutes: Megan Rapinoe timed her run to perfection and completed a flowing move.\n• None 10-0, 81 minutes: Morgan hit a cracking strike from the edge of the box for her fourth of the night.\n• None 11-0, 84 minutes: Substitute Mallory Pugh rounded the goalkeeper and rolled the ball in.\n• None 12-0, 87 minutes: Morgan's brilliant flick and powerful finish delivered the best goal of the night.\n• None 13-0, 90+2 minutes: Carli Lloyd raced through the middle and slotted in from close range.\n\nRuthless USA do not let up\n\nThe USA players refused to take their foot off the accelerator in the closing stages, taking an 8-0 lead into the final 12 minutes before adding five further goals.\n\nSeveral of Thailand's players were clearly upset at the final whistle, with tears streaming down forward Suchawadee Nildhamrong's face, while some members of the USA team attempted to console their opponents.\n\nFive-goal striker Morgan said: \"With the scoreline tonight, we have to look at the group stage as every goal counts.\n\n\"It was important for us to continue to go. We knew every goal could matter.\"\n\nThe defending champions have lost just one international game since July 2017 and have now won seven games in a row, scoring 36 goals in the process, and not conceding in five matches.\n\nHow good did the USA look?\n\nThe USA are bidding to reach their third consecutive final and become only the second nation to successfully defend a Women's World Cup title, after Germany's 2003 and 2007 successes.\n\nThey arrived in France as favourites to win a record fourth title, but many pundits have tipped France, England or the Netherlands to succeed, with Canada, Australia and Sweden mentioned as dark horses.\n\nHead coach Jill Ellis' side finished second in this year's SheBelieves Cup to winners England but on Tuesday at Stade Auguste-Delaune they reminded the world of their attacking class in a game in which they could have actually scored many more.\n\nThey had 40 attempts at goal, including 20 on target, and were also denied two strong appeals for penalties in the first half.\n\nThailand, ranked 34th in the world, lost 9-0 in their previous meeting with the USA in a friendly in 2016 and were playing in the finals for only the second time, having been eliminated in the group stage in 2015.\n\nThey could still make the next phase but need good results against Sweden and Chile, who played each other earlier on Tuesday with the Europeans winning 2-0.\n\nThailand boss Nuengruethai Sathongwien praised the attitude of the American players after the final whistle and said: \"They saw that our players were very disappointed and they wanted to encourage us to continue fighting. Thank you very much for that.\n\n\"We've got two more games to play and we need to bounce back. They have their responsibilities and they know what they need to do.\n\n\"My players were waiting for this moment and they were really disappointed.\"\n\nAnother thrashing for Thailand - the stats\n• None The United States' 13-0 win over Thailand is the largest margin of victory in either the men's or women's World Cup.\n• None Thailand have now lost three of their four Women's World Cup matches (won one). In those three defeats, they have failed to score a single goal while conceding 21.\n• None Since the start of 2018, Alex Morgan has scored 26 goals for USA Women in all competitions, 13 more than any other player.\n• None Mallory Pugh became the 32nd different player (excluding own goals) to score for USA at the Women's World Cup, only Germany have more different scorers in the competition's history (34).\n• None Only Germany (five) can boast more hat-trick scorers in Women's World Cup matches than USA, with Alex Morgan becoming the fourth player do so for her country (Carli Lloyd, Michelle Akers and Carin Jennings are the others).\n• None Samantha Mewis' opening goal for USA was the 800th goal scored in Women's World Cup matches, with USA responsible for 116 of them - more than any other team.\n• None Carli Lloyd earned her 275th cap for the US in their win over Thailand, moving her to fourth on the all-time list. Only Mia Hamm (276), Christie Rampone (311) and Kristine Lilly (354) have earned more.\n• None Only Brazil midfielder Formiga (37y 99d) has scored a goal in a Women's World Cup encounter at an older age than Carli Lloyd at 36 years and 330 days.\n\nThe USA will face Chile in Paris at 17:00 BST on 16 June, three hours after Thailand meet Sweden.\n\nJill Ellis' side will then be up against Sweden in Le Havre in 20 June, in a game that is likely to decide which side tops the group.\n\nThe top two teams in each of the six groups will qualify automatically for the last 16, along with the four best third-placed sides.\n• None Goal! USA 13, Thailand 0. Carli Lloyd (USA) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Alex Morgan with a through ball.\n• None Attempt missed. Christen Press (USA) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right.\n• None Attempt blocked. Christen Press (USA) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Mallory Pugh.\n• None Goal! USA 12, Thailand 0. Alex Morgan (USA) left footed shot from the left side of the box to the top left corner.\n• None Goal! USA 11, Thailand 0. Mallory Pugh (USA) left footed shot from the left side of the six yard box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Alex Morgan.\n• None Attempt missed. Carli Lloyd (USA) right footed shot from the centre of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Samantha Mewis with a headed pass.\n• None Goal! USA 10, Thailand 0. Alex Morgan (USA) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the top left corner. Assisted by Megan Rapinoe.\n• None Goal! USA 9, Thailand 0. Megan Rapinoe (USA) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Mallory Pugh following a fast break.\n• None Attempt saved. Taneekarn Dangda (Thailand) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Suchawadee Nildhamrong.\n• None Goal! USA 8, Thailand 0. Alex Morgan (USA) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Christen Press.\n• None Taneekarn Dangda (Thailand) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Megan Rapinoe (USA) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Jeremy Corbyn has welcomed the new Labour MP Lisa Forbes to Westminster\n\nJeremy Corbyn has been criticised by several of his MPs for his leadership on anti-Semitism and Brexit during a \"heated\" meeting in Parliament.\n\nMarie Rimmer told him people \"who have worked with you for ages\" were turning away while Jess Phillips said those \"in the cult of Corbyn\" were protected.\n\nVeteran MP Margaret Hodge criticised the choice of Lisa Forbes as Labour's Peterborough by-election candidate.\n\nMs Forbes apologised to MPs for liking an anti-Semitic post on social media.\n\nThe new MP, who won Thursday's by-election by 683 votes, caused controversy during the campaign when she appeared to endorse a post on Facebook which said Theresa May had a \"Zionist slave masters agenda\".\n\nJewish Labour groups have called for Ms Forbes, who will take her seat in Parliament on Monday, to have the whip suspended.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAddressing the parliamentary party for the first time since Labour's disappointing performance in last month's European elections, Mr Corbyn thanked all those MPs who contributed to Labour's successful campaign in Peterborough.\n\nBut he faced criticism over the message that Ms Forbes' victory sent about the party's commitment to eradicate anti-Semitism from its ranks.\n\nMrs Hodge said she could \"not tolerate\" anti-Semitism of any kind within the parliamentary Labour Party while Ruth Smeeth accused Mr Corbyn of \"allowing institutional anti-Jewish racism on your watch\".\n\nThe party is currently being investigated by the Equalities and Human Rights Commission over claims it discriminated against Jewish members.\n\nMr Corbyn told the meeting that Labour \"must be, is, and always will be anti-racist in any form, including anti-Semitism\" - and Ms Forbes must be treated \"properly\".\n\nLabour has suggested Ms Forbes made a \"genuine mistake\" by liking a video expressing solidarity with the victims of March's terror attacks on mosques in Christchurch \"without reading the accompanying text, which Facebook users know is an easy thing to do\".\n\nMr Corbyn also came under fire over Brexit with Peter Kyle, a strong supporter of another referendum, questioning whether the Labour leader had any plan to get the country and party out of the Brexit \"mire\".\n\nAnd Meg Hillier said the leadership was wrong to demote Emily Thornberry from her traditional role deputising for Mr Corbyn at last week's Prime Minister's Questions.\n\nMs Thornberry was replaced by Rebecca Long-Bailey after she said Labour's third place in the Euro elections boosted the case for another referendum - an outcome that Mr Corbyn continues to distance himself from and has said is \"some way off\".\n\nA number of MPs expressed concerns that it had now become \"normalised\" for Labour voters to back other parties over Brexit.\n\nMrs Rimmer, previously regarded as being loyal to Mr Corbyn, suggested she had struggled herself to vote for Labour in the elections.\n\nAfter the meeting, a spokesman for Mr Corbyn said there were strong feelings about Brexit and the shadow cabinet would discuss Labour's \"evolving\" position on Tuesday.\n\n\"The PLP [the parliamentary Labour Party] is generally quite a robust meeting,\" he said. \"The PLP is very passionate about lots of issues not just about Brexit. That's what we would expect.\"", "Dominic Raab says leadership candidates should be able to \"hold their nerve\" in a TV debate.\n\nThe former Brexit secretary made it through the first round of the Tory leadership contest in fourth place with 27 votes and said he had a \"strong base to build on\".\n\nBut he said the candidates needed to have a \"proper debate on the vision for the country\".\n\nHe told the BBC: \"There are a lot of candidates with a lot to offer but we are right at the beginning of this race.\n\n\"We haven’t really tested the visions, the ideas, the policies of all of the candidates, and I think the debates coming up… are a great opportunity to test the views.\n\n\"There is many a slip between a cup and the lip.\"\n\nMr Raab said the last leadership contest, that saw Theresa May take power, was a \"very quick coronation\", but \"once the adrenaline of the first froth and frenzy of this contest ebbs a little bit [you can] have a proper contest on the substance and the vision\".\n\nAnd what would he say to anyone considering not taking part in the TV debates?\n\n\"If you can't hold your nerve and take the heat of a leadership contest, what chance [do you have] under the glare of the light in Brussels?\"", "A woman whose three children were murdered by a lodger says she feels terrible after being informed the killer has been released from prison.\n\nDavid McGreavy took the lives of Elsie Urry's children - Paul Ralph, four; Dawn, two; and nine-month-old Samantha - at their Worcester home in 1973.\n\nMs Urry, who now lives in Hampshire, told BBC Hereford & Worcester she was dreading hearing he had been granted parole.", "Botswana's High Court has ruled in favour of decriminalising homosexuality in a landmark decision for campaigners.\n\nThe court rejected laws that impose up to seven years in prison for same-sex relationships, stating they were unconstitutional.\n\nThe move contrasts with Kenya's recent ruling against campaigners seeking to overturn laws on gay sex.\n\n\"Human dignity is harmed when minority groups are marginalized,\" Judge Michael Elburu said.\n\nThree judges came to the decision unanimously.\n\nJudge Elburu labelled laws banning gay sex as \"discriminatory\" and added: \"Sexual orientation is not a fashion statement. It is an important attribute of one's personality.\"\n\nThe law has been in place since 1965 when it was brought in by the colonial British government.\n\nThe case was brought to court by a student who argued society had changed and homosexuality was more widely accepted.\n\nActivists welcomed the decision and described it as a significant step for gay rights on the African continent.\n\nLaws outlawing same sex relations exist in 31 out of 54 African countries, according to the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA).\n\nGay sex can be punishable by death in northern Nigeria, Sudan, Somalia and Mauritania. Tanzanian laws mean homosexuality can result in a life sentence.\n\nAngola, Mozambique and the Seychelles have all scrapped anti-homosexuality laws in recent years.\n\nOn 24 May, Kenya's High Court ruled against overturning a law banning gay sex.", "South Africa had reached 29 for 2 when rain stopped play at the Rose Bowl shortly after 11:00 BST\n\nHeavy rain has caused travel disruption amid weather warnings issued for large swathes of England.\n\nThe Met Office issued an amber warning for rain in south-east England on Monday, with a month's rainfall forecast in some areas.\n\nA wider yellow warning is in place until 23:59 for east England.\n\nWarnings are in place on Tuesday for parts of north Devon and north Somerset, north east England and parts of the Midlands.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFlooding also closed Kingston Bridge, in west London, for around two hours from 16:00 BST, forcing bus services to be redirected.\n\nA stretch of the North Circular was also flooded shortly before the evening commute, although Transport for London said the carriageway between Charlie Browns Roundabout and Waterworks was cleared within an hour.\n\nMeanwhile, the Cricket World Cup fixture between South Africa and West Indies was abandoned after rain stopped play at the Rose Bowl in Southampton.\n\nIn the east of England, the Met Office predicts further travel disruption with \"a small chance that some communities become cut off by flooded roads\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMotorists across the region have also been warned about hazardous conditions on the road, particularly during the early evening period.\n\nThe Met Office has issued further yellow weather warnings throughout the week:\n\nThese maps show the areas affected by the Met Office's weather warnings on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday\n\nThe Met Office's chief meteorologist Steve Ramsdale warned the weather conditions needed for heavy downpours and thunderstorms can happen \"extremely quickly\".\n\n\"We have been able to indicate the likelihood of further spells of heavy rainfall for the rest of the week, but the exact details will remain uncertain until nearer the events,\" he said.", "Free TV licences for up to 3.7m pensioners are being scrapped, the BBC has announced.\n\nUnder the new rules, only low-income households where one person receives the pension credit benefit will still be eligible for a free licence.\n\nIn 2015, the government announced the BBC would take over the cost of providing free licences for over-75s by 2020 as part of the fee settlement.\n\nBut that would have cost £745m, a fifth of the BBC's budget, by 2021/22.\n\nThe new scheme will cost the BBC around £250 million by 2021/22 depending on the take-up.\n\nFunding free TV licences for all over-75s would have resulted in \"unprecedented closures\", the BBC said.\n\nThe broadcaster said that BBC Two, BBC Four, the BBC News Channel, the BBC Scotland channel, Radio 5live, and a number of local radio stations would all have been at risk.\n\nThe BBC said \"fairness\" was at the heart of the ruling, which comes into force in June 2020.\n\nIt follows a consultation with 190,000 people, of whom 52% were in favour of reforming or abolishing free licences.\n\nAccording to the BBC, around 900,000 households are claiming pension credit, which is a government benefit paid weekly to pensioners on low incomes.\n\nThe number of households which could be eligible to apply for pension credit could number 1.5 million by 2020.\n\nBBC chairman Sir David Clementi said it had been a \"very difficult decision\" but this was the \"the fairest and best outcome\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. David Clementi on the BBC's decision to scrap blanket free licences for over 75s\n\nBut Prime Minister Theresa May said she was \"very disappointed\" with the BBC's decision.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"We've been clear that we want and expect the BBC to continue this concession.\n\n\"People across the country value television as a way to stay connected, and we want the BBC to look at further ways to support older people.\"\n\nThe spokesman said taxpayers want to see the BBC using licence fee income better, including \"showing restraint on salaries for senior staff\".\n\nBut Labour's deputy leader Tom Watson said the government bore responsibility for the \"outrage\" of charging over-75s the licence fee, having promised to maintain free licences in the Conservative Party's 2017 manifesto.\n\n\"Millions of elderly and isolated people will lose because of this announcement,\" he said.\n\nFree licences were given to the over-75s as part of a Labour government programme to reduce pensioner poverty. Fifteen years later that government funding was cut by the Conservatives.\n\nEver since then, the BBC has been pondering if it can afford to take on the bill. It's a cost that's rising every year as the number of pensioners continues to grow. In 2020 it's estimated there will be around 4.6 million households with at least one pensioner.\n\nThis then is a compromise; around a third of the cost will be borne by the BBC and two thirds passed on to 'wealthier' pensioners. The elderly are by far the biggest consumers of the BBC's output, the average age of BBC TV's audience is now over 62, the question is how far younger licence fee payers should subsidise these older viewers.\n\nAs consumption of traditional TV by younger viewers continues to drop there could well be questions about why they are being expected to pay for a service that the heaviest users get for free.\n\nOne in four over-65s say the TV is their main form of companionship, according to Caroline Abrahams, charity director of Age UK.\n\nShe said: \"Make no mistake, if this scheme goes ahead we are going to see sick and disabled people in their eighties and nineties who are completely dependent on their cherished TV for companionship and news forced to give it up.\"\n\nElderly people are likely to feel \"enormous anxiety and distress, and some anger too\", she said, adding: \"But in the end this is the government's fault, not the BBC's.\"\n\nThe National Pensioners Convention said the BBC \"has done the government's dirty work for it\".\n\nBut the Intergenerational Foundation, a charity which supports the interests of younger members of society, said it was fairer to make wealthier pensioners pay.\n\n\"There is simply no reason why retired judges, lawyers, bankers and doctors should receive a free TV licence when younger generations are struggling financially,\" the charity said.\n• None £745mEstimated cost to the BBC of current scheme by 2021/22\n• None £250mEstimated cost of new scheme depending on take-up\n\nFree licences were first introduced by the Labour government in 2000 at the same time as half-price licences for the visually impaired.\n\nIn 2015, the Conservative government announced the BBC would take over the cost of providing free licences for over-75s by 2020 as part of the fee settlement.\n\nFollowing the announcement, TV Licensing is advising customers receiving a free licence that they need not take any immediate action.\n\nOver the course of the next month, TV Licensing will be writing to everyone who currently has a free over-75 licence to let them know about the new scheme and make clear that they will remain fully covered until 31 May 2020.\n\nA free telephone information line will also be launched this month where older customers and their relatives can access information on the new policy and a new \"pay as you go\" payment scheme will be launched from June 2020 which will let people spread the cost of the licence in fortnightly or monthly payments.\n\nThe BBC's consultation was announced in November last year. Nearly half of respondents (48%) said they were in favour of continuing concessions to over-75s.\n\nReforming the current rules was backed by 37% of respondents, with 15% in favour of scrapping concessions of over-75s.", "Adrian Ismay died 11 days after he was injured when a bomb exploded under his van\n\nA murder suspect's brother allegedly turned off CCTV before the defendant picked up a car linked to a bomb attack on a prison officer, a trial has heard.\n\nChristopher Robinson, from Aspen Park in Twinbrook, denies murdering Adrian Ismay, who died 11 days after a bomb exploded under his van in 2016.\n\nA witness claimed the accused's brother, Peter Robinson, switched off CCTV at the hostel they both worked at.\n\nHe claimed Peter Robinson told him it was because \"our Chrissie\" was coming.\n\nIt has previously been alleged that the defendant borrowed a Citroen C3 car from his sister-in-law and collected it from his brother.\n\nThe witness, a support worker at the hostel, told the court his conversation with Peter Robinson happened on the evening before the explosion.\n\nHe said switching off CCTV was not permitted and he walked out of the room because it was wrong.\n\nChristopher Robinson is on trial for murder, causing an explosion and providing a car for terrorism.\n\nThe 48-year-old defendant's non-jury trial had been adjourned since October but resumed on Tuesday.\n\nMr Ismay, a 52-year-old father of three, initially survived the explosion outside his east Belfast home, but died from his injuries 11 days later.\n\nThe court was also shown CCTV footage of a car, allegedly carrying explosives, travelling through Belfast.\n\nAt earlier hearings, it had been alleged that Mr Robinson had driven a Citroen C3 to plant a bomb under Mr Ismay's van in east Belfast in March 2016.\n\nA police officer gave evidence using numerous cameras tracking a Citroen from Tates Avenue through the Malone and Stranmillis area to the Ravenhill Road.\n\nHe confirmed that a small number of the alleged sightings of the car could not be confirmed.\n\nUnder cross examination by Mr Robinson's legal team, the detective constable agreed that the difference in the quality of digital images made tracking a vehicle a complex operation.", "Children in England face a postcode lottery when it comes to getting speech and language therapy, a report claims.\n\nEngland's Children's Commissioner says that in the top 25% of areas, at least £291.65 a year is spent on children with these needs. In the lowest quarter that drops to £30.94 or less.\n\nAnne Longfield says the needs of children with speech, language and communication issues are overlooked.\n\nThe government said it was working to improve support for children in need.\n\nDepartment for Education figures suggest that in 2018, there were 193,971 children in England's primary schools on the special educational needs register because of speech, language and communication needs.\n\nBut Ms Longfield says there is \"enormous variation\" in spending on services across the country.\n\nHer report says difficulties can have \"severe long-term effects on their [children's] education, their emotional well-being and their employment prospects\".\n\nSpeech and language therapy in the UK\n• None 85,000-90,000Children, aged between two and six, referred for therapy\n• None Top 25%of areas in England spend at least £291.65 per child\n• None Bottom 25%spend £30.94 or less a year on every child with a need\n\nThe commissioner's researchers gathered data from local authorities and clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) - in total, 144 out of 152 authorities and 181 out of 195 CCGs responded.\n\nThe report does not give a regional breakdown of how much is spent per child with an identified need.\n\nHowever, across all children, spending in London appears to be most generous at £7.29, and the East Midlands is the least generous at 34p.\n\nThe North of England has the highest CCG spend per child with needs at £17.61, and the lowest is in the Midlands and East NHS region at £10.20.\n\nThe report also raises concerns about falls in spending in various parts of the country, saying: \"While overall spending has increased (albeit by only 2% per child), it has fallen in many areas.\n\n\"More than half of areas experienced a real-terms decline in spending per child.\"\n\nMs Longfield says many children could fall through the gaps\n\nMs Longfield said: \"In this report, I found that there is enormous variation in spending around the country on speech and language services, just as there is on lower level mental health services.\n\n\"I am concerned that this means a postcode lottery for children who need this vital help. I am also worried that it is these kinds of non-statutory services - which can help to prevent other issues emerging further down the line - which are most at risk as budgets face increasing pressures.\n\n\"We need to be able to monitor the spending on these services, in order to hold local areas to account for the funding decisions they take, as well as hold national government to account for the constrained circumstances in which those decisions are taken.\"\n\nKamini Gadhok, chief executive of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists, said the current situation was \"unacceptable\", adding that its own survey had shown that 59% of parents have to fight to get the support their child needs.\n\nA spokeswoman for the Department of Health said: \"Speech and language therapy gives children in need the best start in life\n\n\"As part of the NHS Long Term Plan, we are working to improve support for children and young people, including considering how to ensure we have the right numbers of speech and language therapists to meet demand.\n\n\"Good early years education is the cornerstone of social mobility.\n\n\"We are boosting local early years services with £8.5m to help establish best practice and are providing £50m to develop more high-quality school-based nursery provision for disadvantaged children, £26m to set up a network of English hubs and a national training centre, and £20m on the professional development of early years practitioners - ensuring every child can thrive.\"", "Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has held talks with European leaders as part of a visit to Brussels.\n\nMs Sturgeon met EU President Jean-Claude Juncker and the EU's chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier before making a speech on European policy.\n\nShe said the speech would restate her government's backing for continued EU membership and shared European values.\n\nThe SNP leader also said the Foreign Office had been \"childish\" for cutting off diplomatic support for the trip.\n\nForeign Secretary Jeremy Hunt - one of the candidates for the Conservative leadership - had asked that the Scottish government provide its own logistical support for the visit, due to concerns Ms Sturgeon was using the trip to undermine UK policies on Brexit and promote Scottish independence.\n\nTalks over the UK's exit from the EU have been deadlocked for months, and have now taken a back seat to the leadership contest which will decide who replaces Theresa May as prime minister.\n\nAll 10 candidates in the running have pledged to deliver Brexit, but are divided on how and when to do so.\n\nAhead of her speech at the European Policy Centre, Ms Sturgeon said people in Scotland had \"shown that they comprehensively reject Brexit and want to remain as a European nation\".\n\nShe added: \"Membership of the EU not only has huge economic benefits for Scotland, but is the basis of the core values we share around democracy, equality, co-operation and human rights.\n\n\"My engagements in Brussels are an opportunity to outline the Scottish government's support for those values and how they contribute to a better Scotland, Europe and wider world.\n\n\"On issues such as climate change and tackling inequality we can all work together to ensure the wellbeing of our citizens, as well as the wealth of member states.\"\n\nNicola Sturgeon says Scotland is open to Europe - is the feeling mutual?\n\nDuring the Scottish independence referendum in 2014, the EU was not exactly neutral.\n\nThe then European Commission President, Jose Manuel Barosso, suggested it would be \"extremely difficult\" for Scotland to become an independent member of the EU.\n\nBut Brexit - and the possibility of a no deal departure by the UK - appears to be changing some minds in Brussels.\n\nOne EU official told me there had been a \"paradigm shift\" in attitudes to Scottish independence in Brussels since the EU referendum.\n\nThat is to say that if Scotland voted to leave the UK after Brexit, the EU might be more accommodating.\n\nIt doesn't mean an independent Scotland could choose its own terms or avoid either an application process or hard choices over its border arrangements with England.\n\nBut it is, as the first minister put it, a different \"vibe\".\n\nThat may be of concern to the UK government, which has decided to withhold practical support, such as an official car, for Nicola Sturgeon on this visit.\n\nThe first minister said that was \"petty\" but the UK insisted its effort and resources must be focussed on its own objectives.\n\nThose do not include reversing Brexit or independence for Scotland, for which Ms Sturgeon is actively campaigning.\n\nMs Sturgeon is making the visit without diplomatic support from the Foreign Office, which is customarily offered for trips abroad.\n\nA spokesman for the UK government said that \"a balance must be struck to avoid supporting activities intended to campaign for policies contrary to the government's position\".\n\nHe said that Mr Hunt had \"requested that the Scottish government provide its own logistical support, adding: \"As a responsible government, we must be certain that our effort and resources overseas are focused on furthering the objectives of Her Majesty's Government.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon told BBC Scotland that the move was \"pretty childish and pathetic\".\n\nShe said: \"It's not causing me to lose any sleep, it's not making any real practical difference to my meetings here today, but I think it offers a bit of a window into what's going on in the Tory party right now.\n\n\"Not only are they ignoring Scotland's interests, they're trying to undermine the Scottish government in trying to stand up for those interests. It's quite a remarkable and extraordinary state of affairs.\"", "In the race to succeed Theresa May as leader of the Conservative party and prime minister, Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt are setting out how they want to run the UK.\n\nThey have both announced taxation and spending plans. So, what are the details and do their sums add up?\n\nPeople would only start to pay the higher rate of income tax when they earn at least £80,000, under Boris Johnson's plans\n\nThe plan: Raise the higher income tax rate from £50,000 to £80,000.\n\nWhat it means: At the moment, individuals have to pay 40% income tax on any earnings above £50,000. So, a person earning £55,000 a year, pays 40% on £5,000.\n\nUnder Mr Johnson's plan, the point at which the 40% higher rate kicks in would be raised to £80,000. This would not affect Scottish workers because the Scottish government sets its own income tax rates and bands.\n\nMr Johnson also wants to raise the point at which people start paying National Insurance, absorbing some of the cost by also raising the ceiling for NI.\n\nNational Insurance is a separate tax. It's paid for by workers and companies and it is meant to fund state benefits, such as the NHS.\n\nUnder this new tax regime, someone earning £60,000 a year could benefit by £1,000 a year, while someone on £80,000 or more would gain a maximum of £3,000 (because some of the benefits would be lost due to national insurance increases).\n\nBut it's wealthy pensioners who stand to benefit the most - up to £6,000 each, according to analysis from the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS). That's because pensioners don't pay national insurance to begin with.\n\nSo if someone already receives a generous work pension, not only will they be subject to less income tax (up to the new threshold), they also won't be affected by the national insurance rise.\n\nThe cost: Changing the tax system in this way would cost around £10bn a year, according to Mr Johnson. He says the bill could be funded from the £26.6bn of \"fiscal headroom\".\n\nThis \"headroom\" refers to government borrowing, which came in lower than originally expected and had been ear-marked by the chancellor for no-deal Brexit planning.\n\nHowever, if Mr Johnson chooses to fund his tax changes with this £26.6bn, it would not amount to a permanent solution. That's because the money can only be spent once.\n\nSo, to pay for the policy in the long term, Mr Johnson will need to raise taxes elsewhere, announce spending cuts or continue to fund it from government borrowing.\n\nWhat it means: A leading supporter of Mr Johnson, Health Secretary Matt Hancock, told the Times that the days of public sector pay freezes under Theresa May and David Cameron would be over if Mr Johnson was elected.\n\nPublic sector pay was frozen for two years in 2010, except for those earning less than £21,000 a year, and rises were capped at 1% in 2013. The government announced an end to the pay cap in 2017, and some public sector workers have negotiated increases above 1% since then.\n\nThe candidate himself has declined to specify by how much he would increase pay, saying only that remuneration should be \"decent\".\n\nHe has also pledged to fund increased investment in special needs education, as part of a £4.6bn boost to overall school funding.\n\nThe cost: We don't know by how much Mr Johnson wants to increase public sector pay, but the IFS says that each 1% increase in pay for the public sector workforce costs the government about £1.8bn a year.\n\nThe plan: Hire an extra 20,000 police officers by 2022\n\nWhat it means: There are 122,000 police officers in England and Wales, down from 143,000 in 2010 when Theresa May became home secretary.\n\nMr Johnson plans to reverse almost all of those cuts on the basis that \"more people on our streets means more people are kept safe\".\n\nThere has been some dispute about the link between police numbers and levels of violent crime, with Theresa May saying there was not a direct link.\n\nBut Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick has said there is \"some link\" between the two.\n\nFor police officers outside London, the lowest pay was around £25,400 in 2016 (although this differs from force to force).\n\nThat comes to £500m a year, but these costs will increase once they complete training, which takes around two years.\n\nTypically, after four years, the pay would increase to £33,700 (again outside London) - so almost £700m, but this doesn't account for training costs.\n\nThe Nottinghamshire police force estimated recruitment and training to be around £13,000 per officer in 2012 (not including salary received during training).\n\nThis would come in at about £258m for 20,000 new officers, but again, this will differ from force to force.\n\nKit Malthouse, who supports Mr Johnson, says that they would recruit special constables, who are trained as police officers but work part time, to help alleviate training costs.\n\nWhat it means: From April 2020, instead of paying 17% tax on their profits, companies would pay 12.5%.\n\nThe foreign secretary is in favour of cutting the rate of corporation tax - the tax that companies pay on their profits - to 12.5%, which is the same rate as in the Republic of Ireland.\n\nThe government is already planning a series of cuts to corporation tax, which was cut from 20% to 19% on 1 April 2017, and is scheduled to fall to 17% next year.\n\nThe idea of cutting it by another 4.5 percentage points came in a report by another Conservative MP at the end of May.\n\nThe cost: The government estimates the policy would cost about £14bn a year. That cost would be reduced if future tax takes were to be boosted by companies being attracted to move to the UK to take advantage of the lower tax rate, or if companies use the money saved to pay higher wages or invest it in improving their productivity.\n\nHow much that would reduce the cost is very hard to predict.\n\nThe plan: Take 90% of businesses out of business rates\n\nWhat it means: Business rates are a local tax paid on the use of buildings for non-domestic purposes.\n\nThe cost: We haven't seen any formal costings of this policy, but in the 2018 Budget, Philip Hammond decided to give a one-third discount on business rates to high street retail businesses with a rateable value below £51,000 in 2019-20 and 2020-21. The Treasury said that would benefit 90% of high street retail businesses.\n\nThe Office for Budget Responsibility said the discount would cost £490m this year and £450m next year.\n\nIt means we can estimate that a 100% cut for those businesses would cost an extra £900m next year and about £1.35bn a year after that.\n\nBusiness rates are currently collected by local authorities, which retain half of the money. Central government is reimbursing them for the one-third cut and would presumably also reimburse them for the 100% cut.\n\nWhat it means: If you are running a business and you buy equipment such as computers or machinery, you can deduct the amount you spend on it from your profits to reduce the amount of tax you have to pay.\n\nThere is a limit to the amount you can deduct, which is called the annual investment allowance. At the start of this year it was raised from £200,000 to £1m for two years.\n\nThe cost: We do not have a costing for this measure either, but to get an idea of the amounts of money involved, the OBR said the temporary increase to £1m would cost £600m this year.\n\nThe plan: Money for fishing, farming and defence\n\nWhat it means: Jeremy Hunt would increase spending on defence from its current level of 2% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP - the sum of everything the UK produces each year) to 2.5% of GDP by 2023-4.\n\nHe has also said he would have a \"relief programme\" for the fishing and farming sectors to help them deal with the effects of a possible no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe cost: The boost to defence spending would cost £15bn a year by 2023-4. The relief for fishing and farming would cost £6bn. Mr Hunt says his overall plans would \"kick-start the economy and create extra growth\", which would mean the government had extra money to spend.\n\nBut the disruption involved in leaving the EU with no deal is widely expected to reduce growth - at least initially - which would mean that increased taxes or borrowing or reduced spending in other areas would be required to fund the extra spending.", "The foreign secretary has branded Jeremy Corbyn \"pathetic\", after he questioned whether the UK had \"credible evidence\" Iran was behind attacks on two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman.\n\nJeremy Hunt said responsibility for Thursday's attacks \"almost certainly\" lies with the Iranian regime.\n\nThe Labour leader said the UK should \"ease tensions\" in the region rather than \"fuel a military escalation\".\n\nIt is the second time in the past few weeks that tankers appear to have been attacked in the region and comes amid escalating tension between Iran and the United States.\n\nThe US military released video footage which it said proved Iran was behind Thursday's attacks on the Norwegian and Japanese tankers - something Iran has categorically denied.\n\nAlthough Iran has denied being behind the explosions, experts believe it could be a response to US sanctions intended to stop other nations from purchasing Iranian oil.\n\nAfter the sanctions were tightened last month, Iran announced that \"if it could not export its oil, no other country would be allowed to export theirs\", Dr Aniseh Bassiri Tabrizi, from the Royal United Services Institute, said.\n\nThe UK Foreign Office said it was \"almost certain\" that a branch of the Iranian military - the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps - attacked the two tankers on 13 June, adding that \"no other state or non-state actor could plausibly have been responsible\".\n\n\"These latest attacks build on a pattern of destabilising Iranian behaviour and pose a serious danger to the region,\" Mr Hunt said.\n\nHowever, in a tweet, Mr Corbyn questioned that assessment, saying that \"without credible evidence\", the government's rhetoric \"will only increase the threat of war\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jeremy Corbyn This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Hunt criticised the Labour leader's comments, tweeting that they were \"pathetic and predictable\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Jeremy Hunt This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Hunt said there was \"video evidence\" suggesting Iran's responsibility and Mr Corbyn's comments showed Labour was \"in the grip of virulent anti-Americanism\".\n\n\"For Jeremy Corbyn it's all America's fault. And this is the same man by the way who refused to condemn Putin after the Salisbury Novichok attacks,\" he said.\n\nMr Corbyn previously cautioned against making \"hasty judgements\" in the wake of last year's Salisbury nerve agent attack, which the government blamed on the Russian state.\n\nHis stance attracted some criticism, including from a number of his own MPs, although the Labour leader did subsequently say that the evidence clearly pointed to the Russian state.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Security correspondent Frank Gardner looks at the evidence which the US says proves Iran's involvement in Thursday's attacks\n\nShadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry said it was important to establish independent evidence on who was behind the tanker attacks.\n\nShe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that developments in the region were \"extremely dangerous\" and cautioned against becoming \"enmeshed\" in a war.\n\nThere is the narrowest of differences in how the US and its closest ally, Britain, are ascribing blame over the tanker attack.\n\nPresident Trump says \"Iran did it\", while Jeremy Hunt says the Iranian regime was \"almost certainly\" behind it.\n\nSo is Britain blindly following the US into what could become a costly conflict?\n\nWhitehall officials insist the evidence has been studied closely and they have reached the same conclusion as Washington: there are no other credible suspects apart from Iran.\n\nIt mined the entrance to the Gulf in the 1980s but strongly denies any role in this attack.\n\nYet a strange discrepancy has emerged with the owner of the Japanese tanker disputing the ship was hit with a limpet mine. Instead, he says, the crew reported \"flying objects\".\n\nIf military action does eventually break out, conclusions reached today - behind closed doors - will one day be scrutinised in public.\n\nUS President Donald Trump has insisted Iran was behind the attacks, citing footage that Washington says shows Iranian forces removing an unexploded mine off the hull of one of the ships - hours after the initial detonations.\n\nUN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said the truth needed to be \"clearly established\", while Russia has warned against drawing \"hasty conclusions\".\n\nThe blasts came a month after four oil tankers were damaged in an attack off the coast of the United Arab Emirates. The US blamed Iran for that attack, but did not produce evidence. Iran also denied those accusations.\n\nTensions between the US and Iran have escalated significantly since President Trump took office in 2017.\n\nHe abandoned a nuclear deal that was brokered by Barack Obama's administration and significantly tightened sanctions on Iran.", "Christel Stainfield-Bruce was walking with her three-year-old son when she was stabbed\n\nA man has been charged after a mother walking with her three-year-old son asleep in a pushchair was stabbed.\n\nChristel Stainfield-Bruce, 36, was attacked after she refused to hand over her phone on Caedmon Road in Islington, north London, on 7 June.\n\nShe was treated in hospital for a stab wound to her leg and was told she was lucky the knife had missed an artery.\n\nIsmail Musa, 26, of Tollington Road, was charged with causing GBH with intent.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Catholic Church in Scotland needs to revamp its measures for protecting young and vulnerable people, an independent review has concluded.\n\nThe review said a better resourced and independent safeguarding service was a \"crucial step to promote transparency and restore credibility\".\n\nBaroness Liddell of Coatdyke, who led the review, said a \"a good start has been made\" by the Catholic Church.\n\nBut she said cultural change was still needed within the organisation.\n\nThe independent review group was set up to consider the response of the Catholic Church in Scotland to the recommendations of the 2015 McLellan Commission report into how the church responds to allegations of abuse.\n\nIn its first report, the independent group said they had found a willingness to change in the hierarchy of the Catholic Church but progress still had to be made.\n\nThe group said the Catholic Church should give \"detailed and urgent consideration to the creation of a strengthened, resourced and independent Scottish Catholic Safeguarding Service (SCSS) with appropriate professional support as a crucial step to promote transparency and restore credibility\".\n\nIt said investment was needed to create a professional safeguarding service and that much could be learned from the organisational changes made in the Catholic Church of Ireland.\n\nIt added: \"The leadership of the church must take ownership of driving the change necessary to gain a level of confidence that lessons have been learned.\n\n\"Monitoring progress is essential, but without cultural change the job will be only half done\".\n\nA review of whistle blowing procedures was also recommended.\n\nBaroness Liddell led the review of the Catholic Church's response to the McLellan Commission\n\nThe group also recommended each diocese should have an independent person to whom survivors can turn for advice, adding \"much still needs to be done to ensure victims of abuse are seen, heard and supported by the church and the process of healing begins to take place\".\n\nBaroness Liddell, a former Scottish Secretary, said: \"The review group have concluded that there is a need to again review the SCSS to ensure it is properly resourced and empowered to give standardised and unconditional support and scrutiny to every diocese in ensuring high quality safeguarding practice and the right culture.\n\n\"We have found a willingness to adopt that change, but true progress can only come about as a result of deep analysis of strengths and weaknesses.\"\n\nBishop Joseph Toal, who oversees the work of the SCSS, said: \"We welcome their report and we shall take time to give it serious consideration.\n\n\"Since setting up the independent review group, we have taken steps to improve safeguarding practices in all eight dioceses in Scotland.\n\n\"We are determined to apply what we learn, both from the steps we have already taken and from the group's report, and to ensure that the highest standards of safeguarding practice are met throughout the church in Scotland.\"", "Exam board Edexcel has launched an investigation into how part of an A-level maths paper was leaked online.\n\nBlacked-out images of two questions were shared on social media on Thursday afternoon.\n\nPearson, which runs Edexcel, said the images were circulated \"in a very limited way\" shortly before Friday's Maths Paper 3 exam.\n\nIt reassured students no-one would be advantaged or disadvantaged and they would not have to re-sit the paper.\n\nThe questions were first posted on Twitter in a now deleted post; the account holder urged students to get in touch, offering the whole paper for £70.\n\nIt is the third year in a row that A-level maths questions from an Edexcel paper were revealed online ahead of the exam.\n\n\"To come out [of the exam] and find that there were screenshots of a group chat, where there were pictures of the whole paper - and not just blacked-out images - was extremely disheartening.\n\n\"If the grade boundaries go up because everyone that cheated performed much better, all of us that actually put in the work for the past two years will not receive the grades we need.\n\n\"We also don't understand how Edexcel are going to find out who cheated and who didn't, as pictures circulated quickly online - so people may have received it without even asking for it.\n\n\"Stressing over maths A-level has been an awful addition to an already stressful exam period, and has affected the quality of revision for my exams in the following days.\n\n\"I really hope it's third time lucky for Edexcel and they can sort this leak out, because students have lost all faith in this exam board.\"\n\nThe leaks in 2017 and 2018 were investigated by the police and evidence was passed to the Crown Prosecution Service for consideration over whether criminal charges should be brought.\n\nPearson said it had taken action to identify the source of this week's breach and was \"determined to identify the individual involved\".\n\nAfter visiting a small group of exam centres, the company said it had identified one centre deemed to be \"in serious breach of correct practice\".\n\nEarlier this year, Pearson said it would be trialling a scheme where microchips were placed in exam packs to track the date, time and location of the bundles.\n\nHundreds of students have signed a petition calling for Edexcel to take the leak into consideration when they set grade boundaries.\n\nOne student who sat the exam told BBC Radio 4's Today programme he was \"frustrated\" to hear about the leak.\n\n\"After I came out of the exam, I was speaking to someone and they said 'those leaked questions on Twitter came up on the paper' - and I was like, 'what leaked questions?'\".\n\n\"I'm not frustrated because I feel like I absolutely failed the paper, it wasn't that kind of frustration,\" he added.\n\n\"It's more the frustration that I've spent two years studying maths A-level only to realise that some students, through some sort of opportunity, could have not learnt anything for two years - and just spent £70 and got an A-level.\"\n\nGeoff Barton, the general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, says schools and exam boards face a number of new challenges.\n\n\"We are in a new age [of] technology,\" said Mr Barton.\n\n\"Social media, the ability of young people to have phones in exams... all of that has changed the territory,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"We place far too much emphasis on the sheer number of exams we expect young people to do,\" he added.", "An orphaned baby wallaby is being hand reared in a rucksack after his mother died of pneumonia.\n\nThe tiny four-month-old joey, named Riley, has to be fed every four hours and carried everywhere in a substitute pouch by a keeper at Studley Grange Butterfly World and Farm Park near Swindon.\n\nJulia Stewart, who has been looking after Riley, said it was \"like having a baby or being pregnant all over again\".", "People with hidden disabilities, such as dementia, may soon by able to access blue badge parking permits in England.\n\nThe scheme is being extended to include drivers and passengers with conditions such as autism or anxiety disorders - although eligibility will be decided by the local council.\n\nBlue badge permits help disabled people to access goods and services, by allowing them to park close to their destination.\n\nThe change will come into force on 30 August, the government said.\n\nScotland and Wales have already implemented similar rules to include some mental impairments, but the criteria are yet to be altered in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe government said it would provide an extra £1.7m to help councils cope with the expected increase in applications.\n\nAbout 2.35 million people in the UK have blue badge permits because they have physical mobility difficulties or are registered blind.\n\nThe scheme means people with physical disabilities can park closer to their destination, making everyday tasks easier and reducing loneliness and isolation.\n\nUnder the new guidance, permits will be extended to those with hidden disabilities, including:\n\nTransport Secretary Chris Grayling said he hoped the change would make \"a real difference to people's lives\".\n\n\"As a society we don't do enough for people with hidden disabilities,\" he said.\n\nThe government wants to improve public understanding so people whose disabilities are not visible will be able to use the badges without fear of being challenged unfairly.\n\nThe changes follow an 8-week consultation in 2018 and forms part of the government's drive for greater parity between physical and mental health.\n\nMinister for Disabled People Justin Tomlinson said the extension of a scheme was a \"watershed moment\" with would allow people to travel \"with greater ease and live more independent lives\".\n\nA review will also be launched to look at how councils can tackle fraudulent use of blue badge permits and improve the consistency of council enforcement.\n\nMore than 4,000 badges were stolen last year and councils prosecuted over 1,200 cases of misuse.\n\nBut 60% of councils did not pursue anyone for fraud, research found.\n\nThe review will also look at improving public awareness about the eligibility rules for badges - when it can and cannot be used - and how to return a badge when it is no longer needed, such as when the holder dies.\n\nThe Local Government Association (LGA), which represents councils in England and Wales, said the review would help it \"crack down on dishonest motorists\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn the hours after two apparent attacks on tankers in the Gulf of Oman on Thursday, the US military released video footage which it said proved Iran was behind them.\n\nThe footage was said to show Iranian special forces removing a mine which had failed to explode.\n\nThe footage, though far from conclusive, was used by the US to make a more compelling case than earlier assertions of Iranian complicity in attacks in the region, which had not been accompanied by any evidence.\n\nBut a key question remains - what would be Iran's motive in attacking a Japanese and a Norwegian tanker carrying petrochemicals from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to Singapore and Taiwan?\n\nIran has come under massive economic pressure over the past year, since US President Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew from the 2015 nuclear deal and re-imposed some of the most aggressive sanctions in US foreign policy history - targeting Iran's oil sales, wider energy industry, shipping, banking, insurance and more.\n\nSome of the sanctions, because of their secondary nature, are designed to dissuade other nations from purchasing Iranian oil, the exports of which bring in about 30% of Iran's revenue.\n\nAnd they have managed to bring down Iran's oil exports by more than a third.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Security correspondent Frank Gardner looks at the evidence the US says proves Iran's involvement in attacks on two tankers\n\nSo far, Iran has in response pursued a policy of strategic patience. But if it was behind Thursday's attacks, what we may be seeing is the end of that policy.\n\nThe strategic patience may have run out.\n\nIran clearly changed tack last month after the US suspended sanctions waivers which had allowed certain countries to buy oil from Iran - significantly accelerating the Trump administration's goal of driving down Iran's exports to zero.\n\nIran's response was to scale back its commitments under the nuclear deal and to announce that, if Iran could not export its oil, no other country would be allowed to export theirs.\n\nAbout 30% of the world's seaborne oil transports travel through the Strait of Hormuz, a strategic sea passage in the Gulf, on Iran's south coast.\n\nIran has made threats in relation to the strait before - but never acted on them.\n\nEven back in 2012, when the EU imposed an oil embargo against Tehran as part of a broader sanction regime adopted against the country because of the nuclear impasse, Tehran refrained from closing the passage.\n\nBut the re-imposition of sanctions recently by the US has significantly ratcheted up the pressure on Iran, pressure that would go some way to explaining why it might seek to threaten the international oil trade, while its own oil sits bounded by its borders.\n\nThe risk of such a strategic move is significant - the fallout is potential military escalation with the US and its allies in the region.\n\nIt is not a gamble that would have been made quickly or lightly.\n\nIt would have been taken by consensus by all the main heads of the different Iranian political institutions, with Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards (IRGC) playing a significant part given their influence over all regional dossiers, and the supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, having the final say over all matters of security and international affairs.\n\nIf Iran is indeed behind these attacks, it would demonstrate that the country's key decision makers feel the risk of military escalation is one worth taking because of the lack of alternative options.\n\nIran may suspect that the risk is lower than it first seems, because Mr Trump does not want a war.\n\nRecent statements by the US president suggested that despite his bellicosity, he is open for talks with Iran without pre-conditions.\n\nThe Iranians will also be mindful however that Mr Trump's National Security Adviser John Bolton, a long-time critic of Iran, has openly called for the US to confront Iran.\n\nIf strategic patience is in fact at an end, Iran may feel that only by displaying the range and scale of its potential destabilising activities - including disruption of the international oil trade it has been barred from - can it increase its leverage with the US, and pull itself out from under the punishing sanctions its old foe has imposed.\n\nDr Aniseh Bassiri Tabrizi is a Research Fellow, Middle East Security, at the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies", "This video has been removed for rights reasons.\n\nThe first mass has been held at Notre-Dame cathedral since the devastating fire in April.\n\nThere were fears the 800-year-old cathedral could be completely destroyed during the fierce blaze.\n\nFirefighters managed to save the structure and much of its interior.", "Tanya Marston was told she was infected with the same strain that killed three people\n\nA woman infected with a potentially fatal strain of listeria by a hospital sandwich says she is lucky to be alive.\n\nTanya Marston, 38, was being treated for Crohn's disease when she ate a contaminated sandwich at the William Harvey Hospital in Ashford, Kent.\n\nThree patients have died in the outbreak, linked to The Good Food Chain salads and pre-packed sandwiches.\n\nThe hospital trust apologised to Ms Marston for the \"additional stress and discomfort\" she suffered.\n\nMs Marston said she was due to be discharged from a four-week hospital stay last month when her temperature \"spiked\".\n\nMedics took blood samples and she was later called back into hospital and given intravenous anti-biotics after tests showed she was infected.\n\nShe said she \"counts herself very lucky\" her elevated temperature led to the infection being diagnosed.\n\n\"I'm really grateful that they took the blood cultures,\" she said.\n\n\"If that hadn't been done, I could be one of these people that has died.\"\n\nShe added: \"There is a duty of care there and I'm wondering what opportunities may have been missed to get to the point where people are poisoned by the food that hospitals are giving them.\"\n\nA letter from Dr Paul Stevens, medical director at East Kent Hospitals University trust, to Ms Marston said it was \"most likely that you acquired the bug from sandwiches given to you by the hospital\".\n\nPublic Health England (PHE) said six patients had been affected by the outbreak. Two patients at the Manchester Royal Infirmary and one at Aintree Hospital have died.\n\nPHE said infections in healthy people usually go unnoticed or cause mild illness, but can have more serious impacts in people with pre-existing health problems or pregnant women.\n\nThe NHS trust apologised for the \"additional stress and discomfort\"\n\nNorth Country Cooked Meats, which supplied the Good Food Chain, subsequently produced a positive test result for the outbreak strain of listeria, PHE said.\n\nThis business and North Country Quality Foods, which it distributes through, have voluntarily ceased production.\n\nThe Good Food Chain Ltd said the company's production facility in Stone, Staffordshire, was \"cross contaminated by an ingredient from one of its approved meat suppliers\".\n\nA spokesman for North Country Cooked Meats said it was \"currently co-operating fully with the environmental health and the Food Standards Agency in their investigations\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBoris Johnson has said he will take part in Tuesday's televised Tory leadership debate on the BBC.\n\nThe frontrunner in the contest to replace Theresa May said the programme, which will be shown after the second round of MPs' voting, was the right forum to debate the big issues.\n\nHe said he was \"very keen\" on TV debates but viewers might not like too much \"blue-on-blue action\".\n\nMr Johnson, however, will not be taking part in Sunday's debate on Channel 4, with his team reportedly having reservations about its proposed format.\n\nThe other five candidates still in the race become Tory leader and prime minister - Jeremy Hunt, Michael Gove, Sajid Javid, Rory Stewart and Dominic Raab - have urged Mr Johnson to take part in every TV debate.\n\nThey say the next prime minister should be subjected to the fullest possible scrutiny.\n\nMr Johnson, a former Foreign Secretary, won the first Tory MPs' ballot for the contest on Thursday with 114 votes, with his nearest rival - Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt - getting 43.\n\nHe told the BBC Radio 4's World at One he had done many TV debates during his two successful London mayoral campaigns and he was \"pretty bewildered\" by claims he was dodging scrutiny.\n\n\"I think it is important that we have a sensible, grown-up debate,\" he said, ahead of next week's BBC event.\n\n\"My own observation is that in the past when you've had loads of candidates, it can be slightly cacophonous and I think the public have had quite a lot of blue-on-blue action, frankly, over the last three years.\"\n\nHe added: \"We don't necessarily need a lot more of that, and so what I think the best solution would be would be to have a debate on what we all have to offer the country.\n\n\"The best time to do that, I think, would be after the second ballot on Tuesday and the best forum is the proposed BBC debate. I think that's a good idea.\"\n\nIn a wide-ranging interview, Mr Johnson defended his record as foreign secretary and said the UK must step up preparations for a no-deal Brexit as a way of getting an improved deal.\n\nHe said it was \"perfectly realistic\" to renegotiate the withdrawal deal and leave the EU by the end of October, adding that the \"fundamental flaw\" in Theresa May's Withdrawal Agreement was the Irish border \"backstop\" and a solution was possible.\n\n\"In the meantime, it's absolutely crucial to prepare for no deal and I don't share the deep pessimism of some people about the consequences of no deal,\" he said.\n\n\"That's not to say that I don't think there will be some difficulties that need to be addressed and we must make sure that we can address them.\"\n\nAsked when he last took cocaine, he replied that there had been \"a single inconclusive event that took place when I was a teenager\" and never since then.\n\nHe said those who criticised his handling, as foreign secretary, of the case of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a British-Iranian woman who is imprisoned in Iran was \"unintentionally exculpating the people who are really responsible and that is the Iranian Revolutionary Guard\".\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock, who came sixth in the first MPs' ballot, has withdrawn from the leadership contest.\n\nOur Next Prime Minister, hosted by Emily Maitlis, will be broadcast on BBC One at 20:00 BST on Tuesday.\n\nA maximum of five candidates will take part, as the person who gets the lowest number of votes in that day's second ballot of Tory MPs will drop out of the contest beforehand.\n\nThe participants will face questions from viewers across the country via local TV studios.\n\nFurther MPs' ballots are scheduled to take place next Wednesday and Thursday to whittle down the contenders until only two are left.\n\nThe final pair will be put to a vote of the 160,000 members of the Conservative Party from 22 June. The winner is expected to be announced about four weeks later.\n\nOn Tuesday 18 June BBC One will host a live election debate between the Conservative MPs still in the race.\n\nIf you would like to ask the candidates a question live on air, use the form below. It should be open to all of them, not a specific politician.\n\nIf you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic.", "Health Secretary Matt Hancock says he is \"incredibly concerned\" by the outbreak\n\nA \"root and branch\" review of hospital food has been ordered by the health secretary after two more deaths were linked to an outbreak of listeria.\n\nThe number of deaths related to pre-packed sandwiches and salads at hospitals had risen from three to five, Public Health England said on Friday.\n\nIt said evidence suggested the deceased ate the products before 25 May.\n\nProducts from the Good Food Chain, which supplied to 43 NHS trusts, have been withdrawn and production halted.\n\n\"I have been incredibly concerned by this issue and strongly believe that we need a radical new approach to the food that is served in our NHS,\" Health Secretary Matt Hancock said.\n\n\"I have instructed the NHS to conduct a root and branch review of hospital food.\"\n\nTwo deaths announced last week occurred at Manchester Royal Infirmary\n\nThe latest announcement from PHE takes the number of confirmed cases from six to nine, at eight NHS trusts across England.\n\nDr Nick Phin, deputy director of the National Infection Service at PHE, said there had been no new cases in over two weeks.\n\n\"We would have expected most cases to have appeared by now,\" he said.\n\n\"We've taken steps to make sure the product is no longer distributed, and therefore the public and the NHS patients are safe.\"\n\nLast week, PHE confirmed two patients from Manchester Royal Infirmary and one at Aintree Hospital in Liverpool had died.\n\nIt is not yet known where the latest two victims were receiving treatment.\n\nManchester University NHS Foundation and Aintree University NHS Foundation Trust said the new cases did not relate to them.\n\nListeria is a bacterium that can cause food poisoning\n\nA listeria infection can cause a small amount of discomfort but is more likely to seriously affect pregnant women, the elderly and those with a weakened immune system.\n\nThe first case showed symptoms on 25 April and sandwiches and salads were withdrawn on 25 May, as soon as a link with the cases was suspected.\n\nThe Good Food Chain had been supplied with meat produced by North Country Cooked Meats, which subsequently produced a positive test result for the outbreak strain of listeria.\n\nIn a statement, it said it was co-operating \"fully and transparently with the Food Standards Agency and other authorities\" and said it hoped the inquiry would be pursued with \"urgency so the wider industry can learn any lessons as soon as possible\".\n\n\"Our thoughts and deepest sympathies are with the families of those who have died and anyone else who has been affected by this outbreak.\n\n\"The underlying cause of it remains unclear.\"\n\nPHE said it had been analysing previously known cases of listeria from the past two months to see if they were linked.\n\n\"To date, there have been no patients linked to this incident outside healthcare organisations, but we continue to investigate,\" Dr Phin said.\n\n\"Swift action was taken to protect patients and any risk to the public is low.\n\n\"PHE is continuing to analyse all recent and ongoing samples of listeria from hospital patients to understand whether their illness is linked to this outbreak.\"", "The departures board at London Euston was blank on Saturday morning\n\nMajor disruption has been caused to services at London Euston after a trespasser forced lines to be shut for more than two hours.\n\nThe delays began at about 08:00 BST and the power on the tracks was turned off so the trespasser could be removed.\n\nThe trespasser was spotted close to track near Carpenders Park, south of Watford.\n\nThe line was reopened at about 10:25, but passengers are being warned of major delays.\n\nNetwork Rail said delays would have a knock-on effect throughout the day.\n\nIt has advised passengers to check with train operators before travelling.\n\nPassengers at the station have been advised to use an alternate route\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Martin Morris has a collection of 36,000 Marvel and DC comics built up over decades.\n\nThe 63-year-old, from Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, started his collection when he was aged just five.\n\nHis most valuable comic, a 1962 edition that introduced Spider-Man for the first time, is thought to be worth £10,000.\n\nMr Morris has decided to sell them on eBay after having a heart attack and plans to spend the money on travelling the world.", "Three hospital patients have died in an outbreak of listeria linked to pre-packed sandwiches.\n\nPublic Health England (PHE) said the victims were among six patients affected in England and the deaths occurred in Manchester and Liverpool.\n\nTwo of the victims were at Manchester Royal Infirmary, with the other a patient at Aintree Hospital.\n\nSandwiches and salads from The Good Food Chain linked to the outbreak have been withdrawn and production stopped.\n\nPHE said the products were withdrawn from hospitals when the links to the infections were first identified.\n\nA spokesperson for the Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust said it offered its \"deepest condolences to the bereaved families\" and \"sincerely regret\" that two of their seriously ill patients contracted listeria.\n\nThe trust, which would not say when the deaths happened, said the sandwiches were from the patient menu.\n\nThe first patient showed symptoms on 25 April while the most recent case was reported on 15 May, a PHE spokeswoman said.\n\nAintree Hospital said: \"Public health experts advised us of this supply chain issue on Friday 24 May and we immediately removed all products from this supplier.\"\n\nDr Nick Phin, deputy director at the National Infection Service at PHE said: \"To date, there have been no associated cases identified outside healthcare organisations, and any risk to the public is low.\"\n\nPHE said The Good Food Chain - which supplied 43 NHS trusts across the UK - had been supplied with meat produced by North Country Cooked Meats which subsequently produced a positive test result for the outbreak strain of listeria.\n\nThis business and North Country Quality Foods, which it distributes through, have also voluntarily ceased production.\n\nA spokesman for The Good Food Chain Ltd said the company's production facility in Stone, Staffordshire, was \"cross contaminated by an ingredient from one of its approved meat suppliers\".\n\nA spokesman for North Country Cooked Meats said it was \"currently co-operating fully with the environmental health and the Food Standards Agency in their investigations\".\n\nListeria is a bacterium which can cause a type of food poisoning called listeriosis.\n\nNormally, the symptoms are mild - a high temperature, chills, feeling sick - and go away on their own after a few days.\n\nBut these cases occurred in people who were seriously ill.\n\nAlong with pregnant women, newborn babies and the elderly, they are most at risk of a more serious infection that can spread to the brain or bloodstream.\n\nIn 2017 there were 33 deaths linked to listeriosis in England and Wales.\n\nListeria can be found in many types of food such as soft cheeses, chilled ready-to-eat foods like pre-packed salads, sandwiches and sliced meats, and unpasteurised milk products.\n\nTo reduce the risk, the NHS advises people keep chilled food in the fridge, heat food until it is piping hot and not eat food after its use-by date.", "Few cities in the world protest with the same explosive civility as Hong Kong\n\nShe has been the face of large Hong Kong protests against a controversial extradition bill. But the young woman, who came to be known as \"Shield Girl\", tells the BBC that she will fight on despite the bill's indefinite suspension.\n\nDarkness had fallen. Crowds were thinning. A lone girl, in a meditative pose, defiantly sat in front of a row of riot police.\n\nIt has become an iconic image from the Hong Kong demonstrations.\n\n\"Bravery in the face of brutality. Beautiful,\" wrote an observer on Twitter.\n\n\"The innocence of youth and the riot shields of the authority,\" wrote Hong Kong-based Irish journalist Aaron Mc Nicholas.\n\nDubbed \"Shield Girl\", she even inspired this artwork from one of China's leading dissident artists Badiucao.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by 巴丢草 Badiucao This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHer name is Lam Ka Lo. The 26-year-old came to the Admiralty district by herself, where the government headquarters are located, on Tuesday night, hours ahead of a rally organised by Civil Human Rights Front.\n\nThere were hundreds of protesters with her at that spot, but more and more police officers in full riot gear arrived.\n\n\"No one really dared to stand so close to the line of police officers,\" she said, adding that she did not fear police but worried that other protesters might be injured.\n\nShe started meditating and chanting the Om mantra when tension was running high.\n\n\"I just wanted to send my positive vibes,\" she said. \"But protesters also hurled insults at the police. At that moment, I just wanted fellow protesters to sit next to me and not to chide them.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBut the young woman doesn't want to be the face of the protests.\n\n\"I don't want attention,\" Lam said. \"But if people think that it was moving to see me sit down in front of the police, I hope more people would be encouraged to be braver, to express themselves.\"\n\nLam's calmness is largely owed to her practice of meditation.\n\nAn avid traveller, Lam has visited more than a dozen countries in Asia, Latin America, North America and Europe. She dabbled in meditation during her trip to Nepal four years ago - when the country was rattled by a deadly earthquake.\n\nThe young woman says she's a naturally emotional person, but meditation has helped her be more mindful of her feelings and achieve inner peace.\n\nBut Lam, who spent every single day in the streets during the 79-day Umbrella Movement in 2014, was not emotionally prepared by the dramatic showdown between police officers and protesters on Wednesday afternoon.\n\n\"I do feel a bit of hatred because some students were injured by police,\" she said, adding that she was not at the protest site when the violence unfolded on Wednesday. \"We are only human to have feelings.\"\n\nThe young woman says, however, the protest movement should not alienate police officers and still believes non-violence is the way to achieve the goal of the protesters.\n\nHong Kong leader Carrie Lam announces the suspension of the extradition bill on Saturday\n\nOn Saturday, the protesters scored what is being seen as a major concession. Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said the extradition bill would be shelved, and no timetable for its re-introduction given.\n\n\"I don't see it as a success.\"\n\nShe wants to see the bill withdrawn, the Wednesday clashes not categorised as riot, and the release of arrested protesters.\n\nShe urges her fellow protesters to continue their fight and join the march on Sunday.\n\n\"Come with your friends and family. Come in groups. Express yourselves in your own ways. I used meditation, but it doesn't mean it's the only way. Everyone can protest creatively and meaningfully.\"", "The victim died at the scene of the stabbing in Wandsworth\n\nPolice have made 14 arrests after five separate attacks in London left three men dead and three others injured in the space of 24 hours.\n\nAn 18-year-old man was stabbed to death at about 16:42 BST on Friday in Wandsworth, south London.\n\nPolice were called minutes later, at 16:54, to Plumstead, south-east London, where a 19-year-old man was shot dead.\n\nA man in his 30s then died after he was stabbed in Tower Hamlets on Saturday afternoon.\n\nIn the early hours of Saturday two men were stabbed in Clapham and another was stabbed in Brixton.\n\nThe condition of one of the men injured in Clapham is not yet known, while the injuries sustained by the others are non life-threatening.\n\nLondon mayor Sadiq Khan said he was \"sickened\" following the death of the two teenagers.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Sadiq Khan This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nUS President Donald Trump, who has a long-running political feud with Mr Khan, took to Twitter to say London \"needs a new mayor ASAP. Khan is a disaster - will only get worse!\"\n\nIn response, a spokesman for Mr Khan said the mayor was focused on supporting the city's communities and \"over-stretched\" emergency services.\n\nThe mayor's thoughts were with the victims' families and he \"is not going to waste his time responding to this sort of tweet\", he added.\n\nA teenager died a short while after emergency services got to him in Wandsworth on Friday\n\nSix males - aged between 16 and 19 - have been arrested on suspicion of the murder of the teenager in Wandsworth, who died from stab wounds in Deeside Road.\n\nTooting MP Rosena Allin-Khan said the killing was \"heartbreaking\" and \"absolutely tragic\".\n\nAfter the shooting in a car park in Hartville Road in Plumstead, three boys aged 16 and 17 and a 17-year-old girl were arrested on suspicion of murder.\n\nArmed police, local officers, the London Ambulance Service and an air ambulance all attended, but the teenage victim died a short while later.\n\nA section 60 order, which allows police to stop and search people, has been authorised in the Greenwich and Bexley areas.\n\nA teenager was shot dead in Plumstead on Friday night\n\nPolice were also called to a fight on Bedford Road near Clapham North Tube station in south-west London at 03:22, where two men suffered slash and stab wounds.\n\nFour men have been arrested - two for violent disorder, one for carrying a bladed instrument and the other for possession of a Taser.\n\nAt 04:00 police were called by the ambulance service after an altercation at a pub in Coldharbour Lane in Brixton, south London, where two men were injured.\n\nOne was stabbed and remains in hospital while the other received minor injuries.\n\nOfficers later attended a crime scene in Alton Street, Tower Hamlets, just before 14:00 BST where a man in his 30s, was pronounced dead at the scene after suffering stab wounds.\n\nThe deaths take the total number of murders in London in 2019 to 56.\n\nThis time last year there had been 77 homicides, 48 of which were stabbings.\n\nTwo men were injured near Clapham North Tube station\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "It is June 1998 and Paula Rego is furious. Her people, the Portuguese people, had not turned up in sufficient numbers to vote in the recently held national referendum to change the country's conservative abortion law.\n\nAs someone who had endured the life-threatening brutality of back-street abortions she was dismayed the Portuguese - particularly the women - had passed up the chance to legalise the termination of pregnancies on request up to 10 weeks from conception.\n\nThe wholly avoidable deaths and distress suffered by thousands of women resorting to illegal abortions every year would continue. No wonder her father had said Portugal was no place for a woman, before packing off his talented teenage daughter to England to hone her painterly skills at The Slade School of Fine Art in London.\n\nShe sat in her Camden Town studio and fumed, determined to do something about the situation; to change public opinion back home; to make a difference. Which she did (the law was changed in 2007). By doing what she always did when overwhelmed with anger. She created a group of troubling, ominous images.\n\nPaula Rego's abortion series began with this dark and searingly honest Triptych, 1998\n\nRego's abortion pictures are as confrontational and direct as a John Humphrys interview.\n\nThere's no flim-flam, no tip-toeing around the topic: she gets straight to the point… which is darkly ambiguous.\n\nShe is both explicit and vague.\n\nThere is an equivocation that makes for uncomfortable viewing. Her truth resides in psychological complexity however awkward it may be. To Rego, the grim reality of a back-street abortion is not intellectually straightforward. It is not simply a case of a bad thing happening.\n\nLook at any of the imposingly large pictures she made in this series and you will be disturbed.\n\nThere is an uneasy eroticism bound up in the pain and the squalor. The schoolgirls and young women depicted challenge the unseen figure with a physicality and preparedness. Have they girded up their loins in anticipation of an impending termination or something else?\n\nWelcome to Paula Rego World, where there is always something nasty in the woodshed.\n\nWith Untitled No. 5, 1998 and others in her abortion series, Paula Rego says \"they are not pictures of victims\"\n\nTo see a Rego picture is to be thrust into the midst of a sinister gothic drama. A fat-ankled lady wearing a walnut-like skirt bends down to lift a prone dog by its front legs in Snare (1987). She leans forward as if to give the animal a sensual kiss, a red rose in the foreground suggests love. Near it, a crab lies powerless on its back mirroring the dog's vulnerability. It is rich with symbolism and menace.\n\nIt is also technically very good.\n\nThe red-to-brown palette has the tonal harmony of Picasso's impeccable portrait of Gertrude Stein (1905-6). The suggested volume of the figures is as convincing as a mirage in the desert. And the weight the lady's legs bear, and pressure of the grip with which she holds the dog, are palpable.\n\nIt is a very good figurative painting.\n\nSnare, 1987 is a key work full of symbolism - with the skirt concealing \"secrets\"\n\nIt marks the moment Rego found her signature style.\n\nThere had always been a strong narrative element to her work, whether back in the 1960s when she was making cut-up collages like The Imposter (1964) critiquing the Estado novo authoritarian regime in Portugal. Or, in the early '80s with abstracted, cartoon-like paintings such as Red Monkey Offers Bear A Poisoned Dove (1981), lampooning the love triangle she constructed between her husband and her paramour.\n\nPaula Rego criticised the Portuguese dictatorship in works like The Imposter, 1964\n\nBut these were works in progress towards the stylised tableaus and heavy-featured figures that are now instantly recognisable as a Paula Rego. Hers is an idiosyncratic aesthetic heightened later by the use of oil pastel crayons instead of acrylic paint, a mid-career decision made - I am told - in part to help her stop smoking.\n\nTurn 180 degrees from the Abortion Series hanging in the central space of the MK Gallery, and there, on the opposite wall, are her Dog Women pictures from the early 1990s.\n\nThey were inspired by the French Impressionist painter, Edgar Degas. He was an artist famous for his use of pastels and elevated perspective, from which he portrayed dainty dancers in ballet rehearsals. His representations of a woman's physique and inner life were voyeuristic, with a hint of the dirty-old-man about them. Rego's couldn't be more different.\n\nDegas' viewpoint of looking down on the model can be seen in Rego's Sleeper, 1994\n\nDancers, 1884-1885 by Degas, who influenced Rego with what she says were \"his marvellous use of pastels\"\n\nHer Dog Women are more like werewolves; snarling creatures that are both loyal and fiercely independent. The pictures are a response to the death of her husband, the artist Victor (Vic) Willing whom she met while a student at The Slade.\n\nShe considered Vic her intellectual and artistic superior, a point of view he was in no rush to counter. His critical eye helped her work develop but petrified his own. Life got complicated. He was already married. She went back to Portugal.\n\nVic left his wife and went to live with Paula. He was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. They both had affairs. Her father died. Vic took over the family business and ran it into the ground. They returned to London, penniless. Paula found a lover to help pay the way. Vic began to paint again shortly before he died.\n\nTheirs was a passionate, painful, profound relationship, which Rego renders in pastel with disarming sincerity. Woman becomes dog-like, part domesticated and part wild animal. She lies on her owner's jacket in Sleeper (1994), is kicked out of bed in Bad Dog (1994), and roars in rage in Dog Woman (1994).\n\nPaula Rego with her husband Victor Willing, with whom she had a passionate but complicated relationship\n\nPaula Rego's belief that \"every woman's a dog woman, not downtrodden, but powerful\" is reflected in Dog Woman, 1994\n\nBut it is in Sit (1994) that Rego captures the specific and the universal of her marriage to Vic with an emotional intensity you won't quickly forget.\n\nThe female figure is doing as she has been told, sitting obediently in her chair. Her hands are behind her back, possibly bound. Her feet are crossed in the manner of the crucified Christ. She is pregnant.\n\nShe looks up and away at her tormentor, her owner, her lover. She is trapped, subjugated, but in no way tamed. Her eyes blaze with defiance, her body emits power. There is an air of sexuality and violence, love and hate; beauty and the grotesque.\n\nObedience and defiance are apparent in Sit, 1994, which seems to be a stark metaphor about Rego's marriage\n\nIt's not the best image ever created. It is not even the best image Paula Rego has ever created - The Dance (not in this exhibition) - is better.\n\nWe've seen plenty of male artists picturing woman in myriad different ways, but who else has painted the world from a female point of view in the manner described by Paula Rego?\n\nLouise Bourgeois and Frida Kahlo had similar concerns, and expressed them just as unflinchingly, But Rego's voice is more literary, painterly and poetic in the way of Edgar Allan Poe. She references the Brontë sisters, Edvard Munch, William Hogarth and Francisco Goya.\n\nShe is a romantic surrealist with a satirist's cutting edge.\n\nThe Duchess of Alba, 1797 was painted by the Spanish artist Goya who influenced the Portuguese-born Rego\n\nThe figure in Angel, 1998 is a symbol of female power and strength\n\nQuite why she is not more famous is difficult to fathom. Maybe her gender and style went against her? A bit too much for all those buttoned-up male museum directors whose stripped back modernist tastes ruled the roost for far too long.\n\nTheir time has come and gone.\n\nI can't recall another exhibition season quite like this summer's, when there are so many monographic shows dedicated to female artists being staged across the country.\n\nIt brings to mind the female figure in Sit. She knew her time would come. And so it has. It is now.", "India has said that, from Sunday, it will impose tariffs on 28 US products, including almonds and apples.\n\nThe new duties, some as high as 70%, are in response to Washington's refusal to exempt Delhi from higher taxes on steel and aluminium imports.\n\nEarlier this month, US President Trump also announced the US was withdrawing India's preferential trade treatment.\n\nTariffs of up to 120% were announced by India in June last year, but trade talks had delayed their implementation.\n\nIn an announcement on Friday, India's Ministry of Finance said the decision was in the \"public interest\".\n\nAn earlier list had also listed a 29th item - artemia, a type of shrimp - but this was removed.\n\nUS-India bilateral trade was worth $142bn (£111bn) in 2018, a sevenfold increase since 2001, according to US figures.\n\nBut $5.6n worth of Indian exports - previously duty-free in the US - will be hit now the country has lost preferential treatment under America's Generalized System of Preferences (GSP).\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sujitha Rajendrababu tells the BBC how getting a job at a car factory has changed her life\n\nThe move is the latest push by the Trump administration to redress what it considers to be unfair trading relationships with other countries.\n\nTensions have since been rising between the two countries. Last year, India retaliated against US tariff hikes on aluminium and steel by raising its own import duties on a range of goods.\n\nPresident Trump has also threatened to impose sanctions if India purchases oil from Iran and if it goes ahead with plans to buy Russian S-400 anti-aircraft missiles.\n\nThe latest tariffs from India come just days before country's Foreign Minister, Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, is due to meet his US counterpart, Mike Pompeo, at a G20 summit in Japan. Mr Trump and India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi are also expected to hold talks.", "The taoiseach (Irish prime minister) has said removing the backstop from the Withdrawal Agreement, would be \"effectively the same as no deal\".\n\nLeo Varadkar was responding to comments from some candidates seeking to replace Theresa May as prime minister.\n\nMany contenders have proposed changes to the backstop, even though the EU says it is not up for renegotiation.\n\nMr Varadkar said: \"If we don't have that (the backstop), there is no deal\".\n\nThe backstop has proven to be one of the most controversial parts of Mrs May's Withdrawal Agreement with the EU.\n\nIt is an insurance agreement designed to avoid a hard border between the Irish Republic and Northern Ireland.\n\nThe Irish border has been one of the most contentious issues surrounding Brexit\n\nMany Conservative MPs have concerns that it could \"trap\" the UK, leaving it unable to strike its own trade deals with the rest of the world.\n\nThe Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), who prop up the government, also do not want to see Northern Ireland treated differently from the rest of the UK.\n\nSpeaking on Irish National Broadcaster RTÉ's Marian Finucane programme, the taoiseach said it was \"alarming\" some leading Conservatives were suggesting a no-deal Brexit.\n\n\"It's a legal guarantee and legally operable guarantee that we will never see a hard border again,\" Mr Varadkar said of the backstop.\n\nHe also responded to calls for a time limit to be attached to the backstop.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC News NI's political reporter Jayne McCormack explains why the border is an issue\n\n\"The difficulties we have with a time limit, is effectively you are saying there will or could be a hard border once that time limit expires - that isn't a backstop,\" he said.\n\n\"What we are open to, and always have been open to, is alternative arrangements that perhaps could avoid a hard border, through procedures and technologies and so on.\n\n\"What we expect, and I don't think it's unreasonable - we want to see that fleshed out, we want to see it exist, it demonstrated before we are willing to give up the backstop.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Would you notice if you crossed the Irish border? (Video from 2017)\n\n\"What people are saying is, 'give up the backstop' which we know will work legally and operationally in return for something that doesn't yet exist but might exist in the future.\n\n\"I can't do that to the border communities.\"\n\nMr Varadkar also said he was \"concerned at the idea, and there is an idea there in Westminster, in London, that somehow Theresa May was a bad negotiator and got a bad deal.\n\n\"That's not true. She was a good negotiator, she had a good team.\n\n\"She probably got the best deal that she could get given that a country leaving the EU doesn't have much leverage.\n\n\"The fact that the failure of the House Of Commons to ratify the Withdrawal Agreement somehow means they are going to get a better deal, that is just not how the European Union works,\" he said.\n\nDo you have a question about Brexit? Let us know.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic.", "Protesters were removed from the rig by police using helicopters and boats\n\nGreenpeace activists have vowed to continue attempts to prevent an oil rig from reaching the North Sea.\n\nThe Transocean rig was towed out of the Cromarty Firth on Friday night after a six-day occupation by protesters was ended by the police.\n\nThe rig is heading to the Vorlich oil field east of Aberdeen.\n\nBut Greenpeace said its Arctic Sunrise ship is now sailing towards the 27,000 tonne rig \"to play her part in thwarting BP's plans\".\n\nBP, which has contracted the Transocean-operated rig, served Greenpeace with a court order to prevent Arctic Sunrise from joining the protest in the Cromarty Firth, north of Inverness.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"Given Greenpeace's repeated interference and reckless actions directed at our lawful business and their continued illegal defiance for court orders and police action, we have issued the injunction as a precautionary measure to protect the safety of people and operations.\"\n\nGreenpeace was served with an interdict to prevent its ship the Arctic Sunrise from joining the protest in the Cromarty Firth but the vessel is now heading towards the North Sea\n\nBut Greenpeace UK executive director John Sauven said: \"For nearly a week, our brave activists strained every sinew to stop this BP rig from drilling new oil wells and fuelling the climate emergency.\n\n\"And it's not over, our ship the Arctic Sunrise is sailing towards Scotland ready to play her part in thwarting BP's plans.\n\n\"They say we're reckless and irresponsible. We say there's nothing as reckless and irresponsible as pushing the world closer to a climate catastrophe.\n\n\"For as long as BP remains determined to look for more oil, there will be people determined to stop them.\"\n\nThe rig was due to be towed from the Cromarty Firth on Sunday night but left about midnight on Friday according to Greenpeace\n\nA total of 14 people were arrested in connection with the occupation of the oil rig between 9 June and Friday, including a man and a woman who had re-occupied the structure after the original protesters had been removed.\n\nA BP spokesman previously said: \"BP supports debate, discussion and peaceful demonstration, but the irresponsible actions of this group are putting themselves and others unnecessarily at risk, while ignoring court orders and police action.\n\n\"We share the protesters' concerns about climate change, we support the Paris Agreement and are committed to playing our part to advance the energy transition.\n\n\"However, progress to a lower-carbon future will depend on coming together, understanding each other's perspectives and working to find solutions, not dangerous PR stunts that exacerbate divisions and create risks to both life and property.\"\n\nThe rig was being towed out to sea in the Cromarty Firth when it was boarded", "Last updated on .From the section Cycling\n\nChris Froome says he is \"fully focused\" on getting \"back to his best\" after the \"major setback\" of his high-speed crash on Wednesday.\n\nThe four-time Tour de France champion suffered a fracture to his neck as well as a fractured right femur, elbow and ribs, plus a broken hip.\n\nFroome, 34, is likely to spend \"at least six months\" away from cycling, says the surgeon who operated on him.\n\n\"I know how lucky I am to be here,\" the Briton said in a statement .\n\n\"Whilst this is a setback and a major one at that, I am focusing on looking forward.\n\n\"There is a long road to recovery ahead, but that recovery starts now and I am fully focused on returning back to my best.\"\n\nThe crash happened during a practice ride before stage four of the Criterium du Dauphine in Roanne, France.\n\nIn footage captured by ITV4 minutes before the incident, a team-mate tells Froome \"you don't have to take risks, Chris\" as he takes both hands off the handlebars to put on a jacket.\n\nBut moments later, Froome took his hand off his handlebars again to blow his nose and was travelling at 54km/h when a gust of wind caught his front wheel, causing him to hit a wall.\n\nHe was airlifted to Saint-Etienne Hospital, where he is continuing his post-surgery recovery.\n\n\"This is obviously a tough time but I have taken a lot of strength from the support over the last three days,\" Froome added. \"The outpouring of support has been really humbling and something I would never have expected.\"\n\nFroome faces six weeks in hospital and is not expected to compete again in 2019. Doctors have said they are \"very happy\" with his progress.\n\nGeraint Thomas, the 2018 Tour de France winner, said all of Team Ineos was behind their team-mate.\n\n\"It's scary. It's never nice to hear, especially when it's a close friend,\" Thomas told BBC Wales.\n\n\"It sounds horrific really. It was one of those where he would have had time to actually think; he knew he was about to crash.\n\n\"It wasn't 'boom' and you're on the floor before you know it. It was one of those where you try to save it. That's the worst.\n\n\"It sounds like he was lucky to come away with the damage he's done really. It could have been a hell of a lot worse, which I guess is a positive in a bad scenario. But he's got the best care around him so hopefully he can get back on the bike soon.\"", "Japan's Kokuka Courageous and Norway's Front Altair were attacked on 13 June\n\nThe US government has accused Iran of being behind explosions which have damaged two tankers in the Gulf of Oman on Thursday.\n\nThe Iranian administration has denied any involvement despite the US military releasing a video it claims shows Iranian special forces removing an unexploded mine from the side of one of the tankers.\n\nBut what can be said for certain and what could happen next? The BBC's defence and diplomatic correspondent Jonathan Marcus answers questions about the incident sent in by BBC News readers.\n\nMr G Riordan: Is there a salvage plan? Are the tankers guarded or escorted? Do the tankers have CCTV? How do we make the Strait of Hormuz safe? Is it an act of terror?\n\nA lot of good questions there. I suppose if it turns out to be a state actor, e.g. Iran, behind these attacks then one would not call them \"terrorist\" as such. Striking at another country's merchant ships might in some circumstances be considered an act of war.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why does the Strait of Hormuz matter?\n\nA concerted effort to hamper normal shipping in the Gulf would also clearly have significant strategic implications. Currently tankers are not guarded, though in the past, e.g. during the Iran-Iraq war, a convoy system was introduced to shepherd tankers through these confined waters accompanied by warships.\n\nClearly, experts will now be assessing the extent of the damage to the two vessels. Modern merchant ships may well have CCTV on board to monitor key areas. How much help this might give to any investigation is unclear.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAnonymous: The Iranian government's past behaviour is a good indicator of their future intentions to create havoc if they are not stopped: but how?\n\nThis is certainly how the US and its allies see it. Iran has made threats against merchant shipping in the Gulf and, in the US view, is a highly destabilising actor in the region.\n\nIran clearly takes a very different view, insisting it has a right to pursue its own regional interests and specifically that it did not target any of these tankers.\n\nWhat people say and what people do may be different. Iran resents the US intrusion into the Gulf. It is opposed to US policy in the region in Syria and elsewhere.\n\nThe danger is that far from being frightened by the reinforced US military presence in the Gulf it may feel that it has some latitude to push back. This is one of the dangerous elements in this equation.\n\nRay: In this day and age with so much satellite observation why isn't there more proof of who the attackers are?\n\nWell, you are right, satellites can be helpful but many of the most capable intelligence-gathering variety tend to belong to a very small group of countries and even then their coverage is not total. They need to be tasked to look at specific areas.\n\nI have no doubt the US is monitoring Iranian activity in the Gulf from a variety of platforms: satellites; aircraft; communications and signals intercepts; radar tracking and so on. Governments tend to be cautious - especially the Americans - about showing their satellite data. Often they do not want to reveal the full extent of their capabilities.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Security correspondent Frank Gardner looks at the evidence the US says proves Iran's involvement in attacks on two tankers\n\nAs an aside, one of the most interesting developments over recent years is the use of civilian satellite data by security researchers and think tanks to significantly amplify our knowledge and to provide a separate source of satellite intelligence. This has, however, generally been used to study fixed locations, e.g. North Korean or Iranian rocket or nuclear facilities. It is very hard for such groups to monitor an area like the Gulf in real-time.\n\nHarry: I want to know how many vessels were hit by mines prior to the US escalating their presence in the region.\n\nThe \"escalation\" of the US military presence is to some extent a propaganda ploy by the US. The presence of a US aircraft carrier battle group for example - currently the USS Abraham Lincoln - is far from unusual. There has indeed been some reinforcement, notably a small number of warplanes; the return of a Patriot anti-missile battery; and a small amphibious unit.\n\nAgain, it is all about sending signals rather than necessarily preparing for conflict. But there is no doubt that the US retains a formidable military capability in the region.\n\nAs to chronology, the earlier limpet mine attack on the four vessels was on 12 May. Prior to this (around 10 May) the US had announced it was stepping up its deployments to the region following what it said were concerns that Iranian elements or proxy forces were planning a number of attacks against US interests. Specifically, they claim to have seen missiles being loaded onto boats. Subsequently that threat seems to have passed, but in the meantime the four tankers were mined.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC was invited on board the USS Abraham Lincoln in the Arabian Sea\n\nAndrew: You say Trump is string up tensions: but why? I heard he believes the existing deal is bad and wants a better one? Similar tactics to North Korea?\n\nAnd James: Do you think it was Iran behind these latest attacks, or is it USA trying to stir things up whilst Iran host Shinzo Abe, Japanese PM?\n\nLet's cut to the chase here. Is Iran the most likely country to be responsible for the attacks - probably yes.\n\nHas the United States made a 100 per cent case against Tehran? Not yet.\n\nWill Iran ever admit to these attacks even if its forces did carry them out? Clearly no.\n\nIs anyone else going own up to carrying them out? No.\n\nIt is not the BBC's job to ascribe blame but it is our job to bring the evidence to you, to describe the circumstances; and to report and to weigh-up what different people have to say. You then must come to your own conclusion.\n\nAs you can imagine many of the messages we get refer to wild conspiracy theories which betray more about their author's thinking than they do an assessment of real day-to-day events.\n\nThe US, having walked away from the nuclear deal, is clearly waging a campaign to pressure Iran. But to what end is not clear.\n\nThe demands made by key US officials of Tehran are simply unrealistic. The Trump Administration seems to be unclear as to its strategic goals.\n\nThinking the nuclear deal was a bad one and walking away from it is all very well. But to get a better deal in Mr Trump's terms appears to require Iran to radically change its behaviour and outlook; to almost cease being Iran. That is why critics of Mr Trump say that he really wants regime change in Tehran.\n\nThere certainly are people in his administration who support this. But equally Mr Trump, despite all his tweets and bluster, does not want to embark upon new overseas military commitments.\n\nIt also has to be said that all the other countries or organisations that were party to the nuclear deal (the JCPOA as it is known) think that whatever its flaws, that deal was better than no deal.\n\nThanks for all the questions.", "Venezuelans queue at an immigration office in the border town of Tumbes\n\nThousands of Venezuelans have rushed to cross into Peru in a bid to beat the introduction of tougher migration laws.\n\nUnder new laws introduced on Saturday, Venezuelans need to have a passport and visa to enter Peru.\n\nAuthorities say about 6,000 Venezuelans crossed from neighbouring Ecuador alone on Thursday, three times the daily average.\n\nSome four million people have fled Venezuela since 2015, according to the United Nations.\n\nThe country's imploding economy has resulted in high unemployment and shortages of food and medicine, and hundreds of thousands of people are said to be in need of humanitarian aid.\n\nMany Venezuelans will be unable to meet the new immigration requirements\n\nMarianni Luzardo was travelling to Peru's northern border with her two daughters on Friday. \"In Venezuela it is almost impossible to get a passport,\" she told the Associated Press. \"We need to get to Peru soon.\"\n\n\"Our country has opened its arms to more than 800,000 Venezuelans,\" he told reporters at an event in the northern city of Piura. \"I think it's completely logical and justified to ask them to bring visas to ensure better control of who enters.\"\n\nLatin American countries host the vast majority of Venezuelan migrants and refugees. Colombia has the most at 1.3 million, followed by Peru with 768,000, according to UN figures.\n\nUnder the government of Nicolás Maduro, the economy has collapsed and shortages of food and medicines have become widespread.\n\nIn parts of the oil-rich country, fuel has become scarce and drivers queue for days at petrol stations. There are also frequent blackouts.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What are the real reasons behind Venezuela’s blackouts?\n\nThe government says the shortages are caused by US sanctions. The opposition argues that they are the result of mismanagement and corruption by consecutive socialist governments.\n\nThe crisis deepened in January after Juan Guaidó, the head of the National Assembly, declared himself interim president, arguing that Mr Maduro's re-election last year had been \"illegitimate\".\n\nHe has since been recognised by more than 50 countries, including the US and most of Latin America. But Mr Maduro retains the loyalty of most of the military and important allies such as China and Russia.", "Grand Union said it would get to London Paddington from Cardiff in 90 minutes\n\nA new express train service would cut journey times from Cardiff to London by 20 minutes if it is given the go-ahead.\n\nThe proposed open-access service by Grand Union Trains would run alongside current Great Western Railway trains to Paddington station.\n\nOperating on the south Wales mainline, the service would stop at fewer stations, making it a quicker journey.\n\nThe Office of Rail and Road (ORR) said it was aware of the proposal and early talks had started.\n\nThe hourly service would operate between London Paddington and Cardiff Central and could be live by December 2020.\n\nIt would stop at Severn Tunnel Junction in Monmouthshire, a station which is not currently served by Great Western's London service.\n\nThe service would run from Cardiff Central, to Newport, Severn Tunnel Junction and Bristol Parkway, then to London Paddington. It will also stop at Cardiff Parkway when it opens.\n\nGrand Union said their service would take one and a half hours - by not stopping at Swindon, Didcot and Reading - in comparison to Great Western's half-hourly service, which takes more than two hours.\n\nThe firm's managing director Ian Yeowart said: \"The trains we offer will be faster, more comfortable, we'll offer some competition so that will have a downward pressure on price.\n\n\"We look for places that deserve a better rail service and can support a better rail service.\"\n\nTrains will operate with nine coaches, offering first class, standard class and a buffet car.\n\nMr Yeowart said he has also been in talks with the Welsh Government about other improvements to rail services.\n\n\"We're not just talking about trains, we're also talking about potential infrastructure at Severn Tunnel Junction and at Cardiff Central Station so there's a lot of exciting things to happen,\" he added.\n\n\"We also plan to base the entire operation in south Wales so there would be about 135 new jobs to come into the area if we're successful.\"\n\nThe new train service would not call at Swindon, Didcot and Reading\n\nThey propose using second-hand 140mph (225 km/h) trains formed of nine coaches and a driving trailer, which have been used by London and North Eastern Railway on the East Coast Main Line.\n\nProf Stuart Cole, a former director of Wales Transport Research Centre at the University of Glamorgan, said Mr Yeowart had a \"proven record\" in this field.\n\n\"He's been in this business before, last time it was very successful,\" he said.\n\n\"He's gone for the most profitable and busiest part of the line, it's extra trains on the market and we can see what prices come to the market.\"\n\nKen Skates, the Welsh Government's minister for economy and transport, said: \"[We] welcome the ambition being shown by Grand Union Trains to address this by proposing the operation of a new, fast, limited stop, high quality service which would provide an alternative option for passengers to travel between the two capital cities.\"\n\nUnder track access rules, other rail operators are able to provide a service if a route is not deemed congested, and the Office of Rail and Road (ORR) approves an application.\n\nThe application will now be subject to a 28 day consultation period.", "The number of British people who own a second home, buy-to-let or overseas property has doubled since 2001, says think tank the Resolution Foundation.\n\nWhile the number of millennials who own a home continues to fall, one in 10 people now own an additional property.\n\nJust 37% of people born in the 1980s managed to buy a home at the age of 29, compared with half of those born in the 1960s.\n\nWealth from owning a second home has risen since 2001 to almost £1 trillion.\n\nBuy-to-let property is now the most common form of property wealth, having grown by 58% since 2006-08, the report found.\n\nHowever, when looking at the number of people who can afford an additional property, millennials match the property ownership rates of other generations.\n\nThis suggests that only younger people who are rich can afford a second home - a sign, according to the foundation, that property wealth is not distributed fairly across the country.\n\nThe Resolution Foundation wants to see policymakers step in to reform the housing market, in particular buy-to-let, in order to rebalance the housing market back towards first-time buyers.\n\n\"The sheer scale of additional property wealth is an important driver of rising wealth gaps across Britain,\" says George Bangham, policy analyst at the Resolution Foundation.\n\n\"While young people in particular are less likely to own their own home than previous generations, those that do own are more likely to have more than one property.\n\n\"And as the huge stock of second homes, buy-to-let and overseas properties starts to be passed on to younger generations, Britain risks becoming a country where getting ahead in life depends as much on what you inherit, as what you earn.\"\n\nChris Norris, director of policy and practice at the National Landlords Association, defended second home owners.\n\n\"There is a distinct difference between those who have a second home for personal use, leaving it empty for long periods of time, and those who have invested in a rental property which provides a valued home for someone else,\" he said.\n\n\"Far from the stereotype of the wealthy property baron, most private landlords invest in residential property to provide for their future and their family's in the form of supplementing a pension or establishing a business.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the government said it was helping first-time buyers get on the housing ladder.\n\n\"The Government is determined to ensure that a new generation can realise the dream of homeownership,\" a spokesman said.\n\n\"Last year saw the highest number of first-time buyers in more than a decade. Since 2015, we have helped more than 300,000 people to purchase a home through schemes such as Help to Buy.\"", "Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been detained in Iran since April 2016\n\nA British-Iranian mother detained in Iran has begun a new hunger strike.\n\nNazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was jailed for five years in 2016 after being convicted of spying, which she denies.\n\nHer husband, Richard Ratcliffe, who is joining her in refusing food, said she wanted her unconditional release.\n\nIt comes amid growing tensions between the UK and Iran, after Britain said the Iranian regime was \"almost certainly\" responsible for attacks on two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman.\n\nIran has denied being behind Thursday's explosions but the UK Foreign Office said \"no other state or non-state actor could plausibly have been responsible\".\n\nForeign Secretary Jeremy Hunt urged Iran to \"do the right thing\" and release Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe.\n\n\"Our message to Iran is whatever the disagreements you may have with the United Kingdom, there is an innocent woman at the heart of this,\" he said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jeremy Hunt This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Ratcliffe said he had received a phone call from his wife to tell him she had informed the Iranian judiciary that she had begun a hunger strike - although she would still drink water - to protest against her \"unfair imprisonment\".\n\nHe added that his wife sounded \"nervous but calm\".\n\n\"Her demand from the strike, she said, is for unconditional release.\n\n\"She has long been eligible for it. I do not know the response from the Iranian authorities,\" he said.\n\nHe said his wife had made the decision following the fifth birthday of their daughter, Gabriella.\n\nGabriella has not been allowed to leave Iran following her mother's arrest and is living with her maternal grandparents.\n\n\"Nazanin had vowed that if we passed Gabriella's fifth birthday with her still inside, then she would do something - to mark to both governments - that enough is enough,\" Mr Ratcliffe said.\n\n\"This really has gone on too long.\"\n\nNazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe saw her daughter, Gabriella, during a temporary release from prison in August last year\n\nFriends and family gathered outside the Iranian embassy in London on Saturday, singing Happy Birthday via a video call to Gabriella, who celebrated her birthday on 11 June, and sharing a unicorn-shaped birthday cake.\n\nAs he began his own hunger strike, Mr Ratcliffe said: \"I said that if she did it again I would stand in solidarity with her.\n\n\"A hunger strike in prison, nobody gets to see it - a hunger strike here is much more public. I will keep her story public.\"\n\nMrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe previously undertook a three-day hunger strike in protest at being denied specialist medical care.\n\nThe next UK prime minister should make it their top priority to \"protect British citizens from unfair imprisonment, from torture\", said Mr Ratcliffe.\n\nMr Ratcliffe has urged the Iranian authorities to allow British embassy officials to visit her to check on her health during her hunger strike.\n\nHe said that if she was not freed within the next few weeks, he wanted the Iranians to grant a visa so he could visit her himself.\n\nThe 40-year-old aid worker was arrested at Tehran's Imam Khomeini Airport in April 2016 and has always maintained the visit was to introduce her daughter, Gabriella, to her relatives.\n\nShe is serving a five-year sentence in Tehran's Evin Prison.\n\nMr Hunt granted Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe diplomatic protection in March, but Tehran refuses to acknowledge her dual nationality.\n\nAmnesty International UK's director Kate Allen said her plight was \"truly heart-breaking\".\n\n\"Nazanin is a prisoner of conscience, unfairly jailed after a sham trial and subjected to all manner of torments - including months in solitary confinement and endless game-playing over whether she would receive vital medical care,\" she said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA study has been launched to try to boost the number of black and Asian people using end-of-life care services.\n\nFigures suggest black and Asian patients are 20% less likely to seek palliative help than their white counterparts.\n\nThere is concern they feel excluded by the way the services are currently set up.\n\nThe researchers, from Leicester, plan to use their results to develop national guidance to improve access.\n\nDiagnosed with lymphoma in 2017, Dalbagh Singh visits his local hospice in Luton for weekly treatment.\n\nBut many Sikh families simply would not consider hospice care, he says.\n\nDalbagh Singh had to be convinced to attend a hospice\n\n\"The concept the Asian community have of a hospice is a place you go... to die,\" he says.\n\n\"I didn't want to come to a hospice at first but there was a certain nurse at a health centre and she said, 'Just try it,' and I'm so grateful that I came.\n\n\"It's made my life a lot more comfortable.\"\n\nDifferences in culture, religious practices and language barriers have been cited as reasons why Asian people might be reluctant to access end-of-life care.\n\nSome doctors are also reluctant to offer services because they may not fully understand a patient's needs or fear they may cause offence.\n\nThe research team, based at the Loros hospice, will gather evidence from black and Asian patients, families, caregivers, and health professionals from across the Midlands over the next 30 months.\n\nPatients in care homes tend to be white\n\nGurch Randhawa, professor of diversity in public health at the University of Bedfordshire, said the current model of end-of-life care was not \"culturally competent\".\n\nHe said: \"Once we really start to reflect upon the way our population is changing and meeting the needs of all different communities, then we will be in a much better place.\"\n\nFormer care assistant Hardev Notta, the Asian communities adviser at Acorns Children's Hospice in Birmingham, set up the support group for Asian mothers in the 1990s.\n\nShe said: \"We have a diverse workforce because it can only make a difference.\n\n\"In the coming years, I'd like to see more hospices raise the profile within all communities.\n\n\"We provide a service for the mums and extended families.\"\n\nHospice UK chief executive Tracey Bleakley said: \"There are huge barriers.\n\n\"Many hospices, their names start with the word 'Saint' and they are very rooted in their Christian heritage.\"\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care official said the government was committed to ending unnecessary variation in care across the health system by 2020.", "Mariam Moustafa had a stroke and died in hospital a month after the attack\n\nTwo members of a girl gang who attacked a student at a bus stop in a row over a boy have been sentenced.\n\nMariam Moustafa, 18, fell into a coma after she was punched several times by a \"pack\" of assailants last February.\n\nShe died of a stroke a month later, but pathologists could not legally link the attack with her death, Nottingham Crown Court heard.\n\nMariah Fraser, 20, was given an eight-month sentence and Britania Hunter, 18, given a 12-month community order.\n\nA third accused, a 16-year-old girl who cannot be named and also pleaded guilty, was remanded back to the youth court for sentencing.\n\nSix female defendants were charged after Miss Moustafa, an engineering student, was attacked in Nottingham city centre while one of her friends tried to protect her.\n\nThey included three other teenage girls aged 18, 17 and 16, who will be sentenced later this month.\n\nDuring sentencing, Nottingham Crown Court heard the attack was \"fuelled by social media\".\n\nFraser (left), Hunter (right) and four teenagers admitted carrying out the attack\n\nOpening the facts of the case on Thursday, prosecutor Luke Blackburn said the six were not charged with manslaughter because pathologists could not legally link the attack to Miss Moustafa's death.\n\nThe hearing was told Fraser and Hunter were part of a group who filmed the attack on Miss Moustafa and watched as two others, aged 16 and 18, hit her.\n\nMr Blackburn said footage showed Miss Moustafa, an Egyptian national, looking \"frightened, passive and, towards the end, obviously unwell\".\n\nJudge Gregory Dickinson QC called the defendants aggressive and cowardly and said: \"This was not an attack motivated by hostility to race or religion. It was to do with a boy.\"\n\nMohamed Moustafa said he was not informed of a court hearing in April where the three admitted affray\n\nCh Supt Rob Griffin said: \"These girls showed persistent aggression towards Mariam and what was even more disgusting was that there was filming of what happened and this footage was shared on social media.\"\n\nMiss Moustafa's father, Mohamed Moustafa, said the family had not been informed about a hearing in April where Fraser, Hunter and the 16-year-old admitted affray a week before their trial. The Crown Prosecution Service subsequently apologised.\n\nAfter the sentencing, he said his family \"are not safe in this country\".\n\n\"I have been doing my best for all of my family - telling them to keep safe, don't do anything wrong in this country, don't attack anyone, but after court today... nobody can protect my family,\" he said.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A Chinook helicopter lifts large bags to plug the breach in the River Steeping\n\nRAF crews have dropped more than 100 tonnes of ballast to block a breach in a river bank which caused severe flooding in a town.\n\nThe River Steeping burst its banks at Wainfleet All Saints, Lincolnshire, on Wednesday after the equivalent of two months' rain fell in two days.\n\nA state of emergency was declared on Thursday with more than 70 properties flooded and residents evacuated.\n\nThree Chinook helicopters were at the scene on Friday evening.\n\nIan Reed, the head of emergency planning in Lincolnshire, said: \"We're confident that we are definitely seeing a change and, whilst water levels are not going to go down really quickly, it is helping and it's doing exactly what we wanted it to do.\n\n\"So, that operation has been a success.\n\n\"It's a temporary measure, but it's doing what it set out to achieve.\"\n\nA firefighter was taken to hospital with minor injuries after he was injured moving equipment overnight on Thursday in Wainfleet.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Shaun West of Lincolnshire Police said the rescue effort was showing some early signs of success.\n\n\"Where there were thousands of gallons of water gushing through that breach when I started, that is starting to stem.\"\n\nCrews are dropping ballast and sand in a bid to block a breach in the River Steeping\n\nOfficials said the operation is expected to continue until late in the evening\n\nThe river breached its banks near Wainfleet All Saints after persistent heavy rainfall\n\nResidents in Wainfleet were still being removed by fire crews on Friday\n\nThe town had more than two months' rain in just two days\n\nA rest centre for Wainfleet residents was set up in nearby Skegness.\n\nParts of Wainfleet were badly hit by the flooding\n\nPolice praised the community spirit shown by people in Wainfleet who helped with the recue effort\n\nJean Hart, who has lived in Wainfleet for 40 years, said it was the worst flooding she had ever seen.\n\n\"To see our house under water is absolutely horrendous,\" she said. \"The whole of my house is completely devastated.\"\n\nWainfleet resident Jean Hart posted a picture of the flood waters in her bathroom\n\nShe was reunited with her tortoise, Mr T\n\nShe said she and her husband Kevin were now at a loss as to what to do.\n\n\"[You realise the] things you take for granted,\" she said.\n\n\"It's not just us - so many people are in the same situation and my heart goes out to them.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Graham Norton, Gary Lineker and Steve Wright lead the BBC pay list, with Claudia Winkleman the highest-earning woman\n\nCutting the pay of stars and senior managers would only save a fraction of the cost of free TV licences for older people, the BBC has said.\n\nThe broadcaster has defended its decision to end universal free licences for over-75s because of the £745m cost.\n\nIn a letter to the Daily Telegraph, BBC director of policy Clare Sumner said the BBC could only save £25m if it kept all salaries at or below £150,000.\n\nUp to 3.7 million pensioners stand to lose the free licence from next year.\n\nMs Pearson accused the broadcaster of having a \"culture of ludicrously inflated salaries\" and being \"dangerously out of touch\" with the public.\n\nShe called for cuts to the salaries of senior staff earning over £150,000, as well as cutting the pay of stars and presenters.\n\nAccording to the BBC annual review last year, among the highest-paid stars were Match of the Day presenter Gary Lineker (£1,750,000-£1,759,999), chat show host Graham Norton (£600,000-£609,000) and Radio 2 presenter Steve Wright (£550,000-£559,999).\n\nThe top-earning female star was Claudia Winkleman, whose salary is estimated at £370,000-£379,999.\n\nThe total pay for on-air talent was £148m in 2017/2018.\n\nConcern over the loss of free licences prompted Animal Park presenter Ben Fogle to donate a year's salary for his work fronting the show, saying that \"we owe it\" to over-75s.\n• None £745mEstimated cost to the BBC of current scheme by 2021/22\n• None £250mEstimated cost of new scheme depending on take-up\n\nBut in her letter to the Daily Telegraph, Clare Sumner said: \"Even if we stopped employing every presenter earning more than £150,000, that would save less than £20m.\n\n\"If no senior manager were paid over £150,000 that would save only £5m.\"\n\nShe said spending on senior managers' salaries has been cut by £38m since 2010 and 94% of the BBC's budget was spent directly on programmes and services.\n\nThe highest-paid senior manager is director general Tony Hall, with an annual salary of £450,000. In total, 94 executives earn more than £150,000, nine of whom are paid more than £250,000.\n\nProviding free TV licences to over-75s who claim pension credit will cost the BBC about £250m by 2021-22, depending on take-up.\n\nBut continuing the universal scheme would cost £745m, a fifth of the BBC's budget and equivalent to the cost of BBC Two, BBC Four, the BBC News Channel, the BBC Scotland channel, Radio 5 Live and a number of local radio stations.\n\n\"If we had continued with the current scheme, its rising cost would have meant closures of services that we know older audiences, in particular, love, use and value every day,\" Ms Sumner said.\n\nFree licences were first introduced by the Labour government in 2000.\n\nIn 2015, the Conservative government announced the BBC would take over the cost of providing free licences for over-75s by 2020 as part of the fee settlement.\n\nAn Age UK online petition for calling for the government to take back responsibility for funding free TV licences has now passed 500,000 signatures.\n\nCharity director Caroline Abrahams said the petition \"demonstrates the strength of public feeling about the unfairness of the government scrapping free TV licences for over-75s\".\n\nMs Abrahams added that the numbers were particularly remarkable given that half of the age group impacted are not online.", "Two boats were spotted separately in the English Channel off the Kent coast\n\nTwo boats containing 40 migrants, including children, have been intercepted off the Kent coast.\n\nAll those on board said they were from Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan, the Home Office said.\n\nAll the migrants have been medically assessed and transferred to immigration officials, a spokesman said.\n\nAn eyewitness said he saw one boat off St Margaret's Bay in Kent at about 05:30 BST with the occupants being given life vests before being rescued.\n\nPaul Jolliffe told the BBC he heard a siren and looked out of his window to see a Border Force boat.\n\nHe said officers used loudhailers to talk to the migrants before they were transferred to the Border Force vessel.\n\nA total of 794 people have been intercepted in small boats since 3 November 2018.\n\nThe Home Office spokesman said: \"Anyone crossing the Channel in a small boat is taking a huge risk with their life and the lives of their children.\n\n\"It is an established principle that those in need of protection should claim asylum in the first safe country they reach and since January more than 35 people who arrived illegally in the UK in small boats have been returned to Europe.\"\n\nA note on terminology: The BBC uses the term migrant to refer to all people on the move who have yet to complete the legal process of claiming asylum. This group includes people fleeing war-torn countries, who are likely to be granted refugee status, as well as people who are seeking jobs and better lives, who governments are likely to rule are economic migrants.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The rinderpest virus, shown here infecting a cell, is highly contagious in cattle\n\nScientists have destroyed the UK's laboratory stocks of a virus that once caused devastating cattle losses.\n\nThese stocks accounted for most of the world's lab samples of rinderpest, which were held at The Pirbright Institute in Surrey.\n\nRinderpest and the deadly smallpox virus are the only diseases to have been eradicated from the face of the Earth.\n\nBBC News had exclusive access to the destruction of the final samples.\n\nDr Carrie Batten, from The Pirbright Institute, described the moment as \"the end of an era\".\n\n\"Rinderpest was devastating and by removing the stocks that are held globally you are essentially reducing the risk dramatically,\" she said.\n\nRinderpest devastated cattle in Africa during the 1890s. Millions of people died from starvation.\n\nDr Michael Baron, honorary fellow at the institute, said the end of rinderpest would mark the beginning of a new war on other diseases.\n\n\"The success we have achieved with rinderpest has been one of the main drivers for people saying we can do this with other animal diseases and other human diseases such as polio, mumps and measles. These diseases are eradicable and this should be done,\" he explained.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Inside the lab where they study the world's most deadly diseases\n\nThe rinderpest virus is responsible for one of the worst catastrophes in history. During an outbreak in the 1890s, it killed between 80% and 90% of cattle in eastern and southern Africa. This caused mass starvation in the region.\n\nMillions of people died as a result. In Ethiopia alone, one-third of the human population was wiped out. The toll in lives was on a scale matched only by the Black Death in Europe.\n\nA vaccination campaign eventually brought the disease under control until it was declared to have been eradicated in the wild in 2011.\n\nBut thousands of samples of the virus remained in 40 laboratories across 36 countries. If there happened to be an accident, the disease could potentially leak out and cause devastation once again.\n\nTo prevent this, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) approved a few highly secure labs and encouraged other institutes to send their rinderpest samples to these facilities.\n\nAmong them is the Pirbright Institute in Surrey, which has led efforts to record the genetic information contained in each sample and then destroy it.\n\nResearchers have been reluctant to destroy lab samples of deadly viruses in case they are needed to create a vaccine should the disease ever re-emerge. But a digital record of the virus's genetic code means that this is no longer an issue.\n\nAnd so Pirbright has been able to destroy all its samples which account for most of the laboratory rinderpest virus in the world.\n\nDr Samia Metwally, of the FAO, hopes that Pirbright's success will encourage other holding facilities to follow suit so that it is completely eliminated from the face of the Earth.\n\n\"This is a huge step by Pirbright. It sets a precedent for other countries to do the same.\"\n\nDr Monique Eloit, the OIE's director-general, told BBC News that she was \"very happy\" about the development.\n\n\"All the work done by farmers, veterinarians and scientists for such a long time is on track to minimise the risk of the re-emergence of rinderpest,\" she said.\n\nThe government's chief vet, Dr Christine Middlemiss, welcomed the news. \"It is such a devastating disease. 100% of susceptible animals become infected and die from the virus. So to have that removed as a threat is fantastic,\" she said.\n• None Scientists say virus is wiped out", "Heavy rain has caused flooding on roads across Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire and Leicestershire.\n\nIt has resulted in difficult driving conditions, particularly across the three counties.\n\nThe River Steeping at Thorpe St Peter near Skegness, also burst its banks on Wednesday night following heavy rain.\n\nThe rain is likely to continue, with the Met Office giving yellow weather warnings across the North West and North East of England.\n\nThere are 25 Environment Agency flood warnings and 64 alerts in place across the country.", "Mr Zeffirelli directed movie stars including Elizabeth Taylor and opera greats such as Maria Callas\n\nThe Florence native directed stars including Elizabeth Taylor in the 1967 film Taming of the Shrew and Dame Judi Dench on stage in Romeo and Juliet.\n\nItalian media said Zeffirelli died after a long illness which had grown worse in recent months.\n\nThe two-time Oscar nominee also served in the Italian senate for two terms as a member of Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia party.\n\nHe is perhaps best known to many as the director of the 1968 adaptation of Romeo and Juliet – starring a then-unknown Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey.\n\nIt was viewed by generations of school students studying the Shakespearean drama.\n\nThe illegitimate son of a merchant, his mother gave him the surname \"Zeffiretti\" – meaning \"little breezes\" – which was misspelled on his birth certificate.\n\nThe original meaning came from a Mozart opera – and Zeffirelli would go on to become a prolific creator of opera himself, staging more than 120 during his career in London, Milan and New York.\n\n\"Franco Zeffirelli, one of the world's greatest men of culture, passed away this morning,\" tweeted Dario Nardella, mayor of Florence. \"Goodbye dear Maestro, Florence will never forget you.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Dario Nardella This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nZeffirelli initially studied architecture at the University of Florence, but his education was interrupted by the outbreak of World War II. During the conflict, he fought for Communist partisan forces against Mussolini's Fascists and the occupying Nazis.\n\nAfter being captured by Fascists, he was saved from execution when his interrogator turned out to be a half brother whom he'd never known. His half brother arranged for his release.\n\nWhen the war was over, he continued his studies but said he became inspired to pursue a career in theatre after seeing Laurence Olivier's Henry V (1944).\n\nIn 1945, he started work as a set designer at Florence's Teatro della Pergola, and concentrated on theatre throughout the 1950s and 1960s.\n\nAt the Pope's request, in 1970 Zeffirelli staged \"Missa solemnis\" in honour of the 200th anniversary of Beethoven's birth.\n\nHis first film was a Shakespeare adaptation, The Taming of the Shrew. While initially intended to star two Italian actors, it was heavily funded by Hollywood couple Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor, who eventually assumed the two leading roles.\n\nAnother notable adaptation of the bard's plays would come in 1990s Hamlet – starring Mel Gibson in the title role, with Glenn Close and Helena Bonham Carter among the supporting cast.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Three RAF Chinook helicopters dropped 270 tonnes of ballast to fill a breach in the river bank\n\nMore homes are being evacuated following severe flooding in a Lincolnshire town.\n\nResidents in 580 properties in and around Wainfleet will be moved amid concerns about flood defences along the River Steeping.\n\nThe Environment Agency said water levels remained high and a decision had been made to \"evacuate the highest risk areas and the most vulnerable\".\n\nThe town flooded on Wednesday after two months' worth of rain fell in two days.\n\nThe Environment Agency has described the situation as \"unprecedented\" after 132mm of rain fell between Monday and Wednesday.\n\nLocal MP Matt Warman said the town was \"by no means out of the woods yet\".\n\nHe said: \"The Environment Agency is in the process of putting together two pumps that will start taking away some quantities of water\", but he was unsure when they would be up and running.\n\nThe Conservative MP for Boston and Skegness praised the \"incredible\" multi-agency response to the flooding and offered \"a huge thank you\" to those involved.\n\nThe town of Wainfleet in Lincolnshire was flooded on Wednesday\n\nThree RAF Chinook helicopters dropped 270 one-tonne bags of ballast to repair the bank on Friday.\n\nHowever, City of Lincoln Council said the temporary repairs had started to deteriorate and the RAF had returned to \"drop further ballast to shore up the repair\".\n\nFlood water was entering the Thorpe Culvert pumping station and the additional evacuations were a precautionary action as \"there is a risk the pumping station may fail\", Lincolnshire Police said.\n\nThe force has issued a list of about 140 postcodes in which homes could be affected.\n\nIt said residents should be prepared to be away from their homes \"for around 48 hours\" and asked people to move in with friends and family or attend a centre set-up at Richmond School in nearby Skegness.\n\nSo far, residents have been asked to evacuate 580 properties near the river, according to the council.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHeavy rainfall affected large parts of England on Wednesday and Thursday with the Environment Agency issuing dozens of flood warnings.\n\nThe majority were across the Midlands and North West, but they extended as far as Northumberland and Christchurch in Dorset.\n\nPassengers on a London to Nottingham train were stranded for eight hours in Corby on Thursday following a landslide.\n\nCommuters were transferred to a second train which also became stuck due to flooding on the line.\n\nFood and water ran out onboard and one woman collapsed.\n\nResidents in Wainfleet were still being removed by fire crews on Friday\n\nThe RAF dropped 270 tonnes of ballast to fill a breach in the river bank\n\nHave you been evacuated from your home? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTwo carers have been convicted of murdering a 19-year-old woman whose death they covered up for 20 years and whose body has never been found.\n\nEdward Cairney, 77, and Avril Jones, 59, killed Margaret Fleming in December 1999 or January of the following year.\n\nThe authorities only became suspicious in October 2016 when concerns were raised about a benefits claim made by Jones on Ms Fleming's behalf.\n\nA huge police search operation has failed to find any trace of Ms Fleming.\n\nCairney insisted during the trial at the High Court in Glasgow that Ms Fleming is still alive and had gone to London.\n\nMargaret Fleming's body has never been found\n\nHe claimed that she regularly returned to their home in Inverkip, Inverclyde, when she needed money.\n\nHe also claimed Ms Fleming, who had learning difficulties and went to live with the couple after her father's death in 1995, fled out of the back door when police first arrived at the house, which is known as Seacroft, to search for her.\n\nBut a jury found Cairney and Jones guilty of murder after a seven-week trial.\n\nJones was also found guilty of fraudulently claiming £182,000 in benefits by pretending that Ms Fleming was alive.\n\nLord Matthews, the trial judge, said he would pass sentence next month after social work and medical reports are compiled on the pair.\n\nSpeaking outside court, Det Supt Paul Livingstone - who led the investigation - said Ms Fleming had been a \"very vulnerable young woman who was manipulated, abused, neglected and ultimately murdered by the two people who should have been looking after her\".\n\nPolice described conditions in the house as \"uninhabitable\"\n\nHe said it was clear that Cairney and Jones had been motivated by money and kept the teenager in conditions that were \"utterly disgusting and uninhabitable\" before killing her.\n\nHe added: \"We will never know just how Margaret was killed. What we do know is that she lived her last days in what can only be described as a living hell.\n\n\"She must have felt that she was alone in the world with no-one coming to help her, which is just heartbreaking to think of.\"\n\nInverclyde Council said it was asked by the procurator fiscal not to carry out an investigation before the trial concluded.\n\nA spokesman said: \"Inverclyde's multi-agency public protection committees will now work with all the organisations involved in Margaret's case on a full, detailed examination of the events leading up to her tragic death.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe last independent sighting of Ms Fleming, who briefly attended James Watt College before effectively being held prisoner by the couple, was when Jones' brother Richard saw her on 17 December 1999.\n\nShe did not join the rest of the family for Christmas dinner the following week. On 5 January of the following year, Jones told her mother that Margaret had run off with travellers.\n\nThere have been no sightings of her since, and detectives were unable to establish how she died or what happened to her body - although a former firefighter told the trial he once smelled what he believed was burning human flesh coming from a bonfire at Cairney and Jones' home.\n\nThe pair tried to cover their tracks by travelling to London, and letters purporting to be from Ms Fleming were posted to their home in a bid to cover up their crime.\n\nBogus diary and calendar entries were also written to suggest Ms Fleming had left the house voluntarily.\n\nDespite this her benefits continued to be paid into Jones' account, without challenge, for more than a decade.\n\nThe trial heard that a benefits investigator attempted to visit Ms Fleming in June 2012 but was told by Jones that she would not see her.\n\nThe investigator said a duty social worker should have visited the \"totally chaotic\" property to follow up on the young woman's welfare, but no-one did.\n\nWhen police were finally alerted four years later it was as a result of an application for Personal Independence Payments (PIP) - which had been filled out by Jones.\n\nIn it she wrote that Ms Fleming \"needs constant care\", had self-harmed and was \"caught eating out of a dog bowl\".\n\nA social worker phoned Jones to offer help and was told Ms Fleming had not been to the doctor, despite picking a hole in her head.\n\nPolice Scotland subsequently launched a missing persons' investigation in October 2016 but an extensive search of the house - which included two downstairs bedrooms full of rubbish - and its grounds failed to uncover any trace of Ms Fleming.\n\nDespite their suspicions, detectives did not have enough evidence to charge the couple - but that changed after Cairney made a series of outlandish claims in interviews with journalists including BBC Scotland's Suzanne Allan in October 2017.\n\nHe said Ms Fleming had become a \"gangmaster\" and was also \"buying and selling\" drugs.\n\nCairney later told the trial that he had met Margaret in London two years ago.\n\nCairney and Jones were detained on 25 October of that year at Glasgow Central Station as they attempted to board a train to London while carrying £3,500 in cash.", "European eels are one of the UK's most endangered species\n\nDealers looking to illegally export European eels from the UK have been exposed by BBC Countryfile.\n\nPosing as a UK fisherman who had legally caught the eels on the River Severn in Gloucestershire, presenter Joe Crowley was approached by Chinese and Russian buyers and a UK exporter.\n\nThey were prepared to pay up to seven times the normal catch price if the eels could be sent out of the EU.\n\nAn export ban on the endangered species has been in place since 2010.\n\nOrganised crime gangs are said to be smuggling about 350 million live baby eels - or 'glass' eels - every year to Asia, where they are farmed and sold as a delicacy.\n\nAndrew Kerr, of the Sustainable Eel Group said the illegal trade in glass eels, also known as elvers, was estimated to be worth about £3bn a year.\n\nMr Kerr told the BBC: \"It's the most trafficked animal by number and by value.\n\nThe Sustainable Eel Group's Andrew Kerr said the illegal trade was estimated to be worth about £3bn a year\n\n\"It leaves here at one Euro each and then one year later, having been grown in the 900 eel farms of inland China, it's worth 10 Euros - and that's pretty tempting.\n\n\"This is the greatest wildlife crime on the planet.\"\n\nThe illegal trade has previously been focused on stocks in France and Spain but now smugglers have turned their attention to the UK, where glass eels can only be caught by licensed fishermen.\n\nCountryfile's investigations team posted an advert on an online trading website, offering live eels caught in the River Severn for sale.\n\nOne buyer from China offered more than £1,000 per kilo for the eels to be shipped to Malaysia, despite acknowledging that the export would be illegal.\n\nThe current price for eels bought and sold legitimately within the EU is about £150 per kilo.\n\nAnother buyer from Russia asked for the catch to be sent to Lithuania legally where he would then arrange for the eels to be moved over the border to Russia.\n\nThe team was also approached by a UK-based commodities trader who said he had a client in Asia who was looking for glass eels to be exported to South Korea.\n\nWhen later confronted, he said he knew that it was illegal to export eels, that he did not have a buyer in South Korea and that he was only \"speculating\".\n\nIan Guildford of the National Wildlife Crime Unit described it as a \"major crime\"\n\nHe added that he had never exported glass eels and had no intention of doing so.\n\nSince the 1970s, the numbers of eels reaching Europe is thought to have declined by about 90%.\n\nToday they are protected as an endangered species by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).\n\nThey are also named on the International Union for Conservation of Nature's Red List of Threatened Species.\n\nBut campaigners are concerned that a lack of monitoring is allowing glass eels to be moved between EU member states and beyond, with few traceability checks enforced or records kept.\n\nIan Guildford, of the National Wildlife Crime Unit, said it was often hard to convince other enforcement agencies to take the crime seriously.\n\nHe said: \"This is major crime and, once we can get people to understand the severity of the problem, then we might get somewhere.\"\n\nSee the full story on Countryfile on BBC1 at 19:00 BST on 16 June and afterwards on the iPlayer.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "With the number of fatal stabbings in England and Wales in 2017-18 the highest since records began - the BBC has tracked the first 100 killings in 2019 - revealing the people behind the headlines.\n\nStabbings were the largest single cause of death, totalling 40 fatalities out of 100, with the remaining 60 resulting from other causes such as assault or fire.\n\nThe age range of victims is strikingly wide.\n\nA fifth of those killed this year were under the age of 20, but most commonly, victims were in their 20s and 30s.\n\nThe youngest was a one-month old baby boy and the oldest were twin brothers killed in Exeter, aged 84.\n\nTwenty-two victims were killed in London, nine in Greater Manchester and eight in the West Midlands.\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\nBelow are the names and, where available, photos and profiles of those who have tragically lost their lives so far this year.\n\nIf you can't see this interactive, click this link.\n\nInformation supplied by police forces in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.\n\nThe list is comprised of manslaughters, murders and infanticides. These causes of death are categorised as homicides by the Office of National Statistics.\n\nFigures are correct as of 8 March 2019 but may change as investigations progress and charges are brought or dropped.\n\nThe figures do not include the case of Sean Fitzgerald who was shot during a police raid in Coventry, or a police investigation into an assisted suicide in Hampshire.\n\nUpdate 22 March 2019: The list has been updated as a result of new information supplied to the BBC.", "A teenager with special needs who has a black belt in taekwondo says the sport makes her “feel strong”.\n\nAngel Stevens, 17, from Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, was born with foetal valproate syndrome, a rare condition which causes brain damage and physical deformity.\n\nShe won a gold medal at the International Taekwon-Do Federation World Championships in 2016.\n\nNow her family are raising money for her to take part in a taekwondo competition in New Zealand for people with special needs.\n\n“It feels like I’m strong and I can do things when I push myself,” Angel said.", "Hong Kong has suspended its plans to push through a law which would allow extradition to mainland China, its chief executive announced Saturday.\n\nCarrie Lam expressed \"deep sorrow\" over the resulting controversy which sparked massive protests.", "Jo Brand said the joke was \"crass and ill-judged\"\n\nThe Metropolitan Police has said it will take no further action over Jo Brand's comments on a radio show about throwing battery acid at politicians.\n\nThe comedian was accused of inciting violence after joking on BBC Radio 4's Heresy about throwing acid instead of milkshakes at \"unpleasant characters\".\n\nShe later apologised for what she called a \"crass and ill-judged\" joke.\n\nThe show's creator, David Baddiel, said the BBC was \"cowardly\" for removing the joke from a repeat of the episode.\n\nBrexit Party leader Nigel Farage, who had milkshake thrown over him during the European election campaign in May, has accused Brand of inciting violence, although he did not say who against.\n\nWriting on Twitter, he added: \"I am sick to death of overpaid, left-wing, so-called comedians on the BBC who think their view is morally superior. Can you imagine the reaction if I had said the same thing as Jo Brand?\"\n\nIn the episode of the Heresy broadcast on Tuesday, Brand told presenter Victoria Coren Mitchell that people who attacked \"unpleasant figures\" with milkshakes were \"pathetic\", adding: \"Why bother with a milkshake when you could get some battery acid?\"\n\nThe comic then went on to immediately make clear she was joking and criticised the milkshake stunts.\n\n\"I'm not going to do it,\" she said. \"It's purely a fantasy, but I think milkshakes are pathetic, I honestly do, sorry.\"\n\nHer follow-up comments were edited out of widely-shared clips on social media.\n\nOfcom said it received 65 complaints about the episode.\n\nMr Farage has been targeted by protesters\n\nAppearing later at Henley Literary Festival, Brand said: \"Looking back on it I think it was a somewhat crass and an ill-judged joke.\"\n\nShe added: \"Nigel Farage tweeted the first bit that I said without the second bit when I apologised and said it was a joke and not something I would encourage.\n\n\"The current situation is I'm being chased around England and being asked if I feel I should apologise. I felt I apologised for it as I did it on the night. I'm a human being and people make mistakes. I apologise to all the people who I have offended.\"\n\nThe Sun said she added: \"I don't think it's a mistake. If you think it is I'm happy to accept that.\n\n\"Female politicians and public figures are threatened day in, day out, with far worse things than battery acid... rape, murder and what have you.\n\n\"At least I'm here and trying to explain what I did. I don't think I have anyone to answer to. Nigel Farage wasn't even mentioned by me on the night so why he has taken it upon himself I don't know.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Baddiel told BBC's Newsnight he did not think the BBC should have edited the joke out of a repeat of the programme.\n\nHe said: \"I don't think I would have nipped it out. Morally wrong? I'm not sure. I think they're just trying not to cause trouble.\n\n\"If it was up to me, I would have kept that line in for the repeat. Apart from anything, it's a bit silly when it's had massive coverage to cut it out - that looks a bit cowardly.\"\n\nThe broadcaster said on Thursday it regretted any offence caused and that, although comedy \"will always push boundaries\", the programme was \"never intended to encourage or condone violence\".\n\nIn a statement released on Friday, the Met said: \"Police received an allegation of incitement to violence on 13 June, relating to comments made on a radio programme.\n\n\"The referral has been considered by the MPS and no further police action will be taken in relation to this allegation.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Sinha (far right) has been a \"chaser\" on The Chase since 2011\n\nPaul Sinha, one of the professional quizzers on ITV's The Chase, has revealed he has Parkinson's disease.\n\n\"I will fight this with every breath I have,\" tweeted the 49-year-old comic, going on to share further details of his diagnosis in a blog post.\n\nSinha, a former GP, said he was told he had Parkinson's - a degenerative brain condition - last month.\n\nHe said it had been \"a really, really tough two weeks\" but said he did not \"consider himself unlucky\".\n\n\"Whatever the next stage of my life holds for me, many others have it far worse,\" he continued.\n\nSinha said he intended to \"keep Chasing, keep writing and performing comedy [and] keep quizzing\" while joking that appearing on Dancing on Ice was probably \"out of the question\".\n\n\"A lot of people have asked 'What can I do to help?'\" he concluded. \"The answer is to treat me exactly the same as before.\"\n\nBradley Walsh hosts The Chase, which Sinha joined in 2011. His fellow \"chasers\" are Anne Hegerty, Mark Labbett, Jenny Ryan and Shaun Wallace.\n\nLast month the BBC's technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones revealed he has Parkinson's, whose symptoms include involuntary tremors.\n\nSir Billy Connolly and actor Alan Alda have also spoken about how they deal with the illness since being diagnosed in 2013 and 2015 respectively.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tory leadership: Rivals insist there must be no 'coronation' for Boris\n\nRivals for the Conservative leadership have said there must be no uncontested \"coronation\" for leadership frontrunner Boris Johnson.\n\nSeveral candidates said the party needed to learn from the experience of electing Theresa May unopposed in 2016.\n\n\"Let's not make the same mistake again,\" said Home Secretary Sajid Javid.\n\nIt comes as Mr Johnson expressed fears about damaging \"blue-on-blue\" attacks in forthcoming TV debates.\n\nWhile he has agreed to take part in the BBC's debate on Tuesday, Mr Johnson will not be taking part in Sunday's debate on Channel 4, with his team reportedly having reservations about its proposed format.\n\nMr Johnson was criticised for avoiding scrutiny and taking a \"presidential\" approach to the contest to be the next Tory leader and prime minister by International Development Secretary, and fellow contender, Rory Stewart.\n\n\"The whole genius of British politics is that we don't behave like American presidents, sweeping up in a motorcade. We're all about talking to people,\" Mr Stewart said.\n\nMr Stewart said that Conservative members \"deserved to have a choice\" in the final ballot and \"coronations are not the way to do democratic politics\".\n\nHis comments were echoed by Mr Javid, as he arrived at a London meeting for leadership candidates to speak to party members.\n\n\"We had a coronation the last time. That didn't work out well, so let's not make the same mistake again,\" said Mr Javid.\n\nSenior Conservative Party figures were reportedly drawing up plans for other candidates to withdraw from the contest after Mr Johnson gained 114 votes in the first ballot - more than double his nearest rival, Mr Hunt.\n\nThe Daily Telegraph said that the Tory whips' office drew up the plan to avoid weeks of internal party conflict.\n\nIt would mean Mr Johnson would be the only candidate to go forward to the final postal ballot of party members, making his election a formality.\n\nForeign Secretary Jeremy Hunt told the BBC that most people wished \"there had been more scrutiny\" in 2016. He pledged to emulate David Cameron in the 2005 leadership contest, who came from behind to earn a victory that \"shocked everyone\".\n\nMr Johnson avoided reporters as he arrived at the meeting - a hustings organised by the National Conservative Convention, where he and other leadership candidates will address potential voters.\n\nEarlier, former Brexit secretary Dominic Raab said the next party leader needed to be thoroughly tested in the heat of debate.\n\n\"Everyone is going to have to demonstrate that they have not just the vision, but the nerve and mettle to deal with the EU and with a minority government,\" he told The Daily Telegraph.\n\n\"If you can't take the heat of the TV studios, what chance of taking the heat of the negotiating chamber in Brussels?\"\n\nHe also contrasted his own background as the grammar school-educated son of a refugee with the \"privileged elite\", and said he would be more likely to unite working class and middle class voters.", "The group died of asphyxiation after inhaling toxic fumes from the sewer\n\nSeven people have died whilst cleaning a hotel sewer in western India, according to local police.\n\nThe four sanitation workers and three staff at Darshsan Hotel fell unconscious and died on Friday night after inhaling toxic fumes.\n\nTheir bodies have been recovered in the village of Fartikui, and the hotel owner has been charged over the deaths.\n\nGujarati authorities have pledged financial assistance to the victims' next of kin.\n\nAccording to police, the incident began after one sanitary worker entered the septic tank. When he did not return from the tank or respond to calls, his three colleagues went in to find him.\n\nLater, when none of the four had come out, three hotel staff went in to help them, but they too fell unconscious and died.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAfter all seven went missing, local emergency services pulled their bodies out in a three-hour operation.\n\n\"All seven were dead as the pressure of gas was high in the tank, but we could bring their bodies out,\" fire officer Nikunj Azad told local press.\n\nSafai Karmachari Andolan - a group campaigning to end manual sanitation work - estimates that nearly 1,800 sewer cleaners have died from suffocation during the last 10 years.", "Two more hospital patient deaths have been linked to an outbreak of listeria in pre-packed sandwiches and salads.\n\nFriday's announcement from Public Health England (PHE) takes the number of confirmed cases from six to nine and the deaths from three to five.\n\nLast week PHE confirmed two patients from Manchester Royal Infirmary and one at Aintree Hospital had died.\n\nSandwiches and salads from the Good Food Chain linked to the outbreak have been withdrawn and production stopped.\n\nEvidence suggested all individuals ate the affected foods before the product withdrawal took place in hospitals on 25 May, PHE said.\n\nThe chain - which supplied 43 NHS trusts across the UK - had been supplied with meat produced by North Country Cooked Meats, which subsequently produced a positive test result for the outbreak strain of listeria.\n\nPHE said it had been analysing previously known cases of listeria from the past two months to see if they were linked.\n\n\"To date, there have been no patients linked to this incident outside healthcare organisations, but we continue to investigate,\" Dr Nick Phin, of Public Health England, said.\n\n\"Swift action was taken to protect patients and any risk to the public is low.\"\n\nHe added: \"PHE is continuing to analyse all recent and ongoing samples of listeria from hospital patients to understand whether their illness is linked to this outbreak.\"\n\nA listeria infection can cause a small amount of discomfort but is more likely to seriously affect pregnant women, the elderly and those with a weakened immune system.\n\nIn a statement, the Good Food Chain said it was co-operating \"fully and transparently with the Food Standards Agency and other authorities\" and said it hoped the inquiry would be pursued with \"urgency so the wider industry can learn any lessons as soon as possible\".\n\n\"Our thoughts and deepest sympathies are with the families of those who have died and anyone else who has been affected by this outbreak.\n\n\"The underlying cause of it remains unclear,\" the statement adds.\n\nIt is not yet known where the latest two victims were receiving treatment.\n\nManchester University NHS Foundation and Aintree University NHS Foundation Trust said the new cases did not relate to them.\n\nListeria is a bacterium that can cause a type of food poisoning called listeriosis.\n\nNormally, the symptoms are mild - a high temperature, chills, feeling sick - and go away on their own after a few days.\n\nBut in this outbreak, the cases occurred in people who were already seriously ill in hospital and they are most at risk of severe infection.\n\nListeria can then cause damage to organs, spread to the brain or bloodstream and be fatal.\n\nIn 2017, figures show there were 33 deaths linked to listeriosis in England and Wales.\n\nMany types of food can become contaminated with listeria such as soft cheeses, chilled ready-to-eat foods like pre-packed salads, sandwiches and sliced meats, and unpasteurised milk products.\n\nPregnant women are advised to steer clear of soft cheese for this reason.\n\nTo reduce the risk, the NHS advises people keep chilled food in the fridge, heat food until it is piping hot and not eat food after its use-by date.\n\nThe Good Food Chain, based in Stone, Staffordshire, had been supplied with meat produced by North Country Cooked Meats, which subsequently produced a positive test result for the outbreak strain of listeria.\n\nThis business - along with North Country Quality Foods which it distributes through - has also voluntarily ceased production.\n\nLast week North Country Cooked Meats said it was \"co-operating fully\" the investigations.", "Dr Wolf says she had admitted her \"misinterpretations\" and was correcting them\n\nThe release of a new book by prominent feminist author Naomi Wolf has been delayed by her US publisher over accuracy concerns.\n\nOutrages: Sex, Censorship and the Criminalisation of Love details the persecution of homosexuality in Victorian Britain.\n\nLast month, it was revealed during a BBC radio interview that the author had misunderstood key 19th century English legal terms within the book.\n\nDr Wolf is best known for her acclaimed third-wave feminist book The Beauty Myth and other works like Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries.\n\nHer new book argues that the British Obscene Publications Act of 1857 led to homosexual persecution in Britain getting worse.\n\nBut during an interview on BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking programme broadcaster Matthew Sweet questioned key claims within it.\n\nDr Wolf alleged she had discovered that \"several dozen\" men were executed for having homosexual sex during the 19th century.\n\n\"I don't think you're right about this,\" the presenter said in the clip, before detailing the term \"death recorded\" in Old Bailey court records in fact meant that judges had abstained from handing down a death sentence.\n\n\"I don't think any of the executions you've identified here actually happened,\" he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matthew Sweet questions some of Naomi Wolf's evidence in her new book Outrages\n\nIn one particular case, he pointed out a 14-year-old boy had been discharged and not executed as she had detailed.\n\nSweet also raised questions over her interpretation of the surrounding \"sodomy\" - revealing the teenager had in fact committed an indecent assault against a six-year-old boy, and not a consensual homosexual act.\n\n\"I can't find any evidence that any of the relationships you describe were consensual,\" he added.\n\nDespite the revelations, UK publisher Virago and US publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt initially both stood by the author and pledged to make corrections.\n\nBut on Thursday, the US publisher told the New York Times they would not publish on 18 June as planned.\n\n\"As we have been working with Naomi Wolf to make corrections to Outrages, new questions have arisen that require more time to explore,\" a spokeswoman told the newspaper.\n\n\"We are postponing publication and requesting that all copies be returned from retail accounts while we work to resolve those questions.\"\n\nIn a series of tweets Dr Wolf said she \"strongly objected\" to the decision.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Dr Naomi Wolf This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nShe also issued a statement to the newspaper about the delay.\n\n\"The misinterpretations I made, I directly acknowledged and took immediate action to correct; but many of the other critiques are either subject to interpretation or are themselves in error,\" the statement.\n\n\"A rebuttal article was underway. More responsiveness and more transparency are the right answers to criticism, and not the complete withdrawal of a text.\"", "Each of the incidents involved an Apache from Wattisham Airfield in Suffolk and a light aircraft, the UK Airprox Board said\n\nConcerns have been raised over the flight paths of Army Apache helicopters in a \"hotspot\" area of sky after two came within close proximity to light aircraft within weeks.\n\nReports by the UK Airprox Board, which investigates near-misses, outlined two incidents over Birch in Essex.\n\nInvestigators said there had been other cases and the Apache Helicopter Force should \"take note of this\".\n\nThe Ministry of Defence said it took all air incidents \"very seriously\".\n\nIt said it welcomed all recommendations made in Airprox reports and would \"do whatever we can to prevent them from happening again\".\n\nThe reported incidents involved Apaches from Wattisham Airfield in Suffolk and a light aircraft.\n\nOn 7 August 2018, an Apache pilot reported he came within 100ft (30m) of a light aircraft, although radar suggested it was within 400ft (121m), the first report said.\n\nThe second report said an Apache pilot reported he was flying at 1,250ft (381m) to Wattisham Airfield on 26 September 2018 when he spotted an aircraft at a distance of 1,640ft (500m).\n\nThey passed within 200ft (60m), the report said.\n\nThere was \"no risk of collision\" in either incident.\n\nThe Ministry of Defence said it welcomed all recommendations made in Airprox reports\n\nInvestigators said there had been other incidents between Apaches, which can cost at least £20m per helicopter, and general aviation aircraft using Birch to practise forced landings.\n\nThey said it ought to be noted by the military for \"planning and briefing purposes\".\n\nThe report also noted some board members thought it \"would have been better\" if Apaches travelled to the area at a different height as 1,000ft (304m) to 2,000ft (609m) was used by light aircraft.\n\nIt said the increased use for commercial flights of Southend Airport, which has become a Ryanair base, may have pushed more light aircraft into using the route over the Birch area, described as a \"potential hotspot\".\n\nThe Apache, based at Wattisham, has been used for sorties in Afghanistan and Libya, where it was used to hunt and destroy tanks.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nEngland booked their place in the World Cup knockout stages after beating a resolute Argentina thanks to Jodie Taylor's first goal in 14 months.\n\nPhil Neville's side looked as though they would pay for Nikita Parris' missed first-half penalty, which was saved by the brilliant Vanina Correa after Alex Greenwood was tripped.\n\nThe Argentine goalkeeper also denied Beth Mead, Parris and Taylor, but had no chance in stopping Euro 2017's golden boot winner, as she tapped in Mead's low cross after 61 minutes.\n\nThe victory for England, who are ranked third in the world - 34 places above Argentina - means they qualify for the second round and can seal top spot in Group D with a point against Japan in their final game on Wednesday.\n\nIn front of a crowd of 20,294 in the industrial city of Le Havre, it was also the first time England have won their first two World Cup matches.\n\nBut they were made to battle for it against a determined Argentina, who won their first ever World Cup point in their opening draw with 2011 champions Japan and have had to overcome hardships in the last few years.\n• None Football Daily podcast: England through to the knockout stages - can Scotland join them?\n• None How you rated the players: England v Argentina\n• None England camp 'having time of our lives' - Neville\n\nTaylor comes to England's rescue again\n\nNeville said that he was prepared for a game which would evoke the footballing \"history and rivalry\" between the two countries, and expected Argentina to defend with vigour and passion.\n\nSo it was no surprise that England started as if they were eager to score early on, but were often let down by a poor final ball.\n\nMead was guilty of that on several occasions, yet she and Greenwood were the source of many England attacks down the left. That was in contrast to the Lionessess' opening game, when Parris and Lucy Bronze thrived down the right.\n\nDespite those early lapses, it was Mead who twice broke Argentina's resistance. The Arsenal winger played in Greenwood before she was tripped by Ruth Bravo, leading to Parris's spot-kick.\n\nThe England winger, who had buried a penalty against Scotland in England's opening game, this time went the other way and struck it with less venom, allowing Correa to tip it on to the post.\n\nThe Argentine goalkeeper also stuck out a leg to deny Mead before the break, and denied Parris again after the newly-signed Lyon forward struck a booming shot after a free-kick was cleared.\n\nAs the game reached the hour mark, it seemed as if Correa's goal was impenetrable, but the latter of two flowing moves led to Taylor's goal and the 33-year-old, who had not scored since a World Cup qualifier in April 2018 - or in 363 minutes of football - celebrated her 18th England goal with enthusiasm.\n\nHaving scored five times at Euro 2017 where England reached the semi-finals and once at the 2015 World Cup, where England finished third, she once again showed she has an appetite for the big occasion, which may prove crucial as England seek to win their first major tournament.\n\nArgentina, who did not have a team for two years between 2015 and 2017 after a lack of backing from their federation, are appearing in their first World Cup for 12 years.\n\nBack in 2007 they lost 6-1 to England, but they are a far more competitive outfit now, despite not enjoying the salaries or support of their opponents, who Neville described as being \"blessed\".\n\nThat gulf in resources was not matched on the pitch, however, as Carlos Borrello's well-drilled side got players behind the ball and defended stoutly with the kind of \"rebel spirit\" that their manager had spoken of prior to the game.\n\nThat was summed up by Correa, who palmed Parris' penalty onto the post after 28 minutes, and then superbly stopped Mead's effort before making her best save to deny Parris again.\n\nArgentina's first effort on goal was after 21 minutes, an overhit free-kick which Carly Telford, making her debut World Cup appearance at the age of 31, easily gathered.\n\nThey also only had 24% possession, yet forward Sole Jaimes and number 10 Estefania Banini caused occasional problems for the England defence, and the team's robust style certainly ruffled some of the England players.\n\nNeville's England, however, will be pleased to come through a tough test again, and give themselves a chance to rotate their squad for the final group game against Japan, who earlier beat Scotland 2-1 to sit second in the group on four points.\n\nEngland manager Phil Neville on BBC One: \"Jodie Taylor was phenomenal tonight.\n\n\"It should have been more, but I stood in the warm-up and saw their goalkeeper - she was unbelievable even in the warm-up. If you're like that before the game you're not always like that in the game, but she was outstanding. What you've seen tonight is an unbelievable goalkeeping performance.\n\n\"We want to beat Japan, they were outstanding against Scotland today.\n\n\"We'll go to Nice now and get some sun on our backs. Our players and enjoying it, we're having the time of our lives.\"\n\nEngland goalscorer Jodie Taylor: \"It is a good performance today by the team and good win. I remember Beth Mead playing a perfect ball which landed right on my foot. I was in the right place at the right time.\n\n\"Patience was the key, we said it all week. We have had experience facing a block of defence through qualifying and got frustrated, but today we had the quality and it paid off.\n\n\"I went to the corner and saw Jordan Nobbs on punditry and I gave her a wave as well as some family. It was a special goal for them.\"\n\nTeams in the last 16 of the Women's World Cup\n\nIf England win the group, they take on the best third-placed side from either Group B, E or F (currently China, Cameroon or Chile).\n\nA quarter-final in Le Havre would be next in store against the winner of a match between the runners-up of Group A and Group C (currently Norway and Australia).\n\nIf the Lionesses finish runners-up in the group, they take on the winner of Group E which is likely to be Canada or the Netherlands in Rennes.\n\nA quarter-final in Valenciennes would follow against either the winner of Group C (Brazil, Italy or Australia) or the best third-placed team from Groups A (Norway/Nigeria), B (Spain/China) or F (likely Chile).\n• None England have won seven of their last eight Women's World Cup games (W7 D0 L1), with all those of wins coming by a one-goal margin.\n• None England have now qualified for the knockout stages of the Women's World Cup in each of their five appearances (1995, 2007, 2011, 2015 and 2019).\n• None Argentina remain winless in all eight of their Women's World Cup matches (W0 D1 L7), failing to score in six of those.\n• None Taylor scored her second Women's World Cup goal and her first goal in any competition for England since April 2018, when she scored against Bosnia and Herzegovina in a World Cup qualifier.\n• None Argentina had just two shots, a joint-low in a 2019 Women's World Cup match (also two for Thailand v USA); they also managed just one touch in the opposition box, the fewest of any team in a match at this tournament.\n• None England started a Women's World Cup game without goalkeeper Karen Bardsley for the first time in the last three tournaments - Carly Telford made her World Cup debut.\n• None This was Jill Scott's 14th start at the Women's World Cup, the most by an England player in the competition - this game took her one clear of Fara Williams' tally of 13 between 2007 and 2015.\n• None Offside, England. Rachel Daly tries a through ball, but Jodie Taylor is caught offside.\n• None Attempt saved. Nikita Parris (England) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Lucy Bronze with a cross.\n• None Nikita Parris (England) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt saved. Mariana Larroquette (Argentina) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.\n• None Attempt missed. Jill Scott (England) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Alex Greenwood.\n• None Agustina Barroso (Argentina) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "A police diver enters the lake as part of the search\n\nPolice have begun a search of a lake and wetland for a missing County Down man who is believed to have been murdered.\n\nPat McCormick, a 55-year-old father of four, was last seen in Comber on Thursday, 30 May.\n\nPolice divers are searching a lake in the wetlands beside Strangford Lough.\n\nParts of the lake being searched are nine metres deep and police have said the search is likely to continue for much of Friday.\n\nA man and woman in their 20s were arrested last week on suspicion of Mr McCormick's murder, but were later released on bail pending further enquiries.\n\nPat McCormick, who is originally from Saintfield, has been missing since 30 May\n\nTwo other men arrested as part of the investigation were also released on bail.\n\nMr McCormick, originally from Saintfield, was last seen on Castle Street in Comber at about 22:30 BST on Thursday 30 May, driving his black car.\n\nCCTV footage released by the PSNI shows Mr McCormick crossing Castle Street and walking through an archway.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Maria McCann This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Nearly half of the British Army's latest intake of officer cadets were privately educated, the BBC has found.\n\nA Freedom of Information request has revealed 49% of those who entered the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst in January came from fee-paying schools.\n\nThe Sutton Trust, which aims to improve social mobility, said those at the top of the armed forces were seven times more likely to go to private schools.\n\nThe Army said it was \"increasing our outreach to those in state education\".\n\nThe figures stand in contrast to the Royal Navy, which saw 64% of its officer cadets entering the Royal Navy College, at Dartmouth, from state schools.\n\nThe Royal Air Force says it does not collate information on education background.\n\nHowever, 35% of its officer cadets entering Cranwell College in March had previously served in the ranks.\n\nThe very top jobs in both the RAF and the Royal Navy have recently been given to men educated at state schools.\n\nBut that has very rarely been the case for the Army.\n\nSandhurst College is where all officers in the British Army are trained to take on the responsibility of leading soldiers\n\nRecent heads of the Army have more commonly attended one of Britain's elite public schools.\n\nThe last Army chief of the general staff to have been taught at a state school was way back in the early 1950s.\n\nThere are a number of factors that may explain why change may have been slow.\n\nCombined Cadet Forces (CCF) in schools offer pupils a taste of military life and can be a gateway to a career in the military.\n\nBut another Freedom of Information request has revealed there are nearly as many cadet forces in fee-paying schools as in the state system: 194 private schools have a CCF compared to 205 state schools.\n\nAround 7% of the UK population is privately educated, rising to 18% at sixth form level.\n\nEton, one of the most expensive schools in the country, even had a full time guards officer to run its cadet force - paid for by the Army - until the role was axed in 2016.\n\nThe Ministry of Defence has now set up a programme to increase the number of cadet forces in deprived areas of the country.\n\nThere is another reason why the military's close ties with private education will prove hard to break.\n\nThere's a financial incentive to continue the tradition.\n\nThe Continuity of Education Allowance (CEA) is, as the name suggests, designed to give service personnel stability for their children while they move around the country or abroad.\n\nThe Ministry of Defence contributes around £80m a year towards the boarding school fees of service personnel.\n\nThe allowance is available to all service personnel who meet the criteria.\n\nBut it is officers who make the most use of it, even though they are a smaller proportion of the armed forces.\n\nLast year, 2,720 children of officers received the allowance - compared to 1,765 children of those serving in the ranks.\n\nThe allowance is capped at £21,000 per child, per year.\n\nGiven that there are few state schools with boarding facilities most of that money subsidises private school fees - including some of the most elite in the country - including Eton, Harrow and Marlborough College.\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge, who attended Sandhurst, inspects cadets in December last year\n\nAnd why does this matter?\n\nThe armed forces say they want to reflect the society they represent.\n\nThey have set targets for the proportion of women and ethnic minorities - 15% for women and 10% BAME by 2020. But there has been limited change at the top.\n\nMajor General Paul Nanson, from the Army, said \"Sandhurst, like the Army, is all about equal opportunity and maximising potential.\"\n\nHe added: \"At the Academy we worry less about which university or school an individual went to; more about their leadership potential.\"\n\nThe Army says it has a separate scheme for older soldiers to be promoted from the ranks. So-called late entry officers account for about 20% of all Army Officers.\n\nA Ministry of Defence spokesperson added: \"We are a diverse employer wishing to attract and offer careers to people from a wide range of backgrounds.\n\n\"We are increasing our outreach to those in state education to ensure that everyone is aware of the opportunities a career in the armed forces offer.\"\n\nIt is claimed the Duke of Wellington once said the Battle of Waterloo was won on the \"playing fields of Eton\".\n\nTwo hundred years on and much has changed. But the British Army is still heavily reliant on its cadre of privately-educated officers.", "Tens of thousands of protesters took to Hong Kong's streets on 12 June in opposition to a bill that would allow extradition to mainland China.\n\nThe demonstrators, most of them young people, have said they had not planned their movements in advance, but began cooperating on the ground as they came under pressure to disperse from security forces.\n\nThe BBC's Rupert Wingfield-Hayes and cameraman Joe Phua were there as the clashes began and saw the spontaneous coordination in action.", "Public sector workers could be given a greater role in helping police identify victims of human trafficking and exploitation.\n\nThe Scottish government is to consult on plans to introduce a \"duty to notify\" which would apply to health and social workers.\n\nSocial workers want to ensure any changes do not discourage vulnerable people from accessing services.\n\nBut ministers said many trafficking cases currently go unreported.\n\nThey said information collected through the proposed notification scheme would provide a more accurate picture of the scale and extent of trafficking in Scotland, and enable more effective targeting of enforcement activity and support services.\n\nIt would identify and support victims, identify perpetrators and disrupt their activity, as well as addressing conditions that foster trafficking and exploitation.\n\nLaunching the consultation, Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf said: \"Human trafficking is a hidden and often complex crime meaning the true scale of the problem is unknown.\n\n\"Victims may be reluctant to acknowledge their own situation for reasons including fear of their traffickers, distrust in the authorities and a lack of awareness that there are agencies that can support them to safety and recovery.\n\n\"These plans will create a statutory duty on Scottish public authorities to ensure that the information obtained by Police Scotland is publicly available. This intelligence will ultimately help us to protect and support more vulnerable people.\"\n\nCurrently the only available data on the numbers of trafficking victims in Scotland is taken from the UK National Referral Mechanism (NRM) - a framework for identifying potential victims of trafficking and ensuring they receive appropriate support and assistance.\n\nFor those victims who do not consent to enter the NRM, no data is recorded.\n\nSince the NRM's introduction, recorded numbers of victims have increased across the UK. In Scotland there has been a 130% increase in referrals to the NRM in the last six reported years.\n\nIn September 2018 a pilot scheme began at Glasgow Airport involving Border Force and Police Scotland's National Human Trafficking Unit (NHTU) which resulted in 40 referrals to the unit in its first nine months.\n\nThe Scottish government has published some examples of the way public bodies are already co-operating with police to tackle human trafficking.\n\nThey include the actions of firefighters called to an address in Glasgow where a 17-year-old female had jumped out of window of a locked bedroom, suffering a lower fractured spine, fractured pelvis and broken elbow.\n\nThey informed police, who began an investigation which revealed the woman had been sexually exploited in China and in the UK. She has been supported by social workers.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Gillian MacDonald welcomed the proposal to increase the amount of information police receive.\n\nShe said: \"The introduction of a 'duty to notify' is a positive step which will help us work with other public services to further develop our collective approach to protecting survivors.\n\n\"It will also assist in helping victims to escape the clutches of traffickers, as we work to make Scotland a hostile environment for this type of inhumane criminality.\"\n\nApart from public authorities, such as the Scottish Ambulance Service and the national fire and rescue service, the new scheme could also include NHS boards.\n\nMalcolm Wright, Chief Executive of NHS Scotland, said: \"Victims of human trafficking may be deeply traumatised and distrustful of authorities which may affect their ability to seek help, support and treatment for any injuries they have sustained as a result of their situation.\n\n\"All clinical and non-clinical staff across the NHS in Scotland can play a pivotal role in identifying potential victims of human trafficking and exploitation that may otherwise go unnoticed or remain invisible.\"\n\nScotland's 32 local authorities, including their social work departments could also be included in the \"duty to notify\" scheme.\n\nThe national director of the Scottish Association of Social Workers (SASW), Alistair Brown gave a broad welcome to the proposals.\n\nHe said: \"We are glad to see that compared to other mandatory reporting proposals it seems the burden does not fall disproportionately on social workers, which is essential as stopping these criminal gangs is everybody's business.\n\n\"It is important to highlight, that as there has been minimal consultation thus far we are keen to ensure that following feedback, members do not feel that these plans discourage the most vulnerable people from accessing our services.\n\n\"In addition, it is essential that any new reporting methods be modern, streamlined and efficient as possible, for our own research shows that our members are already doing an average of 11 hours unpaid work per week.\"", "Social media users are posting pictures of wilted or bloodied bauhinia flowers to express solidarity with protesters in Hong Kong.\n\nPlatforms such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram have been used to share news, pictures and messages of support alongside the images, as well as hashtags such as #FightForHongKong and #HongKongProtest.\n\nActivists' attempts to storm government buildings gave way to the worst violence in the city for decades on Wednesday. Previously, days of protests had seen more than a million people take to Hong Kong's streets for predominantly peaceful demonstrations against plans which would permit extradition requests from authorities in mainland China.\n\nSince sovereignty of the former British colony reverted to China in 1997, when the bauhinia blakeana, or Hong Kong orchid tree, was incorporated onto the territory's new flag, it has retained judicial and economic independence under the principle of \"one country, two systems\".\n\nBut many in Hong Kong worry the territory could be brought more decisively under China's control if the extradition bill passes.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by 吳夏夏 This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn China, however, the internet is tightly controlled by the government and content on Chinese social media platforms is heavily regulated.\n\nAFP journalist Pak Yiu reported images of the protests were being actively censored on WeChat, a popular Chinese social media, messaging and mobile payment app.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn Hong Kong, encrypted messaging apps such as Whatsapp, Telegram and Signal have played an important role in enabling organisers to coordinate the protests.\n\nOn Tuesday, the administrator of a Telegram group with 30,000 members was arrested for conspiracy to commit public nuisance, according to local media reports.\n\nThe following day, Telegram founder Pavel Durov revealed a massive cyber attack on the messaging service originated from China.\n\nCrowds had largely cleared around government headquarters by Thursday morning. Activists have called for protests to resume on Sunday.\n\n\"We are trying to use the power of the people to tell the government to stop,\" Lee Cheuk-yan, a politician and activist told NPR.\n\n\"People have to go to the street to demand for the government to withdraw the bill. We will continue our protest and have a big march again on Sunday and next Monday.\"\n\nA second reading of the bill has been delayed by Hong Kong's Legislative Council. It is unclear when this will take place, but the government maintains it is not backing down.", "Public body boardrooms in Scotland have 50% female members for the first time\n\nFor the first time, more than half of all board members appointed to oversee public bodies in Scotland are women.\n\nA 50% target for female representation among non-executive board members by 2022 has been met early.\n\nThe goal was set by legislation in March 2018 through the Gender Representation on Public Boards (Scotland) Act.\n\nOf 680 regulated ministerial appointments made to public boards, 341 were women - up from 45% in 2016.\n\nThe achievement applies to health boards, enterprise agencies, the Scottish Police Authority, Scottish Fire and Rescue Service, colleges and universities.\n\nThis encompasses 89 boards and women now make up half or more of the membership on 57 of them.\n\nEqualities minister Christina McKelvie said more action would be taken to work towards all public boards having 50% women appointed.\n\nShe told the BBC: \"It's a great day - not only have we put big cracks in the glass ceiling but we want to shatter it and continue this work.\n\n\"Just a year in, we have reached a really positive point, half of all the public appointment positions on public boards in Scotland are now filled by women.\n\n\"We were already on the road a bit with voluntary measures. But the legislation just gave it that additional driver for other public boards to take that step forward and push a bit further.\"\n\nShe added: \"It's a wonderful way to motivate other boards to change.\n\nEqualities minister Christina McKelvie said it was a great achievement but more can be done\n\n\"It sends a message out to women in Scotland to say you are welcome on these boards, we want you on these boards, there's an opportunity for you to come on these boards and many women have stepped up and taken this opportunity. \"\n\nBut she admitted there was even more work to do, in particular to get women to the head of boards.\n\nMs McKelvie said: \"There is further to go to make sure each board has equal representation and that more of our boards are chaired by women, but achieving 50% across all appointments is a significant first step.\"\n\nThe Scottish Greens welcomed the milestone, but Alison Johnstone MSP said: \"This is an important step forward, however we must continue to work to ensure that the gender pay gap is no longer a thing. It's not acceptable that women continue to earn less than men for similar work.\"\n\nThe Scottish government has launched a consultation on the regulations and guidance for the Act and Ms McKelvie encouraged people and organisations to respond by the 4 August deadline.", "Profits from the auction were much lower than predicted\n\nLuxurious properties seized from drug cartel leaders have been sold at auction in Mexico City.\n\nHouses with swimming pools and escape tunnels, a large ranch and an apartment where a cartel leader was killed were all up for sale.\n\nMexico's President Andres Manuel López Obrador had pledged that profits from the auction would go towards those affected by drug gang violence.\n\nBut only nine of the 27 properties on offer actually sold.\n\nAccording to Mexican media, the auction raised 56.6m pesos ($3m; £2.3m) of the 167m pesos predicted.\n\nMr López Obrador said that the money would help poor and marginalised communities in the violent state of Guerrero.\n\nAt the end of May, a similar auction raised $1.5m (£117m) by selling the homes and cars of criminals, including at least one former politician. A Lamborghini was among the items on sale.\n\nAuthorities said many more auctions would take place over the coming months.\n\nMr López Obrador, who was elected last year, has also promised to sell his presidential plane to fund efforts to curb illegal migration.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Five things you need to know about Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador or \"Amlo\"", "Hundreds of protesters joined forces to break into the mine and march through it\n\nPolice in western Germany are removing climate change protesters from an open-cast coalmine after hundreds of them stormed the site.\n\nActivists broke through a police cordon on Saturday to get into the Garzweiler mine, in a campaign against fossil fuel use.\n\nMany protesters are resisting attempts by police to clear the huge site.\n\nPolice have warned that the mine is not safe, and said some officers were hurt as they tried to hold back protesters.\n\nGermany has vowed to go carbon neutral by 2050 but activists say this is not soon enough.\n\nRecent surveys have shown that climate change tops a list of concerns in Germany, with the Green party polling alongside the governing Christian Democrats.\n\nPolice tried to hold back protesters from entering the mine, which they said was dangerous\n\nPolice used pepper spray to try to stop activists from reaching the site. Each side accused the other of using unnecessary force.\n\nSome of the activists were among between 20,000 and 40,000 protesters who joined a demonstration on Friday in the city of Aachen in support of the school strike movement launched by Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg.\n\nDressed in white protective clothing, protesters ran over the sides of the mine to enter the premises\n\nAfter storming the mine, activists used foil blankets to shield themselves from the sun\n\nClimate activists blocked the rail tracks leading to the Hambach surface mine\n\nPolice on horseback were on duty at the coal mine\n• None UK commits to 'net zero' emissions by 2050", "Herold Goulon's stunner capped Pahang's 3-1 victory over Perak in the first leg of the Malaysian FA Cup semifinal.\n\nThis video has been removed for rights reasons.", "Despite the prevalence of female leaders in the past 20 years at Holyrood, the number of female MSPs has fallen\n\nDiversity among the Scottish Parliament's elected representatives has \"gone backwards\" in some ways, MSPs have warned in a new BBC documentary.\n\nIt comes 20 years after the first MSPs took their seats at Holyrood.\n\nDespite the recent prevalence of female leaders, the 2016 Scottish Parliament election saw fewer women elected compared with 1999.\n\nThe parliament has also elected only four MSPs from ethnic minority backgrounds in the past two decades.\n\nThe 1999 Scottish Parliament election returned 48 women to the chamber out of 129 MSPs. By the 2016 election that number had fallen to 45.\n\nFormer Scottish Labour leader Iain Gray, who was first elected to Holyrood in 1999, told the documentary, titled Children of the Devolution: \"We've never had a black woman MSP, that's never happened in 20 years. In some ways we've gone backwards.\"\n\nAnas Sarwar said he could not stay silent on the issue of diversity\n\nAnas Sarwar MSP, who last year set up a Cross Party Group on tackling Islamophobia, said Scotland still had a long way to go on issues of equality.\n\nMr Sarwar told the programme: \"You come to the realisation at some point - and part of it is when you become a parent yourself and you see the challenges that your children might face in the future - that I can't stay silent, silence isn't an option any more.\n\n\"I genuinely believe that my children are going to grow up in a more divided and a more hate-filled world than the one I grew up in and that frightens the life out of me.\n\n\"And I think we need people of all backgrounds talking about (it), and we all care about Scotland and we've got a long, long way to go.\"\n\nSNP MSP Linda Fabiani, who has also been in the Edinburgh parliament from the start, said: \"If you say that a parliament should reflect the people that it serves, I think we do that in quite a lot of ways.\n\n\"We're not quite there yet with equality for women and we're certainly not there yet with other equalities that we need to take notice of. But the will is there.\"\n\nThe first episode of the documentary will reflect primarily on the early years of the new Scottish Parliament, which was formally opened by the Queen on 1 July 1999.\n\nOne early controversy also centred around the issue of equality and moves by the then Labour-Liberal Democrat executive to scrap the controversial Section 28 or clause 2A law that banned the \"promotion\" of homosexuality in schools.\n\nA high-profile campaign to keep the clause was led by businessman Sir Brian Souter, who funded a postal referendum on the issue.\n\nAfter months of bitter political argument, MSPs voted to repeal the law in June 2000.\n\nRuth Davidson told the programme the 2014 law change on same-sex marriage brought her to tears\n\nScottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson said: \"I really hated that idea that one rich person could have ownership over a whole idea, it really brought home to me that it is not always a fair playing field and that really stuck in my craw.\"\n\nMs Davidson also reflected on the 2014 law change that would allow same-sex couples to marry in Scotland.\n\n\"When the bill was finally passed, I went back up the stairs to my office and I burst into tears,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"After that, very late on, I went to a get-together in the pub with some of the campaigners and through a weird series of events someone there put me in touch with the person who is now my fiancee, so it almost started another chapter of my life.\"\n\nEpisode one of Children Of The Devolution is on BBC Scotland at 22:00 on Tuesday.", "The WhatsApp hack, \"sabotaged\" oil tankers, the push in the US to proscribe the Muslim Brotherhood and \"plans\" to deploy American troops to the Gulf are all strands of the same story. At its heart is the struggle between Israel, Saudi Arabia and Iran.\n\nThe Israeli army is unique in that it forms the backbone of many industrial enterprises in Israel.\n\nThat's because the bonds formed during national service last a lifetime there.\n\nIt is the singular most important time in a young person's life - way more formative than the university years.\n\nIt's the ultimate \"old boy network\", though this one is made up of \"old boys and girls\".\n\nThe Israeli army takes in every youngster, assesses their greatest strength and parks them where they can do the most national good.\n\nThe computer nerds who would otherwise be locked in their mum's basement are forced out into the light and into doing their national service in cyber-warfare.\n\nWhen they leave the army, they take the skills and the connections they made into the industrial sector and they form companies like the NSO Group.\n\nThe NSO Group makes hacking tools to sell to governments to fight crime and terrorism.\n\nBut - and it is a big but - they'll only get an export licence from the Israeli government if it deems that the sale does not harm the national interest.\n\nIn the past that meant no sales to Iran and nothing to Arab Gulf states either.\n\nThat's because in the past the Gulf states stood with the Palestinians against Israel.\n\nIn the post-Arab Spring period, the Gulf states (apart from Qatar) have all but abandoned the Palestinian cause and moved to side with Israel against Iran.\n\nThis slow shift was accelerated by the election of Donald Trump and the appointment of so many anti-Iran hawks to his administration, like Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and National Security Adviser John Bolton.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. US special representative for Iran: 'We are not looking to get into a war'\n\nThere's much speculation that the Israeli government would, to build relations with their new friends in the Gulf, have allowed the NSO Group to sell their software to Gulf states.\n\nWhat suggests that? Well it's perhaps not a coincidence that among those reportedly targeted by the WhatsApp hacking software were lawyers investigating human rights abuses in Gulf states, a Saudi dissident and a Qatari citizen.\n\nIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has made his reason for being (and his only political legacy) his effort to contain Iran, which he projects as Israel's only existential threat.\n\nThe Saudi rulers see two existential threats. One from without: Iran. And one from within: the Muslim Brotherhood. The Saudis are scared of Iran because of its military might.\n\nThey are scared of the Muslim Brotherhood because they offer political Islam as an alternative to the dynastic rule of the royal family.\n\nThe Trump administration decided to pursue sanctions against the Muslim Brotherhood following an April meeting with Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi\n\nThe Trump administration is made up of people who hate the Iranian regime and everything it stands for.\n\nSo, this new \"Axis of Egos\" is all doing each other favours to position themselves collectively to fully unite against Iran.\n\nSome involve arms sales, some involve the price of oil and gas, some involve political trades like the one that some in the White House are doing for the Saudis by trying to designate the Brotherhood as a terrorist group.\n\nIn a replay of what happened before the invasion of Iraq, it appears that any strand of intelligence that can be spun into a reason to ratchet up the pressure on Iran is being used.\n\nUAE Navy boats pictured next to Al Marzoqah, a Saudi Arabian tanker which was reportedly \"sabotaged\"\n\nThis atmosphere is all very familiar to those of us who were around to witness the build-up towards the war in Iraq.\n\nThe difference is that the US president in charge then - George W Bush - was driven partly by an ideological belief that it was his destiny to bring democracy to the Middle East. And that involved taking out Saddam Hussein.\n\nThe present occupant in the White House has far fewer ideological bones in his body, perhaps none.\n\nThe signature of the Trump presidency is transactional politics built around business need. President Trump's foreign policy doctrine is \"America First\".\n\nHe's unlikely to sign up to another war in the Middle East, certainly not this side of the 2020 election, unless he is seriously provoked.\n\nThat would require being able to pin some very bad action on Tehran. The best way to do that is to gather intelligence.\n\nAnd the best way to gather intelligence is for all your allies to be spying on as many people in the region as you can.\n\nOne of the best ways to do that is to hack into the Trojan horse we all voluntarily carry with us, our smartphones.\n\nPaul Danahar is the BBC's Americas Bureaux Editor in Washington and was the BBC's Middle East bureau chief from 2010-2013", "Peter Ball admitted a string of offences against 18 teenagers and young men.\n\nA former bishop who was jailed for a string of sexual offences against teenagers and young men has died.\n\nThe Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) said Peter Ball \"was able to sexually abuse vulnerable teenagers and young men for decades\".\n\nHe was jailed in 2015 after pleading guilty to a string of offences against 18 teenagers and young men.\n\nThe Church of England confirmed Ball's death aged 87 and offered \"prayers and thoughts\" for \"everyone affected\".\n\nBishop Peter Hancock, the Church's safeguarding lead, said: \"We have been made aware of the death of Peter Ball and our prayers and thoughts are with everyone affected by this news.\"\n\nBall, of Langport in Somerset, was Bishop of Lewes between 1977 and 1992 and Bishop of Gloucester from 1992 until he resigned the following year.\n\nHe was sentenced in October 2015 at the Old Bailey to 32 months in prison to 32 months for misconduct in public office and 15 months for indecent assaults, to run concurrently.\n\nBall was released from prison in February 2017 having served 16 months.\n\nThe IICSA heard last year Ball had been friends with Prince Charles before the bishop was convicted.\n\nIn a written submission to the inquiry, the prince said he felt \"deep personal regret\" for trusting Ball when initial reports of abuse emerged, years before he was jailed.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The two men were attacked on Manningham Road, Anfield, as they made their way home\n\nPolice are hunting three boys in connection with an \"appalling\" homophobic knife attack on two men.\n\nThe men were assaulted at about 21:20 BST on Saturday as they walked down Manningham Road, Anfield, Liverpool.\n\nPolice said three boys, aged between 12 and 15, began by making \"homophobic insults\" before one of them produced a knife and attacked the men.\n\nOne of the victims suffered serious but non-life threatening injuries to his head and neck. Both are in hospital.\n\nMerseyside Police said the men, both in their 30s, had been \"left incredibly shaken by the incident\".\n\nDet Insp Tara Denn said: \"This was an appalling and unprovoked attack on two men simply making their way home.\"\n\n\"The hate and violence that has been inflicted on them is simply unacceptable and won't be tolerated on the streets of Merseyside,\" she added.\n\nDetectives have urged any witnesses to the attack to come forward.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Long queues built up at Manchester Airport when an IT failure hit check-in desks\n\nPassengers have been facing delays at Manchester Airport after an IT failure prevented many from checking-in at all three terminals.\n\nSome travellers said they had been waiting to check-in for more than three hours, with long queues building up.\n\nAn airport spokesman said the IT issue had been resolved in the afternoon, adding: \"We apologise to our passengers for the inconvenience.\"\n\nThe issue first arose at 11:30 BST on Saturday.\n\nThe airport said there were no longer any queues at check-in but there were knock-on delays to some flights.\n\nSome airlines tried to check people in manually during the IT failure and have been working through a backlog of passengers after the issue was resolved.\n\nJordan Elliott was one of many to complain to the airport on social media.\n\nHe tweeted a picture of the queues and said: \"@manairport in total lockdown. No-one checking in due to computer failure!\"\n\nMichael Ripley was on his way to Fuerteventura with his family for his wedding anniversary when they got caught up in the delays.\n\n\"It's utter carnage... All the IT systems were down at check in. No-one could help us,\" he said.\n\n\"A process to check-in that would normally take five or 10 minutes took two hours.\"\n\nAimée de Hamel and friend Megan waiting to take off after delays at Manchester Airport\n\nAimée de Hamel, 19, from East Yorkshire, was waiting on a stationary plane where as many as 40 passengers had not yet been able to board due to the system failure.\n\nShe said many people had to find out what was happening by looking on Twitter and described the experience as \"atrocious\".\n\n\"Everyone was so angry, confused and tired of waiting around with no answers,\" she added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mavis Paterson and her cycling partner Heather Curley completed their cycle on Saturday\n\nAn 81-year-old from Dumfries and Galloway has become the oldest woman to cycle the 960 miles (1,540km) from Land's End to John O'Groats.\n\nMavis Paterson, of Glenluce, took up the challenge in memory of her three children who all died within four years of one another.\n\nShe set off on 30 May and finished her epic journey on Saturday afternoon.\n\nThe Guinness Book of Records previously confirmed that on completion she would be the oldest woman to cycle the route.\n\nShe has raised more than £60,000 for Macmillan Cancer Support, a charity she has been supporting since her mother and sister died from the disease.\n\nMrs Paterson said she took up the challenge as the \"unbearable grief\" she felt when sitting at home with nothing to focus on was too much.\n\nHer son Sandy died of a heart attack in 2012, daughter Katie after suffering viral pneumonia in 2013, and son Bob in an accident in 2016. All were in their 40s.\n\n\"I always set myself a goal and a challenge and it takes my mind off the grief that I suffer with losing my children,\" she said.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC Scotland news website after finishing her cycle, she said she was \"very tired\".\n\n\"Quite a crowd\" arrived to cheer her over the finish line, with one well-wisher even presenting her with a bottle of whisky.\n\n\"I feel now it's all over I'm like 'what now?'\n\n\"The whole journey was very difficult for me. It was hard, but I've got his fire in my belly, and I keep pressing on.\"\n\nShe thanked her supporters in a post on Facebook, writing that it was \"hard to find the words\" to describe her \"utterly unforgettable journey\".\n\nShe added that she was \"so very, very grateful for all the support, the fun, friendships, cyclists who joined for a few miles\".\n\nMs Paterson, who took up cycling in 1991, said her training regime involved a trip to Australia.\n\nEarlier this year she went there to visit her niece and trained on the hills from 05:00 every morning, until it got too hot - by 09:00, she said, it was between 30-40C.\n\nMavis Paterson was given support by Macmillan staff and volunteers and her cycling companion Heather Curley\n\nBut there will be no more big cycles for a while.\n\nWhen Ms Paterson get home to Galloway, she said she would be going into hospital for hip and knee replacements.\n\nWhile her osteoarthritis causes her pain when she walks, she said she feels none while cycling.\n\nMacmillan staff and volunteers joined her and cycling companion Heather Curley for parts of the ride.\n\nMs Paterson is no stranger to such challenges - when she was 70, she cycled across Canada. For her 80th birthday last year, she cycled for 24 hours.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Boris Johnson's claim that world trade rules could be used after Brexit to avoid tariffs \"isn't true\", cabinet minister Liam Fox has said.\n\nThe international trade secretary, who is backing Jeremy Hunt for leader, said the EU will apply trade tariffs.\n\nMr Fox, a Brexiteer, said he would prefer to leave with a deal and Mr Hunt has a \"good chance\" of getting one.\n\nTory MP Liz Truss, who is backing Mr Johnson, said not leaving the EU on 31 October would be a \"disaster\".\n\nIt has been three years since the UK voted to leave the EU in a referendum.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, Mr Fox rejected Mr Johnson's claim that the UK could secure a 10-year standstill in current arrangements using an article of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade known as \"Gatt 24\".\n\n\"It isn't true, that's the problem,\" he said.\n\nMr Fox said Mr Johnson's argument that a new free trade agreement could be negotiated during an implementation period \"doesn't actually hold\".\n\n\"If you don't get the withdrawal agreement through Parliament, there is no implementation period during which we can do anything at all,\" he said.\n\n\"Secondly, if we leave the European Union without a deal the EU will apply tariffs to the UK because you can only have exemptions, as described, if you already have a trade agreement to go to.\n\n\"Clearly if we leave without a deal it's self-evident we don't have that agreement, so Article 24 doesn't hold in that circumstance.\"\n\nBut he said a no-deal Brexit is the \"legal default position\" and the UK will have \"no negotiating capital\" if it is ruled out.\n\nJustice Secretary David Gauke, who had been backing Rory Stewart for leader until the international development secretary's elimination, also criticised Mr Johnson's Brexit plan, saying it was not \"credible\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon told Sky News's Sophy Ridge on Sunday that choosing Mr Johnson as prime minister would be \"disastrous\" for the Conservatives, particularly in Scotland - which voted to remain in the EU.\n\nWhen asked what she thought of SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford's comments during PMQs last week that Mr Johnson was a \"racist\", she said: \"I agree with Ian Blackford's comments.\"\n\nShe said Mr Johnson has \"made overtly racist comments\" during his career.\n\nBut also speaking on Sky News, Conservative MP Rishi Sunak, who is backing Mr Johnson, defended the leadership hopeful.\n\nHe said Mr Johnson was not racist and has \"apologised for any offence caused\" by his comments over the years.\n\nLiz Truss said not leaving the EU on 31 October would be a \"disaster\"\n\nElsewhere, Chief Secretary to the Treasury Liz Truss, told BBC 5 Live's Pienaar Politics that Brexit was a matter for the executive and not for Parliament - which rejected Theresa May's Brexit deal three times.\n\nShe also criticised Mr Hunt, accusing him of \"kicking the can down the road\" on Brexit, which \"would be a disaster\".\n\nShe said Mr Johnson would seek to re-negotiate with the EU and would be \"much clearer that we are prepared to leave on 31 October\".\n\nMr Hunt has said he would delay leaving on 31 October only if a potential deal with the EU was in the pipeline.\n\nWhile Mr Johnson has been more outspoken on the subject, Mr Fox said he had not heard Mr Johnson say he would definitely leave on 31 October, even if a new deal was within reach.\n\nThe EU has repeatedly said the withdrawal agreement will not be renegotiated.", "A loud bang heard across Essex was a sonic boom caused by military aircraft, police have said.\n\nResidents reported feeling their houses \"shaking\" after a \"loud explosion\" that was heard in Harlow, Epping, Chelmsford and Stansted at about 18:40 BST.\n\nThe sound sparked a large number of 999 calls, according to police.\n\nStansted Airport said two RAF Typhoon jets had escorted a Jet2 flight in to land because of a disruptive passenger on board.\n\nA 25-year-old woman has been arrested on suspicion of assault and endangering an aircraft.\n\nThe plane was en route to Dalaman in Turkey when it was redirected back to Stansted, an airline spokeswoman said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn a statement, Essex Police said: \"We were made aware of a disruptive passenger on an inbound flight to Stansted this evening.\n\n\"There is a possibility that residents nearby may have heard a loud noise, often associated with a sonic boom, as the aircraft descended into Stansted airspace.\"\n\nThe Jet2 spokeswoman said: \"We are aware of an incident regarding an extremely disruptive passenger on a flight from Stansted to Dalaman earlier this evening.\n\n\"The aircraft has returned safely and we are liaising with the relevant authorities to support their investigation.\n\n\"We are working hard to ensure the remaining customers reach their destination as soon possible.\"\n\nThe incident led to minor delays for other flights.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A £100m fund has been established to help UK firms capitalise on the boom in offshore wind.\n\nWith the UK so well suited to exploiting wind power, turbines have been erected in more than 30 locations from Brighton to the Moray Firth.\n\nBut trade unions say the boom has not generated enough jobs for UK workers.\n\nThe Offshore Wind Industry Council says its initiative will help hundreds of firms \"maximise opportunities\" in the offshore wind supply chain.\n\n\"The Offshore Wind Growth Partnership will provide practical help for UK companies so they can compete successfully for contracts in this thriving global market,\" said Benj Sykes, chairman of the OWIC and UK country manager for the Danish firm Orsted.\n\nThe OWIC, which is a joint government and industry body, will invest the privately-raised funds over 10 years to support companies in the supply chain.\n\nFirms that manufacture parts, lay cables and maintain wind farms will receive support ranging from \"expert advice on manufacturing and commercialisation\" to funding for innovation. They will also be given support to export their products and services.\n\nBy 2030 the offshore wind power market is expected to be worth £30bn per year, with the UK expected to be generating a third of its electricity from wind. The OWIC hopes to raise the participation of UK businesses in the industry from 48% currently to 60%, under a sector deal agreed between industry and government.\n\nThe new fund will bring \"investment, thousands of high-quality jobs and huge economic opportunities for communities across the UK\", energy and clean growth minister Chris Skidmore said.\n\nLast month GMB general secretary, Tim Roache said Britain's politicians needed \"to sharpen their elbows in the fight for jobs\" when it came to opportunities in the growing renewables sector.\n\nThe union says up to 1,000 jobs could be created at two mothballed yards in Fife if EDF chose local firms to manufacture parts for a huge wind farm project there, rather than as is expected the work being done in Indonesia, Belgium and Spain.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nIngrid Systad Engen hit the winning penalty as Norway beat Australia 4-1 in a shootout in Nice to reach the Women's World Cup quarter-finals.\n\nIsabell Herlovsen put Norway ahead before Australia were awarded a penalty which was overturned after a lengthy video assistant referee review.\n\nElise Kellond-Knight equalised from a corner before Australia's Alanna Kennedy was sent off in extra-time.\n\nAustralia captain Sam Kerr missed her penalty as Norway won through.\n\n\"Only big players can miss penalties, because small players don't take them,\" said Australia boss Ante Milicic when asked about Kerr's miss.\n• None Superstar, goal machine and equality activist - who is Australia icon Kerr?\n\nIt is the first time since 2007 that Norway, who will meet either England or Cameroon in Le Havre on Thursday, have reached the last eight.\n• None 1-0: Caroline Graham Hansen sends keeper Lydia Williams the wrong way to get Norway up and running.\n• None 1-0: Sam Kerr skies her attempt and Norway have the advantage.\n• None 2-0: Guro Reiten makes no mistake as she drills past Williams.\n• None 2-0: A brilliant save by Norway keeper Ingrid Hjelmseth keeps out substitute Emily Gielnik's attempt.\n• None 3-0: Norway captain Maren Mjelde hits it low and hard - and finds the net.\n• None 4-1: It's all over - Engen wheels away in celebration after her spot kick sends Norway through.\n\nIn an incident-packed game at Allianz Riviera, Norway took the lead through Herlovsen's clinical finish after Karina Saevik's defence-splitting pass before a moment of controversy.\n\nGerman referee Riem Hussein pointed to the spot after the ball struck Chelsea defender Maria Thorisdottir as she attempted to clear.\n\nKerr placed the ball on the spot but there was a long delay before the decision was overturned, sparking celebrations among Norway's players.\n\nAustralia, aiming to reach the quarter-finals for a fourth successive World Cup, suffered further frustration when Kerr had the ball in the back of Norway's net in 60th minute - only for it to be ruled out for offside.\n\nThey were minutes from going out when Kellond-Knight's low, curling corner went through a sea of legs and straight into the net.\n\nAustralia appealed for a penalty deep into stoppage time at the end of normal time when Tameka Yallop went down inside the penalty area, while Hansen hit the post before extra time.\n\nThere was more drama to follow as Kennedy received the first straight red card of this tournament for hauling down Lisa-Marie Utland as the Norway substitute threatened to burst clean through on goal.\n\nAustralia keeper Williams produced outstanding saves to deny the impressive Hansen and Vilde Boe Risa, while Norway hit the woodwork a second time through Risa's attempt from 35 yards before the shootout.\n\n\"I don't know if there are any words to describe how I'm feeling but, more importantly, how the girls are feeling,\" added Milicic.\n\n\"I'm disappointed that I couldn't help them realise a dream that they've been waiting for for a long time. In the end I take full responsibility for that.\"\n• None Alanna Kennedy is the first Australian to be sent off at the Women's World Cup since Alicia Ferguson against China in the 1999 edition.\n• None Caroline Graham Hansen had 11 of Norway's 27 shots against Australia, the most by a player in a single match at this year's tournament.\n• None Australia have only progressed from one of their five knockout stage games at the Women's World Cup. This was their first-ever penalty shootout in the competition.\n• None The opening goal was the 50th Australia have conceded in Women's World Cup history, making them just the fourth team to concede that many at the competition (Nigeria 63, Japan 57, Canada 51).\n• None Isabell Herlovsen has scored in consecutive Women's World Cup matches for Norway, having netted in just one of her previous 10 in the competition.\n• None Goal! Norway 1(4), Australia 1(1). Ingrid Engen (Norway) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.\n• None Goal! Norway 1(3), Australia 1(1). Stephanie Catley (Australia) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the top right corner.\n• None Goal! Norway 1(3), Australia 1. Maren Mjelde (Norway) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Penalty saved! Emily Gielnik (Australia) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, right footed shot saved in the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! Norway 1(2), Australia 1. Guro Reiten (Norway) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the bottom right corner.\n• None Penalty missed! Bad penalty by Sam Kerr (Australia) right footed shot is high and wide to the right. Sam Kerr should be disappointed.\n• None Goal! Norway 1(1), Australia 1. Graham Hansen (Norway) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Guro Reiten (Norway) left footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right.\n• None Attempt saved. Tameka Yallop (Australia) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Emily Gielnik.\n• None Attempt saved. Graham Hansen (Norway) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Guro Reiten.\n• None Attempt missed. Lisa-Marie Utland (Norway) header from very close range misses to the right. Assisted by Guro Reiten with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Lisa-Marie Utland (Norway) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is blocked. Assisted by Graham Hansen. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Chris Davies is the third MP to face a recall petition\n\nA former MP that lost his seat after 10,005 people signed a petition to trigger a by-election has been reselected by his local party.\n\nOn Sunday, local Conservative members met and decided Mr Davies should be the party's candidate in Brecon and Radnorshire.\n\nThe recall petition was held after he admitted two charges of making a false expenses claim.\n\nThe Lib Dems, Labour and the Brexit Party are expected to stand.\n\nMr Davies was convicted of a false expenses claim in March after trying to split the cost of £700 worth of pictures between two office budgets by creating fake invoices, when he could have claimed the amount by other means.\n\nHe was fined £1,500 and told to carry out 50 hours of community service.\n\nGlyn Davies, the MP for neighbouring Montgomeryshire, gave Mr Davies his backing earlier on Sunday.\n\n\"The issue is whether there should be a second chance. There is a process. There is a parliamentary process - we've gone through that process.\n\n\"Now there will be a by-election and the people of Brecon and Radnorshire will have to decide what the future should be.\"\n\nThe Liberal Democrats have announced Jane Dodds will be their candidate and Tom Davies will stand for Labour, while the Brexit Party also intends to contest the seat.\n\nFriday's vote to hold a by-election accounted for 19% of the total electorate - almost double the 10% threshold required to trigger a by-election.\n\nRecall petitions are launched when MPs receive a custodial or suspended sentence, are barred from the Commons for 10 sitting days or are convicted of providing false information about their expenses.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nJeremy Hunt has accused Tory leadership rival Boris Johnson of \"ducking\" scrutiny, saying a would-be PM \"should answer questions on everything\".\n\nHowever, Mr Hunt said people \"don't want a big debate\" about politicians' private lives after several Tories urged Mr Johnson to address questions about a row with his girlfriend.\n\nCabinet minister Liam Fox said it was better to explain what happened than allow it to become a \"distraction\".\n\nThe leadership frontrunner dodged questions on the issue on Saturday at a Conservative Party hustings held as part of the contest to replace Theresa May as leader and ultimately prime minister.\n\nIt comes after a neighbour called police and recorded a heated row at the home Mr Johnson shares with his partner, Carrie Symonds, in Camberwell, south London.\n\nDefending his actions, neighbour Tom Penn told the Guardian he had been worried about his neighbours' safety, adding: \"I hope that anybody would have done the same thing.\"\n\nHe said he began recording from inside his flat, after he heard \"slamming and banging\" in the early hours of Friday.\n\nIn the recording - heard by the Guardian, but not by the BBC - Ms Symonds could reportedly be heard telling the Tory MP to \"get off me\" and \"get out of my flat\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Liam Fox on Boris: 'It's always easier to just give an explanation'\n\nAsked about the issue, Mr Hunt told Sky News: \"I think someone who wants to be PM should answer questions on everything, but I'm not going to comment on character.\"\n\nBut the foreign secretary also said he thought the story about Mr Johnson's row with his girlfriend was \"irrelevant to the leadership debate\" because the country was in \"such a serious situation\" over Brexit.\n\n\"What happens in people's personal lives is really a matter for them.\n\n\"What people care about is who is going to be the wise prime minister who navigates this country out of the biggest constitutional crisis in our lifetimes.\"\n\nLater, to the BBC, he repeated his calls for Mr Johnson to debate live with him on television, and accused him of \"not answering\" the \"difficult\" questions about Brexit.\n\nThe comments came after International Trade Secretary Mr Fox - a backer of Mr Hunt - told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show that it was \"always easier to just give an explanation\" about what had happened.\n\n\"The key thing is then how you get on to the issues,\" he said.\n\n\"What we can't have is it being a distraction from explanations about wider policy.\"\n\nHe said it was \"fair\" for candidates to be asked questions about their character, but added: \"I'm not sure what we've seen over the last few days is a fair reflection of that.\"\n\nBut Mr Fox dismissed suggestions that Mr Johnson's private life made him a potential security risk.\n\nRecalling Mr Johnson's previous role in government, he said: \"Do you think Theresa May would make him foreign secretary if there were genuine worries about him being a security risk?\"\n\n\"I think we have to get away from these distractions and talk about policy issues.\"\n\nMeanwhile, speaking to John Pienaar on BBC Radio 5 Live, Chief Secretary to the Treasury Liz Truss said Mr Johnson had a proven record, so \"people know what he's like in office\".\n\nCarrie Symonds has been in a relationship with Mr Johnson since 2018\n\nAsked about the row, she said: \"There's no point asking me. I believe it's a private matter - I don't think the public are concerned about that.\n\n\"Boris served for eight years as mayor of London, did a brilliant job; he's served as foreign secretary - people know what he's like in office, and that's what's important.\"\n\nBut shadow communities secretary Andrew Gwynne said Mr Johnson was \"completely unsuitable\" to be prime minister.\n\nSpeaking on Sky News, he said: \"In one sense, of course, it is a private matter, but when you're running for public office, when you are wanting to be the prime minister of the UK, then these matters are in the public interest.\n\n\"I've long held the view that Boris Johnson is unsuitable to be prime minister of this country.\"\n\nOn Saturday, Mr Johnson repeatedly avoided questions about the incident as he and Mr Hunt made their pitches to Tory party members on why they should succeed Mrs May as prime minister.\n\nWhen the event moderator, Iain Dale, accused him of ducking the question, Mr Johnson did not respond directly, instead saying: \"People are entitled to ask me what I want to do for the country.\"\n\nMr Dale was heckled by some in the audience when he continued to press the MP, but Mr Johnson later defended his persistence.\n\n\"There will have been lots of other people in the audience who didn't boo, and who actually did want to hear the answer to that question,\" Mr Dale told the BBC.\n\nIt was the first of 16 events, or hustings, to choose the next Conservative party leader - and prime minister - following Mrs May's resignation after she failed to get her Brexit deal through Parliament.\n\nShe remains in office until her successor is found.\n\nConservative Party members will vote for their next leader after an initial list of 10 candidates to replace Mrs May was whittled down to Mr Hunt and Mr Johnson following a series of votes by Tory MPs.\n\nMembers will receive their ballots between 6 and 8 July, with the new leader expected to be announced in the week beginning 22 July.\n\nCorrection 24 June 2019: A previous version of this article stated Jeremy Hunt wanted Boris Johnson to answer questions about his private life, and was headlined to reflect this. It has been amended to make clear Mr Hunt's demands were for Mr Johnson to explain his policies in full.", "Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt will face Boris Johnson in the run-off to become Conservative leader and prime minister.\n\nMr Hunt oversaw the London Olympics as culture secretary and was the UK's longest-serving health secretary.\n\nBefore entering Parliament, Jeremy Hunt had a career as an English teacher in Japan and as an entrepreneur.\n\nHe became the MP for South West Surrey at the 2005 general election, taking over from Virginia Bottomley.\n\nFrom 2005 to 2007, Mr Hunt was shadow minister for disabled people. It was a reward for supporting David Cameron, who attended Oxford University at the same time as him, in the Conservative leadership election.\n\nA reshuffle in 2007 saw Mr Hunt promoted to shadow culture secretary.\n\nIn 2009, he was found to have breached expenses rules and ordered to repay more than £9,500. He had allowed his agent to stay rent-free in his constituency property, which was designated as his second home.\n\nMr Hunt had claimed £19,117 in public money towards the property, but it was decided he hadn't benefited financially from the situation.\n\nWhen the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government was formed in 2010, Jeremy Hunt joined the cabinet as secretary of state for culture, Olympics, media and sport.\n\nIt was a key role in the run-up to London's 2012 Olympics and he worked closely with then London Mayor, Boris Johnson.\n\nMr Hunt campaigned on the importance of tourism during the Olympics. And he took the decision to double the budget for the Olympic and Paralympic ceremonies from £40m to £81m.\n\nThe Olympic opening ceremony was widely seen as a big success.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Hunt also put emphasis on creating a lasting legacy for the games.\n\nThe government gave Sport England £1bn to invest in grassroots sports, and Mr Hunt said there was an \"extraordinary chance\" to \"reinvigorate this country's sporting habits for both the young and the old\".\n\nBut in the years that followed there was only a small increase in the number of young people taking up sport.\n\nIn 2005-06 the proportion of over-16s in England who played sport for at least 30 minutes each week was 34.6%. By 2015-16, it was 36.1%.\n\nEarlier in 2012, his career was hanging in the balance. During the Leveson Inquiry into the culture and practices of the press, his contact with the Murdoch family came under scrutiny.\n\nMr Hunt was responsible for overseeing the proposed takeover of BSkyB by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.\n\nHe was criticised for failing to supervise his adviser's contact with News Corp, and for messages he exchanged with James Murdoch on the bid. His special adviser, Adam Smith, was forced to quit.\n\nThe inquiry released texts sent from Mr Hunt to News Corp lobbyist Fred Michel when it was bidding for BSkyB. The culture secretary addressed him as \"Daddy\" and \"mon ami\" - their wives had given birth in the same hospital in May 2010. Separately, in December 2010, he told Mr Michel there was \"nothing u won't like\" in a forthcoming speech.\n\nMr Hunt insisted he acted with \"total integrity\" during the bid process.\n\nAs culture secretary, Mr Hunt also led a government plan to launch local television stations across the UK. More than 30 had been set up before Ofcom later scrapped the roll-out of any further channels, because of limited interest from viewers and financial difficulties.\n\nCity TV, the holder of the local TV licence for Birmingham, was forced to appoint administrators to find a buyer before it was even launched, for example.\n\nMr Hunt also announced a deal with the BBC to freeze the licence fee for six years at £145.50 from 2010. He said high executive salaries and an advantage over commercial broadcasters were a cause for concern.\n\nThat was equivalent to a 16% budget cut in real terms and led to the BBC having to make savings, including 2,000 job losses.\n\nUnder the agreement, the BBC also took on responsibility for funding the World Service, the Welsh language channel S4C, and the roll-out of broadband to rural areas.\n\nJeremy Hunt was appointed health secretary in September 2012, with Maria Miller taking on his previous role.\n\nHe would eventually become the longest-serving health secretary in NHS history, surpassing its founder, Labour's Aneurin Bevan.\n\nBut Mr Hunt held office during the slowest period of investment in the NHS since its foundation - which created big problems.\n\nSince the NHS was established, health spending has risen by about 4% above inflation each year on average. Post-2010, as the coalition budget tried to reduce the deficit, this fell to about 1% a year.\n\nThis came as demands on the health service were growing.\n\nBetween 2005 and 2015, A&E visits went up by almost 30%. And during Mr Hunt's tenure as health secretary, the number of people in the population aged 85 and over went up by about a third.\n\nThe independent Office for Budget Responsibility said funding for the NHS needed to rise by 4.3% a year just to keep up with rising demand, without actively improving standards.\n\nFinancial difficulties led to more hospitals going into the red, as well as targets being missed in three main areas: cancer care, hospital appointments and A&E waiting times.\n\nNHS England has not met any of these targets since 2015.\n\nJust 85.3% of patients were seen at A&E departments within the waiting time target of four hours in January 2018. At least 95% of patients attending A&E are supposed to be either admitted, transferred or discharged within four hours.\n\nUnions, like the GMB, demanded his resignation.\n\nAs well as a series of austerity measures - which included extending a cap on pay increases for NHS staff - he was also criticised for his handling of the junior doctor contract row.\n\nMr Hunt said that changes to contracts were essential to deliver a seven-day NHS in England by 2020 - a pledge in the Conservatives' 2010 election manifesto.\n\nTo achieve this, the proposed contracts would mean evenings and Saturdays would be considered \"normal\" rather than \"unsocial\" hours and would no longer attract overtime pay.\n\nThe NHS's pay review body had said the cost of paying a premium on these \"unsocial hours\" put delivering a seven-day NHS out of reach.\n\nJunior doctors responded by tweeting pictures of themselves working weekend and late shifts, with the hashtag #ImInWorkJeremy.\n\nContract negotiations with junior doctors stopped and started and the British Medical Association eventually decided on industrial action.\n\nJunior doctors took part in a series of walkouts in 2016. On two strike days, between 08:00 and 17:00 even emergency care wasn't covered - the first time that had ever happened in the history of the NHS.\n\nPublic support for the strike was high, and even after doctors withdrew emergency care, the majority of the public (57%) still supported the strike and believed the government was more at fault (54%).\n\nA new contract for junior doctors was later imposed, after BMA members rejected a deal agreed by the government and union negotiators.\n\nDespite heavy criticism, Mr Hunt did go on to secure a funding increase for the NHS, totalling £20.5bn in real terms by 2023.\n\nHe also oversaw the introduction of an Ofsted-style system for rating hospitals and GP surgeries in England, ranking them on things like cancer, mental health and diabetes services.\n\nMr Hunt repeatedly referred in speeches to cases where individuals had received bad treatment in the NHS. He said he was horrified at the report into the Stafford Hospital scandal.\n\nHe went on to overhaul the inspection regime, introduce a new duty of candour on staff and fresh rules about whistle-blowers.\n\nSocial care was added to his brief in 2018. He spoke of the need to integrate social care, funded by local councils, with services delivered by the NHS.\n\nHe had already overseen a transfer of money from the NHS to council budgets from 2014. This shared budget was designed to tackle the problem of elderly people having to stay in hospital beds unnecessarily, because of a lack of care for them at home.\n\nAfter this, the number of these cases fell.\n\nHe also oversaw the introduction of the first national waiting-time target for mental health treatment. From April 2016, the NHS said at least 50% of people experiencing a first episode of psychosis should begin treatment within two weeks of referral.\n\nMr Hunt became foreign secretary in July 2018, after his predecessor and now leadership rival, Boris Johnson, quit over Theresa May's Brexit strategy.\n\nIn March, he became the first Western foreign minister to visit Yemen since conflict there began.\n\nHe has faced criticism for allowing the UK to sell arms to the Saudi regime, which is involved in a controversial military campaign in Yemen. But he has previously defended UK-Saudi ties, saying Saudi Arabia is a \"very, very important military ally to the UK\".\n\nHis time as foreign secretary has not been gaffe-free. During a meeting on an official visit to China, he called his wife Lucia Guo \"Japanese\" - although she was born in Xian in central China.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The foreign secretary tells Today he would include the DUP and ERG in Brexit talks\n\nA Remain campaigner in the 2016 EU referendum, Mr Hunt has since said he would vote Leave in a second vote. He said this was because of the \"arrogance of the European Commission\" in Brexit negotiations.\n\nHe also likened the Brexit negotiating tactics of the EU to the Soviet Union. The comparison provoked criticism from EU ambassadors and politicians and there were calls for an apology.\n\nMr Hunt says he want to negotiate a \"credible\" Brexit plan by securing changes to the controversial Irish backstop.\n\nHowever, he does not rule out leaving the EU without a deal if such an outcome becomes \"the only way to deliver Brexit\".\n\nBut unlike his leadership rival, Boris Johnson, he says the current departure date of 31 October is not a hard deadline.", "Thousands of men, women and children and been displaced by the fall of IS\n\nEight children, including six taken by their Australian parents to join the Islamic State (IS) group, have been evacuated from a Syrian refugee camp.\n\nThe group includes three orphaned children of notorious Australian militant Khaled Sharrouf.\n\nThe government was able to evacuate the children in secret in conjunction with aid groups, Australian media say.\n\nPrime Minister Scott Morrison confirmed they had been freed from a \"bleak and complicated'' situation.\n\n\"The fact that parents put their children into harm's way by taking them into a war zone was a despicable act,\" Mr Morrison said. \"However, children should not be punished for the crimes of their parents.\"\n\nHe added that the decision had not been made \"lightly\".\n\n\"Australia's national security and the safety of our people and personnel have always been our most important considerations in this matter,\" he said.\n\nEarlier this year he insisted he would not endanger lives to extract Australians from camps.\n\nFive children of Sharrouf were taken to Syria in 2014 by their mother, Tara Nettleton. She had followed her husband who had left months before on his brother's passport.\n\nSharrouf became notorious for graphic photographs he shared online from the warzone - including of his young children with weapons and one holding a severed head.\n\nSave the Children said it found more than 2,500 foreign children in Syrian camps\n\nTwo of them reportedly died alongside their father in an airstrike near Raqqa in 2017. Nettleton died from health complications from appendicitis in 2015.\n\nHer mother, Karen, has campaigned to repatriate her three surviving grandchildren, who have reportedly been held in camps since the fall of IS's last stronghold.\n\nShe had an emotional reunion with them at the Syrian al-Hawl camp earlier this year as part of an ABC news documentary, in which the teenage girls, 16 and 17, spoke of their wishes to return.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"There are different degrees of radicalisation among the women\"\n\nThe eldest, Zaynab, is heavily pregnant and already has two children, aged 2 and 3, after being married aged 13 to a jihadist friend of her father's after they travelled.\n\nThe other three children in the group are reported to be the orphans of Yasin Rizvic, a jihadist originally from Melbourne.\n\nThe debate over how international governments should handle repatriation of IS fighters and their children has come to the fore this year with the collapse of the group.\n\nResearchers estimate more than 40,000 international citizens from 80 countries are thought to have joined IS in Iraq and Syria between April 2013 and June 2018.\n\nEarlier this year, charity Save the Children said they found more than 2,500 foreign children in Syrian camps.", "Air Canada says it is investigating the incident\n\nA woman has said she was left alone on an Air Canada plane after falling asleep during a flight.\n\nTiffani Adams said she fell asleep while flying from Quebec to Toronto on 9 June. When she woke up, she was freezing cold and still buckled into her seat, but the aircraft was parked.\n\nShe said she had experienced \"reoccurring night terrors\" since the incident took place.\n\nAir Canada has confirmed the incident occurred and is investigating.\n\nMs Adams said on Facebook that she woke up \"around midnight [a few hours after the flight landed] freezing cold still trapped in my seat in complete darkness.\"\n\nShe said the experience was \"terrifying\".\n\nMs Adams managed to call her friend Deanna Dale to let her know where she was when her phone died less than a minute into the call.\n\nShe was unable to charge her phone as the plane had been shut down.\n\nMs Dale called Toronto Pearson Airport and told them of Ms Adams' whereabouts.\n\nWhile she was on board, Ms Adams managed to locate a torch in the cockpit of the plane and attempted to attract attention.\n\nShe was found by a luggage cart operator who she claimed was \"in shock\".\n\nMs Adams said that Air Canada staff offered her a limousine and a hotel but she declined, wanting to return home as quickly as possible.\n\nShe added that representatives from Air Canada had called her twice as part of the investigation and apologised.\n\nAir Canada confirmed Ms Adams' account to multiple publications and said it was reviewing the incident.", "Police released pictures of the bear in the wardrobe\n\nA black bear has been found sleeping in a wardrobe after apparently locking itself into a room in a home in the US state of Montana.\n\nAlerted to the intrusion in Butler Creek, police said the large mammal just yawned when officers knocked on the window to wake it up.\n\nIt eventually had to be tranquilised and removed.\n\nPolice warned people to lock up their homes as the bear reportedly tried at least two other doors in the area.\n\nThey said the bear had somehow entered a laundry room in the house and managed to bolt the door from the inside.\n\nIt began ripping the room apart before apparently feeling tired and climbing into the wardrobe for a nap.", "President Erdogan has spearheaded numerous major infrastructure projects as part of a programme to modernise Turkey\n\nFrom humble beginnings, Recep Tayyip Erdogan has grown into a political giant, leading Turkey for 20 years and reshaping his country more than any leader since Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the revered father of the modern republic.\n\nDespite being buffeted by a series of crises, he still came out on top in the first round of the 2023 presidential race and is tipped to maintain his grip on power.\n\nHe was in his most vulnerable position for years, his opponents convinced they could defeat him.\n\nAnd for a pugnacious leader who built a proud record on modernising and developing Turkey, he appeared slow to react to the loss of more than 50,000 lives in double earthquakes in February.\n\nAfter he survived a coup attempt in 2016, he turned his presidency into an ever more powerful executive role, and cracked down on his opponents and dissent.\n\nFirst as prime minister from 2003 and then as directly elected president since 2014, Recep Tayyip Erdogan has flexed Turkey's muscles as a regional power, championed Islamist causes and been quick to outmanoeuvre political opposition.\n\nAlthough he is the head of a Nato country, he has positioned himself as a broker in Russia's war in Ukraine and kept Sweden waiting in its bid to join the Western defensive alliance. His muscular diplomacy has riled allies in Europe and beyond.\n\nHe has polarised his country but President Erdogan is a proven election winner. His supporters call him reis - \"chief\".\n\nAccusing his opponents of treating Turkey's electorate with contempt and failing to win them over he declared: \"As 85 million, we will protect our ballot, our will and our future.\"\n\nBorn in February 1954, Recep Tayyip Erdogan grew up the son of a coastguard, on Turkey's Black Sea coast. When he was 13, his father decided to move to Istanbul, hoping to give his five children a better upbringing.\n\nThe young Erdogan sold lemonade and sesame buns to earn extra cash. He attended an Islamic school before obtaining a degree in management from Istanbul's Marmara University - and playing professional football.\n\nErdogan supporters like his tough language and defence of traditional Muslim values\n\nIn the 1970s and 80s, he was active in Islamist circles, joining Necmettin Erbakan's pro-Islamic Welfare Party. As the party grew in popularity in the 1990s, Mr Erdogan was elected as its candidate for mayor of Istanbul in 1994 and ran the city for the next four years.\n\nBut his term came to an end when he was convicted of inciting racial hatred for publicly reading a nationalist poem that included the lines: \"The mosques are our barracks, the domes our helmets, the minarets our bayonets and the faithful our soldiers.\"\n\nAfter serving four months in jail, he returned to politics. But his party had been banned for violating the strict secular principles of the modern Turkish state.\n\nIn August 2001, he founded an new, Islamist-rooted party with ally Abdullah Gul. In 2002, the AKP won a majority in parliamentary elections, and the following year Mr Erdogan was appointed prime minister. He remains chairman of the AKP or Justice and Development Party to this day.\n\nFrom 2003, he spent three terms as prime minister, presiding over a period of steady economic growth and winning praise internationally as a reformer. The middle class expanded and millions were taken out of poverty, as Mr Erdogan prioritised giant infrastructure projects to modernise Turkey.\n\nBut critics warned he was becoming increasingly autocratic.\n\nBy 2013, protesters took to the streets, partly because of his government's plans to transform a much-loved park in the centre of Istanbul, but also in a challenge to more authoritarian rule. The prime minister condemned the protesters as \"capulcu\" (riff-raff), and neighbourhoods would clang pots and pans at nine o'clock every night in a spirit of defiance. Allegations of corruption ensnared the sons of three cabinet allies.\n\nThe Gezi Park protests marked a turning point in his rule. To his detractors, he was acting more like a sultan from the Ottoman Empire than a democrat.\n\nMr Erdogan also fell out with a US-based Islamic scholar called Fethullah Gulen, whose social and cultural movement had helped him to victory in three consecutive elections and had been active in removing the military from politics. It was a feud that would have dramatic repercussions for Turkish society.\n\nAfter a decade of his rule, Mr Erdogan's party also moved to lift a ban on women wearing headscarves in public services that was introduced after a military coup in 1980. The ban was eventually lifted for women in the police, military and judiciary.\n\nCritics complained he had chipped away at the pillars of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk's secular republic. While religious himself, Mr Erdogan always denied wanting to impose Islamic values, insisting he supported the rights of Turks to express their religion more openly.\n\nMr Erdogan's wife Emine often appeared in public in a headscarf\n\nHowever, he has repeatedly supported criminalising adultery. And as a father of four, he has said \"no Muslim family\" should consider birth control or family planning. \"We will multiply our descendants,\" he said in May 2016.\n\nHe has extolled motherhood, condemned feminists and said men and women cannot be treated equally.\n\nMr Erdogan has long championed Islamist causes - and was known to give the four-finger salute of Egypt's repressed Muslim Brotherhood.\n\nIn July 2020, he oversaw the conversion of Istanbul's historic Hagia Sophia into a mosque, angering many Christians. Built 1,500 years ago as a cathedral, it was made into a mosque by the Ottoman Turks, but Ataturk had turned it into a museum - a symbol of the new secular state.\n\nIt was no accident that the president chose to address supporters at evening prayers within hours of the 2023 vote getting under way.\n\nBarred from running again for prime minister, in 2014 he stood for the largely ceremonial role of president in unprecedented direct elections. He had big plans for reforming the post, creating a new constitution that would benefit all Turks and place their country among the world's top 10 economies.\n\nBut early in his presidency, he faced two jolts to his power. His party lost its majority in parliament for several months in a 2015 vote, and then months later, in 2016, Turkey witnessed its first violent attempted coup for decades.\n\nRebel soldiers came close to capturing the president, holidaying at a coastal resort, but he was airlifted to safety. In the early hours of 16 July, he emerged triumphant at Istanbul's Ataturk Airport, to the cheers of supporters. Almost 300 civilians were killed as they blocked the advance of the coup plotters.\n\nThe president appeared on national TV and rallied supporters in Istanbul, declaring he was the \"chief commander\". But the strain was clear when he sobbed openly while giving a speech at the funeral of a close friend, shot with his son by mutinous soldiers.\n\nThe plot was blamed on the Gulen movement and led to some 150,000 public servants being sacked and more than 50,000 people being detained, including soldiers, journalists, lawyers, police officers, academics and Kurdish politicians.\n\nThis crackdown on critics caused alarm abroad, contributing to frosty relations with the EU: Turkey's bid to join the union has not progressed for years. Arguments over an influx of migrants into Greece exacerbated the ill-feeling.\n\nBut from his gleaming, 1,000-room Ak Saray palace overlooking Ankara, President Erdogan's position appeared more secure than ever.\n\nControversy has surrounded Mr Erdogan's costly and sprawling presidential palace in Ankara\n\nHe narrowly won a 2017 referendum granting him sweeping presidential powers, including the right to impose a state of emergency and appoint top public officials as well as intervene in the legal system.\n\nA year later, he secured outright victory in the first round of a presidential poll.\n\nHis core vote lies in small Anatolian towns and rural, conservative areas. In 2019, his party lost in the three biggest cities - Istanbul; the capital, Ankara; and Izmir.\n\nLosing the Istanbul mayorship narrowly to Ekrem Imamoglu of the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) was a bitter blow to Mr Erdogan, who was the city's mayor in the 1990s. He never accepted the result.\n\nMr Imamoglu was ahead of the president in the opinion polls before he was barred from running in the May elections. The president and his allies were accused of using the courts to disqualify the popular mayor from the vote.\n\nTurkey's third biggest party, the pro-Kurdish HDP, also feared being banned from the parliamentary vote because of alleged links to Kurdish militants, but instead it decided to stand under a different banner.\n\nLike previous Turkish leaders, President Erdogan has cracked down hard on the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).\n\nAlthough Turkey has taken in more than 3.5 million refugees fleeing the Syrian civil war, Ankara has also launched operations against Kurdish militias across the borders, alienating Kurds in Turkey.\n\nMr Erdogan has long held close ties with Russia's Vladimir Putin and has sought a pivotal role as a mediator in the conflict in Ukraine.\n\nDespite being the leader of a Nato state, he bought a Russian anti-missile defence system and chose Russia to build Turkey's first nuclear reactor.\n\nAhead of the 2023 election, he sought to bolster his credentials with nationalist and conservative voters by accusing the West of moving against him.\n\n\"My nation will foil this plot,\" he asserted, describing it as a kind of breaking point.\n\nHe rounded off his 2023 presidential campaign with a visit to the mausoleum of Adnan Menderes, Turkey's first democratically-elected prime minister who was executed in 1961 after a military coup.\n\nHis message: \"The era of coups and juntas is over.\"", "Supporters at a rally for Mohamed Ould Ghazouani, widely seen as the frontrunner\n\nMauritania has been voting in what may result in the first democratic transition of power since the West African country achieved independence in 1960.\n\nPresident Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz seized power in a coup in 2008, but has agreed to step down and abide by a two-term limit of office.\n\nVotes are now being counted and the result should be known next week.\n\nSix candidates are competing for the presidency.\n\nThe frontrunner is Mohamed Ahmed Ould Ghazouani, the country's defence minister and a close ally of the current president, BBC West Africa correspondent Louise Dewast reports.\n\nOpposition candidates also took part in a move seen as a positive step forward, after boycotting several previous polls.\n\nThe five other candidates include former Prime Minister Sidi Mohamed Ould Boubacar, and a well-known activist and anti-slavery campaigner, Biram Dah Abeid.\n\nThe country's electoral commission promised a free and fair election, despite claims by the opposition that it was biased in favour of the governing party.\n\nMauritania's press authority said on Friday that it had received no complaints about the coverage of the campaign.\n\nThe most critical issue on the campaign trail has been the standard of living, which every candidate has promised to improve.\n\nSlavery also remains an issue. Mauritania became the final country in the world to formally abolish slavery in 1981, but it continues to this day. Criminal laws allowing slaveholders to be prosecuted were passed in 2007, but have yet to be fully and effectively enforced.\n\nAfter Mauritania achieved independence from France in 1960, the country's first president held power for 18 years before being ousted in a military coup. More coups followed in 1984, 2005 and 2008.\n\nIf Saturday's election ends with no clear winner, a run-off election is due to be held on 6 July.", "One of Simons' BBC roles was in The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries between 1990 and 1994\n\nHeartbeat actor William Simons, who charmed Sunday evening viewers for nearly two decades as easygoing veteran PC Alf Ventress, has died aged 79.\n\nWelsh-born Simons played the character in all 18 series of the 1960s-set show.\n\nHe also appeared in Coronation Street, Emmerdale, Crown Court and Last of the Summer Wine during his 60-year career.\n\nHis agent said: \"He was a wonderful, kind, warm, witty, lovely human being and anyone who ever worked with him or knew him will be devastated.\"\n\nJason Durr, who appeared alongside Simons in Heartbeat paid tribute to the \"lovely man\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSimons, who was born in Swansea, was already 51 when he landed the biggest role of his career, playing Alf Ventress when Heartbeat first landed on TV screens in 1992 as a prime-time vehicle for former EastEnders star and chart-topping singer Nick Berry.\n\nBerry played a young London constable who moved north with his family and encountered Ventress as one of the colleagues who helped him build a new life while fighting crime in a rural setting.\n\nThe show, set in the fictional Yorkshire villages of Ashfordly and Aidensfield, attracted more than 13 million viewers and saw guest appearances by Gary Barlow, Charlotte Church, Lulu, and David Dickinson - and Yorkshire's legendary cricket umpire Dickie Bird.\n\nSimons was very popular with viewers and his character continued to appear in the show as a civilian even after he retired from the force.\n\nSimons (third from left) starred in a total of 355 episodes of Heartbeat, with fellow actors including Mark Jordan, Nick Berry and Derek Fowlds\n\nAnd when ITV launched a spin-off show called The Royal, he was asked to play Ventress in six episodes.\n\nAccording to the Yorkshire Post, Simons enjoyed his role in Heartbeat so much that he bought a house in the village of Goathland, where much of the show's filming took place.\n\nBut he sold it 14 years later, explaining in an interview with the Daily Express that Goathland had become so popular with tourists drawn by the Heartbeat factor that \"it was impossible to step outside without being recognised\".\n\nAs a teenage actor, Simons had suffered so badly from acne that he gave up his acting career for a few years and instead got a job as a stage manager.\n\nSo as soon as he became a major star on Heartbeat, he became a patron for the Changing Faces charity, which supports people with facial disfigurements.\n\nHeartbeat was based on the Constable series of novels written by ex-policeman Peter N Walker, under the pseudonym Nicholas Rhea.\n\nIn an interview before his death in 2017, Walker said Simons had \"created a totally believable character, just as I imagined him\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson refuses to answer questions about the reported row with his partner\n\nBoris Johnson has refused to answer questions about reports of a row between him and his partner in which police were called.\n\nSpeaking at a Tory Party hustings in Birmingham, Mr Johnson said people did not \"want to hear\" about the reported row between him and Carrie Symonds.\n\nThe Guardian had said Ms Symonds was heard telling the Tory MP to \"get off me\" and \"get out of my flat\".\n\nPolice said they spoke to all occupants of the address, who were safe and well.\n\nIn the first of 16 hustings events, Mr Johnson and Jeremy Hunt made their pitches to an audience of party members to succeed Theresa May as prime minister.\n\nMr Johnson was asked about the incident a number of times by hustings moderator Iain Dale, an LBC radio presenter, but each time avoided answering the question.\n\nAfter being accused by Mr Dale of ducking the question, Mr Johnson did not respond directly, instead saying: \"People are entitled to ask me what I want to do for the country.\"\n\nBoris Johnson told members of the audience not to boo Iain Dale\n\nMr Dale pressed again, telling Mr Johnson: \"If the police are called to your home it makes it everyone's business.\n\n\"You are running for the office of not just Conservative Party leader, but prime minister, so a lot of people who admire your politics do call into question your character, and it is incumbent on you to answer that question.\"\n\nIn response, Mr Johnson accepted this was \"a fair point\" and said he \"was a man who keeps to political promises\".\n\nPressed another two times on the issue, Mr Johnson said it was \"pretty obvious from the foregoing\" he would not be making further comments on the incident.\n\nMr Dale was jeered by members of the audience at one point during the exchange, but Mr Johnson responded by telling the crowd \"not to boo the great man\".\n\nCarrie Symonds pictured with Mr Johnson's father, Stanley, at a demonstration earlier this year\n\nThe report of the row between Mr Johnson and Ms Symonds in the Guardian said a neighbour had told the newspaper they heard a woman screaming followed by \"slamming and banging\" in the early hours of Friday.\n\nIt said that in the recording - heard by the Guardian, but not by the BBC - Mr Johnson was refusing to leave the flat and telling the woman to \"get off\" his laptop before there was a loud crashing noise.\n\nMs Symonds is reported to be heard saying that the MP had ruined a sofa with red wine, adding: \"You just don't care for anything because you're spoilt. You have no care for money or anything.\"\n\nThe neighbour who made the recording has since come forward to explain his reasons for contacting the Guardian about the row.\n\nTom Penn, 29, said he and his wife had concerns for their neighbour's safety.\n\nHe told the paper: \"Once clear that no one was harmed, I contacted the Guardian, as I felt it was of important public interest.\n\n\"I believe it is reasonable for someone who is likely to become our next prime minister to be held accountable for all of their words, actions and behaviours.\n\n\"I, along with a lot of my neighbours all across London, voted to remain within the EU. That is the extent of my involvement in politics.\"\n\nA poster opposite Boris Johnson's London home shows not everyone supports his leadership bid\n\nMr Johnson's relationship with Ms Symonds - a former director of communications for the Conservative party - became public after Mr Johnson and his wife, Marina Wheeler, announced they were divorcing in 2018.\n\nMs Symonds was seen in the audience during Mr Johnson's leadership campaign launch on 12 June.\n\nNobody can say that Conservative Party members don't have a choice.\n\nThe contrast between the two candidates to be their new leader and the UK's next prime minister was clear to see on stage in Birmingham.\n\nBoth men gave performances which reaffirmed their strengths and weaknesses as politicians.\n\nBoris Johnson delivered soaring rhetoric, swerved the specifics and worked the room with cheeky asides and shameless flattery.\n\nJeremy Hunt stressed his serious side, played it straight and gave carefully considered answers.\n\nMr Johnson looked a little uncomfortable at times, asking at one point \"how much longer have we got?\"\n\nMr Hunt seemed keen to convey a softer side - his best friend coming out on the last day of school was one of many anecdotes.\n\nSupporters of each will have likely left the event further convinced that their favourite is the man for the job - and those yet to decide have some food for thought.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nEngland progressed to the quarter-finals of the Women's World Cup with a 3-0 victory over an enraged Cameroon side who protested after two VAR decisions went against them.\n\nGoals from Steph Houghton, Ellen White and Alex Greenwood sent England through to face Norway on Thursday, but the fractious game will be remembered for Cameroon's extraordinary reactions to White's goal and a disallowed effort from Ajara Nchout.\n\nThe distraught Cameroon players twice appeared unwilling to restart the match, gathering in a huddle after White's strike was given and remonstrating with the officials further after half-time.\n\nCaptain Houghton struck England's opener after an early backpass gave England an indirect free-kick, before the drama escalated.\n\nStriker White placed in England's second, which was initially ruled out before the video assistant referee deemed White to have been onside, but Cameroon reacted furiously and gestured to suggest the big screen's replays had indicated differently.\n\nThe African side thought they had pulled a goal back after the break through Nchout, but their despair increased when it was disallowed after a VAR review for an extremely tight offside call.\n\nEngland left-back Greenwood then swept in the Lionesses' third to secure a win that saw them reach at least the last eight of the competition for a fifth time, and for the fourth consecutive World Cup.\n• None 'Very entertaining but for the wrong reasons' - the game that had everything\n\nCameroon, who are 43 places below Phil Neville's side in the world rankings and playing in only their second Women's World Cup, began the tie as major underdogs.\n\nThey had reached the last 16 thanks to a 95th-minute winner over New Zealand on 20 June, which saw them progress as one of the four best third-placed sides, but Sunday's drama against England was of a different kind.\n\nThere was an edge to the match early on, with Yvonne Leuko booked for an apparent elbow on England winger Nikita Parris, before Augustine Ejangue appeared to spit on Toni Duggan after the backpass that led to the opener.\n\nCameroon then reacted with despair after White's goal was given by VAR, temporarily refusing to restart play, and some of their players were reportedly in tears in the tunnel at half-time.\n\nBoos and hissing from the stands then followed the decision to disallow Nchout's strike, coupled with widespread protestations from their substitutes.\n\nAnd the first ever competitive meeting between these two sides concluded with a poor challenge by Alexandra Takounda on Houghton, for which the Cameroon player was booked as her team-mates again remonstrated with the referee.\n\nFor England, who reached the semi-finals of their past two major tournaments and are the fourth favourites to lift the title in Lyon on 7 July, the win was another impressive one.\n\nEjangue's backpass to the goalkeeper presented Neville's side with an indirect free-kick, which Duggan touched to Houghton to drill in to the corner from close range, finding a way past all 11 Cameroon players on the line.\n\nThat opener gave England some control of the game and they added to it with White and Greenwood's efforts, while keeping a third consecutive clean sheet.\n\nHowever, there were sloppy moments at the back that will cause Neville concern, especially in the early part of the second half.\n\nKaren Bardsley's misplaced clearance and some subsequent slack marking allowed Nchout to find the net, before her effort was ruled out.\n\nAlexandra Engolo then twice went close after more poor England defending, but the majority of their performance over the 90 minutes was strong.\n\nTaylor scuffed wide late on as they pushed for a fourth goal, as the Lionesses won a fifth straight World Cup game - stretching back to 2015's third-place play-off - for the first time.\n\n'It didn't feel like football' - what they said\n\nEngland boss Phil Neville: \"It didn't feel like football. I know we get these these briefs about coming on TV and saying it was good game, but that wasn't a last-16 tie in terms of behaviour from footballers.\n\n\"This is going out worldwide. I didn't enjoy it, the players didn't enjoy it. My players kept their concentration, but those images are going out worldwide and young girls are seeing that behaviour and it's not right.\n\n\"There has to be a standard of behaviour that you have to do, and my players did that.\"\n• None England have qualified for the quarter-finals of the Women's World Cup in each of their five tournament appearances (1995, 2007, 2011, 2015 and 2019).\n• None Cameroon have been eliminated in the last 16 in both of their Women's World Cup appearances (previously in 2015), while they exit the 2019 tournament having lost three of their four games (winning the other).\n• None England's 3-0 win over Cameroon was their second-biggest margin of victory in a Women's World Cup game, only behind their 6-1 win over Argentina in the 2007 group stage.\n• None Lionesses striker Ellen White has scored four goals at the 2019 Women's World Cup - the joint-most by an England player in a single tournament in the competition (Kelly Smith scored four in 2007).\n• None White has scored in all three of her appearances at the 2019 Women's World Cup (four goals in total), becoming the first England player to score in three consecutive games in the competition.\n• None Jill Scott made her 18th World Cup appearance. She has overtaken Peter Shilton (17) as the player with the most World Cup appearances for England.\n\nEngland will face Norway for a place in the semi-finals in Le Havre on Thursday (20:00 BST).\n• None Alexandra Takounda Engolo (Cameroon) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Offside, England. Keira Walsh tries a through ball, but Toni Duggan is caught offside.\n• None Attempt saved. Ninon Abena (Cameroon) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Jeannette Yango.\n• None Attempt blocked. Jodie Taylor (England) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Toni Duggan.\n• None Lucy Bronze (England) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Offside, England. Toni Duggan tries a through ball, but Jodie Taylor is caught offside. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The man was discovered injured when police were called to Exeter House in Feltham\n\nA man aged in his 20s has been shot dead at a block of flats in south-west London.\n\nThe victim was discovered seriously injured when armed police were called to Exeter House, Watermill Way, Feltham, at 23:05 BST on Friday.\n\nHe was treated by paramedics but died at the scene shortly after. His next of kin have been told.\n\nScotland Yard said nobody else was injured in the shooting and no arrests have been made.\n\nA post-mortem examination will take place \"in due course\", the force said.\n\nA crime scene remains in place around the block of flats\n\nIn a separate attack, a 17-year-old boy was left in a critical condition after being stabbed on a north London street.\n\nThe teenager was taken to an east London hospital following the attack on Goswell Road at 23:10.\n\nNo arrests have been made. Police said the victim's family have been informed.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Arabs are increasingly saying they are no longer religious, according to the largest and most in-depth survey undertaken of the Middle East and North Africa.\n\nThe finding is one of a number on how Arabs feel about a wide range of issues, from women's rights and migration to security and sexuality.\n\nMore than 25,000 people were interviewed for the survey - for BBC News Arabic by the Arab Barometer research network - across 10 countries and the Palestinian territories between late 2018 and spring 2019.\n\nHere are some of the results.\n\nSince 2013, the number of people across the region identifying as \"not religious\" has risen from 8% to 13%. The rise is greatest in the under 30s, among whom 18% identify as not religious, according to the research. Only Yemen saw a fall in the category.\n\nMost people across the region supported the right of a woman to become prime minister or president. The exception was Algeria where less than 50% of those questioned agreed that a woman head of state was acceptable.\n\nBut when it comes to domestic life, most - including a majority of women - believe that husbands should always have the final say on family decisions. Only in Morocco did fewer than half the population think a husband should always be the ultimate decision-maker.\n\nAcceptance of homosexuality varies but is low or extremely low across the region. In Lebanon, despite having a reputation for being more socially liberal than its neighbours, the figure is 6%.\n\nAn honour killing is one in which relatives kill a family member, typically a woman, for allegedly bringing dishonour onto the family.\n\nEvery place surveyed put Donald Trump's Middle East policies last when comparing these leaders. By contrast, in seven of the 11 places surveyed, half or more approved of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's approach.\n\nTotals for each country do not always sum to 100 because 'Don't know' and 'Refused to respond' have not been included.\n\nSecurity remains a concern for many in the Middle East and North Africa. When asked which countries posed the biggest threat to their stability and national security, after Israel, the US was identified as the second biggest threat in the region as a whole, and Iran was third.\n\nIn every place questioned, research suggested at least one in five people were considering emigrating. In Sudan, this accounted for half the population.\n\nEconomic reasons were overwhelmingly cited as the driving factor.\n\nThey're not all aiming for Europe Areas where people want to go to. Tap or click on the place names and regions to highlight paths.\n\nRespondents could choose more than one option. If you cannot see the chart above, click to launch interactive content.\n\nThe number of those considering leaving for North America has risen, and while Europe is less popular than it was it remains the top choice for those people thinking of leaving the region.\n\nBBC Arabic are covering this subject all this week. Follow #BBCARABICSURVEY on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram for more.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe survey was carried out by the research network, Arab Barometer. The project interviewed 25,407 people face-to-face in 10 countries and the Palestinian territories. The Arab Barometer is a research network based at Princeton University. They have been conducting surveys like this since 2006. The 45-minute, largely tablet-based interviews were conducted by researchers with participants in private spaces.\n\nIt is of Arab world opinion, so does not include Iran or Israel, though it does include the Palestinian territories. Most countries in the region are included but several Gulf governments refused full and fair access to the survey. The Kuwait results came in too late to include in the BBC Arabic coverage. Syria could not be included due to the difficulty of access.\n\nFor legal and cultural reasons some countries asked to drop some questions. These exclusions are taken into account when expressing the results, with limitations clearly outlined.\n\nYou can find out more details about the methodology on the Arab Barometer website.", "Foreign Office minister Andrew Murrison has warned that Iran \"needs to stop\" attacks in the Gulf of Oman.\n\nHis visit to Tehran comes after the US accused Iran of attacking oil tankers earlier this month, which Iran denies.\n\nDr Murrison said the UK believes Iran \"almost certainly bears responsibility for the attacks\" and made clear UK concerns over activities in the region.\n\nForeign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said the situation was \"extremely serious\" and he spoke to Iran officials \"regularly\".\n\n\"This visit has provided an important opportunity for open, frank and constructive engagement with the Iranian government,\" said Dr Murrison, following talks with the Iranian government this weekend.\n\n\"In Tehran I was clear about the UK's long-held concerns over Iran's activities in the region.\n\nThe crisis began when oil tankers were attacked in the Strait of Hormuz\n\n\"And I was clear that the UK will continue to play its full part alongside international partners to find diplomatic solutions to reduce the current tensions.\"\n\nDr Murrison's visit took place as tensions continue to escalate between the US and Iran.\n\nOn Thursday morning, the US came close to launching airstrikes on Iran after it shot down a US drone.\n\nThe US and Iranian governments dispute whether it was in international airspace at the time.\n\nThe US military identified the drone downed on Thursday as a US Navy RQ-4A Global Hawk (file photo)\n\nThe shooting down of the drone followed accusations by the US that Iran had attacked two oil tankers just outside the Strait of Hormuz, in the Gulf of Oman. Iran rejects the allegation.\n\nDr Murrison's visit also aimed to raise international concerns about Iran's threat to cease complying with the Iranian nuclear deal after the US abandoned the agreement in 2018.\n\nBut according to the Reuters news agency, Iran's deputy foreign minister, Abbas Araqchi, insisted the country would stick to its decision to scale back some of its commitments under the 2015 deal.\n\n\"The European signatories of the deal lack the will to save the deal,\" he said after meeting Dr Murrison.\n\n\"Our decision to decrease our commitment to the deal is a national decision and it is irreversible as long as our demands are not met.\"\n\nDuring his visit, Dr Murrison also pushed for the release of British-Iranian Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe.\n\nNazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, pictured here with her daughter Gabriella, is serving a five-year sentence in Iran\n\nShe was jailed by an Iranian court for five years in 2016 over a disputed spying conviction, which she denies.\n\nShe and her husband have gone on hunger strike in protest at her ongoing detention.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Five people have been arrested and questioned over alleged accounting fraud at the Patisserie Valerie chain, the Serious Fraud Office has said.\n\nThe arrests took place last Tuesday, 18 June, in a joint operation with police, the SFO said.\n\nThe move comes eight months after the firm's former finance director, Chris Marsh, was arrested and freed on bail.\n\nPatisserie Valerie went into administration in January and was bought for £5m by Causeway Capital.\n\nThe collapse followed the discovery of a huge black hole in the firm's accounts, eventually valued at £94m.\n\nAfter it went into administration, the cafe chain was found to have overstated its cash position by £30m and failed to disclose overdrafts of nearly £10m.\n\nPatisserie Valerie's former chairman, Luke Johnson, who was also its biggest shareholder, wrote earlier this month in his column for the Sunday Times that that he had considered fleeing the UK after the scandal broke and feared becoming \"a pariah in the business world\".\n\nThe Sunday Times reported that Mr Johnson was not among those arrested by the SFO.\n\n\"On Tuesday 18 June, as part of a joint operation with the Hertfordshire, Leicestershire and Metropolitan Police Services, the SFO arrested and questioned five people in connection with the ongoing investigation into individuals associated with Patisserie Holdings,\" the SFO statement said.\n\nThe cafe chain had 206 outlets and 3,000 staff when it collapsed.\n\nIt now has 96 shops still in operation. Causeway Capital, an Irish private equity firm, said as far as they were aware the arrests did \"not relate to any current employees of Patisserie Valerie\".\n\nMatt Scaife a partner at Causeway Capital said the new owner aimed to restore the business to growth by \"focusing on three simple values: quality, creativity and crucially integrity\". It plans to revamp the menu, provide new uniforms for staff and boost online sales.\n\nLast week, Causeway revealed that Patisserie Valerie was in such dire straits that managers had ordered puff pastry be made from margarine rather than butter as a cost-cutting measure.\n\nThis is now being reversed. \"We will take every single recipe apart and put it back together,\" said .", "The crisis began when oil tankers were attacked in the Strait of Hormuz\n\nForeign Office minister Andrew Murrison will call for \"urgent de-escalation\" of regional tensions during talks with the Iranian government in Tehran on Sunday.\n\nThe US has accused Iran of attacking oil tankers, and President Trump warned Iran faces \"obliteration\" in a war.\n\nOn Thursday he called off airstrikes with 10 minutes to spare, after Iran shot down a US drone.\n\nThe Foreign Office said that Dr Murrison will criticise Iran's \"regional conduct\" on the short visit.\n\nIt added the UK still supported the Iranian nuclear deal - that Mr Trump ditched in 2018.\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"The UK has an ongoing diplomatic dialogue with Iran.\n\n\"At this time of increased regional tensions and at a crucial period for the future of the nuclear deal, this visit is an opportunity for further open, frank and constructive engagement with the government of Iran.\n\n\"Dr Murrison will call for urgent de-escalation in the region and raise UK and international concerns about Iran's regional conduct and its threat to cease complying with the nuclear deal, to which the UK remains fully committed.\"\n\nIt comes as reports said the US launched a cyber-attack on Iranian weapons systems on Thursday.\n\nAccording to the Washington Post, the attack disabled computer systems controlling rocket and missile launchers.\n\nThe New York Times said it was in retaliation for Iran's shooting down of the US drone and attacks on oil tankers that the US has blamed Iran for.\n\nFormer Labour Foreign Secretary David Miliband said the UK should be \"very worried\" about the \"real prospect of a war\".\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, he said such a conflict would become a \"contagion across the region\".\n\n\"There are people in the senior reaches in the US administration who want a war with Iran, and there are people on the Iranian side who are itching to get at the Americans too.\n\n\"A war between US and Iran would not be restricted to the US and Iran,\" he concluded.\n\nTensions have been escalating between the Iran and the US after Mr Trump unilaterally pulled out of a 2015 nuclear deal aimed at curbing Iran's nuclear activities.\n\nIran shot down the unmanned aircraft on Thursday morning. Washington and Tehran dispute whether it was in international airspace at the time.\n\nThe shooting down of the drone followed accusations by the US that Iran had attacked two oil tankers with mines last Thursday just outside the Strait of Hormuz, in the Gulf of Oman.\n\nThe president said he called off the air strikes after being told 150 Iranians would be killed.\n\nSpeaking to NBC on Friday, President Trump said the US was open to talks with Iran but would not allow it to develop nuclear weapons.\n\nIran recently announced it will soon exceed international agreed limits on its nuclear programme.\n\nAlso on Dr Murrison's agenda is likely to be the plight of British citizen Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who was jailed by an Iranian court for five years in 2016 over a disputed spying conviction.\n\nHer husband, Richard Ratcliffe, who is on day eight of a hunger strike outside the Iranian Embassy, said the foreign minister's visit was \"really helpful\".\n\n\"I'm not sure if I'm hopeful, but certainly will be watching very closely to see how things develop and what comes back,\" he added.\n\n\"The sooner the British government's able to work with the Iranian government and find a resolution, [the] better for our family.\"", "US President Donald Trump announces additional sanctions on Iran, but says it is possible for the country's ailing economy to recover if its leaders change course.\n\nHe says he is open to reaching a deal with Iran that would boost its prosperity.", "The group pictured before they began their ascent last month\n\nThe bodies of seven climbers who went missing last month have been recovered in the Himalayas, officials say.\n\nA rescue team is searching for the body of an eighth climber, according to Indian officials who spoke to the BBC.\n\nFour Britons, two Americans, an Australian and an Indian made up the group, who had been attempting to climb India's second-highest peak.\n\nThey went missing in a ridge between two glaciers at an altitude of 5,380m (17,650ft) near Nanda Devi last month.\n\nIt is believed the mountain was hit by avalanches when the climbers were trying to scale one of the peaks there.\n\nContact was lost on 26 May, a day before an avalanche hit the 7,816m-high mountain.\n\nThe group was being led by experienced British mountain guide Martin Moran, whose Scotland-based company, Moran Mountain, has run numerous expeditions in the Indian Himalayas.\n\nThe rest of the group were John McLaren, Rupert Whewell and University of York lecturer Richard Payne from the UK; US nationals Anthony Sudekum and Ronald Beimel; Australian Ruth McCance; and Indian guide Chetan Pandey.\n\nTheir bodies were spotted by an Indian rescue mission earlier this month, but attempts to retrieve them were postponed after a helicopter failed multiple times to drop rescuers on the peak.\n\nIndian officials abandoned a mission to retrieve the bodies earlier this month\n\nVK Jogdande, the senior official in Pithoragarh, where the mountain is located, told the BBC a team of 25 climbers belonging to the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) had successfully retrieved seven bodies on Sunday.\n\n\"They have set up a camp there and they have kept the bodies there. They hope to recover the eighth body by tomorrow,\" he said.\n\nMr Jogdande said the climbers would require at least three days to bring the bodies to the base camp.\n\nTwo teams, comprising nearly 50 climbers, porters and medics, belonging to the ITBP and the Indian Mountaineering Foundation (IMF), have travelled to the peak separately to recover the bodies.\n\nThe ITBP team were dropped at the base camp by helicopter, while the volunteer climbers of IMF are walking to the peak.\n\n\"This is the most difficult and challenging mission taken by Indian rescue teams to bring down bodies from the upper reaches of the Himalayas,\" Mr Jogdande said.\n\nHe said the route was littered with dangerous crevasses.\n\nAmit Chowdhury of the IMF said the operation had been risky, and hampered by bad weather.\n\n\"Now they have to decide on how to bring the bodies down,\" he told the BBC. \"[Whether they will] try to build a helipad and bring them down or carry them down is a decision that has to be made.\"\n\nFour other climbers who were part of the group ascending the peak were rescued earlier this month.\n\nThe rescued climbers were Mark Thomas, 44, Ian Wade, 45, Kate Armstrong, 39, and Zachary Quain, 32.\n\nThey were airlifted to safety after being spotted at Munsiyari base camp near Nanda Devi.", "James Gallacher, from Beccles, has set up a LGBTQIA+ in Beccles, Suffolk\n\nA man who started a support group after being mocked as the \"only gay in the village\" said he wanted people to feel \"happy and proud\" of their sexuality.\n\nJames Gallacher set up the LGBTQIA+ group in Beccles, Suffolk to make the town \"less narrow in its outlook\".\n\nOn Saturday, Suffolk's first Pride parade in five years was held in Ipswich and hopes to help people who would otherwise feel isolated.\n\nMr Gallacher, 23, said people should not feel they have to \"hide\" feelings.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe woodworker said he would often have \"loads of slurs\" thrown at him when he walked down the road.\n\nMr Gallacher, who lives in Beccles, said: \"I got fed up of being treated like the only gay in the village.\n\n\"I would get called 'drag queen' and things like 'faggot'.\n\n\"I know I don't dress like a normal person but it's still uncalled for and I don't ask for any of it.\"\n\nFormer Beccles mayor Elfrede Brambley-Crawshaw arranged for the Pride flag to be flown at the town hall\n\nThe LGBTQIA+ group, which refers to people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex or asexual, meet on a regular basis at the Graze pub in Beccles, which has a population of about 10,000.\n\nIt has been welcomed by the town council, which has been flying the Pride flag at the town hall.\n\n\"If you're gay you should be happy with who you are and proud of it, hold your lover's hand when you're walking down the road, not feel like you've got to hide it all the time,\" said Mr Gallacher.\n\nMr Gallacher said he wanted Beccles to be \"less narrow in its outlook\"\n\nFormer town mayor Elfrede Brambley-Crawshaw said she arranged for the Pride flag to fly at Beccles town hall to show \"all people are valuable in our community\".\n\nAbout 3,000 people took part in Saturday's Pride parade on Ipswich Waterfront, previously held in 2012 and 2014.\n\nAbout 3,000 people took part in a parade on the waterfront in Ipswich on Saturday\n\nAdria Pittock, chair of Suffolk Pride, said: \"There are still LGBT people in our communities and workplaces and schools who feel isolated and don't feel they can come out.\n\n\"Pride is important every year and I'd like to have it in Suffolk every year going forward.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The neighbour who called police about a loud row at the home of Boris Johnson - and later reported it to a newspaper - has defended his actions.\n\nThe Guardian said Mr Johnson's partner Carrie Symonds could be heard telling the Tory MP to \"get out of my flat\".\n\nTom Penn told the paper he was worried about his neighbours' safety, adding: \"I hope that anybody would have done the same thing.\"\n\nOn Saturday, the Tory leadership hopeful avoided questions on the row.\n\nMr Penn said he began recording from inside his flat in Camberwell, south London, after he heard \"slamming and banging\".\n\nHe said he contacted the Guardian with the recording \"once clear that no-one was harmed\" because he \"felt it was of important public interest\".\n\n\"I believe it is reasonable for someone who is likely to become our next prime minister to be held accountable for all of their words, actions and behaviours,\" he said.\n\nIn the recording - heard by the Guardian but not by the BBC - Mr Johnson was reportedly refusing to leave the flat and told the woman to \"get off\" his laptop, before there was a loud crashing noise.\n\nMs Symonds is reported to be heard saying that the MP had ruined a sofa with red wine, adding: \"You just don't care for anything because you're spoilt. You have no care for money or anything.\"\n\nThe newspaper said Ms Symonds was also heard telling him to \"get off me\" and \"get out of my flat\".\n\nMr Penn said he was collecting a takeaway meal from outside his front door when he first heard shouting.\n\nHe said the shouting was \"loud enough and angry enough that I felt frightened and concerned for the welfare of those involved\".\n\nHe said he and his wife decided to check on their neighbours, but agreed to call the police when there was no response after knocking on Ms Symonds door.\n\nPolice said they spoke to all occupants of the address, who were safe and well.\n\nAnother neighbour, who would only give her name as Fatima, told the BBC: \"I heard a female voice, shouting and screaming, and then I heard things smashing, it sounded like plates or glasses.\n\n\"I couldn't hear what she was saying but she sounded really angry.\"\n\nCarrie Symonds has been in a relationship with Mr Johnson since 2018\n\nMr Penn also criticised \"unpleasant things\" being said about him and his partner in the media, saying he was upset by some \"quite frankly bizarre and fictitious allegations\".\n\nSome of Mr Johnson's supporters have expressed scepticism about Mr Penn's political motivation for calling the police and contacting the Guardian.\n\nMr Penn told the paper: \"I, along with a lot of my neighbours all across London, voted to remain within the EU. That is the extent of my involvement in politics.\"\n\nOn Saturday, Mr Johnson and Jeremy Hunt made their pitches to party members on why they should succeed Theresa May as prime minister.\n\nMr Johnson repeatedly avoided questions about the incident, saying people did not \"want to hear\" about it.\n\nWhen the event moderator Iain Dale accused him of ducking the question, Mr Johnson did not respond directly, instead saying: \"People are entitled to ask me what I want to do for the country.\"\n\nMr Dale was heckled by some in the audience when he pressed the MP on whether he thought a person's private life had any bearing on their ability to be prime minister, leading Mr Johnson to insist: \"Don't boo the great man\".\n\nThe LBC presenter said on Sunday while the audience had clearly become frustrated with his questioning of Mr Johnson on the matter, it was \"my job\" to persist.\n\nHe said: \"There will have been lots of other people in the audience who didn't boo, and who actually did want to hear the answer to that question.\"\n\nMeanwhile, former Tory foreign secretary Sir Malcolm Rifkind, who is backing Jeremy Hunt for the party leadership, told the BBC he believed Mr Johnson had made an \"error of judgement\" in refusing to answer Mr Dale's questions.\n\n\"Just saying 'no comment' implies, 'it's none of your business', and it is the business of the public to know why the police have been called to his property,\" he said.\n\nBut Conservative MP Rishi Sunak, who is backing Mr Johnson in the contest, said he believed it was \"clearly a private incident\" after police said everyone was safe and well and no further action was required.\n\nIt was the first of 16 events, or hustings, to choose the next Conservative party leader - and prime minister - following Theresa May's resignation after she failed to get her Brexit deal through Parliament.\n\nShe remains in office until her successor is found.", "Reverend Canon Dr Rosemarie Mallett has called for churches to act\n\nChurches should provide safe havens for young people to avoid violence on the street, a south London priest has said.\n\nReverend Canon Dr Rosemarie Mallett called for churches to open their doors between 15:00 and 18:00 BST \"to have a space where young people can come\".\n\nThe Brixton-based priest said there was \"more and more need for spaces in the community\" at a time when there is \"less and less wrap-around care\".\n\nThe plan is to be debated at the Church of England's General Synod next month.\n\nMore than 100 people have been fatally stabbed in the UK so far this year, with the youngest aged 14 years old.\n\nDr Mallett, who is a prominent anti-knife crime campaigner, told the BBC churches should be \"part of the solution to what is a multi-faceted problem which needs a multi-agency response\".\n\n\"For secondary school pupils there is a need to provide a safe haven and we're calling on churches to provide that,\" she said.\n\nDr Mallett has also called for knife amnesty bins to be placed in churches.\n\nThe idea will be discussed at the church's Synod - the national assembly of the Church of England - which will meet at the University of York between 5 and 9 July.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Conservative leadership candidate Jeremy Hunt has said he would never allow the break-up of the United Kingdom if he becomes prime minister.\n\nSpeaking at an event in Aberdeenshire, Boris Johnson's rival said he would support the union with \"every drop of blood in my veins\".\n\nHis comments come after Scotland's first minister said Mr Johnson would be \"disastrous\" for the Scottish Tories.\n\nBoris Johnson is the front-runner to replace Theresa May in Number 10.\n\nSpeaking in Peterhead, Jeremy Hunt told local Conservatives that he would fight to preserve the United Kingdom.\n\nIt follows a poll of 1,024 Scottish voters for the Sunday Times suggested that more than half would vote to leave the UK if Boris Johnson were to become prime minister.\n\nNicola Sturgeon has already earmarked the second half of 2020 for when a second Scottish independence referendum could be held.\n\nMr Hunt told Conservatives: \"I'm in Scotland today because I'm the prime minister that Nicola Sturgeon does not want because I passionately support the union with every drop of blood in my veins.\n\n\"I will never allow the union to be broken up as prime minister.\"\n\nHe added: \"I would never pay any price if it meant that Scotland would become independent.\"\n\nBoris Johnson has refused to answer questions about a row at his home\n\nHe was referring to another recent poll that suggested a majority of Conservative Party members wanted Brexit even if it meant Scotland gaining independence.\n\nMr Hunt replied: \"I don't actually believe that polling.\n\n\"Conservative Party members I know are absolutely passionate about our precious union.\"\n\nThe foreign secretary also said that the public did not want a debate on his Tory leadership rival's private life.\n\nBoris Johnson has dodged questions on reports of a row with his partner that led to police being called.\n\n\"It's up to him what he says, but I don't think the public, and I don't think Conservative Party members, want a big debate about people's personal lives,\" Mr Hunt said.\n\nHe added that they wanted a \"proper debate\" about how \"we're going to get out of the \"Brexit constitutional crisis\".\n\nIn an interview with Sophy Ridge on Sky News, Ms Sturgeon was asked her views on the impact choosing Boris Johnson as prime minister would have on the Conservatives in Scotland.\n\nShe said: \"I think he would be devastating, disastrous for the Conservatives UK-wide but particularly in Scotland.\n\n\"He is seen in Scotland I think as one of the principal politicians who are responsible for the mess that we are in over Brexit, the guy who misled people in the EU referendum campaign and the guy who now says he is prepared to take the UK out of the EU without a deal, for most people in Scotland that is a horrifying prospect.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon also said that Mr Johnson had made \"overtly racist\" comments when he compared Burka-wearing Muslim women to \"letterboxes\".\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Sunday Politics Scotland, Conservative MP for Aberdeen South, Ross Thomson responded to Ms Sturgeon's comments by saying: \"As usual, Nicola Sturgeon is using any opportunity to whip up support for her separatist agenda.\n\n\"The truth is that Boris Johnson is absolutely committed to not just protecting, but to strengthening our union if he becomes PM.\"\n\nIt comes as the International Trade Secretary Liam Fox said Mr John should \"just give an explanation\" about the row recorded at his home by a neighbour earlier this week.\n\nThe MP said reports of the row between Mr Johnson and his partner should not be a \"distraction\" from policy discussion in the leadership race.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Hunt: \"We are democrats who want to deliver Brexit\".\n\nBoris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt have made their pitch to be the next prime minister at the first of 16 Conservative Party hustings.\n\nThe two contenders for Number 10 laid out their vision for the country at a conference in Birmingham.\n\nMr Johnson said these were \"dark days\" for his party, but insisted he could turn things around.\n\nBut his rival warned members not to elect the \"wrong person\" and risk \"catastrophe\".\n\nMr Johnson said the most important thing was to \"get Brexit done\".\n\nHe said: \"My ambition is to unite this country and our society... let's take Britain forward.\n\n\"We need to discover a new confidence in our country.\"\n\nThe former mayor of London featured on most of Saturday's newspaper front pages following reports by the Guardian that police were called to his London home after neighbours reported \"slamming and banging\" in the early hours of Friday morning.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police Service have said they will not be taking any further action following the episode.\n\nAsked by the hustings moderator, LBC presenter Iain Dale, whether character mattered when choosing a prime minister, Mr Johnson said: \"I don't think people want to hear about that.\"\n\nAccused of ducking questions, Mr Johnson said: \"People are entitled to ask me what I want to do for the country.\"\n\nHis rival, Mr Hunt, said the UK was in a \"very serious situation\".\n\nHe continued: \"Get things wrong and and there will be no Conservative government, and maybe even no Conservative Party.\n\n\"Get things right and we can deliver Brexit, unite the party and send [Labour leader Jeremy] Corbyn packing.\"\n\nBut he warned that if Tory party members elected the \"wrong person\" as leader then \"catastrophe awaits\".\n\nMr Johnson, meanwhile, said he would prepare for a no-deal Brexit if he became PM.\n\nHe said: \"We must be able to come out on WTO terms, so that for the first time in these negotiations we carry conviction.\n\n\"And it is precisely because we will be preparing between now and 31 October for a no-deal Brexit that we will get the deal we need.\"\n\nHe repeated his previous claim that it was \"eminently feasible\" for the UK to leave the EU by 31 October, saying he intended to make it happen.\n\nThat is the date that the EU's membership extension runs out, and if nothing has changed, the UK leaves without a deal.\n\nTheresa May officially stood down as Tory leader on 7 June and will cease to be prime minister in the week commencing 22 July.\n\nAn initial list of 10 candidates to replace her was whittled down to Mr Hunt and Mr Johnson in a vote by Tory MPs.\n\nIn the fifth and final round on Thursday, Boris Johnson came out on top with 160 out of the 313 votes cast. Mr Hunt received 77 votes and Michael Gove was knocked out with 75.\n\nOne questioner at the hustings wanted to know whether Mr Johnson's approach to British business in the context of Brexit was as \"cavalier and careless\" as previously, when he used an expletive.\n\nHe replied: \"I believe passionately in UK businesses, and as foreign secretary I spent a lot of my time promoting UK businesses at home abroad.\"\n\nJeremy Hunt insisted he would leave the EU with no deal if necessary\n\nJeremy Hunt insisted he would leave the EU with no deal if necessary.\n\nHe said: \"I would do so with a heavy heart. But if we have to in the end I would do that.\"\n\nOf a mooted renegotiation with Brussels, he said: \"If we send the wrong person there's going to be no negotiation, no trust, no deal, and if Parliament stops that, maybe no Brexit.\n\n\"Send the right person and there's a deal to be done.\"\n\nAnd challenged over the fact he campaigned for Remain in 2016, the would-be premier said: \"Look at my record since that referendum.\n\n\"I have been very clear on every occasion... I have voted for Brexit.\"\n\nIn another jibe at his rival, Mr Hunt warned members not to elect a Conservative \"populist\" to oppose \"hard-left populist\" Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nReferring to himself, he said: \"Or we could do better and choose our own Jeremy.\"\n\nHe continued: \"If Corbyn gets into Downing Street there will never be Brexit.\n\n\"That's why it's so important that we hold together our Conservative and DUP family and deliver Brexit.\"\n\nMr Hunt said he would increase defence spending and called for Conservatives to have a \"social mission\", focusing on social care for older people.\n\nHe also vowed to get more young people voting Tory.\n\nAnd he promised: \"I will never provoke a general election before we have left the EU.\"\n\nMembers will receive their ballots between 6 and 8 July, with the new leader expected to be announced in the week beginning 22 July.", "North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has received a personal letter from US President Donald Trump.\n\nMr Kim praised the letter as \"excellent\" and said he would \"seriously contemplate the interesting content\", the KCNA news agency says.\n\nHe also praised Mr Trump's \"extraordinary courage\". No details of the letter's content were given.\n\nThe White House confirmed the existence of the letter in an email to Reuters news agency.\n\n\"A letter was sent by President Trump and correspondence between the two leaders has been ongoing,\" spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said.\n\nEarlier this month, Mr Trump said a beautiful letter had been sent to him by the North Korean leader.\n\nIt was not disclosed when or how Mr Trump's letter to Mr Kim had been delivered.\n\nTalks between the US and North Korea stalled at a meeting in Vietnam between Mr Kim and Mr Trump in February.\n\nThe letter is the first major development between the countries since then, the BBC's Laura Bicker reports from Seoul.\n\nThe US has insisted North Korea give up its nuclear programme while Pyongyang has demanded sanctions relief.\n\nHowever in recent months Mr Trump has spoken warmly about Mr Kim.\n\nEarlier this month he told reporters that North Korea under Mr Kim's leadership had \"tremendous potential\".\n\nAnd in May during a visit to Japan Mr Trump described Mr Kim as a \"very smart guy\" and said he expected \"a lot of good things\" to come out of North Korea.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un: From enemies to frenemies", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nAndy Murray reached the doubles final at Queen's as the Briton's dream return to tennis continued five months after career-saving hip surgery.\n\nHe and Feliciano Lopez beat third seeds John Peers and Henri Kontinen 7-5 6-7 (5-7) 10-7.\n\nIt was a third match of the day for Lopez, who reached the singles final before heading straight out to resume their suspended doubles quarter-final.\n\nThey play Britain's Joe Salisbury and American Rajeev Ram in Sunday's final.\n\nAfter completing a 6-4 7-6 (7-3) win over Britons Dan Evans and Ken Skupski in a quarter-final that had been suspended on Friday for bad light, they stayed on court to play the semi-final.\n\n\"I'm very happy to be in the final,\" Murray said.\n\n\"It was a good match. It was an unbelievable effort from Feliciano. He's played a lot of tennis in the last couple of games. He's not young any more!\"\n\nLopez, 37, takes on 34-year-old Gilles Simon in Sunday's singles final (13:30 BST) before returning to the court for the doubles final with Murray.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n\nIn his three matches at his first tournament since having his hip resurfaced in January, Murray has looked sharp.\n\nGone is the limp and the grimace that accompanied his obvious discomfort at times pre-surgery.\n\nInstead a relaxed and smiling Murray has returned - and while it is clear he is enjoying simply being back on court, it is also clear that his competitive desire is as great as ever.\n\nA fist pump and roar greeted the ace that sealed the opening set, while in the sixth game of the second set, where he and Lopez were 15-40 down at 1-4, he unleashed a fantastic forehand return that was key to them eventually holding serve.\n\nThey broke in the following game and took it into a tie-break, where they were just edged out.\n\nWith questions over when fatigue might creep in for Lopez - and when a lack of match fitness might begin to show for Murray against two doubles specialists - they drew enough strength to push themselves over the finishing line, sealing victory when the Spaniard's serve was not returned.\n\nMurray, who has won the singles title at Queen's five times, will now have the chance to add the doubles crown - five months after a tearful news conference in Australia where he was revealing his retirement plans.\n\nMurray, whose last doubles title was eight years ago in Tokyo alongside brother Jamie, is playing at Eastbourne next week, where he is swapping Lopez for Brazilian partner Marcelo Melo.\n\nThe former world number one and three-time Grand Slam singles champion is then scheduled to partner France's Pierre-Hugues Herbert in the doubles at Wimbledon next month.\n\nBut the Scot's mixed doubles partner is yet to be decided for his return to Grand Slam tennis at the All England Club.\n\nWhile all the attention has been on Murray's return, compatriot Joe Salisbury has flown under the radar and into the final.\n\nThe 27-year-old and American Ram claimed a shock 7-6 (7-4) 7-6 (10-8) victory against fourth-seeded American brothers Bob and Mike Bryan in their semi-final.\n\nBob Bryan, who has won 16 men's doubles Grand Slams, returned to tennis at the beginning of this year after having the same hip surgery as Murray in 2018.\n\nSalisbury has three doubles titles to his name, winning the most recent one with Ram in Dubai in March.\n\nThe pair also reached the Brisbane International final in January.\n\nThey are doubles specialists but since Murray and Lopez knocked out top seeds Robert Farah and Juan Sebastien Cabal in the opening round here, that is unlikely to bother the Scot and the Spaniard.\n\nThere were understandable signs of fatigue in Lopez after his three-set singles semi-final win, but with Murray alongside - bursting with energy and intent - he was able to rouse himself to win a third match of the day.\n\nIt was a chilly evening and Lopez had eaten very little for several hours. The pair lost their way at times in the second set, but were not to be denied in the match tie-break.\n\nWhat a week this has been for Murray, who on Sunday has the chance to win his first doubles title for eight years.\n\nAnd what a week for Lopez: a 37-year-old wildcard, with a chance on Sunday to do the double.", "US President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner has unveiled the first section of the US Middle East peace plan.\n\nFocusing on economics, it envisages more than half of a $50bn (£39bn) fund being spent in the Palestinian territories over 10 years.\n\nThe plan will be presented at a conference in Bahrain next week, but the Palestinian Authority has said it will boycott the event, having refused to engage with Mr Trump since the US recognised Jerusalem in 2017.", "Boris Johnson has refused to answer questions about his private life, after police were called to a reported row with his girlfriend.\n\nPolice were called to the Conservative leadership candidate's London home in the early hours of Friday after neighbours reportedly heard a loud argument.\n\nOn Saturday afternoon in Birmingham, at the first of 16 Conservative Party hustings, LBC's Iain Dale pressed Mr Johnson on the incident.", "Conor Devine was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) in 2007.\n\nMS causes the body's own immune system to attack the lining of nerves in the brain and spinal cord.\n\nWhen this happens a person will have symptoms such as fatigue, blurred vision and they can have difficulty walking.\n\nThe 41-year-old says he is fighting back against his illness having already completed 10 marathons and two Ironman competitions.\n\nAn Ironman consists of a 2.4 mile swim, a 112 mile bike ride and a 26.2 mile run.\n\nHe took part in his third Ironman in Cork on Sunday.", "Fans of Tottenham and and Liverpool soak up the Madrid atmosphere\n\nThousands of Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur fans are in Madrid for the Champions League final.\n\nThe Premier League sides meet at the Wanda Metropolitano stadium on Saturday evening, after both made remarkable comebacks in the semi-finals.\n\nMany supporters spent Friday making the journey to Spain from the UK.\n\nUefa said \"an organised group of people impersonating genuine stewards\" was behind a plot to steal match tickets and warned fans to be on their guard.\n\nIt said the group's aim was to steal tickets \"as if they were conducting the visual or technical ticket check\".\n\nSpurs and Liverpool fans are sharing 33,226 tickets for the final, which takes place at the 68,000-capacity home of Atletico Madrid.\n\nFans have been warned only to show their tickets at clearly marked check zones outside the Wanda Metropolitano.\n\nSpanish police have arrested a number of people for selling fake tickets, including a pair who were allegedly attempting to sell counterfeits near the Liverpool fans' meeting point in Madrid.\n\nThe UK government has issued travel advice those heading to the Spanish capital.\n\nSpanish police have told English football fans to \"behave like tourists\", as an extra 1,300 officers have been deployed to cope with the influx of supporters.\n\nAn acknowledgement from both sets of fans is that the Liverpool contingent is so far outnumbering that of their north London rivals.\n\nPolice said supporters had so far been well-behaved.\n\nA fan poses with the Uefa Champions League trophy in a Madrid square\n\nOfficer Jose Ramon Carrasco said: \"We understand they're going to be noisy, happy or singing or whatever - that's understandable.\n\n\"What's not understandable is maybe throwing bottles in the street, getting into fights. We don't accept that.\"\n\nAbout 9,000 flights were estimated to have taken off from the UK on Friday, which would exceed the previous record of 8,854 set on 25 May last year, a day before Liverpool's appearance in the 2018 final.\n\nAir traffic controller Nats has predicted an extra 800 flights over the weekend.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBut some people have expressed frustration at a delay in getting their travel details through for chartered flights.\n\nThomas Cook said it had been awaiting the flight times from Madrid airport, but all passengers had now received their itineraries.\n\nA company spokesman said its six flights would arrive in Madrid at least six hours before the kick-off, allowing fans to \"soak up the atmosphere\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Anthony Gibson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTo avoid flight issues, Anthony Gibson and three fellow Spurs-supporting friends from Northampton drove the 1,100 miles (1,800km) to Madrid, setting off on Thursday evening.\n\n\"Living in Northampton, every Spurs game for us is an away game - this is the ultimate one,\" Mr Gibson said.\n\n\"I'm 42 and we have all had season tickets for 15 years. We've not had anything this big in our time. It's a once-in-a-lifetime thing.\"\n\nAnthony Gibson and his friends have driven from Northampton to Spain\n\nMr Gibson said he and his friends had been offered £15,000 for their four £60 tickets.\n\n\"Some people have asked if we are mad, especially my wife, but if you do not make the journey it's one of those things you will regret.\"\n\nHe said he had seen plenty of other Spurs fans on the roads of Europe bound for Madrid, including many who did not have match tickets.\n\nSisters Toni Moran and Collette Slater, \"born and bred\" Liverpool fans, flew to Madrid with family - including a nephew who travelled from Sydney.\n\n\"There's a good atmosphere down here at the airport, it's lovely to see all the flags. Everyone is really looking forward to the match,\" Ms Slater said.\n\nSisters Toni Moran and Collette Slater are meeting family in Madrid for the final\n\nManchester Airport also had a message for fans flying from there, as shared on Twitter by Tracey Moore.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Tracey Moore This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOther passengers have already noticed a lot of football fans as well, if Claire Petros' video is anything to go by.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Claire Petros This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDr Petros, who is a part of her friend Pip Rowe's hen party, said her flight from Stansted to Madrid saw \"lots of drinking\" and chants but all was \"positive and fun\".\n\nAnother Liverpool fan, YouTuber Simon Wilson, is driving to Madrid in a car he bought for £40.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Annie's Anfield This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSpurs fan Nick Rabbits, an English journalist who works in Ireland, said seeing his team in a European final was too good an opportunity to miss.\n\n\"In the wake of our win in the semi-final I went immediately online,\" Mr Rabbits said.\n\n\"All the cheap routes had been taken by Liverpool fans because they had a 24-hour head start, so I went for this one.\n\n\"Ask me on Sunday if it has been worth it,\" he said.\n\nLiverpool fan Jarrett has made the trip from South Africa\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Parts of the UK have experienced the hottest day of the year so far, with temperatures climbing to 27.6C.\n\nThat high, recorded at Heathrow in West London, beats 2019's previous top temperature of 25.8C set last month, according to BBC Weather.\n\nAreas in the south-east of England enjoyed the best of the weather, with Teddington in south-west London and Wisley in Surrey seeing 26.4C.\n\nHowever, central and northern parts of the UK have been much cooler.\n\nThe average temperature in northern England was around 18C - still higher than the average temperature for June of 17C - with cloudy skies and patchy rain.\n\nCockfield in Suffolk is set to see the temperature soar\n\nThe temperature also reached 26C in High Beach, Essex, and 25.9C at the Iver water works in Buckinghamshire, according to the Met Office.\n\nIt said conditions could get even hotter in East Anglia on Sunday, with temperatures of 28C or 29C expected, but warn it could also bring a risk of thunder.\n\nThe national weather service said conditions elsewhere will turn cloudier and breezier, with outbreaks of rain across Northern Ireland, spreading to Scotland, north-west England and west Wales by Sunday.\n\nRain showers are expected to spread eastwards with a risk of isolated thundery showers in the east and south east, accompanying the hot weather, it added.\n\nThe Queen unveils a statue of Lester Piggott in the sun at the Epsom Derby\n\nPet owners have been urged to ensure their animals do not overheat.\n\nThe British Veterinary Association warned that dogs are particularly vulnerable to heatstroke and breathing difficulties as they are unable to cool down quickly through sweating.\n\nIt also advised putting sunscreen on cats' ears which it said can burn easily.\n\nLondoners make the most of the weather in Regent's Park\n\nA guardsman from the Household Division faints in the heat at a rehearsal for Trooping the Colour in London\n\nMore northern parts of the UK, like North Queensferry in Fife, are experiencing cooler temperatures", "Last updated on .From the section Horse Racing\n\nAnthony Van Dyck has won the Epsom Derby, giving acclaimed trainer Aidan O'Brien a record-equalling seventh winner in the prestigious race.\n\nJockey Seamie Heffernan rode the 13-2 chance to victory on his 12th attempt, with Madhmoon in second and Japan in third.\n\nO'Brien, 49, trained seven of the 13 runners in the mile-and-a-half race.\n\n\"It is incredible and I am so privileged to be part of the team,\" the trainer said.\n\nBroome finished fourth to give O'Brien three of the top four.\n• None Check out the latest results from Epsom\n\nThere will be dancing in the streets of Lingfield - well, you know what I mean - after the two Classic trial-races staged on that track, with its topological similarities to Epsom, produced both the Oaks and the Derby winner.\n\nIn a scrambling finish during which, in particular, the plucky runner-up Madhmoon and Sir Dragonet, the favourite, both looked as though they would win, Anthony Van Dyck came out on top.\n\nJockey Seamie Heffernan said he was always confident of success, but there were times that the colt looked up against it.\n\nHowever, ultimately his stamina lasted out best to increase O'Brien's stranglehold on the sport.\n\n\"There are so many people involved that I would like to thank,\" O'Brien said.\n\n\"These races are so competitive and so tough. I'm so privileged, delightful and grateful to the team.\"\n\n\"I knew he would be with me when I needed him,\" jockey Heffernan said, after his mount won it at the line having been pushed close deep into the final furlong.\n\n\"It was a big ask of him, but he's danced every dance. I'm happy.\"\n\n\"He can train all right!\" Heffernan said of O'Brien.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nLiverpool erased the disappointment of last season's Uefa Champions League final loss by claiming the trophy for the sixth time with victory over Tottenham in Madrid.\n\nIt was Mohamed Salah, such a disconsolate figure when he was injured early in that loss to Real Madrid, who set Liverpool on their way with a penalty after two minutes when Moussa Sissoko was contentiously punished for handball.\n\nIn a final that rarely touched the heights of the blockbuster semi-finals that made this an all-Premier League showpiece, Spurs had chances but were denied by Liverpool keeper Alisson, who saved well from Son Heung-min, Lucas Moura and Christian Eriksen.\n\nAnd their failure to capitalise was ruthlessly punished when substitute Divock Origi ensured manager Jurgen Klopp won his first trophy as Liverpool manager by driving low and powerfully past Hugo Lloris with three minutes left.\n\nSpurs counterpart Mauricio Pochettino took the gamble of selecting England captain and main striker Harry Kane despite his not having played since April because of an ankle injury, replacing semi-final hat-trick hero Lucas Moura, but he had no impact.\n\nLiverpool lifted the trophy that was taken from their grasp in Ukraine last season and now stand behind only Real Madrid and AC Milan as serial winners of this tournament, the final whistle sparking huge celebrations among players, management and the red wave of supporters in Madrid's Wanda Metropolitano Stadium.\n• None 'Just reward for Liverpool on night of redemption'\n• None Best night of our football lives - Klopp\n• None Pochettino wants to 'experience' final again\n\nFrom heartbreak to glory for Salah\n\nOne of the enduring images of Liverpool's loss to Real Madrid in Kiev was a tearful Salah being led off midway through the first half as realisation dawned he could not continue with the shoulder injury sustained in a tangle with Sergio Ramos.\n\nIt was a moment that changed the mood inside the stadium and left Liverpool unable to turn the tide once it went against them - so this was an occasion laced with meaning for the world-class Egyptian.\n\nAnd his moment came almost instantly when he took responsibility from the penalty spot and powered the ball past Lloris.\n\nHow fitting it was that the player who has contributed so much to Liverpool's renaissance should make such a significant contribution.\n\nAnother major difference from last year's disappointment was the giant presence of Alisson in goal as opposed to the hapless Lloris Karius, who gifted goals to Karim Benzema and Gareth Bale in Kiev.\n\nHere, the £67m Brazilian was a rock with his safe handling and vital interventions when Liverpool came under stress in the second half.\n\nAlisson, along with Virgil van Dijk, has given Liverpool the extra dimension that pushed them so close to a first league title in 29 years and has now made them European champions once more.\n• None Read all the reaction to the game\n• None How you rated the players\n\nLiverpool manager Klopp knew one sub-plot to this Champions League final, played out in the searing heat of Madrid, would be his grim record of losing six successive finals.\n\nHe had lost three with Liverpool, including in this competition last season, and while no-one can seriously doubt the German's outstanding work it was his legendary Anfield predecessor Bill Shankly who coined the phrase: \"First is first and second is nowhere.\"\n\nKlopp can now cast off that mantle and instead be known as the manager who restored Liverpool to the pinnacle of European competition.\n\nIronically, after a season of sustained brilliance and a single defeat brought the scant reward of second place to Manchester City in the Premier League, this landmark triumph was achieved with one of Liverpool's least sparkling performances for some time.\n\nThat will not matter, however, because Liverpool earned this glory with wins such as those over Bayern Munich in the last 16 and the astonishing 4-0 turnaround against Barcelona at Anfield in the semi-final.\n\nKlopp was already a much-loved figure - now his name will be written into club folklore.\n\nIn the end the temptation was simply too much to resist - and it was easy to understand why.\n\nPochettino knew his world-class striker Kane was a player who had hurt Liverpool in the past and could hurt them again - so he left out Moura, the scorer of that dramatic hat-trick in the semi-final second leg in Ajax that took Spurs to the final.\n\nKane had not played since sustaining another ankle injury in the quarter-final first leg against Manchester City on 9 April and it showed as he failed to exert any influence on the game, Moura introduced belatedly but unable to produce a second miracle.\n\nSpurs and Pochettino were left heartbroken and perhaps with a sense of missed opportunity, because Liverpool were nowhere near their best and occasionally looked vulnerable.\n\nPochettino, however, deserves huge credit for taking Spurs to their first Champions League final without strengthening his squad this season.\n\nIt surely will not be too long before he follows Klopp and wins his first trophy as a manager in England.\n\nMatch stats - three shots, three goals for Origi\n• None Liverpool have won their sixth European Cup - twice as many as any other English team (Manchester United, three).\n• None Klopp is the fourth Liverpool manager to win the European Cup, after Bob Paisley, Joe Fagan and Rafael Benitez.\n• None Klopp is the fifth German manager to win the European Cup, after Dettmar Cramer, Jupp Heynckes, Ottmar Hitzfeld and Udo Lattek but he only the second German to win the trophy with a non-German side (Heynckes with Real Madrid).\n• None Pochettino has lost both of his major finals as Tottenham manager, also losing the League Cup final against Chelsea in 2015.\n• None Tottenham appeared in their first ever European Cup final, becoming the eighth English side to do so. The past six first-time finalists have now lost (also Chelsea 2008, Arsenal 2006, Monaco 2004, Bayer Leverkusen 2002 and Valencia 2000).\n• None Liverpool (35.4%) have become the first side to win the Champions League final despite having less possession than the opposition since Jose Mourinho's Inter Milan beat Bayern Munich in 2010.\n• None This was the first ever Champions League final without a single card shown.\n• None Liverpool's Mohamed Salah became the fifth African player to score in a European Cup final after Rabah Madjer, Samuel Eto'o, Didier Drogba and Sadio Mane.\n• None Salah's opener for Liverpool was the second fastest goal in a Champions League final (1:48), only behind Paolo Maldini (00:50) for AC Milan versus Liverpool in 2005.\n• None Origi became only the second Belgian player to score in a Champions League final after Yannick Carrasco for Atletico against Real Madrid in 2016. Origi has scored with all three of his shots in the CL this season.\n• None Liverpool's Trent Alexander-Arnold (20 years 237 days) is the first ever player aged under 21 to start in consecutive Champions League finals.\n• None Attempt saved. Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Danny Rose.\n• None Attempt saved. Son Heung-Min (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Harry Kane.\n• None Attempt saved. Danny Rose (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.\n• None Offside, Liverpool. Divock Origi tries a through ball, but Mohamed Salah is caught offside.\n• None Goal! Tottenham Hotspur 0, Liverpool 2. Divock Origi (Liverpool) left footed shot from the left side of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Joel Matip following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Virgil van Dijk (Liverpool) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Offside, Tottenham Hotspur. Lucas Moura tries a through ball, but Son Heung-Min is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Lucas Moura (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Kieran Trippier with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt saved. Christian Eriksen (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from a difficult angle and long range on the left is saved in the top right corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Jordan Henderson (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Police have informed Mr Hutchison's family about the discovery\n\nPolice searching for a missing man in Midlothian discovered a body in a wheelie bin, BBC Scotland understands.\n\nA major search involving a police helicopter and a dog unit was launched after Tony Hutchison, 49, was reported missing in Gorebridge on 23 May.\n\nHuman remains were discovered in a bin in the village's Jubilee Crescent area at about 19:10 on Thursday.\n\nFormal identification is yet to take place but Mr Hutchison's family have been informed of the discovery.\n\nA large specialist forensic team spent Saturday working in the street and in a nearby park.\n\nOfficers are appealing for information from the public as part of their ongoing investigations.\n\nDet Insp Grant Durie, of the major investigation team (MIT), said: \"At this time, a cause of death has not yet been established and we are currently treating the death as unexplained.\n\n\"We are working to formally identify the man, and ascertain the full circumstances of this, in order to provide answers to his family and the wider community.\n\n\"I'd encourage the local community to help us, wherever possible, and get in touch if they may have seen Tony, or captured him on any private CCTV, since the last confirmed sighting.\n\n\"Likewise, anyone who lives in the Arniston area and who may have information relevant to our inquiries is urged to get in touch as soon as possible.\"\n\nThe body was found on Thursday evening\n\nCh Insp Arron Clinkscales, area commander for Midlothian, added: \"A number of local resources have been involved in the search for Tony, supported by national teams including the dog unit and the police helicopter, which has sadly led to a body being discovered.\n\n\"We fully appreciate the concern this will cause to the community, and want to reassure the public that there will be an increase in patrols to the Gorebridge area.\n\n\"Local officers will be supporting our colleagues in the MIT throughout their inquiries, and anyone with information is welcome to speak to any officer.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Eight men have been seen on Winchelsea Beach after apparently crossing the Channel\n\nMore than 70 people were intercepted in one day as they crossed the English Channel on eight boats, the government has confirmed.\n\nHM Coastguard assisted UK Border Force off the south coast, as a total of 74 migrants tried to reach the UK.\n\nConservative MP for Dover and Deal, Charlie Elphicke, said it was \"a record number of boats in a single day\".\n\n\"[This] is deeply concerning and I'm receiving regular updates,\" Home Secretary Sajid Javid said.\n\n\"Those who choose to make this dangerous journey across one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world are putting their lives in grave danger - and I will continue to do all I can to stop them.\"\n\nLast month, 140 migrants were picked up - the highest number since December, when a \"major incident\" was declared by Mr Javid.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Charlie Elphicke This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"[Since December] two cutters have returned to UK waters from overseas, I've agreed a joint action plan with my French counterpart and increased activity out of the Joint Coordination and Information Centre in Calais,\" Mr Javid continued.\n\n\"It is an established principle that those in need of protection should claim asylum in the first safe country they reach and since January more than 30 people who arrived illegally in the UK in small boats have been returned to Europe.\n\n\"We will continue to seek to return anyone who has entered the UK illegally.\n\nEarlier in the day, eight men in an inflatable dinghy were spotted on Winchelsea Beach, in East Sussex.\n\n\"This crisis was meant to have been dealt with at Christmas, yet numbers continue to rise,\" Mr Elphicke said.\n\n\"The Home Office needs to get a grip.\"\n\nHe said he would be meeting Mr Javid on Sunday.\n\nThe Maritime and Coastguard Agency said RNLI lifeboats from Dover, Dungeness and Rye had been involved in the incidents, along with coastguard rescue teams from Folkestone, Langdon and Rye Bay.\n\nAn inflatable dinghy was seen off Winchelsea Beach\n\nA note on terminology: The BBC uses the term migrant to refer to all people on the move who have yet to complete the legal process of claiming asylum. This group includes people fleeing war-torn countries, who are likely to be granted refugee status, as well as people who are seeking jobs and better lives, who governments are likely to rule are economic migrants.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Robyn is one of the performers who helped Primavera Sound achieve a 50/50 gender balance\n\nMore than 45 festivals last year pledged to achieve a 50/50 gender balance in their line-ups by 2022.\n\nBut Primavera Sound in Barcelona, one of Europe's biggest festivals, has already achieved it in 2019 - becoming the first major festival to do so.\n\nCharli XCX, Lizzo, FKA Twigs, Christine and the Queens, Robyn and Sigrid are just a few of the names on the bill. And when headliner Cardi B pulled out Primavera managed to replace her with another big name - Miley Cyrus.\n\n\"We love music and if you love music in 2019 it's quite obvious that it's done both by men and women the same way,\" says Primavera's Marta Pallares Olivares.\n\nJanelle Monae on stage at the festival, which also takes place in Porto\n\nShe says it was only when last year's festival ended that they decided to try and achieve an equal gender balance this year - something they're calling the \"new normal\".\n\n\"It's not difficult once your mind is set - when you decide that you want to do this, you start looking for female bands and see that you have been listening to them during the last month,\" she tells Radio 1 Newsbeat.\n\n\"I will say to all those people who say there are not enough female acts out there - because I've heard that - that it's simply a lie. They are out there - because they're here.\"\n\nA BBC study discovered that in 2017, 80% of festival headliners were male - failing to reflect the diversity of the UK music scene.\n\nIn response, 45 events pledged their commitment to gender equality, aiming to reach a 50/50 balance by 2022.\n\nFKA Twigs was among the British cohort at Primavera\n\n\"That's quite ambitious but it's achievable,\" Vanessa Reed, CEO of the PRS Foundation which drew up the plans, said at the time.\n\n\"You always see that there are so many festivals who come under fire for not booking enough women,\" Charli XCX told Newsbeat.\n\n\"It's kind of funny how it's been a conversation for so long and it's still a problem.\"\n\nSigrid says when she learned Primavera had already achieved a 50/50 split, she thought: \"It's about time.\"\n\n\"It's great, and it puts an example for every other festival,\" she told us.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThere are smaller festivals including Radio 1's Big Weekend in Swansea in 2018 and Iceland Airwaves that managed a 50/50 split but the criticism is aimed at the largest festivals.\n\nMarta admits that achieving an equal gender split at a festival as musically diverse as Primavera is easier than if the festival only played metal music, for example.\n\nBut she wants to stress that change is achievable.\n\n\"We are not here to point fingers at anybody.\n\n\"But what I can't understand is hearing that it is not possible - because it is possible, and we've done it.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Police are at the scene at Shandon Park Golf Club\n\nA bomb found under a serving police officer's car at a Belfast golf club is being treated as attempted murder by the Police Service of Northern Ireland.\n\nPolice and Army bomb disposal experts were called to the scene at Shandon Park Golf Club on Saturday.\n\nThe club is located in east Belfast, near the PSNI headquarters.\n\nThe head of the Terrorism Investigation Unit, Det Supt Sean Wright, said the PSNI believed the attack was carried by \"violent dissident republicans\".\n\n\"It was clearly intended to kill the police officer,\" he said.\n\nThe bomb was examined by Ammunition Technical Officers and they declared it to be a \"viable improvised explosive device\".\n\n\"It is very fortunate that this device was detected before it exploded and that no one was killed or seriously injured,\" Mr Wright added.\n\n\"In placing such a device, terrorists have also put the officer's family, neighbours and members of the public at serious risk.\"\n\nPolice and Army bomb disposal experts are at the scene\n\nThe alert began on Saturday afternoon and the golf club was evacuated.\n\nClub member Alan Paterson said the man who owned the car spotted the device after playing a round of golf on Saturday morning.\n\n\"He was leaving the course and he actually noticed something under the car and immediately informed the police and the members in the clubhouse at that time,\" Mr Paterson said.\n\n\"I was actually in the clubhouse at the time when the person came in to tell us that there was a possible device.\"\n\nAlan Paterson was in the clubhouse when he heard there was a possible device\n\nHe added: \"Within several minutes the police arrived and identified the object and said that they felt it was viable and that they should immediately evacuate the clubhouse and surrounding area, and also get everybody else off the golf course.\n\n\"We are delighted that if it was a viable device the person concerned was not injured or worse, so that is a big plus for everybody.\n\n\"We are a very mixed club. It is east Belfast, yes, but it is a mixed club and this sort of thing should not happen - it just should not happen.\"\n\nPolice also attended a further security alert in Strabane, County Tyrone, on Saturday afternoon.\n\nA suspicious object caused a number of homes to be evacuated after it was discovered in the St Mary's Drive area of the town, close to the junction of Beechmount Avenue.\n\nThe police said the object was a hoax.\n\nThere was a sense of shock in this leafy part of east Belfast on Saturday.\n\nResidents whose homes back on to the golf course car park were told by police to stay at the front of their homes.\n\nThe golf club was busy, with an estimated 70 people on the course at the time of the alert, and at least 50 in the clubhouse.\n\nSaturday is the busiest day of the week at any golf club. It's likely that dozens of people walked past the device before it was discovered.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by George Hamilton This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDUP East Belfast MLA and Policing Board member Joanne Bunting described the attack as \"absolutely reckless\".\n\n\"It's regrettable that there are still those who wish to take us back to the dark days of Northern Ireland. They are on a fruitless mission.\n\n\"The people of East Belfast will not be cowed by terrorists. We are a much stronger community than that,\" she said.\n\n\"There is absolutely nothing patriotic about planting bombs under Irish police officers' cars,\" SDLP leader Colum Eastwood said.\n\n\"They claim they are in a fight with 'British Crown Forces'. They are not, they need to know and they need to be made to understand that their fight is with us. With all the people of this island who have endorsed peace,\" he added.\n\nUUP MLA Andy Allen said: \"The terrorist`s actions are not supported by the overwhelming majority of people across Northern Ireland who want to live their lives in peace.\n\n\"There is no justification for the actions of these reckless criminals who need to be taken off our streets.\"\n\nDet Supt Sean Wright appealed for anyone with information about the bomb to contact detectives.\n\n\"Attacks on police officers are attacks on the entire community and they are an attack on our democracy. Anyone who places an explosive device under a car in a built up area cares little about our communities,\" he said.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nUefa says \"an organised group of people impersonating genuine stewards\" is behind a plot to steal tickets for the Champions League final.\n\nSpanish police seized fake steward bibs and fake devices for the technical ticket check, as well as fake accreditation in Madrid.\n\nUefa says the group's aim was to steal tickets \"as if they were conducting the visual or technical ticket check\".\n\nLiverpool face Tottenham in the all-English showpiece at 20:00 BST.\n\nFans are asked to only show their tickets at clearly marked check zones outside the Wanda Metropolitano.\n\n\"Supporters should not show tickets to individuals or small groups of people who could be wearing fake bibs and might approach them on the way to the stadium, outside of the official check zones,\" a Uefa statement said.\n\nSpurs and Liverpool fans will share 33,226 tickets for the final, which takes place at the 68,000-capacity home of Atletico Madrid, with hundreds more expected to flood the city and soak up the atmosphere.\n\nLiverpool have won the European Cup or Champions League five times, most recently in 2005. They have twice been finalists since then - beaten in 2007 by AC Milan and in 2018 by Real Madrid.\n\nTottenham had never previously qualified for the final of the top European club competition and will hope to end their 11-year wait for a trophy.\n• None Champions League final: Tottenham v Liverpool - things that will 'definitely' happen", "Companies that use high-pressure or bullying tactics to sell funeral plans could face fines and criminal charges, the government says.\n\nThe Treasury has announced proposals to regulate UK funeral providers through the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), offering protection to customers.\n\nEvidence shows some providers have used misleading sales tactics, costing vulnerable customers up to £5,000.\n\nIn 2018 about 177,000 pre-paid funeral plans were sold.\n\nA spokesperson for the Treasury said there were \"widespread concerns around the conduct of funeral providers\" and the sales tactics used to \"get customers to sign up to plans\".\n\nProviders breaching the regulations could also have their authorisation revoked.\n\nA consultation on the proposals is now taking place.\n\nCity minister John Glen said: \"It's shameful that there are those out there who look to prey on people when they are in this often emotional and vulnerable state.\n\n\"That's why I've taken the decision to regulate pre-paid funeral plans, so people can have more confidence in the products they're being offered and peace of mind that their affairs will be handled correctly.\"\n\nThe funeral plan industry has grown nearly 200% between 2006 and 2018.\n\nIt comes as the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said essential costs of a funeral have increased by 6% each year, for the last 14 years.\n\nCurrently funeral plan providers can sign up to an industry regulator voluntarily - so firms can also choose not to sign up to the rules.\n\nUnder the proposals the FCA would oversee regulation of the sector, and customers would have access to the Financial Ombudsman Service.\n\nFuneral Service provider Dignity welcomed the call for greater regulation, saying it would \"protect consumers from misleading advertising and aggressive sales methods\".", "Former youth coach Jim McCafferty was jailed for six years and nine months\n\nCeltic FC has been conducting its own two-year investigation into historical child sex abuse, according to its chief executive.\n\nIn letters to two MSPs, Peter Lawwell hit back at \"misconceptions\" the football club had been \"doing nothing\".\n\nHe said the club's insurers had appointed a \"wholly independent and experienced lawyer\" to investigate.\n\nLast month the club expressed \"regret and sorrow\" 10 days after an ex-youth coach was jailed for child sex abuse.\n\nJim McCafferty, 73, was the fourth man connected to either Celtic or Celtic Boys Club to be convicted of child sex offences in the past year.\n\nThe club's response to the crimes involving the former boys club coaches was last week criticised by two MSPs.\n\nAnd both have issued fresh criticism after receiving a letter from Mr Lawwell.\n\nJames Dornan, the SNP MSP for Glasgow Cathcart, told BBC Scotland he wants more clarity on what the investigation has involved.\n\nHe said: \"If nobody has spoken to victims about their experiences and what they would like to see to overcome those experiences and how those experiences came about then that's not an investigation.\n\n\"If what the investigation is about is how they can legally prove that Celtic Boys Club and Celtic Football Club are separate entities then that's a sham.\"\n\nAsked about his reaction to the scandal as a fan of the club, Mr Dornan said: \"I would much rather be here having this conversation about any other club in the world than having it about Celtic.\n\n\"I grew up to believe that Celtic was more than a football club, and I like to believe it still is, but this and the way the board have handled this.\n\n\"In one way, I'm glad that my dad is not here to see that Celtic are behaving in this way on what is probably the most important issue that club has ever faced.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nConservative MSP Mr Tomkins tweeted his reaction to the letter.\n\nHe wrote: \"I know of no reason why legal investigation into what Celtic FC knew about the abuse at the boys club (and when they knew it) needs to be in secret.\n\n\"Nothing in Celtic's letter to me undermines my belief that these matters require to be 'independently' investigated and that, if necessary, Celtic will have to establish and administer a compensation scheme for victims of abuse.\n\n\"Finally, having an unnamed lawyer secretly investigating a matter does nothing to help, guide or support the victims and their families. It is their rights and interests that no one should overlook in this matter.\"\n\nJames Dornan and Adam Tomkins have both written to Celtic over the child abuse scandal\n\nMr Lawwell has written to both MSPs, saying it is \"important that we clarify a number of issues which appear to be misconceptions at present\".\n\nAnd he told Mr Dornan: \"We believe that your criticisms, which suggested that we were not a caring club and that we were not taking our responsibilities seriously was both unfair and misguided\".\n\nIn the letters released to the Press Association, Mr Lawwell stated: \"The first misconception is that the club is doing nothing and abdicating responsibility. That is simply not true.\"\n\nInstead he claimed legal processes meant the club was \"constrained\" in what it could say publicly, describing it as being \"highly frustrating for all\".\n\nBut he also insisted it was not appropriate to discuss sensitive legal matters \"through newspapers or on social media\".\n\nThe Celtic chief executive said: \"Some time ago our insurers appointed a wholly independent and experienced lawyer who is investigating and dealing with this matter on behalf of the club.\n\nHe added: \"We respect any claimants' rights and out advisers will communicate with them and their representatives directly in the proper manner, respecting their rights to confidentiality.\"\n\nCeltic will \"ensure that we continue to meet all our obligations\", Mr Lawwell stressed.\n\nThe chief executive also claimed that in the \"very delicate and of course tragic set of circumstances\" Mr Dornan's letter had \"appeared to disregard the importance of the due process of law\".\n\nHe added: \"Unfortunately legal processes are slow, and are also generally confidential. We have had to balance all of these factors in how was have addressed the issues to date.\n\n\"While we recognise that this issue is in the public domain we do not consider that means that we should deal with the matter through the media, but rather through the legal system.\n\n\"We would stress that we regret that the incidents took place and reiterate our sympathy for all victims who suffered abuse. We are following legal advice and respecting an ongoing process.\n\n\"The matter continues to receive our full attention and that we take all our obligations, including legal, very seriously.\"\n\nBoth Jim Torbett (left) and Frank Cairney (right) have been convicted of abusing children at Celtic Boys Club\n\nBut solicitor Patrick McGuire, who represents survivors of abuse, again accused the club of \"too little, too late\".\n\nHe said: \"If Celtic have been carrying out a covert investigation why did it take the intervention of two MSPs to bring it to light?\n\n\"Why did they not set the record straight when survivors and campaigners started demanding answers and actions more than a year ago?\"\n\nHe also asked why such an investigation was needed given the outcome of the court cases.\n\nLast November Celtic Boys Club founder Jim Torbett was jailed for six years for sexually abusing three boys over eight years.\n\nAfter his conviction Celtic took two days to issue a statement, which expressed \"deep regret\".\n\nEarlier this year, the boys club's former chairman, Gerald King, was given a three-year probation order for sexually abusing four boys and a girl in the 1980s.\n\nAnd in February Frank Cairney, a former manager of the boys club, was jailed for four years after being convicted of nine charges of sexually abusing young footballers.\n\nLast month McCafferty admitted 12 charges related to child sex abuse against 10 teenage boys between 1972 and 1996.\n\nHe was sentenced to six years and nine months in prison.", "Birmingham City Council said the risk by protesters was \"too serious\"\n\nProtesters against LGBT teaching at a primary school have been banned from gathering outside the gates by a High Court injunction.\n\nBirmingham City Council pursued the legal action after months of demonstrations outside Anderton Park Primary School.\n\nThe school had to close early before half-term due to escalating action.\n\nThe council said it sought the urgent injunction after the risk to children became \"too serious to tolerate\".\n\nIt said the behaviour of demonstrators was \"increasingly unacceptable\".\n\nProtests have been held outside Anderton Park School for several weeks\n\nThe authority said it made the application in order to protect staff and pupils when they return from their half-term break on Monday.\n\nProtesters were not made aware of the High Court application but told the BBC they still intended to gather next week on a street further away from the school.\n\nThe injunction will be in place until 10 June, when those against the diversity teachings will be given the chance to make their case in front of a judge.\n\nThe exclusion zone covers the streets around the school, which sits on Dennis Road, from Taunton Road, Yardley Lane and Birchwood Road.\n\nHe said: \"Children right across Birmingham should be free to attend school safely and without disruption.\"\n\nHe urged parents and campaigners to \"take this opportunity to engage in constructive dialogue with the school\".\n\nParents began protesting over concerns their children were \"too young\" to learn about LGBT relationships. They also said the lessons contradicted Islam.\n\nOn Thursday, the former chief prosecutor for the north-west of England, Nazir Afzal, who was brought in to mediate the matter, said parents were being \"manipulated\".\n\nShakeel Afsar has coordinated the protests outside Anderton Park\n\nJess Phillips, Labour MP for Yardley, said the council had \"done the right thing for the children\", adding \"it's just a shame it has come to this thanks to the bigotry of a few\".\n\nLead protester Shakeel Afsar, who does not have children at the school, tweeted that he will be challenging the injunction, adding: \"I will stress to parents - don't back down. If you feel you are right, invoke your democratic rights.\"\n\nAjmal Masroor - an imam and founder of Communities in Action - told Newsnight: \"It's people's democratic right to protest and the city council can bring as many injunctions as they like but they cannot silence people's discontent.\n\n\"The only way we can create harmony and peace is by dialogue, by communicating and having love and respect. That's what's missing in the current narrative.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by shakeel afsar This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe injunction forbids organising or encouraging demonstrations and printing or distributing leaflets. Those in breach of it will be subject to arrest.\n\nIt also forbids posting offensive or abusive messages on social media about members of staff at the school in relation to equalities teachings.\n\nShe told Newsnight the injunction was a \"step forward to solving the issues from a judge who has looked at some evidence and has said 'OK this doesn't appear to be peaceful, this is causing harm and distress'.\"\n\nIn response to the call for dialogue with the community, she said: \"We've always had dialogue. I think every school has had dialogue with its parents all the time. This has been thrust upon us from almost nowhere because we've been talking about these things in our school since 2010.\"\n\nSarah Hewitt-Clarkson received threats and branded the protests as \"aggressive\"\n\nEducation Secretary Damian Hinds welcomed the injunction and said it was \"not right to protest in front of schools\".\n\n\"This will allow children to return to school and parents to continue peaceful and constructive discussions with staff,\" he said.\n\nThe protests spread to Anderton Park from Parkfield Community School in Alum Rock, where parents raised a petition in January claiming some of the teaching contradicted Islam.\n\nThe \"No Outsiders\" scheme, created by one of its teachers Andrew Moffatt, had been running at Parkfield since 2014.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nFormer Arsenal winger Jose Antonio Reyes has died in a car accident aged 35, Spanish club Sevilla have announced.\n\n\"We couldn't be confirming worse news,\" the La Liga club said on Twitter.\n\nThe Spaniard joined the Gunners from Sevilla in January 2004 and was part of the 'Invincibles' side that went through the 2003-04 season unbeaten, winning the Premier League.\n\nHe later spent a season on loan at Real Madrid in 2006-07, winning the title.\n\nSevilla paid tribute to the \"eternal legend\", adding that he was \"one of the most valuable home grown players in the history of the club\".\n\nFlags in Reyes' hometown of Utrera will fly at half mast for the next two days, according to a statement on the city council website.\n\nThe statement also revealed the accident happened on a road linking Utrera with Seville and a relative of Reyes was also killed.\n\nReyes' coffin will be taken to Sevilla's stadium on Sunday before being moved to Utrera ahead of his funeral on Monday.\n\nReyes leaves behind his wife Noelia Lopez, whom he married in June 2017, and three children, daughters Noelia and Triana and son Jose Antonio Jr from a previous relationship.\n\nA minute's silence will be observed at Saturday's Champions League final as a mark of respect to Reyes, who was the first Spaniard to win the Premier League.\n\nArsenal paid tribute to their former player, saying they were \"devastated by the shocking news\".\n\nGunners legend Thierry Henry, who played alongside Reyes between 2004 and 2007, called him a \"wonderful player, superb team-mate and exceptional human being\".\n\n\"I wish his family and friends continued strength and courage to get through this difficult time,\" he added on Twitter.\n\nFormer Arsenal midfielder Cesc Fabregas called Reyes his \"first great friend in the world of professional football\", and added: \"My room-mate, who always wanted to sleep with the air conditioning even at -10 degrees.\n\n\"A humble guy who always had a smile on his face, great footballer and great person. I could not wake up today in a worse way.\n\n\"I will never forget when you and your family welcomed me at your home in my first Christmas in England when I was alone and was 16 years old. I will never forget our tennis football matches in the gym before and after workouts.\n\n\"Our connection in the field was also special.\n\n\"I always say that you have been one of the greatest talents in our football and I know that I am not wrong.\n\n\"Two days ago I was talking about you in an interview, it might be a sign, who knows, to remember you, my great friend.\n\n\"I will never forget you, we will never forget you. Always in our hearts. Rest in peace Jose Antonio Reyes. Love you very much. Cesc.\"\n\nCurrent Arsenal boss Unai Emery, who managed Reyes at Sevilla, spoke to BBC Radio 5 Live before the Champions League final in the Spanish capital, describing it as \"a very, very sad day\".\n\n\"Today we were thinking about enjoying a big day here in Madrid for English football, but this news changes my mind.\n\n\"He was a hard-worker. We won the Europa League together. He was an amazing man, an amazing player. I learnt a lot from him.\n\n\"He was always smiling, he had great quality. The key moment before the final for the Europa League, he told me: 'Coach, if you want to win, you need to pick me in the first XI.'\"\n\nFormer Atletico Madrid team-mate Sergio Aguero said: \"Moved by the death of José Antonio Reyes, a very good friend and partner with whom I shared great moments. A lot of pain. My condolences and all my support to your relatives.\"\n\nEx-Arsenal player Freddie Ljungberg said: \"Numbed by the news about my former team-mate, Jose Antonio Reyes. Gone far too soon, my thoughts are with his family and friends.\"\n\nUefa president Aleksander Ceferin said: \"He had a glittering career and won numerous honours wherever he played and I am shocked and saddened that his life has been so tragically cut short.\"\n\nHis current club Extremadura said in a statement on Twitter: \"With a broken heart Extremadura UD announce the death of their player Jose Antonio Reyes in a traffic accident.\"\n\nReyes' final match was a 1-0 win at Alcorcon on 18 May. The Spanish second division side's away game to Cadiz, which was due to take place on Sunday, has been postponed until Tuesday, along with the league's other fixtures that were due to take place that day.\n• None Became the youngest player in Sevilla's history at the age of 16 in the 1999-2000 season.\n• None Joined Arsenal in a deal worth about £17m in 2004.\n• None In May 2005, he became the second player to be sent off in an FA Cup final, as Arsenal beat Manchester United in a penalty shootout.\n• None Played in the 2006 Champions League final as the Gunners lost 2-1 to Barcelona.\n• None Made a total of 69 appearances for Arsenal, scoring 16 goals, and played 21 times for Spain, scoring four times.\n• None Joined Real Madrid on loan in 2006 and scored twice as a substitute in the final game of the season to earn Real the La Liga title.\n• None After permanently leaving the Gunners that summer, he moved to Atletico Madrid before returning to Sevilla.\n• None Is the most decorated player in Europa League history, winning the competition five times - twice with Atletico Madrid and three times at Sevilla.\n• None After spells at Espanyol, Cordoba and Chinese side Xinjiang Tianshan Leopard, he joined Spanish second division strugglers Extremadura\n• None Last year, it was reported that Reyes was set to return to Arsenal as a coach under Unai Emery, for whom he played at Sevilla.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Live text and radio commentary on selected matches on the BBC Sport website and app.\n\nJohanna Konta became the first British woman to reach the French Open last 16 since 1983 by thrashing Slovakia's Viktoria Kuzmova at Roland Garros.\n\nKonta, 28, continued her fine clay-court season with a 6-2 6-1 late-evening victory on the new Court Simonne Mathieu.\n\nDespite suffering sickness this week, the 26th seed broke serve five times to seal an impressive win in 54 minutes.\n\n\"I get my attention brought to these different little milestones - it is definitely a nice pat on the back,\" she said.\n\n\"It's a nice thing to hear, especially after winning a match.\"\n\nThe Briton had never won a main-draw match at Roland Garros before this week, but now finds herself with a shot at the quarter-finals.\n\nAnne Hobbs and Jo Durie were the last British women to get to the last 16 in Paris in 1983, Durie going on to reach the semi-finals.\n• None Federer & Nadal stay on course for semi-final meeting\n\nKonta has now reached at least the last 16 in all of the four Grand Slams.\n\nThat achievement was secured by a stunning performance against 21-year-old Kuzmova, in which she won 80% of the points behind her first serve and hit 20 winners.\n\nKonta showed exactly why she has surged back up the world rankings after a productive clay-court season which has seen her reach the Morocco Open and Italian Open finals, beating Sloane Stephens, Venus Williams and Kiki Bertens along the way in Rome.\n\nThe Briton would have expected to meet Bertens again in this match, but that match-up did not materialise after the Dutch fourth seed retired from her second-round match against Kuzmova because of illness.\n\nKonta has also been struggling with sickness in Paris, suffering with a blocked nose and sore throat after Wednesday's win over Lauren Davis.\n\n\"There is a light at the end of the tunnel. It is the most human I have felt the last few days,\" Konta said.\n\nKonta had needed mental resilience to beat the American - this match was much more straightforward.\n\nKuzmova, ranked 46th in the world, offered little resistance in a first set where Konta rocked her with some pounding first serves and stunning winners.\n\nKonta broke on her way to winning the opening three games and, after a blip when Kuzmova broke back for 3-2, refocused to rattle off the next three games for the set.\n\nKuzmova's woes were summed up by a double fault on set point and she continued to look edgy in the second set.\n\nWith Kuzmova's body language indicating she was there for the taking, Konta continued to pummel her opponent and conceded just nine points as victory was quickly wrapped up.\n\n\"I feel pleased with the way I was able to deal with my opponent - I didn't give her an opportunity to play,\" Konta added.\n\n\"Being able to do that from the beginning to the end is a nice feeling.\"\n\nThis was a seriously impressive performance by a woman high on confidence.\n\nKuzmova is having a fine season but proved erratic in her first appearance in the third round of a Grand Slam.\n\nAnd that was hardly surprising as Konta served superbly and hit a lot of heavy balls deep in the court to put enormous pressure on the 21-year-old.\n\nA quarter-final opportunity now knocks for either Konta or Donna Vekic.\n\nThere is a little to choose between them: they have split their six meetings to date, and Vekic is seeded just three places higher.\n\nA repeat of their Wimbledon second-round match of 2017 would not go amiss. Konta won 10-8 in the final set, as flying ants descended on the All England Club.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone", "Martin Church's biological father Arthur Sontag (left) was stationed in Northamptonshire during World War Two\n\nA 73-year-old British man has been united with US siblings he never knew existed.\n\nMartin Church's mother had a relationship with an American serviceman during World War Two, but went on to marry someone else.\n\nHe did not know who his father was until a DNA test revealed links to the other side of the Atlantic.\n\nMr Church, from Northamptonshire, has since met his half brother and sister after they flew over from California.\n\nRealising \"something was not quite right\", Mr Church discovered at the age of 18 that the man who brought him up was not his biological father.\n\n\"I said to my mum, 'Who's my father?'. In typical Northamptonshire she said, 'I don't know, my duck'. And I left it at that as I didn't want to embarrass her.\"\n\nHis son Darren, 50, started looking into the family tree about 10 years ago and carried out a DNA test, which he uploaded to a website to be kept on file.\n\nMartin Church (right) and his half brother John Sontag (left) found each other through a DNA matching website\n\nSix months ago, the website alerted him to a match. It turned out to be Mr Church's second cousin, who lived in Australia, and he was able to email a photo of Mr Church's father, Arthur Sontag, who had spent part of the war in Northamptonshire.\n\n\"I was in bed on a Monday evening and my wife Sonia came up the stairs and said, 'We've found your father, look at this photo - it's your father, an American chap'.\n\n\"The likeness is remarkable,\" he said.\n\nHe was \"disappointed\" to learn his father had died, but he found out he had a half brother - John Sontag, 69 - and two half sisters - June Bertsch, 68, and Diane McArthur, 64. They all reside in California.\n\nMr Sontag and Ms Bertsch recently made the 10,000-mile journey to Gayton, Northamptonshire, which Mr Church said was a \"crazy\" experience.\n\nDarren Church said: \"From the first time of meeting you can tell they are family. My new auntie and uncle can see the resemblances and mannerisms of their father in us. It's all surreal, but lovely.\"\n\nMr Church plans to head to the US in October to see his other half sister, Ms McArthur, and meet some of his 22 newly-discovered cousins.\n\nEstimates suggest about 9,000 war babies were born as a result of relationships between US GIs and British women\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Activists say thousands of indigenous women and girls may have been killed\n\nA national public inquiry into possibly thousands of missing and murdered indigenous women in Canada has called the deaths a \"Canadian genocide\".\n\nThe report was leaked to Canada's national broadcaster CBC which published details on Friday.\n\nThe 1,200-page document reportedly blames the disproportionate violence faced by indigenous women on deep-rooted colonialism and state inaction.\n\nThe report is due to be formally released at a ceremony on Monday.\n\nThe findings of the National Inquiry into Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women and Girls are long-awaited in Canada, where there are about 1.6m indigenous people.\n\n\"It took 40 years to get to this present moment and only because indigenous women have been on the ground making noise about this,\" Robyn Bourgeois, a campaigner on the issue, told the BBC.\n\nThe inquiry concluded that about 1,200 aboriginal women had been murdered or gone missing in Canada since 1980, but some activists say the number is likely to have been far higher.\n\nThe 2014 murder of an indigenous teenager, Tina Fontaine, galvanised national support for the better protection for indigenous women and girls.\n\nPrime Minister Justin Trudeau made the inquiry and reconciliation with indigenous communities a top priority of his liberal government.\n\nSchoolgirl Tina Fontaine was found dumped in Winnipeg's Red River in August 2014\n\nNational broadcaster CBC obtained an advance copy of the report. It contained 230 recommendations to tackle violence faced by indigenous communities, CBC said without giving details.\n\nOn Friday the inquiry said it would not discuss the recommendations ahead of official publication on Monday.\n\nThe report acknowledged disagreements over what constituted genocide, but concluded: \"The national inquiry's findings support characterizing these acts, including violence against Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA [two-spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, queer, questioning, intersex and asexual] people, as genocide.\"\n\nThe inquiry, which cost C$92m ($67m; £53m), focused on the systemic causes of violence against indigenous women as well as on prevention.\n\nIt has heard from more than 2,000 witnesses since 2017 - including survivors of violence and family members of missing women.", "US President Donald Trump arrived in the UK for a three-day state visit on Monday.\n\nIt follows a four-day working visit in July 2018.\n\nThe BBC's Jonny Dymond takes a light-hearted look at what to expect, this time around.\n\nDonald Trump state visit: All you need to know\n\nPresident Trump's UK state visit- Remember his last trip there- - BBC News?", "Witnesses to a mass shooting at a government building in Virginia Beach have described their experiences.\n\nAt least 12 people were killed and several injured in the shooting at a government building, police said.", "Wynne Evans sang on the pitch before Spurs played their first match at their new stadium\n\nRadio Wales presenter Wynne Evans has revealed he paid thousands of pounds for tickets to Saturday's Champions League final that he never received.\n\nThe lifelong Spurs fan spent £7,000 on two tickets through an online agency ahead of the \"match of a lifetime\".\n\nBut the tenor - the voice of the Go Compare TV adverts - was later told the tickets were no longer available.\n\n\"My 14-year-old son was distraught and heaven knows how many other fans they've mugged off,\" he said.\n\nThe 47-year-old radio presenter added: \"After I paid up, the agency emailed me to say they were not able to fulfil my order.\n\n\"It looks like they sold the tickets to me then resold them when they realised they could get a lot more for them.\"\n\nEvans fears he will not get his money back - although he was not prepared to miss the game and so bought another set of tickets for him and his son Taliesin.\n\nHe has not revealed how much he forked out for the second set - although he did say it was more than £7,000.\n\nThe singing star said: \"I was gutted but it hasn't put me off going - there's no way I would miss this match.\n\n\"I've been a Spurs fan since I was seven so it is a once-in-a-lifetime chance to see my team in the Champions League final.\"\n\nEvans, who plays Gio Compario in the popular TV insurance adverts, was on the pitch to sing to the crowd for Tottenham's last match at the old White Hart Lane.\n\nAnd when Spurs played their first match at their new 61,000-capacity stadium he belted out a rendition of Glory, Glory Tottenham Hotspur.", "Last updated on .From the section Liverpool\n\nLiverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has said winning the Champions League is the \"best night of our professional lives\".\n\nThe Reds beat Tottenham 2-0 in Madrid thanks to an early Mohamed Salah penalty and a late Divock Origi strike.\n\nIt is their first major trophy since Klopp arrived at Anfield in 2015.\n\n\"Did you ever see a team like this, fighting with no fuel in the tank? I am so happy for the boys, all these people and my family. They suffer for me, they deserve it more than anybody,\" he said.\n\n\"It was an intense season with the most beautiful finish I ever could have imagined.\"\n\nLiverpool, who lost last season's final to Real Madrid, finished on 97 points in this season's Premier League, but finished second to Manchester City.\n• None Pochettino wants to 'experience' final again\n• None Read all the reaction to the game\n• None How you rated the players\n\nThe German arrived at the post-match news conference holding a beer. \"We'll celebrate together, we'll have a sensational night,\" he said.\n\n\"I feel mostly relief, relief for my family. The last six times we flew on holiday with only a silver medal it didn't feel too cool.\n\n\"Tonight was a big challenge for both teams to deal with the three weeks with no game. The final is about the result and tonight the boys showed the resilience we needed. I don't want to explain why we won it, I only want to enjoy that we won it.\"\n\nThe team's title parade around their home city starts at 16:00 BST on Sunday.\n\n\"Tonight is really emotional, but I'm much calmer than I thought,\" said Klopp.\n\n\"It wasn't important for me to touch the cup. I loved seeing the boys having it and seeing some faces in the crowd. Going to Liverpool tomorrow with something to celebrate is big and I'm really looking forward to that.\"\n\n'The best moment of my life'\n\nCaptain Jordan Henderson paid tribute to Klopp. \"Without this manager this is impossible,\" he told BT Sport. \"You go through tough times in a season, but what he has done since coming in is unbelievable.\n\n\"There's such a togetherness, he has created a special dressing room - all the praise goes to the manager. I'm so proud to be a part of this football club and to cap it with this is so special to me.\"\n\nThe midfielder, who has been at Liverpool since 2011, also captained the Reds in last season's final loss to Real.\n\n\"I just try to give my best every time I play football and to help my team no matter what,\" he said. \"I've had tough times but I've kept going - just as this club has.\n\n\"It's the best moment of my life. This is what I dreamed of since I was a kid.\n\n\"It's not about me, it's not about me being captain or lifting the trophy, it's about this club, these players, this manager. Now we must keep going and kick on.\"\n\n'We deserved it more than any other team'\n\nRight-back Trent Alexander-Arnold - who set up 16 goals in all competitions this season - became the first player under the age of 21 to appear in consecutive Champions League finals.\n\nThe 20-year-old England international said: \"I am just a normal lad from Liverpool whose dream has just come true.\n\n\"It is hard to put into words. The season we have had, we deserved it more than any other team. We have done something special, we dominated the game.\n\n\"We will not look back and think it was a sluggish game, we will see we are European champions.\"\n\nSalah enjoyed a much better final than last year, when he went off injured following a clash with Sergio Ramos.\n\nThis time, his second-minute penalty - which made him the fifth African to score in a European Cup final - put the Reds on the way to victory.\n\n\"Everyone is happy now,\" he said. \"I am glad to play the second final in a row and play 90 minutes finally. Everyone did his best today - no great individual performances today, all the team was unbelievable.\n\n\"I have sacrificed a lot for my career, to come from a village to go to Cairo, and to be an Egyptian at this level is unbelievable for me.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Champions League\n\nAbout 200 Tottenham fans missed the start of the Champions League final against Liverpool in Madrid after their plane from Stansted Airport was taken out of service because of bird damage.\n\nIt was due to take off at 09:50 BST but operator Thomas Cook had to source a replacement plane and it was delayed until just before 17:30.\n\nThe aircraft landed about 45 minutes before the 20:00 BST kick-off.\n\nThe supporters arrived after Mohamed Salah had given the Reds the lead.\n\nRob White, the son of former Tottenham midfielder John White, tweeted at 16:10 BST: \"We are now sitting on an actual plane after a 6.5 hour omnishambles!\"\n\nThomas Cook released a statement saying that the original aircraft was \"deemed not safe to operate\".\n\nMany of the supporters, who witnessed their side lose 2-0 to the Reds, then returned to Madrid's main airport to discover the 01:55 BST flight back to Stansted had been cancelled.\n\nInstead, they were allocated a flight back to the UK at 08:00 on Sunday.", "The group went missing while climbing Nanda Devi in the Indian Himalayas\n\nA group of eight climbers has gone missing while climbing India's second highest mountain.\n\nThe team, which included four people from the UK, started to climb the 7,816-metre Nanda Devi East peak in the Himalayas on 13 May.\n\nWhen they didn't return to the base camp as planned, a search and rescue team was sent to try to find them.\n\nHowever, a local official has warned that heavy rains and snowfall are affecting the search.\n\n\"We have activated resources to trace the climbers after they failed to return to the base camp, but bad weather is hindering the operation,\" Vijay Kumar Jogdande, a magistrate in Pithoragarh district, told AFP news agency.\n\nAn Indian Air Force helicopter is also expected to be used on Sunday morning.\n\nAs well as the four climbers from Britain, the team also included two Americans, an Australian and an Indian.\n\nThey were being led by the experienced British mountain guide Martin Moran, whose Scotland-based company has run many expeditions in the Indian Himalayas.\n\nPhotos posted to Mr Moran's Facebook page the day before the start of the climb showed the group \"starting their journey into the hills at Neem Kharoli Baba temple, Bhowali\".\n\nA later post on 22 May, posted from their second base camp at 4,870 metres, suggested that the group would attempt to summit a never-before-climbed peak on the mountain.\n\nThere have been conflicting reports about when exactly the group was scheduled to return. However, according to local media, they were due to reach the Nanda Devi base camp on Friday 31 May, and the nearby village of Munsiyari on 1 June.\n\nA spokesperson for the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) said: \"We are in contact with the Indian authorities following reports that a number of British nationals are missing in the Indian Himalayas. We will do all we can to assist any British people who need our help.\"\n• None Four reasons why this Everest season went wrong", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jyotika Virmani: \"Some in the industry said what we were trying to do was too audacious\"\n\nA robotic boat and submersible have won the XPRIZE to find the best new technologies to map the seafloor.\n\nThe surface and underwater combo demonstrated their capabilities in a timed test in the Mediterranean, surveying depths down to 4km.\n\nPut together by the international GEBCO-NF Alumni team, the autonomous duo are likely now to play a role in meeting the \"Seabed 2030\" challenge.\n\nThis aims to have Earth's ocean floor fully mapped to a high standard.\n\nCurrently, only 20% of the world's sub-surface topography has been resolved to an acceptable level of accuracy.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A new wave of robots is needed to map the ocean floor\n\n\"The global scientific community has come together to try to meet this challenge, but if we're going to achieve it then we will need new technologies,\" said Dr Jyotika Virmani, the executive director of the Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE.\n\n\"Through this competition, I think some of those technologies are now ready. Some are more robust than others but with a little more R&D I believe we will have a slew of different approaches, which is the way we've got to do this,\" she told BBC News.\n\nThe GEBCO-NF (Nippon Foundation) Alumni team was always a strong favourite to win the $7m (£5.5m) Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE. Its members all had extensive experience in the relevant fields.\n\nThe group triumphed by packaging an existing, state-of-the-art solution with a novel twist.\n\nSo, while its HUGIN autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) is an established industry tool for echo-sounding the depths, its uncrewed surface vessel (USV) that deployed and recovered the sub was developed specially for the competition.\n\nThis boat, called Sea-Kit Maxlimer, was designed in Essex, UK.\n\nIt actually made headlines in another setting three weeks ago by carrying oysters and beer between Belgium and England - the first ever commercial cargo run across the North Sea by a water-going robot.\n\nA number of teams also competed to track a simulated pollutant in the water\n\nAll the teams that made it to the Mediterranean final were asked to despatch their un-piloted vehicles to a competition box some 15 nautical miles (28km) from the Greek port of Kalamata.\n\nOn arrival, the chosen technologies had just 24 hours to make an extensive, high-resolution (5m or better) bathymetric (depth) map; and take multiple pictures of the seabed.\n\nThe GEBCO-NF Alumni team covered 278 sq km in its allotted time, returning more than 10 images of identifiable geological features.\n\nAt a gala ceremony in Monaco on Friday, the group was presented with the Grand Prize winner trophy and $4M. The runner-up, the Kuroshio team from Japan, was awarded $1m.\n\nDr Rochelle Wigley, the project coordinator for the Alumni, said the prize money would be reinvested into the development of future ocean-mapping initiatives.\n\n\"We want to test our system in different environments, in other deep oceans. We're looking to do an off-shore mapping project around the UK in the next six months, and then hopefully do a transatlantic crossing with Sea-Kit within a year,\" she told BBC News.\n\nTeam Tao likes to think of its BEMs as the \"cubesats of the oceans\"\n\nAs part of the competition, the XPRIZE also ran a separate trial in collaboration with the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).\n\nThis got teams to \"sniff out\" a simulated pollutant in waters off Puerto Rico and track it to its source.\n\nThe prize was split between junior high school team Ocean Quest from California, claiming $800,000 as the winner, and Tampa Deep Sea Xplorers, from Florida, taking $200,000 as runner-up.\n\nBoth managed to lock on to the pollutant (in reality just a harmless dye), but neither quite managed to trace its origin in the time permitted.\n\nSome of the deepest waters in the Mediterranean are off the Greek coast\n\nThe XPRIZE organisers sprang something of a surprise at their Monaco gala by announcing an additional \"Moonshot Award\" worth $200,000.\n\nThis went to the British-based Team Tao, which was set up by Tyneside-based subsea engineering specialist Soil Machine Dynamics Ltd (SMD) and Newcastle University.\n\nTeam Tao did not meet the minimum criteria for success in the Mediterranean final, but the judges believed its highly innovative approach should nonetheless be marked out for special praise.\n\nThe group has developed \"Bathypelagic Excursion Modules\" (BEMs) - or as team-members like to call them: \"the cubesats of the ocean\". It's a reference to the miniaturised technology now emerging in the realm of space exploration\n\nDeployed from a USV, these are compact, low-cost, torpedo-like devices that descend and ascend in the water, using their echo-sounders to map the seafloor as they move across a grid. But their up and down manoeuvres enable the modules to also sample the water column.\n\nMost of what we know is the result of low-resolution satellite mapping\n\nBetter seafloor maps are needed for a host of reasons.\n\nThey are essential for navigation, of course, and for laying underwater cables and pipelines.\n\nThey are also important for fisheries management and conservation, because it is around the underwater mountains that wildlife tends to congregate. Each seamount is a biodiversity hotspot.\n\nIn addition, the rugged seafloor influences the behaviour of ocean currents and the vertical mixing of water.\n\nThis is information required to improve the models that forecast future climate change - because it is the oceans that play a critical role in moving heat around the planet.\n\nThe Sea-Kit boat and its Kongsberg Hugin AUV will now be tested in other ocean basins\n\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lanarkshire amputee footballer new face of campaign\n\nAn 11-year-old amputee footballer from South Lanarkshire is to be a guest of honour at Saturday's Champions League final in Madrid.\n\nKeeley Cerretti, from Larkhall, has been chosen as the face of UEFA's #EqualGame campaign.\n\nShe will meet UEFA president Aleksander Čeferin before watching the Liverpool v Tottenham Hotspur game with him.\n\nKeeley, who plays for Partick Thistle Junior Amputees, said: \"I'm so excited. I'm going to have a good time.\"\n\nSports fan Keeley, who also enjoys skiing, running and rock-climbing, began playing football two years ago.\n\nKeeley is in Madrid ahead of the final\n\nShe told the BBC's The Nine: \"I love the fun of it. Just running around and kicking the ball.\n\n\"All I think about when I'm playing football is scoring a goal.\"\n\nThe schoolgirl had her left leg amputated from the knee down as a two-week-old baby.\n\nShe now has a custom-made prosthetic leg and a running \"blade\" which have allowed her to enjoy sport with her friends.\n\nKeeley's sporting life has been transformed by her prosthetic leg and a running \"blade\"\n\nKeeley said: \"I remember being upset about not being able to run. Sometimes in school I cried about it. I couldn't run as quickly as everyone and I was always last.\n\n\"Now, I'm not that fast, but I can beat some people.\n\n\"I play football with my friends and I'm better than them\"\n\nKeeley has been playing football for two years\n\nShe is naturally-left footed but, with the help of crutches, has adapted her playing style.\n\n\"My instinct is to kick with my left foot,\" she said. \"But I kick with my right.\"\n\nKeeley has received support from quadruple amputee and campaigner Corinne Hutton, who received a double hand transplant in January.\n\n\"Corinne told me, don't think about the consequences,\" said Keeley. \"Just live your life as normal.\"\n\nKeeley was chosen to front UEFA's #EqualGame campaign after attending the European Amputee Football Federation (EAFF) Junior Camp in Hoffenheim, Germany, last July.\n\nHer image will appear in the match programme for Saturday's showpiece Champions League final.\n\nBeing naturally left-footed meant Keeley had to change her playing style\n\nHer family are thrilled about this weekend's Madrid trip and the prospect of seeing some of the world's top footballers in action.\n\nHer mother Jan said: \"We are really excited.\n\n\"We are staying in a really nice hotel. They have gone all out in terms of making it a really special time for her.\n\n\"I think we are supporting Liverpool. I'm really hoping she gets carried away in that big environment with all those thousands and thousands of football supporters.\"\n\nKeeley's mother Jan says being able to play football gives her daughter a real boost\n\nKeeley's love of the game was sparked by a training session organised by Amputee Football Association Scotland.\n\nJan said: \"It's great for Keeley. It allows her to play sport with other people in similar situations as her, whether it be an arm or a leg or a foot.\n\n\"She really enjoys this - it gives her a boost. And it's something she can do well.\"\n\nKeeley's father David, who is a volunteer football coach, added: \"It gives her the enjoyment of being part of a team who are like Keeley. Not children at school who have got all their limbs.\n\n\"It gives her a feeling of belonging to something. She now belongs to a group of over 100 children across Europe who turn up every year for a summer camp.\n\n\"It gives here the drive and determination to go there and do her best.\n\n\"And when she does, that smile of hers just beams.\"", "There has been an increase of about 1,250 pupils seeking places in post-primary schools in Northern Ireland this September.\n\nPrimary seven pupils find out by letter on Saturday to which school they will transfer.\n\nAccording to the Education Authority (EA), 226 pupils have yet to be placed.\n\nHowever, 99% of the 23,949 pupils transferring in 2019 have had their place in a post-primary school confirmed.\n\nNot all have received a place in their first choice school.\n\nThe EA said that 20,776 pupils had been placed in the post primary they had listed as their first choice, with just under 3,000 pupils placed in a school that was not their first preference.\n\nThere are 1,267 more pupils moving from primary to post-primary school this year compared to 2018.\n\nIn all, 2,219 more pupils are transferring than two years ago.\n\nThe rise in pupil numbers led the Department of Education (DE) to provide extra places in some schools earlier this year.\n\nThe department can also provide a \"temporary variation\" in numbers for schools in which additional places are still required.\n\nIn 2018, for instance, 40 extra places were provided at Bangor Academy which had been heavily oversubscribed.\n\nParents of children who have not yet been placed will be provided with a list of schools which still have places.\n\nThe EA is operating a helpline for parents who do not receive a letter on Saturday, or whose child has no school place.\n\nThe number is 028 9598 5595 and it will operate from 1200 to 1700 BST on Saturday, and again from 0900 on Monday.", "Visa applicants will have to provide all their social media usernames\n\nNearly all applicants for US visas will have to submit their social media details under newly adopted rules.\n\nThe State Department regulations say people will have to submit social media names and five years' worth of email addresses and phone numbers.\n\nWhen proposed last year, authorities estimated the proposal would affect 14.7 million people annually.\n\nCertain diplomatic and official visa applicants will be exempt from the stringent new measures.\n\nHowever, people travelling to the US to work or to study will have to hand over their information.\n\n\"We are constantly working to find mechanisms to improve our screening processes to protect US citizens, while supporting legitimate travel to the United States,\" the department reportedly said.\n\nPreviously, only applicants who needed additional vetting - such as people who had been to parts of the world controlled by terrorist groups - would need to hand over this data.\n\nBut now applicants will have to give up their account names on a list of social media platforms, and also volunteer the details of their accounts on any sites not listed.\n\nAnyone who lies about their social media use could face \"serious immigration consequences\", according to an official who spoke to The Hill.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. President Trump proposed a new US immigration system in May\n\nThe Trump administration first proposed the rules in March 2018.\n\nAt the time, the American Civil Liberties Union - a civil rights group - said there is \"no evidence that such social media monitoring is effective or fair\", and said it would cause people to self-censor themselves online.\n\nUS President Donald Trump made cracking down on immigration a key plank of his election campaign in 2016.\n\nHe called for \"extreme vetting\" of immigrants before and during his time in office.\n\nOn Friday Mr Trump vowed to impose gradually rising tariffs on Mexico unless the country curbed illegal immigration at the US southern border.", "Kim Hyok-chol is North Korea's US delegate and appeared at the Trump-Kim summit in Hanoi earlier this year\n\nIt is being reported across international media that North Korea's nuclear envoy has been executed as part of a purge of officials involved in a failed summit between the US and North Korea.\n\nBut there is a reason we treat reports about North Korean officials being executed with extreme caution. The claims are incredibly difficult to verify and they are very often wrong.\n\nBoth the South Korean media and the government in Seoul have reported on purges in the past - only for the \"executed\" officials to turn up a few weeks later looking alive and well next to the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.\n\nOn this occasion, a single anonymous source has told a newspaper in Seoul that Kim Hyok-chol, the former North Korean envoy to the US and a key figure in talks ahead of the summit between Kim Jong-un and Donald Trump in Hanoi, was executed at an airport in Pyongyang.\n\nThe source claims that he was punished alongside four other foreign ministry executives. They were all charged with spying for the US and poorly reporting on the negotiations without properly grasping US intentions.\n\nIt's also alleged that Kim Yong-chol, the North Korean leader's right hand man who was despatched to Washington to help arrange the Hanoi summit, has now been sent to a labour and re-education camp near the Chinese border.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC's Laura Bicker explains why Trump is the 'biggest loser' from the summit\n\nThe report is plausible. These key officials have been out of the public eye since the summit in February. Kim Jong-un is clearly angry at the outcome of his talks with Donald Trump and may have been looking for someone to blame.\n\nHis diplomatic gamble with the US has so far failed to yield results, which puts him under pressure. Strict economic sanctions remain in place. Discussions between Washington and Pyongyang have stalled. In Pyongyang, the decision may have been taken that someone has to pay the price.\n\nIt's worth noting that the state's official Rodong Sinmun newspaper called out unspecified \"betrayers\" and \"turncoats\" in an editorial earlier this week. It said that those who \"committed anti-party\" and \"anti-revolutionary actions\" would come under the \"stern judgement of the revolution\". No names have been given, but the message is clear.\n\nKim Jong-un has carried out executions in the past. In 2013, Mr Kim's powerful uncle, Jang Song-thaek, was executed for treason. South Korean intelligence services announced his death days before it was declared by the North.\n\nUS President Donald Trump with Kim Yong-chol in the White House in June, 2018\n\nBut so often these reports have turned out to be, dare I say it, fake news.\n\nThe most (in)famous of these was the alleged death of singer Hyon Song-wol. In 2013, the same South Korean newspaper announced that she had been shot in a \"hail of machine gun fire while members of her orchestra looked on\".\n\nLast year, Hyon Song-wol swept into Seoul leading a visiting North Korean delegation ahead of the Winter Olympics looking rather glamorous in a fur coat and very much alive. She is now one of the most powerful women in North Korea.\n\nSouth Korean intelligence officials said in 2016 that the former military chief Ri Yong-gil had been executed for corruption. He appeared in state media a few months later - having been given a promotion.\n\nSources within North Korea can often be a reporter's most valued asset, but also one of our most troublesome. We have no way of checking their claims.\n\nIntelligence services in Seoul and in the US are trying to establish the fate of Kim Hyok-chol, but unless Pyongyang decides to announce it themselves, we may never know.", "British retail tycoon Sir Philip Green has been charged in the US with four counts of misdemeanour assault.\n\nThe charges come after a fitness instructor in Arizona alleged that he repeatedly touched her inappropriately.\n\nThe incidents, which Sir Philip strenuously denies, allegedly occurred at the Canyon Ranch resort in Tucson in 2016 and 2018.\n\nPima County Attorney's Office said each count carries a potential sentence of up to 30 days in jail.\n\nSir Philip could also face a fine of up to $500 (£400) and up to a year of probation on each count, the attorney's office said.\n\nThe complainant said in a police interview that Sir Philip had slapped her bottom.\n\nA statement issued by Arcadia said: \"Sir Philip strenuously denies these allegations and is disappointed that the charges have been filed in his absence and they are minor categories of misdemeanour in the United States.\"\n\nThe statement said Sir Philip would be represented by his lawyer in court as he was not required to attend personally.\n\nIt added: \"Contrary to previous suggestions in the media there is no allegation of any sexual assault or misconduct made by the prosecution.\"\n\nThe charges against Sir Philip come as his business faces significant challenges, with nearly 50 stores due to close and MPs calling on him to use his own wealth to fund the company's pension scheme.\n\nAmong the locations due to close are all 11 of Topshop and Topman's US stores.\n\nNext week, Sir Philip faces a crucial vote on the future of his Arcadia empire. If landlords and the pension regulator vote against his proposal to repay creditors over a fixed period, the business could go into administration.\n\nHe was also at the centre of controversy earlier this year when he took out an injunction barring the Daily Telegraph from reporting allegations of misconduct against him by employees, which included bullying along with sexual and racial abuse, allegations the businessman strongly denied. He later dropped the injunction.\n\nA date for the first court hearing has been set for 19 June at Pima County Court.", "Up to 700 bikers had been due to take part in a \"ride out\" but police said the number was lower\n\nThirty-four people were arrested as thousands of Hells Angels bikers gathered to commemorate the club's 50th anniversary in the UK.\n\nThe arrests were made on suspicion of drugs offences and possession of offensive weapons.\n\nThe Hells Angels Euro Run, in Sussex and Surrey, marks the creation of the first branch of the California-based motorcycle club in the UK.\n\nBikers took part in a mass \"ride out\" from Pease Pottage to Brighton.\n\nThe procession along the A23 began at 14:00 BST under police escort, watched by spectators at the side of the road and on bridges.\n\nUp to 700 bikers had been due to take part, but police said there were fewer participants than expected.\n\nEarlier this week, Surrey and Sussex police were granted powers to stop and search people within a designated area across the two counties in a bid to tackle anti-social behaviour.\n\nA total of 12 people - five German nationals, three Hungarians, one Swiss, one French, one Czech and a Greek - were charged.\n\nSeven appeared in court on Friday and were given suspended prison sentences, while five more were due to appear in court later.\n\nThree other people remain in custody and the rest were either cautioned or released without charge.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable of Surrey Police Nev Kemp said: \"We have been very clear with those attending the Hells Angels event, many from overseas, that we will not tolerate criminal and anti-social behaviour.\n\n\"Our activity over the last few days has been about keeping people safe, which is why I put the Section 60 order in place.\n\n\"The fact that we have had seven people go through the courts and be sentenced so far, as well as the numerous arrests, has justified our actions.\n\n\"This weekend, especially Saturday, sees one of the busiest for both forces in the last 12 months and we continue to work hard to keep our residents and those visiting safe.\n\n\"Officers will be out in high numbers so expect to see us on patrol responding and responding quickly to any incidents.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The victims of the attack, clockwise from top left - Chrissy Archibald, James McMullan, Alexandre Pigeard, Sebastien Belanger, Ignacio Echeverria, Xavier Thomas, Sara Zelenak, Kirsty Boden\n\nThere were \"opportunities galore\" to identify that the London Bridge extremists were plotting an attack, an inquest has heard.\n\nGareth Patterson, the lawyer representing several victims' families, said there was evidence the attackers had been in contact since January 2017.\n\nEight people died in the attack on 3 June 2017.\n\nBut investigating officer Acting Det Ch Insp Wayne Jolley denied there had been missed opportunities.\n\nMr Patterson told the hearing at the Old Bailey in London that \"any reasonably competent investigation\" had the chance to detect the planning that was going on between the three men.\n\nIt would have taken the trio a \"significant period of time\" for them to become close enough to trust each other with planning an attack, he said.\n\nKhuram Butt, 27, Rachid Redouane, 30, and Youssef Zaghba, 22, left 48 people injured when they attacked passsers-by near London Bridge with a van and knives, before being themselves shot dead by armed police.\n\nXavier Thomas, 45, Christine Archibald, 30, Sara Zelenak, 21, Sebastien Belanger, 36, James McMullan, 32, Kirsty Boden, 28, Alexandre Pigeard, 26, and Ignacio Echeverria, 39, died in the attack, which lasted less than 10 minutes.\n\nSix months after the attack, a major review of whether MI5 could have stopped it revealed that Butt, the ringleader at London Bridge, was under \"active investigation\" from mid-2015.\n\nAt the inquest, Mr Patterson said Butt had been associating with known extremists, including Anjem Choudary, and had told people of his desire to fight in Syria.\n\nMr Patterson challenged the Metropolitan Police's investigating officer, suggesting the repeated contact between the attackers was \"crying out to be looked at\".\n\nThe inquest heard that Zaghba had started going to Butt's gym in January 2017 and that the two men were in telephone contact after that time.\n\nZaghba also visited Butt's home and had been allowed to drive his car, the inquest heard.\n\nIn March, all three attackers were at the Ummah fitness centre in east London.\n\nIt was in the same month, Mr Patterson said, that Butt had possibly been trying to buy a gun.\n\nThere was then a barbecue at Butt's home in May, which Redouane attended, and those two men were in contact \"again and again for months\", Mr Patterson said.\n\nThe court heard that, the day after the barbecue, Redouane bought three identical knives.\n\n\"Any reasonably competent investigation should have been looking at Redouane at this stage, I would submit,\" Mr Patterson said.\n\nKhuram Butt, Rachid Redouane and Youssef Zaghba carried out the London Bridge attacks\n\nDet Ch Insp Jolley said he did not agree that there had been missed opportunities to stop the men and said police would have been working with the intelligence they were given.\n\nThe court heard that the three men were extremely careful with how they communicated, and even when their phones and other devices were examined after the attack, there was no evidence of their planning.\n\nMr Patterson said that there was one occasion in May when all three men were at the gym \"in the dead of night\" and were speaking together in the street, but one of them employed a \"classic anti-surveillance technique\" of leaving his telephone on the ground while they walked away and talked.\n\n\"The attack planning was there to be detected,\" he suggested.\n\nThe court also heard that Zaghba had held extremist views since childhood.\n\nHe celebrated the 9/11 attacks and had the Islamic State group flags on his Facebook page, according to information from his mother.\n\nZaghba had also tried to flee abroad to fight for IS and had jihadist material on an SD memory card seized from him when he was stopped at an airport.\n\nBut Richard Horwell, the lawyer representing the Metropolitan Police at the inquest, asked: \"In the months leading up the attack was there any evidence of any attack planning?\"\n\nMr Jolley said: \"Not that we uncovered, sir, no.\"", "Frank Lucas, the notorious Harlem drug lord whose life inspired the 2007 film American Gangster, has died.\n\nBorn in North Carolina in 1930, he moved to New York where he became a prolific heroin trafficker throughout the 1960s and 1970s.\n\nIn 1976 he was sentenced to decades in prison, but later provided evidence to police and was freed after five years.\n\nA family member told US media he died from natural causes, aged 88, on Thursday in New Jersey.\n\nLucas, who imported heroin directly from South-East Asia, was known for his lavish lifestyle.\n\nIn 1975 he had his assets and property seized by police. At one New Jersey address, authorities reportedly found more than $584,000 (£462,000) in cash.\n\nAfter his co-operation helped police arrest others in the trade, Lucas had his jail-time radically reduced.\n\nDespite returning again to prison for another drug conviction in the 1980s, he had been free for almost 30 years before his death.\n\nThe film about his life starred actors Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe\n\nNotably, he formed a friendship with one of the narcotics agents who had helped arrest him - Richard Roberts.\n\nReflecting on their unusual bond, Roberts told local news website NJ.com he had expected Lucas to \"live forever\".\n\nLucas' life story was adapted, and embellished, for the big screen by director Ridley Scott. Actor Denzel Washington played Lucas - who helped out with production.\n\nDoubts have since been cast on many details portrayed within the film, such as the smuggling of drugs inside returning Vietnam war coffins.\n\nIn 2012 Lucas had a final brush with the law. He was given probation after reportedly lying over federal disability payments.\n\nCelebrity news website TMZ reports that he is survived by seven children.", "Private Jim Glennie, now 93, was shot in the invasion and became a prisoner of war\n\nAbout 300 D-Day veterans are beginning their pilgrimage to France to mark the 75th anniversary of the Normandy landings.\n\nSix Scottish D-Day veterans - all now in their 90s - have shared their stories and been photographed by Legion Scotland and Poppyscotland.\n\nYou can use the slider on each of the images below to compare how the veterans looked in World War Two and the new portraits of the men who served.\n\nIf you are using the mobile app, click on each image to view the slider.\n\nMr Churm, from Castle Douglas in Dumfries and Galloway, was a medic on landing craft on D-Day, moving tanks from Newhaven in Sussex to Sword Beach, one of the five landing areas for the Allied invasion.\n\nThe 94-year-old says: \"My overriding feeling was one of terrible trepidation. Nobody knew what was happening until we got there. The amount of shipping in the Channel was fantastic, though, every type of vessel you could think of was there.\"\n\nAfter the war, Mr Churm became a physiotherapist, including a stint as the physio at Blackburn Rovers.\n\nPrivate Glennie is now 93 and living in Aberdeen.\n\nHe landed at Sword Beach with the Gordon Highlanders, part of the 51st Highland Division.\n\nNot long after, he was shot, wounded, captured and spent the rest of the war in POW camp Stalag 4b.\n\nHe said: \"The overriding thing I remember from being a prisoner of war was the lack of food. We had to steal potato skins from the guards' bin. It amazes me now when I am out for dinner with my family and they order potato skins.\"\n\nThe 94-year-old, from North Lanarkshire, spent more than three months in France during the conflict.\n\nHe said: \"We were just doing a job and we did what we got told to do. We didn't see ourselves as heroes.\n\n\"I always wonder what the French people thought that morning when they woke up and saw all of the ships.\"\n\nAfter the war, Mr Gregson became a cooper.\n\nSgt McOwan, from Peebles, was an instrument mechanic servicing repairs as required.\n\nThe 98-year-old, who served in the Royal Electrical and Mechanical engineers attached to the 8th Army, said: \"My most vivid memory was the Armada of ships lying off-shore. They stretched for as far as the eye could see.\n\n\"We waited for what seemed like an interminable amount of time before we could go on shore. We felt like easy targets for the Luftwaffe.\n\n\"A couple of ships were hit, and we just hoped and prayed that ours would not be one of the next ones. For some reason, I remember that I did not even get my feet wet when we eventually came on shore as we were on landing craft vehicles.\"\n\nMr Horne, from Port Seton in East Lothian, served on board a minesweeper alongside American forces.\n\nHe said: \"We were the first Allied vessels to arrive, before the D-Day landings. We got some cover from the American warships firing over our heads towards the German placements.\n\n\"The noise was deafening. After it started, the shelling went on day and night and we never got any sleep.\n\n\"I later heard that 2,000 men were killed on Omaha Beach that morning, so, I do feel lucky that I was one of the ones that came home. During the operation, a minesweeper the same as ours was hit and sank in five minutes.\"\n\nAfter the war, Mr Horne returned to life as a fisherman.\n\nSergeant Forsyth, from Hamilton in South Lanarkshire is now 95.\n\nIn 1944 he was a driver/operator working on reconnaissance for armoured division.\n\nHe recalls: \"When I first went abroad I, like a lot of others of my age group, thought they were going to change the world, that is what we were going to fight for.\n\n\"Unfortunately, that quickly changed to fighting for our own survival, and that was difficult enough, until we arrived at the gates of Belsen.\n\n\"That woke us up to realise the depths to which a man can sink, and why we were really there.\"\n\nAfter the war, Mr Forsyth became a teacher.", "US President Donald Trump will touch down in the UK on Tuesday for a Nato summit - the second visit he has made to Britain this year. What will the security operation involve and what hardware and staff will the president bring with him?\n\nWhenever the US president arrives in the UK, a multi-million-pound security operation is brought into action.\n\nMr Trump's three-day state visit in June, which involved more than 6,300 officers, cost the Metropolitan Police £3.4m, according to figures released under the Freedom of Information Act. A previous four-day working visit in 2018 cost more than £14.2m.\n\nHere are some of the incredible vehicles and entourage the president could be bringing with him this time around.\n\nThe president is likely to arrive in the UK on his customised, high-spec aircraft Air Force One.\n\nAir Force One isn't actually a specific plane but instead refers to one of two specially adapted Boeing 747-200B series aircraft, which carry the tail codes 28000 and 29000.\n\nWith its advanced avionics and defences, Air Force One is classed as a military aircraft, designed to withstand an air attack.\n\nIt can jam enemy radar and eject flares to throw heat-seeking missiles off course.\n\nIt is also capable of refuelling midair, allowing it to fly for an unlimited time - crucial in an emergency.\n\nAir Force One is also equipped with secure communications equipment, allowing the aircraft to function as a mobile command centre.\n\nThere are 85 onboard telephones, a collection of two-way radios and computer connections.\n\nInside, the president and his travel companions enjoy 4,000 sq ft of floor space on three levels, including an extensive suite for the president, a medical facility with an operating table, a conference and dining room, two food preparation galleys that can feed 100 people at a time, and designated areas for the press, VIPs, security and secretarial staff.\n\nSeveral cargo planes, including C-17 Globemaster transport aircraft, carry the president's fleet of armoured vehicles and helicopters, usually landing in advance of his arrival.\n\nAccording to the Washington Post, the president is always accompanied by a military aide carrying an emergency satchel known as the \"football\", which contains the \"gold codes\" for launching the country's nuclear weapons and options for their use.\n\nThe military aide must be nearby the president at all times, as the commander-in-chief is in possession of personal identification codes required to order a strike.\n\nThey are carried on a plastic card known as the \"biscuit\", which can be read only when its opaque plastic covering is snapped in two and removed.\n\nThe presidential motorcade, which includes two identical limousines and other security and communications vehicles, are transported ahead of the president by United States Air Force transport aircraft.\n\nOn the ground, the president travels in Cadillac One - a bullish, enhanced limousine dubbed the \"Beast\" for obvious reasons.\n\nThe spare, decoy vehicle that accompanies it has the same Washington DC licence plates - 800-002.\n\nPresident Trump's generation of presidential car debuted in 2018 - with the US Secret Service tweeting ahead of the UN General Assembly that it was \"ready to roll\".\n\nBut the service and vehicle's designers at General Motors have remained tight-lipped about the vehicle's special security features.\n\nWeighing in at about nine tonnes (20,000lb) - with an armour-plated body and bulletproof windows (which don't all open) - the car is reported to have tear gas grenade launchers, night vision cameras and a built-in satellite phone.\n\nReinforced tyres surround steel-rimmed wheels, which mean the car can still be driven if the tyres are flat.\n\nThe passenger cabin is said to be sealed, to fend off a chemical attack, while special foam would surround the fuel tank in case of impact.\n\nThe vehicle also has extensive electronic equipment, Reuters reports.\n\nThe car can hold at least seven people and has a wide range of medical supplies on board, including - NBC News suggests - a fridge full of blood matching the president's blood type, in case of emergency.\n\nWhen the president's on the move - you know about it.\n\nOther vehicles in the cavalcade include a parade of police outriders, secret service backup vehicles, counter-assault and hazardous attack teams, an armoured SUV communications vehicle, known as Roadrunner, medics and the press corps.\n\nThe president could also bring a fleet of helicopters with him to the UK.\n\nAmong them Marine One, which, like Air Force One, isn't a specific aircraft but instead refers to any US Marine Corps aircraft carrying the president.\n\nHowever, Marine One usually refers to one of the president's large Sikorsky VH-3D Sea Kings or the newer, smaller VH-60N White Hawks.\n\nThe specially adapted helicopters are known as \"white tops\" because of their livery and are fitted with communications equipment, anti-missile defences and hardened hulls.\n\nIt was Sea King versions that met the president at Stansted Airport and carried him to London, accompanied by tandem rotor chinook aircraft.\n\nAs a security measure, Marine One often flies in a group of identical helicopters acting as decoys.\n\nIt is also usually accompanied by two or three Osprey MV-22 escort aircraft, referred to as \"green tops\".\n\nThese tilt-rotor aircraft carry support staff, special forces and secret service agents, who are tasked with dealing with any mid-flight emergency.\n\nThe Ospreys, capable of vertical landings and high-speed flight, were heard circling around London during President Trump's last visit to the UK in 2018.\n\nStaff are also transported around in CH-46s Sea Knight helicopters.\n\nBritish forces' aircraft are also likely to be part of the security operation during his visit.\n\nSome estimates put the number of people in Mr Trump's entourage for his UK visit in 2018 at 1,000, including more than 150 US secret service agents.\n\nStaff included military communications specialists, White House aides, a doctor, a chef and members of the media.\n\nSome 750 rooms were booked out to accommodate his entourage, according to Matt Chorley, of the Times newspaper.\n\nFor his 2019 state visit, the president was reported to have booked a floor of the Corinthia Hotel in Westminster for his family and entourage.\n\nThis time around Mr Trump will be in London and Hertfordshire between 2 and 4 December for the Nato summit.\n\nHe will also attend a reception at Buckingham Palace on 3 December, which will be hosted by the Queen.\n• None Donald Trump state visit: All you need to know", "The 2019 Champions League final is almost here and while there are still plenty of unknowns to discover, there are also lots of things which are pretty much certain to happen.\n\nSo, at the end of a season in which so much has been unexpected, let's take a look at some elements of this Tottenham v Liverpool meeting that are comfortingly predictable.\n\nSadio certain to be Liverpool's Mane man\n\nTwelve months ago, Liverpool's build-up to their Champions League final against Real Madrid was dominated by the importance of Mohamed Salah to their chances and, given his team's struggles after he went off injured, rightly so.\n\nNow, of the Reds' enviable front three, Sadio Mane has arguably become the key figure. He shared the Premier League's Golden Boot with Salah and Arsenal's Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, but take away penalties and Mane would have been three clear of any other player.\n\nThe Senegal forward scored Liverpool's only goal in the 2018 final and if he nets against Spurs he will be the first player to score in the final in consecutive years since Franz Roth for Bayern Munich in 1975 and 1976.\n\nHe comes alive in the knockout stages, with 71% of his Champions League goals coming after the groups - the highest proportion of any player with 10 or more - and his expected goals total of 7.8 (excluding penalties) in this season's tournament is exactly 2.0 higher than any other player in 2018-19 and only 1.1 lower than Manchester United managed in their entire European campaign.\n\nAs a result, all the signs point to Mane being the most important figure in the match... except one.\n\nThe man who has scored 80% of his Premier League goals within two miles of the English coast has to perform in a Champions League final being staged in one of the only major European cities not built by a river or a seafront. Will he sink or swim?\n\nSomeone is bound to pay the penalty\n\nTalking of penalties, this will be the first Champions League final to get the luxury VAR (video assistant referee) experience, with the added bonus that it features the teams whose Premier League meetings have produced more spot-kicks (22) than any other fixture.\n\nWill the remote referees serve up some 12-yard drama? If they do, then Spurs and Liverpool - in Harry Kane and James Milner - have some of the coolest men in the business, with only six failures between them from 42 attempts in the Premier League and Champions League combined.\n\nIt's why the rest of the world envies England's penalty technique...\n\nThe winner will have defied convention\n\nWhoever wins the 2019 Champions League, it will go down as an outlier of an edition.\n\nIt's the first final between two non-group winners since 2010, the first not to feature a team who has actually won their domestic league title in the 21st Century (Liverpool and Spurs' combined league drought of 87 years seems, and is, a lot), and we know that the winning side will end the season with four defeats, a new record for the Champions League in its current format.\n\nManchester United, in 2007-08, remain the most recent team to become European champions without losing a game, while AC Milan's poor record - at first glance at least - of three defeats in 2006-07 was skewed by losses in their final two group games when the section was won.\n\nLiverpool and Tottenham's progress through the group stage was anything but serene, with the Reds losing all three of their away games in the autumn and Tottenham virtually eliminated three matches into their 'group of death', which also included Barcelona, Inter Milan and PSV. They scraped through with a negative goal difference and six months later are one game from immortality.\n\nWhoever wins, they will have underlined how unpredictable this season, and the Champions League in general, has become.\n\nTest your knowledge - and then impress your friends\n\nWe all know that the hours before the Champions League final can drag, so why not use the below to make yourself feel momentarily superior as kick-off approaches.\n\nTake our mini-quiz and show off to your mates… (answers are below, but no peeking!)\n\n1) Which full-back on show in the 2019 final has created the most goalscoring chances by a defender in the Champions League this season?\n\n2) The past five first-time finalists in the Champions League have not won the trophy. Who were the last Champions League/European Cup final debutants to win?\n\n3) If Tottenham are victorious, London will have exactly two European Cup wins to its name. Name the other four cities to have two European Cups.\n\n4) Name the only player to feature as both a starter and a substitute in Liverpool's pair of Champions League finals in 2005 and 2007?\n\n5) And talking of players whose last name begins with K - and with Harry Kane seemingly back to full fitness - can you name the last four players with a K surname to score in a Champions League/European Cup final?\n\n1) Kieran Trippier. So not him, or him.", "Lee Krasner was in Paris when she received the call.\n\nIt was sometime around midday on Sunday 12 August 1956. The American artist had never been to the French capital before, although she'd been inspired by others who had, namely Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse and Vincent van Gogh.\n\nShe was not impressed by the Louvre, the scale of which she found overwhelming and the art \"unbelievably bad\". The news she was about to receive would be much, much worse.\n\nThere had been an accident back home, she was told. Her husband, who had stayed at their East Hampton house on Long Island, New York state, while she went on her European adventure, had crashed his convertible car at 10pm the night before.\n\nThere were two female passengers in the overturned vehicle. One had been killed, the other, Ruth Kligman, was OK.\n\nAnd then this: the driver, the man she had married 11 years earlier, the painter she had supported through all his artistic difficulties and battles with alcoholism, the one person on Earth with whom she truly connected, had not survived.\n\nLee Krasner, who was in the shadow of her husband, celebrated artist Jackson Pollock, seen here in Springs, 1946\n\nWhen they first met, in the early 1940s, Krasner was considered the more accomplished artist. But ever since Mural (1943), Pollock's huge, ground-breaking, abstract painting, it had been her husband's work that garnered all the attention. The shadow his fame had cast over her own career as a significant player in post-war American Expressionism looked as if it would only grow longer with his death.\n\nAnd so it did. Jackson Pollock became a mythical figure: immortalised in Hans Namuth's photographs, romanticised as a troubled genius, and fought over by billionaires and institutions desperate for a signature piece. (It's amazing what dying will do for an artist's career.)\n\nMeanwhile, Lee Krasner went about her business as an artist, while also taking on the additional burden of looking after her deceased husband's estate. Legal tussles, legacy issues and authentication meant this was no easy task\n\nHans Namuth took this photograph of Lee Krasner in her studio in 1962\n\nTrue, she was exhibited, but there tended to be a Jackson shaped elephant in the room. Either her work was seen in the context of his, or he wasn't mentioned at all. Neither approach was satisfactory. She remained in his shadow even after her death in 1984.\n\nThat was 35 years ago. Now, at last, there is a confident, intelligent exhibition, presenting Lee Krasner in her rightful position as one of the most important painters of the 20th Century.\n\nThere is no need for Jackson denial or comparison. His presence in her life is evident. It can be seen in material form in her collage Bald Eagle (1955), which contains paint splattered fragments of a Pollock picture. It can be felt, too…\n\nThere is a small, dark room in this exhibition, in which hangs a series of four large paintings, inspired by Picasso's famous Les Demoiselles Avignon (1907). The first is ominously called Prophecy (1956). Krasner painted it in the summer of 1956 before her trip to Europe, when her husband's drinking was as bad as the state of their marriage. It is a bulbous, fleshy, awkward image: both anxious and hopeful, menacing and heavy. She said it \"disturbed me enormously\".\n\nA few weeks later, Pollock was dead. Krasner returned and immediately continued with the series, saying: \"Painting is not separate from life. It is one. Do I want to live? My answer is yes - and I paint.\"\n\nThe three subsequent works - Birth (1956), Embrace (1956), and Three in Two (1956) - are deeper, angrier, magnificent paintings. If you want to know what raw pain and loss feel like, spend a few minutes in this room. They are technically accomplished, complicated pictures, delivering an emotional charge that you won't quickly forget.\n\nLee Krasner, Three in Two, 1956\n\nThree in Two is like a Tarantino movie but without the humour. It is full of blood, gore and anger; a reflection on Pollock's fatal car crash perhaps, and the fact that there was a third person in their marriage - his lover, the sole survivor of the accident, Ruth Kligman.\n\nThis room is the pivotal point of the exhibition. It is the apogee of Krasner's investigation into Cubist techniques and ideas, which started with her Nude Study from Life (1938), produced while she was a student of the German modernist Hans Hofmann. One glance at the wall on which this group of early drawings are exhibited and you will know why Hofmann said she was one of his finest students.\n\nShe quickly moved into abstraction, producing a series of \"Little Images\" in the mid-1940s, including the excellent, Miro-like Abstract No. 2 (1946-48) and the blood red Untitled (c. 1948-49).\n\nThere are misses among the hits, as you would expect from an artist who refused to settle on a single style, announcing rather grandly: \"I am not to be trusted around my old work for any length of time.\"\n\nHer mid-1950s collages are a mixed bag. Burning Candles (1955) fails to settle as a composition and is strangely irritating to look at, while Blue Level (1955) is admirable for its bravado and risk-taking, but didn't do it for me. Unlike Bird Talk (1955) and the aforementioned Bald Eagle, both of which would be very welcome on one of my walls.\n\nAs would any one of her giant abstract expressionist paintings from the mid-'60s. Unfortunately I don't live in a mansion or own a museum, or anywhere with the sort of wall space they'd need. But London's Barbican Art Gallery does, and they fill its central galleries, which, for once I am pleased to say, are pepped up with a little natural light.\n\nHere we see Krasner on an operatic scale, painting huge canvasses with looping strokes and a conductor's sense of rhythm. There is not a dud among them: painting after painting sings out from the walls in harmonious tones of red (Another Storm), orange (Courtship), green (Siren), or pink (Combat).\n\nKrasner said she liked jazz. You can not only see that in these paintings, you can hear it. Imagine seeing them alongside Kandinsky's series of Compositions - you'd need earmuffs!\n\nThey are a wonderful way to end a wonderful show. Lee Krasner was full of colour and ideas and life, as is this exhibition. Do go and see it if you can.", "The explosion sent a mushroom cloud into the sky above Dzerzhinsk\n\nA factory explosion in the Russian city of Dzerzhinsk has injured 79 people and damaged 180 homes nearby.\n\nCity officials say that the factory was used to produce and store high-explosive bombs for the military.\n\nThey add that the processing facility at the JSC Kristall Research Institute plant has been completely destroyed by the blast.\n\nA factory official says five people were inside at the time, but they were safely evacuated.\n\nMost of the people who were hurt were cut by flying glass from the explosion, which also caused a shockwave that smashed windows in homes and other factories in the city.\n\nThe shockwave smashed windows in buildings near the factory\n\nDzerzhinsk city officials have declared an emergency in the surrounding areas, while the Investigative Committee of Russia says it has launched a criminal investigation into potential safety violations at the plant.\n\nA local health ministry statement says: \"According to the latest information, 79 people asked for medical help after the explosion at Kristall: 38 factory workers and 41 residents of the city. There are no children among the injured.\"\n\nIt adds that 15 people were hospitalised, but no one had died.\n\nEarlier, a local health official said that most victims were suffering from \"shrapnel wounds of mild and moderate severity\".\n\nMeanwhile residents have posted photos on social media showing a huge mushroom cloud billowing out over the blast area.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Пачкуа Ле Пестриньи This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOfficials said it was a \"technical explosion\" in one of the workshops, which caused a fire of around 100 sq m.\n\nLast August three people died in another factory blast in Dzerzhinsk, in central Russia, which is believed to be one of the world's most polluted cities.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Flow Country is a beautiful but precarious habitat which is critical in the fight against the effects of climate change.\n\nIt is widely considered to be the largest area of blanket bog in the world and acts as a giant carbon sink, soaking up huge amounts of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere.\n\nDark and dappled, the landscape is of great interest to scientists and more recently to artists, who want to raise awareness of this remarkable place.\n\nAt first glance the massive expanse of moorland stretching across Caithness and Sutherland appears featureless but, if you stop and listen, it is teeming with life.\n\nA skylark shimmers towards the heavens, its song spiralling out over the bog. Tadpoles wiggle in peaty water underneath the shadows of skittering pond skaters.\n\nThe wind rushes over sphagnum moss and shakes the spiky, sticky sundew, which is slowly digesting the insects it has snared.\n\nAt first glance the landscape looks featureless\n\n\"Underneath our feet in the flow country there is an estimated 400 million tonnes of carbon,\" says Dr Roxane Andersen of the Environmental Research Institute at the University of the Highlands and Islands.\n\nThat amounts to three times as much carbon than is contained in all the trees in the UK, calculates Dr Andersen, who worries that the bog's role as a carbon sink is under threat.\n\nIt is though hard to feel a sense of urgency when you stand in the midst of this wild and beguiling country, which stretches for some 1,500 square miles (4,000 sq km) across the far north of the Scottish mainland.\n\nStanding amidst the black pools, Kathy Hinde is in her element.\n\nKathy Hinde uses a hydrophone to record sounds from the bog\n\nWearing a gentle smile and bedecked with headphones, sound mixer and huge fluffy microphone, Ms Hinde, who describes herself as a visual artist and composer, is capturing it all.\n\n\"What I'm really passionate about is trying to connect people with the natural world,\" says Ms Hinde, who is one of five artists from the Glasgow art house Cryptic who have been working here on the RSPB's Forsinard Flows nature reserve, preparing for a show at this summer's Edinburgh Fringe.\n\n\"I've got underwater microphones that I can throw into the bog pools and have a listen. I've also got those hydrophones I can bury into the squelching bog,\" explains Ms Hinde.\n\nAquatic insects such as water boatmen make clicking and popping sounds, she says, while some underwater invertebrates produce \"electronic sounding chirps\" and others undulate like synthesisers.\n\nThe soundscapes which Ms Hinde will produce from her recordings here, along with a water-powered musical sculpture, will be staged in Edinburgh's Royal Botanic Garden along with installations from the other artists.\n\nSculptures created by Heather Lander will house microhabitats made of ceramics, ink, paper and paintings.\n\nVisual artist Hannah Imlach will present images referencing the scientific instruments used on the bog. Luci Holland and Matthew Olden will produce soundscapes inspired by natural audio and scientific data gathered here.\n\nOn top of these installations the show, entitled Below the Blanket, will feature the premiere of a choral work composed by Malcolm Lindsay and sung by the Dunedin Consort, a baroque ensemble.\n\nThe entire project aims to highlight the importance of a habitat which is often forgotten and which has been neglected in the past.\n\nAs well as artists and wildlife, the bog is also swarming with scientists.\n\nBetween 2015 and 2017 there were 13 doctorates written about it, with much of that research focusing on climate change.\n\nThe area has been put forward for world heritage status\n\nAn outstanding application for World Heritage Status by the UK government in 2012, describes the Flow Country as \"the largest area of blanket bog in the world\".\n\n\"The peat is composed of not-quite-rotted-away remains of plants -and plants, when they're growing, take in carbon through photosynthesis. So that's holding carbon in the peat,\" explains Caroline Eccles of the RSPB and the Peatlands Partnership, a group which brings together government agencies, charities and educational establishments.\n\nThe RSPB's Caroline Eccles wants to bring the delights of the Flow Country to a wider audience.\n\nCrouching down she points out the most important plant in this process, the spongy, springy, multi-coloured sphagnum moss. Not for nothing is it nicknamed the bog builder.\n\nMs Eccles says she is thrilled to be involved with the fringe show, which she thinks will bring the delights of the flow country to a wider audience.\n\n\"We're hoping that it gives new insights and new ways of looking at the landscape,\" she says.\n\nSphagnum moss is known as the bog builder\n\nIt will be educational too. Dr Andersen says spreading awareness of the bog's importance in tackling climate change is vital, especially given the history of what many scientists regard as ill-judged political decisions which hampered that effort.\n\nIn the 1980s celebrities such as the late broadcaster Sir Terry Wogan and snooker player Steve Davis were encouraged by Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government to write off earnings against tax by investing in tree plantations on the bog.\n\nAs the money poured in, hundreds of thousands of non-native species were planted with the aim of creating jobs and boosting forestry.\n\nDr Roxane Andersen says forestry schemes damaged the bog's ability to store carbon dioxide\n\nThe scheme was not a success says Dr Andersen. In fact she has published evidence that it seriously damaged the bog's ability to store carbon dioxide.\n\nDisturbing the peatlands, whether by planting trees then or by the threat of drainage and evaporation as temperatures rise now, risks the loss of carbon \"at a much faster rate than it's been accumulated,\" she warns.\n\n\"Effectively it could fuel climate change rather than mitigate it,\" she says.\n\nAware of that risk, the RSPB has been leading efforts to clear the forest and return the bog to pristine condition.\n\nThe RSPB has built a field centre and observation tower at Forsinard\n\nThe charity's work and its decision to build a field centre and observation tower at Forsinard, some 15 miles from the northern tip of Great Britain, has at times attracted controversy.\n\nFading graffiti on a large shed near the centre reads \"No to RSPB plans\".\n\nThe RSPB insists that since the tower opened in 2015 opposition has faded.\n\nNow conservationists are working not just to fell trees but to raise the water level by damming forestry drains and furrows.\n\nThey were encouraged by research recently published by Dr Andersen which concluded that, with carefully-managed deforestation, the bog can return to its natural state as a carbon sink within about 15 years.\n\nThe aftermath of the wildfire on an area of Forsinard Flows\n\nStill, Dr Andersen frets that a drought which hit the area last summer - there have even been serious wildfires here - is a harbinger of what is to come, drying out the peatland in spite of the efforts to preserve it.\n\n\"That could be really serious,\" she says, stressing the urgency and importance of the conservation work on the moorlands or mires as they are also known.\n\n\"If we can get them to be in the state where they can be wet and have the right type of vegetation again then they might be much more resilient to these droughts and changes in climate pattern,\" says Dr Andersen.\n\nSucceeding, she says, is \"absolutely critical\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIrish boxer Katie Taylor has previously reflected on the \"mountain tops and valleys\" of life, and this weekend she hopes to scale her highest peak to be the undisputed women's world lightweight champion.\n\nTaylor, 32, has sampled highs and lows, inside and outside of the ring, during her career.\n\nShe already holds the WBO, IBF and WBA world lightweight belts.\n\nNow she is bidding to write her finest chapter in boxing history by defeating Belgian police officer and WBC champion Delfine Persoon, 34, at New York's Madison Square Garden.\n\nIf she succeeds, she will claim her fourth world title in just 14 professional fights, and would be the first Irish female boxer to become the undisputed world champion.\n\nThe County Wicklow native is already a significant sporting figure due to her instrumental role in getting women's boxing recognised in Ireland and on the Olympic stage.\n\nBut as boxing author Barry Flynn explains, a win on Saturday night would put her achievements on another level.\n\n\"She is a once-in-a-generation athlete,\" said Flynn.\n\n\"In the modern era, in terms of Irish boxing, it would be unprecedented if she wins.\n\n\"She will stand at the pinnacle. It is a remarkable achievement given the hurdles she has had to overcome.\"\n\nTaylor with her promoter Eddie Hearn and Belgian opponent Delfine Persoon\n\nFlynn says you have to frame Taylor's achievements within \"the perspective of women's boxing in Ireland\".\n\n\"There has been a struggle over the years for it to get a general acceptance in what has traditionally been a male-dominated sport,\" he adds.\n\n\"Women's boxing has now been accepted worldwide, and Katie Taylor has brought that to the fore and been a torchbearer and pioneer in terms of women's boxing.\"\n\nWhen Taylor first dreamed of becoming an Olympic champion as a child training in her back garden in Bray, County Wicklow, women's boxing was not officially recognised in Ireland.\n\nShe has admitted that when she was a young girl she pretended to be a boy in order to enter contests.\n\nAs a 15-year-old amateur in 2001, Taylor fought in the first women's fight sanctioned by the Irish boxing authorities.\n\nKatie Taylor (far right) playing for the Republic of Ireland women's football team against the US in San Diego in 2006\n\nHer athleticism was also honed playing in the Republic of Ireland international women's football team.\n\nTaylor's ascent as a boxer, under the tuition of her trainer father Pete, was remarkable.\n\nShe claimed five World Championship golds at amateur level from 2006 to 2014, as well as a gold medal at the 2012 Olympics in London.\n\nKatie Taylor's father Pete was her trainer during her amateur career\n\nFormer World professional flyweight boxing champion Dave 'Boy' McAuley said he had not been impressed by women's boxing until he witnessed Taylor in action during that successful spell.\n\n\"When I saw her on the undercard for Irish boxer Bernard Dunne's world title fight in March 2009, her performance blew me away,\" he said.\n\n\"She was absolutely fantastic. When I sat watching her, she changed my whole perception of women's boxing.\n\n\"I think she is unbelievable, she is a great puncher and exciting to watch.\n\n\"I have met her outside the ring and she is a lovely girl, but inside it she is a different specimen.\"\n\nTaylor and her father Pete split professionally in 2016, months before the Rio Olympics in which she was surprisingly beaten in the quarter-finals.\n\n\"The first time I had to go training without him, the tears were rolling down my face,\" she said in the documentary Katie, which was released last year.\n\n\"I knew when I made the decision to step away from my dad it was going to cost me a lot.\"\n\nNearly two years after the Rio Olympics, in June 2018, an Irish gym founded by her father Pete was targeted in a shooting.\n\nBobby Messett, 50, died in the shooting at Bray Boxing Club. Pete was one of two other men injured.\n\nKatie Taylor condemned the \"horrific attack\", but said she had had little contact with her father in the \"last three years and no contact or association whatsoever with Bray Boxing Club since 2015\".\n\nHer Christian faith has been a constant in Taylor's career; she was a regular at St Mark's Pentecostal Church in Dublin's Pearse Street from her teenage years.\n\nShe has been known to pray with her mother, Bridget, before fights.\n\nTaylor's devotion to boxing has run parallel to her faith - Psalm 18 is embossed on the arm of her tracksuit.\n\nTraining in New York, ahead of Saturday's world title fight\n\nTaylor's decision to turn professional with promoter Eddie Hearn of Matchroom Boxing in October 2016 has reaped considerable rewards.\n\nThe Irish Times reported in April that Taylor's company had accrued cash reserves of more than €1.5m (£1.32m) after another successful year.\n\nThe boxer is now based in the Conneticut town of Vernon, in the US, where she is under the guidance of trainer Ross Enamait.\n\nHe has previously said \"there's a lot of people don't recognise the talent that exists\" in Taylor, but that is unlikely to remain the case for long.\n\nSaturday's contest, on the undercard of Anthony Joshua's fight against Andy Ruiz Jr, is widely anticipated.\n\nMcAuley remains a believer as Taylor heads for the summit. \"She will win the fourth title, she is the best there is about,\" he said.\n\n\"I think she will go down in history, I can't see anyone stopping her - there is no-one better than her.\"", "Laurie McAllister said giving up booze gave her clarity on what she wanted and helped her to buy her own home\n\nA blogger has told how giving up alcohol for good has helped her to buy her own three-bedroom house.\n\nLaurie McAllister, 28, said one month she spent £1,000 just on going out, and that her lifestyle in London left her \"struggling with anxiety\".\n\nIn 2016, while in bed with a hangover, she decided she was \"done\" and started saving to buy a new home in Norfolk.\n\n\"There is no way if I hadn't stopped drinking that I would have this house,\" she said.\n\nWhile living in London, Ms McAllister said she would splurge on going out to meet friends and getting taxis home. She would also spend lots on food as she was too tired to take lunch into work the following day.\n\n\"I wasn't very happy - I was drinking a lot, going out a lot and not having the best time,\" said Ms McAllister.\n\n\"I hated how I felt the next day.\n\n\"I hated the times I drank a lot and couldn't remember anything.\n\n\"Nights that started well, all dressed up and surrounded by my best friends would end in an argument, regrettable texts or a blackout not remembering how I got home.\"\n\nLaurie McAllister celebrated her birthday in her new home in Wymondham which she moved in to in March\n\nShe said although friends would have said she did not have a problem, her alcohol intake was \"bad enough for me to change\".\n\n\"I was struggling with anxiety and drinking was exacerbating that,\" she said.\n\n\"The final time I drank wasn't a big night out, but I woke up feeling like rubbish and thought, 'I'm done here'.\"\n\nLaurie McAllister five days after going teetotal in December 2016\n\nThat day, she launched her blog Girl and Tonic, and wrote about the challenge of remembering she did not need to drink to have fun.\n\nStopping drinking gave her \"clarity\", and she soon also noticed a financial benefit.\n\n\"I saw quite quickly that I was saving money,\" she said.\n\n\"I opened an ISA and put in what I had left over every month, then when I realised I was near [being able to get a deposit] I put in a bit extra.\"\n\nShe said she could have stayed sober in London, but liked the slower pace of life and the countryside where she grew up in Norfolk.\n\nMs McAllister said her blog keeps her \"accountable and sober\"\n\nAfter initially moving back, she lived with her parents for six months before renting a house with her brother.\n\nShe continued working full-time for a digital marketing agency, but also started teaching yoga.\n\nHer family had been really understanding, she said.\n\n\"They support my decision to be the happiest person I can be. It's been lovely to have their support and live closer to them.\"\n\nMs McAllister later moved back to her home county of Norfolk, and saved £10,000 in the first 18 months.\n\nShe bought her home in Wymondham, near Norwich, two months ago.\n\nMs McAllister said although she did not have particularly strong willpower, she helped maintain her resolve by taking up new habits such as reading and getting a dog.\n\n\"I do have a quieter life, but I've got a job I like, I love teaching yoga and I walk my dogs every day.\n\n\"I'm in a good financial situation and no longer paying rent.\"\n\nMs McAllister shares her new home with a lodger and two miniature dachshunds including Margot (pictured)\n\nShe said it had also been crucial to tell friends ahead of social events that she would not drink.\n\n\"The narrative for me was, 'You're a weirdo if you don't drink' - it wasn't friends saying that but more of a culture.\n\n\"I don't really regret anything, but I do look back and think how many nights would have been exactly as fun if I hadn't been drinking.\n\n\"I think if people choose to stop, they will also save money.\n\n\"I spent it on a house, but I have sober friends who have spent it on travelling.\n\n\"For me it's all about choice - you can still be a happy normal person without the booze.\"\n\nFor more information and support, visit Alcohol Change UK and BBC Action Line.\n\nListen to Sophie Little's interview with Laurie McAllister on BBC Radio Norfolk\n• None 'It's hard being young and sober'\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "One raccoon dog was photographed during a confrontation with farm animals\n\nTwo escaped raccoon dogs that were said to be \"terrorising\" residents have been caught and returned to their owner.\n\nNottinghamshire Police had described the animals as \"potentially dangerous\" and one woman said her goat and pony were attacked.\n\nMandy Marsh - who owns the pony and goat - said one of the raccoon dogs also confronted a dog walker.\n\nHowever, the raccoon dogs' owner said they never posed a serious threat.\n\nThe male and female went missing from Big Lane, Clarborough, on Tuesday morning after digging their way out of their enclosure.\n\nPolice said they were found and recaptured in the local area late on Friday.\n\nHeadlines about the escaped raccoon dogs suggested they were terrorising people and that the village was under siege from the \"absolutely mad\" animals.\n\nHowever, their owner maintained they were terrified, which may have caused them to \"do silly things when they are in that state\".\n\nThey are part of the Canidae family, which includes dogs and foxes.\n\nThe RSPCA says they are wild animals, rather than pets, and should not be kept in houses.\n\n\"In these cases they often become aggressive and unmanageable,\" said Stephanie Jayson, senior exotics and wildlife trade officer from the RSPCA.\n\n\"And while they are too small to be dangerous, they can bite and scratch.\"\n\nRaccoon dogs do not eat large animals such as goats, but they do eat small animals, insects, fish, birds, fruits, nuts and berries.\n\nThe owner of the raccoon dogs did not want to comment after they were recaptured.\n\nHe previously told the BBC: \"They have escaped and that is my mistake, but it's important people don't think these animals are especially dangerous.\n\n\"I have been up through the night, I've been really grateful for the help given and offered, and it's been hard work.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Simon Aherne and Anna Cousins, from Cardiff, are due to get married on Sunday, 3 May - one day before the traditional May Day Bank Holiday\n\nAn engaged couple say their wedding plans have been scuppered by changes to next year's early May bank holiday.\n\nMay Day is traditionally held on a Monday, but will be put back to Friday, 8 May in 2020 to accommodate the 75th anniversary of VE Day.\n\nBut Simon Aherne and Anna Cousins, from Cardiff, say the lack of notice has left their plans in tatters as most guests will be unable to attend.\n\nThe UK government said it made the decision \"as soon as practicable\".\n\nMr Aherne, a teacher and part-time DJ, and PR professional Ms Cousins were due to get married at Kingscote Barn in Gloucestershire on Sunday, 3 May - the day before the traditional bank holiday Monday.\n\nThe pair have booked everything from the venue to caterers, and sent out invitations to friends and family.\n\nBut when they were alerted to the announcement by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy on Saturday, their plans went \"out of the window\".\n\n\"Most of our family are teachers or in the entertainment business - so the bank holiday worked out perfectly for us,\" Mr Aherne said.\n\n\"Now we are just sitting here wondering what we are going to do.\"\n\nHe explained that while they respected the wish to mark the VE Day anniversary, as both their families have a history of military service, they questioned the lack of warning.\n\nThe couple say they could lose thousands in deposits if they have to rearrange their wedding\n\n\"How can the government just chuck this on people with 11 months to go? They have had time to prepare and could have given people a lot more notice.\"\n\nMr Aherne added: \"We have invited more than 100 people, but it looks like we might barely get 20 now.\n\n\"If we have to cancel, we are going to lose our deposits - we are talking thousands of pounds.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Lucy Jane Parkinson (left) and Rebecca Banatvala were starring in Rotterdam\n\nTwo actors were attacked on their way to a theatre performance in what was described as a \"cowardly homophobic hate crime\".\n\nLucy Jane Parkinson and Rebecca Banatvala were appearing in Rotterdam, which tells the story of a young gay woman, at Southampton's NST Campus.\n\nThe theatre company said they were left \"hugely shaken\" after an object was thrown at them on Saturday afternoon.\n\nHampshire police said it had received a report of homophobic abuse.\n\nTwo performances of the Olivier Award-winning play by Jon Brittain were cancelled as a result.\n\nLucy Jane Parkinson was slightly hurt in the incident\n\nThe London-based couple said they were walking to the theatre for the matinee performance on Saturday when Ms Parkinson was hit by an object - possibly \"stones\", according to police - apparently thrown from a passing car.\n\nThe play was taking place at Southampton's NST Campus theatre\n\nMs Parkinson said as she kissed her partner, fellow actor Ms Banatvala, she was struck and knocked to the ground, leaving her with slight injuries.\n\nShe said they heard \"young boys laughing\" as the car drove off.\n\nMs Parkinson said: \"We're just two people looking for happiness like everybody else.\n\n\"I don't really understand why we're met with aggression from strangers.\"\n\nMs Banatvala said she was left \"really shocked, upset and angry\".\n\n\"It's made realise the importance of this play and stories like it,\" she said. \"It needs to be seen as something that is normal and regular and isn't something to be feared or attacked.\"\n\nA statement from the show's production company, Hartshorn-Hook, said the pair were left \"hugely shaken from this cowardly, homophobic hate crime\".\n\nRotterdam is on a UK tour following a successful West End run\n\nAnnouncing the cancellation of Saturday's two performances, it added: \"We are devastated that this kind of behaviour is still so prevalent, a fact which reinforces the importance of this play's message.\n\n\"We are doing all we can to support the team and thank our audiences and colleagues for their support.\"\n\nNST director Sam Hodges tweeted: \"I am extremely sad that this sort of appalling behaviour is still happening anywhere, let alone in a city where we have worked so hard to promote a culture of tolerance, inclusivity and civic pride.\"\n\nAfter initially requesting that the police did not take any further action, the couple have since made a report.\n\nA Hampshire police spokeswoman said the matter is under investigation and appealed for witnesses.\n\n\"We have received a report from a third party relating to an incident which happened on Hill Lane, Southampton.\n\n\"It has been reported that homophobic abuse was shouted at two women, and stones thrown at them, by a the occupants of a passing car,\" she said.\n\nThe incident comes a few days after it was revealed that two women were left covered in blood following a homophobic attack on a night bus in London.\n\nMelania Geymonat (right) and her date Chris were assaulted and robbed on a route N31 bus in Camden on 30 May\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Chuka Umunna made a \"serious mistake\" in leaving Change UK, the party's new leader Anna Soubry has said.\n\nSix Change MPs - Heidi Allen, Sarah Wollaston, Angela Smith, Luciana Berger, Gavin Shuker and Mr Umunna - left the party last week.\n\nBut Ms Soubry said it was the MP for Streatham's departure that would be most keenly felt.\n\n\"I will always be more sad than you can imagine that Chuka is not with us,\" she told the Guardian.\n\n\"I think he's a man of huge ability and talents, and I think he has made a very serious mistake.\"\n\nShe added: \"I said to him: 'The movement's out there, we just need to build a home for that movement, a political party.'\n\n\"When he decided that he believed we should not stand candidates I was beyond even disappointed.\n\n\"I believed in him, and believed he should be prime minister of our country. He was a major part of why I left the Conservative Party.\"\n\nAlong with former Tory minister Ms Soubry, the remaining Change UK MPs are Chris Leslie, Joan Ryan, Mike Gapes and Ann Coffey.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nChange UK - formerly known as the Independent Group - was formed earlier this year by MPs who quit Labour and the Conservatives.\n\nIt pledged to push for any Brexit deal negotiated by the government to be voted on at a referendum - or \"People's Vote\" - in which it would campaign for the UK to remain in the EU.\n\nBut in last month's European Parliament elections, it gained only 3.4% of the vote.\n• None Change UK loses six of its 11 MPs", "Roger Godsiff previously admitted he had not read the books he said were not \"age-appropriate\"\n\nThe MP for a primary school facing protests over LGBT teaching has been reported to the chief whip after telling campaigners \"you're right\".\n\nIn a video circulated on social media, Birmingham Hall Green MP Roger Godsiff told the Anderton Park Primary School protesters they had a \"just cause\".\n\nShadow education secretary Angela Rayner said she had reported the comments to the chief whip.\n\nMr Godsiff previously said the equality lessons were not \"age appropriate\".\n\nA High Court injunction is in place banning protests, which have been going on for months, outside the school.\n\nParents started to gather at the gates over concerns children were \"too young\" to learn about LGBT relationships. They also said the lessons contradicted Islam.\n\nIn the video, Mr Godsiff, who is seen with Shakeel Afsar, the lead organiser of the protests, said: \"If I had the opportunity of rolling the clock back I would do exactly the same thing again.\n\n\"Because I think you have a just cause and I regret the fact that it hasn't been reciprocated by the head teacher.\"\n\nHundreds of protesters gathered at Anderton Park Primary School last month\n\nHe asked demonstrators to \"consider calling the protest off\" as he said they had made their point, but added it would be their choice to do so.\n\nHe then said: \"I will continue to try and fight your corner because you're right.\n\n\"Nothing more, nothing less. You're right.\"\n\nMs Rayner said she has reported the comments to chief whip Nick Brown.\n\n\"This might be the personal views of Mr Roger Godsiff but they do not represent the Labour Party and are discriminatory and irresponsible,\" she added.\n\nShadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth also said he disagreed with Mr Godsiff's comments.\n\n\"I'm not sure if he should lose the whip but I think he has to understand that it's Labour party policy to support this education in schools,\" he told Sky News' Sophy Ridge on Sunday.\n\nEarlier, Wes Streeting, Labour MP for Ilford North, said he would be tabling a formal complaint to the party about Mr Godsiff.\n\nIn a series of tweets, he said: \"This made me feel sick to my stomach.\n\n\"One of my own Labour colleagues stood with people who have peddled hatred and bigotry on school gates, intimidating pupils, teachers and parents.\"\n\nAt its annual general meeting, the LGBT Labour group voted to condemn \"unreservedly and unequivocally\" the remarks and called for the Labour whip to be removed.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe city council's deputy leader Brigid Jones also tweeted: \"How dare you tell men whose homophobic protests were so threatening and disruptive that they had a court injunction issued against them that they are 'right'.\n\n\"You do not speak for me.\"\n\nA petition calling on the constituency Labour Party to deselect Mr Godsiff following his latest comments has 1,000 signatures.\n\nIn an interview with the Times on Thursday, schools minister Nick Gibb said the DfE had been \"engaging with the city council almost daily to help navigate a way to a resolution\".\n\nHe said the protests were \"wrong\" in his view, and said he supported the council's decision to secure an injunction.\n\nOn Friday, Andy Street, the mayor of the West Midlands, said the protests were \"homophobic\" and must \"stop now\".", "Sebastian Vettel lost victory in the Canadian Grand Prix to Lewis Hamilton after being penalised for dangerous driving against his rival.\n\nThe Ferrari driver made a mistake under pressure from the world champion, running wide at Turn Three, and pushed Hamilton wide as he rejoined the track.\n\nRace stewards decided Vettel had rejoined the track unsafely and penalised him five seconds for forcing Hamilton off the track.\n\nThe Mercedes driver would likely have passed Vettel had he not been blocked with 22 laps still remaining.\n\nThe move will doubtless lead to a major controversy but Hamilton was clear that he felt Vettel had been unfair.\n\nHe said over the radio immediately after the incident: \"He's just come back on the track so dangerously.\"\n\nVettel complained vigorously, saying: \"Where the hell else was I supposed to go? I had grass on my wheels.\"\n\nTold to stay focused, he said: \"I am focused but they are stealing the race from us.\"\n\nVettel complained that Hamilton could have gone to the inside but that was inaccurate reading of the situation as it unfolded.\n\nNevertheless, doubtless many will feel that Vettel should have been excused and the drivers allowed to race.\n\nHowever, others will see it as yet another error under pressure from Vettel, whose 2018 season unravelled as a result of a series of them and who made another in Bahrain earlier this year, spinning after being passed by Hamilton.\n\nAnd the stewards may well have used precedent to inform the decision, such as when Red Bull's Max Verstappen was penalised in the same fashion for forcing then-Ferrari driver Kimi Raikkonen off the track in last year's Japanese Grand Prix.\n\nHow did it unfold?\n\nVettel had been in front of the race from the start, after converting his pole position, and led through the pit stops.\n\nBut once on to the hard tyres after the stops, Hamilton began to pile the pressure on Vettel.\n\nHe rejoined after his stop on lap 29 five seconds behind Vettel and was on his tail 10 laps later.\n\nHamilton stayed within a second of Vettel for the next nine laps until the key moment.\n\nVettel made a mistake entering the challenging Turn Three/Four chicane and ran over the grass on the second, left-handed part.\n\nAs he rejoined the track, Hamilton went to overtake him around the outside, but Vettel did not leave him a car's width on the outside of the track and the Mercedes driver had to back off.\n\nIt cost Ferrari another victory in 2019, a year in which Mercedes have won every race, but in which the Italian team could have had two and possibly three wins out of seven.\n\nAnd it also ended what had been a tense, exciting race, in which two of the finest drivers in the world were battling closely.\n\nVettel's team-mate Charles Leclerc lost victory in Bahrain when his engine hit problems late in the race, the Monegasque was looking the form man in Azerbaijan before a crash in qualifying. And now Vettel has cost Ferrari another win.\n\nHe was furious with the decision, saying over the radio at the end of the race: \"No, no, no. Not like that. You have to be an absolute blind man, you go on the grass how are you supposed to control your car. This is the wrong world.\"\n\nHe then pulled over in the pits long before the parc ferme area where he is meant to stop and pushed his car backwards into the garage of governing body the FIA.\n\nThen he stormed off into the Ferrari area, and appeared to decide he was not going to go to the podium, but was collected by an F1 official, and then went through the Mercedes garage before finally heading to the podium.\n\nOn the way, Vettel moved the number one board from in front of Hamilton's Mercedes and moved it in front of the empty space where his car should have been.\n\nHe entered the green room and said to Hamilton: \"Where am I supposed to go?\"\n\nHamilton responded with a shrug: \"Ach.\" Then added: \"Hard race, though, man.\"\n\nHamilton, meanwhile, received some boos from the crowd as he insisted: \"Naturally that's absolutely not the way I wanted to win.\n\n\"I took the corner normally, but when you come back on the track you are not meant to come back straight on the racing line. You're meant to rejoin safely.\n\n\"I forced the error and he went wide... we nearly collided, but that's motor racing.\"\n\nHamilton had dropped back to 2.5secs behind Vettel when the drivers were informed of the penalty but he soon closed right back up to Vettel's tail, as Leclerc in third place began to close on both of them.\n\nLeclerc did not quite manage to get close enough to Vettel to overtake him once the German's penalty was applied.\n\nHamilton's team-mate Valtteri Bottas had a quiet race on his way to fourth place, while Red Bull's Max Verstappen fought back from ninth on the grid to take fifth ahead of the Renaults of Daniel Ricciardo and Nico Hulkenberg.\n\nWhat happens next?\n\nFrance in two weeks' time. Unfortunately for Ferrari, the track layout is likely to favour Mercedes and that first win for the red cars will probably have to wait a while longer.\n\nWhat they said\n\nSebastian Vettel: \"Well I think first of all, I really enjoyed the race and the crowd on every lap. Seeing them cheer me on it was very intense. I think you should ask the pitwall what they think we had a great show and Lewis showed some good respect.\"\n\nCharles Leclerc: \"I'm pretty happy with my performance. We were very quick. The race pace was strong. I'm disappointed for the team - I don't know what happened [with Seb] but the team deserved a victory today\"", "Viktoria Modesta, who chose to have her own leg amputated aged 20, takes to the stage this weekend at the Crazy Horse in Paris.\n\nThe artist, who spent most of her childhood in Latvia, had felt hampered by the leg after 15 surgeries and decided to make the drastic decision.\n\nSince then she has performed in the closing ceremony of the London Paralympics and one of her videos has clocked up 12 million views on YouTube.\n\nShe's created a futuristic image for her latest show, at one of the world's most famous cabaret venues.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nRafael Nadal maintained his stranglehold on the French Open by beating Austrian fourth seed Dominic Thiem in four sets to lift a 12th men's singles title.\n\nThe Spaniard won for the third straight year at Roland Garros with a 6-3 5-7 6-1 6-1 victory in a high-quality final.\n\nThe 33-year-old is the first player to win 12 singles titles at the same Grand Slam and has now won 18 majors overall.\n\n\"I can't explain what I've achieved and how I feel. It's a dream,\" said Nadal.\n\n\"To play for the first time in 2005 - I never thought in 2019 I'd still be here. It's an incredible moment and very special for me.\"\n\nIt leaves the left-hander two Grand Slam titles adrift of Switzerland's Roger Federer, who he beat in the semi-finals, and three clear of Serbian world number one Novak Djokovic, whose bid to hold all four majors was ended by Thiem.\n\nThe second seed slid to the red dirt in triumph when he clinched victory on the second match point, lying behind the baseline with his arms outstretched as he contemplated the magnitude of his achievement.\n\nWith clay plastered over his back, he clambered to his feet and took the acclaim of an enthralled Roland Garros crowd which has become accustomed to seeing him triumph.\n\nThiem, 25, suffered his second Grand Slam final defeat after losing in three sets to Nadal in last year's final.\n• None Return to tennis my best decision - Barty reflects on French Open triumph\n\nHundreds of Spanish fans milling around outside Chatrier, identified by their red and yellow flags, football shirts and facepaint, has become an almost annual event before the men's final at Roland Garros since 2005.\n\nNadal has won on all but three of his appearances here, with his only defeats coming in the 2009 fourth-round by Robin Soderling and 2015 quarter-finals against Djokovic. In 2016, he pulled out before the third round with injury.\n\nThat meant he went into Sunday's final with a Roland Garros record of 92 wins and two defeats.\n\nA fiercely contested first set was closer than the scoreline suggests, Nadal rattling off the final four games to edge ahead after 55 tense minutes.\n\nBoth players understood the importance of making a quick start, Nadal attempting to take advantage of any mental and physical fatigue in his opponent, who only finished his delayed semi-final against top seed Djokovic less than 24 hours earlier.\n\nThe result was a physical battle, full of intense rallies as each man tried to gain the upper hand by brute force.\n\nThiem earned the first break point of the match at 2-2, putting away an overhead which left many inside Chatrier - which only included a handful of red and white-clad Austrian fans - jumping to their feet in celebration.\n\nNadal responded instantly, earning three break points in the next game and taking the second with a precise forehand which fizzed past Thiem.\n\nSticking with Nadal was one thing, turning that into taking a set off the champion proved to be a tougher task.\n\nNadal saw off another break point in a lengthy service game for a 4-3 lead, a pivotal moment as he moved 5-3 ahead as an aggressive backhand rocked Thiem on break point.\n\nThat left Nadal serving for the opening set, which he clinched when Thiem dragged a backhand wide on the second set point.\n\nMental and physical exertions take their toll on Thiem\n\nThiem knew he could scarcely afford to go a set behind the reigning champion - and falling two adrift would have all but extinguished his hopes.\n\nFollowing the intensity of the opening set, the level dropped in the second as serve dominated.\n\nOnly six receiving points were won in the opening 11 games - five for Nadal and just one for Thiem - before Thiem, out of nowhere, found himself with two set points.\n\nAnd the Austrian levelled the match when Nadal blinked again, hitting a backhand long after a 10-shot rally.\n\nBut the exertions of winning that set, playing four days in a row and having 24 hours fewer than Nadal to recover from the semi-finals, perhaps took their toll.\n\nNadal nipped off court at the end of the set, possibly for a mental reset as much as anything else, leaving Thiem waiting on the baseline for the start of the third set.\n\nWhether Nadal was using delaying tactics or not, the break of momentum worked.\n\nThiem delivered a poor service game as Nadal broke to love, the Spaniard backing that up with a hold to love sealed with an exquisite stun volley that even prompted a thumbs up from the Austrian.\n\nNadal won the opening 11 points of the third and clinched the double break with a trademark forehand down the line, an exuberant quadruple fist-pump celebration along the baseline stressing its importance.\n\nThiem won just seven points in the third set before ending a miserable 30 minutes with another unforced error into the net.\n\nHe began to look weary in the fourth set - particularly mentally - and Nadal smelt blood.\n\nThe Spaniard moved into a 3-0 lead, after seeing off break points in his two service games, before breaking again for a 5-1 lead.\n\nAlthough Thiem saved one match point, he could not prevent the inevitable and batted a Nadal serve long to spark jubilant celebrations from the Spaniard.\n\nFormer British number one Greg Rusedski on BBC Radio 5 Live\n\nThat was by far the best match we've seen at these championships.\n\nThiem was physically standing toe-to-toe with Nadal in the first set. We knew Thiem had to get off a great start to win his first major and he did that. It was electrifying.\n\nIt had a different feel to last year's final. Thiem wasn't overawed. He was not like a deer in headlights as he was last year in his first major final.\n\nBut it was about as well as I've seen Nadal play on a clay court and that's saying a lot for an 12-time champion.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Live text and radio commentary on selected matches on the BBC Sport website and app.\n\nRafael Nadal is \"almost impossible\" to beat at the French Open and it is a \"big ask\" for Dominic Thiem to stop him winning a 12th title on Sunday, says ex-British number one Greg Rusedski.\n\nSpanish second seed Nadal, 33, faces Austrian fourth seed Thiem at 14:00 BST in a repeat of last year's final.\n\n\"It is time for Thiem to step up in the biggest test in men's tennis on this surface,\" Rusedski told BBC Sport.\n\nThiem is seeking his first Grand Slam title, while Nadal is chasing his 18th.\n\nThe Spaniard can become the first player to win 12 singles titles at one Grand Slam.\n\n\"Rafa is almost impossible to beat in the five-set format on clay,\" former US Open finalist Rusedski added.\n\n\"The start is huge for Thiem. If he can get one of the first two sets - especially the first - then he has got a shot.\n\n\"If Rafa goes up one set early then all the pressure goes on Thiem's shoulders and Rafa relaxes.\n\n\"Thiem has to sneak that first set and get off to a brilliant start, then it would get very exciting.\"\n• None Djokovic says he lost semi-final in \"hurricane conditions\"\n\nThiem reached his first Grand Slam final at Roland Garros last year, but was outclassed in a 6-4 6-3 6-2 defeat by Nadal on Philippe Chatrier court.\n\nNow the 25-year-old has an opportunity to make amends for that defeat when they return to Roland Garros' newly rebuilt show court.\n\nThe world number four has beaten Nadal in three-set matches on the European clay swing in each of the past three years, including a 6-4 6-4 win in the Barcelona Open semi-finals in April.\n\nNadal leads their head-to-head record 8-4, but Thiem is one of only a handful of players to have beaten the 17-time major winner multiple times on clay.\n\n\"He's the heir apparent that everyone has been talking about. But to beat the maestro is a different thing.\" Rusedski said.\n\n\"The expectation isn't on Thiem but he has to perform a lot better than last year's final.\n\n\"He's got to throw that match behind him and remember the match in Barcelona where he destroyed Nadal.\"\n\nThiem won his first Masters 1000 title - the tier of ATP tournaments below the Grand Slams - by beating Roger Federer at Indian Wells earlier this year and Rusedski believes the Austrian is a much better player than when he met Nadal in the final 12 months ago.\n\n\"He's added the sliced backhand, he's playing a little closer to the baseline, he's willing to transition forward as well as using the drop shot,\" Rusedski said.\n\n\"So with that extra variety, and his strength and his power from behind the baseline, he's got a shot.\n\n\"I think he also needs to change the variety on his serve to keep Rafa off balance, as well as transitioning sometimes and bringing him in.\n\n\"Physically, he also has to stand toe to toe with Rafa. That is something which is demanding mentally and physically.\n\n\"Rafa gives you nothing, he is the most frugal man on a tennis court I've ever seen. He is going to play the old tactic he does against Roger Federer all the time, serve into that backhand side, trying to break it down up high and then quick into the forehand corner.\"\n\nWill Nadal benefit from an extra 24 hours off?\n\nThiem is the first Austrian to reach two Grand Slam singles finals after beating Serbian top seed Novak Djokovic in a five-set battle stretched over two days.\n\nTheir semi-final was called off on Friday because of expected rain and high winds, meaning Thiem did not seal victory until Saturday afternoon.\n\nNadal, meanwhile, finished his semi-final against Swiss great Roger Federer in straight sets 24 hours earlier.\n\n\"For Rafa, everything has worked out well in that he got done on Friday,\" Rusedski added.\n\n\"He came in on Saturday and had a 45-minute hit while Thiem was playing Djokovic.\n\n\"He's had the ideal preparation and goes in as the favourite.\"\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nEngland opened their World Cup campaign with a narrow victory over rivals Scotland in a game where they showed glimpses of their potential.\n\nAfter an open start, Nikita Parris scored from the spot on her World Cup debut after the penalty was awarded following a video assistant referee review.\n\nEllen White doubled the advantage before the break as Phil Neville's team dominated the first half.\n\nBut Scotland, making their World Cup debut and ranked 17 places below England at 20th in the world, took advantage as their opponents eased off in the second half when Claire Emslie slotted in from close range after Steph Houghton's poor pass.\n• None We should have done better - Neville\n• None 'Am I buzzing about England's performance? No' - pundits' analysis\n• None Football Daily podcast: England win but is anyone happy?\n\nAlthough they could not muster an equaliser, Shelley Kerr's side vastly improved on their performance in the 6-0 defeat against England at Euro 2017, before the Scotland head coach was appointed.\n\nAnd their tenacity should hold them in good stead in their remaining Group D games when they face Japan, ranked seventh in the world, and then Argentina, who are 37th, as they seek to reach the knockout stages.\n\nFor England, it was a mixed performance, which summed up their warm-up results coming into the tournament.\n\nThey looked confident all over the pitch in the first half after head coach Neville named what looked like his strongest starting team.\n\nBut after the break they fell short of producing the quality which Neville believes can take them to their first World Cup title, having finished third at the 2015 edition.\n\nThe result will be a relief for the former Manchester United and England defender, who is taking part in his first World Cup as a player or manager, and he will have been impressed by the performances from White, Parris and Lucy Bronze.\n\nHowever, he will also know that similar hesitancy against more fancied nations could prove costly later in the tournament.\n\nEngland impressive but with work to do\n\nEngland's superb first-half showing centred around the decision to award them a penalty via VAR after Fran Kirby's cross hit Nicola Docherty's arm.\n\nIt was a call that was booed by Scottish fans, but former Scotland winger Pat Nevin said on BBC Radio 5 Live that it was a \"definite\" spot-kick, and it was hard to argue.\n\nEngland had lost two of their four warm-up games but suddenly the Lionesses were oozing confidence and could have doubled their lead within 10 minutes as they piled pressure on the Scottish defence.\n\nTheir mood was summed up by a flowing move in which Parris nutmegged Docherty, a piece of skill which had the England fans in the 13,188 crowd purring.\n\nKirby fired wide from 18 yards, while White drew a superb save from Lee Alexander, before her header was ruled out for offside.\n\nWhite, who recently moved to Manchester City, was not to be denied before the break though and when Kirby caught Scotland skipper Rachel Corsie in possession, the forward finished precisely for her 29th England goal.\n\nIt proved a telling lead and showed the danger that England possess, particularly down the right where Parris and Bronze menaced Docherty, who was eventually withdrawn.\n\nTheir failure to add more goals made this a more edgy game than Neville would have wanted, but he will be pleased to get what he called the \"toughest group game\" out of the way, and focus on the next game against Argentina, who are unlikely to provide as stern a test.\n\nKerr's side came into this game after an unbeaten run of five games.\n\nWith some of their best players back after missing the same fixture at Euro 2017, they gave England a real test.\n\nChelsea's Erin Cuthbert, who played up front on her own, was key to a thrilling start and proved Scotland's best outlet on the counter attack. The 20-year-old could have pulled a goal back but fired wide shortly after White had made it 2-0.\n\nBut the youngster was not downhearted and combined with right-winger Emslie, and midfielder Kim Little, as they kept the England defence on their toes.\n\nLisa Evans also had a chance to score before Emslie's reply, but lost control of the ball in the box.\n\nThere was certainly a swagger about Kerr's side, who have nine players in their squad who play in the FA Women's Super League in England, the only fully professional league in Europe.\n\nTheir fitness did not seem to drop, and while they could not find an equaliser, Kerr and her team will be hugely encouraged they can reach their target of the knockout stages, particularly as in some cases three teams from a group will progress.\n\n'We've got to be relentless' - what they said\n\nEngland boss Phil Neville: \"I was pleased with the result. The first game is always the most difficult game but we set certain standards and the players know we need to keep meeting those standards.\n\n\"If we don't, we get second half performances like we just got. We've got to be relentless now.\n\n\"I think at 2-0 in this heat, we thought it was going to be easy in the second half. It's a lesson that every game in this World Cup is going to be difficult.\"\n\nScotland boss Shelley Kerr: \"We know we need to win one game, it doesn't have to be the first game, even if it would have been nice.\n\n\"At a top competition like the World Cup you need to scrutinise yourself to the max, there were a lot of positives for us in the second half though.\"\n\nA first since 1995 - the stats\n• None England won their opening match of a Women's World Cup tournament for the second time ever and the first time since 1995.\n• None Nikita Parris' opening goal in this match was her 13th for England, but the first from the penalty spot.\n• None Ellen White has scored a goal in each of her past three international appearances for England against Scotland.\n• None Karen Carney won her 141st cap for England in this match, overtaking Alex Scott's total of 140 caps for England women. Only Fara Williams (170) has more caps for England women.\n• None Both Jill Scott and Karen Carney appeared in their fourth Women's World Cup for England - more than any other players in the history of the competition for the Lionesses.\n\nEngland are in Le Havre on Friday (20:00 BST) where they face Argentina - the lowest-ranked country in Group D - while Scotland are in Rennes on the same day to play Japan (14:00).\n• None Attempt missed. Georgia Stanway (England) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Nikita Parris.\n• None Attempt blocked. Karen Carney (England) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Keira Walsh.\n• None Attempt blocked. Alex Greenwood (England) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Georgia Stanway.\n• None Goal! England 2, Scotland 1. Claire Emslie (Scotland) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the top right corner. Assisted by Lisa Evans with a through ball.\n• None Offside, England. Karen Carney tries a through ball, but Ellen White is caught offside.\n• None Attempt saved. Ellen White (England) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Keanu Reeves and other highlights at the Xbox event\n\nMicrosoft has announced that its next-generation console is set to go on sale before the end of 2020.\n\nCodenamed Project Scarlett, the firm said that the machine would be the \"biggest leap\" over a previous generation there had ever been.\n\nAt the E3 games expo, Microsoft said the custom-designed processor, made by AMD, would be four times more powerful than that of the Xbox One X.\n\nIt added that Halo Infinite would be among its launch titles.\n\nHowever, the company did not show off what the device would look like, or reveal its intended price.\n\nHalo's Master Chief guarantees the forthcoming console at least one high-profile launch title\n\nThe announcement follows similar promises made by Sony about the forthcoming PlayStation 5, which is also still in development.\n\n\"As expected, with a next-generation Xbox release being at least 17 months away, a full reveal didn't happen,\" commented Piers Harding-Rolls from the consultancy IHS Markit.\n\n\"Sony had done a similar reveal of next-generation power at a previous investor event, but Microsoft's exposure at E3 and the announcement that Halo Infinite will be a launch title will have positioned it strongly, especially with the US audience.\"\n\nThis was one of the few images that showed what a next-generation game might look like\n\nOther details shared about the Xbox One successor included that it will:\n\nMicrosoft teased images of Project Scarlett's circuitry being tested but did not disclose what the machine's case might look like\n\nXbox chief Phil Spencer also strongly hinted that the machine was being designed to take advantage of new internet capabilities, but did not provide specifics.\n\n\"When we talk about Xbox in the cloud, when we talk about streaming your games, Project Scarlett and all of its power and all of its performance is the foundation of our future in console and the formation of our future in cloud,\" he said.\n\nAnother highlight of the Xbox's press conference was a surprise appearance by Keanu Reeves.\n\nKeanu Reeves' involvement in Cyberpunk 2077 had not been previously revealed\n\nThe actor strode on stage to reveal that Cyberpunk 2077 is set to go on sale in April 2020.\n\nThe future-set role-playing game is being developed by CD Projekt Red, the studio behind the Witcher series.\n\nReeves - who has starred in the Matrix trilogy amongst other sci-fi movies - will also appear in the title.\n\nHis brief appearance drew huge applause with one attendee shouting: \"You're breathtaking.\"\n\n\"No, you're breathtaking,\" the actor ad-libbed in reply to laughs from the crowd.\n\nThe role of Keanu Reeves' character in the game remains a mystery\n\nReeves' involvement guarantees positive publicity for Poland's CD Projekt, which had faced criticism for reportedly putting its team under pressure to do \"extensive overtime\" to have Cyberpunk 2077 ready to demo at E3.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Daniel Dawkins This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Perpetual Noob This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnother unexpected announcement was Microsoft's takeover of the indie studio Double Fine Productions.\n\nThe San Francisco-based developer is famous for titles including Psychonauts, Brutal Legend, and Broken Age.\n\nIts chief Tim Schafer was also responsible for classics including The Secret of Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle and Grim Fandango.\n\nMr Schafer told the audience that he would be a team player and was even willing to work on \"Excel stuff\" - referring to Microsoft's spreadsheet software - before adding \"I was totally lying\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Bobby Schroeder This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMicrosoft showed off about 60 titles in total at its show.\n\nThe trailer for Elden Ring feature a severed arm and several characters suffering from crumbling bodies\n\nMicrosoft also announced that it has launched Xbox Game Pass PC - a subscription service that will allow console titles to be download and played on Windows 10 computers.\n\nIt said 100 games will be included, including Forza Horizon 4, Metro Exodus and the Halo Master Chief Collection. It will charge $9.99 (£7.85) a month to be a member, and users can combine it with an Xbox Live Game Pass Console - which lets games be played on the Xbox One - for $14.99.\n\nThe firm is also planning to launch a \"beta\" test version of a separate service - xCloud - in October. It will stream Xbox One games from either the firm's data centres or users' own consoles to other devices, including smartphones, allowing gamers to continuing playing when away from home.\n\nMicrosoft said attendees at E3 would be offered the first public hands-on demonstrations of the technology.\n\nMicrosoft's Forza 4 video game will get a Lego-themed expansion later this week\n\nIt should offer a similar experience to Sony's Remote Play, but some attendees were expecting more information to have been disclosed.\n\n\"Less details about the service were forthcoming than perhaps expected, calling the idea that it will launch in 2019 into question,\" said Mr Harding-Rolls.\n\nMicrosoft's move comes ahead of the launch of a rival games-streaming service from Google called Stadia. The search giant plans to begin streaming titles in ultra-high definition 4K from November.\n\nAmazon is also rumoured to be working on a cloud-based platform of its own.\n\nMicrosoft hopes existing Xbox Live members will upgrade to stream Xbox games on PCs\n\n\"The fact everyone is moving into the streaming space is an indication that everyone is on the right track to where the gaming space is moving to,\" Russ Frushtick, co-founder of games news site Polygon told the BBC.\n\n\"The benefit for Microsoft is a subscription model. You can pay [a monthly fee] and then you can stream it to a [low-spec] laptop.\"\n\nMicrosoft is the only one of the big three console-makers holding a press conference at the Los Angeles expo this year.\n\nBlair Witch's trailer contained video cam footage in a similar manner to the low-budget film The Blair Witch Project on which it is based\n\nSony has opted to skip the event outright.\n\nNintendo will rely on a pre-recorded video presentation - as it has done since 2013 - but will host a showroom booth where it will demo new games.\n\nThe Nintendo Direct event is scheduled for 0900 local time (1700 BST) on Tuesday, the same day E3 formally opens its doors.\n\nWho knows what Microsoft's business strategy with gaming is?\n\nI certainly don't after watching that - but then maybe that was the point. This is a company keeping its options open.\n\nI see it shaping up something like this: the new console will be for serious gamers, the types who demand the high-fidelity, premium experience. The type of people who are at E3, which is why the news of the new console was met with such excitement in the room.\n\nThis crowd was less excited about xCloud, the streaming service, but that's likely because this will be about attracting more casual fans, who are satisfied with the quality Microsoft will be able to deliver down an internet connection.\n\nBut Google's Stadia might get to those gamers, that enormous market, first. It launches in November, while it looks like xCloud won't go fully online until early next year.\n\nPhil Spencer, head of Xbox, told me his company's experience - its been in gaming for almost two decades - will give it an edge.", "The Scottish government has threatened action against Irish vessels found fishing within 12 miles of Rockall\n\nIrish fishermen have said they have no intention of leaving disputed waters off Rockall.\n\nIt comes after Scottish ministers gave a warning to their Irish counterparts.\n\nThey said they would take enforcement action against any vessels caught within 12 nautical miles of the uninhabited North Atlantic islet.\n\nJohn O'Kane, of Greencastle Fishermen's Co-Operative, said three Irish skippers were continuing to fish in the area, as they had done for the past 30 years.\n\nScotland's Fisheries Minister Fergus Ewing said the Scottish government was sure of its legal position and added that it was his duty to ensure that the law was enforced.\n\nSpeaking to RTÉ, Mr O'Kane said the Irish boats were inside the 12-mile exclusion zone but the fishermen said there had been no sign of any naval patrols.\n\nJohn O'Kane said Irish trawlers had fished in the area for the past 30 years\n\n\"They are going to continue fishing there,\" he said. \"They have been fishing there for the last five months this year and for the last 30 years. Our co-op has been in existence for 30 years and during that period of time we have had boats off Rockall every single year.\n\n\"They are going to see out their trips. They have no intention of leaving there at the moment.\n\n\"What the Scots have done is brought in a rule that is against the law of the sea. It is against EU law and has no legal standing whatsoever.\"\n\nHe added: \"Our vessels are going to continue fishing under European legislation and they are perfectly entitled to do that. Hopefully the Scots will not be sending naval vessels and this can all be sorted out at a government level.\n\n\"We feel that this is a political stunt by the SNP. The Irish government have to fight this tooth and nail.\n\n\"There is no tension at all between the Scottish and Irish fishermen. This has blindsided us. It's just come out of the blue.\n\n\"Our fishermen are determined to stick to their guns on this one.\"\n\nRockall - an eroded volcano - lies 260 miles (418km) west of the Western Isles and is only 100ft (30m) wide and 70ft (21m) high above the sea.\n\nThe UK claimed Rockall in 1955, but Ireland, Iceland and Denmark have previously challenged that claim.\n\nThe row between Scotland and Ireland broke out after increased activity from Irish vessels around Rockall.\n\nScotland's Fisheries Minister Fergus Ewing told BBC Scotland: \"This is a routine enforcement matter to ensure that illegal activity within the UK's territorial waters, namely within a radius of 12 miles of the islet of Rockall, ceases.\n\n\"We have been engaging with the Irish government for a considerable length of time because we would prefer that this matter is resolved by discussion and negotiation amicably, and that remains the case.\"\n\nHe said the Irish government had been formally notified of intended enforcement action on 31 May but there had been communication about the issue last September.\n\n\"All of these steps we have sought to take to bring about an amicable agreement have failed,\" he said. \"That leaves us with no alternative but to seek to enforce the law and that is what we will now proceed to do.\n\n\"We have made absolutely clear our view. We are sure of the legal position and of our legal ground and it is my duty to ensure that the law is enforced.\"\n\nFergus Ewing said the Scottish government had been trying to resolve the matter amicably\n\nHe said there had been \"substantial evidence\" of illegal activity and that the enforcement action had \"nothing whatsoever to do with politics or Brexit\".\n\n\"Doing something illegal repeatedly does not make it legal\", he added.\n\n\"I do hope that the Irish government will intervene to provide clear advice to their fishers to cease and desist.\"\n\nOn Saturday, Bertie Armstrong from the Scottish Fishermen's Federation (SFF), said the increased Irish activity was clearly illegal.\n\nHe said it was time for Scotland to \"put its money where its mouth is\" and for the Scottish government to enforce control of its waters.\n\nEnforcement action could involve patrol boats from the Scottish government going alongside any vessel believed to be breaking the law and, if necessary, making arrests.\n\nOn Friday, the Irish government's minister for agriculture, food and the marine Michael Creed said he was trying to \"avoid a situation whereby Irish fishing vessels who continue to fish for haddock, squid and other species in the 12-mile area around Rockall are under the unwarranted threat of 'enforcement action' by the Scottish government\".\n\nHe added: \"However, following this sustained unilateral action by them, I have no option but to put our fishing industry on notice of the stated intention of the Scottish government.\"\n\nThe Rockall fishery is a multi-million pound annual fishery, with several species of fish including haddock, monkfish and squid.", "Sian Berry is co-leader of the Green Party, alongside Jonathan Bartley\n\nA recent rise in support for the Green Party shows it is no longer considered just a destination for protest voters, co-leader Sian Berry has said.\n\nMore than two million people voted Green in the UK's recent European elections, giving the party seven MEPs.\n\nThe Greens then came fifth in the Peterborough by-election. Ms Berry told Sky's Sophy Ridge on Sunday the party was gathering momentum.\n\n\"It isn't a flash in the pan,\" she said. \"It isn't a protest vote.\"\n\nShe added: \"We've had people working on the ground for many years, we've been electing councillor after councillor, local champions fighting for local services in the face of austerity.\n\n\"Those people are now getting trusted, and people are getting used to voting Green again and again. I can't see us going backwards from this.\"\n\nSpeaking from the party's conference in Scarborough, she added: \"You can't dent my enthusiasm for our recent results.\n\n\"Not when in Westminster polls we're now polling 9-11%.\n\n\"That's a really high number of people, one in 10 saying they will vote Green for Westminster.\n\n\"In the European elections, we came first in places like Norwich and Bristol and Brighton, where we obviously already have an MP.\n\n\"We've got a whole new set of targets now and a load of new MEPs - who are fantastic - and MPs in waiting.\n\n\"We're making plans for the next steps. This success has been a long time coming.\"\n\nAlthough the Brexit Party won the most seats in the UK in May's European elections, staunchly anti-Brexit parties the Lib Dems and the Greens also made gains.\n\nOverall the Green Party came in fourth place, winning 12.1% of the vote.\n\nTheir success was part of a broader rise in support for Greens across EU states.", "Last updated on .From the section England\n\nJordan Pickford was England's spot-kick hero once more as they beat Switzerland on penalties to finish third in the inaugural Uefa Nations League.\n\nEverton's goalkeeper saved from Josip Drmic to seal the win after the first 11 penalties in the shootout were scored - having stepped forward to hammer home England's fifth in confident fashion.\n\nThe Three Lions' victory gave them a small measure of consolation after they lost their semi-final to the Netherlands and it was deserved after they created all the best opportunities in a predictably low-key affair.\n\nHarry Kane and Raheem Sterling hit the woodwork, Swiss keeper Yann Sommer saved superbly from Dele Alli and Callum Wilson had a goal ruled out by VAR after he was adjudged to have fouled Manuel Akanji.\n\nAnd so it went to penalties, with Harry Maguire, Ross Barkley, Jadon Sancho, Sterling, Pickford and Eric Dier successful before Drmic's miss.\n\nSwitzerland were on target through Steven Zuber, Granit Xhaka, Akanji, Kevin Mbabu and Fabian Schar before Pickford - as he did in the last-16 World Cup meeting with Colombia in Moscow last year - made the decisive contribution.\n• None Rate the players: Who was your England man of the match?\n• None Pickford admits to surprise at being asked to take penalty\n• None Are England shaping up as Euro 2020 contenders?\n\nEngland would have suffered a serious injustice had they not claimed third place, not because they turned in a performance of quality but because they made all the running and the opportunities against a conservative Switzerland.\n\nIt was, however, a jaded display lacking in inspiration that reflected not only the gruelling season so many of manager Gareth Southgate's players have endured but also the low-key nature of the occasion.\n\nEngland's fans stayed on in good numbers after their loss to the Dutch, as did the Swiss, but there were still many empty spaces in the Estadio D. Afonso Henriques, and many supporters actually headed for the exits at the end of normal time to enjoy the sunshine in Guimaraes.\n\nThe overall emotion will be disappointment after falling at the semi-final, as England did in the World Cup, but at least the additional pain of the wooden spoon here was avoided.\n\nAnd Pickford at least provided some form of dramatic storyline by the manner in which he rammed his penalty high past Sommer in front of England's celebrating fans before diving to his right to save from Drmic to finally give some cause for celebration.\n\nSouthgate will have another bonus when the dust settles on England's ultimately unfulfilling Uefa Nations League finals.\n\nThat came in the performances of Liverpool duo Trent Alexander-Arnold and Joe Gomez, who played in a manner which suggested they are more than ready to become a regular part of England's starting line-up.\n\nAlexander-Arnold gave a superb performance at right-back, not only completing admittedly rare defensive duties but giving a masterclass of the attacking side of the game.\n\nThe 20-year-old who won the Champions League with Liverpool in Madrid, provided a stream of quality service and his all-round display was in contrast to the sloppiness of his main rival for a starting place, Kyle Walker, in England's two games here in Portugal. It was a surprise when he was switched to the left to accommodate Walker's arrival as a substitute.\n\nGomez, whose season was curtailed by a broken leg sustained at Burnley and was only a substitute when Liverpool enjoyed their glory in Madrid, also showed he will soon be pushing his way to the front of the queue of England's central defenders.\n\nGomez has pace, power and composure and Southgate must hope he now enjoys an injury-free run because he can become a formidable presence at the heart of England's defence.\n\nThere was an almost surreal atmosphere surrounding this third-place play-off.\n\nEngland and Switzerland, whose players looked pretty much spent, could have been forgiven for wanting to take the first plane home and going on holiday once they had lost their semi-finals to the Netherlands and Portugal respectively.\n\nUefa, however, wanted to give this tournament the air of a major event and to just have two semi-finals then a final would have made things very short and sweet. In this context, their position was understandable.\n\nThere was occasionally a friendly feel as passages of play were conducted in silence, although England's fans were vociferous, especially in their condemnation of VAR after Wilson's goal was ruled out.\n\nIt is a tough decision because clearly Uefa wants this Nations League to grow, although the under-stated celebrations and presentation of medals gave an indicator into its status.\n\nWhat they said\n\nEngland boss Gareth Southgate: \"We weren't against Jordan taking a penalty at the World Cup last summer, it was probably just that a few others had shown a better level but he would be among our better penalty takers.\n\n\"Of course if it goes against you, you know as a coach you get it in the neck so I was really pleased to see it go in.\n\n\"We all wanted to go forward further and there was a determination to go out with a strong performance. We owed it to ourselves as a group and the 98% of the fans who have supported us incredibly.\n\n\"We recognise now that you don't get many opportunities as an international team and we want to really strive to take the next step.\"\n\nEngland goalkeeper Jordan Pickford: \"We always say, 'Do what it takes to win a game', and I was a bit nervous taking my penalty - but I'm not nervous saving them.\n\n\"We practise them when there's a major competition or the Nations League, we practise them consistently. I picked my spot and I always seem to be able to get a goal, but I've never taken one in a real game, so I was a bit nervous.\n\n\"I think we took (off) Harry Kane and some of the other lads who take penalties, so I wasn't sure where I was in the pecking order. But it's what you practise for, you practise all the time to make sure you make it easier on the day.\"\n• None England finished third in a major international tournament for the first time since Euro 1968.\n• None Switzerland have won just one of their past 23 matches against England in all competitions (W1 D6 L16).\n• None England have never lost against Switzerland at a neutral venue, winning two and drawing two of their four matches.\n• None England scored six penalties in a single shootout at a competitive tournament for the first time in their history.\n• None England have won consecutive penalty shootouts at a competitive tournament for the first time - they had lost five in a row prior to this.\n• None Pickford is the first goalkeeper to take (and score) a penalty for England in a competitive shootout.\n• None Kane has failed to score in nine of his past 12 appearances for England and Kane has failed to score in his past two games, after scoring in three in a row between November 2018 and March 2019.\n\nA well-earned rest. England are not back in international action until 7 September, when they host Bulgaria in a Euro 2020 qualifier.\n• None Penalty saved! Josip Drmic (Switzerland) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, right footed shot saved in the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! Switzerland 0(5), England 0(6). Eric Dier (England) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.\n• None Goal! Switzerland 0(5), England 0(5). Fabian Schär (Switzerland) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the centre of the goal.\n• None Goal! Switzerland 0(4), England 0(5). Jordan Pickford (England) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the top right corner.\n• None Goal! Switzerland 0(4), England 0(4). Kevin Mbabu (Switzerland) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! Switzerland 0(3), England 0(4). Raheem Sterling (England) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! Switzerland 0(3), England 0(3). Manuel Akanji (Switzerland) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the top right corner.\n• None Goal! Switzerland 0(2), England 0(3). Jadon Sancho (England) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.\n• None Goal! Switzerland 0(2), England 0(2). Granit Xhaka (Switzerland) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Goal! Switzerland 0(1), England 0(2). Ross Barkley (England) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the centre of the goal.\n• None Goal! Switzerland 0(1), England 0(1). Steven Zuber (Switzerland) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the high centre of the goal.\n• None Goal! Switzerland 0, England 0(1). Harry Maguire (England) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.\n• None Raheem Sterling (England) hits the bar with a right footed shot from outside the box from a direct free kick.\n• None Granit Xhaka (Switzerland) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Prince Louis and his siblings joined other members of the Royal Family on the Buckingham Palace balcony\n\nThe Queen's official birthday has been marked with the annual Trooping the Colour parade.\n\nShe was joined by members of her family and thousands of spectators to watch the display in Horse Guards Parade in Whitehall.\n\nThe Prince of Wales, the Duchess of Cornwall, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and the Duke and Duchess of Sussex all attended.\n\nThe Queen celebrated her 93rd birthday in April.\n\nThe Queen and other royals gathered to witness the Red Arrows perform a flypast for the Trooping the Colour parade\n\nThe royal colonels - the Prince of Wales, colonel of the Welsh Guards, the Princess Royal, colonel of the Blues and Royals, the Duke of Cambridge, colonel of the Irish Guards and the Duke of York, colonel of the Grenadier Guards - all rode on horseback as part of the parade.\n\nThe Duchess of Sussex made her first appearance in public since giving birth to her son Archie four weeks ago.\n\nPrince Louis, carried by his mother Catherine alongside his father and siblings, waved at the planes as they flew by\n\nMeghan made her first appearance in public since the birth of her son, alongside Prince Harry\n\nThe Duchess of Cambridge was sitting opposite Meghan in the carriage\n\nPrince William rode on horseback as part of the parade\n\nPrince Louis and Princess Charlotte watched proceedings from inside Buckingham Palace before joining their parents on the balcony\n\nThe Duke of Edinburgh, who celebrates his 98th birthday on Monday, has retired from official public duties and did not attend.\n\nThe Queen watched the ceremony - which this year parades the flag from the 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards - from a dais in Horse Guards Parade and she also inspected the lines of guardsmen.\n\nAmong the guests was Theresa May, who formally stepped down as Conservative party leader on Friday, but will remain in office until a successor has been appointed.\n\nOne soldier, Major Niall Hall, of the Regimental Adjutant of the Irish Guards, was thrown from his horse during the parade.\n\nA spokesperson for the Ministry of Defence said Maj Hall was immediately treated by a medical team and taken to hospital. His injuries are not life-threatening.\n\nThe Queen inspected the lines of guardsmen as part of the parade\n\nEach guardsman trod more than 270 miles in rehearsals and took more than half a million steps\n\nAfter the parade, the Royal Family returned to Buckingham Palace, where they gathered on the balcony to watch the RAF flypast.\n\nMore than 20 aircraft took part including modern jets and historic aircraft, with the Red Arrows as the finale.\n\nMembers of the Kings Troop Royal Artillery led the parade down the Mall back to Buckingham Palace\n\nCrowds of spectators also walked along the Mall to Buckingham Palace ahead of the flypast\n\nThe Red Arrows performed a flypast as part of the ceremony\n\nFollowing the parade, which involved about 1,400 soldiers, the King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery fired a 41-gun salute in Green Park.\n\nTrooping the Colour originated from traditional preparations for battle and has commemorated the birthday of the sovereign for more than 250 years.\n\nColours, or flags, were carried, or \"trooped\", down the rank so that they could be seen and recognised by the soldiers.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Local resident: \"The whole thing was an inferno\".\n\nTwenty flats were destroyed and another 10 have been damaged after a fire engulfed a building in east London.\n\nThe blaze spread over six floors of the block of flats in De Pass Gardens, Barking, at about 15:30 BST, London Fire Brigade said.\n\nAbout 100 firefighters worked for more than two hours to subdue the fire, which was extinguished at 18:00. The cause is being investigated.\n\nA man and a woman were treated for the effects of inhaling smoke.\n\nThe pair were cared for at the scene and there are no other reports of injuries.\n\nResident Mihaela Gheorghe said she had \"raised several issues\" about the safety of wooden balconies on the blocks of flats.\n\nShe added: \"I was in my fourth-floor flat when the fire started. We ran out. The fire brigade came but they found it hard to find a water supply at first.\"\n\n\"We said that one day a fire is going to happen.\n\n\"We raised several issues to the builder, the maintenance companies and the council about the safety of having all these wooden balconies.\"\n\nResidents claim they had raised concerns about the safety of the building\n\nMukhtar Raja, who lives nearby, said he saw flames when he looked out of his window.\n\n\"The heat was unbearable and it was spreading so fast. I went outside and filmed the footage with my phone.\n\n\"The fact it was a tall building and the speed at which the fire was spreading was scary.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by MARAJA This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPeople affected by the fire were told to \"take rest\" at the Thames View Community Centre - about a mile away from the scene.\n\nFirefighters were alerted at about 15:30 BST\n\nCrews from Barking, Dagenham, East Ham and other surrounding fire stations attended.\n\nLondon Fire Brigade's Andy Maloney said: \"Crews worked really hard at the scene to bring the fire under control.\"\n\nA London Ambulance Service spokesperson said: \"We sent two ambulance crews, two solo responders, our hazardous area response team and London's Air Ambulance.\"\n\nThe Met Police said officers were faced with \"a major incident\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Regan Tierney's body was found by police at a house in Walkden\n\nA man who was found in a critical condition at the same house where a mother-of-two was murdered has died in hospital.\n\nThe 31-year-old man was taken to hospital after the body of 27-year-old Regan Tierney was discovered by police in Walkden, Salford, on Wednesday.\n\nOfficers were called to the address on Manchester Road after reports of concern for the welfare of a woman.\n\nThe man died on Friday evening, Greater Manchester Police said.\n\nOfficers are not searching for anyone else in connection with the deaths.\n\n\"I urge anyone with any information that could assist our investigation to get in touch as soon as possible.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Isobel Bytautas had been walking with a group when she was struck by lightning\n\nA woman killed by a lightning strike while hillwalking died as a result of a \"freak accident\".\n\nIsobel Bytautas, 55, from Selkirk, was among a group of seven walkers who were on Na Gruagaichean, near Ben Nevis, on Saturday when the lightning struck.\n\nThe Linlithgow Ramblers party, including another woman who was also hit, were airlifted to Fort William.\n\nAndy Nelson, from Glencoe Mountain Rescue team, said it was very rare for someone to be hit on a hill.\n\n\"I know there have been incidents around Lochaber at sea level but it's very, very rare and the first time I've experienced one being involved with a direct hit with lightning on a hill,\" he said.\n\n\"We're quite used to seeing nasty accidents but this was very unusual. I would say it was a freak accident.\"\n\nMr Nelson said he had been on the hill climbing with his family earlier the same day.\n\n\"The forecast mentioned that there was rain in the afternoon but no hint of thunder and lightning so it was a completely reasonable expedition for the group to undertake,\" he said.\n\n\"But if people do see or hear electrical activity coming towards them then descending immediately from any high ground as soon as is practicable and safe is definitely the best option.\"\n\nHe said the mountain rescue team of 14 was called out to the incident just before 18:00.\n\nThe walkers were airlifted off the mountain\n\nTompion Platt, from the Ramblers organisation, paid tribute to Ms Bytautas.\n\n\"We are all deeply shocked to hear this tragic news,\" he said.\n\n\"Our thoughts and sincerest condolences are with Isobel's family and friends - and with those of the other injured walker and Linlithgow group - today.\n\n\"Our focus now is on supporting those involved in any way we can.\"\n\nThe injured woman is in a stable condition in Belford Hospital, Fort William.\n\nA Coastguard helicopter, Glencoe Mountain Rescue Team and Scotland's Air Ambulance service all joined the rescue effort.\n\nPolice inspector Isla Campbell said: \"We are grateful for the prompt and professional response from partner agencies to this tragic incident and offer our condolences to the lady's family.\"\n\nNa Gruagaichean is in the Mamores mountain range", "Ford has blamed changing customer demand and cost for the decision\n\nFord has been accused of a \"scandalous lack of corporate social responsibility\" by a leading Welsh economist over the way it has handled the plan to close its Bridgend plant.\n\nKevin Morgan criticised Ford for not informing First Minister Mark Drakeford until hours before the workforce was told.\n\nFord said informing employees first of any major decisions was its priority.\n\nThe engine plant will shut in 2020 with the loss of 1,700 jobs.\n\n\"Our priority is to always try to inform our employees first of any major decisions that impact them. They are always our priority,\" a Ford spokesman said.\n\nProf Morgan, professor of governance and development at Cardiff University, added: \"What does Welsh Government do now about re-equipping that workforce with alternative forms of employment?\n\n\"We'll need to be more agile than we've been in 20 years of devolution\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFormer first minister Carwyn Jones said while the company publicly denied the decision was related, it had privately told the Welsh Government the prospect of leaving the EU without a deal was a factor.\n\nFord said it would still have gone ahead with the proposed closure in the absence of the Brexit issue, but added \"we have consistently stated that a no deal, hard Brexit would be catastrophic for our operations and for much of the auto industry in the UK\".\n\nBut Mr Jones told BBC Radio Wales' Sunday Supplement that closure was \"never on the agenda\" for Ford and \"nobody anticipated\" it.\n\n\"It seems to me that the decision was taken a week or a fortnight before the announcement, so it was something very quick, something changed in that time for them to move to a position where they proposed closure.\n\n\"I know they said publicly Brexit wasn't a factor, but that's not what they told the [Economy and Transport] Minister Ken Skates.\n\n\"Brexit was not a dominant factor, there are other reasons of course, but nevertheless it was a factor and they went into detail why it was definitely a factor.\"\n\nResponding to Mr Jones' comments, Welsh Secretary Alun Cairns said the UK Government had voted to \"bring about stability in every possible stage of the Brexit negotiations\".\n\nHe said that although \"certainty on Brexit is important to the economy and the manufacturing sector\", Ford had been \"explicit\" that Brexit was not part of the decision to close the Bridgend factory.\n\n\"If they were going to manufacture in Europe instead of moving their plant to Mexico, then there would be more credibility to the question around the role Brexit has played here,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Workers react to news that Ford's engine plant will close in 2020\n\nCarwyn Jones also said many businesses had told him in private they too had concerns, but few were willing to take a public stance on the issue.\n\n\"They get very nervous about saying something they think might upset the UK government,\" he said.\n\n\"They are reluctant to commit to a particular viewpoint in public.\"\n\nMr Jones, who is also the AM for Bridgend, said the \"sheer magnitude\" of the size of the plant and the number of people it employed meant the town and surrounding areas would struggle to \"absorb\" the number of people unemployed.\n\n\"Bridgend unemployment is very low, in the past it's been able to absorb any job losses relatively easily but not of this number.\n\n\"[The employees] are not all from Bridgend so effectively this will be felt more widely too.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The story of Ford in Bridgend\n\nHe said it was difficult to imagine another company being able to take on the plant due to its size, adding the former Sony manufacturing site in Bridgend had been divided into sections so this may be a possibility.\n\n\"When it was built [Ford] was the largest factory in Europe under one roof, it's too large for almost any company.\"\n\nBut he added: \"I've still not given up.\n\n\"I'm still going to fight hard for my constituents. Let's not pretend it's not an uphill battle because it is, then let's see what uses might be made of that building.\"", "Police said a woman in her 50s was found seriously injured at an address off Eastern Road in Burnham-on-Crouch\n\nTwo men have been arrested on suspicion of murder after the death of a woman in Essex.\n\nPolice said a woman in her 50s was found seriously injured at an address off Eastern Road in Burnham-on-Crouch.\n\nOfficers were called by the ambulance service at about 00:30 BST on Sunday. The victim was pronounced dead at the scene.\n\nThe men, who are aged 27 and 32 and from Burnham-on-Crouch, remain in custody, police said.\n\nDet Ch Insp Rob Kirby said Essex Police wanted to speak to anyone who may have information about the death.\n\nHe said: \"We understand the impact that something like this can have on the local community and we have no concerns around a further risk to members of the public.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The permit comes 137 years after the first stone was laid at La Sagrada Familia\n\nBarcelona has finally issued a building permit for one of its most famous tourist attractions, 137 years after the first stone was laid.\n\nLa Sagrada Familia was given a licence on Friday, allowing it to continue building work until 2026.\n\nIt is unclear why the church, designed by Spanish architect Antoni Gaudí, did not have a building permit previously.\n\nThe Unesco heritage site agreed to pay $41m (£32m) to city authorities last year as a penalty for the oversight.\n\nIt is hoped that the seven-year licence will cover the building up to completion, planned for 2026 to coincide with the centenary of Gaudí's death.\n\nOfficials said the city will be paid €4.6m ($5.2m; £4m) in fees as part of an agreement with the church's foundation, which is responsible for the completion and preservation of La Sagrada Familia.\n\nThe agreement puts an end to \"a historical anomaly in our city\", said Janet Sanz, Barcelona's deputy mayor of urbanism.\n\nAbout 4.5 million people visit the Sagrada Familia each year, with a further 20 million people visiting the area to look at it.\n\nIts final phase of construction will be based on Gaudí's plaster models, and copies of his original drawings which were destroyed in a fire during the 1930s.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nHosts Portugal claimed their second trophy in three years by beating the Netherlands to win the inaugural Nations League.\n\nFernando Santos' side triumphed at the 2016 European Championship and Goncalo Guedes' second half strike gave them a narrow victory in Porto which Santos said was evidence of their unity as a team.\n\n\"For the last five years, we have been an almost indestructible family who know what we are capable of doing,\" he said. \"We knew we could win this match.\"\n\nThe victory was achieved through Guedes, the Valencia winger smashing in from the edge of the area following Bernardo Silva's clever cutback, though Dutch goalkeeper Jasper Cillessen will be disappointed he did not keep the effort out.\n\nThe Dutch looked to get back into the game but Memphis Depay's powerful header was well saved by Wolves number one Rui Patricio and ex-Middlesbrough midfielder Marten de Roon lashed over.\n\nEngland finished third in the tournament after a victory on penalties over Switzerland in Guimaraes.\n\nThe game was billed on the clash of the two influential captains - Portugal forward Cristiano Ronaldo and Netherlands centre-back Virgil van Dijk.\n\nBoth players claimed silverware at club level last season, Ronaldo winning the Serie A title with Juventus, while Van Dijk contributed to ending Liverpool's seven year wait for a trophy by triumphing in the Champions League.\n\nRonaldo, 34, scored a sublime hat-trick in the semi-final victory over Switzerland but was unable to add to his 88 international goals, seeing a thumping, goalbound drive blocked by the towering Van Dijk.\n\nThe closest he came to netting was when he skipped past two defenders from the left, but stuck a shot straight at Barcelona's Cillessen. He also smashed a free-kick wide late on.\n\nFormer Southampton and Celtic player Van Dijk was his solid, assured self at the back but could do nothing about the winning goal, though Cillessen was unable to keep out Guedes' strike having got a hand on the effort.\n\nManchester City's Silva, who set up the goal, said: \"I am very happy and very proud. It is my first title with Portugal. After the amazing season with my club, to finish this way is amazing. It is time to rest now and prepare for next season and try to do even better.\n\n\"The most important thing is that Portugal won. If you can add to that individual awards, then even better.\"\n\nPortugal are now unbeaten in their last 10 games and despite defeat, Netherlands - who have failed to reach the last two major tournaments - will take heart from their progress since the appointment of Ronald Koeman as boss.\n\n\"They were masters at defending when they were ahead,\" said Koeman. \"We should have been a bit more clever in looking for free kicks. We were not good enough tonight.\"\n\nHow did two potential summer movers do?\n\nWith the international transfer window about to open on Tuesday, clubs will be gearing up to complete signings in time for the new season.\n\nTwo players who have been heavily linked with moves were in action in the final and highlighted why their signatures will be so sought after.\n\nPortugal midfielder Bruno Fernandes, linked with a reported £68m move to either Manchester United or Tottenham, scored 32 goals and provided 17 assists for Sporting Lisbon last season.\n\nThe 24-year-old was one of the best players on the field with his lively movement and eye for goal. His six shots in the match were more than any other player, forcing Cillessen into making saves, albeit to efforts from long range.\n\nNetherlands defender Matthijs de Ligt is another who has been heavily linked with a move to United as well as Barcelona and the teenager captained Ajax to a Dutch league and cup double.\n\nPlaying alongside Van Dijk, the 19-year-old impressed at the back once more, contributing six clearances and three tackles for his side and also winning the ball back three times.\n• None Portugal are the first European nation to host and win a final of a major competition since France beat Brazil 3-0 in the final of the 1998 World Cup.\n• None The Netherlands have lost four of their last five finals in major international tournaments (three in the World Cup, once in the Nations League).\n• None They remain winless against Portugal when playing them in Portugal, drawing two and losing four of their six such meetings.\n• None Goncalo Guedes has been directly involved in five goals in his last eight appearances for Portugal (three goals and two assists).\n• None No Portugal player has been directly involved in more goals than Bernardo Silva in the Nations League this season (3 - joint-most with Cristiano Ronaldo and Andre Silva), while he also made the most assists of any Portuguese player (2).\n• None The Netherlands' first shot in this game came in the 65th minute; by which time Portugal had already had 14 shots and opened the scoring.\n• None Jasper Cillessen became the fifth goalkeeper to reach 50 international appearances for the Netherlands, after Edwin Van Der Sar (130), Hans Van Breukelen (73), Maarten Stekelenburg (58) and Gejus Van Der Meulen (54).\n• None The Netherlands fielded the same starting XI in consecutive games for the first time since October 2014 (under Guus Hiddink).\n• None Attempt missed. João Moutinho (Portugal) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right.\n• None Attempt missed. Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right from a direct free kick.\n• None Denzel Dumfries (Netherlands) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt saved. Nélson Semedo (Portugal) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Bernardo Silva.\n• None Attempt missed. Luuk de Jong (Netherlands) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Daley Blind with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Virgil van Dijk (Netherlands) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Daley Blind with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Bruno Fernandes (Portugal) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner. Assisted by Rafa. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Tory leadership candidate Michael Gove has said he \"deeply regrets\" taking cocaine more than 20 years ago.\n\nHe told the Daily Mail that he had taken the drug at several \"social events\" while working as a journalist.\n\nThe environment secretary said he believed the \"mistake\" should not be held against him in his bid to become prime minister.\n\nMembers of the party are due to vote for a new party leader after Theresa May stepped down from the role.\n\nMr Gove, who served as justice secretary from 2015-16, is one of 11 Tory MPs who have said they intend to stand in the contest to replace her, with the winner expected to be announced in late July.\n\nInternational Development Secretary Rory Stewart, who is one of those standing against him, has already apologised for smoking opium - a class A drug in the UK - at a wedding in Iran 15 years ago.\n\nBoris Johnson - who is the favourite to succeed Mrs May as Conservative leader - was asked about claims he had taken cocaine at university by Marie Claire magazine in 2008.\n\nHe replied: \"That was when I was 19.\"\n\nIn an appearance on Have I Got News For You in 2005, he admitted being given the drug but suggested he had not actually taken it, saying: \"I think I was once given cocaine but I sneezed and so it did not go up my nose. In fact, I may have been doing icing sugar.\"\n\nAnd Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt - another candidate - told the Times he had drunk a cannabis lassi while backpacking through India.\n\nMr Gove told the Mail: \"I took drugs on several occasions at social events more than 20 years ago. At the time I was a young journalist. It was a mistake. I look back and I think I wish I hadn't done that.\n\n\"I think all politicians have lives before politics. Certainly when I was working as a journalist I didn't imagine I would go into politics or public service.\n\n\"I didn't act with an eye to that. The question now is that people should look at my record as a politician and ask themselves, 'Is this person we see ready to lead now?'\n\n\"I have seen the damage drugs can do to others and that is why I deeply regret the decisions I took,\" he added.\n\nTheresa May will stay on as prime minister until her successor is chosen\n\nAs a Brexiteer, and with a wealth of cabinet experience, he ticks many boxes for his colleagues.\n\nThe environment secretary is expected to sail through the first few rounds of voting in Parliament.\n\nBut if he makes it to the final two, rank and file Tories might not quite be ready to forgive his past misdemeanours.\n\nThe 120,000 or so members are largely older people - and while it might not be the central issue in this leadership contest, they may take a dimmer view of drug-taking than younger generations.\n\nIt is notable that other candidates also seem to be taking the \"honesty is the best policy\" approach.\n\nThey have to tread carefully. The Tory membership is Conservative by name and conservative by nature.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Daily Mail assistant editor Simon Walters - who interviewed Mr Gove - said the confession was unlikely to affect support from MPs or party members in London - but that could change further away from the capital.\n\nHe said: \"In London, in metro-land, Tories in leafy Putney won't think much about it... but out in places like Petersfield in Hampshire when the membership decides, they take a more traditional view about these things and they may well feel it's a serious matter.\"\n\nHe added: \"I think he should be praised for his candour.\"\n\nMr Gove's fellow Tory leadership hopeful Dominic Raab, who has previously admitted smoking cannabis, told Today: \"I think Michael has set out that he made a mistake.\n\n\"It was a long time ago, people will judge it as it is but I do believe in a second chance society.\"\n\nHe added: \"I certainly don't feel it's barred him from this race in any way.\"\n\nTory leadership hopeful Dominic Raab said he believed in second chances\n\nOn Friday, Mrs May officially stepped down as the leader of the Conservative Party, but will remain as prime minister until her successor is chosen.\n\nLeadership nominations will close at 17:00 BST on Monday, the party has said.\n\nLeadership candidates need eight MPs to back them. MPs will then vote for their preferred candidates in a series of secret ballots held on 13, 18, 19 and 20 June.\n\nThe final two will be put to a vote of members of the wider Conservative Party from 22 June, with the winner expected to be announced about four weeks later.\n\nOn Tuesday 18 June BBC One will be hosting a live election debate between the Conservative MPs who are still in the race.\n\nIf you would like to ask the candidates a question live on air, use the form below. It should be open to all of them, not a specific politician.\n\nIf you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic.", "Michael Gove says he wants to replace VAT after Brexit if he becomes PM, as he continues to face questions about taking cocaine as a young journalist.\n\nA Times article Mr Gove wrote in 1999 - around the time he admits having taken the drug - has been republished.\n\nIn it he criticised \"middle class professionals\" who took drugs - leading to headlines calling him a \"hypocrite\".\n\nMeanwhile, Tory leadership rival Boris Johnson has insisted only he can beat both Nigel Farage and Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nAnd Home Secretary Sajid Javid, another of the 11 Tory MPs who have said they want to replace Theresa May, received a boost to his leadership campaign on Saturday after he was backed by Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson.\n\nRuth Davidson said Sajid Javid has a vision to unite a \"divided Britain\"\n\nMr Gove announced his plan to replace VAT in the Sunday Telegraph, writing that his \"business know-how\" had allowed him to bring in positive changes to education, the environment and the justice system while in his various ministerial roles.\n\n\"My economic plan is driven by the need to increase investment, productivity and wages across the country, with a special focus on helping those areas and regions where productivity is lower,\" he wrote.\n\n\"It would mean reducing the regulations which hold business back, cutting and reforming taxes - such as business rates - which put pressure on small businesses and undermine our high streets, using the opportunity of life outside the EU to look to replace VAT with a lower, simpler, sales tax,\" he added.\n\nMr Gove, who is due to appear on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show later, admitted on Friday to taking cocaine at several \"social events\" more than 20 years ago.\n\nSpeaking on Sunday, Mr Javid said it was not for him to \"pass judgment\" on fellow leadership contenders, but stressed that people who take class A drugs should think about the entire supply chain.\n\n\"Anyone who takes drugs should be thinking about how they are not just hurting themselves, but about how they are destroying so many countless lives along the way\", he told Sky's Sophy Ridge on Sunday programme.\n\nFellow leadership hopeful Dominic Raab, who has previously admitted smoking cannabis, told the BBC's Today programme the admission should not result in Mr Gove being barred from the race.\n\nSome of the other candidates have also admitted taking drugs - including Rory Stewart, who has apologised for smoking opium at a wedding in Iran 15 years ago, and Jeremy Hunt, who told the Times he had drunk a cannabis lassi while backpacking through India.\n\nAnd in an appearance on Have I Got News For You in 2005, Mr Johnson admitted being given cocaine but suggested he had not actually taken it, saying: \"I think I was once given cocaine but I sneezed and so it did not go up my nose. In fact, I may have been doing icing sugar.\"\n\nHowever, the emergence of Mr Gove's 1999 article has led to criticism in the Mail on Sunday and the Observer who quote criticism from drug charities and former police officers.\n\nIt comes as Mr Johnson, in his first major interview of the campaign, compared the Labour and Brexit Party leaders to sea monsters from Greek mythology.\n\n\"I truly believe only I can steer the country between the Scylla and Charybdis of Corbyn and Farage and on to calmer water,\" he told the Sunday Times.\n\n\"This can only be achieved by delivering Brexit as promised on 31 October and delivering a One Nation Tory agenda,\" he added.\n\nMr Johnson said as prime minister, he would refuse to pay the EU a £39bn settlement until there was \"greater clarity\" about a future relationship.\n\nHe also said he would scrap the Irish backstop and would only settle the border issue when Brussels was ready to agree to a deal.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Javid said he would pay for a \"multi-billion pound\" spending increase in education by slowing down government debt repayment.\n\nHe said that could free between £15 billion and £25 billion a year, some of which would go to the education system.\n\n\"I want to see a multi-year, multi-billion pound boost in investment and spending in schools, and really change the life chances of so many young people,\" he told Sky News.\n\nOn Friday, Theresa May officially stepped down as the leader of the Conservative Party. She will remain as prime minister until her successor is chosen.\n\nLeadership nominations will close at 17:00 BST on Monday, the party has said. Candidates need eight MPs to back them.\n\nMPs will then vote for their preferred candidates in a series of secret ballots held on 13, 18, 19 and 20 June.\n\nThe final two will be put to a vote of members of the wider Conservative Party from 22 June, with the winner expected to be announced about four weeks later.\n\nOn Tuesday 18 June BBC One will be hosting a live election debate between the Conservative MPs who are still in the race.\n\nIf you would like to ask the candidates a question live on air, use the form below. It should be open to all of them, not a specific politician.\n\nIf you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic.", "Transgender activist Munroe Bergdorf says she is \"unbelievably sad\" that the NSPCC has cut ties with her, days after she revealed she was Childline's \"first LGBT+ campaigner\".\n\nShe said the charity was \"bowing down to pressure from a transphobic lobby\".\n\nHer appointment had been criticised by some on Twitter, with Ms Bergdorf described as a \"porn model\" and her appointment called \"inappropriate\".\n\nThe NSPCC has not explained exactly why it made the decision.\n\nBut the BBC has been told that NSPCC trustees received \"transphobic letters\" after the appointment was announced on Wednesday.\n\nIn a statement, the NSPCC said Ms Bergdorf \"has supported the most recent phase of Childline's campaign which aims to support children with LGBTQ+ concerns\" but she would have \"no ongoing relationship with Childline or the NSPCC\".\n\nMs Bergdorf said she was \"unbelievably sad\" and referring to the timing, during Pride month, added: \"Pride is about resisting this kind of hate, not giving in to it.\"\n\nWhen she announced the partnership, Ms Bergdorf had said: \"I'm excited to have the opportunity to let more kids know that they are not alone in how they feel.\n\n\"There are people who care, people who can help and people who have been through the same things as you, so PLEASE don't suffer in silence.\"\n\nOn the same day, the NSPCC revealed that within the last year it had carried out more than 6,000 counselling sessions through its Childline service over issues relating to gender and sexuality.\n\nThe charity's research also showed that children between the ages of 12 and 15 were most likely to contact them about these topics.\n\nHowever, a number of negative tweets followed the announcement, with several taking offence at Ms Bergdorf having posed for Playboy in 2018.\n\nSome claimed her appointment was \"inappropriate\" and Times journalist Janice Turner said there would be \"cancelled direct debits\" in response.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nResponding on Twitter, Ms Bergdorf posted: \"I have never shot porn in my life, secondly demonising those who do isn't okay either.\"\n\nA spokesperson for Ms Bergdorf said the charity was \"bowing down to pressure from a transphobic lobby running a hate campaign\".\n\nMs Bergdorf is seen as a leading figure within the LGBT community and transgender activism, but outside of these communities she has continually divided opinion, at times being forced to step down from opportunities following a social media backlash.\n\nIn 2017 she was sacked from her role as a model for cosmetics company L'Oreal, following claims she wrote that \"all white people\" are racist in a Facebook post.\n\nMs Bergdorf later said her comments had been taken out of context but said that she stood by her view that \"all white people benefit from racism, with white privilege\".\n\nFollowing her removal from the Childline campaign, several social media users have called for the NSPCC to remove the Pride flag from its profile photo, arguing that the charity's move is exactly what Pride month does not represent.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Leyton Orient\n\nLeyton Orient manager Justin Edinburgh has died at the age of 49 - five days after suffering a cardiac arrest.\n\nEdinburgh, who guided Orient back into the English Football League in 2018-19, had been taken to hospital on Monday.\n\n\"We are completely heartbroken by this tragedy,\" Orient chairman Nigel Travis told the club's website.\n\nEdinburgh, who won the FA Cup as a Spurs player, managed Northampton Town, Gillingham and Newport County before moving to Orient in November 2017.\n\n\"All our thoughts and love are with the Edinburgh family and we know from the messages that have flooded into the club over the last week that the wider football world will share our sentiments,\" added Travis.\n\n\"The success that Justin brought to Leyton Orient was incredible, but more importantly the impact he had on us all as a winner and a wonderful, inspirational human being will be his legacy and will stay with us forever.\n\n\"All our thoughts are with Justin's wife Kerri and their children Charlie and Cydnie.\"\n\nAfter turning professional at Southend, Edinburgh - a left-back - spent a decade playing for Tottenham, making 258 appearances and winning the FA Cup in 1991 and League Cup in 1999 before moving to Portsmouth.\n\nHe became player-manager of non-league Billericay Town in 2003 before spells at Fisher Athletic and Rushden and Diamonds.\n\nHis managerial breakthrough came at Newport County, whom he led to promotion to League Two in 2013 having guided them to the FA Trophy final a year earlier.\n\nA 23-month spell at Gillingham from January 2015 followed, before nine months at Northampton in 2016-2017.\n\nHe was appointed Orient boss in November of 2017, and led the club to 45 wins in his 82 games in charge.\n\nOrient captain Jobi McAnuff tweeted a picture of himself and Edinburgh celebrating this season's National League title, saying: \"Totally and utterly devastated. You were so much more than a manager to me.\n\n\"Just doesn't feel real coming so soon after sharing some of my happiest moments with you. My thoughts, love and prayers go to the family at this truly terrible time. R.I.P Justin.\"\n\nOrient striker Macauley Bonne tweeted: \"There are no words to describe the loss of our gaffer, our leader & inspiration. He brought us all together - we're eternally grateful for everything you've done.\"\n\nFellow forward James Alabi said he was \"absolutely broken\" while defender Jamie Turley said he was: \"Devastated and lost for words at the loss of this great man. It was an honour to play for him. Truly an amazing and inspirational person in all aspects.\"\n\nDefender Marvin Ekpiteta tweeted he was \"lost for words\" while winger James Brophy posted: \"A wonderful man, who had a positive impact on everyone he met no matter how much time you'd spent with him! Never be forgotten! Thank you for everything.\"\n\nLeyton Orient Fans' Trust said in a statement that in his 18 months at the club, \"Justin became an Orient legend\".\n\nThey added: \"When Justin arrived, the team was still struggling but his shrewd and tenacious management helped turn our performances around and give us a team we could be proud of - one of the most likeable Orient teams we have known.\n\n\"He was clearly deeply liked and admired by his players, who owe him a great deal.\"\n\nFormer Orient chairman Barry Hearn tweeted: \"Words fall short of the sadness this news brings. A lovely man who achieved so much for Leyton Orient. He shall not be forgotten.\"\n\nBBC London's Orient reporter Dave Victor, who has reported on the club for several years, tweeted: \"It was an enormous pleasure and a privilege to have known and worked with him.\n\n\"Justin achieved so much with The O's and we knew it was just the beginning.\"\n\n'Players adored him and journalists loved him'\n\nBBC Sport Wales reporter Michael Pearlman, who covered Newport County for the local newspaper when Justin was manager:\n\nIt is no surprise to see such a rush from people within football paying tribute to Justin Edinburgh.\n\nWhile he spent virtually his entire playing career at the top level, Edinburgh had to do it the tough way in management, starting at the bottom.\n\nBecause of his character and ability, Edinburgh thrived at Billericay, Fisher and Rushden before I encountered him when he arrived at Newport County.\n\nJust as he did with Orient - either side of spells at Gillingham and Northampton - he took a club on its knees and made it proud again, going from relegation worries to promotion in unthinkably quick time.\n\nPlayers adored him because he knew how they wanted to be treated, and we as journalists loved him because whatever the result, he was always happy to be available and accountable, happy to talk morning, noon or night. He even texted me on my wedding day.\n\nI saw him go above and beyond in giving his time to supporters and the community time and time again and will remember him very fondly for his sense of humour, passion for football and, mainly, his dedication to his family.\n\nHis loss will be felt enormously.\n\nEdinburgh was in the Spurs side that beat Nottingham Forest in the 1991 FA Cup final.\n\nGary Lineker, a team-mate that day and now BBC Match of the Day presenter, tweeted: \"Deeply saddened to hear that Justin Edinburgh has passed away.\n\n\"He was an excellent coach and a terrific full-back who was a delight to share a dressing room with and have as a team-mate.\"\n\nFormer Spurs captain Ledley King posted: \"I can't believe this. Saw Justin last week and he was in great shape and full of life. He was genuinely one of the nicest guys you could meet. Thoughts and prayers to his family. RIP mate.\"\n\nPaul Stewart, who scored Spurs' equaliser in the 1991 final said he was \"gutted\" while Steve Sedgley tweeted: \"Devastated, A sad, sad, day, a truly great person.\"\n\nAnother former Tottenham teammate, David Ginola, tweeted: \"Justin Edinburgh....deeply shocked, deeply saddened... RIP my friend, I shall miss you.\"\n\nMeanwhile, former Spurs player and manager Glenn Hoddle tweeted he was \"devastated\" by \"the very sad and tragic news\".\n\nEdinburgh's former clubs were also among those to express their grief.\n\nSouthend, his first team as a player, sent their \"thoughts and heartfelt condolences\" to Edinburgh's family and friends and \"everyone at Leyton Orient\".\n\nNewport County said they were \"stunned and devastated\" by the news, while Northampton Town said: \"Everyone at Northampton Town Football Club is shocked and deeply saddened.\"\n\nPortsmouth said they were \"shocked and saddened\", adding: \"Everyone at Pompey would like to send their deepest condolences to Justin's wife Kerri, their children, and his family and friends at this difficult time.\"\n\nGillingham tweeted: \"The thoughts of everybody at Gillingham Football Club are with Justin Edinburgh's friends, family and colleagues at Leyton Orient at this very difficult time. Such sad news. RIP Justin Edinburgh.\"\n\nLeague Managers' Association chairman Howard Wilkinson said: \"Justin will be remembered by all in the game as a true professional. A hard-working man who became successful as a player at the highest level of the game and turned his love of football into a lifelong career as a coach and as a manager.\"\n\nGary Neville, who co-owns Salford City - who were beaten to the National League title by Orient - described Edinburgh as \"a champion that managed a team that played with your spirit\".\n\nCarlisle United director of football David Holdsworth said: \"Justin was a close personal friend and everyone is devastated at this news.\n\n\"He was a football man through and through and an extremely professional and well-respected player and manager. Words can't explain how sad we are and our thoughts are with his family and friends.\"", "Neil Woodford is unconventional and has been successful for investors\n\nThe boss of broker Hargreaves Lansdown has issued an apology following the suspension of a fund it sells.\n\nChris Hill, chief executive, said he shares clients' \"disappointment and frustration\".\n\nThe Woodford Equity Income Fund, managed by Neil Woodford, stopped investors cashing out this week.\n\nIn spite of the suspension of a fund it promoted to clients through its \"Wealth 50\" list of top buys, the firm stands by its research, Mr Hill said.\n\nMr Woodford, one of the UK's best-known stockpickers, suspended the fund after rising numbers of investors asked for their money back.\n\n\"I would like to apologise personally to all clients who have been impacted by the recent problems with the Woodford Equity Income Fund,\" Mr Hill said.\n\n\"We all share their disappointment and frustration. Our priority right now is to support our clients and keep them informed.\"\n\nThe UK's financial regulator \"should have been awake\" to problems at Mr Woodford's investment fund, former City Minister Lord Myners told the Today Programme on Friday.\n\nHe told the BBC the Financial Conduct Authority had missed \"clear warning signs\" that things were going badly.\n\n\"Our aim remains to provide the best possible service and choices to allow people to manage their investments simply and effectively,\" said Mr Hill. \"The shortcomings of one fund should not detract from the benefits of favourite fund lists like the Wealth 50.\n\n\"We are confident in the robustness of how we analyse, research and compile our favourite fund list with a focus on ensuring best value for customers; nonetheless, we are reviewing this specific situation to ensure we learn from it and address it for the benefit of our customers going forward.\"\n\nOn Monday, Hargreaves Lansdown dropped the Woodford fund off its favourite list. On Wednesday, it bowed to pressure to drop its platform fee for Woodford investors.\n\nInvestors are charged both by their broker and the manager themselves. While Hargreaves Lansdown cut its fee, Mr Woodford has not cut his management fee.\n\nOn Thursday, chair of the Treasury Committee Nicky Morgan said investors in the Woodford Equity Income Fund should not be charged management fees while trading in the fund was suspended.", "Fashion entrepreneur Simon Suphandagli was granted a pop-up shop for London Fashion Week Men's, which he is using to help young fashion designers.\n\nDesigner Emay is fulfilling a childhood dream of his and being environmentally friendly at the same time.", "A woman has died in hospital a week after being bitten by a dog, Lancashire police have said.\n\nSharon Jennings, 55, had been walking on the old railway lines in Brookfield, Preston, on 31 May when her own dog began to fight with another dog.\n\nPolice say she was bitten on the hand and neck after intervening.\n\nThey want to trace the dog - described as being speckled ginger and black and of medium height - and its owner, a man with thinning grey-black hair.\n\nThey appealed to the man, said to have been wearing a blue fleece-type jacket, to come forward.\n\nDet Insp Chris Wellard added: \"Our thoughts are with Sharon's family and friends at this incredibly distressing time.\n\n\"We're working hard to establish what happened but need anyone with information to come forward as soon as possible.\"\n\nPolice said Ms Jennings had been out walking her dog between 18:00 and 19:30 BST.\n\nThey say she was found unwell at her home on 3 June and taken to Royal Preston Hospital, where she died four days later.", "The council chief was shot in the head, police confirmed earlier\n\nOne person has been detained and released in connection with the shooting of a German politician, which shocked the country a week ago.\n\nWalter Lübcke, 65, head of the regional council in Kassel, was found dead in his garden last Saturday night.\n\nA person was taken into custody \"provisionally\" and released overnight, the police said.\n\nOne German paper says the detainee was a \"younger man\" who said he was in a \"private relationship\" with the victim.\n\nThe shooting happened in the quiet village of Istha\n\nLübcke was a leading member of the ruling centre-right CDU in the central German state of Hesse, running the authority in one of its three areas for the past decade.\n\nPolice ruled out suicide, raising fears his shooting was politically motivated because of death threats made after he stood up to the far right in the past.\n\nHis body was found at 00:30 on Sunday morning (22:30 GMT Saturday) on the terrace of his home in the village of Istha, police said. He was declared dead two hours later. He left a wife and two grown-up children.\n\nIstha, which is home to only 900 people, had been hosting a beer festival, which ended that Saturday and one local report speculated that he might have met someone at the time of the event.", "Leyton Orient captain Jobi McAnuff has paid tribute to late boss Justin Edinburgh and said the club will continue to build on his legacy.\n\nEdinburgh died on Saturday aged 49, five days after a cardiac arrest.\n\nMcAnuff described the Orient manager as a \"leader, a fantastic manager and a truly great man\".\n\n\"You've helped rebuild what was a broken club and been the driving force returning it to where it belongs,\" the 37-year-old winger added.\n\nEdinburgh, who won the FA Cup as a Tottenham player, managed Northampton Town, Gillingham and Newport County before moving to Orient in November 2017.\n\nMcAnuff said he was \"a man who inspired so many of us with his drive, passion and sheer desire to win.\"\n\n\"A man who had so much love for this game and even more for his family, my heart goes out to them at this tragic time,\" he added.\n\nThe winger said Edinburgh \"always did it with a smile on [his] face and with a huge respect for others\".\n\n\"I am so grateful that I got to share some truly amazing moments with you and know how much winning the league with this club meant to you,\" he added.\n\n\"It was a privilege and an honour to serve as your captain and these happy memories will lie with me forever.\n\n\"You were always at the centre of all the jokes and the banter with the boys and staff, we had so many laughs and good times.\n\n\"You've helped rebuild what was a broken club and been the driving force returning it to where it belongs.\n\n\"That will be your legacy here and as difficult as it will be, it's now up to us to carry that on and make sure all of that hard work is continued and built upon.\"\n\n'They all bought in to Justin's vision'\n\nBBC London Leyton Orient correspondent Dave Victor - a supporter since 1971, who started reporting on the side in 1983:\n\n\"I don't think we can still quite believe what has happened. It was only three weeks ago when there were over 23,000 Leyton Orient supporters at Wembley for the final of the FA Trophy, and although Leyton Orient missed out on that occasion, it didn't really matter because everyone was there to celebrate Leyton Orient's return back to the Football League.\n\n\"When Justin took over in December 2017, Leyton Orient were on course for what would have been their third relegation in four years, they had gone three months without a win. They didn't get off to a good start under Justin, they lost their opening game, but Justin took responsibility immediately.\n\n\"He had an incredible impact on the club. And what is remarkable is Leyton Orient's success was built on the squad that Justin inherited; virtually every player got better because of the way he inspired and changed the culture of the club.\n\n\"He was very committed to them; he was very loyal to his players; he was very critical of supporters that got on the back of individuals. He wasn't just loyal to those in the side, often when I spoke to him after the game, he made a point of talking about the players who weren't actually in the squad, but had still contributed to the success because of the way of which they had gone about their training.\n\n\"There was an integrity about Justin Edinburgh. There was a clarity about Justin Edinburgh. Everybody bought in and it felt as if it was just the beginning. You got the sense that it was the start of something special at Leyton Orient and Justin Edinburgh would have gone on to be a very successful manager in the Football League. But this is about reflecting on a man who had enormous passion and pride, and what he was proud of more than anything in football was his family and, of course, our thoughts and prayers are with them.\"\n\nSupporters laid flowers outside Leyton Orient's home ground Brisbane Road on Sunday as they paid their respects to Edinburgh.\n\nFloral tributes, signed football shirts and scarves were left as a mark of respect as both home supporters and fans from other clubs marked a solemn day for the east London club.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Michael Gove: Cocaine use \"was a crime and a mistake\"\n\nMichael Gove has admitted he was \"fortunate\" to avoid prison after using cocaine several times 20 years ago.\n\nThe Tory leadership hopeful previously said he took the class A drug while working as a journalist.\n\nAsked if he should have gone to prison, Mr Gove told the Andrew Marr Show: \"I was fortunate in that I didn't, but I do think it was a profound mistake.\"\n\nTory leadership rival Sajid Javid said people who took Class A drugs needed to understand the damage they were doing.\n\nSpeaking to Sky's Sophy Ridge on Sunday, home secretary Mr Javid said: \"It doesn't matter if you are middle class or not - anyone who takes class A drugs, they need to think about that supply chain that comes from Colombia, let's say, to Chelsea and the number of lives that are destroyed along the way.\"\n\nApologising for taking cocaine, Mr Gove said: \"I deeply regret the mistake that I made.\n\n\"It was a crime, it was a mistake.\"\n\nHowever, the environment secretary denied he had ever had a drug \"habit\".\n\nA Times article Mr Gove wrote in 1999 - around the time he admits having taken the drug - has been republished.\n\nIn it he criticised \"middle class professionals\" who took drugs - leading to headlines calling him a \"hypocrite\".\n\nBut speaking on Marr on Sunday morning, Mr Gove denied that amounted to hypocrisy.\n\n\"I think anyone can read the article and make their own minds up,\" he said. \"The point that I made in the article is that if any of us lapse sometimes from standards that we uphold, that is human.\n\n\"The thing to do is not necessarily then to say that the standards should be lowered. It should be to reflect on the lapse and to seek to do better in the future.\"\n\nWhen asked if he had declared his drug use on his Esta form for entry into the US, under the visa waiver scheme, he replied: \"I don't believe that I have ever, on any occasion, failed to tell the truth about this when asked directly.\"\n\nHe added: \"I think it is the case that if I were elected as the prime minister of this country then of course it would be the case that I would be able to go to the United States.\"\n\nAnd asked if he had declared his drug use before becoming a minister, Mr Gove replied: \"No one asked. The question was never raised.\"\n\nHome Secretary Sajid Javid said he did not want to pass judgement on his colleagues\n\nMr Gove, who served as justice secretary from 2015-16, is one of 11 Tory MPs who have said they intend to stand in the contest to replace Theresa May, with the winner expected to be announced in late July.\n\nInternational Development Secretary Rory Stewart, who is one of those standing against him, has already apologised for smoking opium - a class A drug in the UK - at a wedding in Iran 15 years ago.\n\nBoris Johnson, the favourite to succeed Mrs May as Conservative leader, was asked about claims he had taken cocaine at university by Marie Claire magazine in 2008.\n\nHe replied: \"That was when I was 19.\"\n\nIn an appearance on Have I Got News For You in 2005, he admitted being given the drug but suggested he had not actually taken it, saying: \"I think I was once given cocaine but I sneezed and so it did not go up my nose. In fact, I may have been doing icing sugar.\"\n\nAndrea Leadsom said she \"smoked weed at university\"\n\nAndrea Leadsom told the Independent that she \"smoked weed at university\" but had \"never smoked it again since\".\n\nOn Saturday, Dominic Raab, who has previously admitted smoking cannabis, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"I think Michael has set out that he made a mistake.\n\n\"It was a long time ago, people will judge it as it is but I do believe in a second chance society.\"\n\nAnd Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt - another candidate - told the Times he had drunk a cannabis lassi while backpacking through India.\n\nEsther McVey, who is also hoping to become the new Conservative Party leader, told the Marr show she had never taken class A drugs.\n\nShe later told ITV News that she had tried cannabis when she was \"much younger\".\n\nMs McVey also accused MPs trying to prevent Brexit of \"tearing up 400 years of history\", as she defended her right to prorogue Parliament - essentially shutting it down - to leave the EU without a deal if she became prime minister.\n\nThe former work and pensions secretary said it would not be her \"priority\" to suspend sittings in the House of Commons in the run-up to the 31 October deadline - but said she would be willing to \"use all the tools at our disposal\" if she won the race to replace Mrs May.\n\nMr Gove said such a move would be \"wrong\" and contradict \"the best traditions of British democracy\".\n\nMr Hunt, meanwhile, said Angela Merkel told him the European Union \"would be willing to negotiate\" on the Brexit deal with a new prime minister.\n\nThe foreign secretary claimed the German chancellor said Brussels \"would look at any solutions\" the UK puts forward to solve the Northern Irish border issue as he tried to emphasise his credentials as a deal-maker in the race to replace Mrs May.\n\nOn Tuesday 18 June BBC One will be hosting a live election debate between the Conservative MPs who are still in the race.\n\nIf you would like to ask the candidates a question live on air, use the form below. It should be open to all of them, not a specific politician.\n\nIf you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic.", "The remains of 2,500 men, women and children are housed at Holy Trinity Church in Rothwell, Northamptonshire\n\nTests on a medieval skull found in a 13th Century crypt have revealed death was caused by a blow to the head.\n\nArchaeologists have been investigating remains at Holy Trinity Church in Rothwell, Northamptonshire.\n\nExperts examined five skulls among the remains of 2,500 people, with one skull shown to have been fractured.\n\nDr Lizzy Craig-Atkins, of the University of Sheffield, said the fact only one injury was found meant it was unlikely a \"massacre\" had taken place.\n\nThe crypt would have been visited by friends and family of the deceased, experts said\n\nThe skulls and bones of men, women and children have been stored in a vault under a church aisle.\n\n\"We picked it out to try to redress some of the stories... suggesting when you find a lot of skeletal remains it is because there has been some sort of massacre,\" said Dr Craig-Atkins.\n\n\"But the fact there was only one in the study who suffered violence shows... there is a representative selection of bones you would find from any medieval community.\"\n\nDr Craig-Atkins said the charnel houses were \"deliberately built so people could be prayed for. They were built to be visited\"\n\nThe bone might have been dug up from the graveyard after it had become too full, she said.\n\nThe report, published in the journal Mortality, said the vault was situated under a church aisle with an altar.\n\nThe project brought together experts in a wide range of fields from the universities of Sheffield, York and Oxford\n\nThe skulls and bones stored under the church date from 1250 to 1900, with radio carbon dating used to establish the age.\n\nThe Holy Trinity crypt is just one of two 13th Century sites in the UK, with the other being at St Leonard's in Hythe, Kent.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Luke Johnson, the former chairman of bakery chain Patisserie Valerie, has said he considered emigrating.\n\nHe also feared becoming a \"pariah\" in business, he said in his column for the Sunday Times.\n\nThe former boss said that in contrast to corporate struggles such as those of Debenhams, the fall of his firm was \"horribly rapid\".\n\nMr Johnson was the largest shareholder in the chain, which went into administration in January.\n\nHe blamed part of the company's failure on the industry becoming tougher to operate in, including having to pay higher wages and the increasing cost of ingredients.\n\nThe accounting black hole at Patisserie Valerie was found to be £94m in March, more than double a previous estimate, according to a report by its administrators.\n\nAfter it fell into administration, the cafe chain was found to have overstated its cash position by £30m and failed to disclose overdrafts of nearly £10m.\n\nKPMG's latest report says the company falsely claimed to have £54m in cash.\n\nThe majority of Patisserie Valerie has been sold to a private equity firm.\n\nThe former finance director of the chain, Chris Marsh, is under investigation by the Serious Fraud Office.\n\n\"If I was arrogant at times before, my ego has taken quite a battering since,\" Mr Johnson said in his column. \"In business, we rely on honesty from those around us and systems designed to prevent misbehaviour.\"", "George Hamilton was appointed chief constable of the PSNI five years ago\n\nNorthern Ireland's top police officer has been awarded a knighthood in the Queen's Birthday Honours list.\n\nGeorge Hamilton is among more than 70 people from Northern Ireland to receive honours.\n\nMr Hamilton joined the RUC in 1985 and has been chief constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) since June 2014.\n\nOn twitter on Saturday, he said he was \"delighted\" to receive the honour.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by George Hamilton This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFeargal Sharkey receives an OBE for services to music. Once the lead singer with The Undertones, he went on to have a successful solo career.\n\nFeargal Sharkey in 1978, when The Undertones appeared on Top of the Pops\n\nHe subsequently took on a number of public roles as a member of the Radio Authority and as head of UK Music, representing the interests of the UK commercial music industry.\n\nMeanwhile, one of Ireland's most famous priests is to receive an OBE.\n\nFr Brian D'Arcy became familiar to Radio 2 listeners through his presence on the station's breakfast show with Terry Wogan and Chris Evans\n\nFr Brian D'Arcy describes himself as a Passionist priest, author, newspaper columnist and broadcaster, and his voice is familiar to listeners of BBC Radio Ulster and BBC Radio 2.\n\nIn the past, Fr D'Arcy has spoken out against mandatory celibacy for priests, church teaching on contraception and has been a vocal critic of the handling of clerical sexual abuse.\n\nWhen offered the honour, he said he checked with fellow Fermanagh man Viscount Brookeborough who told him it would be for services to cross-community relations.\n\n\"You had to say 'yes' if that's what it was for,\" Fr D'Arcy said, adding that as a Christian he should be doing it anyway.\n\nRichard Williams has taken a lead role in developing the film industry in Northern Ireland\n\nThe growing importance of the film industry in Northern Ireland is acknowledged with an OBE for Richard Williams, the chief executive of Northern Ireland Screen.\n\nThe body has taken a lead role in developing the industry in the past decade.\n\nUnder his leadership, Northern Ireland Screen developed the Paint Hall in Belfast's Titanic Quarter as a film studio which became home for HBO's blockbuster drama series, Game of Thrones.\n\nPolice Ombudsman Dr Michael Maguire is due to leave the post next month\n\nThe outgoing Police Ombudsman, Dr Michael Maguire, has been awarded a CBE for services to justice.\n\nBefore becoming ombudsman in July 2012, Dr Maguire was chief inspector of the Criminal Justice Inspectorate.\n\nDuring his time in office, he has had to deal with numerous controversial issues, including the police inquiries into the killing of Robert McCartney by the IRA in 2005, and the murder of five people at a Sean Grahams' Bookmakers' shop in 1992.\n\nIt was the alleged theft of files connected to the Loughinisland killings from the ombudsman's office that led to the arrest of journalists Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey last year, and the seizure of documents from their homes and office.\n\nAnother of Northern Ireland's most prominent public servants becomes a companion of the Order of the Bath (CB).\n\nKieran Donnelly has been Comptroller and Auditor General since 2009.\n\nHe heads the Northern Ireland Audit Office, which ensures value-for-money in the spending of public finances.\n\nUnder his leadership, the Audit Office has issued reports on matters such as the health service, prisons, schools and the controversial Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) Scheme.\n\nThe majority of recipients of the 2019 Birthday Honours are people who have undertaken outstanding work in their communities across Northern Ireland and in spheres as diverse as textile art, cancer care, scouting and mental health services.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nJosh Magennis scored a late winner to ensure Northern Ireland made it three wins from three in their Euro 2020 qualifying campaign with victory over Estonia in Talinn.\n\nThe hosts led at the break through captain Konstantin Vassiljev's superb low free-kick.\n\nBut, after a spell of heavy pressure, NI equalised through Conor Washington.\n\nAnd Magennis scored the winner three minutes later when he turned home Jordan Jones' low cross.\n\nVictory means Michael O'Neill's side have won all three of their qualifiers to date, having beaten Estonia and Belarus in Belfast in March.\n\nThe hosts were the better side in the first half and deservedly led at the break through Vassiljev's fine free-kick.\n\nMadis Vihmann had a header disallowed in the first half after he was adjudged to have fouled visiting keeper Bailey Peacock-Farrell and Vassiljev rattled the crossbar early in the second half.\n\nO'Neill's side grew into the game and looked considerably more dangerous after the introduction of Washington, Jones and Magennis in the second half.\n\nIt was Washington's enterprising run and effort that brought about their equaliser. His shot appeared to glance off the chest of Magennis and evade Estonia goalkeeper Sergei Lepmets, meaning the goal was initially awarded to Magennis, though, it was later given to Washington.\n\nMagennis, who scored a late winner to beat Belarus in March, combined with fellow substitute Jones to complete the comeback with a fine deft touch.\n\nNorthern Ireland will look to make it four wins from four in Group C when they travel to Barysaw to play Belarus on Tuesday with a formidable double-header against the Netherlands and Germany awaiting them in the autumn.\n\nDespite dominating possession in the opening moments, Northern Ireland were outshone by their hosts, who are ranked 63 places below them, for much of the first half.\n\nEstonia looked sharper, which is perhaps unsurprising given the majority of their players are midway through their club seasons, with the Estonian top flight running between March and November.\n\nEstonia's goalscorer and captain Vassiljev looked particularly imposing in the middle of the park with Northern Ireland's midfield three of Steven Davis, Paddy McNair and George Saville struggling to take a hold of the game.\n\nBut O'Neill's side came out in the second half with a renewed vigour to their play, helped in large by the introduction of Washington, who replaced Liam Boyce at half-time.\n\nThe recently released Sheffield United forward frequently came short to receive possession and drive at the Estonia defence, where Boyce had been bullied by the powerful pairing of Karol Mets and Vihmann.\n\nAnd with the introduction of Jones and Magennis, the visitors only grew in confidence as they began to create chances at will.\n\nSaville spurned two chances in quick succession and Jonny Evans headed over from a corner as they pushed for an equaliser.\n\nJones was particularly impressive as he repeatedly ran at the Estonia defence and he could have made it 3-1 late on with a flashing drive that went just past the post.\n\nBut Estonia did miss a golden chance to level late on when Artjom Dmitrijev failed to get a free header on target.\n\nGermany and Netherlands wait on the horizon\n\nNorthern Ireland boss O'Neill set a goal of picking up maximum points from his side's opening four Euro 2020 qualifiers.\n\nBefore his team's tie in Tallinn he even spoke of setting up a \"three-team group\" with the Netherlands and Germany, by beating Estonia and Belarus this month.\n\nHowever, those aspirations were very much in danger as the game entered the closing stages at the A Le Coq Arena in Tallinn, especially for a side without an away win in their last seven attempts.\n\nBut Washington was on hand to equalise and score Northern Ireland's first away goal in 719 minutes, covering seven games, before Magennis sealed their triumph.\n\nNorthern Ireland's attentions will now turn to Tuesday's game against Belarus where a victory would see them take 12 points from their opening four qualifiers.\n\nBut even if O'Neill's side can do that, qualification for the finals is by no means secured because only two teams will progress from Group C.\n\nAnd the favourites to take those two spots are four-time world champions Germany, who visit Belfast in September before an away game against Nations League finalists the Netherlands in October.\n\nNorthern Ireland then host the Netherlands in November before completing their qualifying campaign with a trip to Germany.\n\nNI do the double over Estonia - the stats\n• None Northern Ireland have won four of their six meetings with Estonia (L2), including both meetings in 2019.\n• None Estonia have now lost each of their last five European Championship qualifying matches, with today seeing their only goal scored in those five defeats.\n• None Northern Ireland have only lost one of their last 13 qualifying matches for the European Championship (W9 D3), with today's win extending their unbeaten run in such games to nine (W6 D3).\n• None Conor Washington became the first NI player to score a goal in an away international match since Steve Davis against San Marino in September 2017, ending a run of seven games and 719 minutes without a goal away from home for the Green and White Army.\n• None Josh Magennis has scored two goals in his last two appearances for Northern Ireland, one more than he managed in his previous 11.\n• None There were just 167 seconds between Northern Ireland's equaliser from Conor Washington and their winning goal by Josh Magennis.\n• None Konstantin Vassiljev's goal was Estonia's first scored directly from a free-kick in a European Championship qualifier since Vassiljev himself scored one in March 2011 versus Serbia.\n• None Attempt missed. Jordan Jones (Northern Ireland) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left.\n• None Attempt missed. Artjom Dmitrijev (Estonia) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Gert Kams with a cross.\n• None Offside, Northern Ireland. Jordan Jones tries a through ball, but Conor Washington is caught offside.\n• None Attempt saved. Jordan Jones (Northern Ireland) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Patrick McNair.\n• None Attempt missed. Conor Washington (Northern Ireland) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Steven Davis.\n• None Offside, Northern Ireland. Stuart Dallas tries a through ball, but Josh Magennis is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Sergei Zenjov (Estonia) left footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Konstantin Vassiljev following a corner.\n• None Attempt saved. Artjom Dmitrijev (Estonia) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Konstantin Vassiljev.\n• None Goal! Estonia 1, Northern Ireland 2. Josh Magennis (Northern Ireland) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Jordan Jones.\n• None Goal! Estonia 1, Northern Ireland 1. Conor Washington (Northern Ireland) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the high centre of the goal. Assisted by Jamal Lewis.\n• None Attempt missed. Jonny Evans (Northern Ireland) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Patrick McNair with a cross following a corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Many Venezuelans crossed the border to buy basic goods\n\nTens of thousands of people crossed the border with Venezuela and Colombia after it reopened for the first time in four months on Saturday, officials say.\n\nThe crossing was closed in February at President Nicolás Maduro's request as opposition leader Juan Guaidó prepared to bring in US-backed humanitarian aid.\n\nThe country has faced shortages of basic supplies as a result of a severe years-long economic crisis.\n\nMore than four million people have fled Venezuela since 2015, UN agencies say.\n\nAccording to Colombia's foreign ministry, more than 30,000 Venezuelans arrived on Saturday, with almost 37,000 leaving by the end of the day.\n\nThe borders with Colombia, Brazil and Dutch Antilles islands were all closed earlier this year after the opposition organised the delivery of foreign aid, which was denounced by Mr Maduro as part of an effort to remove him.\n\nLast month, Mr Maduro announced the reopening of the border with Brazil and the island of Aruba, but Aruban authorities said the border would remain closed.\n\nAnnouncing the reopening of the border with Colombia on Twitter, Mr Maduro - who has blamed the country's crisis on a Washington-led economic war - said (in Spanish): \"We're a people of peace that strongly defends our independence and self-determination.\"\n\nThousands of people queued to cross the border\n\nThe closures had caused problems for towns along the border that have come to rely on Colombian cities for essential products and services, and many people have crossed illegally, at times having to pay tolls to criminals controlling passage.\n\nBefore it closed, some 30,000 people a day would cross the Simon Bolivar International Bridge every day, AFP news agency said.\n\nThe crisis in Venezuela deepened in January after Mr Guaidó, head of the National Assembly, declared himself interim president, arguing that Mr Maduro's re-election last year had been \"illegitimate\".\n\nHe has since been recognised by more than 50 countries, including the US and most of Latin America. But Mr Maduro retains the loyalty of most of the military and important allies such as China and Russia.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What are the real reasons behind Venezuela’s blackouts?\n\nIn April, Mr Guaidó led a failed attempt to spark a military rebellion against Mr Maduro, who described the effort as part of a US-orchestrated coup.\n\nSince then, close allies of Mr Guaidó have been arrested. While his parliamentary immunity has been lifted, he has so far not been jailed.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Venezuela crisis: The four countries interested in the presidential battle\n\nMeanwhile, Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie, special envoy for the UN refugee agency (UNHCR), said there was an urgent need for the international community to give greater support to Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, some of the countries with the most Venezuelan refugees.\n\nAfter meeting with Colombia's President Iván Duque in Cartagena, she warned that more than 20,000 Venezuelan children, born abroad to displaced families, were at risk of statelessness as their parents were struggling to obtain the necessary documents.\n\nOn Friday, the UNHCR and International Organization for Migration (IOM) said the exodus from the country meant that Venezuelans were now \"one of the single largest population groups displaced from their country\".", "Paul Rimmer and his son Tristan, nine, who is autistic, attended Evensong on Sunday\n\nA university dean has apologised after an autistic boy was asked to leave a service at King's College Chapel in Cambridge.\n\nPaul Rimmer and his son Tristan, nine, who is autistic, attended Evensong on Sunday. Tristan made loud noises and a member of staff asked them to leave.\n\nMr Rimmer wrote a letter of complaint that appeared on Facebook.\n\nNow Dean of King's College Dr Stephen Cherry has apologised and asked to meet Mr Rimmer.\n\nMr Rimmer said in the letter that Tristan's expressions \"are often loud and uncontainable. It is part of who he is\".\n\n\"As a Christian, I believed worship is primarily intended to glorify God.. as an actual worship service, at which my son's expressions must surely be pleasing to God,\" he said.\n\nMr Rimmer said his son \"isn't even 10 years old and he knows that he is unwelcome\".\n\nIn a letter to Mr Rimmer, Revd Dr Cherry wrote he was \"devastated\" to hear about the incident.\n\n\"Every week we welcome thousands of people to services in King's Chapel and we do our best to meet all their various needs and expectations,\" he said.\n\n\"Sometimes we fail and I realise that we especially failed you and Tristan on Sunday afternoon. I apologise for that most sincerely.\n\nHe added that \"that there is more that we can do to support and help... staff\" welcoming worshippers.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAll five Conservative leadership candidates have said they will support an independent inquiry into allegations of Islamophobia within their party.\n\nSajid Javid challenged the other candidates on Tuesday's BBC TV debate to commit to an external investigation and the others appeared to agree to it.\n\nJeremy Hunt said racism was \"not restricted to any one political party\".\n\nEx-party chairwoman Baroness Warsi said it was \"important\" the promise was kept by whoever becomes prime minister.\n\nShe has been calling for an independent inquiry into \"institutional\" Islamophobia in the Conservative Party.\n\nOn the BBC TV debate, the candidates were pressed by an imam to accept that \"words have consequences\" amid claims that the Conservatives have failed to tackle Islamophobia in the party.\n\nReferring to Donald Trump's string of attacks on London's Muslim mayor Sadiq Khan, the home secretary said politicians should be \"brave enough\" to call out Islamophobia wherever it came from.\n\nForeign Secretary Mr Hunt told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"I think we should have an independent inquiry because the cancer of racism and prejudice is not restricted to any one political party.\n\n\"We have been very vociferous calling out Jeremy Corbyn and anti-Semitism and if we are going to do that, and I think we are right to do that, then we have to be whiter than white ourselves.\"\n\nEnvironment Secretary Michael Gove told the BBC that there were people who need to be \"rooted out\" of the Conservative Party over Islamophobia.\n\n\"We need to be absolutely resolute in tackling racism and prejudice of all kinds,\" he said.\n\n\"Absolutely there are people in the Conservative Party who we need to make sure appreciate the consequences of their actions - there are people who need to be rooted out of the party.\"\n\nIn response to the question from Abdullah Patel on the TV debate, leadership frontrunner Boris Johnson said he was \"sorry for the offence\" his comments about veiled Muslim women looking like \"letter boxes\" and \"bank robbers\" had caused, and mentioned his great-grandfather was a Muslim.\n\nBaroness Warsi, who was the UK's first female Muslim cabinet minister, said: \"It's really important that whoever becomes PM keeps this promise.\n\n\"It was made on national TV, so I hope they will.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"Secondly, [I hope] that they genuinely appoint someone who is independent and who is trusted really.\"\n\nMeanwhile, concerns have been raised about allegedly anti-Semitic social media posts from Mr Patel's now-deleted Twitter account.\n\nBBC Radio 5 Live presenter Nicky Campbell, who interviewed Mr Patel on his breakfast show, apologised on Twitter, saying the imam's social media comments were \"extremely disturbing\" and they \"should have checked\".\n\nThe BBC defended its vetting process, saying in a statement that \"one individual reactivated a public twitter account he had previously deactivated\" following the debate, resulting in the tweets not being visible during the background research process.\n\n\"Had we been aware of the views he expressed there he would not have been selected,\" the statement said.", "Ana Kriégel's innocence and longing for friendship made her a vulnerable target\n\nTwo boys have been found guilty of the murder of a 14-year-old girl in the Republic of Ireland.\n\nAna Kriégel was found dead in May 2018 in an abandoned house in Dublin, where she had been taken by one of the boys.\n\nThe boys, both 13 at the time, denied the charges and were granted anonymity during the trial due to their age, being referred to as Boy A and Boy B.\n\nAfter a six-week trial, both were found guilty of murder. Boy A was also found guilty of aggravated sexual assault.\n\nBoth have been remanded in detention until 15 July while the judge considers their sentences.\n\nMr Justice Paul McDermott has asked to review both boys' school reports as well as a number of social work reports.\n\nAna's naked body was found with a ligature around the neck in a derelict house three days after she went missing in May 2018.\n\nA former state pathologist identified 50 areas of injury on the schoolgirl's head and body, concluding the cause of her death was blunt force trauma to the head and neck.\n\nOn 14 May, Ana had left her house with Boy B in the early evening, thinking she was being taken to meet a boy she liked.\n\nShe was taken to the abandoned Glenwood House in Lucan in Dublin, about 3km (1.9 miles) away from her home, where Boy A was waiting.\n\nBoy A attacked and murdered Ana while Boy B watched, the court heard.\n\nAna was adopted from Russia when she was two by Irish woman Geraldine Kriégel and her French-born husband Patric\n\nAna's mother told the court she had been immediately concerned when her husband said their daughter had left the house with Boy B because she said Ana had no friends, and no one called for her.\n\nBy the time Mrs Kriégel went looking for her about 45 minutes later, she had already been killed.\n\nAna's innocence and longing for friendship made her a vulnerable target to those who wanted to take advantage of her, the court heard.\n\nDuring the trial at Dublin's Central Criminal Court, the boys gave different accounts of what had happened.\n\nBoy A denied ever being in the derelict house but forensic examinations established Ana's blood was on the boots he had been wearing, indicating that he either assaulted her or was very close by when she was attacked.\n\nHer blood was also found on a backpack in his house and on some of its contents - described by police as his \"murder kit\" - which included a homemade zombie mask, black gloves and a knee pad.\n\nSemen stains on a top found near Ana's body contained Boy A's DNA.\n\nThe jury was also shown a long wooden stick and concrete block found at the scene, which were stained with Ana's blood.\n\nThe Ana Kriégel murder trial shocked and gripped people in the Republic of Ireland.\n\nThat was partly because it was every parent's worst nightmare and partly because it revived memories of the Jamie Bulger case, when two 10-year-olds were found guilty of the toddler's 1993 murder in Merseyside in England.\n\nThe crime of children murdering children is rare anywhere but no-one can remember a case like this in Ireland.\n\nThere will inevitably be a public debate about underage crime and punishment, with calls for parents to take a closer interest in their children's social media and internet use.\n\nAdults found guilty of murder are given automatic life sentences but there are no set guidelines for children.\n\nFor the families of all involved, there is unlikely to be an early end to their nightmares.\n\nBoy B's defence counsel told the jury that the boy had been \"set up\" by his co-accused.\n\nAfter a number of interviews, Boy B admitted he had been in the house with Ana and Boy A but ran away when Boy A began raping Ana.\n\nDuring questioning, Boy A said he had been with Ana on 14 May but when police told him Ana's parents reported her missing at 20:00 local time he denied being with her in the run-up to that time.\n\nAna's parents described her as a \"dream come true\"\n\nBoy A returned home that evening with a number of injuries and claimed he was attacked by two men in the local park where he had last seen Ana.\n\nAna's parents Patric and Geraldine Kriégel, who had been in court each day of the trial, hugged and wept with friends as the verdicts were delivered.\n\nOutside court, Mr Kriégel described their daughter as \"our strength\".\n\n\"Ana was a dream come true for us and she always will be,\" said her mother.\n\n\"She'll stay in our hearts forever loved and be forever cherished.\n\nBoy B's father left the room immediately after the verdict, slamming the door before returning shortly afterwards, clapping and loudly stating: \"An innocent child is going to prison.\"\n\nBoth Boy A and Boy B's mothers wept and held their sons before they were taken away by police.", "Gambling ads that appeared on an app \"appealing to under 18s\" have been banned by the advertising watchdog.\n\nThe ads for LottoGo EuroMillions, William Hill Vegas, Betfair Bingo and Dunder came up in the Looney Tunes World of Mayhem app in February.\n\nAll four firms say they have since stopped working with affiliate company Tapjoy, which placed ads on the app.\n\nThe ASA ruled the ads must not be used again without limiting the risk of children being exposed to them.\n\nIn its ruling, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) said Tapjoy acknowledged the Looney Tunes app had been mistakenly categorised with a \"mature-gambling\" setting.\n\nAnd Scopely, the publisher of Looney Tunes World of Mayhem, told the ASA it did not target its games to children, and noted that individuals under the age of 16 in the EU are not permitted to play the games.\n\nThe game has a rating of PEGI 7 in the UK Google Play app store, meaning it was suitable for players aged seven and above.\n\nIt allowed users to build worlds and situations based on the Looney Tunes cartoons and collect characters to \"battle\" each other.\n\nThe ASA said: \"Given the use of cartoon characters, cartoonish violence and the relatively simple nature of the game, we considered it was likely to appeal to many under-18s.\n\n\"However, we acknowledged that the characters would be well known to older players, and the game was likely to have more general appeal.\"\n\nWilliam Hill told the ASA it is conducting a full review into work with its affiliates to prevent the issue happening again.", "Four men are to be charged with murder of 298 people on board the Malaysia Airlines plane killed when it was brought down in eastern Ukraine in 2014.\n\nDutch prosecutors have issued international arrest warrants for three Russian citizens and a Ukrainian who they say brought a missile launcher to eastern Ukraine which then fired at the passenger jet.\n\nThe Dutch led investigation team say the four are not accused of \"pushing the button themselves\", but allege they contributed to the attack.\n\nFlight MH17 was en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur when it was shot down over conflict-hit Ukraine.", "A crime scene remained in place on Welbeck Road on Wednesday morning\n\nA man has died after a triple stabbing in north London.\n\nOfficers were called to Welbeck Road in Barnet at 22:50 BST on Tuesday after reports of a fight.\n\nScotland Yard said three people had been taken to hospital and a 38-year-old man was pronounced dead - the fifth killing in the capital in six days.\n\nTwo other injured men, one aged 25 and one aged 34, have been discharged from hospital. The Met has launched a murder investigation.\n\nPolice were called to Welbeck Road in Barnet on Tuesday after reports of a fight\n\nSupt Tim Alexander said: \"Our thoughts are with the victim's family at this very difficult time. This is such a tragic loss of life and we urge anyone with information to come forward.\n\n\"The information you provide can be used to great effect to not only detect, but also prevent crime.\n\n\"We are working closely with the Homicide and Major Crime Command as part of their ongoing investigation into the full circumstances.\"\n\nThe fatal stabbing comes after a man in his 40s was knifed to death in Whalebone Lane, Stratford, in the early hours of Monday.\n\nThat followed three homicides in the space of 24 hours, including two teenagers who were fatally attacked on Friday.\n\nCheyon Evans, 18, was found stabbed on Deeside Road in Wandsworth, south-west London, at 16:42 BST, and died at the scene.\n\nEniola Aluko, 19, from Thamesmead, south-east London, was shot dead in Hartville Road, Plumstead, shortly before 17:00.\n\nOn Saturday, Gleb Stanislavovitch Zhebrovsky, 30, was stabbed to death in a field in Alton Street, in Tower Hamlets, east London, just before 14:00.\n\nThe Met Police said it has stepped up patrols in certain hotspots.\n\nMohamed Nadir Dafallah, 18, from Wandsworth, and a 17-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, have been charged with Mr Evans' murder.\n\nThey are due to appear at the Old Bailey on Wednesday.", "An Australian detective was forced to take action after an unexpected interruption to a press conference by a man who had allegedly made inappropriate comments to a teenage girl.\n\nLuckily for Detective Daren Edwards, he was able to draw on his past experience as a rugby league player, and made the perfect tackle.", "Adrian Ismay died 11 days after he was injured when a bomb exploded under his van\n\nA man accused of murdering a prison officer made dozens of internet searches about the victim before and after he was attacked, a court heard.\n\nMr Ismay died from injuries sustained in a bomb explosion outside his east Belfast home in 2016.\n\nMr Robinson, who is 48 and from Aspen Park in Twinbrook, volunteered at St John Ambulance at the same time as the father of four.\n\nOn Wednesday, an independent evidence analyst told the court she could confirm that numerous searches about Mr Ismay were made from Mr Robinson's phone.\n\nThey included specific searches in the months leading up to the attack about information regarding Mr Ismay's role in emergency care.\n\nHe also searched for the opening hours of the Tesco store near the prison officer's home.\n\nOn the morning Mr Ismay was injured, the court heard that the accused viewed numerous online news articles about the incident.\n\nA lawyer for Mr Robinson said it was understandable that his client would have viewed online articles about the attack, as many others did that day.\n\nA bomb detonated under Adrian Ismay's van in the Cregagh area of Belfast\n\nHe also said that there was nothing unusual about people using search engines on their phones before bed and early in the morning, as Mr Robinson did.\n\nPreviously, the non-jury trial heard transcripts of police interviews given by Mr Ismay from his hospital bed.\n\nIn them, the victim said he said \"got on well\" with Mr Robinson during their time volunteering together and they never discussed religion or politics.\n\nIn that hearing, the court also heard that Mr Ismay had never worked at Maghaberry Prison or been involved in training in the dissident republican wing at the prison.", "The royal couple have sent their best wishes to the woman, called Irene\n\nAn elderly woman is in a serious condition in hospital after a road accident involving the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's police escort.\n\nPrince William and Kate were travelling from London to Windsor when the woman, 83, was hurt on Monday.\n\nThe accident involved a marked police motorbike in the convoy, and the police watchdog is now investigating.\n\nKensington Palace said the royal couple were \"deeply concerned and saddened\" and had been in touch with the woman.\n\nThe woman - who is called Irene, according to the palace - was taken to hospital in a critical condition following the collision on Upper Richmond Road in Richmond, south-west London at about 12:50 BST on 17 June.\n\nShe is now in a serious but stable condition in hospital.\n\nA Kensington Palace spokesperson said: \"Their Royal Highnesses have sent their very best wishes to Irene and her family and will stay in touch throughout every stage of her recovery.\"\n\nThe duke and duchess are understood to have sent flowers to the woman.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said it was investigating the circumstances of the collision after it was referred to them by the Metropolitan Police \"in line with procedure\".\n\nAn IOPC spokesman said: \"Our staff attended the scene of the incident and after careful consideration, we have launched an independent investigation.\n\n\"The investigation is in its very early stages and the officer involved is assisting our inquiries as a witness.\n\n\"Our immediate thoughts are with the injured woman and her family and those affected by the incident.\"\n\nPrince William and Kate were on their way to Windsor for the St George's Chapel service commemorating the Order of the Garter.\n\nIn January, the Duke of Edinburgh, 98, was involved in a car crash while driving near the Queen's Sandringham estate.\n\nPrince Philip flipped his Land Rover Freelander after colliding with a Kia car as he pulled out on to the A149 in Norfolk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Researchers are using robots to test thousands of drug combinations\n\nIn a laboratory in Dundee, two huge robotic arms test thousands of chemical compounds looking for a drug to stop sperm in its tracks.\n\n\"Sperm move very quickly in humans,\" says Prof Christopher Barratt, head of the Reproductive Medicine Group at the city's university.\n\n\"It's the speed of Usain Bolt if you want to get an analogy. And what we're trying to do is get chemicals to stop that type of movement.\n\nSo stop them in the starting blocks, rather than letting them get to the 100m line.\"\n\nThe team at the University of Dundee have begun work to develop a male contraceptive pill thanks to a grant of about $900,000 (£716,670) from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.\n\nIf successful, it could help to prevent millions of unwanted pregnancies across the world.\n\nThe team say a male pill could help to prevent millions of unwanted pregnancies across the world\n\nProf Barratt believes innovation in this field is long overdue.\n\n\"If you look back at the principles of male contraception then the last development was in 1450BC, which is effectively the development of the condom,\" he says.\n\n\"So there's been absolutely nothing for men and that's a key issue if we're trying to deal with many of the issues that face the world.\"\n\nThe two-year project is a collaboration between the university's schools of medicines and life sciences. They hope to find a drug to mimic male infertility.\n\nDr Paul Andrews, director of operations at the National Phenotypic Screening Centre, says it could already exist.\n\n\"We have to sift through hundreds of thousands of chemicals, some of which might be drugs that are already in patients and where we find new uses for old drugs. Or we might want to find new drugs,\" he says.\n\nPrevious attempts to create a male pill had unwanted side effects and failed to attract the attention of pharmaceutical companies. But Dr Andrews hopes the support of the Gates Foundation might make this research a success.\n\n\"Big pharma companies are not interested in this area, even though there's potentially a large market,\" he says. \"And so the Gates Foundation wanted to plug that gap.\"\n\nSociologist Kristina Saunders believes attitudes will need to change\n\nThe female pill was first made available on the NHS in 1961, revolutionising the lives of women.\n\nKristina Saunders, a sociologist at the University of Glasgow, believes attitudes will need to change before another major transformation in contraception.\n\n\"I don't think it would be as simple as here's this pill or this new contraceptive you can take it,\" she says. \"I think much deeper work needs to be done because these are really ingrained, gendered norms and ideas and expectations around, not just contraceptive use but reproduction more generally.\n\n\"So I think conversations need to be opened up within wider society between couples and health care professionals and with service providers.\n\n\"And starting with education from a young age to include men and young boys and everybody in discussions around contraceptive responsibility.\"\n\nThe team in Dundee hope to identify a suitable compound within five years. After that, men could start testing the pill.\n\nA season of stories about bringing people together in a fragmented world.", "Head teachers in England are more likely to face problems with pupils bullying online and misusing social media than in any other developed country, an international study says.\n\nA report from the OECD think tank reported the experiences of more than 250,000 teachers in 48 industrialised countries and regions.\n\nIt showed particular problems with cyber-bullying in England's schools.\n\n\"It's the dark side of the modern age,\" said the OECD's Andreas Schleicher.\n\nThe OECD's education director called for more regulation of social media, rather than leaving individual heads to try to cope.\n\nThe study, from the economics think tank the Teaching and Learning International Survey, looked at the working lives of teachers around the world, with England participating but not Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland.\n\nThe survey, carried out every five years, indicated an increase in bullying in England's schools - driven by online bullying and harassment and problems caused by social media.\n\nOf the heads in England surveyed:\n\n\"It's clearly about social media,\" said Mr Schleicher.\n\nIn France, mobile phones have been banned from school - and the OECD education expert said education systems had to find a way of dealing with the impact of social media and internet use on young people.\n\nHe warned of a lack of regulation in England, which left schools having to find their own response.\n\n\"I don't think it's something we can ignore and let individual schools sort out,\" he said.\n\nApart from the emotional harm of bullying, he said, the misuse of social media was \"hindering learning\" and needed to be addressed at a wider level.\n\nThe survey also indicated that England faced a significant problem with a shortage of teachers.\n\nHead teachers in England were much more likely to report their biggest problem was a lack of qualified teachers.\n\nMr Schleicher said this was \"way above\" what was typical of other developed countries - and that England was \"pretty much on its own\" with the scale of worries about a lack of teachers.\n\nImproving recruitment, he said, was not just about pay, but would depend on making teaching more \"intellectually attractive\", with enough time for professional development and research and to \"create a job profile that is a true professional career\".\n\nThe survey indicated teachers in England worked among the longest hours of any developed countries, with 50 hours per week.\n\nBut much of this seemed to be administration or other work outside the classroom, as in terms of teaching hours, England was below average.\n\nJames Zuccollo, of the Education Policy Institute, said these \"stark findings\" showed that \"in spite of the government's efforts over the last few years, there has been no reduction in teachers' workload\".\n\nMary Bousted, joint general secretary of the National Education Union, said the findings should be a \"wake-up call\".\n\n\"The government must end teachers' unsustainable workload by tackling the high-stakes school accountability system which is fuelling the long-hours culture and driving teachers out of the profession,\" said Ms Bousted.\n\nPaul Whiteman, leader of the National Association of Head Teachers, said: \"Teachers are graduates who have many career choices open to them.\n\n\"We have to treat them well and respect their need for a work-life balance, if we expect them to stay.\"\n\nEducation Secretary Damian Hinds said: \"We know that too many teachers are having to work too many hours each week on unnecessary tasks, which is why I have taken on a battle to reduce teachers' workload so that they can focus on spending their time in the classroom doing what they do best - teaching.\"", "Now, there's no doubt that Boris Johnson is, at this stage (and there's a long way to go), widely expected to end up in Number 10.\n\nBut this result is an enormous relief to his camp, for the simple reason that they think Jeremy Hunt is easier to beat.\n\nForget any differences in style between the two challengers and their comparative talents - Mr Hunt voted Remain in the EU referendum.\n\nAnd for many Tory members it is a priority for the next leader to have been committed to that cause, rather than a recent convert, however zealous.\n\nOf course, pay attention to recent political history. Upsets are the norm. Outsiders become insiders. Strange things happen, and that's before you price in Mr Johnson's ability to cause havoc for himself.\n\nBut this result has left Mr Johnson's camp hugely relieved.", "A man has been convicted of making a 3D printed gun - which was capable of firing a deadly shot.\n\nTendai Muswere, 26, from central London, initially told officers he was printing the firearm for a university project.\n\nHe pleaded guilty to manufacturing a firearm at Southwark Crown Court on Wednesday.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police says it believes it is the first conviction of its kind in the UK.\n\nPolice raided Muswere's home in Pimlico, Westminster, in October 2017 after getting a warrant to look for drugs.\n\nDuring the search, they found parts of a 3D printed gun - which Muswere - then a student - didn't have a firearms licence for.\n\nHe told officers he was printing the firearm for a university film project and he didn't know the parts he'd made were capable of firing.\n\nThis is the 3D gun Muswere made\n\nMuswere wouldn't tell police what his project was about.\n\nPolice found through searching his internet history that he had looked at videos which showed how to use a 3D printer to make guns that could fire ammunition.\n\nThey also discovered he had cannabis plants and there was evidence he was growing them.\n\nOfficers carried out a second raid on his home in February 2018 and found more parts of a 3D printed gun.\n\nActing Detective Sergeant Jonathan Roberts, who led the investigation, said: \"Muswere claimed that he was printing the firearms for a 'dystopian' university film project but he has not explained why he included the component parts necessary to make a lethal barrelled weapon.\n\n\"We know that Muswere was planning to line the printed firearms with steel tubes in order to make a barrel capable of firing.\n\n\"This conviction, which I believe is the first of its kind relating to the use of a 3D printer to produce a firearm, has prevented a viable gun from getting into the hands of criminals.\"\n\nMuswere will be sentenced on 9 August.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Scientists say they have identified the earliest signs of Parkinson's disease in the brain, 15 to 20 years before symptoms appear.\n\nScans of a small number of high-risk patients found malfunctions in the brain's serotonin system, which controls mood, sleep and movement.\n\nThe King's College London researchers say the discovery could lead to new screening tools and treatments.\n\nExperts said larger studies and more affordable scans were needed first.\n\nParkinson's is a progressive neurological condition affecting about 145,000 people in the UK.\n\nThe main symptoms are shaking, tremors and stiffness but depression, memory and sleep problems are also common.\n\nTraditionally, the disease is thought to be linked to a chemical called dopamine, which is lacking in the brains of people with the condition.\n\nAlthough there is no cure, treatments do exist to control symptoms - and they focus on restoring dopamine levels.\n\nBut the KCL research team, writing in Lancet Neurology, suggest that changes in the brain's serotonin levels come first - and could act as an early warning sign.\n\nThe researchers looked at the brains of 14 people from remote villages in southern Greece and Italy who all have rare mutations in the SNCA gene, making them almost certain to develop the disease.\n\nHalf of this group had already been diagnosed with Parkinson's and half had not yet shown any symptoms, making them ideal for studying how the disease develops.\n\nBy comparing their brains with another 65 patients with Parkinson's and 25 healthy volunteers, the researchers were able to pinpoint early brain changes in patients in their 20s and 30s.\n\nThese were found in the serotonin system, a chemical which has many functions in the brain, including mood, appetite, cognition, wellbeing and movement.\n\nLead study author Prof Marios Politis, from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King's, said the abnormalities had been found long before movement problems had begun and before dopamine levels had changed.\n\n\"Our results suggest that early detection of changes in the serotonin system could open doors to the development of new therapies to slow, and ultimately prevent, progression of Parkinson's disease,\" he said.\n\nProf Derek Hill, professor of medical imaging at University College London, said the research provided some valuable insights but also had some limitations.\n\n\"Their results may not scale up to larger studies,\" he said.\n\n\"Secondly, the imaging method they used is highly specialised and limited to a very small number of research centres, so isn't yet usable either to help diagnose patients or even to evaluate novel treatments in large clinical studies.\n\n\"The research does, however, provide encouragement for the approach of trying to treat Parkinson's disease at the earliest possible stage, which is likely to be the best chance of preventing the rising number of people whose lives are destroyed by this hideous disease.\"\n\nDr Beckie Port, research manager at charity Parkinson's UK, said: \"Further research is needed to fully understand the importance of this discovery - but if it is able to unlock a tool to measure and monitor how Parkinson's develops, it could change countless lives.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Scots bought less alcohol in 2018 than any year since records began in the early 1990s, according to a new report.\n\nAnalysis by NHS Health Scotland found Scottish adults still bought more alcohol than people in England and Wales on average but the gap narrowed.\n\nA minimum price per unit of alcohol was introduced on 1 May last year in a bid to tackle Scotland's drink culture.\n\nThe authors of the report said it was not possible to quantify the impact but \"early indicators were encouraging\".\n\nScotland was the first country in the world to introduce minimum unit pricing (MUP), although others places operate different forms of price control.\n\nMinimum pricing was largely aimed at raising the cost of cheap lager, cider and spirits sold in supermarkets and off-licences to reduce consumption.\n\nThe 2019 MESAS (Monitoring and Evaluating Scotland's Alcohol Strategy) report said:\n\nThe report said alcohol continued to be a leading cause of illness and early death in Scotland, with an average of 22 people dying of alcohol-related illness every week.\n\nThe Scottish government brought in minimum unit pricing to target the price of cheap, high-strength alcohol, which it said attracted problem drinkers.\n\nThe new law looked at the amount of alcohol in a drink and set a minimum price of 50p for each unit.\n\nUnder the rules, a 70cl bottle of vodka, at a strength of 37.5% abv, would be 26.25 units and cost £13.13.\n\nLucie Giles, public health intelligence adviser at NHS Health Scotland, said the minimum pricing law led to the biggest rise in the average price of alcohol for a decade and a \"substantial\" fall in the volume of alcohol sold at very low prices.\n\nFor the first time, less alcohol was sold below 50p per unit in Scotland than south of the border.\n\nFollowing Scotland's introduction of the policy, members of the Welsh Assembly passed legislation to introduce a minimum price for alcohol - the plans are yet to be implemented.\n\nSimilar legislation has been considered for England but is not currently on the table.\n\nMs Giles said: \"From the data in this report it's not possible to quantify the full contribution of MUP (minimum unit pricing) on alcohol prices and sales, but these are encouraging early indicators.\"\n\nShe said alcohol was still a \"significant public health issue\" and people in Scotland's poorest areas continued to experience the most harm.\n\nCheap supermarket vodka was one of the drinks most affected by the minimum pricing\n\nShopkeepers say they have seen a shift in the type of drinks people are buying and doctors say that is reflected on the wards.\n\nThe official figures show a fall in sales but no real change in what we are choosing to drink.\n\nIt is a small percentage of people who are the most problematic drinkers, a significant proportion of those live in poverty.\n\nMost who work in this area say there needs to be a much wider package of support to really address the country's unhealthy relationship with alcohol.\n\nOne man I spoke to said minimum pricing will make no difference for this group. \"If they can't afford it, they'll steal it\" he said.\n\nWe have been seeing a steady decline in alcohol sales over the past decade or so, hence the optimism today, but not a rush to claim success.\n\nThe truth is, it is too early to tell whether minimum pricing is having an impact on Scotland's health.\n\nNo other country in the world has tried it so a full analysis will take years to complete.\n\nThe MESAS report looks at alcohol sales for 2018 but data on harm caused by drinking was for the previous year, before minimum pricing was introduced.\n\nIt shows that alcohol-specific death rates were consistently higher in Scotland than in England and Wales.\n\nIn 2017, rates were twice as high in men and 55% higher in women.\n\nIn the most deprived areas, rates of alcohol-specific death were more than seven times higher than in the least deprived.\n\nDr Ewan Forrest, a liver specialist at Glasgow Royal Infirmary, told BBC Scotland it was \"probably too early to say\" if there had been a reduction in alcohol harm.\n\n\"We are still seeing a lot of alcohol-related liver disease so I'm not thinking the measures taken have solved the problem but I'm hoping they have moved us in the right direction,\" he said.\n\nLiver disease specialist Dr Ewan Forrest said he thought minimum pricing was a move in the right direction\n\nDr Forrest said he hoped to see a reduction in alcohol-related liver deaths over the next five years.\n\nHe said: \"By reducing the overall consumption of alcohol and pushing some people towards stopping alcohol I hope we can prevent people who have liver disease developing full-blown liver failure.\"\n\nIn response to the MESAS report, BMA Scotland chair Dr Lewis Morrison said minimum pricing was \"still very much in its infancy\" but the results from the first year were \"extremely encouraging\".\n\nAlison Douglas, from Alcohol Focus Scotland, said the figures suggested the policy was \"having a real impact on the way we drink in Scotland\".\n\nThe Scottish government's Health Secretary Jeane Freeman said it was a \"promising start\" and the fall in sales was \"moving in the right direction\".\n\nThe MESAS report shows that while Scots buy more alcohol in pubs than people in England and Wales, it is off-licences and supermarkets where the biggest difference lies.\n\nThe rates of sales of spirits from off-licences were 37% higher in Scotland than in England and Wales, with sales of vodka per adult being 87% higher.\n\nSince 1994 off-trade sales in Scotland have increased by 36% while sales in pubs, clubs and restaurants have fallen by 44%.\n\nAbdul Majid, who runs a small supermarket in Bellshill, North Lanarkshire, said his turnover had not been affected by the minimum pricing rules but his customers had changed what they bought.\n\nAbdul Majid said high-strength ciders had been most affected by minimum pricing\n\nHe said they had moved away from high-strength (7.5% abv) ciders, which used to cost as little as £4 for three litres but could not now be sold for less than £11.25.\n\nMr Majid said people were buying more alcopops or small bottles of spirits such as vodka.\n\nHe said people had not understood the new law when it was first introduced.\n\n\"They know now that it is a minimum unit price so no matter which retailer they go to the minimum price doesn't change.\n\n\"It means that my prices and the bigger supermarket prices are now on a level playing field.\"\n\nAccording to Mr Majid, another consequence of the price rise has been a sharp rise in shoplifting.\n\n\"We are always really surprised at the people we catch,\" he said. \"It's not always who you would expect.\"", "The Conservative leadership candidates all know that solving the Brexit conundrum is their number one task.\n\nBut how do they propose to solve the problems? And if they can't, what are their contingency plans?\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg asked the remaining leadership candidates to outline their Brexit proposals.\n\nThe catch? To answer the questions in 50 words or less.\n\nHow will you get a deal agreed with the EU?\n\nFirst, I'll negotiate a full stop to the backstop - a guarantee it can never be permanent.\n\nSecond, I'll secure a Union Guarantee in international law so that our United Kingdom cannot be undermined.\n\nThird, I'll secure a Canada-style Free Trade Agreement which takes back control of our laws, borders and money.\n\nHow would you get the deal through Parliament?\n\nI would involve Conservative MPs in shaping our negotiating stance and install a negotiating team led by politicians.\n\nMy Union Guarantee will help me secure the support of the DUP.\n\nI also have a track record working across political divides, and would work with opposition MPs committed to Brexit.\n\nIf Parliament votes the deal down, what is your contingency plan?\n\nI want to deliver Brexit as soon as possible and before 31 October.\n\nHowever, I have said that if it will take a few more days or weeks to finalise a deal, I would be prepared to contemplate a short delay.\n\nWhat would you do if your contingency plan fails?\n\nI will always choose Brexit over no Brexit. So if it ultimately came to a choice, I would choose no deal over no Brexit. I led the Vote Leave campaign. I am determined to finish what I started and ensure we leave the EU.\n\nIf you had to make a choice between an election and another referendum, which would you choose?\n\nThis is a false choice. We need to honour the referendum and deliver Brexit before there is an election.\n\nWe must not blunder into a confidence vote which we could lose. I am categorically opposed to a second referendum, which is only advocated for by people who want to remain.\n\nWould you campaign to leave or stay in the EU in another referendum?\n\nHow will you get a deal agreed with the EU?\n\nWe are not pretending it's going to be easy but the EU doesn't want no deal and there is a deal to be done if the right team is sent to negotiate it.\n\nI will present Brussels with a credible plan and a new negotiating team so they have confidence it can get through Parliament.\n\nHow would you get the deal through Parliament?\n\nWe have to deal with the biggest issue Parliament has which is the backstop that could leave the UK permanently trapped in the customs union against its will.\n\nChanging the deal to address this concern, while maintaining support from across the Conservative Party and DUP, will get Brexit delivered.\n\nIf Parliament votes the deal down, what is your contingency plan?\n\nI have always believed that if the only way to deliver Brexit was through no deal, then I would pursue that.\n\nBut I would not pursue no deal, with all the risks it involves, if there was the chance of a good deal.\n\nWhat I would not do is set a hard stop on 31 October by which we would be forced into no deal, even if it meant an election and Jeremy Corbyn in No 10.\n\nWhat would you do if your contingency plan fails?\n\nI started my own business and negotiated for every day of my professional life - I am wholly focused on making sure it succeeds.\n\nIf you had to make a choice between an election and another referendum, which would you choose?\n\nWe have to give the country better choices than these, and as an experienced negotiator who understands European leaders, I am best placed to do that.\n\nWould you campaign to leave or stay in the EU in another referendum?\n\nWe don't want another referendum, but if there was one I would vote to leave. The people have decided and the democratic risk of not delivering their decision is colossal. We have to get on with it and that's exactly what I would do.\n\nHow will you get a deal agreed with the EU?\n\nWe need to focus on the one thing that's needed to get a deal through Parliament: alternative arrangements to the backstop.\n\nAnd we need to work with Ireland - the key player in this - to deliver those arrangements, beginning with a bold offer to pick up their costs for technological solutions.\n\nHow would you get the deal through Parliament?\n\nParliament has already voted for the current withdrawal agreement with changes to the backstop. That's why it's what I'd focus on securing with the EU.\n\nIf Parliament votes the deal down, what is your contingency plan?\n\nWe need to leave the EU on 31 October. I am confident we can agree a deal - and Parliament will support what it has already voted for in the past.\n\nBut if it comes to a choice between no deal, and no Brexit, I would have to back no deal.\n\nWhat would you do if your contingency plan fails?\n\nNo deal is the default if Parliament cannot agree a deal - and I would make sure we are fully prepared for it.\n\nBut we have to be honest about what the choice is. We cannot accept no Brexit as an outcome.\n\nSo either we agree a deal, or leave without one on 31 October.\n\nIf you had to make a choice between an election and another referendum, which would you choose?\n\nWe can't reduce this debate to false choices. We've asked the public too many times already for their views on Brexit.\n\nOnce should have been enough. They want us to get on with it now. Asking yet again would risk irreparable damage to trust in our democracy.\n\nWould you campaign to leave or stay in the EU in another referendum?\n\nI've been clear we need to get on with Brexit - no second referendum.\n\nThe people delivered a clear instruction to the British people, and as I said at the time it is our job as elected politicians to deliver it, however we voted at the time.\n\nHow will you get a deal agreed with the EU?\n\nIt's clear that the prime minister's deal is dead - having been rejected by Parliament three times.\n\nWe should have come out by March and both of the main political parties are paying the price for failing to do so. We now need to make sure we come out on 31 October, come what may, and we need to show that we are serious about leaving with no deal.\n\nTo be clear, I don't want no deal, but it's only by being serious you can be confident of getting a new, better deal.\n\nHow would you get the deal through Parliament?\n\nParliament has already made clear that it is willing to vote for a better deal, and last week made clear that it wasn't willing to take no deal off the table.\n\nI am confident that, so long as we can address MPs' concerns with the old withdrawal agreement, we can strike a new deal that Parliament will want to vote for.\n\nIf Parliament votes the deal down, what is your contingency plan?\n\nI am not planning for failure. Politics has changed since 29 March, and I believe that MPs now realise they need to deliver on the result of the referendum, or risk a devastating breach in public confidence in our politics.\n\nWhat would you do if your contingency plan fails?\n\nAgain, I am not planning for failure. We must deliver on the democratic wishes of the British people.\n\nIf you had to make a choice between an election and another referendum, which would you choose?\n\nNeither. It's clear that the public doesn't want to us to force them to vote again.\n\nWould you campaign to leave or stay in the EU in another referendum?\n\nLeave, but there isn't going to be another referendum if I become prime minister.\n\nHow will you get a deal agreed with the EU?\n\nI would not negotiate a new deal with the EU. I would take through the deal we have already got.\n\nPretending that we can get a different deal out of Brussels is simply a recipe for more uncertainty and delay.\n\nHow would you get the deal through Parliament?\n\nAll deals have to go through Parliament. The current deal has 270 votes. We need 45 more.\n\nThe European Elections are an electric shock which will make MPs determined to get Brexit done. There is only one door - Parliament. And one key - getting a majority.\n\nIf Parliament votes the deal down, what is your contingency plan?\n\nMy plan B would be a Brexit Assembly. It worked in Ireland to resolve the impasse on abortion.\n\nWhile Parliament will always remain sovereign, the Assembly would present a clear recommendation on the best way forward to break the deadlock.\n\nWhat would you do if your contingency plan fails?\n\nIn the end I - like everyone else - would have to return to getting a deal through Parliament. Parliament is sovereign. It is the only law-making body in the country.\n\nIf you had to make a choice between an election and another referendum, which would you choose?\n\nWe will only have to face that hideous choice in the future if we fail to engage with reality now.\n\nAs leader I would avoid both by getting a deal through Parliament.\n\nI do not want to see a general election until 2022, and I think a second referendum would be deeply damaging to this country as well as to faith in our democracy.\n\nWould you campaign to leave or stay in the EU in another referendum?\n\nIt's because I am the only candidate engaging with the reality of delivering on the result of the first referendum that I can confidently say we won't be having a second.", "Emiliano Sala had just signed with Cardiff City\n\nA man has been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter over the death of Argentine footballer Emiliano Sala who died in a plane crash.\n\nThe striker, who had signed with Cardiff City, was killed in the crash along with pilot David Ibbotson.\n\nA 64-year-old man from North Yorkshire had been arrested and released while investigations continue, a spokesperson for Dorset Police said.\n\nThe force added the families of the two men who died had been informed.\n\nMr Sala, 28, had been travelling from Nantes to Cardiff on 21 January when the plane he was in lost contact with air traffic control north of Guernsey.\n\nHis body was recovered in February but Mr Ibbotson's has never been found.\n\nEmiliano Sala (left) was heading to his new club, Cardiff City, on board a plane being flown by David Ibbotson\n\nMr Sala's body was brought to Portland and Dorset Police has been carrying out inquiries on behalf of the coroner.\n\nDet Insp Simon Huxter, of the force's Major Crime Investigation Team, said: \"As part of this investigation we have to consider whether there is any evidence of any suspected criminality and as a result of our inquiries we have today, Wednesday 19 June 2019, arrested a 64-year-old man from the North Yorkshire area on suspicion of manslaughter by an unlawful act.\n\n\"He is assisting with our inquiries and has been released from custody under investigation.\"\n\nAn air accident investigator's photo showed the rear left side of the fuselage on the seabed\n\nDet Insp Huxter urged people not to speculate about the identity of the man as it could hinder the investigation.\n\nThe Piper Malibu aircraft was carrying Mr Sala and Mr Ibbotson, from Crowle, Lincolnshire, after the footballer returned to FC Nantes to say goodbye to his former teammates.\n\nAn official search operation was called off on 24 January after Guernsey's harbour master said the chances of survival were \"extremely remote\".\n\nShipwreck hunter David Mearns found the plane wreckage on 3 February, 220ft (67m) below the surface of the English Channel, using sonar financed by an appeal that raised £340,000 (371,000 euros) to find the aircraft.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "More than 25 Labour MPs have written to Jeremy Corbyn to urge him not to go \"full Remain\" as the party reviews its stance on another Brexit referendum.\n\nThey warn another referendum would be \"toxic\" and empower the \"populist right\" in many Labour heartlands.\n\nThey call on the leadership to abandon their pursuit of a \"perfect deal\" and to back an agreement by 31 October.\n\nMr Corbyn told colleagues on Wednesday afternoon it was \"right to demand any deal is put to a public vote\".\n\nSpeaking at a shadow cabinet meeting, Mr Corbyn said he would be listening to colleagues and consulting with trade unions before officially setting out Labour's position next week.\n\nDeputy leader Tom Watson, a vocal advocate of another referendum, told ITV's Peston show what had yet to be decided was whether Labour would campaign to remain in a future vote.\n\nHe warned that Labour \"could be electoral history unless it makes a clear statement of intent\" that it saw the UK's future lying within the EU.\n\nLabour had promised a vote in certain circumstances, specifically if it could not get its own deal with the EU passed by MPs or if there was no general election.\n\nFollowing the party's poor performance in the European elections last month, Mr Corbyn said there \"had to be a public vote\" on any deal agreed with Brussels.\n\nSome senior figures, though, still want him to go further - to campaign for another referendum now and wholeheartedly fight to remain.\n\nIn a speech on Monday, deputy leader Tom Watson said Labour's \"ambiguity\" over the issue had cost it votes in last month's European elections, with voters turning to the Lib Dems and other unashamedly pro-Remain parties.\n\nBBC political correspondent Iain Watson said both Tom Watson and shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry, unsurprisingly, argued strongly for a shift to Remain at the shadow cabinet meeting.\n\nBut shadow chancellor John McDonnell - Mr Corbyn's right-hand man - also said the party could no longer \"triangulate\" on the issue - attempting to find a third position somewhere between Leave and Remain.\n\nEarlier, Iain Watson said the MPs' letter reflected the ongoing tensions within the party on the issue.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSignatories to the letter include Caroline Flint, Lisa Nandy, Jim Fitzpatrick, Stephen Kinnock and Dan Jarvis.\n\nThey say \"a commitment to a second referendum would be toxic to our bedrock Labour voters, driving a wedge between them and our party\".\n\nThey warn the Brexit Party, which ran Labour a close second in the recent Peterborough by-election, poses a \"potent\" threat to Labour in many of its traditional heartlands.\n\nThey point to the \"devastating\" losses the party suffered in the North East and the Midlands in last month's council elections and warn of serious electoral consequences for the party if the UK does not leave the EU \"without further undue delay\".\n\nMany of the MPs are in Leave-supporting constituencies, but as signatory Caroline Flint points out, even those who are not \"share concerns that a Stop Brexit referendum would drive a wedge between our bedrock support and our party\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA large number of Labour MPs believe any deal on the terms of the UK's withdrawal needs to be put to a public vote, with the option to remain in the EU on the ballot paper.\n\nBut Mr Corbyn has always been more cautious, and even after coming third in the European elections, he said another referendum was still \"some way off\".\n\nIn his opening remarks to Tuesday's shadow cabinet meeting, he told his frontbench team Labour's evolving position on a referendum was \"in line\" with the stance agreed by party members last year that a public vote was \"an option\" if other avenues to prevent a no-deal exit were exhausted.\n\n\"I have already made the case... that it is now right to demand that any deal is put to a public vote,\" he said.\n\n\"A ballot paper would need to contain real choices for both Leave and Remain voters. This will, of course, depend on Parliament.\"\n\nDuring the Soviet Union, the positioning of politicians on podiums and the placing of articles in Pravda were seized on by Western observers to prove what might be going on behind the scenes. And a certain sort of Kremlinology is required trying to work out where Labour's Brexit plan is heading next.\n\nI make no comparison between Mr Corbyn's Labour's party and the USSR, of course. I only mean statements and interviews are picked apart by journalists looking for clues and signs of a shift.\n\nPro-referendum campaigners detect a small shift in Jeremy Corbyn's latest statement, saying a referendum on a deal should include options that satisfy Leave and Remain voters alike. Mr Corbyn's team insists he is only repeating what has been said before.\n\nWhat's clear is pressure within Labour is building. Those like Tom Watson in the shadow cabinet calling unequivocally for another public vote are competing with about two dozen Labour MPs representing Leave seats warning their leader another referendum would be a disaster. A view shared by the party's chairman and key Corbyn ally Ian Lavery.\n\nSo for now, the talking and consulting continues. A decision is delayed. But very soon, Jeremy Corbyn is going to have to choose.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFour men are left in the race to be next prime minister after Rory Stewart was knocked out.\n\nThe international development secretary was eliminated after coming last with 27 votes, 10 fewer than last time.\n\nHe said his warnings about a no-deal Brexit \"probably proved to be truths people weren't quite ready to hear\".\n\nBoris Johnson topped the vote again with 143 votes, 17 more than last time. Jeremy Hunt came second with 54, Michael Gove got 51 and Sajid Javid 38.\n\nA fourth round of voting will take place on Thursday.\n\nMr Stewart started as a rank outsider in the race but gained support on the back of an unusual campaign strategy.\n\nTouring the country for pop-up meetings, which were promoted and recorded on social media, he drew large crowds and won the backing of several senior cabinet ministers.\n\nHe had accused other candidates, including Mr Johnson, of lacking realism over Brexit and making undeliverable promises.\n\nAfter his elimination, he tweeted that he had been \"inspired\" by the support he received which had rekindled his faith and belief in politics.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Rory Stewart This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Stewart's vote tally fell from Tuesday - following a live BBC TV debate in which he summed up his own performance as \"lacklustre\".\n\nThere have also been suggestions of tactical voting - \"dark arts\" as he called them - with candidates lending votes to others in order to help eliminate certain rivals.\n\nOne MP supporting Mr Stewart claimed he had been \"let down\" by \"thieving, mendacious, lying\" colleagues who had switched.\n\nFollowing his exit, Mr Stewart - MP for Penrith and The Border - told the BBC he was \"disappointed\" and believed his party \"didn't seem ready to hear his message\" about Brexit and the need to seek out the centre ground.\n\nHe said his arguments during the campaign that an alternative Brexit deal was not on offer from the EU, and a no deal would be catastrophic, were \"probably truths people were not quite ready to hear, but I still think they are truths\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe defended his attacks on Mr Johnson, saying the gravity of the situation meant it was right to warn that the frontrunner risked \"letting down\" his supporters over Brexit.\n\n\"These are the times to ask these questions, but I agree they are uncomfortable questions,\" he said.\n\n\"People felt they were exposing divisions in the party they were not comfortable with.\n\n\"My conclusion is that you don't unify a family or a party by pretending to agree when you disagree. You unify through honesty and trust.\"\n\nMr Stewart, who has ruled out serving under Mr Johnson because of their differences over Brexit, added \"I appear to have written my cabinet resignation letter.\"\n\nHe said he had not decided who to now support.\n\nHome Secretary Mr Javid, who leapfrogged Mr Stewart in Wednesday's poll after gaining five votes on his second round tally, thanked Mr Stewart for his contribution to the campaign.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Sajid Javid This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Javid said he was pleased to make it through into the next round, adding that he could provide \"constructive competition\" to frontrunner Boris Johnson if he made it into the final two.\n\n\"People are crying out for change, if we don't offer change ourselves, they'll vote for change in the form of Corbyn - and I can be that agent of change\", he said.\n\nReacting to his third consecutive second place, Mr Hunt said the \"stakes were too high to allow someone to sail through untested\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Jeremy Hunt This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLiam Fox, who is backing Foreign Secretary Mr Hunt, said the surviving candidates were the four most experienced men in the field and this is what people expected all along.\n\nTory MP Johnny Mercer, who is backing Mr Johnson, insisted there was \"no complacency\" despite his large lead, telling BBC News \"there is still work to do\".\n\nEducation Secretary Damian Hinds said Mr Gove had \"closed the gap\" on Mr Hunt in second place and was gaining momentum.\n\nHe said the environment secretary had the experience, the vision and the plan to deliver Brexit that could unite the country.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nUnless another candidate drops out, there will be a fifth ballot on Thursday evening to determine the final two candidates who will go forward into a run-off of the party's 160,000 or so members.\n\nThe winner will be announced in the week of 22 July.", "Three Russian men and one Ukrainian man are to be charged with murder in relation to the downing of a Malaysia Airlines jet in eastern Ukraine in 2014.\n\nPassenger flight MH17 was en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur when it was hit by a missile over conflict-hit eastern Ukraine.\n\nAll 298 passengers and crew on board the plane were killed.\n\nThe Dutch-led investigating team said the four are suspected of transporting the missile system used to shoot down the plane.", "Boohoo's first recycled range will be made with reclaimed plastics\n\n\"If someone really cared about buying ethically sourced, green clothes then they wouldn't shop at Boohoo,\" shopper Camilla tells the BBC on Oxford Street.\n\nShe is commenting on the fast fashion retailer's first recycled clothing range - made with reclaimed plastics - which was unveiled this week.\n\nThe 22-year-old's view is not surprising, given the millions of low cost, fast fashion clothes that Boohoo sells every year.\n\nBut while it's easy to dismiss the move as a marketing gimmick, Boohoo claims it is planning other green initiatives, and others have welcomed the new collection as a \"starting point\".\n\n\"It is good for people to try recycled clothes and see that they are just like normal clothes,\" says shopper Esme, 16.\n\n\"I'm glad they are engaging because they are unlikely to change their supply chain overnight,\" adds Dr Patsy Perry, senior lecturer in fashion marketing at the University of Manchester.\n\nBoohoo says its 34-piece range is made with recycled polyester that had been destined for landfills and uses no environmentally unfriendly dyes or chemicals.\n\nThe dresses, bodysuits, flares and crop tops have also been made entirely in the UK to cut air pollution.\n\nZara is one of a growing number of retailers to launch recycled collections\n\nHowever, some have noted that the range was unveiled on the same day the Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) issued a critical report on the fast fashion industry that mentioned Boohoo.\n\nThe MPs warned companies were creating huge amounts of waste by selling cheap clothes designed only to be worn a few times.\n\nThey also said the synthetic fabrics used to make such garments shed micro-fibres when washed, polluting waterways.\n\n\"The problem of clothing waste driven by rising volumes and lower prices in recent years are unlikely to be addressed by initiatives [like Boohoo's recycled range],\" says Stella Claxton of Nottingham Trent University, who gave evidence to the EAC.\n\n\"We know that too many garments that are disposed of through retailer take-back schemes or in charity collection bins will eventually find their way into landfill.\"\n\nShe also questions just how green Boohoo's recycled fabric will be, noting that even recycled polyester clothing can take hundreds of years to decompose.\n\n\"The garments are likely to shed microfibres into waterways when they're machine washed, just like the non recycled versions,\" she adds.\n\nIn its report, the EAC made 18 proposals, including a 1p charge per garment on producers to fund better recycling of clothes, and a ban on incinerating or landfilling unsold stock that can be recycled instead.\n\nBut the government has said already it will adopt none of the policies.\n\nIn that light, Dr Perry thinks Boohoo - and others retailers that have launched green clothing ranges - should be encouraged for doing so voluntarily.\n\n\"The real test will be if Boohoo can make this financially viable,\" she says.\n\n\"Because if they don't carry on then it will seem like a token gesture and them getting on the bandwagon.\"\n\nBoohoo says it takes its environmental responsibilities \"extremely seriously\" and is encouraging its customers to wear its clothes for longer.\n\n\"We have also launched a further consumer awareness programme around washing at lower temperatures, and avoiding ironing and tumble drying where possible.\"", "If your first and only brush with the men who want to move into No 10 had been those sixty minutes of debate, would you really conclude that Boris Johnson is the soaraway favourite and Rory Stewart is the exciting one to watch?\n\nIn fact, a source in the camp of one of the candidates tonight suggests if a newbie to the spectacle were told that afterwards, they would \"stare in utter disbelief\".\n\nThat's not just a reminder that it's always worth skimming off some of Westminster's daily froth to see what's underneath - but that political contests are full of ups and downs, and are rarely a smooth glide to the top or a straight slide down and out.\n\nThe former foreign secretary was less sure-footed than the strength in his numbers suggests. But he avoided blundering into fresh disaster, and voting rounds have put him out of reach of the rest.\n\nAfter a metaphorical lock down lasting weeks, Boris Johnson now has only two days left to step carefully around any banana skins in order to book his place in the final two. But the joust to join him there is real.\n\nRory Stewart's apparent rising star shone a lot less brightly than his converted fans might have hoped. The senior cabinet trio, Messrs. Hunt, Gove and Javid, were all content with their time in the studio.\n\nAnd when it comes to votes, all four are within easy potential reach of each other - at this stage, all are reluctant to withdraw.\n\nBut by Thursday, they and the Tory party have a bigger decision to make: who, if any among them, will give up their own dream, in the hope of mounting a serious and collective effort to stop Boris Johnson?\n\nStrangely, at this moment, the tension in this race is not about the identity of the likely winner, but which politician will wrangle their way to second place.", "If you are a family member of one of the victims and would like to submit an image or further information, please contact us at NewsInteractiveSpecials@bbc.co.uk", "The BBC Reality Check team has been checking claims made by the five remaining candidates to replace Theresa May in their live BBC debate.\n\nHere are the verdicts on one claim from each of them in the event chaired by Emily Maitlis.\n\nAll the candidates were asked about their plan for the Irish border after Brexit (most want to change the Irish backstop plan negotiated by Theresa May to avoid a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic).\n\nBoris Johnson was challenged by Rory Stewart to detail what tariffs (taxes on imports) would be charged on agricultural goods crossing the border.\n\nHe said there would be \"no tariffs or quotas\" because \"what we want to do is get a standstill in our current arrangements under GATT 24\" until a free trade deal had been negotiated.\n\nGATT 24 is an article of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. Supporters of a no-deal Brexit say it would allow the UK to continue to trade with the EU without tariffs for up to 10 years, while the two sides were negotiating a permanent future trade agreement.\n\nBut you can't use it in this way - a trade agreement has to be agreed in principle before Article 24 can be used.\n\nIt also needs the two sides to agree - the UK can't just impose it on the EU. You can read more about it here.\n\nHome Secretary Sajid Javid outlined his plan to keep the Irish border open after Brexit - he said he would use existing technology.\n\nOther borders between EU and non-EU countries do use technology - for example at the Sweden-Norway border cars go through unmanned border posts equipped with cameras that use an automatic number plate recognition system and goods are declared to customs before they leave warehouses.\n\nBut there is still some physical infrastructure. The EU still requires physical checks of goods at the Swedish border, so this system alone wouldn't eliminate the need for checks at the border in Ireland - a key sticking point in negotiations.\n\nYou can read more about the question of technology on the Irish border here.\n\nMichael Gove used a figure on good and outstanding schools that has been criticised by the UK Statistics Authority.\n\nYou can read the letter to the secretary of state for education here.\n\n\"You have nearly 25% of primary school leavers unable to read - I want us to be the Conservative government that abolishes illiteracy,\" he said.\n\nWhile 25% of year 6 pupils in 2018 failed to meet the expected standard for reading, that does not mean they were unable to read.\n\nLast week, the government said it would pass a law committing the UK to cutting net emissions of greenhouse gases to zero by 2050 (that means any remaining emissions will be offset by investing in carbon reduction projects in other countries).\n\nRory Stewart said that it was the most ambitious target so far set by any advanced industrial economy.\n\nThe UK would indeed be the first major industrial economy to legislate in this way, and the first G7 country to set a net-zero emissions target by 2050.\n\nBut, the Green Party has pointed out that Norway has a 2030 target for net-zero emissions, while Finland has committed to be carbon neutral by 2035.", "The UK's biggest gambling firms are offering the government a significant increase in the money they contribute to tackling problem gambling.\n\nThe owners of William Hill, Coral Ladbroke, Betfair Paddy Power, Skybet and Bet 365 will offer to increase the voluntary levy on their gambling profits, the BBC has learnt.\n\nThey have offered to up the levy from 0.1% to 1% over the next five years.\n\nThe new level would eventually raise £100m per year for gambling charities.\n\nThe firms made the pledge in a letter to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) seen by the BBC.\n\nThe Gambling Commission recently said the need for more staff, research and treatment required an annual contribution from the industry of £70m.\n\nThe firms said they would also consider increasing the amount of safer gambling messaging and reviewing the \"tone and content\" of its advertising.\n\nThe pre-emptive offer is part of an effort by the industry to improve its image after what insiders acknowledge was a reputation-damaging battle over Fixed Odds Betting Terminals, which eventually saw the maximum stake in any one spin reduced from £100 to £2.\n\nJeremy Wright, Secretary of State at the DCMS, said: \"I want the gambling industry to step up on social responsibility and keep their players safe, including through making more funding available for research, education and treatment to tackle problem gambling.\n\n\"I have met the major players in the sector recently and my department is in discussions with them on a strong package to increase their financial contribution, as well as make meaningful commitments on other measures to help ensure people gamble safely.\n\n\"Protecting people and their families from the risks of gambling-related harm is a priority for this government and I am encouraged that the sector now recognises that they need to do more.\"\n\nOne source told the BBC: \"The industry is on a precipice - if we don't get ahead of this, we will end up where the alcohol industry was 10 years ago and tobacco 30 years ago. The fear is that we face a ban on touchline advertising or football shirt sponsorship.\"\n\nThe gambling firms have already agreed to a voluntary \"whistle to whistle\" ban on advertising during sporting events from August of this year.\n\nIn an extract of the letter to Jeremy Wright, the firms say that as companies representing half of the gambling industry, \"we are committing to collaborate to address gambling-related harm with the priority of protecting the young and vulnerable.\"\n\nLabour deputy leader Tom Watson has described Britain's \"gambling epidemic\" as a public health crisis, as it can lead to debt, loneliness and suicide.\n\nHe has called for all gambling firms to be forced to reapply for their licence to review their commitment to corporate responsibility. He has also recommended the establishment of a gambling ombudsman to provide redress for customers who are treated poorly.\n\nA recent report published in the British Medical Journal found that the economic and social harms of problem gambling have been underestimated.\n\nThe Gambling Commission estimates there are 430,000 people with a serious gambling addiction in the UK. If you include those they deem at risk of addiction, the number rises to more than two million.", "Paul Crossley had said his victims were chosen at random but claimed he had not intended to kill them\n\nA man who pushed a former Eurotunnel boss on to Tube tracks had taken £600 worth of crack cocaine the day before, the Old Bailey heard.\n\nPaul Crossley shoved Sir Robert Malpas, 91, at Marble Arch in April 2018, having earlier tried to push another man at Tottenham Court Road.\n\nThe court heard Crossley had not taken his medication for schizophrenia.\n\nCrossley, 47, of east London, is being sentenced after being found guilty of two counts of attempted murder.\n\nSir Robert was rescued by bystander Riyad El Hussani, who leapt from the platform to pull him away from danger as a train approached.\n\nThe former industrialist, who was knighted in 1998, spent more than a week in hospital with a fractured pelvis and a head wound.\n\nThe attack came shortly after Crossley, from Leyton, had tried to push Tobias French onto the tracks at another station.\n\nDuring his trial, he said he meant \"to scare\" Mr French, who had \"looked at me a bit funny\".\n\nCrossley, who has paranoid schizophrenia, was chased and detained by members of the public after the attack on Sir Robert.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tobias French was about to get the Tube home when a stranger attempted to push him into the path of an oncoming train.\n\nAt the sentencing hearing, prosecutor Benjamin Aina QC said: \"When the defendant was arrested he simply said: 'I've had no sleep' - he later said he was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia when he was 17.\n\n\"He was supposed to be taking medication for mental illness, but he had not taken any medication on that day.\n\n\"He had been using crack cocaine the day before the incident - around £600 worth.\"\n\nMr Aina said Crossley \"began to hear voices and was getting paranoid\" when on the platform.\n\nCrossley told psychiatrist Dr Anneka John-Kamen he remembered thinking \"I'm going to hurt someone,\" and was anxious because people he owed drug money to were threatening him.\n\nThe sentencing hearing is due to conclude on Monday.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA man who hurled milkshake over Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage has been ordered to pay him compensation.\n\nMr Farage had given a speech on 20 May in Newcastle before the European elections when he was attacked.\n\nPaul Crowther, 32, of Holeyn Road, Throckley, pleaded guilty to common assault and criminal damage at North Tyneside Magistrates' Court.\n\nHe was given 150 hours of unpaid work assessment and ordered to pay Mr Farage £350 compensation.\n\nThe attack, which involved a £5.25 banana and salted caramel milkshake, was described in court as being \"politically motivated\".\n\nDistrict Judge Bernard Begley said: \"This was an act of crass stupidity.\"\n\nDefence solicitor, Brian Hegarty, described Crowther's actions as a \"moment of madness\" and said his client now regretted what he had done.\n\nMr Hegarty said: \"Ordinarily a man of his position would receive a caution.\n\n\"The fact is, it is said to be a politically motivated incident which has caused him to appear before this court and caused him to lose his good name.\"\n\nProsecutor James Long said Mr Farage was shocked and embarrassed by the attack and said that, for a split second, he would not have known whether it was milkshake, or \"something more sinister\".\n\nCrowther was arrested at the scene after being filmed dousing Mr Farage.\n\nHe told journalists the act was \"a right of protest against people like him\" and said of Mr Farage: \"The bile and the racism he spouts out in this country is far more damaging than a bit of milkshake to his front.\"\n\nThe hearing heard that Crowther had been sacked from his job as a Sky technical advisor.\n\nCrowther has been sacked from his job as a Sky technical advisor\n\nA number of crowdfunding pages have been set up to cover Crowther's costs.\n\nA Gofundme page entitled \"Get Paul Crowther his milkshake money back\" raised £1,705 while a separate campaign on the same site has donations of more than £1,300 to pay off Crowther's fine.\n\nMore than £400 has been raised for the fine on JustGiving.\n\nA second page on the same platform has raised £12 for a \"new milkshake\", double its target, because Mr Farage's suit \"absorbed much of the last one\".\n\nIn the immediate aftermath of the incident, Mr Farage was heard telling a member of security staff that he \"could have spotted that a mile off\".\n\nLater that day, he said: \"I won't even acknowledge the low-grade behaviour that I was subjected to this morning. I won't dignify it. I will ignore it.\n\n\"Perhaps keep buying new clothes and carry on.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The heavily damaged city of Paradise will receive some of the money\n\nPacific Gas & Electric Corp (PG&E) has agreed to pay $1bn (£800m) to local California authorities for wildfire damage blamed on the firm.\n\nThe settlements will be paid out to 14 different bodies as part of the utility company's bankruptcy reorganisation.\n\nThe claims stem from the 2015 Butte Fire, the 2017 North Bay Fires and the 2018 Camp Fire.\n\nThe city of Paradise, which was all but destroyed in a wildfire in November, receives $270m.\n\nThe Camp Fire, which started in Butte County, claimed 85 lives - the deadliest in state history.\n\nCalifornian fire investigators said in May that the blaze was sparked by transmission lines owned by PG&E.\n\nThe county's district attorney is considering possible criminal charges in relation to the fire.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rebuilding Paradise: 'Our town is gone'\n\nThe San Francisco-based utility company filed for bankruptcy in January 2019, citing billions of dollars in liabilities from lawsuits it is facing.\n\nThe settlements announced on Tuesday do not include hundreds of individual claims made by businesses and homeowners.\n\nBecause of its bankruptcy reorganisation, any financial agreements PG&E reaches still need to be approved in court.\n\n\"What we hope is that PG&E can come out of bankruptcy as soon as possible so these funds can be paid,\" John Fiske, a lawyer from a firm representing the agencies told Bloomberg.\n\nPG&E told the Reuters news agency in a statement that the settlement marked an \"important first step\" for \"orderly, fair and expeditious resolution\" of wildfire claims against it.", "President Donald Trump's nominee for ambassador to the United Nations has broken with his viewpoint on climate change, saying it \"poses real risks\".\n\nKelly Craft told lawmakers at her confirmation hearing she would \"be an advocate for all countries to do their part in addressing climate change\".\n\nIn the past, she had claimed to believe \"both sides\" of the climate debate.\n\nMr Trump has previously called climate change a \"hoax\" and questioned the scientific consensus on the matter.\n\nEarlier this month, Mr Trump said climate change \"goes both ways\" and blamed other nations for worsening air and water quality.\n\nIn 2017, he pulled the US out of the landmark Paris climate agreement, saying the deal was disadvantageous to US workers.\n\nMrs Craft who is currently serving as the ambassador to Canada, had offered a similar opinion in 2017, telling CBC she believed \"there are scientists on both sides that are accurate\".\n\nBut she reversed that viewpoint on Wednesday, telling the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that \"human behaviour has contributed to the changing climate\".\n\n\"Let there be no doubt: I take this matter seriously.\"\n\nShe also acknowledged \"that fossil fuels have played a part in climate change\".\n\nHowever, Mrs Craft did support Mr Trump's decision to withdraw from the Paris accord, saying the US did not have to \"be part of an agreement to be leaders\".\n\nShe added that the US should not have to assume \"an outsized burden on behalf of the rest of the world\".\n\nMr Trump's nominee has been under scrutiny over her ties to the coal industry as she is married to Joseph Craft III, the head of Alliance Resource Partners, one of the country's largest coal companies.\n\nAfter being grilled by Democrats on how she would handle fossil fuel discussions in the UN, Mrs Craft pledged to recuse herself from such talks if the ethics agreement called for it.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIf confirmed, Mrs Craft would replace Nikki Haley, who resigned last October.\n\nMeanwhile, the Trump administration has continued to roll back environmental protections.\n\nThe latest such effort on Wednesday loosened restrictions on coal-fired power plants. The measure, signed by Environmental Protection Agency chief Andrew Wheeler, will allow individual states to determine if coal plants should reduce emissions.\n\nThe new measure replaces an Obama-era plan that sought to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.\n\nEnvironmentalists have criticised the new policy, saying it will worsen fossil fuel emissions, while Republican lawmakers from coal industry states praised the move.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Climate change: How 1.5C could change the world\n\nIn a statement, she called the rule \"another prime example of the Trump administration's weak attempt to deny that climate change has caused - and will continue to cause - devastating impacts on both the safety and health of all Americans and the economy\".\n\nScientists have warned that the world is headed towards a temperature rise of 3C, that would cause significant and dangerous changes to the planet.", "The second most powerful supercomputer in the world, Sierra, is owned by the US Department of Energy\n\nChina has fallen behind slightly in the list of the world's top 500 supercomputers, which is published every six months.\n\nThe US maintained its position, holding first and second place with the two most powerful computers in the world.\n\nAt number one is Summit, with peak processing power of 200 petaflops - 200 quadrillion calculations per second.\n\nThe number of US supercomputers within the 500 has increased since November, from 109 to 116.\n\nChina retains the most entrants in the list, however. Its tally fell from 227 to 219.\n\nThe Top500 tracks the processing power of the world's fastest supercomputers, which are used to accomplish a wide range of tasks - from designing jet engines to training neural networks.\n\nThe top three supercomputers, in order, are:\n\nThe latest list features, for the first time, only supercomputers with at least one petaflop of processing power - that equates to a quadrillion calculations per second.\n\nThe total combined power of all 500 supercomputers in the list comes to 1.56 exaflops - or one and a half quintillion calculations per second.\n\nThat is an increase of 10% from six months ago, when the combined processing power reached 1.41 exaflops.\n\nOne exaflop is roughly equivalent to every human on Earth doing calculation per second, for four years.\n\nThe combined power of the Top500 could more than double in 2021, as the US is expected to fire up two new supercomputers, Frontier and Aurora, which each pack at least one exaflop.\n\nOther nations are represented in the list. The UK has 18 supercomputers in the top 500, the same number as France. Japan has one more, at 19, and Germany has 14.", "The Hexagon images were declassified in 2011 and digitised for scientific study\n\nImages from Cold War spy satellites have revealed the dramatic extent of ice loss in the Himalayan glaciers.\n\nScientists compared photographs taken by a US reconnaissance programme with recent spacecraft observations and found that melting in the region has doubled over the last 40 years.\n\nThe study shows that since 2000, glaciers heights have been shrinking by an average of 0.5m per year.\n\nThe researchers say that climate change is the main cause.\n\n\"From this study, we really see the clearest picture yet of how Himalayan glaciers have changed,\" Joshua Maurer, from Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in New York, told BBC News.\n\nThe research is published in the journal Science Advances.\n\nDuring the 1970s and 1980s, a US spy programme - codenamed Hexagon - launched 20 satellites into orbit to secretly photograph the Earth.\n\nThe covert images were taken on rolls of film that were then dropped by the satellites into the atmosphere to be collected mid-air by passing military planes.\n\nThe material was declassified in 2011, and has been digitised by the US Geological Survey for scientists to use.\n\nAmong the spy photos are the Himalayas - an area for which historical data is scarce.\n\nBy comparing these pictures with more recent satellite data from Nasa and the Japanese space agency (Jaxa), the researchers have been able to see how the region has changed.\n\nThe Columbia University team looked at 650 glaciers in the Himalayas spanning 2,000km.\n\nThe group found that between 1975 and 2000, an average of 4bn tonnes of ice was being lost each year.\n\nBut between 2000 and 2016, the glaciers melted approximately twice as fast - losing about 8bn tonnes of ice each year on average.\n\nWe now have a satellite record approaching nearly 50 years in length\n\nMr Maurer said: \"For a sense of scale, 8bn tonnes of ice is enough to fill 3.2 million Olympic-sized swimming pools per year.\"\n\nAnd the ice loss was not uniform, he added.\n\n\"Glaciers lose most of their ice in the lower elevation portions of the glacier, and it's there where most of the thinning is concentrated.\n\n\"Some of those zones have been thinning by as much as 5m per year.\"\n\nAmong the scientific community, there has been some debate over the cause. Changes in rainfall in the region and soot deposited from industrial pollutants are thought to have hastened the melt.\n\nHowever the Columbia team said that while these factors were contributing, rising temperatures in the Himalayas were the main cause.\n\n\"The fact we see such a similar spatial pattern of ice loss across so many glaciers across such a large and climatically complex region suggests there needs to be some kind of overall forcing affecting all of the glaciers similarly.\"\n\nThe Hexagon photographs would come down in a capsule from the satellites\n\nScientists say continued losses will have a huge impact.\n\nIn the short-term, the huge increase in meltwater could cause flooding.\n\nIn the longer term, millions of people in the region who depend on glacier meltwater during drought years could experience very real difficulties.\n\nCommenting on the research, Dr Hamish Pritchard from the British Antarctic Survey, said: \"What's new here is being able to see how the melting of glaciers across the whole Himalayan range has increased due to climate change.\n\n\"Over one generation, the melt has doubled and these glaciers are now shrinking fast.\n\n\"Why does this matter? Because when the ice runs out, some of Asia's most important rivers will lose a water supply that keeps them flowing through drought summers, just when water is at its most valuable.\n\n\"Without mountain glaciers, droughts will be worse for millions of water-stressed people living downstream.\"\n\nThe view of the Himalayas for the International Space station", "A further maths A-level paper due to be sat by about 7,000 candidates on Thursday has been replaced following the leak of an earlier exam last week.\n\nTwo questions from the Edexcel maths A-level paper were shared on social ahead of it being sat on Friday.\n\nPearson, the exam board's parent company, says it is replacing the latest paper and an unnamed centre is being investigated for the leak.\n\nIt described the move as \"precautionary steps\" to protect students.\n\nPearson said their investigation had revealed a package containing the further maths paper had been opened by an individual at the centre concerned.\n\nAccording to the company, there is no evidence to suggest the withdrawn test or any of its questions have been leaked but it is taking \"precautionary steps\" to safeguard the exam for the students.\n\nSharon Hague, senior vice-president, schools for Pearson, said: \"We have reached out to all of our centres directly to inform them of this decision.\n\n\"We will continue to support and communicate with them through this unusual yet necessary step that is vital for the safeguarding of confidence in the examination system and to ensure fairness for all learners.\n\n\"Our message to students is not to worry about this and focus on your revision as you normally would.\"\n\nArrangements are being made to deliver the new further maths paper to all centres shortly before Thursday's exam - with the exception of the one being investigated.\n\nFor this centre, separate arrangements are being made to ensure its students can complete their exams.\n\nIn a video message to students, teachers and parents, Ms Hague said it was necessary for everyone involved in the exam system to work together.\n\n\"We are reliant on the collaboration and trust of everyone involved in the exam system - and when someone commits malpractice, they let everyone down,\" she said.\n\nShe said the \"serious security breach\" last Thursday had been referred to the police, who had been asked to investigate it as a criminal matter.\n\nMs Hague added there were various ways to ensure fair outcomes from last week's A-level maths exam, including the option to exclude the two leaked questions from the final calculation.\n\nEarlier this year, Pearson said it would be trialling a scheme where microchips were placed in exam packs to track the date, time and location of the bundles.", "The Conservative leadership rivals have clashed in a live BBC TV debate.\n\nBoris Johnson, Jeremy Hunt, Michael Gove, Sajid Javid and Rory Stewart had a lot to say about Brexit, and a bit about sheep farming.\n\nIt was a noisy, lively debate - here are five things that stood out.", "First-time buyers are bypassing flats and moving straight into houses - leading to a fall in the cost of apartments, official figures suggest.\n\nThe cost of a typical apartment or maisonette in England has fallen by 2.1% in a year, while other types of property have become more expensive.\n\nExperts suggest people are buying their first home later and are happy to rent a flat, but not necessarily buy one.\n\nMany apartments being built in cities are designed specifically for rental.\n\nThe cost of detached homes has been rising fastest, with semi-detached and terraced homes also going up in England, figures from the Land Registry show. In Wales, prices of all types of property are going up, but rises are slowest among flats and maisonettes.\n\nFirst-time buyers want to buy a home to live in for longer than their predecessors, according to Richard Donnell, insight director at Zoopla. This meant they were more likely to push themselves to buy something bigger and wanted to \"leapfrog\" flats, he said.\n\nHe said that the fall in demand from investors, many of whom have pulled out of the market, had affected demand for flats. Primarily the slowdown in the market in London and the South East of England had meant lower demand for flats, as there was a heavy concentration of apartments in the capital.\n\nMajor housing projects from the old Battersea Power Station in London to plans for the Metalworks in Liverpool suggest that developers still see plenty of demand for city flats.\n\nThe overall trend suggests that apartments are becoming more affordable.\n\nResearch for online estate agents Housesimple suggests buyers can purchase a flat for less than £80,000 in 17 towns and cities in the UK.\n\nBased on Land Registry figures, it said the average flat in Burnley was the cheapest at £54,161, followed by Hartlepool (£57,659), Middlesbrough (£63,100), Durham (£63,638), Blackpool (£67,670), and Preston (£74,084).\n\nIn contrast, the average price of a flat in Kensington and Chelsea in London was more than £1m, and - despite house price falls - the cheapest London boroughs of Havering, Barking and Dagenham, and Bexley still saw the average cost of a flat totalling more than £230,000.\n\nIn general, Office for Statistics (ONS) figures showed UK property prices were continuing to rise but at a slower rate than a year ago.\n\nThe average UK house price was £229,000 in April, the data shows, which is £3,000 higher than the same period a year earlier.\n\nThe cost of renting a home has accelerated slightly, according to separate ONS figures.\n\nRental prices paid by tenants to private landlords went up by 1.3% in the UK in the 12 months to May.\n\nWhere can you afford to live? 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If there are 100 properties of the right size in an area and they are placed in price order with the cheapest first, the “low-end” of the market will be the 25th property, \"mid-priced\" is the 50th and \"high-end” will be the 75th.", "Philip Hammond is set to warn that a no-deal Brexit would harm the British economy, devour a £26.6bn Brexit war chest, and risk the break-up of the UK.\n\nThe chancellor is expected to say that Conservative candidates who are vying to be the next prime minister must come up with a Brexit plan \"B\".\n\nIf they do not, he will hint that a second referendum could be needed to break the Parliamentary deadlock.\n\nHe will also pour cold water on tax and spending pledges by the candidates.\n\nMr Hammond is set to say in a speech at the annual Mansion House dinner in the City of London on Thursday that a no-deal Brexit would soak up £26.6bn that has been set aside that could otherwise be spent by an incoming prime minister.\n\nIn a BBC debate on Tuesday, leadership candidates promised tax cuts and increased spending on public services.\n\nHowever, a no-deal Brexit would mean that was not possible, and would also leave the UK economy \"permanently smaller\", Mr Hammond will say.\n\nIn March, the chancellor pledged to spend the war chest to boost the economy, if MPs voted to leave the European Union with a deal.\n\nConservative candidates including Boris Johnson have pledged to leave the EU by 31 October, even if that means quitting without a deal.\n\nBut a no-deal Brexit would \"risk the Union\", Mr Hammond is expected to say.\n\n\"I cannot imagine a Conservative and Unionist-led government, actively pursuing a no-deal Brexit; willing to risk the Union and our economic prosperity,\" he will say.\n\nScottish Tory leader Ruth Davidson told party members on Tuesday to \"take a long, hard look at themselves\" after a YouGov survey suggested 63% would back Brexit even if it meant Scotland leaving the UK.\n\nIn April, Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said she would push for a second referendum on Scottish independence by 2021 if the country, which voted Remain, is taken out of the EU.\n\nMr Hammond is also expected to say that certain \"truths\" will not change no matter who is leader.\n\nUnless there is a general election, Parliament will not support a no-deal, and is unlikely to support the deal that has already been negotiated, he will say.\n\nSo candidates need to spell out their \"Plan B\", he is expected to argue.\n\nThe EU will not renegotiate Theresa May's Brexit deal, and the problem of the Irish border \"will not go away\", Mr Hammond will add, saying that Tory leadership candidates \"need to be honest with the public\".\n\nThe chancellor will also caution the men vying to lead his party that they have to \"recognise and address the difficult trade-offs inherent in delivering Brexit\".\n\nCandidates will also need to say how they will bring about Brexit without harming the economy or breaking up the UK, he will say.\n\nThe leadership contenders \"need realistic strategies for taking the UK economy out of the holding pattern in which it has been stuck for the last nine months and landing it safely on the runway marked 'prosperity Brexit'\".\n\n\"If the new prime minister cannot end the deadlock in Parliament, then he will have to explore other democratic mechanisms to break the impasse,\" Mr Hammond will add, hinting at a second referendum, or even a general election.\n\nHowever, Mr Hammond's expected speech was \"yet another example of how far the Tories are cut off from the real world,\" said Labour's shadow chancellor John McDonnell.\n\n\"Hammond's austerity policies have resulted in a near decade of suffering for hungry children, a surge in food bank use, rising in-work poverty, squeezed incomes for families and unprecedented cutbacks to public services,\" he said.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nEngland face a favourable draw in the Women's World Cup last 16 after they beat 2011 winners Japan to finish top of Group D thanks to two Ellen White goals.\n\nLionesses boss Phil Neville seemingly took a gamble by making eight changes to the side that beat Argentina in the second group game.\n\nBut in White, who returned to the side, they have a finisher of real class as she scored her 30th and 31st England goals either side of the break from clever through balls.\n\nEngland still stuttered playing out from the back against the 2015 finalists, who beat the Lionesses in the semi-finals four years ago.\n• None Our style is non-negotiable says Neville as England top group\n• None You rated White your player of the match\n\nKumi Yokoyama's early 35-yard free-kick was tipped onto the bar by Karen Bardsley while Japan took control of midfield and peppered England's goal as Neville's side suffered a second-half dip.\n\nBut they could not find the decisive touch and finished second in the group to face the winners of Group E, which includes the Netherlands and Canada.\n\nEngland will face a seemingly easier task - in the next round at least - as they travel to Valenciennes on Sunday to play a best third-placed team, which could be one of China, New Zealand, Cameroon, Chile or Thailand.\n\nHowever, topping the group does leave England in the half of the draw containing hosts France and potentially the holders the USA.\n\nEngland started their World Cup campaign well by winning their opening two games for the first time, yet there had been questions about their link play in attack with Fran Kirby starting in the number 10 position.\n\nGeorgia Stanway, who was making her first World Cup start, replaced the Chelsea forward but instantly looked at home by firing in two trademark shots, which were saved, before a clever through ball which allowed White to slot past Ayaka Yamashita.\n\nWhite, who will link up with Stanway at Manchester City having joined the club last month, also scored the opening goal against Japan in England's final group game of the 2011 World Cup, which they won before losing to France in the last eight.\n\nRachel Daly impressed despite starting in an unfamiliar role on the right wing in place of Nikita Parris.\n\nWhile she is unlikely to replace the now Lyon forward in England's last-16 game, she was full of running and complemented Lucy Bronze on England's right-hand side.\n\nWhite's second came after Stanway's replacement, Karen Carney, slipped the ball through for the forward's third goal of the tournament.\n\nIt proved how important the 30-year-old will be as England aim to go one better than their third-place finish four years ago.\n\nIn the first half, England impressed on the counter-attack and in the final third, but they still showed signs of struggling to play their way out from the back at times, and also yielded possession too easily after the break.\n\nNeville has warned of playing 'stand-still football' before, and it almost cost them early on after Keira Wash gave the ball away, allowing Yokoyama to shoot over.\n\nThe Japanese forward was more accurate after eight minutes when her 35-yard free-kick was superbly tipped onto the bar by Bardsley, who returned to the side after missing out against Argentina.\n\nJapan, who lost 3-0 to England in the SheBelieves Cup in March, were often more inventive in midfield, but lacked the cutting edge that England offered.\n\nSubstitute Yuika Sugasawa twice came closest to an equaliser, firstly when she stretched to meet a left-wing cross but poked inches wide with Bardsley struggling to cover.\n\nBardsley then made a superb last-ditch save to deny Sugasawa once more.\n\nAlthough England will need to tighten up in midfield, and have plenty to work on, in White and Bardsley they at least have two players at the most important ends of the pitch on top form.\n\n'A few players got a little tired'\n\nEngland manager Phil Neville on BBC Radio 5 Live: \"The objective before the game was to win the game, get the three wins and top the group - we've done that.\n\n\"We needed this game I think to have a different test and we got that. Some of our play in the first half was fantastic, but in the second half a few of the players that maybe hadn't played as much got a little bit tired. But it's job done and we're looking forward to the last 16.\n\n\"We don't need to do much work [on our sloppy passing] we just need to take care with our simple passes and need to keep it tight. My experienced players Stephanie Houghton, Lucy Bronze and Karen Bardsley did well and Ellen White is banging them in so it's a happy house.\n\n\"[White and Jodie Taylor] have scored four goals between them in three games. I love it when my centre-forwards are scoring goals.\"\n\nJapan coach Asako Takakura: \"England are a very good team, very powerful. Their attack was very quick and we were trying to respond to that. We conceded a goal in the first half because of an error, and then we backed off a little because of that.\n\n\"But in the second half we did manage to gain our composure but unfortunately we couldn't score. Then, again, England scored. We managed to get through to the knockout stage and the things we should do have been defined in our past matches.\"\n• None England, who now progress as Group D winners, have won all three of their group stage matches at the Women's World Cup for the first time.\n• None England have now won each of their five final group stage games at the Women's World Cup - the Lionesses are the only side to have played at multiple tournaments and maintain a 100% win ratio.\n• None Japan have lost a group stage match at the Women's World Cup for the first time in six games, since they also lost to England 2-0 in 2011. However, the Japanese went on to win that tournament, beating the USA on penalties in the final.\n• None Only Fara Williams (five) has netted more Women's World Cup goals for England than White, whose second goal this evening was her fourth for the Lionesses in World Cups.\n• None Jill Scott equalled Peter Shilton's record for the most appearances by an England player in Fifa World Cup matches (17).\n• None Including the eight they made tonight, England have made 12 changes to their starting XI at the 2019 Women's World Cup, the most of any nation at the competition so far.\n• None Attempt missed. Saori Takarada (Japan) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Risa Shimizu.\n• None Attempt missed. Hina Sugita (Japan) left footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Mana Iwabuchi.\n• None Attempt missed. Yuika Sugasawa (Japan) header from the right side of the six yard box is too high. Assisted by Emi Nakajima with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt saved. Yuika Sugasawa (Japan) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Narumi Miura.\n• None Attempt missed. Mana Iwabuchi (Japan) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Aya Sameshima.\n• None Goal! Japan 0, England 2. Ellen White (England) left footed shot from the left side of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Karen Carney with a through ball.\n• None Attempt missed. Yuika Sugasawa (Japan) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Aya Sameshima with a cross.\n• None Attempt blocked. Jun Endo (Japan) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Hina Sugita.\n• None Attempt missed. Yuika Sugasawa (Japan) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Risa Shimizu.\n• None Attempt missed. Mana Iwabuchi (Japan) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "About 1,000 lightning strikes were recorded in the Eastbourne area in one hour\n\nSome 1,000 lightning strikes illuminated the skies above Eastbourne as torrential rain and thunderstorms lashed part of the UK overnight.\n\nStorms lit up the East Sussex seaside town for about an hour, while 42mm of rain fell further north in Lenham in Kent.\n\nHomes were left without power and roads were flooded in other parts of south-east England. A yellow weather warning is in place for the region and East Anglia until 21:00 BST.\n\nThe town of Rye was also illuminated by the storms\n\nDavid Christie took this spectacular shot of the sea at Deal\n\nEastbourne as taken by BBC Weather Watcher EyeOnTheSky\n\n\"We've had some heavy, thundery showers overnight,\" said meteorologist Alex Burkill.\n\n\"There has been some flooding near Eastbourne and some power cuts.\n\n\"We are going to see some further heavy showers heading towards Kent, and south-east parts of the UK will see some heavy thunderstorms through the morning, while isolated ones could develop this afternoon.\"\n\nThe view of the English Channel from Beachy Head in East Sussex\n\nRamsgate also saw lightning as the storms moved across the south-east of England and East Anglia\n\nWeather Watcher DannyM took this photo looking towards Eastbourne from Ditchling Beacon\n\nSammy14 sent in this photo of Canvey Island\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Nick Aldworth was chief superintendent with the Met Police\n\nA former National Counter Terrorism Co-ordinator has told the BBC the government is not doing enough to ensure that venues are secure.\n\nNick Aldworth has warned new legislation is needed to reduce the impact of any future attack.\n\nHe is supporting a campaign for more rigorous checks at venues, under the name Martyn's Law, after Martyn Hett, a victim of the Manchester Arena attack.\n\nHe said such a law could have prevented the spate of attacks in the UK in 2017.\n\nAt the time, Mr Aldworth was a Metropolitan Police chief superintendent in charge of keeping Londoners safe.\n\n\"People died on my watch when I was responsible for trying to keep London and, more subsequently, the UK secure,\" he said.\n\n\"That's a burden that I will carry.\"\n\nHe said new legislation would help to stop that happening in the future.\n\n\"I think without it we have the potential for places to be attacked and for the potential for the effect of those attacks to be far worse than they need to be.\"\n\nAt the moment, venues such as theatres, cinemas, and concert halls do not have any legal obligation to put counter terrorism security in place, or to plan for what they would do in the event of an attack.\n\n\"I think that without being specific - because there are coroners' inquests under way at the moment - I think there are definitely some places that could have benefitted from some infrastructure,\" Mr Aldworth continued.\n\n\"But one of the things I was told after one of the attacks by a survivor... was she was in a restaurant and nobody knew what to do.\"\n\nMany places do have bag checks and security screening but Mr Aldworth said it was not the case everywhere, and that some venues were \"reckless and negligent\".\n\nFigen Murray launched a campaign in memory of her son\n\nShe wants it to be compulsory for every venue to assess the risk of an attack, and put appropriate measures in place.\n\nMrs Murray does not suggest there should be a security arch in front of every door, or that the country should become \"Barrier Britain\".\n\n\"When I think of people like Martyn who enjoyed music festivals and all these events without having to go through lots and lots of security, we're talking about common sense here,\" she said.\n\n\"It could just be people trained in recognising suspicious behaviour - it can be even as basic as that.\"\n\nMartyn Hett was one of 22 people killed in the attack on 22 May 2017\n\nMrs Murray already has the support of some venues that say they do not see extra legislation as a problem.\n\nShaun Hinds, chief executive of the Manchester Central Convention Centre, said: \"I'd actually flip it on its head and look at it as a business opportunity and say, 'Well, actually if we can demonstrate that we're putting the appropriate measures in place to ensure the security of the visitors, the venue, the employees, then actually that's got to be a good thing'.\"\n\nResponding to the calls for Martyn's Law, security minister Ben Wallace said: \"Going to concerts, exhibitions, shopping centres, watching sport and other events are part of the fabric of life, things that should be enjoyed without fear.\n\n\"Just as we share enjoyment of these communal places and spaces, we need to share concern and responsibility for keeping them as safe as possible.\n\n\"That means owners, operators and public authorities stepping up and making full use of the wide range of information and advice available to support them.\n\n\"Government is also considering whether and how further legislation could support, or indeed compel, effective and proportionate protective security.\n\n\"We would very much welcome input from Figen Murray and others campaigning for Martyn's Law in this work and I look forward to discussing it with her soon.\"\n\n\"Security against terror attacks should be mandatory,\" says Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham\n\nAt an event to launch the Martyn's Law campaign, Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham said: \"Security against terror attacks at venues should be mandatory not discretionary.\"\n\nMr Burnham said Manchester was ready to be the first city to endorse the new legislation and become a pilot area.\n\nAt the event, attended by Mrs Murray and Mr Aldworth, he said venues were ready to sign up to the measures required.\n\nAll five Tory leadership candidates have tweeted their support for Martyn's Law and a requirement for improved security measures at public venues.", "Shares in supermarkets have fallen sharply after Tesco said it was considering plans for a new chain of high-end convenience stores.\n\nThe proposal for a chain based on its Tesco Finest food range comes nine months after the supermarket giant opened discount retailer Jack's.\n\nAlthough Tesco has set no date for its latest venture, upmarket rivals Marks & Spencer and Ocado saw their shares fall 3.5% and 4% respectively.\n\nIt made gains at the start of the day, then went into reverse, but was up 0.25% by mid-afternoon.\n\nSainsbury's shares were down 0.8%, while Morrisons' were up 0.7%.\n\nThe market reaction came after Tesco chief executive Dave Lewis unveiled the Finest stores plan to analysts and investors on Tuesday.\n\nSpeaking on Wednesday, Mr Lewis said: \"Tesco Finest as a brand is one of the largest food brands in the country. We have a very high percentage of more upmarket customers.\n\n\"The opportunity to curate that range and bring new things in a more convenient outlet is something that we have tested, is something we're interested in.\"\n\nIf it comes to fruition, the move has the potential to upset the plans of M&S and Ocado, who confirmed in February that they were setting up a joint venture.\n\nUnder that deal, M&S will buy a 50% share of Ocado's retail business for £750m. It will then deliver M&S grocery products from September 2020 at the latest, when Ocado's deal with Waitrose expires.\n\nBut while Tesco mulls the possibility of high-end outlets to compete with the likes of M&S's Simply Food stores, there appears to be a question mark over the future of Jack's, which was designed to take on discount retailers Lidl and Aldi.\n\nTesco has not announced any plans for adding to Jack's nine stores.\n\nSince the discount chain opened its first outlets in September last year, it has sold £24m of products.", "Do we live in a world governed by international law, or one where an individual state's interests hold sway?\n\nIf people are murdered as a result of a state's actions or by actions taken by individuals associated with that state, what recourse should there be?\n\nAnd does it matter if that state is a strategic ally – or a potential foe?\n\nThe reports from the Dutch-led investigation into the shooting down of a Malaysian airliner (MH17) over Ukraine and that of the special rapporteur appointed by the UN's Human Rights Council to investigate the unlawful death of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi, raise all these questions and more.\n\nThese are two very different documents.\n\nOne - the report on the death of the Saudi journalist in the country's consulate in Istanbul - is a document commissioned by a UN body, the Human Rights Council, and is an attempt by a specially appointed investigator to try to get to grips with the facts. It is – though hugely embarrassing and indeed critical of the Saudi authorities – not an indictment in a legal sense.\n\nThe other document, on the downing of flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine in July 2014 with the deaths of 298 people, has the status of a legal inquiry.\n\nIt has sought to develop a case strong enough to be put to a court of law.\n\nFour suspects have been identified and named: three Russian nationals and a Ukrainian. Their trial is to begin in a Dutch court in March of next year, where they will face murder charges. They are held to be responsible for transporting the Russian BUK surface-to-air missile system responsible for shooting down the airliner.\n\nIn one sense, the publication of today's two reports in part confirms what we already know.\n\nThe charge is that senior members of the Saudi ruling elite, stretching up to the Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman himself, hatched and then had carried, out a plot to lure Mr Khashoggi into the Saudi consulate and brutally murder him there.\n\nIn Ukraine, separatist groups - whose security forces were closely allied to those of Russia - are accused of employing a Russian-supplied air defence missile to shoot down the airliner.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Investigators say the suspects will be charged with causing the crash and murder\n\nBut what these new documents do is ensure that neither controversy is going to go away – and this will have consequences, not least of which is further complicating relations between the West and Moscow on the one hand, and with Riyadh on the other.\n\nBoth episodes have already prompted some action.\n\nThe US and many of its allies applied economic sanctions against Russia because of the MH17 incident. And sanctions have also been imposed against a number of named individuals in Saudi Arabia thought to be implicated in the plot against Mr Khashoggi.\n\nThe dilemmas in the Saudi case are the most pressing. Saudi Arabia is, after all, a key ally of the West.\n\nThe revival of the Khashoggi saga comes at a time of mounting tensions with Iran in the Gulf and also when Saudi Arabia's military's role in the Yemen conflict is once again under scrutiny.\n\nThere is already a tussle between the US Congress and the administration about future arms sales to the kingdom and British weapons sales are also currently under judicial review.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jamal Khashoggi: What we know about the journalist's disappearance and death\n\nSaudi Arabia has insisted that Mr Khashoggi's murderers were not acting on the Crown Prince's orders. And Britain, for example, has so far rejected any direct sanctions against him.\n\nBut it is the debate in Washington that matters most. The initial murder prompted a fundamental debate about the relationship between the two countries which is far from resolved.\n\nPresident Trump himself has revelled in US-Saudi ties, not least their importance for the US arms industry. But at least one seasoned diplomat has taken a very different view; a reflection of the growing tone of sentiment on Capitol Hill.\n\nThe former State department official and Middle East negotiator Aaron David Miller noted recently that, in his view, Saudi Arabia isn't a strategic ally of the United States at all.\n\nIn a damning assessment, he said that \"at best it's an unreliable partner that episodically shares US interests and none of its values.\"\n\nRussia is clearly no friend of the West and has embarked upon a course of challenging western interests wherever possible. It is accused of intruding into national elections in several countries; the attempted murder of one of its former intelligence agents in Britain, which resulted in the death of a woman.\n\nIt too has long rejected the accusations made against it and its pro-Russian Ukrainian allies.\n\nA trial is only likely to make matters worse for the Kremlin, reviving the episode in every painful detail. And if the charges are proved, it could prompt calls for substantial further action against Moscow.\n\nNone of the individuals who face charges in the Dutch courts are likely ever to appear for their trial. It is even more unlikely that the Saudi Crown Prince will face an independent legal investigation.\n• None MH17 plane crash in Ukraine: What we know", "Tory MPs have voted in another round of the leadership contest, with the man who comes last set to be eliminated.\n\nResults of the secret ballot are expected soon after 18:00 BST and surviving candidates will face further votes until only two are left.\n\nConservative Party members will then be able to vote on the final two, with the winner becoming party leader and PM.\n\nDominic Raab, who was knocked out on Tuesday, has backed leadership frontrunner Boris Johnson.\n\nHours before the third ballot opened, Rory Stewart said he was in talks with his rival Michael Gove about \"combining forces\".\n\nSources close to Mr Stewart said: \"Clearly at some time people will need to combine teams. But any team that gets combined, Rory wants to lead.\"\n\nHowever, the environment secretary's team rejected the idea he would run a joint ticket with Mr Stewart at the top.\n\nThe BBC's Laura Kuenssberg says it isn't clear what incentive the other candidates would have to drop out in favour of Rory Stewart, who came fourth in the second round of voting on Tuesday.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Laura Kuenssberg This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme, Mr Stewart said he was in talks with Mr Gove \"because it's clear that Boris is going into the last round\".\n\n\"And the question is 'who is best placed to sit on stage with Boris Johnson, and who is best placed to ask the testing questions that need to be asked?\"' he said.\n\nThe two men have argued for different approaches to Brexit - Michael Gove wants to negotiate a new deal with the EU, whereas Rory Stewart says this is unrealistic and wants to stick with the current deal, but find a new way to get it through Parliament.\n\nWhen asked how they could compromise, Mr Stewart said: \"If neither of us were prepared to budge on our analysis then we couldn't combine as a team.\"\n\nBoris Johnson's campaign received a boost, gaining support from former Brexit Secretary Mr Raab.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe said Mr Johnson was \"the most credible to get us out of the EU by the end of October\" and was \"absolutely committed\" to meeting that deadline.\n\n\"Above all he's got the optimism. This country needs to feel good about itself and I think he's the man to deliver that,\" he added.\n\nA number of Mr Raab's supporters have also switched to Mr Johnson - including ex-Brexit Secretary David Davis, Nadhim Zahawi and Anne Marie Morris.\n\nOn the firmness of his commitment to an October departure, Ms Marie Morris said: \"He recognises he's got to appeal to a very broad range of individual MPs and the vast majority are Remainers, so he's trying to leave himself some wriggle room.\n\n\"But the mathematics are such that if we don't get out on the 31 October, frankly, the party is history.\"\n\nMr Johnson led the second vote securing 126 votes, ahead of Jeremy Hunt, Mr Gove, Mr Stewart, Sajid Javid and Dominic Raab.\n\nDespite only just gaining the minimum number of votes yesterday to stay on the ballot paper, Home Secretary Mr Javid has said he is not planning to stand down from the leadership contest.\n\nWhen asked if he was going to withdraw he said: \"I was really pleased to get through yesterday and I'm looking forward to the challenges that lie ahead and making my case.\"\n\nArriving to vote on Wednesday, he said he was \"quietly confident\" and when questioned where he expected to have won votes from, he said he would \"explain afterwards when I've won\".\n\nSpeaking earlier on Radio 4's Today programme, Mr Stewart said he had received \"some positive responses\" from those who had previously supported Mr Raab.\n\nThe five remaining candidates faced questions from the public on Tuesday evening, in a live debate on the BBC.\n\nThe Conservative leadership candidates all know that solving the Brexit conundrum is their number one task.\n\nBut how do they propose to do it? And if they can't, what are their contingency plans?\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg asked the remaining hopefuls to outline their proposals.\n\nThe catch? They had to answer in 50 words or less.\n\nDuring the TV debate, Mr Javid appeared to secure a commitment from the other candidates that they would approve an independent inquiry into Islamophobia.\n\nHowever, there was less agreement on whether and how the UK could leave the EU by 31 October.\n\nEx-Foreign Secretary Mr Johnson said it would be \"eminently feasible\" but avoided offering an absolute guarantee.\n\nMr Gove and Mr Hunt said extra time might be needed. Mr Stewart said he would try to push through Theresa May's Brexit deal which has already been rejected by MPs three times.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe debate was presented by Emily Maitlis who told the Today programme it was \"a very bizarre thing to prepare for\" because until 90 minutes before it started it was not clear who would be there because of the MPs' ballot.\n\nShe also said the candidates had, before the debate started, \"all decided what boy band they were going to be\" - a reference to the style and set up of the chairs.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nScotland are out of the Women's World Cup after a twice-taken added-time penalty gave Argentina a dramatic draw.\n\nThe Scots needed to win and Kim Little turned in their opener with Jen Beattie and Erin Cuthbert netting from corners.\n\nIt was 3-2 after Milagros Menendez scored and a Florencia Bonsegundo shot went in via the bar and Lee Alexander.\n\nA VAR-awarded spot-kick taken by Bonsegundo was saved by Alexander but she was off her line and, agonisingly, the striker scored second time around.\n\nWith 16 minutes to play, Shelley Kerr's Scots were on course to be one of the four best third-placed sides going into Thursday's final fixtures in Groups E and F but Argentina's recovery consigned the Scots to bottom place in Group D.\n\nAnd Scotland captain Rachel Corsie was unhappy that referee Hyang-ok Ri allowed an Argentina free-kick to be taken while substitute Fiona Brown was coming on, with another substitute, Sophie Howard, ultimately penalised for her challenge on Aldana Cometti.\n• None Who did you vote player of the match?\n\nFor the third match running, Scotland conceded a penalty that cost them points.\n\nTheir opening two defeats by England and Japan had followed a similar pattern - two goals down including a spot-kick by half-time and a late rally producing a consolation goal.\n\nThe players and Kerr had spoken of the need to start the game on the front foot and that intent was clear as Cuthbert volleyed wide in the first minute.\n\nScotland's play was less nervous than it had been in the first two games but they were dealt a real scare when Mariana Larroquette headed against the crossbar from Bonsegundo's cross and Alexander had be alert to block Sole Jaimes' shot in the aftermath.\n\nThe Scots' response was brave, bold and ultimately rewarded. Cuthbert forced her way through the Argentina defence to shoot from the inside left channel and though Vanina Correa saved, Cuthbert had the presence of mind to turn the ball back for the outstretched foot of Little to touch home her 54th international strike.\n\nThe goal had come at a good time, just as Argentina were growing into the game, and the second prevented Carlos Borrello's side building any momentum at the start of the second period.\n\nCaroline Weir's initial delivery from a corner was poor but the ball was recycled and the Manchester City midfielder floated the ball perfectly on to the head of Arsenal-bound Beattie, who found the net for a 23rd time on Scotland duty.\n\nThe Scots were not content to sit on their lead and Cuthbert was not prepared to give Argentina's backline a minute's peace, forcing Correa to turn wide after another driving run.\n\nAnd the Chelsea forward got the goal her performance deserved when she tucked in the rebound after Correa had turned Leanne Crichton's header on to the post.\n\nHowever, the turning point came when Dalila Ippolito fed fellow substitute Menendez to finish calmly past Alexander before Bonsegundo's shot hit the bar and evaded the Scotland goalkeeper over the line.\n\nWith stoppage time came more twists and turns and a cruel end for Scotland.\n\nHoward tripped Cometti and the referee was advised to view the incident again. She pointed to the spot and Bonsegundo's shot was blocked by Alexander.\n\nBut VAR was called into play again with Alexander judged not to have had at least one foot touching the goalline when the kick was taken and Bonsegundo fired in the retake.\n\nThe match had already surpassed the suggested four minutes of added time and finished with a whimper with the players initially not realising the final whistle had blown as the assistant referees came on the to pitch.\n\nFormer Scotland goalkeeper Gemma Fay on BBC Four\n\nIt has to be heartbreaking. As a goalkeeper, you take your cues from the body of the striker - the way in which they plant their foot beside the ball and if they open their hips or if they don't open their hips tells you where they're going to go.\n\nLee has trained for 27 years in that way and now at a World Cup we're saying, 'no, you can't train that way, you have to train a completely different way'. It's ridiculous. I think we're going to have this World Cup decided by VAR with inexperienced officials who haven't had the ability or opportunity with this and I think that's wrong. Football should decide this World Cup, not VAR.\n\nLittle, Beattie and Cuthbert got the goals but Weir's class was every bit as vital to Scotland's periods of dominance.\n\nThe midfielder's use of the ball in both halves gave Scotland momentum and she had a hand in two of the goals.\n• None This was the first meeting between the sides.\n• None Scotland picked up their first point at a World Cup.\n• None Argentina's three goals were their first of the tournament.\n• None The Scots had five different scorers in France, each scoring once.\n• None Argentina were the only team ranked lower than Scotland in Group D.\n• None Goal! Scotland 3, Argentina 3. Flor Bonsegundo (Argentina) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the centre of the goal.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Penalty conceded by Sophie Howard (Scotland) after a foul in the penalty area.\n• None Caroline Weir (Scotland) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n\nBBC Sport has launched #ChangeTheGame this summer to showcase female athletes in a way they never have been before. Through more live women's sport available to watch across the BBC this summer, complemented by our journalism, we are aiming to turn up the volume on women's sport and alter perceptions. Find out more here.", "Police said a weapon seized was \"not believed to be a viable firearm\"\n\nA man has been arrested after students were threatened with a replica gun at a university.\n\nArmed officers were called to Exeter University at about 11:30 BST to reports of a man \"making threats to other students, whilst in possession of a handgun\".\n\nDevon and Cornwall Police said a weapon seized was \"not believed to be a viable firearm\" and no-one had been injured.\n\nA 25-year-old man has been held on suspicion of possession of a firearm.\n\nStudent Katie Leadbetter-Hope said about seven officers had \"stormed into the Amory building\" with a police dog and a man who \"looked like he was of student age\" was later led outside in handcuffs.\n\nThe Amory building is a centre for humanities on the Streatham campus.\n\nPolice said officers had recovered a bag containing what appeared to be a metal handgun.\n\nInitial examinations suggest this was a replica or blank-firing handgun which was not loaded, the force said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by University of Exeter This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by University of Exeter\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by University of Exeter This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post 2 by University of Exeter\n\nThe university said one of its buildings had been closed \"for a short period of time\" while the incident \"was dealt with swiftly and effectively\". The campus is now open as normal.\n\nNathan Anderson, an archaeologist and PhD researcher at the university's Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, tweeted that he was on campus earlier.\n\nHe said: \"Would be nice if there was some sort of campus-wide alert system outside of Twitter\", adding he was \"glad\" the situation \"was resolved without violence\".\n\nThe university responded: \"We do have our text alert system when we need to contact all students and staff but this incident was contain[ed] and resolved so quickly, it wasn't needed thankfully.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Tristan Silver's mother Cloud Younger (centre, long hair) was driving her children to school when the fatal crash happened\n\nAn 11-year-old died in a head-on crash after a spider dropped on to his mother's hand while she was driving, an inquest has heard.\n\nTristan Silver's mother Cloud Younger was driving him and his sister Branwen to school on 4 May 2018 when they crashed near Tregaron, Ceredigion.\n\nThe inquest in Aberystwyth heard their car drifted on to the wrong side of the A485 and hit a 4x4 towing a trailer.\n\nA conclusion of misadventure was recorded by the coroner.\n\nTristan - who was sitting in the back seat - suffered serious head injuries when Mrs Younger's blue Subaru hit a black Mitsubishi towing a trailer full of sheep in the village of Olmarch.\n\nIt was being driven by farmer David Glyndwr Jones, who was on his way to Builth Wells livestock market.\n\nThe inquest heard when Mrs Younger was interviewed by police in June 2018, she answered \"no comment\" to every question.\n\nAfter the first interview, her solicitor read a pre-prepared statement in which she told police her Subaru had recently passed its MOT and all three people in the car were wearing seat belts.\n\nMrs Younger said the spider landing on her left hand caused eight-year-old Branwen - who was sitting in the front passenger seat - to become hysterical and start screaming.\n\nShe said she turned her attention to Branwen to calm her down while still driving.\n\nWhen asked by police why she had not stopped, she replied: \"No comment.\"\n\nMrs Younger did not give evidence at the inquest, but when asked by the coroner if she had anything to add, she said: \"If I could remember more, I would have said more.\"\n\nThere was no evidence as to how fast the car was travelling on the 60 mph road, but Mr Jones said his vehicle was almost at a standstill at the point of impact.\n\nHe added: \"At first it was straddling the white line, about a quarter of the vehicle on the wrong side. Then it came all the way over to my side and I could see it wasn't going to stop.\n\n\"All this happened in about six seconds - I just had enough time to warn my wife and brace myself. I feel devastated by what happened. I don't understand why she didn't see us and drive back to her side.\"\n\nCeredigion coroner Peter Brunton said it had been \"an extremely sad and tragic inquest\".\n\nHe added it all came down to the manner in which the Subaru was being driven during the \"catastrophic seconds\" when Mrs Younger turned to give attention to her daughter.\n\nHe said it appeared the car travelled for a significant period of time on the wrong side of the road and Mrs Younger did nothing to slow down or to get the car on the correct side.", "Det Con Rebecca Bryant kept secret about her link to a juror\n\nA police officer who lied about knowing a juror in a murder trial, leading to three convictions being quashed and a retrial, has had two counts of gross misconduct against her proved.\n\nSouth Wales Police Det Con Rebecca Bryant was a liaison officer to the family of Lynford Brewster, who was murdered in Cardiff in 2016.\n\nHer son's girlfriend was a juror in the original trial but three men have since been found guilty after a retrial.\n\nShe could be now sacked from the force.\n\nA disciplinary panel found her failure to tell Cardiff Crown Court of the link with Lauren Jones during the original trial in 2016 was a \"continuing breach\" of professional behaviour.\n\nPanel chairman, Peter Griffiths QC said: \"It did not comprise of a one-off error of judgement. It was a continuing breach spanning from the end of November to around the 20 December 2016.\"\n\nThe hearing was told Det Con Bryant, who has served with the South Wales force since 1998, initially lied to a senior officer when confronted with the truth.\n\nLynford Brewster was stabbed to death after a \"violent disagreement\" over drugs\n\nThe panel found that amounted to gross misconduct and Mr Griffiths said \"it was a deliberate lie on her part to a senior officer who was investigating a matter of the utmost importance\".\n\nShe admitted knowing Miss Jones the next day.\n\nOn a third allegation, that Ms Bryant had advised the juror to withhold information from the court in order to attend a hair appointment, she admitted an allegation of dishonesty.\n\nBut the panel did not find those actions amounted to gross misconduct.\n\n(Left to right) Robert Lainsbury, Jake Whelan and Dwayne Edgar, who were jailed after a re-trial\n\n\"It was something a police officer should never have suggested... but in the panel's view it fell short of amounting to outright dishonesty,\" Mr Griffiths added.\n\nThe misconduct hearing heard evidence from a clinical psychologist who said there was a 90% chance Ms Bryant had been suffering with post traumatic symptoms at the time, and there was a 99% likelihood this would have influenced her judgement.\n\nShe admitted misconduct on all three allegations, but denied gross misconduct.\n\nAfter finding two of the allegations proven, the panel must now decide what sanctions Ms Bryant will face, which could include dismissal from the force.", "Climate scientist Steffen Olsen took this picture while travelling across melted sea ice in north-west Greenland\n\nWith their sled in tow, a pack of dogs trudge towards a distant mountain range in north-west Greenland.\n\nThe stunning picture may seem typical enough of the Danish territory. What's beneath their feet - a shallow pool of crystal-blue water - is anything but.\n\nLast week, however, temperatures soared well above normal levels in Greenland, causing about half of its ice sheet surface to experience melting.\n\nAnd the sea ice around the territory is, of course, also feeling this heat.\n\nSteffen Olsen, a climate scientist at the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI), took the photo on 13 June as these warming conditions reached their peak.\n\nMr Olsen and his team were retrieving equipment from a weather station in the Inglefield Fjord area. As they walked across the 1.2m (4ft) thick sea ice, water pooled on the surface.\n\nOn Twitter, his colleague at DMI Rasmus Tonboe later shared the image, telling followers \"rapid melt\" had occurred.\n\nBecause the sea ice is compact with almost no cracks, the image gives the impression the dogs are walking on water, Martin Stendel, senior researcher at the institute, told the BBC.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Steffen M. Olsen This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOn that day, Greenland is estimated to have lost the equivalent of 2bn tonnes of ice. Temperatures, according to the European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasting, were around 22C above normal the day before. In the village of Qaanaaq, a high of 17.3C was recorded.\n\nSince then, Mr Olsen's photo has been shared widely on social media, provoking concern at the extent of the melting event and its causes.\n\nGreenland's ice sheet melts annually, with the season usually lasting from June to August. The summer months - typically in July - are when it reaches its height. This year, however, climate experts say it is early.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Capital Weather Gang This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"It's very unusual to have this much melt so early in the season,\" William Colgan, senior researcher at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, told the BBC.\n\n\"It takes very rare conditions but they're becoming increasingly common.\"\n\nMr Colgan compared the melt to 2012, when record-breaking ice sheet loss was recorded in Greenland. He said the same two factors were thought to have caused last week's ice melt and the historic event of 2012.\n\nOne is high pressure lodged over Greenland, creating warm and sunny conditions. The other is low cloud cover and snowfall, meaning solar radiation can strike the ice sheet surface.\n\nGlobal warming, Mr Colgan said, was \"tremendously important\" to these sorts of events.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Huge iceberg breaks apart near a village in western Greenland\n\nA small fishing boat heads out into the sea ice near the town of Uummannaq in western Greenland\n\n\"What climate change is doing is increasingly loading the dice to set up weather conditions that can tip the ice sheets into these mass loss events,\" he said.\n\nIf these trends continued, said Professor Edward Hanna, a climate scientist at the University of Lincoln, Greenland could experience a record melt this year.\n\n\"The thing is, with climate trends, as we've seen over the past 20 years, as it gets warmer and warmer over Greenland, you don't need that much of an exceptional event to melt the whole surface of the ice,\" he told the BBC.\n\nThe consequences, he said, would not only be felt locally but globally, too.\n\nTemperatures were around 22C above normal in Greenland last week, data shows\n\nAs sea ice disappears, local communities who rely on it for transport, hunting and fishing are expected to suffer. On a global level, Prof Hanna said \"sea level rise is the big one\".\n\n\"You're losing something like 250 billion tonnes of ice a year on average. A huge mass is being transferred from the land into the oceans,\" he said.\n\nMr Colgan said we should be mindful that the melt on 13 June was just \"a one-day event that is surprising in its magnitude and its early onset\".\n\nAs studies showed, he said, global warming could mean more extreme melting events were yet to come.\n\n\"We can expect to see more of these in the future,\" he said.", "The largest single donation to a UK university has been given to Oxford for a new institute that will study the ethics of artificial intelligence.\n\nStephen Schwarzman, a US private equity billionaire who has advised Republican presidents including Donald Trump, has given the university £150m.\n\nThe donation will fund a new faculty for the humanities.\n\nThe UK government said it was a \"globally significant\" investment in Britain.\n\nAt a time when universities face uncertainty over research funding because of Brexit, this is a major financial coup for the University of Oxford.\n\nMr Schwarzman, the chief executive of the private equity firm Blackstone, is one of America's best known billionaires.\n\nIn the past, his lavish lifestyle as a Wall Street financier has attracted criticism, but more recently he has also become a major donor to education.\n\nMr Schwarzman told the BBC he was giving the money to Oxford because artificial intelligence was the major issue of our age.\n\n\"At the moment, most governments are utterly unprepared to deal with this, and why would they be, it's a different type of technology,\" he said.\n\n\"They're going to have to rely on great universities like Oxford, and others around the world who specialise in helping them think this through.\"\n\nStephen Schwarzman with the University of Oxford's vice-chancellor, Prof Louise Richardson\n\nMr Schwarzman said universities needed to help construct an ethical framework for changes that were happening rapidly.\n\nSome economists have warned the expansion of artificial intelligence could have a significant impact on society - including the loss of jobs due to automation - in what is sometimes called the \"fourth industrial revolution\".\n\nAcademics have also raised concerns about the potential for malicious use in cyber warfare and the subverting of democracy.\n\nThe donation by Mr Schwarzman to Oxford follows a $350m (£279m) gift he made to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to establish a centre for computing and artificial intelligence.\n\nThe study of the ethics of AI at Oxford will be in a new humanities centre, bringing together subjects from languages to philosophy.\n\nMr Schwarzman said it was \"important for people to remember what being human is\".\n\n\"Why are we here? What are your values? How does technology deal and interact with that.\n\n\"We should want it to be positive and productive for society, and technology can't be allowed to just do whatever it wants because it can. \"\n\nThe University of Oxford has long been a subject of patronage by the wealthy and powerful\n\nAccepting large donations is not without risk for institutions if controversy emerges later.\n\nProf Louise Richardson, the vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford, said all philanthropic gifts were reviewed to make sure they fitted with its values.\n\n\"The margin of excellence requires more than we can expect from public funding, so philanthropy is going to become more important for Oxford and other universities,\" she said.\n\nThe new building will also create a concert hall and other public spaces.\n\nUniversities Minister Chris Skidmore said: \"Pushing the boundaries of knowledge and conquering new innovations are what our universities are known for across the world. And attracting this globally significant investment reinforces our reputation as a leader in higher education.\n\n\"More importantly, disciplines within humanities enrich our culture and society and have an immeasurable impact on our health and wellbeing.\n\n\"Not only do I look forward to the benefits this can bring to students but the prospect of transforming the world we live in.\"\n\nThe gift to Oxford comes a few months after hedge-fund billionaire David Harding donated £100m to Cambridge University.", "Kathryn Hopkins told an employment tribunal she was \"bullied\" by the Ministry of Justice after producing her report\n\nThe government has denied covering up research that found a treatment programme for sex offenders in England and Wales increased reoffending.\n\nKathryn Hopkins's study was given to officials in 2012, but the flagship scheme was only scrapped in 2017.\n\nShe has told an employment tribunal that she was \"bullied\" by the Ministry of Justice after producing the report.\n\nBut the MoJ denied trying to cover up the findings, saying it would not \"waste\" money on ineffective treatment.\n\nThe MoJ commissioned Ms Hopkins, a senior researcher in its analytics unit, to study the effects of the Sex Offender Treatment Programme, which had been used since 2000.\n\nThe programme involved group sessions with prisoners and those serving community sentences, as well as cognitive behavioural therapy, to increase the offenders' motivation to steer clear of crime.\n\nThe initial results, in February 2012, suggested prisoners who took part were more likely to reoffend than those who had not.\n\nHowever, the programme was allowed to continue until March 2017 while Ms Hopkins's study was reviewed, checked and reworked before it was published three months later.\n\nThe Central London Employment Tribunal has been considering Ms Hopkins's claims that she was \"sidelined\" after presenting her findings - and unfairly left off the list of research authors - for suggesting that \"vested interests\" did not want the study to be made public.\n\nPaul Skinner, representing the MoJ, said there had been no attempt to prevent or slow down the release of the results.\n\n\"The Ministry of Justice and the secretary of state wouldn't want to be giving people treatment that they thought didn't work,\" he said at the end of the seven-day hearing.\n\nEarlier, the tribunal heard that prison and probation officials at the MoJ had expressed concerns about the methods used in Ms Hopkins's study and wanted the research to stop.\n\nRebecca Endean, the department's then director of analytical services, said she had refused to do that but had agreed to work with officials to address the problems.\n\nMs Hopkins, who is representing herself at the hearing, believed that amounted to an attempt to \"fix\" the results so the treatment scheme would not be seen as a failure.\n\nShe also claimed Ms Endean \"bullied\" her.\n\nMs Endean denied the allegations, saying that, as it was her responsibility to present the findings to ministers, the methods had to be \"robust\", even if that involved \"asking stupid questions and making everyone's lives miserable\".\n\n\"I wanted to be absolutely sure we hadn't made a mistake,\" she said.\n\nHowever, the tribunal was told that it led to a breakdown in relations with Ms Hopkins who complained that in one meeting Ms Endean had shouted at her: \"Wipe the smile off your face.\"\n\nMs Endean denied using the phrase or shouting but accepted that Ms Hopkins had felt \"intimidated\".\n\nAn internal grievance investigation was conducted into the way managers had handled the analyst's claims of \"bullying\" and the stress-related mental health problems that she said it had caused.\n\nThe inquiry found against her but in a witness statement submitted to the tribunal, a former senior MoJ official acknowledged the department's shortcomings.\n\nOsama Rahman, who headed the analytics unit between 2014 and 2018, said it was clear Ms Hopkins's mental health had suffered.\n\n\"Given how [she] had felt, including claiming that she had felt suicidal, I believed that we had failed her,\" Mr Rahman said.\n\nA ruling on the case is expected in the next few weeks.", "The makers of Fortnite say they were \"surprised\" when Prince Harry called the game \"irresponsible\".\n\nBack in April, the Duke of Sussex said the game should be banned.\n\n\"It's created to addict and keep you in front of the computer for as long as possible,\" he said at the time.\n\nSpeaking in front of MPs about video game addiction today, Canon Pence - who works for Epic Games - said they were \"quite taken aback\" by Prince Harry's comments.\n\n\"The statements made could not be further from the truth in our designs and philosophy and multi-decade approach to developing a long-term and sustainable relationship with our audience,\" he added.\n\nMr Pence's comments were made at a Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) Committee meeting.\n\nEpic Games' Canon Pence and Matthew Weissinger were questioned alongside Shaun Campbell and Kerry Hopkins from Electronic Arts, who make games like Fifa and Battlefield.\n\nBoth games companies were questioned as the government is currently looking into how harmful social media and online gaming can be for young people - its safety plans are known as the Online Harms White Paper.\n\nGoogle, Instagram and YouTube have already given evidence to the committee about the effects of social media.\n\nSome of the questions at the DCMS meeting focused on whether games makers should offer a duty of care to players to ensure their welfare and whether there could be a better way to verify the ages of players.\n\nMatthew Weissinger, who is Epic's head of marketing, said Fortnite has \"a number of parental controls\" to stop young users from being exploited by spending lots of money on the game.\n\n\"We're not interested in maximising profit from our players, we want to have an open and honest relationship,\" he said, adding that the maximum someone could spend in their Battle Royale game was around $200 (£159).\n\nEA was asked by the committee about games addiction and how long users could spend playing things like Fifa.\n\nShaun Campbell, who is EA's UK manager, said he himself sometimes spent around half an hour a day playing, saying the game was designed \"to be engaging and fun to play\".\n\n\"We want players to take a healthy and balanced approach to playing games, just like anything else.\n\n\"If you look at Fifa players, they are competitive and some want a career in E-Sports so they practise and spend time playing the game. It's about what feels out of balance for an individual,\" he added.\n\nBoth game-makers were also asked how closely they looked at the age of their players and whether they collected data on that.\n\nPlayStation is the most popular platform for FIFA users in the UK, EA says\n\nKerry Hopkins, who runs EA's legal team, said it was the job of console makers like Sony to verify ages and was actually part of the sign-up process in creating an account.\n\n\"You can't create a PlayStation account if you are under 18. A parent has to set parental controls,\" she said.\n\n\"They can make choices about the time spent playing games and how much money is spent.\"\n\nCanon Pence agreed saying: \"It's our intention to collect the minimum amount of player data - Sony already has that account information\".\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "NI domestic abuse incidents hit a record high of almost 30,000 last year\n\nThere is \"no excuse\" for long delays in implementing measures to help victims of domestic violence and abuse in Northern Ireland, a report has found.\n\nPolice figures show one incident being reported every 17 minutes.\n\nThe chief inspector of criminal justice said there were \"frustrations\" that new legislation is on hold without a functioning assembly.\n\nBrendan McGuigan added that other \"key initiatives\", suggested nine years ago, have not been acted upon.\n\nKelly Andrews, of Belfast and Lisburn Women's Aid, said families were \"living in terror\" while Northern Ireland's domestic abuse legislation lagged behind the rest of the UK and Ireland.\n\nMr McGuigan's report noted there had been a focus on the issue in early 2017, before Stormont collapsed, with legislation discussed to create a new offence of domestic abuse.\n\n\"Without a functioning assembly, or in its absence a response from Parliament, this important new legislation cannot be introduced and the frustrations of many victims remain unaddressed,\" Mr McGuigan said.\n\nThe report praised the \"excellent work\" of voluntary and community groups, such as Women's Aid, in helping victims in the face of funding pressures.\n\nBut it should not be seen as an alternative \"to a formalised support scheme\".\n\nNine years ago, the inspector recommended a properly-funded service be established \"as a matter of urgency\" and also endorsed grouping domestic offences together in court on specific days.\n\n\"Neither of these key initiatives have yet been implemented. In my view there is no excuse,\" said Mr McGuigan.\n\nAccording to police figures, domestic abuse incidents hit a record high of almost 30,000 last year.\n\nBut the report said three in five offences were not prosecuted due to \"evidential difficulties\" and more needed to be done by the PSNI (Police Service of Northern Ireland).\n\n\"With more victims coming forward, we recommend improvements be made to enhance the response provided by frontline officers and ensure consistency in their approach.\"\n\nThe PSNI said it welcomed the report.\n\n\"We fully understand how difficult it can be for anyone to come forward,\" said Det Ch Supt Paula Hilman.\n\n\"We have delivered training to frontline officers as well as specialists dealing with victims and this will be kept under review.\"\n\nKelly Andrews added that victims in Northern Ireland deserved the same protection as that offered across the rest of the UK and Ireland, but said it would take a minimum of two years for legislation to be implemented once passed.\n\nShe said particular attention should be paid to legislation around coercive control and stalking.\n\nShe added: \"Families in Northern Ireland are living in terror, children are living in terror.\n\n\"Northern Ireland is lagging behind the rest of the UK and there is a gap in the legislation - it does not cover the full breadth of domestic abuse, which is not just physical.\n\n\"We have been lobbying for the secretary of state or Home Office to bring this legislation forward as a matter or urgency.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alex was diagnosed with autism when he was two years old\n\nMore than 1,500 children with special educational needs and disabilities (Send) are without a school place in England, with some waiting up to two years for provision.\n\nThe figures, collated by Newsnight, cover 46 English councils (25%), which suggests the real figure may be higher.\n\nOne mother told the programme her son had been \"squeezed out\" of school as a \"quick cost-cutting solution\".\n\nThe government said responsibility lay with local authorities.\n\nLocal authorities do not routinely publish data but a series of Freedom of Information requests made over the past six months show 1,580 children with education and health care plans (EHCPs), which used to be called statements of special educational needs, have no education provision.\n\nThe highest numbers came from Kent (348) and Surrey (93).\n\nAlex Palmer, six, who has autism, has not had a school place for two years, having been excluded just weeks after starting at a mainstream school in 2017.\n\n\"It just became too overwhelming for Alex and within five days of being at school full time, I had that that phone call that I knew was coming... there's issues and that ultimately your son is facing exclusion,\" his mother, Rachel, said.\n\n\"Alex shut down completely. He used to write his name and draw and paint and then following how emotionally traumatic he felt that experience was… he wouldn't hold a pencil, he wouldn't write\".\n\nAnd children such as Alex could be just the tip of the iceberg. They are the ones who have an EHCP - but not all children with Send do.\n\nLast year, there were more than 285,000 children with EHCPs in England - but the number of Send children is higher.\n\nParents can spend months, or even years, trying to get their child assessed for an EHCP and in the meantime there is no statutory requirement for local authorities to keep a register of these children.\n\nIn Birmingham, where Alex and Rachel live, a Freedom of Information request revealed 66 children with EHCPs were without education provision- but sources told the BBC's Newsnight programme there were actually about 250 Send children waiting for a school place. Birmingham Council said it did not \"recognise\" this latter figure.\n\nThe Children's Commissioner for England, Anne Longfield, was not surprised by the numbers across England.\n\n\"They reaffirm my concern that this is actually really widespread and there's a lot of children in this situation… lots of children and parents I've met who are spending 18 months, two years looking for that right school, or pinballing between applications to different schools,\" she said.\n\nSend provision is split between specialist and mainstream schools.\n\nEarlier this year, the government announced an additional £250m to support high needs and an extra £100m for new special school places - but the Institute for Fiscal Studies estimates the funding gap for Send education will hit £1.6bn by 2021.\n\nCharlotte Stubbs, the head teacher at Uffculme Special School, in Birmingham, which supports children on the autistic spectrum, said: \"This year, we had 19 spaces available for September 2019 [in Year 7] - we had 86 requests for placement.\n\n\"In our primary provision, specifically at Years 1 and 2, the class sizes are about seven or eight pupils per class size.\n\n\"We've had 130 referrals for primary placements this year and we're full\".\n\nSend places at mainstream schools are also coming under pressure.\n\nThe first £6,000 of support for a Send child has to come from the school's core budget and, put simply, pupils who need specialist help typically cost more than the funding they bring in.\n\nAaron, 10, says he likes being in a mainstream school\n\nSchools such as Kings Heath Primary, in Birmingham, which has a high proportion of pupils with complex needs, have long subsidised Send support from other parts of the budget. But because of financial pressure, they may have to close places for pupils such as Aaron.\n\n\"We don't want this to happen,\" the 10-year-old told Newsnight. \"If this doesn't stop, then people will get split up from each other, friendships will be broken and I really don't want that to happen, because I like my school and what it's doing for me.\"\n\nThe Department for Education said EHCPs had meant more than a quarter of a million children with complex educational needs \"are receiving the tailored support they need to thrive\".\n\n\"We know that a number of children with EHC plans are waiting for a place in school, having moved to a new local authority area, or waiting for their first primary school place,\" a spokesman said.\n\n\"Local authorities are responsible for ensuring that there are sufficient school places for all children in their local area.\n\n\"We encourage local authorities and providers to work collaboratively so the right range of provision is available for children.\"\n\nYou can watch Newsnight on BBC Two weekdays at 22:30 or on iPlayer, subscribe to the programme on YouTube and follow it on Twitter.", "Andrew Morris admitted killing his 10-year-old son and attempting to murder an eight-year-old girl\n\nA man has admitted killing his 10-year-old son at a house in Coupar Angus.\n\nAndrew Morris, 38, stabbed himself and jumped from the roof of the house after killing Kane Morris.\n\nKane's body was found at a house in Union Street in the Perth and Kinross town last November.\n\nMorris admitted the culpable homicide of his son and a further charge of attempting to murder an eight-year-old girl.\n\nThe stabbings took place in the early hours of 11 November last year.\n\nMorris was originally charged with murdering his son Kane, a pupil at Coupar Angus primary school, but prosecutor Alex Prentice QC accepted a reduced plea to culpable homicide on the basis of diminished responsibility.\n\nHe is currently detained in State Hospital at Carstairs and will be sentenced on 12 August.\n\nWhen questioned by detectives Morris told them: 'I was taking them to a better place away from evil.\"\n\nLater he said: \"I've done a horrible thing.\"\n\nKane Morris's body was found at a house in Coupar Angus last November\n\nMr Prentice told the court Kane was stabbed six times - once in the chest and five times in the back.\n\nDespite his injuries, Kane went towards the young girl's bedroom to try to help her before collapsing.\n\nHe added: \"It seems to me that Kane showed incredible bravery and self sacrifice rather than thinking of himself. His concern was for the eight-year-old girl. For a 10-year-old boy to do that shows incredible bravery.\"\n\nLord Mulholland went on: \"The eight-year-old girl showed incredible bravery as well.\"\n\nMr Prentice said: \"In the course of a meeting with psychiatrists the accused stated that he acted to protect himself and his family from some impending, but otherwise unspecified, mortal danger.\"\n\nMorris, who was in the Army for five years, worked as a farm hand in the family business.\n\nThe court heard friends visited Morris and left him watching football and drinking a cup of tea shortly after midnight on 11 November.\n\nAt about 01:52, Morris' niece Iona McPherson made a one-minute drunken call to him and put the phone on loudspeaker.\n\nMr Prentice told the court: \"In the minutes that followed, the accused killed his 10-year-old son, caused near fatal injuries to an eight-year-old girl and then stabbed himself before jumping out a third floor window.\n\n\"The accused claims to have no memory of killing one child and attempting to murder another.\n\n\"However, he said he thought he heard his niece Iona cackling on the phone and said subsequent events were blurry.\n\nThe court heard that paramedics rushed to treat Morris as he lay injured in the street and he told them he had stabbed two children.\n\nFloral tributes were laid at the scene of the incident\n\nEfforts to get to the children were hampered because Morris had barricaded the front door.\n\nWhen they got in they found the girl who had stab wounds to her abdomen and limbs.\n\nKane was lying collapsed outside the bedroom she had been sleeping in. He died at 03:24.\n\nThe girl suffered a collapsed lung and spent four weeks in hospital.\n\nMorris had five stab wounds, a fractured left femur, a fracture of his pelvis and rib injuries which were all self-inflicted.\n\nThe court heard that Morris was struggling to cope following the death of his step-father in an industrial accident on the farm in May 2018.\n\nMembers of Kane's family sitting in the public gallery of the court sobbed and Morris was also crying in the dock as the facts were read out.\n\nA family statement issued after Kane's death said he was a \"popular young boy\" who was \"full of energy and deeply loved by all\".\n• None Tributes to boy who died in house incident\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The UK has relaxed its travel advice for people going to Sri Lanka.\n\nBut following a reassessment of the threat, the FCO has removed that warning from its travel advice.\n\nIt now contains specific warnings about travel there - saying terrorists are likely to try to carry out attacks, including in places foreigners visit.\n\nIt also says outbreaks of mob violence, such as those that followed the Easter attacks, could happen again with little or no warning.\n\nIt warns those travelling to keep up to date with developments and remain vigilant.\n\n\"Take sensible precautions, familiarise yourself with security procedures at your hotel or accommodation and follow the advice of local authorities and hotel security staff,\" it says.", "Digital colourist Marina Amaral has transformed a number of photographs taken during the D-Day landings by using digital techniques to add colour to the black and white pictures.\n\nHere we present a small selection of her work.\n\nBritish paratroops of the 6th Airborne Division aboard an aircraft en route to their drop site\n\nTroops from the 101st Airborne with full packs and a bazooka, in a C-47 just before take-off from RAF Upottery Airfield en route to Normandy\n\nUS troops use a lifeline to rescue several men from a landing craft sunk by enemy fire on D-Day\n\nUS landing craft fly the stars and stripes as their troops wade ashore in Normandy after D-Day", "Fiat Chrysler has withdrawn its merger proposal for French carmaker Renault, the Italian-American firm has said.\n\nThe announcement followed a failed attempt by Renault board members to reach a decision on the offer.\n\nRenault said it had been unable to reach agreement because French government representatives had requested a postponement.\n\nThe French government is the biggest shareholder in Renault, with a stake of more than 15%.\n\nJapan's Nissan also owns 15% of Renault, while Renault owns 43.4% of Nissan's shares.\n\nRenault's share price fell by nearly 7% on Thursday in response to Fiat Chrysler's decision.\n\nFiat Chrysler made the offer for Renault at the end of last month, describing it as a \"transformative\" proposal that would create a global automotive leader.\n\nCarmakers have faced pressure to consolidate amid major industry shifts, including towards electric vehicles.\n\n\"It has become clear that the political conditions in France do not currently exist for such a combination to proceed successfully,\" Fiat Chrysler said in a statement.\n\nBut the carmaker said it remained \"firmly convinced of the compelling, transformational rationale\" of the proposal, the terms of which were \"carefully balanced to deliver substantial benefits to all parties\".\n\nIndustry shifts toward electric models, along with stricter emissions standards and the development of new technologies for autonomous vehicles, have put increasing pressure on carmakers to consolidate.\n\nOlder, and often heavily indebted carmakers, also face rising competition from new entrants in the motoring sector including Tesla, as well as cash-rich companies developing driverless technology such as Amazon and Google-owned Waymo.\n\nThe Fiat Chrysler tie-up with Renault would have allowed the companies to share development costs on key technology such as electric vehicles and self-driving cars and to create an important player in the automotive industry.\n\nThe merger proposal came at a time when Renault had already been facing challenges as part of an alliance with Japan's Nissan.\n\nThe former chief executive of both Renault and Nissan, Carlos Ghosn, is awaiting trial following his fourth arrest in Japan amid allegations of financial misconduct.\n\nThe allegations have put a strain on the 20-year-old alliance, which also includes Japan's Mitsubishi Motors.", "A 95-year-old D-Day veteran joined many paratroopers as they re-enacted the first airborne drop on to northern France 75 years ago.\n\nThousands of troops dropped in to Nazi-occupied Normandy in June 1944, ahead of the assault on the beaches.\n\nAbout 20 Dakota aircraft flew from Duxford, Cambridgeshire, to France, with veterans Harry Read, 95, from Bournemouth, and John Hutton, 94, from Stirling, Scotland, among the troops.\n\nThe pair jumped in tandem with members of the Army's Parachute Regiment display team, the Red Devils, and were greeted with applause as they landed in the fields.", "Paul Golz was 18 when he was drafted into the German Army in 1943.\n\nHe was on watch during the morning of the D-Day landings and saw the first flares hit the beach.\n\nHe was captured by the Allies and kept as a prisoner until the end of World War Two.\n\nHe tells BBC Scotland’s The Nine that he was happy the invasion was a success.", "Donald Trump's first visit to Ireland as US president has created quite a stir.\n\nAlthough he met Taoiseach Leo Varadkar at Shannon Airport, the bulk of his time has been spent at his golf resort in Doonbeg.\n\nBBC News NI asked residents of the County Clare town what they made of their famous guest.", "Khuram Butt, Rachid Redouane and Youssef Zaghba carried out the London Bridge attacks\n\nThe police officer in charge of the investigation into one of the London Bridge attackers has denied chances were missed to thwart the attack before it happened, an inquest has heard.\n\nThe inquest previously heard there were \"opportunities galore\" to identify those plotting the attack.\n\nBut on Wednesday, the officer, known as Witness M, said that was not the case.\n\nEight people were killed and a further 48 injured in the knife and van attack, which was carried out on 3 June 2017.\n\nKhuram Butt, 27, Rachid Redouane, 30, and Youssef Zaghba, 22, were shot and killed by police less than 10 minutes after the violence began.\n\nThe inquest into the victims' deaths is being held at London's Old Bailey court.\n\nSuggestions of missed opportunities relate to a gym where the three attackers had been meeting and also a primary school where two of them worked.\n\nWitness M acknowledged that his team knew that Butt was attending the Ummah Fitness Centre in east London, but did not investigate it further to discover that Butt was meeting regularly with his two accomplices there.\n\nWitness M also acknowledged that his team had not discovered that the gym was connected to a figure who, the court heard, had alleged links to a terrorist training camp in Pakistan.\n\nGareth Patterson QC, representing six of the victims' families, suggested the police failure to look at the gym and the school was \"a very real missed opportunity in the months leading up to the attack\" - and that the enquiry team had been \"operationally blinkered\".\n\nBut Witness M insisted that theirs was an \"intelligence led\" operation and MI5 had not offered evidence that would support further enquiries into the gym.\n\n\"There was no intelligence that suggested the gym was significant prior to the attack, and we followed the intelligence around a number of schools and it was uncorroborated,\" he said.\n\nAsked if he believed opportunities to stop the terror plot were missed, he said: \"There is nothing I could look back on and say 'this was a missed opportunity around a significant disruption', nor was there anything that we had in our possession at the time that indicated any attack was being planned.\"\n\nMr Patterson suggested extremist material found on Butt's phone and laptop when he was arrested for fraud in 2016 showed he had an \"obsession\" with Isis and a willingness to die.\n\nThe material included images of Isis executions and suicide bombers, a terrorist propaganda magazine Dabiq, pictures of Isis captives with guns held to their head, and an image of a man with a spade embedded in his face.\n\nThe victims of the attack, clockwise from top left - Chrissy Archibald, James McMullan, Alexandre Pigeard, Sebastien Belanger, Ignacio Echeverria, Xavier Thomas, Sara Zelenak, Kirsty Boden\n\nThere was also a home video of Butt cutting the throat of a cow and comparing it to the massacre of 600 Jewish men.\n\nWhatsApp messages had been exchanged with the extremist preacher Ahmed Musa Jibril asking if people have visions of the future before death, and Jibril suggesting he would see Butt in paradise.\n\nWitness M said: \"This rhetoric, this conversation, this mindset we see right the way across the spectrum of all the subjects of interest we deal with.\n\n\"None of this material shows that he was planning for an attack or that any offence had been committed.\"\n\nOn Tuesday, the inquest heard the team investigating one of the attackers was not told he had been reported to an anti-terror hotline.\n\nButt's brother-in-law had reported his increasing radicalisation in September 2015.\n\nIn the same month MI5 assessed Butt as wanting to stage a terror attack but lacking the ability to do so.\n\nOne of the attackers' widows described his last words to her on the day of the attack.\n\nCharisse O'Leary had separated from Redouane but they had a young daughter together.\n\nAs he dropped their daughter off she checked if he was planning to see her again the next day\n\n\"I asked him if he was seeing her tomorrow,\" Ms O'Leary told the inquest. \"He didn't reply. He just made a quick exit and said he'd forgotten his phone.\"\n\nCounsel to the inquests Jonathan Hough QC asked her: \"Did you have any inkling at all that he was capable of such violence?\"\n\nMr Hough asked: \"Did you have any inkling at all that he harboured such extreme views to carry out such an attack?\"\n\nBreaking down in tears, she recalled her reaction when she found out what he had done, telling the court she was \"shocked that he was capable of doing something like that\".\n\nXavier Thomas, 45, Christine Archibald, 30, Sara Zelenak, 21, Sebastien Belanger, 36, James McMullan, 32, Kirsty Boden, 28, Alexandre Pigeard, 26, and Ignacio Echeverria, 39, were all killed in the attack.", "Donald Trump has visited the Republic of Ireland for the first time since he became president of the United States.\n\nHe arrived at Shannon Airport in County Clare at about 16:45 local time and held a short meeting with Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Leo Varadkar.\n\nThe pair discussed Brexit and the Irish border, corporation tax and Irish-American trade links.\n\nMr Trump then travelled by helicopter to nearby Doonbeg to stay at his golf resort which he purchased in 2014.\n\nSecurity was tight as Air Force One touched down at Shannon Airport\n\nThe Trumps arrived on Air Force One in Ireland at about 16:45 local time\n\nLeo Varadkar welcomed Donald and Melania Trump to Ireland on the tarmac at Shannon Airport\n\nDonald and Melania Trump signed the visitors book at Shannon Airport\n\nThe president and taoiseach spoke to reporters before holding a private meeting\n\nCrowds gathered to try and get a glimpse of the American president\n\nSupporters of the American president came to see his arrival\n\nAnti-Trump protesters demonstrated against his visit with placards and banners\n\nSome protesters criticised the US president's stance on climate change and human rights\n\nThe Trumps travelled from Shannon to Doonbeg in the president's helicopter, Marine One\n\nGardaí (Irish police) stood guard in Doonbeg as the village awaited the famous guest\n\nIrish soldiers search fields as part of a security operation near the entrance to Mr Trump's golf resort\n\nSome Doonbeg residents waved US flags to show their support for the president\n\nThe County Clare village put on a show for their American guests\n\nDonald Trump's sons, Donald Jr (left), and Eric Trump (right), got behind the bar in Doonbeg\n\nUS First Lady, Melania Trump, meets Irish dancers at a welcome function\n\nMelania Trump spoke to performers and musicians during her visit to County Clare", "Last updated on .From the section England\n\nFans responsible for trouble in Porto before Thursday's Nations League semi-final are \"not true England supporters\" and an \"embarrassment to the team\", the Football Association has said.\n\nTwo England fans were arrested in clashes with riot police on Wednesday night and two officers were injured.\n\nBottles were thrown at Portuguese fans in a fans' zone as supporters watched Portugal beat Switzerland 3-1.\n\nIt was the second night in a row that supporters had caused trouble.\n\nA UK police chief has called their behaviour \"completely unacceptable\" and says an investigation team hopes to identify offenders when they return to UK airports.\n\n\"We have an investigation team up and running in the UK gathering footage,\" Deputy Chief Constable Mark Roberts, the National Police Chiefs' Council football policing lead, told BBC Radio 5 live.\n\n\"We aim to get them to court, hopefully when they get back to the airport we will identify them as we want them banned.\n\n\"Unfortunately what we see here are people, some of whom have never been brought to the attention of the police and we don't know if they'll behave like drunk yobs until they've consumed too much alcohol.\"\n\nThere are believed to be 15,000 England supporters in Portugal and around 500 attended Wednesday's game at Porto's Estadio do Dragao.\n\nSome fans are staying in Porto, which is 30 miles away from Guimaraes where England face the Netherlands.\n\nPortuguese police confirmed to BBC Sport: \"Two English fans were arrested in Porto due to aggressions to police officers and another was identified because of his behaviour. Two police officers were injured in the intervention.\"\n\nThe trouble comes a week after the FA released their 'Don't be that idiot' campaign, warning fans about anti-social and \"embarrassing behaviour\".\n\n\"The FA strongly condemns the scenes witnessed in Porto overnight,\" it said in a statement.\n\n\"Anyone responsible for these disturbances cannot be seen as true England supporters and are not welcome in football. They are an embarrassment to the team and the thousands of well-behaved fans who follow England in the right way.\"\n\nThe Football Supporters' Association, a national fans organisation, said it \"unreservedly condemned the anti-social behaviour and violent disorder\".\n\nChief executive Kevin Miles said: \"This is exactly the type of incident that Football Banning Orders (FBO) were made for and we're sure the authorities will be seeking to identify perpetrators.\n\n\"While the UK police don't have powers of arrest in Portugal they can retrospectively apply for FBOs which stop these people getting into UK stadiums or following England away.\n\n\"The most galling aspect of these incidents - which most England fans didn't witness, let alone condone - is that the rest of us will all suffer as a consequence of the reputation perpetuated by this minority of idiots.\"\n\nDeputy Chief Constable Roberts said Portuguese riot police were deployed in the main square of Porto against a group of England fans on Wednesday night.\n\n\"The behaviour of a small number of the England fans out here continues to tarnish the reputation of the genuine fans who are simply trying to enjoy the football,\" said Roberts.\n\n\"It is believed the fans had been throwing bottles at Portugal fans who were watching the match in the same area.\n\n\"This is the second evening in a row where disorder has occurred in Porto. Last night there were issues outside a bar, where bottles were thrown and minor damage was caused.\n\n\"The behaviour we are witnessing is incredibly disappointing and again I would point fans towards the recent video from the FA - 'Don't be that idiot'.\n\nMore than 100 England fans were arrested in Amsterdam in March 2018, when Gareth Southgate's side played the Netherlands in a friendly.\n\nEngland were also threatened with disqualification from Euro 2016 but were not formally charged by Uefa, after fan trouble at the tournament.\n\nBut last year's World Cup in Russia passed without any trouble.\n\nTrouble in Portugal was feared; when England played the Netherlands in Amsterdam last year, more than a hundred England fans were arrested. There were ugly scenes too in Seville last October so Portuguese police were braced for violence.\n\nIn the end, last night passed off relatively calmly. But when Portugal went 1-0 up against Switzerland, a hardcore group of England fans threw beer bottles in the fan zone. The police moved in with batons, cheered by some Porto residents.\n\nThis morning, Avenida da Liberdade, where the trouble flared, had been cleaned up, but some local businesses lamented the ugly scenes.\n\nManuel Alvos, serving in a café where England fans were drinking beer from late morning, told me the behaviour was shameful. \"They're fine until they start with alcohol\", he said. \"Portugal is a calm country. It's bad for tourism when this happens - and bad for football.\"\n\nAs rain began to beat down, the bars along Porto's Douro river largely emptied of England fans - many of them taking the short train ride to where tonight's match will take place: Guimaraes, the picturesque town that was once the capital of Portugal after its independence in the 12th Century.\n\nThe FA has called last night's scenes \"an embarrassment\" and many of the 18,000 England fans here will share that sentiment. Once again, the behaviour of a few has tarnished the image of English football.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nEngland suffered more semi-final disappointment as they produced a defensive horror show to crash out of the Nations League to the impressive Netherlands in Guimaraes.\n\nMarcus Rashford's penalty, awarded after he was fouled by Matthijs de Ligt, gave Gareth Southgate's side an interval advantage.\n\nDe Ligt made amends when he took advantage of poor marking at a corner to power home a header with 17 minutes left.\n\nEngland thought substitute Jesse Lingard's late strike had put them on course for the inaugural Nations League final against hosts Portugal in Porto on Sunday, only for VAR to intervene and rule it out for offside.\n\nThe Dutch were the far superior side but they were gifted their route to the showdown against Portugal on Sunday by suicidal defending in extra time by England, who were hoping to go one better than their World Cup semi-final exit against Croatia last summer.\n\nJohn Stones was caught in possession by Memphis Depay who forced a brilliant save from Jordan Pickford, but Kyle Walker could only bundle the loose ball into his own net under challenge from Quincy Promes.\n\nAnd England produced more pantomime defending for the Netherlands' third, this time Ross Barkley getting caught in possession from another poor pass from Stones, leaving Memphis to offer up a simple finish to Promes.\n\nEngland's dejected players must now lift themselves for the third-place play-off against Switzerland in Guimaraes on Sunday.\n• None Southgate will not abandon style despite mistakes\n• None 2.96 out of 10 - which England player received this rating from you?\n\nEngland's defending, or lack of, was the primary reason for this defeat, but this was a mediocre performance from a side hoping to lift their first trophy since the 1966 World Cup.\n\nSouthgate left out the likes of captain Harry Kane and Jordan Henderson after their Champions League final exertions when Liverpool beat Spurs in Madrid on Saturday and, of course, this tournament comes at the conclusion of a gruelling season.\n\nThere can be no excuse, however, for the errors that led England down the path to defeat and they were symptomatic of a defensive performance that bordered on the shambolic.\n\nStones had a game he will want to forget, a process that may take some time because this was a harrowing 120 minutes for the Manchester City defender, but he was not the only culprit because he can be joined on the roll of dishonour by Harry Maguire and Walker.\n\nMaguire's performance was littered with mistakes against the nimble Dutch and he was fortunate Depay's finishing was wayward after he was robbed in a dangerous area in the second half, while Walker was rescued by Pickford when he also conceded possession to the same forward.\n\nEngland looked leggy and uninspired, perhaps an inevitable consequence this late in the season, but there were real areas of concern at the back and there can be no complaints.\n\nRonald Koeman's first game as coach of the Netherlands was a 1-0 loss to England in Amsterdam in March 2018 - this was compelling evidence of just how far they have travelled in that time.\n\nThey were more composed and constructive than England and it was only their lack of a clinical striker that kept England in the game for so long. If Koeman can uncover one, they will be a very formidable side.\n\nThe Netherlands are on the way back as Koeman presides over a mix of talented youngsters and experience.\n\nLiverpool's Virgil van Dijk, mercilessly and totally inexplicably jeered by England's fans all night, is the leader and has the developing De Ligt, who had a mixed evening but who will be a truly outstanding defender, alongside him.\n\nAnd in the brilliant Frenkie de Jong, the midfielder who is the first piece of Barcelona's rebuild, they had the best player on the pitch as he played with a class and composure that made a nonsense of his 22 years.\n\nThe Netherlands deserve their place in the final and, barring accidents and aided by the addition of the striker they so badly need, Koeman's team could be a serious force at Euro 2020.\n\nThe Dutch curse - the best of the stats\n• None England have lost three of their past four international matches against the Netherlands (W1, D0, L3).\n• None Two of England's past three defeats when leading at half-time have been against the Netherlands (also March 2016) - the other was against Croatia in the World Cup semi-final.\n• None Rashford has scored four goals in his past seven international appearances for England - having scored three in his first 25.\n• None Sterling became the third youngest player to reach 50 caps for England (24y 180d), behind only Wayne Rooney in 2009 (23y 159d) and Michael Owen in 2003 (23y 179d).\n• None De Ligt has scored in each of his past two international appearances for the Netherlands, having scored none in his first 14 beforehand.\n• None Walker became the first England player to score an own goal in an international match since Eric Dier in May 2016 against Australia.\n• None Tonight was Southgate's 34th game in charge of England and his 10th starting XI with an average age of under 25 - the previous 17 managers to take charge of England did this just 10 times in 595 matches combined.\n• None Depay has been involved in 23 goals in his past 21 international matches for the Netherlands (13 goals, 10 assists).\n• None Attempt blocked. Donny van de Beek (Netherlands) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt blocked. Harry Kane (England) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Ross Barkley.\n• None Attempt missed. Memphis Depay (Netherlands) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Georginio Wijnaldum following a fast break.\n• None Goal! Netherlands 3, England 1. Quincy Promes (Netherlands) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the high centre of the goal. Assisted by Memphis Depay.\n• None Donny van de Beek (Netherlands) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Current systems require people to remove liquids and laptops from their bags\n\nPassengers at Heathrow airport will be able to keep their liquids and laptops inside their carry-on bags, once new security equipment is installed.\n\nThe airport is investing £50m in the computer tomography (CT) security scanners, to be rolled out over the next few years.\n\nThe technology, similar to CT scanners used in hospitals, provides a clear picture of a bag's contents.\n\nDetailed 3D images can be easily rotated and dissected by staff.\n\nHeathrow chief operations officer, Chris Garton, said: \"This cutting-edge kit will not only keep the airport safe with the latest technology, but will mean that our future passengers can keep their focus on getting on with their journeys and less time preparing for security screening.\"\n\nAviation Minster Baroness Vere added: \"Passenger safety remains our top priority, and this programme clearly shows the huge importance we place on security.\"\n\nThe technology is already being used in the US, including Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson airport and Chicago's O'Hare.\n\nThe US Transportation Security Administration hopes to deploy 300 of the scanners by 2020.", "Veteran Harry Billinge, 93, spoke to BBC Breakfast's Naga Munchetty about his memories of friends who died during the Normandy invasion in 1944.", "Ted Cordery was a 20-year-old torpedo man for the navy when he stood on the upper deck of HMS Belfast and looked helplessly on as dozens of men drowned around him.\n\nD-Day, on June 6 1944, was the world's largest seaborne assault and the beginning of the Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe.\n\nBut many of the first troops to arrive at Normandy, in northern France, were accidentally dropped off by their landing boats in too-deep water, where they sank under the weight of their guns and equipment.\n\nOthers suffered from seasickness caused by the flat bottoms on the smaller boats \"bouncing\" across the waves.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC from his home in Oxford, Ted, now 95, vividly remembers the events of that day 75 years ago and says the horrific things he witnessed will stay with him forever.\n\nHe says: \"I felt so sorry for the men. They were coming from a fair way out to get to the beach, and they were all in their uniforms and carrying guns and their own food, so they all had these cans weighing them down.\n\n\"I looked at them as we were passing them and I thought to myself, if you're seasick and you're then expected to get off the boat and start fighting… come on.\n\n\"The water was a bit choppy, which made no difference to us, but if you're in a flat bottom boat and its a bit choppy you can really feel it.\n\n\"What those men went through. It's asking a lot isn't it? I think so. Those men are bloody marvellous.\n\n\"So many of them didn't make it because they were dropped too far from the land. They went straight in the deep water and drowned.\"\n\nTed Cordery, as a young child, sitting on his mother's lap\n\nD-Day began with a damp, grey dawn over the English Channel. More than 6,330 boats carrying thousands of men readied themselves to launch the invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe.\n\nThe night before, Ted and his fellow crew were told they were joining a large operation, but they had no idea of the scale until they saw the other ships.\n\nBut they were not nervous. Ted says: \"Well, you see, once you've gone to sea you've always got to be ready for action, U-boats, anything.\n\n\"It's like everything, you go into something strange and of course you're apprehensive, even if you're not frightened, because you just get on with it - and please God you'll be alright.\"\n\nHMS Belfast was the flagship of Bombardment Force E, supporting troops landing at Gold and Juno beaches by attacking German defences.\n\nThe ship came under occasional fire from German artillery and dive-bombers but managed to battle on unscathed as it continued to hit German positions.\n\nWorking predominantly on the upper deck, Ted had a bird's eye view of the action unfolding around him.\n\nHMS Belfast, pictured during the Second World War, was built in 1936\n\nHe says: \"When we got near the coast we could see all the activity and we just went in and anchored up and as soon as we got there, more or less, we opened fire.\"\n\nAs one of the larger warships present on D-Day, HMS Belfast also had a fully equipped sick bay staffed by surgeons and took hundreds of casualties on board during the first day of fighting.\n\nAfter destroying the German defence batteries, the crew was tasked with clearing the beach and bringing wounded soldiers back to the ship to receive medical treatment.\n\nTed was trained to operate one of Belfast's two cranes, which allowed him to lift stretchers up on to the deck.\n• None 4,400from the combined allied forces died on the day\n\nIt was a difficult job, made harder when he realised how badly injured the troops were.\n\nTed says: \"I'll die with this memory. These men were wounded. We put them on the stretcher. You'd then put them on a cart and get them down the beach and then put them on a pontoon on the beach.\n\n\"And then they would be taken out to the boat. And I'd lift those men out... and the injuries I saw, I couldn't tell you.\"\n\nFighting back tears, he adds: \"There was nothing I could do about it. I looked down at them, and I cried.\n\n\"I'm a soft sod. You would never believe what they went through. Those poor men.\n\n\"They took them to the sick bay, and if 2% or 3% of them survived I'd be surprised.\n\n\"They did what they could for them, but they were too far gone - they were mostly dead before they got them in the sick bay.\n\n\"But the injuries - faces, stomachs, legs off - oh God. I know nurses would say to me 'silly sod', they see it every day, in a more clinical fashion.\n\n\"But the way I saw it - God, I think to myself, I'm lucky to be alive. Those poor people.\n\n\"I think there were about 10,000 men lost that day. And what for? We don't learn do we?\"\n\nApart from periods replenishing ammunition, HMS Belfast was almost continuously in action over the five weeks after D-Day and fired thousands of rounds from her guns in support of Allied troops fighting their way inland.\n\nBut D-Day was not the only battle Ted fought in during his time onboard HMS Belfast.\n\nBetween 1943 and 1944, he took part in some of the navy's most intense and dangerous operations including the Arctic Convoys and the Battle of North Cape.\n\nA framed photo of Ted in his navy uniform is in pride of place on his mantelpiece\n\nImmediately after the war ended Ted continued his military service as a minesweeper, working off the coast of Scotland.\n\nHe left the navy in 1946 and returned to his job as an apprentice printer where he went on to \"work at practically every paper on Fleet Street\".\n\nJust one month after D-Day Ted met a woman named Lila while he was on leave and married her three weeks later in August 1944.\n\nThey had one son, two grandchildren and two great-grandchildren and were together until her death in 1991.\n\nTen years later Ted met and married his second wife, Glynis, with whom he lives in Oxford's suburbs.\n\nThey will attend the 75th anniversary events in Normandy this week.\n\nMany assumed that technological advances would ensure the World War Two was less horrific than the Great War.\n\nBut the fighting during the Battle of Normandy, which followed D-Day, was as bloody as it had been in the trenches of the World War One..\n\nCasualty rates were slightly higher than they were during a typical day during the Battle of the Somme in 1916.\n\nTed says: \"I well up every time I talk about it. Sometimes I think about it when I'm lying in bed awake.\n\n\"I don't like to dwell upon it too much because there's nothing you can do about it. But like millions of others I did my bit.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Hundreds of veterans gathered in Normandy for the anniversary\n\nHundreds of veterans gathered in France to honour the sacrifice of those who died in the D-Day landings, drawing to a close two days of commemorations.\n\nWorld leaders attended ceremonies honouring Allied forces who fought in the largest combined land, air and naval operation in history.\n\nWreaths were laid, a minute's silence was held and veterans linked arms and sang, before watching an RAF flypast.\n\nTheresa May and Emmanuel Macron thanked veterans who took part in June 1944.\n\nPresident Donald Trump called former US soldiers \"the pride of the nation\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThroughout the day, key events were marked from the wartime operation at the start of the campaign to liberate Nazi-occupied north-west Europe.\n\nBy nightfall on 6 June 1944, some 156,000 Allied troops - including British, US and Canadian forces - had landed on Normandy's beaches, despite challenging weather and fierce German defences.\n\nThe Allies established a foothold in France and within 11 months Nazi Germany was defeated and the war in Europe was over.\n\nAt 06:26 BST - the exact minute the first British troops landed on the beaches in 1944 - a lone piper played on a section of the Mulberry Harbour in the French town of Arromanches.\n\nMr Macron and Mrs May - in one of her final engagements as Conservative leader - were in Ver-sur-Mer to see the first stone laid for a memorial to commemorate the 22,442 British troops who died there in the summer of 1944.\n\nThe memorial, which overlooks Gold Beach, depicts three soldiers advancing across the sand.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mrs May and Mr Macron say 'thank you' to D-Day veterans\n\nMrs May said she was humbled to be able to mark the moment with veterans, who belonged to a \"very special generation\".\n\n\"A generation whose unconquerable spirit shaped the post-war world. They didn't boast. They didn't fuss. They served,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"I don't think I should tell you what I saw because it was so horrible\"\n\n\"And they laid down their lives so that we might have a better life and build a better world.\n\n\"If one day can be said to have determined the fate of generations to come in France, in Britain, in Europe and the world, that day was 6 June, 1944,\" she added.\n\nD-Day veterans made the journey to Normandy to attend commemorations\n\nD-Day Royal Navy veteran Ted Emmings, 94, passes a house in Arromanches decorated with a photo of himself and other veterans\n\nAlso paying tribute, Mr Macron said: \"This is where young men, many of whom had never set foot on French soil, landed at dawn under German fire, risking their lives while fighting their way up the beach, which was littered with obstacles and mines.\"\n\nThe French president also went on to say he was proud to have worked with Mrs May.\n\n\"Leaders may come and go but their achievements remain. The force of our friendship will outlast current events,\" he said.\n\nPrince Charles joined the prime minister to mark the anniversary at a ceremony in Bayeux\n\nMrs May, the Prince of Wales, the Duchess of Cornwall, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon later attended a service at the cathedral in Bayeux, the first city to be liberated by the invasion.\n\nA message was read out on behalf of Pope Francis, in which he said D-Day was \"decisive in the fight against Nazi barbarism\". He also paid tribute to those who \"joined the Army and gave their lives for freedom and peace\".\n\nThe service was followed by a ceremony at Bayeux War Cemetery, where many of the fallen are buried.\n\nA British soldier played the bagpipes for the inauguration of a garden in Arromanches\n\nAmong the veterans who attended the commemorations was Len Fox, who took part in a rendition of We'll Meet Again.\n\nThe 94-year-old, who lives in Norwich, landed in the town on D-Day with the 53rd Welsh Division as a dispatch rider.\n\nHe said: \"Being here for the anniversary is my way of paying back a little to my comrades who didn't make it.\n\n\"I wasn't a hero, I was a frightened 19-year-old. They were the brave heroes.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Veteran Harry Billinge, 93, on his memories of friends who died during the Normandy invasion in 1944\n\nHarry Billinge, 93, from St Austell in Cornwall, was on a final pilgrimage to Normandy to see how thousands of pounds he raised had helped the construction of a national memorial honouring his fallen comrades.\n\nHe handed over more than £10,000 to the Normandy Memorial Trust after collecting donations in his local high street and Arromanches.\n\nAs an 18-year-old Royal Engineer, he landed on Gold Beach at 06:30 on 6 June 1944 as part of the first wave of troops.\n\nMr Billinge said this was his \"swansong\" and he did not think he would return again, but he was eager to see the first foundation stones of the monument laid on Thursday morning.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Donald Trump praised troops at a service in the US war cemetery at Omaha Beach\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Trump accompanied Mr Macron at a ceremony at the US war cemetery at Omaha Beach, Colleville-sur-Mer.\n\nHe told veterans gathered there: \"You are among the greatest Americans who will ever live. You are the pride of the nation. You are the glory of our republic and we thank you from the bottom of our hearts.\"\n\nDonald Trump and the First Lady, Melania, joined Emmanuel Macron and his wife, Brigitte, for D-Day commemorations in Normandy\n\nOther events in the UK and France included:\n\nPrince William was among those at a service at the National Memorial Arboretum\n\nAt the National Memorial Arboretum, the Duke of Cambridge gave an address which was originally made by his great-grandfather, George VI in 1944.\n\nHe read: \"Four years ago our nation and empire stood alone against an overwhelming enemy, with our backs to the wall.\n\n\"Now, once more, a supreme test has to be faced.\"\n\nHe added: \"This time, the challenge is not to fight to survive but to fight to win the final victory for the good cause.\n\n\"At this historic moment, surely not one of us is too busy, too young, or too old to play a part in a nationwide, perchance a world-wide, vigil of prayer as the great crusade sets forth.\"\n\nDuring Prince Harry's visit to Royal Hospital Chelsea, he joked with Chelsea Pensioners and asked them \"Who's your favourite?\" while gesturing to hospital staff.\n\nOn Wednesday, leaders from every country that fought alongside the UK on D-Day joined the Queen in Portsmouth for the first day of the 75th anniversary events.\n\nThe Queen paid tribute to the \"heroism, courage and sacrifice\" of those who died.\n\nAround 300 veterans were then waved off on the cruise ship MV Boudicca as it headed to the Normandy commemorations.\n\nTwo veterans - Harry Read, 95, and John Hutton, 94 - parachuted back into Normandy, 75 years after their first landing, accompanied by members of the Army's Parachute Regiment display team.\n• None 4,400from the combined allied forces died on the day", "Robert Williams was an 18-year-old Royal Marine on D-Day who landed on Sword Beach, and served throughout France and into Germany.\n\n\"I didn't get a scratch,\" the 94-year-old said.\n\nWhen Mrs May came over to thank him at the Bayeux cemetery event, \"I took her by the arms and gave her a kiss on the cheek. She said 'Oh, thank you'.\"\n\n\"I kissed her - why not? It is not everyone that can do that.\"\n\nAnother veteran, Robert Yaxley, also gave the UK prime minister a kiss on the cheek.\n\nRobert Yaxley also gave Theresa May a kiss on the cheek Image caption: Robert Yaxley also gave Theresa May a kiss on the cheek", "Some of the creators of the apps and technology we spend so much time on are now on a mission to keep it away from their kids.\n\nColleen Hagerty meets two dads - and tech experts - with different views on screen time at schools.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How the attack unfolded in March 2018\n\nSpeedboat killer Jack Shepherd has been jailed for a further four years for assaulting a barman with a bottle.\n\nThe 31-year-old pleaded guilty at Exeter Crown Court to attacking the former soldier in Moretonhampstead, Newton Abbot, Devon, in March 2018.\n\nShepherd admitted wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm over the attack, which involved a vodka bottle.\n\nHe is currently serving six years in prison for the killing of a woman in a speedboat crash on the River Thames.\n\nHe returned to the UK in April after going on the run to Georgia to avoid justice over the manslaughter of Charlotte Brown, 24.\n\nCharlotte Brown died in December 2015 when Shepherd took her on a date on his speedboat\n\nShepherd, whose address was given as Charles Street, Bristol, appeared before the court via video link.\n\nThe attack on David Beech at the White Hart Hotel happened shortly before Shepherd fled the country in March 2018.\n\nThe court was shown CCTV footage of Shepherd slamming a vodka bottle into Mr Beech's head after he told Shepherd and a drunken friend to leave.\n\nThe barman had served in Afghanistan where he was shot in the head in 2014 and he had been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, the court heard.\n\n\"Your assault undid in a matter of seconds the good progress he had made over the years,\" said Judge David Evans, sentencing Shepherd.\n\nShepherd slammed a vodka bottle into the barman's head after he told Shepherd and a drunken friend to leave\n\nMr Beech said being hit by the bottle was \"like a blow from a baseball bat\".\n\nHe had to be taken to hospital and his wound stitched and glued.\n\nShepherd was restrained at the scene by Mr Beech's colleague James Stapley.\n\nShepherd told Mr Stapley: \"I know I hit your mate and I am going to pay for it.\"\n\nDuring the sentencing hearing, Shepherd, wearing a pink shirt, appeared to sob and wipe tears from his face.\n\nStephen Vullo QC, defending, said: \"Up until the end of 2015 his life was going as planned. He was a successful IT consultant earning £150,000 with his own houseboat on the Thames.\n\n\"No one, not least himself, can have predicted the nature and degree of his self-destruction that has brought him to this point.\"\n\nShepherd and Charlotte Brown were thrown from the boat\n\nMs Brown died in December 2015 when Shepherd took her on a date on his speedboat, a trial in July last year heard.\n\nThe pair were both thrown from the boat when it hit branches in the water near Wandsworth Bridge.\n\nMs Brown, from Clacton-on-Sea in Essex, was found in the water unconscious and unresponsive, while Shepherd was discovered clinging to the upturned boat.\n\nHis trial was told that he was responsible for the speedboat, which had a series of serious defects, including to its steering.\n\nHe was jailed for an extra six months in April for fleeing the country.\n\nThe four-year jail sentence for attacking Mr Beech will run consecutively to his current jail terms.\n\nShepherd has been granted the right to appeal against his conviction for manslaughter.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The closure plans are a huge blow to Carwyn Jones's Bridgend constituency\n\nFord Bridgend engine plant workers deserve \"so much better\" than the factory's closure, which has now been confirmed by the firm, local AM and ex-first minister Carwyn Jones has said.\n\nHe said no reason had been given why Bridgend had been singled out, and workers had done \"all asked of them\".\n\nBut Ford of Europe said later Bridgend was \"less efficient than other sites\".\n\nPlaid leader Adam Price called closure \"one of the most bitter blows\" for the Welsh economy for more than 30 years.\n\nUnion officials were told details of the plans at a meeting with Ford bosses, which include the offer of redeployment of workers to other sites.\n\nIn a letter, the 1,700 workers were told they will lose their jobs in phases from 25 September next year.\n\nIn a statement, Ford of Europe president Stuart Rowley said: \"Changing customer demand and cost disadvantages, plus an absence of additional engine models for Bridgend going forward make the plant economically unsustainable in the years ahead.\"\n\nHe said later the decision was nothing to do with Brexit but he realised the company's plans would be \"very significant for the employees, their families and the community in south Wales\".\n\nMr Rowley described the Bridgend plant as \"under-utilised and less efficient than other sites\" and has confirmed the company will repay £11m in incentives offered by the Welsh Government.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Carwyn Jones AM/AC This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCurrent First Minister, Mark Drakeford called the news \"incredibly sad for the loyal workforce at the factory, for the community of Bridgend and for those in the supply chain\".\n\n\"The Welsh Government has supported the plant over many years and this decision in no way reflects on the highly skilled individuals who have given the company great service over four decades,\" he said.\n\n\"The Welsh Government will do everything in its power to support those impacted by this announcement and to work with all partners to explore options for the future of the plant.\"\n\nMr Drakeford's predecessor, Mr Jones, responded on Twitter after closure plans were confirmed to him, saying \"no reason given as to why it should be Bridgend\".\n\n\"The workers deserve so much better than this after all their efforts and hard work,\" he said. \"They did all that was asked of them.\"\n\nAlun Cairns says claims Brexit was behind the closure have \"little credibility\"\n\nRebecca Long Bailey, Labour's shadow business secretary at Westminster, said: \"The Tories need to wake up to reality: they are dragging our manufacturing base into oblivion\".\n\n\"Their leadership candidates are vying to inflict the most damaging form of Brexit, and not one of them has a strategy for the challenges facing the automotive sector.\"\n\nBut UK Government Welsh Secretary Alun Cairns said Brexit was not the cause of the Bridgend plant's closure.\n\nHe told BBC Wales: \"There is little credibility in the statements around Brexit in relation to this project because Ford are taking the engine plant from Bridgend to Mexico.\n\n\"Now if they were going to site the plant in Germany or France there might be some credibility in that question.\"\n\nMr Cairns added: \"The reality is that Europe has a whole problem with automotive because that market is shifting and Europe has not yet got the giga-factories or the power electric machines and drives manufacturers that we need. That's why I've been travelling internationally seeking to attract them here\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Bridgend MP Madeleine Moon said she was \"very emotional\" over the closure plan\n\nEarlier, Mr Cairns promised the UK ministers would \"work closely with Ford, the trade unions and the Welsh Government, to make sure this highly-valued workforce can move into new skilled employment\".\n\nWelsh Economy Minister Ken Skates said Welsh ministers would provide a \"rapid response taskforce to support workers\".\n\n\"There has been a lot of speculation over the future of Ford for some time now and, during that period, the Welsh Government has been in discussions with the UK Government in attempting to capture alternate employment and to land some major projects in Bridgend,\" he said.\n\nSince 1978 about £140m in taxpayers' money has been invested in the plant, Mr Skates said.\n\n\"That has been money well spent because, just in the last decade alone, £3bn has been pumped back into the Bridgend economy by the Ford plant.\n\n\"What we have repeatedly said to Ford over recent months and years is that Wales stands ready, it is perfectly situated and positioned to help businesses,\" he said.\n\nThere have been concerns about Bridgend Ford's future for more than a decade\n\nPlaid Cymru leader Adam Price said closure would be \"one of the most bitter blows\" for the Welsh economy for more than 30 years.\n\n\"Ford is the jewel in the crown of the car industry - which is the hardcore of our manufacturing sector - so the implications of this in terms of the supply chain in terms of job losses is very, very grave indeed.\"\n\nBridgend council leader Huw David described the news as \"the single biggest blow to our economy since the closure of the pits\".\n\nHe said the authority would offer workers at the plant its full support and that action was already being taken.\n\n\"Bridgend Ford has been our biggest single private sector employer at the heart of the community for almost 40 years,\" he said.\n\n\"We are devastated for everyone affected by this decision, and we urge Ford to reconsider and to work with both Welsh Government and the UK Government to keep this plant open.\"", "The WHO estimates one in 25 people has at least one STI\n\nOne million new sexually transmitted infections (STIs) occur every single day, the World Health Organization has estimated.\n\nThat means more than 376 million new cases annually of four infections - chlamydia, gonorrhoea, trichomoniasis, and syphilis.\n\nThe WHO highlights a lack of progress in stopping the spread of STIs, and says its figures are a \"wake-up call\".\n\nExperts are particularly concerned about the rise in drug-resistant STIs.\n\nThe WHO regularly evaluates the global impact of the four common sexually transmitted infections.\n\nIt looks at published research and collects reports from its workers in countries around the world.\n\nCompared with its last analysis in 2012, the WHO reports \"no substantive decline\" in the rates of new or existing infections.\n\nIt suggests around one in 25 people globally has at least one of these four STIs, with some experiencing multiple infections at the same time.\n\nThe figures suggest that among people aged 15-49 in 2016 there were:\n\nTrichomoniasis is caused by infection by a parasite during sex. Chlamydia, syphilis and gonorrhoea are bacterial infections.\n\nSTI symptoms can include discharge, pain urinating and bleeding between periods. However, many cases have no symptoms.\n\nSerious complications can include pelvic inflammatory disease and infertility in women from chlamydia and gonorrhoea, and cardiovascular and neurological disease from syphilis.\n\nIf a woman contracts an STI when she's pregnant, it can lead to stillbirth, premature birth, low birth-weight and health problems for the baby including pneumonia, blindness and congenital deformities.\n\nDr Peter Salama, of the WHO, said: \"We're seeing a concerning lack of progress in stopping the spread of sexually transmitted infections worldwide.\n\n\"This is a wake-up call for a concerted effort to ensure everyone, everywhere can access the services they need to prevent and treat these debilitating diseases.\"\n\nPractising safe sex, particularly through condom use, and better access to testing are both crucial, the WHO says.\n\nIn terms of treatment, bacterial STIs can be treated and cured with widely available medications.\n\nBut syphilis treatment has been made more difficult because of a shortage in the specific kind of penicillin needed, and there has been an increase in cases of so-called \"super-gonorrhoea\" which is almost impossible to treat.\n\nDr Tim Jinks, head of Wellcome's Drug Resistant Infection programme, said: \"Untreatable cases of gonorrhoea are harbingers of a wider crisis, where common infections are harder and harder to treat.\n\n\"We urgently need to reduce the spread of these infections and invest in new antibiotics and treatments to replace those that no longer work.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Queen and world leaders joined veterans to mark the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings.\n\nIt is known as the world's largest combined land, air and sea operation in history.\n\nLive music, readings and a fly-past formed part of the memorial event in Portsmouth.", "The BBC has confirmed details of its first TV debate between Tory hopefuls vying to be the next party leader - and the country's new PM.\n\nOur Next Prime Minister will take place on Tuesday 18 June at 20:00 BST, broadcast on BBC One.\n\nThe live debate will be hosted by BBC Newsnight presenter Emily Maitlis.\n\nAll candidates who are in the race by that date will be invited to take part and face questions from viewers across the country via local TV studios.\n\nBBC executive producer Jonathan Munro said: \"This is a programme which allows the BBC's audiences to set the agenda, and ask the questions which are at the forefront of their minds.\n\n\"It'll be broadcast at a key moment in the process of narrowing down the field of candidates in the race for Downing Street.\"\n\nThe Conservative leadership contest is already under way, despite MPs still having until the end of the week to put their names forward.\n\nAfter the full list of candidates has been confirmed on Monday, MPs will begin a series of votes, and the contender with the lowest number will be eliminated in each round.\n\nThe process will take place until only two MPs remain, and the wider party membership will then vote to decide on the winner.\n\nThe first ballot will take place on Thursday 13 June, but the second will take place on the same day of the debate, with the results expected around 18:00.\n\nThe new leader - who also becomes the new prime minister - is expected to be announced by the end of July.", "From Marilyn Monroe to Nelson Mandela, some big names have graced the tarmac of Shannon Airport over the years.\n\nAs Donald Trump makes his first visit as US president, we look back at some of the other famous faces who have visited the airport in County Clare.", "The annual parade marks the founding of the Royal Hospital by King Charles II in 1682. The Duke of Sussex said: \"To all who are on parade today, I can only say that you are a constant reminder of the great debt we owe those who have served this nation\"", "Grammy-winning American singer Dr John has died at the age of 77 after suffering a heart attack.\n\nThe New Orleans-born musician died on Thursday, according to a message posted on his official Twitter account.\n\nThe Rock and Roll Hall of Fame singer combined the genres of blues, pop, jazz, boogie woogie and rock and roll.\n\nA statement said: \"Towards the break of day June 6, iconic music legend Malcolm John Rebennack, Jr, known as Dr John, passed away of a heart attack.\"\n\nThe musician \"created a unique blend of music which carried his hometown, New Orleans, at its heart, as it was always in his heart,\" it continued.\n\n\"The family thanks all whom shared his unique musical journey & requests privacy at this time. Memorial arrangements will be announced in due course.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Dr. John This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBlondie lead singer Debbie Harry was among those to pay tribute, sharing a picture of herself alongside the six-time Grammy winner.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Debbie Harry/BLONDIE This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFormer Beatles drummer Ringo Starr also tweeted a picture, along with the message: \"God bless Dr John, peace and love to all his family. I love the doctor, peace and love.\"\n\nHis career started in the late 1950s, when he became prominent as a pianist and singer on the New Orleans music scene.\n\nBorn Malcolm John Rebennack in New Orleans, his love of music was fostered by his father, who ran an appliance store that also sold records.\n\nHis mother, meanwhile, had worked as a model, and thanks to her connections, Malcolm's face appeared on boxes of Ivory Soap.\n\nDespite being kicked out of the church choir, he pursued his love of music, attending local clubs and working at a studio in town during his teens.\n\nHis first love was the guitar, but he had to switch to piano after being shot while trying to defend a bandmate who was being pistol-whipped in 1960.\n\n\"Ronnie was just a kid and his mother had told me 'You better look out for my son,'\" he told Smithsonian.com in 2009.\n\n\"Oh God, that was all I was thinking about. I tried to stop the guy, I had my hand over the barrel and he shot.\"\n\nHe later became part of the famed \"Wrecking Crew\" - a group of LA backing musicians who played on hits by Aretha Franklin, Van Morrison, Cher Frank Zappa and countless others.\n\nThe Dr John character, modelled on a voodoo priest, was created in the late 1960s.\n\nRebennack initially wanted another singer to play the role, but when they pulled out at the last minute, \"I just did it myself out of spite,\" he said.\n\n\"I never thought I would be doing another record. I never wanted to be a frontman. All of a sudden, I got into it, and it wasn't as bad as I thought.\"\n\nBlending New Orleans jazz, blues and psychedelia, he gained recognition with the release of his album Gris-Gris in 1968; and scored a US top 10 hit in 1973 with Right Time, Wrong Place.\n\nDr John performing at the Grammy Awards in 2013\n\nHis live shows were known for their carnival atmosphere and he would wear costumes of bright colours, feathers and plumes, and scatter glitter on the audience.\n\nThe musician, who successfully battled heroin addiction, was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame by singer John Legend in 2011; and won his most recent Grammy in 2012 when Locked Down was named best blues album.\n\nThat album touched on drugs, his time in prison - he got a two-year sentence for drug charges in the mid-60s - and efforts to repair his relationship with his children.\n\nHe was married twice and told the New York Times he had \"a lot\" of children.", "On 6 June 1944, British, US and Canadian forces invaded the coast of Normandy in northern France.\n\nThe landings were the first stage of Operation Overlord - the invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe - and aimed to bring an end to World War Two.\n\nBy night-time, around 156,000 Allied troops had arrived in Normandy, despite challenging weather and fierce German defences.\n\nAt the end of D-Day, the Allies had established a foothold in France and within 11 months Nazi Germany was defeated.\n\nHere are 10 things you may not have known about the operation:\n\nAs early as 1942, the BBC launched a bogus appeal for photographs and postcards from the coast of Europe, from Norway to the Pyrenees.\n\nIt was actually a way of gathering intelligence on suitable landing beaches and Normandy was settled on.\n\nMillions of photos ended up being sent to the War Office and, with the help of the French Resistance and air reconnaissance, military bosses were able to target the best landing spots for D-Day.\n\nThe remains of the D-Day \"Mulberry\" artificial harbour at Arromanches, Normandy\n\nThe Allies put a lot of effort into trying to convince the Germans that the invasion was going to be near Calais, not Normandy.\n\nThey invented phantom field armies based in Kent as part of their D-Day deception plan, named Operation Fortitude.\n\nThey built dummy equipment - including inflatable tanks - parachuted dummies, used double agents and released controlled leaks of misinformation which led the Germans to believe the Allies were going to invade via the Pas-de-Calais and Norway.\n\nThe Germans took the bait so much that even after D-Day they held many of their best troops in the Calais area expecting a second invasion.\n\nBy 1944 more than two million troops from more than 12 countries were in Britain preparing for the invasion.\n\nOn D-Day, Allied forces consisted primarily of US, British and Canadian troops but also included Australian, Belgian, Czech, Dutch, French, Greek, New Zealand, Norwegian, Rhodesian [present-day Zimbabwe] and Polish naval, air and ground support.\n\nA French poster from WW2, the translation for which reads: All Together, for a Single Victory\n\nThe officers organising the operation were very particular about the timing of D-Day.\n\nThey wanted a full moon with a spring tide so they could land at dawn when the tide was about half way in - but those kind of conditions meant there were only a few days that could work.\n\nThey chose to invade on 5 June, but ended up delaying by 24 hours because of bad weather.\n\nIt was Group Captain James Martin Stagg who made the vital forecast and persuaded General Eisenhower to change the date.\n\nIn fact, the forecast was so bad that the German commander in Normandy, Erwin Rommel, felt so sure there wouldn't be an invasion he went home to give his wife a pair of shoes for her 50th birthday.\n\nHe was in Germany when the news came of the invasion.\n• None 4,400from the combined allied forces died on the day\n\nWhen the D-Day forces landed, Nazi leader Adolf Hitler was asleep.\n\nNone of his generals dared order reinforcements without his permission, and no-one dared wake him.\n\nCrucial hours were lost in the battle to hold Normandy.\n\nWhen Hitler did finally wake up, at around 10am, he was excited at news of the invasion - he thought Germany would easily defeat the Allies.\n\nWhile America formed the biggest national contingent, the combined force of Commonwealth service personnel - mostly British and Canadian - was greater.\n\nOf the 156,000 men who landed in France on 6 June, 73,000 were American, and 83,000 British or Canadian. The Commonwealth naval contingent was twice that of the Americans.\n\nThere were five beaches that were chosen for the operation, codenamed, from east to west, Sword, Juno, Gold, Omaha, Utah.\n\nCasualties varied widely - on \"Bloody Omaha\", where around 4,000 men were killed or wounded, one US unit landing in the first wave lost 90% of its men.\n\nOn Gold Beach, by contrast, casualty rates were around 80% lower.\n\nTroops of the US 7th Corps wading ashore on Utah Beach\n\nThe fighting during the Battle of Normandy, which followed D-Day, was as bloody as it had been in the trenches of World War One.\n\nCasualty rates were slightly higher than they were during a typical day during the Battle of the Somme in 1916.\n\nThe vibration of HMS Belfast's guns firing during D-Day was so powerful it actually cracked the crew's toilets.\n\nHaving been given his top-secret mission to attack the Merville battery on D-Day, Terence Otway had to be certain his men wouldn't spill the beans ahead of 6 June 1944.\n\nHe sent 30 of the prettiest members of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force, dressed in civilian clothes, into village pubs near where his soldiers were training.\n\nThey were asked to do all they could to discover the men's mission. None of the men gave anything away.", "Colette Marin-Catherine was a young girl when the Nazis invaded her village in Normandy, Northern France.\n\nShe joined the French Resistance when she was 14, and helped treat the wounded on D-Day. She worked as a nurse in a make-shift hospital with no medical training.\n\nShe has spoken to the BBC about her experiences on the 75th anniversary of D-Day.\n\nFilm by Jean Mackenzie, Sara Monetta and Andy Smythe for BBC Scotland's The Nine.", "Claire Kelly has carried babies for other couples three times\n\nClaire Kelly says helping other people become parents by being a surrogate has become a \"passion\" of hers.\n\nThe 39-year-old, who has two boys of her own, has carried surrogate babies three times for two other couples.\n\nShe told BBC Scotland's The Nine: \"There are so many heartbreaking stories of people who have gone through things like stillbirth, miscarriages or cancers that have left them infertile or unable to carry. I just thought 'I want to help someone'.\"\n\nMs Kelly, from Glenrothes in Fife, said she had to explain to her own sons that the other women's \"tummies were broken and they couldn't carry a baby\".\n\n\"The boys have always known they are not coming home with that baby, it's someone else's baby,\" she said.\n\nSurrogacy comes in two forms - gestational, where the surrogate mother is implanted with an egg and sperm; and traditional surrogacy, where the surrogate's own egg is used.\n\nIt is legal in the UK but experts say the laws are outdated and need to be improved.\n\nIn particular, reform bodies think the intended parents should become legal parents as soon as the child is born.\n\nCurrently it involves a lengthy court process to get the required Parental Order.\n\nMs Kelly, whose surrogate children were from the intended mother's eggs, said it often took several months for the order to be granted.\n\n\"Until that goes through I would be still responsible for that child in the eyes of the law,\" she says.\n\nMs Kelly adds: \"Watching the baby being born and watching the couple's faces when they realise they've become parents, it's magical.\n\n\"It's so rewarding to see them with their family that grew inside me. I see them as miracle babies.\"\n\nNiomi Allan was born with a condition that left her unable to carry children\n\nThat would be the case for Niomi Allan, from Wishaw in North Lanarkshire, who was diagnosed at the age of 16 with Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser (MRKH) syndrome.\n\n\"I was born without a womb,\" she says.\n\n\"I have always known that surrogacy is the only route to having our own biological children.\"\n\nNiomi, 27, says she suppressed the fact when she was a teenager but when she got married \"it really hit home\".\n\nWith her partner Sam, Niomi has now embarked on a \"rollercoaster\" journey towards surrogacy.\n\nNiomi and Sam knew surrogacy was only option for them to have a biological link to a child\n\nShe says: \"We've fortunately found a surrogate who is looking to carry for us.\n\n\"We had to go through our own IVF, which we did here in Scotland, then flew over for egg retrieval in the Czech Republic and we created embryos that are frozen over there ready for our surrogate to go over.\n\n\"We've been over for our first transfer but unfortunately it failed this time for us, so hopefully we'll go back out soon for another.\"\n\nIn the UK, the number of parental orders made following a surrogate birth has tripled from 121 in 2011 to 368 in 2018.\n\nThe true number of surrogacy arrangements may be even higher as there is no obligation to seek such an order.\n\nNiomi said: \"We have to put in a parental order to make sure it is myself and my husband who go on the birth certificate.\n\n\"Six weeks after a baby is born to six months you can apply for parental order and then it takes a wee while after that for it to be granted.\n\n\"It will be our biological child so it is important it is us on the birth certificate to begin with.\"\n\nThe Law Commission of England and Wales as well as the Scottish Law Commission are proposing to allow intended parents to become legal parents when the child is born.\n\nThis would be subject to the surrogate retaining a right to object for a short period after the birth.\n\nAnd they have called for the creation of a regulator to oversee surrogacy agreements and a national register to allow the children to access information about their origins.\n\nThe commissions also said there was a lack of clarity around surrogacy payments.\n\nThe law currently permits intended parents to pay \"reasonable expenses\" to the surrogate, however this is unclear and difficult to apply in practice.", "Madeleine McCann was three years old when she went missing in 2007\n\nThe government has said it will continue to fund the police investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann until March next year.\n\nThe three-year-old disappeared from a holiday apartment in Portugal in 2007.\n\nMore than £11m has been spent on the Met Police inquiry, known as Operation Grange, since it began in 2011.\n\nThe Home Office said a \"similar\" level of funding would be granted this year as in 2018/19, when the inquiry was given £300,000.\n\nHowever, the department said the final decision on the amount would not be made until October.\n\nDetectives have been applying to the Home Office every six months for a grant to continue their work.\n\nOperation Grange was set up after former Prime Minister David Cameron asked the force to \"bring their expertise\" to the inquiry, after the Portuguese investigation failed to make headway.\n\nFour people were identified as suspects in 2013, but no further action was taken after they were interviewed by Portuguese officers and the Met Police, who visited the holiday resort in 2014.\n\nMadeleine's parents, Gerry and Kate McCann, of Rothley, Leicestershire, have pledged never to give up the search for their daughter, who vanished from the family's holiday apartment while they were dining at a restaurant nearby.\n\nOn the 10th anniversary of Madeleine's disappearance in 2017, detectives said that a \"critical line of inquiry\" was still being pursued.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Protesters confront each other outside the Guildhall in Portsmouth\n\nProtesters opposed to US President Donald Trump's visit to the D-Day commemorations have been confronted by counter-demonstrators.\n\nAnti-Trump protesters had gathered at Guildhall Square, Portsmouth, during the official commemoration in Southsea.\n\nAbout 30 counter-protesters arrived shortly after 11:00 BST and chanted and shouted. The groups were kept apart by police.\n\nA member of the second group said it was \"the wrong day\" to protest.\n\nJane Warburton said she was appalled by an apparent Nazi salute seen during the stand-off\n\nAbout 170 people gathered at Guildhall Square for a demonstration coinciding with the official commemoration of the 75th anniversary D-Day on Southsea Common attended by the Queen, Prime Minister Theresa May, as well as President Trump and other world leaders\n\nCounter-protesters later arrived chanting \"shame on you\" and \"scum\", and one appeared to give a Nazi salute.\n\nAnti-trump protester Jane Warburton, from Portsmouth, said: \"It's abhorrent, have they not read what the whole day is about - it's about celebrating the defeat of the Nazis, and they are doing Nazi salutes, it just shows their level of intelligence.\"\n\nProtesters gathered at Portsmouth's Guildhall Square to oppose the US president's visit to the city\n\nIn a moment the peaceful protest was transformed by a group of men storming the event shouting \"shame on you\" and \"scum\".\n\nIn return, protesters could be heard chanting: \"Nazi scum, off our streets.\"\n\nIt's not clear whether the group of men, some wearing American flags, were Trump supporters or angry at the protest being held at the same time as the D-Day commemorations.\n\nSome men looked ready to start a confrontation, but police were quick to intervene.\n\nSimon Magorian, from Portsmouth Stand Up To Racism, described the initial demonstration as the \"people's D-Day, where people are fighting racism\".\n\nOne of the counter-protesters, Steve Cross from Portsmouth, said: \"These guys protesting today, it's just the wrong day. Today is about remembering and paying respects.\n\n\"Donald Trump is a head of state and he has been invited for that reason . We're not pro-Trump.\n\n\"If you want to protest him then fine, but not today. They are being totally disrespectful to the D-Day anniversary. They chose the wrong day and the wrong city.\"\n\nCampaigners targeted bus stops in Portsmouth ahead of the US president's visit\n\nA police spokesman said: \"Hampshire Constabulary will always seek to facilitate the right to peaceful protest, balancing the rights of all and disruption to local communities.\"\n\nNo arrests have been made.\n\nThe anti-Trump protesters later gathered at the city's war memorial, where a wreath was laid and a minute's silence was held.\n\nEarlier a campaign group which \"hacks\" advertising boards plastered images of the Trump baby balloon, which flew over Parliament Square on Tuesday, to bus shelters in the city.\n\nSix of the posters were removed by Clear Channel UK, which runs the signs.", "Dennis Hutchings has denied charges of attempted murder and attempting to cause grievous bodily harm\n\nFormer soldier Dennis Hutchings' appeal to the Supreme Court against a decision to try him in a Diplock Court has been dismissed.\n\nIt was unanimously dismissed in the Supreme Court in London on Thursday.\n\nMr Hutchings is due to be tried for attempted murder in connection with a fatal shooting in Northern Ireland in 1974.\n\nA Diplock Court is a non-jury trial heard by a judge only.\n\nMr Hutchings, 77, from Cawsand, Cornwall, has denied charges of attempted murder and attempting to cause grievous bodily harm.\n\nJohn Pat Cunningham, 27, who had learning difficulties, was shot in the back as he ran away from an Army patrol near Benburb, County Tyrone, in 1974.\n\nMr Hutchings has made the case it was never his intention to kill or injure Mr Cunningham, but that he was firing warning shots to get him to stop.\n\nHe began his appeal in March.\n\nLord Kerr, who delivered the judgement on Thursday, said that trial by jury should not be assumed to be the unique means of achieving fairness in the criminal justice process.\n\nJohn Pat Cunningham was 27 at the time of his death but had a mental age of between six and 10\n\nThe non-jury system was named after Lord Diplock, a former senior judge and Law Lord.\n\nDuring the height of the Troubles, he chaired a commission that examined proposed changes in the administration of justice in an attempt to deal with terrorist offences.\n\nThe commission published its report in December 1972 and non-jury courts were introduced the following year.\n\nThe introduction of Diplock courts was opposed by civil liberty organisations and both nationalists and republicans.\n\nAt their peak, more than 300 trials per year were held without a jury.\n\nThe government technically abolished the old Diplock courts in 2007.\n\nHowever, the government gave the director of public prosecutions temporary power to decide that exceptional cases should be tried without a jury if he believed there was still a risk of jurors being intimidated.\n\nLast month, Defence Secretary Penny Mordaunt said British troops and veterans would be given stronger legal protections against prosecution.\n\nThe proposed law would protect them from investigation over actions on the battlefield abroad after 10 years, except in \"exceptional circumstances\".\n\nMs Mordaunt said it would prevent \"repeated or unfair investigations\".\n\nHowever, the protections, which will be put to a public consultation, would not apply to alleged offences in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe defence secretary said she wanted the protection to be extended to troops who had served in Northern Ireland but warned the issue was \"not going to be resolved over night\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA former nurse has been convicted of murdering 85 patients at two hospitals in northern Germany and handed a life sentence.\n\nHögel, who is already serving life for two murders, administered lethal doses of heart medication to people in his care between 1999 and 2005.\n\nHe is believed to be the most prolific killer in Germany's modern history.\n\nProsecutors said he attacked patients in order to impress colleagues by subsequently trying to revive them.\n\nA former colleague told the German newspaper Bild that Högel was nicknamed \"Resuscitation Rambo\" because of the way he \"pushed everyone else aside\" when patients needed to be resuscitated.\n\nOn the last day of his trial, Högel, 42, asked the families of his victims for forgiveness for his \"horrible acts\".\n\n\"I would like to sincerely apologise for everything I did to you over the course of years,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Christian Marbach tells the BBC it is hard to accept his grandfather's murder\n\nHögel had been accused of murdering 100 patients in the northern cities of Delmenhorst and Oldenburg. Police believe he may have killed far more but the cremation of bodies had destroyed any possible evidence.\n\nHögel had confessed to 55 murders and the court in Oldenburg convicted him of 85, German media reported.\n\nDelivering sentence, Judge Buehrmann expressed regret that the court had not been able to \"lift the fog\" for many grieving relatives.\n\nThe BBC's Jenny Hill in Berlin says the case has shocked Germany - not least because senior staff at the two hospitals are accused of having turned a blind eye to unusually high mortality rates.\n\nHögel's killing spree was stopped when he was caught in the act of administering unprescribed medication to a patient in 2005 in Delmenhorst. He was sentenced to seven years for attempted murder in 2008, but the families of his other suspected victims pressed for a further investigation.\n\nAt a second trial that ended in 2015 he was jailed for life for two murders and two attempted murders.\n\nHowever, during that trial he confessed to a psychiatrist that he had killed up to 30 people.\n\nInvestigators then widened the investigation, exhuming 130 former patients and looking for evidence of medication that could have triggered cardiac arrest. They also pored over records in the hospitals he worked at.\n\nRecords at the Oldenburg hospital showed rates of deaths and resuscitations had more than doubled when Högel was on shift, German media said.", "Dee-Day White said his name stopped him buying drinks when he was under-age\n\nA man who was born on 6 June 1944 was given the name Dee-Day after his father visited several pubs on the way to registering his birth.\n\nDee-Day White, from Hastings in East Sussex, says his father Bert repeatedly heard about \"D-Day\" on the wireless and it stuck in his mind.\n\nMr White, 75, is now very proud of his unusual name, although it caused problems when he was younger.\n\nHe said he \"hated it\" as a child but \"now I wear my name with pride\".\n\nMr White added: \"If I ever went into a pub to have a drink and when people asked me my name if I told them the truth they would know I was under-age.\n\n\"If I was to talk to an older girl, I'd say I was 17, they'd say 'you're not, you're only 15 years old'.\"\n\nAll his father reported hearing on the wireless the morning he was born was about the D-Day landings.\n\n\"He said to me all he could hear was 'D-Day, D-Day, D-Day being drummed into my head'.\"\n\nDee-Day White's name appears without a hyphen on his passport\n\nMr White said initially the registrar refused to accept the name, saying the operation was top secret.\n\nHis father returned the next day with a copy of the Daily Mirror reporting the news of the D-Day landings on the French coast.\n\nMr White has even given his son the same name.\n\nHe said: \"It's been no problem to me and when my son was born 53 years ago I called him Dee-Day.\n\n\"When you say your name everyone asks 'how did you get a name like that?'.\n\n\"When you explain it they say 'that's really lovely, ain't it?'.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLabour has narrowly seen off a Brexit Party challenge to hold on to its Peterborough seat in a by-election.\n\nUnion activist Lisa Forbes retained the constituency for Labour, taking 31% of the vote and beating the Brexit Party's Mike Greene (29%) by 683 votes.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn called it an \"incredible\" win for the \"politics of hope over the politics of fear\".\n\nBut Nigel Farage, who founded the Brexit Party less than two months ago, called its showing \"very significant\".\n\nThe Conservatives came third with 21%, while the Liberal Democrats were fourth with 12%, followed by the Green Party on 3%.\n\nThe Peterborough by-election was called after Fiona Onasanya - who won for Labour in 2017 but was convicted of lying over a speeding offence and thrown out of the party - became the first MP to be ousted under recall rules.\n\nIn her victory speech, Ms Forbes said, to cheers from her supporters, that \"the politics of hope can win regardless of the odds\".\n\n\"Despite the differing opinions across our city, the fact that the Brexit Party have been rejected here in Peterborough shows that the politics of division will not win,\" she said.\n\nThe Brexit Party had been the bookmakers' favourite to take the Cambridgeshire seat - which would have been its first at Westminster - following its success in the recent European elections.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Labour leader challenged the next Tory leader to call an immediate general election\n\nJoining Labour's victory celebrations on a visit to the city, Mr Corbyn said: \"All the experts wrote Lisa Forbes off. All the experts wrote Labour off. Write Labour off at your peril.\"\n\nThe Labour leader said the party had triumphed due to its anti-austerity message and its opposition to a \"cliff-edge\" no-deal Brexit that would threaten jobs and investment.\n\nHe challenged whoever succeeds Theresa May as Conservative leader to call an immediate general election.\n\nDespite the Brexit Party's failure to take the seat, leader Mr Farage said he was \"pretty buoyed\", as it had \"come from nowhere and produced a massive result\".\n\nHe rejected claims that its focus on a single issue limited its appeal, telling BBC Radio 4's Today programme we have a \"very strong, simple message that people believe in\".\n\nMr Farage later handed in a letter to Downing Street calling for his party's MEPs to be included in the UK's Brexit negotiating team.\n\nHe told reporters he believed the NHS should be included in future US trade negotiations despite the political outcry when Donald Trump raised the possibility earlier this week - comments which the US president subsequently appeared to row back on.\n\nThe Brexit Party has made a huge impression - but history is written by the winners.\n\nHad Nigel Farage's party actually won this narrowly, he would have had much more momentum to argue not just to get Brexit done by the end of October, but to have huge influence potentially over how the Conservatives choose their leader.\n\nHad Labour lost narrowly, there would have been a big demand from the rank and file for Jeremy Corbyn to sharpen his Brexit act and to call for a referendum under all circumstances. That has not happened either.\n\nThe conclusion that the Labour leadership is drawing from this is that people actually wanted to talk about things other than Brexit.\n\nBy talking about council cuts, crime, and education, they managed not to fight on the same territory as their opponents and were able to carve out their own distinctive message, get out their core vote and sneak over the line.\n\nConservative leadership candidate Boris Johnson tweeted his \"commiserations\" to Tory candidate Paul Bristow, who, he said, \"did not deserve to come third\", while fellow contenders Dominic Raab, Matt Hancock and Jeremy Hunt said the result showed the threat from Labour.\n\nConservative Party chairman Brandon Lewis said the \"clear message\" from its poor performance in Peterborough as well as in recent council and European elections was the public wanted the government to deliver on the Brexit referendum result.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPolling expert Professor Sir John Curtice said the Peterborough by-election had not been as \"dramatic\" as the UK-wide European elections last month, in which the Brexit Party and Liberal Democrats came first and second.\n\nBut he added that the combined results had been \"enough to disturb the regular rhythms of two-party politics\".\n\nMs Forbes caused controversy during the campaign when she liked a social media post which said Theresa May had a \"Zionist slave masters agenda\".\n\nLabour said she had liked a video expressing solidarity with the victims of March's terror attacks on mosques in the New Zealand city of Christchurch \"without reading the accompanying text, which Facebook users know is an easy thing to do\".\n\n\"She has fully accounted for this genuine mistake and apologised,\" a party source said.\n\nBut the Jewish Labour Movement called for Ms Forbes to have the Labour whip suspended, meaning she would have to sit in the Commons as an independent MP.\n\nMeanwhile, Labour Against Antisemitism asked for her to be suspended from the party, calling her election a \"dark day\" for Labour.\n• None By-election 'not just about Brexit'", "Dylan Tiffin-Brown had five different types of drugs in his body when he died\n\nA toddler murdered by his father was deemed by carers as \"unlikely to suffer harm\", while concerns about the welfare of another child who was later killed were dismissed, reviews have found.\n\nDylan Tiffin-Brown, two, and Evelyn-Rose Muggleton, one, were victims of separate murders in Northamptonshire.\n\nRaphael Kennedy, Dylan's father, and Ryan Coleman, partner of Evelyn-Rose's mother, were both jailed for life.\n\nEx-MP Sally Keeble said there were \"massive failings\" in child services.\n\nMs Keeble, former Labour MP for Northampton North, has called on the Conservative leader of the county council Matt Golby, who was responsible for children's services at the time, to resign.\n\nThis has been backed by Andrew Gwynne MP, Labour's Shadow Communities and Local Government Secretary.\n\nKeith Makin, chairman of Northamptonshire Safeguarding Children Board (NSCB), said the reviews raised \"genuine concerns\" about safeguarding children in the county.\n\nDirector of children's services Sally Hodges said disciplinary action had been taken against social workers as a result of their actions in these cases.\n\nShe also said some have left the authority but refused to say whether they had been sacked.\n\nKennedy, 31, was jailed for at least 24 years for killing Dylan in a \"savage and sustained attack\" at his flat in Northampton in October 2018.\n\nHe waited more than an hour to dial 999 after inflicting 39 injuries on Dylan.\n\nThe NSCB report found agencies \"failed to fully appreciate the significance of [Kennedy's] chronic history of domestic abuse and extensive history with the police for drug-related offences\".\n\nA \"multi-agency\" meeting did not deem Dylan as \"suffering or likely to suffer significant harm\".\n\nA social worker was allocated to the family two months before Dylan was murdered, but no observations on Dylan's welfare had been recorded until two days before his death.\n\nThe NSCB said this and the \"well-documented issues\" within Northamptonshire's children's services, including high turnover of staff and significant levels of sick leave, contributed to \"lost opportunities\" to protect the toddler.\n\nEvelyn-Rose Muggleton was described as a happy baby who was always smiling\n\nEvelyn-Rose Muggleton was found with multiple bruising, bleeding injuries on her brain and spine, and 31 external injuries including damage to both eyes, at a house in Kettering in April 2018.\n\nShe died days later and Coleman, 23, was jailed for a minimum of 17 years.\n\nThe NSCB report said Coleman had a known, \"significant\" criminal history, including violence and drug-dealing, when he moved into the family home.\n\nThe school attended by Evelyn-Rose's siblings had concerns for the children's welfare, but these were not passed on to social workers.\n\nThe NSCB report revealed there were health concerns about the family, but social workers believed the mother was \"parenting well\".\n\nThe case had begun to \"drift, with little if any attention being paid to the children's welfare\", and when a new social worker was brought in they immediately closed the case down.\n\nIn both murder cases, the reviews recommended an improvement in information sharing between agencies.\n\nThe NSCB also said police warnings about risks posed by an adult's behaviour towards a child \"should be taken more seriously\".\n\nMr Makin said: \"This was a very challenging review, but it has identified several areas of weakness among the agencies involved.\n\n\"Ultimately, it seems unlikely that anything could have been done to prevent the single, catastrophic incidents which led to these [murders], but every effort is now going in to preventing a repeat of these tragic cases.\n\n\"Individual social workers now have a manageable caseloads [and] there is a change in the way social workers are managed; they are much more closely supervised and helped more.\n\n\"Children's services are still in a fragile position but we are recruiting more staff.\"\n\nHowever, Ms Keeble said there needed to be \"a complete culture change\" in the county council, to \"end to the lack of internal scrutiny\".\n\nLast year the government took over the children's services department of cash-strapped Northamptonshire County Council - labelled England's \"worst-run\" council - after a report found people in its care were at \"potential risk\".\n\nMr Golby, who has resisted calls to step down, said he stood by the department and had \"acted in the most diligent way\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Tory leadership contender Matt Hancock has described Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn as an anti-Semite during an election hustings in Parliament.\n\nIf Mr Corbyn became PM, the UK \"could end up with the first anti-Semitic leader of a Western nation since the Second World War\", Mr Hancock said.\n\nA number of Labour MPs have left the party in protest at what they say is its tolerance of anti-Semitism.\n\nThe Labour party has been plagued by accusations of anti-Semitism since mid-2016, with its leadership accused of tolerating a culture of anti-Jewish prejudice.\n\nMr Corbyn has insisted he is getting to grips with the issue and has beefed-up the party's internal disciplinary procedures.\n\nMr Hancock made the remarks at an event held by the One Nation group of Conservative MPs.\n\nResponding to his comments, a Labour source said they \"ring hollow from a minister in a party that has supported governments that actively promote anti-Semitic policies in Hungary and Poland and has spent the week wooing Trump, the man who refused to condemn neo-fascists in Charlottesville who chanted 'Jews will not replace us'\".\n\n\"Numerous candidates in the Conservative leadership contest have been accused of racism, Islamophobia, homophobia and misogyny, one of whom may be the next prime minister\", the source added.\n\nShadow chancellor John McDonnell said the comments were a \"disgrace\".\n\nMr Hancock is not the first Tory leadership contender to highlight the issue, Dominic Raab recently saying that anti-Semitism in Labour was a \"stain on our country\".", "Women academics do not rise through the ranks as fast as men with the same credentials and personal circumstances, research indicates.\n\nThe study, of 2,270 academics at 24 top UK universities, found the men reached more senior levels than the women, even after parenthood was accounted for.\n\nThe Cardiff University researchers said one explanation for this may be discrimination against women.\n\nA universities spokesman acknowledged they were affected by \"the gender gap\".\n\nThe Cardiff researchers selected 2,270 academics in a number of random subject areas in the 24 Russell Group research-led universities, often seen as the most prestigious institutions in the UK.\n\nThey sorted these into five different grades based on the academics' job titles and then controlled for different personal factors such as:\n\nThe study, by Dr Georgina Santos, called Gender and Academic Rank in the UK, found a negative link between being a woman and the likelihood of being employed at senior level.\n\nEven when their age, qualifications and the amount of research they had published was taken into account, women were less likely to have a senior role.\n\nThey were also more likely to spend more time teaching, which in research-led universities may not carry the same prestige.\n\nThe study, published in online journal Sustainability, said: \"Put simply, two people who have similar or even identical credentials and personal circumstances except for one being a man and the other being a women are likely to have different academic ranks, with the man having a higher rank than the woman.\n\n\"One explanation for this phenomenon may be discrimination against women.\"\n\nJess Cole, director of policy at the Russell Group, said: \"This important work from Cardiff University reminds us that academia continues to suffer the gender gap we see in many professions and organisations.\n\n\"Russell Group universities take this issue very seriously and the researchers point to the policies that are in place to help staff balance work and home, such as flexible working and subsidised childcare, which run alongside initiatives to support women's career progression, including mentoring and leadership schemes.\n\n\"Our members continue to develop these practices and programmes around the needs of their staff.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Young people in Birmingham spoke to the BBC about their future plans\n\nRising rents mean young people are less likely to move to UK cities where average salaries are higher, a report indicates.\n\nThe number of young people in private rented accommodation who moved for a new job has almost halved in 20 years.\n\nDespite the higher wages available, financial incentives for moving are lower, say researchers.\n\n\"Pay gains are being swallowed up by high housing costs,\" said Lindsay Judge of the Resolution Foundation.\n\n\"For young people in particular, there are real advantages to moving when it comes to trying new roles and developing skills - and housing should not be a barrier that prevents them doing this.\"\n\nAlthough unemployment has fallen, the Resolution Foundation found that rents had climbed the fastest in higher-paying areas of the UK.\n\nPrivate rents have risen by almost 90% in the UK's highest-paying local authority areas, while rents have increased by just over 70% among the lowest-paying local authority areas.\n\nIn 1997, after housing costs were deducted from salaries, private renters moving from a low-paying area such as East Devon to a mid-paying area such as Bristol would have received an average financial gain of about 16%.\n\nToday, the financial gain would be a mere 1%.\n\nOf course, millennials and the so-called \"Generation Z\" have other reasons for not moving apart from money.\n\nSome people prefer to live near to their parents and friends, while others might find it harder to relocate because of their children.\n\nPaul Walker, 26, is an archaeologist living in Nottingham.\n\n\"Wages are no longer reflecting the true cost of living, even with the salary being scaled up for London,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"There is no way I can pursue my profession anywhere but up North, if I also want to have any savings or a life outside of my job.\"\n\nMr Walker said that although commercial archaeological contractors across the UK offered more attractive salaries than academic institutions and private foundations, the salaries were not enticing enough to make him want to move down South.\n\n\"I'd be essentially taking home less money every month, meaning there is zero chance of me ever becoming a home owner,\" he added.\n\nWhere can you afford to live? Try our housing calculator to see where you could rent or buy This interactive content requires an internet connection and a modern browser. Do you want to buy or rent? Use the buttons to increase or decrease the number of bedrooms: minimum one, maximum four. Alternatively, enter a number into the text input How much is your deposit? Enter your deposit below or adjust the deposit amount using the slider Return to 'How much is your deposit?' This calculator assumes you need a deposit of at least 5% of the value of the property to get a mortgage. The average deposit for UK first-time buyers is . How much can you pay monthly? Enter your monthly payment below or adjust the payment amount using the slider Return to 'How much can you pay monthly?' Your monthly payments are what you can afford to pay each month. Think about your monthly income and take off bills, council tax and living expenses. The average rent figure is for England and Wales. Amount of the that has housing you can Explore the map in detail below Search the UK for more details about a local area What does affordable mean? You have a big enough deposit and your monthly payments are high enough. The prices are based on the local market. If there are 100 properties of the right size in an area and they are placed in price order with the cheapest first, the “low-end” of the market will be the 25th property, \"mid-priced\" is the 50th and \"high-end” will be the 75th.\n\nAre you a young person who has been put off moving to a city for higher-paid work because of high rents? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:\n• None Where can I afford to live?", "The ultimate limit of human endurance has been worked out by scientists analysing a 3,000 mile run, the Tour de France and other elite events.\n\nThey showed the cap was 2.5 times the body's resting metabolic rate, or 4,000 calories a day for an average person.\n\nAnything higher than that was not sustainable in the long term.\n\nThe research, by Duke University, also showed pregnant women were endurance specialists, living at nearly the limit of what the human body can cope with.\n\nThe study started with the Race Across the USA in which athletes ran 3,080 miles from California to Washington DC in 140 days.\n\nCompetitors were running six marathons a week for months, and scientists were investigating the effect on their bodies.\n\nA Race Across the USA runner has his resting energy expenditure measured\n\nResting metabolic rate - the calories the body burns through when it is relaxing - was recorded before and during the race.\n\nAnd calories burned in the extreme endurance event were recorded.\n\nThe study, in Science Advances, showed energy use started off high but eventually levelled off at 2.5 times the resting metabolic rate.\n\nThe study found a pattern between the length of a sporting event and energy expenditure - the longer the event, the harder it is to burn through the calories.\n\nSo people can go far beyond their base metabolic rate while doing a short bout of exercise, it becomes unsustainable in the long term.\n\nThe study also shows that while running a marathon may be beyond many, it is nowhere near the limit of human endurance.\n\n\"You can do really intense stuff for a couple of days, but if you want to last longer then you have to dial it back,\" Dr Herman Pontzer, from Duke University, told BBC News.\n\nHe added: \"Every data point, for every event, is all mapped onto this beautifully crisp barrier of human endurance.\n\n\"Nobody we know of has ever pushed through it.\"\n\nDuring pregnancy, women's energy use peaks at 2.2 times their resting metabolic rate, the study showed.\n\nRunners on the 3,080 mile Race Across the USA in 2015.\n\nThe researchers argue the 2.5 figure may be down to the human digestive system, rather than anything to do with the heart, lungs or muscles.\n\nThey found the body cannot digest, absorb and process enough calories and nutrients to sustain a higher level of energy use.\n\nThe body can use up its own resources burning through fat or muscle mass - which can be recovered afterwards - in shorter events.\n\nBut in extreme events - at the limits of human exhaustion - the body has to balance its energy use, the researchers argue.\n\nDr Pontzer said the findings could eventually help athletes.\n\n\"In the Tour de France, knowing where your ceiling is allows you to pace yourself smartly.\n\n\"Secondly, we're talking about endurance over days and weeks and months, so it is most applicable to training regimens and thinking whether they fit with the long-term metabolic limits of the body.\"", "On June 6 1944, Gold Beach proved to be the most difficult landing ground for British troops on D-Day with up to 1,100 allied casualties.\n\nSoldiers from the Hampshire, Dorsetshire and Devonshire regiments were given the job of taking the defences near the beach.\n\nA new book has pieced together what happened to some of the individual soldiers in the first 24-hours after the D-Day landings.\n\nIt includes the story of a young private, Terry Parker, who kept an illegal diary detailing his involvement in the fighting.", "Jack Letts was dubbed \"Jihadi Jack\" after he travelled to Syria in 2014\n\nThe mother of a Muslim convert dubbed \"Jihadi Jack\" told a court she tried to send her son £1,000 because she feared he was in great danger.\n\nSally Lane, 56, and her husband are accused of sending or trying to send their son money despite having reason to believe he had joined Islamic State.\n\nJack Letts left home in Oxford and travelled to Syria in 2014.\n\nMrs Lane and John Letts, 58, deny three charges of funding terrorism.\n\nThe Old Bailey heard Mrs Lane received several messages from her son, who converted to Islam aged 16, saying he wanted to leave Syria and asking for money.\n\nSally Lane and John Letts are accused of helping their son despite having reason to believe he had joined IS\n\nOn New Year's Eve 2015 she attempted to transfer £1,000 to him via Lebanon. She told the court she thought the money was going to help get him out of danger.\n\nFive days later, she was arrested.\n\nShe told jurors people put \"two and two together\" and made assumptions about her son's ideology.\n\nShe said: \"A white boy of Jack's age going to Syria, they assume that.\n\n\"They would not have thought he may have been a young person who is naive and wants to see what is going on for himself, wants to seek the truth in his religion.\"\n\nShe said while she had a duty to report her son if he posed a \"danger\" to society, she did not think that he did.\n\nProsecutor Alison Morgan QC brought up a Facebook post purportedly posted by Jack where he talked about wanting to decapitate an old school friend.\n\nMrs Lane said she could not be sure the message was from her son.\n\nShe added: \"I think there was probably a lot of people using each other's accounts and there was probably an exchange of information between them.\n\n\"I think they are things that Jack would not say. Jack has never said anything violent before.\"\n\nMs Morgan pointed out another message in which Jack said police would \"die in your rage soon\" for raiding the family home, and said the author even knew the name of the family cat.\n\n\"This is ridiculous, you knew perfectly well this was Jack,\" the prosecutor said.\n\nMrs Lane replied: \"I had to consider the possibility it could be him but I had to consider the possibility it was not him.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Kenneth Noye fled to Spain after he murdered Stephen Cameron in 1996\n\nM25 road-rage killer Kenneth Noye has been released from prison.\n\nNoye, 71, stabbed 21-year-old Stephen Cameron to death in an attack at the Swanley interchange of the M25 in Kent in 1996.\n\nHe later claimed he killed Mr Cameron in self-defence during a road-rage fight. He was sentenced to life with a minimum term of 16 years in 2000.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice said it understands Noye's release will be \"distressing\" for Mr Cameron's family.\n\nIt follows a decision by the Parole Board last month, which said Noye no longer poses a risk to the public.\n\nThe BBC's Danny Shaw said Noye was \"freed on licence this morning\" and it is thought he may go to his home address rather than an approved premises, known as a bail hostel or probation hostel.\n\nStephen Cameron was 21 when he was stabbed to death by Noye\n\nMr Cameron's father Ken told the BBC last month that he was \"gutted\" about the decision to release Noye.\n\nThe electrician was stabbed in front of his fiancee Danielle Cable, who was given a new identity and has been living under a witness protection scheme ever since.\n\nNoye went on the run after the killing, and was tracked down in Spain in 1998 and extradited back to the UK.\n\nThe MoJ said: \"Like all life sentence prisoners released by the independent Parole Board, Kenneth Noye will be on licence for the remainder of his life, subject to strict conditions and faces a return to prison should he fail to comply.\"\n\nNoye had been eligible to be considered for release since 21 April 2015 and his case was considered three times by the Parole Board.\n\nThe Parole Board said Noye \"had demonstrated an ability to deal appropriately with potentially violent situations in prison and was clearly well motivated to avoid further offending in the community\".\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Oxford University's latest admissions figures show the highest ever proportion of places for ethnic minority students - at 18%.\n\nThere were also rising numbers of state school pupils, up to about 61%.\n\nBut the figures, for undergraduate entry in autumn 2018, showed more places taken by students from Singapore than from the north-east of England.\n\nVice-chancellor Louise Richardson said a \"sea change\" in admissions would \"accelerate the pace of change\".\n\nLast month, Oxford University announced a target for a quarter of its UK students to come from disadvantaged backgrounds by 2023.\n\nThe university's push for a more diverse intake followed accusations that it was socially exclusive.\n\nThis detailed breakdown on admissions also highlights different trends below the headline figures - such as Asian students being much more likely to get places than other minorities.\n\nThe admissions statistics show a widening of access, but also an intensification of competition.\n\nApplications have increased significantly, up by almost a quarter in four years, with 21,000 applications for about 3,300 places.\n\nThere is rising competition at home and abroad and the proportion of places going to UK students has continued to slip downwards - about 78% this year, compared with 82% four years previously.\n\nThe BBC showed earlier this year that UK student numbers at Oxford and Cambridge had fallen by more than a thousand compared with a decade ago.\n\nAmong students from overseas, China and Singapore have the biggest number of places.\n\nThe 320 students from China and 206 from Singapore compare with the 159 places for students from the north-east of England and 217 from Wales, in three-year figures for 2016 to 2018.\n\nThere were more than 3,800 places for students from London and the south-east of England, across these years - which were also the places with the highest concentrations of students with top grades.\n\nA university spokesman said: \"Every student at Oxford is chosen based on academic ability and potential alone\" and that higher fees for overseas students were not a factor.\n\nThe proportion of state school pupils getting places is at its highest in records going back about 40 years.\n\nAmong UK entrants, it has gone up from 56.3% to 60.5% over the past four years - and this translates to about 80 more places for state-educated pupils and about 120 fewer places for privately educated ones.\n\nAbout 18% of students taking A-levels are in private schools, so they remain significantly over-represented.\n\nThere are big differences by subject. Among those studying maths, 73% are from state schools, but for classics it is only 29%.\n\nThis year's intake saw 18.3% of places taken by ethnic minority students - the highest proportion on record.\n\nApplications from ethnic minority students have been increasing rapidly - up by almost half in four years.\n\nThe university highlights the rise in applications and admissions for Asian students. Among the UK intake, 8.3% are from an Asian background, compared with 2.6% for black African and Caribbean students.\n\nLouise Richardson says the number of students from deprived backgrounds is increasing\n\nDespite the numbers of black students rising, it means that over three years there was only one UK black student admitted for geography, two for physics and none for biological sciences.\n\nIn 12 of Oxford's colleges, fewer than five black students had been recruited over three years. No college had recruited fewer than 12 Asian students or 120 white students across this time.\n\nThe proportion of deprived pupils has moved upwards, with 11.3% of places going to students classified as facing socio-economic disadvantage.\n\nProf Richardson, the university's vice-chancellor, said the intake still \"reflects the deep inequalities in our society along socio-economic, regional and ethnic lines\".\n\nBut she said \"even the most cynical observer\" would have to recognise that progress was being made.\n\n\"The numbers are low, the pace is slow, but the trajectory is clear - the number of students admitted to Oxford from deprived backgrounds is steadily increasing,\" said Prof Richardson.", "The 75th anniversary of D-Day, when British, American and Canadian forces landed in France to drive out the occupying German army, will be a special one for a dwindling group of people - those who were there at the time. The BBC's Emma Jane Kirby met a US veteran and two French civilians.\n\nWhat 96-year-old Jake Larson remembers most about D-Day is the feeling of exhaustion. Well, the exhaustion and his first taste of champagne.\n\n\"Let me tell you the story!\" he says from his home in California as we chat on the phone. \"You'll love this story!\"\n\nSeventy-five years on and Jake's vintage tales of war are still as effervescent and sparkling as the bubbly he used to knock back in Normandy. For 65, perhaps for 70 years, he refused to speak about his experiences on the French coast - when he left the US Army in 1945, he was demobbed with \"the shakes\", he says. But when he did allow the cork to pop, suppressed memories frothed and spilled over in Technicolor.\n\nJake had joined the National Guard in Minnesota aged 15. He'd lied about his age in the hope he'd get paid there and then - he'd only signed up because he'd wanted 10 cents for a cinema ticket to watch the latest Gene Autry film with his cousin. But national guardsmen were among the first to be conscripted into the US Army, and by 1944 Jake was a sergeant. When someone found out he could type, he was quickly shipped to the US Army's HQ in England to become a clerk, typing up the loading orders for the Normandy invasion plans of the US V Corps.\n\n\"Man, I was so tired!\" he remembers. \"No-one had slept on the 4th or 5th [of June] and the seas were so rough we were turning and turning and everyone was sick. But on 6 June, maybe around 06:30, it was time to go in and here we were landing at Omaha beach with the water up to our necks and machine-gun fire on all sides. It was a shooting gallery.\"\n\nThe sea, he says, was red with the blood of soldiers who had stepped on mines and he recalls having to push floating bodies out of his path to shore. After scrambling up the beach, he hid trembling behind a small sandbank and trying to calm his nerves with a cigarette, he asked the soldier crouched behind him for a match. When the man didn't reply, Jake nudged him and saw there was no head under the helmet.\n\nTime just evaporated that day, Jake reflects. He remembers setting up a command post by the cliffs, digging himself a foxhole to sleep in and by seven o'clock that night he was dropping with fatigue. That's when he was told by his commanding officer that he was to be in charge of the night shift.\n\nThe next morning - Jake's longed-for bedtime - the guns roared again and more tanks rolled up the beach.\n\n\"I couldn't sleep with that noise!\" he protests. \"I just couldn't sleep and man, I really needed to rest!\"\n\nIt was the locals who helped Jake out. As he stumbled away from the beach towards the village, French civilians rushed out to greet the liberators, hugging the soldiers and plying them with Normandy cheeses and other local fare.\n\n\"There was Camembert!\" delights Jake. \"Am I even pronouncing that right? It was delicious, that Camembert cheese, but I didn't know how you ate that thing - I was just a farm boy from Minnesota! Then they gave us champagne! Wow! Man! Did you ever drink champagne?\"\n\n\"I used to drink a whole bottle of that champagne every morning! We were out in the open and they (the Germans) were shooting at us and we were shooting back - and the noise! And I needed to sleep! Well that champagne was quite a thing - you drink a bottle of that and you could fall asleep! It was amazing stuff!\"\n\nAt her home in Angers, 90-year-old Thérèse le Chevalier claps her hands together in delight when I tell her about Jake and his champagne cure for insomnia.\n\nBack in June 1944, Therese was a 15-year-old boarding school pupil, but when a cousin working for the Resistance hinted to her mother that something significant was about to happen on the Normandy coast, Thérèse's mother ordered her home to Bernières-sur-Mer, the stretch of coastline known to the Allies as Juno Beach.\n\nAs Jake Larson would have been clutching his stomach and vomiting in the rolling transport ship as he waited to land at Omaha Beach, Therese was hunkered down with her parents and little sister in a trench at the back of her yard, waiting for the ground to stop trembling with the bombing and gunfire. And as soon as it did, they went into the street.\n\n\"The joy! The amazing feeling when we saw all those soldiers!\" she exclaims. \"The first were Canadians and some had their faces blacked up to avoid being spotted. And there were all kinds of weapons coming by, tanks and jeeps!\"\n\nLater, while her parents were busy, she and her little sister sneaked away to look at the sea and were startled to find it packed with boats sporting silver anti-aircraft kite balloons.\n\n\"It's strange,\" she reflects. \"But I don't remember seeing corpses or anyone injured on the beach. My 15-year-old self did not understand death, did not believe in death, so maybe I just blocked it out.\"\n\nShe does remember being chased away by soldiers who warned her that the beach was dangerous and there were things going on there which were not fit for a child to see.\n\nBut for the most part, Thérèse sparkles as she speaks of her memories of D-Day and her joy is absolutely infectious.\n\n\"Everyone was in the street,\" she tells me. \"They were so happy because first of all we were liberated, we felt free, but really because we were alive! That whole day was a wonderful feeling of life.\"\n\nTherese's mother opened up her house to the soldiers to welcome them and to try to warm them up.\n\n\"Of course, we pitied those poor things,\" Thérèse says, her hands cupping her face. \"Because they were all wet from walking in the sea - oh, we felt so sorry for them! My mother boiled water all day for their tea and we made them coffee.\" She shakes her finger, correcting herself. \"Well we didn't have coffee by then, of course, I think it was barley we gave them.\"\n\nThérèse shows me a photograph of herself taken around the time of the D-Day landings and I look at an image of a beautiful, confident young woman with masses of thick, dark hair piled high on top of her head.\n\n\"Oh yes!\" she laughs coquettishly. \"My hair was my pride, my crowning glory!\"\n\nThe soldiers were clearly enchanted by this pretty 15-year-old and gave her sweets and biscuits from their rations. But the gift she remembers most clearly is the little tin of chocolate they gave her, which could be heated up as a drink.\n\nTherese closes her eyes in ecstasy as she recalls tasting it, watching the battalions of Canadian and British soldiers.\n\n\"Honestly,\" she sighs, \"I never drank such a chocolate in all my life!\"\n\nThat evening, she says, the soldiers pulled a piano from a bomb-damaged house into the street and one of them played for the village. Thérèse doesn't remember the exact tunes he played but she knows it was something joyful.\n\n\"Because we danced!\" she laughs. \"We danced until the evening came.\"\n\nWhile we chat, Thérèse's husband Pierre watches us quietly, occasionally sighing and shaking his head. His experience of the liberation was very different from his wife's because he lived 20km south of Bernières-sur-Mer, at Caen, which would endure a further two months of heavy bombing before the Germans were defeated.\n\nLeon Gautier and the patched-up photo of Dorothea, whom he later married\n\nOn 6 June 1944, 21-year-old Leon Gautier was one of 177 elite French commandos who took part in the Normandy landings with the British 4 Commando unit.\n\nHe was one of the first men to step on to Sword beach - the British soldiers were \"gentlemanly\", he says, and allowed the French to land first. He was distraught when the photo of his English girlfriend, Dorothea, got wet in the sea. Later, in a trench, he repaired it with the sticking plaster from his first aid kit.\n\nHe remembers meeting a few French civilians near Sword beach and laughing when they presumed he was British and tried to speak to his unit in English. They told him they were scared of repercussions when the Allied forces left. \"We will not go back,\" he told them. \"This time it's for good.\"\n\nThe historian Anthony Beevor once described the Battle of Caen as being \"close to a war crime\", but Pierre does not want to criticise the Allied forces, he just says that life was \"very, very hard\" for Caen's civilians, who were almost starving by the summer of 1944. For two-and-a-half years, Pierre and his parents slept in their cellar to survive. Many of their friends and neighbours were not so lucky.\n\n\"There were many, many dead at Caen,\" he reminds me. \"And we knew nothing about D-Day. That night (6 June) the bombs fell non-stop. We imagined something might be happening but we didn't know it was accompanied by soldiers landing on the Normandy coast. All we saw were German reinforcements passing by - and, later, trucks returning from the front full of dead soldiers.\"\n\nEventually, Pierre's parents decided to evacuate to the countryside.\n\n\"The first D-Day soldiers I saw would have been in August,\" he says. \"American soldiers - a battalion of black American soldiers - gave us chewing gum but passed by quickly. We didn't have physical contact or conversation with the Americans. We were liberated without really knowing it.\" He shrugs.\n\n\"And Caen didn't get better from one day to the next. We had no electricity, no water - everything had been bombed to bits.\"\n\nThérèse has been busy shelling peas for lunch while her husband talks but she comes over to join us now and interjects that while she had the pleasure of seeing the liberation, her husband saw only the war.\n\n\"There was no joy,\" he admits. \"Even after the ceasefire in 1945, the people weren't spilling over with joy. I don't remember any laughter in the streets. I think mentally, we were all rather crushed.\"\n\nPierre and Thérèse will return to Normandy for the 75th anniversary of D-Day just as they have done many times before. And for the first time since the war ended, 96-year-old Jake Larson will be back in France too, to pay his respects at the cemeteries where his fallen comrades are buried.\n\n\"I'm the luckiest man alive,\" he tells me emphatically. \"We lost 2,400 men on Omaha beach that day, men I walked over, men who died to spare me.\" His voice trails off. \"There's a feeling of guilt in that,\" he admits. \"So now it's time to pay my respects and to thank them for their sacrifice.\"\n\nJake Larson is now the only survivor from his regiment - the \"last man standing\", as he jokes. Pierre and Thérèse too are painfully aware that in another 10 years there may be only a handful of civilian witnesses like them.\n\n\"Young people don't know about D-Day, they don't care about the war,\" says Thérèse with a wry smile. \"To them it's just history. But when you live that history, it's very, very different.\"\n\nThérèse Le Chevalier's story is featured in In Their Footsteps, an exhibition at the Juno Beach museum running until 11 November 2019\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Twitter.", "Amazon executive Jeff Wilke said the drone had been engineered to minimise noise\n\nAmazon has said it will use drones to deliver packages to customers “within months”.\n\nIt unveiled its latest iteration at a conference in Las Vegas, touting the machine's ability to spot obstacles such as people, dogs, and clotheslines.\n\nAmazon executive Jeff Wilke said the drone would be able to travel 15 miles to carry packages weighing 5lbs (2.3kg) or less.\n\nMr Wilke did not say where in the world the drone deliveries would initially take place, or precisely when.\n\nHowever, the US Federal Aviation Administration told the BBC it had granted Amazon a permit to operate the drone in the US.\n\n\"The FAA issued a Special Airworthiness Certificate to Amazon Prime Air allowing the company to operate its MK27 unmanned aircraft for research and development and crew training in authorized flight areas,\" the regulator said.\n\n\"Amazon Prime Air plans to use the aircraft to establish a package delivery operation in the United States. This certificate is valid for one year and is eligible for renewal.\"\n\nThe prototype drone has \"shrouds\" to act as protection from its propellers, which double up as wings\n\nIn the past, Amazon has been accused of using the promise of drone delivery as a headline-grabber to push its publicity around its Prime membership service.\n\nBut in December 2016, the company ran an apparently successful trial in Cambridge, UK. A package was delivered, by drone, in 13 minutes.\n\nOn stage during the firm’s “Re:Mars” conference - an event highlighting the firm's work in machine learning, robotics, automation and space - Amazon displayed the drone that will be used.\n\nIt uses six rotors, and “sees” what’s around it using a combination of data from visual, thermal and ultrasonic sensors.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by amazon This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nThe firm insisted that it had built a drone with multiple redundancies for avoiding objects, even if it lost its connectivity.\n\n\"Some drones are autonomous but not able to react to the unexpected, relying simply on communications systems for situational awareness,” Mr Wilke said.\n\n\"If our drone’s flight environment changes, or the drone‘s mission commands it to come into contact with an object that wasn’t there previously - it will refuse to do so - it is independently safe.”\n\nThe firm shared a video of a test flight, but its sound was covered by music. One aspect that might affect societal acceptance could be noise, said Carolina Milanesi, from Creative Strategies.\n\n“I'm sure that it will be a concern, although it might not be that different from the noise from a delivery truck arriving at your home.\n\n“The only difference is that the drone might be closer to a person's home if it's landing in the garden.\"\n\nMr Wilke said the drone’s design had \"been optimized to minimize intrusive, high-frequency sounds”.\n\nDo you have more information about this or any other technology story? You can reach Dave directly and securely through encrypted messaging app Signal on: +1 (628) 400-7370", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The explosion was caused by flammable gases inside a chemical storage tank\n\nThe former owners of an oil refinery in Pembroke have been fined £5m after four contractors were killed in an explosion.\n\nDennis Riley, Robert Broome, Andrew Jenkins and Julie Jones had been draining a chemical storage tank at the then Chevron refinery in 2011 when flammable gases inside it ignited.\n\nChevron said it recognised it \"did not live up to\" its own standards.\n\nJulie Jones, Dennis Riley, Robert Broome and Andrew Jenkins died in the blast\n\nAfter the hearing, Health and Safety Executive inspector Andrew Knowles said the accident was \"entirely preventable\".\n\nChevron will have to pay the fine and court costs of £1m as part of a deal it struck with Valero Energy UK, which bought the site after the disaster.\n\nSpecialist cleaning company B&A Contracts, which employed Mr Broome and Mr Jenkins, was fined £120,000 and ordered to pay costs of £40,000 after admitting health and safety breaches.\n\nSentencing at Swansea Crown Court, Mr Justice Lewis said no fine could \"reflect the value of someone's life.\"\n\n\"The tragedy has had a devastating impact on the families of those who died and on Mr Phillips and his family,\" he said.\n\n\"Nothing this court says or does can bring back the four people who lost their lives or minimise the suffering of Andrew Phillips.\"\n\nThose working for Chevron had failed to \"know of or appreciate\" the risk of \"flammable vapour,\" which had been building up in the tank over the years.\n\nThe court heard that days before the explosion one Chevron worker carried out a gas test which should have alerted the refinery to the flammable atmosphere, but the results were either miscommunicated or \"not understood\".\n\n\"If the work had have been stopped [at this point] the explosion would not have happened. The four deaths and the injuries would not have happened,\" said the judge.\n\nExperts believed the blast would have been caused by either a spark from the workers' unearthed hosepipe or by substances in the tank, which can ignite spontaneously when dry.\n\nMr Justice Lewis said B&A Contracts failed to follow its own health and safety protocol by using an unearthed hosepipe to drain the tank.\n\nThe Health and Safety Executive said the accident was \"entirely preventable\"\n\nAndrew Jenkins' mother Linda said \"justice hadn't been done\".\n\n\"They are all going home to their family,\" she said. \"I'll never see my son again.\"\n\nChevron said it \"fully accepts\" responsibility and recognised it \"did not live up to\" its own standards. It had \"implemented changes\" to avoid another disaster.\n\n\"Chevron continues to remember those individuals, families and colleagues affected by the incident,\" it said.\n\nB&A Contracts also accepted responsibility and said if it could \"turn the clock back\" it would \"in a heartbeat\".\n\nA spokesman said: \"Denny, Andrew, Robert were dear friends to all of us, and Andrew was also family.\"\n\nSafeguards had been implemented so \"this can never happen again.\"", "Leopards are solitary animals that are usually afraid of humans\n\nA two-year-old boy has been killed by a leopard in South Africa's Kruger National Park.\n\nThe leopard managed to access a fenced off area of the park and grab the boy, who was the son of an employee.\n\nFamily members rushed the boy to hospital but he was pronounced dead on arrival.\n\nThe park said in a statement that such attacks were \"very rare\", but rangers killed the leopard to \"remove the danger\".\n\nIke Phaahla, a spokesman for the park, said the exact circumstances of the toddler's death remained unclear.\n\nHe said that animals were naturally afraid of human beings and did not usually get close to them.\n\n\"In parks like the KNP predators do interact with tourists and staff and at times it may result in species like leopard getting habituated to people and losing their fear,\" Mr Phaahla said.\n\nPark visitors followed strict rules to stay safe from animals, such as locking gates and travelling in groups, he said, adding that a leopard would be \"very brave\" to attack a fully grown adult but might \"take a chance with a child between two to six years old\".\n\nLeopards can get into fenced off areas by climbing trees\n\nHe said that people visiting and working in the park were given as much protection as possible with accommodation fenced off to keep animals out, but said they found ways of getting in.\n\n\"We have to respect that they are wild animals,\" he said.\n\nThe Chief Executive Officer of South African National Parks, Fundisile Mketeni offered \"prayers and thoughts\" to the child's family.\n\n\"This is the risk we live with on a daily basis as we help conserve our species for the benefit of all,\" he said.", "The 518 squadron flew missions from Tiree almost every day no matter what the weather\n\nD-Day could have been one of the biggest disasters in military history were it not for the decisions of a Scottish weatherman and data from an RAF squadron based on a small island off Scotland's west coast.\n\nGroup Captain James Martin Stagg, from Dalkeith near Edinburgh, was the chief meteorological adviser who persuaded US General Eisenhower to change the date of the Allied invasion.\n\nStagg not only predicted a storm on 5 June 1944, but made the vital forecast that the weather would break for long enough the following day to allow Operation Overlord to go ahead.\n\nSome of the data that helped inform Stagg's decision came from a little-known RAF squadron operating on Tiree.\n\nThe 518 Squadron flew dangerous missions from Scotland's west coast hundreds of miles out into the Atlantic in all weathers to send back meteorological readings.\n\nGroup Captain Stagg was the chief meteorological adviser to Operation Overlord\n\nThe Normandy landings were the largest seaborne invasion in history and laid the foundations for the Allied victory in World War Two.\n\nThey had been planned for 5 June but low tides and good weather were vital to be able to get hundreds of thousands of troops on to the beaches of France.\n\nThe low tides were easy to predict but getting the weather right as well was another matter.\n\nLow cloud would mean no air cover and rough seas could sink landing craft.\n\nU.S Troops rushing to the Normandy Beaches in France during the D-Day landing\n\nIn those days, many years before satellite imaging and computer modelling, weather forecasting was far from an exact science.\n\nProf Liz Bentley, from the Royal Meteorological Society, said: \"In 1944, the forecaster was reliant on pure weather observations.\"\n\nHowever, observations from land stations could not tell forecasters what the weather was like far out in the Atlantic.\n\nThis was where the 518 squadron came in.\n\nSome of the crew from 518 squadron on the beach at Tiree\n\nIt was their job to fly from the inner Hebrides out over the Atlantic in specially-equipped bombers and record the weather conditions.\n\nDr John Holliday, a local historian on Tiree, said the story of the 518 squadron's contribution has never properly been told.\n\nThe Normandy landings were the largest seaborne invasion in history\n\nThe RAF unit moved to the island in September 1943 from Stornoway on Lewis.\n\nAccording to Dr Holliday, their mission was to fly on two \"tracks\" for hundreds of miles over the Atlantic and radio back temperature and air pressure measurements, which were fed to the headquarters near London.\n\nThe squadron used Halifax bombers, which had all their bombing equipment stripped out to help them fly the long-range sorties.\n\nDr Holliday says the missions could take eight to 10 hours and were often conducted at night and in severe weather conditions, requiring \"amazing\" navigation skills.\n\nThe graves of some of the men that died are in this Tiree cemetery\n\n\"Consequently they lost a lot of men,\" he says.\n\n\"This was one of the most dangerous stations to be in.\"\n\nIn January 1944, eight men died when a meteorological flight got lost in bad weather and hit cliffs at Bundoran in Donegal.\n\nDr Holliday says: \"I'm struck with admiration when you look at what they had to do and read their descriptions of the battering they got out in the Atlantic. It is just extraordinary.\"\n\nAn aerial view of Allied Naval forces engaged in Operation Overlord on 6 June 1944\n\nThe island of Tiree was transformed by the presence of about 3,000 military personnel, with many from Canada, New Zealand, Australia and Poland as well as the UK.\n\nOne of the squadron crew, Warrant Officer Gordon Wilkes, later wrote: \"We were never glamorised on the front page of the daily newspapers, or talked about in pubs and bars, but we were always there, whatever the weather.\"\n\nHe calculated that 10 aircraft and 54 crew were lost while operating from Tiree in 1944.\n\nMeanwhile, in the south of England, at the heart of the Allied Supreme command, was Group Captain Stagg.\n\nUsing the data from Tiree and other squadrons, he fought to convince General Eisenhower to delay the landings by one day.\n\nGeneral Dwight Eisenhower was the commander of Allied forces in Europe\n\nEventually Eisenhower listened and the largest maritime operation in history was put on hold.\n\nProf Bentley, from the Royal Meteorological Society, said there was much disagreement between the US and UK forecasters.\n\nShe says: \"They had ruled out 5 June as too stormy but Stagg had seen one observation about 600 miles to the west of Ireland that showed the surface pressure was beginning to rise, so there was potential for things to settle down.\"\n\nThey came back on the morning of 5 June to check if this was still the case.\n\nA break in the weather allowed the invasion to go ahead\n\nStagg felt there was an opportunity for a small ridge of high pressure to be settling in the English Channel the next morning but he was still met with disagreement.\n\nProf Bentley said it was likely that the German forecasters were also expecting the bad weather to continue and had not expected an invasion under those conditions.\n\nIf the D-Day landing had not taken place on 6 June they would have been delayed for two weeks and on that day the Channel was again hit by a large storm, which meteorologists would have struggled to forecast.\n\nInstead, Stagg was proved right and the D-Day invasion went ahead on 6 June, beginning the liberation of German-occupied France, and later Europe, from Nazi control.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nPortugal manager Fernando Santos described Cristiano Ronaldo as \"a genius\" after his superb hat-trick ensured Portugal reached the Nations League final with victory over Switzerland at the Estadio do Dragao.\n\nRonaldo, 34, had given the hosts the lead with a stunning first-half free-kick that flew into the bottom-right corner, wrong-footing Swiss keeper Yann Sommer.\n\nSwitzerland levelled in the second period when Ricardo Rodriguez tucked away a video assistant referee-awarded penalty - after Felix Brych had initially signalled for a penalty at the other end.\n\nBut after consulting his pitch-side monitor, referee Brych instead gave a spot-kick for Nelson Semedo's foul on Switzerland's Steven Zuber.\n\nIncensed by the decision, the hosts struggled to build any rhythm as the game appeared to drift towards extra-time.\n\nHowever, Ronaldo made the crucial difference late on, sweeping Bernardo Silva's cross into the corner of the net, before firing into the same spot 102 seconds later.\n\n\"In terms of adjectives to describe Ronaldo's game - I have used many,\" said Santos, Ronaldo's former manager at Sporting Lisbon.\n\n\"I was his coach in 2003 and I could see where he would go. There are genius paintings and sculptures and he is a football genius.\n\n\"When someone scores three goals, they are the difference maker.\"\n\nPortugal play the winners of Thursday's semi-final between England and the Netherlands (19:45 BST), with the final in Porto on Sunday.\n• None He scored three… nothing new for him' - Ronaldo shines again on international stage\n• None Why Portugal are so much more than just Ronaldo\n• None Joao Felix - is this the most exciting player since Ronaldo?\n\nPrior to this match, Ronaldo had featured just twice in Portugal's past eight international games, playing no part at all in their qualification for the semi-finals of this tournament.\n\nAfter drawing blanks in the Euro 2020 qualifiers against Serbia and Ukraine in March, and in Portugal's final two games of the World Cup last summer, he once again demonstrated his enduring quality in the international arena.\n\nHe may no longer be at the peak of his powers, but 350 days after scoring his last international goal, he added to his tally by winning and scoring from a free-kick.\n\nIn trademark fashion he dipped the ball over the Switzerland wall and it was past Sommer in a flash with the goalkeeper unable to readjust.\n\nAnd his importance as the scorer of great goals came to the fore with Santos' team struggling to find answers against a resourceful and purposeful Swiss side.\n\nA darting run moved him onto Silva's cross and a step-over and shimmy gave him the space to dispatch another clinical strike to make the game safe for the European champions.\n\nIt brought up his 53rd hat-trick for club and country, and he now sits second on the all-time international top scorers chart with 88 goals in 157 matches, with only Iran's Ali Daei (109) ahead of him.\n\n\"Both the Netherlands and England are excellent teams and either will present great opposition,\" said Ronaldo when asked about Sunday's Nations League final.\n\n\"I hope that Portugal can win, that the stadium will be full and that the fans can support us like they did today. We are stronger together.\"\n\nWhile Portugal had been labelled favourites in this tie by Swiss boss Vladimir Petkovic, his team enjoyed more shots and greater possession than the hosts.\n\nInspired by Liverpool midfielder Xherdan Shaqiri, the Swiss carved out several goalscoring chances before falling behind to Ronaldo's free-kick.\n\nShaqiri and Haris Seferovic both went close, with the Benfica forward smashing a sweetly struck shot against the crossbar.\n\nBut when their deserved equaliser arrived it came in bizarre fashion, with Silva going down and appearing to win a penalty for Portugal before VAR intervened.\n\nInstead of Ronaldo shaping up to take a spot-kick from 12 yards, play was brought back to deal with an earlier incident between Semedo and Zuber in the Portugal penalty area.\n\nAnd the faintest of touches from the Barcelona full-back, on Zuber, who initially appeared to trip over his own legs, convinced the referee to award the unlikeliest of penalties against the hosts.\n\n\"Portugal had street smarts, they had the cherry on top of the cake and that made the difference. Four shots, three goals,\" said manager Petkovic.\n\n\"On the one hand we were up against a very strong opponent, but over 90 minutes we showed we are a strong team and that we can make life for a top side difficult too.\"\n• None Portugal have won five of their past eight games against Switzerland (D1 L2), despite conceding in six of those matches.\n• None This is the first encounter between Portugal and Switzerland to see both sides score since March 1993 (1-1 in a World Cup qualifier).\n• None Switzerland are winless in their past nine games played in Portugal (including Euro 2004), losing seven and drawing twice since a 2-0 victory against Portugal in a World Cup qualifier in April 1969.\n• None Portugal have lost just one of their past 16 games across all competitions (W6 D9) and are unbeaten since a 2-1 defeat against Uruguay in the 2018 World Cup (P9 W4 D5 L0 since).\n• None Two of Cristiano Ronaldo's past five goals for Portugal have come from direct free-kicks; only two of his previous 52 goals prior to this were scored in the same manner.\n• None Ricardo Rodriguez's past three goals for Switzerland - and five of his past six - have been penalties.\n• None Only Strahil Popov for Bulgaria (four) and Benjamin Kololli for Kosovo (five) have been directly involved in more goals among defenders in this Nations League campaign than Switzerland's Ricardo Rodríguez (three - two goals, one assist).\n\nPortugal play the winners of Thursday's semi-final between England and the Netherlands (19:45 BST) in the Nations League final in Porto on Sunday (also 19:45). Switzerland will take part in Sunday's third-place play-off at 14:00.\n• None Goal! Portugal 3, Switzerland 1. Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Gonçalo Guedes following a fast break.\n• None Goal! Portugal 2, Switzerland 1. Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Bernardo Silva.\n• None Gonçalo Guedes (Portugal) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. Fabian Schär (Switzerland) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Xherdan Shaqiri.\n• None Xherdan Shaqiri (Switzerland) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Des Quinn, National Officer of Unite was in the meeting at Ford HQ in Brentwood this morning.\n\nHe told the BBC News Channel that Ford had \"betrayed\" its workforce in Bridgend.\n\n\"We don't believe the plant had to close - it may have become inevitable because of the actions of the company.\n\n\"When the company talked about making the Dragon engine in the UK they talked about making 500,000 - but reduced that to 250,000 and then down to 120,000 because they've put that global platform elsewhere in low cost economies.\n\n\"The UK is an important profitable market for Ford to sell cars and we think they should be building engines here and supporting the market they rely on to make a profit.\n\n\"Unfortunately you can only judge Ford by its actions. Ford had 27 plants in the UK, we're down to five, four if this closure proposal goes through.\n\n\"It will be absolutely devastating, not just to Bridgend, it will be devastating to Wales as a country. It will be devastating to UK manufacturing because of the supply chain which goes to the four corners of the UK and wider to Europe.\n\n\"It's devastating to the communities - the local pubs and clubs and shops that will also be hit because of this.\n\n\"It's absolutely dreadful news and a betrayal of Ford workers in Bridgend.\n\n\"It's been some time in coming.\n\n\"It's been inaction from the company that's got us here. Performance was improving in the plant and we were keen to get new products in there and unfortunately the reluctance from the company to move forward with that has got us to this stage.\"", "Ford's engine plant in Bridgend is set to close in autumn 2020, with the loss of 1,700 jobs.\n\nUnion officials were told of the plans at a meeting with Ford bosses which include the offer of redeployment.\n\nWorkers were sent home after receiving a letter which said they will lose their jobs in phases from 25 September next year.\n\nFord blamed \"changing customer demand and cost\" for the closure plans and denied Brexit was a factor.\n\nWorkers spoke of the suddenness of the decision, while traders in the town said it would have an impact.", "Councillor Laura Booth said she received abuse on Facebook about the flat lace-up shoes\n\nA mayor who has a prosthetic leg has reacted to social media \"hate speak\" about her choice of footwear which she believes could discourage disabled people from entering public life.\n\nStockport mayor Laura Booth, whose left leg was amputated below the knee as a child, said she was mocked on Facebook for wearing flat shoes to an event.\n\nShe said one comment read: \"Look at the state of her\".\n\nMs Booth said her footwear did not diminish her ability to do her job.\n\nThe councillor, who also has chronic pain and back problems, wore pink leather lace-up shoes to a ceremony at a bakery in Reddish on Monday.\n\nShe said she wanted to walk to the event and stand up, rather than use her wheelchair.\n\nMs Booth explained: \"People commented on the bakery's photo; 'A mayor in trainers, disapproving face', 'Look at the state of her'. 'Get back to your caravan'.\n\n\"They make these judgements and can get really nasty.\"\n\nMs Booth, who lost her leg after a car crash, said: \"I am prone to falling, I have a different gait so I need shoes with support. There is limited choice.\n\n\"It's these attitudes which will put people off entering public life if they have a health condition or disability,\" she said.\n\n\"Also a woman should be able to wear whatever shoes she wants irrespective of disability or not.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Cllr Laura Booth This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Labour member for Offerton said she wanted to highlight the \"hostile narrative\" which exists around disability and invited people to confront her in person.\n\n\"Bring it on. Come and say it to my face. My job is to show you disability is not inability. Sometimes you have to facilitate.\n\n\"In this event it was flat, lace-up shoes, so I can stand up and talk to people.\n\n\"It is insulting and wrong that people think my shoes determine my ability.\"\n\nOther people on Twitter showed their support by telling the councillor to \"wear what is comfortable\" and \"ignore\" any abuse.\n\nOne commented \"only a woman would have her shoes scrutinised\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "An actor read out an extract from the journal of Royal Navy electrician R G Watts as he left Southampton for Normandy in June 1944: \"The troop landing craft was packed to full capacity. There was no cover for the Army, just standing or sitting, exposed to the elements\"", "Pipe Major Trevor Lily played on a section of the Mulberry Harbour in Arromanches at the exact time the first British troops landed on the beaches in 1944.\n\nD-Day veterans are being joined in northern France by Theresa May, Donald Trump and Emmanuel Macron for a second day of events to mark the 75th anniversary of the Normandy invasion.", "Bridgend MP Madeleine Moon has said she is \"devastated\" about Ford's intention to close its engine plant in the town in 2020, with the loss of 1,700 jobs.\n\nUnion officials have been details of the plans at a meeting with Ford bosses which included the offer of redeployment of workers to other sites.\n\nWorkers are being sent home after receiving a letter, which says they will lose their jobs in phases from 25 September next year.\n\nFord blamed \"changing customer demand and cost\" on its closure plans but denied Brexit had anything to do with the matter.\n\nLabour MP Ms Moon said the Welsh Government, unions and Bridgend AM Carwyn Jones - the former first minister - had done all they could to keep it open.\n\nShe disputed Ford's insistence that Brexit was not a factor.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Hunt: Airbus is \"completely inappropriate to make these kind of threats\"\n\nHealth Secretary Jeremy Hunt has said that \"threats\" by business over Brexit are \"completely inappropriate\".\n\nHe was responding to warnings by Airbus and BMW that investments in the UK could be jeopardised by Brexit uncertainty.\n\nSpeaking on The Andrew Marr Show, Mr Hunt said Brexit discussions were at \"critical moment\" and needed unity.\n\nHe also refused to rule out scrapping cuts to corporation tax in order to fund extra spending on the NHS.\n\nLast week, Airbus warned it could leave the UK if Britain were to exit the single market and customs union without a transition deal.\n\nBMW followed the warning by saying that clarity over Brexit is needed by the end of the summer.\n\nIn response Mr Hunt said: \"It's completely inappropriate for businesses to be making these kinds of threats.\n\n\"We are in an absolutely critical moment in the Brexit discussions and what that means is that we need to get behind Theresa May to deliver the best possible Brexit.\n\n\"The more that we undermine Theresa May the more likely we are to end up with a fudge, which would be an absolute disaster for everyone.\"\n\nBut Edwin Morgan, director of policy at the Institute of Directors, said: \"Business leaders have every right to speak up about their needs and concerns as we approach incredibly significant negotiations for the future of this country.\n\n\"Firms think very carefully before sticking their heads above the parapet, so they should be listened to by politicians, not dismissed. Companies have to honestly assess the risks they face, and spelling them out should never be brushed off as a 'threat'.\"\n\nLast week BMW UK boss Ian Robertson said he needed to know within months what the government's preferred position was on customs and trade post Brexit.\n\n\"If we don't get clarity in the next couple of months we have to start making those contingency plans... which means making the UK less competitive than it is in a very competitive world right now,\" he said.\n\n\"That is a decisive issue that ultimately could damage this industry.\"\n\nBMW makes the Mini and Rolls Royce and employs about 8,000 people in the UK.\n\nThe customs union brings together the EU's 28 members in a duty-free area, in which they pay the same rate of duty on non-EU goods.\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May has ruled out staying in the customs union after the UK leaves the EU on 29 March 2019.\n\nAirbus, in its Brexit \"risk assessment\" published on Thursday, said if the UK left the EU next year without a deal - leaving both the single market and customs union immediately without any agreed transition - it would \"lead to severe disruption and interruption of UK production\".\n\nThe European plane-maker said the warning was not part of \"Project Fear\", but was a \"dawning reality\".\n\nAirbus makes wings for the A380 and other models in the UK\n\nThe term \"Project Fear\" has been used by some pro-Brexit campaigners to denote alleged scaremongering by those in favour of remaining in the EU.\n\n\"Airbus have been one of the first companies to stick their head above the parapet and explain how distressing and how worrying the government's current direction of travel is,\" Labour's shadow business secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey told BBC Radio 5's Pienaar's Politics.\n\nShe said she had been told in private meetings with UK business leaders that if the government went into a \"no deal\" Brexit scenario \"it would finish them and they would have to close their sites\".\n\nEnter the word or phrase you are looking for\n\nAirbus's 14,000 UK staff are employed across 25 manufacturing sites. About half are in Wales and it currently has more than 4,000 suppliers in the UK.\n\n\"Companies are right to say that if there's no deal that won't be good for Britain, but it won't be good for Europe either,\" International Trade Secretary Liam Fox told Sky News.\n\n\"The point I make to them is that they should also be making the same case to European governments that that will be bad for them.\"\n\nMr Hunt was also asked how the government would fund its pledge to put an extra £20bn into the NHS.\n\nHe said \"all will be revealed\" in the Budget later this year.\n\nThe health secretary refused to rule out scrapping the Conservatives' 2017 manifesto pledge to cut corporation tax to 17% by 2020.\n\n\"We are committed to our manifesto but we also said in our manifesto is that we want our public services to be the best in the world and that the NHS is the most important of all those public services,\" he told Andrew Marr.\n\nPressed on whether he could guarantee to business people that the planned corporation tax cut would go ahead, he said: \"What business people want is a sensible Conservative government\".\n\nHe urged them to wait for the next Budget to find out what taxes would go up.\n\nTwo years ago the government promised to cut corporation tax to an all-time low of 17% by 2020. That would have given Britain one of the lowest rates of tax on company profits in the G20, and was warmly welcomed by businesses.\n\nNow that promise may be in jeopardy. The health secretary declined to confirm that the cut in corporation tax would proceed, now that the NHS has been promised an extra 3.4% in spending (in real terms) from next year.\n\nHe also said that higher (and not lower) taxes would be needed to pay for the additional money on health spending.\n\nMore worrying for companies has been the change in tone from senior Government ministers towards them. Jeremy Hunt described businesses who express concern about progress in the Brexit talks as \"completely inappropriate\" and \"siren voices\".", "The prop is mainly made of wood\n\nA \"blaster\" used by Harrison Ford's character Han Solo in the film Return of the Jedi has sold at auction in New York for $550,000 (£415,000).\n\nThe weapon, made mostly of wood, had previously spent more than 30 years in the possession of the film's art director James Schoppe.\n\nIt sold for more than a lightsaber used by Mark Hamill in the first two Star Wars films, which fetched $450,000.\n\nMr Schoppe was nominated for an Oscar for his work on the film.\n\nHe put about 40 other items up for auction, including an Ewok axe and plans for Jabba the Hutt's ship.\n\nHan Solo brandishing the blaster in Return of the Jedi\n\nThe Ewok axe went for $11,250 and another blaster prop fetched $90,624, Julien's Auctions said.\n\nThe most expensive piece of Star Wars memorabilia was an R2-D2 droid used in several Star Wars films. It fetched $2.76m in Los Angeles last year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why your Star Wars memorabilia could be worth a fortune", "New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has left hospital in Auckland with her baby daughter.\n\nShe is only the second elected leader in modern history to give birth while in office.\n\nMs Adern said that she and her partner Clarke Gayford were \"sleep deprived, but super well\".", "Forensics have spent most of the morning searching the scene for evidence\n\nA 15-year-old boy has been stabbed to death in a fight after a birthday party at a community centre in east London.\n\nThree teenage boys have been arrested on suspicion of murder and have been taken to separate police stations for questioning.\n\nThe Met Police said they were called to the centre in Romford on Saturday night after fighting broke out as youngsters left a birthday party.\n\nThe boy is the youngest victim to be fatally stabbed in London this year.\n\nPolice were first called to the North Romford Community Centre on Clockhouse Lane at 21:05 BST.\n\nAccording to the Met, a fight broke out and the centre was damaged.\n\nThe BBC has identified more than 80 murder investigations have now been launched across London this year by both the Metropolitan and City of London Police.\n\nThere had been reports of fighting after a birthday party at the North Romford Community Centre\n\nA woman, who lives close to the community centre and gave her name only as Carol, described hearing friends of the victim screaming and sobbing.\n\nShe said: \"I heard a lad crying down the phone 'he's dead, he's dead'.\"\n\n\"He was lying down in the road, there was a lot of blood. The police were working on him, they tried their absolute damnedest with that boy last night.\n\n\"Nobody should die like that.\"\n\nCarol said youngsters spilled on to the surrounding streets after too many people showed up to the party and the community centre stopped letting people in.\n\nThe victim has become the ninth teenager to have been fatally stabbed in London this year\n\nDet Sgt Gurj Singh said: \"Response officers who attended the initial calls were confronted with up to 100 youths leaving a birthday party gathering at a community centre.\"\n\nRomford MP Andrew Rosindell said it was \"devastating\" that a young life had \"so tragically been cut short on our streets tonight\".\n\nThe boy's next of kin have been informed, although his identity has not yet been released.\n\nA bus driver in his 50s was treated for a head injury at the scene, the Met said, adding that there were no other injuries.\n\nPolice have appealed for witnesses and a cordon remained in place on Sunday morning as investigators continued their search for evidence.\n\nElsewhere in London on Saturday, a man in his 50s has been arrested on suspicion of murder after the body of a woman was found in the back garden of a home in Greenwich.\n\nAnother man, 40, was taken to hospital after being stabbed in the neck, with what police believe to be a screwdriver, in Soho, central London.\n\nA 36-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder in connection with that attack.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDemocratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Arlene Foster has attended a major Gaelic games match for the first time.\n\nShe was among the crowd at the Ulster Football Final between Donegal and Fermanagh in County Monaghan.\n\nSpeaking before the game, Mrs Foster said she realised that some may be \"uncomfortable\" with her attendance, but that her party wanted to take steps towards a \"shared society\".\n\nIt is the first time a senior unionist politician has gone to a Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) game since Peter Robinson in 2012. Mrs Foster took her seat for the match near Sinn Féin's Michelle O'Neill.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nShe was accompanied into the stadium by DUP MLA Christopher Stalford and Irish Enterprise Minister Heather Humphreys, a TD (MP) for Cavan-Monaghan.\n\nSpeaking as she arrived, Mrs Foster said: \"Of course it's not my first time in Clones, I grew up not so very far away from here, but it is my first time at St Tiernach's Park.\n\n\"I want to say a big thank you to the Ulster Council of the GAA for the very warm welcome that I've received.\"\n\nShe added: \"I do realise that there are some people that may be uncomfortable with me being here today on a Sunday, but let me say this, I am the leader of a political party that wants to have a shared society in Northern Ireland and to do that we have to take steps forward.\n\n\"To do that we also have to build a respect and a tolerance and that's what I want to do. I hope that others will take the chance to step forward as well and to understand and appreciate and tolerate another culture perhaps that isn't theirs.\n\n\"I understand the significance of me being here as well today, so I hope I enjoy today.\"\n\nCouncillor Howard Thornton, the Ulster Unionist chair of Fermanagh and Omagh Council, also attended the match.\n\nArlene Foster was welcomed by cheers of 'Come on Arlene' when she entered St. Tiernach's Park in Clones, County Monaghan\n\nArlene Foster arrived to cheers and claps and chants of \"Come on Arlene\".\n\nIt was all smiles from Mrs Foster who, when I asked if she was happy to be here, said she was.\n\nMany Fermanagh fans welcomed her arrival at Clones.\n\nThe dozen or so people I spoke to believe it is a good thing for the county, and for politics.\n\nWhen asked at Clones about Mrs Foster's attendance, Michelle Gildernew said: \"It's only but right. It's a huge day for Fermanagh, for the entire county, and I'm hoping everyone enjoys the match.\n\n\"She'll certainly see a spectacle she never expected to see.\"\n\nFermanagh (in green) are taking on Donegal in the Ulster Football Championship final on Sunday\n\nArlene Foster has gone where no senior unionist politician has gone before - her decision to cross the Irish border to County Monaghan for this game will not go unnoticed.\n\nDUP politicians have, in the past, attended GAA games in Northern Ireland, but today's journey is significant for the former first minister who once said she didn't do \"gesture politics\".\n\nShe will attempt to reach out to another community later this week when she attends an LGBT event at Stormont.\n\nWhispers that these moves could mark the beginning of a defrosting of relations to try to jumpstart talks with Sinn Féin this autumn may be somewhat premature.\n\nAnd there may be others who feel Mrs Foster's actions are simply a box-ticking exercise or photo opportunity.\n\nBut longer term, history may look back kindly on the current DUP leader for making the journey to Clones to cheer on her home team.\n\nThe first page of the GAA's official guide outlines that the organisation's \"basic aim is the strengthening of national identity in a 32-county Ireland through the preservation and promotion of Gaelic games and past times\".\n\nIt is a statement that underlines the nationalist ethos of the 134-year-old organisation - and has fuelled unionist mistrust.\n\nHowever, in recent years, moves by both unionist politicians and the GAA have becoming symbolic of a thawing relationship.\n\nThe GAA abolished Rule 21, which banned members of the security forces from being members of the GAA, in 2001 and modified Rule 42 in 2005, which allowed rugby and football to be played in Croke Park, the GAA's headquarters, for the first time.\n\nMeanwhile, the DUP's Edwin Poots became the party's first politician to attend a GAA match in an official capacity in 2008 in his then role as Stormont's sports minister.\n\nPeter Robinson and Martin McGuinness were the guests of the GAA's Ulster Council at the Dr McKenna Cup final in 2012\n\nIn 2012, then first minister Peter Robinson attended the Dr McKenna Cup final along with then deputy first minister Martin McGuinness.\n\nAt the time, party colleague Gregory Campbell described it as a \"symbolic gesture\" and said the \"GAA were travelling in the right direction for some time now\".\n\nHowever, he said there was still more work to do and unionists have often cited the naming of stadiums and clubs after former IRA members as reasons for concern.\n\nIn 2010, Ulster Unionist Party leader Tom Elliott said he had no interest in attending a GAA match.\n\nWhile he later rowed back from that position, his position is reflected by many in the unionist community.\n\nThis move by Arlene Foster - at the biggest occasion in Ulster GAA - is the biggest sign of rapprochement between unionism and the GAA to date.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOpposition MPs shouted \"Where's Boris?\" as a Tory MP who resigned from government over Heathrow expansion urged colleagues to join him in opposing a third runway.\n\nEx-trade minister Greg Hands said it was a \"debate about being true to your word and to your election pledges\".\n\nBoris Johnson - who also opposes a third runway - has come under fire for travelling to Afghanistan and missing a vote to approve a new £14bn runway.\n\nProtesters against a third runway staged a protest in central lobby at the Houses of Parliament, a few metres from where MPs are debating the decision.\n\nAbout a dozen demonstrators from Vote No Heathrow lay down on the floor with their arms outstretched before being ejected from Parliament by police.\n\nConservative MPs have been ordered to back a third runway, the SNP will abstain and Labour have been given a free vote, with up to 40 of them expected to back the government, meaning it will almost certainly become law.\n\nMr Johnson has said following Mr Hands' example and quitting the government to vote against Heathrow would \"achieve absolutely nothing\".\n\nMr Hands raised concerns over issues including flight paths and night flights and the impact on air quality, before telling the Commons: \"I think this proposal is fundamentally flawed.\"\n\nTo shouts of \"where's Boris?\" from some on the Labour benches, Mr Hands said: \"It's also a debate about being true to your word and to your election pledges.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn an impassioned speech, Labour's shadow chancellor John McDonnell warned that villages that had existed for 1,000 years will be \"wiped off the face of the earth\" to enable a company to maximise its profits.\n\nHe told MPs to remember the name of Harmondsworth resident Armelle Thomas, whose late husband Tommy arrived in the UK during World War Two to \"fight for this country against fascism\" by flying planes for the RAF.\n\nMr McDonnell said: \"His home that he built up with Armelle is in the centre of what will be the runway itself.\n\n\"There are human costs to this decision that this House needs to recognise and contemplate before they vote tonight to worry and blight my community once again on a programme that will never - pardon the pun - take off.\"\n\nHis speech was backed by Richmond Park Conservative MP Zac Goldsmith and Lib Dem leader Sir Vince Cable, who represents Twickenham, both of whom raised concerns about the environment, the cost and alleged financial benefits of the scheme.\n\nConservative former transport secretary Justine Greening said the story of Heathrow was one of \"broken promises, broken politics and broken economics\".\n\nLabour's shadow transport secretary Andy McDonald earlier outlined his party's official opposition to Heathrow expansion, criticising Transport Secretary Chris Grayling for making \"a complete shambles of a vital national project\".\n\nHe said the government's case for expansion was \"riddled with gaps and fundamentally flawed\".\n\nSNP MP Alan Brown said the government had failed to give sufficient assurances that its Heathrow expansion plan would benefit Scotland's economy and \"connectivity\".\n\nA new runway, which was approved by ministers earlier this month, would increase Heathrow's annual capacity from 85.5 million passengers to 130 million.\n\nOpening debate in the House of Commons, Mr Grayling said Heathrow was \"full\" and a new runway was needed to secure \"a clear path to our future as a global nation in the post-Brexit world.\"\n\nAs MPs prepare to debate Heathrow's future, Mr Johnson was holding talks with Afghan minister Hekmat Karzai\n\nThe mystery of his whereabouts was solved, but not yet the mystery of the purpose. Afghanistan is not exactly an easy place to head for a quick hello.\n\nSeveral sources in Westminster tonight suggest there was a serious reason.\n\nMy colleague Jonathan Beale reported last month that the government was considering sending about 400 more troops to Afghanistan to join the 600 or so already there helping train Afghan forces.\n\nSources suggest tonight that the National Security Council will discuss the proposal tomorrow afternoon, with the government potentially approving the move, and a possible announcement in the coming days.\n\nThe soldiers would not be involved in combat, but helping the Afghans provide more security in Kabul.\n\nLast week, Downing Street said Mr Johnson, the ex-mayor of London, would be missing Monday's vote.\n\nHis exact whereabouts, previously a matter of confusion, were revealed on Monday when the Afghan ministry of foreign affairs posted a picture on Twitter of its deputy foreign minister Hekmat Karzai meeting Mr Johnson in Kabul.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHis absence has been mocked by other anti-runway campaigners in his party, including Justine Greening.\n\nWhen he was elected MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip in west London in 2015, Mr Johnson pledged to lie in front of bulldozers to stop expansion.\n\nBefore leaving for Afghanistan earlier on Monday, he wrote to constituents saying the \"very considerable difficulties\" facing the third runway meant it would be \"a very long time before we have to make good on that pledge\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Justine Greening This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut Mr Johnson, who has long promoted a scheme for a new airport in the Thames estuary, suggested it would be a futile gesture for him to resign over the issue.\n\n\"I have long been an opponent of a third runway at Heathrow and that is why I am not voting for it tonight,\" he wrote.\n\n\"It is clear from what is likely to be a large majority of MPs who are in favour of a third runway that my resignation would have achieved absolutely nothing.\"\n\nThe government has pledged the airport will be built at no cost to the taxpayer, will create 100,000 jobs and will benefit the entire country, through guaranteed internal flights to the rest of the UK.\n\nMinisters also insist the project will have built-in environmental protections, with the ability to fine Heathrow or ground aircraft if promises on night flights and other contentious issues are broken.\n\nAn independent review in 2015 recommended a new runway at Heathrow as the best option to address the need for extra capacity in the south of England. The Department for Transport has previously said no expansion would mean London's five airports would be full by 2034.", "Smile when you're winning... fans react at Croydon Box Park in London\n\nEngland fans have been reacting with glee and surprise as the national team thrashed Panama 6-1 in the World Cup.\n\nJubilant supporters celebrated up and down the country as England recorded their biggest win ever in the competition to secure a place in the last 16.\n\nHarry Kane played a captain's role once more with a hat-trick to become the tournament's leading scorer.\n\nJohn Stones also scored two and Jesse Lingard scored England's third goal.\n\nYes really, England scored six goals\n\nHundreds also gathered at Brighton Beach to watch Harry Kane and the rest of the team triumph\n\nDogs dressed for the part in Norfolk... maybe their dribbling skills could be used\n\nSpectators were well and truly awake at Dreamland theme park in Margate, Kent\n\nIn Cornwall, some fans on Fistral beach looked like they were doing their best shirtless Poldark impressions", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Thousands of people joined the march to Parliament\n\nTens of thousands of people have marched in central London to demand a final vote on any UK exit deal, on the second anniversary of the Brexit vote.\n\nOrganisers of the People's Vote march say Brexit is \"not a done deal\" and people must \"make their voices heard\".\n\nIt came as senior Cabinet ministers, including Liam Fox and David Davis, insisted the UK is prepared to walk away from talks without an agreement.\n\nThe protest is part of a \"summer of action\" by campaign groups designed to increase pressure on Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nThe organisers have said that at least 100,000 people attended the march.\n\nThe rally began in Pall Mall, central London, before moving to Parliament Square\n\nWorld War Two veteran Stephen Goodall, 96, led the pro-EU protesters as they headed from Pall Mall to Parliament Square.\n\nThere were boos from the crowd as the march approached Downing Street. After showing anger towards the PM, some began to chant \"where's Jeremy Corbyn?\"\n\nAmong those addressing the demonstrators was Gina Miller, who successfully campaigned to ensure the UK could not trigger talks on leaving without the approval of Parliament.\n\nShe said: \"Together we must stand up, demand our voices are heard, demand a people's vote so that future generations can hear us say we did our bit we stood up and shouted for a country that's together, kinder, tolerant.\n\n\"This is not a time to be silent.\"\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Sir Vince Cable said Brexit was \"not a done deal\" and could be reversed, while Green Party co-leader Caroline Lucas told the crowd that Brexit \"will be a disaster for this country\".\n\nOne of the rally organisers, James McGrory from pressure group Open Britain, said there should be \"a choice between leaving with the deal that the government negotiates, or staying in the European Union\".\n\nActor Sir Tony Robinson was among the thousands on the march in London\n\nIt is the second anniversary of the UK voting to leave the EU\n\nBritain is due to leave on 29 March 2019, 46 years after it first joined the European Economic Community, the forerunner to the EU.\n\nThe government is giving Parliament a vote on the final deal, if one is reached, in the autumn - but it remains unclear what will happen if they reject it.\n\nEU flags slowly filled Pall Mall all morning, and with chants of \"people's vote\" echoing alongside drum beats and whistles, the protesters made their way towards Parliament.\n\nThis protest was a family affair - young children alongside veterans in wheelchairs, and all ages in between.\n\nOne 69-year-old woman, Dodo Pearce, said she travelled from Derbyshire to protest for the first time in her life.\n\nAnd I received an eloquent lecture from an 11-year-old on the problems she thought Brexit would bring.\n\nDespite the cheery demeanour of the marchers, the conversations were less hopeful.\n\nOne person said: \"If a million people couldn't march to stop Tony Blair going into Iraq, what chance have we got in getting a vote on the deal?\"\n\nThe pro-EU protesters headed from Pall Mall to Parliament Square\n\nProtester Colin Hopkins, 62, from Ipswich, said: \"It's really important to say we don't dispute the decision, but the process and the destination.\n\n\"There isn't any agreement on where we want to go with it, even in the government, and we have a right to a second opinion on that.\"\n\nLesley Haas, a teacher from Bury St Edmunds, said: \"What is their future? A lot of companies are leaving, so there is going to be an effect on jobs.\n\n\"I'm a German teacher and I'm worried the attitude of Brexit will make it harder to learn languages here. If it goes through, we may leave.\"\n\nNHS doctor Horst-Dieter Haas, from Germany, (right) with his wife, Lesley (left)\n\nJanet Watts, 61, from Suffolk, said she joined the march for her mother - who is from Denmark and arrived in Britain in 1953.\n\n\"She had her passport stamped when she got off the boat at Harwich, telling her she could stay,\" she said. \"That has been the same until this referendum happened.\n\n\"I think it is disgusting putting families at risk and putting her through this at the age of 83.\"\n\nBut Shazia Hobbs, who attended the pro-Brexit UK Unity and Freedom march, said: \"That march is silly. We voted to leave so we should leave.\n\n\"What do they want, best of three? We voted for Brexit.\"\n\nDemonstrators also chanted \"we want our country back\" and: \"What do we want? Brexit. When do we want it? Now.\"\n\nConservative MP Peter Bone - who supports Brexit - said if there were a second vote, the leave campaign would win again.\n\n\"The vast, vast majority of people, whether they are Leavers or Remainers, just want us to get on and come out this dreadful European Union super-state,\" he said.\n\n\"There were 17.4 million people that voted for leave and if there are a few thousand in London complaining about it - that doesn't seem to really make much difference.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Anti-Brexit campaigner Femi Oluwole wants the Labour leader to back calls for a new referendum", "Italy has urged a shared EU response to the issue of migration\n\nThe European zone of border-free travel could be in danger if no solution is found to the issue of migration, Italy's prime minister has warned.\n\nAt an informal meeting of 16 EU leaders in Brussels, Giuseppe Conte called for shared EU responsibility for rescued migrants and penalties for countries refusing to accept quotas.\n\nThe meeting comes ahead of a full EU summit on migration next week.\n\nIn recent days, Italy has refused to accept two migrant rescue ships.\n\nIn a document presented at the talks, Mr Conte advocated for migrant \"protection centres\" to be established in other EU countries to relieve the burden on Italy, which has received over 600,000 migrants over the past four years.\n\n\"Whoever lands in Italy lands in Europe.... Schengen is at risk,\" the document said. The Schengen zone of passport-free travel covers most of the EU and some other European countries.\n\nItaly's new populist coalition government, which was formed earlier this month, has taken a hard line on migration and says it wants to deport half a million undocumented migrants.\n\nLast week it refused to accept 630 migrants aboard the charity rescue ship Aquarius, which was eventually diverted to Spain. Another vessel, Lifeline, is now stranded with around 230 people on board after both Italy and Malta denied it permission to dock.\n\nSunday's meeting was called for by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who indicated that bilateral and trilateral agreements could be necessary if next week's summit fails to reach an EU-wide agreement.\n\nShe also urged a shared response to the issue of illegal migration, saying: \"Everybody is responsible for everything. Wherever possible, we want European solutions. Where this is not possible, we want to bring together those who are willing and find a common framework for action.\"", "Last updated on .From the section World Cup\n\nThe head of the Serbian Football Association has accused governing body Fifa of showing bias against his country at the World Cup in Russia.\n\nSlavisa Kokeza says Serbia were victims of a \"brutal robbery\" during Friday's loss to Switzerland, accusing Fifa of \"directing\" officials to work against them.\n\n\"We will send a protest to Fifa today,\" Kokeza told the BBC on Saturday.\n\nA Fifa spokesman confirmed a letter of protest had been received but that no further comment would be made.\n\nKokeza was unhappy a German referee had been appointed for a game involving Switzerland, claiming the move influenced some decisions, most notably the failure of the match official and video assistant referee (VAR) to award a penalty when Aleksandar Mitrovic was wrestled to the ground by two Swiss players.\n\n\"I do not think this is only about VAR, but that the whole thing was directed by the people who appoint referees,\" Kokeza said.\n\n\"We all know too well that more than half of Switzerland's population is German.\n\n\"Technical staff, players, people in Serbia, they are all disappointed and frustrated because of injustice some people at Fifa came up with.\"\n\nAsked how he wanted Fifa to respond, he replied: \"It is clear to Europe and the world that Serbia was brutally robbed. I do not expect Fifa to take action in order for this brutal robbery not to happen again, because, I repeat, it was all directed.\"\n\nKokeza also criticised the 'double eagle' celebration given by Switzerland's two ethnic Albanian goalscorers during Friday's match, describing the actions as \"scandalous and shameful\".\n\nGranit Xhaka and Xherdan Shaqiri made the gesture, which is a nationalist symbol representing the double-headed eagle on Albania's national flag.\n\nBoth players' families are from Kosovo, where a Serbian crackdown on the Albanian population only ended with Nato military intervention in 1999.\n\nShaqiri also wears boots displaying the Swiss flag on one heel and the Kosovan flag on the other.\n\n\"It deserves to be condemned by the whole football world,\" Kokeza added. \"It was not the only provocation by the Swiss players. One sufficient detail was the football boots of one of their players - the boots had a flag of a non-existing country displayed on them.\n\n\"We expect Fifa to impose sanctions against the players who acted against rules of Fifa and fair play, as well as against the national association of the country they play for.\"\n\nFifa confirmed on Saturday that disciplinary proceedings had been opened against Xhaka and Shaqiri, as well as the Serbian FA for the conduct of their fans, and Serbia head coach Mladen Krstajic for alleged statements made in the aftermath.", "Watch as Jesse Lingard scores a \"beautiful\" long range for goal for England to put them 3-0 up in their Group G tie with Panama at the 2018 World Cup.\n\nAvailable to UK users only.", "Last updated on .From the section World Cup\n\nToni Kroos' injury-time winner against Sweden revived defending champions Germany's hopes of becoming the first side to retain the World Cup since Brazil in 1962.\n\nOla Toivonen's deft first-half lob had left Joachim Low's side facing elimination but Marco Reus, starting in place of Arsenal's Mesut Ozil, prodded in an equaliser as Germany assumed control after the interval.\n\nThe champions then had Jerome Boateng sent off late on for a second yellow card but continued to chase the game knowing a draw left their fate in others' hands.\n\nAnd they were rewarded in the final minute of five added on when Kroos tapped a free-kick short to Reus before sweeping the return pass into the top right corner from left of the penalty area.\n• None A watershed win for Germany? How the media reacted to late drama\n\nThe magnitude of the moment saw the euphoric German players run to rejoice in front of their own fans while the Sweden players slumped to the floor, some close to tears.\n\nThere were also angry exchanges in the technical area with Sweden's manager Janne Anderson upset by the exuberance of the celebrations in front of him.\n\nThe result means all four teams in Group F can still qualify for the next phase, with the outcome to be decided at venues 600 miles apart on Wednesday 27 June (15:00 BST) when Mexico face Sweden in Ekaterinburg and Germany play South Korea in Kazan.\n\nAt half-time it looked as though it was to be a black night for Germany in Sochi, the southernmost venue at the tournament, over 1,000 miles from Moscow, on the coast of the Black Sea.\n\nIt seemed perfectly possible that Germany could lose back-to-back games at a finals for the first time since 1958 and become the fourth champions in the past five tournaments to exit at the first-round stage.\n\nBut with Low urging his side on from the technical area there was a noticeable increase in tempo following the introduction of Mario Gomez at the interval.\n\nAnd when Gomez was unable to convert Timo Werner's cross, Reus followed up to level the score, restore some belief to the rattled Germans and visibly relieve the tension on manager and supporters inside the Fisht Olympic Stadium.\n\nHow Sweden had Germany on the brink\n\nStatic defending was a characteristic of Germany's opening defeat by Mexico, who cut through and round them with nimble interchanges and one-touch play.\n\nWhile the Germany coach made four changes, including two to his back four, the same pattern was in evidence against the Swedes.\n\nEmil Forsberg's exquisite turn left the entire German backline floundering early on and moments later Marcus Berg raced clear only to be pulled back by Boateng as he bore down on goalkeeper Manuel Neuer, the Swedes complaining that they should have had a penalty.\n\nGermany's deficiencies only grew more apparent, with Kroos sloppily giving away the ball inside his own half to start the move that led to Sweden's goal.\n\nViktor Claesson's pass found Toivonen and suddenly Germany appeared on the brink of exiting the World Cup at the first-round stage for the first time since 1938.\n\nNever know when they're beaten?\n\nMuch of the praise for Germany's turnaround must go to Low, who boldy dropped Ozil at a major international tournament - for the first time since the 2010 World Cup in South Africa - and then watched his replacement, Reus, breathe life into Germany's campaign.\n\nWhile born of necessity, the introduction of Julian Brandt for Jonas Hector late on, effectively leaving a side down to 10 men with just one defender on the pitch, was also to the coach's credit.\n\nAlthough Low's decision to include Brandt in his 23-man squad at the expense of Manchester City's Leroy Sane caused a stir in the media, when he came on the Bayer Leverkusen winger struck the post with a fierce effort and injected impetus before Kroos atoned for his earlier error.\n\nIt proved quite a turnaround from the team meetings, rows and recriminations within the German camp in the days following their 1-0 defeat by Mexico.\n• None Germany came from behind at half-time to win a World Cup match for the first time since 1974 - which was also against Sweden (0-1 at HT, won 4-2).\n• None Toni Kroos' winning goal after 94 minutes and 42 seconds was the latest goal scored by Germany in World Cup history (excluding extra time).\n• None Sweden's Ola Toivonen failed to score in 23 Ligue 1 games for Toulouse in 2017-18, attempting 19 shots without success - he scored with his second shot at the 2018 World Cup.\n• None Toni Kroos has been involved in five goals in his past five World Cup games (3 goals, 2 assists).\n• None Mario Gomez assisted Marco Reus' goal with his first touch of the match after coming on as a half-time substitute.\n• None Sweden have lost a World Cup group-stage match for the first time since June 1990, when they lost to Costa Rica - this defeat ends a run of 10 group games unbeaten.\n• None This was the ninth consecutive occasion that Germany have followed a defeat at the World Cup with a victory.\n• None Sweden goalkeeper Robin Olsen conceded his first goal in 548 minutes of action - before this match, he last conceded against the Netherlands in October 2017 and had kept five consecutive clean sheets.\n• None Jerome Boateng is the first player to be sent off at the World Cup for Germany since Miroslav Klose in 2010 against Serbia.\n\n'We never lost hope' - what they said\n\nGermany boss Joachim Low: \"This was a thriller, full of emotion, right up until the final whistle. Brandt hit the goal post just three minutes before the end too. We took out a defensive player and brought on an attacking player because we knew had to bring on everything we had to turn it round.\n\n\"We had a couple of great chances - Mario Gomez's header being one of them. The last couple of minutes were full of drama but those matches exist in football. We've had these situations in other tournaments as well. For the viewers that's part of the attractiveness of football.\n\n\"Something I did appreciate today was that we didn't lose our nerve, we didn't panic after going a goal down. We never lost hope we could win the match and I think the goal scored in stoppage time had a bit of luck involved but it did show the belief we had in ourselves.\"\n\nSweden manager Janne Andersson: \"They didn't create that many good opportunities, our keeper did make a few good saves, but I feel unlucky we didn't get at least one point.\n\n\"But I'm not blaming anyone or any tactical decisions. This is probably the heaviest conclusion to a match I've had in my career - but the whole group is still alive so we'll have to lick our wounds and come back for the next match.\n\n\"We had the odd opportunity but we kept the match under control up until the free-kick. It was an extraordinary individual goal. We had to work very hard throughout and once you get to the 85th minute you are very tired.\"\n\nGermany play South Korea in Kazan in their final Group F match at 15:00 BST on Wednesday, with Mexico facing Sweden in Ekaterinburg at the same time.\n• None Sebastian Larsson (Sweden) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Goal! Germany 2, Sweden 1. Toni Kroos (Germany) from a free kick with a right footed shot to the top right corner.\n• None Attempt saved. John Guidetti (Sweden) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Jimmy Durmaz with a headed pass.\n• None Offside, Germany. Julian Brandt tries a through ball, but Timo Werner is caught offside.\n• None Julian Brandt (Germany) hits the left post with a left footed shot from outside the box. Assisted by Ilkay Gündogan following a corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "A man has been arrested on suspicion of murdering a woman who was found dead in a back garden in south-east London.\n\nThe woman, thought to be in her 50s, was discovered behind a house in Tunnel Avenue, Greenwich, at about 11:30 BST on Saturday.\n\nA Metropolitan Police spokesman said it appeared she had been stabbed and they were informing her next of kin.\n\nThe arrested man, aged in his 50s, is being questioned at a south London police station.\n\nThe Met said they believed the dead woman and the arrested man were known to each other, although they do not believe the incident is domestic.\n\nA post-mortem examination is expected to be held on Sunday afternoon.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section World Cup\n\nJavier Hernandez scored his 50th international goal to help Mexico take a big step towards the last 16 of the World Cup with an impressive win over South Korea, despite Son Heung-min's stunning late strike.\n\nHaving upset defending champions Germany in their opening game in Group F, Mexico proved again they will be a test for any side should they reach the knockout stages.\n\nThey took the lead in Rostov-on-Don through Carlos Vela's penalty - the 14th of the tournament already - on 26 minutes after Jang Hyun-soo's handball.\n\nAlthough they dominated possession against lacklustre opponents, Mexico also displayed their thrilling counter-attacking game with their second goal, when West Ham striker Hernandez added a neat finish to Hirving Lozano's surging run.\n\nAs South Korea's sole threat, it was fitting that Tottenham striker Son gave his side fleeting hope in added time with a sublime, curling strike from 25 yards.\n\nToni Kroos' last-minute winner for Germany against Sweden later on Saturday means Mexico need a point against Sweden in their final group match to guarantee progress.\n\nIt also prevented South Korea being eliminated, although they need to beat Germany and for Mexico to beat Sweden to stand a chance of qualification.\n• None How did you rate the players?\n\nWhile not quite guaranteed of progress, this would be the seventh straight World Cup in which Mexico have reached the last 16, a record that stretches back to 1994.\n\nHowever, they have not gone further during that time, with their only two quarter-final appearances coming in the World Cups they hosted in 1970 and 1986.\n\nThis quick side, gifted on the counter but also comfortable in possession - albeit under minimal pressure here - have the chance to end that streak.\n\nThe second goal epitomised the threat of Vela, Hernandez and Lozano in attack. When the latter drove into space, Vela drew away to the right as the ball went left to Hernandez, who checked back and clipped low past South Korea keeper Cho Hyun-woo.\n\nThe defence remains a worry and the flaw that could end their run in the tournament. Centre-backs Hector Moreno and Carlos Salcedo made a series of tremendous blocks, but substitute Rafael Marquez's woeful attempted backpass nearly gifted Son a goal on 76 minutes.\n\nMexico could face Serbia, Switzerland or Brazil in the last 16, with the prospect of a tie against Belgium or England in the quarter-finals.\n\nBetter teams may be wise to Mexico's counter-attacking style, but no side will relish facing them on current form.\n\nVela's penalty means more spot-kicks have now been awarded in Russia than in the entire 2014 tournament in Brazil.\n\nThis is in part due to the introduction of VAR, with six of those penalties given after video reviews, although there was no need to use that technology here.\n\nJang slid in on Andres Guardado and referee Milorad Mazic was well-positioned, quickly pointing to the spot when the ball struck the South Korea defender's raised arm.\n\nAfter a long delay, with Cho purposefully standing off his line, Vela sent him the wrong way to make it 11 penalties converted from the total of 14.\n\nSouth Korea wanted a 15th penalty - but although Moon Seon-min's shot clipped Salcedo's hand, the Mexico defender's arm was against his body and the ball struck more of his chest.\n\nThe record number of penalties in a World Cup stands at 18 in 2002. Will this tournament surpass that even before the group stages end?\n\nFollowing South Korea's dismal opening 1-0 defeat by Sweden, Son said it was his fault if his side did not score because he needs to \"take the responsibility\".\n\nHe certainly did against Mexico, attempting six of his side's eight shots in the first half - more than South Korea did as a whole against Sweden.\n\nPerhaps that responsibility became a burden at times. He was indecisive when latching onto Marquez's backpass, failing to round Mexico keeper Guillermo Ochoa and then attempting a backheel that allowed the veteran defender to recover.\n\nBut his goal was a brilliant reminder of his talent. The 25-year-old shifted the ball onto his left foot and used a team-mate as a screen against a Mexico defender before bending a superb strike inside the far post.\n\nYet he could not spark a late South Korea revival.\n\nHaving shown too much deference to Sweden, the 2002 semi-finalists were less passive here but remained disjointed and over-reliant on Son.\n• None Javier Hernandez scored his 50th goal for Mexico, becoming the first player in the history of the Mexican national team to reach that milestone.\n• None He has scored four World Cup goals, a joint record for Mexico along with Luis Hernandez.\n• None He is also only the third player to score at three different World Cups for Mexico (2010, 2014 and 2018) after Cuauhtemoc Blanco (1998, 2002 and 2010) and Rafael Marquez (2006, 2010 and 2014).\n• None Mexico have won back-to-back matches at the World Cup for the first time since winning their first two matches at the 2002 World Cup.\n• None South Korea have lost their last four World Cup matches, their joint-worst losing run at the World Cup -they also lost four between 1986 and 1990.\n• None Mexico have scored 10 penalties at the World Cup - only France, Germany and Spain have scored more in the competition's history.\n\nMexico face Sweden in Yekaterinburg in their final Group F game at 15:00 BST on Wednesday, with South Korea playing Germany in Kazan at the same time.\n• None Chicharito (Mexico) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Goal! Korea Republic 1, Mexico 2. Son Heung-Min (Korea Republic) left footed shot from outside the box to the top left corner. Assisted by Lee Jae-Sung.\n• None Attempt missed. Héctor Herrera (Mexico) right footed shot from outside the box is too high following a set piece situation.\n• None Héctor Herrera (Mexico) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. Son Heung-Min (Korea Republic) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Lee Seung-Woo.\n• None Attempt blocked. Lee Jae-Sung (Korea Republic) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Son Heung-Min.\n• None Jung Woo-Young (Korea Republic) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The suit that the Duchess of Sussex's father, Thomas Markle, had planned to wear for the royal wedding has been snapped up for \"half-price\" and worn to Royal Ascot.\n\nMr Markle had been expected to walk his daughter down the aisle but missed last month's wedding because of ill health.\n\nHe later said he watched the event on television.\n\nHe bought the suit for £2,000 - around half of its full price - from Chelsea-based Oliver Brown, an official licensee of Royal Ascot which specialises in silk top hats worn inside the Royal Enclosure.\n\nThe duchess had commissioned the owner of the menswear company, Kristian Robson, to make several outfits for her father ahead of his planned visit to Britain it has been reported. She requested shirts, a weekend suit, a waistcoat and a set of tails.\n\nAccording to a source quoted in the Mail on Sunday, the tailor said that with a few adjustments, the outfits would \"fit Johnno like a glove - and they did\".\n\nMr Spence, who founded PR firm JSC Communications, is understood to have attended Royal Ascot on Tuesday - the same day the Duke and Duchess of Sussex were also there.\n\nThe Duchess of Sussex joined the Queen and her husband to attend Royal Ascot for the first time this year\n\nEarlier this month Mr Markle, 73, appeared on Good Morning Britain and said daughter Meghan cried when he told her he would not be attending the wedding.\n\nHe said he was recovering well from his heart surgery.\n\nIn the run-up to the wedding Mr Markle - a former cinematographer - became embroiled in a controversy over reports he had staged paparazzi photos of himself in wedding-related activities, such as being measured for a new suit.\n\nSpeaking to GMB, he explained that it was meant to be \"a way of improving my look\", adding: \"Obviously that all went to hell.\" He said he apologised to both Harry and Meghan.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Nicole Mone found out two months into her pregnancy that her baby was not developing properly\n\nAn Arizona woman has said she was left \"in tears and humiliated\" after a staff member at US pharmacy chain Walgreens refused to give her prescription medication to end her pregnancy - even though her doctor had said she would ultimately have a miscarriage.\n\nNicole Mone had discovered at a doctor's appointment on Tuesday that her baby was not developing normally.\n\nKnowing her two-month pregnancy would not run to term, she was given a choice to end it through a surgical procedure or prescription medication, and chose the latter.\n\nWhen she went to a Walgreens in the city of Peoria to get her prescription, she says a pharmacist refused to serve her on moral grounds - a stance which is within the company's rules.\n\nShe told the BBC the staff member was \"very short, not compassionate at all\".\n\nMs Mone, 35, shared a picture of a business card identifying the pharmacist on social media.\n\nThe BBC contacted the store to seek a response from him, but was told he was not available.\n\n\"I stood at the mercy of this pharmacist explaining my situation in front of my 7-year-old and five customers standing behind, only to be denied because of his ethical beliefs,\" Ms Mone wrote on Facebook and Instagram.\n\n\"I get it, we all have our beliefs. But what he failed to understand is, this isn't the situation I had hoped for - this isn't something I wanted. This is something I have zero control over. He has no idea what it's like to want nothing more than to carry a child to full term and be unable to do so.\"\n\nMs Mone wrote that she had suffered a previous miscarriage.\n\nShe said her young son was left \"trying to figure out what's going on, watching me get upset and trying to figure out why\".\n\n\"I left Walgreens in tears, ashamed and feeling humiliated by a man who knows nothing of my struggles but feels it is his right to deny medication prescribed to me by my doctor,\" she wrote.\n\nWalgreens told the BBC it was looking into what had happened\n\nMs Mone said she was sharing her story as she didn't want other women to endure similar experiences when they were \"vulnerable and already suffering\".\n\nIn a statement to the BBC, Walgreens said it was looking into the matter, and had \"reached out to the patient and apologised for how the situation was handled\".\n\nIt said company policy allowed its pharmacists to \"step away from filling a prescription for which they have a moral objection\".\n\nIn that situation, staff are required to refer the prescription to another pharmacist or manager \"to meet the patient's needs in a timely manner\".\n\nMs Mone said that did not reflect her experience, however, as the pharmacist \"could have just passed me on to the lady that was standing next to him\" - which she says did not happen.\n\nInstead, the prescription was transferred to another Walgreens store. Ms Mone picked it up there after seeking her doctor's help to ensure the second pharmacy would give it to her.\n\nShe said that Walgreens had not reached out to her to apologise, but that a store manager said she was sorry when Ms Mone telephoned to flag up the incident a day later.\n\nIn an update to her original Facebook post, which had drawn 33,000 reactions at time of writing, Ms Mone said she had contacted Walgreens corporate office, and filed a complaint with the state Board of Pharmacy.\n\n\"Thank you to those who have shown love and support,\" she added.\n• None 'I felt like miscarriage was my fault'", "A man has been charged with the murder of a woman who was found dead in a back garden in south-east London.\n\nGary Davies, 50, of Tunnel Avenue, Greenwich, is due to appear at Bromley Magistrates' Court on Monday.\n\nA 56-year-old woman was found dead behind a house in Tunnel Avenue at about 11:30 BST on Saturday.\n\nA Metropolitan Police spokesman said it appeared she had been stabbed. Her next of kin have been informed but formal identification has not yet taken place.\n\nThe spokesman added: \"Although the incident is not thought to be domestic, detectives believe the deceased and the man charged were known to each other.\"", "Ed Sheeran is the first artist to play four successive nights at Principality Stadium\n\nEd Sheeran temporarily stopped his latest sell-out concert on his world tour to go to the toilet - twice.\n\nThe Grammy award winning singer halted his Saturday night set in Cardiff because he \"needed a pee\" after performing his smash hit Galway Girl.\n\nThen three songs later Sheeran stopped in the middle of singing Photograph, saying \"I'm so sorry Cardiff\" before running off to the toilet again.\n\nThe 60,000 Principality Stadium crowd cheered when he returned to the stage.\n\nThe 27-year-old then continued singing where he left off.\n\nSheeran drank many bottles of water early on in the hit-filled set.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Saturday show in Cardiff was the penultimate gig of the UK leg of his bumper Divide world tour before it returns to mainland Europe and Amsterdam on Thursday.\n\nIt was also the third night of Sheeran's record-breaking mini-residency at the Principality Stadium, being the first artist to have four successive nights at the Cardiff arena.\n\nFans travelling to and from Sheeran's final night in Cardiff on Sunday have been advised to plan ahead as the only trains running after it finishes at 22:30 BST are to Swansea and Hereford via Newport.\n\nThere are no services to London Paddington because of an unexpected Severn Tunnel closure - and there will be just one service to Cardiff from London an hour before the concert, which will take 40 minutes longer than usual.\n\nArriva Trains Wales has also warned there will be no trains to towns including Barry, Caerphilly, Pontypridd, Ebbw Vale, Treherbert and Carmarthen after the gig.\n\nMost roads in Cardiff city centre will shut ahead of Sunday's Ed Sheeran concert\n\nSecurity to the concert is tight - only small bags are allowed in the stadium while laptops, selfie sticks and umbrellas are banned.\n\nCardiff buses are being diverted out of city centre bus stops while operators have warned train services in the Cardiff area will be busy all day.\n\nCardiff night marshals will be on patrol at taxi ranks in St Mary's and Wood Street as demand for cabs are \"expected to be high.\"", "Coverage: Commentary on BBC Radio 5 live, live text commentary on BBC Sport website & highlights at 22:30 BST on BBC One\n\nEngland manager Gareth Southgate has told his players to \"create their own history\" as they seek the win over Panama that will send them into the last 16 of the World Cup.\n\nSouthgate is aware of England's poor recent record in major tournaments, but says his youthful squad can leave that behind and write new chapters of their own in Russia.\n\nEngland face Panama in Nizhny Novgorod on Sunday knowing victory will mean their final Group G game with Belgium will decide who tops the section.\n\nThe Three Lions have not gone past the quarter-final stage of a World Cup or European Championship for 22 years.\n\nSouthgate said: \"Past history is not important for this team. They have an opportunity to create their own history. They should be excited about that.\n\n\"They're a young team who will get better and better. I enjoy working with all of them and I'm intrigued to find out how far they can go and how well they can play.\"\n• None Frank Lampard column: 'Loftus-Cheek can do everything'\n• None Who did you pick to start for England v Panama?\n\nEngland trained in the mild climes of their Zelenogorsk base on Saturday morning before flying into the searing heat of Nizhny Novogorod, where temperatures were as high as 32C.\n\nPanama took the opportunity to train in the heat in the spectacular Nizhny Novgorod Stadium, before Sunday's kick-off at 15:00 local time (13:00 BST) - but Southgate insists England have not made a mistake by declining to acclimatise.\n\nHe said: \"We never train at the stadium before any of our qualifiers. It's also fairly typical for most of the teams when they play in the Champions League.\n\n\"When I came to the Fifa workshop they were quite keen for teams not to train at the stadiums to protect the pitches.\n\n\"It makes sense to train earlier in the day, recover and travel. It's about the flow of the day to leave maximum time for physical recovery.\"The heat is different in different parts of the country. There is no physiological benefit to train in the heat for a couple of weeks before and thinking there will be an adaptation.\n\n\"We are a team who keeps possession and in the heat that will be key as to when we need to attack with the ball or rest with possession.\"\n\nLiverpool captain Jordan Henderson said: \"It's just the basics really. Hydration is the most important thing, taking on plenty of fluids before, during and after the game. That is the key thing.\"\n\nSouthgate also said there was no complacency in England's camp or approach, even though they will be overwhelming favourites to beat Panama, who lost their opening game 3-0 to Belgium.\n\n\"We've seen already the difficulty big countries, in terms of rankings, have had in terms of breaking down lower-ranked teams. That's been a theme throughout so there will be no complacency in the way we've prepared for the game,\" he said.\n\n\"The situation in the group is a healthy one for us, but we have to focus on our performance. I always talk to the players about what we can control - our preparation, how we want to attack the game.\n\n\"We want to play in the style we played coming into the tournament. We're a team who are hungry and want to improve.\n\n\"We have technically good players who we want on the ball and expressing themselves, as we did the other night against Tunisia. Equally we have to play with intelligence and keep improving. They are the things that are important.\"\n\nSouthgate touched again on the debate over the team-sheet that was pictured in the hands of assistant Steve Holland in training and appeared to show Raheem Sterling and injured Dele Alli replaced by Marcus Rashford and Ruben Loftus-Cheek.\n\nHe said: \"If the opposition have your team in any sport, that's a competitive advantage, but it's not the job of the media to protect that. The other day was a list of 23 players and people have taken something from it which probably isn't correct. But no drama.\"", "The newly-weds travelled to Wardhill Castle in an old Land Rover Defender\n\nGame of Thrones stars Kit Harington and Rose Leslie have married at a ceremony in Aberdeenshire.\n\nThe couple - who played on-screen lovers Jon Snow and Ygritte - met on the fantasy show in 2012.\n\nGuests lined the path outside Rayne Church, near Inverurie, showering the newly-weds with flower petal confetti.\n\nThe couple then got into an old Land Rover decorated with paper hearts and tin cans as they drove to the reception at nearby Wardhill Castle.\n\nThe guests included fellow Game of Thrones stars Peter Dinklage, Maisie Williams, Sophie Turner and Emilia Clarke.\n\nRose Leslie arrived at the church with her father\n\nEarlier the bride and groom, Harington dressed in a morning suit and the bride in a flowing ivory dress and veil, had greeted dozens of fans and other wellwishers.\n\nThe reception was held in the grounds of Wardhill Castle, which is owned by the actress's father, Seb Leslie.\n\nThe couple are holding their reception at Wardhill Castle in Aberdeenshire\n\nThe engagement was announced last September.\n\nThe actress grew up in Aberdeenshire before moving to London to pursue her career.\n\nThe couple have often been seen together in the north east of Scotland.\n\nThe 23 June date was posted at the Huntly registration office last month.\n\nKit Harington plays Jon Snow in Game of Thrones, and Rose Leslie played Ygritte\n\nEmilia Clarke - who plays Daenerys Targaryen - arrived in Aberdeen on Friday\n\nLeslie left the cast two years after they met, while Harington has appeared in every series of the popular TV drama, becoming one of the show's biggest stars.\n\nHarington told L'Uomo Vogue it was \"easy\" to fall in love with his co-star.\n\nHe said his best memory of the show was three weeks in Iceland when they filmed the second season.\n\nThe couple's engagement was announced last year\n\n\"Because the country is beautiful, because the Northern Lights are magical, and because it was there that I fell in love,\" he recalled.\n\n\"If you're already attracted to someone, and then they play your love interest in the show, it becomes very easy to fall in love.\"", "Watch highlights of England's record-breaking 6-1 win over Panama in their Group G match at the 2018 World Cup.\n\nAvailable to UK users only.", "Mr Trump has called for \"strength and security at the border\" in a series of tweets\n\nUS President Donald Trump has called for speedy deportations that bypass any judicial process in a tweet on Sunday.\n\n\"When somebody comes in, we must immediately, with no Judges or Court Cases, bring them back from where they came,\" Mr Trump wrote.\n\nHis comments come days after Mr Trump reversed a policy to separate migrant children from their parents following fierce backlash at home and abroad.\n\nMore than 2,300 children were separated from their parents in May and June.\n\nAs of May, all migrants who cross the US border illegally face criminal prosecution under the \"zero tolerance\" policy.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Donald J. Trump This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Donald J. Trump This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe president did not make the distinction between economic migrants and those seeking asylum.\n\nMr Trump has faced criticism, including from his own Republican Party, for his choice of language on Twitter.\n\nWhen he earlier said illegal immigrants threatened \"to pour into and infest our Country\", Republican congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen tweeted back at him saying his \"baseless rhetoric\" was \"repugnant\" and dehumanised those looking for a better life.\n\nUS immigration officials say 2,342 children were separated from 2,206 parents from 5 May to 9 June.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Zero-tolerance: The US policy dividing families and opinion\n\nOn 20 June, Mr Trump backed down from his support for the policy and signed an executive order ending the practice of separating families.\n\nHe said at the time: \"I did not like the sight or feeling of families being separated.\"\n\nMr Trump's directive allows for long-term detention of immigrant children (albeit with their parents), which violates federal law that limits child detention to 20 days.\n\nA public outcry over migrant children being separated from their parents, forced Donald Trump to soften his immigration policy.\n\nBut since then, in a series of speeches, he has called for tougher laws - and claimed America's current legislation is laughed at by the rest of the world.\n\nHis latest comments on Twitter go even further.\n\nHe says that everyone found illegally trying to cross the border should be returned to their own country immediately - without involving judges or holding court cases.\n\nPolitical opponents will be furious that that's even been suggested but President Trump clearly believes his supporters back his hardline stance.\n\nFollowing Mr Trump's election in 2016, the numbers of migrants held or detained entry while crossing the border had dropped significantly.\n\nHowever, since February 2018, the number of migrants crossing the border illegally is up, with arrests last month more than double those in May 2017.\n\nWhile illegal crossings cannot be accurately counted, border arrests are used as a measure of illegal border crossings.", "Last updated on .From the section World Cup\n\nEngland recorded their biggest win at a World Cup to overwhelm Panama and secure a place in the last 16 before their final Group G game with Belgium.\n\nHarry Kane played a captain's role once more with a hat-trick to become the tournament's leading scorer, as England built on their opening victory against Tunisia with an impressive show of ruthlessness and quality.\n\nJohn Stones opened the scoring with an early header before Kane added the second with a thunderous penalty after Jesse Lingard had been fouled.\n\nLingard added the third in the 36th minute with a brilliant curling effort from 25 yards and, as Panama crumbled, Stones crowned a slick set-piece routine by heading his second and Kane made it 5-0 before half-time with another penalty after he was wrestled to the ground.\n\nKane completed his treble with a fortunate deflection from Ruben Loftus-Cheek's shot after the break, before Panama's noisy supporters were able to celebrate their first goal at a World Cup through Felipe Baloy.\n\nThe margin of victory for England topped 3-0 wins over Poland and Paraguay in Mexico in 1986, and against Denmark in 2002.\n\nEngland top Group G as they have fewer yellow cards than Belgium. If they draw the final game it will go down to disciplinary records to decide who finishes first - and if that is level lots will be drawn\n• None New England, new confidence - why there is joy & optimism\n• None Player rater: Who was the best England player against Panama?\n\nEngland's opening win over Tunisia contained one serious flaw that needed correcting - namely a lack of ruthlessness and clinical edge in front of goal.\n\nAs Panama were totally dismantled, the failing was addressed and then some as a place in the last-16 stage was secured in quick-fire fashion.\n\nStrangely, England had actually made a subdued and sloppy start before Stones powered in Kieran Trippier's corner to put them ahead. It was plain sailing from then on.\n\nSouthgate's side sparkled in Nizhny Novgorod, pace and movement mixed with flashes of individual brilliance such as Lingard's goal to reduce Panama to an ill-disciplined shambles.\n\nWhen they get it right, England have the firepower to trouble any team, with captain Kane a spearhead approaching world class.\n\nThey also showed commendable first-half discipline to avoid getting involved in Panama's ham-fisted physical approach, simply letting the inevitable take its course in the hands of Egyptian referee Ghead Grisha, who was determined to punish penalty-area transgressions.\n\nEngland inevitably eased off with the game and that place in the last 16 no longer in doubt, and of course greater tests lie ahead. But this was the sort of commanding performance that will do wonders for confidence as the World Cup reaches the knockout stage.\n• None Which records did England break in 6-1 win?\n• None World Cup Daily: Lampard says England can 'go all the way'\n\nThe piece of paper in assistant manager Steve Holland's hand that ended up not revealing England's starting XI was the main talking point from their Zelenogorsk training base this week.\n\nThere can be more talk from the training ground now - about England's hard work behind closed doors on set-pieces that has reaped a rich reward in Volgograd and now here in Nizhny Novgorod.\n\nEngland's players have clearly been made aware of the potential of set-piece strength at this World Cup, particularly in the context of the video assistant referee (VAR) and the potential for physical defending to be punished.\n\nIt brought two goals from corners for Kane against Tunisia and another superb Tripper delivery led to Stones' first goal, Panama's defenders too interested in dragging Harry Maguire around than keeping an eye on the Manchester City defender.\n\nThe crowning glory, however, was Stones' second - another header that capped a perfectly worked routine that had almost brought a goal for Raheem Sterling first and was implemented after lengthy discussions between several England players.\n\nSouthgate's men are playing to their strengths and defences will find it hard to cope with the physical presence and threat the manager can employ.\n\nWorld Cup debutants Panama stubbornly resisted Belgium until the early stages of the second half before slumping to a 3-0 defeat in their first game.\n\nThis Group G game was over as a contest once Stones gave England that early lead as Panama's ill-discipline and lack of organisation was brutally exposed.\n\nHowever, they did score their first World Cup goal through Baloy to spark great celebrations from their supporters, who can at least return home with that treasured memory.\n\nFor England's part, they can only make the best of the opposition in front of them - and they delivered an outstanding result.\n\nHow far can England go?\n\nThis is the question that will now be asked - and one that can only be answered by performances against teams boasting more quality than Panama.\n\nWhat can be said with confidence is that this has been an impressive, vibrant opening to their World Cup campaign by England, and while it is early days and the serious business will start in the knockout phase, Southgate and his squad will not have seen anything they should fear.\n\nEngland possess real threat up front but may need to shore up an attack-minded midfield against better opposition, and the defence - which has looked vulnerable on occasions - has yet to be seriously tested.\n\nSo far, so good though - and England can get back to work at their training base on the Gulf of Finland with last-16 qualification assured before their most hazardous group game and with confidence and national expectations soaring.\n• None England have won their opening two group-stage games at a World Cup for the third time, also doing so in 1982 and 2006.\n• None This was England's biggest win at a major tournament.\n• None This was only the fifth occasion a side had scored five goals before half-time in a World Cup match, and the first since Germany did so against Brazil in the 2014 semi-final.\n• None England scored as many goals in this game as in their previous seven World Cup matches combined.\n• None Only in 1966 (11) have England scored more goals in a World Cup than they have so far in Russia (eight, same as 1954 and 1990).\n• None Panama have conceded nine goals in their first two World Cup matches. But El Salvador conceded 10, to Hungary, in their first game of the 1982 World Cup while in 1974 Zaire shipped 11 and Haiti 10 from their first two matches.\n• None Only two players have been older than Panama's Baloy (37 years and 120 days) when scoring their first World Cup goal - Cameroon's Roger Milla (38 years and 25 days) in 1990 and Sweden's Gunnar Gren (37 years 236 days) in 1958.\n• None Stones became the first England defender to score two goals in a World Cup match.\n• None Kane is the third England player to score a hat-trick in a World Cup match, after Geoff Hurst against Germany in the 1966 final and Gary Lineker against Poland in 1986.\n• None Kane is the first player to score at least twice in both of his first two World Cup appearances since Grzegorz Lato of Poland in 1974. Lato went on to win the Golden Boot at that tournament.\n• None Kane is now the leading scorer at the 2018 World Cup with five goals, and he has netted with all of his shots on target.\n\nEngland play Belgium at Kaliningrad Stadium on Thursday to see who tops the group (19:00 BST kick-off).\n• None Attempt missed. Jose Luis Rodriguez (Panama) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Armando Cooper.\n• None Attempt blocked. Blas Pérez (Panama) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Abdiel Arroyo.\n• None Attempt missed. Raheem Sterling (England) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.\n• None Goal! England 6, Panama 1. Felipe Baloy (Panama) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Ricardo Avila with a cross following a set piece situation. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Who's been affected by Turkey's state of emergency?\n\nAlmost two years after a failed military coup in Turkey, the country remains under a state of emergency. What has happened during the crackdown?\n\nTurkey is holding presidential and parliamentary elections on 24 June. There will be a second-round run-off for the presidency on 8 July if no candidate wins more than half the vote in the first round.\n\nThe state of emergency does not prevent registered political parties from taking part in the elections, and all parties are holding rallies and running campaigns.\n\nBut the government has used emergency powers to close down many independent media in the last two years, and most television coverage of the election focuses on President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP).\n\nSo why is the state of emergency in place and how many people has it affected?\n\nIt was imposed in response to an attempted military coup in July 2016. The coup was a massive shock to Turkey. Parliament in Ankara was bombed by military aircraft, and more than 250 people were killed and 2,200 injured, many on the streets of Istanbul.\n\nOnce it was clear that the coup had failed, a state of emergency was declared and the government began one of the largest recent purges of public employees anywhere in the world.\n\nThe aim was to remove from office anyone suspected of having links with those who had tried to overthrow an elected government.\n\nThe BBC asked a series of questions to the Turkish Ministry of Justice about the state of emergency and the number of people affected by it, but had received no response by the time this article was published.\n\nThe figures used here come from a variety of sources: publicly available government information and data from non-governmental organisations.\n\nSince July 2016 more than 107,000 people have been removed from public sector jobs by emergency decree. Tens of thousands of others have been suspended, but most of them have subsequently been reinstated after investigation.\n\nThere have also been a large number of dismissals in the private sector, but precise numbers are hard to come by.\n\nMany - but by no means all - of those dismissed are alleged to be supporters of the exiled Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen, who lives in the United States and is a former ally of Mr Erdogan. Turkey accuses Mr Gulen and his followers of organising the coup, but he denies it.\n\nThere is no question, though, that tens of thousands of his followers have found jobs in all parts of the state bureaucracy over a period of many years.\n\nAmong those dismissed by decree since the coup attempt are soldiers and police officers, judges and prosecutors, doctors and teachers.\n\nApproximately a quarter of all judges and prosecutors have been removed from their posts. And a report on the state of emergency issued by the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) says at least 5,000 academics and more than 33,000 teachers have also lost their jobs.\n\nAynur Barkin, a primary school teacher, is one of those who has lost her job. She insists that she has nothing to do with the Gulen movement. She's been taking part in small protests, organised by the Union of Education Workers, of people demanding their jobs back.\n\n\"I've been a teacher for 15 years,\" she says. \"My place is in my classroom. I should be able to go back to my school. I should be able to get my job back.\"\n\nMore than 250 people died in the 2016 coup\n\nInitially there was no way of appealing against dismissal by emergency decree. But under pressure from the Council of Europe, which monitors human rights, the government set up a commission to look at individual cases.\n\nMore than 100,000 people have appealed to the commission, but it is an administrative process rather than a legal one. The government says it has reviewed 19,600 cases so far, and 1,010 people have been given permission to return to work.\n\nPeople who have been sacked by decree are given no information initially about what they are alleged to have done wrong. But some reasons are given subsequently, if an appeal to the commission is rejected.\n\nCritics say the evidence is often circumstantial: where you held a bank account, which app you used on your smartphone, or where your children went to school. (Among other things, Gulenist organisations operated banks and a well-established network of schools across the country.)\n\nBut the only people who have precise details of the cases against them are those who have been arrested and charged with offences.\n\nMore than 50,000 people have been imprisoned pending trial since July 2016.\n\nImprisoned presidential candidate Selahattin Demirtas appears on photographs at rallies held by his supporters\n\nAgain, many of them are alleged supporters of Mr Gulen. Others are leftists or Kurdish activists, also accused of supporting terrorism and imprisoned as part of a broader crackdown on dissent.\n\nAmong them is the Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtas, who is running for president from his prison cell. On Sunday night he made his only TV appearance of the campaign so far, filmed inside Edirne prison. But he often appears at election rallies as a cardboard cut-out.\n\nA large number of human rights activists, lawyers and journalists are also behind bars.\n\nThe Turkey-based Platform for Independent Journalism runs a website which lists more than 150 journalists and media workers who have been detained or imprisoned since July 2016 and are currently still in jail.\n\nOn a visit to London, Mr Erdogan was keen to draw a distinction between \"journalists\" and \"terrorists\"\n\nMr Erdogan was questioned about the jailing of journalists during a joint press conference in London last month with the UK Prime Minister Theresa May. His response was typically robust.\n\n\"You have to make a distinction between terrorists and journalists,\" he said. \"Are we supposed to call them journalists just because they carry credentials and ID cards?\"\n\nLifting the state of emergency would not automatically free anyone from prison, nor would it invalidate emergency decrees that have the force of law.\n\nBut it would remove a major cause of uncertainty in Turkey, where badly-needed foreign investment fell since the coup took place. In an election in which the state of the economy is the biggest issue, that matters.\n\nOpposition presidential candidates have always said that their first job after the election, if they win, will be to end the state of emergency.\n\nThe president has previously insisted that the state of emergency will remain in place while there is a significant threat of \"terrorism\" from supporters of Mr Gulen or anyone else.\n\nBut, in the last few days, Mr Erdogan has changed his tune, suggesting that he too will lift the state of emergency if re-elected - although he has also warned that it could be reimposed if necessary.\n\nPromises made during an election campaign are not always kept once the voting is over.\n\nBut it seems that the president may be feeling the pressure.", "Father Capella (left, with his lawyer) was tried at the Vatican\n\nA former Vatican diplomat has been sentenced to five years in prison for child pornography offences.\n\nMonsignor Carlo Alberto Capella pleaded guilty at a Vatican court, which heard that indecent images of children and a video were found on his mobile phone.\n\nHe said he had suffered a personal crisis while working at the Vatican embassy in Washington DC.\n\nThe priest was recalled from the US last year after authorities notified the Vatican of their suspicions.\n\nThe US had asked that Capella's diplomatic immunity be lifted so he could face charges there. Canadian police later issued an arrest warrant for Capella, an Italian.\n\nThe former diplomat will serve his sentence in the Vatican's small prison, and pay a fine of €5,000 (£4,400; $5,800).\n\nA prosecution witness told the court that an examination of the priest's personal devices revealed more than 40 incriminating images, including an explicit video involving a small child.\n\nThe case is the latest allegation involving child sexual abuse to hit the Catholic Church.\n\nAll of Chile's 34 bishops offered to resign in May following a child sex scandal and a cover up. Pope Francis has since accepted three of their resignations.\n\nIn 2013, the Holy See recalled and defrocked its envoy to the Dominican Republic, Jozef Wesolowski, and ordered he be tried for child sex offences.\n\nWesolowski was found dead in 2015 before he could stand trial.\n\nA man considered the Church's third-ranked official, Vatican treasurer Cardinal George Pell, is due to go on trial in Australia on charges of historical sexual offences, which he denies.", "The fisherman was robbed three miles off Slapton Sands in Devon\n\nTwo men in an inflatable vessel have stolen a fisherman's haul after threatening him with a knife three miles off shore.\n\nDevon and Cornwall Police said the theft happened off Slapton Sands in Devon at 05:30 BST.\n\nThe local fisherman discovered the men cutting his nets and confronted them before they stole his haul of plaice and Dover sole.\n\nThe force has warned people not to \"buy any fish from unreputable sources\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section World Cup\n\nJapan and Senegal remain well placed to reach the knockout stage of the World Cup - and a last-16 date with England or Belgium - after an entertaining draw in Ekaterinburg.\n\nSadio Mane put Senegal ahead from close range after an awful mistake by Eiji Kawashima, the ball flying past the Japan keeper after his attempted punched clearance hit the Liverpool forward.\n\nJapan were level before half-time through Takashi Inui's lovely curling finish, before Yuya Osako hit the crossbar.\n\nNineteen-year-old defender Moussa Wague thought he had sealed Senegal's second straight Group H win with a fine finish from an angle but substitute Keisuke Honda salvaged a point for Japan moments after coming on.\n\nJapan and Senegal have four points after two games, while Group H rivals Poland and Colombia are both chasing their first points of the tournament when they meet in Kazan at 19:00 BST.\n• None How did you rate the players?\n• None Relive the action as Japan and Senegal play out entertaining draw\n\nDespite another point, Senegal will be disappointed they could not follow up their 2-1 win over Poland last week by becoming the first African side to win two group games since Ghana in 2006.\n\nBut 16 years on from their debut World Cup, the Teranga Lions continue to win new fans in Russia.\n\nWhile Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia are already making plans to return home after failing to secure a point, Senegal can still ensure Africa has at least one representative in the last 16.\n\nHowever, Aliou Cisse will be frustrated his players failed to build on Mane's opener after Kawashima's howler.\n\nSenegal were well in control but failed to build on their strong start and Inui's smart finish, after Yuto Nagatomo created the chance, saw Japan draw level with their first shot on target.\n\nEven after Wague restored Senegal's advantage with a sweeping finish, they were unable to see the game out - keeper Khadim N'Diaye's failed clearance leading to Honda's equaliser.\n\nIn 2002, the likes of Henri Camara and El Hadji Diouf helped Senegal reach the quarter-finals under Bruno Metsu. If Senegal's class of 2018 hope to emulate that achievement they will have to cut out the mistakes.\n\nJapan were one of the first teams to book their place in Russia, qualifying last August.\n\nHaving gone out early in Brazil four years ago with one point, they now have four at this tournament and could be set for an extended stay.\n\nThey started slowly and Kawashima's blunder threatened to prove costly.\n\nHowever, Japan regained their composure and took control before the interval before wasting a glorious chance to take the lead for the first time with the game 1-1, Osako failing to connect right in front of Senegal's net.\n\nJapan were gifted their equaliser by Senegal's keeper, with Honda now the top-scoring Asian player in World Cup history, netting four goals in nine appearances in the competition.\n\nHowever, they deserved that moment of fortune after a hard-working performance.\n\n'We were not very good frankly' - what they said\n\nSenegal boss Aliou Cisse: \"Of course we have regrets. We must acknowledge that we didn't see a great Senegalese performance in comparison to the match against Poland.\n\n\"We were not very good frankly, and Japan were the better team, I have to admit that. But despite that fact, we led twice and what's annoying for me is the two goals we conceded.\n\n\"Japan played as expected; they are a very technical team with such good quality in that respect. We pressured them well at the start and they made some errors, which we exploited.\n\n\"But as soon as we gave them some space, it became difficult for us. Now we have to hope for the best when we face Colombia.\"\n\nJapan boss Akira Nishino: \"We knew Senegal were not a team we could win easily against but the team were calm after conceding goals and it was positive that we were able to equalise twice.\n\n\"We constructed attacks well and played in our own rhythm. The substitutions also worked well and I think I did very well with the timing of those.\n\n\"The players were very confident and positive, and I myself thought we could have gone for the victory.\n\n\"But Senegal are a very strong team and I hope that this result will lead to more success in our next match.\"\n\nWhy Honda loves the World Cup - the stats\n• None Keisuke Honda scored in his third different World Cup finals tournament for Japan (2010, 2014, 2018) - he is the first Japanese player to do this.\n• None Honda's goal was his 37th for Japan, tying him level with Hiromi Hara as the fourth highest goalscorer for the national team.\n• None Senegal have not lost any of the 15 international matches that Sadio Mane has scored in for them (W9 D6 L0).\n• None Senegal's 19-year-old Moussa Wague became only the second teenager to score at the 2018 World Cup, after France's Kylian Mbappe.\n\nBoth teams are back in action on Thursday at 15:00 BST for their final group games with Japan facing Poland in Volgograd and Senegal taking on Colombia in Samara.\n• None Attempt missed. Mame Biram Diouf (Senegal) left footed shot from the centre of the box is too high following a set piece situation.\n• None Makoto Hasebe (Japan) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt blocked. Salif Sané (Senegal) header from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Sadio Mané.\n• None Ismaila Sarr (Senegal) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Cheikh N'Doye (Senegal) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Youssouf Sabaly (Senegal) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Kīlauea volcano is the most active volcano on Hawaii's Big Island.\n\nMore homes have been threatened by the flowing lava.", "Last updated on .From the section World Cup\n\nRidiculous. Absolutely ridiculous. It's safe to say most England fans have not experienced elation like this in a long time.\n\nHaving put on frankly pitiful performances in the past few major tournaments (scoring just five goals in the past two World Cups), Sunday's match was something to behold.\n\nExpectations were low, but Gareth Southgate's young team made it two wins out of two in Group G in spectacular fashion. The final score in Nizhny Novgorod: England 6-1 Panama.\n\nHere are some pretty stunning stats to put the historic result into some context...\n• None It is the first time England have scored five goals in the first half of a World Cup match.\n• None It is also the first time they have scored four or more goals in a World Cup game since the 1966 final against Germany (that finished 4-2 in case you need reminding).\n• None Harry Kane is the third player to score a hat-trick for England at the World Cup, after Geoff Hurst in that 1966 final and Gary Lineker in 1986.\n\nThe first goal came from Manchester City defender John Stones on eight minutes, who scored his first ever international goal.\n\nEven at this early stage, there was a feeling this wasn't going to be the last goal England scored today...\n\nTwenty minutes in and Jesse Lingard, already having a cracker of a game, was bowled over in the box.\n\nCaptain Harry Kane stepped up to the plate and took the penalty with unbelievable confidence. \"Top bins\" as they say.\n\nThat was his third goal this tournament - and he had more where that came from.\n\nAt 2-0, many people on social media let their imaginations run wild.\n\n\"It's coming home\" was trending on Twitter, and The Lightning Seeds' song was being sung in the stands and fan parks from Moscow to Macclesfield.\n\nGoal three was a cracker from Manchester United wonder-kid Jesse Lingard.\n\nAnd thank goodness - he has been itching to crack out the Fortnite dance for days.\n\nGoal four (yes, F.O.U.R.) was another from in-form John Stones - the BBC Sport statisticians began to lose their minds...\n\nAll right Gary, let's not get too carried away...\n\nPointless presenter Richard Osman brought us all back down to earth with some typical English pessimism.\n\nAnd then there were England fans like Jordan:\n\nAfter some slightly, shall we say, \"dubious\" tactics from the Panama defence, the referee once again pointed to the spot for an England penalty.\n\nKane stepped up to take his second of the day, having been the man hauled over in the box.\n\nHe absolutely lashed it home... again.\n\n5-0 at half time. No, really.\n\nWith the nation able sit back in their armchairs or sun loungers for the first time in - well, decades - social media came alive.\n\nThe memes began to roll in. One or two challenging for \"The Most British Tweet of the Year 2018\".\n\nAfter half-time, England then endured a whole 17 minutes without a goal.\n\nAs the clock ticked into the 63rd minute, arise Sir Harry...\n\nCould he become the third England player ever to score a hat-trick in the World Cup finals?\n\nYou bet he could. 6-0.\n\nIn doing so, he knocked a five-time Ballon d'Or winner off the top of the race for the Golden Boot.\n\nAny more for any more lads?\n\nWell, no more for England but Panama's Felipe Baloy, 37, fancied a bit of history for himself, scoring the nation's first ever goal at a World Cup finals.\n\nOverall, it was a pretty impressive display from Gareth Southgate's young England squad, who book their place in the knockout stage of the World Cup.", "The SNP has withdrawn its support for a third runway at Heathrow airport, hours before a key Commons vote on the move.\n\nBut the UK government persuaded MPs to give the go-ahead for a third runway, which they say would boost the number of flights to and from Scotland.\n\nThe Commons supported the government's plan by 415 votes to 119, a majority of 296.\n\nThe Scottish government has been a longtime backer of the plans, and was still behind them on Sunday.\n\nHow did the MPs vote on the Heathrow Expansion Bill? Did my MP vote For or Against the third runway at Heathrow? Enter your postcode, or the name or constituency of your MP Enter your postcode, or the name or constituency of your MP\n\nBut SNP MPs abstained from voting because there were \"no guarantees of the benefits\".\n\nIt has been projected that the expansion of Heathrow would create at least 100 extra landing slots from Heathrow to Scottish airports each week.\n\nThe Scottish government had previously backed Heathrow's bid for a third runway, saying it would bring economic benefits for Scotland.\n\nOn Sunday, a Transport Scotland spokesman said the government \"supports expansion at Heathrow airport\" and \"looks forward to Scotland seeing the benefits\".\n\nHowever, on the day of the vote, SNP MPs announced they would be abstaining because the UK government had \"failed to make the case\" for the move.\n\nTransport spokesman Alan Brown said SNP members \"could not vote for a third runway at Heathrow with no guarantees of the benefits\".\n\nProtestors campaigned against the third runway outside the SNP conference in Aberdeen\n\nThe UK government faced opposition in its own ranks, with a number of Conservatives who represent seats in Heathrow's flight path rebelling.\n\nLast week junior trade minister Greg Hands resigned from the government to oppose expansion of Heathrow Airport.\n\nMr Hands, who represents the Chelsea and Fulham constituency in London, said he had pledged to oppose the new runway at the 2017 election.\n\nThe highest profile opponent of Heathrow expansion in the cabinet is Boris Johnson, the foreign secretary, who once pledged to lie down in front of bulldozers to stop it happening.\n\nBut he was visiting Afghanistan and unable to attend the vote in the House of Commons.\n\nLabour is also divided on the controversial issue, with members of the party's leadership, such as shadow chancellor John McDonnell, opposed to it, but high-profile trade union backers in favour.\n\nThe party's MPs were allowed to vote however they wanted on the issue.\n\nCampaigners argue that a new runway will breach the UK's legal limits on air pollution and increase noise pollution with an extra 700 planes a day.", "Last updated on .From the section World Cup\n\nThe final round of group matches at the 2018 World Cup has drawn to a close, and the last 16 has been finalised.\n\nBut how did the teams progress - and who faces whom in the first round of the knockout stage?\n• None Uruguay progress as group winners with hosts Russia through in second place.\n• None Uruguay play Portugal (the runners-up in Group B) in the last 16 while Russia play Spain (Group B winners).\n• None Spain progress as group winners - on goals scored above Portugal, who are through in second place. Portugal were set to win the group until late goals in both games.\n• None Spain face hosts Russia (Group A runners-up) in the last 16, with Portugal up against Uruguay (Group A winners).\n• None France are through as group winners - with Denmark through in second place following a goalless draw between the two sides in their final group game.\n• None France will play Group D runners-up Argentina, while Denmark face Croatia, the winners of Group D.\n• None Croatia are through as group winners after scoring a late goal to beat Iceland and maintain their 100% record - they will face Group C runners-up Denmark.\n• None Argentina are through as runners-up after defeating Nigeria 2-1 and will play Group C winners France.\n• None Brazil qualify as winners with two wins from three and will play Group F runners-up Mexico in the next round.\n• None Switzerland take the runners-up spot and will face Group F winners Sweden.\n• None Sweden qualify as group winners following a dramatic victory over runners-up Mexico in their final game.\n• None The Swedes will face Group E runners-up Switzerland in the next round, while Mexico face five-time champions Brazil.\n• None Belgium qualify as group winners following victory over runners-up England in their final game.\n• None Belgium will face Group H runners-up Japan in the next round, while England meet Colombia.\n• None Colombia take top spot and will play Group G runners-up England in the last 16.\n• None Japan qualify in second in dramatic style - finishing ahead of Senegal through fair play - and will next face Group G winners Belgium.", "Gayle and Charlie Anderson were described as \"pillars of the community\"\n\nTwo British grandparents found dead at their home in Jamaica are thought to have been murdered, police have said.\n\nCharlie Anderson, 75, and his wife Gayle, 71, from Manchester, had recently retired to the Caribbean island.\n\nThey were found dead by neighbours in their home in Mount Pleasant on Friday afternoon.\n\nTheir sons said in a statement they were \"completely devastated\" by the deaths of the \"hugely popular\" couple.\n\nThe couple, who were also known as Halford and Florence, lived in a rural community in Hope Bay, Portland, on the north-east of the island.\n\nIt has been reported locally they had recently called in police to investigate money they said had been fraudulently taken from a bank card.\n\nJamaican police confirmed they were involved in another ongoing investigation but said they had not yet established a motive for the killing.\n\nThe couple's deaths come as Jamaican authorities seek to tackle a crime wave which has resulted in more than 1,600 murders in 2017.\n\nSo far this year more than 600 people have been killed, including seven people who had returned to the island after living abroad.\n\nA limited state of emergency has been put in place in two high crime areas in an effort to cut the murder rate.\n\nIn a statement, the couple's sons said: \"Our parents Charlie and Gayle enjoyed a long and happy marriage of 55 years and leave behind their four grandchildren and one great-grandchild.\n\n\"They were hardworking people, building a business with integrity and making sure we were always provided for.\n\n\"Charlie and Gayle were pillars of the community in Manchester and Jamaica, and were hugely popular and loved by many.\n\n\"They were just beginning the next chapter of their lives, retiring to Jamaica before this terrible tragedy.\n\n\"We would like to thank our friends, family and community for their prayers and support.\n\n\"We are completely devastated and ask for privacy at this extremely difficult time.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nJos Buttler made a brilliant unbeaten 110 to give England a dramatic victory in the fifth one-day international and a first 5-0 whitewash over Australia.\n\nChasing only 206, England were 114-8 when Buttler was joined by Adil Rashid for a stand of 81.\n\nRashid was dismissed with 11 needed, but Buttler hit the next ball for six to move to his sixth ODI century.\n\nLast man Jake Ball survived an Ashton Agar over and Buttler completed a one-wicket win with nine balls to spare.\n\nThe two sides meet in a one-off T20 at Edgbaston on Wednesday, with England then welcoming India.\n• None Buttler gives England their best chance of winning the World Cup - Vaughan\n• None 'Everything is about the World Cup' - Test Match Special podcast\n\nEngland have dominated a depleted Australia in this series - they hammered a world record 481-6 in the third match at Trent Bridge and then overhauled 310 with more than five overs to spare in Durham on Thursday.\n\nHowever, they looked to have wasted the chance of the whitewash and only their second 5-0 ODI series win against any opponent.\n\nThat was to discount Buttler, who curbed his usual attacking instincts to manoeuvre the ball into gaps, run hard and only occasionally crack it through the off side.\n\nWith the determined Rashid at his side, Buttler gradually raised both belief and tension inside a boisterous Old Trafford, only for Rashid to depart for 20 - caught at fine leg off the medium pace of Marcus Stoinis.\n\nButtler heaved Stoinis over the straight boundary from the next delivery, but the cheers for his century were eclipsed when Ball kept out left-arm spinner Agar.\n\nButtler could only take a single from the first ball of the next over, leaving Ball to face four deliveries from pace bowler Kane Richardson, taking a single of his own.\n\nCrucially, Buttler got the strike for the 49th over and hammered Stoinis' third ball through the covers to complete an incredible victory.\n\nIn superb batting conditions, Australia demonstrated a more aggressive intent in a bid to keep pace with England. Openers Travis Head and Aaron Finch added 58 in the first six overs.\n\nWhen Moeen Ali came on in the seventh over and hurried one through Finch, it began a collapse that saw the tourists lose all 10 wickets in the space of 28.2 overs, their frailties against spin once again exposed.\n\nMoeen had Stoinis miscue a sweep and Shaun Marsh stumped. Later, he bowled last man Billy Stanlake for figures of 4-46.\n\nIn between, everything went the home side's way as some spectators filed out of the stands to watch England's 6-1 World Cup victory over Panama.\n\nWicketkeeper Buttler's run out of Tim Paine - tumbling and throwing in one motion - was spectacular, while Agar was bowled shouldering arms to debutant Sam Curran.\n\nHead played square of the wicket and down the ground for 56 and, later, Alex Carey and D'Arcy Short halted England in a sixth-wicket stand of 59.\n\nCarey swept, flicked and hit Joe Root for a straight six in his 44, while Short played handsome drives to be unbeaten on 47. They dragged Australia to 205, a total that was very nearly enough.\n\nTall and quick, 23-year-old Stanlake is the sort of fast bowler that has terrorised England on recent trips to Australia, even if he has played only two first-class matches.\n\nHere he took advantage of the pace and bounce offered by the pitch after Australia's tactic of opening the bowling with Agar saw a swiping Jason Roy bowled in the first over.\n\nJonny Bairstow chopped on to his stumps, Root pushed to first slip and captain Eoin Morgan, beaten for speed, was bowled between bat and pad.\n\nAfter Alex Hales edged a wide delivery from Richardson, England were five wickets down when the interval was taken.\n\nButtler was in the process of facing 122 balls in what was his longest ODI innings, but lacked support - Curran and Liam Plunkett both played loose drives to successive Richardson deliveries to leave England needing 92 with only two wickets left.\n\nRashid, though, was obdurate in defence. Even though the ball began to reverse swing, he helped Buttler see off the tiring Stanlake and was similarly patient against Agar.\n\nEngland looked to be over the line, only for Rashid's misjudgement against Stoinis. Then came the last-wicket drama and joyous celebrations.\n\n'Buttler makes England outstanding' - what they said\n\nMan of the match Jos Buttler told BBC Sport: \"We should have chased that total down with ease, but it's fantastic to win it. They're so enjoyable when you win by a wicket.\n\n\"It's a good habit to have, knowing how to win and finding a way to win when you probably shouldn't. Adil Rashid played a fantastic hand, and so did Jake Ball. He soaked it up and handled it brilliantly.\"\n\nEngland captain Eoin Morgan: \"Today was mesmerising. Jos was outstanding. Everyone in that changing room is very proud of him. We were very poor today and Jos really did pull something special out to get us over the line.\"\n\nAustralia captain Tim Paine: \"We've certainly been taught a lesson by a world-class outfit. We had them under pressure. Jos and Rashid played really well but we didn't get enough balls in the right area. With bat, ball and in the field during this series, we've folded a little bit.\"\n\nFormer England captain Michael Vaughan on Test Match Special: \"Jos Buttler knew that it was down to him. You get a sense that he really enjoyed it - MS Dhoni and AB de Villiers are like that. You need to have a huge amount of inner belief and strength.\n\n\"Without him, this England team would be a very good one. With him, they're outstanding.\"", "Services were suspended after a power supply problem in France\n\nServices were suspended on Eurotunnel after a power supply fault, the cross-Channel rail operator has said.\n\nPassengers took to Twitter to report being stuck on trains at Folkestone for more than three hours. One couple said they were waiting to go on their honeymoon.\n\nEurotunnel apologised and said the fault had been resolved.\n\nServices resumed at about 13:00 BST but some services still faced delays of up to four hours.\n\nThe company said there was an estimated four-hour wait on departure times at Calais and a three-hour wait at Folkestone.\n\nIt said trains needed to be put back on their schedule.\n\nOn Twitter, one family said they had been stuck on a train at Folkestone for nearly three and a half hours.\n\n\"We keep getting conflicting information from Eurotunnel,\" they said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Richard This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWendy Shakespeare, who was also stuck at Folkestone, said there were no announcements about services resuming.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Wendy Shakespeare This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOne \"stuck\" couple said they were trying to go on their honeymoon.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by CJ Montague This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEurotunnel said the power supply had been disrupted at the French terminal of Coquelles, but the fault had been repaired.\n\nIt tweeted: \"We do not underestimate the inconvenience this problem has caused our customers travelling today. We apologise and reassure you that our teams are completely focused on resuming the service as swiftly as possible.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section World Cup\n\nFootball's world governing body has opened an investigation into Granit Xhaka and Xherdan Shaqiri's goal celebrations during Switzerland's World Cup victory over Serbia.\n\nBoth players are ethnic Albanians from Kosovo, where a Serbian crackdown on the Albanian population only ended with Nato military intervention in 1999.\n\nAfter scoring, they made an eagle gesture in a symbol of the two-headed eagle on the Albanian flag.\n\nBoth were booed by Serbia fans.\n\nIn a statement, Fifa said its disciplinary committee had opened proceedings against Xhaka and Shaqiri, adding: \"In relation to the same match, disciplinary proceedings have been opened against the Serbian FA for crowd disturbance and the display of political and offensive messages by Serbian fans.\n\n\"Furthermore, a preliminary investigation has been opened against the coach of the Serbian national team, Mladen Krstajic, for alleged statements made in the aftermath of the said match.\"\n\nIt is unclear what the investigation into Krstajic refers to, but in comments to Serbian reporters on Saturday, he said of match referee Felix Brych: \"I wouldn't give him either a yellow or red card, I would send him to The Hague. Then they could put him on trial, like they did to us.\"\n\nAfter the game, which his side won 2-1, Switzerland's Bosnia-born manager Vladimir Petkovic was asked about the celebrations and said: \"You should never mix football and politics. It's important to be a fan, and to give respect.\n\n\"It was a wonderful atmosphere and that's what support should be about.\"\n\nXhaka's father spent three and a half years as a political prisoner in Yugoslavia while Shaqiri was born in Yugoslavia before emigrating to Switzerland as a child.\n\nShaqiri also sported a Kosovan flag, stitched onto his boots.\n\n\"It's just emotion,\" he said about his celebration. \"I'm very happy to score this goal. It's not more. I think we don't have to speak about this now.\"", "Watch all the best action and funnies from day ten of the 2018 World Cup, including some samba-flavoured commentary, an awkward handshake and a hatful of cracking goals.\n\nAvailable to UK users only.", "Last updated on .From the section World Cup\n\nRadamel Falcao scored his first World Cup goal as Colombia got their tournament in Russia up and running with an impressive victory that ended a lacklustre Poland side's hopes of reaching the last 16.\n\nYerry Mina nodded in James Rodriguez's cross shortly before half-time to put the South Americans ahead.\n\nFalcao, who missed the finals four years ago with injury, then broke through in the second half before driving a low strike into the far corner and Juan Cuadrado capped off a fine team performance with an accomplished finish after racing on to Rodriguez's sublime ball behind the Poland defence.\n\nIt was a much improved performance by Colombia following the disappointing 2-1 defeat by Japan in their Group H opener and will give their fans hope they can at least match their run to the quarter-finals in 2014.\n\nIn contrast, this was another disappointing display by Poland, who lost to Senegal in their group opener.\n• None How did you rate the players in Colombia's win?\n\nRobert Lewandowski, making his World Cup debut in Russia, struggled with a lack of service throughout, the Bayern Munich striker going closest in the final few minutes when a long-range effort was tipped over by David Ospina.\n\nPoland cannot now catch either Japan or Senegal, who have four points from two games. Colombia have three points and play Senegal on Thursday knowing victory could secure top spot.\n\nIt was four years ago to the day that Colombia thrashed Japan 4-1 to finish top of their group at the 2014 World Cup - a result that made many observers stand up and take notice of the South Americans as contenders.\n\nThey went on to reach the last eight in Brazil, with Rodriguez scoring six goals to claim the Golden Boot, and in this victory both the team and the player were back to their best after some underwhelming performances over the course of the past four years.\n\nInjury denied the Bayern Munich star a place in the first XI as Colombia lost their opening group game in Russia 2-1 to Japan but he returned to the starting line-up against Poland and provided the creativity his side so badly lacked in their previous outing.\n\nHe had the vision and technique to unlock a stubborn Poland defence just as a first half light on chances looked set to end goalless, clipping a pinpoint cross to Mina, who headed in from close range.\n\nBut his pass for Colombia's third was even better, taking out three defenders to find Cuadrado with a whipped pass from the left wing, allowing the former Chelsea forward to charge unchallenged into the Poland box before finishing neatly.\n\nWith six goals and four assists in his previous seven appearances for Colombia, James has been involved in more goals than any other player across the past two World Cups. If Colombia are to go far at a finals again then the 26-year-old maintaining this kind of form will be key.\n\nRussia 2018 is Poland's first World Cup finals appearance in 12 years, but rather than grasping the opportunity and making their mark, they went out with a whimper.\n\nLewandowski scored an incredible 16 goals during qualifying - one more than Portugal's Cristiano Ronaldo - but he was unable to carry that form into the tournament.\n\nA change in formation may have contributed to that. Having frequently played 4-4-2 in qualifying Poland lined up 3-4-3 against Colombia and it was clearly a formation in which Lewandowski did not feel comfortable. He often found himself isolated and having to drop back into midfield to help build attacks.\n\nAt 29, this may have been the Bayern Munich striker's last chance to make his mark at a World Cup.\n\nColombia boss Jose Pekerman said: \"I think [Falcao's goal] is one of the greatest joys that we received tonight. He is a symbol of the national team, a symbol of Colombian football.\n\n\"We always hope that he can score and he can be fit as he was in the match today. We want to help him as a team so that he can show all his skill and shine. And I think the fact that today he scored was extremely important not only for today's match but for future matches.\n\n\"We were playing with the pressure of having to win. Both teams had just lost so there was no room for mistakes. We shouldered that responsibility fully but with a beautiful game and creative football. Now we have a good position in this World Cup.\"\n\nPoland coach Adam Nawalka said: \"I think that our players really played their best until the very end of the game but we lost against a very strong team and this is what we have to accept.\n\n\"My opinion tonight: the match was pretty level until we conceded the first goal. Then we changed our system to a more offensive one and I'm very sorry and sad that we lost.\n\nA first since 1990 - the stats\n• None Poland are the first European nation to be eliminated from the 2018 World Cup.\n• None Colombia have won three of their past five World Cup meetings with European sides (W3 D0 L2), having won none of their first five against Uefa nations (W0 D2 L3).\n• None Colombia's victory means there has still been no goalless draw after 32 matches so far at the 2018 World Cup, the longest wait from the start of a tournament without one (no 0-0s in 26 games in the entire 1954 tournament).\n• None Three of Yerry Mina's four goals for Colombia have been headers.\n• None James Rodriguez has had a hand in 10 goals in seven World Cup appearances (6 goals, 4 assists).\n• None Juan Cuadrado has been involved in six goals in seven World Cup appearances for Colombia (2 goals, 4 assists). He scored his second World Cup goal on Sunday, exactly four years after netting his first (24 June 2014 vs Japan).\n• None Radamel Falcao scored his 30th goal for Colombia and first at a World Cup. He is Colombia's all-time highest goalscorer.\n• None Including Colombia's victory against Poland, there were 14 World Cup goals scored today - the most on a single day of action in the competition (maximum 3 games) since 10 June 1990 (also 14).\n\nColombia play Senegal in Samara in their final Group H game on Thursday (15:00 BST) while Poland end their World Cup campaign against Japan at the same time.\n• None Attempt blocked. Jefferson Lerma (Colombia) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt saved. Robert Lewandowski (Poland) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Lukasz Teodorczyk.\n• None Attempt missed. James Rodríguez (Colombia) left footed shot from long range on the left misses to the left from a direct free kick.\n• None Jacek Goralski (Poland) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt blocked. Mateus Uribe (Colombia) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is blocked.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match David Ospina (Colombia) because of an injury.\n• None Attempt blocked. Grzegorz Krychowiak (Poland) right footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is blocked.\n• None Attempt blocked. Lukasz Teodorczyk (Poland) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Kamil Grosicki with a cross. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "More than half of councils now charge for green waste collection\n\nUK councils are charging almost £74m a year between them for garden waste collection, BBC research has suggested.\n\nData collected by BBC One's Rip Off Britain revealed that more than half of councils had introduced charges.\n\nResidents' green waste was previously paid for through the council tax by most local authorities.\n\nThe Local Government Association said councils were forced to charge because they face a £5bn shortfall in funding from central government.\n\nRip Off Britain gathered responses under the Freedom of Information Act from 322 of the 326 UK local authorities responsible for waste collection. It found that 172 charged to pick up garden waste.\n\nThe total charges for green waste collection have risen from £42.3m in 2014-15 to £56.9m in 2015-16, the data showed.\n\nAnd in 2016-17, the charges hit a total of £73.9m.\n\nPresenter Gloria Hunniford said: \"While clearly some of our viewers are unhappy their garden waste is no longer taken away for free, the results of our survey show it's unlikely that's going to change any time soon.\n\n\"And with further councils set to introduce such charges, even more of us will need to get used to paying to have our grass clippings taken away.\"\n\nA spokesman for the Local Government Association said that local councils had been forced to introduce charges because of cuts to funding by central government.\n\n\"Councils in England face an overall funding gap that will exceed £5bn by 2020,\" he said.\n\n\"Some councils were able to provide free garden waste services when they were first introduced but are now having to charge to reflect the growing cost of providing a collection service.\"\n\nThe charges for green waste collection represent an average cost to residents of £42.40 a year.\n\nBut the programme found that prices vary hugely. Harlow in Essex had the highest average cost at £96 a year, followed by Arun in West Sussex at £86 a year.\n\nThe lowest average costs were £18 a year in Monmouthshire and £22 a year in Richmond, North Yorkshire.\n\nThe programme features residents of one particular street in Trafford, Greater Manchester, which is divided between two councils. One charges for garden waste, while the other does not.\n\nResident Ian Billington said: \"When we first got a letter saying they were introducing it, I was shocked - because it was something that you have always had included in your council tax.\"\n\nRip Off Britain is broadcast at 09.15 BST on Monday on BBC One.\n\nThe best way to get news on the go", "Live: Coverage across BBC TV, BBC Radio and BBC Sport website with further coverage on Red Button, Connected TVs and mobile app.\n\nEngland's record-breaking World Cup win against Panama in Nizhny Novgorod sets up a Group G decider with Belgium in Kaliningrad on Thursday.\n\nGareth Southgate's squad delivered an impressive show of firepower to beat Panama 6-1 and send optimism soaring as the World Cup knockout stages come into view.\n\nBut can the Three Lions continue their momentum against Belgium and then into the last 16?\n\nThe sight of Jesse Lingard ball-juggling on the bench alongside the rest of the England squad as they closed out their biggest win at a World Cup finals illustrated the mood of Gareth Southgate's squad.\n\nEngland have been relaxed and comfortable since they drove through the gates of their Repino hideaway on the Gulf of Finland - and this emphatic victory over Panama was another powerful statement of intent.\n\nSouthgate's pre-match claim that his side had produced performances to match any other so far at the World Cup may be challenged by Croatia after their win against Argentina, and by their next Group H opponents Belgium, after the manner in which they put away Tunisia.\n• None How did England players rate against Panama?\n• None 'This team has excited the nation' - pundits react\n\nEngland have, however, produced displays that have not only gleaned maximum points but lifted confidence and national expectation to levels unknown in recent years.\n\nThere is good reason for the joy and optimism, although it must also be placed in context by the mediocre opposition they faced in Tunisia and then the undisciplined Panamanians.\n\nEngland's positive and upward progress can also be measured against the low point of the humiliating departure from Chantilly in France two years ago, when they beat an embarrassed retreat from their base after losing to minnows Iceland in the last 16.\n\nManager Roy Hodgson resigned on the spot and Southgate stepped in after Sam Allardyce's one-match reign. He has built a squad based around youth bolted on to a system and style of play he believes can show the football world another side to England's character away from the fighting spirit and passion that has been their long-time default position.\n\nAnd so far, in the searing heat of Volgograd and Nizhny Novgorod, it is all going to plan as England, led from the front by a player and personality in Harry Kane who personifies the new era Southgate wants, flourish and improve.\n\nKane is the tournament's leading scorer and a natural fit as captain, Lingard can produce match-changing moments and all is serene as Southgate keeps his cool amid the noise of this Russian World Cup.\n\nSo far. So good.\n\nEngland's supporters cannot get carried away as much more will be learned against Belgium and then further into the competition - but there is a new confidence and belief Southgate and his players can take forward in their transitional state irrespective of future events here in Russia.\n• None World Cup Daily: Lampard says England can 'go all the way'\n• None Which records did England break in 6-1 win?\n\nEngland have done little to secure a place in the nation's affections for many years - probably since the onset of 'Roomania' when the 17-year-old Wayne Rooney burst on the scene at Euro 2004.\n\nThe litany of failures at World Cups in South Africa in 2010 and Brazil four years later - when a 4-1 beating by Germany in the last 16 was followed by a failure to even advance from the group in South America - hit its nadir with that Euro 2016 loss to Iceland.\n\nSpirits have slumped as opposed to lifted.\n\nSouthgate, a civilised and mature personality even before you start to examine his England managerial credentials, is a measured individual whose presence has done much to repair that wreckage and change the feeling towards this England team.\n\nAnd backed by an England squad containing a combination of varying personalities, from the joker Lingard to the under-stated (at least off the pitch) captain Kane, Southgate is over-seeing a team the nation is learning to love again.\n\nThis can all change with one result or poor performance - but the upbeat mood here in Russia is reflected back home and England's players are well aware there is a growing fund of goodwill towards them.\n\nSouthgate will not let expectations get out of hand but he is happy to let hopes rise and for England's fans to indulge in some blue-sky thinking.\n\nAs he said, while referring to his own running accident: \"I'm not going to put people off celebrating their wins.\n\n\"Always enjoy the good moments in your life because you never know what's around the corner. You might fall over the next day and dislocate your shoulder.\"\n\nEngland's football followers have had a lot to be modest about in recent times but there is the growing sense the nation likes this team.\n\nSouthgate even defied the pain from his dislocated shoulder to go over and punch the air in celebration with England's supporters. There seems, at last and at least for now, a growing connection between this England team, manager and those who follow them.\n\nIt could all come tumbling down inside 90 minutes further down the line - but the bigger picture is that this is a growing, promising England and it would take something catastrophic to change the belief they may be on to something good, come what may in Russia.\n\nEngland have played themselves into this World Cup in impressive fashion with maximum points from two games against Tunisia and Panama - now comes the serious business.\n\nBelgium - their final opponents in the group phase - moved to a higher level from their opening win against Panama as Tunisia were beaten 5-2, with the threats of Romelu Lukaku and Eden Hazard flourishing alongside the intelligence of Kevin de Bruyne.\n\nThe fight for top spot in Group G will, as expected, go down to the final game in Kaliningrad on Thursday with England only ahead by virtue of a slightly better disciplinary record.\n\nEngland's defence has actually been used as an attacking weapon so far, with John Stones scoring twice and Harry Maguire's sheer physicality unsettling both Tunisia and Panama.\n\nFrom now on they, along with the third man in that defensive unit Kyle Walker, may have to focus on traditional duties much more.\n\nBelgium manager Roberto Martinez has hinted he will make major changes to his line-up, with both Lukaku and Hazard picking up knocks, but his true intentions will only be revealed when his team is named.\n\nEngland's attacking threat has been in evidence throughout this Russian campaign - it is at the other end where they have yet to be seriously examined.\n\nEverton goalkeeper Jordan Pickford has barely had a save to make - having no chance with the two goals conceded but giving Southgate the extra dimension he demands with the ball at his feet.\n\nAnd significantly, the standard of opposition conducting those examinations will rise from now on.\n\nEngland were careless on occasions against Tunisia, which will be punished further down the line at the World Cup, while even Panama unsettled them a couple of times in Nizhny Novgorod - although it must be stressed they were cruising on a 6-0 lead so perhaps that was understandable.\n\nAmid the euphoria, there must be a note of caution as the full extent of England's progress may now be about to be probed in a manner it has not been probed before.\n\nEngland also have an extra layer of responsibility to contend with as they prepare to face Belgium, thanks to the vagaries of the group table.\n\nIf England draw against Belgium, who tops the table will come down to fair play records - and if that is level, lots would be drawn.\n\nEngland have collected two yellow cards - Kyle Walker against Tunisia and Ruben Loftus-Cheek here - while Belgium have three yellow cards against their name.\n\nSouthgate will hope the conclusion is reached by conventional means and England can continue to ride a wave of positivity.\n\nThe performance against Panama certainly ensures that will continue as they go back to work in Zelenogorsk before their stiffest test of the World Cup so far.", "Last updated on .From the section World Cup\n\nEngland manager Gareth Southgate said he \"didn't particularly like\" his side's performance despite beating Panama 6-1 to secure qualification to the knockout stages of the World Cup.\n\nHarry Kane hit a hat-trick while John Stones (two) and Jesse Lingard also scored as Southgate's side recorded their biggest win at a finals.\n\nHowever, Southgate believes his side can play even better.\n\n\"I didn't like the start and I didn't like their goal at the end,\" he said.\n\n\"I guess the bits in the middle were pretty good, but I am being hyper-critical,\" Southgate added with a smile.\n• None New England, new confidence - why there is joy & optimism\n• None World Cup Daily: Lampard says England can 'go all the way'\n\nThe win followed England's 2-1 victory over Tunisia in their Group G opener on 18 June, with Kane heading home a late winner.\n\nIt means England have won their opening two group-stage games at a World Cup for only the third time, also doing so in 1982 and 2006.\n\n\"It's strange because I enjoyed the win against Tunisia more - because of the tension and the fact you get over the line,\" said Southgate.\n\n\"We probably at times played better the other day but today we were better in front of goal. I know how many people were watching at home on a Sunday afternoon and it's great to give them something to cheer about.\"\n\nEngland play Belgium on Thursday to determine who will finish top of the standings and, despite not being pleased with some aspects of his side's play against Panama, Southgate is happy his team appear to be growing into the tournament.\n\n\"Confidence-wise it was important we were able to score goals,\" he said.\n\n\"We want to keep momentum, so we'll have to think about the team we want to put out against Belgium.\n\n\"There's an opportunity as well for players who need a match, but also we want to keep winning football matches. It's a nice decision to make.\"\n• None Which records did England break in 6-1 win?\n\n'We have to believe we can win World Cup'\n\nCaptain Kane, 24, became only the third England player to score three or more goals in a World Cup group stage, after Roger Hunt in 1966 and Gary Lineker in 1986.\n\nThe Tottenham striker is also the leading goalscorer in Russia with five goals - one more than Portugal's Cristiano Ronaldo - and says England fans can be justified in believing they can land their first World Cup triumph since 1966.\n\n\"We're not getting too ahead of ourselves,\" said Kane. \"We've got to keep it going but, yes, you have to believe. If you want to achieve anything in life you have to believe.\n\n\"We've got to stick together, stick to our gameplan.\"\n\nSouthgate believes Kane is the best player in his position at the World Cup, saying: \"He's up at the top (of the list of great players).\n\n\"What is great for me is the way he sacrifices himself for the team by holding the ball up and when he gets opportunities we know he will bury them.\n\n\"We wouldn't swap him for anyone at the tournament in terms of number nines.\"", "Last updated on .From the section World Cup\n\nEngland goalscorers Harry Kane, John Stones and Jesse Lingard led the way in your player ratings as they put six past Panama to register their biggest World Cup victory.\n\nTottenham striker Kane came out on top after his hat-trick, closely followed by Manchester City defender Stones and Manchester United attacking midfielder Lingard.\n\nForward Raheem Sterling got two assists but was rated lowest by you of all 14 England players who featured in the game.\n\nThe Panama players fared poorly, with only three of them receiving a rating higher than three.\n\nHere are your ratings...", "After a decades-old ban is lifted, women in Saudi Arabia are allowed to get behind the wheel of a car.", "The route will now be known as the London North Eastern Railway (LNER), a name last used in the 1940s\n\nRail services on the East Coast Main Line are back under government control, following the failure of the franchise.\n\nStagecoach and Virgin Trains, which had a 90% and 10% stake in the venture respectively, handed over control on Sunday after running it since 2015.\n\nThe Department for Transport will run the service until a new public-private partnership can be appointed in 2020.\n\nThe London to Edinburgh line connects London King's Cross to stations in the north and Scotland.\n\nThe route - which services stations including York, Leeds, Newcastle, Aberdeen and Inverness - will now be known as the London North Eastern Railway (LNER), a name last used in the 1940s.\n\nThe first LNER train left Newcastle at 07:54 BST on Sunday and is due to arrive at London King's Cross at 10:52.\n\nThe companies promised to pay £3.3bn to run the franchise until 2023, but at the end of last year it had become clear they were running into trouble.\n\nIn February it was announced that the franchise would end early, leading to accusations the government was bailing them out.\n\nThis is the third time a franchise on the East Coast Main Line has failed.\n\nIn 2005, GNER signed a £1.35bn, 10-year deal in what was then the biggest contract in European railway history. One year later it was stripped of the route.\n\nIn August 2007, National Express agreed a £1.4bn deal, but then handed it back to the government in 2009 amid the financial crisis.\n\nIt was then government-run until Stagecoach and Virgin's £3.3bn bid in 2015.\n\nRead more: What went wrong at the East Coast Main Line?\n\nLast month, Transport Secretary Chris Grayling said the franchise had failed because Stagecoach and Virgin Trains had \"got their bid wrong\", overestimating the profitability of the line.\n\nHe told the House of Commons that Stagecoach and Virgin had lost almost £200m, but there had not been a loss to taxpayers \"at this time\".\n\nMr Grayling has also rejected accusations from Labour and trade unions that his decision to end the deal early was a \"bailout\" worth £2bn.\n\n\"Stagecoach will be held to all of its contractual obligations in full,\" he said.\n\nThe rail companies blamed their problems on Network Rail, saying it had failed to upgrade the line which would have allowed them to run more frequent services.\n\nVirgin Trains East Coast (VTEC) managing director David Horne will be in the same role at LNER and all VTEC staff will transfer to the new franchise.\n\nAs a result of the change £8m will be spent on marketing, rebranding, IT systems and staffing, according to LNER.\n\nThe route connects London King's Cross to stations in the north and Scotland\n\nA report from VTEC said the route had experienced a 5% growth in passenger numbers in recent months, building on the 21.8 million journeys taken in 2017/18, up 1.3 million from when the franchise began.\n\nStagecoach chief executive Martin Griffiths said the company's staff could be \"fiercely proud of everything they've achieved\".\n\n\"The growth we're now seeing proves our initiatives are paying off and the railway we hand over to LNER is not only better than we inherited, but one that has been positively transformed for customers,\" he said.", "Last updated on .From the section World Cup\n\nNever bet against Germany. They've never left it quite that late though.\n\nToni Kroos' 95th-minute winner against Sweden sparked bedlam in Berlin - could it prove to be the moment that revived Germany's hopes of retaining their title?\n\nEarlier in the evening, they were on the brink of becoming the third straight defending champions to fall at the group stage of a World Cup.\n\n\"This was a thriller, full of emotion, a rollercoaster right up until the final whistle,\" said Germany head coach Joachim Low.\n\n\"We knew we had to bring on everything we had to turn it round.\"\n\nThey still need to beat South Korea and hope Sweden fail to beat Mexico in the final round of Group F games on Wednesday, but Germany have come roaring back in Russia.\n\nAs Kroos curled his shot into the top-right corner, the fan park at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin erupted, a mixture of elation and relief.\n\n\"For the German fans it would have been such an embarrassment if they'd gone out in the groups,\" said Germany-based football journalist Archie Rhind-Tutt on BBC Radio 5 live.\n\n\"There are still vulnerabilities at the back, but it gives them an air of invincibility when they can come back to win after playing like that.\n\n\"It's a watershed moment for Germany; it turns all of the momentum in their favour.\"\n\nYet in contrast to the delirious celebrations after the final whistle, Low's side were composed throughout, according to the coach.\n\n\"We didn't lose our nerve, we didn't panic after going a goal down,\" he said. \"We kept a level head and said we needed to make quick passes and tire the Swedes out to open up spaces.\n\n\"We didn't score a couple of good chances but we never lost hope we could win the match and I think the goal scored in stoppage time had a bit of luck involved but it did show the belief we had in ourselves.\"\n\nThe headlines in the German papers acknowledged both that luck and the return of hope.\n\nDie Welt: \"Blood, sweat and tears. And then came Kroos.\"\n\nBild: \"Kroos, you are magnificent. Free-kick sleight of hand saves our World Cup. Dramatic victory with 10 men in added time.\"\n\nOla Toivonen's deft lob before the break left Germany facing their first exit from the opening stage of a World Cup since 1938.\n\nYet it would have been a familiar fate for holders in recent years - 2010 champions Spain and 2006 winners Italy both failed to reach the last 16 in the following tournament, while France finished bottom of their group in 2002 after winning in 1998.\n\nBut where those sides wilted, a resurgent Germany were largely dominant in the second half, looking the more likely side to score even after Jerome Boateng was sent off.\n\n\"I told them to stay calm at half-time,\" said Low. \"Not to start panicking and trying new things out and playing high balls - to stay calm and that we will have chances to turn it around if we keep playing our game.\"\n\n\"You have to give Germany credit because they know how to be champions,\" said former England defender Matthew Upson on Match of the Day.\n\n\"Even when they're down and playing near their worst, they're able to get through it and get the result they need.\"\n\n\"It was a totally different Germany side in the second half,\" added former England women's right-back Alex Scott.\n\n\"They sucked Sweden in and then played it out wide and fizzed in lots of low crosses - that's where Marco Reus' equaliser came from.\"\n\n'We were very angry with their reaction'\n\nSweden manager Janne Andersson reacted to the result with a mixture of disappointment, defiance and anger.\n\nHis anger was prompted by the exchanges between the Sweden bench and some of their German counterparts following Kroos' goal.\n\n\"They got into our faces making gestures and that really got me angry - we were all annoyed,\" he said.\n\n\"We fought it out for 90 minutes and at the end you should shake hands and leave - so we were very angry with their reaction.\"\n\nHis disappointment came from what he called \"the heaviest conclusion\" to a match of his career and the fact his side were denied a strong penalty shout when Marcus Berg appeared to be caught by Boateng.\n\n\"It looked like a clear penalty - so if we have the system - it's odd he doesn't need to go and have a look,\" he said.\n\nYet he ended on a note of defiance.\n\n\"The whole group is still alive so we'll have to lick our wounds and come back for the next match,\" he added.\n\n\"We still have an excellent opportunity to qualify and we're going to do everything to do that.\"", "Toni Kroos scores a 95th-minute winner for 10-man Germany against Sweden to revive their hopes of progressing at the World Cup.\n\nAvailable to UK users only.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This video has been removed for rights reasons\n\nZimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa has survived an apparent bomb attack at a rally in the city of Bulawayo.\n\nMr Mnangagwa said an object \"exploded a few inches away from me - but it is not my time\".\n\nVideo footage from White City Stadium shows an explosion happening close to Mr Mnangagwa as he leaves the stage after addressing supporters.\n\nHealth Minister David Parirenyatwa said 15 people were injured, three of them seriously.\n\nThe exact number of people hurt by the blast remains unclear - and reports suggest it may be significantly higher.\n\nThe president was in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe's second city and an opposition stronghold, to campaign for his Zanu-PF party ahead of nationwide elections taking place on 30 July.\n\nHe is favourite to win the poll, but analysts say he also has enemies - both for overthrowing his former mentor, Robert Mugabe, and for being a previous enforcer of the Mugabe regime.\n\nA spokesman for Mr Mnangagwa said that while the president was unhurt, Vice-President Kembo Mohadi suffered a leg injury. Another vice-president, Constantino Chiwenga, received bruises to his face.\n\nRed Cross personnel rush an injured army member away from the rally\n\nOther officials, including Zanu-PF party chairwoman Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri, were also injured, as were some crew members from state broadcaster ZBC and security personnel.\n\nMr Mnangagwa, 75, said he had visited the injured in hospital. He condemned the violence as senseless and pleaded for unity.\n\n\"I am used to these attempts,\" he told state media.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by President of Zimbabwe This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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End of twitter post 2 by President of Zimbabwe\n\nMr Mnangagwa came to power last November after ousting Mr Mugabe.\n\nHe was evacuated from the scene soon after the blast.\n\n\"People started running in all directions and then immediately the president's motorcade left at a very high speed,\" an AFP news agency correspondent at the scene reported.\n\nPresident Mnangagwa (centre) was campaigning ahead of elections next month\n\nThe elections are the first in Zimbabwe since Mr Mugabe was forced out after 37 years in power.\n\n\"Vice-President Mohadi is nursing some leg injuries but he is in good spirit,\" he was quoted as saying.\n\nMarry Chiwenga, the wife of Vice-President Chiwenga, was also injured and pictures on social media showed the president visiting her in hospital.\n\n\"Political violence of any nature from any quarter is totally unacceptable,\" he said.\n\n\"In the past 38 years political violence has been a permanent feature and an anticipated ritual... which we must expunge.\"\n\nThe US Embassy in Harare tweeted \"thoughts & prayers\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by U.S. Embassy Harare This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post 3 by U.S. Embassy Harare\n\nThe election - dominated by economic issues - is the first to be monitored by international observers since 2002. Mr Mnangagwa has said the vote will be free and fair.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Emmerson Mnangagwa: Who is the man known as the ‘crocodile’?", "Scotland wrapped up their summer tour with a record victory over a woeful Argentina side in Resistencia.\n\nScrum-half George Horne scored the first of his two tries with barely a minute gone, and the Scots added four more before half-time.\n\nBlair Kinghorn, Stuart McInally, Magnus Bradbury and Horne again capitalised on dismal defence as the Scots led 36-3.\n\nThe Pumas rallied with tries for Tomas Lezana and Santiago Gonzalez Iglesias but Dougie Fife crossed for Scotland.\n\nPeter Horne added 14 points with the boot as Scotland put last week's one-point loss to the USA behind them to secure their record win in Argentina, comfortably beating a 12-point victory in 2008.\n\nThis was a rout to sit alongside the humiliation the Argentina footballers suffered at Croatia's hands, a systematic deconstruction of their rugby team in front of their own bemused people.\n\nArgentina, playing their last game under their departing and beleaguered coach Daniel Hourcade and with a win return of just three in their last 20 Tests, were a rabble and Scotland were not in any kind of mood to go easy on them.\n\nIf there was concern over the rookie half-backs, George Horne and Adam Hastings, then it faded to nothing very early on.\n\nAfter just two minutes, the pair combined to get Scotland off to a perfect start, Hastings cutting a nice line, breaking a tackle (to say Argentina's defence was paper-bag thin would be an insult to paper bags) before finding Horne running free outside him.\n\nFirst blood to Scotland, as was the case against the USA in Houston last week. First blood and second blood in Resistencia.\n\nNick Grigg was next to gallop down the red carpet the Pumas brought with them on the night. Haring into the 22, Grigg was composed, looked both ways and made the right decision in giving it to Kinghorn, who ran on to score.\n\nTen minutes gone, and with Pete Horne's conversions it was 14-0 to Scotland. They were only getting started, though. McInally took it up off a line-out in Argentina's 22, bust through a non-tackle from Nicolas Sanchez and ran in for try number three and a 21-0 lead.\n\nWhen Sanchez put over a penalty to reduce the deficit to a mere 18 points, there was almost embarrassed applause from the home crowd, an outbreak of soft clapping that was replaced by more groans soon after.\n\nAgustin Creevy, a great hooker having a nightmarish evening, overthrew at a line-out and Fraser Brown, outstanding at open-side, seized on it and drove the Scots forward.\n\nIt took them a few phases but Bradbury piled over and with Horne's conversion and then a penalty, Scotland had broken the 30-point barrier inside 30 minutes. The Pumas were squirming, a complete contrast to the Scots, who were revelling in exorcising the horrors of Houston.\n\nTheir fifth try arrived before the break, beginning with Brown turning over Pumas ball inside his own 22. Scotland carried on downfield where, at the pivotal moment just 5m from the Argentina line, George Horne dinked a little chip in the air which Hastings batted back to his scrum-half.\n\nHorne, a try-scoring machine for club and now, seemingly, for country, touched down for his second of the game.\n\nThe young men embraced in celebration of their one-two as well they might. It was a lovely piece of improvisation and far too much for the Pumas to handle.\n\nScotland gave up a handsome lead in America, but there was never the remotest suggestion that the same physical deficiency and ill-discipline were going to be repeated.\n\nTen minutes into the second half, Tomas Lezana, the blind-side, went over for a try converted by Sanchez but Scotland responded in quick order.\n\nOff a scrum in the Pumas' 22, Scotland threw in all sorts of deception and dummy runners before Stuart Hogg threw a superb long pass off his left hand to Dougie Fife, who could have crawled over given the space he was in.\n\nSantiago Gonzalez Iglesias got Argentina's second try, but Peter Horne checked any momentum they might have kidded themselves into thinking they had by making it a 29-point game with a penalty.\n\nIt meandered to a close. The Pumas had taken enough punishment and had nothing left to give.\n\nScotland, meanwhile, coasted home knowing that they had done their work in that tumultuous first half. After Houston, this was a huge response and a fine way to end their trek.\n\nReplacements: Julian Montoya (for Creevy, 49), Santiago Garcia Botta (for Diaz, 49), Santiago Medrano (for Tetaz Chaparro), Marcos Kremer (for Alemanno, 56) Tomas Lavanini (for Matera, 56), Gonzalo Bertranou (for Landajo, 56), Santiago Gonzalez Iglesias (for Ezcurra, 56) Juan Cruz Mallia (for Orlando, 66).\n\nReplacements: George Turner (for McInally, 66), Jamie Bhatti (for Dell, 49), Zander Fagerson (for Berghan, 49), Ben Toolis (for Swinson, 5), Jamie Ritchie (for Brown, 59), Sam Hidalgo-Clyne (for G Horne, 66), James Lang (for Hastings, 72), Chris Harris (for Grigg, 59).", "Taxi app firm Uber has told a court it accepted its London operating licence should not have been renewed last year over safety concerns, but says there has been \"wholesale change\" since then.\n\nWestminster Magistrates' Court is considering if Uber is \"fit and proper\" to hold a licence in the capital.\n\nLast September, Transport for London refused to renew Uber's licence on grounds of public safety and security.\n\nUber has been able to operate normally during the appeal process.\n\nThe court hearing began on Monday and is expected to last several days.\n\nTom de la Mare QC, representing Uber, told the court the firm had taken the \"unusual\" stance of not opposing TfL's reasons for not renewing the licence.\n\nHe said: \"We accept TfL's decision in September was the right decision on the evidence at the time.\"\n\nHowever, Mr de la Mare argued TfL's last three inspections showed a \"perfect record of compliance\" and said three non-executive board members were now in place to ensure \"total compliance to the letter and spirit\" of regulatory obligations.\n\nAccording to the firm, 3.6 million passengers regularly use its app in London and it has 45,000 drivers in the city.\n\nThe original reasons for the refusal were outlined in a 21-page document.\n\nVarious media outlets have quoted a memo reportedly sent by Uber to Transport for London, in which it said that as many as 1,148 London-licensed Uber drivers had been accused of \"category A\" offences such as sexual incidents, stalking and dangerous driving.\n\nSince being denied a licence to operate in London, Uber has implemented a number of changes.\n\nUber now reports crimes directly to the police - previously it had logged criminal complaints with Transport for London, which caused delays.\n\nDrivers are now only allowed to use the app in the region they hold a private hire licence.\n\nThe working hours of its drivers are also more tightly regulated. A licensed driver on its app must take an uninterrupted six-hour break after 10 hours of driving with a passenger or travelling to a pick up.\n\nThe company has also revamped its leadership. Three independent non-executives have been appointed to its UK board.\n\nA kinder, gentler and humbler Uber - that is the image the taxi app company hopes to project in court this week as it battles for its future in what is one of its most important markets.\n\nIt will stress that a lot has changed at a business that once prided itself on confronting local regulators in a whirlwind of creative disruption.\n\nA new boss, Dara Khosrowshahi, came to London and actually said sorry, and in February new measures were announced to co-operate with the police over allegations of driver misconduct - Transport for London's main concern when it refused a new licence.\n\nThe fact that Uber is seeking a new licence for just 18 months, rather than the full five years it expected last autumn - and that it appears to have been agreeing with TfL a list of conditions it will have to meet - shows that it accepts it is still on probation.\n\nUber has also had difficulties getting licences in Brighton, York and Sheffield.\n\nIn a separate case in 2016, Uber lost a legal battle over the status of its drivers.\n\nA London employment tribunal ruled that its drivers were workers, rather than self-employed.\n\nIt meant drivers would be entitled to holiday pay, paid rest breaks and the national minimum wage.", "Sarah Sanders said she would continue to treat those with opposing views \"respectfully\"\n\nWhite House press secretary Sarah Sanders was kicked out of a restaurant on Friday night because she works for President Donald Trump.\n\nA co-owner of the Red Hen in Lexington, Virginia, asked Ms Sanders and her family to leave as a protest against the Trump administration.\n\nMs Sanders tweeted that \"her actions say far more about her than about me\".\n\nStephanie Wilkinson said she believed Ms Sanders worked for an \"inhumane and unethical\" administration.\n\nShe told the Washington Post that she decided to ask the Trump spokeswoman to leave the 26-seat, \"farm-to-table\" restaurant after talking to her staff.\n\n\"Tell me what you want me to do. I can ask her to leave,\" she said she told them. \"They said yes.\"\n\nThe incident comes days after Homeland Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen was booed at a Mexican restaurant in Washington DC.\n\nBoth cases come amid increasing pressure on the US government over its controversial policy of separating migrant children from their parents at the Mexican border.\n\nA decision by the administration to criminally prosecute every undocumented migrant crossing the border led to some 2,300 children being separated from their parents in May and June, and sparked a global wave of outrage.\n\nPresident Trump has now halted family separations but says he remains committed to the \"zero tolerance\" policy.\n\nCritics of the Red Hen's decision said that it was discriminatory.\n\nHowever, others compared the restaurant's decision to a recent Supreme Court ruling in favour of a baker who refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple, in a case seen by many conservatives as a test for religious freedom.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Sarah Sanders This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe restaurant's Facebook profile has seen a surge of one and five star ratings since news of the incident broke on Saturday, while its online reviews have become increasingly polarised.\n\nOne negative review of the restaurant online read: \"I was dining at the Red Hen and witnessed them rudely refuse service to Sarah Huckabee Sanders. I was disgusted and appalled by the incident. I will never eat at this establishment again.\"\n\n\"Terrible ownership and management: bigoted and prejudiced,\" wrote another reviewer.\n\nBut thousands of other users supported the decision. One wrote: \"Love this place. Morally superior and the food must be delicious...\"\n\nMs Wilkinson said that she asked Ms Sanders to talk to her outside before explaining \"that the restaurant has certain standards that I feel it has to uphold, such as honesty, and compassion, and cooperation\".\n\nShe said Ms Sanders immediate response was: \"'That's fine. I'll go.'\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Comedian Michelle Wolf tore into Sarah Sanders at the White House Correspondents' Dinner in April\n\nMs Sanders' father, former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, weighed in by describing the restaurant's actions as \"bigotry\".\n\nJust hours earlier, he caused controversy by tweeting a joke, which some people interpreted as suggesting that Minority Leader of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi - a senior Democrat who has spoken out against border separations - supports the violent MS-13 gang.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Gov. Mike Huckabee This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPresident Trump has repeatedly made references to the gang, which operates across Central America, to justify his tough stance on illegal immigration and border control.", "The art school was seriously damaged by the fire\n\nA fire suppression system was close to being activated when fire tore through the Glasgow School of Art earlier this month, according to a trade body.\n\nThe British Automatic Fire Sprinkler Association said huge pumps needed for the water mist system had arrived on site the day before the blaze.\n\nBut the body said it would have taken weeks to complete the installation.\n\nThe iconic Mackintosh building was gutted by the blaze a week ago last Friday.\n\nKeith MacGillivray, chief executive of the British Automatic Fire Sprinkler Association, told BBC Scotland: \"The pumps for the fire suppression system were there at the school of art the day before the fire.\n\n\"They are very large pumps so they were delivered in component parts.\n\n\"It would have taken some weeks to reassemble the pumps and connect up the pipe work and obviously the water tanks would have had to be connected and put in place as well.\n\n\"Everything would also would have had to be tested thoroughly before being made operational.\"\n\nBuilding control officers have warned people to stay away from the site of the art school fire.\n\nThey revealed concerns about the end walls of the building, which could fall into the street \"without warning\".\n\nLocal residents have expressed anger and frustration at being unable to return to their homes since a safety cordon was put in place in the vicinity of the building.\n\nSome claimed there had been a lack of communication from the council and other bodies over when they might be able to go back.\n\nMichael Argent, who lives close to the art school, said: \"The most difficult thing is not knowing how long it is going to be.\"\n\nAnother local resident, Christopher Bowen, said: \"It is beyond frustrating because the communication has been awful. We have more or less been left to our own devices.\"\n\nA Glasgow City Council spokesman said: \"This has been an incredibly difficult situation for businesses and residents and the fact that there is no real change in the information we're able to give them is incredibly frustrating for people.\n\n\"We've so far been able to find accommodation for everyone who has told us they need it.\n\n\"However, people's circumstances change regularly and if they find themselves becoming effectively homeless then they can meet with our staff who are based in the dental hospital or call our helpline on 0141 287 0416.\n\n\"Unfortunately what people really need is to get back into their homes and at this point there is simply no way to estimate when the very real danger to life and limb will have passed.\"", "The itinerary is scrupulously balanced between Jordan, Israel and the Palestinian territories\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge is embarking upon an historic tour of the Middle East - visiting both Israel and the Palestinian territories - in a trip in which ironies and sensitivities will abound.\n\nThe Royal Family is keenly aware of its own history. Prince William is this week visiting a region that rarely forgets its past.\n\nWhen Palestine slipped from the hands of an exhausted and broken post-war Britain in 1948, the Prince's great-grandfather George VI was on the throne.\n\nThere has been no official royal visit since then, though Prince Philip and Prince Charles have been to pay respects at the grave in Jerusalem of Prince Philip's mother, Alice.\n\nFor just under three decades, after World War One, Britain controlled present-day Jordan, Israel and the occupied territories; three decades that would see the Middle East reshaped by European design, compromise, and failure.\n\nWhen Prince William lays his head this week at his Jerusalem hotel, the King David, he will be at the site of one of the worst attacks on British forces during the Jews' battle for independence. It was an attack condemned at the time as Jewish terrorism.\n\nWhen he meets Jordanian Crown Prince Al-Hussein bin Abdullah II he will shake hands with the Hashemite dynasty that Britain placed at the head of the newly-created territory of Transjordan in 1921.\n\nFor the British government, it's a chance to highlight relationships that aren't about the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians\n\nFrom the Balfour declaration to the White Paper, the promises and pledges that Britain has made to different parties at different times in Palestine are now part of the region's collective memory.\n\nIt's up for debate quite how important the trip is. For Prince William, it's important to get right. There will be speeches, carefully drafted by the Foreign Office, vetted further by civil servants and advisers.\n\nThe itinerary is scrupulously balanced between Jordan, Israel and the Palestinian territories. And beyond the mandatory meetings and locations, it leans heavily towards youth and tech, with a whirl of religious sites at the end.\n\nFor Israelis, a royal visit is what's been missing from British-Israeli relations. That doesn't mean 10-deep crowds but it is one of those things that just hasn't happened in 70 years. And people wondered why.\n\nAnd for the British government, it's a chance to highlight relationships that aren't about the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians.\n\nAs to timing, British officials swear blind it has nothing to do with this year's 70th anniversary of Israel's creation. No one can quite explain why it had to be this year. But the visit and the anniversary are, we are told, simply coincidence.\n\nA busy time awaits Prince William, and the odd potential pitfall, as he wanders among the bones of Empire.", "Last updated on .From the section World Cup\n\nEngland continue their World Cup adventure against Panama with manager Gareth Southgate looking to build on their first opening-game win at a major tournament since 2006.\n\nVictory for England in Sunday's 13:00 BST match in Nizhny Novgorod will put them into the last 16.\n\nSo what are the key factors to consider against the Central American underdogs?\n\nRaheem Sterling's projected absence from England's team courtesy of assistant manager Steve Holland's now infamous team-sheet has not come to pass.\n\nHe gets another chance against Panama - but Marcus Rashford is ready to turn up the pressure if Sterling continues to misfire for England.\n\nNo-one doubts Sterling's ability or attitude, confirmed with 18 league goals and 11 assists in Manchester City's title-winning campaign. He has matured and developed.\n\nSterling's problem, one Rashford may eventually be able to exploit, is his lack of impact for England. The Manchester City man has the pace and movement to cause chaos but 21 internationals without a goal is a damning statistic.\n\nSouthgate has huge faith in Sterling, the manager greeting him with a warm embrace after his disappointing night against Tunisia, and firmly believes he will deliver for England.\n\nSterling must, however, start delivering soon or Southgate will be left with an interesting selection choice.\n\nSouthgate will need more than 11 players to progress in this World Cup and the win over Tunisia provided promising indicators about the strength of his squad.\n\nAs England struggled to break down the increasingly entrenched Tunisians, he made key changes to introduce Rashford and Ruben Loftus-Cheek.\n\nAnd both did enough to mark themselves down as potential starters as England hopefully drill further down into this World Cup.\n\nRashford's pace and running instantly troubled Tunisia but Loftus-Cheek was, if anything, even more impressive.\n\nTall and powerful, he is an elegant presence on the ball and showed great self-confidence in possession plus a willingness to try the unorthodox that enabled England to gather late momentum building to Harry Kane's winner.\n\nSouthgate, who also has the experienced Eric Dier to augment his midfield and Jamie Vardy's pace in attack, wants his players to take responsibility and play with freedom.\n\nRashford and Loftus-Cheek did exactly that.\n\nSouthgate showed commendable foresight when he warned on arrival in Repino that England's squad must have the resilience to win games in \"the 93rd or 94th minute\" if required.\n\nAnd he was suitably impressed when England did exactly that to secure three points against Tunisia with Kane's injury-time header.\n\nTunisia, once they had the lifeline of an equaliser, dug in and tested England's patience to the limit - and Panama will provide more of the same.\n\nPanama proved for 45 minutes against Belgium that they are organised and have the ability to frustrate.\n\nThis will be their initial aim against England and Southgate will no doubt have prepared his players for this eventuality.\n\nTo their credit, England did not fall into the trap Tunisia had set for them and refused to resort to long balls, preferring instead a willingness to allow John Stones and Harry Maguire to bring the ball out from the back as well as trying to deliver service from wide positions.\n\nMore of the same will be needed in Nizhny Novgorod.\n\nPanama's threat is a very obvious one - and one that will revive painful memories for England.\n\nSouthgate's side must be wary of conceding throw-ins in dangerous positions as this will be bring the danger of Adolfo Machado into play.\n\nHe has a trademark looping long throw and England need only to look back to Euro 2016 to know the pain this can inflict.\n\nIceland's Aron Gunnarsson caused havoc for England in Nice using this ploy, leading to Ragnar Sigurdsson's goal.\n\nPanama lack serious quality but they are experienced, organised and physical.\n\nThey may adopt a more positive approach as this is now a game they need to win - but the smart money is on coach Hernan Dario Gomez adopting an initial 'safety first' approach.\n• None World Cup quiz: How much do you know about Panama?\n\nEngland have been training in extremely mild conditions at their Zelenogorsk base with temperatures around 15 and 16C.\n\nAs with their first game in Volgograd, they now travel to searing heat in Nizhny Novgorod, where the temperature will soar into the 30s.\n\nSouthgate has been well aware of the taxing conditions but they acclimatised in Volgograd - although this game kicks off at 3pm local time, six hours hours earlier than against Tunisia.\n\nDefender John Stones has no worries: \"It was the flies more than anything else in Volgograd. That was something else. The heat didn't bother me and didn't hear any of the boys saying anything about it.\n\n\"The other night was a good test for us heat-wise.\"\n\nGareth Southgate was captured on camera leaping high into the air when Harry Kane scored England's winner against Tunisia.\n\nHe will have to be more restrained, on the outside at least, should England score against Panama, having to protect that dislocated shoulder.\n\nSurely he will be able to follow doctors' orders if it means England secure a second Group G World Cup win.\n• None Raheem Sterling: 'Criticism of lifestyle is no concern'\n• None Media must choose whether to help England or not", "Last updated on .From the section World Cup\n\nRomelu Lukaku and Eden Hazard both scored twice as Belgium strengthened their lead above England at the top of World Cup Group G by crushing Tunisia with a devastating attacking display.\n\nWhile Roberto Martinez's side are not through to the last 16 yet, a win for England over Panama in Nizhny Novgorod on Sunday will see the Red Devils and Three Lions progress.\n\nThat would leave their meeting in Kaliningrad on Thursday to decide who tops the group and it is Belgium who hold the upper hand there, with their sparkling finishing in the sunshine at the Spartak Stadium leaving their goal difference significantly better off.\n\nSpeaking after the game, Martinez said he would make \"major changes\" for the match against England.\n\n\"If we could have seven days to prepare for that game and then another seven days before the following game then we would start with the same starting XI,\" said the former Everton boss.\n\n\"The reality is that we have qualified - you are only as good as the 23 players. There will be opportunities for others. We need to check the injury doubts Lukaku (ankle), Hazard (calf) and Mertens (knock to ankle).\"\n\nBelgium attacked from the off and needed only five minutes to take the lead, when Hazard was barged over by Syam Ben Youssef just inside the box and got up to send Tunisia keeper Farouk Ben Mustapha the wrong way from the spot.\n\nThings quickly got worse for Tunisia when Ali Maaloul's heavy touch on the halfway line allowed Dries Mertens to nip in and release Lukaku, who found a perfect low finish.\n• None It's now or never for Belgium's golden generation - Lukaku\n\nThe North African side, needing a win to reignite their own hopes of progress, gave themselves hope when Dylan Bronn got on the end of Wahbi Khazri's whipped free-kick just 109 seconds later.\n\nBut they could not compete with Belgium's vastly superior firepower and Lukaku gave the Red Devils breathing space once more with a dinked finish from a Thomas Meunier pass just before half-time.\n\nHazard added his second goal soon after the break, racing on to a precise Toby Alderweireld pass and rounding the keeper to fire home.\n\nThat made sure of the points, but Belgium were not finished yet.\n\nSubstitute Michy Batshuayi, who also had a shot cleared off the line and hit the bar from close range, finally found the target from Youri Tielemans' cross.\n\nTunisia did manage a late consolation, when Khazri swept home Hamdi Nagguez's cross but, unless Panama beat England, they will become the third African team to be eliminated, leaving Nigeria and Senegal to carry their continent's hopes.\n\nLukaku level with Ronaldo in race for Golden Boot\n\nLukaku now has four goals at this World Cup, putting him level with Cristiano Ronaldo at the front of the race for the Golden Boot.\n\nHazard criticised his former Chelsea team-mate for going missing during the first half of Belgium's opening win over Panama, but the striker's contribution in the first 45 minutes here could not be questioned.\n\nHe galloped clear inside the first three minutes, bringing Ben Mustapha rushing from his line to block, and setting the tone for Belgium's ambitious approach.\n\nAs well as scoring twice, Lukaku also brought a fine save out of the Tunisia keeper from a Hazard cross and his only lapse was a heavy touch from a Kevin de Bruyne pass when he was put through on goal again.\n\nHe was taken off after 59 minutes, much to the relief of the Tunisian defenders, although Batshuayi continued to torment them.\n\nAnkle permitting, Lukaku will surely be back to face England, and on this evidence he will be hard to stop.\n\nAfter the match, Hazard praised the Manchester United striker's performance.\n\n\"This game we won, so we are happy,\" he told the BBC. \"We played well and scored five goals. We conceded two, but we can improve on that. However, now we enjoy the next four days and then play England for the top of the group.\n\n\"It's easy to play with Lukaku - pass him the ball and he scores every time. He was fantastic.\"\n\nTunisia showed far more attacking intent than in their defeat by England, and did not struggle to create chances in a wide-open game.\n\nThe Carthage Eagles had 16 shots, with five on target, compared to just one out of a total of four efforts against the Three Lions.\n\nThey at least showed some fight in a game they realistically had to win to have any chance of staying in the competition, but in truth they were outclassed.\n\nWhile the jubilant Belgium fans were singing 'please don't take me home' long after the final whistle, the Tunisia players can start thinking about their return flights from Russia.\n\nBefore then, they will face Panama on Thursday, hoping to avoid finishing bottom of Group G.\n\n'We apologise to the Tunisia fans' - the reaction\n\nTunisia coach Nabil Maaloul: \"As expected, it was a very difficult match.\n\n\"Ever since we were drawn into this group we knew Belgium were going to be a tough opponent. We would like to apologise to the Tunisian fans who were numerous in the stadium.\n\n\"However, we did our best and we will try to improve our performance in the future.\"\n• None Belgium have won each of their past six World Cup group-stage matches - winning their last one in 2002, all three in 2014 and their opening two of this tournament.\n• None Tunisia are winless in 13 World Cup matches (D4 L9) - losing their past four in a row.\n• None Lukaku has scored more goals in major international tournaments (European Championship and World Cups) than any other Belgium player (seven).\n• None Lukaku has scored 17 goals in his past 11 matches for Belgium, failing to score in just one of those matches (against Portugal earlier this month).\n• None Belgium have scored five goals in a single World Cup match for the first time in their history.\n• None Lukaku is the first player to score two or more goals in consecutive World Cup appearances since Diego Maradona in 1986. He scored doubles against England and Belgium.\n• None Hazard's penalty was Belgium's second quickest goal in a World Cup match (5:59), behind only Leopold Anoul's goal against England in 1954, in the fifth minute.\n• None Belgium have won 11 of their 12 competitive matches under Martinez (D1), scoring 51 goals and conceding just eight in those games.\n• None Hazard has been involved in 23 goals in his last 21 appearances for Belgium (11 goals, 12 assists).\n\nBelgium finish off their campaign against England at Kaliningrad Stadium next Thursday while Tunisia face Panama in what could be a battle of the Group G basement sides at the Mordovia Arena in Saransk (both 19:00 BST).\n• None Goal! Belgium 5, Tunisia 2. Wahbi Khazri (Tunisia) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Hamdi Nagguez.\n• None Attempt missed. Michy Batshuayi (Belgium) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Kevin De Bruyne.\n• None Attempt missed. Wahbi Khazri (Tunisia) right footed shot from more than 35 yards is too high. Assisted by Naim Sliti.\n• None Goal! Belgium 5, Tunisia 1. Michy Batshuayi (Belgium) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Youri Tielemans with a cross.\n• None Offside, Belgium. Yannick Carrasco tries a through ball, but Michy Batshuayi is caught offside.\n• None Marouane Fellaini (Belgium) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. Axel Witsel (Belgium) right footed shot from outside the box is too high following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Michy Batshuayi (Belgium) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt saved. Michy Batshuayi (Belgium) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Kevin De Bruyne.\n• None Attempt missed. Thomas Meunier (Belgium) right footed shot from the right side of the box is too high. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Birmingham and Hyndburn in Lancashire are the UK's worst areas for food hygiene for the second year, consumer watchdog Which? has said.\n\nIt looked at areas including the number of high and medium-risk food businesses which kept to hygiene standards and the number of interventions carried out.\n\nBut Birmingham City Council said Which? had failed to engage with local authorities and Hyndburn Council said the data was out of date.\n\nData from 390 local authorities for 2016-17 was used, including information from the Local Authority Monitoring System collected by the Food Standards Agency.\n\nWhich? said Birmingham City Council had a poor record for carrying out inspections within 28 days of a food business opening.\n\nIt found that 16% of the city's more than 8,000 food businesses were yet to be rated and 43% of the city's high and medium-risk food businesses did not meet food compliance standards.\n\nHyndburn Borough Council in Lancashire was the second worst area in the UK for food hygiene.\n\nWhich? said that 98% of the area's businesses had been rated for risk, but just two in five of its medium and high-risk food businesses met hygiene standards.\n\nMark Croxford, of Birmingham City Council, said: \"I am surprised and disappointed to see Which? have made the same mistake as they have done in previous years, in failing to engage with local authorities to produce a meaningful report.\"\n\nHe said that the same data showed council officers had inspected the second highest number of premises, undertaken more prosecutions, closed more food premises and suspended more approved manufacturers than any other English local authority in 2016/17.\n\nMr Croxford said more than 1,000 new food businesses were registered in Birmingham in 2016-17, presenting a \"significant challenge\".\n\nHe added that the council's officers had 8,341 premises to inspect across Birmingham - second only to Cornwall with 8,652.\n\nHyndburn Council's deputy leader Paul Cox said the findings were \"not a true reflection of the current picture in Hyndburn\", saying the statistics used were 13 months out of date.\n\nHe said \"significant strides\" had been taken to improve food hygiene performance and there had been a \"big improvement\".\n\n\"We've completed 100% of inspections for the past two years and our most recently submitted figures to the FSA for 17-18 shows the true picture that 92.5% of food businesses in Hyndburn are compliant,\" he said.\n\nErewash Borough Council was rated top for the second year in a row, ahead of Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council in Hampshire.\n\nAlex Neill, of Which?, said the UK's enforcement regime was \"under huge strain, just as Brexit threatens to add to the responsibilities of struggling local authorities\".\n\n\"Effective food enforcement must be a government priority, including robust checks on imports as well as co-operation with the EU and other countries on food risks, \" she said.\n\nCouncillor Simon Blackburn, chairman of the Local Government Association's safer and stronger communities board, said councils worked \"extremely hard\" to maintain and improve food hygiene standards.\n\n\"Ultimately it is the responsibility of food businesses to ensure the products they produce and premises they serve from comply fully with food safety law and pose no risk, but councils continue to do everything possible to maintain checks in this area despite severe budgetary pressures,\" he said.\n• None 'Scores on the doors' call on food hygiene", "Zsa Zsa has an underbite and a tongue that almost touches the floor - but these are qualities that won over judges at The World's Ugliest Dog Competition in Petaluma, California on 23 June. The nine-year-old English bulldog walked away with the 2018 title.", "Live: Coverage across BBC TV, BBC Radio and BBC Sport website with further coverage on Red Button, Connected TVs and mobile app.\n\nEngland's performance in their 6-1 win over Panama has \"excited a nation\", according to former Three Lions defender Rio Ferdinand.\n\nSunday's thumping victory in Group G not only sent England through to the last 16, it was the biggest in their history at major tournament finals, with five of their goals coming in a thrilling first half.\n\n\"It was a sparkling 45 minutes of sheer brilliance from start to finish,\" said fellow BBC pundit Alan Shearer.\n\n\"We were brilliant,\" added Frank Lampard. \"Panama are not at the same level, we know that, but the only thing you can do as an England team is dispatch what is in front of you, and they did it with an absolutely ruthless streak.\"\n\nThis is how the goal-fest unfolded in Nizhny Novgorod.\n• None Which records did England break in 6-1 win? World Cup Daily: Lampard says England can 'go all the way'\n\nAlan Shearer: It was very, very good movement by John Stones, it took an age to take the corner because of the pulling and the grappling and the referee was warning several players.\n\nBut, when the ball came in, Ashley Young just blocks the defender off for a split second and the aggression from Stones to get away from the defender and put that header away is magnificent. It was so well worked - he finds the space, and finds the corner of the net. He just has to guide the header in there, and he does.\n\nThat's what you need as well. It is one thing to get the movement right, but that ball has got to come in. It is almost an identical area to where England hit the ball against Tunisia. We have obviously been working on that on the training ground, and it has worked perfectly.\n\nFrank Lampard: The grappling was going on there too. It was just ridiculous - Kane could not move and Harry Maguire was getting it as well.\n\nWe are all aware VAR is being used at this tournament, and that people were talking about what happened when England played Tunisia. Surely Panama had a conversation saying that you get tight to your man, but you don't give him a bear hug?\n\nAlan Shearer: It was definitely a foul on Jesse Lingard, I don't think anybody can have any arguments at all about that.\n\nFrank Lampard: There were two brilliant things about this, firstly from Kieran Trippier with his quality of delivery, and then from Jesse Lingard too.\n\nLingard has had an incredible half of football linking play and he was always looking to make runs behind the back line. That was a striker's run and Alan would have been proud of that in his day - he bends his run and it was perfectly timed.\n\nThen his first touch was perfect and he held his ground for a second, and took the contact - he went down and it is a penalty.\n\nAlan Shearer: Beat the offside trap and bend your run - that is what you are taught as a kid, and Lingard did that very, very well.\n\nFrank Lampard: Then when Kane comes to take the penalty, there is absolutely no doubt what he is going to do with it. That is the sort of form he is in, that is the player he is - he is a superstar, and you can have complete confidence that he is going to score.\n\nRio Ferdinand: The whole of England's play here is what you want to see from us, patience and confidence and everyone showing for the ball.\n\nWith the finish, this is where Jess is unbelievable - this finish was exquisite. I have seen this from this boy since he was 11 years old at Manchester United.\n\nPeople always questioned 'is he going to be big enough, is he going to be strong enough', but when you have the intelligence and game management that this kid's got, you can be two foot tall and get through.\n\nJesse is that intelligent, he is that good, he understands the game, and when he gets in like this, although we didn't see it the other day when he wasn't clinical, we all said that when he gets the chances again he will put them away, and he certainly did.\n\nThat finish there - a generation of kids will remember that goal.\n\nAlan Shearer: Again we talk about the work they have been doing on the training ground. At every set-piece all of us are sat here thinking 'what is going to happen now?' Well just watch and admire it because it is exactly what should happen.\n\nEveryone is on the same page, they know what is happening, they are alert and alive and they know what to do. Yes Raheem misses an absolute sitter but John Stones is there again.\n\nFrank Lampard: It is bad defending from Panama again - England almost have a conference before Trippier took the free-kick, there were about six of them talking about what they were going to do and, as a Panama defender, you would know something is up.\n\nEngland came up with something quite elaborate and clever but I am a bit disappointed Sterling did not get the goal here, for his own confidence.\n\nGary Lineker: What the Panama defenders were doing was mad and absurd - it was like WWE.\n\nRio Ferdinand: Exactly, they would do well at the Royal Rumble with what they do here. It is crazy - it is such immature, naive and unprofessional defending from Panama here.\n\nThey had been warned countless times, but they were not even looking at the ball. The referee got it right.\n\nGary Lineker: Five goals in his opening two games - is there any stopping this man?\n\nFrank Lampard: He just keeps producing. Nothing is a problem for him - even when they hit him on the heel, they go in - that's when you know everything is going your way, but sometimes you make your own luck.\n\nAlan Shearer: If Harry Kane goes away from this tournament as World Cup Golden Boot winner, that is life-changing for him and, when goals are going in like that one, you know you have got a chance.\n\nAlan Shearer: This is what happens when you start to make one or two changes and you are leading by so many - it was lazy defending.\n\nThe second half was very different, naturally, for England. We knew it was going to slow down and they could not keep that pace up.\n\nThey looked after themselves and protected themselves, and overall it was a job very, very well done. It was a magnificent performance.\n\nFrank Lampard: The line was too high and that kind of space invites a ball into it, but I don't think it is a bad thing for England because it doesn't really matter and it might just switch them on for when it does matter in future games.\n\nRio Ferdinand: It is definitely too high but there were players who had just come on the pitch and we were a bit disjointed. It is something that will just tune them in again for next time.", "President Erdogan will now enjoy greater powers as president and have a majority in parliament\n\nRecep Tayyip Erdogan has won Turkey's presidential vote, cementing his authority with beefed-up powers.\n\nAfter 15 years at the top of Turkish politics, he fought off a spirited opposition campaign to secure the presidency in the first round and his party will also control parliament.\n\nHere is a rundown of what you need to know - in brief and at greater length.\n\nRead either or both to understand what his victory means.\n\nTurkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan, 64, has not only retained the presidency until at least 2023, he has strengthened it.\n\nNew powers approved in a 2017 referendum will now come into force, transforming what had been a ceremonial role into the key executive role in this Nato member country.\n\nHe won 52.5% of the vote and avoided the risk of a run-off vote, shrugging off a faltering economy.\n\nFor the first time, Turks voted for a new parliament on the same day - and handed the president's Islamist-rooted AK party a majority through its alliance with a nationalist ally. His main opponent has warned of Turkey becoming a \"one-man regime\".\n\nRecep Tayyip Erdogan has reshaped Turkey more than any other person since the founding of the modern state, first with two terms as prime minister and, since 2014, as president. He has presided over consecutive years of economic growth and improved public services.\n\nBut he leads a polarised nation. The results of the 24 June elections show continued support for a leader who has cracked down on opponents and has the support of most Turkish media.\n\nOne of his challengers for the presidency, Selahattin Demirtas of the pro-Kurdish HDP, fought his campaign from a jail cell and his closest rival, Muharrem Ince, says Turkey has become a \"one-man regime in its fullest sense\".\n\nMr Erdogan has moved to consolidate his power since an attempted coup against his rule was suppressed in 2016. Turkey has been under a state of emergency ever since, with 107,000 public servants and soldiers dismissed from their jobs. More than 50,000 people have been imprisoned pending trial since July 2016.\n\nIn April 2017, 51% of Turkish voters endorsed a new constitution that scraps the role of prime minister and grants the president new powers:\n\nMr Erdogan called snap elections as Turkey's currency, the lira, has slumped 17% this year against the dollar and the main interest rate has been increased to 17.75%.\n\nWhile Turkey's economy continues to grow strongly - by 7.4% in the first quarter of 2018 - there are fears of a sharp slowdown ahead, and the fall of the lira has hit people's pockets.\n\nBy winning 52.5% of the vote, he saw off his closest rival, Muharrem Ince, who won just over 30% of the vote.\n\nHis AK party won 42.5% of the separate parliamentary vote but, together with the nationalist MHP, that gives him a comfortable majority with 343 seats in the 600-seat assembly. The nationalists' success came as a surprise to commentators and a bonus to Mr Erdogan, because the party's vote was widely expected to suffer after a rising star, Meral Aksener, left the party to form her own.\n\nA vast crowd attended a rally for opposition candidate Ince in Izmir on Thursday\n\nMr Erdogan continues to win support in his conservative heartland outside the big cities and among expatriate voters in Germany, the Netherlands and France.\n\nUnder the AKP, Turkey has embraced a moderate Islamism, accepting Islamic symbols in public life to some extent - for example, in allowing female state employees to wear headscarves.\n\nBy contrast Muharrem Ince's Republican People's Party (CHP) is a staunchly secular party. He attracted mass rallies ahead of the elections in Izmir, Ankara and Istanbul, but while he polled well in the presidential vote, his party was unable to spread its appeal beyond Turkey's secular heartland. The CHP polled about 22%.\n\nDespite its leader being in jail and restrictions placed on voters in Kurdish areas of the south-east, the pro-Kurdish party, which is firmly against Mr Erdogan, won 11.6% of the national vote and will continue to play a significant role in parliament.", "Last updated on .From the section World Cup\n\nThe search is over. We have found the cutest photo of the 2018 World Cup.\n\nMeet Kobe, Max, Niall, Jacob and Kyle. Five cheeky eight-year-old boys, sport mad, best mates and all massive England fans.\n\n\"All the boys' mums have been mates for 20 years!\" Jacob's dad Steve told BBC Sport.\n\n\"Our families all lived on the same estate in Widnes, Cheshire but it wasn't planned like this!\n\n\"They all went out for lunch one day and one of them announced she was expecting. Immediately they all started laughing because they all were pregnant and hadn't told each other!\"\n\nA few months after they were born, during the 2010 World Cup, the parents decided it was about time they had a group photo, and the tradition was born.\n\n\"We hope they will carry on doing the photo for years to come\" said Steve.\n\nBut will we see them in official England team photos in the future? Quite possibly...\n\nKobe, a few months older than the others, is now rugby mad but the rest of the boys play football together every week.\n\nThe boys will be watching Sunday's match against Panama on a big screen in the garden and Jacob told us they are loving their third World Cup.\n\n\"We've been mates since 2010 and our friendship is so strong!\" he said before asking if Gary Lineker would give them a shout out on Match of the Day.\n\nHow could you say no to these cheeky faces Gary?!", "Last updated on .From the section World Cup\n\nSwitzerland pair Granit Xhaka and Xherdan Shaqiri face two-match bans for their goal celebrations in their side's World Cup victory over Serbia.\n\nFootball's world governing body Fifa is investigating whether they broke rules on political and offensive messages.\n\nBoth players are ethnic Albanians from Kosovo, where a Serbian crackdown on the Albanian population only ended with Nato military intervention in 1999.\n\nThey made 'double eagle' gestures after scoring, symbolising the Albanian flag.\n\nThe country's flag carries the image of a double-headed eagle.\n\nBBC Sport understands Fifa will examine if the gestures can be classed as provocation.\n\nUnder article 54 of the governing body's disciplinary code, \"anyone who provokes the general public during a match will be suspended for two matches and sanctioned with a minimum fine of 5,000 Swiss francs (£3,800)\".\n\nIt is thought Fifa plans to call expert witnesses to explain how the goal celebrations could be classed as provocative.\n\nIt will be argued that the behaviour illustrates the Albanian nationalist-supported notion of a Greater Albania, which makes territorial claims on parts of Kosovo, Serbia, Macedonia and Greece.\n\nIf Fifa's case is upheld, then the players would miss the last Group E game against Costa Rica and the last-16 match if Switzerland qualify.\n\nOn Saturday, Fifa confirmed its disciplinary committee had opened proceedings against Xhaka and Shaqiri, adding: \"In relation to the same match, disciplinary proceedings have been opened against the Serbian FA for crowd disturbance and the display of political and offensive messages by Serbian fans.\n\n\"Furthermore, a preliminary investigation has been opened against the coach of the Serbian national team, Mladen Krstajic, for alleged statements made in the aftermath of the said match.\"\n\nIt is unclear what the investigation into Krstajic refers to, but in comments to Serbian reporters on Saturday, he said of match referee Felix Brych: \"I wouldn't give him either a yellow or red card, I would send him to The Hague. Then they could put him on trial, like they did to us.\"\n\nAfter the game, which his side won 2-1, Switzerland's Bosnia-born manager Vladimir Petkovic was asked about the celebrations and said: \"You should never mix football and politics. It's important to be a fan, and to give respect.\n\n\"It was a wonderful atmosphere and that's what support should be about.\"\n\nArsenal midfielder Xhaka's father spent three and a half years as a political prisoner in Yugoslavia, while Shaqiri was born in Yugoslavia before emigrating to Switzerland as a child.\n\nStoke City forward Shaqiri also sported a Kosovan flag, stitched onto his boots.\n\n\"It's just emotion,\" he said about his celebration. \"I'm very happy to score this goal. It's not more. I think we don't have to speak about this now.\"", "The curriculum will be rolled out from September 2022 for children currently in Year 3 and below\n\nThe Welsh NHS bill will \"go through the roof\" without regular PE in schools, Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson has said.\n\nDue to be introduced in 2022, the draft curriculum does not specify a set amount of physical activity every week.\n\nThe former Paralympic gold medallist, who sits in the House of Lords, said: \"If time is not carved out to do it, it will just disappear.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government said the curriculum \"takes into consideration the importance of physical activity\".\n\nThe curriculum leaves it open for individual schools to decide on PE lessons.\n\nBaroness Grey-Thompson said she was concerned they would disappear off the curriculum in some schools, causing problems for the NHS in 15 to 20 years' time due to people being unfit.\n\n\"Because PE is difficult to teach, it's one of those things that I really worry will slip away because there are other things that are easier to do,\" she told BBC Wales Live.\n\n\"If sport is not explicitly mentioned, it will just drop off. Whatever the meaning and the intention, it won't have the same priority.\n\n\"We won't see the problem right now, we'll see it 15 or 20 years down the line when the NHS bill goes through the roof because we have a generation of young adults who are just not fit enough to be healthy.\"\n\nBaroness Grey-Thompson's concern is echoed by a group of AMs, who recommended schools be required by law to provide at least two hours of PE every week.\n\nThe Health, Social Care and Sport Committee said the change was vital to tackle a public health crisis, with more than a quarter of four and five-year-olds starting school in Wales last year classed as obese or overweight.\n\nBut supporters of the new curriculum said it would lead to children being more active and healthy as, for the first time, the wellbeing of pupils would be placed at the heart of school life.\n\nThe wellbeing of pupils is placed at the heart of school life in the new curriculum\n\nIn 2013, Baroness Grey-Thompson chaired a group which examined PE in Welsh schools. Its main recommendation - that PE be made a core subject with the same status as maths, English, Welsh and science - was not implemented.\n\nEducation expert Prof Graham Donaldson was then commissioned by the Welsh Government to draw up a new curriculum.\n\nThe first draft was published last month after consultations with schools and is made up of six areas of learning and experience - including wellbeing, which incorporates physical activity alongside topics like sexuality, relationships and healthy eating.\n\nGethin Mon Thomas from GwE, the school improvement service for north Wales, said the new curriculum would deliver better outcomes than the plan proposed by Baroness Grey-Thompson.\n\n\"We have an area of learning and experience which occupies an increased amount of time on the school timetable,\" he said.\n\nBaroness Grey-Thompson has previously called for investment in leisure centres to improve health\n\n\"The curriculum oozes opportunities for sport to be used as a vehicle to support learning.\n\n\"We will actually put sport and physical activity in a position where it is truly valued in society, rather than just being something that small groups of individuals benefit from.\"\n\nSport Wales, the organisation responsible for promoting sport and physical activity in Wales, supports the new curriculum but its chief executive Sarah Powell said its success would stand or fall on the training teachers receive.\n\n\"The essential thing is to build up the confidence, motivation and skills of teachers to be able to deliver a high quality curriculum. But if we don't see that, then this is a curriculum that doesn't actually deliver the changes that we need to see.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government said the curriculum supported children's development, ensuring that they grow up to be healthy and confident individuals.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Roads became streams and the River Alyn burst its banks\n\nTwo children were among four people rescued from a car after it was swept into a river following heavy rain.\n\nThe children and two adults escaped through the roof of the car with the help of fire crews at about 18:20 BST.\n\nAll four were checked by paramedics at the scene, near Cae'r Odyn Woods, Cilcain, Mold, North Wales Fire and Rescue Service said.\n\nMore than 60mm (2.3in) of rain fell in parts of north Wales overnight - June typically sees about 85mm (3.3in).\n\nEarlier on Wednesday, another driver was rescued from his van and people had to be evacuated from their homes.\n\nFirefighters from Wrexham responded after reports a van driver was stuck in his vehicle on Cefn Road at 06:00, while crews evacuated seven properties in the Bagillt Road area of Greenfield, Flintshire, at 06:50.\n\nA Met Office weather warning for rain in north Wales is in place until Thursday.\n\nThe River Alyn was recorded at its highest level in Rossett since 2010\n\nNatasha Kelly said she was \"gobsmacked\" when she arrived to work alongside the river\n\nThe basement of Welshpool Town Hall and adjacent shops and houses were flooded.\n\nThe River Alyn burst its banks at Rossett, Wrexham, where it was recorded at its highest level - 2.11m (6ft 10in) - since a new gauge was installed in 2010.\n\nThe Alyn pub, next to the river, was under water. Duty manager Becca Pierce said fences had been put up, but the flooding was only affecting the garden.\n\n\"It is probably going to get worse. It is very different from what it is normally like. I've worked here for about three years and I have never seen it like this,\" she said.\n\nA number of rail services were also affected by flooding, Transport for Wales said, and passengers were told check the status of services before travelling.\n\nThe A525 Bangor Road in Wrexham was shut while sandbags were issued to properties along Westbourne Avenue in Rhyl.\n\nThe A548 was closed in both directions between Mostyn and Bagillt, as well as parts of the A541 and A55, Flintshire council said.\n\nDenbighshire council reported a \"significant\" number of issues and road closures, including the A5 between Corwen and Ty'n y Cefn and roads around the village of Dyserth.\n\nNorth Wales Police advised people to take care in hazardous conditions on the roads.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Flooding \"highly likely\" to happen again\n\nNorth Wales Police said it was dealing with \"huge problems\" with flooding, including in Flint\n\nMeanwhile, firefighters had to pump water off the A539 at Llangollen, and at the Ty Canol Caravan Park off the A5, near Llangollen.\n\nAt the caravan park, water from the hillside ran into a pond and caused it to overflow, but no properties were affected.\n\nResidents on Hamilton Avenue in Sandycroft, Deeside, faced a nervous wait after placing sandbags to protect their homes from further flooding.\n\nKelly Holland, 32, will spend this evening in a hotel with her family.\n\n\"We've used sandbags to try and stop the water getting in so we just hope we'll come back tomorrow and it will be OK,\" she said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAdele Quinn said about 50 homes had been affected.\n\n\"There's been a community effort to help each other,\" she said.\n\nThere is one flood warning and multiple flood alerts covering north and mid Wales with more rain forecast on Thursday.", "The scandal has rocked the charity, which has apologised and promised to 'atone for the past'\n\nOxfam, one of the UK's biggest charities, has dominated the headlines in recent weeks following allegations its staff hired prostitutes while working overseas.\n\nSince then, the story has continued to develop, with the Charity Commission launching a statutory inquiry - the most serious action it can take.\n\nOxfam - which has nearly 10,000 staff working in more than 90 countries - denies any cover-up.\n\nHere is a summary of the events so far:\n\nThe Times broke the story on its front page\n\nOxfam GB's chief executive Mark Goldring and chair of trustees Caroline Thomson leave the Department for International Development\n\nPenny Lawrence, who resigned as deputy chief executive of the charity, said concerns were raised about staff behaviour in Chad and Haiti\n\nPresident Jovenel Moise condemned \"sexual predator\" staff exploiting \"needy people in their moment of greatest vulnerability\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Minnie Driver This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe ad was paid for by supporters rather than the charity\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mark Goldring: 'We are sorry for the damage done to Haiti and the wider aid efforts'", "OK Computer, released in 1997, is regularly rated amongst the best rock albums of all time\n\nRadiohead have scuppered a blackmail attempt by releasing 18 hours of music recorded during the making of their classic album OK Computer.\n\nTapes from the sessions were allegedly stolen last week, with hackers demanding $150,000 for their return.\n\nInstead, the band released the tapes in full, with profits going to climate crisis activists Extinction Rebellion.\n\n\"For £18 you can find out if we should have paid that ransom,\" said guitarist Jonny Greenwood in a statement.\n\nReleased in 1997, OK Computer is often called Radiohead's masterpiece - marking a huge sonic leap forward from its equally-beloved predecessor The Bends.\n\nThe sessions reveal the painstaking work that went into the record, as the Oxfordshire band took up residency in St Catherine's Court - actress Jane Seymour's romantic manor house in Somerset.\n\nAmong the treasures in the collection are a 12-minute version of Paranoid Android, Thom Yorke's demo recording of Karma Police and dozens of unreleased or unfinished songs.\n\nThe first disc opens with an embryonic version of Exit Music, then called Poison, with alternative lyrics.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Radiohead This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nThere are also multiple takes of the \"lost single\" Lift - which the band omitted from OK Computer because it was \"too anthemic\".\n\n\"If that song had been on that album, it would have taken us to a different place,\" Greenwood told BBC 6 Music in 2017.\n\n\"We'd probably have sold a lot more records... [But] I think we subconsciously killed it because if OK Computer had been like a Jagged Little Pill, like Alanis Morisette, it would have killed us.\"\n\nAlthough the song eventually made it onto a deluxe edition of OK Computer, fans have claimed an alternate take from the leaked sessions is \"probably the definitive version\".\n\n\"When the band said they didn't release it because they thought they had another Creep-success level song, I wouldn't believe them off the [previously-released] version,\" wrote one Reddit user. \"But this version I could definitely see being a big radio tune. Reminds me a lot of Bitter Sweet Symphony.\"\n\n\"Lift could have easily been the definitive Radiohead song in an alternate reality,\" added another poster. \"It is wonderful as hell.\"\n\nThe source of the leak is unknown, but Greenwood said the music originated from singer Thom Yorke's \"minidisc archive\" of the recording sessions, a digital copy of which is thought to have been stolen last week.\n\nThe existence of the recording sessions was first noted on fan sites last week, and leaked in full on Friday.\n\nBefore that, the person in possession of the music was allegedly selling individual tracks for sums between $50 (for a live recording) and $800 (for a full-band studio recording), or the entire archive for $150,000.\n\n\"Instead of complaining - much - or ignoring it, we're releasing all 18 hours on Bandcamp in aid of Extinction Rebellion,\" said Greenwood in a statement.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jonny Greenwood This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe noted that the music was \"never intended for public consumption\" and was \"only tangentially interesting\".\n\nThe tapes are also \"very, very long,\" he added. \"Not a phone download. Rainy out, isn't it though?\"\n\nFans have already annotated the music in an extensive Google document, detailing all the alternative lyrics and instrumental variations from the sessions.\n\nRadiohead said the archive would only be available for the next 18 days.\n\nProfits will go to Extinction Rebellion, which staged 10 days of marches and protests against climate change in London earlier this year.\n\nThe group describes itself as an \"international movement\" that uses \"non-violent civil disobedience\" to force ecological issues to the top of the political agenda.\n\nThe movement started in the UK in 2018 after the release of a report on global warming by The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - part of the United Nations.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The NHS fraud squad is investigating GPs in England amid suspicions they are claiming for non-existent patients.\n\nDoctors get an average of £150 a year for each patient on their list, but records show there were 3.6 million more patients in the system last year than there were people in England.\n\nThe discrepancy prompted NHS England to employ a company to start chasing up these so-called ghost patients.\n\nThe NHS Counter Fraud Authority is now launching its own investigation.\n\nDoctors' leaders have always insisted the issue of ghost patients most often has an innocent explanation, such as instances where patients have died or moved without the knowledge of their GP.\n\nIt is understood the list-cleaning exercise, being carried out for NHS England by the business services company Capita has started to see a reduction in the numbers being claimed for.\n\nIt has focused on patients who have not visited their doctor for five years.\n\nAttempts have been made to contact those patients and where they have not been found they have been deregistered from the practice.\n\nBut NHS fraud investigators have been carrying out some sample testing of transactions, which the BBC understands has identified some \"anomalies\" that have raised suspicions.\n\nThe fraud team will now carry out a full analysis of records held by NHS England and the NHS Business Services Authority to see if doctors have been fraudulently claiming for patients.\n\nInvestigators believe the funding system for registered patients is particularly vulnerable to fraud.\n\nThe average GP has around 1,700 patients on their list so the payments make up a significant chunk of their income.\n\nThe fraud team have estimated that up to £88m may be being incorrectly claimed for - around 1% of the GP budget.\n\nNHS fraud chief Susan Frith said the focus on GPs was just one of a number of priorities for the coming year.\n\n\"By preventing fraud, by identifying it and tackling it effectively where it occurs, and by seeking to recover moneys lost to fraud we can ensure that precious NHS funds are used for their intended purpose of patient care.\"\n\nDr Richard Vautrey, of the British Medical Association, said it would be wrong to jump to conclusions.\n\n\"Some of these will be people that have recently died, or left the country, others may be homeless or simply unaccounted for in government statistics, and we would be concerned at any suggestion that any discrepancies are down to wilful deception by hard-working GPs.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A single ticketholder in the UK has won a staggering £123m EuroMillions jackpot in Tuesday night's draw.\n\nCamelot has confirmed the winner will collect the third biggest EuroMillions jackpot in the UK since the draw launched in 2004.\n\nThe main numbers picked were 25, 27, 39, 42 and 46, with 11 and 12 being picked for the Lucky star numbers.\n\nThe ticketholder is yet to be named and it is unknown if it is a single person, a family or a syndicate.\n\nIf the winner is an individual, their new found fortune would also catapult them into the Sunday Times' Rich List of the 1,000 wealthiest people living in the UK or with British business links.\n\nWith at least £123m now in the bank, their riches can now be compared to Fifty Shades of Grey author EL James (£127m), Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page (£125m) and Earl Spencer, brother of the late Diana, Princess of Wales (£125m).\n\nColin and Chris Weir won £161m in 2011 but the latest ticketholder is yet to be named\n\nColin and Chris Weir, from Largs in North Ayrshire, Scotland, won £161m in 2011, making them the current record holders for the biggest ever lottery win in the UK.\n\nThe couple, who announced they were divorcing in April, made a £1m donation to the Scottish National Party following their lottery win.\n\nIn 2012, Adrian and Gillian Bayford, from Suffolk, took home more than £148m. Mr Bayford invested some of his winnings in buying and running a record shop. The couple separated a year later.\n\nAlthough EuroMillions is played in nine European countries, four of the biggest jackpots in 2019 have been claimed in the UK.\n\nPrior to this week's draw, the biggest prize in 2019 was in a special draw on New Year's Day. Patrick and Frances Connolly from Northern Ireland won the £114.9m prize.\n\nAde Goodchild, from Hereford, banked £71m in March and an anonymous ticket-holder bagged £35.2m in April.", "Harris was previously diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2007\n\nVeteran broadcaster Bob Harris is to take a break from presenting his BBC Radio 2 country show after suffering an aortic dissection.\n\nThe condition occurs when there is a tear in the wall of the major artery carrying blood out of the heart.\n\n\"The aorta is basically the M1 of the body and any damage is regarded as extremely serious,\" said Harris.\n\n\"I am not exactly sure when I will be on air again but I am on the road to recovery now,\" he continued.\n\nHarris, known to fans as \"Whispering Bob\", said he suffered a tear to his aorta while out walking 10 days ago.\n\n\"It was an incredibly scary moment and I am massively indebted to the ambulance crew who attended so promptly,\" he said,\n\nHarris, 73, also paid tribute to the Intensive Care team and consultants at Oxford's John Radcliffe Hospital, his wife Trudie and his \"wonderful\" family.\n\nHe hosted a special edition of The Old Grey Whistle Test on BBC Four last year\n\nPaul Sexton will host the next two editions of Harris's hour-long show, which airs on Thursdays at 21:00 BST.\n\n\"We wish Bob a very speedy recovery and look forward to welcoming him back to Wogan House when he's ready,\" said Radio 2 head Lewis Carnie.\n\nHarris, who was made an OBE in 2011 for services to music broadcasting, was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2007.\n\nLast year, he presented a special edition of The Old Grey Whistle Test, the iconic BBC music programme he fronted from 1972 to 1978.\n\nHe also made a cameo appearance, as himself, in the recent film release Wild Rose, about a wannabe country music singer from Glasgow.\n\nAccording to the British Heart Foundation, an aortic dissection most often occurs because of a tear or damage to the inner lining of the artery.\n\nIt is a rare and potentially dangerous condition that requires all people who have it to take medication to control their blood pressure, usually for the rest of their lives.\n\nEarlier this year Harris's fellow Radio 2 disc jockey Johnnie Walker took a break to have an unspecified heart condition treated.\n\nThe 74-year-old returned to host Sounds of the 70s and The Rock Show in March.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Carl Beech, pictured in a 2014 police interview, denies fraud and perverting the course of justice\n\nThe ex-wife of an alleged VIP abuse fantasist first heard about his claims after seeing him being interviewed on television, a court has heard.\n\nDawn Beech said her ex-husband, Carl, never said anything during their marriage about witnessing murders or being abused by famous people.\n\nCarl Beech, 51, from Gloucester, denies 12 counts of perverting the course of justice and one of fraud.\n\nMs Beech said he denied being on TV when she challenged him about it.\n\nKnown by the name \"Nick\" when his claims were first reported in the media, Mr Beech is on trial accused of lying about being sexually abused by a group of well-known figures from politics, the media and intelligence in the 1970s and 1980s.\n\nHe also told police he claimed to have witnessed three boys being murdered.\n\nHis claims led to the Metropolitan Police's Operation Midland, which cost £2m and ended without any charges.\n\nAmong the people he accused were former prime minister Sir Edward Heath and former home secretary Lord Brittan.\n\nGiving evidence behind a screen at Newcastle Crown Court, Ms Beech recalled watching an episode of the BBC's Panorama programme in October 2015 about an alleged VIP paedophile ring.\n\nShe told the court she recognised a silhouetted figure who appeared on the programme making allegations of abuse by powerful people.\n\nAsked in court who the person was, she said: \"It was my ex-husband Carl Beech.\"\n\nMs Beech, who separated from her husband in 2009 and was divorced in 2012, said she later spoke to Mr Beech after the TV programme, asking him: \"Were you on Panorama the other week?\"\n\n\"Me on Panorama? Why would I be doing that?\" was his response, she told jurors. She said he was smiling and laughing as he answered.\n\nMs Beech, 49, told the court her ex-husband had never mentioned anything during their marriage about seeing children being killed, being taken away to be abused or about famous people abusing him.\n\nHe had never mentioned childhood abuse by anyone except his stepfather, she said.\n\nBefore they became a couple and in Relate counselling sessions during their marriage, he told her Major Ray Beech had sexually abused him, the court heard.\n\nShe said Mr Beech told her his stepfather would come up to his bedroom and abuse him as his mother watched television downstairs.\n\nThe couple had married in 1992, after meeting four years earlier at nursing school, jurors heard.\n\nMs Beech said that her ex-husband's experience of abuse had created problems with intimacy in a relationship.\n\nShe also said he had personal hygiene issues, which had developed as a \"defence mechanism\" against abuse, to make himself \"unattractive\".\n\nRay Tully, Mr Beech's defence barrister, told the court that some time after the Panorama broadcast, his client had apologised to his ex-wife if she was being dragged into the press reporting of the case.\n\nMr Beech also apologised for issues in their marriage, including his struggles with intimacy, the barrister said.\n\nThe court also heard that Mr Beech had shown his wife a \"good memory box\" early in their marriage, which contained items including a penknife. Ms Beech said she thought her ex-husband had been given it by his grandmother.\n\nJurors heard earlier that Mr Beech handed the penknife to police, claiming it had been given to him by former Conservative MP Harvey Proctor during his alleged abuse.", "Coverage: Live across BBC TV and Red Button, Radio 5 Live & Sports Extra and the BBC Sport website & app.\n\n\"We want to make sure we are never forgotten.\"\n\nSouth Africa are competing in their first women's World Cup and are the lowest-ranked team in the tournament.\n\nBut that isn't a barrier for Desiree Ellis, their manager who captained her country during a nine-year international career.\n\nThe 56-year-old was born in Cape Town, grew up during apartheid and faced stereotyping every day while trying to make it as a footballer.\n\nSouth Africa face China in their second game of the tournament in Paris on Thursday.\n\nAlthough South Africa lost 3-1 to Spain in their opener on Saturday, Ellis tells BBC Sport they have already achieved \"the ultimate dream\" simply by qualifying.\n• None Who are the stars at the World Cup?\n\n'They said a girl couldn't play football like that'\n\nEllis began playing football with boys. It wasn't until after Nelson Mandela's release from prison that a unified national team were formed for the women of South Africa.\n\nEllis was called up for the trials in 1993, at the age of 30, and was made vice-captain - later wearing the armband full-time. She scored a hat-trick on her debut in a 14-0 win over Eswatini (formerly known as Swaziland).\n\nBut on her way back from that match in Johannesburg, the team bus broke down. Ellis couldn't make it back in time for a late shift, working at a meat-packing market, and she was fired.\n\n\"For three years I was out of work, just doing odd jobs here and there,\" said Ellis. \"It was tough but I was living my dream.\n\n\"Eventually, I got a new job and I played in the national team until I was 39. I had worked at a meat market. I made spices and made sure there was enough stock.\n\n\"I also had that door sales job in South Africa that many people have. It's where you walk for miles and miles and try to sell door-to-door. At the end of the day you don't sell anything and just come back home.\"\n\nUnemployment was a challenge but Ellis had already fought off bigger issues during her football career - gender stereotyping.\n\n\"I remember my first proper game. I was a substitute. My dad was the only supporter on the field,\" said Ellis. \"I came on and scored a goal and we won 1-0.\n\n\"Many people back then didn't think it was right for girls to play football. People would say I wanted to be a boy but I just loved football. I had the support of my parents and that for me was important. Many kids don't have that.\"\n\nEllis was just 15 at the time, but a week later she was forced to undress in front of her team-mates to \"prove\" she was a girl who simply had incredible talent.\n\n\"I was flat-chested and short-haired,\" said Ellis. \"They said a girl couldn't play football like that. My dad said 'pull down your pants'. I did and then I just carried on playing.\"\n\nApartheid affected every aspect of life in South Africa from 1948 to the early '90s. Black citizens struggled against a political system enforcing a racial hierarchy.\n\nEllis' family were among those who struggled before benefiting from the movement led by Mandela.\n\nHer father, an ever-present during Ellis' football career, supported and encouraged her love of the game.\n\n\"My father had the belief that I could go, do and be whatever I wanted to be,\" said Ellis. \"So I went and played my football. At times, there were certain places we couldn't go to. But we knew the country was changing and we just carried on and played our sport for the love of it.\n\n\"When Mandela was released, we then had a unified team. I came for trials and the friends that I made back then in 1993 are some of my greatest friends now. We still talk every day. That is what football has done for me.\n\n\"In every individual's life you have setbacks and challenges but it is how you deal with them. I have never been a quitter. I'm not a perfectionist but I always want to do the best and be my best.\"\n\nEven after Ellis had achieved her dream - representing her country - she faced years of adversity thanks to unemployment. Now, she says, the sport has \"evolved\" and her team are given different opportunities.\n\n\"When I played in the national team, 90% of the players were unemployed,\" said Ellis. \"Now, 90% of the players have degrees, are still studying, are pundits on national television or ambassadors for huge organisations. Football has really opened a lot of doors.\"\n\nIn 2018, South Africa, then ranked 50th in the world, came runners-up in the Africa Women Cup of Nations to 11-time champions Nigeria.\n\nDespite losing the final in a penalty shootout, South Africa secured their qualification for the World Cup and it was considered one of the greatest days in the history of their national team.\n\nEllis said even in her \"wildest imagination\" she could not have foreseen South Africa competing at a World Cup and the thought of it still gives her \"goosebumps\".\n\n\"As a player, I never had those opportunities. For anybody the ultimate is the World Cup,\" said Ellis. \"Nobody gave us a chance when we played Nigeria in the Afcon. We are definitely underdogs. It is our first time at the World Cup and it's not an easy draw.\n\n\"I think the support that has come from our federation has been fantastic. Without them, this wouldn't be possible. We needed a proper federation to qualify for the World Cup and now... Yay!\n\n\"We want people to be able to say 'wow'. We want to make sure we are never forgotten. Can you imagine if we do well? What will happen next?\"\n\nThe \"magnitude of what the team had done\" had not been realised until South Africa returned home to face the Netherlands in a friendly in January and were given an incredible reception by their supporters.\n\nAnd their achievements had not gone unnoticed outside of the sport.\n\n\"If you look at the messages of support on social media, it has been amazing,\" said Ellis. \"Even the president called us when we were in Ghana [in the Afcon] to wish us good luck for the final.\n\n\"In parliament, I got mentioned in the president's speech. It shows how football is changing but it has to be continued with results. Slowly but surely, things will change.\"\n\nBBC Sport has launched #ChangeTheGame this summer, bringing more live free-to-air women's sport across the BBC this summer than ever before. Complemented by our journalism, we are aiming to turn up the volume on women's sport and alter perceptions. Find out more here.", "The report criticised the scheme which was then the main sex offender treatment programme for England and Wales\n\nThe Ministry of Justice (MoJ) knew a sex offender treatment programme increased the likelihood of reoffending, five years before it was scrapped, a tribunal has heard.\n\nResearch was given to officials in 2012 but the scheme was only ended in 2017.\n\nThe details were revealed in an employment tribunal case brought by analyst Kathryn Hopkins, who claims the MoJ \"bullied\" her following her study.\n\nThe MoJ denies the claims and says the initial research had to be reviewed.\n\nThe case centres on the Sex Offender Treatment Programme (SOTP), a flagship rehabilitation scheme which had been used in various formats in England and Wales since 1991.\n\nThe programme involved group sessions with prisoners and those serving community sentences, as well as cognitive behavioural therapy to increase the offenders' motivation to steer clear of crime.\n\nThe MoJ commissioned Ms Hopkins, a senior researcher in its analytics unit, to study the effects of the programme, which had been used since 2000.\n\nHer results, presented to officials in February 2012, suggested men who took part in the scheme were more likely to reoffend than those who didn't.\n\nIn legal documents submitted to the Central London Employment Tribunal, Ms Hopkins says she was \"met with anger and disbelief and told that she must have made a mistake\".\n\nOver the following months, her research was reviewed, reworked and checked.\n\nLawyers for the Justice Secretary David Gauke said there was a \"breakdown in relations\" between Ms Hopkins and her managers\n\nMs Hopkins, who is representing herself at the tribunal, claims officials \"planned to minimise or reverse\" the results and repeatedly refused requests to publish them under the Freedom of Information Act, because there were \"vested interests\" in the scheme's success.\n\n\"The negative research results had alarming legal ramifications for the MoJ,\" her legal papers say.\n\n\"If the SOTP was harmful, there was scope for victims of sexual abuse, whose perpetrators had taken the course, to sue for damages,\" adding that sex offenders could also have taken legal action.\n\nMs Hopkins raised concerns internally about the department's refusal to publish the results and eventually left the MoJ in September 2016.\n\nShe says the department's behaviour towards her resulted in the \"destruction of her reputation\" and caused her \"severe and lasting psychological distress\".\n\nShe is seeking compensation, damages for loss of income and costs.\n\nIn June 2017, the MoJ eventually published findings showing that 2,500 men who had taken part in the SOTP were slightly more likely to commit further offences than those who had not and revealed that the programme had been stopped three months earlier.\n\nIn its written submissions, lawyers for Justice Secretary David Gauke said there were \"serious concerns\" about Ms Hopkins' initial study and further work was needed to ensure the methods used were \"robust\".\n\n\"During this period, [Ms Hopkins], in the view of her colleagues, lost perspective on her role and on her research,\" the document says.\n\nIt adds that it led to a \"breakdown in relations\" between Ms Hopkins and her managers.\n\nThe department denies that she was unfairly treated and is contesting her claims.\n\nThe tribunal hearing is expected to continue next week.", "Lady Dorrian hopes the new guidelines will help clarify how decisions are reached\n\nScottish judges are laying out for the first time the way in which court sentences are reached in a bid to \"demystify the process\".\n\nIn the first public consultation of its kind, the Scottish Sentencing Council will reveal how judges make their decisions and ask if the public agrees.\n\nThe aim is to remove the perception that sentencing is inconsistent.\n\nThe guidelines list aggravating factors which could lengthen a sentence and must be taken into account.\n\nThese include premeditation, the use of a weapon and the presence of children.\n\nThey also list mitigating factors which might reduce the length of sentence, including the likely impact on the offender's children, or job, or that they have shown remorse.\n\nLord Justice Clerk Lady Dorrian, Scotland's second most senior judge, told BBC Scotland she hoped the new guidelines on the sentencing process would help clarify how decisions are reached.\n\n\"We very much hope that this will demystify the process,\" she said. \"That has been our aim.\n\nLady Dorrian said the public consultation was looking at the \"practical\" issues the sheriff or judge could face.\n\nIt lays out the steps they go through, the factors they have to take into account and the necessary steps they take before reaching the sentencing.\n\nLady Dorrian said: \"There was not any evidence of inconsistency across the country, but there was a clear perception of inconsistency and so addressing that was one of the main issues for the council.\n\n\"One of the issues we repeatedly have to bear in mind is that sentencing practice as a whole cannot be dictated by the result of one case.\n\n\"We have to look across the board at the practice in general and not look at isolated cases.\"\n\nThe guidelines stipulate that judges must assess the seriousness of the offence, select the range of sentence and consider aggravating and mitigating factors - and take into account a guilty plea.\n\nThe consultation states the Sentencing Council intends that the \"guideline will promote a consistent approach to the process of sentencing in Scotland's courts and will enhance understanding of that process\".\n\nIt also asks whether people agree \"that the guidelines would lead to an increase in public understanding of how sentencing decisions are made\" and \"increase public confidence\".\n\nGordon Jackson, Dean of the Faculty of Advocates, said he believed there was some inconsistency in sentencing.\n\nHe said: \"Particularly in the sheriff court it can be a bit of a lottery, so anything that improves that is to be a good thing and that is in everyone's interest because I think judges find it really hard to sentence.\n\n\"It makes it easier for us to advise our clients of what is happening and maybe, most of all, we might be able to reassure the public that it is not just an arbitrary lottery and that it is really being done properly.\"\n\nThe Sentencing Council was created in 2015 to try to address a perceived lack of consistency or logic in sentencing.\n\nTheir next step will be to publish sentencing guidelines for young people.\n\nLady Dorrian told the BBC that young people require a different approach.\n\nShe said: \"Young people, because of their lack of maturity and lack of process between cause and effect, may be less culpable.\n\n\"They may be more subject to influences and peer pressure. They also have greater capacity to change and not reoffend.\"", "England goalkeeper Karen Bardsley says she will \"put the ego on the shelf\" in pursuit of success at the World Cup - even if it means being rested as head coach Phil Neville rotates the squad.\n\nThe Manchester City stopper, 34, started in England's opening Group D win over Scotland, but Carly Telford could be preferred for their next match against Argentina on Friday.\n\n\"We've created a fantastic group that understands there is only one shirt and we support each other 100%,\" Bardsley told BBC Sport.\n\n\"Phil was very explicit when he took over 16 months ago. He said he was going to rotate the squad. We didn't know if that would apply to goalkeepers - he said that it would.\n\n\"It's not one person. It's not you, you, you. It's us, it's we. That's what we're most passionate about and just getting the job done. That's all we care about, put the ego on the shelf and talk about it later.\"\n• None 'Other teams won't be worried by England' after win over Scotland\n\nBardsley was England's number one at the 2011 and 2015 World Cups, helping them to reach third place in Canada after beating Germany in the third-fourth place play-off.\n\nBut under Neville, Chelsea goalkeeper Telford, 31, has been used more often. She played in England's final warm-up game against New Zealand, which the Lionesses lost.\n\nShe also started in two of England's SheBelieves Cup games last spring, a tournament which the Lionesses won.\n\nAsked if there was fierce competition for the goalkeeper's jersey, which also includes third goalkeeper Mary Earps, Bardsley said: \"I don't think it would be fierce, we all really like each other. Fierce tends to have a negative connotation which I don't think exists.\n\n\"Everyone has something they can bring to the squad, everyone contributes. Carly's distribution is fantastic, she's a great shot-stopper, Mary also is a great shot-stopper, her distribution is excellent.\n\n\"I think we all have a lot of strengths, some more than others in certain places, but I would say on the whole, we're very much on an equal par.\"\n\nThe Californian-born player added: \"Our squad is so deep and so committed to wanting to win. No-one is going to remember in five or 10 years' time, who did what and when.\n\n\"You're just going to look at the World Cup medal and go, 'yeah I was part of that'.\"\n\nBBC Sport has launched #ChangeTheGame this summer to showcase female athletes in a way they never have been before. Through more live women's sport available to watch across the BBC this summer, complemented by our journalism, we are aiming to turn up the volume on women's sport and alter perceptions. Find out more here.", "Watch France's Wendie Renard score an \"incredible\" own goal against Norway to leave the score 1-1 in the Women's World Cup.\n\nWATCH MORE: Freak own goal & handball review, did VAR get it right?\n\nAvailable to UK users only.", "Watch Asisat Oshoala double Nigeria's lead with a \"fantastically finished\" counter-attacking goal in their Group A game against South Korea in the Women's World Cup.\n\nWATCH MORE: All the goals from USA's historic World Cup win\n\nAvailable to UK users only.", "Tanya O'Connell said the lack of water delayed her taking medication while she recovered at home from an operation\n\nSchools have been closed and hospital appointments cancelled due to a burst pipe that has left 100,000 properties in London with little or no water.\n\nThames Water said the fault at its works in Hampton had caused problems in the west and south-west areas.\n\nIt said repairs to the pipe would continue throughout the night but that a bypass and water from elsewhere has meant supplies are returning to normal.\n\nThe TW, KT and W postcodes have been affected.\n\nPeople were spotted stocking up on large amounts of bottled water in Twickenham\n\nThirty schools and two children's centres in Richmond and Hounslow have been closed, including Trafalgar Junior School in Twickenham, which has been left without flushing toilets and washing facilities in the kitchen.\n\nSurrey County Council also confirmed six schools had closed in Sunbury-on-Thames because of the issue.\n\nHounslow and Richmond Community Healthcare NHS Trust said all planned clinics and sessions at Teddington Memorial Hospital and Teddington Health and Social Care Centre were cancelled.\n\nThe evening fixture at Kempton Park Racecourse in Surrey has also been abandoned and, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service, Chiswick Library and King Street in Hounslow are shut.\n\nEaling, Hounslow, Shepherds Bush and Hammersmith and Fulham have all been affected.\n\nThames Water has set up bottled water stations at a public car park near the Hampton Pub in The Avenue and opposite the Millennium Boat House in Lower Sunbury Road.\n\nThe company said that it expected \"all [water] supplies to come back on over the course of the evening\" following the repair work carried out.\n\nShelves have been emptied of bottled water in some supermarkets\n\nA statement added: \"We've delivered hundreds of bottles of water to customers on our priority services list, including those with medical and mobility issues.\n\n\"We're really sorry for the inconvenience we've caused today and the time taken to resolve the problem.\n\n\"We'll be carrying out a full investigation into what caused the burst so we can take steps to stop it happening again.\"\n\nChelsea Willis was unable to bathe her daughter, who has eczema\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan said it was \"unacceptable\" that so many people had been left without water \"for several hours with little or no information on when supplies will be restored\".\n\nHe said he expected Thames Water to compensate all those affected.\n\nChelsea Willis, from Teddington in south-west London, said the lack of water had prevented her from feeding and bathing her six-month-old daughter Rhivér.\n\n\"My daughter has eczema so I have to bath her once a day,\" the 29-year-old said.\n\n\"I called my housing association, who said they couldn't help for 12 hours, but somebody there said they couldn't let me go without and personally ordered three bottles of water and got it delivered to me.\"\n\nTanya O'Connell, who lives in Twickenham, said the problem delayed her taking medication while she recovered at home following an operation last week.\n\nThe 37-year-old bank manager said her surgeon told her to take soluble pain relief, which she was meant to take at 08:00.\n\nShe said Thames Water \"promised they would send someone with emergency stuff\" but she had to eventually send her mother to the shop to buy water.\n\n\"It was difficult for her, she's in her 60s with a bad leg... taking litres of water up the stairs,\" Ms O'Connell said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Freddie McLennan (left) and Joe Atkins, both 19, were due to start at university next term\n\nTwo British teenagers on a gap year have died in a car crash in Bolivia.\n\nFreddie McLennan and Joe Atkins, both 19, were driving across salt flats in the South American country when their vehicle crashed on Sunday.\n\nFamilies of the teenagers, both former pupils at Cranbrook School, Kent, paid tribute to the \"exceptional\" young men.\n\nThe 22-year-old Bolivian driver - named locally as Alberto Barco - also died in the crash, while a third British man was taken to hospital.\n\nThe car is understood to have flipped over while being driven on Bolivia's famous Salar de Uyuni - the world's largest salt flat.\n\nThe family of Mr Atkins, who was due to return home from a \"trip of a lifetime\" this week, said he had been \"elated with the adventure\".\n\nRecalling a recent phone call, they said: \"He said just how much he was looking forward to being back to enjoy home comforts, and to move on to the next stage at the University of Bristol.\"\n\nMr McLennan's family said they were \"eternally grateful that Freddie came into our lives\".\n\n\"He was thoroughly enjoying his opportunity to travel and experience new parts of the world, before preparing for the next stage in his life at Leeds University.\"\n\nIn a statement published on its website, the Cranbrook School said: \"We share the grief of the families at their tragic loss and offer them our sincerest condolences.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Cycling\n\nBritain's four-time champion Chris Froome suffered a fractured right femur, a fractured elbow and fractured ribs in a high-speed crash that has ruled him out of the Tour de France.\n\nThe Team Ineos rider, 34, hit a wall at 54km/h when he took a hand off his handlebars to blow his nose, according to team principal David Brailsford.\n\nThe crash occurred before stage four of the Criterium du Dauphine.\n\nFroome has been airlifted to St Etienne University Hospital for surgery.\n\n\"Even though we all recognise the risks involved in our sport, it's always traumatic when a rider crashes and sustains serious injuries,\" said Brailsford.\n\n\"Chris had worked incredibly hard to get in fantastic shape and was on track for the Tour, which unfortunately he will now miss.\n\n\"One of the things which sets Chris apart is his mental strength and resilience - and we will support him totally in his recovery, help him to recalibrate and assist him in pursuing his future goals and ambitions.\"\n\nFroome was eighth overall in the Criterium after three stages of the eight-day race.\n\nIneos said Froome has \"multiple serious injuries\" after the incident, which occurred during a practice ride on Wednesday's 26.1km time-trial course in Roanne, France.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Sport's BeSpoke podcast: Brailsford said: \"He came down a technical descent and onto a straighter piece of road with houses either side. He signalled to [team-mate] Wout [Poels] that he was going to clear his nose, he took his hand of the bar to do that and a gust of wind took his front wheel, he lost control and went straight into the wall of a house.\n\n\"We have had a look at his data, he went from 54km/h to a dead stop.\"\n\nFroome would have been chasing a record-equalling fifth victory in the Tour, which starts in Brussels on 6 July.\n\nHe went into last year's race as favourite, holding all three Grand Tour titles, having won the Vuelta a Espana and the Giro d'Italia.\n\nHe finished third as team-mate Geraint Thomas became the third Briton to win the race.\n\nFroome has been the dominant stage racer of his generation, his accident coming at a time when he was bookmakers' favourite to win back the Tour de France yellow jersey that he ceded to team-mate Geraint Thomas a year ago.\n\nHis entire year had been focused on three weeks in France in July, his determination to win a record-equalling fifth title obvious when BBC Sport's BeSpoke podcast went out to visit his training camp in Tenerife two months ago.\n\nOrdinarily riders get up and race almost as soon as they crash. When their injuries are severe they immediately focus on a comeback race; cycling is a sport that waits for no champion.\n\nBut if Froome's injury is as bad as early reports indicate, not only the Tour but also the Vuelta a Espana in August and September's World Championships in Yorkshire must also be in significant doubt.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nDavid Warner scored his first international century since serving a year-long ban for his part in the ball-tampering scandal in Australia's tense 41-run World Cup victory over Pakistan.\n\nWarner, transformed from the man who struggled in Sunday's defeat by India, busied his way to 107.\n\nWith captain Aaron Finch also clubbing 82, Australia should have posted more than their 307 all out, only to lose their last six wickets for 30 runs thanks mainly to Mohammad Amir's 5-30.\n\nFacing a more reachable target than they would have once feared, Pakistan were well placed at 136-2 when their own collapse of 4-24 sucked the life from the chase.\n\nHassan Ali hammered 32 from 15 balls and Wahab Riaz 45 from 39 balls to revive their vociferous fans, but after Wahab was given out caught behind on review off Mitchell Starc, Pakistan were bowled out for 266.\n\nPakistan stay eighth in the 10-team table and move on to play arch-rivals India at Old Trafford on Sunday knowing that another defeat would go a long way to ending their involvement in the tournament.\n\nAustralia join New Zealand at the top on six points, having played a game more than the Kiwis.\n\nCricket at last as Taunton dazzles\n\nNot only was it a relief for cricket to return after two days of abandonments, it returned with a magnificent contest that fluctuated throughout.\n\nDespite the grey and chilly conditions, this was a wonderful spectacle. The intimate setting is unique for a tournament mainly being played at large arenas and the vocal spectators filled the boutique venue with noise.\n\nThe match itself - played on a juicy surface that offered encouragement for the pace bowlers - was rarely lacking in entertainment.\n\nThe early Australia charge was helped by some poor bowling and fielding, with Pakistan's resurgence first led by Amir and followed up by a third-wicket stand of 80 between Imam-ul-Haq and Mohammad Hafeez.\n\nAfter Imam gloved Pat Cummins behind, the Pakistan implosion left the crowd silent, only for raucous hope to return through the hitting of Hassan and Wahab.\n\nJust as Australia were getting desperate, Starc asked for a review against a hopping Wahab. It detected the faintest edge and, eight balls later, the game was over.\n• None Read more: England expect Buttler to play against Windies\n• None Shikhar Dhawan likely to miss three games in Cricket World Cup with injury\n\nEven without the hullabaloo of the hostility that Warner's return to international cricket has attracted, the left-handed opener is having an eventful tournament.\n\nOn Saturday, he was left shaken when a stroke he played in practice struck net bowler Jaykishan Plaha on the head and, the next day, his ponderous 56 from 84 balls against India drew criticism.\n\nBefore this game, he was backed by Finch and responded with a characteristic performance of punchy strokes, bustling running and the occasional display of power.\n\nFinch, dropped twice, hit four leg-side sixes in their opening stand of 146 before offering a leading edge to Amir.\n\nWarner took over. When he edged Shaheen Afridi between keeper and slip, it took him to three figures and sparked an emotional celebration of his trademark leap and prolonged gestures towards the Australia dressing room.\n\nHe was dropped on 104 but holed out soon after, part of an overall slide of eight wickets for 84 runs, wickets falling regularly because of Australia's inability to kick on and Pakistan's improvement.\n• None Read more: World Cup reserve days for rain 'extremely complex' to deliver - ICC chief\n\nAmir's performance was all the more outstanding because of its contrast to that of his team-mates who, bar fellow left-armer Wahab, offered little support.\n\nIgnoring fielding littered with mistakes and other bowlers who dropped too short, Amir skillfully exploited the movement with a full length and changes of pace.\n\nWhen Pakistan finally began holding their catches, Amir got his rewards to move to 10 wickets in the tournament, more than any other bowler.\n\nEven with Australia checked and the Imam-Hafeez partnership proving difficult to dislodge, there remained the feeling Finch's men were only ever a wicket from taking charge.\n\nSo it proved. After Imam was strangled, Hafeez swept a full-toss from part-time spinner Finch to deep square leg, while both Shoaib Malik and Asif Ali edged behind.\n\nHassan's hitting seemed nothing more than a consolation, but a stand of 64 between Wahab and Sarfaraz Ahmed left Australia in serious peril and Pakistan's supporters louder than ever.\n\nAs the game got tighter, Finch took some persuading to review the decision against Wahab. He was vindicated, leaving the lethal Starc to bowl Amir and Glenn Maxwell to end the match with a direct-hit run-out of Sarfaraz.\n• None World Cup fixtures & results - who plays who, where and when\n• None World Cup table and stats - who's on course for the semi-finals?\n• None Watch the best of the action again as Australia edge past Pakistan\n\nAmir's performance with ball was 'astonishing' - what they said\n\nFormer England batsman Michael Vaughan on TMS: \"We have seen some wonderful bowling in the tournament but that was an exhibition from Mohammad Amir. It was a masterclass of how to bowl on a pitch that was doing a bit.\n\n\"It was his skill that outdid the batsmen not the conditions: 5-30 in this era is astonishing.\"\n\nEx-Pakistan bowler Waqar Younis on the TMS podcast: \"Because Amir wasn't picked initially for the World Cup, it was hurting him a lot and luckily for him some of the other fast bowlers didn't perform well against England in the World Cup so Pakistan had no choice but to pick him.\n\n\"He had a point to prove and he's been bowling extremely well. That five-for will take him a long way in terms of his confidence.\"\n\nGeoff Lemon, Australian broadcaster on TMS: \"Australia have been lucky on a couple of occasions now.\n\n\"Mitchell Starc saved them against West Indies and he did it again here. They were short despite hitting 307. From where they were, they should have got closer to 400.\n\n\"Their batting is disjointed too. Usman Khawaja ended up coming in at number six - he's never batted at six in a List A game, let alone a World Cup match!\"\n\nPakistan captain Sarfaraz Ahmed: \"I'm very disappointed. We lost three wickets in 15 balls and that's why we lost.\n\n\"We conceded too many runs in the first 20 overs apart from Mohammad Amir. We came back and restricted them well but it was a 270-280 pitch.\n\n\"We made some runs and got starts but we've got to convert them and go long. If you want to win matches your top four must score runs.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nUSA head coach Jill Ellis says she was \"in tears\" as her team recorded the biggest ever victory in the Fifa Women's World Cup against Thailand.\n\nThe USA were 3-0 up at half-time but struck 10 times in the space of 40 second-half minutes, with Alex Morgan scoring five in the 13-0 win.\n\n\"It was awesome,\" Ellis said.\n\n\"You want your forwards hot in a tournament and it's a great start, especially for Morgan. Hopefully she carries it on through the finals.\"\n\nMorgan's five goals mean she has more goals than any other team has scored at the World Cup so far - with France's 4-0 win against South Korea in the opening game the biggest margin of victory until now.\n\n\"I was in tears watching them,\" Ellis added. \"It verifies who we picked. It is about building momentum and that is part of the process.\n\n\"You want the players to leave with a good feeling. If they are in a good place mentally, that is a big step.\"\n\n'I've dreamed of it since I was a little girl'\n\nWhile Ellis led the USA to success in the 2015 tournament, Morgan's role was limited by her recovery from a knee injury.\n\nHowever, this time around she has arrived in France as one of the most recognised American players of her generation and seeking to make up for lost time.\n\n\"I've dreamed of it since I was a little girl - we want that gold star,\" she told BBC Sport after taking her international goals tally to 106.\n\n\"Tonight, we knew that every goal could matter in this group-stage game.\n\n\"When it comes to celebrations, this was a really good team performance and it was important for us to celebrate with each other.\"\n\n'We have got more to do'\n\nThe nature of the USA's emphatic start appeared to be pleasing for Ellis, who had been criticised by former goalkeeper Hope Solo in the build-up to their Group F opener.\n\nWhile the prospect of Thailand, the 34th-ranked team in the world, providing a stumbling block for the favourites had appeared remote, Ellis said she had told her team to be relentless in their approach.\n\n\"This is a world championship,\" she added. \"Every team that's here has been fantastic to get to this point.\n\n\"To be respectful against opponents is to play hard against opponents. It is a tournament where goal difference is a criterion. You have to go out and compete.\n\n\"I don't find it my job to go and harness players and rein them in. This is what they've dreamt about. I respect Thailand.\n\n\"I spoke to some of their players afterwards and said keep you heads up. It's part of the growth of the game. But we believe we have got more to do. We're going to stay humble and go back to work.\"", "Oxfam is to make £16m of cuts because of reduced funding in the wake of the Haiti sex scandal.\n\nThe charity was accused of covering up claims that staff sexually exploited female victims of the 2010 earthquake.\n\nAfter the scandal emerged thousands of people stopped making regular donations and the government suspended its funding to the charity.\n\nAn Oxfam statement said it was \"devastated\" that it would have to reduce some of its aid programmes.\n\nHowever, it said it would target its head offices and support functions to ensure that the majority of its work on the ground could continue.\n\nClaims first emerged in the Times in February that staff, including former country director Roland van Hauwermeiren, used prostitutes while based in Haiti after the earthquake.\n\nAccording to the paper, Oxfam knew about concerns over the conduct of Mr van Hauwermeiren and another man when they worked in Chad before they were given senior roles in Haiti.\n\nThe charity's own investigation in 2011 led to four people being sacked and three others resigning, including Mr van Hauwermeiren.\n\nIt produced a public report, which said \"serious misconduct\" had taken place in Haiti - but did not give details of the allegations.\n\nIn February, Oxfam offered its \"humblest apologies\" to Haiti.\n\nOxfam GB chief executive Mark Goldring announced his resignation last month, saying that someone else should help \"rebuild\" the group following the scandal.\n\nEarlier this week it was confirmed that Oxfam GB had been banned from operating in Haiti.\n\nOxfam GB's annual income last year was £408.6m and it says it spent £303.5m on \"charitable activities\". - including development and humanitarian projects and campaigning.\n\nFollowing the announcement of the cuts, an Oxfam spokesperson said: \"We are devastated that the appalling behaviour of some former staff in Haiti and shortcomings in how we dealt with that eight years ago means we now have less money to provide clean water, food and other support to people who need it.\n\n\"We are immensely grateful to all those - including more than nine in 10 of our regular givers - who have continued to support us during these difficult times.\n\n\"We are cutting head office and support functions to ensure that we can continue with the majority of our lifesaving and life changing work on the ground.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tellers read out the result with a win for the government by 309 votes to 298\n\nMPs have rejected a Labour-led effort to take control of Parliament's timetable, blocking the latest attempt to stop a no-deal Brexit.\n\nThe Commons opposed the move by 309 votes to 298.\n\nIf passed, it would have given opponents of a no-deal Brexit the chance to table legislation to thwart the UK leaving without any agreement on the 31 October deadline.\n\nThe result of the vote was greeted with cheers from the Tory benches.\n\nBut Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn responded by shouting \"you won't be cheering in September\".\n\nTen Tory MPs, mostly pro-Europeans, rebelled against the government by backing Labour's motion. Conversely, eight Labour MPs - mostly Eurosceptics or MPs in constituencies which voted Leave at the referendum - defied party instructions and voted against it.\n\nA key factor for the government was the support of Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionists, who have voted against Theresa May during previous Brexit votes.\n\nNo deal would mean the UK leaving the EU without any agreement about the \"divorce\" process.\n\nOvernight, the country would be out of the single market, customs union and institutions such as the European Court of Justice and Europol.\n\nThere are fears about widespread disruption in such an event - to trade, travel and the functioning of the Irish border, in particular.\n\nThe opposition said the Commons defeat was disappointing, but it still believed there was a majority in the Commons against a no deal and it remained \"determined to win this fight\".\n\n\"There will be other procedural mechanisms we can use,\" shadow Brexit Secretary Sir Keir Starmer said. \"We are already looking at what those other opportunities will be.\"\n\nNo 10 said giving MPs a \"blank cheque\" to dictate Brexit policy would have set a troubling precedent.\n\nThe UK was originally supposed to leave the EU on 29 March.\n\nBut the EU decided on a seven-month extension after MPs rejected the terms of withdrawal on three occasions.\n\nOpponents of a no-deal exit are concerned that Theresa May's successor as prime minister could seek to take the UK out of the EU without parliamentary approval for such an outcome.\n\nTory leadership frontrunner Boris Johnson and several of his rivals have said the UK must leave the EU by the revised date, whether a deal is passed or not.\n\nWednesday's motion - supported by the Lib Dems, the SNP and Plaid Cymru, as well as some Conservatives, would not, by itself, have ruled out a no deal.\n\nHowever, its supporters hoped to start a process on 25 June which could culminate with Parliament blocking the UK leaving without an agreement - in effect, tying the next prime minister's hands.\n\nBacking the motion, Conservative ex-minister Sir Oliver Letwin said the case for ensuring Parliament had a \"decisive vote\" on the next PM's Brexit plan ahead of the 31 October deadline transcended party politics.\n\nGiven that leaving without a deal remains the default legal position, he said it was \"perfectly possible\" for the next PM to usher in a no-deal exit by \"simply doing nothing\" at all.\n\nTory Remain supporter and former Attorney General Dominic Grieve said the motion was the \"last sensible opportunity\" to stop no deal.\n\nHe added that in the future, if necessary, he would support efforts to bring down a Conservative government in a vote of no confidence if it was the only way to block such an outcome.\n\nBut veteran Eurosceptic Conservative Sir Bill Cash said it was a \"phantom motion\" which paved the way for \"government by Parliament\".\n\n\"It just simply opens the door for any bill of any kind to take precedence over government business,\" he told by MPs. \"It is inconceivable as a matter of constitutional convention.\"\n\nAfter the defeat, the deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats, Jo Swinson, accused the Conservatives of \"putting party loyalty ahead of national interest\".\n\nThis is not the first time that MPs have attempted to seize control of the Commons order paper in order to shift government policy on Brexit.\n\nMPs voted in March to oblige Mrs May to seek a Brexit delay from the EU.\n\nBut efforts by Sir Oliver and others to come up with an alternative Brexit plan failed in April after MPs rejected all the options in a series of indicative votes.", "A new pilot scheme in six areas of England is offering victims of modern slavery more support to help them avoid falling back into forced labour.\n\nThere are an estimated 136,000 victims of modern slavery in the UK.\n\nOne man who was rescued by police told the BBC's Jeremy Cooke about his 15 years of abuse.", "Marie, speaking to BBC journalist Samantha Poling, says she needs to remain anonymous because what she is doing is illegal\n\nMarie is a British mother-of-four who helps run an illegal cannabis oil laboratory in the mountains of Spain.\n\nWhat she is doing is against the law in both Spain and Britain, but Marie claims she is helping people with a range of conditions gain access to a medicinal drug they are currently unable to get on prescription.\n\nMarie (not her real name) agreed to show me her entire operation on condition I kept her identity a secret. I asked her why she had to be anonymous.\n\n\"Because it's illegal,\" she said. \"Because I don't want to be stopped from what I'm doing, because if I am then a lot of people are going to be left in the lurch.\"\n\nThe \"people\" she is referring to are generally sick - they are adults with fibromyalgia or diabetes, and children with epilepsy.\n\nI flew to Spain to meet Marie after a tip-off from a family I met in Scotland.\n\nThe THC compound is extracted from the cannabis bud\n\nI was investigating medical cannabis and filming with families of children with drug-resistant epilepsy who were keen to try the medicine.\n\nOne family I met had been dosing their child with a strain which contained THC (tetrahydrocannabinol), the psychoactive part of the plant.\n\nThere is some evidence that cannabis medicines containing THC can help with epilepsy and reduce seizures. But there is also evidence it can cause seizures.\n\nLegally, doctors can now prescribe cannabis oil products in the UK but they are refusing to, saying it needs to be trialled properly to show that it is safe and that it works.\n\nMarie and the location of her cannabis oil operation need to remain anonymous\n\nIn response, some people have been going to countries such as the Netherlands to get medical cannabis on prescription while others have turned to the black market.\n\nExperts warn this is a bad idea because their products are not pharmaceutical grade.\n\nThey say there can be a \"very real danger\" because users do not know exactly what is in the dealer's products.\n\nThe family I met in Scotland felt they had a black market dealer who actually wanted to help people - that was Marie.\n\nCCTV cameras are in operation to protect the site\n\nMarie told me she makes the oils because she had used cannabis herself for a medical condition and was sick of buying from street dealers.\n\n\"It was awful,\" she says. \"But it was out of necessity, not because I'm a hardened criminal. I kept getting ripped off by them and so I decided to grow it myself.\"\n\nHer illicit activities soon brought the attention of the police in Britain. By then, she had met a man and fallen in love. It took her to Spain.\n\nShe says: \"I made a pact there and then that I would help other people so that they wouldn't be ripped off as I had been. And that's how it all started.\"\n\nThe cannabis is grown in a small white-washed building up a narrow lane\n\nI met Marie in a bar west of Alicante, then she drove me into the mountains along dusty tracks lined with almond trees.\n\nThe first stop is where they grow the plants. A small white-washed building up a narrow lane. There are bars on the windows and doors and CCTV cameras. Other criminals sometimes come and steal the product, she tells me.\n\nThe door does not open far before we are hit with the sweet, pungent and unmistakeable aroma of cannabis.\n\nWe go from room to room. The plants are in various stages of growth. Once the perfect size and age, the buds will be picked and dried and transported to the lab, which is where she takes me next.\n\nThe laboratory where Marie makes the cannabis oils\n\nWe head north, back through the fields of almonds and towards the hills. Then we lurch along the final stretch of a pot-holed dusty track and stop outside a small crop of outbuildings in the middle of nowhere. There is the obligatory metal fencing, the big barking guard dog and cameras - but once we are through the gates, everything changes.\n\nThere, sitting incongruously in the arid Spanish plains, is a laboratory.\n\nOnce inside, the air conditioning does much to dampen the heat, but the pungent aroma of cannabis remains.\n\nMarie tells me she is going to make up some oil, so I can see how easy the process is. I'm not going to detail it here, but she is right - the process does look pretty simple.\n\nThe larger syringes sell for hundreds of euros\n\nThe larger syringes containing the oil can sell for several hundred euros but Marie tells me that if families really need it and do not have the money, she will give it to them for much less, sometimes for nothing.\n\nMarie says this is part of her idea of \"paying it forward\", but what she really wants is to teach people how to do it themselves.\n\nShe says: \"I want people to be self-sufficient so that we don't have to break the law on their behalf.\n\n\"Or I want the government in the UK to pull their fingers out and actually implement a system quickly. There isn't time for people to be waiting with dying children.\n\n\"I want them (the government) to implement a system quickly whereby people have access to quality medication, that they know what's in it and dosing programmes.\"\n\nMarie says there has been an increase in people asking for THC meds since the UK government changed the rules on prescriptions last year.\n\nShe says people think that if the government is saying legal medical cannabis is OK, then it can't be as bad as they used to say it was.\n\nHowever, Marie also says that she wants to stop running her cannabis oil operation.\n\n\"I don't want the stress, I don't want the responsibility, I don't want people calling me at two o'clock in the morning because they've run out of oil,\" she said.\n\n\"It's just way too much responsibility. I won't have people crying at me because their child's had 40 seizures.\"\n\nMarie says she has dozens of customers in the UK. Does she worry she is selling to desperate people, often with very sick children?\n\nShe admits that she has \"no control\" over what happens to the product once she sends it to people.\n\n\"We do the best that we can to provide a quality product,\" she says.\n\nThe oils are sent diluted, she says, with recommendations to be very careful with dosing protocols.\n\n\"But we try not to take too much part of what goes on from there because I don't want that responsibility,\" she says.\n\n\"My bit is to help them, but I would rather parents produce their own plants and made their own oil under guidance rather than me having to be part of that process.\"", "Queen Elizabeth said she spent \"happy days\" at Villa Guardamangia\n\nThe Queen's former Malta home, Villa Guardamangia, has been put up for sale for nearly €6m (£5.3m).\n\nThe villa, located on the outskirts of the capital Valletta, is the only place outside the UK that Queen Elizabeth II has ever called home.\n\nShe lived there between 1949 and 1951, in the early years of her marriage to Prince Philip, who had been stationed in Malta as a naval officer.\n\nThe Grade Two listed property has since fallen into disrepair.\n\nIt is currently being listed by a luxury real estate agency, which describes it as \"an amazing grand Palazzo style property... with documented great historical value.\"\n\nThe listing says the 1,560 sq m (16,791 sq ft) property, which was built around 1900, boasts \"many authentic architectural features\", high ceilings, stables and \"various guest/servant quarters\".\n\n\"The property is just crying out for a great conversion and will make a superb residence or possibly a commercial venue,\" it adds.\n\nThe Queen and her husband lived in the villa before her coronation. It was at the time the rented home of Prince Philip's uncle.\n\nShe has fond memories of her time on the Mediterranean island, living as a naval officer's wife.\n\n\"Visiting Malta is always very special for me. I remember happy days here with Prince Phillip when we were first married,\" she said during a visit to the country in 2015.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Happy memories for the Queen in Malta\n\nMaltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat gave the royal couple a framed watercolour of the property during the visit.\n\nBut rows have broken out in Malta over the property in recent years, amid calls to restore the dilapidated building to its former glory.\n\nSome believe the government should acquire and renovate the villa, while others say private owners should decide what to do.", "Nick Knowles said he now puts his phone in the boot to avoid the \"temptation\" of using it\n\nDIY SOS host Nick Knowles has been banned from driving for six months and fined nearly £1,500 for speeding and using a mobile phone at the wheel.\n\nKnowles, 56, previously admitted the two driving offences and was sentenced at Cheltenham Magistrates' Court.\n\nHe was caught driving at 85mph in a 70mph zone in a Range Rover and using his phone on 28 January.\n\nKnowles told the court he had a hands-free kit in his car but was holding his mobile due to a \"dodgy power lead\".\n\nPresiding justice Andrew Hill told the former I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! contestant the ban would be enforced as it would not cause him \"exceptional hardship\".\n\nMr Hill said: \"From this moment in time, you are not able to drive any motor vehicle in any public place.\"\n\nKnowles, of Cirencester, Gloucestershire, asked: \"I can drive home, right?\" to which Mr Hill replied: \"No.\"\n\nThe DIY SOS host will not be able to drive for six months\n\nThe court heard he was caught speeding on the A417 Brockworth Bypass by a mobile camera at 10:55 GMT.\n\nAs Knowles' vehicle approached the camera, its operator could see he had \"his left hand held up to his face\" and \"continued to do so until he was 20 metres from the enforcement van\".\n\nKnowles, representing himself, said he had chosen to \"dismiss\" legal advice to attempt to \"get by on a technicality\".\n\nHe added: \"I was travelling faster than I should have done...I had fallen into the habit of looking at texts. I now put my phone in the boot of my car.\"\n\nAfter the magistrates retired to consider sentencing, Gloucestershire's police and crime commissioner Martin Surl entered the courtroom.\n\nHe told Knowles: \"I just called by to say thank you for doing the responsible thing.\"\n\nKnowles replied that driving while using a phone could be \"highly dangerous\", and he often worked with the police.\n\n\"Given all that background, it would be pompous and irresponsible of me to try and get off,\" he said.\n\nThe presenter received six points on his licence for the offence, which resulted in a driving ban as he already had six points on it.\n\nHe was fined £666 for speeding and £666 for using his phone, with a victim surcharge of £66 and prosecution costs of £85.\n\nSpeaking outside court, Knowles said: \"For me, this was a wake-up call and me putting my phone in the boot of my car now stops the temptation.\n\n\"The six-month ban was appropriate because to give anything else would be giving me special privilege.\"\n\nKnowles said he hoped his case would make other people alter their behaviour.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mark Harper answered every question journalists could think of\n\nIt's day two of the official campaign to be the next prime minister.\n\nAndrea Leadsom cheerily launched her campaign, promising she would never utter the phrase \"as a mother\" that did for her chances last time.\n\nShe did though, unusually, say \"never say never\" to the idea of another Scottish independence referendum, normally an anathema to Tory candidates.\n\nExpect the SNP to have fun with the idea of another vote - which remember would require the nod from Westminster - and Scottish Conservatives to be nervous.\n\nAs promised, the former chief whip Mark Harper was jacket off, sleeves rolled up, answering any question that journalists were willing to put.\n\nThat included - because the early stages of this campaign are this surreal - predicting in a fight between a lion and a bear that the lion, patriotically, would win. (yes, you read that right).\n\nHe did, though, repeat his assertion that none of the candidates aside from him were being straight about the possibilities for Brexit.\n\nHe'll say, as many times as he can and with a fair amount of evidence to back him up, that the odds of the UK leaving on Halloween aren't that high. (Nothing of course is impossible, and plenty of the candidates say they will do everything to make that happen.)\n\nAndrea Leadsom reflected on mistakes in her campaign three years ago\n\nAnd as I write, early on Tuesday evening, Rory Stewart - Boris Johnson's fellow Old Etonian who predicts that they will be the final two - is on stage at a comedy venue launching his campaign proper.\n\nAnd TV presenter Lorraine Kelly was back - this time with a slapdown of the whole lot of the political class, prompting suggestions in the Westminster bubble that maybe she should be allowed to pick the winner, so the country could just get on with its important business.\n\nOutside of SW1, plenty of you might well agree.\n\nBut the hard reality bites today too. Labour has just announced that they are leading another cross-party attempt to grab control of the Commons.\n\nIf they're successful, they would try to introduce a law to block the UK leaving the EU without a deal in place, and to stop any future prime minister suspending Parliament so that we leave whatever happens - as has been suggested by some of the wannabe leaders.\n\nRight now, Dominic Raab, Andrea Leadsom, Esther McVey and, of course, the front runner Boris Johnson, are all suggesting the UK ought to leave at the end of October - Brexit or bust. You can read more about the candidates' different plans here.\n\nJust in case the candidates needed a reminder of what they'll inherit, the politician who wins this race might find that MPs have changed the law to kill off their solution to Brexit before they even call the removal vans to move their stuff to Number 10.\n\nOn Tuesday 18 June BBC One will be hosting a live election debate between the Conservative MPs who are still in the race.\n\nIf you would like to ask the candidates a question live on air, use the form below. It should be open to all of them, not a specific politician.\n\nIf you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Pupils felt uneasy about attending their school prom without a gown\n\nThree years ago Maesteg Comprehensive School held its first \"prom\" party for its year 11 students to celebrate finishing their GCSEs.\n\nHead teacher Helen Jones thought the new tradition imported from America was \"fantastic\" - but it also created a problem when they realised a pupil was not going to attend because of the cost of the outfit.\n\n\"It becomes an overwhelming experience for a lot of our children, particularly girls, with the pressure to look their very best,\" she said.\n\n\"It can run into hundreds [of pounds], if not thousands, and that's something that I never wanted to encourage.\"\n\nSo two of the school's PE teachers, Emily Scudamore and Annemarie Scarr, put out an appeal on social media for donations of prom gowns for pupils to use for free.\n\nThey have now received about 200 gowns, plus shoes and accessories, from ex-pupils, local people and businesses, including 30 brand new dresses from a wedding shop in nearby Pyle.\n\nPE teachers Emily Scudamore and Annemarie Scarr have organised the collection\n\n\"It's hit a chord with a lot of people... the kindness of strangers and obviously through social media. I'm truly overwhelmed by the response we've had,\" said Mrs Scarr.\n\nThe school is holding a \"pop-up\" shop this week, and promoting a \"vintage vibe\" in case there is any stigma around borrowing the dresses.\n\nMost of the gowns have only been worn once.\n\n\"It's not just about targeting those who couldn't afford the best dress. It's a real opportunity... to discourage them from this throwaway society that we live in, and also to instil a sense of community,\" said Mrs Scarr.\n\nSixth-formers Katelin Jenkins and Megan Curling, both 18, previously went to their own prom and are enthusiastic about helping with the pop-up shop.\n\n\"Some of my friends were spending huge amounts of money... It's because it's prom and everybody thinks 'I have to go big, I have to have that big dress' when you don't,\" said Megan.\n\nKatelin agreed the prom event had come with \"massive pressure\".\n\n\"Don't worry about the pressure of 'Will I look right? How much has everyone else paid?' Just enjoy the night,\" she said.\n\nHead teacher Helen Jones recognises the financial pressure that comes with the American \"prom\" tradition\n\nThe school is not stopping at dresses - it has also asked Bridgend College to help with hair and make-up and hopes to source suits for pupils in future.\n\nNearly a quarter of its pupils, above the Welsh average, are entitled to free school meals and Ms Jones had questioned whether they should be running the prom at all. But overall the pupils wanted to have the event, so the school has decided to do what they can to keep it \"inclusive\".\n\n\"Austerity has affected everybody and tends to hit areas like Maesteg and lots of Valleys communities first. Certainly the recent news of the closing of the Ford factory [in Bridgend] has ricocheted around the community. It's bound to impact on our families,\" she said.\n\n\"We also provide buses to the venue because we don't want the nonsense that comes with limos, you name it.\n\n\"There are enough pressures and trials for our young people at the moment to survive, without the added pressure of this, which is supposed to be a celebration of what they've achieved at the end of their formal education.\"", "The Met Office has issued an amber warning for heavy rain which could cause flooding and transport disruption in south east Scotland.\n\nThe alert covers Edinburgh, Midlothian, East Lothian and the Scottish Borders from midnight until 15:00 on Thursday.\n\nPolice urged motorists to use extra caution in what could be \"hazardous\" conditions on the roads.\n\nParts of Wales were affected by flooding on Wednesday, with disruption on the roads and railways.\n\nA number of people were evacuated from their homes because of the risk of flooding, and a van driver was rescued after getting stuck in his vehicle.\n\nParts of Wales were affected by flooding on Wednesday\n\nThere was also disrupted after a fallen tree in Cumbria halted train services on the west coast line between Scotland and England for much of Wednesday.\n\nAnd Rod Stewart's outdoor concert scheduled for Wednesday evening in Aberdeen had to be cancelled because of high winds.\n\nThe Met Office warned that flooding could cause damage to buildings and pose a danger to life in parts of south east Scotland on Thursday.\n\nThe amber alert also says there could be power cuts, delays or cancellations to public transport, and difficult driving conditions on the roads.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why's the UK been so wet?\n\nCh Insp Mark Patterson, of Police Scotland, said motorists should travel with care in the area.\n\n\"Driving conditions may be hazardous and extra caution should be exercised when travelling as heavy rain is likely to cause some travel disruption and flooding,\" he said.\n\nTransport Scotland's resilience room will operate throughout Thursday, and a multi-agency response team will monitor conditions from the National Traffic Control Centre in South Queensferry.\n\nTransport Secretary Michael Matheson said travellers should plan their journey and follow Police Scotland's travel advice.\n\n\"Motorists should check with Traffic Scotland before they set off to make sure that their route is available,\" he said.\n\n\"The conditions are also likely to lead to disruption on other modes of transport, so travellers should check with their operators before they set out.\"\n\nThe Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) has also issued flood alerts for Edinburgh and Lothians and the Scottish Borders.\n\nSepa's flood duty manager, Marc Becker, said: \"The rainfall is expected to be heaviest over high ground in East Lothian and eastern areas of the Scottish Borders.\n\n\"This may result in travel disruption and flooding of properties and infrastructure in these areas.\"\n\nA Met Office yellow alert also stretches further south on Thursday, with potential for flooding and disruption in north east England.\n\nLarge parts of England were also covered by a yellow weather warning on Wednesday.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nFrance are \"outsiders\" for the Women's World Cup, according to boss Corinne Diacre, despite the hosts all but securing a place in the knockout stage with victory over Norway.\n\nA penalty by Eugenie le Sommer, after Marion Torrent was fouled by Ingrid Syrstad Engen, earned France a second successive Group A win after Norway had looked like securing a point.\n\nHowever, Diacre said her side's display in Nice showed that France still have plenty of work ahead of them.\n\n\"We did what we had to do. We're still outsiders for the tournament,\" she said.\n\n\"We found some difficulties here and this match shows it. The World Cup is very complex.\n\n\"Little by little, along the way - that's when you become the favourite.\"\n• None Relive the action from Nice as hosts France beat Norway\n• None Will the World Cup be a cultural turning point for France?\n\nFrance top Group A with six points from two games - three ahead of second-placed Norway and third-placed Nigeria - with one group game left against Nigeria on Monday (20:00 BST).\n\nCheered on by a crowd of 34,872 in Nice, hosts France had to dig deep to seal victory against a determined Norway side.\n\nIn a high quality game, France were on course to drop points for the first time in the tournament after a calamitous own goal by Wendie Renard, who scored two against South Korea.\n\nAttempting to put Isabell Herlovsen's cross out for a corner, Renard instead found her own net eight minutes after France took the lead through Valerie Gauvin.\n\nAmel Majri's cross found Gauvin, who got in front of Chelsea's Maria Thorisdottir to send the partisan crowd into raptures.\n\nGauvin did not start the win over South Korea after showing up late for training.\n\nSlick and inventive, Norway were certainly not fazed by the occasion.\n\nYet the 1995 World Cup winners finished with nothing to show for their efforts when, with the score 1-1, a penalty was awarded following a video assistant referee (VAR) review after Torrent was kicked by Engen.\n\nLe Sommer scored from the spot to join Marie-Laure Delie as France's all-time highest Women's World Cup scorer, with five.\n\n\"We knew we weren't going to be winning 4-0 and wanted to show a lot of respect,\" added Diacre.\n\n\"We lost the match but I thought we were equal with the French,\" added Sjogren.\n\n\"I wasn't surprised by the French team - we knew they were going to be athletic with fast players and speed.\n\n\"But we played well and I'm very proud of how my players performed out there. In my book, I think we deserved a 1-1.\"\n• None With an average age of 28 years and 189 days, France fielded their oldest-ever starting 11 at a Women's World Cup tournament.\n• None Norway are only the second team in Women's World Cup history to benefit from an own-goal in consecutive games in the competition, after Japan in 2015.\n• None Wendie Renard is the first player to score an own-goal for France at a Women's World Cup tournament.\n• None Eugenie Le Sommer has scored 12 goals in her last 12 international appearances for France, including a goal in both of France's games at the 2019 Women's World Cup.\n• None Offside, Norway. Guro Reiten tries a through ball, but Isabell Herlovsen is caught offside.\n• None Goal! France 2, Norway 1. Eugénie Le Sommer (France) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Ingrid Engen (Norway) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "A woman has spoken of her anger after the man who murdered her three children and impaled their bodies on railings was released from prison by the parole board.\n\nDavid McGreavy was dubbed the \"Monster of Worcester\" after he killed Elsie Urry's children, Paul Ralph, four, Dawn, two, and nine-month-old Samantha, at their home in the city in 1973.\n\nMcGreavy was the family lodger at the time he carried out the killings.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice said McGreavy \"will be on licence for the rest of his life and subject to strict conditions\".", "Marie, speaking to BBC journalist Samantha Poling, says she needs to remain anonymous because what she is doing is illegal\n\nMarie is a British mother-of-four who helps run an illegal cannabis oil laboratory in the mountains of Spain.\n\nWhat she is doing is against the law in both Spain and Britain, but Marie claims she is helping people with a range of conditions gain access to a medicinal drug they are currently unable to get on prescription.\n\nMarie (not her real name) agreed to show me her entire operation on condition I kept her identity a secret. I asked her why she had to be anonymous.\n\n\"Because it's illegal,\" she said. \"Because I don't want to be stopped from what I'm doing, because if I am then a lot of people are going to be left in the lurch.\"\n\nThe \"people\" she is referring to are generally sick - they are adults with fibromyalgia or diabetes, and children with epilepsy.\n\nI flew to Spain to meet Marie after a tip-off from a family I met in Scotland.\n\nThe THC compound is extracted from the cannabis bud\n\nI was investigating medical cannabis and filming with families of children with drug-resistant epilepsy who were keen to try the medicine.\n\nOne family I met had been dosing their child with a strain which contained THC (tetrahydrocannabinol), the psychoactive part of the plant.\n\nThere is some evidence that cannabis medicines containing THC can help with epilepsy and reduce seizures. But there is also evidence it can cause seizures.\n\nLegally, doctors can now prescribe cannabis oil products in the UK but they are refusing to, saying it needs to be trialled properly to show that it is safe and that it works.\n\nMarie and the location of her cannabis oil operation need to remain anonymous\n\nIn response, some people have been going to countries such as the Netherlands to get medical cannabis on prescription while others have turned to the black market.\n\nExperts warn this is a bad idea because their products are not pharmaceutical grade.\n\nThey say there can be a \"very real danger\" because users do not know exactly what is in the dealer's products.\n\nThe family I met in Scotland felt they had a black market dealer who actually wanted to help people - that was Marie.\n\nCCTV cameras are in operation to protect the site\n\nMarie told me she makes the oils because she had used cannabis herself for a medical condition and was sick of buying from street dealers.\n\n\"It was awful,\" she says. \"But it was out of necessity, not because I'm a hardened criminal. I kept getting ripped off by them and so I decided to grow it myself.\"\n\nHer illicit activities soon brought the attention of the police in Britain. By then, she had met a man and fallen in love. It took her to Spain.\n\nShe says: \"I made a pact there and then that I would help other people so that they wouldn't be ripped off as I had been. And that's how it all started.\"\n\nThe cannabis is grown in a small white-washed building up a narrow lane\n\nI met Marie in a bar west of Alicante, then she drove me into the mountains along dusty tracks lined with almond trees.\n\nThe first stop is where they grow the plants. A small white-washed building up a narrow lane. There are bars on the windows and doors and CCTV cameras. Other criminals sometimes come and steal the product, she tells me.\n\nThe door does not open far before we are hit with the sweet, pungent and unmistakeable aroma of cannabis.\n\nWe go from room to room. The plants are in various stages of growth. Once the perfect size and age, the buds will be picked and dried and transported to the lab, which is where she takes me next.\n\nThe laboratory where Marie makes the cannabis oils\n\nWe head north, back through the fields of almonds and towards the hills. Then we lurch along the final stretch of a pot-holed dusty track and stop outside a small crop of outbuildings in the middle of nowhere. There is the obligatory metal fencing, the big barking guard dog and cameras - but once we are through the gates, everything changes.\n\nThere, sitting incongruously in the arid Spanish plains, is a laboratory.\n\nOnce inside, the air conditioning does much to dampen the heat, but the pungent aroma of cannabis remains.\n\nMarie tells me she is going to make up some oil, so I can see how easy the process is. I'm not going to detail it here, but she is right - the process does look pretty simple.\n\nThe larger syringes sell for hundreds of euros\n\nThe larger syringes containing the oil can sell for several hundred euros but Marie tells me that if families really need it and do not have the money, she will give it to them for much less, sometimes for nothing.\n\nMarie says this is part of her idea of \"paying it forward\", but what she really wants is to teach people how to do it themselves.\n\nShe says: \"I want people to be self-sufficient so that we don't have to break the law on their behalf.\n\n\"Or I want the government in the UK to pull their fingers out and actually implement a system quickly. There isn't time for people to be waiting with dying children.\n\n\"I want them (the government) to implement a system quickly whereby people have access to quality medication, that they know what's in it and dosing programmes.\"\n\nMarie says there has been an increase in people asking for THC meds since the UK government changed the rules on prescriptions last year.\n\nShe says people think that if the government is saying legal medical cannabis is OK, then it can't be as bad as they used to say it was.\n\nHowever, Marie also says that she wants to stop running her cannabis oil operation.\n\n\"I don't want the stress, I don't want the responsibility, I don't want people calling me at two o'clock in the morning because they've run out of oil,\" she said.\n\n\"It's just way too much responsibility. I won't have people crying at me because their child's had 40 seizures.\"\n\nMarie says she has dozens of customers in the UK. Does she worry she is selling to desperate people, often with very sick children?\n\nShe admits that she has \"no control\" over what happens to the product once she sends it to people.\n\n\"We do the best that we can to provide a quality product,\" she says.\n\nThe oils are sent diluted, she says, with recommendations to be very careful with dosing protocols.\n\n\"But we try not to take too much part of what goes on from there because I don't want that responsibility,\" she says.\n\n\"My bit is to help them, but I would rather parents produce their own plants and made their own oil under guidance rather than me having to be part of that process.\"", "Four people died in the 2013 crash\n\nA fatal accident inquiry is to be held into a helicopter crash which killed four people near Shetland in 2013.\n\nA total of 18 people were on board when the Super Puma crashed on its approach to Sumburgh.\n\nPassengers Sarah Darnley, 45, from Elgin; Gary McCrossan, 59, from Inverness; Duncan Munro, 46, from Bishop Auckland; and George Allison, 57, from Winchester, died.\n\nNo date for the inquiry has been announced.\n\nThere have been repeated calls for a fatal accident inquiry to be held into the crash, which took place on 23 August 2013.\n\nAlmost two years ago, the mother of victim Sarah Darnley said an inquiry should be held soon.\n\nOn Wednesday, the Crown Office said the investigation into the crash had reached \"a significant stage\".\n\nThere is a memorial to the victims in Shetland\n\nIt said: \"Crown Counsel have instructed that a fatal accident inquiry be held into the deaths of Duncan Munro, Sarah Darnley, Gary McCrossan and George Allison, who were passengers being transported from North Sea oil and gas platforms to the mainland.\"\n\nThe Crown Office said the investigation had been \"complex and challenging\", and that it would continue to keep the victims' relatives informed of developments.\n\nResponding to the development revealed by the BBC Scotland news website, Shetland MSP Tavish Scott said: \"It's taken too long but it's very important now that the families who lost loved ones do see some answers and receive closure on a terrible incident that happened all those years ago.\"\n\nIn 2016, a report said flight instruments were \"not monitored effectively\" by the pilots in the moments leading up to the crash.\n\nThe Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) said a lack of monitoring meant a reduction in air speed was not noticed by the pilots.\n\nAttempts to recover were too late.\n\nThe report also said the impact with the water had been \"survivable\".\n\nIt said one of the four victims had been unable to escape, one was incapacitated by a head injury, one drowned before reaching the surface, and the other died in the life raft from a chronic heart condition.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Barry Sheerman asks Theresa May if she will give her successors \"a bit of the medicine that they've given her\".\n\nTheresa May has said she will remain in Parliament as MP for Maidenhead after stepping down as prime minister.\n\nMrs May told the Commons she would sit on the backbenches after she leaves office at the end of July.\n\nHer predecessor, David Cameron, stood down as an MP within months of leaving No 10, while Tony Blair triggered a by-election on the same day as quitting.\n\nBut other prime ministers, most notably Ted Heath, have remained in Parliament for decades after giving up power.\n\nMr Heath hung around in the Commons for 26 years after quitting as Tory leader in 1975, enjoying a famously tense and terse relationship with his successor, Margaret Thatcher.\n\nBoth Sir John Major and Gordon Brown served full parliamentary terms as backbench MPs after their election defeats in 1997 and 2010 respectively.\n\nAnd another former prime minister, Alec Douglas-Home, returned to high office as foreign secretary six years after leaving Downing Street.\n\nMrs May was asked about her future intentions by veteran Labour MP Barry Sheerman during Prime Minister's Questions.\n\nPraising her sense of duty, Mr Sheerman urged her not to \"cut and run\" but instead to stick around in Parliament in order to \"give some of the people who will take over after her a bit of the medicine they have given her\".\n\nTo cheers from the Conservative benches, Mrs May replied: \"I will indeed be staying in the chamber of the House of Commons because I will continue as the member of Parliament for my constituency.\"\n\nShe has represented the Berkshire seat of Maidenhead since 1997.\n\nWhen he gave up his Witney seat in 2016, Mr Cameron said he did not want to get in the way of his successor or be a focal point for arguments over Brexit.\n\nOnce upon a time, prime ministers historically accepted peerages after their retirement and saw out the remainder of their political lives in relative obscurity in the House of Lords.\n\nHowever, this has become far less common in recent decades, with ex-prime ministers remaining more active in public life, combining charitable activities with earning money on the lecture circuit and making increasingly frequent political interventions.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nWarren Gatland has categorically ruled out succeeding Eddie Jones as England coach and plans to return to his native New Zealand after leading the British and Irish Lions in 2021.\n\nGatland was confirmed on Wednesday as Lions boss for the tour of South Africa, his third in charge.\n\nHe says he then plans to return home, and expects Jones to extend his stay at Twickenham.\n\n\"I can promise you 100% I won't be coaching England,\" he told BBC Sport.\n\n\"My understanding is Eddie is going to re-sign isn't he for a bit longer.\n\n\"My future is going to be the 2019 World Cup [with Wales], look at a few things in between, and then the start of my [Lions] role in August 2020.\n\n\"I'll focus 100% on the Lions for those 12 months and then hopefully have an opportunity to go back to New Zealand and pick up something and then take it from there.\"\n\nGatland has been coaching in the northern hemisphere for the best part of thirty years, and has held roles with Connacht, Ireland, Wasps, as well as his current position with Wales.\n\nBut he plans to call an end to his stint in Europe after the Lions tour, and has eyed up a job in Super Rugby.\n\n\"I would love to be involved with Super Rugby and to challenge myself with that,\" he added.\n\n\"I want to go back. I have been head coach with Waikato and won a championship there, and I want to challenge myself with Super Rugby.\"\n\nIn March, England coach Jones ensured he would not be considered for a Lions position, saying the role is an \"ambassador job\" and he did not want to \"spend eight weeks in a blazer\".\n\n\"I don't know how you could coach a Lions team in a blazer,\" said Gatland.\n\n\"I was bemused by that. It is one of the hardest things that I've ever had to do as a coach.\n\n\"Seeing how hard those other coaches worked on the last tour, with guys down in the team room at seven, eight in the morning until nine, 10 at night, planning and preparing as well as coaching two teams twice a day, getting ready for matches - it is the hardest thing.\n\n\"Whether that was a subtle way for him to rule himself out of contention or not, I don't know.\"\n\nLions Job - 'Best in the world'\n\nShortly after the tour of New Zealand, Gatland stated he was \"done\" with the Lions, stung by an \"orchestrated campaign\" of criticism from the Kiwi media.\n\nHowever, he insists coaching the Lions is the best job in the world, and says he would have regretted not taking the opportunity to resume the role.\n\n\"When I thought about what the Lions meant to me personally, it would have been hard to say no,\" he said.\n\n\"The approach came and I thought to lead three Lions tour and to try and go undefeated as a head coach in a Test series, I couldn't walk away from that.\"", "The government is to issue an \"unprecedented\" recall notice of up to 500,000 Whirlpool tumble dryers which pose a fire safety risk.\n\nIt comes four years after Whirlpool issued a warning after it found its Hotpoint, Creda and Indesit dryers had a fault which needed fixing.\n\nThe fault was blamed for at least 750 fires over an 11-year period, according to the government.\n\nWhirlpool said safety was its \"number one priority\".\n\nIt urged anyone still owning an affected dryer to contact the company immediately on 0800 151 0905.\n\nA spokeswoman added: \"In the meantime, anyone with an affected dryer that has not been modified should unplug it and not use it until the modification has been completed.\"\n\nAn estimated 5.3 million dryers were sold in the UK, but it is thought up to 500,000 could still be in use.\n\nLast year, the BBC's Watchdog Live consumer programme uncovered cases in which machines had caught fire even after being fixed.\n\nAnd in April, the Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS) published a report, urging Whirlpool to improve its risk management, and \"reach affected consumers in more creative ways\" to minimise the risk of faulty machines still being in people's homes.\n\nBusiness minister Kelly Tolhurst told the Commons that the recall notice was \"unprecedented action\".\n\nShe was responding to Conservative minister Andrew Griffiths, who told MPs that he was still concerned about whether people still had \"unsafe products\" in their homes.\n\nMark Studley said the dryer caught fire in a room in which his children, then aged two and four, regularly used to play\n\nMark Studley, 40, said his family came home one day in July last year to find their house \"full of smoke\" after their Whirlpool tumble dryer caught fire.\n\nHe said the dryer - which was stored near his children's play room - \"could have killed\" them if it had caught ablaze overnight.\n\nMr Studley, from Bridgwater in Somerset, told the BBC: \"The fire report states that it's an internal wiring fault in the machine, and all of this was caused - approximately £8,000 worth of damage - when the machine was turned off.\n\n\"If this had happened 12 hours earlier or later than it did, myself and my family risked death as it would've been in the early hours and we would've been asleep.\"\n\nRachel Reeves, Labour chairwoman of the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee, said the move was \"long overdue\".\n\n\"Finally, over a year since we called for a recall of defective machines and 18 months since the Beis Committee reported on Whirlpool's inadequate response to safety flaws, the government is at last showing some teeth,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDavid Chaplin, a spokesman for consumer group Which? said there were still \"serious questions\" about the 500,000 unmodified machines that \"Whirlpool has already struggled to locate\".\n\nHe said: \"People's lives have been put at risk for far too long, so it's a hugely significant step that these machines are set to be recalled.\n\n\"The government must urgently explain what it is going to do about the millions of modified machines still in people's homes, following serious concerns that have been raised by people who have experienced fires, smoke and burning despite the so-called fix.\"\n\nA Whirlpool Corporation spokeswoman said: \"We remain committed to resolving any affected tumble dryers that have not yet been modified.\n\n\"To this end, we are in ongoing discussions with the Office for Product Safety and Standards to agree additional measures we have proposed to reach consumers who have not yet engaged with this safety programme.\n\n\"We have co-operated with OPSS throughout its recent review of the programme and welcome its findings that consumers whose tumble dryers have been modified can continue to use them safely.\"", "The BBC is recognised by audiences in the UK and around the world as a provider of news that you can trust. 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We usually link to official reports, sets of statistics and other sources of information, to enable you to judge for yourself the underlying information that we are reporting on.\n\nWhenever appropriate, we also offer links to relevant third-party websites that provide additional information, source material or informed comment.\n\nFor in-depth pieces of work, such as complex investigations or data journalism projects, we will help you understand how we went about our work by showing the underlying data and by disclosing any caveats, assumptions or other methodological frameworks used - for example, the study-design; the sample size; representativeness; margins of error; how the data was collected; geographical relevance and time periods.", "Huge crowds of demonstrators dressed in white filled the streets of Hong Kong, marching against a proposed extradition law.\n\nThey fear it could allow the Chinese authorities to target political opponents in the territory.\n\nThe controversial extradition bill would allow suspected criminals to be sent to mainland China for trial.\n\nThe government says the bill has built-in protections.\n\nSupporters say safeguards are in place to prevent anyone facing religious or political persecution from being extradited to mainland China.\n\nBut critics say those in the former British colony would be exposed to China's deeply flawed justice system, and it would lead to further erosion of the city's judicial independence.", "Surging demand for floral prints and soft tailored dresses have helped Boohoo post a huge jump in revenue for three months to the end of May.\n\nThe fast fashion retailer, which also owns PrettyLittleThing and Nasty Gal, said strong block colours and ankle boots had also sold well.\n\nIt came as Zara-owner Inditex posted record sales of €5.9bn for the quarter.\n\nThe growth contrasts with tough times seen at many other retailers - particularly those focused on the UK High Street.\n\nJust this week shares in Ted Baker dived 24% after it posted a profit warning.\n\nMeanwhile, the future of Philip Green's Arcadia, which owns Topshop and Dorothy Perkins, is hanging in the balance as it tries to secure a rescue deal to avoid going into administration.\n\n\"Boohoo continues to defy the broader gloom on the High Street thanks to its appeal among younger shoppers with the tight marketing focus around celebs and social media paying off.\n\n\"There are doubts though about whether it can maintain margins as well as this rapid sales growth, but for now it's the one of the brightest stars in an otherwise pretty dark sky,\" said analyst Neil Wilson from Markets.com.\n\nFounded in Manchester in 2006, Boohoo has become a hit with millennial shoppers by selling cut price, own-brand clothing that mirrors the latest celebrity trends.\n\nIt does all its trade online, avoiding the challenges faced by bricks-and-mortar retailers such as high shop rents and business rates.\n\nHowever, it has faced questions about its production processes and its approach to workers' rights.\n\nOn Wednesday shares in the firm opened lower amid concerns about its profit margins, but later rebounded. The company's shares are up more than 40% this year.\n\nIt also said it was on course to post revenue growth of 25-30% for the full year.\n\nIt came as Spain's Inditex, which as well as Zara also owns such brands as Bershka and Pull & Bear, reported a 10% jump in profits for the first quarter as online sales surged.\n\nThe firm, which operates in 90 countries, said sales in the first six weeks of the second quarter were also up, as shoppers snapped up items like jewel-toned blazers and long-printed dresses from Zara's spring collections.", "The threatened evictions sparked protests in Glasgow last summer\n\nHundreds of asylum seekers are facing eviction after a housing provider announced it was to restart a lock-changing programme.\n\nSerco first announced that it was issuing eviction notices to tenants who had been denied the right to remain in the UK last July.\n\nIt provides free housing to about 300 people in Glasgow.\n\nGlasgow City Council's leader Susan Aitken has warned the UK government the move could lead to \"mass destitution\".\n\nAnd campaigners have raised fears that vulnerable people could be \"man-handled\" into the street.\n\nIn April a legal challenge arguing that evictions would be unlawful without a court order was dismissed by a judge.\n\nGovan Law Centre is supporting an appeal of the decision and has called for the evictions to be suspended in the meantime.\n\nEarlier this year it was also revealed that Serco had lost the Home Office contract in Scotland, which will be delivered by Mears Group after September.\n\nThe company will now restart the lock-change programme and return any housing it rents in the city to its owners at the end of the leases.\n\nIt said it was \"not a step we have taken lightly\".\n\nSerco claims it costs about £1m a year to support people who remain in their properties after having their asylum claims rejected.\n\nJulia Rogers, Serco's managing director for immigration, said: \"We very much regret the distress this will cause, but hope that it will be understood that we cannot be expected to provide free housing indefinitely to hundreds of people who have been unsuccessful in their asylum claims and most of whom have no legal right to remain in the UK.\n\n\"We call on all parties to work with us constructively to help people navigate their way through to a new future beyond the asylum system, and we will be making funds available to charities to support this work.\"\n\nShe told BBC Scotland that Serco had a responsibility to hand the vacant properties back to their owners before the end of September.\n\n\"If we were to wait, that could be a worse situation. We now have four months in which to manage that situation as best as we possibly can,\" she added\n\nSerco's Julia Rogers said the firm had four months to get the properties ready to hand back to their owners\n\nSerco said no more than 30 people would be issued with lock-changing notices in any one week, and the latest programme would be rolled out over the next four months.\n\nAlmost all are single adult men and women. Serco said \"no children will be left without housing\".\n\nThe company said tenants would be given at least 21 days' notice to make alternative arrangements.\n\nIt added that it would make up to £150,000 available to charities supporting homeless people in Glasgow.\n\nCharity Positive Action in Housing said that since April asylum seekers had been receiving letters telling them to leave their accommodation immediately.\n\nIts director Robina Qureshi said they have been \"intimidated\" into leaving their homes.\n\nShe raised concerns about how the evictions would work and warned that it could lead to 300 people being made \"totally destitute\" over the next two and half months.\n\n\"Are people going to be dragged out with their belongings dumped in the street?\" she said.\n\n\"Anecdotal evidence tells us that vulnerable, frightened people, both men and women, will be man handled onto the street.\"\n\nShe advised people to refuse to leave the properties.\n\nSerco has sent out letters to some people giving them notice to leave their accommodation\n\nSerco's original plans to change the locks of tenants were met with protests in Glasgow last summer.\n\nGlasgow City Council leader Susan Aitken wrote to Home Secretary Sajid Javid warning that the move would \"trigger a humanitarian crisis in Glasgow\".\n\nMs Aitken has now written to UK Immigration Minister Caroline Nokes about the \"deeply concerning development\".\n\nShe added: \"In order for Glasgow City Council to provide support, I would have to instruct officers to break the law.\n\n\"It is a sorry and utterly unacceptable state of affairs when a UK government contract legally obliges its contractor to force people from their homes and leave public servants to choose between either breaking the law or allowing mass destitution on the streets of our city.\"\n\nMs Aitken urged minister to intervene to prevent the planned evictions.\n\n\"If there is no satisfactory resolution to this matter, one which accepts the inevitable consequences of lock changes and prevents them occurring, then Glasgow will have no alternative but to consider what, if any, future it can have in an asylum dispersal programme which allows for the imposition of such inhumane practices, against the express wishes and values not only of Glasgow City Council, but also of the citizens and communities we serve.,\" she added.\n\nA spokesman for the Home Office said took the wellbeing of asylum seekers and the communities in which they live \"extremely seriously\".\n\nHe added: \"We have and will continue to work closely with local authorities and partners to ensure that those who have no right to be in the UK leave their accommodation in a safe and secure way.\n\n\"We have been working with Glasgow City Council and other partners to ensure those at risk of potential eviction have the necessary advice on their options.\"", "Strobe lighting at music festivals can increase the risk of epileptic seizures, researchers have warned.\n\nThe Dutch team said even people who have not been diagnosed with epilepsy might be affected.\n\nTheir study was prompted by the case of a 20-year-old, with no history of epilepsy, who suddenly collapsed and had a fit at a festival.\n\nThe Epilepsy Society said festivals should limit lighting to the recommended levels.\n\nEpilepsy is a condition that affects the brain. There are many types, and it can start at any age.\n\nAround 3% of people with epilepsy are photosensitive, which means their seizures are triggered by flashing or flickering lights, or patterns.\n\nThe Health and Safety Executive recommends strobe lighting should be kept to a maximum of four hertz (four flashes per second) in clubs and at public events.\n\nThe researchers studied electronic dance music festivals because they often use strobe lighting.\n\nThey looked at data on people who needed medical care among the 400,000 visitors to 28 day and night-time dance music festivals across the Netherlands in 2015. The figures included 241,000 people who were exposed to strobe lights at night-time festivals.\n\nThirty people at night-time events with strobe lighting had a seizure, compared with nine attending daytime events.\n\nThe team, led by Newel Salet of the VU Medical Centre in Amsterdam, writing in BMJ Open, said other factors could increase the risk of seizures.\n\nBut they added: \"Regardless of whether stroboscopic lights are solely responsible or whether sleep deprivation and/or substance abuse also play a role, the appropriate interpretation is that large [electronic dance music] festivals, especially during the night-time, probably cause at least a number of people per event to suffer epileptic seizures.\"\n\nThey advise anyone with photosensitive epilepsy to either avoid such events or to take precautionary measures, such as getting enough sleep and not taking drugs, not standing close to the stage, and leaving quickly if they experience any \"aura\" effects.\n\nMr Salet told BBC News: \"If a person has no predisposition for epilepsy, then factors like strobe lighting will not have any effect. However, most people are unaware of this predisposition they might have: more than a couple of cases explicitly reported this to be the first time they experienced an epileptic fit.\"\n\nClare Pelham, chief executive at the Epilepsy Society, said: \"The festival season has become something of a rite of passage. We would encourage festival organisers to at least warn visitors that they are using strobe lighting so that festival-goers can decide whether it will be safe for them to attend before buying their tickets.\n\n\"But it would be really life-affirming, in these days when we aspire to inclusivity, if organisers could do the responsible thing and keep the strobe lighting at a rate that should not pose a risk.\n\n\"The festival season is all about having a good time, but that should include everyone together, in a safe and supportive environment.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Engineers have been working to repair cables brought down on the west coast main line at Floriston south of Gretna\n\nRail services between Scotland and England have resumed after a fallen tree closed the west coast main line north of Carlisle.\n\nPassengers had faced lengthy delays and cancellations while Network Rail sent engineers to the site attempting to repair the damage.\n\nVirgin Trains said it was impossible to use the east coast main line as an alternative due to disruption.\n\nNetwork Rail have since confirmed both main lines are up and running.\n\nA spokesman said delays would continue throughout Wednesday evening but services would return to normal on Thursday.\n\nThe problems on the east coast main line were caused by damage to overhead lines and a fatality near Newcastle.\n\nEarlier, passengers on one train leaving Edinburgh Waverley reported a four-hour delay and overcrowded carriages.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nVirgin Trains said the services on the west coast main line were delayed as a result of the fallen tree between Carlisle and Lockerbie.\n\nIt was reported to Network Rail at 10:00 and engineers spent the day cutting back vegetation and repairing overhead wires which were damaged.\n\nThe disruption also led to long queues at Carlisle station.\n\nA spokesman for Virgin Trains said: \"The closure of our route to Scotland is causing significant disruption and we want to apologise to all our customers affected by this.\n\n\"We're doing our best to help people complete their journeys but would advise anyone who has not set off on their journey to either wait until the disruption has cleared, travel tomorrow or get a refund.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt came as the Met Office issued an amber warning for heavy rain which could cause flooding and transport disruption to south east Scotland.", "Comic Relief is to send fewer celebrities abroad after criticism that stars like Stacey Dooley were going to Africa as \"white saviours\".\n\nThe charity's co-founder, screenwriter Richard Curtis, told MPs TV appeals \"will be heading in the direction of not using\" celebrities abroad.\n\nHe said they would be \"very careful to give voices to people\" who live there.\n\nMP David Lammy, who had criticised the Dooley film, praised the plan to move away from \"tired, harmful stereotypes\".\n\nEarlier this year, Comic Relief and Dooley - a documentary-maker and Strictly Come Dancing winner - were criticised after she travelled to Uganda to make an appeal film about the charity's work in the country.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCurtis, who wrote hit films including Four Weddings and a Funeral and Notting Hill, said: \"We heard the criticism, we were doing stuff to address it, we're accelerating the way that we address it.\"\n\nIn 2017, Ed Sheeran's video from Liberia for Comic Relief was handed a \"Rusty Radiator\" award, given to the \"most offensive and stereotypical fundraising video of the year\".\n\nCurtis told the House of Commons International Development Committee that this year's Comic Relief had included two films featuring UK celebrities in Africa - Dooley and the group of stars who climbed Mount Kilimanjaro.\n\n\"We are trying to do everything we can to raise the maximum amount of money for our projects internationally,\" he explained.\n\n\"But if it is felt that Comic Relief is so influential in terms of image that you start to send out the wrong image, and that people who live in this country with African backgrounds feel as though they're in some way demeaned or negatively affected by Comic Relief, then we really have to listen to that.\n\n\"What I'm searching for year by year is new ways of telling the stories. Traditionally, the sadder the film, the more money it makes, but I'm sure there must be a solution where you show such radiant joy and success that that would encourage you to give more money.\"\n\nAsked by MPs how Comic Relief would operate in the future, he replied that the charity was \"at a very interesting moment\" in learning lessons from successful online fundraising campaigns.\n\n\"We're not strong on that yet,\" he said. \"I imagine as we go into this new future, that will not be based on celebrities going abroad. I suspect we will start that new initiative not going that way.\n\n\"And then on the TV, I think we have to do what we think is best, and I think it will be heading in the direction of not using [celebrities abroad], and particularly being very careful to give voices to people abroad.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe said Comic Relief had not acted \"robustly\" to the criticism over the Dooley film because it was focused on raising money at the time.\n\nIn response, Labour MP Mr Lammy wrote on Twitter: \"Looks like Comic Relief are finally ready to listen to hundreds of thousands of my constituents and others who support aid but want to move on from the tired, harmful stereotypes and tropes that surround it and prevent genuine equity and partnership.\"\n\nKelsey Nielsen of pressure group No White Saviours, who works in Uganda, said Comic Relief had pledged to make such changes in the past, and now needs to put them into practice.\n\nIt needs to stop \"continuing this narrative that Africa is in need of the great white saviour and the great white influencers to come in,\" she told BBC News.\n\nCharities shouldn't stop sending people to Africa, but should do it in a way that's not \"manipulative or coercive\", she added. \"It's not about not helping and not caring, it's about the way it should be done.\n\n\"It's almost that idea that Africans should just be thankful for whatever help they get. That has a lot to do with the root of how we view each other. We would never tolerate that in our own countries, but because it's Africa we have a lower standard.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Dominic Raab says leadership candidates should be able to \"hold their nerve\" in a TV debate.\n\nThe former Brexit secretary made it through the first round of the Tory leadership contest in fourth place with 27 votes and said he had a \"strong base to build on\".\n\nBut he said the candidates needed to have a \"proper debate on the vision for the country\".\n\nHe told the BBC: \"There are a lot of candidates with a lot to offer but we are right at the beginning of this race.\n\n\"We haven’t really tested the visions, the ideas, the policies of all of the candidates, and I think the debates coming up… are a great opportunity to test the views.\n\n\"There is many a slip between a cup and the lip.\"\n\nMr Raab said the last leadership contest, that saw Theresa May take power, was a \"very quick coronation\", but \"once the adrenaline of the first froth and frenzy of this contest ebbs a little bit [you can] have a proper contest on the substance and the vision\".\n\nAnd what would he say to anyone considering not taking part in the TV debates?\n\n\"If you can't hold your nerve and take the heat of a leadership contest, what chance [do you have] under the glare of the light in Brussels?\"", "Watch USA make history as they score 13 goals past Thailand in their opening game of the Women's World Cup, as well as unbelievable weather conditions and a silky Johan Cruyff turn.\n\nWATCH MORE: Channelling her inner Cruyff - watch Martens' 'outrageous' turn\n\nAvailable to UK users only.", "The Met hopes the change will make police work more attractive to people with family commitments\n\nThe Met Police will recruit part-time police constables for the first time as the force tries to \"break down barriers\" deterring women from joining.\n\nFrom November, all new constable recruits will be able to choose between full-time or part-time working hours.\n\nThe force said it believed it was the first in the UK to offer part-time positions.\n\nThe Met's own research showed full-time working hours deterred some women from considering a career in policing.\n\n\"The case for doing this was clear - we know that one of the obstacles stopping people from fulfilling their dreams of becoming a police officer has been the lack of flexibility in how they have to train and balance their family life,\" Commissioner Cressida Dick said.\n\n\"We will continue to break down barriers where we know they exist as we strive to open up a career in policing with the Met to even more people.\"\n\nThis year the Met is celebrating 100 years of women serving in its force\n\nThe Met Police Federation said it was not clear how the scheme would work when \"there is a massive incident that requires officers to be called on at short notice\".\n\n\"We are very wary over the demands that having an increased number of part-time colleagues will have on existing officers policing London during unprecedented times,\" chairman Ken Marsh said.\n\n\"Any scheme which helps us to recruit and retain more female police officers and colleagues from diverse communities is to be welcomed.\n\n\"However, we must not compromise, and should ensure that we continue to hire the best to be Metropolitan Police officers.\"\n\nPreviously, all new police constable recruits were expected to complete their training and then their probationary training period on a full-time basis before they were able to apply for part-time working.\n\nThe first intake of constables to be offered part-time positions will begin training in November.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Britain's Chris Froome is in intensive care and \"not in great shape\" after suffering serious multiple fractures in a high-speed crash, his team principal Dave Brailsford told BBC Sport.\n\nFroome took his hand off his handlebars to blow his nose and was travelling at 54km/h when a gust of wind caught his front wheel, causing him to hit a wall.\n\nHe was airlifted to Saint-Etienne University Hospital for surgery.\n\n\"Time is of the essence in these situations,\" said the Team Ineos boss.\n\nThe four-time Tour de France champion, 34, has suffered a fractured right femur, a broken hip, a fractured elbow and fractured ribs and lost consciousness following the crash.\n\nThere is no indication at this stage that Froome sustained any head injury or concussion.\n\nSpeaking to Radio 5 Live's BeSpoke podcast, Brailsford said: \"He's been operated on to make sure that first phase of medical care is as optimal as possible and we will manage it from there. It's an evolving situation. It is concerning, there is no doubt about that.\n\n\"He's not in great shape. There are crashes and bad crashes and this was a bad crash.\"\n\nWhile initial surgery has gone well, Brailsford said it was still too early to determine how Froome's recovery would go.\n\n\"The degree of confidence I can use depends on what happens in the next few days,\" he said when asked if Froome would ride again, \"but I would like to think so.\n\n\"Given his mentality, if it's possible to do then he will do it.\"\n\nThe crash occurred during a practice ride before stage four of the Criterium du Dauphine in Roanne, France, on Wednesday\n\nFroome was riding with Ineos team-mate Wout Poels when he crashed next to a parked ambulance into a house.\n\nDescribing the incident, Brailsford said: \"He came down a technical descent and on to a straighter piece of road with houses either side. He signalled to Wout that he was going to clear his nose, he took his hand of the bar to do that and a gust of wind took his front wheel, he lost control and went straight into the wall of a house.\n\n\"We have had a look at his data, he went from 54km/h to a dead stop.\"\n\nFroome would have been chasing a record-equalling fifth victory in the Tour, which starts in Brussels on 6 July, but has been ruled out of the race.\n\nBrailsford said the focus is now on Froome's recovery and his wife Michelle has been flown to the hospital to be with him.\n\n\"Instead of channelling his efforts into the Tour, he will have to channel everything he has got into his recovery,\" said Brailsford.\n\nHe added: \"He had just come back from Tenerife. I have seen how hard he has worked, the amount of sacrifice and effort to try and win that Tour this year. He was really on track, in really good shape and would put final touches on his conditioning and go for the Tour again.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Oxfam whistleblower says change will take years\n\nOxfam has been severely criticised by the Charity Commission for the way it dealt with claims of serious sexual misconduct by its staff in Haiti.\n\nThe commission said there was a \"culture of poor behaviour\" at the charity, and issued it with an official warning over its \"mismanagement\".\n\nLast year Oxfam was accused of covering up claims staff sexually exploited victims of the 2010 earthquake.\n\nOxfam accepted the findings, saying what happened in Haiti was \"shameful\".\n\nClaims first emerged in The Times last year that Oxfam employees, including former country director Roland van Hauwermeiren, used young prostitutes while based in Haiti after the earthquake.\n\nAn internal Oxfam investigation in 2011 led to four people being sacked and three others resigning, including Mr Van Hauwermeiren.\n\nBut a report published by Oxfam after the investigation failed to mention sexual exploitation.\n\nThe charity commission said the incidents in Haiti identified in 2011 were not \"one-offs\", with evidence of behavioural issues as early as June 2010.\n\nThere were also issues at some of the charity's UK shops - the report highlighted 16 serious incidents involving volunteers under the age of 18.\n\nMr Van Hauwermeiren worked in Chad from 2006-09 before going to Haiti in 2010\n\nTuesday's report, which followed an 18-month investigation, found the charity failed to listen to warnings - including from its own staff, that it repeatedly fell below standards expected on safeguarding, and did not meet promises it made.\n\n\"What went wrong in Haiti did not happen in isolation,\" Charity Commission chief executive Helen Stephenson said.\n\n\"Over a period of years, Oxfam's internal culture tolerated poor behaviour, and at times lost sight of the values it stands for.\"\n\nOxfam's internal investigation into Haiti, following allegations by a whistleblower in 2011, could not conclude whether minors were involved in some of the incidents.\n\nTwo allegations of physical abuse, made by email from a 12-year-old and a 13-year-old girl, were \"suspected\" not to be genuine by Oxfam at the time.\n\nThe Charity Commission said Oxfam should have tried harder to substantiate the claims at the time, despite the lack of evidence.\n\nOxfam's chair of trustees, Caroline Thomson, said the charity accepted the findings, describing them as \"uncomfortable\".\n\n\"What happened in Haiti was shameful and we are deeply sorry,\" she said.\n\n\"It was a terrible abuse of power and an affront to the values that Oxfam holds dear.\"\n\nShe added: \"We now know that the 2011 investigation and reporting of what happened in Haiti was flawed; more should have been done to establish whether minors were involved.\"\n\nThe decision to allow Mr Hauwermeiren to resign without a fuller investigation into his conduct would not be permitted under current policies and practices, she said.\n\nThe Times had reported that Oxfam was aware of concerns about the conduct of Mr Van Hauwermeiren and another man when they worked in Chad before they were given senior roles in Haiti.\n\nMs Thomson added that every member of staff was being put through basic safeguarding training and 95% of them had already completed it.\n\nIt's rare to see such strong criticism of a charity.\n\nThe most stinging criticism was reserved for the way Oxfam was seen to be placing its own reputation - and its relationships with donors - above the need to protect victims.\n\nThe charity has been bleeding financial support since the story broke, losing 7,000 regular donors worth £14m.\n\nIt has also lost almost £20m in government funding over the last 18 months, and today's findings won't have done much to rebuild trust.\n\nThe report is incredibly strong and has done much to redress the Charity Commission's own laxity over safeguarding in the past.\n\nHowever, it was supposed to be published six months ago.\n\nFaced with an avalanche of safeguarding complaints from across the charity sector, there are still questions about whether the commission has the resources to sufficiently investigate and hold charities to account in the future.\n\nAfter the claims emerged, Haiti banned Oxfam GB from operating inside its borders and thousands of people stopped making regular donations to the charity.\n\nOxfam has also not been able to bid for government funding pending the outcome of the 18-month Charity Commission investigation.\n\nThe Department for International Development said decisions over its funding relationship with the charity would be made \"in due course\".\n\nInternational Development Secretary Rory Stewart said the revelations about Oxfam had \"shone a light on fundamental problems\", adding that there were \"no easy answers or room for complacency\".\n\nThe Charity Commission has instructed Oxfam, which has been under new chief executive Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah since January, to submit a plan on how it will address concerns about its previous conduct, in an effort to \"repair public trust and confidence\".", "Last updated on .From the section Sport\n\nBarcelona and Argentina forward Lionel Messi is the world's highest paid athlete, earning $127m (£99.8m) in the past 12 months, according to the Forbes top 100 ranking.\n\nJuventus's Portugal forward Cristiano Ronaldo is second on $109m (£85.6m) with Paris St-Germain's Brazil forward Neymar in third on $105m (£82.5m).\n\nLast year's highest earner, boxer Floyd Mayweather, has dropped off the list.\n\nSerena Williams is the only woman in the top 100, earning $29.2m (£22.9m).\n\nFive-time Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton and former heavyweight world champion Anthony Joshua are the highest earning British athletes, sitting at 13th on $55m (£43.2m).\n\nThe American business magazine calculated the athletes' earnings by adding up their prize money, salaries and endorsements between June 2018 and June 2019.\n\nThe top 100 includes athletes from 25 countries and their $4bn (£3,1bn) combined earnings are up 5% from the previous year, when Mayweather was first with $285m (£224m).\n\nThe American boxer's only fight since August 2017 was an exhibition boxing bout against Japanese kickboxer Tenshin Nasukawa in December.\n\nAthletes had to earn a minimum of $25m (£19.6m) to make this year's list.\n\nMessi is only the second footballer to top the rankings after Ronaldo, and only the eighth different athlete to take the number one spot since the rankings began in 1990.\n\nIt is also the first time that footballers have ranked as the top three earners in sports.\n\nMessi is one of 38 non-American athletes on the list, with 62 US stars in the top 100.\n\nThe NBA accounted for the most athletes with 35, with LA Lakers' LeBron James the sport's highest paid athlete in eighth on $89m ahead of Golden State Warriors pair Stephen Curry (9th on $79.8m) and Kevin Durant (10th on $65.4m).\n\nManchester United's Paul Pogba is the highest earning Premier League player in 44th place with $33m (£25.9m).\n\nSee the full list here.", "Rescue teams battled bad weather in their search for Darren Myers\n\nRescue teams searching for a British hiker who went missing in New Zealand nearly two weeks ago have found his body, police say.\n\nDarren Myers, 49, went missing while trekking in Tararua Range in the country's North Island.\n\nAn 11-day search ended on Wednesday when a rescue helicopter spotted a body at the bottom of a remote waterfall.\n\nMr Myers' brother-in-law said waiting for news had been \"the hardest time of our lives\".\n\nDuncan Styles said it came as a relief that he appeared to have died suddenly, rather than waiting in pain.\n\nSpeaking to Radio New Zealand, Duncan Styles said: \"One of the hardest things we've had to bear with, was thinking he's up there, and alive, and waving at a helicopter, potentially, and not being seen, and being in pain and distress.\n\n\"To know that he's not been able to respond for the last few days is actually really good relief\".\n\nMr Myers' wife, Kim, is too upset to speak about it, he said.\n\nMr Myers, who had recently moved to New Zealand from the UK, had been hiking the Tararua Northern Crossing, a popular trek that can take up to five days.\n\nHe sent a text to his wife on 30 May - police now believe he died later that day.\n\nPolice search and rescue incident controller Sergeant Tony Matheson said the weather conditions were particularly bad, with wind gusts of up to 145km/h, very poor visibility and rain.\n\n\"It happened very suddenly. I don't think he suffered at all,\" he told Radio New Zealand.\n\n\"The conditions were just about as bad as you can get up there,\" he added.\n\nMr Myers was described by his brother-in-law, Mr Styles, as a ambitious man who enjoyed exploring the outdoors.\n\n\"Having recently migrated to New Zealand, he wanted to see some of New Zealand's beautiful countryside - that's what he was doing,\" he said.\n\n\"He was used to New Zealand's weather conditions, and was well aware of what could happen in those environments.\"", "Khuram Butt was being investigated by MI5 from 2015\n\nAn investigation into one of the London Bridge attackers was suspended because of an \"unprecedented\" threat level which put pressure on MI5 resources.\n\nA senior MI5 officer told an inquest that the inquiry into Khuram Butt was suspended between March and May 2017.\n\nButt then killed eight people during the attack on 3 June 2017, which he carried out with two other men.\n\nThe court also heard that MI5 got an anonymous tip-off that Butt was \"an extremist\" more than two years before.\n\nButt, 27, Rachid Redouane, 30, and Youssef Zaghba, 22, mowed down pedestrians on London Bridge before launching a knife attack in nearby Borough Market, injuring 48 others.\n\nPolice shot and killed the attackers less than 10 minutes after the violence began.\n\nGiving evidence shielded from public view, the officer - identified as Witness L - said the decision to suspend a number of investigations in 2017 was made amid \"the unprecedented level of threat which we were facing and therefore the pressure on our resources\".\n\nIn March 2017 five people were killed during an attack on Westminster Bridge, and two months later 22 people died during an attack at Manchester Arena.\n\nThe head of policy, strategy and capability in MI5's international counter-terrorism branch went on: \"In my 28 years (in MI5), I cannot recall a time as alarming as this time.\"\n\nThe investigation into Butt had also been suspended for around a month in February 2016 after a series of attacks in mainland Europe.\n\nWitness L said: \"I think it reflects the level of resourcing available. This and other similarly concerning investigations had to be suspended because there were even more concerning investigations above these.\"\n\nHe added: \"Money is not the key determinant here.\n\n\"Even if we'd asked for more money in November 2015, its ability to transfer into actual experienced investigators by 2016 would simply not be plausible.\"\n\nThe victims of the London Bridge attack clockwise from top left - Chrissy Archibald, James McMullan, Alexandre Pigeard, Sébastien Bélanger, Ignacio Echeverría, Xavier Thomas, Sara Zelenak, Kirsty Boden\n\nThe Old Bailey heard that the security service received an anonymous call about Butt, more than two years before he carried out the attack, from an informant who specifically asked not to be contacted again.\n\nWitness L said the call \"identified an individual called Khuram Butt who was in the right sort of age range and said that he was an extremist\".\n\nMI5 already had Butt on its radar - he was identified as a supporter of banned extremist group Al-Muhajiroun in 2014 - but did not realise the call related to the same person until after the attack.\n\nThis information was handed over before MI5 launched an official investigation into Butt in mid-2015 because of unconnected intelligence.\n\nThe inquest has previously heard that Butt's brother-in-law had reported him to a police anti-terror hotline in September 2015 - although this information was never passed on to the joint MI5 and police investigation of Butt.\n\nWitness L told the court that a post-attack review, carried out by a manager in MI5 with a panel of experts, found \"the investigation into Khuram Butt was well and effectively run\".\n\nIt also said the decisions to temporarily suspend investigations into Butt were \"logical and proportionate in the circumstances\".\n\nPolice were not consulted about the suspensions \"in any systematic way\" but may have been spoken to informally, he added.\n\nXavier Thomas, 45, Christine Archibald, 30, Sara Zelenak, 21, Sebastien Belanger, 36, James McMullan, 32, Kirsty Boden, 28, Alexandre Pigeard, 26, and Ignacio Echeverria, 39, were all killed in the attack.", "In 1944, KT Robbins was stationed with his regiment in Briey, eastern France, where he fell in love with an 18-year-old French girl, Jeannine Pierson née Ganaye.\n\nTwo months later, he had to leave the village in a hurry for the eastern front, leaving them both wondering whether they would ever meet again.\n\nHe kept a picture of her and showed it to journalists from the French broadcaster, France 2, while they were filming a report on veterans in the United States. A few weeks later, he went to France for the commemorative ceremonies marking the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings.\n\nTo his surprise, journalists had managed to track her down.", "The security service MI5 has handled large amounts of personal data in an \"undoubtedly unlawful\" way, a watchdog has said.\n\nThe Investigatory Powers Commissioner said information gathered under warrants was kept too long and not stored safely.\n\nCivil rights group Liberty said the breaches involved the \"mass collection of data of innocent citizens\".\n\nThe high court heard MI5 knew about the issues in 2016 but kept them secret.\n\n\"MI5 have been holding on to people's data - ordinary people's data, your data, my data - illegally for many years,\" said Megan Goulding, a lawyer for Liberty, which brought the case.\n\n\"Not only that, they've been trying to keep their really serious errors secret - secret from the security services watchdog, who's supposed to know about them, secret from the Home Office, secret from the prime minister and secret from the public.\"\n\nThe criticism of MI5 emerged in the High Court on Tuesday as Liberty challenged parts of the Investigatory Powers Act.\n\nUnder the act, MI5 can apply to judges for warrants to obtain information such as people's location data, calls, messages and web browsing history.\n\nAs well as \"bulk data\" collection, which can include information about ordinary members of the public, MI5 can use targeted interceptions of communications and computer hacking for investigations such as counter-terrorism.\n\nBut the act includes safeguards about how all this information is stored and handled. It is against the law to keep data when it is no longer needed, or to store it in an unsafe way.\n\nMI5 had a \"historical lack of compliance\" with the law, said Lord Justice Sir Adrian Fulford, who oversees the security service's use of data as Investigatory Powers Commissioner.\n\nIn a ruling revealed during the court case, he said the security service would be placed under greater scrutiny by judges when seeking warrants in future - which the commissioner compared to a failing school being placed in \"special measures\".\n\nLiberty said the revelations meant that some of the warrants issued to MI5 may not have been lawful, because the security service knew over several years that it was not handling data correctly but did not tell the judges.\n\nThe court heard that senior members of MI5 were aware three years ago that there were serious issues with the management of data.\n\nMI5 informed the Home Office and Number 10 of the concerns in April this year, but the commissioner said they should have revealed them earlier.\n\nDiscussions between lawyers and clients were among the information wrongly held by the security service, Liberty said.\n\nThe pressure group said such material should be protected by legal privileges, but instead it was being seen by people at MI5.\n\nLawyers for MI5 said they could not explain the exact nature of the breaches in open court, not because they were \"embarrassing\" but because there were \"serious national security concerns\".\n\nThe security service has now taken \"immediate and substantial steps\" to comply with the law, Home Secretary Sajid Javid has said.\n\nJulian Milford, representing Mr Javid and Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt, acknowledged in court \"the existence of serious compliance risks\".\n\nBut he said these specific issues were a \"complete irrelevance\" to Liberty's court case, which was challenging the legality of the whole system of information gathering created by the Investigatory Powers Act.", "The Brexit Party raised more than £2m from small donors during the campaign\n\nThe Brexit Party's online funding system left it open to \"a high and on-going risk\" of impermissible donations, the Electoral Commission says.\n\nSums of more than £500 must be registered and come from the UK under electoral law.\n\nConcerns were raised during the European election campaign the party could allow multiple donations - potentially from outside the UK - to circumvent the rules.\n\nThe party said no rules were broken.\n\nIt also said it would \"embrace\" the recommendations on checking donors.\n\nUnder UK law, donations of £500 or above must be made by a \"permissible donor\" - someone who is listed on the electoral register or a company registered in the UK.\n\nAmounts below that do not have to be declared, but some critics - among them ex-PM Gordon Brown - have said there is no way of telling whether those smaller amounts come from British or foreign sources, and therefore the system may be being abused.\n\nThe Brexit Party topped the polls at last month's European elections.\n\nDuring the campaign, it said donations of £25 or less had accounted for 90% of its total funding. It raised more than £2m from small donors, thousands of whom paid £25 each to become registered supporters.\n\nBut Mr Brown suggested the party was getting round the declaration rules by accepting multiple \"untraceable\" donations directly online.\n\nPolitical parties have 30 days to return donations if they are unsure of their origin.\n\nTo date, the Brexit Party has handed back one donation, of £1,000, as the party could not identify whether it was from a permissible source.\n\nThe Electoral Commission said it had made the party aware of its \"legal responsibilities\".\n\nIt was \"legitimate\" for any political party to adopt a fundraising strategy focused on raising small sums through online payment systems, including PayPal, it said.\n\nBut it said there was a legal duty on parties to check every payment they obtained online to ascertain the source of the donation and \"not to accept any that they are not entitled to\".\n\nParties should request \"as much information as possible\" to ensure all money was from a permissible source, it said.\n\nIn a statement, it said it had concluded that the \"fundraising structure adopted by the party leaves it open to a high and ongoing risk of receiving and accepting impermissible donations\".\n\nThe watchdog's director of regulation, Louise Edwards, said it had made \"specific recommendations to the party that will support it to meet its legal responsibilities when it comes to receiving funds\".\n\n\"Should it fail to meet those responsibilities, this will be considered in line with our enforcement policy,\" she added.\n\nIn response, the party said the watchdog's recommendations were \"helpful\" and it would embrace them \"as soon as practicable and possible\".\n\n\"They haven't found any examples of infringement of Electoral Commission rules,\" a spokesman said. \"We trust that the Electoral Commission have been applying the same oversight and rigour to the other political parties and their fundraising.\"\n\nDuring the campaign, the party insisted all of its donations were above board and it had made clear on its website that people should not attempt to give money unless they were on the electoral roll or eligible to vote.\n\nBoth the Labour and Conservative parties also have the option to donate via PayPal on their websites.\n\nThe Electoral Commission will, in August, publish details of larger donations, of £7,500 and over, given to The Brexit Party and other parties during the election campaign.", "Carlus Grant was described by a police officer who caught him as \"about as dangerous as you could get\"\n\nAn ex-gang leader who served 10 years in prison for a shooting has thanked the police chief who locked him up.\n\nCarlus Grant once ran what police called Derby's most violent criminal gang and was put behind bars in 2009.\n\nMeeting Derbyshire Constabulary's then Ch Supt Andy Hough, he said his jail time helped him change his ways.\n\nNow Mr Grant advises organisations on gang culture and warns young people about being groomed into a life of crime and violence.\n\nA decade ago the 34-year-old had a dangerous reputation and headed up the notorious A1 Crew.\n\nBut having served his sentence at HMP Grendon - a therapeutic community prison - he said he has \"another chance at life\".\n\n\"I could have ended up dead,\" he said.\n\n\"I could have ended up killing somebody. Who knows what would have happened.\n\n\"Without prison, I don't think I would have found a way out.\"\n\nCarlus said he is indebted to Andy Hough for jailing him and helping him to change his life\n\nMr Grant was caught after he ordered the shooting of a man at a house party in Derby's Allenton area in 2008.\n\n\"At that time Carlus was about as dangerous as you could get,\" said Mr Hough.\n\n\"He has the potential to have so much influence over young people. He can now show them that's not a life you want to take, and can be a very positive role model if he wants to be.\"\n\nMr Grant said he was \"lured\" into dealing drugs when he was a teenager with gifts from older criminals.\n\nAged 16, he used money he had stolen to buy his first gun, establishing a gang with a friend and recruiting teenagers to carry out their crimes.\n\nThey continued to buy more weapons and were making thousands of pounds selling cocaine each week.\n\nCarlus was arrested after a man was shot in the leg outside a Derby house in 2008\n\nMr Grant admitted he \"terrorised\" Allenton but said he was \"100% sorry\" for what he did.\n\n\"I feel in some respects the damage we caused the community is kind of irreversible now,\" he said.\n\n\"It's far from a glamorous lifestyle.\n\n\"I feel like I owe a debt of trying to help, and that is why I continue to do my bit for the community and show them another way of dealing with conflict.\"\n\nHis turning point came while in jail when he heard of the death of 15-year-old Kadeem Blackwood, killed in a gang-related feud in Derby.\n\nHe joined a prison programme in which inmates discussed and acknowledged the harm they had caused.\n\n\"I just couldn't believe it had ended like that,\" he said.\n\n\"Part of me did feel we'd created this whole negative atmosphere, this gang culture, and for that I feel responsible.\"\n\nCarlus said he feels the damage his gang caused is \"irreversible now\"\n\nCarlus Grant earned a grim notoriety, just as a wave of gun crime was sweeping through many of Britain's larger cities.\n\nThe police were worried he and his friends were repeating that pattern in Derby.\n\nNow he's served 10 years in prison, Carlus wants to move on.\n\nEvery year he sends a Christmas card to thank the prison that helped him change and refuses to be known by his old \"street name\".\n\nSo could his old reputation give Carlus credibility to influence a new generation?\n\nDerby's former police commander, Andy Hough, certainly thinks so.\n\nBut Carlus has only been out of jail for a year, and still has to prove he's changed. He knows he'll be judged by his actions not his words.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Oxfam was accused of covering up sexual abuse by staff\n\nThe work environment at Oxfam is marked by \"racism, colonial behaviour and bullying\", staff have reported.\n\nThe allegations were made to an independent commission set up in the wake of the Haiti scandal in 2018 to assess the charity's culture.\n\nA 30-page report, which details initial findings, reported the charity has a \"toxic work environment\".\n\nOxfam said the report was an \"important step\" to help \"tackle the root causes of abuse\".\n\nIn February the charity was accused of covering up claims staff sexually exploited female victims of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti.\n\nThe report found a lack of \"robust policies and procedures\" led to a culture in which sexual misconduct could be misunderstood or unaddressed.\n\nThe Independent Commission on Sexual Misconduct, Accountability and Culture Change (ICSMACC) said staff were also critical of management.\n\n\"The commission has heard multiple staff raise concerns of elitism... racism and colonial behaviour... sexism, rigid hierarchies and patriarchy,\" it said.\n\n\"Oxfam's values are printed on wall posters but not always understood or upheld in action, and sometimes are even contradicted.\"\n\nStaff said the charity's procedures for dealing with bullying, harassment and sexual misconduct were \"deficient\".\n\nThose who raised issues in the past \"felt deeply frustrated and saddened at the lack of accountability they experienced\", the report added.\n\nWinnie Byanyima, Oxfam International executive director, apologised to those who had experienced abuse.\n\n\"This is an important piece of work at a crucial time for us,\" she said.\n\n\"We will use its emerging recommendations to bolster our ongoing improvements so that we truly have 'zero tolerance' to anyone who would abuse their power over others.\"\n\nThe commission's full report will be published in May.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "\"If I could personally rip his face off, I would,\" says mother Amber Kyzer\n\nA US mother of five children who were killed by their father has asked a jury to spare him the death penalty.\n\nAmber Kyzer told a court in South Carolina that Tim Jones Jr \"did not show my children mercy by any means, but my kids loved him\".\n\nThe 37-year-old was convicted in May of killing the siblings, aged one to eight, at his home near Lexington on 28 August 2014.\n\nThe jury is considering whether Jones should be executed or jailed for life.\n\n\"I hear what my kids went through and what they endured,\" Ms Kyzer said in court on Tuesday.\n\n\"And as a mother, if I could personally rip his face off I would.\n\n\"That's the mom in me. That's the mama bear.\"\n\nTimothy Ray Jones seen in a Lexington court on 4 June\n\nMs Kyzer told the jury she had opposed the death penalty for most of her life.\n\nShe said that despite at times hoping the legal system would \"fry\" her ex-husband she would not ultimately choose to sentence him to death.\n\n\"He did not show my children any mercy by any means,\" she said. \"But my kids loved him and if I'm speaking on behalf of my kids and not myself, that's what I have to say.\"\n\nMs Kyzer added, however, that she would respect whatever decision the jury reached.\n\nShe was called to give evidence by Jones' defence lawyers.\n\nThe couple wed six weeks after meeting in 2004 when they both worked at a children's fun park in the Chicago area.\n\nJones drove around aimlessly for nine days with the children's bodies in his car\n\nBut she testified in May that the marriage had turned sour because he became religiously strict, demanding that women were \"to be seen and not heard\".\n\nWhen they divorced after nine years, she gave him custody of the children because he had an $80,000(£63,000)-a-year-job as an Intel computer engineer and a car.\n\nShe saw the children every Saturday at a Chick-fil-A restaurant.\n\nOn the day Jones murdered the children, the court heard, he went berserk when he found six-year-old Nahtahn playing with a plug socket at their home.\n\nHe killed the boy and then decided to strangle the other four children, Elaine, one, Gabriel, two, Elias, seven, and Mera, eight.\n\nJones wrapped the bodies in plastic, the trial heard, put them in his sports utility vehicle and drove around for nine days before leaving the remains in rural Alabama.\n\nHe was arrested during a traffic stop in Mississippi when a police officer recognised \"the smell of death\" coming from the car.\n\nJones pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.\n\nThe defence team say he was suffering from undiagnosed schizophrenia, a mental illness that afflicted his mother, too.\n\nThey argue he snapped when his wife left him for a teenager who lived next door.", "There will be big hitters and booming drives aplenty at Pebble Beach when the US Open begins on Thursday.\n\nProfessional golfers are now finely tuned athletes, stronger and fitter than their predecessors with many boasting the physical prowess to rival counterparts from traditionally more athletic sports.\n\nSitting top of the class are Brooks Koepka and Dustin Johnson, who finished first and second at last month's US PGA Championship and are currently ranked as the best two golfers in the world.\n\nSo what is their secret?\n\nBoth work with Joey Diovisalvi, one of the pioneers in golf-specific fitness training and a biomechanics expert, who welcomes some of the top men's and women's players to his academy in Florida.\n\nMore than two decades ago, Diovisalvi recognised the need for players to evolve physically and set about putting the science behind the perfect swing into practice.\n\n\"It intrigued me because golfers were not so keen on the physical aspects - they were slow, late adapters and it took me a long time to create some acceptance and trust in that world,\" Diovisalvi, who credits 15-time major champion Tiger Woods as an early influencer in the field, told BBC Sport.\n\n\"I look at golfers today like Dustin and Brooks - an Adam Scott, a Jason Day and a Rory McIlroy - players of this calibre, they're very athletic, the human body has evolved, the science has evolved, the equipment has evolved.\n\n\"You look at them and the average player out on tour, their bodies have changed in height, weight, physicality... you see this huge shift in the game. Physicality can overpower a golf course.\n\n\"You have to be such an amazing player to be able to compete with the guys at the top of the game.\"\n• None Tee times for US Open - first and second rounds\n• None The Cut: McDowell's cardigan and the rise of Lee6\n• None Donald gets into US Open via qualifying\n\nDiovisalvi uses the example of England's Tommy Fleetwood, who finished runner-up at the US Open last year and is ranked 18th in the world despite his relatively smaller stature.\n\n\"I love Tommy and his trainer because he is like a Samson and Goliath,\" he said. \"I see the way Tommy trains. He's in the gym so many times at the same time Brooks and I or Dustin and I.\n\n\"Tommy is relentless in his pursuit of his strength, conditioning, mobility, flexibility. He and his trainer do such a phenomenal job and Tommy has really been able to compete with the bigger guys, but if his game is off it's very hard to put the ball in a position to score when they are out-driving you by 50/60 yards.\"\n\nA day in the life of DJ...\n\nDiovisalvi headed to the Canadian Open with world number two Johnson last week as the American put the final touches on his preparation for the third major of the year.\n\n\"Dustin is in a good place,\" he said. \"He's hitting it well and he's more comfortable with the putter. His body has been slowly and gradually building up to this major. He loves Pebble Beach, so I am very confident in the way he's approaching this week and used Canada as an opportunity.\n\n\"Mentally it preps these guys to have enough reps to feel good about where their driver is, where their short game is, the approach shots - what does it look like with the irons?\n\n\"It's a really good test to see how the body and the swing are working. Dustin's body is peaking nicely.\"\n\nHelping players get their \"feel\" is a key part of Diovisalvi's role.\n\n\"As the coach and the player are trying to get something to feel right, especially before a major, our job is to make sure the body and the nervous system understand how to ingrain that without over-thinking,\" he added.\n\n\"When their feel is off, you see them do things that are out of character for the calibre they play at. You hear the commentators, they start to over analyse and that's not really what it is... the reality is, if the feel is right and their bodies are reacting and they feel good with where their mental game is, it's a pretty seamless effort.\n\n\"Then it comes down to can they putt well to score?\"\n\nBut life on the PGA Tour can be intense, with players enduring long, hectic days that run far beyond what is picked up by the cameras during their rounds.\n\n\"It's not just a sunshiny day and they show up on the tee box or the driving range and go and play a five-hour round in the sunny weather,\" explained Diovisalvi, who has previously worked with three-time major winner Vijay Singh.\n\n\"Both Brooks and Dustin take their nutrition very seriously, they had chefs with them this week and rented homes so they got more of a feel what it's like to have their support team around them, their family, the opportunity to sleep better, to eat better.\"\n\nA day in the life on tour, eg 07:00 tee time\n\nAfter an early wake up - 04:00 if on the first tee at 07:00 - the players warm-up in the fitness trailers provided by the PGA Tour that are kitted out with the latest technology.\n\n\"Dustin will get on a spin bike for 10 or 12 minutes, get blood flowing, get his heart rate going a little bit,\" added Diovisalvi. \"Then we get down on a mat and do a very active, dynamic stretch for another 10 minutes.\"\n\nNext, the 2016 US Open champion works through a number of drills using stability balls, dumbbells, resistance bands and medicine balls to engage the muscles used during his round.\n\n\"He's using very dynamic movement patterns that mimic the golf swing,\" said Diovisalvi. \"He's very prepared in about 30 minutes to go out to the driving range and begin his routine.\n\n\"Now his feel or his body is very switched on. The nerves are firing, he feels the pressure from his feet.\n\n\"In 2019 we have worked harder than ever before on 'prehabilitation' - getting the body ready to perform so there's few chances of injury, higher performance levels, more ability to get the body to move properly.\"\n\nDiovisalvi takes huge pride in seeing the players he and his team have worked with win tournaments and the academy in Jupiter, Florida is decorated with banners won by the likes of Johnson, Koepka, Justin Thomas, Lexi Thompson and Michelle Wie.\n\n\"They always say the proof is in the championship rings, or the banners that hang on our walls,\" he said. \"The majors that have been won in our team, they humble me every day.\n\n\"You hang these banners and think 'gosh, we've been on teams that have helped win so many majors', it really is humbling what you have participated in and how you helped grow the game.\"", "The BBC News app is available for Android and iOS devices\n\nWith the latest news and analysis from our journalists around the world and the unique human stories behind current events, we've got the best of our journalism in one place on the BBC News app.\n\nClick here to download the BBC News app from the App Store for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.\n\nClick here to download the BBC News app from Google Play for Android devices.\n\nWe would like to know what you think of the new app - click here to give us your feedback.\n\nDepending on the contract you have, data charges may apply for accessing the internet on your mobile device.\n\nIf you are not sure about the potential charges, please ask your mobile network provider. You may find some costs are included in your existing price plan or that you can opt for a data package that gives reduced charges for accessing the internet.\n\nThe BBC does not charge you to access mobile content.", "Nearly 1,400 people have died in a recent outbreak in neighbouring DR Congo\n\nA five-year-old boy in Uganda has died from Ebola, health officials have said.\n\nThe death is the first in Uganda, amid a deadly outbreak in neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo. Officials said his grandmother and younger brother also had the disease.\n\nThe Ugandan government is now reporting seven suspected cases of Ebola.\n\nThe boy is said to have travelled across the border with his family from DR Congo on Sunday.\n\nHe was then taken to a Ugandan hospital after exhibiting symptoms, including vomiting blood, officials said.\n\nThe World Health Organization (WHO), citing Uganda's Health Minister Jane Ruth Aceng, announced on Twitter that the boy had died on Tuesday.\n\nMore than 2,000 cases have been recorded in DR Congo in the last 10 months - most of which have been fatal.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by WHO Uganda This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by WHO Uganda\n\nFifty people in Uganda are suspected to have come into contact with the seven people known to have contracted the deadly disease, the Ugandan government said.\n\nThe government has suspended mass gatherings including market days and prayers. Market days in the town of Kasese attract an estimated 20,000 people at the border area.\n\nUganda's health ministry and the WHO said a rapid response team had been dispatched to identify others at risk and to follow up on eight other possible cases.\n\nUganda has already vaccinated about 4,700 health workers against the disease, according to a joint statement by WHO and Ugandan health officials.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe outbreak in DR Congo is the second biggest in history, with a significant spike in new cases noted in recent weeks. Nearly 1,400 people have died of the disease since August.\n\nOnly once before has an outbreak continued to grow more than eight months after it began - that was the epidemic in West Africa between 2013 and 2016, which killed 11,310 people.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Video from a police helicopter shows the moment gang members were arrested on the M6 near Knutsford, Cheshire\n\nTwo drugs gang bosses have been jailed after cocaine with a street value of £20m was seized from a van on the M6 in Cheshire.\n\nThe drugs haul on 2 August was the biggest seizure of cocaine on land in the UK, Cheshire Constabulary has said.\n\nA total of 21 people were convicted following an investigation into organised crime groups led by Jamie Simpson, 31, and Jamie Oldroyd, 29.\n\nBoth were sentenced at Liverpool Crown Court for conspiracy to supply cocaine.\n\nSimpson and Oldroyd, both of no fixed abode, were jailed for 11 years and six months and 14 years and three months respectively.\n\nThe court heard how Simpson and Andrew Daniels, 41, Clare Smith, 36, and Dean Brettle, 37, had travelled to Kent to pick up a drugs consignment, believed to have come from Europe.\n\nPolice stopped the gang driving to Warrington along the M6 near Knutsford, Cheshire.\n\nVideo footage from a police helicopter shows the moment Simpson was arrested after police vehicles surrounded his Ford Transit.\n\nJamie Oldroyd and Jamie Simpson were arrested following a 14-month covert investigation\n\nOfficers searched the vehicle and found 186kg of high purity cocaine concealed under the floor of the van and in the passenger seat.\n\nThe van had been adapted to conceal the drugs, which were hidden in large metal drawers and beneath a false floor, Cheshire Police said.\n\nDaniels was sentenced to eight years and six months, Smith to eight years and nine months and Brettle to six years for conspiracy to supply cocaine.\n\nAndrew Daniels, 41, Clare Smith, 36, and Dean Brettle, 37, travelled to Kent to pick up the drugs\n\nDet Ch Insp Mike Evans, from Cheshire Constabulary, said the gang led \"cash-rich\" lives but their lavish lifestyles led to their arrests.\n\nA video filmed on a phone shows Oldroyd and Taluant Paja, 22, who was jailed for six years and six months for his part in the conspiracy, counting out an estimated £150,000 in cash on a coffee table where Rolex watches can also be seen.\n\n\"They were carefree. There was an arrogance to them and they led a bit of a gangster lifestyle,\" added Det Ch Insp Evans.\n\nOldroyd's gang \"would go to great lengths to conceal their criminality\" by disposing of mobile phones and regularly changing vehicles, the court heard.\n\nThe gang was involved in supplying cocaine across the country including in Warrington, Carlisle, Scunthorpe, Darlington, Manchester and London.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nThey were the last of the major contenders to play - but a ruthless, record-breaking Women's World Cup demolition of Thailand showed why the United States are first in the world rankings.\n\nThe reigning champions' relentless 13-0 win in Reims - the city in which France used to crown its monarchs before the rise of the republic - told the world how determined they are to stay on the throne.\n\nIn contrast Japan, who have exchanged wins with the USA in the past two finals, were held to a 0-0 draw on Monday by an Argentina side ranked 37th in the world, three places below Thailand.\n\nAnd the flood of goals was at odds with other title-chasing nations, who struggled to finish off their opening opponents.\n\nWorld number two side Germany had a narrow 1-0 win over China in Group B, while England had to settle for a 2-1 win over improving Scotland, a nation they beat 6-0 in 2017.\n\nSimilarly, European champions the Netherlands needed a late winner to beat New Zealand in Group E, and Canada edged past a Cameroon side ranked 41 places below them.\n• None Morgan your player of the match after five-goal display\n• None Statement of intent or lack of respect - social media reacts to USA win\n\nYet no corks were being popped by USA boss Jill Ellis in France's Champagne region - she stressed there would be ups and downs to come.\n\n\"This will be an incredibly hard World Cup. This was only game one,\" she told BBC Sport.\n\n\"The players are on a mission. This is just one step in that. They understand that the mission matters most.\n\n\"I'm not saying a big result like this is the be-all and end-all but it lights a little bit of a fire in terms of their confidence for sure.\n\n\"Feeling invincible, that's the feeling you want. It's how you want to start a tournament, with players feeling good about their game. It's about building momentum.\"\n\nCan anyone stop the Stars and Stripes?\n\nOf the other favourites, hosts France did impress in a 4-0 win over South Korea in Friday's opening game in Paris.\n\nThe French - who are yet to win a major tournament - and the USA could meet as early as the quarter-finals if both win their groups.\n\nTo top Group F the USA will need to overcome a highly rated Sweden side, who they face in their final group game in Le Havre on 20 June.\n\nThe Swedes - ninth in the world rankings - eventually overcame a resilient Chile - who are ranked five places lower than Thailand - earlier on Tuesday, giving Ellis' side a vastly superior goal difference before their own meeting with La Roja on 16 June.\n\nThe USA are bidding to reach their third consecutive final and become only the second nation to successfully defend the Women's World Cup, after Germany's 2003 and 2007 successes.\n\nA new record - the USA's win in numbers\n• None Germany's 11-0 defeat of Argentina from 2007 was the previous record.\n• None USA's previous biggest World Cup win was 7-0 against Chinese Taipei in 1991.\n• None They are the fourth team to score double figures in the tournament's history.\n• None Striker Alex Morgan's five-goal haul was the first at a World Cup for 28 years, matching Michelle Akers in the win over Chinese Taipei.\n• None It took Morgan's career tally of international goals to 106 - one behind Akers, who is the USA's fifth-highest scorer.\n\n'To respect opponents is to play hard against them'\n\nAs the USA joyfully celebrated each of their 13 goals - including six in the final 16 minutes - was it sporting of them to react to each one with such vigour?\n\n\"Every time we score a goal in the World Cup, well, I've dreamt of it since I was a little girl,\" said Morgan, who consoled distraught members of Thailand's squad after full-time.\n\n\"We want that gold star. Tonight, we knew that every goal could matter in this group-stage game.\n\n\"When it comes to celebrations, this was a really good team performance and it was important for us to celebrate with each other.\"\n\nEllis added: \"This is a world championship. To be respectful against opponents is to play hard against opponents.\n\n\"I don't find it my job to go and harness players and rein them in. This is what they've dreamt about.\"\n\nHowever, after such a free-scoring victory, is there any danger of complacency from the USA, with far tougher challenges lying ahead?\n\n\"That's easy. We've got enough experience to know this is a twist and turn, up and down rollercoaster ride,\" Ellis insisted.\n\n\"We believe we have got more to do. We're going to stay humble and go back to work.\"\n\nBBC Sport has launched #ChangeTheGame this summer to showcase female athletes in a way they never have been before. Through more live women's sport available to watch across the BBC this summer, complemented by our journalism, we are aiming to turn up the volume on women's sport and alter perceptions. Find out more here.", "Coverage: Commentary on BBC Radio 5 Live; text commentary on the BBC Sport website and app.\n\nTyson Fury believes former world champion Anthony Joshua is \"finished\" after his shock defeat by Andy Ruiz Jr.\n\nJoshua, 29, gave up his IBF, WBA and WBO titles in a seventh-round stoppage loss to Ruiz in New York on 1 June.\n\nSpeaking before Saturday's bout with Tom Schwarz - which will be broadcast by BBC Radio 5 Live - Fury said Joshua did not want to be in the ring.\n\n\"When a man doesn't want to be there once, he will always do it and it's hard to come back from,\" said Fury.\n\n\"It's been done many different times by many different fighters. He did it that night and I don't think he will come back from it. Finished. Ask any top trainer who has been around the sport a lifetime. When he got to the ring I saw he didn't want to be there.\"\n\nFury's Las Vegas contest with Schwarz will air on 5 Live in the early hours of Sunday morning in the UK.\n\nThe bout comes two weeks after Ruiz ripped up the heavyweight division's plot lines by inflicting a first career defeat on Joshua, who had previously made Fury an offer to fight.\n\n\"Everybody thought that man could beat me,\" Fury added. \"In what world could he ever beat me? What were people seeing? I don't know what people were looking at as I don't know in what world he could have beaten me.\"\n\nFury this week said he respects Joshua and regards him as \"a winner in life\" for how he has achieved sporting success after brushes with the law in his youth.\n\nBut Joshua's loss has halted talk of any immediate fight with Fury or WBC champion Deontay Wilder as the 2012 Olympic champion is now intent on fulfilling a rematch with Ruiz.\n\nFury, who battled mental health and drug issues before returning to the sport after a 31-month spell of inactivity in June of 2018, believes Joshua will lose the repeat fixture.\n\nIn referencing Ruiz's much publicised fleshy physique and his own win over Wladimir Klitschko in 2015, Fury told 5 Live Boxing's Mike Costello and Steve Bunce that such results prove \"body types mean nothing in boxing.\"\n\n\"Physically Joshua could out-train everyone,\" added Fury, 30. \"He would break every heart monitor, has probably worn out every treadmill in the gym, smashes the bag, it's all very unimportant.\n\n\"Boxing isn't rocket science and today people are trying to make it a scientist thing. If you can fight you can fight if you can't you can forget about it. You can eat every protein bar in the world, when you get banged on the chin and panic, it don't really help you much.\n\n\"People who don't understand boxing look at a fat man and think he can't fight. The best feeling I got from it was the two best conditioned fighters in the last 20 years have been Klitschko and Joshua and they both got done by two fat men.\"\n\nUndefeated Fury is a 1-25 favourite against Schwarz in his first fight since his epic draw with Wilder in December, where many ringside observers felt he should have been given a points victory despite being floored twice.\n\nBoth his and Wilder's team have loosely agreed a rematch in 2020, though a venue has not been agreed and financial terms have not been negotiated.\n\nFury, who lost around 10st in the 12 months leading up to the contest, says his relationship with Wilder is now strained.\n\n\"If I was a match fit fighter and some fat man comes off drugs and alcohol and done that to me I'd never look at the sport again,\" said Fury.\n\n\"Does Deontay Wilder have anything to bother me? Nothing at all.\n\n\"I've been hurt 1,000 times but Wilder didn't hurt me once. He hit me in the back of the head, scrambled my senses and the last knockdown was a touch of sleep but didn't hurt me. Those same punches that caught me then are not going to touch me when I'm match fit.\n\n\"They thought I'd be half the man. I had to con them to think I was only there for a pay day. I couldn't be at my best but still beat him at nowhere near my best. He isn't man enough to face me anymore or speak to me. He used to text me back and forth. I've text him five times and he hasn't replied once.\"\n\nSchwarz, 25, is unbeaten in 24 fights and impressed 5 Live's Bunce with his movement when he and Fury performed open workouts at the MGM Grand Hotel on Tuesday.\n\nSaturday's contest will be Fury's first on his lucrative deal with ESPN and his team were keen to pick a bout which would lend itself to showcasing their fighter on his new broadcast platform.\n\nGermany's Schwarz has therefore been largely written off but Fury warned his opponent has been training while he has shouldered the majority of the media commitments both in the UK and US.\n\n\"Any man who is unbeaten and his full life changes with a win, I don't take that as an easy fight,\" added Fury.\n\n\"All it takes is one or two punches. That is all it takes. If you're 12 rounds ahead and get knocked out it's pointless. So I am not convinced it's easy.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nGabriele Grunewald, the US distance runner hailed as an inspiration for her spirit in fighting cancer for 10 years, has died at the age of 32 .\n\nGrunewald - the US champion over 3,000m indoors in 2014 - is the 12th-fastest American woman in history over 1500m.\n\nWorld marathon record holder Paula Radcliffe praised her determination, while others left messages on the #bravelikegabe hashtag.\n\nHer husband wrote on Instagram that she died \"peacefully with no suffering\".\n• None Read: 'Thank you for showing me what bravery looks like’\n\n\"At 7:52 I said 'I can't wait until I get to see you again' to my hero, my best friend, my inspiration, my wife,\" wrote Justin Grunewald.\n\n\"I always felt like the Robin to your Batman and I know I will never be able to fill this gaping hole in my heart or fill the shoes you have left behind. Your family loves you dearly as do your friends.\n\n\"To everyone else from all ends of the earth, Gabriele heard your messages and was so deeply moved. She wants you to stay brave and keep all the hope in the world. Thanks for helping keep her brave in her time of need.\"\n\nThe US Olympic Committee paid tribute, posting on Twitter: \"Thank you for teaching us what it means to be brave and courageous. Your story and memory will inspire the Team USA family for a lifetime.\"\n\nWorld, European and Commonwealth medallist Jo Pavey tweeted: \"The running community has lost someone very special. A truly inspiring and courageous person. Thinking of Gabe's family and friends.\"\n\nGrunewald continued to train and race despite her cancer diagnosis that saw her have several treatments to rid her of the illness, including having half of her liver removed in 2016.\n\nAfter having radiotherapy during her second cancer treatment in 2011, she finished fourth in the US 1500m trials for the 2012 London Olympics, missing out on a place in the team by one position.\n\nGrunewald, who often trained with her husband on the banks of the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, thought she was cancer free in 2016 - but within two years, scans showed she needed further treatment.\n\nOn Monday, Justin used social media to state Grunewald had been admitted to end-of-life care.\n\nIn addition to Radcliffe, 2006 London Marathon winner Deena Kastor, and American distance runner Kara Goucher thanked Grunewald for her inspirational attitude prior to her death.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer describes his motion as a \"safety valve” in the Brexit process\n\nLabour has tabled a cross-party motion to try to stop a future prime minister pushing through a no-deal Brexit against the wishes of MPs.\n\nThe party is trying to force a vote to give MPs control of the timetable on 25 June and thereby the power to introduce legislation to avoid no deal.\n\nLabour's Keir Starmer said it was a \"safety valve\", but Brexit Secretary Stephen Barclay criticised the plan.\n\nSome Tory leadership hopefuls have said they would leave the EU without a deal.\n\nMichael Gove said Labour's plans \"must be resisted\", as while he would prefer to agree a plan with the EU, \"we must not rule out no deal.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Michael Gove This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFor other candidates, including Rory Stewart and Mark Harper, the prospect of leaving without a deal is unacceptable.\n\nHowever, neither man appears prepared to back the opposition motion. Mr Harper said his \"instinct\" was to oppose it while Mr Stewart - despite saying he was \"wholly supportive\" of the idea at his campaign launch in London - later tweeted that he would not be voting for it.\n\nBut Dominic Raab and Esther McVey have both said they would consider shutting down Parliament early - proroguing - in order to drive through no deal.\n\nLeaving on a no-deal basis - without any agreement on the shape of the future relationship between the UK and EU - could lead to significant disruption.\n\nThe EU has previously said border checks would have to be brought in, affecting things like exports and travel and creating uncertainty around the rights of UK citizens living in the EU and vice-versa.\n\nThe government normally controls business in the Commons - but MPs have previously seized control to legislate in favour of extending the Brexit process.\n\nLabour's shadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir said the motion was a \"safety valve\" designed to ensure Parliament \"cannot be locked out of the Brexit process\" in the coming months.\n\nIt would allow Parliament to push back against a new prime minister \"foolish enough\" to pursue a no-deal Brexit without MPs' consent.\n\nThat was especially important, Sir Keir argued, because the Tory leadership contest had \"become an arms race to promise the most damaging form of Brexit\".\n\nMr Barclay, though, said the motion was a \"blind motion\" because it did not specify the legislation that would be introduced under its terms.\n\nLabour had previously accused ministers of backing a \"blind Brexit\" because the future relationship was not spelled out in the withdrawal agreement - but this motion was guilty of the same approach, he said.\n\nHe argued it would be a \"fundamental change\" to the way the House operated and therefore should be opposed.\n\nThe motion has cross-party backing, including from one Tory MP - Sir Oliver Letwin - who is supporting Michael Gove in the leadership contest.\n\nIt has been signed by Jeremy Corbyn, SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford, Lib Dem leader Sir Vince Cable, Change UK leader Anna Soubry, Plaid Cymru Westminster leader Liz Saville-Roberts and former Green Party leader Caroline Lucas.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Labour Whips This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDue to the confidence and supply agreement with the Democratic Unionist Party, the Tories have a majority in Parliament of five.\n\nThat means it would take only three Conservatives to vote with the Labour motion for it to pass - if all opposition party MPs back it.\n\nAnother attempt to re-write the rules, another heave in the procedural tug of war, another day of drama in Parliament. But will it work?\n\nIt's not a straight vote for or against a no-deal Brexit - that would not change the fact that it is written in law and agreed with the EU that Brexit will happen on 31 October.\n\nThink of this plan not as a knockout blow in a boxing match, but the first of a complicated sequence of moves in a chess game.\n\nLabour want to pull off something similar to what happened in March, when MPs took control of parliamentary time to force the government to request an extension to the Brexit process from the EU.\n\nStep one is seizing control of business in the House of Commons, and that's clearly the plan this time around.\n\nBeyond that, the details aren't clear.\n\nCompelling the new prime minister to ask the EU to delay Brexit further is the most likely option. But the answer of course, might be \"no\".\n\nThe default position in law is that the UK will leave the EU on 31 October - and if nothing changes, Brexit will happen regardless of whether there is a deal or not.\n\nMPs wanting to stop a new PM leaving without a deal do however have a number of options at their disposal.\n\nOne would be to pass legislation requiring the government to seek an extension to the UK's membership. The EU would have to agree to an extension for it to be granted.\n\nHowever, this would first require MPs to seize control of the parliamentary agenda, as Labour is attempting.\n\nAnother would be to use a vote of no confidence to bring down a government committed to pursuing a no-deal exit.\n\nMPs could also use motions or political pressure to try and force the government into changing course.\n\nWhat questions do you have about Brexit?\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nThe United States recorded the biggest ever victory in the Fifa Women's World Cup as they crushed Thailand 13-0.\n\nThe 2015 winners were 3-0 up at half-time, scored four times in 10 minutes in the second half and then added six more goals in the last 16 minutes.\n\nAlex Morgan scored five times for the United States with two goals apiece for Rose Lavelle and Samantha Mewis.\n\nLindsey Horan, Megan Rapinoe, Mallory Pugh and Carli Lloyd also scored to beat Germany's 11-0 win over Argentina.\n\nThe United States' previous biggest win in the tournament was a 7-0 success over Chinese Taipei in 1991, while Germany's thrashing of Argentina came in 2007.\n• None US head coach Ellis 'in tears' after record win\n• None Relive how the United States thrashed Thailand as it happened\n\nHow the goals went in\n• None 2-0, 20 minutes: Rose Lavelle's powerful strike was helped into the net by the keeper.\n• None 3-0, 31 minutes: Lindsey Horan scores from six yards out after Wilaiporn Boothduang fails to clear Tobin Heath's free-kick.\n• None 4-0, 50 minutes: Samantha Mewis' deflected effort gave her the 800th goal in Women's World Cup history.\n• None 5-0, 52 minutes: Morgan tucked in after Thailand failed to clear a free-kick.\n• None 6-0, 54 minutes: The ball bounced kindly to Mewis in the box and she struck another.\n• None 7-0, 56 minutes: Mewis turned provider this time for Lavelle, who placed in the seventh.\n• None 8-0, 74 minutes: A neat turn and finish from Morgan completed her hat-trick.\n• None 9-0, 79 minutes: Megan Rapinoe timed her run to perfection and completed a flowing move.\n• None 10-0, 81 minutes: Morgan hit a cracking strike from the edge of the box for her fourth of the night.\n• None 11-0, 84 minutes: Substitute Mallory Pugh rounded the goalkeeper and rolled the ball in.\n• None 12-0, 87 minutes: Morgan's brilliant flick and powerful finish delivered the best goal of the night.\n• None 13-0, 90+2 minutes: Carli Lloyd raced through the middle and slotted in from close range.\n\nRuthless USA do not let up\n\nThe USA players refused to take their foot off the accelerator in the closing stages, taking an 8-0 lead into the final 12 minutes before adding five further goals.\n\nSeveral of Thailand's players were clearly upset at the final whistle, with tears streaming down forward Suchawadee Nildhamrong's face, while some members of the USA team attempted to console their opponents.\n\nFive-goal striker Morgan said: \"With the scoreline tonight, we have to look at the group stage as every goal counts.\n\n\"It was important for us to continue to go. We knew every goal could matter.\"\n\nThe defending champions have lost just one international game since July 2017 and have now won seven games in a row, scoring 36 goals in the process, and not conceding in five matches.\n\nHow good did the USA look?\n\nThe USA are bidding to reach their third consecutive final and become only the second nation to successfully defend a Women's World Cup title, after Germany's 2003 and 2007 successes.\n\nThey arrived in France as favourites to win a record fourth title, but many pundits have tipped France, England or the Netherlands to succeed, with Canada, Australia and Sweden mentioned as dark horses.\n\nHead coach Jill Ellis' side finished second in this year's SheBelieves Cup to winners England but on Tuesday at Stade Auguste-Delaune they reminded the world of their attacking class in a game in which they could have actually scored many more.\n\nThey had 40 attempts at goal, including 20 on target, and were also denied two strong appeals for penalties in the first half.\n\nThailand, ranked 34th in the world, lost 9-0 in their previous meeting with the USA in a friendly in 2016 and were playing in the finals for only the second time, having been eliminated in the group stage in 2015.\n\nThey could still make the next phase but need good results against Sweden and Chile, who played each other earlier on Tuesday with the Europeans winning 2-0.\n\nThailand boss Nuengruethai Sathongwien praised the attitude of the American players after the final whistle and said: \"They saw that our players were very disappointed and they wanted to encourage us to continue fighting. Thank you very much for that.\n\n\"We've got two more games to play and we need to bounce back. They have their responsibilities and they know what they need to do.\n\n\"My players were waiting for this moment and they were really disappointed.\"\n\nAnother thrashing for Thailand - the stats\n• None The United States' 13-0 win over Thailand is the largest margin of victory in either the men's or women's World Cup.\n• None Thailand have now lost three of their four Women's World Cup matches (won one). In those three defeats, they have failed to score a single goal while conceding 21.\n• None Since the start of 2018, Alex Morgan has scored 26 goals for USA Women in all competitions, 13 more than any other player.\n• None Mallory Pugh became the 32nd different player (excluding own goals) to score for USA at the Women's World Cup, only Germany have more different scorers in the competition's history (34).\n• None Only Germany (five) can boast more hat-trick scorers in Women's World Cup matches than USA, with Alex Morgan becoming the fourth player do so for her country (Carli Lloyd, Michelle Akers and Carin Jennings are the others).\n• None Samantha Mewis' opening goal for USA was the 800th goal scored in Women's World Cup matches, with USA responsible for 116 of them - more than any other team.\n• None Carli Lloyd earned her 275th cap for the US in their win over Thailand, moving her to fourth on the all-time list. Only Mia Hamm (276), Christie Rampone (311) and Kristine Lilly (354) have earned more.\n• None Only Brazil midfielder Formiga (37y 99d) has scored a goal in a Women's World Cup encounter at an older age than Carli Lloyd at 36 years and 330 days.\n\nThe USA will face Chile in Paris at 17:00 BST on 16 June, three hours after Thailand meet Sweden.\n\nJill Ellis' side will then be up against Sweden in Le Havre in 20 June, in a game that is likely to decide which side tops the group.\n\nThe top two teams in each of the six groups will qualify automatically for the last 16, along with the four best third-placed sides.\n• None Goal! USA 13, Thailand 0. Carli Lloyd (USA) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Alex Morgan with a through ball.\n• None Attempt missed. Christen Press (USA) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right.\n• None Attempt blocked. Christen Press (USA) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Mallory Pugh.\n• None Goal! USA 12, Thailand 0. Alex Morgan (USA) left footed shot from the left side of the box to the top left corner.\n• None Goal! USA 11, Thailand 0. Mallory Pugh (USA) left footed shot from the left side of the six yard box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Alex Morgan.\n• None Attempt missed. Carli Lloyd (USA) right footed shot from the centre of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Samantha Mewis with a headed pass.\n• None Goal! USA 10, Thailand 0. Alex Morgan (USA) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the top left corner. Assisted by Megan Rapinoe.\n• None Goal! USA 9, Thailand 0. Megan Rapinoe (USA) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Mallory Pugh following a fast break.\n• None Attempt saved. Taneekarn Dangda (Thailand) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Suchawadee Nildhamrong.\n• None Goal! USA 8, Thailand 0. Alex Morgan (USA) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Christen Press.\n• None Taneekarn Dangda (Thailand) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Megan Rapinoe (USA) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The RMT will resume strike action after suspending it in February\n\nRail commuters on some of the country's busiest routes are facing disruption due to a planned five-day strike over the future of train guards.\n\nMembers of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) plan to walk out on Tuesday over South Western Railway's \"failure\" to rule out it would move to a driver-controlled operation.\n\nLondon commuters and racegoers at Royal Ascot have been advised to check details of trains online.\n\nIt said while services may be disrupted by the strike, there will still be trains running, and advised commuters to plan in advance and check departure times on its website.\n\nPlanned industrial action was suspended in February as a resolution seemed in sight, with the RMT claiming SWR had pledged \"each passenger train shall operate with a guard with safety critical competencies\".\n\nBut RMT said SWR had now \"rowed back\" on its public pledges as it refused to rule out future driver controlled operations - which would see the role of the guard \"carved up completely\".\n\nRMT general secretary Mick Cash said members were \"angry and frustrated\" as they had suspended action in \"good faith\" only for SWR to \"fail to bolt down an agreement that matches up to our expectations on the guard guarantee\".\n\nHe also criticised SWR's \"insistence\" that future schemes would be \"governed\" by the protection of company profits rather than that of \"the travelling public\".\n\nA SWR spokesman said it was \"very disappointing\" the union had decided to call the strike despite dates being set for more talks.\n\n\"Clearly, they have decided to target popular events such as Royal Ascot with this cynical action which is driven by internal RMT politics,\" the spokesman said.\n\nThe company said it met with union representatives last week to fix new dates for talks but the unions were \"insistent on going ahead with their unnecessary strike\".\n\nIt said it had matched RMT's request to keep a guard on each train and wanted to move on to discuss how to make the most of new technology on board.\n\nThe spokesman said the company \"remains committed to finding a solution\".\n\nPassengers heading to Twickenham, Hampton Court and Royal Ascot, have been advised to allow extra time for their travel.\n\nThe Royal Ascot event runs for five days from Tuesday.\n\nHow will you be impacted by the strikes? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Britain's Tyson Fury produced a ruthless display to stop previously undefeated heavyweight Tom Schwarz in the second round in Las Vegas.\n\nFury, wearing shorts with the American stars and stripes, entered the ring to James Brown's Living in America.\n\nFury, 30, backed Schwarz to the ropes in the second, driving a right hand home to drop the German to the floor.\n\nSeconds later, with Schwarz bloodied and under attack, his corner threw in the towel as the bout was waved off.\n\n\"I got a big man out of there by switching it up. He caught me with a couple but you can't go swimming and not get wet,\" said Fury, who now has 28 wins and a draw on his record.\n\n\"I came here to have fun and enjoy myself. I don't take it too seriously. I thought I put on a good show and the fans got what they paid for.\"\n• None Photos: Fury goes all Apollo Creed on winning Vegas debut\n\nThis was Fury's first outing since his controversial draw with WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder in Los Angeles in December.\n\nThere will be many who feel 25-year-old Schwarz was over-matched, with British heavyweight Dillian Whyte quick to label the German a \"chump\" and the fight \"a joke\".\n\nBut this was billed as a showcase bout for Fury in what was his first contest of a lucrative deal with ESPN. The marketing of the former world heavyweight champion was there for all to see as he took off a black robe during his MGM Grand ring walk to reveal the US stars and stripes on a second gown.\n\nThis was all about enhancing his profile to the American market and the five minutes and 54 seconds of boxing that followed did no harm to the undefeated Briton's future earning power or damage his hopes of a rematch with Wilder.\n\nIn round one he pinged a sharp jab through the underdog's defence and threw smart hooks around the guard, with Schwarz walking forward gamely but landing little against the evasive 6ft 9in Fury frame.\n\nAnd in the second, Fury showed his abundant ring craft when he willingly retreated to a corner before landing a left hook while swivelling out of the tight space to open up an attack.\n\nIt was the beginning of the end as seconds later he thrust a right hand into Schwarz's face, forcing a knockdown which was quickly followed by the conclusion as Schwarz stood a static target with shots raining in on him.\n\nFury was handed the microphone and - just as he did after ripping the IBF, WBA and WBO world titles from Wladimir Klitschko in 2015 - opted to sing Aerosmith hit I Don't Want to Miss a Thing.\n\n\"Tonight was great, I will enjoy it,\" he added. \"We will get deals done, get another fight in and then we fight Wilder next year.\"\n\nNo slip-ups but what's next?\n\nFury's win came two weeks after fellow Briton Anthony Joshua lost the IBF, WBA and WBO titles in a shock defeat by Andy Ruiz Jr at Madison Square Garden.\n\nDespite a late flurry of money being placed on Schwarz, who was previously unbeaten in 24 bouts, the German never looked like he could spring a similar surprise.\n\nInstead, ringside celebrities such as singer Robbie Williams, chef Gordon Ramsay and former baseball star Alex Rodriguez witnessed a dismantling by Fury.\n\nIt has been a whirlwind 12 months since he returned to the sport after battles with drugs, alcohol and depression which saw him give up his WBA and WBO titles, having already been stripped of the IBF belt because of failing to fight the mandatory challenger.\n\nIt appears a rematch with WBC champion Wilder is his main focus but another fight will come first, either on 21 September or 5 October, with his US promoter Bob Arum stating this week that New York's Madison Square Garden was provisionally booked.\n\nA meeting with Wilder should therefore happen early in 2020.\n\n\"Wilder's team want to make it happen,\" said Fury's promoter Frank Warren. \"Everybody wants to make it happen and it will happen.\"\n\nIf Fury and Wilder do meet again it will likely follow Joshua's proposed rematch with Ruiz, meaning the heavyweight landscape may well have changed once more.\n\nAfter his win Fury said his Las Vegas bout felt like \"my coming out party\".\n\nHe now appears to have US backing, momentum and the necessary focus to ensure he is in the mix for what could be a captivating period in the division.\n\nReaction - 'This is just the beginning'\n\nFormer world heavyweight champion Joseph Parker on BBC Radio 5 Live: \"What a statement. I know Schwarz is not of the same class of Fury's last opponents but he was game and did his best.\n\n\"Fury has made a big impact in the UK but from this fight he is also going to make a huge impact in the United States. A lot of people are drawn to him because he is so charismatic.\n\n\"He is very good at speaking and brings a lot more to fight night than just boxing. This is just the beginning.\"\n\nBBC Radio 5 Live commentator Mike Costello: \"That was a brilliant statement from Tyson Fury. He was so aggressive, pinpoint with his punches and fighting on the front foot. It's another win and he remains on course to win another version of the world heavyweight title.\"\n\nBritish heavyweight Dillian Whyte: \"Can't believe I stayed to watch that joke of a fight. Tyson Fury should be ashamed of himself running away from me and fighting these chumps. My mother would have knocked out Tom the bum in a round.\"", "The foreign secretary has branded Jeremy Corbyn \"pathetic\", after he questioned whether the UK had \"credible evidence\" Iran was behind attacks on two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman.\n\nJeremy Hunt said responsibility for Thursday's attacks \"almost certainly\" lies with the Iranian regime.\n\nThe Labour leader said the UK should \"ease tensions\" in the region rather than \"fuel a military escalation\".\n\nIt is the second time in the past few weeks that tankers appear to have been attacked in the region and comes amid escalating tension between Iran and the United States.\n\nThe US military released video footage which it said proved Iran was behind Thursday's attacks on the Norwegian and Japanese tankers - something Iran has categorically denied.\n\nAlthough Iran has denied being behind the explosions, experts believe it could be a response to US sanctions intended to stop other nations from purchasing Iranian oil.\n\nAfter the sanctions were tightened last month, Iran announced that \"if it could not export its oil, no other country would be allowed to export theirs\", Dr Aniseh Bassiri Tabrizi, from the Royal United Services Institute, said.\n\nThe UK Foreign Office said it was \"almost certain\" that a branch of the Iranian military - the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps - attacked the two tankers on 13 June, adding that \"no other state or non-state actor could plausibly have been responsible\".\n\n\"These latest attacks build on a pattern of destabilising Iranian behaviour and pose a serious danger to the region,\" Mr Hunt said.\n\nHowever, in a tweet, Mr Corbyn questioned that assessment, saying that \"without credible evidence\", the government's rhetoric \"will only increase the threat of war\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jeremy Corbyn This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Hunt criticised the Labour leader's comments, tweeting that they were \"pathetic and predictable\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Jeremy Hunt This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Hunt said there was \"video evidence\" suggesting Iran's responsibility and Mr Corbyn's comments showed Labour was \"in the grip of virulent anti-Americanism\".\n\n\"For Jeremy Corbyn it's all America's fault. And this is the same man by the way who refused to condemn Putin after the Salisbury Novichok attacks,\" he said.\n\nMr Corbyn previously cautioned against making \"hasty judgements\" in the wake of last year's Salisbury nerve agent attack, which the government blamed on the Russian state.\n\nHis stance attracted some criticism, including from a number of his own MPs, although the Labour leader did subsequently say that the evidence clearly pointed to the Russian state.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Security correspondent Frank Gardner looks at the evidence which the US says proves Iran's involvement in Thursday's attacks\n\nShadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry said it was important to establish independent evidence on who was behind the tanker attacks.\n\nShe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that developments in the region were \"extremely dangerous\" and cautioned against becoming \"enmeshed\" in a war.\n\nThere is the narrowest of differences in how the US and its closest ally, Britain, are ascribing blame over the tanker attack.\n\nPresident Trump says \"Iran did it\", while Jeremy Hunt says the Iranian regime was \"almost certainly\" behind it.\n\nSo is Britain blindly following the US into what could become a costly conflict?\n\nWhitehall officials insist the evidence has been studied closely and they have reached the same conclusion as Washington: there are no other credible suspects apart from Iran.\n\nIt mined the entrance to the Gulf in the 1980s but strongly denies any role in this attack.\n\nYet a strange discrepancy has emerged with the owner of the Japanese tanker disputing the ship was hit with a limpet mine. Instead, he says, the crew reported \"flying objects\".\n\nIf military action does eventually break out, conclusions reached today - behind closed doors - will one day be scrutinised in public.\n\nUS President Donald Trump has insisted Iran was behind the attacks, citing footage that Washington says shows Iranian forces removing an unexploded mine off the hull of one of the ships - hours after the initial detonations.\n\nUN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said the truth needed to be \"clearly established\", while Russia has warned against drawing \"hasty conclusions\".\n\nThe blasts came a month after four oil tankers were damaged in an attack off the coast of the United Arab Emirates. The US blamed Iran for that attack, but did not produce evidence. Iran also denied those accusations.\n\nTensions between the US and Iran have escalated significantly since President Trump took office in 2017.\n\nHe abandoned a nuclear deal that was brokered by Barack Obama's administration and significantly tightened sanctions on Iran.", "The husband of a British-Iranian mother detained in Iran has spent his first night in a tent outside the Iranian embassy in London, in an attempt to secure his wife's release.\n\nNazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was jailed in Iran for five years in 2016 after being convicted of spying, which she denies.\n\nRichard Ratcliffe told the BBC's Simon Jones he was hoping to put pressure on Iran to set her free.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Who are the Conservative Party members?\n\nConservative MPs may have whittled the contenders in the leadership race down to the final two - but it will not be politicians who will decide who gets to be the next prime minister.\n\nInstead it will be the party's grassroots members who will decide which of Jeremy Hunt and Boris Johnson gets to succeed Theresa May.\n\nThey will do so in a postal ballot, with the winner announced in the week beginning 22 July.\n\nIn other words, it is members of the public - those who pay £25 a year to join the Conservative Party - who get the final say on who leads the country.\n\nThere will not be a general election because the party is already in power.\n\nSo, who are the Conservative Party's members and what do they think on key issues, not least, of course, Brexit?\n\nThe Conservative Party membership is currently thought to be around 160,000 - a rise of more than 30,000 in the past 12 months.\n\nThe last time official figures were released was in March 2018, when they put the figure at 124,000.\n\nThat is way down on the peak of nearly 3 million that the party boasted in the early 1950s.\n\nThe Tories have far fewer members than the Labour Party.\n\nEven if we assume that Labour's membership has fallen from the late 2017 peak of more than 550,000, it still has a huge advantage over the Conservatives when it comes to campaigning on the ground.\n\nRight now, however, none of that matters as much as the fact that those 160,000 or so rank-and-file members of the Conservative Party have a crucial role.\n\nThey are going to be choosing the next prime minister of a country of over 65 million people - something which has never happened before.\n\nFrom studies of the 124,000 members that the party had in 2018, we know quite a lot about who they are and their beliefs.\n\nMost members of most parties in the UK are pretty middle-class.\n\nBut Conservative Party members are the most middle-class of all: some 86% of them fall into the ABC1 category used by market researchers to describe the top social grade.\n\nAround a quarter of them are, or were, self-employed and nearly half of them work, or used to, in the private sector.\n\nNearly four out of 10 put their annual income at over £30,000, and one in 20 put it at over £100,000. As such, Tory members are considerably better-off than most voters and, indeed, the members of other parties.\n\nOn the other hand, the fact that 97% of Conservative Party members are white doesn't do much to distinguish them from their counterparts in other parties.\n\nIt does inevitably mean, however, that ethnic minorities, who make up well over 10% of British people, are heavily under-represented in the Tory rank and file.\n\nSo, too, are women. Other parties - notably Labour and the Greens, but also the SNP - now come close to gender balance, but seven out of 10 Conservative members are male.\n\nTory members are also older than the members of most other parties. True, their average age may \"only\" be 57, but this disguises the fact that four out of 10 are over 65.\n\nThey are concentrated in the southern half of England. Nearly 60% of Tory members live in London, the east, south-east and south-west.\n\nSo much for demography and geography. What about ideology?\n\nWell, not surprisingly, Tory Party members are more right-wing than the population as a whole.\n\nOn a scale where zero represents very left-wing and 10 very right-wing, the average voter places themselves at the centre point. The average Conservative Party member places themselves at 7.6.\n\nThree-quarters of them believe, for instance, that young people today don't have enough respect for traditional values. Nearly six out of 10 support the death penalty.\n\nThey are also conventionally right-wing on some aspects of economic policy.\n\nFor example, only 15% of them believe that government should redistribute income from the better-off to those who are less well-off.\n\nBut on other issues they hold views that may be more unexpected.\n\nA third of Tory rank-and-file members believe that ordinary working people do not get their fair share of the nation's wealth and that there is one law for the rich and one for the poor.\n\nAbout half believe that big business takes advantage of ordinary people.\n\nInterestingly, they have also cooled on austerity. In the summer of 2015, some 55% said government spending cuts hadn't gone far enough, but two years later that had fallen to 28%.\n\nWhat Tory members haven't cooled on, however, is Brexit.\n\nIndeed, since we started tracking them in 2015, they've hardened their position.\n\nIt is clear that they are not supporters of the deal negotiated by Theresa May.\n\nIn fact, it is now the case that fully two-thirds of them back a no-deal Brexit - an outcome supported by only a quarter of voters as a whole.\n\nNor are they in the least bit keen on the idea of letting the public have another say on the UK's EU membership.\n\nSome 84% of them oppose the idea of a new referendum on the issue.\n\nIn short, the grassroots aren't simply sceptical on Europe; they can't wait to leave, whatever that might take.\n\nFurthermore, a breakdown of YouGov polling data suggests that the 30,000 or so members who have joined in the past year are even more likely to be pro-Brexit.\n\nThis, then, is the Conservative Party electorate.\n\nAnd those MPs hoping to succeed Mrs May will need to pitch their promises accordingly.\n\nThis analysis piece was commissioned by the BBC from experts working for an outside organisation.\n\nTim Bale is Professor of Politics at Queen Mary University of London.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nTalks about making the World Cup final free-to-air in the UK are taking place, says International Cricket Council chief executive David Richardson.\n\nSky are showing the event live with TV highlights on Channel 4 and clips on the BBC Sport website.\n\nThe final is on 14 July at Lord's.\n\n\"I know that the ECB (England and Wales Cricket Board) and the local organising committee are working with the Sky people to try to maximise the reach for the match,\" said Richardson.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio's 5 Live's Sportsweek, the boss of cricket's world governing body added: \"We are hopeful that something can be arranged in that regard.\"\n• None Watch clips, listen to TMS and follow text coverage of India v Pakistan\n\nChannel 4 have been criticised in some quarters for how late they have been showing the highlights.\n\nHowever, they have said they plan to broadcast England highlights \"as early as possible\" in their schedule, and for the latter stages of the tournament \"will look to air more matches in an earlier slot\".\n\nSubscription channel BT Sport showed football's Champions League final between Liverpool and Tottenham for free on YouTube and its website.\n\nBT said they had 11.3m viewers across digital and TV platforms for the match on 1 June.", "This video has been removed for rights reasons.\n\nThe first mass has been held at Notre-Dame cathedral since the devastating fire in April.\n\nThere were fears the 800-year-old cathedral could be completely destroyed during the fierce blaze.\n\nFirefighters managed to save the structure and much of its interior.", "Mexican restaurant chain Wahaca has 25 branches across the UK\n\nWahaca has tightened up its policy on walk-outs, after a waiter was told to pay part of the bill when his customers left without paying.\n\nThe company said waiters would no longer have to pay any element of the bill when this happens.\n\nHowever, if a manager suspected the waiter was \"complicit\" in a walk-out, this would be investigated, it said.\n\nThe restaurant chain previously only made servers cover part of the bill in rare cases of \"real negligence\".\n\nWahaca said this was not the case when a waiter in a London branch was asked by the manager to pay £3 towards a £40 unpaid bill.\n\nThe waiter has now been assured he will not have to pay, after a customer raised the issue on Twitter.\n\nSarah Hayward, a former Labour leader of Camden council, tweeted that she was eating at Wahaca in Kentish Town when she witnessed the eat-and-run incident.\n\nShe told the BBC that the waiter then informed her he would have to cover the cost of the bill, prompting her to express her concerns on social media.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Sarah Hayward This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWahaca said the incident was caused by an \"internal communications issue\" which has now been resolved.\n\nCo-founder Mark Selby told the BBC that in light of the incident, the company had decided its policy needed a \"clearer direction\".\n\nPreviously, the procedure was that an individual should only be held accountable for an unpaid bill in cases of \"real negligence\" - where they allowed a customer to leave, knowing they had not paid.\n\nThat decision was down to the discretion of the manager, but the amount was generally 10% of the net bill minus VAT - or 30% of the food bill - Mr Selby said.\n\nThe new policy will mean waiters will not have to pay any element of the bill if a table they are responsible for leaves without paying.\n\nHowever, if the manager suspects the waiter was \"complicit\" in the walk out - for example if they were friends with the customer and the server knew they intended not to pay - there would be a full investigation and the operations manager would decide the appropriate action, Mr Selby said.\n\nWahaca said its policy is in line with industry standards.\n\nA spokesman for the union Unite, Alex Flynn, said the incident which prompted the policy change was \"outrageous\".\n\n\"Hospitality staff are already paid a low wage, but to then be expected to pay for the dishonesty of customers is quite shocking,\" he said.\n\nMr Flynn said the union had also received reports of similar cases in other chains.\n\nWhere service charge is paid by card, rather than in cash, he said restaurants often used this money to cover the bills of customers who had left without paying, leaving the staff member with less money in tips.\n\nThe Wahaca chain was founded by Mr Selby and 2005 Masterchef winner Thomasina Miers in 2007 and now has 25 branches across the UK.\n• None 'A lot of the team started to get ill'", "High volume pumps are being used to try and reduce water levels\n\nHigh volume pumps are being used to lower water levels in a flooded Lincolnshire town.\n\nMore than 580 homes in and around Wainfleet were evacuated amid concerns about flood defences.\n\nDozens of people spent the night away from their homes in emergency centres.\n\nThe town flooded on Wednesday after two months' worth of rain fell in two days and the banks of the River Steeping broke its banks.\n\nSteve Hardy and his wife, who stayed at the Coronation Hall in Wainfleet overnight, said he initially refused to leave his house when officials knocked on his door.\n\n\"I said 'well we don't really want to'.\n\n\"Then when he said 'well look it's going to be hard work for us if we have to come and get you' and I don't want to put anybody's life at risk. So that was it.\"\n\nLincolnshire Police has issued a request for people in the town not to use washing machines, toilets or showers.\n\nIt said public toilets were being set up in Market Place and Brewster Lane and residents could use the showers at nearby Skegness Leisure Centre.\n\nRAF helicopters dropped almost 400 tonnes of ballast to plug a gap in the River Steeping\n\nRAF Chinook helicopters, aided by troops on the ground, have placed an additional 76 tonnes of sand and ballast on top of the 270 tonnes dropped on Friday in an attempt to reinforce and plug a breach in the River Steeping's banks.\n\nCh Insp Phil Vickers, from Lincolnshire Police, said that it was important to reduce the river's levels.\n\n\"The Environment Agency have got some high volume pumps that are in place,\" he said.\n\n\"We're hoping they will assist us in clearing the water from the channel and from the area surrounding.\n\n\"Until we're satisfied that there isn't a risk to life, that there isn't a further risk to property, our advice will remain to stay out of that area.\"\n\nSome residents spent the night in evacuation centres\n\nLincolnshire Police tweeted a map of the areas at risk of flooding.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Environment Agency described the situation as \"unprecedented\" after 132mm (5.2in) of rain fell between Monday and Wednesday, with the Met Office predicting a further 20mm (0.79in) of rain during Saturday night and Sunday.\n\nThe agency said about 100 properties in Wainfleet had flooded, and further properties could be affected.\n\nRiver levels were expected to remain very high for the next few days, it added.\n\nThe town of Wainfleet in Lincolnshire was flooded on Wednesday\n\nEarlier, local Conservative MP Matt Warman praised the \"incredible\" multi-agency response to the flooding and offered \"a huge thank you\" to those involved.\n\nBut he said the town was \"by no means out of the woods yet\".\n\nThe RAF dropped 270 tonnes of ballast to fill a breach in the river bank\n\nHave you been evacuated from your home? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A charity supporting transgender children and young people has issued an apology after thousands of emails were made public online.\n\nMermaids UK said it was \"deeply sorry\" for what it called a \"historical data breach\" after it was first reported by the Sunday Times.\n\nThe paper claims the correspondence included \"intimate details\", names and addresses, but the charity denies this.\n\nMermaids said it had taken immediate action and reported the breach.\n\nIn an official statement on the Mermaids UK website, the charity claimed that the emails were from 2016 and 2017, and that they were searchable only \"if certain precise search-terms were used\".\n\nIt maintained there was \"no evidence\" the information had been retrieved by anyone other than the Sunday Times, or those contacted by their journalist.\n\nA Mermaids spokesperson told the BBC the emails were shared to a private group on a private messaging platform.\n\nThey insisted that the 1,100 emails were between executives and trustees of the charity, discussing matters relating to their work.\n\n\"To be clear this is absolutely not Mermaids service users emailing each other, and their emails and private correspondence being available to an outside audience,\" the spokesperson said.\n\nThe Times, however, reported that the emails contained \"intimate details of the vulnerable youngsters it seeks to help\".\n\nIt said the emails could be found simply by typing in the charity name and its charity number.\n\nMermaids UK stated it had notified the Information Commissioner's Office, the data protection watchdog, and contacted those affected.\n\nThe Charity Commission had also been notified, it said, and an independent investigation into the breach would be launched.\n\n\"We're going to be employing a third party to oversee processes and advise on how we can improve internal practice,\" the spokesperson told the BBC.\n\n\"I think it's important to note that this dates back some two years when Mermaids was a smaller charity dealing with the first aggressive onslaught from those who are opposed to giving vulnerable transgender children and young people the safe spaces they need.\"\n\nMermaids UK was formed in 1995, and is the country's leading charity in services offering support around gender and identity to children and young people up to 20 years old.\n\nIt recently received £500,000 from the National Lottery Community Fund.", "Donald Trump and Sadiq Khan have been in a \"political grudge match\" for years\n\nUS President Donald Trump has reignited his political feud with Sadiq Khan, calling him a \"stone cold loser who should focus on crime in London\".\n\nMoments before Air Force One landed at Stansted, Donald Trump posted two tweets criticising the mayor of London.\n\nIt follows Mr Khan's attack on Mr Trump ahead of his three-day state visit to the UK.\n\nA spokesman for Mr Khan said the \"childish insults should be beneath the president of the United States\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Donald J. Trump This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAs he came in to land, Mr Trump wrote: \"Sadiq Khan, who by all accounts has done a terrible job as Mayor of London, has been foolishly 'nasty' to the visiting President of the United States, by far the most important ally of the United Kingdom.\n\n\"He is a stone cold loser who should focus on crime in London, not me.\n\n\"Kahn [sic] reminds me very much of our very dumb and incompetent Mayor of NYC, de Blasio, who has also done a terrible job - only half his height.\n\n\"In any event, I look forward to being a great friend to the United Kingdom, and am looking very much forward to my visit. Landing now.\"\n\nIn response to Mr Trump's tweets, a spokesman for Mr Khan said: \"This is much more serious than childish insults which should be beneath the president of the United States\n\n\"Sadiq is representing the progressive values of London and our country warning that Donald Trump is the most egregious example of growing far right threat around the globe.\"\n\nNew York City's Mayor Bill de Blasio later tweeted that he considered any comparison with London's mayor \"a compliment\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Bill de Blasio This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nProtesters flew an inflatable caricaturing Mr Trump as a baby during his 2018 visit to the UK\n\nMr Trump's tweets follow a long-running feud between the two men.\n\nIn May 2016 Mr Trump challenged the newly-elected London mayor to an IQ test after Mr Khan said his views on Islam were \"ignorant\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Sadiq Khan This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFollowing the attack on London Bridge and Borough Market in 2017, the US president accused Mr Khan of \"pathetic\" behaviour.\n\nMr Khan responded that he would not allow Mr Trump to \"divide our communities\".\n\nIn July last year Mr Trump said Mr Khan had \"done a very bad job on terrorism\".\n\nThe mayor said he would not rise to Donald Trump's \"beastly\" accusation that he had done \"a terrible job\" following the London terror attacks.\n\nMr Trump's criticism came after Mr Khan permitted a plan to fly a giant inflatable \"Trump baby\" blimp to coincide with the president's UK visit.\n\nTwo months later Mr Khan also gave protesters permission to fly a bikini-clad blimp of himself over Westminster.\n\nMr Trump is taking part in his first official state visit to the UK as president.\n\nIt includes a private lunch with the Queen and a state banquet at Buckingham Palace.\n\nMr Trump will then meet Prime Minister Theresa May at St James's Palace on Tuesday morning for a business breakfast.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nI would like to say I am surprised, but I am not because we know Trump has no regard for normal diplomatic niceties.\n\nHe seems to have got stuck in to Sadiq Khan. I am also not surprised because these two figures loathe each other.\n\nThis is a political grudge match which has been simmering now for three years, back from when the president introduced that travel ban on some Muslim countries.\n\nProtests at Mr Trump's visit, including a \"national demonstration\" in Trafalgar Square, are planned for central London.\n\nBoth the Stop Trump Coalition and Stand Up to Trump protest groups said they would be present.\n\nThe Met Police said it had \"a very experienced command team\" leading the operation to deal with the visit.\n\nThe Museum of London wants both the Sadiq Khan and Donald Trump blimps as exhibits", "Few cities in the world protest with the same explosive civility as Hong Kong\n\nShe has been the face of large Hong Kong protests against a controversial extradition bill. But the young woman, who came to be known as \"Shield Girl\", tells the BBC that she will fight on despite the bill's indefinite suspension.\n\nDarkness had fallen. Crowds were thinning. A lone girl, in a meditative pose, defiantly sat in front of a row of riot police.\n\nIt has become an iconic image from the Hong Kong demonstrations.\n\n\"Bravery in the face of brutality. Beautiful,\" wrote an observer on Twitter.\n\n\"The innocence of youth and the riot shields of the authority,\" wrote Hong Kong-based Irish journalist Aaron Mc Nicholas.\n\nDubbed \"Shield Girl\", she even inspired this artwork from one of China's leading dissident artists Badiucao.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by 巴丢草 Badiucao This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHer name is Lam Ka Lo. The 26-year-old came to the Admiralty district by herself, where the government headquarters are located, on Tuesday night, hours ahead of a rally organised by Civil Human Rights Front.\n\nThere were hundreds of protesters with her at that spot, but more and more police officers in full riot gear arrived.\n\n\"No one really dared to stand so close to the line of police officers,\" she said, adding that she did not fear police but worried that other protesters might be injured.\n\nShe started meditating and chanting the Om mantra when tension was running high.\n\n\"I just wanted to send my positive vibes,\" she said. \"But protesters also hurled insults at the police. At that moment, I just wanted fellow protesters to sit next to me and not to chide them.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBut the young woman doesn't want to be the face of the protests.\n\n\"I don't want attention,\" Lam said. \"But if people think that it was moving to see me sit down in front of the police, I hope more people would be encouraged to be braver, to express themselves.\"\n\nLam's calmness is largely owed to her practice of meditation.\n\nAn avid traveller, Lam has visited more than a dozen countries in Asia, Latin America, North America and Europe. She dabbled in meditation during her trip to Nepal four years ago - when the country was rattled by a deadly earthquake.\n\nThe young woman says she's a naturally emotional person, but meditation has helped her be more mindful of her feelings and achieve inner peace.\n\nBut Lam, who spent every single day in the streets during the 79-day Umbrella Movement in 2014, was not emotionally prepared by the dramatic showdown between police officers and protesters on Wednesday afternoon.\n\n\"I do feel a bit of hatred because some students were injured by police,\" she said, adding that she was not at the protest site when the violence unfolded on Wednesday. \"We are only human to have feelings.\"\n\nThe young woman says, however, the protest movement should not alienate police officers and still believes non-violence is the way to achieve the goal of the protesters.\n\nHong Kong leader Carrie Lam announces the suspension of the extradition bill on Saturday\n\nOn Saturday, the protesters scored what is being seen as a major concession. Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said the extradition bill would be shelved, and no timetable for its re-introduction given.\n\n\"I don't see it as a success.\"\n\nShe wants to see the bill withdrawn, the Wednesday clashes not categorised as riot, and the release of arrested protesters.\n\nShe urges her fellow protesters to continue their fight and join the march on Sunday.\n\n\"Come with your friends and family. Come in groups. Express yourselves in your own ways. I used meditation, but it doesn't mean it's the only way. Everyone can protest creatively and meaningfully.\"", "The BBC has uncovered evidence that life-saving drugs meant for the sick have been stolen and sold on illegally.\n\nAfrica Eye has been undercover in Uganda to expose how some health workers there are at the heart of criminal networks.", "India has said that, from Sunday, it will impose tariffs on 28 US products, including almonds and apples.\n\nThe new duties, some as high as 70%, are in response to Washington's refusal to exempt Delhi from higher taxes on steel and aluminium imports.\n\nEarlier this month, US President Trump also announced the US was withdrawing India's preferential trade treatment.\n\nTariffs of up to 120% were announced by India in June last year, but trade talks had delayed their implementation.\n\nIn an announcement on Friday, India's Ministry of Finance said the decision was in the \"public interest\".\n\nAn earlier list had also listed a 29th item - artemia, a type of shrimp - but this was removed.\n\nUS-India bilateral trade was worth $142bn (£111bn) in 2018, a sevenfold increase since 2001, according to US figures.\n\nBut $5.6n worth of Indian exports - previously duty-free in the US - will be hit now the country has lost preferential treatment under America's Generalized System of Preferences (GSP).\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sujitha Rajendrababu tells the BBC how getting a job at a car factory has changed her life\n\nThe move is the latest push by the Trump administration to redress what it considers to be unfair trading relationships with other countries.\n\nTensions have since been rising between the two countries. Last year, India retaliated against US tariff hikes on aluminium and steel by raising its own import duties on a range of goods.\n\nPresident Trump has also threatened to impose sanctions if India purchases oil from Iran and if it goes ahead with plans to buy Russian S-400 anti-aircraft missiles.\n\nThe latest tariffs from India come just days before country's Foreign Minister, Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, is due to meet his US counterpart, Mike Pompeo, at a G20 summit in Japan. Mr Trump and India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi are also expected to hold talks.", "The taoiseach (Irish prime minister) has said removing the backstop from the Withdrawal Agreement, would be \"effectively the same as no deal\".\n\nLeo Varadkar was responding to comments from some candidates seeking to replace Theresa May as prime minister.\n\nMany contenders have proposed changes to the backstop, even though the EU says it is not up for renegotiation.\n\nMr Varadkar said: \"If we don't have that (the backstop), there is no deal\".\n\nThe backstop has proven to be one of the most controversial parts of Mrs May's Withdrawal Agreement with the EU.\n\nIt is an insurance agreement designed to avoid a hard border between the Irish Republic and Northern Ireland.\n\nThe Irish border has been one of the most contentious issues surrounding Brexit\n\nMany Conservative MPs have concerns that it could \"trap\" the UK, leaving it unable to strike its own trade deals with the rest of the world.\n\nThe Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), who prop up the government, also do not want to see Northern Ireland treated differently from the rest of the UK.\n\nSpeaking on Irish National Broadcaster RTÉ's Marian Finucane programme, the taoiseach said it was \"alarming\" some leading Conservatives were suggesting a no-deal Brexit.\n\n\"It's a legal guarantee and legally operable guarantee that we will never see a hard border again,\" Mr Varadkar said of the backstop.\n\nHe also responded to calls for a time limit to be attached to the backstop.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC News NI's political reporter Jayne McCormack explains why the border is an issue\n\n\"The difficulties we have with a time limit, is effectively you are saying there will or could be a hard border once that time limit expires - that isn't a backstop,\" he said.\n\n\"What we are open to, and always have been open to, is alternative arrangements that perhaps could avoid a hard border, through procedures and technologies and so on.\n\n\"What we expect, and I don't think it's unreasonable - we want to see that fleshed out, we want to see it exist, it demonstrated before we are willing to give up the backstop.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Would you notice if you crossed the Irish border? (Video from 2017)\n\n\"What people are saying is, 'give up the backstop' which we know will work legally and operationally in return for something that doesn't yet exist but might exist in the future.\n\n\"I can't do that to the border communities.\"\n\nMr Varadkar also said he was \"concerned at the idea, and there is an idea there in Westminster, in London, that somehow Theresa May was a bad negotiator and got a bad deal.\n\n\"That's not true. She was a good negotiator, she had a good team.\n\n\"She probably got the best deal that she could get given that a country leaving the EU doesn't have much leverage.\n\n\"The fact that the failure of the House Of Commons to ratify the Withdrawal Agreement somehow means they are going to get a better deal, that is just not how the European Union works,\" he said.\n\nDo you have a question about Brexit? Let us know.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic.", "The rig is being pursued by the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise\n\nGreenpeace activists have made another attempt to board a drilling rig being towed in the North Sea.\n\nThe rig was heading for an oil field east of Aberdeen after protesters delayed its departure from the Cromarty Firth for six days last week.\n\nGreenpeace said a fresh attempt to get on board was thwarted, but its protest ship Arctic Sunrise had now forced the rig to change course.\n\nBP accused the group of putting people at risk through its \"reckless\" actions.\n\nFourteen people - including three photographers - have been arrested since Greenpeace activists first boarded the Transocean rig in the Cromarty Firth a week ago.\n\nThe structure was able to resume its journey to BP's Vorlich field, east of Aberdeen, on Friday night, following two police operations to remove the protesters.\n\nBut Greenpeace vowed to continue efforts to halt its progress, and sent Arctic Sunrise in pursuit.\n\nActivists have been pursuing the rig at sea\n\nThe group said it made a failed attempt to get activists back on board early on Sunday but later managed to overtake the rig which then made a \"U-turn\", heading back on its original track towards the Cromarty Firth.\n\nCommenting on the latest developments, Greenpeace UK executive director John Sauven made reference to an appeal by Pope Francis for the oil industry to recognise the threat posed by climate change.\n\nHe said: \"Pope Francis is absolutely right about the climate emergency. We must take action to save future generations from a 'brutal injustice'. And we are.\n\n\"BP told the Pope on Friday that they want to find the answer to the climate problem. Wherever that answer may lie it's certainly not in drilling new wells to access 30 million barrels of oil at the bottom of the North Sea.\n\n\"This is why BP will face opposition wherever they plan to drill for more oil, from the North Sea to the Arctic and from the mouth of the Amazon to the Gulf of Mexico.\n\n\"We have tried letters, meetings, petitions - none of that worked. Now we're going to stand in BP's way to prevent further harm to people at the sharp end of the climate crisis.\"\n\nBP has said it shared the group's concerns about climate change, but condemned its actions.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"Reckless attempts by Greenpeace protestors to interfere with the rig while under transport risk the safety not only of those individuals but anyone responding.\n\n\"There is also a clear and blatant breach of criminal law and the court orders in place against both Greenpeace and their vessel. Greenpeace is choosing to wilfully break the law.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Cycling\n\nChris Froome says he is \"fully focused\" on getting \"back to his best\" after the \"major setback\" of his high-speed crash on Wednesday.\n\nThe four-time Tour de France champion suffered a fracture to his neck as well as a fractured right femur, elbow and ribs, plus a broken hip.\n\nFroome, 34, is likely to spend \"at least six months\" away from cycling, says the surgeon who operated on him.\n\n\"I know how lucky I am to be here,\" the Briton said in a statement .\n\n\"Whilst this is a setback and a major one at that, I am focusing on looking forward.\n\n\"There is a long road to recovery ahead, but that recovery starts now and I am fully focused on returning back to my best.\"\n\nThe crash happened during a practice ride before stage four of the Criterium du Dauphine in Roanne, France.\n\nIn footage captured by ITV4 minutes before the incident, a team-mate tells Froome \"you don't have to take risks, Chris\" as he takes both hands off the handlebars to put on a jacket.\n\nBut moments later, Froome took his hand off his handlebars again to blow his nose and was travelling at 54km/h when a gust of wind caught his front wheel, causing him to hit a wall.\n\nHe was airlifted to Saint-Etienne Hospital, where he is continuing his post-surgery recovery.\n\n\"This is obviously a tough time but I have taken a lot of strength from the support over the last three days,\" Froome added. \"The outpouring of support has been really humbling and something I would never have expected.\"\n\nFroome faces six weeks in hospital and is not expected to compete again in 2019. Doctors have said they are \"very happy\" with his progress.\n\nGeraint Thomas, the 2018 Tour de France winner, said all of Team Ineos was behind their team-mate.\n\n\"It's scary. It's never nice to hear, especially when it's a close friend,\" Thomas told BBC Wales.\n\n\"It sounds horrific really. It was one of those where he would have had time to actually think; he knew he was about to crash.\n\n\"It wasn't 'boom' and you're on the floor before you know it. It was one of those where you try to save it. That's the worst.\n\n\"It sounds like he was lucky to come away with the damage he's done really. It could have been a hell of a lot worse, which I guess is a positive in a bad scenario. But he's got the best care around him so hopefully he can get back on the bike soon.\"", "Josh Warrington edged a tough contest with British rival Kid Galahad to retain his IBF world featherweight title with a split-decision points win.\n\nWarrington, 28, hoped the contest would be his last in his home city of Leeds as he eyes potential unification fights in the United States.\n\nGalahad, 29, frustrated him early on and switched his stance to confuse.\n\nHe frequently grappled to kill any flow in the fight but the champion earned a split 116-112, 116-113 113-115 verdict.\n\n\"I think I did enough to nick it in the last two rounds because it was nip and tuck but you cannot win a title by hitting pot shots,\" said Warrington.\n\n\"They are not going to all be pretty and I'm glad I got through it, so hopefully there is a unification fight next.\"\n\nWarrington admitted afterwards he felt \"tense\" given the bout was a gateway to potential unification bouts and there was a genuine rivalry on show, with the champion frequently raising his Sheffield opponent's two-year backdated drugs ban from 2016 in the build-up.\n\nSuch was the animosity, British middleweight champion Liam Williams - who trains in the same gym as Galahad - stood ready with an umbrella to shield the challenger from the possibility of any objects being thrown during the ring walk.\n\nBut when the action started, Galahad lined up in the southpaw stance and seemed poised, slipping shots and throwing a left hand through the guard in the second round.\n\nWarrington landed a right hand followed by a left in a smart flurry in the third but Galahad was resorting to single shots before tying his opponent up. In doing so he ensured the relentless work-rate Warrington had built his career on could never truly break out as the fight became scrappy and stop-start.\n\nHe was warned for excessive holding around the midway point but by that stage he had silenced much of the home crowd, who expected Warrington - a 1-3 favourite with bookmakers - to make light work of a man he had beaten twice at amateur level.\n\nA cuffing right hand from Warrington caught the eye in the seventh but the scoring will undoubtedly prompt controversy, as there were clear pockets of action where Galahad's movement was smart and his infrequent punching accurate.\n\nWarrington's father and trainer Sean O'Hagan told his fighter Galahad was \"having the night of his life\" and implored the champion to \"do it for nine minutes\" in the closing three rounds if he was to keep his belt.\n\nAnd in truth, the final few rounds were where Warrington showed glimpses of the work-rate which earned him eye-catching wins over Lee Selby and Carl Frampton in 2018.\n\nHe still soaked up single shots - a smart uppercut in the 10th and a straight left in the 12th in particular - but drove forward to land work of his own and take a win that can perhaps take him and his army of fans across the Atlantic Ocean at last.\n\nWarrington's father and trainer Sean O'Hagan: \"That was a very tight fight and it came down to the last two rounds. I think it was terrible refereeing and how many warnings do you need before deducting points? That was not one of Josh's best performance and we were at about 70% there tonight. We will have to be better than than Stateside.\"\n\nBBC Radio 5 Live analyst Jamie Moore: \"I believe he has done enough. It was a really close contest but I scored it nine rounds to three to Josh Warrington.\"\n\nBBC Radio 5 Live analyst Andy Lee: \"Those rounds were extremely close and I'm sure there are people in the Kid Galahad corner who will feel it was unjust but I think it was just the right result.\"\n\nSuper-middleweight Billy Joe Saunders: \"Robbery. Kid Galahad put it all on the line.\"\n\nFormer world super-middleweight champion Caleb Truax: \"Dull fight but Galahad did a brilliant job of negating Warrington's activity. Didn't score it round for round but I think Galahad won it.\"\n\nWhere next for Warrington?\n\nWarrington had talked of big American fights long before Galahad was made his mandatory challenger and the three other belt holders at 126lbs - WBA champion Leo Santa Cruz, WBC belt-holder Gary Russell Jr and WBO king Oscar Valdez - are all viable options.\n\n\"I felt like I was one more hurdle away from getting to the States and had I slipped now, it would have been even further away so I think I put pressure on myself at how bad I wanted it,\" said Warrington.\n\n\"There's no-one left for me to fight over here. I don't want to be coming back here and defending the title against some bloke who works at the car-wash on the York Road.\n\n\"If I can get my own way, I'd like to go to America for the memories and the experience.\"\n\nBBC Radio 5 Live analyst Lee added: \"He knew he had to just get past this one and those kind of fights are hard to get yourself up for.\n\n\"How many times can he go to the well? He has had three gruelling fights and he needs to go to the US now. If he has to fight in the UK again he will not have the same performances he has had before.\"\n\nMexico's Valdez - who has 26 wins from 26 and 20 via stoppage - has been talked up as the most likely opponent waiting for Warrington.\n\nSuch a bout in Las Vegas or New York will allow the Leeds fighter the chance to take his huge following to America in what many have said could offer a throwback to some of the rowdy nights former two-weight world champion Ricky Hatton once enjoyed Stateside.\n\nHis performance will have to improve but the wins over Selby and Frampton made clear the fact Warrington can rise for key occasions.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nIndia continued their World Cup dominance over rivals Pakistan with a rain-affected 89-run victory as a highly anticipated match came to a strange end at Old Trafford.\n\nPakistan, chasing 337, collapsed to 166-6 before a rain delay saw their target revised to another 136 runs required from 30 balls - a near-impossible task.\n\nIndia, who have never lost a World Cup match to Pakistan, earlier posted an impressive 336-5, led by Rohit Sharma's fine 140 and 77 from Virat Kohli.\n\nOnly Mohammad Amir (3-47) impressed with the ball for Pakistan and their run-chase crumbled in front of a vociferous crowd, before the rain delay added further confusion.\n• None Rivals on the field, friends on it - fans light up India-Pakistan match\n• None TMS podcast: India show their class to leave Pakistan on the brink\n\nThis was the marquee game of this World Cup - a sell-out crowd, one billion TV viewers and more than 700,000 ticket requests, but it ended with Pakistan knocking the ball around in front of a half-empty stadium.\n\nPlay looked to be done when rain arrived at 18:20 BST, but it resumed 55 minutes later and with 15 minutes to go before the scheduled cut-off time.\n\nIndia's batting lit up the morning but, with rain falling and Pakistan's innings crumbling, it was a tame end to a match that promised plenty.\n\nHardik Pandya took two wickets in two balls and Vijay Shankhar impressed on his World Cup debut, but there will be concern for India over the fitness of seamer Bhuvneshwar Kumar, who left the field with a tight hamstring.\n\nPakistan, who are ninth having won just one group game, face South Africa on 23 June, while India play Afghanistan on Saturday.\n• None TMS podcast: India show their class to leave Pakistan on the brink\n• None Relive the best clips, analysis and fan pictures as they happened\n• None India v Pakistan - the best fan pictures from Manchester\n\nPakistan captain Sarfaraz Ahmed might have allowed himself a wry smile when he won the toss and, under grey clouds, put India in to bat in conditions that looked ideal for seam bowling.\n\nWith the exception of Amir, the Pakistan seamers were wasteful. Short balls were pulled into the stands by Rohit; length was nudged and nurdled around the field.\n\nKL Rahul, partnering Rohit in Shikhar Dhawan's absence, was stodgier. While Rohit struck out, hitting a poor Hassan Ali through the off side with panache, Rahul struggled for fluency.\n\nThis was the duo's first time opening together and it showed, with Rohit lucky not to be run out after a mix-up mid-pitch as Fakhar Zaman threw the ball to the wrong end from mid-wicket.\n\nIn front of a packed crowd, Rohit reached his fastest one-day half-century, taking apart Shadab Khan with 17 runs from the leg-spinner's first over.\n\nIt was almost a surprise when the 136-run opening partnership ended, with Rahul chipping Wahab Riaz straight to mid-off.\n\nRohit was imperious. He favoured the cut shot, carving Wahab and Hassan to the boundary, and was given a standing ovation as he reached his second century of this tournament with a clipped single.\n\nRohit was furious to be finally caught by Wahab at short fine leg as he tried to scoop, but Kohli continued.\n\nHardik Pandya hit out, with a top edge that flew over the keeper's head for six, while Kohli rotated the strike, clattering Amir back down the ground for four after reaching his fifty.\n\nIndia did struggle in the final 10 overs in between the rain.\n\nPandya was caught at long-on, MS Dhoni edged behind and Kohli walked off, thinking he had nicked a hook shot to Sarfaraz.\n\nHowever, the replay showed he had missed the ball - which Kohli, watching in the dressing room, berated himself about as India reached their highest total against Pakistan in England.\n\nThe result was summed up by the demeanour of each captain.\n\nSarfaraz, behind the stumps, could barely hide his annoyance at Pakistan's loose bowling and fielding. His opposite number Kohli berated himself when a cover drive found the fielder, competitiveness showing in every stretch of his body.\n\nA chase that never was\n\nPakistan's chase was more of a crawl. Needing to go at 6.74 an over, they never looked as though they would come close to India's total, even before the anti-climactic ending.\n\nThey hit just six boundaries in the opening 10 overs and struggled to impose themselves. Bhuvneshwar and Jasprit Bumrah bowled tightly, Bumrah confusing the batsmen with his angled deliveries, but it was Shankar who took the first wicket.\n\nWith Bhuvneshwar leaving the field four balls into his third over, Shankar replaced him - and his first delivery trapped Imam-ul-Haq on the crease lbw.\n\nThere were moments that hinted at a comeback. Fakhar Zaman targeted Pandya, flat-batting him through cow-corner, and wrist-spinner Kuldeep Yadav was slogged to the boundary rope by the same batsman in the middle overs.\n\nBut there was no partnership, no ability by Pakistan to rotate the strike. From a comfortable, if non-threatening 117-1 in the 24th, they lost four wickets in three overs.\n\nBabar Azam was bowled by a fine, fizzing delivery from Kuldeep, while nine balls later Mohammad Hafeez holed out at long-on off Pandya.\n\nWhen Pandya bowled Shoaib Malik with his next delivery, Pakistan were in disarray even before the rain arrived.\n\nWhile the majority of the crowd would have gone home satisfied - and without seeing the final five overs - it was a flat ending to a match that promised so much.\n\n'Rohit was outstanding' - what they said\n\nIndia captain Virat Kohli: \"Rohit's knock was outstanding but to get to 330 you need a team effort and that is exactly what happened.\n\n\"Rohit is such a good ODI player, when he gets to 70 he is unstoppable. It allows me to come in and play in a certain role, the guys are playing their roles nicely.\n\n\"Kuldeep is a wicket taker, a longer spell helped him, he was getting rhythm and the ball to get Babar Azam was brilliant. It was a very important moment in the game.\"\n\nPakistan captain Sarfaraz Ahmed: \"We didn't bowl in the right areas and India played very well.\n\n\"We had a plan to bowl in the right areas and pitch it up but we didn't hit the right areas. We didn't capitalise on winning the toss and conceded too many runs.\n\n\"The ball was turning, spinning. India played very well in the middle of the innings. We lost so many wickets in two or three overs and that is what cost us the match.\"\n\nBBC cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew: \"India can now celebrate their victory. For Pakistan it is now a worrying state of affairs. The odds are this has finished their World Cup.\"\n\nFormer England spinner Graeme Swann on the decision to resume the match with Pakistan needing 136 off 30 balls: \"They [umpires in the middle] are three intelligent men who get the game, this is bad for the game to make a farce of itself for rules' sake.\n\n\"I can't see any positive reason for going back out there. Oh cricket, stop shooting yourself in the foot.\n\n\"In the two dressing rooms India would say we don't mind going out, but it's humiliating for Pakistan.\"", "Former Conservative leadership contender Esther McVey has thrown her support behind Boris Johnson's bid.\n\nMs McVey - eliminated in the first ballot - told the Sunday Telegraph she was backing him because he had promised to deliver Brexit by 31 October.\n\nMr Johnson is the clear frontrunner to replace Theresa May but his rivals have insisted they will not drop out.\n\nHe is the only one of the six remaining candidates who will not take part in the first TV debate on Channel 4 later.\n\nHis team reportedly have reservations about its proposed format, but Mr Johnson has agreed to take part in the BBC's debate on Tuesday.\n\nBBC political correspondent Ben Wright said there was \"intense arm-twisting and lobbying under way\" ahead of the second ballot of Tory MPs on Tuesday.\n\nHe said Health Secretary Matt Hancock, who pulled out of the leadership race on Friday, was understood to be considering whether to back Mr Johnson or Michael Gove.\n\nMr Gove finished third in round one behind Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt, but has told the Sunday Times he is the \"comeback kid\".\n\nThe environment secretary also said he would be happy to serve under Mr Johnson, whose leadership bid he scuppered in 2016.\n\n\"I would absolutely work with Boris in any way that he wanted to work with me,\" he said. \"No question. It is a different time requiring a different approach.\"\n\nMr Hunt insisted he had still not given up hope of winning in the final postal ballot of party members, despite being a distant second to Mr Johnson in the first round.\n\n\"I am the insurgent in this race,\" he told The Mail on Sunday.\n\n\"I am in it to win it because we have to give the country better choices given the crisis that we're in now.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tory leadership: Rivals insist there must be no 'coronation' for Boris\n\nHome Secretary Sajid Javid said voters were looking for a \"change\" - something only he and Mr Johnson offered.\n\nHe told the Sunday Times: \"We need change. And Boris is change. But I'm change too. And there are only two change candidates in the remaining six - and that's Boris and me.\"\n\nHe also took a swipe at Mr Hunt, who he said was \"an asset to the party\" but didn't represent change.\n\nMeanwhile fellow contender, Rory Stewart, responded to a Sunday Times headline saying that the leadership rivals were eyeing cabinet roles under Mr Johnson by tweeting: \"This may be true of some contenders but it isn't true of me.\"\n\nThe international development secretary added: \"I want to give members and the public a real choice of two quite different futures for the Conservative party. I don't want to be in a Boris cabinet.\"\n\nEsther McVey is the latest MP to get behind Boris Johnson's leadership campaign\n\nMr Johnson gained 114 votes in the first ballot - more than double his nearest rival, Mr Hunt.\n\nWriting in the Sunday Telegraph, Ms McVey said she would \"wholeheartedly support\" Mr Johnson after he agreed to incorporate aspects of her \"blue-collar conservatism\" ideas - such as investing money into public services - into his plans for government.\n\nShe added: \"He has promised to deliver Brexit on 31 October, deal or no deal, and has shown time and time again that he is a dynamic leader, capable of building a strong team around him that will deliver on his promises.\n\n\"Our country is crying out for strong, optimistic leadership and Boris is the man best equipped to take us out of the EU.\"\n\nIf you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic.", "Babe Ruth played between 1914 and 1935 and is considered to be one of the sport's greatest ever players\n\nA jersey worn by legendary baseball player Babe Ruth has become the most expensive piece of sports memorabilia ever sold.\n\nThe garment was snapped up for $5.64m (£4.4m) at auction in New York on Saturday.\n\nIt broke the previous record of $4.4m which was set in 2012 - also for one of Ruth's New York Yankees jerseys.\n\nThe shirt dates from the 1928-1930 period of Ruth's long career, in which he became an early sporting superstar.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"The legacy and significance of Babe Ruth to the game of baseball and American popular culture is unmatched by any other figure in the history of this country,\" the president of Hunt Auctions, David Hunt, said in a statement.\n\nHe added: \"While the record-setting prices attained today are certainly astonishing, I am not surprised at all given the incredible materials and the mythical status the Babe holds in the history of this country.\"\n\nThe record-breaking jersey was one of 400 pieces of Ruth memorabilia supplied by his family and private collectors and put up for sale at the Yankee Stadium.\n\nThe identity of the seller and the buyer have not been made public.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRuth played for 22 seasons in Major League Baseball and is widely regarded as one of the greatest players in the sport's history.\n\nHe won seven World Series and broke numerous records during his career, before eventually retiring in 1935.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nMaurizio Sarri has left Chelsea to become manager of Serie A champions Juventus on a three-year deal.\n\nSarri, who joined the Blues from Napoli in July 2018, led them to third in the Premier League and won the Europa League in his one season in charge.\n\nIt is understood compensation in excess of £5m has been agreed between the two clubs for the 60-year-old.\n\nSarri will replace fellow Italian Massimiliano Allegri, who left Juventus at the end of last season.\n\n\"In talks we had following the Europa League final, Maurizio made it clear how strongly he desired to return to his native country, explaining that his reasons for wanting to return to work in Italy were significant,\" said Chelsea director Marina Granovskaia.\n\n\"He also believed it important to be nearer his family, and for the well-being of his elderly parents he felt he needed to live closer to them at this point.\"\n\nSarri signed a three-year deal last July but now becomes the ninth full-time manager to leave Chelsea under Roman Abramovich, who bought the club in 2003.\n\nDerby boss and former Chelsea midfielder Frank Lampard has been linked with taking over from Sarri but the Blues are yet to make contact with the Rams.\n\nThe Championship club are keen to extend Lampard's deal - which has two years left - and have opened talks with the 40-year-old.\n\nChelsea are unable to sign any players after being given a two-window transfer ban by world governing body Fifa - a decision they are appealing against at the Court of Arbitration for Sport.\n• None Five questions for Chelsea after Sarri exit\n• None Quiz: Can you name all of Chelsea's Premier League managers?\n• None Why Sarri is leaving Chelsea with reputation intact\n\n'He has gone, Chelsea will move on'\n\nFormer Chelsea winger Pat Nevin felt Sarri was capable of building on his debut season, but accepts many fans will be indifferent about his departure.\n\n\"I don't think they are absolutely devastated,\" he said. \"It is one of those ones where some people wanted him to stay and some wanted him to go. I am one of the ones who would have been delighted had he stayed.\n\n\"However, great Chelsea managers come along like 42 busses every two minutes - there will be another one. He has gone. He has done a brilliant job and probably would have done even better next season.\n\n\"In the current situation it doesn't matter who is manager because you are not going to catch Manchester City or Liverpool at the moment. Top four? That would be enough but even that is a big, big call without Eden Hazard.\"\n\n'Sarri not the right man for Juventus'\n\nUnder Allegri, Juventus won five Serie A titles, four Coppa Italias and finished runners-up in the Champions League twice.\n\n\"Sarri does not strike me as the right man for Juventus,\" said European football expert Mina Rzouki. \"They also did not seem to think so a few years ago when there was potential that Allegri would leave and Sarri was doing wonders at Napoli at the time.\n\n\"For many reasons Sarri is a man who prefers the beauty of football, sometimes over even the wins.\n\n\"Allegri is a winner, but his style does not necessarily bring out the best of the players and it all seemed a little dull and stale at the end.\n\n\"For Sarri, a man who has worked his way up from being a banker, this is a huge achievement. He is at the helm of Juventus - the richest and most successful side in Italy. Whether or not this is the right fit we will find out.\"\n• None Football Daily podcast: So long Sarri - is Pogba next?\n\nSarri succeeded compatriot Antonio Conte, who was sacked after two seasons in charge despite winning the Premier League and FA Cup in 2017.\n\nAfter earning glowing references for his tactics at Napoli, Sarri looked to have effectively introduced 'Sarri-ball' to his new players as Chelsea started their Premier League campaign with a 12-game unbeaten streak.\n\nBut they were out of title contention after losing three out of four Premier League games from January to February, including a 6-0 defeat at eventual champions Manchester City, which saw them slip to sixth in the table.\n\nChelsea then lost 2-0 at home to Manchester United in the FA Cup, when fans booed Sarri's substitutions and joined in when the visiting supporters sang \"you're getting sacked in the morning\".\n\nSarri alienated some supporters by moving N'Golo Kante, regarded as one of the best players in the world in a deep-lying midfield role, to the right of a three-man midfield to accommodate Jorginho.\n\nThere was repeated speculation about Sarri's position and this increased when goalkeeper Kepa Arrizabalaga challenged his authority by refusing to be substituted in the Carabao Cup final at Wembley, shortly before Chelsea were beaten in a penalty shootout by City.\n\nOf the 19 matches played after losing to City at Wembley, his side lost just two, as they won their first European trophy since securing the Europa League in 2012-13.\n\nThey also held off the challenge of Tottenham, Arsenal and Manchester United to finish third in the league and clinch Champions League qualification.\n\nChelsea in the transfer market under Sarri\n\nUnder Sarri, last summer Chelsea spent a record £71m on Arrizabalaga, as well as £50m to reunite him with Jorginho, the former Napoli midfielder who struggled in his first season in England.\n\nIn January, Juventus striker Gonzalo Higuain joined until the end of the season, again reuniting Sarri with a former player, while £60m striker Alvaro Morata went to Atletico Madrid on loan.\n\nBayern Munich made a £35m bid for Callum Hudson-Odoi, aiming to capitalise on a lack of game time for the 18-year-old, with England manager Gareth Southgate seemingly showing more faith in the youngster than Sarri.\n\nHowever, the winger did not leave in January and, after getting more first-team football as the campaign progressed, ruptured his Achilles tendon in April.", "During President Donald Trump's state visit to the UK, the US leader had strong words for the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan.\n\nBut, the political grudge match between the two started before Air Force One landed in the UK.\n\nBBC London's Karl Mercer explains the long-running feud between the two men.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Eirian Jones is determined to keep the doors open for as long as he can\n\n\"It is a shame, that people are forgetting the chapel.\"\n\nEirian Jones is the last member and single-handedly runs Capel Y Cwm near Abernant in Carmarthenshire.\n\nHe joined when he was 17 after his mother, Magi, encouraged him to attend. She died a few years ago and he is determined to keep the doors open for as long as he can.\n\nThe chapel's last minister retired in the early 1980s, but Eirian invites guest ministers to preach there.\n\nA handful of his friends and neighbours attend monthly services.\n\n\"Perhaps I'm lucky to be still standing, but it's nice that I can keep the door open here,\" he said.\n\n\"This place meant the world to my mother and I know she'd be happy that it's still going.\n\nEirian Jones is determined to keep the chapel open as long as he can\n\n\"We see chapels closing all the time and eventually the door will close here too.\n\n\"It will be sad, but it's a sign of the times. I'll carry on until the time comes when the door will close at Capel Y Cwm.\"\n\nAbernant is a remote village on a single track road surrounded by farmland and forestry.\n\nEirian is a farmer, he keeps beef cattle at a farm a stone's throw from the chapel.\n\n\"I'd been going to Sunday school at a chapel further up the road, but my mother wanted me to come to Cwm chapel ...back then [in the mid-60s] there were around 30 members on the books,\" he said.\n\n\"Over the years, some got married, some died and membership has gone down.\n\nEirian Jones said that despite cobwebs and a broken window pane, the building is in good condition\n\n\"It is a shame, that people are forgetting the chapel.\"\n\nChapel membership has been steadily declining across Wales for decades.\n\nCwm is a Baptist chapel and figures from the Baptist Union of Wales show that in 1960 there 70,282 members. By 2000 that number had dropped to 20,872 and last year, there were just 9,447 people on the membership list.\n\n\"I'm treasurer and secretary of the chapel. I can't play the organ, although I wish I could,\" said Mr Jones.\n\nThe chapel is in Abernant which is surrounded by farmland and forestry\n\n\"We're fortunate here that people whose families have been members in the past will still come to support us.\"\n\nJudith Morris, the Baptist Union's General Secretary said: \"It raises an interesting question - how on earth can a chapel continue with just one member, because surely a church has something to do with community.\n\n\"But what the member at Cwm Chapel is doing is inviting people in, and in an age where loneliness is a huge issue, it's great to bring people together, to worship, but also to catch up and chat.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Images from Iranian State TV showed smoke billowing from a tanker in the Gulf of Oman\n\nIran has protested to Britain's ambassador in Tehran after being accused of involvement in attacks on two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman.\n\nIran has denied involvement, but Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said Iran was \"almost certainly\" responsible.\n\nUK ambassador to Iran Rob Macaire said he asked for an \"urgent meeting\" with the Iranian Foreign Ministry on Friday.\n\nMeanwhile, as tension grows in the region, a British-Iranian jailed in Tehran has begun a new hunger strike.\n\nMother-of-one Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was jailed for five years in 2016 after being convicted of spying - which she denies.\n\nHer husband, Richard Ratcliffe, is joining her in refusing food and has set up a tent outside the Iranian embassy, where he plans to stay while his wife is on hunger strike, to protest against her \"unfair imprisonment\" and demand her unconditional release.\n\nMr Macaire denied reports the meeting with a senior Iranian foreign ministry official was a formal diplomatic summons.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Rob Macaire This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut BBC diplomatic correspondent Caroline Hawley said Iran is \"clearly angry\" at the British accusations and \"made its displeasure known\" through the meeting.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Security correspondent Frank Gardner looks at the evidence which the US says proves Iran's involvement in Thursday's attacks\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, Mr Hunt reiterated that the UK's own intelligence assessment had concluded the Iranian regime was \"almost certainly\" behind the attacks on 13 June.\n\n\"We have got videos of what happened, we have seen evidence. We don't believe anyone else could have done this,\" he said.\n\nMr Hunt said there was a \"great risk\" of war over the incident and the UK was urging all sides to de-escalate the situation.\n\n\"Having spoken to President Trump, I am absolutely clear that for America they want this to end in negotiations that see Iran stop its destabilising activities,\" he said.\n\n\"That is the long term solution here.\"\n\nDefence minister Tobias Ellwood told Sky's Sophy Ridge on Sunday that the UK would be working to de-escalate tensions but would be \"determined to protect our assets and our interests in the region\".\n\nThursday's attacks on Norwegian and Japanese vessels in the key shipping route were the second time in the past few weeks that tankers appear to have been targeted in the region, as relations continue to sour between Iran and the United States.\n\nThe US military released video footage which it said proved Iran was behind the incident. Washington said the footage shows Iranian forces removing an unexploded mine off the hull of one of the ships - hours after the initial detonations.\n\nHowever, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has questioned whether the UK has \"credible evidence\" proving Iran's responsibility.\n\nAlthough Iran has denied being behind the explosions, experts believe it could be a response to US sanctions intended to stop other nations from purchasing Iranian oil.\n\nAfter the sanctions were tightened last month, Iran announced that \"if it could not export its oil, no other country would be allowed to export theirs\", Dr Aniseh Bassiri Tabrizi, from the Royal United Services Institute, said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Richard Ratcliffe: \"We're not pleading nicely, it's a fairly in-your-face kind of act\"\n\nSaudi Arabia has also blamed its rival Iran for the attacks.\n\nUN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said the truth needed to be \"clearly established\", while Russia has warned against drawing \"hasty conclusions\".\n\nThe blasts came a month after four oil tankers were damaged in an attack off the coast of the United Arab Emirates. The US blamed Iran for that attack, but did not produce evidence. Iran also denied those accusations.\n\nTensions between the US and Iran have escalated significantly since President Trump took office in 2017.\n\nHe abandoned a nuclear deal that was brokered by Barack Obama's administration and significantly tightened sanctions on Iran.\n\nNazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been detained in Iran since April 2016\n\nMeanwhile Mr Hunt has urged Iran to release jailed British-Iranian Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe, saying \"whatever the disagreements you may have with the United Kingdom, there is an innocent woman at the heart of this\".\n\nMr Ratcliffe said, while he didn't expect his wife to be released immediately, the message of her hunger strike was \"enough is enough\".\n\nHe told Andrew Marr he was watching developments related to the tanker attacks closely.\n\n\"We are always worried and there is never a good time for our story,\" he said.\n\nHe added that while there were \"mixed signals\" coming from Iran, he hoped the situation would not escalate.", "Mr Mundell switched his backing to Michael Gove after the first ballot\n\nScottish Secretary David Mundell is backing Michael Gove in the next round of the Conservative leadership contest.\n\nHe is one of six Scottish Tory MPs to have declared for the environment secretary, who grew up in Aberdeen.\n\nIn the first round of voting Mr Mundell backed the health secretary, Matt Hancock, who has since pulled out of the race.\n\nMr Mundell has made clear he will not support Boris Johnson, but not ruled out serving in his cabinet if he wins.\n\nHe had previously suggested this would not be possible.\n\nHe now intends to vote for Michael Gove, who has emerged as the favourite among Scottish Tory MPs.\n\nHe was a leading figure in the Leave campaign and came third behind Mr Johnson and Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt in the first ballot of Tory MPs.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Johnson is the clear frontrunner to replace Theresa May, and had now obtained the backing of another former leadership contender Esther McVey.\n\nMs McVey - eliminated in the first ballot - told the Sunday Telegraph she was backing him because he had promised to deliver Brexit by 31 October.\n\nMr Johnson is the only one of the six remaining candidates who will not take part in a Channel 4 debate later on Sunday, although he has agreed to take part in a BBC debate on Tuesday.\n\nThe Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson has publicly backed Sajid Javid in the contest.\n\nMeanwhile, another Tory leadership contender, Jeremy Hunt, has been setting out the conditions he believes would have to be met before he would agree to Scotland holding another independence referendum.\n\nWriting in The Times, he said he agreed with Ms Davidson that the SNP would need to win an outright majority at Holyrood in the 2021 elections on a manifesto commitment to hold indyref2.\n\nHe said he would also want more clarity on currency plans for an independent Scotland, and for the SNP to rule out a \"wildcat\" referendum, without an agreement with the UK government.", "'We have similarities that we forget about' , published at 00:26 13 April 2021 'We have similarities that we forget about'", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sara Netanyahu admitted in court to misuse of state funds.\n\nThe wife of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has admitted to misuse of state funds and will have to pay $15,000 (£11,910).\n\nSara Netanyahu was accused of spending $99,300 on outside catering while falsely declaring there were no cooks available at the PM's residence.\n\nShe was charged with fraud and breach of trust last year.\n\nHer lawyer said the case had nothing to do with her and said it was an attempt to bring down her husband.\n\nUnder a plea deal, Mrs Netanyahu will repay the state $12,490 and pay a fine of $2,777.\n\nShe will have a criminal record though the charges she faced were reduced, the Jerusalem Post reported.\n\nProsecutor Erez Padan said that the prosecution had made \"significant concessions\" that led to a \"balanced and right plea deal.\" He said the compromise had saved the court from calling on 80 witnesses.\n\n\"The prosecution is aware there isn't full correlation between the sum and the criminal offence, however in the framework of the legal procedure, a full correlation is not obligatory,\" he said.\n\nLast year, Mrs Netanyahu's lawyers argued that she had not been made aware of the procedures about outside catering and that the meals had been ordered by the household manager and served to visiting dignitaries.\n\nResponding to the charges, Mr Netanyahu said in a statement: \"Sara Netanyahu is a strong and honourable woman and there has never been any fault in her actions.\"\n\nIn 2016, a court awarded $47,000 in damages to a former housekeeper who accused Mrs Netanyahu of workplace abuse. The court accepted Meni Naftali's claim that he had been insulted and verbally abused.\n\nSeparately, Prime Minister Netanyahu is facing his own legal battles. The Israeli attorney general informed him in February that he intended to indict him on charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust in connection with three cases, pending a final hearing.\n\nThe final hearing, at which the prime minister and his lawyers will be able to argue against the allegations, is scheduled to take place in October.\n\nMr Netanyahu has denied any wrongdoing and claimed that he is the victim of a political \"witch-hunt\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Three RAF Chinook helicopters dropped 270 tonnes of ballast to fill a breach in the river bank\n\nMore homes are being evacuated following severe flooding in a Lincolnshire town.\n\nResidents in 580 properties in and around Wainfleet will be moved amid concerns about flood defences along the River Steeping.\n\nThe Environment Agency said water levels remained high and a decision had been made to \"evacuate the highest risk areas and the most vulnerable\".\n\nThe town flooded on Wednesday after two months' worth of rain fell in two days.\n\nThe Environment Agency has described the situation as \"unprecedented\" after 132mm of rain fell between Monday and Wednesday.\n\nLocal MP Matt Warman said the town was \"by no means out of the woods yet\".\n\nHe said: \"The Environment Agency is in the process of putting together two pumps that will start taking away some quantities of water\", but he was unsure when they would be up and running.\n\nThe Conservative MP for Boston and Skegness praised the \"incredible\" multi-agency response to the flooding and offered \"a huge thank you\" to those involved.\n\nThe town of Wainfleet in Lincolnshire was flooded on Wednesday\n\nThree RAF Chinook helicopters dropped 270 one-tonne bags of ballast to repair the bank on Friday.\n\nHowever, City of Lincoln Council said the temporary repairs had started to deteriorate and the RAF had returned to \"drop further ballast to shore up the repair\".\n\nFlood water was entering the Thorpe Culvert pumping station and the additional evacuations were a precautionary action as \"there is a risk the pumping station may fail\", Lincolnshire Police said.\n\nThe force has issued a list of about 140 postcodes in which homes could be affected.\n\nIt said residents should be prepared to be away from their homes \"for around 48 hours\" and asked people to move in with friends and family or attend a centre set-up at Richmond School in nearby Skegness.\n\nSo far, residents have been asked to evacuate 580 properties near the river, according to the council.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHeavy rainfall affected large parts of England on Wednesday and Thursday with the Environment Agency issuing dozens of flood warnings.\n\nThe majority were across the Midlands and North West, but they extended as far as Northumberland and Christchurch in Dorset.\n\nPassengers on a London to Nottingham train were stranded for eight hours in Corby on Thursday following a landslide.\n\nCommuters were transferred to a second train which also became stuck due to flooding on the line.\n\nFood and water ran out onboard and one woman collapsed.\n\nResidents in Wainfleet were still being removed by fire crews on Friday\n\nThe RAF dropped 270 tonnes of ballast to fill a breach in the river bank\n\nHave you been evacuated from your home? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have shared a picture of their son Archie with Prince Harry on Father's Day.\n\nThe sepia image posted on the couple's Instagram is the first to be released showing the six-week-old's eyes open.\n\nIt was captioned: \"Happy Father's Day! And wishing a very special first Father's Day to The Duke of Sussex.\"\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge also marked the date with a picture of him with his youngest son Prince Louis, while Prince Charles shared one with his two sons.\n\nOnly a few pictures have been released of Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor since he was born weighing 7lb 3oz on 6 May.\n\nLast month, the Duchess of Sussex - who is American - celebrated her first US Mother's Day by sharing a picture of Archie's feet.\n\nIn the latest picture Harry's wedding ring can be seen as he cradles his son who holds on to his father's finger.\n\nMeanwhile, Prince William posted a picture of Prince Louis playing on a rope swing in a garden designed by his mum, the Duchess of Cambridge.\n\nThe couple have two other children, George aged five and Charlotte, aged three.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPrince William also posted a picture on Twitter of himself with his dad, Prince Charles, leaving an RAF rescue helicopter.\n\nPrince Charles's own social media posts showed him sharing a joke with William and Harry in the gardens of Buckingham Palace.\n\nThe image shows the trio wearing their full RAF uniforms during an event to mark Prince Charles's 70th birthday last November.\n\nIt was captioned: \"To Dads everywhere, have a wonderful #FathersDay.\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post 2 by clarencehouse This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Channel 4 set up an empty podium for Boris Johnson, who declined to take part in the debate\n\nContenders to replace Theresa May as Conservative leader have clashed over delivering Brexit during a TV debate.\n\nThe MPs argued over whether a new deal could be renegotiated with the EU, and the prospect of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nBoris Johnson came under fire for not taking part in the Channel 4 debate but defended his stance, suggesting it would \"be slightly cacophonous\".\n\nHis leadership bid has been backed by Health Secretary Matt Hancock, who dropped out of the race on Friday.\n\nSome of the sharpest exchanges came over whether Parliament should be shut down - prorogued - in order to push through a no-deal Brexit by 31 October - something four of the five candidates argued against.\n\nThe UK had been due to leave the EU on 29 March, but EU leaders agreed to delay the date to October after MPs repeatedly rejected Theresa May's Brexit deal.\n\nInternational Development Secretary Rory Stewart said proroguing Parliament was a \"deeply disturbing\" option and Home Secretary Sajid Javid warned \"you don't deliver democracy by trashing our democracy\".\n\nHowever ex-Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab refused to rule it out, saying \"every time one of these candidates take an option away… we weaken our chances of getting the best deal.\"\n\nChannel 4's debate attracted an audience of 1.3 million and 7.8% of the audience share. The programme was up against Soccer Aid on ITV, Countryfile on BBC One and Top Gear on BBC Two.\n\nNo stand-out winner and a debate that won't trouble the absent front-runner Boris Johnson.\n\nHis team thought there was nothing to be gained from pitching up for this blue-on-blue skirmish which was mostly good natured but repeatedly raised questions the candidates struggled to answer.\n\nHow can the next prime minister renegotiate a deal with the EU? How can it be done by October? How could the UK leave without a deal if MPs refuse?\n\nAt one end of the debate, Dominic Raab was rounded on for saying he would be prepared to try and suspend parliament if it was the only way to get the UK out without a deal at the end of October.\n\nIn the opposite corner, Rory Stewart was the only one who said a renegotiation with the EU in the next four months was a fantasy promise.\n\nAt some point this week one of the five will break out and become the challenger to Boris Johnson for the ballot of Tory members.\n\nThe candidates at the debate before a studio audience in east London also argued over whether a no-deal Brexit should be considered.\n\nMr Javid said no deal was the \"last thing\" he wanted, but added: \"You do plan for no deal precisely because you want a deal.\"\n\nMr Raab said Britain would be able to \"manage those risks\" associated with leaving the EU without a deal.\n\nHowever, Mr Stewart said \"I think a no-deal Brexit is a complete nonsense,\" adding \"it would be deeply damaging for our economy.\"\n\nThe candidates were united in condemnation of the Labour leader with Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt accusing Jeremy Corbyn of being \"against aspiration\".\n\nEnvironment Secretary Michael Gove argued that he was the candidate Mr Corbyn would be most scared of facing at Prime Minister's Questions.\n\nMr Johnson, the front-runner in the leadership race, was represented at the debate by an empty lectern.\n\nAnd Mr Hunt attacked his failure to appear.\n\n\"Where's Boris?\" he asked, adding \"if his team won't allow him out with five fairly friendly colleagues, how is he going to deal with 27 European countries?\"\n\nMr Stewart also made a pointed dig at his absent colleague, saying he hoped \"one of us\" - referring to the MPs who had attended the debate - becomes prime minister.\n\nSpeaking to Radio 4's World at One on Friday, Mr Johnson said he was \"pretty bewildered\" by claims he was dodging scrutiny and said the public had had \"quite a lot of blue-on-blue action, frankly, over the last three years\".\n\nHe said the best time to take part was on Tuesday after the second ballot and would be at the BBC debate on Tuesday, hosted by Emily Maitlis.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock - who withdrew from the leadership race after the first ballot - has backed Mr Johnson \"as the best candidate to unite the Conservative Party\" as has Esther McVey, who was eliminated in the first round.\n\nWriting in the Times, Mr Hancock said Mr Johnson had a \"unique personality\", adding: \"I have confidence Boris will be a One Nation prime minister because that's how he ran London - consistently - for eight years.\"\n\nMr Gove told BBC Radio 4's Today he was \"naturally disappointed\" that Mr Hancock had chosen to endorse his rival rather than himself.\n\nWhile Mr Johnson remained the frontrunner, Mr Gove said \"we need to make sure he is tested\" and he believed he could make it to the final two as a \"strong alternative\" who was equipped to \"be prime minister from day one\".\n\nThe TV debate also saw politicians being asked about their priorities apart from Brexit.\n\nMr Javid chose funding education and further education colleges, saying: \"We have cut back too much in that space.\"\n\nMr Raab said he wanted to improve state schools and offer more choices for young apprenticeships, while Mr Gove said children would be his top priority and emphasised the importance of protecting the environment for the future.\n\nMr Hunt told the audience \"every Conservative has two desires: cut taxes and spend more on public services.\" He also said he would focus on literacy and the social care system.\n\nMr Stewart said his central priority would be fixing adult social care, describing the issue as \"the great unfinished revolution\".\n\nAsked about their weaknesses, Mr Gove said he was impatient, while Mr Raab said he was \"a restless soul\" who \"always wanted to make things better\".\n\nMr Javid admitted to being stubborn while Mr Stewart said there were \"many things he didn't know about the world\". However, he added that \"we need leaders who listen\" and criticised \"macho posturing\".\n\nMr Hunt joked that his biggest weakness was \"getting my wife's nationality wrong\" - but on a more serious note, said in his battle with junior doctors as health secretary, he could have been \"better at communicating\" what he was trying to do.\n\nThe candidates will now go on to take part in further ballots until only two remain.\n\nThe final pair will be put to a vote of the 160,000 members of the Conservative Party from 22 June. The winner is expected to be announced about four weeks later.", "With the number of fatal stabbings in England and Wales in 2017-18 the highest since records began - the BBC has tracked the first 100 killings in 2019 - revealing the people behind the headlines.\n\nStabbings were the largest single cause of death, totalling 40 fatalities out of 100, with the remaining 60 resulting from other causes such as assault or fire.\n\nThe age range of victims is strikingly wide.\n\nA fifth of those killed this year were under the age of 20, but most commonly, victims were in their 20s and 30s.\n\nThe youngest was a one-month old baby boy and the oldest were twin brothers killed in Exeter, aged 84.\n\nTwenty-two victims were killed in London, nine in Greater Manchester and eight in the West Midlands.\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\nBelow are the names and, where available, photos and profiles of those who have tragically lost their lives so far this year.\n\nIf you can't see this interactive, click this link.\n\nInformation supplied by police forces in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.\n\nThe list is comprised of manslaughters, murders and infanticides. These causes of death are categorised as homicides by the Office of National Statistics.\n\nFigures are correct as of 8 March 2019 but may change as investigations progress and charges are brought or dropped.\n\nThe figures do not include the case of Sean Fitzgerald who was shot during a police raid in Coventry, or a police investigation into an assisted suicide in Hampshire.\n\nUpdate 22 March 2019: The list has been updated as a result of new information supplied to the BBC.", "Sinn Féin's Michelle O'Neill criticised the performance of the secretary of state who is chairing the talks\n\nThe latest round of talks to restore devolution in Northern Ireland should not be suspended for the summer, Sinn Féin's Michelle O'Neill has said.\n\nShe was asked to respond to speculation that the cross-party talks, which began on 7 May, could be paused shortly.\n\nMrs O'Neill said the process so far has been \"tinkering round the edges\" and has not addressed the real problems.\n\nHowever, DUP leader Arlene Foster later tweeted that Sinn Féin \"expect everyone else to accede\" to their demands.\n\nMrs O'Neill also said talks chair Karen Bradley had \"failed left, right and centre\" in her role as secretary of state.\n\nAppearing on BBC Northern Ireland's Sunday Politics, the Sinn Féin vice president said talks should continue until a deal is reached.\n\nShe said any suggestion of a suspension was \"just speculation\".\n\n\"It's not something which the governments have discussed with any of the parties, they certainly haven't talked about it with us.\n\n\"I think the process itself has been constructive to a point, but it hasn't actually crunched down and actually dealt with the issues which we need to deal with in order to restore the institutions.\"\n\nAsked if her party would attend a summer drinks reception at Stormont House on Tuesday, which is to be hosted by Mrs Bradley, she replied: \"Absolutely not.\"\n\nArlene Foster said Sinn Féin's demands \"needs to change\"\n\n\"I think it's fairly typical of Karen Bradley and her whole approach to citizens here.\n\n\"Throughout her tenure in office as secretary of state, she has failed even to give any pretence of impartiality.\n\n\"She has failed in terms of her understanding of our politics and our people; she has failed the historical institutional abuse victims; she has failed the victims of the past; she has failed left, right and centre in my opinion.\"\n\nArlene Foster later tweeted that Sinn Féin's demands \"needs to change so we can get agreement which respects all parts of our divided society\".\n\nShe added: \"We continue to engage to find agreement. We need to build a cohesive NI, not one built on separation.\"\n\nSecretary of State Karen Bradley was appointed to the post in January 2018\n\nMrs Bradley has previously faced criticism after admitting she did not understand traditional voting patterns in Northern Ireland before she took the job of secretary of state.\n\nLast month, she was also accused of using survivors of historical abuse as \"a blackmail tool\" in the political process.\n\nThe secretary of state denied the accusation and explained victims' compensation had been delayed as local politicians had to be consulted on plans for the redress scheme.\n\nMrs Bradley is currently chairing cross-party talks involving Stormont's five biggest parties and representatives from the Irish government.\n\nThe Sinn Féin vice president told Sunday Politics a \"summary document\" on the talks would be released next week, but claimed it would not cover all the issues which have to be addressed.\n\n\"We have to deliver marriage equality, alongside an Irish language act, alongside an anti-poverty strategy - all the things that have been outstanding from previous commitments.\"\n\nMrs O'Neill said dialogue was the only way to resolve the parties' difference and called for talks to continue until a deal is reached.\n\nIrish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney and NI Secretary Karen Bradley have urged the parties to reach a deal\n\nWhen the talks were launched, the British and Irish governments said there was a narrow window of opportunity to reach a deal and said progress would be reviewed by June.\n\nAt the beginning of the month, the governments said that talks had reached a new, \"intensified\" stage.\n\nBut the following day it was reported that a round-table session at Stormont had lasted an estimated 25 minutes.", "Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has unveiled a new settlement in the occupied Golan Heights, named after US President Donald Trump.\n\nAt a naming ceremony on Sunday, Mr Netanyahu said Trump Heights honoured Mr Trump for his decision to recognise Israeli sovereignty over the territory.\n\nBuilding work has yet to begin but a sign bearing Mr Trump's name and US and Israeli flags was unveiled.\n\nCritics called the move a publicity stunt with no legal authority.\n\nIsrael seized the Golan from Syria in the 1967 Middle East war. In March, the US became the first country to recognise Israeli sovereignty over the area since Israel effectively annexed it in 1981.\n\n\"This is a historic day,\" said Mr Netanyahu, hailing President Trump as \"a friend of Israel\".\n\nUS Ambassador David Friedman, who attended the ceremony, called the move \"well deserved, but much appreciated\".\n\nIsrael's premier pledged in April to name a new settlement after Mr Trump, soon after the president overturned decades of US policy by recognising Israel's sovereignty over the Golan.\n\nThe region is located about 60km (40 miles) south-west of the Syrian capital, Damascus, and covers about 1,000 sq km (400 sq miles).\n\nThe new settlement is expected to be built near Kela in the northern Golan Heights.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOn Sunday, Israel's cabinet approved Mr Netanyahu's resolution for an \"initiative to establish\" a new Golan Heights community.\n\nBut the resolution falls short of declaring the establishment of a settlement, and no money has yet been earmarked for construction.\n\nPolitical opponents of the scheme have also noted that, legally, no new localities can be established before Israel's elections in September.\n\n\"Anyone who reads the fine print in this 'historic' decision will understand that this is nothing more than a nonbinding, fake policy,\" former cabinet secretary Zvi Hauser told the Times of Israel.\n\n\"Let's hope President Trump does not know that his name is being used for this public relations exercise,\" he added.\n• None Israel to name Golan town after Trump", "European eels are one of the UK's most endangered species\n\nDealers looking to illegally export European eels from the UK have been exposed by BBC Countryfile.\n\nPosing as a UK fisherman who had legally caught the eels on the River Severn in Gloucestershire, presenter Joe Crowley was approached by Chinese and Russian buyers and a UK exporter.\n\nThey were prepared to pay up to seven times the normal catch price if the eels could be sent out of the EU.\n\nAn export ban on the endangered species has been in place since 2010.\n\nOrganised crime gangs are said to be smuggling about 350 million live baby eels - or 'glass' eels - every year to Asia, where they are farmed and sold as a delicacy.\n\nAndrew Kerr, of the Sustainable Eel Group said the illegal trade in glass eels, also known as elvers, was estimated to be worth about £3bn a year.\n\nMr Kerr told the BBC: \"It's the most trafficked animal by number and by value.\n\nThe Sustainable Eel Group's Andrew Kerr said the illegal trade was estimated to be worth about £3bn a year\n\n\"It leaves here at one Euro each and then one year later, having been grown in the 900 eel farms of inland China, it's worth 10 Euros - and that's pretty tempting.\n\n\"This is the greatest wildlife crime on the planet.\"\n\nThe illegal trade has previously been focused on stocks in France and Spain but now smugglers have turned their attention to the UK, where glass eels can only be caught by licensed fishermen.\n\nCountryfile's investigations team posted an advert on an online trading website, offering live eels caught in the River Severn for sale.\n\nOne buyer from China offered more than £1,000 per kilo for the eels to be shipped to Malaysia, despite acknowledging that the export would be illegal.\n\nThe current price for eels bought and sold legitimately within the EU is about £150 per kilo.\n\nAnother buyer from Russia asked for the catch to be sent to Lithuania legally where he would then arrange for the eels to be moved over the border to Russia.\n\nThe team was also approached by a UK-based commodities trader who said he had a client in Asia who was looking for glass eels to be exported to South Korea.\n\nWhen later confronted, he said he knew that it was illegal to export eels, that he did not have a buyer in South Korea and that he was only \"speculating\".\n\nIan Guildford of the National Wildlife Crime Unit described it as a \"major crime\"\n\nHe added that he had never exported glass eels and had no intention of doing so.\n\nSince the 1970s, the numbers of eels reaching Europe is thought to have declined by about 90%.\n\nToday they are protected as an endangered species by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).\n\nThey are also named on the International Union for Conservation of Nature's Red List of Threatened Species.\n\nBut campaigners are concerned that a lack of monitoring is allowing glass eels to be moved between EU member states and beyond, with few traceability checks enforced or records kept.\n\nIan Guildford, of the National Wildlife Crime Unit, said it was often hard to convince other enforcement agencies to take the crime seriously.\n\nHe said: \"This is major crime and, once we can get people to understand the severity of the problem, then we might get somewhere.\"\n\nSee the full story on Countryfile on BBC1 at 19:00 BST on 16 June and afterwards on the iPlayer.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A teenager with special needs who has a black belt in taekwondo says the sport makes her “feel strong”.\n\nAngel Stevens, 17, from Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, was born with foetal valproate syndrome, a rare condition which causes brain damage and physical deformity.\n\nShe won a gold medal at the International Taekwon-Do Federation World Championships in 2016.\n\nNow her family are raising money for her to take part in a taekwondo competition in New Zealand for people with special needs.\n\n“It feels like I’m strong and I can do things when I push myself,” Angel said.", "Hong Kong has suspended its plans to push through a law which would allow extradition to mainland China, its chief executive announced Saturday.\n\nCarrie Lam expressed \"deep sorrow\" over the resulting controversy which sparked massive protests.", "Disruption to the Caledonian Sleeper services will continue into next week following damage to a train's wheels.\n\nSome services between Edinburgh and London are cancelled on Sunday and Monday, with Glasgow services affected on Tuesday and Wednesday.\n\nSerco, which runs the sleeper, said wheels were damaged when emergency brakes came on last Tuesday night.\n\nThe problems follow the introduction of the new £150m fleet, which began running at the end of April.\n\nA replacement bus picked up customers in the West Midlands in the early hours of Wednesday after the emergency brake deployed on a Scotland-bound train.\n\nThis meant the wheels were dragged along the tracks, resulting in \"wheel flats\" where part of the metal is worn away by friction.\n\nSince then a number of services have been cancelled, and Caledonian Sleeper has now announced the disruption will continue until Wednesday.\n\nSerco managing director of the Caledonian Sleeper Ryan Flaherty said: \"Several of our carriages sustained wheel flats following a deployment of the emergency brake on the Lowlander service between London and Scotland on Tuesday night.\n\n\"As a result, we have had to cancel a number of planned services while repairs are carried out. We apologise to those guests affected and have taken steps to give them as much notice as possible.\n\n\"We are working hard to ensure the carriages are back in service as soon as possible.\"\n\nPassengers have been offered a full refund. If they still require overnight travel, alternative coach transportation has been arranged.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tory leadership: Rivals insist there must be no 'coronation' for Boris\n\nRivals for the Conservative leadership have said there must be no uncontested \"coronation\" for leadership frontrunner Boris Johnson.\n\nSeveral candidates said the party needed to learn from the experience of electing Theresa May unopposed in 2016.\n\n\"Let's not make the same mistake again,\" said Home Secretary Sajid Javid.\n\nIt comes as Mr Johnson expressed fears about damaging \"blue-on-blue\" attacks in forthcoming TV debates.\n\nWhile he has agreed to take part in the BBC's debate on Tuesday, Mr Johnson will not be taking part in Sunday's debate on Channel 4, with his team reportedly having reservations about its proposed format.\n\nMr Johnson was criticised for avoiding scrutiny and taking a \"presidential\" approach to the contest to be the next Tory leader and prime minister by International Development Secretary, and fellow contender, Rory Stewart.\n\n\"The whole genius of British politics is that we don't behave like American presidents, sweeping up in a motorcade. We're all about talking to people,\" Mr Stewart said.\n\nMr Stewart said that Conservative members \"deserved to have a choice\" in the final ballot and \"coronations are not the way to do democratic politics\".\n\nHis comments were echoed by Mr Javid, as he arrived at a London meeting for leadership candidates to speak to party members.\n\n\"We had a coronation the last time. That didn't work out well, so let's not make the same mistake again,\" said Mr Javid.\n\nSenior Conservative Party figures were reportedly drawing up plans for other candidates to withdraw from the contest after Mr Johnson gained 114 votes in the first ballot - more than double his nearest rival, Mr Hunt.\n\nThe Daily Telegraph said that the Tory whips' office drew up the plan to avoid weeks of internal party conflict.\n\nIt would mean Mr Johnson would be the only candidate to go forward to the final postal ballot of party members, making his election a formality.\n\nForeign Secretary Jeremy Hunt told the BBC that most people wished \"there had been more scrutiny\" in 2016. He pledged to emulate David Cameron in the 2005 leadership contest, who came from behind to earn a victory that \"shocked everyone\".\n\nMr Johnson avoided reporters as he arrived at the meeting - a hustings organised by the National Conservative Convention, where he and other leadership candidates will address potential voters.\n\nEarlier, former Brexit secretary Dominic Raab said the next party leader needed to be thoroughly tested in the heat of debate.\n\n\"Everyone is going to have to demonstrate that they have not just the vision, but the nerve and mettle to deal with the EU and with a minority government,\" he told The Daily Telegraph.\n\n\"If you can't take the heat of the TV studios, what chance of taking the heat of the negotiating chamber in Brussels?\"\n\nHe also contrasted his own background as the grammar school-educated son of a refugee with the \"privileged elite\", and said he would be more likely to unite working class and middle class voters.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Spice Up Your Life - Live at Wembley\n\nGeri Horner has apologised for quitting the Spice Girls in 1998, as the band played the last date of their reunion tour.\n\n\"I need to say something I should have said a long time ago,\" she told fans and her bandmates at Wembley Stadium.\n\n\"I'm sorry. I'm sorry I left. I was just being a brat. It is so good to be back with the girls that I love.\"\n\nGeri, aka Ginger Spice, walked away from the band at the height of their fame 21 years ago.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jamie Tabberer This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAt the time, she said she was suffering from exhaustion and needed a break.\n\nYears later, in the documentary Giving You Everything, she explained she'd become distanced from the rest of the band.\n\n\"I felt I didn't belong any more. They didn't need me any more, really, and I definitely felt very redundant.\"\n\nGeri's apology came on the 13th and final date of the Spice Girls' UK stadium tour, just before the band played Goodbye, the number one single that addressed her departure.\n\nAnd it wasn't the only emotional moment.\n\nThe band brought their mothers and children onto the stage during the encore, to serenade them with Mama, while Emma Bunton was reduced to tears during Viva Forever.\n\n\"She's gone,\" Mel C acknowledged. \"The Bunts has gone. We had a little wager on who'd cry first.\"\n\n\"I've got an ugly cry, haven't I?\" Emma asked. \"It's the last night. We're all very emotional.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Mark Savage This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut overall, the mood was celebratory, with the band charging through hits like Stop, Who Do You Think You Are and Wannabe like it was the first time they'd performed them.\n\nThe quartet arrived on stage at the front of a huge, semi-circular catwalk, dressed in updated versions of their iconic 1990s outfits - Scary in a leopard-print catsuit, Sporty in a diamanté-studded gym clothes, Ginger in a Union Jack ball gown, and Baby in a blur of pink and pigtails.\n\nWith fireworks shooting into the sky, they launched into the salsa-riffic Spice Up Your Life, as the video screens updated the Girl Power manifesto to include all \"ages, races, abilities, sexualities, religions and beliefs\".\n\nThe sound problems reported at the start of the tour were gone, although the group were sometimes drowned out by the sheer volume of 80,000 fans singing back at them.\n\nThe set-list wisely stuck to their first two albums, and the song arrangements were tight and imaginative. Even the unloved, post-Geri single Holler got a tropical overhaul that rendered it briefly tolerable.\n\nBut most importantly, the band's cheeky, stupid chemistry was still intact.\n\n\"Our audience has got a lot hotter,\" observed Mel B at one point.\n\n\"That's probably because our audience isn't eight any more,\" Mel C replied.\n\nThe atmosphere was certainly more hen night than pyjama party - but in an era where pop stars increasingly stress their fallible, human side, it was refreshing to see the Spice Girls celebrating fun and friendship.\n\nTheir fondness for each other was apparent throughout, with supportive hugs, gentle mockery and knowing glances the order of the day. The supposed rift between Mel B and Geri, caused by the revelation they had once slept together, was either forgotten or incredibly well-disguised.\n\nInstead, they had each other in stitches during a scrappy karaoke segment, where the musicians played snippets of Spice Girls' solo hits, only to discover the singers couldn't remember the words. (They did, however, know the lyrics for Adele's Someone Like You, which was a stroke of luck, given she was in the audience.)\n\n\"You know what's going to amaze you Wembley?\" asked Mel C, sarcastically. \"We haven't rehearsed this bit.\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by emmaleebunton This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA much-rumoured cameo by Victoria Beckham failed to materialise, and the band jokingly changed the lyrics for Wannabe to reflect her absence: \"Easy V doesn't come for free... Where is she?\"\n\nAnd when the audience became particularly vocal, Geri suggested holding auditions, noting: \"There's always room for a fifth member.\"\n\nBut to be honest, they didn't need one.\n\nWithout casting aspersions on Absent Spice, the boisterous spontaneity of Scary, Sporty, Baby and Ginger was enough to prove why the Spice Girls remain Britain's best girl band.\n\nSure, Girls Aloud had more innovative songs, the Sugababes had more poise, and Little Mix are better singers - but the Spice Girls had something else: They were about freedom, self-belief and disobedience, in an era where pop stars - and female pop stars in particular - were supposed to shut up and behave. Imagine what that felt like for a teenager in the 90s.\n\nIn the 21 years since the Spice Girls last played Wembley, reality has dashed some of those dreams, for the band and their fans alike, but for two brief hours on Saturday night, they could all remember how it used to be.\n\n\"This is a night to celebrate,\" said Mel C. \"Being in Spice World is incredible.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The group died of asphyxiation after inhaling toxic fumes from the sewer\n\nSeven people have died whilst cleaning a hotel sewer in western India, according to local police.\n\nThe four sanitation workers and three staff at Darshsan Hotel fell unconscious and died on Friday night after inhaling toxic fumes.\n\nTheir bodies have been recovered in the village of Fartikui, and the hotel owner has been charged over the deaths.\n\nGujarati authorities have pledged financial assistance to the victims' next of kin.\n\nAccording to police, the incident began after one sanitary worker entered the septic tank. When he did not return from the tank or respond to calls, his three colleagues went in to find him.\n\nLater, when none of the four had come out, three hotel staff went in to help them, but they too fell unconscious and died.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAfter all seven went missing, local emergency services pulled their bodies out in a three-hour operation.\n\n\"All seven were dead as the pressure of gas was high in the tank, but we could bring their bodies out,\" fire officer Nikunj Azad told local press.\n\nSafai Karmachari Andolan - a group campaigning to end manual sanitation work - estimates that nearly 1,800 sewer cleaners have died from suffocation during the last 10 years.", "Six people have been taken ill onboard a flight from Tunisia to Glasgow Airport.\n\nThe Thomas Cook flight from Tunisia landed in Glasgow at 13:25 where it was met by two ambulance crews and a specialist unit.\n\nAll of the passengers were kept on board the Airbus A321 until the medics assessed those who were unwell.\n\nHowever, none of the people feeling unwell required any further treatment and were sent home.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The US president and London mayor Sadiq Khan have been in a \"political grudge match\" for years\n\nUS President Donald Trump has once again criticised London Mayor Sadiq Khan, calling him a \"national disgrace\" who is destroying the UK's capital.\n\nHis comments came after five violent attacks in London in less than 24 hours left three men dead and three injured.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said it was \"absolutely awful\" Mr Trump was using the \"tragedy of people being murdered to attack the mayor\".\n\nPolice have increased patrols in the capital following the attacks.\n\nRetweeting a post by right-wing commentator Katie Hopkins about this weekend's violence in London, the president said Mr Khan was \"a disaster\" and the capital needed a new mayor.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Trump later followed it up with another post saying: \"He is a national disgrace who is destroying the city of London!\"\n\nIn response, Mr Khan's spokesman said the mayor's thoughts were with the victims' families and he \"is not going to waste his time responding to this sort of tweet\".\n\nThe mayor was focused on supporting the city's communities and \"over-stretched\" emergency services, he added.\n\nMr Khan later tweeted: \"Violent crime has no place in our city, and there's no higher priority for me than Londoners' safety.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Mayor of London This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThese three deaths take the total number of homicides in London in 2019 to 56. Official data shows that this time last year there had been 82 deaths - and 2018 was ultimately the worst year on record in the city for a decade.\n\nHow do these figures compare to other places? Donald Trump's home city of New York is often regarded as a comparable city because it has a similar population and shares other characteristics too.\n\nFigures from the Metropolitan Police show 136 homicides were recorded in Greater London in 2018. That works out as a rate of approximately 1.5 killings for every 100,000 people who live in the capital.\n\nNew York Police Department statistics show its per capita murder rate was twice as high.\n\nMonth-by-month statistics can mislead because crimes don't occur at regular intervals - but this year's rate for New York is, so far, also double London's.\n\nNew York is by no means the US's most dangerous city - there are many others which have far higher murder rates.\n\nPolice have made 17 arrests - including several boys and a girl - following the five separate attacks.\n\nThe first attack was on Friday afternoon in Wandsworth, south London, where an 18-year-old man was stabbed to death.\n\nTen minutes later 19-year-old Eniola Aluko was shot dead in Plumstead, south-east London.\n\nTwo teenagers have since been charged with the murder of the man in Wandsworth, while five people have been arrested on suspicion of Mr Aluko's murder.\n\nA man in his 30s died after he was stabbed in Tower Hamlets on Saturday afternoon.\n\nIn the early hours of Saturday two men were stabbed in Clapham and another was stabbed in Brixton.\n\nEniola Aluko, from Thamesmead, was the second of three killings in London in the space of 24 hours\n\nDeputy Assistant Commissioner Matthew Twist, from the Metropolitan Police, said: \"The circumstances, causes and motives for any homicide or serious violence incident are different and unique, and require different investigative strategies and approaches.\n\n\"But we are taking a service-wide response and all officers right across London continue to be relentless in our pursuit of those who bring violence to our communities.\"\n\nPolice at the scene of a fatal stabbing in Tower Hamlets\n\nPresident Trump and Mr Khan have clashed many times in the past.\n\nThe president called Mr Khan a \"stone cold loser who should focus on crime in London\" shortly before landing in Stansted ahead of his three-day state visit to the UK earlier this month.\n\nIt followed comments from the mayor of London that the UK should not be \"rolling out the red carpet\" for Mr Trump during his visit.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "More than 70 survivors of abuse in care who are elderly or terminally ill have been awarded £10,000 compensation by the Scottish government.\n\nThe redress scheme began in April and is open to people with a terminal illness or are over the age of 70.\n\nIt has been introduced ahead of a wider compensation payment plan for abuse survivors that is due to open in 2021.\n\nThere had been concerns that some survivors would not survive until then because of their age or health.\n\nA total of 71 payments have been approved over the last seven weeks and a further 52 are being considered.\n\nThe scheme was announced by John Swinney in the Scottish Parliament in April\n\nDeputy First Minister John Swinney said the payments were to \"recognise the harm done to children who were abused while in care\".\n\nHe added: \"We continue to do everything possible to help survivors and their families though our simple application process and, where appropriate, we point them to sources of care records.\n\n\"As a result, no-one has been refused an application due to lack of documentary evidence of being in care.\"\n\nThose who suffered abuse in care before December 2004, and who are aged 70 or over or are terminally ill, are eligible for the £10,000 flat rate.\n\nApplicants do not need to provide proof they were abused, but are required to submit documentary evidence which shows that they were in care.\n\nA dedicated phone line has been set up to help abuse survivors apply.\n\nPlaces of care which are covered by the scheme include children's homes, foster care, secure care units including List D schools, young offenders' institutions and borstals, among others.", "The comment on murals forms part of a wider guide to Belfast\n\nA world-renowned travel guide is to remove content about Belfast murals after it was described as \"highly inaccurate and offensive\".\n\nThe content on Fodor's Travel website and in their books on Ireland, said nationalist murals \"often aspire to the heights of Sistine Chapel-lite\".\n\nIt said loyalist murals \"sometimes resemble war comics without the humour\".\n\nThe content was also used by Singapore Airlines in their travel guide.\n\nProf Peter Shirlow, head of Irish Studies at Liverpool University, criticised the city guide.\n\n\"I found some of the commentary to be offensive, if not sectarian,\" he said.\n\n\"It plays upon sectarian myths of identity and culture in Northern Ireland and has failed in any way to deal with the murals in ways that is either balanced, appropriate or ultimately fair.\"\n\nThe guide makes comparisons between murals in loyalist and nationalist areas\n\nIn a statement to BBC News NI, Fodor's Travel said the content has been removed from their website Fodors.com and would be removed from the ebook version of its guide to Ireland within the week.\n\n\"We will also ensure that the content is removed and updated for the next print edition of Fodor's Essential Ireland, which will be released on September 8.\n\n\"Fodor's Travel is always listening to the feedback we receive about our content, and we take action when we're notified of content that is outdated, inaccurate, or insensitive by updating and/or removing that content.\"\n\nOn loyalist murals, the guide said: \"Recently, Protestant murals have taken on a grimmer air and typical subjects include wall-eyed paramilitaries perpetually standing firm against increasing liberalism, nationalism and all the other -isms Protestants see eroding their stern, Bible-driven way of life.\"\n\nThe guide described murals in nationalist areas as featuring \"themes of freedom from oppression, and a rising nationalist confidence that romantically and surreally mix and match images from the Book Of Kells, the Celtic mist mock-heroic posters of the Irish artist Jim Fitzpatrick, assorted phoenixes rising from the ashes and revolutionaries clad in splendidly idiosyncratic sombreros and bandanas from ideological battlegrounds in Mexico and South America.\"\n\nMurals on the Newtownards Road in east Belfast\n\nAuthor and commentator Fionnuala O Connor said the guide had a \"republican triumphalist ring to it\", and is \"patronising and sneering at loyalists\".\n\n\"The idea that loyalists are protesting in defence of a 'stern, Bible-driven way of life' has the ring of someone with one eye on an old social history and little to no sense of life now in loyalist districts,\" she said.\n\n\"It is far from Bible-driven. This is slanted in a way which leaves a sour taste in modern Belfast.\n\n\"There's a nasty edge. Singapore Airlines should ask the writer for their money back.\"\n\nReferring to the \"grimmer air\" the airline's guide stated loyalist murals had taken on, Prof Shirlow said the \"reimagining\" of Protestant murals had led to fewer paramilitary themes and instead a greater focus on community celebration, gender issues, peace building and \"non-sectarian identity tropes\".\n\n\"The text is, based upon the evidence that I hold, unacceptable and could potentially facilitate a sectarianised narrative,\" Prof Shirlow added.\n\nFionnuala O Connor said Singapore Airlines should look for its money back\n\nIn a statement Singapore Airlines said: \"We understand from our in-flight entertainment system providers that the content for the in-flight guide was provided by Fodor's travel guides for use on board by airlines.\n\n\"However, we note your feedback and have gotten in touch with the agencies involved and are taking steps to review the content in the in-flight guide.\"", "Each of the incidents involved an Apache from Wattisham Airfield in Suffolk and a light aircraft, the UK Airprox Board said\n\nConcerns have been raised over the flight paths of Army Apache helicopters in a \"hotspot\" area of sky after two came within close proximity to light aircraft within weeks.\n\nReports by the UK Airprox Board, which investigates near-misses, outlined two incidents over Birch in Essex.\n\nInvestigators said there had been other cases and the Apache Helicopter Force should \"take note of this\".\n\nThe Ministry of Defence said it took all air incidents \"very seriously\".\n\nIt said it welcomed all recommendations made in Airprox reports and would \"do whatever we can to prevent them from happening again\".\n\nThe reported incidents involved Apaches from Wattisham Airfield in Suffolk and a light aircraft.\n\nOn 7 August 2018, an Apache pilot reported he came within 100ft (30m) of a light aircraft, although radar suggested it was within 400ft (121m), the first report said.\n\nThe second report said an Apache pilot reported he was flying at 1,250ft (381m) to Wattisham Airfield on 26 September 2018 when he spotted an aircraft at a distance of 1,640ft (500m).\n\nThey passed within 200ft (60m), the report said.\n\nThere was \"no risk of collision\" in either incident.\n\nThe Ministry of Defence said it welcomed all recommendations made in Airprox reports\n\nInvestigators said there had been other incidents between Apaches, which can cost at least £20m per helicopter, and general aviation aircraft using Birch to practise forced landings.\n\nThey said it ought to be noted by the military for \"planning and briefing purposes\".\n\nThe report also noted some board members thought it \"would have been better\" if Apaches travelled to the area at a different height as 1,000ft (304m) to 2,000ft (609m) was used by light aircraft.\n\nIt said the increased use for commercial flights of Southend Airport, which has become a Ryanair base, may have pushed more light aircraft into using the route over the Birch area, described as a \"potential hotspot\".\n\nThe Apache, based at Wattisham, has been used for sorties in Afghanistan and Libya, where it was used to hunt and destroy tanks.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Every new teacher in England will be trained in how to spot early warning signs of mental illness, under a plan being unveiled by Theresa May later.\n\nMrs May, using some of her remaining political authority before leaving office, has called for improvements in preventing problems.\n\n\"Too many of us have seen first-hand the devastating consequences of mental illness,\" says Mrs May.\n\nLabour's Barbara Keeley said the prime minister only offered \"warm words\".\n\nThe shadow minister for mental health said the \"reality\" was support services being \"stretched to breaking point\".\n\nMrs May, having stepped away from debates about Brexit, is using her last days in office to focus on what she sees as key domestic issues.\n\n\"We should never accept a rise in mental health problems as inevitable,\" says Mrs May, calling for early intervention.\n\n\"Tackling this burning injustice has always been a personal priority for me,\" said the prime minister, saying that preventing mental illness should get the \"urgent attention it deserves\".\n\nShe wants teacher training to include lessons in identifying children who might have mental health problems and to address issues such as self-harm.\n\nAt university level, there will be £1m for a competition to come up with innovative ideas to tackle mental health problems among students.\n\nNHS staff will be encouraged to take suicide prevention training.\n\nThe prime minister also promised the publication of a White Paper setting out the government's response to Sir Simon Wessely's review of the Mental Health Act.\n\nSir Simon will be among those attending a roundtable discussion of his review on Monday, along with Health Secretary Matt Hancock and Simon Stevens, chief executive of NHS England.\n\nThe prime minister's efforts were praised by Paul Farmer, chief executive of Mind, the mental health charity.\n\nTheresa May has announced plans for tuition fees - and could still make announcements on school funding\n\n\"It's particularly positive to see such priority given to young people's mental health - our recent work in schools has shown us the true scale of the need,\" said Mr Farmer.\n\nBut Labour's shadow minister for mental health, Barbara Keeley, accused the prime minister of ignoring the \"reality\" of over-stretched budgets and delays in treatment.\n\n\"We know thousands of children and young people are either turned away from mental health services or have to wait too long for treatment,\" she said.\n\nMrs May, although having stepped down as Conservative party leader, remains as prime minister - and is said to still want to push ahead with ideas and policies that had been held back by Brexit.\n\nLast month she launched the findings of a review into university and further education college funding.\n\nShe backed the report's call for a cut in fees to £7,500 in England and an increase in support for further education colleges.\n\nThere are believed to be plans for further announcements on education, with suggestions that funding plans to address school and college budget shortages could be brought forward.\n\nImplementation will depend on her successor and the agreement of the Treasury, but Mrs May could still set out her plans for spending more on schools and colleges.\n\nA Number 10 source said suggestions over the prime minister's education spending plans were \"speculation\".", "Tens of thousands of protesters took to Hong Kong's streets on 12 June in opposition to a bill that would allow extradition to mainland China.\n\nThe demonstrators, most of them young people, have said they had not planned their movements in advance, but began cooperating on the ground as they came under pressure to disperse from security forces.\n\nThe BBC's Rupert Wingfield-Hayes and cameraman Joe Phua were there as the clashes began and saw the spontaneous coordination in action.", "Public sector workers could be given a greater role in helping police identify victims of human trafficking and exploitation.\n\nThe Scottish government is to consult on plans to introduce a \"duty to notify\" which would apply to health and social workers.\n\nSocial workers want to ensure any changes do not discourage vulnerable people from accessing services.\n\nBut ministers said many trafficking cases currently go unreported.\n\nThey said information collected through the proposed notification scheme would provide a more accurate picture of the scale and extent of trafficking in Scotland, and enable more effective targeting of enforcement activity and support services.\n\nIt would identify and support victims, identify perpetrators and disrupt their activity, as well as addressing conditions that foster trafficking and exploitation.\n\nLaunching the consultation, Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf said: \"Human trafficking is a hidden and often complex crime meaning the true scale of the problem is unknown.\n\n\"Victims may be reluctant to acknowledge their own situation for reasons including fear of their traffickers, distrust in the authorities and a lack of awareness that there are agencies that can support them to safety and recovery.\n\n\"These plans will create a statutory duty on Scottish public authorities to ensure that the information obtained by Police Scotland is publicly available. This intelligence will ultimately help us to protect and support more vulnerable people.\"\n\nCurrently the only available data on the numbers of trafficking victims in Scotland is taken from the UK National Referral Mechanism (NRM) - a framework for identifying potential victims of trafficking and ensuring they receive appropriate support and assistance.\n\nFor those victims who do not consent to enter the NRM, no data is recorded.\n\nSince the NRM's introduction, recorded numbers of victims have increased across the UK. In Scotland there has been a 130% increase in referrals to the NRM in the last six reported years.\n\nIn September 2018 a pilot scheme began at Glasgow Airport involving Border Force and Police Scotland's National Human Trafficking Unit (NHTU) which resulted in 40 referrals to the unit in its first nine months.\n\nThe Scottish government has published some examples of the way public bodies are already co-operating with police to tackle human trafficking.\n\nThey include the actions of firefighters called to an address in Glasgow where a 17-year-old female had jumped out of window of a locked bedroom, suffering a lower fractured spine, fractured pelvis and broken elbow.\n\nThey informed police, who began an investigation which revealed the woman had been sexually exploited in China and in the UK. She has been supported by social workers.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Gillian MacDonald welcomed the proposal to increase the amount of information police receive.\n\nShe said: \"The introduction of a 'duty to notify' is a positive step which will help us work with other public services to further develop our collective approach to protecting survivors.\n\n\"It will also assist in helping victims to escape the clutches of traffickers, as we work to make Scotland a hostile environment for this type of inhumane criminality.\"\n\nApart from public authorities, such as the Scottish Ambulance Service and the national fire and rescue service, the new scheme could also include NHS boards.\n\nMalcolm Wright, Chief Executive of NHS Scotland, said: \"Victims of human trafficking may be deeply traumatised and distrustful of authorities which may affect their ability to seek help, support and treatment for any injuries they have sustained as a result of their situation.\n\n\"All clinical and non-clinical staff across the NHS in Scotland can play a pivotal role in identifying potential victims of human trafficking and exploitation that may otherwise go unnoticed or remain invisible.\"\n\nScotland's 32 local authorities, including their social work departments could also be included in the \"duty to notify\" scheme.\n\nThe national director of the Scottish Association of Social Workers (SASW), Alistair Brown gave a broad welcome to the proposals.\n\nHe said: \"We are glad to see that compared to other mandatory reporting proposals it seems the burden does not fall disproportionately on social workers, which is essential as stopping these criminal gangs is everybody's business.\n\n\"It is important to highlight, that as there has been minimal consultation thus far we are keen to ensure that following feedback, members do not feel that these plans discourage the most vulnerable people from accessing our services.\n\n\"In addition, it is essential that any new reporting methods be modern, streamlined and efficient as possible, for our own research shows that our members are already doing an average of 11 hours unpaid work per week.\"", "Speaking on Good Morning Britain, Donald Trump has challenged the new London mayor to an IQ test after Sadiq Khan said he was ignorant.\n\nMr Khan reacted to Mr Trump's latest comments, saying his views on Islam were ignorant.", "It was Father's Day 2016 when Jaclyn Suttie told husband Andrew he was going to become a dad.\n\nThe Broughty Ferry couple were overjoyed. A month later there was further cause for celebration.\n\n\"We found out it was going to be twins,\" Andrew said. \"So we were obviously delighted with that as well.\"\n\nWith preparations for the new arrivals under way, scans revealed that one of the babies, known then as Twin Two, was smaller than her sister.\n\nAndrew told BBC Scotland's The Nine: \"At 30 weeks they said Twin Two is really quite a bit smaller, so we were really quite worried about that.\n\n\"Then at 32 weeks the girls were born by C-section.\"\n\nBoth twins required specialist care in Ninewells Hospital's neonatal unit, with Jessica, who was born weighing just 2lb 11oz, spending three months in the hospital.\n\nA week after Jessica was discharged from hospital, Andrew and Jaclyn received devastating news.\n\nJessica had Zellweger Syndrome, a rare genetic disorder with no cure, and would probably not survive a year.\n\n\"That was just catastrophic,\" Andrew said. \"Zellweger Syndrome is a horrible syndrome.\n\n\"There's very little they can do to help other than keep the child comfortable and keep them growing.\n\n\"To find out at that stage that your child is not going to live to their first birthday and all the hopes you had for that child are just absolutely shattered.\n\n\"It was just devastating, it was awful.\"\n\nThe family were accepted to receive care at Rachel House, one of the charity's hospices\n\nShattered by the news, Andrew began researching support groups, and asked if the family could be referred to the charity Children's Hospices Across Scotland, better known as Chas.\n\nChas provides hospice services for babies, children and young people with life-shortening conditions.\n\nIt offers palliative, respite and end-of-life care from Rachel House in Kinross and Robin House in Balloch.\n\nAndrew said: \"They accepted us to go to Rachel House. It's a children's hospice, but you would never know that.\n\n\"It's like a five-star hotel, but with everybody there in the same situation as you are and all the staff are used to dealing with it as well.\"\n\nAndrew found that meeting other fathers dealing with their own children's situations allowed him to open up about his own.\n\nHe said: \"There are other dads who are in exactly the same boat.\n\n\"Like most Scottish males they don't express their emotions, so it was good to be able to talk quite openly with them about how you were feeling.\"\n\nAndrew and Jaclyn \"always speak about Jessica\" to her sister Georgia\n\nOne night in September 2017 Andrew and Jaclyn returned to Rachel House, after enjoying a meal out together.\n\nAndrew said: \"Georgia and Jessica had been sharing a room together, having a wee babble away to each other.\n\n\"Jaclyn knew that something wasn't right with Jessica and then she just stopped breathing.\n\n\"It really was out-of-the blue although you know to expect it. It came as such a shock.\"\n\nJessica was eight months old.\n\nChas have launched a new appeal to support bereaved fathers and Andrew is one of those who have contributed a Father's Day message written to their daughters.\n\nHe said that if any friends are apprehensive of speaking about Jessica, they needn't worry.\n\nAndrew said: \"I love speaking about her.\n\n\"Right from the start with Georgia we always speak about Jessica.\n\n\"She had a beautiful smile, and her relationship with Georgia, they loved each other. They definitely knew they were sisters.\n\n\"She was my daughter and she always will be my daughter.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Scientists say they have identified the earliest signs of Parkinson's disease in the brain, 15 to 20 years before symptoms appear.\n\nScans of a small number of high-risk patients found malfunctions in the brain's serotonin system, which controls mood, sleep and movement.\n\nThe King's College London researchers say the discovery could lead to new screening tools and treatments.\n\nExperts said larger studies and more affordable scans were needed first.\n\nParkinson's is a progressive neurological condition affecting about 145,000 people in the UK.\n\nThe main symptoms are shaking, tremors and stiffness but depression, memory and sleep problems are also common.\n\nTraditionally, the disease is thought to be linked to a chemical called dopamine, which is lacking in the brains of people with the condition.\n\nAlthough there is no cure, treatments do exist to control symptoms - and they focus on restoring dopamine levels.\n\nBut the KCL research team, writing in Lancet Neurology, suggest that changes in the brain's serotonin levels come first - and could act as an early warning sign.\n\nThe researchers looked at the brains of 14 people from remote villages in southern Greece and Italy who all have rare mutations in the SNCA gene, making them almost certain to develop the disease.\n\nHalf of this group had already been diagnosed with Parkinson's and half had not yet shown any symptoms, making them ideal for studying how the disease develops.\n\nBy comparing their brains with another 65 patients with Parkinson's and 25 healthy volunteers, the researchers were able to pinpoint early brain changes in patients in their 20s and 30s.\n\nThese were found in the serotonin system, a chemical which has many functions in the brain, including mood, appetite, cognition, wellbeing and movement.\n\nLead study author Prof Marios Politis, from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King's, said the abnormalities had been found long before movement problems had begun and before dopamine levels had changed.\n\n\"Our results suggest that early detection of changes in the serotonin system could open doors to the development of new therapies to slow, and ultimately prevent, progression of Parkinson's disease,\" he said.\n\nProf Derek Hill, professor of medical imaging at University College London, said the research provided some valuable insights but also had some limitations.\n\n\"Their results may not scale up to larger studies,\" he said.\n\n\"Secondly, the imaging method they used is highly specialised and limited to a very small number of research centres, so isn't yet usable either to help diagnose patients or even to evaluate novel treatments in large clinical studies.\n\n\"The research does, however, provide encouragement for the approach of trying to treat Parkinson's disease at the earliest possible stage, which is likely to be the best chance of preventing the rising number of people whose lives are destroyed by this hideous disease.\"\n\nDr Beckie Port, research manager at charity Parkinson's UK, said: \"Further research is needed to fully understand the importance of this discovery - but if it is able to unlock a tool to measure and monitor how Parkinson's develops, it could change countless lives.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Emiliano Sala had just signed with Cardiff City\n\nA man has been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter over the death of Argentine footballer Emiliano Sala who died in a plane crash.\n\nThe striker, who had signed with Cardiff City, was killed in the crash along with pilot David Ibbotson.\n\nA 64-year-old man from North Yorkshire had been arrested and released while investigations continue, a spokesperson for Dorset Police said.\n\nThe force added the families of the two men who died had been informed.\n\nMr Sala, 28, had been travelling from Nantes to Cardiff on 21 January when the plane he was in lost contact with air traffic control north of Guernsey.\n\nHis body was recovered in February but Mr Ibbotson's has never been found.\n\nEmiliano Sala (left) was heading to his new club, Cardiff City, on board a plane being flown by David Ibbotson\n\nMr Sala's body was brought to Portland and Dorset Police has been carrying out inquiries on behalf of the coroner.\n\nDet Insp Simon Huxter, of the force's Major Crime Investigation Team, said: \"As part of this investigation we have to consider whether there is any evidence of any suspected criminality and as a result of our inquiries we have today, Wednesday 19 June 2019, arrested a 64-year-old man from the North Yorkshire area on suspicion of manslaughter by an unlawful act.\n\n\"He is assisting with our inquiries and has been released from custody under investigation.\"\n\nAn air accident investigator's photo showed the rear left side of the fuselage on the seabed\n\nDet Insp Huxter urged people not to speculate about the identity of the man as it could hinder the investigation.\n\nThe Piper Malibu aircraft was carrying Mr Sala and Mr Ibbotson, from Crowle, Lincolnshire, after the footballer returned to FC Nantes to say goodbye to his former teammates.\n\nAn official search operation was called off on 24 January after Guernsey's harbour master said the chances of survival were \"extremely remote\".\n\nShipwreck hunter David Mearns found the plane wreckage on 3 February, 220ft (67m) below the surface of the English Channel, using sonar financed by an appeal that raised £340,000 (371,000 euros) to find the aircraft.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Det Con Rebecca Bryant kept secret about her link to a juror\n\nA police officer has been sacked after lying about knowing a juror in a murder trial, leading to three convictions being quashed and a retrial.\n\nSouth Wales Police Det Con Rebecca Bryant was a liaison officer to the family of Lynford Brewster, who was murdered in Cardiff in 2016.\n\nShe had two counts of gross misconduct against her proved after hiding the fact that her son's girlfriend was a juror in the original trial.\n\nShe has been dismissed without notice.\n\nDet Con Bryant had served with the South Wales force since 1998.\n\nLynford Brewster was stabbed to death after a \"violent disagreement\" over drugs\n\nSouth Wales Police Assistant Chief Constable Jeremy Vaughan said her actions \"undermined trust and confidence\" the public have in the force.\n\nHe said: \"DC Bryant's actions resulted in the convictions of three murderers being overturned which brought immense grief to the family of Lynford Brewster. For this we are truly sorry.\n\n\"Our misconduct investigation, which has been subject of independent oversight, did not find any evidence that DC Bryant intended to undermine the criminal justice process.\n\n\"However, her actions have caused great upset to those affected by this case.\"\n\nA disciplinary panel found her failure to tell Cardiff Crown Court of the link with Lauren Jones during the original trial was a \"continuing breach\" of professional behaviour from the end of November to about the 20 December 2016.\n\nShe initially lied to a senior officer when confronted with the truth and the panel found that amounted to gross misconduct.\n\nMs Bryant had also admitted dishonesty for advising the juror to withhold information from the court in order to attend a hair appointment.\n\nThree men have since been found guilty of murdering Mr Brewster after a retrial.\n\n(Left to right) Robert Lainsbury, Jake Whelan and Dwayne Edgar, who were jailed after a re-trial\n\nThe misconduct hearing in Cardiff was earlier read a statement from Mr Brewster's mother, June Whittaker, who said Det Con Bryant had treated her son's murder as a \"joke\".\n\nMs Whittaker told the hearing: \"I was disgusted and very angry.\n\n\"She watched me fall apart over the loss of my son. She was not thinking about me, my son or justice. She was just thinking about herself. She guided that juror and encouraged her to tell lies.\n\n\"They treated the murder of my son and justice as a joke.\n\n\"This has had a devastating impact, life changing, and the whole experience will never leave me or my family.\"\n\nMs Whittaker said she was considered suing South Wales Police.\n\nPanel chair Peter Griffiths QC said its decision came despite Det Con Bryant's \"genuine remorse and apology to the Brewster family\", her acceptance of fault and her \"outstanding record as a police officer as evidenced by numerous glowing testimonies\".\n\nMrs Bryant worked on some of south Wales' biggest murder cases during her 21 years with the force.\n\nShe also worked on the investigation into the death of 18-year-old Connor Marshall in Porthcawl, and the double murder of couple Zoe Morgan, 21, and Lee Symonds, 33, outside a Matalan store in Cardiff.", "Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt will face Boris Johnson in the run-off to become Conservative leader and prime minister.\n\nMr Hunt oversaw the London Olympics as culture secretary and was the UK's longest-serving health secretary.\n\nBefore entering Parliament, Jeremy Hunt had a career as an English teacher in Japan and as an entrepreneur.\n\nHe became the MP for South West Surrey at the 2005 general election, taking over from Virginia Bottomley.\n\nFrom 2005 to 2007, Mr Hunt was shadow minister for disabled people. It was a reward for supporting David Cameron, who attended Oxford University at the same time as him, in the Conservative leadership election.\n\nA reshuffle in 2007 saw Mr Hunt promoted to shadow culture secretary.\n\nIn 2009, he was found to have breached expenses rules and ordered to repay more than £9,500. He had allowed his agent to stay rent-free in his constituency property, which was designated as his second home.\n\nMr Hunt had claimed £19,117 in public money towards the property, but it was decided he hadn't benefited financially from the situation.\n\nWhen the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government was formed in 2010, Jeremy Hunt joined the cabinet as secretary of state for culture, Olympics, media and sport.\n\nIt was a key role in the run-up to London's 2012 Olympics and he worked closely with then London Mayor, Boris Johnson.\n\nMr Hunt campaigned on the importance of tourism during the Olympics. And he took the decision to double the budget for the Olympic and Paralympic ceremonies from £40m to £81m.\n\nThe Olympic opening ceremony was widely seen as a big success.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Hunt also put emphasis on creating a lasting legacy for the games.\n\nThe government gave Sport England £1bn to invest in grassroots sports, and Mr Hunt said there was an \"extraordinary chance\" to \"reinvigorate this country's sporting habits for both the young and the old\".\n\nBut in the years that followed there was only a small increase in the number of young people taking up sport.\n\nIn 2005-06 the proportion of over-16s in England who played sport for at least 30 minutes each week was 34.6%. By 2015-16, it was 36.1%.\n\nEarlier in 2012, his career was hanging in the balance. During the Leveson Inquiry into the culture and practices of the press, his contact with the Murdoch family came under scrutiny.\n\nMr Hunt was responsible for overseeing the proposed takeover of BSkyB by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.\n\nHe was criticised for failing to supervise his adviser's contact with News Corp, and for messages he exchanged with James Murdoch on the bid. His special adviser, Adam Smith, was forced to quit.\n\nThe inquiry released texts sent from Mr Hunt to News Corp lobbyist Fred Michel when it was bidding for BSkyB. The culture secretary addressed him as \"Daddy\" and \"mon ami\" - their wives had given birth in the same hospital in May 2010. Separately, in December 2010, he told Mr Michel there was \"nothing u won't like\" in a forthcoming speech.\n\nMr Hunt insisted he acted with \"total integrity\" during the bid process.\n\nAs culture secretary, Mr Hunt also led a government plan to launch local television stations across the UK. More than 30 had been set up before Ofcom later scrapped the roll-out of any further channels, because of limited interest from viewers and financial difficulties.\n\nCity TV, the holder of the local TV licence for Birmingham, was forced to appoint administrators to find a buyer before it was even launched, for example.\n\nMr Hunt also announced a deal with the BBC to freeze the licence fee for six years at £145.50 from 2010. He said high executive salaries and an advantage over commercial broadcasters were a cause for concern.\n\nThat was equivalent to a 16% budget cut in real terms and led to the BBC having to make savings, including 2,000 job losses.\n\nUnder the agreement, the BBC also took on responsibility for funding the World Service, the Welsh language channel S4C, and the roll-out of broadband to rural areas.\n\nJeremy Hunt was appointed health secretary in September 2012, with Maria Miller taking on his previous role.\n\nHe would eventually become the longest-serving health secretary in NHS history, surpassing its founder, Labour's Aneurin Bevan.\n\nBut Mr Hunt held office during the slowest period of investment in the NHS since its foundation - which created big problems.\n\nSince the NHS was established, health spending has risen by about 4% above inflation each year on average. Post-2010, as the coalition budget tried to reduce the deficit, this fell to about 1% a year.\n\nThis came as demands on the health service were growing.\n\nBetween 2005 and 2015, A&E visits went up by almost 30%. And during Mr Hunt's tenure as health secretary, the number of people in the population aged 85 and over went up by about a third.\n\nThe independent Office for Budget Responsibility said funding for the NHS needed to rise by 4.3% a year just to keep up with rising demand, without actively improving standards.\n\nFinancial difficulties led to more hospitals going into the red, as well as targets being missed in three main areas: cancer care, hospital appointments and A&E waiting times.\n\nNHS England has not met any of these targets since 2015.\n\nJust 85.3% of patients were seen at A&E departments within the waiting time target of four hours in January 2018. At least 95% of patients attending A&E are supposed to be either admitted, transferred or discharged within four hours.\n\nUnions, like the GMB, demanded his resignation.\n\nAs well as a series of austerity measures - which included extending a cap on pay increases for NHS staff - he was also criticised for his handling of the junior doctor contract row.\n\nMr Hunt said that changes to contracts were essential to deliver a seven-day NHS in England by 2020 - a pledge in the Conservatives' 2010 election manifesto.\n\nTo achieve this, the proposed contracts would mean evenings and Saturdays would be considered \"normal\" rather than \"unsocial\" hours and would no longer attract overtime pay.\n\nThe NHS's pay review body had said the cost of paying a premium on these \"unsocial hours\" put delivering a seven-day NHS out of reach.\n\nJunior doctors responded by tweeting pictures of themselves working weekend and late shifts, with the hashtag #ImInWorkJeremy.\n\nContract negotiations with junior doctors stopped and started and the British Medical Association eventually decided on industrial action.\n\nJunior doctors took part in a series of walkouts in 2016. On two strike days, between 08:00 and 17:00 even emergency care wasn't covered - the first time that had ever happened in the history of the NHS.\n\nPublic support for the strike was high, and even after doctors withdrew emergency care, the majority of the public (57%) still supported the strike and believed the government was more at fault (54%).\n\nA new contract for junior doctors was later imposed, after BMA members rejected a deal agreed by the government and union negotiators.\n\nDespite heavy criticism, Mr Hunt did go on to secure a funding increase for the NHS, totalling £20.5bn in real terms by 2023.\n\nHe also oversaw the introduction of an Ofsted-style system for rating hospitals and GP surgeries in England, ranking them on things like cancer, mental health and diabetes services.\n\nMr Hunt repeatedly referred in speeches to cases where individuals had received bad treatment in the NHS. He said he was horrified at the report into the Stafford Hospital scandal.\n\nHe went on to overhaul the inspection regime, introduce a new duty of candour on staff and fresh rules about whistle-blowers.\n\nSocial care was added to his brief in 2018. He spoke of the need to integrate social care, funded by local councils, with services delivered by the NHS.\n\nHe had already overseen a transfer of money from the NHS to council budgets from 2014. This shared budget was designed to tackle the problem of elderly people having to stay in hospital beds unnecessarily, because of a lack of care for them at home.\n\nAfter this, the number of these cases fell.\n\nHe also oversaw the introduction of the first national waiting-time target for mental health treatment. From April 2016, the NHS said at least 50% of people experiencing a first episode of psychosis should begin treatment within two weeks of referral.\n\nMr Hunt became foreign secretary in July 2018, after his predecessor and now leadership rival, Boris Johnson, quit over Theresa May's Brexit strategy.\n\nIn March, he became the first Western foreign minister to visit Yemen since conflict there began.\n\nHe has faced criticism for allowing the UK to sell arms to the Saudi regime, which is involved in a controversial military campaign in Yemen. But he has previously defended UK-Saudi ties, saying Saudi Arabia is a \"very, very important military ally to the UK\".\n\nHis time as foreign secretary has not been gaffe-free. During a meeting on an official visit to China, he called his wife Lucia Guo \"Japanese\" - although she was born in Xian in central China.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The foreign secretary tells Today he would include the DUP and ERG in Brexit talks\n\nA Remain campaigner in the 2016 EU referendum, Mr Hunt has since said he would vote Leave in a second vote. He said this was because of the \"arrogance of the European Commission\" in Brexit negotiations.\n\nHe also likened the Brexit negotiating tactics of the EU to the Soviet Union. The comparison provoked criticism from EU ambassadors and politicians and there were calls for an apology.\n\nMr Hunt says he want to negotiate a \"credible\" Brexit plan by securing changes to the controversial Irish backstop.\n\nHowever, he does not rule out leaving the EU without a deal if such an outcome becomes \"the only way to deliver Brexit\".\n\nBut unlike his leadership rival, Boris Johnson, he says the current departure date of 31 October is not a hard deadline.", "Boohoo's first recycled range will be made with reclaimed plastics\n\n\"If someone really cared about buying ethically sourced, green clothes then they wouldn't shop at Boohoo,\" shopper Camilla tells the BBC on Oxford Street.\n\nShe is commenting on the fast fashion retailer's first recycled clothing range - made with reclaimed plastics - which was unveiled this week.\n\nThe 22-year-old's view is not surprising, given the millions of low cost, fast fashion clothes that Boohoo sells every year.\n\nBut while it's easy to dismiss the move as a marketing gimmick, Boohoo claims it is planning other green initiatives, and others have welcomed the new collection as a \"starting point\".\n\n\"It is good for people to try recycled clothes and see that they are just like normal clothes,\" says shopper Esme, 16.\n\n\"I'm glad they are engaging because they are unlikely to change their supply chain overnight,\" adds Dr Patsy Perry, senior lecturer in fashion marketing at the University of Manchester.\n\nBoohoo says its 34-piece range is made with recycled polyester that had been destined for landfills and uses no environmentally unfriendly dyes or chemicals.\n\nThe dresses, bodysuits, flares and crop tops have also been made entirely in the UK to cut air pollution.\n\nZara is one of a growing number of retailers to launch recycled collections\n\nHowever, some have noted that the range was unveiled on the same day the Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) issued a critical report on the fast fashion industry that mentioned Boohoo.\n\nThe MPs warned companies were creating huge amounts of waste by selling cheap clothes designed only to be worn a few times.\n\nThey also said the synthetic fabrics used to make such garments shed micro-fibres when washed, polluting waterways.\n\n\"The problem of clothing waste driven by rising volumes and lower prices in recent years are unlikely to be addressed by initiatives [like Boohoo's recycled range],\" says Stella Claxton of Nottingham Trent University, who gave evidence to the EAC.\n\n\"We know that too many garments that are disposed of through retailer take-back schemes or in charity collection bins will eventually find their way into landfill.\"\n\nShe also questions just how green Boohoo's recycled fabric will be, noting that even recycled polyester clothing can take hundreds of years to decompose.\n\n\"The garments are likely to shed microfibres into waterways when they're machine washed, just like the non recycled versions,\" she adds.\n\nIn its report, the EAC made 18 proposals, including a 1p charge per garment on producers to fund better recycling of clothes, and a ban on incinerating or landfilling unsold stock that can be recycled instead.\n\nBut the government has said already it will adopt none of the policies.\n\nIn that light, Dr Perry thinks Boohoo - and others retailers that have launched green clothing ranges - should be encouraged for doing so voluntarily.\n\n\"The real test will be if Boohoo can make this financially viable,\" she says.\n\n\"Because if they don't carry on then it will seem like a token gesture and them getting on the bandwagon.\"\n\nBoohoo says it takes its environmental responsibilities \"extremely seriously\" and is encouraging its customers to wear its clothes for longer.\n\n\"We have also launched a further consumer awareness programme around washing at lower temperatures, and avoiding ironing and tumble drying where possible.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThey were removed from the City of London event after several minutes and Mr Hammond was able to continue soon afterwards.\n\n\"The irony is that this is government that has just led the world by committing to a zero carbon economy by 2050,\" said the chancellor.\n\nGreenpeace said: \"Business as usual is no longer an option.\"\n\nThe organisation said 40 activists had \"gatecrashed\" the chancellor's speech.\n\nClimate campaigner Areeba Hamid, said: \"The real bottom line, the priority that needs to come before all others, is not profit, revenue or growth, but survival.\n\n\"That needs to be recognised in every boardroom and on every balance sheet, starting with the chancellor's.\"\n\nCity of London Police said they were called by Mansion House security and escorted the protesters from the premises. No arrests were made.\n\nForeign Office minister Mark Field was filmed by a TV camera at the event physically ejecting one of the protesters from the dinner. The BBC has approached Mr Field for a response.\n\nMr Hammond was met with applause as he restarted his address, where he suggested the next prime minister would need a \"plan B\" to the Brexit deal that was rejected by Parliament, or face another referendum.\n\nHe warned about the economic impact of a no-deal Brexit, and said £150bn of spending commitments would \"all be at risk if we don't get Brexit right\".\n\nThese commitments include an extra £20.5bn for the NHS by 2023, as well as £44bn for new housing and tax cuts, a fall in the national debt and unemployment, and a rise in employment.\n\nAt the event, Bank of England governor Mark Carney made his final Mansion House speech, which was about the future of finance.\n\nMr Carney, who ends his tenure as governor in January 2020, spoke about a new economy driven by changes in technology, demographics and the environment.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Cheryl Gillan announces Michael Gove is voted out of the Conservative leadership race,\n\nJeremy Hunt has promised Boris Johnson \"the fight of his life\" as the two compete to become the next Conservative leader and PM.\n\nMr Johnson said he was \"honoured\" to get the backing of 160 MPs in the final ballot of the party's MPs - more than half of the total.\n\nMr Hunt got 77 votes - two more votes than the next candidate Michael Gove.\n\nMr Johnson and Mr Hunt now face a vote involving up to 160,000 Tory members, with a result due by late July.\n\nAll 313 Conservative MPs took part in the final ballot in the House of Commons, with one paper spoilt.\n\nMr Johnson's victory in the latest round of the contest had been widely expected, but Environment Secretary Mr Gove and Foreign Secretary Mr Hunt had been engaged for several days in a fight for second place.\n\nIn the penultimate MPs' ballot, earlier on Thursday, Mr Gove overtook his rival, only to see his lead reversed in the final vote.\n\nBefore the final vote, a source close to Mr Hunt warned against reigniting the \"personal psychodrama\" between Mr Gove and Mr Johnson - who spearheaded the Vote Leave campaign together in 2016, but fell out after Mr Gove abandoned Mr Johnson's previous leadership bid to launch his own.\n\nFollowing the result of the final ballot, Mr Johnson tweeted that he was \"deeply honoured\" by his level of support.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Hunt, acknowledged Mr Johnson as frontrunner to become party leader and prime minister, tweeting that he was the \"underdog\" but in politics \"surprises happen\".\n\nHe went on to praise Mr Gove as one of the \"brightest stars in the Conservative team\" and pledged to \"give Boris the fight of his life.\"\n\nMr Gove congratulated his rivals and said he was \"naturally disappointed but so proud of the campaign we ran\".\n\nHis campaign manager, Mel Stride, said he believed that Mr Gove's admission that he had taken cocaine during the 1990s had damaged his bid, adding: \"It stalled us and meant momentum was lost at that time.\"\n\nThere's no doubt that Mr Johnson is, at this stage (and there's a long way to go), widely expected to end up in Number 10.\n\nBut this result is an enormous relief to his camp, for the simple reason that they think Mr Hunt is easier to beat.\n\nForget any differences in style between the two challengers and their comparative talents - Jeremy Hunt voted Remain in the EU referendum.\n\nAnd for many Tory members it is a priority for the next leader to have been committed to that cause, rather than a recent convert, however zealous.\n\nMr Johnson and Mr Hunt will now take part in hustings in front of Conservative Party members around the country, before the votes are counted, with the final result to be announced during the week of 22 July.\n\nThey will also take part in a head-to-head debate on ITV on 9 July, following previous leadership debates hosted by Channel 4 and the BBC.\n\nMr Hunt has been in the cabinet since 2010. Before he became Foreign Secretary, he was the UK's longest-serving Health Secretary. Former Foreign Secretary Mr Johnson, who quit the cabinet last year over Theresa May's Brexit strategy is one of the UK's most recognisable politicians and was Mayor of London from 2008 to 2016.\n\nThe Conservatives said there had been 20,000 applications for places at the 16 leadership hustings around the UK. Party chairman Brandon Lewis congratulated the final two contenders.\n\nHe said: \"We are conscious that the Conservatives are not just selecting a new leader but also the next prime minister, and we take that responsibility extremely seriously at such an important time for our nation.\"\n\nLabour's national campaigns co-ordinator Andrew Gwynne said: \"What a choice: the man who broke the NHS or the man who wants to sell it to Donald Trump.\n\n\"A handful of unrepresentative Conservative members should not be choosing our next prime minister. People should decide through a general election.\"\n\nThe ballot of MPs earlier on Thursday saw Home Secretary Sajid Javid eliminated from the contest.", "Philippe Cerboneschi (also known as \"Zdar\"), one half of French dance duo Cassius, died in Paris on Wednesday, his agent has said.\n\n\"He made an accidental fall, through the window of a high floor of a Parisian building,\" said Sebastien Farran, without giving further details.\n\nThey produced for bands such as Phoenix, Beastie Boys, Franz Ferdinand and French hip hop star MC Solaar.\n\nThe band's first album in three years, Dreems, is due to be released on Friday.\n\nCerboneschi was in his early 50s.\n\nPolice, who have not confirmed the cause of death, say they are investigating the accident as is routine in such cases.\n\nTributes from the music world started pouring in on Thursday morning as news of his death filtered through, including messages from Alex Kapranos of Franz Ferdinand, DJ Calvin Harris and Rostam Batmanglij, formerly of the band Vampire Weekend.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFusing disco and acid house, Cassius - named in homage to US boxing legend Cassius Clay - emerged as part of a new wave of French dance music in the late 90s, alongside acts like Daft Punk and Air.\n\nTheir debut single, Cassius 1999, which featured a chopped-up sample of Donna Summer's If It Hurts Just a Little, reached number seven in the UK charts.\n\nAlthough they never matched that success again, the duo remained in demand as producers and remixers, working with acts like Phoenix, Hot Chip and MC Solaar, while their 2006 album Ibifornia featured artists like Pharrell Williams, Cat Power and Beastie Boy Mike D.\n\nPrior to Cassius, Zdar also released an album with Etienne de Crécy under the moniker Motorbass.\n\nCurrently unavailable on streaming services, the record, titled Pansoul, was listed as one of the \"100 lost albums you need to know\" by NME magazine.\n\nA retrospective review by Uncut magazine described Pansoul as \"the starting point for the French dance movement\", while Spin called it \"the most important album in French house\".\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nCerboneschi, whose parents ran a hotel in Aix-les-Bains, started out as a singer in a punk band and a speed metal drummer.\n\nHe quit his job as a waiter, he told Le Monde, after seeing a picture of UK band Eurythmics recording in a Paris studio and deciding he wanted \"to find this magic\" (interview in French).\n\nHe later got a job at a music studio and, in the 1980s, rubbed shoulders with French stars Serge Gainsbourg, Etienne Daho and Vanessa Paradis.\n\nHe worked with high-profile artistic director Dominique Blanc-Francard, who put him in touch with his son Hubert.\n\nCerboneschi was awarded a 2010 Grammy Award as a mixer and producer for French indie pop band Phoenix's fourth best-selling album.", "Antoinette Sandbach has been a Conservative MP for Eddisbury in Cheshire since 2015\n\nThe government's chief whip has promised to investigate messages sent to a female Conservative MP by a colleague in which she was was called a \"disgrace\" and told to quit the party.\n\nIn a now-deleted tweet, Antoinette Sandbach shared a screenshot of WhatsApp messages which she said were sent to her by a male Tory MP.\n\n\"You too are a disgrace. Time you left the party I think,\" they read.\n\nIt comes as Conservative MPs voted for their final two leadership contenders.\n\nOn Thursday, secret ballots were held which whittled down the remaining candidates to just Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt - one of whom will become the UK's next prime minister.\n\nMs Sandbach, the MP for Eddisbury in Cheshire, backed Rory Stewart in the leadership campaign, before he was eliminated from the contest on Wednesday. She has been a strong opponent of a no-deal Brexit.\n\nOn Thursday, she shared the phone messages on Twitter, and said: \"Barely is the ink dry on the results and the dark ops begin. This is from a male Conservative MP to me as I sat on the train home.\"\n\nIn a follow-up tweet, she added: \"It's bad enough when you get it from complete strangers. Is it any wonder three female MPs left.\"\n\nAnna Soubry, Sarah Wollaston and Heidi Allen left the party in February to join Change UK, citing concerns over the \"the hard-line anti-EU awkward squad\" in the Conservative Party.\n\nMs Sandbach told BBC Radio 4's Today programme she believed the message was a reference to her position on Brexit, and that it was \"unacceptable\" to tell people to leave the party because they held different views.\n\n\"Even though I may have argued for Remain in the referendum originally, I have accepted the result and supported the prime minister three times [by voting for her Brexit deal],\" she said.\n\nMeanwhile, members of the public replied with messages of support for Ms Sandbach, calling the messages \"shocking\" and \"disgusting\".\n\nThe government's chief whip, Julian Smith, called it \"totally unacceptable\" and pledged to investigate.\n\nHe also thanked Ms Sandbach for supporting the government's Brexit deal three times in Parliament.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Julian Smith MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLeadership hopeful, Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt, also tweeted support for Ms Sandbach, writing: \"This is so wrong! We have to come together as a party...\"\n\nMs Sandbach told the Press Association she had made an official complaint to the chief whip \"and will get it dealt with internally\".\n\nMr Johnson and Mr Hunt will now go head-to-head in the final stage of the leadership contest, which will end in late July following a postal ballot of Conservative Party members.", "Jack Shepherd challenged his conviction of manslaughter by gross negligence at the Court of Appeal\n\nSpeedboat killer Jack Shepherd has lost an appeal against his conviction for manslaughter.\n\nShepherd was jailed for six years after Charlotte Brown died when she was thrown from his boat when it capsized on the River Thames in 2015.\n\nThe 31-year-old, originally from Exeter, challenged his conviction for manslaughter by gross negligence at the Court of Appeal.\n\nBut the appeal was dismissed by Sir Brian Leveson on Thursday.\n\nShepherd's lawyers had argued the conviction was unsafe, claiming some evidence at his trial came from an interview in which he was not cautioned or offered a solicitor.\n\nGiving his decision, Sir Brian said: \"When granting leave (to appeal), the single judge made the point that the appellant should not be over-optimistic as to the outcome.\n\n\"That warning was prescient. The appeal against conviction is dismissed.\"\n\nShepherd went on the run ahead of his trial at the Old Bailey and was convicted in his absence in July 2018.\n\nHe was discovered to be in the Georgian capital Tbilisi and was extradited to the UK after handing himself in in January.\n\nThe trial last year was told that Shepherd and 24-year-old Ms Brown, from Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, had been out drinking and went on a late-night boat trip on the Thames.\n\nCharlotte Brown died in December 2015 when Shepherd took her on a date on his speedboat\n\nHe handed the controls of his boat to Ms Brown moments before the vessel struck a submerged tree and overturned, jurors were told.\n\nShepherd was plucked from the Thames alive, but Ms Brown was found unconscious and unresponsive.\n\nAfter his extradition, Shepherd was also sentenced to an additional six months in jail for breaching bail.\n\nBut the Court of Appeal quashed that conviction and sentence during the hearing earlier.\n\nHowever, judges warned Shepherd he could face further proceedings in connection to his \"egregious breach\".\n\nShepherd's boat was found to have several defects\n\nMs Brown's twin sister said Shepherd had caused her family further anguish and pain while he \"lived a normal life\" when he absconded.\n\n\"Shepherd hasn't once shown any remorse or respect to our family, or to the legal system, or to even Charlie,\" Katie Brown said.\n\nMs Brown's father Graham said the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) had indicated it would bring further proceedings against Shepherd for the bail breach.\n\nHe added: \"It does seem bizarre to the layman that [Shepherd] has been able to abscond to Georgia without consequence.\"\n\nA CPS spokesman said Georgian authorities \"did not specifically consent to Shepherd being dealt with for the Bail Act offence\" and it was now \"considering our options\".\n\nShepherd was jailed for a further four years at Exeter Crown Court earlier this month after he admitted wounding with intent in relation to a drink-fuelled attack on a barman.\n\nThe court heard he struck former soldier David Beech with a vodka bottle on 16 March 2018 after being asked to leave The White Hart Hotel in Newton Abbot, Devon.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police told planners no urgent security action was needed at London Bridge less than a month before deadly attacks in the area, an inquest has heard.\n\nThe City of London Corporation security director said the advice came at a meeting with a counter-terror adviser in May 2017, after the bridge was put on a list of vulnerable locations.\n\nFour weeks later, three attackers killed eight people and hurt 48 others.\n\nThe inquest into the victims' deaths is being held at the Old Bailey.\n\nRichard Woolford told the court London Bridge had not been one of five \"highly vulnerable\" sites flagged up as security priorities by counter-terrorism police.\n\nBut he arranged to meet City of London Police's Matthew Hone after the area was flagged as a risk following a review in April 2017.\n\nHe told the inquest the counter-terror adviser \"categorically\" told him \"no immediate action\" was required.\n\nRecounting what happened at the meeting, Mr Woolford said: \"I asked at that point is there any action required by me or the corporation by this and he said no.\"\n\nMr Woolford said he \"never saw\" any recommendations for \"long-term permanent solutions\" PC Hone had said he would give to him.\n\nSgt Hone told the previous day's inquest hearing he had warned colleagues London Bridge was the \"most vulnerable location [to a] marauding vehicle attack\", along with one other unnamed area.\n\nShortly after the Westminster Bridge attack in March 2017, Sgt Hone - who was at that time a PC - emailed senior colleagues to say \"something needs to change\".\n\nThe victims of the London Bridge attack clockwise from top left - Chrissy Archibald, James McMullan, Alexandre Pigeard, Sébastien Bélanger, Ignacio Echeverría, Xavier Thomas, Sara Zelenak, Kirsty Boden\n\nBut the court heard the popular tourist spot had not met the criteria for barriers to be installed because it did not fall within the Home Office's \"rigid\" definition of a crowded place.\n\nJane Gyford, who at the time was the City of London Police commander of operations and security, said there was also \"no intelligence\" to suggest the area would be targeted by attackers.\n\nAsked if temporary protective barriers might have been an option, she said: \"There is no case in this country where National Barrier Asset has been used without intelligence or to do with an event.\"\n\nGareth Patterson QC, representing some of the victims' families, said London Bridge had been \"crying out for protection\" before the attack.\n\nOn Tuesday the inquest heard an independent report had identified the area as a \"viable and attractive\" target for an attack using a vehicle as a weapon.\n\nCounsel to the coroner, Jonathan Hough QC, told the inquest the study by Cerastes, which had been commissioned by City of London Police, found \"the location and layout of the bridge lends itself to a ram attack with no physical barriers in place to prevent a vehicle mounting the pavement\".\n\nThe Metropolitan Police's lead for royalty and specialist protection security said she had not heard of the report until after the attack but that it would not have changed how police prioritised which areas to protect.\n\nDeputy Assistant Commissioner Lucy D'Orsi added: \"I don't think the report itself would cause me to start putting protective security measures in because it could be written for a multitude of places in London.\"\n\nKhuram Butt, Rachid Redouane and Youssef Zaghba were shot dead within minutes of driving a van into pedestrians on London Bridge and stabbing people in and around Borough Market.\n\nThose killed in the attack were Xavier Thomas, 45, Chrissy Archibald, 30, Sara Zelenak, 21, Kirsty Boden, 28, Ignacio Echeverría, 39, Sébastien Bélanger, 36, James McMullan, 32, and Alexandre Pigeard, 26.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Remi Yeomans, two, attends a hospice which is facing closure in the West Midlands\n\nChildren's hospices in England will be forced to cut services or shut unless the NHS increases its funding, a charity has warned.\n\nTogether for Short Lives, which helps terminally ill children, highlighted a \"dangerous cocktail\" of higher costs and a drop in state funding.\n\nIts report examined funding for 27 of the 34 children's hospices in England.\n\nBut NHS England said funding for children's end-of-life care was \"going up every year\".\n\nAccording to Together for Short Lives, children's hospices in England each spend an average of £3.7m per year - which works out as a total annual spend across the country of £125m. Their spending has increased by 4.5% since 2016/17, it said.\n\nBut the percentage which the state contributes has fallen from 27% to 21% in five years, the report said - and hospices have been forced to use their reserve funds or stop services.\n\nOne of the hospices, Acorns in Walsall, West Midlands, has said it will have to close later this year unless it can raise more than £1.5m.\n\nIf it closed, it would mean more than 200 children would lose vital support or be forced to travel long distances, and 70 jobs would be lost.\n\nAnother hospice, Forget Me Not in West Yorkshire and north Manchester, said the lack of council and NHS funding \"has a huge impact\" on the care they can provide.\n\n\"We have two hospices: we cannot fully open our Bury hospice yet despite having amazing facilities and families desperate to access them because it receives no funding from the NHS,\" said chief executive Luen Thompson.\n\n\"Our Huddersfield hospice receives less than 3% in statutory funding of the £4 million it needs to run.\n\n\"Our offer to families shouldn't depend on how much we raise at a bucket collection or how much bric-a-brac we sell in one of our shops.\"\n\nThe head of Together for Short Lives, Andy Fletcher, said the situation at Acorns could be \"just the tip of the iceberg\".\n\n\"It is simply not sustainable to expect specialist children's palliative care services provided by children's hospices to be funded by charity reserves and the generosity of the public,\" he said.\n\nThe charity wants the NHS to increase the Children's Hospice Grant from £12m in 2019/20 to £25m per year.\n\nMr Fletcher also said NHS funding was \"patchy\", with the research showing one hospice receiving 48% of its charitable expenditure from the state in the last financial year but another getting just 7%.\n\nAnd one in six hospices said they had received no funding from their local clinical commissioning groups in 2018/19.\n\nAn NHS England spokeswoman said: \"NHS funding for children's end of life care is going up every year and is set to more than double within the next five years, with up to £25m going in to care as part of the NHS Long Term Plan.\n\n\"We are working with local health groups - including councils which of course have an important role to play in these services - and Together for Short Lives to provide the kind of support that children and their families want.\"\n\nThe government has been approached for comment.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nBritain's Andy Murray came through his first match since a career-saving hip operation with an impressive victory in the Queen's doubles.\n\nMurray, 32, was seemingly set for retirement before having his hip resurfaced in January.\n\nFive months later the Scot was back on court alongside Spain's Feliciano Lopez at the Fever-Tree Championships.\n\nThe pair won 7-6 (7-5) 6-3 against Colombian top seeds Robert Farah and Juan Sebastian Cabal.\n\n\"It was brilliant. I enjoyed it a lot,\" Murray told BBC Sport. \"I was a bit slow at the beginning and got better as the match went on.\n\n\"I'm fortunate to be back playing again.\n\n\"Leading up to the match I was quite relaxed but I was a bit nervous when we started walking to the court.\n\n\"You want the nerves and the butterflies in the stomach and I had that.\"\n• None Relive Murray's return to tennis as it happened\n\nFor three-time Grand Slam champion Murray this was not about the result. This was simply about whether his new metal hip could stand up to the rigours of competitive tennis.\n\nBut he could not hide his delight - or indomitable competitive spirit - in clinching victory over one of the world's best doubles pairs at the west London club.\n\nMurray's face cracked into a broad grin as a return into the net secured the match, Lopez then standing back on the sideline to allow the former world number one to take the acclaim of an adoring crowd.\n\n\"I learnt quite a bit tonight,\" added Murray. \"I expected to be the worst player and to not feel particularly good on the court, which was probably the case in the first set.\n\n\"But then I think I started to play better in the second and started to serve a bit better, see the returns a little bit better and things.\n\n\"I have zero discomfort in my hip after the match. Nothing. And if I had done this last year, I'd be here aching, throbbing, and feel bad the next day.\n\n\"So I'll just keep pushing and see how it goes. But I feel optimistic about the future. I don't know how long it will take to get to that level, but, hopefully not too long.\"\n\nThose who had not already secured tickets in advance queued up outside the gates for resales, meaning Centre Court was largely full when play started about 18:45 BST.\n\nEvery winner was met with encouraging cheers and hearty applause, with Murray's wife Kim cheering him on from the front row along with coach Jamie Delgado and other key members of his team.\n\nMost importantly, the two-time Wimbledon singles champion moved freely and was limp free, showing a sharpness perhaps many did not expect to see from a player at his stage of recovery.\n\nMurray broke down in tears in a pre-tournament news conference at the Australian Open in January, saying he planned to retire after Wimbledon because of the acute pain which left him struggling to play with his two daughters and even putting on his socks.\n\nWhen the Scot waved farewell at the end of his first-round defeat by Spain's Roberto Bautista-Agut in Melbourne, few thought they would see Murray back in a competitive scenario on a court.\n\nYet he returned 157 days later after renowned hip surgeon Sarah Muirhead-Allwood, whose previous patients have included the Queen Mother, operated on him.\n\nMurray says the resurfacing of his hip, where the femur head is smoothed down and covered with a metal cap, has been \"life-changing\" and finally taken away the pain which has dogged him for a number of years.\n\nWhether he will be able to become the first player to return to the singles court after this operation remains to be seen, but this was certainly an encouraging first step for the former world number one.\n\nWhat next for Murray?\n\nMurray and Lopez will face either British duo Dan Evans and Ken Skupski or the Canadian-Australian pairing of Felix Auger-Aliassime and Alex de Minaur in Friday's quarter-finals.\n\nThe match will be fifth on a packed centre court schedule and you can watch it live on BBC TV and the BBC Sport website.\n\nAndy could face older brother Jamie in the last four if they both come through their last-eight matches.\n\nJamie and Neal Skupski - who beat Nicolas Mahut and Edouard Roger-Vasselin 7-6 (7-5) 1-6 10-7 in their opener - face Henri Kontinen and John Peers before Andy's match on Friday.\n\nPunching the air at regular intervals and seemingly loving every minute after five months on the sidelines, Murray returned as a winner.\n\nHe was at his sharpest in the second set - executing a high backhand volley with a high degree of difficulty, and then hitting two thumping forehand returns to get the decisive break of serve.\n\nMurray also took a tumble, to no ill-effect, and there was no sign of the on-court limp we had become so accustomed to before his surgeon worked her magic.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone", "The Conservative leadership candidates all know that solving the Brexit conundrum is their number one task.\n\nBut how do they propose to solve the problems? And if they can't, what are their contingency plans?\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg asked the remaining leadership candidates to outline their Brexit proposals.\n\nThe catch? To answer the questions in 50 words or less.\n\nHow will you get a deal agreed with the EU?\n\nFirst, I'll negotiate a full stop to the backstop - a guarantee it can never be permanent.\n\nSecond, I'll secure a Union Guarantee in international law so that our United Kingdom cannot be undermined.\n\nThird, I'll secure a Canada-style Free Trade Agreement which takes back control of our laws, borders and money.\n\nHow would you get the deal through Parliament?\n\nI would involve Conservative MPs in shaping our negotiating stance and install a negotiating team led by politicians.\n\nMy Union Guarantee will help me secure the support of the DUP.\n\nI also have a track record working across political divides, and would work with opposition MPs committed to Brexit.\n\nIf Parliament votes the deal down, what is your contingency plan?\n\nI want to deliver Brexit as soon as possible and before 31 October.\n\nHowever, I have said that if it will take a few more days or weeks to finalise a deal, I would be prepared to contemplate a short delay.\n\nWhat would you do if your contingency plan fails?\n\nI will always choose Brexit over no Brexit. So if it ultimately came to a choice, I would choose no deal over no Brexit. I led the Vote Leave campaign. I am determined to finish what I started and ensure we leave the EU.\n\nIf you had to make a choice between an election and another referendum, which would you choose?\n\nThis is a false choice. We need to honour the referendum and deliver Brexit before there is an election.\n\nWe must not blunder into a confidence vote which we could lose. I am categorically opposed to a second referendum, which is only advocated for by people who want to remain.\n\nWould you campaign to leave or stay in the EU in another referendum?\n\nHow will you get a deal agreed with the EU?\n\nWe are not pretending it's going to be easy but the EU doesn't want no deal and there is a deal to be done if the right team is sent to negotiate it.\n\nI will present Brussels with a credible plan and a new negotiating team so they have confidence it can get through Parliament.\n\nHow would you get the deal through Parliament?\n\nWe have to deal with the biggest issue Parliament has which is the backstop that could leave the UK permanently trapped in the customs union against its will.\n\nChanging the deal to address this concern, while maintaining support from across the Conservative Party and DUP, will get Brexit delivered.\n\nIf Parliament votes the deal down, what is your contingency plan?\n\nI have always believed that if the only way to deliver Brexit was through no deal, then I would pursue that.\n\nBut I would not pursue no deal, with all the risks it involves, if there was the chance of a good deal.\n\nWhat I would not do is set a hard stop on 31 October by which we would be forced into no deal, even if it meant an election and Jeremy Corbyn in No 10.\n\nWhat would you do if your contingency plan fails?\n\nI started my own business and negotiated for every day of my professional life - I am wholly focused on making sure it succeeds.\n\nIf you had to make a choice between an election and another referendum, which would you choose?\n\nWe have to give the country better choices than these, and as an experienced negotiator who understands European leaders, I am best placed to do that.\n\nWould you campaign to leave or stay in the EU in another referendum?\n\nWe don't want another referendum, but if there was one I would vote to leave. The people have decided and the democratic risk of not delivering their decision is colossal. We have to get on with it and that's exactly what I would do.\n\nHow will you get a deal agreed with the EU?\n\nWe need to focus on the one thing that's needed to get a deal through Parliament: alternative arrangements to the backstop.\n\nAnd we need to work with Ireland - the key player in this - to deliver those arrangements, beginning with a bold offer to pick up their costs for technological solutions.\n\nHow would you get the deal through Parliament?\n\nParliament has already voted for the current withdrawal agreement with changes to the backstop. That's why it's what I'd focus on securing with the EU.\n\nIf Parliament votes the deal down, what is your contingency plan?\n\nWe need to leave the EU on 31 October. I am confident we can agree a deal - and Parliament will support what it has already voted for in the past.\n\nBut if it comes to a choice between no deal, and no Brexit, I would have to back no deal.\n\nWhat would you do if your contingency plan fails?\n\nNo deal is the default if Parliament cannot agree a deal - and I would make sure we are fully prepared for it.\n\nBut we have to be honest about what the choice is. We cannot accept no Brexit as an outcome.\n\nSo either we agree a deal, or leave without one on 31 October.\n\nIf you had to make a choice between an election and another referendum, which would you choose?\n\nWe can't reduce this debate to false choices. We've asked the public too many times already for their views on Brexit.\n\nOnce should have been enough. They want us to get on with it now. Asking yet again would risk irreparable damage to trust in our democracy.\n\nWould you campaign to leave or stay in the EU in another referendum?\n\nI've been clear we need to get on with Brexit - no second referendum.\n\nThe people delivered a clear instruction to the British people, and as I said at the time it is our job as elected politicians to deliver it, however we voted at the time.\n\nHow will you get a deal agreed with the EU?\n\nIt's clear that the prime minister's deal is dead - having been rejected by Parliament three times.\n\nWe should have come out by March and both of the main political parties are paying the price for failing to do so. We now need to make sure we come out on 31 October, come what may, and we need to show that we are serious about leaving with no deal.\n\nTo be clear, I don't want no deal, but it's only by being serious you can be confident of getting a new, better deal.\n\nHow would you get the deal through Parliament?\n\nParliament has already made clear that it is willing to vote for a better deal, and last week made clear that it wasn't willing to take no deal off the table.\n\nI am confident that, so long as we can address MPs' concerns with the old withdrawal agreement, we can strike a new deal that Parliament will want to vote for.\n\nIf Parliament votes the deal down, what is your contingency plan?\n\nI am not planning for failure. Politics has changed since 29 March, and I believe that MPs now realise they need to deliver on the result of the referendum, or risk a devastating breach in public confidence in our politics.\n\nWhat would you do if your contingency plan fails?\n\nAgain, I am not planning for failure. We must deliver on the democratic wishes of the British people.\n\nIf you had to make a choice between an election and another referendum, which would you choose?\n\nNeither. It's clear that the public doesn't want to us to force them to vote again.\n\nWould you campaign to leave or stay in the EU in another referendum?\n\nLeave, but there isn't going to be another referendum if I become prime minister.\n\nHow will you get a deal agreed with the EU?\n\nI would not negotiate a new deal with the EU. I would take through the deal we have already got.\n\nPretending that we can get a different deal out of Brussels is simply a recipe for more uncertainty and delay.\n\nHow would you get the deal through Parliament?\n\nAll deals have to go through Parliament. The current deal has 270 votes. We need 45 more.\n\nThe European Elections are an electric shock which will make MPs determined to get Brexit done. There is only one door - Parliament. And one key - getting a majority.\n\nIf Parliament votes the deal down, what is your contingency plan?\n\nMy plan B would be a Brexit Assembly. It worked in Ireland to resolve the impasse on abortion.\n\nWhile Parliament will always remain sovereign, the Assembly would present a clear recommendation on the best way forward to break the deadlock.\n\nWhat would you do if your contingency plan fails?\n\nIn the end I - like everyone else - would have to return to getting a deal through Parliament. Parliament is sovereign. It is the only law-making body in the country.\n\nIf you had to make a choice between an election and another referendum, which would you choose?\n\nWe will only have to face that hideous choice in the future if we fail to engage with reality now.\n\nAs leader I would avoid both by getting a deal through Parliament.\n\nI do not want to see a general election until 2022, and I think a second referendum would be deeply damaging to this country as well as to faith in our democracy.\n\nWould you campaign to leave or stay in the EU in another referendum?\n\nIt's because I am the only candidate engaging with the reality of delivering on the result of the first referendum that I can confidently say we won't be having a second.", "Young people are growing up with a \"warped view of what is normal because so much of what they see on social media is false\", says Damian Hinds.\n\nThe education secretary wants \"fewer selfies\" and more \"authenticity\".\n\nHe warned of the risk of online bullying and the pressure of \"negative body images\" on social media.\n\nAn international report this week showed England's schools had the worst problem with cyber-bullying out of 48 countries.\n\nMr Hinds says he wants social media companies, celebrities and online influencers to \"take their responsibility more seriously\" in protecting young people from bullying or harmful content on the internet.\n\nHe pointed to a report from the OECD think tank on Wednesday which showed head teachers in England were more likely to face problems with online bullying than in any other developed country.\n\nIn England, 27% of school heads had to deal every week with the consequences of cyber-bullying among pupils, compared with an international average of 3%.\n\nThe OECD's education director, Andreas Schleicher, said it was not right to expect head teachers to cope with pressures from the misuse of social media. There needed to be clearer regulations to support schools.\n\nDamian Hinds is warning about the impact of an online culture of selfies and fake images\n\n\"I don't think it's something we can ignore and let individual schools sort out,\" said Mr Schleicher.\n\nMr Hinds called for social media celebrities to think more about \"what they are putting on their platform. Is it honest? Is it authentic? Is it too image focused?\"\n\nHe said the round-the-clock presence of mobile phones added to the pressure and that no one was \"immune from online cruelty\".\n\n\"All bullying is shameful but cyber-bullying is particularly cowardly and pernicious,\" said the education secretary.\n\nBut he said lessons about relationships, which will become part of the curriculum next year, will teach young people about the \"importance of safe and acceptable behaviour online\".", "Former MP Harvey Proctor has been giving evidence as a witness in the trial of Carl Beech\n\nA former MP broke down in court as he recalled being named a child murderer and paedophile by a man later charged with lying over the claims.\n\nHarvey Proctor was giving evidence as a witness in the trial of Carl Beech, 51, who has been accused of lying to police about an alleged VIP paedophile ring.\n\nMr Beech denies 12 counts of perverting the course of justice and one of fraud.\n\nHe had claimed Mr Proctor was directly involved in two murders and multiple counts of abuse in the 1970s and 1980s.\n\nGiving evidence at Newcastle Crown Court, Mr Proctor was asked by prosecutor Tony Badenoch QC how he felt about being accused of \"the murder of children and of sadistic sexual offending\".\n\nThe former Conservative MP replied: \"The allegations are wrong, malicious, false, horrendous.\"\n\nMr Beech, from Gloucester, was known by the name \"Nick\" when his claims were first reported in the media.\n\nHe is on trial accused of lying about being sexually abused by a group of well-known figures from politics, the media and intelligence. He also told police he had witnessed three boys being murdered.\n\nHis claims led to the Metropolitan Police's Operation Midland, which cost £2m and ended without any charges.\n\nCarl Beech, pictured in a 2014 police interview, denies fraud and perverting the course of justice\n\nAs well as Mr Proctor, among the people he accused of being in a paedophile ring were former prime minister Sir Edward Heath and former Home Secretary Lord Brittan.\n\nMr Proctor told the court he had a hostile relationship with Sir Edward - describing them as \"the antithesis of friends\" and neither was welcome at the other's home.\n\nJurors had previously heard how Mr Beech claimed he was let into a Conservative gentlemen's club - the Carlton Club - by Mr Proctor, and was then abused.\n\nMr Proctor said he had \"never met Nick\" and the allegations were \"an absurd fantasy\".\n\nHe told jurors: \"He is wrong. He is bearing false witness. There was no Westminster VIP paedophile ring.\"\n\nHarvey Proctor giving evidence as Carl Beech looks on\n\nJurors heard that Mr Proctor's home in Leicestershire was raided by police on 4 March 2015. He was living and working at the Belvoir Castle estate at the time, having left Parliament in 1987.\n\nDetectives did not disclose the details of the allegations against him during the 15-hour search, Mr Proctor said.\n\nHe became tearful when he described waking the next morning to discover the BBC reporting news about his home being searched in relation to claims of abuse and murder.\n\n\"I looked up at the television to see my face looking back at me\", he said, adding he then called the Radio 4 Today programme and said publicly - during a radio interview - that he had been plunged into a \"horrendous irrational nightmare\" and \"was not guilty of any of the allegations\".\n\nMr Proctor said intense media interest following the police raid led to him losing his job. He then decided he \"wasn't safe\" in the UK and moved to Spain, the court heard.\n\nHe told jurors that \"the Metropolitan Police believed the allegations against me were credible and true\".\n\nThe witness said a senior Met officer - Det Supt Kenny MacDonald - had given a press conference early in the inquiry and described the claims in such terms.\n\n\"I thought it was an extraordinary statement to be made by any police officer at the start of a police investigation\", he said, adding that he had not realised the detective was talking about him when he first saw it.\n\nHe returned to the UK to be interviewed by police on 18 June 2015. In the days beforehand, his solicitors showed him a document setting out the claims that detectives wanted to ask about: three allegations of murder and several allegations of sexual abuse of children.\n\nJurors have previously been shown a video in which the defendant told detectives he saw Mr Proctor strangle and stab a boy to death during a sadistic sexual abuse session.\n\nMr Beech also said Mr Proctor had been involved in the murder of another unknown child.\n\n\"These were horrendous, horrible, heinous allegations,\" Mr Proctor said. \"These are the worst things that one person can say against another. It was all untrue.\"\n\nHe said he was \"relieved\" to finally know what he was accused of so that he could \"fight back against these false allegations\".\n\nThe trial will continue on Friday.", "German battleships sinking off the island of Fara\n\nIn waters off Orkney a century ago, 52 German warships were sunk in one day - but this huge naval loss was not inflicted by enemy forces.\n\nInstead the scuttling of the German High Seas Fleet in Scapa Flow was a deliberate act of sabotage ordered by a commander who refused to let his ships become the spoils of war.\n\nIt was the single greatest loss of warships in history and the nine German sailors killed that day were the last to die during World War One. The final peace treaty was signed just a week later.\n\nAfter the fighting in WW1 ended in November 1918, the entire German fleet was ordered to gather together in the Firth of Forth, near Edinburgh, to be \"interned\" by Allied forces.\n\nThe battlecruiser Derflinger just four minutes before it disappeared beneath the surface\n\nNine German battleships, five battlecruisers, seven light cruisers and 49 destroyers - the most modern ships of the German High Seas Fleet - were handed over to the victorious forces off the east of Scotland.\n\nWithin a week, the 70 German ships were escorted to the sheltered waters of Scapa Flow, off Orkney, where they and four other vessels were held while the details of the peace talks were worked out.\n\nThe final decision on their fate was to be taken at Versailles, but until then German sailors were kept on board their ships in the vast natural harbour. At Versailles, the victorious powers wrangled over what to do with the ships. Britain and the US wanted them destroyed. The French and Italians thought it better to share them out between the Allies.\n\nThe fleet was in Scapa Flow for seven months before it was scuttled\n\n\"The ships were not actually surrendered and that's why there were no British troops on board them to prevent them being scuttled,\" Tom Muir from Orkney Museum told BBC Radio Scotland's When the Fleet Went Down. \"They were German government property and remained that throughout their time here.\"\n\nThe German commander, Admiral Ludwig von Reuter, was not kept informed of what was happening outside of his ships. He had to rely on briefings from British commanders and old copies of the Times newspaper, according to Tom Muir.\n\nThe peace talks had been intended to conclude on 21 June but the deadline was extended. As far as von Reuter knew the talks had failed and he was fully expecting his ships to be boarded and seized by the Royal Navy. The German admiral felt duty-bound not to let that happen.\n\nMr Muir says: \"Von Reuter had already sent letters around the commanders of the ships telling them that he was planning to have the fleet scuttled at his signal. Ironically it was the British drifters who were carting those letters around to the officers on the other ships.\"\n\nOn the morning of 21 June 1919, the British fleet took advantage of good weather to steam out of the harbour on exercise. At 10:30, von Reuter's flagship, Emden, sent out the seemingly innocuous message - \"Paragraph Eleven; confirm\". It was a code ordering his men to scuttle their own ships.\n• None 7months after the end of World War One\n\nThe \"paragraph eleven\" signal, using semaphore and searchlights, took a while to reach all the ships because they were positioned right across the vast flow. \"They would have waited and like a wave it went through the ships from north to south,\" says Mr Muir.\n\nBeneath decks, German sailors began to open seacocks - valves that allow water in - and smash pipes. Mr Muir says: \"They had all been deliberately flooded from one side first so that they would turn over and sink because they believed it would make it more difficult for them to salvage them.\"\n\nAt first it was not clear what was happening and it took a couple of hours before it became apparent that the Germans had deliberately sunk their ships.\n\nThe German sailors took to small boats to escape their sinking ships as the few remaining British sailors onboard Royal Navy drifters, small vessels about the size of fishing trawlers which often escorted destroyers, tried to work out what to do.\n\nThe only civilian witnesses were schoolchildren from Stromness who were on a trip to view the German fleet onboard a water tender.\n\nOne of the schoolchildren, 12-year-old Leslie Thorpe, wrote that one German boat full of fleeing soldiers did not have a white flag and the British fired on it with a machine gun.\n\n\"The one thing that should not be forgotten is men died that day,\" says Mr Muir. \"We see all these images and it is just a huge piece of metal rolling over in the sea and sinking and you forget about the cost in human terms.\n\n\"The men in the drifters were ordered to open fire on the defenceless German sailors. They had no weapons, they were not allowed them and they didn't have any.\"\n\nIt is believed nine Germans died as a result of the actions that day.\n\nBy 17:00, most of the German High Seas Fleet had disappeared beneath the surface of Scapa Flow. The Hindenburg, the biggest German battlecruiser, was the last to sink.\n\nDuring the 1920s and '30s many of the 52 ships were lifted from the sea bed by commercial contractors and broken up.\n\nThe seven wrecks that remain are now classed as scheduled monuments, nationally important archaeological sites given protection against unauthorised change. Earlier this week it emerged that four of the vessels, which are now owned by a retired diving contractor, are being sold on eBay.\n\n\"The scuttling of the German fleet removed them from being a bargaining chip in peace negotiations but it was seen as a hostile act by the British,\" says Mr Muir. \"In Germany it was seen as a way of restoring some honour. The navy had not let the ships fall into enemy hands.\"\n\nA senior German officer declared at the time that this act had wiped away the \"stain of surrender\" from the German fleet.\n\nWhen the Fleet Went Down: Scapa Flow @100 is on BBC Radio Scotland at 11:30 on Friday 21 June", "Government inspectors said Greater Manchester relied on Merseyside fire crews to be mobilised in order for it to deal with a marauding terrorist attack\n\nLives could be at greater risk if Manchester is targeted by terrorists because it no longer has a specialist fire service unit, a watchdog says.\n\nConcerns about Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service's (GMFRS) ability to respond to attacks were raised by government inspectors.\n\nThe chief fire officer said it only applied to a marauding firearms attack.\n\nEmployers and the government were to blame for a dispute that sparked the closure of the unit, union bosses said.\n\nThe FBU said specially-trained firefighters who were in the unit would previously have been able to enter an area where an attacker had been which was in a police cordon.\n\nIn an event of this kind GMFRS would rely on fire crews from neighbouring Merseyside to attend the incident, inspectors said.\n\nHer Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services said GMFRS had not had the capability to respond to some terror-related incidents since before Christmas because of the dispute.\n\nInspector of fire and rescue Zoe Billingham said it could take up to an an hour for firefighters coming from Merseyside to be mobilised and provide specialist support in Greater Manchester.\n\n\"The delay in any emergency service responding to a terror attack could very well cost lives,\" she said.\n\nJim Wallace, chief fire officer, said crews in Greater Manchester could respond to all other forms of terror attack.\n\n\"It is important to stress that this applies to a very specific type of terrorist incident which is thankfully extremely rare,\" he said.\n\n\"But if it happens in Greater Manchester, we have a contingency in place where we can call on the support of colleagues on Merseyside in addition to our usual operational response.\"\n\nHe also said the dispute with the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) was on a national level, \"which is why we were unable to resolve it locally\".\n\nAcross England and Wales, hundreds of firefighters have been specially trained and equipped to deal with a marauding gun attack.\n\nThey'd be expected to put out fires and recover bodies in so-called 'warm zones' where terror activity has stopped but risks remain.\n\nIn Greater Manchester, however, a dispute between the Fire Brigades Union and employers led to the unit being disbanded about six months ago.\n\nThe FBU said there needed to be \"much wider planning\" for such terror attacks.\n\nGeneral secretary Matt Wrack said: \"We have been willing to take the necessary steps to bring firefighters in to the aftermath of terrorist incidents, with the essential protections in place.\n\n\"Responsibility for the delay in resolving this rests entirely with fire service employers and central Government who have been complacent throughout these discussions.\"\n\nA Home Office spokesman said the government was aware of the concerns around GMFRS.\n\n\"We are... working with them to reinstate a specialist team that will provide an immediate response to a terror attack with support from neighbouring services,\" he said.\n\nAny improvements required would be considered \"very seriously\" and all services would be expected to \"make the necessary changes\", the spokesman added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Both Jeremy Hunt and Michael Gove believe they can join Boris Johnson in the final two\n\nAfter nine days and three rounds, it's almost decision time.\n\nTory MPs will vote, and vote again - perhaps up to late on Thursday night - until there are only two men left.\n\nBarring some bizarre implosion, one of them is certain to be Boris Johnson - the politician who despite the wilful rollercoaster, has come determinedly back from the political brink.\n\nFor many months he was down, but evidently, never truly out. The contest to take him on is fluid and real.\n\nBackers of Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt hope and still believe it could be his comparative sobriety and experience that see him through - the reassuring Home Counties pick to soothe the fevered brows of those who worry about Mr Johnson.\n\nFans of Michael Gove reckon his pitch as a pragmatic Brexiteer and his determination to pursue clever, if controversial reform, should see him on the ballot.\n\nYet Home Secretary Sajid Javid's team are adamant the race is suddenly interesting again, his candidacy a chance for the Tory party to move onto a next generation and to convey a different offer to a party that's been so hampered by divisions born in the past.\n\nSajid Javid is positioning himself as the change candidate as the contest nears its end\n\nIt's hard to read. Not just because the number of votes cast for them each don't put impossible distance between the three. Supporters of the dropout, Rory Stewart, won't automatically split evenly between the group.\n\nAnd while they'll all deny it, conversations between the camps over different alliances will inevitably take place about whether they could join collective forces.\n\nFor some, the other member of the final pair has to be a Brexiteer to appeal to Tory members. Others fear a repeat of 2016's Johnson-Gove melodrama, a senior member of the government warning it would sow yet more seeds of bitterness and \"destroy the next government\".\n\nThe appeal of Mr Hunt's perceived competence is strong for his backers but might pale in comparison to a rival whose baggage and bravado might block out the sun.\n\nMr Javid is more able to convey a message that the party's ready to change, but maybe right now lacks the capacity to communicate with vigour what he is really about.\n\nNone of them, of course, will want to be the first to fold. It's not just that they might not be ready to give up their ambition, but how any choice to withdraw influences their own future.\n\nThis is not though just a contest, a decision for 313 individuals. Their choice will decide who has the chance to take on, and heal the scars in the warring Conservative party.\n\nBut also crucially who is allowed to try to lead Parliament out of Brexit's painful maze. And most importantly, who will shape the country for every one of us.\n\nWhoever joins Mr Johnson in the final two, they'll spend the next few weeks vying to inherit a political system that's bruised and battered, where maybe not much makes sense anymore.\n\nIt's an unenviable task - yet for politicians, the greatest privilege and responsibility of all.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson, Jeremy Hunt and Michael Gove are voted through to the final round of the Tory leadership race\n\nSajid Javid has been knocked out of the Tory leadership race, leaving three contenders vying for the job and to be the next prime minister.\n\nThe home secretary received 34 votes, coming behind Jeremy Hunt with 59.\n\nMichael Gove received 61 votes, leapfrogging Mr Hunt to gain second place; while frontrunner Boris Johnson got 157 votes from MPs.\n\nMPs have voted in a fifth ballot to select the final two candidates.\n\nThe remaining two MPs will compete in a run-off of the party's 160,000 or so members, and the winner will be announced in the week of 22 July.\n\nThe BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg said: \"The question is now, where do Mr Javid's votes go? His supporters have been an interesting mixed bag so it is not easy to read where they go.\"\n\nMr Javid is not expected to endorse anyone publicly this afternoon.\n\nLeader of the Scottish Conservatives Ruth Davidson - a key supporter of Sajid Javid - said she now wanted Mr Gove in the final two, describing him as \"smart, articulate and always on top of detail\". Ms Davidson is not an MP and therefore does not get a vote in the fifth ballot.\n\nMr Javid said he was \"truly humbled by the support I have received\".\n\n\"If my ambition and conduct in this contest has set an example for anyone, then it has been more than worth it,\" he said. \"These are very challenging times ahead for our party and our government... the Conservatives must continue to be a broad church.\"\n\nAddressing his comments to \"kids who look and feel a bit different to their classmates\" he said: \"Don't let anyone try and cut you down to size or say you aren't a big enough figure to aim high.\n\n\"You have as much right as anyone to a seat at the top table.\"\n\nMr Johnson, a former Foreign Secretary, said he was \"incredibly grateful\" for the support of more than half of all Conservative MP, adding that \"we have much more work to do\".\n\nEnvironment Secretary Mr Gove jumped into second place, overtaking Foreign Secretary Mr Hunt, who had been second in each of the three previous rounds of voting.\n\nMr Gove said he was \"absolutely delighted\" adding: \"If I make the final two I look forward to having a civilised debate of ideas about the future of our country.\"\n\nMr Hunt said: \"The critical decision now for all colleagues is what choice do we present to the country.\n\n\"Choose me for unity over division, and I will put Boris through his paces and then bring our party and country back together.\"\n\nA source close to Mr Hunt told the BBC: \"Boris and Michael are great candidates but we have seen their personal psychodrama before. Jeremy Hunt is the candidate who can best unify the party.\"\n\nOf the 313 Conservative MPs who voted, there were two spoilt ballots.", "Bank of England Governor Mark Carney gave Facebook's proposed digital currency Libra a cautious welcome in a major speech on Thursday.\n\nHe said it could substantially lower costs and increase financial inclusion, but needs regulation.\n\nMr Carney also announced that non-banks will be able to hold Bank of England accounts.\n\nAnd he highlighted climate and sustainability concerns.\n\nMark Carney has given a swift and positive reaction to Facebook's plan, unveiled just last week, and one that will no doubt please Mark Zuckerberg and the rest of the Libra members.\n\nHowever, while Mr Carney said he has an open mind, he is not offering an open door.\n\nUnlike social media, where regulation is struggling to catch up after its mass adoption by billions of users, Mr Carney promised to make sure regulation to protect against risks including data privacy and money laundering is ready in advance.\n\nLibra is intended to be a currency that can be transferred via social media with its value based on a basket of real life currencies rather than the so-called crypto currencies whose value is not linked to existing exchange rates.\n\nLibra, said Mr Carney, could be systemically important - and will be regulated accordingly.\n\nThe Libra Association said it was \"committed to fostering a secure network\" with anti-money laundering and anti-fraud programmes. It added that the association would not hold personal data.\n\nThis is a significant speech in many ways and may be looked back on as the time the fusty old bank of England really donned its digital trousers.\n\nLess headline-grabbing than Facebook but arguably more important was the announcement that the Bank of England will allow non-banks to have an account with them.\n\nAll the commercial banks we as customers bank with have their own account at the Bank of England where they store their reserves.\n\nAllowing non-banks - for example payment companies like Square and Worldpay - to have their own account could make payments faster, cheaper, more reliable and more available to people outside the traditional banking system.\n\nWhen I asked Bank officials what the existing High Street banks thought of this - there were some wry smiles - one said \"I'm sure they will have a point of view and will want to express it\".\n\nThe Bank will also lay some of the groundwork for an open platform for small business financing, Mr Carney said.\n\nThe governor said the most important future risk was that posed by climate change.\n\nThis is a favourite subject of his and the Bank of England will be among the first regulators in the world to include the cost of future climate change (floods, droughts, crop failures, property damage) when it assesses whether financial institutions are strong enough to survive a crisis.\n\nMark Carney has just over six months left in the job.\n\nWith this speech he laid out a way to future proof the financial system he has overseen for nearly a decade.", "Iran has \"made a very big mistake\" in shooting down a military surveillance drone, President Donald Trump says.", "All eight films in the Harry Potter series were shot at the facility near Watford\n\nA man has been bailed after an incident at Warner Brothers Studios that left another man in hospital with a neck injury.\n\nA spokesperson for Hertfordshire Constabulary said the 54-year-old was \"arrested on suspicion of wounding with intent to do grievous bodily harm\".\n\nPolice told the BBC in a statement that a man in his 40s had sustained a small laceration to his neck.\n\nAn ambulance took him to hospital and he was later released after treatment.\n\nThe arrested man was released on bail until Wednesday 17 July.\n\nThey were \"known to each other,\" said police, adding that enquiries are continuing.\n\nEight films in the Harry Potter series were shot at the studios in Leavesden, and part of the lot is now taken by the Making of Harry Potter tourist attraction.\n\nA spokesperson for Warner Brothers said: \"I can confirm that there was an isolated workplace incident at the Warner Brothers studio production facility and the police are now handling the matter.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nScotland are out of the Women's World Cup after a twice-taken added-time penalty gave Argentina a dramatic draw.\n\nThe Scots needed to win and Kim Little turned in their opener with Jen Beattie and Erin Cuthbert netting from corners.\n\nIt was 3-2 after Milagros Menendez scored and a Florencia Bonsegundo shot went in via the bar and Lee Alexander.\n\nA VAR-awarded spot-kick taken by Bonsegundo was saved by Alexander but she was off her line and, agonisingly, the striker scored second time around.\n\nWith 16 minutes to play, Shelley Kerr's Scots were on course to be one of the four best third-placed sides going into Thursday's final fixtures in Groups E and F but Argentina's recovery consigned the Scots to bottom place in Group D.\n\nAnd Scotland captain Rachel Corsie was unhappy that referee Hyang-ok Ri allowed an Argentina free-kick to be taken while substitute Fiona Brown was coming on, with another substitute, Sophie Howard, ultimately penalised for her challenge on Aldana Cometti.\n• None Who did you vote player of the match?\n\nFor the third match running, Scotland conceded a penalty that cost them points.\n\nTheir opening two defeats by England and Japan had followed a similar pattern - two goals down including a spot-kick by half-time and a late rally producing a consolation goal.\n\nThe players and Kerr had spoken of the need to start the game on the front foot and that intent was clear as Cuthbert volleyed wide in the first minute.\n\nScotland's play was less nervous than it had been in the first two games but they were dealt a real scare when Mariana Larroquette headed against the crossbar from Bonsegundo's cross and Alexander had be alert to block Sole Jaimes' shot in the aftermath.\n\nThe Scots' response was brave, bold and ultimately rewarded. Cuthbert forced her way through the Argentina defence to shoot from the inside left channel and though Vanina Correa saved, Cuthbert had the presence of mind to turn the ball back for the outstretched foot of Little to touch home her 54th international strike.\n\nThe goal had come at a good time, just as Argentina were growing into the game, and the second prevented Carlos Borrello's side building any momentum at the start of the second period.\n\nCaroline Weir's initial delivery from a corner was poor but the ball was recycled and the Manchester City midfielder floated the ball perfectly on to the head of Arsenal-bound Beattie, who found the net for a 23rd time on Scotland duty.\n\nThe Scots were not content to sit on their lead and Cuthbert was not prepared to give Argentina's backline a minute's peace, forcing Correa to turn wide after another driving run.\n\nAnd the Chelsea forward got the goal her performance deserved when she tucked in the rebound after Correa had turned Leanne Crichton's header on to the post.\n\nHowever, the turning point came when Dalila Ippolito fed fellow substitute Menendez to finish calmly past Alexander before Bonsegundo's shot hit the bar and evaded the Scotland goalkeeper over the line.\n\nWith stoppage time came more twists and turns and a cruel end for Scotland.\n\nHoward tripped Cometti and the referee was advised to view the incident again. She pointed to the spot and Bonsegundo's shot was blocked by Alexander.\n\nBut VAR was called into play again with Alexander judged not to have had at least one foot touching the goalline when the kick was taken and Bonsegundo fired in the retake.\n\nThe match had already surpassed the suggested four minutes of added time and finished with a whimper with the players initially not realising the final whistle had blown as the assistant referees came on the to pitch.\n\nFormer Scotland goalkeeper Gemma Fay on BBC Four\n\nIt has to be heartbreaking. As a goalkeeper, you take your cues from the body of the striker - the way in which they plant their foot beside the ball and if they open their hips or if they don't open their hips tells you where they're going to go.\n\nLee has trained for 27 years in that way and now at a World Cup we're saying, 'no, you can't train that way, you have to train a completely different way'. It's ridiculous. I think we're going to have this World Cup decided by VAR with inexperienced officials who haven't had the ability or opportunity with this and I think that's wrong. Football should decide this World Cup, not VAR.\n\nLittle, Beattie and Cuthbert got the goals but Weir's class was every bit as vital to Scotland's periods of dominance.\n\nThe midfielder's use of the ball in both halves gave Scotland momentum and she had a hand in two of the goals.\n• None This was the first meeting between the sides.\n• None Scotland picked up their first point at a World Cup.\n• None Argentina's three goals were their first of the tournament.\n• None The Scots had five different scorers in France, each scoring once.\n• None Argentina were the only team ranked lower than Scotland in Group D.\n• None Goal! Scotland 3, Argentina 3. Flor Bonsegundo (Argentina) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the centre of the goal.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Penalty conceded by Sophie Howard (Scotland) after a foul in the penalty area.\n• None Caroline Weir (Scotland) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n\nBBC Sport has launched #ChangeTheGame this summer to showcase female athletes in a way they never have been before. Through more live women's sport available to watch across the BBC this summer, complemented by our journalism, we are aiming to turn up the volume on women's sport and alter perceptions. Find out more here.", "John Worboys was jailed in 2009 for a string of sex attacks on women in his taxi\n\n\"Black cab rapist\" John Worboys has admitted attacks on four more women.\n\nThe 62-year-old taxi driver was jailed in 2009 for a string of sex assaults on 12 victims in London.\n\nHe pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey to administering a drug with the intention of carrying out indecent assaults, rape or sexual activity on four women, and will be sentenced on 2 September.\n\nWorboys, from Enfield, targeted women who hailed his cab and drugged them in order to sexually assault them.\n\nThe defendant, who now uses the name John Derek Radford, was jailed for at least eight years after his first trial for the attacks carried out between 2006 and 2008.\n\nA previous hearing in the latest case was told one victim hailed Worboys' taxi in London's West End in 2000 or 2001.\n\nProsecutors said the defendant told her he had won money on the horses before offering her champagne laced with drugs. She awoke the next day naked and with no memory of what happened after accepting the drink.\n\nWorboys would win victims' trust before pouring them a glass of drug-laced alcohol\n\nThe second complainant was a university student targeted in 2003 after leaving a nightclub on New Oxford Street, in \"an identical method to not only the first count, but a number of previous convictions and allegations three and four\", the court heard.\n\nPolice believe Worboys may have carried out more than 100 rapes and sexual assaults. He was told after his first trial he would be held in custody as long as he was deemed a danger to the public.\n\nLast year, the Parole Board ruled he should remain in prison citing his \"sense of sexual entitlement\" and desire to control women.\n\nOne of his two victims who won a High Court ruling preventing Warboys' release said she was \"completely in shock\" at his guilty plea.\n\n\"Whilst I can't help being cynical about his motives, I am pleased that his victims have been saved the trauma of a court case,\" she said.\n\nAlthough the Parole Board had already decided that in November after reconsidering his case on the orders of the High Court, these convictions are almost certain to lead to him serving much longer behind bars; he may even get a life sentence.\n\nThat's important for his victims and for public safety.\n\nBut his guilty pleas - two of which relate to offences between 2000 and 2003 - are also significant because they prove the former cab driver's crimes stretched further back than he had previously admitted.\n\nWorboys told the parole panel which originally sanctioned his release that his offending started towards the end of 2006, triggered by the breakdown of a relationship.\n\nIn the words of Phillippa Kaufmann, the barrister who led the legal challenge, Worboys' account of his criminal behaviour has now been \"entirely undermined\".\n\nWorboys admitted two counts of administering a stupefying or overpowering drug with intent to commit rape or indecent assault and two of administering a substance with intent to commit a sexual offence.\n\nGregor McGill, legal director of the Crown Prosecution Service, described Worboys as a \"sexual predator\".\n\nHe said: \"Worboys has left countless victims feeling traumatised, anxious and violated. His modus operandi will be familiar to any victim unfortunate enough to cross his path.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "If you are looking for drama, the Conservative Party rarely disappoints.\n\nIf you are looking for stability these days, that's a different matter.\n\nTo absolutely no one's surprise, Boris Johnson's march to Number 10 has taken a giant stride.\n\nLove him or loathe him, he is the biggest political star in this contest, and he persuaded his colleagues by a handsome margin that he's meant for the highest office in the land.\n\nThe number of votes he received increased again, up to 160 this time, more than half of the parliamentary party.\n\nThe gasps in central lobby when the result emerged though were not because of his stellar lead, but down to the wafer-thin margin in the race to be his challenger.\n\nEnvironment Secretary Michael Gove, Mr Johnson's companion on the referendum campaign trail before he sabotaged his leadership bid, received 75 votes.\n\nThat's quite something when you consider just 10 days ago he was under the cosh over revelations of taking cocaine when he was working as a journalist.\n\nBut Jeremy Hunt, the former Remainer and current Foreign Secretary, won 77 votes - so close you can almost hear the squeak.\n\nNow, there's no doubt that Mr Johnson is, at this stage (and there's a long way to go), widely expected to end up in Number 10.\n\nBut this result is an enormous relief to his camp, for the simple reason that they think Mr Hunt is easier to beat.\n\nForget any differences in style between the two challengers and their comparative talents - Jeremy Hunt voted Remain in the EU referendum.\n\nAnd for many Tory members it is a priority for the next leader to have been committed to that cause, rather than a recent convert, however zealous.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson, Jeremy Hunt and Michael Gove are voted through to the final round of the Tory leadership race\n\nOf course, pay attention to recent political history. Upsets are the norm. Outsiders become insiders. Strange things happen, and that's before you price in Mr Johnson's ability to cause havoc for himself.\n\nBut this result has left Mr Johnson's camp hugely relieved.\n\nOne of his most committed backers was laughing with joy and savouring not a little bit of revenge when I talked to them.\n\nMemories and suspicion linger long around here. And the narrow margin between Mr Gove and Mr Hunt has created doubts of its own.\n\nRumours are swirling that Mr Johnson's camp were engaged in skulduggery all day, that they would have pushed some of their own supporters to back Mr Hunt, to try to stop Mr Gove from coming second.\n\nThe message from on high in Mr Johnson's campaign is that the candidate himself was clear that absolutely must not happen, that he'd frown on any attempt to engineer the result.\n\nEyebrows have been raised, though. At least four of Sajid Javid's supporters declared online they would switch their support to Mr Johnson. But his actual tally only went up by three in the final ballot.\n\nWere their arms twisted to \"lend\" their actual votes to Mr Hunt to keep Mr Gove off the ballot?\n\nOne member of the cabinet said there had been \"more churn than a washing machine\". It was a secret ballot, so we will never know exactly what happened. But corralling votes is the fundamental art of getting politics done.\n\nBut now this episode is over, we know which pair of politicians will vie to run the country.\n\nThe favourite, a public school and Oxford-educated former cabinet minister, who has survived more serious scrapes than Theresa May's had hot dinners.\n\nThe other, a millionaire public school-educated Oxford graduate, who's been in the cabinet for nearly a decade who tonight, has branded himself \"the underdog\".\n\nAnd remember it's Tory members, not the rest of us, who'll make the final call.", "Shares in Dixons Carphone have plunged after it reported a full-year loss and said its mobile phone arm would make a \"significant loss\" this year.\n\nThe retailer lost £259m in the year to 27 April, compared with a pre-tax profit of £289m last year.\n\nIn December, the retailer wrote down the value of its mobile business, Carphone Warehouse.\n\nOne analyst said the division was \"on life support\" in an \"evolving\" mobile market.\n\nIt has suffered because people are renewing their handsets less often and demand for mobile contracts is down.\n\nLast year, it announced the closure of 92 of its 700 stores.\n\nThe company - which also owns the Currys PC World chain - added that it was set to take \"more pain\" in the coming year amid \"a deterioration in the forecast performance of the UK and Ireland mobile business\".\n\nHaving plunged by about a quarter at the start of trading, Dixons Carphone shares recovered some ground to trade about 12% lower.\n\nGroup chief executive Alex Baldock said the UK mobile market was \"changing in the way we described in December, but doing so faster\".\n\n\"So, we're moving faster to respond.\"\n\nHe said the company had renegotiated all its legacy network contracts with mobile operators, developed a new \"customer offer\" and was accelerating the combination of its mobile and electrical goods businesses.\n\n\"This means taking more pain in the coming year, when mobile will make a significant loss,\" he said.\n\nHowever, he added: \"We expect mobile will at least break even within two years, and beyond that, equipped with a stronger and unconstrained offer, we will of course aim to do better.\"\n\nRichard Hunter, head of markets at Interactive Investor, said the \"rapidly evolving\" nature of the mobile business had \"threatened to leave Dixons behind\".\n\n\"The mobile business in particular is on life support, draining capital and resources prior to its integration with the electricals business.\"\n\nThe loss reported by Dixons Carphone was mainly due to one-off charges of £557m, the majority of which was caused by the writedown in the value of the Carphone Warehouse business in December.\n\nWhen the charges are stripped out, Dixon's Carphone made a profit of £298m - although that was still a 22% fall from the previous year.\n\nRevenue across the group dipped 1% to £10.43bn.\n\nThe electrical goods business gained market share in all territories, and Mr Baldock said this side of the company was expected to grow sales and headline profits this year.\n\nEmma-Lou Montgomery, associate director from Fidelity Personal Investing's share dealing service, said: \"While elsewhere in the group the five-year plan is going to plan - if not a little better - the mobile phone business is under considerable strain as customers demand flexibility, are sticking with their old phones for longer and Carphone is dragged down by binding network contracts.\"\n\nFor many years, Carphone Warehouse hasn't sold carphones in warehouses, but despite that, the company has continued to prosper. Now it is suddenly looking about as up-to-date as one of those bricks toted by Michael Douglas in Wall Street.\n\nAccording to analyst Ben Wood at CCS Insight, there's been a sudden and radical change in the way people buy mobile phones.\n\nA survey carried out by his firm found a third of consumers saying they intended to hold on to their current phones for longer than their previous handsets - even extending renewal time by a few months means a big drop in annual sales.\n\nThe UK market peaked in 2012, when 31 million were sold. This year, CCS Insight expects that to fall to below 18 million.\n\nAnd while the habit of going into a shop to research and buy a new phone has been stubbornly persistent, it is now fading. The survey showed 21% of buyers said they did absolutely no research.\n\n\"People know what they want,\" says Ben Wood. \"And in any case, all smartphones are pretty samey these days.\"\n\nWith more people buying online or direct from mobile operators, phone shops may soon be another of the High Street's endangered species.", "A UK ticketholder has come forward to claim a £123m EuroMillions prize, the third biggest amount ever to be won.\n\nCamelot said it had received a claim for the £123,458,008 jackpot, which was won by a single ticket in the draw on 11 June.\n\nThe operator had previously appealed for the winner to come forward and urged players to \"check, double-check and triple-check\" their tickets.\n\nIt is unknown if the ticketholder is a single person, a family or a syndicate.\n\nPlayers have 180 days from the day of the draw to claim a prize.\n\nIf the winner is an individual, the fortune will catapult them into the Sunday Times' Rich List of the 1,000 wealthiest people living in the UK or with British business links.\n\nAlthough EuroMillions is played in nine European countries, four of the biggest jackpots in 2019 have been claimed in the UK.\n\nPrior to this month's winning draw, the biggest prize in 2019 was in a special draw on New Year's Day.\n\nPatrick and Frances Connolly from Northern Ireland won the £114.9m prize.\n\nAde Goodchild, from Hereford, banked £71m in March and an anonymous ticket-holder bagged £35.2m in April.", "Now, there's no doubt that Boris Johnson is, at this stage (and there's a long way to go), widely expected to end up in Number 10.\n\nBut this result is an enormous relief to his camp, for the simple reason that they think Jeremy Hunt is easier to beat.\n\nForget any differences in style between the two challengers and their comparative talents - Mr Hunt voted Remain in the EU referendum.\n\nAnd for many Tory members it is a priority for the next leader to have been committed to that cause, rather than a recent convert, however zealous.\n\nOf course, pay attention to recent political history. Upsets are the norm. Outsiders become insiders. Strange things happen, and that's before you price in Mr Johnson's ability to cause havoc for himself.\n\nBut this result has left Mr Johnson's camp hugely relieved.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFour men are left in the race to be next prime minister after Rory Stewart was knocked out.\n\nThe international development secretary was eliminated after coming last with 27 votes, 10 fewer than last time.\n\nHe said his warnings about a no-deal Brexit \"probably proved to be truths people weren't quite ready to hear\".\n\nBoris Johnson topped the vote again with 143 votes, 17 more than last time. Jeremy Hunt came second with 54, Michael Gove got 51 and Sajid Javid 38.\n\nA fourth round of voting will take place on Thursday.\n\nMr Stewart started as a rank outsider in the race but gained support on the back of an unusual campaign strategy.\n\nTouring the country for pop-up meetings, which were promoted and recorded on social media, he drew large crowds and won the backing of several senior cabinet ministers.\n\nHe had accused other candidates, including Mr Johnson, of lacking realism over Brexit and making undeliverable promises.\n\nAfter his elimination, he tweeted that he had been \"inspired\" by the support he received which had rekindled his faith and belief in politics.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Rory Stewart This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Stewart's vote tally fell from Tuesday - following a live BBC TV debate in which he summed up his own performance as \"lacklustre\".\n\nThere have also been suggestions of tactical voting - \"dark arts\" as he called them - with candidates lending votes to others in order to help eliminate certain rivals.\n\nOne MP supporting Mr Stewart claimed he had been \"let down\" by \"thieving, mendacious, lying\" colleagues who had switched.\n\nFollowing his exit, Mr Stewart - MP for Penrith and The Border - told the BBC he was \"disappointed\" and believed his party \"didn't seem ready to hear his message\" about Brexit and the need to seek out the centre ground.\n\nHe said his arguments during the campaign that an alternative Brexit deal was not on offer from the EU, and a no deal would be catastrophic, were \"probably truths people were not quite ready to hear, but I still think they are truths\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe defended his attacks on Mr Johnson, saying the gravity of the situation meant it was right to warn that the frontrunner risked \"letting down\" his supporters over Brexit.\n\n\"These are the times to ask these questions, but I agree they are uncomfortable questions,\" he said.\n\n\"People felt they were exposing divisions in the party they were not comfortable with.\n\n\"My conclusion is that you don't unify a family or a party by pretending to agree when you disagree. You unify through honesty and trust.\"\n\nMr Stewart, who has ruled out serving under Mr Johnson because of their differences over Brexit, added \"I appear to have written my cabinet resignation letter.\"\n\nHe said he had not decided who to now support.\n\nHome Secretary Mr Javid, who leapfrogged Mr Stewart in Wednesday's poll after gaining five votes on his second round tally, thanked Mr Stewart for his contribution to the campaign.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Sajid Javid This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Javid said he was pleased to make it through into the next round, adding that he could provide \"constructive competition\" to frontrunner Boris Johnson if he made it into the final two.\n\n\"People are crying out for change, if we don't offer change ourselves, they'll vote for change in the form of Corbyn - and I can be that agent of change\", he said.\n\nReacting to his third consecutive second place, Mr Hunt said the \"stakes were too high to allow someone to sail through untested\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Jeremy Hunt This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLiam Fox, who is backing Foreign Secretary Mr Hunt, said the surviving candidates were the four most experienced men in the field and this is what people expected all along.\n\nTory MP Johnny Mercer, who is backing Mr Johnson, insisted there was \"no complacency\" despite his large lead, telling BBC News \"there is still work to do\".\n\nEducation Secretary Damian Hinds said Mr Gove had \"closed the gap\" on Mr Hunt in second place and was gaining momentum.\n\nHe said the environment secretary had the experience, the vision and the plan to deliver Brexit that could unite the country.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nUnless another candidate drops out, there will be a fifth ballot on Thursday evening to determine the final two candidates who will go forward into a run-off of the party's 160,000 or so members.\n\nThe winner will be announced in the week of 22 July.", "Birmingham Archdiocese allegedly knew about abuse by Father John Tolkien in the 1950s\n\nChildren could have been saved from abuse if the Church had focused less on its reputation, the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse has said.\n\nMore than 130 allegations of abuse were made against 78 individuals associated with Birmingham's Catholic Church.\n\nCardinal Vincent Nichols - the city's archbishop between 2000 and 2009 - was accused of focusing on reputation rather than the impact of abuse.\n\nHe denied a cover-up, but allegations were found to have been \"ignored\".\n\nThe report said Cardinal Vincent Nichols was too focused on reputation\n\n\"I am truly shocked by the scale of sexual abuse within the Archdiocese of Birmingham,\" the inquiry's chair, Professor Alexis Jay, said.\n\nThe report concluded that \"children could have been saved from abuse if the Church had not been so determined to protect its reputation\".\n\nFather John Tolkien - son of novelist JRR Tolkien - was said to have admitted abusing boys in Sparkhill, Birmingham, in the 1950s.\n\nThe archdiocese was apparently aware of the alleged abuse but did not report it until decades later.\n\nThe report found that the church \"was aware of the risk Father Tolkien posed to children and yet the archdiocese took little or no steps to protect children from those risks\".\n\nFormer boy scout Christopher Carrie, from Solihull, was given £15,000 in compensation in 2003 after he sued the archdiocese.\n\nFather Tolkien was deemed too ill to be charged after an investigation into abuse in the Church\n\nAt the time, the Crown Prosecution Service said Father Tolkien was too ill to be charged, and he died later that year.\n\nCardinal Nichols - now the leader of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales - appeared before the inquiry in December.\n\nHe was asked if he had suppressed a note which suggested Father Tolkien admitted an allegation of abuse in 1968 and was sent for treatment.\n\nHowever, the report said the note \"was disclosed to the police so it cannot be suggested that the Archdiocese sought to cover up the note\".\n\nThe note was made by Archbishop of Birmingham Maurice Couve de Murville as part of a 1993 investigation but no action was taken either in 1968 or in 1993.\n\nThis \"lack of action by the Church meant that abusers were free to continue committing acts of child sexual abuse,\" the inquiry found.\n\nThe inquiry looked at allegations in Birmingham's Roman Catholic Archdiocese\n\nOnce again, the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse has shone light upon dark areas of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales.\n\nThis report describes an institution where the safeguarding of children was relegated to second, even third place, with the Church much more concerned about reputation management.\n\nIt also appears that Church leaders preferred secrecy over transparency, assisting some abusive priests to leave the country and others to move from parish to parish.\n\nThe criticisms of Cardinal Vincent Nichols are particularly scathing.\n\nAnd while it would be tempting to imagine that this is all in the past, the report concludes that \"the archdiocese is still falling short in its child safeguarding arrangements\".\n\nAs well as Father Tolkien, the investigation focused on three other priests: James Robinson, Samuel Penney, and one who remains anonymous.\n\nFather Robinson, described as a serial child abuser, was moved from parish to parish after complaints were first made against him in the 1980s. The police were never informed and there was no internal, Church-led investigation.\n\nHe fled the UK in 1985 - later to be tracked down by the BBC at a caravan park in California - after being confronted by a victim.\n\nThe BBC documentary led to the cardinal issuing a press release complaining about anti-Catholic bias.\n\nDespite multiple allegations against him, Father Robinson continued to receive financial support from the Archdiocese for seven years.\n\nHe was found guilty in 2010 of 21 child sex abuse offences against four boys - some 40 years after complaints were first made to the Church in the 1970s and 80s.\n\nThe panel said that the hurt and damage caused by Robinson had been compounded by Cardinal Nichols' press release which \"focused too much on his grievance with the programme makers and too little on the public interest in exposing the abuse committed by the clergy and the harm done to the victims of such abuse\".\n\nFather Penney admitted indecently assaulting seven children between 1969 and 1992 and was jailed for seven-and-a-half years in 1993.\n\nWhen the Archdiocese was alerted to allegations against Penney, the Vicar General - who was charged with investigating - attempted to help him evade arrest and leave the UK.\n\nProf Jay said the number of perpetrators and victims is \"likely to be far higher than the figures suggest\" and the consequences of the Church's failings \"cannot be overstated\".\n\nThe report also concluded that the Birmingham Archdiocese continues to fall short in its child safeguarding arrangements.\n\nIn a statement, the Archdiocese said it accepts it has \"failed victims and survivors\" and apologised for \"the grievous failings we have made in the past\".\n\nIt said it has \"fundamentally changed its practices and processes to ensure an open and compassionate approach to victims and survivors\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The review follows criticism of a televised debate between contenders in the Tory leadership contest\n\nThe BBC is to review whether \"additional steps\" should be taken when vetting guests for political debates.\n\nThe broadcaster was criticised over those given a chance to ask questions during its televised debate between candidates in the Tory leadership race.\n\nIt emerged that one guest had shared allegedly anti-Semitic tweets - he was later suspended from his job.\n\nA BBC spokeswoman said \"vetting and transparency\" of guests for political programmes would be reviewed.\n\n\"We have a long history of producing successful debate programmes and this was no different,\" she said.\n\nShe said it would be \"odd\" to have members of the public as contributors who all agreed \"with the politics of those they are questioning\".\n\n\"We did however, adopt a different format for this programme and we will look at whether there are additional steps we might take on vetting and transparency should we repeat it in the future,\" she added.\n\nOn Wednesday the broadcaster defended its vetting process after tweets by Imam Abdullah Patel came to light.\n\nThe BBC said Mr Patel re-activated a previously inactive Twitter profile in the aftermath of Tuesday's programme, Our Next Prime Minister.\n\nThe tweets had not been visible to its researchers before then, the BBC said.\n\nA screenshot of Mr Patel's Twitter feed from 2014 posted on the Guido Fawkes website showed he shared a graphic of Israel's outline superimposed on a map of the US under the headline \"Solution for Israel-Palestine conflict - relocate Israel into United States\".\n\nLabour MP Naz Shah was temporarily suspended from her party three years ago after it emerged she had shared the same image on Facebook.\n\nMr Patel would not have been selected for the programme if it had been \"aware of the views he expressed\", the broadcaster said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Abdullah Patel asked the Tory leadership candidates if they agreed that \"words had consequences\"\n\nMr Patel, who asked the leadership candidates about the Islamophobic rhetoric faced by members of the Muslim community, was later suspended as deputy head of a girls' school.\n\nAl-Ashraf primary school in Gloucester said it was investigating the allegations against Mr Patel.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Gloucestershire on Wednesday, he said had not criticised the Jewish community, but stood by criticism of Israeli policy.\n\nSeparately, the BBC faced criticism on Wednesday for choosing as a guest on the programme a solicitor who has previously worked for Labour and once stood as a councillor for the party.\n\nIn response the BBC said the questioners \"held a range of political views and we did not specify these views nor their backgrounds although some chose to do so themselves.\n\n\"The last questioner on the debate is a solicitor who was seconded by his law firm to the Labour Party in the past, rather than being a Labour 'staffer'. He is a Labour supporter and once stood as a councillor.\"", "President Donald Trump's nominee for ambassador to the United Nations has broken with his viewpoint on climate change, saying it \"poses real risks\".\n\nKelly Craft told lawmakers at her confirmation hearing she would \"be an advocate for all countries to do their part in addressing climate change\".\n\nIn the past, she had claimed to believe \"both sides\" of the climate debate.\n\nMr Trump has previously called climate change a \"hoax\" and questioned the scientific consensus on the matter.\n\nEarlier this month, Mr Trump said climate change \"goes both ways\" and blamed other nations for worsening air and water quality.\n\nIn 2017, he pulled the US out of the landmark Paris climate agreement, saying the deal was disadvantageous to US workers.\n\nMrs Craft who is currently serving as the ambassador to Canada, had offered a similar opinion in 2017, telling CBC she believed \"there are scientists on both sides that are accurate\".\n\nBut she reversed that viewpoint on Wednesday, telling the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that \"human behaviour has contributed to the changing climate\".\n\n\"Let there be no doubt: I take this matter seriously.\"\n\nShe also acknowledged \"that fossil fuels have played a part in climate change\".\n\nHowever, Mrs Craft did support Mr Trump's decision to withdraw from the Paris accord, saying the US did not have to \"be part of an agreement to be leaders\".\n\nShe added that the US should not have to assume \"an outsized burden on behalf of the rest of the world\".\n\nMr Trump's nominee has been under scrutiny over her ties to the coal industry as she is married to Joseph Craft III, the head of Alliance Resource Partners, one of the country's largest coal companies.\n\nAfter being grilled by Democrats on how she would handle fossil fuel discussions in the UN, Mrs Craft pledged to recuse herself from such talks if the ethics agreement called for it.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIf confirmed, Mrs Craft would replace Nikki Haley, who resigned last October.\n\nMeanwhile, the Trump administration has continued to roll back environmental protections.\n\nThe latest such effort on Wednesday loosened restrictions on coal-fired power plants. The measure, signed by Environmental Protection Agency chief Andrew Wheeler, will allow individual states to determine if coal plants should reduce emissions.\n\nThe new measure replaces an Obama-era plan that sought to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.\n\nEnvironmentalists have criticised the new policy, saying it will worsen fossil fuel emissions, while Republican lawmakers from coal industry states praised the move.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Climate change: How 1.5C could change the world\n\nIn a statement, she called the rule \"another prime example of the Trump administration's weak attempt to deny that climate change has caused - and will continue to cause - devastating impacts on both the safety and health of all Americans and the economy\".\n\nScientists have warned that the world is headed towards a temperature rise of 3C, that would cause significant and dangerous changes to the planet.", "Boris Johnson brought the spotlight to Ballymena when he opened a plant to build parts for his \"Boris buses\"\n\nAs the race to be the next Tory leader is whittled down to the final two candidates, here is what a Boris Johnson or a Jeremy Hunt premiership could mean for Northern Ireland.\n\nMr Johnson's main link to Northern Ireland used to be his red buses.\n\nIn 2013, the then London mayor opened a Wrightbus plant in Ballymena, County Antrim, where parts for them are made.\n\nFew would have bet that within six years he would be a frontrunner to become prime minister.\n\nBattling him for the keys to Number 10 is Mr Hunt, the foreign secretary who insists he's best placed to strengthen the union of the United Kingdom.\n\nBut what are their positions on central issues such as the political crisis in Stormont, the Tories' confidence-and-supply partners the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) and the Irish border question?\n\nThis will be key for whoever takes over in Number 10 but both candidates face an uphill battle to get their preferred Brexit deal through Parliament.\n\nThe backstop is the insurance policy to maintain a seamless border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland: opposition to it brought Theresa May's time in office to an abrupt end.\n\nMr Johnson has referred to it as a \"monstrosity\" that wipes out the UK's sovereignty and he has called for the backstop to be removed from the withdrawal deal.\n\nHe believes the EU can be persuaded to reopen the agreement, but says the UK should still prepare for a no-deal Brexit.\n\nBoris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt both believe they can succeed where Theresa May failed\n\nMr Hunt has said the EU accepts that the backstop will never be approved by Parliament.\n\nHe maintains he has had conversations with European leaders who \"understand that the backstop will not get through Parliament - they may not have understood that before\".\n\nHe proposes sending a new negotiating team team to Brussels, which would include representatives of the European Research Group - the group of Conservative MPs who support harder forms of Brexit - and members of the DUP.\n\nMany in the Conservative Party believe a new personality at the top can change hearts and minds in Europe but the EU has insisted that the backstop is not up for renegotiation.\n\nThe DUP is keeping quiet about who it would like to see move into Downing Street.\n\nThe party is no stranger to the \"Boris effect\": the Conservative MP was the keynote speaker at the DUP conference last year.\n\nBoris Johnson sat in between the DUP leadership at the party conference last November\n\nBut it will be wary of broken promises.\n\nAt the conference, he called for the backstop to be \"junked\" but then voted for the agreement - including the backstop - during the third meaningful vote in March.\n\nThere's also the matter of renewing the confidence-and-supply pact.\n\nThe Conservatives needed the votes of the DUP's 10 MPs in order to have a working Commons majority after the 2017 Westminster election but had to agree to an extra £1bn in spending for Northern Ireland.\n\nSome Johnson-backing Tory MPs, like Daniel Kawczynski, want the next PM to call a fresh election rather than continue to be at the DUP's \"beck and call\".\n\nWhile the DUP voted against Theresa May's Brexit deal and threatened the government several times over the backstop, it is worth saying that the influence the DUP wields at Westminster is very valuable.\n\nIt will want to work with whoever becomes prime minister.\n\nJeremy Hunt would not be as closely aligned to the DUP as other members of his party.\n\nBut he has sought to paint himself as the candidate best placed to strengthen the union and win the backing of the DUP with a new Brexit deal.\n\nThe latest talks to try and restore power-sharing in Northern Ireland began in May.\n\nAlthough talks haven't broken down, there are no signs of a political breakthrough any time soon.\n\nSinn Féin and the DUP have pointed the finger at each other during the course of the talks processes\n\nIf Boris Johnson becomes PM he is likely to replace the Northern Ireland Secretary Karen Bradley - a Theresa May loyalist - with someone new.\n\nHow could that affect the ongoing talks process, which Mrs Bradley has been overseeing?\n\nUnlike unsuccessful candidate Michael Gove, who said he would personally lead talks to restore the Stormont administration, Jeremy Hunt has not made much mention of the process.\n\nIt is not clear if he would replace his cabinet colleague Mrs Bradley in the Northern Ireland brief.\n\nEarlier this year, Mr Hunt said the UK was wholly \"committed\" to the 1998 Good Friday peace agreement and many of the parties in Northern Ireland would be keen to see him live up to that.\n\nA fresh pair of eyes could possibly help move the Stormont negotiations along - but it's likely to prove as difficult to resolve as Brexit.", "Boris Johnson, the UK's new prime minister, was already one of the UK's most recognisable politicians.\n\nHis high profile - built up as an MP, London mayor and foreign secretary - has often seen his achievements accompanied by controversy.\n\nAs editor of the Spectator magazine and a Have I Got News For You contestant, Boris Johnson was already well known for his shambolic persona.\n\nIn 2001, he became an MP, replacing Michael Heseltine in the safe Conservative seat of Henley-on-Thames.\n\nHe was considered more liberal than many Tories. As a journalist, he had questioned the repeal of laws banning the promotion of homosexuality by local authorities. But as an MP, he changed tack and said the state should not interfere in people's lives. He also voted in favour of civil partnerships.\n\nBoris Johnson during one of his Have I Got News For You appearances, in 2004\n\nIn October 2004, then Conservative leader Michael Howard ordered him to visit Liverpool to apologise for a Spectator article accusing its residents of wallowing in \"disproportionate\" grief after Ken Bigley - an engineer from the city - was kidnapped and killed in Iraq.\n\nAnd the following month, he was sacked as shadow arts minister, amid claims he had misled Mr Howard about reports of an affair with Spectator columnist Petronella Wyatt.\n\nNevertheless, a year later, he was on the rise again - resigning from his Spectator post when new Tory leader David Cameron made him shadow higher education minister.\n\nHowever, he continued to write for the Telegraph and had to make another apology - to a whole country - after he linked Papua New Guinea to \"cannibalism and chief-killing\" in a column.\n\nBy 2007, the Henley MP had his sights set on one of the biggest jobs in UK politics.\n\nTaking over from Labour's Ken Livingstone in 2008, Boris Johnson remained London mayor until 2016. It is the longest continuous period of public office that he has held.\n\nHe's often spoken of what he considers to be his biggest achievements during that period: on crime, housing and transport.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Back Boris This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe homicide rate in London - which includes murder and manslaughter - fell from 22 per million to 12 per million people during his time as mayor. However, it was also falling during his predecessor's second term.\n\nAnd in the first few years after Mr Johnson took over, knife crime rose by over 15% - although from 2012-13 onwards it started to fall.\n\nMr Johnson had backed the police use of stop-and-search powers to tackle violent crime. And he said he would ensure police numbers would go up despite central government cuts.\n\nHome Office figures show police numbers in London rose slightly, from 31,460 to 32,125, between March 2008 and March 2016. Across England and Wales in that period the number of officers fell by 17,603.\n\nThere was an increase in the number of affordable homes built - 101,525 by the end of March 2016, of which the Greater London Authority contributed to 94,001. This was a rise compared with the two terms of Mr Livingstone, although the definition of affordable housing had changed in 2011 so the figures are not directly comparable.\n\nHe scrapped the so-called bendy buses - which he said were too big for narrow streets and encouraged fare-dodgers.\n\nIn their place, he introduced a new version of the popular Routemaster London bus - a move that was criticised as a vanity project. There were complaints about non-opening windows and problems with the hybrid engines. They also cost considerably more than a normal bus.\n\nOne of his most famous transport initiatives was the so-called \"Boris Bike\" cycle scheme, introduced in July 2010.\n\nMr Johnson regularly promoted the hire bikes by riding them himself and the number of rentals reached more than 10.3 million during his last year as mayor.\n\nHowever, critics pointed to the £11m-a-year cost of keeping the bikes on the road. Others pointed out that plans for a bike hire scheme had been announced while Mr Livingstone had been mayor.\n\nAs mayor, Mr Johnson became involved in overseeing arrangements for the 2012 Olympics, planning for which started after they were awarded to London in 2005.\n\nOne of the most memorable moments was when he got stuck on a zip wire, while celebrating the UK's first gold medal win. The Olympics were widely seen as a success and there were claims that they had provided a major economic boost.\n\nBut there were also questions raised about the Olympics' legacy, including criticism of the conversion of the Olympic Stadium into a football ground. In 2017, an independent review said the conversion had cost £323m - far more than the original estimate of £190m.\n\nThe latter part of his time as mayor saw a plan to build a garden bridge over the River Thames as a memorial to Princess Diana.\n\nThe pedestrian-only bridge, with trees and plants, which was first suggested by the actress Joanna Lumley in 1998, was to be funded by private and public money.\n\nBut it was cancelled in 2017, after a review recommended the project be scrapped - £53m had already been spent on the project; £43m of which came from the public purse.\n\nMr Johnson decided he wanted to return to Parliament before his term as mayor ended, in 2016. He won the seat of Uxbridge and South Ruislip in 2015.\n\nAfter resuming life as an MP, he declared his opposition to expanding nearby Heathrow airport, saying he would lie in front of the bulldozers.\n\nAs London mayor, he had promoted an alternative scheme, for an island airport in the Thames estuary, an idea rejected on cost and environmental grounds.\n\nBut Mr Johnson was noticeably absent when MPs subsequently voted on Heathrow expansion in June 2018, as he was on an official trip to Afghanistan.\n\nMr Johnson had been appointed foreign secretary by the new prime minister, Theresa May, in 2016.\n\nHe had also run in the Tory leadership campaign that year but dramatically pulled out after Michael Gove's surprise decision to enter the race.\n\nThe job as foreign secretary was seen as an acknowledgement of his role as a leading figure in the campaign to leave the EU.\n\nHowever, there was also some surprise at the choice, with Lib Dem leader Tim Farron saying he would \"spend more time apologising to nations he's offended\" than working as foreign secretary.\n\nAnd there were the disparaging comments about other countries and their leaders - some of which were made before he got the job.\n\nThey included a Limerick - which won a £1,000 award in 2016 - about Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and a goat. And he said the Libyan city of Sirte could be the new Dubai if \"they... clear the dead bodies away\".\n\nAs foreign secretary, Mr Johnson supported a tough line against Russia, with the expulsion of its diplomats after the poisoning of former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia Skripal.\n\nTwenty-nine countries, including the US, Canada, Australia and EU states, joined the UK, expelling more than 140 Russian diplomats in a co-ordinated move.\n\nNazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been detained in Iran since 2016\n\nBut in the case of British Iranian national Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, jailed in Iran, Mr Johnson had to apologise in Parliament.\n\nHe had said she had been teaching journalists in Iran when she had been detained, contradicting her statement that she had been on holiday at the time.\n\nHe later clarified that she had in fact been on holiday but has also said he does not believe his remarks made a difference to her plight - a claim rejected by her family.\n\nA few days after Mr Johnson made his remarks, Zaghari-Ratcliffe was summoned before an Iranian judge, to face charges of engaging in propaganda against the regime.\n\nAs foreign secretary, he also earned a rebuke from Downing Street, after comments emerged in which he had criticised close ally Saudi Arabia for engaging in proxy wars in the Middle East.\n\nNevertheless, he continued to allow sales of UK arms to Saudi Arabia, which is involved in a controversial military campaign in Yemen.\n\nIn 2018, Mr Johnson also faced criticism after writing in the Daily Telegraph that Muslim women wearing the burka \"looked like letterboxes\".\n\nBy this stage, though, he had left the government, resigning in protest at Theresa May's Brexit plan.\n\nBoris Johnson was a leading figure in the Vote Leave campaign during the 2016 EU referendum.\n\nHe became well known for his attacks on the EU and for advocating the benefits of Brexit. He declared that he was \"pro-having cake and pro-eating it\".\n\nBut it hadn't always been clear which side he would support.\n\nIn fact, while mayor of London, he'd spoken of the benefits of being in the single market.\n\nAnd in an article for the Daily Telegraph in 2013, weighing up the pros and cons of being in the EU, he had said that leaving would not solve the UK's problems.\n\nHowever, he also made clear he supported plans to ask the British people to decide about EU membership.\n\nDuring the Brexit campaign, he came under sustained criticism from those in favour of Remain, for his claims about the benefits of leaving and what he called \"taking back control\".\n\nMost controversial was a claim about how much money the UK sent to the EU. The £350m-a-week figure, which appeared on the side of a bus during the campaign, recently led to an unsuccessful attempt to prosecute him. Critics pointed out at the time that the figure was wrong as it did not take into account the UK's rebate, or indeed money subsequently spent in the UK.\n\nFor his part, Mr Johnson dismissed warnings that leaving the EU could spark a recession, describing one such study as propaganda.\n\nAnd he has continued to advocate a harder form of Brexit, sharply criticising both the deal that Mrs May agreed and her whole approach to the negotiations with the EU.\n\nHe described it as leading the UK into the \"status of a colony\", in his resignation letter, in July 2018.\n\nMr Johnson has continued to insist that the UK can and should leave the EU by 31 October, with or without a deal.", "Alesha MacPhail was a pupil at Chapelside Primary in Airdrie\n\nTeachers and pupils at Alesha MacPhail's school have been celebrating her life ahead of the first anniversary of her murder.\n\nThe six-year-old had just finished primary two when she was abducted and killed on the Isle of Bute last summer.\n\nAaron Campbell, 16, was later sentenced to a minimum of 27 years after he finally admitted his crime.\n\nWendy Davie, head of Chapelside Primary in Airdrie, said the happy, chatty youngster would never be forgotten.\n\nA large wooden playhouse inspired by the children's memories of Alesha and decorated with their pictures of unicorns and butterflies has been built in the school playground.\n\nMs Davie said it was a lasting tribute to the child with an \"infectious smile\".\n\nThe playhouse is decorated by pupils' artwork which was inspired by Alesha MacPhail\n\nThe project was led by the children, who wanted a meeting place where they could make friends and have a chat.\n\nThe head teacher is confident it would have won Alesha's seal of approval.\n\nShe told BBC Scotland: \"She would want a place where she knows her friends can come and feel safe, and have a blether, and have giggle and play with slime, and draw and read books.\n\n\"She loved a good chat. She was always late for class in the morning because she would stay back at breakfast club to blether.\n\n\"She liked to get to know people and she was very, very caring towards everybody. She's sorely, sorely missed.\"\n\nThe playhouse is a space for the children to meet friends and 'have a blether'\n\nThe playhouse was funded with £22,000 worth of donations from well-wishers from around the world following an online appeal.\n\nMs Davie said it was important that pupils took \"ownership\" of the project.\n\n\"Death is a very difficult thing for young children,\" she said.\n\n\"This was a very child-friendly way in which they could say goodbye and they could incorporate all their ideas and all their memories into something that is going to be lasting here for others to see who didn't know Alesha. \"\n\nHead teacher Wendy Davie said Alesha had an \"infectious\" smile\n\nThe children have also designed a special badge - a unicorn inside a pink heart - which they all wore at a special assembly on Thursday morning.\n\nMembers of Alesha's family joined them to remember the schoolgirl in the service where pupils shared their memories and sang her favourite song - Light of Mine.\n\nThe children also composed a version of the song Reach For The Stars and a specially-written poem incorporating the letters S,M,I,L,E was read out.\n\nChildren and staff will wear a specially-designed badge in memory of Alesha\n\nAlesha was staying at her grandparents' flat on Ardbeg Road, Rothesay, when she was taken by Campbell in the early hours of 2 July last year.\n\nThe child was then carried to a wooded area where she was raped and killed.\n\nA jury at the High Court in Glasgow later heard Alesha suffered 117 injuries, some of which were described by a pathologist as \"catastrophic.\"\n\nA major search was launched the following morning but shortly before 09:00 an islander discovered Alesha's naked body near her killer's home in Ardbeg.\n\nCampbell was arrested on 4 July last year, two days after the murder\n\nCampbell was arrested two days later after his mother told police she had captured his odd movements on her home CCTV system.\n\nDespite overwhelming forensic evidence the teenager, who gave evidence during his trial, repeatedly denied he abducted, raped and killed Alesha.\n\nCampbell told the High Court in Glasgow he had never met his victim and lodged a special defence naming the 18-year-old girlfriend of Alesha's father as the killer.\n\nBut he later admitted his offences to a psychologist preparing a report for the court ahead of his sentencing.\n\nThe bench is located in an area where children come to play\n\nJudge Lord Matthews said the background reports painted a picture of a \"cold, callous, calculating, remorseless and dangerous individual\".\n\nThe school event will be followed next month by a fun day organised by Alesha's mother, Georgina Lochrane.\n\nThe youngster has already been remembered on Bute with the unveiling of a pink memorial bench at the \"children's corner\" in Rothesay.\n\nLast month, Campbell was given permission to appeal against his sentence.", "Chris Davies apologised to his constituents for \"making such an error\"\n\nA Welsh Tory MP convicted over a false expenses claim will find out later if he has been unseated by a petition.\n\nIn March, Brecon and Radnorshire MP Chris Davies admitted a false expenses claim at Southwark Crown Court.\n\nA by-election will be triggered if 10% of the electorate in the constituency, 5,303 voters, have signed the petition.\n\nThe recall petition, which closed on Thursday, will be verified and counted at 10:00 BST, at Powys County Hall in Llandrindod Wells.\n\nThe result is expected soon afterwards. A petition officer will notify House of Commons Speaker John Bercow of the outcome before the outcome is made public.\n\nRecall petitions are launched when MPs receive a custodial sentence - including suspended sentences, are barred from the Commons for 10 sitting days or are convicted of providing false information about their expenses.\n\nPeterborough's former Labour MP Fiona Onasanya became the first MP to be unseated from the Commons in a recall petition in May after she was jailed for perverting the course of justice.", "British wrestling champion Adrian McCallum - known by his ring name Lionheart - has died.\n\nThe 36-year-old from Ayr was the reigning ICW (Insane Championship Wrestling) world heavyweight champion and also competed in WWE and TNA.\n\nIn a statement ICW said they were heartbroken by the news. No further details about how Mr McCallum died have been released.\n\nHis death has prompted tributes from across the wrestling community.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by ICW This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWriting on Twitter, ICW said: \"We are heartbroken to learn of the tragic death of ICW World Heavyweight Champion, Adrian 'Lionheart' McCallum.\n\n\"Adrian was a mainstay of ICW and British professional wrestling. Most importantly, he was our friend. His passing leaves a huge hole in the lives of those who knew him.\"\n\nWWE wrestler Cedric Alexander said he was \"crushed\" to hear of McCallum's death, while fellow WWE star Paige - real name Saraya-Jade Bevis - said she would be \"forever grateful\" to have known him.\n\nPete Dunne, the longest-reigning WWE UK champion, tweeted: \"I always looked up to Lionheart's professional approach to wrestling when it was far from that at the time. People like him were pivotal in the growth of a scene that has lead to so many people being able to do this for a living.\"\n\nBritish wrestler Will Ospreay, who currently competes in Japan, said: \"Every time I've met you, you have been nothing but a sweetheart. I honestly cannot believe I'm writing this tweet.\n\nTribute was also paid by Scottish actor Greg Hemphill, known for appearing in the sitcom Still Game.\n\n\"Heartbroken for the whole wrestling family tonight,\" he said. \"What a talent and what a lovely guy. He will be sorely missed.\"\n\nLionheart was one of the mentors in BBC Scotland series Rogue to Wrestler, where eight recruits competed against each other to become professional wrestlers.", "The BBC has found new evidence of the increasing control and suppression of Islam in China's far western region of Xinjiang – including the widespread destruction of mosques.\n\nAuthorities provided rare access to religious sites and senior Islamic officials to support their claim that their policies only target violent religious extremism, not faith itself.\n\nBut after his official tour was over, China Correspondent John Sudworth set out to investigate.", "Working long hours is linked to an increased risk of stroke, researchers say.\n\nLong hours were defined in the French study as more than 10 hours on at least 50 days per year.\n\nPeople who did long hours for more than a decade were at the greatest risk of stroke, they suggest.\n\nBut the UK's Stroke Association said there were lots of things people could do to counteract the effects of long hours, like exercising and eating well.\n\nThe researchers, from Angers University and the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research, looked at data on age, smoking and working hours from a population study of more than 143,000 adults.\n\nJust under a third worked long hours, with 10% working long hours for 10 years or more.\n\nOverall, 1,224 had had a stroke.\n\nWriting in the American Heart Association's journal Stroke, the researchers say people working long hours had a 29% greater risk of stroke, and those doing so for 10 years or more had a 45% greater risk.\n\nPart-time workers and those who suffered strokes before working long hours were excluded from the study.\n\nDr Alexis Descatha, who led the research added: \"The association between 10 years of long work hours and stroke seemed stronger for people under the age of 50. This was unexpected. Further research is needed to explore this finding.\n\n\"As a clinician, I will advise my patients to work more efficiently and I plan to follow my own advice.\"\n\nThis study looked at numbers, rather than reasons, but other research has found people who run their own businesses, CEOs and managers seem less affected by long hours - as opposed to those working irregular shifts and nights, or who have job-related stress.\n\nDr Richard Francis, head of research at the Stroke Association, said: \"There are lots of simple things you can do to reduce the risk of a stroke, even if you work long hours.\n\n\"Eating a healthy diet, finding the time to exercise, stopping smoking and getting the recommended amount of sleep can make a big difference to your health.\"", "An age-check scheme designed to stop under-18s viewing pornographic websites has been delayed a second time.\n\nThe changes - which mean UK internet users may have to prove their age - were due to start on 15 July after already being delayed from April 2018.\n\nThe culture secretary confirmed the postponement saying the government had failed to tell European regulators about the plan.\n\nCompleting the notification process could take up to six months.\n\nIn the House of Commons, Culture Secretary Jeremy Wright said an \"important notification process was not undertaken for an element of this policy\".\n\nHe said the UK government had failed to inform Brussels about key aspects of the scheme.\n\nMr Wright apologised for the delay and said it was still the government's intention to bring in the age-checking system.\n\nThe plans for compulsory age-checks for UK porn viewers - which the government has described as a world-first - were designed to stop children \"stumbling across\" inappropriate content.\n\nOnce enacted, it will mean pornographic sites will have to verify the age of UK visitors by law. If they fail to comply they will face being blocked by internet service providers.\n\nThere has been confusion over how it will be enforced, with suggestions that websites could ask users to upload scans of their passports or driving licences, or use age-verification cards sold by newsagents nicknamed \"porn passes\".\n\nCampaigners have also repeatedly raised concerns about the privacy and security of the scheme.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Past moves to police pornography in the UK\n\nCritics also say teens may find it relatively easy to bypass the restriction or could simply turn to porn-hosting platforms not covered by the law.\n\nTwitter, Reddit and image-sharing community Imgur, for example, will not be required to administer the scheme because they fall under an exception where more than a third of a site or app's content must be pornographic to qualify.\n\nLikewise, any platform that hosts pornography but does not do so on a commercial basis - meaning it does not charge a fee or make money from adverts or other activity - will not be affected.\n\nFurthermore, it will remain legal to use virtual private networks (VPNs), which can make it seem like a UK-based computer is located elsewhere, to evade the age checks.\n\nHowever, the authorities have acknowledged that age-verification is \"not a silver bullet\" solution, but rather a means to make it less likely that children stumble across unsuitable material online.", "The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are to split from the charity they shared with the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge to set up their own foundation.\n\nPrince Harry and Meghan will break away from the Royal Foundation and hope to establish a new charity by the end of the year, according to royal aides.\n\nThe couples will continue to work together on initiatives such as the Heads Together mental health campaign.\n\nThe foundation said the royals were \"incredibly proud\" of their joint work.\n\nSet up in 2009, the Royal Foundation focused on causes close to the princes' hearts, including the armed forces, conservation and mental health.\n\nIn a statement, the charity - which will be renamed the Royal Foundation of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge - said the decision was made after a review of its structure.\n\nThe four royals held the first - and so far only - Royal Foundation forum together in London in 2018\n\n\"These changes are designed to best complement the work and responsibilities of Their Royal Highnesses as they prepare for their future roles, and to better align their charitable activity with their new households,\" it added.\n\n\"The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are incredibly proud of what they have achieved together through the Royal Foundation,\" it said.\n\nCatherine joined after she became Duchess of Cambridge in 2011 and Meghan joined shortly before she and Harry were married in May 2018.\n\nThe couples took to the stage together at the charity's first forum in London in February 2018. The charity's title was later officially changed to The Royal Foundation of The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and The Duke and Duchess of Sussex.\n\nThe move by the Sussexes is seen as the final step in the division of the couples' public duties.\n\nThe royal charity said the dukes and duchesses were \"incredibly proud\" of the work they have done together\n\nThe Heads Together campaign was launched in 2016 by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry to end the stigma around mental health\n\nEarlier this year the duke and duchess split from the household of Kensington Palace, where William and Kate live with their children.\n\nPrince Harry and Meghan appointed a separate head of communications and set up their own Instagram account.\n\nThey also moved to Frogmore Cottage, Windsor, in April - shortly before Meghan gave birth to their son Archie.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Bank of England has said it expects economic growth to be flat in the second quarter of the year.\n\nThe Bank's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) had previously predicted growth of 0.2% over the period.\n\nThe forecast came as the nine-member committee announced it had voted unanimously to keep UK interest rates on hold, at 0.75%.\n\nThe committee said the downgrade in part reflected an easing of stock-building ahead of Brexit deadlines.\n\nIn the run-up to the end of March, when the UK had originally been expected to leave the European Union, businesses from pharmaceuticals companies to food manufacturers stockpiled goods.\n\nThey wanted to be ready in case the UK left the EU without a transition deal, which they feared could lead to delays at UK borders.\n\nThe MPC said since its previous meeting, the \"near-term data have been broadly in line with the May Report, but the downside risks to growth have increased\".\n\nGlobal trade tensions had intensified and domestically, the \"perceived likelihood of a no-deal Brexit\" had risen, it added.\n\n\"As expected, recent UK data have been volatile, in large part due to Brexit-related effects on financial markets and businesses.\"\n\nAs a result, the committee said in its minutes that after the economy grew by 0.5% in the first three months of 2019, it now expected zero growth in the second quarter.\n\n\"That in part reflects an unwind of the positive contribution to GDP in the first quarter from companies in the United Kingdom and the European Union building stocks significantly ahead of recent Brexit deadlines,\" the MPC said.\n\nThe underlying pattern of relatively strong household consumption growth, but weak business investment, has persisted.\n\nIn setting interest rates, the Bank is aiming to keep inflation within one percentage point either side of its target of 2% \"in a way that helps to sustain growth and employment\".\n\nOn Wednesday, it was announced that inflation had fallen to its target of 2% in May, easing pressure on the Bank to raise rates to keep prices under control.\n\nAnd on Thursday, retail sales figures showed a retail sales fell by 0.5% between April and May, the biggest drop this year. Cold weather in May meant shoppers delayed buying summer clothes.\n\nRichard Carter, head of fixed interest research at Quilter Cheviot, said the MPC's recent warnings about possible future interest rate hikes \"look increasingly hollow, as both the ECB and Federal Reserve are now preparing to move in the opposite direction while the latest readings on the UK economy have been weak\".\n\n\"It is quite possible that the BOE will have to cut rates too before long, with Boris Johnson seemingly headed for Number 10 on a commitment to leave the EU by 31 October, even if the price is a period of economic disruption.\"", "Young people under 30 are spending less on non-housing items than the same age group in 2001, a new report suggests.\n\nThe Resolution Foundation think tank studied changes in pay, housing, taxes and benefits to see if it was still true that newer generations are better off than their predecessors were.\n\nIt found under-30s are spending 7% less than that age group did 18 years ago. Over-65s' spending has risen by 37%.\n\nThe think tank said it did not want to turn generations against each other.\n\nBut it said comparing generations was an \"essential tool\" for understanding what is changing in the UK economy and society.\n\nIn what it calls its \"intergenerational audit\", the Resolution Foundation - which aims to improve living standards for those on low to middle incomes - said its research supported the idea that millennials and members of generation X have seen a squeeze on spending for \"fun\".\n\nMeanwhile, in terms of pay, people under 30 have seen the biggest recovery in salaries since the financial crash in 2008.\n\nBut those in their early 30s are being paid 3% less than someone born 10 years earlier, its research suggested.\n\nThe report also found that for those aged over 50 there is a gender divide: The report finds that women in their late 60s have a little over half the wealth of their male counterparts. The gender difference is not so pronounced among younger generations.\n\nThe report said there is \"widespread pessimism\" among the UK public about young people's prospects\n\nDavid Willetts, president of the Intergenerational Centre within the think tank, said: \"From frustrations about buying a first home to fears about the cost of care, Britain faces many intergenerational challenges.\n\n\"The big living standards gains that each generation used to enjoy over their predecessors have stalled.\n\n\"Welcome steps are being made, from stronger pay growth for young millennials to the success of auto-enrolment into pension saving.\"\n\nThroughout the course of the 20th Century, each generation traditionally enjoyed higher living standards than the generations gone before.\n\nBut there is now widespread pessimism among the UK public about young people's prospects of improving on their predecessors' living standards, the report said.\n\nDespite some good news, in its conclusion the think tank said its research suggested Britain \"is a society in which cohort-on-cohort living standards progress is less of a given\".\n\nIt added that it suggests \"inheritance from family may have more of an impact on individuals' lifetime living standards than how much they earn, with implications for intra-generational inequality\".", "Slack founder Stewart Butterfield takes a selfie outside the New York Stock Exchange as the firm's shares begin trading\n\nShares in messaging app Slack surged 49% as the company became the latest tech start-up to join the stock market.\n\nSlack set a guide price of $26 a share, but rose 60% at the start of trading before easing back to finish at $39.\n\nThe company chose a direct listing on the stock market, rejecting the use of traditional advisers and underwriters who manage the price of new stocks.\n\nThat opened the possibility of wild swings in the price as traders try to assess where the shares might settle.\n\nThe jump in the share price put the value of the company at $25bn.\n\nSlack is the second big tech firm to go the direct route, after music streaming service Spotify used the method last year.\n\n\"We think the jury is out on whether this is the right move or not,\" Kathleen Smith, a listing expert at Renaissance Capital, said ahead of the start of trading.\n\n\"Looking at Spotify, it takes a little time for the stock to get established after a direct listing.\"\n\nSlack's listing fees are expected to be about $22m. When Snap went public in 2017, it paid about $85m to its financial advisers.\n\nSpotify's listing is generally regarded as a success, although the shares now trade about 15% below their debut price.\n\nIf Slack can also make a success of its direct listing, it could have implications for how future tech firms come to market, including for Airbnb.\n\nSlack's software replaces emails by grouping messages around subjects, projects and teams. It means that flooding people with irrelevant emails can be cut.\n\nThe software has become increasingly popular, with HSBC and Ford among some of the big corporate users. It has about 100,000 paying customers.\n\nFounder Steward Butterfield, who developed the photo app Flickr, says Slack is a revolution in corporate communication.\n\nBut like many big tech firms coming to market, Slack has never made a profit. Although revenue rose 80% to $400m in 2018, losses were $144m.\n\nAnd some analysts are worried that Slack is competing in an increasingly crowded market. Microsoft offers Teams, a free chat app add-on for its Office365 users.\n\nSlack's debut follows a spate of much-anticipated technology listings, some of which, including Uber Technologies and Lyft, had disappointing starts to trading.", "President Vladimir Putin has said Russia \"completely disagrees\" with the evidence put forward by the MH17 plane crash inquiry.\n\nIt comes a day after four men - three Russian - were charged over the murder of 298 people on board a Malaysian Airlines flight in 2014.\n\nThe BBC's Steve Rosenberg asked Mr Putin if Russia would accept responsibility at a news conference after his annual Direct Line phone-in event.", "The Hexagon images were declassified in 2011 and digitised for scientific study\n\nImages from Cold War spy satellites have revealed the dramatic extent of ice loss in the Himalayan glaciers.\n\nScientists compared photographs taken by a US reconnaissance programme with recent spacecraft observations and found that melting in the region has doubled over the last 40 years.\n\nThe study shows that since 2000, glaciers heights have been shrinking by an average of 0.5m per year.\n\nThe researchers say that climate change is the main cause.\n\n\"From this study, we really see the clearest picture yet of how Himalayan glaciers have changed,\" Joshua Maurer, from Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in New York, told BBC News.\n\nThe research is published in the journal Science Advances.\n\nDuring the 1970s and 1980s, a US spy programme - codenamed Hexagon - launched 20 satellites into orbit to secretly photograph the Earth.\n\nThe covert images were taken on rolls of film that were then dropped by the satellites into the atmosphere to be collected mid-air by passing military planes.\n\nThe material was declassified in 2011, and has been digitised by the US Geological Survey for scientists to use.\n\nAmong the spy photos are the Himalayas - an area for which historical data is scarce.\n\nBy comparing these pictures with more recent satellite data from Nasa and the Japanese space agency (Jaxa), the researchers have been able to see how the region has changed.\n\nThe Columbia University team looked at 650 glaciers in the Himalayas spanning 2,000km.\n\nThe group found that between 1975 and 2000, an average of 4bn tonnes of ice was being lost each year.\n\nBut between 2000 and 2016, the glaciers melted approximately twice as fast - losing about 8bn tonnes of ice each year on average.\n\nWe now have a satellite record approaching nearly 50 years in length\n\nMr Maurer said: \"For a sense of scale, 8bn tonnes of ice is enough to fill 3.2 million Olympic-sized swimming pools per year.\"\n\nAnd the ice loss was not uniform, he added.\n\n\"Glaciers lose most of their ice in the lower elevation portions of the glacier, and it's there where most of the thinning is concentrated.\n\n\"Some of those zones have been thinning by as much as 5m per year.\"\n\nAmong the scientific community, there has been some debate over the cause. Changes in rainfall in the region and soot deposited from industrial pollutants are thought to have hastened the melt.\n\nHowever the Columbia team said that while these factors were contributing, rising temperatures in the Himalayas were the main cause.\n\n\"The fact we see such a similar spatial pattern of ice loss across so many glaciers across such a large and climatically complex region suggests there needs to be some kind of overall forcing affecting all of the glaciers similarly.\"\n\nThe Hexagon photographs would come down in a capsule from the satellites\n\nScientists say continued losses will have a huge impact.\n\nIn the short-term, the huge increase in meltwater could cause flooding.\n\nIn the longer term, millions of people in the region who depend on glacier meltwater during drought years could experience very real difficulties.\n\nCommenting on the research, Dr Hamish Pritchard from the British Antarctic Survey, said: \"What's new here is being able to see how the melting of glaciers across the whole Himalayan range has increased due to climate change.\n\n\"Over one generation, the melt has doubled and these glaciers are now shrinking fast.\n\n\"Why does this matter? Because when the ice runs out, some of Asia's most important rivers will lose a water supply that keeps them flowing through drought summers, just when water is at its most valuable.\n\n\"Without mountain glaciers, droughts will be worse for millions of water-stressed people living downstream.\"\n\nThe view of the Himalayas for the International Space station", "The international trade secretary said he couldn't possibly contemplate two former journalists in the final.\n\nAfter voting for Jeremy Hunt, he told some of us gathered outside the parliamentary polling booth that it was the party's job to \"provide good governance - not entertainment\".\n\nPrivately, Team Hunt successfully urged Conservative MPs to avoid a \"psychodrama\" as the final two compete for the votes of Conservative members.\n\nThe Gove team failed to persuade enough MPs to put two veterans of Vote Leave in the final.\n\nApparently best buddies during the EU referendum campaign, the relationship soured in the subsequent leadership contest in 2016.\n\nMr Gove knifed Mr Johnson in the front when he abandoned the latter's campaign and launched his own.\n\nThere were suggestions that team Boris saw Mr Hunt as an easier candidate to beat and that some of his supporters lent votes to the current foreign secretary to help him see off Mr Gove's ambitions.\n\nA key Johnson aide denied this - but said he couldn't speak for others. And with Mr Johnson's own vote going up and demonstrating momentum, it's a difficult charge to prove.\n\nSo there is only one Leaver in the contest.\n\nBut Mr Hunt will portray himself as a born-again Brexiteer, who would contemplate no deal - and, as an apparently more competent minister, someone who also has more chance of delivering a deal.\n\nThe candidates' differences on Brexit seem in truth minuscule, each professing they want a deal that bins the backstop, or time limits it, despite likely opposition from Brussels.\n\nMr Johnson says it's \"feasible\" to leave on 31 October, while Mr Hunt is prepared to take a little longer if a deal seems close.\n\nBeyond Brexit, Mr Hunt will suggest that he is a champion of the least well-off, the better to contrast with Mr Johnson's ambition to take more people out of the higher tax band.\n\nHe will be willing to admit past mistakes and pledge to put them right, for example, suggesting that social care has been underfunded.\n\nAnd he will point to prominent Remainers and Brexiteers on his team to suggest he can bring the party and country back together.\n\nBut Mr Johnson has two clear advantages with the members.\n\nFirst, he will cite polling to say only he has the chance of beating Labour if there is an early election. a distinct possibility for a leader of a minority government.\n\nSecond, he has the ability to make the party feel good about itself. He paints a big picture in vivid primary colours.\n\nMr Hunt has survived running the big-spending frontline Department of Health and Social Care but he may need to display more inspiration than perspiration as the contest moves to the country and the two candidates go head to head in 16 hustings.\n\nMr Johnson certainly has plenty of political opponents but often his worst enemy is himself.\n\nMr Hunt will be hoping his gaffe prone competitor will lose the plot and then lose the contest.\n\nBut so far Mr Johnson has reined in his characteristic eloquence, and exercised a quality many had thought would always elude him: discipline.\n\nThe stakes are high - the prize is the premiership, not just the Conservative leadership - so it would be surprising if the forthcoming contest didn't throw up heat as well as light.", "Philip Hammond is set to warn that a no-deal Brexit would harm the British economy, devour a £26.6bn Brexit war chest, and risk the break-up of the UK.\n\nThe chancellor is expected to say that Conservative candidates who are vying to be the next prime minister must come up with a Brexit plan \"B\".\n\nIf they do not, he will hint that a second referendum could be needed to break the Parliamentary deadlock.\n\nHe will also pour cold water on tax and spending pledges by the candidates.\n\nMr Hammond is set to say in a speech at the annual Mansion House dinner in the City of London on Thursday that a no-deal Brexit would soak up £26.6bn that has been set aside that could otherwise be spent by an incoming prime minister.\n\nIn a BBC debate on Tuesday, leadership candidates promised tax cuts and increased spending on public services.\n\nHowever, a no-deal Brexit would mean that was not possible, and would also leave the UK economy \"permanently smaller\", Mr Hammond will say.\n\nIn March, the chancellor pledged to spend the war chest to boost the economy, if MPs voted to leave the European Union with a deal.\n\nConservative candidates including Boris Johnson have pledged to leave the EU by 31 October, even if that means quitting without a deal.\n\nBut a no-deal Brexit would \"risk the Union\", Mr Hammond is expected to say.\n\n\"I cannot imagine a Conservative and Unionist-led government, actively pursuing a no-deal Brexit; willing to risk the Union and our economic prosperity,\" he will say.\n\nScottish Tory leader Ruth Davidson told party members on Tuesday to \"take a long, hard look at themselves\" after a YouGov survey suggested 63% would back Brexit even if it meant Scotland leaving the UK.\n\nIn April, Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said she would push for a second referendum on Scottish independence by 2021 if the country, which voted Remain, is taken out of the EU.\n\nMr Hammond is also expected to say that certain \"truths\" will not change no matter who is leader.\n\nUnless there is a general election, Parliament will not support a no-deal, and is unlikely to support the deal that has already been negotiated, he will say.\n\nSo candidates need to spell out their \"Plan B\", he is expected to argue.\n\nThe EU will not renegotiate Theresa May's Brexit deal, and the problem of the Irish border \"will not go away\", Mr Hammond will add, saying that Tory leadership candidates \"need to be honest with the public\".\n\nThe chancellor will also caution the men vying to lead his party that they have to \"recognise and address the difficult trade-offs inherent in delivering Brexit\".\n\nCandidates will also need to say how they will bring about Brexit without harming the economy or breaking up the UK, he will say.\n\nThe leadership contenders \"need realistic strategies for taking the UK economy out of the holding pattern in which it has been stuck for the last nine months and landing it safely on the runway marked 'prosperity Brexit'\".\n\n\"If the new prime minister cannot end the deadlock in Parliament, then he will have to explore other democratic mechanisms to break the impasse,\" Mr Hammond will add, hinting at a second referendum, or even a general election.\n\nHowever, Mr Hammond's expected speech was \"yet another example of how far the Tories are cut off from the real world,\" said Labour's shadow chancellor John McDonnell.\n\n\"Hammond's austerity policies have resulted in a near decade of suffering for hungry children, a surge in food bank use, rising in-work poverty, squeezed incomes for families and unprecedented cutbacks to public services,\" he said.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nEngland face a favourable draw in the Women's World Cup last 16 after they beat 2011 winners Japan to finish top of Group D thanks to two Ellen White goals.\n\nLionesses boss Phil Neville seemingly took a gamble by making eight changes to the side that beat Argentina in the second group game.\n\nBut in White, who returned to the side, they have a finisher of real class as she scored her 30th and 31st England goals either side of the break from clever through balls.\n\nEngland still stuttered playing out from the back against the 2015 finalists, who beat the Lionesses in the semi-finals four years ago.\n• None Our style is non-negotiable says Neville as England top group\n• None You rated White your player of the match\n\nKumi Yokoyama's early 35-yard free-kick was tipped onto the bar by Karen Bardsley while Japan took control of midfield and peppered England's goal as Neville's side suffered a second-half dip.\n\nBut they could not find the decisive touch and finished second in the group to face the winners of Group E, which includes the Netherlands and Canada.\n\nEngland will face a seemingly easier task - in the next round at least - as they travel to Valenciennes on Sunday to play a best third-placed team, which could be one of China, New Zealand, Cameroon, Chile or Thailand.\n\nHowever, topping the group does leave England in the half of the draw containing hosts France and potentially the holders the USA.\n\nEngland started their World Cup campaign well by winning their opening two games for the first time, yet there had been questions about their link play in attack with Fran Kirby starting in the number 10 position.\n\nGeorgia Stanway, who was making her first World Cup start, replaced the Chelsea forward but instantly looked at home by firing in two trademark shots, which were saved, before a clever through ball which allowed White to slot past Ayaka Yamashita.\n\nWhite, who will link up with Stanway at Manchester City having joined the club last month, also scored the opening goal against Japan in England's final group game of the 2011 World Cup, which they won before losing to France in the last eight.\n\nRachel Daly impressed despite starting in an unfamiliar role on the right wing in place of Nikita Parris.\n\nWhile she is unlikely to replace the now Lyon forward in England's last-16 game, she was full of running and complemented Lucy Bronze on England's right-hand side.\n\nWhite's second came after Stanway's replacement, Karen Carney, slipped the ball through for the forward's third goal of the tournament.\n\nIt proved how important the 30-year-old will be as England aim to go one better than their third-place finish four years ago.\n\nIn the first half, England impressed on the counter-attack and in the final third, but they still showed signs of struggling to play their way out from the back at times, and also yielded possession too easily after the break.\n\nNeville has warned of playing 'stand-still football' before, and it almost cost them early on after Keira Wash gave the ball away, allowing Yokoyama to shoot over.\n\nThe Japanese forward was more accurate after eight minutes when her 35-yard free-kick was superbly tipped onto the bar by Bardsley, who returned to the side after missing out against Argentina.\n\nJapan, who lost 3-0 to England in the SheBelieves Cup in March, were often more inventive in midfield, but lacked the cutting edge that England offered.\n\nSubstitute Yuika Sugasawa twice came closest to an equaliser, firstly when she stretched to meet a left-wing cross but poked inches wide with Bardsley struggling to cover.\n\nBardsley then made a superb last-ditch save to deny Sugasawa once more.\n\nAlthough England will need to tighten up in midfield, and have plenty to work on, in White and Bardsley they at least have two players at the most important ends of the pitch on top form.\n\n'A few players got a little tired'\n\nEngland manager Phil Neville on BBC Radio 5 Live: \"The objective before the game was to win the game, get the three wins and top the group - we've done that.\n\n\"We needed this game I think to have a different test and we got that. Some of our play in the first half was fantastic, but in the second half a few of the players that maybe hadn't played as much got a little bit tired. But it's job done and we're looking forward to the last 16.\n\n\"We don't need to do much work [on our sloppy passing] we just need to take care with our simple passes and need to keep it tight. My experienced players Stephanie Houghton, Lucy Bronze and Karen Bardsley did well and Ellen White is banging them in so it's a happy house.\n\n\"[White and Jodie Taylor] have scored four goals between them in three games. I love it when my centre-forwards are scoring goals.\"\n\nJapan coach Asako Takakura: \"England are a very good team, very powerful. Their attack was very quick and we were trying to respond to that. We conceded a goal in the first half because of an error, and then we backed off a little because of that.\n\n\"But in the second half we did manage to gain our composure but unfortunately we couldn't score. Then, again, England scored. We managed to get through to the knockout stage and the things we should do have been defined in our past matches.\"\n• None England, who now progress as Group D winners, have won all three of their group stage matches at the Women's World Cup for the first time.\n• None England have now won each of their five final group stage games at the Women's World Cup - the Lionesses are the only side to have played at multiple tournaments and maintain a 100% win ratio.\n• None Japan have lost a group stage match at the Women's World Cup for the first time in six games, since they also lost to England 2-0 in 2011. However, the Japanese went on to win that tournament, beating the USA on penalties in the final.\n• None Only Fara Williams (five) has netted more Women's World Cup goals for England than White, whose second goal this evening was her fourth for the Lionesses in World Cups.\n• None Jill Scott equalled Peter Shilton's record for the most appearances by an England player in Fifa World Cup matches (17).\n• None Including the eight they made tonight, England have made 12 changes to their starting XI at the 2019 Women's World Cup, the most of any nation at the competition so far.\n• None Attempt missed. Saori Takarada (Japan) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Risa Shimizu.\n• None Attempt missed. Hina Sugita (Japan) left footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Mana Iwabuchi.\n• None Attempt missed. Yuika Sugasawa (Japan) header from the right side of the six yard box is too high. Assisted by Emi Nakajima with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt saved. Yuika Sugasawa (Japan) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Narumi Miura.\n• None Attempt missed. Mana Iwabuchi (Japan) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Aya Sameshima.\n• None Goal! Japan 0, England 2. Ellen White (England) left footed shot from the left side of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Karen Carney with a through ball.\n• None Attempt missed. Yuika Sugasawa (Japan) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Aya Sameshima with a cross.\n• None Attempt blocked. Jun Endo (Japan) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Hina Sugita.\n• None Attempt missed. Yuika Sugasawa (Japan) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Risa Shimizu.\n• None Attempt missed. Mana Iwabuchi (Japan) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Francis called the music industry \"an unmonitored, unregulated cesspit of bad behaviour\"\n\nAluna Francis has spoken for the first time about being sexually assaulted by someone in the music industry.\n\nShe told BBC podcast The Next Episode that the man forced his hands into her underwear, undressed and tried to coerce her into performing oral sex.\n\n\"It was like I was in a room with a completely different person,\" said the AlunaGeorge singer. \"His behaviour went from nought to a hundred.\"\n\nShe has not disclosed the name of her alleged attacker.\n\nFrancis, whose dance duo scored several top 40 singles and were runners-up on the BBC's Sound of 2013 list, said she had been working on a song with the music professional when the alleged attack took place in a hotel room.\n\n\"I was like, 'All right mate, calm down. Take your hands out of my pants please',\" she said.\n\nDespite her appeals, her alleged attacker's behaviour escalated.\n\n\"The last thing that was happening before I really got myself out of there is that he pinned me down and he'd taken his trousers down.\"\n\nFrancis said she had to \"wrestle him off\" to get away.\n\n\"I thought that I was okay and I'm just so not,\" she said.\n\nThe musician has addressed sexual misconduct previously, in her track Mean What I Mean but has never shared details of the attack, which she did not report to police.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by AlunaGeorgeVEVO This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nFrancis told the BBC podcast that the music business, \"is living in the past, an unmonitored, unregulated cesspit of bad behaviour\".\n\n\"If a woman wants to stay safe, it's literally down to her to take care of that and navigate choices of whether to take a risk for her career or stay safe and miss out on opportunities.\"\n\nOther British musicians have come forward and spoken to The Next Episode about their experiences, including Rebecca Taylor who performs under the name Self Esteem and will be appearing at Glastonbury next week.\n\nTaylor is now a solo artist and performs as Self Esteem\n\nTaylor, who was formerly in the band Slow Club, said she was sexually harassed by a record label boss.\n\n\"It's a label that my then-band really wanted to be on,\" she said, alleging the incident took place on a night out.\n\n\"He grabbed my vagina and said, \"Am I going to have a good time?\" she added.\n\nTaylor did not disclose the experience to her bandmates at the time.\n\n\"I didn't say anything,\" she explained. \"I really still wanted to be on that label and I wasn't just representing myself, I was representing my whole band.\"\n\nLike Francis, Taylor has not named the alleged perpetrator. \"I don't have the financial success to name someone who would take everything from me,\" she said.\n\nWhile the Me Too movement - in which women have come forward with their experiences of sexual assault - has seen allegations taken to court in the film industry, Francis does not believe there has been any significant impact in the music industry.\n\nRebecca Taylor and Chloe Howl were talking on the first in a series of podcasts looking into sexual misconduct in the music industry\n\n\"The Me Too movement barely touched the music industry,\" she said.\n\nBrit Awards nominee Chloe Howl told the BBC podcast she was also sexually harassed by someone who worked in the music industry.\n\n\"I think until we start valuing the women or the vulnerable people within the music industry… who have been victimised… it's going to be really tricky,\" she said.\n\nShe added she had taken strength from other women sharing their stories.\n\n\"I kind of found my voice a little bit more,\" she explained. \"I was able to have a huge go at the last person who did it.\"\n\n\"But still it feels like it's women who are having to crusade and educate people about the oppression that they suffer.\"\n\nListen to The Next Episode on BBC Sounds.\n\nThis is the first in a series of podcasts looking into sexual misconduct allegations in the music industry. If you have been affected and would like to share your story, please get in touch at thenextepisode@bbc.co.uk or on WhatsApp at 07568 608 295.\n• None Self Esteem is better off on her own", "The song was originally recorded for the West End musical Time\n\nA previously unheard Freddie Mercury track has premiered on BBC Radio 2, after a decade-long search for a lost vocal performance.\n\nTime Waits For No One was originally part of the soundtrack to the 1986 West End musical Time.\n\nThe version released at the time featured the Queen star accompanied by dozens of layers of backing vocals.\n\nBut an early piano rehearsal of the song, featuring a different vocal take, has now been unearthed.\n\nThe song was written by Dave Clark, of 1960s pop group the Dave Clark Five - who felt the demo had a quality that was missing from the finished version.\n\n\"When we first recorded it, I went to Abbey Road and we ran through with just Freddie and piano. It gave me goosebumps. It was magic,\" Clark told Radio 2's Zoe Ball.\n\n\"Then we got down to recording the track and we [added] 48 tracks of voices, which had never been done in Abbey Road before, then the whole backing.\n\n\"It was fabulous - but I still felt there was something about the original rehearsal.\"\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Freddie Mercury Solo This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nAfter a decade-long search, Clark found the demo recording in 2017. After isolating Mercury's voice, he brought in original keyboardist Mike Moran to record a new piano track.\n\nThe result is a fresh, stripped-back take that turns a spotlight on the raw emotion of Mercury's vocal.\n\nClark described it as a \"magic performance,\" adding he \"tasted every word\".\n\n\"It gave me the same goosebumps as when I first heard it.\"\n\nTime was an ambitious, space-age musical, starring Cliff Richard as a rock star who must make the Earth's case when the planet goes on trial before a galactic high court.\n\nFeaturing a holographic projection of Sir Laurence Olivier (as Akash, \"the Ultimate Word in Truth\") it was ridiculed by critics, but ran for two years.\n\nMercury, however, declined a starring role in the production, saying: \"For one thing, my darling, I don't get up until 3pm, so I can't do matinees.\n\n\"For another, when I do a show, I sing my butt off for three hours and then I drop dead. So it would be impossible to do eight shows a week.\"\n\nHis recording of the title track was a minor hit in 1986, charting at number 32 in the UK.\n\nClark and Mercury had been friends since 1976, when they met backstage at Queen's concert in London's Hyde Park; and remained close until Mercury's death from Aids-related illnesses in 1991.\n\nOn the last night of Mercury's life, Clark had taken over the bedside vigil from the singer's former girlfriend, who was also his closest friend, Mary Austin.\n\nClark was alone with Mercury in the bedroom when he suddenly died.\n\n\"The doctor had been there half an hour before and said he's got a few more days, so we didn't expect he would die so soon,\" he told the Daily Mail in 2011.\n\n\"We phoned Mary immediately. She lived just round the corner. It was unexpected otherwise she would have been there. She had the terrible task of phoning Freddie's parents and sister to say he'd passed on.\"\n\nIn the same interview, Clark lamented the fact that Mercury narrowly missed out on the widespread arrival of antiretroviral medication that might have saved his life\n\n\"Freddie had tried everything. He had special new medications flown in by Concorde from America. He said the next generation will be the ones to beat this. And the sad thing is if it had been 12 months later, he might have been okay when combination drug therapy first came in.\"\n\nTime Waits For No One is the first \"new\" music from Freddie Mercury since the box office success of the Bohemian Rhapsody biopic.\n\nThe 2014 compilation album Queen Forever, also featured a number of unreleased vocals by Mercury, including a duet with Michael Jackson.\n\nThe band have also hinted at the existence of several original songs recorded with David Bowie, during the sessions that produced their 1981 single Under Pressure.\n\nBohemian Rhapsody, released last year, is the most-successful music biopic in history, with box office takings of $903m.\n\nRami Malek, who played Mercury, won an Oscar and a Bafta for his show-stopping performance, including a recreation of the band's iconic set at Live Aid in 1985.\n\n\"Freddie would have loved it,\" said Clark. \"He would have been smiling. It's amazing and he deserves it.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Tristan Silver's mother Cloud Younger (centre, long hair) was driving her children to school when the fatal crash happened\n\nAn 11-year-old died in a head-on crash after a spider dropped on to his mother's hand while she was driving, an inquest has heard.\n\nTristan Silver's mother Cloud Younger was driving him and his sister Branwen to school on 4 May 2018 when they crashed near Tregaron, Ceredigion.\n\nThe inquest in Aberystwyth heard their car drifted on to the wrong side of the A485 and hit a 4x4 towing a trailer.\n\nA conclusion of misadventure was recorded by the coroner.\n\nTristan - who was sitting in the back seat - suffered serious head injuries when Mrs Younger's blue Subaru hit a black Mitsubishi towing a trailer full of sheep in the village of Olmarch.\n\nIt was being driven by farmer David Glyndwr Jones, who was on his way to Builth Wells livestock market.\n\nThe inquest heard when Mrs Younger was interviewed by police in June 2018, she answered \"no comment\" to every question.\n\nAfter the first interview, her solicitor read a pre-prepared statement in which she told police her Subaru had recently passed its MOT and all three people in the car were wearing seat belts.\n\nMrs Younger said the spider landing on her left hand caused eight-year-old Branwen - who was sitting in the front passenger seat - to become hysterical and start screaming.\n\nShe said she turned her attention to Branwen to calm her down while still driving.\n\nWhen asked by police why she had not stopped, she replied: \"No comment.\"\n\nMrs Younger did not give evidence at the inquest, but when asked by the coroner if she had anything to add, she said: \"If I could remember more, I would have said more.\"\n\nThere was no evidence as to how fast the car was travelling on the 60 mph road, but Mr Jones said his vehicle was almost at a standstill at the point of impact.\n\nHe added: \"At first it was straddling the white line, about a quarter of the vehicle on the wrong side. Then it came all the way over to my side and I could see it wasn't going to stop.\n\n\"All this happened in about six seconds - I just had enough time to warn my wife and brace myself. I feel devastated by what happened. I don't understand why she didn't see us and drive back to her side.\"\n\nCeredigion coroner Peter Brunton said it had been \"an extremely sad and tragic inquest\".\n\nHe added it all came down to the manner in which the Subaru was being driven during the \"catastrophic seconds\" when Mrs Younger turned to give attention to her daughter.\n\nHe said it appeared the car travelled for a significant period of time on the wrong side of the road and Mrs Younger did nothing to slow down or to get the car on the correct side.", "Ms Davidson said Mr Gove was the \"next best person for the country\" after Sajid Javid was eliminated from the contest\n\nRuth Davidson's top two choices to become the next PM have been eliminated from the race on the same day.\n\nThe Scottish Conservative leader had initially backed Sajid Javid, who was voted out on Thursday morning.\n\nShe then said she was backing Michael Gove as the \"next best person\" for the job.\n\nBut he failed to make the final two after finishing behind Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt in a further vote just hours later.\n\nImmediately after the result was announced, Ms Davidson tweeted an apology to Mr Gove for giving him the \"kiss of death\".\n\nShe has been a fierce critic of Mr Johnson in the past but has not yet said who, if anyone, she will now be backing in the contest.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Ruth Davidson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Gove was supported by 75 Conservative MPs - just two votes short of Mr Hunt's 77. Mr Johnson, who is seen as being the favourite in the race, was backed by 160 Tory MPs.\n\nMr Johnson and Mr Hunt will now compete in a run-off of the party's 160,000 or so members, with the winner due to be announced in the week of 22 July.\n\nAll 313 Conservative MPs voted - with one spoiled ballot recorded.\n\nMs Davidson did not have a vote on Thursday but six of her 13 MPs, including Scottish Secretary David Mundell, were expected to vote for Mr Gove, with a further four due to back Mr Johnson and one supporting Mr Hunt.\n\nShe introduced Mr Javid when he launched his campaign earlier this month, and had described him as a \"committed Unionist\" who had the vision to bring the country back together.\n\nMs Davidson told BBC Scotland on Thursday that she was \"very sad\" to see Mr Javid eliminated - but that Mr Gove, the UK environment secretary, was \"the next best person for our country\".\n\nShe said Mr Gove, who was born and brought up in Scotland, had a \"detailed knowledge\" of Scottish issues such as fishing and farming, and how they would be affected by Brexit.\n\nAnd she said he was \"incredibly smart and articulate\" and the candidate who could \"do the job best\" and \"deliver for the people of Scotland\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The MSC Opera, its horns blaring, crashes into a boat moored at a wharf in San Basilio-Zattere.\n\nA cruise ship crash in Venice has reignited calls for large vessels to be banned from the city's Giudecca canal.\n\nFour people were injured on Sunday when the MSC Opera - a 275m long (900ft) ship - collided with a dock and a small tourist boat after losing control.\n\nCritics say such ships pose a conservation risk to the lagoon city, pollute its waters and mar its beauty.\n\nMinisters said the crash proved the need for a ban on liners, and that they were working to resolve the problem.\n\n\"What happened in the port of Venice is confirmation of what we have been saying for some time,\" Environment Minister Sergio Costa wrote on Twitter (in Italian).\n\n\"Cruise ships must not sail down the Giudecca. We have been working on moving them for months now... and are nearing a solution.\"\n\nInfrastructure Minister Danilo Toninelli agreed, writing on Twitter (in Italian) that the incident was proof that big ships should not travel on the Giudecca.\n\n\"After many years of inertia, we are finally close to a definitive solution to protect both the lagoon and tourism,\" he said.\n\nThe Giudecca, which leads to the popular St Mark's Square, is one of Venice's major waterways.\n\nCritics say waves created by cruise ships on the canal erode the foundations of the city, which regularly suffers from flooding.\n\nSome have also complained that they detract from the beauty of Venice's historic sites and bring too many tourists.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Venetians are trying to find solutions to stop the exodus from their city\n\nVenice's port authority called for action to resolve the issue of high cruise ship traffic.\n\n\"Now is the time to handle the situation... to work to understand what happened and to find solution, once and for all,\" Pino Musolino, president of the North Adriatic Sea Port Authority wrote on Twitter (in Italian).\n\nThe government has previously tried to resolve the cruise ship debate. In 2013, it banned ships weighing more than 96,000 tonnes from the Giudecca canal but the legislation was later overturned.\n\nIn 2017, the government announced that it would divert larger ships away from the historic centre.\n\nHowever, the plans were expected to take four years to come into force.\n\nVenice Mayor Luigi Brugnaro on Sunday urged immediate action to open the alternative channel, known as the Vittorio Emanuele.", "Andy Ruiz Jr produced one of the biggest shocks in the history of heavyweight boxing to rip Anthony Joshua's IBF, WBO and WBA world heavyweight titles from him and tear up the division's proposed plot lines.\n\nIn a truly remarkable fight at New York's Madison Square Garden, Ruiz floored Joshua four times en route to a seventh-round stoppage, which stunned this famous arena and handed the Briton his first defeat as a professional.\n\nJoshua was a 1-25 favourite with bookmakers, with 22 wins - 21 by knockout - going into the fight. He will now join the likes of Lennox Lewis and Mike Tyson as dominant champions to suffer losses which brought the sport to a standstill.\n\n\"I got beaten by a good fighter,\" said 29-year-old Joshua. \"It will be interesting to see how far he goes, but this is all part of the journey.\n\n\"He's a champion for now, I shall return.\"\n• None Joshua vows to 'get the belts back' after 'minor setback'\n• None Re-live how Ruiz Jr beat Joshua to shake up the heavyweight division\n\nThis was no fluke, no punch from the ages, it was the breakdown of a fighter who looked shattered from an early stage.\n\nAfter flooring Ruiz with a left hook in the third round, Joshua hit the canvas when a right crashed against his temple. By the time a sensational three minutes was up he had been down again thanks to a flurry when cornered.\n\nIt created an electric buzz amongst the 19,000 or so in the arena. Just what was happening? Were they going to see the unthinkable?\n\nRuiz, 29, was not even supposed to be here. He took the bout at six weeks' notice and tickets were being collected by fans 24 hours before the bout which still had the name of Jarrell Miller - Joshua's original opponent - printed on them.\n\nBy the seventh round, when Joshua touched down under a flurry of shots again, the game looked up. Seconds later he was down on all fours again and spat his gum shield out, perhaps to buy time.\n\nHe simply did not have it. The bout was waved off and all that was planned for the glamour division was ripped up thanks to a man who had been dubbed unglamorous because of his rounded physique.\n\nRuiz, from appearance to pedigree, was an underdog in every sense of the word. When Britons wake up on Sunday morning, they will read of a truly iconic upset.\n\nNot the Joshua Britain knows\n\nRuiz, American born but with Mexican parents, becomes Mexico's first heavyweight world champion, just as he said he would.\n\nWhen Joshua sat down with the media on Wednesday, virtually every question directed at him was about his future, not this bout.\n\nHe said he was \"seeing the bigger picture\" and maybe therein lies the problem.\n\nAfter six fairly tentative minutes from both men he scored his knockdown from a crisp left hook as the pair boxed up close. Normal order appeared set to play out.\n\nMoments later when he himself hit the deck, we were taken back to his titanic struggle with Wladimir Klitschko. The night was on a cliff edge, simply do not blink.\n\nAnd from that first knock down, he never appeared comfortable. Whether it be stamina, a lack of focus or a lack of preparation for his late stand-in, this was not the Joshua the travelling 8,000 strong army of British fans had grown to know.\n\nIn the sixth round there were warning signs. After a smart left hook and right hand combination from Ruiz early on, he went on to take pot shots at Joshua's head, with the champion seemingly too fatigued to even muster a guard while his legs appeared confused below him.\n\nAnd then came the finish, mainly built from punch volume as Ruiz overwhelmed his vulnerable opponent with two knock downs in quick succession. The crowd seemed frozen. Surely not? Yes, it was over.\n\nThere will be questions because Joshua is his own biggest analyst. For now, there is only disbelief.\n\nRematch before the year is over\n\nJoshua was down on two cards and up on one when the stoppage came but, according to promoter Eddie Hearn, he will get his chance to rectify things in a rematch in London, in November or December.\n\n\"This will devastate him,\" said Hearn. \"He will come back. It's now down to the rematch and winning that fight.\n\n\"To get back to the heights he has been, he must win that rematch.\"\n\nFor now, all talk of facing Tyson Fury or WBC champion Deontay Wilder can stop.\n\nRuiz, who now has 33 wins and one loss can temporarily bask in the glory of his glorious night. He joins James 'Buster' Douglas - who humbled Tyson in 1990 - and Hasim Rahman who beat Lewis in 2001 as men to land colossal upsets.\n\nLewis of course responded by winning a rematch. Ruiz though showed plenty here to suggest Joshua will have to find plenty to do the same.\n\nRuiz was calm and calculated in staying away from Joshua's obvious power early on. When he stepped forward he did so with conviction and threw plenty, ensuring he got shots off to justify the risk of making himself vulnerable.\n\nWhen he did take shots after being floored, he took them and ploughed on gamely.\n\nThis bout changed his and his five children's lives financially. The rematch will do so even more.\n\n\"This is what I have been dreaming about and I cannot believe I made my dreams come true,\" he said.\n\n\"That was my first time getting dropped on the floor but it made me want it even more.\"\n\nFrom starting boxing aged six, to being taunted and doubted because of his weight, he has now come up trumps to deliver the ultimate 'I told you so' moment.\n\nHe rightly said \"the sky is the limit now\", while Joshua will look back on a US bow which was wrecked.\n\nBBC Radio 5 Live boxing pundit Steve Bunce: \"Anthony Joshua was a broken man in that seventh round. He spat his gum shield out and went back to the ropes. The referee had no option but to stop the fight.\n\n\"Anthony Joshua is not going to be able to get away with saying 'what a great fight that was - everyone was entertained'.\n\n\"That is not good enough.\"\n\nFormer world heavyweight champion and BBC Radio 5 Live pundit, David Haye: \"If Anthony Joshua is as healthy and fit as he says he is, then there is something wrong. He needs something in his camp that he didn't have.\n\n\"I thought it was a fantastic night of boxing and unfortunately the Brit lost his belts, but this is why I love heavyweight boxing because anything can happen on the night.\n\n\"His invincibility has gone and he is now just a mere mortal. Now, fighters know they have just got to stick in there against him and keep throwing body shots.\"\n\nFormer featherweight and super-bantamweight world champion, and Radio 5 Live pundit Carl Frampton: \"This is the biggest shock I have ever seen in my whole days in boxing, and it's live. I liked Eddie Hearn's honesty by saying Anthony Joshua must win the rematch. Where does he stand if he loses that?\"\n\nBBC Sport boxing correspondent Mike Costello: \"Anthony Joshua looked vacant in the ring after the fight.\"", "Parts of the UK have experienced the hottest day of the year so far, with temperatures climbing to 27.6C.\n\nThat high, recorded at Heathrow in West London, beats 2019's previous top temperature of 25.8C set last month, according to BBC Weather.\n\nAreas in the south-east of England enjoyed the best of the weather, with Teddington in south-west London and Wisley in Surrey seeing 26.4C.\n\nHowever, central and northern parts of the UK have been much cooler.\n\nThe average temperature in northern England was around 18C - still higher than the average temperature for June of 17C - with cloudy skies and patchy rain.\n\nCockfield in Suffolk is set to see the temperature soar\n\nThe temperature also reached 26C in High Beach, Essex, and 25.9C at the Iver water works in Buckinghamshire, according to the Met Office.\n\nIt said conditions could get even hotter in East Anglia on Sunday, with temperatures of 28C or 29C expected, but warn it could also bring a risk of thunder.\n\nThe national weather service said conditions elsewhere will turn cloudier and breezier, with outbreaks of rain across Northern Ireland, spreading to Scotland, north-west England and west Wales by Sunday.\n\nRain showers are expected to spread eastwards with a risk of isolated thundery showers in the east and south east, accompanying the hot weather, it added.\n\nThe Queen unveils a statue of Lester Piggott in the sun at the Epsom Derby\n\nPet owners have been urged to ensure their animals do not overheat.\n\nThe British Veterinary Association warned that dogs are particularly vulnerable to heatstroke and breathing difficulties as they are unable to cool down quickly through sweating.\n\nIt also advised putting sunscreen on cats' ears which it said can burn easily.\n\nLondoners make the most of the weather in Regent's Park\n\nA guardsman from the Household Division faints in the heat at a rehearsal for Trooping the Colour in London\n\nMore northern parts of the UK, like North Queensferry in Fife, are experiencing cooler temperatures", "Donald Trump and Nigel Farage during a campaign rally at the Mississippi Coliseum in August 2016\n\nNigel Farage should be involved in the government's Brexit negotiations and the UK should be prepared to leave the EU with no deal, Donald Trump has said.\n\nIn a Sunday Times interview, the US president was critical of government's Brexit negotiations, saying it left the EU \"with all the cards.\"\n\nThe interview comes before his state visit to the UK begins on Monday.\n\nOn Saturday Mr Trump also said Boris Johnson would be an \"excellent\" Conservative Party leader.\n\nBreaking with diplomatic convention, Mr Trump said the leader of the Brexit Party - an arch critic of Prime Minister Theresa May - \"has a lot to offer\" in negotiations with the EU, and should be included.\n\n\"Think how well they would do if they did,\" he added.\n\nHe also said the UK should walk away if it does not get what it wants from EU negotiations.\n\n\"If you don't get the deal you want, if you don't get a fair deal, then you walk away.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has marked Mr Trump's visit by calling him \"one of the most egregious examples of a growing global threat\".\n\nIn an article for the Observer, Mr Khan said: \"The far right is on the rise around the world, threatening our hard-won rights and freedoms and the values that have defined our liberal, democratic societies for more than 70 years.\"\n\nIn April, Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn said he was boycotting Mr Trump's state banquet at Buckingham Palace, in protest at the president's \"racist and misogynistic rhetoric\".\n\nBut the US Ambassador to the UK, Woody Johnson, said he believed \"everything is going to go great\" on the trip.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, Mr Johnson also talked about potential future trade agreements between the two countries after Brexit.\n\nHe said the UK would not have to accept US agriculture standards to get a deal - although he said the \"American food supply is as safe as anything in Europe\".\n\nAnd while he called the NHS the \"pride of the country\", he said that in order to strike a deal, \"all things that are traded would be on the table\" - including healthcare.\n\nThe US president also reiterated his praise for Boris Johnson - who is willing to leave the EU with no deal.\n\nMr Johnson is one of the candidates in Tory leadership contest to replace Prime Minister Theresa May.\n\nSajid Javid, Esther McVey and Dominic Raab have said the UK should leave the EU on the current planned departure date of 31 October with or without an agreement.\n\nBut Rory Stewart does not back a no-deal Brexit - and Matt Hancock says politicians must be honest about the trade-offs involved in getting a deal approved by MPs.\n\nForeign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said trying to push through a no-deal Brexit would be committing \"political suicide\", although he agreed the option had to remain on the negotiating table.\n\nTo compensate for lost trade with the EU, Mr Trump vowed to \"go all out\" to secure a free trade deal between the UK and US within months of Britain leaving the bloc.\n\nThe first day of Mr Trump's state visit to the UK will include a private lunch with the Queen, tea with the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall, and the state banquet at Buckingham Palace.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Jonny Dymond on what to expect from President Trump's visit to the UK\n\nTell us what you think we should be looking into.\n\nIf you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA graduate who sued her university over her \"Mickey Mouse\" degree has received a £60,000 out-of-court settlement.\n\nPok Wong graduated with a first in international business strategy from Anglia Ruskin University in 2013.\n\nBut she claimed the university \"exaggerated the prospects of a career\" and sued them for false advertising.\n\nA spokesperson for Anglia Ruskin University said the settlement was agreed with their insurer's solicitors, and they did not support it.\n\nPok Wong, also known as Fiona, said claims made in the university's prospectus were untrue.\n\nShe told the BBC in 2018: \"They think we're international students [and] we come here to pay our money for a piece of paper, for the degree.\n\n\"But actually we care about the quality, we care about how much we could learn.\n\n\"They exaggerated the prospects of a career studying with them, and also they exaggerate how connected they are.\"\n\nLast year, the County Court of Central London ruled in the university's favour and ordered Ms Wong to pay £13,700 of Anglia Ruskin's legal costs.\n\nBut the university's insurers wrote to the former student, offering to settle her £15,000 claim, plus the payment of her legal costs.\n\nAn Anglia Ruskin University spokesman said Ms Wong's litigation \"has been rejected numerous times and has never been upheld\".\n\nThey said they did not support their insurer's solicitors decision, adding: \"We consider that they acted negligently and against the university's interests.\"\n\nBut Ms Wong wrote on Facebook that, despite the university denying any wrongdoing, \"the payout is a proven victory\".\n\nAnglia Ruskin University said it believed its insurers acted \"negligently and against the university's interests\"\n\nA spokesperson for the National Union of Students (NUS) said: \"Students do have clear rights under law, and the report of the settlement does indicate a way students can seek recourse.\"\n\nBut the spokesperson added that the NUS would prefer students \"to be partners in education\", instead of seeking a financial settlement.\n• None Tuition fees 'should be cut to £7,500'", "There was no Glastonbury Festival in 2018\n\nA band criticised for calling on members of the Conservative Party to be killed have had their Glastonbury Festival booking cancelled.\n\nKilldren were invited to appear at Glastonbury's Shangri-Hell International TV stage on 28 June.\n\nOne of their songs is called Kill Tory Scum - which the Jo Cox Foundation said has \"completely abhorrent\" language.\n\nIn a statement, Shangri-La said it was \"incredibly saddened\" at the attention the Killdren booking received.\n\nIt added: \"We in no way condone violence and will not allow this matter to overshadow the incredibly inclusive spirit of Glastonbury.\n\n\"As a result we have taken the decision to withdraw the booking\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Shangri-La Glasto This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nKilldren's lyrics include: \"Even if it's your dad or your mum, kill Tory scum, kill Tory scum...murder them all to the beat of a drum, kill Tory scum, kill Tory scum.\"\n\nThe band also played a graphic set at Boomtown Fair 2018, in which they kicked, punched, and spat at a man dressed in a suit, while wearing Kill Tory Scum clothing.\n\nNews of the booking was first reported by the Sunday Times.\n\nWhen asked about the song, the band told the paper: \"The piece would not exist if the destructive and violent policies of the Tory party hadn't taken such a devastating toll on the UK.\"\n\nAnother band due to play at Glastonbury - Fat White Family - have also previously called for violence against Conservatives on social media.\n\nIn a 2015 tweet, the punk rock band, from south-east London, said anyone who voted Tory had \"blood\" on their hands, and called for them to be executed.\n\nA year earlier, they said Tories should be hanged.\n\nThe Fat White Family is still due to play at Glastonbury on 30 June on the Park Stage.", "US President Donald Trump has denied calling the Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle, \"nasty\" despite the comments being recorded.\n\n\"I never called Meghan Markle 'nasty',\" he tweeted on Sunday, adding: \"Made up by the Fake News Media, and they got caught cold!\"\n\nMr Trump made his remarks about the duchess in a Sun newspaper interview ahead of his state visit to the UK.\n\nThe US former actress has been a vocal critic of Mr Trump.\n\nShe supported his Democratic challenger, Hillary Clinton, in the 2016 election and has referred to him as \"divisive\" and a \"misogynist\".\n\nTold of her comments during his interview with the Sun, President Trump said it was the first time he had heard them.\n\n\"I didn't know that. What can I say? I didn't know that she was nasty,\" he said.\n\nHe went on to say that he was glad she had joined the royal family and he believed she would make a \"very good\" princess.\n\n\"It is nice, and I am sure she will do excellently,\" he said.\n\nOn Saturday the Sun posted an audio recording of the interview on its website.\n\nFollowing Mr Trump's denial on Twitter the day after the interview was published, several commentators pointed out that the remarks were on tape.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Nick Bryant This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe duchess, married to Britain's Prince Harry, gave birth to the couple's first child in May. She is on maternity leave and not expected to meet President Trump during his visit from 3 to 5 June.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nLiverpool erased the disappointment of last season's Uefa Champions League final loss by claiming the trophy for the sixth time with victory over Tottenham in Madrid.\n\nIt was Mohamed Salah, such a disconsolate figure when he was injured early in that loss to Real Madrid, who set Liverpool on their way with a penalty after two minutes when Moussa Sissoko was contentiously punished for handball.\n\nIn a final that rarely touched the heights of the blockbuster semi-finals that made this an all-Premier League showpiece, Spurs had chances but were denied by Liverpool keeper Alisson, who saved well from Son Heung-min, Lucas Moura and Christian Eriksen.\n\nAnd their failure to capitalise was ruthlessly punished when substitute Divock Origi ensured manager Jurgen Klopp won his first trophy as Liverpool manager by driving low and powerfully past Hugo Lloris with three minutes left.\n\nSpurs counterpart Mauricio Pochettino took the gamble of selecting England captain and main striker Harry Kane despite his not having played since April because of an ankle injury, replacing semi-final hat-trick hero Lucas Moura, but he had no impact.\n\nLiverpool lifted the trophy that was taken from their grasp in Ukraine last season and now stand behind only Real Madrid and AC Milan as serial winners of this tournament, the final whistle sparking huge celebrations among players, management and the red wave of supporters in Madrid's Wanda Metropolitano Stadium.\n• None 'Just reward for Liverpool on night of redemption'\n• None Best night of our football lives - Klopp\n• None Pochettino wants to 'experience' final again\n\nFrom heartbreak to glory for Salah\n\nOne of the enduring images of Liverpool's loss to Real Madrid in Kiev was a tearful Salah being led off midway through the first half as realisation dawned he could not continue with the shoulder injury sustained in a tangle with Sergio Ramos.\n\nIt was a moment that changed the mood inside the stadium and left Liverpool unable to turn the tide once it went against them - so this was an occasion laced with meaning for the world-class Egyptian.\n\nAnd his moment came almost instantly when he took responsibility from the penalty spot and powered the ball past Lloris.\n\nHow fitting it was that the player who has contributed so much to Liverpool's renaissance should make such a significant contribution.\n\nAnother major difference from last year's disappointment was the giant presence of Alisson in goal as opposed to the hapless Lloris Karius, who gifted goals to Karim Benzema and Gareth Bale in Kiev.\n\nHere, the £67m Brazilian was a rock with his safe handling and vital interventions when Liverpool came under stress in the second half.\n\nAlisson, along with Virgil van Dijk, has given Liverpool the extra dimension that pushed them so close to a first league title in 29 years and has now made them European champions once more.\n• None Read all the reaction to the game\n• None How you rated the players\n\nLiverpool manager Klopp knew one sub-plot to this Champions League final, played out in the searing heat of Madrid, would be his grim record of losing six successive finals.\n\nHe had lost three with Liverpool, including in this competition last season, and while no-one can seriously doubt the German's outstanding work it was his legendary Anfield predecessor Bill Shankly who coined the phrase: \"First is first and second is nowhere.\"\n\nKlopp can now cast off that mantle and instead be known as the manager who restored Liverpool to the pinnacle of European competition.\n\nIronically, after a season of sustained brilliance and a single defeat brought the scant reward of second place to Manchester City in the Premier League, this landmark triumph was achieved with one of Liverpool's least sparkling performances for some time.\n\nThat will not matter, however, because Liverpool earned this glory with wins such as those over Bayern Munich in the last 16 and the astonishing 4-0 turnaround against Barcelona at Anfield in the semi-final.\n\nKlopp was already a much-loved figure - now his name will be written into club folklore.\n\nIn the end the temptation was simply too much to resist - and it was easy to understand why.\n\nPochettino knew his world-class striker Kane was a player who had hurt Liverpool in the past and could hurt them again - so he left out Moura, the scorer of that dramatic hat-trick in the semi-final second leg in Ajax that took Spurs to the final.\n\nKane had not played since sustaining another ankle injury in the quarter-final first leg against Manchester City on 9 April and it showed as he failed to exert any influence on the game, Moura introduced belatedly but unable to produce a second miracle.\n\nSpurs and Pochettino were left heartbroken and perhaps with a sense of missed opportunity, because Liverpool were nowhere near their best and occasionally looked vulnerable.\n\nPochettino, however, deserves huge credit for taking Spurs to their first Champions League final without strengthening his squad this season.\n\nIt surely will not be too long before he follows Klopp and wins his first trophy as a manager in England.\n\nMatch stats - three shots, three goals for Origi\n• None Liverpool have won their sixth European Cup - twice as many as any other English team (Manchester United, three).\n• None Klopp is the fourth Liverpool manager to win the European Cup, after Bob Paisley, Joe Fagan and Rafael Benitez.\n• None Klopp is the fifth German manager to win the European Cup, after Dettmar Cramer, Jupp Heynckes, Ottmar Hitzfeld and Udo Lattek but he only the second German to win the trophy with a non-German side (Heynckes with Real Madrid).\n• None Pochettino has lost both of his major finals as Tottenham manager, also losing the League Cup final against Chelsea in 2015.\n• None Tottenham appeared in their first ever European Cup final, becoming the eighth English side to do so. The past six first-time finalists have now lost (also Chelsea 2008, Arsenal 2006, Monaco 2004, Bayer Leverkusen 2002 and Valencia 2000).\n• None Liverpool (35.4%) have become the first side to win the Champions League final despite having less possession than the opposition since Jose Mourinho's Inter Milan beat Bayern Munich in 2010.\n• None This was the first ever Champions League final without a single card shown.\n• None Liverpool's Mohamed Salah became the fifth African player to score in a European Cup final after Rabah Madjer, Samuel Eto'o, Didier Drogba and Sadio Mane.\n• None Salah's opener for Liverpool was the second fastest goal in a Champions League final (1:48), only behind Paolo Maldini (00:50) for AC Milan versus Liverpool in 2005.\n• None Origi became only the second Belgian player to score in a Champions League final after Yannick Carrasco for Atletico against Real Madrid in 2016. Origi has scored with all three of his shots in the CL this season.\n• None Liverpool's Trent Alexander-Arnold (20 years 237 days) is the first ever player aged under 21 to start in consecutive Champions League finals.\n• None Attempt saved. Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Danny Rose.\n• None Attempt saved. Son Heung-Min (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Harry Kane.\n• None Attempt saved. Danny Rose (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.\n• None Offside, Liverpool. Divock Origi tries a through ball, but Mohamed Salah is caught offside.\n• None Goal! Tottenham Hotspur 0, Liverpool 2. Divock Origi (Liverpool) left footed shot from the left side of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Joel Matip following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Virgil van Dijk (Liverpool) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Offside, Tottenham Hotspur. Lucas Moura tries a through ball, but Son Heung-Min is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Lucas Moura (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Kieran Trippier with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt saved. Christian Eriksen (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from a difficult angle and long range on the left is saved in the top right corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Jordan Henderson (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jamal Hassan: \"In Kenya, you don't have to look over your shoulder\"\n\nHundreds of British teenagers are being sent by their parents to East Africa to avoid knife crime in the UK, representatives of the Somali community say. Why are they taking this drastic choice?\n\nSome names have been changed to protect the identity of the interviewees.\n\n\"In those few years I was doing my A-levels it was tough. Just seeing people being dropped every other day, being stabbed,\" Yusuf tells the Victoria Derbyshire programme from his new home in Kenya.\n\n\"London's not the place to be for a teenager.\"\n\nYusuf was born and raised in London but moved to Nairobi after a close friend in his neighbourhood was stabbed to death.\n\nIt is a decision an increasing number of parents are taking, for their children's safety.\n\nOf the 100 people stabbed to death in the UK so far this year, 8% were of Somali heritage, according to the Rise Projects which works with young British Somalis in north London.\n\nJamal Hassan mentors young men in London, many from Somali families. He explains parents \"want to protect that child by all means necessary\".\n\n\"If it means that child doesn't finish school, college, university or he will not have a good job by the time you come for them the future is not really important.\n\nOne mother who had sent her child to Africa told him she could now sleep at night, because she knew any police sirens she heard were not for her son.\n\nJamal says he felt a sense of freedom when he moved to Kenya\n\nJamal went to Kenya as a teenager, when he says problems for him in London \"were at their peak\".\n\nHe says there are parallels with the present day.\n\n\"One of the things I'll never forget, is the fact that when you walk in the streets in Kenya you don't have to look over your shoulder.\n\n\"Here I could travel in and out of the city, go and visit whoever I wanted, and it was good. I felt a sense of freedom.\n\n\"But for these kids [in London that can be] life and death.\"\n\nOthers, such as Abdul, who is in his early 20s, left London because they had started to get into trouble with the police.\n\n\"When I came here it was like a clean sheet,\" Abdul said.\n\n\"No-one knew me, no-one knows my history. There [in London], you have people that look like you going after you.\n\n\"My mum feels I'm much safer here than anywhere else in the world.\"\n\nParents say they do not view the move as a long-term solution - some children stay in Africa while others return.\n\nThe Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) advises against all travel to Somalia, including Somaliland, and highlights a heightened threat of terrorism and kidnappings, across Kenya.\n\nBut Amina sent her 15-year-old son to Somaliland, when she was worried about the new friends with whom he was mixing.\n\nIn his year there, she says he became a studious child again.\n\nHe had even wanted to stay in East Africa.\n\nBut within 17 days of being brought back to the UK in November 2018, he was stabbed four times.\n\n\"He's been completely traumatised by the experience,\" she says.\n\n\"They damaged his bladder, his kidneys, his liver. He's got permanent damage.\n\n\"He was safer there [in Somaliland] than he was here… 100% more safe than in London.\"\n\nRakhia Ismail says she knows parents who will leave the UK once their children finish primary school\n\nThe new mayor for Islington, Rakhia Ismail - a mother of four who came to London from Somalia as a refugee - believes that some areas of the city are unsafe for young people.\n\n\"Does the parent wait for her child to be killed? Or does the parent take a decision - quite a drastic decision - to take him all the way back to wherever that child is from originally?\"\n\nShe says she knows families who are waiting for their children to finish primary school so they can leave the UK.\n\nShe estimates that out of every five Somalian families, two are taking their children back home.\n\nDr Fatumo Abdi - a mother of Somali origin - said parents were struggling to know how to react to knife crime.\n\n\"This is not something they've encountered before. But we know living here in Britain, the context is Britain. This is a British problem and it's a problem that we've fallen into.\n\n\"It's not the answer but these are desperate parents.\"\n\nShe believes poverty, inequality and exposure to violence are big factors as to why young people fall into criminality.\n\n\"Our communities are living in very poor disadvantaged areas with poor educational attainment. All these things affect how our children move through the world.\"\n\nMohamed has spent two periods living in Kenya\n\nRhoda Ibrahim, who runs the Somali Advice and Forum of Information, which supports Somali mothers, says that as many of them have poor English, they are forced to take jobs such as cleaning, which lead them to being away from their families for long periods of time.\n\n\"When you get sent back to your country by your parents, it's the worst feeling,\" says Mohamed, who lived in Kenya for six and then nine months.\n\nHe was sent there after being excluded and sent to a pupil referral unit when no other school in his area would accept him.\n\n\"It feels like you're going to prison, and your mum's the judge. You can't come back until the judge has let you free.\n\n\"You have to show that you're good, you've changed.\"\n\nBut he feels like it has made him a \"better person\".\n\n\"I could have been out on the streets right now selling drugs, but... the kids in Kenya put school first.\"\n\nFollow the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme on Facebook and Twitter - and see more of our stories here.", "Sophie and Ned Scharer moved to Bardsey Island with their children Sam, 10, and Rowan, 12\n\nA family who moved to manage an island off the coast of north Wales have been forced to return home after an accident on their first day.\n\nNed and Sophie Scharer were chosen as wardens of Bardsey Island - Ynys Enlli - two miles off the Llyn peninsula.\n\nBut they have had to leave after their son badly injured his leg in a fall on the first full day of their new life.\n\nHowever they have said the job - being advertised by the Bardsey Island Trust - remains a \"wonderful opportunity\".\n\nBardsey’s sheep vastly outnumber its human residents – which is part of the island's charm\n\nThe Scharers and their two children set off in February for a three-year \"family adventure\" on the isolated spot off the coast of Gwynedd.\n\nThey had been selected from 50 applicants to become wardens of the island that is a national nature reserve, a working farm and a bird observatory.\n\nYet just a day after waving off the boat that ferried them into the Irish Sea, their son Sam, 10, slipped and fell on rocks.\n\nAn injured child on a remote island could have been a parent's worst nightmare, but Mrs Scharer said within minutes he was airlifted to hospital on the mainland by Holyhead coastguard.\n\n\"The warden has a direct line to the coastguard, so even though you're on the island, you have this amazing back-up,\" she said.\n\n\"The seas were too rough to launch the boat so they sent the helicopter and he got to hospital quicker than if we tried to drive from our home in Snowdonia.\"\n\nMrs Scharer had to remain at the family home in Llanrwst while Sam had treatment for his injuries following complications.\n\nFor her husband on the island, work maintaining the trust's letting houses and looking after the 2,000 visitors to the island each year proved too much.\n\n\"It was such a shame but in the end, it made the decision to leave the island easier for us because we effectively had no choice,\" said Mrs Scharer.\n\n\"What happened was just one of those things. It could have happened anywhere.\n\n\"Sam has only recently healed but he now has a beautiful scar in the shape of the island. It's a wonderful souvenir.\"\n\nBardsey is thought to have some 200 grey seals\n\nBardsey Island Trust is now seeking two new island wardens to manage the island for the next three years as part of the tiny community that includes just four people during the winter.\n\nThe wardens will also recruit and manage the volunteers who help out on the island.\n\nThe wardens will have an annual salary of around £25,000, though accommodation and utilities are provided.\n\nCandidates must be physically fit, comfortable with periods of isolation and capable of taking on a \"challenging but rewarding opportunity to live in a unique part of Wales\", according to the trust.\n\nThe only shop on Bardsey sells books, postcards and the island's own honey, willow baskets and wool\n\nThe view from Bardsey's 'mountain', looking northwest across the Irish Sea\n\nThey must also be prepared for no mobile phone signal.\n\n\"That is a blessing because it releases you from the burden of people expecting to get hold of you at any time,\" said Mrs Scharer.\n\n\"It's an amazing opportunity for a family who love to spend time together and to have an adventure.\n\n\"The isolation is an attraction for many but it's incredibly social in terms of the community.\n\n\"You have to be pretty hardy to put up with the weather and work - but we were lucky to live somewhere so beautiful.\n\n\"It certainly was an experience.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The new Broomlands Primary cuts a striking figure in the Kelso sky\n\nAt first glance, it looks like a giant crown sitting on top of the grass or a spacecraft that has landed in a traditional Borders market town.\n\nWhatever it might resemble, the spiky design of the new Broomlands Primary in Kelso is certainly distinctive and it is in the running for an award from the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland.\n\nBut how has the transformation of their surroundings affected the pupils, parents and teachers?\n\nThe old school had a \"lovely atmosphere\" but \"didn't look the prettiest\"\n\nTaking a stroll round the grounds - even on a relatively dreich day - the structure looks striking.\n\nAnd, chatting with everyone who sees and uses the building on a regular basis, their pride comes across in every word.\n\nIt is not that they did not like the old school they left behind in January last year, it is simply that their new surroundings have given them so much more space and light to learn in.\n\nPupils said the bright new school \"cheers you up a wee bit\"\n\nA group of pupils at the new school - Bronwen, Ker, Kenny and Antonia - say their former home was \"not that good an environment to learn in\".\n\n\"It wasn't very light because you had to put the lights on and if you turned them off it would be quite dark,\" says Antonia.\n\nAnd Kenny sums up his reaction to the new building in just one word: \"Wow.\"\n\n\"It was really exciting on the first day when we were walking in class by class and looking at our classrooms and everything,\" says Bronwen.\n\n\"It was colourful and bright whereas the old school wasn't as colourful,\" adds Antonia.\n\nCould it possibly make a difference to the school day? Ker reckons it might.\n\n\"If you are having quite a bad day and you come to this school it kind of cheers you up a wee bit because it is quite bright,\" he says.\n\nThe Kelso primary opened in January last year\n\nParents speak fondly of the old building which they say was dubbed \"Legoland\" due to its box-like shape.\n\n\"From the outside it didn't look the prettiest at all, it looked like a cow shed to be honest,\" says Pam Guthrie.\n\n\"But the atmosphere inside was lovely - it had a real warmth, the staff were lovely, the children were lovely - you just got a really good feel about the place.\"\n\nThere were some worries the new building might not be anything out of the ordinary, despite a price tag of nearly £10m.\n\n\"A concern of mine was that it would be a bog standard school,\" says parent Alison Jack. \"I think the actual design is spot-on.\"\n\nAnother parent, Jennifer Redpath, says: \"I don't feel it has made them learn any better being here but they do have more space and more areas to break out and do different things that they couldn't do before.\"\n\nAccording to Sonya Nairn the new school is much brighter and airier \"which maybe then makes the teachers happier\".\n\nKerri Scott, Jane Woodcock and Elaine Murray all teach at the new site\n\nAnd what is the message from the chalk-face?\n\nKerri Scott, a principal teacher at the school, says children adapted quickly to their new surroundings.\n\n\"The kids are certainly proud of their environment when you hear them talk about their school they want to tell people that they come here because of how it looks,\" she says.\n\nThe extra room has made a huge difference, according to P4 teacher Elaine Murray.\n\n\"We just didn't have that in the old school - there was no extra space - it was like we were bursting at the seams,\" she says.\n\nEven the way they work has changed, says Ms Scott.\n\nIn a profession sometimes thought of as \"isolating\" there is now much more working together.\n\n\"I don't think we could have predicted that would happen,\" Ms Murray agrees.\n\n\"That the architecture of a building would impact your practice as much as it has, but it has.\"\n\nAnd even coming to work doesn't seem quite so bad, according to Primary 2/3 teacher Jane Woodcock.\n\nShe says: \"When you turn that corner and walk into that big open space out there, you immediately have that feeling of - 'this is where I am meant to be today'.\"\n\nMichelle Matthews has been head teacher at Broomlands for nearly a decade\n\nMichelle Matthews - head teacher since 2010 - says she was keen to maintain the same \"lovely feeling\" from one site to another.\n\nShe says some children were worried it might be lost in the move.\n\nHowever, she explained to them that the feeling was inside them and would \"radiate around\" their new home, the head teacher says.\n\n\"Even on a dull day - we're in Scotland so we don't have the best of weather - the light is flowing through and that makes you feel so much better,\" she adds.\n\nLittle wonder, the head teacher says, one little girl recently told her it was \"such a stunning school\".\n\nArchitects Stallan-Brand said they had put the building on a central site to allow best use of its large grassed area around it.\n\nThey aimed to be \"driven by local influence\" using stone from the nearby Blinkbonny quarry as well as \"referencing the ruinous stone of Kelso Abbey\".\n\nIt is described as \"inspired by the traditional pitched roofs\" of a Borders high street.\n\nArchitects said they wanted to take their inspiration from a typical Borders town centre\n\nSo does all this make a difference to education?\n\nDiarmaid Lawlor, head of place at Architecture and Design Scotland, says there is \"no doubt\" that well-designed schools can help children learn - although great learning could happen in \"almost any type of setting\".\n\n\"What great environments share is the ability to enable learners to feel comfortable and challenged,\" he says.\n\n\"They are places where they can find support when they feel stressed and get feedback on their achievements.\"\n\nBroomlands Primary aims to provide exactly that kind of setting for its pupils - regardless of whether it wins a design award later this month or not.", "The band played a 24-song set that lasted more than two hours\n\nBTS have made history by becoming the first South Korean group to headline Wembley Stadium.\n\nThe boy band blasted through 24 songs on Saturday, assisted by quirky props, glitter cannons, jet sprays... and 60,000 fans screaming their approval.\n\nThe septet, who said they \"grew up watching videos of Live Aid,\" even paid tribute to Freddie Mercury.\n\nDuring the encore, lavender-haired singer Jin led the crowd in a version of the Queen frontman's \"ay-oh\" chant.\n\n\"You guys always had the greatest artists, historically, in the music industry - The Beatles, Coldplay, Ed Sheeran, Adele. We don't even have to make a list,\" added his band-mate Kim Nam-joon, who's known to fans as RM.\n\n\"So the UK was like the big, big wall to me.\n\n\"But tonight we, and you guys, just broke the wall.\"\n\nThe gig was the first of two sold-out nights at Wembley Stadium - and just the third UK show of BTS's career.\n\nIt capped off an extremely successful year for the band, who topped the UK album charts in April with Map Of The Soul: Persona, played Saturday Night Live and Britain's Got Talent, and scored their biggest hit single to date when Boy With Luv entered the UK top 20.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by BBC News This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nUnlike previous Wembley headliners, they're not quite household names yet (and many people would be hard-pressed to name one of their songs) but their fanbase, dubbed the \"Army\", is unusually devoted, highly mobilised, and growing daily.\n\nIndeed, BTS's sold-out stadium debut comes just eight months after they played the smaller, 20,000-capacity O2 Arena on the other side of London, and the significance of their achievement did not go unnoticed at home.\n\n\"Everyone in Korea is so excited,\" said Sungmi Ahn, a K-pop reporter for the Korean Herald. \"They're doing a live broadcast of the show so everyone can watch it.\n\n\"The Freddie Mercury film Bohemian Rhapsody was huge in Korea, so when people think of Wembley Stadium, they know how important it is, and BTS are getting a lot of hype and excitement as a result.\"\n\nFor the band, however, this meant an additional level of pressure.\n\n\"I barely got any sleep last night, that's how nervous we are,\" said rapper/singer Suga at a pre-show press conference. \"But the nerves will just make us work harder.\"\n\nYou certainly couldn't have accused BTS of slacking off.\n\nFrom the moment they burst onstage from behind two giant panthers, no pirouette was left un-spun; and no leap left un-leapt.\n\nThis was only the band's third gig in the UK\n\nEvery member got their moment to shine: Resident heartthrob Jungkook floated perilously over the audience's heads for a high-wire performance of Euphoria; while Jimin showed off his balletic dance moves during Serendipity.\n\nBut the best moments came when the septet united for tracks like the rap-rock juggernaut Fake Love and the Justin Bieber-esque Make It Right.\n\nThe band's camaraderie was especially evident in the encore, as they leapt around an inflatable playground trying to make each other laugh with ever-more goofy dance moves.\n\nThey even attempted English accents, with Jungkook declaring, \"easy peasy, lemon squeezy,\" for no particular reason during the intro to Dope.\n\nIt was a shame the backing tracks were all pre-recorded, as the lack of a live band robbed the show of musical spontaneity.\n\nAnd there was a lingering suspicion the boys were miming during their more athletic dance routines, even though the impassioned harmonies of The Truth Untold proved they could ably handle a live vocal.\n\nBut any such minor gripes were swept away by the tidal wave of fans' enthusiasm.\n\nThey sang at the top of their voices, even during the Korean sections, and started Mexican waves with their \"Army bombs\" - Bluetooth connected light sticks that created cascades of colour across the stadium.\n\nOh, and they screamed. They screamed at the dancing. They screamed at the fireworks. They screamed when Jin held up a rose. They screamed at RM grabbing his crotch. They screamed at every, single smouldering look to the camera.\n\nEven V's pet dog Yeontan got a scream of approval when he popped up in a video interlude.\n\nNever has the phrase \"Wembley, make some noise,\" been more redundant.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Eight men have been seen on Winchelsea Beach after apparently crossing the Channel\n\nMore than 70 people were intercepted in one day as they crossed the English Channel on eight boats, the government has confirmed.\n\nHM Coastguard assisted UK Border Force off the south coast, as a total of 74 migrants tried to reach the UK.\n\nConservative MP for Dover and Deal, Charlie Elphicke, said it was \"a record number of boats in a single day\".\n\n\"[This] is deeply concerning and I'm receiving regular updates,\" Home Secretary Sajid Javid said.\n\n\"Those who choose to make this dangerous journey across one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world are putting their lives in grave danger - and I will continue to do all I can to stop them.\"\n\nLast month, 140 migrants were picked up - the highest number since December, when a \"major incident\" was declared by Mr Javid.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"[Since December] two cutters have returned to UK waters from overseas, I've agreed a joint action plan with my French counterpart and increased activity out of the Joint Coordination and Information Centre in Calais,\" Mr Javid continued.\n\n\"It is an established principle that those in need of protection should claim asylum in the first safe country they reach and since January more than 30 people who arrived illegally in the UK in small boats have been returned to Europe.\n\n\"We will continue to seek to return anyone who has entered the UK illegally.\n\nEarlier in the day, eight men in an inflatable dinghy were spotted on Winchelsea Beach, in East Sussex.\n\n\"This crisis was meant to have been dealt with at Christmas, yet numbers continue to rise,\" Mr Elphicke said.\n\n\"The Home Office needs to get a grip.\"\n\nHe said he would be meeting Mr Javid on Sunday.\n\nThe Maritime and Coastguard Agency said RNLI lifeboats from Dover, Dungeness and Rye had been involved in the incidents, along with coastguard rescue teams from Folkestone, Langdon and Rye Bay.\n\nAn inflatable dinghy was seen off Winchelsea Beach\n\nA note on terminology: The BBC uses the term migrant to refer to all people on the move who have yet to complete the legal process of claiming asylum. This group includes people fleeing war-torn countries, who are likely to be granted refugee status, as well as people who are seeking jobs and better lives, who governments are likely to rule are economic migrants.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police are at the scene at Shandon Park Golf Club\n\nA bomb found under a serving police officer's car at a Belfast golf club is being treated as attempted murder by the Police Service of Northern Ireland.\n\nPolice and Army bomb disposal experts were called to the scene at Shandon Park Golf Club on Saturday.\n\nThe club is located in east Belfast, near the PSNI headquarters.\n\nThe head of the Terrorism Investigation Unit, Det Supt Sean Wright, said the PSNI believed the attack was carried by \"violent dissident republicans\".\n\n\"It was clearly intended to kill the police officer,\" he said.\n\nThe bomb was examined by Ammunition Technical Officers and they declared it to be a \"viable improvised explosive device\".\n\n\"It is very fortunate that this device was detected before it exploded and that no one was killed or seriously injured,\" Mr Wright added.\n\n\"In placing such a device, terrorists have also put the officer's family, neighbours and members of the public at serious risk.\"\n\nPolice and Army bomb disposal experts are at the scene\n\nThe alert began on Saturday afternoon and the golf club was evacuated.\n\nClub member Alan Paterson said the man who owned the car spotted the device after playing a round of golf on Saturday morning.\n\n\"He was leaving the course and he actually noticed something under the car and immediately informed the police and the members in the clubhouse at that time,\" Mr Paterson said.\n\n\"I was actually in the clubhouse at the time when the person came in to tell us that there was a possible device.\"\n\nAlan Paterson was in the clubhouse when he heard there was a possible device\n\nHe added: \"Within several minutes the police arrived and identified the object and said that they felt it was viable and that they should immediately evacuate the clubhouse and surrounding area, and also get everybody else off the golf course.\n\n\"We are delighted that if it was a viable device the person concerned was not injured or worse, so that is a big plus for everybody.\n\n\"We are a very mixed club. It is east Belfast, yes, but it is a mixed club and this sort of thing should not happen - it just should not happen.\"\n\nPolice also attended a further security alert in Strabane, County Tyrone, on Saturday afternoon.\n\nA suspicious object caused a number of homes to be evacuated after it was discovered in the St Mary's Drive area of the town, close to the junction of Beechmount Avenue.\n\nThe police said the object was a hoax.\n\nThere was a sense of shock in this leafy part of east Belfast on Saturday.\n\nResidents whose homes back on to the golf course car park were told by police to stay at the front of their homes.\n\nThe golf club was busy, with an estimated 70 people on the course at the time of the alert, and at least 50 in the clubhouse.\n\nSaturday is the busiest day of the week at any golf club. It's likely that dozens of people walked past the device before it was discovered.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by George Hamilton This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDUP East Belfast MLA and Policing Board member Joanne Bunting described the attack as \"absolutely reckless\".\n\n\"It's regrettable that there are still those who wish to take us back to the dark days of Northern Ireland. They are on a fruitless mission.\n\n\"The people of East Belfast will not be cowed by terrorists. We are a much stronger community than that,\" she said.\n\n\"There is absolutely nothing patriotic about planting bombs under Irish police officers' cars,\" SDLP leader Colum Eastwood said.\n\n\"They claim they are in a fight with 'British Crown Forces'. They are not, they need to know and they need to be made to understand that their fight is with us. With all the people of this island who have endorsed peace,\" he added.\n\nUUP MLA Andy Allen said: \"The terrorist`s actions are not supported by the overwhelming majority of people across Northern Ireland who want to live their lives in peace.\n\n\"There is no justification for the actions of these reckless criminals who need to be taken off our streets.\"\n\nDet Supt Sean Wright appealed for anyone with information about the bomb to contact detectives.\n\n\"Attacks on police officers are attacks on the entire community and they are an attack on our democracy. Anyone who places an explosive device under a car in a built up area cares little about our communities,\" he said.", "Companies that use high-pressure or bullying tactics to sell funeral plans could face fines and criminal charges, the government says.\n\nThe Treasury has announced proposals to regulate UK funeral providers through the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), offering protection to customers.\n\nEvidence shows some providers have used misleading sales tactics, costing vulnerable customers up to £5,000.\n\nIn 2018 about 177,000 pre-paid funeral plans were sold.\n\nA spokesperson for the Treasury said there were \"widespread concerns around the conduct of funeral providers\" and the sales tactics used to \"get customers to sign up to plans\".\n\nProviders breaching the regulations could also have their authorisation revoked.\n\nA consultation on the proposals is now taking place.\n\nCity minister John Glen said: \"It's shameful that there are those out there who look to prey on people when they are in this often emotional and vulnerable state.\n\n\"That's why I've taken the decision to regulate pre-paid funeral plans, so people can have more confidence in the products they're being offered and peace of mind that their affairs will be handled correctly.\"\n\nThe funeral plan industry has grown nearly 200% between 2006 and 2018.\n\nIt comes as the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said essential costs of a funeral have increased by 6% each year, for the last 14 years.\n\nCurrently funeral plan providers can sign up to an industry regulator voluntarily - so firms can also choose not to sign up to the rules.\n\nUnder the proposals the FCA would oversee regulation of the sector, and customers would have access to the Financial Ombudsman Service.\n\nFuneral Service provider Dignity welcomed the call for greater regulation, saying it would \"protect consumers from misleading advertising and aggressive sales methods\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The girls were rescued by the RNLI\n\nTwo five-year-old girls were swept out to sea on an inflatable swan, prompting an inquiry about why no red warning flags were flying at the time.\n\nThe pair were sitting on the float in the shallows at Minehead, when a strong gust of wind pulled them out to sea.\n\nThey were almost half a mile out in the Bristol Channel before lifeboats and the coastguard helicopter rescued them.\n\nMinehead RNLI chairman Bryan Stoner, said flags should fly on the seafront whenever there is an offshore wind.\n\nThe RNLI team was quickly launched and able to rescue the girls\n\nStation officials are now trying to find out why the system failed.\n\n\"The system was put in place some years ago after a lot of pressure from us because we were dealing with a real spate of incidents like this, one of which involved a fatality,\" said Mr Stoner.\n\n\"On this occasion, however, it appears the system has failed, though through good fortune no-one has come to any harm.\"\n\nSarah Gurr, mother to one of the girls posted on Facebook: \"Thank you so much for saving my beautiful little girl and her friend.\n\n\"We will forever be grateful to the RNLI and the rescue helicopter for saving our girls today xxx They were absolutely terrified.\"\n• None Lifeboat gets its first female skipper\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nBangladesh stunned South Africa to start their World Cup campaign with a fine 21-run victory at The Oval.\n\nBangladesh made 330-6 - their highest one-day total - with Mushfiqur Rahim scoring 78 and Shakib Al Hasan 75 in front of a passionate crowd strongly in their favour.\n\nThe pair put on 142 for the third wicket and, although both fell in the final 15 overs, Mahmudullah helped power his side to the highest total of the tournament with an unbeaten 46 off 33 balls.\n\nSouth Africa, who were sloppy in the field, lost crucial wickets as they rarely threatened to complete the highest World Cup chase in history.\n\nOpener Quinton de Kock fell to a shambolic run-out early on, captain Faf du Plessis was bowled for 62 and Rassie van der Dussen was dismissed for 41 in the 40th over.\n\nThe Proteas still had slim hope with three overs left, JP Duminy at the crease and 44 needed - but he played on off Mustafizur Rahman to depart for 45.\n\nThe defeat means South Africa have lost their opening two matches in the competition, having been beaten by England in the opener on Thursday.\n• None TMS podcast: Time for South Africa to press the panic button?\n\nBangladesh are a much-improved team in recent years - they won a tri-series against West Indies and Ireland before this tournament and have series wins over India and Pakistan since the last World Cup - but this result still saw the side ranked seventh in the world beat the one ranked third.\n\nBangladesh were given a solid start by Tamim Iqbal and Soumya Sarkar, who shared a stand of 60, but the experienced pair of Shakib and Mushfiqur rebuilt excellently after both openers fell.\n\nThey rotated the strike and scored freely through extra cover and square leg, scoring at close to a run a ball.\n\nIt looked like Bangladesh would let a good position slip when Mushfiqur departed soon after Shakib, but Mahmudullah's late hitting, which included three fours and a big six over mid-wicket, and support from Mosaddek Hossain, who made 26, regained momentum as 54 runs came from the last four overs.\n\nWith the ball, Bangladesh were more disciplined than the Proteas, with their spinners economical on the same pitch used for England's win over South Africa.\n\nShakib bowled opener Aiden Markram through the gate for 45 and Mehedi Hasan turned one between Du Plessis' bat and pad as he advanced down the pitch.\n\nSeamers Mohammad Saifuddin and Mustafizur Rahman returned later in the innings to seal victory, with the former bowling a wicket maiden that included the scalp of the well-set Van der Dussen.\n\nBangladesh play New Zealand in a day-night game on Wednesday, again at The Oval.\n\nFor all Bangladesh's good play, they were helped by South Africa's flat and untidy showing.\n\nThe Proteas showed little evidence of learning from the defeat by England, even though the match was played on the same pitch.\n\nIn the fifth over they missed an opportunity with an edge from Soumya going between Markram at first slip and Du Plessis at second, with neither making a real effort to go for the catch.\n\nIn the overs that followed there were a number of misfields and, in the 47th over Kagiso Rabada put down Mahmudullah when he was on 12, which proved costly.\n\nSouth Africa lost fast bowler Lungi Ngidi to a hamstring injury after he bowled only four overs, but they also disappointed with the bat.\n\nEvery member of the top six faced at least 30 balls but no-one showed sustained aggression to reduce the increasing required run-rate.\n\nDe Kock was out in comical fashion, being called for a run by Markram before both stopped midway down the pitch and the left-hander was stranded when wicketkeeper Mushfiqur threw down the stumps.\n\nSouth Africa face India, one of the main contenders for the tournament, at Southampton on Wednesday.\n\n'I can promise there will be fight on Wednesday' - reaction\n\nSouth Africa captain Faf du Plessis: \"Today didn't go according to plan - 330 was a little over par. Everyone chipped in with the bat but it was not enough.\n\n\"Looking back on it, I wouldn't have bowled first. But the thinking was speaking to all the local guys who said there would be more pace and bounce in it.\n\n\"There are a few areas where we weren't great today. To go for so many runs at the end, those last five overs were very bad.\n\n\"We're a proud sporting nation. The skills weren't here today but I can promise there will be fight against India on Wednesday.\"\n\nBangladesh captain Mashrafe Mortaza: \"Mushy always plays that kind of innings, and Shakib batted so well.\n\n\"That was a good wicket to bat on, and we knew we had to bowl in the right areas. We were able to get wickets in patches.\n\n\"The crowd was behind us - thanks to all the Bangladeshi crowd.\"\n\nFormer England captain Alec Stewart on TMS: \"An outstanding performance. South Africa were favourites but haven't been allowed to show how good they are.\n\n\"Bangladesh have dominated proceedings and will upset at least a couple of other sides, especially if they play on used pitches more.\"\n\nTest Match Special's Dan Norcross: \"The way Bangladesh played today, I can see them beating other sides in this tournament and not in a giant-killing.\n\nThey have a clear plan, good batsmen, terrific spin bowlers and The Fizz [Mustafizur Rahman].\"", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nFormer Arsenal winger Jose Antonio Reyes has died in a car accident aged 35, Spanish club Sevilla have announced.\n\n\"We couldn't be confirming worse news,\" the La Liga club said on Twitter.\n\nThe Spaniard joined the Gunners from Sevilla in January 2004 and was part of the 'Invincibles' side that went through the 2003-04 season unbeaten, winning the Premier League.\n\nHe later spent a season on loan at Real Madrid in 2006-07, winning the title.\n\nSevilla paid tribute to the \"eternal legend\", adding that he was \"one of the most valuable home grown players in the history of the club\".\n\nFlags in Reyes' hometown of Utrera will fly at half mast for the next two days, according to a statement on the city council website.\n\nThe statement also revealed the accident happened on a road linking Utrera with Seville and a relative of Reyes was also killed.\n\nReyes' coffin will be taken to Sevilla's stadium on Sunday before being moved to Utrera ahead of his funeral on Monday.\n\nReyes leaves behind his wife Noelia Lopez, whom he married in June 2017, and three children, daughters Noelia and Triana and son Jose Antonio Jr from a previous relationship.\n\nA minute's silence will be observed at Saturday's Champions League final as a mark of respect to Reyes, who was the first Spaniard to win the Premier League.\n\nArsenal paid tribute to their former player, saying they were \"devastated by the shocking news\".\n\nGunners legend Thierry Henry, who played alongside Reyes between 2004 and 2007, called him a \"wonderful player, superb team-mate and exceptional human being\".\n\n\"I wish his family and friends continued strength and courage to get through this difficult time,\" he added on Twitter.\n\nFormer Arsenal midfielder Cesc Fabregas called Reyes his \"first great friend in the world of professional football\", and added: \"My room-mate, who always wanted to sleep with the air conditioning even at -10 degrees.\n\n\"A humble guy who always had a smile on his face, great footballer and great person. I could not wake up today in a worse way.\n\n\"I will never forget when you and your family welcomed me at your home in my first Christmas in England when I was alone and was 16 years old. I will never forget our tennis football matches in the gym before and after workouts.\n\n\"Our connection in the field was also special.\n\n\"I always say that you have been one of the greatest talents in our football and I know that I am not wrong.\n\n\"Two days ago I was talking about you in an interview, it might be a sign, who knows, to remember you, my great friend.\n\n\"I will never forget you, we will never forget you. Always in our hearts. Rest in peace Jose Antonio Reyes. Love you very much. Cesc.\"\n\nCurrent Arsenal boss Unai Emery, who managed Reyes at Sevilla, spoke to BBC Radio 5 Live before the Champions League final in the Spanish capital, describing it as \"a very, very sad day\".\n\n\"Today we were thinking about enjoying a big day here in Madrid for English football, but this news changes my mind.\n\n\"He was a hard-worker. We won the Europa League together. He was an amazing man, an amazing player. I learnt a lot from him.\n\n\"He was always smiling, he had great quality. The key moment before the final for the Europa League, he told me: 'Coach, if you want to win, you need to pick me in the first XI.'\"\n\nFormer Atletico Madrid team-mate Sergio Aguero said: \"Moved by the death of José Antonio Reyes, a very good friend and partner with whom I shared great moments. A lot of pain. My condolences and all my support to your relatives.\"\n\nEx-Arsenal player Freddie Ljungberg said: \"Numbed by the news about my former team-mate, Jose Antonio Reyes. Gone far too soon, my thoughts are with his family and friends.\"\n\nUefa president Aleksander Ceferin said: \"He had a glittering career and won numerous honours wherever he played and I am shocked and saddened that his life has been so tragically cut short.\"\n\nHis current club Extremadura said in a statement on Twitter: \"With a broken heart Extremadura UD announce the death of their player Jose Antonio Reyes in a traffic accident.\"\n\nReyes' final match was a 1-0 win at Alcorcon on 18 May. The Spanish second division side's away game to Cadiz, which was due to take place on Sunday, has been postponed until Tuesday, along with the league's other fixtures that were due to take place that day.\n• None Became the youngest player in Sevilla's history at the age of 16 in the 1999-2000 season.\n• None Joined Arsenal in a deal worth about £17m in 2004.\n• None In May 2005, he became the second player to be sent off in an FA Cup final, as Arsenal beat Manchester United in a penalty shootout.\n• None Played in the 2006 Champions League final as the Gunners lost 2-1 to Barcelona.\n• None Made a total of 69 appearances for Arsenal, scoring 16 goals, and played 21 times for Spain, scoring four times.\n• None Joined Real Madrid on loan in 2006 and scored twice as a substitute in the final game of the season to earn Real the La Liga title.\n• None After permanently leaving the Gunners that summer, he moved to Atletico Madrid before returning to Sevilla.\n• None Is the most decorated player in Europa League history, winning the competition five times - twice with Atletico Madrid and three times at Sevilla.\n• None After spells at Espanyol, Cordoba and Chinese side Xinjiang Tianshan Leopard, he joined Spanish second division strugglers Extremadura\n• None Last year, it was reported that Reyes was set to return to Arsenal as a coach under Unai Emery, for whom he played at Sevilla.", "British Airways suspended flights to Pakistan after a fatal hotel bombing in 2008\n\nBritish Airways will resume flights to Pakistan on Sunday, more than 10 years after a hotel bombing led to the route being suspended.\n\nBA stopped flying to the country after a bombing in the capital city of Islamabad in 2008, which killed more than 50 people.\n\nBut the airline is now scheduled to fly three times a week to Islamabad from London Heathrow on Boeing 787s.\n\nIt is the only western airline to serve Pakistan.\n\nIn September 2008, a bomb was detonated in a dumper truck outside the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad.\n\nMore than 250 people were injured and 54 were killed in the blast.\n\nShortly after the explosion, BA suspended all flights, declaring: \"We will not compromise on the safety of our customers, staff or planes.\"\n\nBut in December last year, the airline said it would restart flights to Pakistan's capital.\n\nA new airport was opened in Islamabad in 2018, which has eased concerns about both security and congestion.\n\nUntil Sunday, Pakistan's PIA was the only airline to run direct flights from Pakistan to the UK.\n\nBritish High Commissioner to Pakistan, Thomas Drew, said BA was joining \"an increasing number of British companies doing business in Pakistan\".", "The group went missing while climbing Nanda Devi in the Indian Himalayas\n\nIndian rescuers say the chances of finding eight climbers missing in the Himalayas are \"bleak\".\n\nTwo Indian air force helicopters were searching the mountains, but officials said the operation had to be suspended due to unfavourable conditions.\n\nThe missing group, including four Britons, two Americans, an Australian and an Indian, began climbing Nanda Devi on 13 May.\n\nThe British group leader's family said they were \"deeply saddened\".\n\nEarlier, officials said four other British climbers had been rescued. They have been named by India TV as Mark Thomas, Ian Wade, Kate Armstrong and Zachary Quain.\n\nThey were airlifted to safety after being spotted early on Sunday at a base camp near Nanda Devi.\n\nZachary Quain, Ian Wade, Kate Armstrong and Mark Thomas were rescued from base camp\n\nThe four rescued mountaineers began their ascent with the eight-member group on 13 May but returned to Munsiyari base camp due to harsh weather conditions.\n\nThe larger group headed for the summit of another unnamed peak, government official Vijay Kumar Jogdanda said.\n\nThe 12 climbers pictured before they began their ascent\n\nBoth groups remained in touch until 26 May - a day before an avalanche hit the 7,816-metre mountain, according to authorities.\n\nThe missing group was being led by experienced British mountain guide Martin Moran, whose Scotland-based company Moran Mountain has run numerous expeditions in the Indian Himalayas.\n\nIn a statement, his family said they were pressing for the search area to be widened, and wanted it to continue until they had firm evidence of the \"wellbeing or otherwise of all those in the climbing group\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mountaineer Alan Hinkes: 'There is still hope for missing climbers'\n\nMountaineer Alan Hinkes told the BBC his friend, Mr Moran, is a \"massively experienced mountaineer\", adding: \"There's still hope.\"\n\nBut he warned the monsoon season was now moving into the area, bringing with it heavy rain and fresh amounts of snow in the mountains.\n\n\"We are worried there's an avalanche involved and no matter how experienced you are, the mountain doesn't know that,\" he added.\n\nMr Moran is also a member of the Torridon Mountain Rescue Team in Scotland, which said: \"The Team are deeply concerned by the news that our member, Martin Moran, is missing on Nandi Devi.\n\n\"Our thoughts and prayers are with his family and the families of the others missing.\"\n\nThe rest of the group have been named locally as John McLaren, Rupert Whewell and Richard Payne from the UK; US nationals Anthony Sudekum and Ronald Beimel; Australian Ruth McCance and Indian guide Chetan Pandey.\n\nRuth McCance, from Australia, is among the missing climbers\n\nThe University of York confirmed one of its lecturers, Dr Richard Payne, had been reported missing after travelling to the Himalayas on a climbing trip.\n\n\"We are extremely concerned for his safety,\" it said in a statement.\n\nThe rescue effort began on Saturday when the climbers did not return to their base camp.\n\n\"The first aerial recce has concluded,\" said Mr Jogdanda earlier on Sunday, confirming an avalanche was feared to have caught the group in the area around India's second-highest peak.\n\nHe added: \"There were only tents spotted, but no human presence. The second helicopter has left for the recce. Chances of survival are bleak.\"\n\nA team of 10 to 15 rescuers, comprising police, disaster response personnel and administrators, has also fanned out to find survivors, said Tripti Bhatt, an official of the Uttarakhand State Disaster Response Force (SDRF).\n\nAuthorities warned it could take days to trek to the area where the missing climbers were last known to have been.\n\nMoran Mountain confirmed on Saturday that it was working with authorities and the British Association of Mountain Guides to \"gather information regarding the Nanda Devi East expedition team\".\n\n\"Out of respect for those involved and their families, we will be making no further comments at this time,\" it added.\n\nPhotos posted to Moran Mountain's Facebook page the day before the start of the climb showed the group \"starting their journey into the hills at Neem Kharoli Baba temple, Bhowali\".\n\nAn update on 22 May, posted from their second base camp at 4,870 metres, suggested that the group would attempt to summit a previously unclimbed peak on the mountain.\n\nThe British Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) confirmed it was in contact with Indian authorities about the missing climbers.\n\n\"We will do all we can to assist any British people who need our help,\" a spokesman said.\n\nNanda Devi is the world's 23rd highest mountain and was first scaled in 1936.\n\nConsidered one of the toughest Himalayan peaks to summit, it attracts fewer climbers than other mountains in the region.\n• None Four reasons why this Everest season went wrong", "Anyone tempted to train for potential Olympic glory may want a course at home. A self-assembly “supersize” nine-hole crazy golf course, with assorted obstacles, 18 putters, 18 balls and 1,000 scorecards certainly sounds like the ultimate kidult gift.\n\nBut it does not come at pocket money prices. It is yours for £3,000.\n\nMore affordable, perhaps, is hiring a four-hole course for just over £200.\n\nSelling and renting these courses is Putter Fingers, a business based in Thetford in Norfolk, which bizarrely is an off-shoot of a software company which started selling courses mainly to show off its ability to make websites.\n\n“The business of crazy golf has a fair bit of growth left in it,” says logistics manager Richard Clarke, explaining that putters are the biggest seller.\n\nSchools, corporate event organisers, couples looking to entertain their guests at a wedding, and birthday entertainers are all regular customers.\n\nBut the really crazy money is being made in big cities like London – all because of a phenomenon called competitive socialising.\n\n“People don’t just want to go to a restaurant or a bar and just eat or drink, they want something else,” says Matt Grech-Smith, co-founder of the crazy golf activity bar Swingers, which employs 250 people.\n\n“Social media is playing a role in that. People want to show off the experiences they are having. Something visually appealing works.”\n\nSwingers – with a name squarely aimed at its over-18 clientele – has two sites in London, a turnover of £18m a year, and a “healthy” profit margin, according to Mr Grech-Smith. The next market to crack, he says, is that original minigolf mecca - New York.\n\nEach site has two nine-hole courses, not-so-subtle mid-round bars to replenish visitors, and choice of meals from burgers to burritos. People typically spend £30 to £50 a night – a lot more than they would for a game of crazy golf and chips on the beach in Hastings.\n\nEven early on a Wednesday afternoon there was huge corporate group eating pizza, drinking beer, and cheering or bemoaning each other’s putting skills. The booze would get them disqualified from official minigolf tournaments, but it is integral to these adult-only venues.\n\nTo the converted, including some commercial landlords, this kind of place is a saviour for the troubled High Street. The theory is strengthened by the fact that Swingers is located in the old flagship store of collapsed retail giant BHS.\n\nElsewhere, the owner of Paradise Island Adventure Golf – which has seven indoor courses in UK shopping centres – was bought in late 2017 for more than £10m.\n\nThe worlds of retail and entertainment are colliding, and are in direct competition with the theatre, concerts, and even home entertainment like Netflix, says Mr Grech-Smith.\n\n“Lots of retail brands are making their shopping experience much more immersive and experience based. The tastes of the consumer are clearly changing,” he says.\n\n“Those destinations that can offer as many different experiences as possible are going to win.”\n\nTo the less convinced, competitive socialising faces an uphill struggle in attracting repeat visitors.\n\nBut, for now, business is booming and the game has momentum.\n\nThe St Andrews Ladies' Putting Club started the ball rolling, it gathered pace in the US in the 1920s, was carried forward by enthusiasts across Europe, and has landed straight into the social media feeds of millennials enjoying a competitive night out.\n\nPlenty of economic obstacles may stop this becoming a second golden age for the game.\n\nBut there are supposed to be obstacles. This is crazy golf.", "Climbers pay a premium in order to climb the mountain\n\nOver the past two decades, the average annual death rate of climbers on Mount Everest has remained at about six.\n\nBut this spring, at least 10 people have already been reported dead or missing on the world's highest peak.\n\nThis is also the season that saw a record 381 climbing permits issued by the Nepalese government.\n\nIn reality, this means about 600 people were preparing to embark on the climb, with permit holders accompanied by support staff up the mountain.\n\nWhile overcrowding has been blamed for the increase in the number of deaths, there are also other factors at play.\n\nMany of the climbers began gathering at Everest base camp at the start of May. At the same time, the authorities were concerned about the knock-on effects of Cyclone Fani which had already struck India and Bangladesh.\n\nThe weather deteriorated in the Nepalese Himalayas days after the cyclone, forcing the government to suspend all mountaineering activities for at least two days.\n\nNearly 20 tents at the camp were blown away by strong winds and after the warning, several climbers, who were already en route to some of the higher camps, returned to base camp.\n\nProlonged bad weather meant that the practice of fixing bolted rope to assist climbers trying to reach the summit was delayed.\n\nBritish climber Robin Haynes Fisher (pictured) is among those who have died this year\n\nMeanwhile the crowd at base camp continued to build.\n\nEverest - which lies on the border between Nepal and China - can be reached from the Chinese side as well. However, the Chinese government issues fewer permits, and many mountaineering experts find the climb less interesting.\n\nAfter the ropes were fixed by mid-May, the first feasible clear-weather window was 19 and 20 May.\n\nBut only a few teams chose to climb then while the majority waited for the second window - from 22 to 24 May.\n\nMountaineering experts say this was when the crowd management went wrong.\n\n23 May saw the maximum number of climbers on one day - more than 250.\n\nClimbers had to wait for hours below the summit - both on the way up and on the way down.\n\nMany of them were exhausted and their oxygen cylinders were running low.\n\nNepal's mountaineering regulation requires expedition teams to have liaison officers on the mountains.\n\nThis time 59 of them were appointed to accompany the teams but only five of them stayed until the final part of the climb.\n\nSome did not even turn up, while most of those who did went home after a few days at the base camp.\n\nA photograph showing a long tailback went viral on the internet\n\nThese are often regular government officials who have no mountaineering experience, so they find it difficult to cope with the high altitude.\n\nThey get paid by expedition teams and most of them are happy to stay at home.\n\nIf all the liaison officials had stayed on the mountain, managing the crowd would have been much easier, a top government source at Everest base camp told the BBC.\n\n\"We could have spread the teams so that the first feasible window (19-20 May) would have seen more climbers and the pressure would have been less during the second window,\" they said.\n\n\"Since almost none of these liaison officials stayed, it became very difficult for the limited officials to handle this huge number of climbers.\"\n\nLiaison officials not turning up has been an issue ailing Nepal's mountaineering industry for years now.\n\nMeera Acharya, head of the mountaineering section at Nepal's tourism ministry, said 80% of the appointed officials did go to the base camp this time.\n\n\"But I admit that not all of our liaison officials stayed there for long. We are aware of this issue and we are working to address it.\"\n\n\"We do hear of deaths of climbers on Mount Kilimanjaro as well, why is Everest being singled out here?\"\n\nMountaineering experts say there is also an increase in the number of inexperienced climbers joining the growing crowd on Everest.\n\nThis time round, many of them had just one Sherpa guide with their team, officials at the base camp said.\n\n\"When you have a dangerous situation like this, one Sherpa will not be able to help you much because he will have to take care of himself.\"\n\nNepal has denied overcrowding is the sole reason for the rise in deaths\n\nSome of the mountaineers who successfully returned after summiting said they had seen climbers struggling because they were running out of oxygen - they had to wait much longer.\n\n\"This new generation of climbers, eager to bag the top and brag back home, didn't know enough to understand the difference between climbing Everest and Makalu (Mount Makalu, the 5th highest peak southeast of Everest),\" says Alan Arnette, an experienced mountaineer and writer on mountaineering issues.\n\n\"They joined a random team of individuals with shared logistics for an independent climb. They didn't understand the word 'independent' and had no experience to evaluate the risks.\"\n\nVeteran climbers have long suggested Nepal's government should introduce certain criteria, including mandatory experience of having climbed peaks above 6,000m, for issuing Everest climbing permits.\n\nThe quest to get anyone willing to pay has been mainly down to intense competition between operators, particularly old and new ones.\n\nWith the entry of new expedition operators offering cheaper prices, mountaineers say even some of the established ones have been forced to cut their fees.\n\n\"As a result, you see agencies hiring inexperienced people as guides who cannot offer the right guidance to their clients when they have a situation like this,\" said Tshering Pande Bhote, vice president of Nepal National Mountain Guides Association.\n\n\"Unfortunately the competition is for volume and not for quality.\"\n\nExpedition operators admit there are problems but they argue they also need to increase the number of visitors for the growth of the industry.\n\n\"Next year, for example, is Visit Nepal Year (a mega-tourism campaign that aims to bring in two million tourists),\" says Dambar Parajuli, president of the Expedition Operators Association of Nepal.\n\n\"So we will need to have more visitors, including mountaineers, but clearly how we manage traffic jams like this remains our major challenge.\"", "US President Donald Trump arrived in the UK for a three-day state visit on Monday.\n\nIt follows a four-day working visit in July 2018.\n\nThe BBC's Jonny Dymond takes a light-hearted look at what to expect, this time around.\n\nDonald Trump state visit: All you need to know\n\nPresident Trump's UK state visit- Remember his last trip there- - BBC News?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHundreds of thousands of Liverpool fans have celebrated the club's historic Champions League win at a parade through the city.\n\nJurgen Klopp's team became champions of Europe for a sixth time when they beat Tottenham Hotspur 2-0 in Madrid.\n\nThe team arrived at Liverpool Airport ahead of the open-top bus parade.\n\nIt began at Allerton Maze and ended near the waterfront after moving slowly through a sea of red. Police estimated more than 750,000 fans turned out.\n\nLiverpool players and staff took the Champions League trophy on the bus through the city\n\nThe Reds won the all-Premier League final at Madrid's Wanda Metropolitano stadium 2-0, thanks to an early Mohamed Salah penalty and a late Divock Origi strike.\n\nLiverpool lined the streets of the city to welcome the team back to Merseyside\n\nFlares spark out from the top of the Liver Building\n\nLiverpool fan Dave Williams, who was among those on the route, said: \"They've fought so hard all the way and deserve a heroes' welcome.\n\n\"The hairs on the back of my neck are standing on end at the thought of seeing the cup back in the city where it belongs.\"\n\nFlares trailing red smoke and sporadic outbreaks of the club's European anthem \"Allez, Allez, Allez\" added to an electric atmosphere on the route.\n\nManager Jurgen Klopp and captain Jordan Henderson brought the Champions League trophy back to Liverpool earlier in the day\n\nLiverpool last won the Champions League in 2005 after beating AC Milan in Istanbul\n\nFans celebrated after their team became European champions for the sixth time\n\nThe Sewells family travelled from their Nottingham home to make the trip to Liverpool.\n\nDad Richard, 42, said: \"We just had to be here and I'm pleased we made the trip because the atmosphere is electric.\"\n\nSome fans climbed traffic lights and signs to get a good vantage point\n\nJames Milner, Jordan Henderson, Divock Origi, Joe Gomez and Daniel Sturridge celebrate with the trophy\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. From Merseyside to New York, fans celebrate", "In 2017 Lubaina Himid won the £25,000 Turner Prize - a first for black female artists\n\nTurner Prize-winning artist Lubaina Himid says she was told \"black people don't make art\" before her career success.\n\nHimid won the Turner Prize in 2017 for work addressing racial politics and the legacy of slavery.\n\nThe 65-year-old became the first black woman to win the award, as well as its oldest recipient.\n\nShe has said these firsts were \"bittersweet\" but gave people hope that UK art was becoming more diverse.\n\nSpeaking to Lauren Laverne on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs, the Preston-based artist, born in Zanzibar, said: \"We were not on the television, we were not in the newspapers, unless something drastic and dangerous happened.\n\n\"I guess the notion of black people being artists was completely alien to people in the British art world.\n\n\"Someone actually said to me 'black people don't make art'.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lubaina Himid talks to the BBC about her win\n\nIn 2017 Himid said she was \"thrilled\" to win but has since said the accolade was \"bittersweet\".\n\nShe added: \"There are many black women that have been up for it in the recent history of the prize.\n\n\"I was happy to win it, but it was bittersweet.\n\n\"What people have said to me is that it gave people hope that things were changing.\"\n\nHimid hopes these changes can be built upon in order to make the art world, and the rest of society, a fairer place.\n\nShe added: \"The important thing is that we need to keep building on these changes.\n\n\"We have to keep vigilant, and just make sure everything is fair.\"\n\nHimid was made an MBE in 2010 for services to black women's art.\n\nThe full interview can be heard on BBC Sounds and BBC Radio 4, on Sunday at 11:15.\n• None Turner Prize is 'most diverse to date'\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The group went missing while climbing Nanda Devi in the Indian Himalayas\n\nA group of eight climbers has gone missing while climbing India's second highest mountain.\n\nThe team, which included four people from the UK, started to climb the 7,816-metre Nanda Devi East peak in the Himalayas on 13 May.\n\nWhen they didn't return to the base camp as planned, a search and rescue team was sent to try to find them.\n\nHowever, a local official has warned that heavy rains and snowfall are affecting the search.\n\n\"We have activated resources to trace the climbers after they failed to return to the base camp, but bad weather is hindering the operation,\" Vijay Kumar Jogdande, a magistrate in Pithoragarh district, told AFP news agency.\n\nAn Indian Air Force helicopter is also expected to be used on Sunday morning.\n\nAs well as the four climbers from Britain, the team also included two Americans, an Australian and an Indian.\n\nThey were being led by the experienced British mountain guide Martin Moran, whose Scotland-based company has run many expeditions in the Indian Himalayas.\n\nPhotos posted to Mr Moran's Facebook page the day before the start of the climb showed the group \"starting their journey into the hills at Neem Kharoli Baba temple, Bhowali\".\n\nA later post on 22 May, posted from their second base camp at 4,870 metres, suggested that the group would attempt to summit a never-before-climbed peak on the mountain.\n\nThere have been conflicting reports about when exactly the group was scheduled to return. However, according to local media, they were due to reach the Nanda Devi base camp on Friday 31 May, and the nearby village of Munsiyari on 1 June.\n\nA spokesperson for the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) said: \"We are in contact with the Indian authorities following reports that a number of British nationals are missing in the Indian Himalayas. We will do all we can to assist any British people who need our help.\"\n• None Four reasons why this Everest season went wrong", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Live text and radio commentary on selected matches on the BBC Sport website and app.\n\nBritish number one Johanna Konta continued her charge through the French Open by impressively beating Croatian 23rd seed Donna Vekic to reach the quarter-finals.\n\nShe is hoping to emulate Jo Durie and become the first British woman to reach the semi-finals since 1983.\n\nThe 28-year-old will play last year's runner-up and American seventh seed Sloane Stephens in the last eight.\n\n\"To be able to win a match like this against a tough opponent is a great feeling. I felt I played well throughout the match,\" said Konta after reaching her first Grand Slam quarter-final since Wimbledon in 2017.\n\n\"To win like that in front of a crowd like that gives you goosebumps.\"\n\nKonta is enjoying a superb clay-court season, reaching WTA finals in Morocco and Rome, and has continued to build on that form in Paris with some assured performances.\n\nShe wrapped up victory over Vekic on the first of her three match points when the Croat hit long.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n\nKonta had never won a main-draw match at Roland Garros before this year and appears to be reaping the rewards of her work with coach Dimitri Zavialoff, whom she employed at the end of last year.\n\nShe is trusting her ability on a surface where she has had little previous success and against Vekic, this was again evident.\n\nKonta produced 33 winners and seven aces on her way to victory, improving her tallies in these areas from each of her previous three matches.\n\nFormer world number four Konta was rarely flustered against Vekic, who she memorably beat in a three-set thriller on her way to the Wimbledon semi-finals two years ago.\n\nAfter bouncing straight back from losing her opening service game, the Briton broke again for a 5-2 lead and kept a measure of calm to see off four break points before sealing the set with an ace down the middle.\n\nServe ruled at the start of the second set - with only eight receiving points won in the opening six games - before Konta struck first for a 4-3 advantage.\n\nFor the first time she wobbled as three unforced errors handed the break straight back, but she managed to reset again in the next game.\n\nTwo whopping forehands, which dusted the baseline, set the tone, forcing Vekic into a panicked backhand volley wide that brought up three break points for the Briton.\n\nVekic saved two of them, only for Konta to take the third when she pulled off an outrageous backhand drop shot from the back of the court.\n\nKonta took her first match point when she expertly judged a Vekic return was going long, breaking out into a broad smile and raising both arms skywards in celebration.\n\n\"I was definitely pleased with how I was playing and the kind of problem-solving I was doing out there. I felt I was being very effective,\" Konta said.\n\n\"I thought I had very few drops in my level, which I think definitely kept the pressure on her and in trying to find a solution.\n\n\"I was able to identify where I was getting points and what was making her feel uncomfortable on court. I thought I played into the open spaces quite well and was able to find opportunities to do that.\"\n\nKonta is not alone in being a quarter-final debutant at this year's French Open.\n\nCroatian 31st seed Petra Martic and Czech 19-year-old Marketa Vondrousova are both in the last eight at Roland Garros for the first time and one of them will be Konta's semi-final opponent if she is victorious in the next round.\n\nNeither player has made it to a Grand Slam quarter-final before, but Martic reached this stage after beating Kaia Kanepi 5-7 6-2 6-4, while Vondrousova came through after a 6-2 6-0 win against 12th seed Anastasija Sevastova.\n\nTennis can sometimes be a very simple game.\n\nFuelled by confidence, and playing with the utmost fluency, Johanna Konta looked in little doubt that a quarter-final spot was hers for the taking.\n\nKonta arrived in the Moroccan capital Rabat at the end of April with some fine Fed Cup wins for GB under her belt, but a very sketchy career record on clay.\n\nShe saved three match points in the first round there, and has not looked back.\n\nThe win over Vekic was Konta's 14th in four tournaments, but she will have to play exceptionally well for a 15th. She has two victories on tour this year against Sloane Stephens, but knows last year's runner up is an altogether different prospect when a Grand Slam title is on the line.\n\nKonta was not the only Briton in action at Roland Garros, as Joe Salisbury made it to the men's doubles quarter-finals alongside American Rajeev Ram.\n\nThe 11th seeds came back from a set down to beat eighth seeds Henri Kontinen and John Peers 3-6 6-3 7-6 (7-5).\n\nSalisbury and Ram will face unseeded French pair Fabrice Martin and Jeremy Chardy - who was beaten by British number one Kyle Edmund in the first round of the singles - in the last eight.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone", "Last updated on .From the section Liverpool\n\nLiverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has said winning the Champions League is the \"best night of our professional lives\".\n\nThe Reds beat Tottenham 2-0 in Madrid thanks to an early Mohamed Salah penalty and a late Divock Origi strike.\n\nIt is their first major trophy since Klopp arrived at Anfield in 2015.\n\n\"Did you ever see a team like this, fighting with no fuel in the tank? I am so happy for the boys, all these people and my family. They suffer for me, they deserve it more than anybody,\" he said.\n\n\"It was an intense season with the most beautiful finish I ever could have imagined.\"\n\nLiverpool, who lost last season's final to Real Madrid, finished on 97 points in this season's Premier League, but finished second to Manchester City.\n• None Pochettino wants to 'experience' final again\n• None Read all the reaction to the game\n• None How you rated the players\n\nThe German arrived at the post-match news conference holding a beer. \"We'll celebrate together, we'll have a sensational night,\" he said.\n\n\"I feel mostly relief, relief for my family. The last six times we flew on holiday with only a silver medal it didn't feel too cool.\n\n\"Tonight was a big challenge for both teams to deal with the three weeks with no game. The final is about the result and tonight the boys showed the resilience we needed. I don't want to explain why we won it, I only want to enjoy that we won it.\"\n\nThe team's title parade around their home city starts at 16:00 BST on Sunday.\n\n\"Tonight is really emotional, but I'm much calmer than I thought,\" said Klopp.\n\n\"It wasn't important for me to touch the cup. I loved seeing the boys having it and seeing some faces in the crowd. Going to Liverpool tomorrow with something to celebrate is big and I'm really looking forward to that.\"\n\n'The best moment of my life'\n\nCaptain Jordan Henderson paid tribute to Klopp. \"Without this manager this is impossible,\" he told BT Sport. \"You go through tough times in a season, but what he has done since coming in is unbelievable.\n\n\"There's such a togetherness, he has created a special dressing room - all the praise goes to the manager. I'm so proud to be a part of this football club and to cap it with this is so special to me.\"\n\nThe midfielder, who has been at Liverpool since 2011, also captained the Reds in last season's final loss to Real.\n\n\"I just try to give my best every time I play football and to help my team no matter what,\" he said. \"I've had tough times but I've kept going - just as this club has.\n\n\"It's the best moment of my life. This is what I dreamed of since I was a kid.\n\n\"It's not about me, it's not about me being captain or lifting the trophy, it's about this club, these players, this manager. Now we must keep going and kick on.\"\n\n'We deserved it more than any other team'\n\nRight-back Trent Alexander-Arnold - who set up 16 goals in all competitions this season - became the first player under the age of 21 to appear in consecutive Champions League finals.\n\nThe 20-year-old England international said: \"I am just a normal lad from Liverpool whose dream has just come true.\n\n\"It is hard to put into words. The season we have had, we deserved it more than any other team. We have done something special, we dominated the game.\n\n\"We will not look back and think it was a sluggish game, we will see we are European champions.\"\n\nSalah enjoyed a much better final than last year, when he went off injured following a clash with Sergio Ramos.\n\nThis time, his second-minute penalty - which made him the fifth African to score in a European Cup final - put the Reds on the way to victory.\n\n\"Everyone is happy now,\" he said. \"I am glad to play the second final in a row and play 90 minutes finally. Everyone did his best today - no great individual performances today, all the team was unbelievable.\n\n\"I have sacrificed a lot for my career, to come from a village to go to Cairo, and to be an Egyptian at this level is unbelievable for me.\"", "There has been an increase of about 1,250 pupils seeking places in post-primary schools in Northern Ireland this September.\n\nPrimary seven pupils find out by letter on Saturday to which school they will transfer.\n\nAccording to the Education Authority (EA), 226 pupils have yet to be placed.\n\nHowever, 99% of the 23,949 pupils transferring in 2019 have had their place in a post-primary school confirmed.\n\nNot all have received a place in their first choice school.\n\nThe EA said that 20,776 pupils had been placed in the post primary they had listed as their first choice, with just under 3,000 pupils placed in a school that was not their first preference.\n\nThere are 1,267 more pupils moving from primary to post-primary school this year compared to 2018.\n\nIn all, 2,219 more pupils are transferring than two years ago.\n\nThe rise in pupil numbers led the Department of Education (DE) to provide extra places in some schools earlier this year.\n\nThe department can also provide a \"temporary variation\" in numbers for schools in which additional places are still required.\n\nIn 2018, for instance, 40 extra places were provided at Bangor Academy which had been heavily oversubscribed.\n\nParents of children who have not yet been placed will be provided with a list of schools which still have places.\n\nThe EA is operating a helpline for parents who do not receive a letter on Saturday, or whose child has no school place.\n\nThe number is 028 9598 5595 and it will operate from 1200 to 1700 BST on Saturday, and again from 0900 on Monday.", "Visa applicants will have to provide all their social media usernames\n\nNearly all applicants for US visas will have to submit their social media details under newly adopted rules.\n\nThe State Department regulations say people will have to submit social media names and five years' worth of email addresses and phone numbers.\n\nWhen proposed last year, authorities estimated the proposal would affect 14.7 million people annually.\n\nCertain diplomatic and official visa applicants will be exempt from the stringent new measures.\n\nHowever, people travelling to the US to work or to study will have to hand over their information.\n\n\"We are constantly working to find mechanisms to improve our screening processes to protect US citizens, while supporting legitimate travel to the United States,\" the department reportedly said.\n\nPreviously, only applicants who needed additional vetting - such as people who had been to parts of the world controlled by terrorist groups - would need to hand over this data.\n\nBut now applicants will have to give up their account names on a list of social media platforms, and also volunteer the details of their accounts on any sites not listed.\n\nAnyone who lies about their social media use could face \"serious immigration consequences\", according to an official who spoke to The Hill.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. President Trump proposed a new US immigration system in May\n\nThe Trump administration first proposed the rules in March 2018.\n\nAt the time, the American Civil Liberties Union - a civil rights group - said there is \"no evidence that such social media monitoring is effective or fair\", and said it would cause people to self-censor themselves online.\n\nUS President Donald Trump made cracking down on immigration a key plank of his election campaign in 2016.\n\nHe called for \"extreme vetting\" of immigrants before and during his time in office.\n\nOn Friday Mr Trump vowed to impose gradually rising tariffs on Mexico unless the country curbed illegal immigration at the US southern border.", "Police have begun a cross-border investigation after a bomb was left under the car of an off-duty officer at a Belfast golf club.\n\nOne of the vehicles police believe was used in the murder bid was registered in the Republic of Ireland.\n\nThe device was hidden under the car at Shandon Park Golf Club in east Belfast.\n\nPolice said that the main line of inquiry was \"violent dissident republicans\".\n\nOn Saturday night, police examined CCTV footage and searched the car park of the club, which is located close to the PSNI headquarters on the Knock Road.\n\nSpeaking on Sunday, Det Supt Sean Wright said the investigation centres on two cars which were found burnt out in Etna Drive in north Belfast.\n\nOne was a Green Skoda Octavia with a Dublin registration, 01 D 78089.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"The other car is a Silver Saab with the registration NFZ 3216,\" he said.\n\nDet Supt Wright appealed to the public for footage of the area around the golf club between 19:00 BST on Friday and 07:00 BST on Saturday.\n\n\"If you were a pedestrian, a driver of a car, do you have dashcam footage? If you live in that area, do you have CCTV? We want to see it,\" he said.\n\nHe said that the device was \"designed to kill\" and that it was \"sufficiently sophisticated that had it exploded the likely outcome would have been murder\".\n\n\"The device was capable of functioning,\" he added. \"We are extremely fortunate it did not go off.\"\n\nHe added that it was not just the off-duty officer who was put in danger on Saturday, but the many others attending the club and living in the surrounding area.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable George Clarke said the officer whose car was targeted was \"obviously shaken\" by the experience.\n\n\"We will do our very best to support him, to ensure that he is helped through what will be a very difficult and traumatic time in the days to come,\" he added.\n\n\"Officers know the need to be vigilant. They know the risks they face and despite that, they come to work and face us all every day.\"\n\nHe blamed dissident republicans for the attack, saying they had acted \"recklessly, cruelly and viciously\".\n\nPolice officers throughout Northern Ireland have been told to step up their personal security.\n\nThe Police Federation, which represents rank and file officers, said there was a need for extra vigilance.\n\nOn Saturday, the bomb was examined by Army bomb disposal experts, who declared it to be a \"viable improvised explosive device\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Queen: \"I am confident our common values and shared interests will continue to unite us\".\n\nPresident Donald Trump has praised the \"eternal friendship\" between the UK and US as he joined a state banquet at Buckingham Palace.\n\nThe Queen said the countries were celebrating an alliance which had ensured the \"safety and prosperity of both our peoples for decades\".\n\nThe president is in the UK for a three-day state visit, which includes the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings.\n\nEarlier in the day, Mr Trump criticised the mayor of London.\n\nHe tweeted that Sadiq Khan - who had said the UK should \"not roll out the red carpet\" for Mr Trump - was a \"stone cold loser\".\n\nBut in his speech at the banquet, Mr Trump praised the courage of the British people during World War Two and called the Queen a \"great, great woman\".\n\n\"In that dark hour, the people of this nation showed the world what it means to be British,\" he said, adding that their bravery ensured that the destiny of the country \"remained in your own hands\".\n\nMr Trump ended his speech with a toast to \"the eternal friendship of our people, the vitality of our nations and to the long-cherished and truly remarkable reign of Her Majesty the Queen\".\n\nThe Queen praised the two countries' role in creating an assembly of international institutions that would ensure \"the horrors of conflict would never be repeated\".\n\nOn Twitter before the banquet, Mr Trump praised the welcome from the Royal Family as \"fantastic\" and said the relationship with the UK is \"very strong\".\n\nHe also said a post-Brexit trade deal could happen once the UK removed the \"shackles\", adding: \"Already starting to talk!\"\n\nLarge-scale protests are planned in several UK cities during the three-day visit, including in London, where a \"national demonstration\" will start at Trafalgar Square at 11:00 on Tuesday.\n\nThe Duchess of Cambridge was escorted into the banquet by US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin\n\nThe banquet was held in the ballroom at Buckingham Palace\n\nThe American national anthem was played and Mr Trump was invited to inspect the guard of honour\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn - who boycotted the state dinner - is due to attend and speak at the London demonstration, a party spokesman has confirmed.\n\nEarlier, Mr Corbyn tweeted: \"Tomorrow's protest against Donald Trump's state visit is an opportunity to stand in solidarity with those he's attacked in America, around the world and in our own country - including, just this morning, Sadiq Khan.\"\n\nMr Trump's tweet about Mr Khan accused him of doing a \"terrible job\" as mayor, adding: \"[He] has been foolishly \"nasty\" to the visiting president of the United States, by far the most important ally of the United Kingdom. He is a stone cold loser who should focus on crime in London, not me.\"\n\nThe contrast could not have been starker. The President of the United States received a warm welcome from the Queen and the Prince of Wales at Buckingham Palace.\n\nThere were two 41-gun salutes - one for Mr Trump and another marking the 66th anniversary of the Queen's coronation on Sunday - as well as an honour guard of young Grenadiers resplendent in scarlet.\n\nAt the same time, Mr Trump launched a verbal attack on the mayor of the city in which he is now a guest, calling Sadiq Khan \"a stone cold loser\" for questioning why the president had been granted a state visit.\n\nIn truth, this is all of a piece for Mr Trump: he gets the pictures and the pageantry that he wants and will look good in his re-election campaign next year, and he gets to pick a fight with a liberal, Muslim politician that will play well with his base.\n\nAlready this row is forcing those campaigning to be Britain's prime minister to define themselves against Mr Trump.\n\nForeign Secretary Jeremy Hunt criticised Mr Khan for his \"great discourtesy\". But Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the office of the mayor of London should be respected in the same way one respects the office of the president.\n\nThis visit has only just begun and already the Great Disruptor is tweeting angry thoughts and breaching diplomatic niceties. Business as usual, you might think - only today he also happens to be a guest of the Queen, who rarely tweets and is always diplomatic.\n\nA spokesman for Mr Khan said \"childish insults\" should be beneath the US president, adding: \"Sadiq is representing the progressive values of London and our country, warning that Donald Trump is the most egregious example of a growing far-right threat around the globe.\"\n\nHouse of Commons Speaker John Bercow and Liberal Democrat leader Sir Vince Cable also boycotted the state banquet.\n\nThe Duchess of Sussex did not attend following the birth of her son Archie, who is less than a month old. On Sunday, Mr Trump denied calling the duchess \"nasty\", despite him using the word on tape.\n\nBut the guests included the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge as well as prominent Americans living in Britain.\n\nThe Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall posed with their visitors in the morning room at Clarence House\n\nThe president and first lady were given a tour of Westminster Abbey by the Dean of Westminster\n\nThe US president made his mark in the distinguished visitors' book at Westminster Abbey\n\nAs he stepped onto UK soil at Stansted Airport, Mr Trump was greeted by US Ambassador to the UK Woody Johnson and Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt.\n\nTory leadership candidate Mr Hunt, who has spoken about the importance of the UK's relationship with the US, said Mr Trump mentioned to him \"some of his very strong views about the mayor of London\".\n\nCrowds were gathered outside Buckingham Palace as the president and first lady landed by helicopter shortly after midday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Queen presented Mr Trump with a first edition of Sir Winston Churchill's book The Second World War, from 1959, with gilt decorations and hand-sewn bindings in the colours of the US flag. He was also given a three-piece Duofold pen set decorated with an EIIR emblem, in a design made exclusively for the monarch.\n\nMrs Trump received a specially commissioned silver box with a handcrafted enamel lid, decorated in royal blue with roses, thistles and shamrocks to represent the ceiling of Buckingham Palace's music room.\n\nAfter the private lunch, the Queen showed the couple American artefacts and other items from the Royal Collection. In a nod to the US leader's Scottish heritage, he was shown a bolt of Harris tweed.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mr and Mrs Trump laid a wreath at the grave of the unknown warrior as part of their UK state visit\n\nMr and Mrs Trump met the Duke of York at Westminster Abbey, where they laid a wreath at the grave of the unknown warrior.\n\nThe president signed the distinguished visitor's book in his customary black marker pen, describing the 13th Century church as a \"special place\".\n\nTheir next stop was Clarence House, where they joined Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall for tea.\n\nA quick walk around the crowd outside Buckingham Palace revealed the presence of supporters and detractors of Mr Trump - both equally strong in their views.\n\nPhillip Butah, from Essex, wearing a MAGA hat and describing himself and his companion as \"Trump activists\", says: \"We are so happy that he's here - this visit is long overdue.\"\n\nAsked what they expect the UK to get from this visit, they reply: \"Trade deals.\"\n\nCorey Wright, a 25-year-old American from Ohio, in London as a tourist, sees the visit in a similar light.\n\n\"I think the visit is good for the political environment,\" he says. \"I think that needs to be worked on and that's what he's here to do.\"\n\nAuriel Granville - a climate activist from Wimbledon, south-west London - came dressed as the Statue of Liberty to protest against the president's visit.\n\n\"I don't think he should be received in this way - climate change should be top of our agenda and Donald Trump is a climate change denier,\" she said.\n\nTalks between Mr Trump and outgoing Prime Minister Theresa May will begin on Tuesday. Although Mr Trump has spoken of his admiration for Mrs May, there are expected to be differences of opinion during their talks.\n\nThe prime minister will raise the issue of climate change, with a government spokesman again saying on Monday the UK was \"disappointed by the US decision to withdraw from the Paris Agreement in 2017\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe two leaders are also expected to discuss Huawei. The US has blacklisted the Chinese firm for security reasons, while the UK may allow it to supply \"non-core\" components for its 5G network.\n\nThe president's visit coincides with the commemorations for the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings, which the Queen, Mr Trump and other heads of state will attend at Portsmouth on Wednesday.\n\nAirmen from the RAF Regiment formed a guard of honour for the couple\n\nBefore the visit, President Trump told the Sun newspaper he was backing Conservative Party leadership contender Boris Johnson to be the next UK prime minister.\n\nHe also told the Sunday Times that Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage - an arch critic of Mrs May - should be involved in the government's negotiations to leave the EU.\n\nAlthough the Queen has met 12 of the 13 US presidents who have been in office during her reign, Mr Trump's state visit to the UK is only the third by a US leader.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Jonny Dymond on what to expect from President Trump's visit to the UK\n\nGeorge W Bush and Barack Obama are the only other US presidents to have been given a state visit.\n\nState visits differ from official visits and are normally at the invitation of the Queen, who acts on advice from the government. The Queen usually receives one or two heads of state per year and has hosted 112 of these visits since becoming monarch in 1952.", "Last updated on .From the section Boxing\n\nAnthony Joshua vowed to \"get the belts back\" after calling his sensational heavyweight world-title defeat by Andy Ruiz Jr a \"minor setback\".\n\nJoshua, 29, was floored four times as Ruiz defied underdog status to win in seven rounds and deliver a true shock to the sport at Madison Square Garden.\n\nHe said: \"It's a test of character. I'll see what is next and move on.\"\n\nPromoter Eddie Hearn said a rematch is a \"must win\" because Joshua's options will be \"nothing after that\".\n\nA rematch clause was part of the contract and Hearn said he expected it to take place \"in England in November or December\". Ruiz himself says he will take the contest at any time.\n• None Re-live how Ruiz Jr beat Joshua to shake up the heavyweight division\n\nJoshua had a concussion test after falling to a first defeat of his 23-fight career against a man who took the contest at short notice when original opponent Jarrell Miller failed drugs tests.\n\nAfter scoring a third-round knock down, he was floored twice before the end of the round and put down twice more in the seventh before the bout was waved off.\n\nSitting alongside Joshua at a post-fight news conference, Hearn said his fighter will want the repeat fixture more with \"every day that passes\".\n\nJoshua quietly responded: \"I think that's right\".\n\nHe added: \"Winning is everything. I am not going to sit here and say 'losing is fine'. Not in my book. But if you do happen to lose, adjust and bounce back. But I do not condone losing in any form. This is war, battle, so what's next?\"\n\nJoshua, who lost the IBF, WBA and WBO world titles, was asked about potential fights with WBC world champion Deontay Wilder and Tyson Fury.\n\n\"I still want to compete with those men but a rematch with Andy Ruiz Jr is where we are at,\" he said. \"I'm still a champ and I will rectify it to get the belts back.\"\n\nHearn said Joshua got \"sloppy\" and expects the defeat to \"devastate\" his fighter, adding Ruiz had pulled off \"one of those big upsets in heavyweight history\".\n\nMuch had been made of Joshua competing in the US for the first time, with hopes high he could land an eye-catching win that would build his profile in the country.\n\nHe was priced at 1-25 with bookmakers, with many pundits expecting Ruiz to struggle to make it past the opening few rounds.\n\n\"It was a new environment and that is a factor but he should be beating Andy Ruiz,\" added Hearn.\n\n\"AJ must win that rematch in the UK because there is nothing after that.\"\n\n'I am still pinching myself'\n\nRuiz warned he will be \"more motivated as a champion\" and vowed to take the rematch at \"any time\" after turning the heavyweight division on its head.\n\nIn becoming Mexico's first world heavyweight champion he now holds three of the four major belts, with Wilder in possession of the other.\n\nJournalists threw names like James 'Buster' Douglas - who upset Mike Tyson in 1990 - and Hasim Rahman - who beat Lennox Lewis in 2001 - at Ruiz, who simply said: \"I am still pinching myself.\n\n\"I wanted to prove everyone wrong, all the doubters, I was looking at comments.\n\n\"This is not going to be the only victory. I am not going to let these belts go.\n\n\"I am trying to make a legacy and a big name for myself.\"\n\nRuiz, who started boxing aged six, told media during fightweek he considered giving up because of criticism of his body shape.\n\nAt 268lbs, he was the heaviest opponent Joshua has shared a ring with but it was the Briton who looked physically drained early on in the contest.\n\nJoshua never recovered after being floored twice in the third round, knock downs made more impressive given Ruiz had been dropped with a left hook moments earlier.\n\n\"It was my first time down,\" added Ruiz. \"I was like 'what the hell just happened?'\n\n\"I think it was the Mexican blood in me. I had to return the favour.\n\n\"The way that I look, the extra flab I carry. Now I want to get in real good shape and look like a Mexican Anthony.\n\n\"Follow your dreams, if someone puts you down don't listen, just keep working like I did. We just made history.\"", "A set of stamps commemorating the 75th anniversary of D-Day has been unveiled by Royal Mail.\n\nThe 11 stamps feature photos of troops from Britain, the US and Canada, landing on beaches in Normandy, France.\n\nBritish paratroopers synchronising watches and commandos wading ashore on Juno beach are pictured.\n\nRoyal Mail said it consulted with the Spirit of Normandy Trust and Imperial War Museums on the stamps, which will be on sale from 6 June.\n\nSix of the stamps show allied forces in the assault on Utah, Sword, Gold, Juno and Omaha beaches on 6 June 1944.\n\nThe others include images of HMS Warspite shelling in support of the landings, British troops advancing inland, and an American light bomber providing air back-up.\n\nRichard Palusinski, chairman of the Spirit of Normandy Trust, said: \"D-Day was one of the most significant events of the 20th century and had a massive impact on world history.\n\n\"It is fitting that those who participated in securing the freedom we now enjoy should be remembered by the issue of these excellent special stamps.\"\n\nRoyal Mail's Philip Parker said: \"Seventy-five years on, as these events pass from memory into history, our new stamps pay tribute to the courage and sacrifice of all those who took part.\"\n\nLast December Royal Mail had to apologise and withdraw a stamp designed for the series.\n\nAn image of the stamp revealed in a social media preview showed US troops landing in what was Dutch New Guinea, nearly 8,500 miles from France.", "US President Donald Trump will touch down in the UK on Tuesday for a Nato summit - the second visit he has made to Britain this year. What will the security operation involve and what hardware and staff will the president bring with him?\n\nWhenever the US president arrives in the UK, a multi-million-pound security operation is brought into action.\n\nMr Trump's three-day state visit in June, which involved more than 6,300 officers, cost the Metropolitan Police £3.4m, according to figures released under the Freedom of Information Act. A previous four-day working visit in 2018 cost more than £14.2m.\n\nHere are some of the incredible vehicles and entourage the president could be bringing with him this time around.\n\nThe president is likely to arrive in the UK on his customised, high-spec aircraft Air Force One.\n\nAir Force One isn't actually a specific plane but instead refers to one of two specially adapted Boeing 747-200B series aircraft, which carry the tail codes 28000 and 29000.\n\nWith its advanced avionics and defences, Air Force One is classed as a military aircraft, designed to withstand an air attack.\n\nIt can jam enemy radar and eject flares to throw heat-seeking missiles off course.\n\nIt is also capable of refuelling midair, allowing it to fly for an unlimited time - crucial in an emergency.\n\nAir Force One is also equipped with secure communications equipment, allowing the aircraft to function as a mobile command centre.\n\nThere are 85 onboard telephones, a collection of two-way radios and computer connections.\n\nInside, the president and his travel companions enjoy 4,000 sq ft of floor space on three levels, including an extensive suite for the president, a medical facility with an operating table, a conference and dining room, two food preparation galleys that can feed 100 people at a time, and designated areas for the press, VIPs, security and secretarial staff.\n\nSeveral cargo planes, including C-17 Globemaster transport aircraft, carry the president's fleet of armoured vehicles and helicopters, usually landing in advance of his arrival.\n\nAccording to the Washington Post, the president is always accompanied by a military aide carrying an emergency satchel known as the \"football\", which contains the \"gold codes\" for launching the country's nuclear weapons and options for their use.\n\nThe military aide must be nearby the president at all times, as the commander-in-chief is in possession of personal identification codes required to order a strike.\n\nThey are carried on a plastic card known as the \"biscuit\", which can be read only when its opaque plastic covering is snapped in two and removed.\n\nThe presidential motorcade, which includes two identical limousines and other security and communications vehicles, are transported ahead of the president by United States Air Force transport aircraft.\n\nOn the ground, the president travels in Cadillac One - a bullish, enhanced limousine dubbed the \"Beast\" for obvious reasons.\n\nThe spare, decoy vehicle that accompanies it has the same Washington DC licence plates - 800-002.\n\nPresident Trump's generation of presidential car debuted in 2018 - with the US Secret Service tweeting ahead of the UN General Assembly that it was \"ready to roll\".\n\nBut the service and vehicle's designers at General Motors have remained tight-lipped about the vehicle's special security features.\n\nWeighing in at about nine tonnes (20,000lb) - with an armour-plated body and bulletproof windows (which don't all open) - the car is reported to have tear gas grenade launchers, night vision cameras and a built-in satellite phone.\n\nReinforced tyres surround steel-rimmed wheels, which mean the car can still be driven if the tyres are flat.\n\nThe passenger cabin is said to be sealed, to fend off a chemical attack, while special foam would surround the fuel tank in case of impact.\n\nThe vehicle also has extensive electronic equipment, Reuters reports.\n\nThe car can hold at least seven people and has a wide range of medical supplies on board, including - NBC News suggests - a fridge full of blood matching the president's blood type, in case of emergency.\n\nWhen the president's on the move - you know about it.\n\nOther vehicles in the cavalcade include a parade of police outriders, secret service backup vehicles, counter-assault and hazardous attack teams, an armoured SUV communications vehicle, known as Roadrunner, medics and the press corps.\n\nThe president could also bring a fleet of helicopters with him to the UK.\n\nAmong them Marine One, which, like Air Force One, isn't a specific aircraft but instead refers to any US Marine Corps aircraft carrying the president.\n\nHowever, Marine One usually refers to one of the president's large Sikorsky VH-3D Sea Kings or the newer, smaller VH-60N White Hawks.\n\nThe specially adapted helicopters are known as \"white tops\" because of their livery and are fitted with communications equipment, anti-missile defences and hardened hulls.\n\nIt was Sea King versions that met the president at Stansted Airport and carried him to London, accompanied by tandem rotor chinook aircraft.\n\nAs a security measure, Marine One often flies in a group of identical helicopters acting as decoys.\n\nIt is also usually accompanied by two or three Osprey MV-22 escort aircraft, referred to as \"green tops\".\n\nThese tilt-rotor aircraft carry support staff, special forces and secret service agents, who are tasked with dealing with any mid-flight emergency.\n\nThe Ospreys, capable of vertical landings and high-speed flight, were heard circling around London during President Trump's last visit to the UK in 2018.\n\nStaff are also transported around in CH-46s Sea Knight helicopters.\n\nBritish forces' aircraft are also likely to be part of the security operation during his visit.\n\nSome estimates put the number of people in Mr Trump's entourage for his UK visit in 2018 at 1,000, including more than 150 US secret service agents.\n\nStaff included military communications specialists, White House aides, a doctor, a chef and members of the media.\n\nSome 750 rooms were booked out to accommodate his entourage, according to Matt Chorley, of the Times newspaper.\n\nFor his 2019 state visit, the president was reported to have booked a floor of the Corinthia Hotel in Westminster for his family and entourage.\n\nThis time around Mr Trump will be in London and Hertfordshire between 2 and 4 December for the Nato summit.\n\nHe will also attend a reception at Buckingham Palace on 3 December, which will be hosted by the Queen.\n• None Donald Trump state visit: All you need to know", "From an adrenaline pumping zip-line ride in Paris to a chimp catching freshwater crabs.\n\nSome of the stories you may have missed this week.", "Former Tory MP Ann Widdecombe was recently elected as an MEP for the Brexit Party\n\nAnn Widdecombe has come under fire after she suggested science could \"produce an answer\" to being gay.\n\nIn an interview on Sky News, the newly elected Brexit Party MEP was asked about previous comments she made concerning gay conversion therapy.\n\nShe said she had \"pointed out that there was a time when it was thought impossible for men to become women\".\n\nLabour MP Luke Pollard said Ms Widdecombe was \"continuing her sick anti-LGBT campaign\".\n\nDuring the interview on the Ridge on Sunday programme, Ms Widdecombe, 71, was asked whether people would want to share a platform with her due to her views on homosexuality.\n\nAfter referencing the scientific progress in gender reassignment, she added: \"The fact that we now think it is quite impossible for people to switch sexuality doesn't mean that science may not yet produce an answer at some stage.\"\n\nPushed by the presenter on whether she thought it was a real possibility, Ms Widdecombe replied: \"I don't know any more than people once knew whether it was possible for men to become women.\"\n\nThe MEP said she had \"never claimed that such science already exists\" to change someone's sexuality.\n\nBut she added: \"If you simply rule out the possibility of it, you are denying people who are confused about their sexuality or discontented with it, the chances that you do give to people who want to change gender.\"\n\nHer comments drew criticism on Twitter, including from Tory MP Justine Greening.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Justine Greening This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Pollard wrote that he was \"utterly ashamed to be represented by this vile woman.\n\n\"Being gay isn't a disease to be cured. Ann Widdecombe is continuing her sick anti-LGBT campaign.\"\n\nFormer Tory MP Nick Boles - who now sits as an independent - accused Ms Widdecombe of \"poisonous bigotry\", while comedian Adi Ray said the comments were \"deplorable\".\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan said she was \"peddling homophobic nonsense\", adding: \"She may have changed her party, but she hasn't changed her stripes.\"\n\nLast summer, the government launched an LGBT Action Plan which pledged to bring forward proposals to ban so-called conversion therapy.\n\nThe report stated, in efforts to become heterosexual, therapies \"can range from pseudo-psychological treatments to, in extreme cases, surgical interventions and 'corrective' rape\".\n\nAnd Ms Widdecombe's stance on gay conversion therapy comes at a time of great celebration for LGBT people globally.\n\nThe start of June saw the beginning of LGBT Pride Month - a celebration recognised internationally since 1970.\n\nPride events are under way across the UK, with many cities getting on board to recognise how far we have come in terms of visibility and representation of those of different sexualities and genders.\n\nIt will be deeply disappointing to the UK's LGBT community that elected representatives, and people with large public platforms not only hold these views but actively promote them.", "As the bus inches along the parade route there's plenty of time for fans to pick out their favourite players and give them noisy acclaim.\n\nBut the roar becomes deafening when the European Cup works its way up to the front of the bus.\n\nAnd the pressing question of \"where's Jurgen\"? is answered as the bus passes through. He's there casually perched across the back of the bus with a leg dangling over the edge.\n\nHe applauds the improvised chant \"Jurgen Klopp's on top of a bus\" and when he calls out for a scarf, a fan not only manages to throw one up to him but it lands around his neck in one move.\n\nSuddenly as the bus passes a building covered in scaffolding and fans at every vantage point, all the players start whipping out their phones.\n\nOne fan has been spotted at the top of a very tall ladder dressed only in a Borat-style mankini. Everyone both inside and outside the bus develops an urgent need to attract Herr Klopp's attention to the spectacle. When Jurgen finally turns his head that way, he flashes a big smile while simultaneously covering his eyes in mock horror.", "Mobility via donkey - a simple but effective way of sharing content in remote communities\n\nBack in 2016, mobile technology the like of which had not been seen before rolled into the remote community of Funhalouro, in Mozambique.\n\nPulled by donkey, the container consisted of four LCD screens, powered by solar panels.\n\nIt was a mobile roadshow, starting with music to draw a crowd and then switching to a three-minute film on the biggest of the screens.\n\nWhile the topic - digital literacy - was not the most entertaining, it was engaging for the audience, many of whom had never seen a screen or moving images before.\n\nAfter the film, the audience was invited to use smaller touchscreen tablets to answer a series of questions about what they had seen.\n\nThere were prizes of T-shirts and caps for those with the highest scores.\n\nFor those who couldn't read, the questions were posed in diagram form.\n\nOne important element of the project is to test to see how much people have understood\n\n\"When we arrive in a community, we try and make it a party,\" said Dayn Amade, founder of the Community Tablet.\n\n\"We want to attract people and we do it with music.\"\n\nSub-Saharan Africa is projected to have 634 million mobile users by 2025, up from 250 million at the end of 2017, according to GSM Association, the trade body for mobile carriers.\n\nAdoption of mobile technology has transformed lives, from providing people with a way to bank for the first time to helping farmers improve their crop yield.\n\nBut some countries fare better than others.\n\nWhile in Kenya mobile penetration is at 91%, in Mozambique less than half of its 31 million population have mobile connections.\n\nFor some, the tablet is their first ever interaction with a screen\n\nThe project starts with music to bring the crowds\n\nThe Community Tablet aims to fill this gap and the entertainment is just the precursor to the real point of the roadshow - to educate and empower remote and rural communities on a range of topics, from public health to mobile banking to why it is important to take part in elections.\n\nMr Amade, who was born in Mozambique, got the idea as he watched his two young sons and saw how addicted to their tablets they were and how quickly they learned how to build things by watching YouTube tutorials.\n\n\"I said to myself that this can be used in rural communities where people aren't able to do basic things because they have never had a tutorial,\" he said.\n\nDayn Amade got the idea for a community tablet watching his own kids use their devices\n\nThere have been plenty of initiatives to increase the use of technology in countries such as Mozambique, often with patchy results.\n\nThe One Laptop Per Child initiative, for instance, aimed to transform education but failed to deliver on its promises.\n\n\"The reality of Africa means that experiments like One Laptop per child or other ways of distributing smartphones unfortunately for various reasons do not work out,\" said Mr Amade.\n\n\"It's impossible to give a tablet to everybody - it is too expensive and you don't know if they are going to use it or are going to sell it.\"\n\nTraditionally, educational material is passed on via community theatre or cinema.\n\nOne blogger in Liberia used to painstakingly write out the news on a blackboard for those in his community without phones or access to newspapers, radio or TV.\n\nSometimes, the simple ideas were the best, said Ken Banks, an innovator in mobile for Africa and head of social impact at digital ID company Yoti.\n\n\"Projects like the Community Tablet are a great example of appropriate, almost frugal innovation - focusing on what works rather than what looks good,\" he said.\n\n\"We have the ability to solve many development problems with tools available today - but often we're too busy chasing the next shiny innovation.\"\n\nMr Amade agrees his is a very simple solution, describing it as \"an adequate way of supplying digital education to people in rural communities\".\n\n\"It is safe and robust. It cannot be broken and it cannot be stolen,\" he said.\n\nPeople are tested after shows to see how much they understood and rewarded with prizes such as caps and T-shirts\n\nThe project makes money from non-government organisations (NGOs), many of which have been trying to reach remote communities via more traditional methods, such as lecturers and handing out pamphlets.\n\n\"If people get a pamphlet, they throw it away. And most people don't listen after two or three minutes,\" said Mr Amade.\n\n\"NGOs go to these communities to solve specific problems but the problems remain because people have not understood. With our system, people listen, interact and then we test them.\"\n\nMany of the projects have seen tangible results, according to Mr Amade:\n\nMr Amade has been on the road for the past three years, visiting 90 communities in Mozambique's remotest areas.\n\nAnd he has learned lessons along the way, including how to adapt the technology to account for the country's potholed and dusty roads and how to alter content to suit specific communities.\n\nOne animated video, explaining the importance of hygiene to prevent cholera, horrified one largely Muslim community because it showed someone wiping their bottom with their right hand, the same hand used to eat with.\n\n\"I've made mistakes along the way and sometimes content can offend,\" Mr Amade said.\n\nNow, all content is shown to anthropologists and psychologists based at Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, a university in Maputo.\n\n\"The use of anthropologists is very refreshing and a big part of the story,\" said Mr Banks.\n\n\"Anthropology is ideally placed to help us understand local contexts, cultures, economics and geographies - yet many projects fail to engage them.\"\n\nAfter viewing films, individuals are encouraged to share what they have learned with the audience\n\nThe Community Tablet has been granted a UK patent and Mr Amade is now looking to franchise it.\n\nHe hopes to expand beyond Mozambique and to make inroads into more urban communities.\n\nAlready, he is experimenting with using the system in schools to offer children careers advice.\n\nAnd for those who did not have the luxury of an education, the tablet could be an incredibly powerful tool, he said.\n\n\"The reality of Mozambique is that the quality of education is extremely poor and that is why we remain poor because people are not being empowered properly,\" Mr Amade said.\n\n\"By explaining to people and showing them, you can solve many problems, including the poverty we live in.\"\n• None The challenge in developing start-ups in Africa", "The cutouts are based on characters such as Spongebob Squarepants (Viacom International Inc and Stephen Hillenburg), Pikachu (Pokemon) and Bugs Bunny (Warner Bros)\n\nGiant cartoon cutouts are popping up in parts of Portland, Oregon, in the US, thanks to one man's love of scavenger hunts and his dream to \"just put a smile on people's faces\".\n\nBy day, Mike Bennett spends his time in an estate agent's office, working on spreadsheets, administration and paperwork.\n\nBy night, he is in his home workshop, using recycled wood and paint picked up free from Craigslist to give physical form to online memes and childhood cartoon favourites, such as Spongebob Squarepants, Pokemon's Pikachu, Futurama's Fry, and Homer Simpson.\n\nAt first, they were displayed in his garden - but three times over the past fortnight, he has unleashed his creations across Portland, leaving clues to their whereabouts on the city's Reddit forum and earning himself the title of Regional Memesmith, from its moderators, in the process.\n\nMike finds inspiration in pop culture such as the Why not Zoidberg? meme (Futurama and 20th Century Fox)\n\nThe next of these scavenger hunts will be on Friday.\n\n\"I've been experimenting with these images for a while,\" Mike, who goes by the name Lemmy_Koopa on Reddit, told BBC News.\n\n\"I just want to give people an excuse to smile.\n\n\"I've always loved scavenger hunts but I've been blown away by the reaction.\"\n\nThis cutout of Hobbes was used to ask Reddit for ideas for Mike's next project (Calvin and Hobbes copyright - Andrews McMeel Publishing and Bill Watterson)\n\nOne fan even left an anonymous donation of plywood outside Mike's house.\n\nMike made his first big cutout three months ago, when snow was expected in Portland.\n\n\"I'm a huge fan of the comic Calvin and Hobbes,\" he said.\n\n\"When it snows, Calvin makes snowmen that his parents can't stand as they are just grotesque and violent.\n\nMike drops his characters in unusual locations, such as this tea-sipping Kermit the Frog (The Muppets Studio, LLC) in Portland Rose Garden\n\n\"I created some out of spare wood we had and put them in the front yard. This is how the idea started.\"\n\nFellow Reddit user cuterus-uterus sums up of a lot of the response to Mike's project throughout a town known for attracting people across the US to live and work: \"You seem like a fun person and your wooden monstrosities are amazing.\n\n\"Seeing those suckers around town would be a lovely reminder to all the transplants why they chose this odd little city to call home.\"\n\nAs well as his \"art drops\", Mike also creates films for Instagram and the short-video app TikTok.\n\nIn these, he shows how he makes the large sculptures that have propelled him to minor fame, as well as his attempts to cheer up the community by going into local shops and adding cartoon faces and little drawings to everyday items such as bananas and books.\n\nAt one company, they give him pizza, make a donation to charity and ask 30 staff members to take part in some sort of community service in lieu of payment for Mike's work.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by mikebennettart This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"I don't make a penny out of this,\" he said.\n\n\"I just like making things out of wood and then sharing the creations on social [media].\n\n\"It's great that people are taking the ones they find home.\n\n\"So far, we've only had one instance where a, [video game] Mario, character seemed to have been picked up by someone not from Reddit.\"\n\nThere are some creations Mike is loath to give away, however, and so they will be staying local.\n\nIf you're in Portland, you may spot Homer Simpson (20th Century Fox) peeping out from a bush\n\nHe has paid homage to a gif of Homer Simpson moving backwards into a bush, for example, by installing his own version in his garden hedge.\n\n\"Homer's a fan favourite,\" he said. \"People who spot him in our neighbourhood like to take pictures of him.\n\n\"I also don't want to burn myself out.\n\n\"I want to move beyond the memes and make what people appreciate.\n\n\"When I asked Reddit what I should make with the plywood that had been left outside my house, the votes came out in favour of Dr Seuss's Lorax, so I'm working on that right now.\"", "The Spanish actor, 41, has become well-known within the horror industry\n\nOn first glance, you probably wouldn't recognise Javier Botet.\n\nThough not a household name, the Spaniard has a portfolio that many in the movie business would kill for.\n\nOver the last few years, the 6ft 6in actor has starred in some of Hollywood's biggest horror and fantasy productions.\n\nFrom It to Mama to Slender Man - with a Game of Thrones cameo along the way - Javier has forged a reputation as one of the best creature actors in the industry.\n\nSpending his childhood in a small city north of Madrid, Javier developed a love of science fiction and the supernatural.\n\nHe grew up drawing monsters and eventually moved to the capital to pursue art. While there, he started getting interested in cinema and producing short films.\n\nAt one point, he went along to a special effects workshop. Both he and the tutor suggested his frame would be perfect to try out monster make-up on.\n\n\"I didn't realise but I was born to perform,\" Javier says.\n\nJavier was diagnosed with the genetic condition in childhood\n\n\"I have a disease called Marfan syndrome. It makes people skinnier, taller, and very flexible.\"\n\n\"So I was all my life very flexible, all my life doing weird tricks and things to enjoy with my friends [using] very creepy movement.\"\n\nHis condition means his limbs and fingers are longer than average and are able to move in unusual ways.\n\nThe tutor put him forward for roles, and within a couple of months he got a small part in his first Spanish film. This set the ball rolling for exposure.\n\nHis \"lucky break\" into Hollywood came while advertising his work in a Spanish horror film series, Rec 2, at a 2009 convention in Texas.\n\nThere, he met Argentine director Andrés Muschietti promoting a short, called Mama, that he hoped to turn into a full feature.\n\nJavier relaxing on-set as the Crooked Man in the Conjuring 2\n\nHe told Javier he'd be perfect in the title role - and one year later, with Guillermo del Toro on-board as the film's producer, Javier was officially asked.\n\nBut when the film came out in 2013, many fans assumed Mama - a female ghost - was created digitally.\n\n\"So nobody really knew that 90% of what they saw was totally mine, was physical work,\" he says.\n\nIn response, the makers decided to upload Javier's movement test, showing him moving eerily, utilising his hyper-flexibility.\n\nThe clip has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times since. Many directors and producers have credited it for why they hired him.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Mama This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nHe laughs when joking that his \"best work\" was probably the YouTube clip.\n\n\"So that was the real point that makes my career grow,\" he says. \"Because a lot of people knew that my work without CGI is almost as good - it doesn't need much more help in digital.\"\n\nSince, he has starred in massive horror franchises like Insidious, Alien and The Conjuring.\n\nHe also played parts in The Mummy, The Revenant and made a particularly memorable appearance as a leper in the 2017 remake of Steven King's It.\n\nIn costume on set as a leper, alongside the cast-member playing Eddie in It\n\nJavier (background) is seen in character on the set of Insidious: The Last Key\n\nThe film became a break-out box office success in 2017 - and later this year he will also star in the sequel with a new adult cast.\n\nMost recently, he was seen as a member of the un-dead stalking Arya Stark in an epic episode of Game of Thrones' final series.\n\nAs a life-long fan of the genre, he describes working on these productions with major Hollywood stars as \"like a gift\".\n\nJavier says he never gets scared by what he sees in the mirror. His social media accounts are full of funny behind-the-scenes photographs and videos, often in full costume.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by jbotet This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHis mother, in her 60s, has become a horror movie convert. After initially being scared, she now even takes friends along to the cinema to see Javier's films when he is working out of the country.\n\n\"In the beginning it was a little harder. She'd say 'I want you to play drama roles and a nice guy',\" Javier says.\n\nIn Spain, it isn't all horror though - Javier stars in comedies and writes and directs his own work, too.\n\nBut he still really enjoys his Hollywood horror roles - and always tries to learn new techniques, like dance, to enrich his performances.\n\nTransforming into these roles can involve hours and hours in the make-up chair.\n\nSome of his character costumes (like Slender Man) restrict his senses\n\nOne of the people responsible for bringing his characters to life is Spanish make-up artist David Martí from DDTSFX.\n\nHe has worked with Javier on several films, including Crimson Peak, which also starred another \"monster\" actor heavyweight in Doug Jones. David won an Oscar for his work on Jones in Pan's Labyrinth.\n\nHaving also grown up in Spain in the 1980s, David recalls trying to teach himself how to create horror looks, inspired by imported US magazines like Fangoria.\n\nIt was a lot of trial and error. In one example, he remembers not understanding what \"foam latex\" was and tried to use sofa filling to recreate a look.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post 2 by daviddtsfx This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"It was all, you know, research and you know, and a lot of accidents at that beginning because obviously there was no internet, there was no information,\" he says.\n\nHe describes the final product of creatures and characters as often a collaboration - with some directors more involved in the concept than others.\n\nHe says the final look can be a development process, with designs often changing throughout production.\n\nDavid has high praise for the actors, including Javier, beneath all the make-up.\n\n\"A lot of times they call them creature performers or monster guy - which is not correct, they are actors,\" David says. \"I see people like Doug or Javier and it's like 'What the hell?' You should not wear a mask.\"\n\nDavid (right) seen transforming Javier into a red ghost character for Crimson Peak\n\nDDTSFX transforming Javier on the set of Mama\n\nHe says he briefly considered whether he should switch professions to CGI in the 1990s after seeing its pioneering use in productions like Jurassic Park - assuming his job would eventually become redundant.\n\n\"But CGI didn't take us out of a job, it's actually giving us more of a job and that's a good thing,\" David says.\n\nOften the two skills can complement each other. On Mama and Crimson Peak, digital effects were added to enhance DDTSFX's work.\n\nJavier believes that no matter how far technology goes, actors like himself will always have value in the industry.\n\n\"When there's something digital, anything can happen. It's like a cartoon - you lose the scare and the fear,\" he says.\n\n\"I'd rather 100 times that you feel something is real, you can touch it, it exists and it can happen.\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post 3 by jbotet This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n• None Dumbo: How we made the visual effects", "Mount Everest is the world's highest mountain, but is it the deadliest?\n\nAs glaciers melt at a greater pace, there are concerns among expedition operators that bodies are becoming exposed on Mount Everest.\n\nThe mountain is one of the crown jewels for climbers - but with the achievement of reaching the world's highest peak come risks.\n\nSo how deadly is Everest and how does it compare with others in the region?\n\nRecords suggest there have been just over 280 deaths on the mountain.\n\nWhile the number of deaths has been increasing, however, the death rate - the proportion of those who climb above base camp that die - has fallen to below 1%.\n\nSince 2010, there have been 72 deaths on Everest and 7,954 climbs above base camp.\n\nMost of these deaths are from avalanches or falls, which partially explains the difficulty in retrieving bodies from the mountain.\n\nAcute mountain sickness, with symptoms of dizziness, vomiting and headaches, has also caused deaths.\n\nWhile the risks are clear, Alan Arnette, a professional mountaineer who counts Everest and K2 among his climbs, points out that it is significantly safer climbing Everest than elsewhere in the Himalayas.\n\nOn Everest, he says, \"it's basically just following a well-used route\".\n\n\"There is a lot more infrastructure, more tea houses, more helicopter airlifts possible,\" he says.\n\n\"In some of the mountains in Pakistan you have to rely on an army helicopter.\"\n\nThe recent deaths of two climbers in Pakistan have highlighted that danger.\n\nThe British climber Tom Ballard and his Italian climbing partner Daniele Nardi died attempting to scale the Himalayan peak Nanga Parbat, known colloquially as \"Killer Mountain\".\n\nTom's mother, Alison Hargreaves, had previously died climbing K2, the world's second-highest peak, also in Pakistan.\n\nBoth Nanga Parbat and K2 are considered two of the toughest of the \"eight-thousanders\" - the 14 mountains higher than 8,000m (26,000ft).\n\nStatistics on successful attempts and deaths are not as readily available in Pakistan.\n\nBut calculations done by Mr Arnette and other climbers show Nanga Parbat has had 339 successful ascents to the summit and 69 deaths.\n\nThat works out at roughly one death for every five successful ascents to the summit.\n\nK2, which is part of the neighbouring Karakoram mountain range, is even more dangerous - there have been 355 successful ascents to the summit and 82 deaths.\n\nMost Himalayan ascents are not attempted from Pakistan but from mountains with their peaks in Nepal.\n\nAnd statistics are more detailed in this part of the Himalayas, thanks primarily to the work of journalist Elizabeth Hawley.\n\nHer Himalayan Database is seen as the most authoritative records of climbs, successful or unsuccessful, of more than 450 peaks in the region, including Everest.\n\nUnlike records from Pakistan, the Himalayan Database collects information not just on successful ascents to the summit but also on all those who venture beyond base camps, giving a more accurate view of the danger of the mountains.\n\nAnd for all climbs above base camp in the region, the death rate has dropped from 3% in the 1950s to 0.9% over the past decade.\n\nFor Sherpas, the Nepalese professional climbers hired to support mountaineering teams, it has declined from 1.3% to 0.8%.\n\nSince 2010, there have been 183 recorded deaths above base camp in the region, according to the Himalayan Database, and over 21,000 climbs above base camp.\n\nThe statistics also shine a light on which mountain peak poses the greatest threat to climbers.\n\nSince 2010, out of the four mountaineers to have climbed Yalung Kang, three have died.\n\nThe overall number climbing these peaks is small, which does skew the figures, but ultimately reiterates the point that the mountains less well trod are potentially the most lethal.", "The explosion sent a mushroom cloud into the sky above Dzerzhinsk\n\nA factory explosion in the Russian city of Dzerzhinsk has injured 79 people and damaged 180 homes nearby.\n\nCity officials say that the factory was used to produce and store high-explosive bombs for the military.\n\nThey add that the processing facility at the JSC Kristall Research Institute plant has been completely destroyed by the blast.\n\nA factory official says five people were inside at the time, but they were safely evacuated.\n\nMost of the people who were hurt were cut by flying glass from the explosion, which also caused a shockwave that smashed windows in homes and other factories in the city.\n\nThe shockwave smashed windows in buildings near the factory\n\nDzerzhinsk city officials have declared an emergency in the surrounding areas, while the Investigative Committee of Russia says it has launched a criminal investigation into potential safety violations at the plant.\n\nA local health ministry statement says: \"According to the latest information, 79 people asked for medical help after the explosion at Kristall: 38 factory workers and 41 residents of the city. There are no children among the injured.\"\n\nIt adds that 15 people were hospitalised, but no one had died.\n\nEarlier, a local health official said that most victims were suffering from \"shrapnel wounds of mild and moderate severity\".\n\nMeanwhile residents have posted photos on social media showing a huge mushroom cloud billowing out over the blast area.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Пачкуа Ле Пестриньи This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOfficials said it was a \"technical explosion\" in one of the workshops, which caused a fire of around 100 sq m.\n\nLast August three people died in another factory blast in Dzerzhinsk, in central Russia, which is believed to be one of the world's most polluted cities.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIrish boxer Katie Taylor has previously reflected on the \"mountain tops and valleys\" of life, and this weekend she hopes to scale her highest peak to be the undisputed women's world lightweight champion.\n\nTaylor, 32, has sampled highs and lows, inside and outside of the ring, during her career.\n\nShe already holds the WBO, IBF and WBA world lightweight belts.\n\nNow she is bidding to write her finest chapter in boxing history by defeating Belgian police officer and WBC champion Delfine Persoon, 34, at New York's Madison Square Garden.\n\nIf she succeeds, she will claim her fourth world title in just 14 professional fights, and would be the first Irish female boxer to become the undisputed world champion.\n\nThe County Wicklow native is already a significant sporting figure due to her instrumental role in getting women's boxing recognised in Ireland and on the Olympic stage.\n\nBut as boxing author Barry Flynn explains, a win on Saturday night would put her achievements on another level.\n\n\"She is a once-in-a-generation athlete,\" said Flynn.\n\n\"In the modern era, in terms of Irish boxing, it would be unprecedented if she wins.\n\n\"She will stand at the pinnacle. It is a remarkable achievement given the hurdles she has had to overcome.\"\n\nTaylor with her promoter Eddie Hearn and Belgian opponent Delfine Persoon\n\nFlynn says you have to frame Taylor's achievements within \"the perspective of women's boxing in Ireland\".\n\n\"There has been a struggle over the years for it to get a general acceptance in what has traditionally been a male-dominated sport,\" he adds.\n\n\"Women's boxing has now been accepted worldwide, and Katie Taylor has brought that to the fore and been a torchbearer and pioneer in terms of women's boxing.\"\n\nWhen Taylor first dreamed of becoming an Olympic champion as a child training in her back garden in Bray, County Wicklow, women's boxing was not officially recognised in Ireland.\n\nShe has admitted that when she was a young girl she pretended to be a boy in order to enter contests.\n\nAs a 15-year-old amateur in 2001, Taylor fought in the first women's fight sanctioned by the Irish boxing authorities.\n\nKatie Taylor (far right) playing for the Republic of Ireland women's football team against the US in San Diego in 2006\n\nHer athleticism was also honed playing in the Republic of Ireland international women's football team.\n\nTaylor's ascent as a boxer, under the tuition of her trainer father Pete, was remarkable.\n\nShe claimed five World Championship golds at amateur level from 2006 to 2014, as well as a gold medal at the 2012 Olympics in London.\n\nKatie Taylor's father Pete was her trainer during her amateur career\n\nFormer World professional flyweight boxing champion Dave 'Boy' McAuley said he had not been impressed by women's boxing until he witnessed Taylor in action during that successful spell.\n\n\"When I saw her on the undercard for Irish boxer Bernard Dunne's world title fight in March 2009, her performance blew me away,\" he said.\n\n\"She was absolutely fantastic. When I sat watching her, she changed my whole perception of women's boxing.\n\n\"I think she is unbelievable, she is a great puncher and exciting to watch.\n\n\"I have met her outside the ring and she is a lovely girl, but inside it she is a different specimen.\"\n\nTaylor and her father Pete split professionally in 2016, months before the Rio Olympics in which she was surprisingly beaten in the quarter-finals.\n\n\"The first time I had to go training without him, the tears were rolling down my face,\" she said in the documentary Katie, which was released last year.\n\n\"I knew when I made the decision to step away from my dad it was going to cost me a lot.\"\n\nNearly two years after the Rio Olympics, in June 2018, an Irish gym founded by her father Pete was targeted in a shooting.\n\nBobby Messett, 50, died in the shooting at Bray Boxing Club. Pete was one of two other men injured.\n\nKatie Taylor condemned the \"horrific attack\", but said she had had little contact with her father in the \"last three years and no contact or association whatsoever with Bray Boxing Club since 2015\".\n\nHer Christian faith has been a constant in Taylor's career; she was a regular at St Mark's Pentecostal Church in Dublin's Pearse Street from her teenage years.\n\nShe has been known to pray with her mother, Bridget, before fights.\n\nTaylor's devotion to boxing has run parallel to her faith - Psalm 18 is embossed on the arm of her tracksuit.\n\nTraining in New York, ahead of Saturday's world title fight\n\nTaylor's decision to turn professional with promoter Eddie Hearn of Matchroom Boxing in October 2016 has reaped considerable rewards.\n\nThe Irish Times reported in April that Taylor's company had accrued cash reserves of more than €1.5m (£1.32m) after another successful year.\n\nThe boxer is now based in the Conneticut town of Vernon, in the US, where she is under the guidance of trainer Ross Enamait.\n\nHe has previously said \"there's a lot of people don't recognise the talent that exists\" in Taylor, but that is unlikely to remain the case for long.\n\nSaturday's contest, on the undercard of Anthony Joshua's fight against Andy Ruiz Jr, is widely anticipated.\n\nMcAuley remains a believer as Taylor heads for the summit. \"She will win the fourth title, she is the best there is about,\" he said.\n\n\"I think she will go down in history, I can't see anyone stopping her - there is no-one better than her.\"", "Two bands who have called for members of the Conservative Party to be killed are to perform at Glastonbury Festival 2019.\n\nOne of Killdren's best known songs is called Kill Tory Scum while Fat White Family have called for violence against Conservatives on social media.\n\nThe Jo Cox Foundation said the language was \"completely abhorrent\".\n\n\"We're seeing a legitimising and normalising of harmful words and actions,\" it said.\n\nKilldren, who are a \"two-bit rave punk band\" and claim to form the \"ideal soundtrack to the worst generation in history\", will play at Glastonbury's Shangri-Hell International TV stage on Friday 28 June.\n\nTheir lyrics include: \"Even if it's your dad or your mum, kill Tory scum, kill Tory scum...murder them all to the beat of a drum, kill Tory scum, kill Tory scum.\"\n\nThe band also played a graphic set at Boomtown Fair 2018, in which they kicked, punched, and spat at a man dressed in a suit, while wearing Kill Tory Scum clothing.\n\nThe Glastonbury story was first reported by the Sunday Times. When asked about the song, the band told the paper: \"The piece would not exist if the destructive and violent policies of the Tory party hadn't taken such a devastating toll on the UK.\"\n\nThe band's YouTube page claims the song is \"satirical discourse\".\n\nAlso due to perform at the festival is Fat White Family, who previously played at Glastonbury's Park stage in 2015.\n\nIts song topics include abusive relationships, serial killers and addiction to class A drugs.\n\nIn a 2015 tweet, the punk rock band, from south-east London, said anyone who voted Tory had \"blood\" on their hands, and called for them to be executed.\n\nA year earlier, they said Tories should be hanged.\n\nCatherine Anderson, chief executive of the Jo Cox Foundation, said the language was \"completely abhorrent\".\n\nJo Cox MP was killed by a right-wing extremist in 2016, days before the Brexit referendum.\n\nMs Anderson told the BBC: \"The direct incitement of violence and abuse, on any platform and in any sector, is wrong and something that we absolutely reject.\n\n\"We're seeing a legitimising and normalising of harmful words and actions, and this is leading to a decay in our shared language and ultimately our values, and that concerns us very much.\n\n\"We cannot but think of what happened to Jo, after whose murder we believed things would improve; instead, things have got a lot worse.\"\n\nIn a statement, YouTube said it had put an age restriction on the videos - which is the company's policy when videos do not violate its guidelines, but may not be appropriate for all viewers.\n\nIt added: \"While YouTube is a platform for free and creative expression, we strictly prohibit videos that are abusive or that promote violence.\n\n\"All videos uploaded to YouTube must comply with our community guidelines, and we enforce these policies carefully.\"\n\nThe BBC has contacted Glastonbury for its response.", "A cruise ship has crashed into a dock in Venice, hitting a smaller vessel.\n\nThe MSC 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